The North-Carolina standard., 1845-05-21
EDITORS coRREspoNDENcE.
/. GaEENspono,. May Il. 1915.

GaEENsBoRo'i May IL, 1875.
The Governor here Tremendous excitement !!
Wdke Snakes and Come to -t01n.! Daddy's
Dande,'s rig, and Expect TO nil Somebody i!
Uncle Jgke's Mil Dam broke loose, and III
the JdSsdeks oat!
The Governors here yand no Mistake. He druv
10 last Night, arter sixty Mile heat and ain' dun
s6akIn' tfaHds yit. He's got bigger allowance
OF Practical Vigor Than any man ever seed. lil
bet My old Jack-knite he can Jump Ten rale
fence wiIhou: snitten' ary heeL Hurraw for US (!
The Governor don't love cash Bit. He only
spins cotton and gold mines It For fun way Of
tettin' OFF his vigor. He run for Con grass He
amt got time. Nor it Wouldn't suit him Nuther.
He couldR't Make pothin' to Washinton, and he
can Set here and look at His possessions, without
nobody about here Daren TO offer HIM soup in a
tarraPen shell. He can't Do that to Washington.
Let Jimmy Jones go TO Con-grass and be deraed.
O"r Governor can't go Now no how, Kase he ant
liked for it, but he Expects to be, arter he Spins
up All the Cotton and digs out all the gold.
But haiRt told you about Daddy yit The old
mans Monstously pestered. We've got a Kind
of schoolsup to Our settlement, where the boys
cipher from FIgerY one up to doube-roubIe and
then quit; and DADS one % the Committy. A
finer old man nor dad is, though say 1t my self,
| never Broke a hoe-cake. But he has conscience
and loves the truth. Now some folks says as how
our settlements siekly, And dad says so Too; and
some on 'um axed him about ii, and He told 'uR
'zackly what he Thought, though it Did 60 agin
bis grain. The old man loved The settlemen
Monstously, but he loved the truth better nor that
Well, arter that, gracious me what a muss they
Did git up about the old mans Ears! Some said
| it warn't so. Others looked sdeiin' like Al him
and said nothin at All-twell at last some on 'um
! (may Be the Governor, who has big persesson.
| 10 the settlement and Who'd-be injured bY movin
the school, norated for settlement meeuin' to SEE
| how Fur Dads statement "accorded with thG
| truth" And at 1t they went. But Must say a.
How has know'd Dad ever sence was so High
and if any man says he ever uttered or thought an
Ontruth, jest tell Him to come and whip Me-if ht
can.
And now for uncle Jake's mill DAM n's Broke
loose, and no Mistake; and the old mans Properlt
bilin' over. He says if He gifts the feller BY
the as Sot the sills together, he'll beat AN
ee-doodle-dandy-dee Gracious me y upon His
Noggin. And reckon He will. Well, but here:
l had my Fun i went Down to the dam arter i
Broke lookin' for Jassacks, and found -one-s
whalin' big 'un, off in streak Like of ditch b,
itself--and The water warn't more 'an feet Deep
but how to Ketch it couldn't tell. At last tuI
OFF my hat to skratch my Head, as was thinkin
about the ways and Means, and Register SONS
two Eyed coon had sneaked into it, Fell out
Thinks old Feller I'll have you now. And with
I out doin' nothin' else fixed the Register sorte
like sane, and put it Right afore the Jassack, in
tendin; to him up like, arter had Slipped i
under Him. but as Soon as he Saw the paper ther
was ~Sich heap of Big, orfuI Jassacks in it tn
cretur fairly sot TO Tnmblin' and made nothn a
All 10 loap clene over My head into the Crick
tSays / Mr.. Register, lie thar! If your Jassack
are Thnnderin' big on paper, what. 'ud they b
in Uncle Jakes Mill Dam =?
Yours twell death. ....