Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-05-21
TERRIBLE STATE OF SUSPENSE
A WE VI EXPLOSIONS AND CoNCUS.


SloNS'-We were not fully aware, until
yesterday, of the awful effects produced
upon many of our citizens by the naughty
freak OF sundry young men of our city OH Sat
urday night. 1t should be understood that
there is in this CITY teapot tempest in rela-
ton to the emolumen,s of the city post office
There are and have been for four or five months
past, some ten or twelve applicants fol the
honor and emoluments of that Office. and so
warm and animated have the applicants and
their friends become, that they are not on
speaking terms the one party with another,
and seem TO feel that the success Of an oppo-
nent would be the most dire calamity that
could belal them. The whole BODY of the
loco-ioco-ocracy, consisting, by the last vote,
of ninetysix,' all told, are in this condition.
In the very face and eyes of this excited
state of public feeling, some young men, with
out the fear of consequences before their ewes.
went bodily to the top OF Wheeling hill on
Saturday evening with a cannon, sundry
pounds of powder, and sundry boxes of fire
works, and began incontinently to fire the gun
and the fireworks at about nine o'clock, p. NJ.
The mail had just opened and no sooner was the
first booming gun heard than the exclamation
came from eighty-two voices, What is that ~
Who's got the Post Office 2" The remain
der OF the ninety-six being candidates for the
office were more seriously affected, except
the cx-chairman of the Young Hickory Club"
who, had been at the post office nightly and
daily for one month, either for the purpose of
getting the commission for himself or carry
ing il to his beloved neighbor- in-lar. He had
watched every package that came from the
Office, and being assured that nothing with a
yaller kiver" had come out, mosied out
OF the Office congratulaiing himself that moth
ing worse than a declaration of war with Mex
leo had transpired which was nothing at all
almost i'll his military eye. Col. InfiGitude
was deep III the mysteries of the infinite. and
endeavorlng, at that instant, to solve the mys-
ferrous problem whether maggot is, as am
animalculae, a minute division of putrcscent
cheese, or cheese an embryo stage of an in
hnitude of animalculae. lie heard the sound .
Inc saw the light, he dashed the French philos
ophcr TO the ground and with eve balls glarine.
cried, That's the coon killer; the up town
has got the post Office, and have soft SOAP
ed these great ones for nothing. Alas, what
boots 1t whether ! eat maggots or the naecots
eat me 2 Major Davczac was Just preparing
Tor the nights rest, and taking the neces-
Sary prccutfon 10 stuff cotton wool in his nasal
cavities to prevent injury to his brains. if there
should happen to be frost As the first
sound. OF the cannon was heard Inc reared and
pitched like stormy sea, and swore that the
Colonel could not get twenty votes for over.
seer of the poor in the whole democratic marty.
Dorr junior was IN bed with his head cover.
ed up, and having no doubt that hickory grove
was the victor, in his haste to dress he ssal-
lowed one suspendcr,--and fearing il might
be some time before he would be- able tn
get ialrly into tie street, he put his head ont
the window and crowcd with such r. mlrkable
accuracy that all the cocks in the city thought
they had oversight themselves. aud BEGAN such
cock-a -doodle-do thot il set even The bravo
hero OF Chepatchct into a cold sweat The
long tailed blue curlld up like a possua when
PROCEED in the stomach with sharp stick
He was just then writing his last letter to
Governor Wright, before going into state of
r'tlracy. The captain Of the Guards cried
" Prepare 10 night face. NJ. ran ron .oll