Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1849-03-02

stage coach like they have to carry the mail
in; and sc | sot still for the curtin to rise and
the team to cum. | want in no great hurry
for the musick was very pretty, and the pic
tiers on the outside Of the curtin was beautiful
to look at, and so big it must have taken
whole kag of paint. There was one thing
dident exactly like and | would have thought
them Sutherners 'dbeen aboveit they kept
screwin round in their seets, and looking right
into my face and the wimmen's faces too with
great big double bareled telescopes it SEEM
ed to me that it was mighty impudent trick,
but thought it woudent look well In me to
git mad about it, and SO | sot still. Pretty
soon they rang little bell, and the big curtin
with the picter's it commenced rollin up,
thar want no ring thar nor no stage as | ex-
pected to see. but it looked for all the world
like a street out of doors.
Directly two fellers cum in dressed up the
FUNNIEST kind, and one of them had tail on
the back of his head jist like the Generals,
that Teller in particular appeared to be mighty
wrathy about some thing; he was a suspishus
lookin chap and | dident like him no how, l
knowed from the beginnin that if they let him
90 on-he'd do something mighty bad, and
Spite the play, and so it turned out, for thar
was big nigger thar named 10 Thelo had
run off with a white mans daughter and mar
ried her, the old nan was mighty mad | tell
you when he heard about it, and so was | be-
cause Pm naturally opposed to niggers; but
as soon as | seed 10 Thelo himself lnowed
that he wasent a real honey tide darby, | saw
through 1t all in a minit how he was painted
and acting out to fool the old man; he was
right fine lookin chap and | liked him from
the irsg and knowed that he'd make things
cum out right, but the old man was green CT
he might of seen through the thing too, for
he was much nearer to 10 than me, and he
want half BACKED; nor be couldent talk mig
ger at all, for he spoke jist as plain ingllsh as
do. felt sorry for the old man and if there
hadent been so many folks lookin, l would
have went and told him how he was sucked,
and believe that if he had knOwed the teller
who had married his daughter want real mig
ger he wouldent have cared much about it.
With this exception the play went pretty
enough for while till that cursed Teller told
you about with the tail, / believe his name
was Iyago, made Mr.. Thelo Jealous about
Mrs. Thelo, givin her handkerchief to chap
called Cashus, and it went on from one
thing to another, till 10 Thelo killed his wife
outright, murthered her to deth in the bed !;
| couldent stand it emmy longer, and | got
right up and cleared out. | don't know what
they did with all the chaps, but expect the
| law Will take its course, and 10 Ihelo Will
/ be hung. | feel sorry for him, and if | was
|
| he may escape this time on account of not
havin directly aided or abetted, but | know
that he'll be hung sometime; as he deserves.
! | ant heard emmy thing about Mrs. Thelo being
buried vet, but if | can find out when 1t Is, 1
intend to 90 to the funeral-fOr she was a
very nice woman, and from the way she act
! ed, knowed all the time that J o Thelo wasent
a real niger.
1t was real funny for a while, yes it was
rich, till they let that chap Iyago cum into
| the play and make such sad work of 1t.
Yesterday / went down to the deepo to see
the railroad and the mime that goes to Lake
Puncheon-train, and regular sight it was,
but as am going to tell you | got more than
| bargin'd for and had to pay for it too. y GU
see went down soon as got my breakfast
for / wanted to have good sight, and look at
the thing all thru, so as to give you good
description in my letter. / seed one of the
wagons rarcing round and splitting fire and
smoke, and it appeared to be troublesome for
the feller drivin to hold, and so | dident go
nigh that one for fear it might git away and
run over me or sumthing, thar was lot more
standn in a 70 behind the excited one, that
appeared to be very quiet, and as | seed lots
of folks that had cum to look at 1t like me,
inside of them all, jist slept in myself to
take look. | hadent more than half seed it,
before | felt the durn thing movein, it was
slow at first, but it kept gittin faster, and in
two minits, steam boat or boss race wasent
a prirnin to it. | made a Jump for the door,
but II run right from under my feet, and |
couldent stand up no how, the room | was in
was filled with trunks and baggage. crawl
ed on my belly till | could see out in front and
/ found that it was hitched to that cursed mad
TEEN that had broke loose at last and run off
! jIst as | expected. ] reached out and caught
hold of the chain behind, with both Of my
| hands and sawed, and give it the dead stidy
! pull, but 1t warnt no use, l cOuldent hold it,
the thing was off for good, and it appeared to
me then that | was a goner and saltpeter
wouldent save me. | yelled right out bat the
thing kept such fuss that | couldent hear
my own voice, and | couldent stand up long
enough to Jump out of the winder. | expect
ed every mint when she'd run agin a house
or fence and stove every thing to smash. At
one time | got peep thru a crack and | seed
the water hundred feet below, | seed thru it
in mint and knowed she'd Jumped klean
over the biggest kind of a river. How long |
was In this dreadful state of suspense | don't
know, but | think it must have been about
two hours, when | felt the thing goin slower,
l knowed 1t must be in a swamp or sumthing
of that kind, but | dident wait for it to stop,
for L knowed soon as it got thru the mud it
would be off agin. AS soon as | could stand
up slid out of that place, and put in the best
leg llcks / knowed how and never looked be-
hind me till had run at least a mile, then |
give nigh. up and sot down on LOG, for to
tell the honest truth | never was so skeered
In all my life, my hair stood right on eend.
and my hat gone the Lord only knows
where.
When had got my breth a little | began
to look round tc see where was, but it warnt
no use. L couldent tell, maybe way I'D in IL