Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1853-05-12

the losses in the neighborhood; prevent
ed The testimony and supplied omissions,
until you would suppose on hearing him
tha, il had been fully proven that poor
H,g had stolen all the meat he ever sold
in the market lie asseyeraled tina. his
suit was a malicious nspiracy between
the Methodists and Masons to crush his
client, But all this leave out, as no.
bearing on The main subJect--myse self.
He came back TO me with renewed
appetite. lie said he would conclude
by paying his valedic,ory respects TO his
Juvenile friend, as this was the last time
he ever expected to have the pleasure of
meeting him. lr. Isl A..r .s. --
The poetic young gentleman had said.
that, by your verdic. against his client,
you void blight forever his reputation
and .ha, of his family--shat you would
bend down the spiri, of his manly son,
and dim the radiance of his blooming
daughters beauty. Very pretty, upon
my word! But, gentlemen, not SO fine,
not SO poetical by half. as precious
morceau of poetry which adords the col
nmns of the village newspaper, bearing
j. &. K. As this admirable production
has excited great deal OF applause in
the nurseries aud boarding schools, !
must beg TO read il, not for the instruc.
ton of the genileman-he has already
seen il; but for the entertainment of the
jury. |, is addressed TO R-** Bs**, a
young lady of this place. Here i,goes.
Judge my horror when. on looking up,
/ saw him take an old newspaper from
his pocket, and pulling down his spec
saclcs, began TO read, in stage-actor style.
some verses had written ior Rose Bell $
album. Rose had been worrying me
some time to writo her something. To
ge, rid of her er.importuni,les, had scrib-
bled off flew lines and copied them in
the precious volume. Rose, the little
fool. took them for something very cley-
er (she never had more than a ihimble-
ful of brains in her doll baby head and
was so tickled with them, that she go,
her brother Bill. about fourteen, to copy
them off, as well as he could. and take
them TO the printing office. Bill threw
Them under the door; the printer, as big
fool as either. not only published them,
but, in his internal kindness. puffed them
in some critical commentators of his
own referring to the gifted author as
zone of the most promising of the young
or members Of our bar
The fun, by this time, grew fast and
furious. The country people, who have
about as much sympathy for a young
town lawyer badgered by an older one,
as for young cub bese, by ours, and
have as much idea or respect for poetry
as for witchcraft, joined in the mirth
with glee. They crowded around old
Kasm. and stamped and roared as at a
circus. The Judge and sheriff in vain
tried TO keep order. Indeed his honor
smiled out loud once or ttcice; end, TO
cover his retreat, pretended to cough, and
fined the sheriff five dollars for not keep,
ing silence in court. Even the clerk,
whose immemorial pen behind his righ,
ear had worn the hair from the side o:
his head, and who had not smiled in
court for twenty years, and boasted that
Patrick Henry couldn't disturb him in
making up a judgement entry. actually
turned his chair from the desk and pat
do,cn his pen; afterwards he put his
hand to his head three times in search
of it; forgetting. in his a,,en ton TO old
Kasm, what he had done with it.
Old kasm went on reading and com,
men,ing by turns; forgot wha. the in,
eifable trash was. wouldn't recollec,
If | could. My equanimity will only
stand phrase or two that still fingers on
my memory. fixed there by old kasm' s
ridicuie. | had said something abou,
my 'bosom's anguish'-about the pass
ion that was consuming me; and, TO il
lustratefs. or to make the line jingle, pu,
in something about .Egypt's Queen ia
king the asp 10 her bosom which, TO,
The sake OF rhyme or meter. called the
venemous worm--how the confounded
thing was brought in neither know noI
want 20 know. When old Kasm came
to that. he said he fully appreciated wha,
the young bard said he believed it. He
spoke OF venomons ,eorms. Now, il he
kasm might presume to give the
young gentleman advice. aud would rec
.ommend SWANS patent vermifuge. He
had no doubt that il would eiTectually
cure him Of his malady, his love, and
last, but not least, of his which
would be the happiest passage in his e.
ven,ful history.
couldn't stand il any longer; had
borne it TO The last point of human endu.
rance. When il came only to skinning,
| was there; bu. when he showered down
aquaforts on the raw, and then seemed
disposed to rub it in, fled; 'Abii, crupi
evasi.' The last thing ! heard was old
kasm calling me back; amidst the shouts
of the audience--but no more.
The next information received Of the
case, was a letter that came to me al
M:--.cnez, M residence, from Hicks. a.
bout month afterwards. telling me ,ha
the jury ION which | should have stated
old kasm had 60. two infdels and foul
anti masonsl had given a verdict for de
fendant, that before the court afiionrne 4