Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1854-11-17
9ustitaI Department.
Frcm !he Kosciusko Chronicle.
spIR1rRAPPMas; Or, THE RuxsELLER'i
YARN.

| xA8Ns
T Containing more truth than poetry.
Once upon midnight dreary, with my avocstion'
weary,
When my neighbors, from their iabors, had reu
red 10 sleep and snorc,
was comfortably mapping, when heard Trap
ping, rapplng,
Such supernatural rapping, as never heard
before.
Just outside my bedroom door.
Fearful and dIscordan, noises, mingled with uu'
weary voices.
cIbberlng, screaming and blaspheming, broke up
on my startled ear.
vrwasso sudden and surprising, 'is.a truth ee5oHd
Disgusting,
That fsIt my nIghicap rising with involuntary
foar
Though knew no mortal near.
rhen rose and ~ my taper, peerins .hro' the
murky vapor,
Fearing, mostly, shadows ghostiy, wandering from
tho stygian shore.
Or, ,hor I, shouldn't wonder,. they are thieves
intention plumber;
So I seized q loaded biunderbuss, and strobe
across the floor,
And unlocked my door.
shade OF Baechus, what revei, evofy goblin ghost
and devil,
From the internal world, internal, seemed 10 be
earoussng there;
Twas ghosly visitation, from The damned Of 'v'
cry nation,
And their horrid improeations, rose upon the bur-
den'd air,
Like the regions Of despair.
Every eask had been prison whence demon
had arisen,
Filthy creatures, taking fcatarss paipable to touch
and sight
Shapes ofevery foul complexion, here were met
In resurrection;
Showing ghas,iy,b by reflection, ofths tapsr's aiek-
ering light
In tho silence OF The night.
Quito deprived Of vIOlision, BY shs, sudden appa-
ration,
So amazing, stood gazing, motoniess within the
door;
while with many curious sn.ic, and performance
necromatie,
Round and round, with gestures frantic, gnmbolsd
that Internal corps,
Tin the room was In = roar.
by demon crew surrounded, was utterly con.
foauded,
Nor had veniurod, as entered TO address that sa-
bio throng,
While they passed me In rotation, bowins low In
saiutation,
Every ghost, ofevsry nation, ehan,sd as he danced
along,
And this The burden OF their song;
"Aii hail 10 the seller OF rum
What monarch 80 poten, as he,
From city and hamlet his wor shippers come
From tho main, and the Isles OF the sea,
What monarch so potent ss he,
All hail 70 tho seller OF rum.
bring, Mammon, the wealth of,hy store,
And burden his Golfers with gold,
Death laughs, with delight. that he eovess
no more
ThathIs conscience so eheaply issold;
rhen pile mp his eoffsrs with gold
For death shall inherit his store.
He asks bnt cphemerai yean,
To rcvel In bolsterous mirth,
In return for diseases, and famine, and tears,
That be scatier abroud o'erihe earth;
And, truly. the bargain is worth
His pnco-a fsw riotous years.
All hail 10 the seller Of rum
Let usweave him ehapict OF yew,
For drunkards, from many adesoiais home
Iie has sent 10 our revellng crew,
Then crown him with cypress and yew.
And success 10 the seller oil rum"
Such was the internal chorus while the echoes rang
sonorous
And they crowned me, a. they found me, standing
like statute there.
sense OF hearing,
| beheld them disappearing, with dull and va
cant stare,
'rin they vanished into air.
whom found my sense returning, tho the blessed
light OF morning
shone so plainly.T sought vainly, for ,hoir foot.
prints on the floor,
an Illusion,
For my mind was In confusion, from sspres, ,
tho day before
Thatwas Il and nothing more.
But that spree had given me (noie youj an at
tack OF mania potu,
And those devils held their revels, only In my
burning brain,
but, In spite OF my endeavor, they are there en-
stamped FOREVER.
shall never more, oh never, while these memo