Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1854-12-27

| soon as he gets sober enough to tell Maiden
| Lane from alight-house, to go home and go
TO bed.
Went at it myself; inquired all sorts Of
things from all kinds, .:black spirits and white,
red spirits and grey Results as follows: By
means of thumps, raps, and spiritual kicks, l
learned that Sampson and nerculus have gone
into partnership in the millinery business
Julius Caesar is pedling apples and molasses
}candy. Tom Paine and Jack Sheppard keep
a billiard table. Noah is running canal boat.
Eerxes and 0thello are driving OPPOSITION sta
ges George Sd set up caravan, and is waiting
patiently for Kossuth and Barnum to come
and go halves. Dow, Junior, is boss of a
Methodist camp meeting. Napolean spends
most of his time playing penny ssante'' with
the three graces. Benedict Arnold has open
ed a lager beer saloon, and left vacnacy for
S. A. Douglas, twhte inan.) John Bunyan is
clown in a circus, John Calvin, DR.. Johnson
Sykesy, Plutarcb, Rob Roy, Davy Jones, Gen
eral jackson, and Damphool's Grandfather,
are about establishing q travling theatre, hav-
ing borrowed the capital. (two per cent a
month;) they open with SsHow TO pay rent. -
Dr.. johnson in fancy dance to conclude
with the s.Wiaow's Victim,'' the principal
part By Mr.. Pickwicb. Jo. Smith has bought
out the Devil, and is going to convert Tophct
into Mormon Paradise. Shakespear has
progressed in his new play as far as the fourth
act, where he has got the hero seven miles
and a half up in balloon, while the disconso-
late heroine is hanging By her lair TO a limb
over prccipcc; question is how the heroic
lover shall get down and rescue his iady-love
before her hair breaks, or her head pulls off.
Spirits now began TO come without invita-
ton like Paddles to wake. Soul of an al
derman called for dish Of clam soup and
bread and butter. Ghost of newsboy sung
out for an Evening post. All that was left OF
a Bcwery fireman wanted TO know if Forty had
got her but fixed, and a new inch and half
nozzle
Ghost of Marmion wanted dish of soft
crabs and called ont after the old fashion; to
charge it TO Stanly. Medium had by this time
>fost ell control over her ghoshy company
Spirits or vtiCers, soldiers, taiors, (Dotnplool 81
trembied,) tables, saloon keepers, dancers,
actors, widows, circus riders, in fact all varl-
cites Of obstreperous spirits, began to pl2y the
devil with things generally; the dining table
jumped up, turned two sonersetts, and landed
with one leg in the widows lap, one in Dam
phool;s mouth, and the other two on the sane
tinonious locking individuals who sat oppo-
site; the washstand exhibited strong symptoms
to dance the Jenny Lind Polka on Bull Dog
ge's head; the book case kept time with ex-
traordinary vigor, and made faces at the com
pany generally; our walking canes and UNI
brelias prominaded round the room in couples,
without the slightest regard to corns and 9TH
er pedal yegitables-while the bedsteads in
the corner were extemporising q comic song,
with vigorous accompaniment on the soup
dish the washbowl and other bedroom crock
cry.
Bull Dogge here made rush for the door,
and dashed wildly down Broadway, pursued,
as he AYERS to this day, by the spirit of an
lrishman, with a pick axe, a handsaw and a
ghostIy wheeibarrow. Concluding had seen
enough. had seen enough, / took Damphool,
and B. D. bottle, (empty OF he never would
have left it, and went home, satisfied that
ssthere are more things in heaven and earth
than are dreamed off, except by lying s.Ine
diums'' SO called; who are too lazy to work,
and too cowardly to get an honorable living,
adopt this method to sponge their bread and
butter out of those, whom God, in his myste-
rious wisdom, had seen fit to send on earth,
week enough to believe their idiotic rawlings.
Disguised but still yours, III.
@. X. PHILANDER DoEsTIcKss P. B.