Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1854-07-07

friend TO my cause on earth, for which
respect you, and feel disposed to assist
you in your present embarrassment.
was present yesterday at the meeting Of
the board, and as soon as they refused
to grant you license, fastened back to
tde Internal regions, entered the council
chamber of hell, called around me war;
riors. princes, and potentates, iand laid
before them your case: whereupon It
was unanimously resolved that you
have license to do the following things,
namely
You are hereby authorized to create
an appetite for strong drink in all the
yirtuous, intelligent. and enterprising
young men that you can draw under your
influence; to instruct them in gambling,
to make them proiane and Sabbath
breakers. You need have no misgivings
lfyou discover they are becoming thieves,
liars, robbers, and murderers; for this is
your masters good pleasure. Ii any Of
them MARI, do what you can to alienate
their affections from their wives, and to
neglect and abuse them; and if, in three
years time you succeed in separating
them, you need have no scruples OF con-
science. Draw around you as many Of
the middle aged as you can, especially
OF such US have families. Induce them
to whip their wives;and il they kill them,
no matter. Take from them all their
earnings, that their children may suffer
for bread and fuel, aud grow up without
education; that they may become thieves,
liars, robbers, burglars, and midnignt as
sassins. By unanimous vote OF the
citizens oil pandemonium you are auth Dr.
lied To make paupers OF as many as you
can. Send their families TO the poor
house, and make temperance men sup
port them. Make criminals of as many
OF them as possible. Send them to Jail,
TO Poison, or to the gallows, and charge
the expense of trying and executing them
to your opponents.
All this you are licensed to DO and are
hereby commanded to be faithful, as you
ever have been, and hold out to the end;
and you shall your reward. Hear not
to them who would dissuade you from
your work. Ii they quote from the
Bible, "Woe unto him that puttest thy
bottle TO thy neighbours mouth, and
makest him drunken, heed them not
Tell them it ia false translation, or the
Bible is not true.
Signed under my hand and seal, DIAB-
OLUS, Chef Of fallen angels, and
king Of the bottomless pit.
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The bottle was set down, ana after the
usual draft was poured out and drank,
they went of, and left Father Doty to
his own reflections.
twas great mystery how that thing,
as he termed it, came there on the mid
die Of the floor. No one had been there
in the room that night: he bolted the
door himself, and was the last one in the
room, and he knew il was not there then.
He revolved the matter in his mind, and
could think of no cold water fanatic who
had been there during the evening, and
finally gave II up as perfect enegma.
That day he lett the bar room in the
hands of his old hostler, Stephen Closier,
which was unusual for him, and confined
himself in his bed room.
About noon Nose Whipple and Sam
Laraby came in for dram, and while
standing ut the bar receiving their ra-
tons, and ma king change, Laraby asked,
Where is Doty to-day!
He is in his room, guess, answered
the hostler.
His Satanic License didn't make him
sick, did itl inquired Nose.
Ishouldn't wonder, replied the host
err; he amt eat nothin' to-day, and he's
as cross as forty she.bears robbed OF their
cubs. He acts as if he had lost all his
friends.
Friends! guess he hasn't many to
lose, said Laraby, as the passed out ofthe
room.
Doty kept his troubles that day from
his wife-purtly because she had al
ways opposed him in his business, and
partly because ne thought the least said
about the sooner they would wear off
and be folgotten.- When night came he
went round to al the doors and bolted
them, and carefully examined all the
sash locks, which surprised his wife, be-
cause it was something unusual.
Why, Abijah, why are you so careful
to examine the sash locks Do you ex-
peot robbers tonight!
No, | don't expect them; but ] want
i, SO they can't get in il they come, re-
piled the fearful landlord.
They retired to rest, and after mem
ory had carefully called up item by item
OF the Satanic License, as Nose calles
il, and his imagin alton had painted out n
glowing colors the evils and horrors OF
rumselling, he dropped asleep.
But he hai scarcely forgotten his
troubles when his wife was startled from
her slumbers by her husbands cries of
40, Dear! D, Dear me! Haze mercy
., have mercy"
why. y.Abtah, what is the matterl asked
his wife.
O-l-don't know. o, dear me!
have had an awful eam,replied the fran
tic man.
Dream! Dream about what! said Mrs
Doty.
As soon as he recovered u little from
his nervousness and exhaustatlon, he
rela,ed the following remarkable
dream -
dreamed was down where ole
SchoolcraIrs distillery used to stand
Just coming up the bank from the stream
when suddenly the blacklist cloud | eveI
saw hung over my head. IL was IA VI
olent eommotion, whirling aud tumblnl
about as II driven by hurricane, un'
out of IL dart,d iorked tongues OF ire
When the light flashed out OF the cloud
| could distinctly read. IN large letter,
Of blood, LlCENSEr And while
was looking, aud turning tlis way an'
that to make my escape, heard the rat
Ting of bones, and just then saw ol'
Sim Bailey coming towards me with I
human skeleton in his hund, which h'
threw down at my leet. lie had on gar
ments which were made OF small fiery
serpents, twisted aud matted together
and veya coverpd with blue flame