The Port Gibson reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 185?-1857, 1854-07-05


The editor Of the Albany Register writes
as follows about cats =" We are against cats
We regard them as treachcrous and ungrateful
animals, as having very small moral develop
ments. We are against cAr-terwaulng gen.
erally, and especially in the night season,
when honest men should 5c in bed and asleep.
We don't like to be awakened by their growl.
ing and screaming, splitting and whining,
groaning and crying. and their hundred other
nameless noises by which they frigbten sleep
from our pillow. We give the owners OF the
CATS that hold their conversation on the roof
Of our landlords outhouses, notice that we've
got double-barrelled gun, ond powder, and
shot. and percussion caps. We've got bun.
die of clubs, and basket of brickbats, and
If any cat fails TO appear at the usual time in
the morning, the best place to look for it will,
in our judgment, be on the roof.
Last night, it may have been one o'clock,
or two, or three, we were awakened by the
awfulest screaming and suffering and growl-
| ing, that ever startled weary man from his
slumbers. We leaped out Of bed under The
impression that at least twenty little children
had fallen into as many tubs Of boiling water.
We threw open the window and stepped out
upon the roof; We don't intenl to exaggerate,
but we honestly believe we saw less than three
hundred cats over against us-on the top Of the
clubhouse each one Of which had tail bigger
than Bologna sausage, bis back crooked up
like an oxbow. and his great round eyes glea-
ming fercely in the moonlight, putting in his
very best in the way Of catterwauling Two
of the largest, the one black as night. and the
other grey or brindlo. seemed to be partic-
ularly in earnest. and the way they scolded
and swore at each other was sin 70 hear
We don't undertake to report all they said, a
decent regard for the proprieties Of language
compels US to give only sketch of the de-
bate :"
you big-tailed. hump-backed, ugy-mug-
ged thief" screamed the gray. I'D like tc
know what you're out here for this time Of
night, skulking. and creeping and noising
about in the dark. poaching upon other peo.
ple's preserves.
VERY well Mighty well" was the re.
ply, for you TO talk, you blacb-skinned,
ogre eyed. growing and sputtering robber
to come upon this roof sticking up your back
and taking airs upon yourself. I'd like tc
know what business you've got to be rrowl
ing around and crowding into honest people,
company"
I'm regular tom-cat I'd have you Z
know, and 20 where l please, and Iii stand
none Of your big talk and insoleut looks. :
"Insoient Hear that, cowardlY thief
Insolenti very well. Mr.. Tom-cat. very
good indeed now just take your black skin
of this roof or you'll get what'll make yoI
look cross eyed for a month"
"Get off this roof, / think you said =
Look at this set Of ivory and these claws, ol'
gray-back If you want should leave thi
roof Just come and put me off. Try It on
, old beeswax Yes. yes try it on once an'
well see whose eyes viii look the straightes
in the morning. Come on, old humpback
: old sausage tail" And then they pitched in
and such scratching aud growing, and bitin
| and rolling over and over, we never happened
to see or hear before. About that time "
dropped brickbat. (accidentlY, Of course,
Q weighing about pound. right among them
D Whether it bit any one we can't possibly a
firm, but we heard dull heavy sound, kin
: Of chug, as if il had bit something soft, an
the scream Of one Of the belligerents wa
: brought to a sudden stop By kind Of hystel
G ical Jerk as though there had been al une'
pected lack of wind to carry it on. II pJ
: an end to the disturbance, aud all the rioteI
G save one scampered away.