Columbia gazette., 1854-03-18

and Ich made them . speech, and in
the end he adrest the elekt, and sed
Regard the publik welc, and beware
Of tredin in the fut-steps of your Pre-
desscsurs.r Here he was Grounded bi
sich tremendus chearin that evri thing
shook like all natur, and the nu bord
struttid like peekoks, and the old bord
slopd, for it was nifty hot place for
them. Ich has ben requstid tu rite the
lives of the XAldermen, which he viii
pitch intu as sune as he kan send on tn
| the States tu git the buk numbirs ofthe
polcesc gaysett, in. order tu lern stuhin
ov ther crli histri.
Aftur the inogurashin we went doun
tn attend to sitty affares md tu inspekt
limpruymints. We herd sum won sing
in as we wer goin along, and we stopt
and saw XKandidatei Kluff klimein a
saplin and singin the follerin wirds:
/" lie hang mi harp on the willer tre,
run with the mayor and the mayor
bette me.v At this, he kawt holt of q
lin and restid mint, and then kum-
mensd singin and klimein agin ; the uth-
er wurds run thus,-"I run with the
mayor and the mayor bette, me; so lilo
hang mi harp on the willer tre." Not
wisllin tu disturb the poit, we left, and
went doun to inspekt that nObul wurk
oph art, !" The Kobble,stun Brige )" it
was bilt undir the old Aldermanic ad-
msnistrashun, and it will stand an iyir-
lastin monumint tu the wisdum of that
boldly. A secret Walt was tn hav bin
bilt. close bi it for tu kcpe the sitty
funds, but it wont kompletid. We thin
went with the Doktur, the kurnel and
Banker Pete, tu SC the sekret cbambir
wher tha and the sitty Areopagus usd tu
sit and deliberate on nifty things i am
not at liberti, at prcsint, tu revele the
myitcrics of that ,cbambir, norstu men
shun anythin abowt smawl ritin found
within its hawls, with the sitty' Klcrk's
signatur tu it as sckrctari. That papnr
is at present in the hands of won of our
lcgislstur from this kounti; and don't
wish to sa auythin furthir abowt it, for S
wont sakriise mi honur for the hui
wurld. We then went to kclp the gran
tese tu Ia off sitty lots, for tn sci at awk-
shun, for the 10. has got a nifty lot Of
them. The kcrnal and Banker pete in
tends tu bid large hotel on the korncr
of the square at the mouth of Sopory
erik. The kernul and Ich, and Ban
kcr pete talk sum of going tu the gila
rivir on speculashun; Banker pete viii
tax hiz survyin fiixins with him.
The Doktur felcs littel hard to-
wards Ich :; he sais that Ich has inhucn-
sd the legislator and retandid the clck-
shun of Brodrik, and that he had in
fllcnsd publik opinyun in the sitty, for
everything had gon kontrary tu what he
ithc noktur) had kalkalatid. The Dok-
tur wants tu sci his erik lots as quik as
possibcl, for ther is no. telin when the
publik opinyun will shift aein; the pc
pei ar SO fikle that no konfdens kan be
plased upon them. At this, the Burro
struk up sum entransin notes, and We
went doun to SC him. The Burro is
| qite fat ; the Doktur fcdes him out oph
the box whcr he kepcs his small tipee
The Doktur thinks that the Burro viii
soon be in runin order, and vii max out
a ten yerc hcte and tu sho his strength,
he, the kurnel and Banker pete mount
ed him and chargd abowt. The tarnal
Burro kikt up and brok, skatterin his
riders as he went. He run and reerd
orfuli, and upset evrithin. The ''moun-
tin gards'' and the /" sonory erase" nm
dir lieuts Purdy and Inyart, headed
him of, and droy him bak at the pint Of
the baynet, and Doktur kun MP with tho
smawl-tipe box with sum fede in it, and
at last VIC got the krittur in his plasc a.
gin. $50 z'', p
The time new riv for us tn return, so
the militri marchd ahcd with the new
drum, and Banker pete follercd, plain
hale kolumbi % on Jews harp, but
as the tarnal thing wont lowd enuf, tho
Doktur ran up tu help. and tu rattl the
box OF smawl-tipe. We then follerd in
the koch with the principul men Of tho
sltty, and behind kun the immens null
titud, who made the heyens ring with
lowd chearin. We arrivd saf and sound,
so Mister Editor, Ichabod and | lid
| you health and good mite. . ~
Yours, truly, 90 9