The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1856-11-21


In fao', all the inhabitants Of this terrific
Try have generally scaly appearance. and
rejoice in a peculiar cmell, q combination
| should say. Of 6sh Ball and mud.
sucker. The rains Of Oregon beat any
thing in that line l ever beheld or con
ceived Of. Those that fell on Noah's ark
we're not more heavy; those Of Nero. Ca.
ligula, aud |. Neely johnson, not more
! terrible, nor those Of Lady Suffolk and
Moscow longer or stronger, which is a
slightly mixed metaphor Of very happy
description. So, upon the whole, I'm
glad I'm OF; yes, am quite sure Of il;
and l long to get to D., where the
people enjoy the light Of the blessed sun,
and where can enjoy Il also, and dry
my things. and read Irving's Astoria.
'Howbeit, there are many interesting
and curious things in Oregon; many odd
aud entertaining people also therein; and
have seen much that was funny, and
laughed thereat, and should have laugh
ell louder and longer. if my mouth had
not filled with rain before had half I'm
ished, and might perhaps regret leaving
a country in which have hac so much
positive enjoymelt, were Il not that l
have ohronioled all these amusing things
and peculiaritios, and shall be glad to get
somewhere where | can have a dry
laugh over them. Such a thing as dry
humor' in Oregon is, Of course, a physi-
cal impossibility.
L received my RaickerJocker Maga-
zine for the month of August yesterday.
and felt extremely tickled at your most
kind notice Of my productions.
l enclose short Poem which tolls its
own story. Set to music--'suthiu, slow,
and melancholy -like'-and accompanied
by the sWinetts, l should think it might
be well adayt ted for the parlor, the boud-
DIR, or the conoert-room. IL is plain un-
vanished tale, not only fonnded on facts
but with all three stories, and the attic,
built Of these materials;
Stanzas; Lines Songi Ballad
AMONG THIN THAT CONE Up TO SPECULATE
IN STOCK AND SUPPLIES
"A OREGON LAY.
Among them ,ha, come up to speculate in stock
| and supplies
Was fellow named Stuart a man Of enterprise
lie bought him W itch ia Il aorre two years Old
which had white face,
And he ban,ered all Portland, O. T., fora three
hundred yard race,
Thar was a mtn he'd a horse. which he thought
her pretty fair,
She was ginerally known as Millerd's thousand
dollar mare;
He hadn't no idea, he said, of doing any thing 80
rash,
But he took up Mister Stuart for two huudIed dol,
lars, cash.
So every soul in Portland, o. T. vent s,ruieb,
down TO the course,
And every cent we borrowed we bet on Millard''
horei
And ,her was tha, sPeculsting Stuart with his
hand upon his hip,
Aud two men a following with tin pail full Of
dollars, aud a champaign basket full ol
scrip! ..
wal they measured OF the ground. and the hor
ses got start,
And come running down right pretty, abou, four
loot hphftt
Aud the MilIard mare had II all her own way, 50
every body said
Till just as they got'o the eeud of the track that
are sorrel shotsuthin like ten feet ahead!
'Artor we seen that there ril most surprising
din, .uul4
Add remarks like this ere followed, Dog my ev.
erlastiDg skin,'
'Ili be dod-derned, and dog-ornsd, and ding
blamed by Pike.
And thar was such awful bowling and swearing
and daneingtha many old people said they
never had seed the like.
And that are speoklla,ing SIulrt, he made mat,
ters worsei
He packed the money in hand cart, anL didn't
care cussi
Add swee,ly smiling. pulled il OF, as though he
didn't mind the heft,
And since then we haint paid no taxes, nor baught
nothing, nor sold nothing. for in all Port
land, o T., there amt single red cent
loh.