The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1856-10-01

very Sunday, to see that they ore oil
sound OH the goose" 1t is also assert
I'd that he spends his leisure hours firing
1t the iron man in the shooting gallery,
md in throwingJa tomahawk at mark;
occasionally varying these delightful oc-
cupasions, by taking boxing lessons learn.
ing how TO "gouge' Missouri, taking long
drinks Of Aromatic Sehnapps between
times.
Went to the church, which was arrang.
ed like theatre, with the best places for
those who pay the most monsy---instead
of pulpit, there was stage for the min.
ister to perform on-people come in drores
seats were soon full-then huge pyr-
amid of stools in one corner was attacked |
by six energetic and determined sections,
who speedily tore it to- pieces. and scat
tered the fragments through the aisles for
folks to sit on.
Organists executed grand Kansas bat
tlepiece in FIVE sharps, with vocal imita-
,ions of the shrieks Of the settlers, and
the curses of the border ruffiaus.
Ahio Woo INC piCpai Atioh.
Then the organist commenced violent
struggle with the keyboard, as if he re-
garded the unfortunate organ as a fisticuff
enemy; whom it would require his utmost
strength and dexterity to overcome--so
he went in-he hammered him Oh the white
keys he .bolted him on the black ones. he
Punchedshim in the semitones, he kicked
him in the double bass, he put in u series
drumming licks in his chromatic scale, he
pelted him in the fats, he battered him
IN the sharps he smote him in the high
keys, he hit him in the low notes, then he
grabbed both hands in his octaves and
shook him until he squalled; then he fero-
ciously jerked ont the stops on one side,
as if he was pulling half his teeth cut of
his head--then he savagely jammed in
those on the other, as if he was knocking
the rest Of his grinders down his throat
after three quarters Of an hour, the left
hand, which had been doing manful SER
vice in the: lower suburbs, began to fail,
and sent for reinforcement, whereupon
the right hand, after hitting the apper
chord of G sharp a furious dig t" keep it
quiet in the interval, scampered to the
rescue, only stopping by the way to be-
stow upon the middle Ca couple ofpunch-
cs by way of reminder the player
with both hands, both feet, and his knees,
went at the poor instrument and belabored
him 80 numerically in the lower pipes,
that he lost his wind, and cricd-"enough''
in roar Of agony.
This was the prelude.
Here the minister read a: humber of graf
is advertisements for concerts and twenty
five cent pic nics-then there vas another
singlc-handed combat between the organ
lists and his old enemy, and some more
CREASED pig vocalization by the thousand
dollar choir, after which, the Star" preach
er began to perform in earnest-he rc.c
q text, and stuck to the subject for fiftecl
minutes, giving his hearers fits abou
their shortcomings when the plate is pass
ed-he cut short his high-hown piety, ant
began to talk politics and general news
be spoke of the state of the stock markets
gave notice of the new patent ballot box
a review of the encouraging prospect
Of Fremont, the value of Sharp's rifles, ant
the retail price of Schiedam Schnapps.-
Then he gave, with great gusto delight
full account of some imaginary pleasant
transactions in Kansas wherein coupl
of men were roasted alive in burning 10,
cabin, while their wives were compelle'
blythe amiable border rufians to supcrin
tend the cookery Then he made som
very good jokes, at Which the people laugh
ed; then he said something about tn
!. AUnion," which they applauded; shonl
have supposed myself in y ratificatio
meeting, ifthe men hadn't all their hat
OF. and there hadn't been so many VOL
that their bonnets Toek Ike acherry orch
- ard soon he put in word about "Buch
aneers" and BLACK Republicans
thought then was in political meeting
sure, and expected every minute to hea
No. SIS boys come down with three time
three and "tiger" for "Buck and Breck.
After this he grew more frantic abou
"bleeding Kansas" and talked so earnest
. ly about Sharp's rifles, that ! conclude
he had an agency and got percentage o
all he sold; he didn't make any remark
about Schnapps, and ] didn't see any bot
ties, though suppose there muss Aav
been sample handy. lie had now GO
his ministerial steam almost up to explod
ing point, and raved round his little plat
form as if he was crazy, and wanted to &c
ss somebody. He mixed up things
christina love and piety, Fremont repuh
lican principles; gunpowder as moral a
geft, t,niggers, slave whips, charity, brotherl
Affection, underground railroad, disunies
flowers, little children, voting, ballot box
rs, polls, White House, President an
Know N,things. ending up with a loud ex
horkiio for free speech, free soil, an
frez N sith strong hint that he want