The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1858-05-12

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tion at his hands The members of the
orchestra, wlio for the Iast Fifteen minutes
had been seemingly too mnch Intoxicated
to do duty, now sprang all at once to their
instruments, and, scrambling upon their
table, broke ont, with one accord, into
Yankee Doodle" which they performed,
| if not exactly in tune, at least with an en-
ergy superhumau, during the whole of the
uproar
| Meantime, npon the main dining-table,
among the bottles and glasses, aleaped the
gentleman, who, with such difficulty, had
been restrained from leaping there before.
| AS soon as he fairly settled himself, he
commenced an grafton, which, no doubt,
was a very capital one, if it could only
( have been heard. A the sams moment,
the man with the tee-totum predictions.
set himself TO spinning around the apart
ment, with immense energy, and with arms
| outstretched at RI ght angles with his body;
! so that he had all the air of a tee.totum
in fact, aud Knocked every body down thar
happened to get in his way And now,
too, hearing an incredible popping and
| fizzing of champagne, / discovered at,
| length, that itproceeded from the person
who performed the bottle of that delicate
drink during dinner. And then, again,
the frog man croaked away as if the saliva,
| ton of his soul depended upon every note
| hnf hl ny oil nd in .a 1oe Of ali
this, the continuous braying of donkey
arose over all. As for my old friend,
| Madame -Jogeuse, I really could have
wept for the poor lady, she appeared SO
terribly perplexed, All she did, however,
was to stand up in corner, BY the fre-
place, and sing out necessarily, atthe top
of her voice, "Ceck a-doodle-d ,oooooh!p
And lDow came the elimax-the catas-
trophe of the, diana, As no resistance,
be? ond whooping and yelling and cock-a-
doodleing, VAS offered to to the encroaeh-
ments of the party without, the zen wind
1 ows were very speedily, and almost sim
ultaneously.. Broken in. But T shall never
forget the emotions of wonder and horror
with which gazed, when, leaping through
these windows, and down among US pele-
nisle, fighting, stamping scratching, and
bowling, There rushed perfect army Of
what | took to be Chimpanzees, Ourang
I Outangs. or big black balloons of the
Cane of Good Hope. AG i
I I received a terrible beating after
which IlroHed, undor-a sofa and lay still
/ After lying there some fifieen niuutes
howeret, dufing which time I listened
J with all nv ears to what was going on
ir the room;I came to some satisfactory
demouement of this tragedy Mensieu,
Maiilsrd, it; appeared, intgiving me the
account of the lunatic who had excited
/ his fellows to rebellion, had. been inerel,
/ relating his aowI explohs.c. This gentle
man had, indeed, some two or three year,
before.g been the ;saperiatende ent of the es-
] ,tahlishment; bnt grew crazy himself, ant
50. became saonatient.q This fact was un-
, known to the travelling companion wht
: introduced me- 4 The keepers, ten in nun
; her, ha, lag been suddenly overpowered
,rere first weIl2tarreti, Ythoh carefully fea'h
! ed aud then shusanp in uadergsoitfG
| cells They had been so simprisoned4fo
I more than n maath, during which perioC
: Monsieur Maitland liad GENEROUSLY allowed
{ them mot only the tar andfaath hsrs{ whicl
e constituted his "system,') but some brcat
e and ahuudance.of water. The letter wa
: pumped on them daily. AT length, on,
/ escaping through a sewer, gave freeden
to all, the ,rest.4 iuEI lgb tg!slgaosUg@
4 The "soo:hiug system" With importan
mod ications, has4beeh resumed at tb
i chateau; yet cannot help agreeing will
Honsieuo Maillard, ,aahat his own treaJ
ment" was very capital one Of its kind
AS he Justly observed, it was, .'simple =
neat and gave no trouble at all-not th
Q east." Il i ,s722s. II y a. s,4
( d J. havelon.y to. add that, although
il have searched every library in Europe 20
!. the works of Doctor Tar and Professo
: fetteT, | hage, up to the present day, ut
terly failed in my endeayors al proeurin
: an edition.
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}, Il "A SORE sAFFLloTIoN. = Hon. Ed war
i Es erett isrvery unfortunate III hissdoms
: ,ic life. He has a wife who is slave ,
! strong drink, and this fact viii sprobab b
:, explain the1reasonl Of. his having to bres
!. engagement after engagement TO retul
s home. He publishes lin the Charlestc
.RefCs,.3 of tho l9th2inst%$,s the follewiI
ia Ia
i card: j@'ss' e ~ "a esa $
g IA cakp. eFhs subscriber, ri having Fifrs HI
i day received letters from his famii
: which again make il itnetrcessary for him
IS return home, sbegs:@ leave III this way. >,
= express to the public bodies and cor
nittecs Witch nave Ronored himEwitl Inv
p tartioons to'fepeae his address The cha
Z aeter Of Washington, his ,dltpp regr
d 9itat heis 6'fsef "a Scrond dmc 70 POS
9 iponbe3 the filiaicnt IF his @fga ssdT?ft, 3
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