The Council Bluffs nonpareil., 1858-10-02
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A friend OF ours in the West, of humorous
turn, recently had "The Shakes" and
writes to US as follows, under date of the
9th inst:
81 have just had final proof that have
really become Western citizen. have had
"The Shakes!" the genuine article, and no
mistake. 1t has been all through this part
of the country and, to alter the old quota
tion slightly, "Those have shook who never
shook before.'
"To man whose bones have been con-
solIdated among your granite hills, The
Shakes does not make direct assault, but
comes under disguise. You have, at first,
an ordinary bilious attack, which you meet,
with an appearance of success, by the COM
mon remedies. But just as you fancy your
self we'll of it, you begin to have a strange
feeling down among your bones. as If you
had taken bad cold-very much such a
feeling, as Beau Nash had after having, as
he said, slept at a tavern, between Bath and
London, Sin the same room with damp
stranger These feelings rapidly become
more intense, tillyou can pretty fully realize
what the experiences of that guilty man,
Harry Gill, were, when suffering nnder the
moonlight curse of Goody Blake. It's not
long you can stand that. A hot bed, plenty
of blankets, bottles of hot water, and the
usual intramels, are soon in demand. But
not whit of relief. The common philo-
sophical laws of heat and cold appear totally
suspended. Piled over as you may be with
heated blankets, with hot solids without and
hot fluids within, your teeth chatter like
pair Of castauets going to the tune Of Mon
ey Musk.' A most strange feeling of phys
ical levity went with all this as if this body
corporate was mere bag of feathers, that
could almost be lifted and moved with
breath. Of the hot and sweating stages that
follow on after this-for the disease is serv-
ed up to you in three courses-I will not
speak, only to remark that with the hot
stage there is a feeling of mental exciting,
almost amounting to deIlrium, which dis
appears in the current Of sweat which
soon gathers from every pore of ones
superfcies.
"Now this fellow, who gives you such a
shaking, and such a sweat, is extremely apt
to call again to next day, and repeat the
experiment, in which case he is called Quo
tidan if he postpones his call till the Sec
ond day, (as he sometimes oblgingly does,
he is called a Tertian ; if he doesn't call at
is my experience. ."-N. H. Statesman.
Democratic Yarns" Won't Pay for Spinning!
We are fain to believe that the conviction
is gradually forcing itself upon the leaders
of the Locofoco party in this State, that
they cannot carry the State by falsehood.
Although they have great faith in hard wing
and endorse the motto that lie well stuck
to is as good as the truth, yet they are begin
ming to find out that it will be impossible to
hold out until after the election-that they
are being met at all points with facts and
figures, and are now daily losing ground.
A bold front and an INSCRIPTIONS lying
tongue will do much, but cannot convince
sensible intelligent men that black is white
or that the Iowa Luna,ic Asylum is as big
as the Crystal Palace and will cost three
millions of dollars, when it stands within
thirty miles of Burlington where everybody
can see it. Neither can the lying hounds
convince people that a tax Of IL mills is
greater than tax Of 3 mills. But they
can show that it costs more to govern the
State Of Iowa now, with 100000 inhabi-
tants, than it did few years ago when she
had 100000 inhabitants. But they cannot
show, without lying, that it costs more per
head to govern the people now, under Re
publican rule, than it did at any former
period under Locofoco rule. There lies the
gist of the matter, and we defy the whole
lying crew of hungry cormorants to show
an expenditure, greater in proportion to
population, under Republican rule, than
when the State was governed by the De-
mocracy.
And it should be borne in mind, that the
State has been put to the expense of form
ing new Constitution, called for by a
very large majority of the voters of the
State, and not exclusively Republican
measure-that an extra session of the Leg
islature was necessary to receive the land
grant, which involved considerable ex-
pense, and that beside these items, major
rity of Democrats for the most part con-
curing, the Republicans have and are erect
ing suitable buildings for the accommoda-
ton of Insane and Blind persons-making
necessary additions to our Penltentlary, &c,
&c. And yet, with all these extraordinary
expenses, it is notorious truth known by
ali men, that the Republicans have reduced
the rate of taxation from 2 mills to l l-2-
ONE QUARrER.-Hawkeye.