White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1859-04-14

ways do after bad supper. Pom ny
soul, if you had seen how I slashed my
bed to pieces last night, and shot off th,
bed post Had to pay ten dollars dam
ages to old SkinAint, the landlord"
The Yankee recoiled with trepidatior
from his perilous bed-follow, and prefer.
red his request to the Tennessean, stating
very piteously. that he had an affection
of the head" though of what kind, b.
did not inform us, which was always ag
gravated by want of, or even by IN
comfortable sleep. The Tennesseean swort
that he was Just as bad as his neighbor
the dississippian, though in another way
He never could sleep with anybody with
out beginning to fight the moment he fell
asleep and it was but a fortnight ago
he said, that he had gouged a fellows
eyes out. ..-
The Alabamian declared he chewed
tobacco in his sleep. and that his guilds
would be fully as dangerous to a bed.
fellows eyes as the Tennesseean's fingers
The second Mississippian had taken mp
position, directly across the bed, his
head sticking out one side, and his feet
on the other, in which position only, he
swore he could sleep with any comfort
and, therefore, desired the Yankee to ap-
ply to some one else, which he did, with
no better fortune-some excusing them
selves on pretences as ridiculous as those
| have mentioned while one or two 9TH
ers, whose wit was not so ready, met his
supplicating glances and his -hesitating
applications with downright refusals. AS
for myself, the narrowness of my couch
was so manifest as to secure me from APP
plicatien. lad.
The poor Yankee, thus rejected on all
sides. and. with the prospect of remain
ing bedless all night, took the desperate
resolution of preferring complaint to
his majesty, the inn-keeper. For this
purpose, he opened the door and called
twice and thrice, but with timid tones, to
mine host. who, having already retired to
his bed, and not choosing to be troubled,
took no notice of his first calls, and only
replied to his last by threatening to turn
his unfortunate customer out of doors if
he did not keep quiet. -aa.a
To be turned ont of house in which
he was so inhospitably treated. might
have seemed no disagreeable alternative /;
but, unluckily. dismal rain had now
commenced falling. and there was no
other place of refuge within eight or ten
miles. I'd. .-.-..
Nothing remained for the extra lodger
but to stretch himself on the floor, which
he at last did, but with sundry groans
and complaints. pillowing his head upon
the saddle-bags, in which position he lay
until his fellow-travellers, myself with
the rest. all dropped soundly asleep.
We had not slept. / imagine, more
than a quarter of an hour, when we were
all at the same moment, aroused by ter
rible voice crying in the midst of the
room: "If there is no other way with
them, cut their aristocratic Threats ]"
The words and the voice were alike
but judge our establishment,
when. starting from our beds. we beheld
the Yankee rising, half-naked from the
floor, as grim and gaunt as Don Quixote
holding a bowie-knife, to which
the Mississippian's was a pen-knife to a
razor, and brandishing it with looks of
blood and fury. I'D.
by snakes and niggers !" cried the
braying gentleman, with something like
alarm: che dreams harder than l do !"
WAKE. him up-he will do mischiefP
exclaimed others for we all thought the
roor fellow was suffering under some
frightful dream. The Tennesseean, bold
or than the rest, seized him by the arm.
upon which he dropped his knife. and his
changing from rage to trepi-
dation. exclaimed m .r4r a
81 give myselfup-I am your prisoner.
But, take notice, gentlemen, l yield to
superior force. Give me five minutes to
say my prayers J" 1
death and thunder % cried the var
mint of Tennessee, starting back, 'the
man is mad !" And so it seemed to us
all.
"Give me FIVE minutes to say my
prayers r. quoth the Yankee. who, how
ever, instead of dropping on his knees,
burst into tears, and harangued US in
somewhat the following words:
81 am an honest man, and a patriot,
Democrat and q man of the people. /
have fought the battle Of my country, and
I die a Roman herol You are too many
for me, genhemen-twelve hundred men
against me, and a regiment of scalping
savages behind you'll 1 surrender, and
am ready to die. am a Democrat but
what is one Democrat among twelve hun
dred myrmidons in power / know
you'll kill me, but / don't care all / ask
Of you is to do Justice to my memory
to do me justice before the world here
his voice was almost drowned in sobs -
to bear witness that / die like a brave
man-die like q patriot-the victim Of
despots, and the martyr Of freedom !"
Great was the CONSERVATION and con-
fusion that now prevailed. The man was
mad-North, Northwest, and all around
the compass-politically mad. q mad pa
triot: nobody doubted that. Some asked
what was to be done-others would have
argued that mad man out Of his frenzy
others again. slipped out Of the door, and
stood ready for run. p -
In the meanwhile. the maniac. rein
spired BY his own eloquence. or the pu-
sillanimity of his enemies. which even a
mad man might perceive. lifted up his