Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1861-06-13

| looking man in cooked hat, 'upon high
and holy mishun. The Suthern eagle is a
screamin threwout this sunny land, proudly
and detiantly screamin Sir.W
What's the matter with him 2" sez |,
g don't his yittles settle well on his STUN
mick !''
-" That eagle, sir will conhnner to scream
all over this brite and tremenjus land ~
:" Wal, let him scream. If your eagle
| can amuse himself by screamin, let him
went"
| The men annoyed ne for vas bizzy max
in change.
q We are cum, sir, upon matter of doo-
/ "
:. Your right. captin, its every mans
dooty to visit my show" sed l.
ave are cum ''--
"And that's the reason your here" sez
| l larfin one of my silvery larfs. thawt If
he wanted to COAX I'd give him sum of my
sparklin' eppygrams.
's Sir, yer inserlent. The plain question
| is, will YOU hawl down the Star Spangled
Banner and hist the suthern flag Z"
Nary hist!F Those wos my reply.
I. Your wax works and beests is confisti-
Gated, & you air arrested as spy Y
Scz l, 6 My fragrant roses Of the southern
! cline and blooming dafFodils, what's the
price of whisky in this town, and how many
cubic feet of that seductive hooid can you
Individually hold 2"
| They made no reply to that, but said my
wax figgers was confsticated. asked them
if that was ginerally the style among thieves
| in that country, to which they also made no
reply, but sed ! was arrested as spy, and
/ in Thou
was by this time jned by large crowd of
other patriuts, VINO commenced hollerin,
Hang the bald-heded aberlitionist, and bust
up his immortal exibishun! was ceased
and tied to a stump, and the crowd went
for nv tent-that water proof pavilion,
wherein instruction and amusement had
| been SO much combined, at Is cents per
head-and tore it all TO pieces. Meanwhile,
dirty-facad boys was THROWN stuns and
emty beer bottles at my massive brow; 81
takin other improper liberties with my per-
son. Resistance was useless, Tor a variety
! of reasons, which readily obsarved.
The seseshers confsticated my statoots by
smashin them to attums. They then went
to my money box and confisticated all the
loose change therein contained. They then
went and bust in my cages, letting all the
animals loose, small but healthy tiger
among the rest. This tiger has an excentric
way of tearing dogs to pieces, and alters
sposed from his general conduck that he'd
| have no hesitation in servin human beins
in the same way if he could git at them.
Excuse me if was crooil, but larfed boys
terrusly when l saw that tiger spring in
among them people TO 1t, my sweet
cuss 20 inardly exclaimed, 81 forgive you
| for biting off my left thumi with all my
heart! Rip 'em up like bully tiger whose
lare has been invaded by Seseshers J"
cant say for certain that the tiger seris-
| ly injured any of them, but as he was seen
few days after sum miles distant, with a
large and well selected assortment OF seats
of trousers in his mouth, and as he lookt as
thou he'd bin havin sum vilent exercise. |
rayther guess he did. You will therefore
perceive that they didn't eontiSticate him
very much.
was carrd to MONTGOMERY in iruns and
placed in durans vial The Jail was or
merry edifss, but the table was librally sup
piled with Bakin and Cabbidge. This was
good variety. for when didn't banker af-
ter Bakn could help myself to the Cab
bidge.
! had nobody to talk to nor nothn to talk
about, howsoeyer, and | was very lonely,
| specially on the first day, SO when the jaler
parst my lonely SELL put the few stray
hairs on the back part Of my he'd Pm bald
now, but there was time when wore sweet
auburn ringlets) into dish-heviled state
as possible, & rollin my eyes like many
yuck. cride 4 Stay jaler, stay am not
mad, but soon shall be if you don't bring me
suthin to Talk +" lie brung me sum noos-
papers, for which thanked him kindly.
| At larst got a interview with Jefferson
Davis, the President of the Southern Con-
thieveracy. He was quite perlite, and axed
me to sit down and state my case. did 1t,
when he larfed and sed his gallant men had
been little too enthusiastic in confscatin
my show.
:" Yes," sez I, ''they confscated me too
muchly. had sum hosses confscated in
the same way onct, but the confscaters air
now poundun stun In the State Prison at
| Injinnapylus.
: Wall, wall, Mister Ward, you air at
liberty to depart; you are friendly to the
South know. Even now we have many
frens in the North who sympathize with US,
and won't mingle with this fight"
81 Davis, there's your great mistake
Many of us was your sincere friends, and
thought cortin parties among us was fusSln
about you and meddlin with the consarns
intirely too much. But j. Davis, the mint
you fire gun at the piece of.dry goods call
ed the Star Spangled Banner, the North gifts
up and rises en- massy, in defense of that
banner Not agin you as lndividooals-not
| agin the South even-but to save the flag
| We should indeed be weak in the knees, un-
sound in the heart, milk white in the liver,
and soft in the he'd, if we stood quietly by
and saw this glorus Goyyment omashed to
pieces either by furrin or intestine foe
The gentle hearted mother hates to take her
naughty child across her knee but she knows
it is her dooty to do it. So we shall hate to
whip the naughty South, but we must do it
| if YOU don't make back tracks at onct, and
we shall wollup you out of your boots J..
Davis, it is my decided opinion that the Son
ny South is maxim egrejus muttonhed of
herself p'
sGo on, sir, you're safe enuf. You're too
small powder for me p sed the President OF
the Southern Conthieveracy.
Wait till go home and start out the
Baldinsville Mounted Hoss Cavalry I'm
Capting of that corpse, and j. Davis, be-
ware Jefferson D.. now leave you -
Farewell, my gay saler boy. Good bye, my
bold buccaneer! Pirut of the deep blue sea.