The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-02-23

pair OF aces; be got wild and offered to be,
anything and everything; one of the table.
70 gnon Piekens had apportioned the Pen.
niman property on Madison square, mt
taas property up: Sauiggs bet Tiffsny's e..
taolishmen; Jenkes dnted the As,or House.
DIS was Just what Baplin wanted; be had
been lucky TIE day before, and had pocket.
ful OF New York deeds, so be en-. in strong.
ne Dc. the Custom-hnuse and eight fine rssi-
csnces IN West Fourteenth street better:
Jeaker came to time, and put CD Ball &
Diae6 Jeweiry concern, and three wholesale
dry-goods houses 10 Warren street. Snuigg,
tnascaed i With Siuars's steam candy esrab-
!ssanent, the HerCic Office, and couple Of
scaooners. then be went the 81. Nicholas
hotel better. BaplIa came up with Guntner's
great fur house. and four large iewelry con-
Germs IN Maiden lane; Jenker replied with
the Atlantic dock property and the Third
avenue railroad, and wanted TO 20 Tvas's
church, the Chemical Bank and the Cui0p
/ ferry better, but here Baplin said he was
broke, and demanded sigh, for his pile.
( lie bad 1t, aud that's al the good il did him.
/ His kings and aces were no9 here. for Jauke-
had .'aash," and Squiggs raked the DO,
with four nine-spo,s.
( "Such scenes are common. | dare saw
! the whole Of Manhattan Island has changed
nands dozen times over. Pickens' deeds
are considered perfectly good and sound.
/ IL have not gambiei much in that sort of
/ property: bat, IS we have concluded 10 save
all the women, have specula,ed some in
/ pretty girls. | have already won sortv-nine
girls under sixteen, ard ei-htT-three Young
ladies under twenty-two-ha!f Of them
blondes, half brunettes, all to be plump,
have fine teeth and to be coed singers: am
tond Of music; these are all TO be delivered
20 me on or before the 7th Of March.
"We are going to take some Of yourprom-
lnent aboiitionists and anti Southern men
alive, and nave 4 little fun with them after
war; Picaens, when he found he was getting
short Of money sold privileges Of Slaughter
az large premium-these are orders enti-
ting the holder to certain Of the prisoners,
10 dispose OF as be shall choose. These
are, also gambIed for very extensively. The
privilege OF slaughter bearing Greelev's
name was sold originally for 500, and was
aftewara lost IL euchTe, then lost again in
Pokcr-being won by fellow on three
queens who holisth order now. He SAYS
he is going TO skin Greeley alive, in from. Of
the City Hall, on some Sunday morning in
March. Bets are made that Greeley dies
before he's half skinned; but the fellow
who owns him-who has q great deal Of
practics-says he can skin him SO expedi-
tiousIy that Horace will hold out and 'holler'
TO the last shred of hide.
'Beecher was won by man who sw0re
he'd drown him like dog this fellow, how
ever, bet him on a horse-Eace, and Henry
Ward was saved from a watery grave by Il
Alabamian, who has invited oil his friends
to sec him burn Be cher alive, amid the
ruins Of Plymouth Church.
ssYou see, old D0esticks, we've got things
all fixed. The privilege OF killing you was
sod TO q Georgian, who said he was going
to cue YOUR heart out and feed it to his cat
however,, co lxed him to play social game
of euchre and won you on lone hand;
YOU are now mine, and | don't think III
kill you, for cid times sake.
"When our army gets up into the New
I England States, we shall make clean
sweep; xii. everybody: we have contracted
with n Bell Everett Yankee to bury the
/ folks; he's going to use Fem for manure,
and is bound by his contract to put them all
three feet under. So you perceive that
| Pickens and the rest of Us have got the pro-
gramme ali made out.
| Yours, ETC.. as of old,
| A DAMPllOOL."
| Besides this letter, there was, in the same
envelope, another, written in pencil, which
ran as follows:
/ .sDEAR DoEsTIcKs The other letter was
written for the committee TO see; this is Tor
your private eye.
81 want to get away; want to come to
New York; I've been pressed into service;
| I've got the rheumatism sleeping out doors;
1 I g. IL. 'yAS dali nv,I