The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-02-16
Fer The s2slagae.t Daily News.
MYSTERIES AND EyPLaS arroxs

, and in fact i.was usually rupch la.a- faso.
be, and his tso fFiends. sarays.ed a. -
, night. There they would a.. honr sr,a
hour, recapitslatins the event 5f the d,r
or discussing some topic Of general ar !,
ticular interest, until somet;r,r. tho 49,,
Ky gave Indications that davIigh, ~,
ind them s'flilognging 10 their ela;r.. A.,
indeed Law of1ea Is a yevv conve-;ar,
council roomfor a lot Of old bacharo-. ;,
meet in after the iahors Of the 3av are na.,
and the evening Gals are over. No ms,,s,
If the evening isSs;n7, or the yalk;no n, .,,s.
one has Dot to clean his fee. half an hon -.
fore entering. for fear 6f soilinp sou,eboas,.
CARPET Q little extra dirt would neve~ bs
noticed. Onceseatei, il YOU are II, n n,arrv
mood, you may chew papers Of nil color.
!. isso sugars psun., AL fas.en them IN n.
Fce'Itnz, Or prlf a. rav withou. nSdiry :
shade to the sombre hue Of surraund1ro
, Objects. And if you wish s;ora,t- ~
deposit some OK soas Surplus, exease ps.
gentle reaser,f " e do No. r1easis n s,,s ~ ms
IL always giyes US an unpleasant seasatiou
a'fhs roots OF the tongue 10 Do s1--vou An
KNOW what the surplus product Of 4 tobacco
cHeweTs 49, II. We sag. you have an7 of this
arGc'eio deposit, the hove or its enyiron4
VI! answer Instead VI c spItoon, if the lat
ter - not a. band. Then there Is some, inc
rather Impressive in the appearance and
circumstances Of the place. Those great,
nngaIniy books Were not made for common
people 10 rend, and be who is familiar with
tAeir contents IS supposed to possess a sort
Of mysterious coEtrol over the temporal
interest Of manhood. That baize- coTcrad
table, b.Ottei over with ink, and gritty with
sand, It's edges hacked and Scared hv a
knife IN s1;ne restless hand, has been witness
70 great Transactions. "dcne in black and
"hite."s II Is from the Law offcs too. ar
~ aeg IN il, tia: most Of our great states.
mea c sl,m Zee their upward career. and
hence i il not 4: all strange if the o,eg-
paa' 81 that arm chair fully expects in
due time to take his seat in the "Fhite
= 7a3c." nE s>.. Fl e.. -"
, T'o company ii the Office to which We have
;o.roo iced our readers, consisted, as usual,
If ,hrsc single gentlemen. Col. Eawson.
"A rr,rr;, tor Of the establishment, was m
ngrreab ., in. a!'igen, gcn:lemaaly man, who
stood ?yrlI int. profession, was quite ad.
rnir,I in society. 'ad witho. crsa, ga!!lnt.
It wa. hough: stra 7ge he dl. macy, indeed
Whenever pretty .. i was led 10 The altar,
the Col. always Gec,ar II "he was just GoiHg
20 mike love tn her,. s'I.i he never ad-
Yarccd BEYOND ;hat very O fnofnIro5nt. On
his ight hand snt tail, g. lHt specimen Of
hur,q, Nitv, who answered to tho Impressive
nnIp..p resaiyc name Of LONG John" He
wa. L,rC k-huired, and black e, ed, neither
haadsom,, n person nor graceful. IN move
mrn,. lie was supposed to be OF Yankee
origin, thon.,h Of that the reader may form
his own cone T. slons; one thing however,
vas certain, he h,.d seen good deal Of the
v0rld. and know "a thing 81 two" What
tho ~, -,icu,ar attra. 't4on between him and
the rol. ,,as. puzzled c,'ery one 10 tell. Per-
haps !, was ne beautiful harmony OF con-
trnst," which We are told exists between
certain objects - opposite natures ana
qualities. Certain il j., they walled toGeth-
or, rode together, sat ont naF inc htsht
Together, and sometimes Co. Rans 20 "oaia
entertain the whole company az an ~ = e
party hv sauuterinr through the ooHs WI.
Tong John on his arm, Introducing nm 10
ono and another "a "the only being 10 ever
fonnd who was capable Of approaching |
himself" On the left hand of the Col. sat |
the handsome Mcdonald. lie wss not n
pcrson to need particular descr ption--
any m odcl Of u gentleman you may happen |
20 have in your mind, will answer instead.
Yet we do not mean to say that he was one
all men; )" no, he did not bclon. to that
gcniu4 at all, but on the contrary, Re had
way of doing and saying things peculiarly |
his own. Moreover his two companions
always accused him of being selfish, and
they wrre forever teasing him % fall in
love, and thus transfer bis affections from
himself to some one else, for they wre tired |
Of INDUCING in his whms md fancis TO the |
extent hr seemed to demand. Bat though !
they could not discover any direct vement /
tnwards.o desirable an end, yet Log John,
who bad constituted himself committee
! on svur' ems" reported that be hal caught /
! him looking out OF the window atlothIng, |
! three times in one day, and that pst as he !
was going to look the fourth the, the /
| beautiful Miss Cecil passed on he other |
side Of the street, when the poo fellow !
! turned his back II tho window, an looked /
as guilty. ~ If he he'd been stealing sheep.' !
/ This he pronounced decidedly susciCus."
| Il was the evening of the Residential .
election. The political parties OF he coun- /
try were supposed 10 be so nearly alanced
/ that il would be n s.ueck ard DC& race /
with thu candidates. OF coarse co lectures
were rife. and excitement i,tense. All day
long the three friends wcr' in the heat OF
the contest, AMI now that night hal come,
md tho last thing they codd do /, secure
the election Of "their man. was dme, and
the last thing they could saIin hi favor
was said. they we're glad tdmeetn their
little coyv retreat, and wait II the returns
10 come in, before they specified further
upon the great subject in acaiion.
sul,;ccs, though the one ttnv serc discussing
seemed no less absorbing. iharasn Patter-
! al AGAINST the windows, al the ch'd No
yrmbsr wind no led reun tie low browed
Ituldinr without n all dlyrsing their at'en'
ton. What could threeslngls gentlemen
find 10 interest than so ds,lv. il i was not
notifies. unless il was LticS' And yet IL
was net the Ladies. for rough Mcdonald
use,i tn saw be believed the WIS az elective
o affinity between that suhct audsll Others,
..for let fellow begin u1n what he would,
and end where be weus be always took
Il the Ladies in his way. ".sill they were not
once brought forwarson this occasion.
Nor was il the s.finanal crisis nor the
rrea, Eastern auestn," nor slavery aud
anti. slavery upon wta they were a-ung.
!. Ru, somehow or 9TH they hardly knew
Al how themselves. the,ad got into an earnest
= debate upon the sjecE Of inexplicable
SIGHTS and sounds. IN other words upon
the various rheuo.na of spiritual mani T.
- f,statiaus. Ieng hn laughed the whole /
thing to scorn, il all humhus from +.
u beginning TO end. ID nobody, nrr nothing
- from the cd serpt downfa Andres Jack /
60 son Davis. could nvIacs him to the con- /
ny trarv, and II penrn the other world had
h nothir better TO than turning tables, or
Us PEOPLES bran upe down, they had better /
eF come hack asi - clearing uv new land. /