Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-04-08
The Attempted Abduction OF Gov.
eFnor Tod a Good Specimen of
Editorial Sarcasm. $50
From the Cincinnati CONNER,

A9NAkO4AS@A SAECABTI4S
From the Cincinnati Commercial. j.
Since the seizure of the Sabine women
by the uxorious Romans, the pen. of his.
tory has not recorded so remarkable a case
of attempted abduction as that of orr old
friend, DR.. Odds, who desired to foroiblv
take, seize, and carry away, our blooming
and blushing Governor from the State
Capital to his little kingdom of Fairfield
County. It resembles the raids which
teudal lords made upon each Others
demesnes, and, had it been successful, the
romance of the Butternut Bastile, to he
written by some chronicler of these tronb.
lous times, would probably have found its
dehouement in the moss grown ruins of TIE
castle, and skeleton, bearing a remarka-
BILE resemblance to QUE of the early Cow
ernors Of the State of Ohio, found cemented
in its walls, with list of Dr.. Old's griey-
ancee clenched in the gripped digits Of tn e
dexter hand.
Since DR.. Odds feasted on the sweets If
solitude in the humid cells of Fort Lafay-
cite, he has horrible iufatuation on the
subject of bastiies, and his faithful retain
ers in the little kingdom of Fairfield, will
ing to humor his eccentricities of charac-
Ter, seem to have provided one for his spe-
c1at diversion. twas into the bowels of
Doctor of the rubicund face desired To
plunge the body of Governor David Tod
What he proposed doing with him. had he
succeeded in the enterprise, s2Ieft, unfor-.
tunateiy to speculation, owing to the rash
procedure of the Supreme Court, which
mas no flavor of romance in its compost
tlon The Doctor, at times, wears fero.5
clous aspect, and when these moods we're
on him, would probably have glowered
at the Governor through the prison harsE
much as cannibal would before nickinr,.
the bones of a grilled missionary: or # t9
"mtrth inclined, would have stirred him
up with long, pole for the benefit Of snec-,
tators, as showmen do their. leatherv aid
mons whose age and much travel in lfSraioIn
parts incline to stupor 8 o
NE remember when our friend, the Doc.
LOT, made his triumphal entry into Oolum.
ous, ana GRATED to q mandolin and muddy
troop OF Fairfield horse-guards. his features
oIo not pear that beamy'and benignant as.
Pecs winch We had expected ia one who.
sgonlzea IKE Jonah in the whales belly
Ior a scrlptural comfort, and subsequently,
seF94neo 10 his good and regular standing
In an orthodox and evangelical church e
His eyeballs rolled epileptically when he
to the Governor, and emitted. No.
phetto sparks of future satisfaction Which
BODIED 20 good to the Executive of ths
State. Ia fact, the Doctor resem6leS =
believer IN the doctrine ofinfant damnation.
ana looked like one ofthe saints whose
1uty ana 2rerogatlve 1t is to crash heretics
imagine the Governor of Ohio in tbs
nAads OF the Great Ogre of Fairfield Conn.
y, Poor Christian in the dungeon of Gil
49E despair was IN no such peril. The /
wandering Hellenic marines were NOT in - I
imminent peril when the one eyed Poly1 /
phemps sprned the light of bis sole orb f1Il /
Then Gae Doctor would not have been
alone ~ Ills glory. The inexorable Sheriff /
u he!d-the Javert of the tower of ODDS
and q hoss of Butternuts; would have f1s1c9
g and ,h$Wlsd about their victim. ike as
many CdmAnches around the stake Of 4