The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-09-29

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'Imean the gay and festiv cuss who calls
nama was Uriah." ~. .
He has retired"
"vall, my pretty dears," SEE I, "lets hay
sum I'm. Lets play puss in the corner. What
~ yoa Shaker, sir 2" they asked.
Wall, my pretty lears, I haven't arrayed
my proud form In weskN yet; but If they was
al Mke you, perhas I'd jine em. As # Is, I am
. Shaker pro-temporary." ~.
They was full Of fun. seed that at f,st,
only they was Attle skeery. tawt 'em pusa
In the corner and SIGH like plase, and we had q
nice time, keepin quiet, Of course, SO, the old
man shouldn't hear. When we broke up, SEE
L my pretty dears, ear 60 you hav no Oh
jectiors, hav you, to innersent kiss at par.
tin7" .,s.. 90 Nh.
"Y~, they sed, and you'd.
snoozia half an hour whenI was woke up by
q noiselat the door. sot up in bed, leanin
on my lbers and rubin my eyes, and saw
the foalsrin picter: The Elder stood in the
DOORWAY with taller candle in his hand. He
hadn't n wearin appeerel on except his night
close, which fluttered In the breeze like so.
cesshun Jag. He sed, you're man Of sin l"
sA0A SIoyso0 au0 Wout away.
went to sleep again, and drempt Of run
ming OFT with the pretty little Shakeresses,
mounted pn my Californy Bar. I thowt the
bar insisted on steerin strate for my dooryard
at BadinsVile, and that Betsy Jane cum out
and give us warm reception with painful of
boilin water ! was woke up arly by the elder.
He sed reiseshments was reddy for me down
stairs. Then saying was man Of sin, he
went groarin away. r ..
As wai goin threw the entry to the room
where the Sittals was, cum across the Klder
and the old female I'd met the night before,
and what dye spose they was up toe Huggin
and kissin like young lovers In their gushing.
est State. SEE !, my Shaker friends, / recknn
you'd better suspend the rules, and get mar
"You must excoos Brother Uriah," sed the
female; "he's subject to fits and haint got no
command over hisself when he's into EN-"
"sartinly, !" sez I, "Iv'e been took that way
myself frequent" ~. :.r -.
"You're man of sin !" said the Elder.
AFTER breakfast my little Shaker frinds cum
in again to clear away the dishes. n, 3.
my pretty dears," SEE I, "shan we gag
NAY, they sed, and I mayd.
The Shakers axed me to 60 to their noeetin.
put on clean billed rag and went. The meet
in house was as neat as pin. The floor was
white as chalk and smooth as glass. The
Shakers was all on hand, in clean Weskits and
meal bags, ranged on the floor like millingtery
companies, mails on one side of the room and
the females on tother. They commenst clap
pin their hands and singin and dancin. They
danced kinder slow at fust, but as they warmed
up they shaved it down very brisk, tell
you. Elder Uriah, in particler, exiberted q
right smart chance of spryness in his legs, con-
siderin his time Of life, and as he cum dou-
bic shuttle near where sot, I rewarded him
with apprOvin smile and sed :" Hunky bow /!
Go it, my gray and festiv cuss !"
"Youre man Of SIM" he sed, continnerin
his shuttle.
The Sperret, as they called it, then moved a
they was Shakers and all was ekal. They was
the purest and seleckest people on the yearth.
Other peple was sinful as they could be, but
Shakers was all right. Shakers was all goin
kerslop to the Promist Land, and nobody want
goin to stand at the gate to bar em out, if
they did they'd git run over.
The Shakers then danced and sung again,
and arter they was threw, one of em axed me
what thawt of it.
See /, "What does it siggerfy ?"
what" SEE he.
"Why this juppin up and siDgin? This
long weskit bizness, and this antimatrimony
idee? My friends you are neat and tidy. Your
lands Is flowing with milk and honey. Your
brooms Is fine, and your apple sass Is honest.
When man buys kag of apple sass ofyou he
don't find CRATE many cravings under few
layers of sass-a game I'm sorry to say sum of
my New England ancertors used to do. Your
gardin seeds is fine, and if should SOW 'em on
the rock Of Gibralter probly Ishould raise q
good mess of garding sass. You are honest in
your dealins. You are quiet and don't disturb
nobody. For all this I give you credit. But
your religion Is small pertaters, must say.
You NOPE away your lives here in single
retchedness, as you air all by yourselves moth
ing confiicks with your pecooaer iaees, except
understan she sometimes do. Civ Uriah a
sly wink here, which made the old fellow
sqirm like . speared Eel You wear long
weskits and long faces, and lead q gloomy life
indeed. No children's prattle is ever hearn
around your harthstuns-you air dYairy fog
all the time, and you treat the jolly sunshine
OF lite as tho 1t was thief driven In from your
doors by them weskits, and meal bags, and pc
cooler noshuas ofyourn. The gals among you.
ever cot eyes on, air sym to place their heads
agin weskits which kiver honest manly
harts, while you old bedHool yourselves with
the idee that they air ful6llin their mishun
here, and air contented. Here you air, all
pened up by yourselves, talkin about the sins
OF a world you don't know nothin of. Mean
wniie said world containers to resolve round
on her own exeltree onct in every "a hours,
suo9eck to the Constitution of the United
states and is very pleasant place of resi-
dence It's unnatral, unreasonable and dis.
NAL lite you'er leadin here. So it strikes me.
Ny shaker friends. now bid Jon welcome
adoo: fo1 hay treated me exceedin well.
thank you kindly, one and all.
"A base exhibitor of depraved monkeys and
unpIincipled ws1 works !" said Uriah.
"Hellon: Uriah, sez l. "T'd almost forgot
you. Wall, look out for them ats of yourn
and don't catch cold and die in the -four d
your youth and beauty"
And resOomed my jerney.
Major Charles F. Putnam, of the One Hun
dred and Fifty-third New York Volunteers
died in Savannah on the 18th instant after
brief illness of two weeks. His disease VA
typhoid fever. The deceased was . native .
Fultonville, Montgomery County, New York
and was about Is years Of age.