Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1865-11-17
MIR. Nasty HAS A MOST HORRI-
BILE VISION.
sAINrs' REsr, lwhich IS in the Sac


NV Moo Gersey,1 Oct I6, 1865.
Last night, weary and disguised with
readin eleckshun returns. picked up vol
um NV Cancels Poems, and red that splen-
did peese, THE Last Man Cammell ii a
poick-ther amt no doubt NV it. Eff my too
partial friends amt too partial, ] can whop
him ON the sublime, but on the pathetics,
acknollidge him ez my sooperior. Be that
ez it may, the poem made an impression on
my mind, which is proof that ther is suthin
into it, and my mind wuz dwellin onto it
ez | sunk into slumber.
Ez yoosuai | he'd dream, and sich a
dream may never hev .agin.
Methaut the epidemick, which is now de-
yastatin Europe, he'd struck Moo York. For
a time it struck down all classes. The
proWd Caucashen, the hidjus niger, theno-
bic red man of the forest, and the almon-
eped Chinese, all, all, fell afore the ruthless
destroyer. But, at las, it abated, eccept SO.
far ez the nigger Wuz concerned. The white
man Wuz spared, SO Wuz the lniun, and the
Chinese, but, among the Afrikins, it ragged
with redoubled fury o, 1t was crushin!
The planter looked abroad, and 10! the stall
wart field hand, which was worth 81 500,
wuz a cold corpse, and the feeld was un-
ploaed Agin he looked, and alas! the
hraWny wench, which alluz bore him plea
ninny ywich wuz worth $500 ez soon eZ wean-
ed, wunst per year, and by little extra
whippin, did full years work, Wuz pros
trate in the cold embrace NV deth. Aginh he
looked, and we to himl the oetroon, for
which he paid $500, and whose girl babies
he Good sell in Moo Orleans ez soon ez they
Ruz 16 for So GOO, an akkount nv their hay
in his blood in their vans, wuz torn from
his luYin grasp by the stronger hand Nv dis
ease, and wuznt wurth a copper for any
purpus.
The Democrisy bekum alarmed. The In
defatigable leaders whispered: THE mig
ger is fadin away !-sposin he bekums ex-
timex Whereupon q consultation NV the
head men wuz held. In view NV the crises.
pair-wun male and wun female, wuz Sc
lected aud examined by committee Nv ex-
pert examiners in life insurance companies.
They wuz pronounced perfect specimens
entirely sound and free from disease, These
two wuz locked up in a room in healthy
locashen, and twenty-four uy the most emf
nent physicians NV the country Wuz detailed
-one to stay with them one hour of eacf
/ day, that, in case the disease struck EN- the
remedies might be toWunst applied, that
from these two, the race might be propaga-
ted, and the cappytle Nv the party be pre-,
| served.
But all to no purpose. The last niggel
in the Yoonited Stats perished, and finally
these two were struck, and notwithstandiI
the precautions adopted, they too diedl
Their wuz a season nacher sympathizeC
with the party in its afliction. The heay
ems wuz clothed with leaden colored clouds
| athCr wich, ever and anon, flashed CLEAN
NV loorid lite. Low-voiced thunders NUT
tered ominously, and birds and beasts rul
/ howlin Ter the feelds Dray horses fe
| dead upon the stony streets, and wild beast
rushed frantickly from their coverts, an
| snapped fooriously madly at whatever cam
in their way.
The last NV the Afrikins were layin pros
trate in the hall. Fernandywood entered
and, ez he seed EN-, he bustid into tears
Farewell, gushed he, a long farewell
last NV cussid racei You wuz our tower q
strength on you we bildedl Hatred u
you give me the Irish vote NV Moo York
o, how cheerin it wuz to see them lamb
bust yer heads and innocently hang you u
to lamp posts But you m gone-you L
gone-and hentz4th hfe's blank to me
Farewell, vain world for wat is life with
out.a nigger!' and seizin jack knife h
saw stickin out the niger S pocket, b
struck it into his stummick, and falh
across the deceased Afrikins expired peace
fully.
Franklin Peerse approached. ''Alasl an
thou art gone? Too troo, thou art! In lif
thou wurt luylyl Twas thou alone tha
made me President, thy woolly he'd wuz m
steppin-stun to place and powerl Tho
vast my right bower my left and ace! Eff
wuz Democratic Sampson, thou was th
hair wich the Deliler, Death, hez sheere
orf Fernandy | kun!" and scezin th
jack knife from his hand, he plunged in int
his bowels, fallin across ternandy.
Vallandygum approached Il, too, mu,
say farewell, said he, kissin their cold fe;
lures, f'for thou vast my anker. Thol
twast, who made me Congressman tho
exiled me, and hate NV the gave me $50
Il 600 in ten cent pieces when wuz in Cana
dy. Do | want to go to Congress. again
No! no! no! / shood be dumb, for til
handspring NV my elokenee lies here! an
takin tho jaek-knife, he immersed it in h
bowels, and fell across Pearse.
Old Jeemes Boocannon, and Voorhees,, an
Brite, and Florence, and, in fact, all I'll
leaders Nv the party, North, to the numbe
of suthin over 200, kun up, and each M
kin short orashun, struck themselves vat
the jack knife, tallin across each other, +;
eord-wood is piled Finally, | felt it a dut
| owed to the party to foller suit. Seei
the jack knife, made my orashen (whic
was techenl and was about to sever my il
testines, when seed a quart bottle stick
out NV the Niger spockit. Drawn it it
! I pulled the cerk Glory it was whisko,
Two sucks and it wuz gone--the room spl
round, and | fell senseless on the top oy Il
pile ov ded Democrats
Jest then Horris Greely cum in. 'tB
hold Democrisy, sed he, ''ez it wuz in ii
+, beginnin, so it is in the endin. Niger
the bottom, whiskey at the top, and stir
! in the middle, and ,holdin his nose,
, shrambled out NV the room.
! / awoke in a cold sweat, happy to m
that it wuz only dreem; that the nlgg
still lived in his cussitood, and that we st
had suthin to 80 on.
PETROLEUM v Massey,
Late Faster NV the Church Nv the Moo ID
pensashun.
a MORAL EFFECTS OF IMPATIENCE- Not