The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-08-14
mn. Massey Has A VISION.

SAINTS REST, (ivlsich Is IN the Stat 90
Moo Geysy,) Joon 81, 1856.
Dreems was common in the old Skriptooral-
looral times, and was considered es profeticle.
| mad dreem larst mite, which may or it NAV
not meme suthin. Ell it may, the Lord help
the underlined, Is my prayer continooly
1 die emed that l was ded--that assisted by
tylu5 lever and 2 dockters, he'd bustid the
bonds of morality and he'd sored to the un-
known hereafter. Up l went to the gates of
the toGhef world, where / was confronted by
Peter.
.Nhere you frum ?" ses he.
moo Gelsy,D ses /.
Was you good ctizen?"
Il was Dimmycrat who never skratched a
ticket"
"dev you votid that ticket for the larst four
yeers and kin you redep
SIhev and KIN"
"Ihen your place is below. Git" he ses,
wlch did.
met his Majesty, Satan the 1, at the dore.
and he welcomed me corelly. / was disap-
pointed in his personal appearance. He was
middiin sized man, and gentlemanly in stile,
kinder reSembhn Jefferson Davis very much,
only ne mad a more Intellectual cast of coun-
tenance.
sWelkum," ses he II have been xspectin
you sum time. Welkum."
seq L
mot meny of the ginooine kopperheads,p
se3 lie. 5Vl7 u
"Uv coarse you hewitt; we everidge as good
That's not it," ses he, gain onto me with
mteas fondnis; that's not jist all. All but
ABOUT ten or eleven from each county Git out
o. Il W pleedin ignorance, idiocy, and sich.--
But 1t Is all right; make it up by hevin
heavier force to spare to stir up the few lead
efS You kin reed print, can't you" he arsk-
ed ankshusly
81 kim" m
San rite ses he. Jefferson Davis viii be
along Ia a few months, tho eff he don't show
more man than he did when he was caught
he viii make poor amoosement.n
mes disgrace to his seeks; he ort to hey
ben a woman"
lroo; but ez Shaksppeer ses, there's di-
Vlnl5y that shapes our ends-Then Alec Ste
phens.D
win you git him? He was originally op-
posed to seceshun." III
THAT'S my best holt. Davis was always
sece5h. Benjamin was because he thought it
would pay-nn them I've had mortgage ever
sea-e they arrived at the years of ackounta-
putty stephens knode seceshun was rong-
ne can't pieed ignorance nor nuthin. fer he
warned his people agin it, and then was bot
up to dom it himself for the poor privilege of
playing second fiddle to JEFF. Davis, who draw
ed miserable bow hisself. I'm ded wood on
"Tel me, gentle sir, how about Fernandy
say -
In doc time they're mine. They can't
save themselves by repentance even. They
are now past forty, and eff they'd commense
in del ernest tryin to do as much good as
they have bad, and lived to be as old as Ma
thoosler, they coodent make a commencement
towards balancn the books By the way,
speakin of Methoosler, had to waite pashent-
iy Tor customers in them days, when men liv-
ed 900 years."
"There's Cory, Colorado Jewett, and Alec
Long, continooed he, give he'd nv eve on
Jewett and Cory I'll lose-theres place
outside of my joorisdicshun fer SIGH. They
amt responsible, you see. The devils that
was cast out Nv the man and took refuge in
the swine, left the swine when they was
drowndid, and have inhabited meny men
sinse 2 of EN- are in Cory and one in jew
EFT to-day. Alec Long has evry now and then
g1nmerin of sense; he shows occashunely
surface indicashuns of intelIeck, not quite
enutf to maik unatick NV him, and too much
fora ldyit. may git him and may not. But
you viii hev plenty of compeny. The stand
your party took druv thousands Wv men in2
cussidniss, who knode better, and Who eff let
alone, wood hev lodged me.
/ hev my eye on some who denounst Val
landygum, and yet, when the screws were brot
doun on2 EN- land by the way, jest sech as
700 turned them sed screws-and he peaked
me jockerly in the ribs,) actily presided at
Nallandygum meetins, and votid for him.
Then, after he was defeetid, they swore they
didn't vote for him at all, addin dirty lie to
the original sin, which is givin the devil les
you stie mel, his doc, with compound interest
But excoose me-T'll show you your apart
mence. This way, my deer sir.'
1 objected to goin, and lookt anlshusly
arc Ind for a escape. Observin this, change
came over the polite gentleman afore me- His
eyes glissened, a sulphrus stream ishoed from
his mouth, his feet parted in2 hoofs, his fingers
elongated in2 claws, l observed tale peepin
down under his cote,-in Short he was trans
formed in2 the identicle devil he'd seen on sew
eral occashuns when labrin under attax of de-
hrium tremins sooperindoost by drinkin bari
er so OF much elexshun whisky doorin hotly
contested campanes. He recht one claw for
me, when | awoke. 2 say was rejoist at find
inmyself once more on prayin ground is week;
twas joy unspeekable. 1 can't interpret the
dreen. PETROLEUM Y. Nasty
Lat Pastur of the Church of the Moo Dispep-
sashun.
MIR. Henry Clapp has revived the witty Sat-