The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1865-03-08
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From the Brooklyn Eagle.l
CORRY O'LANUS' EPISTLE.
About OIL and the Draft.


] have launched fourteen more new com
panies, with capitols Of a million each. -
The shares are going off ike hot cakes
Everybody wants them. Lawyers, doc
tors, switch-tenders, chsmbefmaids, coun
terjumpers, drug clerks, repGrters, police.
men, bounty-brokers, provost marshals, con
tractors, married women, railroad conduc
tors organ grinders, cooks and old maids
all want shares.
Children cry for them.
Shares are sold at prices to suit cireum.
stances, from ten cents each up.
Oil is being discovered everywhere.
| discoTered some at Red Hook the other
day. ..... .a-
1t was in barrels. ...-.
Some iolhs think petroleum. is dangerous,
because it burnt UP section Of Phladel,
phia the other day.
The oil may be dangerous, but it isn't a
circumstance to the stock; the way some
folks will get burnt ON that one Of these
days will be a caution to brokers.
My enterprises are all 6nHd f1f,
II the wells turn out well all will be well.
The "Bu>wick Greek and Penny Bridge
Petroleum Company, being local enter
prize, Is entitled W support.
The directors arc all honorable men, and
actuated by the best Of motives, Their
credit is good at tie corner grocery, and
they have never been known to cheat their
milkman
The company owns 4 site of land on Bus
wick creek, and are now diligently boring
for oil and subscriptions to their stock,
Seyerali eminent bores have been engaged
with remarkable success so far.
They haven struck lie yet but there is
no telling but what they may
One well gives great promise st derth
Of siXty-liyc thousand feet the bores struck
lard
Ten thousand feet lower they struck soft
soap. ..t.g .. ,....- ......
The bores next struck for wages, which
the company haven't been able to pay as
yet. They will do 50, however, as >oon as
sufficient subscriptions arc paid in, and bor-
ing will he resumed. ...
The Patch Petroleum COMPANY" is an
other local institution with well on GowAn-
us creek ..a
This well is expected to produce the best
quality of toilet soap. 49,.
went trouble you with n full list Of the
,ixty-fve petroleum companies in which !
an director and treasurer. hut they are all
ure investment, and one Is Just as ,lonlis-
ng as the other.
Vi, aescmyflatel an jimmense fortune several
lays ago, bpt s|nil keep on 4pising 1t up.
ut q. surely f;ttiesie nlotiycs, that ! may
!ay as large an income tax as. possible Tor
he support Of the g6yernndlt. ','.,. ','.. /
p ! think Of. finishing Prospect Park at my
,Fn expense and presenting ii 10 the city
Mo few bculcvards. ..... ...' ..''
] shall also endow an orphan asylum for
he support and education OF the .uplortu-
!ate gentleman who lave been left ro!iti- !
ally destitute by The denise .! the Natiolalt
General Committee, a... .'
j am ready to head su'Sclil tion to
rect that monument over lhp r,mains Of !,
fcncral Butler, as soon Us B+u can make it
onvcniCnt to de, .i
, If there is .a,N thing else in the charitable !
nd munilicent line yon can think 9t, just
lcntinn it. Money no object new I
Though removed from all PEI sonal cares
II the subject, having sent three substitutes
no the service, my syn,ratlies are Still 4
nh the uneXempt who are now agitatcd !
LUut , s /
1ITE DRAFT, |
hieh is.impcnding, ..,... f.
Brooklyn is once more called on to fill her !
uota, but the men wOuldn come when /
icy are called 50 thry will have to be sent
The Supervisors stopped paying bountics,
ccause they hadn't any money.
People went except this cXcu.c when (
ley are drafted. 1t was the business OF
lie Supervisors to get money. If they
Nuldn't set i by selling bonds, why didn't
ley try oiR,c -, .s,,....
| have promised torescue my fellow citi-
sns from the fatal wheel, if human agency,
aeked by the influence of oil, can accom-
lish anything ........ l.... ..'.' ..'.' l.
] wrote private note to my friend A, L., /
/. l., u, for an explanation Of the present
pportlonment, and what time would be
lreh to get clear of it.
He sent me. one of his lucid replies,
hice explains the whole case. Here tbs: /
4,- WASHINGTON, D. G. I +
s, 49,. February, 1865 T.
DEAR CORRY: Yours came to hand [
ave seen-lry, who makes the thing just rs
ear refDed petroleum. The last call was
ade for thepurpose of attaining its object,
hich was men. irrespective Of the number
prisoners taken at Vicksburg or without
'ducting the. present membership of the
tth regiment Veteral Society. The quotas
e apportioned on the basis of, the astro-
,mical calculation. Of the next eclipse, to
hich is added the diameter of the planet
ars. From these you deduct all the cred
you can get, and by dividing the total by
e,4th Of MARCH you will have the exact !
lota Leach district, more or less as the
Sc may be.a4The draft will in no case be
'stponedaftdr it has takenplace but will
It commence before it begins in any of the
stricts which hayea filled their quotas by !
duntaiy enlistments Yours, &C.. ~ =,
. 49, qao! ssf .Gat a j.. L. l.. D. n
The public.now understand what they are =
expect, .Jid.ngo4 a.a..i,aF n, ,,sr.. f. I. /,
lhad consultation with several super
SorsJ but they were able to devise only
e plan TO escape the draft. ,aai es,e. 'gFot
The third Ward you know is out of the !
0 draft, and it was suggested that if \
erybody move into the Third Ward
ey would be out of the draft. ... ... !4 y
The only obstacle to this ingenious plan =
Isl the fact that the Third Ward was full |
well as its quotan and wouldn' t hold anyd u
,re people, ra4v lE., IG4, -r,.,,cE imI n
Everybody wants to hire a house in the !
Ird Ward for next year. ~, y. f.., sa 4
Rents have consequently gone up. Land !
ds-add the price ofla substitute to their a
evious demand hf01 I.Tr1d aIs
For the benefit of all are concerned, !,
e-pubish the decisions made last Fall as !
who were 4D@ z .f l,'aH4 tJ u
Z @a EXEMPT FROM THE DRAFT. -
;. A man who paid his $500 Scommutation
der the first draft, and has since died, is q
liabiep iiIVii AuNhuS fn3frGI9Y RI ri