Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-09-19
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dream last night, which, because of its
strangeness, ! think ought to go down to-
posterity, in your immaculate and mortal
newspaper. Allow me to give it markedly
as 1t appeared in its outline, and you and
your sensitive and imaginative readers
may put on the drapery. | remembers
before falling asleep, to have had my mind
running on the folly of this life, with all
its whimsical vanity, and Mr.. Thomas
Carlyle's picture of the world without
clothes appeared to me. After all, what is
the difference between men and women,
when stripped of their tinsel and outside
trimmings? l remember once myself to
have fallen desperately in love with red
flannel jacket, and wept my eyes dry over
a prunella shoe, worn by sweet little
angel, who went tripping away from US to
the spirit land on May morning. Bodily
what are we alter all but earth and ashes?
ssTmperious Caesar, dead, and turn'd to clay,
Might stop hole to keep the wind away:
O, that the earth which kept the world in awe,
Should patch s wall to expel the winters 1aw|
From naked world with ali its hollow
pomp and circumstance, my mind wan
dered off on the instability of all the
brightest and best things of life, and fall
ing asleep, heard an explosion which
threw me into the planet Vesta, then in
close proximity to earth. ] rubbed my
eyes and looked, down to find my worst
fears realized. The magazine behind the
old graveyard had blown up and all the
villainous equipments OF death and en-
gines Of destruction were being tossed
about as chaff in the wind, or feathers in
the air. ! heard voice whisper, "There,
now, what loss of money! ~ elbow
many greenbacks will it cost this trans
cendentally virtuous and magnanimous
government to replace these things F"
There was hollow echo TO the questions,
and then cynical laugh which sounded
to me very like the DEVILS. Presently |
deserted mid air naked fat man coming
up heels foremost, and when / recognized
my friend of ---- street, asked him po-
litely if he was going to heaven in that
way. He either did not hear me, or paid
no attention. for his eyes were riveted on
his left hand in which he grasped money
enough to line coffin. learned pres
emily of rival speculator who came up
with only ono leg in his brooches, the fat
| man was Z. j., and at the time of tho ex-
plosion he was about paying for one hun
bred bales just delivered to Payne, and
| had he been permitted one hour more
| he would have transmitted his paper into
! yellow eagles looked round and saw
| the bales coming after him, and then a
| very lean and anxious looking gentleman
who with his mouth open, seemed to be
swearing at his fate and damning the
magazine for not giving him an hours
| start Of B. j., to enable him to reach the
gates of heaven first and take out an in
junction and stay Of proceedings. Sin
| gular thought, but it occurred to me just
then. ''What will they do with the long
staple there 7" ''Will there be Collector
| of Internal Revenue to demand the income
tax, and in default confscate it to his own
use % Is Peter down in the list of col
| lectors, and does he take legal tenders for
all dues to his government except i'm
| portsg z" There was no one on that horn
! Of the planet upon which was sitting to
| orsuor +basa ouoetinns. ip5aad I found
the queries were Of my own mind, and
| whilst / WAS indulging in them, the ele-
CANT came up without hoops, and
in the smoke and confusion she had lost
her chaste, new fashioned bonnet, with
the fewer garden on top, to which she
was indebted for the largest half of her
beauty. Others passed me I did not re-
cognize; among them, however, l dis
covered handsome officer of your ac-
quaintanoe who had just been advanced on
the line of promotion, but blown up and
dead as mackerel, before his friends could
be made acquainted with the fact-what
q pity.
| M ueaI, uohE IW6ebJ l. OuIy WISH bIlat
you could have been with me to have seen
some of your Christian friends, who were
taken without preparation" as they call
it; thrown up without any idols and
minus their baggage. But enough is
guaatuns sgbfcat, let all pass, until it is a
| reality. CYNTHIA.
/ s- The Boston Herald, which is q
shrewd observer Of public affairs and the
tendency of public mind, says everywhere
in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and through
| out the country, the war Democracy and
the Conservative Republicans are DESERVING
the radicals, and they will go down. A
new party will be raised up, which will
take the place of the old parties, and re-
tstore the nation to peace and to an eco
nomical administration Gifts affairs. This
revolution is now going on throughout the
i country, and will soon be heard thunder
ing along the political horizon, startling
the old togies IRON their slumber and fan