The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-02-25
[From the Brooklyn Eagle.l
CORRY O,LANUS, EPISTLR.
About Oil and .he Draf,.

About Oil and the Draft.
Perhaps you'll think I'm getting to be
q bore on oil; but boring is the only way
to strike oil
Ihave Just launched fourteen more new
companies, with capitals Of a million
each. The shares are going OIL like hot
cakes.
Everybody wants them. Lawyers,
doctors, switch-tenders, chambermaids,
counter-ju jumpers, drug clerks, reporters,
policemen, bcunty-brokers, provost mar
shals, contractors, married women, rail
road conductors, 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.
discovered some at Red Hook the
other day.
1t was i'll barrels.
Some folks think petroleum is danger
ous, because il burnt up a section of Phil
sdelphia the other day.
The oil may he dangerous, but it isn't
circumstance to the stock; the way
some folks will get burnt on that one OF
these days will be a caution to brokers.
Ny enterprises are all bona tide
If the wells turn out we'll all will be
we'll
The "Buswick Creek and Peany Bridge
Petroleum Company" being local on
terprise, is entitled to support.
The directors are all honorable men,
and actuated by the best of motives
Their credit is good at the corner gro
Gerry, and they have never been known
to cheat their mikman.
The company owns a site of land OH
Buswick creek, and are now diligently
boring for oil and subscriptions to their
stock
Several eminent bores have been on
gagged with remarkable success SO far
They haven't struck lie yet, but there
is no telling but what they may.
One well gives great promise. At a
depth of sixty-6ve thousand feet the
bores struck lard
Ten Thousand feet lower they struck
soft soap.
The bores next struck for wages, which
the company haven't been able to pay as
yet. They will do so, however, as soon as
sufficient subscriptions are paid I'm, and
boring will be resumed
The Patch Petroleum Company" is
another local institution with woll on
QOwanus creek.
This well is expected to produce the
best quality of toilet soap.
l won't trouble you with full list of
the sixty-fve petroleum companies III
which am director and treasurer, but
they are all sure Investments, and one is
just as promising as the other.
| accumulated an immense fortune sew
oral days ago, but shall keep OH piling
it up, out of pHeely patriotic motives,
that may pay as large al income tax as
possible for the support OF the govern
ment
think of tinehing Prospect Park at
my own expense and presenting it to the
city. Also a few bOulevards
l shall also endow an orphan asylum
for the support and education of tho I'M
fortunate gentlemen who have been left
politically destitute by the demise of
the National General Committee.
am ready to head u subscription to
erect that monument over the remains Of
General Batter, rs soon as Ben can make
it convenient to die
Ii there is anything else in the chart
tIblS stuu lluC YOU Cstt lullh
of, just mcution 1t. Moneys no object
now.
Though removed from all personal
cares on the subject, having sent three
substitutes ilto the service, my sylnpa-
thes arc still with the uneXempt who
arc now agitatcd about
THE DRAFT,
which is impending,
Brooklyn IS once moro called Oh to ill
her quota, but the men wouldn't como
when they are called, ST they will have to
be sent for.
The Supervisors stopped paying buun-
ties, because they hadn't any money.
People WON'T accept this excuse when
they are drafted. IL was the business of
tho Supervisors 10 get money Ii they
couldn't get it by selling bonds, why
didn't they try Oill
have promised to rescue my fellow
citizens from the fatal wheel, if human
agency, backed by the influence of oil,
can accomplish anything. =
wrote private note to my friend A.
L., L. l.. D. for IN explanation of the
present apportionment, and what time
would be given To get clear OF it.
lie sent me one OF his lucid replies.
when explains the whole case Here it
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