Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-11-10
(Written for the Cincinnati Commercially
Mr.. HAS5Y HAS A Ef0ST BGRRIBLE VISION.
SAINTS REST, (Which is in the Stait !
Nv Moo Gersey, October 16.


Mr.. HAS5Y HAS Ef0ST HORRIBLE VISION.
SAINTS REST, (Which is in the Stait
Nv Moo Gersey, October Is.
Lastnite, weary and disgustid with read
in eleckshun returns, / picked up a volum
Nv Cammel's poems, and red that splendid
peese, The Last Man" Cammel is po-
iek-ther aint 20 doubt Nv it. Eff my toe
partial friends amt too partial, l can whop
him on the sublime, but, on the pathetics,
l acknowledge him ez my sooperior Be
that ez it may, the poem made impress
sion on my mind, which is proof that ther
is suthin into it, and my mind wuz dwell
lin onto it ez [ sunk into slumber.
Ez yoosual I he'd dream, and sich a
drem may never hev agin.
Methaut the epidemick, wich is now de-
vastatin Europe, he'd struck Moo York
For time it struck down all classes. The
proud Caucashen, the hidjus niger, the
noble red men Nv the west, and the al
mond-eyed Chinese, all, all fell afore the
ruthless destroyer. But, at last, it abat-
ed, except so far ez the niger wuz con
cerned. The white man wuz spared, so
wuz the Injun, and the Chinese, but among
| the Afrikins it ragged with redoubled fu-
ry, 0, 1t Wuz crushin The planter look
ed abroad, and 10 the stalwart feeld hand
wich wuz worth ST 500 wuz a cold corps,
and the feeld wuz unplowed Agin, he
looked, and alas the brawny wench, wich
alluz bore him piccaninny Wich wuZ wuth
5000 ez soon ez weaned, Wunst per year,
and by little extra whippin, did a full
years work, wuz prostrate in the cold en-
brace Nv death. Agin he looked. and wo
to him the octoroOn for Wich he paid $2,-
| 500, and whose girl babies he Good sell In
| Moo Orleans ez soon ez they wuz l6 for
| 50 600, on akkount NV their having his
| blood in their vains, waz torn from his
| lovin grasp by the stronger hand of dis
ease, and wuznt wuth copper for any
purpos.
The democrisy bekum alarmed The
! indefatigable leaders whispered: THE
nigger is fadin away l-sposin he bekums
| extinck!' whereupon a consultation Nv
| the head men wuz held. In view Nv the
crisis, pair-wun mail and wun femail-
wuz selected and examined by committee
NV expert examiners in life insurance COM
panies They Wuz pronounced perfeck
| specimens-entirely sound and free from
| disease. These two wuz locked up in q
room, in a healthy locashen, and twenty
four Nv the most eminent physicians In
| the country wuz detailed-wun to stay
with them wun hour of each day, that, in
| case the disease struck EN-, the remedies
might he towunst applied, that from these
two the race might be propagated, and the
cappytle NV the party be preserved.
But all to no purpose. The last Niger
in the Yoonited States perished, and, fl
nally these two were struck, and not
withstandin the precautions adopted, they
| too died
There wuz a season Nacber sympathy
Zed with the party in its affiicshun. The
heavens wuz clothed with leaden -colored
clouds, athort wich, ever and anon, flash.
ed CLEANS of loorid lite. voiced
| thunders muttered ominously. and birds
and beasts run howEn Ter the feelds.-
EDray horses fell dead on the stony streets
and wild beasts rushed frantickly from
their coverts, and snapped fooriously
madly at whatever came in their way.
The last of the Afrikins were layiI
PROSTATE in the hall. Fernandywood en-
tered, and ez he seen EN-, bustid into
tears. Farewell" P" gushed he, "a long
farewell. last Nv a cussid race! You wuz
our tower Nv strength; you wuz our cor
ner-stun; on you we bilded! Hatred Nv
VOC give me the Irish vote of Moo York
| o. how cheeriu it wuZ too see them lambs
bust yer heads and innOcently hang voc
up to lamp postsl But you M gone-you n
gone-and hentz4th life's blank to me
| Farewell, vain worldl for what is life t
me without the nigger!" and seizin jack
knife he saw stickin out the niger
pocket, he stuck it into his stummick, anc
fallin across the decest Afrikins, ex pireC
peacefully.
Franklin Peerse approacht. Alas! ant
: art thou gomez To troo, thou art! II
life thou wurt lovely! Twas thou, alone
that made me President; thy woody he'
wuz my stepping stun to place and pow
erl Thou vast my right bower, my left
and ace! IF [ wuz a Democratic Samp
son, thou vast the hair wich the Delile1
!, DEATH hez sheered OFF. Fernandy,
kum 1 kuml" and seezin the jack knit
from his hand, he plunged 1t into hi
bowels, fallin across Fernandy.
Vallandygum approachst: Il, too, mus
: say farewell" ;" sed he, kissing their coll
: features, 'for thou vast my anker. Thol
twast who made me eongressman-thei
: exiled me, and hate of thee gave M
l $50 600 in ten cent pieces when wuz 1
Canady Do want to go to congres
agin? Mol mol mol l shood be dumt
for the main spring of my elokence lie
e here!'' and talSin the jack knife, he Inn
9 mersed it in his bowels, and tel acros
e Old Jeemes Bookannon, an
!; Voorhees,, and Brite, and Florence, an
q in fact all the leaders of the party, NORTH
i to the number Nv suthin over 200, kun
d up. and each maxim a short orashul
q stuck themselves with the jack knife, tal
5 in across each other as cord wood IS plle'
a Finally, l felt it dooty l owed to tn
q party to foller SCOT. Seezin the jac
i knife, I made my orashun, (Which WI
6 techen!) and was about to sever my II
o testines, when l seed quart bottle stick
: out Nv the nigger's pockit Drawing
o 4th, [ pulled the cork. Gloryl 1t WI
a whisky! Two sucks and it was gone
Is the room spun round, and | fell sensele
on the top NV the pile Nv ded democrat
II Jest then Horris Greely cum IN. B,
) hold Democrisy," sed he. 'ez it wuz
e the beginnin, so it wuz in the endln.-
Niger at the bottom, whisky at the to
and stink in the middle" and hold
Oh his nose he shambled out of the room.
I awoke in cold sweat, happy to nj
Is that it wuz only dream; that the nigg
le still lived in all his cussitood, and tn
Of we still had suthin to go on
,e PETROLEUM V. Nasty,
le I,ait pastor NV the church nv the N
~ Dispensashun.
y ry The sales of postage stamps and STAN
~ ed envelopes at the New York Post I
- fice for the year ending September
~ ~ amount to 81 ,465, ,032, an increase of S26
u S00ove the previous year The WIT