The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-08-11
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SANT's REST, (which is in the
Stait of Moo Gersy,) Joon 81, B5.
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Ltee-pNEbiished by reQlEe0Ll
Dreenls was common in the old
SkHptOoraifoord times, and was con-
sidened as profetEcle, 1 had 4 dreen
larst mite, which may or it NAV not
meme suthiR. Eff it may, the Lord help
ooly. -sss- -
dreemed that 1 was ded-that as
sisted by tyfus fever and dockters-
he'd bustid the bonds of morality, and
he'd sored to the unknown bereaffer. ftei-
Up I went to the gates of the tother
world, where was confronted by
Peter.
Where yoo frum?' ses he.
Moo Gersy, ses I.
WAS yOo good citizen?r
II was Dimmyerat who never
scratched ticket"
ssHev you votId that ticket fer the
larst yeers and kin you rede?"
81 heV and kim
''Then your place is below. Git, he
ses, which ] did.
I met his Majesty, Satan the !, at the
dore, and he welcomed me coEelly. /
was disappointed in his personal ap-
pearance. He was a middlin sized
man, and gentlemanly in stile, kinder
reSem bin Jefferson Davis very much,
only he had a more iHtelectOoaI cast of
countenance.
ssWelkum, ses he, tIhev been xspec-
tin you sum time. Welkum."
tsHev you meny of the DimocraSy
with you?" sez L
s.lSot meny of the ginooine hopper
heads, y seq he.
'-of course you hevn't; We eve1dge
as good as
lsFhatis not II, - sez he, gain onto me
with intens fondnis; THAT'S not list all
All but about ten or eleven from
each county git out Of it by Pleedin ig-
norance, idiocy, and SIGH But its all
right; make itup by heyin heavier
force to spare to stir up the few feeders.
! You kin read print, can't you ?'' he
aIEked ankshslee.
81 kin"
'tAII right, I" ses he. Jefferson Davis
Will be along in a few months, tho eff he
don't show more man than when he
was caught he viii makepOOF ammose-
ment- -
'sHe Is a disgrace to his seeks; he ort
! to hev been a woman"
'sTroo; but as Shakspeer says, there's
a divinity that shapes our ends-Then
Alec Stephens"
ssWn you get him2 He was origl-
naIly opposed TO secession"
THAT'S my best holt. Davis was al
ways secesh. Benjamin was because
he thought it would pay-on them I've
| had a mortgage ever since they arrived
at the wears Of akkountabilitV. Stenh-
! ems knOde secession was rOng-he can't
plead ignorance nor nuthiug fur he
warned his people agin it, and then was
I bot up to doin It himself for the Door
privilege of playing second fiddle to
jeff. Davis, who 0raWed q miserable
I bow hisselE Tn ded wood on him. -
EsTeu me, gentle sir, how about Fer
mandy Wood, Vallandigham, ct al, as
I the lawyers say"
In doo time they're mine. They
| cant save themselves by repentance
even. They are now past forty, and eff
! they'd commense in ded ernest irwin to
do as much good as they hey bad, and
lived to be as old as MethooSIer they
couldn't make a commencement to-
wards balAncin' the books. By the
way, speaHH' of MethooseIer, I had to
waite patiently for customers in them
DAYS, when men lived geo years"
There's CorrB9e Colorado Jewett, and
Alec Long continued he, 1--WE he'd my.
eye on Jewett and Cory III lose there
is place outside of my Jurisdicslun
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 droBndid
and have inhabited n1eny men sinSe. 2
of em are in Cory and one in JeWett to-
day. Alec Long has every now and
then glimmerin of sense; he shows
loecashunely surfaGe indicashuns OF in
teIleck, not quite enud TO maik luna
tic nv him, and too much fer idyit. I
may git him and may not. But Won
will have plenty of eOmpeny. The
stand your party took dFuF tl8ousands
nv men in2 eusSedness, who knode bet
ter and who eff let alone TE-n6i7 hav