The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-11-15


By this time the company assom.
bled. His Highness wuz 10 a merry
mood end unbendid bisself. There
wuz knot nv the nobility gathered
in corner, ard after an earnest in
terview NJ mint, Count Won Cowan
advanced to the foot az OF the throne,
and on bendid knee demanded a
boon.
"What, my faithful ssryitor, dost
thou most desirel' sed His Highness.
"We wood, your Majesty, hev the
prisoners Nv otate brot into the pres
ence, that We may make merry over
EN-"
at shel be done" sed His Majesty,
and forthwith Baron Won Steedman.
who he'd command w the Kings
Household Body Guard, wuz sent for
them. In moment they wuz brot
in. They wuz mizable lookin set.-
Forney and Wendell Phillips wuz
chained together, Fred Douglass and
Anna Dickinson, Dick Yates and Gov.
Morton, Ben. Butler and Carl Shurz,
Reilly and Cuvode, while Chase wua
tied to Horis Greely, onto whose bach
wuz placard inscribed, The last NV
the Tribunes . at wich Raymond, who
lett the Radkels and declared for the
empire at precisely tho rite time, and
wuZ now editor Of the Court Journal,
LATED immodritly. Some one excIaim-
ed, Bring in Thad. Stevens, at wich
His Majesty turned pale and his knees
smote together, Don't don't" SEE he,
she's strength enough. left to way his
tongue Keep him away! keep him
away!" and ne showed ez mnch fear ez
men do in delirium tremcns whenthey
see snakes.
Metbawt I made inquiries and found
that things wuz workin satisfactory
Gen. Grant wuz in exile, and Gen.
Sheridan he'd bin decapltated for re-
foosin 10 acquiesce in the new arrange 3
ment. The country he'd bin divided
into dookdoms and earfdoms, and sich,
over wich the nobility rooled with un-
dispooied authority The principal
men Nv the North had been capchered
and subd6oed, and wuz flin menial
positions in the palaces Nv the nobili-
ty. No Lord or Dock or Earl consid-
cred himself well served onlcss no he'd
a half dozen Northcrn congressman in
bis house, while the higher grade Nv
nobility wuzn't content with anything
less than Guvners The indebtednis
NV the South to the North he'd bin ad-
justid A decree he'd bin ishood to tho
effect that Northern merchants who
shood press a claim agin Southerner
shood be beheaded and his goods con-
fstikated. The question w slavery
he'd bin settled forever, for the Dime
kratic ice NV one class to rool and one
class to serve wuz fully establisht.- -
There wuz now threAc lasses Nv soci-
ETY., the hereditary Nobility, the un-
titled officials, and the people; the lat
ter, black and white, wuz all serfs, and
all attached 10 the soil. Bizais wux
all done by foreigners, the policy Nv
the government bein to make the ma
tive born people purely agricultural
peasantry. The nobility desirin to
make it easy for EN- Civ EN- One-sixth
Nv the produx Nv the soil, reservin tho
balance for their own uses.
My dream didn't continyoo long
enough enuff for me to ascertain
whether wuz a nobleman or not, but
l am Nv the opinion that l wuz, for
servant handin me pin to stick into
Gen. Butler to make him roar fur the
amoozcment NV the company, address
ed me ez "Yoor Grace" from which
inferred that l wuz one of the Lords
spiritooal. Unfortnitly at this pintI
awoke and sad awakenin it wuz.-
The gorjus halls he'd vanished, the
chandeliers he'd vanished, the robes Nv
stait and jewels and sich wuz gone and
1 wuz in my otis. not "Yoor Grace"
but merely Postmasterin a Kentucky
village. Well, that is suthin. Wat
better is a nobeman? He don't work,
neither do l. He DRINKS wine, it is
troo, but | hev wat scots me better,
whisky fresh from the still Yet my
dream may be realized, and eff it is, L
will endeavor too fill the position with
credit Who knows?
PETROLEUM v NAsBY, P. NJ,
(wich is Postmaster.)