Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-11-23

CoWan advanced to the foot Nv the throne,
and on bended knee demanded boon.
what. my faithful seryitor, does thou
most desire Z" said His Highness
I'VE wood, Your Majesty, have the pris-
oners Of state brot into the presence, that
we make merry over EN-.
1t shell be done, sed His Majesty, and
forthwith Baron von Steedman, who he'd
command Nv the Kings Household Body
Guard was sent for them. In a moment
they Wuz brot in. They wuz a miserable
lookin set Eorney and Wendell Phillips
wuz chained together, Fred Douglass and
Anna Dickenson, Dick Yates and Governor
Morton, Ben, Butler and Garlic Shurtz, Kel-
ley and Covode, while chase wuz tied to
Horace Greely, onto whose back wuz a pla-
card inscribed, ''The last day Nv the Trib-
unes, at which Raymond, who left the
Radicals and declared for the Empire pre-
clseiy the rite time. and Wuz now editor NV
the Court Journal, LATED immodritly
Some one exclaimed Bring in Thad Ste
yens, at whish His Majesty turned pale
and his knees Sm0te together, don t.,
don t, y sez he, he's strength enuH left to
Wag his tongue. Keep him away keep
him away and he showed ez much fear
eZ men do in delerium tremeus when they
see snakes.
MethaWt | made inquiries and found that
things wuz workin satisfactory Gen. Grant
wuz in exile, and Gen Sheridan he'd been
decapitated for TefoOsin to acquiesce Ia the
new arrangement. The country he'd been
divided into dookdoms and earldoms, and
sich over which the nobility rooled with
undispooted authority The principal men
NV the North he'd been capchered and sab
dued, and Wuz a film menial positions in
the palaces Nv the nobility. No Lord or
Dock or Earl considered himself well served
onless he he'd a half dozen Northern Con-
gressmen in his house, while the higher
grade OF nobility WllZen t content with any
thing less than Guverners. The indicted
ness Nv the South TO the North he'd been
adjusted A decree he'd bin ishood to the
effect that Northern merchants who shood
press claim agin a Southernor should be
beheaded and his goods cOnfscated The
question Nv slavery he'd bin settled forever,
for the DemokTatic lice NV wun class to r0ol
and wun class to serve WuZ fully establish
There wuz now three classes NV society,
the hereditary nobility, the untitled officials
and the people; the latter, black and white,
wuz all serfs, and all attached to the soil
Bizinis.wuz all done by foreigners, the poll
cy Of the government bein to make the ma
tive born people purely agricultural peas
antry. The nobility desirin tomake it easy
for EN- gave EN- one-slxth NV the produx NV
the soil, reservin the balance for their own
uses.
Ny dream didn' t continue long enuff for
me to ascertain whether wuz a nobIeman
or not, but [ am NV the opinion that l wuz,
for q servant handin me pin to stick into
Gen. Butler to make him roar fur the
amoozement NV the company, addressed
me ez ''Yoor Grace, y from which inferred
that / wuz one of the Lord spirtooal.
Unfortunately at this pint / awoke and a
sad awakenin in it wuz. The g0rgus halls
tiott Nttui-14S'1; u. 1..s.,l1I I.s
the robes Nv stait and jewels and sich wuz
gone and 1 wuz inIny offs not Y cor Grace, -
but merely a Postmaster in a Kentucky vii
liage Well, that is suthin. Wat better is
a nobleman? He don work, neither do l.
lie drinks wine, it is troo, but hay wat
scots me better, whisky fresh from the still
Yet my dream may berealized, and ifit is, |
viii eudevoor to fin the position with credit.
Who knows?
PETROLEUM Y. Massey, z. H.,
(which is Postmaster