Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-03

ing Jnls ne TOOK 'Dnls arm ana went
below to get up more steam, and 1 pre-
sumo they both busted a good portion of
the night.
I went to my room, counted over the
receipts of the evening, and during the
operation gently and solemnly selected
from the EUiag notes, the lifeless remains
of three unhappy "fves" on the Craw-
ford County Bank. Bending sadly over
them, 1 drew a well BANGED sigh and
whispered " busted" l at once retired,
but for hours the spirits of those three
inanimate fves " seemed lowering over
my pillow, ~murmuring in tones like the
minor strains of the Eolian harp, " busted,
busted" At length, 1 fell asleep, but
that fatal word busted foated constant
ly thro' my dreams. At one time l
thought that l was several hundred acres
of land lying under the ocean in a vol
canic portion Of the world. For thou
sands of years l had been pressed down
and bafied by the unrelenting sea. At
last 1 felt a hidden power, like a great
strong soul, urging me upward and rising
slowly to the surface, finging back the
boiling waves, which seemed to hiss in
bafied rage around me. 1 lifted myself
miles above the level of the sea, and
"buste1." As if by magic Ito use a
phrase that 1 can scarcely call Originally, 1
then disappeared in the element from
whence l came. Arising again, in the
form of steam, 1 was converted into a
steam man and floating over the White
House, which was then tenanted by Gen.
jackson, 1 was requested to warm the
iron boiler of the President, which 1 did
| hu hanopaTp@ Chief Ttc4faa nn-inC "a II
life l was called upon to decide if one
portion of the human race had "rights
which the other portion was bound to re-
spect." 1 promptly decided that they
hadn't, and-busted. Ny soul what there
was of it, derived but little comfort from
an existence in the other world, owing to
the excessively warm temperature, and a
frequent contact with divers spirits, who
left this world under the impression that
they were not "bound to respect the
rights" of other people. Here 1 was
happy when permitted to become a part
of the bubble of secession which arose and
covered a large portion of the United
States land England) and "busted." 1
then took the form of II dying spirit and
began to exercise a controlling influence
over the mind and soul of a newly elected
FIRST mate of a ship called the Uncle Sam.
My power was first observed and general
ly acknowledged a little over a year ago.
The sailors thought he was "groggy;" so l
postponed developing him further till
after he had, through the influence of a
Democratic play actor, become Cap
tain of the ship. 1 then whispered
in his ear the following advice:
in all cases of emergency-when
the north wind blows,-when the south
wind blows, or when the trade winds
blow from the border States, steer by your
rudder. Keep shady, dom: tell the peo-
pie you have 40 compass by which TO d.
rect the ship of State. Steer by your
rudder or you'll be busted. He did so,
though in speaking ofithe always called it
" record" which is about the same thing.
Subsequently the "ruddern struck q snag
in one of the Southern bayous, which
"unshipped" it, and the vessel drifted
about, picking up alligators, while it suf-
fered men and women to stand on the shore
refusing Thorn an equal chance with the
petted alligators on deck and in the cabin.
All of this was in perfect harmony with
my former opinion, uttered when 1 was
chief justice. AT length the ships owners
made a row, and said that the captain
shouldn't have it al his own wav, that
they believed in giving men and women
permission to ride on the vessel, if nothing
more. They passed a resolution to that
effect and offered it to the Captain for his
sanction. The Captain swore tremend-
ously, saying that 'the resolution was con-
trary to the constitution of the ship, and
ofthe alligator, that he meant to stand be-
tween the owners and alligators and veto
the whole id thing or be busted" While
l was wondering which he would dc, or
if he wouldn't do both, the voice of the
Grant House gong busted through the
halls of the building like the yell of a
legion of unreconstructed devils,
and | awoke. At the breakfast table l
heard nothing but busted" busted"
busted" on every side. One talkative,
and rather intelligent young man in blue
was hopelessly in earnest on the subject.
He seemed to think the whole State of
Pennsylvania had 'busted," including the
National Banks of Erie, Pittsburg, and
Bidding my excellent land
lord at the Grant House goodbye. and bow
farewell to the stirring village of frank
lin, whose whole-souled inhabitants "still
live, and lCiH live and thrive in spite of
all that's "busted," I walked to the rail- :
road station, and bought q ticket for !
Meadville. While waiting for the train {
from Oil City l heard . number of Irish :
lsborers discussing the bright and dark :
sides of Fenianism. One said "Be Cad, =
ould England will be busted in liss :
time nor thirty days" Another re- :
"sn' how the hill kin We do'tn ? +
this a little ~red-haired fellow I
'queaked out in a tenor voice, "How
he hill will dot We cowardly backyard
enough to besure; I'd hip dot mesilf i.
f l had a chance. It's mesilf as would :
'e willin' to die to-morror if I could list =,
ut a bullet clane through both sides uY a /.
ed jacket" "An' what harm" said a :
ess b~elligerent one, "has the rid Jackets =
o ne yees Mustn't they do their duty, ::
Its me opinion that Roberts Swa- !.
ley, Mahoney, Stavins, an all the low =
havin' crew, are liars and humbugs, an 7
II bet the Irish bonds II all be busted in 4
few weeks" just then a newsbov T
pened the sitting-room door, and cried: 4
New York Papers-A. T. Stewart and '
B. Astor busted-New York World q
Republican party busted-New York :
Horace Greeley busted-New York u
Times, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner =
nd Thsd Stevens busted-New York Tri- &
.E1e Africa busted-New York Daily e
Ne10s, Goddess of Liberty busted" / q
lesrd no more, for just then the cars came y
teaming up, and 1 took passage for Mead l
lille. l was glad to find thatthe McHen- ~
House had not "busted." The dining 2.
was presided over by the usual 81
lumber Of white aproned dignifed sable ~
aced walters who served the dinner so II
cceptsbly that l was beginning to forget -
hat anything had ever "busted," when "
ne tram came whirling in from u
leveland and 8 news boy springing from 9:
he platfrom of the first car shouted at ol
le top of his voice: cleveland Daily o'
apers, all about the veto of the civil ,
ghts bill, Andy johnson busted" 1 Z
of my unfinished dream,-seized
paper and glancing at the heading, dis to
'vered that the news boy, this time, had 81
ot deceived me either in regard to the de
ct or its result. Tell your readers to th