Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-11-17
.ASHTABULA, OHIO, SATURDAY, NOV. H. 1866.

BY this time the company assembled
His Highness wuz in a merry mood an,
unbended hisself There wuz knot u,
the nobility gathered ina corner, and of
ter earnest interview NV mint, Count
Won Cowan advanced to the foot NV thu
throne, and on bendid knee demanded 6
boon. u orb r. -B. IrH IsFaY ro
,5"What, my faithful servitor, dost thor
most desire ~ sed His Highness.
% "We wood, Your Majesty, hev the
prisoners NV state brot into the presence,
that we may make merry over 'em."
'lt shell be DONE" sed His Majesty, and
forthwith Baron Won Steedman, who he'd
command NV the Kings Household Body
Guard, wuz sent for them. In moment
they wuz bro't in. They wuz mizzable
lookin set Forney and Wendall Phil
lips wuz chained together, Fred Douglass
and Anna Dickinson, Dick Yates and
Governor Morton, Ben. Butler and Carl
Shurz, Kelly and Covode, while Chase
wuz tied to Horace Greely, onto whose
back wuz placard inscribed 'the last NV
the Tribunes," at wich Raymond who
left the Radicals and declared for the en-
pire at precisely the rite time, and wuz
now editor of the Court Journal, laffed
immodritly. Some one exclaimed, "Bring
in Thad Stevens" at wich His Majesty
turned pale and his knees smote togeth-
,er "Don't, don't" says he, she's strength
enough left to wag his tongue. Keep
him away keep him away and he show
ed as much fear ez men do in delirium
tremens when they see snakes. ss 's~
Mat hawt T r,o6o ;,o,,;,;o. oxl rs1
that things wuz workin satisfactory
Gen. Grant wuz in exile, and Gen. Sher-
idan he'd been decapitatid for refoosin to
acquiesce in the new arrangement The
country he'd bin divided into dookdoms
and earldoms, and sich, over wich the
nobility roolcd with undispooted author
ity. The principal men of the north he'd
bin capchered and subdooed, and wuz
fillin menial positions in the palaces NV
the nobility. No Lord or Dock or Earl
considered himself well served onless he
heda half dozen Northern Congressman
in the house, while the higher grade NV
the nobility wuzn't content with anythin
less than Guvnors. The indetidness NV
the South to the North he'd bin adiustid.
A decree he'd bin ishood to the effect
that Northern merchants who shood
press claim agin a Southerner shood be
beheaded and his goods coniscated. The
question NV slavery he'd bin settled for
ever, for the dimocratic ijee NV one class
to rool and one class to serve wuz fuIlv
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 Bizness
wuz all done by foreigners, the policy
NV the government bein to make the ma
tiv born people purely agricultural peas
antry: The nobility desrin to make it
easy for EN- Civ EN- one-sixth of tie pro-
dux NV the soil, reservin the balance for
their own uses.
My dream didn't continyoo long enuff
for me to ascertain whether / wuz a no
bleman or not, but am NV the opinion
that wuz, for servant handin me pin
to stick into Gen. Butler to make him
rore for the amoozement of the company,
addressed me ez "Yoor Grace" from
which inferred wuz one of the Lords
spiritooal. Unfortunately at this pint /
awoke and a sad awakenin it wuz. The
gorjus halls he'd vanished, the chande-
leers he'd vanished. the robes NV stait
and jewils and sich wuz gone, and l
wuz in my offiis, not "Yoor Grace" but
merely a Postmaster in a Kentucky vii
lage. Well, that is suthin. Wat better
is nobleman? He don't work, neither
do i. He drinks wine tits troo, but |
hey wat scots me better, .whiskey fresh
from the still. Yet my dreem may be
realized, and eff it is, will endevor to fill
the position with credit. Who knows?
P. " MASSEY, p. NJ. a-