The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-11-21

blocked up the sidewalk, Nthc step,
the capacious hall, and thesthree first
floors oflhc stately editico, a crowd
that every 6ve minutes, hearialg The
cry "Hs's loose abcware II fSn Ito
uncontrollable panic, and Rwayed 10
and frdin Mind bewldc,in emit md
faintina voieelcss horfbr.k he Nnn6de
his waysAiyectly TO the front of the
cage that Held the Awful Dcspot of
the Tropics, and, mastering ell his
courage, gave. one bold aud. manly
hdk at the thing. ITO, bis great as
torishment, and equally great relief,
he saw no goriil, atsasl, .but.a plain,
black monkey, whom, il he WAS not
greatly mistaken; he had often fed
with apple-corcs and pennies after
the creaturehad gone through his va
rious uncouth mops ind moves to
the music ofhis masters hand.organ.
lie evenethought the creature him
self locked up with a faint smile Of
recognition in his faded peanut eyes,
as he saw betoreqhiml the one being
who, in cold and sheprtless world,
had taken pity. on him and minister
Cd 70 his few and simple wants.
There he sat, melancholy picture
-care- worn, flea bitten, hyngry;
now playing abstractedly with his
useless tail, nowilooking with ablaxc.
disconsolateaair at the. aianless flies
that crawled over his white WAS ned
cake, now scratching himself as il be
had been struck with an idea, then
giving it up, and walking back and
forth with a maudlin air, and finally
cronching down in one corner with
an expression Of pity and contempt
for the swelfering crowd Of human
beings who wasted their time and
money for the sake Of seeing a gor-
lila, and We're ready to faint at the
imaginary threats and ferocity of .
plain organ-grlnders monkey. :
For some days spast--.oro some
ronths. indced--the newspapers
have been fall Of terrible runors. of
the awful things that Mr.. johnson ia
going to do, some time or other! How
he is going to act as il he were Crom.
well, Julius Caesar, and the two Ma
poleons-the Great ard the Little
rolled into one! How he is going
to dispense Congress, aud, backed by
swans militia, to say nothing of
Swami himself. put down the North,
put up the South, and ride to glory
over the PROSTATE bodies Of the ma
jority of his countrymen. How he
issas mad AS he, can be ]; how, to use
the children's phrase he is .hopping
mad, and means to show us that he
| is not to be triflcd with. How we
are to have a first class iscoup d'etat. =
! whatever that may be, and how; In a
few weeks, A. johnson the Frst.(and
we may add, to our own knowled re,
/ "the last J, is to vale to his throne
in blood, and sit sole despot over a
conquered continent. In short, tho
very air is black with horrible ima-
gipings and direful threats. +
Where we live, ,a.,..;..,i.. 4,
The chimneys nre blown down; and, MS
Lamenting's hear.' i the air; strange
screanlsof DEATH: W. =
And prophesying with accent terrible !,
/ " dire coiDbustion, and con fused vents.
4 New matched from tins woeful scoop. -
All this is very distressing. but we
beg our readers, TO. lake heart of
grace Threatened, men live long,
and Mr.. ,lohnson's cnnp.- hlLa--Ilr.
Cummings Millennium, will mo doubt
prove y prophecy that can be pushed
ahead aud ahead as often as fulfill.
ment is found to, be incon yenicnt. -
The bloody banquet he.promiscs Val
landigham and Seymour, Weed, and
the rest Of his hravoes-is no doubt a
movable feast" aud will be found a
very, feast OF tho, Barmecides. The
President is running about The White
House grounds with a terrible pump
kin head, lighted by . very cheap
tallow candle, and We misdoubt the
Am crican people are not to be scared
by any such childish nonsense Let
MS only look boldly at the bugaboo.
and we shall find our great gorilla is
afterall nothing but harmless and
foolish monkey, with no talent, but
to make himself a laughing stock to
an idle worldly. Y. Tribune.