The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-06-21

4 ris,oa Of The merit World .Hr. Nasby
I'm dream IS present IN Uc LoCcr
Regions dUring tbe consideration Of
Mr.. Grccleys Case.
Posr OFFIs, CoNFEpRIr y RoAps J
witch is in the Staff nv Kentucky :
June |, 1867.
The Corners wuz in n most pleasant
frame of mind last Friday mite. SO
/ important event cz the release NV
our sainted Davis Good not be allow
ed TO go by without commemoration,
and we accordnly commonwealth
The reioicins wuz held Mt the Church,
/ tho they commenst ut Bascom's Ez
the heftiest part NV the rcioicin he'd
bin done at Bascom's, taperin of, ~
| may say, at the Church, the speeches
were very short, ei not TO the pint. -
/ When, how, or wher it adjourned,
know not | wandered OFF into the
rclms NV Morpheus in the middle NV
Dcekin pogram's sckondly, and afore
| got back | he'd taken rather long
journey.
4 l dreamed very curis dream
Me thawt | wuz in tho regions that
are populcrly supposed to lay below
us. Onto his burnin throne sot Luci-
! fer, a readin the Moo York Triboon,
with most puzzled expression onto
hiz face Layin IL down with u
sigh, en- tho he he'd gone bumpin onto
=, ,t,,,,,,, ,,,;ab 10 ,nnI nat .nn,Dro
bend, he rcmarkt, sadly, TO bizziz -
and demanded nv hiz okkeepcr tho
situashen NV things. Reports were
read to him, wich, in the main, pleas
ed him, A shade nv sadniss becloud-
id his classikle countenance ez the
statement that Napoleon and Bizmark
he'd made up, but his face illuminated
serenely ez it wuz stated that the
christian nashens he'd decidid to let
the Turks go on a butcherin the Gre
tans, wich wuz replaced with q frown
again when he WIZ informed that
there wuz a prospeck NV the English
common people gittin vote. After
goin thro the rest NV the .world, the
United States come in.
Kentucky" sed the book-keeper,
lookin over Il bundle NV fresh reports,
"is all rite. Helm is elected Cover
nor by whackin majority, and Me
Kee and Rice is defeetid.
Good % sed he, fetchin hiz tail
down in ecstacy NV JOY "the next
time swing around the circle l must
visit Kentucky No staff does SO well
for INC with so little nv my assistance.
/ alluz like to visit Kcntuky Moo
York city IL ruther pleasant, tho its
SO near, like my own that | don't en-
Joy it much when I'm there. l don't
feel ez tho I'm away from home and a
visitin. But kentucky lovethe
people RELY charm me. But go on,
wat next ?"
"Jeft's son Davis hez been LIBERATED
by Horace Greeley beeomin biz bale.
This balein by Greeley, the reporter
stashened at Washington, considers
most momenchus event and most
happy OCCURRENCE for yoor majisty."
'That reporters ass and don't
know the secrit springs wich actooate
men. Recall him to-wunst for maxim
SIGH a foolish remark"
But" sed the Secretary, who
seemed to me to be imp NV some
conscience, to be permitted to ergoo
with Lucifer hisself, 81 consider it NV
importance. Did 700 wish Jeff'son
Davis to die in prizen?'
EFF 700 wuzn't NV desided yoose to
A I
man, Id redoose 700. Wat Jef'son
Davis to die ~ Not /. I'm not the
yooth wat killed the goose wat laid
the golden egg. He's bin the best re-
crootin lootenant / ever he'd. He hez
the happy knack NV controllin every
body he hez anything to do with, and
he turns them all to'ard me. He roo
ned Polk, he swampt Pierce, he Sc
doost Bookanan, he dazzeld johnson,
and he hez now caugh Horris Greeley
But there wuz'nt any danger NV his
dyin in prizen. Men Amt in the hab-
it nv dyin on PANIED oysters, brilcd
beefsteak and milk toast; they hcy
trick nv poggin out faster on diet
suthin opposite NY that; for instance,
the variety that jeff son furnisht EN-
at Andersonville. He wood hev got
out anyhow. Johnson is, after all,
poor white man, and he Good bully en-
NV that class well enutf, but he felt
ashamed NY keepin II real gentleman
like Davis in prizin, and he wood hey
rcleast him."
"Shel | put Horris down on our
books p askt the Secretary eagerly,
dippin .hiz pen into blue flame ez
Hertzog does in Black Crook
"Let us consider" sed Lucifer, mus
inly "Wat hez he did?"
"Bailed Jeil'son Davis" returned
the Secretary, confidently, giyin his
pen fresh dip.
every good. Horris hez made nv
hsself to speak figgeratiyely, a post
for drove of hogs to scratch them
selves agin. They are scramblin out
NV the slough NV secession IN wich
they wallowed till the droppin out NV
the bottom made it dangerous; they
find Horrls standin on the bank,
AMI ann him, tbo., ,,I, tl,,,.