Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-06-29
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| From the Toledo Blade. |
NASBY.

(IN A DREAM) is PRESENT IN THE LOWER
REGIONS DURING THE CONSIDERATION OF
MR.. oREBLEY's CASE. ~, "
PosT OFrrs, CoNFEDRIT x ROADS, (Which
is in the State NV Kentucky, June 1, 1867
The Corners wuz in most pleasant frame
Nv mind last Friday mite. So important
event ez the release NV our saintid Davis
Good not be allowed to go by without com
memoratin, and we accordinly commemora-
It'd. The rejoicins wuz held at the Church,
tho they commenst at Bascom's. Ez the
heftiest part Nv the rejoicir he'd bin done at
Bascom's, taperin off, ez / may say, at the
Church, the speeches were very short, ct not
to the pint. When, how, or wher it au
journed, l know not. I wandered OFF into
the realms NV Morphus in the middle Nv
Deekin Pogram's sekondly, and afore l got
back I he'd taken a rather long journey.
l dreamed very curis dream. Me-thawt
I wuz in the regions that are populerly sup
posed to lay below US. Onto his burnip
throne sot Lucifer, a readin the Moo York
7ri5oon, with the most puzzled expression
onto his face / ever witnest Layin it down
with sigh, ez tho he he'd gone humpin into
a sumner which he Good not comprehend,
he remarkt, sadly, ITO biznizr and de-
manded NV dis book-keeper, the sitooashen
NV things. Reports were read to him, wich,
in the main. pleased him. A shade Nv sad
Miss becloudid his classike countenance ez
the statement that Napoleon and Bisma-k
he'd made up, but his face ILLUMINATED Sc
renelv ez it wuz statid that the Christian
nashens had decided to let the Turks go on
butcherin the Cretans, which wuzreplaced
with e frown agin when he wuz informed
that there wuz prospeck Nv the English
thro the rest NV the world, the United States
come in
"Kentucky," sed the book-keeper, lookin
over a bundle of fresh reports, ''is all rite.
Helm is electid Governor by a whackin ma
iority. and M'Kee and Rice is defeetid."
"Good r' sed he, fetchin his tail down in
a ecstasy NV Joy; 1.-The next time swing
around the circle i must visit Kentucky
No State does so we'll for me with so little
NV my assistance. alluz like to visit Ken
lucky. Moo York City is ruther pleasant,
tho it's so near like my own place that
don't enjoy it much when I'm there. don't
| feel ez tho I'm away from home and WIS.,
itin. But Kentucky / love-the people
RELY charm me. But go on; what next y
"Jeff'son Davis hez bin liberated by Hor-
ris Greeley beo0mn his bale. This baein
| by Greeley the reporter stashened a. Wash
! ington considers most momenchus event,
and most happy okkurrcnce for yoor ma
| iesty.'
THAT reporters ass, and don't know the
secret springs which actooate men. Recall
him to wunst for maxim sich foolish re-
mark"
"But," sed the Secretary, who seemed to
me to he imp NV some conscience, to be
permitted to argoo with Lucifer hisself, ~
consider it NV Importance. Did 700 wish
| Jeff'son Davis to die in prizen 7"
"Ef yoo wuzn't NV decided yoose to me,
hevin been a Moo York alderman, I'd re-
doose you. Want Jeff'son Davis to die
Not !. I'm not the yoo.h wot killed the
goose wot laid the golden egg. He's
h,n the best recrootin lootenant ever he'd.
He hez the happy knack of controlin every
body he hez anything to do with, and he
turns EN- to'ards me. He rooined Polk, be
swampt Pierce, he sedoost Bookannon, he
| dazzled johnson, and he hez now caught
Horris Greeley. But there wuzn't any dan
ger nv his dyin in prizen. Men amt in the
habit NV dyin on panned oysters, brlled
beefsteak and milk toast; they hev trick
Nv peggin out faster on diet suthin the OPP
posite NV that; for instance, the variety
that Jeff'son furnisht them at Andersonville.
He wood hev got out anyhow. Johnson Is,
after all, poor white man. and he Good
bully them NV that class well enuf, but he
felt ashamed of keepin a real gentleman
like Davis in prizen, and he would hev re-
least him." -.
aShel I put Horris down on our books ~
askt the Secretary eagerly, dipping his pen
into bloc fame ez Hertzog does in the Black
Crook,
"I,et us consider |" sed Lucifer, musinly
"Wat hez he did"
"Bailed Jeffson Davis!" returned the
Secretary confidently, givin' his pen fresh
dip. ,,
to speak fggeratively, post for drove Nv
hogs to scratch themselves agin. They are
scramblin' out NV the slough Nv secession,
in wich they wallered till the droppin out
NV the bottom made it dangerous they
find Horris standin' on the bank, and agin
him they rub their sides to clean off the mud
wich adheres. l speak figgeratively in
likenin' Horris to post; literally in likenin
the secesh to a swine. They wuz jest as
senseiess and jest as crooel. They wuz the
wuns afore wich pearls wuz cast.
81 hev Jest finished his defense OF hisself
II is curious dokeyment and puzzles me
I'm disposed to consider him honest, but
wat a week showin' he rnakesl First, he sel
he's honest wich ia apuz agin a mar, for q
trooly honest man kin alluz find enuf Others
to say it for him. I'd, he tries to prove it
| wich is very bad, for the honesty wich needs
provin is rather scaly order. He instances
his splin his chances for the SENT last fal
by writin that universal amnesty letter.
Horris, in this matter is, fear, playin os
trich. He hez his head in the sand, and
bein blind hisself, fancies the balance NV hi
anatomikle strukter, wich out to be in thu
background, amt visible to the rest NV man
kind. Or. lie is RELY loonaticl neye
he'd any idea that he wanted to be in thu
Senit He wuz in Congris wunst, and il
the fa.eyoor he made ther, wood, eff he wai
conshus NV il, hev deferred him from seekiI
that pertikeler place agin. Then, ef he Sui
RELY compos mentis he wood hev knowd, o
ought to hev knowd, that 'he hedn't th'
ghost NV chance for the place, and coodn'
hev got 1t eff he he'd written long letter ur
gin the hanging Nv every rebel, from Jetfso
Davis down to Commodore Hollins. l
looks to me very much like zef Horris WI
playin the old game of declinin wat het
never bin offered him. His letter wu
soundin brass and tinklin cymbals.
"Shel l enter him or not :" askt the Sex
rerary. sa
"It's a curis case" said Lucifer, not mind
4 = L.. u-Ja haz hin ao;n ma NV nnasms