The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-06
NASRY
KEaa q q 1bleae Rlade.

Mr.. Nasby's Board Commence the
Compilation OF a Series OF school
Books for the -InStItOOt'' and the
south Generally, bat are ThWarted
by the Peryerse Joe- BIEIer.
PosT OFFS, CoSFEDRTr Y RoADs, l
i tWich is in the Stait Nv Kentucky,) :
Feb. %, 1867
The Institoot is, may say, success.
I Contributions flow in slowly, but shoor-
ly-fast enuff indeed 10 give each NV
the Board q new SCOT nv close, and We.
. spesheliy, who hev the first handlin NV
the money, sevral other comforts. But
! that cOrner-stun- troubles u.s. Sum
hundreds NV people saw. that bottle
nv ikker and a greenback wuz depos
1 tied under il, and reglerly every mite
! It's Din overturned by persons in search
I NV them relics At great expense we
} oullt onto IL section Nv wall, but
! maxim no account nv our sxpepditoor
! they overturned it; we then histed a
sign-board bearin this legend, The
! WhlSkey Is gone and the gTeenback
Also" signed by the Board, but one
half nv the citizens nv that lokaIity
don't read and tother didn't hey the
7 neSsSry confidence in the truthfulness
/ Nv the Board to prevent em from going
I for the arukles, tho the very kuowledEe
| Nv us wich brought about this state NV
disoelief, shood, one wood suppose, hev
taught em that the greenbaek and Hk-
ker coodnt possibly be Iher after so
] long a period eZ he'd ensood. So ez a
last resort We stuck two posts in the
! ground and drawd an iron chain over
/ H. That got en- Force is about the
only thing Nv any account in this
country.
The Board met last Mite at the Post
/ Oms, wich ontil we git the Institoot
built, will be the headquarters nv the
Trustees, to consider the propriety NV
publtshin a series nv skool- books
adaPtid especially to the Southern in
telieck and calculated partikelerly to
keep alive in the minds nv the buddin
Yooths NV the late Coufedraey, wich is
unfortuitly deceest; lively opinion NV
themselves and correspondent hatred
nv Moo England aud the North gener-
ally. We hev he'd serious doubts
whether proper ideas Good be instilled
into the yooth from book written by q
Boston man, printed in Cincinnati onto
paper made in Moo York.
submitted 10 tie Beard example
for new Arithmetic, to viii:
a Yankee sent a substitoot into the
FeosraI army at cost Nv 81, 900, pass
IN on onto him twV counterfeit ten dol
lar notes To make up the expendi-
tOor, he tu wunst swindIed a iunocen Mt
kentuckian out Nv 5000 in q patent
rite, a Alabamian out nv 500 in a West
ern land trade, and the balance he
makes up by sellin wooden nutmegs,
wich he turns out NV bass-wood at a
prohl nv cents per one. The crate
moral question is, how many nutmeSs
must this ingenious but uuprineipled
euss manufaktur and how long does il
take him with theimproved machinery
they hev TO do 1T
The Southern soljers at the battle NV
the nrst Bull Run captured Is Federals,
one OF whom he'd upon his person SI2 in
greenbax and tothers IS each. How
many Nv JohnsOn's postmasters Good
oe bought with the proceeds Nv the
capcher?
Deekin Pogram approved Nv these
examples, but he kept insistin that
Lhere Wuznt enud in EN- TO fire the
southern hearl- The Southern heart
Wuz a perPetooal funeral pile Wich
needed conlnyoOal fiFin. OnIess fired
II Wpza gloomy mass Nv very onsighIly
olack cinders. He proposed that the
iorthcomln book shood be coal oil on
the slumberin embers nv the yoothful
Southern heart. He he'd a example:
The battle nv Chickamauga wuz
fought cerLn number nv miles from
Chattanooga One regiment nv Con-
iedFii soiJers druv division Nv Fedral
mercenaries into the town. Allowin
that each Fedral, eZ we'll ez Coufedrit.
he'd two legs, bow many more steps did
the Fedrals take to git EN- into Chatta-
uooga, where they wuZ comparatively
safe from Confedrit rage and valor and
sleh, than 1t did the COntedrits to drive
em ther2
Bascom remarkt that he he'd one witch
he felt II his dooty to perpose:
a strikly conscienshus grosery keep
er starts in biznis worth four hundred
dollars in clean cash. He pays for his
whiskey two dollars per gallon in Loo
isyille, and heZ for regIar customer a
Postmaster, Wich drinks forty or sixty
times per day, and alluz tells him 10 |
list chalk it down" Required, the
length nv time nessary to bust under |
them sthIctin circumstances.
Bascom remarkt that long before the /
book appears in print, he wood be able 1
70 furnish he auser to that little prob
lem. Considerin the example q dig d. 4
rect at me, Wuz nv a noshen to retort. 1
but ther WIZ sich look of injerd inno- I
sense onto Bascom's countenance that |
RELY coodent. Suthin must be done /
for Bascom-I hev lived onter him too /
long. The next contribushen 1 reserve |
from trends North, shel be devoted to |
iquidatin, in part, the debt owe him.
Good bust him, 10y not given him at /
least cost for his likker, but wat fol-
lows? There's the rub. Wood he who 4
come after give me credit? Better bear
We hevnt binintsrdoost
Joe Bigler, the drunken Confedrit
solier, happened in, and heard the last
two examples, and remarkt that he
Good furnish us any number of exam
pies at Site Wesnever stop Joseph in
anything be perposes to do, for be hez
a habit Nv carryfn a navy revolver
slung to him, and he shoots. Joseph
wuz, therefore, permitted to perceed.
Fl southern man pants for his rites,
and tites four years for em, gettin lick
ed like the devil, how long after is it
advisable for him to contiuyoo to pant,
pervided he didn't know at the begin
min wat his rites WIZ?
Yencherd TO remark that a solushen
Nv that problem wuz impossible, ther
bein no pint tsawork departure from,
TO Wtch Joseph remarkt that perhaps il
wuz faulty in that Partikeler, but he
he'd others.
Ef one Southern soljer kin whip five
Northen solisrs, why in bloody thun-
der, they hevin he'd a sufishency Nv
opportoonities Nv doiu it, didn't the
South gain her Independence?
Ef htin four years, and losin every
dog goned cents worth nv property a {
man he'd wuz profitable biznis, how
many struggles for Independence wood "
a man Nv modrit meants be justified in
goin thru with?
Eff two gallons and a half Nv Ken
tucy whisky kin be got from a bushel t
Nv corn, how many Dimocratic voters,
takin young men ez they run, kin be ,
manufactured from the produck nv a Z
aker nv good land in a modrir year for 1
corn?
a high-toned shivelrous virginian,
twenty years ago, he'd a female slave
W1ch wuz ez black eZ a crow and worth I
only $500. Her progeny WIZ only half
ez black ez crow, and her female i
grandchildren wuZ sufishienLly 4
bIeached to sell In Moo Oileans for I
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