The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-05-16
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Eone-Mr. Nasby Really the Origi-
nator ofthe Speculation.
From the Toledo Blade,
WASHINGTON, April IA.
It's done! Seward did it-him and
me The Amerlkin eagle hez COZ
now to SCREEN with redoubled energy
Eff the Nashnel bird wuz an angel, ]
should remark to il, 1Toon your harp
anoo," but it amt, and, therefore
sich rekest would be ridiculous.
This rhapsody hez reference to the
Rooshen purshicis.
The Idea originated in these mass
i've intclleck. When { wuz here
afore, the Blairs, allof EN- was a crow.
din the saintedJ hnson for mishun;
Cowan wanted mishun, and SO did
Doolittle, and that day pretty much
all of the delegates to the Philadel-
ply Convenshun he'd bin there want
in some kind NV place wat they
wuzn't pertikeler: One gentleman
whose nose (Which trooly blossomed
ez tho lobster) betokened long SER
vice in the party, urged that he had
been o delegate to both Convcnshuns.
sThank God!" sed johnson. "Wood
that both the Convenshuns he'd bin
made up Nv the same men. I wood
ent then hev bin bored for places
halt ez much ez I am.
1 wuz q helpin out in my weak
way, When the crowd wantin pla-
ces become too CRATE for human in
doorance, I would, say in a modrit
tone, s'let's go out and get suthin, ,
and to wunst fully one half would ex-
claim, "Thank you, dort keer if I
do It wuz CRATE relief to John
son, but wuz pizen on me-. With the
most NV EN-, the anguish, anxiety
and solicitood in the gettin nv ofSses
and free drinks wuz about an ekal
thing. The otiises they wanted wuz
only the means to that pertickler end,
and so long as they wuz gettin the
one without the trouble NV the for
mer, they wuz content. A good
constooshun and copper lined stu
mick carried me thro this tryin or
decl, until [ came across Boston ap-
plicant, who in conscience of the
prohibitary law, he'd bin for some
time on short rashuns, and wuz keen
set. Napoleon had then met his
Wellington, and I succomud. The
mans talents wuz wonderful.
Secretary Seward wuz in trouble
about the Blair family, pertikerly.-
He he'd appointed EN- to clekersaips
and furin mishuns, but the crooel
SENT which he'd. no respect for us,
took delight in fastening nv EN- onto
us by perpetooally rejectin EN-. Jest
after a long seige by Montgomery
and the old man, sejested the pur-
CHS NV the Rooshen Territory, to
which not only they Good be sent,
but thousand Nv others, which we
he'd on. our hands, and the Secretary
wuz so pleased at the idea that he
wept like a child. With a vigor
wonderful in one 80 old he set about
gettin testimonials as to the value
uu the territory, to inflooence the
SENT in ratitying the treaty he wuz
goin to make. And he wrote to a
naval offiser about it, who answered
more promptly than I ever knowd
a naval offiser to do, ez follows
cts trooly a splendid dcountry. The
trade in the skins Of white bears kin
be, eff properly developed, made enor-
NOUS. There is seals there, and wal
russes SO tame that they come up Nv
their own akkord to be ketched.
"P. S. In case the epurchase shood
be made, a naval stashen will be nec-
essary. May hope that my long
services on the Floridy coast would
prove sufficient recommendashen for
the command nv the Depot? May
T?