Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1868-07-04
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the Toledo Blade. I
N "A p Es ".

The trouble that Occurred at the Corners in
the Selection Of Delegates to the Ne,o York
ConreatiOn-Ao tie Faithful We're Drill.
ell IL their Duty.
POST OFFS, CoNFEpRIT Y ROADS (Which
is in the State of Kentuck), June l6, 1868.
The selectin Nv delegates to the Moo
York Convenshun hez bin hotherin us in
sevral weeks past. No one wanted to 90,
and 1t wuZ yuoDaninuusly decided by all
that if the Corners wuz represented at all,
! must be the man. | objected. for ther aint
no profit in sich trips. Ordinarily, Good
check my expenses. Hotel keepers are but
human, and hev never yet failed to stick
'em, but with Democratic cunvenshen in
fall blast it would he hopeless enterprise.
With ten thousand like me, all n goin on
their check, wat wooG ther be for mel With
ten thousand hungry, thirsty. empty pocki.
ted soles, wat Good do2 Therefore | felt
that could not go. l wrote to A. j. to
know if he would allow per diem, trauspor-
tation and mileage to delegates, to wich
he ansered:
''SIR-For wich candidates do yoor dele
gates perpose to vote ~
This crooel epistle settled me. IcOuldn't
go there pledged to him, becoz eff he shooG.
ent he nominated wat wood become Nv my
Post Ohicef Wood his successor continyoo
ME in place, who had bin active in support
Nv another
Finally the day for our Convenshun came,
and we assembled. Bascom wuz nomiua
ted, but he declined. Deekin Pogram wuz
offered the honor, and he declined, and so
| did McPelter, lsaaker Gavitt, Pudhammer
| and the rest Nv EN-. We passed all the first
day in tryin to get one who wood stick, but
ali in vaue e-Nile cane--we adjourned ill
, nine the next niornn, when we resoomed
| our unsuccessful endeavurs To persuade each
other to go to Moo York. Another day wuz
thus fruitlessly spent, and still another and
anot her--the last leaven us no nearer our
haven than the first. And so a week passed
| We met every mornin, coaXed, begged aud
{ swure ut each other till mite, only to meet
and go through the same formula the next
| day. l ielt that, onless suthin wuz done,
the Corners would 90 unrepresented.
On the eighth day, at about ten in the
morniu, Deekin Pogram's youngest boy, n
| fair haired lad of fourteen summers who re-
| sembles the Deekin, came in with the Moo
York Day Book, wich the Deekin takes out
never reeds. The Deekin tost it over to Bas-
com, who opened it, and red mint, when
his face changed instantly. "Hell ~ sed he,
to himself, and then he aroze:
MIR. Cheerman," sed he, ito end this un-
profitable session, wood say that hev
reconsidered my determinashen. will go
to Moo York J"
The Conversion wuz thunder struck
Wat did it mean The Deekin seized the
paper, and glancin over its columns, read
painfully miuit aud sed that he wuz sur
prised at Mr. Bascom's asshooTence. II shell
be delegate myself" sed he.
By this time McPelter read it, and got
it and read this paragraph
Let the Western DemOcrisy beware
They must come on the Fourth prepared to
| encounter bribery and corrupshun. Belmont
, and the Wall street clique heD raised 8 900.
| 600 to Be y00sed in the purchase Of delegates
| to defeat PendLetOH."
The Deekin pertested agin Bascom's gOin.
"Yoc can't be spared" shrieked he. "Who
will run the biznes iu yoor absence Is ther
a man in the Corners 700 dare trust inside
yoor bar a mint No, will CO." hev
| borne the heat and burden Nv the day-I
wuz with Forrest and now that ther is a
chance to make suthin-that is-now that
ther is a posishen NV prof-wich is to say
| honor. want it,"
Isaaker Gayitt, with face pale with dis.
appointment, that he hadn't taken it when
| it wuz offered him. swore that ef the Gayitt
family wuz to be overlookeq, why the soon
er Democrisy wuz buried the better.
Somewhere in the course Nv my readin,
cum across an account Nv the trouble that
wuz perdoost in a NEUROLOGICAL heaven by
some cuss who tost in a golden apple, la
belled ITO the fairest," or words 70 that
effeck, The announcement that Belmont