Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-03
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Communicated.
A Political GVaSkHfiS.

About a quarter of century ago, two
bummers from Cape Cod, near where it
twists into the little end of horn, where
mackerel abound and there is abundance
of molasses and rum, embarked on ped
ding excursion to the State of Mississippi.
Whether their stores were clocks or nut
megs, other " chips and whetstones,"
il is scarcely necessary to state. Suffice it
to say, they "got strapped" and, in this
emergency, devised a new way of raising
the wind by showing the rarest and only
known animal of its species in the then
known world, called the GYAsKUTIs. A
pictorial show-bill, with a picture Of this
rariS oris, the wonderful Gyaskuiis, was
posted on the walls around Jackson and
Holly Springs for exhibition. One of them
stood at the door and received the money
from the curious and gullible denizens of
the vicinity, while the other was inside
preparing to bring ont the wonderful Gy-
askutis to CRAFTY the curiosity of the won
dering audience, who had become excited
in anticipation of the terrible account that
he would give before the curtain, de-
scribing the ferocity and voraciOus
character of his untamed nondescript.
They listened with fear and trembling
TO these accounts given by the manager of
the Gyaskutis, and to the terrific noise
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unearthly and hideous, and seemed to come
from gongs, tin pans, brass kettles, bells and
a combination of instruments that might
have been used to advantage in an internal
charivari. 1t was alarming; it was dan
gerous.
After the one at the door had taken in
all the spare dimes of the town, the door
was closed, and the manager of the awful
Gyaskutis suddenly rushed forward of the
curtain on the stage shouting, "The Gya-
skutis is loose the Gyaskutis is loose
Save yourselves, ladies and gentlemen,
save yourselves ~
The afirighted people, pell NELL, topsey-
turvey, one on another, broke from their
seats TO escape from the terrible brute. 1t
was a fearful and distressing scene. Many
were bruised, some almost smothered, and
all frightened out of their wits. None,
however, had seen the Gyaskutis.
After a subsidence Of the excitement, and
all was quiet, one or two of the bravest
ventured TO look into the showroom. The
greatest anxiety was felt for the bold and
venturous showmen, all expressing the APP
prehension that the voracious ciya.
skutis had gobbled them up alive
At length some of the bravest, with
great caution, ventured to look, not only
for the showmen, but for the Gyaskutis
To their horror, they discovered that the
two men from the land of Cod had passed
out of the back door, making good their
retreat from the town with pockets Pile
thoric with ill-gotten gains. The towns
people finding they had been badly "soId,"
vented their indignation alternately at the
audacious trick of the bummers, and their
own stupidity and folly. 1t was of no
avail that papers of the town gave warn
Ing of the trick for the downeasters had
raised the wind" and were far on their
way TO the land of steady habits and
moral ideas" rejoicing
Now that same Gyaskutis has been shown
in the South many times since the war.
Ii is a common way of "raising the wind"
A Gyaskuts was on exhibition yesterday
at the Nashville and Northwestern rail-
road Office. The original and once "only
known Gyaskutis was not a more rare or
wonderful creature This one is vorscious.
The object in this case, ss in all cases,
when the Gyaskutis is exhibited, is TO
raise the wind" 1t is predetermined to
raise the wind. THE Gyaskutis is loose
Run for your life, Burns" The one hun
bred thousand dollars of State bonds is
out Somebody is strapped" There are
two hundred thousand dollars more to be
gotten. Somebody has been gulled. The
two hundred thousand dollars of State
bonds are TO be had. The wind" is to be
raised. Two hundred thousand dollars
will stand long division and go a great
way. The wind" is raised; the Gyasku-
tis ia loose