Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-25
X. X. X.
Asa Head Joins and then Exposes the
Hu-Kiux Khan.
From the New Orleans Crescent.

Hu-KIux Khan.
From the New Orleans Crescent
CITY HOTEL (Which is in New Or
leaus) April IL. have joined EN-. am
Ak. X. X. feller. run the risk Of dy-
ing some day Tor night but | am going
% nnbosom myself and make a public err
pose Of the X. X KS. Pro bono pub
hc0.
Once upon time, when night had
spread her sable mantilla DER the earth,
and pinned il with moon, | went 10 bed.
People often 60 10 bed at night, with the
exception Of the X. X. K'F. who never 20
10 bed and who never sleep. They have
ears, but they see not they have eyes, but
they hear not
Office have tolled forth the hour Of twelve /;
the stuffed owl in the Crescent City Mu-
scum had gone 20 roost the statue Of
Henry Clay reposed in silence in q per-
pendicular position; the snakes had ceased
their croaking, and frogs their biting, the
mosquitoes had begun humming, and all
went as merry as a marriage bellep-to
her hash was sleeping in my couch Of
couches like June bug in January, but
did not snore. never snore. Everybody
would do it, ! presume, If it were fashion
able But to resume.
As / said, it was past midnight, and /
was dreaming Of my country seat, "a stool
with three legs when i was startled sud
denly by cold, clammy, shrimpy hand
upon my forehead. / awoke and arose up
in bed TO discover figure clothed in white
sitting upon my bed. He (I suppose he
was a he held in his right hand a Roman
candle burning blue aud in his left a sky
rocket his eyes were glaring balls Of red
fire, and he had two horns in his forehead,
besides several which he had taken in his
mouth. A / awoke he waived the torch
threr times around his head and beckoned,
like Hamlet's ghost, for me to follow him.
/ arose from my bed and followed-entirely
in white He led me through winding
streets, up dark alleya, and finally brought
me 10 a graveyard. All this time he had
never, for moment, taken his eyes Of ERE
of Of me. Arrived ia the center of the
graveyard, beside an unburied skeleton
between two thorn bushes, he shot off his
rocket, and glaring upon me, said:
Mortuary mortal, ] come from the
bloody den Of the bob-tailed scorpions.
am the chiefest among 10000, and the
altogether lovely You see here before
you the speoter of the Great Tribe Of the
Demoniac Deathly Dragons. | am sent TO
warn, 10 defy, 20 drag you to danger. 3ics
the scorpions tongue has Kissed 3ice the
dirge Of death is done; 3ice the bloody
grave has gasped Behold I"
/ looked, aud saw in letters of blood
upon the skeleton before me, and surroun-
ded by letters Of fire:
Bo-I AM DED Est
illustrated by collins and daggers.)
gazed in horror, and exclaimed, in
petriied accents: " / believe We, my boy /"
and tainted.
When / recovered myself land my wall
lett j found that / was transported 10 a
subterranean dungeon beneath terra fIm0.
Ii had all the appearance Of place that
was worse than The Place itself There
were blue lights, blue fellers and blue
flames.
Even "the lights burned blue. The
4going paragraph states that. Any para
graph going might state the same thing.
Brightly the taller-dip" candles
" shone DER (thorough) fare women and
brave menw
When had been taken inside the DIM |
kEOIs 4 lttA tilAA i W ~ AnAE 4 was AlAAO-
duced 90 a hard crowd in hard times. |
They formed around me the crowd and |
not the times, and in a deep, sepulchrsl |
tone that shook the cave, said
Whence comes this mortuary mortal, |
aud is he trooly rural 20
Ny conductor answered for me, and said |
in toner of thunder land lightning ,
"He can keep a hotel he can sing like
a msrtingale, swim like an angel, gamble /
on the green, and is loil to the corps !"
Let him pass, said the tycoon, who
thought ! hadn't " full hand
/ passed, and found myself in the inner
where | saw nothing but thun-
der the yells Of demons and the rafting
Of chains; | heard nothing bat lightning
the fash Of gun-powder and the last ditch,
and dreamed the dreams Of the dunl-
reaIyl
A mangled corpse stood upon a pyramid
Of skulls, and holding in his right hand
coffin, and in his left hand pristine mani
coUghin' two. he exclaimed
Mortal, J am the Bloody Butcher Of the
Bogus Bluaderers OF Babylon. Swear to
keep our secrets, OF dye'
As / didn't care Go dye, swore.
Then ! was tetotaliy surrounded by de-
mons as looked like devils, not one Of
v HON bought their shirts al Moody, who |
shrieked
Gle swears by the fiery hagon found ia
ferooious furnaces by fellers from Felici-
sna, that he does not, never did, and never
will again, ~ help him Felis %
was then stabbed by a small sword,
wh!ch was held IN the hands of every de-
mon in pantalets around me, then drugged,
boiled in a caldron, set upon a hot gTidiron,
lid down a gang plank, walked over cakes
Of ice, mutilsted IN the hair OF my head,
and finally tatooed and scslped
was dragged through tabular boilers 10
he time Of ihe "Rogue's March" stripped
10 the suit Ct clothes in which / Was born,
powdered 10 atoms, and told that had a
mission 70 perform to al outside barbs-
was TO annihilate every living
hing. and to kill every decade member Of
lociety. / sct-seeded.
DO you wear
81 swear
/ was then clothed with habiiiments Of
zoe. thrust into den Of worms, with only
me bottle Of Mrs Winslow Soothing
syrup. and told 90 await the action OF the
impeachment Committee.