The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-02-25
The POIitikaI KaIdrOns.
By PETROLEUM v. NAsBY, u.

Dear Freeman-We'7e had sum expert
ence in the Sugar Bush. having made morn
a toms heft NV the sweet ingredient. and we
do know that ef the kittle's a bilin' over
small bit uf fat thtowed onto it will settle it
tew once. But the Poiitikal Kaldron's
different thing. We've Kaldron tew WASH
ington city-me and Gen. Grant tewgether,
ard we've one tew Harrisburg-me and
Gen. Geary and we've one ontew Cranberry
county-me and you; and we've one onteW
Johns 'stown aud thcr' all bilin' over, and
grease won't settle 'em.
lew Washington me and Grant has
trouble about our beaurows and cabinet
ware. We've all uf the appointments made,
and some will pleas and some won't pleas
Kongress may truly say the Ides Ut March
is come, but the Iles of March hasn't went
away. The Rump is tremblin', and this
tremblin' is only the tremor uf the earth
quake that's folowin' Grant will retrench
and fite it out on that line uf it takes all
summer, and Kougress won't. We're agoine
to call a speshal sesshun Immediately on
finRnshal matters, aud then let 'em that's ID
Judea flea untew the mountains
Tew Harrisburg the Kaldron's bilip2 over
few The L,iio5iteS hev' fluttorcd their short
life away, and must go down aud settel in
their plaso with other organick remains.
frileI IS a luckshun among the dry bones, and
l am sorry tew say that some Democrats are
demon allied there tew.
Comm to our own county we fnd the
Kaldron bilin' over agin. ontew the isshues
uf kriuninal court, r new county, and t
locnmoshuE uf the court house. Parties |,
split like ontew n split stick, and Pm lost
in the mirage. The fog's gettin' thicker,
the cam of the Kaldron envelopes me, and
Pm a sea without rudder or kumpas.
Then comm tew hum to Johnstown and
Conemaugh, the Kaldron's bilin' over agin.
l WIS tew the cleckshun and tried to hunt
up my party. l asked a Democrat for
ticket. lie seI he wuz votin' the radikal
ticket. So l thought I'd follow suit. !
went tew rsdikal and se6 | wanted pa
per bullet He sed he was votiu' ontew the
Democratic ticket. So l went to Mac
Shane, Jr. =" and TIP" and us three form
ed a split ticket uf our own. | then run
tew COnemaugh boro' and found the fcunda-
shuns ut the great politikal deep broken up
there tew, and party lines split to slivers.
| bot paper and went tew hum and the
first thing | seed was the deseshun uf the
Supreme Court of Unkel Sam sayin' that
Greenbacks wcrn't a legal tender. Next
came the CommerShGl uf Pittsburgh and the
Tribune uf Johnstown, both ddcokdtin' re-
form, with the news that Ben Wade W AIDED
intew Ben Butler about the admishun uf the
vote uf Georgia. So, thinks I. theirs a
comet comin', or sum disturbin' element bro
ken in ontew the cohesive power uf public
plunder" and party ties and party lines
lines generally. The trubel with me was
tew beside as tew what fragment should
| king tew.
| The next Paper seed was the Freeman.
| It stated that watch and chain" WINS
! tew he oiylu' few '.gke ,uOsf z1eryiEoy-jO1,S
( gentleman in this broad Commonwealth :"
/ thought moment, and thinks that's me.
/ It. must be me. ! answer the diskripshun
/ Let's see: From few friends" That
/ muse be me, for l hav' jrst that menny
/ ITO be a surprise - That's me tew. fur
know nothin' uf it. Sc my spirits revived
/ and WIS kalkilatin' what tew do with the
! ''stem winde=," when | learned that the
! cussid old pewter watch, that / wouldn't
| hav', wus fur another man! But never
! mind. | hav' three acatcbeS now, and may.
! be III get another by-m-by.
Now, tew konklude, Mr.. Editor, isn't il
! queer that these things happen all tew one
time Johnstown elects a Democratic Bur
gess-Couemaugh defeats the Democratic
ticlet-Geary and the Commercial and the
Tribune asks fur reform-Chase beside:
Greeubacks kind uf Unconstitutional
| Grant won't konsuit the Rump about Cabi
| net offises and Ben Wade and Ben Butler
is at loggerheads, &c. 1t maybe that the
purchase of Alaska hes unsettled the equ;
ibrium of politicks all over the country
| Even natur' is unnatural. We've summer
! when we had ought tew hav' winter. Let,
sing, That's what the matter now, that:
| what the matter"
| Yours in the wool NAsBY, JR