Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-01-19
We've Got En-"

hiO v" iiOui Cau IduClSCO W NCFdud
arrived at Sacramento on the evening
of the late presidential election, gives
the following amusing account of his
reception:
The scene on the city front, when
we arrived, beggars description. The
entire male population of the town
appeared to be congregated on Sec
ond street, around the stage, express
and telegraph Offices, and all stark
mad with excitement. AS | got down
from the coach, stalwart youth of
about forty summers, with rum nose
and watery eye, rushed up to me, and
seizing me eagerly by the collar, ex-
claimed, swell, stranger. have we got
'em p
"Not doubt of it, my friend" was
my prompt reply.
"Whoop! whooray Bill, we've got
'em!" he yelled, and in an instant
more | saw him huggiug a dilapidat-
ed looking Pike, whose hat was per-
feet ventilator, while the two waltzed
round and round on the sidewalk,
singing, "And we'll all get blind drunk
when Johnny comes marching home Y
which | have no reason to doubt they
will.
| started for the door of the hotel
as soon as No. let go of me, but was
seized before | had got two steps by
man with store clothes on his back
and a stare of incipient insanity in his
eyes, who demanded sternly, "Have
we got emp"
looked him in the eye as calmly
as could, and then told him | did
not think he had them yet, but was in
a fair way to have 'em if he kept on
"Hooray, Grants ahead where S
your Seemer and Blar men now" he
shouted, as he darted off.
No. 3 had hold of me in another
second, do you think we've got 'em p
be demanded.
"Yes, got 'em bad," replied, for ]
was beginning to think l had landed
among a community of lunatics.
Then we'll rally round the flag
boys, rally once again" he sang, and
commenced dancing the grand riga
doom, with Jim Crow variations, on
the sidewalk, winking diabolically at
me every time he swung around.
| made a desperate bolt for the
door, but was caught a fourth time
aud pulled toward the entrance of the
saloon. Take a drink, stranger,
said my captor, who proved to be No.
l. "Here, you black republican, come
up and take a drink with u.s." he
shouted, as my interlocutor No. 2 hove
in sight again.
No. 2 came up, and No. 3 joined
Us, and we all took a drink.
Just as No. | set down his glass be
said, so you are sure we've got 'em,
are you ?"
"You bet" was my unhesitating re.
ply.
Il have bet all | have on earth," he
said.
"Why, you said oce had got 'em, y
said No. 2, with astonishment not un.
mixed with suspicion of having been
played, depicted on his countenance.
"Well, so we've got email gol
'em-got EN- worse than any crowd
ever saw before in my life," | exclaim
ed.
4 Would YOU believe it, Nos. l, 2 and
3 commenced cursing in a chorus like
so many Mexican bandits, and de
nounciDg me as blk and swindler
BLAST him, let's duck him." sale
No. 2.
Eyes, let him pay for the drinks
first" said No. 2.
That's the talk" said No. 3, EN-
phatically.
| paid for the drinks as meekly a,
child, and scizing my carpet bag
beat a mastery retreat, never stop
, ping until | reached the corner of ,
and seventh streets, and got inside 1
room at the Capitol hotel, locked th'
door, and placed ali the movable furn
iture in the room against it.
| am perfectly sure that whatever
may have been the issue of the elec
tion in California, the entire popula
tion of Sacramento had 'em that nigh
and had 'em bad. Talk of San Fran
cisco earthquakes they are trihinl
affairs compared with an election bet
ting excitement in Sacramento.