Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-14
Nasty.


from the Toledo Bade.l
Mr. Nasty GIVES A BRJzF ACCOUNT OF HIS
NEW ESTABLISHMENT, AND ALSO OF SOME
OF HIS PATRONs-HE VISITS SING SING,
AND Is COMPELLED TO WITNESS AN OUT
RAGE WHICH HE is UNABLE TO PREVENT.
9TH WARD, Moo YORK,
Dec. %, 1869.
lam perfectly and entirely happy; for
I hev formed number Nv deliteful &C
quaintances IN this trooly great city, wlch
make my pathway pleasant and cheerful.
l hev added to the decorashuns of my bar,
portrates of Sammon P. Chase, Fernandy
Wood, and Pendleton, one of witch is sure
to be our standard bearer in the next con-
test, witch colleckshun l shell keep addin to
ez git the means. hev stiddy run NV
trade, and / am seldom alone, witch scots
me exactly. But few men liketo be alone.
A man is bad company for hisself, for he
alone is the only one who knows precisely
how oussed mean he is The two Alder
men witch paternizes me pay ez they drink,
which paternage alone is almost sufiishent
to support me, as they are conscienshusly
industrious drinkers. They pay, not be-
coz they hev any prejoodis in that direok-
shen, but becoz money costs EN- nothln,
and becoz, likin my face, they hev desire
to keep me among EN-. One Nv EN- wuz
pleased to compliment me yesterday.
" Nasty" sed he, "that nose Nv yoors in
dikates your politiks more certenly than
wat you say. The heart is deceetful and
the tongue oft-times speeks wat the heart
doth not prompt; the nose kin never lie.
It's alluz SAFE to approach SIGH nose with
a cash offer to do dooty Ell repeater.
Two more hot whiskeys and one for yer
SELF while 700 are at It'll"
Isn't it pleasure to mix drinks for one
who combines shrewd knowledge Nv
human nacher, whiskey, and prompt pay,
in SIGH correct proportions? w course
it is. But my buzzum friend is Terence
O'Sullivan, who is perhaps the most regler
customer hev. Mr.. O'Sulllvan is one Nv
the oldest Dimocratsin New York, it hevin
bin three years sence he left Cork. 1t Is
not known wat he wuz before leavin Ire
land-there is a mystry hangin over him.
From wat hev bin able to gather from
him when he is convivyelly loosened,
there wuz conspiracy organized agin
him in his native country, consistin Nv a
sheriff, four witnesses, Judge and twelve
joorymen, witch resulted in his incarcer-
ashen in basteel There wuz a pockit
book and watch mixed up in it, the par.
tikelers Nv witch never got. On his re-
leese Mr.. Sullivan perceedid to wunst to
Moo York, and commenst life ez a laborer
on an excavshen on Broadway. Forchu-
nifty six weeksafte he landid an eleckshun
took place, and he Immediately got en-
ployment ez a repeater. Doorin the war
he wuz engaged in enlistin hisself urder
various names for the bounty, the monot-
ony Nv witch okkupashen he varied by
occasional burglaries and operations in
the streets on intoxicated Western men.
He hez bin second and bottle holder in
many prize fights, and hez an interest in
two unpretendin faro banks and one lot
terry shop.
Nv course Mr.. O'Sullivan holds Office.
Hevin one hundred and sixty three votes
at his control he IL skool direkter, in
specter of Boa Constrikters in the me-
imagery at Central Park, clerk to three
boards and in addishen hez sub-contract
for street cleanin. Ez ther amt no Boa
Constrikters and no Boards, and ez the
streets are never cleaned, why Mr.. O'S.
has a tolerable soft thing NV it, or wood
hev were it not that he hez to divide his
salaries up among SO many. But, never
theless, he lives comfortably and happy.
Mr.. O'Sullfvan heZ brother who is, at
this time, an inmate Nv the State Prizen
at Sing Sing, for highway robbery, and
last Monday we went up to Sing Sing to
see him. We arrived jist ez the eonvicts
wuz marching in to dinner, and took po-
sishen where we Good see EN-, SO that Mr..
O'S. Good point out his unforchnit relative
to me ez they passed
There he is-good Hevinsi"
Wat agitates you, my friend? ?" sed /.
"Look y sed he, "the fourth man in the
sixth file ~
saw at once wat agitated him. His
brother was the fourth man in the
sixta file, and side by side with
ger! both dressed exactly alike.
"Hevinsr" eiackilated O'Sullivan, "is
this thing permitted in the Democratic
State Nv Moo York? Hey we fought mig.
ger ekality at the polls SO many years to
Rev it practised here, in a Democratic
State under Democratic off1shls?"
And here too, where only Democrats
Is degraded by it p put in.
We sought out the Warden and de-
manded that this infamous practis be
changed. The Warden sympathized with
us, but sed it coodn't be. There wuz no
provision in the laws governin the prisons
Nv the State for keepin niggers separate
"You see," he remarked, "it's only now
and then that any of the degraded race
git here, and there's no provision made for
EN-. 1t can't be helped" "Then" sed
O'Sullivan, "do | understand that the
Democrisy NV Moo York city is to be
continyooally threatened with Niger
ekality?"
"They are till the Legislacher changes
it," retorted the Warden.
We left the prison shortly after that
Mr.. O'Sullivan in most melancholy
mood.
Nasty" sed he finally, after silence
Nv perhaps half an hour, doorin witch time
he wuz plunged into the deepest thought
Nasty, it's all up with me- / shell never
break into house, or pick pocket, OF
90 through drunken man agin. Wat ]
hev seen to-day hez determined me.
shell never agin take chance of goin to
Sing Sing. Why it mite be my forenoon
to be put beside that nigger!'
And a shudder of ill-concealed anguish
wept bitter teers. - tt
l comforted him as best Good. told
him that shood he be arrested for say q
murder, be tried and convicted and sent to
the penetenshary, and be forced to march
side by side with Niger, the disgrace, "
l sed, won't be yoors, twill be the infa-
mus retches who put 700 there. If 700
shood, of yoor own free will, put yoorseli
on level with a nigger-for instance ei
700 shood by of or sell to an Ethiopian
then the degredashen wood be yoors, fol-
700 mite have asserted yoor sooperiority
But in the case Nv States Prison RELY
think 700 put too much stress onto it. In
that case a sooperior power oonapels voc
to this, and 700 amt Responsible. Were