The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-18
Il THE Sixth WARD Nv Moo YORK
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DecemUer p, 1868.
am perfectly and entirely happy;
for | heV formed a number NV dellte
full acquaintances In this trooly great
city, which make my pathway pleasant
aud cheerful. | he7 added to the
decorashuns NV my bar, portrates OF
Sammon Z. Chase, FeTnandy Wood,
and Pendletou, one NV wich is
sure to be our standard bearer ia
the next contest, wich cOlleck-
shun | shall keep addi0 to ez |
git the means. | hev stiddy run of
trade, and | am seldom alone, wieh
scots me exactly But few men like
to be alone A man is bad comp my
for hisself. for he alone Is the only
one who knows precisely how cussed
mean he is. The two Aldermen Wich
patronzes me ez they drink, wici
patronage alone is almost suf6shent
to support me, ez they are conscien-
shusly industrious drinkers. They
pay, not becoz they hev any prejoodis
In that direckshun, but becoz money
costs EN- nothin, and becoz, lIkin my
face, they hev desire TO keep me
among EN-. One Nv em Wuz pleezed
to compliment me yesterday. Nasty"
sed be, that nose Nv yOOrs ihdikates
yoor politiks more certenly than wat
700 say. The heart is deceetful, and
the tongue olttimes speeks wat the
heart doth not prompt; the nose kin
never lie. It's sliuz safe to approach
sich q nose with a cash offer to do
do0ty az q repeater. Two more hot
whiskys, and one for yerself, while
700 are at i'll
Isn't il pleasure 10 mix drinks for
one who combines shrewd kuoRledge
NV human Dacher, whisky, aud prompt
/ pay, In sjch correct proportions? Wv
course it Is. But my buzZum friend
is Terence OSuliivan, who IS perhaps
the most regular customer | hev. MIR.
/ OSu!livsD Is one Of the oldest Dimi-
/ Gratis in Moo York, Il hevin bin three
/ years since he left Cork. Ii IS not
| known wat he Wnz before leaving
/ ITeland--theTe is a mystery hangIn
/ over him. From wat | hev bin able
I 10 gather from him when he is con-
| vivyelly lOosened, there Waz con-
! spiracy organized agin him IN his
native couatry consistin Nv a sheriff,
! four witnesses, a judge and twelVe
jOorymen. wIch resulted in his incaT-
/ cerashuu 10 q basteel. There wuZ
1 a pockit book and watch mixed
up in it, the partickelers Nv wich
! [ never got. On his releese,
/ Mr.. Sullivan percedid to Wunst to Moo
/ York, and commenst life as laborer
/ on an excavRshen on Broadway. For
| chunitiy six weeks after he Ian did au
eleckshun took place, and he immedi
/ ately got employment "a q repeater.
Doorin the war he WIZ engaged In en-
listin hlssef under various nRmes for
the bounty, the mOnotOny Nv wlch
okkupashen he yariGd by occasional
burriaries aud operations ia the
sh eets on Intoxicated Western mea.
He hez been second and bottle holder
ia many prize fights, aud hez an in
terest ia Two unpVeten0Iu faro banks
and Que lottery shop.
Wv course Mr.. O'Sulliyan holds
} Office. Hevin one hundred and sixty
three votes at his control, be il a
sko0l direkter, inspector Of Boa Con
! STRIKERS IN the mepagery at Central
Park, clerk to three boarCs, and in
addishen hez q SUB contract for street
, cleanin. Ez there aint no Boa Con
strikers and no Boards, and ez the
streets are never cleaned, why Mr..
O'S. has q tOlerable sofs thing nv it,
or wood hsv were Is not that he heZ
to divide bis salaries up among so
meny But, nevertheless. he lives
J comfortably and happy
I Mr. OSulligan hez a brother who
{. Is, at this tima, an inmite w the State
: Prizen at Sing Sing. for highway rob
2 berry, anu last Monday re went mp to
Sing Sing to see him We arrived
! iiet ez the conviets Iuz a marchin' in
to dinner, and took posts hen where we
Good see EN-, so that Mr.. O'S. Good
point out his unforchnis relative to
me ez they passed.
There be is-goOd heVinsl -
, WAT agitstes you, my friend!
sed l.
is the sixtk~hle.
saw at once vat agitated him.
His brother was the fourth man 10
the sixth file, and side By side with
that brother, white man, wuZ-A
NIGER! both dressed exactly alike.
: " Hevinsl" ejaekilated OSulliyan,
" is this thing permitted in the Demo
, cratic State Of New York? Hev We
+ fought Rigger ekaliiy at E c polls SO
many years to hev il practised here
in q Democratic State under Demo
J cratic cfishels2"
And mere 200. Wnefo only OemU-
Gratis is degraded by il put ia.
, We sought out the Warden and de-
mandid 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," be re-
marked, it's only now and then
that sny Nv the degradid race gil
here, aud there's DO provision made
for en-. Il cant be helped.
's Then" sed O'Suiliyan, do / m
ders'and that the Democrisy Nv New
, York city is to he eontinyooally
Threatened with niger ekality?"
They are till the Legislachel
s, changes It, rstor,ed the Warden.
We LETT the prison shortly after
that, Mr. 0'SElliysn in most melan
~ kolly mood.
s Nasby," sea he Guaiiy after
q silerce uv perhsps bali al nous
6oorD Wich tine be WHz plunged int