The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-03-14

without crowdng. 1t had no curtain and
no blinds to its single window. which in
fact admitted 50 little light as not to need
those Instructions, having been made ap-
parenty for one of the palaces of Lilliput
Its floor was just as naked rs it had been
born, possessing not even a tig-leaf of a
rug to hide its indecenev. The only
articles of furniture were a cot bed a pine
wa@h-stand rocking-chair with a crick
in the back, and a seven bv-nine looking
glass which made Pompey's face twice as
broad as it was long. Yet such had been
The humility of his previous belongings.
and so magniticently did this wretched
cell compare with his rotten log-cabin on
Alligator Creek, that it seemed to him
A. Il he were entering into the abodes of
luxury
There you arem said Jack Hunt grin
nlng al the law w-giver's obvious awe of the
neuralgia rocking-chair; II 90 security
tor you, and you settle out OF your salary,
when YOU get it. The room on the front
i The den OF Father Abel Know the old
cock ?"
Pompey, with some vagne idea that he
was in paradisaical scenes and that Adam
ami Eve, and perhaps an angel or SO,
would soon appear to him, allowed"
thai he did not know Father Abel.
Daddy Abel they generally call
him. explained Jack Hunt. Hes one
of your big guns among de culled bred
dren," be continued with Bowerv imita-
ton OF the negro dialect .YDuIl buck
against him some morning. and you'd bet
ter cotton to- him. He's one of nv par
hcular bummers, and he won't let the
>liVer-graNS pull the wool over your eyes.
Besides, he'll show YOU the way to take
the gospel ship and sail tor me port of
Zion" he added. with chuckle, as il the
voyage in question We're the most ridicu-
lou> adventure Imaginable Now, to
come back to business, You'll want some
money for Your feed, and I'll put up ten
dollars more on You, and You can pay me
when YOU can. That makes fifty so far,
don't il? Tomorrow night I'll light on
YOU and take YOU to the Governors re-
ception. He gives biz blowout for the
members. On, don't you look scared. It's
a itree lunch for All, white and colorcd.
ami semi-colored, and demi-semi-coored I;
AMI all You We got 10 do there is to do lust
what Won want TO do, eat drink, smoke,
and be sweet on the ladies' The Cover
nor pays, and the secret service fund paws
the Governor, and everybody that votes
is Welcome To all he can use"
With these instructions and encouraoe-
ments, exit Jack Hunt. whistling .',Jordan
ann 4 hard road to trabbe, | beleaye"
During the next twenty-tour hours
Pnmpcy Howard nouriShed himself eco
nomlc4lly on corn broad and common 40
jng. hayine Al MAJ tbat hnrrou;nr If I'LL
Garnet -bacGiny Pythias was an .xransiva
mode of ,,rttino q fvino and hnIavinr
mat tba fftv dolIars IL iann,iIv ni,,bnr.I
IN ,rainst Mn .houla rooII,, III snn,a-
whore ahont thir+,- ,bonrb +ha u,hoIa
financial mudlln vas mnrh havond nj.
.kil IN arithnetic III lia nnt nrcnnntar
Daddy Ahal though IL III InnaI;nas. ~
waited for him Ione, in mo aarl- bow. ba II
Of tbe littl,4 hous4 ant onca mustered
courare 10 tap ,ottlv nj Ill unnainta1 .na
badly bruised door Nnrh IF his limo he
passed in WANDERING M ana down th4
Streets lika Jn,, whn has lnst III. nas
III II, III s,a,ir,, i, il M. l,,r. III o,.,,,,l
cd hotels which h. 5iJ nnt d,,.n 10 onto,
He would have been ovorioveI to n,ant
.J,rll HINT nvan thnn,rh tb.t in,J;,-;Ju,l
Ma ch1rp.d h,m i've Jnli,rs tn,. tba n,;-i-
l.,rn and raIl4J if ,an II babaI l,nnu,n
bow ID writp M wnpla hava written NJ
his wifa and If ba couIa b.va f,und !
nravar-mant;ne he would bayo onna IN
and had a nab
But durinT Tia second oveninr of tbis
weariSome leisure ana grandenr inst a.
this duskv Faust had decided that tho lows
Of office were not comparable TO huntinp
'pos>ums Or even hoeing sweet potatoes,
he was cheered bv the arrival of his loh-
bynr McphistopheIe-.
Come along" said Jack Hunt, "its
nine O'Clock. and the Governor has e.ass.d
up"
Pompev. who was getting to bed on the
suppostion that nothing iovial could han-
pen that night. immediately tore on his
coat and boots again. and hurried after
His friend to the rubernatoriaI mansion
fearful ot getting there too late What
with walkinq at the rate of tonr Mills an
hour and spccuatine over the august and
alarming mystery to come N NE rate of !
thousand miles 4 ninute, he was abso.
lutely breathless as he assembled the broad
granite steps and paused before tha oraat
oaken loor. He was more terrified 4. the
idea of entering that palace of li0bts and
luxury than he would have heen NJ fine
prospect Of goinr to iajl. ana when !
sprllcely-drpS.et mulatto waiter showed
him in and took his hat, he was in a state
to offer to brush that condesc4ndino creo-
lures boots. Glancing down ire wide
han and into the spacious narlor. he WIS
NOT so much relieved as ama1a1 at Ii.c,I,-
erino dozens Ind scores and \ seemed "a
him hundreds. of colored people. some Of
them As finely attiredas the hopse-, erv,n. :
whom he had been accustomed to saa ~
the doors of the white nuality ia Others
as rouph and uncoutb and hoorisb a. him.
self but all apparently on;te at homa
..Whv, thev's nipger. herr p" he ox-
claimed. in his field hand astonisbmant
"Of course" laughed Jack HINT
"Didnt ! tell YOU 50 p
.Yes | allow Won tole mo "a . admit.
ted pampev ..Rnt I didn,t +hinL i ,.-as
so. sure"
Come along.r said the Garnet ct-haoger
.Here's YOUR chum. and Tl1 introdnca
vou.n
They apnrosched ta1 o1da,,r roc,,o
50 gannt in fonre and viii snch . s9n,1i
head and so sombrelv and oloss;Iy nIaI
in shinino black bomhazina ,bat bo nut