New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-23
NAsBY WANTS ADJUSTMENT.
IN THE SWAMP NEAR CoNPRpRIr ROADS, }
witch Is in the State OF Kentucky }

witch ls in the State of kentucky,
September 80, 1875. }
j felt that ef he'd to stav smother week
| in this internal cabin shood die. With
nuthin but hoe caketO eat-with infrekent
| and Unreliable drinks, with no society wat
ever, life didn't seem to me to be wuth hevin.
therefore sent note to the citizens NV
the Corners askin for promis Nv safety,
taat l mite make EN- propOsishen. wich,
Ell they wood accept, wood enable the Bank
to 20 on and become ez permanent ez time
herself.
The Corners met and decided to receive
me, and appinted a committee to heer my
proposisheD, and on Receiving their answer
l made my way thither.
The meetin wuz held in the church. 1t
wuz an impressive scene. On the platform
IN front NV the pulpit sot the committee
tire auditorium in front wuZ crowded with
citizens, the most nv whom he'd baskets Nv
my currency, and thar was an expectant
| murmur ez l entered. l wuz delighted to
see that there wuz winder lest back Nv
where wuz to and, and also that 1t wuz
open; that it wuz only three feet to the
ground, and that the woods wuz only about
eighty rods to the rear. Old ez / am, kin
make fairly good time for eighty rods.
wuz respectfully invited to make my
statement.
that assemblage. You Good hev heerd a
pin drop ct any body he'd dropt one.
Wipin my streamin brow remarked that
] he'd never intended that the corners
| shood loose cent by our bank, nor did
| now 80 intend. l contest that lookin sim.
ply to the idee Nv intiashun, follering the
idees Of the Dimocracy Nv Ohio and Penn
sylvany, he'd not given eich careful at
tenshun ez shOod hev done to the matter
Nv redempshun.
At this pint the awjence seemed to be
visably pleased.
he'd he'd week nv solitood, and he'd
employed that time wrestlin with the
question Nv finance. and wuz happy to say
that he'd finally MAJ tered it. l had ma
toored a skeem tor redemshun wich l wuz
willin to present.
go on 60 on " the people shreeked de-
| litedly.
Il propose to redeem the ishoos NV On
| limited Trust and Confidence in the bonds
| Nv the company"
Their faces resoomed expression uv sto.
idity wich did net like.
"Will them bonds bear interett" they all
askt in korus.
Certainly they will. We shell be gen
erous. You may fix the rate of interest at
wat you chuse."
"That seems fair" they exclaimed.
congratulated myself on hevin got
through tollable easy, and was steppin off
| the platform to go over to Simpsons to hev
the conditions printed, when that feend,
Joe Bigler, who wuz q sittin with Pollock,
rose and remarkt that he, ez a bill holder,
he'd question to ask.
Go on" sez l.
"Yool give interest bearing bonds for
| notes, will yoo!"
Certainly, josef" sed l. ''uv course we
will"
wat, do you propose to redeem the bonds
imp
"Why, our notes, NV course Wat else hey
| we tn redeem am iul ODr pofae xp;tb tba
privilege Nv CONVEX tin Nv EN- into bonds at
any time-and faith-is the best money in
| the world"
Then wat'll you redeem the notes inl"
persisted Josef with fendish pertenassity
why, the bonds, Nv COURSE was my re-
spense. wat kin any wun want better
than intres t-bearin bonds, and wat currency
kin be better than that wich 700 kin CON
vert at pleasure into sich bondsi NV
| friends whenever 700 want bonds tor yoor
| currency, don't hesitaue to come for 'em-
don't be afraid Nv givin the officers trouble.
1t ls our pleasure to serve the public, and
well go to any lengths-
But wat did | un'stand yoor goiu to re-
deem them bonds in ?" asked Josef agin.
"oar notes!" answered, out of pashense
with him.
"And yoo redeem the notes with yoor
bonds :"
"Certinly; jst ez our friends Nv Ohio per-
pose to pay the nashunal debt"
"And this goes on for time and eternity3"
"Certinly, Josef. A fnanshel institooshen.
constructed ez ours is, kin go on from time
to eternity, becoz it is convertible-One
species Nv paper into another, and another
into one. You see"
"Yes, 1 see; but, citizen Bascom, when
you hev sold all your likker agin for this
paper, and you turn around to convert it
into bonds, hev y0o any ashOorance that
they'll take them bonds in louisville for
more likkera Did they take the notes
afore! How much better does the bonds
make emp "Fellow citizens Of the Cor
ners-( Josef spoke impressively )-Fellow-
citizens Nv the Corners, inoggerate this
system agin if yoo choose. but I feel it my
dOOty to warn 700 that in q week there
won't be q drop Nv likker in the Corners,
and watts more, you won't be able to get a
drop. YOo are standin on the brink Nv a
pressipis,;; Haul off before it is everlastinly
too late"
The people seed it to wunst and with
glare like SO many infOoriated tigere, they
riz and went for me. / didn't keer to stay
to argoo finance with em. The winder wuz
open, and l sprang thro it, and made for 4
the woods, wich l reeched just in time. He'd
they caught me they wood hev hung me out
l am now in the cabin in wich hev spent
the last week. sick and sore. Does finan-
seerin mean perpetOOal skeeting for the
woodsl Am to alluz be escapin with my
life! Oh for quiet, sekoor postoffis!
PETROLEUM V. NASBY,
President NV the late Unlimited Trust and
Confidence Company.
P. S.-The niger who owns my hidin
place has discovered who am. He went
to the Corners to get pervishens with the
money give him, and then the cat wuz out
nv the bag. He sed he'd he knowd who l
wuz and wat ! wuz hidin for, he never
wood hev took ne in. He thot l wuz
merely . hunted and distrest hossthief. Ez
he'd nuthin to pay him in, he came in while
l wuz asleep and took my coat and boots,
which he sez kih hev when give him good
money for that wich paid him in. He
bleeves hev some good money about me
somewhere. How l am to git away from
here tho Lord only knows. V.N.
Toledo Blade.