New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-10-10
Nasty ON IMITATION.
IS THB SWAMP NEAR CoNFRDRrT X ROADS, J
witch Is in the State of Kentucky,

September l6. 1875.
There is gloom onto the Corners! Our sun
Cv prosperity is sot, and my hopes is blasted.
The Unlimited Trust & Confidence Company
Is not eggsackly no more. but is near enutf
dead to make it safe to bury it on yencher
Its eyes ia sot. After a brilliant career of
five weeks of coruscatin along the sky Nv
finance, sheddin blessings at every jump,
its lite hez gone, its brilyancy hez departed,
and it don't cOruscate with O cent.
We hevnt suspended, nor failed, nor
closed our doors, nor nuthip, for the simple
ice that made failin impossible, and the
closin Nv doors unnecessary. Ez we don't
hev to redeem, what shell VIC fail fort Ez
we don't propose to pay nothin, what shell
we close our doors for! Their amt nothing
hidebouId about this bank. The people is
welcome 70 come in and discuss finance, and
put Their feet up on the benches and SQUIRT
tobacker joose on the floor, lest ez friendly
ez they choose, and they may do it ez long
ez they choose.
No, the Unlimited Trust g. Confidence
Comp any amt failed, but its kinder petered
out, ez it were. 1t is expirin Nv dry rot.
Its notes, witch ia it's blood, amt hevin any
cirkelashen. The people don't take EN- with
that cheerfulness witch is necessary to q
proper bankin bizuess. Legislashen don't
fetch EN-. The ordinance witch made death
the penalty for refoosin our ishoos only
worked SO far as takin EN- for
taxes. The corporashen did take EN- for
taxes in purs0Oauce Nv their own legisla-
.hen, and here wuz where the trouble be-
gun. The taxes wuz levied on greenback
basis, and the entire levy amounted to
$4,000. Well, the taxes, for the first time in
the history nv the Corners, wuz all pade in
full and with great promptness. A more
prompter set of taxpayers never seed.
The treasurer he'd $4,000 NV our ishOos,
when 1t wuz nessary to buy pillow and four
spades to do some work on the roads. In
vane be tried to get EN-. the dealers at
home, KNOWN wat currency he he'd to pay
IN, suddenly got out NV piows and spades,
and, when he went to louisville, it took
Sl0OO nv his currency to pay his fare, and
he offered the hardware dealer the other
$1,000 for the implements he wanted, but it
wouldn't go. He he'd to come back with
out EN-.
Then he come and demanded some cur.
rency NV us witch he Good yOose, wioh, nv
course, we hedn't got none, and he become
an opponent Nv our sy stem.
Two shoemakers, each with 10000 NV
our money, coodent buy a side Nv sole
leather to cOntinyoe their biznes with, and
he'd to stop. Our railroads ndturnpike
he'd to stop, becoz, hevin got to the pint
where we he'd to hev iron and males and
sich things, we c0odent go on; so ell the
latOrers he'd to be discharged, witch made q
desprt populashen all howlin agin us.
But the wust wuz yet to come. We Good
hev weathered all this, but, alas BAscoM
FAILED!
This wus the fnishin blow-the great
staggerer from witch the Corners Good not
possibly recover.
Basc0m made manly fife. and l must
say did all that he Good to stand up for US.
He raised the price NV drinks to e. per
drink, and, when he saw his barls' rapidly
failin, he tried to keep the Corners agoin
wateIin his lkker, jest ez We he'd watered
the currency.
But these expedients didn't work, The
higher the price he put on his likkers, the
more the people seemed to want to drink
Nv it. 1t seemed TO be delite to EN- to pay
out our money, Of they got anything wat
ever for it. But they wOOdent do wOt Bas-
com most desired-that is to say, thew
wOOdent stand his watered whisky They
sed to him: "Ef 81 drink amt enuff charge
81. Its all wun to US. Set EN- up agin."
take suthin, and the man who asked EN-
wood throw down on the bar peck NV our
currency and tell Bascom to helm himself.
Baecom come to us and begged that we
shood let him hey suthin that be Good yOose
to restock his bar. He said the dealers in
louisville LATED in bis face when he offered
en- our money for ikker, and he had but
two bsrls left. ',it M :, -,
And them two barls wuz vizably shriulkin
every mint. 1t seemed ez though the pop
ulis got insane for likker at the very time
that We didn't want em to hev IL. For tho
fust time in my life l wanted the Corners to
be temprits for every drop drawd from the
balls brought our bank that much peerer
fts end. ! cot opposite Bascom's and ssw
the crowd 60 in with sinkin senaashen
that was akin to death. Drink by drink 1t
went, and, ez of they c0Odent eggshaust il
fast enough by the single drink, they got to
comm for It ID tin clippers. =
How does it hold ont 7" wuz the meg
sage sent him at 10 A. III.
The snser camp prompt:
10:O5 A. M.-Wun bari untuched--twepty
mint. = sss r.
Then / sent this: .rs
I0:i0.-Fin her up with water. Keep
Jefferson Davis . pourin in. Hold the
fort. s - ISIS llasllN.
And the answer came:
=. l0sl5-Jefferson Davis il histin in water
- fest eE ,he kin carry it. Mrs., Baacom il .
rinain out old barrels, TO wich abe adds
kyan-pepper and camfene. Ell 1 he'd some
Scotch emit IL wood help. wan hold out
e. long ca Iossibls. Bat it's terrible. A
man jlst come In and demands gallon.
Twenty minutes thereafter Basoom can't
Havs jet put q spisgos IN lass basls and
me Corners y hoNlln. ~ von't laet A.
G, Tsse 4, e s.psdlsps ssjssssa i'..lf = =.
Time 4 sysrythins. Bust the spissot and
wioh hs did, thus keepin the wolves at