Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1858 — A Western Legislature. [ARTICLE]

A Western Legislature.

The Nebraska Legislature appears to becomposed of a set of regular ifistieuffing i backwoodsmen. On the 3d inst.ithe m -m-' hers of the Assembly! having each received: forty <!olh-r>. bhughtj a lot - f champagne,! and got <in a| regulart “bemier.” : Alter the . liquor hid all been 'disposed of}, they returned to the hall to.ab'stime business, many i of tiffim so “dead di-titlik” th.t they could not; -'it upright on th -ir mpis. Foou a difficulty i arose bstweeii the. Speaker and y w h ich enm.meuced bvl a v igorous tipp 1 ication ; of a cane to the back of the speaker and I was continued tor sojnelime, durji.ng which; all the'membifrs wh > were, able joined in the I tight. We hope our; we.-tern legislatures; will mil eontiriu ■ to ijollow' the example set’j in ou r.N .iti.>n:i i ()O~A counsellor iq Detroit desCrilu's his| poverty as follows: _ 4Wmm 1 fir.->t came to Detroit. I was in pertf'et rag'; the smallest hde in my shirt wa :.h" one I put. my head through, and I had to' have that,; my only shirt, washed by the dozen, for jit was in twelve f ieces.”