Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1870 — NASBY. [ARTICLE]

NASBY.

[Frem the Totedoßlafla.) ~ A FRIEND OF DIES, AND THE EMtitfERRND WRITES HIS OBITUARY—AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AMD ACTS OF MB. FATSBT m'gKOGGIN. Haar uv Eain B’ixxw, } Sixth Wabd, Noo Yosx, I April 30, 1870. | A bute hez fallen onto the Sixth ward! Last nite at precisely 3 o’clock this morein, ez near ez we kin learn, Patsey McGroggin departed this life. Dimocrisy hez lost a pilfer— my bar a constant and prompt paying customer, and Father McGrath a paruhner wich never refoozes his mite to religious purposes when his finanshel Operashens hed proved successful. Patsey McGroggin is gone 1 He met his fate m attemptin to get out uv the area winder uv the house uv abloatid aristocrat in the upper pert uv the city. Patsey and a friend uv hizzen knowd ez English Bill wuz in the house, when owin to alarm wich wuz made they become aware that they wuz considered in the lite uv Introoders. They hed gathered together a pocket-book, some gold watches, silver plate and rich, and wux attemptin to leeve the house quietly, when Patsey wuz sexed by the injoodishus proprietor thereof. Patsey, in self defence, knockt him down with a billy, when the wretch levelled a pistil at him and shot him dead. And not content with this he procoored the arrest of English Bill on the charge nv burglary! Thus two .uv my customers is cut off at Ofiestroke I PaUey McGroggin wuz born in County Clare, Ireland, in the year 1833. He made his appearance in public life in London in 1844, where he wuz arrested ez a pickpocket. and by a prejoodist jury, wich bleeved the statement uv a citizen, who swore he saw him pick a pockit, he wuz sentenced to a pnzen for bovs. On his reFase Patsey went into partnership with a distinguished and brilliant burglar, and after a variety uv advenchers he found hisself in Botany Bay, his goin there insted uv bein hung in England bein a inscrutable mystery wich he hisaelf wuz never able to solve. But Botany Bay wuz not destined to hold him. Killin a guard or two he made his escape on a whaler, and landid uv course in the City uv Noo York, wich he knew wus mostly settled and entirely controlled by that class uv his countrymen wich wood sympathize with one in his sitooashun. Here his career wuz a brilyant one. He imraejitiy jined the Dimocratic party to wich his instinks naterally led him. and he proveda useful and active member thereof

Heoommeneed first ex a humble repester, but the activity he manifested won made him a marked man. One day he voted twenty-eight times, and once he performed the aatoundin feat uv votin six times at.the same polls! His knowledge uv pugilism and his skill in theyooee uv the dub soon put him at the head uv a clan strong enuff to bid the poleece defiance, and his fucher wuz aahoored. Combinin politics with burglary he ■Mos a handsome livin by his own efforts. He was second in more than twenty prize tight*, and wuz an enthusiastic natron of the rat pit. His pet tarrier, Dublin pet, trained by him. it will be remembered, won the match agin Yaller McKee’s dog Terror, wich resulted in a shindy between the principals wich naturally resalted in McKee's deceeae, for wich accident and homy cide jist afterward he served two years In Sing Sine. An important election ok kurrin and his services bein needed he wuz pardoned out Ez the recognized bead of the Sixth Ward Throat Slashers, uv course he held many posishens uv honor and profit Paueyand his friends carried Connect! CUI three or four years ago, and ex a re ward wuz put onto the School Board, gWwy McGrath backin his claimsand «|MNia tosign Mr (Pateey 1 *) name, when-

ever H wan nesaary. Shortly afterward he wux elected Aiderman, he had a contruck for street cleanin, wua made keeper of the butte uv muskets in one ay tie Armories, msd wua, last year, a member uv tike Legtoiacher. Thia last poniehen didn’t soot him, as the other members from the city, knowin the intracies uv the Legislachen better, yoosed to get his vote frekently without payin for It. Wat he liked best wux oontracks for street cleanin. ’Twuz he wich taught me the mysteries uv that Manis. Ho Wanst bed to bid dose agin an unsofliticated contxacfctor, who supposed that streets reely had tv be cleaned, and 1 wins surprised at the low Aggers he took U at. “ Patsey," sex I “ yoo’l lose money on that contrsck. It’ll cost more to do the work than yoo get for it" “It is cussed low," he replied, “ but ex we don’t never do the work at all I kin live at it, es I don’t hev to divide too much.” Patsey wux an ardent friend of Ameriky and its instooebns, partikerly the Dimekratic parly. When he wuz put onto the Skooi Board and wuz at the same time in the Legislacher his heart biled over with love for his adopted country, and he was not backard in expressln it “In wat other country than Ameriky, and in wat other party than the Dimekratic,” sed he, sobbin with emo*hen, “cood I hev attained such grandjerf Why, hed I stayed in London I would hev been hung ten yeers ago." - But Pateey's controllln pashun wuz an intense abidin hatred uv England. He wuz a member of all the Fenian Circles, and collected more money for freein Ireland from the tyranicle rool uv England than any man in Noo York. He alius wept when he thot uv the appreshun the Irish wux a groanin under. But this feelin wuz eclipst by his hatred uv the nigger, ez an evidence uv wich I mite menshun that a circle uv wich he wuz a member acilly appropriated a thousand dollars wich they had raised to free Ireland, to a fund to put down anti slavery agitashen in thia country. Patsey hisself seriously contemplated at one time goin South that he mite heva legal rite to kill a nigger. But he thought better uv it Hecobd do it jest ez safely in Noo York. He led the Throat Slashers in the famous riots uv 1863, and his wuz the hand wich put the torch to the nigger orphan asylum; with his own good right hand he beat out the brains uv two niggers, and wept becoz two more that he had m a corner escaped hitn. His death is lamented by all uv the fre kenters uv my house. Hed he lived he wood hev bin put upon the Police Board and the appointments he wood hev controlled wood hev saved his friends and partners a great deal uv trouble and molestasben. Hed he bin on that Board English Bill wood not now be languishin in a Basteel. The devoshun uv his friends fetched me. It bein Intimatid that money wood be required to hev the proper masses sed for the repose uv his sperit, every one uv bis friends rushed out immejitly to procoor enuff to do it handsome. Two uv em succeeded in goin through a drunken countryman wich strayed into this vicinity, and gettin a watch wich they pawned, and others for this pious purpose garroted a man within a square uv Broadway. Patsey’s fucher is therefore ashoored. Out uv respeck for the deceest I shut my bar and put crape onto the door for jest an hour, wich wuz ez much greef ez I cood afford st that time. Peace to his ashes! It is perhaps ez well that he went hentz. The Fifteenth Amendment is a reality, and hed he stayed he mite hev bin compelled to affilyate with niggers instid uy bustin •uv em, and I doubt whether his nacher cood hev endoored so sudden and severe a strain. It is perhaps well for him that he dledjyJen' he did, pertikelertjr_e3 ks-itgd jest paid his biURI jsy bar. He coodent hev goner «Ca better time.

PETROLEUM V. NASBY,

(wich wuz Postmaster.)