Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1871 — NASBY. [ARTICLE]

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[From the Toledo Blade.] lilt. NABBT, AKTKH DISTUNING TO TIIK DEBATE ON THE m’cREKRY RESOLUTION TO RESTORE THE ARLINGTON ESTATE TO THE LEE FAMILY, DREAMS A DREAM, IN WHICH UK UNVEILS A POSSIBLE (AND probable) future. • Washington, Dec. 26,1870. . Washington isn’t a remarkably good place for Diinoerats jist at this time. The Ablishnists arc in power, and everybody seems to realizp the fact. The hotel keepers all know ifT They know that a Dimocrat kin hcv nothin to make here, and, ez a eonsekence, when one uv us makes his appearance tie is unannifously rckesleiTfo pay afore he registers his name. It wuz not so under Johnson. The landlords all knew that es we hadn’t money, all we lied to do wuz to git on good terms with Johnson and we cood git it, ami credit wuz then attainable. In eonsekence uv this inhuman suspishen uv men uv my appearance, I am not patronisin a hotel in Washington at' present.. I take my meals at free lunches and repose at uightundera bridge. It iz sometimes cold and sometimes damp, but ez I hcvn’t any money I prefer it. Its at least free. I’m. not hampered by hours or exposed to the supereiliousnis uv hotel clerks with diamond pins. 1* breathe the free airuv hcven, mixed slightly uv. course with the odors from an adjoinin livery stable, wicli is, however, a good thing, ez it reminds me that I am uv earth earthy. The mto that McCreery, uv Iveutueky, interdooced his resolooshen restorin the Arlington estate to the Lee family, and peiVidiu for the iliggin up uv the bodies uv the Federal soljers wicli wuz berried there, I went to sleep full uv that idea. I wuz rejoist beyond expreshen, for I saw in that movement a return to sutliin like a sense uv justis ou the part uv the Government toward the people uv the South, wicli failed to bust it. Goin to sleep with my mind full uv this, I dreamed a dream. In my dream, my mind o’erleaped two years. 1 found inyself standin in the Fedral cemetery at Arlington, on the ground made classicic by its wunst hevm bin owned by General Lee. I wuz amongst the monuments and heel stuns coinmemoratin the dead hirelings who wuz beneath em, and wuz indulgin in a spasm uv cussin the government wicli not only yoosurped the property uv the great and good Lee, but wicli desccratid it by yoosin it ez a cemetery for its ded soljers. While'thus musin, I saw a regiment, more or less, uv Fedral soljers enter the cemetry, armed, not with muskits, but spades and picks. At their head wuz men drest in gray, wich I recognized ez ex-Coufedrit officers, who wuz a directin the force. To my astonishment the men in bloo, every man uv them with an expreshen uv hooAiiliaslicn sich ez I never saw ckalled, commcnst knoekin down the tomb-stuns and pilin uv em up, after wicli they dug up the graves, and hist in out the skeletons uv the dccest hirelings, dumped em permiskus into Fedral army wagons wich bed arrived for the purpose. “ Wat does thisanean?” I askt the Confedrit officer who seemed to hev charge uv thcperceedins.

“ Meau! ’’ he returned j “ it- means that at last the era uv good feelin hez returned. It means that at last the Dimocrisy is in power, and that the proper equilibrium hez bin restored.” T .1 “ Wat year is tills ? I asked in astonishment. ”1873. The cleckshen last fall made Hoffman President, and the Congress is Dimocratic likewise. Hoffman was inoggerated day before yefcterday and we towunst commenst reconstructin, accordin’ to our idee.” “ Wat is the programme? ” I asked ‘‘McCreery immejitly interdoosed the same rcsolooshen wick wuz defected in 187t>, gi-vin back the Arlington estate to the Lee family, and removin the dead Fed ml soljers from the grounds, that the site thereof mite not offend the yoothful Lees. Tire South wuzn’t satisfied. It wuz goood euuff, ez Air ez U went, but they wantid suthin more. They wautid an acknelligenrent that them dead soljcrs never shood hev been there, and they demanded that that acknoUigement be made in sich a

way that it wood he understood, that it wuz an apology. Saulsbury liv Delaware got the idea. Immejitiy he moved to amend the resolooshen, pervidin that the work uv removin the dead soljers and realm in the grounds bo performed by vetraji Fedral soljers selcctid from all the regiments in theaervis,ezaslite token uv the re gret uv thegovernmentfor hevin desccratid tlie property, wich wuz promptly passed. To further soothe the Southern mind, a hundred Confedrit officers wuz rekested to take command uv the men and tooperinlend the work, and—” At this moment one uv the Fedrals came up and salootid tlie officer who wuz a taikin with me. “ We hev the wagons loaded with skeletons—wat shel we do with era ?” “ Dump em into the Potomac —duinpem into the Potomac, where the current will wash em out to sea.” m “ But wat else is'to be done ?" sed I. 11 Not much. The work uv consiliashen is goin on. A bill is pendln pervidin for the removal uv the dead bodies uv Fedral soldiers from all the cemeteries in the country, and tlie destrueshen uv all tlie tomb-stuns and the monuments erected to era. The names uv the battle fields is to be changed, so that all memry uv the onpleasantncs shall be obliterated. Tlie vessels wich took part in the war is to be . sunk and their names taken off the records uv the Navy Department; to make the government trooly naslmul, ez it was, tlie outh is to hev complete control uv the Government in all its departments, and is to dictate its policy in everything. All the battle flags, guns, and trophies uv all kinds is to be taken out uv the Nashnel and State Capitols; celebrashuns and reunions uv Fedral regiments is to be prohibited, and it is to be made a penal ofl'enc to even menshun the name uv any one uv the battles wich took place between the years 1861 and 1865, and all them 1 wicli lost their forchoons with the Confedracy, and who lost property in eonsekence, is to hev it restored, when practicable, or the valyoo in money, wich the most-uv em take, ez they prefer livin in Noo York. The Cabinet is. now made up uv Southern men, and to remoonerate em for wat they hev suffered, they are all men who had commands in the Confederate army Igo myself to-morrow to remove the bodies from the Cemetery at Gettysburgh, and to destroy the Federal asylums for soldiers at Dayton, Ohio, and Augusta, Maine.” We did hev some trouble. Tlie moment we eommenst talking uv restorin estates to confederits, and remuncratin uv em for lost property, then come some thousands of southerners whose property bed bin yoosed by the Federal Government, who demanded remunerashen likewise, but they didn't ask a second time. Tlie proposishen wuz reseeved with shouts uv lafturc by every Dimocrat in Congress. “ McCreery then, in 1870-r” “ Wuz simplytwo years ahed uv his time, that wuz all. When the Republikin party lost its grip in 1871, we knowd we bed em. We held McCreary and sich ez he steadily, till after the eleckshun gave us the power —now—” ‘ At this point a gentle hog which wuz roamin in search uv his breakfast happened to meander that way. He hed doubtless bin at some period uv his life in a distillery, for ez he came within smellin distance uv me lie commenced rootin about my head. He awoke me, and I -realized that wat I hed expcaranced. wuz merely the base Tess FaTmc ofli dream. " But after all there is suthin in dreams.Let the Dimocracy wpnst get into powci and" we sliel see what we shel see. There is old scores to settle—there is remunerasliens to be made—there is restitoofliens. We ain’t dead nor h<sv we lost our memoiy. Es that dream rclatin to the .success uv the Dimocrisy cood be true, the rest uv it wood follcr quick enutf.

PETROLEUM V. NASBY,

(wicli ti T> ostmaster).

—The Independence (Iowa) Bulletin records the heroic conduct of a lady teacher of that place, Miss Maggie Cooper. The school buildiug In which she was teaching is provided with ventilating Hues, connected with the rooms by registers. These registers are of cast ij\M, weighing about forty pounds each, and are let into the wull about thirteen feet from the floor. The other afternoon, as two little boys were working at the blackboard, directly under the register, in Miss Cooper’s room, the lady happened to cast her eye in the direction of the ceiling, and saw to her consternation that the heavy iron register was 01 the very point of falling on the heads of the unconscious children. Taking in the situation at a glance, she saw that the little ones could .not be removed in time to avoid the impending danger, but, determined to save their lives at any sacrifice, she rushed to the spot, and extending lier arms above the heads of the little bovs, received the whole weight of the fuhing iron, and, by the utmost exercise of her strength, diverted it from the line of its descent to the floor, where it fell close by the side of the imperilled children. There is not the least doubt that, but for the heroic action of Miss Cooper, the lives of one or both of the boys would have been sacrificed. Miss Cooper received a severe cut in the hand, and for a day or two her arm was so benumbed by the concussion as to be entirely useless. It is known that in early life Sam Houston abandoned a just-wedded wife and the Governorship of Tennessee, and for many vears lived iu voluntary exile among the Indians. The reason of the freak lias just been discovered. He learned within a few hours after his marriage that his wife did not love him, but had been urged into the match by an ambitious family while loving another man. He at once left the place, and by his subsequent l exile gave the lady a right to the divorce which she obtained. According to the statistics recently published, there are 1,141,91)0 farm horses at work in Great Britain. The aggregate of form stock is decreasing. The reduction within a year amounts to 7(MKH) cattle, 350,000 pigs, and 1,100, 0 W sheep. Twenty thousand more acres are devoted to wheat, 84,000 to barley, 22,000 to oats, 14,000 to rye, 45,000 to beans, and 100,000 to peas, while of clover there are 805,000 acres less than there were the preceding year. A young lady of New York ought to have a prize for persevering endurance in the way of pleasure-seeking. On a recent Thursday she went to a large party in New Haven, and returned by the midnight train to New York, in order to attend a morning wedding where she was to oftivinte as bridesmaid, and on that evening went to- a party in Elizabeth, N. J., returning the same night. Early the next morning sinstarted ior Buffalo, where she was engaged to act as bridesmaid to a friend.