Wabash Scratches, Volume 2, Number 1, Lafayette, Tippecanoe County, 27 March 1848 — Page 3

' u ) " " ' v. : - - . W; V - i ) ?tnfHl 1! 11 f it'

THE EDITORS COMING THE GIRAFFE OVER THE HOOSIER PEGASSUSI

Our artist has given us a correct sketch of an exhibition that was lately witnessed .in this part of the continent. Several editorial Donkeys having heard of a poetical, old horse named Pegassus, rashly made up their minds to have a "glorious ride' on him. He was duly brought into the editorial arena, and by the fears of the terrified brethren of the quill, he was immediately transformed into a gigantic giraffe, Their misgivings however gradually subsided, and Senor Don JUAN Beseemins, the old gentleman in specs was selected to make the first attempthe being counted by far the bravest man in the fraternity, on account of his great military renown. He attempted to mount the old hoss with the following: "The harvest is gone, the summer is ended And Autumn has arriv!" Pegassus looked down upon him with a benign smile, and permitted him to mount into the middle of his back, where the old gentleman immediately commenced amusing the audience by a poetical and figurative speech about the toll on oats. Then came , Monsieur Davi Dakrel , deb, the admired of all the school-girls,-and editor of the Indianapolis LocornO" tive; Like Balaam's ass , Ho opened hit aiouth and epake:. 'J v ' . J

'.' "Hunkey monkey, flunkey punkey, , The editors of the Wabash Scratches is a John Donkey." , '.(;, f : This beautiful address entitled him to , the highest seat upon the poetical beast; but while he was seated, behind the animal's ears, he, was suddenly attacked by a fit of remorse for having once murdered a foreign gentleman called Thee Kingqes Lngmtshe, and slipping from his seat his neck was caught in a loop of the animal's baiter, and the only spark of wit or life that tht poor man had was instantaneously extinguished ; : As he hung there in his white robes of 'innocence' a great number of the little girls fainted from sympathy, and a slow old lady . from a neighboring cottage' on the hifl, said 'she'd be gin-slinged if she did'nt almost fel like flumTsiixing herself.' ' ;; .-. j ' ': ' Next came the gentle Chevalier de la Gimmiginx , editor of the Tanner and Currier. J 'In dulcet strain he broke forth: '- "Toad3 and tadpoleg, filti and flea?, 7 : 1 The Scratches is a dirty jiisease.1? . .... With thisf delectable moiceau, he made a spring for the back of Pegassus, but that' old horse" being a particular friend of the Scratches, (a3 all old bosses are,) thegentie Jemes was tumbled' head, over heels into hia proper elecaeat'tue mud, where

he exhibited some beautiful flip-flaps and and fldpdoddles, for the benefjt and edifi" ' cation of the delighted bystanders , ; i The next applicant for Pegasian honors ' was Mynheer; Adams ' Hambtjo of 'the I Western Beebles Mackaseen,--his great' i literary attainments were acknowledged by all to sntitle him to .the highest preferi ment, and without arty effort he was seat-; ed upon the animals heck.v Ij And ' last , came, the renowned Sibass JErn Rees, the Pacha, of three Tales, and author of the Wabash' Qaptives. He said i that he had never tried the. poetical de partment of literature, and therefore he would stick. to the tale, and was will;ng to receive any tiling thht might fall to his bt! Jj f: Thus loaded down" with' the7 most, weighty men of ,.the age, theanirrjil was led around theeditorial arena by his keep ers, Mr. U. Request and ;shaddw, and while he assembled multitude were'ex-, pressing Jheir: admiration'1 of the dear creatures, our artist took the above faithful picture,! I ::;x r.!;! r : '! Stand back,' gentlemen,' and lot the la--dies -view the animals! V ' -

DREADFUL RAILROAD ACCIDENT The Indianpolis Locomotive has again run off the track, by which melancholy mishap a very estimable old gentleman named Lindley Murray was seriously injured, and the King's English was outrageously butchered. The last 'Locomotive' says: ."The only difference between the Editors of . the Wabash Scratches' and the 'John Donkey is that the former is in reality what the latter assumes to be.' It is very evident that if the editors of the Scratches is a jackass, the Locomolive editor am a ditto.

What faction is it desirable to have predomi-' nant in 1848? Satis -faction Why is a troy- 1 weight like a thief? ' Because it happens to; haye y no scruples Why does a dack put his head under . water? For diver's reasons Why is a widow . like a broken glass? Because she wants repair- . 13.; ' L 's'.'i'T ' f'; : .

COFFEE HOUSE AND BOWLING SALOON, Columbia street, near Wabash; PEABODY & FRINK, Proprietors. The patronage of the public is respectfully solicited. m2-2m1 Old Jo kicking up. J., REED begs leave to announce that he has ceased "kickin' up behind and before," and opened a Tailor shop on Ohio street, opposite the Post

Uihce., 5KrtJutun2.done to order.,. . ;, , zmi THE WABASH SCRATCHES Is published every Monday morning, AT 10 CENTS PER. MONTH, IN ADVANCE Single Copies 5 cents. Office on Main. St., 3d story of Casad's Building, Advertisements inserted at 50 cts. per month for six lines;.

1