The Arkansas advocate., 1831-09-21

listening te the dlalegne, addressed t;il,; ii; eountrYmen:
 Sir, (said the frsl,) the black spot tha you sec between Us and the sun, Is tll, l spasmodic cholera morbus, ten time worse than the yellow fever, on it's Va, from Russia and Poland 10 New Orleans where it intends 10 locate itself for th, next two years.
 Fudgei said the second.l Don't he. lieye him. '1'is 10 cholera morbus, but thc ghost of Marshal Diebitseh, travel ling to the Devil, who, you know, lives in the warmcst place in creation, and consequently dwells in the sun.
 Gross impostors! (vociferated q round oily looking man, with snout like a gopher's.l Ii isneither Diebitsch nor cholera morbus; but Mir, Brunswick Davis in his locomotive steam engine. journeying to the sun, to get the iron rails for the Brunswick rail road. cast at Old Sans foundry. Don't you sec how the smoke from the engine spreads along the tirmament, and intercepts the light of the sun?
 I'm monstrous sorry, Said the conn., tryman, that ere gentleman have taken sieh trip. He's the most smariest man in creation; and promised by his rail road to let US country folks in Appling county, have ten pounds of coffee for d thalp, and as much sugar and molasses as We wanted for nothin. But if he's gwyin toOld Sam, he'll nefer get back, as that ere fellow dosen't let nobody eonfe back agin; and coffee and sweat hing will be as dear as ever.
 Don't be alarmed about Mir. Davis, (replied the satarist.) He steers his course by the compass of safety. Along with him are two gentlemen, the senior editor of q newspaper in MilledgeyiIle, and a pious Col. Of Columbus, to whom Old Sam would be afraid togrant ground for aturnippatch, ,as the editorwould put him to the blush at lying, and the Col. cheat him not only out of his stock, but also of luis tools, and by writ of eject ment. drive him from honse and home stead. No person in company with them would be allowed to 20 farther than the gate of0ld Sam's lane. Mr. Davis will not be detained at the sun. He will get his iron rails and as much coais as ne wants for nothing, or rather as bribe to bring his two passengers back, and so be able to redeem his word.
 Well, friend, Gnquired he ofthe pinc- knot-country,) if so be Old sam is so tarnally afeerd of them, why is they gwyine to see him2
 That question is easily answered, (re- joined the humofist.) The old editor on two late occasions, durst deny no moro than hoif the truth, his tongue faltered, and the blood mantled his cheeks for the first time in twenty three years. The object of his visit is to have his clapper brazed, and his face case hardened, and he thinks the job can be done by no one so well as by an internal workman. The Colonel has lately been appointed at Athens, del egate to the Anti-Tarif Convention to be holden in Philadelphia; but think ing his constituents 10. oE sufficient con- sequence for his dignity, is now on the road, as you sec, 10 the sun, to solicit Old Sam fora power of attorney to re- present the burning regions in that as- semblage; and 10 doubt that the mis. sion will be granted him, if fromno other reason, than the apprehension that, were he to loiter about Old Sam's lrens tier, he would corrupt the internal pop ulation into nulIihcrs and seditionists.
 Wbow' t.iat's strange! fsaid Peter pincieaf.) But durn the fellows, i think they thought go to the Devil without clouding the suH and spelling all my green fodder. I'll have to winter nly horse on wisps of wire-grass and pine straw.
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