Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-01-24
is BuCKINGHAM

The New Orleans PiCayune, who has hap
Py knsek OF tickling. thus refers TO the advent
and labor. in New ohcens Of the great Bri.
fish raveIler-member of Parliament. Tenn
Perance lecturer, etc, etc Silk Bucking-
ham.
Mr.. Silk Buckingham, the i,iuennt Br-
ush lecturer, who whllome gougcd the people
OF the United States with his gossip about
Palestine. Balbec, Egypt, &c, has published a
s,atcmen; In which he asserts il a. fact that
"more than one third of the cmigmnts from
Europe To the United States die within their
Inst three years If residence in that country.
though they generally come out in the iull
Nigor OF health
This Is making the average oflife for indus
trious cmigrants TO the United States little
longer than the time through which the hum
bug iloufished among u. The climate of New
Orleans Is especially beuted by Silk. and
with good reasons, for il was here tibet he
caughta disease, very fatal 10 prctendcrs. cal
led Jesse. No man ever came 10 a city with
vastcr schemes OF aggandiZemcnt than silk
visited New Orleans withal.
lie was henlded in advance OF his coming
with greater ado than the approach ofZenobia
was ever announced to the people of Palmyra.
Right well do we remember the easerncss
with which our citizens foCked 20 the Pres
byterian Church on Lafayette square. for the
time being employed as lecture ROOM TO
catch the drppings OF an aspimnt Chat was inn
ported oil the way from Asia; nor can we ever
forget the ohagrin and sappoin,mentevinccd
by such OF bis listeners as discovered his twad.
die to BE- mere plaeiaries from the Penny Ma.
gazinc not well fitted together
When he assembled the rostrum. or pulpit.
nc was most important parsonage. but as ne
descended, he was much like the frog that
had nigh burst its skin in endcavoring 10 make
himself an OK. Silks consequence shrivelcd
upas he let wind out of him-and his lecture
was nothing more. About the third lecture
ne made desperate effort to regain his 20.
pularity by touch of the heroics lie was
lecturing about Damascus, and made the wild
horses that rove the adjacent groves the sub
jet OF splurgc
1t was failure. As he waxcd poetic, his
audience waXed merry, and in winding up hi.
apostrophe with the sublime conception from
Job Hast thou given the horses strength
hast thou clothed him with thunder" and when
he arrived at the words of the quotation. "hC
saith among Tie trumpets, Ia! hal" the whole
audience Joined in the la! ha. but in a very
different vein 10 the outlaw OF Jobs war stced
when "hc smelleth the battle aiar of, ia,
thunder oi the captains and the shouiings -
Poor Silk grew Disputed opace, and custom
shruuk
lie left tho South ia disgust. and now that
he H. safe in England and has got through with
general abuse of the United States al large
has descended to the lit,leness OF speaking dis
respectfully OF the New Orleans climate i'm par.
licular. This is scandalous, for the yellow
fever never was as hand upon unacclimated
foreigners as the good sense of this communi-
~ Is upon humbugs. How terrific the latter
complaint is, poor Silk can testify from melan-
choly experience. lie was cut down i'm the
vigor OF his imposition. and forgotten before
the funeral ob,equies were over. We know
not II a coroner 5 inquest was held over him,
bat the verdict must have been, Died Of q
coup dc you can't como IL.