Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1846-02-07
From the New York Citizen.
John BuIi Walking up a Yankee,

commanded by that prince Of captains Captsin
Sherman, gliding over the waters Of the beauti.
ful Champlon. The day was delightful, and
the passengers had sought the promenade deck
TO enjoy tho attractive scene. Good humor and
delight shone upon the features Of all, as they
in groups, and solus, gazed upon the enchanted
scenery, cha,tered and romenaded.--Among
the crowd shone conspicuous three pompous
specimens OF monarchy, whose stiff cravsts,
straight buttoned sur,onts, anG military air, in.
dlcaed their profession, and who bore upon their
.frontispiece :he Royal coat of Arms; telling
that they wore it by permission of Her Majesty,
Queen Victoria. With majesty in their mein
and a lordy contempt for the dwellers ofpump.
hin land upon their royal brows, they paced the
deck in evident satisfaction with themselves,
with an occasional glance Of condescending p.
~ npon the Yankee natives about them. At
length their eyes lit upon one of those queer
specimens Of New England production frequent
ly seen, from every feature Of whose face spoke
the Yankee. He was lank six. foo,er, with
careless, sanniering air, his hands thrust into
the pockets Of his coat. his cap set on the back
of his head, and with supreme Indifference to
all about him, was lazlv pacing back and forth
before the British Officers. whiatling Yankee
Doodle. He Glanced to wear upon the front
piece % his cap, stamped in leather, the Amer
lcan Eagle, with some appropr ale motto. Tia.
king advantage oi this, and wishing to have
little sport a, his expense, one of the represen.
,ives of Royalty accosed him with,
well, my friend, see you wear the eagle !;
suppose you belong 10 the Army!
Not exactly replied the Yankee. touching
his cap Ia mcde de militaire, but have the
pleasure Of informing you that hold Lieu.
tenants commission in the &c Company of the
18th Reg't of Infantry, in the State of Connec.
tieut.'
Indeed said the officer, lis that the regiment
in which they use umpkin.vines for trumpets.
and bean poles for muske,s !,
Look here, Mr. John Bull said Jonathan, If
that's your game, you've woke up the wrong
passenger May be pumpkin vines and bean
poles would do to thrash the impudence and
starch out of you bull headed beefea.ers; but
on pinch we can muster yet few of the same
old muskeis and Lnng Toms with which that
pumpkin.en,ing Yankee, McDonough, once
made your turkey cock, Down,e, pull down the
British flag, on this frog pond of ours. and blub
bier for quarter. You've hearn tel. Of that bit
OF a spree hain't ye,'
This home thrust evidently disturbed the Of.
fcer, and by this time the passengers had ga.
thered about them. But rallying he said,
THAT was rather an unfortunate affair tor us
But what do you think would be the result of
war now !
What do think y replied Jonathan, why
think we'd lick you like thunder
'Yon think 50!
'Wouldn't we, thought! BY the time we 90,
through with you, there would't be enough left
to make grease SPOT We'd use you up, run
you out, eXcommunicate you, Eradicate you. l
tell you What, stranger, if yon don't want 10
wake up and find your cake dough, you had bet
ter keep that lion of yours mighty quiet
But You dom, imagine you could take Que
bee 2
Take Quebec Why we'd walk into that
Gnbera'ter Of yours, and put up the Eagle on
your flagstaff some morning between sunrise
and breakfast, just for diversion 10 sharpen our
app'tiries.'
well you seem very confident of your
strength, where is your army TO do oil this =
Army Maybe, stranger, you han't travel
led through these parts much. Army why,
did you ever hear of Plattaburg, of Saratoga, of
New Orleans, OF Yorktown ana some other such |
Interesting places to you British Well, the |
blood of the John Bulls that manured them pla.
res has raised a mighty tall lot of regular Long
Toms-every house in these parts is barrack. |
md every man, woman and child is an enlisted !
'oder and at the first grosl of your lion, we'd |
pc down upon you like q chain of thunderbol,s |
You wouldn't be nothing in our hands. We |
wouldn't leave you a foot of land from New
Brunswick to Oregon. Wed sweep you 80
lean from the face of the earth that tie old
Satan never would be able to find more than half
If you
The crowd had greeted the sallies Of the
Yankee with shouts oflaughter, and our officer
eeing that he had mistaken his man, began to
,dge off, but Jonathan followed him up, pouring
n HE froadsides At est the officer said
Well my friend, do no, pretend to be much
leqnalntee with Your mIllaIY resources in the