Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-01-13
From the New Orleans Delta
Capt. TObin again Off to Mexico

M Dear Fetloics: am off to the wars
gain. What were men inren for, except for
war, wine and making owe to the ladies', (God
bless emf as NebpchadneZzar said when he
stormed Jerusualem. Talking of him. He
was so much accustomed to grazing, that he
always put grass IN hi grog-hence mint juleps
from propensltles he was probably the propaga-
,tor of milk punch.
| go, | believe, private this time, for want
of tin to keep company together: but diUH an
after, was Captain last tine-may be I'll be
General next. Nous rerrons.
You were kind enough to get me out of trouh-
lie with Government about the Sl,525, which
had been all paid a week before l received
General McCalla's letters. | should not have
writtsn to the General as did,onIy knew he'd
take il as joke: for presumed he had Mile
sian blood in his veins, from his having Nc to
his name. You know the old SAYING
"Per Nc atque o,
Tu verros cOgnosces Hibernos
His dnobus ademptis,
NuIIus Hibernus ad est
As Won got me out of this difficulty, please ex-
plain another.
Uncle Sam accused me, in 1888, of circum-
venting him out of $50 pounds of fresh beef,
for which he charged me the mo lest sum of
$I2 so. Tell him how it happeneil-I acknowl-
edge the soft impeachment
After heavy march to Fort Bassinger on
the Kiss-him-me river, (Florida.) | received
from Lieut.. Lamotte three very thin cows,
(mav be they were heiters, and should not
wish to suIlv their reputatons.)I shot them.
an issued them to the men as EXTRA rations, bv
order of Col P. F. Smith making no return.
Now as it's Sc, long since have seen dol.
lar that forget whether dollar is square of
round, of course cannot pay the $l2 so, but
! | IN ready to make compromise.
Let Government furnish sufficient and safe
TRANSFORMATION for the valuable ani.,als, and
| shall hunt through Attakapas and forward the
three thinnest kline that can find. | say the
tinnest because those that Lieut. Lamotte de-
| livered himself of TO me were evilentlv lneal
descendants from the ''seven lean kline" that
Potiphar's wife dreamed of the night she tore
off Ioseph's MANY colored shirt.
| would suggest the proprietv of sending on
the Princeton for the cattle. She can easily
get across the bar, bv heaving over the guns
| and starting the water: if they could start the
grog. too, it might help to lightea the ship.an1
perhaps serve TO Christanize the sharks IN the
Gulf, as it has been 50 eminentlv successful in
Outstanding the Indians ashore. It wonld be
expensive, but principles every thing.
ssFie at Justi,is, rue at Celum.'
And now, as the clergy saw, when they have
succeeded in setting us asleep, Eli preach you
short sermon.
Text-sMake unto myself friends of the
mammon of nnrighteousness.'
Get into partnership with manufacturer o.
-Angelesea legs and patent arms. There mus
soon be plentiful scarcity. Get into compa
ny, too with dentirt. I'll send you all The
teeth can find: Mexicans have fine ones. /
nv head should be blown off shell send it t.
you. You'll find beautiful tooth in the from
of my mouth;-It was knocked out year ago
Yours, G. H. T.