The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-02-27
A Scene nt New Orleans.

Tom Triple, Who liked Volunteering, but had
a distaste for .Acttve Sermce.-"Yes, there it
are again. said Tom Triple, as he yesterday
company OF gallant volunteers marching
up St. Charles street, the stars and stripes
proudly Haunting over them, and a fife and
drum in advance, loudly if not elOquently dis
c%oursing martial music; "there it are,' said
Tom, sand the old tune, too, March to the
battle ieldp Marching to the battle field is
all very well; but marchin home agin, purvid-
ing a Teller succeedin dodgin the Mexican cop
per bullets, with the fever and ageron his back
instead of his knapsack, and a wooden leg in
stead OF a material limb, amt what it's cracked
up to be. There now, the tune is changed to
How happy's the SOLDIER Yes, he's Cussed
happy, amt hea They may tell that to the
jack tars-even the marines wont believe lem.
There haint no use at ell in telling tito a teller
like me, what lived three months among the
chapparral, on the banks Of the Rio Grande, on
crackers and salt pork, and what used up 50
much Of the latter, for the want of summit
better, that | was afraid to look a shote in the
face. Yes, there's more Of il. [sings with
the musicl-
The star-spangled Banner, and long may it wave
Der the land Of the free and the home,of the
brave!
Hurrar! that's all fust rate; but if you wan
that ere flag to wave over the land Of the free
and the home Of the brave, why the h-ll Dc
YOU take it to Mexicog Them ere. greaseri
amt free nor brave, no how you can fix it SO
you see, though the music is good, the senti
ment amt 'prOpfiate. Now ! haint got no OBJ
Lection to volunteerin, as | knows on. ain
no ways backward at that. / have alread!
lined eight companies, took treats in my turl
in zach, besides doing the promiscuous drinkil
for twelve temperance volunteers. calls tina
doing a jolly business; it's the poetry of tn
plrfession, as Bill Mathews used to call it,
Marchin to the battle field is all very well, TAX
/ en- in the figurative sense-thc way members o
lICongress wishes to be understood ven they call
sthe honorable gentleman wot spoke last
liar; but ven il comes down to literal prose-
} ven a Teller converts himself, for eight dollar
a month, into a thing to DO cracked at and sho'
it's not wot it's cracSed up to be by a Ion
, shot Therefore, ] say '
: al say you are my prisoner,N said rather
fsrOcious looking gentleman, wearing a leatA'
| cap, having a red sash encircling his waist an
j a moustache in a state Of ju%venility on his vi
per lip; 81 say you are my prisoner; you 81
: rolled yourself in my company, and drew r
tons for sixsdays." 'svell, yot Of il" sal
/; Tom Triple; .tHe hact q Congress says thel
0 haint no voluntary service in the volunteer
/ and claims to be a free and independent cit
2 zen"
A crowd shortly collected around Tom an
his captor, among whom not less than halt
! dozen claimed Tom as having enrolled hImse
in as many. different companies He was pel
y Vered over to the civil authorities for furth
i observation-disclosures 4fNsa \
The following arc the rules Of : school
Mstne:
No. i. No chewing tobacco in schoots'cu
No. 2. No kissing girlsin the entry
\ No. s. No novels allowed q be brought
! to school.
v No. a. No swapping apple seeds Of me nj
ter.
N No. S. No cutting the benches with iPc
Z knives.