Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-12-05

to git loose from his wife, and find thu
back door. He haint never been heard
OF in Pineville from that day to this.
From the Sc LOUIS ReveiIh.
"FakiDg the Mississippi"
While Mr.. Sam StockueIl, the artist.
now engaged on the great panorama of
the Mississippi. in this city. wac one af
ternoon slowly floating down the river in
MS boat, very uncomfortable shower
came patting down, at the moment he was
about dropping anchor to sketch the pic.
turesque establishment Of a suuatter-
He hesi'ated moment but finally let 90,
ana his boat swung round in the stream.
Not, ish you going 10 pictur him NIT
der rsinF inquired his German boatman.
! No. says Sam. bnt Pm going to pic
tur' him nit the pencil. We are now
about at ths right spot to take a good
view ofihat odd looking cabin, and If we
go on we will lose il. So haul GU, the
old umbrella and will try sketch. Per.
haps by the time we finish our yie.s, the
proprietor will invite US to take some but.
termilk with him.
This old umbrella had, ny certain vio-
lent conclusions received on the trip. be.
come quite curiosity. One half of the
whaIebones were gone, and when IL was
hoisted, it hung like wo-begone sombre
TO over its owner. The pitching of it
carelessly into the boat, on sundry occa
sions, had introduced ill-shaped sky.lights
in its roof; and, taken altogether, it was
the sorriest apology for shelter, ever
stretched over sovereign citizen Of the
great United States. Sam. however.
worked away beneath the ,RinghGn.' un
iii he finished his sketch. All the time.
aff1nent from the top of his cone like GOV.
ering. poured flood of dark tinged water
through one of the holes. and down his
neck, His German watched this sire am
with intense interest, as If calculating
how much the article clothes would hold
before they would leak When he had
finished. George. the German, broke forth
in admiHationi l...
we'll. tor little man you sDaks more
water den ever sees peEore. Il will take
you Won week to be so dry and nice as We
vas shust now.' ..ra'r- e. .-e -
Just then, a voice from the shore hailed
them. $3.50. -..-..- ...,...
Look var, you with that awfn! ugly
hat, what IN thunder are you sittiD' GU,
thar in the rain? Who are you? WhaI
are you goin' to dor ..r,
i am going TO c0n0ass the Mississippi,
said Sam. >. F."s -.
{, You're an electioneerer, ar you?' in
quired tho squatter.
No. not exactly. said Sam, Except in
q small way for my own individual bene.
fit. am going to take the river.
'Whar; ar you goia TO take it TOT ihqhir
ed the sduatter. l-sa .u -.
AN round iAg e0pptry,' said Sam, ant
over TO Englsnd
We'll, afofs y9p kin do that, you'll he,
to get an awful big tub. and sot yoursei
at the mouth to draw it off, ..7e
sOn no, says Sam, 4 am draacing IL oil
now s 81, :.
The squatter looked up and down III;
shore two or three times aud then shoutet
back: - -
L don't see as-ia7giis much lower
your suckin' machine draws it off dread
full Slow ,- rt-rr- =
ampa;nting the Mississippi, my friend
answered the artist.
} -'Hev you got my cabin chalked down.
he inquired. 80. .-+ -
Yes. answered Sam, and you, too
Good, BY thunder!' said the squattel
j. When you shew me tothemsInglish, feI
!, lers. iesttell 'em Pm a. Mississippi seraafI
eT-i kin hoe more corn in a, day tina
! any Yankee machine ever invented. an
j. when ! hit anythin from. bullock dow
: to human natnr', they gineralIy thin
u ligIltnin' is comin'.' aal Fal ?. 81
Ell Are you a Taylor an1'lnqnired San
'ha s2G BY thunder, says he. i aga'F