Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1848-05-22

Car. ToFv.-Tlat Wild sramp Captain
! Tobin occasionally writes letter to the y.
.. DELTA, of iull vargrry, aud all sorts OF con
ceits. Sometimes his humor is rather broat
for this meridian, aud ia rrput,ishing. we ar,
constrained TO strike out the thickest parts
The following extract from letter. dated
Paris March 20, will afford some amusement
to the reader.
d" Some Of Gonzales people stole my fn5
horse BeeIze club. and shot another; the one
now besluie has two eyes. but one of them
out, however be has speed and bottom. On
81 Paiuck's day, be tried to eat the shamrock
out OF my cap and had TO get on the blind
side to mount BIN. He is most angelically
Wild and when we get together there's pair
oi Us the boys say. lie has received a Chris
tan Baptism and the eufhanius name OF
Rip Van Snuut." The boys are botlenng
me and that will account Tor all the scratches
aud mistakes. We gaze one fellow fifty
ashes this morning Tor stedling-he was IA
greaser and | am going out now to look for
another who cheated me QUITO 81. II catch
him I'LL break half the bones in his boiy as
certain as that The lord made small ap-
pies.
We have just buried the murdered Virgin
ians; their names are Peck and Hurt If be
not mistaken our people mean to immediate d
hecatomb to their names. A hecatomb used
10 be 100 oxen, from hecstos (l00) and Bous
ian OK but the modern Ancents. when beet
grew scarce, interpreted itinto hecatos (l00)
aud tombos, q io1) making altogether %
cattle; thereby whipping the devil around the
stump, and cheating "Juye high laundering, "
out OF the smoke aud incense oil seventy five
beeves.
In this isolated place have no news, and
must make zap this letter by a joke or two
Gen Urea, they say, is coming down on us,
aud within one days march, with 1900 meu
aud as the fighting must be done from house
to house, 1--WE are but 800, we'll have bloody
politeiu' times.
| caught Lt. Coleman OF the Va, Reg't in a
beautiful fix, making a iableau, composed OF
himself, calf, COW, and little girl. The
COW was spangled by the hind legs, the calf
engrossed two tits, (have tits two Is or three!
The Lord hell me I'm forgetting how to spell. }
Coleman had one the girl had the other. and
both were milking into one pot, except the
calf, who was milking iHto his own, and
Coleman mustache was saturated with milk
anu iOOhcu ilht fresh ldht Oh SHOW.
should have wished daguerreotype OF the
group. taken b, Mr. Magui,c, and for the trou-
Bile of taking it, shonId willingly have Civ
en- him my note, payable 81 days after con-
venlence. Coleman asked me what his
friends at home would think ii they saw him?
Please ask them.
Theresa tue joke about Major Ben Nc Gull
loch. The day after the battle of Buena Wis
ia, went into SaItillo with him, and stopped
at the Great Westerns was then Orderly
Sergeant OF his company, and had on the
irock coat wore when Captain, with the
straps, however taken off We asked the
Great Western for support the Major had
not a ball dres, on; she told me could have
it, but as to the Major, she kept no house tol
teamsters, although he might eat after the
gentlem en- were done. ! roared aud laughed
and The Major was leaving, when Colonel
May came in, and invited him 10 supper
Master Ben declined, and the Madame asked
who he was. On hearing that he was Major
Ben OF The rangers, she ram out, brought hlm
back, gave him supper, charged him nothing
opened a monte bank and took SIS oil him
Next morning | caught him adjusting a
shawl around her shoulders. Ben's sly
one.