Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1852-03-12

vet we may still profit by their example
With sentiments of the highest respect, remain
YOUR friend and fellow-ctizen
- JAMES BUCHANAN.
John Nelson, William F. Giles, John O. Wharton,
John Morris, Carroll Spence, William P Pouder,
| and John A. Bowen, esqs, and others
| Russia OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES MOL.
| By Jonathan 7Reopholus Stick, Jr,
| Dear Mr. Editor:-When sot aeout for Eurup
didn't kalkilate tn rite for the press for uset to git
right deown sick of furren correspondence, seems
how fayther took ght smart chance OF papers, fur
Hooser but arrv'd here, tn this ALFRED cold coun
try whar it never SHOWS but deown in chunks,
and whar man don't know he's friz till neighbor
tells him on it, thought maybe it couldn't be aeout
of the way to rite yeou somethin of my experience
! Fust then and foremust-Iye saw the Rusty Bar;
saw him. shuck hands and sounded him; have
He's Bar what's some I kalkilate--a Bar what's
some-and leetle more. The way | walked into
his affecshuns-the old Teller says he likes me-was
as folders But fust just let me say here that ken
slider your Olive Branch the allfredest best paper in
the whole Yankee nation and sense I've come ontu
here, Eve only altered my opinion this much: its the
crackest paper in the hull world-for | can't read
them Rusty ones, nther the French, nither the 9TH
er outlandish gbberish things, and ken read the
Olive Branch. for it's printed in Christian tongue.
had some fuss with them are sentenials, and
guards, and John Darmys, as the French calls EN-,
but finally got my passports fixed beaout SO, and en-
tered the Rusty capitol with a rush. was goln
up one of them long streets, with my portmanty on
|
himself-and felt quite crank in my dog-skin suit,
when overheard two fellers whose faces, poick
might say, doomed up dim through the har mus
tick, or baird-its all the same to me- say, heerd
them Rushyons mumblin' together, and oncet in
while they would say Kosshute"
Well. neaow, I've kept the dons and sayns Of that
venerable herow in sight ever sense left hum; and
tn my mind, he's considerable of man. he is; and
its my privake opinion that he'll du sonethin this
of course as I'm in Rushy I wouldn't like tn have
| cir III as was |
majick name, | couldn't keep down my patryotick
impulses, so as felt quite tn hum and considered
every individual loved liberty and liberty makers
just ratted on 'em the shoulder and said, SEE
|, {: that kosshute is great trump. yeou"
The Teller stared at me, he did; his eyes grew tn
like two moons.
Yes he ken cut fgger' sed 7, leetle kinder
sobered by his queer looks; he's goin IT stronk
in Ameriky eff not stronger" and | Civ KNOWN
shake of the head and perticeler sign, but kaki-
late them wasn't odd fellers for the fust thing
| knowed, one of 'em puts his hand on his gun, and
says,
Kodgklamp slonglodgky blandsky mudstler SKA"
''Clonk, cringlst dadster koppeton ludstadt erdk
themn
81 don't understand yeou gentlemen seq I, with
as perlite Hoosier bow the rustercracks ever
make tn hum but before could locomote single
sentence more my arms clapped daown tn my
Sides my portmanty changed owners, and was, as
Buoneparte would say, row tn prison. Stars and
snakes, didn't Civ 'em some of my tung? didn't
stop once till got sot right daown in the middle of
that dirty dungin.
81 Yeou Internal critters" seq I, tn imprison an
American soverin don't yer know I'm king you
fellers you with them fox tails curling intu your
mouths I'd Inch ye eff ] only had We, har and
hide, daown amung aour Hoosier boys, ye tyranicle
Rushianers. Jest yeou 90 and tell your Empyror
that you've put king into prison-d'ye hear Its
agn all urrid curtesy and the diplomacy of nations
to throw ranin' monark intu yer old cages at this
time o'day,'' sez l. and they left me spluttern'.
WE'LL bym bye, Mr.. Editur, in comes another fu-
ryciouslookng officer and brings lectle pale man.
iken, who speaks to in good yankee style. Eff |
didn't jump, then kalklate--I didn't. And what
f do yeou think why the Rusty Bar" had sent
for me YES the Rusty Bar had sent for me; as much
as to say, e I'm yer humble servant"
Whew ! didn't feel what it was tn be an American
suverin | kalkilate | did The other prisoners
they kinder stared (for only took it eff it were
due tn my karecter and country, and honor tn
} speak off, when stood up big as lord-six feet
four inches and half in my buck skin butts.
AS soon as got tn the palace, | went through
long lines of sogers, who, tn du them justice,
mighty civil. Pretty soon got to his emperialship,
the Bar, as some calls him. otherwise putty good
ish lookn' man, for Bar - is only his nickname,
praps yeu know. Sez he tn this leetle manken, and
this leetle maniken seq he tn me,
/ "Ar yeou Yankee 2"
Eyes sur to yeou," seq I, touchn my hat, part
s Yankee, part Hoosier born in Yarmouth, lived
every whar dedicated in old Kaintuck, married and
, settled in Ohio-and a king intu the bargain, as
: p'raps yeu awar."
Most certainly" he answered, quite handsomely:
'may we ask your name q!
"Yeou may; SEE |, with square toed bow
Both he and the maniken smiled | could see they
war pleased with my perlteness; so he asked me
my name, and told him Jonathan Theopholus Slick,
orteth cousin to the removed Sam-at his emperial
4 service
Well, we had quite talk together, and mighty
fine lady came in with black eyes and takin' curls
that hung to her heels almost. The Bar he turned
/ to her, and sed,-" Sklonks, skensy, scrobboble
sclangst selnten skprippen vonch bonch skleDsky'
S which meant suppose, my dear, this is Jonathan
Theopholus Slick, famous Hoosier from the Unit
ed States" for she curtsied with the considerable
: generation on her caountenance, and went aeout.
!. SEE tn the maniken EWhat are the condishun
n of things aeout tn Hungry :"
e To that question the Bar skaowled. SEE he, ave
e never speak aeour mind tn visitors on that
! subiec," or somechin' like it.
SEE I, q didn't ask yeou tn tell yeour mind, but
S merely tn give sum news"
: SEE he :: Hungry's icked''
y SEE I, & Du tell!' pertendin' not tn knaow, you
+ knaow.
e SEE he, - Hungrys dead as Chesy and dedder tn;
it won't be Reconstructed, never and that Kos
d shute may go thundern tn them folks inthe United
States. and he'll only git cord enuf to hang himself
y with. | know their nater.'
g | didn't say nuthin tn that in course but eff be
could have the inside of my thinkn'- box, don
= reckon he'd hung rae or mnistered the govt
It which I've hearn is orful discipline.
o SEE he, = Ieu welcum to Rushy-and I'm glad
to yeou any how Eve heard abeout the HOLSTERS