Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-10-18
VOL. l---N0. 63.
DAILY VIRGINIAN.
AsTINGSOFPJrNCH.

Punch is down upon the provost Of Elgin for
turdering Campbell, by the way 1T revenge for
The Massacre of Glencoe" This provost at
n public dinner ut which General Sir George
Brown is said to have talked much nonsense, had
the impudence to murder .'Lochel AZ follows or,
Punch has it:
At n given signal, the president, no other per
son than James Grant, Esq, provost OF Eig'n'
drew long breath, rushed upon Thomas Camp
h,1l who had offered him no offence whatever,
md deliberately murdered him in the following
manner;
,Bod northern usurpsr, have marshald onr clans,
Their lords aiao' thousands their bosoms one;
They are last Of their blood and their BREATH
And like renpcrs deseend 10 the harvest death
Then meicoae BE- Russias hordss 10 the shock
Let them dash their proud foam like wave on the rock
Tut woe to their Kindred, and woe to their cause
when Albyn her csymore Indignantly draws
And brutally repeating, not the lines OF the poet
but the stab at his intellect, proceeded:
Thoue my poshing ranks should be strcwd In their gore
llko ocean wrceda heapd o the surf beaten shore
l. uatainted By fpht or BY chains,
While the kindllng Of life In my bosom ramaina
shall victor oxult, or In death be laid low,
with my back o the hcld and my feet tctfhr foei
And isarine IN hattie blood on nane
ook proudly to heaven from the deahbed of flame
The feonious ferocity of that last wound at
poor Campbell can scarcely be exceeded.-H
finished him, aud he was heard OF no more. But
we understand that such wns the determined fury
of the slaughterer, that had this not been enough
he meant to have concluded the awful deed as
follows
"a laughs though Prince Gort"ch"koh my vision to
Proud double headed eagle, thy wing shal be torn,
Becnuse darker spectacle near,
The wnr dunn Is beating, and black Is your fear,
Accust he the ashes that glow thy feet
"fs Scbastopns ruins. now quite compete
We thinL American fashion is better than the
Scottish-we simply rccite poor verses at the
4 a. 4 a. tluxu ntr n -
great harm done, except to the owner
A SrnarANr's SILK HANKERcnIEr.-There
ives in the little village of Brentwood, sergeant
etired from the 9TH fusiliers, by name Thomas
Everett illustrated in tho Crimean war with i've
Wounds and the loss of one eye. mighty hun
er Of Russians was Thomas Everett: having, 1t
said, bngged fifty Of the children OF the Czar
tho miserable little ones. At the Alma shot
,histled through Thomas Everetts ear, Whisper
nc danger private aud confidential. A bayonet
vent through his arm in sortie; aud, by wCy
f variety, Thomas Everett enjoyed ball on
he same evening through the hip. cannon
hot made 80 an acquaintance with one "f
,is feet, that it delicaey y removed the sole OF
hoe Two of his comrades were taken IN to Sc
bnstopol prisoners but Thomas Everett stole into
the city at night shot the sentry who guarded
them and returned with his rescued friends
Great. heroic have been the deeds of Thomas Ev-
crctI; and great magnificent has been his reward.
for-but the theme calls for u new phraRrHph. -
For thomas Everett has received n silk handksr,
chief hemmed by her majesty How much hero
ism, how much devotion may he covered by one
six handkerchief The gallant fellow L. OF course
delighted proud of the present. We th'nk ne
ought to be permitted. on Sundays aud holidays
to hoist that hankerchicf IA his own peculiar hag
on his own staff, before his own cottage door
How, streaming to the wind, it would gather
around it all the youthful rustics, hreng their
blood with n sense of glory, and kindllng their
hopesthn for only the loss of one eye, the ncon-
venience of five wounds, with deeds OF prowess
too numerous to particularize, they too might
/ have some day to obtain silk handkerchief "
course, Thomas Everett, sergeant, receives a
pension But wherefore has he not been promo
ted 10 the rank nt least of ensignl At least the
silk handkerchief might have wrapped up com
mission.
CATCHING IT IN THE CRlMEA. When the nus
slams first seized on the Crmea, they captured
great many of the inhabitants, but amongst all
of these they never got hold of such native AS
the Tartar they have now caught at Seoasto-
pol.
SHORT LIVED CHoLAE The provincial papers
record, AS wonder. that the Americans are wear
ing" paper shirt collars.w which a New YORK man
ufactorv throws off AT the rate of a thousand an
hour The invention is in keeping with me
"Go-a-h head" nation.-What is paper but lin
en- in an advanced stage of existence.
INSCRIPTION FOR A GERMAN BED.-'Good stap1
ling for Nightmare.