Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-02-18
neru,0t o,Flrn,n,s oplnIon 3. .Ameriean..


The following letter appears to have been lost
while the crowd was admiring that procession OF
black and white ghosts seen in our streets on
the night of the 18th inst. 1t was discovered
the next morning on st. Clair street, west of
Bank, badly torn and disfgured. The super
scription has only the word " Kelly" left upon
it, end we suppose this parsonage to be mat
ronly aunt of Dermot's, who lives somewhere
in Tipperary.
Twas good luck threw it into the hands of a
patron and friend of the Leader. In translating
some words, and in reading others that are mud
dy and blurred, the original has lost much Of
its Irish.
CL1FLANp, United States of Ameriky.
To Mary KELLY, in Ireland;
Nv Biddy SAYS to me we should be afther
writin home to Ireland this very day sez she
Sez 1, Bridget, (its Biddy that was in the ould
kintry, my cousin Biddy you know,) stop those
childers bit.
Have we got the sthamp, sez she, for the
Posthmasteri That's bright of ye, Biddy, to
think of it, surely Didn't Mike Finegan give
me three sints afther the dram! Bother me
sowl, where is it! But, Biddy, sez l, yes got
tin sints, knows it. 0ch, niver, sez Biddy,
that's for the praste.
wouldn't the Postmasther let it go widout
Didn't you vote for hese and for Mlsther Bu'
chanan, and get dhrunk for him besides!
Mistress Mary Kelly, it's you I'm going to
write to we'll see if he'll sind it.
Mary, dear, tell Patrick Dougan, HIM VINO
| at Ballyspo1een, to kim out to this kntry, and
piver wait to get away. We's put up shanty
and nobody comes afther the rint, not sowl.
Kim over, Patrick, me old honey. NIver old you
see such kintry. There is piles OF wood and
niles of coal. not 10 rods from this blessed spot.
The childers has list brought in their loods, an
the fires so bright can write this same letter
wild it, livery word. Och, blissed AmerlSy :
We gets Is sints an hour, and sometimes dol
! lar a day, and whisky is only sints drink
There is Jennie. he's only years ould this
yery night, an the big folks puts bird an mate
enough in his basket for all the childers. They's
fatter than the landlords at Tipperary. An
Biddy, she goes livery day wild her basket to the
Knights they say they be such as wears white
sheets o. nights. Patrick, they gives us flour
enough for me an Biddy. Kim over, Patrick,
at oncet. They's put down work this winter
10 so sints, but niver shovel will l touch at
that. Kim over, Patrick; we'll get dollar
mkt summer.
These peoples amt like them English, Pat
| rick-them lords an them prastes OF the
Queens They niver asks Biddy if we's Cath
ohcs, only if she's got childers an if they hun
CRY. Think of that, Mary Kelly. May be yes
will kim over too, wild Patrick DOugan.
| Niver vote did Patrick hev in Ballysporeen.
! Till him we's can vote here, two or three times
in day, an dhrink whishky twinty times be-
- i Il. L..
Kim to our kibbin at oncet. We's got more
mate to day than yes has in week. let
Mike Finegan have some last night for dhram,
an if yes childers could be here to ate It,
wouldn't it make Biddy's sOwl jimP into her
throte intirelyi
Niver did ye see sich kintry This is Gods
trooth intirely.
This is from DERMOT O'FLYNN,
God bliss ye.