Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-09-29
THE EXCURSION TO ST. JOSEPH.
BY JOSHUA JEPsoNR,

BY JOSHUA JEPsoNE,
THE good people of Chicago had a pic mic ex.
cursi on across the lake to st. Joseph the other day.
We quote from the Chicago Tribune 90 amusing
account Of il, written by Joshua Jepsome, tho his
torian of the expedition.
Mr.. Editur Jemima Jane is in the musickle
line, and has set inter the singing seets for some
time back. OF course she belongs to the Eolic
Se,ryfnes, and so do l, the latter mainly for the
mutual convenient e of seein Jemima Jane home,
as I don't sing, not a note, only huns in the koral
parts and looks gruff when it comes to the heavy
buse. | love music, howsomever, and say with
the poet, he that hath no music in his sole is fit
for trsesin, stretergem and spOils,' or is likely to
spoil every shinG he tetches. My fathers Oldest
bruther was a drummer in the army, and music
has run 10 tho family ever sinst. But this wasn't
what l was about TO rite.
Jemima Jane bein in the musickle way, and one
Of the Eolic Serryfnes tew, sez to me, sez she,
Joshua, do yu like peeches p SEE she l seq back
'Jemima, your cheeks beat peech bloom all tew
thunder, they do l swow.' Then seq she, kinder
lar6n, Joshua Jepsom don't you talk nonsense or
I'll be mad Uust as tho, Mr. editur, a gal ever
got mad at being called an angle or o peech bio"
or suthin complimentary SEE Jemima Jane
then to me, sez che, Don't you like peeches 2
SEE |, why in course | du, and if you du,Jemima,
I'll fill my pockets fur yu next time | cum This
sed, we'll noin peeches was there for a quarter
secb peeches you know as a Teller wouldn't feel
sneekin in fetching his sweetheart. for l don't
care who nose it. sinse last New Years Jemima
and I have been 'afyansay,' as she SEE,
Then she goes on to say as how the Eulic Ser
ryfnes have hired a stoemer or tew and was goin
straight out across the lake to Saint 10. to see the
folks and git sum p~eeches.' l ris rite up, SEE /,
'Jemima Jenkins, I'm gowen for that vige thar
. amt no end Of peeches in that reegin Pve hearn;
and as sure as sbootin wall CO. Unlucky wurds,
never was fate bespoke at SO short a motifs, and
with mere eatsstrous results. | shuddered when
I conteua plate the past few ours of mi existence.
I'd an idee, and so had my Jemima Jane, and 30
had the Eolic Serryfnes, and 80 we told the pub
lick that peeches at st. 10. was lying round nee
deep onto the ground, clingstonef, rear rieps,
mellow.cartoons, SAINT Gorges, ettsettery. We'd
heern they had roads built Of nothing but peecb
stones, and gToaves of peech trees, miles long
half way acrost Mishisan. Boyed up by such
fallacious infanticies we natooally furgot, we and
the publick, to take into the account tho
LAX.
We got reddy, Jemima and l, for what Jemi
ma calls a 'speero' Of the highest pattern. rost
up before the dorm of Monday, and blacked my
boots elegant aud greesed my har and used mort
q bottle of Jecki Club onto my gluves and shu
bussum, ira better nocked my brains out with
any other kind ov a club, and SO ended wot
hev to rite appended of human missery,) u put OF
Eko c,;k 6 e,po ~ ap r N q q NJ GRO duu .nllarad
sad bang up-cost o heap-did it to please Je
NINA. We met a. the place of rendersvoo. Je
mima's brutbes had a large pick mic baskit flle'
with goodies. She wus fixed ur ter kill, in
light lavunder silk with a bunuet Of wife draw
elk and light kid slippers, moreover gluvs of tn
saim. luv to be minushie for whittier q las
land her bo tew-that's me) ware we tendin-fo
ne furgot the-LAIK.
We went on board the steamer Come-it tho,
often since have ] visit it was at that i'll fate
hour The can't come IT, There was Jeuima an
ue AID her bruther John, also the pic mic basket
also cOszin Salina Jane and her DO, and most o
the Eolic Serryfnes that couldn't git onto tn
other bote. We was all drest as fur as bridl
seen, in light and gawju us dress, moastly the Ia
dies, but also sum ov the gentleman, fur as a4se
had on my duv cullered suite I shall never war
it agin, but the subjek is 2 ~paneful) We wen
up the gangwage with much gazette and %sooperla
tive happiness. We loaded the Come IL dowl
with joyous human beans. We talked ov peeche
and p~romused they shout be our only diet, ons
we arrive at St. Jo.-we forgot lbe-LAIK.
Steam was got up. We Ooked down onto tn
invidIjus crowds on the dock with sentiments @
pity, and babe them ajew. 'Poore fellows se
Jemima. seq she to me, amt it a pity they air
got no music in thar souls, nor Amt goirg fc
~peeches.' weekly responded, Yes. Jemima
and pressed her gently to my duv-collored Goa
lapel, ard weekly regoiced in the hour. UnnaI
py retohes / refer to the individooals on boar
Tbero vas that bruin outside that would be har
20 bear, but ws dldp'i know it. We fuIgot the
LAX.
We dropped gently down the strecm. Jemin
set by my sids, ditto the ~picknick basket, and
Was happy. In q transport Jemima clssped b
hands upon her bnssum, roalcd up her ice and s.
to me, Joshua seq she, 'ain't this sublime
Then | said II was, likewise much more. I've sec
the dear gurl do that moshun. above referred t
siDst. but it was for another reason. The Come
10 . small steemeT, not larger than sum fiery bot
I've seen But 'she wolked the water like a thin
oY lifs,' aS Byron seq, till she cum 2 tho end