East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-10-08
WI From, Vanity Fair.
Artenitss ward sees tIic Prince
NgDOleatl.

words was spoken by Danyil Webster,
who was able man. Even the old line
Wings of Boston will admit That Web
ster is ded now, howscycr, and his mantle
has probly fallen into the hands Of sum
dealer in 2nd hand close, who can I sell it.
Leastways nobody pears 10 be going
round wearing it to any particler extent
now days. The regiment of whom | was
kurEer fnerly concluded they was better
adapted as Home Cards, which accounts
for your not hearin of me, car this, where
the bauls is the thickest and where the
cannon doth rear. But as a American
citizen, | shall never cease to admire the
mastery advance our troops made on
Washington from Bull Run a short time
ago. 1t was well dan. spoke to my
wife bout it at the time Ny wife said il
was well dun.
1t havin therei bin determined to PER-
tect Baldinswille at all huzzurds, and as
there was no iInmejit danger, thought |
would go OFF onto a pleasure tower. Ac-
cordingly put on clean Billed Shr: and
started for Washington. | went there
to see the Prints Napoleon, and not to
SEQ tho place, which win here take oc-
cason to obsarvc is about as uninterestin
a locality as there is this side of j. Davis
futer home, if he ever does die, and where
l reckon they'll make it so warm for him
that he will 81 for his summer close. 1t
is easy enuf to see why man goes to
the poor house or the penitentiary. It's
becaws he can't help it. But why he
should voluntarily go and live in Wash
inton, is intirely beyond my comprehen-
sion, and | can't sa. no fairer nor that.
put mp to a leadin hotel i saw the
landlord and sed, "IIow dye do, Squire2n
FIFTY cents, sir" was his reply.
"Sir?"
"Half-adolar We charge twenty five
cents for loOkih at the landlord, and fifty
cents for spcakn to him. If you want
supper, a boy will show you the dinin
room for twenty-five cents. Your room
bein in the tenth story, it will cost you
dollar to be shown up there"
GLOW much do you ak man for
breathing in this equinomikal tayun?"
scd l.
"Ton cents Breth," was his reply.
Washington hotels is very reasonable
in their chargns. N. B.-This is a Sar-
kassum.
sent up my kccrd to the Prints, and
was immejitly ushered before him. He
received me kindly and axed me to sit
down.
81 have cum to pay my respecks to you
Mister Napoleon, hopin to see you hale
and harty."
81 am quito well" he said. care you
well, sir?'
"Sound as a cussn
He seemed to be pleased with my
ways, and We entered into conversation
TO onct.
"How's Lewis?" axed, and he sed the
Emperor was well. Eugeny was likewise
well, he sed. Then axcd him was Lewis
good proyider did he cum home arly
mites? did he perfoom her bedroom Mt an
unreasonable hour with gin and tanzy?-
Did he 90 to "the Lodge" on nitos when
there wasn't any lOdget did he often hav
to go down town to meet a friend! did he
hav extensive acquaintance among poor
young widdcrs whose husbans was in Cal
ilorny? TO all of which questions the
Prints perlitely replied, givin me to un-
derstan that the Emperor was behavin
well.
81 ak these questions, my royal duke
and most noble highness and mperials,
becaws Pm anxious to know how lac stans
as a man. / know he's smart. He is
cunnin, he is long-heded, he is deep-ho
is CRATE. But onless he is good hen cum
down with a crash one of these days, and
the Bonyparts will be Busted up agin.-
Bet yer lifoW
"Air you preacher, sir?" he inquired,
slitely sarkasicul.
"No, sir. Bot / believe in morality.
likewise bloovc in Meetin Houses. Show
me place whore there isn't any Moetin
Houses and where preachers is never seen,
and I'll show you place where old hats
air stuffed into broken winders, where the
children air dirty and ragged, where the
gates have no hinges, where the wimmn
air slipshod, and where maps Of the DEVILS
wild land are painted upon mems shirt
bussums with tobacco joocel That's what
III show you. Let us consider what the
preachers do for us before we aboose 'ein."
He said he didn't mean to aboose the
clergy. Not at all, and was happy to see
that / was interested in the Bonypart
family.
OTIS a grato family" sed l. "But they
scooped the old man in"
elbow, sir?"
Napoleon the Grand. The Britishers
scoopcd him al Waterloo. He wanted to
do too much, and hO did i'll They scoop
ed him in at Waterloo, and he subse-
kently died at st. Helenyl There's where
the greatest military man this world ever
produced pegged out. twas rather hard
to consine such man as him to st. He
leny, to spend his last days in catchin
mackcril, and walkin up and down the
dreary beach in military cloak drawn
titely round him, (see picter-books,) but
30 it was. He'd of the ArmyP Them
was his last words. So he ha 1 bin. He
was gratcl Don't wish we had a pair
Of his old boots to command some of our
Brigadcsp
This pleased Jerome, and he took me
warmly by the hand.
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