Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1861-10-17
From Vanity Pair.
ARTEMUs WARD SEES THE PRINCE
NAPOLEON.

fattPf theFselFes 4nat lhe undersigned
is.ded. 0n.ibe sontsarys I still live.
uhfzA zosds was spoken by IDapyil
NJ Bier, who was 8 able man. Even
tbe old line Wings Of Boston viii ad-
NIT tket Webster is dsd'now. hOws-
ever, and his mantle has probably fallen
into the hands Of some dealer in I'd
hand close, Who can't sell it. Least
ways nobody pears to be agoin round
wearin it to any particular extent, now
days. The. regiment of whom l was
E6rsel iserly concluded they was bet
ter adapted rs Home Cards, which ac-
counts for your not hearin of me, ear
this, where the baulsis the thickest and
where The cannon doth roar. But as
a American citizen / shall never cease
to admire the masterlysadVance our
troops made on Washington from Bull
Run asshort time ago. 1t was welt
dun, spoke TO my wife bout it at the
time. NV wife sed it was well dun.
If hayin therefore bin determined to
perfect BaldinsvIlle at all hazsuds. and
as there was no apprehensions OF any
immeiit danger. 1 thought j would go
OFF onto pleasure tower. According
lyI put ON clean Billed Shirt and STAR
ted for Washington. went tLere to
see the Prints Napoleon. and not to see
tie place, which | will here take occa-
sion TO obsarve is about as uninterres-
Tin locality as there is this side OF ].
Davis futer home, if he ever does die,
and where IreckoR they'll make it SO
warm for him thai he will 81 for his
summer close. Il is easy enough to
see why a man goes to the poor house
or the penitentiary. It's becaws he
can't he p it. But why he should VOL
UNFAIRLY 20 and live in Washington is
intirely beyond my comprehension. and
I,ean't say no fairer chance fhan that.
l put up TO leadin hotel. saw
the landlord and sed. .'Row dye do,
Squire?'
Fifty cents, sir was his reply.
'Sir?'
'Half-a-dollar. We charge twenty
FIVE cents for lookin at the landlord and
fifty cents for speakin To him. II you
want supper. a boy Gill show yos TO
the dinin room for twenty-five cents
Your room bein in the tenth story, 1t
will cost you dollar to be shown up
there
How much do you AZ man for
br-aihiDg in this equinomical tavurn!
sed I.
ten cents Breth. was his reply.
Washington hotels is very reasonable
in their charges. N. B.-This is Sar-
kassum.
sent up my keerd to the Prints,
and was immeiitlv ushered before him.
He received me kindly and aIed me to
sit down.
4 have come to pay my respecks to
you Mister Napoleon, hopin to see you
hale and harty.'
4 am quite WE'LL he sed. 'Air you
well. sir?'
Sound as cuss!' I answered.
He seemed to be pleased with my
ways, and we entered into conversation
at onct.
.Hov's Lewis?'I I aIed, and he sed
the Emperor was well. Eugeny was
likewise well, he sed. Then asked
him was Lewis good provider? did he
cum home airly mites? did he perioom
her bedroom at an unreasonable hour
with gin and tanzv? did he go to 'the
Lodge on mites when there wasn't any
lodge? did he often have to 60 down
town to meet friend? did he have a
extensiv acquaintance among poor
young widders whose husbands was in
CaIiforny? to all Of which questions
the Prints perlitely replied, giving me
to understand that the Emperor was
behavin well.
L ak these questions, my royal duke
and noble bighness and imperials. be-
caws I'm anxious to know how he stands
as man. l know he's smart. He is
cunnin, he is long headed. he is deep
he is CRATE. But onless he is good he'll
come down with crash some of these
days, and the Bonyparts will be Busted
up agin. Bet yer lifel'
Air you a preacher, sir? he in
quired, slightly sarkasticul.
sNo, sir, but l bleeve in morality. ]
likewise bIeeve in Meetin Houses
Show me place where there isn't any
Meelin Houses and where preachers is
never seen, and I'll show you place
where old hats are stuffed into broken
winders, where the children air dirty
and ragged, where gates have no him
ges, where women are slip-shod, and
where maps of the devils wild land
are painted upon mems shirt busums
with tobacco jooce! That's what I'll
show you. Let US consider what the
preachers do for US before We aboose
'em.'
He said he didn't mean to aboose the
clergy. Not at all, and be was happy
to see that was interested in the Bony
part family.
Its CRATE family sed L But
they scooped the old man in
How, sir?'
Napoleon the Grand. The British
ers scooped him at Waterloo. He
wanted TO do too much, and he did i'll
They scooped him in at Waterloo. and
be subsekently died at St. Helenyl
There wherr the greatest military man
this world ever produced pegged out.
It was rather hard to consine such a
man as him TO 81. Heleny, TO spend his