Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-10-16
aRTFMTS WARD SIZES THE PRINCE
NAPOLEON.

mastery ADVANCE our troops lheut VH Nu'HNS
ton from Bulls Run, a short time age 1t was
well dun. I spoke to my wife bout 1t at the
time. Ny wife said it was well dun.
It having there4 bin determined 20 purtect
Baldinsyile at al hazzurds and as there was
no apprehensions Of any immejit danger, l
thought l would 60 OFF onto a pleasure tower.
Accordingly l put on a clean billed shut and
started for Washinton. l went there to see the
Prints Napoleon, and not 70 see the place, which
I viii here take occasion TO ObsaTve is about as
uninterestin a locality as there is side >. DAVIS
futer home, if ever be does die, and where
reckon they'll make it so warm for him that he
viii 81 for his summer close. Il Is easy enough
10 see why a man goes to the poor house or the
p~enitentiary. It's becaws he can't help it: But
why he should voluntarily go and live in Wash
linton is entirely beyond my comprehension ana
l can't say no fsirer nor that.
l put up to q leadin hotel saw the landlord
and sed, How dye do, Square -
Fifty cents, sir was his reply.
&" Sir ~
Half adoIlar. We charge twenty-five cents
for Iookia at the landlord and fifty cents for
speakin to him. If you want supper a boy will
show YOU 10 the dinin room for twenty-five cents.
Your room bein in the tenth story, it viii cost
You a dollar to be shown up there
8 How much do you ak a man for breathin in
this equinomikal tavUrn sed l..
Ten cents a broth, - was his reply.
Washington hotels is very reasonable in their
charges. IN. B.-This is Sarkassum.
/ sent my keed to the Prints, and was imme-
iitlv ushered before him, He received me kindly,
and axed me to sit down
u have cum 70 pay my respecks to you, Mis-
ter Napoleon, hopin ! see you hale and hearty.
a. am quite well" he sed- Air you well,
sirt"
Sound as a cuss! 3" l answered.
He seemed to be pleased with my ways, and
we entered into conversation TO Onct.
"How's Lewis ? " l aXed, and he sed the En-
peror was well. EuCcny was likewise well, he
sed. Then l axed him was Lewis a good pro-
vider2 Did he cum home arly mites; did he
perfoom her bed room at q unreasonable hour
with gin and fanny! Did he 60 othe Lodge y
on mites when there wasn't any Lodge7 did be
often hav q %extensiv acquaintance among poor
young widders whose husb8ns was in CalifOTny
TO ali of which questions the Prints peThtely re-
plide, givin me to understand that the Emperor
was behavn well.
lax these questions, my royal duke and
most noble highness and imperials, becaws I'm
anxious TO know how he stands as a man. |
know he's smart; he is cunnin, he is long-hed-
drd, he is depe-he is gratel But onless he is
good, he'll come down with a crash one of these
days, and the Bonyparts will be bustid up agin.
Bet yer life
Air you a preacher, sir ?" he inquired, sftely
sarkasticul.
No, sir. But I bIeeve in morality. l likewise
bleeve in Meetin Houses. Show me a place
where there isn't any Meetin Houses, and where
preachers IS never seen, ard III show you aplace
( where old hats air stuffed into broken winders,
! where the children air dirty and ragged, where
gates hav no hinges, where the wimin air slip
shOd, and where maps of the devils wild lands
air painted upon mems shirt bOsums with to-
bacco i0oce! That's what III show you. Let
Us consider what the preachers do for us before
we abO0se EN-"
He sed be didn't mean to aboose the clergy.
Not az all, and he was happy 10 see that / was
interested in the BOnypart family
Its agreat family sedL. But they scoop
ed the Old man in
"How, sir %
Napoleon the Grand. The Bridshers scooped
him at Waterloo. He wanted TO do too much,
and he did it. They seooped him in at Water
loo, and he subsequently died at st. Heleny
There's where the greatest military man the
world ever produced pegged cut. 1t was rather
hard 20 cOnsine such a nan as him 10 st. Heleny.
20 spend his larst days in catchin mackeTil, and
walkin up and down the dTeary beach in a milf
tary cloak, drawn tightly round him, (see picteT
books bat so it was. He'd of the Army . Them
was his larst words. So he had bin. He was
CRATE Don't wish we had pair of his old
boots to command some Of our brigadesm
This pleased jerome, and he took me warmly
by the hand.
Alexander the Crate was punkins," / con-
tinnered, " but Napoleon was punkinseri AGc
wept becaWs there was no more WuTlds TO scoop,
and then took 30 drinkin. He drowndid his sor-
rers in the fowin bole, and the fowin bOle was
too much for him. 1t ginrally Is. He under
toOk to give q snake exhibition in his boots,
but it killed him That was a bad Joke for
Alici'
Since you are 50 SOLICITORS about France, and
the Emperor, NAV / ask you how your OWL
country is getting along! :" sed jerome, in a
Its mixed, T" / sel. "ButI think we shall
cum out all right"
Columbus, when ne diskivered this magnif-
cent continent, could hav had no idee Of the
grandeur it would one day assOom,' sed the
Prints.
It cost Columbus twenty thousand dollars 30
ft out bis explorin' expedition, )" says l. 81 be
had bin a sensible man he'd have put the money
in a boss railroad or a gass company, and left
this magnificent continent to the intelligent saw
ages. who, when they GOT hold Of a good thing,
knew enuif to keep it, and who wouldn't have
seeded nor rebeied, nor knOckt Liberty in the
4 III ANA ca AAA N49A 4 AAaAA
Of a felleT after all. 1t would have bin money in
my pocket if he'd staid to home. Chris. ment
well, but be pat his foot in it when be sailed for
AmeTicer."
We talked sum more about matters and things,
and NJ last / rz 10 90. Il viii now say good
bye to you, noble sir, and good luck TO You.
Likewise the same 10 Clotildy. Also, TO the gOr-
geous persons which compose your SCOT. If the
EmpeT0r's bow don't like living al the TooleTies.
4 -, J.. L. ILL., ~ --,.EI III. a. s-l,-T- g..
the show biziness, let him come with me and III
mako a man of him. You find rs somewhat
mixed, as / before observed, but come agin next
year, and you'll find us clearer nor ever. Mind
what / say. You've heard the Snowman"
Then adyisin' him to keep away from the Pc
ter Funk auctions Of the East, and the proprie-
tors Of corner lots IN the West, ! bid him farewell
and went away.
There was a levec at Senator Whats-his
names, and / thought I'd iine in the festivities
for a spell Who should / see but she that was
Sarah Watkins, now the wife Of our Compressor,
tripp;n in the dance, dressed up to kin in her
store close. Sarah's father used TO keep 8 little
grocery store in our town, and she used to clerk
in it for him, in busy mes. ] was Wshin up
to shake hands with her, when She turned on
her heel, and tOssiu her head in a c-Ontemptuous
manner, walked away from me very rapid.
Halo, Sal" l hollered, can't you measure
me a quart Of them best mOlasses l NAV want
a Goldfish, alsor' l guess this reminded her
Of the little Ted store, and the days other happy
childhood.
But / fell ia with a nice little gal after that,
who was much sweeteT than Salv's fathers mo-
lasses, and azed her il we houlin't glide in the
mersv dance. She scd we should, and we glode.
/ intended 10 make this leItcr very seTis. but
a few eoaks mny have accidently cpapt IA
Never mind. Besides, / think it improves "a.
komick paper TO publish a COAX once in a while.
Yours Muchly, WARD, (ARTENUS.)
The ADAMS REGnIENT-The following
companies from Alabama, raised for the purpose
Of Joining the Mississippi cavalry regiment, com
manded by Col. Writ Adams. have enlisted for
the war and gone forward
The Hmmphries dragons, Capt. Paul Rave
sizes, from Mobile.
Capt. Gaines company. from Choctaw county.
Capt. Cleveland company, from Clarke coun-
ty.
Can't. Muldon's company, from Monroe county.
Our feIlow-citizen, James Hagen, late captain
Of the Mobile dragons, on service at Bayo Ia
Batre, HIS been promoted toa majority in The
Adams regiment, and left this city yesterday 20
Join his corps. The regiment is under marching
orders for Columbus, Kentucky, and We may
soon ezPect TO hear Of them in that active field
Of eampaign-No5Ae Register.
"a A dispatch to e northern paper, dated st.
Louis, September %, says:
Frank p. Blair refuses TO accept the offered