American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1863-03-27

with hungry men. bat contained but two dishes
moor BEEF and the cammonest sort of corn brad.
Our friend doubted the ability Of two such dishes.
without support. 10 appease his appetite tie
modestfv inquired Of waiter If there was no but
ter. The repIy affirmative. but with the re-
mark that's extra VERY well y said oar friend.
bring me any how" A piece as large as
turkeys egg was brought. with the intelligence
s.fanr bits If you please sir.h The four hits were
paid Have You no miikg' inquired friend.
YES" replied the waiter, "bnt that's extra
Give me glass any how. said onr friend In
due time glass of milk appeared with -four BITS
| il YOU please. sr.n The fnnr bits were paid. And
thus onr friend and the waiter went through with
four eggs for four bits and cup of rye and sweet
for fenr bits &c. &c. When friend got
through he found that he had swallowed very
common dinner and very little of it. and that il
cost him inst four dollars and half Is the
country exhausted. does that nan at Jackson
who wants s.a1i the corn all the meal. all the pork
and all the rice" ct it all ard then let it out 10y
the four bit 8 worth az above illustrated
| In the still more important matter of lodg-
/ ing, this is eslr experience: we lodged at the
g House." slept--Sr, rather, assumed a
recumbent posture during part of the night
with another gentleman, on a single mat
trass, mot much margin or either side,) with
about handful of feathers to bolster up our
head not single chair in the room nor to
be had, aud Everything else in proportion
For these elegant and commodous accommoda-
! tions we rendered TO the clerk one dollar. on
receiving which he remarked that half dol
lar more was due. We were glad that it was
not dollar more, and handed it over with
"promptness and dispatch"
| On Wednesday, we Reluctantly continued
our trip towards Vicksburg on the cars. 1t
was very desirafie to have our life insured
before entering upon this perilous journey,
but so dangerous is it considered to travel on
this road, that no company would insure a
pass over it, We glad, however, to
perceive evidences of Improvement along the
road. The new President, Victor f. Wilson
/ is said to be energetic, working slan, and
has gone to work vigorously in repairing the
track -... We got on very we'll until we ar
rived within about six miles of Vicksburg
when the iron horse was suddenly refined up
and it was soon announced to the anxious
passengers that culvert had caved in, and
it was impossible for the cars to proceed
The alternative was thus left to the passen-
gers either to wait until word could be sen,
| to the city and a fiat car sent out, or to walk
| the distance of six miles. taaiority, we
believe chose the latter horn of the dilemma
sharp as it was, and proceeded as rapidly a.
possible to lessen the distance betweeR then
and the city. We had cot proceeded faf be-
fore we came to long bridge spanning q
very deep ravine; at each end of this bridg,
twas stationed a soldier whose instructions
were to let no footman pass. This is one in
stance of the foolish, absurd and preposter-
Gus orders sometimes issued by military inen
Here we were with our Provost passes, per-
uniting us to go to Vicksburg, but because
we were not in the cars, we were not allowed
to cross on the bridges, but were compelled
to walk down and up three long hills, suci
hills as Warren county and the city of yicks
burg alone can boast of. As it was the las
feather that broke the camels back, so it wa
the walking up the last of these hills tina
got us down" When we arrived at yicks
burg we were pretty much in the condition o
the Yankees .skeow,'-we had ssweli nigl
gin eoat''
What we saw and heard in the I" Hi
City, we must reserve for another chapter
as, since we commenced this article, mucl
copy has come in of a more important an
interesting character. We will say, however
our observations induce us to believe tia
yicksburg can be held in defiance of an
, number of men that can be brought agains
her.