New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-10
Brick POueroy sEaketh the Mosquitoes
Drunk.

ten mnues after the light was extinguished a
\ swarm of these back biting bill posters nlaes ah
| advance movement One OF them oaresseu us
sweetly on the nose-he sent in his bl-.there was
a slap-a Diluted damn, dead mosquito soon
we heard tremendous buzzing about me WHISKY
soaked beef The entire mosquito fanny CeLhe
sinping in and such an opera-good Lord deliver
MS Bnt they did not disturb US with plteS-we
fell asleep to be awakened in ten minutes by the
worst mosquito concert ever editor, mortal, devil
angel divine, Dutohman or any other man listened
We raised light, and the greatest show of the
season was there to be seen, Every mosquito was
drunk blind fiddler, and such an upreaFlous
night as the long billed wheps had never was
seen before this side of--Selali The worst an
tics Some were playing circus on the plate.
One big fellow, with a belly like Fastad, tul OF
blood and whisky, was dancing Juba on the 6iole,
while fat friend of his tribe tay on her BACK beat
| ing the DEVILS dream on an invisible tamborne
| with one hind leg Two more were wrestling on
the footboard OF the bed each with his bll! stuck
1 fast in the timber Another was tying the legs OF
our pants into bow knot to tie about the neck oil
| Anna Dickinson which hangs against the wash
| stand while another red stomached customer
was trying to stand on his head in the washbow
all over the room were drunken mosquitoes
One long billed gaunt representative was trying to
ram the mucillage bottle full of newspaper clip
pings Another chap was drilling hole through
a revolver handle and singing My Mary Ann
| while another was limping across the window sui
in search OF fresh air. to the agOnizng tune Oh
p-tramp-tramp 0ne little ram Of skeet
| was trying to jam the cock out of Ben Buffers
eye with tooth brush as his picture hung beside
that Of Kidd, the pirate, and few other thieves.
| Another drunken statesman OF the mosquito
family, reminding US OF Zach Chandler, was talking
Russia to a lot of drunken companions as they lay
in heap on the plate, while another one sat on
the handle of our bowie knife, doubled up with
| Cramp in the stomach, and trying to unite MS fan
| with his bill which seemed like Lineoln's back!
| bone when Anna Dickinson said 1t wanted stilfen-
| ing. He was q sick looking skeeter, and died in
| three minutes after we saw him, her or IT, as the
| case may be. Two others took bath IN the Ink
| stand. Another one, with bill like the devils
| narrative was trying to wind our watch with a
! pen-wiper, while another had Just died as he
was sitting on the rim OF dish II the room,
| trying to chant Mother I've come home to die"
| Poor skeeter. A nice skeeter, but :" twas pity
/ he drank" An old veteran with paunch full Of
| 'alfaud 'alf-blood and whisky-sat on the table
| reading Les Mi5erabes, while his wife was IN
der the stove trying to mend her broken wing with
4 a lmpseV toethpek. She looked disguised!
Another cOmbed his hair with paper OF pins, tied
a piece of willie paper about his neck, pasted
hYe-cent Internal revenue stamp on MS rump, aud
I died like a loyal citizen. His last words were
i "Teu the traitors all around you, etc etc.
Another drunken scamp has Just started out Of
| the window for John B. Cough, or a stomach
pump. A worse behaved set Of hummers We never
! saw. They have acted fearfel About two thou
4 sand lie about dead, but sadness seemed not 70
break in upon their hilarious rioting upon blood
and whisky. Half a dozen of them sat On our
new hat, playing draw poker, using worm lozenges
for cheeks while one OF the party got clean busted
! BY making fifty dollar blind good on four
[ aush which didn't FILL He will be apt to
wear cotton socks next winter, and keep away
from church collection days. Another one sat
A on top of brandy bottle, reading Baxters Call
to the UneOnverted while his partner lies dead at
bis feet, evidently forced to close doors by the
failure Of ketchum & son, Of New York Six
others were trying to hang one that looked like
| comprehend to the corner of match safe, but as
L a. he's Is
i on his being dangled. They have eaten the beef
4 drank the blood and Whisky-drlled the plate full
I Of holes-and on the center table organized son
| of Malta lodge, using FIVE cent shinplaster for
blanket in the act entitled the elevation of man."
4 Anotherred-belledl leader Of the Miss Keetertam-
lily had battalion of drunken bummers on the edge
| OF a spttoon watching him jam fur oyercoat into
his left ear. He was foolish-fOolish enough for
4 brigadier general or a member of congress. "A
/ little cuss with black legs, crimson stomach and
double jonted bill, was vomiting in satin slip
4 per while his wife, sicky-ooking lady of her
tribe was knaWing at the bed post, thinking it a
bologna. Another one, evidently an old maii sat
under the sofa milking the cat, while her sister
was crowding pair Of wooden drawers into her
) waterfall, singing in a subdued strain,
Come rest in this bosom.
: We have applied for O season ticket-front seat.
Another one with certificate of marriage over
his head in the shape of welt the size Of a can
die mould, was dancing fandango with two mos
quito virgins a watch crystal, while deacon in
one OF their churches sat playing old sledge with
corkscrew, to see which should go for gin cock
tail. An artistic delegate was standing on his
headi q champagne tumbler, one hind leg run
through his under jaw, while with the other he
was pointing out the road to Richmond to lot of
skeets still drunken than himself, which were sit
ting, dog fashion on the pillow. We should say it
was gay party-quietly SOL
Talk about shows, concerts dog fights, am
putations, crcuses, negro funerals, draw poker,
sparkling, or other amusement, there is nothing to
be compared to flock Of mosquitoes on bender.
If you don't believe it, fix them up with piece of
beef steak soaked in whisky, and laugh your
sides sore at the antics the drunken worblers
| cut.
Returns from all the counties of Oregon, except
Umatilla, Grant and Goose, give Wood, the Union
candidate for governor, 205 majority. The rest
Of the Union State ticket is elected by majority