Des Arc citizen., 1866-10-20

| red handkercher, he said, 'Ts the strange bein' 8 American?"
 'He is." .
 "A gen'ral?"
 "No." s... .-
 "A colombo ?" 3l "No."
 "A majer?'
 'Not majer."
 "A capting? ?"
 "IIe is not" "A leftenant ?" 4-Ht + "Not even that" .i
 'Thcn," said the lan'lord of the Greenlion, "you ar deceivedl He is no countryman of yours" "Why not ?" I said. F-l-
 "I will tell you, sir" said the land lord, ''my son-in-law is employed in a bankin house where every American as comes to these shores goes to get his drafts casht and he says that none has arrived on these shores durin the last eighteen months as wasn'ta gen'ral, a colonel, major, a captain or lieuten- ant. This man, as I said aforc, has de- ceived you! He's an impostnerw
 reeled into chair. For mint I was speechlis. At length I murmured, "Alars I fear it is too troo! Even I was a capting of the Home Guards"
 'To be sure,' said the landlord you all do it oyer there.'
 Wall, l said, whatever nation this person belongs to, we may as well go to hear him lectur this evening. He is one of these spirit fellers-he is trans mejum, and when he slings himself into d trans-state, he says the sperrets of departed great men talk through him. He says that tonight sev'ril eminent persons will speak through him among others, Cromwell
 And this MT. Cromwell--is he dead ? said the lan'lord.
 told him that Oliver was no more.
 Its umbug,' said the lan'lord; to which I replied we'd best go and sec, and we went. We was late, on ac- count of the landlords extensiv ac- quaintans with the public house keep CTS along the road, and the hall was some two miles distant, but we got there at last. The hall was about half full, and the mejim was just then as- sumin to be Benjamin Franklin, who was speaking about the Atlantic cable He said the cable was really a merry tOrious affair. and that messiges should be sent to America, and there was no doubt about their getting there in the coursc ofa week or two, which. he said, was a beautiful idear, and much quick CT than by steamtr or canal-boat. It struck me that if this was Franklin, a spiritooal life hadn't improved the old gentleman s intelleks particly.
 The audiens was mostly composed of rayther pale peple, whose eyes l tho't rolled ill a somewhat wild manner. But they was well behaved, and the fe- males kept saying, How beautiful l What sublime thing it is ct cctry, ct cetry. Among the females was one who was a fair and rosy young woman. She set on the same seat we did, and | the landlord of the Grecnlion. whose | frekent intervoos with landlords that evening had been too much for him. 1 fastened his left eve on the fair and rosy l young person, and, smilin lovinly upon her, said, you may give mo, my dear, four-penny-Worth of gin-cold gin. l take it cold, becausc-'
 There was cries of '|Silcnce! silence. Put him out the scofferl''
 'Ain't We at the spotted boar?' the landlord whispered.
 'No,' l answered, It's another kind of bore. Lis'en. Cromwell is goin 1 to speak through our inspired friend now
 'Is he ? said the landlord-'is he Well, I've suthin to say, also. Was this Cromwell a licensed vittler?
 Not that l heard, l answered.
 I'm very sorry for that said the landlord, with sigh; but you think he was man who would wish to sec licensed yittlcs respected in their rights "
 No doubt, .s
 Wall said the landlord, jest you keep eye on me-. Then rising to his feet, he said, in somewhat husky, yet tol'bly distink voice, Mir. Crumbwell 1!
 Cromwell! l cried. Hrfrt
 'Y es, MT. Cromwell; that's the man 1 mean, MT Cromble! wont you please advise that genl'man who you are talkin through; wont you advise him during your clekent speech to settle his bill at my 'ouse tonight, MT. Crum- blc,' said the landlord, glarin savigely round on, the people, because if he don't therell be a punched 'ed to be seen at the Grcenlion, where l don't want any more of this everlastin non sens I'll talk through iml Here's a spirret for you, young fcllerP Y You're a healtny old spefl1t l fenlafkC; anu then l saw the necessity of gettin him out of the hall. The Wimmin was yell lin and screamin, and the men was hollerin perlice. A perliceman really came and collared my fat fren. Its only it, Sir Richard,' I said. l al- ways call the perlice Sir Richard. It pleases them to think I'm the victim of a deloosion, and they always treat me perlitely. This one did, certainly, for he let us go. We saw no more of the trans-mejim.
 It's difikilt, of course, to say how long these noosances will be allowed to prowl round. I should say howey- CT, if pressed for anser, that they will probably. ,continnerr on jest about as long as they can find people to sen to 'em. Am l right?
 --.,... Yours, faithful,
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