The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1866-10-18
Auemu. Ward in London.
ms rmRp LETTER 10 rpvcu.

partments at the Greenlion II
stated hc WAS from the celebrate
United States but beyond this be sal
nothin. lie seem'd 10 prefer 5ollytood
lie remained mostly IN his room, an
wherever he did show bissefhe waill
in o moody and mor0ae manner i
tbs garding, with his he'd bowed dow
and his arms folded across bis peace
ful breast He reminded me mrnwha
of the celebrated but unhappy Mr
Halter, ia the cheerful play Of "Tb'
Stranger" This man puzzled me
I'd been puzzled aforc several times
but never 80 aevcrally a. now Mint
Ost ofthc Grccnlion said must inter
rigato this strange being, who claimed
10 be my countyman. "lIc hasn't
called for drop Of beer since he's
been IN this ere house" said the land.
lord II look 10 you,' he added, "to
clear up this dark, this orful misiIy
u ] wruged the lan'lord's honest
hand, and told him to consider the
mistrY cleared up.
! ! gained axes to the miseruB bein's
room, and by talking sweet to him for
few minits found ont who he was
Then returnin 10 the Ian lord, who
was noryisly pqcin up and down the
bar, said
Sweet Rolando, don't tremble no
more I've torn the mask from the
hawty strangers face and dived into
the recesscs Of his inmost SOLE Hes
Trans Mcjim''
I'd been to the Beefanham theater
the prevs eyenin, and probIy the
dramncr ! saw affected me, because |
am not ia The habit Of goin on ms per
above. ! like the Beefanham thcater
very much, indeed, because there n en-
thusastic lover of the theater like my.
self can unite the leQitermit drammor
with fish. Thus, while your enrap
tered soul drinks in the . lorfty and
noble sentences of the gifted artists,
You can eat a billed mack rl lest as
rs in your own house. /
felt constrained, however, TO tell a
fond mother who sot immegtly be
hind me, and who was accompanied
by gin bottle and a young infant
i felt constrained TO tell that mother
when her infant playfully mingled
rayther oily mackril with the little
lair which is left ON my veneer BILE he'd. |
hat had n bottle of scented hair oil
II home, which on. the whole | tho't | |
TO that which her offspring |
VAS greasin' me with This riled the |
excellent female, and she said, "Gitl
lutl You never was an infank your
'elf, spose Oh no You was too
rood to he ainiank, yous was You'll
lid into the world already crowd,
lidn't youY Git out p mo, mad.
I'm, ! replied, 81 too was once in
ant | was n luvlY child PepIe used
o come in large and enthoo-
iastic crowds from all parts
# the country to see me, l wan such
sweet and Intelligent infant The ex
element was so intens, in tack, that
extra hotel was startd in the town to
Accommodate the people who throng
ID to my cradle Ilavm' finished
.hcsc troothful statements, smiIt
'wcetly on the worthy female. She
said, "Drat yoa, what do you come
A chailn' me for" and the estymible
woman was really gettin hlris, when ]
nollyned her by praisin her chile, and
BY akin pardn for all Id said "This
little gal observed, this surpris
ngly luvly gal when the mother
said, Its tothcr sect he IL sir; it's
boy WALL | said, "ths little boy.
whose eye is like a eagle a-soarin
proudly in the azure sky, will some
lay bc a man, if he don't choke his.
self TO death in childhoods sunny {
hours with smclt or q bloatcr, or '
iome other dreilul calamity. How !
'ubllme the thought, my dear madam. I
hat this ipfant rs you fondIe on your
'nee on this night, may grow up into
free and independent citizen, whose !,
.ote will be worth ten To fifteen !.
POUNDS, accordin as sutIrages may -
ange at the joyous perid 20 =
Letus now return, gentle reader. TO !,
he language of the Grecnlion. who we
m in the bar in a state of anxiety and
crspire. Rubin his hot face with -.
nd handkerchief, he said II
as the strange helm a American ?" e,
ole is"
a Central " a.
"No." y
"a Colonialy ST
"No a.,
"A MaierY' VI
"Nor Maicr" y.
"A Captingf" "a
"lle is not. 80 pr
"A Lcitenant - ~
''Not even that ~
"rhcu, said the landlord of the IN
'ccnliou, "you are deceived, He is Sc,
countrlmau OF yours lal
'Nhy noty' said. II,
Il will tell you sir. Ny on-in. law
employed in banking house where
'ry American ms comes TO these ", WV
'res goes TO get his drafts casht. ;
I he says that no one has arrived on SUI
Sc shores durtn the last eighteen !
nths as wasn't a Gen raj. a Colo I'm
j, Maier a Capting, or Lefteu :
! This man, as said afore. has vii
'eeved you! He's impostuerm -
recled to a chair For mint "'e "a
) speeChlis At lenuth | mur,nured ,,,