Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-11-29
ARTENtUs WARD IN LONDON.
Another Letter to P.inch.
MIR. PUNCH, MY DEAR SIR

cellent Hover is very poplar with people
from the agricultooral districks, and it was
chiefly that class which l found waitin a
the gates the other mornin.
l saw at once that the Tower was estab
lished on firm basis In the entire histo
ry of firm basisis I don't find basis more
frmer than this one.
| "You have no tower in America? SaiC
a man in the crowd, who had somehow de-
tected my denomination.
"Alas no" arsered ''we boste ot
our enterprise and i'll prOOvements, and yil
we are devoid Of a Tower. America, oil
my unhappy country thou hast not got nc
Tower It's a sweet Boon"
The gates was opened after awhile, and
we all purchist tickets, and went into q
waitin room.
My frens," said pale-faced little man,
in black close, cit is q sad day"
"Inasmuch as to how?" [ said.
81 mean it is sad to think that so many
people have been killed within these gioo-
my walls. My frens let Us drop II tear"
"No,' [ said. ''You must excuse me-
Others may crop one if they feel Ike it
but as for me, [ decline. The early mana
gers of this institootion were Il bad lot,
and their crimes was t. ooly orful but /
can't sob for those who died four or five
hundred years ago. If they was my own
relations, [ couldn't. It's absnrd to shed
sobs over things that occurred durin the
rain HENRY THE THREE. Let us be cheer
full" | continnered "LIook at the festive
Warders, in their red flannel jackets. They
are cheerful, and why should it not be thus
ly with us?"
A Warder now took lis in charge, and
showed us the Trater's Gate, the armers
and things. The Irater's Gate is wide
enuff to admit about twenty trater's abrest,
[ should jedge bat beyond this, I couIdn t
see that it was superior to gates i'll gen:ral.
Traters, / will here remark are All onfor-
| Tint class of peop-e. II they wasn't, they
wouldn't be traters. i hey conspire to
bust up u country-they fail, and they re
traters. They bust her, and they become
statesmen and heroes.
Take the case of Gloster afterwards Old
Dick the Three, who may be seen at the
tower, on horseback, i'll a tin overcoat-
take Mr.. GlOster's case. Mr.. q. was con-
spirator of the basest dye, and if he'd failed,
he would have been hung on d sour apple
tree. But MI. @. succeeded, and became
great. He was slowed by Colonel Rich
mond, but he lives in histry, and his eques-
trian fgger may be seen daily, for II six
pence, in con junction with other -em nent
persons. and no eXtry charge for the War
ders able and bootiful lectur
There's one king in this room who is
mounted onto Il fOamin steed, his right
hand graspin barber's pole. [ didn't learn
his name.
The room where the daggers and pistils
and other weppins is kept is interestin.-
Among this collection of choice cutterly
notist the bow and arrer which those hot
headed old chaps used to conduct battles
with It is quite like the bow and arrer
used at this day by certin tribes Of Ameri-
can Injuns, and they shoot 'em off with
such excellent precision that 1 almost
sigh'd to be a lnJun, when l was in the
Rocky MOuntin regin. They are a pleas
ant lot them Injuns. Mr.. Cooper and DR..
Catlin have told us of the red mans won
erful eloquence, and [ found it SO. Our
party was stopt on the plains of Utah by a
band of Shoshones, whose chief said,
" Brothers the pale-face is welcome
Brothers the sun is sinkin i'll the West,
and a-na-bUcky-she will soon cease speak
in. Brothers the poor red man belongs
to race which is fast becomin eXtink. .
He then whooped in shrill manner, stole
all our blankets and whiskey, ard fled to
the primeval forest to conceal his emotions.
| Will remark here, when on the Subleck
of Injuns that they are in the main very
shaky set, with even less sense than the
Fenians, and when l hear philanthropists
bewaillin the fack that every year carries
the noble red man nearer the settin sun. :"
L simply have to say I'm glad of it, tho it
is rough on the ssGtin sun. They call you
by the sweet name of Brother one mint,
and the next they scalp you with their
Tomashawks. But [ wander. Let us re-
turn to the Tower.
At one end of the room where weppins
is kept is wax tigger of Queen Elizabeth,
mounted on a fiery stuffed hoss whose glass
eye flashes with pride, and whose red mo
rocker nostil dilates hawtily, as if conscious
of the royal burden he bears. [ have asso
ciated Elizabeth with the Spanish Armady,
She's mixed up with it at the Surry Thea
tire, where ''Troo to the Core is bein acted,
and in which full bally core is introjooced
on board the Spanish Admirals ship, givin
the audiens the idee that he intends openin
a moosic hall in Plymouth the moment he
conkers that town. But very interesting
dammer is "Troo to the Core" notwith-
standin the eccentric conduck of the Span
ish Admiral and very nice it is in Queen
Elizabeth to make Martin Truegold a paro-
net.
The Warder shows us some instrooments
of tortur, such as thumb screws, throat col
lars. ETC., Stain that these was conkered
from the Spanish Armady, and addin what
a crooil peple the Spaniards was in them
days-which was elissited from bright eyed
little girl of about twelve summers the re-
mark that she tho't it aCds rich to talk about
the crooilty of the Spaniards usin thumb
screws when we was in Tower where so
many poor peple's heads had been cut off.
This made the Warder stammer and turn
red
I was so pleased with the little girls
brightness that I could have kissed the
dear child, and l would if she had been six
years older.
7 think my companions intended maxim
day of it, for they all had sandwiches,
sassiges, etc. The sad-lookin man who had
wanted us to drop tear afore we started
to go round, fing'd such quantities of sas
sige into his mouth, that l expected to see
him choke hisself to death, he said to me,
in the Beauchamp Tower, where the poor
prisoners writ their unhappy names on the
cold walls. ''This is a sad sight.
cit is, indeed" I answered. You're
black in the face. You shouldn't eat sas
sige in public without some rehearsals be-
forehand. You manage it orkwardly."
"No," he said, 6 l mean this sad room. "
6rt L.,