The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1866-10-17

the language of the Greenlion, who we
left in the bar in a state of anxiety and
perspire. Rubin his hot face with 8
red handkerchief, he said:
us the strange bein a American p
''He is
"A Central -
mo"
"A Colonial -
"NO''
"A Majer?''
"Nor Majer"
"A Capting p
''He is not"
"A Leftenant p
"NOt even that
"Then," said the landlord of the
Greenlion, you are deceived He is
no countrvman of yours"
''Why nOt?" l said
Il will tell you sir My son-in- law
Is employed in a banking house where
every American as comes to these
shores goes to get his drafts casht,
and he says that no one has arrived on
these shores durin the last eighteen
months as wasn't a Central, a Colo
NAL, Majer, a Capting, or a Leften-
ant! This man, as | said afore. has
deceived you! He's impostuert'
] reeled to a chair For mint
was speechlis. At length murmured ::
''Alars l fear it is too troo! Even l
was & Capting of the Home Cards"
ITO be sure" said the landlord ::
''you all do it over there
wall" I said, "whatever nation
this person belongs to, we may as well
go and hear him lectur this evening
He is one of these spirit fellars-he is
a Trans Mejim, and when he sings
hissef in a trans state, he says the
sperrits of departed great men talk
through him-among others, Crom-
we'll"
"And this Mr.. Cromwell-is he
dead p said the landlord
/ told him that Oliver was no more.
"It's 'umbug," said the landlord !;
to which | replied that we had best go
and see, and we went
We was late, on accounts of the
Ian lords extensive acquaintans with
the public house-keepers along the
ro9d, 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 assumin' to be Benjamin
Franklin, who was speakin about the
Atlantic Cable.
He said the Cable was really mer-
rytorious affair, and that messages
could be sent to America, and there
was no doubt about their gettin there
in the course of a week or two, which
he said was beautiful idear, and much
quicker than by steamer or canal boat.
1t struck me that if this was Franklin,
the spiritooal life hadn't improved the
old gentleman's intellecks particly.
The audiens was mostly composed
of raythcr pale peple, whose eyes /
tho't rolled round in a somewhat wild
But they was well behaved,
and the females kept saying How
beautiful What a sublime thing it is"
ct cetry Among the females was a
fair and rosy young woman. She sot
on the same seat we did, and the
lan'lord of the Greenlion, whose fire.
kent intervoos with other landlords
that evening had been too much for
him, fastened his left eye on the fair
and rosy young person, and smilin
lovingly upon her, he said, You may
give me, my dear, four penny worth
of gin-cold gin. / take it cold, be-
There was cries of"Silence Shame.
Put him out the Skoffer ~
.sAin't we at the Spotted Boar p
the landlord hoarsely whispered.
'sNo," | answered. Its another
kind of bore Lis'en. Cromwell is
going to speak through our inspired
fren', now"
us he?" said~the lan'lord-''is he ?
Wall, I've suthin' to say, also. Was
this Cromwell licensed vittler ?"
Not that | ever heard" | ansered.
sI'm sorry for that said the lam
lord with a sigh; ''but you think he
was man who would wish to see
licensed yittlers respected in their
rights -
No doubt
.eWall,'' said the landlord, 'jest you
keep a eve on me- Then risin to his
feet. he said, in somewhat husky,
yet torbly distink voice, "Mr Crumb-
well -
eCromwell y l cried.
Eyes. Mr.. Cromwell; that's the man
mean. Mr.. Crumble! won't you
please advise that gen'Pman who
you're talkin through; won't you adj
wise i'm during your elekant speech to
settle his bill at my 'ouse tonight
Mr.. Crumbles,'' said the Ian lord,
glarin' savigely round on the people,
ssbecause if he don't there'n be a
punched ed to be seen at the Green
lion. where / don't want no more OF
this everlastin nonsens. III talk
i'm, Here's a sperrit, said
the landlord, a smile once more beam
in his face, (which will talk through
him like a Dutch father. I'm the
sperrit of you, young Teller - You're
a healthy old sperrit,' l remarkt; and
then / saw the necessity of gettin him
out of the hall. The wimin was vel
lin and screamin, and the men was
hollerin perlice A perliceman really
came and collered my fat fren. 1T is
only fit, Sir Richard,' said. | al
ways call the perlice Sir Richard. 1t
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 difficult, of course, to say how
long these noosances will be allowed
to prowl round | should say, how
ever, if pressed for anser that they
will prob'ly eontinner on jest about as
long as they can find people to lis en
to 'em. Am | right?
Yours, faithful, ARTEMUs WARD.
The FAMINE IN INDIA.-The almost
complete failure of the rice crop in
large sections of British India has
produced famine from which thous-
ands have persisted, and millions are
in danger of perishing, of starvation