Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-19
TERENCE MIGRANT.

TERENCE MIGRANT. s.
Goes TO Sc. Louis-UIisses Makes tive
Speeehes and Two Million Votes
MatrimOnY ON Conditions l.la
Correspondence of the New York Democrat
HEADQUARTERS U. s. GovERNMENT, ON
THE CARs, ST. Louis, August Tin, Ms,
THRR PUMMERY.--DiYil the use is there
in yez writing me Ony lether, or sending
me ony money on me salary, until ye are
afther seeing me in person, or Bridget,
or some wan of the family, for the divil
the know do where ! viii be tomorrow,
or yesterday, or the day Rfther. / sup
posed we were fixed at Long Branch for
the sayson, but as soon as the races were
over there, me cousin Ulissis got tired of
resting, and wanted 70 travel. We sug-
gested till him a "Trip to Washington,
which ought to satisfy ony reasonable
man, but no sooner did he return till the
Branch than he got say sick of looking
at nothing but wather, wather, and was
bound to come out to st. Louis, and look
again upon the scenes of his trials and
triumphs, where he hauled wood for six
shillings load and tuck his pay Ia trade,
finch was doing moighty web in thin
days, whin the mosht Elegant fishky was
only forty cints gallon. a-
But how changed j." all things, especi-
ally the fishkyl Devil the drop can We
git here short OF twinty cints the drink,
and We ought to see the small glasses they
set out here on the bar. And the fshky
is so thin We can't hape it up above the
topOf the glass, however much ye may wind
yer fingers around the glass. o, sir, it is
enough to break the HART of an eques-
trian statue of Lincoln for man to thry
to get an honest drink. The lager-bier
glasses are larger, but man wants hull
as big as the Great Eastern to how'd
enough to do ony good. But that's
the use of moralizingl The country
in an awful shtate, whin the chapest
fisky is twinty cints for thimble full,
and if Congress don't take action in the
matter soon, ruin and anarchy shtares US in
the face. Chat the divil is anarchy Me
cousin said that in spache last night,
and hOwly murdher how they chared
him The papers have said so much
about the economy visible in me cousins
administration of the Government and
that he thought he would economic a
little on priv ate account, when he found
fishky was so high here, so we bought a
key of lager beer for three dollars, and
dollar for the keg If not returned, and me
cousin has been practicing economy on
that keg. 1t is empty now, and he is
laying on one of the shelves in the sleep
ing car, and says something he has eaten
lays heavy on his stomach. GlneIal Dent
was mad because he didn't get any of the
lager, and says me cousin Ulissis smells
like a brewery. Such is the levity we
have to encounter from unmannerly rels-
tives in times when the very life of the
nation is in imminent peril.
I'll tell yez that. niver saw aman in
all me born days (barring a country
school tacher that boards around, or
Methodist minister) that could adapt him
self to circumstances the lOikes of that
cousin of mine. / don't refer to the
matther of beverages, though he adapts
himself foi1ely there, but to his inther-
course wild different classes of paple, If
We don't mind l will be afther giving yez
an incident. Win we arrived at CIncin-
natl, the diyil's own crowd of Germans
marched up till the hotel where we
shtopped, giving cheers for Bismarck and
the King of Prussia, and a lot of other
paple don't know the names of. They
had Just been afther hearing the news of
a Prussian victory, and called me cousin
Ulisses out for spache. He was over
come wild the hate and change Of wather,
but Dint and meself sponged out his
mouth, and tuck off his blanket, and sat
him up againsht posht and towld him to
spake till them. Says he:
GENTLKNEN.-It gives me great pleasure
to meet you. sympathize with your
cause. You have reason to be proud of
the victories gained by your countrymen
over the infamous frog eaters of France.
America can be counted on the side of
those who battle for the right Go on
with your-that is to say-as l said be-
fore-as it were-well- "bully for Bis
marck.n
The crowd was enthusiastic and
/. chared me cousin till / thought he
wouldn't get wink of slape that night
Ash was pulling off me cousins boots
that night, and he was thrying to get his
shirt off wild hootiack, he aays to me,
says he,
"Teddy, me boy, the words l spake
till them DutChmen will give me million
votes in ''72."
And he rOwled over in bed and drained
he was reelected to the Presidency on a
different basis from that he was before
that there was clause in the platform
that no President should appoint mia
tive to office unless he could prove thai
he was a man of good moral characther
II that should be the case, divil the ria
tive would have sight at an office bar
ring fnesef.
The sequel of that spache is this: Whil
&c arrived in St. Louis, large crowd O
Citizens, all French, surrounded the car
shouting, give la NapoleOnl" and lot
of blOOdthirsty names, and hOwled for
spsche from me cousin Ulisses. So Din
and mesilf aroused him from game Of
euchre he was plsyin' wild Methods
minister that came wild US, and towld hin
there was delegation from France TO
ninist the car that wud be PLACED to hart
from him on a subject of vital import
ance. The minister had just dealt m
cousin lone hand-both bowers, the &C
Ana Iwo sl4all thrumPs-anq he took I'll
cards in his hand and wint out on tn
platform, and sat down on the brake
Before he was afther opening his mout
to spake, must confess had me mil
civings. 4 thought he would repste th
same spache he did in Cincinnati, when
knew those FrenChmen wud ate US aliy
without cooking. But was mishtake
No eshtlE.ate ca ne cousin. he ros
IN on the brake like gander among
flock of ducks, and without removing h