The Placer herald., 1870-10-08
TERENCE MIGRANT.
How Plenty Again. --Gold Gold Again in
Abundance ---Why the Family Remain at
the Branch.
InNG RnANru Sintinher =

the Branch.
LONG BRANCH, Siptmber
M1sTHEE PUMMERY Bridget SAYS for the
sivinty-ive cnts We sint her We have her
blessing, wild a wish that We may niver be in
want; that ye may nivcr know that it is to
be hungry in body and soul; that We may
niver have the cholera, or be President of
the United States. We are in bether cir
cumstances than whin last ! wrote yez, as
thin it was moghty seldom where the mkt
male would come from, but since me cousin
Ulisses came back from Washington the say
bache and livery thing has samed to flow
with milk and honeycomb. Divil the know
do fhere me cousin made the raise Of so
many shtamps, but his pockets are perfect
freshet Of granebacks, and jingling of goold
is again heard in the land. And the quar-
esht looking goold yez iver ixparienced, | am
sure. Whin | was backing me cousins
boots this morning, felt something of me-
talc nature, and thinking it nothing more
than some nails in his boots that had been
melted by the action of the fishky that had
dhripped through, chucked it out Oh the
floor whin Bridget picked it up and tucked
it til her BOSOM 1t has become an estab-
lished fact, demonstrated be frequent OBJ
servation, that whin Bridget puts onything
Until her bosom, there is certain intrinsic
value attached I'LL it; and acting upon this
knowledge which eypariance had brought till
me, immediately felt kind of fellow feel
ing for her, and thried by force of arms to
rescue from its untimely fate the valuables
she had concealed about her person She
evadcd me wild schrubbing brush, which
she applied to me head, whin | sltruck
an attitude Ike Wilkes Booth in Abraham
let's ghost and says | "Render unto Seiz-
er the things that are Seizers," and then
seized her, and argued wid her wild the black
ing brush, and during the little brush we had
Mrs. Grants coraets, which Bridget was
wearing, broke, and out Of the dipths rowled
the most Elegant pace of gold yer eyes iyer
reshted on. | couldn't tell from what coun-
try it came, but Bridget said it was Frnch
goold from Brest She knew Frinch goold
because wonce a Frinchman paid her for
some work she did for him in the same kind
of shtuf. This fact set me to thinking, and
all at wonce, wdout moments warning
an idea came crashing in on NE brain, the
was asy for me to see fly me cousin Ulisses
had hurried off till Washington to sign the
proclamation and things written be the clerks
in his absence, recognizing France as a Re
public. Arrah, sir, "there is tide in the
affairs of min, fhich, taken at its flood
ladies' on to the penitentiary," as the good
book says. Ne cousin has shtruck it, and
begowa, I'll 20 wild him, as long as the goald
lashts. | suppose some Presidents would
recognize republics widout getting cint for
his throube but am proud TO be able to
announce that me darling cousin Ulisses is
not one Of the chape kind, Diyil the wonce
hope Cuba may learn a lesson be this,
and if she wants to be recognized as a Re
public be the besht Government the world
iyer saw, let her come down wid a reasona-
bic compinsaion for the throuble and she
can be rescued from the OK yoke of Spain on
short notice and on the mosht reasonable
terms. For orparticulars, inquire on the prem
ises.
have been wondering, and so, be the
same token, has Bridget, that the divil
kapes me cousin here at Long Branch, after
livery other family has gone home. Even
the nagers that dhrye the Buchu wagon
have gone, and we are as deserted as Napo-
leon at St. Helany, or Grayley since he was
DEBATED for the Govemorship at New York.
AT lasht light had broken in upon me, and
the razon is plain Yesterday me cousins
wife and ovid Dnt, her father, went on a
shtrike. They said this thing was getting
too thin, and they wouldn't shtand it to be
exiled on this sand bache ony longer, and
that they were going to Washington fhether
me cousin did or not Then me cousin broke
out weeping-the tinder-hearted darling
and towled them if they persishted in that
insane determination, it would be the runa-
ton of him. He said it would be aisly thir-
ty thousand dollars out of his pocket
"And how do We make out" says ovid
Dint, "that our prisince here is worth that
amount of money. It's the first indication |
have had that was of any phractical value
at all, at ALL If | am of such Importance,
I'll thank you to advance portion of intrn-
sic value, and III shtay till Mkt sphring.''
Then says me cousin:
"Your value is somewhat overratcd.