Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-11
Hawkins County.
TERENCE MIGRANT.
About the Reception, and How it
Ended-An Irish Admiral.
Correspondence of the New York Democrat

About the Reception, and How il
Ended-An Irish Admiral.
Correspondence of the New York Democrat.
LONG BRANCH, Siptimber Wan.-MS-
ther PUn,mery: Ye mind ] towld yez in
me lasht letther that would be afiher
poshting yez about the RECEPTION which
Bridget and mesilf gave at the President
tial cottage in the absence of me Cousin
Ulissis. Arab, sir, that was great
epoch in the history of Long Branch
fashionable society. The elite and also
the ehesvy of the eolored population of
that part of New Jersey were there in all
the glory of youth and beauty. If there
was one fault with the reception it
was that there were too many
of our colored fellow citizens present In
the invitation l announced that no coll
Ored men made apply unless accompanied
wild white ladies. Bridget and mesilf
. tuck our positions at the north ind of the
large parlor, and as the doors were
thrown open the stream of guests filled
in the door, and straight u? till us, looking
like huge black shnake, with one side
whitewashed. livery mayer had a white
woman. was somefhst surprised in not
seeing the divil the finite man in the
crowd, but it was aisely explained soon
sfther the dancing began As the guests
all got in, went to the .nager who sp-
pared to lade the precision, and axed
him would he take me wife Bridget on
the fiure for a dance while I tuck
his white lady and lead the dance.
He consinted, and Bridget, afther
some coaxing, consulted. also, on being
Informed that the colored gintleman was
chafe clerk to HelmbOld's Buchu wagon.
warmed up and shweat bit, they kept
turning darker and darker, until at lasht,
to me horror and dismay, l found that w.
cry famail in the house except Bridget
was as black as coal-schuttle. The ma
gers had taken advantage of me, and had
put white powder on the faces of the
winches, and passhed them off Ontil me
for finite women Begoorrs, felt like
Trademarks bureau officer. They were all
members of the heightened families here,
but there was too much color. If it had
been Immediately praviOus to an election,
it might have helped me cousin in his
DlOSlCtlS VI lC-ClCSttOll, Dub ~ oSOAlCh
premature at this early day. / hurried
on the refreshments, thinking they would
lave the house afther supper. "
AS the champagne corks were popping
their poppingest, ! heard the sound of
carriage wheels in front of the cottage,
and thrembled in me cousins boots and
other clothes. The door opened, and who
should come in but me cusin Ulissis. He
was laning on the arm of Ginersl Dint,
and samed pretty full of cholera medicine.
l was walking the fiure between two
winches, while the balance of the crowd
were atlng and drinking. Looking atme,
me cousin said:
''Terence, where is the (hic) corpse2"
''Fhat corpsea" says ], as bowld as
possible.
'Fhy, says me cousin, 81 thought you
had mayer funeral If We haven't got
ony corpse, you musht provide one. 1t is
a shame to have such funeral without
corpse. Gineral Dint, detail mayer to
be shot imadistely." ar-
| never saw full dress party obliterate
itself quite as quick as that one did In
less than four seconds there wasn't mayer
wild in gun-shot. of the cottage. They
whit out the windys and doors, smashing
the glass, and making the house look like
Phil Sheridan's cavalry had been through
it. Ne cousin laughed at his shtrategy in
| getting rid of the Dagers, but his mirth
was soon turned to sadness as he looked at
the empty bottles, -...-...
'tAh, Teddy, you have ruined me, says
he. 'Why didn't you make them drink
the liquor l keep for visitors2 In one
short hour you have destroyed the accu-
mutation of years of hard labor. / shall
have to charge it against your salary 4"
| And then, be iabers, me cousin and Ginral
Dint tuck an inventory of the missing
liquor, and charged it till me. -a-
| The death of Admiral FaTragut laves a
vacancy in the officer 10 be filled be me
cousin, and number of prominent min
have been mintioned in connection wild
the position. Among the prominent min,
and I may say at the head of the list, is a
rilative of the President. Made say that
| rilative is meself2 am the only won
that does not recave salary equal to me
talents Me cousin called me to his pri-
vate room yesterday and towld me that
| the increased cost of living, and the con-
shtant mistakes was making, involving
peouniary losses to him, would render it
| nicissary for me to to be provided wild an
office wild large salary attached, and he
axed me how / would like to be an sdmir-
raj. towld him anything that would in
crease me usefulness to the besht govern
ment, and increase me salary, would suit
me admirably. Then he axed me that l
knew about wather navigation. tOwld
/ him that wather had been something of
a stranger to me since had been wild
| him. but me memory run back till the
DAYS when l commanded vessel on
Puckaway Lake, in Wisconsin, and that
if the wathers of the ocean were no more
difficult TO navigate than Puckaway Lake,
there couldn't ony one tell me onything
about how to run navy. 1t was afour-
teen foot ''dug-out" canoe commanded
in Wisconsin, and / had to split a chew
of tobacco in the middle and kapc
it on ache side of me mouth,
to kape it from tripping over, but
you nadent say onything about ii.
Me cousin towld me if would posht
meself in a week so could command q
man-of-war ship, he would appoint me
admiral. So have engaged sailor that