The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-07-04
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Corrrsponeeaca Of ts,e Commercial Advertiser as
yIngyNIa, june D.
The ,lnsophisticated and ehis ;.,, n III
gilman il sometimes imposed ON. Inc ~ ~,
montese have recently been exe s. W. 49, ~
racv were going to buy up oil the land rouna
I.ynchbnre. Grass was at premium. ka!s1i
INC stncl. gas TO beat Wall street follow ~
that line. NV editorial friend up there told
his wife that he intended to kill the fateea
calf: y and Madame replied that II that was
en- he had better carefully avoid the butcher:
everybody talked of 8. my Lord, " and hopea
ahis Lordships Was sallbrioas. u y Mu
to have TO say that tsae Lynchbur2frs paw
been cr,,e,Iy "sold." Three efiterpffissahn g
Cnrineys have been trading on Peel'SSe ann Y,
they have sr,cceetled a. well ~ g fiscount
Gordon did with Presidentnominateqo fee-
lev One of the Intelligent newspapers III
Lyuehburg announced that Earl A: +. Saill-
berlaip. Sir ALBION Meredith, and Sir William
.Jan,es. were prospecting" for lands. Here ere
il the paragraph -
"DisrISGussHKD MISUNDERSTANDING the az
rivals here yesterday were Earl A. Z: ShaIa,
berlain and lady, Sir Albion Mefeaith, anu
Sir William James, of London. Thfy are
understood to be prospecting for mineFaf
lands with view to permanently settling IN
Virginia, and are said TO he very faSofaDey
impressed with our section Of the county:
Ii would be we'll foT the Lynchburgers 10
subscribe few dollars for a copy OF BufEes
Peeroge. They would then find that there
is only one g Lord Chamberlain" IN Eng
land. and he Is n court functionary. iheie
IL no Ear, Of that name, and neither Is
there Sir Albion Meredith or q Sir william
James In the Baronetage. Sir Wiiam y
either wicked wag who IS joking at the eS--
pense of the yerdant Piedmontese or else ne
il very Untruthful james. He may DE eX-
eeedingiy distinguished, but he is certainly
not entitled to respect. -
The hardest thing to make Americans be-
lieve is the fact that the average Englashnfan
troubles himself very little about }sn,tI
LORDS OF ANY SORT !,
The House of Peers is in general harm.
lessand inoffensiye collection Of 20 ldsWells, .
who are respected far more for their personal
qualities than for their grand, euphonious,
and often historic dignities. ] have known
q few respectable old Lords myself. One Oh
them dealt In "terbacker," and did COCA
trade until he took stronger pinch Of snun
than usual, and then ne quietly sneezed, ana
sneezed, and sneezed himself away. "A Jury
sat on him, and then he was ''salted down.,
and has no more testified In favor OF "lho'
nerkal" institutions. Lord Blinker was
another specimen Of hereditary wisdom.
Like good old Grimes, he wore "a long gray
coat" The general effect was " sectiy," and
out Of respect for the peeragc poli ely asked
nv tailor to visit his Lortiship. The right
honorable old fosy was made g beautiful Tor.
ever" (cloth guaranteed to stand all CHI
mates and all weather., and he Is still an
ornament to the exalted Chamber OF Peers
Lord Billingsgate WAS the most respectable
of any Lord ever knew, because he sWore
like Greeley trooper. He was "some =
on eternal punishment by word Of mouth.
But alas alas ! "these happy days are gone
foreverp' / am in sadly "redooced" car
cumstanees, doomed to exist without tile
society Of either peers or princes. In Vain
do / console myself with the reflection that II
lords are "puukins," American soEereigns
are "punkinser." ~".. /it.,t
Blogg and were introduced to ~.
- YANKEE ToAKINs
Yesterday. Tomkins is New Yorker, who
gained the sobriquet of Yankee" when ne
was prisoner in Libby. After the war be
concluded to settle in Virginia, and he Is
doing the agricultural on a three-hundred
acre farm. 5r..a sn.,, -
Yankee Tomkins looks prosperous, but he
is "down" OH the South generally for coli
versational purposes. The climate is agree
able, and the people Saint SO bad" But
what he complains of is the lack of "priy
leges." Tomkins mourns over northern
privileges aud will not be comforted. Dys
peptic in mind and body, be groans in spirit
over pork without beans and Sabbaths with
out sermons. Il.
A hopefully pious northerner is nothing
unless he has his .,.;i
PRIVILEGES" % a. y "'''
Tomkins touched our hearts. We lnncntcd
over the lack OF beef and mutton In hot wea
Their, and we sighed mourniully as we though!
of the "roast beef Of Old England" lie
said that be felt the want Of "good society, ,
and we Joined in with sorrowful recollec
tions of Blogg's father, Lord Yiscount Blogg
and my uncle, his Grace the Duke Of Bel
grave. He denounced In burning language
the neglect of regular religion in places
where there Is only one Sabbath a month
owing to the parsons duties elsewhere on
other Sundays, and we chimed in with the
energy of Evangelical Christians. Itatiorded
lis exquisite pleasure to feel that ace were the
salt Of the earth, which had not lost its So
yor. 'tsr ..5, ,..i ia =. :. ~ l,.f
But regret to say that Yankee To,nkins
Is partly fraud. We have met his next
door neighbor when be lived up North.
This is the denOueme7it:
Vestryman Blogg-" Mr.. Tomkins, by
the way, when you were I'D the North did
you know man they called Nhiskey Bill %
Yankee t." Ye-e-s." .-
"You found him good society, ch5" =
"Ye-e-s." ..,..,..
"Did you ever attend church in the
North ?" 49, H
"N.no." ..... s.r#.0 t,tts.EiEj.
"Ah, my friend" said the immortal yes
TRUMAN, looking as solemn rs the Archbishop
of Canterbury, Pm afraid you liked the
society Of fast men, and that you hadn't got
religion in those days" = 80 - :
Tomkins said he was "sorry he had 10
CO." He might have asked us about Lord
Viscount Blogg and the Duke Of Beigrafe,
but he didn't. 1t was an omission. on ms
part of course. Every Eaglish settler IN
Virginia Is connected with the peerage. We
are long way from home, and it would 90
no good TO say that Blogg's father was ior-
merry merchant IN q oery small way. q -
A NORTHERN SETTLER .,.,.. -,
told me the other day that he felt " like as il
he was outside OF the world" asked
where he lived in New York, and found that
he had been o citizen Of the widest and
hleskest part of the Empire State. | in.
oIrired about tho bears and wolves ia that
section. and he said that during winter
nights he used to hear them bowling dread.
fniiy. gave it up. We haYe no bears and
wolves to civillze US in "0le girginny." . Il.