Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-23
AFTERNOON SESSION.
NAsBY IN EUROPE.

/ am at present in London tryin' to make
up my mind whether to stay here and be-
cum English patriot, or to 60 to France
and becum Irish one. Their is so much
to be sed on both sides that / find it diff
cult to decide Ef it wuz certain that the
Irish agitashen wood keep up, think
shood go to Paris, but unfortchunitly ther
never wuz Irish muvement yit that
wuzn't immejitly sold out by the leaders.
Ez rool, after insurrecshun wuz famed
into decent proporshuns, ther immejitly
ocured footrace among the leaders to see
witch Good get to London to sell it out first.
Their is no doubt but that l kin make a
a skirmiahin' fund or q relief fund, or most
anything of the kind, and hevin' the Irish
servant girls and day labrers NV Ameriky
send me contribushens, but when this pres
ent muvement dies out, where am [
| shood hev to go to work to get up a
new truble, and that wood be strainin' onto
a Amerikin. A Irishman Gums to it natu-
rally, but to me it wood be moo eggspe-
rience.
On the other hand, | never saw better
material for party Nv reform, simeler to
the Dimocrisy in Ameriky, than there is
here IN London. Their is oshuns of mate.
rial here, Atlantics and Paeifics NV it. Ther
is more ginmills to the square acre than
ever see afore, and wot makes it better,
they are crowded oil the time.
England is kentry pexulierly favorable
to popelar uprisins. Their is great deel
of welth here, great deal The shops are
stuff with valuable goods, and the banks
are gronin with coin 1t is coin they hev
here. 1t isn't Confederit paper wich
wasn't wuth cartin home, or even green
bax, witch patriot in 1868 he'd to steel at
33 cents on the dollar.
When it cumes to popeler uprisin there
are ruther too man suffers about for com.
fort, wich are the hirelins of royalty. But
let the mob take the proporshens NV the
riet in Moo York in 1868. and it wood be
singler eff the luvers NV hoomanity didn't
git away with enuff to pay him for the
trouble There is wildernis NV wealth
here. The field is ready for the harvest
| shood like : ls-sasly to get my sickle in,
Wat | shell do / don't know. Ez it is I
am restin on my oars and keepin a weather
eye out for wat may turn up. l am very
comfortably sitooated, and am in no hurry
The landlord nv wich | rent my rooms ap-
pears to be satisfied without askin for
money (my valise looks full), and hev es-
tablished credit at three or four public
houses and the same number NV eatin
houses. Livin is very hi here, but it
it makes no eSpeshel difference TO me. Eff
they charge it am just ez well satisfied
to let EN- charge literally. 1t does EN-
unsofisticated Amerikin, and eff it's any
~ -, 1o4 Lo,,
they thru chargin it's easy matter to
move TO another quarter and do it over
again.
The beuty Nv London is it's SO large that
a man Nv my time NV life can't begin to
eggshaust his credit in it. Were l young
man and intended to stay in London, l
shood look out for some provishn fer old
age, but at 60 watts the yoose? l can't ex-
pect to liv more than twenty years more,
and probably not that, tor the change from
Bourbon whisky TO British'brandy hez had
a renchin effect upon me alredy. But
shood l live twenty yeers / can't hope to
possibly egghaust credit in a city NV
1000, 600 Nv people. Ell l do, then my
tongue hez forgot its cunnin, aud my rite
hand will no longer cleve to anything.
must confess that don't like the aver.
age Euglishman. l heven't made the &C
quaintance NV any docks or baronets yet,
nor hev 1 basked in the smiles NV royalty,
but hev tried to make the acquaintance
NV sum NV the better class Nv comoners.
They are very hawty and reserved class
Nv peple There isn't that freedom, that
deliteful loosenis, witch you eggsperience in
Kentucky. slapped one nv EN- on the
sholder the other day in a saloon, and he
was actily offended at it And another w
whom l tried to borrer five pounds actily
he'd the cheek to refoos me, on the fiimsy
ground that he hedn't knod me long enuf
That wuz the precise reason why L ex.
p4cted to git it. He'd he knod me longer
he never wood lend me at OIL