Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-02-03
From the N. o. Delta.
PETER PEWETT:

PETER PEWETT: dose
"What, Peter, are you here again 20 This
familiar inquiry was last night addressed to
an individual who seemed to have suffered
all the vicissitudes and priva,ions Of per-
son exposed to one of fortunes lifelong
storms. The in.erragator was one Of those
locomotive city protectors yclept watchman.
who, by the wrapping of their iron-hound
staff on the curbstones at stated intervals
during the night, keep up magnetic COM
munica'ion and Geographically inform one
another that ALPS well, when in truth all is
not very often as we'll as it might be.
care you here again, ask 20 repeated the
vIgilanl Waterman.
"Well, Amt no where else; my old wide
awake somnanbuIis," said Peter.
~ thought" remarked the guardian of the
night-"l thought that you promised to 90
west when last the Recorder let you Off"
$50 did," said Peter, but notwi,hs,and-
in all Fourth of July horators and candi-
dates for office say bout this levin free
country, find Teller can't do as he likes
no how he can fix it,"
"And pray, what interposed," said the
watchman, to 'preven, you from putting
your very laudable design, in this instance,
into execution - --
"Why, you might just as we'll AK" said
Peter, 'what has been trippin' me up, and
holdin' me back through life, whenever !
started after the omnibus Of for,in, determin-
ed to occupy an inside seat. Cuss the dri-
yer of that ere good luck line, I've seen him
stop his bosses for the meanest kind of men;
but he never would hold on to give Peter
Pewett lift, or if he did. there was break
down before long, sure.'' -E -a-
Watchman.-"Then to what do you at
tribute all this, Peter -
Peter.-"Whv, you must be green, old
Teller, not 10 know that attributes it TO
my inevitable destiny, Of course. tell you
there's no getin' over it. When | was in
Fort Brown, used to dodge the cannon
balls that the Mexicans used TO throw in on
US from Ma,ty Mores-but blow me ifthere's
any dodgin'-any shyin' this here inevitable
destiny its like that ere suit Of tar feathers
with which the folks sometimes clolhe
feler-it can't be shook nh''
Watchman 10 This is all gammon-an
stuff, Peter. What you call your inevitable
destiny is no justification for your conduct.
That plea is never put in the courts--ii Amt
in the ordinances"
Peter.-"Well, It's in the newspapers. Old
Teller, and reckon they're lee,ie ahead Of
newspapers say that its The inevitable des,i-
ny of the United States to whip all yaller
Mexicans, to annex all Mexico and TO do
whatever else it d-n pleases, Ell? Well
spose aint greater than the United States,
or freezer from the infirmilies Of poor hu-
man na.ur? ! reckon mott imagine moi.
Consequently, therefore, if whpt my wife
didn't the United States whip her-sis,er
republic and wasn't i. all inevitable des-
tiny. If left my old 'ooman when she
gave me all tongue and no tea, and annexed
myself to another, has not the United States
annexed Texas and is she not now agoin'
to hitch on to all Mexico, includin' The Cali
forneys? Well, who ses she shant, ain: it
in her case, like my own, all inevitable des-
tiny? ] tell you agin there's no backin'
out from this here inevitable destiny. It
keeps pokn Teller on with sharp stick
all the time and he can no more stop him
self than railroad locomotive when tho
engineer Amt in his place." .-. -.-5s
Watchman.-"O, all this may do very
well, Peter, for Newspaper law; but, as
Counsellor Sharppractice said the other day,
it amt in the books. am bound, therefore,
to take you to the wa,ch-house," and SO he
executed his professional obligation. Peter
feeling that it was his inerHable destiny to
be locked up for the night, went along with
all the passive composure Of member Of
the non-resislance society.