The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-02-04

.. short time since at dinner party met
Tom Owen, ths Bee IIunts wv, vas 4 ~ r ,s
called on or song story. Several eerflenen ops IN
sisted upon having some adseu1ass Tom Owen. f5ad
tne Arkansas MsJof after proper PROFESSIONS OF paI,y d
for your paper. v ''A''-,1's-
the good city Of New Orleans, busy ,gria.- sh, -
horses, politics other exciting subject ,s,
there suddenly appeared at my elbow a small IN,
weli-made and rather strangeIy-dressed pentlemas
who seemed to be scanning me with impertineut
interest !" think, said he finally, with very mark
ed dellberaton, that ann right in my cornprehen-
sions, and thereupon handed me note written M
on piece Of paper that had originally been the COW
erlng Of a pack Of Slime linen cards" opened The
note, and found the following
Tom orsn-Permit introduce to your especial regard
my particular friend, the Arkansas MaoF.''
Yours. PErE WHrrsToSK.
With all haste | greeted the Major with what
he was pleased TO cali a warm welcome. and was
on the point Of going into some particulars relative
70 the attractions Of the city, including cabs balls
races, theatres and kinaFed sports when the Major
cut me snort by saying that he had ordered three
seats ior dinner at the ST. Charles and that he would
expect me to dine with him. as well as his friend
. the Mississippi Colonel" At the proper time
was " in my place; = the dinner was Of course. ex
ceient, and my companions were rare indeed Al
though perfect stranger an hour before the Major
knew everybody, and was as familiar as a shovel
and tongs; he knew all things, and knew nothing.
Among many things, he mistook the bald-headed
walters Tor grave and distinguished citizensn and
gentlemen Of high standing he called by some "a
nillar soubuquet; he praised " "Arkansawv and
abused 1t IN the same breath and while discIairn-
ing his knowledge Of any drink but whisky he or;
dered the best and most costly wines and invariably
anteed at least dollar on a bottle over the Mis-
slssIpPI Colonel in prices, pretending at the same
tiihe not 70 know the OF bill Of fare. His con
yeIsation was glorious, er@yb0ay at the table was
Ha fall aI l.
was republican enough to let all Of the outsders'
come IN tor full share; so much was this the case
that even the fast line, that usually put through
with such promptness, fingered over the dinner
ROAD as II unusually interrupted But why attempt
10 give any idea Of the Arkansas Major; he was as
he said himself, sui generous and the fuss he kick
ed up al the St. Charles in the twenty-four hours
ne domielllated there, is doubt an era in the
minds Of the lessees OF that pFincely establishment
as 1t sui Is In the minds OF all who on that ocea-
sion, had the pleasure of gathering up the crumbs
that fell 50 plentifuy from his Intellectual store
house. One incIdent only, will | relate as a speci-
men oil all he did and said. Pushing his wine
about, and rattng with an almost superhuman
velocity, ms eye suddenly rested upon the very
modest but rather venerable waiter near his elbow
And what is your name, my friend ?" inquired he
with every mark of interest in his tone and eve
" Fathrlc Doolan at your honor's service" said the
son Of Erin, who had met one of the boys' often
Well, Patrick" hall-soliloquized half.address-
Gu tne NAdJorj you are wasting yourself here wait
ing on this table, you were born for something bet
ter, you want country TO live in Patrick OF a free
ar and genial soil. Come 10 Arkansas Patrick
manyan uglier man than you has carried oil a widow
oil hity niggers in two days courtship, and so can
YOU and then turning on all present generally he
continued " Arkansas is the place to encourage tai
emit to foster genius; shall forget the arrival
In Juniper county of Peletiah Coffin from down
east he showed inio the village of Yelisever one
evening" mounted on a wagon all hung over with
TN Kettles, the happlest and most humble man liv-
ing That very night, Peletiah got the buck ague
and before he got well, the niggers In the stable
yard had stolen all his property the fore-wheels Of
his vehicle We're used water-cart, and the doc
tor got what little money he had for his pills and
potlons. think that Peleiiah when he fully real.
Ized his situation little the most miserable
/ man that ever made; ruined and busted up
even his Yankee was done for but, gentlemen, ex-
claimed the Major, warming up, g Peietiah was in
| Arkansaw, encouraged him with this idea, and
raised hs dropping spirits with the prospect Of
cess, and nothing else offered peletiah conclu-
| ded to run for the State Senate His opponent
had never been beaten; old General Buzfuz in his
district, was considered invincbe he it was who
got the law passed giving high premium for wolf
scalPs, and another making horse stealing more
criminal than murder. When Peetiah started ont
the 'wire-workers sneered, and the office holders
jeered, and old General Buzfuz said the damn'd
Yankee was fool But Peletiah had, upon my
representation, abiding confidence in the people
and his determination to get office he could need
ed no encouragement. To work he went and after
some labor learned the Declaration OF Indepen-
dence by rote, and thus fortified he visited every
hnstlng and reeited the solemn document from be-
ginning to end the sovereigns listened and were
entranced, and, coming to the unanimous concll-
sion that man that could get up and tall that
tc0g OF -Isd1ld should have chance he was elect
ed by unanimous vote-a glorious example of
the discrimination and hberaliy OF the greatest of
states, old Hackensack let's all liquor her pros
perity"
The Major disappeared, aud the vacuum he left
IN the society which particularly interested me was
hlled up by other excItements, and he was some
what forgotten. Little dreaming of his wherea-
bouts was few months since standing in front
OF fashionable hotel in Philadelphia, when saw
carriage pull up, from which the driver assisted
gentleman gloriously nebriated. The victim was
| spoutlng catches OF baekwoods songs, mixed up
with remarks about :. mpressabe liberty and the
glorles OF Arkansas" The mere mention OF that
name struck latent memory, for instantly recog-
| nized the veritable Major, and nobody else"
lie was dressed in the height OF fashion, and OF
course had overdone the thing amazingly, and il
struck me that he had fallen remarkably early in
the campaign, and at rather rough dinner party.
With conmendable kindness assisted him up the
steps, and upon my being recognized was greeted
with " bar hug, and pulled with little force
to his room. 1t was easy to perceive, not only by
the Majors appearance, but by the dapidated con
| dltlon OF his robbeT-proof" trunks that, like
| an unseen comet he had been going il all
the while, and had been constantly some
thing in crowd" and at times great deal
more He ratified usual and gave me an
epitome OF variety of travels, until he finally
got TO Philadelphia, where he had run into a
" stand oi fashionable relations who were, accord
ing to the acknowledgement of society," and in the
Majors opinion, the highest sgony.'s The Major
had a kind heart and pretty cousins he could love-
but he found them inhedged so completely by the
ceremonies OF city society, that his manners though
so winning at the table d'h6te and 50 taking at a
corn-shucking the Rolling Fork and withal, so
characteristic OF the largest liberty were rather in
harmonious in the parlor and at the "uproaFn and
after many attempts to adopt the genteel" he gave
1t Up IN despair, and confined his movements, as
general rule, TO public rather than private circles
10 one dinner party he had in an evil hour prom
lsed attehdance-trom which dinner he had lust re-
turned. The Major said he accepted the unfortu-
nate invitation because it was represented to be
en- tamitte, and as he had never seen any thing of
that sort, he concluded to 60.
Whatever may have been my pride in the Major,
or however much might have felt disposed to be.
lleve hun capable in any emergency, yet must
aehnowIedge that .is heart failed him at the idea
OF dining with fashionable family, although he
would have asked no odds if he were going 10 meet
an oo be bar in bush fight, or be popped at in
deeI As near as could learn, the Major fell that
.he occasion was important one /; he said that
he considered the reputation uf Arkansas at stake
IN the matter, and he was not only determined to
go, but he was determined 10 act as easy as if he
We're at hOme dining on hog and hominy, To rem