Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-01-11
A GERMAN PiCTuRE.
OF THE s COT @ III


has been conveyed to our readers,
and we are now enabled to add a
few faint lines Of such a portrait of
;5cotchmen as obtains currency and
credence among the Germans.
a new play was produced at the
principal theatre of Vienna. The
scene is laid in St. Petersburgh; the
real hero is a little animal, known to
dog ianciers as Scotch terrier; but
the nominal chief character is a BAN
ker from Glasgow, named Suther-
land. He had failed in his native
place, but in Russia he became
great man; for he was The favorite
money-dealer OF the Empress Gath
crime.
We all know the,strength of the
Scotch constitution, but we also
know the severity of St Petersburg
winter; yet Mr. Sutherland presents
himself to his audience, amidst the
frozen scenery of that ice-bound city,
IN what's believed abroad tobe the
regular every day costume of citi-
zen OF Glasgow; namely, a kilt, Jack
boots and a cooked hat, with small
grove offunereal feathers. Mr.. Suth-
erland, despite his scanty neither cos
tune, appears to be in excellent
health and spirits. He has thriven
so well in the world that, in accor-
dance with tolerably correct esti-
mate Of the Caledonian national char
acter, ms relations at home begin to
pay court to him and to send him
presents. One indulges him with
the hero of the piece; the small, ugly,
irate, snuffy quadruped before men
toned. The Banker takesit with a
good humored 'Pishr little dreaming
of the important part the little wretch
is destined to play. He had scarce
ly received the gift when the EN-
press passes by, sees the dog, and
desires to possess it, while the CRATE
ful Sutherland is too glad to bo able
to crafty a royal caprice at SO light
a cost.
She, in the fervency of her graft
tude, named the dog after the donor
"a great compliment.
Alasl one day the dog, who had
eatento plentifully of zoo6reme (chick-
en- stewed with truff1es) was seized
with apoplexy and died, though not
without suspicion of having been
poisoned by the prime minister, a
piece of whose leg he had digested
the day before. The Empress sigh
ed far more over the loss ofher dog
than she would have done for that Of
her minister. The one might have
been easily replaced; she knew at
least twenty waiting open-moHthed
for the vacancy. But who could re-
place her four footed friend2-she
mourn him as loss utterly irrepara-
BILE. She orders the greatest mark
of affeetionate respect it is possible
to show to be performed on the dead
terrier. tl-
Ihe scene changes; il is night. night The
fortunate banker is seatedat dessert,
after an excellent dinuer of mutton
rosbIf and 'hot-a-meale-pour-ridges
and pitatas, indispensable to a North
Brlton; his legs are crossed, his feet
rest upon monstrous fender, which
he takes care to inform us he has re-
ceiyed from England, as he sits sip
ping his 'sherri port BIER and solilo-
quising pleasantly over the various
cha lces ofhis life. He is just about
to finish his evening with some 'croc,'
the English name for the pleasant in
ventendon of fAdmiral Grogram; his
servant enters to announce that the
chief executioner with file of sol
diers have just dropped in to say a
word on matter of business from
the Empress.
The awfuffunctionary, onstalking
INTO the room, exclaimed,
i am come
We'll, / see you are replied the
banker, trying to be facesious, but
feeling like a man with a sudden at
taUk OF ague.
by command Of the Empressp
Long may she iivei' Calculates
Sutherland heartily.
lit is really very delicate affair, >
says the executioner, who, like the
French Samson, is humane man;
land ! do not know how to break il
to you.
'Oh, pray, don't hesitate. What
would you like to .takei' asked the
banker, spilling the grog he tried to
hand to the horrid functionary, from
sheer fright.
The Envoy shakes his head gr;mly.
sItis what we must all cometo some
Day, be adds, after short pause.
What ISL In Heavens name do.
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