Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1851-01-11

take in Sutherland's mind as 20 the
nature of the operation he is 10 be
called upon TO undergo.
The executioner now lays his hand
significantly upon poor Sutherland's
collar, and looks into his face as 4 to
inquire ifhe had any particular or pc
culiar fancy as 10 the mode in which
he would like to GO through the pre-
paratory operation of being killed.
j have brought the straw he says,
and two assistants are without. The
Empress cannot wait; and we have
not got your measure for the glass
case yet
The banker looks the verp picture
of abject misery; but Britons in for
eign countries are always ready TO
buy everything, and the banker had
lived long enough in Russia to know
the value of 2 bribe. He therefore
offers one so considerable, that his
grim visitor is touched. and endea-
yors to lull his sense of duty by
sophistry.
Il was told, indeed, to have you
stuffed he reasons, 'and got ready
for the Empress; but nothing was
said about time; SO don't mind Civ
in you halfan hour ifyou can satisfy
these gentlemen--' and he turns TO
his associates.
Ii is briefly done. The banker
pays like a man whose life depends
on his liberahty-we suppose several
millions---for the executioner re-
mark that he cannot forget that a
groom in england frequently receives
several thousands sterling year;
this is very prevalent idea among
the Frankish and Teutonic nations of
the Continent. We once heard
Spanish general assert in large as
sembly, that the usual pay of AIN En-
glish ensign was FIVE hundred pounds
a month, an idea doubtless derive d
from some lberian dramatist; and
therefore a public functionary like
executioner must be remunerated
proportionably higher. The enor-
nous pecmiary sacrifice gets for
Sutherland some half-hours respite,
which he wisely used by used by fly-
ing TO the British Ambassador, Sir
Bifstik, and awaits the result with
great anguish.
Sir Bifstik goes to the Empress.
He is admitted. He asks if her Ma
jesty be aware of the position of
British subject named Sutherland
Excellent man. says her Majes-
ty, mol What is itl'
Sir Bifstik bows low at the tones
of the Imperial voice, and now be-
gins TO explain himself with some
thing more than diplomatic haste,
thinking, perhaps, that already the
fatal straw may be filling The bankers
members.
Imperial Catherine does not, of
course, consider the putting 10 death
of a mere Scotch banker, and making
him in reality what some of their
brethren are sometimes called figur-
atlvely--a man of straw--worth this
fuss; and sets the ambassador down
in her mind as a person of. wild re-
publican ideas, who ought to be re-
calledas soon as possible by his Gov
ernment, and placed under proper
surveillance; but nevert eless, she
causes some inquiries to he made,
and learns thatit is in consequence
of her having ordered Sutherland
to be stuffed, that heis probably then
undergoing that operation.
Sir BifstIk expresses such horror
and CONSERVATION at this intelligence,
that the Empress believes his mind
to be disordered.
What possible consequence can
the accidental stuffipg of Scotch
banker be 10 you, milor?' she asks.
The accidental stuffing Of a Scotch
er bankersp in q German idiom not
generally used by our nobility, gasps
Sir Biistik, mechanically, with pale
lips and bristling hair.
Take him awayl He is madl'
screams the Empress, thinking that
no sane person could be concerned
about such trifling affair, and in
another moment the most sacred of
international laws would have been
violated (en the STACEY, and Great
Britain insulted by profane hands
being lald on the person other ambas-
sador, when all at once light breaks
over the minds Of Her Majesty
-therecalling Of something forgotten.
She exclaims with a Russian noncsa-
lance quite cheering to behold, 'Oh,
] remember; now it is easily explain
ed. My poor little dog q had forgot
ten him too) died yesterday, and |
wished his body to be preserved.
Cher cher, his name WAS inc same