Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-01-24
SUDDEN ME1AsIoRPHosIs OF P, COLA

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| Messrs. EDrroRs: am living illustration of mar
vellous metamorphosis which, curious specimen Of
its kind, think the world should be made acquainted
with My wife says that / a wonderfully changed
man within the last fortnight. But to 20 back little.
am the only son Of Suffolk county farmer shoe
maker by profession about FIVE feet nine in my stockings
and of good girth in the waist not stout though My
business is toerably prosperous Of rather positive dis
poston-so much that when any friends have encoun
tered me they generally knew their man. Now my own
wife processes not TO know me, and believe the
poor woman does not Let me explain: About a fort
night ago. used to go about my business in plain suit
of black with the ordinary round beaver my
ton in the old English tongue, and WASH the habit
of dining at home of plain domestic dish. My name
Colfax, and was American. rather think that
am at the present moment Louis Kossuth and Hunga-
rian and will try and explain to you how this wonderful
transformation has come about
Some weeks ago, have said, there arrived on Sta
ten Island down the bay of New York, in of the At
lantic steamers, a gentleman Of the Of Kossuth
who had reached this city than he set the whole
town topsyturvy. Every body left off their customary
business and pleasure whatever they might be- and fell
TO talking visiting, speaking addressing, delegang COM
mtteeing, and eating Kossuh. In this last particular
such furious set of cannbas was never before known
Every day there was q grand feast and every day the
standing dish at the Irving House. at the Asor, at Trip
Ter Hall, toyows Kossuth resisted the epidemic
to the utmost Of my power, but il was Of no avail one
day had occasion, being detained in the swamp by de-
lays in the purchase Of couple of sides Of sole leather
to dine Of the eating-hou in Nassau street
They stuffed me with beef Ia Kossuth and topped me
OFF with kossuth pudding Inc next uay needing new
coat and fixing upon ready made" before knew it
they had capped in a Kossuth coat and when only
Yesterday invested in hat, (my old beaver was,
truth TO tell, awfully rusty,) found myself striding
through the streets in Hungarian castor, Kossuth fash
ion with a great black feather flying "over the left
You see am a changed man | am longer myself,
Peter Colfax, cobber, but another altogether My
wife, too poor creature! has also caught the infection
from me- and is by force Of example and the stress Of
the public opinion in the neghborhood carried away so
far that she halls whenever in from the shop,
with o clamorous Ellen Kossuth Well! | suppose we
may well submit with good grace and as every body
has dash at the great Hungarian Gon may as well
go in for slice with the But how is 1t TO be
compshed? What / do to get my share? am not
clergyman, / cannot head delegation; no politician
70 lead in committee lawyer-where's the use Of
the Bar banquet then, to me- can't advertise my half
soed shoes as Kossuh shoes for never advertise What
then to be done Ny wife suggests road out of the
difficulty One day last week that excellent lady Mrs
c. Heaven bless her exceedingly fortunate as TO
be brought bed Of fine pair Of boys as sweet cou
pie Of twins you Now for bold stroke Of
woman's invention To share Of the glory
which every bedy appears to be greedy for she proposes
TO name both the boys KossUTH That viii do, think
Two Kossuths in familythnk Of that We worship
pers Of human greatness and hide your heads in the door
Of Bunker Hin Monument, the depth of the Mammoth
Cave wherever else you get admission for your
outgeneTaled heads
Your servant, p CoLFAX.