New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-18

PEPPERMG 'EM--ss Did ever tell you how
near l came to losing my election as Senator p"
said the Squire.
e No, / b'lieve not
.sWell, it was altogether owing to Waterem's
not having q sufficient supply of liquor on hand
You see, the main strength Of our party lies in
the upper end of the county specially among
the inhabitants Of the swamp, as it is called
So, you see, about two days before the election,
I sent Sam up among the Swampers with five
gallons Of the real hardware - tremendous
stuff-knock horse down--the last Waterem
had on hand About four hours back came
Sam, horse in perspiration, himself in fright,
and every thing indicating an untoward state
of affairs
" What's the matter, Sam 70 saysI.
6 Matterln said he, ssmatter enough-you
have outraged the feelings of the virtuous
Swampers; they swear that any man who ex-
can't afford ten gallons of whisky, is too mean
for the post; they won't vote for him.
Matters looked squally enough. Only one
storekeeper within days ride, and he Wing.
OF course he wouldn't sell any liquor to me SO
near election
" What did you do I"
"Called council Of war Immediately
yer Ross and several more. Ross proposed a
letter Of apology to the disafected, Rejected
VI.
was the fellow to help us out--always full of
expedients. He proposed to water the liquor
up to the right quantity. We did so, but on
$rying it found it much too weak for our friends.
Such stuff wouldn't go down with them. Gale
asked if we had any other spirits handed him
about a gallon of gin; in it went, tasted it, not
strong enough Found about quart of rum;
poured it IN. Sam tried it, Too weak said
he We were at our wits end. Red pepper
.os1 nj LIZ
he stirred it up s Capital!" said he. We
tried it, and nearly blistered our throats-it
would have killed rats. Sam took it up the
next day, explaining that it was all owing to
the scarcity of liquor in the neighborhood, that
a fresh supply of the best Old Mongahele' had
been obtained, and invited trial of its merits.
They were mollifed-pronounced it the srale
stuff, and | became Senator by majority of
two hundred votes
LOVE, SUICIDE AND MARRIAGB.-On Monday
we gave brief account of an attempt at self
destruction with pistol, at Ypsilanti, by q
young lady who arrived from Chicago in search
of young man who had been trifling with her
affections, to g break an honest promise in love- "
The young lady was not one of that kind who
Never told her love-
But let eonceament, like o worm Il thu bud
Feed on her damask cheek;
And with green and yellow melancholy,
cav LIKE fatlencs on a monument,
Smiling at griefn
She sailed out in search of her truant lover,
who lived at Ypsilanti. She came prepared for
desperate things. On her arrival, 1.-THE girl
be left behind him, found he was absent ct
Adrian, and she tried to shoot herself to assuage
her grief The mother of the young man, sup
posing he had been playing falsely with the fair
one, Immediately sent her off in charge of an
other som giving him one hundred dollars to
get an explanation, and have full justice melted
out, II justice was in the premises.
That she loved him (the one at Adrian) she
gave sufficient evidence after her arrival at Yp-
silanti, in the attempt to shuttle off her mortal
coil by the means Of !" villainous saltpetre, in
which she failed by a Sc flash of the pam" or
taking wide aim.
After starting for Adrian, the two proceeded
costly on the road as far as Salina--a distance
OF nine miles-from where, the next day, the
mother very unexpectedly received letter from
her son, saying, that after looking the subject
all over, be had concluded on the whole to marry
the girl himself; that the job had been done
up; and, that they had concluded to proceed to
New York, Saratoga, Nahant, Newport, etc,
to spend the honeymoon, and the-one hundred
dollars.
After making the acquaintance of the brother,
she evidently said to herself that
Nov my love Is thawed.
Which like a waxed image gainst fire
Bears no impression Of the thing it waan
towards the 'tother brother at Adrian. Under
the circumstances. inasmueh as it was ssall in
the family and :" d bird in the hand is worth
two in the bush,' she concluded to take the one
she could make sure of Surely, the Sc tide Of
true love never did run smooth" detroit Adv.
Tom Hood defines public sentiment as IS. the
average prejudice of mankind" Tom had seen
a thing or two.
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