New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-01-09
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There is no denying the fact that there is q
very large class OF individuals who seem to
think nothing in life so desirable as being init
mately acquainted with prominent public char
acters We have read of many such, and been
acquainted with few, but Major Lucky. as
described in the following good un,', is lust
!" huckleberry above the persimmon'' of any
of them.
Few men have ever gone to Congress with
more fun and popularity than the Hon. Leslie
Coombs, OF Kentucky. In the way of aneodete,
he Is unequalled, while his mode of telling ato-
rles lmparts tone to them that no one can ap-
preciate who has not made his acquaintance.
Among the ss characters Mr.. Coonbs knows
like book, is old Major Lucky, whose taste for
| Dragging amounts, at times, to the sublime.
whenever the Major has a stranger in the
nelghborhood, he "opens wide, and spreads him.
self, and with success that leaves nothing to
DESIRE The following scene took place between
the Major and Col Peters, ss a late arrival %
from Illinois,
Major, understand from Gen. Coombs.
that shortly after the Revolution you visited
England; how did you like the jaunt p
"Capitally had not been in London five
hours before Rex sent for me to play whist, and
devil of a time we had of it,
Rex what Rex ''
"W Why, Rex, the King-George the Third
The game came off at Windsor Gastle-Rex and
resulted rather eomically.''
g How so? ~
. as we were playing the last game, Rex said,
In rather familiar manner
Major, suppose you know Charles Wash
ington, do you not
".No, SIR says |. 4 do net--but I'll tell you
who do know: George Washington, the Father
of his country
"' Father be hanged says he; he was q
cursed rebel, and had l served him right, he
would have been hung long ago.
:" Ihls OF course riled me, and to that degree,
that just drew back, and gave him blow be-
tween the eyes that felled him like q bullock.
The next moment Burke and Pitt mounted me,
and In less than ten minutes my shirt and
nreeches were so torn and tattered that looked
ike Lazarus This gave me rather distaste
for English society, SO the next morning set
SAIL Tor America. Six weeks afterwards LANDED
at Washington. The first person I met, after
entering the city, was o.
90! what Or
Why, that old federalist, Quincy Adams.
DE wanted me to play nine pins with him, and
did SO. Won $500 at two shillings d game,
and then had q row.
sc About what ~ & =s=s
He wanted to pay me off in continental
money, worth about shilling a peck. I got
angry, and knocked him into spittoon. While
I still had him down, Jim came in, and drap-
ged me off to the White House."
What Jim" "
"Why, Jim Madison 1 went, played euchre
for two hours, when Tom came in, and insist
ed that should go home with him.
what Tom 20
why, Tom Jefferson. Jim, however, would
not listen to it, and the consequence was that
they went into fight. In the midst of it, they
tell over the banisters, and dropped about fifty
feet; When left, they were giving each other
hts in the coal cellar. How it terminated, L
never could learn, as just then Martha ran
in, and said must accompany her to Mount
Vernon, to see George;'"
"What Martha do you mean /" IS 5a,5
"Martha Washington. wife to George, the old
boy that gave jesse to the Hessians .
About here, Coombs said the stranger began
to discover that he was s'swallowing thingsl'
The next stage that came along he took passage
for an adjacent town. The Major, we believe,
is still living, and still believes that the wal
Looping he gave George Rex is &c the best thing
on record"