The true Democrat., 1856-12-09
A 1" Blower"

There is no denying that there is class of individuals who seem to think that there is nothing in life so desirable as being intimately acquainted with prominent public characters. We have read ofmany such, but Major Luckey, as described in the following, is most decidedly just whortleberry above the persimmon" of any of them:
 Few men have ever gone to Congress with more fun and popularity than Hon. Leslie Coombs, of Kentucky. In the way of anec- dote he is unequalled, while his mode of telling stories imparts a tone to them that no one can appreciate who has not heard them. Among the "characters'' that MT. Coombs knows like a book is old Major Luckey, whose taste for bragging amounts at times to the sublime.- Whenever the Major has a stranger in the neighborhood, he opens wide and spreads himself,' and with success that leaves us mo- thing to desire.
 The following scene took place between the Major and Colonel Peters, "late arrival' from Illinois:
 "Major, understand from General Coombs, that shortly after the revolution you visited England. How did you like the jaunt?"
 "Capitally! hadn't been in London five hours before Rex sent for me to play whist and devil of a time we had of it t!'
 Rex!-what Rex?" "Why, Rex the King-G1orge the Third The game came off at Windsor Castle; Rex and 1 played against Bil Pitt and Ned Burke, and resulted rather comically"
 "How sop
 "As we were playing the last game, Rex sad in rather a familiar manner: Major, suppose you are acquainted with Charles Washington are you not?"
 "No, sir-ee," said l. "I am not-but I'll tell you who am acquainted with-George Wash ington, the father of his country.'
 Father be d-d," said he, Che was a cursed rebel, and had l served him right, would have hung him long ago."
 "This, of course, ried me to that degree that just drew back and gave him blow between the eyes that felled him like bullock. The next moment Burke and Pitt mounted me, and in less than ten minutes my shirt and brooches were so torn and tattered that looked like Lazarus. This give me rather distaste for English society, so the next morning I set sail for America. Six weeks after 1 landed at Washington. The first person 1 met after en- tering the city was O."
 "Q?-What Q?"
 "Why, that d-d old federalist Quincy Adams. He wanted me to play nine pins with him, and did so. Won two hundred dollars at two shillings game, and then had row."
 "About what?'
 "He wanted to pay me off in Continental money, worth shilling peck. l got angry and knocked him into spittoon. While I still had him down Jim came and dragged me off to the White House."
 "What Jm?" '
 "Why, Jim Nadison( went, played euchre for two hours, when Tom came in, and insisted that should go home with him." r "What Tom?"
 "Why, Tom Jefferson. Jim, however, would not listen to it, and the consequence was that they went in to fight In the midst of it they fell over the banisters and dropped about fifty feet. When l left they were giving each other h--ll in the coal cellar. How 1t terminated 1 never could learn, as just then Martha ran in and said must accompany her to Mount Yer non to see George"
 "What Martha do you mean?"
 Martha Washington, wife to George Wash ington, the old boy that gave essy to the Hes sians"
 About here Coombs said the stranger begins to discover that he was swallowing things" 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 wallop- ing he gave George Rex is "the d--dest best thing on record"