New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-10-28
A, "Diower."

There is nc denying that there is class OF indivi
i1as who seem to think that there is nothing in life
SO desirable as beins intimately acquainted with
prominent public characters We have read OF many
such, but Major Llckey. described IN the following
is most decidedly just huckeberry above the per
| simmon Of any OF them: 80
Few men have ever gone to congress WIN more
fun and popularity than Hon Leslie Coom9s, OF Men
lucky In the way of aneddote he is unequalled while
his mode of telling stories mparts tone to them that
| no one can appreciate who has not heard them
| Among the " characters y that Mr.. Coombs knows
like book is old Maj Luekey whose tastes Tor bng
| Major has a stranger in the neignborhood, he opens
wide aud spreads himself, and with success thai
| leaves us nothing to desire
| The following scene took place between the Major
and Colonel Peters, q late arrival from Illinois:
| T" Major, l understand from Gen Coombs that
shortly after the revolution you visited England How
| did you like the iaunt ?"
"Captally hadn't been in London five hours
before Rex sent for me to play whist and devil OF
time we had of it y
"ReX what Rex ?H
"Why, Rex the King-Georse the Third. The
game came off at Windsor Castle Rex ana pay,
ing against Billy Pitt and Ned Burke, and resulted
| rather comically.'
"Hcw so p
GAS we were playing the last game, Rex said, in
rather q familiar manner; MAJOR suppose you are
acquainted with Charles Washington, are you not "
.;'No Stree" said |, ! am not-bnt Ill tell you
who am acquainted with-George Washington, the
| Father of his Country,
"sFatler be id says he; 'he was cursed re-
| bel and had | served him right | would have hung
| him long ago."
'!Tls, of course, riled me to that degree that
| lust drew back and gave him Il blow between the
eyes that elled him like bullock The next moment,
Burke and Pitt mounted me, and in less than ten
minutes my shirt and breeches 50 torn and tat
tered, that l looked like LAZARUS This gave me
rather distasc for English society so the next morn
ing set sail for America Six weeks after landed
at Washington. The first person | met after enter
ing the city, was O.
"Q?-what o.;
''Why. that id old FedeIast, Quincy Adams.
He wanted me to play nine pins with him, and did
so. Won 5000 at two shngs game, and then had
row."
About WHAT"
He wanted to pay me off in Continental money
worth shilling peck. I got angry, and knocked
him into spittoon. While l still had him down lin
came in and dragged me off to the White House."
"What JIM
two hours, when Tom came in and insisted that
should go home with him.
Sc 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 ban
listers and dropped about fifty feet When left they
were giving each other HI in the coal cellar. How
ran in and said must accompany her to Mount Yer
non to see George"
| "What Martha do you mean:''
| "Martha Washington wife to George Washington,
the old boy that gave Jessy to the bloody Hessans"
About here Coombs said the stranger began to dis
cover that he was swallowing things" The next
stage that came along he took passage for daccnt
town. The Major, we, believe, is still living, and still
believes that the walloping he gave George Rex is
| '' the d-dcst best thing en- record