Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1857-01-07


plies and then called in FIVE females to consult up
on AID devise mode of procedure. The billet
doux were divided among the council, and each
was to make an appointment with the writer's for
the next Saturday, al four O'clock at the saloon of
restaurant in Broadway. The story is admirably
told:
"It was agreed that the whole six should be
present at the interview, and that each should wear
the exact costume prescribed for the inamorata
whom the signing SWANS would be there to see.
On the other hand, the gentlemea were directed to
appear in all the varieties of attire and position
which ingenuity and mischief could devise. One
was requested to wear blue coat and bright but
tons; another buff vest; another was to have a
drab unmentionables; another ChalPs CATERS; an,
other, to sport lilac glove; another, blue scarf;
one gentleman to have his hair parted in the
middle; another to lean his cheek pensiyely
upon bis hand; another was to fold his arms; anor
Their, 70 lean back frequently, with his chair sght>
y on tilt; another, TO lay his cane over the corN
Of the table; another, to have hat with fresh
white lining; another, drab Wide.awake, and sns
other cap. Then, again, one was to be eating
Charlotte Russo; another was to be INDUCING in
plate Of Duck another, ice>cream; and, we might
as well say it, one swain, who wrote peculiarly
delcate.banded note, was requested to be miners
ed in the awful mysteries of plate of pork and
beans'-'a dish which, said the ingenious writer
who dictated it, you scarcely expect will be
called for by any body else
At four o'clock on the prescribed Saturday af.
ternoon, in every chair and at every table on the
lower side of the up stairs saloon, were sick look
ing highly perfumed Leanders, all gazing into each
others faces, and each secretly cursng the luck
which wedged him so closely out of the killing po-
sitions and display which he had medtated ever
since he got his note. And how the dishes smoked,
and the wondering walters 1ewl Even the per-
picked landlord, amazed at this miraculous flow Of
business, was obliged to drop his own mntton
chop and call out the force of its entire establish
ment TO meet the clamorous, if not threatening,
demands OF gentlemen, who feared that they might
not get their teegraphic plate of duck, or mess Of
pork and beans.
In degree, as the shortening minutes kept creep.
ing closer and closer to the hour, the rustic that
was heard coming up the staircase, the sig
nal for the fash of one hundred and twenty-one
white faces in that direction. At length o'clock
struck, and though just at that moment no lady
| appeared rising from the stairs, an ndescribable
| sound of anxiety pervaded the entire room, like
that made by a congregation rising from prayer,
or what Irving describes the indescribable noise
caused by the falling of snow. Every hat was in
its exact place, every cane and handkerchief was
! properly displayed, and every gaiter-wbether on
a huff or pettitoe-was lavishy turned ont for the
admiring inspection of the myth of the matrimo.
NAL column.
At length the clash of sheen and click of stiff
! skirts heard coming up the stairs; one minute
after four and inamorata appeared, dressed in
dark green, with deep fur cap and abundant droop.
ing lace. She was wafered on the back of the head
with an infnitesimal bonnet, and carried in her
| hand the magic drift of cambria, whose Shakspea.
rian strawberries intimated that she she. When
she appeared the sensation was universal; tue gen
| tleman with the buff vest threw open his coat to
the extreme; the gentleman in the 'blue" and the
bright button buttoDed his entire TO the chin
| the gentleman who was to eau backwards fire.
! quenty commenced fitting like Chinese manda,
lin; the gentleman with the pork of beans became
vociferous for more beans; while those who had
duck, &c, were equally clamoroGs in complaining
| Of the undue fufllment Of their orders.
Never was there such a Sudden camor heard in
that usually well regulated upstairs saloon before
| and, by the by, never did it subside more sud-
| denly than when new brush of skirts was heard
| coming up the stairs. AL the Lo.harvs were once
more in position, when 10 another Cordea, 10 all
respects the reflex of the FIRST appeared, bearing
J the film OF strawberries as challenge in her hand
and sweeping with it, ike Juno, to a seat near
the location of the first 1t is needless to say that
| the sensation was now extreme. Some of the gems
| tlemen who were to part their hair in the middle
| began, however, to look less furiously at other
| gentlemen who had their hair parted in the same
| way, as much as to say, We'll, there is one for
| each of Us, anyhow But most of the party seems
| ed more troubled than before. A pause Of some
| minutes succeeded before any new Appearances
| took place during which time the Lotharios we're
engaged in displaying their points to the best al
vantage; and some, ardent than the rest pull.
ed out the various colored notes they had received
and either pretended to read them, or laid them
! conspcuously on the table. There's one of my
fellows with the blue note, said Mystery No. /,
over her spoonful Of soup, to Mystery No. q
There's one ofmine' said COrdia the second; he's
! got pink note 'What do YOU think ofAugustus
there, with the pork and beans before him, who is
so peusivey leaning his cheek upon his hand?
said Myth the first; but before the could be
given, apparitions three and four appeared, and
hard upon their heels come numbers five aud six
There was now perfect Consideration on the
lower side OF the up stairs saloon Of the lashiona.
bic restaurant in Broadway. The man on the till
fell backward and was shot under the table, there
was general feeling after hats and gathering up
of loose handkerchiefs and canes.
All at once, after one OF those short, sudden
pauics which convey electric knowledge to the hu-
man mind; q general / impede took place, and H.
whole party, with more or less of dignity, accord
ing to their naturas and tho shapes they had beer
put in, made for the door and descended out o
sight. IL was several minutes before they coulC
hand in their checks ard pay the score, and during
this time the mis- chevous bevy with the straw berry
marked handkerchieis took full pay for all the
trouble, in the merry laugh which they INDUCED
| in at the ndecOrous tabeaux and exodus they haC
Just beheld, on the part Of gentlemen who were p
sharp after the snug little fortune aud whose mo
tves were entirely confined to the object of getting
"a congenia partner. with whom they could quietl!
settle down in Hie ;