Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-01-23

verbs that have heslin' properties and told the
complaints to which each was best adapted. In
the present she suggested ground ivy tea with
sweetnin' in it. Stating very philOsOphicay, that
'twould certainly do no harm, if it done no good
Sam lowed Ga few draps of old rye would make 1t
more active in its operations"
The usual hour having arrived for retiring to
rest, Sam found bed in an adjoining room, and
being fatigued, was soon asleep. Leaving the wo-
men to take care of the sick, Reddy was about re-
firing also, when, apparently, stranger drove up
and requested accommodations for the night As
Reddy was in the habit of entertaining those who
called upon him, the traveller was invited to alight
and come in. Supper was soon prepared. the
horse properly cared for, aud the guest, in due
time, deposited in the room with Sam for the
night.
Bntwhat has all this to do with Sans voting
Well, it has great deal to do with it, reader. If
you remember rightly, 1 told you that Reddy kept
Sam ont of the way of his old political friends, up
to this time, fearing that he might be won back to
his first love; and you must not think that they
would sit quietly down and fold their hands under
such circumstances. Not they. Hence the ap-
pearance of the seeming stranger at Reddy's.
say seeming stranger, for it was, in fact, only
young man who resided in the neighbOrhOod and
who had volunteered to redeem Sam at all hazards
aud it was in the way stated that he sought adj
mittance to him.
When Power George, the youth alluded to, was
left alone with the obj ct of his search, he mme~
diately awoke him, and laying off the disgu that
| he had used to deceive Reddy, made himself known
He told SAM at once the great fears that were felt
on his account, and that he had come to ASCERTAIN
whether they were groundless or not
Il am sorry to say George said Sam, that it is
even worse, l fear than my friends anticipate
Yes am in scrape. But what is dor e cant be
ondid Bill Reddy tells me that have actly sold
myself to the id Dimocrats-says wa regularly
bought and signed over the day carried that note
down to the old High Priest; and that there's no
chance for my redemption
Perhaps, said George, it's not 50 bae as Reddy
represents it,
Reckon it's said Sam; Il brought of too many
presents fort to be otherwise. Dimocrats never
| give SO much for nuthin'. Besides, as well as
kin recolect, l was sorty typsy; and whe n old Sam
has a leete too much on board, there's no tellin'
what he'll do
But said George, IF you really we re drunk,
Sam, you ought not to be held accountable for
what you did,
Il know it's as you say, George; but tn en- a Teller
orient to make id fool of himself However,
I I'm in for it now, and when Sam Macrary once rec
ceives the bounty, he never deserts-he don't
George saw that nothing to be made by talking,
so he thought it best to drop the subject Before
retiring, however, he produced a flask of 'Cleages
best which Immediately disappeared the way that
all really good spirits. should go. The result Of
which was that Sam was soon glOriously tight
finally sinking into profound sleep, from which he
did not awake until about nine o'clock the follow
ing day, when, to his great establishment, ne found
himself at the house of his particular friend, Col
Galloway Sanders, about eight miles from where he
had retired the early part of the previous night
How he had been spirited away was more than
Sam could at first divine; yet, when he came to
| reflect on the circumstances connected with Power
Georges visit, he had slight impression that his
transpositon was in some way connected with that
event
However, solioquised Sam, the whole affair
seems rather oaaccountabe; and as a sort of htOne'
menE for the part that have played in it, shall
eff I'm able to get up Riceville, cast my vote for
Fillmore and Donelson. The fact is, I've been on
restless ever since sold myself to that old High
Priest, and I'll not be satisfied ontil return the
plumber the old cuss give me. It's true l sorty
hate to see Judge go back, but Sam Macrary could
never die in peace eff he felt himself under any
| obligations to a Dimocrat."