Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-10-21

Thoughts ttottghtfut than the past ones,
Pictures pictured not less true"
1t is customary with writer's of fiction 10
prefix to th-irchapters an appropriate quota
ton, either in prose or poetry. Truth. it is
said. is stranger than fiction, and Consequent
ly, is at least deserving of a poetical in
PRODUCTION. l mention this merely ex-
PLANTATION of the mystic verse above, which l
lose no time in assuring the reader was writ
ten by the author. whoever he is.
The heading to this article would seem to
Indicate that we were already en- route, for the
grand Capital across the channel, but We
deem il expcdient to fatigue the reader with
q detail account Of our preparations first,
and accordingly will introduce him to
MR. Pixies APARTMENTS.
PIKE is the son of gentleman Of fortune.
who resides in the city of New York. Pixies
apartments are furnished by Pixies lahdlady
Mrs. Beist. (The reader will please not
mistake my friends landlady for a quad
ruped.) QUAcKLEBUM, having previously in
timated that he would meet me there,
knocked at Mrs. Beist's door. in Peckham, on
the afternoon appointed. and was admitted
by that lady, who eudeavored to inform me at
the great risk of splitting her front teeth,
which We're falsely loose, that "Milst'r Pike
aud that ulther gentlum were waiting for me
ulp stairs"
Ascending the steps and entering the door
of No. l, on the first floor, discovered my
old travelling companion. Quacklebum, lux
irritating upon a Divan and coaxing vapor
through the stem of an antique Meerschaum,
while Mr. Pike was accomplishing pas seat
around the room with an open letter in one
hand and a broken pipestem in the other.
why what IS the matter Pike?n l exclaim-
ed, perceiving that the decanters were empty
on the table and fearful that my friend was
going into delirium tremens.
why I've got good news" cried Pike
tossing me the opened letter, land I'm off for
Paris continued he. resuming his gyrations
around the room until he ran his head into
q. pendant chandelier and smashed a cut-glass
globe.
There now" quietly remarked Quackle-
bum, chats the way you will fetch up in
Paris. You will run your head into the Bas-
tile Let that warn you, my dear fellow. not
to attempt a waltz along the Boulevards IN
der the influence of Bordeaux or Cham
payne
The drift of Pixies letter was. simply,
simple announcement on note paper, that ESQ
awaited his demands at Banking House in
London. and this was the secret cause of Mr..
Pixies graceful emotions.
gentlemen" said very gravely, to prove
was in earnest, II have honored you with a
call this afternoon for the purpose of arrang-
ing our departure for Paris this rery week
All in favor of such an arrangement say,
Aye"
All the members present, viva voce, stimuli
taneously, at the same time and both to-
gether yelled Aye so loud that Mrs.
Beist came TO Il door to see what was the
matter.
Fill them bottles said Pike in tone of
authority, now that he possess d the means
of dcfraying his tavern expenses-six weeks
In arrears.
Mrs Beist glided from the room tn execute
the order.
The decantrrs reill'd, it was moved that
we should hold a council of three, and that
Quacklebum should take the chair. That in
dividual waited not to hear the motion sec
onded, but intrepidly and with becoming
dignity moved towards the head of the table,
and placing his feet in the seat, brought him,
self to an anchor on the top round of the
largest chair in the room. and seizing GIN
GERBER bottle by the neck for gdrA he
called the house to order by three distinct
taps on the table and one under. This, he
said, was one of the "symbolical mysteries"
of our newly formed order (he meant mystic
symbols) and signifed three to one" that we
would at least be done" out of our last
in France, if not soused in the muddy wat RS
of the Seine The rloquent chairman speech
lied us for half short period, taking the
usual pr-caulion of public speak rs to ''wet
his whistle" at every paus'', until his remarks
become so rambling aud iHcuherent "a to defy
the skill OF the most expert stenographer to
catch the DRIFT of what he was driving at
However, he wound up hi, discourse by say
lug he thought we ought to ''have one more
night of it b.fore leaving" (Cries of laugh
t.r) And that he would volunteer to act
as general director and treasurer" Such
was the charlottesville conclusion of our au-
gust chairman. and we adjourned TO submit
ourselves to his guidance rs 10 how we should
spend ''lots of moaey" and
OUR LAST NIGHT IN LONDON.
Quackle' took the lead and we followed
him into an omnibus, which conveyed us to
the Elephant and Castle" We alighted and
took tea-then took cigar and Lighted All
three of us got into one cab and giving direc-
tiOns to 'cabby" to put US down at the Ly-
ceum Theatre, we raiil, d off in lively style,
forgetful of everything but the present, and
No. even dreaming enough of the future TO
reflect that the morrow would dnd us on the
shores of France. We were crossing Waterloo
Bridge, and Pike caught sight OF the comet
"Look there" said he, there is the comet
that was due here last September and you
can see il is not halt so large as was antici-
pated by the astronomers of the day.
allow do you account for that Quackle'!'
I asked.
'.why the fact is" replied the travelled
sage, lit mnst have taken sick on the road
AMI laid up for twelvemonth. which," con-
tinued he, eleva,ing his eyebrows with look
Of atorical wisdom. accounts for both the
dim nution and delay. and it couldn't come
Sg'
OF course we laughed heartily at this stale
joke, merely TO encourage the perpetrator.
We soon arrived at the Lyecum. procured
tickets for the pit-stals, and entered the little
Theatre The play WAS the 81 owe Chase,,-
Mrs Charles Young. fascinating little wo-