Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-05-15
gasRSiIIs Onion apS Snsritan.
MYSTERY OF THE
SPANISH MILLED DOLLAR"

"Chick-any, Chick any, Crany croEl
81 went to the we'll to wash my toe,-
When came hscs,-my chicken was gone:

al the we'll to wash my toe.-
when came hsek,-my chicken gone:
%what Oclcck old xiteh7"
) told Nursery Play
There Wers early times come characters aud amusing
incidents at the little log ewn the Blur, where tn
beautiful capitol Of Tennessee when sour cid town vas Young
three quarters Of century passed away since then
Sufficient assgn the 10Th and JItl
days January, Is5, the dice ocOsa yse9ogdays
Old sedge" Trip Trap. Cut" RaIe and Snap
And very know much Of the chief personsg
though them. They acquired Distinction
noOriey. They acquired also, Prsperybut above an
high sounding distinction. These prominent individuals
we'll known King Boyd,r Of the = Red Her,
mysterious Sam Martini" with the silver spurs" The
sober Of industry and dignity, though he owned the
Red Hefer" The ether queer gddy, Jolly fellow who
loved Whlskey and himself The excellent company
and to be staoner and substance, bringing his family
truck" with The other cane but without family and
without truck" The distilled Wiskey the other tasted
it, Boyd came settled, died. and buried here Sam came
went and then dssppearedand whether he dead
buried know not The character Boyd rpspecs
that of SAM according to earliest historian, ROns Of the
best.''
He ought adde any man character was as good as
Red Heller whiskey."
We shall not trry to discuss either We story
long enough without debating sihes question: and tell ia less
tme and with not half the excitement Of King Boyd Oily
! Sam.
he 10Th and days January I7s5 were Monday and
Tusdayhe two preceding days Sunday and Saturday
and yoa to count your fingers you will find
that New Years day Saturday, the day thereafter
Sabbath day.
WE'LL this enough about the time The events to which We
turn back our attention, aDired all along those
I days.
We have thus mentioned time the place. and the chief per-
The incidents belong these As Hood said to
himself when he PLAYED POssum and deceived the Indiana
nohng could have been did without time pacs and actors
Now is to be forgotten that Heisr was An
I ffrff1 II
street path called by the first the Fort and
by the earliest debtors Ia prisOnbounds place OF pub
lie and general resort head quarters news depot for pes
and fresh neatshe 0mnum Gatherum osWof soaIps deer
SKINS bear skins and buffalo robes The market Of our
incPien city place did cOnEregate women
Boys and girls Otter Spout Spring.
and often their mothers with to be recorded
to the honor Of John Boyd and OF Martini that they ave
neither whiskey tobacco boys They had to come for
water, they need not fer Ehskey.
The Spout Spring dashed pure Limestone water ever the bluff
at the east end Of Spring street" consecrad Church
street, and there the This heller has been dead
three years. has the Buffalo Bull" OF Mont
gOmey cOunybut the natural and the hybrid progeny suc
ers and Pu sEsggrss aud saggerers yet numerous
in city, town and country.
"Our army terribly in Panders'
And the Of snes imposed record by
earliest court, prove tsarers aud the
'rpout sEeareS all within
Dissertations OF the Sabbath gdy punished by the
pioneer settlers and through the years last century, than
at the present day. due allowance being made then abnor
NAL condition Of things in these wild woods
1t is true, the fines small; five shngs getting
drunk for prOf4ne swearing for SABBATH breagng
being the usual figure WeknOE instance in which B.
the brother o. the chief either, fined f5 believe the
records show that he Immediately paid money court thus
cOnfesng his ofnce the business Of the condemnation Civ.
ing hope Of amendment Captain Rains, was g.ie g-en
to this mode ofspng and teng his conversation, always
paid his fines like means The eoutnen
tai paper with which such fines paid became associated
in the minds Of thousands, peculiar hrAseoloy in pro-
family And wish this that years in advance OF
the living ministry here the magistrates leading pioneers
condemned and punished by fines hundred instances proan
ty and Sabbath breaking.
Nov, know that John Boyd got one scraps-Was
indicted and narrowly escaped beginning
bath and although the Red Her publicly MIXED
on six days othe week, yet the seventh
slumier Sometimes little quantity drawn on sar
day evenings and suckers trred long the dug
must accept the report or what vOrth that there were
some 'thirsty SOULS, Who would take Sabbath mornings
STROLL dscend near the rivers brink on desperate
deeds INTENT then Chamber up the steps enter through
the door, but by some other and get drink The
prOof VIAL and the neatly scraped buffalo there,
each by their leather string suspendedand the hasitues we're
not backward to help themselves and drinks
honorable and honest Come would drop the shilling the
" TILL" then go their way silence.
We have long cherished Sabbath We would
sScreness state,
teSl tale Others told it, unless peep the
dstillery that Lords day, January, I7s5
We do not feel ourselves under necessity telling all
there, little boy might revealed the names
Modesty will not forbid saying that Martin
And he not there like Capt. Rains Buffalo Bull''in
gang by hiself-some of the herd there him.
The effects Of Sunday sdisspatiOn will appear Monday
ASH unlawful to trade Sabbath cfen
hibite ready mind to make for "lost time
gains re secular day. 1t certainly that
those early times Cumberland there very drink
ing and carOusing the Sabbath troops were
marched into the settlements, officially instructed traverse the
woods discover and destroy every enemy enemy
introduced partly under such auspices which vage
relentless and protraed upon human happiness
life than that bloody Of fifteen years, 1850 by the
Indians. Whskey part raons-an army
provision The burden Of the pack key Ehkey
key POWDER fifty pounds marvellous little leak
would sometimes be found diminished quantity
and weight of the Whky that the lead change
the powder and then the officers could only sxca
hath done hus" Ah noisy rather equal guide,
acquaintance Of their set and sort.
sometimes happened the Red Heier.
said liquor strangely leaked than sold Spgot"
Liquor and small change sometimes mar7elousy missing
He for hours with his cheek upon his open hand
his knee watching doing condition, like the hare,
eye open, whilst the other slept he detected and exposed any
petty rceny-hs entered criminal prosecution
The make whiSkey includes other priyilegs-tOh hold
in allegiance defiance extent laws both human
divine 'vhere the carron is thheF the buzEards
will gathered together and where they thus attracted
they may expected glos guand who should hinder
Not he who prepared the feast. -..
The time passed. yet come revelation Of all
that the Red Heifsr !" but behind pun
cheons, was private apartment, cory retreat
Old sedge" " Seven Up" and Dodge Devil"
sometimes played but Sunday far
able to discover.
Who ensconced there, know not Those may speculate
liquor, experimented by heads tas ad
jusd by tickets demand" People of day
nsver sights undergo the trsls OF the Cumberland
TONERS In the century. We like epome when it
faithful and plain cOmpadonWs value germ when we
know that of richness sweetness glory
and power Of society government here
in 1850 Is5 ls5sand generations yet come
will and he vices through the present get
earlier ages and ancestors.
The brought Of their Them
they did their plumber Their virtues their may
traced now adays without difficulty The good very good
but the bad-ke Jsrsmiahs fgs-sre naughty evil"
even 20 thrown to the dogs
yet how strangely peverss human nasure-unving
part luggage and old vices It early days.
50 in ours Passsby good men, Odsn
had and defects and vices.
John Boyd a worthy man, but saint Sam Martin gas
sinner devil. Boyd came have said, in good
company arrived here 96th April 1884, having his habits
his his family with him. But whence and how Sam
Martin came remains question for qusrs which feel
disposed to give like that which gave
after be had described Elk With branching
feet each ay bounding through forests OF Kentucky.