Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-23
Brio Ks is Honored with a serenade

| Brio KS is Honored with Serenade'
To the Editors Of the Daily Patriot,
GENTLEMEN Il am far from cherishing a
desire to utter remark with sufficient de
gree of lldenness to surprise you,-but the
fact is, lave been serenaded- The P~culial
| circumstances under which this unexpected
compliment was paid me, and the still more
| peculiar circumstances under which it was
paid for by me, are herewith submitted as q
beacon-light 10 warn other distinguished
| itinerant politicians from the musical rock OF
which 1 split, and, may say, amid whose
breakers went down in fifty feet water.
| As you are aware, am calvassing thi:
county for DOUGLAS. The Secession emoc-
racy claim a majority Of nine hundred and
forty three, but 1 am satisfied that if keep
on making such speeches as L have been ma
king for a couple of weeks past, shall carry
the county for DOUGLAS by at least thou
sand. When return to town mean to get
you together in your sanctum and do you
the favor to delivey my speech to you. 1t
| won't take more than FIVE hours, and your
profound attention and frequent bursts of ap-
plause will amply repay me for my time and
trouble. generally divide my speech into
eighteen divisions or prOpositiOns-to wit:
1 Opening Preliminary Remarks:
II General Prel minary Remarks
III Further Preliminary Remarks;
" The Two Severe gntes-POpular and squatter
" Popular Sovereignty;
VI Sguatter Sovereignty
VII The -Four Candidates for the Presidency
VIII Three of them Essentially won't Do
TX There ought to be but One
Y Who is He?
II XII XIII Stephen A. Douglas
XIV Seudnus Salvador Reipublice;
XIV Hence-Na DssperaaduHa de RepubIica;
XVI Further Remarks about Popular Sovereignty !;
XVII Some about Popular Sovereignty
XVIII Thanks to the Ladies' for their Smiling Pres
ence and Bouquets-''There was Sound of
Revelry by Night &c
This brief programmed have had printed
in pink letters on small scrap ofcard-board,
and laying it on the stand before me, 1 take
up The divisions one by one, and make some
very feeling and lengthy remarks on each.
When am called upon to divide time with
and demolish Breckenridge Democrat, 1 va
~ the thing little of course, bat not suf-
ficiently to weaken my general strain of re-
mark.
But was going to tell you about that
serenade-its cost and consequences. Then
to proceed. had fine solo dieonszioa last
Thursday at the town of Bagshaw;s Black
smith-Shop, on Coon Greek. The people
were delighted with my effort, and deter
mined to honor me with a serenade without
distinction of party; the Bell and Breckin-
Ridge men. however, declining to have any
thing to do with it, except such as l had that
day converted to the faith of Popular Sover-
eighty, Of whom, Ito judge from the con-
yincing tendency of my arguments, and l
am sorry to say l had no other means OF
judging.) there must have been several hun
dred. If you choose to make paragraph
about this, you may put the number down
at a hundred and forty; but make it point
not to mention the locality. L was accord
ingly invited to spend the night in town,
and went to the hotel Ia twO-story bed-bug-
gerry, which, by violent figure of speech, |
call hotel through courtesy to my political
friends in the neighborhood) and put up.
The landlord put me in a front room up
stairs, and after supper l lit cigar and sat
down before the fire to wait for the serenade
to break out. About ten o'clock the music
suddenly struck up from two fddles, a flute,
a claronet, a tambourine and a triangle. 1
had directed the landlord to send me up six
bottles of champagne, three of brandy and
two OF Old Robertson. with decanters for the
last two and glasses for all. The cook
chambermaid and boot-black (all in one)
brought up the liquors and a large Japanned
tea-board with two cut-glass decanters,
dozen EYEGLASSES, and a pitcher of water.
IS Now, GIRL" said |, put those bottles on
that waiter along with the other things, and
take them down stairs, and when / get done
speaking and invite the band to drink, take
the things into the front porch and let the boys
help themselves" The girl took the estab-
lishment and left the room, and 1 proceeded
20 take off my collar and cravat to be ready to
make speech to the band, when 1 was sud
denly startled by the most Internal crash,
mixed with q colored scream, that was ever
before heard. at first thought somebody
udd d vi QueeuShdFe IUWu
the stairs; but was soon convinced that the
cook had played the deuce with the tea-board
and its contents. Such was unfortunately
the case. She had stumbled and pitched
heels over head down the stairs, and had
broken everything within ten feet of her, ex-
cept, l regret to say, her COMPOUNDED neck.
The band heard the crash,
"And caught its tone with too prophetic ear,
and adjourned to thr grocery without, wait
ing for speech.
When 1 called for my bill next morning, |
The landlord thrust his hand into the pocket |
Of his trowsers and drew forth dirty scrap
Of paper and laid il before me. 1t read as
follows
MY HOTEL BILL.
Mr. g. brix, esq.
In act With National hotel deter.