Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-06-26
The City Press.

| has prisons, ara pray tElL uS HcilL nut iHto
the Devils frying pan, but now sports in The
crystal waters o. an aquarium in Paradise.
| Had he followed fishing for human smokers
| in the muddy stream of the Law a. industri-
Dusty as he fi>hed for speckled trout in the.
bright waters Of the silver Trent" he would
have made two or three fortunes before he.
| ,s the LlOckhead obituary -moagrrs say, de
ceased" Since that time, q great many
y6ung man about town are much given tn
| iointed poles and brass reels and look upon
fishing as fine SPORT And So it is-to a
man who really thinks so. To get somebody
to catch your minnows and bait your hook.
and do the other rough work of the business
and then to stick the end Of your pole I'M o
the soft mud of the bank, and lie down on a
blanket in the shade OF a large sycamore.
with good cigar in your teeth and good
| book in your hand, and drop off into the
gentle slumher of infuncy, with no mo- q Ii
toes to bore A tesian ellis into your fore
head. and no bGgs to root about in your hair.
and TO wake up in couple of hours to find
thar mud. turtle has crawled of with your
tackle. that parcel of hogs have called in
and dined with you. and that a yearling
heiftr has come along and chrwed up your
hat, and is just finishing the last skirt of
your linen cOai-this is fine sport let some
people call it what thy pl ase. And il
fine sport too to sit all day on damp log
in he shade. or On hot rock in the sun, and
| hold a fifteen pound pole with one hand
| while You carry on 8. vigorous campaign
| against a Y rxean army of mosquitoes with
the other, all Inc time getting no bites. eX-
C, pt such as the mo,quitoes manage TO throw
in when you happen to suspend hostilities
| for a mum"nt 10 take a chew of tobacco
..OhI If th ere's an EIysum on earth,
j Is tais, il is ihis!''
As everybody knows, we went fishing last
! Friday with BLYNHKS. BLYNNKs is Engaged in
! trying o make living und, very -cnura-
! ging circumstances by running a small
retail law-Ofice around on Plum street,
/ When BLYXNKS has ut got any professional
business to attend to, he goes a fishing; and
as he never has any professional business Ia
| attend TO- BIYNNKs Is always going a-f-hing,
| OF course he is very successful. You never
saw man in your life of BLTNNHs' ,ccentri
ciris of habit and peculiar cast of character
| that could Mt give your barrel Of mackerel
! the start, aufl beat you fishing two to one
any day We have often advised BLYNNKS
! 10 20 to Nv FUundIand and invest his
| wife and children. (for which IA" seems to have
/ no sort of usel, in email schooner
and 20 into the fishing bu-iuess on q large
/ scale. (The chief beauty OF this joke hinges
( it Will be observed by the nj enlive reader
| on the word "a scale.') AS we suid while
/ ago, we went fishing last Friday with
| BLYxNks. II Is very well we did, or the
| fears Of q new widow and parcel of fresh
J orphans would have been flowing at this very
| moment Unfortunately. BLYNNKs took along
a can;een Of NEwsUNs "cOTn cOTjil,' and
| instead OF catching his fish and then empty
I ing his canleen, he emP.ied his canteen and
| then undertook to f,h. The consequence
was. while crawling out on greasy log to
| Catch a large green frog 10 bait his hook
| with. he sIipp of into ten feet water, aud
/ nothing but US and a fork d stick saved him
| the extreme modification Of being made the
| groundwork of a coroner's inquest. When
| we got him home in a coal-cart about sun.
down, Mrs. BLYNSKs. a very exemplary
woman 10 doubt, under Ordinary circum.
! stances. exhibited so few marks Of female
| gratitude for the disinierested exertions We
| nud made 10 keep a funeral out Of her family
/ h.,
been so immensely successful. II we had
| but Just returned FROM Il sheep-straling ex
| pcdi,inn, into which We had decuyed the
| trusting and Rnsuspecling BLYN>ks, it i.
| hardly pruhabl. that Mrs. BI.YNNKS. Elm
| gularly exemplary woman no doubt, under
| ordinary circumstances, could have made {
rrmark less calculated to do justice 10 u
| and he occasion than that she madt a. poor
| 3LYNNK=, who looked as if he had beer
! crdmm down the smoke-Stack OF the gas
| wol Ks, was lifted from that coal-cart. The
| remark was, to the Il Fl CT, that Some scamp
| or othrr always taking BLYNNKs "ff anC
making beast oil him. and when they toLk
| BLYNNKs of and made beaet of him, i
/ lNSS COutuu OiluB bLlNNhS HpiHe ia q hrtCh
| she'd thank scamps TO let BLYNNKS STAY
where he WAS" Having been carried off by
| BLYNNks, instead of having carried han of
| and cling conscious of the recIitude of our
who'll. course. il was less in anger than il
sorrow that we attempted to explain. Mad
am said We, setting the fishing pole
against the side OF the house, "Mddam''-
hut Mrs BLYNNKs r, qIeSted US to a shct up.
and as there is nothing we can deny a lad,
shall ever b. proud to testify on ali suitable
occasions, thai, uader ordinary circumstau
ces. Mrs. BLYNNks is highly exemplarl
woman, aud prov des for Ter husband an,
children as well Ss any other head of a fami
Iy we know of; but We shall never out-grov
the impression made on our youthful min,
last Friday evening, that for BLYNNKs aud u
to go a-fi-h hing together is very repugnanI {,
Mrs. BLTANKs' feelings. Why il is So, IL
problem in the delicate algebra of woman
nature which We shall leave for wiser head
tO soiTe.
TIE Gazat<.-You will find in The GGsetts a
editorial article. continuing something owe
stick full of 'ype, on the Baltimore Con
vention- TnIs i. iolluw,d by quite numbe
IF paragraphs, one OF wbicI Tells rs tina
- BuEIingame sleeps with Summers great to