New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-26
9ofal AntelIiaenfe.


heard Of old Counsellor Randolph--Alexander A.
Randolph-'R Randolph of Roanoke, Y as many called
him, or Randolph of London as the co1eehouse
wags addressed him when they wished to hear him
exercise his talent at abuse and ventlate his patr
otism as an Amercan2 Very few, we imagine.
His long practice the bar n both the courts and
the coffeehouses), has. we are sure, made him well
known to those at least who inhabit and frequent
such places.
Many hearty laugh have we enjoyed at the old
mans expense, in both court and coffeehouse
and many time, after our laugh, have we looked
upon him with some graver feeling, as the wreck
Of man who once commanded respect, not only
by his learning and his natural talent, but by the
bravery and chivalrons spirit which in his better
days led him to embark in the more exciting
and adventurous sort Of law which the world at
large calls war
He was once good man and a good l.1Yyer
but in late years he was nothing better than va
grant. Dirty, grizzly and penniless he has ioafed
and slept away years. months and days, of his later
life, about the cofeehouses; SOLDERING up once in
while, it IS true, and shaving and putting on clean
clothes, and searching the police courts and find
ing client and getting his fee, and then relapsing
into his former insane drunkenness about the cof-
feehouses.
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obliterated from the memory Of many who knew
him formerly, and which his eccentricity and
slavery to strong drink have kept concealed from
his latter day acquaintances.
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strlpes
The war closed, and his vocation as Commo
dore gone, he gave way to those habits of reckless
dissipation which had their foundation in his ad
venturous cruisings for the welfare of Texas.
Lately the Commodore, being run down by th
infirmltes resulting from his intemperanee, wa
ADVISED py some one TO 50 TO Charity Hospital. III