Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-03-20

A FORCED REvELATIoS.-A MONSTER CT
Is6RATITUDE.-The course OF conduct which
the editor of the Franklin Revieao has seen fit
to pursue towards us, has forced from us
revelation which we intended the world
should die in ignorance of. That revelation
is as follows:
A few days after the Battle of Waterloo.
we were travelling through Holland. We
were travelling through Holland for the pur
pose of seeing if, by making a crsuasss in one
oil the dykes which keep out the sea, we
could Mt overflow the country to the depth
OF two or three inches, and make fac cram
berry patch OF it. Near the rural village OF
Duaderanbltzen ge saw standing on the
road side, what we at first took TO be a scare
crow but what turned out TO be a diIapida-
TED young man. How're yous" said we.
"htz cum arouse" said be. Whereupon We
entered into conversation with him, aud
learned that he was an orphan, without home
or friends, that the sour krout crop had failed,
and that he had ut had anything TO eat for
about three weeks, aud was quite hungry.
We happened to have a-box OF Cracknel Bis
cult along with us, which we gave him, and
which he Instantly devourrd, box and ALL
We then told him to come to the hotel after
dinner, and we would give him a couple of
doliars-which was half the money We had,
having recently broke. Iu ten or fifteen days
be came. We asked him why he did Mt come
soOner- The poor, un>ophislicatcd cuss re-
piled that We had told him to come after din
ner, and be had been waiting to get dinner
to come after, but had MT succeeded, aud so
had come before it. The reply. though ex-
ceedingiy amusing, was satisfactory. and We
gave him two five-franc pieces, which made
him millionaire at once-in fe ling, an =
how. But the sum lacked one dime OF being
the amount We had promised him, and that's
the way We came TO owe him the trifie about
which he has been making such an internal
fuss.
We brought him to this country with u.s.
In New York, through the influence of The
Dutch Consul. We procured him u situation
which he declared at tue time. with truth.
was greatly above his merits and capacities
that OF deputy corresponding secretary aud
second assistant boOk-keeper TO a Que mule
manure-wagon. In short time he lost the
situation 10y inattenIion to buriness and too
much attention to the Lager-beer saloons, and
came out to Tennessee Oh foot in search OF
his benefactOr which We need not say was
Us. We once more stcpp.d to his relief and
by super-humau eXertion succeeded in get
ting him in as editor of the Franklin Reuieao,
known abroad since bis connection with it as
the IPestTn WEAKLY ReUietr.
In unfolding this painful state of facts,
which we have done with infinite reluctance,
we have much extenuated, but have set down
nought in malice. How the editor of the
ReU'et0 has requited the immense quantities
Oh kindness he has received at our generous
hands, let the last three numbers of his paper
tell. Placing our hand upon our heart, We
may truly say with KING LEAR:
so, hHDhErH tnOu haat tied sharp-toothed
unk
Like vulture here ~
He may say what he pleases about US heie-
after through his paper, and continue to tell il
boasiingly ON the 8: reefs of Franklin that We
won't come out there because we're afraid
he'll swallow us whole, for it doesn't hurt us
any. And now, We re done with him forever