Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-03-10
Third Letter from Blynnks.
No. 236, NATIONAL. HOTEL,

An1IQ LettPf from biy0nk6s
No. 236, NATIONAL HOTEL,
WASHINGTON. MARCH 7FH. 1861.
To The Editors Of the Daily Patriot
GESTLENEN Il have mauled rails and I'M
loaded lumoer-raft in my time; and L have
been to Alabama with drove ofyoung mules
the hardest winter we have had for twenty
years. have written two tip-top acrostics
on the name of "Elzira Elizabeth Frizzleton'
(the present Mrs. Blynnks), and once when 1
found myself fat broke at Vicksburg, I
worked my way up to Nashville as deck
hand on a steamboat. / have read as many as
two articles in the secession papers of Nash
vile on the subject of sour Rights" and /
once attempted to spend threedays alta hotel in
Wheeling. But of all the fatiguing work tina
ever / undertook, this thing of getting your
self lodged in the Nashville Postofice is the
most tiresome. They tell me the place lie
worth about four thousand dollars year
If that's all it amounts TO, shall have earn
ed my salary in full long before leave
here. But l have got dead sure thing of it,
and it would be unkind in me to grumble
about the trouble of getting it. The other
boys who are after the place work nearly as
hard as l do. and will get nothing but their
labor for their pains. l feel really sorry for
them; and yet can't help laughing to think
bow ridiculous they will feel when they find
they have wasted their time and money in
vain.
i left Browns day before yesterday.
could have euchred the landlord easy enough,
for held every card in the pack that was
worth a continental. if the game had MT been
knocked into a cooked bat by young seoUn
drel | used to see sometimes about Nashville.
What be is doing here, and how he got here,
I can't tell. But be is here, and he's put me
TO a of some little trouble. Just after break
fast yesterday morning. was standing in the
Office of the hotel, conversing with iht land
lord, and was in the midst OF On interesting
account of an amusing fox-hunt l bad last
fall with Lord Derby and the Duke ct Devon
shire at my country seat in Northumberland.
when this young scoundrel stepped up, and
before could give him the wink. he slapped
me on the shoulder, exelaiming with the
most disgusting familiarity. Hello. Blynnksl
when did you leave Nashville, and bow are
the old woman and the brats.' The most
astOnished man that / ever saw was the land
lord of Browns Hotel at that moment. |
drew myself up with all the hatassr | could
muster under such embarrassing circumstan
ces, and turning 10 the landlord begged that
he would assure the young person that he |
was mistaken in the gentleman he addressed,
-. having never been introduced TO him, |
could not take that liberty myself. This Is |
the WY they do things of that sort among |
the aristocraey. But in this case it was |
failure. ''You be id" said the young
man, "don't know mel why, raised you, and
have been on bust with you thousand
times The landlord believed every word |
of it. He looked as if he was suffering from
an attack of bilious headache. He went |
behind the counter and rang the bell. The |
porter, who was asleep on settee in the |
hall. got up and came forward. bring that /
gentleman's baggage down from No. 3"
said the landlord. ''What do owe youf'
said /. mot an Internal cent" said the
landlord, Il receipt you in full-if you'll
just leave; 1 accordingly left, and came to
the National. hated to leave Browns. The
landlord is man of sense, and when be is
sold, has the good taste to acknowledge the
joke.
The Inauguration of my former fiat boat
companion has taken place. As l stood there
in the crowd and looked at him. and heard
the melodious tones of his voice as he read
his inaugural address, became lost in medi-
tation. / reflected with much grief that if
had MT married so young, and had gone to
Illinois and studied politics as ought to have
done, 1 might have been President myself.
1t is true. have MT lost all hope yet; bu a
man at my age, with six children and COM
panion of Mr.. BIS. anti-political tcmperam mt,
and who has never been to the Legislature,
has MT as much chance to reach the Presi-
Dental chair as he ought to have. Though,
as to that matter, the Presidency has got to
be pretty much like streak of lightning
here ely-it is no respector of persons, and
is about apt to strike one man another.
saw Hamlin the other day. He is no
more niger than am. He has curly hair,
it is true but you can see that he is no mig
ger. What his grand parents might have
been, don't pre- tend to know.
When left home l had about hundred
names to my petition. While waiting for the
cars in Cincinnati, incidentally showed it
to man who came into the hotel where /
was, and he offered to get me some more
names to it if l would pay him cent piece
for them. / accepted the offer cheprfully.
and as be was man of great Industry, be
made five dollars in about an hour. told
him 10 knock around among his friends with
fresh sheet of paper, and get as many more
as he could, and 1 would ply him for all of
them. He went out, and 1 walked down TO
the depot, and he lost his money which
regretted. though probably not as much as he
die. 1 notice from the signal ures got there
that the ciizeus of Cincinnati all write pretty
much the same hand This, was told by
the man who got the names, is the case in all
Northern cities.
II you See any of the children on the street,
which you will be sure to do, as they are al
ways there, tell them their Pa is well.
Ia great haste, yours,
BLYNSKs.
DINE NOVELS AND RfoGR4 Plies -Messrs