The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-29
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o. X. ON ALBANY ADVENTURES, ETc.-We
stood New York just two weeks, and were
glad to get out oft. Don't know how people
live there at all--morally certain that it is
not done by eating, though we believe we told
ysu in our last, what enormous appetites
everybody seemed to have for drnkables.-
Well that's what's the matter!
Why, ask anybody-lawyers doctors, or
editors--a civil question, straightforward
pertinent, ana to the point, and they would
go on with the greatest yarns you ever heard
Of; and you, supposing it to be at least halt
true, would allude to it a week afterward, and
you can hang us, if the miscreants wouldn't
deny ever having said such word, or heard
of any such occurrence-but corner them
right down to it, show them she surrounding,
and'convince them that you know what was
what" and you would at last get confession
that they didn't recollect il; but the truth
was, they were out with few dozen politi-
clans that morning and when they came in,
guessed they wer'n responsible for anything
they said. We shouldn't wonder from the
way some of them kept their promises. Now
we do not object to drink taken IN small
quantities, say tumbler full at time and
repeating the dose not oftener than once in
ten minutes. We have weakness for lit
tie Crimean bitters, or something in that line,
ourselves; but this living on fre-water we
don't subscribe to, and rather than seeming
to countenanoe it by remaining, we concluded
to come to Albany. Had splendid trip up
the Hudson on one of the floating palaces,
and that too, on just one of the loveliest nights
imagination ever pictured. Everybody felt
good, and to make the thing complete, there
was regiment of officers aboard belonging
to Meade's army (of, at present, on detached
service) and band belonging somewhere
else, who at tho urgent request of some of
thelight-footed, discoulsed harm Jnious sounds
and the result was big hop in the after
part of the cabiI,-a regular out West Lake
arrangement. One fellow, ranking in the
vicinity of Major, with exquisite little gold
leaves on his shoulders, undertook to do the
polite to black dress with purple trimmings
which zoe wore upon the occasion, and pressed
us repeatedly to take part in the exercises.
We wholly declined-really, on religious
scruples-but with the excuse to Sir Maitr
that we never could do that thing aboard
steamboat. We like Albany, though some
how old, half buried recollections Of sort of
mixed up adventure that rather took the bo-
som out Of some Of our most intimate friends,
in days long past, will keep coming up, some-
times drawing our mouth into smile, while
we feel quiet little chuckle inside, as the
rdiculousness of the whole arrangement is
manifest by after experiences-and then
again the old time memory blurs our eyes,
and we are sad that things should have
changed since then, and the frail, tender
blossoms of love and hope be now lying faded, |
writhing atour feet.
But we are growing serious, and rather |
than betray weakness of that kind, we will |
"close up for the week, and subscribe our
selves, o. X.
A MINNEsoTA Law SuIT.-The following, |
from the La Cross Democrat, for an actual |
fact, is the richest within our knowledge:
In the semi rural district Of Winona, forty |
miles north of this city on the Minnesota side |
of the Mississippi river, lives, among several
other people, jolly good fellow Of Justice
of the Peace, whose ideas OF matters are much |
like the current of a deep river. Once start |
ed in a deep river it is hard to turn them.--
On fair day last week. after the 10 IL |
law dispensary had been swept, after the |
chairs had been set in a short row against |
the side of the Office, and sundry whipped
guilds of tobacco and mutilated cigar stubs
had been kicked under the stove, there was
wooden step on the stairs aud a vigorous
knock at the door.
Come in" said tho Justice, as the settled
into legal look so be6tting man of law
duly elected to dispense the favorso of the blind
goddess.
A stout woman entered. She had on a
short woolen dress, wooden soled Shoes sport-
ed red cheeks, black hair, and eyes that snap
ped like tho lock of a shot gun. In Portu-
guese accent, and in the worst possible Eng-
lish, she said: tf rrs
.'You law man 2" la.s 7e
eyes, madam |; be seated,
"Want paper. Want paper to take man."
just then stout French hslf-breed enter
ed the room. He wss unable to speak hale !
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