The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-06-15
THE HEARTY OLD GENTLEMEN.
A Clear Point at Point Clear.
BY GEORGE WASHINGTON BRICKS.
$50 he was all my fancy painted her,
A thipg ali hearts 10 win"

A rumor reached me about the mid
die Of last week that there was TO be a
grand opening ball the following Sat
urday night at that celebrated brandy
and-watering place on the Eastern
| Shore, which is known to the fashion
able world as Point Clear, and l deter
mined to go. Accordingly | borrowed
fifteen dollars from my landlady and a
shirt of her nephew, and among the
| distinguished arrivals welcomed by
General Smedes to the elegant hospi-
talities of his hotel on the Sd day of
June. .S66, was the undersigned
/ viii not attempt to disguise the fact
that the ball was not the chief attrac-
ton which drew me across the Bay.
went over in search of a young lady
from Central Alabama who was expect.
ed to be there, and who was said to be
as beautiful as the queenhest belle of
the Fairies, and as rich as the finest
specimen of gold-quartz West of the
Cordilleras. l will remark, par paren-
these, for the benefit OF wealthy unwed.
ded Womankind at large, that the lady
who is literally endowed with what are
| technically termed metallic charms can
raise brigade of admirers without the
slightest difficulty or delay, if she will
take the trouble to open an enrolling
office for that purpose. / mention this
fact here because il is a most remarka-
bic one, and may not be generally
known.
'Let the lads Of the East adore the maids Of Cash
Nor affection With interest clash
| But far ether ldo.atry engages Us here
We adore but the maids Of mere cash"
Among a number of dashiug young
fellows whom met in town, the charms
of the young lady from Central Ala
bama came up for discussion-I mean
her monetary charms really did not
think to inquire whether she possessed
any other Sort and | was SO forcibly
struck with the report of their extent
that pledged myself to WOO, win and
wed the sweet creature within period
of six months from date, under no
less penalty than that of becoming per-
sonally responsible for the sWindle in
cident to a champagne supper for the
crowd. Hence my presence at the
Point Clear ball | confess now that
the pledge was rash and foolish one;
but when l took upon myself its solemn
obligations, we were the companions of
half dozen empty wine bottles and a
box of cigars and in extenuation of the
folly must be permitted to plead the
| fact that under such circumstances the |
best of us are not always fitted for a
| Virtuous discrimination between recti- |
| tude and rashness. Having once made |
the pledge, l determined to 90 over
the Bay and see what chance there was
to redeem it
When 1 entered the ballroom at |
seventeen and a half minutes 10 IL, |
on the evening of the Sd, Miss Victo- |
ria Virginia Jinkinson, the young |
lady from Central Alabama, was about |
to dance the mazurka with the young |
Sylvester Adolphus Fantadling. At |
least that was what / heard somebody |
call him. She was unquestionably the |
most divinely beautiful specimen of !
gushing girlhood my eyes had ever be
| held With a form that would have |
shamed the celebrated Venus of Milo, |
form so wonderfully faultless in it's |
proportions that the beholder could |
| scarcely believe it other than the crea-
ton of some inspired sculptor form,
in short, which the fairest, proudest |
! goddess that ever hirted by moon. |
| light amid the roses Of her Olympian |
| home would have resigned her sceptre |
and her Immortality 10 possess; with |
eyes that flashed more brightly and |
beautifully than the united rays of !
constellation of midnighT stars, and |
made unresisting vassals of thousand |
hearts at every glance; with hair more
lovably lustrous, but very strongly re-
sembling the golden mist fabrics woven
in the pearly looms of the dawn; with
lips whose slightest touch must have
been sweeter than Beautys lingering
| kiss; with voice as musical as the
murmur of the silvery fountains of
Fairy-land; with a step and motion
in the dance which made her the very
genius of poetry; and, in one word
with a cotton plantation cultivated by
an effective force of one hundred and
! fifty-seven hands, who never heard of
the Freedmen's Bureau and bank
account whose last semi-annual state
ment exhibited a clean balance of
nineteen thousand six hundred and
| forty-three dollars and half in her
favor with this grand combination of
attractions, do not hesitate to repeat
that Victoria Virginia Jinkinsou was
the most magnifcently beautiful
woman l ever beheld
When I entered the ballroom, as I
have already remarked, Victoria Vir-
| ginia Jinkinson was about TO dance the
mazurka with young gentleman of
the name of Fantsdling l remember
i Of ha auopinu
/ that she wore what the ladies now call
filters" | used to think them
weak invention of the enemy, but
confess now that rather like them
Behold dozen of them in the bewil-
dering convolutions of Polka or Schot-
tische =
BY Juno It's goodly sight to see
To him who hss no friend or sister theie y
But let us proceed. At the moment
of my entrance, Victoria Virginia jim
kinson and young Fantadling were the
only couple on the floor, and no sooner
did the band strike up and send them
whirling down the hall than my attene
ZION was irresistibly attracted to the
classical loveliness of Victoria Virgin
las foot and the exquisitely graceful
manner in which she handled it l no
ticed too that the silken hose which en-
viously attempted TO conceal it was of
the exact hue and quality of some
saw retailing on Dauphin, street the
other day at seven dollars and six bits
per pair. This, however, by the way.
with one ieweled hand, fair as lily,
reposing ike a fake of snow within
two inches and half Of the collar of
Fantadling's coat, with the other she
/ fought back her rebellious staple and
fancy dry goods, floating on and away |
at the same time in that style Of deli |
ciousness and enchanting ravishment /
which recalls at ST Simon's poetic idea |
of "a goddess on the clouds, and new
er fails to make the appreciatiye spec
tator feel like handing his coat-tails to
somebody and requesting as a personal
favor to be held on the ground.
"Pray VIII" and l addressed the
interrogatory to a no less distinguished
individual than my friend the Hon. T.
J Jefferson Skeggs-"pray who is that
eeorgeously beautiful high priestess Of
the restless Terpsichore who Is just now