The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-09-06
ADVERTISEMENT.
Letter from Tad O'Hare.


From the XIX Century for September.
Charleston possesses genius in the person
of Tad O'Harc, cousin-german to Terence
McGrant, of the White House. Tad has been
writing letter to his Cousin Terence about
affairs in this city, and Terence has sent 1t to
us for publication, If we Wish 1t. We gladly
accept OF it, and insert it in "Tad's own hand
writin' and spelling'."-ED. CENTURY.
CHARLESTON, IN SOUTH kALLINAR,
August the 5. 1870.
Me Deer Cuzzin: takes me pen in hand tn
rite tn yes, informin yes that we or awl sick
at thes prisents and hope thes tu lyens VII tnd
YES In the same state uf helth. The cauz Ut
our ilrss, We must Sno is terrible frite that
we've ali bin hcyin. to be sure, OWN to
little broth. .ut fellow nc bigger than a wee
spalpeen ut boy, as Gals himself Hlx, oau
luck to him. And the trubblesum mite Ut a
chap, whu hasn't lived In our b'luved palmet-
ter State more nur tu yeres, or Whereabouts,
purtends to lectur us ''natives as wur born to
manners" CHATS Shackspur, me deer,) and
tells us as how. what We must be atther doln
in politiks bad cess tn him.
VEL We must kno that Everybody Is inter-
yiewn' Everybody, and button-holin' iFery
one as they meets um, and rum mouth tu
mouth, and trum korner tu korner; frum the
soshul ta.party at Mrs. O'Hare's-that's my
own darlin' wife, Your cuzzin-in-law, me deer
Terry-tu the nuzcpaper donkey compounds
on the Bay, but won question is a bein axed,
s'how goes the battle ?"
Wei, We must kno that the last frite we had
wus misunderstanding between this mite OF q
man, and the coves of the Nuse ofiz, VINO. II II
1t hadn't bin fur onfortunat mistake wuld
have had the honor also uf bein born on kallt-
mar sile, and bein natives til, but they wusnst,
We see. This misnnderstandin' was kaused by
q playful remark as maid by wun Of these nuze-
bows, when he towld Mshter Hix as how "they
didn't care red he7Tin fur the money, It's the
principles they need" or sumthin' uf that sort,
furgit the xact words. But now, ye see, the
ould woman Of the EuT'rier has picked up the
gluy, and pitched into the little parson-frr ye
must kno that by the same token, this broth
uf boy is o person tu-and bin and given him
terrible trounsin'.
Ye see the ould woman has the room-attics
or the neurology, or some other disase, so
that under CRATE xcitement,; she makes
mitey bad showing, just like the ould wheeling
windmill that she Is, to be shure, goln round
and round, whichlver way the wind bloze, but
grindin no korh, do ye see. Well Symmins,
the rale quill-driyer uf the ku1rier, was out uf
town, a tryih to reform the .polithal morals Ut
the people In the upcountry, SO the ould gran
ny called Misther J. Baret Kohn, ESQ.,, ator-
ney at law, ETC., etc.. so we are towld, to the
sanctum. and the folerln rich sene insude
The ould woman grately aggltated perfusely
perspirin' and grindin' her gums lost
her teeth, ye kno-walkin' up and down,
around and skross thai famed retrate Of gauius,
the Eurrier editorial rumes, shtoppca all uf a
suddin, as body may say, befor the larned
gintleran, and striking an attitude, delivered
herself thusly:
WTunder and ltenin, Baret Have yes red
The XIX Century for August 2" Now ye must
know, me deer cilzzin, The XIX Century is
the book that this little bit OF mite OF a spal-
peen OF a parson HiX edits; so ye see he's an
edltur tu In addishun I'll his other krlmes.
J.B. K, which ye know. Terry, stands for
Jacob Baret kohn, put on bit III q non-com'
itol wink, sort III knoin ieer, pehunar TO
some lawyers-bad luck to the hole III EN-, seq
land ansered the ould woman, "uf hOrse
have"
every gud. very gud-bad mane," sez the
ould one. '.But want yes to smash 1t Dye
here? Smash it, say! And the ould kreeter
-fumed and puffed like an ould wornout stame.
bote in korfederit times. Yes. sir, smasf II
| is the word, and 1t won't be tile furst impe1
dent stranger I've smashed. Smashers mt
name, be jabers," sez she, land smash 1t shall
be-" Oh, Terry deer, il Wus the most outlilL
est sene We ever saw at all, at all. Be me soWl,
the ould woman luked as tho she only wished
she had bit OF a shelalah in her big fsht, and
the little parson editur be the nape of the neck
how she wuld smash him, tn be shure.
'But how," sez ]. B. f., ''ye don't intno
personel vialenz. Mrs. Smasher, does We, spe
cialy as that XIX Century editur Is a Trend o
yourn ?"
Friend Friend O. mine, sir No man is
friend o. mine whu dusnt put munney In IN!
purse, sir; whu dusn't think es l think, sir
who dusn't grind at my mill, and turn aroun(
With the same breze as turns me, sir