Edgefield Advertiser

GENERAL SAM HOUSTON.—In the late
discussion which took place in Harrison
county, Texas, between General Sam
Houston and Mr. Wigfall, the latter gen-
tleman, complained that the hero of San
Jacinto had called him out of his name,
by styling him, "Mr. Wiggletail," begged
that he might be excused for applying to
the distinguished Senator, the familiar
abbreviation of "Sam" He knew it would
be pleasing to the gentleman himself to
be so styled, as an anecdote he would re-
late would show. On the return of Gen-
eral Houston from a visit to his old friend,
the hero of the Hermitage, it happened
that a friend dropped in to see the honora-
ble Senator. On entering his room great
was the astonishment of the visiter, to find
the Texan Senator apparently sunk in
grief and bathed in tears. "My dear Gen-
eral" exclaimed his friend, "what is the mat-
ter, what sorrow oppresses you, what grief
distresses you so deeply?' "Oh! my dear
friend,' exclaimed the great Texan, sob-
bing and blubbering, with the deepest an-
guish. "I have just, just returned
On! ed from the—Oh dear me!—the
Hermitage—the residence of my old—
Oh! Oh! O! O! friend General Jackson;
and as we parted to meet perhaps no more
in this sinful world—Oh me! my dear friend
he addressed me not by the name of Gen-
eral or Master or even Samuel—but, my
dear friend he called me by the endearing
name, by which my mother knew me he
called me Sam! Sam!! SAM!!!' And
here the hero of San Jacinto burst into
a torrent of grief so as to choke all utterance
and induce his friend to unite his tears
with his, until the swollen torrent of their
sorrow flowed strong enough to turn a mill
wheel.
The audience were convulsed with laugh-
ter at this story, and no one seemed to
enjoy it more than General Houston him-
self, who arose and begged to interrupt his
eloquent opponent for a moment, merely
to say that he would make a child's bar-
gain with him—if he would never again
call him by the endearing name of "Sam"
he would never call Colonel W., Wiggle-
tail again.—N. O. Delta.