"Your ears, my friend," says I, "are certainly long enough to hear correctly what is said to you; but this time you've made a slight mistake. I said that Floyd had found _an egress_ down the river." The Senator looked at me for a moment, and says he: "Sold by a soldier! Good morning." I wonder how those nice, pleasant, gentlemanly chaps down in South Carolina enjoy Uncle Samuel's latest hit? I can fancy their damaging effects, my boy, upon the constitution of THE SOUTH CAROLINA GENTLEMAN. Down in the small Palmetto State, the curious ones may find A ripping, tearing gentleman, of an uncommon kind-- A staggering, swaggering sort of chap, who takes his whiskey straight, And frequently condemns his eyes to that ultimate vengeance which a clergyman of high standing has assured us must be the sinner's fate; A South Carolina gentleman, One of the present time. You trace his genealogy, and not far back you'll see A most undoubted octoroon, or mayhap a mustee; And if you note the shaggy locks that cluster on his brow, You'll find that every other hair is varied with a kink, that seldom denotes pure Caucasian blood; but, on the contrary, betrays an admixture with a race not particularly popular now-- This South Carolina gentleman, One of the present time. He always wears a full-dress coat--pre-Adamite in cut-- With waistcoat of the loudest style, through which his ruffles jut. Six breastpins deck his horrid front: and on his fingers shine Whole invoices of diamond rings, which would hardly pass muster with the Original Jacobs in Chatham street, for jewels gen-u-ine-- This South Carolina gentleman, One of the present time. He chews tobacco by the pound, and spits upon the floor, If there is not a box of sand behind the nearest door; And when he takes his weekly spree, he clears a mighty track Of everything that bears the shape of whisky-skin, gin-and-sugar, brandy-sour, peach-and-honey, irrepressible cocktail, rum-and-gum, and luscious apple-jack-- This South Carolina gentleman, One of the present time. He looks on grammar as a thing beneath the notice quite Of any Southern gentleman whose grandfather was white; And as for education--why, he'll plainly set it forth, That such d--d nonsense never troubles the heads of the Chivalry; though it may be sufficiently degrading to merit the personal attention of the poor wretches unfortunate enough to make their living at the North-- This South Carolina gentleman, One of the present time.