Lost man.
--A gentleman named
Mr. Forward Movement has been missing for several months past.
He was thought to have been seen at Manassas Plains, but it proved not to be him; it was
Mr. Trotter, of the firm of Street
Walker &
Legget.
He was again supposed to have been seen at
Leesburg, but it proved to be
Mr. Diver, of the firm of Sinker, Swimmer & Traveler, who left without paying
Mrs. Potomac her wash bill.
He was again thought to have been seen in
Missouri, but it turned out to be
Mr. Extravagance, of the firm of Woolly Horse,
Rocky Mountain,
Frank Blair & Dad. He was a few days since thought to have been near on one or both sides of
Green river,
Ky., but his friends met with another sad disappointment; it was not him. It was
Mr. Slip Back-over-the-river &Co., doing a forwarding business backward for
Squire Linkin.
Mr. Forward Movement is about 28 years old, more or less, five feet ten or ten feet five high; black whiskers, dresses fine, wearing a heavy gold fob chain manufactured from the finest candlestick brass; he is a tall, thin, thick set man, with very large feet; some think he has gradually wilted down in his boots.
He will deny being any relation to
James Buchanan, the
Last Rose of Northern Summer.
He is a blood relation to
Mr. Onto Richmond; his mother is almost distracted on his account, fearing he may be burnt.
On account of his sluggish temperament, she avers he was, when a child, so lazy he would not break out with the measles, or whoop with the whooping cough.
The old lady is grieving for her sprightly offspring, but is yet willing to surrender him to the country, coming to the conclusion, on account of his monstrous feet, that he must have died standing.
All papers friendly to the friends of
Mr. Forward Movement, will confer a favor upon the surviving relatives by giving this one insertion.--
Cor.
Nashville Gazette. 
