about eleven o'clock
It was in Jackson 's time . Gadsby 's was the principal hotel , then . Well , this man arrived from Tennessee about nine o'clock , one morning , with a black coachman and a splendid four-horse carriage and an elegant dog , which he was evidently fond of and proud of ; he drove up before Gadsby 's , and the clerk and the landlord and everybody rushed out to take charge of him , but he said , ` Never mind , ' and jumped out and told the coachman to wait -- said he had n't time to take anything to eat , he only had a little claim against the government to collect , would run across the way , to the Treasury , and fetch the money , and then get right along back to Tennessee , for he was in considerable of a hurry . `` Well , about eleven o'clock that night he came back and ordered a bed and told them to put the horses up -- said he would collect the claim in the morning . This was in January , you understand -- January , 1834 -- the 3d of January -- Wednesday . `` Well , on the 5th of February , he sold the fine carriage , and bought a cheap second-hand one -- said it would answer just as well to take the money home in , and he did n't care for style . `` On the 11th of August he sold a pair of the fine horses -- said he 'd often thought a pair was better than four , to go over the rough mountain roads with where a body had to be careful about his driving -- and there was n't so much of his claim but he could lug the money home with a pair easy enough .