Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-09-13
LETTERS FRon THE HILLS.

LETTERS FROM THE HILLS.
To the Editor Of the Gazette
It's so long since ! put pen to paper, |
Mr.. Printer, that my hand is almost out,
and though busy in ploughing up old !
mother earth, must take a few hours
leisure to give you an inkling of what's
transpiring up here. Dad was considcra-
bly, con1ustrifcated at the ticket his loco
foco friends hached out in the Town Hall
on the first Monday in August, and | was
afraid for while that he would turn whig
right off. In fact him and our neighbor
Ploughman, who is also good :" dimcrat,"
made no bones about the matter even when
was present, and the way they pronounced
their leaders TO be set Of darned rascals
and cheats was nobody's business; and old
Ploughman one day gave it as his deliber-
ate opinion that John Ross would charter
another Lewistown Bank if he'd get the
chance TO 60 to the Legislature, and fasten
monopolles enough on Us to last whole
generation lie was terribly mad. 100,
about the Commissioner. Here, saws he,
we've been a set Of pack-horses for these
fellows these ten or fifteen years. until
they've got to thinking themselves the
whole party. If Prothonolary Is put in
who is of the right stamp, /. e. minds their
business more than he does the peoples,
oh says they, he must be re-elected-he's
Just got the hang of it now, and will do
better next term. Presently, however, the
tune changes, and one term is enough for
anybody. That's the way, too, says he,
with the Assembiyman-One year they
make US run round and praise up one term
then two terms-then one term, lust as
if we had no opinion of our own and
couldn't remember from one years end to
another.
But set out, Mr. Printer, with the in
tentlon of telling you about dads 81 expe-
renee" On his return from visit 10
town few weeks since, he seemed 10 feel
more than usually consequential, and after
Jlngling his pockets for while, pulled out
quite number of half and quarter
eagles, and his pocket book also exhibited
more notes than were wont to be in il.
Why, dad says |, did you sell your
wheat already, that you've raised so much
cash ?
No, | didn't says he.
i hope you didn't sell your horses ?
No, | didn't says he.
Didn't sell your wagon ?
No, | didn't says he
Well, what the deuce did YOU sell to
get it,
To tea YOU the truth, Sam says he,
Il promised to say nothing about it-but
If you d like 10 have some of the same
stuff, jist know where can get ii for YOU
i wouldn't care mucli,' says /, to take
hundred and pay off my old debts on the
house, providin, however, there's no extra
interest on it,
Not bit OF it. SAYS the old man. Il
get il without interest for six months
Then I'm in for it., sartain-lel's have
it, and I'll give you a note of hand paya-
bic thirty days after any harvest between
this and 1860
'Oh but says he, there's a little con-
sideratiou how are you goin' to vote this
fall, Sam ?
Why, dad says /, from what I've
been hearin YOU say, spect we'll be nearer
pullin in the same team of politics than
since the days Of Polk and Dallas, when
they made YOU believe that those men
were better tariff men than Mr.. Clay
That's right, Sam says he, that's
right. I'm going to town in few days, T.
and viii settle the whole matter
And with that he left me, apparently in /
great glee. But must postpone the finish
ing touch of this matter to another week, /
when | will relate 10 YOU how the thing .
ended. SAM W0ODCHOPPER. |