Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-08-23
Correspondence of the Republican.
Letter from Peter Pringle,

gar Pakhard, the Pompus.
/ EVER DEER MARKUss:-We ar gittin
along extrcamly down here in Stark. We
sent dellegashion frum Knocks tn Gro
vur the uther Saturday tn heer the loard of
Sanpeer dcclamc his oald speach on gimp
sun and dogfenell, and tn heer him tel agin
that he happened wunce tn be 'lectid tn the
sennit. and he toald it jist in the saim
wurds he has in every speach he has spoak
! in Stark this seasun Sum of the foalks
looked little inkredulus when he toald
'em bout bein in the sennit, but 'spose
thay cum to the saim konclushion the lady
at Indgeonoppolis did that marrid a men,
! bur of the house frum Cream naimed Storm
or Blow. i forget which, on the supposi-
shion that as he wus member of the legis-
lature he must be respectable and smart
man, but sune found out, as she stated in
hur petishion fur divorce at the next ses-
shion, that thar wur as great phools to be
found in the legislature as any whur else.
But. yu had ought tn have sene us start
out of Knocks. Fust, thear wus the steem-
er Four Wheals. Captin Jessy, conrancin
good demokrats and ; things. In the
next four whcaled stecmer, Captin Ho
/ Ward, wus the delecktible Professor
Toad Milk, Il. r., bull rider, sittin on
the fust seat, warcin a gastly smile on one
sile of his countcrnancc which maid him
look awltugcthur jist like squat.ur sovur-
a;nty or non-in diligence. When we got
about balph way tn Growvur knotised
that the professor les wur filled with teers.
and acksed him what he wus weapin a
bout. He sed that as we krossed the
bridge he lost doll baby Tompson THAT
wun that swoar in his aphidavits that ten
days war week, had sent tn Glaizhook
far his little gall. toald him knodc he
was licin a weakness the poor fellow kant
help. havin bccum so habituated to tcllin
fibs anil boastin of feats he ncvur perform
ell, that he doant seme to no when he duss
lie. fur i seed the dolls feet a stickin out
of his britchcs pocket. When he seed
had kotchcd him he owned up, and sed he
was jist fhinkin about the way old Mattin-
ly had talked about linn in his paper. and
that he might as well leave the stait oi
Stark and go sum plais WHARF he wus'n
knonc. fur he nevur could be clectid tn an
uther oils if he staid, and besides, sed he,
every body in Knocks lafrs at me and kalls
me professor Toad Milk, B. r.. but. he
kontinered, i'll have my revenge out OF
oald Aattinly yet fur the injewry he has
dun me. L no, he went on tn say, i'm
not slow at licing when undertake it, and
then there's Tompson, whom the devil
thinks so much Of he intends to abdicate
in his favur and screw his tail on to him
when he disc, he's bcttur than am at lie
in, AMI he wroat tn me not tn be skeered,
that he would assist me if necessary; that
/ must dcni awl that oall Mattinly SAID
about me. and in turn call him an oald liar
and an oald whiskey bloat and whatevur
else coill think of. and then the Demo-
krats would furgivc me fur mi trcchery tn
'ern last fall. But. scs i. yu no oald Mat
tinly is not drinkin man, and If yu call
him a whiskcy bloat every body that
noes him will no that yu hav lied about
that anil will talk it fur granted that awl
the rest yu say about him is off the saim
peace of kloth. 1t maiks no diffurcncc, he
sed- In the Jurst plais every body is not
pussonally ackwainted with him, espcci-
ally down here in the stat of Stark; in the
2.l pla;s the Demokrats halt him so, be-
kase tha think he has bin the means Of rev.
olushionizin Marshall Kounty, that they
are moar than willin tn believe any lie
that Tompson or i may tell about him, Jest
as tha swallow awl your Mitiness sais, he
scd, about the Republicans bein aberli-
shlonists, and you no Tompson nor can't
tell any bigger lie than that about oald
Mattinly; and, in the Sd plais. lies are
the next best thing to phacts-the only diff
fereuce is yu have tn work little harder
and tawk little louder to maik 'em stick,
especially so fur as the Demokrasy is kon-
curncd. The Professor aftur takin this
floso6cle view of the case looked more
cheerful and remarked, aftur awl the case
is not SO desperit as it mite be; at any rait,
as Tompson has promised tn help me. will
see what vartew thar is in lies. He then
fell intu sort Of a musin mood, but soon
walked mp and commenced tellin me about
the time he road a bull on race track in
Michigan and out run awl the hosses at
the fair. / acksed him if he expected me
tn beleeve that yarn. He sed he didn't
kecr whethur ibid or knot, itwus as trew
as what your Mitiness sed about the pro-
fessors at Oberlin collidge maxim, the
Frenchman- marry the black wench who
wus the mnther Of his children befoar tha
would admit the children intu the collidge,
L md vr cxvoUo-ad that taa1d b;c, l.