Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-11-01
mr.. sprowls In Warrington.
Correspondence Of the Chicago Tribune.
wAsHlxorox, Oct. 20

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Correspondence Of the Chicago Tribuns.
wAsHlxorox, Oct 70.
Mr.. Editur:
I'm here to Washington for purpos, and
don't deny it. Not that hadn't no bushes
spends their time layin round here. thank
his bread is buttered on and that the grass
for that there butter isn't growed nigh the
Potomac. But hav a purpos.
In nv place to home I'm a western man,
am, from right smart chance further east,
but emmygratcd early. I've enough to do,
the Lord knows, and Sairy Jane, that's my
wife, SEE she:
: Edad Sprowle, you stay away from Wash
ingtun. Thairs enuff thar now pesterin
Mister Lincum's life outen him, an cloggin
thewhcels of government. Sprowle," SEE she,
"you stay to hum" -,
's Which I didn't do it. She's a sensible
woman. Deacon Prices second daughter;
cum Of good stock you sec. But had
purpos. SEE I, 81 don't ask nothin of Mr..
Lincon. Bizness is bizness though, and some
things may be done as well as others.
don't want no post Office, no custom house.
vittles don't spile when I'm round, and
don't need to travvle for my health and 60 a
forrin missionary, not one of them that
you SEQ in Sunday School books teaching
little niggers to read under palm trees, but
your furrin plenipopenitentiairys, Of course.
) But an Idea struck me- Here's Cur army
on the Potomac, Twin in tents, here one day,
gone the next. An The great question, next
to clothing, is vittles. What are they to live
on? Do you know the virtoos of split pea
SCOOP Carry pocket full of it and you
have your meals for two days, rashuns they
call EN-. That's what call light potable
food. Burn 'em and grind 'em, you have
better coffee than the averig. Chaw 'em raw
and no man can die nor come nigh it. Not
but what they're best according to directions
as scoop.
This was the idce that struck me, "hit me
FOUL" Us Ebenezer sez. I'll git the contrack
for split peas for the army on the Potomic,
as sure as my relative come from Pennsylvania.
So cum here. Tn honester IN tellin this
than some. On the cars comm talked con-
siderable with men met; alters was fond Of
maxim acquaintance. Singular, nearly every
one said he was comm to Washington jest to
look round, and hadn't no bizness, nothin at
all Well, arter while the same chap would
tell in seeking way that his friends was all
sick abed and dyin of grief all along of his
unwillinness to accept fat chunk of sum-
thin; that he had hull sotchel full of letters
to help him to try to get either offs or con-
track. Not that he wanted it himself but
because his friends would't be happy without
he had it., tell you, the older | grow and
the nearer git to Washington, the sublimist
of SPECIFICS is the self sacrifice some fellers
have maid for their friends.
I'm honester than that come right out.
SEE I, gentlemen, any Of you want to con-
track to furnish split peas for our glorious
army +? any Of you do it better an cheaper
than Edad Sprowle? any Of you honest, an
capable, as Jefferson sez, in passig that &C
cidentally got struck out of the Constitution
he writ, in the squabble in stowin the niger
into it. If any there be that can beat me,
sho me the man. Let there be honest COM
peting about it, haint got no objections to
SIGH. @ee &
Well, put up sixteen bags of split peas,
and shipped 'cm by railroad, putin my
things into my satchel and comm myself.
Them sirtesn bags Of peas haint got here get.
I've been here two weeks now, goin on three,
made pendulum OF myself, swingin between
90, and the dcpo down to the other. And
that all the clock work there is to it, as
see. Somebody made song and wrote:
! 1 @"The Army and Navy forever"
I hain't tried the navy yet, though split peas
wouldn't be bad on shipboard, but if it's as
long as Citing army matters along it would
take two forcvers." But must tell you
how arrived here. .. ..... w.. .-s|
Little the meanest railroad cars this side of
Baltimore, only one track at that. We come
to the depot. A large red headed man bawled
out, "Wllard's, goin right up!' That's
me-" seq I, "please to put my satchil on
board" handin it to him, which he slightly
turned up his nose at. l got into the bus an
away We went. always 60 to Wizards ut
Washington. Everybody does. It's got to
be habit Some don't stop there, but all
at the Widow Wimple's, but it wouldn't do
to say it at the depot. At Wizards SEE to
the young man at the bar, "Can you give
me 4 light an airy room up two flights, front
side, with gasl" He looked at me. He had
his hair parted slick into the middle and held
his head Just as il one hair either way would
make him lopsided for life. He looked at
my name and satchil and SEE he, Mr..
1prowle can give you some place by'm by,
but think that our front rooms are full" l
looked him straight in the eye. SEE I,
young man, I've been higher Heavin in
this house than in any other place on earth,
and when it's human stairs to climb don't
like it. Tell all my friends jest stop round
to Widow Wimple's," and off went, the
young man lookin after me. If git the
contrack, but not to anticipate.
,aIIavin got settled, Bizness is bizncss," seq
I, and at it went. l went to the Depart
mcnt and filed my papers, includin little
paper of split peas, all I had, and bottil of
soop of the same to show the consistency as
Ebcnezer SEE, about all the consistency too
seen here in some quarters, which is jewel
in toad's eye, consistency is, and room
enough for it. ...........-. ....... ..,..g.rr
Then went to the depot. My sixteen
bags Of split peas hadn't come. Went to