Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-11-21
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IFrom the Nashville Patriot.
One Candid Fellow Among the Confsder.

tFrom the Nashville Patriof.I
One Candid Fellow AmOna the Confsder-
ntes.
My old friend G.. Washington Bricks, a
fellow Of infinite Jest and most excellent
fancy, makes humorous mention of facts
under which none but Mr.. Mark Tapleys
could come out so strong.
"TmNGs HAS RIz"
BACHELORS RETREAT, Oct 81, 1861.
To the Editors of the Daily Iat4ot-
Gentlemen: You are aware that with the
Presidential contest of 1861 my political
hopes and aspirations expired, and that
Immediately retired to my Sabine farm on
the Froptown Turnpike fifteen miles from
The city, where proposed TO spend the re-
mainder of my days in cultivating my few
acres, and in endeavoring to marry some
young lady Of rich but respectable parents.
Since that time l have visited the city
but twice-once last spring to get some
Shaker seeds aud hSh.hooks, and once last
week 10 sell few bushels of wheat and lay
in my winter supplies.
My wheat, the quantity of which was
small, brought me, at John J. McCann's
new mill, just S23 %; and as this was all
the money could command, or was likely
soon to command, had no other means of
paying for the cart-load of things felt my
self compelled to have to render me comfort
able for the winter coffee, soap, sugar, hat,
candles, boots, &c How many of these ar
tclcs of prime necessity 1 bought for the
money you can easily determine by the
simplest process of arithmetical calculation
Suffice it to say, | spent all but en- dollars
of the amount, and had got neieher hat nor
shoes, and deuced little of any thing else
in short, not enough to fill one ofmy saddle
bags.
l went into n shop where they had a
quantity of good-looking boots on exhibition
in the show window, intending to buy me
pair, and fully prepared by the experience
of the day to give what our excellent old
friend Squire Maxey, of Markets street. would
call laundering price for them. | sat
down on chair with the bottom knocked
out, and elevating my foot in front of the
manufacturer, who was pulling wax-end
through the sole of a shoe, and pointing to
my dilapdated boot, feelingly exclaimed,
Behold the sad ravages of time" The
manufacturer laid down his awl, thrust his
finger into q hole in the side of the boot,
and giving sudden twist, made the whole
fifty per cent. larger than it was before.
"IIallool hold p exclaimed, turning pale,
for had intended to make the boots last
me for every day wear until cold weather
sets in, and was about to swear at the
fellow longer and louder than trooper
hut reflected that profanity would not re-
pair the damage in such times as these and
80 l merely remarked that l wanted new
pair.
/ have long had weakness for what
they call stitch downs but have never worn
a pair, partly because they cost confound
sight of money, and partly because they are
too heavy to go see the girls in. For the
frst-named. reason 1 have left unbought q
number of things in my life that l was not
n little anxious to have. The owner of the
shop took down from the peg pair ot
stitch.downs l tried them on. | must dc
them the justice 10 say they fitted me as
handsomely as if my feet had been melted
and poured into them. l determined to buy
them, cost what they might. "Tn take
these" said l, stamping my right foot vio
1ently on the floor, and taking my ten dol
lar bill from my pocket "Take your pay
out of that" said l, handing him the costly
Shinplaster
l really believe the individual who stood
before me at that moment was the mos
thoroughly astonished boot-maker that
ever saw. He looked first at the money anG
then at me, turning alternately pale an,
red, while his eye-balls protruded from thei
sockets as if they had been showed outward
by some hydraulic pressure within. 4
last, just as l was about to cry fire." o.
run for a doctor, or something of the sort
he spoke: "You are from the country
amt your l answered that was. AnC
from of long way in the country
TOO, amt yOu:2" TOlerably deep" | re
piled. 81 thought so," said he; then
boots is eighteen dollars"
didn't say another word I sat dow
and pulled off " them boots" more in sorroV
than in anger, drew on my own, and walked
out of the shop. The proprietor of the es
tablishment must have taken me for tn
Prince of Wales, or the owner of the Stat
Bank. Eighteen dollars for pair of boots
! earnestly trust that posterity will no
think me too particular about trihes, but
can't pay such prices.
l went to the store of my old friend, JohI
Ramage, on Colege-street where l got {
frst-rate pair of boots for seven dollars, ant
having invested the rest of my money iI
other necessaries, threw my saddle-bag'
across my horse and started home, fully
convinced by the experience of the day tina
The small grocer Of whom purchased foul
pounds of candles at fifty cents per pound
was correct when he remarked that "thing
has riz."
When was spending my last red it die
not occur to me that three toll-gates OBJ
structed between my house and the city
However, they did not hinder me much.
got thrOugh'the first one | came to by tell
ing the keeper that he would have to chang
n $40 bill, which, of course, he could no
do. The other two rode around. l shal
make it all right the next time l go
town.
want to know now, why they make u
pay such unhallowed prices for such art
Giles, for instance, as sugar. -four, sc. Th
sugar crop of Louisiana was never bette
than the present one, and Davidson Count
never dreamed of a heavier crop of Whea
than the last. To make us pay two o
three prices for articles that ought to b
almost drug in the market is downrigh
1obbery-it is villainous-in short it
damnable, and there ought to be law
put stop to it, If there is already such
law, then that law is a " "partceps criminis"
an accessory to the Tascality--and ought
be dealt with accordingly.
In great haste, your friend truly,
G. W. B.
THB depreciation of slave property hi