, 1861-10-25
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friday OCiUBER 70, 1851. l.
MR. sFRoWLE IN WASHINGTON.
H has q Ruspoae-A Pas Massion-47apdE at
f fMastsngton1 for a. A.ny c2ntrast-
&ca71ty Railroad facilities -Q4arre.s seiis
Baggage Aaaer- -Discou1seth on "'ShiassS<sk"
Mr. Editur: ~' 00''
I'm hire to Washinton for = pufpos, and
don't deny it, Not that hadn't no bushes to
home which 1t isn't What all can say who |
spends their time Iayin round here. thank I
TIE Losa that E1ad Sp1oWIe knoWB Wich side |
his bread is buttered on and that the grass for
that there butter isn't gro*ed nigh the Poto' |
mac. But hay a purpos.
In my place to home Tn a western man, |
SIN, from right smart chance further east,
| but emmygrated early. I've enough to do, !
| The Lord knows, snd sairy Jane, that's my
| wife, eez Ehe:
s'Edad sprowle, you stay Away from Waah- |
int1n. Thajre enua th2r 10 # pesterin Mister |
LiEcun's life outen hin, AN cloggin the wheels
OF government. 'tsproWle," sez she, "you stay
| to hum"
1
nan. Deacon Price's second daughter; cum
| Of good stock you Sec But had purpos.
Sez I, II don't ask nothiu Of Mr.. Lfncon.
Biznees is blzness though, and some things
| may be done as well as othe1s.' / don't want
no post Office, no custom house Vltt1ea
don't spile when I'm round, aud don't need
to uaVTle for my health and 60 form r2is-
siona1y, not onc Of them that you see In Sun.
1ay School books teaching little nigge1s to
read under palm trees, but your turin pleni-
popenttentIairys, Of couree.
| But an Idea stfack me. Here's our army Oh
the Potomic, 1lvin in tents, here one day, gone
the next An the great question, next to
clothing. is vitt1ea. What are they to live on?
Do you kno # the virtoos of split pea soop?
Garry pocket full Of It and you have your
meals for two days, rashuns they call ZEN.
That's Whist call Light potable food. Burn
'em and grind 'em, you have better coffee thaa
the averig. Chaw 'em raw and no man can
| die nos come nigh it. Not but what they're
hest according to directions as aoop.
This was the idee that struck me, "hit me
foul,'' IS Ehenezer seq. LII cit the contrack
tor spit peas for the army Oh the Potomic,
. as sure as MY relatiys come from Pensylyany.
E So cum here. Pm honester in te1lin this
than so1ie. Or the CATS comm talked con-
siderable With men met :; allers was fond Of
J ! maxim acquaintauces. Singular, nearly every
one said he was comm to Washington jest to
look round, and hadn't no bizness, nothiu at
!. all Well, arter whils the same chap would
); tell in a seeking way that his friends Was all
j, tic- ated and d3in of rlef ell along Of hi.
unWillinn4s to accept a fat chunk of sumtl,in:
that he had hull satchel full Of letters to helE
| Kim to try to get either offs OF contrack
, Not TINT be wanted it himself, but because hi
< friends wouldn't be happy without be had it
- l tell you, the elder grow and the nearer
git to Naehingten, the Eub]imist OF speeticles
Is the self Eacrifcs come fsllerB have mail fol
1hei- friends.
I'm honeeter than that. I come right out
Eez I, gentlemen, sny Of yon want to CONTRACT
"a to iulnish split peas for our glorious. army
= | shy Ct you do it better an cheaper than Eda!
Rprow1e? any Of you got better peas? any Q
:, yon honest, an capable, a. Jefferson Eez, in
y paesig that accidentally got struck ont Of th
y y Constitution he writ, in the squabble i
| ktewin the niger into it: If any there b
than csn best HE, sho me the man Let theI
te honest competing about it. ha1ut 10 OF
B. jectioct to slch.
We'll, ! put up sixteen bags Of split peas
a9d .hipped 'em by railroad, putin my thing
az into nj sstchel and ccmin myself
= 1Ae',. siztee.' degs ef pas Aatnt got hers gs
- ard & p.tcioEs time I've had Of It. I've mad
pcEG5lrm Of myself, ewirgin between -th
War De- a1tnent Ct one end Of the avenol
H. ane The dspo down to the cther. And that
OF all Tie clock work there is to 1t, as 1see.
y. Somebody made soDg and wTotc
=; "The Army and Navy forever
+ 1hain't tried the navy yet, though split PEI
F. | WCr.di4't be bad On shipbo2ld, but If it's {
M long as Citing army matters along it Wonl
= lake two "fo1tve16." But I must tell 70
n6 | hpT asFiTld here
n' Little the meanest railroad cars this side
Baltimore, only one track at that We con
-. to The depot. a large red headed man bswle
~ cut, "Nllla1d's, goiu right up!" "That
4 me-, aez I, "ple*se to put ny satchn sl?i,t
u turned up lis nose at I got into the bus O
away we went. / always 60 to Willard's
Washington. Everybody does. Its got to I
,r. habit Some stop there, bat all take thab
Wimple's, but it woodn't do to say it at Il
sne depot. At Wizards sez to the young n
at the bar, "Can you Civ me Light al 81
j, 1ecm up two flights, front side, with gas
~ : slick into the middle and held his head just
If Ole bair either Way would make him lo
sided for life. He looked 1T my name d
3azz eatchil and stz he, NJ. sprowle can give >
Place n by oeS but , thnn atrsg a GaF d9
y eye Stz J, Young man I've been nigh
. ! Ieayir in this honke than in any other pla
o. on earth, and where it's human stairs to clll
don't like it. Tell all my friends jest at
= round to Widow WimPle's," }" and on we
aot1. copirsck,-but not to anticipate.
Havin got Settled, "Bizuess is bizne9s," I
,1;o | I, and 1t it I went. I went to the Deps
H ,ren ucnt a1d dled ny, PaPels, tneludln little
If the same 10 chow the consistency as Eb
tzer etz, about all the consistency too *
TIE bere in soEe quarters, which is q Jewel il
= Of tosd's eye, consistency is, and room eno1
/ L Ii for it
yea11 a. Then went to the depot. NY sixteen b
: .d sas Of split peas hadn't come. Went to Willar
A~- ard spent the day in cypherin out plans n
little chuukid fellow found there, =
Y; z; said he'd got the ear Of high quarters. II
= spects Next moruio WAS at the Departn
again, and then to the depot, An SO On fc
- Wetk.
At enc end Of the Avenoo the baggige- 7
Ter get all fired Eessy, which ain It 30 tar +
the fact a. the other end Of the Avenue, vi
one clerk referred me to another, and wi
to totter and round sgaiu, until among
they lost my little paper OF split Peas, {
hsd, ard here vas IN pretty &C. "a n
in then to DO but to tend to the other en-
the Areuoo, and I'd enough Of it at that.
sez1to the bsggtgemaster, ':strangeI,I T d
Want to use no violent terms, but here .tts.
several shilling day out and doin' nothln
alODE 9l tlem EI!ll pEiAes s4At01A ooSo A1Af@A
E. s. Edad osproWle's my name.
ruined if they dent come" "Go to the de-
sez he-his exact words. see he was e
paturtd teller at heart, but I've seen the
- when fight would have had just such s
sS-- aotis as that, but biziness is biziness, Al
thought I'd moli!y him. told him the
cuns@ancie, and how they'd lost my
lcaxo, sample up 10 the War Department, and
,rs. ro,hu 10 chow till ny. sixteen bags cur
bard.
l. We ta:ked It over, the baggige-masteI a
:, or- and stood him little treat and he let
.Hena Ii "a into things that surprised me. sez be,
s4lie1s sr1owle, you're gentleman, an In
Feea' i BY a remark 5o1 made about treat
Basr I've took only cider:) Sez he, "We've o
y5-'y single track road, and what can FIG do!
I~ Potomfc is nigh cnto IS good as closet
y I, them ae isn't bum proof, and freight is
min onto Us powerful. Ny hearts n
H. broke, seeln' the grief Of aicn as you
u md what can we do:"
tSh,fless," ST I, an meant It'll
'seo 70 Sez he, settin' down his cider very hart
his danGer tisIn' aperieatly, "M1. Sprawl,
he.
q Pre asprowle," eez !, mildly Ike:
din OFT tsWell, do you. intend that ere RENAL
NAN. uef'' and the crowd got round Us =
- Epoke, and the Provo Ma1shaps guard, =
CO.. been 1ookia' izto the doorway likely r