Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-22

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/ GESTLENEN-You are aware that with the
Presidential contest of 1860 my political
hopes and aspirations expired, and that i'm
mediately retired to my Sabine farm on
the Frogtown Turnpike, some fifteen miles
from the city. where proposed to spend the
remainder of my days in c1ltivating my few
acres, and in eudeavoring to marry some
young lady of rich but respectable parents.
Since that time have visited the city but
twiee-once last Spring to get some Shaker
seeds snd fish hooks, and once last week to
sell a few bushels of wheat and lay in nv
winter supplies
Ny 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 like
ly soon to command, 1 bad no other
means of paying for the cart-load of things
/ felt myself compelled to nave to render me
| comfortable for the winter; coffee, soap, sugar,
| hat, candles, boots. &c. How many of these
| articles of prime necessity 1 bought for the
| money, you can easily determine by the SIM
plest process of arithmetical calculation.
Suffice it to say, l expended all but ten dol
lars of the amount, and had got neither hat
nor boots, and deuced little of anything else
in short, not enough to fill one end of my
saddle bags.
went into shop where they had a guam
tity of good-looking boots on exhibition in
| the show-windo'w, intending to buy me pair.
and fully prepared, by the experience OF the
day, to give what our excellent old friend
Squire MAxEY, of Market street, would call
laundering price for them sat down on
chair with the bottom knocked out, and ele-
waiting my foot in front of the manufacturer
who was pulling waxed-end through the
sole Of a shoe, and pointing TO my dilapida-
ted boot, feelingly exclaimed, "bahold the
sad raVages of Timel' The manufactu-
rer laid down his aw1. thrust his finger into
hole in the side of the boot, and giving a
sudden twist, made the rent fifty per cent.
larger than it was before. ''Halloo! hold!D
exclaimed, turning pale. for 1 had intended
to make the boots last me for everyday wear
until cold weather sets in, and l was about
to swear at The fellow longer and louder
than trooper, but / reflected that profanity
would not repair the damage in times like
these, and so merely remarked that wanted
a new pair.
l have long had weakness for what they
call stitch downs, but have never worn pair,
partly because they cost COMPOUNDED sight
of money, and partly because they are too
heavy to go to see the girls in. For the
first named reason / have left unbought
number of other things in my time, that 1
was not little anxious to have. The owner
OF the shop took down from peg pair of
stitch-downs. l tried them on. L must do
them the justice to say that they fitted me as
handsomely as if my feet had been melted
and poured into them. 1 determined 10 buy
them, cost what they might. "I'll take these"
said l, stamping my right foot violently on the
floor. and taking my ten dollar bill from my
vest pocket. 'Take your pay out of that"
said I. hAndIug him the costly shinplaster.
l really believe the individual who stood
before me at that moment was the most thor
oughly astonished boot-maker that 1 ever
saw. He looked first at the money and then
bis eye-balls protruded from their sockets as
if they were being showed outward by some
hydraulic pressure within. At last, just as |
was about TO cry 'fire,'' or run for a doctor,
or something OF the sort, he spoke /" You are |
from the country, amt you ~ l answered |
that was. "And from of a long way
in the country too, amt you?" "Tolerably |
Deep" replied. 81 thought So" said he
them boots is Eighteen Dollarsf'
didn't say another word. sat down and |
pulled off ..tbem boots," more in sorrow than |
in anger. drew on my own, and walked out |
of the shop. The proprietor of the establish
ment must have taken me for the Prince of |
Wales, or the owner of the State Bank
Eighteen dollars for pair of boots l ear
nestly trust that posterity will not think me |
too particular about trifes, but L can't pay
such prices. s |
went 10 the store of my old friend JoHY |
RANAGE, on College street, where got first |
rate pair of boots for seven dollars and hav-
ing invested the rest of my money in other
necessaries, threw my saddlebags across my
the experience of the day that the small gro
Ger of whom purchased four pounds of can
dies at fifty cents per pound was correct
when he remarked that .'things has riz."
When was spending my last red, it did
not occur to me that three toll-gates obstruc-
ted the turnpike 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 be would have to change
q twenty-dolar BILL which of course he could
not do the other two rode around. | shall
make it all right the next time go to town.
want to know now, why they make us
pay such unhallowed prices for such articles.
for instance, as sugar, flour, &c. The sugar
crop of Louisiana was never better than the
present one, and Davidson county never
dreamed of heavier crop of wheat than the
last. To make us pay twoo or three prices for
articles that ought to be almost drug in the
market is down right robbery-it is Villain
ous-in short, it is damnable-and there
ought to be law to put stop to it. If there
S already such law, then that law is a par
icsps erinainis AN accessory to the rascality-
md ought to be dealt with accordingly.
In great haste, your friend truly, a
G. W.B.,
From tee Louisville Courier.
The Spirit Of Lincoluisnl-Atroc
Sentiments of Rev. DR.. II. Breck-
inridgc.
BY no ther nation on earth pretending to
,e civilized has war been conducted in