The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1861-10-03
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DEAR DRN:-llN IiS' lCllNT NaiHC w ll''W
in due time, and believe me, it VAS ms ra.c
Us a ripe peach and grateful as the dcws o
evening to tue soiled and worn traveller
Il was Ike coil upou the troubled waters -
was thy sympathetic cpistle. am sorry
to toll thee that the "sassagc meat Rpo,lcu
Of by thee has entirely spoilcd--tho "spilc
epots" extending until they covered the
whole mass. and in consequence we have
been obliged to throw it to tho dogs We
have press in our interest called the jidc-
pendent, of which presume Hlcc had some
muddled idea, ms thee mentioned something
of the kind in thy postscript. tits edited by
fellow called Sniggins, it remember his
name rightly. We picked him up out Of
the ruppet-show business, Hank Kings
bury of Toledo had sued him and had press
ed upon him sorcy for his board and wash
bills (Which had accumulated during pro.
fess,onal sojoun Of Sniggns at t}at city,
insomuch thai he had tax IN his puppets and
wax figures to pay ea;d bills. Poor Sng-
gins was left with only ono old greasy pic
tlre. under which he wrote tlc name Of
George Washington, and was about to start
out on foot to exhibit it to the boys in the
street, thinking he could again extend his
business as he acquired business reputation
and accumulated money, About this time
we fell in with him; diseuodcd him from his
foolish notion, and prevailed Oh him to go
;,t, IA, ,InIcpnuJn,,f Il uphpn,n Alhaii IN,
fellow has more wit than wisdom, and is
vastly oycTatcd by some who are not good
judges Of character and ability; but he an
swers our turn very well. He is ambitious
(thou knowcst the cock that's raised on a
dunghill will always crow firstl and we
have some trouble in keeping him TO his
place. | send thee q specimen of the paper
and thou uccdst have 40 surprise that Snig.
gins talks as though he was the only man
hereabout competent TO direct the iinar-
cial affairs of the county, and - dictate who
ehal! be eligible to the various Offices Of the
nation. That's nothing; hell make very
tolerablc tool, once we get the edge of, and
get out of his head the nution that he's iii
for scat in the Cabinet, or the Presidential
Chair. Give thyself no trouble about us.--
The thing (thc independently takes well. We
have employed one Of the "progiuny' of Old
Jack OF Spades, (whom thou in thy ignor.
auce Callat "thc Father of his Couutry"l To
peddle it in the country lie was lately in
the peanut and and saleratrs business in
this place, which gave him an extensive ac
quaintance hereahout, AMI he succec Is adj
mirably. Send him thy aid and cou scl, il
le comes thy way, and begwile as many II,
thou canst into subscribing for | tel thee
the finances of the concern are asSperdte.--
Sniggins has partner, who betimes edte,
the locotoco paper here, and who change,
his politics for a change of raiment He il
of small account, financially or otherwise
and thy aid and the aid of all the friends
of the enterprise is needed to insure success
We got Sniggins TO swallow the lie he pub
lished about Judge Whitley, and to give tn,
Judge a quasi support, likewise with Woos
ter. We did this in order to moro cilccu
ally slay those pestiieut fellows Smith an,
McGowan. If this don't work, thou mays
rest assured thar the Judge and Wonste
will have reason, after election, 10 pra,
Lord deliver us from onr friends" w
didn't care anything about Lansdalc's gro
Gerry. We feared he was friendly to thos
fellows who had waxed fat about the Couy
House, and that we could not use his nam
as stool pigeon to decoy his friends t
their political death. am thine fervently,
WET YorE WHISTLE SLlLy.
T. s. Thou wilt notice have io.nod m,
self to the order of Friends Their mal
ner of speech and dress is indicative of hon
esty and probity. advise thee to try i
for surely something Of the kind is uecde
to bring us into better oder with arg
portion of this people, Old Jack Of Srai,
unhesitatinsiy opposed the movc for Whit
ley; declaring that the Judge could ucyC
see the point in any argument of his making
Young Peanut says We must do somethir
TO conciliate the people, or he will quit SCI
ing our Independent A position, whc,
there is anything like physical danger,
not in his line. know such is tho fact, {,
his friends could not coax. nor his enem
abuse him into enlisting last spring. lIo
ing thou wilt leave off thy pranks and lcal
that "adke1 pfIl1iaN oo,l,,of tL,.j.s.u