Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1862-10-25
Southern Hospitality.


DR.. HuNT, the rOcy army correspondent 0
the Bd6alo Express, gives the following dcs
cripton Of Maryland Farmer as representa-
tive man. Ho says {" know him IN d bis clas,
/ like book"
he IS HCGELY LIBERAL.
When your camp is IN the Deighborhood
OF his house. he sends you presents Of peach
es, of pies, aud Of worm.eaten apples liz
culiivntes your acquaintance aud allows bis
nggers to sell you milk land then, in lit
Tie while, he puts in bis bill for ali his pres
cuts, aud asks you a damnable price there
for. Aud when he charges you for gallon,
OF milk where you had quarts, and you,
WITH Yankee meanness, demonstrate, he
coolly assumes that you shall pay for all
he sends by bis ngger, md not for the
moiety thereof which you receive And
then, when you tell him to go whore he is
not due until be departs this life, he comes
down several pegs, aud calls ii msunder.
standing. Second,
He Is H0sPIrABLE.
You ride up, hungry as wolf to bis
gate. There is no tavern for miles He
iufoims you with u princely and buroniuI
air, that he has entertained thousands aud
never took a picayune from any man; that
no one was ever turned from his door, and
says, Gentlemen, wont you lghtY You
go in; be gives you good coffee, greasy ham
and water-logged potatoes, (he is usually
just out of buuer,) and when, like North.
ern mudsilI, you offer him pay, be says, No
sir; can always give gentleman meal
without pay; that's for the women or the
n'ggers; never take no pay mys,lf"-
Aud so you pay the women or the niggers
double price for q poor meal, aud he takes
the money away from them as soon as your
back is turned. Thirdly.
HE TRUSTS THE GOVERNMENT,
You pitch your camp in his ncghborhood
He has a straw stack, half thislIps aud the
rest weeds. You ule in hurry; the guar.
termaster is busy, ho wont sell any thing.
and you take what yOn want, he suggcsling
that as he easiest course, aud talking good
naturedly while your men go off wi he
straw. The next day, he goes to Bali.
more, tells his own story to General Wool.
aud you get rcprimand for piIaging -
Consequence is, our Maryland farmer p,ts
$50 a ton, for four times as much straw ne
he ever had. This he thinks better flor
him) than an honest price for an honest
weight
Such is the style Of the Maryland farmer.
Shittless beyond measure in his agriculture
nigh sounding in his notions of hospla aIitv,
conlemptuou OF money he will gu, yef or
any other man in "A business transaction -
a Connecticut G, ck .pedar wond lose his
eye teeth in dealing with him. have seen
all sorts OF them; dned today with a man
who has six hundfed acres of land. and am
willing to heS Something that he will sooner
or later make Captain II. pay for the din.
~er to which he very cordially invited us
both. | don't know that l blame them
mnch They don't know enough to get an
honest living. Their farms are worn out
and proftless, their nggers are not worth
enough to quarrel about now ndnys, for
there ia no market South to sell them TO,
and beyond that they have no source Of in.
come The war enriches them and they
make the most of it. Half of them were
Secession in sentiment" q little while ago,
Just as the First Ward is democratic in
sentiment" without knowing why Now,
they are good enough Union men. The
war came Just near enough to them to learn
them what it would be to have a visit from
their Southern brethren" in force. II
wond cost too much, and money is consid-
cradle of an institute n in the high-toued
and chivalric State of Maryland.