Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-04-06
From the Toledo Blade.
NASBY.


MIR. NAsBY DESIRES CoNFIRMATIoN-Is AD-
vIsED HOW TO PROCEED BY THE PREsI-
DENT, BUT REFLECTS THE PROPOSITION
WITH sCoRN.
WASHINGTON, d. c., March Is, 1867.
Washington agn Wat changhes hev
bin made in the last two years Not in
Washington, for this deliteful abode of of.
fshl purity hezn't changed a particle, nor
never will. From the summit Nv Wizards
Hotel kin see now, ez did yeer ago, the
same signs NV steamed oysters" in front the
Capitle, towrin over the trees at the tother
end NV the Avenoo; and behind, the Patent
Offs and Post Offs buildins, the last the
Mecca NV every Dimocrat, and the tother NV
every Yankee who comes here. No Wash.
ington aint changed, but hev. Formerly
when visited Washington it wuz tite times
with me. Willard's wuz my hotel then ez
now. Chadwick, him NV the towrin hite
rotund obdomen, side whiskers and round
hat, wuz then, ca now, my landlord. In
them days, before the happy return nv A.
johnson to reason put sum thousands NV
Democrats, who he'd more stumick than
money, and more appetite than small change,
into offs, and, per conscience, into condi-
tion to pay their bills, wuz guest at this
hotel wich is to say slept on the steps Nv
the Capitol, and took or tried to take my
meals at Chadwick's bountiful board. Eff
had no currency had taste, and ez l wuz
fordgin for subsistence, alluz made it pint
to forage on the richest paster fields. It's ez
easy to cheek a first-class dinner ez it is q
second class, and besides, felt that sich a
hotel ez Wizards wuz better able to stand
sich boarders ez l wuz than them Nv less
patronage. kept away from tother hotels
out Nv sympathy for the proprietors. Never
shall forget my last visit here. / he'd run
the dinin-room guardian-agel for q week,
at least, when Chadwick stopped me his-self,
and the follerin corversasher ensood
my fren," sed he in winnin tones.
Davis, Garret, is my name !" sez promp.
tly.
"We hear enuff," sez he. "Listen I've lei
700 run week. cos it's my regler practis
Yoo he'd hungry look, but by this time
700 ought to be filed up and able to 90 at
least week without eatin. Ez yoo ain Nv
no earthly yoose to anybody, and make nc
pretentions to being ornamental-git ~ and
three well directed kicks landed me onto the
sidewalk.
But hev forgive him. He treats me well
He hez confidence in me now, ez hev paid
my board in advance. It's rool he hez, he
jocosely remarked, with men NV my pecooliel
cast Nv countenance to hev EN- pay in ad
vance. He sez it's much the best way
After payin, sich men ez me feel more com
Portable about the house, and so do the pro
prictors. It's me that's changed--I hey
money to pay my bills. Bless the Lord fol
Seward, johnson, Randall, and other lux
uries.
! But pleasant ez it is to contrast my former
! posishen with my present proud one, hex
not time to dwell upon "reminiscences. Life
is short; am practical man, and tho i
may be pleasant to inger for moment ontt
memory's pleasant fields, l cannot Ny
biznis in Washinton in precisely what every
Democrats biznis here is, to git confirmed
1t amt no trouble for a Kentucky Dimokra
to get appinted, for the President hcz so fa
relaxed his rules ir this partikeler ez to ap
pint them ez wuzent never in the Confedri
army, but to git confirmed is the pinch
There's the gauntlet NV Ablishn SENT t.
run, and good Lord wat a knowledge the,
hev Nv the out-goins and incomns NV ap
pintees
The President and Postmaster Genera
Randall wuz extremely anxious for my con
firmashen, so much so, that they advised m
to resort to the strategy now SO common i
the North.
go back on me for the time bein," SCI
that trooly great and good man who adorn
the sofas in the Presidential Mansion. "Wi
cox em. That's your only holt, Wilcox en-
| advised him to do it, and see how it work
ed.n
my dear sir" sed I. carried away by thi
new and unexpected development Nv great
ness, skin 700 bear to hev me who bears voc
banner in Kentucky bend the knee to
Ablishn SENT, and repoodate 700, even fc
hour 1t is safe in my case, for my matters
atfinities are with 700, but don't. beg u
yoo, advise all Nv EN- to so do. My deer ST
twothirds Nv em will go out for confirm,
shen, and, eff successful, will forgit to return
But the great and good johnson WOO
take no denials. "Draw up" sed he, "a lie
, ter to conservativ member Nv Congress
explainin yoor connection with me, and
And overkum with emoshen, he bust int
tears.
Sadly undertook the task, and after 70,
, hours Nv intense labor, the following W,
: completed:
"Hon. - -, House Nv Reps.
"My Dear Sir: My confrmashen oy Il
SENT Nv the Yoonited States to the posisht
nv Postmaster at the Confedrit Y Road
wich is in the State Nv Kentucky, bein som
: what jeopardized by my operashens in t
politikle field door in the past two years
hev the honor to explane that, notwit
standin the fact that was original Dem
crat, early in the war, took up arms
the preservation Nv our beloved Yoonio
The precise date Cannot give, OWN to t
demoralized condishen Nv my mind at t
= :, time, but that yoo can assertane for yo'
y selves. 1t wuz about two weeks after
J. fust draft That l laid down arms agin
- soon ez the regiment struck suthern
:, will not, when the motives wich aetooat
u me are known, be allowed to weigh aa
Ie me. 1t hez bin sed desertid to the eneI
Is so it was sed Nv John Champe, but hist
le subsekently yindieated him-be went