The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-08-08
NASRT.
Riograph sketch of Mr. Nasty.
From the Toledo Blade.

From the Toledo Blade
POST OFFICE, CoNFEDRIT x ROADS.
twich IS in the Stait NV Kentucky !
July 20, 1867.
EDrToR TOLEDO BLADE.-Sur; Enclo-
ed find PHOTOGRAPH w myself, ez you de
sired TO make shtrikin picter | flung
myself into the attitood and asSoomed
the expreshun wich mite hev been OBJ
served onto myclassikle countenance when
n the act nv deliyorin my justly celebra-
ted sermon, The wages Nv sin Is beth.
The 81, 90 wich you RENTED TO kiyer the
cost Nv the picter. wuz | regret to say
lnsuffishent The picter cost - cents
and it took $I,5 worth nv Bascom S
newest to steady my nerves to the pint nv
undergoing the agony NV sittln 3 nlnlts
IN front nv the Photographer. | need not
say that he is incendlary from Massa-
cheosets Ilz the deceased Elder GRAY
Wit son Tssaker, hez expressed a burnin
desire to possess his apparatus, it is prob
able that the public safety will very short
" require the expulshun NV the incendi
ary.. But he'd my reyenge-in his poe.
Kit is none nv my postal currency. Sc
lzoorin the picter, | told him | wood take
it home, and eff my intImit friends, those
who knowd me shood decide 1t wuz a por-
trait, / wood call and pay for 1t afore
left the Corners. VIII | doc it? VIII
this pictertakin ablishnist ever more be
hold me? Exc ansers.
700 may remit the odd twenty
cents, either by draft on Moo York or
money order, ut my resk
/ WIZ born in the year 1906, at will
not say where. | hey reasons for con
~ I 4 =
set any in that place up in businis. That
town hez gone leonatic, and gives AbliShn
rnaiorit8s friteful to contemplate, aud
don't want to benefit it by givin it a nash
rel reputashen | don twant to double
tic price nv its property-to be the means
uv erectin dozen or sich a matter NV
frst class hotels to accommodate the
crowd e1 wood make pilgrimages thither
to visit my birth place. The present
owner Nv the house into witch first open
ed my eyes onto a world Nv sin, is a Abb
lishnist NV the darkest dye, and | hcy no
desire to enrich him. Never, by word
az mine shell he cut that house up into
waskin sticks and huZzum pins.
My boyhood wuz spent III the pursoot
of' knolledge and muskrats, mostly the
Latter. | wuz promisin child My pa
kind. my mother in partikeleer. She
hatid eny Que that wuznt Dimoeraac.
With a hatrid that | never saw exalted.
When | say that she woodent borrer tea
and sugar and SIGH nv Wing nabers, the
length and bredth and depth OF her Dim-
oerasy viii be understood.
w niy childhood | know but little.
Nv father was ieadin man in the hum
BE speer in which he moved, holdln at
different times, the various Offices in the
town up to constable, the successive step
bern road supervisor aud pound master.
He wuz elected constable and mite prob
ably hey gone higher, but for an accident
tnat occurred TO him the first month.
lie collected Judgment tor SIS, and the
money wuz paid to him. The good man
VIZ a talented collector, but was singeriy
careless IN payin over wat he collected.
IL shown the pekoolier bent NV genius
Nv the old man. | repeet a conversation
wunst heerd. A man who he'd an ec-
count to collect, wuz conSultin one who
knowd my father well, ez to the safety
nv putin claim into his hands:
is he good collector?i askt the
man.
splendid, !" sed the naber.
Is he man of responsibilities. askt
the man.
-"Sir!' sed the naber, she hez the
ability, but yoo'll find. when you try to
git yoor money out Nv his hands that he
lacks the response.
Good Their hev bin a more techin tri-
boot? As
He wuz ike all men nv genius, unbal-
anced His ability wuz all on one side.
The grovelin plaintiff, who didn't admire