The Shasta courier., 1868-02-29
SHASTA COURI Err.
Nasby's Reflection ON the Decease OF Elder
Pennibacker.
Posi- OFrIs, CorFEDERArE x ROADS,
(wich is in the Stait of Kentucky,
January 25. 1868.

NWIch Is In the Stale OF kentuckyj,
January 25, 1868.
Wun by wun we goi Wun by wun the
tall oaks wich hev stood, onmoved, the blasts
NV time tottera and fall We view their pros
trate forms a second, methinks. they sink
into the earth and are lost to site, tho to
memry dear, forever Then around the old
stump the young sprouts grow up more Wig
orouser than ever.
Hothin. i never waste the patheties. w hen
ever man is pulled drowndid from the creek
in this vicinity, wich happens frekently,
there bein three distilleries onto it, / never
weep until see whether he belongs to my
congregashun. 1t requires too much NV an
effort to weep. to do it on all okkashuns.
Elder Abslum Pennibacker, to-wunst the
, strength and the ornament Nv the meeting
house Nv witch he'd bin for two years a
pastor, departed this life at P. NJ. this after.
noon. For him weep, for him the teers is
fiowln over the paper onto wich these lines Is
penned. | am writing EN- 10 the presence Nv
the wife and children NV the deceest, and it
does en good to see me Affected. When one
kin confer satisfaction at so little trouble to
carry an onion in his pocket handkerchief, he
would be broot, indeed, eff he did not prove
himself excl to the occasion.
Elder Pennibacker wuz born in the eastern
part Nv Pennsylvany, Nv real old Democratic
stock. He wuz born amid the scenes Nv the
war nv Independence, and he growed up
with Revolooshenary memries inspirin him.
His father fought in the Revolooehen, havin
come all the way across the Atlantic to do it,
He wuz Hessian, and therefore wunznt
.penshuned by the Amerikin Government
But at their Fourth Nv Joely celebrashuns
the old man wuZ invited to sit on the stand,
the yomanry Nv that secshun not knowing
that it made any difference ez to the side he
took in the struggle.
Young Abslum crowd up amid exslent
infoounces. There wusnt no skools in the
visinity in his infancy, and jist ez he mite
have been contaminated by EN- his tather
moved to Kentucky, where he was safe from
all sich. The I'D gentleman dyin, Abslum
inherited the paternal akers and paternal
niggers and became a man among men,
The genius Nv the man now began to devel
OPP. Untrameled by the narrer views NV his
paternal ancestor, he boldly launcht for him.
self. He early distinguished himself by his
inventive genius, wich took the real Ken
lucky shoot. Twas him wieh conceived the
idea NV braidin small wire into the lashes of
Niger whips and not satisfied with that, he
after a months hard study, brought out the
Improvement in the nigger paddle NV boring
holes into it,. He he'd deSprt struggle to
get it adoptid The blind planters NV the
neighborhood he'd faithe in the old paddle,
plain, and the Elder wuz forst to demons trate
by actoOal experiment on his niggers, its
sooperiority. lie killed two in doing it but
he triumphed, 1t wuz found that more
chastisement Good be inflicted with it a given
time than by the old method and it lasted
longer.
need not say wat his politics wuz. He
was never nothin but a Dimocrat. lie COM
menst his career votin three times for Jack
son, and the candidates wich folered in sue.
cession he'd no ;ause to complain Nv his zeel
Under Bookanan his faithfulnis wuz reward
ed, the Post Offs wich now hold was given
him, and he discharged the dooties faithfully
and to the best of his ability. Ez he coodent
read he put wat letters wich arriv out into
box outside, lettin every one come take one
Ell they wanntid to. The paper witch cum to
the ofhs for Deacon Pogram he learned to
destribbit in two weeks. The outgoing
mail he dumped into Louisville bag, feel.
ing great load wuz off his mind when it
departid. He held the offs till they wanted
him to make out quarterly report. He
wuz nonplussed. lie either he'd to buy
niger who Good reed and write or resign.
and he resigned A half starved Yankee
"uS dppOltteu III MS stead, who reIpned till
i relieved him.
The elder wuz the happy possessor NV
three hundred niggers, They wuz probably
the best lot of niggers. ez they run in North
western Kentucky. He had three shades
Nv color. The trader Good find anything in
the line of niger, up to these three that hn
wantid, on his plantashen There was the
pure congo, the agil mulatto and the comely
quadroon. There was no higher mix than
the quadroon for it will be remembered the
family hedn't bin slave-owners but three
generashens. They bed accomplished great
deal, however, for the time they had EN-.
The Elder he'd bin in fallin health ever
since 1862. In that year he embarkt into
speculashen wich bid fair to make him wun
NV the wealthiest men in the State, and wood.
he'd things bin continyood normal. Their
wuz niggers runnin to the Federal camps
from all parts Nv the State, and the Elder
conceived an idea NV gOin to the said camps
ana claimin Nv en- The officer in command
wuz so anxious to consulate EN-, that he wood
gladly give EN- up. without being pertikler
about proofs, and the Elder gathered. in
that way, in two months, over a hundred =
1t required good deal of ridin, and that
fatigue combined with the exposure incident
TO bushwhackiu Fedral pickets, wich wuz
guardin his fences and sich, brought on a
spell Nv sickness from which be never fully
recovered. The Emancipation Proclamation
nearly fnisht him, and be fingered along, a
broken man, until Johnson's 22d NV Feb,
roory speech; wich acted ez a tonic onto
him. He revived, but the effect wuz tempo
rary. Ez the conservatives made headway,
he came up, and ez Congris triumphed, be
went down, and thus he lived like candle
in tin lantern, fickerin or quiet, ez the
wind blowd. He pluckt up amazinly after
the eleckshuns last Fall, bat alas, the
treachery of Meade..and the reinstatement NV
Stanton wuz two blows from wich he Good
not hope to recover. And SO, yesterday, at
two P. NJ, wich in this case means post NOR.
TEN, he died.
Send in Sairy ~ sed he, and favorit
muiatto woman NV hizzen who, OWN tn the
faut Nv havin eight children, who wuz quad.
rooms, he'd stayed onto the place, wuz sent
ior. She set on the bed, and the Elders
mead wuz placed in her lap. 'sGiye me nv
munney, said he and box of Confedrit
scrip wuz given him. And 80, with his
mead IN Sairey's lap, fingerin Confedrit
serlp, ana takin Gkker out Nv spoon. he
passed gently away. 1t wuz troo Ken
,ucky ,.. y, departure This is the eend nv
lite y sed |. g May nv eend he l;ta his ,,
m1rmured Trl Deekin Pogram, and all wuz Ger
There was trouble imme;itlv W. ~ ~