The weekly loyal Georgian., 1868-02-15

tribblt in too weeks. The out-goin mail
he dumped into Louisville bag, feelin a
great load wuz off his mind when it de-
partid. He held the offs till they wantid
him to make out quarterly report. He
wuz nonplussed. He either he'd to buy
nigger who Good read and write, or resign,
and he resigned. A half-starved Yankee
wus appointid in his stead who reigned till
l 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 Nv nfgger, up to these three, that he
wantid, on his plantashen. Their wuz the
pdre congo, the agil mulatto, and the comely
quadroon. Their wuz no higher mix than
the quadroon, for it will be remembered
the family hevn't bin slave-owners but three
generashens. They he'd accomplished q
gread deal, however, for the time they he'd EN-.
The Elder he'd bin in faiin health ever
since 1862. In: that year he embarkt into
speculashun wicf bid fair to make him wun
NV the wealthiest men in the State, and
wood, he'd things bin continyood normal.
Their wuz niggefs runnin to the Federal
camps from all parts Nv the State, and the
Elder conceived an. idea Nv goin to the said
camps and claimin lv EN-. The officer in
command wuz so anxious to consulate EN-,
that he wood gladly give EN- up, without
bein pertikler about proofs, and the Elder
gathered in that way in two months, over q
hundred.
1t required good deel of ridin, and that
fatigue combined with the exposure Incl
dent to bushwhackin Fedral pickets, wich
waz guardin his fences and sich, brought
on spell Nv sickness from which he never
fully recovered. The Emancipation Proc
lamashen nearly 6nisht him, and he ling
cred along, broken man Ontil Johnson's
22d Nv Febroory speech, which acted ez a
tonic onto him. He revived, but the effect
wuz temporary. Ez the Conservatives made
headway, he came up, and ez C0ngris tri
umphed, he went down, and thus he lived
like a candle in tin lantern, fickrin or
quiet, ez the wind blowd lie pluckt up
amazinly after the eleckshuns last fall, but
alas, the treachery of Meade and the rein
statement Nv Stanton wuz two blows from
wich he Good not hope to recover. And so,
yesterday, at two p. M, wlch In this case
means post mortem, he died.
''Send in Sairy - sed he, and favorite
mulatto woman Nv hizzen who, OWN to
the fact Nv her havin eight children, who
wuz quadroOns he'd stayed onto the place,
wuz sent for. She set on the bed, and the
Elders head wuz placed in her lap. Give
me my munney," sed he; and box Nv
Confederit scrip wuz given him. And so,
with his head IN Sairey's lap, fngerin Con-
federit scrip, and taken Iikker out Nv
spoon, he passed gently away. 1t wuz
troo Kentucky deparcher. "This IS the
eend NV life !" sed /. May my eend be
like his," murmured Deekn P0gram, and
all wuz DER.
There wuz trouble immeiitly. When
the Elders will wuz read | wuz dlsap-
pointed to find that the Elder he'd left the
half NV his estate to Sairey and his wife.
Sairey and the people Nv the Corners to
wich he was Indebted in small sums, wuz
disappointed to find that Bascom he'd mort
gage on everything the Elder possessed, Nv
quite its valyoo. Bascom, | bleeve hez
mortgage onto every root NV ground within
ten miles Nv here. He wood hev a mort
gage onto my property, | make no doubt eff
he'd any. But | amt, halleloogy | do
wish, however, that some one nv more en-
larged views wood start q grocery here
Its inconvenient to hev so sharp man
Supplyin you with the absloot necessities NV
life. We buried the elder to day. 1t was a
hnga funaIal- -In-th ha la4..4i - .ll-.-
by his wife, then the entire Corners and
back Nv them more ttan forty yaler niggers,
who he'd bin hizzen. Wat drawl EN- TO his
tomb? Wuz it instink =? Who kin tell a.?
But piller hez fallen | am toe sad to
write more.
PETROLEUM V. Massey p. NJ,
(Wch is Postmaster