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Posi- OFFIs, COSFEDERIr y ROADS,
(Wieh is in the Stait nv Kentucky,) ,
Jsa. 80. 1868.

7ith all the saraesfAeSs Of has enthusiastic He-
tUre.
POsT OFFIs, COSFEDERrr y ROADS,
(Wieh is in the Stait nv KentucSy,)
/ Jan. 80, 1868
hev it at last see lite A CRATE lite A
6rite lite shel not 90 to NOo York, nor shel
be forced to leave the corners, at least psrIaa-
[ nently. hev At last struck lie | -shel live
hke a genileman,-l shell pay for my hker. and
4 be on an ekal footin with other men Bascom,
I whose smile is happiness, but whose froBn is
/ death. Will smile onto me wunst more
/ To Miss Soosan Murphy l owe my present
l happiness. The minnit that I notist that she
/ he'd put IN a claim agin the government for uro-
/ perty yoosel loorin the war by felrl soIicrv, 4
to-wuust saw where my hnanshel salvashen wus
| lmmeltly hisied my shingle e. a claim agla-
I wich Wuz 70 prosekoJt claims agin the govern
ment for property destroyed or yo0sei dooriu the
bate onpleastniss by ielral troous. That shiurls
hedn't hin out an hour before Joe Big'er hea
red II to half the citizens NV the corners, and ia
two hours he'd biznis on my hands and money
in my pockets Ez matter NV course insist
Ell upon a retainin fee Nv ten dollars in esch
case.
Issaker Gavitt and his two younger brother
wuz the tirst clients ! he'd. Their clss is one u4
I pekoOlyer hardship, and feel asho5rcl that
congris viii to wonst afford EN- the relief tl.ey
ask. The property destroyed wuz a barn agl
is contents, which Wuz DESTROYED by Buel i-
the second yeer Nv the that l., the con-
tents wood hey bin destroyed only they Wuzu't
IN the barn, ez they he'd bin sold jist previously
10 the c0ufederlcy. But e. the elder, peene to
his ashes, took eonfelrit mummy foF the sell con-
tents, wich mummy he. in a moment NV euth00-
slsm, invested in confelrit bonds, wch finally
got % be worth nothin, We put in a claim for the
rlHva . 81 n H.
Bein seventy years NV age when the var broke
out he did not volunteer IN the confsdrit seryis,
and consequently never fired sho, at the Old
hag. His two youngest sons dill. it is truo, but
the elder can't be held respOnsiblefor them boys.
Iae estate Is entitled TO damage jist the same ez
though theeder wuz alive
Elder Pennibacker hez also claims to con-
siderable amount, wch IL for fences, crops, barns
and sica, destroyed by the fedral armies. The
elder is not quite certain but that the fences wuz
destroyed by order Of a eonfeirit general, wich
vuz retreetin, and /, is possible that the crops,
barn and sich, wuz yO0sei up at the same time.
IL wuz doorn the war, At any rate, and ~ the
federal government wuz, an his opinyun, to
blame for the war, wch wood not hey ban car
ried on he'd it yealed ez il ought 30 hev done,
why the lelrll government ought 30 pay sll
these losses w co0rse I shan's put all the ell
der's talk into the petishen.
Miss Jane McGrlth's ease, wich Il the one
shel push the hardest, Is ere Wich, ef Congris
does not consider fivorably; it viii show that
Congris hez no bowels Miss McGrath Is w0-
man. Uvcourse dooring the war she wuz loyal,
sz she understood loyalty. She believed in her
State. She he'd two brothers wich went into the
e0nfedrit service, aul she give 'em both horses,
but wool eny sister let aliectionate brother 20
afoOt, Them horses nust BE- st down 20 the
credit Nv her sisterly affection. 1t vii. De- show
ell, make no doubt, that when her Oldest broth
e-'s regiment he wuz q eol0ne) LEFT foT the sect
Nv war, that Miss McGrath presented to it a -o0t
Nv cOlOrs which she made with her own hands,
wich SCOT included black flag with skull and
cross-boues onto it. Sposin she dii3 Il wrz
loyalty 10 what she considered her state. And
the fact that doJrin the war she walked twelve
miles to inform confeirit officer that four icl-
RAJ s0ljers wich hal escaped from Auigrsonsiile
wuz hid in her batn shooi not operate agin her.
Onto her piano there wuz a cOlleckshun lv
southern songs, and there is rumor that n
louisville wunst she did spit in the face &C
ielrgtl oiicer, but what Nv thlt3 is great
government coin to inquire closely into sch
trihes Miss McGrath gave ne the NAMES uv
three feiral generals who caupt on her p.rce
during the last yeer Nv the war. Wich wool cer-
tify to her loyalty, weh if they didn't wood
show that there Wuznt any graft u IN hu-
manity.
Dekin Pogrlm hez Of course a claim. The d.
kin's horses wuz all takin by ielrd oth-er,
Wich wuz the more a-gravatin ez the desin he'd,
in adiishen to his own, iist bought twenty-five,
wich be wuz to key delivered to Gen. Morgan "
the confelerlcy, the next cay, who WIZ 20 hes
paid for en- in gold. They we're al gobh.ei
For these horses the deekin claims payment. BE
wuz dooring the war strictly nootrai. Kentucky
did not secede. neither did the dekn. Iae boys
went into the conieirit servs, and on several oc-
casious he mite possibly have cleaned on his
trusty rifle and gone out At mite to git crack at
felral pickeis. Habit is strong. and e. there
wuz No sch0o.masters % shoot, the deesIn mast
shoot suthn He considered the war 81 great
misiorcho0n, and many time hez the oll pa
triark, with teers streemin down his cheeks, ex-
claimed, .. Why won't Linkin withdraw ais
troops and let " alone -' Tie hez bin slue= tue
cl0ze of the struggle a hankerin arter pecce.
back my niggers-let me hev things ez ihey
wunst wuz and shell be soothed into quietuse'
He voted for Mcclellan IN 1861, and Tor Sey-
mour in lS5S but that NV course wont count
aein him n the matter w the claim The miH-
il he decided 10 put in the claim be Withdrew
from the ku klux, uy wich associashen he hFz bin
chief for this seckshun Hes sorry, now, that
he shot any nirgers since the close Of the wIr.
He is an inofensiYe old man whose pathway TO
the tomb needs soothn. The horses he lost be
counts worth $4,000, and he " euursa wants
remuneration 20 the amount Nv SlOOl0 more
for the anguish he suffered seem Nv EN- 60
Almost every white citizen Nv the corners hez
a claim Nv wich | shel he's the prusakao,ia--that
Is them Wich kin raise the retainin ies- some
hundred or more who never he'll n0thiu before or
dooriu the war, AMI who are in the sane condi-
shen nov, hey put in claims for Sues gin
from : 900 to 10000, oderiug me tle LalfI
get may take en-. They kin swear to eacu
others loyalty, which viii redoose the cost Nv
evidence TO a mere nominal sum.
shel HE me 10 Washington ani gvt Mrs.
Cobb to take hold with me, giyin her share.
Ef she succeeds with ongriss e. vel Ca she iii
With the president, the result viii be all that
sn desire
PERoLEuM V. NAsB1,
(Wich is P0stmaster.)