Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-02-05
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from the Toledo Blade.)

PROMISES AMPLE PROftIes IL LIE
HIMSELF TO 1T WITH ALL THE EARNEST
sPosrorr1s, CoxFEDRrT ROADS, J
(Which is in the State nv Kentucky0
January 20, 1863.
HEY it, at lastl !, see a lite A crate
lite a brite lite IL I shell not go to Moo
York, nor shell L be forced to leave the
Corners, at least permanently. / hev at
last struck lie ! I shell live like gentle
mani shell pay for my likker, and be on
an ekal footins with, other men. Bascom,
whose smile is happiness, but whose frown
is DEATH will smile onto me wunst more.
To Miss Soosan Murphy, owe my
present happiness. The minnit I notist
that she he'd put i'll claim agin the Gov
eminent for property yoosed doorin the
war by Fedral. s0ljery, | to.wunst saw
where my finanshel. salvashen wuzs I'M
mejitly l histed my single ez a claim
agent witch wuz to ,prosekoOt claims agin
the Government for property destroyed or
yoosed, deorin the late onpleassntniss by
Fedral troops. That single hedn't bin
out an hour, before Joe Bigler he'd red' it
to half the citizens NV the Corners, and in
two hours1 hedrbiznis on my hands, and
money in my pockets. Ez a matter NV
course insisted upon a sretainin fee Nv
ten dollars In. each case. = "a 80 ,f..
Issaker~ GaVitt and his two younger
brothers WIZ the first clients I he'd Their
case is one Nv pekoolyer hardship and l
feel ashoored that Congris win to wunst
afford EN- the relief they ask. The prop
erty destroyed, WIZ a. barn and itsjcon.
tents, witch wuz destroyed by Buel in the
second year NV the war that is the con-
tents wood hev bin destroyed only they
wuznt in the barn, ez they he'd bin sold
iist previously to the Confedracy. But
ez the Elder, peece to- his ashes, took Cons
fedrit mummy for the sed contents, wich
mummy he, IN asIhoment NV eritheosiasm,
invested in Condfedrit bonds, witch finally
got to be worth nothin, we put in claim
for he.valyoor uvthep coHtentssez Yell ez
Nv the barn. kBeins70 years NV age when
the war broke out he didsilet volunteer in
the Confederit servis, and consequently
never fired a. shot at the Old Flag His
two youngest sons did, it.is troo, but the
Elder cant be. held responsible, for them
boys. The estate is entitled to-. damage
jist the same as though the Elder wuz
alive. 'IQ 4 III 6EI 4 7
Elder Pennibackef hez alsoclaims to b
considerable amount, witch is for fences,
crops, barns and SIGH, destroyed by the
Federal armies. The Elder is not quite
certaipa but that the fonces wuzy destroyed
by order Nv a Confedrit General, witch
wus retreetin, and it is possible that the
cropss barns and sich,g wuz yoosed up at
the same time. It wuz doerin the war, at
any, rate, and ,ez the, Fedral Government
wuz, m his opinyun, to blame for the war,
witch never wood hey bin carried on he'd it
YIELDED ez it ought to hev- done, why the
Fedra1 Government ought to- pay all
these Losses Nv course shan't put all
the Elders talk intothe petishen. s1f:rss,-
Miss Jane McGrath's case, which is the
one shell pushth hardest, is one wich, eff
Congrls does NOT consider fayerably, it
will show that Congris hez no bowels.
Miss SMcGrathJis d woman wv course
doorin the war she wuz loyal, ez she un-
derstood loyalty. Il She believed in her
state She he'd two brothers witch went
INTO the Confedrit seryis, and she give EN-
both horses. But wood eny sister let her
brother go afoot?i Them horses must be
seSdoSn to the credit Nv her sisterly af-
teckshen. 1t will be showed, l make no
doubt, thatwhen her Oldest brothers re.
glment Che Wuz a ColoneD left for the
seetnv war, that Miss McGrath presented
to 1t SCOT Nv colorS witch she made with
her own hands, which SCOT included a
black flag with skull and cross-bones onto
IT,. Sposln she did 1t wuz loyalty to
what she considered her State And the
fact that doonn the war she rode twelve
miles to inform a ~Confedrit officer that
four Fedral soljers WITCH had ,escaped
from Andersonviile wrz hid in her barn
shood not operate agin her.. Onto her
piano there wuz q choice colleckshen NV
Southern songs and there is a rumor that
in Louisville. wunst shedid spit, in the face
uveasFedral ,off1ser, but wat, NV, that ? Is
a great Government goin to INQUIRE close.
ly into SIGH trities? Miss Mct3rath give
me the names NV three Fedral Generals
who campt on her, place sdoorin the last
year5ly the war, witch wood certify to her
loyalty witch eff they didn't wood show
Inat there Wuznt any gratitood q in srshu-
Deekln Pogram hez Nv course claim
The Deekin's horses wuz all taken bv a
Fedral D1hserss WIZ the more Tagersl-
vatln, ez the Deekin he'd, in .addishen to
his own, jist bought twenty-five, which he
wuz to hey delivered to- General Morgan
Nv the Confedracy, the next day, who. WIZ
to hev paid for emingold.I They were ali
g,obbledy For, these horses the Deekin
Claims payment. He wuz doorin the vxarr
strlkly nootral. Kentucky did not secede
neither did the Deekin.' His bows went
INTO The Confedrit seryis, and on several
occasions he mite possibly heY cleaned his
trusty rifle and gone out at mite
to gita crack at + edral pickits. , Habit is
sSEongg, and ezi Their We're no skoolmasters
to shoot, the Deekin must shoot suthin,
lie considered the war "a great misfor-
choon, and many a time hez the old nafri.
ark with teers streemin down his checks,
exclaimed Why wont Linkin Withdraw
his troops and letius alonery sHe,heh bin
since the close NV the struggle a hankerer
arter Peece. LET us lev Peece!" is his
cry Give me back my niggers-let me
new things ez they wunst wuz and shell
be soothed into .Guietood." 20 He voted
for Mcclellan in 1864, and for Sew.
mourl IN 1858, but that NV course wont
count agin him in the matter Nv the claim
The mint he decided to put in the claim
ne Withdrew from the Ku-Klux nv wich
associasnen he hez bin chief for this seek
snun, He's sorry, now, that he shot anv
nlggers since the close of the war. He Is
an 1noffensive old man whose pathway tn
The tomb needs soothin. The horses he
lost he counts worth $4,000, and he Nv
course wants remuneration to the amount
NV $4,000 more for the anguish he suffered
seem Nv EN- go. ~
Almost every white. citizen NV the Corr
ners hez claim Nv witch I shell hev the
prosekootln-tha is them witch kin raise
the retalnin fee. Some hundred or more
who never he'd nothin before or doorin
the war, and who are in the same con.
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