Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-02-12
From the Toledo Blade.
Nasby.

EARNESTNESS OF HIS ENTHUSIASTIC
NATURE.
Posi- OFFS, CoNFEDERIT Y ROADS,
WITCH is in the Staff NV kentucky
Jan. 80, 1868
| hev it at last | see lite ! A CRATE
lite A brite lite / shell not go TO Moo
York, nor shell / be forced to leave the
corners, at least permanently. hev at
last struck lie / shell live like gentle
mani shell pay for my liker, and be
on ekal footin 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 that |
notist that she he'd put in a claim agin
the government for. property, yoosed
doorin the war by fedral soljery, to-
wunst saw where my fnanshel salvashen
wus. Immejitly histed my single ez
claim agent witch wus to prosekoot
claims agin the government Cor property
destroyed or yoosed doorin the late on
pleastniss by fedral troops. That shin
gle hednt bin out an hour before Joe
Bigler he'd red it to half the citizens of
the corners, and in to hours he'd biznis
on my hands and money in my pockets.
Ez matter NV coarse | insisted upon
retainin fee NV ten dollars in each case.
Issaker Gavitt and his two younger
brothers wuz the first clients l he'd.
Their case is one NV pekoolyer hardship,
and feel ashoored that congris will to
wonst afford them the relief they ask
The property destroyed wuz barn and
its contents, which wuz destroyed by
Buel ia the second yeer Nv the war: that
is, the contents wood hev bin destroyed
only they wuzn't in the barn, ez they he'd
bin sold jist previously to the confedera-
cy. But ez the elder, peece to his ashes,
took confedrit mummy for the sed con-
tents, witch munney he, in moment NV
enthoosiasm, invested in confederit bonds,
wich finally got to be worth nothin, we
put in claim for the valyoo Nv the con-
tents ez well ez NV the barn. Bein sew
enty years Nv age when the war broke
out he did not volunteer in the confeder-
it servis, and consequently never fired
shot at the old flag. His two youngest
sons did, it is troo, but the elder can't be
held responsible for them boys. The es-
tate is entitled to damage jist the same
ez though the elder wuz alive.
Elder PeDnibacker hez also claims to
considerable amount, wichiz for fences,
crops, barns, and sich, destroyed by the
federal armies. The elder is not quite
certain but that the fences wuz destroyed
by order of confederit general, which
wuz retreeting, and it is possible that the
crops, barn and SIGH, wuz yoosed up at
the same time. 1t wuz doorin the war;
at any rate, and ez the federal govern
ment wuz, in his opinyun, to blame for
the war, witch wood not hev bin carried
on he'd it yealed ez it ought to hev done,
why the federal government ought to pay
all the losses. Wv coorse | shan't put
all the elders talk into the question.
Miss Jane McGrath's case, WITCH IL the
one shell push the hardest, is one wich,
eff Csngris does not consider favorably, it
will show that Congris hez no bowels
Miss McGrath is woman. Nv coorse
dooring the war she wuz loyal, ez she I'M
derstood loyalty She believed in her
State. She he'd two brothers wich went
into the confederit service, and she
gave'em both horses, but wood eny sis
ter let an aHectionate brother go afoot?
Them horses must be set down to the
credit Nv her sisterly affection. 1t will
be showed, l make no doubt, that when
her oldest brothers regiment Che wuz q
coloneD left for the sect Nv war, that
Miss McGrath presented to it a SCOT Nv
colors which she made with her own
hands, wich SCOT included black flag
with skull and cross bones onto it. Sposin
she did? 1t wuz loyalty TO what she con-
sidered her state. And the fact that
doorin the war she walked twelve miles
to inform a confederit officer that four
fedral soljers wich had escaped from
Andersonville wuz hid in her barn shood
not operate agin her. Onto her piano
there wuz colleckshun of southern
songs, and there is a rumor that in Loois-
vile wunst she did spit in the face NV a
fedral officer, but what w that? Miss
McGrath gave me the names Nv three
fedral generals who campt on her place
doorin the last yeer NV the war, wich if
they didn't wood show that there wuznt
any gratitood in humanity.
Dekin Pogram hez of course claim.
The dekin's horses wuz all takin by
fedral offiser, witch wuz the more aggra-
vatin ez the dekin he'd, in addishen to his
own, iist bought twenty-five, witch he wuz
to hev delivered to Gen. Morgan NV the