Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-01-16
ASHTABULA, OHIO, SATURDAY., JANUARY I0 1853.

don't believe II, ask Mrs. Cobb. The fact Is
the pardon biZness, ez n biZncss, wuZ played
out year ago. Every constooslncl Southern
man wich he'd the cash about his person 10
procOor pardon with, and WIZ ambishus NV
hevin that document about him, prok oOred II
long ago. Ef you don't believe Il, ask Mrs
Cobb. The bizncss wuz good one while il
lastid, and then wuz when 700 shoOd hcv
struck In. II required $500 10 sckoor the sery.
ices NV en- witch he'd the car Of His Epgslcncv
and cz thor wuz thousands Of Constitutional
Union men wich served under Lee and Bore
gard who wanted pardOns that they mite run
for CoDgris, hcv post-Oiliccs and sich, money
come In lively. IF you don't believe it, ask
Mrs. Cobb. But this class wuz eggsausted
long since. There wuz no more NV en- oycI
wiCh TO eggstend cxecoOtiVe mercy, the quality
Nv wich is not strained. JEFF Davis coodent
be askt for money for pardon, nor Good any NV
them wich distinguished themselves in the late
unpleasantnis. In sooth, they woodent ask
for a pardon They felt they had done no
wrong; but on the contrary, that great wrong
had been done them. They were willing 10
magnanimously forgive the fedrals, but shood
they ask to be forgiveng Wv course not.
We-and by we mean them wich he'd the
runnin Nv the pardon bisnis-hed every facility
given us. Eff you don't believe it, ask Mrs.
Cobb. So long ez there wuz dollar to be
had, we got that dollar When we he'd
squeezed all the joose there wuz in that par-
tikeler lemon, wat less Good Ills Eggslency do
than To give away the dry peelg How gencr-
Gus to extend mercy free gratis to them yich
hadn't stamps to buy it with Wat wuz The
yoose NV hOldn the terrors NV the law over
men Nv whom nothin can be nader IF there
wuz another man in tho confcdracy who he'd
q dollar, and who cared a 500 markec ab0ut a
pardon, that proclamashsn wood never hev bin
ishood, pervided A. johnson he'd "A friend wich
needed that dollar. Eff WOO don't believe IL
ask Mrs. Cobb.
Iwooden't come 10 Washington-it aint no
yoose. My eggsperience hes bin the eggsperi-
ence NV thousands. ] went up To the head.
quarters Nv General Grant and intimated that
| wood accept q posishcn under him. despite
his goin back onto the Democrisy, by takin,
first posishen in the Federal army, and sec
ond, by takin the nominashen NV President at
the hands Nv the Republican party. | wuz.
that mOrnin, you see, in f0rgiyin mood. Wat
wuz the result? Why, l wuz showed the door,
with the Onfcelin remark that when the Gov
ernment wanted me the Government wood 20
to any amount OF pains 80 find me- And
| saw thousands NV Ablisllnists treeed the same
way.
Mrs. Cobb llez made up her mind not to live
in Washington, and Mrs. Perry likewise. Mrs.
Perry is penitent. From the fact that she WIZ
arrested in the streets NV Moo York, conclood
that she is tryin to reform, and hez made
progress.
can't say whether Randall and Welles will
go to Grcenvile, Tennessee with his Eggs
lency or not Itwood be well eff they did. A.
j, Good doubtless git TO be mayor NV that vii
| lage, and eZ the common council would imme-
| Jelly be Republican, he Good amnOse hisSclf
vetoin their ordinances and heying them passed
over his head. 1t wood be sich dclitefuil
reminder Nv his presidenshel experience
! But don't come to Washington. All NV the
retainers NV His Eggslency are lcavin the city
ez fast ez they kin borrer money to pay ther
fare to Moo York. In conscience the hotels
are maxim money, for while the patronage aint
so large, wat does come is payin patronage
| The guardian angel wich stands at the door NV
! the dinin room at Wizards is now serene. He
has lost that watchful, worried look wich char.
acterized him NV old. His life glidcs smoothly
along--it is not now n perpetooal skirmis
with hotel bummers whose stumicks must be
filled whether they have dollars or not wicl
they never hev. There is less NV fire in the
noses NV them wich 700 SIC at the hotels; and
the bars of the city are gettin more and more
lonely. Don't come to Washington. Ef yon
don't believe me, ask Mrs Cobb. Farewell
Don't come. Trooly, . --.
| ! felt after readin this that had done A. j
njustis. I must look elsewhere for the means
to git away from here. Oh, why didn't &C
to Washington sooner!
| .s.. PETROLEUM V. NAsBY, P. NJ,
| " " (Wich is POstmaster.)