The Portland daily press., 1869-08-04
Miscellany.
Na,h, in ohio.

We have already chronicled Nasty disas-
trous leave taking of his old home at the Con-
f,derate Crossroads, He writes from his new
home in Ohio as follows
Pepper's Tavern, Holmes Go. o. Jooly IL,
1861 left the Corners the day after lost my
position and without any speshl purpose wan
dered up into my old stampin ground In Ohio.
l wuz received with cordially wich affected
me profoundly. Them wich he'd bin turned
out NV oftises Good sympathize with me, and
them wich he'd never got EN-, felt it still more
deeply e. they eggaggerate the benefits to be
derived from ofis posishen and actilly wonder
how q man wich ever held an offs kin survive
decapitashen.
he'd no difficulty in borrowin enuff dollars
Nv the sturde yeomanry NV this section, TO not
only Eeep me afioat for time, but to perylde
agin passage through an Ablishen country,
ct sich need be. My expenses here VIII be
light, ez am boardin and drinkiD on TICK ex.
clusively. / told the lanlord the nrst
day to mark it down ez it wuz inconvenient TO
make change fifty times per day. He possibly
may wish he he'd taken the trouble to make
change. ,
shen at Columns we held informal meetn
NV the Democracy at the tavern, to wich i WINS
stayin, the most of the veterns bein there
Tho sceen reminded me NV Bascom's SO much
that actiily she'd teers. democracy is alike
everywhere Their wuz the bar, with the big
belled bottle without tanzy in it; ther wuz the
box NV pipes, the two lemons which are doom
ed never to be yoosed ez lemon-joose weakens
likker; ther wuz Pepper, the landlord, with
MS sleeves rolled up, leanin onto his elbows
onto the bar; behind him portrate NV Jack
son, on his fomin steed, wavin his sword to-
ward the British; beside it hand-bill for a
mass Conyenshun Nv the Derstrick last year,
commencin with the trooly orthodox line:
do you want to marry nigger? In large
black type, with picter nv Wendell Phillips
kissing a wench, at wich the Dlmocrasy have
indignated reglerly for ten yeers. Seetid on
bustid cheers, empty nail kegs, and leaning on
the bar, wuz groop wich was simply doopli-
kit Nv the X Roads, aud so akkert that I
caught myself sayin "Deekin' lots NV times
sed "Capin' to man who was so neer like
McPetter, ez to Justify the suspicion that the
father Of the present Hugh he'd many years
before been citizn nv that visinity, but wuz
keerful not to do so agin. Ketchin me by the
throte, he sterniy remarkt: "Sir don't put
any Of them titles onto me, sir, / wuz no captin
thank Haven" He was passifed when / told
him that his remarkable resemblance to Con-
federit Captn occasioned the mistake, wich
pleased him so that he to-wunst askt me 10
take suthin This opened new field to me-
wich | worked diskivered to-wUnst am
amaxin' resemblance between all NV EN- and
distinguish Southern commanders.
q While waitin the return of Squire Pettibone
wich wuz delegate to the State Convention
we fell TO talkin NV the old times wich tried
mems soles, in the earlier years of the war.
Pepper, the landlord gave most affecin re-
meniscence NV the shootin Nv two returned
veterans, in the very room in which we sot
The'spot on which they fell he had put the
stove over that 1t mite be kept sacred Mr..
Bottle, an old saint, whose nose wuz liahtin
bis pathway to the tune, had q more tragic
tale to tell. He wuz one NV them wich shoul-
dered his fowlin peece to resist the draft up in
this county, and wux taken by bloocoated
hirelins and carted off to Camp Chase; where
be was kept in doorance vile for weeks with
nOthin watever to live onto but the yoosual
fashans ofa solier! O.e old relick Nv the war,
wich his name 1t wuz Babbit accompanied
Valandygum throug the lines, wich wuz
commanded by Roscrans. He wuz present
when that accursed vlllin--that tool of that
despotick abe Linken-hed the impudense too
ab0ose our martyred Saint, and his blood bill
sa ea ne aeered it At this pint the entire
Grams to the Legislator av Ohio wuz dooly red
and the aud ashus sentiments therein contain-
ed wnz .dooly and emphatically damed Ez
the likker clrculat ed, we got more and more
enthusiastic on this pint,and our blud warm
ed and throbbed more vilently through our
veins ez we toasted Vallandygum and forever
and ever curse the wretched hirelins who op-
prest him, and through him, us.
Finally we heerd the rumblin NV wheels
over the hill and we knowd that it was Square
Pettibone comm from the stashun with the
news Nv the convenshun. He drove up and
we rushed out to meet him.
"Ror for-who shell we ror for? exclaimed
Pepper;
For Valladygump' sed another
My friendsr, shouted Pettibone, "My
friends ror for-Rosecrans and victory!'
WAR remarlxt dozen NV u.s.
"Wh0T remarkt the others,
& "Hellip remarkt the balance.
'.Yoor trlfin with usl'' remarkt Pepper.
None NV yoor jokes" remarkt Bortle.
81 And the astonisht Pettibone wuz in danger
NV being roughly handled But be finally
eonyinst them that tosecrans wus RELY and
trooiy the Dimocratic nominee, and that it.
wuz no joke whatever.
he'd q great deal Nv trooble with en-. They
wuz bound not to touch Rosecrans, and they
swore they he'd bin betrayed and sold out.
The platform, however, saved u.s. When /
read il to EN- and explained how clearly it con-
demned the war by refoosin to pay the indebt-
ness injured in prosekoytin it, and how, in
dignantly it spurned the administrator and
60 on, they became cool.-Toledo Blade.