Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-02-10

l hev it at last ! / see lite a CRATE
lite A brite lite! 1 shell not go to Moo
York. not shell be forced to leave the
Corners, at least permanently. L hev
at last struck lie shell live like gen.
tleman,-I shell pay for my likker, and
be on ekal footin with other men.
Bascom, whose smile is happiness, but
whose frOwn is death, will smile on me
wunce more.
10 Miss Susan Murphy I owe my
present happiness. The mint notist
that she he'd put in claim agin the
Government for property used dOorin
the war for Federal soljers, L to wunst
saw where my financial salvashen wus.
Immediately I histed my shingle ez a
claim agent, which wuZ to prosekoot
claims agin the Government for proper
ty destroyed or yoosed doorin the late
onplesentnis by federal troops. That
shingle hedn't bin out an hour before
Joe Bigler he'd red it to half the citize ls
of the Corners, and in too hours l he'd
biZnes Oh my hands and money in my
| pockets. Ez a matter of course, l insist
ed on retainin fee Nv 10 dollars in each
case.
Issalzer Gavitt and his two younger
brothers wuz the first clients 1 he'd.
There case is one NV pekoolyer hardship,
and l feel ashoored that COngris will to
wunst afford EN- the relief they ask.
The property destroyed wuz barn and
its contents, which wuZ destroyed by
Buel in the second yeer wv the war ;
that is, the contents wood hev bin des-
troyed only they wuzn't in the barn, ez
| they he'd bin sold Just previously 10 the
COnfederacy. But ez the elder, peece to
his ashes, took COnfederit money for the
said contents, which money he, in a
moment of enthusiasm, invested in con.
federit bonds, which finally got to lie
worth notbin, we put in claim for the
valyoo of the contents ez well eZ of the
barn.
Bein seventy yeers of age when the
war broke out, he did not volunteer in
the cOnfederit lervis. and consequently
never fired a'shot at the old flag. His
youngest sons did, it is troo, but the
elder can't be held responsible for them
boys. The estate is entitled to damage
jest the same as though the elder wu2
alive.
Elder Pennibacker hez also claims tc
a considerable amount, which liz fol
fences, crops, barns, and SIGH, destroyed
by the federel armies. The elder is moi
quite certain but that the fences wu2
destroyed by order of q confederit gene
raj, which wuZ retraetin, and it is pos
sible that the crops, barn, and sich wu2
yoosed up at the same time. 1t wuz
doorin the war at eny rate, and ez the
iedrel government wuz, in his Opinyun
to blame for the war, which wood no
hev bin carried on he'd it yielded ez il
ought to hev dun, why the fedrel gov
eminent ought to pay all these losses.
Wv course l shan't put all the elder'
tauk into the petition.
Mica lana MoG roth'c oooa ub;oj (,
the one l shell push the hardest, is on,
} witch, eff Con ris does not consider ia
J VOrably it will show that Congress he.
Wv course dooring the war she WI.
loyal, ez she understood loyalty. She
believed in her State. She he'd two
brothers witch went into the confedrit
service, and she give 'em both horses
but would eny sister let an affectionatt
brother go afoot? Them horses mus
be set down to the credit NV her ssterl,
J affection. IT will be showed, 1 max
no doubt that when her oldest brother
regiment (he wuZ colOne) left for tn
sect Nv war, that Miss McGrath present
ed to it SCOT NV colors which she mad
with her own hands, which SCOT includ
ed black flag with skull and cross
, DO es onto to it. Sposin she did! 1
, wuz loyalty to what she considered he
state. And the fact that doorin the wa
[ she walked twelve miles to inform a con
fedrit officer that Jour fedral solers wicl
had csc ped from Andersonville wuz hi
, in her barn shood not operate agln her
} Onto her piano there wuz collecksL u
Nv southern songs, and there is rumo
that in Louisville wunst she did spit il
the face of fedral officer but what u
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