Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1870-01-29

From the Toledo Blade.
NASBY.

lHr. NdsJy Tecetres Letter from, his old fri. nd
Deacom Pogram-T Tile frfyhtul Generalization
at tie Corners.
In rnB SIXTH WARD Nv Moo YORK.
January 10, 1870
Yesterday / received the following
letter from that old saint in trowsers,
Deekin Elkana Pogram. 1t was delayed
long time, ez the Deekin directed it to
"Rev." Petroleum V. Nasby. The letter
carriers hadn't any idea that there wuz
any man in the 9th ward who he'd any
title to that prefix. But | finally got it.
need not say that after readin it closed
my bar and hung Grape onto the door,
Oh the demoralizashun Nv this cussid
age. But it waz a comfort to hear from
him. "Ez in water face ansereth to face,
so the heart NV man to man." The text
should read, in Kentucky, at least, "Ez
in Whiskey," &C., but 1 take no liberties
with scripture. This is the Deekin's
episte,
CdsfEDRIr ROADS, December ?, 1869.
My DEAR FRIENpa-I avale myself nv
the presence nv young man from In
.jeany, who kin rite, to inform you ez to
the condishan of things in yoor old
home. Things is bad here and is rapidly
CROWN wuss. Sence you left MS it seems
to me ez the kaos he'd come agin, and
that confooshen was bein wuss con-
fouudid. The first families hev lost their
grip; niggers and abolishnists bev come
in and hev takin control, and Confedri,
Y Roads is no longer place in wich
gentleman NV refinement and culture kin
decently live.
That Infamous wretch Joe Bigler, and
that onmitigated pest Pollock, is in part
nership, at least Joe is selling goods
for Pollock, and his store is the resor,
NV their class fur miles afound. The old
settlers hev nothn whatever to do with
EN-. We wuz disposed to paternize EN-,
but when Pollock retoosed to let goods
wich we he'd bought go out of the store
till they wuz paid for, and the next mint
give credit to niggerS, we Indignantly
declined to deel with him. That indig-
nifty we wcodeni submit to. We indoost
two merchants from Louisville TO start
biznis here, but they didn't stay long.
They give credit; and their trade wuz
conskently brisk; but they had difficulty
In renooiu their stocks. When one NV
them presented his bill to me, told him
| Indignantly that eff that wu1 the way he
perposed to do biznis he might as well
close. "Why," said |, 81 mite ez well
deel with Pollock" He remarkt, inso-
lentl, that he wished he'd delt with
Pollock, and flung hisselt out OF my
presence. Merchants are, ez class, dis
gustingly mercenary.
Bnscom threatens to close out and
leave III. He hen already mortgages on
all our land to its full vallyoo; and sence
tho offices are all in the hands tiv men
who don't drink liker at all, he sez there
amt no money within his reach and he
can't carry us Ihucii longer He siShs
Tor the GOO d old times under JohnsOn's
misunderstanding, when all the money re-
ceived hy the Postmaster, the Collector
and Assessor poured into his drawer.
He is mCrost ard gloomyJ and waters his
Ticker tearfuly. allus hev to take five
or six drinks before | experience any
sensashen.
But these things are not the worst or
most gloomy of the signs OF the times.
There's room ahed NV us. The chiValry
of the Corners hev lost all spirits. Only
last week ther wuz temprans lecturer
advertised to make speech in the hall
over Pollock's store. ''Shel this be per
mitted 2" askt Bascom indignantly,
bringing his fist doun onto the bar till
the glasses ratified.
"Never - shouted Ise 'ker Gavitt and
the others in the bar-roorns who scentid
drinks ahead,
Bascom sot out the hs.tles; we all
took santhin, and rusks toomulchusly to
the hall. Yoours' lember with what
eagernis we formerly mobbed obnoxyus
speekersP We wuzn't at all eager that
mite. We only run a rod or two; oul
pace got down to slow walk afore W.