The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-01-20

MR.. Nasty RECEIVES ALETTER FROM HIS
OLD FRIEND DEACON POGRAM-THE
FRIGHTFUL DECENTRALIZATION AT THE
CORNERS. 80 t
6TH WARD, CRY Nv Moo YORK,
January 10, 1870.
YESTERDAY I received the followin let
ter from that old saint in trowsers, Deekin
Elkana Pogram. 1t was delayed long
time ez the Deekin directed it to "Rev."
Petroleum V. Nasty. The letter carriers
hednt any idee 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 de-
moraiization Nv this cussid age! But it
wuz comfort to hear from him. Ez in
water face ansereth to face, SO the heart
Nv man to man." The tex shood reed, in
but / take no liberties with scripture.
This is the Deekin's epistle:
CoNFEDRIT x ROADS, Ky,
Dec. 2, 1869.
MT DEAR FRIEND:-I avale myself Nv
the presence w young man from Injeany,
who kin rite, to inform 700 ez to the con-
dishen of things in your old home. Things
is bad here and is rapidly CROWN wuss.
Sence 700 left US it seems to me ez tho
kaos he'd come agin, and that confusion
wuz bein wuss confoundid. The first
families hev lost their grip; niggers and
ablishEists hev come in and hev taken
sontrole, and Confedrit x Roads is no
longer place in witch gentleman NV re-
finement and culture kin decently live.
That infamous wretch, Joe Bislcr, and
that onmitigated pest, Pollock, is in
partnership, at least Joe is a selling goods
for Pollock, and his store is the resort Nv
all Nv their class fur miles around. The
old settlers hev nothin whatever to do
with EN-. We wuz disposed to paternize
EN-, but when Pollock refoozed to let goods
witch tee he'd bought go out of the store ill
they wuz paid for, and the next mint give
credit to niggers, we Indignantly declined
to deel with him. That indignity we
woodent submit to. We indoost two mer-
chants from Louisville to start biznis here
but they didn't stay long. They give
credit, and ther trade wuz Consistently
brisk, but they he'd difficulty in renooin
their stocks. When one Nv EN- presented
his bill to me, 1 told him Indignantly that
eff that wuz the way he proposed to do
biznis he mite ez well close. "Why," said
T." mite ez well deel with Pollock" He
remarkt, insolently, that he wished he'd
delt with Pollock, and flung hisself cut of
my presence. Merchants are, ez class,
mersenary.
Bascom threatens to close out and leave
US. He hez alreddy mortgages on all our
land to its full valyoo, and sence the offises
are all in the hands Nv men who don't
drink ikker at all, he SEE there amt no
money within his reach and he can't carry
us much longer. He signs for the good
old times under Johnson administrator
when all the money received by the Post
master, the Collector and Assessor poured
into his drawer. He is morose and gloomy
and waters his hkker fearfully | alle1
hev to take i've or six drinks before I ex
perience any sensashen.
But these things is not the worst o.
most gloomy NV the signs NV the times
There's room ahed Nv u.s. The chivalr,
nv the Corners hev lost all spirit. Only
last week Their wuZ temprans lecterel
advertised to make speech in the hal
over Pollock's store. "Shel this be per
mitted 81 askt Bascom Indignantly, bringin
his fist down onto the bar till the glasses
ratified.
"Never," shouted Issaker Gavitt and
the others in the bar-rOom who scented
drinks ahed.
Bascom sot out the bottles: we all took
suthin, and rusht toomulchusly to the hall
700 remember with wat eagernis we
formerly mObbed obnOxyas speakers
We wuznt at all eager that mite. We only
run rod or two; our pace got down te
slow walk afore we reached the spot, and
when we got into the hall we meekly sot
down and listened to the hcretikle cuss
and went away without heavin a stun Al
him. When Bascom reproached us fol
our lack Nv spirit, told him that WIZ nc
yoose. Men coOdent mob anybody or
SIGH likker eZ he furnisht It wont do tx
diloet when 700 hev SIGH biznis on hand
But that WIZ not the most aIarmin sigr
Nv the degeneracy Nv our people. Within
month two Methodist preachers he7
held forth in this village, and neither VI
EN- were hung or shot! What hope XIII
there be where such things occur? Ant
wat is wuss two Nv our old friends atten
did their meetins, and immejitly they qui
comm to Bascom's and l notist their chill
dren yesterday with shoes on. Bascon
sighed ez he seed it.
ITS mystry to me-" he sez.
What is mystry?" seq /.
Why, so long ez them men stayed wit
mo all day, they hedn't no money to spen
now that they don't come no more
they hev money, but they waste it O.
shoes and l don't get it. Why didn
nacher make men capable Nv workin a
day and drinkin all mite ?"
Their amt no change in or mine
ccptin that my house is somewhat smaller
AT the beginnin NV the winter, we WI
compelled to yoose our kitchen for fire
wood, ez me and Jethro, my oldest sol
coodnt procoor the labor to cut tn
winters fuel. The niggers won't work fo
us Next winter spose the settin roor
will go, then the wing witch we yooze fc
spare bedroom will follow, and eff al
not gone hentz by that time, don't kno,
wat we shell do for more. The coil u
fate is titenin about me.
The nIggers up towards Garrettstcw
are akkoomulatin property rapidly, an
they pay ther taxes promptly, but wa
good IS that to Bascom? The of1shls is a
nblishnists and that money is diverte
into other than legitlmlt channels. Thes
vandals hev rlacadamized a mile Nv roa
between the Corners and Garrettstow
and built bridge over the Run. XII
700 blame Bascosn for wantin to leav
heres
hev heard NV yoor success and am ola
NV it. Wood that Good git into smith,
NV the sort! Wood my fate wuz differ
ent: But We can't all keep grocery.
shei stay here and when all the people
gone shell go down. Thank Heaven tn
tlmo ID not far Oft. Yoor friend,
ELKANAH PoGRAM.
L. S--Ef 700 Good send me a two-pal
Ion jug Nv likker witch hez life into #
shood alluz remember it gratefully. Ate
Bascoms watered stuff it wood be a plon
nv sunlite after long and tejus mite.
E.P
laid down the old mans letter affecte
to teers. Water in the whlskeyl Childer
with shoesIwhile old men lack sustenance
Macadamized roads! Bridgcsl Methods
Preachers! Temprans lecturers! Ablish
Diarr these 10 th,g r,orl-, rJ,L.-1 n.-