The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-22
,rom me Toledo Blade.l

9TH WARD CITY wv MOO 1ORk,
January 10, 1870.
Yesterday I received the followin
letter from that old saint in trowsers,
Dsakin Elkana Pogram. 1t was de-
}lyed a long time ez the Deekin d.
z-esed it to Rev" Petroleum V.
Ecsby. The letter carriers hedn't
ana idee that there wuZ a6y man IN
VIZ 9Th ward who he'd any title to
shat prefix. But [ finally got 1t: l
need not say that after readln 1t l
closed my bar and hung Grape onto
the door. Oh the dem0ralizashun Nv
this eussid agel But 1t wuZ a comfort
- hear from him. !" Ez in water face
ar sereth to face, so the heart Nv man
ta man." The tex shood reed, in
kentucky at least. "Ez In whisky
but / take no liberties with skrip-
ssre. This is the Deekin's epistle:
"CoNFEDRIT X ROADS, KY.
Dec. 2, 1869.
sly DEAR FRIEND-I avale my
81 Nv the presence Nv a young man
Ii IDieany, who kin rite, to inform
-s e to the condishun of things in
id home. Things is bad here
IS rapidly CROWN wuss. Since
left us it seems to me ez tho kaos
come again, and that eonfooshen
being wusS confoundid. The
families hey lost their grips mig
and ablishnists hev ONE In and
Hkin controle, and Confedrlt y
ads is no longer a place in wich a
r= ltieman nv refinement and culture
deeently live.
That infamous wretch, Joe Big
and that onmitigated pest, Pol
is In partnership, at leas Joe
selling goods for Pollock, and
store Is the resort Nv all
their class fur miles around. The
settlers hev nothin whatever to
with EN-. We Wus disposed to
arnize EN-, but when Pollock re-
sed TO let goods wien GDe he'd
lght go out Nv the store till they
paid for, and the next mint give
edit to niggers, we Indignantly de-
9ed to deel with him. That lndlg-
We woodent submit to. We
al.oost two merchants from Louis
g to start biznis here, but they
Mt stay long. They give credit,
Their trade WIZ consistently
sk, but they he'd difficulty in re-
DIN their stocks. When one NV EN-
scented his bill to me, l told him
Iignantly that eff that was the way
hc perposed to DO biznis he mite ez
veil close. Why said /, L mite ez
II deel with Pollock He remarkt
~olently, that he wished l he'd delt
With Pollock, and flung hisself GU.
uv my presence. Merchants are, ez
lass, disgustInly mersenary.
Bascom threatens to close cut
J leave US. He hez already mort
Us on all our land to It's full val
W. ard since the ofises are all in
hands NV men who don't drink
ker at all, he SEE there amt no
mouey within his reach and he can't
cry US much longer. He signs for
the good old times under Johnson's
& ninistrashun, when all the money
raseived by the Postmaster, the Col
tor and Assessor poured into his
aver. He is morose and gloomy
4 waters his likker feariUlly.
ez have to take five ar six drink;
fore / experience any sensashen,
But these things is not the worst
most gloomy Nv the signs Nv the
les. There's room ahed nv as.
re ehivalry Nv the Corners heY lost
spirit. Only last week ther wuz
tempFans leeterer advertised to
Ike a speech in the hall over Pol
sk's store. Shell this be permitted?
1t Baseom Indignantly, bringin his
down onto the bar till the glasse:
tiled.
'Neverl' shouted Isaker Gavit
d the others in the bar room, who
3utid drinks ahead.
Bascom sot out the bottles; We
took suthin. and rusht toomul
Usly to the ball. 700 remember
III wat eagernis we formerly mobbeC
uozyus speakers? We wuznt a
eager that mite. We only run
3 or two; our pace got down tC
y walk afore We reached the spot
q when We got into the hall We
lekly sot dawn and listened to tn
l6tikle euss, and went away with
heavIu a stun at him. WheI
.scOm %reproachcd US for our lac
spirit, [ told him that wuz n,
ose. Men coodent mob anybod.
sch likker ez he furnisht. /
81 do to diloot when 700 hev sic
zuls on hand.
u that Wuz not the most alar
sign Nv the degeneraey NV on
opie. Within q month two Meth
Sc preachers hev held forth !
village, and neither Nv EN- wer
ng or shotl What hope kin Their
when suce things occur? An
S wuss, two Nv our old friend
ended their meetius, and Immeiitl
ey quit comm TO Bascom's, aud
list their children, yesterday, wit
oes on. Baseom sighed ez ne see
It's a mystery to me- he SEE.
What is a mysteryY SEE /.
Why, so long ez them men stage
IN. me all day, they hedn't L
}ney to spend-now that they don
me no more, they hev money, b
sv waste it on shoes and l don't z
Why didn't nacher make ms
pable Nv working all day an
min all niteY
There amt no change in me
ne, eeptin that my house Is som
lat smaller. At the beginnin |
Z Winter, we Wuz compelled
3se our kitchen for freWood, ez II
z JsthrO, my oldest son, coodn
DECOR the labor to cut the Winter
lei. The ringers won't work for u
ext Winter l spose the settIn roo
II go, then the wing wich we VOC
spare bed room will follow, al
Ian Botgone hentz by that tim
don't know wat we shall do +
5r. The coil Nv fate is titen
o q me.
"Ihe nieg5rs up toward GarTet
wu are akkoomulatin proper
pidly, and they pay their tax
-Omptly, but wat good is that
sascom? The ofishals is all ablis'
nists aud that money is diverted in