The daily gazette., 1875-01-22
t'i Correspondence Of the Gazette.
LETTER FROM WILLOW GROVE

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/ Mr., EDIToK:-In the days that are
gone--the dark and bloody and lawlers
days Of the late civil war-when despot-
ic power ruled rampant throughout the
land, and which is being re-ehacted to-
day in the manacled and throttfed State
OF Louisiana, was an occasional cores.
pondent Of your able paper under the
initials of A. III. G. To-day, under al
most the same inauspicious oircumstan-
ces, | write you again. but upoua differ
ent subject. - - IgTI,-.
In your issue of December 3lst, under
the caption Of Christmas IN the Coun-
try" appeared an article purporting to
have been written from Willow Grove,
relating to the fire that took place near
here on Christmas morning. In that
article the writer gave you one grain Of
wheat and two bushels Of chaf. In 9TH
er words, beyond the fact of the build
ing taking fire and burning down, the
whole article is a tissue of falsehoods
woven out of the crookedness of the
writer's disordered moral nature, unless
we give him the benefit of his regular
black-jaeked injun-fea" story in which
he would have us believe him NANCY
cur kenneled in bed of heas
1t is said that to lie at all is bad but
| to lie like truth, or lie by insinuation, is
| the work Of an intellectual ass 4ssin. But
wherein the writer has manifested any
mental acumen in the Illumination of his
hbelous, insinuating remarks regarding
the moral status of the community and
Of the particular individual characters
assailed, we are not able to perceive. To
| those residing in the county to whom the
| respective persons are known, the inuen-
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as figment coined in the badly disorga.
nized work shop of distempered brain,
but to those living beyond and knowing
nothing OF the community in general
| the writer's moral obliquities may be ac.
cepted, not as the result of cerebral
arrangement Of his life force, but as ab.
| solute, unQuestioned truths. As to what
possible motive could have actuated him
/ to SANDER a whole community as well as
a. few special individuals, we are utterly
| unable to form determination. Wheth,
er it was written through jealousy OF en-
Wy, or in the interest of a certain society
which is marshaling its forces to besiegt
the legislature against the repeal o,
modification of q certain law, or whether
his jaundiced vision elaborated it from
the innate depravity of his nature, Oh
whether it was purely an accidental re
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energies, we may possibly never arrive
ut correct or just conclusion. But o.
one thing we are certain, that when any
one deigns or assumes to enlighten the
general public through the medium o.
the press in SO serious matter as the
moral status of the community and par
ticularly as affecting the good name ant
character of special individuals therein
he should be certain of his facts, of the
mental pabulum he offers for their di
gestion, and not disseminate broadcast
through remote communities erroneeu!
impressions which the people of those
communities have no means for correct
ing, but must accept until otherwise
better informed. The writer has told
you that VIM. T. Gooden (" Tennessee -
possessed a barrel of excellent cider,
and had "invited all in the vicinity tx
assemble and drink and be jolly witt
him." and that they "began to congre
gate" while the truth OF the matter il
that since last September there has beel
no cider on the premises, either Gin tn
barn" or elsewhere, and that no sucl
invitation was ever given, and that tn,
people did not Gin accordance will
which began to congregate.'
II The writer in the exuberance of hi
fertile imagination tells us furthe
that "a large, roaring fire had beel
built, tapping its flames up the chin
ney," while the truth is that no fire
!, place was used in the house, but in
stead an air-tight sheet-iron stove, II
(which no fuel had been put for a
Ileast four hour sprevious to thebreak
4 ing out of the fire, which was about
u clock, a. m
vi The house took fire while the famil
were at breakfast and it was unknow
! for some time, and then not until til
alarm was given by a gentleman on hi
way to the village.
BY the time assistance arrived tn
roof of the building was one sheet
flames, and the only assistance thel
possible was to save the furniture
(which the spectators proceeded to d.
myself and two Others being u
stairs when the roof fell in, we nai
rowly escaping. 1t was at this time
!. when the roof had fallen in, the good
and furniture lying promiscuousl.
around within reach of the fire, an
some were endeavoring to tear the roc
. off the shed Kitchen, that "the fathe
of mine host cried out Get out tn
4 things and let it burn
BY the way, the name OF the fatht
of "mine host" is Thomas, not "Wi
lliam :" vet. In this trivial instance, q