Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1876-12-13
SOUTHERN cHivALRY.
How Htgh.T0ned Southern Gentle :
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Chicago Tribune.

How Hegh.TOne0 Southern Gentle .
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Chicago Tribune.
Rumors have been for some time
past coming to the Postmaster Gcner.
al in regard to insults offered to Mrs.
Price, postmistress at Grenada, Miss.
Information also reached him that
the postoflice was burned by incendi-
aries few days before election A
special agent of the department was
sent to inquire into the matter, who
after deliberate and careful investi-
CATION, reports as follows: "Thc post
mistress is, venture TO say, as eff
cient and faithful an officer as is to be
found in the service. All along has
this most estimable lady been sub
Ijected to the most hnmiliating and
Insulting indignities, the self-styled
chivalric, high-toncd gentlemen of
the South treating her not only with
disrespect but with absolute cruelty
and brutality, simply because she is a
a Federal officer and was the wife of
la leading republican. Time and again
has Mrs. Price called the attention of
the civil authorities to these outrages
but either through their inability or
Indifference, no attention has been
paid to her complaints. The fact of
the matter is, that Southern demo-
Gratis consider that republicans living
among them possess no rights that
they are bound to respect, and such a
thing as republican obtaining JUS
ticc in state like Mississippi is sim
ply absurd. therefore recommend
that the postofficc at Grenada, Miss,
be discontinued" The special agent
recites numerous examples Of Mrs.
Prices treatment. A day or two aft
or the election the leading democrats
of the place dressed up two drunken
negroes in red shirts and caps, put
them on mules, and led them into the
postoffice. The negroes sung for about
an hour disgusting songs, filled with
all sorts Of vulgarity and obscenity.
The next day the postmistress was
ordered to leave the town, as they
would allow no d--m Yankee car
pet-bagger to run their postoflice. At
another time prominent democrat
called at the postoffice and inquired
for a letter. The postmistress told
him that there was none. He said !:
"Yon are q damed lying Yankee b--h,
and you've got to leave town." Mrs.
Price is a lady fifty years Of age, and
a woman of culture ard refinement
Gen. Tyner submitted the matter at
the Cabinet session to-day, and read
the entire report of the special agent,
detailing history of the treatment
of Mrs. Price for several months past,
of which the above is only an extract,
and requested advice on the subject.
II was the unanimous opinion of the
Cabinet that the Office should be abol-
ished, and an order will be issued to
that effect by the Postmaster General
in few days. The people of Grcna-
da will then have to go six miles to
the next town to get their mail. Mrs.
Price expects to be compelled to
leave the place and return to her
home in the North. Her husband was
a federal officer, and settled in Grena-
da at the close of the war, investing
all his money in real estate there,
which she will have to abandon.