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Show A CARPET-BAG CITY. Petersburg, Va., has Ion? had tho reputation of being about a.s badly governed gov-erned as the Haytien cities. A friend encloses extracts from a letter written to him from Petersburg, by a gentleman gentle-man who went there from Lowell. "If you were down here and could see and know how lho prMutalmiuU-tratioti prMutalmiuU-tratioti conducts things, you would curse republics, and wish for the days of George the III. We arc governed by a set of State prison birds from the North, West and Eastall sorts and all colors, and God knows all unprincipled unprinci-pled fellows. Wc live, that is all we suffer in purse and otherwise, and the whole country feels the effects. The. Diggers wont work all want office. A man from Maine has our post ofBoc, a low fellow; Newton ia our mayor, a Vermont man represents us in congress, a fellow from Pennsylvania is our street commissioner; our commissioner of revenue rev-enue is a Massachusetts man; a follow from Philadelphia or Jersey City is jailor. The chief of police is a Penn-sylvanian; Penn-sylvanian; two negroes represent us in the legislature, a Maine man represents repre-sents us in the Senate. Negroes on the police who arc as ignorant as a donkey all a set of hungry turkey-buzzards, turkey-buzzards, and all quarrelling over the spoils. Unfortunately for us, the negroes ne-groes here arc in tho majority, and the low adventurers and wanderers have a great influence over them. It is ouly a question oftiuie how long these things will continue. It is a severe loss to the whole couotry, and if ever there existed ex-isted a rotten coveriiment, our presi n' one is the A No. 1. Manchester A". JJ. ) Daily Lrnio). |