Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-12-26
The HiSbanded Volunteer.

We would state, for the benefit of any la
dy Of ton who may wish to insert her jewel
led fingers in the veterans hair. after hay
ing read the subioined letter, that the top
of his head is as fibreless as a cober's lap
stone, and that his sidelocks are too thin
and short to afford any satisfactory revenge
through the medium of . coup dc grab:
SAINT NIcKAAAs HOTEL, Dee. 3, 1857.
Ealyters Of tie Sunday Times:
A fashinabul lady, prayin in fashinabul
church, with as mulch fashinabul toggery
on her back as mought, at first cost, hev
saved ten poor fammalies from starvashin,
must be oonsidabul OF Sunday treat for
the Old Sarpint. pcrsoom, tharfore, the
infarnal critter, injicd hisself oudashusly at
q sartin uptown gospil-pallis that looks a
heep more like theayter than a church,
whar happened in to git moathful of
kid-globe rclidjun, just by way of a sand
witch, last Sunday forenoon. Attic a pur-
ty smart chance ofthe hevinly- minded con-
btgregpshiR was absent from the holy edifz,
t.seh thar was enuff expensiv lace, millnde-
lry. silk, bJeutery, and other femmyninc
+ bats for bachelors, to afford the most lively
issftssisiaekshin to his satanick majesty. The
eunnin old coon hes a nifty easy time of it,
seems to me, in this blessed age of mis-
shinncrrics, track sosities, Bible unions,
camp meetins, and other inyenshins for the
convenyenoo of the hevin-wa bound
Formally he he'd to keep morin to and fro
on the airth lookin out for the trails of SIN
ners, and follering EN- up and skewrin en-
(when they dideat happen to skwirm outer
his fngers) by his own pursenal exershins
To berry the remark of niger minister
wunst heerd preeeh in Exeter Hall, Lon
/ don-'"In dem times de debbil be like ro-
ring lion he go bout, seekin whom he find,
and cherry now aaa den he ketch sumboddy,
| bound for him." This kinder prowlin
about on his own hook was continued, as
we aarn from skripter, to the time of job.
/ When he got permisshin to inockilate that
misfortmt critter with skro6ly, ard destroy
all his beef and sheap meat, hetllalt he had
sure thing; bat Job, bein real coed an,
in coarse proved more than match for
Abaddon, and went to glory in spite of va
rus infarnal temptashins, inciudin his af-
feckshinit wfe's advice. In these days,
howsever, Satan hes no cali to 60 spookin
about for prey. He docs all his tcmpta-
shin by deputy. Vanity and Seeokylashin
to say nuthin of fifty luther secmtsnns
agints-is a-peeplin his terrortories with a
rush elwil to his warmest andissipashins.
But to return from Belzybub to the a.
foresaid Fashnabul Church: The day was
plesent, and the readin of the Rev. Mr.
Blarney Bland q kalkilate you've heerd on
him) was surprisingly monnotonous and
IL. Z, loct he bo
bible to take his tex, l drapt off. But
mine GarHt an onproftable snooze, fur q
drompt s.oi.. sarmint witch Ide be willin
to bet bowie nitse to bishop, was royther
more to the pint than cnything that was ev-
er got off by the Rev. B'srney Bland. |
sposed, howsever, in my dream, as it was
him as was deliverin it, and as reeolleck
the hull discourse Git warnt long enuh to be
tejus) lie repeat the words as they peered
to issoo from his lips:
THE SARMENT DREMPT.
Brethren and sisters-sisters esreshil-
/ ": take nv tex from 10th, 18th, 18th,
Goth, DIST, 22d verses of the Sd chapter ot
Isaiah, emitting few onncsscssary sentin-
ces:
tH.a6 Because the daughters of Zion
are naughty, and walk with stretched-forth
necks and wanton eyes, walking and MN
CHG AS THEY 60 Il * Il
Is. The I4erd will take away the bra
very of their tinkling ornaments, and their
cauls and their round tres like the moon,
i" 10. The chains, and the bracelets,
and the muifcrs,
6 81. The rings, and the nose.jewels,
i" 90 The changeablc suits of apparel,
and the mantlots, and the wimples, and the
erisping pins,
& %. And the glasses, and the fne lin
en-, and the hoods and the walls,
:" "a. And it shall come to pass that in
stead Off girdle there shall be rent; and
instead of well-set hair badness, and instead
Of a stomacher a grdns of sackcloth.'
This is my tex, and it seems to me from
eumpallson atween the darters Of Zion and