Daily national Democrat., 1861-08-07
The war Fever in RaldinsVIiIe,
BY ARTEMus WARD.

BY ARTEMUs WARD.
AS soon as I'd recOoperated my physikil
| system. | went over into the village The
| peasanlry was gial 10 see me The schoo. -
| master sed 1t was cheerin to see that gigantic
lntelleck among 'em ouct more. That's what
he called me. like the schoOluaster, and
alters send hlm toUacker when I'm off on II
travelin campane. Besides he's ii sensible
man. Such men must be encouraged
They don't git news very fast in Baldin5-
vile, It's uOthin but a plank road runs in there
twice IL week and that's very much ont OF
repair. So my nabers wasn't u.uch posted
u9 in regard to the wars Squire Baxter sed
he voted the dincratic ticket for goin on
forty year, and The war was II dam black re-
publican lie. Jo Stackpole, who kills hogs
Cor the Squire, and has got pow erful mus
Gle lGfo his arms, sed he'd bet S5 he could
HEX the Crisis in fair stsnd-up fight, if he
wouldn't draw kuite on him SO it went
sum was fur war. aud sum was for peace
The schoolmaster, however sed the Slave
| Ohgarky must cover at the feet of the North
ere year hnd flowed 10y. or pass oyer his
dead corpse. "Eato perpetua :" he added,
"And sine qua non also - sed |, sternly,
wishing TO make Il impression on to the vii
layers "Reguiescat in pace y said the schoo;.
master. "loo troo too troo," 0nsercd, Its
a scanderlus fact"
The newspapers got Il long at last, chock
full of war, and the patriotic fever fairly bust
out in Baldinsvile Squire Baxter sed lie
didn't bIeve in Coercion not one of EN-, and
could prove 10y IA file Of the Eagles of Liberty
in his gnrrit, that it was all II Whig lie, got
up to raise the price of whiskey and destroy
our other liberties But the old Squire got
putty riley when he heard how the retels was
cut'in up, and he sed he reckoned he should
skour up his old muskit and do ii little square
iitia for the Old Flag, which had alters bin
on the ticket he'd voted and he was too old
to bolt now. The Squire is all right at heart,
but it takes longer Tor him to fill his venera-
ble Biler with steam than it used to when he
was youngnn frsky. As preyisly inform
ed you, am Caplin Of the Baldinsville Com
pany. | riz grndooally but majestic from
drummer's Secretary to my present position
But found tie rantss wasn't full ly no
means, and commenced for TO recroot Havin
notist giacIal desire on the part of young
nen who are into The Crisis to wear eppy li>s,
determined TO have my company composed
exclusively Of oAisssrs, everybody to rank as
Brigndrer Ginml. The follelin was among
NiS ' al - Hhtell'IS W hItIl put lO lGcIbOlS
Do you know a masked battery from
hunk Of gingerbread? ?
Do you know Oh eppylit from a pie2e OF
chalk
If trust you with real gun, how rauy
men Of You roWn company do you speok you
can n.anuge to kill dutin the WARP
llav you ever heard of Ginral Price Of Mis-
souri,, and can you avoid siAleg accidents in
case Of ii battle?
Hav you ever had the measles, and ifso
how many?
Low air you novf
show me your t"ngae, etc, ote Sum Of
the quc-tiuus Was -arclosticaI.
lie company hIled up rapid, ana last sun
day We went to the meetin house ia full uni
torn had a selis time gittin into my mill
tary harness, as it was lilt for me many years
ago; bat finally got inside OF it, tho It fit
ted me putty ciost. howsever, onct into it,
lookt tine-in fact, aw iuspiIin. "Do You
know me, Mrs Ward ?" sed l. walkin into the
ktchin.
"know You, you old fool? OF course do"
] saw at once that She did
started for the meetin' house. aud I'm
fraid tried to walk too strate, for ! cum
very near tullin' over backwards; and in at
trmptin to recover myself, my sword got
mixed up with my legs, and tell in among
choice collection OF young ladies. who was
standin near the church door n scein the So
jer boys come up. My coekt hat fell of and
eumhow my coat tales got twisted round my
neck. TIE young lUdies put their banker
ches to their mouths aud remarked. 'Te he"
while my ancient female single frienG, Sary
Peusley. burst out ilSa-s loud larf She ex-
crcistd her mouth So violently that l,er new
t,,l T. f.,ll Z l.. 4
Miss Peasley,' -ed getin up and dustin
myself, "you must bc more careful with them
store teeth Qf yourp, or yyull have to gum
it ngjui"
Mrthinks had her
I'd tin to work hard al, t,ln week, nOd
felt rather snowy. I'n fmid did git half
ae,crp, for on hearin the minister rsk, "Why
was man made to mourn q | scd, / give it
up hayiH vngue idee it was a conumdrum.
was al o0t rian to a pint Of order, when il
suddenly occurred to me WHARF | was and
kept my seat, blushln like .Ae red red rose--
So to speak.
The next mornin rose with the lark
(N. B.-l don't sleep with the lark. tho.
a 4oak
My little dawter was cXecootin ballids, ac-
companying herself with the hand origin, and
7he hist me to liuger and hear her sing:
"IlaIk hear angel singiu a angel now is
onto the wing"
Let him fy, my child" sai9 l, a, ,Rqq&lin
on my armer | must forth to my Biz
We air rrogressin pretty wen with our
dill. As all air commandin onissers, there
amt no elusy; and as air all eXceedin
smart, it faint worth while to outstrip each
other. The idee Of "A company composed ex
cloosively OF Commandets-in Chiefs ORIG
gcrnated, spose scurcely neel say, in these
trune. Considered as idee, flatter myself
it is purity hefy. We've got all the tacht-
ticks at our longs eads, bat what we particly
eXsel in is in restin muskits. We can rest
muskits with any body
Our corpse viii do its dooty We go to the
cid of Columby-we fight for the stars
Wen he chopt into sassge meet before
well exhibit our cote-tails to the f,e.
Wen fight till there's nothing left of us
but our little toes, ard even they shall def
anlly wiggIe! Ever Of thee
/ Vanity Fair. a. WARD