Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-08-14

upon oil.
A late resting Letter.
The folIow wing letter from . newly
emigrated German farmer boy, will be
found interesting. The TRANSLATION col-
tains the same features which we're
found in the original. 1t is rough
diamond, but one Of the pure water:
DEAR FArHKR.-To-dsv it is three
months s,nce l arrived in the new
world. My first letters you will have
received long ago, tur de American mail
runs much quicker rs de American SOL
diers, Of which ! am one, fur l could
find no plAs At all, case ell Bi.ness | Cd
lies down, and so l have thought, fo'
dat l do rpend my last thirty dollars
and ride straight back to you 70 Teuch.
land, and be Laughed at by all the cous-
ms like Peter in the fable. You better
20 in the war, Gottlried, thinks l, 90
went to tLis place, Flllat,cl6, tor you
must knew dat ish big town in Benn-
sylvsnien, so large IS Vienna and Bet-
i'm together, but they have only one
Msher or Burgermaster to govern them.
whence you can see, every body can do
here what be pleases. Only one cannot
say all be wishes, except be lab kcb-
ellie. HIM de government takes nix i !,
aud enlisted in Ducn redshment.
And when l do come to Harrisburg il
quarters, whom do you think shall
meet there first! neighbor Slmpel, his
Hans, who went four years ago to
America, and he was kaptaiD IN de
frsht Cumpany, tirsht Bennsy Ivan en-
redshment Gottfried, says be to me,
good dat you are dere in dis country one
can easy be something, over yonder !
was Corporal, and here l thinks to BE-
.oon Kernel. what ish ~ much a. a Ma.
cher 10 de old country you know. And
| know former bumbsrdler, be is here
Kernel, and his Lefinant Kernel was
likewise only bumbsrdier. II you do
not believe it, only look at de rebels,
dere every bird man Is General, and
every second man q Kernel. And de
next day comes march ordered, and we
must march out against de rebels. Our
General his name is Bahderson, and he
IS big animal they make much fn.s
about him, and he sits on horse just a.
monkey on camel, and he makes
every one Of rs present with bible
and in front are pasted the articles Of,
war, but verstah no English SO it can
do me no ham, and de tirsht day We
marched three miles and dere we bal
day of lest, and de second dav we
marched two miles, and de third we
marched four miles back again, and de
fourth was a rest, and de fifth We
marched again forward three miles, and
the sixth four miles, and then we rest
ed one week, and then we went five
miles back again, and then We marched
again two m,les-bu they are nothing
but English miIes,so long a. from Feare-
zod Haber, his house, up to the lame
blacksmith over yonder with you-and
hen we marched again four days, each
lay one mile, and then again three miles
back, and then We rested again one week
and then marched in one day ten miles,
and dc next day five miles back again.
But, father, my shoes did not like to 90,
aud my uniform washed like seeding
,tock'ng, and happily | had tine comb
With me. To eat we received just a.
much 40 dere was-with what we place
over yonder before those farmer boys,
here whole Cumpany must be silently
happy with. With our sailed meat the
mites run off, and we ran away from our
pork, and the biscuits were so hard, they
broke the rocks, between which We in.
tended TO pound them, ard if we loaded
lie pieces in de muskets, we cocld shoe,
with them through the thickest target.
And happily bad my hunger belt along
and buckIcd it each day one inch tight
er, and now it goes three times around
the body-former'y only once.
And on the fourth week We marched
oil together twenty miles forward and
thirty miles back ard, for dat was be.
tote dc enemy certain Shonson we did
not like to do him any harm, de poor
fellows were still more hungry than we
and did not know exactly what to do.
Ard alternately they run OF first ADD
then again We, but only when comman.
ded 90, and so We proceeded till We
found ourselves about ten miles in the
encmy's country. and till our Genera
BAhderson had learned that his nigger.
we're all in good health and had nc,
departed as yet. For he had in tn.
enemy's country Blantage, what ist
- mush as a horse farm with Niger,
instead Of horses and oxen. And If
said, had seen an enemy, would lie
we acted 90 friendly toward each other
Ne asked the enemy's sentry, "hsudi
d." what means as much as "a fin,
OGDEN morning." and they answered
'goddamy urahskalz, what means "mucl
obIeeged, don't feel lonesome" An,
often they fired on both sides With can
mons, what is called manever it wa
. tor the purpose of cleaning the air an.
expelling the caprices. And cut
pair of shoes out Of . killed OK skin. an,
when my shirt was hanging about m
in pieces, was sapt for few days int
} the hospital for the purpose of making
nv hair grow, 90 that l need not ru
obo0t OuetA hare. An6 nerl, a,o.