Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1861-06-21
Decidedly Rich.

Decidedly Rich.
The "Vox Populi," published at Full
ton, Missouri, gives the following genoa
logical facts, but has, we suppose, acciden
tally omitted to state the source from
which he has cleaned such interesting par
ticulars, relative to the origin of these po-
litical parties:
PALMYRA, Mo-, March 80, 1861.
Once upon a time the Devil watched the
Almighty making men. He saw him go
TO q pellucid streamlet that danced grace
fully over the pebbles and get from it.
channels pure, unadulterated clay as his
material and as he formed one after an.
ether, and stood them up, and " breathed
into his nostrils the breath of life," he
looked spproyingly and pronounced him
"very goodP'
At this the Devils heart swelled with
anger. and envy, and malice and he de.
terminsd to dc something by way of q set.
OF. SO he vent to damp, miasmatie mo
rass and seooped up frsm the bottom Of 9
stagaant, slimy, green n-seummed, wiggle
tailed, lisEsrdly pool, and from this mate.
rial he turned of . BLACK REPUBLICAN
As he contemplated this creation Of his
"preRtice hand" there was q mixture o.
qualification and dissppeintmsnt visible in
his eountenancs, though it was very evi
dent the arst greatly predominated. A,
length, looking around him, he solils q uix
ed: "There are a great number Of scraps
1afk NH Il l.
can do MORE than that" So he sets him.
self industriously to work, and soon got ur
an Aboltionist. "This suits me better,
said he, as with sheet iron handkercbiet
he wiped great drops of fiery perspratior
from his braEen forehead !" but it does \ o.
yet come up to my ideal. Iperceive ther.
still remains some leavings, or tag-ends
and as the charm is said to be third trial
| will test IT," So saying he began pick
ing up the rags, Arst with his right hand
next with his left, and occasionally with
the barbed point of his iren wire tail, IN
til he had collected q bushsl basket full
He then sat down to the job, aaa sftel
much piercing and splicing, aad trim ning z
he stood the thing up.
The Black Republican and Aholitiouist
whs had bsen standing quietly by, watch
ing the movements Of their Father with
m uch interest, no sooner saw the third ag
urs standing erect, than their mean ma.
turss begsn to develop. They both went
up to it. The Black Republican pushed /,
with ruds violence the Abolitionist pail
ed its nose; the Black Republics tripped
at it's heels; the Abelitionist spat in il,
face the Black Republican called il CO
ward, and the Abolitionist, more embold-
ened than ever, planted his right foot sc
firmly about the termination of his coat
tail that it landed full ten feet upon its
face.
To all this the thing had made no resis.
tance, nor manifested the least resentment t.
although anumber Of the men the Almigh
ty had created shouted to il "to knock i'll
prosecutors into the middle Of next week;
but it held up its hands imploringly, and
hung its head in the most abject and ser
vile manner, so that the men went off in
disgust But the Devil, who had stood b,
all the while, his iron sides almost burst
ing with laughter, now fairly shrieked will
delight, sprsng seventy five feet into tn,
air, turned thirty Ave well-defned som
mersaults, and alighting by its side, raised
both hands, and bringing them forcibly
down upon ita shoulders, shouted al
is enough I dub thee Submissionisti
Whereupon the creature raised its head
looked tremblingly around, partly arose
and in a STOPPING posture sneaked off.
|
A VIRGINIA LADY-An incident lik
the following, furnished BY a correSpon
dent Of the Staunton Spectator, is trul,
worthy of record ....
As the Augusts, Rockbridge and Rock
inham troops marched down the valley t
Harper's Ferry, Mrs Heter, a widow LADY
residing near the village of Middletown
in Frederick county, but at considerable
distance from the road, gave evidence o
her kindness of heart and sympathy fol
our weary men, She had table carried
to the road side, and with her own hands
assisted her servants, carried out quan
tity of milk, broad, pies and other refresh
ments, ard for two days, fed from one h
two hundred, At parting with them sh
said "My only son, seventeen years 0
age, has gone in a company from ou
neighborhoOd If in defence of you
country, any of you should sicken or b
wounded and can get to my house, vii
do all can to minister to your comfort
DG- Col, Colt, of Hartford, has oiferc
his services to the Governor of Connect
cut to raise regiment aud arm the me
with breech- loading rifles at his own sx
penso. There arms, which are Of the lat
est improvement, would sell in the maTkC
for about $4,000