The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-07-04

| WHICH lney diSo iudue no reply, Uut ceO
/ was arrested as a Spy, and must &c
to Montgomery in iruns. They was by
this time jined by large crowd of 9th.
er Southern patrits, who commenst hol
lerin "Hang the bald-headed aberlition-
ist, and bust up his immoral exhibit
tion 70 / was ceased, and tied to a
stump, and the crowd went for my tent
that waterproof pavilion, whurein in
struction and amoosment had been SO
muchly combined, at 10 cents per head
I-and tore it all to pieces. Meanwhile
dirty faced boys was THROWN stuns and
empty beer bottles at my massiv brow,
and takin other improper liberties with
my person. Resistance was useless,
for a variety; of reasons, as readily OBJ
sarved. es-r ~, =. e.s-- l'....-
The ,Seseshers ,confsticated my sta
toots by smashin them to attums. They
then went to my money box and con
fisticated all the loose change therein
contained. They then smashed in my
cages, lettin all the animiles loose, a
small but helthy tiger among the rest.
This tiger has a excentric way of tear
in dogs to peaces, and alters sposed
from his general conduck that he'd hav
no hesitashun in servin human beings
in the same way if he could get at them.
Excuse me if / was crooil, but l larfed
boysterrusly when / saw that tiger
spring in among the people. eco it
my sweet cuss % innardly exclaimed.
81 forgiv you for bitin off my left thum
with all my hearth Rip'em up like a
\ bully tiger whose Lare has bin invaded
by Seseshers Pr. n. t-,l. ...7 .,.,
| ! can't say for certain that the tiger
serisly injured any of them, but as he
was seen few days after sum miles
distant, with large and well selected
assortment of seats of trowsis in his
mouth, and as he lookt as tho he'd bin
havin sum vilent exercise, / rayther
guess he did. You will therefore per-
ceive that they didn't confstieate him
much. --.d ro4 ~ ef 9r.dar .egneIi.E
Twas carried to Montgomery in iruns
and placed in durans vial. The jail
was an ornary edifss, but the table was
literally supplied with Bakin and Cab
bige. This was good variety, for
when / didn't banker after Bakin 1
could help myself to the cabbige. -5
l had nobody to talk to nor nothin to
talk about, however, and was very
lonely specially on the first day; so
when the jaler parst my lonely sell put
the few stray hairs on the back part of
my he'd Q'm bald now, but thare was a
time when / wore sweet auburn ring
lets) into dish -heviled state as pos
sible, & rollin my eyes like many
yuck, cride Stay jaler, stay / am
not mad but soon shall be, if you don't
bring me suthin to Talki" He brung
me p sum noospapers, for which /
thanked him kindly. 54e Hfvigj 6a
4 At larst got an interview with Jeffer-
son Davis, the President of the South
ern Confederacy. He was quite per-
lite, and axed me to sit down and state
my case. / did it, when he larfed and
sed his gallant men had bin a little
enthusiastic in confsticating my show.
"sYes," sez l., They coniscated me
too muchly. had some hosses con6s.
Gated in the same way onct, but the con-
fisticaters air now poundin stone in the
State Prison at Injinnapylus." -a74rr-s
i Wall, wall, Mister Ward, you air
at liberty to depart; you air friendly to
the South, l know. Even now we hav
many frens in the North who sympa.
thize with us, and won't mingle with
this fight sroi,s 5-rHra; 0ri-ss7.
| "J. Davis, there's your create mis-
talk. Many of US was your sincere
friends, and tho't certin parties among
us was fussin about you and meddlin
with your consarns intirely too much
But, ]. Davis the mint you fire a gun
at the piece of dry-goods called the
Star Spangled Banner, the North gets
up, rises en- massy, in defense of that
. banner. Not agin you as any indivi
+ dooals-not agin the South even-but
to save the flag. We should indeed
be weak in the knees, unsound in the
heart, milkwhite in the liver, and sof
in the he'd, if we stood quietly by ani
saw this glorious Govyment smashed
, to pieces, either by furrin or intestine
, foe. The gentle -harted mother hates tt
take her naughty child across her knee
, but she knows it is her duty to do it
) So shall we hate to whip the naughty
South, but we must do it, if you dom
make back tracks at onct, and we shal
z wollup you out of your boots! ]. Davis
it is my decided opinion that the Som.
South is maxim a egreius mutton-he(
of .herselfa; - .,oi,oET i,S ~ =, -, ,'i +,
!" Go on, sir, siir you're safe eenGulf;, Glf; Your,
to small powder for me - sed tn
r President Of the Southern Conthieve
!, 81 -" Wait till 90 home and start on
the Baldinsyill Mounted Hoss Cavalry
f I'm Capting of that Corpse, am, an,
J. Beware! Jefferson D., now leay
y you i! Farewell my gay Saler, Boy
!. Good bye, my bold buccaneer! Piru
of the deep blue sea, adoo! adoo % I
e My tower threw threw Southern Cor
y tbieyeracy on my way home was thri
K lin enuff for yeller covers. 1t will forr
j. the subjeck of my next. Betsey Jan
q and the progeny air well. iv'l',A 11 n
: -, Yours respectively, ']' 49,
+ iGdsIEIl q '1.5imu5 lgoI q. ID" Ahp' p.
n PEACH PREsERvE.-A lady of Phi
q adelphia. whose peaches kept beaut