The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1861-03-13
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REPUBLIC oF BUzzARD's Is

Dear Old Fogy-In looking over the contents of the
last issue of your interesting paper wepereeived the
fact that you were reduced the dire necessity Of
dining upon beeshin and watery turnips and that
on the Sabbath. We truly sorry to leara that
one ike you who had served his country so long and
well, should be reduced 10 the necessity of havin
such Sunday dinner this, for well know it is
an old fogy custom (handed down from time immemo
rial to have better dinner Sunday than any other
in the week and if your Sunday dinner was such as
you describe it TO have been imagination fails to paint
what it would be the remainder Of the week No
wonder then that your aectonate daughter wished to
travel oRonder herhealth is impaired No wonder
that she wished to desert old castle that afforded no
other accommodations in the culinary department. than
beefshn and watery turnips. Please excuse me for
such lengthy comment upon your private affairs for
we are really concerned for your welfare And to
show you We are not estng, we have forwarded you
per the sloop Defiance commanded bv the governor in
person, sack of urnps Of better quality than those
generally grown in the free State Of Caddo Although
they not so good as formerly still experience ena
bea testify they yet very paatable especially
if plenty Of hogs grease is used in cooking them We
could give you directions for cooking them but we
presume this is unnecessary We have little doubt but
that the 'od LADY, who keeps that long-handle broom
(for your beneft) knows all about such things Per-
haps you think we spinung long yarn and it will
| be worth a sack OF turnips to read such broken
and incoherent letter this, and therefore my Gift
will not be purely charitable; however, keep oool after
We have eondeseended to notice an old fogy ike you
Wewouldnt dol now only have not any thing bet
! ter to de.
See berel look here!at ne tel ,ou. 90 YOU near
haze not told you about the invasion Of ths rept
al about @ it Bs {qs5 a boId Yourself still and I'll tell you
nortont business the whole tiRg tRg absent on very in
devoiye upon US. 'e giiisH'
On Sunday, the 24th ult, after having dined gery
sumptuousv upon bacon turnips and cornbread, re-
tired las has been our custom for years on such days
especially if we have the blues to spend an hour Or
two in silent meditation Our sentinel overcome with
watching aud the genial influence Of the rays Of the
sun had fallen asleep at his post We We're review
ing the pas-had wandered back, in sad Imagination
through nine long weary years, Ggaina schoolboW
was again cass-mae OF certain fair blue eyed girl
for in those haeyon days b0ya and girls went to the
same schooali the that tranSpired in the oie
broomsedge academy we're quickly passing in review
before our minds eve when were suddenly aroused
from cur revere by the meodious voice of goose
(Which however is not Of the sacred sind Ike those
ancient Rome-merely descendant Of mother goose
but equally quick that danger is at hand.
We perceived at the distance Of two handred yards
four female forms approaching double file. Quick a
Lightning, the thought struck US that they were brig
ands who had assumed the female costume with the de
sign Of surprising US more completely. Within les
time than cat lick its eye, guns were brough
70 bear upon them and III voice not quite so clea
as that of Morgan, we demanded if they friend
J or fees They came to g sudden balt--then nigh
have been seen ''eheeks all pale which but momen
ago blushed at the praise Of their lovelness =
The in front, quickly boisted white handkerchie
on stick and We stepped forward to parley, and di
covered great Shame and confusion, they wer
Young ladies from the free State of Caddo, who ha
come TO pay the governor q friendly visit. We ma
live to be old-our locks become whte-0ur eyes dim
) our tcpinffm, but never while memory fetalns he
seat viii we forget the emotions which passed in rapl
succession through our mind. Never since the day "
y4ta
! school in the neighborhood where old classmae
mine (tha same biue-eyed grl) pupil was not n
spectacle have had cur patriotism aroused {
when we thought the free and independent r
public OF Buzzard island invaded by its foes. W
a thought of TheFmOpol9-of Marathon, OF Bunker
J hill-of New Orleans and of ali the doghghts We ha
ever seen in our life, and was fully determined not
Il disgrace a name which has been handed down unsl
lied to me through four generations. In short, "
we're fully determined fight, bleed and die for 81
country, But when it friends instead
foes, by whom The invasion made, SO sudden W
: the change ii our feelings that should have bet
entirely overcome had it not been for the national st
ieisn with which sc are blessed; but enbarEas
neut was not vet over--as a matter OF course tn
expected to be invited enter the executive manS
J, and partahe o It's nospitaes, but Jdis was mPos
h be-the mansion built in by-gone DAYS, and
true Spartan style, and is designed more for TN
d ornament-it answers the purpose of Office dlnll
e room, parlor, bedroom, and storehouse for eve
thing even the chickens and pigs, therefore II IS ina
eaae to entertain such an assebiaqe Of beauty cei
Us and hoops as we're then present but necessity is i
spur Of inyention-so we Strengthened ourself up
straight that we leaned little back, took off our
e daygo-to-meetffg home made wooIhat, aud ma
y as polite box ms the dignity Of our Office would pc
x nit and informed them that we would gladly invi
II them to partake of all the accommodations the ma
=, SIGN afforded namely, bacon turnips and cornbrea
and rest on old boxes but the governor had left We
positive orders with ae TO let ne one enter the ma
sion during his absence-not even the cats. They
piled that they had no desire to utrude upon the san
tity of tie executive mansion but expressed desire
beahown over the premises of bis exceency the soy
nor, We rendered them our services, and show
them the grange trees, the lemon trees, the almo
trees, with the youn. fruit upon them, tAa persim
trees in short all the strange sights here TO be set
not even excepting few mammoth punches Of N,
tard sage mint and Caeune pepper tomatoes peas G
Thus we spent an hour very pleasantly at the expi
ton Of which time thev concluded to reGmbark [
we aid net let them 60 away without some token
our respect for we freghted their barge with vege
blea, and wished them safe voyage home. Had
not been for the fact that our heart is harder thai
meat-axe and colder thaa the bark on the north po
| fear some of those nsmphs Of the lake, without
ing conscious Of the theft would have carried it ho
with them.
Such we're the scenes that transpired on the 2ith
February, ia the republic of Buzzard isand--a Z