Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-07-04
Gum Misrellany.
From the Rome Southerner.
Bill Arp 10 Abe LinkhOrn.
No. TWO.

n. i
tose my letter wele taken by you
as an insult, tho it want intended.
| have beam that you sent it to the
Dead Letter Offs. Well, l don't
know, of course; but lis my opinion
you had better not put sny more
trash in that S,melary, for you Il
need all the bury ing ground you've
got about Washington Ior other pur-
poses soon. I've been doin my best
to keep things quiet and eonsi!liale
you, but ! see you are bent on scrow-
gin our boys into fight, so can
Jest t.ll you, I'm agin you, and you
| can gi, as feroshus a fight as } Gu de.
size. Your konduct has riz my pisen
you We trod on my raltlesnake sir,
and every thing ] handle al these
presents is infectious, go look out, aud
if you don't want to swell up from
b ,ndlin .Eis letter, you had better
take another drink,
We sent a few thousand Of our
boys to SEE you, aui present arms,
and FIX up this difficulty, but ] sup
pose you thought they were obeyin
/ ) our 20 days notis, and was carryiD
their guns 10 you; and so you come
! out with more Froclamashuns, and
Marshall law, AID a blockade, and
ether nonsese, and now ! don't know
what OUT boys will do. But will
notify you they never give no bonds
10 keep the Peace before they left
home-the fact is, they couldn't give
security; so, Mr.. Linkhorn, You can
look out for en-, and if you've got
anything to kopmunlkate DO it with
a Telescope or some otber long win.
ded weapon--for some of the boys
is neal sighted, and at 100 yards
couldn't tell whether you WAS an
Andylusian mule or an Andy John
son iackass.. Be keerful, Mr.. Link
horn, keep thin, walk edgswsys, and
shiuny on your OWE sidS, OF seme Of
'em might take crack at } yon jest for
the fun Of the thing, like Bill Ford
did at Square Mitchell's cd mule.
and dump kart. Them boys is dan
gerous, shore! and there S few more
Of the same sort left tehlnd, only
they arc the more pisener from bein
held back and wearin a kurb bit so
long. I've jest come up on little
furiow from Camp Brown, anc when
| left, The boys there were nearly
al a foamiDg at The mouth
But | reckon you and your KAN
CARGO are properly alarmed, or you
wouldn't sleep in your boots and live
under Marshall law. They say that's
a very good kind Of law for Black
Republicans or any other animals OF
a dark color. Spu.lock used il last
summer on the sea-ccast among
them well-known thoroughbred i'm
ported Africans, and it scattered 'em
from Carolina 20 Texas. They new
er give the country bit OF trouble,
and YOU We no idea how docile they
ate now 20 a cotton stalk.
Challey Lamar can give you any
further information you might de-
sire upon this subject.
But your Blockade is bumbog,
Mr.. Liukhorn, and aint got no more
pipt to it than your sand bags. In
the first and last place, you amt got
the Blocks, and you'll never git any
more i've oaks from our swamps
to make 'em. Howsoever, | didn't
thiuk of that overland army of 2Oo.-
600 men. If you and your kanga,
roo are bent on playing that dead
march, don't let 'em insure their ilves'
as il would break every Insurance
offs in your kouutry. Shore as yen
lsre born--the 2 might accldenlly
git back alive, but them five s.I. eypO'ts rs
never would. II you are bent on
sucb extravaganza, it would be a
erent accsmmodasbuu to the Charles,
ton boys to give 'em some ten days
motifs, SO they might lmpor. les y
more buzzards and lay IN a cargo o.
Darby's Prophylactic. Give sm J
reasonable notis, Mr.. Linkhorn' DO: u
you please. -. g Ri, soard
and the rest of your kangaroo.
/. would send EN- my respects, but Int
, truth is, respects correspoholn :,
their. color, are mighty scarce an'