The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-10-01
Letter From Orpheus G. Kerr.
The Mackerel Brigade is Falling Back
War about to Commence in Earnest.
From the New York Sunday Mercury.

EDITOR +. r. 0n Monday morn my bo,
whilst WAS pulling on pair of boots that hs v,
some music TO the soles, there arose near nv
r0om-door sound as of one in dire syony
closely followed by a variousy modulated roar
aS OF some desert ed woman in distress Hastily
disseminating my toilet and darting 10 the
threshold beheld one of those scenes of civil
war which impress the soul with horror and
meet the just reprobatiou OF feeling Albion.
Rampant between two marrow-bones. nv boy.
was my frescoed dog Bologna, eyeing with hor-
| rid fury Sergeant O'Pske's Gamma friend Lnoun
as Jacob Barker, and ever and anon utteripr
sentences of supernatural wrath. To these the
excited Barker responded in deep bass of great
compass, his nose curling with undspuised dis.
dain and his eyes sssimil4ting to that insidious
and fiery squint which betokens inexpressible
| malignty. There WAS something not Of earth in
the frescoed Bologna's distortion of cuuntenance
as he attempted to keep an eye on each bone.
and at the same time look full in the face of his
| Zoe; aud there was that in the sounds Of his
strain which betokened Sirius indecision.
| As gazsd upon those two iufnrated wonders
OF natural history, my boy, and recognized the
| fact that the existence of two bones in conten-
| ton prevented an actual battle, because neither
combatant was willing to lose sight of either of
| them whilst the presence ofhnt one bone would
have simplitied the matter and precipitated a
! decisive conflict. | could not but think that
| saw symbo2ed before me the situation of our
distracted country.
The United STATES Of America, my boy, and the
| wei-known Southern Confederacy, are like two
! rascible terriers practising defiant strategy be-
tween two bones, the one being the festive ne
gro question, and the other the Union. Now it
seems o me, my boy-it secms 10 me that if the
gay animal with y. S on his collar would only
dispose OF the bone nearest him without fGrther
vo1a'ism, there would be better chance for him
to secure the other bone in the combat sure to
come.
Dogs, my boy, and men are very much alike
in their hostile meetings, neither seeming to
know just exactly which is truly their Insgnum
bonum.
Ascending to the roof of my architectural
steed, Pegasus, on Tuesday, induced the gothic
animal to adopt pace sometimes affected by the
fleet tortoise, and went down to Aeeomac in pur-
suit OF knowledge respecting recruiting. just
before reaching that Arcadian locality, my boy,
l met Colonel Wobert WobinsOn, of the Western
Cavalry, who had been down there to induce vol
unteering and infnse fresh confidence into the
masses. He offered bounty Of two hundred
dollars; three dollars to he paid Immediately,
and the rest as soon as the war commences in
earnest; and promised 20 each man a horse
physically ncapaciated from running away from
anything.
" Well, my hold dragoon," says |, cordially,
noticing that Pegasus had fallen into a peace
ful doze, "how go enistments ?"
The Colonel waved away an abstracted crow
that was hovering ia deep reverie over my
chargers brow, and said he: {" | have enlisted
all the people of AccOmac."
" want 10 know" says /, Bostonially.
Yes" says he, " l called meeting, and sue
eeeded in enIisting all-their symp lthies"
AS gszed upon the equestrian warrior, my
boy, mehoughs saw the youngest Offspring of
wink trembling in cGner of his right eye,
aud felt that the world-renowned Snyder was
at that mou.ent aboriDg under heavy incubus.
sach is life.