Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-06-10
Notes from orpheus G. Kerr.

"Orpheus c. Kerr" makes some capital
hits occasionally. We make the following
extracts from one of his late letters:
On Wednesday, some OF our dryest pick.
cts caught shabby, long haired chan loaf
ing around the camps with big block and
a sheet of paper under bis arm, ard bro't
him before the general of the Mackeral
Brigade.
"Well, Samyule," says the General to one
of the pickets, what is your charge against
the prisoner :"
''lIe is young man which is a spy," re-
piled Samyule, holding up the sheet of pa
per, "and take this ere picture to be the
great Seal of the Southern Confederacy. !"
"Why thinkest thou 80, my cherub, and
what does the work Of art represent. in
qured the General.
"The drawing is not enc of the best" re-
piled Sanyule, closing one eye and view
ing the picture critically, but should
say that it represents ham with fiddle
across it, and beafsteaks in the corners"
miserable Vaudal !" shouted the long
haired chap, excitedly, ''you know not what
you say. am Federal artist. aud that
picture is map of the coast of North Car.
olina for New York daily paper"
'ThunderW says the General. off that's
a map, patent gridiron must be whole
atlas"
| believe him, my boy!
As a person of eruGition, it pleases me
greatly to observe thatour more moral New
York regiments cultivate taste for read
ing, and are even 50 literary that they can't
so much as light their pipes without leaf
of hymn book. | was talking to an an
L., IA,
ty the other day about this, and SAYS he ::
Talk about readingl Why, there's ff-
~ newspapers sent in a wrapper to our of
fcers alone every day. There's ten each
of the Tribune and Times ten each of the
Boston Post and Gazette ten Of the Mont.
gomery Democrat, and one New York Her.
| aid"
Look here, my second Washingt n, -
you say you have fifty papers daily. but
according to my account that copy Of the
Herald makes fittyeone."
did l not tell you that they came in a
wrapper! ?" said the chap with great indig-
nifty.
you did," says I.
"Well." says he, "the Herald is the
wrapperp
This morning I went with Col Wobert
| WGbinson to look at some new horses he
had Just imported from the Erie Cana
stable, for the Western Cavalry, and was
much pleased with the display of bone and
work. One animal interested me greatly
he was born in l7TG, had both of hi,
hind legs broken on the frontier in one o.
the battles of 1912, and lost both of hi,
eyes and tail at the taking of Mexico. The
Colonel stated that he had selected this an
imal for his own use in the field.
Another fine animal of the stud was at.
tached to the suite of Washington, at the
famous crossing of the Delaware, and i,
said to have surprised the IIessians a
Trenton as much as the army did Pre-,
vious to losing his teeth, be was scld to
western dealer in hides for three dollars
and the dealer, being an enthusiastic Unicr
man. has let the government have the ani.
NAL for one hundred and ten dollars
A mousseIine delaiue mare also attracted
my attention. She was sired by the favor
lite racer of the Marquis de La Fayette
and has been damned by every one WHIT
has attempted to drive her. The pretty
beast comes from the celebrated Bone Mil
belonging 10 the Erie Canal, and only cos
the government two hundred dollars.