The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1862-04-16
WAR WIT s. HUMoR.

Meath ragged Palmetto, . Souther-
ner sat, twisting the band of his Pana-
ma hat, and trying to Tighten his MUD of
load, by hanming the words of the fol-
lowing ode: Oh for darkey, ho. Sor
whip; oh for cocktail, and oh for
a nip; ho for shot at old Greeley and
Beecher; oh for a crach at yankee
school teacher; oh for captain, and
oh for ship; oh! {! for cargo of dark
eys each trip, And SO he kept on ching
for what he had not, rot content with
owing for all that he'd got.
The Richmond Wing wants a new set
of hands to run the Southern Confedera-
cY. The old set of feet it cannot CON-
plain of, as ttey run well enough.
FLOYD robbed the vaults Of the Tennes.
see banks before leaving Nashville. That
is the kind of VaultiDg ambition for which
he is mos. distinguished.
Commodore Foote has a high opinion
of his guuboats, but he never looks to-
ward New Orleans without wanting to
run them down"
The soldiers at Port Royal are feastiug
on green peas furnished from the interior.
That is clear indication of peas party
10 thai State.
jeff Davis says that the Southern Con-
tederacy undertook too mucb," and the
fatal mistake proves him to have been ito
''anaertakeg."
The New Orleans Crescent asks, Shall
New Orleans be burned? AS CASTRO
nomical question, we would prefer to take
1t raw.
There mast Be capital artists On the
gunboats, as they are always sent forward
10 draw the enemy's fire.
The United States army is a large blue
mass, administered to correct the high
livers Of the South, and make them work.
The rebels are DOS disposed 20 obey
the law antil our armies show them It's
caDons.
The politeness Of gunboats is shown
by their always approaching the enemy
with bows.
The rebels abandoned Manassas, but il
was noI near SO abandoned as they were.
Gen. Floyd, at Fort Doaelson, tried TO
make the rebel soldiers cut new in.
,reuchmept. They felt weary and re.
used. "Oh, very we'll" SAID Floyd, "if
you won't cut dirt, | will"
JEFF Davis boasts that the Southern
Confederacy las DO foating debt. The
debt Is certainly fcO heavy TO float, and
debt and Confederacy will go together to
the bottom.
When the Federal army was spproach-
inc Nashville, Gov. Harris called upon
the whole people to rally as one man To-
repel the INVADER" and ran away by the
hrst train.
The rebel editors. 10 their accounts Of
every batele. sill off thousands and thou.
sands of the Federal troops. The pens
that those editors WELD are real slaugh-
ter-pens.
We understand that the fashionable peo-
pie of Riehmona are getting to be very
pour monde.
The Confederates say that we have Vi
oated all law in our treatment Of them.
Well, if We have broken ,he Lw, let them
sac as. If they can't sue for anything
else, they can sue for peace.
The Richmond 2aqxttrer says that the
rebels will fight as long as oBe of them is
left alive. We wonder whether they Rili
fgh. long enough to find ont what they
are fighting for.
We ara told that several dealers in
Nashville, il spite OF Gen, Buelrs orders,
are selling Yhisky-aqa asfu. mean
whisky, TOO. The sellers, Ike their vhis-
ky, want recsifying.
Either wing Of aa army 10 battle will
soon become ths len wing if it stssds it's
ground, and Floyd has command Gf the
other wing, and Mise Of the centre,
The rebel Government II Richmond
doesn', krog what aDOnns Of paper car
rency j: has issued Probably IL coRldn't
guess within two hundred bushels.
The Memphis 4ipperf says the people
OF that city are calm. About rs calm.
no doaht, rs dnmphngs in a furinasiy
boiling pot.
The rebels are tearing up she railroad
tracks rapidly, and putting do1n their
OWN tracks stiil more rapidly.
The States that sra IN rebellion rsy
consider every patriotic Yankee MS sesiDg
20 theaa, "0h. get OUT r.