The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-09-24


boy, and twenty men were appointed 10
guard Il from the PROCLAMATION of our
troops. We must protect such property
at all hazards, my boy or the Constitu-
tuition becomes o nullity.
Having crossed the treachcrous element
TO view the immediate scenes Of these
proceedings, and learned from Captain
William Brown that our pickets were
within ten miles of the COnfederacy's
capital, l was about TO make some re-
mark, when messenger came riding for
ward in a great Precipitation, and says
he:
"0ur piokots have been driven in.
"Hal" says William, athe Confederacy
again advancing upon the United States
Of America ~
"0nr pickles says the messenger i'm
prosssyely, have bees driven in; they
have been driven into Richmond
"AhW says William, pleasantly, ,"thcn
send out some more pickeis.'
| strolled away from the pair, my boy,
reiieGiing upon the possibility of enough
MackeIel pickets reaching Richmond in
this way 10 make the Union sentiment
there stronger than ever and was looking
listlessly 10 my footing, when | CHANGED
to cspy paper on the ground. Picking
it up, found il to be a note from the
wife of the Southern Confederacy TO her
cousin, dropped, probably by one of the
COnfederacies Of the wOod-pile. 1t bore
the date Of April the First, and read as
follows
"DEAE JULEYER II have just space
Of time 10 write you these few lines.
hoping that these few lines will find
you the same, and in the enjoyment Of
the same blessing. o my unhappy coun-
try! how art thou suffering at the pres
ent writing have not had a single
new bonnet for two weeks, my beloved
Juleyer, and my suffering gloves are al
ready discolored by the Precipitation !
have shed when thinking of my poor
dear South. My husband, the distin
guished Southern Confederacy, is so re
duced by trials that he is a mere skele.
ton skirt Oh, my Juleyer, how long is
| this 10 continue? Ere another century
/ shall have passed away, the Yankees will
have approached nearer Charleston and
| Savannah, and the blockade become al.
most effective. Since the Mackerel Bri.
gade has changed its base of operations,
even Richmond seems doomed to fall in
less than fifty years. Everything look.
dark. Tell me tho prico Of dotted mus.
lin, for under-slcoVes, when you write
| again, and believe me,
"Your respected cousin,
Mrs. S. c."
There's only one thing about this let.
Ter bOthers me, and that's the date, my
| bOy--the date.
When very near this city, on my re-
turn home, | met = chap weighing abou
two hundred and twenty five pounds
who was on his way 10 lawyers {,
get his exemption from the draft dull,
! fled
"See here, my patriotic invalid" say
!, skeptically, how do You come 10 b
eXemptY
al am exempt" says he, in q pro
ioundly melancholy manner because
am suffering from broken heart"
"Hem,' says l.
"lrs true, says he, shifting dismally
81 asked the female OF my heart TO hav
me. She said l hadn't enough postage
stamps to suit her ideas of personal rev
enue, and she didn't care TO do my wash
ing. That was enough; my heart
broken, and am not an ablc-bodie
man."
| Drafting, my boy is Of nature to de
velOp tho seeds of disease in the hithert
healthy human system-seeds which,
suffered TO fructify, will be likely TO al
Innate in what gentlemen Of buglariou
accomplishments would chastely and bC
tanically denominate q very large size
plant
Yours, seriously,
ORPHEUS c. KERR.