Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-05-21
Letter from Orpheus g. Kerr.
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AS1A hA5hANHIuNs ."r.
Suffer me, my boy. to direct your at
tcntion to the Congress of our once dis.
tracted country, which is now shedding a
beautiful lustre over the whole nation aud
exciting that fond emotion of admiration
which incltnes the human foot to perform
a stern duty. "Congress, ,"says Captain
Samyule Sa-mith, nOdding to the bar
keeper and designatinga particular bottle
with his fnger-"COngress," says lie, .'is
n honor and ornament to our bleeding
land. The fortunes of war may fluctuate,
the rose may fade; but Congress is ever
stable. Yes,n says Samyule, in beauti-
ful burst of enthusiasm, softly stirring The
oath in his tumbIer with n tooth-pick.
"Congress, Is stable-in. short, o stuLle full
of mules" g
The conservatives from the border
States, my boy, look upon the Southern
COntederacy as brother, whom it is our
duty to protect against the accursed de-
signs of the feudish abolitionists, who
would make this war one of bloodshed.-
Ihey !, ignore all party feeling, support the
Constitution MS it was, in contradis;iuc-
ton to what it is, aud object to any confis.
cation measure calculated to irritate our
misguided brothers aud sisters in th.
beautiful land where
The suitor he goes to the planter so grand,
And"0iTe me your daughter says he;
"Eor each unto other we've pllShted our loves
AloVe her and SO she loves me-" tE,
Says he,
"And married we're wishing to be-"
TIE planter was deeply affected indeed,
"The giving couldn't Afford; bnt FIlf sell
Her for six hundred dollars to thee
Says he,
"HeF mother was worth that to me-"
Which | quote from sweet ballad / re-
NotNIVy
at Yorktown
Since the occupation of Paris by the
Mackerel Brigade, affairs there have been
administered with great intellectual abili.
" by Captain William Brown, who has
been appointed Provisional Governor, to
govern the sale of provisions.
The city of Paris, my boy, as / told you
lntely,is laid out in one house ut present !;
and since the discovery, that what were
at first supposed to beDahtgreu guns by
our forces were really n number of old
hats With their rims cut off, laid in d row
on top of the earthworks, the Democracy
have stopped talking about the General Of
the Mackerel Brigade for the next Presi.
dent. @ tsa $40 al -
The one house, however, was a boarding
house; and though all the boarders left at
the approach Of our troops, it was subse-
A1SaAAy AtSSONGtE0 kuh6 ull VI save
one, were good Union men, and were bru-
tally forced to fly by that one Confederate
miscreant. ~ b1l iff'
When William heard of the fate of these
noble and oppressed patriots, be suffered a
tear to drop into the tumbler he had Just
poured, and, says he:
= t.Just Hevings! can this be'so? Ahp'
says William, lifting bottleuear by, to see
that no rebel was concealed under it, 81
will issue n proclamation calculated to
conCiliate the noble Union men of the
Sunny South, and bring them back to those
protecting folds which our inedycated fore.
fathers folded theirselTes.'' '}ilil- I-i
Nobody believed Il could be done, my
boy-nobody believed it could be done;
but William understood his species, and is.
sued the following .1
.f,- PROCLAMATION.
Z The Union men of the South are hereby
informed that the United States has reas-
serted hisself, and VIII shortly open a bar
room in Paris. Also, cigars and other
knecessaries OF life.
By order Of 's = -,
CAPT. VILLIAM BRoWN EslSVire