Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-04-03
PRENrICEANA.

The Southern Government is all the time
issuing proclamations. 1t talks too much
We are disposed to say to it as the man said to
his wife when she was speaking her parting
words to him in her last moments-'Pooh
pooh don't trouble yourself to talk, but 60 on
with your dying"
The rebels are glad to exchange their JEFF
Davis money for Abe Lincoln money and pay
sixty per cent premium. They are getting to
think that cid Abe's face upon the Treasury
notes Is perfect beauty.
Those enemies of Gen. Mcclellan that NEST
fercely lonRf for his defeat are not in the
Southern Confederacy. We wish they were.
There are $50 distilleries in two districts
alone in South Carolina. Not only sthe
Southern heart" but the Southern brain seem
likely to be "fred."
1t is fine spring weather with Us, but as for
the rebels, "now is the winter Of their dis
content"
The number of Union men in Nashville is
increasing daily and rapidly. The men of the
Union army must be admirable electioneerers
1t is said that the rebels don't 20 to church
now at all. They hsve seven days per week of
"humiiiation'" but not one day Of '''prayer."
We have heard a great many Generals de-
nounced for running away, but Gen. MoClel-
Ian is abused because his enemies ran away.
Within the last few weeks the rebels have
been driven from four Gibrsltars, five Their
mepylses, and any number Of Quebecs.
1t is said that the Merrimac's PROV was no
match for the Monitors prowess.
Floyd has just bravery enough to steal guns.
and far too little to stand before them.
We trust to our Foote. The rebels troops
trust to their feet.
The Evansville Journal thinks tn at the peo-
ple's confidence in Fremont as a military man
has never been shaken. We are not sure
they ever had any to shake. But we esrnest-
ly hope that the Pathfinder" will fulHl the
highest expectations of his admirers
The telegraph informs us that the Provis.
iOnal Government of Kentucky is now located
IN Sibley tent near Critte nden's headquarters
at Huntsyille, Alabama. 1t seems 10 have
adopted regular nomsdic life, always ready
/ to move and to
Fold their tents like the Arabs,
And silently steal away
The chronic disease of the Southern Confsd
eracy is getting worse and worse. It's last
evacuation, the one at New Madrid, was a
bloody one.
You may think what you please, ladies and
gentlemen of Memphis, but we tell you Com
foote Is "ths coming man"
AT the last dates, Humphrey Marshall was
resting his immense tanks upon two contiguous
nhis OoJohu <ouuu udps
All what would not the Confederate authori-
! ties give, in these days Of rebel fugacity, for
one standing army?
The Southern Confedsrscy can't be ssput to
her trpmps," for she has played them ali out
The New Orleans Delta says that "the Yam
KEGS are down upon wooden vessels" New
Orleans had better believe they will soon be
''dewn' upon gunboats and mortsr-boats
One account says that Gen. Bragg is at Pen.
sacala, another that he Is at Norfolk, another
that he IL at Island No. 10. No doubt Rebel
Bragg may be found wherever there are
i Rebels
It is becoming q very common expression
| among the rebel troops, that the most fertunst<
/ thing that could befall them would be theil
capture as prisoners Of war by our forces
The New York Tribune is violently prais
ing Mr.. Lincoln. That's carrying malice toe
| far.
There was grand Smelling business done Al
Pea Ridge.
The rebel women hsvn't yet, in obedienee
to the call of the men, volunteered for the
public service. We suppose they want to bt
pressed.