Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-04-24
PRENTICEANA.

PhENTACEANA.
A Missouri paper says that the rebels sget
ahead of the Devil himself in their atrocities"
We have no doubt that they are always ahead
Of him, certainly he Is after them.
Some persons try to fnd a soft phrase for
their disloyslty by calling it sympathy with
the South" He who sympathizes with rebel
lion and treason is a rebel and traitor.
The New York Evening Post says that the
rebels will yet repent in dust and ashes. Yes,
they will burn their cities, we suppose, and
then repent in the ashes.
All the bridges destroyed by the rebels
should, after their reconstruction, be used as
scafolds for the hanging of the offenders
made suspension bridges.
The Rebel Confederscy sprung in the Fall.
and is likely to fall in the Spring.
Albert Pike led thousands of Indians into
battle and then pretended to be shocked at
their scalping their victims. He might as
well turn wolves loose in sheep pasture and
effect astonishment at their eating mutton.
Why is Gen. Floyd like one of the loyal
Generals upon the Potomac? Because he is a
General Hooker.
1t is stated that JEFF Davis and the members
Of his cabinet have decided to burn the city Of
Richmond upon finding that it must fall into
the hands Of the Federal army. We hope that
il will be surrounded so that they can't get
out of it during the conHagration.
Gsv. Wise, while he hung John Brown, talk.
ed enthusiastically of the old mans nerve. 1t
seems then that chap can admire nerve with
out having it.
There's no room for live rebel soldiers in
Kentucky. It is enough that her soil is defiled
by the carcasses Of some thousands of dead
ones.
Our old friend Fanny Fern the piquant has
parted from her third husband. So there's
room ter some other enterprising young man.
The Richmond Enquirer thinks it difficult
to say what side whipped at Winchester. 1t is
very safe to say which side ran.
At the approsch of the Federal armies, the
hottest rebel papers get as cool as if conducted
by 50 many Coolies.
When Floyd is hung. he will be, like all the
statements he makes, without the least foun-
dation. ..
"What is the chief end of MANI" Of ordina-
~ men the head. OF Humphrey Marshall
The Confederate rulers are like the Confed-
crate notes-there's nothing to redeem them.
Gen. Beauregard forms very ingenious
plans; but, like the lazy servant, they won't
work.
The salt famine in the Southern Confederacy
IS dreadful. Lots wife would bring seventy
five cents pound there. Her little finger or
little toe would be deemed a seasonable prize
The rebels were driven away from Island
No. 10 by Footballs.
The Richmond Enquirer says that the mill
tary authorities of the South have plighted
their faith for the establishment of the inde-
pendence Of their Confederacy. That's very
bad plight Of theirs.
The Scriptures speak Of mems asking for
bread and receiving stone. The rebels call
for sait and get peppered. They think they
get the wrong condiment.
We learn from the rebel forces that there
has been no advance in pork, beef, -four, corn,
and in the U. S. armies.
Everything, we understand, is finished up at
No. 10, and our FOote-stsps are now onward to-
ward Memphis.
The Rochester Democrat says that ssslsyery
cannot possibly emerge from this war as it en- {.
tersd it." We don't believe that nti-slayery
can
We have received a map of the Southern
Csnfederacy. We have looked over it in vain
for the location Of "the last ditch'' 1t is "ths
play of Hsmlet, with the part Of Hamlet omit
ted" -.
The privates in Beauregard's army are not
Permitted to read even rebel newspapers. But
it isn't necessary for them to read anything to
find out that they are whipped
They have In Georgia what they call sEDecent
Creek" 1t il perhaps the only decent thing
| in the State-except the q. s. army.
The New Orleans Delta denounces the u. s.
army as made up Of "vulgar fellows" The
New Orleans people, es they watch its progress
| On the Mississippi, may we'll believe that it
will soen be getting low down."
Floyd, even IL his nose were cut of, could
| scent danger fifty miles away
Several persons engaged in repairing one Of
the locks and dams on Green river have been
notified by rebels to quit the river immediate
ly. They'll see it dam'd first.
Humphrey Marshall is exceedingly uupopu-
lar, most men hate him, and even ordinary
chairs and benches can't bear him.
Great Britain must be very depraved old
harridan according to her own account She
calls herself the worlds mistress.