The Placer herald., 1862-01-04
Another Daniel Come to Judgement.

AAnoopoA Odulel OOIue 10 Judgement.
The women OF America my boy.
are credit TO the American eagle, and a
great expense TO their husbands and fathers
but they don't exactly understand the most
pressing wants of the soldier. For instance
young girl, about seventy five years of are
has been sending ten thousand pious tracts to
the Mackerel Brigade, and the consequence is.
that The air around tie camp has been fnl
OF spit balls for week These tracts nv
boy, are very good for dying sinners and
other southerners, but I'd rather have Bull
wer's novels for general reading. William
Brown, OF Regiment Five, got one of them
the other day headed, "Who is your Father?'
The noble youth read the question over once
or twice, and then dashed the publication to
the ground and took some tobacco to check
his emotions. (That brave Youths father
my boy, is a disgrace to his species; he has
been sinking deeper and deeper in shame for
some months past, until at last his name has
got on the Mozart Hall ticket) | saw that
! William didn't understand what the tract
really meant, and so explained it to him that
it was intended to signify that God was his
father. The gifted young soldier looked at
me dreamingy for a moment and then saws
he
"God is my Fathel!" says he. "We
now | am hanged if that amt funny; for,
whenever mother spoke of dad, she always
aed him the old devln"
William never went to Sabbath school. nv
boy, and his knowledge OF theology wount
start country church.
Wishing to find out if he knew anything
about catechism, asked him last Sunday
afternoon, if he knew who Moses was.
"Yes," says he, Il know him very well;
he sells old clothes in Chatham street."
went over to Virginia yesterday to review
Berdens Sharpshooters, anl was much aston
ished, my boy, at their wonderful skill with
the rifle The target is little smaller than
the side of a barn, with a hole through the
centre exactly the size of bullet. They
set this up, my boy, just 600 yards away,
and fired al it in turn. After sixty of them
had fired, went with them to the target, but
couldn't see that it had been hit by a single
bullet. remarked this to the captain,
whereupon he looked at me pityingIy, and
says he-"Do you see that hole in the Bulls,
eye, just the size of bulet?"
| allowed that did.
"WeII," says he, "the bullets all went
through that hole"
Now don't mean to say that the captain
lied, my boy, but it is my opinion-my
private opinion, my boy, that if he writes a
work on fiction, it will sell.
La Mountain has been up in his balloon,
and went so high that he could see all the
way to the Gulf of Mexico, and observe what
they had for dinner at Fort Pickens. He
made discoveries Of an important character
nv, boy, and says the rebels have con
centrated several troops at Manassas A
reporter of the Tribune asked him if he
could see any negro instructions; and he
sad that he did see some black spots moving
around near 5 u'h Carolina bul found ont
atterward thai they were some ants which
had got into his telescope
The Prince de JoinviIe's two sons, my
boy. arn admirable editions to Gen. McClpI
an's staff and speHk English SO well that
can almost understand what they say. Two
Arabs are expected here - morrow to take
"omnand of Irish hrigales. and General
Birrker will probably have two Aztecs to
assist him in bis German division.
Yours mosingly, OKPHEus G. KERR.