The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-08-23
slasagIle alnioll.
SATURDAY MORNING, AUG 2s, 1862.
Letter from Orpheus 0. Korr.
another story rOm Ola Abo--- Asiiat.
ing the Negro Question.

Correspondence New York sunday Mercury.
Matters and things here are still in
strategic condition, and naught has dis
turbed our monotony for a week, save
story they tell about honest Old Abe. 1t
seems that two of the conservative bor-
der State chaps who are here for the ex-
press purpose of protesting against every
thing whatsoever, had discussion about
the honest Abe, and one chap bet the
other chap five dollars that he couldn't,
by any possible means, speak to the Pres
ident without hearing a small anecdote.
4" DOne!" says the other chap, gleeiully,
"Tll take that bet"
That very same night, al about twelve
O'clock, he tore franticslly up TO the
White House, and commenced thunder
ing at the door, like Richard at the gates
of AscalOn. The Honest Abe stuck his
night-capped head out Of the window,
and says he:
as that you, Mr. Seward
"No, sir" says the border State chap,
glaring up through the darkness. "Tm
q messenger from the army. Another
great strategic movement has taken place
and our whole army have been taken
prisoners by the Southern Confederaoy.
In fact" says the conservative chap, fran
tically, the backbone Of the rebellion
is broken AGAIN"
"Hem p says the honest Abe, shaking
musquito from his night cap, this
strategy reminds me of a little story.
There was a man out in Iowa, sat down
to play a game of checkers with another
man, inducing his friends around him to
lend him the change necessary for stakes.
He played and he played, and he lost the
first game. Then he played much more
cautiously, and he lost the next game
His friends commenced TO grumble; but,
! says he: "DOn't you worry yourselves,
boys, and I'll show you q cute move,
pretty sOon.' So he played and he play
ed, and he lost the third game. Don't
be impatient, boys says he, you'll see
that great move pretty soon, Itell you.
| Then he played with great care, taking
long time to consider every move, and,
/ by way of change lost the fourth game
Close attention to what he was about, and
much minute calculation, also enabled
| him to lose the fifth game. By this time
/ his friends had lent him all their change
and began 10 think it was time for that
/ great move Of his TO come off. Have you
any more change " says he. Why no,
say they. Then, says he, with great
/ spirit, the time for that move l was tell
ing you about has come az last As hC
commenced 10 rise from his chair, instead
Of continuing 70 play, his cleaned oul
friends bethought themselves 10 ass him
what that famous move was? "Why,
says he, pleasantly, It's 10 move of lo,
little more change"
|, At the conclusion of this quaint tale
my boy, the border State chap lled groan-
ing TO his quarters at Wizards, stuck a
five dollar Treasury note under the pillow
of the other border State chap and i'm.
mediately took the evening train for The
West,
Suohis the story they tell, my boy
but Pm inclined to accept il merely az ;
work of fiction, with a truthful moral
Certain il is, that as a strategy increases
small change grows soarcor, and it is fla,
general opinion that no small change is
needed in military matters.
In company with patriotic democrat
ic chap, who had come up from New
York for the express purpose of seeing
that the negroes OF the Southern COnied
eracy we're not permitted to inform ouI
forces Of the movements Of the enemy ia
cOntrayentiOn Of the Constitution, | mad,
a reconnaissance in force. on Monday, 4
the festive Shenandoah Valley. On Oul
way thither the democratic chap wal
greatly bitten by mosquitoes, for whicl
he justly blamed the Black Republicans
who are try ing to break up this govern
ment, and on our arrival az Winchester
we. stumbled upon phlegmatic fellow
man in a swallow tailed coat and greer
speetacles, who was seated on a stone
by the roadside, reading the Impending
Crisis The democratic chap passe,
on, swearing, to the nearest camp; but
paused before the interesting student
"Well, old swallow-ta says !, aiIa
bly,, what are you doing in this sec
lion?'
He looked up at me with great severit,
OF countenance, and says he 81 hay
come here, young man, to agitate the Ne
gro question TO open African schools
and, peradyenture, 10 start water cur
establishment
What for" says /.
"For the love of my Species says he
eagerly, "and for any little contract /
the way Of red breeches and spelling
books that may be required for the re
claimed contrabands"
To return TO Western Virginia, / found
upon my arrival IN one of the camps nea
Winchester, that the patriotic democrati
chap was making arrangements to diyid
the army there into Wards, instead q
Regiments, in order, as he said, that th
returns might come in Systematically.
For instance" says he, suppose ia,
in the skirmish with the Coniederac
which is going ON just ahead Of us, "
should lose--say seventy five votes; ho
much easier ID would be to say Il
Fourth Ward shows a decrease since la
year, Of seventy five Republicans tha
10 say that such a regiment Of such
brigade, Of such a division, has lost
aud SO Y
1 waa raNaptfnu unDn tlfa novel an