The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-07-28

Gssa Trssa lies. .ssh" Happy.
10 say feAog soldisrs and citnsess IF 2tnseesee:!
AZ the ssrnns. aud almost ffessic selicitatiousi
81 two ffiepds with whom have juet taisn 81
sznaA drink, have consented 10 allow my name
10 &C before the public as candidate TO rep
seaeas the Twelfth Congressional District OF
tennessee in the next Confederate Cossysss.
bly, claims tor civil prsfas msmt ere sasstitnai-
noas, In military point pf vRew. hsve been
iD every famous retreat II this esr from Fish
ing Creek to Lavergne. As retreating consti-l
tutes ebe of the chief Btaategic features of this
war, | haster myself, taince nobody else does)
that am "a expert on o back wstd movement
90 Doodle bug. have served heroical!y in
the Quaxtermasser's Depatmsnt ever since the
war began--aad would do i; still to the close, ,
If the authorities would shstain ireu, court
mar falling me every tu'o yesks for malfeasanoe
in sfiee. -
To my dear, inialgent, sweet, good natured,
gallant, heroic, his h-teeed, badly clothed poor.
ly fed, nagDanimous, brsve, seif-sacriticing,
kind. hearted patriotic friends OF the rank and
file, have ever been O. true friend IL should
be disgraced with seat in Congress q don't
care if its even seat OH ihe stone steps of the
Speakers stsnd1 the fret step shall take on
behalf of the suffering soldier, will he to step
round to the Exchange Hotel, and drink HE
health. | shall vote TO have tue pay Oh the
private soldiers raised to three thouss and doI-
lars q year sud will probably inssoduoe q bin
20 tax every man who sports star bar on
his collar, one hundred dollars month for
each each star, aud bar, lhe fund thus raised
10 be divided out amongst the privates with
which to indulge in the game called poker. '
Consequently every man ~ho sports "bar,
on his shoulder tanleaa lis a crov'-bAr and it
ought 10 be, in many ipstances) must expect
to pay for the glory, il | am elected. shall
also introduce q ball to- place all soldier wives,
who airt With other wives husbands who Amt
soldiers, in the lunstic asylum.
Also resolution. which siiali In troduce,
and shall thrash every congressman who re-
fases 10 vote for it, that ans 1t General
Major General, Brisadior, Colonel, Captain or
| Lieutenant who shall permit his meu to burn
fence rails, steal cabbages and whistle round
kitchen windows after dark, shall be mme.
diately promoted and assigned To duty in the
Damphool Brigade.
! The time has come my fellow citizens. when
good men and true, who are anxious to ge,
into some sort Of hole to avoid tha eonscript
should be selected for offices of pub bile trust
I am q good-I'm true man--Congrees is my
hole. Hoping each man OF you will cast as
many votes for me you stuff into the
ballot box, | remain your best friend,
j. H.
| 7. ST. neglected TO mention, that il not
elected shall retire like Cincinnati to the fields
aud there spend tie rest Of my furlough ON
earth beneath my "owa gourd-viLe and frog
tree. with the sublimest indifference
!. II.
nS- "Jeffersonian" is responsible for the
following good one: few days since, train
Of cars frsigh,ed with Federal prisoners stopp
ed at the Atlanta Station, when the prisoners
amused themselves talking to the news boys
ON the platform. Ayankec officer said 10 one
of the apple-boys:
What dye ask for your apples"
Dollar DOZEN"
do you take greenbacks?,'
Apple boy cooked his little tow-head. wink
ed one eye knowingly. and replied with his
thumb to his nose:
mo! but ,ne take biue-6eilies!''