The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1863-08-15

What our veteran correspondent says
in jestis SO much like earnest, and what
he means in earnest u often 30 jjocnlarly
said, that it is very difhculs to pick the.
kernel Of his meaning out of the shell of
his phraseology. It is pretty obvious,
however, from the following letter, that
he deems speedy collapse ofsthe Rebel
Hon inevitable. We fear he is too san
guine. The war pays too wen in induen-
tial quarters to be forced to an end with
immediate dispatch. The affection ex-
pressed by the Disbanded for Mr. Lincoln
does equal honor to his head and heart:
''' NAsHSAL HOTEL, | T..
Washington, July 30, 1868. p.
Eddyts.rs Of the Sandy Merkary:" !. r ="
Arter heving ben asshoored as eyry
hole in the Bloc Ridge was stopt up, the
pubiick larns with deep shagrin as that
cunnin old Secesh rat, Ginrat Lee has
sneaked throo with all his stealins, and is
wunst more beyond the Rapid Ann
Setch is the "1ame and impudent eonclu-
shin" as the poick ses, of the upshoot of
his detected Army from the Suskehanna
to the Shunadoor Nuthin short of q
merrykill, like that as preserved the
skalps of the Children of Israin when
they marched by soopernatral ternpike
acrost the Red Sea, could have saved the
Rebil host, eff Mead he'd ben kwick enuff
On the trigger in the fust place; but he
concEooded to paws for a hull night for
rest and refreshment, ON the banks of
the Potomac, and the hossteal fo, like
doste of Brandreth's pills, made move
ment in the night, and was throo by day
light. When mornin came, Lee he'd
eyakeated, and nuthin renamed on the
Merryland shore but the small remnant
that covered his rare. Sum ses the coun-
sill of war sun1rnont BY Ginral Mead was
tied on the kwcstin of attactin the enc
NEE the eyenin prevus TO the Yamose,
but that oney makes the matter wus. be-
kase it prooves that the hull responsible
ity was throwd onto the sholders of the
Ginral-in-C -Cheef, and that he waxnt ekwil
to ii. Dus ennyboddy spose that ef I'm
kIe Sam Grant he'd ben In Mead y place
Lee and his rattrnaurduns would hev
skeddad deld over the Potomac without
cittin thar due Nary The nayshin
thort the canlpain In this regin would
hey eendsd with finishin blow to the
Rebeliyun, but it has terminated as ushiI
with q hlow. .throo the moose papers Don't
imafg gin. howsever, that any troo man
simperthisea with the coWardiy skinhints
Of the Suthern Penney yIvany whose hoses
and crops and cattle was carrid off BY the.
raiders. wisht to the Lord Lee he'd
anaked off sum Of the ozaors as well -
Frinstance the Getisbag gers, Chambers
buggers, 0sC sConneisbuggers Shipp pensbug-
gers, and Mercershag aggers, as charged our
brave aoiers adolor for . leaf of bred and
ten cents for drink of water. E he'd
took about thousand of that kinder
cattle along, and dropt ewry rnather's son
Of EN- inter the drink when he croat the
river, il would hev bin gratifyin TO Satan
and no offence to emmy right-minded
Christian. W
1t seems we rayther run agen snag
on Morris Hand, and arter captering one
of the pairopets at Fort Wagner, he'd to
make redrograde hanover, with the
loss of rneny Killed and wounded. 1t
was one of those misfortins that will
happen in the best regulated miicntary
fanatics, and it won't in no way affeck
the ultimit issoo. dessay Bowerygard
will make an obstinit fight, bat the fall
of Charleston is set down in the fedral
program to KUN off afore the middle of
September, and you ken count on it as
sartainly as if it was theatrical pufform-
ance advertised TO take place at Nib
blows, rain or shine. The solem fast
aprinted hy JEFF Davis to be obsarved on
tbs twenty-fust of August, will probly be
rendered dubbly soIem by the prevus
captur of that Flag City Of Laeyfer 3,
domain on airth, the Capital Of South
Caroliny. The fact is, the Great Rebel
yuns affinity near played ont, and no
I boldly knows it better than JEFF the
Jugeler. Out of the fourteen states that
he originally counted on for his Southern
| Confederacy, he now oney holds full pos
seshin of FIVE, and tharll be seyral big
| land slides from these inter the Union
afore two nunths is over. His armies is
| shattered and dishsrtened, and his re-
erutin ground is gettin narrerer and
narrerer evry day France and England
| pats him on the back and cries, Good
| bow go in and win!" but they're the
kind Of trends that'll stand at his back
and see his brains knockt out without
liftin finger to help him, Even the
uoosepaper fellers at Richmond fairly
spits in his face, and one Of his Ginrals
| TO Johnstun) tells him in plain English
he wont obey his orders. He puts me IN
mind of the TtalyUn prisner that was put
inter dungin with n1oovabul walls that
KEEP kuIlapsin till they skwelehed him. -
tell you Eddyturs, the infarnai conspir-
racy agen God and Man that the Fust
Great RebiI and his crew hes ben chuck
lin over Tofit for the last two years, will
sun be, in the last aggernies. 1nvashuu
was its foriorn hop, and nes. that Lees a
fudgitire ard Morgnn's bagged, | reckin
thars NOT six year odd gal in the nuthern
states that could be skarE with tH<r Raw
he'd and Baudds' bones. :"s....''sf f1 w
| The Presidents in the happyest frame
of mind you ever seen. His face, though
naturally sumvhat long. is radyant with
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