The Portland daily press., 1863-06-08
Monday Morning, June 8, 1863.
From the New Y ork Sunday Mercury.
Triangular strategy.

OIs
that the venerable Mackerel Brigade was
about to commit breach of the peace by
strategically assaulting the confederacies es-
tablshed In the mud between the Mackerel
e camp and the ancient city OF Paris, mounted
my architectural steed, the gothic Pegasus, at
an early hour in the morning, and perceptibly
moved toward the scene of approaching tau
tology. The emaciated aspect Of my archi-
tectural steed of the desert was so inviting to
the fowls Of the air, my boy, that divers disrep-
utable crows circled sulenly around my hat
as my animal progressed with me by miscella-
neously scattering his legs around beneath
himself, and at each particular "caw" of the
winged ministers of famine, a perceptible
shudder passed through the entire framework
of the deeply agitated Pegasus. Abstracted-
ly waving my umbrella, to inspire the sable
birds for loftier flights, pondered deeply up
on the lesson taught me by the evident emo
tions OF my aged architectural servant; to ride
upon whose huted back may be likened unto
sitting astride the peaked roof of small
country chapel in the midst of hard earth
quake, and holding on by the steeple. II this
gothic creation, which is but horse, is so ag-
onized by the mere breakfast notes Of few
demoralized crows in the atmosphere, how
much more terrible must be the anguish of
the fellow-beings known as Southern confed-
eracies, who must ever have dreadful pre-
sentiment Of being summarily expunged from
the human, race by any one of our brass-but-
toned generals, who happens to board in their
neighborhood for few years. If pity this
architectural servant of mine, thought 1, for
his anguish at the proximity of crows in the
ABSTRACT how much more tender should be
my feeling for Southern fellow-beings, who
are continually endangered by the much loud
er crows enanating from adjacent hostile Ma
jor General roosters: As pondered thus, my
boy, a crow Of much plumage and large-sized
mien, suddenly alighted upon the pomme Of
my saddle, as though impatient to breakfast
upon some pounds of h0rse-fesh. For an in
slant, my boy, Pegasus trembled throughout
his works; he paused suddenly in his peregri-
nation, laid back his ears as though In deep
thought, twisted his head suddenly about, and
bit off the tail of the crow in the abstract!
Simple as was the act, my boy, it at once re-
lieved me, in my own mind, OF all obligations
to have more tender feeling for my Southern
fellow beings than is consistent with q proper
emotion of hatred against the enemies Of my
country. After all, we can learn much more
from brutes than from men; and as Balaam's
ass saw the angel before his master did, SO the
angel OF victory is likely to be distinctly OBJ
vious to any poor ass in the country, before
he becomes visible TO the sight of our strate-
gic great men,
turn pretty sharp corner in that last
sentence, my boy; but that Is only safe STRAIT
egy when yon find your argument getting
aneau OF you.
1t was high noon when reached the Mack
erei camp, and found those spectacled veter-
ans hastily preparing to cross Duck Lake af-
ter the manner of aquatic warriors. BY some
strange fatality, all the pontoons were at hand
in time, greatly to the distress of our more
venerable troops, who seemed to fear that such
unheard OF punctnality must be an evil omen
As there were great many pontoons, and it
was not deemed best to waste any of them,
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considered that inasmuch as it was proposed
to surprise the unseemly confedcracies on the
other side, two bridges would be just twice as
surprising to them as one would be. There
was logic in this idea, my boy much logic
and consummate strategy.
Gazing across the expanse of waters be-
held couple Of regiments of confederacies
playing poker on the bank, and says / TO Vii
liam Brown, who was at that moment return
ing small black bottle to his holster:
"Tell me, my fearless blue black, how this
can possibly be a surprise, when yonder gray
backs are looking on all the Time"
All" says William, with much loftiness of
demeanor. "you are but an ignorant civilian
inseck, and know nothing about war; The
movement" says William, placidly. "is intend
ed as surprise TO the enemy, upon the princi-
pie that any movement whatever of this army
must surprise everybody"
was rejecting seriously upon the unan-
swerable explanation of profound strategy,
my boy, when Captain Bob Shorty came rat
fling up with paper in his hand, and says he !:
Attention Company while read a docu-
ment calculated to restrain the licentiousness
of g corrupt and vicious press:
GENERAL ORDER.
For the purpose of preventing the transmission of
all news not previously published in the morning
Journals Of the so-called Southern Confederacy Il
has been determined by the General Commandipg
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