Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-08-27
ARENAS Ward To the Prince Of
wales.


FRIEND WALES.-You remember me,
| saw you in Canady a few years ago,
l remember you too, seldom forglt a
person.
hearn of your marriage to the Princes
Alexandrv, IL ment ter writ YOU CON
gratoolatory letter at the time, but I've
bin bmldin a barn this summer, & hain't
had no time to write letters to folks. Elk
coos me.
Numeris changes has token place since
we met in the body polite. The body
polite, in tack, is sick. sumtimes think
il has got biles, friend Wales.
In my country we've got war, while
your country, in conjunktion with Cap'n
SENS of the Neutrality-suspicious. nootral
position
I'm afraid can't write goaks when |
sit about it, Oh no, guess not
Yes, SIR, we've got war and the
troo Patrit has to make sacri6sses. Won
bet.
| have already given two cousins to the
war, q | stand reddy to sacrifss my
wife's brother ruther n not see the re-
belyin krusht. And if wuss comes to
wuss l'll shed ev'ry drop of blud my able
bodid relations has got to prosekoot the
war. think sumbody oughter be prose-
Rooted, x 1t may as well be the war as
any body else. When GIT goakin fit
onto me it's no use to try ter top me.
Yoa hearn about the draft, friend
Wales, no doubt 1t caused sum squirm-
in, but it was fairly conducted, | think,
for it hit all classes. 1t is troo that Wen
dill Phillips, who is an American citizen
of African scent, escaped, but so did Val
landggum, who is Conservatv, and who
WIS resuntly sent South, tho he would
have bin sent to the Dry Tortoogus il Abe
had 'sposed for mint that he Tortoog-
uses would keep him.
We hain't got any daily paper in our
town, but we've got female SEWN circle.
which ansers the same purpuss, and we
wasn't long is suspents as to who was
drafted.
One young man who was drawd claimd
to be eXemp because he was the only son
of q widow'd mother who supported him.
A few ablebodid dead men was drafted.
hit whether their heirs will have to pay 3
hundred dollars peace for 'em Is Ques
ton for Within, who pears to be tinkern'
up this draft bizness right smart hope
be makes good wages
think most of the conscrips of this
place will go. a few will go to Canadv,
stoppin' on their way at Concord, N. H..
where | understan there is a bIuslum of
Harris.
You see I'm sassy, friend Wales. hittin'
all sides but no ohense is ment. You
know amt a politician, and never was.
| vote for Mr.. Union-that's the only
candidate I've got claim, howsever. to
have a well-balanced mind tho nv dees
of well-balanced mind differs from the
idees of partner | once had, whose name
was Blllson. Billson and me orjanized
strolln dramatic company, & we played
The Drunkard, or the Falling Saved, with
a real drunkard. The play didn't take
particularly, and says Billson to me, Let's
Civ 'em sum immoral drammy. We had
large troop onto our hands, consistin' of
eight tragedlans and bass drum, but |
says, No, Billson; and then, say |, Bill
son, you hain't got well-balanced mind.
Says he, Yes have have Il mind says
he, that balances in any direction that the
public rekires. That's wot | calls a well
balanced mind. | sold ont and bid adoo to
BiIlson. He is now an outcast in the
State of Vermont. The miser'be man
once played Hamlet There wasn't any
orchestry, and wishn' to expire to slow
music, he died playln' on claronett HIM
self, mterspersed with heart-rendin groans,
& such IS the verdi Alars alars how
onthankful we air to that Providence
which kindly allows us to live and borrow
money, and fail and do bizness
But to return to our subeck. With
our resunt CRATE triumps on the Mssissip-
pi, the Father of Waters (and them is
waters no Father need feel 'shamed Of
twig the wittikism y, and the cheerin'
look of things in other places, reckon
we shant want any Muslum of Harris.
And what upon airth do the people of
Concord, n. H. want Muslum of Harris
for ? Hain't you got the State House
now? & what more do you want?
But all this is furrin to the purpuss of
this note, arter all. My obieck in now
addressin' you is to give you sum advice,
friend Wales, about managin your wife,
a bizness Tve had over thirty years expe-
rience in.
You had good weddin. The papers
have good deal to say about wilkins in
connection tharewith. Not knowings
what that air and so frankly tells you,
my noble lord dock of the throne, | can't
zackly say whether we had 'em or not.
We was both very much fustrated.-
But never lnjoyed myself better in my
life.
Dowtless, your supper was ahead of
ou'rn. As regards eatin' uses Baldinsville
was alters shaky. But YOU can git a good
meal in New York, & cheap too. You
can git half a mackril at Delmonico's or
Mr.. Mason Dory's for six dollars, and
billed pertaters throw'd in.
As sed | manige my wife without any
particular trouble. When | fust com
menst trainin' her | institooted series of
experiments, and them as didn't work |
You'd better do, similer.