The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-01-20

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S"A'SAF Fo'oA 49,. s-'' - 'f'i""A"s N'>'h' - -
But great deal more otherwise than
Grapevine" this aiternoon.
Said beautiful woman TO niv less than a
hundred moons ago. did you nevor sit before
Gre and look II through the grate-bass at tile
bright Goals shaping themselves init pictures
Of the happy long ago?@ do not know that
gave the most rational VI auswers to this
question Perhaps was too much absorbed
ia admiration os the fair qnerist, herself, re-
clning gracefully in an antique rocking chair,
aud fixing upon the Goals, aforesaid, pair oi
glorious eyes thai far eclipred tlser ii bright
ness.
Nevertheless. the interogatory has. been
running in my head as the phrase goes ever
since AS the man said, who was condemned
to be hung-"he didn't mind tho actual hang
ing so mach-but il kept running in his
head, Ike ne,o song.
Last night sat before bachelor crate and
gaaed far into the whitehead Goals, and much
farther into the long January night The
thought Of the morrow being the 10Th Of Jan,
uary, and the anniversary Of Zollicsffers de-
feat and death, carried me back, a year to that
memorable feld'o Fishing Creek The iami-
liar faces Of many who have passed from the
earth, then, and since, rose ur apidly before
me, and as rapidly vanished TO give place
to others. shall always believe, that II Zol.
Ilicoher's army had been 10000 in force, in
stead Of $500, the foot ofihc Yankee-vandal
had never pressed the soil Of Tennessee. The
want Of men, has been the continued cause Ct
disaster throughout the entire campaign Of the
West. Il has not been altogether from lack
OF military gcniusthat the battles in the West
have generally resulted disastroHsy 10 our
arms. + ON Fishing Creek To Douclsan. to
Shlob, and lerryville aud MurIrersboro, we
have lost the moral cfIsctoi great Victories
from having 10 yield our position because Of
the exhausted condition oi III little armies
! So much for the digestion Of the military
saDaas and critics of the times
The Richmond Wig tells d 4 gentleman 81
that city, who recently visited Charleston and
met with a singular adventure On his relurn
trip. During nights travel on the rail road,
1 he rested his head upon the back Of the seat
land sought the snatcles oil reposc afforded by
a raSelers snooze. About Two o'clock. A. NJ,
whilst ~nearly mapping" he fell the touch Of
a strange hand upon his magnifcent beard
Fie thought so, at least and remained still
Again he felt it, and aPprehending some evil
design upon his person OF his purse, iAstinc,
lively, .hnt quietly, grasped the handle Of his
sSr,ie knife, Again his beard was fingered
aud gemly tugged Disengagng his hold Of
the kIlile, he threw his hand suddenly to his
left shoulder, and grasped the wrist Of the per,
son who was becoming so fsp,lliar without ac-
Iquaniance, iic Iurued around and saw, by
tho dim light in the car, thai the occupant Of
the seat behind him was CONAN. Ec re
4 leased her wrist, ami the iutrusiye hand was
EquickIy Withdrawn, She volunteered no OK.
tplanatiou; ho demanded none. Neither vouch
safed a word to the other, and so the incident
ended What could have induced tho wcIna,.
10 take such an unusual liberty with gentle
man in a rail earl Was Il from admiration OF
lhirsutc ornament, or did she wish to -discoysr
ii it would be safe 10 insert her hand into bis
money pockey She alone can answer do
not know HAT she would answer, however,
hat this I do know, that il the case had been
Ifeyereed and the geuteman's baud had been
The intruder, there would have been q "fua.
in the lam lyp right speedily --notwiihstand-
ing ihe Sakepperean maxim, that
I, iellrr' reslin, makes Us wondrous kind
hegrareviuc has no startling dispatches
thia evening. Gen. Breckenridge and lady
we're here the other day. The North Carolina
i,ushwhackers have not caught General Polk
yet as they threatened
On ~ THAT the "Ancient Oder OF Myste
n cheyaliers7 had meeting in secret, in this
) city, last evening for ihSpmpose Of arranging
lora limited monarchy IN the South, aud Of
creating tl,e editor Of this department Of the
morning Rebel as tie limited monarch
Also on da, that certain party has alIcdg.
Cd that the editor Of this department Is the
manager 'hchiud the curtain and n6 rosa
of the Tennessee CampaigA / am no way
connected with any such miasnblo failure.
Consequently deny the allegation and aha
i ss'-;hallstes The alligator, on eight
Al exchange sootudicts ths stury that
President Lincoln was sllotat, while riding.
Eapd bis coaebman wounded
p S.--"Sinoe the above was IN type, as
the editors say when they havo written a"big