Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-12-03

We have sometimes wondered whether the |
extortidher ever prayed. We should like 70
hear his prayer, or rather read the secrets Of
| his heafL while os,ensibly engaged in the
I holy e4ercises. His words, interpolated with
his thoughts, would be something like what
/ follows:
4'Odr Father, who art in heaven--I wonder
what Fill be the price Of wheat this season.
! My cfop is fine very fine l think might get
ut etst four dollars for it. | should like 10
get ten -Hallowed be Thy name-if the sea
son continues shall make tremendous
crop of corn, and, as my cribs are now sutli-
ciert to last me two years il win bea clear
| proft-Thy Kingdom come--Chickens are o
great institution. Before the war | used TO
sell them for ten cents, now get two dollars
] can scarcely find it in my heart TO pray for
peAce-Tby will be done on earth--I believe
| wont scn my corn to the Soldiers Relief
Society They don't give enough--as it is
done in Heaven. That old steer brought me
two hundred dollars Give US this day our
daily bread--my poor neighbor, who has q
poor husband in the army, and six little chill
dren at home, must find it hard to get along
1he Lord bless her and hers. Forgive us our
trespasses as we forgive those that trespass
against us-my old friend Smith was rather
hard on me when he said / gouged the poor.
but forgive him--and lead us not into tempta-
toni am afraid our pastors prosperity will
prove q snare to him. Why, Brother Jones
sent a COW and calf--but deliver us from evil
wish our pastor would quit preaching on
extortion If he don't, ] will stop subscrip-
ton, sure. He is really an evil. He won't
let body be at peace-for Thine is the king
dom, the power, and the glory, forever and
ever, | believe | will send some milch cows
to Atlanta. ! hear they are bringing tremend-
ous prices. The merchants there do charge
, awiully for their goods Lord have mercy on
J us, and save us from such extorioners-
Amen p.
HOW THE YANKEES ARE TO RE BANKRUPTED.
A correspondent of the Yorkville Enquirer
calculates that the siege of Charleston will
prove an Improbable business to the Yankee
nation. He demonstrated how the Yankees
are running themselves, and not hurting US
, much with the following statement OF figures :
II have been ciphering little in regard to
operations in Charleston harbOr, and have
come to the conclusion that if we have the
right kind Of bomb-proois in Sumter that this
is the very place where we shall break Abel
, backbone. q mean his credit) Here are
my figures: One thousand shots per day
! three hundred pounds Of iron to the shot,
and thirty of POWDER iron at ten cents per
!. pound, powder at thirty cents-making for
one shot a cost of Sl5 The siege has been
= progressing one hundred and twenty days at
7, u cost of $5,425,000 In this calculation
= have said nothing of the enormous expense
: required to keep mp aud pay off the innumer-
, able war vessels, transports &c. Neither have
= taken into account the guns that arc bursted
= occasionally, or rendered useless by the excess
q of firing. Let us all keep "a stiff upper lip
stand by our own Government and its credit,
and ere long we shall see the vaue of gold
Il, and 'greenbacks' shoot off in au opposite drec-
= ton, and separate wider and wider until the
: last convulsive throb of the Lincoln Govern
i ment shall proclaim the independence of the
. Confederate States, and the return Of our war
. worn veterans to their happy homes Down
h with all who deprecato our money in order to
!. obtain starvation prices
e MUST BE FREE.
IS Governor Brown, of Georgia, was naugu-
!, rated Governor of the State for the fourth
IS term on the 4th inst. He closes his inaugu-
k lral address as follows:
ltl Remembering the sacrifice we, as people,
) have made, the sufferings which we have
IS endured, the noble Southern blood which our
" enemies have split, the deadly hate which they
., feel toward u.s. the cruel wrongs which our
Is females have encountered, and the degrade
er tion, bondage, and chains which await MS and
IS our posterity If we are subiugated, let us
L huhbly and fervently invoke the aid of AL.
e mighty Power, and, laying aside all past
s. differences and personal considerations, let us
% gather around our country's altar, and while
81 we ardently desire peace upon honorable
p terms, let us here again renew the solemn
L pledge to each other that, come life or death,
e Dome veal or woe we will never sheathe the
e. sword till constitutional liberty is established,
< Georgia is free, and these Confederate States
r ARE recognized by all the world an independ-
ent power"
e DIR. Peters, who killed General Van Dorn,
'e was captured a few days since on his panta-
r, ton, upon the mississippi River, where he
d was engaged in selling wood to the Yankees.
d He prolessed TO his captors that he was desir-
\ GUS of getting back into the Confederacy, THAT
y he might have his trial; but it would seem az
I 4 he could have found his way back long ago
\ had he desired it.
)f Georgia elects Senator this winter. AL
J ready there are a dozen candidates Among
e those most prominent are Messrs. Toombs.
h (U. S. Senator at the time Georgia seeded }
o Herschel V. johnson, T. Butler King, Joseph
y Henry Luml0n Martin j. Crawford, Howell
lt Cobb, and i. j. Gartrell The Legislature is
IS in session now, aud the election comes of
al shortly Many of the aspirants are now in
e. attendance there, hobnobbing with the mem
If bers.
Bs5"The Republican press Of the country i,
ringing with Indignation at the accidental
10 election Of o man like McCunR to u minol
" indgeship in New York city, yet here is Pres
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