The Xenia sentinel. [volume] (Xenia [Ohio]) 1863-186?, 1864-08-16
XENIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST IS, 1864,

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/ ing TO return he was at a loss to know how
to accomplish the decent But at length
he hit upon a plan which proved entirely
successful. He hoisted a straw rops, tied
it to1he horns Of the Moon, and slipped
down II, but came to the end of the rope
a long way above the earth. 81 he reach
cd up and cut the rope of above him and
tied it below and by continuing this pro-
cess he BY great labor mad, a safe passage
to the carthl Didn't that beat yours al.
| C. E?"1
Good bye 154tli May you never start
on a march 50 soon after receiving orders,
| that the sudden jerk will knock the wind
from your bodies-may you never N trcb
! more than THOUSAND miles in three days.
Ma you never see q larger Elephant than
one one hundred days -old-may you al
ways be so successful as 10 kill ''two
wagon loads Of rebs" ami not see > man to
fire at-may Jour terrible hardships be
soon replaced by the comforts Of home,
where s'uOtkiug will hurt or deyo II ia all
your chabitations' may those who have
wives never again be wr5s'ei from them,
| and thoseiWho have ''sweet hearts ."eou.
summa'e the agreement and 60 to he wen
in ldiug tour east and those who
have Zone. soon obtain onq by virtue of
their services and 'trotin. double harness,
and in perpetual bliss through life While
poor we have got to dodge bullets two and
4 half years yet, and if the war still con
tiuuas longer still, while you will be at
home enjoying "otium Gun dignitate," and
wearing the groen laurals you Obtained by
your one hundred days distinguished SER
vices. % q. g-.3--i0tG slI z2!15
Give my love to ''my superiors" at
whom I have made such ''iusigniGcaut /
filings, in my letter. D. you mean by
that that you are superior to US, or have
I insuhed a aSsoulder strap7" If the
llatter1I most hunbly beg pardon and pray |
that yOu don't Court Marshall me. s...
= rs- on sa.- Sub lueily,
. "MILES."
q P. s. Tfear you will judge me a lady |
in camp by my postscript, but Just as I fn-
ished this sheet, the journal" came, and |
= x is in it ag in. I AN very grateful |
for his encouragement. It is well always !
to encourage the weak and f.lteriug. III
Sir Walter Scott had not urged Irving to
por.evere, we mig hit not to-day have had
the inimitable Sketch Book. Who knows /
but by + = encouraging me and by 1
indefatigable labor and iucessant study,
I may yet rise to the dign;fad position Of
Eiitor-by proxy-ofa country journal /
But I must not suffer myself to think Of it
or it will turn my heal If he was good
at discrimination as an Editor should be,
he would see that the errors he notices are
typographical Even if contained in the
manuscript there is a good excuse. We
have to write letters here as you eat
meal at R. r. station, where you have on
ly go minutes for dinuer" AMI expect to
hear the whistle call you away before you
have completed your rePast We expect
'fall in" to call US before We have com
Pleted our communication and w.i,o- in
great has AID make mistakes according
lyandas it pas es through the mill the first
time 50 it goes to press, But it is evident
: X x finds himself in tight place, anl
rather than come out aud say manfully
1 did wrong, or 'you misunderstood me"
orI "said it and I will stick by it, that we
IRE better tHin you," he seeks to "cover
lis retreat" by saying that until ''NIiles, "
earns to spell and write dramatically, he
will not do justice by "oldsoldiers." May
apractice" o'nigbts ain the Sentinel q
Mr. Editor2 I am so encouraged by the
battery of : fa,t-s5 e !
Mies-with great expectations. /