The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1864-02-18

ABOUT anyulnB ciso, OOmottme0 eeto
mits myself all day on do front stoop
und schmokes, und drinks hard cider,
und does noting else only drink; den
my wife she gifts me dc tuofel for drink
in so much, und says / vos potter 60
und.soe after Jacop, our hired man,
und not bodder my head NIT moro as
/ can understand. But / tells her
what shall vomens know bout war ?
better she goes und mindts her own
piseness. / drubles myself more bout
Abraham as bout JacOp.
Ven gifts tired nit drinkin on my
own stOop, I goes down to Hans But
terfooss tavern, und1 drinks dere, und
| tells my, obinion, und some oder one
tells his Obinion, und we makes him
out togedder. De odder day begins
dc draft. Dat boGders me agin. Some
goes in for dc draft, mostly dem as is
too olt, and won't be took demself;
some goes agin dc draft; und some
don't know vich way to goes, but ony
goes .roundt and roundt, und gets bod
dered like dam, so as l do.
But, never mind, / dinks l must find
dis ding out, und down goes to Hans
Butterfoos und hears de fellers bio.
don't make nottin nit dat; dey all
bios some oder way, und l don't dink
dey hef him rite in dcre own mindts
So l begins und asks qucstchun; und
l ses to Bill Puffenshtoek:
'Vot you dinks Won dc draft, dat il
is right?"
And ses Bill, "No, dinks it aint
right"
Veil, / don't belves him, caus he
sheated me vonce NIT plind mare he
sells ON me. So / dries agin and
shpeaks nit Firth Hoekenshplicer. 4
Fritz ! ses, 'vot you dinks Won dc
draft, efits right or not?'
And Fritz, he scs, dat he 'Dinks il
is shust so as it ought to be-.
But don't believes him neder, cause
he run'd against me last year for de
peace Of shustice, und dey make him
dc peace-dat is de shustice. Und he
ish no more good for shquirc as my
old cat. So | gifts up askin somebody
und make him out myself. l dlnks in
dis shtyle; de reason dey 60 mid dc
draft, is becosdcy want sojers. Efdey
don't get no sojers den dey cant bring
on dc war. Ell dey don't bring on de
war den dey don't lick the rebels. El
dey don't lick dc rebils, den dc rebils
licks dem. Ef de rebils licks dem den
VIC all go to ter tuyful. OATS pooty
straight. So much.
Now / must dink some more; vot is
dc next ding? 1 dink dat's all right;
but now shtops, somcding else comes
doc. Let mo sees. Oh, yes; dry.hun-
drcd dollars-dat's dc ding-dey all
bios about de dry hundred dollars.
/ dinks SO myself. Dry hundred dol.
lars don't lick dc rebils no more as dry
hundred cents. Vot's de goot nit dol
lars? Peter a good, shmaft sojer, like
my Shorge, he licks de rebils more as
six hundred dollars, yes. Now knos
more as Bill Puffenshtock and Fritz
Hockenshplicer, both togedder, We
want de sojers, not de money. OATS
where de bodder is. We putty soon
makes money enuff; but paper sojer:
is ony goot NIT wooden guns, SO when
dc draft comes und when men ses here
is dry hundred dollars, / shtays behint
und don't fight dc rebels, den if l wat
de draft takes dat man by his preech
cs und | ses 60 to de tuyvel NIT youl
dollars and come along nit me like
some oder man as has got no dollars
und don't like to 90 sojer in so bad al
not you do, den pooty soon gifts sc
much as l wants, dat's my idears.
tells my olt woman if dey drafts me
goes myself. To be sure, l don't dinl
dey will, caus l am more as fifty years
but nefer mind. l should 60 q lont
while, like my Shorge, ony dcre's two
dings don't like, and one is de march
in, und de udder is the fitin. / soon
or marches down to Hans Butterfoo
und fights dere. EfSheff Davis comes
dero on me, gives him dam, you bet
ter had believe; but Of l goes to Rich
mond, may be Shelf Davis he give m,
dam. So anyhow / shtays home. D,
oder day my Shorge he comes bacl
init q fiirlow. He is so much corpo
raj as he vas, und / shpeaks nit hin
about desc dings, und / gifts you nov
what he sees:
'Shorge,' l asks him, you've bin mi
de rebels und NIT de army und mi
0lt Abe, und desc fellers, vot you dink
Won dis draft dat all de beeples bio
aboutY
Und he ses to me: Oh, tunderr
Well, dats his opinion. Maybe h
shall know Something's to. He's pret
ty shmart since he goes for sojer.-
He shwears like q man six foots high
und calls mudder 'olt woman, und h
calls me cap und he kisses de gals
und he calls Jacop dam fool Idink
he gets some high offs before dc war |
gone. GOTLIEB KLOBBERYOSS
Grand Movements In Tennessee an
| Lsf RIississippi. .
New YoRK, February 15.-Tho fol
lowing dispatch from Chattanooga q
the 18th, is interesting: a
The cavalry expedition under Gri
erson and Smith, crossed the countr,
from Corinth moving South. 1t is un
derstood that these columns are intend
cd. to act in conjunction-the one to al
tack, and the other to cut off Polk
retreat and disperse the cavalry q