Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1865-04-05
A Good Thing.
From the Freeman's journal. ]

THE following letter is presented to our own
correspondent by an intelligent contraband who
said he found it on the field of battle:
| DAREEYsDALE, Mass, Feb. 10, 1865.
My dear Nearmire Your last letter has
jes come teu hand, and the earrings teu.-
Kezier- says she's much obleeged teu you,
she looks fust rate in EN-. Iguess that south
ern gal lelt kinder shaller when you took-'em
coat o her ears. Serve her right, the creuel
trolip for livin' on the sweat O. the poor col
ored mems breows. Last week, Captain Big
low sent his darter Jemimy splendid pyan-
ner he captered from a gothic vandel woman
deown there She had the impudence teu
call him a brute and thevin' yankee, but he
got some o his men teu set FIRE ten her dress,
and she sung another teune Your brother
/ Job has failed again in business and made
atween thirty aud forty thousan' dollars and
meow he's got the handsmest pew in church
/ The Dillabys and Metcalis and dewlittles, and
good many more o our nabors, has gone
deown teu Savanner to get a holt o confs-
Gated property. Your father thinks they've
went deown leetle mite teu soon; for he
SAYS ontil them southern confedert cusses is
eout and eout exterminated be calkelates
they'll be likely to preowl areound o nights
and murder and set fre=teu the,loyal eastern
folks in cold blud, and tcu, for by all AXE
unts they're jest US savage as wild injins and
wunt stay confscated, no matter what eour
great and noble president says Kesire says
she wonders yeou hain't sent her any silk
dresses yet, she says mebbe yeou got some
sweetheart deown there to give 'em teu; but
I guess that's only her fun, for she knows
Won wouldn't think O takin' shine teu any
such gothic vandels. All the folks in this
section goes for a nigerous persecution Of the
war, cut purity much all on 'em mas sloped fer
Canady to. get clear o the draft. We've got
a new minister here. He's only preached
the tew last sabbeths; he goes in strong for
war and determination. He says that if he
had his way he'd soak the hull confedercy in.
kerosGen lie, and set fire teu 'em, men, vim
min and children, all but the colored folks
We like him better than any minister we ev-
er had in Darkeysdale, he's so geood. Deb
by Peabody has gin her little boy 70 french
woman that was stayin, her spell last sum
mer. She made Debby some very purity
presents for lettin' her take little Enoch, an
meow the french woman has took him away
teu France. Dehby says. the hand OF prOvi-
dence was inteu it, cause it viii save her all
the expense of his clothin' schoolin and per
visions There's so many O the men folks
gone away from here. it seems as if there
wasn't notbin left but wimin, and they're
cuttin' up wus than Satan. I don't know
whatu become O. the critters if the southern
confederacy amt extermenated soon; so
that their husbans and brothers con git home
from Canady teu see teu 'em. GineTal But
Ter has been maxim speeches on teu Lowell
and Boston abeout savin' his sojers. Old
Stanchard, the pizen copperhead, says he
euesses Butler saved more money than So
| iers. and he come in the other night and
showed picter "a carickateur he called iD;
it was dog, with a Giueral Buffers mine
teur for its head it's got collar on its neck
with a "Shyster" wrote on it. There was
three tin kittles tied to the dogs tale, with
"duch gap" and "fort fisher" wrote on the
kittles and there was q road-post with
/ 'Lowell" onteu it, and Mr.. Lineon was a
standin' with a wip in his hand, a sayin' teu
the dog "git eout," and there was a pious
lookin' person on teu the picture sayin',
oit's abomineble." Your father told old
Stanchard arter he seen it that he thought
teu be sent teu fort warren. Most all the Of
-feers deown south from these parts has been
sendin' home pyanners an picters and mar