Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-03-07

| The following letter was presented to our
own correspondent by an intelligent contra.
band who said ne found it on the field Of bat.
D4RTEYsDALE, MASS, Feb. 10, 1866
My dear Nearmire. Yoor last letter has
jes come teu hand and the earrings teu
Ke2ieg says she's much obeegedf teu you !,
she looks fust rate in, ON guess that SOU tn
ern gal felt kinder shaler when You took EN-
eout o her cara Serve her right, the creuel
trolip for liyin' on the sweat o the poor color.
cd mems breows Last week, Captain Big
low sent his datter Jemimy a splendid pyah-
ner he captered from gothic vandel woman
deown there She had the impudenee ten
call him brute aud a thevin' yankee but
he got some o hismbn teu set FIRE teu her
dress and she soon sung another teune Your
brother job has failed again in business and
made atween thirty and forty thousan' dol
lars and meow he's got the haiidsmesl pew in
church. The Dillabys and Melcals and Dew-
Titles, and good many more o our nabors
has gone deown ten Savanner TO get b holt o
conliscated property Your father thinks
they've went deown Nleetle mite teu
soon for he says ontil them southern eOnIed-
ert cussea is eout aud eout extermihated he
calkelates they'll be likely 10 proowl aroound
o nights aud murder and eat fra tew the
loyal eastern folks in cold Ulud, aud / teu, for
by oil akeunts they're Jest IS savage as wild
injins and wunt stay con6seated no matter
what eonr great and noble president says
kezire says she wonders yeou hain't sent her
any gilk dresses yet, she says mebbe yeou got
some sweethart deown there TO give EN- ten
but gness that's ouy her fan, for she knows
you wouldn't think o takin' shire teu any
such gothic vandes. All the folks in this sec.
ton goes for a nigerous persecution OF The
war, but purity much all on em has sloped fer
Canady to git clear o the draft. We've got q
new minister here. He's only preached the
tew last sabbelhs; he goes in strong for war
and determination. He says that If he had
his way he d soak the hull confedercy in kero.
/ seen lie, and set fire teu 'em, men, wimm
aud children, all but the coored folks Wei
| like him better than any minister we ever had
| in Darkeysdale he's so geood Debby Pea
body hse gin her little boy to french woman
that was stayin' here a spell last summer
She made Debby some very purity
presents for lettin her take little
Enoch, AN meow the french woman has took
him away teu france Debby says the hand
OF providence was inteu it, cause it will save
her all the expense OF his olothin' schoolin'
and pervisions. There's so many o the men
folks gone away from here, it seems as il there
want nothin' left but wimin, and they're cut
tin up wus than Satan. don't know whaf Il
become o the critters if the southern conied-
acy amt extermenated soon so that their |
husbans and brothers can cit home from
OanRdy teu see teu 'em. Gineral Butler has
been maxim speeches on teu Lowell and Bos. |
ton abeout savin' his sojers Old Stanchard, |
the p2en cOpperhead, says he guesses Baier
raA ahaV L. 1
in the other night and showed picter "a |
cafickateur he called i0; II was dog, with |
Gineral Buffers mineteur for its head he
got a collar on its neck with "Shyster wrote
on it, There was three tin kittIes tied to the |
dogs tale, with "big bethel, "dueh gap and
fort fisher wrote on the kiltles, and there
was road-post with Lowell ontsu it, and
Mr. LIucon was a standin with wip in his
hand, sayin' teu the dog 'git eout, and
there was a piohs lookin' person on teu the
picture, sayin, Hits abominable"
Your father told old Stanchard arter
he seen 1t that he ought teu be sent teu fort |
warren. Most all the officers deown south
from these parts has been sendih' home pyan-
ners an picters and marvel stratters but |
think they d good deal better send on silk |
dresses an jewelry, aud let the soiers burn |
the stattars an picters. The pyanners II deu
well enough for the young folks tsu peonnd
onteu, but the jewlry an dresses is lest the |
same an cash Your father saya ye0n must |
hurry up an git the south exterminated as
soon as you can, for then we're comm deown |
there teu coniiscate an locate, and 80 is the
most of the folks sbsout here, and yeour faith
er wants you teu let him know the very mint
they re extefminatsd 80 subugAtgd, so be
can git deowr there ahead o anybody else
kezire says don't forget some silk dresses for |
her, an yeur brother job says If you can cap !
ter a good gold watch ana diamond pin he |
don't mind allowing you a fair second hand
price for EN- 10 petroleum stock, which hs's
the president OF the CON pany. ExtsrminAte I
as many of the gothic vandals as you car, an
caPter all tho properly yeou can find and
don't forget teu read your bible seddy is the |
Wish All prayer df yeOur Ailecshtnit mother
HAMMER TFFIRs
OhlPs | forgot teu 20 tell yeu that
Deacon Pardons da,er Msbiable, Is goh
teu be married next week harvest time to a |
culered ma n that skewerod hls ljbty from bon |
dige in the suthern elimes, by settin' fire to /
bis gothic masters mansh1n aud burnini up
the family, an skswrin their jewelry an then
'scapn' inteu Massachusetts, the sylum o the
pressed colored man. Hes good an noble /
an pjonsi sithouRh be haintieu nay good lookin' /
Mehiiable brought him reOund ten eOur house
tother evenih' on visit the re0m was purity
warm an he smelt little leoud but Mebit
says s'sliond of the sent cause Hiitter Gen
alton that wrote beook Rbeou. il sayu it's
helthy, Old copperhead stanchard slept 10
q short spell arter they went cont an we
eonldn beat Il cont Of his stubbetn head that
there was q skunk ia the cellar. Mehit says
that NJ. Swankey CHATS her colered bow
nams) Romeo Swaakey s goin' to study for
a lnwver Mehira a lenrninl him hia lniiara |