Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-12-02

1e6" The following was handed US Tor
publication by S. P. Hathaway, who is
"'0halc" and is we'll acquainted With MIR.
Snicksuackr. To appreciate the nara.
tive, one should hear Mr.. II. read it
An Unluoky Dutohmer.
"Wnos' rIN HERE SINCE IsH PIN GORE I"
"Brick" Pomeroy, of the La Crosse
(Wis.,) Democrat gets off the following
Hillficker Snicksnacker, q Tcutonic
veuder Of sour.krout, wooden combs crude
cabbage, striped mitteus, cotton suspcn.
ders and such little diDgs," with true pa
triotc zeal, left his home in Laurosse al
the com mencomcpt of !he war, and enlist.
ed as slop grocery keeper, behind the
sp!lcr's tent, on the Potomac. When he
went away it was with the intention OF
making some monish, if it took all sum
ner, and nobly did he fight it out on his
line. How he done, it is best told it to US
on his return, last week
You see, Mr. Bomroy, der trum beats,
und der call cooms to 20 TO wars nit arms.
Ise be patriotic so much as General Wash.
burn, ,Sheneral Curiss, or Sheneral Bangs,
or any dem Shenerals what lives to come
home great men. So ! puys some liddle
diDgs, and gets some bapers from der War
Commiddee and goes init ter poys ter be
patriots, and sell some lddle diugs aud
make some monsh. l kiss my frDw five,
niDctecu dimes, and goes init dem. ! goes
to Shamcrsburg aud makes much monsh.
I'm day poke my window out uF mine
head 10 hear ter serenade, and dink some
dugs, when see Stonevall Shackson mi t
his droops und der big brass band coming
down der street playing like der tyful on
der brass baud,
who's pin here since lsh bin gon !"
Dat Shtonewall Shackson is ter tyfu'
nit fghtns, and puts my monsh in nine
pockits, und mine liddle babcrs in mine
bag, und | goes so quick ash never vas tc
Gettysburg. Und dar opens some more
sthore aud sell some more liddlo dinga.-
Und day hear some men un der horse
back ridding down der street like dunder
und den | pokes der winder under min,
head aud look myself up der street, unt
dar cooms dat tylul, Shencral Shtoncwal
Shackson, playin dere same uder tune a
t | heard before,
, Who's pin here since ish pin gon !"
Den l make mine monish goomes inte
mine bockets, aud makes mine bag goom
a inter mine bapcrs and puts min big sig
on der pig shore on der corner,so l lose
). more goods dan l had not got, und ding
| 20 to Wisconsin to see min frow, as
7 ha.nt seen in desc two years, so long tim
ash never wash.
4 Den goomeS home, and knocks an dc
door, und my irow she makes talk un
tells me whose dare ?
Den say, IIilld cker Snicksnacker, ,un
II, she knows dat ISL mine name, uud S!
hegself goome out of fer house on mir
g face, so good ash never wash.
Den, Mr.. Bouroy, looks NIT mine eye
!, uud sees some diugs Und so | a
y mine frow if she has been married since
10 60 off to be a patriot, und if she be
N married, why she makes SO much gro
= wheu l be gone nit de wars! Und l G.
i. mad as der tyfuI, and den links Of d
7 tamn Sheneral Shtoncwall Shackson III
his pig brass hand, und sings:
- who's pin here 81 nee ish pin gon ?"
Lo Und now, Mr.. Bomroy, somebo
makes .hrouble mil ME, for Ish bin 60
Two years, ind know some ding, und
At goes pack nit ter war ,und | sings dat ia
Sb:onewall Shackson song all ter way !
"Whos' pin here since ish pin gon :"