The Shasta courier., 1865-08-26

A RELIC OF THE WAR.-We have in our
possession a copy of the daily Citizen"
newspaper published in Vicksburg, Missis-
sippi, on the Fourth of July, lS63-the day
upon which that rebel stronghold surren-
dered to the conquering. 1t is valuable as
a curiosity as it shows the straits to which
the enemy were reduced and at the same
time the empty boasting by which they so
long deceived the world as to their real
strength. The forms were already made up
when Grants army and the Union printers,
taking possession of the deserted office,
struck off the paper with the addition only of
a short note explaining the change in affairs
1t is printed upon course wall paper and is
about eighteen inches long and six inches
wide, the name of j. NJ Swords appearing as
editor and proprietor. The first item chron-
ieles the instant killing of Mrs. Cisco on
= Monday. Jackson road" The second ex-
presses volumes as to the wants Of the be-
segded for food, and the efficiency of Grants
blockade. It reads as follows: 'sWe are
indebted to Major Gillepsie for steak of
Confederate beef alias meat. We have tried
it and can assure our friends that if it is ren.
dered necessary, they need have no scruples
at eating the meat 1t is sweet, savory and
tender, and so long as we have a mule left
we are satisfied our soldiers will be content to
subsist on it,
The hopeful and brilliant prospects of the
bogus Confederaey are thus glowingly de-
picted in an editorial upon General Robert
E. Lee, who about that time was making a
raid into Maryland:
Like the Scottish Chieftain's braves,
Lees men are springing up from moor and
brake, crag and dale, with fash of steel
and sturdy urn, ready to do or die in the
great cause of national independence, right
and honor. To-day the mongrel Admins
tration ofLincoln, like Japhet, are in search
of father-for their old Abe has departed
for parts unknown. Terror reigns in their
halls. Lee is to the left of them, the right
of them, in front of them. and all around
them, and daily do we expect to hear of his
being down on them. To-day MARYLAND is
ours, tomorrow Pennsylvania will be, and
the next day Ohio. now midway, like Ma.
hommed's coffin, will fall.n
General Grant is alluded to in the follow
ing style?
On DIT.-That the great Ulysses, the
fankee OeneralIssimo, surnamed Grant. has
expressed his intention of dining in yicks
burg, on Saturday next, and celebrating the
4th of July by grand dinner. and so forth.
When asked if he would invite Gen. 10.
johnson, he said: mo! for fear there will
be row at the table" Ulysses must get
into the city before he dimes in it. The way
to cook a rabbit is g first catch the rabbit, !"
etc., appended to the bottom is the follow
ing, added by the Union typos, when the
Yankee Generalissimo's" army did march
in on the Fourth.
july 4th, 1868.
NorE.-Two days bring about great
changes. The banner of the Union floats
over Vicksburg. Gen. Grant has "caught
the rabbit be has dined in Vicksburg, and
he did bring his dinner with him The Cit
;zen lives to see it. Forthe last time it ap-
pears on "wall paper" No more will it
euIoeize the luxuries Of mule meat and
fricaseed kitten. urge Southern warriors to
such diet nevermore. This is the last wall
paper edition, and is, excepting this note;
from the types as we found them 1t will
be valuable hereafter as curiosity"