The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-02-03
Bill Arp, the Roman Runngec,

=" 0"'J'"''"eS nv" uelulcC, out 1T Is
a necessary prelude to an original one
now in our hands from "Bill Arp" we
give it. the 'better to enable our readers
to appreciate and understand the com
mnncation which willappear in our next
issue. The subjoimed letter refers to n
character well known in Georgia as "Big
john" who is, to use familiar but cx.
pressivc phrase, IA regular trump
The original letter which, rs we stated.
shall appear in the next number of the
Recorf, will refer more at length to this
celebrated indiTidual, and also relate
how Bill Arpg returned to Rome. his
experience and that Of, the Arp family
on the way, ahd what he saw and did
when he arrivediu "thc Eternal Civ. "
N. Y. Net Record.
ATtANTA, May 22, 1864.
Mr.. EDITOR sA-"Remote, onfrended,
melancholy, SLOW" as somebody sed l
am now seeking log in some vast
wilderness, a lonely roost in some Okee.
feenokee swamp. where the FOWL inva.
ders cannot travel nor their pontoon.
bridges phloat. If Mr.. Shakespeare
were correct when he writ "sweet are
the juices OF adversely" then it are rea
sonatul to suppose that me and my foaks
and many othersimust have some sweet.
min to spare. When man is aroused
IN the ded OF night, and smells the ap
proach of the fowl invader; when he
feels konstralnedIto change his base and
bekum runages from his home, .leav.
lug behind nm " those nessary things
which hold body and soul together;
when he looks, Eperhaps the last time
upon hIsS lovelyShome where he has
been for many delightful years raisin
children and chibkens, Strawberries and
peas, lie soap and inguns, and all sich
iuxurles OF this snblnnary life; when he
imaglnes every Unusual sound to be the
crack of his earthly doom; when from
sch influences he begins dignlRed re.
treat, but soon Akonstrained to leave
tho dignity peEipd, and git away With.
out regard to tie order Of his going-if
there is any sweet juice in tie like of
that, l haven't been able to see it. No,
MIR. Editur, sich scenes never happened
in Bill Shalesper's day, or he wouldent
haze writ that Ire.
don't know nat the lovely inhabi.
tants of your butful sity need any four.
warnns to make EN- avoid the breakers
upon which our vessel wrecked but for
fear they should some day shake their
CORY locks at me 1 will make publik a
brief allusion to Sme Of the painful sir.
kumstances with 9lately okkurred in
the regions of lh{eternal atty,
Not many das ago, the evcrlastin |
Yankees (may icy live always when
the devils gifts ep), made violent as.
sault upon the sitty ofthe hills--the
eternal sitty. whte a hundred years the
Injun rivers hav been blendih divers
waters PEACEFUL itogether--where the
Chocktaw childin built their tlutter
mills, and toyed {th frogs and tadpoles,
while these majeIick streams were but
little spring bra fhes, babblin along
their sandy beds. For days and nights
our vallyunt tro9s had beat bak the
fowl invader, and aved our pullets from
Iilef ucVouril JYs. ror Gays ana |
nights we bade rewcll to every fear
luxurating uponthe triumph of our
arms, and the SWIFT jnices Of our straw
berries and crea. For 3 days and
nights fresh troopfrom the South pour.
ed into our strts with shouts that
made the welkinf fing, and the turkey
bumps rise all Owe the flesh ofour peo.
pie. We fels.th Rome was safe-se.
kure against thdassaults of the world
the flesh and the Fvil, which last indi-
vidual are suppod to be that.horde of
fowl invaders, will are seekin to phlank
us out of bread al existence.
But alas for nDan hopes Man {
that is born of wdan (and there are no ;
other sort that 4now of has but few
days that amt # of trouble. Altho
tie troops did $ut, altho their brass {
bound musk we'll upon the gale, altho 4
the turkey bum rose as the welkin {
'rung, altho the col handing General as, s