The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-02-10

out II not run any more"
Recolcktn some. skraps Of blank
verse myself, | said with much akscnt,
"Tcll me thou swift OF foot-thou mod
cm OF Asahcl-G,h tell me where is thy
chariot and stccr2 Where didst thou
go when j did see thee driving like Jehu
us we did flee for litc.'
1'll tell you all" scd he, 81 want nv
trends s>know IT, I'm now a.man of
war, Bill, and I'm glad OF it. I've done
the stale some Setvis and she knows it.
I've handled gnps-ycs, guts--weepins
OF drth i've slept on my arms since
seed'you--night after night hay slept
on my arms, With. hundrc,lS of deadly
wecpins all around me. All Bill, Patri.
otism is'a big thing. When va once
break the ice. great sluiccs of glory as
big as yonr arntwill jest spring up like
mushrooms in ybui b',2zum and make
you feel like throwin yourself clean
away for your country. Let me set
down and I'll tell yon all | know, Bill,
but rs the f;llSr said in the theater
"whci you in gour1ctters these ,mlucky
deeds relate, speak Of me- as | am
nothing cxlotiSte nor set doNu hot in
malice"
jest So, seal, "cxaacily--cxaclly
SO. PropoSedhny hero"
"Wclllxou See nigh, after You passed
me, my steer got away. Hang the dc.
seevn beast i hunted smarlly for him
the next moriim, aud | hunted more for.
rerds. thanbackwardS. Lravin my wag-
in with wider Woman, L took it aGoot
across The cauptry by II settlement road
they cnliedtlie ncut Off Devil of cut
of was it tome I l broke down in sight
OF little log cabin, and never moved a
foot ttwther!thaS day. The old man had
a nag that work in slide; perswa.
dcd HIM TO haul me to the ccuj OF til"
cut ,tdE -aad i2aisnnw, iIe. doue it for fear
Id cat mp his smokc.house. Every
now and then lied look aL the old oman.
and shed look at the smoke house and
then at me. Bnt that sidin bisncss
were the most orfnlltst ravclm that |
ever hav had. Every time the pony'd
look back he'd stop, and when he'd start
agn he Civ such jerk that my contents
were in danger. My holt broke on one
okkashun,a going down hill full of gul.
hes. rolled some twenty feet into
the edge Of the, woods, and co,ch up
agin an old pine stump that was full of
yaller jnckcts. Three Of the dngd
things slnng me before coalh rise. but
| got through the cut off and fell in with
empty waglns that was stamped in my
way.
'"Gittim on to Alanty, fool Irishman
stopd me right at the edge of the town
and, demanded my papers. didn't hav
no papers. Nobody had ever axed me
for pape,s, but hc wouldn't hear an ar.
gument. AS Quarlcs would say. lie
woudcnt jine issdUe, but marched me to
an oils, and didcnL stay there ten min
cts. | wcr sent off to Decatur with
some filly conscripts who wcrc all III
mournin, eXceptin their clothes. | Inev.
err seed such n plttul set in my life
talked with en- all, and thar was nary
one but what had the dYsprrsey or the
swinny or the rumatis or the blind stag.
gers or'the hcaves or the mumps orsum.
thin. We'll, there want none Of us dis.
charged for there was bran new orders
CALM for everybody tor thirty days to
go to the bitches. As | couldn't walk
That lar, | was ordered to Andersonville
toguard prisoners, At Makon | met an
old ackwairtauce, who wis powerful
big officer, and he had me transferred TO
his department and put me in charge of
his ordnance. There's where handled
guns, Bib, and slept on my arms
Whole boxes Of huskcts was round me-
and | dident no more mind taken a
snooze on a gunbox than if it had been
couch Of feafhery down. It's all in
Citing used to it, Bil,--all'm the use. !"
"Jest so, Sod /, "thats the wayI see
it--exaktly So. my friend. Prosccd'
cts bland lucky, Bill, that | dident
go to Andcrsonville. They would have
had me alongside of Wirz, either ms
principal or witness or sumthin, aud
so1nr lyin Yank 1youl1 bay had n s,yaor ,