Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1866-02-16

Nix. ED1roR:-"Remote, onfriended,
melancholy, SLOW" as somebody sed, l
am now seeking q log in some vast
wildiness, lonely root in some Okee>
feenokee swamp where the fowl invaders
cannot travel, nor their pontoon bridges
phloat. If Mr.. Shakespeare were correct
when he writ 'tsweet are the juices Of ad,
versity," then it are reasouabul to suppose
that me and my folks and many others
must have some sweetnin 10 spare
When man isaroused in the ded Of night
and smell the approach Of the fowl inva-
der; when he feels konstrained to change
his base and bekum runagee from hi:
home, leaving behind him all those ncces
sary things which hold body aud soul to-
gether; when he looks, perhaps the last
time upon his lovely home where hc has
been for many delightful years raisin chill
dren and chickens, strawberries and peas,
lie soap and inguus, and all sich luxuries ol
this su blnmary life; when he imagiues ev~
cry unusual sound to be tho crack of his
earthly doom; when from SIGH influences he
begins diguifed retreat, but soon is kon-
strained to leave the dignity behind, and
git away without regard to the order OF
hs going-if there is any sweet juice in
the like Of that, I haven't been able to see
1t. No, Mr.. Editur, such scenes never
happened in Bill Shakespeer's day, or he
wouldent have writ that line.
don't know that the lovely inha abiants
of your butiful sity need any fourwarnins
to make 'em avoid the breakers upon
which our vessels wrecked {; but for fear
they should some day shake their CORY
locks at me, 1 will make pablik brief al
lusion to some of the painful circumstances
which lately okkurred in the regions of the
eternal sitty.
Not many days ago, the everlastin Yam
KEGS (may they live always VIXEN tho devil
gifts em, made violent. assault upon the
sitty Of the hills-tbe eternal sitty, where
hundred years the Injuu rivers have been
blendin divers waters peacefully together
where the Choetaw children built their tlut-
ter mills, and toyed with frogs and tad
roles, while these rnajestick streams we're
but little spring branches babblin along
their sandy beds. For 3 days and nights
our vallyunt troops had beat bak tue fowl
invader, and saved our pullels from their
devourin jaws. For 3 days and nights we
bade farewell to every feer, luxurating upon
the triumph Of our arms, and the sweet
juices of our strawberries and cream. For
3 days and nights fresh troops from the
South poured into our streets with shouts
that made the welkin ring, aud the turkey
bumps rise all owe. the flesh of our peo
pie. We felt that Rome was aafe-sekure
against the assaults Of the world, tie flssl,
and the devil, which lsst individual are SUP.
pose 10 he that horde OF fowl invaders who
are seekin to pblank US out of bread aud
existence.
But alas for human hopes! Man that is
born Of woman (and there are no other sort
that know of has but few days that amt
full Of trouble. Altho the troops did
shout, altho their brass bound musk we'll.
ed upon the gale, altho the turkey bumps
rose as the welkin rung, altho the COM
manding General assured US that Rome was
to be held at every hazard, and that on to-
morrow the big battul was to be fought
and thst fowl invaders hurled all bleedr
and bowling on the shores of tho Ohio, ye
it did transpire somehow that on Tuesday
night the military evakuation of our sitty
were peremptoriIy ordered. No note O
warnin-no whisper Of alarm-no hint O.
the morrow came from the mussled l;ps o.
him who had lifted our hopes so high
Calmly and cody we smoked our k;Ily kin
ick, and surveyed the embarkation Of troops
konstruin. it to be some grand hanover o.
military strategy. About ten o'clock VIC
retired to rest to dream of tomorrow's yik
tory. Sleep soon overpowered US like the
fog that kiyered the earth, but nary bri gk
dream had KUN, nary vision of freedom
and glory. On tho kontra1y, our rest wer,
nnessy-strawberries and cream seemed t
be holdin secession meetins within opr cor
porats limits, when suddenly in the twink
lin Of: an eye friend aroused us from ou
slumbsr and put q new faze upon the "sit
uation." Gen. Johnston was rstreatin, ri
the blue.nosed Yankees were to pollut
our sakred soil the next mornin. The
came the jug of war. With hot fsveris1
hasts We started out in search Of transpor
could be had Time honored friendship
past taaoss shown, leyerlastin gra!titood
numerous small and luvely children, kun.
ieasrsse k1trsspss, new 5isshoes, bank bills
black9hothes.sa and all ipfiuences were urpe