Des Arc citizen., 1866-02-20

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 I ~ 2 ei'n, lucky, Bill, that dident go to AAnpderso9nyille, .pbev wonld have had ma alongside of Wirz, s.hor n.;nain.1 ,,';, s ness ness or stunt sumthins and Sue lyin Yank would hay had swear or two ssme abopt sbootin, him rl on the dead line. Befostbis my cartoss would hay hay been eat up by the Norms or ont up by DLoktors, and my pikter spa all over whole side of Harpers Weekly as as onster of deth
 "Well, 1kep handlin guns and bayonetsA j dangerous weepins, ontill one day I got a ,fufJ To to go to Rome. Sherman was playin base around Atlanta, and so had to circumference around by the way of Selma, and the very day. l got there, overlastin blast em, the Wilson raiders got there too. l wasent no more lookin for them Yankees in Selma than wers for old Beelzebub, and both of em was all the same to me. Bland if they wasent shootin at me before l knowd they was in the State. How in the dickens they missed me don't know, for their minny balls sung yankee doodle all around me and oyer me and under me and betwixt me.
 s'I tell you, Bill, I run like mud turkel lookin ahead of me at every step to find an easy place to fall in when I was pluggd An old woman overlook me- and axd her to take my watch and my money. She took em in a i hurry and put em in her boozum. Yell Hound gully at last, and rolld in kersplosh, for it The infernals found me there jest at night, and got me out at the pint of the baynet. They marched me to the wolf pen and there stayd till the fuss was over.
 s'Right here, Bill want to make an obser, vation. There was a fellow with ne when was cotch'd and seed him make sorter of q sign to the captain, and they turned him loose in two minets, and he just went about any where as nateral as a king, while had crossey'd dutchman standin over me with baynet grinnin from mornin till night. There was some Free Masonry about that, Bill, and if another one of these fool wars comes along, Flljine em. if they Il let me. I4 5.f.,a
 But I'm at home now for good. I'm gwine to stay here like a sine die. Pm agin all wars and ightins. Pm opposed to all rows and rumpusses and riots. l don't keer nigh as much about 9 dog fghtas 1 used to-. Now if one could always see the eend of thing in ad- vance, and the eend ,cas al right, l wouldent mind big fuss, but then. you know q mans foresights aint good as his hindsights. If they was, this war wouldent have broke out, and wouldent have lost my steer, nor my watch. Inever seed that woman before nor since, and wouldent know her from any other certain whether she were white or black. Bill, how is your of'spring?" .....-......
 ''Iungry as usual, thank you my freud, sed l.
 allows Mrs Arp:'
 "Rebellious, John very but I think she'l be harmonized-at atteruhiie-attermhae.'
 Mr. Editur l will not relate further of these trying adventures at this time Big John are now entirely harmonius, and suppose his fu ture career will be all screen.
 Yours, as ever, |
 BILL ARP r. S.-Mrs. Arp wants you to git back the letters writ her when she were sweet sixteen. Them otfisers have got and suppose have laughd all the funny part away by this time. They contained some fool things that boys | will write when they fall in love, and wife ! used em upon me as reminders of broken promises. M
 She says, if they'll send em, she'l try and forgive em-auerUhae. .-f |. ....-. Don't trouble yourself much, Mr. Editur and it will be all the same to me. . E. A, 1 hSy" The National Democratic Executive i Committee have held meeting at Washing