Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1866-02-22

/ AO' SoHoo Chuh " ulotlhSulsH petWCen
good and OWL, cus9ednes5 enuf to delibcr-
ateIy choose the latter, and brains enuf
to do somethin stattlin in that line. Dan
Voorhees, Nv lnjeany, hez all these quail
ties developed to a degree wich exctes
my profound respect Between him and
Farnandy Wood its nip and tuck. Fer
mandy did wicked things with more mean.
Ms than Voorhees,, but for actual love
Nv don EN-. Voorhees, beets the world
II scd, I" continued he, that the war
|Hzn't Nv much yoose to me. | repeat it
: G-lt wuz damage. Afore the war, | he'd
my own way pretty much in the Southern
States. For every octoroon l Good count
on at least two planters, and under
t1ee patrlakle system NV Afrikin slavery,
(wNh by theway was one NV my most
brilliant conseptions) octoorocns mutipli-
ed with, a rapidity pleasin 10 behold
But now alas the octooroon business is
done, and my best holt is gone. hayo
some little hope however. The Dimoo~:-
is dlsplayln yigsEg5er | didn't thb
poasest. I.e tlieyr@skin only o.
enutf to elect the next I--f--.-
establish slavery, The tlot fills me with
unqtterable joy. Tbe reloosia NV the
Niger to bondage agin, wopu give inv "
clean title to cyry las. one who helped to
do it, and in gttin them back to their
normal condishun (by the way that's an
uther phrase Nv mlne) tn!fe ,,ffanlif,
slaughterin and murders to satisfy ,overal
sich Satans ez | am. I'd he lp em eff |
knowd how, but can't improve on either
their speakers or writers, and ez long eE
men will do my work gratis | don't SEQ
the yoose NV interlerin." .u#f.ura.
At this pint couple Nv small imps un-
dertook to push me into the stream, and
in the strugol [ awoke. My dream wuz
DER, but the impreshun remained. Kin
it be" mused |, pensively, that we are
dom the devils work, and are we to bo
finally rewarded in the manner | saw in
my vision +? Eff 50 hedn't / better quit
and repent" i" 81. a.ro.. ...n .vrs.r> ria
But I thought again, that however it
mite be for younger men its wood be Of
no yoose for me. I he'd voted the strait
ticket for thirty years, and the ten or
twelve years [ he'd to live wuz too short
time in which to repent successfully NV
sioh iniquity. So | sank into sleep ,agin,
this time dreemin that | had turned Fen
ian--hed elected myself He'd Centre for
the Stait Nv Kentucky, and wuz just in
yestin $75, 900 in magnificent plantas-
hun. H.. PETROLEUM Y. Massey,
Lait Paster Nv the Church uy the Moo
Dispensashun...r ... l.t..... lass
| WHAT THE REBEL GENERALS ARE
DoING.--lt is gratifying 10 perceive that
very many of The Rebel Generals are
already engaged in the useful civil voca-
ton Of life. Lee is president of college;
Joe Johnston! president Of an express com
pany; Longstreet, A. p. Stewart, Buck
ner and jeff. ..Thompsonssin the commission
business in New Orleans Reauregard
superintendent of arailroad; Ha rry Heth
in the express business under Joe john
ston. Of the Tennessee general Stewart,
as just stated, is in business in New Or
leans; Forrest is iii the grocery and
commission business in Memphis; with
Tate; Gill, Able M Co.; Frank Cheatham
is in the oil business in Tennessee );
Bushrod johnson and Sam Anderson
are real estate agents in Nashville
Bate and Nancy are practicing law i'll
Nashville John G. Brown and Gordon
practiug law Eat Pulaski; Vaughn mer
chandising and Pillow dusty engaged
plantingsin Tennessee and Arkansas. This
is reconstruction Of the right sort r..
UzzLEs-N early all of our exchanges
for some time back have been endeavor-
ing to mystfy their readers with puzzles
Of every descriptian But we heard ono
propounded the otherday which takes EN-
all down George went into Hanks, and
said he, "Hank, if there was little wooden
boy shonld strike blow with little wood
en- mallet every time he heard the clock
strike the hour, for twenty four hours,
how many times would the little wooden
bov strike with the little wooden mallet
in the course Of twenty-four hoursT-
Hank viewed the case in all its bearings
before he replied, calmly and deliberately
-HWell, [ don't believe he would strike
at all for it iSn, t likely that 1cooden boy
would heur the clockp Hank was right
but two or three others, not having the
idea Of 'goak before their eyes, were
sold into sitting down'to.." fgure' whether
he would strike one more or one less tnau
"a times
CURIOUS ASTRONOMICAL FACT .--An
exchange says: ''Those interested in the
study Of astronomy may find something