Owyhee bullion. [volume] (Silver City, I.T. [Idaho]) 1866-1867, 1867-10-24
NO. so.
ANECDOTES &C. OF GENERAL LEE



Ia all his official intercourse and pri-
vate conversatiouGen. Lee never breath
ed IA yindictive sentiment towards tho
enemy who so severely taxed his resourc-
es and ingenuity, and putaas sainst, him az
many advantages in superior means and
numbers. He had none of the Yankee
phoJia common in the Southern army;
he spoke Of the Northern people without
malevolence, and in style that depreca-
ted their political delusions rather than
denounce their crimes; and he generally
referred to the enemy in quiet and in-
different words, quite in contrast to the q
cpithcts and auathemas which were pop
ularly showered on "the Yankees" On
one occasion spectator describes his rid.
ing ppto the Roekbridge Artillery, ,whicha'
was .fercely engaging the enemy, and !.
greeting his son Robert. who as a private
soldier was bravely working one of the
guns. "lIow dye do, father ~ was all
that Robert had to say as he continued
his duty at his gun; and Gen. Lee replied
quietly; "That's right, my son; drive
those people back" At another time, in
sight of the enemy on the Rapidan, Gen.
Lee was standing near his lines convers.
ing with two of his officers, one of whom
was known to be hard fighter and
hard swearer, but cordial hater of the
Yankees. After silence of some mo-
ments, the latter officer, looking at the
Yankees with dark scowl on his face,
exclaimed most emphatically II wish they
were all dead" General Lee, with the
grace and manner peculiar to himself, re-
Piled, "Ilow can you say so, General.
Now, | wish they were all at home, att
tending to their own business, and lcav.
ing US to do the same" He then moved
off, when the first speaker, waiting until
he was out of carshot, turned to his com.
panion, and in the most earnest tone said,
81 would not say so before General Lee,
but | wish they were all dead and in
he'll" When this amendment to the
wish was afterwards repeated to General
Lee, in spite of his goodness and custom
airy reproof of profanity, he could not re-
frain from laughing heatily atthe speech
which was SO characteristic of one of his
fayorite officers.
His scanty meals were the occasion of
some thoughtless jokes and many comic
anecdotes. In his tent meat was eaten
but twice week His ordinary dinner
consisted Of head of cabbage, boiled in
salt water, anu pone of corn bread The
story is jocosely told that on one occasion
a number of gentlemen having appointed
to dine with him, he had ordered his SER
want to provide repast of cabbage and
middling. A very small bit of middling
garnished the dish-so small that the po.
lite guests all declined middling, and it
remained on the dish when they rose
from tie table. Next day the General
Remembering the untouched meat) or
dered his servant to bring "that mid
ding" The man hesitated, scratched
his head, and finally said: : 'De fact is,
mass'r Robert, dat ar middlin' was borrid
middlin', and done give it back to de
man whar | got it from"
PoLITIcs IN NEvADA.-The Hum
boldt Register says:
This State is as certain to electa Dem.
ocratic Legislature next year as any
event in the future can be, The revolu-
tion in the public mind was making
rapid headway before the election in Cal.
!fornia, which will tend to hasten its pro,
gress and assure splendid majority in
the Presidential election next year. The
rext U. s. Senator will be a Democrat.
Let the howliug, disappearing negro and
Chinese worshippers stand from under as
the people have tried them and found
them wanting.