The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1868-04-11

they seem to be habitations of innumerabIs
chills and fevers, and goes on to laud the
White river and st. Francis to the skies
I had not seen these rivers, and of course
no one that had any discernment could
think that had reference to them. l admit
that the White river, which l have since
seen, is a beautiful stream, and also the
Ouaehita, but from what | have heard OF
Bayou Bartholomew, which rises near Pine
Bluff, from persons who cultivated its banks,
a white person can not live there and escape
the chilIs aad feTers.
F. NJ. goes on to say, al e. NJ Ishile
going it fancy free, forgets that he has said
few lines above that he was plodding his
weary way o ora a muddy and rooty road, and
looms nssscAly tAus1oise As we ratified
along the grarezIy road the rosy hand of
summer threw Us gifts of loveliest bloom
and sweetest fragrance, There, now, J. E.
II you have gone and done it 4 muddy
road and a gravelly road all in the same
breath" Look again, you shallow scioIist,
and you VIII see that at night we were pIod-
ding our way along muddy road, and the
neat days about noon. in a higher and drier
section, on Tulip Ridge, we ratified along
the grayellg road etc,
he tells you not Of the lovely farms
dotting our country here and there, becom-
ing SO numerous and near together that the
footing Of one unpoeticaI COWS horn might
suffice to call the hands on a haal' dozen
different farms to dinner" What small
potatoes these farms must bel One horn
blow up hands from sic different farms /!
Yousare not accustomed to large farms, are
you? Why, 1 have seen one farm over there
the hands of which the whistle of steam
engine, when the atmosphere was dry,-would
be scarcely loud enough to summon to
dinner
AlIuding to our being refused place to
stay all night, he caps the climax Of absur-
dity by intimating that We were I" boys in
blue" If }. E. NJ and his compagnon8
dut poyage were dressed in blue, that accounts
for the milk in the cocoanut, as we have
been robbed and insulted by wearers of that
color until giving them shelter would be
feeding and caressing the dog that bit us. ?
Not satisfied with defaming he, he sur
reptitiously vilifcs my travelling companions,
one of whom is a Methodist minister of high
standing n the Little Rock Conference, and
resides at Tulip "F. M" afterwards says
that he has beer. to Tulip if so, he was not
admitted into society there or he would have
known this gentleman, who is loYed and re-
spected all over Tulip and the surrounding
country.
And "F. NJ. suspects me to be boy
in blue Ask the days of suffering, when
thinly clad, and often with but a few lone
crackers in my haversack, we traversed The
hills Of Virginia, through. storm and sun
shine, winters cold and summers heat to
help defend all SotttAeIa homes from the
Favnges of an invading foe Ask them if it
be true. Ask the bloody fields Of Richmond,
where, when the smoke of battle had cleared
away, we were left helpless cripple; ask
them if it be true Where were goa g f.
NJ ?" Were you running your chickens to
some secluded place to. secure them for a
nice fry the next morning2 We're you
driving the 'old gander" into the woods +?
or were you protectingly trying to surround
the last of the gobbler racer Perhaps you
were sneaking around looking for some
F" bomb proof There is nc telling. Those
who are SO. ready to suspect wrong in others
are apt to be guilty of some mean trick
themselves.
Speaking of the Confederate dead he asks,
A Lof 10, 4 &c
you think SO, be wary J. E. NJ, as the ghosts
Of the murdered dead viii rise up and hiss
you from their place Of earthly abode. l
have no Tears, "F-M.," that the ghosts of
the dead viii hiss me anywhere. They are
too well acquainted with me. 1 have too
many friends and relatives IN that conse-
Grated host to fear such a thing, and, doubt
less, they now bend, sympathisingly, above
my rugged pathway, and mourn to think
that their comrade has become the butt Of
the calumnies of such wretch as you are
" Not until we want an editor in our yil-
Iage will we tell you Of raspberries and
strawberries which grow SO luxuriautly
here. When that time comes you viii have
to send to j. E. ~ one saucer of our straw
berries. and cream 70 procure his services as
travelling correspondent, etc"
In regard to this 1 have only to say, that
only oae saucer of strawberries and cream
would be as much as he could afard to ray
for a correspondent tor any paper he might
edit.
Mr. Editor, indulge me a moment longer.
am nearly done with the individual that
screening himself from the public eye by
the initials s. T. NJ like a cowardly dog in
his kennel, feeling secure and inaccessible
can, without proyocation, well afford tc
growl, snarI and bark at those who walk
abroad in the light Of day.
In conclusion there are many things II
Arkansas concerning which ] did not inform
your readers / did not tell them Of the
countless wild flowers that spring up like Sc
many angels of love and mercy, waftiag
/ hope and consolation to the time-burdenec