Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-12-23
Ally Gators Letter.



Tho approach Of the Christmas hoIi
DAYS has dispersed the Legislature o.
Tennessee, and they are now beneath the
protectine r6ofs OF their several cabins,
engaged in the pleasing task OF fighting
over The battles Of loyalty, and training
by precept end example the scions .ol
their houses to grasp and retain the
spoils OF loyalty.
The return Of the Christmas holidays
finds me in good spirits and well pleased
with the encouragement to loyal men,
which the events Of the year just passed
afford.
Senator Seuter is relieved from the
disabilities incurred by having been a
member Of the rebel legislature.
The bill by which II wes doae differed
/. in come respects from the one which
drew up for him, but as the end was &c.
complished, / cannot complain that my
IDEAS were not followed to the letter.
This arrangement is entirely satisfac'
tory TO Gen. Cooper, and do not sup.
pose the Ku-Klux can complain.
The adjournment Of the Legislature
was attended with little excitement, ex-
cept that caused by race for the depot
on velocipedes, between DR.. Pearne and
DR.. Mynstt.
These eminent apostles Of loyalty did
no, make out very well at this.
You see the velocipede runs on two
wheels only, and nothing less than seven
wheels apiece would do for them.
/ did not commence this letter, how
ever, with the intention of discoursins
upon loyalty, although / have imper-
captibly drifted into that subject.
What / wish to do, is TO call your at
tention to some startling developments
in the badly reconstructed State of Geor-
gia, and the worst reconstructed portion
of its territory. the State of Dade.
These astonishing revelations were
made TO me in a letter from Col. Bob
Taium, prominent citizen of the State
of Dade.
He wrote to me while at Nashville,
saying:
10 the State Of Dade. II is the cross
roads Of all creation, the richest country
on the face of earihl We've got the
brown bematite on the tops of mountains
Eyes, / should say so, and the white
make you tight in the valley below)-the
fossiliferous dye-stone iron ore at the
foot of the mountains, and the coal
chucked in between-magnifcent blue
limestone, and springs, fountains, farms,
cattle and such, till you cant rest. And
this isn't all. Guanol Talk about Peru
Peru isn't anywhere Our caves are full
of it'll Fertilize your hills and make
IL Il "
dollars ton; and one cave was sold the
other day to Northern capitalists foy
$500 in greenbacks |"
Now, what sort Of story do you sup
pose this nnregenerate and unrecon-
Btructod goober grabbsr went on to tell
me about these gusno caves
He proceeded to state that countless
millions of bats had lived and moved and
had their being in these caves for un-
numbered ages, and, departing, had left
behind them, not exactly footprints on
the sands Of time, but droppiugs on the
rocks, which these Northern capitalists
had discovered to be equal to the best
Peruvian guano, and we're going round
buying up the caves at four hundred dol
lars piece.
This seemed so incredible that / had
some doubts IS to the veracily of Col. T.,
and telegraphed to SUIT Lovengood for
confirmation of the report.
knew SUIT was q disloyal cuss, but
thought from his pedigree that if any
such dealings in caves was going on, the
man who made his daddy play boss,
would beinto them, and would tell tbs
truth about the whole matter.
Sut replied:
"Itis fac, Ally. The egsitement in
Dade is inteas. Seventeen frate trains
day on the Wills Valley rale rode, all
loded with bat guaner"
/ regard this as one Of the most aston
ishing developments of the age.
1t beats Nose Nelson's mineral lands
entirely.
What won't those Northern capitalists
be into next?
Suppose, as the rebels loudly proclaim.
there should hq great cave of eur great
loyal Radical party, would Northern cap
italists go to exploring that cave for bat
guanof
And if they should do so, and by acct
dent should pick up among the debris a
Supreme Court Judge, or a member Of
the Legislature, in ignorance of their
true character and chemical composition,
would the capitalists be apt to make a
good thing out of the job2
/ merely ask for information, for the
whole thing looks very improbable.
Yours inquiringly, but doubfnlly,
AIry GATnr