Year: 1862

as they are sconscripting in that neigh
borhood." Here is a most afFectionate
letter from a sweet little boy who has
got his mother to write for him TO pa.
begging him to quit the soldiers and come
home. Alas poor little fellow. the next
tidings you may have from your dear
Pa may be that General BRAGG has
shot him down like brute for trying to
20 and visit you. His mother writes
that the "crops are an entire failure
and salt can't be had" 81 think" saws
she, "that it would be the best hiag Aat eUer
,eas done, if you all would just come home.
If l knew the war would last / would
rather die now, for if you don't come
home we viii all have to perish. You
don't know how bad l want to see your
face" A soldier writes to his brother
that he has been trying to get a dis
charge, but finds it an impossibility for
man to get out of the service now
"you have to swear as long as you can
stand, and swear furthermore"


A wife in Baldwin county, also writes
on September 10th, that there is a good
deal of talk here about the war stopping"
But, alas, here is another written last
May, which says they tell her there
will be no more, fighting after twenty
days" Cruel deception


- - " Come home brother, if you can"
writes another, 1--WE have hard times all
over the country. They say peace will
be made in few days. No rain here
for more than eight weeks"


Peace wOnld be more welcome to this
poor man than rain even.


Don't get out of heart brcther," says
another writing TO a soldier; " / don't
believe this war will last much longer,
| think there will be peace in few
weeks" What heart ache and year
ming there is for peace among the people
But, HENRY, Senator GUsTAvUs HENRY,
drawing eight dollars per diem in Rich
mond, rises in Congress and yells "No
peace! Hoist the black flag, and
begin war of determination p Didn't
He'll ring with laughter when the in
famous sentiment was uttered Dear
husband | do want you to come home
the first chance you get. hear three
States have gone back into the Union.
If it is so you may as well give it up
and come home" That wife does not
want the war to continue. Husband
am sick, but would be well if could
see yOn, heard peace was made. / pray
God 10 mag be 50, come home and stay
with me once more and we will be SO
happy" up with the black flag" re-
spends the arristocratic Senator HENRY
Several wives writes TO their husbands
that they have been swindled out of their
money sent home to them, by the hands Of
false friends. We thought chiUaby would
scorn to cheat woman! 81 do wish you
all had never volunteered, there was
no use in it, any how" writes a most
aitectionate wife, whose letter is stained
with tear drops Mrs FULToN has beard
that there has been a great battle, and
writes to her husband to inform her inn
mediately if he is dead.


Mrs. B. don't state anything oil
much interest except that she has chad
the collie for several days" IT these
lines should happen to reach Mrs. B.
before her recovery, we beg leave to re-
mind her that little catnip tea is like
parmacetti,


"Tho sovereiguost thing on earth for u'ara pains
Let her drink tho hfe-restoring and
soothing infusion and be healed, for its
"leaves are for the healing of nations
Some Of the happiest memories Of the
days of our boyhood are connected with
catnip and paregoric. We regard catnip
as the safest, besides we don't suppose
paregoric can be had in Alabama at all.


Why here is an epistolary gem, a jew
ell inestimable among these letters, for il
is a message from Margaret Ann to her
sweetheart. She is afFectionate, but
spunky, and to the impertinent inquiry
Of her soldier lover why she writes to
"another man" she replies she will write
10 him cor any other man" who twill
write to her in friendship. She says
that in her neighborhood the men and
women have reversed their occupations, and
while you all in camp are down to your
washing and mending, am at home a
ploughing an old contrary old mule and
you may guess rleiler I curse oay Of not;
80 that / am about to fall from grace;