Year: 1861

Mr.. LINKHoRN.-SIR: These are to inform Won we
are all well, and hope these few lines will find you in
sfot~ quo We got your prokamashun, and as you
have put US on nifty short notis, few of us boys has
concluded to write you, and for little more Time
The fact 49, we are most obeeged to have few more
days, for the way things hapnin its utterly onposs
BILE tor US to dsperse in 20 days. Old Virginia and
Tennessee and North Carolina, are continually aggra-
vatn US into tumuts and karousements, and body
cant dlsperse until you put stop to sich Onruy con-
duct on their part tried my darndeSt yesterday to
disperse and retire but it was no go and besides your
Marshal here amt doing dam thing-he don't read
the riot act demonstrate, nor nothn and ought to
be turned out fy0u conclude to do So lam authorized
to recommend to you Capt. Cooper or Mr.. McClung,
or perhaps myself would attend to the bisiness as well
as most any body. The fact is the boys around here
want watching, or they'll take sumthin. A few days
ago heard they surrounded two of our best citizens
because they was named Fort and Sumpter Most of
them so hot they fairly when you pour water on
en- and that's the way they make up their military
companies here now-when man applies to jne the
Volunteers, they sprinkle him. and he si@ee they take
him, and if he don't they don't.


Mr. Llnkhorn, sir privately speaking I'm afraid I'll
get IN tte place here among these bloods and have
to elope out OF 1t and would like much to have your
Scotch cap and cloak, what you Travelled in to Wash
ington. l suppose you wouldn't be likely to use the
same disgse agn when you lef and therefore | would
propose swap. Pm feet 5, and could get my plow
orltches ard coat to you in or 10 days if you can
wait that long. | want you to write me Immediately
about things generally and WHARF you intend to do
your fghtin. You prokamashun says something about
akin possessin of the public property at AH hazards
We can't find any sich place the map. thought it
must be about Charleston, or Savannah or Harper's
ferry but they say 1t amt any where down South
One man said 1t was little factory on an island on
Lake Champlain, where they made sand bags My
opinion Is that sand bag business wont paw aud it is
great waste of money Our boys here carry their sand
their gzzards where it keeps better and is always
handy. I'm afraid Jour government is givn you and
your Kangaroo heap Of Unnecessary trouble and my
humble advice is if things don't work better soon you'd
better grease it trade the darned old thing of I'd
take rails or anything for it, If could see you I'd
show you slight of hand trick that would change the
whole concern into buttons quick Ii you don't trade
or do something else with soon it wEspe or die on
your hands, certain.


Give my respects to Biz Suard and the other mem
bers of the Kangaroo. What's Hannibal do ip? !
don't hear anything from him now days.


| Yours with care Bill ARP


P S-1fyou possibly extend that order 10 80 Cays
do So We have sent you the discount in advance on
check at Harpers Ferry (who keeps that darned old
Ferry now!-lts given heap OF trouble) but if
you positively won't extend we'll send you check drawn
by JET Davis, Beauregard endorser payable on sight
anywhere. Yours, b. A.
The CALL FOR VoLUNTEERs-It is gratifying to see
the alacrity with which the young men of the State
have sprung to the call of our Governor for volunteers


In little over week not fewer than nine thousand


troops had offered themselves, and to-day Gov Ellis can
call out some twelve thousend at almost DAYS notice
One hundred and thirty companies, averaging over
ninety men each have offered and organizing. No
mercenares these. They the best men n the State
men of means, men of character, men of talent and
gentlemen. Men like these iEnpeed by patriotism and
by sense of duty cannot be conquered much less sub
IJugated by the hirengs of the North. There is no
earthy power can subJugate them-they must triumph
or be extermInated. History records single instance


which the AngoSaxon stock from which they spring
has been subjugated RGLe1gh State Journal.