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[FKOiTTlIE CIJARLRSTOX DAILY NEWS.]
A FEEBLE TRIBUTE TO THE
MEMORY OF OUR HONOR.
/ 5ED GEN STEPHEN ELLIOTT.
BY MRS. C A. BALI..
Not where the war-steed thundered o'er the
r plain;
Not where the aarth drank in the blood of my
rinds slain ;
Not 'mid the cannon's roar, the trumpet's clang;
Not where, 'mid flashing steel, the Southern
war cry rang;
Not there, our hero died.
Gently and peacefully lie sank to rest,
"While loved ones in the parting hour around
him prost.
Afar fiom all the scenes of earthly strife,
Calmly the Christian hero yielded up his life,
A ltd passed from hence Rjvny.
His epitaph is graved on each true heart,
His menu vy is of each Southern soul a part, I
Ilis own loved Carolinn mourns her son,
And crowned with glory, by his valor won, |
"Weeps o'er her hero, dead. I
And never, while the walls of Sumter stand,
Shall we forget him, who with liis brave hand
By day and night (our country's hope and stay),
Gnarded the city's gates, aDd kept the foe at
bay,
Our warr ior, now dead
No more the battle cry rings through our land;
Cru-hed is each Southern heart, and powerless
each hand;
Yet while one pulse can thrill to deeds^f f.hie,
"A household word" will be brave Elliott's
name,
^ And ever honored dead
Weep, C.roiiua, weep. tWonpli tears are vain.
Our stir has set, never ro rise again : j
Yot amiil grief rejoice, for he wc mourn
lias jius-cd from hence unto that bicssed bourne, i
"Where there is no more death, j
ClIAKl.ESTOX, March C.
BillArp Returns to the
Eternal City and Meets
his Friend Big J ohn.
M? Edilur Melerpolilan liclcord :
Mit. EDiTiTt, Suit: I hav not up to
litis tune made any remarks in publik
about the trials and tribulations, the
losses and the crosses, the buzzards and
tied hoses seen 011 our journey home to
the eternal sitty. I shall not nllood to
it now, only to remark that our eomin
l.!>r*k worn not so hnstv as our leavin.
It was in tlic dead of winter, through ;
snow and sleet, over creeks without
bridges and bridges without floors,
Ihrough a deserted and desolate land,
where no rooster was left to crow, no ,
pig to squeal, no dog to baric; where
the ruins of happy homes adorned the
?. way, and ghostly chimneys stood up
like Sherman's sentinels a guard in the
ruins he had made. A little one lioss
consern contained the higlith of my
worldly possession, consistin of ray numerous
and lovely wife and children,
and a shuck basket full of some second
class vittels. Countin our offspring,
there was about ten of us in and about
and around that wngin, thus illustratin
what the poet has sed: "One glorious
hour of crowded life is worth an age
without a name," though the glory
were hard to persevo on sich okkashuns.
Mrs. Arp are of the opinyun that her
posterity were never as hungry before
! in their life as on that distressin journey,
and she once remarked that there
want nary rod of the road that dident
hear some of em a hollerin for vittels.
My wife's husband is troobled bekaus
they aint broke of it yet, and it do
ihni 1AWMI T /vi4- A rrt ava
* btjuj-u uiai i<xxo jjwici jl ^lu uiuxv
devourin they become, and of winch
will end in sumthin or other if sumthin
dont't happen.
We finally arrived within the pre
sinkts of our lovely home. The doors
- creaked welcome on their hinges, the
hoppin-bug chorruped on the hearth,
rand the whistlin wind was singin the
. same old tune around the bed-room
- corner. We were about as happy as
we had been miserable, and when I
remarked that Gen. Vandiver, who okkupied
our house, must be a gentleman
for not burning it, Mrs. Arp replied.
"I wonder what he dono with my
soing masheen."
"He didont cut down our shade
trees," sed I.
"My buroes and carpets and crockay
are all gone," sed she.
%
"It may be possibul," sed I, "that
the Genrul "
"And my barrel of soap," sed she.
"It may be possibul," sod I, "that
the Genrnl moved off our things to take
keer of em for us. I reckon we'll get
em all back atter while."
"Alter while said Mrs. Arp, like
an echo, and ever since then when I
allood to our Northern brethren she
only replies, "AtUr while."
By and by the shattered wanderers
begun to drop in under the welcum
shades of our sorrowful citty. It wero
a delightful enjoyment to greet em
home, and listen to the history of their
sufferings and misfortunes. Misery
loves company, and after the misery is
past there's a power of comfort in talking
it over and fixin up as big a tale as
any body. I wer standin one day
upon the banks of the Injun river, a
wonderin in my mind who would come
next to gladden our hearts, when I
nf nti /Vl-vioL- fln-rlrinin
SUW UK? SAltlUlAfA UA (AAA M MJ ^ av -a.. ..
tlie sunlit bank. It wcr not a load of
hay nor a elefant, but sure enuf it wer
my frond Big John, a movin slowly,
but surely, to the dug out landin on
the opposite side. His big round face
assoomed more lattitood wlien he saw
me, and without waitin for remarks he
sung out in a voice some two staves
deeper than the Southern Harmony?
"There came to the bead' a Poor exiie of
Krin."
"Make bimsed I,/ and you'll
fill the bill." Prouder to see him than
a monkey show, I paddled the dug out
over in double quick and bid him wolenm
in the name of the eternal citty
and its humble inhabitants. I soon
got him afloat in the little canoo, and
before I was awaro of it the water was
sloshing over tlie-gunnels at every wabble.
"Lay down, my fiend," sed I,
and he laid, which was all that saved
us from a watry grave, and the naboorin
farms from inundation. VHien
safely lauded I found him wedged in
so tight that ho couldeut rise, so I relieved
him by a prize with the eend of
the paddle. As his foot touched
the sakred soil lie gently seperated
countenance and sung with feelin
melody,
"Home again?home again?from a furrin
shore,
The Yanks may come nml I ho devil too, but
I'll noi run any more."
llecolloktin some skraps of blank
verse myself, I sed with much absent,
"Tell me thou swift of foot?thou mod
1 1 AVI A 11 ...1 ?
cm .vsanoi?1'J1 TOli J11C HJICJU is uy
chariot and steer ? AVI tore didst thou
go when I did see thee driving like Jehu
as we did lice lor life."
"J'11 toll you aiy'-iiied ho,-?"I want my
fronds to know it. I'm now a. man of
war, Bill, and I'm glad of it. I've
done the state some servis and she
knows it. I've handled guns?yes,
guns?weepins of death. I've slept on
my arms since I seed you?night after
night have I slept on my arms, with
hundreds of deadly weepins all around
me. Ah Bill, patriotism is a big tiling.
When you once break the ice, great
sluices of glory as big as your arm will
jest spring up like mushrooms in your
buzzum ; and make you feel like throwin
yourself clean away-f'or your country.
Let me sot down and I'll tell you all I
know, Bill, but as the feller said in the
theater, when you in your letters these
unlucky deeds relate, speak of mc as I
am?nothing expatiate nor set down hot
in malice."
"Jest so," sedl, "exaaktly?oxaaktly
Proseed my hero."
<i-rr-.il '-JL -
" * v en j u u sue, urn? lugjit in tux vuu
passed mo, my steer got away. Hang
the decievin beast! I hunted smartly
for him the next mornin, but I hunted
more forrcds than backwards. Lcavin
my wagon with a widow woman, I took
it afoot across tlio country by a settlement
road called the 'cut off.' Devil
of a cut off it was to me. I broke down
in sight of a little log cabin, and never
moved a foot farther that day. The
old man had a chunk of a nag that
worked in a slide, I perswaded him to
ha\il mo to the eend^of the cut off, and
I know he done it for fear I'd eat up
his smoke house. Every now and then
he'd look at the old oman, and she'd
look at the smoke-house and then look
at-me. But that slidin bisness were
the most orfullest travellin that I ever
hav had. Exery time tho pony'd look
back he'd ston. and when he'd start
agin lie giv such, a jerk that my contents
were in danger. My holt broke
on one okkasliun, a goin down a liill
full of gullies. I rolled somo twenty
feet into the edge of the woods, and
cotch up agin an old pine stump that
was full of yaller jackets. Three of the
dingd things stung mo before I could
rise, hut I got through the cut off, and
fell in with some empty wagins that
was stampedin my way.
"Gittin on to Atlanty, a fool Irishman
stoped mo right at the edge of the
town and demanded my papers. I didn't
hav no papers. Nobody had ever
axed me for any papers, but he woulnent
hear an argytfient. As Quarles
would say, he wouldcnt jino issliue, but
inarched me to an oflis, and I did'nt
stay there ton minutes. I wer sent off
to Dekatur with somo fifty conskripts
who were all in mournin, oxcepin their
clothes. I never seed sech a pitiful set
in my life. I tallied with em all, and
thar was ,nary one but what he had tlie
dyspepsy or the swinny or the rumatics
or the blind staggers or the heaves or
the humps or sumthin. Well, there
want none of us discharged, for there
was bran new orders callin for every
body for thirty days to go to the ditches.
As I couldent walk that fur, I was
ordored to Andersonville to guard tho
prisoners. At Makon I met an old acwaintance,
who was a powerful big officer,
and he had me transferred to his
department and put in charge of his
ordinance. Ther's where I handled
guns, Bill, and slept on my arms.
Whole boxes of muskets was around
me, and I did'nt no more mind takin a
? - 1
snooze on a gunuux uian ix xd jiuu ucch
a couch of feathery down. Its all in
gittin used to it, Bill?all in the use.
"Jest so," sed I, "that's the way I
see it?exactly so, my frend. Proseed."
"It's blamed lucky, Bill, that I dident
go to Andersonville. They would
have had me alongside of Wirz, either
as principle or witness or sumthin, and
some lyin Yank would liav had a swear
or two at me about sliootin him on the
dead line. Before this, my carkass
would nnve been eat up by worms or
cut up by dokturs, and my pikter spred
all over a whole side of Harpers Weekly
as monster of detli.
"Well, I kept liandlin guns and bayonets
and dangerous weepins, until one
day I got a furlo to go to Borne. Sherman
was playin base around about Atlanta,
and so I had to circumference
around by the way of Sehna, and the
very day I got there, everlastin blast
em, the Wilson raiders gut there too.
I wasont no more loolrin foT them Yankees
in Selma than I were lookin for
old Beelzebub, and both of them was
all the same to mo. Blamd if they wasont
sliootin at me before I knowd they
was in the State. How in the dickens
the missed me dont know, for their minny
balls sung yank}' doodle^all around
me and over me and under me and betwixt
me.
"I tell you, Bill, I run like a mad
turkel, lookin ahead of me at every
-fi??r1 . nnov flint.rt +n -foil it'll fvn T
IV/ AJUU (4 VttOJ JdUCU IV 1IU* i? ??*. ?? ?
was pluged. An old woman overtook
mo, and I uxod her to take my watch
and 111 v moimy. She took them iu a
hurry and put thom in lier boozom.
"Well, 1 found a gully at hist, and rolled
in kerslosh, for it was about two ^or
tliree feet deep in mud and water. The,
internals found mo there jest at night
and got me out at the pint of the baynet.
They marched mo to the wolf pen
and there I stayed till the fuss was
over.
"Bight here, Bill, I want to make"an
observation. There was a feller with
me when I was cotch'd, and I seed 'im
mako a sorter of a sign to the captain,
and they turned him loose in two minits,
and he jest went about anywhere
as nateral as a king, wiiilo I had a
cross-eyed dutchman standin over mo
with a baynet grinuin from mornin till
night Thero was some Free Masonry
about that: Bill, and if another one of
these fool wars come along, I'll jine em
if thcy'l let m<\
"But I'm at home now for good. I'm
gwine to stay here like a sine die. I'm
agin all wars and fightins. I'm opposed
to all rows and rumpusscs and riots.
I dont keer nigh as much about a dog
fight as I used to. Now if one could
always see the eend of a thing in advance,
and the caul teas all riff lit, I
wouldent mind a big fuss, but then you
know a man's foresights aint as good
as his hindsights. If they was, this war.,
wouldent have broke out, and I wouldent
hav lost my steer, nor my watch.
I never seed that woman before nor
since, and I wouldent know her from
any other woman that walks the yearth
?blamd if" I'm certain whether she is
white or black. Bill, how is your offsprings
?"
"Hungry as usual, I thank you, my
friend," scd I.
"How's Mrs. Arp ?"
"Rebellious, John, very; but I think
she'l be harmonized?aticr while?atter
while."
Mr. Editur, I -will not relate further
of these trying adventures at this time.
Big John are now entirely harmonious, 1
and I supposo his future career will be
all screen. Yours as' ever.
BILL ARP. ;
P. S.?Mrs Arp wants you to git back j
the letters I writ her when she were
sweet sixteen. Them officors have got
em, and I suppose have lauglied all the
funny part away by this time. They
contained some fool things that boys
will write when they fall in love, aud i
my wife sometimes used em upon me
as reminders of broken promises. She
says, if they! send cm, she'l try and
forgive em?atler while.
I)ont trouble yourself much, Mr. Editur
and it will be all the same to me. '
. B. A.
An urgent pressure is being made to
induce the President to issue an order
restoring the Arli^toh 'estate to Mrs.
Gen. Lee.
The Southern Newspal
per Press.
A correspondent of the Memphis Appeal,
discourses as follows on the mission
ol the press:
j "The press of the South hat a great
responsibility resting upon' it at this
present time. If ever there was a period
irftbe history of the country when it
mjDnhJcd puUlic opinion, that period is
tH? present, The people, whatever may
b<jt their .political opinions, look to the
ptfrss of - the country for alVice as well
is'information. This is the time in
which it/can do incalculable good for
the cause of civilization and humanity.
Wisdom, moderation and kindness should
mark its course. Denunciation and vitupation
cannot do good to any cause.
I regret to see so muck vitupation in
some of the Southern press against individuals.
It cannot do any good, but really
does no harm. A candid mind
though it may differ from a writer, can
read his productions with pleasure when
he discusses subjects with candor, dignity
and moderation, and does Dot descend
from the considerations of measures to
the denunciation of individuals; hut
vitupation and bitter aspersions are disgusting,
and always damage him who
deals in them more than they do his adversary."
Another Surrender Reported.
The Radicals cannot do without the
Executive patronage. According to a
Washington dispatch in a Philadelphia
paper, "Thaddeus Stephens has buried
the hatchet, and in future will work more
in harmony with the President. His.first
act of repentance was to forward to the
President a letter soliciting the appointment
of postmaster in Pennsylvania for a
friend whom he (Stephens) indorsed in
full, and which the President received in
bis u?ual gracious manner, granting the
favor asked for within an hour."
I 4 ry ... ri
to precipitate hostilities??Boston Commercial.
The following characteristic case of arristocracy
is recorded as having come off
at Stanton, Va.:
"One of the Northern 'school marms'
who is there employed in teaching the
'freedmen,' told a sprightly negro girl
that she must not call the woman with
whom she lived mistress; that she was
just as good as anybody. Pretty soon the
girl asked her teacher what business she
followed before coming South to teach.
'I was a bonnet-maker,' was the reply.
'Well,' said the girl, (^gathering up her
books and making for the door, 'I'm not
going to sociate wid yon any lougor; you
say I is ckel to my mistress, and she
don't sociate wid bonnet makers.'"
Wo read in an exchange paper the
following "tale of woe." "I clasped her
tiny hand in mine, I el isped her beante-'
ous form; I vowed to shield her from the
wind, and from the world's cold storm.?
She set her benutous eyes on me, the tears
did wildly flow, and with her little lips
she said, 'Confound you, let me go.' "
There are $30,000,000 of the fractional
currency in circulation.
*
The President has given Stephens and
Co. something to smoke: thus dues the
pipe of peace go round.?JV\ Y. A'cws of
the 3d.
?
A Severe Rebuke.
.The disgusting blasphemy of Mr* Snm?
tier, i:i likening the typical negro to Him
who was God on the C'ioss, befuie the
Senate of a chr'siiau nation, was but impc'fcetly
rebuk-d by Mr. Fessctiden thus:
Did the House as charged by Mr. Sumnr.-,
place themselves in the situation of
Puntious Pjlatc, with the negro for the
Saviour :of the world, and the people of
the United States for Uarrabas? Why.
sir. I expected him [Mr. Smnncr] to go
faith or, and in tlic next breath to say that
what with the Constitution of the States,
the negro had been crucified between two
thieves, and that now, by this proposed
amendment, the stone had hcen roiled
away from the door of the sepulchre,
and he had ascended to sit on the throne
of the Almighty and judge the world.?
National Intelligencer.
? ,
k Good Report.?Gen. Richardson,
writing from Darlington, S. C., to the Cincinnati
Commercial, says :
"The quiet and orderly conduct of the
people, both white and colored, deprived
as they are of the customary restrain'. of
civil law, is really surprising. I traveled
retently nearly two hundred miles in an
open carriage, without a guard and with
out arms, through nnfrequentcd parts of
the country, and I found trie road, by
mght or day, as secure as in Ohio."
WriAT Does it Meak??We understand
that Hon. Mr. Boutwell, who is at home
for a short period, said on Saturday^fct,
in conversation with a trjend, that the
situation is so perilous we'j need not ho
surprised if hostilities were ito break out
anew within the next two months." Has
Mr. Boutwcll any information which the
public do not possess? He is on the
" Committee of Fifteen " Docs it form
nart of the nroerammo of that committee
A Letter from General
Forrest.
M. G. Galloway, Editor Memphis Aia
lachc:
On my arrival in Memphis, n few days
since, from my plantation, a copy of the j
Avalanche-was shown rae in which J was
represented as having fled the country.
I thank you for the kind manner in which
you vindicated my name from misrepresentation.
Owing to the relations you
occupied towards me during the last three
[ years, I know of no one belter calculated
to do me justice than yourself. Your re:
presentation of certain incidnts in my caI
reer are true, and will be corronovated by
every man iu my command and by most
| the colored troops, some of whom are
men in my employ. But in defending
me, I regret that you shook! suppose for
a mement thaf.l could be induced to
leave the country. Certainly no act or
expression of mine conkl have furnished
gronhd for such a supposition. In 6iir
rendering my command in April last, in a
public address to my troops, 1 urged them
to return home?to be true to their obligations
and us tlicy had made good law iki^InrrQ
nifi7nna M/i cnlfliAr nf mu AAm
" ? "'J
mand has been false to bis pledges. I
have certainly been true to mine, for
since the surrender, I have been silent
and unobtrusive, quietly laboring upon
my farm, and I regret my seclusion is 90
often distributed by reports in the newspers,
which are as unjust to the Government
as tbey are to my own cliarater. I
have never committed an act, uttered a
word, or entertained a sentiment not in
strict accordance with the most humanizing
miliary usages, and fear no investigation
into my conduct, I certainly do
not intend to leave tb.e country, for my
destiny is now with the great American
Union, and I shall contribute all my in-*
fluence towards strenghening the Government,
sustaiuing its credit, uniting the
people once more in the indissoluble bonds
of peace and affection. As ever. NTruly
your friend,
N. B. FORREST.
Extract of a Letter from
Gen. RichardsonGen.
W.-P. Richardson, commandant
at Durlington, S. C., writes a letter to the
Cincinnatti (Jonivicrciof, in which occurs
the following passage:
" My district is composed of nine Conntie',
(or Districts, as they are called here,)
in the North-eastern part of the State, and
a most liopclul state of affairs exists.?
The frecdmen are all employed at fair wgI
ges, and are working, according to the
statements of planters themselves, much
better than there was, for a while, any
reason to anticipate. I. have labored dil
igently to restore relations of mutual con
fidonce between the planters and thefreedmen,
on the principle that, as diese people
I were compelled to live togetheT, the interests
of both parties would be promoted by
the relations between them being barmo
-_.l T t l?J
II10US, anu X Uttvu CUUWUUl'U uuyuuu luy
expectations. Planters exhibit their confidence
in the freedmen by plauting to the
full of their ability, and the freedmen, by
their good conduct and industry, seem
determined to convince every one that
they may be relied upon in their new con*
\ dition."
The yearly mortality of the Globe is
33,333,333 persons. This is at the rate
j of 91,554 per day, 3,730 per hour, COper
minute. So each pulsation of our heart
marks the decease of some human creatnre.
The average of human life is 33
years. Three-tenths of the population
die at or oeforc the age of 4 years?onehalf
at or before 41 years. Among 1,000
persons, who arrives at the age of 100
years, onc#in 100 attains the age of 90,
and one in 5 lives to the age of 73 Married
men live longer than single ones. In
1,000 persons, 65 marry, and more marriages
occur in June and December tban
in any oilier months. Professions exercise
a great influence on longevity. In 1,000
individuals who arrive at the ago of 70
ycai*', 4'2 arc priests, orators or public
sneuk(<rs 40 are aorricultnrists. 33 arc I
| "1 -V 7 +, ..
workmen, 32 soldiers or military employecs,
29 advocates or engineers, 27 profes*
sors and 24 doctors. Those who devote
their lives to the prolongation of that ol
others, die the soonest.
Mr. Pollard writes: If General Grant
has the power to stop the liberty of speech
in the press, lie also has the power to
muzzle the freedom of speech in Congress.
He speaks of the newspapers alienatiug
both sections of the country. We beg
leave to state that in the halls of Congress
there is more sedition and disaffection
ventilated there, and disseminated all over
the country, electrically, in one hour, than
in one year by all the newspapers in
the South. Can't lie suppress those
fomenters of discord, Sum nor and Stc
vens ?
A young lady out West who lately eol*
lided with an ice-hound sidewalk, remarked
as she assumed a perpendicular
position, "I'll liav a man to hang on to
before another winter."
A oolonv of ox-Confed< rale.- arc about |
to settle at Mazatlan. Mexico.
The President Sustained*
Tlic postponement of yesterday fn tbe
House of Representatives, by an immetfee
majority, of the proposed amendment^
the Constitution, is looked upon as an ad?mission
on tbe part of tbe Radieals that
a direct light with the President is hot in
order. In addition to this, we are assured
from good authority that the Cabinet
is nearly or quite unanimous in rapport
of the President^ policy.
We also print a strong speech cn the
same side, made last night in Richmond
by Mr. Conway^ formerly Representative
from Kansas, ana then the very Ajat of
Radicalism. Mr. Conway.is in Virginia,
has seen and heard for himself, and is
able to speak with authority to his Con^
gressional friends. Taming eastward, we
find at New Haven, last evening, ?great
gathering of the first citizens of Connect*
icut to uphold the President's hands, at
which Senator Doolittlo, of Wisconsin,
made a strong speech; and, whatiamore
noteworthy, was followed in the same
vein by Reverend Leonard Bacon, D. D.,
the widely-known and beloved head of
his church in New Encrland, and formerlv
editor of the " Independent," in this city*
The work goes bravely on.. ,, ;
New Yort Fi<riesi March 1st.
The Smfc-Pox. A
gentleman who arrived in this cityyesterday
from a tour through the Southern
States says it is hardly possible to imagine
the extent to which the small-pox
prevails throughout the section. All the
large cities are more or less infected. In
some places the freedmen only are the
victims, while in others the white population
are among the suffererd. Little at?
tention is paid to discretion in medical "
treatment. Those who have the disease
walk through the streets in the most indifferent
and unconcerned manner. No
one bids them remain within doors. In
two or three places through which he passed
.one house in every three had the red
symbol displayed. Charleston, we all
know, is greviously afflicted with smaU
pox. In this respect, however, our friend
assures us we ore far better off than our
neighbors in the Gnlf States. There he
hod been accustomed to See dozens of oases
on the sireet every day; herehelneete
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Religious Persecution In
Ohio. {
A Mr. Houston, of Mercer coanty, Ohio
a member of the Mahoning congregation
of the United Presbyterian Cbarch, was
lately cited to appear before the Preflby
tery to answer to the charge Qt having
voted for Vallandigham as (Jovefoor of
Ohio?"a man notorious for disloyalty,
and under sentence of banishment by the
Government." A majority ofth^ Presbytery
being radical Abolitionist, he was
found guilty and suspended from tue privileges
of the Church. From thiB decision
be appealed to the Synod at- its recent
session, which sustained the tctica of tho
Presbytery; and so Mr. Houston, for ..
being a democrat, must submit to be excommunicated/
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The Proclamation. ''
The Washington correspondent of tho
New York News writes:
I have it from good authority that the ? .
President in a few days will issue an offi- ' social
proclamation that peace has faeea ^
firmly established at the South. The
States will then be left to govern themselves
under the Constitution of the United
States, and State and local laws, without
military interference, except in relax
tion to the freedmen's bureau. This institution
will continue one year after the
forthcoming proclamation.
A Sharp Girl.
A few yeara ago, among the reigning
belles in New Orleans was a young lady
from up the river, who was universally
known by the not very femine soubri-'
quct "The Creat Western." Our fair
heroine was ah remarkable for her witty
and cultivated conversation as she was
for her very great personal attractions.
One evening when she was in a ballroom,
surrounded by a bevy of admiring
beaux, an impertinent scion of chivalry,
dom (to speak a la Willis) asked her very
adruptly, "Pray Miss r, why are
you called the 'The Great Western?'"
"Really sir," was the ready and caustic
reply, l4I cannot tell, unless its because
I bave so many flat6 in tow
It is needless to sav that the inquiring
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voutn was hoc die oniy vjuwm uit uy . .
this well-aimed revolver.
Upon another occasion, the same ladymet
at the foot of the stairs, as she was
returning from a walk, a person who had
just been to call upon her, and whom, as
it happened, she by no means affected,
"Oh, Mies !" he exclaimed, "I regret
so much that I did not fiud you at
home?I left my card however."
"It will do just as well, sir," was the
very unexpected answer which he receiV'
od.
Artcraus Ward said in Charleston S.
0., that Brighani Voting has probably
more tdlvcr plate than any man living?
except (.Jen. Butler.