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A KISS UPON JTHE SLY’.
Let poets sing of Eastern climes
Ant? golden sunset hours; ;
Us shady nook
And babbling brook
Or moonlit orange bowers,
, Yet still to mo
More sweet shall be
(A j,>y no wealth can buy)
A pair of pouting, cherry lips
To kiss upon the sly.
Oh, let them build their lofty thyme
As e’en so e’er they may;
But give me still —
1 f you w ill—
Another word to say ;
Now here’s to all,
Tall, lilt or small,
I vow. I'd rather die,
Than miss the bliss that’s in a kiss
When taken on the slv.
■X y : yr
'JBill Arp iu the Evacuation of Atlanta.
Hill Arp is out with another .long
and any using letter in the Anpista
Register, from which we make tlnj fol
lowing extract:
We arrived in Atlanta about the
time the first big shell commenced
skalteriug their unfelin contents among
the surburbs of that devoted sitty.
Then come the big paniks. Then'
shrieken tlie man-eater* Then howl
.l ■Try*MAa.A>xvoßa r JiiJ> i] l&pf
1 Lilly lon. All sorts of people seemed
moviu in all sorts of ways with an ak
■seilerated motion. They gained on
their shadows as they leaned forward
<m the run: and their legs grew longer
at every step. With me it was the
sekoad ringing of the first hell. I had
sorter got used to the thing and sot my
self down to take observations. “ How
many miles to Milybright?” said
1. 13ut nary response came, for their
legs was as long as light, and every
imstin shell was ail old witch on the
road. Cars was the all in all. Depots
were the centre of space. Converge
ing lines from every pint of’compass
made Iraki to the offices of- railroad
superintendants. These functionaries
very prudently vamoosed the ranch
to avoid their too numerous friends,
leaviii positive instructions to their
* subordinates. The passenger depot
was thronged with anxious seekers of
transportation. “ Wont you let these
boxes go as baggage?” ■ “No madam,
i t’s impossible.” " Just then somebody’s
family trunk as big as a niter bur©
was shoved iu and the poor woman
got desperate. “ All I’ve got ain’t as
heavy as that,” said shej “ I’m a poor
widow, and my husband was killed in
ihe army. I’ve got five children and
three of cm cutting teeth, anjmy things
have got to go.” -We took up her box
es and shoved them in. Another good
woman asked very anxiously for the
Macfin train. “ There it is, madam,”
said 1. She shook her head mournful
ly, and remarked, “You are mistaken,
sur don’t you see the engine is headed
rigid up the State road, towards the
Yankees? 1 shant take any train
with the engine at that eend of it.”
“Nosur, that ain’t the Macon train.”
Everybody was hurryiu to and fro at ,
a lively tune. “ What’s to-day, nig
ger?” said a female darkie, with a hoop
skirt upon her arm. “ Taint no day,
honey, that ever 1 seed. Yistidy was'
Sunday, and 1 reckon to-day is
day, from de way de white folks is
movin about. Yah! yah! aint feerd
of Yankee myself, butdem sizzin bum
shell kill a nigger quicker dan you can
lick yer tung out: Gvvine to git away
from here —I is.”
Went into a doctor shop, and found
my friend packing up his vials and pis
etvs and copiavy and sich like. Vari
ous exsited individuals come in and
looked at a big map on the Avail, and
BLAKEI.Y, GEO., OCTOBER 5, 1804.
pointed out the roads to McDonough
and Eatonton and Jasper, and soon
their proposed lines of travel was ea«*
sily and greasibly visible from the im
. pression of their perspirin fingers. An
old skeleton, with but one leg, was
swinging from the ceilin, lookin like a
mournful emblem of the fate of the
trubbled sitty, “ Yer gwine to leave
him to stand guard, doctor,” said I
“Spose I will,” said he, “got no trans
portation for him.” “ Take that screw
out of his skull,” said I, “ and giv him
a crutch. May be he’l travel*—all
flesh is movin, and I think the bones
will catch the contagion soon.” A few'
doors further and a venerable auctions
eer was surveying the rushing crowd,
and every now and then he would
raise his arm with a seesaw motion
and exclaim goin—goin—goin—gone!
Who’s the bidder ? ” ‘‘ Old daddy •
time,” said I—he’l git em all before
long.”
The door of an old friend’s residence
swung open to my gaze, and I walked
in. Various gentlemen of my akuaiu
tance were discussing the evidences
of propriety over a jug of departing
spirits. “I believe I’ll •unpack,” said
one; “dingd if I’m afeerd of a .blue*
tailed fly, I’m goin to sit down an be
easy.” “In a horn,” said I. Just
then a sizzin, singin, crazy shell sung
• a short meter hymn right over the
house. “Jake, has the dray come? ”
said he bouncin to his feet. “ Con
found that dray —blame my skin if I’ll
ever get a dray to move these tilings
—boys let’s take another drink,” after
which another friend remarked, “Boys,
let’s all stay—darned if it don’t look *
cowardly to run;, boys here’s to—who
shall vc drink to? Here’s to—“Cas
ihianka, said I. “ Good, good,” they
all shouted. “ Here’s to Cabysianka.
l„-.t it-for y-v.i, poy- ’’ said
our host. We spoke Ts a thousand
times. He mounted the seat of a bro
ken sofv, and spreadin himself, fleklum
ed:
“The on the burning deck,
When all but him had lied.”
“ That’s md,” said one. “ It’s me
exactly,” sai'd another. “I’m Cabv
sianka myself; dog my cat if I don’t
be the. last one to leave ibis ship.”
Another shell sizzed and busted a few
yards off. “ Boys, let’s take another
drink and leave the town—dad rot
the Yankees.” Here’s to —here’s to
—the —the “ last of the Mohikans,”
said I. Prez&kly—them’s em. I’m .
him myself. I’m the last of the Mo
hikens; durned if I’ll leave these dig
gins as long as —as long as.” “As the
State lload,” said I, “ which is now a
bout four inches and a half.” “That’s
so,” said my friends. “ Here’s to the
State Hoad and Dr. Brown and Joe.
Phillips, us long as foUr inches and a
h.lf.”
By and by the shells fell as thick as
Gov*. Brown’s proklamafdiuns, causing
a more speedy lokomotion in the ex
cited throng who hurried by the door;
but my friends inside had past the Ru
bicon, and one by one retired to dream
of Bezaris and his Sulliote band. Va
cant rooms and long corridors soon
echoed with their snores, and they ap
peared like sleeping heroes in the*halls
of the Montezumas.
In the blessed days gone by, I have
seen the shakin Quakers goin through
their pious motions and pekular atti
tudes. I have cunously watched and
waited to diskiver the first shake of
the spitual leg. Then another and
another would catch' the delicious
' trembles, until the entire assembly of
brethren and sisters were shuffling
their extremities in solum and hister
ick beauty. Just so the big paniks
seemed to inspire the good people of
Atlanta. The first good shake that oc
kurred in Peachtree street was foul .
contagion that soon spread its orful
trembles from the barracks to the fair
grounds, sweepin in its all gathering
course the existen population who peo
pled its bizzv streets!
George 11. Williams, formerly Judge of
lowa Supreme Court, and an “unconditional
Uuiou Democrat,” is elected United Satates
Senator from lowa.
Iu Memory of Morgan.
A gallant officer of Morgan’s command
sends to Qc Richmond Enquirer the fol
lowing brief review of the deeds of the la
mented chief:
The death of Gen. J. 11. Morgan—the
gallant hero whose name and fame is too
enlarged to be confined to .one continent
—will east a pall over the entire Confeder
ate army. As an humble follower of the
“Great Chief” who was relieved from
command of his gallant division only to be
placed on duty “ in the inner courts of the
sanctuary,” where Johnston junl Jackson,
Bee aud Bartow, and a host of other gallant
generals and Christian warriors are now serv
ing, I feel called upon to mention a few of
the principal feats of my daring leader and
the characteristics of the man, leaving to
the pen of the historian the duty of fully
recording his deeds. Brig.-Gen. John 11.
Morgan, in September 1801, as captaiu of
a company of partizan rangers, invented
and brought into requisiton a system pf
cavalry fighting that lias been since suc
cessfully adopted by all cavalry leaders in
the Confederate States- army. I refer to
his system of using tin horse ouly to trans
port'his meu, and then dismounting to
fight.
In the Spring of 1802 he had raised,.
equipped, armed and mounted a brigade ol
cavalry, all at no expense to his country,
and far in the rear of the enemy's armies.
As Colonel commanding that brigade, he
made, during the month ol duly, 18(52, a
reconnisance into Central Kentucky, start
ing front Nashville, lennessoe, 'July 4th,
and reaching Sparta July 2i)th. in twen
ty five days passing through Central Ken
tucky, killing, wounding and capturing
‘scores of the enemy, and returning to out
lines with his losses but slight, alid bring
out many recruits. To I’ollpvf up the work
of bis command, while under the leader
ship of Gen. Morgan, Would require too
much space in' yorir paper; but in biict 1
can state, witlymt fear of contradiction, and
in justification'to the memory of this great
-on 4 ujuj+j iiu* hi; recvuited ruoyiroplk.
* than auy Major-General iu the Confouii nto
.States army—-that he captured and paroled
more Fcdcrals than any Lieutenant-Gener
al—killed move Federate, captured more
supplies, and suffered, less in. the loss of
men than any cavalry brigade or division
Commander iu the. army. As an officer he
was great in strategy, bold in execution,
. and urtiring when the interest ol his coun
try or command called for it. Asa irieud,
true and firm, kind and conciliatory. No
subordinate ever approached his preqpncc
but he was met and welcomed in a genial
manner. General Morgan’s zeal for the
cause frequently caifsed hi nr to venture be
yond the literal construction of his orders.
But the Confederacy had no truer heart or
braver sword battliug in her defense, and
Kentucky may be proud to feel, although
many of h©v sons b»vc basely submitted <*>
the tyrant’s yoke, that John 11. Morgan,
her gallant son, poured out his life-blood in
defense of Constitutional Liberty. Com
rades and followers of the brave lamented
dead, death calls for vengeance. Let us
each and every ouc strive with renewed
zeal and determination to keep tip the
great fear that our hatred foe evinced to
wards our General and followers, and so
live that wc may meet and servo under his
leadership again in that bright land where
wars cease aud Yankees cannot enter.
S. I’. C.
Hon. B.L, Ilodgcvmember of Congress
fVpm Louisiana, died recently in Shreveport.
He was a talented aud able lawyer, stand
ing at the head of his profession in north Lou
isiana, and was universally loved aud res
pected.
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A correspondent of the Boston .Journal
says that 250 substitutes in the First New
Hampshire cavalry dinserted the first night
they went to camp. r i hey had cost the orig
inal buyers and tire Government $.300,000,
and hud rendered no service whatever.
Vive men were recently captured by our
videttes near Richmond, while endeavoring
to escape to the Yankee iincs. M. Cavan
augh, a jnember of the 12th Georgia Rcg
iment\ was one of them.
TheVlendian Clarion, of the 21st, says :
Gc . v in- moved the headquarters of
t: :s d- fa ,i" 8 dftta, am! every thing
b- loi: i, h, . Iquartci’s will leave for that
point thi niernim .
Marry not'a woman who apes tlie lady
by au exhibition ol pride, because it shows
a want of sense, and she will have but few
friends. ,
Autumn.
The sadly beautiful Autuiuu has come
again. Dreamily tho insects chirp, ami
musical and soft the wandering zephyrs
come and go, mingling their low, melan
choly breathings with the sweet, plaintive
cadence of Natures hundred voices murmur
ing everywhere around us, “ Passing away.”
Our lives, too,are passing away. The mel
ancholy Autumn reminds us of this; yet
it is with a pleasing land of regret that wo
become cognizant of the serious fact. There
is something iudisorihably sweet and pleas
ant connected yvitli these days, “ the sad
dest of the year ; ” and mournfully, but
soothingly does the lowyoieed Autumn ap
peal to tho soul; holding up happy pictures
of the past—throwing a dreamy halo over
the present, and giving us bright glimpses
of the “life beyond”—life in tho “eternal
future.” *
, Rutrunutterably sad does the present Au
tumn seqe.i, as she wends her way through
the diin forrest aisles of the suffering and '
noble “ I'lmpiro State,” whose children
have “ lifted up their voices ams wept,”
feeling in their sore distress that God had
forsaken them in His wrath. Many of
theiv homes liavo bceu desolated, and the
destroyer of their peace, in his pride and
arrogance, pollutes with his presence and
that or his followers, one of their fairest
cities. Hut the kft-Wise cbnstcueth those
whom ITo lovetb, and in His own good
time will He smile upon our poor struggling
Hoorgia. Notwithstanding the lowering*
cloud’that threatens to submerge her peo
ple, Hope still waves tier bright wings, and,
assures us that the cloud is not.altogether
bereft of “ a silver lining.” The mysteri
ous movements of our army, with (lie gal
lant and intrepid' Hood still at its head,
together with the reported movements of
Forrest and Wheeler, pressages good to
our cause ; and wp confidently believe that
ere the crimsom and yellow leaves arc scat
tered over thebrown earth,proclaiming tha t •
the Autuuui is ended, the cruel and uupii
tying invaders of of Georgia will
be glad to take up their line of march to
tiioj* -y-vri.i bleak <ul*»ru it^bii
North.
Items. '
"We learn from a reliable source that
(’aptain Ilarvey, commanding a company -
of scouts, captured a train on the Chatta
nooga and Atlanta Railroad on Saturday
night lust, and brought off thirty-seven
prisoners and several line horses after des
troying the train, which was loaded with
supplies, *
Mr. Pendleton, candidate for Vice-Presi
dent on the McClellan ticket, lately made
a speech in Dayton Ohio, in which he said:
“ 1 rejoice that tho powers of the Governs
ment will ho agaiq in the possession of tho
•Democratic party,"whose beucficb.nt bri**-
ciples, recently announced!n Nat
ioitfil Gonvention, will bring us peace.”
A McClellan meeting in St. Louis was
broken up a few nights since by a parly of
Lincoln troops. They destroyed the trans
parent lights and carried off the flags shout
ing “ hurrah for Lincoln.” Great excite
ment prevailed.
Mrs. Tour Thumb has given to the hand
of fate another little thumb —of course it is
a diminutive thumb— yet it may rival the
parental tree, since “ large oaks from little
acorns grow.”
Queen Victoria calls hersclfin variably tho
broken-hearted widow.
A suro sign that she intends marrying
shortly.
A proverb says, “curses like chickens
come home to roost.” Tha chickens re
ferred to must necessarily be old roosters.
A telegram frsm Port Royal says that
den. Foster has ordered a draft of all the
“ colored citizens” in his department.
No sadder proof can be given by a man
of his own littleness, that disbelief in great
men.
No great man lives in vain. The history
of the world is but tho biography of great
mon.
The greatest of faylts is to be conscious
of none.
If a look cornea from the heart, it will
• contrive to reach other hearts.
Never dosort a friend. Never wrong
an enemy. Never jump on tho “under
dog in the fight.” .
The yellow fever prevails among the Yan
kees at Ncwbern, N. 0.
The New York Htraldchxms that volun
teering is still going on aj: the North.
A man’s own good breeding is the best
security against other people’s ill manners.
A laborer strikes, and stops work* A
clock strikes, but works on.
Rather ominous—To be importuned by
you.t wife to get your life insured. *
A ync legged miller is his own hopper.
no. so.