the poor fellow spurred on with a face as red as a beet root. But, just as he got to the centre of the regiment, Sergeant E. cried out, "I say, boys, if I was a grey

and Scythes that's a talking about cutting of you down mighty quick. Lord bless your soul, Mr. Johnson, ef you is President why don't you be President? When you was

back, I would swim the Potomac a tailoring of it you never turned to get taking up winter-quarters off a half a par of britches to no in that har (hair) of his'n."- man, and that's jest what you's a "Pap's baby" could not stand ginning of us; instead of having a this shot, he turned off at right- whole suit of clothes with a man angles and dashed into the woods. inside of 'em for a President like A little bird from Virginia has we used to have, you's a putting told us that our young friend of us off with a half a par of survived the war, and now in britches and expecting us to be mature manhood, is a highly in- satisfied." fluential member of Lodge No. of Loyal Leaguers.

By this time, the smiles grew audible, and the President having had enough of Aunt Abby, said confidentially, "I am doing the best I can, I assure you, madam." "Well, mabe you is, mabe it ain't in you to do no better, then

A dignified clergyman, a Doctor of Divinity, tells us of his experience in camp with a bellcrowned hat. He was stopped and accosted by a reb with, you is a doing. We haint no "Mister, is yer cows gone dry?" right to expect to get a President He answered, "no, why do you Davis nor his like out'en a tailor's ask?" "Cause, I seed you was toting the churn home on yer head!"

"AUNT ABBY" AGAIN.-When President Johnson was on his way to Raleigh last June, Aunt Abby got into the cars in which he and his suite were, and was pointed out to him as "the Irrepressible."Having read the sketches of her in "The Land We Love," he requested that she might be presented to him. Looking at him from head to foot she said:

"So you's the President of the United States?"

He bowed and replied he believed so.

"But you ain't President Davis, nor nothing like him, ef you was, you'd shet up these here Sickles

shop. But for the Lords' sake ef you can't give us a man, give us a whole par of britches, any how."

"She is truly called, The Irrepressible" said Mr. Johnson, with a shrug of his shoulders, as he found it convenient to change his seat.

Some one, thinking it would please her, read her the sketch in THE LAND WE LOVE, and the true meaning, or something approaching it, of Gov. Vance's letter to General Lee, dawned on her mind. With a sparkle in her black eyes that showed she was still "true grit," she started up and said, "ef ever I set eyes on Zeb Vance agin, I reckon I'll gin him a piece of my mind for his impidence in perfumifying words so as to sound one way and mean ed looking on; but when the lananother. He's a smart man, the yard was stretched for a fourth Lord knows, but I'll let him know shot from the uplifted muzzle, his he'd better not try to play none'er indignation could not be restrainhis tricks on me agin."

From the late Chief of Artillery of Longstreet's corps, we get the annexed incident:

On one of Mahone's expeditions down the Weldon railroad in 1864

ed, and jumping to the trail, with an oath he exclaimed, "My God, men! don't you know any more about a gun than that?"Then, stooping for a moment, he glanced along the piece, while his hands worked rapidly at the eleva

to draw his "rations" of prison- ting screw for a few seconds, when ers and guns, which Grant issued he straightened up with a look with such commendable regulari- of pride saying, "Now, if you will ty, there fell into the hands of the shoot, try that." They tried it, charging rebels a genuine artille- and that time sent the shell smashrist; a gunner, who, loving his ing into as pretty a crowd of "blue gun as only an old gunner can birds" as ever composed a target. understand, had remained by it This incident is well authentiafter his comrades had sought cated, and abundant motives for salubrity in a change of location the deed have been assigned, such and vigorous pedestrianism. The as indignation at being deserted leading "grey-backs," delighted by his comrades and supports, with their capture, at once wheel- (who had made but a poor fight,) ed the gun about to fire upon the pride in his own skill and in his retreating foe. Cramming a shell gun, and a desire to silence a fire down its throat, they pulled lan- which, though coming from his yard and sent it howling through friends, endangered him as much the air full fifty yards above the as any one else. The most natucrowd for whom it was kindly in- ral and amply sufficient motives, tended, and who were rallying however, seem to be found in the and re-opening fire from no great following considerations: First, it distance. A second shell, and a was "a pot shot," second, he third took equally harmless di- wanted to see a race, and third, rections, to the evident disgust of blue is such a beautiful color to the captured gunner, who remain- shoot at.

EDITORIAL.

It is a little singular that while only vexatious folly to attempt to the loyal North has most decided- send green-backs through the ly snubbed the "beloved wife" of mail.

"the late lamented " in her ener- Locke, in his Essays, contends getic effort to peddle off old that every man is insane upon clothes and second hand jewelry, some subject, and that all men the loyal men of the late rebellious have noticed oddities, peculiariSouth have never before shown so ties, and strangenesses in their great a desire to get mementoes of neighbors and acquaintances. He "the martyr of liberty," and attributes this universal madness especially his precious likenesses, to a "wrong connexion of ideas," pictured on a green-back ground. by which a fantasy is associated These are eagerly sought for on the high-ways and by-ways, in lanes and hedges and in other people's letters. A day seldom passes without our hearing of the

with a real fact, in such a way, that the man cannot separate the ideal from the true. Or as he expresses the thought: "besides this, there is another connexion

loss of some letter containing of ideas wholly owing to chance these inestimable pictures, which or custom: ideas, that in themwere intended for our office, and to increase our growing loyalty. Some days, we hear of four or five missing letters with their loyal cargoes. All of which is much to the detriment of the full development of our "latent unionism." understanding, but its associate

Now if it be lawful for ex-rebels to ask a favor of men who have always been loyal-since the battle of Gettysburg-we would respectfully and earnestly beg them to forward the letters after they have abstracted the portraits of the nation's idol. We dislike to disappoint our subscribers, and would like to get their names. We take it for granted that the loyal officials only value the letters for the sake of the portraits aforesaid, and that they can have no reasonable objection to forwarding the letter paper. To our friends, we would say that it is

selves are not at all of kin, come to be so united in some men's minds that it is very hard to separate them: they always keep in company and the one no sooner at any one time comes into the

appears with it."

It is probably owing to this species of madness, resulting from a wrong connexion of ideas that the words "truly loyal" and the Eighth Commandment are indissolubly connected in the Southern mind, so that "they always keep in company, and the one no sooner at any time, comes into the understanding, but its associate appears with it!" We sincerely deplore this unhappy association, and wish that it could be otherwise. But as there is now no North, no South, no East and no West-only one grand, free, united and happy country-we in the good old ideas and teach that good old North Carolina have a honesty, integrity and faithfulness right to imitate the sentimentality to obligations are virtues, while of New England and mourn over stealing, corruption and trickery the errors, the frailties and the are vices even in a "truly loyal" stealings of the loyal men, who man. ought to set holy examples to their rebellious and sinful neighbors.

Time was when money could go safely from any part of the United States, in any direction, to the most remote point. Mail robberies were so rare that a single

The errors in regard to Confederate forces are so gross that we fear they can never be corrected. We have recently examined a history published in Baltimore, and which aims to be just to the South and yet it estimates the Southern

We have seen it stated that Gen. Lee's estimate is 33,000 and it is thus given by Dabney. Now we think that we calculated Lee's

theft would be commented upon force at Sharpsburg at 100,000 from one end of the Union to the men!-a higher estimate by 3,000 other. Now the thing is so com- than Gen. McClellan puts it.mon that it is not noticed at all, and if the newspapers should attempt a record, they would be so filled up as to contain nothing else. Express companies, money force at the time from data, which orders, checks and registrations- could not be erroneous, and it all were then unknown. All these amounted to just 27,000. If there devices have now to be employed is any mistake in it, the error is to prevent stealing. Why is this? on the side of excess. Why have we come to this low sure that the Southern force was state, spite of the teachings and under rather than over this numthe triumphs of the party of ber. Our line was so thin that

We feel

when broken, the enemy thought that the skirmish line and not the line of battle was broken.

great moral ideas? Is it not because the pulpit and the press have proclaimed that there is but one sin-rebellion, and but one virtue-loyalty? History has repeated itself. We have drifted back to the teaching of the reign of Charles II. of England. Then was, in fact, about 5,000 until 3 the only sinner was the rebel, and o'clock in the afternoon, when the only holy man was the loyal

So the Confederate strength at South Mountain has, we believe, never been set down by our late enemies at less than 40,000. It

Longstreet came up.

ist. The stealing, the licentious- Gen. Casey claims in his official ness, the awful depravity of that reign constitute still the darkest blot on the page of English his tory.

To escape a similar stigma upon our own national life, the press and the pulpit must go back to

report that his works at Seven Pines were assaulted by 30,000 men. They were carried by 9,000.

It was a grim joke of Mr. Lincoln that he had discovered that the Confederates had 3,000,000 of men in the field, because he had

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1,000,000, and his men were al- mental philosopher can explain) ways getting overpowered by hav- between the sublime and ridicuing an odds of three to one against lous, between smiles and tears, them!

between the solemn and the fantastic, that we can relish a rich

Napoleon, on his retreat from joke even in our abject and pitiaMoscow, had a very remarkable ble condition. conversation at Wilna, Poland, We are not sure that the Adwith the Abbé de Pradt, in which dress of the Union Republican he again and again repeated, party of North Carolina would "there is but a step from the sub- not have amused us under any lime to the ridiculous." Most circumstances, but we think it men have experienced the fact highly probable that our humiliathat under the most solemn cir- ting surroundings have given a cumstances, their attention has peculiar relish for this "feast of been called to something grotesque fat things."

and unseemly. A titter in Church, It seems that some loyal North at some ridiculous sight, does not Carolinians attended the negro necessarily prove levity of mind - Convention, at Raleigh, expecting, often just the reverse. The pow- good simple souls! that their erful orator can the more easily colored friends would be highly bring back an audience to laugh- honored thereby, and would give ter, which he has just drowned in them the upper seats, in the synatears. Criminals, who have been gogue. The Address complains respited under the gallows, state touchingly, that the honors were that their minds were occupied not conferred upon these loyal about the most insignificant triv- sons of the old North State, but ialties, the dress and appearance upon persons who were not naof the crowd, the color and size of the horses conveying them to the place of execution, and even the spokes of the wheels in the

tives of the State-euphony for Radical emissaries. To our mind there is something inexpressibly comic in this picture, of the loyal

prison cart. Even amidst the whites standing with smiling carnage and horrors of the battle- faces listening to hear some sable field, a ludicrous incident would Chesterfield courteously saying, be sure to call out roars of laugh- "dear brothers, come up higher," ter. We have known a frighten- instead of which Sambo, in his ed rabbit to be cheered most coarsest corn-field dialect blurts vociferously, and no heartier out, "the white trash from Norf shout ever went up than that Calliner will take de back seats which attended the soldier's ad- and dem wot fout to set us free dress to the running rabbit, "go will set on de platfom!" Isn't it it, cotton-tail, if I had not a repu- rich? It beats Longstreet's pun tation at stake, I'd follow your about the wave-offering. It is alexample!" most equal to the Congressional

It is probably owing to this joke about the insecurity of life mysterious connection, (which no and property at the South, and