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lsagsrs, tall you hut they wa: aIi 90 Keen ar r~r 9lIe sF2iueral. that aIl and Capt. Finny T culgld do. we c0Uldu'e keep the line strait 1; and they an got into such smart that you D,irht as well tey to straiien n sheep's wool.

 The bell was ringing ala the while-two l people was up there with stone hammers nOUntljn on her, cage uncle J0sh had gone ] and took the hell rOpe, and tied one een'd ont I to the steeple, and carried 'tOlher eend over to the DeacOn's chiMbly more than l9 rods of and every inch ont was hung full Of flags, and where there want DO flags he had got all the cloth out of the fullin mill. and the gals and Downingville boys had gin all their hand kerchors and gowns and flannel shirts, and 1t was so high up, and the wind kinder struck 'em all together so you conld'nt trtI check shirt frOm an old Continental. The Ginerai was tickled half tO death says he, major, that looks about right . It does so' says I, GinpraL if that ai0t Union dent knOw.'- | He's as keen as briar to catch any thing cummin--he don't care where he is he snOrts right out.

 1 As soon as we got down to the meetin house door, Zekiel Bigelow gin him the ad-

 dress. It was stuck us full Of Latin words here and there like burs in tho wool of stray ;sheep and Zekiel, who know eeny most ev- 1 cry thing, dont know Latin yet-he keeps the packing yard. and salts down more fsh than any man tn three counties round and it was real curis how he got along. He'd throw l in the sAlt. and then the pickle and the nitre, 1 fest IeSile at time--and when he come to talk to tAe Gineral about preservin the Union and the Constitution, it was jist the thing and when lie talk'd about them are Nnlliliers -he cut, and shaved and made the scales fly, | tell you--every hair on the Ginera.'s head stood strait on eend--and there stood that crit

 CT Ezekiel right afore him, talking like book, and his head was as smooth, and every hair on it slick'd down with dipp'd candle, and that are kew of bis wO'd tell the folks behind which way his eye turn'd just us well us tho they were lOokin strait in his face-caze tt kinder lodg'd on his collar, and every time he look'd up, it would stand still minet and point strait np in the air. W! ,-sa

 g Then come the Gineral's turn-his heart was so full he coo'd but just speak.-and was jyst a going to begin for bim--when out he came. .. .sas,S4m8@f

 "My friends" says he. .'thc' tell'd lem down South, my. father was m IrishMan and my mother too, am as clear Yankee (and ne turn'd and looking round him, slap'd his hand on my shoulder) [. as the Major him- \ self" says he, ..and lie knows it." "So I do,'' says I, {" Gineral, tell'd lem all so often enough." 1T will presaFve the Union, I'll be haDg'd and choak'd to death if don't and l when want pickle shall know where to 6nd it. I atn glad to hear you say that salt petre once in a while Is goOd-E always tho'i lso-and ifihe constitution spiles in ,ny hands foi the want of it-I won't stand another cleo

 tion." Hero the Giheral was goin to stop,

 but says ! in his ear, {" you must give una a | eel Y Hs.s hal mwsr ---ss E btIribus uhum" says he, 'my trends -"sine qua non." "That'll do, Gineral,' T saysI; and then we tnrR'd to, end shook all the folks round till dinner time-and then we made tke bake beans and salt pork fly, and

 the cider too. tell you. The folks hadn'l eat nothing since got on the ground. Arter I dinner, | telrd the Gineral about that are blasted rascal En0ch Bisse who tuck'd ih the grass 'waddin. "That's the same fell0w,' says I, !" Major Barry turn'd out of the Post I Office. ! knew he was a scamp, and if he wasn't ihen he is noic' -" why, Major" says the Gineral, ",it was just 90 with that internal rascal RandolE he didn't desarve what ! gin him gt0re he atfacted ne, he sartalnly did, Afterwards: and where's the odds !" PIa- guy iittle." says I," Gineral.'' @

 Tonight we're going to qniltin to Unclel Josh's. Miss WiIloby the Deacon's eldest Uuuscs ts SPtuSsU WV w it--suS sD s"sssNs sVO old tO be handsome, but she is keen crittur, and always has something to say. The Gin eraDyand Mir. Van Buren both talk about her considerable. If the Gineral don't keep a sharp look out, MT. Van Buren will go clean ahead of him on that tack--for he is the per iiiest cretur amongst the women you ever see. The Gineral says he must have some Ofl our Yankee gals in the Cabinet next winter -and kinder have notiOn there will bel some hitchin teens doune here abo0ts aiOre we quit. Fa @ sa3Fff1 'sF @

 Wc. shall go strait from here to Sarasoque .-and wash inside and out there. \ expect we shall all need washin afore we get there. This is the longest letter | ever writ in my lie, hut I'm, to hum now,--It would cost you good many of your odd ninepsnces guess to pay the postage if 1t wsrn't for the Presi- deOt--he franks all my letters-and that ain't what he does for most folks. ts

 may tell you about the quilsin frolic to- night in my next--but wont promise. for have jist as much as can do here. 10 do all the chores for the Gi0eral--and write near about 6fiy letters day for him. ,i M

 Yours to sarye.

 ,. DOWNING, Major, Downingville,

 Militia- -2d Brigade. | F'ratricide. .-The Lynchhurg virginiaU gives horrid detail of . murder committed in Penn sylvania county, Va, on the 10th inst. hy Armistead Cralt, jr. under the reOfland in inc ngeseuce of hie father. It appeared ssthat