The Camden Journal, 1864-06-17

B ' 0 not usually taken. We mw about a thouI, however, pas* down the *reet yesterday. |U Hie most marvellous thing about this bailie be small low of our army, At 12 o'clock, 61 learn from undoubted aUlhontrjjoog^vci'* pe bad not loot a hundred men in killed and C< unded. A few hundred* will cover our ole loa*. Since N?w Orleans, when Gen# p, k*on said, "scarce a sprig of cypr&tti was ro igled with tbt wreathe of lattfcl," there? ha* | in nothing like this, When the Yankee* mi upicd those tame line* from wbi& we have t rvpnlscd them with tuch terrible slaughter, C< drove them from them. At that time they he much stronger than they arc now. This C< I alone would be sufficient to show which the best troops. Devoutly thankful should i whole Confederate State* be to that Prori- j ice which has watched over u* in this great i (a< jis, and under Htm to thai brave army, and it irreat General, who have turned our da? i

ftl it for not being Wronger, How tbal jolly w "wandering minstrel^ Ilosn^rft would have re- wo' tithed a good Irish wbUhcv punch after a day4* wandering during a spell of that incle- ^*c roent weather from which *lfcc Itie* of Greece" niii arc not exempt/' bet By the war, during the ptvraience of tbir ^ warm weather, tuch thing* must giro place to ' thinner potation#. We would therefore, sug- mc geat the following as cot bard to swallow : Tahc a sufficient quantity of ice ?(if yon ^ J cat* g*t it); pot it in the bottom of a glass? *T* the laigtat me of glan is preferable ; fill tbc ghutt about three-fourth* full of champagne (if ^ef cm you can get it), then let the l^ilancc be claret ^ (if you can get it)? then? why then, try it, of( that*# ail. Thert are imw things, and the to I only serious objection coositta in the difficulty cor -I-1-'-.--- mairriftk

*nd acquiring a UjM? for ciHtworal ami oihrr ^vt potent beverages dealt out by U?? wtJci*, for ** f>f ooisrvr thry bad sutler* ; and of eoorw iJ?c P711 Miller* had eomcihing to *ell that mould make no* drunk eoroe, although dt*t?llrd spirit* for lint! *-t purpose i* a modern invention. That open* J*n< up a new field of reflection, dual to think of oor wtpcriontT over the iirwkr, Roman* and ^ Egyptian*, antediluvian and other ancient people*. Solomon in all hi* glorr nerer had a ke? mint julep. The grandest feasts of the Roman Emperors could not Urn* \ Turkey?the most j meditative philosopher never toothed him*clf j 1 with tobacco. Fancy I'lalo walking through w the grove* of the Academy with a pipe in hi* *oc^ mouth, imagine Achilles, who was no phi- ^ loaophcr, getting "high" on Pury ear's beat, l% * while Thermit*** stole bit cock tall, and railed w?

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