The Weekly Journal, 1865-07-07

living It. kiss you?but tbey don't dare to do it.' Well,1" said the gall suit General, "if they want to kis me, why don't thoy ? No one has o'ered to since J. have b:en here." lusiantly j about a iiundnU furiespounced vpon Liuii iie< attempted a retreat, but in vain; lie essayed to iircak through the rosy ranks, without success. ' hen lor the lirst time, !Tc_ eoi;fes.-( 'l himself ainjukLcJ, and calmiy awaited the event. Never was such a man subjected to such an ordeal. is)n came the maidens by squads, iu file, or?.singly; they bit liiiu on the forehead, pelted him on the forehead, pelted bim on Lis nose, smacked him on the check, chin and neck. Thorn must be dozens of kisses lying around loose hidden iu the General's whiskers, ihirii .; this terrible ordeal the hero of a hundred battlefields blushed until his face became

results of the wai. If tlie Southern peoph- accept that result ehc.rfui'y, and adapt them- j selves to tlif cliangid relations which it will i involve, the Interests pt'lhc v;ho]e country re- j quire that they he encouraged iu every poso.-l hlv way. The amnesty proclamation of May-, i'htii, therefore, is ouly the fust step of the j President iu that direction. 11, will soon he 1 followed Ly another, reducing the number or i excepted classes, and containing other liberal i provisions towards the citizens of ttic Southern States. The President realizes that the object of the war was ro res'ore the Union, and not to airedisli slavery, or to c-s.for the rights of citizen ship upon negroes. Lie intends that the object shall he accomplished, and that the UHioii shall h? restored upon such principle's that it will ho hereiifter indissoluble. But lie j

1)U xiuriu, I1U UUUUi, UU JUil3l, UU TT con 1U1 U1B, where am I to go ? I'm stibjugated, whipped, ,?'j conquered, anything you please. I'm a deuced sight better Union man than you.' I'm for Andy Johnson, Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, am in favor of the abolition of slavery and all that sort of thinggr Union r-4Welll I'llhavc you arrested anyhow. You're n rebel.' ?'Arrested ! Look a here?(pulling out a package of papers) there's twenty oaths I've taken besides being paroled. Why, I've sworn myself into another tophet to-get out of , that infernal Confederacy. Here's my brother., who has always.been a Union man, aod now furnishes me with the funds for speculation, South. I am going down to Savannah to sea if I can't buy my form back- again, Good? by!' ' " *