“None but cow-hearted men, Europeans to wit,
“Run away like a herd of scared cattle;
“True Yankees! when licked, may Skedaddle a bit,
“But ne’er run like base cowards in battle!”
Miraculous.
Two brothers named Fish were drafted in the city of New York, out of Twenty Seven-street The facetious Abe hearing this, at once declared it to be “A most miraculous draught of fishes.”
Liquor, Boys.
A number of clergymen of the Beecher school waited on the President with a memorial, signed by 7,000 religious Presbyterians, requesting that General Grant be removed on the ground of drunkenness. They got a warm reception from Old Abe for their pains, who retorted thus: “Only tell me,” said he, “where he buys his liquor, I will be obliged to you, and will send a cask of the same liquor to every general in the army.”
Seasonable.
Alluding to one of the great battles recently fought, the President, in bidding farewell to the general said, “I hear that the rebels complain of a want of salt, I hope when you return you will be able to inform me that after you have as-(sault)ed them they will have been sufficiently peppered.”