that noble State, one may perhaps preserve enough uv the old Dimokratic
States Rites to leaven the whole lump.

"I'm aflote--I'm aflote
On the dark rollin sea."

And into what harbor fate will drive my weather-beaten bark, the
undersigned can not trooly say.

Noo Gersey--farewell! The world may stand it a year or two, but I doubt
it.

Mournfly and sadly,
PETROLEUM V. NASBY,
Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Dispensashun.




II.

A Conversation with General McStinger, of the State of Georgia, which
is interrupted by a Subjugated Rebel.


WASHINGTON, D.C., NOV. 18, 1865.

Sence the November elections I hev bin spendin' the heft uv my time in
Washinton. I find a melankoly pleasure in ling'rin around the scene uv
so many Demokratic triumphs. Here it wuz that Brooks, the heroic,