r hev three sons?"

"He did," sed I.

"Berry good. Wuz dey all brudders?"

"Uv course."

"Ham come from the same fadder and mudder as the odder two?"

"C-e-r-t-i-n-l-y."

"Well, den, it seems to me--not fully understandin the skripters--dat if
we is beasts and beastesses, dat you is beasts and beastesses also, and
dat, after all, we is brudders." And the disgustin old wretch threw his
arms around my neck, and kissed me, callin me his "long lost brudder."

The officer uv the Freedmen's Bureau laft vosiferously, and so did a
dozen or two soljers in the crowd likewise; and the awjence slunk out
without adjournin the meetin, one uv em remarkin, audibly, that he had
notised one thing, that Dimocrisy wuz extremely weak whenever it
undertook to defend itself with fax or revelashun. For his part, he'd
done with argyment. He wanted niggers, because he cood wallop em, and
make em do his work without payin em, wich he coodent do with white men.

I left the meetin house convinst that the South, who worked the niggers,
leavin us Northern Dimokrats to defend the system, hed the best end uv
the bargain.

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

XXIII.

The Workings of the Freedmen's Bureau.--A Report.

CONFEDRIT x ROADS
(wich is in the Stait uv Kentucky),
May 27, 1866.

TO HIS EGGSLENCY THE DISPENSER UV POST ORIFICES, ANDROO JOHNSON,
PRESIDENT UV THE UNITED STATES:

In akordance with yoor esteemed request, dated the 25th, and received
this morning, I to-wunst proceeded to make doo enquiry ez to the workin
uv the Freedmen's Burow, and the condishun uv the Afrikin citizens uv
Amerikin descent in this vicinity. The fact that a Ablishnist still
holds the Post Orifice at the Corners (wich place, by the way, I hev
been solicited to accept), interfered materially with the bizines I hed
in hand. I to-wunst tooted the horn, ez is the custom when we hev
religious servis, and called my congregashun together. They kum runnin
in from the different groceries; and here another difficulty ensood. The
grosery keepers wanted to know what we wuz a going to hev meetin on week
days for? They wuz willin to shut up doorin meetin time on Sundays, ez
they respected the church, and it give em time to sweep out the
te