213

LETTER CIII.

Being another and final Christmas Report. Including a Small Story
from our Uncle Abe. A Circular from the Secretary of State. A
Supernatural Carol from Sergeant O'Pake. And a tremendous
Ghost-Story from an unappreciated Genius. 222

LETTER CIV.

Explaining, in a lucid and perfectly satisfactory Manner, the
powerful Inactivity of that portion of the venerated Mackerel
Brigade residing before the ancient City of Paris, and presenting
certain genial Details of a recent Festive Conglomeration. 243

LETTER CV.

Being our Correspondent's last Effort prior to the Commencement of a
new Mackerel Campaign. Introducing a metrical Picture of the most
remarkable Single Combat on Record. And showing how the Romance of
Woman's sensitive Soul can be crushed by the thing called Man. 254

LETTER CVI.

Wherein will be found certain profound Remarks upon the Variations
of Gold, etc., and a wholesome little Tale illustrative of that
famous Popular Abstraction, the Southern Treasury Note. 261

LETTER CVII.

Recording the latest Delphic Utterances of One whom we all honor
without knowing why. And recounting the truly marvellous Affair of
the Fort built according to Tacitus. 267

LETTER CVIII.

Narrating the utterly unparalleled Conquest of Paris by the
venerable Mackerel Brigade, after Three Days' inconceivable
Strategy. In Fact, a Battle-Report after the Manner of all our
excited Morning Journals. Upon perusing which, each Reader is
expected to wrap himself up in the American Flag and shake his fist
at Combined Europe. 277

LETTER CIX.

Which endeth the Third Volume of this inexpressibly veracious
History of the War. And showeth how a Great Republic finally
overcame its surpassingly Mendacious Foes, and how it evinced its
unspeakable Gratitude to Providence for such a Victory. 289

THE

ORPHEUS C. KERR PAPERS.

THIRD SERIES.

LETTER LXXX.

REPORTING OUR UNCLE ABE'S LATEST LITTLE TALE; OUR CORRESPONDENT'S
HISTORICAL CHAUNT; THE BOSTON NOVEL OF "MR. SMITH;" AND A FUNERAL
DISCOURSE BY THE DEVOUT CHAPLAIN OF THE MACKEREL BRIGADE.

WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 4th, 1863.

The more I see of our Honest Abe, my boy,--the more closely I analyze
the occasional acts by which he individualizes himself as a unit
disti