Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1885 — An Interesting Souvenir. [ARTICLE]

An Interesting Souvenir.

By politeness of Mr. L. L. Daugherty, The Republican has long had in its possession a sac smile copy of the Vicksburg Daily Citizen of the date ol July 2nd, 1883 being the last issue of the paper before that great rebel stronghold was entered by the conquering troops oi General Grantlwo <l:iys later. A Union printer who entered the city with Grant had found the form the rebel paper and after inserting a brief notice of the surrender of the city printed a number of copies of the paper on wall paper for distribution among the soldiers. A few extracts will be found interesting : “On Dit.—That the great Ulysses—the Yankee Generalissimo, surnamed Grant—has expressed his intention of. dining in Vicksburg on Saturday next, and celebrating the 4th of July by a grand dinner and so fourth. When if ho would invite Gen. Jo. Johnstqn to join he said: ‘No! for fear there will be a row at the table’. Ulysses must get into the city before Jie dines in it. The way to took a rabit is ‘first catch the rabit’, 6'c,” The note by the Union printer, above referred to will follow here, very appropriately : —; - , t ?. - “Note —July, 4th, 1863—Two days bring about great changes. The banner of the Union Boats over Vicksburg. Gen . Grant has ‘caught the rabit:’he has dined in Vicksburg, and he did bring his dinner with him. The •Citizens’ lives to see it. For the last time it appears.on ‘Wall Taper.’ Ko more will it eulogize the luxury es mule-meat-and fricassed kitten —urge Southern warriors to such 1 diet never more," This is the last wall-paper edition, and is, excepting this not, from the types as we found them. I will be valuable hereafter as a curiosity.” The following contains a fine specimen of the abusive methods Which prevailed among the southern editors of that day, and derives a special interest from the incidental mention made of General Milroy, whom the editor evidently to bo a general of very high rank: Good News.—ln devoting a large portion of our space this morning to Federal intelligence, copied from the Memphis Bulletin of the 25th, it should be remembered that, the news, in the original truth, is whitewashed by the Federal Provost Marshal, who desires to hood wink the poor Northern white slaves. The. foormer editora of the Bulletin being rather pro .-southern men, were “arrested for speaking the truth when truth was unwelcome to Yankeedont, and placed in the chain-gang working at Warrenton, where they now are. This paper at present is in duiesg,' and edited by a pink-nosed, slab-sided, toad-eating Yankee, who is a lineal descendant of Judas Iscariot, aud a brother germain of the greatest Puritanical, sycophantic; howling sceundrel unhung—Parson Brownlow. Yet with such character, paper cannot cloak the fact that Gen. Rofit. E. Lee Tas given I lookdr, Milroy & Co cne of , the best and soundest whippings on 1 record, and the “glorious Union” is I now exceeding weak in the kness.