Federal Gexeraxs. — The present occupation of same of the Federals Generals may be considered worthy of note : — " Burnside, the Times informs us, is a railroad agent in the Pennysylvania oil region ; Butler is a Massachusetts manufacturer ; Schtirr is the "Washington correspondent of the Neio York Tribune ; Sigel is the editor of a German paper in Baltimore ; Franklin is superintending Colt's armoury at Hatford ; W. S. Smith, of the cavalry , is selling groceries at Chicago ; M. F. Patrick, provost-niarshal-genoral of Grant's army, is a New York farmer ; Ferreo is teaching dancing ; Percy Wyndham is a fencing master. Among the Confederates, Buckner is a New Orleans' editor ; Gardiner, of Port Hudson memory, is a local reporter ; the General who drove olf Frankiin and his 15,000 troops at the famous attack upon Sabine Pass is a bar-keeper at Houston, Texas ; C. F. Anderson was first a butcher, but now an auctioneer; D. M. Thomas is a clerk in a Missisippi river steamboat-5-Por-rest runs a saw-mill in Tennessee, and Wheeler is a commission merchant at Agusta Georgia." It is said that the late Chief Baron Thompson was a very facetious companion over the bottle, which he much enjoyed. At one of the judges', dinners during the assizes, there was present, a certain dignitary of the Church, "When the cloth was removed, the very reverend guest said, " I always think, my lord, that a certain quantity of wine does a man no harm after a good dinner," — " Oh, no, by no means," replied the Chief Baron ; " it's the uncertain quantity that does all the mischief!"
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Southland Times, Volume VI, Issue 495, 15 June 1866, Page 3
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313Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Southland Times, Volume VI, Issue 495, 15 June 1866, Page 3
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