The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1862., [Electronic resource]

Refined Literature.

‘ One of the Nelsons of the Nile of America, Commodore Farragut, (not a very euphonious patronymic,) is now a subject of general laudation among the loyalists. Everybody is trying to make a praiseful pun on his name, but the worst, (for a bad pun is often the best,) is that of a male Mrs. Partington, who exclaimed on hearing of his victory at New Orleans: "Farragut — a devilish good fellow; for he has severed the farthest guns of there-bally-ton" This is almost too infamous to print but as we desire to consign the author to perdition in our pages, we let it go.

Slide-hell pushed Louisiana into secession, and Love-hell deserted it. The one left after he had tried to ruin his own people, and the other after he could not save them. May neither be compelled to realize the blessings of that Arcadia which an offensive Englishman would syllable in the melodious termination of their respective names.

Now that New Orleans has fallen, Mobile must come into the embrace of our forces, willing or unwilling. Both of these cities have musical and almost reminisce names, and like fair ladies, they may be very stubborn until they get hungry But now that we not only conquer but feed sweet Orleans and sweeter Mobile, they submit to our gentle propositions.

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