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Richmond, Jan. 2.--Quite a number of new-fangled flags are exhibited in the window of the Despatch office.
The latest picture, which is gotten up with great care and neatness, represents a tri-color--three bars of equal width running horizontally — the lower black, the middle purple, the upper white, with stars in it. The black bar is designed to notify mankind that the confederacy “sprung from Black Republicanism.”
Hah! How would a buzzard, sitting on a cotton-bale, with a chew of tobacco in his mouth, a little nigger in one claw, and a palmetto tree in the other, answer?
Nothing could be more thoroughly and comprehensively Southern.--Charleston Mercury.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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