Show VAR 5 T desolations 0 L ATIO ay 1 pl homem naem tr 3 pl aphis JIS bald bulletin tin gives a L vivid picture of tile track of war through throda 0 ten 1 there is iia a portion of this state so devastated by civil war as to be practically abandoned by tile the foot of man tile the men are slum boring bering at shiloh corinth and stone river 5 tile the servants have gained their freedom the women and children have fled to more remote and quiet precincts F falling alling in 1 1 I 1 behind the retiring footsteps foot steps stops of humanity come the four footed beasts and creeping 0 things 6 the fox makes his burrow under the ruined dwellie dwelling 0 where a happy people once dwelt the serpent crawls under the floor of the church aud and schoolhouse the squirrel chatters and builds his nest upon the locust tree in the old yard once noisy with the mirth of children the gum garft is rotting in the cool spring the partridge whistles from the ridgepole of the cabin the wild bee seeks a storehouse for his honey fearless of detection by the human man eye allis all is returning to a state of nature |