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Show Original Profanity. A correspondent sends the following follow-ing to the New York Sun: How li this? Private James Burns, Battery E, First United States Artillery, covered cov-ered with a wet blanket, lying flat to keep from being roasted by the fiamei of the burning big barracks, which were driven in sheets, where we wer trying to protect ourselves on the morning of April 13, 1861, at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, jumped up when his blanket began to sizzle, and yelling, "Hell's bells and blue blazes!" made a dash for the cistern, drew up a bucket of water and turned it over himself. |