VICKSBURG &UItiy@ THE TROUBLE.

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dowering weeds. The battered remnant of the marble monument
has been removed to the National Cemetery.

On the road, a quarter of a mile townward, an aged coloured man
showed us, with pride, an unexploded bomb-shell which has lain in
his yard since the day it fell there during the siege.

business streets and

* I was a-stannin* heah, an* de dog was
a-stannin* heah; de dog he went for de shell,
gwine to pick a fuss wid it; but I didn't;
I says, " Jes' make you'seff at home heah;
lay still whah you is, or bust up de place,
jes* as you's a mind to, but 7*s got business
out in de woods, 7 has ! "'

Vicksburg is a town of substantial
pleasant residences; it commands the com-

merce of the Yazoo and Sunflower Rivers; is pushing railways in