A Blue Time--The Major Wins a Hat of the President--The Richmond
Expedition of Gen. McClellan--Mr. Lincoln's Trick on the Major--A
Letter from Jerusha Matilda Jenkins--She gives her Experience in
Negro-Teaching--Priscella Huggins and Elder Sniffles--Cloe, the
Negro Girl who "Could not be Good unless she was Licked"--A Negro
Meeting--Dancing and Singing--The Unpleasant Odor--Negroes Steal
Miss Huggins' Clothes--They Purloin Jerusha's Petticoat--It is
Thought that their Religion is not "Very Deep"--Mr. Lincoln Hears
the Letter Read--He Declares that Port Royal is a "Cussed Hole"
--Deacon Jenkins Shocked--He Proves it by the Scriptures. 48