Ups and Downs of life.
--In the ‘"Volunteer Southrons,"’ recently arrived from
Vicksburg, Mississippi, is a gentleman who a number of years ago was the competitor of his
Excellency Jefferson Davis,
President of the
Confederate States, for the office of State representative, and beat him. One who still maintains his position as an honorable citizen of his State, now a volunteer under the
Confederate flag of the
South; the other has been elevated to the high position of the
Chief Magistrate of our country, and is wielding the helm of the nation.
Such is life.
No man can tell what the revolution of the wheel of fortune has in store for him; and when we least expect, we may drop into spheres of action which has never intruded within the scope of our calculations.