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iGreat Virginia & Tennessee Line
Is now ojien, ami th«
Southern Transportation Cos.,
It* war rising throßjli lUi.t.s i.atm so to
SEW YORK, at SH-5», to
BALTIMORE, at 13.25
|yrM*«n««vii<A, <w Tim AnsrSTt and SA
VAVSAM, laMtfwxwp mnd New York ml HL3B.
j Y«»e bride”* *»eing repair••<l on the \ tiyini.t am?
• TVs www l^nf.goods go North and «oue Dontli
wtliiwi attv (Wav.
tharawrii* vtxirtwt. cheapest. and <jTiickr->*t
I unm and itrsaran-oe less toy either. than any
iglitr r-wtre. 1 irfivrr to Railroads. <snisign to y<*u r
Till mill X«(rth. ststiti*: mo;«, s. n«i Railroad irwipt
•a mo, and Iwi ll give Hir> *ueh Rill Lmlind. Kx-
Toltorv oonon topoini of declination.
Cli AS. J. WIUIAMSOX,
Ae~l Soohorn Transportation ('•>..
iaaST ts at T. A. RUKlM'SulSnr, Macon, (in.
PROSPECTUS OF
The Masonic Messenger,
MACON. GA.
M*» »nir M<-SK*'i!srer m ill poltlwbe.l as a
!*■(«»< m ;<»rty-ei£kl pages—the first
BBinlvr to t* i«n<si liuSifirnt number
at subscrtwys is |*mctsrert.
Tt«o pa*:,'* oi tile Messenger aril! la' devote! to
Oncmai i aanmunioiui.OK, Selected AHirlffi, For
eign an.! Jwn.—lK-. .creepondonee, Masiuiic Juns-
I Brudmrf. lie;*n-is of Mascstir Bodies, Reviews and
Bil4««r»f»fi:cjd Vetoes. Masonic News. Kdit<s
rtsK. MtßceHa.it*<>bv Mattel, and all else that will
bo likely to li«ler*ss mi- Masonic reader.
7tM«.ri will l«r aw Wished in tl»e t>est style of
tkr*n.md tfce Fititovs will use every means in
Uxor power no render It in every tray acceptable to
tSbMm:—Five I<oilars. jvumf'te in advance.
Advertferment wilt he ’n*'rie! on liberrl terms.
4. KUUCT
Macon, Oj.
4. AFTT.TON KLArKSii’rAR. Americus, Oa_
Kni'.rtßs
i dv> IllMten in relation the Literary or Bnsi
«■ interest of the Mcawncrer. wiil be addressed
Bla.-ksuaab. Mncor., Ga.
MATT. YORSTOX.
Mio|«r, Was Filler k He p:»ir< r,
Itelfe fawnf aft ihe “desrsal and Messenger office
| and €Un Wort*.
JANIARY, Ist, tKB
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Minna, fjfrpa Morniu?. Fobraary 10.
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MKRCHA>rreL
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APPLSIUX \t>Y fc> 4 CO.
miK*j&*'*£* »
SOOTS AND SHOES,
vt* it« \r*T;i j«lik
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t.ffHMLB V. L &.L IISfIL. i. V f » S&TXi».
STiilM.'KiL ALLEN £ CO,
.l44N<V.fcfTS >!.-!</ n\'t'j(f%t.’t
»tuss 3
CLOTHING,
IW ai;*S ibj 'laia M.
a*s-S»l S*T. f.-^I'JS.
fciil*— . » f»CK- <sns. SIS?? TOin. j
EA LS FOUNDRY,
.laic St_, J»t «. Carr aad Sid4lc.
ST. LOT IS, VO.
Crosier, Bater Sc Cos.,
ftoi man to UXfilT. CVIIES i COJ
usmcmotgr
Stli* DfGWSS. sniXUU MAC2ISXSI
NKTuu ud -rinr>suT loiuts,
u» 'am iso.l WORK
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ill Aiwaj-kw H.W.
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samx McCartney t co.,
WHOLESALE GKGCEBS,!
oT WiiK*;* jtiuL LlquofS*
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* Rectifiers ftf Whisk v,a' *
HO
m-iOal* *T- 1.01 IS, JMC*' 1
ST. LOCK HOT PftessEO -
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STONED DUR T EH
Hp, . UAXUFACiyi&K&S
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WMOiK!> A L * D■ A E.-K R * 1 SV
SADDLERY AND IS PORTtsIW Os
Saddlery Hardware, r
Ml HAM STHKKr, ■> . *Jg
—»-«■ "art. i t ot iB. *'
PETERSEN, HAWTHORN 4 wM
r ****** * j'!
sad4kHrr, Hard warr. t'ltarh-Triai
■nings, leather am! ‘ -J,.
SO. 170, SOITB MAI* STREET, % ..-■-v J
mtt-fa* ST. LOIIS, HON
DO\VDALL, HARRIS & CO:,
WASHINGTON FiiU\DRT,
KXiiIXE AND n4CHIHfi SH#P,
C '-rn*:r Second anil M^ r gan Sts ,
ST. LOUIS. .
VanaUctuier, of a*earn Ki<iue-< arid Koilevs, Suit and
Qcist Si ill Sf»ihin**y, Siafltf ,n! ilo ible Ci(,'aUr Sair
Hills, T >b».j, S:ri»i m I i*re((«, Linl S-*ll«. Urf
Sort-*, ao4 Oylia leri, # iol Cirdia* d*r.hiaes, Bjii.iir.*
o*i>is-<-, Yoonr’s Improved Psleni Smut Slip,,
MSis, (j isrti Mills, be id firmce Cidiiir*, Hl _,t fans,
etc. A?eats for toe sxle of .l-sines 3 nith * Co.*» Super ;or
Macmine Cards, .ud OH Weil Msch nery. 3aiii*
MLOHun. raurnioAin. divid a. rgAoirros.
KINGSLANDS FERGUSON,
pikesix Foundry and
A<; R LOU fa T U R A L W 0 It K S|,
Cor. Sppon'l :.I<l Cherry Sis.,
ST. LOUIS.
Manufacturers ot Rage’s % patent Pircal-.r Saw
Mills; m anti cil-r* of all sm; C n x &
Robe:ls : p t» nt T:.re< ? »?r and Cew r; hand and Dover
Co»-q »*s; E Ra'ii*'* Obin Vow-r and Reaper; Cotton
Q*Wi C«»tU»" re
; ia*« ol «Vf-rjr d*r«cripUon. cov9-So>d
NOTICK.
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’ fpilF Ontiilitiors mii ler which rlic late suhscrip
| 1 t»a I* l ti>c Miih'dgjf-vilicitiilromi having been
j v.intj-Med v.-il!i. and i!i.- work resuiued, a chII of
j; ; !.! t. rly-Sve per cent, ♦. Jiereby made on the
J fibers, tliis amount due l>y lormer
: sto.-ki:o?dors. Fiiymenfs can be made at the First
i National Bank of Macon.
JXO. P. KING,
i’resident.
srr.
KETAIIC CASES,
CASKETS,
\t'•» ill COFFINS, o>v<>re.l with Broadcloth,
l \ Velvet orA l|i:i:-;v, c-to. Walnut, Maliogauy,
and Rose Wood, always on hand.
Bimans. Roadsteads, Sofas, Wardrobes, etc.
For Sale by O. WOOD,
’ Foot Third Street.
•*#* iV;egm;>b copy 3 months.
H NRY & JOHN IMRI TANARUS, Jr.
V. CHAMBERS STREET NEW YORK.
\ Man jucturer* and Jobbers of
C LOTHTNG.
A Urge st*vk udsp’ed to Southern T.a.ie
jae?3-*?ai
Hals for she Freudmen.
'■‘■T’k tsre siwas.-n hand the Is’g-st and best as
s T s ned stork r.f H ATS in the city, which we
*ry ••ffeSejr 'a merchant and planters Hpen better terms
line ea- la ’a l eLewhere.
_I’L tNTEKS, if toii want HATS f.ir the Fieedmen,
(roe 'a m tmU and learn our prices.
MERCHANTS. if you want the best and cheapest
Safe, Mil at the store of T. W. Freeman,
treat**. a SHAW A CO.
M temt ki i Ifan
T.r.iwin.
CULLD n- A' KJkOE T*rt*FTLY
«a »w Y«fi at P*r.
I CLPLAHT.
' W"! ■inr un iato. ac as- «&£ Mi
xin~ TiiMhi ~ i uir imu ■i iiii i . ~rm~ir firwt.
- Bt«S a3to :*»*£ dfit
sILYEE.
BANK NOTESJ
L_ / .Sett.. ' nil. nr.
V i -mrjr
A l ' w%iife .i—jfci. i Jto ■!> —E&a
suni*. jaafi-tf
NW EPI
T' r BX km» rhs* f« nue-.i &
L sic iHn tnnsu*c»»a.t>fa
Co-mEiisiea Business
a.-ate.f
yt&: •. tXTF. A>stsiMT,
aa>i wSI **-*wr>x the
jfe€s»Hie A
A i.EXA\I>LK
t'U-Rtri. S-. JCCfEa,
J. S. DAY.
Sfctron. tVfc. Ist. fc*t»4
t t*> tlie iat>* firm of Me
.V i‘4l.t tg*Ji»sßi.OTrapwßiitt call and
settle the suue wnk elf ber of
AI.fSAMiF-: ScCAIJJE,
*tHO. s. J»>Sii
Mim-00. «J_ F.l*. i, —Lw .
J. W. LATEEOr- *. W. LATKiiOF.
J. W. LATHROP & CO,
FACTORS AND
Commission Merchants,
Savannah, Ga.
ja aS-iw*
■Dr. Strieklaii«r> S It. Strickland's Tonic fa
g Ba concentrated preparation
9 tor. wT p S-,f Roots and Herbs with
| TUXI io. ■ ■ii;:-a«-i.fa and cannina-
H V J.ivt. to strengthen the
* J>%J>Tnc 9r » oioandi and nervous sys
tm. It A remain re tnedy for Dyspepsia or In
dtoeation, N>nooiDes.< l/e* of Af.pet.tc. Acidi
tfa the Stomach. Rardieacy. and Debility. It is
Mjstcjfe)!ii\ therefore particalariy suited for
Rs.nan nas and dyspeptic persons. For sale by
tvetyyii.-re at $1 per bottle.
- DR.PTRICKLANiyg
I Kfi tOK I PILE REMEDY
f PI BBS • KHk eared thousands of the j
B jj». -7 Jjj ■worst eases of Biind and
LriMtec/ pm -Bleeding Piiea. It gives im-
s- “' ' mediate relief, and mtfeeto
» permanent Toko Try it direct it. It fa warrar..
krhJtUe fotlaleby all Druggists at 2 cents
-STKit -KLANDs
V" n MFI.LIFT.UOCS
rureCbughs, i vSs Brntseftcs, Asthma. Whoop
ing i »ueh. Ctir< *: Consumption, Rron
ehitfa mnd Croa|». pepared (rom Honey
■u4 Herhm, A is liesling, soiled? ng and expectora
t*9e, and panic dnriy suitable f*» all affections of
file Throat am. LunuA For *ale by Druggists
everywhere. \ • 'T-
T)IARRH(EA.
.Over IS,0P«? soldie-; were eared of Diarrhoea and
uraentery last year by the use of Dr. Strickland’s
Asti-i 'holera Mixture. The fact of its being used
■Extensively in the Hospitals is proof of the effl
■v'of Dr. Strickland's Anti-Cholera Mixture for
thAeureof amle end chronic cases of Diarrhoea
and Dj'sentyry. Tills is the only preparation
k Down as a sate and certain remedy for Cholera.
EN>«gf he without so valuable a medicine. Get a
kCi t i&.nf it tiirect !y. It is sold by all Druggists at
; per ■ uittle.
pt, J. H ZEILTX & CO.,
VjijiS-eodly Wholesale Agents.
' SSO UEWARD—NOTICE.'
STOLEN from the plantation of E. B. Atwater,
four miles east of Thomasion, Upson county,
G:»„ one mouse i-olored stud mule, large size, very
sharp hip bom-s, rather droop rump, about sevetf
or eigiit years oid, unshod, on the night of tlie
27th January, lS»i*t. I will pay (SSO) fifty dollars for
the mule and thief, cr '*2'p twenty-five dollars for
either. Anv information thankfully received by
the snbscrilier. E. B. ATWATER.
febl-codSt
Telegraph copy.
# FOR SALE,
riiHK RESIDENCE now occupied by Mr. TANARUS, A.
A Harris, situated corner of Popular and New
streets, near the residence of Gen. J. W. Arm
strong. The house is in good order, hasten rooms
pantries and closets. Lot, one half acre, good
stables and kitchens and well improved. One of
the most desirable residences for a business man
t hat has been offered for sale. lor terms apply on
the premises to Mrs. T. A. Harris, or to
GEO. S. OBEAR.
J. A. GRAYBILL,
Executor’s.
jamM-tf. Estate of T. A. Harris.
Tiie Latest Arrival
AT
TURPIN & HERTZ.
JUST RECEIVED -i targe and well selected stock of
OVKURO.VTS, Batiaess and Dress suits. Also,
the f.ate-t Styi *s of French, Euglish and American
Gass'iners. together with a tiue assortment of
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS,
which we offer tor sale to our friends and patrons, and
ihe public ia general, at the lowest prices, suitable to
everybody's means. Come and look, if we cannot suit
you, no chary.- wll !-» in and lor showing the best and
the cheupesi tin: to o v-t can afford,
Cioibi'tjr made 100. Jeron short notice, by Mons.
Rouse, hum Pa-is.
SKO. it. tckpix. J. n. bkbtz.
TURPIN 4 HERTZ,
Tri.iuotii «r Block Cherry Street,
<l.-c2.tr
BYRD & CO.,
Commission Merchants,
FOR THK SALE OF
COTTON, COTTON YARNS,
Sheetin'}*, Jeans, Sc-,
78 Chambers St., SSW YORK.
ip'u.tyiT*’ i Ljte t,r lUltimoPe ‘ Md -
Wm. Gregg. Jr., late of Grauiterille, 3. C.
James C. Smith, of New York.
ntn-7-lt
Dr. F. ti. CASTLEiV,
CllT\ PH \ AX. i4fh ward,) tenders bis pro
> f-SMoi.iil si.-vic» to itiecitiiens of Macon a.d
vic.Dity. Utile- over. be store of Bowdre 4 Anderson.
wbAe be may ho found during the day, when not pro
fessiotully engaged -at night at the residence of F. E.
Bowdre, on High Street.
Macon, Jan. 4-3n>
KXiRXAL AW KtSSafal^
3tn-ifc assjb Sk •*> Liecj *- -*as
ra is At- Ami *4 visaer.
Tft
fie aT**r*sA.»M *g» wfewtsi-i
n»rf 1 <HJ i«e uiirwl Os war.
g&isetotyf--druilsyftr Aef
totoV^wteCTeeiSMtaaathfaßtslehati
-Sti. Alsditf-df fctor wfi tt ts.
r sascra • sir naamefmst maA insty srSSt
«bi ck&hetrsvaai a sfejs#* basket Ki ad
MStiKtod cte eissneh. Camtis <wr
nffefgssg ifeigt sto iri—~ am. nf a?» b». xn^
uads. wSsst rrteyr>?fe<&aty3tw£ a Oae‘^i | rj>s»:
L.«se»f
«a anaist. Efce wsshard.
fc> per»«sive *m fieh tsrfeaslmsa. Mrs. Aip>!
are jt the opoaytjaa. tistr Jua-pewterity were
Rese-r as hnnarry beSixv ia their life ass orx
that dLsCrwrsia j<«.rney. anti iheoa.ee rt-i
ruarke l that there want nary r*i o£ the j
roani that di.laft hear atitae of them a h»>i
k-rin for vittles. My wile’s ha>han.l fe
treoWevl faekaose they aiat broke ofyrt.
ami it tii) seem, that the poorer I git the
more devourm they bekam. all of which
will eeod in smathia or other i£ sumthin.
don’t hapfen.
We finally arrive*l within the [-resakt
of our lovely home. The doors creaked
welcome on "their hinges, the hoppin-bog
eherrape«i on the hearth, and the whistlin
wind was sinrrin the some ol*l tone around
the bedroom corner. We were about as
happy as we were miserable, and when I
remarked that < ieneral Vandiver, who ok
kupied our house, must be a gentleman for
not bnmin it, Mrs. Arp replied—
‘*l wonder what he done with my soing
masheen T 1
“He didn’t cut down oax shade trees,”
said I.
“My buroes and carpets and crockery
are all gone,’’ said she.
“It may be possibul,” sed I, “that the
< lenrul ——” .
“And my liarrel of s«jap. M sed she.
“It may be sed I, “that the
Genrul movetl off <«ir things to take keer
of em for us. I reeou we’ll git cm all
back after while.”
“After while said Mis. Arp, like an ek
ko, and ever since then when I allood to
our Northern biethren, she only replies,
"■otter while.'
By and by the skattered wanderers be
gun to drop in un*ier the wek-uiu shades of
our sorrowful citty. It wer a delightful
enjoyment to greet em home, and listen to
the history of their sufierings and misfor
tunes. Misery loves company, and after
the misery is isist there’s a power of com
fort in tal'kin it over and lixin up as big a
tale as anybody. I wer standin one day
upon tl • banks of the Injun river, a woii
derin in mvimnd who would come next
to gladden rfor hearts, when I saw the
ahadder of an objek a darkniu the sun-lit
bank. It wer not a load of hay nor an
elefant. but shore emif it wer# my fiend
Big John, a movin slowly, but surely, to
the dug-out landing on the opposite side.
His big round face assoomed more latti
tood ,vhen he saw me. and without waitin
for n-marks he wnsootijS a voice some
two deeper tjjtfTT'the Southern Har
mony— ,4
"Tljfre '-Wo the beech a poor exile ol Erin."
fot, fJ aaiti l, “ andjTMg ? 1 lilt
name ot the eterrigl citty aad Hb humble
Inhabitants. I soflm got him afloat In the
little canoo, and before I was aware of it
the water was sloshing over the gunnels at
every wabble. “Lay down, my friend/’
sed I, and he laid, which was ail that saved
us from a watry grave, and the nabeorin
farms from inundation. When safely
landed, I found him wedgen in so tight
that he eouldent rise, so I relieved him by
a prize with the end of the paddle. As his
foot touched the stirred soil he goutly sep
arated his countenance and siu ; with feel
in melody,
“Home again—home agafn—from a fun-in shore.
The Yanks may enm and the devil too but Pit
not run any more.”
Recollektin some skraps of blank verse
myself, I said with much aksent, “Tell me
thou swift of foot—thou modern Asahel—
Oh tell me where is thy chariot and steer ?
Where didst thou go when I did see thee
driving like Jehu as we did flee for life?”
“I’ll tell you all,” said he, “I want my
friends to know it. I’m now a man of war,
Bill, and I’m glad of it. Ive done the state
some servis and she knows it. Ive han
dled guns—yes, guns—wcepins of deth. —
Ive slept on my arms since I seed you —
night after night have I slept on my arms,
with hundreds of deadly weepins all round
me. Ah, Bill, patriotism is a big thing.
When you once brake the ice, great sluces
of glory as big as your arm will just spring
up like mushrooms in your buzzum ; and
make you feel like throwin yourself clean
away for your country. Let me set down
and I’ll tell voii all 1 know, Bill, but as
the feller said in the theater, “when you
in your letters these unlucky deeds relate,
speak of me as I am—nothing expatiate
nor set down not in malice.”
“Jest so,” sed I, “exaaktly—exaaktly
so. Prosed, my hero.”
“Well, you see night after you passed
me, my steer got away. Hang the deceevin
beast! I hunted smartly for him the next
mornin, but I hunted more forreds than
backwards. Leavin my wagin with a
widder woman, I took it afoot across the
country by a settlement road they called
the “cut off.” Devil of a cut off it was to
me. I broke down in sight of a log cabin,
and never moved a foot further that day.
Tiie old man had a chunk of a nag that
worked in a slide. I perswaded him to
haul me to the eend of the cut off, and I
know he done it for fear I’d eat up his
smoke-house. Every now and then he’d
look at the old oman, and she’d look at tiie
smoke-house and than look at me. But
that slidiu bisness were the most orfullest
travellin that I ever hav had. Every time
the pony’d look back he’d stop, and when
he’d start agin he giv such a jerk that my
contents were in danger. My holt broke
on one okkashun, a goin down a hill full
of gullies. I rolled some twenty feet into
the edge of the woods, and eoteh up agin
an old pine stump that was full of yaller
jakets. Three of the dinged things stung
me before I could rise, but I got through
the cut off and fell in with some empty
waginsthat was stampedin my way.
“Gittin to Atlanty, a fool Irishman stopd
me right at the edge of the town and de
manded my papers. I dident have no pa
pers. Nobody had ever axd me for papers
but he wouldent hear an argument. As
Quarles would say he wouldent jine ixhuf,
but marched me toanoftis, and I dident
stay there ten minets. I wer sent off to
Dekatur with some fifty konskripts, who
were ali in inournin, excepin their clothes.
I never seed such a pitiful set in all my
life. I talked with em all, and
nary one but what had the dyspepsy or the
swiuny, or the rumatics, or the blind stag
gers, or tiie heaves, or the humps, or sum
thin. Well, there want none of us dis
charged, for there was bran new orders
calling for everybody to go to the ditches.
As I eouldent walk that fur. I was ordere
9 1
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l -iito E3L sta I *K4aY
,j> ae _\3icaj«arx3sfe. They «toM ltoew
*Awajt»jr«ac» pcato
| sat mm «te sri rtia, atoti -earn iyaa 1
: yaak a»t a jwaar*eKw»at w
, anegy lb*®* lex am the Asmi la. Bc-
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, wwwua*-ic wf by Dofenea. sai ay
jer’s
' athdrv-m>B«Ba >htraoa wasptayaa
wtcnufAsn laaid URVijtf^dat,
xmd tLc very day I these, <r*es*iwfia
buiat. esa. the WS-oa eaC these sml
I wasn't to t na tamtam for theaßwaakees
iayefsiatha* I wer fcwit Betaafcb.
'b*Xh.«reru w&r nr. tm as#Pr
they w*a.’t soeotito at me Marlkwri
they was in ane State. How in tb l ifakfn
theyMWfcd b» I foa’t ■»
meaa»i *>v«» aacaodsmler me uaA betwixt
me.
"1 tcfl vrsr. Bill. I ran Bfce a mm* tarkri,
kakie ahead «iwa every step to find
an eaey place so fidl when I w»* piuggd.
An old woman overtook me, and I axd
her tb take my watch and ray money.
She took em in a hurry and pot em m
hrrboenm. Weii, I found a gmllj at tat,
and I roU iin kersph »th. for it was about
two feet in mud and water. The rnfernet*
found me there jest at Bight, and got me
out at tite pint of the baynet. They
marched me to the wolf pea and there I
stayd till the fuss has over.
“Right here. Bill, I want to make an ob
servation. There was a feller with me
when I was cotehM. and seed him make a
sorter of a sign to the captain, and they
turned him focee in two minds, and he
jest went anywhere as nateral as a king,
while I had a crasny’d dutch man standin
over me with a baynet grinnin from rooru
in till night. There was some Free 'Ma
sonry a?>out that, Bill, and if another one
of these fool wars comes along, I'll jine em
if they’l Id me.
“Biit lam at home now for good. I’m
gwine to stay here like a sine die. I'm
agin all wars and lighting. I'm opposed
to all rows and and nots. I
don’t keer nigh as much about a dog fight
as I used to. Now, if one could always
see the eend of a thing in advance, and
the end irtte all right, I wouldent mind a
big fuse, hut then you know a man’s fore
sight aint as good as his hind sights. If
they was. this war wouldn't have broke
our and I would’t have lost my steer and
ruy watch. I never seed that woman be
fore nor since, and I would’t know her
from any other woman that walks the
veartb —blam’d if I’m certain whether she
wer white or Mack. Bill, how is your off
spring?”
“Hungry as usual, I thr.uk you my
friend,” sed I.
“How’s Mrs. Arp?”
“Keliellious, John, very; but I think
slie’l be harmonized— aterwhile — ater
\rhilc."
Mr. Editor I will not relate further of
these trying adventures at this time. Big
John arc now entirely harmonious, and
I suppose his future career will be all sc
reen.
Yours as ever, Bill Arp.
P. 8. —Mis. Arp wants you to git hack
the letters I writ her when sweet sixteen.
Them offisers have got em and I suppose
have laughed all the fanny part away by
this time. - They contained some fool
upon as reminders of broken promises. *
JSie «aysWTthey’d noadeiu, «he’i try and
iCrgive em — atencMlt.
( llont trouble yourself much, Mr. Editor,
and if will be all the same to me.
B. A.
T.inks With the Past.
Attention has recently been re-called —
by the revival of the statement which has
gone the rounds of the pipers —to the ex
traordinary fact that a persffn is now liv
ing who has seen Another who saw anoth
er who was present at jthfirbattle of Floil
den Field, who fought ij* 1518, in the reigs
of Hehry VIII. The statement is to sds
Henry Jenkins, a poyt twelve
was employeffto carry ajumaand of ar
rows, which were usdd bKfMfnglish in
resisting Janies IV., at FWjIJWi. Jenkins
lived to be the oldest man ever known in
England, attaining the extraordinary age
of 101) years—seventeen more years of life
than were given to Old Parr. About the
year 1680 Jenkins, when nearly 180 years
old, was seen by Peter Garden, a youth
sixteen years old. Garden lived to be 131
years old, dying at Auchterless, in Aber
deenshire, in 1775. There is a gentleman
now alive who remembers seeing and con
versing with this old man. We take oc
casion to note down a few remarkable in
stances linking the present with the past.
It is very probable that Lord Palmers
ton has seen and talked to a person Mho
has seen another born in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth. He was thirteen when
Macklin, the actor, died at the age of 105,
and Macklin, one of the best known men in
London, was born in 1690, so that lie might
very easily have known, and probably
did, aged persons who were born several
years before Elizabeth died, and while
Shakspeare was at the liights of his ca
reer.
In 1430 JamesL, King of Scotland, went
to visit an ancient lady at Kinnock Castle,
who, though blind, had a very retentive
memory of events that transpired during
the days of her youth. She described to
tiie king the personal appearance of Wil
liam Wallace, who died in 1305, and of
Robert Bruce, who lived some years
longer.
A gentleman, eighty years of age, writing
in 1851, stated thathesaw in 1781 Mrs. Ar
thur, of Limerick, a venerable lady, who
was present at the siege of Limerick in
1801, and described to him the horrors of
the siege. Here the one link connected two
dates 180 years apart.
The same gentleman conversed in 1790
with a Fieuchman 120 years old, who ap
peared before the National Assembly at
Paris, and spike of events which had oc
curred when he was ten years old. This
one link covered the interval from 1800 to
1852.
Sir Waiter Scott’s mother had spoken
with a person who recollected Oliver Crom
well’s eutry into Edinburg in 1850. The
lady survived till the year 1820.
William IV. used to relate that he had
spoken to a butcher at Windsor, who had
conversed with Charles 11. The interval,
therefore, torfehed the reign of nine Eng
lish Sovereigns. • , . ,
Lady Hardwieke, who died in 1808, at
the age of ninety-three, had seen her grand
father at a period when she was young,
and he very old. Charles 11. gave away
the bride when their grandfather was mar
ried to his first wife.
Mr. Coventry, living in Edinburg in
1882, spoke of having dined with the moth
er-in-law of the Young Pretender! That
lady. Princess Stolberg, was born in 1733.
Her daughter, Princess Louise, married
the Young Pretender, Prince Charles Ed
ward, in or about 1772. In 1823, when Mr.
Coventry dined with her at Frankfort, the
Princess was ninety years old.
A gentleman, aged 69 ia 1858, stated that
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Wmhn?
K36_ TW am wa* (MMaamr «ak
rowiaifentodKiwi&l: Aratfe*
«r with ran arah m fit time «f
CragllL
Mr. J. K. Svragrm BSl.«vb» gnmA
hdktr. a«e*i*todfoy-*ix. in fit jraiai;
tfepafotefer kd, ■ »pf, toewa Mr.
Emf,M)t. The- sum Mr. I. B. m
nntd, it KSH, with n Infiam,m|
111, whose father hod emit afer the
Poke of Moomasttk, ufitfaaltrfgt^ge
STtaSe I ?Kfik l£lw
of these instancm (v the aid fiTtkam
fepmM
CarapheO mol
to boost pfemaoily that he had conversed
with oki Sir Isaac Heard, the herald, who
bad conversed with a person who wit
nessed the execution of Charles I.
A gentleman, named Murray, who died
only a few yean ago, remembered haring
been told by the Earl of Mansfield, in 1557,
that his lordship had conversed with a
man who was present at the same execu
tion.
Soinetimcr s person's life is such a Ixisy
one, that he lives practically twice as long'
as a person of a more Idle turn of mind;
or else, without any merit of his- own, lie
is personally mixer! op in so many public
events, that he ought to be a man of great
information. Lettke Knollys, born in
153 b, was married to three men of histori
cal celebrity during that century—the
Ear! of Essex, the Earl of Leicester, and
HirNicholas Blount. She survived them
all, ami died at the age of ninety-five, hav
ing Irena Court lady of distinction under
six difTerent sovereigns. The Duke of
Soniim-rset. bora in the time of Charles
IL, was still more closely associated with
the ceremonials of royalty, for he was pres
ent as a high function ary at the coronation
of James If., William and Mary, Aide,
George 1., and George 11., and at the fu
nerals of Charles 11. and William 111.
The late Lord Lyndhurst Wts lx*m ic Mas
sachusetts, wiv'n tli.it State was a-British
colonv, and liefore the 1 'nited States Re
public existed ; yet he lived to aee the year
1863. When the Prince of Wales was in
America in 1860, lie conversed with Ralph
Karri bam, who served as a soldier at the -
battle of Bunker’s Hill, in L tb.
If a man be very advanced in life when
his son is born, the of the two
may cover a wide stretch e? lime, without
either of them living to a really old age. j-
There was a man living at Headly, m
Hants, in 1852, who wax the son of a man
born so far back as ipr t . The fcon, born
when the father was sCtoi ily-two years old,
lived to be eighty-thpeb years old by 1838!,
and may, perchruieev.be still alive. Charles
Franc*, haaa son whose wife, If
French history Is’fn be trusted, did not die
till 139 yedra after her father-in-law's
death—the one event occurring bn 1-536, the
other in ITISr •Cardan, the plrysit^^V^
was born befell the end of Elizabeßgs
reign, although Benjamin hifntelf Hvrt *»
see tjhirty years of George HL’s reign.—
Charles Fox’s uncle, gir Stephen Fox, Was
Paymaster of the Forces so far back as
1679.
- Sometimes the range of events which
come within the experience of one family;
depends ?u several generations being alive
at the£*me time, owing chiefly to early
marriages. Mention is made of one Mary
Cooper, wbo, on an interesting occasion,
—“Rise up daughter, and go to thy
daughter, for her daughter’s daughter hath
a daughter,” How many generations have
claimed the venerable Mary Cooper as a
progenitress, the reader will, perhaps, be
able' to count. Horace Walpole, when six
ty-seven years old, was able to say that he
had seen seven generations in one family.
Pierra Gaubert, an old artillery soldier of
France, is just dead, at the age ofll3.; He
was four years oltl at the commencement
of the Civil War; live years old when Da
miens was executed so barbarously for
the attempted murder of Louis XV.; and
when he was iiorn George 11. was upon the
throne of England.
The New York World contains the
following rather sombre -warning to the
people of New York city of the burdens of
debt they are expected to face. If, as
some modern writers have under
taken to say, a national debt is a national
blessing, the corollary is equally demon
strable that the fact of owing ought to lie a
source of universal gratification to tlic In
dividual debtor. How pleasant, therefore,
must every man, woman and child, in the
city of New York, feel at this calculation
of the personal share each possess in the
universal blessing: “The national debt, in
round numbers, is three thousand mil
lions, which, divided among thirty mil
lions of people, is about one hundred dol
lars a head; the State debt is about fifty
one millions, which, divided among four,
millions of people, is nearly thirteen dol
lars per head. This makes a total of ono
hundred and fifty-four dollars for each
man, woman and child in the city of New
York. As not over one person in six is a
laborer or creator of wealth, it follows that
each actual producer is saddled with a
debt of one thousand dollars, upon which
he must pay interest for the rest of his life.
The prospect is not a pleasant one for tiie
laboring classes.”
White Labor vs. Black.— Yesterday
we met several friends who are planters in
Mississippi, who have been here several
days, trying to secure negroes to work
their plantations, but had, as they inform
ed us fovea up the idea in despair, as in
the first place, they had to employ negro
agents at exhorbitant prices, to drum up
tiie negroes, and after they had lx*en found
they demanded on the spot a “bounty,”
and in nearly every case those who received
this bounty “jumped”—or, to use English,
went off with the bonus, and failed to ap
pear at the time appointed; and in this
manner the few who were secured cost tiie
planters so much that their labor would
fail to be remunerative, and in this dilem
ma they had resolved to try white labor,
and leave Sambo to sun himself on the corn
ers at bis leisure, and telegraphed to New
York for emigrants, a large number of
whom are expected to arrive during the
week. To them, the mooted question of
“will the negro work” has been solved, the
statements of the “so-called” friends of the
negro to the contrary, and we think a stroll
through South Memphis any day would
satisfy the most skeptical mind that Sam
bo no fancy for the cotton or cane field,
but prefers to ‘bask in the sunshine and
trust to luck for his sustenance.— Memphis
Appeal,