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SANDERSVILLE, GA., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 28, 1866.
NUMBER 13.
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From the Metropolitan Record
Bill Arp to Mr. Tammany Hall,
Milledgevillk, Feb. 1866.
j) E v k Tamm any : You are a glori
as 0 id feller. You’ve got a heart—
. t o-rcat big heart—and if you were
iiere I would exclaim iu the langwage
of my uncle Billy, “put your baud in
mine, honey, and kiss me.” We are
whipped at last, old Tammany. We
rebs are conquered, subdued and sub
jugated, not by bayonets or bullets, but
,by°your friendly overtures, your man
ly speeches. You and Sunny South Cox
•md Company have captured us, taken
us prisoners, and we arc now as docile
as we have been hostile. Dident I tell
you that we would meet you on half
way ground? Dident we stretch forth
onr arms for sympathy, and wasent we
about to turn away in defiance and de
spair for the want of it ?
“We spred the mantle of oblivion
over the past. If you of the South
have the spirit to accept, we of the
North have the heart to tender you the
ofiises of kindness. We will help you
plant again the seed whose perfect
leaves, flowers and fruits shall be 3'ours
with ours to enjoy.”
I)M Mr. Cox say that, old Tamma
ny and did you clap your hands and
l1 “omrkhorc ?” *
downward tendency. I cant help it, we fell back upon the old land marks,
Tammany. . ■; we are ridin the old wagin dlosses, and
But maybe we’ll get'over sich feel- our opinion is, that Andy wont raise
ins. My wife says we will after while.] any row in partikler about it If he
Weare all. right towards you, old Hall, floes, 106 don’t care adarn.
and our Legislature have been tryin j . Yours truly,
for about two months to harmonize j BILL ARP.
things generally, and any reasonable P. S.—I’m gittin to be highly loyal,
man ought to be satisfide with the efforts J Mr. Hall, I know I am; for a feller
they have made. But.we can’t satisfy ■ tried to sell me a little nigger to-day,
them Radikals, I don’t care what we and I wouldent buy him. I heard of
gay ■ on v
“Wetire to-day arraj'ed against the
contention concerning the black race,
and'orc looking forward to the white
race lor the welfare and greatness of our
country.” And dideot you say' that,
too, old Tammany ? and dident all
hands jeivbilee and exclaim “that’s it,
thew’s em, that’s the doctrine, the nig-
ir 0 r may be a big fish, but the white
umn is a whale.” > And dident you all
take another drink on that, Mr. Tam
many? Wish some of us rebs had
been there, ole fel, jest to have teched
tumblers with you. Thank the Lord
•.that there are good men North of D x-
ey. There’s a heap of’em here, Mr.
Hall, and their' hearts are jnrnpin and
.a bmnpin and a tbumpin as big as
yours. Their hearts were castles, and
their buz/.uins si 1 adds, but y r ou have
taken ’em. Don't be alarmed, don’t
reseed,’ don't take buck nothin; be ktilm
and screen, and we of the rebellious
South will wipe out tlro*-Ja<t spark of
lialre i to such as you. We, are now
v.’ipin away thocurses that were upon
our lips. We are rigin tip from our
humiliation, and like strong men arc.
sliakin the dust from our garments.
Think of it, Tammany. What a glo
rious sight to see a brave peepul lifted
up—a whole nation of white folks re—
' 'konsiled. . WJiat spirit, what gitfet,- what,
inspiration told you how to reach us ?
Ifmt djd you know that we was weak
.-where we was strong, in the same sc—
• eref Cornfcr of ’our buzzams ?
• ••Ywu’ve-got-.us 'Tammany', and we’ll
respond to you-,- we’ll -reinforce you.
WPve said some hard things, Mr.
Hall ; we’ve tried to skorch, and blis
ter and excoriate, but you sec we were
goaded, • gored by bulls—Trunibulls
and Republican bulls. They 7 bellerd
and we pawed dirt. They punched
us nqthe cage, and we growled. They
]vut tax under our saddles, and we
kicked. What else could we do ?
•lest think of if, Tammany. Ruined
and desolate, the people in mourn in
and their homes in ashes—no luxuries,
no.comforts, no Christmas worth acus,
no Santa Claws, no nuthin. Could
we lick the hand that laid us low ?—
uarry time—no, never. While we
"as strugglin to rise from out the
wreck, to breathe the air above us, to
take an invoice and see if there was
cmifflcft to live for, our enemies were
a shoutin, hit him, kickhim, mash him,
smash him agin.
We were then at the bottom, Tam
many’-, Wc did’nt know there was any
lower deep, but our enemies were
liuntin, and they are still huntin, some
deeper pit to put us in, and some pen
dulum of Poe to swing and cut us.
Well, we aint heathens, we’ve been to
meetin, we’ve seen missionerys, we’ve
• got churches and sermons, and hymn
books and prayers. Wc’vc got. pious
old men and wirnmen, and brave boys,
and maidens who are finished all the
way up like corners of a temple. God
bless cm, Tammany, parliekler them
last, for in connection with them are
do. We elekted Mr. Stcvensand Her
shel Johnson to the Senate, and they
are mad about that. They wanted
Josh Hill and Jeems Johnsin because ,
they was Union. Well now, Mr. Tam- {
many', its better always to take men |
who have done surnthin than men who
have done nuthin. Mr. Hill delivered
his farewell address before he was beat,
and he said he would like to know why
we sing hosanna to Andy Johnson,
who fout agin us, and yet we wont
elekt him who dident. That’s what’s
the matter Joshua, if I maybe allowed
to apostrofise you, you dident take no
side at all. You say you can take the 1
test oath and git in. Well, I don’t see J
how exaklly. You run for Governor j
in sixty-three, and y 7 ou writ a letter
agin rekonstruction and compared the
old union to a porplain vase that was
broke, and couldent never be mended
agin—no, never.
And don’t you know if you’d beeu
elekted you would have had to take the
oatii of office, and be sworn to support
the Constitution of the Confederate
States so called, now deceased. But
you are smart, Joshua, and it was fun
ny what you said to the General that
night, when he axd y 7 ou if you would
have taken that oath. You paused,
Joshua, for nearly a minet. It was a
mity tite question, eonsiderin the por-
clain vase that was broke. 1 don’t
blame you for pausin, my friend. Fi
nally says you, “Well—General—I—
I— dident—much— expect—to—be—
elected.” Bully for you, Joshua. But
now about that see-saw bisness you
spoke of. Y r uu said in your speech that
you wasplayin see-saw in politix, and
if your end went down in Georgy it
would go up in Washington, by' which
I .suppose you meant that you'was ready
to swap ends jest to suit your pekaliar
scckuinstance; and that’s wliiit’s the
matter agin. Joshua. You have been
seesawin too Jong and changed ends
too often. Turns cut, no time to be
swappm, bosses my friend.
But see here, Joshua, Mr. Marshall
may be a clever reporter, but he treat
ed you badly. lie’s left out aheap of
your speech. He aint had printed that
seesaw figger at all, audit was I as
sure yon a most beautiful metafor of
h. An! h is lefp out them little
s of Southern patriotism which'
emitted. Howsomever,, may be
things would have been in the
a.bill that is comin up to bi-ml otft the
niggers for 99 yea. s, and I’ni agin it.
Darned if I’ll vote for more than 50.
You can tell Thad. Stevens of these
hopeful signs.
B. A.
spcee
spark
you
these
way at Washington, and of the see
saw. I’ll tell you, iny friend, where,
you wasted time in y r our remarks. You
said thatif.w.e dident clektyou now we
might vyantyou hereafter, and then we
couldent get you.. Don’t-worry your^
self on our akkomrt. -Don’t cross the
bridge before you get to it. It will be
time enuf, Joshua, for you to refuse
us when we ax you. We ha-vent
been runnin you down to give you
Do you
THE TAX LAW.
An Act to levy and collect a-tax for
the support of the Government for
the year 1866, and for other purpo
ses.
[passed over the governor’s veto.]
Sec. 1. The General Assembly do en
act, That his Excellency the Govern
or with the assistance of the Comp
troller General, so soon as the value of
taxable property is ascertained from
the consolidated returns from all the
counties thereof, shall proceed to assess
and levy such a per centage 011 the
taxable property as will produce, in the
estimation of the Governor, the sum
of three hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, exclusive of specific taxes.
See. 2. In addition to the ad valorem
tax on real and personal property as
specified in the Code and assessed in
the preceding section, the following
specific taxes shall be levied and col
lected.
1. A tax of one dollar upon each
and every male inhabitant of this State
on the first day of April, between the
ages of twenty-one and sixty years.
When this tax is due and unpaid by
any person who has no property, and
is in the employment of another as a
laborer, it shall be the duty of the Tax
Collector to serve a written notice on
the employer, specifying the amount oi
tax due by the employee, which notice
shall operate as a garnishment upon
the employer, and shall authorize and
bind him to pay said tax from any wa
ges, effects or money in his hands due
to the laborer, or employee, and exe
cution shall issue as in other eases for
taxes due against the employer for the
amount.
2. Upon every practitioner of Law,
Physic and Dentistry ten dollars.
8. Upon every Daguerrean, Ambro-
ty r pe, Photographic, and similar Artist,
ten dollars.
4? Upon every person carrying on
the business of Auctioneer, twenty-five
dollars.
Upon every' keeper of a pool or
taxable property shall be in the words 1 The Cattle Plague.—The UnileJ
following, to-wit,: “You.do solemnly I States Consul at Liverpool, in his dis-
sweaf that you will true answers give,: patches to the government of February
to all lawful questions which I may j 16th, says- that the cattle plague is now
put to you, touching the return you arc tiie absorbing topic among the people
about to make, and that you will make
a true return of all your taxable prop
erty, so help you God.” And it shall
be the duty of the officer taking said
return to enquire of each and every j
person taking said oath, touching all of
his taxable property, or his lability* for
specific taxes, as named in this Act, and
the Comptroller General shall publish
of England ; that it fills all the news
papers, and occupies nearly the whole
attention of Parliament. Vaccination
as. a remedy seems to be regarded as a
total failure, and no preventive will be
effectual, in the opinion of those who
arc versed in the matter, except to
stamp it out, which means to kill all
the cattle taken with it, on its first ap
a 1st of all questions'to be propounded i pearancc, and compensate th e owners
to tax payers. j accordingly for their loss. There is
See. 5/ The taxes assessed under! a bill now before Parliament on the
this Act shall be collected in United ’ subject, which causes a good deal of
States currency, and the value of the discussion. The report for the week
property on the first day of April next ! ending February 10, shows 11,590 new
in such currency, shall be the basis of cases. Number attacked since the com-
the taxes. ‘ mencement of the disease is 148,023, of
Sec. 6: And be it farther enacted, which 111,100 have died or been
That all laws heretofore passed levying killed.
and collecting a tax upon income be,
and the same are hereby repealed.
Sec. T. And be it farther enacted,
That nothing in this
Cure for Small Pox.—A friend
has kindly given us the following reci-
Act contained pe for the cure of small pox.:
shall be so construed as to repeal or
affect section 729, of the Vevised Code
of Georgia, exempting certain proper
ty from taxation.
Sec. 8. All laws militating against
th : „s Act are hereby repealed.
The mode of treatment is as follows :
When the preceding fever is at its
height, and just before the eruption
appears, the chest is rubbed with cro
ton oil and tartaric ointment. This
. causes the whole of the eruption to ap
pear on that par t of the body, to the
, relief of the rest. It also secures a full
„ *\ ; ~ 0 — — y anc [ complete eruption, and thus pre-
Yoang America ... our day are very ve|lts the 'disease f? om attacking inter-
offensive to people of refined teste*. s . This is said to bo the es-
Young ladies are the: greatest eu pnts, moJe f lreatment jn the
and they can be satisfied onWith the E , ish ; Q Chi b general
strongest superlatives. The following 1 - - - - - - J °
A. base of Words.
The -extravagant words
used
. ^ • p orders, and it is regarded as a perfeck
article from an exchange is very sensi- ’ — - 0 r
ble :
billiard table, kept fof public play,
twenty five dollars for each table.
6. Upon every keeper of a bagatelle
table for public play, ten dollars for
each table.
7. Upon every keeper of a ten pin
alley, or alley of like kind, for public
play, ten dollars. •
8. Upon every keeper of any other
table, stand or place for any other
game or play,'with or without a name,
unless for exercise or amusement only 7 ,
A cotempoi ary complains that some
of the noblest words in the English
tongue are "daily prostituted to igno
ble uses, and says that “The constant
application of great words to small
things is gradually undermining the na
tive strength of the language, in so
much that in order to make an im
pressive statement itis necessary to pile
a Pelion of adverbs on an Ossa of ad
jectives.” The complaint is certainly
well founded ; but whether the nui
sance can be materially abated by any
force or frequency of rebuke, is ques
tionable. The evil is widely spread,
but it may be seen in its most malig
nant type among half educated people
and—young ladies. The latter class
cure.—.Exchange.
Appearance 9I' the Devil iu ^Kentucky*
The people of Brap’^gn. county, Kentucky?
have been recently enjoying the presence of
the veritable “Old Scratch” himself. A Mr.
N. G. Squiiesj'in a letter to the Mount Sterling
Sentinel, after stating that himself and family
were aroused at night hy cries of “fire!”
“ murder!”, mingled with horrid curses, give!
the following description ok the scene and the
monster:
“Terribly startled, iny wife and I sprang from
our bed. The room was illuminated as bright
ly as by a flood of sunlight, though : the light
was of a bluish cast. Our first and most' rea
sonable conclusion was that the negro cabins
were being consumed by fire- We rushed to
the window aud beheld a sight that fairly cur
dled the blood in our veins with horror, and
filled our hearts with terror. My daughters,
shrieking loudly, caine Hying into my room,
hysterical with fear. This is what we beheldj-
Standing to the right of the upper, cabin,
was a creature of gigantic stature, and the
most horrifying appearance. It was nearly *3
high as the comb of the cabin, and had a mon
strous head not dissimilar in shape to that of
an ape; two short very white horns appeared
above each eye ; its arms were long, covered
with shaggy hair of an ashen hue, and termi
nated with huge paws, not uBlike those of a
cat, and armed with long and hooked claw&
Its breast was as broad as that of a large sized
ox. Its legs resembled the front legs of a
horse, only the hoofs were cloven. It had a
long tail, armed with a dart-shaped horn, which
it was continually switching about. Its eyes
glowed like two living coals of fire, while from
its nostrils and mouth were emitted sheets ef
bluish-colored Dame, with a hissing sound, like
the hissing of a serpent, only a thousand-fold?
louder. Its general color, save its arms, was
a dull, dingy brown. .The air was powerfully
impregnated with a smell of burning sulphur.
When it vanished it was enveloped in a spiral
column of flame, that reached nearly to the
tops of the locust trees adjacent. Two negroes
were driycn to insanity by their fears.”
The demon also appeared on the premises of
several other persons, all of whonf, wkh Mr.
Squires, went before a magistrate and swore
to the truth of the statement, and the mag
istrate certifies to the respectability of the de
ponents—all of which is well enough. Bat
How Immigration to the South
is Prevented.—-The Richmond Times
says : “The Radical press, English and
German, teem with fabricated letters j still we don't believe this was Satan-in-chief,
from the South detailing atrocities and j for he is not as iguoraut of geography, (having
outrages perpetrated upon Northern j been on the earth, in some form or other, du-
men and emigrants who have settled | ring the past six thousand years) as to come
in the Southern States. The object of. up ill Kentucky. If “ Old Sam” had really in-
ihese fictions is fcasily detected. Im— tended making himself visible to human eyes-,
migration at the North does not accord j he would have “ broke ground” in the immedi-
wilh the plans of the Radicals and must ate neighborhood of old Brownlow, or in tho
be preveuted by all means. Southern city of Washington. It is mistrusting his sa-
white people must be made dependent! gacity to thiuk otherwise. The people of Ken-
upon the negro for labor, and if possi— ! tucky, however, may well be alarmed, for this
ble for votes. We regret to have to
confess that the efforts to thwart immi
gration have been but too successful.
There are also other agencies besides
to accomplish the
young
arc especially addicted to adjectives of \ the press at word
the strong kind ; and even these are j same object.”
generally too weak for their use until j -
they have beeu “raised to the third! Marriage of Colored Persons.—
power” (as a mathematician would say,) For the information of ordinaries and
by being put in the superlative degree. 1 others, we make the following state-
In the intense vocabulary of these ex- : merits, based upon information received
citable damsels, a simply pleasant thing a f C \ V days since, from a member of the
is “charming,” and a disagreeable one General Assembly of this State:
“shocking.” Whatever is fine is “splen- By recent enactment, ordinaries are
did,” at the very least; and nothing required to issue marriage license to
that is deemed in bad taste is ever colored persons the same as to white
otherwise than “horrid,” “awful,” and people ; and any person authorized to
“abominable.” perform the marriage ceremony is pro-
In this same hyperbolica 1 strain, they hibited from uniting, in marriage, col-
speak of a pretty bonnet as “delicious,” ored persons, except he have a license
and describe an agreeable gentleman f r0 m the ordinary so to do. A heavy
as “fascinating.” But it is not the ad- penalty is attached to issuing a license,
joctives alone that suffer: the verbs are o r unitin
demon, or fiend, can be np other but Beelze
bub’s right hand man, Vice-devil Stevens, for
merly of Pennsylvania, wfio, as was stated
some time ago, was rejected in Tartarus, and
authorized by his master to ppeu an. “ institu
tion” of his owu.
....... ... .. ^ ... . gin marriage, a white person
and not prohibited by law, ten dollars.! tortured quite as mercilessly as Jjieir an d one of African, descent.—Home
9. Upon every keeper or owner of j adjuncts. The commonest things arc Cm. Courier.
a public race track, fifty dollars. I “doated on” and- “adored,” or “abomi- — •———-— —
offise, and we aint a goin to. Do you qjp 0n every circus company for, nated,” and “detested while -“love” 1 Secretary Seward in Earnest.—
seesaw on your o\yn plank, andlake- eac ^ exhibition, twenty five dollars. I is lavished alike on objects of taste, | Readers who were a little surprised
good care you don’t tall oft. Your -q. Upon every agent of, or person ; appetite aud affection. The same per-; at the somewhat ligbt and jocular tone
speech was sorter spiteful, Joshua, and. cn g a g e( lj n any gift lottery, or enter-! son assures you that she “loves” her 1 of Mr. Seward’s speech on the 22d ult.,
it red lifted to its gum would rea^ about' p r i se ° 0 f like character, in any county ; mother, her lap dog aud raw oysters ! will be relieved by the following dis—
thus : “Boys I m a whale, I am, I m a t } 1 j s State, the sum of-one thousand ' What could she say of her Redeemer ?
prophet, and if you don’t elekt me to (j 0 ]i arg . It shall be the duty of the | We once heard this indiscriminate
the Senate, I’ll goto Washington and rp ax Q 0 ] Iecter, immediately upon the ; use of superlatives quietly rebuked in
give you the devil.” . i opening of an office by any person for j a passage of conversation, which was
.'Well, we dident elekt him, Mr. the purpose ot selling tickets in any: nearly as follows:
Tamrnanyq and the devil may come, such lottery or enterprise, or of selling | “fon’t. vnu il,in
In the langwage of Patrick Henry, “let or offering such tickets for sale in any perfectly beautiful ?” said a young
him come”—I repeat it, sur, “let him manner, to levy and collect the said, lady to Judge B., apropos of a good
come.” There was another candidate, ! tax from any property of said person | looking school-girl, whose name had
Mr.Hall, whose name was Jeems John- j to be found. ^ just been mentioned..
sin. Well, I like Jeems party well. 12. There shall be levied a specific | “She is pretty,” said the Judge.
He dident run nobody down nor pi*A j tax of twenty eents per gallon on ! His fair interlocutor looked puzzled
patch to the Chicago Republican, radi
cal :
Secretary Seward, in an interview
with a Pennsylvania member, grew
very nhrcli excited over political mat-
Don’t you think Miss So aud so is ! t(*s, and denounced Congress iu the
on airs, i moat liaVe voted for him if
he had lived in the State, and Ibadent
liked Uershel better. The truth is, I
was partial to Jeems for his “old lang-
sine.” He was a powerful war horse
in sixty r -one. How glorious he figured
at the Columbus war meetins. He en
couraged the boys amazin, and he beat
anybody a gettin volunteers. How
proud we was of him that night, when
he and Colonel Sims made, friends on
the stand, and the Colonel pinnd a se
cession cockade upon Jeems coat-collar.
ccnterd the hopes of posterity and the i He then got inspired, and spoke for two
joys of our life. We’ve all got hearts, " ‘ ------
old Tammany, and there’s many a good
Samaritan among us who would’ntpass
you by and go over on the other side.
We’ve got charity, too, and long suffer
ing, and patience; and hope in abun
dance, though we cant believe them
Radicals will walk right straight into
heaven without knockin at. the door.
I hat docktrin of election is a power-
mi thing, Tammany 7 , but as shore as
y ou are born it looks sorter unconstitu
tional Co us f or L i iem f e q ers to enter the
ce estial city^ They may pass amend
ments enuff to do it, and I reckon
J! ? , J they arc a tinkering at the
dockurnent so long; but somehow
- °mer w.ien I hear of one of em a
hours in words that breathed of ditches
and death, and was full of the spirit of
’76. Ilis watchword wer e “Beriming
and secesshionand he voted for ’em
both. Oh, he’s a whale in gettin up a
war. Alas ! lie were sih semper then,
but he are sih transit now. So mote it
be, Mr. Tammany ; 1 couldent help it.
Howsumever, it dont matter much, I
reckon, for we’ve got another Johnsin,
and they arc a high-roo.stin family,
shore.
Now you understand the -trouble,
Mr. Tammany, about this • deletion.
We was huntin for two full blooded
Union men who could find their way
to Washington and back without p.
way-bill, and we couldent find ‘
every gallon of brandy, gin, whisky or and disappointed. “I appreciate your
rum, whether foreign or domestic, admiration of your friend,” said the
which is sold by any person in this judge; “but perfect beaulg, my dear
State by wholesale or retail, except by
distillers and manufacturers in this
State, and the amount sold shall be
given in under oath. Quarterly returns
on oath shall be male on the first da vs
girl, is somewhat rarer than you seem
to imagine. I do not know-that I have
ever seen an example of it in man or
woman. Pretty girls are plenty
enough ; good looking women are not
uncommon ; decidedly handsome ones
of Af ri^ July, October and January 7
iu each year, by all persons within the ! are occasionally met with. I have seen
county, who sell liquor cither by j (in forty years) half a dozen who' were
wholesale or retail, ot the amount sold beautiful; but a ‘perfectly beautiful’
J • Gi Oliv UL dll tl i \Y tlj? * U ill J tlllvL X» \s\J Ul 1 \~L\J Li- U A-lUV-t
yin, my thoughts naterally have a 1 They aint in the State, I tell you. So
during the quarter preceding. Said
return shall be made to the Tax Col
lector of the county 7 , who shall demand
and collect thef tax due, when the re
turn is made. It shall be the duty of
the Tax Collector to require all persons
selling said liquors to make their re
turns and pay the tax thereon, and if
any person shall fail or refuse to make
his returns, and to pay said tax he shall
be assessed by the Collector a specific
tax of one thousand dollars, and the
Collector shall proceed to collect the
same by execution, as in other cases of
taxes due and unpaid,
Sec. 3. The spirituous liquors spe
cially taxed in the preceding section
shall be exempted from the ad valorem
tax.
Sec. 4. The oath to be administered
to all persons making - returns of their
woman is what I have never seen hith
erto.”
The young lady looked a little aston
ished at first, but having reflected a
moment, it occurcd to her that the
judge might be in the right, and that
she did not mean anything like the
panegyric which she had pronounced,
and she said so. “Why, judge’ y 7 ou are
so awfully critical; _ only meant to
say she was pretty.”
“I thought so,” said the judge ; “but
how could I know that your idea was
not as extravagant as your epithets ?
You must excuse me for the mistake,
since it was not wholly my fault.”
And so ended the discourse.
most violent manner. He said there
was not a rebel in the country to-day;
that that which is termed Johnson’s
policy is his ; that he laid it out for
Lincoln, who adopted it, and was car
rying it out when he died; and that
Johnson is merely continuing it. He
declared himself in favor of the imme
diate admission of the Southern delega
tions, and the repeal of the test oath.
—
Mad Stone.—A Mrs. Taylor, of
Terre Haute, Indiana, lias the only ar
ticle known as the “mad stone,” in that
State, we believe. That lady says it
has long been in use, and when used
none have been affected of died with
hydrophobia. The stone is porous, and
when applied will stick until the poison
fills the pores. A h&althy person can
not cause it to adhere. The pores,
wlien filleiHvith poison, qre cleaned by
Great Wars.—It has been custom
ary since the close.of the war to.stylo
it the , bloodiest one in the history of
the world; the following paragraphs
clipped from our exchanges may as
tound those who are not familiar with
history: . -
At the taking of Jerusalem, by Ti
tus, 1,000,000 Jews died by slaughter
and famine. .
Marius, in one slaughter of the Teu
tons, near Aix’ left 20,000 dead.
Cassius atone time slaughtered thir
ty-seven thousand inhabitants oif Se?
leucio.
Probus put to death seven hundred
thousand Gauls‘upon reducing their
country.
Bellisarius once had to kill three
hundred thousand people to stop a re
volt in the city of Constantinople.
The Jews of Antioch got mad at one
time and killed over one hundred
thousand of the other inhabitants.
At the three days battle of Chalons
over one hundred thousand Huns were
killed, with the proportionate number
of the Gauls and their allies.
Gibbon estimates that in the various
crusades five millions Europeans lost
their lives.
The Northern Army in the Late
War.—From a bill that has been re
ported by a commitee in Congress, we
find the real strength of the Northern
army brought to a three years’ stand
ard, amounts to (2,199,717) Two mil
lion one hundred and ninety-nine thou
sand seven hundred and seventeen.
That the South could withstand
such overwhelming numbers for four
long years,with no navy ; blockaded;
no outside friends, and limited resour
ces ; we feel that defeat, under the cir
cumstances, but redounds to the valor
of Southern arms, and places our gen
erals high upon the roll of fame.—Ex
change.
We thiuk it places several colonels,
majors, captains, lieutenaats, non-com
missioned officers and privates pretty
being staked in warm milk. That | near the top round of the ladder, though
lady makes no charge for its use, and
asserts that a large number of cases
have been cured by its use.
Already Cholerine, the presage to
that fatal scourge -Cholera, has made
its appearance'among the Freed men of
James Island. It behooves every one
now to take the proper precautions
against the disease.
If Cholera does appear along the
Southern coast, it will effect a frightful
decimation of the black race, inexpe-
An exchange asserts that the Low- j rienced and careless as they are, in ref-
ell mills now make one dollar on every jerence to medicine and diet.—Charles-
pound of cotton they use. ton Record.
their names were not as conspciuous as
should have been.
It has recently been decided that a
negro may sue and recover all he can
prove, in all oases where no written
contract exists between, himself and
his employer. Thus says thc.Frecd-
men’s Bureau.
A clerk in one c# the departments
in Washington. expressed a “regret
that no Booth was present to assassi
nate the President during tiro delivery
of his speech” on the 22d. He was
simply discharged.