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between Colonel MuU'ord and himself.
For this purpose he remained at the
Aiken House, where Colonel* Mulford
has quarters, and to this fact, doubtless,
againf owes his life. It wiU be remem
bered that Judge Ould came near losing
his life-by drowning last summer, falling
into the James from the gang plank of
the Union flag of trqce steamer New
York. This amiable insurgent is evi
dently not destined to leave this world
through any agency ot water. The
Schultz was - sailing proudly up the'
James when she was hoisted by a rebel
petard. The officer in the adjacent sig
nal tower and the officer on picket in the
vicinage, both Union, report that the
ship run afoul this torpedo, and a loud
explosion following, she rared into the
air and went down in an instant, but a
very few feet of her bow remaining out
of water. For a single moment, so to
speak, a running to and fro was observ
able, but no one was seen to escape.
The engines in the Schultz, it may be
remarked, are the original ones on which
the first suit in the great Sickles cut-off
case was based some years since.
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BY S. W. MASON AND CO*
SAVANNAH, SATURDAY, FEB. 25, ls6o.
Charleston—The Fox Finally Trap
ped.—We learn that the celebrated
blockade runner Fox, one of the fleetes
of the Anglo-Ilebel steamers, has finally
come to grief, and now lies in Charleston
harbor, the scene of her most notable ex
ploits, a prize, with the stars and stripes
flying at her track, where hitherto the
English or Confederate colors, as the
case might be, have ever been. The sly
JCgmrd, was brought up at last, in a
trap she never dreamed of. Her cargo
is most valuable, and the vessel itself is
worth many dollars. t She ran in on the
night of the 21sfc, and alter passing the
outer line of blockade in safety, came to
an anchor under Fort Moultrie, with the
proud and satisfactory consciousness
that cue had again outwitted the Yan
kees, and added another number to her
innumerable trips, and a nice little sum
to the owners’profits. Day-light came,
and with it the apparition \of a
Monitor lying close by, and the
the gunboat South Carolina, a ship’s
length beyond, both covering her with
their guns, and clear up the harbor a
number of gunboats and armed tug3.
UndeT these circumstances, the trap
having closed and safely enveloped the
Fox, a graceful surrender was at once
made to the first boat that boarded her
from the gunboats. She was taken pos
session of, her officers and crew placed
in confinement, and the vessel sent to
Port Royal, preparatory to being des
patched North for 'Condemnation and
sale. Thus ends the unlawful career of
another crack steamer of our good Eng
lish cousins.
Savannah Theatre. —\Ve learn that
the Thespian Association, composed of
professionals and amateurs, .will give an
entertainment on Monday evening next,
at the Savannah Theatre, at which
Douglas Jerrold’s English Comedy of
Rant Day, and the farce of “The Turn
ed Head, ” will be presented with a strong
cast. We know some of the gentlemen
who are to assume leading parts in this
performance, and anticipate a success
ful presentation of the pieces. , We be
lieve the Thespian Association will be
able to maintain a better class of repre
sentation than any company we have yet
had, and we bespeak for it a hearty and
generous support. . . *, .
“Aslew Weekly. —We have received
*be firsts copy of anew weekly paper
called “The Bee,” issued by G. N.
'Nichols, Bay street. It is noft a jtargs
sheet, but It is well printed, in Handsome
type, on good paper, and is well filled
with selected and original matter of a
readable character. We hope the Bee
Clay be able to iav up for its proprietor 'a
liberal store of all that is desired in life,
and hum along with nothing but sun
shine about it. *
Cotton Captured -The blockade run*;
ner that was put ashore near Fort Moul
trie the night of the evacuation, has
been wrecked by'the navy, and is fur
nishing a valuable quantity of cotton to
the captors. The South Carolina has
already rescued a large number of bales,
together with a quantity of other staples
that will bring in a nice sum to be dis
tributee among the squadron. One or
tw'o other blockade-runners are daily
■expected, and will be duly taken pos
session of on their arrival.
Sbnttob Morgan Declines to be
Secretary op the Treasury. —We
clip the following from the Washington
(D. C.) Republican. of Feb. 17.
We have the highest authority for an
nouncing that Senator Morgan, upon
consideration of the subject, declines to
accept the portfolio of the Treasury De
partment tendered him by the Presi
dent.
An Old Truth which Almost Every
body is Cowardly Enough to Call a
Lie. —We so heartily agree with the sub
joined words of Punch that we can’t re
frain from reproducing them:
Early to bed arid early to rise.
Is the way to feel stupid and have red eyes.
Amateur Female Ballooning in South
America. —An American named Wells
has been astonishing the Southern half of
our continent by his aeronautical ascen
sions. First he displayed his powers
and aerial flights in the upper regions of
Buenos Ayres; and next he goes to
Brazil. In the, first part of December
his balloon made such an extraordinary
performance that all Rio de Janeiro w r as
worked up to the highest pitch of excite
ment; Mr. Wells announced that he
would upon a certain afternoon malm an
ascension with the addition of a fellow
passenger, an American sen ora. The
lady in question had never before been
higher than a five story house, and that
on a good solid staircase, therefore the
balloon was to be limited in its flight by
a long strong rope. The hour arrived
for the ascension, and the lady entered
the car, when, from some unaccountable
cause, the balloon shot up, breaking the
rope and soaring away to the great ter
ror of thousands. The woman, however,
showed a good deal of pluck. She first
■waved the flags in the most approved
style, and then, after sailing the distance
of a mile, managed to bring down the
balloon in safety, though she received
some bruises.
The people of the city -were in a great
state of alarm ; the senora had to mount
a balcony to show that she had not been
dashed to pieces. Afterwards a carriage
was procured and she was drawn in
triumph through the principal streets.
An Englishman wa3 so overcome with
admiration at the amateur aeronaut’s
pluck that he took a costly ring from his
finger and bestowed it upon the senora
in question.
Old Madame Rothchild, mother of
the mighty capitalists, - attained to the
age of ninety-eight; her wit, which was
remarkable, and her intellectual faculties,
which were of no common order, were
preserved, to the end. Iu her illness
when, surrounded by her family, her
physician being present, she said, iu a
suppliant tone, to the lattjer, “Dear doc
tor, try to do something- for me.” “Mad
ame, what can Ido ? I can’t make you
young again ” “No, doctor, I don’t
want tot fee young agaip ; but I want to
continue to grow old-— Gronow's Celebri
ties of London and Paris. ..
LATEST REBEL NEWS.
[From tli* Mobile Register and Advertiser.]
j Blue nothings now look, or as black
as they present themselves to tbte visions
of some, it is nevertheless an undeniable
truth that we hold iu our hands the
means of a. sudden Sand perfect deliver
ance. No one doubts that the cause
languishes and suffers, not from a defi
ciency-of the resources to maintain a
war of defence, but from a poverty of
spirit to breast reverses, and of fortitude
to endure trials. The people are not
whipped but cowed. Their souls, and
not their hands, are disarmed. Our
strength is not sapped, but our cour
age is oozing out at the ends of our fin
gers. Asa lady from Georgia writes iu
a letter we read this morning, “The peo
ple are whipped, but the army and the
women are not, and by the blessing of
God, never will be.” And what is
wanting to change this leaden asppet
and to drive away the clouds which
tang like a pall over the Confederate
situation ? Courage and one more ef
fort-one single flash of that noble, war
like enthusiasm which in 1861 spread
its halo of crimson battle bright over
this Southern land, now revived and in
spiring all hearts to answer with life in
hand to the darkening all hearts with
gloom would be lifted like a curtain, and
.unveil a scene of hope and joy and de
liverance. *
[From the Wilmington Carol iniail.]
The air in our own town yesterday
Seemed very much impregnated with
some whisperings in relation to impor
tant movements, which we decline pub
lishing, as we are in secret session a|td
officially reticent.
The usually quiet citizens of Little
River and the surrounding country have
been recently disturbed by the landing
of a considerable force of Yankees in
their midst. It is understood that the
object is to strike the Manchester Rail
road at a point in the vicinity of White
ville, in Columbia county.
Effects of Intemperance.— The suf
ferings of animal nature, occasioned by
intemperance, are not to be compared
with the moral agonies which convulse
the soul. It is an immortal being, who
sins and suffers; and, as his earthly house
dissolves, he is approaching the judg
ment-seat in anticipation of a miserable
eternity. He feels his captivity, and, in
anguish of spirit, clanks his chains, and
cries for help. Conscience thunders, re
morse goads, and, as the gulph opens
before him, he recoils and trembles and
weeps and prays and resolves and prom
ises and reforms,% and “seeks it yet
again;” again resolves, and weep and
prays and “seeks It yet again!” Wretch
ed man ! he has placed himself in the
hands of a giant, who never pities, and
never relaxes his iron gripe. He may
struggle, but he is in chains. He may
cry for release, but it cornea not; and
“Lost! lost!” may be inscribed on the
doorposts of his dwelling. In the mean
time, these paroxysms ot his dying na
ture decline, and a fearful apathy, jthe
harbinger of spiritual death, comes on.
His resolution fails, and his mental en
ergy, and his vigorous enterprise ; and
nervous irritation and depression ensue.
The social affections lose their fulness
and tenderness, and conscience loses its
power, and the heart it3 sensibility, until
all that was onoe lovely, and of good re
port, retires and leaves the wretch,
'abandoned to the appetites of a ruined
animal. In this deplorable condition,
reputation expires, business falters and
becomes perplexed, and temptations to
drink multiply, as inclination to do so
increases, and the power of resistance
declines. And now the Vortex roars, and
the struggling victim buffets the fiery
wave, with feebler stroke, and warning
supplication, until despair flashes upon
bis soul; and, with an outcry that pierces
the heaven?, he ceases to strive, and
disappears.
An old washerwoman persisted in
hanging her clothes to dry on the rail
ings of a church, and after repeated pro
hibitions from the church w ardens, she
at last come out with the following burst
pi eloquence; “Lord bless ye, sir, ye
wouldn’t ago an’ take the bread out of
my mouth, would ye ? ’sides, sir, parson
says cleanliness comes next to godliness.
SAYINGS OF JOSH BILLINGS.
‘ NUMBER THREE.
Josh Billings Corresponds with a “Hair Oil
Wand Vegetable Bitters Man." <
New" Y ork, fust month, r 865.
Bear Dokior Hirsute: I reseayed a tin
cup ov yure “Hair purs wader,” also a
bottle ov yure “Salvashun Bitters,” bi
•express, for which I express my thanks.
The greenbak, w'hich yu enklosed, waz
the kind uv purswader that we ov the
press fully understand. Yur hair greese
shall hav a reglar gimnastik puff, jist az
soon az i kan find a spare time. I tried
a little ov it, on an old counter brush in
my ofiiss, this morning, and in 15 min
nitts the brissells greiv az long az a bos
ses tale, and I notis this afternoon, the
hair begins tew r cum up thru, on the bak
ov the brush, ’tis really wonderful! ’tls
almoste Eureka ! I rubbed a drop or
two, on the head ov mi cane, which haz
bin bald for more than 5 years, and beg
gar me ! if I dont hav to shave the cane
handle, evry day, before I can w'alk out
with it. I Lava verry favrite cat,
she iz one ov the Hambletonian
breed ov cats, and altho she iz
young, and baint bin trained yet, she
show's grate signs ov speed. I thought I
would just rub the corck ov the bottle,
on the floor, in the corner ov thh room,
whare Jhe cat generally repozes. The
consequents waz, sum ov the “purswa
der” got onto the hair of the cats tale.
When the cat aroze from her slumbers
she caught sight ov her tale, which had
growed tew an exalted size, taking one
more look at the tale, she started, and bi
the good olde Mozes! sich running;
across the yard! over the fence! up wun
side ov an apple tree! and down the
other! out into the fields, away ! away!
The last i saw' ov the cat, she waz pretty
mutch awl tale. I wouldn’t hav took 10
dollars tor the cat, with her old tale on
her. In afu daze, i shall write up, fer
our paper sumthing pyroteknik, which
Will make the hair grow on the head ov
a nnmber 2 mackrel to read it.
Dear Doktoy the fact iz, “sum men are
born grate, sum men git grate after they
are born, and sum men hav grateness
hove upon them.” Doktor, you hre awl
3ov these men, in one. You are a kind
ov vegatable trinity, sassyfrass, pokeroot,
and Elderberry. It waz ajbappee thought
in you, tew call your “Salvashun Bit
ters,” a “vegatable tonicks,” although,
old rye, aint one ov the vegatable,
whiskee iz one ov the tonicks. The peo-s
pel must hev tonicks, and the more ve
gatables you kan git into the gratest
amount ov whiskee, the more the peopei
will luv you. Thare iz nothing the Chris
tian world long for, so much, just now,
az a vegatable bitter ; sassyfarss iz good
for a louesum stummuk, pokeroot iz an
alteratiff, and Elderberry waz known to
the anshients, but w'hat ! oh tell me
what! yee whispring winds, what! are
awl these without whiskee. Thank the
Lord, that at laste, we hav got a bitter,
that will tonick a man up. Nothing,
sinze the good old daze over Jaraaka
Rum, and eider Brandee, haz sent, sich a
thrill ov joy, thru the wurld, as ‘“Hirsn
tes Salvashun Bitters,” sold respektably
bi awl druggists, far and near.
Go on Doktur, manufaktring. and sell
ing, let the cod liver, and patent truss
men, howl out in envy, let pills rant
and plasters rave, you have got what the
wurld w r ants, and with a whiskee basis.
N. B.—Bizziness, Doctor, iz bizziness.
The hi prise ov material, and laber, haz
put up puffs with ua, but upon the re
ceipt ov 50 Dollars more, you- kan rely
upon sumthing, in our weekly, that will
send “Salvashun, and Purswashun”
whirling thru the land.
P. S.—Let me advize yu az a friend ;
if it iz indispensible necessary, tew cheat
a little, in the manufakter ov the “Sal
vashun Bitters,” let it bi awl means be
in the rates, dont lower the basis. —
Yours quietly,
Josh Billings.
—F.V. Y. Mercury.
A comedian was once performing at
one of the Dublin theatres in a dirty pair
of white duck trowsers. A lad in the
■gallery, observing the state of the actor’s
nether garment, shouted out, “Och!
mister, wouldn’t your ducks be the better
of a swim?”