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VOL. XI.
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iMItWW!
gf°=~ - - ——
DR. N. F. HOWAKd,
y OFFERS IIIS PROFES
sional services to the citizens
yk W 01 Dahlonega and surrounding
ISyS country.
OFFICE Formerly occu
pied by Dr. B. McGhee.
Dahlonega, Ga.
April a, —sy.
~ N B K NIGH T,
attorney at law
Marietta, Georgia,
«>rll L PRACTICE in all the ceun
* * ties of the Blue Ridge Circuit.
August 41 th, 1858 —ts.
JAMES P. BURNSIDE,
ATTORNEY A T L A W |
• APPLING, COLUMBIA «0., SA
June 7—ly
olin aii & Curtis,
Wholesale Dealers in
TROCKRY, GLASS-WARE, A C
A few doors below the Planter’s Hotel,)
\ F AUGUSTA, GA:
-*S*jT 9 th, 1855.
.1 R.I) AVI S.
liNDBROKER.
COLLECTOR,
And General Agent.
Business attended to in any county in
Ais State. Office corner Jackson and El
Streets Augusta, Georgia. nov,l
C. & L. DWELLEj
Wholesale Dealers in
BOOTS &BHOEB
Opposite the Union Bank, Bioad St.,
AUGUSTA, GA
< -u» 1855.
I
G. W. FbRRU & CO.,
WHOLESALE
HAT ESTABLISHMENT, (
’(Masonic Hall Building,)
BROAD ST., AUGUSTA, GA.
' Jau’y 9, 1855
JAMES R. LAWHON"
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
DAHLONEGA GA .
j ames • Findley,
LAW STUDENT,
DAJILONGA, GA.
IB now reading law under the insfiuc
tionsof William Martin, Esq,
and would like to connect practice with
theory, and solicits a share of patronage
from the business public. Prompt atten
tion will be given to all business confided
to his care.
Office south corner of the Court House
•—basement story.
July 2d, 1859—ts.
TAirmPGTATWr
Monos
RIBBONS,
Milliney and St aw Goods
... —— 0 /U" ■
ARMSTRONG, CATOR & CO.
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF
RIBBONS, BONN’T SILKS SATIES
Velvets,Ruches,Flowers, Feath’rp
STRAW BONNETS, FLATS,&c.
No. 237 and Lofts of 239 Baltimore St
BA NT! MORE. M D.
Offer a Stock unsurpassed in the United
States in variety and cheapness.
Orders solicited & prompt attention given
Terms, 8 months, six per cent, off for
?wh,parfudr. Jtifust 18 th 188®f3.'
THE MOUNTAIN SIGNAL.
DEVOTED TO: POLITICS, LIT E 11. ITUII E, .1 II T, SC IE NC E, AGIIICU LTUR E AN I) GENE It A L IN TELLIG EA 7 C E.
f sDirc rior&
1 LUMPKIN COUNT!,
COUR TS, JUDICIARY, &e.
Superior Court, B. R C.--Siit 4<l
Monday in January and July
Judge— Hon. Geo. D. Rice. Clerk
I —Jas. 11. Worley.
nferior Court —Si s 3.1 Monday in
June and November. Judges— T
11. Gibson, Wm. Waiwick, J. J
Findley, Joroyal Flackwell, and J
1 C. Brittain. Clerk —James Ruth
’! erlord.
OO" Return day out twenty days be
’ lore Comt.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Ordinary James It. Lawhon.
ShcriJ/ — John C. Early.
; County Surveyor. Co!. Adam Peck.
Board of School Commissioners, —
Beuj F. Sitton, T, 11. Gibson, Wm.
Warwick, J. J. Findley, Joroyal Black
: well and John C. Brittain.
'LAW DAYS AND JUSTICES OF
THE PEACE.
837th District. At Dahlonega,
on the 2d Friday in each mouth. —
Justices James Rultierlbrd and]
■ M m R. Crisson.
i 821 »T District. —At Auraria, on the)
I IslFnday in eacn month. Justices',
—James E. M oud and James M. j
Welchel
935th District —At Davis’ Conn
Gr und, on the 3d Saturday in
each month. — Judices— Am. E.
Beard and L. D. Davis. ’
SdOm District. —At Nimberwili
j Court Ground, on the 4th Satuid.ij, J
in each mouth. Justices— Join,'
1
isttes,
900th District '.t Yahoola Coan
Giound, on the Ist Saturday in each
, month. John H. Aber
croinbia and Ephram Lee.
999th Di-trict.—Al Ciumly’s Conn
Ground, on the 3rd Saturday in
each month. Justices— William
Audenoni and
1116th District. —At Ch<etatee
_O.jjjauv.! L on 11?<> Sitiur 1
day in each month. Justices Jas.
' U. Seaboli and L A - J. xiwims.
836th District. At Frog T'nwn
Court Ground, on the 3d Saturday in
each month. Justices— James A.
Caiitre.l and John F. Glover.
1 1051st District — Waihoo Coutr
Ground, on 3d Saturday in each
month. Justices— Burl G. Reeves
and
831sT District. —At Pooes Court
Ground, on the Ist Saturday in each
month. Justices John Gay and
; Daniel Neisler.
POST OFFICES AND POSTMAS-
TERS.
Dahlonega. George T. Quillian.
1 Auraria. —B. W. Brackett.
New Bridge.—James M elchel.
i Pleasant Retreat R. IL Asbury-'
, Lgud-ville.—John 11. Ciaven. {
JOHN A. WiMPYi |
ATTORNEY AT LAW
DAHLOiNEGA,... GEORGIA.
WILL practice in the counties of
Lumpkin, Dawson,Forsyth,Pickens,
Gilmer, Fannin and Union, in the Blue.
Ridg Circuit, and Hall and White coun
ties in the Western Circuit.
1 O’ Will attend to the collating and
securing of claims, and will give hi« tin- ;
divided attention to all business entrusted
to his care -
O"office, East corner cf the Square,
Feb. 23. 1881. ly.
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT
LAW Ik SOLK ITOR IA EQITY
DALILO VE G A GEO It GIA.
"VA/ILL practice in the counties of
’• Lumpkin, Dawson, Forsyth, Pick-
ens, Gilmer, Fannin and Union, in the
Blue Ridge circuit, Hall and White coun
ties in the Western circuit.
O’ Prompt attention will be given to
business entrusted to him. Thanks are
' returned for former patronage.
Feb. 23. 1861 ly-
j Twi andTrass so un dry
MID MACHINE SHOP,
I On Georgia Railroad, near Cotton Factory,
‘ AVGUSTA, a A.
/ A I’.DERSare solicited for Castings for
j Rail Roads, all kinds of Machinery
I for Gold Mines, Bridgesand Draw Bride
| es, Gass Works, Flour Mills, Paper Al ills
Saw Mills, Gin Gearing, Water \\ heels
ri and all kinds of Smith work—Shafting
and Circular Saw Mills complete.
W. M. HlurllT, Proprietor
Marsh 2(5 ; I???
DAHLONEGA, GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBERS, I€Gl,
SrlcctcS Doetrs
’ v ( GJ si u
r ‘ SMALL SERVICE.
The foliowin lines are no less true than
I
beautiful:
Small service is true service while it lasts j
Ofall thy friends, though humble, 'coi®
no one,
The daisy by the shadow that it casts,
Protects the lingering dew drop from Je
sun
«K». nr ■■wi
/MISCE L LA HE 0 ®8
.1 NO VE LCAS EOF ASS A L«T
AND BATHE II Y. f
Some years ago, a kinsmanZof
the celebrated Stephen Girjrd
came ovei Iron) France to conj*.-t
the will of the great millioniffre,
and having expended ail his m®ns
without success, he resorted? to
teaching French for a liveliho®!.-
i He selected a well populated t&vn
lor the fiidd of his laborsand ijng
' out his sign, “Mons. Girard, to
i lessor of the French LauguaX
in this same town it happenedftat
Mr. Boyle, an Englishman, hSi a.
school, and also professed to tekch
the French language. Butßas!
j soon as it was ascertained thal a ,
genuine Frenchman had arrivld,
/and a very handsome man at ihßt,
Mons. Girard soon took away Zl
Mt. Boyle’s scholars, much to iTs
vexdtion and disgust, and lor whim
imaginary injury he determinffl
to have satisfaction. The coii.W
quence was. Mr. Boyle one li:?e !
day gave Mons. Girard a severe
pummerling. Boyle was indicted j
tor this offence, and the case be
ing called in court, the District
]■ \ttoropy request? I : Hons l.iii-nrdi
to take the stand am, relate all the i
Circumstances of the assault and
battery to the court and jury.
Mons. Girard appeared to be a
most elegant and relined gentle
man, and having been sworn, he
pioceeded as follows, the court
room being crowded, and many j
of his pupils present : j
“11 it please you honor, Monsieur
le President, le Judge, rt vousi
Messieurs o( ze Jury, I shall make'
ze plain statement. I vas in my
room in zc afternoon, about ze
time I expect my little scholar,'
when 1 hea a knock on ze door.— |
Naturellement 1 suppose it was'
my little pupil, and without hesi
tation I say,‘come in.’ But if it ;
please your honor, Monsieur le
I President, le J udge, et vous, Mes
| sieurs of the Jury, to my grand sur-
| prise and consternation it was
Alons. Boyle who look at me \ris j
ze fierceness of a wild animal.—
Wisout saying one word, Mons.
Boyle commence to put himself in
ze position ofze box like zis. [Here i
the witness demonstrated the atti
tude a la Heenan.]
But if it please you honor, Alon-'
si; ur le President, le Judge,
Yuus, Messieurs of ze Jury, I nev-j
airtight. In my country every
body light, wis ze pistoiet ze small
sword, so broad sword, and ze!
carbine, but me, 1 was brought up
in ze monastery’ for ze church, and |
I never fight—consequently, na
tuiellement, 1 retreat, while Mons.
Boyle advance toward me. Pres
ently Mons. Boyle, it: the position
of ze box. make a demonstration
wis ’is left hand, like dat.—(show-'
ing the position ) and naturelle
ment 1 trow up my riMit arm,
when, to my grand surprise and
consternation, mons. Boyle hit me
wis his right hand, biff in ze eye.
Uh, mon Dieu, iinmediatement 1
. see ze wax caudle, ze star, and a
strar.gc country in which I was
lost entirement. When I recover
myself, natuiellement, I suppose
Mons. Boyle was satisfy, bui to m\
’ grand surprise and consternation,
Mons. Boyle lor ze second ’.vas in
ze position of ze box. Dis time he
, make ze demonstration wis ’is
, right hand, when 1 trow up my
■ left arm, and to my grand surprise
’ and consternation he lake me beff
wis ’is lelt hand in my ozzer eje.-
Again I sec zc wax candle, zc star,
1
o- / tT7;' ))
/tuf, ana CJ car-
j nil dat. s'range country. O mon
/ 'ieit, I suppose I should never re
turn —ze blood was streaming all
over my face. Presently I sec ze
day light once more. 1 was so
jjlad. But il it pl ase your Honor.
Monsieur le President, le Judge, el
t vous, Messieurs of ze Jury, when
' ( round, to my grand surprise
Mml cons'!", naf ion 1 see .Mons. Boy-
We lor ze third time in ze position
Kifzo box ! Dis time I suppose I
IF shall make sure, so when Mohs.—
I Boyle make ’is third demonstra
‘•lnon, 1 trow up both arms, when,
to my grand surprise and conster
-j nation, Mons. Boyle did not hit me
iin ze eye at al', but he give me a
, blow bill", in the stomach ! Oh,
■ mon Dieu. I was lost forever, and
‘receive such a pain that 1 was
.(drawn up like one corkscrew.—
I When I recover to my supprise
and delight Mons. Boyle bad van
ish audit It please you Honor,
I Moniseur le President, le Judge, et
vous, Messieurs of ze Jury, dis is
all I can recollect about ze Case.
It was next, to impossible to pre-
■ serve order while the witness pro
ceeded with his evidence, t.s the
(audience was convulsed with
laughter, and we need not say that
Mons. B >yle was convicted.—
, Nene Orleans Picayune Sept. 8
I (e7" There are certain untoward e
i
vents incident always Io a content like
j that in which trie South is at preset) 1
I enyaoed— -events that cast 'broad and
gloomy shadows. They are the natu.
I '
nil vicissitudes that ever mark a time of
war. The widest counsel cannot al
] way* prevail, nor the most deliberate- ;
!ly directed movement invariably sue I
, ee.uf. Mi-foitune< will come to the
bravevt, to the tnovt earneedy devoted
; champions of 'ruth. B it, to a cause
iG«e 1 by the tiigh «
and of right, Reverses often reveal the ;
future as through a gulden gate.
In the progre-s of this struggle fori
free government, we should not antici
pate an unbroken succession of victo- i
ties over the common foe, whose ut.
most energies are to be rudely thrown
I against us. Finn as is our confidence
in the ultimate triumph which sbal l
I cover the anus of our infant Republic, {
we doubt no: that out pathway to na
tional independence will be encum-)
i 'i
bell'd by obstacles that shall occasion
ally frown disaster upon us, We doubt I
not thal the inflexible rigors of a Vai- 1
ley Forge will come, to freeze the i
bleeding traces that shall tell vbeie
out soldiers have tro.l the consecrated
soil of freedom. Y&s, hardships and
defeat will here and there pay the ;
price of glorious victory. Bui, an oc~
caiionai reverse cannot destroy the [
i eliivalric atdor with which our people
, have entered this contest. The toils j
I <>f the war w ill be borne—patiently
i borne wh; le the future will I e looked |
!'o as the store-house of the nation’-’
I wealih and glory. The Nort ern mind,
i- yet, net coinpiehended lh» in. j
|domitalde energy and the sacrificial'
Ispiiit, preval»r,i, inis moment, through* j
! out the South. All the re-ourc ’» o 1 !
■ (his extensive, populous and productive ■
< omit ry, reac’ut’u from the Potomac to j
the Gulf, afe“eag»r, as it were, to re
-pond to the possible necessities of the
: occasion. Aml we have but to nieas*
’ ure di.-creetly the (ask we, have under- i
taken—iis diflhmities as well as its
probable sticces-es—and then bend
i our energies to lhe worn, that Heaven
may bestow its richest iflessings upon
our patriot labors. I’hen let each loy-
J son of the South, in view of all the
responsibilities of the hour, feel in bi
lenrt
That ’lis much better, overthrown
and broke
In freedom’s cause, to sink : nto the
grave.
Than in submission to a tyrant’s
yoke,
Like the vile reed to bow and be a
slave. B
ts AN INTERESTING INCIDENT
■; I lie National liiteliigoncer, of
11 Washington city, learns from an
e ' authority which guarantees its en
’> i fire authenticity, that the follow
. I iiigjnteresling incident took place
1 on Mond; y last, about. 11 o’clock.
) : in front ol the Federal Imus on the
qBo omac, opposite Washington ;
- , While five companies of the
> | Twenty-third New York Regiment
1 were on picket duty, one ot their
- number advanced considerably
- head of his comrades, until fie ob
, served a man, who pioved to be a
; Confederate officer,
: j with the hand as if soliciting
i interview. On approaching near
, enough to be heard, the latter ask-
I ed if he could see the captain of
, the company Io which the Federal;
■ picket belonged, and on this fact
: being reported to Captain Layden,
; commanding cue of the companies i
.in the 23d New York rtegiment.'
he directed a response to be given
in the affirmative, and immediate
ly proceeded to meet the Confed
ate soldier. When the two had
! approached near enough to ex.
'change words, Captain Loyden
j stated what arms he bore, and ask
ed il the meeting was to be a hos
i tile one* The Confederate stated
that be was armed in like mantier,
but desired only a friendly inter-.
j view. Captain Loyden then ad-I
! vanced to meet the latter, who in
troduced himself as Capt. Sanders,
lof the Eleventh South Carolina:
Regiment.
The two Captains thereupon
'engaged in a familiar and Iriendl)
j conversation, especially on the
subject of shooting pickets, which
they both dt ployed as contrary to
the usages of civilized warfare,
and which Capt. Loyden informed
Capt. Saunders was contrary to
the express order of his Colonel,
j and ol al. Colonels in ilw federal
, linibs, whoTFirected their men7’\VTieu :
on picket duty, never to fire except
in self-defence. Capt. Saunders
next inquired whether Capt. Loy
den was in receipt of any aulhen-.
tic intelligence respecting lhe cap
ture of forts at Hatteras Inlet, a
report oi which had leached the
Confederate troops stationed in
Fairfax county. Capt, Loyden
said lhe intelligence was undoubt-;
ledly correct, the latter observed
that, if so, it was “a heavy blow”
upon North Carolina and the
Southern coast generally. Capt.
L. replied that in it war like this,
between the Federal Government
and the revolted States, it was to
be expected that many such blows
would be inflicted before the war
was brought to an end. On par
-1 ting the New York Captain len
dered to the South Carolinian
;some cigars for himself and his
'brother officers—that Southern
luxury being, according to Capt.
Saunders, a rare commodity in the
1 Conlederate cam] . The twoolii
: cers then shook hands, and alter
I exchanging salutes reversed their
I positions a la mililaire and pro
ceeded to rejoin their respective
commands.
PRESIDENT JEFF DMVIS-
I Mr. John W. Forney, of the Phila.
I delphia Press, thus speaks of the char
; and acconiplishments ot the .Southern
riesulenl We b< lieve lhe Piess has’ i
in this particular, spoken llie simple
tiuth, except in so iar as it announces j
lhe death of the distinguished gentle-;
I mull rete i red :
. Tbe intelligence of the death ci Jeb
terson Davis seems t‘> be confirmed.—
When Stephen A. Douglass was culled |
away, a fiendish exultation was exhib- :
lied in many ot the st cession papers.
I’he Malignity with which they punish
ed his independence survived his death ;
ana no ed over bis grave. Let us set ;
<i belter example, now that the great :
leader ol ibe seccession tyranny has)
been summoned oefore the eternal bai.
He was an imperious and positive pub- i ,
he man He rarely surrendered an o
piuiou once Im med until he degraded |
uimself by throwing behi id him hisi
voluntary pioless ois in favor ot the
Un'oii. He was a close student, a
eliivalric opponent, a steadfast friend,.
a "enilernaa in nil !•’- relations, and in
•j Itis own family singularly kind and gc
(| nial. Although lhe head and heart of
I the Southern rebellion, lie wen t into it
' teluclanlly, as all who heard his last
_ speech in the Situate will reinember.
~ when w.lh broken accents and tearful
’eyes he hade farewell at once to that
; body and to nil bis real greatness.—-
I Jefferson Davis was blessed with many
accomplishments; He was alike u
j soidier and a statesman. No public
Jiman of my ai-'iuaintanco was more de-
Jto'od to scien'ific pursuits, and more
with the abstruse teachings of
■Wolitical nhilosphy. No branch of hu*
ilp in knowledge seemed to be unworthy
jSd his investigation. He was equally
J) attentive to classical literature, to the
details of military life, to the doctrines
. ol political parties, to the study of men,
■ and il Profess.Bache, of the Coast
: Survey, could speak, he would say of
I the fine work, of which he is the ac*
; complished head, and which has latter—
lv proved its unconquerable usefulness
' that Jefl erson Davis was as conversant
i with the smillest minutia of that noble
) institution as any other man not di
rectly connected with it. Ha was
passionately devoted to the Smithsoni
an Institute, of which he was a Re~
I gent in former times. He devoted
himself to the decoration of this capi
tol, and stood by Captain (now Gene
ral) Meigs in all his efforts to con
struct the water works, to finish the
i capital building on the grandest scale,
and to push forward the extensions of
the Inlerior and Treasury Depart
ments. He was undoubtedly a groat
Secretary of War, and in this high of
fice nothing so much delighted him as
;to take young men by the hand, and
when worthy io advance them. If ha
educated Beauregard to destroy the
Republic, he conferred many advan
tages upon McClellan to save it. If he
assisted Lee and fohason, and thus
strenghtened their bunds for injury
against the fl ig, h« greatly favored
Meigs and Franklin.
AiR. STEPHENS AN D~THE EX*
A MINER.
A corresp'otrth’nt tJf
’Banner’ of the instant, says :
Nor does ‘fair play to the Border
Slates demand that they should have a
place- on the licket.” The game
phrase ‘fair play,’ is in its proper place
if we occupy the •Examiner’s’
point, but, if we put political trickery
in the back ground, and, rising above
i:« poisoned atmosphere, ascend to
where a nation struggles for life, and a
people fight tor freedom,then the simile
of a game is dropped.
The border States make no such de«
maid. Peihaps aspiiing men have
thought of it, and (he thought has gain
ed until it finds utterance in the ‘Ex
aminer ;’but the people ask and desire
no change. The germ of civil discord
maj be found Under this plausible pre*
text. It is a cry that, in the end, will
do us incaleuable mischief. 'There
should be, and we doubt not there will
be, an equitable di-urihution of offices •
but wh< never we divide between the
Colon and Border States, then we
have recognized them as sections. —
Charges of unfairness, jealousies and
contentions, mutual es'rangement, fol
low each other and culminate in irre
pressible haired. Let us beware lest
we nurse into life a serpent that will
turn and destioy us. VVe are in the
midst of ate. r ble struggle—a hall mil
li m of men have been called to invade
—we have our independence to con
q er —.'.nd yet we are willing to quar
rel over a division ot offices in the face
ot these difficulties.
Iftbe corrupt practices of the old
government are so soon to attack the
vitals of lhe Confederacy, let us avoid
die perils of war and agree at once to
accept whatever onr enemies may of
fer. We would adopt the‘Examiner’s.’
language : ‘Let the Republic reach its
m j uiiy I elore it aspires to emulate
tixse corruptions and profligacies
wh ch belong to the old atid tried dy
nasties and we would add, let tie dis
pose ot lire Northern armies before we
divide olii es between the Colton and
Under States, L’l us, in the selec*
tion of public offices, seek meritorious
men, regardless of locality. The runs
do justice to each State and to all.
The thrusting aside ol Mr. Stephans
would increase the chances ol some
gentlemen whom we could name., but
how would it benefit lhe country !
H>
A couple cf sailors were recenLy
attested in Plymouth for throwing
buckets of tar over each other, It was
a pilch-battle.
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