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VOL. XI. TlHOlimiN X!l.\ 11. PUntISIIED EVERY SATURDAY UY WILLIAM A- BURNSIDE. f subscription per year,in advance, SI,OO LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS Citation notice $2,75. “ N >tico to Debtors and Creditors 3,25. <« “ to sell personal property 4,00 «» “ to sell real estate & negroes 5,00. <* " for leave to sell land and negroes 4,00. “ for letters Dismissory 4,50 Announcing candidates for office 5,00 Al!advertisements of twelve lines, first inseition $1,0; second, 75 cents; for each subsequent weekly insertion 50 cents, monthly seventy-five cents. 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. NO 32