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VOLUME XLIY.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1863.
NUMBER 48.
K. M. ORME & SON,
editors and proprietors.
STEPHEN F. MILLER,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
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legal advertising.
Ordinary's—
Citations for Letters of Administration, by
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Application for Letters of Dismission
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Application for Letters of Dismission
from Guardianship, 4 00
Application for leave to sell Land and
Negroes, * b 00
Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 4 00
Sales of personal or perishable property,
per square of tcy lines, 2 00
Sales of Land and Negroes, per square of
ten lines
Sheriff's—
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Mortgage sales of ten lines, or less,
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No deviation from the above scale of prices un
der any pretence.
Remittances by mail at our risk.
5 00
3 00
0 00
Fop Sale,
AT THE OLD PRICE.
A 'HOUSE AND LOT, situated on McIntosh
street, adjoining G. L. Deming, Mrs. Carr
and Mr. Gardner, for the amount of the same kind
of money I paid for it will buy it now, as follows :
three hundred dollars in gold, one hundred and
seventy-five in silver, and one thousand and twen
ty -five in bank bills, or the difference in exchauge
for Confederate money. Call on the subscriber
Possession given on the 15th of October.
, S. SINGLETON.
Milledgeville, Sept. 22, 1863 . 38 tf
EXCHANGE NOTICE, No. 6.
Richmond, September 12, 1863.
T UIE FOLLOWING Confederate officers and
men. captured at Vicksburg. Miss., July 4,
Mm, and subsequently paroled, have been duly
exchanged, and are hereby so declared:
1. The officers and men of Gen. C. L. Steven
son’s division.
2. The officers and men of Gen. Bowen's divis
ion.
3. The officers and men of Brig. Gen. Moore’s
brigade.
4. The officers and men of the 2d Texas Regi
ment.
5. The officers and men of Waul’s Legion.
6. Also, all Confederate officers and men who
have been delivered at City Point, at any time
previous to July 25th, 1863, have been duly ex
changed, and are hereby so declared.
EO. OIJLD, Agent of Exchange.
October 6, 1863 42 6t
LBS. OF SOAP for sale at the
Milledgeville Hotel.
F. A. HUSON.
October 13,1863 41 tf
5,000
For Sale.
HOUSE AND LOT on Wayne street,
between Baldwin and Scriven streets, where
*3ill) the subscriber now lives, containing one
acre, together with all other necessary buildings.
Also, one acre lot lying opposite, with good Sta
bles, Carriage-house, Cribs, &c., with a well of
most excellent water. P. FAIR.
Milledgeville, Sept. 1, 1863 33 4t
To the Citizens of South-Western
Georgia.
UREKA MEDICAL INFIRMARY,
Of the Olapathic System.
1 1IAVE located at this beautiful, retired and
accessible point, to all sections in South-West
ern Georgia, where there is plenty of good water,
pure air and clever citizens, where I will be pleased
to attend to all calis and receive patients of all sex
es, and treat them for any and all accute and
chronic diseases that human flesh is heir to. After
an experience of two years in the Hospitals in Eu
rope, and fifteen years in the malarious sections,
from Virginia to the Gulf of Mexico, I feel pre
pared to offer and to render my services to all who
may need medical or surgical aid. I have bad
great experience aud success in the treatmeat of
all such diseases as are peculiar to females. I will
attend patients or consultations at auy distance.
I have associated the Rev. Doctor Ravins with me
m practice, who wifi continue my treatment, and
atteud to my patients when it is not convenient
for mo to be with them, for riding and attending
to patients. 1 will be governed by the established
rate of charges as published by the board of prac
ticing physicians of Americus. Then to all teho
Mould sate time, health and money, I would say, do
not delay to sec your physician ea rly if you hove for
relief. (Bills due when services are rendered.)
As for who I am, 1 will very respectfully refer to
the following names: J. W. Jones, M. D., aud
Professor of the Atlanta Medical College: Hon.
D. J. Bailey, of Griffin, Ga.; Hon. R. H. Clark, of
Albany, Ga. For further particulars, see. me at
tny office in Ellaville, Schley county, Georgia.
Very truly, J- M. TROI 1LK,.M. D.
Ellaville, Sept. 8, 1863 36 ^
n ITY TAX NOTICE.—My books are now open
U for the collection of the City Taxes, assessed
by the Council for the present year. Office under
the Milledgeville Hotel.
JAMES C. SHEA, Clerk.
Milledgeville, July 28, 1863 3b tf
lotion Cards, Coffee & Sole Leather.
1 (\f\ pair WHITTMORE’S Cotton Cards.
A number 10.
50U lbs. COFFEE.
500 lbs. SOLE LEATHER.
Just received and for sale by
J. GANS Sc CO.
Milledgeville, April 14, 1863 15 tf
USTotio©.
Offick Ga. Relikf Sc Hospital Associa’n ?
Augusta, Ga., June 23d, 1863. j
A MESSENGER of the Georgia Relief & Hos-
pital Association will leave Atlanta on or near
10th of each month for Mississippi, and will
e charge of all boxes and packages intended tor
he Georgia troops in that State, and will carry
'em to some safe point near the army and deposit
1P ui, and notify the owners, or deliver them to
he owners, if practicable, free of charge. The
,0xes and packages must be marked with the
hames of the owners, their company and regiment,
", Qa to the care of the Georgia Relief and Hospital
Association. Atlanta, Ga. The Associafion will
be responsible for any box containing perish-
‘ e articles, such as green vegetables, See. Box-
n a, 'd packages will be deposited at the AY ayside
Uome, Athp'pi, Ga. *
u W. II. POTTER, Gcn’l. Supermt dt.
Newspapers of this State will please copy daily
■'Uring t[ lu fj rs (_ wce ]£ 0 f each mouth, and send bills
u |his office. W. II. POTTER. Gen’l Sup’t.
J “iy 7,1863 27 lstwern
jv p E(JIAL NOTICE—The undersigned having
, re h»°vcd from Miliedgeville, desires and iu-
hus to close up bis business matters of that
. ee as speedily as possible. All persons indebt-
il ^ re notified that my notes and accounts are ib
e hands of J. Breedlove and P. H- Lawler,
u . 0 are authorized to collect and make settle-
, Q t8. If not arranged at an early day,settle
s Uts wiil he enforced bylaw-
A. C. VAIL, Agent,
^gust 19.J862 ‘ 33 tf
Blanks tor Sale at this Office.
Confederate Money Wanted.
I OFFER FOR SALE, my entire premises, sit
uated in, and contiguous to, the village of
Scottsboro’, distant from, and south of, Milledge
ville 4 miles. I have 180 acres of Land, (80 acres
woodland) an excellent dwelling, all necessary out
houses, a well of uever failing water, many good
springs quite accessible, and other appendages
answering a farm. The chief value of the place,
however, are the APPLE ORCHARDS, occupy
ing 100 acres of ground, all of which is enclosed
by a picket fence, eight feet high. I have now
growing and bearing, twclce thousand trees of the
most approved Northern varieties, and of unsur
passed quality. The harvest of this year aloue
will yield $15„000 to $20,000.
I have, besides, a nursery of 10,000 young grafts
that can readily be sold at $20 per hundred. I
have also extensive PEACH and PLUM orchards,
fine VINEYARDS, composed of the Devereaux,
Catawba, Warrenton, and other choice varieties,
and about fifteen large 8CUPPERNONG AR
BORS. The latter will yield, this season, between
75 and 100 bushels of grapes. FIGS, RASP
BERRIES, and indeed all minor kinds of fruits
are abundant.
I have a stock of hogs and a few milch cows,
entirely supported by the products of the farm,
which will be sold, if desired, aud possession giv
en of the whole at auy time after the sale.
The Milledgeville Sc Gordon Railroad is one
mile and a quarter distant from the place.
Any person desirous of purchasing the above
property, I invite to visit and examine each aud
all the items enumerated. The orchard is now
finely fruited and will speak for itself. The grow
ing crop, such as Corn, Peas and Potatoes, will
he disposed of also. My address is Milledgeville,
Ga. L. D. BUCKNER.
C-fr' The Savannah Republican, Augusta Chron
icle Sc Sentinel, Macon Telegraph and Atlanta
Confederacy will give the above four insertions,
and send their bills to the Southern Recorder for
payment.
September 8,1863 > 36 tf
CALENDAR FOR 1863.
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E. S. CANDLER’S HOUSE will he
open for the reception of members
during the approaching session of the
Legislature.
Milledgeville, October 20, 1863 44 3t
W E ARE authorized to announce Hon. PE
TER FAIR as a candidate for re-election to
the office of Mayor, at the election on the 1st Sat
urday in December next.
Milledgeville, Nov. 24. 1863 47 2t
W E ARE authorized to announce the name
of SAMUEL B. COLLINS as a candidate
for Tax Receiver and Collector of Baldwin coun
ty, at the election irr January next.
November 10, 1863 45 8t
W E ARE authorized to announce the name
of JOHN R RESPESS as a candidate
for Tax Receiver and Collector of Baldwin coun
ty, at the ensuing election in January next.
November 3, 1863 * 44 tde
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18 19 20 21
25 26 27 28 29 30
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COURT CALENDAR FOR 1803.
REVISED UY T11E SOUTHERN RECORDER.
SUPERIOR COURTS.
Medical Board of Georgia.
T HE BOARD will hold its Annual Session in
Milledgeville on Monday, December 7, 1863.
GEO. D. CASE, M. D. Dean.
Milledgeville, Nov. 3, 1863 44 3t
Look at this, those who wear Shoes
and eat Beef.
I SHALL CHARGE for Tanning and Dressing
Leather of all hides brought in after the first ot
December, one-lialf, with the privilege to the pa
tron to buy my half at $2 per lb. for Sole Leather
and $3 for Upper Leather. This is higher than I
have been charging, hut the times drive me to it
in order to mix a little meat with my bread.
M. J. CALLAWAY.
November 17, 1863 46 4t
Look Here, you Rick Farmers.
I AM OVER the conscript age, and I am wil
ling to take charge of any man’s farm in Geor
gia, as I have had a good deal of experience in
that liue of business in Middle and South-western
Georgia. You will address me at Eatoiiton,^Put
nam county, Ga. hone.
November 17,1863
46 3t*
LANDS FOR SALE.
I OFFER for sale my valuable plantation
____ containing 518 acres, more or less, lying in
Hancock county, on the east side of the Oconee
river eleven miles north of Milledgeville, and six
miles’from theEatonton & Milledgeville Railroad,
and nine miles from the new Railroad now build-
in^ from Macon to Augusta. One hundred and
ten acres of the land forest growth, eighty acres
fresh twenty acres river bottom, forty acres mid
dling fair up land, the remainder, tall second
growth pine—been lying out for thirty years or
more The fences, all with the exception of two
hundred pannels, have timber immediately by
them Dwellings tolerably fair; two good orch-
ards—Apple and X’each. For
see or ridre,, M <,».
November 10,1863 11—
VALUABLE MILLS FOR SALE
T HE UNDERSIGNED, offers his Grist and
Saw Mills for Sale, with 300 acres of pine land
with some improvements.
Bein«- in the army, and unable to run the Mills,
I therefore offer a good bargain;—so come on soon,
any one that wants to make a good investment.
Mills situated in Decatur county. about halt way
between Thomasville, and Ba.nhridge.-Can soon
on the undersigned at Camp Lamar Cob ,
town, Decatur county, Ga^ ^ WI q HTj
of Capt. Wimberley’s Co^
October 13, 1863. 41 * Gt
Strayed*
T WO HEAD OF CATTLE-one a large cow
with large red and white spots; the other a
two and a half year old heifer, of a red color and
streaked with black ; both marked with a slit in
each ear with the lower half of the left ear cropped-
I Will pay fifty dollars for their delivery to me at
1 Will pnjr UUJ « miles from Mu-
MrASburK .ill. eisbt S’"'
" ^Baldwin aonn.y, -
for either of them, or forty dollars for infoi .nation
so that I can get them,
October27, 1863
J. W. GREENE.
47 6t*
D OCTOR HOLMES, late of Darien. Ga., of
fers his services in the practice ot Medicine,
Surgery and Obstetrics. .
I'S* Office opposite the McComb s Hotel.—
Balleucc, v-nmr of Wayne^d Fragkl.n
Milledgeville, Nov. 24J863^
47 3t*
JANUARY.
2d Monday . Chatham
3d “ *Floyd
FEBRUARY.
IstMouday,Clark
Lumpkinf
2d Monday, Campbell
Dawson
3d Monday, Forsyth
tPolk
Glascock
Houston
Meriwether
Walton
4thMonday, Baldwin
J ackson
Mom oe
Paulding
Taliaferro
Walker
MARCH.
IstThursday,Pierce
1st Monday, Appling
Chattooga
Cherokee
Coweta
Columbia
Crawford
Gwin-nett
Madison
M arion
Morgan
2d Monday .Butts
Bartow
Coffee
Elbert
F ayette
Greene
Pickens
Washington
Webster
Thursdayaft’r Montgomery
3d Monday, Cobbt
Calhoun
Hall
Hart
Heard
Macon
Newton
Talbot
Tattnall
Ware
Thursday af. White
Friday after,Bulloch
4th Monday, Clinch
Chattahoochee
Johnson
Lee
Milton
Putnam
Rabun
Twiggs
Wilkes
Thursday af.Habersliam
f Mo ^ a y af '? Echols
ter-lth Mon-j Effingham
APRIL.
1st A 2d Mon. Carroll
1st Monday, Dooly
Emauue 1
Early
Franklin
F ulton
Gordon
Pike
Taylor
YVarren
Wilkinson
Thursday aft. Banks
2d Monday. Hancock
Richmond
Harris
Lauren s
Miller
Sumter
Tuesday* fter. McIntosh
3d Monday , Glynn
Haralson
Henry
Jones
Liberty
Murray
Oglethorpe
Pulaski
Stewart *
Monday > Worth
after, ) Bryan
4th Monday,Wayne
Decatur
DeKalb
Jasper
Lincoln
Schley
Whitfield
Wilcox
Friday after,Telfair
Camden
Thursday after.Irw in
Monday “ Berrien
Charlton
MAY.
1st Monday .Clayt-m
Randolph
Scriven
Upson
2o Monday, Catoosa
Chatham
Gilmer
Jefferson
Mitchell
Muscogee
Ths’dy after Fannin
3d Monday,Baker
Bibb
Buike
Quiimai)
Spalding
Troup
Union
; Thursday aft. Towns
4th Monday, Dade
Terrell
Last Mon .lay. Colquitt
JUNE.
1st Monday,Dougherty
Lowndes
2d Monday, Brooks
Clay
3d Monday, Thomas
JULY
1 st Monday, Floyd*'
AUGUST.
1st Monday, Lumpkin
2d Monday , Campbel.
Clark
Dawson
3d Monday, Forsyth
Polk
Glascock
Houston
Meriwethe r
Walton
4th Monday .Baldwin
J ackson
Monroe
Paulding
Taliaferro
W alker
Thu rsday after ,Pierce
SEPTEMBER.
1 s lMonday , Appling
Chattooga
Cherokee
Columbia
Coweta
C rawford
M ad ison
Ma rion
Morgan
2d Monday .Bulls
Bartow
Coffee
Elbert-
F ayette
Greene
Gwinnet t
Pickens
W ashington
Webster
3d Monday Cobb
Calhoun
Hall
Hart
Heard
Macon
Newion
Talbot
Ware
Bulloch,
Thursday aft. White
4 tit Monday, Clinch
^Chattahoochee
Johnson
Lee
Milton *
Putnam
Rabun
Twiggs
Wilkes
Thursday af, Habersham
Monday af- A
the 4th > Echols
Monday J
OCTOBER.
lst&2d Mon.Carroll
1st Monday Dooly
Early
Emanue 1
F i anklin
F ulton
Gordon
Taylor
Warren
Wilkinson
Pike
Thursday aft. Banks
2d Monday . Gilmer
Hancock
Harris
Laurens
Miller
Richmon d
Sumter
:Ths dy after Fannin
|3d Monday, Glynn
Hai alson
Henry
J ones
Murray
Oglethorpe
Pulaski
Stewart
Union
Worth
Montgomery
Negroes for Sale.
t HAVE A LIKELY NEGRO WOMAN AND
I clifld two years old that I will sell or trade for
, i Thfl woman is a good cook, washer,
J JoL S in Georgia.
&.C., ana as goo wairon with good harness.
^dd^T WM. P- BONNER, Milledgeville.
Nov. 24,1863
i Thursday
j after ^
Towns
i4thMondv,Decatur
DeKalb
Jasper
Lincoln
Schley
Tattnall
Wayne
Whitfield
Wilcox
jFriday afterTelfair
Camden
j Thursday after. Irwin
'Monday after Charlton
NOVEMBER,
jlst Monday. Berrien
Clayton
Effingham
Randolph
Scriven
Upson
12d Monday, Catoosa
J efferson
Mitchell
Muscogee
3d Monday Baker
Bibb
Bn rke
I Quitinan
Spalding
Troup
4th Monday Dade
i Terrell
(Thursday afr. McIntosh
Monday after Colquitt
do do Liherty
Monday aft. Liberty, Bryan
DECEMBER.
1st Monday, Dougherty
Lowndes
2d Monday, Brooks
*Clay
3d Monday. Thomas
Iron and. Steel!
T HE SUBSCRIBER has ou hand a fine lot of
Iron and Steel, from IJ to 12 inches wide,
which he will exchange for produce—Bacon, Lard,
Pork. Corn anff Peas. WM. H. SCOTT.
Milledgeville, Oct. 27, 1863 45 4t
Gov. Brown’s Special Message on Taxation.
Executive Department, )
Milledgeville, Nov. 20ih, 1863. jl
To the General Assembly:
Justice to the citizens of Georgia,
and to the great cause in which we are
strugghug requires that 1 invite you?
attention to a matter which I consider
ot vital importance, and urge upon you
lo take such action as will lead to llie
application of the proper remedy, i«»r
an existing evil. For the last eighteen
months, 1 have repeatedly staled that,
in my honest opinion, our greatest diffi
culty will be maintaining our supply ol
provisions. If we can do this, which
is in our power, with God’s blessing, if
not abused; we have' nothing lo fear
from the power or armies of the enemy.
Deeply impressed with the importance
of this subjeei, I consider the waste ol
the necessaries of life as highly culpa
ble, and any action of the Government
winch causes such waste as unfortu
nate and unwise.
Entertaining these views, I am ob
liged to conclude that the tithing sys
tem adopted by the Congress of the
Confederate Stales, was an unfortunate
error, which can only be retrieved by
an entire and early change of policy.
I think it sale to estimate that at
least onc-third of the amount of the
tithe or lax in kind, of this Slate, will
be wasted and lost, on account of the
want of store room, and the misman
agement and carelessness of the gov
ernment agents, who, unfortunately,
are seldom practical planters, but aie
in very many cases young or inexpe-
rienced men, who have but little prac
tical knowledge of the business in
which they are engaged. The result
is that large quantities of shelled-corn
are thrown together in heaps and left
lo must and spoil, or to be wasted by
bogs and other stock on account of the
insufficiency of the store rooms to pro
tect il. Fodder or hay in bales is haul
ed to the common place of deposit, and
is there thrown out without cover, and
permitted to take the rain as it falls,
and is soon rotten. Potatoes and oth
er like productions collected in places
remote from the army are almost an
entire loss. Much of the meat, if col
lected at the time fixed by law, will be
thrown together in heaps before it is
well cured, and will be tainted and
spoiled.
It is not reasonable to suppose that
all the government agents appointed as
they are, will look alter and take care
of the government stores, with the same
care and diligence exercised by plant
ers and producers, in looking after their
individual property. Again, if every
agent were as faithful as he would be
in the management oj' his own affairs,
it is not possible in many cases for
(hem to procure store houses in which
they can safely keep such large quan-
lities of provisions as must be collected
in many counties of this State. And
it is also worthy of consideration, that
in a large number of counties in the
Slate the store houses are so far from
railroad transportation that il is worth
nearly half the tax in kind to haul it to
the road, when in these very counties
there is not, on account of the absence
of so much of our productive labor in
the military field, a sufficient supply of
provisions to sustain the lives of the
people. The consequence is, the gov
ernment must pay a very large amount
of money for hauling the tithe out of
the county, and the Stale must then
appropriate money out of her Treasury
and purchase corn elsewhere, and pay
a large amount to haul it back to the
same place, to sustain the lives of sol
diers’ families.
This system is not only working bad
ly, and causing the waste of a large
quantity of provisions greatly needed,
by our people, but it has so lar us I am
able to learn, given general dissatisfac
tion.
The people are willing to pay in the
currency of the country any amount of
taxes which the necessities of the gov
ernment may require, till we are
thiough this struggle. But they are
not willing to pay a tax in kind which
is very burdensome* to them to deliver,
and which after all their toil, they often
have the mortification to see wasted
without benefit to the government or
any one else.
In the present condition of the coun
try, it seems to me, that there is but
one course left for the government to
adopt, which will dojustice to all, sus
tain our cause, and b£ sustained by’ the
people; and that is, to repeal the lithe
law, go into the market and purchase
ils supplies at market value, and im
pose a tax payable-in currency, suffi
cient to absorb all that portion of the
currency, which it can not induce the
people lo fund, and which is in redun
dancy of healthy circulation. This
would not only he the best regulator ol
prices, but it would relieve the agricul
tural .class, of the unjust and unequal
burdens which are imposed upon
them, under the impressment acts as
now executed, ami cause the burden of
sustaining the •government to fall alike
upon all classes of our people.
I therefore recommend the passage
of a joint resolution by ihis General
Assembly, requesting our Senators and
Representatives in Congress to use all
j, : ' -
their inffiience and do all in their pow
er, to procure the speedy repeal of the
law which provides for the imposition
and collection of a tax in kind; and to
procure such modifications of the im
pressment act as Vill compel the Gov
ernment to pay the market value as
just compensation for property impress
ed by it. And to urge the passage of
such laws as will require the tax in fu
ture to be collected in currency, and
will absorb any redundancy of the qur
rency, caused by the payment ol just
compensation for property purchased
t>y the GovermnQul.
I am quite sure the people of Geor
gia are willing to bear their just and
lull share of the burdens of the war,
and to pay any tax necessary to sus
tain the credit ol the Confederacy.
They are well aware that it.is iirii-
nitely better to pay their debts in the
present currency, than to avoid taxa
tion now, and have to pay in gold or
ils equivalent alter the war is over.
The remark applies with as much force
to the maintenance of Stale credit as
of Confederate credit. I think 1 may
salely say that there is not a member
of the Senate or House of Representa
tives, who in the management of his
own private business, will borrow the
present currency, and agree to pay
back dollar lor dollar in gold after the
war is over. I will say further that
there is not a member ol either bouse
who has a single sensible constituent,
who will make any such contract. How
then can we justify our conduct if we
do for the State that which no one of
us would do for ourselves, and which
no prudent citizen of the State will do
in the management ol his own private
affairs. It .we refuse to assess a tax
sufficient to raise the sums we appro-
pi iate, we ate guilty, it seems to me, of
this inexcusable folly, arifl we must
then borrow for the State the present
currency,^and bind the people of the
State to pay the amount we borrow, in
gold, after the war is over. I am sure
that nine-tenths of the thinking men of
the State will agree that it is far better
to meet our expenditures by taxation
to be paid in the currency, than to ac
cumulate a Slate debt at present rates
to be paid hereafter in gold or its equiv
alent.
JOS&PH E. BROWN.
“EYES OPEN.”
“Our minister said in his sermon, last
evening,” said Mrs. Beach, the wife of a
prosperous wholesale dry-goods inerchaut
on Market street, as she dusted her maa.
tel of porcelain and marble, on Mouday.
“that he who wanted to do good must be
ou the constant look-out for opportuuities;
that God does not find our work, and
bring it fitted and prepared to the hand;
but spreads to the world before us, and we
are to walk through it as Christ and the
Apostles did, with ‘eyes open,’ looking for
the sick aud suffering, the poor aud the op
pressed.
“Now I am certaiu,” continued the lady,
as she replaced a marble Diana in the cen
ter of the mautel, “I should like to do
some good every day; one feels so much
better when they go to rest at night; and
I’ll just keep my eyes open’ to-day, and
see if I come across any opportunities that
under ordinaiy circumstauces, I shold let
slip.,’
Half an bom later Mrs. Beach was in
the nursery, with the washerwoman who
had come for the clothes. “1 wish. Mrs.
Simms,” said she, as she heaped the soil
ed linen in the basket, “that you would
get Tommy’s aprons ready for me by
Wednesday; we are going out of town, to
remain mitil Saturday, aud I shall want a
good supply on band for such a careless
little scamp as be is.”
“Well, I’ll try ma’am,” said the washer
woman; “I’ve got behindhand a good deal
since Sammy had the whooping cough;
but uow lie’s better, I must try to make
up for lost time.”
“Has he had the whooping cough ?
Poor little fellow! How old is he 1” ques
tioned the lady.
“He was three, last April, ma’am.”
“And Tom is four,” mused the lady.
“Look here, Mrs. Simms; won’t you just
open the lower drawer of that burean, and
take out those four green worsted dresses
iu the corner? Tom’s out grown them you
see since last winter, but they are almost
as good as new. Now, if you want them
for little Sammy, they’ll do nicely, with
out altering, I think.”
“Want them, Mrs. Beach?” answered
the washerwoman, with tears startiug iuto
her dim eyes—“ 1 haven’t any words to
thank you, or to tell what a treasure they’ll
be. Why they’ll keep the little fellow as
warm as toast all winter.”
“Well, I’ll place them on the top of the
clothes,” said the lady, smiling to herself,
as she thouglrt, “my eyes have been open
once to day.”
Not long afterwards Mrs. Beach was on
her way to market—for she was a notable
housekeeper—when she met a boy who
had lived a short time in her family the
year before, to do errands, wait ou the
door, See. He was a bright, good-hearted
boy, and had been a great fovorite with
the family, and Mrs. Beach had always
felt interested in him ; but this morning
she was in quite a hurry, and would have
passed him with a cordial, but hasty,
“How are you Joseph, my boy ? Do come
and see us,” had it not struck her that
Joseph’s face did not wear its usual hap-,
py expression. She paused, as the memo
ry of last night’s sermon flashed through
her mind, and asked : “Is anything the
matter with you, Joseph l You do uot look
so happy as you used to.”
The boy looked up a moment, with a
halt doubtiug, half-confiding expression,
iuto the lady’s face; the latter triumphed.
“Mr. Anderson’s moved out of town,” he
said, pushing back his worn, but neatly-
brushed cap from his hair, “so I’ve lost my
place; then little Mary’s sick, and that
makes it very had just now.”
“So it does,” answered Mrs. Beach, her
sympathies wa.mly enlisted. “But never
mind, Joseph; I remember, only night
before last, my brother said he would want
a new errand boy in.a few days for his
store, and he’d give a good one two dol
lars a week. Now, I’ll sec him to-day.
and get the situation for yon if you like.”
The boy’s whole face brightened. “Oh !
I shall be so glad of it, Mrs. Beach !”
“Aud see here, Joseph ; I am going to
market, and perhaps we can find some
thing nice for little Mary.” The lady re
membered that Joseph’s mother, though a
poor seamstress, was a prouif woman, aud
felt this would ho a delicate way of pres
senting her gift.
So she found some delicious pears and
grapes and a nice chickeu to make some
hiotli for Mary, who she learned'was ill
with lever, before she proceeded to do her
own marketing. But it was a pity that
the lady did not see Joseph as tie sprang
into the chamber where little Mary lay
moaning wearily on her bed,, while her
mother sat stitching busily in one corner,
auJ held up the chicken aud the fruit,
crying “Good news! Good uews ! I’ve got
all these nice things tor Mary, and a place
at two dollars a week!”
O! how little Mary’s hot liugers closed
over the bundles of white grapes, while
the sewiug dropped from her mother’s fin
gers, as the tears rjin down her cheeks.
It was evening, aud Mrs. Beach sat iu
tha library absorbed in some new hook,
" hen she heard her husband’s step in the
hall. Though the morning had been pleas
ant, the^ afternoon was cloudy, and the
day had gone down in a low, sullen, pene
trating rain.
Now, Mrs, Beach loved her husband
with the love of a trtie wife, hut he was
not a demonstrative mau, and the first
beauty and poetry of their married life
had settled down into a somewhat bare,
every-day, matter-of-fact existence. But
her heart was warm to night—warm with
the good deeds of the day, and, remem
bering the resolution of the momingT she
threw down her book aud ran down stairs.
“Henry, dear,” said the soft voice of the
wife, “has the rain wet you at all ? Let me
take oft your coat for you.”
“Thank you, Mary ; I don’t think I’m
anywise injured, hut you may help me just
lor the pleasure of it;” and he stood still
while sfie removed the heavy coat, with
all that softness of touch aud movement
which belongs to a woman. She hung it
up, aud then her husband drew her to his
heart with all the old love’s tenderness.
And there was music in Mrs. Beach’s
heart as she went up stairs—music set to
the words, “Eyes open ! eyes open !”
INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.
A correspondent furnishes the Mont
gomery Mai! with the following incidents
of the war in Virginia.
Whilst in the city of Winchester, on
our way hither, there occurred au incident
which we think worthy of note.. The
Yankee cavalry stationed at Charlestown
made a raid through the country for some
miles above Winchester, and returned
with a number of horses stolen from the
farmers, and with some dozen prisoners
picked up in their marauding expedition.
A Yankee oftieer was riding through the
streets a little in -the rear of the body of
liis corps—by his side was walking a
young mau whom ho was conveying to the
post as a prisoner. As they thus passed
along some one on the side walk hailed
the Yaukce as an acquaintance, who
slopped for a minute to return the saluta
tion. No sooner had the Yankee turned
his head, than the young man by bis side,
by a sudden spriug. wrested his pistol
from liis hand, and presenting it at his
head, commanded him instantly to alight
or have his brains blown out. The Yan
kee got down quickly, and the young man
vaulted into the saddle, dropping his bat
iu the act—presenting the pistol at the
head of the confounded officer aud ordered
him to hand him his hat, which being
done, lie put spurs to the horse and' dash
ed out of town in an opposite direction
from the YAnkee force, and safely made
his escape.
Upon another day we met a party of
Imboden’s men, attached to the command
of Maj. Gilmer who had a skirmish with
the Yankees in the morning, and being
greatly outnumbered had scattered by
different routes to re-unite at tlieir rendez
vous in the valley. Oue of the party had
been unhorsed and took to the woods for
safety—lying there concealed. Presently
lie saw a solitary YAnkee horseman coming
along, and lie ventured out to take a look
at him. Seeing no others coming he
stepped out in front of the Yankee horse
man aud lound him to be the chaplain of
the regiment. The YAnkee preacher ac
costed our Confederate boy, asking him if
he was not tired of the the service, telling
him it was useless to fight any longer,
and suggested that it would be wiser and
better for him to go with him and surren
der and get a parole, adding that he was
in great danger where be was. Our Con
federate, looking very serious, said : “Do
you really think I am in danger ?” “Most
certainly,” £aid the Yankee chaplain.
‘‘You are a preacher, ’ said the soldier, “I
most believe you, and as I can get out of
danger nnrch sooner on horseback, I shall
have to thank you to get down.’” Seeing
the preacher look a little blank at the
proposition, our friend said : “Come, be
quick, sir ; you said 1 was in great danger,
aud I want to be oft'.” The astounded
Yaukee dismounted, aud our young friend
springing iuto the saddle, left him to hia
meditations. We saw the young man
afterwards with the chaplain’s horse,
which was a fine biooded animal, aud bis
new master seemed to he very proud of
him.
It costs us more to l>e miserable than
would make us perfectly happy.