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I a- i w ! • ? COJHP ANY. ~~ c ,, I1 f . «£Sk 2* ■c.«L Ml rw—wrwT»Wl UM rttnxfMfirT' R*:>rw*i. Mnuoap Kailrtwd. I in UmOrrmA. HKL RAILROAD. Hk.«ra -HIO KaILROAI* to Nashville in o>n « Imni rr. ft' II 4UB4MA v *'.c • _ ■*V. t *»». Daily Journal an& iUcssengcv. I SIUIIC Iff. ■ *> v. 1 YtotM* ttUMtaK. Stn^Saw. SIHFWi MTra*K. pJMaatHto iwatfto. 3tu3l.c ...-*> FiitU & 12011X7 ii ■ ■ ■ INMCt; s?3L Mm, Ccsrj, feis, 4c.. laiEii SiUEi-T J_ i»*«^ I, ■ - I . am m ! 13TEST10S PLASTERS, j i ’ K*f»: t« JJhJwaMl.lwngfJl.* iton<wi«>- I - 1 — ar\ s'. **\r t C«aO£ A WRIGHT, ir«UTA. «C«StV2 II .yfrtMClak reremai *■»***• tp.-v!«tbp *»d W»» i ,m; Y<c* «w l-crr.ewl. Briar *® , «mrv JWhB T. uSanis Jk C« . H *■»;«•«■ IMm,*; Matv Dncaw 40w,4«; '4 Sain, Y.K. ■feree. At, lirefar A Cwtu'i. . JUKgiMt, MLS IMn L. Cwfty * Ot, .%Taaott*, v p.'SSaZF!\H» FROftt \ (Mllliii us # cnyel . 1 nm&iiQiiifan nnnnQ > njnnfonniu uva/uo. Boots, Shoes. Hats, Ac. %T REDUCED PRlCfi^ ||EvE i3V tli» *i.vk of tioivls at SEW | Vt*Kat O He, a* w»- mat;« rt«»e out bcsi -1 Vr cX make It V> li» of odr frv—iJs to * •, j, mi) LOw pniviiishK elsewhHe. IL'« (MM W Inal at i arge tot rtHT f»ssmt:R. BUCKaadFAXa IWSKINS, bkack ntomi; »th, ;«rrjK mix? rwt \TKnx«. ; A.l of vrUk* «<* are to m»k«‘ tip st Ihe i y>w< cstmmk, wi . in llw t-uera svlfs Bilkviteonr fririvlii :,inl Ih' nubile c. ni r*liy 1 lagif, nnl! at aw oM stand in FORT VAI<- \V. 11. WOUUSi ot. THK iGreat Virginia & Tennessee Line Is now ojien, ami th« Southern Transportation Cos., It* war rising throßjli lUi.t.s i.atm so to SEW YORK, at SH-5», to BALTIMORE, at 13.25 |yrM*«n««vii<A, <w Tim AnsrSTt and SA VAVSAM, laMtfwxwp mnd New York ml HL3B. j Y«»e bride”* *»eing repair••<l on the \ tiyini.t am? • TVs www l^nf.goods go North and «oue Dontli wtliiwi attv (Wav. tharawrii* vtxirtwt. cheapest. and <jTiickr->*t I unm and itrsaran-oe less toy either. than any iglitr r-wtre. 1 irfivrr to Railroads. <snisign to y<*u r Till mill X«(rth. ststiti*: mo;«, s. n«i Railroad irwipt •a mo, and Iwi ll give Hir> *ueh Rill Lmlind. Kx- Toltorv oonon topoini of declination. Cli AS. J. WIUIAMSOX, Ae~l Soohorn Transportation ('•>.. iaaST ts at T. A. RUKlM'SulSnr, Macon, (in. PROSPECTUS OF The Masonic Messenger, MACON. GA. M*» »nir M<-SK*'i!srer m ill poltlwbe.l as a !*■(«»< m ;<»rty-ei£kl pages—the first BBinlvr to t* i«n<si liuSifirnt number at subscrtwys is |*mctsrert. Tt«o pa*:,'* oi tile Messenger aril! la' devote! to Oncmai i aanmunioiui.OK, Selected AHirlffi, For eign an.! Jwn.—lK-. .creepondonee, Masiuiic Juns- I Brudmrf. lie;*n-is of Mascstir Bodies, Reviews and Bil4««r»f»fi:cjd Vetoes. Masonic News. Kdit<s rtsK. MtßceHa.it*<>bv Mattel, and all else that will bo likely to li«ler*ss mi- Masonic reader. 7tM«.ri will l«r aw Wished in tl»e t>est style of tkr*n.md tfce Fititovs will use every means in Uxor power no render It in every tray acceptable to tSbMm:—Five I<oilars. jvumf'te in advance. Advertferment wilt he ’n*'rie! on liberrl terms. 4. KUUCT Macon, Oj. 4. AFTT.TON KLArKSii’rAR. Americus, Oa_ Kni'.rtßs i dv> IllMten in relation the Literary or Bnsi «■ interest of the Mcawncrer. wiil be addressed Bla.-ksuaab. Mncor., Ga. MATT. YORSTOX. Mio|«r, Was Filler k He p:»ir< r, Itelfe fawnf aft ihe “desrsal and Messenger office | and €Un Wort*. JANIARY, Ist, tKB g^aastf Minna, fjfrpa Morniu?. Fobraary 10. BWHP—g" !”■ .. 1 " '■' §*. to BBK. C inNM ooua^mir. Ot«SB9dS 1S» NKVI2KK MKRCHA>rreL Xo iUCStj Baildiass. ■mm mbt *s» vans wmbsw # *t MC2S ; ; ; : JD^IIX StKSn ISCHSBMS, ■mi yt'ttK .r 2S T. ton A xfi. - * wwtto a*. L»rtv I*. , APPLSIUX \t>Y fc> 4 CO. miK*j&*'*£* » SOOTS AND SHOES, vt* it« \r*T;i j«lik »Xs«sr. L v*k ibi! line^ ?f IdCFw ?». t.ffHMLB V. L &.L IISfIL. i. V f » S&TXi». STiilM.'KiL ALLEN £ CO, .l44N<V.fcfTS >!.-!</ n\'t'j(f%t.’t »tuss 3 CLOTHING, IW ai;*S ibj 'laia M. a*s-S»l S*T. f.-^I'JS. fciil*— . » f»CK- <sns. SIS?? TOin. j EA LS FOUNDRY, .laic St_, J»t «. Carr aad Sid4lc. ST. LOT IS, VO. Crosier, Bater Sc Cos., ftoi man to UXfilT. CVIIES i COJ usmcmotgr Stli* DfGWSS. sniXUU MAC2ISXSI NKTuu ud -rinr>suT loiuts, u» 'am iso.l WORK •r ill Aiwaj-kw H.W. —*-«»*_ , samx McCartney t co., WHOLESALE GKGCEBS,! oT WiiK*;* jtiuL LlquofS* in * * Rectifiers ftf Whisk v,a' * HO m-iOal* *T- 1.01 IS, JMC*' 1 ST. LOCK HOT PftessEO - ormitl KIVBLXSTKI KT. , J ST. l.et jIA ; ». ■- » «>M™ STONED DUR T EH Hp, . UAXUFACiyi&K&S Jn. suauStc cV, VJ WMOiK!> A L * D■ A E.-K R * 1 SV SADDLERY AND IS PORTtsIW Os Saddlery Hardware, r Ml HAM STHKKr, ■> . *Jg —»-«■ "art. i t ot iB. *' PETERSEN, HAWTHORN 4 wM r ****** * j'! sad4kHrr, Hard warr. t'ltarh-Triai ■nings, leather am! ‘ -J,. SO. 170, SOITB MAI* STREET, % ..-■-v J mtt-fa* ST. LOIIS, HON DO\VDALL, HARRIS & CO:, WASHINGTON FiiU\DRT, KXiiIXE AND n4CHIHfi SH#P, C '-rn*:r Second anil M^ r gan Sts , ST. LOUIS. . VanaUctuier, of a*earn Ki<iue-< arid Koilevs, Suit and Qcist Si ill Sf»ihin**y, Siafltf ,n! ilo ible Ci(,'aUr Sair Hills, T >b».j, S:ri»i m I i*re((«, Linl S-*ll«. Urf Sort-*, ao4 Oylia leri, # iol Cirdia* d*r.hiaes, Bjii.iir.* o*i>is-<-, Yoonr’s Improved Psleni Smut Slip,, MSis, (j isrti Mills, be id firmce Cidiiir*, Hl _,t fans, etc. A?eats for toe sxle of .l-sines 3 nith * Co.*» Super ;or Macmine Cards, .ud OH Weil Msch nery. 3aiii* MLOHun. raurnioAin. divid a. rgAoirros. KINGSLANDS FERGUSON, pikesix Foundry and A<; R LOU fa T U R A L W 0 It K S|, Cor. Sppon'l :.I<l Cherry Sis., ST. LOUIS. Manufacturers ot Rage’s % patent Pircal-.r Saw Mills; m anti cil-r* of all sm; C n x & Robe:ls : p t» nt T:.re< ? »?r and Cew r; hand and Dover Co»-q »*s; E Ra'ii*'* Obin Vow-r and Reaper; Cotton Q*Wi C«»tU»" re ; ia*« ol «Vf-rjr d*r«cripUon. cov9-So>d NOTICK. - ’ fpilF Ontiilitiors mii ler which rlic late suhscrip | 1 t»a I* l ti>c Miih'dgjf-vilicitiilromi having been j v.intj-Med v.-il!i. and i!i.- work resuiued, a chII of j; ; !.! t. rly-Sve per cent, ♦. Jiereby made on the J fibers, tliis amount due l>y lormer : sto.-ki:o?dors. Fiiymenfs can be made at the First i National Bank of Macon. JXO. P. KING, i’resident. srr. KETAIIC CASES, CASKETS, \t'•» ill COFFINS, o>v<>re.l with Broadcloth, l \ Velvet orA l|i:i:-;v, c-to. Walnut, Maliogauy, and Rose Wood, always on hand. Bimans. Roadsteads, Sofas, Wardrobes, etc. For Sale by O. WOOD, ’ Foot Third Street. •*#* iV;egm;>b copy 3 months. H NRY & JOHN IMRI TANARUS, Jr. V. CHAMBERS STREET NEW YORK. \ Man jucturer* and Jobbers of C LOTHTNG. A Urge st*vk udsp’ed to Southern T.a.ie jae?3-*?ai Hals for she Freudmen. '■‘■T’k tsre siwas.-n hand the Is’g-st and best as s T s ned stork r.f H ATS in the city, which we *ry ••ffeSejr 'a merchant and planters Hpen better terms line ea- la ’a l eLewhere. _I’L tNTEKS, if toii want HATS f.ir the Fieedmen, (roe 'a m tmU and learn our prices. MERCHANTS. if you want the best and cheapest Safe, Mil at the store of T. W. Freeman, treat**. a SHAW A CO. M temt ki i Ifan T.r.iwin. CULLD n- A' KJkOE T*rt*FTLY «a »w Y«fi at P*r. I CLPLAHT. ' W"! ■inr un iato. ac as- «&£ Mi xin~ TiiMhi ~ i uir imu ■i iiii i . ~rm~ir firwt. - Bt«S a3to :*»*£ dfit sILYEE. BANK NOTESJ L_ / .Sett.. ' nil. nr. V i -mrjr A l ' w%iife .i—jfci. i Jto ■!> —E&a suni*. jaafi-tf NW EPI T' r BX km» rhs* f« nue-.i & L sic iHn tnnsu*c»»a.t>fa Co-mEiisiea Business a.-ate.f yt&: •. tXTF. A>stsiMT, aa>i wSI **-*wr>x the jfe€s»Hie A A i.EXA\I>LK t'U-Rtri. S-. JCCfEa, J. S. DAY. Sfctron. tVfc. Ist. fc*t»4 t t*> tlie iat>* firm of Me .V i‘4l.t tg*Ji»sßi.OTrapwßiitt call and settle the suue wnk elf ber of AI.fSAMiF-: ScCAIJJE, *tHO. s. J»>Sii Mim-00. «J_ F.l*. i, —Lw . J. W. LATEEOr- *. W. LATKiiOF. J. W. LATHROP & CO, FACTORS AND Commission Merchants, Savannah, Ga. ja aS-iw* ■Dr. Strieklaii«r> S It. Strickland's Tonic fa g Ba concentrated preparation 9 tor. wT p S-,f Roots and Herbs with | TUXI io. ■ ■ii;:-a«-i.fa and cannina- H V J.ivt. to strengthen the * J>%J>Tnc 9r » oioandi and nervous sys tm. It A remain re tnedy for Dyspepsia or In dtoeation, N>nooiDes.< l/e* of Af.pet.tc. Acidi tfa the Stomach. Rardieacy. and Debility. It is Mjstcjfe)!ii\ therefore particalariy suited for Rs.nan nas and dyspeptic persons. For sale by tvetyyii.-re at $1 per bottle. - DR.PTRICKLANiyg I Kfi tOK I PILE REMEDY f PI BBS • KHk eared thousands of the j B jj». -7 Jjj ■worst eases of Biind and LriMtec/ pm -Bleeding Piiea. It gives im- s- “' ' mediate relief, and mtfeeto » permanent Toko Try it direct it. It fa warrar.. krhJtUe fotlaleby all Druggists at 2 cents -STKit -KLANDs V" n MFI.LIFT.UOCS rureCbughs, i vSs Brntseftcs, Asthma. Whoop ing i »ueh. Ctir< *: Consumption, Rron ehitfa mnd Croa|». pepared (rom Honey ■u4 Herhm, A is liesling, soiled? ng and expectora t*9e, and panic dnriy suitable f*» all affections of file Throat am. LunuA For *ale by Druggists everywhere. \ • 'T- T)IARRH(EA. .Over IS,0P«? soldie-; were eared of Diarrhoea and uraentery last year by the use of Dr. Strickland’s Asti-i 'holera Mixture. The fact of its being used ■Extensively in the Hospitals is proof of the effl ■v'of Dr. Strickland's Anti-Cholera Mixture for thAeureof amle end chronic cases of Diarrhoea and Dj'sentyry. Tills is the only preparation k Down as a sate and certain remedy for Cholera. EN>«gf he without so valuable a medicine. Get a kCi t i&.nf it tiirect !y. It is sold by all Druggists at ; per ■ uittle. pt, J. H ZEILTX & CO., VjijiS-eodly Wholesale Agents. ' SSO UEWARD—NOTICE.' STOLEN from the plantation of E. B. Atwater, four miles east of Thomasion, Upson county, G:»„ one mouse i-olored stud mule, large size, very sharp hip bom-s, rather droop rump, about sevetf or eigiit years oid, unshod, on the night of tlie 27th January, lS»i*t. I will pay (SSO) fifty dollars for the mule and thief, cr '*2'p twenty-five dollars for either. Anv information thankfully received by the snbscrilier. E. B. ATWATER. febl-codSt Telegraph copy. # FOR SALE, riiHK RESIDENCE now occupied by Mr. TANARUS, A. A Harris, situated corner of Popular and New streets, near the residence of Gen. J. W. Arm strong. The house is in good order, hasten rooms pantries and closets. Lot, one half acre, good stables and kitchens and well improved. One of the most desirable residences for a business man t hat has been offered for sale. lor terms apply on the premises to Mrs. T. A. Harris, or to GEO. S. OBEAR. J. A. GRAYBILL, Executor’s. jamM-tf. Estate of T. A. Harris. Tiie Latest Arrival AT TURPIN & HERTZ. JUST RECEIVED -i targe and well selected stock of OVKURO.VTS, Batiaess and Dress suits. Also, the f.ate-t Styi *s of French, Euglish and American Gass'iners. together with a tiue assortment of GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS, which we offer tor sale to our friends and patrons, and ihe public ia general, at the lowest prices, suitable to everybody's means. Come and look, if we cannot suit you, no chary.- wll !-» in and lor showing the best and the cheupesi tin: to o v-t can afford, Cioibi'tjr made 100. Jeron short notice, by Mons. Rouse, hum Pa-is. SKO. it. tckpix. J. n. bkbtz. TURPIN 4 HERTZ, Tri.iuotii «r Block Cherry Street, <l.-c2.tr BYRD & CO., Commission Merchants, FOR THK SALE OF COTTON, COTTON YARNS, Sheetin'}*, Jeans, Sc-, 78 Chambers St., SSW YORK. ip'u.tyiT*’ i Ljte t,r lUltimoPe ‘ Md - Wm. Gregg. Jr., late of Grauiterille, 3. C. James C. Smith, of New York. ntn-7-lt Dr. F. ti. CASTLEiV, CllT\ PH \ AX. i4fh ward,) tenders bis pro > f-SMoi.iil si.-vic» to itiecitiiens of Macon a.d vic.Dity. Utile- over. be store of Bowdre 4 Anderson. wbAe be may ho found during the day, when not pro fessiotully engaged -at night at the residence of F. E. Bowdre, on High Street. Macon, Jan. 4-3n> KXiRXAL AW KtSSafal^ 3tn-ifc assjb Sk •*> Liecj *- -*as ra is At- Ami *4 visaer. Tft fie aT**r*sA.»M *g» wfewtsi-i n»rf 1 <HJ i«e uiirwl Os war. g&isetotyf--druilsyftr Aef totoV^wteCTeeiSMtaaathfaßtslehati -Sti. Alsditf-df fctor wfi tt ts. r sascra • sir naamefmst maA insty srSSt «bi ck&hetrsvaai a sfejs#* basket Ki ad MStiKtod cte eissneh. Camtis <wr nffefgssg ifeigt sto iri—~ am. nf a?» b». xn^ uads. wSsst rrteyr>?fe<&aty3tw£ a Oae‘^i | rj>s»: L.«se»f «a anaist. Efce wsshard. fc> per»«sive *m fieh tsrfeaslmsa. Mrs. Aip>! are jt the opoaytjaa. tistr Jua-pewterity were Rese-r as hnnarry beSixv ia their life ass orx that dLsCrwrsia j<«.rney. anti iheoa.ee rt-i ruarke l that there want nary r*i o£ the j roani that di.laft hear atitae of them a h»>i k-rin for vittles. My wile’s ha>han.l fe treoWevl faekaose they aiat broke ofyrt. ami it tii) seem, that the poorer I git the more devourm they bekam. all of which will eeod in smathia or other i£ sumthin. don’t hapfen. We finally arrive*l within the [-resakt of our lovely home. The doors creaked welcome on "their hinges, the hoppin-bog eherrape«i on the hearth, and the whistlin wind was sinrrin the some ol*l tone around the bedroom corner. We were about as happy as we were miserable, and when I remarked that < ieneral Vandiver, who ok kupied our house, must be a gentleman for not bnmin it, Mrs. Arp replied— ‘*l wonder what he done with my soing masheen T 1 “He didn’t cut down oax shade trees,” said I. “My buroes and carpets and crockery are all gone,’’ said she. “It may be possibul,” sed I, “that the < lenrul ——” . “And my liarrel of s«jap. M sed she. “It may be sed I, “that the Genrul movetl off <«ir things to take keer of em for us. I reeou we’ll git cm all back after while.” “After while said Mis. Arp, like an ek ko, and ever since then when I allood to our Northern biethren, she only replies, "■otter while.' By and by the skattered wanderers be gun to drop in un*ier the wek-uiu shades of our sorrowful citty. It wer a delightful enjoyment to greet em home, and listen to the history of their sufierings and misfor tunes. Misery loves company, and after the misery is isist there’s a power of com fort in tal'kin it over and lixin up as big a tale as anybody. I wer standin one day upon tl • banks of the Injun river, a woii derin in mvimnd who would come next to gladden rfor hearts, when I saw the ahadder of an objek a darkniu the sun-lit bank. It wer not a load of hay nor an elefant. but shore emif it wer# my fiend Big John, a movin slowly, but surely, to the dug-out landing on the opposite side. His big round face assoomed more latti tood ,vhen he saw me. and without waitin for n-marks he wnsootijS a voice some two deeper tjjtfTT'the Southern Har mony— ,4 "Tljfre '-Wo the beech a poor exile ol Erin." fot, fJ aaiti l, “ andjTMg ? 1 lilt name ot the eterrigl citty aad Hb humble Inhabitants. I soflm got him afloat In the little canoo, and before I was aware of it the water was sloshing over the gunnels at every wabble. “Lay down, my friend/’ sed I, and he laid, which was ail that saved us from a watry grave, and the nabeorin farms from inundation. When safely landed, I found him wedgen in so tight that he eouldent rise, so I relieved him by a prize with the end of the paddle. As his foot touched the stirred soil he goutly sep arated his countenance and siu ; with feel in melody, “Home again—home agafn—from a fun-in shore. The Yanks may enm and the devil too but Pit not run any more.” Recollektin some skraps of blank verse myself, I said with much aksent, “Tell me thou swift of foot—thou modern Asahel— Oh tell me where is thy chariot and steer ? Where didst thou go when I did see thee driving like Jehu as we did flee for life?” “I’ll tell you all,” said he, “I want my friends to know it. I’m now a man of war, Bill, and I’m glad of it. Ive done the state some servis and she knows it. Ive han dled guns—yes, guns—wcepins of deth. — Ive slept on my arms since I seed you — night after night have I slept on my arms, with hundreds of deadly weepins all round me. Ah, Bill, patriotism is a big thing. When you once brake the ice, great sluces of glory as big as your arm will just spring up like mushrooms in your buzzum ; and make you feel like throwin yourself clean away for your country. Let me set down and I’ll tell voii all 1 know, Bill, but as the feller said in the theater, “when you in your letters these unlucky deeds relate, speak of me as I am—nothing expatiate nor set down not in malice.” “Jest so,” sed I, “exaaktly—exaaktly so. Prosed, my hero.” “Well, you see night after you passed me, my steer got away. Hang the deceevin beast! I hunted smartly for him the next mornin, but I hunted more forreds than backwards. Leavin my wagin with a widder woman, I took it afoot across the country by a settlement road they called the “cut off.” Devil of a cut off it was to me. I broke down in sight of a log cabin, and never moved a foot further that day. Tiie old man had a chunk of a nag that worked in a slide. I perswaded him to haul me to the eend of the cut off, and I know he done it for fear I’d eat up his smoke-house. Every now and then he’d look at the old oman, and she’d look at tiie smoke-house and than look at me. But that slidiu bisness were the most orfullest travellin that I ever hav had. Every time the pony’d look back he’d stop, and when he’d start agin he giv such a jerk that my contents were in danger. My holt broke on one okkashun, a goin down a hill full of gullies. I rolled some twenty feet into the edge of the woods, and eoteh up agin an old pine stump that was full of yaller jakets. Three of the dinged things stung me before I could rise, but I got through the cut off and fell in with some empty waginsthat was stampedin my way. “Gittin to Atlanty, a fool Irishman stopd me right at the edge of the town and de manded my papers. I dident have no pa pers. Nobody had ever axd me for papers but he wouldent hear an argument. As Quarles would say he wouldent jine ixhuf, but marched me toanoftis, and I dident stay there ten minets. I wer sent off to Dekatur with some fifty konskripts, who were ali in inournin, excepin their clothes. I never seed such a pitiful set in all my life. I talked with em all, and nary one but what had the dyspepsy or the swiuny, or the rumatics, or the blind stag gers, or tiie heaves, or the humps, or sum thin. Well, there want none of us dis charged, for there was bran new orders calling for everybody to go to the ditches. As I eouldent walk that fur. I was ordere 9 1 'ttctokEa-vEiittrliarac:' I L '&uVKa^lsK l -iito E3L sta I *K4aY ,j> ae _\3icaj«arx3sfe. They «toM ltoew *Awajt»jr«ac» pcato | sat mm «te sri rtia, atoti -earn iyaa 1 : yaak a»t a jwaar*eKw»at w , anegy lb*®* lex am the Asmi la. Bc- aaycaEkarto aasli kawivn eat af , wwwua*-ic wf by Dofenea. sai ay jer’s ' athdrv-m>B«Ba >htraoa wasptayaa wtcnufAsn laaid URVijtf^dat, xmd tLc very day I these, <r*es*iwfia buiat. esa. the WS-oa eaC these sml I wasn't to t na tamtam for theaßwaakees iayefsiatha* I wer fcwit Betaafcb. 'b*Xh.«reru w&r nr. tm as#Pr they w*a.’t soeotito at me Marlkwri they was in ane State. How in tb l ifakfn theyMWfcd b» I foa’t ■» meaa»i *>v«» aacaodsmler me uaA betwixt me. "1 tcfl vrsr. Bill. I ran Bfce a mm* tarkri, kakie ahead «iwa every step to find an eaey place so fidl when I w»* piuggd. An old woman overtook me, and I axd her tb take my watch and ray money. She took em in a hurry and pot em m hrrboenm. Weii, I found a gmllj at tat, and I roU iin kersph »th. for it was about two feet in mud and water. The rnfernet* found me there jest at Bight, and got me out at tite pint of the baynet. They marched me to the wolf pea and there I stayd till the fuss has over. “Right here. Bill, I want to make an ob servation. There was a feller with me when I was cotehM. and seed him make a sorter of a sign to the captain, and they turned him focee in two minds, and he jest went anywhere as nateral as a king, while I had a crasny’d dutch man standin over me with a baynet grinnin from rooru in till night. There was some Free 'Ma sonry a?>out that, Bill, and if another one of these fool wars comes along, I'll jine em if they’l Id me. “Biit lam at home now for good. I’m gwine to stay here like a sine die. I'm agin all wars and lighting. I'm opposed to all rows and and nots. I don’t keer nigh as much about a dog fight as I used to. Now, if one could always see the eend of a thing in advance, and the end irtte all right, I wouldent mind a big fuse, hut then you know a man’s fore sight aint as good as his hind sights. If they was. this war wouldn't have broke our and I would’t have lost my steer and ruy watch. I never seed that woman be fore nor since, and I would’t know her from any other woman that walks the veartb —blam’d if I’m certain whether she wer white or Mack. Bill, how is your off spring?” “Hungry as usual, I thr.uk you my friend,” sed I. “How’s Mrs. Arp?” “Keliellious, John, very; but I think slie’l be harmonized— aterwhile — ater \rhilc." Mr. Editor I will not relate further of these trying adventures at this time. Big John arc now entirely harmonious, and I suppose his future career will be all sc reen. Yours as ever, Bill Arp. P. 8. —Mis. Arp wants you to git hack the letters I writ her when sweet sixteen. Them offisers have got em and I suppose have laughed all the fanny part away by this time. - They contained some fool upon as reminders of broken promises. * JSie «aysWTthey’d noadeiu, «he’i try and iCrgive em — atencMlt. ( llont trouble yourself much, Mr. Editor, and if will be all the same to me. B. A. T.inks With the Past. Attention has recently been re-called — by the revival of the statement which has gone the rounds of the pipers —to the ex traordinary fact that a persffn is now liv ing who has seen Another who saw anoth er who was present at jthfirbattle of Floil den Field, who fought ij* 1518, in the reigs of Hehry VIII. The statement is to sds Henry Jenkins, a poyt twelve was employeffto carry ajumaand of ar rows, which were usdd bKfMfnglish in resisting Janies IV., at FWjIJWi. Jenkins lived to be the oldest man ever known in England, attaining the extraordinary age of 101) years—seventeen more years of life than were given to Old Parr. About the year 1680 Jenkins, when nearly 180 years old, was seen by Peter Garden, a youth sixteen years old. Garden lived to be 131 years old, dying at Auchterless, in Aber deenshire, in 1775. There is a gentleman now alive who remembers seeing and con versing with this old man. We take oc casion to note down a few remarkable in stances linking the present with the past. It is very probable that Lord Palmers ton has seen and talked to a person Mho has seen another born in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. He was thirteen when Macklin, the actor, died at the age of 105, and Macklin, one of the best known men in London, was born in 1690, so that lie might very easily have known, and probably did, aged persons who were born several years before Elizabeth died, and while Shakspeare was at the liights of his ca reer. In 1430 JamesL, King of Scotland, went to visit an ancient lady at Kinnock Castle, who, though blind, had a very retentive memory of events that transpired during the days of her youth. She described to tiie king the personal appearance of Wil liam Wallace, who died in 1305, and of Robert Bruce, who lived some years longer. A gentleman, eighty years of age, writing in 1851, stated thathesaw in 1781 Mrs. Ar thur, of Limerick, a venerable lady, who was present at the siege of Limerick in 1801, and described to him the horrors of the siege. Here the one link connected two dates 180 years apart. The same gentleman conversed in 1790 with a Fieuchman 120 years old, who ap peared before the National Assembly at Paris, and spike of events which had oc curred when he was ten years old. This one link covered the interval from 1800 to 1852. Sir Waiter Scott’s mother had spoken with a person who recollected Oliver Crom well’s eutry into Edinburg in 1850. The lady survived till the year 1820. William IV. used to relate that he had spoken to a butcher at Windsor, who had conversed with Charles 11. The interval, therefore, torfehed the reign of nine Eng lish Sovereigns. • , . , Lady Hardwieke, who died in 1808, at the age of ninety-three, had seen her grand father at a period when she was young, and he very old. Charles 11. gave away the bride when their grandfather was mar ried to his first wife. Mr. Coventry, living in Edinburg in 1882, spoke of having dined with the moth er-in-law of the Young Pretender! That lady. Princess Stolberg, was born in 1733. Her daughter, Princess Louise, married the Young Pretender, Prince Charles Ed ward, in or about 1772. In 1823, when Mr. Coventry dined with her at Frankfort, the Princess was ninety years old. A gentleman, aged 69 ia 1858, stated that •VoL >«. IT - Yi< "" r - i ,',f 11 tlta^sanrian. fevrdm<eni |ifrfil fir luafuT ,ralkr l ljnri^.fi^W.fo Wmhn? K36_ TW am wa* (MMaamr «ak rowiaifentodKiwi&l: Aratfe* «r with ran arah m fit time «f CragllL Mr. J. K. Svragrm BSl.«vb» gnmA hdktr. a«e*i*todfoy-*ix. in fit jraiai; tfepafotefer kd, ■ »pf, toewa Mr. Emf,M)t. The- sum Mr. I. B. m nntd, it KSH, with n Infiam,m| 111, whose father hod emit afer the Poke of Moomasttk, ufitfaaltrfgt^ge STtaSe I ?Kfik l£lw of these instancm (v the aid fiTtkam fepmM CarapheO mol to boost pfemaoily that he had conversed with oki Sir Isaac Heard, the herald, who bad conversed with a person who wit nessed the execution of Charles I. A gentleman, named Murray, who died only a few yean ago, remembered haring been told by the Earl of Mansfield, in 1557, that his lordship had conversed with a man who was present at the same execu tion. Soinetimcr s person's life is such a Ixisy one, that he lives practically twice as long' as a person of a more Idle turn of mind; or else, without any merit of his- own, lie is personally mixer! op in so many public events, that he ought to be a man of great information. Lettke Knollys, born in 153 b, was married to three men of histori cal celebrity during that century—the Ear! of Essex, the Earl of Leicester, and HirNicholas Blount. She survived them all, ami died at the age of ninety-five, hav ing Irena Court lady of distinction under six difTerent sovereigns. The Duke of Soniim-rset. bora in the time of Charles IL, was still more closely associated with the ceremonials of royalty, for he was pres ent as a high function ary at the coronation of James If., William and Mary, Aide, George 1., and George 11., and at the fu nerals of Charles 11. and William 111. The late Lord Lyndhurst Wts lx*m ic Mas sachusetts, wiv'n tli.it State was a-British colonv, and liefore the 1 'nited States Re public existed ; yet he lived to aee the year 1863. When the Prince of Wales was in America in 1860, lie conversed with Ralph Karri bam, who served as a soldier at the - battle of Bunker’s Hill, in L tb. If a man be very advanced in life when his son is born, the of the two may cover a wide stretch e? lime, without either of them living to a really old age. j- There was a man living at Headly, m Hants, in 1852, who wax the son of a man born so far back as ipr t . The fcon, born when the father was sCtoi ily-two years old, lived to be eighty-thpeb years old by 1838!, and may, perchruieev.be still alive. Charles Franc*, haaa son whose wife, If French history Is’fn be trusted, did not die till 139 yedra after her father-in-law's death—the one event occurring bn 1-536, the other in ITISr •Cardan, the plrysit^^V^ was born befell the end of Elizabeßgs reign, although Benjamin hifntelf Hvrt *» see tjhirty years of George HL’s reign.— Charles Fox’s uncle, gir Stephen Fox, Was Paymaster of the Forces so far back as 1679. - Sometimes the range of events which come within the experience of one family; depends ?u several generations being alive at the£*me time, owing chiefly to early marriages. Mention is made of one Mary Cooper, wbo, on an interesting occasion, —“Rise up daughter, and go to thy daughter, for her daughter’s daughter hath a daughter,” How many generations have claimed the venerable Mary Cooper as a progenitress, the reader will, perhaps, be able' to count. Horace Walpole, when six ty-seven years old, was able to say that he had seen seven generations in one family. Pierra Gaubert, an old artillery soldier of France, is just dead, at the age ofll3.; He was four years oltl at the commencement of the Civil War; live years old when Da miens was executed so barbarously for the attempted murder of Louis XV.; and when he was iiorn George 11. was upon the throne of England. The New York World contains the following rather sombre -warning to the people of New York city of the burdens of debt they are expected to face. If, as some modern writers have under taken to say, a national debt is a national blessing, the corollary is equally demon strable that the fact of owing ought to lie a source of universal gratification to tlic In dividual debtor. How pleasant, therefore, must every man, woman and child, in the city of New York, feel at this calculation of the personal share each possess in the universal blessing: “The national debt, in round numbers, is three thousand mil lions, which, divided among thirty mil lions of people, is about one hundred dol lars a head; the State debt is about fifty one millions, which, divided among four, millions of people, is nearly thirteen dol lars per head. This makes a total of ono hundred and fifty-four dollars for each man, woman and child in the city of New York. As not over one person in six is a laborer or creator of wealth, it follows that each actual producer is saddled with a debt of one thousand dollars, upon which he must pay interest for the rest of his life. The prospect is not a pleasant one for tiie laboring classes.” White Labor vs. Black.— Yesterday we met several friends who are planters in Mississippi, who have been here several days, trying to secure negroes to work their plantations, but had, as they inform ed us fovea up the idea in despair, as in the first place, they had to employ negro agents at exhorbitant prices, to drum up tiie negroes, and after they had lx*en found they demanded on the spot a “bounty,” and in nearly every case those who received this bounty “jumped”—or, to use English, went off with the bonus, and failed to ap pear at the time appointed; and in this manner the few who were secured cost tiie planters so much that their labor would fail to be remunerative, and in this dilem ma they had resolved to try white labor, and leave Sambo to sun himself on the corn ers at bis leisure, and telegraphed to New York for emigrants, a large number of whom are expected to arrive during the week. To them, the mooted question of “will the negro work” has been solved, the statements of the “so-called” friends of the negro to the contrary, and we think a stroll through South Memphis any day would satisfy the most skeptical mind that Sam bo no fancy for the cotton or cane field, but prefers to ‘bask in the sunshine and trust to luck for his sustenance.— Memphis Appeal,