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V r ‘Z't VOLUME XXXVI.] MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESBAV, JUNE 19, !8««. mmn 4c. UOUfiHTO.V.NlSBET.BARXE'i&MOORt Publishers and Proprietors. n. *. uorcnTOM, JOS. II. VI9IIE r, Editors. Ok Jfrtetal Simon J* published Weekly, in Mil/edgeri/le, Ga., Corner of Hancock <^* Wilkinson Sts At $3 a year in Advance. ADVERTISING. TRASiir.NT.—One Dollar per square of ten lines for each insertion Tribut -s of respect, Resolution* by Societies, (Obit uaries exceeding six lines, Nominations for office Com munications or Editorial notices for individual benefit,] charged &» transient advertising. Legal Advertising. fiharifTs sales, perlevy often lines, or less, “ - Mortgage fi fa sales per square, Tax Collector’s Sales, persquare, Citations for Letters of Administration, “ “ “ Guardianehip, Letters of application for dism'n from Adm’n •• “ . “ “ “ Gnard’n Appi’n for leave to sellland, Notices to Debtors and Creditors, .Sales of laud, 4*c., per square, •' perishable property, 10 days, per square, Estray Notices, 30 days, Foreclosure of Mortgage, per sq . each time, LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. { Sales of Land, Scc., by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, are required by law to be held ou the fiist Tuesday tu the month; between the hours oflO in the forenoon aud three in the atteruoon, at the Conit house in the couuty in which tne property is situated. Notice of these suits must be given tu u public ga- •stte 40 days previous to the day ot sale Notices for the sale ot personal property must be given iu like manner 10 dav> previous to sale day. Notices to the debtors and creditors of an estate must also be punished 40 days. ~ Notice that application will be made t > the Courtof Ordinary tor leave to sell Laud, Ac., must be publish ed for two mouths. CUalion* for letters of Administration Guardianship, Ac., must be published 30 days—for dismissiou from Administration, monthly six months—’for dismission from Guardianship, 40 <tays. Rules for foreclosure ot .Mortgage must be published •monthly for four months—tor establishing lost papers, for the full space of three months—for compelling titles from Executors or administrators, where bond has been given t»y the deceased, the lull space ot three mouths. I’ublirations will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, uuless otherwise or- j!2 50 5 00 5 00 3 00 3 00 4 50 3 00 5 0t, 3 00 5 00 ! 50 3 (!P 1 00 Of tins City of MilledgeviHe. Grocery and Provision Stores. T A CARaKER, Agt., Groceries, Hardware &c.—old stafld of Scott & Caraker S KINNER & WALLS—Store recently occu pied by W. II Scott. i\f S. STETSON Sc BRO., at old stand of D * * • B. Stetson. I4TALKER & JOHNSON, in Fort*8 Brick TV Building. A BROWN, opposite MilledgeviHe B ROOKS a MOORE, Hancock st., (Jos. Duncan’s old stand.] M. EDWARDS, Wayne st. IEPEERS A VAUGHN, 1st door south of Tele- •9 graph office. i^ITTMAN A PERRY, Wayne st. It J. GREEN, opposite MilledgeviHe Hotel. Dry Goods. JJOWARD TINSLEY—under New ell’s Hall. J OSEPH & FAS8—3rd door MilledgeviHe Ho tel. ROSENFIELD & BRO.—4th door Mil- ledgeville Hotel. B ISC 11 OF & MONHEIMER—5th door Mil- ledgeviile Hotel. YYT G. LANTERMAN, Dry, Fancy and MU TT • littery Goods, opposite MilledgeviHe Hotel. M RS. G. LEI KENS, Fashionable Milliner and Dress Maker. BARNETT—Ciothiug and Dry Goods. Druggists. N ICHOLS &. AIAPF, 1st door MilledgeviHe Hotel. ♦ C tLARK & IIERTY—Drugs, Books and Sta- J tionery. Dentist. R. H. A. BARNWELL.—Office over the Store of W. 8. Stetson A Bro Hardware and Tin Shops. JOSEPH STALEY. I V T. WINDSOR—Tin and Harness Manufae- • turer & Repairer A house furnishing goods. Confectioners. W T. CONN—Family Groceries, Confeciion- • ery and Fancy Articles. LK1KENS— Confectioneries, Lager Beer, Ac., Ac. Detail of Ziqnors. L D' G. li»»k aul Jib work, of all kinds, PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED AT THIS OFFICE. M. »-y When a subscriber finds a cross markon his paper he will know that his subscription has expired, or is about to expire, and must be renew ed if he wishes the paper continued. j-y* We do not sand receipts to new subscri bers. If they rece*e the paper they may know that we have received the money. *F* Subscribers wishing their papers changed from one post-office to another must state the nine of the post-office irom which they vvishit changed. COUNTING HOUSE CALENDAR, 1866. N. CALLAWAY—at his old stand. G LYNCH, Bar Room and Bowling Sa loon. Hotels. W ASHINGTON HALL—Hancock street.— N. C. Barnett. A milledgevjL’LE hotel—s. a r. a. A McComb. Buggy and Wagon Shops. V1TM. A J. W. CARAKER—opposite Federal Ti Ut WOMAN. DISSECTED KY A HAN. “Nec tecum possum vivere. nec sine te “I am peculiarly interested to know whether women will rise in the latter dej as women; fbr k is to’ be feared in that case that they may con tinue to tempt us before the throne itself.’ - St. Augustine, in the second century. A woman is like—but stay— What a woman ia like, who can say T Tbere’s no living with or without one ? Love bites like a fly. Now an ear, now an eye; Buz—buz—always ^uzzing shout one. When she is tender and kind. She is likely to .my mind, ‘(And Sally was so I remember] She"s like to—Oh dear !— She’s as good very near. As a ripe melting peach io September ! If she laugh, and she chat, Play, joke, and all that, And with smiles and good humor she meets me, She’s like a rich dish Of-venison and fish, That cries from the table ‘‘come eat me!” But she’ll plague you and vex you. Distract and perplex you ; False-hearted and ranging, Unsettled and changing, Wbat. then, do you think she » like t Like a sand, like a rock ' Like a wheel, Hke a clock T Aye, like a clock that is always at strike? Her head is like the island folks tell on.) Which nothing but monkey* can dwell on 1 Her heart’s like an orange so nice She carves for each lover a slice '■ In truth, she’s to me. Like to wind, like to sea, Whose raging will hearken to no man. Like a mill, like a pill; Like a sail, like a whale; Like an ass, like a glass. Whose imape is constant to no man ! Like a flower like a shower ; Like a fly, like a pie ; Like a flea, like a pea ; Like a thief, like—in brief, She’s like nothing on *aith—hut a woman ! — THE HOC VO.VDK9T DOCS! BY BRICK POMEROY. Durn tbe dorg! There goes a three out for two or three days! Once he of the mourners came in with a wooden leg in bis teeth. That night a wooden-legged soldier was missing, but, as cripple soldiers were of no aceount, he did’nt 4a Csan Sera*. But when we found J _ that the graves were dug and one day The report of a late trial ia Cincinnati saw hit kennel filled with silver plates, contains one bright passage: try to keep shy a bit. He brought us the leg, no doubt thinking it the kind ofclubwelike for The Lacrosse Dem ocrat. And be used to find money! He’d go into a store and snatch green backs out of a cash drawer just as handy! One day be came in with a contribution box he’d stolen from the entry way of a close communion oburch. He carried the box behind the end of the sideboard, broke it open*—and looked sick ! John Brown never stole a contribution box again, and after that, when we’d point to that box and smile, he’d drop his tail, what there was of it, and look just Hke Ben But ler does when hating his picture taken! And he’d steal halters, bridles, saddles and such stuff. And as be grew old er, he’d actually unhitch a horse and lead him across the line into Minne sota. When any one would call out “John Brown,” he’d go for a horse sure! And so we had to change his name. Wbat to call the cuss we did’ut know. But as he had chawed up so many books, and was always meddling with what was none of his business and grew to be sort of dog matic, and radical about the bloody- jaws, we left off calling him John Brown, and called him Charles Sum ner. For awhile he seemed to like it. He was an ambitious dorg, and to keep his name good, meddled with so much that was none of his business that at Inst he got a dog-goned caning which so affected his back bone that we had to send for Anna Dickinson. After she strengthened up his spinal verte bras, he howied and ranted around so, plates screws, etc., gnawed from coffin lids, we knew what a vehement mourner Ben Butler was. A funeral proces sion just passed the door—and that is what the dog goned dog went out for so quick! i _ - If any body wants a red and brindle, square jawed pet of this kind, whose keeping will not amount to over six hundred dollars a month, unless we have to pay his stealing, we’d like to sell him. He was a sweet pet—just such a purp as some poor man who is not able to buy a window curtain or a book for his wife to read would want. He cau eat a horse and chase his rider up a tree any day, and were it not for his peculiarities, would be a fine dog: He’ll eat anything, from an inkstand to a linen night shirt—from a pound of candles to a baby—from a magazine to an india rubber boat, and grows handsomer every day he lives. We’ll sell him cheap. For particulars address with revenue stamp to repay return postage on the dog, which is such a handy thing to have about, your most dog goned truly. by five pane of class out of the door. ... .. and th.ele goes the cussedest and wus- we - had to ct,an * e hls ,,alLe ?« a,D ’ sedest piece of excitable canine we ever saw! Four years ago, the day after a chap on the cars had the upper end of his snute punched for calling us a traitor, Po. Hatcher gave us that So we called him General Curtis.— And that seemed to please him might ily. He’d stand on his his hind legs, poke the hair out of his eyes, and when he went out doors, strut about as though he was going to fight a Pea Juion office. Southern Express. T. CONN, Agent—office at Conn's Va- DAYS. 2 = = ?2.= h:c * P. »§’■£' 2 • ' 3- P 11 s, j, f 5j?,| ! S. 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DARIEN BANK BUILDING, where liecati he found at all h°urs , J l ° f t j, p any claims due bin., and receive F»CMd.1 of the same, many of them being old enong an, uni, ms to settle all old ^coon^s and have my B.nkt balanced 1 »h»ll eryt » ^ We to last Christmas day. ’ ^ April Dth, I066. w riety Store. Printing Offices. (gOUTHER RECORDER—R. M. Oraw A, 8on. F EDERAL UNION—Bougbton. Nisbet, Barnes and Moore.—Cor. Hancock & Wilkinson st*. Harness and Saddles. _ E J. HOGUE—1st door McCombs’ old Bo- • tel. Note.—Merchants and Business men of the city whose names do not appear in this Directory can have their business published by calling on os, at the Federal Union office. Officers of the State Government of Georgia* at niUedgevtlle. , EXECUTIVE DEPARTMEKT. Chari.fs J. Jenkixs, Governor. K. L. Hunter, Secretary Executive Dept. H. J. G. Williams, ” M “ Z. D. Harrison, Messenger. STATE HOUSE OFFICERS. N. C. Barnett, St c’y of State & Surveyor Gen. J. T. Burns, Comptroller General. John Jones, Treasurer. J. G. Montgomery, Librarian. Jesse Horton, Capt. State House Guard. Judiciary. Judges of Supreme Court.—Jos. H. Lumpkin, Iverson L. Harris, Dawson A. Walker. Reporter.—L. E. Bleckley. Clerk.—C. W. Duboae. Deputy Clerk.—If. G. Grieve, office at Ifilledge- ville. ' Penitentiary. W. C. Anderson. Principal Keeper. C. G- Talbird, Assistant Keeper. A. M. Nisbet, Book Keeper. Rev. F. L. Brantly, Chaplain. i ana tie Asylum. Dr. T. F. Green, Supt. and Resident Physician. Dr. T. 0. Powell, Assistant Physician. City Government. T. F. NeweH, Mayor. “ Peter Fair, Clerk. P Ferrell, Marshal. Auctioneers.—White & Wright. Aldermen.—F. Skinner. F. G. Grieve. A. W. Callaway. Wui. Caraker, Walter Paines C Vaughn. Sezton.—Thomas Johnson. Post Master.—W. E. Quillian. County Officer*. B. P. Stubbs, Clerk Superior and Infr Court*. John Strother, Sheriff. John Hammond, Ordinary. S. H. Hughes, Tax Receiver. L. N. Callaway, Tax Collector. I. T. Cushing, Coroner. Jas. C. Whitaker, Surveyor. Justices Inferior Court.—Dr. G. D. CaiO, O. P. Bonner, B. B. deGraffenried, A. W. Callaway, W. H. Scott. County Court. Judge—T. W. White. Solicitor—T. F. Newell. Religious Denomination!. Presbyterian Church—Rev. Wm. Fllon, Paator, Methodist “ -K**. G- W. Yarborough, t tf Baptist Church— Bev. S. E. Brook*. Paator, St. Stephen’s Church—unfilled at present. Lodges- Benevolent Lodge No. 3, F. A. M.—B. B. de- Graffeuried, W. M. t . _ Time of Meeting—1st Jr 3rd Satur. of each mo- Temple Chapter No 6 — O. V Brown, H. P. Time of meeting—2d A 4th Saturday*. . ....-11 1 j ,1 1 on uiuugii uc v\ as uuiiJi; tu iiKiib red and brindle batdi of a dog, then , P . s y . v , , > . it- e . ,, : Ridge battle. And what notice lie d doue up small .die, loakmg so bull | ^ H e became enam, red doggish Chat wewere afraid ofhis pic- f mu|e6 a „ d often wou|d , ead t|len , ture for a week! Fo. said he was an , , ■ - , c , . -, 1 • . xt to the outskirts of the city and hide A abama bull dog, imported from New ., . , , . ,. J . ^ - . " . 1 , e ’ 1 . them in the bushes. And he grew into Jersey rn a basket, ee » sample of the b a togte , ur cotto „. Ne * e , w „ , haodeome ol that couotry. But he[ d s0 fond of cottoII . ’TWt safe ™ a P ,lr .P- J 118 tal1 was no i for half the ladies when out promena- longer than a wicked man s ptayer,, dj in , „ cost „ lr:e t0 meet £ do nnrl moo full oo ctiinmn * A n/i thnen . o - _ O in too street. In fact he had such a and was full as stunnin ! And those fare ! They looked like the small cor ner of plug tobacco. And such eyes ! And such eyebrows! When he was but a child, so called, some monster •jviust have slung him first against a stonewall, for his eyelids looked like Ben Butler’s sorte’r shamed of some- love for cotton that ’twan’t safe to let them walk on the street, nor stay in the sanctum, nor go to any place, so we called him General Siegel. That bothered him! He had a tough time of it. Gracious how he’d twist his BAR & BOWLING ALLEY. T HE PUBLIC are respectfully invited to give the undersigned a e«H, as he ha* aome of th« vc„ to! uq»>r. X. i* «“ more, he haa just opened a NEW BOWLING ALLEY in connection with his Bar, where eTef 7 roan can pass an hour or so in pleasant Bar and Bowling Alley ou the corner Opposite the MHMgeriile Hotel. • U. Q. LYNCH. Feb. 27tb, 1866. *• ,. . , jaws and bark ! And he loved to get thmg! Hwjaws were pretty jaws.-, ^ ntoad ii . toa . He’d whip aoy 1 hey were ao severe in their angles- , jn t b he 6 dty . But H took 80 r )6 there was so much jaw in proportion ; t0 * hjm int oa Bght that he was use- to the purp that we wanted to caH jle ^ YoQ see wh s en we wante d him him Swisshelm, but he wasn t that ggj,j one do g f we ’d set him on an- kind of a pet. But he was nigh onto all jaw. We kept him four weeks in the sanctum, and all that time hired a nig ger to watch him. He'd steal—Hiteal is no name for it. So we concluded to call him John Brown. And be kept the nigger mighty busy watching him, till at last the nigger being such a smart, mimicky, educational cuss, other, and then he’d back into the tother one, and then fight his way out! But it took so long to learn his style, and then ’twan’t always convenient to get up two fights, so we changed his name again. He grew beautiful each day. In fact, he was a handsome cuss*! And folks took so much notice of him, he torgot he was nothing but a poor dorg, got so much worse nor the dog, that | and he actfcd M that we thought b« Bt we kept the dog to watch the nigger. Egad! wasn’t it afull team? Strange how niggers will learn things. And he was the hungriest dog we ever saw. A peunv worth ot beef didn’t last him as long as a ten dollar bill would a Democrat the night be fore election. He had a fine voice for beef. And what the dog would not eat the nigger would L And the dog grew large and ponderous about the jaws. He used to eat papers, books, mats, vests, old hats, gloves, parent leather boots, window curtains and sich. He ate such stuff for desserf.— to call him Gen. Butler. You never saw such a change come over any dog. He grew cuuninger and cunninger every day. * He’d go to the butcher shops, rub his paws on the carcass of dead beef, and come home to make us believe that he’d been fighting. And as he growled so when be came and never bad any outs or wounds on him we thought he was getting to be terrible brave. But at last we found him out. And how that dog would strut! And he grew mean. He’d drive small dogs away from their bone, and go to chasing kittens to. That dog ate a full calf-bound set of j noint out of harm’s way. And Harper’s Weekly one day, just on ac-i 8na p an( j g^arl at women—always 4- An 1T A ./I Vw* fan A . . « . . . . sc. count of the calf. And he ate ten copies of The Chicago Tribune one insulting them. And he had half a dozen pups he’d picked up around the day, but the lies in them papers made | cjfcVj as mean but not a8 8mart a8 he , him so dog goned sick all that week, aQ ^ these pups would chase poor girls that he would have died if the nigger in ’em hadn’t emetticked ’em out, and so he got well ! But he never pined into some corner where Ben Butler would scold at, bark at, and then after rubbin bis dirty nose over them, leave himself to a shadow hankering after ^ bem some wound upon them. Republican newspapers any more.— But wben be beard a gun, Lord bless And he kept on stealing. We always} , ho w he’d run and hold his tail thought them Republican newspapers - * • ’ *” ’ 1 ' * aided in tbe development of that com plaint, for he was sure to steal all the nigger earned for us. He’d walk out on a rainy day for Ms health and always come back with something he had found. Once it was & lady’s veil. Then it was half a ham, with a butcher’s knife sticking in it- What he wanted io bring the knife with him for is morer than we know, uuless he bad to cut and run. One day he came in with a baby’s cradle. There..wa8 some blood on the edge of it, and aU that afternoon the bell men was out ringing a beH and yelling, “boy lost!” John Brown didn’t go Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial. Washington I.etler. The President's Equanimity Tested. They tell a Story about tbe President and a very severe test upou his good hiu nrtor, which will do to relate. The “RigJet Way” is a small seven-by-nine sheet, sad ly misnamed, and devoted principally to abuse of Andrew Johnson, and seconda rily to the advocacy of the Suinneriau mode of reconstruction. Lew. Campbell happened to pick np a copy of it a few. months ago, which was peculiarly ‘“rich” in vituperation and scandal, lie toek it to the U bite House, and in the course of an interview with his Excellency, drew it from his pocket, with the remark, "Now, Mr. President, I’m going to test your different mental and moral quali ties. Let me see ho\t you are as to phi losophy.” Campbell then read an article entitled. ‘‘Andrew Johnson and Thomas Paine,” written after the manner of Plutarch's "Comparison,” and to show that Paine was a v-.ry estimable man compared with Johnson. The President listened to it affentively. "How do you like that V* said Camp bell. "Well, it’s not bad,” said Andy, good- humoredly. "Now,” said Campbell, "I want to test your patriotism.” And he read an article showing that as between Andy Johnson and Benedict Arnold there was a large balance in favor of tbe Intter in the mat ter of love of country. "How do vou like that 1” said Camp- beH. "Oh, it will do. This is a free country, you know,” smilingly replied the Presi dent. ’‘ r ~ "Well, now prepare fora test of your fidelity,” said Campbell, and proceeded to read an artieleentitled, "Judas Iscari ot and Andrew Johnson,” to the effect that the betrayal ofhis Master by tbe former was as nothing compared with tbe betrayal of his party by the latter. "What do you think of that, Mr. Presi dent ?” "Well, I guess my shoulders are broad enough to stand it,” replied his Excel lency, not at all moved to displeasure. "Now here comes the climax,” said Campbell, and began to read a double- leaded editorial to the effect that tbe Right Way would be circulated through tbe agency of tbe Ereedmen’s Bureau, under an order from General Howard. “How do -you like that, Mr. President V* inquired Campbell. Tbe President laughed, looked his Ohio friend iu the eye, and said, "Well, now, 1 don’t mind the other things, but doesn’t it strike you that the Howard part is a little too steep V } Campbell said it did really ocour to him in that light. The President finally took the paper and made some notes ou the margin of the order of General Howard— since which time it is supposed the Ereedmen’s Bureau hasn’t been instru mental in circulating the "Right Way" to a very great extent. ASK&IOUS QUESTION. A friend of tbe President was urging upon him, the other day, the necessity of his making more removals from office than he seemed disposed to make, and finding Andrew a little bard to move on the sub ject, became indignant at his stoicism, and finally burst out: "Mr. President, will you answer me one question /” “1 will, if I can,” replied Mr. Johnson. "Weil, then, in tbe name of God, do you think yon can kill bogs by greasing their bellies with butter V’ The President thought it an extremely doubtful question. one bright passage: The case was ohe in-Which tbe heirs of a Mrs. Schofield’ : —an English lady of eccentric habits, who died in Cincinnati in 1853—endeavored fo pnrsoade the court to set aside the will on several grounds. The principal witness was a 3frs. Clieese- brongh, aged seventy. She had beeu asked half-a-dozen times as to the age of one of Mrs. Schofield's nephews. The re port continues : A. 1 tell you I didn’t know his age- f His birth register is in England, and I * never went to see it. Court. Mrs. Cheesebrough, it is perhaps proper to say to you that you must be pa tient, and answer all the questions coun sel taay put to you. Witness. So I do, but I don’t see any use of answering the same questions over and over again. Court—Some of us may not hear all your answers, and it is often necessary to repeat questions. Witness. I generally speak lend enough for anybody in this court room to hear me; and I think if the lawyers would attend to their business they wouldn’t have to ask a witness more than onae. Court. Proceed with the examination. Q. You say Mrs. Schofield drank a peat deal of liquor; wbat did she keep it in—a jug ? A, No; she kept it in a demijohn, in a basket. I never look* d int9 the basket to see whether it was glass or not, but I think it was. It held six quarts, and I have carried it a hundred time* for her, if a strict account had been kept, to Mr. Smith’s liquor sfoie, to get k filled. I remember Mr. Smith used often to say; ‘‘Druuk again, Mrs. Cheesebrough 2” and I would answer: "No; it’s the same drunk;” but he knew I was joking, and he knew who tbe liquor was for. Q. What kind of liquor did sbe use 2 A. Brandy, »ir—the regular old cognac. Q. How did she drink it—pure or mixed. A. Sbe as often took it pure as any way; when she wanted to she made it into grog; she used to'drink it out of a black teapot; that was handier than a long bot tle; the deuiijohn wes filled every week, but 1 didn’t fill it always, she bad a little Englishman w'ho used to go for her very often. Questions by a juror. How did she at tend to her business when she had a store on fifth street ? A. 1 don’t know exactly, but as I told you before, sbe was always well up in money matters. Q, Was she sober then 2 A. No, she was never sober. Drinking had become a sort of second nature with her. Sbe was like a good many lawyers I know of, they cant lead a case without being half drunk. (Laughter.) It’s a fact. 1 tell you I have seen many a law yer that never undertook to try a case un til, as they say, he had “two sheets in tbe wind and one a flutterin’.” (Renewed laughter.) £4 S. ) Stamp Duties and Confederate Mon ey.—The complexities of the stamp act are sach as to cause ft to be little understood. Tbe people of the South particularly, are ignorant of the bear ing of the law upon old instruments requiring stamps to be affixed to them. The Revenue Collector at Washing ton, North Carolina, applied to Wash ington recently for instructions, and received the following answer Treasury Department, Office of Internal Revenue, Washington, May 2‘J, 1866. Sir: I reply to your letter of May 14th, that to determine the stamp duty required for a deed given in 1863, the consideration of which was paid iu Confederate money, the value of the consideration in United States cur rency, at the time of the execution, should be estimated as the' basis of computation. Very respectfully, D. C. Whiteman, Dep. Commissioner. Mr. L. G. Ester, Collector, Wil mington, North Carolina. A Bogus Philanthropist.—The Albany Journal a Republican journal, says: Wendell Phillips has an income of $60,- •00 a year. H e sits under polished ma hogany, eats-off beautiful china and solid silver, and buries bis sHppere in Ibe soft pile of velvet carpets fit for tbe palace of a prince. If during tbe war he contribu ted to raise a regiment or support a sol dier’s family, we have yet to learn it. If he has made any donation from hi* abun dant wealth to the fund for supporting tbe freedatea at the South, wo stand ready to record tbe faet on snfficient proof. Albert Sidney Johnston.—The New Or leans Picayune says .• "It is high time the grave of Albert Sidney Johnston, buried in tbe St. Louis Cemetery, should be marked and honored as becomes bis rank. There was no man in tbe whole close between his legs. We had lets of trouble with him. When he saw a church, he wanted to go in and steal something. And when he saw' a telegraph report in the office he looked as though lie v ^ .... country, North or South, certainly no otn wanted to change it some way. cer of tbe old army, who was more be only thing he was tit for was to waten &ad respected than Albert Sidney* jewelry stoies! Let that dog go by a j^bnston, and though flowers are almost show window where there would be daily strewn upon bis_ grave, it ha* yet some silverware, and he’d stand there ao suitable monn«ent.” And he’d look into store A editor',“Ilricing” a case of child, said the child should careful attention ot he’d follow a funeral for miles if there bOIne 0 ne< lest it be permanently added to was a silver plate on the coffin. Most the kingdom of heaven, and thus, peril* ps, of the folks always thought he was one permanently separated from its kindred. all day. Ana nea .ou* , uw , A editor, noticing a case windows, and break into churchee to erU£ jj„ to a look at the communion plates. And b ^, u id receive the The Mississippi Index, printed xt Co lumbus, Miss., says: " The freed men met at tbe Mayor’s office on Thursday night to organize a fire company among themselves* An example for the white people to fellow. It is a satire upon our want of public spirit.” Scarcity of Labor t* Mississippi. —The Hon. A. M. West, member of Congress elect, and President of the Mississippi Central Railroad called on Gen. How ard a few days since fur the purpose of obtaining one hundred freedmeu to work on his road. Gen. Howard referred Mr. West to the President, wh<*j it i« stated, is opposed to the introduction of Northern colored people into the South, believing that there are a sufficient Dumber of Freed- men in that region to supply the demand for labor.