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itl’jcd ULAK MLEBTINQS
OF MASONS, KNIGHT TEMPLARS, ODD FEL
LOW’S AND SONS OF TEMPERANCE,
Help in thk out of macon.
MASONS.
Grand Lodge of Georgia for 1860, October -Slst.
Macon Lodge, No. 5, rirst and third Monday nights in each
month. „ . , , ,
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mouth. . ... , . . .
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SONb OF TEMPERANCE.
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LTtf
PROFESSION AL € AROS.^
LANIER &
attorneys AT LAW,
MACON, UA.
]>IUCTICE in the Counties of the Macon Circuit, and in
•he Counties of Sumter, Monroe and Jones; also in the
M,„! Court, at S.vammh. j, pr! i
| r L, VIIKHOUSE A AMSLIiI.,
attorneys at law,
KNOXVILLE AND FORT VALLEY, UA.
G. I*. CULVBRHOUBE, F. A. ANSLEY,
Knoxville, Ga. Fort Valley, Ga.
octßl-’do-ly
8,. IV. WHITTLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MAOOX, OHO mu A.
DFuiGE next to CONCERT HAI L, over Payne’s Drug Store
jan. 0, [4l-ly.J ‘
TIIO3IAS B. CAISAWffSS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Oa.
\TTII,IL attend promptly to all business entrusted to his
W care in theCountiesof Monroe, llibb, Butts, Crawford,
nrs, I’ike, Spalding and Upson. |niay 12 ’ES]
REMOVAL.
1111.1. has removed his Law Office to Cherry street
9, up stairs of building next below it. A. Wise’s furnish
ing store. H i wtll attend the Courts as heretofore.
hVQ4,0c».1,1561. s octMf
AN 1M I’d H I ANT FORfIICOMINti
SOUTHERN BOOK.
MORAL BEAUT!KS FROM THE
HEART OF WOMAN,
‘Voices i non the soi tii,"
Bring a collection of literary gems contributed by tal
ented ladies in every State of the Confederacy.
To be published by THOMAS S. POWELL, M. !>., Profes
sor of Obstetrics in the Atlanta Medical College the nett
proceeds to he appropriated to the erection of a “Home for
tlit? Reception and Treatment of Invalid Ladies.”
The work will embrace about 000 pages, and be put up in
three strips.
Ist quality, with engravings, per copy $
11 copies to one address 50 00
8d quality, with engravings, gilt cloth, per copy £.OO
11 copies to one address 35.U0
8d quality, tine paper, cloth ( 2.00
11 copies to one address 20.00
Sent by Mail or Express, to subscribers, free of expense.
Address THOMAS S. POWELL, M. D.,
.dec 13 Atlanta, Georgia.
LAST CALL!
r r AK E >’ O T ICE!
WE have turned over our Books, Notes and Accounts
to W. L. STARK, Esq , at the store of Freeman &
Roberts, who is fully authorized to collect ihetn.
’ ,JNO. N. KEIN & CO.
Macon, 4une 5. ISfii.—tf
MERCimT TAILORING!
E. WINSHIP
IS now prepared with a first class cutter, good Tailors and
a LARGE STOCK OF PIECE GOODS, to furnish any
thing in the
CLOTHiSSSC LINE
At short notice, and in the very best style. (apr 8
Macon, May SOtli, 1&6I.
1"7 K BARIIELS Pikes Magnolia Whisky.
t tP 75 Barrels Hock opening Rum.
75 Barrels Phelps Rye Gin.
150 Boxes Tobacco—various grades.
115 Boxes Cigars.
860 Barrels Flour.
100 Tierces Leaf Lard.
75,000 U. Clear Sides.
10,000 H. Hams. ,
10,000 H. Shoulders.
15 llhds. Molasses.
20 Barrels Syrup.
50 Sacks Rio Coffee.
75 Barrels Sugar.
10 Hhds. Sugar.
For sale at reasonable prices for CASH, by
. june 5 ASHER AYRES.
Important Notice.
fpHE SOI TIIEIEV EXPRESS COIIPANI
art “ now running a tri-weekly day Express on the Cen
tra! Rail Road, leaving Macon on Tuesdays, Thursdays and
■ aturdays, at 10 o’clock, A. M. Freight received and for
waided to ail stations on the Road. Freight on goods to
be prepaid in every case. No advance on previous rates.
Ma _ _ m. c. McDonald, Agent,
RwQa,Q*.,gept«Utii,lßei,
BUSINESS CARDS.
i HOB. HA AN, HR. O, Q. BPAKK3
HARDEMAN & SPARKS,
WAIIE-HOUSE
AND
Commission Merchants.
T&jJj MACON, CIA.,
WILL eive prompt attention to the selling ar.d storing
of Cotton, and to the tilling of orders for plantation
and family supplies. With many years experience and
with their beat elf mts to serve their friends, they hope to
have a continuance of the liberal patronage heretofore
extended to them. Liberal advances made when required.
August 15th 1880. • (ly.)
COATES & WOCLFOLK,
Si COTTON FACTORS. gg|
WarF Hoiim 1 on Third Street.
WIf.I. continue to give prompt attention to business
entrusted to their care. Advances made on Cotton
inStore. Sept. 25,1861—ts
JOHN SCHOFIELD, JOSHCA BCHOFIEED
►Schofield & Bro.,
FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS
MACON, GEORGIA.
WE are prepared to Manufacture Steum
CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, MILL and GIN GEAR
ING, SUGAR MILLS,
BRASS AN l) IRON CASTINGS
Os every description IRON HAILING and VEIt-
ANI>AIIS. Having the most complete assortment of
Iron Railing in the Stale, w Inch for elegance, neatness, du
rability and design, cannot be surpassed, and are suitable
for the fronts of Dwellings, Cemetery L- ts, Public Squares,
Church Fences and Bftloonies.
Persons desirous of purchasing Railings will do well to
give a call, as we are determined to oiler as good bargains
rs any Northern Establishment.
Specimens of our Work can be seen at Rose Hill
Cemetery, and at various private residences in this city,
jan 1-1801
inoisr works,
MACOiv,
T. O. IV 1 H 15 ET,
8 I .4 VNIG removed his FOUNDRY ANI) MACHINE
x T WORKS to the line of the Rail Road near the Macon
4 Western Shops, he is now prepared to manufacture all
kinds of
MACHINERY AND CASTINGS,
—— AuSO--
Steam Engines & Boilers,
On terms as favorable as any Establishment either North or
South. (mar 18) T. C. NISBET.
D. C. HODGKINS & SON,
DEALERS IN AND MANUFACTERERS OK
Or tt :rcr ss,
HIFLES.
PISTOLS, .
FISHING
TACKLES.
Actl Sporting Apparatus
OF EVERY DESORirYION, U|
A FEW DOORS H K LOW THE
Lanior House,
iIIACON, Cj A.
_Ja n. 1,1860. t f
V. 1L BUIIGHARD,
WATCHMAKER, JEWELLER, AND DEALER IN FANCY
WARES, DIAMONDS AND PRECIOUS STONES, IN
GEN ER AL, ARTICLES OF VERTU, AND MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS, CUTLERY, FINEST IMPORT
ED AND AMERICAN WATCHES, TIME
PIECES, CLOCKS, CHRONOMETERS,
CHIROGRAPHIC IMPLEMENTS,
&c., &c.,
Cherry St, Macon, Second door below the Telegraph
Printing Home.
fllll ANKFI'L for pastfavors reminds
8L the public that all the most fashionable,
elegant and desirable-goods in this line will
continue to be found at this elegant stand
in the greatest variety.
No trouble to show Goods. feb 29—’b0—y
NEW FIRM.
L. P. STRONG & SONS.
EWIS P. STRONG ten-
J ders his grateful thanks
or the liberal patronage
ectfully announces that he
a associated with him in J j
e further prosecution ol
the business, his two sons,
EDGAR P. STRONG and
under the name, firm and
style of L. P. STRONG Sf
SONS, and will continue to
keep on hand and offer, a large and select assortment of
Boots, Slioe* amt Leather
of all kinds, and Findings for Country manufacturers. lie
respectfully asks for the new firm, a continuance o: the lib
eral favor extended to the old.
Macon, January 2.1580. 41-y
GR-AJNITTE HALL.
IWOS f.l> respectfully inform my OLD FRIENDS and
PATRONS, that since the fire, I have obtained the Rooms
in the building NEXT ABOVE the “Granite Hail,” and over
the store of It. P. MoEvoy and Messrs. Bostick & Lamar,
where I have opened, and will be pleased to see my friends
and customers, and v/ili do my best for their comfort and
pleasure. Very Respectfully,
may 1 BENJ. F. DENSE.
Til TOWN’S H O TEL,
Opposite the Passenger House, Macon, Ga.
By E. E. BROWN & SON.
MEALS ready on the arrival of every Train. The
Proprietors will spare no pains to make their guests
comfortable. feb 22 48-’6O-y
THITsfUBBLEFIELD HOUSE
“ Like the PLcenix from its Ashes.”
IXI3. XT large, new and elegant House, recently erected
on the ruins of my old establishment, Mulberry street,
Macon, Ga., is now open for the reception and accommcia
tion of Boarders and transient guests.
The House has been newly furnished throughout, in the
best manner, and the Proprietor will endeavor to make it a
FUSST CLASS HOTEL.
Its situation is eligible, a little below the Methodist and
opposite the Presbyterian Church, and near the Banks and
places of business.
Connected with tire House is a large
Livery and Sale Stable,
where Drovers and others can find accommodations for
The patronage of his old friends and of tbe traveling
public generally, is respectfully £oil^j ed gTUBBLEFI ELD.
lIOV O-lI * *
Hi** l
IS STILL OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
BASSEENE, Proprietor,
• AUft&u, Qa., Dettßbtfi JSCI.
MACON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21J, 1802.
Trout the Savuiiiiait Re publican.
Scrkfley.
The latest accounts we have of McClel
lan’s army represent it as being concentra
ted, after its bloody and desperate retreat, at
Berkeley, one of the old estates on the James
River. Here he is said to have been rein
forced, and to be reorganizing his broken
bands and preparing for a final stand. To a
current understanding of the newspaper ac
counts of the war, a knowledge of the local
ities is so necessary, that you will readily
excuse short accounts of Berkeley, always a
well known spot m Virginia, but just now
of prominent interest to the whole country.
It it shall eoutain some historical incidents,
they will not be uninteresting in connection
with this time-honored scat of Virginia hos
pitality and refinement.
Berkeley or as it was then written and pro
nounced MarJcd*y, was a familiar name two
centuries ago in Virginia. It possibly was
so called from £ir William Berkeley,'Gov
ernor of Virginia iu the latter part of the
seventeenth century, but I know of uo evi
dence of the fact. It is not a village nor even
a public landing, but a private estate—a
wheat plantation—on the north bank of thc
James, in Charles City county, a few miles
below and in sight of City Point. It is less
than tweuty-five miles from Richmond by
the wagon road, Westover, its nearest neigh
bor being about that distance from the Cap
ital. The bank is high with a good landing,
too convenient just now for the transfer of
troops from ship to shore. A couple of hun
dred yards from the river, and fronting it,
among a grove of Lombardy populars, stands
the fine old mansion of brick, not so old,
perhaps, as its neighbors, the homesteads of
Shirley and Westover, but, still of very re
spectable age for this new country. A pic
ture of the building may beLsecu in “Howe’s
Historical Collections of Virginia/ ” It is
old enough to have been the birthplace, in
in 1773, of William Henry Harrison, Presi
dent of the United States; of his father,
Benjamin Harrison, Jr., signer of the Dec
laration of Independence, and of his grand
father, Beujamiu Harrison, Sr., Speaker of
the House of Burgesses, who died there in
1710. In this mansion w r as married Peyton
Randolph, first President of the Continental
Congress, to Elizabeth Harrison, sister of
the signer; and while looking out upon its
lawn during a thunder storm, Benjamin
Harrison, Sr., with two of his daughters,
was struck dead bv the same flash of liaht
niug.
But even these dates do not go back to
the beginning of Berkeley. We kuow it
was a settled place two hundred and forty
years ago; for in March, 1622, occured the
great massacre Opecanough, and here, ou
this very estate, then called Brickley y was
murdered, with ten other colonists, Mr.
George Thorpe, a kinsman of Sir 3'homas
Dale, and the agent of the College lands.
At that time a university and a preparatory
school were erecting in Virginia. The lands
had been granted by the crown, thc money
had been subscribed, large gifts of books had
been made, even the President had been
Lamed, and agents were residing there to lay
the foundations of what would have been the
oldest college in British America. The
university was to have been located at Ilcn
ricopolis, the then flourishing settlement at
parrar’s Island or Dutch Gap, twenty miles
below Richmond, while Brickley was to be
the seat of the preparatory seminary under
the name of “ The East India School.”
But the bloody massacre swept away all that
had been done in this behalf, and all hope
of doing more ; and three quarters of a cen
tury passed before the walls of William and
Mary rose to fulfil the long desire of Virgin
ians for a college of their own.
Berkley has for at least a century and a
half, belonged to the Harrison family, it be
ing one of the few James River estates that
have not belonged to many families since
their first settlement. Generous living and
profuse hospitality, and since the Revolution,
the abolition of primogeniture rights, have
kept the noble old manors of lower \ irginia
changing hands every generation or two; but
Berkley, and Upper aud Lower Brandon,
further down the river, have for successive
generations been owned by the Harrisons. —
Berkley is now owned by Dr. Starke, who if
I mistake not, married a Harrison. The
common ancestor of this widely extended
family was the Hon. Benjamin Harrison,
who lived and is buried at Cabin Point, in
Surry county.
There are many localities in Charles City
county of interest, but I cannot an d upon
them now. Shirley and Westover are each
worth a better description than 1 can give
them. I cannot forbear, mentioning, how
ever, the curious coincidence that live miles
below Berkely is the birth place of John
Tyler, Vice President under General Harri
son, aud his successor in office.
So much for Berkley. It is too valued a
place and too full ot Southern recollection
and association to bo the headquarters of
McClellan, or the camp of his Yankee mer
cenaries. Let us hope that if they desecrate
the spot, they will spare the stately old man
sion house, out of respect to the memory ot
the Congressional patriot, of whom the story
goes that when Peyton Randolph resigned
the Presidency of the Continental Congress,
in 1775, Harrison, his brother-in-law, would
have succeeded him, but with noble patriot
ism, he is said to have taken John Hancock
up in his stalwart arms and placed him the
chair, saying, “we will show mother Britain
how little we care tor her, by electing as our
President one whom she has excluded from
pardon and protection.”
July § ;
ft rosit "J, T. S.“—2oth Gpoigiu
Regiment.
Plcket Post, Lucas’ Farm, |
July 8, 1862. )
Dear Enquirer: —Last evening our regi
ment came out ouduty on this advance post
i fie pickets ot the toe are only two hundred
yards distant, whilst their reserve aud the
main remnant of Nepoleon McClellan’s
grand L uion army are situated ou two ran
ges ot hills intervening between our troops
and the river.
It is certain now that through some mis
hap (rumor attributes it to General Huger)
McClellan has actually gotten uuder cover
oi hb gunboat?, aud with his tornado-like
manuer, gone to feeling trees and upheaving
breastworks. Well, we wish it would have
been otherwise, but all we have to do is our
usual expensive course, i. e. whip him again
out ot his fortifications, entailing great loss
iu charging over dense abattis—but we cau
do it. The best blood of the South is be
ing poured out very freely ou the soil of the
old Mother of States, and we shall not cease
our offering of life ou its sacred altar until
we are several in dominion from Yankeedoir..
It is a tact of general remark, that of the
vast horde of prisoners which we have cap
tured, you seldom set your eyes ou a genu
ine onion-eatiug and psalm-siugiiut Yankee.
r l he fact is, they are cunning and cute en
ough to inveigle the Dutch and Irish to do
all their tighiiug, whilst they hold all the
officers aud posts of honor and profit. From
the vast quantities of written evidence found
iu their camps, it seems that the Yankee
army have a horde of ravenous vultures in
the shape of speculators in their train.—
The soldiers hardly ever touch their pay,
the sutler in the meantime having orders
for it all by pay day. Letters, too, from the
soldiers’ wives, are full of supplications for
aid to keep theui from starvation, and all of
them state that the Yankee Relief Associa
tions have ceased any longer to provide at
all for their families. Such is the state oi‘
the North ; and with no work for them to
do, the list of prostitution will alarmingly
increase, aud the alsmshouses become over
run by a class of persons who never before
felt poverty. Upon their own heads have
those Lincolnites brought those curses of
Heaven, and the day ol reason has already
dawned upon all those we have captured.—
The whole Yankee fighting tribe are sorely
tired of this war, and the fact is nothing
Kilt the SlfUUllll fif-niva *l\a Nlr.vlli K.iop >'(■
the tine aud cry of war. Their Irish sol
diers had far rather be engaged at honest
hard labor on masonry or ditching, and the
Dutch every one of them, would prefer to be
keeping some squalid lager beer sink, and
eating bologna, sassages than using a “mush
tick” agaiust us.
But the fact is, they have to go in thc
army or starve. Every cargo of emigrants
are made ‘sojors’ of by a speedy process and
sent to the youth to tight us, under the pro
mise of receiving what neither themselves
nor their ancestors ever possessed—a landed
estate. What Lincoln has failed to perform
in the home contract we hav£ done for him.
We have given thousands of them land in
Virginia this month. Six feet by two is
theirs—ail theirs —eternally theirs. # Let
them have it : it is theirs by right of pos
session and squatter sovereignty. May they
enjoy their Southern farms. We intend to
domiciliate thousands more, and we take
more joy in viewing one lank lean, lantern
jawed Yankee ‘spread-eagled,’ thau fifty
killed mistaken foreigners. The Hessians
are easily captured—willingly deserting and
giving themselves up as prisoners.
This afternoon a soldier belonging to the
Bth Ohio regiment, came voluntarily into
our lines, threw down his arms, and yielded
himself as a prisoner. He was under Gen.
Shields. His reason for coming to us is
that he did not enlist to fight for the aboli
tionist, but for the Union. Being satisfied
that it was only a war for the negro, he ha
ted his affiliation and gave himself up. He
was conducted to headquarters, where possi
bly important information may be elicited
lrom him. He was a fine specimeu of the
manhood of the Buckeye State, and though
he had much of the slang of a shoulder-hit
ter, he spoke seemingly with much sincerity.
We marched all night of the Bth and fell
back some twenty miles. We cau only get
McClellan from his boats by this “drawing
in” of our lines.
I am too exhausted to wiite more, but
shall post you of all important events which
occur along our position, from time to time.
Stonewall Cut to Pieces ! —We have
an enthusiastic incident of the battle around
Richmond, which show's what infamous de
ceptions were restored to by the lankee
General McClellan to animate his troops. —
At Cold Harbour, after the fight was over,
a wounded Y’aukee called to one of our offi
cers and besought him to tell him what
devils had been fighting them as he had nev
er seen such a fight before. r lhe officer sat
isfied his curiosity, and among other forces
mentioned those of Jacksou. “Was that
devil here?” replied the Yankee; “why,
yesterday, McClellan had an order read to
the army saying that he had been cut to
pieces iu the Valley V’ —Richmond Exam
iner.
The Yankees making out their Bills.
—V'e are told by a northern journal that
“well founded claims agaiust the lederal
Government for the seizure or destruction of
individual property have already arisen to
the amount of a hundred millions, and will,
before the close of the war, be swelled to an
immense amount,^
1 roin the JaeliNoo Mississippi*!).
Depredation* of Hi<* Vaukm on
IlM* River.
From a gentleman who ha- juA arrived
tu our city from Louisiana and who had to
go a great distance below J*» qct over th*.
river, we gather the followiug items :
i ii«. Yankees ha\e taken all the negro
meu belonging to the plantations of Messrs
Joe and Jeff Davis, James, Lovell, Hender
son, Scargent, Coons and Tucker. Those
places are ou the river. At Mr. James’
they showed themselves iu their true light.
Ou Tuesday the lat iust., they lauded at
Mr. James place aud told him to have all
his negroes ou the levee next day for them or
they would take him prisoner aud send him
ro Fort Jackson, ’io this Mr. James re
plied that the negroes were there, and if
they could get them to go he could not help
himself. After the Yankees went away he
told them that aJI nl them that wanted to
go, to be on the levee next morning. The
ucxf, morning there was only four negroes
on the place, all having gone to the woods,
and when the Yankees came they wanted to
know where the negroes were; on being
fold by Mr. James, they tn.-fi film prisoner
until the negroes were forthcoming; they
kept him on their gunboat four days before
ifie negroes were found- They came, and
did not, only take -15 negroes, from him, but
also 17 mules, and some of them broke open
his cellar and took all the bacon, flour, su
gar, rice, lard and many other things away
with them, and there being a barrel of mo
lasses and a barrel of lamp oil, they pulled
the spigot out of the barrels and let the con
tents flow on the floor. They then visited
his dwelling house and demanded thc deliv
ery of all tlie silver ware in thc house from
his lady, who in her alarm for the safety of
her husbaud, gave up all she had without a
word. In the bouse they found one guu,
which they took with them, also all Mho
fowls 'on the place. This latter achieve
ment was accomplished while they had Mr.
James confined in a room where he could
not see anything, not even being aware of
the depredation until they had released him,
when he was threatened that is he told it, so
that they would hear of it again, they would
shell liis house. The reason assigned by
them for this outrage was that Mr. Janies
had two sons iu our army, aud that they in
tended to torment all persons on thc river
who were in the army or had sons there.
At the Davis places they not only took
tiit. .m*A muH'ti, but mm. sot nre to
the places, but the burning was prevented
by the neighbors after they had left. At
Col. Geo. Lovell’' place they took all the
negroes and mules and made the Over
seer, (Mr. Coe.) open thc dwelling, from
which they took ail the silver ware they
could find, and told the overseer that if there
was anybody who would tire on them from
the different places on the river, that they
would shell the houses in a few hours after.
Mr. Coe had heard of their coming, had ta
ken all the most valuable things and had
them put in the ground, among them were
the potraits of Gens. Quitman and Lovell
and President Davis. These are safe. A
Colonel being in command and Mr. Coe be
ing anxious to know what they thought of
Vicksburg, he asked the Colonel, who re
plied : that they had given up the idea of
taking Vicksburg; that the batteries there
were the worst ihey ever had to contend
with ; it was impossible to*tind their location,
and that they now intended to cut a canal
over the point opposite and leave her to dry
up, and it was for this purpose they were
taking all the negro men along the liver.—
At Messrs Henderson,“Coons, Seargout and
Tucker’s plantations they took every negro
man, mule, horse and all the provisions, j
poultry and silver ware, with many valua
ble pictures. Mr. Sergeant and Coons have
left their homes and gone to the woods with
their families.
These planters are in a bad condition,
having nobody to work their crops but a few
negro women. The Yankees have also gone
back from the river in Louisiana as far as
Tullula Depot, a distance of 20 miles on the
Vicksburg, Shreveport <fc Texas railroad,
and have taken all the negro men from the
plantations aloDg the route. These negroes
are taken by them to the Bend above Vicks
burg, and made to work, as reported by ne
groes who have left them day, and night.
The people of Madison Parish are noiv for
ming guerilla companies, for tue purpose of
driving the enemy from their position, and
our informant.-is confident that in a short time
there will be a scattering of the Y ankacs
from that region. He says that as soon as
the bridge on the Vicksburg Shreveport Ac
Texas railroad between Tullula Depot and
Monroe is fixed, if having been washed away
by the late flood, that there arc now at least,
2,000 troops stationed at Monroe, Delhi,
and Shreveport, that will be out upon them,
the only thing they need i.s guns, which aie
being gathered up through the country very
fast. He thinks there will be lively times
in that section in less than a month s time
as the people are getting tired of the Y au
kees, though their acquaintance has been
very short.
I,ifeou the Tiu niii;' of a Card.
Some twenty years since a well-known
resident of Tipton county, Tennessee, was
put on his trial charged with the murder of
his wife. As usual, in such eases, popular
feeling was largely agaiust him, aud ail thc
eloquence and “ingenuity of his counsel were
required to make any impression iu his fa
vor upon a jurv, which, however impartial
it might desire to be in the couseiouiness of
sworn duty, could not but see the waves of
popular prejudice surging iu upcu it.
VOLUME XL—NO |\
! _ Tiit* cage was ably ■, -
: for the defense in ide m «t .
med appeals. Tl
| the jortr: at i they retired t
l their verdict. Time passed and -i *!i
un«r Hin warned all of the approaching
the large throng iu attendance, the « i
counsel, etc , retired, all anxious, th
cased uot tlie least so, to learn the
of the jury, and some wandering th *
jnrv hesitated fer one moment at 1
in a rerdict of guilty. In the meaatim
y ‘omo to a point beyond which U
could progress no further. The apr
the counsel tor the defense had not ! n
without their influence, and tkv m \
unchangi ibl
for acquittal. Something hs.d to be done.
In those days twelve good fellows could i
be got together for a nigbu and sleep
Cards appeared mysterious-] \ frontl ti -
cf suntiry large pockets, and exerci v n
“poker and “seven up were zealous!v 1
gun.
About midnight, one • tht ir tn. and
Col. P. proj'<N»tvl that- they should p! w .
game of “seven up"— the res lit :
the verdict. The proposition was h >r
and unanimously agreed to in all > :
ness, and the whole crowd collected ar- in
Col. P and his opponent, who pr« oc 1 ’ t
play the game upon which was stal
inau life.
Col. P. played to save the accu 1
opponent played, and quite a zeal ;N .
secure conviction. The backers, , fiv.*
live,) stood up behind them, eucoura. u
champions, and watching the gam , hi:
seen by the light of two tallow candh -, w
the most intense interest.
The game proceeded w ith very equ 1 i
tune, until both parties stood at six an 1
It was Col P.'s deni., He dealt and turn
Jack. • The prisoner was acquitted, and
every member in the jury joined in
shout, which startled the whole v
Next morning the jury went i u t * ( > ,
gave, to the astonishment of many t :
diet of “not guilty.” The juiyman \
played an unsuccessful game for hu .
still lives, as a much respect and citiz-. nos
district. One of theeouu-d U a \ r\ and
tinguished member of the Memphis 1‘ 1 ,
the accused has, we believe, gnu f
court; but neither of them, nor an <
assemblage, nor the court, who . v
at the verdict, twenty years ago, ha\ •
known that a lmiuan lit’**, wa* v. ■
ing Jack.
Illmiralini; tho B*s*l “ijjv A-
Mr. Ceorge Horton, who live ca the .
end of Main street, near Itoekei:.',
dog called La Vega—an ill favor- 1, ! t
eyed brute whose untidy habits and tr
grained temper cause him to be 111 h: r
testation by the family in general, and «i
Ilorton, his mistress, in partieu! r. La
ga, however, is a great favorit ■ with 1
ter. About a week ago Mrs. Horton
exasperated on account of some uu n-'u
offense committed by La Vega and j
bar trained with an old color- 1 c * i»• • < -
soap fat, named Abe W alker, v, ho,
dollar fee, agreed to take the dog off a I
“render him up”fint
relieve Mrs. Horton from the annoy n
his presence. Mr. Horton, on coming 1
to his dinner inquired for La Vega, n-. .
chargrined with the information th
troublesome pet had absconded
For some days the absence of Fa Vega
occasion for much rejoicing in the Lou
and even the grief of Mr Horton for hi
was made the subject of many a !y , k'
his domestic establishment. Mrs. ii
gratulated herself excessively on that u
thought of hers, which cleared her hou e o*
the odious brute ; and though sh.* i a ,
w T ho thinks a jrood deafof a dollar, riie d:d l
grudge the money, since it gained her ob
ject *so effectually. In the meantime i
Vega was detained a close prisoner : u t
the cellar of the soap factory amut ing hiu.
by snapping at the rats which coursed at
the premises, aud sustaiuiug himself, li!
Napoleon at Elba, with the belief that th
objects of his destiny were not yet aeeou
plished.
On Thursday morning, Mr Horton 4
reared at the breakfast table with a itc-h
countenance, “Well, my dear,
news!” said he to Mrs. H.' “ What isit '
asked the lady with some secret nib-giving.
“I’ve cot La Vega back again. Adverti
for him ; offered a reward for hi* r« e very,
and this" morning he was brou bt b -
Abe Walker” “ Heavens!” ejaculated '
Horton, “What did you have to j iv I :
“Only eleven dollars,” repli 1 11
for the advertisement and ten to U! 1
f or bringing him back. “Mrc ■
ness !” 'cried the unsympathizing wife
«Kleven dollars, (euough to buy ad:
pattern,) for the recovery of such an--,
cur -and to think that 1 gave the black ras
cal a dollar for taking him off.”
This inadv< rU nt c nf< -
duced a matrimonial duet, the rej rt . 1
we omit, as it might apppear stale u: !
mon place to some of our marrn l re;. *
By this little canine speculate.n :
were gainers. Abe Wainer, tnc cuu.j
gained eleven dollars, toe a-i\
tUiog sheet gained one dollar, and Mr ■
Mrs Ilorton gained some valuub
ence, which will no doubt teach t m
imporUnee of mutual confidence
wedded parteers.— Rtekm nd 1 3
There at Wash
ington and Georgetown about ten th u-uiu
sick and wounded soldiers and the number
is increasing every day.