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BY s. ROSE & CO. 'jae (xcorgia Journal & Messenger ft* ev.ryWednesday Dou-^ v .,,i Kfi-i.viKSiß At the regular chaiF* v ’> ll "*• . ■ . . . -• ofoN.ausuHK., itioo. A) *■'“ * a + ObSl - 4 f « r ,11 be publisher, b i/eriisemeulJ r.ot speeded ttS ’ A llbe ral discount loioil aivl charged accordingly* fcdvv-el t. those who » dverti f 'g. l . l 'V’tvill be charged al [ OiiiruAur NuTicsa of on* it* ua *o klieuaaal rates. • for office, to be paid for at I AsMU(JMCe«e.HT3 of candidate 3 kl.c mill rates, when inserted- h colln)y ofticers, Drug 1, liberal arrwgemeow « and otherß| w(l d may wish to fists, Anctioneers, Mcrcnaut , %aake limited contracts- Executors, Administrators 1 -iALtsoK L\ni)aso . ' ' t be a fivertiaed in s »n 1 tl oh ~1 it us, previous io the day of sale, public ya/ette, fort i , on the ttrßt Tuesday in the month riiese sales mus - in t hc forenoon and three in the between the ho house in the county in which the aft* rnoon, at c ‘ , Puoperty must be advertised in like (“SS" I ''" and ORRDITOR3 of an Estate must be fl?-/that application will be made to the Ordinary sot l a7( . ,o sell Land and Negroes, must be published weekly for I*iVrATms ; for Letters of Administrations, thirty days; for bitmtsiion from Administration, monthly, six months; for Dismission from Guardianship, weekly, forty days. ituLKs for Foreclosing ok Mortgage, monthly, iou, months ; for establishing lost papers, for the full space oi three months; for compelling titles from executors or ad ministrators where a bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three in >nths. Letters addressed to S. ROHE 4 CO. Professional and Business Jlt*n. Professions t. and Bcsiness Cards will be inserted under this head, at the following rates, viz : For Three lines, per annum, $ 5 00 “ Seven lines, do jj® “ Ten lines, do 12 00 “ Twelve lines, do 15 00 Mo ad verliseinents of this class will be admitted, unles* I aid for in advance, nor for a less term than twelve months- A ,lveriisement3 of over twelve lines will bo charged pro rata Advertisements not paid for in advance will be charged at t ie regular rates. 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. „ . , , , Const mtine Chapter, No. 4, second Monday night in each mouth. . ... , . . . Washington Council, No. G, fourtii Monday night in each month. „ „ .. Ft. Omer’s Encampment. Knights Templar, No. Meetings every lirst Tuesday night in each month. ODD FELLOWS. Grand Lodge, first Wednesday in June. Grand Encampment, Tuesday previous. Franklin Lodge, No. 2, every Thursday evening. United Brothers, No. 5, every Tuesday evening. Ma on Uniou Encampment, No. 2, second and fourth Mon day evenings in each month. SONb OF TEMPERANCE. Grand Division, fourth Wednesday in October, annually. 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.