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"7b«FBSSION AL C ARDS.
LAijlßß <fc AtnKHSOS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MACON, ti l.
lIIIACTICh in the Counties of the Macon Circuit, and ii.
j j ' I'uiuitii o ofSuiater, Monroe and Jones ; also in the
federal Courts at Savannah.
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« , L; CfilfOUfcß A: ANSIiEVt
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
K.VOXVILLK AND FORT VALLEY, GA.
8 P CULYKRHOnSF, I l '- A ANBLEY,
Knoxville, Ga. Fort Vulley, («a.
■ hid- ly
I*, iWHITTLEi
ATTORN £ Y AT LAW,
MACON, GEORGIA.
Knext to CONCERT HALL,over Payne’s Drug Stort
■ei.6, 141-1 y.l
TIIOIAS It. CABASISSi
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
P'orsytli, <3r**.
11711,1. attend prompt ly to all business entrusted to his
W r* in the Countiesof Monroe, Bibb, Bntts, Crawford*
nes, Pike, Spalding and Upson. [may U 5bJ
si Ala.
I) ii 1 1.1. Ins removed his Law Office to Cherry street
I}, up stair* of huildin, next helow li A. Wise’s furnish•
mi , U )re lie will attend the Courts as heretofore.
i.oet i,mt.
(. it AN IT Id HA Y. 1.-
■ wul li9rMptcttaly Intern my OLD IRUNDB and
f PATRONS, that since the fire, 1 have obtained the Room?
, the building NEXT ABOVE the “Granite Hall,” and over
store of K P. Mt-Evov and Messrs. Ro&tick A Lamar,
where 1 have opened, and will be pleased to see my friends
v. t customers, and will do iny Dost for their comfort and
V„, —Fgtgjfr
BROWS HOTEL,
Opposite the Passenger House, Macon, Ga.
B Y E. E. BRO W N & S0 N.
ijTH.S ready on the arrival of every Train. The
ill Proprietors will spare no pains to make their guests
comfortable. ™> ™
TliE STiniBLEFIELD HOUSE
“ Like the Phoenix from its Ashes.”
ri>lV IT large, r.ew and elegant House, recently erected
A >u the ruins of my old establishment. Mulberry street.
Mu n, Ga., is now open for the reception and accommda
turn of Boarders and transient guests.
The House ha t».;fn newly furnished throughout, in th;
best manner, and the Proprietor will endeavor to make it a
FIKST CI,ASS HOTEL.
Its situation is eligible, a little below the Methodist and
opposite the Presbyterian Church, and near the Hanks and
places of business.
Connected with the House is a large
Livery and Sale Stable,
wnere Drovers and others can find accommodations foi
their stuck. ,
The patronage of his old friends and of tbe traveling
piooUo generate , is respectfully solicited.
nov h-ts M. STUBBLEFIELD.
Washington Hall
IS STILL OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
SAS sEE NE, Proprietor.
Atlanta. Ga.. December. 1861 .
VALUABLE PL ANT A TION
I'llK MUI.
THIS subscriber offers for sale his desirable plantation
? Runted in the !sth district of Sumter county, and about
U miles from Amerlcus. It contains Eighteen Hundred
a,' re s seven liundred of which is cleared, and in a good
Bt:n,i of cultivation It U undoubtedly as good a plantation
as there is in Sumter county. A good dwelling hohse,negro
huuies, gin and screw, and all other necessary out buildings
on the premises, and plenty of water. It adjoins t e ru
lauds of T. M. Kurlow, W. T. Adams, and others. The place
may be seen at any time.
Persons wlshinging to purchase will either call on me a
the plantation, or address me at Americus, Sumter county
°dec's* 40-ts A. J. SCKUTCIIIN.
Imp or taut JSJ otice.
TUP. SOUTHERN EXPRESS t'O.YIPANX
■L arc cow running a tri-weekly da> Express on tbe Cen-
Rtl Rail Road, leaving Macon on Tuesdays, Thursdays and
o&turdays, at 10 o’clock, A. M. Freight received and for-
to all stations on the Road. Freight on goods to
he prepaid in every case. No advance on previous rates.
u M. 0. McDonald, Agent.
(taw, Da., gtpt. 111)1,166),
business cards.
f«ofc. HismiA, ia. u.'o.'sPAakP
HARDEMAN &. SPARKS,
WARE-HOI Si:
AND
Commission Merchants.
MACON, GA.,
VjlfTlLl. give pr ,mpt attention to the setting and storing
T V of Cotton, and tb the filling of orders f„r platnatlon
•mil family supplies. With many ytara a mi
■vitfi their bt-m elf ires to serve their fridruD, taey i,„pe iu
have h coatinuance of the liberal patronage heretofore
extended to them. Liberal advances made when required.
August 10th IS6O. (ly.)
COATES & WOOL FOLK,
•4ui COTTON FACTORS.
Ware Hoiinc* oil Third Street.
Wit. I, continue to give prompt attention to business
entrusted to their care. Advance* made on Cotton
in Pi.ire. Hept. 2f>, 1861—ts
D. C. HODG-KIWS &. SON,
OPAIPSr /« SHIi U ANUFACTKERB3 OF
Or xj oxr as,
lud Sporting A.oparatua
i FFW DGOR9 BELOW THE
Lanier House,
Jan. 1,1860. ts
lron“wouks,
n U O\, t^OßtilA.
T. O. X f S 15 E r r„
rj tVNIfi removed hi* POTINDUY AND MACHINE
A WORKfi to the line of «lie Rail Road near the Macon
7 Western Shop , lie is now prepared to manufacture all
Grids of
MACHINERY AND CASTINGS,
A LSO
Steam Engines & Boilers,
)n terms as favorable as any Establishment either North or
louth. (mar 18) T. C. NISBET.
FT 11. BURdHARI),
‘.VATCIIMAKER, JEWLLLKIt, AND DEALER IN FANCY
WARES, DIAMONDS AND PRECIOUS STONES, IN
GENERAL, ARTIOLEB OF YERTU, AND MUSICAL
INSTRUMENTS, CUTLERY, FINEST IMPORT
ED ANI) AMERICAN WATCHES, TIME
PIECES, CLOCKS, CHRONOMETERS,
CHIROGRAPHIC IMPLEMENTS,
&c., Ac.,
:hen-y St, Macon, Second door below the Telegranh
Printing lion je.
'■lll ANIL Ff T lj for pastfavora,reminds r*
k public that all tin- most fashionable,
leeant and desirable goods m Ihisliae will If—J 4ASC v
oiitii.u - io lie to jl:h: at this elegant stand g|J(As
. n the greatest variety.
No trouble to show Goods. feb 29-’6O-y
NEW FIRM.
L. V. STRONG & SONS.
rE WIS P. HTRO iNV *en-
J ders hlsgratefu, anks
or the liberal pat cage
tended to him for', .last *s%*£&{'** ..-v
went y seven years, die
ectfully announces* at he rf\
a associated with t uin / f
e further proscCUt nos \ v^|T:ygseja»*V\
the business, hi> two ons,
EDGAR P. STRONG and rx.
FORRESTER W. STR NG. v
under the name, firn and
style of L. P. ST KOI G A &*'
-ONS, and will contini e to
;eep on hand and offer, a large and select assortment of
Roots SIMM’s uiitl Lentliei*
of all kinds, and Findings for Country manufacturers. He
respectfully asks for the new firm, a continuance o. the lib
eral favor extended to the old.
Macon, January 2,1880. 41-y
IOHX gCHOFIKLD, JO9HDA SCHOFIXKD
Scl lotield & Bro.,
FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS.
MACON, GEORGIA.
ITTF, are prepared to Manufacture Si(**mn l’n *• ine«,
Vi CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, MILL and GIN QEAR
ING-, SUGAR MILLS,
m ASS AND IRON CASTINGS
Os every description IRON RAIi.INL aiitl VER*
.-VIM I» \ ISh. Having the most complete assortment of
iron Railing in the State, which for elegance, neatness, du
rability and design, cannot be surpassed, and are suitable
for the fronts of Dwellings, Cemetery Lets, Public Squares,
Church Fences and Balconies.
Persons desirous of purchasing Railings will do well to
give a call, as we are determined to offer as good bargains
as any Northern Establishment.
Specimens of our Work can he seen at Rose Hill
Cemetery, and at various private residences in this city,
jun 1-IS6I
WOOD’S
PHOTOGRAPHIC
PALACE OF ART!
1> R OBARLV the largest and best appointed Estah
-1 lishtnent in tfle South, if not In the Called States, la
m< of the most popular aud Interesting places of resort in
Mahon, and is daily thronged with crowds of delighted visi
tors. The
Collection of [Pictures
i very large, embracing every style known to the art, from
,he smallest Ambrotype to the Ufe-sise Portrait. Wood is
determined, regardless of labor or expense, that hU GAL
LERY shall continue to be the
Headquarters of Fine Arts in the South
Emnloyiug permanently the best taUm t 0 be procur ed to
L -o' ,r hi- Pin tcgroplts, in ct)<*ry . uu e to nature, and
perfect satisfaction is guaranteed in c v e ry Instance. A
large collection of the celebrities of the day on exhibition,
, 0 "which has jest been added a splendid Picture of the
Friuc-* of Wales and suit, Blondin, Judge Douglas, and
, the vs too numerous to mention, but which the public are
respectfully invited to call and examine. As Wood use3
none hut the best materials in hh» business, persons in want
of a ~ood Picture will find it to their advantage to patron
iie th ! s establishment, as Pictures can be had here at prices
is low as elsewhere and of superior style. Ambrotypea,
Daguerreotypes and Plain Photographs ol every site allow
prices. Call and see *»•
Washington Block, nearly opposite the
| oct 31 Lanier House. Macon, Ga.
:isr_i±: arts i
mm-: Photographic-Portraits colored in Oil, produced by
JL J. A. Pl’Gll .<t BRO , Triangular Block, Macon, G*.,
are still considered the best to be attained intheStaFe. We
were awarded the premium again this year, at the* State
Fair, which has just closed, for the best Photographs. With
our new process for enlarging Photographs to life sise from
Daguerreotypes of deceased persons, arid with the aid of
two first class Arlists employed by us, we are produeirg
Portraits as perfect and as much like the original as it la
possible Picture* to be made. Call at PUGH’S and see
the Photographs by their new process, which are the largest
ever made ir> the State, none Sine them can be seen else
where. AMBROTYPE6 at very low prices. (oct ßl
CTEEL and German Silver Spectacles,
Convex and Colored Glass. Railroad Spectacles and
Goggles. A large supply for r«UU jostrecelTed by
MACON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8,18(52.
[From the Cairo Gazette, Extra, if 2d.]
THE BATTLE AT M lid.
THE FEDERAL ACCOUNT OF THE AFiMTR.
\\ e havd to record a brilliant victory
achieved by Gen. Ilosencranz’s army at luka
Miss. Geri. Price and his legions are beaten,
demoralized and pursued by our victorious
troops. Iwo Rebel Generals are placed
I Mrs and a combat, live hundred Rebels are
prisoners, aiid probably oue thousand killed
and wounded. We captured six entire bat
teries thirty-six pieces—of artillery, and
an immense amount of provisions. All this
lias been accomplished without severe loss
on the Union side.
Fwur hundred brave and gallant men were
killed aud wounded. In oar rejoiciuu at
this splended victory let us not forget to
drop the tear of regret and sympatln* for
the noble dead. Never did troops f>ht m re
bravely or more gallantly than ours !
Thursday morning inform ition w T as brought
to Gen. Grant that Gen. Price was moving
northward in the direction of ilie Tennes
see, intending to strike the river at Muscle
Shoals, where it is easily forded to join the
army of Gen. Bragg at Munfordsvillc.—
General Roseucranz’s army corps (f *rm \]y
Rope’s) was immediately put in position fi r
Reinzi, which they reached on Thursday
night.
Gen. Price had probably learned of his
approach, and struck for luka, crossing the
route which Gen. Rosencrauz would have
taken, between Rieuzi amt Cotton Plant,
about eight miles below Rienzi. Gen Re
sencrauz was informed of this movement in
season to march across the country and ar
rive at. luka just as the rear-guard of the
enemy was leaving. It was then four
° clock on Friday evening, lie immediate
ly engaged the enemy, and for two hours
there was heavy skirmishing, without any
definite result, until darkness compelled the
combatants to suspend hostilities
Both armies rested on their arms, anil a<
daybreak the battle was resumed. Cavalry,
artillery and infantry were mixed in horri
ble conlusion, and the carnage was dreadful.
The fight lasted till nearly noon, whim the
enemy’s lines became deranged, he wavered,
and finally fell back. A magnificent, charge ;
was made by our forces, a panic was in
duced, and the rebels flee in wild confusion
our artillery pouring deadly missiles into i
his ranks, giving additional impetus to his
flight, while the pursuit of our cavalry coin
pleated his defeat.
(Jen. Price’s forces are now in full retreat
southward, followed by our avenging army.
It is expected that we shall be able to cap
ture the greater portion of them.
The brunt of the battle was sustained by
Gen. Roseneranz and Gen. Stanley’s divis
ions, composed mostly of Illinois tioops.
The rebel General Little, formerly Gov
ernor of Mississippi, is killed, and Geneial
Whitfield wounded and prisoner.
The casualties among our officers and men
are not fully ascertained.
General Old started from Corinth for
luka along the line of the Memphis and
Charleston railroad, but did not arrive in
season to participate in tbe battle.
[From the Jackson Mississippian.]
Tilt’ ISattle oK I-ii-ka.
We this morniDg conversed with Dr.
Luke P. Blackburn, aid of Gen. Price, who
was with him at luka.
Gen Price was thrice ordered by Gen.
Bragg to move his army across the Tennes
see river at Eastport or [uka. On Thurs
day morning, the 11th he moved his army
of less than 14,000 men from Gun town to
ward luka. By rapid and forced marches,
he arrived within three miles of luka at
daylight Sunday morning. There he teas
informed by a courier from G*. n. Arm
strong's command, whose cavalry had at
tacked the enemy on Sajurday, that rein
forcements were being sent from Burnsville.
The men being much fatigued were ordered
to rest, and sleep in the line for thirty min
utes.
Gen. Price, knowing that Captain Saun
ders, with his company of I_o men, had
possessed the road between luka and Burns
ville, having implicit confidence in that offi
cer, and he had no fear of reinforcements
from Corinth until he should have captured
the force at Burnsville and luka. The col
umn was put in motion; on reaching the
edge of town he was astonished to hear that
the enemy, 2,000 strong, with 2,000 stolen
negmes, and a large train had tied at one
o’clock the nights previous, lie took pos
session of the place. There was a quantity
of cotton and stores. The enemy came up
again on Monday, in small force, but soon
retreated.
Col. Wirt Adams and Ilieman’s cavalry
captured and burnt a train of cars five milei
below luka.
There was no further demonstration until
Friday morning, when Colonel Ord sent in
a flag demanding the unconditional surren
der of General Pi ice’s army, stating that the
army of General Lee had been destroyed in
Virginia; Longstreet aud llill, wiih their
entire divisions, captured ; that the war was
now virtually closed, and as he wished to
prevent the useless shedding of blood, he
demanded an unconditional surrender.—
That he (General Price) was completely
surrounded by an overwhelming force, and
could not escape.
General Price replied, that whenever the
independence of Southern Confederacy was
acknowledged, her rights respected, and the
vandal hordes of the North were driven from
her soil, that then, aud then only, wouid be
and his army be willing and uady to lay
down their arms.
General Price, in obedience tn orders
fr »m General Van Porn, and being almost
destitute of forage, unal le to cross the Ten
nessee riyer, prevented from passiug down
toward Corinth by the unf ivor vhlecooditiou
o- the country, the enemy having possession
of the western hank of Yellow eretk, deter
mined to taii back to Baldwin, and there
unite with General Van l)oru.
T he order t* fall bark was issued on Fii
duv niorniDgj nine o’clock, when no one
dreamed of an attack. On Friday evening,
at two o’clock, the enemy in liue of battle
approached our out post. Heavy skirmLb
ing ensued. At three o’clock General Price
ordered up the 4th Brigade. WLn
reached their position iuey fraud iLo enetuy
in line ol battle holding a position on a hill
The order was given to charge them, wltich
charge drove the enemy back two hundred
yards into a ditch formed by the road from
Fulton to East port, and directly under their
| cannon, which were masked. General Price
had now reached the field. The firing had
almost ceased. General Herbert and Col.
Martin commanding brigade, with W hite
field’s legion, being all the force iu line.
Gen. Price ordered up General Gregg’s
and Green’s brigades, to form on the left,
charge the enemy and press them down on
Gen. Murray’s divisiou, he being on the
right. Refore the arrival of their brigades,
Gi a. Price ascertained that the enemy were
lying in the road, sheltered from our artil
lery. They were firing but oue gun, and
tin t on our right.
The gallant and lamented Gen Little sug
gested that as they seemed to have but one
gun in position, if the line would move for
ward, the battle could soon be won. The
order was given. Our men emerged from
under brush in line. They' were then met
by as terrific a fire from masked batteries
and concealed musketry as was ever encoun
tered. But the invinailde oil Lousiana, 3d
Tennessee, and 37th Alabama, stood like
atatuary. When the order to charge was
given, ihey rushed headlong through this
sheet of tire and lead, drove the enemy from
their position and guns; Whitefield’s legion
pressing on the right, the enemy would re
sist and full back until they were driven
half a mile, losing nine guns.
it was now r daik, Generals Green and
Gregg arrived, but too late to cuter the
fight.
One hour of daylight and the entire Yan
kee division would have been captured.—
W e held the'tield all night, brought in the
wounded and evacuated the place in th ac
cordance with the order issued iu the morn
ing.
Our loss in killed, wounded and missing
403. That of the enemy, over SDO. Gen
eral Price brought off his entire train and
captured stores. General Murray covered
the retreat.
General Little fell whilst conversing with
Geneial Price.
T lie Yankee* I.os* in tlie lSutile* ot
SliaVpsbiirg.
Tbe slaughter of the Yankees in the bat
tle of Sharpsburg must have been terrible,
even by their own admission. The corres
pondent of the New York Tribune, writing
of their loss, says :
We have been burying our dead and car
rying off the battle field our wounded. I
have Just returned from the sickening spec
tacle. Soldiers who went through all the
b. r tles of the Peninsular say the battles near
Bi hwoud was as nothing compared with it.
The dead lie in heaps and the wounded are
coming in by thousands. Around and in a
large barn, about half a mile from the spot
where Ueu. Hooker euguged the enemy’s
left, I counted 1,260 wounded. Along the
same road, and within the distance of two
miles, are three more hospitals, each having
from 600 to 700 in them, and long trains of
ambulances standing in the road, waiting to
discharge their bloody loads. In killed and
wcuuded no battle of the war will approach
it. In Summer’s corps alone our loss in
killed aud wounded and missing amounts to
tiv>‘ thousand two hundred and eight! The
15th Massachusetts regiment went into the
battle with five hundred and fifty men, aud
came out with oue hundred and fifty-j-ix.
The 19th Massachusetts, of four hundred
and six, lost all but one hundred and forty
seven. Tke Colonel aud Lieutenant Colonel
were both wounded, (the Major was lost
some mouths ago,) and every Captain in the
regiment killed or disabled. The sth 2Sew
Hampshire, about three liundred strong, lost
one hundred and ten enlisted men and four
teen officers. Massachusetts, o.it of eight
regiments engaged, (all except the elsth, old
regiments, with their ranks,) loses upwards
of fifteen hundred, and Pensylvania has suf
fered more than any other State. The re
bels seem to take off our men and officers al
most before they have time to draw their
men up in line ot battle.
Using the rebels
have used our telegraph wire in Virginia re
cently with even more signal snccess than
they dhl in Kentucky, aud with quite as
much impudence. It is said that the mo
moment Fitzhugh Lee captured Manassas,
he telegraphed in the name of Gen. Pope’s
chief ot staff to the proper officer in Wash
ington, requesting him to send to the .June
tou a large supply of shelter tents and har
ness for artillery horses. The order was
promptly filled, and the rebels were soon
gladdened by tbe appearance of a train load
ed with what they wanted. Jackson, on
his arrival, sent a message to the Superin
tendent of Military llailroads, coolly asking
him to change the time table on tbe road
for his accommodation.— BcuAiT/toH (Jhrmy
Tin* riori<ii»\ Crt(i«f> from
l» Mobile.
It announced some days ago, that the
war steamer Florida ( farmer iv Oreto) had
rtui the gaum let of the blockading fleet at
-Mobile, and passed under the gnus of Fort
Morgan. YY e have received, from a corres
pondent oti board, a highly interesting and
thriiliug account of her adventures ou the
voyage, tvh;ch, in justice to the brave meu
•who encountered such perils, stould U
j known to the public. 1 here an*, fen >uch
jacta of dauntless heroism on record, and
j mark Captain Matin as the man fur the
tSueii gal la tit conduct should meet
- *•» l,r ‘ lm 4»nci*Vui .
the parted his government, and we hope it
j will not be slow in according what all
j must regard as purely a reward of merit. —
ifklp. lire
j Mobile, Sept. *24tb, ISC»‘2.
♦ a* a ♦ %
The “Oreto” was siezed, released, and
’ again seized, and learning that through the
efforts of the Lincoln agents it was deter
mined again lo take possession of her ami
send her to England fur anew trial, we
slipped from the hawser of 11. M. ship ,
and on the night of the 9th, with eleven
deck hands and tivo firemen and «oal hea
vers all that money and cunuing could ob
i tain—drifted with the tide under the shad
ow or the land some eight miles, and thus
the Yankee cruisers hovering arauad us
were evaded. A schooner with our guns
on board was awaiting us outside, and tak
ing her at tow we dashed down the “Ton
gue of the Ocean, and were soon where no
Yankee othcer dared to follow us. Thread
ing our way through innumerable rocks and
shoals with many narrow escapes, we au
ohored among them, and all hands—only
fourteen in all—went to work with a heajty
good will. In four days we got the guns,
etc., on hoard, imagine our misery when
we discovered that neither rammers, spon
ges, sights, beds, quoins, passing boxes or
magazine equipments had come along with
them, and that on the day following tin*
yellow lever appeared in nil its horrors.—
There was no physician on hoard and the
! case was fatal. On the 16tli two more new
cases. You can sympathise with us in our
sad plight, YVe had scarcely men enough
ou board to handle the ship ; the circle to
the pivot guns did not lit ; Yankee cruisers
all about; disease on board, and no help at
hand but the ind >niitable energy of our
Captain, who, in addition to his many du
ties, was nursing the sick. It was deter
mined to inn for Cardenas, in Cuba, as the
most healthy and secluded port, in the hope
of picking up a few seamen and getting
medical aid, and in the night the ship was
gotten under way and steered close along
the breakers, passing over the banks with
considerable risk. On the night of the
18tli madc 4 Cardenas Light aud the Yankee
gunboats ; at one o’clock on the morning of
the 19th entered the harbor. Our crew by
this time, were reduced to three men ou
deck and oue tireman, who had been ou du
ty for eleven hours. Ou the‘2oth the yel
low fever had full possession of the ship,
and an officer was sent to llavaua to en
deavor to get men. Ou the 2lst our Cap
tain down, and soon thereafter
given up as a hopeless care, lie remained
insensible for several days, but a merciful
Providence was with him, and he recovered
his consciousness to hud his much lo’ved son
iu a dying condition beside him. Poor Lau
rens I—he died ct sundown, and just after
him four seamen and the 3d Assistant Lu
ge nee r.
iu the meantime the Yankee Consul,
Gen Shufeldt, had got wind of our w! .e
--abouts and dispatched five gunboats to cut
us off and hem the Oreto in port. YVe ob
tained twenty-four laborers , and tupping
our anchor ran the gauntlet, getting clear
to sea without mishap. A poor little Span
ish passenger steamer, coming out two hours
before us, was mistakeu for the “Oreto” by
the Yankees and peppered for thirty-six
miles. The enemy, supposing that we
would run for Charleston, increased their
force about Abaca, the Florida passages, and
off’ Wilmington and Charleston, and Com
mander Guert Gansvoort, in the Adiron
dack, in his zeal to head us off aud capture
u.%. wa« totally wrecked * * *
*•' * On the 3th at 3 p. iu., we
made Ylobile Light and and three smart
looking block ad ers watch! ug the -port. YVe
got up a full head of steam and tried to ar
range our guns for at least one shot, but
could not. Every preparation was then
made to set fire to the ship iu ca3e of neces
sity, and combustibles were got ready in
ten different places, our brave little ship
standing boldly in towards the enemy.—-
Meanwhile the cruisers ran out to meet us,
forming themselves in a triangle about us, :
withholding their fire, as we still kept aloft
the red cross of old England, and they hesi
tated for a moment or two to make up their
minds as to our nationality. Wc were now
so near that their conversation could he dis
tinctly heard, and a midshipman at the mast
head sung out, “She is not English, there
are oniy a tc w men on her deck.” At this
the baggers blazed away at us, knocking
about iorteen hammocks out of the nettings,
and then striving to head us off; but Cap
tain Mufiit ordered the men at the helm to
steer right for the starboard bow of the
nearest vessel, and not liking the looks of
things our Y ankee friend sheered off, bring
ing the two vessels in a line—just what we
wanted. At this time we hauled down the
British ensign and ran up the Confederate
flag, and then commenced upon us a shower
iof ihcit : sbsU and sharpnel that made every*
VOLUME X L—NO VO
I thing crack ag4*o. It vra- , j;erfoet i. U
storm, and Wr not abh* to return tb, ;r fire,
though It Wt“ bad I,t en fully manned at, 1
we could have puli, \ thi iu *ft
handsomely. Finding they held then cwu
with u% our men wen- ordvted .3 ft t , lu ,
sad, which they did with u»\ .. u, s cheer,
though the shill woe Luming tu the u/
giug, cutting it away aud * v . dl i . *■“'
im'ti
A pat lot shell «»*»<eted the < 9yO An
cleveil im h —struck u- .«mei - o*. ■, . rh t< 1
flu* Infers*, and defecting i> iv. ud. t off
the iu ad ui our best man, ;i ly <n
iug three others. Ail our IwaU were pu .
—V 'p‘ ! , \ uaU,t “ wU tail, smok** fa,k u.d
BIl«Ulth cl,. U; „ r
sail, all the men were s< nt i», * w , ~4
the officers who ware retained , u dick
1 bus we stood on for two houi aid .
teen minutes. The wnij> of Fort M
were thronged with officers Mini men i l
our safety was greeted w ith cheers. \,i t.
haved n Fly. Four days alter our
poor Stribling, (l»t Lieutenant,) who\, t)
about to start to see h.s wife, was uk n
down wit!i fever ami died iu i fin tv .ix In
llejwas a gallant gentleman and t v. < , «
Christian. . » L
Franklin and (lie Ittirhar.
Ou Iff. Franklin’s arrival at, Paris,
PlenipoflFttimrv from the United . do
riug the Ho volution, the Kin e e.vpi«-.-r x
wish to see him luiinediaiei) As there w
no to the Court of France, in those
days, without permission of ti e wi iiiv r.
wigmaker of cour.-c was C cnt f>i
In n few minuter, a richly and» -d XI n
eur, with his arena folded in a pr .
muff ot furs, and a sword by his id", i , i •
his appearance. It was the King'-, whip
imiker, with a servant in livery a long sword
by his side too, and a load of sweet seenti 1
bandboxes, full of “de wig,” as lie said, “do
superb frig for de great Doctor Franklin ”
One of the wigs was tried on -a v, r 1 f ( >,
small ! Band-box after baud-L x was In A
but with small success. /
The wliigmaker fell into n wo-t viol at
rage to the extreme mortification of Dr.
1 i auk 1 1 n, that a gen tliinanso f>, , j ,] (
silks and perfumes, should notwithstanding,
be such a child.
Presently, however, as in all the (rat ■
ports of a greai discoverer, the whipimd r
erwd “i!f that
uot iu his whig as too small 1 “ (.) no/’
said he, “ my wig uo too small, 1 nt the D ,c
--tor’s head too big, by gar 1”
Franklin, smiling, replied, t hit tithe fault
could hardly lie there; for that hL head wa
made by God Almighty himself, who was
not subject lo err.
Upon this the vvigmaker took in a little ;
hut still he contended that there mu-; in
something the matter with Doctor Franklin’;,
head. It was at any rate, out of fa-bion
He begged Dr. F. would plea e for reiuetn
her, dat his head had not de honor to l>.
made in Puree. No, by gar! for if it had b> u
made in Puree, it no been more duu half
such a head. None of the French Nobh
he swore had a head anything like his. .Wi
de great Duke D’Orleam*, nor the grand
Monarch himself, hail such a head a De, * t
Franklin. An l lie did not see, he said,
what business any body had wid a head
more big dan de head of the grand Munaique
Pleased t.* see the poor wigmaki-r reeovm
his good humor, Dr. Franklin could not find
it in his heart, to put a check to hi; i hil-Ji. h
raut, but related one of his fine anecdote
which struck the wigmaker with aueh an
idea of his wit, that as he retired which he
did bowing most profoundly, he shrurg i
his shoulders, and with a most significant
arch look, said :
“ Ah, Doctor Franklin! Doctor Franklin ’
I uo wonder your head too big for my
By gar, 1 fraid your beau too big for all de
French nation. ’ ✓
lii'itlinut Victory near Helena.
We hare a letter from Friar’s Point, dated
15th insf., giving interesting additional facts
concerning our victory near Helena, Ar
kansas. We extract as follows :
We have just received reliable information
from Helena that fighting had commenced,
twenty-five miles back from that place. On
Wednesday 3700 Federal* were sent on >
drive back our advance; our men f :u. I
on both fddes of the rosd in the t iu
of a V, we sent out a body of tkirmiF *. s
to draw them into the am bush, in which
they succeeded, the wings of the V then clo
sing and capturing one Ohio regimen f: o ,u\
plete and all but forty of another re; imen*.
On Thursday they a;oin attacked our ifir
and wore whipped back. On Friday th •
again attacked and claimed that th . whip
ped our troops back.
There is a great deal of sickness in their
camp. Many of their officer- say that old
Curtis has made over on ■ mi lion fdo r
in his speculations iu C"ttou, muh * and
horses—buying through his agents from the
negroes. —Jackson M
The exemption Stilt.
The Exemption Bill ha- pa-- «i the Sm , e.
It excludes from mililaiy s rvio jrc : « 1
everybody except editors, lawyer-, to.
ers, and; per consequence, will cany a•-
grec of tal nt, efficiency, aud respectability
into the field very much m -f'ed. I r.*• -s -
at work on papers having 500 bona /. ; • -üb
scribers, are exempt. Some of our brethren
of the press are toting or rather extravagant
ly about the non-exemptiou of editors. 1 r
ourself, we are not very much distil- *i
about it. Having already realized a »tu
pendeous fortune at the bu<ine>-. we are
ready to abdicate and give “any ofb r c a
a chance to grow rich. So tah into rami-j
bov 5 . and no «hnffitnf r