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tfow ‘•Dixik” Became the “Mabsellaise’ of the South During the War. / In the first place, the song and chorus of “Dixie” was composed and arranged by Dan Emmet, a member of a travelling minstrel party, who, while at Mobile, in the winter of 1851—8 heard some negro la borers singing on the levee while loading a steamboat with cotton. The thought struck Dan, that, with a little change of measure, it could be made a good song and walk around,’* which generally winds up a negro minstrel concert. Dan, arranged it and produced it. It became a success, and was sung and played all over the country by all the bands, In the Spring of 1861, Mrs John Wood came to New Orleans to play an engage-* ment at the varieties Theatre. During the time she appeared in Brougham’s burleet que of “Pocahontas.” At the first rehear* sal of the piece every thing went well till near the close of the second act. Tom Mc- Donough, (now agent for the Leffingwells) the prompter, got a zouave march and drill by twentytwo ladies, led by Susan Denin. Eeverything ran smooth, but the music for the march could not be fixed up* on. Carlo Patti was leader of the orches tra, and tried several marches, but none suited McDonough: one was to slow; anoth er was too tame, and another not enough of spirit. At length Patti struck up the’ne gro air of “Dixie.” “That will do, Patti— the very thing,” said Tom., and “Dixie was played and the march gorne through with, and the chorus by all the characters. At night it received a double encore, and “Po cahontas” had a “run.” and from that time the streets and parlors rang with “Dixie’’ The war broke out that Spring, and the military bands took it up, and “Dixie” be came to the South wl at the Marsellai&e hymn was to the French. And that is how —thTT popular song of the South. —Memphis Post. **— : . . . News from Cuban Sources. —News has been received direct from Cespedes by Cu* bans in Washington City, confirming fully the defeat of the Spanish forces in attempt ing to open the railroad from Nuevitas to Puerto Principe. The date and channel of receipt is kept secret for prudential rea sons. The loss of the Spaniards is set down at about 1,000 in killed and wound ed, The Cuban force is staled to have been three thousand five hundred men un der Quesada, intrenched on the road, and numbering about the same as the Spanish. The fighting was by far the severest o( the war. The battle was decided by the Marquis of Santa Lucia with 4000 men, a large number of whom were mounted, but who, though very poorly armed, made a desperate and successful charge on the flank of tha Spaniards. Os 500 colored troops, about 400 shot their officers and went over to the Cubans. The remainder who were neither with the insurgents nor the Spaniards, are supposed to have taken the wood. All tf»c baggage, pro-visions and ammu nition of the Spaniards carried in ten cars and dragged on the rails by oxen, together with the dead and chief part of the wounds cd, were abandond to the Cubans, who af ter the battle, advanced, six miles to San Miguel, where they destroyed the barracks and quarters in sight of the retreating Spaniards. The loss of the Cubans is given at sever" al hundred, but Cubans here ridicule the idea of it** being equal to that of the enemy, who attacked the intrenchments and failed to carry them. A. vessel, since returned to the United States; had a few days before safely hands ad arna-and ammunition,. The Spanish General Letona is reported wounded, but whether in that action re not aai& Gospedes and the insurgents feel confident of success. Josh Billings on “Yewker,” —This ill bred game of keards is about 27 years of •A** It was first discovered by tbs deck-hands on a Lake Ery steamboat and handed down by them to prosterity in awl its juvernile butyv It is generally played by persons, and owes mnch of its adsorbingness to the fact that you dfwik. and chaw, aud cheat while the game is advancin. I have seen it played* on the Hudson River. Railroad, on the smoking car, with more immaculate skill than enney where else, If yn play there yn will often hold a hand that will astonish yu, 4 queens and a ten spot, which will enflame ya to bet 7 or 8 dollars, that is a good hand to play pos ker with, but yu will be more astonised when yu see the other fellah’s baud, which, iovariably, consists of 4 kings and a 2 spot. Yewker is a mulatto gairn, and don’t ; compare to old sledge in majesty, ennv ! more than a game of push pins to a square j ohurch raffle. I never played yewker. F never would learn how outov principle. I was orignallv oreatrd cln«s to ihe Coonefctiknt hue in New England, whar the game oft up or old' sledge was born and exists in all the prestioe verginify. I play old sledge to this day in all its native fierceness. L. But I won’t play any game, if I know mi kaiactor, whar jack will taik the ace, and i ten spot won’t count for game. | I won’t play no sich a kind of giain out uv respect to old Conuektikut mi native State. Extraordinary Natural Prodigy. —They have on exhibition in Jackson Tennessee a four-legged child a little over eleven months old. From the head to the waist is a healthy, fine looking child, I^ll from that point and jwnward tho body diverges. Tile formation Os the limbs are tolerably perfect, the two inside, though being healthy and growing, being a little deficient, and the child has but little use of them. The out-* side legs are the ones that will never be of any service in walking. Wise Sayings of (lie Ancients. The office of a wise man is to discern that which is good and honest, and to shun that which is contrary. To be ignorant of ourselves, to seem to know those things whereof we are ignorant, borders on madness. To be engaged, is good and useful* to be idle is pernicious and evil, They who do good are employed, but they who spend their time in vain recreations, are idle. The way to be admired, is to be what we desire to be thought. The beauty of the mind is more lovely than that of the body.— Socrates. They who defraud virtue of its rewards, rob the young of virtue ha&e\f—Cato Major* The young ought to use modesty in their gesture, in their behavior, and in their dress.— Zeno. The perfection of a man consists in fore seeing the future, as much as reason can possibly accomplish. Chito. Three properties are essentially requisite to the attainment of wisdom; nature, learn ing and experience.— Aristotle. There is as much difference between a wise man and a fool and a horse that is properly broken and one that is not.— Iris tippus. They who know what they ought to do, and do it not, are not wise and well insti tuted; but fools and stupid. The most difficult thing is to know one’s self; the most easy, to give counsel to another, and the most delightful, to obtain the completion of our desires. Thales. To be recommend by those who might blame without fear, gives great pleasure.— Ayesilaus. To expose one’s self to great danger for trivial matters, is to fish with a golden hook, where more may be lost than gotten. —Augustus Caesar. To praise what is estimable, is right; but to flatter what is wrong, is the property of a designing hypocritical soul. To desire little, levels poverty with riches.— Demerit u s. Food for Smiles. Long Division— A divorce- What is worse than raining cats and dogs? Mailings cabs and omnibuses-. When was Ruth very rode to Boaz ? When she pulled his ear and trod on his corn. Retrenchment. —Josh Billings has made a considerable reduction in the brim of his hat. Why does the bridegroom always put on the ring at a wedding ? Because beil(cjs cannot ring themselves. A Western paper has an account of the “shooting of a wildcat by a little boy five feet eight inches long.” What’s the differance between an over coat and a baby ? An overcoat is wltat, you wear and a baby is what you was. A Philosopher says that if anything will make a women swear, it is looking for her nightcap after the candle*s out. General Butler was taking tea at the house of a lady friend in Washington the other day. The General seemed to look as though something was lacking,-and the following dialogue took place: Hostess— “ Can it be possible, General, that you have no spoon?” Butler (raising indig nantly and holding out both hands) —“No-, madam, if you don’t believe it yon can search me.” A Kentucky man went over to Indiana to procure a stone for the grave of his son, and insisted that the inscription, which ‘‘was writ by the family.” should be cut on it just that way.” The following is the poem prepared r “He died at nashville tennesse he died of kionic diaree it trooly painful must-have been to die so fur away from hum.” Consolatory.— In crossing the street, each lady yon meet, (if she follows the pre valent fashion,) lifts gently her dress, say a foot, more or less, and keeps it upraised till you pass on. In passing hei by you look down -“on the slv,” and get a glimpse, of the leather, which comely and neat en cases her feet, and protects the dear things, from the weather. You inwardly pray, as you go on your way, (and sure there is no itarm in the prayer;) that as Jong as you like, the best clouds may give a good rain every day in tiie year. one of our exchanges we find the following opinion of a fashionable fiat ] by a young ladyr “Oh! the bonnets of my ! girlhood, the kind I wore to school! I real ly thought them pretty I must have been a fool; and veti used to think myself on hats a jaunty miss. Perhaps I' was ns fashion went; but wh-tt was that to this? 0 ! the lovely little pancake, the charming little mat—it makes my head so level. 0 ! so very flat!” ” " HOUSEKEEPERS I HOUSESEEPERS ! MEN -WOMEN—AND CHILDREN ! MEN—VVOM£N— AND CHILDREN ! 8 £f AD—READ. “Cooling to Scalds ami Burns, ’’ “Soothing to ali painful wounds. &e.” “Healing to all Sores, Ulceus. &c.” ‘COSTAR’S’ BrCKIVHRN SALVE Is the most, extraordinary salve ever known. Its power of Soothing and Healing for Ants, Burns, Bruises. Sores. Ulcers, Chapped Hands and Skin, for Sore Nipples, for Piles &., &c\—is without a par allel. One person says of it, ‘I would not be with out a Box in roy Rouse, if it cost SS.Go. or I had to travel all the way to New York for it,’’ New York Evening News. Semi. 5. » gif Ail Dyfet* in BAIHBRIDGE selTßh^-r Stamuud Preparatios® BE A q ts fall AY Bitter-Sweet nojiossijrao JIT One Bott.e, $; -i’hfee for /" his *** : :, yj 4 * “Costar’s” Rat, Israeli, &c , > “Costar’s” Bed Bug Exterminators. “Costar’s” (only puie) Insect Powder. “Only Infallible Remedies known.” “18 years established in New'Yo*,k-” _ “2,00 b Boxes and Flasks manufactured daily.” “ ! ! ! Beware! ! ! of spurious imitations.” “All Druggists in BAINBRIDGE sell them-” Address “COSTAR,” 10 Crosby st., N. Y. or, John F. Henry,(succesors to)l)emas Baines & Cos., 21 Park Row. N. Y. Sold in BAINBRIDGE, GA., bv Dr. J. A. BUTTS & CO. [Feb. 25th, ’69.-44-ly. OAK # CITY EM & BILIIOE MUM, Upstairs in Bowers Block, BROAD STREET, AINBRICGE GA, B. F. COLBERT k BROTHER, PROPRIETORS. This Saloon is always supplied with choice WStl "wtstlS, cratas, feC. THE BTLLIAIiI) TABLES are all new. and as good as can be found in the .Tulips, Cocktails, Sherry Cobblers, &t\, See , pre- s*/*?>' ’<*& -/eg ” pared at short notice. ■ April Ist, 1869. 49-ts CHEAP ixiisffiir ARE constantly receiving additions to their STOCK from New York, New Orleans and other Markets, which are being so and at the lowest market price for CASH. BACOII. tO non LBS - SHOULDERS and SIDES, just .1 •v/v/v/ received per last steamer, and for sale by T. B HUNNEWELL & CO. FLOUR. KA SBLS .FLOUR ASSORTED BRANDS, just flv/ received and for sale by T. B. HUN NEWELL & CO. WHISKY. 1 A BBLS PURE WHISKY, also BOURBON and m V 7 fine EYE WHISKY, just receivedand forsale by T. B. HUNNEWELL & CO. SUGAR. -| K BBLS GROUND LOAF SUGAR, CRUSHED, ■-t-A Granulated and Extra Coffee Susrar, for safe by T. B. HUNNEWELL & CO. CORK. lAH SACKS of WHITE CORN just received At and for sale by T. B. HUNNEWELL & CO. A CONSTANT supply of all the standard brands of Brown and Bleached Sheeting and Shirting, all widths, for side low by T. B. HUNNEWELL & CO. BLACK LACE SHAWLS. A FEW BLACE LACE POINTS or SHAWLS for sale verv low. by T. B. HUNNEWELL & CO. WHITE CRAPE MOZETS. A AERY handsome pure WHITE CRATE for making SHA Vt LS, just received and foi sale by T. B HUNNEWELL & CO. may 13, DISSOLUTION. THE FIRM heretofore existing under the name and style of A. DAVIS & CO; is this day dis solved by mutual consent. The bocks, notes, &c;. of the late firm, will be found in the hands of Mr* A. Davis, who aloue is authorized to make settle ments. A. DAVIS. ~ April 29th 1809. "• L ' BA“SErr • \ NOTICE. HpHE undersigned thanks his friends for past favors 1 and hopes:by strict attention to business and fair dealing with all, to merit a share of public patronage. My stock will consist in everything usually found in a Dry Goods and Grc ceiy store, all of which 1 will sell as "heap as the cheapest. Mr. B. C, Scott will remhiu with me. Respectfully, A. DAVIS. may 6. 1869. 2--Jm. OFFICE of J. BERRIEN OLIVER. General Com mission Merchat, No S7 Bay Street (over Wil eox, Gibbs & Go.) Savannah, Ga. [dcy2-35. 1800. 1800. ' ;/'< . -I : . ! • fjf *;s • ‘ , >:r < &MMKKBUKSBBKF'- , 11111 Hi m| — the sjukt SPRINTING ldcjLSfcmay prefer.*. srlfaE,. establishment. ■ .-. . a '*r -,-^T ~~ ■C X s -;A j _ 3 S « 'THIS E^ABLTSHMfcN'f •-'/*. r: :• j' *"■ >. ' •■’* r: v-w.. - .♦ .. ....... -V '•*> Is fifcder the Immediate Supervision o\ a Practical Printer of i 111 MI SIXTEEN IMS Mill And we Guarantee to Execute as Good JOB PRINTING As can bo Pone Anywhere WITH THE SAME FACILITIES AT HAND. We Use Nothing but the? r*? -jtikW %kg' j" 4 • *■* i g;uvif s*w o'* wnasl «,oi*>,e; nA «aoJTOI i»; Best Arltcle of Paper And llie FINEST INKS, % v ■ . f . Iwrf I If -Jiff- {>*■ Thus Giving A TONE AND FINISH TO OUR WORK, > I- ..:fvS§-» % , '■" StoJF ! - ■• •.: >•. ■ t , . Which No Other Kind of Material' will Produce.- » Are Strictly CASH ON DELIVERY And our Rates As Low asthose of any stablishniont In this bection of tlw Country. OBBERg SOLicifSß THE ESTEY ORGANS,J FOB PARLORS, nALLS, AND CHURCHES, j Combine more perfections than any others wM The manufacture's have invented and «p {l]i ||| more valuabe improvements, during the last »■>.. Bfj years than any other in the land. j The Patent Vox Humana wonderful imitation of the tremolo of the voice, pronounced by the most eminent organs,w and organ builders the only perfect expression 6 |(,'|S ever invented, The Patent Harmonic Attachment lS |jg octave coupler,.which doubles the power of theij strument without increasing its sine. r 1 The Patent Manuel Sub-Bass. —An of independent bass reeds of great piiwer which|fl played with the ordinary keys. The Patent Vox Jubilant.—A new a.« beautiful stop, giving a style of music hitherto J attained in reed instruments. These Organs are superior to all other in quick articulatiou--round, pipe-like tone— ness and power. Thay have received nearly oxtj n ■ dred First Premiums over all competitors. They are endorsed by the highest musical auth« J§ ties. Send for Illustrated Circular. PIANO FORTES,I The subscribers also offer to the public an ment of beautiful Piano Forts— elegant roseiK,,B| Cases—full iron frame—overstrung bass—Freud grand action, etc., at moderate prices and fujiß warranted. For circulars and full particulars address G. G, SAXE & ROB RTSON, 417 BROME STREET, I NEW YORK.S March 11th, 1869. 46-fj §1 The “Vermo'nt Spriihj” Water, Justly celebrated as a remedy for Promineut &• • ula, Bright's Disease, and other Kidney AjJectim, worst forms of Cutaneous Diseasess Rheumatism, Ecu 4 Complaints, a nr! all imparities of the blood. | 1 The bottles are market!; “Vehhon* Spring, § Jt H & Cos., Sheldon, Vt.” For sale by the principal Druggists. Pamphlets, with certificates from eminent pby s| cians aid others, sent free. W. 11. 170 Wiliams Street, 1 NEW YORK.H March 11th, 1869.- 46-1 NOTICE TO ship pi is 1 FROM Tins DATE THE ISDEPSDENT UN OF IVILL OIVE THROUGH bills of lading fRi lit NEWTON and BAINRRTDG# so SAVANNAH’.® Pr>tt Gaines hr Cblhmbus at FORTY OfiMTS- PER 100 LBS; | COTTON FROM BAINBLTDGE TO COLUMN 25cw, PER BALE, OTHER FREIGHTS, per m, SAMUEL J. WHITESIDES, 1 April 22, ’69-52 30d. mW EVERYBODT TAKES 1 BRADY’S I mill iiTTin Awarded the Highest Premium T A State Fair, held at tfew Oi J JIJ 1868; Alabama State Fair, held at ?«RB Cn i* e r l 868; Kentucky State Fair/at Louififl 8b8; State Fair of Indiana, held, at Indian»P«l loba; and at the Missouri State Fait, h<eW 1,1 r s ! Mo. Recommended by the best Physk ir j ior the cute'of Dyspepsia, Dysentery, Female Weaknesses, f# sumption Coughs, and Cholera Morbus, J And for Over a*4 Kidneys it has no eqiiai, til a u ieat Strengthoner and BJo< and Purifier. ) j It is A sure preventive against. CliiHs and Fe'i it used regularly, as the Chills Season is conitol No family should be without it. , Manufactured by D. C. Brady Sf Cos., 46 F« a l Street, Louisville, Ky Fl. SCOTT, Gen. Agent fpr the SQ» tlie H States. Atlanta, Ga'. I f°. r , u a,e by J< A - BUTTS A CO., Bainbrid'fre-1 ally Üby all Dru ßßißt, Grocers, and Dealer* April 22. ’69. si'-2® l JAOQB BORN, piratical harness make®- I BAIN BRIDGE, GA. CHOP on West street in rear of Henderson’sjjj v £ „ ore ’ and next door to Cumming’s I '* togrnph Gallery. ■ Harness repaired or made to uf *B Kni^rT^-j ll^ 6Bl and ,nost substantial style ■ rV a ?K dld l o< of Baf Mles, Bridles, Sole and Jfljl Lea her ahva on h< u, d wl)ich he offers W"! fisures fo ' cASB ' 6 «. J '■ blanks. I /V and other X Blanks tor at this- Office.