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['xriiilors Vr Cl o:irli:m-: . * * • • Administrators, E * * „ iw to be I held An Tue: * aof ten cl ° * *. . “ afternoon,at the Courtln use in the county in whicji i ttal * ( es of these sales must lit- in"; ’ j• . lie C.i/.-” e*\ri v Lavs previous to the .la vof sale. * . 1 oT i’rrsoiial J* rope Ay : - nud Pr ipeifty must be ; , “ . f Os Side. 1 £ :ly te I I>l . ;-■ ;!*t itililor.: • • ’ * ‘ • * Court of jOrdmnry bearejlo Mill • a •*•- to the ( rtf O • tnd or P • , Ad 111 i'ii f :a! :;>n iiiui (aHaSdinDsAijp: (’it* ’ i> Administration must I>A . . lisshm fi. >m Adinin • for 1 (is mission ”’• • , Fhri i lospiT !’ If • Fit ge must be pul>- . lisiied monthly* * • Establishing Lett Paperss • , • • ‘ * • . Inst Lost Papers must be pnb* “a “ • • • * | Publics * cowtium i *ccortling ( to tfle above rules, unless < * • • • f , * ——a- - —— l . * * LAW CAEDB. * • ’ , • •• * • . s’pQisrcr U- spencer. * A TTOF.T . S ‘AT LAW.,- TflOM tSVILIsE, GA. S,. 11 Si ‘• * ’• \Y AY. XrnxrKii. a— • —— Jacob Watson, Attorney® att law, ill .• . > sell Cl>*, GA. •* !? • # Edward 41. West,**, Attorney at law, , * * TALLAHASSEE, FLA.,, Pi - e*S * ■ Court of Florida n\)d the Cir -1 • .. 1 v •— * • —r llejtajider &> S.*ov*c.‘® Attorneys at*lAw, TIiOMASVIJAE, ri A. * R. Alev * - ’ P. K. Lon k. • w ° ° * . *3. S|. 95. Stanley, ♦ Attorney at law, * . ; QUITMAN, BROOKS CO., GA. Will practice in the • • Sonthern Circuit, and CQffert, Clince, Ware and Echolsof tjie Brunswick i Circuit. • . • o S 9 W.* B. Bonnet, Attorney at law, ,® . ° * * . • • .G v. Will pmcti.'i- in Ti A L *\; .s. i I.# and lierri- Counties. * • lull U* it • —a • *— • • 99 1\ 15. Bedford®, * . Attorney at law, ° GA. Will practice in the counties of the Brunswick <" and inajLiowndes and I&rrien i onnties if tjie Southern Circuit.. '* 0 . je 19 ts 1 • Joim 31. Dyson, * . . Attorney at law, . ® ° .THOMAS VILLI* GA. .Office next noor to Dr. Brnce’s • • • .• * Cumene. _ Attorney at. law, *• * * je 28*tf QA. * lj. c. Bryan) Attorney a*t law*. .* mh 10 TIIOMASV4LLE, GA. * * * E. f. Morgan, • Attorney at laaY, . NASIA'ILI.E, lU'.IiRIEN CO., GA. •• Will practicejji the Comitioe of the Southern pircuit; and the Counties of ©oolr, Wqrth %nd Dougherty of lhe Kan ‘ , ‘ • I Ware of the Brunswick Circuit.* Address at Flai.fVek Post Office, Ga. • m}t 18 • • ts .. 11. T. Peeples, Attorney at la*w, * * NASHVILLE, BERRIEN CO.. GA. .ie ft . * * • . .* * * ‘ I Clierokee Baptist® College,. • . CASSVmLE, CASS COUNTY, GEO. tion. Koaril. toi'siiu.'. tVasMag! Fuel, and * School l(ridrutnl for n*Vouua Him. . . ‘rplll-JRE ARE Six ULASSIks. :\v A.-u * amb •J® four Coll*fiate.i Students are received at i of preparaf*. n. and for any stu : tisov tnay >• -c •. Tuition payable in advance. Boarding utp ilics. Pm visions for two hundred st ;li uts. For further particulars, addres# * * * I Eev. Ks B.—Spring Session opens Thursduy, Janna^l7> . . ** , . jm9ly . •SOLAAVATER. i rpms delightful bevekTge—in per x fetjfiom—-with choice Byrun —cool and sparklingg— * tlie nnil*r : ”ni^^ l j Vln sV l afor the aaaeon,at the store of ‘ . *€ E kept constantly otfhand and for side hv • ! April •>, bSi.l. joy y STATIC. . *T Q"b “W oris,".’ * NOW PVtF.p.tKEB TO IMt \ I,L kinds of JOB PRINTING n a V 1 a a lgrge I’oAer, at the L.iterpr se office Try u.- • ‘ _ e. . • \ i? Jt Y.% > ,V K E VE A l , ) • * LAST WORDS. • • ® • • .TO m; S. L w—. • •• a . • . ‘-Put .V the s)ir..in* nrt: r. • • . • A I” 1 • 1‘ .< e:. o- . • .Vi • ‘• . . ... t * • o • • lor the -• nto pnv me. • With that long Vl£ ° . *AtM Vet point . V r • ° €• ♦ ° o • . * *V “, • • ro greet the K , a • • • L ® • how it In’ \\+ .Id V . ts • • • • • O • Oil! tin* vvorM /•>* lirairi.rl! 0 • # i > lu % • 0; • • | * To measure human life; . a a .1’ the paiT.lt:® * it b. *-s. . • Iu all thi.- ‘"il an* strife : • * And by nyf faith in Heaven, • • * • . * has ’. 0, 0 • - great weight upon ruyjieart, • ® * • I have [ti •micli“lc years inline.” . • 4am tired—take me baclf • 0 • “l* i*! ,• Juu:ii. w- Jived a uc’i. *• And lay me in li a yn:d, • By the • !'-* “ * • • While we*wandered vfni and l —a WJieu liu- sun set cloudlessly • * • • inMic tap; y days gone by.” * “Anil is this death ? manuent stay . * Thy \tavA -o darkainal wild! 1 • i\v can 1 leave you ligre on i-arkji, i, JI v child, tilv precious child ! 9 *(. a i ‘ 1 laAiy the evil,. t A seal thee for iris own, ■ • • it me strtfltgth to say, •• • dn this Thy vftll be dune.t’ * . • • • • * “Andi itv come near, my husband — • Oil ! you have loved me well; • And I would have the last fond look ; 4Yithifynig heart to (hvi-ll; . •V put your arm j around a : . 1 low dark it. is become! ® * * Jesus, I come! O! glory, 111 going home—swttet liTune !’’ Quitman, July 1, 1861. . • •_ ; .„..*. a- • O <• ■ tlilitary operations of the present Revolution. During tin si.c'mtnfhs, inth t tin 20 th of December iB6O, (the date •/* the §sj ci fi*ion vt South and ending the • • 2 Vth of Jjmc , 1861. , DccominA 24, T>■ “)*4. —Su'l'lcn evacwition of ‘J-'ort by •'iajar Anacrsun, .Vnitud ! army. lie spikes the cuns burns the , gm, carriages, and ratrcut.s to Fort Sumter, u hich'he occupies. * December 27. —Capture of Fflrt 3loultrie, ‘ , and Castle® Pinckney by the ®Soutli CafiJina I troops, Cos to surrenders the revenue cutter Ai -1•• . •ceu. January 3, of Fort Pulaski, i 7*y the Savannah troops. . . January 3 33? he Arsenal al Mount Vernon, Alabama, with 20,000 sAand of arm§ seized by j the Alabama treops. •• . . j Janustry 4,-®-Fort Morgan in thg Mobile Bay ~taken by the Alabama troops. . January 9. —The steamship “Star of tl f , Wsst fired into and* driven <®ti” by ’the South’ • CarolinaJbatto®rio> on Morris’ IslancT. Failure of the attempt to reinforce Port Sumtcn 1 dan. 10.—Forts Jackson, St. Philips, and Pike captuned'by the Louisiana troops. • . Jjfla. 13^.— Capture of .the Peftsacola Xavy’ •Yard*and (Forts Barrancas **and Mcllea,®by ’troops from FUyj/ia. Alabama and.Lotusiana— I Major Ch|tse shortly afterwards takecomnfand and the sf Fort Pickens commences. • .Jan. 10.- —Surrender of the Baton Rouge : Arsenal to the Louisiana troops.. * ®. 1 •Jtfn. 31.- —Th New Orleans Mint, and Cus- * tom i louse taken. • • Feb.. 2. —Seizure of*the Little Rock Arsenal ’ 1 i.v thtv A{kansas troocs. Feb. 4.—Surrender of *thc revenue cutter, C i'S. to th.c State au!h aitiesV.f Alai a mat ’ • Feb. 16.-*AiCfi. Twiggs transfers the puWie property iu Texas to the. State authorities.— Col. Waite, IT. S. A , surrenders San® Antonio, , “to Col. i>yn McCullough an*! his Texan Rangers. Feb. IS —Ifiguguration of President Davis at# Montgomery Ala. • , March 2.—Gen. Beauregard assumes com mand of the timops bescigiiig Fort Suintei# ° March 1J. —Fort Brown in Texas surrender. °cd by Capt. I fill to the Texas Commissioners. ’ • • April 12'f3.— Brittle of Fort l>riK fiant victory gainad by Gen. Beiuregard and •the South Carolina 4iter thirty*four ‘ ’ •hours •hombardiflent the fort surrendefs to the Confederate States. . Aprii®l4. —Evacuation of Fort by Major Anderson and his command. Arril IJ-.—•Abraham Lincoln, Pros'.Rent of the L'uited Stated issues a proclajiiation, call ing f0r.75,000 volunteers to put down the* Southern rbellion. • : April 15. —Col. Reeve, X'. S. A., surrenders i Fort Bliss, near I*l4 PasQ, to Cok.J. M. McGrif tin, the Texas Commissioner. ji’ . • April 10.—Seizure of tlie A.orth Carolina •Forts and the. Fayetteyille Arsenal by Lite troopif. * • April 18.—Capture of the steamsfiip Star oi” the W&t by Col. Van Dorn. C. S. A.* • . . April 19 —Tlie Baltimore massacre. The citizens .of Baltimore attack with missiles the , Xocthern city,en route for the South. The * Massachu •setts regimfenj, fires on the people*and many arc killed. Two mercenaries, are also ghot. Great excitement follows, aail the Maryland# people proceed to burn the rail road bridges and tear up she track,* * April 20. —Capture of th*e Federal army at kndianola,.Tex;rs, by Got. # Van Dofrn (Confeder ate atmy. The Federal aflieer released oi parole. April 10.—Attempted destruction of Norfolk I Navy Yard lay the Federal authorities. The! works set tu* fire, and several max ships Scuttled and sunk. Tfie Federal troop*retreat to For- • i tre.-s M3nie. The Navy Yard subsequently* occupied l#y the Virginians. , ApriliO.*®-Harper's.F*‘rry evacuafed by Fe deral troops und*r Lieut. Jones, who Sttempts | the slestmction of th Aruuyy by fire. The* | place occupied by Yirgifiia troops. * i A]jril 2^.—Fort Smith, Arkiitfas, captured 1 P y the Arkansas troops wnder Col. ®Solon* Bor-] I land#* * ® • 31ay ,9. —The blockade of Yirgiufd com menced. *. % * 31 ay 10. — I •Baltimore ‘oceupfed by #a large boily of Federal troops untleV Gen. Butler. 31ay 10.—A body* of 5000 Federal volun te*ers, under*Capt. Lyon, C. S. Army, surroynd the encampment of eight ’hundred® Missouri, , State ti’oops, near St. Loui g and oblige them to ; i surrender® * • . * * • THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JELLY JO, 1801. # May 10,- —The* jst. • Louis • * • tinder Cos. Frjnefe P. Blaflr * • *• •# the people in the streets of { St. Louis,*killing and Vounding a large nutn- j ° _ • •• • - , k° r - • . ° | May Jl.—il 9 “ o ® | tibn of the terrible scenes ofi May 10? * The 4, • * „ s 10l v !!. TV •three cil * • May 11®—1 ikade gs # Cbsfl-leston har rbt>r commegced by tlm U. S. steamer Xfagaaa.J L May,l9, 20, 21. *. Jjatt •t Shwell’s Point (neai*Norfolk). Vy, i*U‘.JS. #• !• r Mdntagello, aldgd by the steamer Minesota. The assailants dri\ i-:? |t9 . ° with loss. No one hurt otf the*Virginia sfde. * 31 ay 24. Alexandria, \ a®, occupied by 5900 ■ Federal troops, the \ irgii ians 1 • ed. Killies oft Ellsworth by the heroic Jack , 7-un. o • * o < • May* 25. —Hampton, Va., n§ai ?*Mon-1 theJS'edi Uoops; Newpijrt NewS-J ! occupied. * •• * ° 3!av Orleans sfnii *3l ‘lilc bio k jaded. • ® * —President Davis arrived in Rich-* j mond. • # • *M:iy 31.—FVi'ht .It iVnTaxVoi**t House be tween a conn roiv of Lnitcd VBites cavalry, and !"a Yirgiina (•••uipany ;"tlie Marr j grilled; several Federal troops were killed and ftakeft prisoners. • # Jiyie 1, # 2; 3* —Engagemtmt Aquia Creek - between the Virgiifta battefies and* the l . steam*rs Wabash, Auacosta.*and Thomas 1 ree- I horn. ®Thc enemy withdrew, greafly dJmaged. ’ June 3.—Da.Ale of l’hillippif, ift Virginia. — Col. Kelly*, commanding a, body of Federal’ troops’and 3 irgTnia attyAs an infroior force of Southerners, at Pbillippa, under Col. Porterfield, ami routs them. Col. Kelly severe-, ly WiAiuded,uud.s. veral on both .-ides. r*porte<i Willed. ®* ‘ ! o June 5. —-Fight ?it the Fig’s Point Battery • betAveeu tie Confederate troops and the l . S. steamer Harriet Line, resulting ip the discom fiture of the enemy. The Harriet Lane badly I hulled. # • JBlie 10.—Battle of G reat Bethel, ncyr Yorß ! town J# V\i. This splendid victory was gained j fcy *eleven hundred North Caru*linians ams Yir l opmmanded by Col. J. Btufklicad 31a ■ ruder, nv r four thou uni five hundred Feder al troops, under Brig* Gen. Ficrcd. r rii*3 Jyed ’ rtral® troops, attacked’ tjie .* ithern •entreneh ! ments, and after a.fighk of four hours, were driven and pursued to IlampLfn. Sourii ernJossi, one man killed ami seven wounded.— ; Federal lo.A belfeveu to*bp ‘several .hundred. | They confessto thirty killed and one® hundred wounded. * • • . . June 12.—Gov. Jjvkson, of Missouri i sues Ia proclamation, calling the peoj li of*that State to arms. He commences to concentrate droops ’ at’Jcjfersi.m burning the bridges on tlx; •routcs'to St. Loui§ and the East. • * June 15.®—Ilafpcr’s Ferry evacuated by Gen. J/seph E. Johnson aml,l!ie Coufeileratc troops. . June 11>.- —Sk;rn*ssh at 3 icnmi, \ a., between Col. Gregg’s South Carolina Regilnent and the Fifth Ohio Regiment. The ehemy wy.s routed with*a loss of sevefal killed. — CjMrlestoii Coil’ • • . ; ricr. m i• Fro 1 6 ir ,) ‘ • . • , and Rtaciiou. . l'tis peril*] - ;kn inevitable, wliflc ?t is a vr-ry [ pmnful characteristic of American politics* in 1 the ] v’rfoit times, that differences of .opinion i b(®get violent personal animosities. lli'.Tierto there has i-ccn no* time when Apici|canspdif fering Tram eachothea lyowever remotely, could not |ic?iec fully an i (juietly djfcuss the mojt ra-° dical questions; and now thcrcois no .trouble .in talking freely one of direct tnxa tioft or the tariff* but when any l*mj of Dplicy relating to the wty is brought up as a®in>ject of discussion, the excited state Os men’s *mintts become nmwiiest, and if there be any r*reat uif ference of opinion, tlie result js apt to boa pretty severe use of weeds, if nA mutually a resort to blows. ’Only a few weeks ago the* newspapers.abo“.ndqd. in accounts of®men fie., ing knocked*down in the street for what Ifren tstyled ‘‘treiviynable synfjiathies and some of*, the newspapers endeavored to fan the flame by hcadipg such .statements w’uh him right,”, or something similar. T hjs.state of af fairs is fortunately past i bus men’s minds are “still strongly influeftccd by their fimliiqps, and too many are impatient of ®.iy voice thaj speaks ■ of .peace. ® . ® Thc*newspaper press has been greatly to ~ blame in this matter. Some weeks, ago the ■ word “treason’* had acquired anew and broad 1 signification in the columns of the republican 1 papers, • It,was bandied with a freedom that was appalling? The “liberty of the press,’ which here means the right to Cafl any may a scoundrel, a thief or a traitor you dare take the liberty.with, this liberty of tlie press has had the JTve*t exorcise The rule has been, “ifiTanV man ditiers from you as to the proprie ty of .war, calNiim a traitor; if any man thinks the Sciutli not starving call #him a,traitor; ii any man says there is a Christian south 0f,3 ir ginia, cajl liitu a traitor; if any slum says this war is not a Krar fo* extermination ofi slawery,, call him traitor.” • • • • ® In short, whatever fs said, whatever is pysed, whatever is advocated J:hat ;lpes not meet of the wai^newspapers, is trea son. Theje*are®cxce})tjons it i.- true. It de pends very much ou who says tlie thing. Thus, for a republican editor.to propose tef ‘puiper *scdejhe Frroident,” is.not For a man of the B|me sort to B%y that Gen. Scott was*t.oo ;old and too skfW, and that we w;?i*t •John f • i'remont, or some such rngn, in his p*ice, and that w* wantothe Pennsylvanians march on Harper’s Ferry, waiting for Washington flrders, flrts is not objectionable. For an* out aifcl out ] ablolition shaet to prinf daily in its head-line thuto“the Constytation of 9he United States is a covenant with hell,” w not dreastui. # For the republican papers to argae that*in war rimes | jthe letter af thfe Constitution is to lie disregard- j •ed, 4ii4 the Frcsident*of the United States® ought to agsume anfl exercise the powers of a dioiatorAs not treason. ® 3Ve nright xten*d the illustrations, huf these, are sufficient. Instead of the joriner,frank and hearty ?tyle®of* discussion, if perchance a peace Moving newspaper happens to troad on j tlie tpes s.oi those war like i ditors, the vocabulary of cp -1 ithets is exhausted iu tRe present style of*rc ®rly- 37, couit( 1 the word “liar” ro U - : ten ti: lo- *:i the editorials o*f one papor a 1 *.few days since. * ® . . ‘* :■ are n >t censot* of the !press or ,pet>|d 5, 1 ° rd with hopefhlness a phange that*, is c m-.r.g ov* r intr people in il.is respect, and the djsgus? which good then d*en where are t ginnldg ja 17* l®attfle ®^imount f vituperafion®! which has been made use,of. One Ff the X.J 3 • Jtapers, * few days, since, devoted an fdito- I ria’.to rousing; th® North to vAngeantc, even.to wij • • it 7. in suits or the Southern news) • rs in calling us bad names, at to: , • t 71 th : i* lmd keen for years *steadUy call ng slavery “the, sum of aQ vallarwcs,*’ and cburging every slavelnjUer with bciflg guilty of a violation of command in the decalogue. Thug its otgn call to veugeaace seemed*a quasi justification of the rebellion. But with time*comes reason. Time *con-, (piers all things. The bitter wengeauce will ti ( a IL ‘7ll. The stronfiast passionDsl qi calmly aiii i a little. The moro terriloo the tide or the flood, the more swilVis the ebb.,* tli’ ii a violent men continue to call .names aid 1 qjmsc ulciTs reputations, the is past, anl she argument that a good cause* re quires no such assistance is beginning to be felt. Let. not the reaction be too strong. Coming, as it is nifty, very rapidly, the danger which cx periewee teaches is, £?iat in reactiafis men too ircquentlyolose ttll senseftif tight,and only rc ” member their own wrong. The inventor of 74bo*guijlotine j g to have suffered.by it.— 11 ‘J’he promoters of the maddest republicanism *in France*went in * hordes to the.ulock. But we trust that the American jnind will rffach its : old balance ]toint without those great reactions wTiich ordinarily ?iccui® in such cases. Three months’ ago the,immcnse yufjority of Americans in the North bcligvd and advocat ed that tlie peaceable ackifowledgmcnl <*f tlfc Southern Confederacy was preferable to wav.— The*leading republican newspaper in this city even pnenounccif the right of°thc South®;ru States toestablish their own form of # govern ment to hi as clear®as that* of tne American Colonies to revolt from England in ri*77<s. The i .’imp paper declared Uiat Fort Sftniter only built for tire protection of Charleston, and not for offensive purposes against that city, and ad vocated the evacuation of the Fort. The uni versaftAmcricau mind was averse to the idea of o • war. 6 o o . Even among men who favpred a war against the cotton States, it was common to hear ccmi verafion like this.’ “If V’irgfnia scedcs ?irc yriuiir favor of a war''” • “3 irginia w.’ll never seecda; vou cannot kick her out.’’ “But if she does, and North Cfrcjina.witli, her, what then ?” “3Vly, I am not a fool ;*tf so largi? a portion of tlie 1 uion as that accedes, than think wcmay as well give it up anft acknowledge ®them.”-- This the accepted doiytrine of the entire, Democratic party, and large publicans opc4ily*advoQ*ite(i it. . Truths are om lopotent. ifhat is truth to day which was t- •# will men’s minds lififc to go through after th late convulsions ? Hoy many osgil lati’ iis shall wesee before they- settls back tttith a montlyov three ago. 3\Tiatpro* upon the truth believed in their fonder calm anti •sober moments ? * • • • ® • ..... •_ . • • Esoiii vmoon C'oiivc k i'#ntiO!i • • • e * * A correspondent of the Delawarian, writing* from a watering place* gives the following re port of a conversation between a newly mar “ vied couple iYonf 3'irginia. There is * deptlT of a flection in it which is refreshing to con template : ® ‘•William- 2 deaf William,” *said, the wife; with a jyorld of •ffcclion in her eyes. B f clufrmer,” replied thc®hus band, returning Uith intercut the* expressive glances of his spouse. . • . “Dear 3Villiam 1” *’ ‘ • “Sweet flatterer,!” * * * • *-f\ngclic creature.” “Dear, dear 33®illigm, pardon life—hut do you think a short walk.vvoufd hurt us, as the divine Wiljis says ?” “1 fowr, loveliest of thy seg, that®you may i be fatigued.” • ( ’ “Fear not* # dearest!” • • . “fieuvcnly emanation —bright dream of my ■ precarious existence —but 1 can not* Ifelp fear ing.” . ® “Sweet 3\’illiam*” * • • “Celestial Eliili!” Here they iftll to violent kiss’mg, which last ed about •fifteen minutes. Aiinost breatlilcss the lady.exclaimed : “William, dear 3Yilliam, wliy are you* so sweet? CUT, tlfe joy, the ecstgey, of wedded *ldiss ), Jfcst beloved, will you ever love me thus ?’’ “By yondcf fiwivful —T say tremendous orb.l swear,” he exclaimed, pointing to the scttiifg sun. * • “And as a mcmeryto of oflr wedding day, wfil yoa yearly bring me licrft you, you cher ish ift idol'.*’ ® • “Ygs, my oplyjttt—my life, my love—l will bring'you iierescvery year —if my capital holds’ , out!” • . *® . , “Oh 1 bmveft; and best of thy noble sex, tTllk not rif capital in jhis our hour of How much longer they talked the? writer can not s;^ T ANARUS, fyr he was called away Sit this moment’ to 8v el come sTuny fronds from*3laryland. But* lR is fiwiply of the opiryion that none Jmt nuy ri*d .folks xnow what real happiness *is. — While the above happy couple we # re* talking, he felt as y immersed in mofasses, and every thin*; since has looked. Felt aiftl smelt sweet? O 7 o • 0 _ O Gen. Butler sri word to Gen. Magruder he, hoged the vnr woull be conducted on princi ptes of civil warfare. Gen. MagrucTer replied, ►I have buried your dead and taken care of your wounded in siglgt of the houses of widows and orphans wiiom youohave driven forth,*and whose property you havg destroyed.” * L **** _ t • •Do the admirers of® pry tty .jnilliners know J why tlicv are .called ’so*’ Nsifc one inn million. The naake conies from Milan, tho from which 31ilgn-ary w6re first imported intiv i England. . • ®, —s—7. Two gwitlemen w’ere once discussing their travels, wlitin one asked the other : “3Vercyyou ever in Greece?” • “No, but I fell in to* a thundering big tub of once, if you call that anything ?” . ® • ,Tli Woii<l<'i-£iiPEir’ of .Tliramii-hi. j ® Perhaps I*o portion of the earth’s surface pv- j pr exhibited sorieari’ul a picture of the “Final as that poulticed by the* great : : fire f 31iramichi,*in the British Province of Nevy Btuipswicko-the recital which *causes •lie uarraftir gd surviving bglmldor to fc’emble i with dismay. To form some idea.ot the hqr ! rorf attending W* is awful catastrophp, riie read er must*imagine a vas primeval fori?#?, covering* a “tract of country estimated to contain thousand sqifare*milcs,Fnd this densely •crowded with trees,* sucli* as pine, hemlock, and fir, abounding in pitch aud rosin.. ’•• . .Frgm the lst# t to the st*li of Octobiw an un- 1 natural l\oat prevailed, consequent* on tic pro tracted drought of summer. On Octer* 6th the crackling sounds *of®the fir* and lulling trees in the distant* fyrest onnuunccd *lllO proaclgof the devouring element. The mild- Tiess of the weather tlius: far perTnittcd the vvhtsle lowest not onlttto be parched and tfried, but even heated nearly to ignition in advance of the flame. Blazes now began, to slidot .tq the rear of Xewcgstli*. Douglastown and B#u* tibog with a hoarse rumbling ftiqjsc like dis tant thunder. October 7th, about noon, a pale, srokly mist, ,tinged with purple as it •merged from the for est, spread over the horizon. All irresistable lassitude settled upon the people, succeeded by a heavy, d,rk cloud, which wrapped tlie land “in tlu* deepest gloom. At 3 o'clock, P. 31., the heat was unsupporfajde. The air was still, while the distant fofest shook svitli in’cessant thrilling, succeeded with rapid explosions, uP tering loud and sounds, f-oon the whole country appeared encircled by a fiery zone, advancing with rapid pud most awful de vastation. Aftout 1 o’clock black”smoke cloth ed the sky in sackcloth. At 5 o’clock or half pasft immense columns of smoke quickly moun ted to the sky, ayd a strong breeze -sprang up. 80011 came showers of flaming brands, ashes, and einyliTrs. The now terror-stricken inhabi tants had before hand been warned by Mr. Wright and others, <but gave no liecd. Night came on (Vitii its terrific forbodings. By-and by loud doars of thutider weretlicard, > an?l about it o’clock it was ascertained that an atyful tornado was about to ijiinglc its fury with the flame. — Imftiediately peal oiy peal, crash’ 011 crash, bel lowing destruction, came ruyhint? with “awful violence, and earth, air, water, and sky scenic J 1 mingled in a hurricane of all devouring flame. Tsic river, foaming in rage, threw its boiling spray oit the ‘burning land.* Amid* this aiki’ul thunder-storm there was now a momentary si lence,* then a sullen roar boomed through the forest, and Newcastle, Doug]a*town) and the whole fi ji thern side of the river, fir over 011 c hundred miles, bccaufc involved in one vast sheet of flame, ithicli swejft s*wift destruction on to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and is said to have spread ovefcan area of six tfiousand square miles. Lumber njen encamped in th** woods, suddenly enveloped in the conflag atiyti, ran to the rivers and streams, |*lngjug into the Ivateys, buj; soon, alas, found themselves in a boiling caldron.— The jiictflrc esnccialfy presented in the mingled horrors of tjiis awful flight is a large river, set tled 011. both sides for one “hundred miles*or more, with tlwiving towns, wooden houses, b’arips and stables, filled with crops, stores filled with provision. l * gunryiwder, etc., with wild and tame animals driven before the flame, flirt howling of the storty, dashing >f o the broken, burning trees the boiling surges of the river, the confusion on board oife hundred and fifty vessels, many.of’ •them on fire and some shrieks of® the dying* inhabitants while flying from *their Houses, mingling their cries of tfnguish witji the roaring and brtllowfiig of wird °bcasts and do mettle animals, simultaneously perishing in the llymes-men, woyiefo and children running, iiylf naked, in wild disorder —and mothers with their*infants, lytslring through the flame. A # s daylight dawjaed on this night of hor rors, a most heart rending scene wfirs presented human bodies burned to cinders; others wrth Jlcsli all consumed, blackened and stilbsmoking skeletons, headless trunks and Severed limfls ; others, bloated and swollen, an*djyiyg in every.f position of coiTvulsivc agony. Thousands *of •wild.beasYs perished in the woods, and myriads ol f fishes, suclf as 4rout, and salmon, .with unnumbered water-fowl, were found dc&d in the streams. , ® •Such was tiff Great Fire of 31iramiehi, sup posed by some t* have been kindled by fight ning, and believed by mosi of tlie surviving eve-witnesses to have bccif a destruction of the -NJmighty, sent upon the wicked as & punishment for thiir sins As an insfance of the rapidity the flames, a lumberman says, that he eft’ovo nis team into the forest, wjierc’ j he found his comrades in camp playing cards, lie gjive the alarm, spraftg hittt the river near by, in time only to save his life, while his com panions, with the team, perished in the thymes. lt*was noti*d that caStle*and*geese, of their own accord,* left* and* places of resort, “on the nofthern ‘side of tlie river* and swam 1 ’ over to (slttiUiam, fi disftwice ®of # thirt;e-qTiart*srs , of a mile, some, hours before she approach of the fire. The ashes of the conflagrAiou were ; wafted far westward ifito the Stats of Alainc. *| Jt is now thirty-five years since this fearful cenfhigratiou oi*currqd (in October 1825.) The ’ writeft recently visited the extent of the devaro tation. where, wiStead of dense thickets of stur dy evergreen*trees, lie*found.a young virgin fort ( est, with a large proportion of birch and pop* Hr, the streams abounding with the finest trout, the banks of the beautiful river Miramiclii re- j sounding with the hum* of enterprising indfis try, greatly enlivened with beautiful flocks and herds. The memory of the great fir© is still fresh in the minds # of the elderly portion of the , population, and its moral efiect upon the Com munity at large has been of “great apparent utilit y- *. ....j-v 1 “3\ T ell, I’af, my goori fellow,” said a vie tori-, ous gejiend, to a brave son of Erin, after a bat tle, “arfd what* did you do to lielfi us gain tho victory ?” : ® • • ‘•Do,” fejdicd P;yt, “may it please your hon or, I walked up boldly to wun of the iniiny, and cut oft his feet,” * “Cut off his i’eef! and vjwy did you not cut off his head*?” said the gengral. * “Ah, and faith that was off already,” says Fas. * * • f li* Advance. ( * Dixie I.mid. # • . °A correspondent of the New Orleans Delta gives die following the origin of the popular • song of Pixie, lie this as it may, however, wo • jmaginc Dixie has tafcon toy fast a hold on the affections of our people to be easily given up.” Albeit Pikcjias written some pretty words and to the air. Noticing these, the wrftcrin'lhc Delta says: . . * • .“Now 1 d<* not wiyh to soil a pretty illusion, but real truth is that Dixie is an indigin-* oii> Northern negro refrain, as common to*the waiter hereof* as the lamp posts in New York city seventy years ago. ft waboneof the eve ry day allusions of.*bpys*at that time, in all theft- , I oftt dftor sports.. And rro one ever heard o¥ Dixie’s land being other, than tlpat of Manhat* tan Iskind until recently, when it lias been er roneously supposed to refer to,thc Seifth, from ’ .its dbnnection with patriotic ncgjlro allegory. • “When slayery cyristed in* New YoiJc, obq ‘Dixy’ owned a large tract of land on Manhat tan Island, and a lar-c number of aluvco. Tho e increase of • the slaves, and* the* increase of the abolition sentftnent, # caused an eihigra-* tion of the slaves to morts thorough and secure slavp sections, and the negroes who were thus *ent off, pninny loping born there*) naturally Jookcd back to their old homes, where they had lived in clover, with feelings of regret, as they could not imagine any place like Dixy’s.— llouce it became synonymous with an ideal lo cality, combining ease, comfort and material happiness of every description* In those days ifegro minstrelsy and singing were in their in fancy, and any subject that gould be wrought into a ballad was eagerly picked up. This was the case with ‘Dixie.’ It originated in New York, and assumed the proportions of a song there. In its travels ft has been enlarged,&nd lias ‘gathered moss’ —it lias picked. up a ‘note’ lyre and there—a ‘(horns lias been added to it, and ffiom an indistinct ‘chant’ of two oiHliret; notes it lias become ;fti elaborate melody ; but the fact that it is not a Southern song cannot be rubbed out. The fallacy is so popular to tho contrary that I have thus been at pain* to Stata the real origin of* it.” - - , * Important for Rrfcrrnre. * The distances of some of the most imp'ort anfr places from Washington, we specify below, so that our readers iiiay T cut out the slip, and keep Tor reference : . * 1 The great Fortress Monroe, at the outlet of James river add Chesapeake Bay, distance .from ’Washington by the Potomac and Bay 225 miles.} @ Front Washington to llichmond via Potomac and railway from Adifuia creek, 130 miles. Frofu .Washington to Acquia creek,, down the Potomac 55 miles. From Washington to Alexandria below Wasli iilgfoi?, 7 miles. . m From Washington to Arlington Heights, across the Potomac froyi the President’s House as the bird flics, 21 miles. * From Washington Harper’s Ferry, by rail. 80 miles.. By canal along the Potdtnac *OO •miles. * • • * • * From* Havre de ‘Grace, down Chesapeake Bay,<uid tlulnce (via, Annapolis ‘Bailroad) to Washington, SO miles. . * From Baltimore to ’Washington* lit nines. From New York .to Havre dc Grace, 16<) miles. From New*York to Washington by rail, 233, miles. * , • From New York to Washington by’sea, and o by Chesapeake Bay and Potomac river direct, 530 mi4es. • Via the scrv, bay and Annapqjis llailroail ah-* out the same. „ * ► ■ -■ ® I’oinci It*is rather a singular coincidence that” tho day appointed as a day of general fasting and prayer throughout the Confederate States prayer for the success of our arms in a conflict with the United States —is also tho,birth day of Gen. S<?ott, the General-in-Chief of tlrtyarmies against which we contend. *On that day Gen. Scott was seventy-five years of age. Another curious coin&idence of the war *>• [the faattthat the bombardment of Fort Sumter Was commenced on the 12th of April, the birth day of Henry Clay; whilst the fort surrendered on the 13th, the [lirtll day of Thomas ? Jeffer son. * ® , It is also remarkable that the only lives lost at Charleston were sacrificed in a salute of tho Federal flag when it was taken down. It is, equally singular that the’man who to’rd down the Confederate flag, and the man who raised the; Federal flag, an Alexandria, both logt their lives in the attempt. ° * • • „ # The Grope Crop. We have seen scyeral vineyards in this vicin ity and heard from otlicrs*in several counties.— Thdy.all present tlfe appearance of a most ab undant crop. * It is rftcollecUd that most of them* a.c quite young —not more than .from tiii-cc to five y<iars old. But they give evidence that hundreds of thousands of gallons of Geor gia win® will he made this season. Speaking of the age of vineyard?, we cannot‘forbear • to ‘ j mention one, located near Cliutpn, Jones coun ’ fy r , planted by the Igte Dr. Thomas Bo\vcu. ab out thirty years ago. It was then said by Ihe | doubting, th the would have wine ‘ready for market by 1861. He persevered in his - object ! and was very*successful— and Some years pre vious to the allotted time, lie had a large quan tity on hand, which commanded high prices and won its way to select tables.in this country. ; and Europe. Now, all the wine* that is produ : ced, is in demand before it attains the age of ! six or twelve.monthS. —Macott Messenger. 9 ‘ * O o * Wliat a noisy creature would a man bo were *his voice in proportion to his weight? aS loud as that of a locust !° A locust can be heard a,t > the distance of one-sixteenth of a mile. The ~olden wren is said to.weigh but half an ounce, | scf that a middling sixed man would weigh d&wn not short of four thousand of them ; and it must be. strange if °a golden wren would not outweigh four of our locusts. Supposing, there-, .fore, that a common man weighed as much as sixteen thousand of our locusts, and that the note of a locust can be heard one-sixteenth of „a mile, a man of common dimensions, pretty sound in wind and limbs, ought to be able to make himself heard at a distauce of “one thou-’ sand miles., • NO. Id. A