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Editors Telegraph: With your
1 ind alienee, I have some . specalations
to ventilate concerning the prevaling
sentiment North, toacLing the exist- j
ing nnd prospective r lati ns of the j
• St tes towards tly United.J
Stat - ivernuicut ‘and people a.- far !
ent 1 ame !ovcloped to i
U3 • ■ lerstanding or was patent to my I
‘ nervation, bi my return trip to*
.New S rk I passed through Nashville, ,
Louisville, Cincinnati, Pittsburg'and j
l’lnl =•!• l;>h.a. spending several days m |
e.idi j'laoe, uml’ mixed tom hi• ■ rub-1 v ,
with the people, espcciall-y tit-* hn.-in ss
I was a silent hearer of the ;
\v rd poketi atid ’an attentive “obsery
t'i’ <1 tjie “.'igns of t!ie tinms,’’ a- in., 1
die; t- i by ttio political horoscope.
In Tennessee, notwithstanding the
.iron rule of ils.i resent Governor, the i
lin • r_ •>! ri storation is j rogfcssiii”
favorably. The people’ar ; sic"k of vio*
. lcncc and b’ood,, end paiit f> r the cool
1 waters and pleasant uihs of'peace.- —;
, In Nashville, however, owing"perhaps
tn the long prevalence ’of Northern
1 military ruh , there was introduced i
mu’cli of fanaticis n into that heref.i
tj re patriotic community. Vankee
, tifjiis and Ji/cas.kept pace with the
! ingress of extremists, aij trailers and
speculators, and thousands pay dily |
I homage to the “powers that lie” in a i
i Way that seems disgusting to Southern !
•i t v.- : • ‘.I
In Kentucky, at least in Louisville, j
nmch less of that cringing spir.
it which .“crooks thd pregnaut.hinges
jof t lie knee, ’that Un i t may Follow
I fawning.’ ii here is .and Ins been
more ol that, boldness of port anJ
: speech which is of South- ‘
I ern chivalry, in its pain cst days, doubt
les owing to tl e fact t . t Kentucky has •
■ not been abolition zed, but maintains
its.p'odtion, as the only slam State in.,
tire Union! The*people ot the State*
■have voted way to the ciLancipation .
nd incuts passed by.congress, and
lined not to give up the,
iustituti n, until fully out'.; ( usaict} Ft j
thc.j ropcit, they would thus lose by
k'gislation believed to be unconstifm'j
• aland. Void. As the-hind of Ro
has not been in open rebellion against
i!o lavs j. 1 : 1 constitution of the Unit-1
id States, her claim for cotirpesation
I for- property In I I.under the <!> nstlfu-
: o!i in l forcibly taken from her loyal
citizens, seems to lie valid. And if
j’valid in res- et to loyal K ft tuck inns,
! wky.n >t in role re nee to loyal’ Yirgi Il
ians a-n t Georgians ? The.claim once
Cpntehted, ••I nt-le. Sam ’ will have a ‘
heavy bill of damages to pay lor props •
~ ,_;v i'u Samb'o and-Cass a, which his ■
. nts .have kidnapped, from their
owuers! Tbc merchants of ‘L uis--
vilie Are hence, more- Hbt rally dispos
.’. .! - irds the Soutlj tan tho >of
any other city, take them as ;i clars.— 4
The) will • but tlieir hands in
welcome, m re than half way, to meet
the coniing'.of Southi ru'i rs, oc; errand
of *busin< ss or pleasure.’
. Os Citicinnati, so long considered
I by our people as the hot h-d of. ab’oli
•tionism, 1 have now a mure favorable
•opinion than I ’had. before my late
visit to that. city. There is a trank
generosity* among these‘Western peo.
j.le which is in striking contrast with
the bearing of the genuine sn filing
Puritau. This was observable in the
•Union armies from, the W est. . They j
[•could better appreciate and were
j uiiicker to acknowledge the gallantry
- ; thelv Southi rn foes than those from _
| New England—and they are. now
! more disposed to. iorget and forgive
tlieir late enemies, llencc I find a
number of the citizens of Cincinnati
not only willing but. anxious for all
the Southern States to be restored tin- .
conditionally to tlieir former status in
the Union. The Enquirer of Cincin
nati is nobly laboring for this end, and
1 we have hopes, with eventual success,
j The that-e of Ohio, however, may yet
| be set down as ultra radical, so thor
oughly infused is her population with
I the spirit that rules New England.
Passing into and through Penusyh
! vania, l eould discover but little sym
| pathy for the rebel South. Much cua
j riosity was however observable as to
{ the present condition of this section.
! Many inquiries were made after the
1 “health and happiness” of the Freed
mgu of the South. Will they work
in their new relation ? Uow are they
going to fare this coining winter for
food and elothing ? What chancis
are there in your section, for Northern
men to buy lands and raise cotton ?
What is the price of plantations, Ac.
To rll such queries 1 have endeavor
| ed to give truthful answers and to en
| courage enquirers to come and judge
1 for themselves. I have told them
that there is nothing wanting to nmke
the South “bud and blossom as the
! rose” but the capital and energy of
! Northmen- Every branch of indus-
I try has been paralyzed by the war,
i >ud the people are auxious to inauuui
THOM AS VILLE. GEORt JI A, WEDN ESI) AY, NOVEMBER 8, 186*5.
rite anew system which will better
develop* our resources and make of us
a still gtouter nation than we have
| ever oeen On this -subject I think
our next'Legislature should take some
| action that will in ace the right kind
jof emigration into the State. The
i rid', of humanity is flowing Westward
• and Soutliwcstward and but little, t -
. ward, . the Atlai uth, vWre the I
, greatest inducements exist lor the -et •
tlement of the min ralogist, tho ship
builder, the-agriculturalist ami the ai.- -
tizan of every grade.
In New York f found much to. ex .
, cite my bump of marvelous ness. The
war has hud no depressig oehect unon
] the business of the metropolis. There
I is more extravagance, poop and gay
ety , than ever. There is .i..creased.
’activity in’every branch of a-rt and
1 commerce. Every thing seems to be
done on the high pressure principle:
•The country is inflated. New rfesour
.ces sch as that of PHrttU am have
. liee'ii discovered and are ‘being worked
i to. the tune ot tens of thousands of
barrels ©foil and millions-of dr 1 la; si
Everywhere an epidemic, prevails, and
r men, women and children;‘are arhic
ted with t'bil an-the brain,", and so
wide-spread is tho infection,- that-a
new. proverb has ‘ I.ecu added to t ,e
current literature of, the people—as
•for:example,’when a person .has met
with some sudden stroke of good . for
tune, he is said, quaintly’ thoagh. ex.
pressiycly cn’ough, to have “struck
ile.” In truth, petroleum is- now in
t’ e ascendent- in Pennsylvania and
Ohio, and a flowing well of ‘ Seneca”
is better than a (Jalifoinia gold ariuo,
.so universal are the uses to which .this
• substance'is applied, ami to profitable
has it bccoiuo as aq article of com*,
meree. • A.nd I would ell you leaders
that.there are pet-oleum fields in the
South as well as in the North In •
< leofgiu, Tenucssc, Alabama, and o(licr
States, the indications are numerous
and the keen eyes of speculators are
already prospecting this- country fur
fttyoroblc sigter. to Commence boring
for nature’s .gn an !
Whether the extruordiiutry impetus
with which the car’ of commerce is
driven, over the gr -at railways of the
North will > ontinuc no one can tell.
Many have forebodings of a fearful
euliup-c when all will be buried in
>no common disaster. Others again-,
-ay that-there is no fear of disaster, so
long’ as the Internal Revenue ’ Tas
weekly foots up so many millions and
the peup'e arc so eager to invest their
.money ‘in governic.ent. V.-l Us., Tfue,
i these are good indications of the sta
bility of the government eir a S'..Ui-.d
financial basis, but the question arises,
aK> the people able -to stand the itu
inenso ‘ taxation* now imposed • upon
them ■ is n*- the burden too . riveous
to be boruc for n Jong p riod ? -1
atft sure the pedplb of the touth are
not able to have this burden superaded
to that already sustained by them, in*>
, cideHt to their late. struggle for rude*:
petulance, and I tear the result wi i be
fatal throughout th.e length and bredth
of the land. . When* the Itub/c in burst ,
then look, out for calain. ties too dread
lul to contemplate. •
In political matters I have r o great
consolation to offer to enquiring friends,
.he late elections in Ohio and Penn
sylvania iore-hadow the defeat ot the’
. conservative element in Congress, and
.the complete • triumph *of the radical
party. 1 fear that President John
son's poßey.,of reconstruction will not
1 prevail against that of .unlimited negro
suffrage and other extreme -ideas of
the day * I hardly dare hope that our
Representatives elected this fall to
1 Congress will be ad mi ted to - seats in
that body. If not, what then l
Yes, what then? may be asked em
phatically, without any one being wise
enough to give a solution of so pro
found a problem. .
The disposition on the parl of mer
chants in New York to compromise
with their old debtors ami give renew
ed facilities to Southerners is worthy
of special record. 1 have not heard
of a single instance where a rigid ex
action of the full “poud if flesh” lias
.been “claimed, but on the “contrary,
I have been met with the remark “take
your own time to settle up old scores’’?
“glad to see you back i gain”; “never
intended to force a settlement”? “know
your situations and can make allow
ances for your short-comeings”; What
cau I now do to serve you.”
Huch are some of the greetings re
ceived by men from “rebcldom” in
the great commercial metropolis, and
we hail it as a good omen of the per
petuity of the Union of our Fathers,
no more to be disrupted by internal
feuds and bidding “defiance to a word
in arms” against us.
Truly yours, &c., L. F. W. A.
• —— *
Why is a hungry man waiting for
his breakfast willing to be a martyr ?
. because he longc to goto the stcai.
Proud, Ilravc ami Voble.
Proud, brave, noble —without a tar
nish upon her'banner, without a Llenß
j-h upon tier fair fame, respected j
home and honored abroad -fpr- nil I
manly qualities that h&vs been devel
oped in peace or war. says the New’ 1
York A’ th.e South rests from her
► trii.gle. With the j .Hu lie. >of lifry |
fears, and the education of a * century
moving- the hearts *oL the . people, she!
dared the perils of a revolution; est- j
countered a!! its sacrifices, suffered its I
agony, and without stint gave men
wlm lived great live -and in death are
not f.irg'itten.-—Bhe’ failed, and her
sorrow* will become as “old kings id'a
grand an 1 peerless Jim-.”—She stands 1
before the world to day, not -humilia
ted, but depressed ; not conqured, but
cast down.. A new.life Opens to her
view, brought by force back into
the Union from .which . she bad dis
severed herself as by the voice-of one ,
man, she finds presented to her new i
c mditions of political existence. -The :
old fabric ot’ society is undermined
and in- ruins. Old -institutions that
gave her wc’altli ami p Wer and cow- \
tributed to her prosperous, greatness ;
of the common country, arc .gone for- |
ever. -As a nation, tlie S-outli starts •
afn sis. ‘ She commences another lease |
of existence ;-and under a system with
which she is-trtiacquainted, theaggre; - ‘
givt*, impatient spirit ot the North (Jc- .
{hands that she shall at once.and with-.,
out*restraint succumb to the new rela
tions. that'have been created by .the I
war. We believe that she will bc> !
fore the South looms up tlfe forrest o\ •
,a mighty, future, that will give shade
tor those who may. reap the. harvest.
But.the seed must be planted now.
by the voices of their living and dead,
the people are called upon •to work
now while the day lasts. Greatduties
me to be-done ; tremendeiious re.spi n
sibilitics are at stake. . The men who
hereafter represent the thoughts and
interests of the South, must be, and j
hav.e been true to liev in head and •
heart and hand, ’ Tliey will ’come to !
Congress, they will be called upon to !
mingle tlieir influences, social and .povj
litreal, in the currant of the Union,,
but those influences should illustrate
the South or nothing at all.
\Yc want earnestness, truth, reality ;
and when a brave ..man why lias
fought, be it movrally or phisicall,.
through this war in behalf of his. cause,
and conscientiously comes forward .ac
knowledging his defeat, and pledging i
himself to future support ot the Cou- |
stitirtion and laws of the United States,.
\v.> would rather see such an one stan
ding upon tae floor of (Ungrcss to ex
press the will of people, for occupying
a.sfation of honor and trust than all
tlic s called “loyal men of the South,”
so pJiantly quick to their mast rs.
word, in whom God has breathed the
breath’of life. ’Wc say therefore to
the people of the South 1 elect to your
public offices your b ‘st citizcns-*-not
th se who •; lay th.e hypocrite during
the war and the traitor since, but men
whowyou have tried in the fire and
hot. found wanting — men who have
sealed their devotion to your cause and
shared your weal anil woe. Let no
arbitrary power oi sword or baycnet,
or threat of radical politicians deter
you in this, a sovereign right. -Go
into-the Union and vote. You -will
come to the doors of Congress as a
Union party, and you. will be ad mite i
as such; or hy the grave of God there
will be schism in the ranks of your erf
etnies, that'will scatter them to- the
four winds of heaven. M c want, like
wise, new men as well as true. The
issues destined to arise in the halls of
national legislation, demand ’ young,
Irish thoughts and vigorous brains.—*
The era is on: of*reform, the spirit of
the a‘j;c is pr igressivc, anil to foster its
cood or combat its evil, will require
the brightest- and bravest intellects
that illuminate the South. lor a
while they may he surpassed. Obsta
cles may be thrown in the way of tlieir
election;’ of acceptance, but let the
people persevere. —Change, it abso.
lutely i.essary. the object of your
eloice, but yield not one jot or title of
the right which the law of the lan 1
confers, and before many months have
elapsed it will be 1 iscovered that, if
the South be true to herself, the ma
jority of the people of the North,
whether known by one political name
or another, will be equally firm in the
assertion and maintenance of a free
government. A\ ith this cooperation
I secured, the South will once more feel
throbbing within her vein- some of
her ancient glory, and rising from the
dust, she will enter the race that is set
, before her, and win, pevha-s, a nobler
triumph than r.ny of wbicli she now
dares to dream.
“Jack, your wife is not so pensive
as she used to be.” “No, she left
that off, and has become confoundedly
cx-pensive ”
1 51 r. Davis and the Ladles of
. Virginia.
To llis Excellency, Andrew John*
son, President of the . l/nitc l
States : ■
Sir : \Ye, the ladies of Lynch
berg, Virginia, worthy daughters, we
trust, of the Oh.l Dominion, present
’ oui.-elvi s as petitioners before you
We come, Mr. President, with no
’ unmeaning words, nor to urge aught
that has not already been said in be
half of him for whom this petition
has beeii presented, but with hearts
burdened with a sense of the solcmnii
ty of. our cause we ask fur mercy for
the’ distinguished prisoner Jefferson
Davis, the beloved and honored l’resi
dent of the late Confederate States.—
lie has only done what thousands in
this Southern land have done. He
was their chosen leader : -thc repre
sentative of principles they deem sa
c ed. WilJ y u not be as- magnani
mous as you arc powerful, and accord
to him a full, free pardon and return
him to. the bosom of his wretched fam
ily ? In all ages of the world the
voice of woman has been heard above
the storm of passion and’ of hate ; let
i now prevail and bring with it mercy
for him who, when power was-in his
hands showed himself merciful. .
is ;m attrilnitii of (Jod himself,.
. (ml eartldy power doth then show likest God s
Wheii Mercy seasons Justice.
We do pray for-. Merry,
. In (1 that same prayer doth teach ns all to render
The deeds of Mercy. •
’ We, -tile women of. tbc.South, have
been the. greatest sufferers by til's des>
(dating war. o.ur beautiful, our brave
have fallen, never t<> gladdeti oui; hearts
again. Wc sent them forth with bles
sings on them, and- bade them battle
fur what, they honestly believed was
‘tlieir . inalienable right —that of
self-government.. If wc have, in your
judgment, erred. Mr. President, have
wc not'suffered enough to expiate'any
faith ? Ob, will you not pour the
•balm of- mercy on pur crushed and
bleeding hearts;, listen to tho wail
.that finds an echo in every true .wo
man’s hearts ; grant our prayer and
set the captive (Vcc ?
Sir, when the hour of death comes,
arid it must come to.all, this deed of
mercy will stand by you as an angel,
and brighten your passage along the
dark valley of death. Vou will have
the approbation of
During the war John Ross, the
Cherokee chief, was on both sides. —
lie went to Washington and tnade
Mr. ’ Lincoln believe that lie was a
fiicntl of the Union ; while at Rich
mond he was believed to be a friend
of the Confederacy. Now at last he
is found out, deprived of his ehieftan
cy, and every .way repudiated. Upon
this fact the Chicago Republican re
marks : “What a political and social
disturbance there would be, if.all the
chief of the whites, commercial and
democratic, who were on both bides
during the war, should likewise be
found out, exposed and degraded to
the ranks.
the world, atwl the testimony of your
own conscience, which will bring you
joy and peace, and your petitioners
will ever pray, etc.
Mrs. JUDGE D. A. WILSON,
Mrs. JOHN-M. SPEED,
Mrs. GENERAL RODES', ’
Mrs. H. S. BOCOCK,
Mrs. WM. R. MOSBY.
and 320 others.
Tire Scene ol'Hcssolallon In
Norllicrn Georgia.
•The Augusta Constitutionalist, of
recent date in a graphic description of
the present appearance of Atlanta and
the surrounding country, so terrably
devastated by Gen. Sherman’s army,
says, that the town of Atlanta ii a be
wildering chaos of tunibled-down
‘bric-k walls, newly set up frame sham
tecs, white tents, piles.of lumber and
stone, heaps of newly arrived merchan
dize, hurrying, eager crowds of people,
with here and there, more mournful
by contrast, some imposing edifice and
heaven ascending church spire. But
“resurgam” is written upon the front
of the gate city. Her people are en
terprising, thrifty and indomitable.
The same paper says that after leaving
that city, going towards Tennessee,
for more than a hundred miles thsre
are rifle pits and earth works every fiff
ty yards. Dessolation broods over the
wliole scene. The country has not
I yet put on the garniture of peace, but
sits like Niobe.
—“Yoicelesss and tearless
In her childless woe.”
No fences, no houses, no smiling
crops.- Here is once beautiful Mari-
I etta, all disfigured by the smiting
hand of war. Yonder stands Kenne
saw Mountain, its once blooming front
all scared and scarred with earths
works—and holding at her base heca
tombs of slain. Wc turn in pain, and
l vaiuly, from these sad pictures to find
some relief.
What a terable commentary upon
the fierceness and protracteduess of
the campaign of Johnston anil Sher
man—is the face of the whole country.
How bitter the contest —how terrific
that inch by inch and step by step
was.waged for more than a hundred
mips through those once peacetul val
leys and pleasant plains.
Here and there you can observe oc
casional evidences of the revival of
trade, and notice an unfrequent plow ;
but this is the .exception, 1 ot the rule.
It seems impossible for those once
thriving, hard working and prosperous
North Georgian to recover from the
stupifying blight and sad effects of the
war. •
There is a population in and on the
subburbs of this city whose condition
is such as to enlist the sympathies of
all good people, and for whom some
thing should be done. It consists of
families who have been striped of
cveryteiag, and whose male members
went into the war and have never re
turned. On the blackened ruin's, of
their once happy homes, under tents
and sheds that furnish but .little pro
tection from the storm, they simply ex
ist and such an existence !
li lpimis Ward c *Strik.es He.’’.
Salt River Ro-rin*, —GS
‘My Deercst Betsey Jane —Here I
am cum, as slick grease, out of the
reecli of the’ “slings aqd arrers of out*,
ragis forchune,’’ as the I‘oit sez. Es
anybody enqwires to Baldwinsvil about
Artciaus Ward,’that-.used to be some
in the show biziness, say to them, with
a tear in thy I, Artimeous (that’s the
Greek spell of my name), the great
showman, is dead—that is, to ignoble
persoots. Tell them Artemys is no
more Aftemus, but a “body corf ora
ted tell them Betsy -Jane Ward is
n.o more the wife of the captain of
the Baldinsvil milishy but a- lady. —
Betsy Jane I’ve struck ile 1 Fm as
rich as Creasus. My Uq will spirt up
in a stream too hundred feet hi, and
as thick {is the mainmast oi‘ the IrorG
sides.
o liuisy, what a site of mean work
I’ve dui in my past’ career! To
think t'hct I used to handle the boar
constructors and other reptile snaiks,
in my show, and all for no use. I got
poorer and porrer, while the snaiks
and tigers got fat ; and at larst the
pesky rebs konfiscated my show, and
“Otlielly’s occupations was gone.”
This is a kold world, Betsy—par*
tickul *rly whar ther’s no ile. When
I got poor (cauz how I was too good
natured like Father. Abram, and let
the boys into my show without payin)
even my monkey made mouths at me,
an I was a wax Agger meself—that is,
I was patience on a monument. But
nobody “saw it” but me. Now its
different. Shakspeer, or. some other
wise theologun, sed sum is grate, win
grateness by a pack of cards cr a horse
race, an the rest git big by axident.
Now I didn’t win it, or git it thrust on
(o me, but I bored it Qut the stuns of
Salt River, with a government orgur.
Borin is of two kind^—borin for the
corporation (thats for the money) and
afterwords for the ile. Wal, you see
I bored myself out of A. Ward into
a grate company, called the “Ole.’inus
Saline Carboniferous Indication Man
ufacturing Company.” I tell you pri
vately that name took splendid. We
—that’s me, and Artimus and Artime
ous & Mr. Ward” opined an offis, and
from Mondy morn till Sundy dawn we
bookt the shares.
Our company was organized to. wit
—it had 10 milluns.of shares at 3
sents a share, and I sent foi “reserv
ed for working capital.” We garran.
teed everything. We told the noose
boys and other contrabands that we
had the “royilty’’ and “fee simple’’ ot
the ile on Salt river. We told em we
was oposed to aristockricy and big
shears. We told em the shears were
“limited” —so they was, to our treasu
ry. Our shears went up to 17 dollar
an 14 1-2 in fourteen days 1. We sole
out and started another, an this was
the way we went on, til the vale oi
Salt River was board liko a pepper
box.
Betsy Jane I’ve guv you the modis
operandy of striking ile. The man
wot got rich on wot 9 talers guv him,
and inscribed patriotickally on his
buggy. “Nine talers made me man,
was a foot long side the W ards. I m
eomin to Baldinsvil soon to close up
thine undistinguisht career, and open
in Bosting a establishment worthy
Betsy Jane. Tell Zeke Bigelow to
make me a coach 4, &n put on a panel
an orgur as big as the mainmast of a
ship. I intend to make the codfish
riggins pale their ineffectooal fires, as
the apostle says. The Artemus corpo
ration sends thee a oleagenius farewell
kiss. No more at present. From
thy dearest luv,
Artemus Ward.
TERMS $4,00 A Year, in Advance.
Mike's Failings.
The following was lelated to me hy
my brother, at whose place of business
the subjoined happened ?
Mike Brewer had but two serious
failing* viz : his inordinate love of
i drink and tobacco, and to obtain thoso
he wovhl sometimes almost go through
fire and water.
f. As we were continually annoyed
hy bis coming in and asking for* ci
*gar ora glass of brandy, I determined
to rid us of such a pest. He general
ly came in at or about twelve o’clock,
so a little before that timo I took a ci
gar, and unrolling the outside cover*,
ing, placed therein a fuse, and rolling
it up carefully, placed it by in one of
the drawers.
We soon heard his uncertain, shuf
fling step, and saw him in the doorway:
bowing and scraping:
“Good morning your honor.”
Then there was a pause, but ÜBv
daunted he continued •.
“Hev you a. cigir for me,” he said;
“Don’t bother me now, Mike. If
you can find one, take it and clear.”
“Bedad an I will,” he replied.
Mike soon found the cigar, and with •
out a word ran off to- show it to his
friends. I watched him arffl saw him.
in the midst of a party of Irishui.-R
explaining to them how he beeamo •
possessed of such a “rate fine cigar.’*
lie soOn sat down and lit his che
root, and then I watched him with ■
some curiosity. 11c puffed away with
evident satisfaction for some time, and
then suddenly there was a flash and a
“fiz,” and Mike held nothing but a
stump in his mouth.
The flash and the smoke blinded
him for a minute, and when he recov
ered liis sight he found himself de
serted, as his • comrade* evidently
thought that he intended to blow
them up. ‘
After this affair, wd naturally tho’t
that we would see him no more, but
judge of our astonishment when ho
Walked in the next day, and with un
blushing effrontery, asked me for *
“dhrink.”
I fold liim to come in the next day
v hen I was in, and that he should
have what he desired.
As I entered the office • the next
day 1 found that James, our porter,,
was helping Mike to “a glass of Bran
dy, and awaiting until he had drained
the glass, 1 said :
“James I hope nobody ha* loach-,
ed that bottle of poisoned brandy
in the cellar I—” •
“Oh! holy Mcses,” cried Mike, “I
am dead ! I’m poisoned ! Ob I your
honor if you love me, save fiie !’*
“Hold your tongue, Mike,” I said,
winking nt James, “I will save you.”.
And I sent James for a box of
Seidlitz powders, felling him to make
.haste. When the box .came I dissol
ved three blue papers in one glass,
and three white papers in another, .
and handing them to Mike told binj
to drink them one after the other.
As soon as he bad done so they pro
duced the desired effect, for- he fell to
the floor in a great state of terror,
the froth issuing from his mouth nd
nose. As soon as he had partially r&-•
Covered, and to make the denoue
ment more perfect, 1 drank a go©4
stout bumper of the said brandy,,
and ho ion seeing me, and guessing
the tficji that had been played off on
him, jumped on hiss feet and started
from the store, roaring like a uiad
bull, It was effectual, £gr he ba? not
been to see me sinc^.-
Tlc Camber of Battles.
The number of battles during the
war is given by an exchange as two
hundred and fifty-two —and o.f these
the soil of Virginia drank the blood
of ei< r bty~mne, Tennessee witnessed
thirty-seven, Missouri twenty five,
Georgia twelve, South Carolina ten,.
North Carolina eleven, Alabama seven,
Florida five, Kentucky fourteen, the
Indian Territory and New Mexico one
each. Once the wave of war rolled
into a Northern State and broke in the
great billow of Gettysburg. Os the
battles enumerated sixteen wefe
achievements.
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Singular Naval Fund* — A fund
of a singular caracter has accumulated
in the Fourth Auditor’s office of the
Treasury which has reached ?2,000,
000, -ince 1798. It is made up of
unclaimed balances due persons who
havbeen employed in the naval sen*
vice, and from fines for desertion, &c.
It is proposed to fund this accumu
lated sum, and recommend the passage
of an act establishing a home for those
who have been injured for life whilst
engaged in the naval service, the iff
stitution to he supported upon the iu
terest of the naval fund.
A correspondent of the New Era,
nominates lion. B 11. Bighan. of
‘Troup county, as a candidate sot G*?Y<‘
cnor, •
NO. 22.