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SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE. LUCIU3 C. BRYAN, Editor and Proprietor. Term*, $4.00 a year in Advance. J aut AND KBSICIIi BRYAN & HARRIS, 4|TOR\EIfS AT l<4W, THO GA. OFFICE e ’ l™- >“ *ero,id ttory of S’.ark't Confectionary. L. C BRYAN. R H- HARRIS. Mar 14 11 ts S. B SPENCEB, XTTOKN KV A T IAW , ThonaaaTille, Aieorgia. Will attend promptly to all c c,l buriuess en inißteil lu h!8 cam m the SHMitheni Circuit, tlmcli and Ware ol the Brunswick Circuit. Jau 31 * > ,J . C. P. HANSELL, , ATIO RN E Y A T I- AVV , ( I’hauiaai ille, llcorgia. Jan 31 5 ly ROBERT G. MITCHELL, AiTO KN K V A i LAW, THO.vI.vSVILLti, GA. .Mr*(jtlic. o‘\.t .dcL\ M- Sioie.| 4-13oi diU —A s . at. rfri4, •■- w *• Ut “ ***’ u ‘ “• ( ail .t, „4 A Of It til, . to oA tueir services to tue citizens ol 1 U i ttUfcAicLoV *C auvi V ItlliiiJ • I t i/- ofr'it’t <D otr. JJtkku. s />< *~* r , . Btl /ta .1 Ui. T. >• UUi’KIAS, <_ r F Xc-Jbl fll.k NK laOl’ with WK.M L.. O. iUXOLJ, RESIDENT DENTIST •i , a_MAsVli.X,li, GA. I tylLI. be tound at the old ▼ V -laud occupied ay hi'ui tor Ut Un leu years | Aug.£M2n* Dr. W P CLOWER I I VYING permanently located ill lliomas J 1 vtile, oiler* ms toh **udal Hlvii- • to l.>e public. ~ k ijr rtir. at the Diu n ’ Store of W. I*. f Ctoa cr .V V o. . V iU..-li)GXCG —the house foruicrlv oc copied uy i>r. llraudon. mar 1-i Iv nif. it. 1% . I i 1> ill • Having permanentty located in Thomas viU, rvspcctipily ou-.-rs ii*-> services to me 1 Citizens oi lUe XoWU auil auiTouu twig buuiury, in tite practice 01 Alcdictue, isurs ge tj „it .Vliawiicry. v itl also pay spe cial u.tcuuou to >lic trealtueut ol Diseases ot > oaten. viJtce tt. tl. r.vatts old Atore up stalls. jatil 1 -din 1 . C. . r I H titldOX , 1 Gr.uiuult of (Jttcei* 4 C'tUrge.) Rill SICA A ? SLUoEtjN, Ac., . , Boston. Georgia. \iav be consulted at .Vi y. Murphy a neat - Dalituad Station. ‘ ‘• . . 1 APOTHECARY ~£3L /A T ,T - W. ?. CLOWER & CO., L)iitditilS i Jl.vc retiovstcd an! refit,ed the Store next xo Yoiiag’s Hotel, for the purpose Ot cs lajlishtng a ftrst Class Drug Store. i 11c new firm ask tor 1 shave ot pat mu- and invite Hie attennow ot tne citi uus to their well selected stoed ot ,dcdk-lnes< I'aai j iind Toilet Articles, ,voap.<i dad Pei’luuiery. Tine Rifoa and tdt fi'eas. ivci'Oiiue Lauipau.i on, iilN. i**- Together with every other aiiiele usually kept mi .1 well itipuittlvd Dt Stol e. jV“ luy Mill til Prescriptions’ carefully prepared. - 4-a J an 34 XiPLUCiS MEDICINES. rrVic un.ler-igned having purchase the I elegant Drug Store o: Dr Little, take pleasure in. announcing *0 Hie people 0 Thom tsville. and the country generally, that tlicv have just received a full supply of fresh Drugs and Medicines. 1 hints Oils. Perfumery. Stationery, ct.. etc fall ■ and examine for y uirselves l*,v strict attention to bus,ness, eourte mts'and honorable dealing with our cus hope ro meril an I receive lit>c ‘"‘” ‘"TISS .V CASSELS. James N. Wins. Samif-l J. Cassbis. jan 1< ts FRESH DRUGS Dr, r S BOWETR has just received a large stock of fresh Drugs, purchased the best manufactories in the l tided states, and embracing every article in the Medical Department. i/is Drugs wen purchased wiih the view of supplying the market with the very Best Quality of Medicines manufactured, and the prices were not therefore consulted, //e will nevertheless sell upon easy •< rm. and feels sure that he can give satisfaction. Thankful for the liberal patronage ex tended to him heretofore by the people of Thomas Count v. he hopes to merit a eon. >n nation of their favors, //e may be found „ t his old Stand opposite n : Jan 4, ts . CEOBGIA— Clinch €•■*• Whereas Zilta King applies to said Court { J letters of Guardianship, tor the property iverson and etfects of Duncan Henderson, dec and. All persons are notified to file the.r object.mis in said Court otherwise said letters will granted in terms of the law y IO Rf; A N. Feb -21 8 40d Ordinary. naffO Vlonth- from date, npplii'n- I tion will be m de to LvnndesConrt of Or dinarv. for leave to sell the Rea! Estate of Archibald Mclntyre, latent’ saul Countr.^dec’d. Mar 5J f?ra Adm r. JDMjUJSION merchants. GEO. T. PATTEN, COMMISSION MERCHANT, TUO.BASYILLE, GA. \rILl. pitreii.n*: t.ul. t!*.ltnl. Baron 1 t siiigar, Syrup Woo*. At - ., Ac. o Co.iimisavtu, fnrward Cotton and l i” diice to Savannah, and Goods Irom Depot t >t!ier p-ants Oi ders and Consignments solicited'. Feb 14 ‘ Jla GEORGE PATTEN, jtv ox*w a r and. in s AND C 011 11ISSBO V M rilfll AN L MAV.4AAAH, GEORGIA. rfVp.XDERS his services to the Merchants of 1 Thomasville. and tlie Tiiomas Count v. for the forwarding “t D tods, the sale „t pi-.', uce mid purchase “t Napphes. „ud i spectfullv solicits their patronage „ *Feh 14 4 • iIII J, R. S. BAViS a CO,, Auction & Commission MERCHANTS, Veit door 10 B. A 1.. tioldfcerry’• Store. CJOLICIT consignments of goods of all d< script ions Particul ir attention paid t 1 llino real and personal property. Auction sales on \1 eduesuays and Satur days-day and night. j r g DAVI S, G. A. JEFFERS. Feh 14 7 - 3 m! F. W. SIMS.) ( J. P. NY HEATON, I. ite of the > ’ Ita eof the firm of K puldican. ) ( Wilder, Wheaton & Cos F. W. SIMS & Cos., SAVANNAH, GA., FACTORS AND GENERAL DEALERS IN llerdiandive. Produce, Tim ber, liiiiiiher ond Cotton. Consignments and orders respectfully solicit ed, and whether by wagon, river, railroad or sea. will receive the strictest attention. The Forwarding Business carefully and promptly done. mar < 10-fira MILLER. THOM4S R Cos, GEWHXAAXi COMMISSIOXd; GROCERY MERCHANTS, SAVANNAH GEORGIA. A. J. MILLER. SAMt’KL B. THOMAS. . Q . LIYIXGSTOX. Jan 24 J, L. VILLALONH COTTON FACTOR ?331A]0 Ifi AID CiMHISSM Mercliant No- 94 Bay Street, jau 1-Sm >.l 1.1 \ A 1//, GA..- TItSON ife GORDON, I'OTTOX FACTORS, MI AH mVAIHK MERC 9o Bay Street, •< A VANN VII OKOKG fA. Special attention will be given to the sale of SYUUP, LUMBER, ROSIN, TURPEN TINE, &c. -0:0- SAVANNAII. Ist., Sept., IBGO. We are again in our old Office, prepared for business. An experience in this city o over eleven years, and our undivided iltention to all business entrusted, induces us to hope for a continuance of the liberal patronage heretofore extended. WM. H. TISON, WM. W. GORDON. Jan l 3m F. Nchii-tcr. Hriuniua. SSHUSTER & HEINSIU3. Siiippirig, M 1: R l IB 4 STS, I4vß Kay M., NAVANNAII, Cia’ Consignments of Cotton for sale in this market or for shipment to our friends in New York, Philadelphia, Boston Balti more. Liverpool and Germany are solicited and liberal advances made. Orders for Wines, Liquors, Groceries, &c., promptly attended to. , AGENTS FOR CTciiic dc Kouzy and Veuve CTiequol CIIAM PAGNE. DILTHEY, SABL & CO’S., Rhine Wines, and P. I, de Tenet & de Georges’ BORDEAUX WISES. Nov 8 6mo ROBT P YORK. j ,T. B. MeIXTYRE M. K. WILLIAMS, i P. H. WARD. YO!KJILL!ftMH’ISTYRE & C!, AI'CTIOX COMMISSION RIERCHAKTft, BAY STREET, Savannah, Geo. ('aniigiinH-ntii of rOTT> ASD M MIBF.R Solicited. REFERENCES: Brigham, Baldwin i Cos .Savannah, Gaden Ac I'nckles. Savannah. Laae D. Laßoche. Sa vamirdi. Hunter A: Gammell, Savannah, Erwin > \ Ha?ilee. Savannah, Hiram Roberts. Savan nah, W. Woodbriiltje, Savanna , L. C.. Xor vell A Co*. Savannah. S T Knapp & Bro , ■ Xe"’ York. D H. Baldwin Ac Cos., New York. Xov 8 . TICE. —Will be sold on the First iues day in April nex'. at the Court House, in r the town of Thornasville. within the lesral hours of sale. Lot of Land. Xo. 32, in 14th District. The property ot the estate of Geo. Folsom deceased. Terms on dav of sale. .TOST \H J EVERETT. Feb •?! 6 td Adm r. Lloctiul f.go AW rc HO. Bf JOHS G. SAXE. I asked of Echo t'other day Whose words are few and fann\), What to a voice she would say, Os courtship, love, and matrimony Quoth Echo, plainly,” Matter o money . Whom s’ ould I marry ?—''ould it be A da-hing damsel, gay and pert, A pattern of inconstancy, Or seliis 1. merivnar , 1 .rt 1 Quoth E ,10, sharply, ‘ Nary flirt. What if weary of the strife That long lias lured the dear deceiver, She promised to amend her life Ami sin no more.- —can 1 believe her . Quoth Echo, with decision, “Leave her ! ‘ But what, if some maiden w • 1 ’•eart On me should venture to bestow it, Pray, should I act the wiser part, To take the treasure or forego it 1 Quoth Echo, very prompt >o it!” But what, if seemingly afraid To hind her heart in Hymen s fetter Bhe vows she means to die a maid. 111 answer to my loving letter! ’ Quoth Echo, very coolly, “Let her!” What if in spite of her disdain, I find inv heart, entwined about with Cn[fid's dear delicious chain, So closely that 1 can't get out ? Quoth Echo, laughingly, “Get out!’’ But if some maid with beauty blest, A- pure and fai r as Heaven can make her, Will share my labor atid my t est fill envious Death and th overtake her ? Quoth Eclio, notto voce, “ Take her !” John Brougham's “Tread Ligh .for my heart is under your feet, lovo,’’ i tuore than iju died by a lover win thus .goes skating; on his lady’s heari Thy heart is like a frozen lake, . On whose cold brink I stand ; Oil, buckle on my spir t’s skate, And take me by the hand, An i lead, thou loving saint, the wa\ To where the ice is thin. That it ! . y b:eak beneath my feet, And let a lovej in. Sc’frtfb Hlisccllann. -% VQrlbi'rU FMlitii il<- of C'uf(‘4<'rnti l.i'uilnu. M e extract Hie following from a long review ofthj late war in tin New York Citizen, a Republican pa per, edited by Col. Hatpin, late of <he United States army : DAVIS. Let those loyal gentlemen, disci les of Mr Abbott, who worship the char acter of Bonaparte, make some consis tent homage to the brilliant directory of Jefferson Davis. Both were mci of destiny, arid the personnel of the survivor is by far the nobler. Os the fallen angels, Senate Halls, he made the most courtly adieu. Os all the traitors he was most entirely in earnest. Os all decision his was the sagesi, the promptest and the most eduring. He only, of the conspirators, felt that his qunrel with the Union was ineconeili able, and stood by bis eapitol to the !a-t, and has never yet advised sub mission. II is captivity has been belit tled by none of Bonaparte's querulous ness. Blind, and gray, and wasted, his dominions are narrowed to a casemate, while the republic he would overthrow reaches to the silent ooea s. LKE. In Robert Lee the same austere I ‘rovidence to purify our republicanism shattered our faith in traditional res pectability. The heir of Washington went with the rest of the new chivalry, and with ten times the ta'ont of that threat Fabius, crushed the armies ol our lesser respectabilities, till he met in Grant a man without a pedigree. lc was the equal of Wellington in manoeuvring great bodies of troops up on small interior forces The Duke at >\ aterio fought his whole armv u?> r a mile &a< rter area ; but ],ee, at Cold Harbor for five days presented a solid line of battle wherever we sought him, till his whole force seemed manoeuvred by the wink of his eye, and every sai -1 lent that we touched was a corps. W hile the fortificat ons of Richmond stand, his name shall evoke admira tion. Trie art of war is unacquainted with any defence as admirable. Splen did as were the triumphs of his en gineering. the victories es his infantry were Ins best movements, Bu f over the glory of his talent fell a shadow as eternal as his memory—the frown of a resolute Democracy, whose sacrifice was longer than his art. STUART. I stood in the cemetary of Holly wood at the grave of Stuart—a space without a shaft. He revolutionized the cavalry tacties ot our time, and was in dash and dissoluteness the Prince Rupert of the West. Forrest and Stoneman, Morgan and Grii rson. Mosby and Kilpatrick, were his imita tors. He inaugurated the grand raid which taught Sheridan the i othing. ness of distance, and emboldened Sher man to tear the continent like a pc cket map. The fervid imagination of the Soulh ern peuj le, demonstrated in feats of ro mance like Stuart's made them, during the war, the great suggestive captains. They built the first iron clad, made the fir-t of the great raids, and under Stonewall Jackson executed the earli est of the great infantry marches. But the colder adaptability of the North de veloped every hint from the South in to a perfect system. The experiment of the Merrimac has grown to the Dictator, the Dunderberg and theTron. ‘1 homasville, Georgia, W ednesday, April 11, 1866. >ides. The engineering assiduity ot Beauregard, imitated by the North, has marked the camps ot our armies, as it the protecting mountains had fol lowed our columus. But it nay be doubted that any division commander has yet arisen to rival the splendid infantry genius ot Jackson. JACKSON. As Lee was of manoeuvre, Jackson was the great captain ot aggressive warfare. He combined the cunning and the boldness of Napoleon. To cover his gre t movements by the flank in 1862, he aid not hesitate to fight Pope’s whole army with a division, and the celerity of his march up the Shenandoah, to appear again on the field of Bull RSo, was only equalled by the energy of his attack. He moved infantry with the apeed of horse, and hav.ng hurled three great commandi rs back from the Old Dominion, died be fore the lustre of its arms had dim inished in that flush of victory when rebellion had assumed, indeed, the proportions of a nation, lie was the iiio-t repridican of rebels, stern and simple as any Round head, and this is why we hold his memtry greener than that of his companions w hose defection to the Union was augmented by their treason to popular institutions. There were other personages identi fied with this grand historical defence but these are the great statures— Davis, Lee, J ackson, Stuart, Beauregatd. ■ 1 ]’ it illia g luriilcat. A contributor to tne Atlanta Intelli** gencer concludes bis “Reminiscences of the War, No. 2,’’ with the following thrilling incideut of the battle of Get tysburg ; When Gen. Longstreet advanced upon the Federal left its first line was carried, but the enemy being heavily reinforced, ral ied, and in turn, drove our portion of the (Anderson’s brig ade) lrom the position, as well a- other brigades on our right and left. Again we charercd and again were driven back. This was a critical moment for ns ; nearly all of our general officers were killed or wounded. Our heav) line had crumbled to a mere hanalul, and the flower of Longstreet's corps lay welt ring in Wlood. We were alo vly retreating, leaving many of our dead arid wounded in the hands of the exul ting foe. The hosts ot the enemy came on tike the mighty tides of the ocean, and the loud paens of victory were al ready rising Irom their haughty lips The blue hills in their rear were brist ling with bayonets, and p-mring tor rents of reinforcements down the'r winding slope. Now when we should have been reintorced with 30,000 troops, Gen Lee had not a mau to send us. Officers broke their swords upon 1 the rocks, and many of the men wept. Our dead and wounded comrades lay around us by thousands, and it seemed , as if there was no hand to save the shattered remnant froui destruction But aid did not come —a man—a soli tary man threw himself before the jug irernaut of Federal power, and alone un 1 unaided, sought to stay its onward progress. I remember, as if it were but yesterday, th< zouave cap and iron grey heard of the stranger None knew him, but all idolized hint for his br;:ve ry He moved through the awful storm with a steady step and his uplift ted sword seemed to say to the advanc ing foe, “thus far shalt thou come and no farther.” He said nothing, but his god like exampled made a hco of eve ry tnan who saw him. So!die;s talk ed in the face of their comrade, and the question came simulta eously to their blackend lips; “who is he ? echoed right and left, far up and down the line. The enemy came on like tornado, and the proud hero stood en veloped in the smoke of tbeir muskets, like a lion at bay. Men forgot to re load their pieces or Conceal themselves behind the rocks, but, stood stupefied with wonder. “AN ho is he ? men groaned —“who is he ?” officers repea. ted, until the cry became strangely wild and fearful. “General Lee” some one shouted, and the word ran along the line like an e'ectiic flash. “Gen Lee forever rang loud-above the bat tie’s roar, and as oi e man our gallant soldiers rushed like a thunderbolt upon the astonished ioe. “follow Gen. Lee !” cried our wounded comrades, as they lay upon the trampled earth and to.-sed up tl eir bloody caps. No body of men on the broad green earth could have withstood the terrible impetuosi ty of this onset. The Federal troops, though they fought desperately, were compelled to give back, and at last to retreat in confusion to the height-, leaving their dead and wounded in our hands. But where was the stranger ? Ala “The paths of glory lead but to the grave.” The war is over now, and the brave men whom we met that day as deaily enemies, we now meet as friends. We would not detract on > ray from the crown of military glory that adorns each of their heroes, but would do justice to our lamented dead; and if, bv this imperfect sketch, I can add one flower to the chaplet of a fal len hero’s fame I shall feel my. elf am ply rewarded And that hero—“who is he ?” The answer comes up from the graves of Gettysburg —Gen. Paul J. Semmes. “Father/ said an ambitious young ster, about the size of a pepper box. “I can do without shoes, but I am suffei ino for a bosom fin.” Staihrrnm Stawl by the Mnlh. There is a method in the madness of the Radicals. It is not merely fa naticism that proiujts them to abuse and oppress the Southern people. It is net simply the gratification of sec tional antipathy, nor yet even the de. sire to make partisan capiial by eon ferring political power upon the freed, men, that induces them to make war upon the President’s policy of recon struction. They have an object be youd these, and we regret to see that it is being partially accomplished That object is to so far disgust and discourage the more influential classes of the South as to provoke tl em to self-expatriation. The demagogues who rule in Congress have cunning enough to be aware that a systematic course of iiijn-tice and insult towatd a sensitive and high toned race, born to freedom and keenly appreciative of its loss, will leave them no acceptable alternative but to seek shelter in other lauds from the tyranny that weighs upon them in their own. Thj close of the war left the Southern people ii great depression of spirits, afflicted with -domestic misfortunes, and crush, es beneath a load of poverty and sor row. Thi- burden of suffering natu rally occasioned a mental and moral prostration that, intensified tbi suscep tibility to indignity and outrage It is upon this morbid sensibility that the Radical- have practiced, with the pur pose to deprive the South of its intel lectual strength, and thus open an ea sier field for the propagation and tri umph. of Radical doctrine. We would not intimate that the Southern people exhibited a iy lack ol na bool m facing the r alities ol their position. On the contrary, we lo not think that history record- a nore sublime dispLy of moral ouragi than our vauquished couni rymen have shown iii their acceptance of the con sequences ot discomfiture When the great polit e and fabric that they reared va- dashed from its foundattans and crumbled over their heads, they stood amid the ruius with the c.lm dignity if men confront their desti ny, in the consciousness that they had 1 >ne all in their power to command success. They struggled they endur 01, they stood by the r cause while ere was the sli“hte>t glimei ine -ol hope to reaeem their efforts from the ui l uUt on of madness. They beheld iheir hrmes destroyed, their wives and children destitute, and the graves of their comrades telling the odds of the unequal struggle; but, until their lead er yielded bis sw rd in token of* the final overthrow, they forced the over whelming legions of their foe, outnum bered, perhaps despairing, b t sti.i defiant. Wh n all was over -ind .he -ame sense o! duty that susta ned them in the fight bade 1 hero ground theb hjs aud luwer the r banner, they Look up the implements of peace and sough to redeem their country from the flight, ful ravages of the strife. It was but natural, that there should be-bitterness and anguish at their hearts until at least the tears were dry upon the checko ut the widows and orphans; until at least the gashes of the wounded began to heab But, before the eel o sos the last gun had died away, the Radicals com menced to goad, insult aud provoke the anqaished with that relentless blood* oound spit it of fanatic ism that give.- oo quarter in the hour of victory, and kt. ws no mercy even in the presence *a i pe nng peace. Some men of the oouu. nave survived the struggle, whw have so ce of character aud intellect enough to combat the Radical in ; rigues to gam a paruzau supremacy tu that section; and those men are to be hound’ ed out ol the country by sheer persis’ teuce in insult and uppre-siou. \* e hope that the Boutaerners thus ostra cised will have the moral courage to eumoat the conspiracy, We know mat many of them are casting wistful glances toward the inviting fields ot Mexico ui.d brazil, and we admit that there is sore temptation to seek m those more hospitable climes relief from tha intolerable persecution of the fanatics who weild Die reins and the lush in our National Legis ature But tuese have well nigh run their Phae ton course, and the thunderbolt is lorged that will hurl them into the political Po Air. Johnson, will not suffer the ctauth to be made valueless to tbe common cause of recuperation, oy the machinations of a faction that have no regard for the general inter ;.-ts, hut seek only; by encouraging dis.-e * tion, to st: B then their p irti sau power. Jhe post of honor and of duty for every {Southerner is now at his own hea thstono, qr in those fields of labor wbere he can best rebuild the shattered fortunes of his section. In doing that he will serve the ii terests of all, tor the prosperity of the South is essential to the progress and welfare of the Republic— aV. ■ Y. Daily A Radicals Description of the President —His Great Power and Ability Conceded. The Hon. D. Baldt win, member of Congress from Massa. chusetts, writes this description of Andrew John-on and his late speech, Baldwin is of the Sumner-Stevens stripe in no'itics: ** * What the President said is be fore the country. How he said it, my poor words may fail to tell. For the first time T stood n?ar and looked closely on the man In-the course ot an eventful life I have seen many men of willful power and force, but never be lore have 1 looked on one so thoroughly embodying the evil spirit of revolution. It will not do to underrate Mr John son. He is terribly in eunest, and, withal, most vindictively cool A thor ough faced demagogue, his inconsequ ential logic, his egotism, his repeti t ons, his thorough belief in himself, and his popularity, are all elements of strength wh ;n he faces such assembla ges as were arrayed about him yester day. Andrew Johnson is an able man —how able, I never realized till yesterday All results are iiu in h s pol cy. Had he a Cabinet as able a.id as desperate, the dire results which the. near future wo-uld • bring c mid hardly be named. —NVe stand on the verge of a fierce strife, to meet which the country should gather its strength aud gird up its loins. This mail is no , weak Buchanan, and he means to crush Congress or be crushcL Mr. Johnson is a man of stalwart mould.—Just above middle-stature, he is so ‘broad shouldered, firm set, and’ deep-chested, iis almost to seem l elow it. He has a large bead. It is a pact’ home for his fiery will and brain His face is marked, stFong oval outline, powerful under, jaw ; well defined but rather sharp’ chin; a w de, straight mouth, full flexible lips, skin coarse in texture but firm, coropl at ou swi-rthp, hair coa se black, streaked With g rey, a nose small at the root, but full and learge at the nostrils, which expand rigt and left ashe s-pcaks, broad roomy fore head, beetling busby eyebrows, be neath which are a'pair of the coldest, hazel grey eyes I aver saw in a human head ; these are the outlines of An drew Johnson. . * * — *■ at. U- Kmiiiig Wvll* ip. tkc Oil ttrgioiM. A eorrespondt-nt 1':o1h the oil re gions, in Venango County, Pennsyk vania, gives the tallowing description of- the. burning ndls as he witnessed them : • Over the-bridge at a hand galh p. for wliieh five dollars should he co.lect ed, past Petroleum Center, Benehoff. is reached at last, up the horse rail road the run is followed to the scene of disaster. A shanty is reached where several meu were watching, the flying sparks, apparer. tly to prevent further J damage. What time did the fire com mence ? “Don’t know.’- Has if done much damage F “Goto h—ll.” On rode the repoiter. The trees were.on fire. The sleepers of the track were on fire. The ground was on fire, and pools ol oil and water here and there hissed like serpents Stout iron rads bent and writhed in contortions under • the influence of the fire which could not consume them. The long branch es ot the burning trees swayed to and ■ fro in the nl*. ht. wind, and shook out a brilliant shower of sparks and cin ders. Here a pile of stones, and m->n= ■ ter and machinery told the ruin of an engine house. A JitHe way further, the boiler and engine were stil.l stand ing, warped and probably ruined, but in plaee.- Bj’ dint of threat and spurs*, the-horse was-pushed, by Burning trees and smoking pools, till, rounding an abrupt turn, where many of the wells should appear, what a sc.:ne arrests.the eye ! The fire is still raging at the wells; they are still spouting, and the oil burning as it comes NV’hat a change ! Hid in the dark caverns of t'ie earth for centuries,.the fluid rush cs upward from its prison, to travel through illimitable space. • A burning oil-well by night is one of the grandest sights which can be witne-sed. The glare of the flame overcasts the sky with the deepest and blackest shadows of night From the mouth of a two inch horizontal pipe, the flame st reaches for fifty feet along the ground, as the oil pours forih, ever swiftly and anon in jets. The ruddy flames hiss aud roar, and lap it up with incomparable fury. Faster and faste the fluid seems to supply the mon ster flames. Each jet is seized with fresh avidity, and the fearful element srows redder and redder in its in en sity. The fire leaps in wreaths round and round its victim. It hurls the fiery drops on every side, burniug as they fly. Round and round ti e vital mass revolves, ascending as it burns, until it grows into a “pillar of fire by night,” fiercely re 1 almost to purple at its base, then ruddy, it grows to lurid white, and then cherry colored it min gles in dense clouds of sparks with the upward rolling smoke, the latter light at first but deepening in the far bright er color until, in the far height, they form a mighty column which grows densely black and awful ip its gran deur. . . At Bcnnehoff the heat must have been intense.. Every thing consuma ble for hundreds (f feet shared the fate of the tanks and the oil, and where a few hours previous were immense tanks filled with oil, teams, barrels, and all the paraphernalia of oildout, nothing was left but a few partially melted and flattened pipes, some burn ed tank-hoops, the skeletons of an en gine or two, and the black scorched ground. Desolation reigned every where. The tde wag still pouring from the flowing weds, and burning as it flowed. The surrounding country was lit up, and begrimed men were seen slowly dragging their weary limbs i homeward after the excitement and I danger had passed - VOL, YI.-Xo. 14. Aa the grey dawn was breaking over the eastern hills a solitary rider, hoary with the night l'rosts, chilled on his weary beast, dircolorcd with oil. from the surface at the fords and the sweat of travel, and the readers of tho weekly on the following morning, re freshed by ‘tired nature’s sweet ro storer, perused an account of the pre vious nights fire, but bestowed ‘no . thoughts on the jaded beast or tho weary traveler. • i —* * * •, - .A Rich Lad.y—One. of the rich* est 1 .dies in the world, perhaps is Miss Mello i; the actress. Her fortune has been Computed af thirteen tons of gold. This money has been handed down fr m heir to heir many time?,, and is constantly increasing in amount. 1 lie lady who inherited this vast amount previous to Miss Mellon, tho. actress-, became no. less a personage than the Duchess of St. Albans. The Duke ot vst. Albans being l * a poor Duke,’’ made an offer for the hand of the wealthy but titlelc-s heiress, aid was accepted. The Duke imagined he would become posessed of the im-> mense wealth, instead of which, at the death of the ‘ Duchess” lie found that she had left him a few thousand pounds, and that the vast amount she held in her own right, was destined to return to her family again. Tho Duchess of St Albans was spoken of as the “rival of the Queen,” and her. appearance at court was a source of an noyance to the .latter —the “Duchess’’’ being considered a “commoner.” Miss Buidett Coutts, the present posessor of ihe immense foriuue, is a lady veil known for -her acts of generosity.. It employs several active secretaries to. read .her beguing letters, and the labor ot properly attending to their requests is enough to overtask thj strongest con stitution. biic gives, all the money, shu li a time to give, money for drink* iug fountains, churches at Nootka .Sound, to found bishoprics at Yau. Diemons land,’ Jerusalem and for a thousand bcni.ficent purposes. 15y way of comparison, it may be mention ed that the benefactions of the Queen, most frequently recorded, a*e those of three guineas to-the fortuuate mother.* of as many babies at a birth.- \. * . . • , * ■ -r- ‘ . Fb*. Douglass’ Oratory.—The Nashville Danner is responsible for the following . “Me never hoard Fred Douglas speak but.o.nce. He is a pretty sharp and o key, well -nformed, ra*her graceful, and entirely ready On the-occasion to which we allude, lie spoke in Indepen> deuce Square, in Phdadelphia!— His harangue wa* violent, rnnde up ohi&fly ’ of the outrages practice’!’ upon, the slave by his master, and pro duced a very decided-effect .upon the crowd Perceiving this-, Fred took h'#. air 1 1 go at the flood, and went liighcf and higher, into the fe ion of que.ncc. “Ah, thy friends,” he sTd, ‘•l do not speak from hearsay, T st .ms before you a living—l was ao : ng to’ say a bleeding-witness to tie truth. o. all I relate.. I£ you could behold the stripes.and.scars upon mvback—*• lust here aii Irishman vociferated,’ ‘Hould on'Freddy, darling—is it tfuth .yo\i is- telling us.” The darky orator lifted his sing r tragically to-heaven In. the affirmative.” “Oh, murder did they lacerate you ? Fred aoiswerd that they did. Did they buck yon like a. shoats > Fred .answered that they did. “BeTorra !” .roared Pat, “if that be true,.you must nave’ befcn a d—d bad pager! It cloy:, the.mooting in a general rosv.” rfcr C hnli'ra (onlng ioiin. At a meeting of the health Comm is. sioners of New York, recently, Dr. Sayre, contended that choleia was communicable by personal contact and might bd prevented by quarantine. He read from eminent European au thori'ies to estab.ish the proposition that the disease is contagious and not epidemic He read a communication fsom Dr. Marsden, ot Canada, claims ingthat a space of one hundred feet separation is sufficient to areest the contagion of cholera- lie quoted Dr. Marsden as laying down also the fol lowing proposition. 1. That it is a communicable aud controllable disease. 2. That its cause is not in the atmos phe e nor communicable through i; except by a near approach. 3. That it accompanies human tray, el and human traffiic, 4. That It progresses only, at tho jate of vessels across the ocean but never precedes them. 2. That it is transmissable by clotlu G-. That it appears in anew locality, without conirrrunicatson, directly or in directly, with infected person or piacej and lastly,.that it may be arrested bko the plague, by an absolute -quarantine of short duration. - CnotERA in Key West. —The Chicago Journal is informed through a private letter from an army officer, dated New Orleans, March 13th, that the cholera has broken out at Key West. Assistant Surgeon Taylor and sixteen men were down with it. A strict quarantine is established below New Orleans, and vessels from Ha* vana and Key West are subjected to . 21 days quarantine.