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Jatosoit s»Ufkln Journal, Published Every Thursday BY PERRYMAN & CHRISTIAN. TER.IAS— Strictly in •Advance. Three month! .00 76 Six month! $1 '26 tins year .$2 00 Haifa of •Advertising : One doller per square of ten lines for the Drat insertion, and Seventy-Bve Cents per square tor each subsequent insertion, not ex ceeding three. One square three months :.f 8 00 One square six months 12 00 On* square one year 20 00 Two squares three months 12 00 Two squares six months 18 00 Two squares one year SO 00 Fourth of a column three moths 30 00 Fourth of a column six months 60 00 Half column three moths 45 00 Half column six months 7o 00 One column three months 70 00 On* column six months 100 00 Liberal Deductions JtAade on Contract toMMllimittlltmiMlllllllHllillllHlllMlimillltlllllMllllMMti Legal Advertising. Sheriff’s Sales, per levy, $2 60 Mortgage Fi Fa Sales per square 6 00 Citations for Letters of Administration, 3 00 “ “ •* Guardianship, 8 00 Dismision from Apministration, fi 00 •* “ Guardianship, 4 00 Application for leave to sell land, 6 01) Bales of Land, per square, 5 00 gales of Perishable Property per sqa’r, S 00 Notices to Debtors and Creditors,.... 3 60 Foreclosure of Mortgage, per square, 2 00 Estray Notices, thirty days, 4 00 Job tt'ork ot every description ex«- entedwith neatness and dispatch, at moderate rates. RAIL -ROAD GUIDE. Ssnlhweslcrn Railroad. WM. HOLT, Pres. | VIRGIL POWERS, Sup Leave Macon 5.15 A. if. ; arrive at Colum bus 11.15 A. .1/.; Leave 6’olii">bus 12 45 P. it. ; arrive at Macon G. 20 P. if. Lea.es Macon 8 A if; arrives at Eu faulai SO, P M ; Leaves Eufaula 7 20, A M ; Arrives at Macon 4 50, P M. AIiJANY BRANCIT. Leaves Smithrille 1 46, P M; Arrives at Albany 8 11, P M ; Leaves Albany 9 35, A M; Arrives at Smithville 11, A M. Leave Cuthbert 357 f. M.; arrive at Fort Gains 5 40 P. -1/ 4 Leave Fort. Gains 7.05 A M ; arrive at Cuthbert 9.05 A. if. .Viar oil Ac Western Railroad. A J. WHITE, President. It. WALKER, Superintendent. DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. Leaves Macon . . . 7 30 A. M. Arrives at Atlanta , • . 1 67 I’. M. Leaves Atlanta . . . fi 55 A. 11. Arrives at Macon . . . 1 30 P. 11. NIGHT TRAIN. Leaves Macon . . . 8 45 P. M. Arrives at Atlanta . . . 4 60 A. M. Leaves Atlanta . . • 8 10 P. 11. Artives at Macon . . . 1 25A.i1. Western &. Atlantic Railroad. CAMPBELL WALLACE, Sup’r. day passenger train. Leave Atlanta . . . 8 43 A. It. Leave Dalton .... 2.30 P. M. Arrive at Chattanooga . . 5.23 P. M. Leave Chattanooga . . 8.20 A. M. Artive at Atlanta . . » 12.05 P. M. NIGHT TRAIN. Is<*atc AtUnt* • . • 7 00 t\ M. Arrive at Chattanooga % * 4.10 A. M !s«ate Chattanooga . * 4.30 I*. M. Arrive at D .lton • » . 7.50 P. M. Arrive at AiUuta • • * 1.41 A. M. ajUStMH Karts. DBS. HODNETT & PERRYMAN HAVLVG formed a in the practice of J/edicine, offer their Pro fessional services to tho public, and as expe rienced Physicians in all the branches their profession, confidently anticipate that their former success will iusure a liberal share of practice. T'he cash system having bpen established in everything rise, all bills will be considered due as soon as a case is dismissed. Office—Until further notice, in the front room of tho “Journal” building, up stairs. W. H.UODNfc/TT, J. L. D. PERRY MAX. Dawson, Ga , June l;ti DU R. aVwARNOCK, OFFERS his Professional services to the citizens of Chickasawhatchce and its vicinity. From ample experience in both civil and Military practice, he is prepared to treat successfully, eases in every department •f his profession. janiG'6Btf C. B. WOOTEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, natcsott, Ga. jtu .6 1868 ly •- t. QCRLET. WILD C. CItTEIAN, GURLEY & CLEVELAND, A TTORNEYS A T LA W, •Tfj Itortl, It ether County , Ga. J. G. S. SMITH, GTJN SMITH and Machinist, : : Georgia- ' »1| kinds of Guns, Pistol*, ewing Maciion, etc,, e t e . 2 Iv. HAVENS & BROWN, Wholesale and Retail B OK-ELLKHS, STATIONERS, General News Dealesj—j^riangula i lot k. Cherry Street, Jfiaeot l® Gtim fofTr¥nt^ A Rous* and lot m the most desirable ■f*- neighborhood, and healthy portion of the city of Dawson. Dwelling, out houses, gardeo, good water, and a plentiful supply of wood - Apply to n. McDonald, South side public Ripiare. Dawson, Ga:, March ID, 186S s tf. TOBACCO T ILL keep constantly on hand, at Al ttXaildcr & Parroll's, a good as sortment ol all grades of the best quality of obacco, all of which I will sell at Macon, Augusta and Atlauta prices. _ W. T. LEWIS. Dawson, Ga., April 30, 1808—Sm THE DAWSON JOURNAL. Vol. 111. POETRY. [From the Metropolitan Record. TIIE BROKEN SWORD.’ UT M. vr. M. He clip the following beautiful and Just tribute to the Heroism, courago and feeling of Capt. B. F. Saunders, from the Metropolit an R< cord. Th» incident referred to the breaking oi his sword by the Captain when told to surrender it t No ! never shall this trusty glaive Which I po long have borne, Be grasped by hands leas true or brave, Or a cowards side adorn. Too oft in war its silver beam True men have followed far, As thro’ the battle-storm its gleam Flashed like a f(tiling star. Dear hands have bound it to my side, While struggling to repress, Unbidden tears, the sweet lips cried, “Go, love, thy cause is bleet!” And often in his childish joy Along the shining blade, The dimpled Augers of my boy In artless wonder strayed. Then think you 1 could lightly fliug, At some proud foeman’s feet, A sword round which such memories cling, So saered and so sweet. No, rather let it evermore Rest ’neath thy rolling flood, , Oh stream that leaves my native shore, Now datkly stained with blood. Then proudly turning from them, he, UusheathiDg as he spoke. Its hallowed blade, across his knee, Tbe tempered steel he broke. And far into the azure stream The glittering fragments threw, And sternly watched their last faint gleam Sink glimmeriug from bis view. Whatc’er be felt, in tear or sigh Not there he sought relief— It was not for a foeman’s eye To gaze upon his grief. Roil on, thou river ! glad and free, Forever pure and deep ; A stainles . hand has given to thee A holy trust to keep. Thou ntaysl have treasures rich and rare Beneath thv restless wave ; But none so precious cau’st thou In ar As that truesoldiei’s glaive 1 ‘Suggested bv an incident that o.curred after the fall of Fort Donvtson. Front the Sunday Creseent. “Goott*.\iglif, I»si rliiiji." Her happiness was not in physical enjoyment, lut in love and faith.— Give her but a note of kindness—the nature of feminine loveliness—and she asked no more. I allude tc an older sister, my s eond mother. Each night when my little eyelids were about to close into a quiet slumber, I could distinguish a melodi ous voice thrill out “Good night, dar ling,” and with an affectionate kiss im printed on my check, I would turn away to dream of the angels. What salutary influence is exerted by love 1 Its power of enhancing every enjoyment woul glvei t a rank among the most influential operations upon the human mind. While the enchantment continues it seems to possess the facul ty of raising our ideas above this sublu nary sphere, though in rememborance it claims naught but a passing sigh, a momentary regret that we have lost the nucleus of our early existence. Some times after such a retrospection, we smile because we have awakened from a delusion, to know that the suushine which appeared a flood of radianoe illu minating our inmost sensibilities has become an ordinary light of day.' We smile because the gurgling brook, whose waves dashing o’er its pebbly bottom once like the secret springs of unsoph iscated thought, ha* become wearisome and monotonous. Or, if after such a retrospection, we 6igb, it is caused by a vague feeliDg of a mere allusion—an evaueent charm which existed iD the vivid imagination —yet we sigh. To meditate upon life’s infancy, to dwell upon the ioves, tho hopes tho anticipations of our early days, must awaken an ardent desire to live them over again,and in meditating upon little deficiencies which the ma tured understanding can correct, wo vigh with regret that we have not ear lior possessed the conviction of right. Hel.len was my monitor. How fre quent 1 longed to ho hlct-fed with a no ble character, as amiable a disposition, as loving heart I The atmosphere of our Lome was inhaled alike by both, but she appeared to take tho sweets alone, while my portion wa* adulterat ed with what forms a phlegmatio tem per. She left mo for a morthern climate So warm, so frail and so tender a na ture ne’er was intended to breathe that chilling atmosphere. My sole consola tion was in believing her existecoj— that the same sun illuminated ou r bouse hole—that we gazed upon the same moon—that the musio of the winds which breathed its spiritual intelligence into mine ears might, in its lawless wandering, waft a sigh to her distant dwelling; but abovo all, that a day DAWSON, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 18(IH. would arrive whon I should meet her agrin, to bear the same gentle tone, to experience tho name love, though long estranged, yet extinguished, llut this was never to occur, and why?— Not from any cause that tho casuality of after events could avert, but simply because the sister of my devotion has winged her flight to a heavenly elysium It is true that religion directs us to a happier sphere, where “love exists in deathless bloom,’’ but our earthly feel ings frequently usurp tho place where religion ought to roigu predominant, and we reject tho consolation of the Heavenly Comforter. Love Keeps an inventory of the treas ures of tho secret heart, of which tho higher faculties take no cognizance— the smiles the tones of mutual enjoy tnent, the well known song of ‘‘Auld lang syne,” and all that forms the nu cleus of long cherished affection, ex changed for what? an aebing void in tho heart never to be refilled—for the unnatural gloom ot that profound sepul ebre which conceals what love itself will now resign—in short, thß rending asunder of a sweet ohord, without whioh the one harmonious strains of so cial intercourse are musical no more. The gentle flower withered and died before the untimely blasts of a northern dime. It is sad to think o: her as numbered with the dead. Her grave is beyond the seas, but her tombstone rests in my heart, surroundod with ivy leaves. As I breathe my eveuing prayer, I beseech tbe Almighty soon to bless a reunion of our souls in Heaven ; and an angel voice wafts through the breeze the echo, “Good-night, darling!” and my spirit communes with one who once taught mo to dream ot tho angels, and is now numbered with their group How often I long to re-echo in the same musical voice tho tones, “Good night, darling!” PC.A, A Story Willi a Moral. Some time ngn a certain lady called upon one of the most celebrated ocu lists of New York, in order to consult r.im on account of her eyes, conntlain ing that their power of vision had of late considerably diminished. At a glance the doctor saw that she was a lady of rank and w ealth He looked at her eyes, shook his head, and thought the treatment would re quire much time, as there were rea sons to fear amaurosis in her case. lie must advise her, first of all, that, as she had informed him she was residing a considerable distance in tho country, she must move into the city at once, and thus enable him to Sue her fre quently, if possible, daily’. The lady then rented an elegant mansion, moved into the city, and the physician was punctual in his at’en dance. He prescribed this and that, and thus days run into weeks, and weeks into months. The cure how ever, was still coming. The physician tried to console her. One day the patient hit upon a curi ous scheme, and she waited not long to carry in o effect. She procured for herself a very old and poor attire, put a hood of tremen dous size upon her head, took ar>. old umbrella and a market basket in her band, and in these habiliments she vis ited her physician, se’ecting for the purpose, a very rainy day. She had so well succeeded In distorting and disguising herself that the eye, even of a lover could scarcely have recognized her She was obliged to wait for a long time in the ante room of the physician, with many ethers who, like her, were seeking relief. At last her turn came, “Well my good woman, what have you got to complain of?” “Veiv bad eyes, doctor,” she an swered. He took her to the light and looked into hrr eyes, but failed to recogni/.o his patient. Shrugging his shoulders, he femark ed : “Your eyes are well enough,’* “Well?” she said. “Yes, yes, and I know what lam saying.” “But I have been told I was getting the a—a, forget, how it’s called ” “Amaurosis?” Yes, that’s it docter.” ‘ Don’t you let them make you be lieve any such nonsense. Your eyes arc a litttle weak, but that is all,” said he. “But my physician is an ass.” “ An ?” “Yes, an ass! tell him boldly that I said so,” The lady now arose, and in her cus tomary vo ce she said : “Sir, you are my physician, don’t you know me ?” The face that the sage counsellor made is easier to imagine than to de scribe. “Gracious madam,” he commenced to stammer an apology, but tho lady would not listen to him, and left hint indignantly. She never saw the gentleman any more. A sailor exhorting at a prayer meet ing in a London chapel, said that on dark and stormy nights, while on the sea, be had often been comforted by that beautiful passage of scripture, “A faint heart never won fair la dy.” From the New York Day Book. FnOiii* Climate Changing. The year 1867 was a remarkable one, in respect to the atmospherical charac ter. The spring opened with heavy rains and those rains continued almost without intermission in the Atlantic 'States quite into the month of Septem ber. While an unusual quantity of rain fell in the Ea-t, the West was ro markable for the dryness of its atmos phere j so much so, that the oorn otops in many localities were very light. On the Atlantio ooast an extraordinary amount of water fell : and the conse quence was that the fruit crops of a cer tain character, the strawberry, raspber ry, etc., were remarkably heavy ; the the former berry rarely having been known to sell so cheap, in tho markets hero. The rains last year detroyed the cherry crop almost entirely ; rot set io, and tbe decay was so rapid, that many au orchard in twenty four hours lost sll its fruit. We disoover the same signs of a steady rain season on the Atlantio const this year; and speeulaliou is at tempting to account for so peculiar an atmospherical condition. Some as yet unexplained cause is operating upon the elements which make up our sea coast climate. There appears to be a new set of laws at work, and this “re construction’ is not so favorable to the general development of the crape of th s coun’y in the range of 42 degrees as the old atmospherical condition of five years ago and back. What is to pay ? Who can tell ? Aassiz says he will not attempt to prognosticate twenty four hours ahead what is to take place within sixty miles of the earth’s surfaoe. He declares that the laws which govern the storms and calms, sunshiue and tains, high and low degrees ts tempera ture io each season, are not sufficiently understood to enable any one to venture an opinion. We are told that tho gulf stream hag changed its position, and is uow nearer the ooast line by twenty to fifty miles than ever before. This change is hinted at as the supposed causo of the singular condition of our atmosphere, and the remarkable amount of moisture constantly gathered up, condensed aud t-boweied back upon up on our coas\ The air circulates in cuives. All storms are circular move ments of the atmosphere made with great rapidity. Tho vast b dies of moisture gathered up and held in what we call clouds come down in winter in theshapo and in summer in the condi tion of rain. We know that evapora tion Irom the great ocean is continually active, but from the high temperature of tbe Gulf Stream it must part with a thousand fold more moisture in a given amout cf time, than tho ccean which surrounds it. Inasmuch as this stream is nearer our coast than ever be fore, may it not be giving out its mois ture into a current of air, the course of which lies over the Atlantic States, and meeting the stratta of atmosphere rest ing upon the eatlh and warmed by the iatent heat given out, condcn ation at once disposes of it, and a constant show ering is kept up on the Atlantic bor-#* der ? Big clouds draw the Icsrer. While this peculiar state cf atmosphere exists on the Atlantic Coast while, we get in this region, all tbe evaporation of tbe Gulf Stream concentrated over our heads, the result of this constant huge deposite of moisture must tend to at tract tbe rain clouds from the interior, Unless the currents of air move in a ciicuit two narrow to bring them within the iriffueDco alluded to here. There are, it is quite possible, laws, operating five to fifty miles above the earth’s sur faoe, tbo results of which are like those producing the trade winds of tha East ern seas. In that case, the influence is observable on the eaath’ssurface. Hero it is tco far frtm the surface to he no ticed ; but we get tbo deposits of mois ture these clouds bring, quite 6teadily month for month. Were the Gulf to move back to its old position, the cir cular air current would not perhaps reach it, and we should not get tho amount of r»in dow, and for the past year io copiously dowD. What has caused the change cf the locality of the Gulf Stream, is an interesting specula tion ; and, in ennsoquenco of the appa rent results of that change, the subject is most interesting to tho agricultural world, both here and in the West, A married lady, who was in the hab it of spending most of her time in tho society of her neighbors, happened one day ti be taken ill, and sent her bui sand in great haste fora physician.— The husband ran a short distance, and then returned, exclaiming, ‘My dc»r, where shall I find you when I come back ?’ The Duke of Na“»»u insists upon marrying his pretty French actress, and has sold bis chateau with the ioteution of seeking bappine.s by her side in an other country. j Lom of a Ve»itel—TliH'rew and I’aweiifen Frozen to Death. The following account of tbe loss of tbe brigantino Queen, near Gulf Is land. Newfoundland, is given in a let ter dated Fortune Harbor, Green Bay April 25, 1868, und published in tbe St. John’s Courier: I have to inform you of one of tbe most melancholy occurrences on re cord in the annals of Newfoundland. The brigantine Queen, which was supposed to have been lost in the neighborhood of Twilliugate about the middle of December last, was actually lost on Cape John, Gull Island, on December 12th. Tho crew and pas sengers succeeded in getting on shore, but omy tj perish some days after wards. Four of the crew returned to the wreck after they got ashore to en deavor to procure some food. While on board, the cable, which was attach ed to the cliff, parted, and the vessel drifted out to sea; it is supposed she sunk. The persons thus lost in the vessel were the pilot, tho boatswain, one seaman and a passenger. On the 21st of Apul, u vessel cruis ing about in the mouth of Green Bay was becalmed near Gull Island, and a boat fiom her went towards the island to ehoot some birds. When they got to the island they only saw one bird, at which the men fired. 1 he bird flew a little distance and then fell, appa rently dead. One of the men went to pick it up, but had not gone far when, to his surprise ho saw two skeletons lying neatly side by side. He called Io bis companions who ran up to him. On looking ebout they saw a piece of canvas a few yards away from the men, but so frozen to the rocks that they could not get it up. They cut it in several places, and found underneath tbe bodies of nine men and two women# The men then returned to their vessel and ran her up to Tilt Cove, where they stated wnut they bad seen. Coffins were im mediately prepared, and next day the same vessel, with about sixty hands, proceeded to the island to remove the bodies to Tilt Cove for interment. In searching the bodies after they were landed in Tilt Cove, it wns found that the captain and Mr. Dowsley had kept a journal up to the 24th of De cember, twelve days after they were wrecked. At that time they were all living. On that date Mr. Dowsley wrote in the journal! “I have this day walked all roUhd this island, nnd see nothing before me but death. I expect to be one of the first to die, as I now feel Very weak ” After that he wrote no more. Mr. Dowsley says in the journal: “I do not expect my body will ever be found.' The scene the people witnessed when removing the bodies can be better im agined than described. They were all so frozen together that they had Io be separated with pries acd crow bars. The captain stated in the journal as follows : “We made the islnnd on the 11th, nt 4 o’clock I\ M. Not caring to run for Tilt Cove, we hove to sea lor tbe night. About 12 o’clock hove round and ran in fr r the hay, and at 6 o’clock A. M. the vessel ran ashore in a snow# storm.” Nothing like this has occurred in Newfoundland within the memory of thy oldest peoj le living here There was a man named Cushue lost his ves sel on the Horso Islands nbout sixty years since in the month of April, when all those who got asbofe perish ed from eo’d and htingef. The skele tons of the men were found thofollow ing summer, aftd some pop-rs giving on mcount of where they were lost and how they died. Where the Querti Was lost is otily about three ini’es from the land, and a man fiom the shore saw a light sever al times on the Hand, and told differ ent j ersons of it, but they would not believe him. It there had been any reason to suppose there would have been no difbuu.ty in getting them oft. Ihe island is very seldom visited ex cept in tbe summer season. When Napoleon was only an offioer of artillery, a Prussian officer said in his presonce, with much pride: • ! My countrymen fight only for glo ry; bulFienchmen fight for money/ “You are right,’replied Napoleon; “each of them fight for what ho is in Used of.’ Large quautitius of ice still remain piled up along the shores of many of the islands in Lake Superior, and. at the las' accounts there were immense : field* of it near the herd of the luxe. A little flat boat, containiog a young man, his wife, a boy and • dog, ar rived at Buton Ilouge, La., a few days since all the aay from Vcoaugo, j Pa. They were thirteen weeks on the way. IVo. 10. A I.ondon Opium Deu— Ilorri- Me Scene by Night. A Frenchman, M. Albert Wolf, hoe described, in the Paris Figaro, his ex - perience of a night in London. Among his sketches is tho following, portray ing a scene in Wbitecapel : We stopped before one of these hov els j tho police officer pushed opeu the door whioh was ajar. ‘Who’s there?’ demanded someone inside. ‘Don’t be frightened Jack ; it*« only me,’ replied our Hercules. Whereup on we entered a small room ; a sttaoge nauseus oder pervades the apartment, and we quickly beat * retreat. ‘Wait awhile,’ says tho policeman ; ‘it is only opium.’ By the flickering light .of the fire burning in tho grate, I perceived the individual addressed as Jack. It is a Chinese who keeps this wretched hole where one can get intoxicated for a few ooppers. The room we enter is so low that we are unable to stand upright.— Lying pell-mell on mnttrasses on tho ground are Chinamen, Lascars and a few English blackguards, who have im bibed a taste for opium. Some stretoh ed at full length abandoned themselves to the fumes of intoxication in its dif ferent Btages, while others aie just com mencing to light their pipes at a kind of a night lamp which is placed by the smoker. Jack, the master of the bouse, jab bers a little English. lie inquires of us if we wish to smoke, and points to some pipes, which have already been in a thousand courteous mouths, and which he will be happy to offer us, lying on a table between a pile of potatoes and a few tits of charcoal. The police offi oer explains to this devil’s tapster, that we have como simply to look on. “Is there no ono up stairs ?’ inquires he. Yos, there is one woman.’ ‘Where abouts is up stairs ?” ask I, looking around. ‘Why, there is bo stareoase.’ Jack fetches a litter ladder from the yard and places it against the wall, where some cals’ and rats’ skins are hanging ; he mounts a few steps, and pointing to a bole in the ceiling, says, ‘Here.’ ‘Thero is not room enough for ub all up there,’ remarks the polioe officer. — You follow the Chinaman, and LM wait for yon below.’ Ooe by one we climb the ladder and mrunt through tho opening, treated on a mat trass in a room lighted by a dim lamp is an old woman with dishev eled white hair, (bin face and dull look ing eyes, blowing a cloud of smoke and coughing every now and then like a person in the last stage of consumption tihe casts a stupitied gaze npon us, then throws herself Lack and cutinucs to puff away at her pipe of opium. The room Whero she is, is a small loft, encumbered with a multitude of objects, belonging to the ecxellent Jack but beyond tho old sorceress is reclining there is not a single piece of furniture. The atmosphere is so tainted with opi tim that, being on the point of suffoca lion, I break the only window pane, through whioh, by tbe way, a kitten would find some difficulty in passing The fresh air inundates the room, rous up the sorceress, who gives Vent to a volley of oomplaiuts in an unintelligi ble jargan. A shilling flung on tbe un clean couch molifies the old woman, who opens her eyes to the fullest extent by a superhuman effort. She seizes the ooin with her long bony fingers and contemplates it with delight, Anew atiack of conghing more formidable than the former seems to tear her lungs as we retreat through the little ho'.eand down the ladder steps. An Outrage by n Negro; A while woman, who said she was from near Flint River, says the Colum bus Awn, arrived in the city yesterday morning on the 4:46 acccmmo.iation train on the Muscogee railroad. At the depot she was inquiring the way to some lady’s house. She seemed poor but res; ectable, and of some 18 years of age. A negro man stated he would show her the way. He had con ducted her beyond Linwood, and along a path loading through tho woods fronting tho residence of M. P. Jb D. P. Ellis. Here he suddenly seiz ed her by the back of the neck, placed a hand «ver her mouth to stifle calls for assistance nnd tne inference is, forcibly violated her person, and rob bed her of what 1 tile money ehe had. This happened about 6 o’clock. So soon as she could, she sought assist ance from the neighboring noueses. A gentleman with hi; sons pursued tbe negro, whom they did not know, but ho hal too much the start and eec ip and The woman was terribly frightened and distressed, but was seeking to be avenged on the negio. She appeared ignorant of the city and it* surround ings—:ia most country girls ot her sphere are. YVe gave ti c r.a'rativo as gentlemen related tnem to us. The military authorities now control the city. What rivet is like a jolly Irishman ? The Morrimae f A Narrow Ora pc. An army correspondent gives the fol lowing narativc of tho manner in which s Confederate soldier in Mississippi (I* capcd the dutches of the Yankees: “While dwelling upon tho subject of ladies, and the purifying influence of U* dies’ society, I will take occasion to mention, for the benefit of tbe fastide ous, an adventure of two nice aod ac complished young ladies, together with a young gentleman woll versed in gal antry. Not long since, mon cher M. t of this brigade while in the vicinity of of the Federal eno.mpments, took oooa sion to put up for the night at the bouse of an old acquaintance, where he had been often called to enjoy a pleasant re past with the young ladies. During tbe nifrht, the Federals, learning hia whereabouts, approached the house, cre ating a bluster everywhere, save in our young hero’s apartment. He soundly slept, and continued to sleep, aa if|on “bed« of roses,” uneonsciens of ap proaching danger, until tho young la dies, panic stricken on his account, rush, e/i (Jiihabitle, into his room, and awoko him from his slumbers. But the Federals had advanoed too far for him to mako his ceoape in the front, and thero was no window or door in the rear. Now bow then was his es cape to be effected ? Header, the young ladies instituted a plan unprecedented in the history of military operations.— When the old lady discovered he could not esoape by running, she rushed in crying, “Girls ! wo must do something —the federals aro already in the pas sage.” No sooner said than done. Tha young ladies leaped in bed with oar young hero, one cn each side, complete ly ooncealing his bead, and thereby causing the search of the Federals to be fruitless They looked in'o every nook, and under evory bed into the house, not excepting the one occupied by the hero ; but the young confeder ate scout was nowhere to be found.— How much better than to have suffered him to be murdered or imprisoned for years in a felon’s coll! So we aay ; but the mystery to us is, why they did not think looking in the bed, as well aa under it.”— Gray Jacket». Extraordinary EcursK.—Tho to tu! eclipse of the sun, w hich is to tako place on the 18th of August next, will present such a long duration of dark ness that astronomers aro anticipating it with unusual interest. From neat Aden the central line of the eclipse ex tends to the southern coast of New Guinea, crossing llindoo6tun, the Bay of Bengal, the MolaVian peninsula and the Gulf ol Siam on the way ; at cer tain places on this line the duration of the total darkness will be at 5:46. At the date in question the moon will not be more than six hours from its peri gee, while the suh will not be far from its apogee j a two-fold condition which increases the apparent diameter of the sun nearly ot the smallest, lienee the prolonged darkness Such a chance occurs but rarely, arid wo cahoot won der that a strong desire exists to make tho most of it iti endeavors to solve certain highly important questions in physical Scieuco Unluckily, the south west monsoon will bo at its full bloat on tho 10th of August, which, with its heavy clouds, will render observa tion either uncertain or impossible, ex j cept on the eastern side of the moun tain ranges. £3T'^ ,:>u P o t>i th® corpulent banker; was standing in Ftate s'feet one hot day in AUgusr, ‘wiping servile drops from off his brow,’ when a ragged but sharp*eycd newsboy accosted him with : ‘Plcese, sir, tell me the time !’ Coupon lugged out Lis Fosbam, and; looking henignantly down to his inter locutor answered; ‘Jit-it two o’clock.’ ‘All right, old buffer,’ said tho gamfil gathering his legs together forarun.- *You can sell out for soap grease at 8 o’clock ’ Tho insulted man of money raised his cane, and making a frantic rush at his tormentor, nearly fell over a friend that was coming up the street. ‘Hallo, Coupon, what’s the matter?* said the other. ‘Matter 1’ said Coupon, puffing with heat and anger,‘why one of these news boys asked me the time, ami when t told him two o’clork, tho impudent young scoundrel said I might sell out for soap grease at tbreo.’ ‘Don’t be in snob a hurry,’ was the malicious response, ‘it’s only five min u'es past two ; you’ve got filty-fivo min utee to do it in.’ * —Cnpital prunishnrient—Sending a white man to the Fortieth Congress? What is tho largest room in the world ? The room for improvement? “Dr. Ayer has the largest income in- Lowell.” Murry his daughter and get on Ay re ess! Why is a bridegroom worth more than tho bride ? Because she is given, away and he is sold. “Punch says the spirit of tbe age is gin." Not a bit of it; unless you spell# ‘gin’ backwards. “What is that picture on ?” inquir# ed a countryman in our hearing tn«t other day in a print store to the pro# prietor, who was turning over sorm* engravings: “That, sir,” said the dealer, “is Joshua commanding the sun to etaml still.’ “Du te’.i ’ well which is J «b, anti which is his eou ?”