The South-west Georgian. (Oglethorpe, Ga.) 1851-18??, September 24, 1852, Image 1
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A Doo Story.— The Cincinnati Citizen
tells the following stout dog story. c
Yesterday we noticed one of the most sin
gular displays of canine sagacity we ever
saw, Mr. Baldwin offered a w ager- of five
dollars that he would start his Newfoundland
•dog from the wharf boat, send him over the
river to Bake’s Hotel, and thatrthedog would
return with a handkerchief which Mr. B. had.
left in his room. The bet’ wfis,taken, and
the dog plunged into the river, swam Across
and made quick time up the levee on the Oth
er side. In a short time he again made his Ap
pearance, running towafds the river; lie jo ll -
ped in and swam back to the foot of Walnut
street with the pocket handkerchief iti his
mouth. He was absent from the wliarf .boat
only twenty-five mintites. Tire loser readily
handed over the five dollar liill, and’declared
that he had never expected to Joe such a feat.
W Oman’s Love. —At Cinciilnafi>a short time’
since, a man named Brow n was arrested, sus-’
pected of counterfeiting, and put in jail.—
That night a w oman, representing herself as
the wife of the prisonor, under the pretenee of
supplying her husband wdth supper, obtained
admission to his cell, and as was supposed
left shortly after for home. . In the morning
however, it was discovered that the woman
had exchanged clothes with her husband, and
that the officers had been tricked; the hus
band had escaped in the wife’s clothes.
Quick Dispatch. —The Huntsville {Ala.)
Advocate says oods were received by
one of our merchants last week which were
•only ten days out from New-York ! They
..were shipped by steameV to thenoe.
.by railroad direct to Chattanooga, and then
.down the river, A few years since, it took
passengers ten days to make a trip. Steam
iis a wonderful magician.”
Ilian and Woman.
Man is the creature of interest and ambition.
His nature leads him forth into the struggle
.and bustle of the world. Lov@ , bu&the em
bellishment of his earthly fife, or a song piped
■in the intervals of the acts. He seeks for
fame, fortune, for space in the world’s thought
.and dominion over his fellow men. But a
woman’s whole life is in the history of the af
fections. The heart is her world; it is there
,her ambition strives for empire; it is there her
: avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends
forth her sympathies on adventure; she em
barks her whole soul in the traffic of affection ;
and if shipwrecked her case is hopeless —for
jt is bankruptcy of the heart.
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Loss of the Atlantic—An Affecting Yarra
,,, tive.
” e copy from the Erie Commercial Ad
vertiser the following interesting and affect
ing narrative of the escape from death of Mr.
Garley and his sister, ,a delicate girl, by the
sinking of the Atlantic. Mr. Cajrley is a
young man in delicate health. The Adver
tiser says the narrative was given with great
emotion, and brought tears to the eyes of
many in the large assembly who listened to
it. Mr. Garley said in substance;
If any one has cause for thankfulness on
this occasion, it is myself: lam from Ver
mont; and, with my sister, a poor consump
tive, was on board the Atlantic. I was trav.
elling with her “for her health! It was not
Without great fefirs of its perils that we un
dertook tlie We went on board the
Atlantic at Buffalo on Tuesday evening, and
.found her already crowded with passengers.
I went to the steward to get a state-room for
my sister: He fold rue they were all taken
in the upper cabin, but he thought he could
get her one below. We went down alid
found tjiat all the rooms in the lower cabin
were also* token. - He, however, prepared as
comfortable a bed as possible on a sofa. She
tried to sleep, but found the air so close and
suffocating 3hat it. was with difficulty that she
could breathe. We again went to the upper
cabin! and the steward then told me that he
could furnish - my sister a birth in the upper
part of tire cabin. I took her to it, and after
ward myself found a birth in the forward part.
It was the lower one of the three, and the two
above it were already occupied. Being much
fatigued, and now satisfied that my sister was
in comfortable quarters, I was soon asleep.
I was suddenly startled from my sleep by a
tremendous crash, and awoke to find the out
er side of my state-room broken in, and the
two upper berthß, with their occupatants, on
- top of me.
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“As soon as I could extricate myself, my
first thought was for my sister. I went im
mediately to her room and found her awake.
I told her that something had happened to the
boat, but I couldn’t tell what it was; but that
.1 thought we had better be prepared tor any
danger. I went back to my berth and put on
the rest of my, clothes. I was in no haste as
there had been no alarm given. I, went back
to my sister’s room; she had already dressed
herself, and putting on hsr bonnet and man
tilla met me at the door, with her carpet bag
on her arm. fust then a man came to the
cabin door, and, looking in, told us that the
boat would sink in ten minutes ; and lie ex
horted us to,pray for the forgivngss of Cur sins,
and. Look to God for .mercy. This was the
first serious-intimation we had of the extent
Os eur danger. We- went on deck, and had •
only been there a few minutes when the wa
ter began to rise around us. It was’ soon up
‘to pur knees. I was is aim- and collected. I
was not afraid to die ; all my care was for
my poor slender sister. I could pot swim.—
We therefore looked around for some means
of sustaining ourselves in the water, should
we be compelled to leavo the boat.
“.We found a couple of chairs and took
each of .us otie in our hands. The stern was
the only part of the boat out of water. We
wont to the railing, and my sister asked me
to lift her upon it. I tried to, but was too
weak, and callod snipe men who : were near
to my assistance; We raised’ her up, and.
there was another woman who wanted us to
raise her up. We did so, and’ afterward I
got up myself. My sister and 1 kept hold of
our chairs. Every moment we expected the
,bqat to go down with a sough, and that the
water would swallow us all up. We still
clung to the railings, in each others’
embrace. Soon we saw the propeller com
ing to our assistance, and a cry of joy burst
from every lip. , Shortly she was alongside of
us. We all rushed to get aboard of her. I
made:an effort to raise my sister over the side,
but was too weak. I made as powerful an
effort as I was capable of, but my feet slip
ping, I .fell between the two vessels, and sunk
beneath the surface. Grasping about, I
caught hold of a rope, by which I raised myself
to tlie surface. But I-was tqo weak to raise
myself any further, and was every moment
‘.becoming still more exhausted. I saw 110-
■ thing of my sister after I foil, and supposed,
of. course she was lost. I was so weak I
ijould not for a long time make my cries
heard. , I had been in the water about half
an hour, and was about giving Up all hope
of being rescued, when I was discovered.—
Another rope was thrown me, and I was
drawn up on the boat. What was my joy—
the first female I met was my sister 1”
We have been favored with a visit from the
Canadian, mentioned m having saved his fam
ily from the wreck of the Atlantic, from whom
we learned more of the paticulars.
The name of the gentleman alluded to is
Antoine Lattinville, of Rivieres du Loup, Cy
E., who is well known In Canada as a wen/ ‘
thy and enterprising man, and was 1
ting to this State to settle with his ’
which consists of his wife and nine 1
at Rourbonias Grove, in Will Cos / ® e e 1
OGLETHORPE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 84, 1852.
had previously purchased a section of land.
When the concussion of the two boats woke
them from Mr. L. seeing the dan
ger, immediately, in company with his wife
and three of the children, proceeded to the
hurriSkneVdeck, where he fastened them to
the supports of the steamers chimneys, and
then returned and brought up three others,
whom lie also fastened in the same manner—
then returned again and this time brought up
two more. Upon counting them it was dis
covered that there was but eight in the group,
and the youngest was missing. Again the
father returned below, and, when up to his
neck in the water, a wicker cradle, with his
child still asleep in it, floated within his reach,
as also did his chest, which he seized, but
not being able to secure both, let the chest
go, and it safely to the deck with his charge—
where, after remaining for an hour or more,
they wore taken off in safety by the propeller.
The chest, beside the clothing, contained
si;6oo in money, besides which his loss in
furniture was about s9oo. —Chiago Journal.
The Toledo Blade states that the brig Ash
land arrived at Toledo, on Saturday forenoon,
torn Buffalo, and that Capt. Baker picked
ip, eight or ten miles below Long Point on
take Erie, a black leather trunk, supposed
t have belonged to some passenger on the
stlamer Atlantic, at the time of her loss.—
Tie trunk contained both ladies’ and gentle
men’s wearing apparal, jewelry, daguerreo
types, locks of human hair, and also a letter,
purporting to have been written by George
W. Hartley, at Lasalle, Lasalle County, 111.,
to hit father, George Hartley, 47 Gaskil-st.,
Philalelphia, Pu. The trunk and contents
are in the possession of Messrs. Houg, Strong
& Cos., of Toledo, who will give all informa
tion necessary to any who may inquire after
it.
The iitorpreter who accompanied the emi
grants in board the Atlantic has returned to
Buffalo, uid reports the loss much less, than
w-as supptsed. The whole number saved is
64—loss 58, men, women and children. The
survivors were liberally provided for by the
managers if the Central Railroad, and the
interpreter saw them comfortably settled in
Wisconsin.
Gkougu Female Semi.nries The
Watchman aid Observer, of Richmond, Va.,*
has the folhwing notice of Female Edu
cation in Geogia. Among the early schools,
(says the Augista Chronicle <Sp Sentinel,) the
writer should have mentioned that at the
Cherokee Conor, which deservedly occupied
the first rank T the State, thirty or thirty
five years ago—at which so many of the
Misses of that in Georgia, and some of
the adjoining St.tes, received an elegant ami
substantial educaion. He has also omitted
to mention amongthe Institutions ofthe pre
> sent day, at’ wjuth there are hundreds of
young Ladies, no’ receiving accomplished
educations—the. tv.) Colleges at Madison, the
one at Covington, (he two high Schools at
LaGrange, those t Montpelier, Newnan,
Thotnpsville and Woffington, besides many
others, in which the topise of study is most
thorpugh, affording a.many and great advan
tages, as any slinih restitutions in the Union.
“'The first direct iflpulse .to female educa
tion in Georgia was Avon by the establish
ment of a female scliouat Mt. Zion in 1815.
Soon afterwards fcmnl, schools were estfib-’
lislicd at Powelton, Ejatntou, Madison, Ath
ens, GreAisboro’, Wasfogton, Sparta and
other parts of, the State .'and the cause from
that'day to this has heenteadily progressive.
These schools, in some eges, Haw. been the
fruit of individual entorpae.; but more gen
erally ths neighborhood, bounty, er die
religious denomination, hay beeortie the spe
efal patsons, providing. anye budding for the
establishment and funds aoquate to sustain
it. It is now perhaps -twenr years since the
Hon. Grigsby-E. Thomas,oColumbus,thdn
a member of the Legislatu\, brought in a
bill for the endowment aVmale college,
and fnade a powerful appea’in its behalf;
and though he failed to effects object with
the Legislature, the public t*k it up, ajd
one was established at ’(icon upder
Methodist auspices. The Jtanyteriansnave
now two, one at GreensboiP yd th/ other
at Griffin; and how many otßej tjihre are,
we cannot say. But this much ty,/ can ven
ture to say, that to no one piter|Jse is Geor
gia so deeply indebted far her jesent pros
perity as to the zeal whh has len diffused
through her borders y the causof female
education. In this /spect she U*g the lead
of the other Souths™ States, thoujb some of
them give indie/* 0118 that diey as not dis
posed to be fyd*ohind.
Ankcd/®- — Tli e following is Uejidedly
store-keeper, a few djU since,
an hlsh woman a qteitity of
butt/™e himps of which intended fo\pinds,
in the balance and fouiU vant-
Cl'” “Sure it’s yer own fault, if tU>j are
Jsglit,” said Biddy, in reply to the
of the buyey, “it’s yer own fault, sir, fodwisn’t
it a pound of soap I bought here mesnf, that
I had in the other end of the scales Vrhan I
weighed cm ?” The store-keeper had nothing
more to say on tlie subject
OIK COFNTBY’S GOOD IS OIKS.
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From the Journal <fc Messenger,
ffcv” We publish on flue first page of our
issue to day, the great speech of Mr. Webster,
at Buffalo, in May, 1851, and we ask our rea
der's to give it an attentive perusal. This
speech is the great point of attack against
Mi Webster in Georgia, as it contains the
strongest avowals of his anti-slavery opinions;
aim yet there is nothing in it, absolutely no
thing wliieh should injure Mr. Webster in the
estimation of proslavery men. His opinion
is, that every foot of territory in the United
States has already ■ received - a fixed and de
cided character, either by the laws of nature or
of Congress. By his votes, a:id by his speed -
es in the Senate, during the discussion of
the Compromise Measures, ho is committed
in favor of the introduction of- new States,
wliieh may be formed out of the territory of
Texas, Utah and New Mexico, “with or with
out slavery, as their Constitutions may pre
scribe, at the time of their admission.” This
is an express provision of the act by which
Texas was admitted in 1845; and sneaking
®f ten ttonr upon the NoHhern nud JVoitli
£asteny boundaries of the republic ; but op
posed/° the acquisition of any which lies
upOpdts South-Western bowler. Hero are
hj/bwn W ords, taken from a letter in favor
/f the nuiiexatioii o/ Canada, written in
1849 : “thtrugli ojiposrcl to incorporating with
us any district densely peopled u ith the Mexi
can race, I should be most happy to fratern
ize with our Northern and North Eastern
neighbors .” He does not say one word of
slavery in this letter ; but every intelligent
man must perceive that a system of annexa
tion, such ns the one proposed by him, which
contemplates the acquisition of no territory
which is not by the decree of the Almighty
closed against slavery forever, must strength
en the cuuse of Free-soil and weaken that of
slavery. We ask the voters of Georgia to
choose between the position of Mr. Webster
and General Scott, upon this point, which
must hereafter vitally effect the institution of
slavery.
At the time when this Buffalo speech was
made by Mr. Webster, the Compromise bills
had passed, and the question was, whether
the Northern people would execute the fugi- i
tive slave law. Fanatics, at the North, i
preached a law of conscience higher than the 1
Constitution of their country, which they
pretended sanctioned its violation. And 1
when Daniel Webster opposed the weight of i
his opinion and his influence against their <
miserable sophistry.- and denouced them as I
of wliieh, Mr. Webster said, on the’ 7th of
March, 1850, “7 know no way, I candidly con
fess, in u-hich this Government, acting in good
faith, as I trust, it always will', ran relieve it
selffrom that stipulation and pledge by am/
honest course of legislation whatever.” This
provision is also embraced in the bills for the
organization ofthe territories of Utah and
New Mexico. So that Mr. Webster is com
mitted to the doctrine of non-interference by
the General Government, on the subject of
slavery, in all the territories now within the
Union, out of which slave States can, by any
possibility, bo formed, and bound to vote for,
die admission of these slave States, if the peo
ple of any portion of these territories choose
to recognise slavery in the Constitution, under
which they may organise themselves into a
State. With regard to any further acquisi
tions of territory, Mr. Webster reiterates in
his Buffalo speech his opposition to the ad
mission of any more territorry into the Union,
whether slave or free, because his objections
to such admission are Constitutional—are the
same which were entertained and expressed
by Mr. Jefferson at the time of tho purchase
of Louisiana, and apply with equal force to
free as to slavth territory. Here, then, we
have a plain statement of Mr. Webster’s
opinions upon the subject of the territories;
now within the Union, and his unqualified dis
approval of any further acquisition of terri
tory. ‘To show how completely upon this
■ latter point he reflects the opinions ofthe Inde
pendent Whigs of Georgia, who recently nomi
nated him for the Presidency, we give below
the 9th resolution- ol* their platform :
“9. Believing the limits of our Union, ex
tending between Oceans, from the British
Possessions to the Mexican Republic, are al
ready large enough -forall tKe purposes of
national prosperity and power, we are utterly
opposed to all further acquisitions of'tmitoi y
whatever, whether bought with the ti-easy 0
of the country, or the blood of her /w‘
pie.” ‘ ‘ /
The opinions of Mr. Webster —of Gen.
Pierce, and of'Gen. Scytt, on the
slavery, are,'ip mahy respects, Ipriponious.
All ot.them vihw it as asocial political
eyil; and aH of theni desire i/H8 abolition.
But let us contrast tho of Mr. Web
ster upon the subject of lusher acquisitions—
the.point upon which mo battle between
slavery and Free-SoiTO.vet to bo fought and
detdtftfined with, tl/opinibirs of Gen, Scott
upon the same spAject. Mr. Wei is ter is op
posed to any acquisitions, whether they
shall streiigtffiu the cause of- or
slavery, k/o. seott is hi favor o£acquieitions
traitors in his Buffalo speech, every one ap
plauded his boldness, and hailed him as the
Great'-Djefemttr of thy Constitution. And
wheirin the same speech he declared that
“he would maintain to jth'e-nihftost of his pow
er and in the face of all danger,, the rights of
the South under the Constitution, and the
rights of the North under the Constitution,” j
and called upon God, “to forsake him, and
his children, if ever he was found to falter in
one or the other,” the whole couniry was im
pressed with the conviction, that Daniel Web
ster in office would be governed alone by the
Constitution of Ids country. The people
trusted him when the danger was imminent,
and when the public opinion of the North, ar
rayd against him, could not drive him from
his position. He is trustworthy still. We
copy from the Washington Union, of the 31st
ot May, 1851, the Metropolitan organ of the
Democratic Party', the following comments
upon Mr. Y\ ebster’s Buffalo speech, that this
contemporaneous testimony, from his oppo
nents, may silence those who attack and de
nounce this speech. The Vyjon, in a passage
following the one we quote,“declares that Mr.
Webster had been “great and patriotic” in
the battle against Northern fanaticism, and
objects to nothing in his Buffalo speech but
its Whiggory’fT
“We transfer to our columns to-day.the
two speeches delivered by this distinguished
man to the people of Buffalo. The last has
evidently been prepared with great care, and
may be considered somewhat in the form of a
prosidetial message. After a careful perusal
of it, we are freetosay that we have risen from
our seats with more favorable impressions of
the character of Mr. Webster than we have
ever had before. For candor, fairness of
statement, and the enthusiasm of honest and
patriotic conviction, we have seen no docu
ment emanating from the leaders of any party
more entitled to commendation. He seeks
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are on the turf—one is a regular old war
horse, a little stiff in the joints from bad man
agement, and somewhat troubled with the
Botts. He is, however, full of pluck, though
good judges say he bolds his head too high
for n funr mile circuit. Opposed to him is-a
young horse from the Granite- Hills, ’clean
limbed, light bodied, head ‘well out, joits Iris
feet square to the ground with a springy mo
tion, lias rtm well upon the quater Stretch, and
has all the points of good wind and bottqin.
Old sport smeh are betting on him, two to one,
against the field. The tl.i and horse is the old
Defender, from Mnssacusett*—
* “In truth, he is a notilo Steed,
A Tartar of the Ukraine breed”
But he has been sadly neglected and knock
ed up by drudgery as a dray horse. He fires
iip with wonderful energy, notwithstanding,
at the tap of the drum ; and as it was impossi
ble to hold him back at Baltimore, it has been
determined to give him a chance, although at
the great disadvantage of being next to the
outside. But outside of all comes the jolly’
Free Soiler, from New Hampshire. He is
a lively, blackish colored woolly horse, good
deal of wind and gas, but not much bottom,
rather heavy in flesh for a long heat, but full
of deviltry. Everybody believes he will run
foul of old Chippewa or Young Hickory from
the start, and throw one or the other of them all
of a heap, before the race is over. It is very
much feared, from a bad habit of his jockeys, i
that he will give old Chippewa a horrible fall 1
in turning the short corner of Ohio. In fact, i
we have reason to fear that at various points i
of the course, the old Massachusetts hay, as I
well as Free Soiler, will jostle Seward, the I
rider of Chippewa, very roughly, so much 1
so that the knowing ones refuse to bet upon i
either the regular whig horse or his rider, i
But,
Dropping the parreble, each of the four |
candidates before the people is a remarkable 1
man. Gen Scott is the greatest military chief
tian, and can produce a longer catalogue of i
killed and wounded than any hero in the i
Union. Mr. Webster is immeasurably the
most learned and powerful constitutional i
statesman of the day. Gen. Tierce is, by all
odds, the most sagacious and sure footed poliJ J
tician of them all, while Hale is tbe
\ Terms—OOF in advance,
1 $3 00 at the end oi'the year.
torious wit and joker that ever split the sides
of the old logics of the Senate with a roar of
laughter. Thus we have the perfection of
military science, th >• ’f'-ction of statesman
ship and diplomacy ‘ ‘ oliticul
tactics, and the per . n
ery and ground an c : o
fit-id together. Tic i
tensely interesting in t. ■ < &a
we ball be able t- “ :: /e*
suit. It looks bad . j> -t,
but it'max, improve Li* <? crvLcy.. find
whip up.— N. Y. Ji ~.ild
Ou'serv !f.-:u of M'U;’ 1 rlactples
3. • last -tc ■nthem'Recorder,
contains alt admit - ; “ on the present
state of political affairs, and sets forth the
conservative tende, y of Whig over progres-y
sire democratic doctrines, in the following
calm and <’i-passionate paragraphs : /
But for the prevalence of the opposLK™”
fluence, we believe war would have 1 ’”
avoided with Mexico, and all the/ ou “ j
flowing to the country from that Or e ’ a *
most to the disruption of the Utr’” 1 ’ al j“ *°
the actual estrangement of a * ar H®
mass of the people towards tF* ,1,0n ’ wou
have been avoided likewg*
In all the excitemei/ { ™ m ® orri *“ *•
Foreign Intervention, / believe that experi
ence has demonstrate t *' at or t^le restrains
of whig coiiservatisr the countr y wou,d ba ™
been involved i/alnmitieo, the end or the
scope of which/® t ‘ ntirel >’ b< *y ond the reach
of human into4 ,en * e to grasp.
In a word^’ e believe, ad are ready at all
times to aT to the FBI le reason of our
faith th/while on the one hand, the genius
of tho/ emocrat ' c party, is that of wild and
reck’* 8 adventure, misnamed Progress, which
Ul ytrained would speedily plunge the coun-
Zjf into an ocean of confusion and disaster—
me genius of the other party, is that of pru
dence and discretion. wliieh cleaving to
landmarks laid down by the patriotism and
wisdom that have gone before us, and eschew
ing with something like religions horror, the
mad schemes of the Douglass’ and young
America, may be always relied on to con
duct the public interests safely in powe*—
or if in the minority, at least to restrain the
recklessness of the other party, and in some
good,jdegree to preserve the country hantiless
from its ultraism.
This we conoeive-to be the high vocation
of the whig party—this we conceive to be
the danger from the supremacy of the other.
And on this would we of choice prefer to urge
the dims of our party before the people, fair
ly discussing the principles and tendencis of
each party, and eschewing the system of
mere personal disparagement, which we re
gret to see so prevalent.
Hr. Webster’s Position.
The Boston Courier of the 10th inst., says:
“Mr. Webster’s health is improving. ’The
rtfr, shing breezes of the ocean have already
had an improving effect upon him, and Ilia
catarrh is subsiding. He finds time to super
intend the affairs of his great farm, to fish a
little, shoot some, besides attending to tho
business of the State Department which be
longs to his duties. A few weeks in Marsh
field will no .doubt, restore him to perfect
health and strlSgth. W e see it stated
lious quarters that Mr. \1 ebster contemplates
publishing an address to his friends adrjsnig
them as to tho course which they ought to
pursue, and urging About to refrain troin us
ing bis*name’ in connection with the Presi
dency. ‘These statements are put forth by
eyitors of Scott papers,- —gentlemen who o|>-
posed Mr. Webster’s interests at Baltimore,
on grounds of private malice, and afterward*
exulted in the result of the doings at the Con
vention. Mr. Webster Inis written no letter
upon the subject of the Presidential election,
nor w ill he do so in a “few days.” His friends
have not solicited Lis advice as to how they
should vote in. November next, as they have
not l.e will hardly volunteer it. All specula
tion and threats on the part of Mr. Webster’s
enemies are useless; they cannot break his
silence.
General Pierce’* Horse
Editors Atlas : A day or two since I
was informed by an eye-witness of the facts
relating to the story of General Pierce’s horse
being shot under him while on inarch to the
city of Mexico. My informant was a soldier
in the Mexican war, and at this time belonged
to Pierce’s body guard, and was acting as such.
It was before they reached the National
Bridge, I think, that the General’s horse was
shot. For, bo it understood, the horse was
shot through the neck, and never used after.
At the time he was shot he was tied to a bag
gage wagon, in the rear ofthe troops, and at
tho same time General Pierce was riding in a
wagon near the front of the march, at a dis
tance of five or six miles from his horse, and be
tween w'hom werolsome tour thousand bwi.
This can be verified by affix*—* *f any o
the General’s fiiei*d’ - 1 ’ _.
lam no* - , ed v ' lu ‘ th ' ,r or “Pierce’s
y - dsShot through at the same timo. G. Z.
—Boston Atlas.
NO. 22.