TELEGRAPHIC
Report of the Press Associwllon.
rTITaccordiog to the Act of Congress, in J
asi by J. S TnsASHS, in the Clerk's OfSce of
.vt Court of the Confederate States for the h
the year
the Dig-
Northern
pietrict of Georgia
OFFICIAL- ABMY NEW3.
BICHMOND, Deo. 2t.-T!ie following dispatches were
rectiv;d to nfght :
E,ir(j'Bi, AEMY JfOiTH53N VlRQlMl, D3C 21th.
h the Bon. James A. eddon:
2 rten Breckinridge repons that the easray after havlog
ronehly hand ed ia the engagerr n's on Saturday and
"j.t near Marion having msuy killed and wrunded,
Xd possession of SallTiUa 5nrl,;fr the o the 20th.
Ill , psrrison retreated up ihe Ric Valley. His dance
,,id there on the 21st at daylight, aid retirirg
flit D'ght ard morricg of the 22d towards Hector's Gap.
g,, brine pursued. Onr trw ps are bearieg the ex
posure and fatigue with great cbeerfn'nr-ss. 1 ha damge
5. to the works can soon be repaired. Many Bridges
j notiAtn on the railroad have been burne!.
ni vvH-'-
(Signed)
H. E. LEE.
TTffiTin'na A. W. Vl.. nr 24th.
Gen Fit tee reports that the force that attacked Oen.
, " ax cs'erd ty. conBiated of two divisions of tbe enemy's
i vilry coder TorVett. Lomx was posted acres Medi
al tnrcpik4, VJ rai:B from Gordorsviile. The enemy were
JicdBcmelj rei uleed, attd retired about 3 P. M., h-avbg
foms of his dead on the field. He traveh d too rapidly laat
rioht 'o euKHge him. his rear passed Jack' Shops, 12
mSes irom Uordonsville, 1 hrur afteT dark. Thirij-two
iltlBorers were captured at Liberty Mills on the 22d, being
nnaMe to keep np o the retr at and were liberated. Lo
om's 1m was Blight.
FBOM THE UNITED STATES.
Tbe Baltimore American, evenbg edition .f the 22d hint.,
hj ben received.
Tnree m ;ro of the Alban raiders hava been rearrest
ed bj tho Canadian authorities a-d are undergoing exm-
'BFamgut has been appointed Vice Adtciral ia toe Yan
kee navy.
The steamer Vcrmerly, ha been seized at Nassau for
violation of military laws. ahs boirg an armed vetaei.
A telegram from HopkinnvilJo, av that Brtc"or;k struck
par of Lyon'B command at that place at daylight on the
16th lost.
Tte evacuation of Savarnab was e Octed withouk, losi,
txcept a to such niaerivla .a coild not be tracsp JTted.
Ti e Uat trooi s'of the iine crossed the river at i hi eo A. M.,
cn Tndy evening. Oar tro ps held the bridgs nctil af
ter 8 o'clock, whan it was demroed by onr forces. The
roamy occupied t' city which had been surrendered by
tte Ut or, under 11 ig of truce, about 5 o'clock, P.M.,
Tacsday.
CONGIIEriS.
Ficomokd, Dec. 26th, 18G1.
In the llou-e on ata;d.iy, J. II. Leach submitted a reso
lntion declaring that the writ of habeas coipua cnght not
to be suspended except it extreme cajes, whore ths ?mb
He safety imperatively demands it ; that the pecp'e are
ooiied in the great e rnggle for liberty, the tz ge-.cy of tho
esse Justify irg Us Enapei Binn. The resolution wa8 rfjiCt
ti, yeas 31 naB 41. Tho currency bKl wus tahen op and
passed. Viii bb resolutions of ccqauy were adopted,
aiier which the Honse adj jurned until Wednesday next.
FROM TUS IKiTTSD STATED.
Richmond, Dec. 2Gth,
The Baltimore American, of the 23d, contains nothing cf
interest.
A Nashvilla telegram report Iht Hood atiil continues to
retreat, pressed by Thjmae.
Gold 221.
COL. 1HJSB7 WOUNDED.
Fxid!bickeuk9, Va., Dec. 27th, lf64.
Tke gallant Col. Mosby received a dargsreu but not
aortal wound on last Wednesday, lie ii ia our hands ard
well cared for.
A raiding party of tho enemy landed ia WeBtia island on
Kondey, committed a good many depredates, ard then
ltft.
FBOSt THE UNITED HTATE3 AND EUROPE.
Richmond, Dec. 27 h, lSd'4.
The Washington Chronicle of the 25th lmt., haa been re
ceived. It contains no war news of interest.
The tteamers Old Dominion, Wild Rover, Little Hattle,
Eatshee aid Agnes Fry had arrived at Nassau from Wil
mirgton. Toe Pyrea, Marmicn, ivelyn and Kemlworth
had returned in diitress. The Virginia, Han?a, Ecla, Kate
Gregg, Charlotte, Will o-the-Wisp, Stormy Petrel. Little
Battie, Bjicn and Star had sa:ied to rua tho blockade.
Earopean advices of tho lGth utiva been received. The
news Is unimportant.
Th London Tim's urge a tha openiog of negotiationj to
close the Arrericaa war, saying that it emit cozxe to thi3 at
lut.
Cotton waa unchanged.
NORTHERN REPORTS FR'JJI HOOD'3 AR1IY.
Ric-'juond. Dec. 27th, ISfil.
New York papers of the 21th contain a telegram from
Franklin, Doc. 22d, which sayB the rebel retreat to Duck
river beggars all description. Gen. Cheathanr told his
aant (Miss Page,) that Hoed was ordered to Nashville
sgsinst h's own wishes, but he blames Hoed for not attack
ing Echofleld at Bpring Bill.
A Kashville telegram of tie 23d says that Hood's army
was at Pulaski cn the 22d. The water on the shoal3 ia fif
teen feet deep.
Bebel deserters report that tho orly effictive corps in
Hood's army is Lea's.
From the Charlottesville Chronicle.
Bot rtdder yet those fires shall glow
On Linden's bilU of blood s'ain'd enow,
And darker yet shall be the fljw
Of Iser robiLg rapidly
The combat deepens on ye brava !
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Eiht months of fighting and we are net done jet.
The flames barstoat afresh. The land trembles egrfin
tinder moving armies. Here the war-torreat plough
ita way through a State to the sea. Thcra the clouds
have met and we know not which was the stronger.
Here in Virginia, after a alight lull, the thunder rolls
angrily across the sky again the prelude to a crash.
Fighting in Georgia fighting ia Tennessee an attach
menaced at Richmond the spoiler sweeping through
Northern Virginia this does not look like the clcae ol
a campaign.
May Gcd protect oar brave trmies ! Lit us at th;s
moment turn our thoughts to ilim. Do we not feel
that He mingles in this contest? Are we cot now
conFcious however mcieduIou3 befbre that Lie dois
in truth intervece in human efiiirs ? We aim at a
practical result , we have endeavored to impress senti
ment before ; we would have the people vividly rea ize
that there is a Foreign Intervention of no mean Fo-
teatate within iteir rtoch. He preserves the balance
of oower He puts himself forward in others' quarrels
without explanation aud without ceremoney lie com
manda the peace when p ace ia desirable Ie adjusts
international disputes He Jajs bis Laid on the thun
derbolts of war, atd qietiches the lurid Causes of the
beiching artillery. We have indulged dreams of othr
intervention ; we have nursed the wildest fancies of Eu
ropean embroilments we will not cneneh this we
will not, ia desperate ungodliness of the human heart,
accept thia thought that God is indeed an actual pow
er, and a rertible actor in these occurences. To do so
were to take the first great step ia securing the exer
tion of that power in our interest ; we never will im
press it into our cause, until we genuinely and opera
tive believe in its reality. Navonal iufidelity Ictds
the flames of the war causes them to burs, forth wito
ever renewed fierceness in one quarter and another
gives volume to the thunders and vividness to the light
nings. This ia a 6ubtle power back of all material
agencies back of the impalpable elements of light,
heat, electricity, magnetism, aud momentum what
scientific men denominate the principle of force that
unnameable qaaiity of epirit which mock3 at all
physical combinations and smites with impotency the
devices and contrivances of man. Man in liis myste
rioos ezistenceh as access to even this, and lays it un
der requisitions which gives bim a power that fljws
"from the fountain of pover itself. If ha had faith even
as a grain of mustard seed, ye should say to yonder
mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the
depths of the sea, and it Bhould obey you." Was this
an idle transcendentalism an unmeaning bravura of
the author of Christianity ? The fervent, determined
praye of the Christians of this Contederacy would
burst the very gates of heaven, and call upon our f jes
such a storm as would tear up their foundations, as the
match pours its curren t into the mine which rends the
solid frame worn of the hearth.
A worthy couple in Detro t had twins baptiz:d the
Other day, and in order that they might tell one from
the other, tied a piece of ribbon arcuod the arm cf one,
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woicu a stupia servant gin removea aiier me Dapiismai
'MMmnnv mA 4lt nnnnt toll tt U InU ; Ml:U f
Naaaoxs Ekdbayobikg to Rbttjbn Bouts. The Marianna
(Fla.) Hews learns ihat about 150 of the negroes captu.-ed
ia tkia county in the late raid, attempted to eicape from
Psniaoola, hiving become tired ot the treatment of their
brutal matters, the Yankees, and got as far aa ast Paea,
when not having a pilot, and being ignorant of the route
borne, they got ao further, and were recaptured by the
UCSJji who were -;veral daji huniifig (or them.
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From the Manchester Guardian.
GREAT WOEKB OP TI1K AGE IN EUROPE.
RAILWAY THROUGH THK ALTS. '
"We are glad to learn that this schema ia progressing,
end that it is likely to be attended with a success com
mensurate with the magnitude of the undertaking.
There are at present in Switzerland three gentlemen
representing the board of directors of ihe Central Eu
ropean Railway Company canity : Mr. Cave, sheriff
of London and Middlesex ; Mr. Walford, a director of
the Finance Ccrporatioc, acd Mr. J. W. Maclure, of
Manchester. They went cot to inaugurate the com
mencement of the works.
The orject cf the lice, as'is known, is to connect tie
lines running from Oatend to. Rotterdam to Basle, with
the Lombardian and Italian systems, thereby shortening
the cverlaDd route to India by about four hundred milts,
or sixty tours, making England independent of France,
by cflordicg a rail route tbtough Belgium and Switzer
land, neutral countries, in the event of a European war.
The line to be made will leave the Lombardo VeneMan
railway at Ccmo, acd run by Chiasso, Lugano and Bel
idZ)no to Biasca. rJ hence it will take either the pass of
the Saint Gothard, or the Luckmaoier Pass, accordiog
to the decision of tte Swiss federal government. A
letter from a member of the deputation, dated the 18th
inst., states that on the previous d iy the deputation,
with the local representatives of the compat-y, fcignoi
Cattan&o, end others, visited the woika at Lugano,
where thy were received with salvos of artillery.
The muted bands of the canton cf Tictno played in
front of the Fiotel where the deputation stayed, and the
mayor, with the landing inhabitants, pv.d tuern compli
mentary visits, prior to their interview with tte gov
ernment of the canton. It was hoped that very ehortly
about ten miles of the line would be open for traffic. Oo
the 2i)th inat. the deputation was to meet the Ftde
ral govcrcment at Berne, where tbey expected to
learn what the government eubventioa would be.
The line irom Como to Biasca is estimated to cost
about a million an'i a half, of which about seven hun
dred and filty thousand pcucds is already issued and
held by British capitalists.
TRAMWAY ON MOUNT CEMS.
Newspaper readers have at different tlmrs been in
formed of the proposal submitted by Mr. Fell, in con
cert with Messre. BrBSfy at.d Jackson, to the French
and Italian gcverLments, for laying down a tramway
on the pneent Mount Cenis route, covering the same
with wooden, iron atd s one gaiKries, and working it
by means of a new i.nd lighter fpecies of locomotive,
40 that the divance between Suaa and St. Michael,
which now takes ten. m'ght be eafey and regularly
traversed ia a period of from four to five hours. The
first striea of theBe Mount Cenis locomotive experi
ments, tor producing a low engine capable of carrying
a train of one hundred paseuers, wiib their luggage,
over the mountain, have bad satisfactory result?. The
trials have been rmde on an incline cf one in thirteen
(the Mount Cenis btin one in twelve,) and the ex
p timentat ergine, anew one, oa Mr. Fell's peculiar
system, ha? taken up acd down the entire load pro
posed, wbije the break power for descending is most
perfect. A great number of practical and scientific
meti have been witneesirjg these locomotive e-speiimtn s
with much iutcrest, and now a second series of experi
ments i3 U3t beiDg commerced viz : on a gradient or
twelve, and curves of thirty and fifty metres radius
combined, for which a piece of line is in process of
construction, the fnc simile of the Mount Cenis.
TEIAL OP AN ALPINE LOC03IOTIV8.
From the Liverpool Tos'.J
An interesting trial of a locomotive eDgine built upon
novel principles at the Canada works, Birkenhead, took
place lately at Whaley bridge, on the Crooaford acd
High Peak railway, and upon a Bhort line made espe
cially for the experiment. The engine is conttructed
to ascend and dtecend sleep gradients, to pass sharp
curves, and to perform work wbicd locomotives as yet
have never been able to acornplieh.
The practical object cf this invention cannot but be
greatly interesting, inasmuch a3 it prepeses to run a
line cf railway for p&esengers, mails and merchandise
over the very heart of the Alp?, and aloDg a road hith
erto considered impassable for locomotives. It is the
well known military read hewn out of such giant diffi
culties by the first Napoleon tbatlt i3 thu3 contempla
ted to traverse. At present there is a tract of moun
tain pas? forty-eight miles in length between the two
great railway systems of Franca and North Italy, the
terminus of the former being San Michel, in Savoy, and
the latter Suse, in Piedmont. The Mount Cenis, by
which this district is known, has been considered bj
important for purposes of traffic that the French aad
Italian Governments five years ago commenced the ex
cavation of a tunnel to remove the difficulties so cften
felt. At the lowest computation this great underta
king will fake twelve years to complete. The proposed
railway over the surface of the pass will only be two
years in makiog, and the projectors would, therefore,
have ten years of working before the tunnel was avail
able for trc flic. The district has been thoroughly sur
veyed by Mr. Fell, in connection with a compiny of
well known English capitalists and contractors, and the
scheme has met with the approbation of the Italian
Government. The present road is sufficiently wide to
accommodate the railway and leave room for local traf
fic, and the nsal engineering labors cf tunneling, etc.,
will not be required.
The chief difficulty, however, is that which the new
locomotive is especially designed to overcome namely
the excessive steepness. Starting from San Michel, the
read gradually rises as far as the village of Lanslebcurg,
whence it takes a rapid ascent, with gradients of one in
twelve to the summit of the pas, which is seven thou
sand feet above the level of the sea. From this point
there is an equally rapid descent to Suee. In addition
to this rising and falling there are frequent sharp
curvet It is proposed to cover in those portions of the
line where it is known avalanches and snow drifts fall.
The loccmotiva to be employed here is, in fact, a dou
ble engine, a horizontal and vertical ecgioe combined,
and so arranged that it may be worked either together
or separate, accoruiog to the eterpness of the lccune.
ISot the least feature of the invention 13 the safety that
it ensures. 1 he horizontal wheels referred to above fa
cilitate passage ot curves, enables the driver tcstop the
engine in the middle of the steepest gradient, give a pro
pulsive pressure ol several tons, and by means or the
flanges which uoderlep the centre rail, renders it nearly
impossible teat the carnage can be overturned, ihe
biuke? are extremely powerful, and, as tbey are attach
ed to each carriage, no danger can arise from a coup
ling chain giving way. 1 he exti eme narrowness of the
gaue renders the curves Ites difficult to pasa, gives
more room for the public road, and gready absis'? in
erecting the covered ways for the more dangerous parts.
ine trials on lutrsaay were m every way successful,
and for once the hign peak pioved an aid rv-her than
an obstacle to the ergineer. lhe"e were two inclines ;
the nrst beug two hundred yards lone-, at a gradient
of one in thirieen, and the otner one hundred and fity
yards long, at a gradient ot one in twtlve, with curves
uf about two chains radios. This repnsents the most
d.fficult part of the Mont Cenis road. Ihe shortness ol
the lit e upon which the experiment was made preveot-
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ta me uu geuing up 01 sieum. aoa ine inai may mere-
fore ba taken a3 a lair test. The locomotive itself,
weighing sixteen tuns, but with a tractive force of thir
ty two tuns first ascended and descended the lines,
stopping in the middle, and going backwards aud for
wards us required, with pertect easa. Four w.-gom,
faden with twenty six tuns of. ballast, were then attach
ed, and the experiment was repeated with equally satis
factory results. It is proposed to work the Mont Ce
nis line at an average speed of twelve miles, thus per
forming the journey in from four to five hours. The
number ot passengers will not exceed one hundred and
ninety equivalent to twenty four tuns.
A Word of Encouragement. We would add a
few encouraging wu-is to the religious soldiers. Keep
ap the spirit of religion by reading the word of God,
by self examination , and by earnest prayer. If your
Chaplain is called away do not neglect the re zular pray
er meetirjg ; come together and mutually encourage one
another in the service of God. JSever be ashamed ol
your religion, confess Christ, not with ostentation, but
humbly, sincerely, g'adly, before any nan, from the
lowest private to tlie highest General. Keep yourself
free from the .vices of the camp. Never iudnlge in sin
fal amusements to kill time ; if you do, sin will, in the
end, kill your soul. Resolve that if God shall spcre
your life, you will return to yoar home a pure and true
man, and it you Bhould fall, you will fall as a Christian
praying, " Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.'
Unconverted soldier ! t ike a lew words of advice and
warning. You are still bpared. God has shielded your
bead ia many battles. What return have you made ?
Are you still thoughtless, profane, and openly wicked ?
Stop, reflect. Yqu may be killed in the next skirmish
or battle. How would you appear before the Judge ?
Ah ! you know jou would nave to charge your rum to
your own neglect of salvation. While you read this,
resolve to change your life : begin now to pray. There
is mercy for you. The door of the Kingdom is before
you, knock and it shall be open. Soldier's Paptc.
A man may declaim about religion without having much
of it. It does not follow that one's stomach Is fall of food
because he talis with, victuals lochia mouth,
"THE CLOTHES LIK."
A clcthts line to yonder garden
Oocb wandering amoog th trees,
And on it two very long atockfnes
Are kickicg the eveiing breez9 i
And a lot of fancy dry poods,
Whose nature I cannot defioe,
Are wildly and merrily flopping
About that same old line. ,
And a very s!y yonr $r lady
At 1he parlor window sews ;
Ard I rather th'nk if you trd it.
You'd flsd shft'd fit into ilum hoae ;
She's only a half lrgtb picture,
Foreshortened below thn breast,
Bt the dry good which daece on the tight rope
Oat yonder, jist mike up the rest.
8") dream-lik-j, she seras so geniie.
You'd Uiiuk her tro goud for estjth ;
And I feel thit a holier Bpir't
Ia banialiisg vu gar mir h 1
To iB word'y hon.a by jingo.!
What a flmrish that muslin throws !
Ard how uncommonly taper
These f-tockiuga go t ff at the toea.
O, eyes, like the sky when it' bluest !
O, hair ! like ti e iiislit without 'ar !
O muslin iid h s ! I can't help it 1
Ye still draw my tht.uhti inr "thar!"
The lady alone is Btnttatitid',
The ctct!-e b it a fancy idal.
Yet Kcnvho crchT COtifl.U'Jd it
I've mixed op th slum and it n.s.;."
O Lcve ! yu-e the Baa' o'd jcr.er.ee
With ths poet, the muff or th brick;
You go no with a ru?h liks a ro"cfct-t,
Bat corxe dowc a', last l:ka c Gtcs ;
And let love thoughts be loi y i.r lowly,
P!atonic, or flish, I op'no
'ihat they a!!. like new dy trooda and clock ng3.
Belt-'Eg title very b.ii.t line.
From tbo M,. Louh fienubKcan.
TROUBLES OF DkaH'-D itJA.
At. ten o'ekek jerterday Dosuirg, w'.i e letnrn'rsg from
the fire al Fagto's mill, a d'rr.inciivo African thimt iutoU'
hard the following note, wLic we lead by th light f a
ri'e biasing of bAi :
' I a.n drafted Come and si c me.
"JSNKS."
We went We fonnd Jer.t- ia the seventh sory ci ac"i!aj5
daed building in the sa -n;h tie waa lvwg na shuL
uia'rafcB, en d,.shaoi'l' thu is, with to. bin on bui a shirt,
aud " joor usm' phisier " i f ei.o-ruoua tize np ti e s;nU
of his back. It is jB'.aJof r.s lay h on? corner of ti e
room, lookintr f Oioucb he had jumped cat of then: ; hit
cot was hi read out cu ti e fi icr ai;d hiB vts'had loused
in a nebt f cobw ta on the bed pes. A wsriha:and wa
drawn cear the bed, aiid a tallow eatCle b uck ;ii a fiodi
b' ttie, tbrew a ieeble light ovrrhs epir aoefit. Ou tie
wafb8'and was half a dozen bottles ot vancua e:z-, one
contained rfoothmjj ryusi," snother : -uC'Dk' b- niip
crdia," acd anoiher 'P. uofj." A to. I s f wall paper
wa cn the ash and, and on the "inroth nu'e 1 r,g
rows of Metn and scratches ir.ieud d to rt.'s for writing.
At the top of thu e-.roH weread, " La&t will d ub em 11
il me, Ja ha "
We approached the b- djiue. ai d Jecka ta tched out his
hand iu a leetlo rcaoter fcudtaid :
Ycu have come 111 time. 1 am not long 'c r thip woild.
Oh, it was a cruci blow Fee p;e crc!!v interred, with
rry boot-juck under my head, acd the pLotoprath of E&iiy
cn my bosom, face upward "
Wh tiie dace ia Emi:j ?"
" i rcilj Pccaboi taB I u ean isi'y Thrno &h ra? hoj,
that tioru h-s been Biickin? in rr.y fccarttv.jr inc a loog
time ego. B' n has cetia'red m-i from t bo privilege of Pt-e-ing
f cr, bnt I've beei wi hia the eonni uf her voice cvry
nifcht. Hand ire that bottle co, tothr om."
'Which, ihe poison I"
Jetks took tb' bottle, and raieiog hiccself rtp in bed,
held it up. to his lips for about trn Uftooa mivuits.
"That's a pretty pood draught."
"Iiyit; its old Bouibon. A pretty gcod (fri t ! ?i'o,
it's the orst drBtt 1 6er elt in my lif. Jus to thir.k of
me, Jsnk9, being draf .ed tie fhipcp 1 But it.'a jcat uaj
luck :
k 'Twas ever thu3 from cbildhaod's hcur,
When 1 at other's woea Lave laughed,
The Piovost Marrha!, grim and a nr.
Hr-a drawn me in his horrid draft."
41 Bat yen may eecape you may humbog tho f'.numfa
Bioner b ttlUrg him yea -au too tid, or too youi ; that
yoa are ucEOond, ccnsuoiptivii, cr an alien, cr eouie:Ling
else."
'Can 1 ? Well, the fact is, between yon and rx.enndthc
gate poBt, I am a little past the fga I was orty-f.va last
week."
'Wrea wers you born?"
"Tn the year 1828 "
'Then you are only thirty-six J"
"Lend mo your pencil: you don't know Low to figure.
Thii is the year 18C4, aid't it ? Very good ; subtract
irom 186 1 ; 8 lrcm U, and 6 remains ; i from 6 and 4 re
mains ; 18 from 13 and naught regain tsfcre U is to a
fraction; I'm fjrty-sia; CgnreH ron't lie."
" Bat McDonald nabs a d'llerpnt arithm:t;c. Yea had
better try and pass for eighteen."
"What, witti all thia hair oj iny iac-j ! Lat I've got in
other dodge."
"What', that?"
'Tte piles 1 Look here 1" an! Jenks arose, and oncn
irg an o d leather trunk, displayed two piles of dirty t-1 iris
" Ttiere'a piles enougn to urtaka a wat'herwoT;an cep."
" 'Twont do JenUs. Dr. Eatea wdl pronounce you a
sound man, and yoa had beit?r go. Thu.k of the glory of
eervieg yoar country of the Aiming eulogy that will ap
pear ia the Democrat when you get kuocaed in the Ivi&il
by a canton ball. Go, flghl tor you country
"Breathes there a man with noul bo dsad
Who never .to himself hath E&id.
Thia U my own my native land 1
" Yes, by thunder !" exclaimed Jenk1?, striking his fist
rip on tte naaliftand, and making the bottle cf " poison"
fl a feat into the air, aad upsetting tha "soothing syrup"
and the candle, "yea, by thunder I soch a mun dues
breathe ! I havu't got no native land. I waa born upon
the water on a Mississippi steamboat and my native ul:
meat has rua out into the ocean long ago."
' If that's tte case, they'll put you on a gunboat and
Bend you down to llobile, where some of yoar caMve Mit
tiaiippi water may be lingering behind ths obstructions."
"Avaunt, and qait my eight ! Yu are one of Job's com
forters. I ask you to show rue how to escape the draft,
and you talk to me about gunboate! Give me the boitlu
again."
" If you are really arxious to escape the dra't, Jenks, it
can be done ; but it's & secret, and ycu inu.it premise not
to breathe it to a living eoul." 1
" I awear teil mo, and d n my bu'tciiB if any man,
living or dead, shall loic j it from me w:tii a double acuou
sactiou pump."
" Well let ob that you don't know that yen are drafted,
but aa soon aa the ean is up go out to B rtun Barracks and
iaquire for Col. Catherwood, to I him ou waut a place iu
tue cavalry brigade he is organizing. Teil I im you hive
beeu arreeted b the police, n the charge of vagrancy, (as
you onght to have been lorgago), and that y u want 'o
be sworu in inEtauter. Ho'll put you thrvug i, uud the
draft will never reach ;oa "
"liive me jour hand, old boy ; I'll do h, by hokjy
Here's my will, the testament is iu thj triinK I'm tor
Uatherwoud. or e.ay o'her wood tbat will sriietd me from
the draft. Tell lay wahcrwon aa I'll liquid tte her claim
as soon as I draw my bonn y ; bat. by Ned ! uiy knd ady
aaust tarry at Jericho. Teil her wheu besr bt;conie-a le
gl iftder, and her beef giovr.1 tender. I'll pay ti n oil m
cows' hvH-t and whit ietne-r. I'm tff for Btrtou Brrack
10 j m oalber fiedwood'd brigade.
" O, there'a noL a trada that'a going,
Worth snow it g or knowing
Like 1 hti frooi glaiy growing
Oi the b .u!d kojer bo !"
Whoop T who's afraid or
hon."
the draft. Give ns another
A Foreign Echo A Ftencii gentleman of ripe
cahure who, jas. before the uuibreak cf civil war epu-.
t-tv-ral yebrs iu the Uaueo riia'f-s lor t!.c purpose oi
miuutely ooserviug and SiudiOi; cat iaaniuaous, in a
rtcent private leuer held the lo.ljn;g Ungute wLiicu
was not intended for publication, we translate f -r ou
reaaers, as containing ihd thoughts of au eniigbtened
ureigner qualified ts well by bs own familiar know
ledge of our couotry us by his point of view to look no
it63 intelligently than dispassionate iy on oar struggle.
He says :
I am neutral between the parties to yoar strife, aDd
I thiok that no good can po.8;bly result from it except
by means of .mutual reconciliation. If it is the cauaoo
which has the last word, you may havd conquered sub
jects, but not political Confederals, still le&i friends.
I he Union in such a case would nc longer be anythirg
but a lie, for it cannot be imposed, it would be freely as
sented to.
And on another side of the question, the blaeks trans
forntd into freedom, present a problem which it is not
easy to solve. What shall yoa do with fUur millions
of persons, but yesterday siavisa and degraded, and
.0 day the tqaals of their fjimer masters The pre
judices ot races still so d;ep rooted at the North, and
omen more tenacious at the 6outh, are not to ba ex
tirpated in a day. ' You have proposed to yourselves
lerriole problems before knowicg how you can solve
;hera. Your luture, theieiorf, La big with difficulties,
which, sooner cr later, mast bring on a crisis ana
revolution, the nature of which no man can now foresee,
ilay God save jour country from suil more deplorable
.alamUks ! You are now paying deaily for ioDg years
oi prosperity which you have rua without; burdens. I
cfler leivent prayer tnat you may bodu see the end ol
it. I can truly add that this is the wish of the whole
of Europe ; for, if you have no personal recollection
of revolutions, you must adnait that you are outstrip
ping all other nations in this bloody path, on which
you have entered, and over which trie whole world
mourns. Nat. Jnt.
Lokq IL113 akd Lotltt. The government con
tinues vigorous in its efijrts to puaish we sou and sup
press the lekellion. Dariug the late scare at Washing
ton a portrait painter, named Jobnson, cf that city,
a8 ai rested and coLfiaed iu Fort ifcHeary, because
be wore long bait, which, it i3 charged, be bud said he
would not cut until the independence of the South was
recognized. After several weeks confinement he agreed
to cat hia hair, wLea hs waa released.
tiik guVjkkkqu'S rn.;.C!J..M4To?r.
Gov. Vakce publishes the' following Prodamalion in
the Coniervative cf the 2d insr.:
Wbkb9a8, Toe lorg expected a-fae.k npn our ovlv re
in ini: g seaport 'b oosr about t be mad. aod our 8rae ia
plready 1 kely to be invaded -it other poirti by an enemy
to whom mercv acd civiFziMon are alikjuik-:owi atd'u...
rg&tdd; aud whsrc&s. al! t" oreti:z d fore.-a of th
8ta?e aiead- ordered tr. ths f oat mar s t i :. 1 be ir.sofiicient
to ri II b c 1 ib- t;dc wh oh th' ai 'in na wiih w.jiia than
death, and to drive .ova rnr dura a fate horribb to con
teiTp!ae: N')rf,"h refoie I, Z-u'an B. V-mce, Co-e nor of the
Sti'e '.f rh Caro;i-a. reiyia? nprn the loyally e-nd de
voti"'"J of hr oit'zeiis. do isua ihis mv procl.rui'i -n, com
minisic i.nd a j-iriiig all grod people, whether bylaw
ubj -? ' uiili-eiy duty or nof, who may be able to stand
hehmd br aworka and fir a mnakst, of ages nnd cm-di'i-'i.
'o rail? ut ODCft ta tbe defence of their couatry.
and harry to Wiiii- gfou ALd I do appeal to evrj man
w! o has ?rm p: i: t; ot a ireernan in his' b som, who his a
spark of ifce flre or a d-op ut the bio id cf the heroes cf the
great arav c the great c-ptaia in his v. iiiM, to cie aid
c-me at once. T e man who ba.j; baci row becaa&a ihe
law d jf no corr,l Limtf g , ad cotsolcshi-riiair wiih the
teach stbus d nd m; an oiritd p ea ttat he c.ie " be more
o.'B ol at h' m " wi 1 Mod it hard Jou.ake ce bl eve that Lc
53 rot jl'idjEg the enuo cf cowardice or d:s!oyalty
The country net-da thrir h!p novo aud that hoip must be
glv 'ti id thi-l nurof dintrs-, or ttey mnat owd that their
-onls are civy ft ed to er-jSy tbe treod ,m purchased with
ohtr rcaN bbmd Fjr u fox ohjs .i iuc-n j.hjical!y able
aro retded a' th-- front atd cspecLTy do we teed the ex
amLtle of Ml ihod woo aroieti.-r pand far the fray, wh la
i: wa vtt at a d stacct-, anJ sdeflid tho bitt le while it was
jet Ur cfl Let evry roan pbieial'y able then hnrry
wib his biatkei to Wilmington, hfrtj attna and rations
Wiil t luiui-Led, rd letth.be loft behind mount tl cm
se'vep ind 1 a'ro! tLeir coav.tifs, lo .hint; aMrr ihe woceu
a:.d chi-dron nud ref.viag 01 d r. Your G.vsrn'.T wiil
ir.ett jOQ At the 'fr.in; aud will aVae i;h you tha worst.
Given u::der mjf hand and the great seal of the
E-'L. Htttte D.-ue itt our ei y ot Kiieig!, on the 20 h
day ol Dccenrisr, 1 8 14-.
Z3?ULON B VANCB.
Br tt:e fJoverrcr ;
J liK T;! li STOCK-
Ii is a matfer of the gn i t r imp i tarce to the farm
er tn kuo li-vv to deriv-.-. all the bar. fi-: pcssible from
the f mount of food I e may ei!ow cn his stuck ; all his
pr fi 8 depend on thi, atd a piudent ard careful man
will 1.0 ouly teke'i the particular b;ecd wbich proasiscs
tha Jargt-st gam Irom th-' am .11 it of iocd given, bu.
wil! a!i s'ik y tie qna;ifi -s cf d-fl.-rtnt kite's tf food
and thrir cai acili; s i--r m.kiag E-s'i atd fai rf pidl?.
1'h'e ' pe( u!i triti.-a of ptt.ck and fed d fl r eo widely
iitnoDg ihtni-fiv-.'o that noue hut gurtal rules c&n be
laid iiowo, bat from f:r principies elicited, at-y obser
vant ar.d irjtfcilig'v-nt f.irtC'-.r t-tn-uld b? ah."e to d riv'
rules for his guidance. The-great trouble in thisc ju--try
at i. s from trie Lcl that cur crops ie so v.-ry Jim
itc-d iu enraoer as to p-tcjndj any w:du range cf tX;er-
lo.fnt ; f-iill even in the suv!! space alio md us much
may be dote Stock rarely fatten rapidly confined to
ons- kind of food, but alter ve n:imn com, oats, peas,
pota ots, ti.ro ips and pacipkirs ai.d a vej: few otters,
our- list is exh .UHkd.
These rtie! s do very well in their r ay, but very
few f anners raie enough of tbein to do tuiy yood.
Large cr p oi each soon l-i be raiceJ, making plenty to
lee l li kiuCs of s'.cck ; U3.d for flia purpose ihfy will
pay well. Foist:es are exc-llcnt for hor.tes, rouks, o?
f'X'JV., a- they v.iil look better and do Tore work on fre
quent ;ii:s tf this food than on corn nlone. Tbe pec
p e of thie c.UQ?ry eat too much meat and the sltck too
u-.uch ccro aa a geeial ru:e, t.n-1 rua tcmcmf would
recuse thti qitmtifits in bith instances with the best re
sults. Vta former should devote much cf bis t;m9 and
attention to t e cultivation of cram crops, the grasses,
carro's, parsn;ps, beets, ctbbage, &2., for tbe use of hia
household as wdi a3 bin s'eck. Ia the great majority ol
it.p'chces thisj roots v.'culd keep weli daring cur winter
wiih bat vary imle if any care, and would yield a rich
return jo tha improved condition" of his animals, and
the large I'.mouot of manure derived 'rem tha -stalls
whera they are stabled af:d fed.
Oce of the most important points is tie preparation
of the food ; ail the roots should be cut into Email
pieces acd well steamed and mixed wi;b eat hay, &u ,
for horses, cattlti ot sheep ; for hog3 tha hoy of course
must be omitted. All grain should be ground more or
les3 fine and the n boiled ; these processes oi cutting and
grinding save a very ercat deal of labor on the part of
the animal, aiid prevent the rapid vraste and consequent
early decay and I033 of strength of the organs of the
stomach. To fatten hog? rapidly nothing is so gdoi
as meal boiled and fed to. them warm. Milk, whey,
roots, peas, &c, may ba added. Tho trough should be
kept cbaa and plenty of fresh water allowed and a full
supply of warm bedding under Ehelter. A long con
tinuaace of this c:uree would make the fat too gross
and 60ft, aod potatoes, peas, &c, well boiled may be
used with great advantage to increase the muscle and
s weeten the taste. Field and Fireside.
LegisljljIon Fxtka.ofdina.ry. The New Orleans cor
rewpondent of tha New York lira professes to hava disco v
ered " a crawfish Lfgidfature iu tho awamp," with a list
of ths acte paieed thereby, thirt7.iQ number. Amon the
acta are the following :
An Aktto rape our paa.
An list to render members liabal to koatempt out uv the
Uouua as well aa in it.
An Akt allowin no mctabors to hold more than Eicka of
CceB at wtnit. ?
An Akt to raae our paa agaia.
Another Akt to rae cu; pa.
Aa Akt rtqiirt u kospby houses to j ut all members on
ti e free Int.
au Akt to tax Jackasses. Akt withdrawn upon urgent
antrf-ery ( v im couse.j
Una uioar ut to raja our paa-
An Akt 10 abolish det, and pariahlu peepls for paying
the saii.?.1
Buppleinenul akt to rase oar pa.
An Akt to eakurridge bar turned.
Auottior Akt broagai. iu to raae our paa.
An Akt to exempt troni melieher dooty awl Eenabcra.
. An Akt de-iaria awl oiemb.rs over iQ.
ticks J.kta to r&e cur pa.
A Good Stimulakt. A Little Incident roa Boys.
1 waa standing iu a city us a regiment was passing
on to me niu cr emtio- man cania out wan a
pitcher oi ale ai giafscs, and puadiDg it round came to
a soldier. " May oe you'll have some'lhiDg stvonger,
since you're suju a b;g fchow. IIo tall you are I A
oig glass ol beer, hey 1" " No sir ; none ! ' " What's
the matter V " JN'oi.ung, eir I" " Well, you need it ;
h's a stimuiaot !'' He placed his hind in Irs pjeket
and Drinking oui a liiOie, said," -that's my sauiuiant,
V
Gkksbal fHEbiiAN on ri.AVa7 F(0'M a ReDtlema'i
who hH hd tisVcrai couaaltationd wi h General therm . n
ieoeu;lj, 'he Conbti utiouaiist iearLS, h- sajBsavpfy wi I
trXiot in 1I13 8ou;h aller tf.e cone ohu of peace, lot the
ar terminate aa it niaj ; that LTuCidu'a pr. c amatioiia iii
reiereiKje to ita nb.-ln roa :ir ui'iipij meat. lor tao reto
rato' of tno Ui iju, ih;; ?h j 8u.rH oe (J u-t ht.Vj nor will
aot i.ustakiu h'm. ti-. ishtr win ce 'federal Gjvtruiutnc at
eo p to ab Ji & tlif rj, .'.tr wjII ,tav-j ii to t. e rita;c
riruiniiig o the Uiou t a tti it, a.d ttat he (iieiu,a )
; irpecta to owu a tiioisaiid o.v -a tu ih routa ouo ot thec
uai.
.0 rorf acnts Shermaa a - bcrog R thorough fanatic up.;n
he tu j jc. O! irn:riu tb "' i "i i'ii-
Martin Lctuer at Iluiiri: axd as uk vVas Bat I
could not ba g up my col,. e, im ol Littr in Gei-
aaauy to the idea I a..d ol him b-.ioiT I s'a I
acrio s, col eod ..-us of h;3 w-ora?, pxi ttts; b
u.i manu
but his Olg
driiiiiiug cr.pj wre,aiur ai:, toe mod. promioeat mem
oridii he K it behind hira. Ha v&i u jo ly oid soul ;
he&rty and hot;esc, I dare say, a;jd banged awt.y at. the
Pope and the tievii wito goou ellect. iat there vfus
uoihiog high and graud uoout him. I vveut to see the
place where the devil U taid to have helped him over
me walls of Augeoarg ; bu', even ibeie, "not a gleam
of poetry associated iioif with hia name. The huge
driukir.g cup seemed to swaliOiV up everything, and
ihe couplet, sa.d to be hU, appeared to teif the whjle
story.
"Who loves not wine, women a'ad aocg,
Rcmiins a fool all his life long."
Iu short, hi3 burly face and figure, and tte goblels
that testify to his powers, mada it absolute!? impassi
ble for nie-to connect any heroic idea with tha man.
?ofesor Fallow
Fibeuty op Southern Slavfs. This invasion
oug other things hva demonstrated (says a corres
pondent of ihe Augusta CJorjstitu'iDnalis;) one fact and
that is, the general dtVjtion of our slaves to their owo
ers. Often upon tte rente ia ihe rear ot the fidvancing
armies, large . groups or faithful slaves could be seen
s'loutirg with joy upon being able to escape and return
toxoid Master and Missus." Ihese nigger lovers,
with unspeakable meanness robbed tbe poor creatures
of till the money they had, aud in soma instances of hats
and shoe?. Heaven grant that the skill of cur com
manders, vith tbe turning courage cf our men, will
strike a fatal btow to this "grand" and remarkable in
vasion. To this we may add the significant fact that tha
Getrgsa negroes in Sherman's rear ere now arresting
most of the stragihrg Yankees and deliver irg them op
to our authorities. ltlegraph !f Confederate.
A Curiosity. Tee enchanted mountain ia Texas is
an immease oval reck 300 feet high, situated abom
eighty mile3 north of Bastrop. Ita surface iapolieh';d,
and in sunshine dazzles the Diholder at a distance of
three or four milea. Those who ascend it have to wear
mocassins, or stockings, and, like those who went up to
Mount Horebj pull cfl their shosa.
From the Acga8ta Corstitutior.&iiat.
t-m-M siryAnoM.
Some weeks 6mce, while Sherman wte concentra
ting hia forces at MiKer, and there restihg hia wearied
ranis ar.d preparing food for hi3 men and forage for
his ani-mab, we urged upon the military authority tae
great neoesaiiy of defending the city of Savannah iQ
EfSagbam End Scriven CL?nntics, arid roiated out tbe
folly, aa v.e U en d emed ir, of attempting to hold the
city,.wii,h a Feder-d army once before any fortifica
tions iu the irnmedrate vicinity of the place. Fcrfc Mc
Allister easily fell Savacn3h, ng we now know, is
numb-re j among the captured cities of the South and
no men last, no time exp-.-r.ded, in its capture.. To day
the Federal "General aad his army take their Christmas
dinner in cur beautiful ci:y of the soa, and other poor
Confederates, brave men atd noble women, must bow
beneath the tdmble rule and ruin of Yankee masters.
That Sherman w II long rcnuia quiet in Savannah
we do not for a moment believe his phn, his intention
nd the intentions of tbe Government at "Washington
are only boldly developed., not" executed by his-prtsent
aucceea. We lav no claim to anv esoeeial militarv sa
gacity and know that all the foreshadowing of cam
paigns and the pointing cut of proper military move
ments are met by the Kueers of the unthinking and the
scern of the regular cfScrr ; but we do claim a fair pro
portion cf commoa sense, and that leao-bes us thatSaer
man's dtsiges (it Le ht.d or ha? any) is, Savannah beiDg
in hi3 h t:ds aud supplies received, to cut our communi
cation wi.h li.chmoud, not by a raid but in a manner
to ruaka it a geat success. He can do this ia many
ways, but we uelieve he will do it by marchiDg on Au
gusta, occupying the city, arjd then cutting the road at
or tear Braucbville, mike his Hue along the north side
of the Savannah an eat enched camp with his princi
pal depots at Savannah and Augusta. We make no
comm-nta on suc'a a p. sitioa, but leave our readers by
examining the map to see the condition in which such a
move, if fcucciesful, would pkc: us.
What tutn in brief, for we rave no heart to argue
the q iestion, is tne dury of the heir ? Not to wait
until ntxt montli or eeit week to o ganiza miasures to
fcrtify HL-d inke thi approaches to the poiuts indicated
t-eciiit fcgjjnst tlie advauce cf me Federal army, but to
commence to do so at once ; ami make taeui at every
uVdiiaole point frou. the pitatnt pcsitwa ef cur forces
on both siiies tf the liver.
Oar C( m:nu'iicaiioas are most seriously endangered,
and ev ?y tniry mmt be displayed to pro ejt tb;ai
aanng mjis it?.a r at, nil nt,zirds. Men uiust prepiira
thenrselvis lor sacrifias, patriot s n must rjc ia te us
ceud ut, Imd miiiia:y rui bear say. From prts tit
uid.ca ioiia the, svar is euiiag th s way ; e mist, aiaic
up oar ininr's to m-ec it, and if diausicis co-ue to bear
ttitia Ike m-D. Nona but. the poor in spirit, aud trie
fiint of bean cm fad in the triotiuuj cau.e in thetaik-
et t cd nw:i' ttni lj hour. From great tnoulatiou? J
will pp: i&g gr-.at joy. Our star is us bngat as evur, bn'.
ot screi by tha ciuad. We may probacy yci bx.ve to
3uff:r us cur fathets d d in the dark i'.ys of ihe li-vo-
1'iiioQ, ftben the blood Gripped frm m-i leet ot thetr
fresZ'Dg s-jidiers, aud their laiaiorijl leader kudt aloni
TT 11 - 1.. ill
oa Use fcuo at v alley r org',, ..'.a lmpiureu ice moq oi
mircy to pity the stricken ana safiiring people If in
toe providence of God, ne triusc ui;ei it, tec ca and
we icill. Ino independence of the U .i ilederaey was
ucver u:er than ho. A people spread over sucii a
country aa thie, having such a popuhttioa as ours, who
m.iintaiatd themdjivts lour yeara ia all toe diguity of a
ptrfecc Government, with spleadid armies, Can never bs
cotquered. Ij coLqaered 1 The inan who uttera the
thought Lh- ti'd ba iuahed vih whips of icoa ftoci tae
lied, uiy 1 should have hij vile tor.gae torn from his
mou'h and cast to tha doa.
We hear those of weultn siy that thd country can
never stand up undr the d stiucLloa of property which
ilsvajs marks'tbe steps oi the invader. It is lalse.
t'atriotism never lived oiher than a sickly existence in
the palacea of wealth and power and the marts of trade
and the bu3y whirl of commercial and speculating life,
it is hid beneath the balo3 or ia locked up in the groan
ing vaults. The poor, the poor of every land, are the
picket guards of liberty and the sentinels of freedom.
We have them with us always, thank God, and the ar
nies of the Confederate States, with their noble, devoted
and Chiatian leaders, have no thought but liberty, lo
aspirations bat separate independence. Let the
faint-hearted make up their minds to sulljr ; the sooner
they do b?, the sooner they become strong. Bend
every energy to waist the army and protect and defend
the points of attack. We must conquer in this flgnt,
but we may have to suffer to be strong. You, and
thousands of others, who have looked fordward with a
IqDging hope to peaceful, pleasant days, when the sword
shall ba turned into the pruniag hook and cannon into
plough sharec, may yet go down to death in this terri
ble storm of war ; and yet, udUsj iadependenca comes
with peace, the battie will still be joined, and the hght
and groan aad "sabre stroke" will still be seeu and
heard in the land.
A dispitca from New York to the Boston Herald
slates that it is considered more than probable that
two very fast vessels, which sailed from that port dur
ing the past week, were intended to be converted into
Mexican privateers, to. destroy vtsaels flying the French
flag. Tbe fact that large numbers ot the Juarez fami
ly were, with some of his higb military officers, in New
York, apparently with pleoty of money, seen moving
abcat in commercial circles recently, gives sufficient
weight to the rumor to warrant our government in
placiog detecii7es on their track. Instructions have
also been sent to cur naval cfikers iu tbe Gulf relative
to the ccuree to ba pursued by them should the escaped
privateers show themselves in tnat latitude. The
French al mister has bad an agent ia Ntw York:
vva.coing the movea.c'ats of Mexican refugees lor
months p ist.
Good Reasoning. there is a good deal of sound
sense, at limes, iu the remarks of. insane persons. At a
.unatic usyium, a few days since, a patient was asked
if be was loud oi riding ou norseuack ? "No sir, I ride
a hobby." "Tuere u uot much cirLrence betwten the
two," carelessly remarked the gen.hman. "Oh I yes
there ie," said Uie paiuut, "uid it is ibw : if yoa nde
a horce, you can siop tim aud get cfl, but wueu yoa
mount a noboy, you eau't stop uud you can't get cfl."
A Sharp Critique. Suukapeare never received a
keeuer criticism ibau that mde by un old sea Cap
(aio, who fiUiea ia Feuoa's Fumiiiiar Letters from
EuroL 9. I be au bur 8ya :
Las. nigut I itad boine passages from tha Midsum
mer 'd Nigji'd Dream to the capia;n. Ween I Cime to
tne dtSCiip'iou ut ihe m-rniaid nebng upon tne Dolpniu'e
ouck be piouoUaced it u buuioug. " Tht D olphm's
back is us sharp ss'a razor, atd no merm aid could p- si-
biy iids toe Ovii.t uu.ebd die Oad h6i saddled him.
iu Siiiikdpeare wad cugbt napping beie.
An Irish jo ige tried two in ot notorious fellcwa f r
highway tooo. iy. tot e 113 omshaietit of tbu court,
;in weil as the tr.-o;er3 tii m. selves, tijry were fuuufi
not gU'ity. Ad th y Acre r. lu ived frim the bir the
ju-l-tf ad JrcfeS.og toe j .lior ta d, " M r. 11 urphy, you
would gieauy . t.sj my miDd 11 y
u wu nd kteo tl.o-e
two res'p ctible y.uiK'Lu-.n ujtil sve, or ba.lf p-ist
dLven o'clock, lor 1 m an to eel cut L r Dir bo a' five
and I ehouid like tu have at least two hours btart cl
ibem."
CoLiCQuy. Bctwtea th- editor acd ycu;g polditr
on fu'l'iUijti : '
Soldier, iltllo, Mr. Editor, hear of any Christmas
aDy wLert ?
Edi'or. Nona whatever. Thick we sball hive a
very dull tirce of it
Sol. Veli, I'm jt going to scare up some soine
where if I cju fiaj boyt enough.
Ed. Bat giils too are req tired for a merry Christ
mas. Sol, (With a s'-rag of ihi Eboulder and a relickicg
laugh) 0:j 1 a3 for gils, you cin fiad pleotyof them
any tioas and any where. Ju3t blow a horn ana they'd
come up in crowd.
iviuor retirea shaking with laoghtr-r and horror".
Ed field Advertiser.
To take out Tnor.xs aud fcPLisT&ss. Make a
plaster ct turp:ntin3 ato tallow, epre-.d on a piece of
leather, and apply it to the wound.
A badly bunged np Emerald Islander, in response to
tbe inquiry, " Where have yoa been ?" said, " Down
to Mrs. Muhooney's wake, and an illegant tiaie we bad
of it. Fourteen fights in fifteen minutes ; only one
whole cose left in the heese and hat belonged to the
tay kettle."
SALT,
600 3iGS snpirior COAST SALT of ray own nke;
'ios'c of it was rnAde last Spring tnd ia perfectly dry.
Fer sal3 by
B'M. It. UTLEY.
Nov. 26th 6t-tf-.10-4t
mSMi&X OFPKlvj BOOa I tTATS BiNK
CCCrTfTjLj BDILDiN(J. Entrance on Piincess street,
frontiag Foivcgt'a Uphalttery B;ore.
Deo. 19,
87-tIA13-2t
A3 IMrORTAST 'KVBIfr TO UAVfJBff a wo
YKAnailKSCB.
' The dale of Cbe end of tbe world Is satisfactorily fixed
for the year 1868. There ia an ancient prediction, repeat
ed by Ncstrodemus in hia 'Centuries," which lays that
when St. George shall crucify tbe Lord, when St. Mark
shall raise Him, and St. John shall assiat at His ascen
sion, the end of the war shall come. In 1866, It will
fappen that Good Friday shall fall on St. Georw'i
day. Eister Sunday (on St Mark'g ,day, and Holy
I hnrsdy, or Ascension Day, will also be ihe Fsut ol
St. John vvxe Baptist."
We clip na, from an exchange for reader! of the
Courier who ma, iab to pre8erve it or rcferenea 0,
investigation. It honn to all intelligent readers
versed in prophetic lore d interpretationthat accord
tog -to the schemes and argunta of expOBitorit
widely differing otherwise, eon important epoch in
prophecy is about to open, aod in mau, 0f these schemee
tbe time flied for some signal develop je
openiog of one of the vials or seals of the Apocalvraf?
ranges from 1802 to 1868. 3V
Tbe looming up of this war now on as and ita it
growth, and its vast enormity, so fir beyond what wbs
expected by either of the belligerent people daring the
fiist year cf it, are attracting and directing increased
attention to the Eubjct of the " United States In pro
phecy," and the pobable designs of Providence in per
mitting and dverraliog sach a war.
A well known citizen and minister of this State lioce
an early st8ge of this war, has privately and to friends
expressed his belief that we are approaching one of the
prophetic epochs of the Apocalypse and of Daniel.
It will do no harm to accept as a theory any schema
or proposition which will direct any reader to the Bible
for the firat time, or with new attention aad docility o(
mind. Of course all well disposed readers aod s indents
of the Biolo will read with tbe respect das to tbe oe
cepsarily, t q livocal or doubtful s;gutfieauca of propbtcy
before ita fu.l solution iu history.
One of the accepted teats canons ot prophecy ii
tht it m'ist be so clear y dec aive aa 10 levo no d.obt
afur fuifilime. t. primary or eeu'ondary, aud ye with
sach a ta gin of in erpreutiou in advance as to leave
hum. 10 ugeucy ano responsioiii'y uppareo.ly iree.
I o hun ueos. if do; tbe-u9nu8, who will real these
lir.es it wiil not m ike aiy c. fi retCd wbauver whether
th world encb iu 1866 t r not. The tbirjgs that are
revealed bei ug iou," ard measure and. mark out our
duty aid oesi'uy with sumcient c-rneaa.
Iu - bit.
o. B.,
v -juty
i..vu a tie 2d iuHt , ki e InltaiSu Ii Nil,
4 A BUakiion Jucior It.kSiveit, f oji Alamauce
KILUISGTUS U U.'KEr, Dso. 23 h, 1864.
Cwinft to tha futx.ck ou onr forts belo by th Yankee
fl.et, bu-iaeeB of all kirds had been Hpeudtd during the
past week, acd nathiug-hat been dona In the wa of talei.
Provisiota are iu dsoiand, acd in tbeabeoce of reooipts
V-.t stock has b?cctn pretty much work d oQ. Oue tniUI lot
ut Flour wa received from Payetteviilo oa Taeadaj, aad.
sold irom whatf at $i00 per bbl. We o nit qiita'J. ai of
other articlea, bat would remind our country frtaadt that
breaustuSd and meat wou.d readily command high fig
ures. AUCTION SALES.
BY fit. CHONL.Y, Aucltvntcr.
PORT tydRDESS' SALE.
CARGO SAVED EX STEAMSHIP "ELL!."
OS THURSDAY, Ji.ury sth, 1865, commenclDf at 10
o'clock, A. MM I wil seb, at my Bales Boomi. Frontititet,
Wilmington, N. C, under inspection of tha Port Warden,
for and on acoonnt of whom it aaay concern, all the eargo
saved from tke wrok of
;S TEA MS HIP ELLA Via :
630 pieces datk, fanoy and mourning Prints,
G " bleached Shirtingi,
161 dozen Half Hose assorted,
20 pieces black Alpaca,
20 11 Alpaoa aisorted colors,
12 " Alpaca Lustre,
15 " Marooa Htripes,
20 doran Linen Cambrio Haadkerohlefa,
110 pieces Paper Cambric assorted colors,
6 black Sroad Cloth,
16 Grey Cloth,
6 Tweedd,
48 rolls Ribbon,
19 black Lace Mantilla,
200 dozen Coats' Hpool Cotton, .
60 gross A gate ButtonR,
139 packs Pins,
39 dozsn Dressing Combi,i
8 " Merino Drawers,
150 lbs. Flax Thread, B fc Y7,
0 Letter Copying Books,
74 dozen Fr Waxed Calf Ekins,
64 4i Goat Bains,
20 M Chamois Bkins,
20 sides sxtra Bole Leather.
SO boxeB Adartantina Candles,
27 Brcwa Soap,
SS Brown WiadEor Boap,
7 ohests Tea,
6 bags Coflea,
10 bags Pepper.
7 cases White Wico Vinegar, 1 dozen eseh,
1 caso Cheese.
2,000 lba. Cotton Card Wire.
AND
Immediately thereafter, the following sound geodl re
ceived by recent arrivals :
3 cases Black Flax Thread, 1,600 lbs.,
6 " Ciark'a tipool Cotton, 2 000 doien,
1 " Agate Batioi s 86 gt gross,
2 " White Bune Battons, 80 gt gross,
7 " Military Battons,
2500 pairs heavy Brogans,
6 cases Head St-alia, Girths and Buckles,!
10 bales Twine,
3 canes Cotton Cards.
Dec. 'Hih
1 ts
TAlCtLN Uf AMU ClMlUTTKD
fw TO TBE oAl'j of tew Haover 0 0 ity, a a gro
j ! -y who savs rbat his 0101 is AAU N. nd that tM
.IS- belongs 1 1 Archibll M c Daniel, ot Huare CwUuty.
iuv owner uf tau teijra is aoreot noi ua 10 come for
ward, nrove properti, pay cba'ttea si'd take him away.
oihirwi'0 he wilt be dealt with as the iaw diiecu.
it. ji uoitAK. Bnnn.
D o n. W0-6t 14 II
rprJE UNDE iblU.N KD having t Doomoer Term, 1644,
1 br Brnustrick C Qut c'our ., qui a u as Adutiauu
tt.rs of 'h; estate ol O'jiouel Hetiiy S Hos-rd, u eMd,
,i0 heiei, Kive none 'o all p"iwu o .vmg oiojS giast
fcaid e-ia:o to pr sent i.uj, uaiy aumeu ic -d ua wiib
10 tnt iuj rri-s-':nd by U or lh s i.otui w. b putsd
i. bar ut ih-.r iecov. ry All j er jlS iuUeb ed to sld fcs
tiLe w-il u'aSe loiUicdiiie pay 111. ut.
KCitTHItiT ftOTIOKPORTAHT SALC.
W L . ri -i c L'J, ii be U ftikidcLca ol a ii deoeased,
in Em HWiCk c,uu'7,ui tbe UHb JiUAr, lc-5 all tho
penfctit.ble 1 rop-r:y of ua'd i-fu e e us stag wf oveiy
.uii K ce- y t oarry ou rc puii a 1 u. alu, tfae
m a Loiu , un o let ; o b , fl .is ; s.u old soooo
i.er; i vt' b o : e ; 9 mu ; wduu ; cr. ; rcks
an I ' ; i luHi.- td harue; itrmiun tools
a.iunnU jiJ u d a. cheu lui allure : hoa, tii h imIicUHiC an
VST t . Hil l ' 1 ',01
notk h ta, 'Oi baJ 01 e-p ; i goal; coru ; twudr ;
oaei h-y; ioe at w, a-'d narw q'iAutity ol li . AUO
a set cf o.. Woiks a' Lokod' fody, ObaUtttig of
n g i pa-.s Bale n continue from day io Gy aittu all a
Old. '
Term of sale, six months' credit, purchaser giving notes
with pprcved seca.Kj.
Tnete wiil be so C sabeeqaeatl , ia Bobesoa eoaa'y, at
the plaoe o aid d.ctau, a vlaaole yoke 0! oXm abd
cart, Borne Lonawho.d tarniiuie, one UiUla, sxd laiiaing
A. A. IfcKOT.I .d,
D-c. 12. rtl-ia-t-'
CUUIST11AS AND NEIK IfKAKS
PflESA'AiS-
rtni? ',a,n.. i"J oeclxaoio gocai ror Presents
rllBE most attractive " ,.,.m M R a r.n in vot
WlLSU'd Variety Btora.
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HEADQUARTERS, EESUBVIC, N. a, f
liALiun, N.O., Dso. 19, 1864. )
Qxkibai. Oxssas, )
Wo. 22. f . , v
IfcUKOSON ThOS. HILL. P. A. C. 8., having, ia iobe-
dienoe to Bpecial Orders No. 273, Par. ii, '.
current series, reporsed at these Headqaartets, w assignea
toda y as Chief bu-geon tteaerve, C., aad wm d
obeyed and respected according'. i .u
H.-iL Medical Officers serving feserree a tU
State, wi I atooce report, by letter, to f"
forward to htm leqiisition- for sach medicines and other
Bui-piles as are cecussaiy
Bj command of Lieut. Geo. Holkes ALti
Ass't AdJ't Osr.
SoSerate,Conserfatija, Western Democrat and T.J-.
etteville Obacrrer copy $ tings.
S aiA whitmora
jT r::r.-; rhaik.Ca.r tsains, 001a reamer, kb
martin Fi'n Uook'' "oo'n wjiusey,
?. 'niind-es Tack, 3iU0he?, iobaCOO. Powder, bfcot,
SIS. -"2 Sail. , Kof as, bpo;o-, O-a Waddia. T.b
CutitTj, faoda. Copperas, Bits, Trowel-, Adzes, op aratnes.
Deo. 26th