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! : 1 1 $frflE jMETTEff ILLE ;MEWS. : " K,., : " , VOK : . : : , TUESDAY, JlA 12, 1866. j ; ' :7:: j ' O. 14.: ' ii 1 . i: , - . I ;, 'li' v .f.l - T H E IST EWS (PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY.) :o: i ROBTIVSOIV & SMITH, ; j-J EWTOKS AND PKOPItTETOBS. ' BENJ'N HOBINSOX : ..II. II. SMITH- TERES: . lr One Year, (payable in advance,). For Six Montbs," v, ..$3 00 ....$2 00 KATES OF ADVEIITISING: One Square of ten lines, first insertion. . $1 00 Eaeii subsequent insertion, . . : . . . ..... .50 Fractions ot'squares charged as whole squares. V"ncss or rroiessional Cards, not exceedine eiaht lines, inserted as follows: " ' u or iiurea rscmt hr? , . 00 For si 't?or on Jear.. k ....... ...15 00 Advertisers aro requested-o mark the number f in ker tipns required,- or their advertisements will be con- mutuuiuuioroia, ; v . THE LOST CAUSE. Qur Southern soil is red With the blood of many slain; Like sacrificial wine it fell, , I3ut thq sacrifice was vain; Peace dawns, npon our land. O, God, thjit this should be, That: Peace should smile o'er Freedom's grave, ; And we that smile should j?ee. Le-t Southern men now take i A long farewell of Fame Let Southern men Jrow meekly" down i To tyranny and shame! Great Odd! that such should live, :! Tp hail the fatal hourv Thal crushes Freedom ,to the' dust, I -'Neath Northern hate and power! iBut many a patriot heart " Yet thrill's to the war-god's breath; And many still would battle on ; For Freedom to' the death! .-. Weep! ) weep! but not for them, -The'j martyrs 'neath the sod, For yiey eternal peace have found I Around the throne of God! Peace! Peace! 'tis but a word I ; A mockery a name 1 Alas,! Q God! 'tis but the wreath j Xhat hides the tyrant's chain! Yet if it thus must be - 1 ' - , And Freedom ne'er be won I -1 Then, Father, give us strength to say 'Thy will' on earth be done!" . CARRIE. From- the North Carolina Advertiser. COFPEE EEGI0NS OF NORTH CAROLINA. The object- pf tliis communication is to present a lew facts relative to the mineral wpaHVi uf 8ourfrwcstcrrrTSortn uaronna; an impartial ' examirratiori of which might pos sibly direct attention j to this, a most un known attribute or peculiarity, and ulti- wtatelv by a iudicious! authorized investiga- tioii, enhance materially the industrial re- .sourccs of the State, j Aware of the importance of the subject, .ill idthat' the apparent, presumptuous spec- ations which he advances will subject le charge of being considered "vis and with all deference to the pre- conceived opinions oAthose who have given . thisp'speciality" a casual and very superti- ci ivti examination, the writer will state the. facts as he has seen them, and his convic- tions are the results of a. professional ex pqrieri.ee of twenty years, and an intimate acquaintance with many of the most rim- 111- lil'L-', I .1 ' rr , -il portant aninerai uistncts oi tne unitea states., ;,' . . . .; ' I ; has been well said that, "truth emer es sdoner out of terror, than out of chaos,"; in other words, it is better to have im- rfect aTid erroneous notions about a sub- ect, than no notion at all; and if the writer's rune ralizations are defective and not war- a hleu-by the facts as" disclosed, the; enun- ciauou .u r oi tnem mignp jeau to tneir correc- tidn, and so far from jirtiuring the truth in .its ultimate reception mignt act as positive . 111.'- 1 . i' . I i L " . ' aids to its attainment. 1 1 s y ou look upon Cooke's map of North ljolina, you will fmd thereon delineated, In the extreme southwestern portion ot the tap a topographical sketch of mountains; he! principal chains (environing, ramifying ,n4 almost covering With their spurs, the counties ot Cherokee! Macon, Jackson and lav wood, affd creating in effect an idea of leyated ridges, and towering . peaks, nar- ow vallies, and swift running streams, and rivulets. 1 his diversity or scenery, in real - . exists,1 and Jher is no section of the iPtutcd States, that presents mdre attractive rc&jturjcs-to the loverl of the picturesque; to ht). agriculturists and grazier, the broad .vbodM slopes sometimes abrupt, more fre- nupniiy geutiegriiuuauug iruui iiiesummitsij ui uiu niuuuiuiub iu iiie vaiues, covereu in . i at acus vvuu lUAuuiuiL glasses, present ai - . t -a ting 'fields lor their industry; and the ientiuc-men win hnd, in its geological, tributes, a unique and arenarfor investigatidn. IThe "orographic featu res of this mag nlficent mountainous ampitheatre are de veloped on a grand scale; but without an accurate topographical map to accompany the description, no adequate conception of their relations to each other can be readily formdd The Blue Ridge which lies upon the east, is .in reality the back bone, and it is separated f rom the parallel range of tlid Unaka bv several ranges of ! mountains which might, be properlv called ribs or re upuiauons. ine appearance oi tnese ttids Z l i.? mi ' nil" . i ' pwjould. electrify the physiologist; for arising from them o-fq "processes;" of greater ele - vation that any peaks east of the Rocky s; they do not conform their diitectionito that of the Blue Kidge or aka, !tiordo they exhrhit welt defined Un- ! par- ! anelism amoncrst thmHolTro'c. Ktif ovtaA ; iidirecjboni, generally inclining toward the jiwesta -r;. ' :"v: ? j j It is nbt intended, in. this description to j make p geological report in detail; we must connne dureelves tn a rrpnpralitiAW ; fars thejgeology is concerned; and aware j that thesq will appear desultory pnd uiiin- SO f T 7 o t . p raciicai man, or to tnose ! whp act withoutlrefe'rence to well esLih- lishiedjgen.eral laws, and merely guided, by empirical rules or undigested experience, yet it is nbcessary in attempting to estab lish the rnjineral importance of a region! to make lit apparent to the scientific and intnl- ligent thafi these geaeralizations do not dn- iiicr wir ?i inn in-vr i i i t ttre immutable. rlfi isl wiihin the area occupied by the m- termontane chains between the Blue Ridge ana tne .uciaka, tnat tne copper veins are found; pnd the rocks generally classed as mctjimbrp lie, or pyrocrystalline, and knojvn as Gneiss, Mica Slate", and Hcrn blemde1 Slate, are the predominant forma- Torma m and i, indi- tions.. j j The r extensive metamorphism uplited cdndition ot. all the strata cate; the proximity of igneous rocks, these are not) hdwever exposed, except on the summits of the mountains, to the extent at jthi; effects which have been produced would ead us to expect. - In some locali ties there is a formation apparently strati fied Jv1ilchresembles in its semi-crystalltne character Sienite, the stratified . conditions are' almost imperceptible, but these con ditionsj j should not be regarded as a sat isfactory evidence of its being a metam'er phose sedir lent, the lines of apparent strati ficatibn !are often laminations of brilliant blue HdrnV lende, and it is frequently dicing the rjiarjes )f this lamination that the hs sulresj oqcur which are receptacles of the copper jj)resl The action of force, of crys taUzation o r polarity, when then the rctck was n j p . semi-fluid state, may be an ix plandtidn or this lamination, and analagous effects have been seen in other countries, particularly!- California. In approaching the Unalia mountains, alternations of Mjca and TTalcosi slates of the Oconee Lufti I in Jackson cointy, which belong to the Che rokeel syteii,'are ejvidently offshoots of the litholpgical belt which inpludesthe veindoft Ducktown, Tennessee. The family of veins of copper which creah the .only legitimate systemas Vet lb tme south commence in Macon and jpassing through Jackson, H4y- Tjunlcombe, Yancey and Ashe are know count woodi nroionffeid n It Ml I.V5. i . 1 n : . ' J - in;OsrrIa ihd Floyd counties in VI tmnftta i i nesej veins in tneir general course coniorm to 'the magnetic direction of the Blue Ridge i mi or. rgmia and LfnaKa cnains witn a dip to tne norm- westi ailil the area under immediate con- sideratiop, ana wnere tne development in their nuimbers and richness appears to cul minate,jiheV cross at various angles the great Impuni ain ribs or isolated peaks; ajnd this iritejvejiing area, occupying a width of forty mites or more between the Blue Rid go and unaka chains, appears to be the lemtiipajfeVdi i ' J -i ' r-i. . C xi : " mi epository 01 .me. veins, xnree supposed distinct parallel out-crops or sets havebeesi d scovered. and there fk no doiibt that the! conditions-being the same, and whicl fact is; verified by the analogous je oldeical' elements of other portions ot this area,.maby i . ' It ' more similar parallelism will occur Thatithes;e different sets or systems of veins are of contemporaneous origin is cvi aent rrom. tne general paraueiism oi airec tioni Whi5h they maintain; and although the vens cdnforjm to the stratification of the countryiithigparellelism is another evidence ot theinpeing ordinary nssures, and copse- quent; L 1 f . T . . . - i y true veins and not segregations, lor as Lyell saya "contemporaneous trap dykea admitted by all to be masses ot melt ed 'matter which have filled rents, are often parallels IT . t It ha I been a theory that the only true veins janl tliose which intersect or traverse the stratjfiejd or other rocks, and that those which occur as intercalations between rh strata are infiltrations by precipitation from above, whilst the constituents were in so lotion! ot? wfere seDrecntions trom the con nhical td silpnose that the mechanical force I whicli causid the dislocations and fissures would operate with more effect along the planes ot least resistance? Hence although Wd haveinot in this region penetrated to a sufficient dpth to ascertain if these' veins confolmlin jail particulars to the dip of the stratal, tne fact of their being interstratified with thei rocKS is no evidence that they should notioe ciassinea amongst the true I veins The veins are made apparent by an outcrop of a ferruginous oclireous ore, an' hy drated per-oxide of iron of a spongy Mouritaii remunerative I character cellullar, and containing minute I'll' i.:ifa 4-l 4? . . 4 rrf? . .1... aeporaposeo urysuus.oi quartz, i ney gen erally occupy me centre ot a Dana ot riorn- blende felate, which is again interculcated , i si ii. ir: oi l . i between tue xuica , oiate oi the coun ry This association of Hornblende dops not appear to be a necessary condition of an lniaitiDie concomitant oi a proline vein, for in' pnej or two ot the best veins the I Hornblende is wanting and the walls are Mica Slatfl These beds of gossom when Cat across jare frequently from 12 to! 15 ieet? prj wiain ana exniDit various appear- i ances ard mineralogical- characteristics as I you esCer d; their character changes from 1 a light Hspmgy mass, to a compact, jbut soft, deep. red color, becoming darker as I you advance, until a stratum of blackish fraible sulnhnret of iron and r.onnp.r is reach- : ed. This stratum overlies iho rich yellow copper, which appears with its associated ; iron pyrites and quartz vein! stones.. i ! These erossoms are invariablv, in this , country, the infallible indications of the - . , - i copper. They vary frequently in super-; ficial appearances; the lighter colored ya ! rieties being the more depended .upon; the . darker j showing too much: iron pyrites j at depths,1 but they can be traced -'like any i well defined stratification at intervals" harlas cast iron, and the cutting up of the through Macon to Buncombe, a distance of males which cannot be effected by blast sixty miles or more, and have been as be- j ing.Js principally done by chisels; these in fore stated, followed into Virginia; where- conveniences and drawbacks will more than ever these gossoms have been explored !to LcouAcrbal a sufficient depth, copper in variable pn'pV portiori is resj'Jt nt iron py-,n rites is evident irom tneir appearance; at- j mountains, ana tne ore by a icneap, com mospheric action and other chemical causes bined operation of roasting and melting, having oxodized the sulphurets into sul-, could be concentrated into a per centage phates, these again were dissolved, and J that would considerably decrease the ex e.ither wasted away or precipitated to form j penses of transportation. This is the prac by other chemical reaction, the layer of I tice adopted at Ducktown, from whence black sulphuret of copper which overlies i the rich yellow one. The great width of the veins and the comparatively loose: fri able nature of their fiangues or matrices, greatly facilitate mining operations, and blasting will be but seldom required; tra versing obliquly the intermontane chains, their directions carry them through valleys, up the slopes, and across the tops of the mountains, and in many places they can" be tapped at lew levels, thereby draining ! the Copper regions of Lake Superior. At many hundreds of feet in elevation of the . that time the. country, was a wilderness sections of the veins, and consequently op- two or three mining companies were making viating the necessity of machinery. , preparation to commence operations; and No systematic mining has ever been pur- with the exceptions of the Indians, and sued in this district; the experimenters for the garrison at Ceweena Point, there was want of necessary capital to carry on min-not more than one hundred inhabitants on ingextensively, have been contented with the "jthe Southern shore. , As a commentary on initiatory operation of testmg the gossoms, I this statement, we have extracted the fol and leaving the discovered copper as an lowing from the N. Y. Day Book of No incentive for future speculations. I ;vember 4th: The nearest approximation to legitimate "A letter from the Lake Superior CoppeV mining has been done by the Cullowhee nnmnnnTr in l n n LT c n n n nil rtT7 l rno nnm. jacKson county, rms T I mi : ,i ..ri ;foi nr,A i Ln; hJ hLn r.rL an lindirfnusl nniree of 10.000 to of copper annually, Trith'Qbiii nnri wifh nn urn ii ..... o,MnMf;nn. rri.: k. '! n.frnwi W nn rHf. .a Lirf some ten or twelve ieet in width, and have- . , . P ii ; j j i n t i i i i u opened out a rch vein of copper pvrite !icurrent working expenses of the few pro-:: dog goned sick all that week, that he would OCDinf- - nf ' ell npt Annnarrnm Za uv!ducing mines, which does not include the have died if the nigger in 'em hadn't emet presentmg, at a snort distance irom the en-3 . , 3 , . , , , , t j ,' - . j F -f x n t xl, trance ofthe drilt, a concentrated vein of rst c,ost of theWne which could not, .eked 'em out. and so fie got well But he 34 per cent, ore of an average width of 16 ve been less that S7.000.000, nor does it, never pmed h.mself to a shadow hankenng incnes; and surrounamg wnicn, a mass OI -i puying material jtresents itself; which near ly fills pp the space between thc-jylk rmmreixin OT : siHphuretsrrriotfteTitein ores. mmTfftiprt. ot retieniati e P?rJ centage of copper in the mass of the vein ' , e .i j. ii if i. i : f ven n H 'e'ffQ f argm ior exclusive oi me concentration, even n it did not exceed 12 per centi average then ieave a very consiaeraoie mar . . i ' !ii piuuw. . I i . 1 hat tlieSe rCOnCeiltratlOnS Will lOrm the t prominent features of the veins, is manifest from th tact, that they increase in thick ness with the depth of the vein; and apart trom the compact vein of pyrites, the com minuted particles of metalic matter, as seen in the mass near tne commencement oi tne drift, become "froils" or lumps of pyrites as you enter further into the vein, and yield the same per centage by analysis as the compact vein. j ; ! The Waychutta, new and old bavannah, Wolf Creek, Shell ridge and others, present uniformly the same relations with, their gossom, as is exhibited iri the Cullowhee. These veins have all been cut through down to the copper and no further and which never fails to appear in seme of . its modi fications; whenenever the prater level, or lino nf n nnrl ppn mnftsi ti nn ia ronp.hpfl. i The Cullowhee vein, from the fact of its ' . 7 i . - hpUirr tnp nnlv nnP nf. wViip.Vi a fhornncrh test has been- made, representing in effect WKfKS faat t w v'T V I mm W a V B.M v a V i. n,., f .nr,.,un . )a u; iijc icauiiic ui icauiLo, Liiau vvuuiu uuiam under similar experiments,! must naturally be the criterion for us to establish the pros-; pective metallic richness ofthe other mines; nnn tnPSP hpnr imnn n nrrnnc VP?n .rncsnm Uno nmnmonf on,! JiBtniiiiin &UOUU11JI fills UIIUWCLVUILUU UIQlfl 1U U blUU . - J chnmrtftriRtir!: will. wKpo PxnlorPrl in tl,P same extent, unquestionably lead to analo- gous results. These will also be evident, wherever a on the pro onirat on of the . ' . 4 s ! .. . snrnp vpms. or contpmnoranpous narn llpl ones. corresDondinc explorations are made; lil-or,..! QfKnifiPQ fllTOrTrohoro fVioxr u ,MHd- T;il ho thoUmn rA nKr, UVi ItOUl to. VV 111. uj uuu auiuu uuu UllVliaUtL- ' mt . i. mg in their operations, inis system oil vpins. Pxtendini? from Macon wham e HUlvUU IVYI1CIC CA lually succcesful,) iversing an area of penments have been eq intn Tfiincnmho nnri tmvpr ,4:UU. square mues, presents with minera- i " i i vii i.j?;-i. x'i. : . logical ana ninoiogicai leatures a tout en i i i i t 1 X f ' semble of varied and appreciable attributes, exhibiting, in all its bearings, a legitimacy, rivalled alone, as a svstemi by the native ore ot ijaKe superior. 3 This system will "naturally include the Ducktown series of vein's, for these cross near Fines creek, the upper extremity of the area. The difference m t ;U. i i ni' nar n rp , ht ores of the two sections may be explained KKfnf'KQ.froiTrio;ffi;;-j.U ii tt i 4. . " rr, i . tne xucKiown veins, uemg m laco-mica- ceous slates. It is well known that the containing rocks often influence the charac ter of the veins, "they are affected in thpir metallic richness by the nature of the rock they traverse," and the nch stratum j of black ores of Ducktown, limited as it an - pears to be, has its equivalent although Fi i.- 4.:.L 4.u ii tne greater proponiou in , me yenow sul nhuretscf the mica slates . : 17 , M Hie yellow sulphurets are the favorite ft orl of the English miners, because as thjf say, "they are lasting and are to btrfenended upon." All others are al- te-ations or modifications of this primitive or; Hie profits which would, ; under other cicfamstances, naturally accrue from the hi,H per centage of the native ore of Lake Sujrior are considerably lessened by the ny expenses attending its extraction; the vehi are in Trap Rock, which is nearly as ance the expense attending the ion -ot. tha Sulphurets., inexiiaustabie quantities all over ... . 1 1 tlie prepared regulus is taken to Cleveland, a distance of 40 miles, in wagons; a distance not much greater, will take the ores from the centre of this mining district to Wal halla; and until the railroad, which inter sects the mineral region is completed from Mbrganton, a similar method of transpor tation must be used. : ' During the year 1844, tlve writer of this communication was one of the pioneers to region says: v " "Here is a region now producing an ag- wh,ch the coming five years, will beyond ' :osts 20' doubt, see more than doubled. It costs 20;'just ents per lb. to produce this S4,000,000.:f , n , , , " , - i -upon eacn oi wnicn nas peen expenaea an , rty-' e ot 2,000,000 maXiaa-n nay'-'- beginning to decay after having been work- ii giLi.iif ?ns ilui mer mines arn-now omv;ue.u.j vi - mttt-i wcu ea ior ed ior many generations; ana mere is no: exaggeration in the supposition that the amount' of capital expended, in legitimate . . . pntfirnr:SfiS :n th:s recrion. will soori many generations; and there is no f minimi enterprises in this region, wm soon nnPnnpu SI .000.000 annnallv." Ll . , . - . . .. : ' It would not be amiss, in connection , With the above, to refer to the fact that : many thousand tons of copper ore are an . nually transported from Australia, Chili; : Jamaica, and Cuba to supply the failing ' fnrnnPPQ nf "P.n tr n nrl? hnrl pn.iblp. the mining : 'capitalists there to keep up the monopoly ,LuUri,n.P!vv!lv9 pni,w. whiu revision in .is. 't.hn.ri witW n lL r' . a ; ! of an available region in our midst, which the foregoing desultory communication has . i y 4.1 i:u. . ii fiiinp.ivnrw 1.11 iii iiisz lu iiuiil. lu a uug wc i for a future, limited in its effects only by the amount of enterprise and capital em- . j-. a ' a ploTed in the development oi the mines.' Copper is cash the proceeds of the mines r - always demand it as their equivalent; and an investigation made under the auspices I t . i- .-w-k y-v t v i I I v--n n rr on nU I oi aieweiiergeuumcii, wuu.i j iw , tangible ana Cumulative UVueilCfS, UlUt I -J , mm , ine attention oi iuu ..w vy.,u snprialities are tor miniug , investments i t . . . . . would be excitea in tms airectiou. If no further development' were .made than those that have already been describ- ed, and WhlCll ShOW Deyona Cavil, U1B TlCU I ..... , 1 ! l I' copper ores, we shouia nave a sumcient re- 111. .... . . 1 f I .1 P i-l. Avnvylirmd r T inlllO. try and capital; for these mines between points ana in ineirpa.auci.su uuvc, au. 01 u smjare mm!S' . w"fu l" " m."r7 won,' we nna a lerutuijr a"8 I. :i ..JL., tUo. eama OTTsfpm OT VOinS. l nines uuun tuo - j ' ex- hibidrw m its lithologicai aspect , 414 KUV peculiar I SUDemCl&l OULCrU , vvuiuu u.v to the tested veins, an unnormiw m every I ; . t t i 1 .v,n.n.io;dt thp oprlnctions cannot be wiaiauu.auv, m otherwise than that we nave in our miast, w a territory possessing all the. eler constitute it rich and inexhaustabh all the -elements to e in mm- prnl wpn 1th. and subiect to those natural inh rpmilate the richness and the paucity of the veins, and which govern l B4iaWt.4l mining aistncts. The nresent ' aspect and attributes of southwestern Catolina partake of an interest in n minPrl r,oint of VieW, but little SUO- ordinate to the once primitive couumuuui : r - ; j:i-: f the great copper region of the north, and a rl n : U nn fhn'ronrn ot PX- tdtt upnra mnrp tiiiiiil bcc itiu , 4 " " - - j. . : - nnfM.npiooo r no siincKss ui .1 .u:u AA lr Kp a rpadv dlS tensive 111 1 111 uu cutciuiiov-, . . . 1 , . , . -i aiT- j a ;n tho coverca minera s, ana me ucuuuu m commercial world incident upon the decay nrinmh'nnnftlifi Foolish mines. Rv a svstematic development nl ThlO I wealth, the prosperity of the State will be enhanced, and she. would be" confirmed in 1 the position she now enioys, of being second in I to none in the variety and importance of her . I - i - 1 mineral resources. j "CUPRUM." THE D0Q G0NDEST DOG. Dura the dorg! There goes a three by five pane of glass out of the door, and,there goes the c-ussedest and wussedest piece of excitable canine we ever saw! Four years ago, the day after a chap on the cars had the upper end of his snout punched for call ing us a traitor, Po. Hatcher gave us that red and brindle batch of a dorg, then done up small like, but looking so bull doggish that we were afraid of his picture for a week! Po. said he was an Alabama bull dorg,1 imported from New Jersey in a basket as a sample of the handsome of that coun try. But he was a pretty purp. His tail was no longer than a wicked" man's prayer, and was full as stunnin! And those ears! TJy Lxftkad iike the small corner of. plug brows! When he was Kut a cli ed, some monster must have slung him first tgainst a stonewall, for his eyelids looked like Ben- Butler's, sort ashamed of something! . His jaws were pretty jaws. They were so severe in their augles there was so much jaw in proportion to the. purp that we wanted to call him Swisshelm, but he wasn't that kind of a pet. But he was nigh junto all jaw. We kept him four weeks in the sanctum, and all that .time hired a nigger to watch him. He'd steal- steal ' is no name for it. So we concluded to call him John Brown. And he kept a nigger mighty busy watching him, till at last the nigger being such a smart, mimicky, ; educational cuss, got so much worse nor the dog,' that we kept the dog to watch the nigger. Egad! wasn't it a lull team? strange how niggers will learn things. And he was the hungriest dog we ever saw. A penny worth of beef didn't last him as long as a ten dollar bill would a democrat the night before election. He had a fine voice for beef. And what the dog would not eat the nigger would! And the dog grew large and ponderous about the iaws. He used to eat papers, books, mats.1 vests, old hats, gloves, patent leather boots, window, curtains and sich. He ate such jstuff for dessert. That dog ate ajfull calf-bound set of Harper's Weekly one dayj just on account ofthe calf. And he ate ten copies of the Chicago Tribune one day. a j u i i. i: i Trr auu. ub nepu uu eicanng v Z Z HepuDUcan nwspaxprs j'fin for Us. nc u wais, uui on a ran health and always come hi thing he had found. Once veil. -Then it was halt a han He'd walk out on a rajny day for his oacK witn some- it was a lady's ham, with a butch- er's knife sticking in it. What he wanted fn Krinrr fhalrmfa nrifri hm. W ;S mnratln - 1 o ,.. Vt... we know Uless he had to cut and run. 2ne he came-m-with a baby's cradle, mere was some Diooa on tne eage oi it and all that afternoon the bell men were ouc r,noinS a uck unu yemuu uuy mau ; JohniBrown didn't go out for two or three -idays! Once he came in with a wooden leg in his teeth.. That night a woden- legged soldier was missing, out, as cripple sol1diers ere account, he didn t try to k,eep. shy a bit. He brought us the leg ' no doubt thinking it the kind of club we . " i " i t i T rf-, -w like for the La Crosse Democrat. And he used to hnd money! tie d go into a store and snatch greenbacks out of a cash draw- f .. . a . . . 1 r just as handy' Une day he came in Willi Cm UUUbllUUllUll UUA'IIC OlUiCU 11 Uill uub of the entry way of a close communion church. . t ! He carried the box behind the end of a sideboard, broke it open and looked sick! Tl-i n TX rmirn naa cfftla a nnntriniltmn nnv uuuu ijiumi uCgi owv. a vwi.w. again, ana alter tnat, wnen we a point to that box and smile, he d drop his tail, vvhat there was of it, and look just like Ben. B. Butler does when having his i picture taken And ne a steal natters, oridies, saaaies ana tualy unhitch a horse and lead him across the line into Minnesota. When any one would call out 'John Brown," he go for a horse sure! Well, we had to 'change his name, but what to call the cuss we did'nt Know. But as he had chawed up so many books, and was always medlin with what was none of his business, arid grew to be sort ot dog matic, and radical about his bloody-jaws, we left off calling him John called him Charles Sumner. Urown, and For awhile he seemed to like it. He was an ambitious dorg, and to keep his name good meddled - all with so much that was none ot his business, a... ' . 4-4 4 that at last he got a dog goned caning which so affected is back bone that we had to send for Ann Dickinson. After she strength ened up his spinal vertebrae, he howled and ranted around so. we had to change his name again. f So we called him General Curtis. And 4 1 rnnr cpnmpn rn in hhsh mm 1 1 1 u 1 1 1 1 1 v . iik mI.I a I . I - I . 1 A. - 1 1 I 7 I 3 l: u: "J 1 1- 4-u ..4. 1 " , . n j - Stanu OU Ills uiuu icus, PUivu Micuaii uui his eves, and when he went out doors, . , . . . n , , tt , UB MlB; , nuu wuaniuuw; i c I LalVC VI lliuito. - 4.4. v. uvvuiiiv vuuuiuui v i mules, and often would lead them to the outskirts of the city and hide them in the bushes. And he grew into such a taste for cotton. Never was a dorg so fond of cot ton.! Twasn't safe for half the ladies when promenading in full costume to meet that dorg in jthe street. In fact he had such lore. forj cotton twant safe to let him walk on the ' street, so we called him General Siegel. That bothered him! ' He had. a tough time of it. Gracious how he'd twist his jaws and bark! And he loved to get into a dog fight, too. He'd whip any dorg in the city. But it took so long. You see when we wanted him to fight one dorg, we'd set him on another, and then he'd back into tother one, and then fighthis way .out! . But it took so long to learn his style, and then. twant always convenient to get up two fights at once, so we changed his name again. ' . ' He grew beautiful each day. In fact, he ivas a handsome cuss! And folks took so tnucV notice of him, ho ibrgot he was Vc'aiiaiPL!?5,. ?5..a he acted so ler; : - . . j You never saw such a change come over any dorg. He grew cunningcr and cun ninger every day. He'd go to the butcher shops, rub his paws on the carcass of dead beef, and come home to make us believe that he'd been fighting. And as he growl ed so when he came and never had any cuts or wounds on him we thought he was getting to be terrible brave. But at last we found him out. And how that dorg would strut! r And he grew mean. He'd drive small, dorgs away from their bone, and go to chasing kittens to some point out pf . harm's way. And he'd snap and snarl at women always insulting them. And ho had half a dozen pups ha'd picked up around the city, as mean but not as smart as he, and' these pups would chase poor girls into some corner where Gen. Butler would scold at, bark.at, and then after rub-' bin his dirty nose over them, leave them with some wound upon them. But when lie heard a gun. Lord bless you, how he'd run and hold his tail close between his legs. When he saw a church, he wanted to jk in and steal something. - And when he saw a telegraph report in the office he looked as though he wanted to change it some way. -The-only thing he was fit for was to watch jewelry stores! Let that dorg go by ajshow window where there would be some silverware, and heM stand there all day.' And ' he'd look into store windows, and break into churches to look at the communion plates. And hed follow a funeral for miles if there was a silver plate on the coffin. Most of the folks always thought he was one of the mourn ers. But when we found that the graves always were dugjarid one dnv " rsMpd''jrplalesJ gCtuvvg, etc., m . mm' ."O rt II " I - - - mournerjisen liutier was- A lunerai pro cession just passed the door and that'is what the dorg goned quick! i so If any body wants a red and brindl square jawed pet of this, kind, whose keep- ing will not amount to over six hundred n mnnfr. nUwal,.,rtAn',Bln.' uu..u., u .uiH.., uu,0o rj ...c stealing, (we'd like to sell him. He is a sweet petjust such a purp as some poor man who is not able to buy a window cur tain or a' book for his wife to read .would want. He can eat a horse and chase liis rider up ia tree any day, and were it not for His peculiarities, would be a fine dog He'll eat! anything, from an inkstand to j a linen night shirt-r-irom a pound oi ca udles to a baby from a magazine to an ind rubber boat,. and r grows handsomer every dav he lives. We ll sell him cheap. I1 or particulars address with revenue stamp to . . . . prepay return postage on the dorg, which is such a handy thing to have about, your most dorg goned truly. Brick PomeuoyI . '; i ... .. . j Ax Old Guard Anecdote. The most friendly intercourse existed between Napo leon and the .Emperor of Russia alter the ; trcaty 0f Tilsit, and on one occasion a3 the ' . - ' . ' . two emperors were leaving the palace arm in arm Alexander's attention was arrested ;b the appearance of a grenadier of the Jq Quard who stood sentry at the gate. I The veteran had his face literally divided b the scar of a sabre ut extending from Napoleon, remarked: "What do you think, brother, of soldiers who survive such ter rible wounds!'' "And you, brother," re plied the Russian Emperor, "what do you think ot the soldiers who inflicted those wounds?" Before. Napoleon could find a suitable answer to this home thrust, the old soldiet, who stood at "present arms," as stiff as a statue, growled audibly from under his moustache, They are dead those! Ah! brother,' said Alexander, laug hing, here arrain the victorv is vours!" It replied Napoleon, because O . j here again my a I 4V l old Guard stood by me. Spots on the Sun. The loveliest val-. ley has a muddy swamp; the noblest moun tain a piercing blast, and the prettiest face ( some ugly feature. The lairest complexion is most subject to treckles, the handsomest girl is apt to be too proud, the most senti mental lady loves cold porK, ana tne gay est mothewill let her children go ragged. ui ine KinaeSC Wlie win buiiicnuiw wvcwuuiv C lm. ,. 1 !f :n , 1K an nbAnt shirt-button, and the.besthus- - - ,. t 4.- oauu iW 9 . V j Ai t-I i- u gteDS OUWlOB IUB gttic, uw .n .-uu,, steps outside the gate, and tne best dispo- Sitioned child m the worm get angry ana squall, and the smartest scholar miss a' lesson; and the wisest essayist write some nonsense. , Homer nodded, and Wordsworth snored; and stars will fall and the moon suffer eclipse and men won't be angels, nor earth heaven. ; i is;' he
The Eagle [1866-1875] (Fayetteville, N.C.)
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