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BY IIOYT & HUMPHREYS.
ANDERSON COURT HOUSE, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, F. BRUARY 21, 1861.
VOLUME 1.?NUMBER -27.
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year.
" Happy Land of Canaan."
THE CEOKGIA VEKSIOX.
Thro* the North of the land, there has arose a band
Who drill under Black Republican training.
They call them Wide-Awakes, but we will show that
their cakes
Will get burnt on the.Georgia end of Canaan.
Chorus.?Oh, me! Oh, my!
The sun of secession is shining ;
Never mind old Lincoln,
He's got into double trouble,
While we are safe in the Southern end
of Canaan.
Som2 people saiJ our State wouldn't dare to meet
her fate,
And that under Lincoln she would be remaining.
But the news we got by steam, by one hundred and
nineteen
She went whizzing to the other side of Canaan.
W^'vc beat co-operation and now are a free nation,
And by force of arms our cause will be maintain?
ing,
And if there's traitors here, for the North they'd
better clear,
Or we'll hang them as high as Hainan hung in
Canaan.
Old Gen. Wiuficld Scott thought he'd aid the Sum
ter fort,
And by doing so, the North would be gaining,
But when the little "Star" went to cross the Char?
leston bar,
They blowod Iter to the oilier side of Canaan.
The Star of the West, she came, she Suw, she left,
A position she could not be maintaing,
And General Scott's troops took a " hasty plate of
soup,"
And sailed for the Yankee part of Canaan.
Down at Savannah is the first secession banner,
And the military are all under training;
And Governor Brown thought he'd take Pulaski
fort,
So he moved it to our side of Canaan.
Down at Augusta, some arms were getting rusty,
And the Governor thought they needed a little
cleaning,
lie enquired* what to pay, gave a note at thirty
days,'
And bought then for the Georgia boys of Canaan.
We hear that down in Camdcn, old John Brown's
son was landing,
With three hundred men to sustain him ;
But if he tries that game, he'll immortalize bis
name.
For we'll hang him with his daddy up in Canaan.
There :uc eight thousand muskets of the best Min?
nie brand,
In the different Georgia arsenals remaining,
We'll give l ilies to the women and revolvers to the
boys,
And I think we'll keep the " Happy Land of Ca
Our Turn Must Come.?Generation
after generation, says a fine writer,
" havo felt as wc now fool, and their lives
were as active as our own. They passed
like a vapor, while nature wore the same
aspect of beauty as when her Creator
commanded her to be. The- heavens
shall be as bright over our graves as they
arc now around our paths. The world
will havo the same attraction for our off?
spring unborn that she had once for us as
children. ' Yet a little while, and all will
have happened. The throbbing heart
will bo stifled and avo shall be at rest.
Our funeral will find its way, and pray?
ers will be said, and then we shall be left
alone in silence and in darkness for the
worms. And it may be for a short, lime
wo shall be spoken of, but the things of
life will creep in, and our names will soon
be forgotten. Days will continue to move
on, and laughter and song will be heard
in the*room in which wo died, and the
eye that mourned for us will be dried,
and glisten again with joy : and even our
children*will cease to thinly of us, and
will not remember to lisp our names."
Gen. Scott and his Widowed Sister.?
A sister of Gen. Winfield Scott, now a
widow, and in reduced circumstances, is in
Itawamba county7 Miss., dependent on a
son-in-law for support. The editor of the
Mississippi Baptist says that he conversed
with her concerning her illustrious brother,
when she informed him that Gen. Scott
had long since disowned her by neglect,
and that he refused to answer her letters,
asking for aid in her poverty.
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Patuiotic Tender.?Joel E. Matthews,
of Dallas county. Ala., has offered thescr
%vices of two hundred negroes to the Gov?
ernor of Alabama. In addition to this,
the same gentleman deposited in the bank
of Mobile, on the 23d of January, 815.000
to the credit of Alabama for State defence.
There will be no Spring Term of Court
held for Lexington this year.
The President.
A sketch of the prominent man who is
to share in North America the honors of
tho Presidential chair with Abraham Lin?
coln for the next four years is at the pre?
sent moment especially apropos".
Hon. Jeff. Davis, President.?Few
men have led a life more filled with stir?
ring or eventful incidents than Jefferson
Davis. A native of Kentucky, born about
1806, he went in early youth with his
father to,Mississippi, then a Territory,
and was appointed by President Monroe,
in 1822, to be a cadet at "West Point, lie
graduated with the first honors in 182S as
Brevet 2d Lieutenant, and at his own re?
quest was placed in active service, being
assigned to the command of General (then
Colonel) Zachary Taylor, who was sta?
tioned in the West. In the frontier wars
of the time young Davis distinguished
himself in so marked a manner, that when
a new regiment of dragoons was formed
he at once obtained a commission as first
Lieutenant. During this time a romantic
attachment sprang up between him and
his prisoner, the famous chief Black Hawk,
in which the latter forgot his animosity
to the people of the United States in his
admiration for Lieut. Davis, and not until
his death was the bond of amity severed
between the two brans men.
In 1885 he settled quietly down upon a
cotton plantation, devoting himself to a
thorough and systematic course of politi?
cal and scientific education. He was mar?
ried to a daughter of Gen. Taylor.
In 1843 he took tho stump for Polk,
and in 184o, having attracted no little at?
tention in his State by his vigor and abil?
ity he was elected to Congress. Ten days
after he made; his maiden speech. Soon
the Mexican war broke out, and a regi?
ment of volunteers having been formed iu
Mississippi, and himself'chosen Colonel, bo
resigned Iiis post in Congress, and instant?
ly repaired with his com man i to join the
corps d'armee under General Taylor. AI
Monterey and Bucna Vista be and his no?
ble regiment achieved the soldier's high?
est fame. Twice'by Iiis coolness be saved
the day at Bucna Vista. Wherever fire
was hottest or danger to !>o encountered,
there Colonel Davis ami the Mississippi
Rifles were to be found. He was badly
wounded in the early part of the action,
but sat his horse steadily till the day was
won. and refused to delegate ev i a por?
tion of his duties to his subordinate officers.
In 1848 he was appointed to fill the va?
cancy in the Senate of the United Stales
occasioned by the death of'Gcneral Speight,
and in 1850 was elected to that body al?
most unanimously for the term of six
years.
In 1851 he resigned his scat in the
Senate to become the State-Bights candi?
date for Governor, but was defeated by
Governor Footc.
In 1853 he was called to a seat in the
Cabinet of President Pierce, and was Sec?
retary of War during his administration,
in 1S?7 he was elected United States
Senator for Mississippi for t he term of six
years, which office he held until his resig?
nation, on the secession of Mississippi
from the Union.
Personally, he is the last man who
would be selected as a fire-eater.'' He is
a prim, smooth-looking man, with a pre?
cise manner, a stiff, soldierly carriage, and
an austerity that is at first forbidden. He
has naturally, however, a genial temper,
companionable qualities, and a disposition
that endears him to all by whom he may
be surrounded. 1 As a speaker, he is clear,
forcible, and argumentative : his voice is
clear and firm, without tremor; and he is
one in every way fitted for the distin?
guished post to which he has been called.
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Lieutenant-Gen eral Scott.?When
Lieut. Scott had resigned from the Uni?
ted Slates Army, from a promotion over
hin, and commenced the law in Columbia,
one of our distinguished Revolutionary
officers induced him to return to the ar?
my, and through his influence procured
him a commission !
"When Gen. Scott was elected Lieuten?
ant-General, it was by the vote of Judge
Butier, of South Carolina, then in the
Senate. The General said he could nev?
er repay South Carolina for the noble act
which placed him above his enemies. He
has ungratefully repaid her by forgetting
that he was born in a Southern State,and:
taking command of the enemies of the
South wno are now plotting its intended
sulj ugation.?Carolinian.
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The election recently held for field offi?
cers of the Third Regiment Volunteers,
resulted as follows : General James H.
Williams, Colonel; General B. B. Foster.
Lieutenant-Colonel; Major James M.
Baxter, Major.
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It is said that Edgefield. S. C, is the
rightful claimant of the nativity of Jeff.
Davis, Provisional President of the South?
ern Confederate States.
Lincoln at Indianapolis.
We republish the speech of Mr. Lincoln
at Indianapolis, as wc find it in the Phila?
delphia papers:
Indianapolis, February 11.?The ap?
proach of the train bearing the President
elect and his party was announced by
firing a salute of thirty-four guns.
The President elect was received at the
depot by Governor Hunter, and escorted
in a carriage drawn by four white horses.
A large procession was formed and great
[ enthusiasm manifested along the line of
I march.
Mr. Lincoln stood erect in his carriage,
acknowledging the welcome of the sur?
rounding thousands. On reaching the
Richard Bates House the procession halted,
and Mr. Lincoln was escorted to the bal?
cony, where he addressed the throng of
people as follows:
He said became here to thank them for
(he support given by Indiana to the true
and just cause. Coercion and invasion
are terms much used now with temper
and hut blood. Let us not misunderstand
their meaning?nor the meaning of those
who use them. s
Lot us get their moaning from the men
who deprecate the things they would rep?
resent by their use. What is the meaning
of these words ? Would marching an ar?
my into South Carolina with hostile in?
tent be an invasion ? I think it would,
and it would be coercion also, if South
Carolina was forced to submit. But if the
United States should merely hold and re?
take its own forts, collect duties or withhold
mails,twhcre liabitually violated, would any
or all of those things be invasion or coer?
cion '{ Do professional Union-lovers when
the}- resolve to resist coercion understand
such things on the part of the United
States to be coercion or invasion !
If they do, their idea of preserving the
Union is exceedingly thin and airy. In
their view, the Union as a family relation
would seem to bo no regular marriage,
but a sort of free-love arrangement, to bo
maintained by passional attraction. Now,
in what consists the special sacredness of
a Slate? I speak not of the position as?
signed to a State in the Union by the
Constitution, for by that bond we all re?
cognize that position. However a State
cannot carry out that position. If a State
and Territory possesses equal rights in a
Territory and its inhabitants, in what, as
a matter of principle, is a State better
than a country ? Would an exchange of
names be tin exchange of rights, upon
that principle? Upon what rightful prin?
ciple; by what rightful principle, may a
State, being not more than one-fiftieth
part of a nation in soil and population,
break up a nation and then coerce a larger
division of itself? What mysterious right
to play the tyrant is confined in a district
of country, with its people, by merely
calling it a State?
Mr. Lincoln, in conclusion, said he was
not asserting anything, but merely asking
questions for them to consider and decide
in their own minds what was right and
what was wrong.
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Admiuaw.e Advice prom tiir Pope.
?When Frederika Bremer was in Rome
not long ago. she visited the Pope, and
conversed with him. As *hc left, Pius
IX?she tells us in her recent book?
gave her this advice :
"I will tell you something. Pray!
pray for light from the Lord for grace to
acknowledge the truth; because this is
the only means of attaining to it. Con?
troversy will do no good. In controver?
sy is pride and self-love. People in con?
troversy make a parade of their knowl?
edge, of their aeutencss. and, after all, ev?
ery one continues to hold its own views.
Prayer alone gives light and strength for
the acquirement of truth and grace.?
Pray every day every and night before you
go to rest?and I hope that grace and
light may be given to you. For God
wishes that wo should humble ourselves,
and he gives his grace to the humble.
And now, God bless you, for time and
eternity!"
This pure priestly and fatherly admo?
nition was so beautifully and fervently
expressed that it went to heart, and hum?
bly and with my heart I pressed the
hand paternally extended towards me.
That it was the hand of the Pope did
not embarrass me in the slightest degree;
for he was to mc really at this moment
the representative of the Teacher who in
life and doctrine preached humility, not
before men, but before God, and taught
mankind to pray to Him. The Pope's
words were entirely true and evangelical.
I thanked him from my entire heart and
departed more satisfied with him than
myself. I had stood before him in my
Protestant pride; he had listened with
kindness, and finally exhorted me, not
j with Papal arrogance, but as a true Gos
' pel teacher. I parted with him with
j inoro humility of spirit than I had come."
Hardee's Tactics.
As this manual of military drill has su?
perseded all ethers, the following card
from Col. J. II. Piion, an accomplished of?
ficer, will at this time be interesting to
the volunteer companies throughout the
State:
At the request of some of my brother
officers of the volunteer service, I publish
my general rules for Hardec's lacing,
whether from a halt or while marching.
These rules are without exceptions, and ap?
ply to the eight different facings, (three
right, three left, two front.) Thai; they
are correct in. their result may be proven
by a reference to Hardco, Nos. 352, 360,
365 and 306, school of the soldier, and
Kos. 136 and 140, school of the company.
In these rules, by ' the head of the com?
pany,' is meant that the end composed of
the taller men; and by 1 the foot of the
company,' that end composed of the
shorter men. By the rear rank, is meant,
of course, that rank which is behind the
other, according as the company is faced
to the front or rear.
Rules fordoubling, [after facing to either
flank.]
1st. The rear rank takes a side step
from the front rank. /
2d. If the head of the company is in
front, Nos. 1 stand fast, and Nos. 2 take
an oblique step in the same direction in
which the rear rank has taken the side
sfep.
But if the foot of the company is in
front Nos. 2 stand fast, and Nos. 1 take
an oblique step in the same direction in
which the roar rank has taken the side
step.
Bales for undoubling, [after lacing to
either front ]
1st. If Nos. 1 are behind Nos. 2, Nos. 1
undouble by taking an oblique step to?
wards the head of the company.
But if Nos. 2 are behind Nos. 1. Nos. 2
undouble by taking an oblique step to?
wards the foot of the company.
2. The rear rank closes up on the front
rank.
By the rales above given all perplexity
arising from the same Nos. having to step
to the right at one time, and to the left at
another, if. obviated. By experience 1
havo found that the men readily compre?
hend these rules.
In forming fours, the fours .should al?
ways dressj-y the man on the side where
the last front was.
JAMES H. RION.
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A Scrap op History.?There hwc
been ten specific attempts to defy he
authority of the Federal Government
since its formation.
The first time was in 17S2, find was a
conspiracy of some of the officers of the
Federal army to consolidate the thirteen
States into one, and confer the supreme
power on "Washington.
The second was in 1.787, called" Shay's
insurrection," in Massachusetts.
The third was in 17i>4. populsrly called
"The Whiskey Insurrection of Pennsyl?
vania."
The fourth instance was in 1814, by
the Hartford Convention Federalists.
The fiiilh, on which occasion the differ?
ent sections of the Union came into collis?
ion, was in 1820, under the Administra?
tion of President Monroe, occurred on
the question of the admission of Missouri
into the Union.
The sixth was a collision between the
LciWslal.ure of Georgia and the Federal
Government, in regard to ecrtaki lands
.given by the latter to Creek Indians.
The seventh, was in 18o0, wth the
Cherokces in Georgia.
The eighth was the memorable Nulli?
fying Ordinance of South Carolina in
1832.
The ninth was in 1842, and occurred
in Rhode Island between the " Suffrage
Association" and the State authorities.
The tenth was in 1856, on the port or
the Mormons, who resisted the Federal
authority.
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A story is told of Dick, a darkey,
in Kentucky, who was a notorious thief,
so vicious in this respect that all the theft
in the neighborhood was charged on him;
on one occasion, Mr. Jones, a neighbor of
Dick's master, called and said Dick must
be sold out of that part of the country,
for he had stolen all of his (Mr. Jones)
turkeys. Dick's master could not think
so. The two, however, went into the
field where Dick was at work and accus?
ed him of the theft.
" You stole Mr. Jones' turkeys," said
the n'.aster.
" No, I didn't, massa," responded Dick.
The master persisted.
" Well," at length said Dick, " I'll tell
you, massa; I didn't steal dem turkeys;
but lust night when I went across Mr.
Jones' paster I saw one of our rails on de
fence , so I brought home de rail, and con?
found it, when I come to look, dar was
, nine turkeys on de rail 1
The Social Horror.?An u?tidy wo?
man ! Little soap and much perfume.
Plenty of jewelry and lack of strings and
buttons. Silks und laces, and tattered un
der-clothes. Diamond rings and' soiled
collars. Feathers and flowers and bat?
tered cap frill. Siik stockings and shabby
boots. Who has not seen her? If you
are a person of courage enter her dressing
room. Make your way over the darpct
through mis-mated sliupers, tippets, belt
ribbons, hair pins, pictorials, magazines,
fashion prints and unpaid bills, and look
vainly around for a chair that is sullicient
ly free from dust to sit down upon. Look
at the dingy muslin window curtains, the
questionable bed quilt and pillow cases,
the uufrcshness of everything your eye
falls upon.
Open the closet door, and see the piles
of dresses, all wanting" the stitch in time''
heaped pell mell upon their pegs; sec the
baud-boxes without covers, and all the
horrible paraphernalia of a lazy, vapid,
inefficient, vacant, idea less female mon?
strosity, who will of course be chosen out
of a bevy of practical, good, common
sense girls, by some man who prides him?
self on ;- his knowledge of woman," as
his li help-meet " for life! I use the word
?: monstrosity " advisedly; for even in the
cell of a prison J have seen wretched fe?
males trying, with women's beautiful in?
stinct, to brighten and beautify the bare
walls with some rude colored print.?
Thank Heaven ! the untidy woman is the
exception, not the rule. "Would we could
say the same of the untidy man.
Fanny Pern.
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Slanders.?Yes. pass it along, whether
you believe it or not; that one-sided
whisper against the character of a virtu?
ous female. You say yon don't believe
it. but you will use your influence to bear
tip the false report, and pass it on the
current. Strange creatures are man?
kind ! How many reputations are lost
by surmise ! How many hearts have bled
by a whisper ! How many benevolent
deeds are chilled by the shrug of a shoul?
der! How mauy?individuals have been
shunned by a gentle, mysterious hint !
How many chaste bosoms have been
wrung with grief by a single nod ! How
many graves have been dug by a false re?
port !
Yes, you will pass the slander along:
yon will keep it above the water by a
wag of your tongue, when you might
sink it forever. Destroy the passion for
telling a tale, we pray. Lisp not a word
that may injure the character ofrinother.
He determined to listen to no stoiy that
is repeated to the injury of another, and,
as far as you are concerned, that slander
will die. But tell it once ami it may go
on the wings of the wind, increasing with
each breath, til it has circulated through
the State, and has brought to the grave
one who might have been a blessing to
the world.
ftrl?" A distinguished gentleman, ex-Gov?
ernor of an Atlantic State, was employed
for the defence on a trial for murder.?
The Governor found it ncccss>???y. in the
course of his speech, to comment wul.
some severity on the testimony of a wit?
ness for the prosecution. In the midst
of a most; searching and logical sentence,
wherein he was convincing the jury that
the witness had sworn to more than the
truth, he was interrupted by a juryman
?a tall, lank fellow, who. rising, address?
ed the Governor:
" See here, Mr. Lawyer, I don't want
yer to go on that way abusing me; I
won't stand it; I'll break up the Court
if you do; I didn't come to be abused."
"My dear sir." replied the Governor.in
his politest manner, "1 was alluding to
the witness, not to you; my remarks
were not intended to any of the jurors."
;: Well, then," said the juror, '-just quit
a pinting your fingers at me when you
talk that way."
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Affection in Men and' Women.?Wo?
men are said to have stronger attach?
ments than men. It is not so. Strength
of attachment is evinced in little things.
A man is often attached to an old hat;
but did you ever know of a woman hav?
ing an attachment for an old bonnet??
Punch.
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The following note, says the Marion
(Ala.) Commonwealth, was lately received
by a gentleman in this place, from his
overseer:
Dear Doctor: Please send me by the
boy, a pair of trace chains, and two door
hinges. Jane had twins last night?also
two padlocks Yours, &c.
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fiST He who is passionate and hasty is
generally honest. It is your old, dissem?
bling hypocrite of whom you should be
ware. There's no deception in a bull
do?" it is only the cur that sneaks up and
bites you when your back is turned.
Mournful Hilarity.?The Petersburg
Express very appropriately thus head a
notice of the rauch-talked-of inauguration
ball at Washington. After briefly refer?
ring to the wonted gay and festive inau?
guration observances in Washington, to
the pleasurable fruitions of which, it just?
ly remarks, Southerners contributed most,
it adds:
" But now a change has come over tho
spirit of the times. The approaching in?
auguration of a sectionally elected Presi?
dent, instead of inspiring gladness and
mirth?instead of attracting crowds from
all quarters of the Union to the Federal
metropolis?instead of being greeted with
the customary rejoicings of a happy peo?
ple?will be but a ghastly demonstration.
It will awake* no emotion of national,
pride and satisfaction?'twill call forth no
enthusiastic responses from the public bo?
som?it will excite no.acclamations liko
those which have marked all previous pa?
geants of the kind?but it will stir up tho
most melancholy reflections in every gen? j
erous breast?it will wear the sad insigmi
of a nation's woe. A disunited Confedera?
cy?a once flourishing and mighty govern?
ment, now hovering on the very verge of
destruction, will rise up like appalling
visions before the Black Republican revel- '
lei's, and chill them in the-midst of their
carousals. What a gloomy phantom of an
inauguration it will be!" -
The New York Express, referring to
the same anticipated revel, so out of time
and out of tune, says:
" A penitential wail over a corrupt gov;
eminent, the decay of public virtue, and
the sapped foundations of the great edi?
fice of popular liberty, would be far more
grateful to their cars than any ball-room
strains, however hijru or fostal."
AN ACT to increase the Powers of Com?
missioners of Public Buildings.
I. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives, now met and
sitting in General Assembly, and by the
authority of the same. That if at any
time the Court House of any District in
this-State shall be in course of reconstruc?
tion or repair, or from any other cause
shall not be in condition to he occupied,
it shall be the duty of the Commissioners
of .Public Buildings for such District to
furnish suitable rooms for the accommo?
dation of the Courts and public officers.
II. That it shall be the duty of tho
Commissioners of Public Buildings in
this State to furnish, at all times, blank?
ets and such other bedding as shall bo
necessary for prisoners confined in jail
in their respective Districts, and for tho
purpose of enabling the Commissioners of
Public Buildings of the several Districts
to execute the provisions of this Act, they
arc hereby authorized and empowered to
le\y such assessments on the general tax
of the District, as may be necessary to
pay for the same.
jgQf A real jolly good old fellow was
Dr. S. I was introduced to him just as
the steamer Star was leaving her Dock
at N. Y. for Europe. For the first twen
fottr hours, :? Richard was himself again,"
but that fell destroyer, who neither spares
*n^v sex or condition?sea sickness?seiz?
ed him, nothing more was se?n of
the jolly old Dr. e_ several day8 , W&
had left the Banks and learning
along beautifully, when *one- mon^^r
saw the Doctor's head emerging from tho~*>
lower regions. But what a face! long,
lugubrious, distressed, his hair not cared
for. dress untidy, eyes blood shot. I
could scarce believe this apparation was
the jolly old doctor who had kept us all
in a roan the first day out.
'Well, my dear doctor, how do you feel
by this time V*
'Feel " said he?and there was an un?
mistakable earnestness in his eye?'feel!
why I feel as though I had but two ob?
jects in life now: one is to put my feet
once more on terra firma; and the other,
to find out and whip the fellow who wrote
?Life on the Ocean Wave !'
Major John P. Heiss, formerly of Ten?
nessee, has returned to Nicaragua to set?
tle there permanently. So satisfied is he
with the cotton raising experiments made
upon the high and healthy interior lands
of that region, that it was his purpose
immediately to put" a hundred acres un?
der cultivation for that staple.
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A young man in New Orleans named
Thomas Uhlhorn attempted to cowhide
another, named Eugene H. Levy, when
the latter drew a pistol and shot his as?
sailant dead. Both were cotton factors'
clerks.
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A difficulty occurred at Milton, Fla.,
on the 6th inst., between Mr. James Wall
and Dr. Holly, in which revolvers were
used. Wall was badly shot.
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fiSf Low as the grave is, you cannot
climb high enough to see beyond it.
