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n PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY BT CHARLES, HEARNE AND BIGGS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION i (lit ADVANCE.) One copy one year, - - - $3 00 One copy six months, One copy three months, 2 00 100 Twenty-Five per cent, is added to the above rates when paid at the end of the year. Professional Cards. MO. I. BBIDQERS. L. D. PENDER &3RIDG13RS & PENDER ATTORNEYS AT LAW, TARBORO', N. C. OFFICE, one door below Post Office, fend one above the store of D Pender & Co. All business Intrusted to their care Trill be promptly and strictly attended to. Sept. 25, 1866. 12-tf WM. F. BEASLEY, Attorney & Counsellor at Law, Tarboro', N. C. PARTICULAR ATTENTION Giv en to the collection of claims, both at home and abroad. Offico for the present at the Ecgccombe Ilouse. Jan. 24. 8-tf ML Jr. f . FUQVi tEN TIST, TARBORO', N. C. Omci Opposite the Edgecombe House May 12, 1866. 24 tf NOTICE. A. E. RICKS, D. D. L , would respect fully say to the Citizens of Tarboro' and its vicinity, that Ire is again in the practice cf his Profession and will in the future as in the past endeavor to discharge his duty faithfully for all those who require bis service. Address, Rocky Mount, N. C. Feb. 3, 1866- 10 tf J. J. IAWRENCE. M. Dm djAtjggist and chemist, . -V SI Wilson, JN. J. A large stock of Medicines, wakrented pure, constantly on hand. Also, Paints, Oils, Dye Stnffs, Window GLASS. PERFUMERY. And all other articles usually kept in a first cias9 Druar Store. fgy- Physicians Prescriptions carefully compounded, day or night. TERMS CASH. Jan. 31, 1867. 9 3m Baltimore Cards. CHAS. H. MYERS & BRO , IMPORTERS OF Brandy, Wine, Gin, Cigars, Olive Oil, Lon don Stout, &c. 72 Exchange place, BALTIMORE, MD. Nov. 25 1-tf N. G. ROBERTSON, Jr., WITH R. T. BANKS, Importers and Dealers in CJiina, Glass & Quccnsware, And Manufacturer of No. 53 South Street, jo 23-30-tf. BALTIMORE, MD. JOHN C. MASON & CO., Monumental Steam Cake and Cracker Bakery, Not. 45 and 47 W. Pratt Street, 2d Door from Spenr's Wharf BALTIMORE, MD. Nev.25. 1-tf J. L. DICKEN, of No. Ca., WITH HARTMAN & STRAUS, CLOTHIERS, Nos. 821 and 323, Baltimore Street, Aug 11-37-tf. BALTIMORE. WARNER & BROm WHOLESALE DEALERS IN BOOTS AND SHOES, No. 246 Baltimore Sr.., up Stairs, BALTIMORE, MD. December 2. 2-tf Cht.Spilker. Chr. Roggt. CHAS. SPILKER & CO., IMPORTERS OP Fancy Goods & Toys, Nos. 10 & 12 Hanover St., BALTIMORE, MD. Nov. 24, 1-tf WIESENFELD & CO., . CLOTHIERS, No. 25 Hanover Street, BALTIMORE, MD. Nov. 25. l-tf WHEDBEE & DICKERSON, Gen. Commission and For warding Merchants, BALTIMORE, MD. Nov. 25. J-tf W. II. CHEEK, Late of Warren County, N. C, with GRIFFIN BRO. & CO., GROCERS . AND Commission Merchants, 105 bombard Street, Baltimore. ffTEEP CONSTANTLY ON" HAND Jrak. a large and well selected assortment of all kinds of Groceries. Strict attention paid to the sale of Cot ton, and other country produce. Peruvian Guano. 'direct from the Gov ernment Agents, and all other kinds of Fetilizers at the Manufactures prices, tur aished, for Cash or on the consignment of Cotton. feb. 7, 1867. 10-2m. 1 H VOL. XLIII. Norfolk Cards. WILLIAM LAMB, COMMISSION MERCHANT, Norfolk, Virginia. WILL ADVANCE TWO-THIRDS CURRENT LIVERPOOL PRICE OF COTTON, in gold or its equivalent, on all consignments to his friends in Liver pool, and forward free of commission, by Norfolk and Liverpool steamers. fiSty Refers to the Banks and Bankers of Wilmington, N. C, and Norfolk, Va. jan. 24, 1867. 8-3 m FREER & NEAL, Gen. Commission Merchants, NORFOLK, VA. LIBERAL ADVANCES ON CONSIGNMENTS Geo. JI. Freer, John B. Neal, of N. C. of N. C. R. If. Smith, Jr., Scotland Neck, N. C. May 19, 1866. 25 tf RICKS, HILL & CO., COTTON AND Gen. Commission Merchants NORFOLK, VA. Wf AGGING and ROPE furnished pay- M-D able in Cotton. Liberal advances made. sep 1 40-tf JAMES GORDON & CO., Commission Merchants, NORFOLK, VIRGINIA. PROMPT PERSONAL ATTENTION given to the sale of Produce of every kind, and to the purchase of all supplies for Farmers, Merchants, and others in the country. nov 29, 1-tf C.W.Grandy, C.R.Grandy, CW.Grandy.fr C. W. GRANDY & SONS, House Established 1845, FACTORS, FORWARDING AND COMMISSION . MERCHANTS, Mcintosh's Wharf, NORFOLK, VA. TCJOR THE SALE OF COTTON, M. Grain, Naval Stores and Country Pro duce generally, and purchasers of General Merchandise. Sept 15 42-tf KADER. BIGGS. J. J. BIGGS KADER BIGGS & CO., GENERAL. Commission Merchants, AND COTTON FACTORS, McPhails Wharf, NORFOLK, VA. Shipments madeto Liverpool free of forwarding Commissions, and the usual advances made. Special attention paid to the sale of Cotton, and all kinds of Country Pro duce, june 2 27 ly LIVERPOOL & NORFOLK, DIRECT TRADE. JAMES GORDON & CO., GENERAL Commission and Forwarding Merch ants, Norfolk, Va., would announce to their friends in North Carolina, that a line of first class Steamers, are now running between the port of Norfolk and Liver pool, thus affording an opportunity to those desirious of sustaining the enter prise of Direct Southern 'FrldC seldom offered. In view of the need of a mass of South ern planters for an immediate realization on their crops, we would state that to such as wish to ship their produce to Liverpool through us, we will advance on all con signments, two-thirds of the market value of such produce, taking the Liverpool quotations. Such advance to be made in Gold or Currency, as the parties may de sire. JAMES GORDON & CO. . Norfolk. Jan. 24, 1867. 8 tf isoo isoo BUSHELS OF ALUM SALT, Just Received. And for sale by JOS.. POTTS & SON. Washington, N. C, March 7. 12-tf B. F. HAVENS, Generat Commission Merchant, Washington, 7V C- Strict personal attention will be given to the receiving and shipping of all kinds of produce. . ... dec 6 2-if LAND FOR SALE. ON "WEDNESDAY THE 20TH OF March next, I will sell to the highest bidder, on the premises the tract of law! known as the Bryan place, near Whitaker's Mill, Nash County, containing TWO HUN DRED and NINETEEN ACRES, which land I sold to William Mayo, of Edgecombe ccunty; he having failed to comply with the contract I shall sell again. TERMS made known on the day of sale, mar. 7. 14-td J. A. TAYLOR. FOR" SALE. THE TIOUSE AND LOT ON WHICH I now reside. J? W. JONES. TarborV, N. C, Feb, 7, 1867. 10-4t JMDD CiIS FOR SALE a very 1.V superior article. Apply to . eepl 40-tf GEO. C. SUGG. r A ' - i "MY COUNTRY: RIGHT ORVRONG: MY TARBORO', EDGECOMBE New. York Cards, JOHN S. DANCY, JOHN H. HYMAN, of Tarboro, N. C. of Scotland Neck, N.C. JOSEPH H. HYMAN, late of Tarboro, N. C. DANCY, HYSYIAW & CO., GENERAL Commission Merchants, for the Sale of all kinds of SOUTHERN PRODUCE,, and purchase of General Merchandise, No. 24 Exchange Place. NEW YORK. aug. 24, 39-tf A. T. BRUCE & CO., Cotton Factors AND General Commission Merchants, For the Sale of Cotton and other Southern Produce. No. 166 PEARL STREET, NEW YORK. ARTIES Shipping Cotton to us can be JL accommodated with funds to pay Tax by calling on Messrs. Brown & Pippen or Mr. II. D. Teel, Tarbbro'. Property covered by Insurance as soon a3tarted. octl3-46-tf Rich'd J. Conner. Chas. II. Richardson JAS. H. McCLUER, of N. C, WITH R. J. CONNER & CO., Manufacturers and Dealers in Hats, Caps, Furs, Straw Goods. 254 & 256 UAKAL STREET, Nearly opposite Earle's Hotel, NEW YORK. July 28 35-tf H. F. HORNE of Washington, N. C, with Chichester & Co., Wholesale Dealers in Foreign 4' Domestic Hardivare, No. 55 Beekman & 85 Ann Street, Second Floor, NEW YORK. B" All orders promptly attended to. Feb. 10 . 11-tf C. C. WHITEHURST, of North Carolina, with TUFTS, BURTIS & CO., -Importers and Wholesale Dealers in Foreign and Dotnestis Fancy Goods and Yankee Notions. 400 & 402 Broadway, Cor. Walker Street, NEW YORK. Nov. 25. 1-tf Win. Brycc & Co., COTTON FACTORS, 29 CHAMBER STREET, Jcw York. June 16. 29-tf TANNAHILL, McILWAINE & CO., GENERAL Commission Merchants, No. 79 Front Street, NEW YORK. gjPECIAL attention given to the sale of Cotton. The following parties tg authorized to receive and pay Revenue Tax on all Cotton intendend for consignment to us: D. Pender & Co., Tarboro, N. C. Matthew Weddell, " " W. W. Parker, Rocky Mount, N. C. Vick, Mebane & Co, Wilmington, N C G II Brown & Co., Washington, N C Our open Policy covers all Produce con signed to us from moment shipment is made nov 3-49-6m J. B. VENABLE, 3. D. WILLIAMSON J. E. VENABLE & CO., Commission Merchants, PETERSBURG, VA. SELL and buy on Commission, Cotton, Tobacco, Snuff, Wheat, Flour, Corn, Provisions and General Merchandise. Bagging and Rope on hand and for sale. M. T. Sweeney, Traveling Agent. REFER TO Thomas Wallace, Pres. Exchange Bank, T. T. Broocks, President Virginia Bank, R. Ragland, President City Bank, ' John Kevan, President Farmers Bank, Frick and Ball, Baltimore, Md. - Sept. 1 40-tf ROBT. A. MARTIN. BOBT. TANNAHILL MARTIN & TANNAHILL GROCERS . AND . -J . " C OMMISSION MER CHANTS 129 Sycamore Street, PETERSBURG, VA. Feb. 17 12-tf M'lLWAlNE & CO., Wholesale Grocers and Commission Merchants, 79, 81 and 83 Sycamore Street, PETERSBURG, VA. R. D. Mrflwiane. Frank Foits. S. S. Bridgen. Nov. 25. 1-tf MOLASSES ! MOLASSES ! ! 1U jn. BBLS AND TIECES NEW U Crop Cuba Molasses, ) now landing, for sale at WILLARD'S . . 30 and 31 North Water St., ' feb. 28. 18-lm Wilmington, N. C. COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1867. THE WEEKLY SOUTHERNER. THURSDAY, - - - - - - MARCH 28 1867 From the Land We Love. The Female Writers Of the South. BT HISS E. B. CHEESBOR0UGH. Two ladies, living in a Southern city, met oneday, when the following convert sation ensued : " Did you read the tale which appears ed in this week's Gazette V "I did." 14 What do you think of it?" The lady smiled, and asked, " What do you think of it ?" " It is so well written, was the answer, " that the author mast have been a North erner, for no Southern. women could write so well." The tjniet reply was, " I-am a Southern woman, and I wrote the tale myself.1' The former lady pnly echoed a general sentiment ; what do facts prove ? Let us see. 1 When " Beulah," with its " metaphys ical and philosophic research," first flash ed upon the world, and took so deep a hold upon the public mind that it passed rapidly through numerous editions, its admiring readers were astonished to learn that the writer of this deep-thoughted book was a young Southern girl. Ma caria," by the same author, is decidedly the best novel, either North or South, called lortn by the late war. i nere are few, who will not accord Miss Evan's the d'stinction of being the best female novel writer in America. For dramatic power, and life-like paint ing of character, thire are few novels, either in England oi America, qual to the " Household of Bouverie." Every page glows with the lashings of a genius as original as it is grar d. This " large brain book," as it has been called, is the production of a S uthern woman, Mrs vVarfield. Marion narland, Mrs. Terhune, is a Virginian by birth and education. She is one of the most ab'e and popular female novelists of the day. Her works hive not only been copied in England, but have been transl-ted into several languages. As a writer of what may be called nov els of society, Mrs. King, of Charleston, has no superior amon her Northern sis ters. Her esprit is peculiarly her own, and she manages her dialogues in a way, which proves that she deserves the repu tation she has acquired, of being one of the most brilliant conversationalists of society. The best and most popolur book or Eu ropean travels written by an American woman is that of Mrs Le ert, a boutn erner. Keplete with ner own wonurous vitality there is not a doll page in the hvlr and tl-a soin rr.ess which crpwn ed ber pre eminently th American belle," has attended her brilliant word pictures of sights in Europe. Amelia Welby, whose gorgeouslv-tintx ed " Rainbow," ones read, lives forever in the memory like the glorious harmony of a burst of music, was a Southern woman. With the exception t Alice Carey, there is no fema'e poet in America, whose lute has sent forth etraiis of such rich and varied harmony, as did that of Amelia Welbv. We have thus seen that among the most able female writers of America are South ern women ; and while we by no means detract from the genius of their Northern sisters, happy to recognize it wherever it is to be found, we are pleased to know that the North do3s not enjoy a complete monopoly of the female brains of the United States. It would be a very re markable fact if Gd, who scattered the beauties of river nd mountain, sunny glade and smiling'valley over the whole country, making equally beautiful and equally rich every ' portion of America's widefdomains, bestowed the graces of 1n tellect, the nobility cf mind, upon one por tion alone, and that portion the North. He has been benefiqent to his children alike ; and the SoutH is rich in a genius, for which, the worlcj does not give her credit, and whi; h, the Southern people have never properV. appreciated them-. selves. The literatu re of the South only needs encouragemen t to prove itself equal to that of the North Hitherto, there has life-giving principle been so little of thi bestowed upon our triters, that the beau tiful flowers of Southern geniu3 have drooped and died frfm actual neglect. It may be, as th German poet says, that singing-birds jo sing well, must be kept in dark cages1; but he did not say that it was necessary to starve them too to refuse our singing-birds not only the meed of praise, but deny them the more substantial meed of remuneration. The publisher demands pay for his journal, and the printer recives his reward ; but the writer, whose articles build up the suc cess of ihe undertaking, is expected to feel himself amply compensated for his time and labor, by seeing himself in print. If the South ever expects to build up a literature of her own, she must encourage her own writers and patronize her own publications. Tbere is genius enthroned in majesty on the wide brow of the South, if we would only see it. Let us not do as we have done, freeze up the Sowings of the stream of Southern literature by our coldness, apathy and neglect. We have stood shoulder to shoulder in a fierce struggle for constitutional liberty ; let us stand shoulder tq should r in whatever will tend to build up the glory and repu tation of the Soutk. We have established a name for military genius of which we may well feel proud ; let us now bring white stones, and rect an immortal tem ple to Southern literature. We have seen that there is geokis among the women of the South, and e know that there is among her men and all that Southern genius asks is, t'at its own people would lay their hands pon its head, in a loving benediction. r ;..- - . Stopping the stream of alcholic fluid that finds its down the throat of human beings, md checking the slight waterfall that qxists in Niagara river, are matters of equal feasibility. Oi JLU3I JCLi JA. COUNTRY." Bill Arp on the Situation. ''Bill Arp," who, for some months, has remained silent, is out in a recent number of the Rome (Ga ) ' Courier ' on 'the' situ-i ation.' He dates his letter from Romp, Big Shanty Territory, No. 3, and says that we should all be thankful that we now know where we are, inasmuch as it has been in a matter of doubt for more than two years, whether we were in or out. He inclins to the opinion now that we are out. Of the military situation he dis conrseth thusly: But Joseph is afraid we can't stand a military government. Well, I know its humiliaiing, withering, crushiner, but we have stood it, and can try it a while long er. W e can do it till we can do better. Military government aint the cause of our poverty and distress. Its a government higher than 1 nomas or Sherman or Sheri dan. Its the loss of crops and the want of rain. The military never Btopped the corn irom growing, ana mere s just as much rain in one platform as another. If the Good Lord will only bless us with abundant harvests, everything will go on smooth enough with the humble and hon est people who drive the plow and hoe the corn. If they prosper, everybody else will too. if they mind their own business. We will have to quit talking so much, and quit writing altogether muzzled lips and a gagged press. I've done took warn in myself, and quit. Had my life insured in the Knickerbocker, and the policy wont allow me to expose myself, to jump in so unnecessary peril. The military c&n out write us anyhow. Folks say the pen is mighter than the sword, but you put 'em both together, and they'l flank a man out of his liberty, and may be h'u life, in double quick. The Mayor of the town had a little billet doin with General Thorns as the other day. and only come out sec ond best, though it wasent an open field nor a fair fight I thought myself that 21 order must be a hoax, ot up by Brick Pomeroy, or somebody, and lookin for the General to come out in a card deny ing of it, but I soon found that it was a genuine Robesperean document. I still ihiuk his posterity will deny it some 20 years hence. Well I was mighty mad. I would have given a hundred dollars to have played vantoun with him one hour, just to have turned loose in the papers, all free, no gag, no jar, no barracks, no bayonets, no guard. I would have got such a grain on him for the next m"x monihs as would haVe made everyb dy except Brick Pome roy forget that Beast Butler, stole spoons. " Living cn their magnanimity I" I tell you that got .ie, that burnt me, whan I knew there wasent enough magnanimity in a ship load of all Eiih to support a poor Rtb twentv-four hours. Masnanis mity! My opinion is they lost the seed, e.Ttd don't knoir frhafc the commodity is. I was as full of epitaph as Brownlow is cf pisrn. Language comes to me sponta neous ; rfgular hidelifters, that would have peeled the bark from a man's c ircuss like skinnin an alligator. But yiu see I was in the cautious state, and had to smother my feelings. I think I should have gone up with spontaneous combustion if my wife hadetit broke the spell with her com ic scenes. She is an amus;n and interes tin woman, but much given to music in these days of numerous and lively off spring, but just as soon as order 21 come out she hunted up the "pray jacket" and the "conquered b inner," and jest such a solo soiree as I have 21 times a week, was never heard in Big Shanty before. She seems to take delight in lettin the rebel flag on the title page "seethe light," and " flaunts it about" in my face because I call myself a Union man. She says that part of the order Gen. Hanson's re mains was founded on scripture, and so was Phil Sheridan's about Gen. Johnston's for Solomon says in Eclesiastos "that a living dog is better than a dead lion." My opinion is that it will be impossible to harmor.izc these women durin this centum ry. Such orders as . 21 will cut off all hope of it. I tbink if General Thomas hadent been a Virginian, he wouldenl have issued it. Ive noticed that when a Vir ginian falls, he falls heavy and fur. He gits further over on the side agin us than anybody. Ive head that the General and Edward Johnson were both powerful se cesh, and got mighty impatient because the Old Dominion was so slow in movin. The General said all the good officers would be gobbled up before she seceded Well, they say old ueneral Scott got hold of 'em aboSt this time, and took 'cm a kingdom or two, and the General fell down and worshiped, and Ed. Johnson wouldent. I tell you my friends, a man ought to be careful about going up into these dangerous mountains, and this leads me to remark we ought to petition, Mr. Johnson to put over Big Shanty a Genes ral who stood square to his State. Hope for the best, my friends. Don't imagine you see panters and irjuns, be cause you are in a Territory. Don't mis take a Bureau track for a bear sign. Don't fear, it will be sickly, because FloriJa is jiitched on to our digging. Attend to your business, keep off of a high mountain, and all will be well. 1 would say more, but my wife's music has begun. Proverbs of Josh Billings. " Human nature is the same all over the world, cept in New England, and thar it is according to sarcumstances." " Rum is good in its place, and hell is the place for it." "If I had a. boy who didn't lie quite well enuff to suit me, I would set him to tending a retale dry goods store." " W hen a feller gets a goin down hill it does seern as tho everything had been greased for the okashun." " He who kan ware a sburt a hole week and keep it klean, ain't fit for ennythiog else " . " . " There iz multitudes of folks who mean well enuff, but how like the devil they act." 4 Give the devil his due, reads well enuff in a pr verb, but mi friends, what will becum uv me and you if this arrange ment is carried out V ! NO. 17. Brick Pomeroy Ills TaIk' In Se Or leans. Brick Pomeroy lectured in New Orleans on the night of the 14th instant to a large audience. In the course of his remarks he said I tell you here as a Northern man, that I come here, not as a Southerner, but as a Northern man, as a National man without prejudices (except against spoons.) (Laughter.) I come to see whether tin stories of these so-called Southern loyal ists are true or false, and you have my word of honor that 1 intend to take none of your niggers, your carpets or your silver spoons. Before leaving home I set tled my affairs, and sent to Butler a wood en spoon. If anything can reach him, a spoon can. I here to-day he has received it. I got my life insured at five or six times its value, supposing that I was com ing down into a country of guerillas (Laughter.) Were I to tell them that here you attend churches, lectures, theatres they would answer that is out of the quess tion. They imagine since the war closed as properbusly as it has (laughter) (this is no joke ;) that you men have all long red hair, with belts around your waists loaded with revolvers, bowie knives, and everything except spoons; that all you do is to lay around in the woods, look ing for Northern men to rob and steal from ; and, I assure you 'tis a fact, they think you need reconstruction and a un i tary government (or no government, Which is the same thing;) thty think that you cut people's throats, and "go through" (as we say in our country) every one not agreeing with you in politics and religion. They think of you ladies as being what they call in New England " he rebels ;" they think you go around without hoops or any of those attractions which make ladies now-a-daysso much what they are. After telling his hearers "some truths in regard to the late war," he said : " I wish that I were President for fifteen minutes. One man alone could not Btand jt for any greater length of time. (T hope no Radicals are here ; I don't want this to get out.) I should sit down and look steadfastly over the Constitution. I would write a proclamation extending pardon to every one who fought for his country, and putting in the State prison every man who stole from bis countrymen, and then you would see going to jail the longest pro cession you ever saw, at their head the cock-eyed hero of Lowell. I would par don every brave man who dared to fight for what he thought was right, and tend to jail every villain who broke into houses and insulted women. I would bring or der out of choas. I would talte then the key of Fort Lafayette or cf Fortress Monroe, and I would say: "JttTerson Davis, step forth a free man.' (Applause.) I should not be afraid of that old man gos ing to his grave for what he thought was right. I would ask him to come with me to Washington, and consult as to the best means to make this country as prosperous as before the war " "Brick" then told the story of a dog given him by an army chaplain a poodle dog tha " dog gQndest " dog ever seen. He named him Banks. That dog wasn't much on fighting, but was good on paper ' collars, and sometimes had a wagon load al a time, lhen he changed his name to Beecher, but inasmuch as the other dogs around town l'-.d no money, they couldn't pay him to hold services for them. But one day " Brick " got mad with the dog and called him Ben Butler; he rather 4; wilted on the turn," but still he stood it. That dog immediately had a fondness for silver spoons and other " conquered pros perty. One day he stole the contribution boxes out of a church. The dog used to want to become an engraver. He would w&.ch at the engravers', windows to see the names engraved on silver spoons, and then sfeal spcons and' all. He would look :in the jewelry stores for hours at a time, and would follow any man with jewelry on him. He had even known him to fob low a coffin for five or six miles, to stal the silver plate ou it. ho anally he got disgusted with the dog, and turned him loose, and the next thing Brick " found he was sent (o Qocgress from Massachu setts? Artenius Ward's Threshing Machine. My wife's exceeding practical woman. I luv her muchly, however, and humor her little ways. It's a reckless falsehood that she hen-pc ks me, and the young man in our neigborhood who said to me as I was distending my diafrani with a gentlemen with a gentle cock-tail at the village tav ern who said to me in these very lans gwidge, " Go home, old man, onless you wish another tea pot throwed at you by B. J.," probly regrets having said so. I said, " Betsy Jane is my wife's frontDame, gentle youth, and I permit r.o person to alood to ber as B. J., outside of the family circle, of which I am it principally my self. Your other observations I scorn and disgust, and I must polish you off " He was a able-bodied young man, and re moving bis coat, he inquired if I wanted to be ground to powder? I said yes, if there was a powder grindist handy, nothing would ford me greater pleasure, when be struck me a painful blow into my right eye, causin me to make a rapid retreat into the fireplace, ; I hadn't no idea that the enemy was so well organized. But I 'rallied and wejit for him in a rather vigris 6tyle for my time of life. His parents lived near by, and I will simply state that fifteen min utes had only tlapsed after the first hit, when he was carried home on a shutter. His mamma met the so'lum procession at the door, and after keerfully lookin ber offspring over, she said : u My son, I see how itisdistinctually. You've been foolin round a thrashin macheen. You went in at the place whar they put the pram into the thirgamvjig. andlet the hossea tread on you. didn't my son ?" The pen of no livin orther could describe that distortunit young man's aitivation more clearer. But I was sorry for him, and 1 went and nuss ed him till he got well. His reg'lar orig inal father had been sent to the war. I told him I'd be a father to him myself. He smilt a sickly smile, and said I'd al ready been wcb3 than two fathers to him TERMS OF ADVERTISING : transient rates One square inch space 1 time, , Each subsequent insertion, $100 60 CONTRACT KATES. One square one year, - - $15 00 One-fourth column - - 60 00 Ono-half column, - - - 90 00 One column, - - - 150 00 Bcsfncss Cards occapyta? a square or less Inserted for Twenty Collars a year. Monthly changes allowed. . , . , Another Outrage by Brass Buttons The Military Stop the Procession. Yesterday afternoon a majority of tho members of the fire department met at the engine house of Franklin fire company No. 3, to escort the remains of the lata Captain William D. Smith of the 24th Ala bama . regiment, and formerly foreman, for many years, of the Franklin. The procession was accompanied by a band of music, and presented a very imposing aps, pearance. The procession took up tho usual route to the new cemetery, and when they arrived at Charles street, which, runs from Government to the graveyard, and which also runs through the Federal camp, separating the officers' quarters from the soldiers' quarters, an officer rushed out of the tent, commanded the procession to halt and the hand to stop phying. He then inquired if it was a fireman's funeral, and was answered in the affirmative. He then desired to know if the deceased was nothing else besides a fireman, when the party addressed re plied no, but recollecting himself stated that he had no intention to deceive, tht the deceased was also a Confederate sol dier ; whereupon the ofikerinformed them that the procession could not pass down that street. The order was given then to continue the march out Government street with the intention of turning down the street above. The procession had hardly commenced to move again before the officer rushed up again to the head of the column and ins quired, we believe, of the Chief of the Fire Department, who was in command, if the death of the deceased had occurred recently. He was informed that it had not, that tho body was that of Capt. Smith who fell at the head of his com mand at the battle of Murfreesboro'. The officer then stated that the procession could not pass the camps if that were the case ; the order was consequenntly given to rightabout march, and the procession had to re traverse much of the distance it had come, and go considerably out of tho way in order to reach the gravesyard. I We are at a loss to disc ver any rea sonable ground for this action on the part of the officer, as there was no military dis play whatever, the procession being com posed mostly of firemen, comrades of the deceased. Mobile Tribune, March 1st. m A Few Extra Taxs. TheUrbana (0.) Unionh&s "a fewmoro left of the same sort" of international tax es that ought to be laid if they are not:. . For lending a newspaper, $5 00. For eating hard crackers out of the ar my, 15 cents. For "kissing in the dark," 2 cents. . If the old folks are opposed, exempt from tax. For not bowing to a nigger, $1. For treating a girls brother, 50 cents.' For p aying euchre with a girl, 25 cents. When "hearts are trumps," $1. For pulling a cat's tail, 10 cents. Ou every woman's " new bonnet," 37 cents. For eating steak more than three times a day $3 00. For counting the stripes in a balmoral, 50 cents. For appreciating "John Brown's" song hourly, Si 00. On each flirtation, $2 and upwards, a0 cording to sighs. For declining a government contract, 810,000. For trying to light your cigar by the town pump, 75 cents. . i Ou every single lady over twenty, $1. (This is useless there isn't any ) For reading the proceedings of Cons, gress, 25 cents a day. Sumner's speech es in full, $10 extra. For swining on the gate, 55 cents. . For playing a jewsharp, 2 cents a tune, with variations, 1 cent extra. On the prettiest baby in the United States, $1,000. (Asevery woman thinks her baby the prettiest this will realize ait enormous sum.) For trying to " escape history," 2 cents. (See President's Message.) For murdering a piano, $1 a day. If there are any nervous people about the house 25 per cent. off. On all roosters that crow over the eIeos tions, $5. For drinking rye coffee, 2 cents a drink. Rye in any other shape, 1 cent. For cheating the printer, $300 for each offence. For " putting on style" without sense (not cents) to back you, 3 cents (and bored!) For going to bed with your boots on, 50 cents. Mr3. Partington on Cosmetics. 'That's a new anicle for beautifying the complexion,' said Mrs Bibb, holdif g up a small bottle for Mrs. Partington to look at. She looked up from toeing a woolen sock for Ike, and to A the bottle in her hand. - , " Is it, indeed C said she ; "well, they may get up ever so many ros trums for beautifying the complexion, but depend upon it, the lees people have to do- with bottles for it the better. My neighbor, Mrs. Blotche, has been using a bottle for a good many years, for her complexion, and her nose looks like a rupture oi Mount Vociferous, with the burning lather run ning all over the con tinguous territory, Mrs. Bibb informed her, with a smile, that this wa3 a cosmetic f x the outside, and not to be taken interna.lly, where upon Bhe subsided into the toe of Ike's stocking, but murmured something about the danger of its " leeking in," cever theless." Ike, meanwhile, was rigging a martin gale for Lion's tail, securing that waggish member to his collar, and making him appear as if scudding before the wind. A simple looking freedman recentf presented himself at the "Bureau" in a Southern State, and expressed a desire to be married. "All right, fetaQ your sweetheart along," was the reply "dcy toly me it was jour bis'ness to find me one." 4