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lYiY rVT r Ay 1 i flUGH L. FEY. Till! FollKRUXNKtt H I'l III.IHIIHI) EVERT FKIDAT At rr-v- Dollni'M ti Year, ICT No attention M to orders for the payer unleiw aeomp:iuiel liy tlio Ciutli. Advertisements will be charge I 1.00 per square of ten linen, or lee, fur the ftitt tiixei-tion, and 60 cents lor each continuance. A liberal ilcJuction male to putties who tulvcrti.-'o by the year, 1 Persons Bending fi.lrptti.-icmcntti should mark , the number of timed they (iwir tham inscrtud, or they will lie Continued until forbid and charged accordingly. Transient advertisements must lie paid for at the time of insertion. CouimunicntioiiH, io secure insertion, inust bo ecconintiicd liy Jhe name ut' the authors. !)e jformmncr. Swsetwater, Friday, Marob, 13, lses The frcedman's Bureau is to bo contin ued in Tennessee, but there is no appro- priution mado to. moot its necessary ex penses. The foundation stone of tho bridge to cross tho Mississippi tit St. Louis, was laid on Tuesday, in the prcsonce of a largo number of citizens. A orbv HGLR lniide a descent on a . small boy noaf Loon, Town, the other day, and but for'timely assistance the lad would havo been food for the mon ster bird. It was dispatched, nnd measured seven foot from one tip of the wing to the oobor. A great sensation lni3 been created in tKo Church of England and in tlio Epis copal Church by tho defection of Dr. Vilberforco, bishop of. Oxford, who has openly gnui! over to Romanism. Presbyterinnism in England claims to ' bo making progress. In 30 years it has built or acquired upward of 100 church es, having 20,000 membors, and 15, 000 Sunday-school children. Its annual income is now $250,000. iTwastobe o.xpectcd that the-limits of fact would soon be exhausted with rc . gard to the treasures and wonders of the new territory of Alaska, and that fancy would be drawn upon to increase its stock of marvels. But the following tale of enchantment U entirely boyond the wildest anticipation. A B ussian guide, it seems, being lately asked by a traveler about a certain mountain range in Alas ka, replied ; , "They aro mighty in sixo and cause much cold. Wonderful things uro told of thcni. It is said that in some places there are deep pools and lakes in which dwell monsters serpents as long as a fir -. tree, which, were they iu the open sea, would commit mighty damage. One thing is certain yonder, far away to the rortn, in heart of thoso hills, there is a wonderful valley, so narrow that only at midday is the faco of the sun to be sjen. That valley lay undiscovered and un known for thousands of years; no person dreamed of its existence; but at last, a leng time ago, two Indian hunters enter ed it by chance, and then what do you think they found They found a small I tribe of unknown people, speaking an nnknowir tongue, who had lived there since the creation of the world, and with out knowing that other being? existed." Here is a splendid chanoa for' strango discoveries. Who will venture into this marvellous valley and learn the "un known tongue" and other peculiarities - of this pre-Adamito people! It is wouderful how Orieptal customs remain unchanged by the lapse of time. The wedding of the heir to the throne of. Persia, which took place quite recently, was accompanied by all the: characteris tics described in the "Arabian Nights.'' The bride was onclosed (n a carriage, painted sky . blue and ommentcd with arabesques, and drawn bypix led horses. Before her want six gigantio wrestlers, ( tossing mighty clubs icti the air also, young dancing men, and a baud of violiiiB, "' truuipotsand tambourines. Behindjber came a train of mules bearing curtained litters in which woro her lady attendants Escorted iu this mannef, she journeyed thirty-two days from ?ber home toward . the capital, and was iet at a little dis tance by a party of Persian lorcU and - dignitaries, mounted pon richly capur- h An a i4 l.n..Ad TliA!n1lfllH Willi Altl Tl A tod by two Dies of skiers, in picturesque I semblage. Ncer Mte argument on a nU Wh Joe not know logio from logwood, which U the case with half the people who have deputation. PaMyi dcecrlptlon of a flildle cannot be beat ''It WM th shape of a tnrkey, the eiie of a gooee; he turned it over oil Its belly) and rub bed it backbone with a stick, and oeht by the howly Saint Patrick, how It did squall !' The new volume of poems by Adah Menken, just Issued la Paris, la dedicated to "my friend Charles Dickens," Telegraphic operators are beginning to style themclvc "Telegramers," and Tery bad gram mars they sometimes are. Longwood, the St. Holena residence of Na poleon, is now owned by a Chicago lady. Alfred Tennyson hat lately written several brief pwius. They will be .ven to the Amer ican render through the pages of tho Atlantic Monthly. Dr. Hall says: "To be a gTeat orator, a peorleM) beauty, or the star of the social circles, whether man or woman, U the next door to be ing lost. " "Mepliilipcnotraeecomomcnto," In the name given to a new musical instrument, on the other side of the Atlantic. "I hope, my little daughter," I said one morning, "that you will be able to control your little temper t-dyt" "Yes mamma and I hope you will be able to control your big tern Pr!" Some stupid person wants to know how this can be tho land of the free, with its ice-bound coasts and mountain chains. The engineer who planned the great tunnel at Chicago has been presented with $11,000 worth of water bonds by the city, Aquatic Sports A race between two aiilk carts. A country cattle-tender Insists Shakspeare wrote: "Conscience makes cowherds of us all." Divkens brings "Oroat Expectations" to America, and will take back "American Notes" to England. Why it gooJe tifc eow'e M - Puuum.4 they both grow down. Docs corn whisky necessarily make a man's throat huskyf An unknown historic hero Cantharides, who has always made the Spanish fly. A little boy, whose mother had promised him . nnunnt n 1,1 . w ..... r.vv., c,...a . inepainun to going to bed, but his mind running on a horse, he began as follows: "Our Father, who art in Iteavcu ma, won't you give me a horse thy kingdom come with a string to It?" People seldom Improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. The bridge of the Knoxville and Charleston Railroad, across the Holston is nearly comple ted. . One thousand unmarried women are wan ted in Colorado. ' ,,. A young woman la walking from New lis bon, Ohio, to Pittsburg for $500 and a husband. It's a long way to travel on foot for so little. ' Sloighost Is the lost word coined. En suite will follow, grocist, gosist, breodist, milkist and writLit. It needs only one more to finish up this absurd attempt at humor. Foolist. ' The girls in the braid mills at Norwich, Connecticut, work 13 hours per day. The Cretans, booked covertly by Russia, are thrashing the Turks rather vigorously. llussia wants a slice of Turkey badly. A belief is prevalent, among the Turks that the Empire is to end with the present Sultan, And the .Cinamcn have a prophecy In circula tion that Tarter rule is to end in the Celesrrial Empire with the present occupant of the throne. -They have now come to the point In the West of timing Hvorce suits. One has been granted in Terrs Haute, Ind., in a minute from the time the trial began the best time yet made. A hundred Indians, armed each with two six shooters and a Spencer rifle, recently made a descent on the little town of Oatesvlllo, on the northwestern frontier of Texas, killing ten per sons and taking off several captives. Among the latter was a woman who was stripped of ber clothing, whipped, and otherwise shockingly abused, - , - - ... There are one thousand six hundred so called Indians in Massachusetts, but probably not one of unmixed blood. A century ago they numbered three thousand six hundred. ; ' : Orkat Fs at in TF.iEonAPHT. Ten Thousand 2Iil3 in Thre Minutes. The weather Friday being unusually favorabl efor telegraphing, an experiment was made, according to previous ar rangements, by connecting the lines through from Valejitia, Ireland, to San Francisco, Cali fornia, direct, a distance of between five and six thousand miles. ' A nessnge was sent through and an answer received at tlie- place whence it was dispatched' in three minutes. Thuia the grateBt fqat in telegraphy ever accomplished 4 SWEETWATEB; TENW.MARCH "Rock mb Mother." The auestion of tho authorshiD of the poem entitled "Rock Mo to sleep Mother' has becohld the subject of as much newspaper discussion as that of "The Beautiful Snow', and "All Quiet Along the Potomac." It seems to be claimed by a braco of authors, each of whom has probably thought that the ro cont internecine strife destroyed the other. An "Old Compositor"" writes the New York Tribunt that the poem la question was writtcu by Edward Ydurtgj i'f Lex ington, Georgia in 1839, atid originally appeared in Tht Southern Field and Fireside, printed in Augusta, Georgia, in that year, and can be found In thd files of that paper now in the office of The Con ttilutionalitt newspaper of that city. Mr. Youug was a blacksmith or carriage smith of roc ntrio and wayward character,but the author of some very exquisito aud plain tive melodies. "Old Compositor" adds-. "I set the poem in type myself from Young's manuscript. It was handed me in the envelope in which it was ncoivi5d nt the offlct) and I do not think that ke could possibly havo plagairizod it from cither Ball or thd irrepressible Mrs. Allen Akcrs. During thd war I was much astonished at finding it circulating in tho Confederacy as a production of somo Florence Percy, who ever that might be." Knoxville Preit and Htrald (iniutxALi) ho longer boast of fragrant flowers, That dwell, amid the Paphian bowers. E'en Araby's rich perfumed rose, That fills with rapture, every nose; I cannot half so highly priao, ' As tho rich odors, that ariso . From a dog's carcass; whoso nbode Is in our village; near ruil-road. . Yes! there it lies upon tho ground, Seonting tho atmosphero around. Olfactories on it rcgailing, , Extatio feel, rich sweets inhaling. Pray don't remove it; for tho longer It Irtirp5 thg puifumo grew 4lr BHIjllgBri CAROLVS. TTkase from the Crimson Den. The Pulaski Citizen of a late date contains the following, which was handed to the editor by an old nnd respected citizen, who found it in his Docket, and could civa no nrnl.i. 1 .. i. .' c I i nation oi how it cot thcro; Office, G. G. S., ) Crimson Den, First Moon, 1668. ( Special Order to First Grand Division. To the Grand Giant Commanding: There are thoso who endeavor to pry into our sacred mysteries. Thore are spies on the alert. Watch and be silent. There are somo who gay we aro Politicians, This your Chief denies for tho honor of the Klan. There are somo who say we will keep the Bureau hero. Your Chief hero says, for the honor of tho Kfan, that we will not harm tho ' poor Africian, There are some who say we commit outrages on citizens of onr State; this your Chief denies for the honor of the Klan. The Grand Cyclops of all Dens in each Division will order councils for tho tral of all members who havo been guilty of wearing their costumes outsido of their re spective Dens. This order is peremptory. All persons are hereby warned against wearing the costume of our Klan. It shall be tho duty of alt members of the Klan to put down all attempts to bring reproach npon our Klan by malicious persons. By order of the G. G. C. . Steu.a,G. G.S. PARDONS.The following named con victs have been pardoned from the Pen itentiary by Gov. Brownlow. , John H. Casey, Granger county, larce ny, ten yearB. Green Isler, Obion county, larceny, one year. , Aqnalla Orr, McMinn oonnty, five years. Alphonso Whitley, larceny. Samuel Fleming, Hardeman eounty, larceny, fiveycars. James Upton, Knox county, threo years. William Bell, Davidson county, larceny, five years. J i. J. H. Wilson, Hamilton county, larceny, three years., f . . , p . John Scott j Coffee county, laroetiyx three years.-1;..;,'. 'J '.. ., " Solomon Parrishi Hamilton county, ob- taining money under false pretences,threo years. . 1 MiltonjFox, Sevier oonnty, laroony, one year . .... gliomas MoCroTy, Davidson county, lar u ceny, three years. William Puin, Knox county, larceny, two years. :' " Thomas Harrison, Blunt county, laroony, threo years. - ' ' .. . William Ilujrgins, Roane county, . rob bery, ten ycarJ. Pross k Times, Mafoh2. 13, 18(iS, The Hay Crop; We submit below for tha benefit of our agricultural patrons and thd fdadittg' public generally, the statistics of tho hay crop in the United States, for tho year 1865, as compiled from official statements bf bur friend Dr: itobert Ear ly. The table below exhibits only the prod notion of tljo Northern States and ter ritories, as no census for that year was taken in the Southorn States by reason of tho existing war; - . PrdaVtioili Valuation. Tons, Maine, 1,429,511 $16,882,525 11,663,907 11,405,861 17,727,633 1,447,020 14,010,488 65,205,380 6,416,596 27,665,610 '2,978,525 , 506,600 , 1,540,342 17,264,168 14,980,467 11,705,492 24,180,651 If dw Hampshire, 793,327 Vermont, 991,314 Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Ndw Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, DelaWard, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Misnouri, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, 844,173 64,312 596,191 5,288,352 461,958 2,463,545 181,341 23,800 . 127,301 2,158,021 1,231,272 1,251,64C 2,600,070 519,479 1,006,180 1,018,455 274,217 118,348 29,425 0,301,276 10,811,085 7,590,737 2,3.)5,521 846,784 105,957 Similes Grotf.so.ue and Comical A grotesque simile' is sometimes vory cxprss- 1VO. "8 may mention those of Daniel Wobstor, who likened tho word' "would," in Uufus Choatd's handwriting, to a small gridiron struck by lightning; of a sailor who likened a gontleman who. e f&co was cov cro 1 with whiskers up to his very eyes, to a rat peeping out of a bunch of oakum; of a wostoru reportdr, Who, in a weather item on a cold day, said that tho suns rays, ita the effort to thaw thd led, were as futile as tho dull reflex of a painted yellow dog; and of a conductor, wo, in a discussion as to speod, said that tho last lima ha run liiu. cngineTrbm Syracuse, ITicr toWpl, -rwtew uu uiu Muio looKcaiiKe a nno-tootii comb. Similes of a like character aro often heard among tho common people, and are suppo sed to bo the poculiar property of western orators. Instances; As sharp as the little end of nothing; big as all out-doors; it strikes rao like a thousand of bricks; .slick as grease or as greased lightning; melancholy as a Quaker meeting . by moonlight; flat as a flounder; quick as a wink; not enough to mako gruel for a sick grasshopper; not clothes enough to wad a gun; as limp and limber as an indiarubbcr Btovopipc; uneasy as a cat In a strange garret; not strong enough to haul a broiled codfildi off a grid iron; after you liko a rat-terrior after a ohiptuoiik squirrel; . useleas as whistling Psalms' to a dead horso; no more than a grasshopper wants an apron; don't Inako the difference of the shake of a frog's tail; soul bobbing up and down, in tho bosom of a pond of rodhot groaso- enthusiasm boils over liko a bottle of ginger pop; as impossi ble to penetrate his head as to bore through Mont Blano with a boiled carot, as impossi ble as to ladle the oooaa dry with a clam shell, or suck the Gulf of Mexico through a goosequill; or for a shad to swim up a shad-pole with a fresh mackerel under oach arm; or for a cat to run up a stovd-pipo with a teazel tied to bis tail: or for a man to lift rhimself over a fonco bv the straps of his boots. A simile resembling this was orice used by Lady Montague, when, gotting impatient in a diseussion with Fox, she told him she did not oaro three skips of a louse for him. He replied iu a few moments with tho fol lowing: "Lady Montague told me, In her own house, 'I do not eare for you three skips of a louse.' I forgive her, for woman, however well-bred, . M ill talk of that which runs most in their head." The is another class of similes soarcel less pertinent, as for instance: straight as a ram's horn; it will melt is your mouth like a red-hot brickbat; talk to him like a Dutch uncle; smiling as a basket of chips; odd as Diet's hathand; happy as a clam at high water; qnickor than you oan say Jaoft Rob inson; like all possessed; liko furvike oil natur like all sixty; as quiok as any thing; mad as hops; mad as Halifax; sleep like a top; run like thunder; deader than a door nail. ' A gentelman in St, Cloud Minnosota. says that reoontly the meroury sank to 40 degrees below zero ono morning,hnd froae, and a spirit thermonetor indicated 44 de grees bclow? Bn so dry was-the air,.and so brightly shone the sun,' that little" in convience Was feltv'jji frequently gets to 20 degrees below; iero,VnJ ranges most of tEo;time noar tho mystic 0; bufrthe Mimiwo tiahs g) about warmly clad and .thinlr'Tipth ing of it. 4 '"' ' v" X: Volume INuinber S3. Pi-ico, uYenvluAdvnnec. lift ERfeSflNrtNATBRAt PHtJldM E?iON- A FamilV dF SlNdlNO MtcE. Manv vears ago the publio of mdrry England werd thrown into a stato of intdnsd dxeitdineift by tho exhibition of a singing mouse, and before the astonishment caused by thd can tillating rodent had subsided,- a coinoauion monstrosity, iu tho form of a wbistlingoyster, was announced! We aro not quito clear as to whether the sybillatory biwlve kept his promisd to the ear or not, but the sinking mouse" was a four-lcjgcd, firry fact. Since then, domestic vermin, as well as marina sholl-fijh, havo boon mute, and it has bct'tt reserved for San Francisco to discover, in the year 1868, that the race of musical mico is not extincti nowthe discovery came to bo made wd will now rtlafc: For somd days past tho family of Mr. Louis R. Lull, residing on Post streot, has been dis turbed bv vcrv singular and unaccountable noises, joodr.ig apparently from the ceil ing and tho walls. The noises woro not the familiar squeking of rats, or tho shrill er trebles of mice, nor did they rcsomblo in the least thd chirpings of crickdts, or tho utterances of any known iusccts or vermin. They shiftod thoir position, too, iu a highly disturbing and incomprehensible way, and for some time excited a good deal of special wonder. Suggestions as to the possibility of spiritual manifestation were made, but Mr. Lull refused toaccopt any explanation of this kind, and last determined to set a mouse trap and see what he could catch. Tho next morning, on visiting tlio trap, he found a hiouso in it, bnt what was his amazement when tho little creaturo opened its mouth, and raising its head, began to pipe away liko a young canary. The Mys tery wiis solved and he was tho happy pos- ' sossoroffhat lusus nature, a singing mouse. But the wonder did not coase hero, for though the strange songster was caged, the singing was still hoard from behind the walls. Again tho trap was set, and another singing mouse was captured. And still from behind ' the wainscot the cheerful voices of other members of tho family gave satisfactory evidenco of tho existence of what promises to be a whole roeo of sing ing mictJLc.MivLnM had a little cago. mado . tor BTireaptivo.s,and yesterday placed them in tho Pioneer's Hall, where they were visited in tho course of the day by hundreds of citiisons. There is no delusion or mys tification about this matter, Tho mice do sing they do uot squeak. Thoir notes aro like tho piping of a young canary just try ing its voice; and tho littlo'creatnres throw op thoir heads and shake them from sida to side, exactly as a bird doe when sinjr ing. Whon placed in the dark, they will chirp and twittor so loudly that a person standiug two rooms away can horo them plainly, and thoy sing in any position, sil ting, standing, or hanging hond downward from the wires of their cage. Thoro is nothing peouliav in their appearance They look just the samo as other mice, but they have that within that passeth show. Wo trust that tho California Academy of Natu ral Scionces will lose no time in calling a spocial meeting to investigate, this extra ordinary phenomenon, nnd that tho mem bers will bend tho whole force of thair powerful intellect, upou its explanation. San Francisco Times. SojoVrned Truth. This old eolor od woman, now living in Michigan, re cently Visited Milton, Wis., whore sho was tWguest of a Mr. Goodrich who was an ont-and-out tempcrande man and a noted hater of tobacco. One morning sho was puffing away with a long pipo in her mouth, when herhost, Mr. Goodrich, approached her, and commenced conver sation, with tho following interrogatory: ' "Aunt Sojourner, do you think you area Christian?" - "Yos, Brudder" Goodrich,' I speck I am." ', . , . "Aunl Sojourndd, do you believe in the Bible V "Yes, Brudder Goodrich I bleevo the Scripters; though I oan't read them as you can." "Aunf Sojourned, do you know that there is passage in tho scriptures which declares that nothing unclean oan entor the kingdom of heaven"!" , "Yes, Brudder Goodrioh, I have heard tell of it. . "Aunt Sojurnor, do you believe it?" "Yes.Brudder Goodrich, I believe it," ""Well, Aunt Sojurner, you smoke, and you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven, booause there is nothing so unclean as the breath of a smoker. What do you say to that?"' "Why; Brudder Goodrich, I speck to leave my breff behind me ' when I go to hoavon.", . ' Five ladies have been sworn in by the Lr gUture of Kansas (? assist as enrolling clerks to ttitit body. ' " I . . . .