The Oxford intelligencer., 1861-02-27
New. Items, and Item. not News.


ness that is raging at the present time" Inc
people yielding to popular fury That is very
good, we must acknowledge, but about as sensi'
BILE and as true as most of the assertions made
by the opponents of secession
-TnE people of Ohio, land of Dean and Of
Dexter, are so used to "takin' suthin' tha''
according to a correspondent of the Petersburg
Va, Express, they "are seriously considering
project to 90 down the Mississippi River and take
New Orleans" We hope they will come, by
all means; but by the time they get home again,
they will doubtless conclude that they've been
"takin' suthin rarm."
Tue actors and employees of the Varieties
Theatre, at New Orleans, have formed themselves
into military company, and offered their SER
vices to Gov Moore
Carr. r. NJ Cary, Of Richmond, Va, have
in course of publication, book on skirmishers'
drill and bayonet exercise, as now in use in the
French army.
-.WnAr Is the difference between truth and
eggs9 Truth crushed to the earth will rise
again." eggs won't-Exehdnge
WE learn from the Pontotoc Examiner that
our friend and cassmate, r. NJ Leavell, is orr
ganizing company in the Cherry Creek neigh
borhood, Pontotoc county. DIcKIE is the right
material, and, IL there is fight, will show the
Yankees that he "knows how to make his mark.
-CoMMoDoRE Tatnal, recently distinguished
for the effective assistance he gave to the French
and English in the disastrous affair at Peiho, in
China, has sent his resignation to Old Defunct,
at Washington, and has offered his services to
Georgia.
--Ir noisy choolboys are said to be bOisterous,
may not the whispering schoolmaster, Also be
called boy-stir-ous?
"A company called IIardeman Guards, Capt.
r. P Nicely, has been formed at Bolivar, Tenn,
to assist the seeding States in maintaining their
independence. We notice the name of our con-
frere, r. G. Adams, Of the SoutAerner, among
the members.
A shooting affair occurred in Natchez on
Wednesday last, in which Mr.. John Rountrce
was fatally wounded The party who fired the
shot is in Jail.
"A dispatch to the Memphis Appeal says
Arkansas has undoubtedly gone for secession,
bya large majority.
Mr. Thomas b. Mynatf was shot in Mem
phs on last Saturday. 10y Mr.. $. NJ. Webb,
brother of Mr.. J. L. Webb, shot and killed by
Mynatt on the Sd of February, last year, Mr..
NJ had been admitted to bail only day Or two
before, in the sum of $1,000. He was shot I'M
der the right eye, the ball ranging down the
face and crossing the mouth, and resting in the
left side Of the throat, in the neighborhood of
the carotid artery. 1t is supposed he will not
survive.
-THEY say Old Dcfnnct at Washington, is
writing his Farewell Message"
That will be Bu-chanan's last shot. We can
only say, with the poet, while our vest pockets
are running over with tears:
GOOD bye, old boy, and don't get drunk any
more"
Tony says that young lady, who marries
in order to obtain manager for her estate,
knows how to husband her resources.
We would advise dyspeptic man to get
gloriously drunk if Ne wants to have happy
Gght
"A NATIVE of the Emerald Isle, who lived
near Abbeville, in this county, had a pet puppy,
which some graceless scamp killed not long ago
Paddy took his murdered pet and ROBBED her in a
white gown; and, procuring jug Of whiskey
invited his companions and had regular Irish
wake over the dead dog. Afterwards, they in
TERED the body in due form and Paddy, by the
aid of brush and lamp black, placed the following
epitaph on the board at the head of the grave:
"ITere lies Cora
Beloved by all who knew her;
a far better dog
Than he who slew her"
Poor Cora Requiescot in pace.
-TEESEssEE has gone and done Il, and feels,
no doubt good deal like the boy who put his
hand into a,polccats den. The smell was so
deep in, water was of no use. lie Just had to
tic up his nose, and wait for the smell to wear
out.
-suEtLfr, the poet, speaks of Sleep, and
his brother Death" hisleads US to think that
the difference between the ancients and ourselves
is not so great after all. We rock 10 SLEEP; they
stoned to death.
WE have seen letter from Nashville Tenn.
in which the writerasks if it is true, as reported,
that Mississippi has levied tax of $40 head
on all negroes within her limits, and confscated
to the State all negroes on which the TAX Is not
paid. A more unfounded lie was never concoc-
ted in the brain of scheming mischief maker, or
hatchedin coward traitors heart And YET, within
the next ten days, thousand such lies viii be
sown broadcast throughout Tennessee, for the
purpose of working upon the fears, jealousies OF
preudices Of the people, and influencing them to
cast off their brothers in the cotton States and to
yoke themselves, irrerOca5ly and .forerer to our
enemies. We are native born Tennesseean, and
know the patriot people Of the Volunteer
State" too well to think, for an instant of their
forgetting their brothers and running after
strange Gods" Their interests are with us their
hearts are with us and they viii not permit
the shadow Of defunct Union to be barrier
between them and us. 1t must "down at their
bidding"
ST Louis pOlled $4,000 votes at the conven-