The Oxford intelligencer., 1861-03-27
News Items, and Items Not News.

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Como Depot Pamela county, last week, by
falling from moving train of cars. which pass
ed over his body. Mr.. Townsend was native
Of Massachusetts, but had been identified with
Mississippi history for twenty-five years. For
half Of that time, we have known bin intimate
ly We have been with him through the vary
ing scenes of an eventfill career, in Mississippi
and California We hayeneyer heard whisper
against his fair fame, and looked upon him ever
as man Sin whom there was no guilenAi
Peace to his ashes -, y.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has decided the celebrated Gaines case in favor
of Mrs. Gaines, as the child and rightful heir of
Gen. Clark
-lT is said that Lincoln has determined to
surrender Fort Sumter, but to retain all other
Forts in the seeded States This, we suppose,
is part Of what he calls his "pcace policy"
THERE are, in Hardeman county, Tonnes
see, four companies Of volunteers, armed and
and equipped at their own individual expense,
and ready to offer their services to the Confeder-
ate States whenever an attempt shall be made at
coercion. Two of these companies are at Boil
var, one at Grand Junction, and one at Sauls-
bury. Who, after this, win say that "nothing
good can come out of Nazareth 2" A friend at
Salisbury informs us that the same patriotic
spirit is strong throughout Tennessee.
-THE Republican party of the United States
remind us of the Spartan youth, who, having
stolen a fox add concealed it under his cloak,
allowed the animal to tear his vitals out rather
than reveal it by an cutlery. The Republicans
brought their country to ruin, and rather than
acknowledge their suicidal policy, they were
willing to see the nation hurried to dissolution
and death.
-0UGnr not young lady who takes draning
lessons to be very attractive?
-CRrsPN POPS THE QUESTION. the
Shoemaker, popped the question to his sweet
heart, and offered tempting inducements for her
acceptance-"My dear Maria Jane, if you win
just marry me, you shall have a new pair of
shoes every week, and shall go to Church in
satin slippers every Sunday"
AN ambitious mother pointing out to her
sons the highway Of Fame she would have them
to travel, told them that to have great men for
sons had ever been her hearts chief longing;
great men, not in the worldly sense of lofty po-
sition far-rcaching influence or tyrant power
but in that better sense which makes all great
ness TO consist in greatness Of mind and heart
not such as makes rulers among men, but such
as makes equals among angels In brief, my
sons" was her conclusion, 81 would have you
be great men seithia your coats"
-DIoGENEs, with his lighted lantern, might
search the streets of Washington, every day,
for an honest man, and find the search even
more vain than it was in Athens thousands of
years ago.
-FUNNY DECIDEDLY To see the Memphis
Bulletin, which so lately congratulated the
Memphians on the increase of their trade by
secession and blockade of the cotton ports, abus-
ing an Alabama railroad company, because it
shows a commcndable partiality for Mobile over
Memphis. Perhaps the Bulletin may soon find
that the cotton and trade from the seeding
States won't all go Northward to find market
in an uniriendly country. Memphis might be
great city, and souu be, if her blind and selfish
policy did not always keep her at loggerheads
with the very communities from which the life
blood of her prosperity is drawn. Memphis is
the natural emporium of Arkansas and northern
Mississippi and Alabama; but in some way or
another, she has always managed to give those
communities an excuse and motive for doing a
large proportion of their trade in other Cities
The Bulletin may rest assured Of one thing
that citizens of the Confederate States will new
er ask its advice as to any policy they may
choose to pursue. If they wish the benefit of
counsel, they will seek it Of their friends.
-BuRDExsoMK TAXATION Some time ago. a
lying correspondent set aioat the falsehood that
Mississippi had levied per capita tax of sixteen
dollars on negroes, when in fact it is hardly an
eighth as great. To prove how blind people are
to their own sins, it is only necessary to state
that we have the authority of the Memphis
Appeal for saying that there is specific tax
of twenty dollars upon every slave employed
or hired within the corporate limits of that city,"
Tennessee papers, speaking of Mississippi taxes,
reminds us Of the Pharisee's prayer thank
thee, Lord, that am not as other men are ~
ON Saturday last Cavalry Company, fifty
one strong, were mustered in at Chulahoma,
Marshall county. The following officers were
elected: R. p. Bowen Captain; JAS. A. Barks-
dale, LIST Lieutenant Thomas ]. Hardin, I'd;
Robert II. Peel, Sd; Robert A. Dean, Orderly
Sergeant Speeches were made by Hon. r. S.
Greer, Major John McGuirk, our senior editor
Howard Falconer,) and Col Richard Phillips
sl,l1O were raised for the COmpany's use.
PRErTY.-A pretty and cheap ornament for
yards and flower gardens can be made as fol-
lows: Select suitable spot, and draw circle
of about two feet in diameter on the ground -
drive into the circle stout sticks, leaving them
about two feet high, and inclined outwards
Work grape vines between the sticks as if max
ing basket, and form handle with a bunch
of twisted vines Fill up with rich soil and
plant verbena, heartsease. &C., asd cypress to
run up the handle. Such a structure WILL in
due course of time resemble large basket Of