New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-06-30


Of Civilizntion--A Loyal Mothcr-Pil.
lows Freaks-The jackson Statue
Rebel Gunboats-Msrvels OF the Con-
Tolerate Currency-Gen. Wallace.
From Our Special Correspondent
MKxPHs Sunday, June "a 1862.
Two choice bits Of Rebel tera ure have Just come
90 light. They are no feeble Invitations, compro-
missing with the prejudices engendered by Northern
free schools but the genuine thing, which forswears
allegiance to English grammar, and regard, spelling
~ matter of private judgment
HOW A REBEL PAID HIS DEBT.
The first was brought out in this wise Several
months ago Mr.. Warner a carpenter on the Memphis
and Ohio Railroad sold watch TO another employee
of the company, named Powers. The former was
quiet Union nlan-the latter loud Secessioniss
Warner attempted repeatedly TO collect the debt and
SMgsPHIs Dec 25. 1861
"Mr NJ T PowKRs-S1: wan, you to pay me for, or
ssnd me watch il you do not will expose you In the
worst manner tina, You doing anything but setting
he gentleman with This is the last tine shsl wI'e
Powers sent back the letter, with the following
reply written upon the same sheet:
SR NY privet pnion is Public express s that you ar
Dan BLACK hsrtei sbcniuess and II ever hear Of you
open you mouth game you viii you head shave and cent
Back 70 you nis Land Wh. You De along these are
fsckes and you now can prove them and will Doet"
HOW THE CREDITOR FINALLY COLLECTED 1T.
Warner pocksted the affront-" ablchiness," and
a-and nursed his wrath in silence until our forces
captured the city. On Friday, he encountered
Powers upon the STREET.-THE fret time since the
fight OF the Rebels-and gave him merciless can
ing. Powers with one eye under an eclipse, and
hs general physiogomy badly damaged, brought
the case before Proyost-Warshal Gould for adj1di-
cation. Warner admitted the assault, and :" lusti-
Fed by producing the above correspondence Capt.
Gould's Court s one Of original and exclusive juris-
diction; the plea was good before it, aud Warner
wss discharged from custody.
PROPOSITION FROM FEMALE REBEL.
The other was found in the Office Of The appeal,
left behind by the conductors OF that onrnal, when
they removed their establishment 10 Grenada, Aliss
The following is copy:
a CHALLENGE
"where the wicked policy Of tho presdenMsiipg
upon the South for refusing to submit 70 wrong too
pslpsble for Southerneu 10 do. Aud where it
b, become % TO- The yGa1s 4s1 s Of S, 's11y
Driving the MeIcensry from our sunny south whose soil is
holy for such wIeehe to tramp And whose atmosphere
For such ndgnity afford Civilization Merely Cha.
lenge abolition OF Black Republican lazy OF character
there be such one found among the equality tribe
70 Meet Me at Mason. dixon hne Vitae pair Of Solt
:" Victoria T. Goodwin
Spring Dale Miss April u, ls6i."
AN ADDITION TO INFANT NOMENCLATURE.
UThree weeks before the arrival Of forces, tn
wife of one of the five citizens who III June, 1861
voted the Union ticket, presented bin Wi b daugh
newcomer be christened " Southern Confedclacy,
but 10 their great indignation she declared il shout
be named Union" OF course This was FIAT treason
but che adhered to it with very womanly persis
tency, and since flag raised the little cir
has been formally named CnlOn'
PILLOWS FOLLY.
The little paTapet which stands the evee
ought not TO be leveled, but perpttu.;ed under tb
name Of Pillows Folly. IL stands only few yard
in front Of one of the best brick blocks on the land
I, IL for defeu si,-.u
bat admirably located for insuring the destruction OF
the commercial part Of the city, in any stempt q
hold it against attack. When Pillow baIricaied the
streets and obstructed the leyee with his breast
but finally the City Council grew tired Of the Joke
and ordered 1t removed us a nuisance.
THE INITIATED INSCRIPTION.
The defacing OF the inscription upon the marble
monument TO the memory of jackson, on Cour;
square, was done by an Arkansas Lieutenant. He
deemed the immortal words The Federal Union
must and shall be preserved" indigni,y 70 South.
erp rgbts; and borrowing a mallet and chise at
tempted TO obiierate them. But tine stone was hard
and the letters cut in instead Of raised he found
it slow work He had only deiaced the word Fed
eral without rendering 10 illeqble when Prov Isl
Marshal MckissOck out Il stop 20 the vandalism. The
citizens emphatically opposed TO IT, bat in the
madness which ruled the hour, some extremists and
solers would have decorated the tomb even OF the
Savior Of men.
THE CONFEDERATE NAVY.
On the stocks just below the city, only partially
destroyed by fire. the rite and spine OF one OF the
new Rebel gunboats are still visibie-siluFian wee
tiger Of the Rebellion. There gre reports that the
Arkansas formerly the Mallory, the new gunboal,
nearly completed, and taken up the YazOO River
before arrival, has been fnsh,j and it between
here and Nicksburs; but think they arc unoun1ed.
She lie a formidable craft though by no means equal
70 the Louisiana and Mississippi which were de-
stroyed at New Orleans Oar naya, Off cers cOncede
that If those boats ha1 been completed la they would
have been in three wecksl they could have sunk our
entire tOtilla, and ran up the -. Louis l. was a
narrow escap e-alIuost as narrow as that Of the
army at Piitsburg Landing.
THE MYSTERIES or REBEL CURRENCY.
In spite Of the prohibition, considerable Confed-
crate currency Is selling at discount Of about ~
per cent Glow Tennessee % per- which ranges at from
20 70 30 per cent below gold. Gl- brings the Reoel
currency down pretty near zero but IN The country,
few mice south Of our Inee il s'il gOes "a par.
For long time brass dray.ii ke's aud che cks
stamped 90 Good for - cents" were current here
Many shinpas,srs still circulate. and we often
receive ioar bsnknoies Tor 20 ceu.si One shin
ylas.er, Issued by baker. p-rpors % be good for
70 cents IN drayage Or coufecIynary. Another|
Assures Tie bearer that upon presenting j Or the Mis-
tissIpp and Tennessee Railroad Company he will
he entitled 10 i've cents 'u freight oi Dassage
irenl Of ln0e. on arriving lere had d lflO.
gfapblc fae Aml.e o. $40 Confederate nole-tle
ldst u q package Wach he bCogm in Ihicrgo q, Ten
cents dozen. lie showed il % . merchant, a,sur-
iDg hm That . vas counterfeit, made and sold in
be Norih al cauostyi bot II Wss - better looAiug
xV'e sa"n mo original aud tho merchant gladly took
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