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forcibly Appropriated for the benefit Of the

forcibly Appropriated for the benefit OF the
Federal Government or the Yankee army.
The sheory is that we are all criminals,
and are all to be punished. and that the
only effectual method of chastising us
for revolving against the just and frater-
nal Administration of ABRAHAM LIscoLN
is to plunge the entire people of the
South in vast abyss of indiscriminate
ruin-men, women and, children to be
alike hurled into the gulf. What exactly
they propose to do with our slaves is moi
yet settled. The more fanatic desire
their immediate emancipation, coue que
coute the more moderate talk of grad
ual and progressive abolition; but they
are unanimous in the conclusion that the
South shall no longer enjoy the fruits of
their labor
1t might be suggested to both classes
OF Spectators on the future destiny OF
the South, that it would be more prudent
to await the complete triumph of the
Northern arms, before attempting to de
eide what will be the fate of the van
pushed. But the North is not 10 the
habit of pursuing SO cautious policy.
From the start the Yankees have taken
for granted that they would crush the
revolution, and their recent successes
have inflated their minds with the notion
that in few weeks all further resistance
on our side will be overcome That they
are grossly in error is palpable enough
to every rejecting Southerner but our
object in sketcbing the two sets of opin-
ions is chiefly to show that whichever
should prevail, we are alike doomed to
misery and ruin. as well as to the most
AFFECT political degradation in the event
of the triumph of our enemies. The hip
ocritical sentimentality Of the Herald Thin.
y wells the hatred and avarice which are
the leading motives for this Northern
raid upon the South, and which would
undoubtedly be satiated by nothing short
of our downfall and mpoverisbment. Ii
is not a whit less detestable than the open
and avowed malignity of the Abolition
lists, who expect to wreak their ven
geance upon us by rapine aud spoliation,
and to glut their fanaticism by the over
throw of our social institutions. They
they succeed, they will vie with each
other 10 commencing to our cups the Bit
ter chalice of humiliation and VICE. The
conclusion from what we have said is
almost too obvious TO escape attention
The South has no alternative between
utter and irretrievable ruin, and the des-
Perate determination to fight her way
to the goal of freedom and peace.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-03-29


The Board met pursuant 10 sdlSsru-
ment
Present as on yesterday
The follo~ins named persons wers -
pointed OverSeers Of roads and % cuaa
mand the hands respectively a~nsee Aar
The present year
DIsTkrcT M. 5
DR. E. H. Anderson. Rad fFscs EtSs
Deer Place, TO eSst side Of 5oho~IoE- :
Plantation. to command his ONE sAas shv
hands of w H-mminswsy. > ~ Wa
New ilhe. R-v z H. DO~nins AM Mr.
Lucy A. Melville.
Henry Runner. Camdsn and Thomas
town Road. from Cam ten 10 the . mll~
pu>t. To command hI> Own AMI SIX "a Z
t. Sutherland's hands. aud III r. n
ans. G.. g. O'Cain and z B J0hn-
>ton.
John t Srott. COoper's Rad from
Camden to the Artesisn SpFInSS Tozssi
near w A. GGffin-to e0mmsnt ~ o~n
and the hands of r. FL Prior sad NJ.
Sarah Scott. c C. Cooper Jas Hsmblin
ard A w Sanford
o. F. Billiug~lra. West Csmden Road
from Exum'S Ferry Road 10 Bills F~Frv
road. to command his own and the hant>
of j. A. Ross. BENZ M%grudrr. Wa
Law and ] r. Moore
Sam'l Milton Road from Willis Marvel
To the Wire road to commznh his oEn
and the hands of Mrs 5. Collins and "
M+xsell.
T. C Stein, SCOTS Ferry Rad. from
Baptist Church 10 end OF Turnpike. g.
command his.own and the hands of q
w. Grafton. A. Parish. X. Hicks. A u
Lock and VIM M Stewart
j. L. Jones. Road from the B lptiSs
Church to the Bills Ferry Road. 70 e.sm
mand his own AMI the hands OF J..hn
Hargon. Mrs. Holiday and Simeon Hoo
Iiday.
REUBEN Stokes. Red Dog Road. from
McMuriray's Coston Pen TO Nsiek-z
Trace. thence The Nsich-z Trace &c Hind
TO command his own and the hands Of
Sam'i j. Stokes
Wm Able. Road from Camden 10 Wire
Road near Mrs E LOFTS. to command
his own and hands of A G. Denton. J.
~ Walker. j. P Alden. A. Purvisnee. ID.
D Watts. 7. L. Cotton. John Cooper.
Wm F. Area, T. A. Carr. AID z LOtt's
hands on the Mitchell place and on the
old home place Of Z. w. Lott ard Mrs
Elisha Lott.
James Afford. Artesisn Springs Road.
FIR, m the Camden Road TO @. A Fts IN
ming's, to command his own and The
hands of G.. A. Fleming and B. A Car
penfer.
T. c. Upper. Collins Mil Road from
Stump Bridge to Collins Mill. and also
road from Baptist Church TO the Camden
road near Henry Bacon. to command his
own and the hands of L. B. Wilson. L L
Taylor. A. v Courtney aud A Carson
Wash. Ford. Mailock Road from Mat
locks to Red Dog Road. to command bis
own and the hands OF j. T. Simmons
William Lambert. Ways Bluff Road
to Gross Roads. 20 command his c~u s,6
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-03-29

LV The pickets on the Savannah riv-
er and the neighboring creeks and islands
are raining destruction on the Federal
accommodating parties. Rebel sharpshoot-
ers swarm along the water courses.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-03-29

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vii xEs>ae - busin~-~ <wn~>~-fy N me Pc
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and ComEnIssiSasr I'm chsn-<ry. sr. 10 o.
aivsys &C had wA<r S~ressE ssns 80 IN "a
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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-03-29

M Federal advices say all our Potomac
batteries have been abandoned, and that the
blockade Of that stream is virtually opened.
1t is reported that the Federal Colonel Gar
ris now occupies Leesbury
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-03-29

Arrangements have been made for the
manufacture Of powder on large scale
at different places ia Alsbsms.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-03-29

~ Two gentlemen. of Augusta. Ca.
have offered to subscribe thousand dol
lars each for the building of Virginia
for the harbor of Savannah. if list of one
hundred such subscriptions can be made
uu y
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-03-29
Blake Nicholson,

"a candidate for Major of the Madison coun-
Militia at the ensuing election.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-03-29

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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-03-29

candidate for Major of the Madison coun.
Militia, at the ensuing election.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-03-29

Moxpay. March ~. 1859
Reports were received from the follow
ing Road Overseers. and the same ordered
g. Ia SID
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-03-29
For Major.

y We are authorized to announce
j. L. Averitt,
$ candidate for MAJOR of Madison coun-
Militia, at the ensuing election.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-03-29
DR.. III. G.. BIackman,

a candidate for Lieut. Colonel of the Mad
On county Militia, at the ensuing election.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-03-29

Ordered. That the Board DO nO~ a
lourn until TO mSrrow at 2 O'eiork A n.
j. II. POWELL, Pressdert-
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-03-29

DR COLONEL MADISON co. MILITIA.


q candidate for Colonel of the h"disoh
,unty Militia. Time of the election yet 10
designated by the Brigadfer General.
The weekly Butte record., 1862-05-10

HoRRID CASE OF MURDER AND SUICIDE-To
the politeness of Mr. McKinstry, we are in
debted for the following particulars in regard
to a transaction, which, for horror OF detail. is
not often surpassed. A man whose Christian
name We are unable TO learn. but who has been
commonly known as Joe Parmeton, and his
wife, without accompanying each other attend
ed dancing party on the night Of Saturday,
the 26th of this month. About o'clock in
the morning, they returned to Hanks EX-
change, their place of residence, Oh the Dia-
mond Spring and Pleasant Valley road.
Persons about the house, heard the husband
and wife conversing before they retired. 1t
seems that from loss Of sleep, the persons about
the house, slept until nearly II o'clock on
Sunday morning. The first thing unusual that
attracted their attention, was the continual
crying of a child about two years old in the
room to which the vile mad retired. As no
other voice was heard In the ROOM their sus-
picions were excited and they broke open the
door. They at once saw the child by the side
of its murdered mother and. in the room ad-
Joining, they found the dead husband 1t
seems that Parmeton loved his wife most ten
derly. but was, notwithstanding. jealous Of her
Waiting till all was still, and she was soundly
asleep, be approached her bedside, buried a
hatchet about three inches 10 the top of her
head, and then. dirk in hand, inflicted nine
stabs in the vicinity of the pit of her stomach.
He next retired into an adjoining room, placed
the muzzle OF a pistol Just above his right ear,
touched the trigger and blew out bis brains.
Before retiring, be bad shaken hands with
several persons. bid them farewell, and told
them that it vas not probable that be would
ever attend another ball but Immediately
after that expression of sadness, be smoked
cigar. He left behind him two letters, in each
of which be manifested his solicitude for the
future well being of the child. The one letter
was addressed to the proprietor Of the Ex-
change. and the other TO the cbild's grandma
ther. Mrs Parmeton must have died Instantly.
from the blow on her head for, Mr.. McKinstry
tells rs that her countenance was that of q
person asleep. How suddenly must she have
passed from the repose of sleep to that of
death = Placerville News
The weekly Butte record., 1862-05-10
LEeESD.-There is charming legend con

LEGESD.-There is a charming legend con-
nected with the site on which the Temple OF
Solomon was built. 1t is said to have been
occupied in common by two brothers, one
of whom had family; the other had none
On this spot was sown field of wheat. On
the evening succeeding the harvest, the grain
having been gathered in separate shocks, the
elder brother said unto his wife: Ny young
er brother is unable to bear the burden and
heat of the day ; will arise, take my shocks
and place them with bis without bis knowl-
edge" The younger brother being actuated
by the same benevolent motives, said within
himself My elder brother has family
have none will rise, take of my shocks and
place them with his without bis knowledge" :"
Judge Of their mutual astonishment when, on
the following morning, they found their re-
spective shocks undiminished This course of
events transpired for several nights. when each
resolved in his own mind to stand guard and
solve the mystery. They did So when, on
the following night, they met each other half
way between their respective shocks, with their
arms foil Upon ground hallowed by such as
sociations as this was the Temple Of Solomon
erected-so spacious aud magnificent, the won
der and admiration Of the world Alas in
these days, how many would sooner steal their
brothers whole stock, than add to it single
sheaf
The weekly Butte record., 1862-05-10
" c SNAIL De knOWn ABOVE.
)AN~-&>
AZ Opn F1sH.-The Hussar. Dorcas Co:

An ODD FIsH.-The Hussar, (DorcaS Cos
tala,) a South American fish, makes rather
long Journeys on land and will 90 Oh the
whole night through in search of fresh water,
when the pond dries up. The shelly plates
which cover the body and the hard vental fms,
enable it to perform such tour. 1t can even
live for several hours 10 the hottest sunshine.
The Indians, who often Gil their baskets with
these emigrants, (for the flesh is very dainty,)
assert quite correctly that the Hussar takes a
supply of water with it for the journey.
If it finds all the ponds dried up it subsidies
into state OF asphyxia until the rainy season
arouses it again.
But even more than through its migration is
this remarkable fish distinguished by its mater
nal affection, only found in this instance among
fish. Sir Richard Schombargh, in his Travels
in British Guiana, tells US that not only doc S
the Hussar form perfect nest for its spawn
of all sorts of fbres among the aquetic plants
but it watches with the most maternal care till
the young brood slip out The nest is a real
work of art like that of the magpie. In April
the Hussar begins forming the nest until it
resembles a hollow globe fattened at tie poles
the upper one of which reaches the surface OF
the water An orifce, fitted to the size of the
mother, opens into the interior. The maternal
anxiety of the Hussar is, however, shamefully
perverted to its destruction. A small basket
is held before the hole which may be easily
found. Hussar rushes furiously into the bas-
ket with bristing spiues, which in1ct tole
rably severe wound
The weekly Butte record., 1862-05-10
A bout Pens,

Pens of some sort have been in use from
very ancient times, adapted to the material
upon which the written characters were to be
impressed Upon stone or metallic plates gra-
vers of steel served for writing, and such are
referred TO by Job in speaking of an iron
pen." For the waxen tablets Of the ancients
a metallic stylus was employed, one end of
which was sharpened fox marking, and the
other was fattened for erasing the marks and
smoothing the wax. 1t was also the practice
in the ancient times, as it is among the Chi
nese at the present day, to paint the letters
with fine hair pencil. Pens of reeds also
were made at a very early period, for the use
of fluid ink upon papyrus, The reed selected
for this purpose is described as small and hard
and about the size of swans quill. 1t was
found in Egypt and Armenia, and Cairo and
Alexandria were famous markets in which it
sold Along the shores of the Persian Gulf
reeds are still collected for this purpose, and
are distributed throughout various parts of the
Eastern countries, being better adapted to the
ink and paper employed in those regions than
any other kind of pens. The introduction OF
common writing paper rendered necessary pens
of finer character, and caused demand for
goose quills.
A great trade grew up IN these articles
which even the more recent Introduction o.
steel and gold pens has not materially dimin
ished. Poland and Russia are largely engaged
in it. In single year St. Petersburgh he;
furnished England over 27,00O,OO0 of quills
Within the last ffty years steel pens of variou:
kinds have been manufactured in Great Britain
and the number made annually in Birmingham
has been estimated at one thousand millions
Several attempts have been made TO establish
this manufacture in the United States, but i
has been found almost hopeless to compete witt
the manufacturers Of Birmingham. The art o.
making gold pens has, however, been carried
to the highest perfection in New Y York so that
the only really excellent pen used in Europe
is obtained in this country. The machinery
used for this purpose was invented by Mr
Rendell, and improved by Mr. Fairchild- and
is curious and elaborate-more than twenty
distinct operations being required in the pro
duction of single pen. There are seven Oh
eight factories for this manufacture in the city
of New York one in Brooklyn, \. Y; two
in Brooklyn. CT; one in HadenyilIe, Mass
and one in Cincinnati
New American Cyclopedia.
The weekly Butte record., 1862-05-10

NAPoLEoN's IDEA OF MAKING WAR-The
following letter was written by Napoleon to
Augereau on the 2lst of February, 1914:
What Six hours after receiving the first
troops from Spain you are not yet in the field
Six hours rest is quite enough for them. |
conquered at Nangis, with the brigade of dra.
goons coming from Spain, who from Bayonne
had not drawn rein. Do you say that the six
battaions from Mines want clothes and equip.
age and are uninstructed? Augereau, what
miserable excuses l have destroyed $4,000
enemies with battaons of conscrpts, scarcely
clothed and without cartridge-boxes. The
National Guard are pitiful have here 1000
from Angers and Bretagne, in round hats
without cartridge boxes, but with good weap-
ons and have made them tell. There is nc
money, do you say? But where do you ex
pect to get money but from the pockets of the
enemy You have no teams? Seize them
You have no magazines? Tut, tut, that is toe
ridiculous l order you to put yourself in the
field twelve hours after you receive this letter
If you are still the Augereau, of CastiglIoDe
keep your command. If your sixty years are
100 much for you, relinquish it to the Oldest o.
your general officers. The country is menaced
and in danger 1t only be saved by da
ring and alacrity. and not by vain delays
You must have a nucleus of 5000 picked
troops. l have not so many, yet have de
stroyed three armies, captured 10000 prison
ers, taken 200 pieces of artillery, and thrice
saved the capital. The enemy are in ful
fight upon Troyes! Be before them Ac
no longer as of late Resume the method anc
spirit of 80. When Frenchmen see your
plume waving in the van and you. first of all
exposed to the euemys FIRE, you will do with
them whatever you will.
The weekly Butte record., 1862-05-10

WASH YoUR Fruit TREEs-Tbe long damp
weather has caused many trees to become rusty
with moss. under which insects of various kinds
deposit their eggs. Now is the time to wash
the trees, and for this purpose prepare wash
of potash water, at the quantum of four or six
pounds of potash to a barrel of water four
pounds if dry. six pounds if wet weather, as the
rains will help wash when the lye is put on
strong. Make swab Of old woolen rags, and
swab every limb and the trunk of the tree, and
the result will well repay the time and cost,
both in looks and health of the tree. Many
trees become moss covered by reason of being
choked up at the roots with grass and suckers
that should be removed Farmer.
The weekly Butte record., 1862-05-10
The Island of Ceylon.

Ceylon has nearly the area Of Scotland, and
in number almost one half our population; yet
its records say that four or FIVE centuries since
when our ancestors were bent down by strug-
giles for national independence Ceylon had a
million and half of villages. The statement
resembles fanciful exsggeration till We learn
that it might bear million and a half Of farms,
and that each - farmtown" would be reckoned
village, in the language of the chronicles.
Even with tha. information, as many OF the
villages might contain 4 considerable popula-
ton, the number tries the disposition Of the
reader TO credit these old chronicles, till he
farther learns that this small island may have
contained people, whose commerce extended
from the extreme east of China TO the great
sea, and even to the eastern ports of the At
lantic; and its cities rlvalled Babylon or Nine
yah of old in their magnitude and wealth, and
stretched farther along the banks Of artificial
lakes than the London of the present time.
The lines of streets are still traceable thro
the jungle, but the profuse vegetation Of theiI
sites, and the nature of their material, have
left few traces of the private dwellings of their
citizens yet the ruins of their public monu-
ments, their palaces and temples, indicate a
degree of wealth and skill, and patient industry,
not surpassed in Assyria or Egypt. The labor
bestowed on some of these public works ap
apears almost incredible, especially when We
remember that Ceylon had no single Nile
spreading over its lands, and bestowing on
them the ceaseless fertility of the land of the
Pharoahs Large and numerous tanks, formed
at great expense, and preserved by equal care
and Egyptian Nile in irrigation and the sus-
tenauce of this great population depended on
their security. Their craven images equal to
those of Nineveh or :" Thebes" in beauty and
size. Their temples are more extensive and
magnificent, and their palaces were more
splendid than any other remains excavated
from the ruins of the past. Yet they have
only been discovered-they have not been ex-
cavated. They were unknown until within q
comparatively few years, to Europeans who
stumbled upon them, and as if by accident
threw aside the fallen cities, till the time ar
rived when they would be appreciated, and
would assist in tracing the secrets of a dark
and melancholy tale-a history that must have
been not less dismal in its details, not less ter
ribe in its aggregate, than any Judgment re-
corded in ancient ages on the sinful follower;
OF perverted faith for these great centres oi
a population the densest, for centuries since
on the earth, must have been depopulated and
ruined by the conversion of the water works
at once their pride and the means of their sup
port into their destruction, when they spread
over their lands, and raised miasma from every
field, till death was borne on every breeze, and
the pestilence poisoned The atmosphere, anC
the soil threw its screen Of flowers over theil
tombs.- Edinburgh Witness.
The weekly Butte record., 1862-05-10

AN HONEST LIFE.-The poor plttance Of
seventy years is not worth being villain for.
What matter IS it if your neighbOr lies in a
splendid tomb? Sleep you with innocence
Look behind you through the track of time
A vast desert lies open in retrospect; weared
with years and sorrow, they sink from the
walks of man. You must leave them where
they fall and you are to go little further
until you find eternal rest. Whatever you may
have TO encounter between the cradle and the
grave, every moment is big with events, which
come not in succession, but bursting forciby
from a revolving and unknown cause, fly over
this orb with diversified influence.