True Democrat., 1862-12-17
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died in the hospital at PlNeViiie, 1eun.' oA 18th of September For further iniormalioh address Dr. ". S. Findlay, Pikeyille, biedsoe county, Tenn. s vo
 " Tn the churchyard at Jamestown, va, there are, or were, some very old ton'oS'oi,e' with oua;n inscriptions, over the graves oi the cavaliers who settled Virginia. These were re- spected and cared for, but the Yankees nave stola, them and sent them North as curiosi'ies' They literally rob the graves. e
 There was a fine old library at Beaufof'' D. c. containing some old important ana scarce works. collected by the Cavalier and huggueno' families and very valuable. These were taken ,o New York. and advertised for sale at puphc auction. The N. Y. Times protested asains' such d;sgraceful proceedings, and the safe mas been indefinitely postponed. :,
 LII Parson Brownlow was at Nashville on the l9th of November.
 - The small pox is raging among the stolen negroes in the District of Columbia.
 - The next U. s. House of Representa- lives, so far as the elections have been hela, will stand: Union 80; Opposition others figure up the opposition as majority.
 - The N. |. legislature elect stands as. follows: House, four democratic majority; Senate, twelverepublican majority seymour,s majority is. l2,2o3.
 - 300 Sioax Indians have been condemn ed to be hung. Lincoln talks of pardonlng them if they will join his army.
 - Butler has 5000 sick men in his hospit- als q.
 - They have free market at Charleston which is noby sustained. There is patriotism there. Here, instead of a free market, planters who cannot get four dollars a bushel for peta> toes. or dollar piece orpumpkins, take thesr vegetables home and let them rot while the poor suffer- and then go about the streets bragglng about what they have given for the cause.
 - The Texas penitentiary turns ont two thousand wards of cloth day. Some of 1t IS coarse, for tents, wagon covers, etc. Some o' it is kersey, jeans and cloth for wearing appa rel. The Texas regiments are nearly all fur' nished with tents and clothing made from thls cloth. What a pity 1t is that we had not begun a year sooner to get machinery for the pehlten- tiary here. Everything was being put in read' mess for the reception of the machinery when the war commenced and preTented"it
 - The legislature of Louisiania met in extra session at Opelousas, on Monday last. s- The legislatures of Georgia and Ala, adoDted resolutions, declaring that the cities Of Savannah and Mobile should be defended to the last-hogse by house, inch by inch, and to be made masses of ruins rather than be suffered to fall into the hands of the abolitioRi;ts.
 - At Opelika, Ala, some person found a lump of salt which had beeu dropped from a railroad car, and reported that the whole coua. try was a mass of salt The people of Opehka were as.oundel to find that their embryo city was founded upon solid bed Of salt, and dreaded to see a rain for fear of being washed of in briny flood, which would have put them in 2 terrible pickle Fortunately, upon lnves- t;oatioD. it was found that their fears were grolndess, or rather saltless, and there IS no danger of their melting away.
 - In California they have fitted up Fort Aleatraz as bastile and are confinng political nrisoners. Among them are members elect 10 the elepislature who are opposed to Llncolnism.
 - Seventy abolition cavalry made dash into Fredericksburg, Va, aud actually succeed ed in taking off twenty five prisoners and Slo'- 900 worth of woolen goods, besides killing and wounding twenty or thirty more Confederates. They were plotei by a tory elnded the pickets, rot in the town before it was suspected, and althourh there were five times their number ot Confedcrates in town, galleped through town; struck panic in the troops and were carrying all before them. This was mortifying, the wo. men and boys gathered and began to pelt them with stones, and held them until Capt. Simp son with part of his company came np and drove them of. Such things are mortitytng;- ana oive the enemy encouragement. The troops who ran say that they supposed the whole abo' Ition army was upon them. On the other hand. it is gratifying to see the spirit of the wo- men of Fredericksburg, some of whom were on horseback. calling upon the men to rally and resist the insolent foe.
 - friend from the northwest tells us that the abolitionists, as they pass through the country, take particular pains to carry oil the table knives and forks and to destroy all the pots pans and cooking utensils. They give as q reason for this, that people cannot do without them and must procure others from the North and so resume trade. Akin to this is the order unfinished in Tennessee for farmers to plant cotton and no corn, that our people may be forced to buy corn and breadstufs from the ene- n.y.
 - Harry Mccarthy, the comedian, lately eave q concertat Columbia, s. c. for the benefit of the soldiers, which netted s70O. Me-, is uak-l ing money, but he is so benevolent that we fear he spends the most of it. We see that he has new proteges or pupils, every few months, Miss Estelle or some other fancy name, whose education must be very expensive. IL
 - Nowadays, the value of thing is not what it is worth, but what it will bring. All feelings of common brotherhood; all regard for the wants and necessities Of others; and the consciousness that we are embarked in the.same vessel and must float or sink together, seem to be lost sight of. The majority, like hungry wolves are trying to devour each other. As an instance of it, though corn can be got from