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Year: 1863

The present faithful and sound headed representative
of the 5h Congressional District OF Georgia. Dr. Lewis
having declined reelection the friends of Mr.. Toombs
insisting that he shall be again pressed into the
vice. 1t is not known certainly whether he will consent
to the use of his name, but the Augusta Constitutional
ast is of the opinion that while" he will enter into
scramble for the ofce' he would feel himself bound to
obey the call of constituency who have refused
any call be has made upon them. Mr.. Toombs posi-
tion is thus defined by the Constutonollst:


1t is objected that General Toombs in Congress will
be tactous opponent of the Administration. This is
simply not true-he is not oppositionst, he is
OF positive, not negative principles-a statesman
well as patriot and soldier General Toombs, or
his friends for him. place his candidacy distinctly upon
friends announce his position thus simply to set all
doubts ard fears at rest. If elected be would 60 to
Congress- neither for against men he will so for
his country and its good all the time, and will supper
oppose measures his judgment dictates to the best
regardless of those who may propose or oppose them
This is all that any honest patriot can promise.
Year: 1863

What the world calls avarice Is sometimes no more
than compulsory economy and even wilful penurious
ness is better than wasteful extravaganza. A just
man being reproached with paraimony, said that he
would rather enrich bis enemies after his death than
borrow of his friends in life time.


DEATH OF DUKE-The English papers publish the
recent death of the Duke of Hamilton in Paris. In
company with trai companions of both sexes be
dned at the Maison Doree, and got drunk. In com
ing out he fell om the top to the bottom of the steps
and never spoke again. His death has thrown some o
the insurance Offices into disress-manly Scotch es
tabishments His fife was insured for 100000 few
days before he left Scotland for France.
Year: 1863

NOT being able to work the property to advantage,
~ Cher for sale my MILL and some 1900 OF LAND
attached. The Mill is located few miles from the mouth
OF the Lockwoods Folly river and approachabe by
sells large enough the West Indies and to other
ports desired. Saw and Grst Mill up and has been
operation three years. The pond and power is
If not the Gerry best the lower part of the state be-
ing easily controlled and afJrdng ample power for any
desired amount of achiDery and nexhausuble sutt
cency timber may be got the lands aud obtained
the branches LoCkwO Folly river keep Saw
running for the forty fifty years. The grits
will yield quite amount OF corn and must continue to
increase. Below the Mill is good body OF rich marsh
land easily put in Of cultivation. The pond flows
some hundred of good rice land the
larger portion being rich marsh land the balance formerly
a large cypress swamp and very rich. The pond flows
much land, but the above nsned quantity all be
brought into level farm, with to flow the land
rice Several hundred of the land tmbered
with pne OAK hickory, &c. and pretty we'll adapted to
corn, peas potatoes and pea nuts. The balance OF the
land pretty well tmbered with pine. At the lower
of the land is just and neatly fitted up set Ct
eight good Salt Pans, with many Thousand cords of Wood
Gs convenient could be wished for or expected


desirous of buying such property Rad best
come soon and for themselves If my health
ss formerly the property could not be b0u ht for ebon
double what would take for it.


JNO. MERCER.


Aug. 18th, 1863 Att
Year: 1863

The CITY Hall ought to he kefodn good cor
iitfon at all times, because Ut its being viz
tied at every hour Of the day by citizens ane
strangers. For years past the northern pCr
.ico has hecit too dirty for pig pen, and
will always continue 80 unless proper steIs
are taken to prevent the pigeons from roost
ing in it. Whose duty 1t Is TO get rid el
these nuisanccs we are not prepared to tay
but seme one ought to undertake it for ths
credit Of the city.
Year: 1863

An old lawyer was giving advice TO his
son who was just entering upon he prac-
tice Of his fathers profession, my son,
said the counsellor, if you have case
where the law is clearly on your side but
justice seems to be against yo1, urge up
on the jury the vast Importance of sus-
tanning the law. If Won re in duubt
about the law, but your clients ease is
founded on justice, insist on the necessity
of doing justice, though the hearers fall
But" asked the son, show shall man
age case where both law and justice ore
dead against me ?" "In that ease, my
sen, talk round it,"
Year: 1863

be diminished. The system of details
must be adopted. Young men must not
be permitted to evade their duty by slip.
pling into safe places. Complaisant
friends must turn deaf ear to their en-
treaties. Able bodied men must not be
allowed to stay at home on the pretext
of attending to twenty negroes Here III
Virginia there are, in many places, con-
tiguous plantations. numbering in the ag-
gregate hundreds of slaves, without SOL
itary white man left to guard them. The
gentle authority of ladies had been found
amply sufficient to control the obedlent
African population.


With the first opening of Spring comes
the last tremendous shock of this war
Many of the Yankee troops are nine
months men. More are enlisted for two
years. their time expiring in May next.
Up TO that time they will be available, and
we may be sure that all the fighting that
can possibly be gotten out of them will
be had before they are allowed to 60 home.
They outnumber US two to one. There
is limit to the brave men at TuIlahoma,
Grenada and Vicksburg. They must be
sustained, strengthened, reinforced If
within the next two months we do not
add seventy-f We or hundred thousand
men to our forces in the Southwest we
shall come to grief. If We do add them,
We are safe beyond peradventure. and
next summer will witness the final tri-
uuph of our arms.
Year: 1863

FIom the Richmond Despatch.


Mr.. Brooks appears to be in earnest in
these extravagant propositions, strange as
it may appear to any man who has pos
session Of his senses for, upon the occa-
sion of presenting them, he made long
speech, aud expressed himself coufdent
of their success. Are the Northern peo


pie all natural born fools, or are they only
stricken with that judicial madness which
we are told the gods always infict upon
the victims of their wrath preparatory to
their ruin :? Can they suppose tha. the
South is as galless and as lilIy-lIvered as
themselves, and that they are willing for
mere considerations of interest, to forget
the unhoard of outrages under which they
have suffered during this war? Can they
believe them capable of so soon buryiDg
in oblivion all that they have done and
all that they have suffered :?


If the whole Yankee rcce should fall
down in the dust tomorrow, and pray US
to be their masters, we would spurn them
as slaves. Our oDl " wish is to be separ
ated from th EN- finally aud forever-nev-
er to see the face of one of them again
never to hear the voice of another YaD-
kee on the south side of the Potomac, or
the north-to have no trafc and no in
tercourse of any description whatever with
them. We are fighting for separation,
and we will have it, if it cost the life of
every man in the Confederate States.


We are aware that many persons be-
lieve that the party of which Brooks and
Van Buren, are the representatives, desire
and design to restore peace, and that, at
present, they dare not speak oct their
real sentiments, which are in favor of sep
aration. We do not believe they are in
favor of any such thing. They would
like peace on condition of our return
to the Union, and they are fools enough
to believe that a majority of the people
in the Contederacy are in favor of reunion.
They would like peace on these terms,
because it would restore the commercial
supremacy of the North, and especially
of the city of New York, which is gone
forever if the Union be not restored
But they are as bitterly opposed to sep
aration as Lincoln is, himself, or any of
the thieves and murderers who lead his
armies.


In the event of our refusal to return to
the Union, they would, they own, unite in
bounding on the assassins who are desc
lating our country aud numbering our
people as fercely as they have ever been
bounded on by Beecher and Hale. They
look only to their pockets when they
preach of reconciliation aud restoration
If the same object could be affected by
entirely destroying the people of the
Southern States, and they thought it as
easy to do, they would recommend it as
the best of all possible policy Let them
be satlefed, however President Davis
expressed the sentiment of the entire
Confederacy,n his speech the other night,
when be said the people would sooner
unite with nation of hyeDas than with
the detestable and de;ested Yankee na.
ton. Anything but that. English col
onizatiou, French vassalage, Russian serf-
dom-all, all are preferable to any asso-
citation with the Yankees.
Year: 1863

All are thronging TO the gate
Warder-warder open quickly
Man-is his time to wgit
And tie heavy gates are opened;
Then a murmur long aud louai
And a cry Of fear and wonder


Bursts from ont the bending crowd
Fer they see ia battered harness


Oaly one hard stricken mani
And his weary stsed is wounded
And his cheek is pale and wan
Spearless hangs q bloody banner
In his weak and dropping hand
God can that be Kaudolph Murray,
Captain Of the city band
Year: 1863

REVENUE DECIsIoN.-Tho Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue to-day made the following
decision d" 1t Is the duty of the justice OF the
peace or notary before whom an afidaviL is
made, to afiix and cancel the five cent stamp
TO be placed thereon"
Year: 1863

going on. At the same time the Jeromes bave q
heavy interest In the Hudson River Railr oad.
and are looking out In that quarter also. 1t Is
we'll understood that the Times Is the organ of
the Jeromes in all their stockjobbing affairs,
and that the World represents the Central
Railroad jobbing politicians. 1t Is therefore
impossible for either to remain silent whom
there is such an excellent opportunity to bull
and bear railroad stocks True to the spirit of
those papers, tho Times opened out on the
Central Railroad for change Of directors, In
order to help the Wall street managers Of that
sheet, and the World followed yesterday In
behalf of the Albany clique. Thus the stock
jobbing now goes, and will no doubt grow
moro and more interesting until the election Of
Central Railroad directors on the 9Th Of next
month.
Year: 1863

now labor begins TO feel IL. or begins to widely
manifest the change for some time felt Hence
there is demand for higher rates, and con-
sequent strikes In every direction.


Though strikes are at any time q positive
evil a. they interrupt the whole movement Of
industry, those at present In progress will per-
haps be accommodated without serious detri-
ment to the public welfare. But we are only
in the third year ofthe war, and these troubles
may recur; and If they do it will be in fright
full ratio with the lapse Of time And here we
see one more urgent reason Why the govern
ment should act vigorously and finish the war.
Enough men have beeu in the field to have
ended It year ago; and had 1t been ended
then we should not have had these troubles.
But II we have the same mismanagement for
another year, and the war drawn out in the
same lame way as 1t has been, incalculabls
evils TO society will ensue from the greater dis
turbances in labor that we shall then have
Year: 1863

never meet in this world again. This touching
incident, when reported to Louis Napoleon BY
General Forey, will doubtless have good
effect upon the mind Of the Emperor touching
his true policy In reference to Mexico. In fact,
If, with the return of General Forey to France,
we hear Of the abandonment OF the Mexican
empire Of Aaximilisn, we shall attribute this
proceeding in no small degree to this remark
able meeting between the American and the
French conqueror Of Mexico.
Year: 1863

Good Ous or Canada for Once.


The Governor General OF Canada has done
us service by informing Lord Lyons, and TO
questing him to notify this government, Of the
rebel plot to seize some Of our cities upon tho
Canadian border. 1t Is 80 seldom that any
good comes out Of Canada that we hasten to
make this acknowledgment Of the favor she has
rendered us. But, at the Same time. we are
not so carried away BY gratitude that we can
not perceive that there was q selfish feeling d
the bottom Of this friendly sot. Indeed, all
Englishmen aresimply incarnations Of selfish
ness, and tho Canadians are only provincial
Englishmen. 0r


Canada exposed this rebel plot for the same
reason that England stopped tho rebel rams.
Il was her interest to do 50. She could not do
otherwise with safety. We do net know what
Secretary Seward has been writing to Earl Rus
sell for the past six months, and we sim
oerely hope that we shall never be called
upon to read any more Of bis voluminous
correspondence; but we do know that II Eng
land had allowed.those rams to get to sea vs
should have declared war against her ct once
So, upon the same principle, II the Governor
General Of Canada had kept this rebel con-
spiracy q secret and permitted it to be carried
into effect, we should have first recaptured the
rebel prisoners and imprisoned the rebel refu-
gees who were going to undertake the raid.
and then we should have turned our attention
to the Canadians, and logged them out Of their
boots oH-hand. The Northern border States
could raise hundred thousand volunteers-
half Of them veterans-in less than three
weeks for such an expedition; and whore
would the Kanucks and Biuenoses be theni
Thousands Of our fighting men are already
very anxious to twist the mock Of the British
lion; and what would they have cared for .
little tussle with one Of her puny whelps!


Still, while we perceive tho selfish mo-
tfves which have sctuated the Canadians
in their kind deed, we do not ne
less appreciate the deed ITSELF General
Dix has gone to Buffalo, and will see to 1t that
affairs there are In state Of preparation
against any surprise. We thank the Canadians,
then. for their friendly warning, and assure
them that II, ct some future period, they shalt
desire to drop into our delightful family party
OF States, and share with us the privileges and
UicboauBb VI y hOPuOhiVou iVxu VI 8VvUhuiHoHsb
they will be oil the more welcome on account
Of their present neighborly conduct In conolu-
sion, We have only to say that vallandghsn
and the Chevalier Jewett have lost magnia-
cent opportunity in this matter They are both
in Canada, and II they are a. clever ~ they pro-
fess TO be they both know ell about this rebel
plot Had they revealed Il TO our government
they would have been invited to return here In
triumph and honor, to be feasted and feed oon-
stsntly and gloriously. As 1t is, We must either
set them down as too ignorant to know about
the plot or suspect them Of completely In IL
The ancient geese saved Rome; but these two
geese made no effort to save America. What .
splendid opening for . historical parallel and
historical immortality have vallandighan
and Jewett wilfully neglected.
Year: 1863

Every street in PARIS is swept and washed
down each morning. Plenty Of work Is in
volsed in that, for al the litter Of the day
goes into the street al night, no, being
kept iestering IN dust bins. But after the
cleansing. not a stalk. a she'll. or \ straw
WI offend the sight for the remainder Of
the day.
Year: 1863

CoRS.-Good seed and either good soil or
plcnty of manure. arc the essentials. Corn
is ono Of the seeds most readily injured by
dampness or heating in the shock or crib. IL
is always best to testan average sample sclec-
ted from the whole seed in advance, by sprout-
ING in warm soil. II is much better to do
this than to risk the loos of crop, or OF
many hills. Tho seed Is tho least part Of ex-
pcnse. Corn Is gross feeder, and reyels in
plenty Of manure OF any kind. 1t is sun
plant. and not water one. Rich land,
warm and dry-drainod if at all needed, is
what fills the corn crib-and the purse. A
heavy sod turned under is good place for
corn roots to reyel in.


HoRsrs.-Inure them to hard work, grad
ually. Have q mcrciful harness; hard
spot or badly adjusted daught may give them
constant pain, and consequent loss ot hesh'
and produce serious CALLING or sore. More
work more strengthening grain. Washing
of mud and sand from the feet and rubbing
down at night, will give them comfort and
vigor, and may save scratches or other sores.
Mares near foaling can not do hard work and
ear good progeny a hard days drive may
take $40 from the value OF colt.


PorArop.-Plant early on good, mellow
clean soil. Coarse, or thoroughly rooted
manure is best, fcrmenting manure is not
safe. Ashes or lime is generally useful, in
tho hill or whole soil.


Tools.-Clcan every ono before it is put
away. II you have never used spading fork
or bayonct hoe, try thcm and you will not
readily give them up. A man with first
rate hoe or other implement will do twice as
much as two men with poor tools, and the
saving Of time will often pay in single day
day for tho greater cost of the former.


To KEEr BIRDS FROM CoRS.-A correspond
cnt at Wilmington, Del, directs to put
bushel Of corn into half hosshead or other
convenient vessel, and set it in the SUI, or
where 1t will DO warmed. Pour over IL n
half pint of gas tar or pint OF common tar,
and mix we'll until every kernel is smcared
Then stir in ashes. fine lime, or plaster, until
tho grains arc separated, and spread il out to
dry. Without regard to the birds, it is gener-
ally well to smear the corn with tar, dissolved
in from four to Eve times its bulk OF warm
water, and dry it off with fresh slaked lime
This kills smut tho tar is good fertilizer
itself: and the limo fits some of the soil to
nourish tho young plants. Birds will not
eat it. but generally they arc not satisfied
without pulling up the kernels to lind out
whether they are tarrcd or not.-Amer'oaa
Agrie,ihrist.
Year: 1863

CnAnIk.ros AND CosxErcUr.-wc sec that
one or two Of the opposition papers assert that
the report Of the capture Of Charleston was
gotten up to help the Connecticut election.
They make very unfortunate admission when
they say that good news from tho war Is bad
news for them. j uj ,itrm - cd lf 'f ''
Year: 1863

A correspondent of the n Z Herald writ
ing from Charleston haabor. says some cap
tured rebels state that the Submarine appar-
atus in Charleston harbor, which was inyen-
ted by an ingenious fellow from the North.
who found himself in the enemy's lines at the
beginning of the war and since then unable
to escape has gone TO the bottom, greatly to
the regret Of the rebel authorities, who hoped
by its means to blow up the Ironsides and
drive all the feet from the roads They re-
port that the inventor of the machine took
the lib-rty of cruising around with it about
when he chose, and frequently unbeknown
to the rebels. made submarine trips down
the harbor. By some means or other suspi-
cions were excited in the minds of some of the
enemy that all was not going right. and
watch was placed on the :. .Yaukee's" move
ments. The deserters report that he was
caught one night at work clearing away the
Instructions in the harbor, in order to give
our ironclads access to the city. He was i'm
mediately deprived of his command, arrested,
with all his crew, and thrown into Charles
ton Jail. to be tried as traitor What has
been done with him my informant could not
state. His machine was placed in charge of
an officer and five men, and an attempt was
made to operate it, but with partial success.
The last time it was tiled the lieutenant and
his crew Of five men got into it, adjusted the
machinery, and opened the valves tn: oagh
which flowed the water necessary to sink the
machine to the proper depth. 1t gradually
disappeared from view, and up to the latest
accounts had not come up again. So the ma
chine. the lieutenant and FIVE men found
grave together in ten fathoms of water, and
have probably passed from the sight of men
forever, and Commodore Ingraham is busy
inventing some other apparatus to drive the
navy from its anchorage and from his sight
Year: 1863

A ROMAN FATHER.-The father of Colonel
Shaw, killed while leading negro regiment to
the assault of Fort Wagner, has written Gen.
Gilmore letter protesting against the removal
of his sons remains from the grave on the field
of battle into which they were huddled by the
victorious rebels with the corpse of several of
his soldiers killed by his side. Whatever we
may think of the policy of employing negro
troops at all in such this which we are
waging. there can be no two opiuions as Q the
high and magnanimous temper with which the
father of Colonel Shaw accepts what was in
tended as an insult to his dead son as an honor
not lightly to be tampered with. Tie brutality
which sought to wreak lis vengeance upon the
senseless clay Of what had been a fearless foe
could not be more nobly chastised than is it by
this lofty and loving pride The "ehivalry"
of Carolina makes but low and shabby figure
n this painful episode of war.-A I. World.
Year: 1863

Held on the first Mondays of May. September
and January


At said terms. the business pertaining to the
Court OF Sessions shall be first disposed Of and after
that the business of the County Court and Probate
Court in such order as the Judge may determine.


BOARD or SUPERyIS0Rs-Meets lst Mondays in
May August. November and February.
Year: 1863

MAsoSS- Information has been received
in Newly ork from Richmond that the Grand
Lodge of Virginia, recently in session there,
rescinded the resolution adopted by that body
in 1860, forbidding intercourse with the Ma
sons under the jurisdiction Of the Grand Lodge
Of New York, thus again uniting in the bonds
Of fraternity the brethren of the two juris-
dictions. This is an important sign Of public
feeling in Secessia.
Year: 1863

officer who enrolled him was called on to
produce him; and, 10 and behold, Billy
Bray was Jackass and stands now on
the list Of drafted men as forming one of
the quota of Maryland, "
Year: 1863

Rev. T. STARR KING, having beenwritten a
note by the elders bis society in San Francis
co, saying that unless he abandoned a certain
style of preaching the church would lose
many of its most respectable members, read
it aloud, and said if any more epistles were
sent to him the church would lose its most
respectable minister.
Year: 1863

SURGEON GENERAL HAMIoND-The Ameri-
ca Medical Times pays the following just COM
pliment to Mr.. Hammond


That the medical department Of the Unit
ed States army is now managed with great
ability and success BY Surgoon-General Ham
mond, we have the most decided testimony
Of those who are familiar with its Organiza-
ton and operations. But it is more gratifying
to learn of its successful management from
entirely disinterested sources. We are in
formed by a medical gentleman, just returned
from Europe, that In conversation with the
medical director of the British army, he ex-
pressed the most decided admiration of the
management of our Army Medical Depart
ment. He obtains direct information from
an agent of his own department, Inspector
General Muir, whois now on tour Of medi-
cal observation in our army. General Muir was
present at the battle of Antietam, and re-
marked that no battlefield was every as
quickly and abundantly provided with every
necessary for the wounded.
Year: 1863

A GENTLEMAN at late fashionable assembly
being asked which of the ladies he thought
the most beautiful, replied


"Why madam, they are all beautiful; but
that lady, think, pointing to Miss Bounce,
who was dressed IN the extreme Of fashion
outstrips them ALL
Year: 1863

Whiskey bought at one dollar fifty per gal
lon, and sold at five dollars, without moving
it, makes pretty good proft-which is what
they say Butler made in New Orleans. AT
ter the whiskey was all bought up, at the first
price, the distilleries were closed, by Buffers
order, and this put the article up to FIVE.
Moral people dp this way thought that shut
ting up the distilleries was a very virtuous
act On the part of Butler-less virtuous than
profitable, however; it seems a.-