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Samples will ho carefully tn?, ken on recelptof the respective specimens, and he submitted to impartial and competent judges for decision. The Flour and Grain will then he sold without delay, free 'of . commission, for the benefit of the owner, viz : s. For the best 5 barrels of Wheat Flour, or that quantity in sacks, ?50 % 9 ^fwht'.V.e second best 5 barrels of Wheat Flour, or that quantity in sacks, 25 For the best single barrel of Wheat Flour, or thnt quan WJ' tity in sacks...... premium.... 10 For the second best sDigle barrel of Wheat Flour, orthat quantity in sacks,..." premium? 5 *. For thobest ten bushels of Barley, premium.... 10 , .: For the second best ten bushels Barley,..premium 5 For the best ten bushels Oats '....premium.... 10 '-. For the second best ten bushels Oats,....premium.... 5 , For the best ten bushels Rye, premium? 10 A For the second best ten bushels live, premium.... 5 The barrels and sacks to be distinctly marktd with the , "J game or brand of the farmer. His Postoffice, County or , .District, and the Mill where the Flour was prepared, must * be sated by letter, when the shipment is advised; and, if ? ? convenient, a description of the seed planted and tiie pro, muet per acre, ia desired. The consignments andletters to be addressed to WM. KIEKWOOD, Esq.. VicePresidentS. C. Institute, Charleston. WM. M. LAWTON, Pres. S. C. InsUtute. . Wilmot G. HeSacssdke, Secreary, * *J-#?y27 21 lp ENGLISH ^COTTON CARDS. I DIRECT IMPORTATION. A FIRST rate article, have just j been received by STEAMER KATE, ** * and for sale at ROSE'S HOTEL. ALSO * REAMS ENGLISH BLUE A? vU ruled ^ ? LETTER PAPER. *w jjPor sale as above. W. E. ROSE. ? . . June 21 25 4t UMOJT ACADEMY, JI-S-K 1st, 1S63. W vV> Jflgk THE Trustees of UVION ACADEMY take Aaiii- fti Ha.. pleasure in announcing to the public that the 3r ' 19th session of this well known ACADEMY * <?r will open on Monday morning the 8th instant, J- under the superintendence of its former it QBe rrincipal and Founder, J. B. PANKEY, who. stands unanimously elected. ? The following are the prices fixed, at present, by the " A k TVs tees, per session, to wit: ? t , Primary Department. ?9 00 \ filgiter Branches of English, 14 00 Classical Mathematics, 25 00 , Auy who prefer can settle at former prices, $7, ?10 and . ?18, by furnishing Bacon at 12,^ cents per pound, Wheat "V and Corn at 75 cents per buAicl, after Christinas.? , ? > Afl arcrequested to make their choice within two weeks. . * , Jfo deduction made in any instance, from time of entrance, eraept in cases of protracted sickness. ' Tuition due at the close of the Session. *' y.-V J. C. HICKLIV, Secretary of Board. . June 10 23 6t DREGS. MEDICINES, &C~ _* * u A VI? ; ?a+ VO/tOU7Qfl Q aIiAIAA OCCAvf l.: JP.XX f ju J U9V x tvv.i t vu w vuviw v , JL meat of DRUGS and MEDICINES, which I offer for #-j sale at the lowest CASH PRICES, viz: I Engliih Chloroform, Aloes, Rhubarb, Kng' * lUli Calomel, Bine, Slain, Sulphur, Asafoettda, Castor Oil, Pearl ' Ash, Valerian, Extract - Logwood, Chalk, ' Opium,Black Drop, Epsom Salts, Magnesia, Nitre, Camphor, Rotten Stone, YelJ low Ochre, Spanish Whiting, and many other articles, 1 ajh Mamifacturfhga splendid BLACK INK, SHOE JCLACK and SOAP.' Blacking BRUSHES and MATCHES v for sale by" A. CRAVEN. . e . Sfcy27 21 6t , I!V THE COL StT OF OKDIS iRY, YORK DISTRICT. G. L. McNeeL Administrator of Margaret Dowdle, deceased, ??. James Plarlco and Wife, ct al. WHEREAS G. L. McNEEL, Adl l ministrator of MARGARET DOWDLE, deceased, haih filed a petition In my office, praying to be permitted to Stake a final settlement and distribution of said estate, and Whereas,it appears to mv satisfaction, tiiat two of said * -distributees, viz: Allen Dowdle and James Plaxieo and Rebecca his wilo, reside beyond the limits of this State.? It is, therefore, ordered that said J. Plaxieo and wife and . Allen Dowdle, do appear at th& Court of Ordinary to be 'held at York Court House on Monday, the 14th day of Sep. temb'-r next, to sliew cause, if any they can, why the pray.' er of said petition should not be granted. June 8,1863. ^$25 40) JOHN A. BROWN, O. Y. D. . ' - June 10 23 3ni J - YORKM ARB LE^IARIJ. RICHARD HARE, respectfully informs the citizens of York and Chester Districts, and the adjoining counties of North Carolina, that he is fully prepared to supply every article In the MARBLE LINE, of the highest style of finish and at reasonable prices. He keeps constantly on hand, a large supply of FOREIGN ?.i r.A?TT-OTrr Mipm r ,?a nf h'swork may be always seen at the Yard, nearly opposite the "EN 4*UIRER'>-PRINTING OFFICE, and a few doors North of <:Stowe V* Hotel. Qg- AU work wi't be delivered at any point on the King's Mountain Railroad, FREE of charge. Z He Is also prepared to furnish to order, IRON RAILING t * of any desired pattern, for Fences, Balconies, &c. January 10 2 Ip - OFFICE A. Q. M.t , ?L CHARLESTON, 8. C.', October 1st, 1852. *' AT^* MILLER is appointed " ItX Agent of this Department, for the purchase of FODDER and CORN for the Districts of York and Chester, w Planters desiring to sell will communicate with him, through the POST OFFICE, at York villc, S. Carolina.? Particular attention must be paid to the PACKING. No WATER must be used, as creatlossto the Government tvns experienced last year, by Fodder being improperly packed, ud such will he rejected. MOTTE A. PRINGLE, Capt. and A. Q. M. - - October 15 42 tf SOW IS THE TIME! I WILL PAY THE HIGHEST CASH PRICES FOR ALL CLASSES OF NEGROES. C. J. PRIDE, Rock Hill, S. C. k April 1 13 tf T 1ST OF LETTERS?REMAIN' "~k~J TNG in the Post Office at Yorkvillc, South Carolina, *" July 1. 18C3. S P. Black, Miss S. C. Berbant, Miss L. L. Black, A. Bailey, A. P. Black, 2; E. Coolcy, it. M. Carroll, Mrs. Nancy Currl, W. DowdJe, Capt- F. M. Farr. J. C. Faris,4; A. Q. Fish, H. M. GUI, J. ?. GIU,D. A. Gordon, Mis* A. Srter, Mrs. Jane Hagans, Miss N. C. Horn, Miss Francis Harris, Miss M. A. Henry, Mm. Margaret E. Jones, Miss Pntsey Jones, Miss Mary H. Moore, Green Murphries, Mrs. John MePhcrson, Miss E. E. Patrick. Mrs. Aveline Roblson. Miss S. J. Robison. E. A. Ross, Robert Starncs.2 ; A. C. Sutton, Miss Sarah Swctt, II. B. Spain, EdwardThoin as, 2; John A. Walker. Miss Catharine Warren, H. Williams, H. N. Warren, William Wilson, James WUey.?46. JOHN It. ALEXANDER, I'". M. July 8 27 3t Transient Boarding, Tib undersigned has located himself a few doors North of STO WE'S hotel, and Is prepared to accommodate nil that may favor him with a call. His TABLE shall be furnished with the substantial* of life, as well as PROVENDER and Stabling for horse. W. P. McFADDEN. Yorkville, April 8,1863. 14 5m* " for sale. JQQ ftis COPPERAS. 100 as ^LUE STONE. 500 BUNCHES YARN. Call soon at W. D. 8c J. O. MILLER'S. October 23 43 tf tarruge shop. THE Subscriber still continues-the |S2&^5Zj. CARRIACE and BUGGY BUSINESS N/\y " vcv at the old STAND. All kinds of couu try produce taken in exchange for work. ALSO, HORSE SHOEING ami general country WORK done by . W. p. McFADDEN. January 23 , 4^ tf dr7 alfred crave n ^esfrrat Surgeon gtntisi, YORKVILLE, S. C. Q&- On the Last side of Main Street, South of the "Pal inetto Hotel. Jannan-6 1 "... . tf F~~OR TAX COLLEOf^T^WE are authorized to announce SMITH SANDERS as a Candidate for the office of TAX COLLECTOR of York District, at the enduing election. November 19,1862 47 ly* SUPPLY OF GOOD~LETTER Envelopes for sale at the "ENQUIRER OFFICE.' November 26 48 - tf i Our Army of Invasion. Hagerstow.v, Md., Jaoe 27 Once I more has the Confederate army crossed the ' Potomac, &Dd onoe more does it hold out the helping hand to Maryland and throw down the gage of battle upon her soil.? Will she oluteh the hand that is cordially extended to her, and thus save herself and her latest posterity from the ungodly rule of the infidel and the Puritan ? And will the enemy seek us as he did last year, and again deliver battle ? These are questions which Maryland and the despot beneath whose heel she writhes, alone can answer. Our reception has been much the same as it was in September last. The natives j of the country?the descendants of Lord I Baltimore and his colonists?almost univer! sally sympathize with us, and ardently desire our success. The Dutchmen and the Northmen, and their children, on the contrary, as unanimously wish for our defeat. In those connties which border on Pennsylvania, and where the humanizing institution of slavery can exert bat little influence, a majority of the inhabitants affiliate with our enemies, but in all other portions of the State the friends of the Confederate cause are believed to be in the ascendant. This view of the state of public sentiment will, I think, be shown to be the true one, should our stay and movements be of such a character as to justify the people in openly espousing our cause. It is unjust to expect a people nearly equally divided, without arms in their hands, who have been held in chains for more than two years, and much the larger portion of whom, and especially our friends, are still enveloped within the Federal lines, to move as promptly as we could desire, and before they have some guaranty that they will not again be left to the rod of the 9miter. If we oould recall two years, when we were first entering upon the conflict, there would be no excuse for their delay and indecision; but the two years of bondage produce unwholesome fruits, and such as we who have never ielt the yoke of the oppressor, are slow to realize. Let us, then, bear with Maryland yet a while longer. If there be but ten righteous men and women within her borders, we should, for their sakes, strive to save her from the Dead Sea of Federal despotism. Longstreet'a corps crossed the Potomac yesterday, and Hill's the day before. Both are now moving upon Chambersburg, Pa., twenty miles distant, in the direction of Harrisburg, the capital of the State, which is sixty miles distant. Reports say that Gen. Jenkins was within three miles of Harrisburg two days ago, and that Ewell was not far off. It is not known what Gen. Lee's plans are, whether to ocoupy Harrisburg, or to establish his Camp in the vicinity of Chambersburg and along the Pennsylvania line, and there await the enemy. Nearly all the troops crossed the Potomac at Williamsport and it will be through that place, Winchester and Staunton we shall endeavor to keep j up our communication with the rear. This line may be cut now and then by the enemy ; but we shall be in a fruitful and opulent country, abounding iti everything necessary for the subsistence of the array, and shall uot fiud it difficult to take care of ourselves. Already large numbers of horses, wagons, beef cattle and sheep have beeu secured, and immense stores of gsain and flour. The horses cost us from 8150 to 8200 in Confederate money, and the wheat about SI 60 per busbel. Gen. Lee's order has acted like a charm. While some of the people have fled into the interior of Pennsylvania with their cattle! and horses, many others have remained, I deeming it wisest to stay at home and make j the best terms with us possible. In this; they have shewn their good sense. Our impressing officers pay the market price for everything the army needs, where the parties will receive payment, or give them scrip, if they prefer that. In all purchases of articles of subsistence and clothing, payment is made in Confederate funds at par value. Thus, the enemy who has been counterfeiting Confederate Treasury Notes and scattering them wherever they have penetrated into our territory, now have the "poisoned ohalice" put to their own lips, at! least so far as to compel them to receive our genuine notes as if they we? gold and silver. And thus, too, for the first time, Confederate money is at par in the United States. We are not without friends even in Pennsylvania, and especially in those Districts j which the army has occupied. The impressing officer is an effective missionary, and has already converted many a fat Dutchman and blind fanatic from the error of his ways. Men who were indifferent before, are now clamorous for peace; and it i3 re-1 ported that some of them are willing for the troops to take their wives and children, but beg hard for their sleek cattle and well fed horses and bursting granaries. 13ut we prefer the latter, and will let them keep the former and all their pestiferous progeny.? Imboden brought 2,500 horses out of Fulton County, and about 30 volunteers, young men who arc really friendly to us, and mean to make onr cause their own. Several stu students in the college near this place, aod volunteers from other parts of Maryland, have joined our standard, and entered the lists againlt the common foe. The parents and others who have been made to feel the yoke of the tyrant, are not slow to give us useful information, and to point out the cattle and wheat houses of those Unionists who have been lordins itover them. They have rendered importaut aid to the people of Virginia also, many of whom have accompanied the army in search of their stolen negroes and horses. Yesterday, I met several gangs of negroes goiDg to the rear, i who had been captured io the mountains in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Many of the owners of these slaves had pnrocured wagons and other conveyances this side of the Potomac, which they had filled with goods and groceries at the market prices io Confederate money or gold, and were carrying into Dixie. There is another class of traders, f however, who follow the army like vultures with sharp beaks, and who aae likely to be seDt to the rear, if not punished by our military authorities. I allude to those dealers who have heretofore been running the blockade across the Potomac, and who have done so much to depreciate our currency. These people have no right to take shelter behind the army, and buy up articles necessary to the troops, to be sold again at heavy profit. . All honest men throughout the world will be rejoiced to hear the* that malignant demagogue and Abolitionist, Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania, has received Borne of the punishment due for his enormous crimes against the happiness of the human race. He owns large iron works and mills in Adams County, on the border, which 1 am informed have been utterly des? # 1 . L M 1 troyed. His macninery, aqueaucts, nunaiog8 and supplies for his operatives, including it is said, 20,000 pounds of bacon, have been swept away. Amen! will be the involuntary exclamation of every lover of justice, and every foe of hypocrisy. An effort is made, in the work of impressment, to distinguish, as far as possible, between the friends of peace and the aiders and abettors of Mr. Liocoln. Thus the red hand of war is made to fall heaviest upon those who were first to lift it. Some of the troops complain, however, that they are not allowed to appropriate and destroy as they go. If permitted, they would avenge Mississippi, Tennessee, and the Carolinas and Virginia, and leave behind a track of desolation as barren and enduring as the desert of Sahara. They give General Lee high praise as a fighter and strategist, but they say "he has not a good pillaging mind."? Gen. Lee is right, however, as all will acknowledge after a while. Correspondence Savannah Republican. The, Coal Fields of Pennsylvania. If it be true that the Confederate forces occupy Earrisburg, the attention of the commanding General will no doubt be directed to tho coal fields, which lie within forty or> fifty miles of that city.' His first aim will be to cut all the railroad connections, and thus put a stop to the transportation of fuel. His next will be to destroy the most costly and not easily replaced machinery of the pits. Whether he would . .l _ _?rr Slop at LUlb lb ijuebiiuuauic. 11U uiiguu act fire to the pits, withdraw the forces sent out oo this special duty, and leave the heart of Pennsylvania on fire, never to bo quenched until a river is turned into the pits or the vast supply of coal is reduced to ashes. The Anthracite coal is found in large quantities in no other part of the world but Pennsylvania. Enormous quantities are used in the United States Navy, in the countless workshops and manufactories of the North, in the river boats, and even upon locomotives. It. cannot be well replaced by any other fael. The bituminous coal which is found neaf Pittsburg would not answer the purpose, even if it could boar the cost of transportation. Our troops already hold the railroads and canal leading from the Cumberland coal fields All that is needed is to seize the aDtbracite fields, destroy the roads and the machinery of the pits, set fire to the various mines and leave them. Northern industry will thus be paralyzed at a siugle blow. These views may have induced General Lee to move upon Harrisburg. We doubt whether he would fire the mines, but the destruction of the Mauoh Chunk Hail Roads and pit implements would be as legitimate as blowing up tunnels and aqueducts, or burning bridges. Of one thing we may be sure?that whatever is best to be done will be done by Gen. Lee, and if he thinks fit to destroy the Pennsylvania mines, they will certainly be destroyed. Should be .leave them untouched, it will be for the best of reasons. But it is impossible not to indulge i.Iva krt to 111 ?wnil liimcA'f nf ffip lilts uu^c lliau IIO Hill arun uiuiwa v? ?..v tremendous power whioh the possession of the coal fields, even temporarily, would confer.?Richmond Whig. The Private Soldier. Iu his official report of the battle ofMurfreesboro, Gen. Bragg pays the following tribute to the private soldier : To the private soldier a fair meed of praise is due; and though it is so seldom given, and so rarely expected, that it may be considered out of place, I cannot, in justice to myself, withhold the opinion ever | entertained, and so often expressed duriBg our struggle for independeDoe. In the absence of the instrnction and discipline of old armies, and of the confidence which long association produces between veterans, we have in a great measure had to trust to ! the individuality and self-reliance of the private soldier. Without the incentive or the motive which controls the officer who hopes to live in history; without the hope of reward, and actuated only by a sense of j duty and patriotism, he has in this great ! contest justly judged that the cause was I his own, and gone into it with the deteruii! nation to conquer or die, to be free or not ; to be at all. No encomium is too high, no I honor too great, for such a soldiery. How ! ever much of credit and glory may be given, and probably justly given, to the leaders in our struggle, history will yet award the main honor where it is due?to the private soldier, who, without the hope of reward, and with no other incentive than a consciousness of rectitude, has encountered all the hardships and suffered all tho privations. Well has it been said : "The first monument our Confederacy rears when ourindeI pendence shall have been won, should bo a i lofty shuft, pure and spotless, bearing this inscription?'To the unknown and unrecorj ded dead.'" 63T Major Gen. John Fulton Reynolds, j of the Federal army, who fell on Wedensday morning last, near Gettysburg, Penn., a native of the State upon whose soil he was killed, died so near to his immediate home, that we are informed the reports of his guns might have been heard by his neighbors. < Federal Devastations in Arkansas. It appeara that in Arkansas tbe-Federala are practising the same policy of barning provisions and agricultural implements that they have practised in other seotions of our land. The besom of destruction follows in their train everywhere. Evidently they hove adopted this system of warfare against women and ohildren in order, as they say, "to starve out the South if possible." The Li ttle Rook True Democrat gives the annexed aocount of their doings in that State : It has been known for weeks that the Federals in Arkansas were destroying all farming implements, seizing all provisions, and preventing the planting of crops, with the avowed determination to starve the people into submission. VTq supposed it might bo ppssibl^ that thia^sraa the vindicative cruelty of some cowardly commander, who vented his spite on women and children.? But it is now certain that orders to that ef feet have issued from Lioooln's War Department. Id Phillips, Chicot, and other counties, where the Federals have a foothold, they have and are burning all the feoces, plows and farming utensils they find. They destroy the property of widows as well as of male citizens. They are sending thousands of women and children within our lines, destroying all the provisions they find, and preventing the people from planting. , Out of many cases reported to us is one of a widowed lady, at whose house a number of officers and men called and demanded! their dinners. After having eaten tbey told her that they had orders to seize all her provisions, destroy all the farming implements and fences, and prevent her from hjiving a crop raised. They left her a week's supply of provisions only. In Phillips county they killed every milch cow, shot down every hog and cut down fruit trees. In Chicot couDty they have made a clean sweep. '< This is not civilized warfare. It is a war upon women and children. It is a wholesale robbery and national murder. Yet, so timid has been our policy that we have let thjse villians navigate our waters because they protested against the barbarity of firing into boats. We have paroled jayhawkers, whose hands were incarnadined with 'the blood of murdered patriots. We have forborne until forbearance ceased to be a virtue?until it has ceased to be manly. That an enemy so violating all the rules of warfare, and waging a barbarous, fiendish war, should be treated according to the rules of In nktM*./} Qnvnl tr I Vi ftoo man %}l\lliZtVKl war is ausuiu* uukgijr vu?o& luvu should bo hung as soon as qaaght. They have thrown away their stars &ad stripes and hoisted tbe black flag.. Tboy are warring upon women and cnildren, and when caught their captors would be as justifiable in ikilling them as they wonld be in killing a wild beast. The Change of Scene. A Baltimore correspondent of the N. Y. Herald, writing on the 23d ult., comments npon the extraordinary change in affairs which ha9 taken place. His reflections on the retribution likely to Occur are very apropos: The scenes witnessed in Baltimore, toda}-, are in striking contrast to those which were taking place here two years ago, or even one year ago. Then the streets were filled with troops, newty raised in the Northern States, and all matching towards the South. Then it was hoped that the rebel, lion would speedily be quelled. At all evects, it was distinctly understood that the war was to be fougbt on Southern soil, and any man who had hinted at the possibility of the rebel troops marching against Baltimore would have been denounced as a traitor. To-day, so imminent is the peril which is supposed to menace Baltimore from the rebel army, that the most urgent appeals are made to the people by the Governor, the Mayor, the City Council, the military authorities, aud the newspapers, to turn out to work on eutrenchments, which are being hastily erected for the defence of the city, 3 A - miKforc Arrri ni. SOU I'J UU113C 1U LUC VUlluua tuwitu.j zations. The American calls upon the citizens, too. to contribute liberal!} ibr the support of tbe families of those who are working on the entrenchments, and to spur np unwilling contributors ; draws a terrifio picture of the city taken by storm, and given np to sack and pillage. After going the round of ihe entrenchments that are being thrown up on the North and West aides of the city, and seeing the thousands of meD, black acid white, engaged in the work?a work which is being carried on both day and night?I could not but ask myself the question, "Why is it that all this is necessary ? Why is it that, after two years of war, the powerful and wealthy North has not been able to conquer the weak Sooth, of whose starved and ragged soldiers we have heard so much ? Why is it that we ! are now compelled to fortify our own cities I against the rebel hordes that are advancing I tosack and plunder them? Is (ho seat of ; war to be indeed transferred from the South ' * - 9 A m ATopwlnn/l on/3 Pnnn. IU lilt: iMJILIIi Xilt, wu.jmuvi uuu AV._ sylvnnia to witness and to suffer the horrors and the devastations that have desolated Virginia? Is Baltimore to be bombarded like Fredericksburg? Is Ilarrisburg to be pillaged like Jacksonville, in Florida ?" The Cavalry Battles near Middleburg.?The following is an extract of a J letter, detailing the result of the late severe | figh ts near Middlebarg. It shows that the j advantage is entirely with us: | June 23,1863:?The worst fight that Stuart ever had occurred near Middleburg, Loudon County, last Sunday. The Yankees had twelve pieces of artillery, two divisions of infantry, and a corps of cavalry. Thoy drove us seven miles that day, but theiir loss was awful. Monday morning we commenced fighting again, and drove them i about twelve miles. The road and fields were covered with dead and wounded. I was in the hottest of the fight all the time, bnt escaped unhurt. The two Invasions?A Contrast. The New York World thus draws the contrast between the Yankee invasion of the South and the Confederate invasion at. the North ^ The organs of the administration are beginning to discover that the miserable scoundrels who devote themselves to burning defenceless towns, and robbing noncombatants at the South, arc cursing the cause which they are paid to serve. The man must be blind, indeed, who doe3 not see that the contrast whioh these villanics establish between our own invasion of the South and the rebel invasion of the North, is one of the most effective blows that has yet been struck by the administration at the hopes of the Union. It is childish to attempt to parry this blow by appealing to the destruction of our ships at sea by the rebel privateers. The laws and usages of civilized war, which utterly forbid the seizure of private property on land, permit pri-. vate property to be seized at sea. A ship belonging to private citizens is the lawful prize of a belligerent commodore; but a belligerent Major General who takes possession of tLe silver spoons of a private citizen is simply a thief. The vessels which are burned at sea by the Alabama, or the Tacony, those "chartered libertines" whom Mr. Welles makes free of the Atlantic, are the property, by the laws of war of those who burn them, ! and would be adjudged to be by the courts if carried into a neutral port. But it woold bo hard to find any court which would con-, firm the right of a cavalry colonel to chop np silver salvers with an axe in order to cram tbem into his holsters, orwhioh would convey to a negro corporal the fee-slmplo of the houses which he barns over the heads of women and children by the order of bis white faced but black hearted commander. When we find Gen Lee. retaliating upon the furmer&of Pennsylvania all that Hunter has inflicted upon the planters of Georgia and Carolina : when raDinc and arson, O / 4 set up in the captured towas of the North the same ioferoal carnival to which the; have been invited in the South, then, and not till then, we may oall upon the world to witness that the officers and soldiers of the slaveholder's rebellion are really as reckless of humanity and of decency as the officers and soldiers of liberty and the Union ! Ia the meantime, it is the solemn duty of every man who respects himself and his country, its present honor and its future fame, to protest with all the power that God has given him against a course of policy which saps the foundation of our hopes, and makes onr very name a "hissing and a reproach" *mong the nations. AxGood Story. We heard a good story yesterday related by a German who was confined in one of the hospitals at Nashville, which proves conclusively that sick soldiers appreciate food for the stomach inoro than food for the mind. A rebel lady visited the hospital one morning with a white linen cloth. She approached onr German friend and acoosted him thus : "Arc yon a good Union man ?" "I ish dat," was the laconic reply of the German, at the same time casting a hopeful glance at the aforesaid basket. "That is all I wanted to know," replied the lady, and beckoning the negro to follow, she passed to the opposite side of the room, where a rebel soldier lay, and asked him the seme question, to which he very promptly replied?''Not by a d?d sight." The lady* thereupon uncovered the basket and laid out a bottle of wine, mince pies, pouui cake, and other delicacies, which were greedily devoured in the presence of the Union soldiers, who felt somowhat indignant. Oo the following morning, however, another lady made her appoaranee with a large covered basket and she also accosted onr German friend, and desired to know if he was a Union man. "I ish, by Got; I oo care what you got; I bees Union." The lady then set her basket on tho table, and our German friend thought that the truth availed in this case, if it did fail in the othetv But imagine the leogth of the poor fellow's face when the lady uncOved the basket and presented him with about a bushel of tracts. He shook his bead dolefully and said : "I no read English, and, peside, dat rebel on to Dontcr side of te house need dem so more as me." . The lady distributed them and left. Not long afterwards along came another richly dressed lady, who propounded the same question again to our German friend. He stood gazing at the basket, apparently at a loss for a reply. At leDgth he answered her, in Fankee style, as follows: "By Got, you no got me dis time; vot you got mid be basket?" The lady required an uneqnivocal answer to her question, and was about to move on when the Germao, shouted out, '"If you got tracts I bees Union; but if you gob mince pies mit pound cake and vine, I bees secesh Iak te tevil."?Yankee Paper. ? I \ IfUZZARDS.?We saw a somary Duzzara yesterday, the first for a long time; be was steering North-we3t. A gentleman informs us that be saw one a few days since alight upon one of tbc. chimneys of the Battle House, and after resting awhile, (he seemed to be very much fatigued,) resame his flight in the same direction. These are the only ones we have seen or heard of for a considerable time, though we have made particular inquiries, our curiosity being suggested by their total" disappearance, so far as our observation extended. What has become of them we do not know, but we rather think tbey have gone to a big dinner party in Mississippi, given by Gen. Grant; tbe delicacies of the feast consisting of ravr Yankee and roast Yankee. Mobile Advertiser and Register. \ ^ AN INCIDENT?A IANKEE HERO.? Daring Gen. Longstreet's investment of Suffolk, and on the day that Col. Connally's 55th regiment North Carolina troops reinforced the rifle pits in each splendid style, an incident occurred ludicrously illustrative of Yankee chivalry, and which?though there was an awfal fire from the enemy's artillery at that time?produced a shout of laughter in that gallant regiment. A Yankee regiment was sent out under cover of their artillery, to prevent Connally from reinforcing the pits. The Colonel of this regiment advanced it through a partially cleared ground, where there Was once a dwelling bouse. A solitary ohimney stood , where the house had been. Behind this chimney the heroic Colonel <took his stand,' while his regiment moved forward. They had not gone very far, however, before the 55th opened on them, causing them to waver and halt. The redoubtable Colonel stock his head out from behind the ohinr'ney, and cheered them on. Another volley, and the Yankees began to break.? "What are you running for, you cowardly" ?(whiz went a bullet by bis head, which immediately popped back.) Another volley and the Yankees began to scatter in confusion. "Stand up to 'em boys"?(whiz and another dock of tho head.) "Damn yon, go back. What?are-?you running for?" (These words were uttered between alternate bobs of the head.) "Go back; fight 'cm, you cowards," he screamed from behind the chimney. But it was "no go," and the panic became general. Just about this time a solemn "rebel" voice called out, " Come out from behind that chimney, 1 see your nosaj' The gallant Colonel "oarae out" and left at double quick, amidst roars of laughter from our boys ?Army Correspondence of Wilmington Journal. The other day one of Wharton's scouts was riding leisurely along near Lavergne, when h Jespied an enemy approaching about sixty yards down the lane. "Who goes there?" he challenged. "Wilder's scout," was roughly returned. "Who goes there f" Wharton's scout, "surrender or die." "Never surrender ; come on !'*? But Wharton's scout did not "come on." Tiie truth is, he said, that his antagonist was loaded down with six shooters, and "be was never good at the d- -things." There was a pause. Both parties eyed each other. Can't we compromise this thing?" cries Yankee. "No, surrenderor I'll shoot you." "Shoot and bed "Never surrender, come on." Pause!? Then Wharton's scout exolaimed, I'll tell you what I'll do." "What?" Give me the road and Fillet you off." "Done." The Yankee turned aside and our man slowly passed, head ereot as fierce as a lion. "Good I. ^ * - ? * _J l? Dye." "ttOOd oy. auu mo i.wu iuuo tucu ways. Wharton's scout considers it a pretty good "get off/' when it is taken into aocount that the ground was far into the Yankee lines. He said be was'nt particular about a fight, and only wanted to save Southern honor.?Chattaiwoga Relet. A gentleman of a Virginia regiment, writing to his mother, gives the following account of an adventure he had in one of the recent battles. Wo copy from the Examiner : I must tell you of a prisoner that I captured. I spied tho villiau in the road and put after him. He dismounted, and, leaving his hbrse in the road, took to the woods on foot. As the limbs of the cedars impeded my progress, T, for a time, lost sight of hiui. Bat having secured his horse and effects, I followed in the direction in whioh he had disappeared. As I rode under a tall pine, with tho muzzle of my gun elevated, I was astonished to hear him from the tree above my head sing out, "don't shoot, I surrender." The scoundrel saw the glittering of the gun barrel and thought that I was aiming at him. I pretty soon got bim down and carried him to the rear, having first secured his personal effects, whioh consisted of saddle and halter, a canteen of milk, siz^ounds of bacon, two pounds of coffee, ditto sugar, one pound of batter, a cap, one frying pan, one spado, a piece of soap, a currycomb and brush, one oil cloth two blankets, a small teat, and a half bushel of corn and oats?the fellow needed only a saw mill to be fully equipped. A Roogh Diamond.?The following paragraph, which we clip from a late Yau kee paper, presents a very rough diamond : On yesteiday, a large, red faced woman, with a porter's load of expensive finery up* on ber person, entered the largest jewelry store in New York, and enquiring for diamonds, a magnificent assortment of rings, broaches, ear-rings, neoklaees, &o., were spread before her. From these she seleo ted three thousand five hundred dollars worth, which she requested might be sent to. her bouse with the bill. The olerk would fiad her husband at home, she said, and he would pay for them. A pen and a card were handed to her, and she was requested to write her address. She hesitated, her broad face turned from red to orirason, and finally, in great confusion, she made her mark (a big cross) on the card, and tossing it to the salesman, said, (Tbar! I hain't time to write, bat I gaess he'll 1 iHitarata nnpon n? ditt k LIU VV lUUUi XUU itavuiMw w> .... monds 738 a Government contractor's wife. GF.TTYSjitJRG.?Gettysburg, by wbioh name the battles of last week will be probably known, is the county seat of Adams co., i on tho turnpike road from Philadelphia to i Pittsburg, 114 miles west of the former, 36 mile9 southwest of Harrisburg .and 26 i miles east of Chambersburg. It stands ou elevated ground in the midst of a fertile farming country. The Lutheran Theoloj gical Seminary of this place, founded iq j 1826, has a library of 7000 volumes. The town is also the seat ot Pennsylvania College, a nourishing institution. The buildings occupied by these institutions, are large ind beautiful. The town contains one ' bank, 1 academy, 7 churches, 4 newspaper offices, and fifteen carriage manufactories. Population about 6,000. ? ' flr-sfer r t "'v' ' y RETALIATION IN A ojcajju T?A*^? ? "Lightning," writing from MoMinnville to. the Atlanta Confederacy, says : Captain Davis, of Morgan's brigade, wit^ 150 men, crossed the Cumberland a few m:lo8 of Colombia, Ky., where be found a house which Davis surrounded and after ft'' g * short, but hotly contested fight succeeded ,;V* in oaptoriog some 25 or 80 of the enemy * " and about 50 horses. The enemy's casualties was several wounded. CaptainV Davis succeeded in recapturing nine of odr SL. * men, who were prisoners in the enemy's .. hands, having been captured near the river the night before. The XaQkees naastrtppea. our men of their boots and shoes, and forced c them to walk barefooted. Captain Davis, learoiDg this, ordered every Yankee in his . \ hands served likewise, and compelled them to walk to this point, oearly 150 mile?. The Yankees complained bitterly, boo it was only * "tit for tat," and their complaints were not fe?* listened to. This is one instance in which retaliation was meted oat to those deserving: it. Yankee Deserters.?What is to be done with the Yankee deserters who co&e ^^jd within oar lines, is becoming a question with the Confederate military authorities. > They are not invited, cannot be trasted at large when they come, and would be worse . than useless in the ranks, even if they were wanted. They are a fifth wheel to our Confederate vehicle. They must be kept close as agents dangerous to be abrbsdw ' the land: thev must be fed and quartered. , There are (o day aboat ope thousand eoat- *' .* tered through the Confederacy. It baa ^ been proposed by certain officials to create." . 1 a prison for them, at Salisbury, N. C-, with the adjunct of a work boose, where their labor ooold be made available. We think well of the project, on the principle that it is best to hide an evil when it oaa * * be done Richmond Examiner. / ?? ?> ^ tST If Lincoln were the President of the Confederacy, he might amuse ourSecretaty of the Treasury with an "anecdote" wi&j?> has point in it.--A Frenchman, it is said, was alarmed one morning by aramorthat his banker was insolvent. He ruahedlip^*"e? mediately to his offioe, and presented bis check for the eotire amount to his credit. The banker coolly proceeded to conn the required sum in gold, but the Frenchman stopped bim with the remark: Jar/i*".*' you be not broke, I no want 'em The "point of the joke," is, that copfar-.' dcnae'is everything in finance, and he who maintains his credit inviolate will prosper \ best, in the long run. As with individuals, so with nationalities. V?->. ' , _J ' - * ***% WSf It may not bo known, as it should bo, that peaches can be preserved in good flavor by simply cutting in two, extractingthe stone and drying with the skinorpgp*--. ' downwards. If very large it may be VL' to cut the peach into three parts. It is not necessary to peel and to cot up into small pieces, as some suppose; much of the joice and flavor are lost by this mode, and we - v retained by the plan above stated. Wacom- / mend a trial to all who have more peaches than they can Sod immediate use for^jjp* the preservation of a supply of this andift. 4 'J' other fruits is of.grfeat importance. . r% " r- r - ^ Great Salt Mine ~Ib appears fron* scientific investigation that the salt deposit at New Iberia, Louisiana, is of the most. _: .v extensive and wonderful desoripfion. Ac- , ~ cordiDg to recent Yankee accounts, for vastne8s a ad parity it is unequalled on the globe. One penny-a-liner says : "Imagine if you can, the granite qoariy^f ^ ^ of Massachusetts, or the marble quarry of Vermont, to be solid deposits of pare ricly j "*** salt, clean and transparent as so muoh clear white ice in one solid, inexhaustible mass, underlying the earth, and you then acquire an imperfect idea of tbo vastness of this;M& _ } formation." - V- * r ' ' m 0 - ***** ' Jkm The Empebob Napoleon and the ^ Bride ?As the Emperor was retarnipg . from the review of the National Guards, he " met a wedding party. The brido, decked oat in bridal attire, gazed oat of the carriage at the Emperor with natural cariosity. The > Emperor said?"Madame, the bride, I greet you. You are very pretty. I wish you every happiness, and a plenty of children " The young bride, for she was the wife of a ; pork butcher, blushed up to her eyes, hat ! instantly she replied, "Sire, I will place my first child under yonr protection." "Very I well," replied the"Emperor, smiling; "come I?b/I dm) ma at tfoo Tnillprifls next vear: I | UUUilUU WV -? ?W ? ? ^ , Ti shall most likely be there, and I will stand I godfather to your first bora." | Jfir A son of the Emeraldlsle bad been j engaged by a man of the name of Haney to haul coal. On delivering it Mrs. H. * : wished him to take it aoross the pavement j and deposit it, in the cellar, which he would 1 ootdo. She told him he was "no,gentleman." Faith, mam," said Pat, "and if I was a gentleman do yon think ['d be hauling coal for the likes of Mr. Haney V . QWo~i ' "j1 ' 1 I?* Blunt, of the 20th Tennessee and now of General Stuart's staff, tells a story of a little girl he met during a recent tour ( in east Tennessee. The little maiden was vexed with a party of gentlemen who were teazing her, when Blunt walked up. "Look j here," she said,* "you look like a casein' j man?cuss 'em for me, wont yoaf" " 1 :? ? ,.Mti j r i M5S*? T)ru oil tliA. frnif.q anil rntriitnhlftfl our armies Beets, carrots, and other roots may be gathered and dried, then packed away in cloth bags or boxes. Fruits of all kinds -.should also be dried in qoantities-for oar brave soidiere. 3?" A tax payer, in North Carolina, the other day rcmarl-ed, that his taxes could not have bee a laid ad valorem, for he bad paid only $1,75 for hiraselfrM?d ?2 00 for his old yaller cur." He wants to know if hat is according to the value.