Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, October 05, 1865, Image 4
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I B&r A correspondent of the Charlotte
Timet famishes the following :
Several yeawago there Jived in Western
femiliaiy known, was [t good honest old
man, of firet-iate common sense, but with
little education. He was a strong Democrat
and in his younger daya had been a
school-mate of President Polk.
. After the election of Mr. Polk to the
Presidency, Unole Hoses wrote, him a Jft-I
tor, referring to earlier days. Mr. P. ret
Collected him and answered his letter and
sent him a great many documents, whiok
tickled the old man's vanity a good deal.
^ On one occasion after receiving the letter
Ac., in the year 1847, he was closing a
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meeting with prayer in one 01 oar mountain
counties, in oalling down the blessings of
the Lord upon the people, he gave utter%
V anee to the following:
Lord bless all the people who lire in the
North Core and in the South Core and in
the Turkey Cove, tad after blessing all the
families redding in the large coves, descend
? ? - 4 , and go into the small eores and bless them
and their families Lord. Hence, take the
dividing ridge, Lord, that lies between the
waters of Beech Creek and the Catawba
Hirer, going it for the space of about three
hundred yards Lord, yon willoome to a hollow
chestnut, looking down to the right yon
L ' will see the house of Brother Tbomr. Mc'.
Cnrray, call in and bless him and his family?a
righteous man blessed be Qod.?
Thence take the ridge again it will lead you
to the house of James McDowell?an honest
man, but not one of thy flock Lord?
but hless him and his family. Bless all the
anldiAta tn the Mexican war. Lord. Now
the whigs aay this is an unjast war, we will
. not Dtop to arguo that question, with thee,
oh Lord, hilt for further particulars we
would refer yon to the President's Message
and accompanying documents marked A.
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SotD tor Less Than Cost.?George
Washington pricks,- in a letter to the Mobile
Advertiser and Register, gets off the follow*
Wfc* ? :
I was standing quietly on the front steps
of the Custom House the other day, looking
carnally at a beautiful creature sitting at
one of the parlor windows of the Battle
House, and trying to disoorer whether she
was sot an old acquaintance of mine from
the country, when a strange young man,
with a limp in his walk, oame up and stop*
pad near me.
"I'll swear its mighty hot walking for a
lame ma* to-day," said he.
Whether the remark was addressed to me
or society at large, I'did not think it worth
; while to inquire, but simply said in reply:
"I should think so really. May I ask
how you came to be. lame?"
fill ?io ?n inmArtinimt sinnstfnn T Irnnw
bat as be bad provoked it I did not think
L' there could be much harm it
"Certainly sirj" said he, "I got hurt, and
very badly too, in a personal difficulty I had
with a Northern man named Meade."
"Ah, indeed!" said L
' ? f'Yes; the thing created a good deal of
exeiiemen^ at the time, and aa an account
of it was published In all the newspapers,
both North and South, you must have read
3 something about it" ] V/. v i , '
"Not a word, I assure you. When and
I where did it happen ?"
"Why, a little over two years ago," said
-t he, "at a town m Pennsylvania called Gettysburg."
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' Sold ?g*in, and the money received !"
I % shouted a small newsboy,* who was standing
by and heard the conversation, bat who now
took to his heels.
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Wtt" Josh Billings favors the world with
a brief essay on dogs. "Dogs in the lamp,"
' says Joshua, are useful bat they are not always
profitable. The Newfonndling dog is
useful to save children from drowning, bnt
- you have got to have a pond of water and
obildren rnnning aboot oareless, or else the
dog ain't profitable- There ain't nothing
made boarding a Nofbunlin dog. Bnt terriers
are useful to ketch rats, but the rats
ain't profitable after you have ketched them.
The shepherd dog is useful tew drive sheep;
bnt if yon hare to go and buy a flock Of
sheep, and pay more than they are wutb,
jest tu keep die dog bnjjzy, the dog ain't
profitable?-not much. Lap dogs are very
usefnl; bat if yon don't hold them in yoar
lap awl the time, they ain't profitable at all.
The ooaoh dog is one of the most useful uv
dogs I know nv ; but yu have got to have
a coaoh, (and that ain't always pleasant,)
or yon can't realize from the dog. Thns
we see that, while doge are generally nseful,
there are timeB when they ain't generally
profitable."
JQT Some years ago, there was a notary
pttbl|e- ftf Washington, an old and highly
. respected gentleman, who had held his ofhoe
through all the political twistings and
turnings of oar capital for Dearly twenty
years. A young friend was in his office
r one day, and while sitting by the table pioked
op a small old leather covered book,
which, upon being opened, proved to he
Tbaddens of Warsaw. He cautiously re
marked to Mr. Smith, the notary:
see you have a copy of Thaddeos oj
Warsaw here."
"Thaddapsof Warsaw 1" was the reply,
"What do yoiLinean 7"
"Why, this is a eopy of it."
"Thaddeaa of Warsaw 1" exolaimed the
old gentleman. He snatched the1 book,
gave oue glance ft it, and oriedouV"Foi
twenty years I have been swearing people
WaaIP * sKtnVinn ?# fka IKkla
vu ?** ? Wl?l VH4HAiUg 'V WWI WUW A/IVIO.
All those oaths ain't worth the paper the}
are written oo."
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Jfif Every one knows that Sheridan wu
constantly beset by duns. A gentleman
onoe qooting, in his hearing, the -trite maxim:?"He
who pays his debts enriches himself/'
exclaimed:?"Don't believe it, my
dear. It's a rascally story, circulated by
one's creditors." slfc -Sz&M
in
Wm PaxFSSABLX.?The use of the
* word "lady," instead of she word "wife,"
is a vulgarity in language/We often notice
it in exchange papers. There is to better
or more' expressive word than "wife/' and
we hope journalists will insist on its eortecl
use.
1 WxiMt Mtateyfc 1
? A heated term?"Yonr'e a liar sir J"
? There were 14,844 soldiers buried in
Nashville, Tenn., daring the war.
? X hypocrite pays tribute, to God that he
may impose upon men.
? It has been determined to make Chattanooga
a permanent military pest.
? A darned good invention?the knitting
machine.
? No man has a right to do as he pleases,
except when he pleases to do right
? France has 8000 miles of railway, and
5000 more miles building. *
? General fiindman lately of the Confederate
army, is praotising law at Saltillo,
Mexico.
? Some of the young ladies say that the
times are so bard that the young men cannot
pay their addressee.
? The Federal troops garrisoning Mississippi
are now being oonoeptrated at Vicksborg
preparatory to evacuating the State.
? The Pennsylvania Democratic State
Central Committee is out in an address taking
strong grounds against negro suffrage.
? A Polish agent is now in Virginia, looking
for a location in whioh to settle a party
of Polish, emigrants in that State.
? The Savannah Republican says the right
of secession has been reaffirmed by primary
meetings in Glynn county, Georgia.
? Messrs. Clay, Mitohell, Malloxy, Reagan
and Stephens, it is stated, will shortly
be released from Fortress Monroe, on parole.
? Governor Murphy, of Arkansas, has direeled
an eleo'tion for members of Congress
on the 9th of Ootober.
. -?Many of the farmers around Petersburg,
Va., will not plow up their land for
fear of striking nnexploded Shells.
? Wiliam Jackson, a negro, is serving on
a jury at Brooklyn, New York, with eleven
white men.
? General Longstreet passed through Eataw,
Alabama, last week, to visit a relative
in Mississippi. *.
?The Augusta Chronicle says arrangements
are now in progress to eoloniie ten
thousand aores of land in one county in
Georgia with Irish and German settlers.
? According to the census of 1860 there
were two bunurea ana sixiy-nve natives or
Vermont in Virginia. Tbore hate been a
good many more since that
? It is confidently predicted in Washington
that President Johnson will issue a
proclamation in a few days restoring the
writ of habeas corpus in the loyal States.
? Colt's factory is to be run twenty hours
a day, in oonsequenoe of the increased demand
for'pistols. Many of the orders, it is
said, come from Southern negroes.
? More marine vessels arrived at Philadelphia
on Tuesday of last week, than on
any single day before within the last forty
years.
? A London merobant recently advertised
for a olerk who oould "bear confinement."
He received an answer from one
who had been upwards of seven years in
>u.
? A foreigner who saw the parade of the
Fifty fourth colored troops in Boston, on
Saturday, was beard to innocently remark
that the men appeared a good deal sunburned.
? The Anti Slavery Standard, of New
York, whioh represents the views of the
abolition radicals on the negro suffrage
question, threatens the impeaohment of
President Johnson. ?
A young lady, by the name of Jones,
was arrested in Albany the other day,
charged with leading a yonng man, aged
eighteen, from "the path of .rectitude."?
This is a novel charge.
? They have a war going on in Brazil
and with ifra conscription law. Guards are
stationed in the streets of Rio Janeiro to
piok conscripts op and march them off to
oamp, as was the old Confederate style.
? One of the best posted wine makers at
Clcav eland, Ohio, says, that if for fiveyeara
to come the people of this country plant
vineyards as they have for five years past,
there will be more Wine an<? grapes in the
United States than in Europe.
,? Gen. Swayne, of the Freedmen's Bu
rean in Alabama, alluding in a oircular to
tbe impression prevailing among negroes
thai plantations will be parcelled amongst
them at tbe beginning of tbe next year,
tells them tbdy need not bope for anything
of the sort, but must go to work and b.ebave
themselves.
? A Washington correspondent says that
President Johnson has promised a pardon
and fall restoration of his property to R. M.
r T. Hunter, <rf Virginia, but not now. He
r must wait a while. The promise of a pardon
at a fntoreday was seoored through the
intercession of his wife, whom the President
, reoeived with more than his usual kindness.
I ?There are between 4,000 and 5,000
negroes congregated at Columbus; Kyv
, and tbey draw their rations regularly from
s Uncle Sam. It takes a large number of
- white officers to furnish these newly pledged
citizens with salt jnnk and ooffins, 8 te 10
f being buried daily. Negro scouts daily go
out from Columbus, and they invariably ar.
rest every man for disloyalty who has either
a good house or any money.
_ f a WnKilo aaro ?n ftrtinf, in that:
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1 oity painted ft dog so natural that the ani'
mal had the hydrophobic faring the hot
' weather. He's the JU?e man, saya the
1 Portland Press, who painted a oopy of a
beer-bottle with such skill that the oork flew
' oufcjost as be was finishing it. And after
he was married he painted a picture of his
first baby, tbat was so life-like that it cried,
and his wife spanked it before she discovered
her mistake.
? Crop estimates claim much attention,
and the leading authority iu the London
Times sums up his estimates throughout
^he oouotry as follows: Wheat will yield
twenty-six bushels per tore, or four below
> the average. Barley thirty-two bushels per
acre, or eight below the average. Oats
thirty-four bushels per acre, or fourteen below
the average Peas an d beans will yield
their a rerage crop. Potatoes will yield unusually
well. Hfjr will -gfar an average
crop. Pasturage is singularly abandoned.
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The Origin of Cards.
About the year 1890, oards vera inveofced,
to divert Charles VI, then King of
Franoe, who had fallen into a melancholy
disposition. That they were not in use before,
appears highly probable, let. Because
no cards are to be seen in any paintings,
sculpture, tapestry, &c., more ancient than
the preceding period, botare represented in
many works of ingenuity since that age.?
2d. No prohibitions relative to oards, by
the king's edicts, are mentioned, although,
some few years before, a most severe one
was published, forbidding by name all man*
ner of sports and pastime^ in order that
the snbjeets, might exercise themselves in
shooting with bows and arrows, and be in-a
condition to oppose the English. Now, it
is not to be presumed that so luring a game
as cards would have been omitted in the
enumeration, had they been in use. 8d.
In &U the ecclesiastical eanons prior to the
said time, there ooours no mention of oards,
although twenty years after date, card-playing
was interdicted the olergy by a Gallican
synod. About the same time is found
in the acoount-book of the king's oofferer
the following charge: "Paid for a pack of
painted leaves bought for the king's amusement,
three livres." Printing and stamping
being then not discovered, the cards
were painted, which made them so dear.?
Thence, in the above Bynodical canons, they
are called pagiUcc pictce?painted little
leaves. 4th. About thirty years after this
came a severe edict against oards io France;
and another by Emanuel, Duke of Savoy;
only permitting the ladies this pastime, pro
spinuKs for pins and needles.
Of their design.-?-The inventor proposed
by the figures of the four suits, or colors, j
as the French call them, to represent the
foar states or olasseeof men in the kingdom, j
x?? it-- n /k... th.
X>J blip VWU/fl ^ucaiioy iuo uivau* uue {
Gens dt XJhoenr, ohoirmen, or eoolesiasties;
and therefore the Spaniards, who oertainly
reoeived the use of oards from the
Frenoh, have copas or chalices instead of
hearts. .
The nobility, or prime military part of
the kingdom, are represented by ends or
points of lanoes, or spikes, and our igtoraooe
of the meaning or resemblance of the
figure induced us to oall them spades. The
Spaniards have etpades (swords) in lieu of
pikes, which is of similar import.
By diamonds are designed the order of
citizens,merchants and tradesmen, carratx,
(square stone tiles or the like.) The Spaniards
have a ooin dincros, which answers
to it; and the Dutch" oall the Frenoh word
carruex sHeneen, stones and diamonds, from
the form.
TritU> the trefoil leaf, or clover grass,
(corruptly ealled clubs) alludes to the husbandmen
and peasants. How this suit came
to be called blubs is not explained, unless,
borrowing the game from the Spaniards,
who have bono* (staves or elubs) instead of
the trefoil, we gave the Spanish signifies
- -? *ww l.
tiOD to tno r renon Dgare.The-hisfcory
of the four kings, whioh the
French in drollery sometimes call the oards,
is DavidjJLtecander, Ccuart and Ckarto,
(wbieb^names were then, and still are, on
the French.cards.) Tfces&respectable names
repreeeat;tijte fear* celebrated monarchies of
the Jowl, .Greeks, Romans and Franks an-'
Esther, Judith Raltiu}{names still retained
in the Freneh oards,) typical of birth,
piety, fortitude and wisdom, the qualifications
residing in each person. Argine is an
anogram for Regina, queen by descent.
By the knaves were designated the servants
to knightsr, (for knave originally meant
only servant; and in an old translation ot
tbe Bible, St. Phul is oalled the knave of
Christ;) bat French pages and valets, now
indiscriminately used by various orders of
persons, were formerly only allowed to persons
oi quality, esquires (csouiere) shield or
armor bearers.
Others fancy that the knights themselves
were designed by those cards, beoauae Hogier
and Lahire, two names on the French
cards, were famous knights at'the time
eards were supposed to be invented.
' Old S&ap Book,
About Chess,
Louis the Thirteenth, who detested games
of chance, and. would not allow them to be
played at court, was so passionately addicted
to ohess that he played eveu wben riding in
his oarriage. Eaoh man bad a pin at his
foot, wbiob, being stock into a padded ohess
board, resisted tbc joltings of the voyal
VOUIV19.
With some individuals the love of obesp
has been strong enough to counterbalance
the fear of dying. John Frederick, Eleotor
of Saxony, made prisoner in 1547, by
Charles the Fifth, was playing, ohess with
his fellow oaptive, Ernest of Branswiok,
when he received the news of his condemnation
to death. After, a few remarks on
the irregularity of the emperor's proceedings,
he quietly oontinned his game. On
winning it ho expressed his satisfaction, and
then retired to devote himself to the religious
exercises befitting bis situation.
A Turkish aga, who had incurred the
Sultan's displeasure, reoeived his sentence
to death while playing ohess. The game
was far advanced, the poeition interesting,
nrl Kq an+Mata?l tti* nffinnn frt *11 nv ktm
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to finish it. They consented, and he won.
Then, after thanking them for their polite'
nesa, he. kissed the fatal document, and
quietly submitted to his fate.
When a messenger informed Alamin Ben
Haroun that the city of Bagdad iraa be*
sieged, "Honour tongue," said the caliph,
"don,t you see that lam on the point of
giving a checkmate ?" The same potentate
sought out the best players of his empire,
brought them to oourt and pensioned them.
Hie father, Abdallah the Third, used to
bewail his sad fate in having more capacity
for governing nations than for movingchessmen.
It is hard to believe that any one oan ever
have ffvesicd. chess, or made it ont when
proposed as an enigma. Nevertheless Borsn
(otherwise called Bnzardjemehir "for
short,") physician and vizier to Noushiwan
the First, and tutor to his son Berfflous,
divined the secret.
King Hind bad sent to Bono's icyal
mister a chessboard, chessmen, and a letter..
"O king," it said, "may you live as long
as the celestial spheres revolve in their on
bite! I ent.-eat yoa to examine this chessboard,
and to aet it before'the eyes of the
scholars and aagtein your kingdom, i \
Let them oarefally deliberate together, and
discover, if they o?n( the principles, of this
marvelous game. If you snowed in penetrating
the mystery, I promise to acknovL
edge myself yoar majesty's tributary; if
not, at.it wilt be olear thai yon are onr inferior*
in knowledge, it is yep who ought to
.pay me tribute j fer man's veritable grands
ear consists in hip knowledge* and. not in
treasures or territory, which are only fleeting
and perishable things."
All the court ooonuelors and ministers set
to work; but the enigma appeared insoluble.
The seven days' reflection required by the
king had nearly elapsed when Bona rose,
end .undertook to discover, all alone by him
[ self, the clew to it in a day and a nigbt.?=
He shut himself up, tried each piece on the
board, comparing the probable movements
of eaeh, nntil tBe whole and complete truth
flashed upon fchn. The oottrt then aaeenr*
bled, King Hind's envoy was introduced,
and Bonn gave a formal lecture on oheae,
explaining to fata wondering audience the
arrangement of the pieces and their march.
Notuhiwan, in recompense, loaded him
with favors and dignities.
. President Lincoln's First Dollar.
?One evening in the Executive Chamber,
there Were present a number of gentlemen,
among them Mr. Seward. A point in the
conversation suggesting the thought, Mr.
Lincoln said, "Seward, yon never beard,
did you, how J earned my first dollar ?" ?
"No," said Mr. flewajd. "Well," replied
he, ?I was about eighteen years of age, I
belonged, yon know, to what they call down
South the 'scrubs'?people who do not own
land and slaves' are nobody there. Bat we
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had. sucoeeded in raising, ohieny oy my
labor, sufficient produce, as 1 thought, to
justify' me in taking it down the river to
sell. After muoh persuasion, I got the
oonsent of my mother to go, and constructed
a little flat boat, large, enough to take a
barrel or two of things that we gathered,
with myself and little bundle, down to New
Orleans. A steamer was coming down the
river. We have, you know, no'wharves
along the Western streams, and the custom
was, if passengers were at any of the landings,
for them to go out in a boat, the steamer
stopping and taking them on board. I
was contemplating my new flat boat, and.
wondering whether I could make it strongex
or improve it in any particular, when
two men oame down to the 'shore in car
riages, with trunks, and looking at the different
boats, singled out mine, and asked,
Who owns this V I answered, somewhat
modestly, <1 do.' 'Will yon,' said one of
them, 'take us and oar trunks out to the
steamer V 'Certainly,' add I. I was very
glad to have an opportunity of earning
something. I supposed that each one would
give me two or three bits. The trunks were
put on my flat, boat, the passengers seated
themselves on the trunks, and I sculled
them out to the steamboat. They got on
aboard, and I lifted on their heavy trunks
and put tbem on deok. The steamer was
r%knnf 4A MH4 AM a4w4m OMtti aa1ia?i T aafYa^
ouuuk iv puw uu ow?ui ftgoiu, nugu x uaiigu
oat that -they had forgotten to p?j me.?
Each of them -took from his pocket a silver
half dollar, and threw It on the floor of my
boat. I ooald scaroely believe my eyes u
I pioked ap the money. Gentlemen, you
may think it a very tittle thing, and in these
days it seems to me like a trifle ; bat it woe
a most important incident in my life. I
ooald scarcely credit that I, a poor boy, had
earned a dollar in. less than a day?that by
honest work X had earned a dollar. The.
world seemed wider and fairer before me.
I'was a more hopefal and confident being'
from that time."?Springfield Union.
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A Strang? Story.?An inoident iajost
now being diseuased in military circles, so
extraordinary that, were not the troth capable
of being vouohed for by official authority,
the narration wonld certainly be
deemed absolutely incredible. Oar nffiofirs
quartered at the Cape, between fifteen and
twenty years ago, may remember a certain
Dr. Barry attached to the medical staff
there, and enjoying a reputation for considerable
skill in his profession, especially for
firmness, decision, and rapidity in difficult
Operations. He was clever and agreeable,
save for the drawback of a moet quarrelsome
temper, and an inordinate addiotion
to argument, whioh perpetually brought the
former peculiarly into play. He was excessively
plain, of feeble proportions, and labored
under the imperfection ofaludioroasly
squeaking voice. Any natural "ohaffing"
with regard to these, however, especially
roused hi* ire, but was at length discontinued
on his "calling out" a persevering
offender, and shooting him through the
louga. About 1840 he became promoted
to be medical inspector, and was transferred
to Malta,^ ^
There he ww equally distinguished by
if a MI ? t 9
pts uui ana r?; nit. pugnacious propensities,
the latter becoming so inconveniently
developed upon the slightest difference of
opinion with him, that at last no notice wa*
allowed to be taken of his fits or temper.
He proceeded from Malta to Corfu, where
be was quartered for man; years, still conspioions
for the same peculiarities. When
our government ceded the Ionian Islands to
Greece, and onr troops, of conrse, quitted
the territory, Dr. Barry elected to leave the
arm; and take ap his residenoe for the rest
of his days at Corfu. He there died about
a month ago, and upon his death was discovered
to be a woman! By investigation,
not pnly woe the discover; placed beyond a
doubt, btft it was equal!; beyond a doubt
broughtIn lao-fia fW the individual in ones
tion had, at some time or another, been a
mother! This isall thftt is as yet known
of this extraordinary story. The motives
that occasioned, and the time when commenced
this singular deception, are both
Bhrctakd in mystery?Liverpool Post.
KN03nntLK.--.The Chattanooga Gozette
of the 7th says: "A gentleman from
Kuoxville, yesterday, reported everything
qttiefc?stores all dosed, and nnl* ten men
dead." .
; - We arehappy iohoLable to elite thai affairs
appear to be impvpviog at the home of
Gov. Brownlow. An offioer, who left that
! pltoe op prfday morning, informs uatbat
- the number killed the j^t before he left
was only five?three white men end two,
colored. All quiet en tho ?ofom?i.'< -V
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Ujwapp* Mabbiagm Among men op
(Jsbjios.?The rare cononrrenoe of genius
(aays ?n English paper) with domestic eom(prt
is perfectly awfoL Tike Dante, the
exile, who left his wife, never wishing to see
her mors > Tasso, wifeless ; Petraroh, wife,
less; Ariosto, wifeless; Milton, thrice mas.
ried, bat only oace with mneh comfort;
Dryden, wedded, like Addison, to a title
and discord; Young lives alone till past fifty;
Swift's marriage is no marriago; Sterne's
ChnrohiU'B, Byron's, Coleridge's marriages
broken and onhappy. Then we haye ajset
of celibates?Herriok, Cowley, Pope, Thompson,
Prior, Gay, Shenstone, Gray, Akenside,
Goldsmith, Collins, Cowper, and I know not
how many more of ow beat poets. .John*
son bad a wife, loved and soon lost her. It
is almost enough to make women tremble of
allying themselves with geaioa or giving
kivtii ?*. it ThIta tb? nhilosonhers?Baoon,
like bis famous leg*! adversary, Coke,
seems to hare enjoyed little domestic comfort,
end speaks, for, as be says, "certain
grave reasons," disapprovingly of bis partner
Our metaphysicians, Hobbes, Looke,
Bentham, Butler?are as solitary as Spiuosa
and Kant. The celibate philosopher
Home conducts n? to the other great faatobelor
historians, Gibbon and Maoanlay, at
Bishop Bntler does to aome>of the princes of
English divinity?Hooker cajoled into marrying
a shrew, Cnllingworth unmarried,
Hammond unmarried, Leigh ton unmarried,
Barrow also single. I only take the fore
most men : the list might be swelled with
ponarohs and generals in marriage.
The Un changeable Land.?Things
do not change in the East. As Abraham
pitched his tent in Bethel, so does an Arab
Sheikh now set aphis camp; as David built
t. f*:? .?14 _
qis psiaoe on inouqt<aioa, ho jtuum ? j,w?ish
Pasha now arrange liis house; in ever;
street may be seen the hairy child re a oi
Esau, sqaattjng on the ground, devouring
a mess of lentils like that for which the
rongh hunter sold his birthright; along every
road plod the sons of Reohab, whose
fathers, one thousand years agof bound themselves
and theirs to drink no wine, plant no
tree, enter within no door, and their children
have kept the oath; at every kban young
men sit around the pan of parched oom,
dipping their morsel into the dish; Job's
plow is still osed, and the seed is still trodden
into the ground by asses and kine; olives
are shaken from the boughs as directed by
Isaiah j and the grafting of trees unchanged
since the days of Sanl. The Syrian house
is still, as foimeriy, only a stone tent, as a
temple was bat a marble tent. What is
"A S- k. ??
OCOU UVW 1U AA7UiBUjr JLUOJT NM.OU W> vuu
exact likeness of the house of Lamms,
where Mary listened and Martha toiled, 01
as the hoose of Simon, the leper, where
the precions box of ointment was broken,
and whenoe Jqdas set oat to betray his master.?Dickent'
AU the Tear Round.
'
Not Inolihkd to Kiss the Rod.?A
Southern officer writes humorously to the
Mobile Reguler, in reply to the acoasatioc
of a Northern newspaper that the Southern
people still praise their own Generals and
neglect to praise those who have saved the
republic. He thinks the Yankees musi
hate queer idem about Southern hitman
nature If they expect anything different,
Addttw* v"'
_ -A?* ? * , . ^ J tt.K. ! _
- "nor ao i nog jtnww ta? union gcu
erals for saving the republic, for at the
time the thing was done it struck me the]
saved the wrong one. It maybe that ]
i ought to feel grateful to the generals wh<
thrashed me and all my friends within ai
inch of our lives, but, in the language o
Mr. A. Ward, *1 don't see it in thoe<
lamp#.' W# all admire the artistic beaut]
I of the style in which the Union general
put ns through, we make no attempt t<
suppress or disguise the'faot that the thinj
was done handsomely in point of skill
but to denouuoe us as ungrateful sous o
gnus, because we don't expend oar ink ao<
eloquence in constantly saying so, would di
called in some countries a premeditated at
tempt to add insult to injory."
Confederate in Mexico.?Private let
ten from Mezioo tell us of the arrival ii
Mezioo City of large numbers of Confede
rate officers. Among them are Gen. Jaok
Mag ruder, Gen. Sterling Price, Gen. Sie
phena, late chief engineer in Lee's army
Gov. Tiusten Polk, Gov. Allen, of Louisi
ana, Gov. Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee
Judge Feririns, of Louisiana, Gen. Lead
better, Gen.- Wilcox, Judge Watkios, Col
Semmes, Colonel Anglade, Colonel Dennis
Major Kimmell, Major Mordeoai, Captain
Carroll, Wood, Cage, Adams, of Missouri
Moore, of Alabama; Thompson, of Joe E
Johnston's staff, and Gregory. Lieuteban
Maury has been appointed to .the Observe
tory in Mezioo. Gen. Stephens has oharg
of the San Luis Potoeo railroad. Messrs
? ** i rr ar .1 _ / if j L_/x
o. .Barron ana n. jueaae) 01 morgan a BbiUi
and G. A. Borohert, late of fcbe steame:
Stonewall Jackson,' bare applied for landi
to settle on permanently. Gen. Shelby an<
his command have remained in the North
era deportments of Mexico jr and the be
Kef in Mexico Oity was that they will' b<
accepted into the French service.?AT. I
Journal* *>
Holt on Union Men.?A prominen
gentleman from Mississippi, lately in Wash
ington, called on the Judge Advocate Gen
oral, whom be.had known In fonrer timet
as, "Joe Holt,'* a professional brother, anc
represented to him that a neighbor, of th<
I excepted class, who was applying for par
' don, "had always been a Union man," eto.
! etc. Mr. Holt looked at him sourly' anc
crossly for a few mlnntes, snapping his eyei
every once in a while in the course of the
recital of the applicant'^ igerite to especial
favor, and at last growled oat; "It's a woo
der we had any fighting to do down thai
way; I have not seen or heard of, a mac
yet in Mississippi or Louisiana who wai
not a Union man. Who was it that wat
9tt
UgUMUg UO ?
*****
- igfc. General Sing at Angaria, baa faned
a general order "that hereafter whenever
contrasts or agreements in writing are entered
into between parties, the consideration
therein name^d shall be in lawlegal
tender by the Government," and orders
thatall contracts not in aooprdaww
ad^this order which have been made pr?
ONE OP THE TAX LAWS OF THE U. STATES. ti
tow, Bute or National, the prorjriooj of Wiilch at# joon j
taportmtto the people. Here are each otto proceeding t
Se'resde?^ WlD B*?r^ m01* tateteatfnRond Important to p
SCHEDULE B, 8
ACKOW^MB.rr-.'^ ' ??s .
in suit er legal proceedings exempt .
AGREEMENT <JB. ATESAISEMENT?for each ^
abeet-or piece ofpaper onwttch tbemme to ?
written . > , 5 cents ,
ASSIGNMENTS OE TRANS FEBS?of mortgage,
l^se or poUcy of inrimnce, thesame duty uon J
Of patent right J> cents
BANK CHECKS, DRAFTS OR ORDERS, &c.
at sight oron demand 2 cenu
BILLS OF EXCHANGE, 2jaxx??draft or order,
payable otherwise than at sight or op demand, . "
and any promissory note, whatever, payable on
demand or-it n time designated, [except bank , *r., i
notes Issued for circulation, and cfcecKi made
andintended to be, and which shall be forthwith ?>" "!
presented for payment] for a mm not exceeding *
hmAnA doU*"r or fractional *
BILLS OF LADING?of vessels for dor. of the * **""
United State, or British N0?to dTcff exempt
SaS?ddoSw-efmtl0n 4063 001 e<c*ed ^
teSfi?%^to??$S!?Z*cui S*
pan thereof 50 eent.
fo^gS^yggg.S^'t^TS,,e-'
offiSKT
55SS?^?caJS!yra&?^ -recoverable
thereupon is #1,000 or less 50 cento
Whew the money recoverable exceeds #1,000,
1 8er5f? "**""* r'?80' ?Wm|3F%
f BONDS?county, city and town bonds, railroad
and other corporation bonds and scrlot arc sob
Ject to stamp duty. fUee
Of any description other than sacb a era fei
quired in legal proceedings, and such as are not
otherwise charged in utta te&edaie. OS >
CEitTIFICATKa?of deposit In bank, am'not
exceeding one hundred dollars g cents
Ofilepoetin bank,sum exceeding#100 5 cents
I Of stock in an utborpontbd company 25 cents
Gen era] ^ cents
Of.^VttU^tlonofa Justice of the Peace
of Deeds or Notary PuWic 5-cento
I ?wenor records 5 cents
II That certain pape? ace on. He 5 cents
That certain papers cannot be found 5 -cents
1 Of redemption of land sold for taxes 5 cents
. Of birth, marriage and death 6 cents
Of qualifications of school teachers ' A cents
; - Of profits In an Incorporated company, for a stun
not leas than $10 and not exceeding $50 - 10 cents
Exceeding $5<j and not exceeding $1,000. - 25 cents
Exceeding #1)000, for every addluonal #1,000, or
fractional part thereof 25 cents
t of damage or otherwise, and all other certificates
or documents issued by anv part warden,
marine surveyor, at other person" acting is such 25 cents
1 CERTIFIED TRAN8CBJPT?of Judgments, sat1
1st action of judgement*, and of all papers, recorded
or on file 5 cents
(IV. B.?As a general rule, -every certificate
l which has, or may have, a legal value in any
court of law or equity, will requi re a stamp dnty
of 5 cents.)
CHECK, DRAFT OR ORDER?for the payment
I of any gum of money, exceeding $M>, drawn .
upon any person other than a bank, banker or
1 trust company, at sight or on demand. 2 cents
CONTRACT?{Bee Agreement. J
! Broken. 10 cents
CONVEYANCE?dead, instrument, or witting
whereby lands, tenements, at other realty; sold
I shall be conveyed, the abtnaf value which dose
not exceed S500 50 cents
Exceeding $500. and not elceedlng$l,Q00 ?1,00
I For every additional $500, or fractional part
thereof, in excess of $1,000 90 cents
ENTRY?of any goods, wares or merchandize at
any custom house not exceeding$100 in value 85 cents
Exceeding $100, and not exceeding $900 in
value 00 cents
1 Exceeding $500 in value ' - $1/10
For the withdrawal of tay foods or merchandise,
from bonded warehouse 50 cents
I GUAGER'8 RETURN?if for quantity not ei|
ceedlDj; 500 gailoni, gross, 10 cent*
POWEROF. ATTORNEY?to ?eU or tranafer
etock or collect dividends thereon ' 25 cents
> To vote at an election of incorporated company 10 cents
To receive or collect rents ' 35 cents
i To sel^ or convey, or rent, or lease real estate fl,00
For any other purpose - 50 cents
i, PROBATE OF WILL?or letters bf admlnlstre-.
tian, where the value of both real and personal
estate does not exceed ft,000. $ 1,00
For every additional MM0,ot fractional port
thereof, in exeeas of $2,000 **"" 50 cent*
Bonds of execators, administrators, guardians
and trustees, are each subject to a stamp duly of $ 1,00
PROTEST? upon bill note, deck or draft 35 cents
I PROMISSORY NOTE?[See Blfs of Exchange,
inland.J -> - - - -
Renewal of, subject to same duty as an original
note.,
RECEIPT?for tbo paymcfat ofony aom of money,
or debt doe, exceeding $20, or for tlie delivery of
any.property 9 cents
TRUST DEED?mode U> secure a debt, to be
stamped as a mortgage. Conveying estate to uses
^OT^mctrl^^lw nmtxhcrll^ prOT^ded*fw?deposited
or stored in any public vr private warehouse,
not 'exceeding $3<X> in value 10 cents
Exceeding goOO, and not exceeding $X,W* 90 cents
*-^Sceedlng $1,000, for every addltlonarSl,000,flr
fractional part thereof, In excess of $l,u00 t.. 10 cents
For any goods, lie., not otherwise provided for,
stored or deposited in aaypobUcor private ware- house
or yard 95
WRITS fit LEGAL DOCUMENTS?writs or Other
legal process, by which any suit in c&mmenaed
- In any court of record, either of law or equity SO cents
Writ or other original process Issued byraeoun ?.
not of record, wuesa the amount claimed Is $100
or over . . ?0 cents
Upon every confession of Judgment or cognovit, - 1
for $100, or over, except in oases wlmn me tax,
for a writ bas been paid 50 cents
Writ or other process appeals from justices'
ootats, or other courts of inferior jurisdiction, to
. a Court of record ' SOccnts
TTUiaiuo ui uwwcwj nucu wt -jy* r ,jyv-<
3 cIMmed does not exceed $100 25 cent*
When the amount exceeds ?100 50 cent*
{ INSURANCE?Marine. Inland and Fin. Where
the consideration paid for the Insurance, (n cash
) premium noise, or both, does not exceed $10 10cent*
f Exceed in* $10. and not exceeding $50 50 cent*
INSURANCE, Lux?when the amount Insured
J does not exceed $1,000 35 Cents
Exceeding $1,000, and not exceeding$5,000 50cents
5 Exceeding $5,000 $1.00
LEASE?of lands or tenements, where the rent
duet not exceeu $300 per annum SO cents
Exceeding $300, tor each additional 5200, or fractional
pan thereof, In excess of $300 50 cents
Perpetual, subject to stamp duty as a conveyance.
Clause of guaranty of payment of rent, Incorporated
or indorsed, five cents additional.
> MEASURERS' RETURN?if forquantlty not ex
ceedlng l,u00 bushels 10 cents
Exceeding 1,000 bushels 25cents
MORTGAGE?uuj^ deed, bill of sale, or persona)
bond (j?r the payment of money exceeding $100,
and not exceeding $500. * SO cents
Exceeding $500, Cot every additional $500 or
fractional pan thereof, In excess of $900. 50 cents
> PAWNERS' CHECKS -- Scents
- PASSAGE TICKET?from the United Sates to
any foreign port, costing not more than $35 50 cents
t Costing more than $35, and not exceeding $50 $1.00
For every additional $50, orfractionafpdftulere7
of,ft excess of $50 - ' ??.*. $1.00
GENERAL REMARKS.
Revenue Btamps may be used indiscriminately upon any
, of the matters or thing* enumerated In schedule B, except
proprietary and playing card stamps, lbs which * special
a use has been provided.
. Postage stamps cannot be used In payment of the duty
7 chargeable on instruments.
It Is the duty of the maker or an instrument to aflxand
cancel the ftpisp-thereof If bp neglects to do so, the
t party for whose Use it is made may stamp tt before it is
used; but in no case can it be legally us#d wlthoat a stamp;
V aad. if used, after the 30th of June, 1064, and used without
a ? stamp, It cannot afterwards be elfbctuslly stamped. Any
failure unon the nart of the maker of an instrument to ao.
proprlately stamp it, renders him liable to a penalty of two
hundred dollars.
j Suits are commenced in many States by other process
p than writ, vix: summons, warrant, publication, petition,
' fee., in which case these, as the original process, severally
a require stffinpCe %
| ^vVrita of scire facias are eufeicct uutaaHtfl; ?
TEeJorat of an affidavit, taken before a Justice of the
* Peace, Notary Public, or other offioer duly authorised to
take affidavits, Is held to be a certificate,'and subject to a
stamp duty of 5 cents, except when taken in suits or legal
> proceedings.
Certificates of loan. In which there shall appear any
. printed or written evldenceof any amount of money to be
paid on demand, or at any time designated-aresubfecVto
stamp duty as "Promissory Notes.77 .. .
The assignment of a mortgage' is subject to ffiosams
stamp duty as that imposed upon the original instrument j
t that is to say, for every sum of five hundred dollars, or
'l any fractional part thereof, of the amount sewed by the
* mortgage, at the time of ffianmignracnt, there mMpajUl*.
eda stamp Or stamps, denoting adaty of fifty oeata.
When two or more persona -join in the execution of an
I instrument, the stamps to which the instrument la liable
under the law, may be affixed and eanceOffittgr one of the
1 parties.
In conveyances of real estate,the law provide* that the
3 stamp affixed must answer to the value of the estate on
_ interest conveyed.
No stamp U required on any warrant of attorney accomponying
a bond or note, .when such bond or note has of(
llxe?mherew the stamp or stamps denoting the duty reI
quired, and whenever any bond or note is secured by
mortgage, but one stamp duty-is required on such papers,
' such stamp duty being toe highest rates required for such
5 instruments, or either- of them, firaoch Case a aoto or
memqrondtun of the value or denouioaton or the stamp
[ affixed should be made open 'tin margin or in the acknowledgment
of the instrument which Is not stuppgfl...
| All ACT of Congress; U) provfle Internal Bevenue, Ap,
"proved Jtrne 39, MM, and ataendn*March, 3,1885, kc.
1 STAMP JBCTIBB.
1 . g*c. i5i. AiiUit fmiher cnaeUd, That all law* in
1
SK^eW^-ndslxt
. respec t of the several ltistm n ?ta, nouters and things raen^
^tjoned ai^d d escri ti Rd^ in^the B J hereunto
s 'f ^ .
laetHn punwenceaf tMeae^or ?t^lo>y,
iT any ?ucJa itampIof?l^JS? SorewST o^a'lny^wSm! <
jirchment, or paper, or (hall tump or mux, at cnoee or '
procure to M s temped or marked, say vcUnm.pMgftflM|F
ar paper, with any rack Aqpd or coomanfterinpHflr
S3fJTS-JL-S S^'^SFM
ster-xauKgRam ...
mem .? writing ctaWKd or ?tojp?ifc'-e?akn* off to
move or <tw to be removed than Mg.frppM wmS
the canceling or defoclng marks therfctt?HH^B. ?
u*c the name or cause the use of the woe the second Otoe,
orsfaallknowingiy orwflfoJl J sell ot Crtahfcl W
po?Mle?me?u^ perwn^rwe^or ItuSS&mjS^m.
Mine, or prepare the same with intent for the aecoad
ssa&gjaa;
jr^y^apfrsbaar &
conviction thereof, forfeit the oU counterfeit stamps n#
the Wtfcfes upon tnejr are placed, and be paabfeed by mab
not exci|^g one ^thownd dollars, ot t>y Imprisonment
this act without so effectually canceUhtf tutd. eSSw^Wfi
such stamp, except as before mentioned, be. ?&^-orq^K
shall forfeit the sum of fifty dollar*:
cSSSSS^B
United States, in eut?We fin, to H
mlssioner of In tern ai Sevenhe, htoor melt tftrn CW ? ?
direction and m be retained la the posgtMCioa of tint Cornmlssioner
of Internal Revenue for Ms orthefaryepanabjWe,
Which shall not be dnpliaated to any other person.-' JSmt
In all caaea where such stamp Is aaej, instead ofjhs^r
their writing the date thereon, the -said StatfpaWTMb*
affixed an the box, bottle, or package, that ig opeipbf Jfft
same, or tutor the contests thereof, foe said sMM^H
be efl'ectually destroyed} and todtflmlt there/*,ggp
stamptit hereinbeIceeproscrlood lathis act. AovJmBw
who shall frandulemly obtain or u?e ?njr of tiro Wmalil
stamp* or deaigns therefor, any any person Mlp&'flr
counterfeiting, or .catering or prpowtogtns forging, sreosaable
imitation ofthtfsaid lart mectlOMd stamp, or engraver
or printer who shall sell or gire away said stamper* aclliag
the same, or being- a merchant, broker, peddler,? jpmon
dealing, to whofe or in part, in similar goods, wsdflHK/
chandlae. manufactures, preperettoas, or axtfcles,
design ed^i'or^ilmilar objects or pnrpOw^Ua^tnflrtNk^Wr.
SS? of
be subject to ah the penalties, Ones, and forfeitures pre
scribed in the preceding secyon of this act. .
Sec. 157. And U it further enacted, That the Commissioner
of .Internal Revenue be, and he 4s hereby, authorized
to prescribe attehmethodior the canceUatotohfatf^ipf,
ss swhetUtfff lor or in additlon'to the method newpns
satted by
SS^^Mowtotanr^ittctoi. ee^aitiiSsa^S^WflSS
nle C, sad upon stamps of* nominal vatoe exoajOtog
twenty.five centti4?fell. ^5 '*-' ' *tr
Sec. 198. And be it further enacted, That any person or
persons wbo shall make, sign, or tome, or who shah cause
lu be nude, signed, or issued, any inotnunust, ood?*
ment, or paper ot say kind or description whatsoever?. ?t
shall accept, negotiate, or pay, or?aiue to be accepted} negotiated,
or paid, any bib of exchange, draft, or arfsfjor
promissory note, for^tfae^ paymem^matt^lrt^gjke ^
tent to evade th^provUioy o^!gjtc>^s^
tinder wfton hLgzsiiOT
farther, Tbit Hereafter, toafl ciim, where tab ptafy- mf
not affiled to ajiy Instrument required by the om iMMdna
and fifty-Aral section of AM act or June rtllrfrflK dfrtwfcaa
bOBdred aodatxtjr-lbur, or ttM?^MdQldjBUBdEedJUtaffBB> "
fixed^at ifieUme of matftng^lwfiiig^d^
ment^e^eo^ httllolpg, ^
TbfilTrtpel^d>afi^a^)m.io^d,
belbre^i^l^ofaccepdflJI^tLi name, place tiusreaptu. a
gulrJS^or Inland bills
inch stamp; and if any pcxvomSnH pay of n?fOU?ic,-i*
offer la payment, or receive or tafce Id payment, any such
draft or order, the person or persona so oceadlag (^<4 forfeit
the sum of two hundred dollars. JL-maMiSSK.
Sec. 160. Jlndbe it JvrtKer enacted, That DO stunp daty
shall be required on powers of attorney or oay.ofher paper
relating to applications for bounties, arrear*ges~'a^p?y,"~or
upon acKeta orcontraraor ingan^^CBuinitw toicaw
to'bS'lmuSf norw^y'cSflSle of tbe'recOrd ofl
fee*Or othor lnstrament pf writing, or of tfelKknoBrfcdfP
tnent or prnof thereof by attesting wltneeaw; nor to any
Indorsement of a negotiable instrument or. Ob any .warrant - I
bealre stamps, or atampe?pDper,-sreUam> or pnAwit ae
herein ^provided for, to amountsjyx ^lytoaaflfty Man,
foliowin* coouulMlonf namely: On amounts parcnased^u "
one lime of not less than fllty nor more Urna Are hundred
-? 4?\ *f" j?? . *