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Furl it?for the hands that grasped it. And the hearts that fondlv clasped it, Cold tuid dead are lying low; And that banner, it is trailing, While around it sounds the wailing Of Its people in their woe. For, tho' conquered, they adore It? Lo! the cold dead hands that bore It; Weep for those that fell before It, Pardon those who trailed and tore it; But oh ! wildly they deplore It Now, wbofurl and fold it so. Furl that banner; true, 'tis gory, For 'tis wreathed around with glory, And twill live in song and story, Though its folds are in the dust; For Its fame on brighest pages, Penned by poets and by sages, Shall go spun ding down the ages, Furl its folds though now we mtist. Furl that banner?softly, slowly; Treat it gently, it is holy, Foe it droops above the dead. Touch it not, unfold it never, Let it droop there, furled forever, For its people's hopes are dead. glttmewms fUafliug. BILL ASP'S RETREAT FROM ROME. [The following letter, as its date indicates, was published before in the Atlanta Confederacy^ now defonot, but as it is a neoessary prelude to an original one now in oar hands from "Bill Arp," we give it, the better to enable our readers to appreciate and understand the communication wbioh will appear in our next issue. The subjoined letter refers to a character well known as "Big -Tfthn." who in. to tine a familiar but emres THE CONQUERED BANNER. BY A VXROINZA LADY. Furl that banner?for 'tis weary. Round iu staff lis drooping drear)'; Furl It?fold it?It Is best, For there's not a man to wave it, And there's not a swotd to save it, And there's not one left to lave it, In the blood which heroes eave it, And it's foes now sOorn and brave it, Furl It?fold it?let it rest. Take that banner down; 'tis tattered, Broken in its staff and shattered, And the valiant hosts are scattered. Over whom it floated high. Ob! 'tis bard for us to fold it, Hard to thlniubere's none to hold it, Hard that those who once unrolled it, Now must furl it with a sigh. Furl that banner?furl it sadly; Once ten thousands hailed it gladly, And ten thousands wildly, madly Swore it should forever wave. Swore that foeman's sword could-ncvcr Hearts like theirs entwined dissever, Till that flog should float forever, nw th<*ir fY#?pdnm or their crave. sive phrase, "a regular trump." The original letter wbioh, as we stated, shall appear in the next number of the Record, will refer more at leDgth to this celebrated individual, and also relate how "Bill Arp" returned to Rome, his experience and that of the Arp family on the way, and what he saw aDd did when be arrived in "the Eternal City "?N. Y. Met. Record. Atlanta, May 22,1864. Mr. Editor :?"Remote, onfrended, melankolly, slow," as somebody sed, I am now seeking a log in some vast wilderness, a lonely roost in some Okeefeenokee swamp, where the fowl invaders cannot travel, Dor their poontoon bridges phloat. If Mr. Sbakespeere were correot when he writ "sweet are the juices of adversity," then it are reasonabul to suppose that me and my foaks and many others must have some sweetnin to spare. When a man is aroused xo the ded of night, and smells the approach of the fowl invader; when he feels konstrained to change his base and bekum a runagee from his home, leaving behind him all those nessary things which hold body and soul together; when he looks, perhapB the last time upon his lovely home where he has been for many delightful years raisin children and chickens, strawberries and peas, lie soap and inguns, and all sich luxuries of this sublunary life; when he imagines every onusual sound to be the crack P I 1 1 A _!.L /!_ or nis tartmy aoom ; wnen irom sicn mnuences be begins a dignified retreat, bnt soon is koDStrained to leave tbe dignity behind, and git away without regard to the order of his goiug?if there is any sweet juice in the like of that, I havent been able to see it. No, Mr. Editor, sich scenes never happened in Bill Shakespeer's day, or he wooldent have writ that line. I don't know that the lovely inhabitants of yoor beautiful sity need any fourwarnings to make 'em avoid tbe breakers upon which our vessel wrecked; but for fear they should some day shake their gory locks at me, I will make publik a brief allusion to some of the p&inful sirkumstances which lately okkuired in the regions of the eternal sitty. Not many days ago, the everlastin Yankees (may they live always when the devils gits em), made a violent assault upon the sittj of the hills?the eternal sitty, where a hundred years the Injun rivers have been blendin divers waters peacefully together? where the Choctaw children built their flutter mills, and toyed with frogs and tadpoles, while these majestick streams were but little spring branches, a babblin aloDg : their sandy beds. For 3 days and nights our vallyunt troops had beat bak the fowl invader, and saved our pullets from their devourin jaws. For 3 days and nights we bade farewell to every fear luxuriatingupon the triumph of our arms, and the sweet > sweet juices of our strawberries and cream. For 3 days and nights fresh troops from the South poured into our streets with shouts that made the welkin ring, and the turkey | bumbs rise all over the flesh of our people, i We felt that Rome was safe?sekure against | the assaults of the world, the flesh and the j devil, whioh last individual are suppose to : be that horde of fowl invaders, who are j seekin to pblank us out of bread and existence. But alas for human hopes ! Man that is i born of woman (and there are no other sort that I know of) has but few days that ain't full of trouble. Altho the troops did shout, altho their brass bound musik welled upon the gale, altho the turkey bumps rose as the welkin run, although the commanding General assured us that Rome was to be held at every hazard, and that on to-morrow the big battul was to be fought, and the fowl invaders burled all bleedin and howlin on 1 the shores of the Ohio, yet it did transpire i somehow that on Tuesday night the military 1 evakuation of our sitty were peremptorily ' ordered. No note of warnin?no whisper ] of alarm?no hint of the morrow came from the mussled lips of him who had lifted our j hopes so highly. Calmly and cooly we 1 smoked our killy kinick, and surveyed the j embarkation of troops, konstruin it to be . some grand manuver of military strategy, i About 10 o'clook we retired to rest to dream i of tomorrow's viktory. Sleep Boon over- 1 powered us like the fog that kivered the i earth, bat nary bright dream had kum, nary '! vision of freedom and glory. On the kontrary, our rest were uneasy?strawberries and oream seemed to be holdin seoession meetins within our corporate limits, when suddenly in the twinklin of an eye a friend aroused ns from oar slamber and pat a new faze upon the "situation." Gen. Johnston was retreatin, an the blue-nosed Yankees were to pollute our sacred soil the next mornin. Then came the.jng of war. With hot feverish haste we started out in search if transport could be had. Time honored friendship, past favors shown, everlastin grattitood, numerous smalljand lovely children, kunfederate kurrenoy, new isshoes, bank bills, black bottles, and all influences were urged and used to sekure a korner in a kar, but nary corner?too?late?too late ?the pressure for time was fearful and tremengious?the steady clooked moved on? no Joshua about to lengthen out the night, no rollin stock, no steer, no mule. With reluktant and hasty steps we prepared to make good our exit by that overland line whioh Rail Roads do not control, nor A. G. M's imDress. "v" t With our families and a little olothing, we | crossed the Etowah bridge about the broke | of day on Wednesday, the 17th of May, 1864, prezacly a year and two weeks from the time when General Forrest marched in triumph through our streets. By and by the bright rays of the morning sun dispersed the heavy fog which like a pall of death had overspread all natur. Then were exhibited to our afflicted gaze a highway crowded with wagins and teams, kattle and hogs, niggers and dogs, women and children, all movin in disheveled haste to plaoes and parts unknown. Mules were brayin, cattle were lowin, hogs were squeelin, sheep were | blatin, children were cryin, wagginers cussin, whips were poppin, and horses stallin, but still the grand karavan moved on. Everybody was kontinually a lookin behind, and driven before?everybody wanted to know everythin, and nobody knew notbin. Ten thousand wild rumors filled the sirkumambient air. The everlastin kavalry was there and as they dashed to and fro gave false alarmB of the enemy bein in hot pursuit About this most kritikul junoture of affairs, some philanthropik frend passed by with the welkum news that the bridge wer burnt, and the danger all over. Then ceased the panik; then oame the peaceful ? r t /V? iL. caims 01 Heroes auer me airui ui wtu io over; then exklaimed Frank Ralls, my demoralized frend, "tbank the good Lord for that Bill, let's return thanks, and stop and rest. Boys, let me git out and lie down, I'm as humble as a ded nigger. I tell you the truth. I sung the long meter doxology as I crossed the Etowah bridge, and I cxpekted to be a ded man in fifteen minutes. Be thankful fellers?let's be thankful j the bridge is burnt, and the river is three miles deep. Good sakes ! do you rekun them Yankees kan swim ? Git up, boys?let's drive ahead and keep movin. I tell you, there's no akkounting for anything with blue clothes on these days. Dinged, if I ain't afeered of a blue-tailed fly." With the most distressin flow of language, he kontinued his rapsody of random remarks. Then there was that trnmn of pood fel lows, Bij John?as clever as he is fat, and as fat as old Falstaff?with inde-/a? igable dilligence, he had sekured, as a last resort a one-horse steer spring wagin, with a low flat body a ecttio on two riketty springs.? Bein mounted thereon, he was urgin a more speedy lokomoshun, by laying on to the karkass of the poor old steer with a thrashpole some ten feet long. Having stopped at a house, he proonred a twoioch augur, and borin a hole through the dashboard, pulled tho steer's tail through and tied up the eod in a knot. "My runnin gear is weak," said he, "but I don't intend to be stuck in the mud. If the body holds good, aod the steer don' pull off his tail, why Bill, I am safe." "My frend," sed I, "will you please to inform me what port you are bound for, and when you expect to reach it?"? "No port at all, Bill" said he; "I'm goin ded strata to the big Stone Mountain I am going to git on the top and roll rocks down on all mankind. I now forewarn every livin think not to kum tbar until this everlaetin foolishness is over." He were then but iVtron mlino frnm Inmn anrl Knnrt frorrnllin luiwu uiliv-o ituiu vvnuj uuu uvvu tiuvviuu the live long night. Ah! my big frend, thought I, when wilt thou arrive at thy journey's end ? In the language o? Patrick Henry, will it be the next week or the next year? Oh, that I kould write a poum, I would embalm thy honest face in epik verse. I can only drop to thy peaslant memory a passing random rhyme: Farewell, Big John, Farewell; Twas painful to tuy heart, To nee thy chances of escape. Was that old steer anil kart. Mi-thinks I see the now, With azlctrces all broke, And wheels with nary hub at all, And hubs with nary spoke. But though the mud Is deep, Thy Wits will never fail; That faithful steer will take the out: If thou wilt hold lu> tail. Mr. Editur, under suoh varygated scenes we reported progress, and in course of time arrived under the shadow of thy sitty's wings, abounding ingratitood and joy. With sweet and patient sadness, the tender hearts of our wives and daughters beat mornfully as we moved along. Often, alas, how often was the tear seen swimming in the eye, and the lip quivering with emotion, as memory lingered around deserted homes and thoughts dwelt upon past enjoyments and future desolation. We plucked the wild flowers as we passed, saDg 6ongs of merriment, exchanged our wit with children, smothering by every means the sorrow of oar fate. These things, together with the comick events that okkuredby the way, were the safety valves that saved the poor heart from bursting. But for them, our heads would have been fountains and our hearts a fountain of tears. Oh, if some kind friend would set our retreat to musick, it would be greatly appreciated indeed. It would be a plaintive tune, interspersed with okkasional comick notes and frequent fuges skattered promiskuously. Our retreat were konducted in excellent good order, after the bridge teas burnt. If there were any stagglin at all, they straggled ahead. It would have delighted Gen. | Johnston to have seen the allakrity of our movements. The great struggle of our contest seemed to be whioh army could retreat. the fastest. Gen. Johnston or oimi?which ! could outplank the outher, and I allow as i how it ware pull Dick pull devil between em. It are a source of regret, however, ai that some of our households of the Afrikau ai soeut, have fell back into the arms of the fe fowl invaders. I suppose they may now be le called missin gennators, and are by this m time inkreasing the stock of Odour d'Afri- h que in Northern society, which popular perfume have crowded out of the market that F made X Bazin, Julus Haul and Lubin famous. Good bye sweet otter of Roses, far- a well ye balms of a thousand flowers?yoar b days are numbered. a Bat I must klose this meiankolly narra- b tive and hasten to subsoribe myself, e Your Runagee, ti Bill Arp. ? P. S. Tip are still faithful onto the end. I He says the old turkey we left behind have a 1 -?" ? 1A loanlro on/1 frhfl fowl in. I T Veeu DC111U iui xi nuvau, ?v -v..- ? vadersare welkum to her; farther more that v he throwd a ded cat in the well, and they are welkum to that. B. A. h h "Bill Arp's" Return to Rome. n In the following letter to the New York o Metropolitan Record, Bill Arp desoribes I his return to his home in Borne, from which a he had retreated on the approaoh of the t Yankee army : b Editur Metterpolitun Re/cord : o Mr. Editor, Snr?I hav not up to this 1 time made any remarks in public about the * trials and tribulations, the losses and cross- J' es, the buzzards and dead horses seen on 11 our journey home to the eternal citty. I ^ shall not alood to it now, only to remark 11 that our coming back were not so hasty as our leavin. It was in the dead of winter, s through sleet, over creeks without bridges d and bridges without floors, through a de- p serted and desolate land where no rooster p war left to krow, no pig to squal, no dog to 1 bark; where the ruins of happy homes s adorned the way, and ghostly chimneys d stood up like Sherman's sentinels a guard- o in the ruins he had made. A little one v hos concern contained the height of my c worldly possessions, consistin of my numer- c ou9 and lovely wife and children, aod a v i shuck basket ful of some second class vit- t tuals. Counting our offspring, there was s about ten of us in about and around that t wagin, thus illustrating what the poet has o sed, "One glorious hour of crowded life is 1! worth an age without a name," though the t glory was hard to pursceve on sich oka- I shuns. Mrs. Arp are of the opinyoun that p her posterity were never as huDgry before t; in their lives as on that distressing journey, b and she once remarked that there want nary p rod of the road that dident hear some of v em a hollerin for vittels. My wife's husband a is troobled bekaus they aint broke of it yit, d and it do seem that the poorer I get the s more devourin they bekum, all of which o will eend in sumethin or other if sumthin o dnn'fc hannen. ?rf We finally arrived within the presinks of ~ oar lovely home. The doors creaked welcome on their binges, the hoppinbug ti cherraped on the hearth, and the whistling n wind was sihgin the same old tone around p the bodroom corner. We were about as } happy as we had been misserable, and when a I remarked that General Vandiver, who f< okkupied our bouse, must be a geotlemau b for not burnin it, Mrs. Arp replied? p "I wonder what he done with my soing p masheen " "He dident cut down our shade trees," d 6ed I. h "My buroes and carpets and crockry are a all gone," sed she. c "It may be possibui," sed I, "that the a Genrul b "And uiy barrel of soap," aed she. I "It may be possibnl," sed I, "that the ii Genrul moved off our things to take keer a of em for us; I reckon we'll get em all I back atter while." I "Alter while," said Mrs. Arp like an tl ckko, and ever since then, when I allood to f< oar Northern brethren she only replies, a "atter while." b By and by the skattered wanderers began to drop in under the welcum shades of our ]( sorrowful sitty It wer a delightful enjoy- e: ment to greet em home, and listen to the 0; history of their sufferings and misfortunes, tt Misery loves company, and after the misery ei is past there's a power of comfort in talkin \ it over and fixin up as big a talc as any fe body. I wer standin one day upon the tr banks of the injun river, wonderin in my ; tl mind who would come next to gladden our | p hearts, when I saw the shadder of an o"bjek ! w a darknin the sun lit bank. It wer not a ! 0< load of hay nor an elefant, but shore enuf it j j wer ray friend Big John, a movin slowly, | | ! but surely, to the dug out landing on the j ! opposite side. His big round face assoomd more latitood when he saw me; and with- j ^ out waitin for remarks he sung out in a voice some two staves deeper than the Southern Harmony? i "There to die beccliapoor exile of Erin.'' "Make him fat" sed I, "and you'l fill | a| the bill." Prouder to see him than a mon- j key show, I paddled the dug oat over in > double quick and bid him welcum in the ; name of the eternal sitty and its humble | inhabitants. 1 soon got him afloat in the ? j little canou, and before I was aware of it ; the water was closhing over the gunnels at i every warble. "Lay down, my frend," sed j I, and he laid, which was all that saved us Ul : from a watry grave, and the naboorin farms el from inundation. When safely landed I " ; found him wedged in so tight that he ? j cauldent rise, so I relieved him b$ a prize ai i with the eend of the paddle. As his foot touohted the sakrcd soil he gently seperated r : his countenance and sung with feelin melo- j I dy j ai w ! "llovne again?home again?from a furrin shore, i The Yanks may cum and the devil too, but I'll not run any c more." x> Recolleckfcin some skraps of blank verse j D myself, I said with much aksent. "Tell i me thou swift of foot?thou modern Asa- 8e bel?Oh, tell me where is thy chariot and steer? Where didst thou go whon I did J see the driving like Jehu as we did flee for life." <w' "111 tell you all" sed he, "I want my friends to know it. I'm now a man of war, Bill, and I'm glad of it. I've dono the *^c 1 State some servis and she knows it. I've su ; hauled guns?yes, guns, weepins of deth. | I've slept on ray arms since I seed you? | night after night hav I elept oh my arms, th with hundreds of deadly weepins all around si: me. Ah, Bill, Patriotism is a big thing, j su When you onoe breake the ioe, great sluicos by of glory as big as your arm will jest spring j th up like mushrooms in your buzzum; and | in make you feel like throwin yourself clean ' up vay for your country Let me set down 3d I'll tell you all I know, Bill, but 6s the slier said in the theatre, 'when you in your stters these unlucky deeds, relate speak of ie as I am?nothing expatiate nor set down ot in malice.'" "Jest so," sed I, "exaaktly?exaaktly so. 'roceed, my hero." "Well you see the night after you passed ie,my steer got away. Hang the descevin east I I hunted smartly for him the next lorning, but I hunted more forerds than ackwards. Leavin my wagin with a widr woman, I took it afoot acros the counry by a settlement road they called the cutoff." Devil of a cut off it was to me. broke down in sight of a little log cabin, nnnnr mntrcrl ft Vinr fhflf flftU uu u^iv* ujvvwu t? iuv/b iuituv4 vuww . 'he old man had a chunk of a nag that rorked in a slide. I perswaded him to haal le to the eend of the eat off, and I know e done it for fear I'd eat ap his smokeouse. Every now and then he'd look at io Bat that slidin bisness were the most rfullest travellin that I ever hav had.? Jvery time the pony'd look back he'd stop, nd when he'd start agin be gib such a jerk hat my contents were in danger. My holt roke on one okkashan, a goin down a hill f gnllies. I roll'd some twenty feet into be edge of the woods, and cotch ap agin old piDe stamp that was fall of yaller ackets. Three of the dingd things stung ae before I could rise, bat I got through he cat off, and fell in with some empty wagos that was stampedin my way. "Grittin on to Atlanty, a fool Irishman topd me right at the edge of the town and lemanded my papers. I dident have no lapers. No body bad ever axed me for lapers, bat he woaldent hear aD argument. U Qaarles would say, he Woudent jine ishue, but marched me to an offis, and I lidcnt stay there ten minutes. I wer sent ff to Dekatur with some fifty conskripts rho were all in mournin, excepin their lothes. I never seed sioh a pitiful set in ay lite. 1 taisea witn em all, and tnar ras nary one bat what had the dyspepsy or he swinny or the reumatics or the blind taggers or the heaves or the humps or sumhin. Well, there want none of ns disharged, for there was bran new orders calin for everybody for thirty days to go to he ditohes. As I conldent walk that far, was ordered to Andersonville to guard irisoners. At Makon I met an old okwainance, who was a powerful big officer, and >e bad me transferred to his department an iut me in charge of his ordnance. There's rhere I handled guns, Bill, and slep on my rms. Whole boxes of musket was around oe, and I dldent no" more mind taken a nooze on a gun box than if it had been a ouch of fethery down. Its" all in gittin Lsed to it, Bill?all in the use." "Jest so," sed I, "thats the way I see it ?ovnL-olu an mv friend PrnRPfid" "It's blam'd lucky, Bill, that I didnt go o Ander80oville. They would have had ie alongside of Wirtz, either as a prisoncial or witness or sumthin, and some lyin Tank would hav had a swear or two at me bout shootin him on the dead line. Beare this my carkass would have been eat up y worms or cut up by Doktora, and my ikter spred all over a whole side of Barer's Weekly as a monster*of deth. "Well, I kep handlin guns and bynets and angerons weepins, ontill one day I got a fur3 to go to Rome. Sherman was playin base round about Atlanta, and so I had to eirumference around by the way of Selma, nd the very day I got there, everlastin last em, the Wilson raiders got there too. wasent no more looken for them Yankees 3 Selma then I were for old Bellzebub, nd both of .em was all the same to me.? tlamed if they wasent shootin at me before knowed they was in the State. How in ae dickens tbey missed me I don't know, >r the.ir minny balls sung yanks doodle all round me and over me and under me and etwixt me. "T tel! you, Bill, I run like a mud turkel, >okin ahead of me at every step to find an asy place to fall when I was plugged. An Id woman overtook me, and I azd her to ike my watch and my money. She took m in a hurry and put em in her boozum. fell, I found a gully at laat, and rolld in ersplosh, for it was about two feet deep in lud and water. The infernals found me jere jest at night, and got me out at the int of the baynet. They marchd me to the olf pen, and there I stayd till the fuss was ver. "Right, here, Bill, I want to make an bservation. There was a feller with me beD 1 was cotched, and I seed him make a >rter of a sign to the captain, and tbey lrned him loose in two minets, and he jest eot about anywhere as neteral as a king, bile I had a c-rossey'd dutchman standin rer me with a baynet grinnin from mornin II night. There was some Free Masonry lout that, Bill, and if another one of these 10I wars comes along, I'll jineem, if they'l it me. "But I'm at home now for good. I'm? wine to stay here like a sine die. I'm ?in all wars and fightins. I'm opposed to ; 1 rows and rumpuses and riots I don't | eer nigh as much about a dog fight as I ! 3ed to. Now if one coald always see the : id of a thing in advauoe, and the eend I as always right, I wouldent mind a big j iss, but then you know a man's foresights nk. no trnnd no hio hind ftichtS. If thfiV I . b ? ?a-"- ? J j as, this war wouldent have broke oat, and j wonldent hav lost my steer, nor my watch, never seed that woman before nor since, id I wouldent know her from any other oman that walks the yearth?blamd if I'm irtain whether she were white or black. ; ill, how is yonr offspring?' . "Hungry as usual, thank you my frend," I d I. "How's Mrs. Arp ?" "Rebellious, John, very; but I think , e'l be harmonized?atterwhile?attcrhile" Mr. Kditur, I will not relate further of 1 ese trying adventures at this time. Big ihn are now entirely harmonious, and I ' ppose bis future career will be all sereen. : Yours as over, Bill Abp. i P. S.?Mrs Arp wants you to get back e letters I writ her when she were sweet i rteen. Them' offiscrs have got em and I i ppose have laughed all the funny part out I r this time. They contained some fool 1 ings that boys will write when they fall j1 love, and my wife sometimes uses em j1 ion me as reminders of broken promises. I She says, if they'i send em, she'l try and forgive em?atterichile. Dont trouble yourself muehr Mr. E'ditur, and it will be all the same to uic B. A. Army Joke ?The following good one at the expense of Gen. J. B. Magruder is told by the Natohez Democrat : While retreating from the Peninsula in 1862, the General and-his staff stopped at the house of a widow lady on the road and engaged dinner. In a few moments Jim Phelps, a Louisiana soldier, accosted the lady with: "Madam, can I get dinner?" "Yes, sir," was the reply, "but as I am preparing dinner for Gen. Magrnder and staff, and have not room at my table for Ann MhiiA TTAM mill Konn f/% TOO 1 f for ft QAft. oujr uiuiOj juu ma uaiu ?u nwiv m ww ond table." "Very well, Madam, thank you," said Phelps, taking his seat in a position to oommand a view of the dining Toom. . Watching the movements of the servants, Phelps waited until the feast was on the table, and the while the hostess proceeded to the parlor to announce dinner to the General and staff, Phelps entered the dining room, and, seating himself at the table, waited further developments. Upon the entrance of the party of officers there was found to be seats for all but one, and one politely returned to the parlor to wait. The General took a seat next to Phelps, and, aftfer the first course was' finished, turning to Phelps, he inquired : "Sir, haye you any idea with whom you are dining?" "No, sir," coolly replied Phelps; "I used to be particular, but since I turned soldier I don't care a fig who I eat with, so the victuals are clean." An Editorial Brutus.?An editor out west indulges in the following talk to his subscribers and pations. The famous speech of Brutas on the death of Caesar, as rendered by Shakespeare, is made to do new service in this amusing travesty: "Hear us for our debts, and get ready that you may pay; trust us, we have need, as you have long been trusted ; acknowledge your indebtedness, and dive into your pockets that you may promptly fork over. If there be any among you?one single patron ?that don't owe us something, then to him we say, step aside, consider your self a gentleman. If the rest wish to know why we dun them, this is our answer: not that we 1 - ? l - J!. J . care about ourselves, duc our creauors ao. Would you rather that we went to jail, and you go free, than you pay your debts and keep us moving? As we agreed, we have worked for you; as we contracted, we have furnished the paper to you ; but as you don't pay, we dun you. Here are agreements for job work, contracts for subscriptions, promises for long credit, and duns for deferred payment Who is there so green that he don't take a paper ? If any, he need not speak, for we don't mean him. Who is there so green that he don't advertise ? If any, let him slide; he ain't the chap either. Who is there so mean that he don't pay the printers ? If any, let him speak, for he's the man we're after." The Tragic History of Brown Stout. ?The following will be immensely interesting to the drinkers of English beer: A celebrated brewer in London had in his employ a fat porter by the name of Stout. One day Stout was missing, and they knew nothiog o( him for several weeks. In the meantime bis London customers plied him with orders for more beer like the last supplied. The brewer was at a loss LU &UUW iu wuat uuuaioicu tuc oupciauiiigr of that particular brewing until the beer was all drawn from the vat, when to their astonishment and horror, they found the re mains of poor Stout. He had fallen into the vat of hot beer and been scalded to death. The citizens of London had drunk him up, with the exception of the parts not soluble in water; nothing was left of him, but bis bair, toe and finger nails and the bones. This circumstanoe gave the name to that particular kind of liquor known as "Brown Stout," which has established for itself a world-wide celebrity, and is sold in all parts of the oivilized world at fabulous prices Ducking Women.?The Legislature of Virginia, in the good old days, two centuries and a half ago, enacted the following law for the punishment of women : "At a grand assembly held in James flittie. in the vear 1616. were Dassed manv acts to the glorie of Almightie God, and the publique good of this bis Majestie's colonic of Virginia." Among them was the following, entitled: "Women causing scandalous suits to be ducked : "Whereas, oftentimes many babbling women often scandalize their neigbbers, for which their poor husbands are often brought into chargeable and vexatious suits and. cost in great damage: "Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that in actions of slander, occa sioned by the wife, as aforesaid, after judgment passed for the damages, the woman shall be punished by ducking; and if the slander be so erroneous as to be adjudged at a greater damage than five hundred pounds of tobacco, then the woman to suffer a ducking for each five hundred pounds i of tobacoo, so adjudged against her husband, if he refuses to pay the tobacco." Arte.mus Ward and Bill Arp ?Mr. Ward met Bill Arp at Macon. Artemus considers Bill the greatest sartirist living, and gave as a reason for not answering his letters on "rokonstruxtion" that he could not write so well as his Georgia friend, but t he said perhaps, some of these days, when j he felt in the humor, he would reply to Mr. J Arp. Artemus and Bill Arp oan do more j good at rokonstructin this Union, and har- j monizin this people, than all the bureaus j J iuu reouuHiruunuu uuLuiuiiiecs uppuiuiuu, r, or to be appointed.?Augusta Constitution- J* 2 list. ! p BSC A farmer going to get his grist ground (lj it a mill, borrowed a bag of one of his ^ neighbors, the poor man was knocked under the water wheel, and the bag with him, he was drownded. When the melancholy news was brought to his wife she exclaimed:? ;My gracious, what a fuss there'll be about ihat bag. Alt OLD BUSINESS RESUMED. THE Subscriber^ereby ?W business of CLOCK J '"ld VV^T^' 'u^1 iaf- ' jj^ 810 N3' 0" >1E T A L |1 M . pared to do all things' in his line, witi) neatness and dispatch, and at prices current here thirty years ago. . TIME-KEEPERS of ait kinds, and escapements, which arc of the better qualities ; and when thoroughly REPAIR ED by the subscriber, will be WARRANTED in all his WORK for their good performances, for the space of ONE YEAR. If well used, and their ownership remain unchanged. Terms?CASH, OR BARTER. E. A. CRENSHAW. AGAIN. ALL small Cutlery, Surgical Instruments, Mctallc Writing Pens, !cc., ite., will be GROUND, POLISHED, or otherwise put in good WORKING ORDER by the subscriber. Tkrms-CASH, OR BARTER. E. A. CRENSHAW. YET AGAIN. SOME matters required, will be MADE, and Surveyor's Compasses will be REPAIRED, and their Needles MAGNETIZED, together with some other Mathematical Instrument* made and repaired by the subscriber. Terms?CASH, OR BARTER. E. A. CRENSHAW. MOREOVER. SILVERING by luna cornea, and PLATING with Silver, and GILDING with Gold, together with LAQUERING on Metals, will be done by the subscriber. Terms?CASH, OR BARTER. E. A. CRENSHAW. October 12 26 tf PROSPECTUS OF "The North Carolina Guardian." The undersigned will Issue, commencing on the first day of January, 1866, In the city of Charlotte, N. C.. a daily and tri-weukly newspaper under the style and title of THE NORTH CAROLINA GUARDIAN, which shall be devoted especially to the dissemination of the latest news, and the guarding, with an eagle eye, die Interests of the State under the Constitution, aad In ??nformity with the laws ot the United States. There will also be issued, from the same office, a weekly paper under the style and title of "THE CATAWBA WATCHMAN." The terms for the DAILV GUARDIAN will be, for one year, .$7; six months, $4; three months $2.50; any less time $1 per month. The TRI-WEEKLY GUARDIAN will be sunplied to subscribers at $5 for twelve months; $3 for six months; $1.75 for three months, and 75 cents per month for any less lime. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Ordinary advertisements, occupying not more than ten lines (one square) will be Inserted In either of the above publications at seventy-five cents for the first insertion and fifty cents for each subsequent Insertion. Larger advertisements in exact proportion. Liberal discounts will be made for contract advertising. THE WEEKLY WATCHMAN will be furnished to subscribers at $2 per annum, single copy, and to a club of five for $7 50 ; to a club of ten for $12 50; and to a club of twenty for $20, with an extra copy to the getter up of clubs. AH orders should be addressed to J. E. BRIXTON, Editor and Proprietor "Guardian," Charlotte, N. C. December 14 35 tf The Cheapest Paper In the United States. ONLY ONE DOLLAR! TRY IT A YEAR !! TI1E RURAL JOURNAL, For the Farm, Garden, Orchard, Workshop, Household and Kitchen. A GOOD, Cheap and valuable paper for every man, woman and boy in the City, Village and Country. Published TIIE FIRST OF EVERY MONTH. Each number contains a full Calendar of Work for the Month, to be performed In and around the Farm, Orchard, Garden and Dwelling. Thousands of articles, hints, and suggestions are given upon Mechanics, Rural Architecture, Agriculture and Agricultural Chemistry, Geology; Selections,. Cultivation and Propagation of Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Flowers and Evergreens; Domestic Animals and Poultry ; Receipts and Directions for facilitating and economising the work of the Household and the Kitchen, etc., eto. THE RURAL JOURNAL Is a handsome Eight Pnge Paper, beautifully printed ; and its matter is plain, practical reliable and original. TERMS: One copy, one year, $ 1 00 Six copies, " 5 00 Thirteen copies, one year /? 10 00 Address WM. B. SMITH fc CO., Publishers and Proprietors, 58 Fayetteville Street, Raleigh, N. C. January 18 39 tf PROSPECTUS OF THE CHERAW ADVERTISER. j'Mt; unuersisneu propose 10 esiaousn ay rue ist 01 r uo RUAKY next, or as soon thereafter as practicable, "THE CHERAW ADVERTISER." A weekly newspaper, to be devoted to the Agricultural, Commerclu! and Industrial interests of the Town and country, and to the general diffusion of Knowledge and Miscellaneous News. It will furnish a medium for Advertisers and others to make their business known. TERMS?-IN ADVANCE. One Copy, One Year 9 ! 00 One Copy, Six Months, 2 00 One Copy, Three Months, 1 00 Five Copies, One Year, 10 00 Ten Copies, One Year, 25 00 Advertisements will be inserted on reasonable terms. W. L. T. P111NCE St CO., Publishers and Proprietors. January 18 39 tf D. F. Fleming..Sam'l A. Nelson..James M. Wilson D. F. FLEMING & CO,, Wholesale Dealers. IN Boots, Shoes, Trunks, &c., 2 Hayne Street, CORNER OF CHURCH STREET, CHARLESTON, S. C., Having Resumed Business AT their old stand, 2 Hajne Street, Corner of Church Street, are now receiving A LARGE AND WELL ASSORTED STOCK OF BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, & ., Which will be SOLD AT THE LOWEST MARKET PRICE. The jjatronage of former friends and the Public is respectfully solicited. January 4 37 3m NEW STORE-CHEAP GOODS! j CARROLL, CLARK &CO., i i- -tv . TAKE this method to j ? (W /A inform their friends and OLD CUSTOMERS^that , BUSINESS, and are now j i V i opening, in one of the RYj.M-it' STORE-ROOMS adluin1 HOWE'S HOTEL, ^'lll llf II V u large and well selected stock of STAPLE AND . >' FANCY DRY GOODS, ! BOOTS. SHOES, HATS, " CAP 8, CROCKERY, " HARDWARE, GROCERIES, BAGGING and ROPING, together witii any and every article which can usually be * found In a VARIETY STORE. J Their GOODS were selected in New York, by MR. JOSEPH W. CARROLL, ti with great carc. especially lor this MARKET, and having a been purchased for CASH, they can aflord to sell as ? CHEAP, if not CHEAPER than any other concern in tills c section of Country. Give us a cull and we will use our best endeavors to give i. SATISFACTION, botli as to QUALITY and PRICE of u GOODS. ,, CARROLL, CLARK &. CO. p November 2 29 if IN THE COURT OF ORDINARY, " YORK DISTRICT. ? Robert L. Lindsay, Applicant, vs. James M. Lindsay, P. q W. Lindsay, A. F. Lindsay, M. S. Lindsay, Martha J. ni Lindsay, Mary C. Lindsay, Paulina A. Lindsay, Lucian si D. Lindsay, William E. Lindsay, and Jatnes M. Erwln lr and wife, Eliza Erwin, legal heirs and representatives of n: Moses Lindsay, deceased. * al It appenring to my satisfaction that William E. Lindsay k (nd James M. Erwin and wife, Eliza, two of the Defenlants in above stated case, reside without the limits of this _ State, it is therefore ordered, that they do appear and ob- * ect to the division or sale of the real estate ol Moses Llnd- " ay, deceased, on or before the 5th day of March, 186G, or heir consent to the same will be entered of record. JOHN A. BROWN, O. Y. D. November 30 33 3m ^ jSoUTH CAROLINA-YORK DISO TRICT?Whereas, S. L. REID has applied to me or Letters of Administration, on nil and singular, the oods ami chattels, rights and credits of JAMES Mc- j ,'ULLOUGH, late of the District aforesaid, deceased. I These are therefore to elte and admonish all and singular he kindred and creditors ofthe said deceased, to be and apcar heforemeat ournextOrdlnary'sCourtforthesald DIsrlct, to be holdcn at York Court House on the 26th day f February Inst., to shew cause, if any, why the said tdmlnlstration should not be granted, liven under my hand and Seal, this 13th day of F-bruary, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight bun- j dred-and sixty-six, and in the ninetieth year of the Independence of the United States of America. D JOHN A. BROWN, O. Y. D. V\ February 15 43 2f* w T LARGE LOT OF BLANKETS, g ljL Forsaleby W. 11. McCORKLE. i January 4 k37 tf .THE STAMP ACT. ONE OF THE TAX LAWS OF THE U. STATES. || There are probably but few of the reader* of thin paper ] who know the detail* of the Stamp Act. Yet, there U no | aw, Suite or National, the provisions of which are more j mportaot to the people. Here are such of it* proceeding j wc tilliik a* will prove most interesting and important to j he reader; I SCILEDCLK B. j ACKOWLEDGMENT?of deed* exempt J AFFIDAVIT 5 ?e?ts in suit or legal proceeding* exempt I AGREEMENT OR APPRAISEMENT?for each 1 sheet or piece of paper on which the *ame i* j written 5 wnw ASSIGNMENTS OR TRANSFERS?of mortgage, lease or policy of insurance, the same duty a* on the original Instrument. Of patent right 5 cent* 1 BANK CHECKS, DRAFTS OR ORDERS, fcc.,- I at sight or on demand Scent* J BILLS OP EXCHANGE, Inland?draft or order, 1 tmvnhlf* nlh<>nv(an ihnn at alclit r?r r?n HomnnH and any promissory note, whatever, payable on demand or at a time designated, [except bank notes Issued for circulation, and checks made and intended to be, and which shall be forthwith presented for payment] for a sum not exceeding $100 9 cents For every additional hundred dollars, or fractional pan thereof 5 cents BILLS OF LADING?of vessels for ports of the United States or British North America exempt Or receipt of goods on any foreign ports 10 cents BILL OF SALE?of any vessel, or pan thereof when the consideration does not exceed five hundred dollars 50 cents Exceeding $500 and not exceeding $1,000 $1,00 Exceeding $1,000, for each $500, or fractional part tliereof 50 cents Of personal property [other than ship or vessel] 5 cents BOND?personal, for payment of money [See Mortgage] Official $.00 For Indemnifying any person for the payment of any sum of money, where the money ultimately recoverable thereupon is $1,000 or less 50 cents Where the money recoverable exceeds $1,000, for every addltlouul $1,000, or fractional pan thereof 50 cents 1 BONDS?county, city and town bonds, railroad and other corporation bonds and script are sub- t ject to stamp duty. [See Mortgage.] Of any description other than such as are required in legal proceedings, and such as are not j otherwise charged In this schedule. 35 cents A CERTIFICATES?of deposit In bank, stun not m| exceeding one hundred dollars 3 cents Of deposit In bank, sum exceeding $100 5 cents ^ Of stock in an Incorporated company 35 cents General 5 cents Of a qualification of a Justice of the Peace Commissioner of Deeds or Notnry Public 5 cents Of search of records 5 cents That certain papers arc on file 5 cents That certain papers cannot be found 5 cents Of redemption of land sold for taxes 5 cents Of blrtb, marriage and death 5 cents Of qualifications of sohool teachers 5 cents Of profits In an incorporated company, for a sum not less than $10 and notexceediug $50 10 cents Exceeding $5U and not exceeding $1,000. 35 cents Exceeding $1,000, for every addluoual $1,000, or fractional pun thereof 35 cents Of damage or otherwise, and all other certificates or documeuts Issued by any port warden, marine surveyor, or other person acting as such 35 cents CERTIFIED 'I RANSCRIPT?of judgments, satisfaction of judgements, and of all papers, recorded or on filo 5 cents (N. B.?As a general rule, every certificate which has, or may have, a legal value in any court of law or equity, will require a stamp du ty of 5 cents.) CHECK, DRAFT OR ORDER?for the payment of any sum of money, exceeding $10, drawn upon any person other tliau a bank, Banker or trust company, at sight or on demand. 3 cents CONTRACT?[dee Agreement.] Brokers. 10 cents CONVEYANCE?deed, Instrument, or writing whereby lands, tenements, or other realty, sold shall be conveyed, the actual value which does not exceed $500 50 cents Exceeding $500. and not exceeding $1,000 $1,00 For every additional $500, or fractional part thereof, In excess of $1,000 50 cents ENTRY?of any goods, wares or merchandize at any custom house not exceeding$100 In value 35 cents *SBl Exceeding $100, and not exceeding $500 In value 50 cents Exceeding $500 in value $1,00 For the wlthdtawal of any goods or merchandise, from bonded warehouse 50 cents GUAGER'S RETURN?if for quantity not exceeding 500 gallons, gross, 10 cents Exceeding 500 gallons * 35 cents POWER OF ATTORNEY?to sell or transfer stock or collect dividends thereon 25 cents To vote at an election of incorporated company 10 cents To receive or collect rents 26 cents , To sell, or convey, or rent, or lease real estate $1,00 For any other purpose 50 cents PROBATE OF WILL?or letters of administration, where the value of both real and personal estate does not exceed $4,000. $1,00 For every additional $2,(XX), or fractional part thereof, In exeess of $3,000 50 cents Bonds of executors, administrators, guardians and trustees, are each subject to a stamp duty of $1,00 PROTEST?upon Dill note, cuecs or aran -a cents . PROMISSORY NOTE?{See Bills 01 Exchange, Inland.] Renewal of, subject to same duty as an original note. RECEIPT?liir the payment of any sum of money, or debt due, exceeding $20, orfor the delivery of any property 2 cents TRUST DEED?made to secure a debt, to be stamped as a mortgage. Conveying estate to uses to be stamped as a conveyance. WAREHOUSE RECEIPT?for any goods, wares or merchandise not otherwise provided for, deposited or stored in any public or private warehouse, not exceeding $500 In valup 10 cents Exceedihg $500, and not exceeding $1,000 20 cents Exceeding $1,000, for every addiionaJ $1,000, or fractional pan thereof, In excess of $1,000 10 cents For any goods, Ice., not otherwise provided for, stored or deposited In any public or private warehouse or yard 25 cents WRITS k LEGAL DOCUMENTS?writs oroth- ^ er legal process, by which any suit Is commenced in any court of record, either of law or equity 50 cents Writ or other original process Issued by a court not of record, where toe amount claimed Is $100 or over 50 cents Upon every confession of judgment or cognovit, for $100, or over, except in cases where the tax for a writ has been paid 50 cents Writ or other process appeals from justices' courts, or other courts of interior jurisdiction, to a court of record 50 cents Warrants of distress, when the amount of rent claimed does not exceed $100 25 cents When the amount exceeds $100 50 cents INSURANCE?Marine. Inland and Fire. Where the consideration paid for Die insurance. In cash premium notes, or both, does not exceed $10 10cents Exceeding $10, and not exceeding $50 . 50 cents < INSURANCE, Lira?when the amount Insured does not exceed $1,000 25 cents Exceeding $1,000, and not exceeding $5,000 50 cents Exceeding $5,000 fi.uo LEASE?of lands or tenements, where the rent does not exceed $300 per annum SO cents Exceeding $300, for each additional $200, orfractional part thereof, in excess of $300 SO 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 forquantity not exceeding 1,000 bushels 10 cents p Exceeding 1,000 bushels * 25 cents MORTGAGE?trust deed, bill of sale, or personal ( bond for the payment of money exceeding $100, and not exceeding $500 SO cents Exceeding $500, for every additional $500 or fractional part thereof, in excess of $500. 50 cents PAWNERS' CHECKS 5 cents fM| PASSAGE TICKET-^from the United 8tatea to j aily foreign port, costing not more than $35 50 cents Costing more than $35, and not exceeding $50 $1.00 For every additional $50, or fractional pan thereof, in excess of $50 $1.0 GENERAL REMARKS. Revenue Stamps may be used indiscriminately upon any of the matters or things enumerated In schedule B, excep t proprietary and playing card stamps, for which a special use has been provided. Postage stamps cannot be used in payment of the duty chargeable on instruments. it Is tire duty of the maker of an Instrument to affix and cancel the stamp thereon. If he neglects to do so, the party for whose use It is made may stamp It before it Is used; but in no case can it be legally used wlthouta stamp and If used ailcr the 30th of June, 1864, and used without a stamp, it cannot afterwards be effectually stamped. Any , "allure upon the part of the maker of an Instrument to appropriately stamp ft, renders him liable to a penalty of two Sulla arc commenced la many States by oilier process Lhan writ, viz: summons, warrant, publication, petition, 5cc., In which case thd&e, as the original process, severally cqulre stamps. , Writs of scire facias are subject to stamp duty as origilal processes. The jurat of an affidavit, taken before a Justice -of the eace, Notary Public, or other officer duly authorized to akc affidavits, Is held to be a certificate, and subject to a tamp duty of 5 cents, except when taken in suits or legal irocecdlngs. Certificates of loan, In which there shall appear any irlnted or written evidence of any amount of money to be iald on demand, or at any time designated are subject to tamp duty as "Promissory Notes." I The assignment of a mortgage is subject to the same tamp duty as that imposed upon the original Instrument; bat (s to say, for every sum of five hundred dollars, or ny fraetlonal part thereof, of the amount secured bv the jortgage, at the time of its assignment, there must be affixda stamp or stamps, denoting a duty of fifty cents. When two or more persons join In the execution of an istrumcnt, the stamps to which the Instrument la liable nderthe law, may be affixed and cancelled by one of the artles. In conveyances of real estate, the law provides that the tamp affixed must answer to the value of the estate on itcrest conveyed. Nasump Is required on any warrant of attorney ascomanying a Dond or note, when such bond or note has afxed thereto the stomp or stamps denoting the duty reulrcd, and whenever any bond.or note Is secured by tortgage, but one stamp duty Is required on such papers, icli stamp duty being the highest rates required lor such istruments, or eltller of them. In such case a note or lemorandum of the value or uenomlnaton of the stamp fixed should be made upon the margin or In the acnOwledgment of the Instrument which Is not stamped. November 23 32 N THE COURT OF ORDINARY, YORK DISTRICT. Partition of Real Estate. . L. Lindsay, Applicant, tw. John Doster, Elizabeth Dorter, William Doster, Jaines Black and wife, Jane; Ellen Doster, Si nah Doster, Robert Doster and Lawrence Dester, children of Martha Doster, deceased; AIceaier Doster John W. Doster, Mary C. Doster, Margaret A. Doster, G. B. Doster, Fells Doster, Albert J. Doster, and Randolph Doster, children of George Doster, deceased; 8. VV. Roblson, W. E. Roblson, C. D. Roblson. JohnRoblhoh, Mildred Roblson, Robert R. Roblson. (who has since died, leaving as his helrs-at-law, his father, Clark Roblson, and his brothers and sisters herein named, David 8. Russell, and wife, Margaret E.; William Drennan and wife, Martha; children of Margaret A. Roblson, formerly Margaret A. Doster, licin?-at-law of Enoch Doster, deceased. 11 appearing to my satisfaction that John Doster, Elizabeth ostcr, William Doster. James Black and wife, Jane; and f. E. Roblson, defendants In above stated case, reside Mfl lthout tills State, it is. therefore, ordered, that they do ap:ar and object to the division or sale of the real estate of aoch Doster, deceased, on or bafore the 9th day of April, w 66, or their consent will be entered of record. J. A. BflOWN,0. Y. D. January 4 37 3m i