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The Republic of Jones. ;
iFrom the New Orleans Pkaynne. July lTth.]
The County of Jones, in the Sfcte of
Mississippi, "through which Leaf River :
and Taliahala run, without bringing much
fertility with them, is known for tne pov- i ;
erty of its so^l and the independence of '
its people, ill our younger uays aw ?ub j
called the "Free State of Jones," from l
the absence of any " human chattels" or j |
any other property restraints npon its j <
k its people, They were wholly indifferent i j
to the judgments of the courts, for they ! j
bad no jail, except a log-pen, without a i
lock to its door or roof npon it, and as for '
pecuniary penalties, they defied them. | j
We heard last year, indeed, that Jones '
bad seceded from the Confederacy, and |
that they had quite a force guarding their , ,
territory against all incursion. We had supposed
that by this time they had been j
} reduced to terms, but learn by tbe fol- 3
r lowing ccorrespondence in the Katchez <
Courier that the Republic still maintains <
its independence. The editor of the j
Courier, who a year ago was at Jackson, j
w Hiss., says: ]
' "Paroled men were then frequently (
reporting to the commanding officer at
r* that, post, and when asked where they \
bailed from, their reply was that they had
been taken prisoners in Jones County and :
paroled. As conclusive evidence of the j
fact, they generally exhibited a parole,
written upon birch bark? pajer being i
scarce in that county. They also represented
an organized community in Jones,
determined to resist the Confederate con- '
acript act. An armed force was sent .
Awainst them, and we had all this time !
supposed that the little Jones democracy 1
had been broken up, but our correspon- J
dent writes differently. He represents the :
people in the height of prosperity, and j s
their army and navy complete, seeking to *
cultivate and enjoy the arts of peace. We j
are not of those who believe the Republic
of Jones can long survive. What the , J
Confederates do not awiorb, owing to its
interior location, will not be worth much j
to any one.
4,4'lie correspondent says that the Con- ; J
federaey has declared war against the j \
.Republic, and sent an army under Col. j k
3t*ury, from Mobile, to 4 crush the rebel- c
Jiou.' The Republic, which has a tegu- |s
lar government, both civil and military, ; '
immediately' prepared to act on the de- j :
Jensive?raising an army under the com- j
snand of Major Robinson, Commander-in- ' |
Chief of the Armies of the Republic of I 4
Jones. The belligerents met; a desper- j
ate battle ensued, in which the armies of
the new Republic were victorious, baring \
killed, wounded, and captured many of A
the Confederates; the jremain^^ under ?
their gallant commander, ingioiiously *
:fled. . ]
44 The following is a copy of a dispatch
sent by the Commander-in-Chief of the <
forces to his Honor the Secretary of War ,
for the Repul lie of If ones: ^
44 4 HeadouaHters Fobces of the j i
Republic, in the Field, Jan. 27, '64. f | c
" * To the Hon. A. C. Williams, Secretary
of War : j t
44 4 Sin :?We met the forees of the in- i v
vader on the evening of the 26tli inst., at , g
Cross Roads. After an engagement, of !l
?ght hours' duration we broke his center, f
when he tied in confusion; on the field o
we dptured many prisoners and several fi
pieces of artillery. (hir loss was slight. | n
' ! have the honor to be, respectfully, b
44 4R. ROBINSON.' tl
" After this hard-fought battle an ar- i]
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rnistice was made. Ministers were ap- J
pointed to confer with the ' so-called j
Confederate States.' Propositions for,
peace were entered into, but declined by
the Confederate States. A cartel for ex- '
change of prisoners was offered by the
Republic, which was also declined. All |
prospects of an amicable adjustment j
ceased, the Ministers of the Republic re- 1
turned to their capital fully convinced
that the Republic had no other alterna- j
tive but to prepare for war. Their Con- j
gress having met. a lengthy debate took'i
place, the question in debate: 'Proposi-'
tions to form an alliance with the United
States/ which was opposed by Mr. Billing,
on the ground that the position of
the United States in regard to the question
of secession had been clearly defined,
in her war with the 4 so-called Confederate
States.'
"Congress at once declared that it
would be a needless expenditure of time."
An act was unanimously passed ordering1#
ill persons, male and female, who denitfa j
their inalienable right of secession, to.l
leave the Republic at once, on pain oil
being punished as a spy.
"No provisions having been made foir
the exchange of prisoners, they wer*
paroled. The following is a true copy 01
ii parole :
"'Headquarters Forces 1
Of the Republic, Feb. 2,1804. f
"'I, Ben Johnson, do solemnly swear
that I will not aid or assist the enemies of *
said republic in any way whatsoever during
the war, unless sooner discharged.
3o help me God.
"'BEN JOHNSON.
" 'Sworn and subscribed before me
this 2d dav of February, 1864. i
Wm. Armstrong, Capt. and A. A. G. 1
"To many this may seem highly '
wrought, but nevertheless it is true,
lumbers of deserters hying congregated
in the swamps of Jones Couuty, deter- <
mined to form a government for them* *
selves. Col. Maury, with a force, was
sent over to disband them, but they ]
ought desperately, and in their strouglolds
defied the Colonel and his forces, 1
tilling and wounding and capturing many
)f his men."
So the Free State of Jones yet main- j
ains its ancient independence.
The Fighting Sixth at Washington.
A correspondent of the Boston Herald
relates the following incident:
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" In the city during this time the ex- j
ritement was gradually becoming general. ,
Pew people until Monday night, 10th ]
nst., realized the presence of a large |
:'orce of rebels immediately in front of t
;he city. The President, Secretary Stan- ,
on, General Halleck, General Augur and ,
several other general officers were keenly |
dive to the emergency, and activity could
ye seen on every hand. Riding down to
he river to see the landing of the heroic
>1<1 Sixth Corps that had come up from ,
;he Army of the .Potomac to our relief, I ]
loticed tfte President and Secretary Stan- i
on both on the wharf and consulting ]
vitli the officers of the Corps. In a brief 3
;ime these veteran troops passed up ;
Seventh street through the city amid ]
rheers and the waving of flags, and were <
toon at the front?for the front was not (
m hour's march oft'. As illustrative of
lie don't-care-?tiveness of the Sixth
Jorps boys, who have been in so many 1
lard-fought battles, I cite an incident, g
Stepping up to some of them I inquired. ?
Boys, where are you going V' ' To see <
lie Rebs,' they replied unconcernedly,
ind in turn asked what rebels were in j
ront, I told them Swell's troops. 'Good,' i
;aid one, ' is the old fellow in jtosishi
Sot exactly understanding the army ver- i
lacular, I solicited an explanation of
jiosish.' 'O, in intrenchments,' said
me. I told them that Ewell was not in j
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posi.sil. >? t-'il, 11ICL1, 111CJ xcpucu,
we'll just wipe out old Ewell before
aps.' Feeling a little personal interest 1
u seeing old Ewell ' wiped out' I rode >n
to Fort Stevens. i
"It was an hour before sundown, and <
he landscape looked most lovely. The i
eterans evidently admired the beautiful 1
[round on which they were to deploy, j
?hey came on a rapid march, passed the
ort and in fifteen minutes were in the
pen fields firing away, and actually <
orcinc back the rebtl lines. Some of the (
lilitia who had thus been relieved came t
aek, and I heard one of them say that <
be way those Sixth Corps fellows went i
ato the skirmish frightened them almost <
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ness of the boys was soon evinced by ;
some of them being brought wounded to
tue rear. They all said the rebels yelled
at them, recognizing them as veterans,
and soon rinding out that it was the tight- i
ing Sixth.
A Russian Fable.?As an illustration |
of the art with which the precepts of religion
may be evaded, even beyond the
ingenuity of Satan himself, it is told in
one of KrylofTs fables how a peasant attempted
to violate the law ot fasting without
breaking its letter. The words of the i
precept are, "Ye shall not eat on fast ,
days any kind of flesh, nor shall ye boil
eggs in water upon your hearths and eat
such eggs." The peasant alluded to j
drives a nail iuto the wall and hangs an ;
egg from it by means of a wire. He then I
places his lamp under the egg, and cooks
ifcin that manner. Being caught in this i
?ck by a priest, he alleges as an excuse ;
that he thought he was not breaking the j
commandment. "Why, the devil must
have taught you ihat," cried the priest, 1
pqjtoishly. "Ah, yes, father ; I confess!
the devil did teach me." "No ; it is not
true," shonts the devil," who has been
present during the conversation, and
seated on the stove, chuckles at the sight
of the suspended egg ; "indeed I have not !
tauPght him this, for upon my word, it is
the first time I hav<?seen the trick."
Old Judge, who resides not far from .
Cincinnati, fs known as one who never
pays a debt, if it can be avoided. He has
plenty of money, however, is a jolly, rollicking
old chap, and gets drunk occasionally
when, of course, some friends take
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care 01 Dim. ^ioi long ago ut? it*n nuv *
the hands of a man who had his note for j
a sum of money, and as it was a last j
chance, the man dived into the Old 1
Judge's wallet, took out the amount, and
put the note where the money had been. !
When the Judge awoke to consciousness,
as was his wont, he took out his !
wallet to count how much money he was i
out
How did I spend all my money ?"
" You paid off that note I held," an- j
swered the friend.
" Well," muttered the Judge, quietly I
disposing of his wallet, "I must have
been very drunk."
Tomatoes Twenty Dollars a Dozen.
?Tomatoes, about the size of an English I
walnut, made their appearance in the
Second market for the first time this season
on Thursday morning. They were
beld at twenty-four dollars per dozenbut
the holder failed to dispose of them
\t that price. Yesterday, however, they
were again brought out and offered at
twenty dollars per dozen, when, strange
to say, a purchaser was found.?Richmond
Dispatch.
A late number of the Deseret News
3ays : " A large load of very fine cotton
? nflina nn Mnnilnr fill iljl \cnv "
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to President Young's cotton factory. We !
hear from many quarters very favorable j
reports of the growth of King Cotton.
Lieut. Pace, of Washington, is raising
fifteen acres this season, which is looking
well, and, for that place, is very encouraging."
The rebels in Maryland made free with
the house of Captain Paul, known to the
press, and took two game cocks which
were on the premises, belonging to another
newspaper correspondent?Mr.
Henry of the Tribune?and boiled and
ate them. "This conduct," the Washington
Chronicle ingenuously says, " has
incensed tl^e correspondents of the press
in this city to the last degree."
A friend in the West where they claim
a special right to Abraham as their father,
writes.
"Gen. Grant?our general?is at .it!
May the "Lord of Hosts" be with him!
Abraham and Gideon and Ulysses! If with j
loa/lorc tva fm'1 fn pnnnnpr flip sniis I
if Belial, and smite them hip and thigli,
;he whole world ought to say to us what
;he Philistines said to Sampson?"Hold '
pour jaw!"
A feeling against England, on the part
if the Germans, is showing itself in vari- j
ins forms. One of these is the recent ac;ion
of several authorities in matters of
commerce and industry, renouncing the
ise of English coal, and using that which
omes from the pits of Westphalia.
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NUMBER 31.
A Scriptural Prophecy.
A -writer in the Savannah Republican,
signing himself "Daniel," makes the
following obsei rations :
Let us notice the prophecy in Daniel
concerning a war between the North and
South, anil see if there is not an unalogv
sufficient to create a belief that it ha.-i
I reference to the present war. I knowthat
commentators have given a different,
view of the subject, though none linv-*
given a positive assurance that their nation
was correct.
I would particularly refer to the army
raised by the King of the North (Dan.
c, 2 v.); and then after the overthrow cf
that army, (Dan. xi c., 13,14j) which mt %
with similar defeat; and then the possession
taken of the islands and cities .v-"The
tidings' out of the East;" and then the
desperate elFort to destroy, and his rinai
overthrow, in all which, I think, we have a
clear prophesy from Scripture of the
present struggle. t
Now as to the time of the end, (Dai..
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" And one said to the man clothed in
linen, which was upon the waters of th*
river, " How long shall it be to the end
of these wonders V" The full duration is
given?"a thousand three hundred and
live and thirty days.'' Now, according to
this prophecy, if it has reference to the
present war, peace may confidently be expected
between this'aud the tirst of September
; counting-the days from the first
battle at Fort Sumter, April 12, 1801, it
will be observed that the thousand three
hundred and thirty-five days will be accomplished
on the tirst of September,
1801.
The Harried State.
It is considered a noteworthy circumstance
for a man or woman to have been
married three times; but of old this number
would have been thought but little of.
St. Jerome mentions a widow that msvried' _
her twenty-second husband, who in his i
turn had been married to twenty wives -r jim*
surely an experienced couple.
A wamArt nomn/1 VliooKnfll \TO ci irlm
VTUiuaii uauigu xiuoau^vu u uv
died at Florence in 1768, had been parried
to seven husbands, all of whom she
outlived. She married the. lost of the
seven at the age of 70. When on her
death bed she recalled the good and bad
points in each of her husbands, and hav
ing impartially weighed them in the balance,
she singled out her fifth spouse as
the favorite, and desired that her remains
might be interred near his.
The death of a soldier is recorded, in
1784, who had had five wives, aud his
widow, aged 30, wept over the grave of
her fourth husband. The writer who mentioned
these facts gravely added: "The
said soldier was much much attached to
the marriage state."
There is an account of a gentleman who
had been married|to four wives, and who
lived to be 115 years old. When he died
he left twenty-three children alive and
well, some of the said children being from
three to four score.
A gentleman died at Bordeaux in 1772
who had been married sixteen times.
In July, 1768, a couple were living in
E.^sex who had been married eighty-one years,
the husband being 107 and the
wife 103 years, of age.
At the church of St. Clement, Danes, in
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fifth husband.
The cavalry now employed by the rebel
army compares very unfavorably with
that which they had in the beginning of
the war. Then the riders were the
wealthy and educated young men of tin*
South, who took into the service their
best horses The previous praetice of
these men fh the saddle and with firearms
rendered thera formidable foes ; bat
thev are mostly dead or tired of fighting,
and the rebels have no more good horses.
The cavalrymen at present operating
against us have generally been taken
from the ranks of the Confederate infantry.
They are men of very little dash,
and having in most c;ises only broken
down horses are capable of doing very
little serious work. In a word, the oav
alrv. at least, in Virginia, lias ceased to
be a very important adjunct of the rebel
service.
Among other amusements now delighting
Paris, is a "delightful" monkey, who
rides like a man. From the Empress
downward, everybody has paid a tribute
to the talent of this animal, "who mounts
a horse like an English milord."