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The Weekly Journal, 1865-09-01

The front page of 1865-09-01. 885 words, read by machine from the Library of Congress scan and reproduced without correction.

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good story is told of us ellects on a hull. A tiddler in Liverpool who had been out, late at night on a professional engagement, in returning, had occasion to cross a hold whore sdino xjows and a bull were kept. Tim bull eamant 1 him full of light, wlisr. the tiddler ran and niv tempted to climb a trco. lie was loo late and had 10 dodge behind it to save his j-lV. life fiddler had heard of the eiioet of music j op animals, and as .soon as he could <; ! n. * -chance struck up a tuue. This calmed the enraged animal at ontJ'e,' and he appeared dolighted with itic After awliile,binding flic hull .<jnitexpacified-;h$stopped playing, and started -Viff on the run/but the bull would not let him ' oft" so, and put after hint, with such rage and i energy that lie fenced for his life, gijt'jjyjjy.1 TTuignn.f-o.-fi '.cu. ! nil his migliX ami Hie" rortm'tT ~fr-ho nrr? pacified again. JSot being accu-' or ?.' to fiddle ' . withoat pay, and his arm beginning hi . n-ito, j lj.- d' teriniucd to make ;?>iot'??*r odor: 1 i escape I Satisfied that his customer uicmt t.. get liis] music for noiliing. Jio made an-ilmr dash, j hur. it was of no use. The fury of t' e hull v..tnetwwl WuMl ?IC fil/i llltlvti* ef'.Ktl! Jlliil 1.11 S < !

llCIHS nUb UJUtUUUU in mc uu"*c vauiaiiic^ uicij' be allowed to balance the difference between currency anil specie, and renders the sura ofj fire thousand million ot' dollars in specie a fair and approximately correct estimate of the actu^ j al loss to the Northern States by the war." | The cost to the seceding States, the same | writer estimates to bo in the aggregate ?3,025,-1 u 000,000. Exclusive of the value of slave j States, he says, was estimated at ?4-,6O0,OOO,- j 000.' Of this $3,5O0,O0O,()O0 have been anni- ( hilated, leaving only $l,000,000,000 as the j present capital of the Southern States, which ! after all losses the termination of the war finds I the North in possession of a capital of fifteen | thousand millions of dollars, the losses having bc-m six thousand millions?the whole tula! losses of both North and South being oigl'! tLousand eight hundred millions of dollars. How appalling these figures. "Well ? : y North a.oi S>utli njoicy that the. war vand that Lvuignau; peace reig' < in the laud. N * p- -

V .OrXTK?J!'J5IT?. V/Uilllldivit i! ? V.-1 .?.Iticnal banks are in circnh tion. Tim color oj" the paper is a lit tic paler than tin- genuine. ! Tlicy are, however, easily detected by ohscrv* j-ing ilie position of the letter 'T" in the word j "This1' in thy line reading, "This note is scI cured by bonds of." Tho"T"in the Pennine : is over the left portion of the letter "1" in "(/cited" while in the counterfeit it is further to tlie left, over the middle of the "N" of the same word. There arc alr-o counterfeit ones. Treasury notes. \Yc huvc however, seen no dcsciiption of them its yet.? Cincinnati Enquirer. ? Army Clmplin?"My young colored fricjul, can you read ?" Contraband?"Yes, sah!" Army Chaplin?"Glad to hear it.?Shall

#tiiuo the. poor fiddler had a narrow escape.? . JIc made another frial of the music, and actually had to play till six o'clock in the mmiing, over three hoars in all, when some of the neighbors came to his relief.?MamtchubijCn j J'liivgluii.uii. Tin? New YorkMcr.attliie Jmnul in an article on the cost of the war to the North, ) sums up the Aggregate to be? on the part of the na'-ion, State and local debts, additional j * fixation, and sanitary coiftributions, &c., and Joss of earnings??5,200,000,000., The writer says: "This total of$5,200,000,G00 does not represent the fosses to commerce by the transfer of our carrying trade to foreign nations, in consequence of the depredations of Anglo-rehci cruisers. These losses, together with other

i gpvc you a paper j" Contraband?"Snrtin, tnnssa, if yon please." | Army Chaplin?"Very good. What paper would yon choose ?" Contraband?"Well, massn, if you chews, 1 I take a paper of terbakcr/' j The ckaplin looked at the contraband, and ; the contraband looked at thc-chaplin, then the latter sighed, and passed on. A writer in Georgia describes a government | tannery, grinding bark by no power visablc at : first, or suspected. The machinery is run by an underground creek?great curiosit}-. There are several similer streams in that region, soft | limestone being favorable to sinks and subma? | vino channels i nif T.art f!r>vrcni7<;<3 Tf.

tiou of such business. ' C.-J.ELEORD, ' Attorney at Law. ' Greenville, S C. ?5TAII papers in the .State copy three times ami scflil bill to C.-d*. E?^ August 4. >: Office Provost Marshal, 3d Sub-District E. S. C. | Sumter, Aug. 4,18G5. j CIRCULAR.. . y.l.h PERSONS ARE HEREBY NOTIhi ED that the wearing of th'c so-called Confederate States Uniform is strickly forbiddo if, and any person found wearing the same on find after the Sthgduy of August, 1865, will .be immediately arrested and taken before the Sg*TiQt^l#rt J^r trial. Assistant Provost \JefcshaVs are charged with the cs.ccutm^j^jiis order. (Signed) T. B. JOHNSTON, Capt. it A. Ih-ovost Marshal,

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