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Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 86, 1 September 1863, Page 6 (Supplement)

In some churches it is the custom to 1 separate the men from the women. A clergyman being interrupted by loud buzzing, stopped short ; when a woman ea«;er for the honor of her sex, arose and said : " Really, sir, the noise is not among us." " So much the better," answered the priest " it will be sooner over."

Yankee Ammunition. --General Butler, when examined by the Congressional Committee on the Conduct; of the War, was asked whether intoxicating liquors are used in the Federal army. To this General Butler replied, " They are to a most woful extent." As an illustration, General Butler said, " We used to send a picket guard up a mile and a half from Fortress Monroe. The men would leave perfectly sober, yet every night when they came back we would have trouble with them on account of their being drunk. Where they got their liquor from we could not toll. Night after night we instituted a vigorous examination, but it was always the same. The men were examined over and over again ; their canteens were inspected ; and yet we could find no liquor about them. At last it was observed that they seemed to hold their guns up- very straight, .and upon an examination being made, it was iound that every gun barrel was fiiled with whiskey ; and it is not always the soldiers who do this. I ordered a search of the Adams' Express Company, and examined the package! sent to the soldiers by their friends, and, in one day, I have taken one hundred and fifty different packages of liquor from the tt links, bjxes, and packages sent to the soldiers by their sympathising friends at home."