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, 1861-12-13
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There is beauty enough on earth to make a
home for angels.
, 1861-12-13
MOSS & BROOKS,
w PHILLIPS.

HAS ON HAND large and well selected stock
Ill of TIN WARE, manufactured under his su-
pervis.on by experienced wOrkmen, STOVES of
various Sizes styles and patterns, Mining lmple-
ments &C, &C.. all of which will be sold at ex-
.tremelg low prices.
Your patronage is respectfully solicited. ly
, 1861-12-13
DR.. j. A. MULLAN,

EORMERI.Y Resident Physician at BlackwelFs
IL Island Prison, N. Y, and at the Baltimore
Almshouse. Md.-has located in Walla Waa, and
respectfully tenders his services to the community,
i'm the practice of Medicine and Surgery.
Office on Main street. in Court Building. ltf
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-09-06
Cards.
A SADLER,

A SADLER,
WOULD announce to the public generally
w and his friends particularly. that having
purchased the Stand and the STOCK OF
GROCERIES, heretofore kept by NIX.
GEORGE ECK. that it is his purpose to keep
at all times supply Of such articles inclu.
ding oil Staple Groceries, as the demands of
the country require. His motto il ready pay
and snail profits, preferring the nimble six
peace to the slow shilling. Farm Produce
generally taken III exchange for goods and
highest market prices paids
4 share Of patronage respectfully solicited
lu\
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-09-06

UTILITY Of SMALL BlRDs.--Birds
are the friends of every man who raises
fruit, grain or grass.-They are the
Constitutional check put upon deprc-
dating insects. Every cherry that a
robin eats he pays for at least hun.
dred times over by countless and name.
less injurious insects devoured, as a
part of his meat diet. Wood-peckers
meadow larks, birds, bluc-.jays
sparrows, robins, and the whole tribe
Of thrushes, are indefatigable friends
of the garden and farm. They neve,
boast Of their services. They seem
quite unconscious of their usefulness
They make no demand upon the farmer
on the score beauty, song or service
They perform their disintcrested labor
Of abating the insect plague under all
discosragements, and even when re,
quilted with abuse and persecution
With these services, they also bring tc
us an amount Of enjoyment IN thei,
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-09-06
WHOLE No IO6.

songs Wnlcn no man or SenSlblllty can
enough appreciate; and which is not
whit less deserving because they sell
no tickets for their concert, and pass
around no hat after their performance.
And yet, one would think that the
service and the songs of birds were
their vices. The eagerness of boys to
kill them, the ruthless destruction Of
them around tGwns and cities, princi-
pally on the Sabbath day, by boys,
apprentices, and grown up louts: not
merely for their own excitement in
hunting then, or for their own table
use, but as a matter Of merchandise,
bids fair to exterminate small birds in
the vicinity of large places, unless
laws shall interfere.
Tens of thousands of small birds are
sent to market, not only at seasons
when. if ever, they might be shot with
out danger Of checking their increase.
but as their breeding season is also
that part Of the year most inviting to
the fields, they are then ruthlessly de-
stroyed, nests broken up, eggs taken,
and whole generations shot, in the
loins Of their federal heads.
The grievance has been especially
felt around New York and Brooklyn.
Two or three very expensive and pains
taking efforts have been made to intro.
duce foreign birds into the neighbor-
hood.-Hundreds of the English sky
lark have, at different importations,
been brought over. AT length the ell
deavor succeeded. They regularly bred
on long Island. They may be heard
singing in the air for many miles back,
and are gradually extending their cir.
cult Of habitatlon. But We are in dan
ger Of losing them again. The Ger
man gunners that pursue them arc
thinning their numbers, and unless
speedy check is put upon their war.-
tonness, the sky-lark will soon 90 to
Fulton market, to tickle the palate of
gourmands.
The evil, like all others. is largely
the result of ignorance. II all parents
would make humanity to brute beasts,
and partiality to birds, subject of in
struction; if all schools would give to
boys some intelligent conception of the
use of birds: if all newspapers would
join in giving line upon line, and pre-
cept upon precept; if ministers of tho
gospel would take that sparrow for -
text, which our Saviour has immortal
lied by his words, there would soon
exist public sentiment that would put
an end to this barbarism. Reader, can
you do nothing for the birds?-. Home
Journal.
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-09-06

WATER-PRooF CLoTH.-Take
l pound of common brown soap, cut it
up into pieces and disolve I pound Of
alum in hot water, the quantity of which
I'm both cases) should be sufficient to
enable the operator to freely handle 20
yards of cotton cloth. Now immerse
the cloth in the first liquid, and open
out the folds so as to let every part re-
ceive Its share of the soap. This will
take about Is minutes handling. The
cloth is now lifted and squeezed to press
out some ofthe water; then it is plung-
ed under the hot alum liquor and hand
led for about quarter of an hour, af-
ter which it is dried. When dried in
temperature of $50 degrees Fahrenheit,
the cloth is superior in quality to that
dried in the atmosphere. The alum and
soap form an artificial leather-an in
soluble compound-it fills the pores Of
the cloth.
Aaother process is as follows: Take
I pound of alum and half a pound Of
the sulphate of copper (blue vitrlol) and
dissolve them in 30 gallons of boiling
water and boil the cloth in this LIQUID
for half an hour; then take it out and
dry in a warm room. Cloth thus treat
ed will repel rain, which will run from
its surface like water from ducks
back, and yet perspiration will pass
freely through its pores. This is =
good method for treating capes Of wool
en- cloth, and it has been used for this
purpose in the French army. Oil-cloth
and india.rubber water proof clothes
soon render the personssswho wear,then
very feeble, because they prevent the
escape Of cartonic acid gass FROM the
body
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-09-06
A. BRADlSH.

Dealer in stoves and hardware. iron. nails
glass, sash, wooden and jappanned ware
table and pocket cutlery, mechanics tools
agricultural implements, and builders fur
nishing stock. Also manufacturer Of al
kinds of copper. tin, and sheet iron ware
Particular attention paid to all kinds Of Job
bing.
Three doors east of the Post Office, Deco
rah, Iowa.
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-09-06

ufhn THE subscriber respectfully in forms
the citizens of New Oregon that he
has established himself in the boot
and shoe business again in this place. Shop
on Main ,5r,t
lVRepairing done on short notice.
CASH PAID FOR HIDES.
Fl. q. sTEWlRT.
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-09-06
IT. H. HEATH,
Attorney 4 Counselor
AT LAW.

DUBUQUE, IOWA.
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-09-06

He will also give special attention to busi-
ness before the Departments Of the General
Government at Washington, and especially te
Land Cases. and obtaining Land Patents
As the head of one of the Land Patent Bu.
reaus in the General Land Office at Wash
ington for several years. and possessing a
large experience in the transaction of public
business he possesses extensive facilities for
the transaction of business with the Govern.
ment. nS4v2yl
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-09-06

C.c Off, 1860. H. c. Scot
Scott & Brother,
Wholesale and retail dealers in dry goods
groceries, boots and shoes. hats and cans
Yankee notions, &C., Main street. McGre
gor, Iowa. will attend to making collec
tions, or purchases of produce.
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-09-06
take place at the times and in the man

ner prescribed by the laws in force pre-
vious to secession, afording to the ma
jority an opportunity to choose officers
in whom they had confidence After
the first general election the old order
of things would be completely restored,
and questions relating to the division
of the state, or other innovations deem
ed desirable by any part of its citizens,
could then be considered by those who
had right to decide them. tits to be
regretted that so practicable solution
Of the problem of reconstruction is
likely to encounter obstacles in conse-
quence of this unconstitutional project
for division of the state.
The Constitution provides that nc
new state shall be erected within the
jurisdiction of any other state without
the consent of the Legislature of the
latter. Now a Legislature chosen by
the people west to the Alleghanies is
the Legislature Of Virginia, or it is not.
If it is not, it has clearly no power to
grant the requisite consent. If it is
the Legislature Of the state, to whom
would the consent be granted? What
is the geographical district which it
would release from Its jurisdiction,
while it retained its authority over the
remainder? The part released and that
retained would be the same. which is a
plain contradiction in terms. Instead
Of releasing part of its territory to
form new state, in would merely
withdraw its claim to jurisdiction over
Eastern Virginia, and SO abandon two
thirds of its territorial jurisdiction. The
Constitution never contemplated, and
does not authorize, any such proceed
ing. 1t would be the same in princi-
pie as if the Legislature of New York
should cast off all that part of the state
west of Utica and leave it destitute of
any state government. The leaders of
opinion in Western Virginia are too
sensible of the absurdity of a proceed
ing like this to fall into it. They are
attempting to erect new state through
the agency of a mere convention, with
out any reference to the legislative
consent required by the Constitution
of the United States. AS Attorney
General BATES truly states. IN his ex-
cellent letter on this subject, which we
publish this morning, this is an act of
revolution, involving plain breach
both of the constitution Of Virginia and
of the nation. Congress cannot admit
into the Union a state formed in this
unconstitutional manner.
! (which is contingency not in the
contemplation of the government, nor
of the northern people-if the Union
should be permanently dissolved, and
we should be forced, at last, to recog-
nize the independence of the rebel con-
federacy, we should then, of course,
receive the new state erected in West
ern Virginia into the Union. After we
by treaty fixing boundaries, relin
quished our claim to jurisdiction over
Eastern Virginia, Congress could ad-
nit the new state. But so long as Vlr-
ginia is state in the Union, a new
state cannot be formed within her
boundaries without the consent of her
Legislature.
UTILITY OF SMALL BlRDs.--Birds
are tho friends of every man who raises
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-09-06
Farm For Sale!

| will sell nv farm containing Gao acres
LAYING five miles south Of New Oregon ad
joining Winneshiek County; over 40 acre
enclosed by good fence. and 30 acres in
cultivation, good house. sheds &c.. and wa.
ter convenient: it is we'll adapted either for a
stock farm, or grain growing, or both II
will sell on reasonable terms for part Cash
down. J. D. .VANDENBEkG.
(76 3m.)
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-09-06
8. Horrick,

''ealer in dry goods, groceries. clothing, leath
er' shoemakers findings, hardware, iron.
nails glass, sash and putty, boots and shoes
salt, hsh and provisions. VII kinds of pro
dpce received in exchange for goods and
5rai prices given at his Cash and Rertsr
st"re New Oregon. Iowa
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-09-06
BASS & GRANT.

Storage, Forwarding and Commission Mer.
chants-Dealers in Agricultural Imple-
ments and Seeds-General Agents for the
sale of Rickford Hu1man's Grain Drills
Pitts Threshing Machines and Childs Pat.
ent Tanning Mills-All kinds of freight re
ceived and forwarded, Produce stored and
shipped on reasona BILE terms.
Warehouse fronting Public Square and
Levec, McGregor Iowa, Nov 18th 1860.
(666m)
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-09-06
p. DuMu.

p. DufRn,
- Fashionable tailor, at the old record
er's e6ce, Decsrah, Iowa All work
IL warranted to fit, and made in the most
fashionable style. Cutting dane at short
notice and warranted to suit.
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-09-06
New Oregon Plain Dealer
W. r. Mead, Editor.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 6, 1861.
"DiyisiOn Of Virginia."

Some time since we took occa
sion in the columns Of the PLAIN
Dealer to characterize the legis'
lature Of Western Va. as a bogus
concern. for which we were de.
nounced without stint by all the
valiant Wide-Awakes Hein9
around loose, instead of fight.
ing the battles of their country
now in its hour of peril and neces.
sity. Now that the policy of the
administration in this matter,
has brought upon itself untold
difficulties and perplexities, its
organ in n. Y.-the World,
comes out with an article which
we produce below, in which the
evils we then predicted are freely
acknowledged, and bitterly be-
walled.
The constitution of Va. pro-
vides that the legislature shall be
formed of two distinct branches,
the lower House of which should
consist of 152 members to be
elected from 103 different coun-
ties; and the upper House to con-
sist of so members, a majority of
of each body to constitute a quo
rum for the transaction of busi-
ness. But, instead of needing the
provisions of the Constitution,
38 counties seeded from the state,
elected Legislature with less
than half the number requisite,
which went on in open violation
of the Constitution of the state,
to enact laws for the entire peo-
pie of Va; and finally to elect
Senators in Congress; and to
end the farce in the manner COM
commenced, they were admitted
to seats in that most css-tute body.
The blunder was in recognizing
the right Of the people of West
ern Va. to violate the Constitu-
ton of the state with impunity,
to which act the Congress of the
U. S. by its action became parti-
ceps criiminus. Indeed, the World
admits that the blundcr does not
SO much consist in the violation
of the Constitution as in embar-
RAISING the policy of Mr.. Lincoln.
Every step in this work has been
in open violation of all the prin-
ciples involved in the formation
and working the machinery of our
Government. How the Federal
Government could have expect
ed more or less, Of the people of
Western Va. than their recent
conduct has exhibited, is indeed
a wonder to US. Our reading of
history teaches us, that a people
disloyal to their own Constitution
and their own laws, will have no
higher regard for the Constitution
and laws of other states than a
sense of fear and self-preservation
will beget. The administration
has recognized this bogus legis-
lature not only as de tacto, but
as government de .jure,
and it in turn, as it had a righ,
to do, if it possessed any lawful
rights, has erected another state
within it's own limits and with the
consent of its legislature, in &C.
cordance with the provisions o1
the U. S. Constitution. 10 the
World's question as to whom tn.
consent would be granted, we re
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-09-06
RLACKSMITHING

PowE ]. & Covert would inform S
thu public that they are ready at lY
all times to attend to al jobs in
their Line in superior and workman.like
manner. Shop opposite the grist mill. OK
shoeing attended to on reasona bleterms. rs
New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1861-09-06
NEW OREGON PLAINDEALER

rablisked every Friday at the Plaindsaler
printing rooms, Main Street, New Oregon
Howard county, Iowa. FL. MEAD PR op
stor.
--TENNS.-
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n "" st the end Of mo. 25
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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-09-27
Invading Kentucky.

The Hickman (Ky.) Courier from il.
location, which is exactly between Padu
cah and Columbus, the points invaded
commenting on neutrality, has the follow.
ing paragraph, which is conclusive evi.
dcnce to all honorable men that the Fed
erals were the first TO invade Kentucky
and set neutrality at defiance:
In this portion of the State we have
seen directly the operations of both sides,
and know that while the Federalisis have
invaded our soil in the county of Ballard
twice, and arrested her citizens without
authority of law, and condemned them to
punishment without trial, and invaded
Columbus and tore down the flag erected
10y her citizens as the symbol of their no
litioal faiIs- ri-..s~-' -',,ssss.s..-----------lIJ
ing tho town, and threatening the COM
plete annihilation not only of Columbus,
but of Hickman and Paducaf, the South
ern authorities have persistently refused
our repeated petitions for protection ON
account of the neutrality of our State
The neutrality is broken now, by the
Federals first, by Kentuckians second,
and by the Coniederates lastly.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-09-27
How a Soldier Feels in Battle.


The following, which went the rounds
of the press some time ago, Is possessed of
additional interest now:
A young French officer thus writes of
his first experience in battle:
Our officers sent us back, for we were
not numerous enough to charge upon
the enemy. This was most prudent, for
the murderous fire so fatal to the white
coats did us but little harm. Our conical
balls penetrated their dense masses, while
those of the Austrians whistled past our
ears and respected our persons. II was
the first time | had faced fire, nor was
the only one. Well. | am satisfied with
myself True. l lodged the first balls,
hut Henry " did the same at the begin
ming of every battle. 1t is. in fact, phys
ical effect, Independent of the will.
But, this tribute paid, if you could only
feel how each shot electrifics you! 1t is
like a whip on racers legs. The balls
whistle past you, turn up the earth around
you, kill one, wound another, and you
hardly notice them. You grow intoxicat-
ed; the smell of gunpowder mounts to
YOUR brain. The eye becomes bloodshot,
| and the look is fixed upon the enemy
There is something of all the passions in
| the terrible passion excited in Il soldier by
! the sight of blood and tho tumult of
battle.
Every body who has tried 1t, testiies to
the peculiar ihtoxication that is produced
by being in battle. There is an iniatuat-
| ing influence about the smell OF powder.
the whistle of bullet, and the sight OF
human blood that instantly transforms
| men from towards to heroes-from women
| sometimes TO monsters No one can tell
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-09-27
Proclamation Extraordinary.

Know all men. by these presents, that
|, John y. Dix (no relation to the rebe!
"Dixie"), knowing the feeling excited in
the breasts of our brave Union army by
the combination of colors, known as red,
white and red, are by no means agreeable,
do, hereby by virtue of the authority
vested in me, by His Majesty, Abraham
lst, require and command all police Off
GERS of the city of Baltimore, in the pay
of His Majesty's Government, to suppress
and cause to disappear all substances
whether in the heavens above, or in the
cal tn beneath, or in the waters under the
earth, bearing the said combination of
rebel colors. All babies, having red and
white stockings on, will be sent to Fort
Lafayette. All houses built of red brick
and white mortar must be removed, or
painted red, white and blue, in alternate
stripes. All watermelons must be painted
blue on the rind, and all mint candy and
barber's poles so colored are forbidden,
All red and white cows are required
to change their spots or take the oath OF
allegiance. Red and white persons hay
ing red hair and mustaches OF whiskers,
are hereby warned to have one or the
other dyed blue. No sunrises or sunsets
which exhibit such combinations, will be
permitted on the pain of Suppression
Persons are forbidden to drink red and
white wines alternately. His Majesty is,
however, graciously pleased to make an
exception in favor of red noses, these last
being greatly in vogue among Federal
officers and additional AStre having re.
Gently been shed upon such noses by one
of my former predecessors in this com,
mand.
Done at the Baltimore Bastile, this 4th
day of September, the LIST year of Abra.
hams glorious and peaceful reign.
Signed JOHN A. DIX,
Major
R,Ijimors ,Sn,t6
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-09-27
Dixie.

sorrnnoNs, HEAR Youn COUNTRY CALL You!
southrons, hear your Country call you
Up! lcstworse than death befnll you!
70 arms. To armsl To arms! in Dixie,
Lo! all the bcaeon-iires are lighted,
Let all hearts be now unitcdl
10 arms! To arms! To arms. in Dixie.
Advance the flag of Dixie!
Hurrsh hurrah
For Dixc's land well take our stand,
And live or die for Dxic
To arms! To arms!
And conquer peace for Dixie!
To arms! To arms!
And conquer peace for Dixie!
Hear the Northern thundcrs muttor,
Northern flags in South wind nuttcr.
To arms! etc.,
Send them back your fierce defiance.
Stand upon the accursd alliance!
To arms! etc.,
Advance the flag of Dixie! etc.
Fear no danger! Shun no labor!
Lift up rifle, pike and sabre.
To arms! etc.
Shoulder pressing close to shoulder.
Let the odds make each heart boldcr.
To arms! etc..
Advance the flag of Dixie! ETC.
How the South's great heart rcioices,
At your cannon's ringing voices;
To a-rns! etc..
For faith betrayed and pledge. broken.
Wrongs inflicted, insults spoken sn;---------
- arms. eiS-.
Advance the ssg 0f Dixie, etc.
Strong rs lions, sEiit "a S.les.
Back to their kennels hult these bea.les,
To arms, ETC.,
Cut the unequal bonds sssuudcri
Let them each other plunder!
To arms, etc,
Advance the flag of Dixie! etc
Swear upon your country's altar,
Never to submit or falter;
T"srms.eic
Till the spoilers are defeated,
Till the Lords work is completed.
To arms! cts,
Advance the flag Of Dixie. etc.
Halt not, till our Federation
Secures among Earth, Powers its station.
To arms! etc.,
Then at peace. and crowned with glory,
Hear your children tell the story.
To armsi etc..
Advance the flag of Dixie! etc.
IF the loved ones weep in sadness,
Victory soon shall bring them gladncss,
To arms cc.,
EXultant pride soon Danish sorrow
Smiles chase tears away to morrow;
To arms. ETC.,
Advance the flag of Dixie. etc.