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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-01-15

MATCHES, Jewelry Fancy Goods, Cutlery,
w Clocks, and Military Goods of every descrlp-
tien, such Swords Epaulets. Sashes, Hats, Lace,
Buttons, &c. Military Companies furnished com.
pete with every article.
Now opening magnificent stock of new Goods.
such as American. English, German and French
Jewelry in sett and in single pieces. Best quality
Gold Watches, English Levers, Skeleton do, Duplex.
Anchor Escapement, Lepines, some very small for
ladies, set with pearls and diamonds, elegantly En-
ameled, Independent and Quarter Second Watches,
Hunting, Is CARROT Gold Watches of every variety.
G. B. & Co. offer the above goods on the very best
terms. Call and examine.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-01-15

EOR HIRE.-I have good boy, Is years of age.
Il for hire. He is good farm hand.
j. G.. McCUE, Mt. Sidney.
Jan. Is, 1861--tf
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-01-15
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

N|lRGINIA.-At Rules held in the Clerks Office |
Y of the Circuit Court of Bath county, on Monday |
the 7th day of January 1851, Bolar A. Brown Plain
tiff,
acA1Ner DEBT
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-01-15

CTRAYED OR STOLEN.-From David L..
- Roadcap's stable, near Goshen Depot, Rockbridge
CO., Va, TWO GRAY HORSES, one years old and
the other supposed to be about twelve. They were
raised near New Hope, Augusta co., Va.
Any person seeing the Horses will please take them
up and write me few lines, and will pay what is
right. ). T. GREEVER,
Ian H. 1861 New HOpe Augusta CO.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-01-15
Augusta County Court Clerks Office, |

JAM 8, 1861. !
ESTRAY.-Taken up by Samuel Yount on his
d land in Augusta county, the 18th day of Oc-
tober 1861 an estray of the following description
wit:
A Cow with white back, marked with an under
keel in the right ear years old, and appraised at
$15 co. Extract-Teste.
Jan. Is, 1861. j. d. IMBODEN, Crk. i
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-01-15

Why, then, just as we are about to reap the
bes; fruits of our labors, are we going to become
rash indeed, and fling them away for the apples
of Sodom9 May God save US from this meas
ure! Take away the apology of uniting the
South,n and the act stands before the world
without excuse.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-01-15
a OOPy-Ieott,
Jan. Is 1861.-4t. C. r. MCDANNALD, CPk.

AT the same time and place above mentioned will
sell the land above described, and sorrel Horse,
conveyed by said James S. Hite, In trust deed,
which deed is recorded in the County Office of Augusta
county, to secure debt due to William Armstrong.
Jan. Is, 1861. ID. KUNKEL, Trustee.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-01-15

Woe to the people who bring on such a con
flict, but from dire necessity Is it necessary
No, no, no! 1t is not only bootless, desperate
but wholly unnecessary Mr.. Buchanan say
be does not mean to attack any State tor seced
ing. All the Black Republican presses say thu
same thing. But they mean to collect the rev.
enues. This, to be sure, is war in disguise, bu
practically it is harmless, and we will be abb
to keep it in disguise until the proper time TO
us to strip the monster of its veil.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-01-15

Rules held in the Clerks Office
Y of the Circuit Court of Bath County, ON Mon
lay, the 18th day of January, 1861.
James E. Brinkley, assignee of John B. Charron, and
John P. Posey partners under the style and firm of
j. B. Charron Il Co. Plaintiff.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14
CROOKED sPINEs IN GIRLS.

1t is sad fact, that nearly every young Ia
Gy in fashionable life has lateral curvature of
the spine. This comes on at the age of ten
or eleven, and continues slowly but steadily
to Increase, unnoticed even by mothers
watchful eye, till the child is really deformed
one shoulder Is much larger and higher than
the other, and one hip higher, SO that the
dress-maker is obliged to put cotton in the
dress, to make the back look fiat and square.
The boys-their brothers, have no such
trouble; why should they? The question
may well be asked by every thoughtful parent.
l answer that improper dress and other physi-
illogical errors, in which girls constantly in
dulge, produce this mischief. The dress of
the girl is always tighter than her brothers.,
and this is begun while she is quite young, to
give her form,'' the mother says, as if God
did not do this when he made the child.
This constant pressure upon the muscles of
the spine, which are designed to keep it
straight, causes absorption Of those muscles,
and as the right arm is used more than the
left, the spine is drawn under the right shout
der blade, thus making it project. The mus
cles are so weakened by absorptions, they can
not bring the spine back to its proper posi-
ton, and you have case of lateral curvature.
In addition to this tight dress, l have seen
girls of thirteen and fourteen with corsets on.
Often these are adopted by thoughtess moth
ers, in the hope to straighten the child, but
under their cruel pressure the difficulty rapidly
increases, till the poor deformed girl is sent
to spinal institution to be treated. While
this difficulty is gradually increasing the
young girl is sent to school, to spend five or
six hours each day bending over desk, and
when she returns home, instead of being al
lowed to play ball or any other active game In
the open air, as her brothers are is placed on
high piano stool, where her toes but just
touch the floor, with nothing to protect her
back. In this position she must sit one long
painful hour. Do you wonder she has a
crooked spine {? l wonder that any escape,
for all are obliged to pass through the same
killing ordeal.-Lewis's GYMNASTICS.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14
THE SUNBEAM In THE CHURCH.

1t swee1y stole through tinted pane
With mild and mellow light.
And stayed within the sacred fame,
As though it loved the sight.
Itplayed on childhood s cloudless brow,
In warm and rosy rays,
And gave the mothers paid cheek
The bloom of other days.
II touched the old IN ans silver head
With amber's softest hue,
And followed DER the hallowed font
A peaceful rainbow throw.
1t lit the sculptor's classic group.
On monumental stone,
And fingered long with faith and hope,
And round the mourner shone.
1t Ger the blessed alter hung
And crowned the priest with gold
A royal robe the surplice seemed,
And fell in purple fold.
More bright than Aaron's breastplate glowed
The holy book of God,
And gems bestrewed the very floor
Whereupon the people trOd.
Fen thus thu Spirits living light
With all our lives surrounded.
And VIC that heavenly gift may seek
Within the Chucrh's bound.
Then como, by font and alter come,
With faith and works of love,
And darkest days shall brightly beam
With radience from above
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14

and rigid, and Mary near her, apparently try
ing to infuse some of her own strength and
gladness into her. The sailors were near
when the coach door was opened, and while
they were lifting him out as tendery as a wo-
man handles an infant, ran into the house.
Courage, dear woman!' l said s'it is a
battered frame but it holds noble soul"
1t was just what l wanted to do, to make
Agnes cry. A burst of tears relieved her,
and she awaited patiently the mems entrance
with their precious burden. Then she went
up to the couch where they laid him, and re-
gardless whose eyes were upon her, she kiss
ed the still white brow, and parted the long
wavy hair caressingly above it.
Austin could not trust himself to speak, but
he wept like child. Mary and 1 left them
together. Too sacred are such scenes for e.
ven the dearest friends to witness.
Were they married, do you ask !? Certainly.
Do you think that Agnes Dale could be false
to that noble heart True, he generously re-
leased her-but she would not hear of it; and
when the old father and mother came up, they
witnessed the wedding with great, calm joy
at their hearts, that nothing else could have
impaired.
About one year after their marriage a letter
with broad seal arrived from England, decla-
ring Agnes Dale to be possessed of large a.
mount of property, invested in Stock in the
Bark of England. The whole family repaired
to England, and l have never seen them again.
Austin and his sweet wife still live--and mod
ern science supplied his deficiency of limbs
with very tolerabe substitutes, as learn from
their letters.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14

on this question, had not seen il stated, that
an order had been issued by General Mellow
ell IN his department, substantially forbidding
all fugitive slaves from coming within his
lines, or being harbored there. Is that order
to be enforced in all Military Departments 7
II SO, who are to be considered fugitive slaves 2
Is slave to be considered fugitive whose
master runs away and leaves him /? Is it for
hidden to the troops to aid or harbor within
their lines the negro children who are found
therein, or is the soldier, when his march has
destroyed their means of subsistence, to al
low them to starve because he has driven off
the rebel master? Nor shall the commander
OF regiment or battalion sit in judgment upon
the question, whether any given black man
has fled from his master, or his master fed
from him? Indeed, how are the free born to
be distinguished Is one any more or less a
fugitive slave because he has labored upon the
rebel entertainments If he has so labored,
as l understand it, he is to be harbored. By
the reception of which are the rebels most to
be distressed, by taking those who have
wrought all their rebel masters desired, mask
ed their battery, or those who have refused to
labor and left the battery unmaSked
81 have very decided opinions upon the
subject OF this order. 1t does not become me
to criticise it, and | write in no spirit of criti
cism, but simply to explain the full difficult
ties that surround the enforcing it. If the
of the Government, |, as soldier, shall be
bound to enforce it steadfastly, il not cheer
fully. But if left to my own discretion, as
you may have gathered from my reasoning, l
should take a widely different course from
that which it indicates.
s'In loyal State would put down SER
vile insurrection. In state of rebellion l
would confscate that which was used TO op-
pose my arms, and take all that property,
which constituted the wealth of that State
and furnished the means by which the war is
prosecuted, beside being the cause of the
war; and if in SO doing, it should be objected
that human beings were brought to the free
enjoyment of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness, such objection might not require
much consideration.
ssPardon me for addressing the Secretary of
War directly upon this question, as it involves
some political considerations as well as pro-
priety of military action.
81 am, Sir, your obedient servant,
sBESJAMIN +. BUTLER
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14

SOUTHERN CoTroN AND NORTHERN SHIP
PING.-In one of his recent letters to the Lon
don ssTimes'' Mr.. Russell relates curious
suggestion made by French gentleman, now
in New Orleans, to some ardent cotton plan
ters there. He stated TO them that even if
the blockade were broken by England and
France. as they hoped it would be, the availa-
bic shipping OF these two nations would not
suffice to carry the cotton crop to Europe, and
that without the aid of the immense mercan-
Tile marine of the northern states southern
cotton would lie and rot in southern ports,
even were they open.'' 1t is calculation
more curious than useful but it is another
instance to show how accurately the ties were
fitted together which these rebels are endeav-
oring to tear asunder.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14

A SUGGESTION TO VoLUNTEERs.-The New
York Examiner says. GA medical friend
whose European experience gives value to his
testimony, and whose heart has been panied
at the number of deaths which have already
taken place in our army from the loss OF blood
from wounds begs us to suggest that the per
chloride of iron, an article to be obtained from
all our larger druggists, checks hemorrhage,
even from large blood vessels, promptly and
effectually. Four or five drops sufficient
to check completely the flow of blood from
anything except the largest arteries, and a
half teaspoonful will arrest bleeding even
from these. He advises that each non-com-
missoned officer should be provided with a
small fiat tin bottle of this, containing say
couple of ounces, which he can wear in his
breast pocket, and that the bottle should have
wound around it little bat cotton, on which
the iron could be dropped, or poured, to apply
it. This simple device would have saved sew
eIal valuable lives at the affairs at Vienna and
Great Bethel. Will not the Sanitary Com
mission see to this matter"
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14

A VERY HUMILIATING FACT.-A Memphis
paper denounces the administration at Wash
ington for its tyranny, because of the "humil-
iating fact that planters, farmers, lawyers, doc
tors, artisans and thrifty industrious laborers
gentlemen all, whether rich or poor-are
dragged to measure their lives with the out
cast population of northern cities. dragged
is good word for the process adapted to filling
the rebel army. But our boys who volunteer
will overlook the humiliation of fighting with
such unwilling soldiers.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14

A correspondent of the London Times,
speaking of Abdul Medjid, says that it is mat
ter of history that no Sultan of the Ottoman
race has been legally married since the days of
Bajazet the Great : On his capture by Timur,
after the battle of Angora, the Sultana was
treated with gross insult, and to guard against
the shadow of chance of such a disgrace re-
curing no inmate of the seraglo has for more
than 400 years been legitimate wife, accor-
ding to MuSSuman law.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14

MOSQUITOES AND THE BLoCKADE.-The editor
of the Cincinnati Gazette is perfectly jubilant
at the effect the blockade of the Mississippi
has had upon Mosquitoes. The editor says
the 'scool spell'' may have had its effect in
producing this happy state of affairs, but We
verify believe we are indebted to the stoppage
of steamboat connection between Cincinnati
and New Orleans for no inconsiderable a.
mount of it. Mosquitoes are among the most
unbearable of Southern hum-bu
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14

ExTEMPoRIzING AN ARTILLERY COMPANY on
THE FIELD.-Lieut. Col Stahel, of the Ger
man Rifles, discovered an abandoned battery
on the day of the battle, and instantly adopt
ed it, forming an artillery company from his
regiment to work it. Horses, caissons, guns,
were all left together, and Lieut.. Col Stahel
believes that after thus disgracefuly deser-
ting their trust, the former officers and men
will not be likely to attempt a reclamation.
He therefore regards the battery as his own.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14

1t is said that Judge Wayne, of the U. S.
Supreme Court, though citizen of Georgia,
is now in Washington for the purpose OF TAX
ing his accustomed seat upon the bench. In
the general bankruptcy of character with which
so many of the foremost men of that State
have allowed themselves to be carried away
by the secession mania, the firmness of this
distinguished jurist is the more admirable.
All honor to Judge Wayne.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14

OCCUPATION OF THE TRAITOR MAURY.-Capt.
Maury, who for the last ten years has exhibited
such genius for stealing the honor of others
achievem ents, and who has been the pet OF
every administration for many years, is now
engaged in planting submarine batteries In the
southern harbors to destroy Federal ships-of-
war.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14

SAND FOR BEDDING FOR HoRsEs.--Mr. Small,
of Dundalk, Ireland, veterinary surgeon, of
considerable experience, states that sand is
not only an excellent substitute for straw for
horses' bedding, but superior to straw, as the
sand does not heat and saves the hoofs of the
horses. He states that sand is exclusively
used for horses beds in his stables.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14

SENATOR WILSON AT BULL RUN.-It is said
that while Senator Wilson was making his
masterly retreat in Virginia, on being re-
pulsed by teamster, whose wagon he sought
to occupy, he protested, in plaintive accents,
that he was Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts,.
The response of the teamster was to the point,
ssHenry Wilson be id. have kicked him
off the wagon six times already.'
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14

In the Italian war, it is said, officers went
into conflict armed and uniformed like pri-
Yates this being deemed necessary, on ac-
count of the introduction of rifles, to prevent
the commanders from being picked off. Why
should not this practice be initiated with US ?
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14

AS we stand by the sea-shore and watch the
huge tides come in, We retreat, thinking we
will be overwhelmed; soon, however, they
flow back. So with the waves of trouble in
the world they threaten US, but firm resist
ance makes them break at our feet.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14

You lost two legs in the army, you say
sswhat did you gain by it 2" asked gentleman
of a Chelsea pensioner. ssSingle bessedness,
SIR he replied; esfor after that, no woman
would marry me.;'
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14

If a servant will lie for his master, his mas
ter need not be astonished if the servant lies
for himself.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14

Many men die martyrs, and then have an
impartial Judgment passed upon their lives,
just as the poor whalers are killed first and
tried aiterWard.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-08-14
BUTLER ON THE coNTRABAND QUESTION

The following interesting letter from Cen
eral Butler has been received at the War De-
partment:
The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-07-17

A correspondent of the Boston Transcript
writing to that paper under date OF June %
gives some interesting particulars of the state
Of the Military Academy and the recommen'
dations of the recent Board Of Visitors. The
Board, which has Just closed its session, recon
mended an increase in the number Of cadets
The maximum number that can now be admit
ted is 273, while the barracks to the buildings
are capable Of accommodating 400. Although in
the last forty nine years. the population Of the
country has been multiplied four fold, the legal
number OF cadets admissible into the Academy
has been enlarged by the addition of but twenty
three. The complement in 1912 was ESQ.,
The Visitors, therefore, recommend that the
corps be raised to 400 cadets, that each United
States Senator, and each United States Repre-
sentative, be allowed, respectively, to nominate
one, and that the remainder be appointed by
the President at his discretion.
Another and quite important suggestion OF
the late Board is, that the cadets be hereafter
taught the use of the telegraph, so as to be
come practical operators The course of study
now covers period Of five years. 1t is pro
posed to reduce it to four years, which was the
term originally adopted. The graduation OF
two classes this year. the fourth and fifth, viii
create large number Of vacancies, and will con
siderably increase the size OF the class which
will enter on its studies this summer. In the
whole corps there remains but thirteen cadets
from the South, and but one OF these is IRON
the Cotton States.
The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-07-17

GREEbEY's OPINION or SEwAED.--The a.
mount of public swindling now going on is gen.
erally regarded as never before equalled under
any former Administration. Perhaps Horace
Greeley's opinion Of Seward was about right
whsn he said:--"Tn an age Of overwhelming pee
ulation, we cannot remember that he (Gov.
Seward) has once denounced in the Senate, an
act OF PUBLIC ROBBERY" Now. II this be true
of Seward, how much more forcibly is it true o
Cameron, and it is no wonder, therefore, that
between two public functanaries Of such "sasy
virtue, . there should be all sorts of disgrsceu
rumors Of public plunder. The shoulders ofthe
people are supposed to be broad enough to beaI
any burdens Of debt and taxation. so 60 a.
head, and squander all you can.
The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-07-17
Was President Lincoln Guilty Ol
treason iR His Inauguralf

The telegraph, or rather the Agent OF the
Associated Press, through the telegraph, has
spread all over the country q special dispatch
from Washington to the New York Herald, in
which it is said that "a spirit is being aroused
that will result in placing the man who shall
dare to offer a proposition to compromise with
traitors in the same category, and to hang
both"
The above announcement coming from the
National Capital says the Ohio Statesman, may
Re taken by some as having the sanction of the
Administration, as it is addressed to paper as
fierce for the continuance Of the war to the last
extremity, as it was violent in its opposition at
the commencement Of hostilities.
The idea of hanging the man who shall dare
propose opening negotiations with view oi
putting an end to the civil war now raging, for
the expression, compromise with traitors"
can mean no more than this, reminds one ofan
assertion made by President Lincoln in his In
augural. Addressing his countrymen, the Pres.
ident said,
"Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight al
ways; and when, after much loss on both sides,
and no gain on either, you cease fighting the
identical questions as to terms oil intercourse
are again upon you.'
Was this reasonable suggestion in Presi-
dent Lincoln? In mis- opinion we cannot fight
always; there must come time when fighting
will cease, and negotiations be opened with
TRAITORS on the identical questions as to terms
of intercourse which were agitated before the
war began.
The President may have been right or wrong
in this statement. That is question we do
not undertake at present to decide, but are con-
tent to leave to his party to settle among them
selves. They can denounce him as traitor,
if they choose, and call for his deposition and
eyacutiou, but still we think that at any stage
ofthe war, the discussion Of the proprety ofits
longer continuance may be eminently proper
and patriotic. 1t is evident that such discus
sion must be had some time or other, or the
war will be nterminabie.
The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1861-07-17
FAN Republicans.
The Douglas Fund Committee.

Hon. John B. Haskins, Of New York, Chair.
man of the Douglas Fund Committee in Wash
ington, has recently made public list of Com
mtteemen for the several States OF the Union
As we find them in the Washington Sunday
Morning Chronicle. the members of the Com
mttee for this State are Messrs. Hon. Geo, E
Pugh, DAME, P. Rhodes. Hon. s. P. Chase
Hon. Henry B. Payne w. Gray, Hon. John
Sherman. Col. McCook, Hon. John A. Gurey,
Hon. S. s. Cox, Hon. D. Tod, Washington
Mclean and James B. Steedman.