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andzMississippi are being hurried to Co.

and7Mississippi are being hurried to Co
lumbus
On the Goth, public meeting was held
at Memphis. The people passed resolu-
tons to send men and guns to Columbus,
and adopted an address calling upon SIS
ter States also to send assistance for the
defense of the Mississippi Valley. TIE
address says:
IAN invasion is at hand by the enemies
of our rights and liberties, moving upon
us in overwhelming numbers. In the
next five days there will be a great battle
at Columbus, and, if the Confedsrates are
overpowcred, Memphis will be lost to the
South, unless Alabama, Mississippi, and
Louisiana help us. Our friends in the
surrounding States must look the facts in
the face before it is too late
The fact of this big scare on their part,
shows that the sooner the expedition
moves from Cairo the better.
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Hon. W A. Richardson, recently ap-
pointed Brigadier General by the Presi-
dent, is at Washington, in poor health.
he expresses a determination to accept
the appointment and take the field as soon
as his health is restored.
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November 18th, 1851
Special meeting, Present-Mayor Cheeyer, AID
Butier alters, Stout, Drew, Dow, Clan COY smith
aud Stack pole.
On motion of Drew,
Orlered, That the sum of twenty-five dollars be
appropriated to be expended under the direction
OF The street and alley committee in the improve
inent OF The extension OF Lafayette street
Petition OF u. II. Willis skiing the city corpcu
to transfer his liquor license to Emo h F. FIlkens
On motion Of Clancy, petition received and
prayer grated.
smith moved to instruct the special committee
heretofore appointed in relation 10 engine house
OF Niagara tIre company No 1, to repair the same
so as 10 make It comfortable
Clancy moved 10 anc:.d by DIRECTING said com .
mltteefo cause ploak roadway TO be laid from
said engine honze 10 Fulton, st
Ayes an nays called for on the amendment.
AY@s-W Walters and Clancy-2
NAYs-Butler, Stout, Drew Dow Smith and
StackpOie.-G. Lost
The original motion then put and carried IN the
affirmative.
The city attorney being present made a state
Heht III relation to he condition Of the suit now
favor Of the cItv.
on motion Of Drew, the matter was referred 70
me Eh4hee conn tee with power 10 eInl!oy ID +
Jones, E-t., To assist the CIV attorney 4, tho
deem n advisable 7---'4
Bills OeDERhD P4rD.-E.il Of Samuel Patterson.
services on streets 10 I'm Nov ISL Ass Bli
of Hugh ANTI team labor, IS o. BjIt OF p.trIck
turner Team labor, % =. Bill Of H. am Wright
"'fk on streets, $40. Bill OF msrau Wright,
WORK on streets 20 Cts. Bill Of William Burgess
ing utsance, - cents BIZ Of John stout
Hoves5 SEQ Bill Of C!lck Bourke rrna;r,T
street crossing $500. Bih of William Grcg,of
lending Madison u bridge, 1900 Bin Of USnry
nVH'-ilsien, h!acksn.Ith.ng <LOO. BIZ OF VIM
o,lii-h' printing 49,. Bill Of T ID Brush, ser
wees q city marshal 10 Nov l2tb Is,;I bsIs.ca
$36.Zl --'-' ""'@Hee'
BiiI Of Philo Hard, for lumber, presented aud
referred TO finance committee
On motion u Drew,
"rI'yrt That tie Mayor be directed 10 pYrcn,ss
donh'F bonds on occouut OF the CITY Of ottawu
IN amount not % exceed fifteen hundred dollar.
ana al price not 10 exceed IS cents on the dollars
Adjourned.
q IrANEN- IL. IL.
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The schooner E. Sheldon left New York
on Monday for Hatteras Inlet, loaded
with provisions, the donation of private
citizens, to the suffering Union men in
North Carolina
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DissOsu of Partnership.

HE copartnership entered into by the subscribers,
i on the tenth day of October 1859. by and under
the name and style of WILLIAM CoGswsIL Co, is, by
mutual consent, on this 20rH DAY OF NOVEMBER,
1861, hereby dissolved.
WILLIAM -. W. CUsHMAN, one OF the undersigned, il
hereby authorized and empowered to settle all
pertaining said partnership, and to receive
and receipt for all monies Gccrung to said Partner
ship either by book account and to collect by
proceedings in law, If necessary, OF such person
persons may refuse or neglect to pay within rea-
sonabIe time WILL. II. w. CUSHMAN,
no23-3yl WILLIAM COGSWELL.
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An ingenious soldier of the Fifteenth
Ohio regiment, no" ON duty III Kentucky,
has devised method of warming tents,
which Is an Improvement upon the similar.
con,rlvance OF a Rhode Island soldier in
Virginia, noticed some time ago, and is
described as follows: In the centre of
the tent hole is dua in the ground about
two feet square and two feet deep. From
the bottom of this hole small trench
leads to the surface of the ground outside
the tent, to admit the cold air. From the
top another covered trench leads TO the
opposite side of the tent 10 conduct the
smoke out. The hole is arched oy er, very
much like the top Of a circular cistern
wall, and an open space OF perhaps foot
in diameter is left at the top for putting
in the fuel. Cover this up with an old
stove plate, bit OF sheet iron, smooth
stone or the like and you have the floor
of your tent converted into the top of a
furnace No room is taken up by heating
apparatus the heat is greatest where it
should be, next the feet; the tent Is per
fectly free from smoke, and with any sort
of fuel that is not absolutely soaked in
water, you can raise the temperament just
as high as may be desired.
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w scriptions, for which the highest market prio
will he paid Ia cash, at the
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EstraVed

From G. U. wade's Livery Stable, red and white
cow ri x or years old, long horns, some white
in the face, short legs and teats. Whoever will give
informa ton where she may be found will be suitably
rewarded. " Y. WADE.
Ottawa November %, 1861.
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The BLoCKAEE-Governm has adopt
ed new plan to make the blockade eflec
tual, while, at the same time, it will
release from this proftless employment a
large number Of vessels The plan is to
shut up the entrance to all the less in
portant southern ports by sinking in the
channels old vessels filed with stone. A
despatch from New London, Connecticut,
November 20 says:
The stone fleet sailed TO day. Twelve or
fifteen vessels departed from this port, all
BOUND south, and all laden with stone
The crafts we're old whalers, some of them
of the largest size
They 20 10 illustrate the ideas Of COM
merce which prevail in the darker portion,
girt with sand bars, Of our disturbed Re.
public. \ screw i fixed in their bottom
which can be worked from the deck
When it IS screwed out, the water. in a
stream a big Is 4 mans leg, comes in, and
the vessel Is sunk. The stone anchors it
ct the bottom.
Our fleet is 10 be joined outside by a
like one from New Bedford, which will
make the whole number of vessels about
thirty. Six thousand dollars each have
been paid BY the government: for some of
the best of these vessels.
The heet will be under the command Of
an old sea-dog, of whaling propensilies,
who has been appointed Commodore.
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"SLAvERY THE CAUSE OF THE WAR"-The
article attributed to Archbishop Hughes,
in reply to Dr. Brownson, disposes in a
felicitous way of the canting phrase that
slavery is the cause Of the war" "Ihis
happens to he simply impossible except in the
sense that mans co'rping money on las persor,
is ssthe cause Of lbs being ro5bed on tie high
ray The writer goes on to say, slavery
existed since the Declaration of indie.
pendence and before. Aud if it could
haye been the cause of civil war among
the people ana States of the Uuion or of
the Colonies, that civil war should have
broken out say eighty or ond hundred
years ago. Slavery, therefore, is not the
cause of thes war There is nothing new
in it,
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= NEW LUMBER WAGONS for SALE at low prices for
= cash or good short time notes.
maT9 VAN DOREN OSBORN.
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None then exactly appreciated the point
of this well intended joke, but now 1--WE
see it," Of course "Jetf" alluded to Font
Beaureyvrd at the entrance of Port Royal,
which Old Abe accepts, with many thanks
-"puixhans mortars, petards," and all
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On motion of Drew, the following order was
passed
Whsreos, due notice has been given by the city
Clerk of the return of the assessment made by the
commissioners appointed by the city council,
the seventeenth day of September, A. d. 1861 to
estate in that part of the city benefited by laying
an iron pipe under the canal in Coumbust street.
FORE
Ordered, That the said assessment be- and the
same Is hereby confirmed: and il is further or
dered that warrant for the collection OF the same
be issued, directed to the CITY collector and re-
turnab!e IN ninety drys after its date
Dow, from special committee on Niagara ENGINE
house, reported the bills of NJ A. GUSHING for
moving and repairing said house (SlOl
On motion report received and bills ordered
paid.
Dow, from street and alley committee, to whom
referred the reports of the street Supervisors
reported tho same back to the city Council
Gridley, from Finance committee to whom was
referred the bill of Phio Hard, for lumber report
ed the correct and recommended PAYMENT
Ordered paid.
!. On motion of ClanceY,
OrdeFed. That the committee on Fire Depart
ment be instructed to purchase and place in the
Niagara engine house, stove suitable for warm
ing said house.
Bills Oydered PaiA.-- Bill Of Samuel Patterson,
services on streets, 5000. Bill Of Hiram Wright
work on sts 500 Bill Of Joseph FenneI team
labor, $40. Bill of Frank Porter, team labor
$50. Bill OF John Clancy Co, lumber s63 20
Bill OF W Ililam GreggoP, tending Madison street
Irldge, $500. Bill OF o. Leavens rem, of office
$1,000, Bill OF Hiram Wright, repairing bridge
SEQ.
Adjourned 10 December "a, 1861.
q. LEANENS, Ctr Cserk
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II HAVE lust received good assortment of superior
i Ladies' Bath, English and French LETTER AND
note PAPER the very best manufactured, fancy ana
plain at the iul4I NEWS DEPOT.
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and among all Intelligent classes in both town and
country In addition to "a great amount of Practical
Instructive ana Entertaining Reading upon Agricul-
tire, horticulture, Domestic Economy, Science, Art
Educaiion, &C., with y variety If / N cravings, Music
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La sale County Agricultural socie:,

Tie TENTH ANIMAL MILLING o. fhi, Society vii
oe Eet - th' Court House n Wedre-d.v Ne Is,l
u"! OF n'ceItcr, 81 10 o'c.,cs. 4 f.!i s,terF4tr,
requested. J q Uappr- s--..
Move -ilcT S--sE WIZ -
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NIOORE.S RURAL NEW-YORKER.

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Journal in its spfeseas the Bet ana CHEAPEST
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+, GENERous-Soon after the fall Of Sum
ter, JEFF. Davis telegraphed the following
couplet:
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Number and Location Of Iilinnis
Regiments.

Regiments.
Fort Holt, opp Cairo Colonel Cook.
Birds Point, Mo-. ..Oglesby.
9 Padueah. Ky. .Mersy
10 Mound City, ILL., $500. Morgan
ii Birds Point, Mo-. wv. Fl. Waace.
II Paducah, Ky. Macarthur
l3South Missouri, (Wyman )Gorgas.
IA ..........Turner.
IA ........ Palmer
l6 st. Joseph, Mo .....R. F. Smith.
II Cape Girardeau, No L. F. Ross.
Is CAIRO, Ill. ...--... M. X. Lawier.
~ kentucky. Turchin.
90 Birds Point, Mo. C. C. Marsh.
II lronton, Mo-. Alexander.
- Birds Point, Mo. ...... Dougherty
% Re organizing at Chicago Mulligan
"a Kentucky. Hecker
% South Missouri. ....... Golfer
70 Hannibal, Mo. .........J j. NJ. LOOMS.
- CAIRO. ....... Butord
80 Fort Holt, Ky. Johnson.
~ caro- $3.50. Reardon.
30 j. B. Fouke.
81 y. a. Logan.
81 Camp Bntier, Springfield. John Logan.
80 Ironton (Norman) No. Hovey.
"a Kentucky. ----......... Kirk.
30 South Missouri. ........ Ct A. Smith.
Sc Rolla, No. ............ Greusel
81 Southern Missouri. Julius White.
80 lronton, Mo-. .Carlin.
80 Maryland yates Phalanx)Light
40 Paducah, Ky..-........ Hicks.
ri do .....--..... Pugh.
AZ south'n Missouri %. B. webb.
43 South Missouri. ........ Wrath.
II do do %. 80. knoblesdorf
45 Camp Douglas, Chicago. j. E. Smith.
40 Camp Butler. A. Davis.
~ Southern Missouri. John Bryner
4S Camp Butler. Haynie.
4s Cairo. wv X Morrison
90 ChiIlcothe, Mo. Bane
d Camp Douglas, Chicago. Cumming.
% Geneva, Kane co. Ill j G. Wilson
% Ottawa ................C ushman.
a Camp Butler. Niles.
% camp Douglas, Chicago Stuart
81 Camp Douglas. Chicago. Baldwin
ILLINOIS CAVALRY REGIMENTS.
lst, Scattered 49,. Coz. + A. Marshall
2d do ........ Silas Noble
Sd. Missouri. ..--... Eugene \ Carr.
4th, Camp Butler. r. Lyle Diclley
9TH, Camp Butler. -. j Updegrafi
9th: Scattered, r. II Cavanaugh.
18th, Scattering. 49,. VIM. Pitt Kellogg.
Sth, Potomac. J. F. Farnsworth
9Th, Camp Douglas Albert Brackctt
10th, Camp Butler. Barrett
: lith, Peoria ........R s IngersolL
18th, Camp Butler. j. w Bell
MCCLELLAN Dragons, Squadron, Potomac
Major Barker.
Hoffman Dragons, West Va, Captain
Schaumbecl<
Two sqnadroEs organizigg, Mcclellan Bri
gade
The regiments numbering from the j0th
are mostly incomplete, and some of them
are III the earliest stages of organization
The latter is true of tie cavalry, and both
. OF the artillery regiments, but all will be
complete before the close of the presen.
year. These various regiments will swell
the number Of Illinois troops to over
10000
only six of our regiments have been IN
action, and both most creditably 10 them
selves and their State. The defense Of
Lexington, in which a prominent part was
borne by Col MuI!igans Irish Brigade. i.
among the most striking events of the
war thus far Col. Dougherty's 22d Hi
nois regiment also did yalient service al
the affair at Belmont
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WEEKLY Summary nE The IAIEsI WAR NEWS

So that reader may he fully advist of the Events
o. the Var for tie Jst0R The RIR,- ardrnty la
bors the preservation and perpeti,y OF the Amer
lean Union the great means OF securing the per-
manent prosperity of the People aud Country
Though standing alocf from party politics. it is always
and firmly for The USoS. TIE CONSTITUTION, AND THE
LAWS Hence it Is, and will continue to be,
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" With paixhan, mortar and petard
We tender Old Abe our Deau-Tegard.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-05-08
Heartless Meanness.

The Press of this City, Newborn, Viii
mipgtoo and other places in the State, are
~denSnDcing in justly severe terms, the spir-
it manifested by beaytless, uRpri@ciPed mem
to demand famine prices Sor every thing to
eat. We are ashamed to hear that dealers
in shES City. have asked the brave soldiers,
W bo have volunteered to fignt for them and
and their property the most enormous pri-
cess 81 o. haar4 the G~antainr of ono Gnmea-
ny, say his men had been charged % cents
par pound for bacon, sirty cents per dozen
fT eggs, % cents per pound for Coffee and
Sugar, 80 cents each for canteens, &C. Can
This be possible? Is there not some mis-
take about IT,: We would fain hope for so, the
credit of olr City and of poor sordid, ayari-
Sons ought to be exposed4or men who woald
thus speculate upon the soldiers who enter
tine ranks so fight the battles of their country
cannot be frienls to that country They
aomld sell their country, as Judas did hi
Saviour, for thirty pieces Of silver W.
beard 30 names gTven, and therefore These
remarks are o personal, for we DO no
k ow who these Shyloeks are-but il W,
did, and were satisfied the statements wer,
true, we would not hesitate to give thei
names y man who demands higher proft
now, than he was asking before the war, de
serves watching,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-05-08

STIRRING APPEAL-The State Journal al
luding to the proposition Of the New York
Tribune (which may be found OF our first
page that tie property IN Virginia IS to be
allotted out among the vile invaders of her
soil, asks-tWhat next? Aye, what next
Virginia, in common with her southern SIS
tiers, has a MORE PRECIOUS PROPERTY STILL
Is THAT, too, to be taken possession ofand
equ tably cared for Is an allotment of the
HoNoR \ VIRTUE OF THE WIVES, TIDE DAUGH-
TIERS AND TIE SISTERS OF TIE SOUTH to be
held up as a :" fitting reward to the brave fell
lows who have gone to fight their eountry's
battlesl" Great Coll need we hint at THAT
to bring to their feet every hsing bearing q
heart, to build up if necessary, with their life
less bodies, a wall as high as heaven itself,
between the yirtuous women Of the South,
and their dishOnor, Mex Of the South,
awake! When fanaticism and cupidity fail
to respond, the lusts and brutal instincts will
be left Awakel"
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Gov. Ellis Message.

The Message of His Excellency Gov. Ellis,
to the called session of the Legislature, is a
plain, straight forward, patriotic document
worthy of the man who has proved him
sci worthy of the place ne so OPPORTUNITY
fills in thesetrying times. Every North
Caroliniau, whatever p~rejudices of a parti-
San character he may once have entertained
towards Gov. Ellis, must now feel proud Of
him, and of the vigorous and manly manner
lin which he has discharged his arduous du.
ties. The Message will be found in another
column.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-05-08

still there, but in a different attitude. Ny
attendant babe me listen again. With clasp
ed hands and eyes directed h~eayenward, |
heard her exclaim In Heaven alone is to
be found the priceless boon for which my
heart rs yearning.' Then kneeling down in
the window, she prayed most fervcntly that
when LIES fitfal fever was over, her soul
might wing its way TO that land, whose rocks,
and bills, and brooks and Wales are ever flow
ing with milk and honey, and which is illu-
mined with the brightness of the glory of its
own King, there to find that precious jewel,
which heaven alone can give. She appeared
even more lovely and beautiful than before.
From her countenance was beaming forth CO.
lestial light which seems to have Invested her
of everything human, and left nothing but
angel loneliness.
My Instructress then said to me,-You
have seen the utter hopelessness of ever be-
ing able to reach the bowers of Happiness by
the roads of Fame and Wealth. You have
seen the end of those whose names have been
trumpeted over the world, and heard the
prayer of her. who, having tasted of all tn c
fountains of pleasure which earth can afford
exclaimed, : Happiness is to be found alone
IN Heaven You now see the exquisite love-
I1ness of one journeying down the Stream of
Time, with eyes fixed on that land of pure
delight, which lies st a little ahead. Seek
henceforth, to lay up treasures beyond the
bourne of time whittier you must shortly go.
There is no way of becoming truly and per-
msnently great, but in goodness:
True happiness (f understood)
Consists alone in doing good.
Strive to become rich, greatand happy in this
way, and will ever be near you to watch
over and direct you.
Having spoke these words, my kind In
structress vanished away, and | awoke.-
Twilight had enveloped the landscape il. il
shadows, and the stars in the ffmamen
were lighting their vestal lamps. | arose anc
walked home, musing on what / had seen ir
my dream. | felt more and more convinced
that happiness was not to be found on earth
and like the lovely virgin whom | saw, | liftec
my voice to God and prayed that he nigh
fill my soul with hopes of a future, happ,
existence, and that light from the throne o
the Eternal might illuminate my path through
the dark and troublous scenes of time, ant
finally lead me, pure, free and renewed, t,
the temple of the living God.
FLORUS.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1861-05-08

SERVICES IN OUR CnuRcHEs.-0n Sunday
last many Of the officers and troops stationed
near this place attended Divine service in the
various Churches. We had the pleasure of
hearing a most impressive and appropriate
sermon, by the Rev. j. NJ. Atkinson, of the
Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Willis l..
Miller, Captain Of the brownsville Rifles, lin
undress unilorm,) opened the exercises by a
most fcivent prayer. The sermon was truth
full in its statements of the condition Of the
country, instructive and edifyiEg in its sug-
gestions to those engaged in the impending
war, and full Of the fire Of the loftIest and
most devoted patriotism. 1t reminded US of
the days when the Scottish Covenanters lift
cd their swords and raised their war cry for
civil aad religious liberty. Such a sermon, if
delivered to assembled thousands on the
camp ground near this place, would enlighten
and console the soldier With reference to his
duty here and his destiny hereafter, while
il would nerve his arm still more for the
shock Of the battle. STANDARD.