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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1861-01-04

Ny daughter. Violet May, aged seven
years. who has wanted playmate, asked
our doctor Il he did not sell babies. lie
said:
"Yes. one dollar for girls, and two for
boys"
ShO went up stairs and brought one dol.
lar and City cents out OF her monoy.boI.
"There, said she, Z" want q very good
girl baby"
The extra fifty cents were to secure awsr-
rantsd one.
why not take q boy baby ?" asked the
doctor.
Well. said little May, I am told that
boys very often turn ou, badly, when they
grow up; staying out at night, and want.
ing late keys, or people to set up and ls.
them in. I shall do no such thing, I can
tell you, and must have . girl baby that
will stay st hOue With me and mama"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1861-01-04
From the Boston Traveller.
The State Of Affairs at the South.


We have been permitted to prin, the FOL
lowing extracts from letter written byn
Boston merchant, who has within q few day
visited Washington
wAsulSGros. Dec. -.
81 Am we'll satisfied that the Southern
party determined to seeeds Il they could not
break up the Republican party, which they
hoped to do by a Northern panic. They
expected to break our banks. paraiyle our
industry, fail our merchants, and .,arVe our
operatives. That this was and is their
game Is evident by their constant endea'ors.
both in public and private, 10 induce tha
Northerners To make some proposition - ~
bribc TO them TO remain the in Union.
They have ta'icd. Their plan i' exposed,
and the effect will be to consolidate the Re.
publican party more closely than it coali
be done by any other means. Neither will
they be able to seeede, or break up a.,
Union. l, is confessed by the leaders Of 'he
Southern party, that they have lost control
Of the movement. IL j. now in the hand.
Of the masses. and they ,remble before th'
storm they have raised. II any proof o'
this !. wanting, the fact tha, eminen'
southern men Of strong conservative ton.
denelcs are now most lnyeterate iire-eateri.
advocating extreme measures that their rr,-
vatc Judgment condemns, Is conclusive o.,
thi, point.
In the meantime, the cup they horel
to place 10 our lir-, is forced back to ihcir
own. and they must drink it to the ires-.
Already, IN Georgia and Alabama, tho
prico Of bacon and corn has risen 10 famine
rates. In the latter State ono man writes
In our neighborhood, bacon Is oj cents
per ID thrrc.fourths Of our families will
be out Of corn in two months. and without
mean. 10 purchase more. lfihls !. the state
Of affair, IN our locality now, what will b"
their condition in AprIl?' The arms which
our government has sent in such profusipn
to the South within twelve mouths, as we'll
a. those purchased since secession begun,
are placed in tho hand. OF those men who
are idle for tho want Of employment, and
hungry for the wan, Of food. Will they
.,arye while their rich nOishbor, hay,
enough to ,pare' believe there is tcn
time, the danger tha, force will be sent 10
the South 10 protect tho Shareholders from
the non.slavcholiing whites, than there will
DO need to coerce them TO remain in tie
Union.
Here the leaders are sad they 500 tie
signs of rccuperation at the North, and tie
daily depreciation and distress at the s1ush.
therefore they arc anxiou, for compro-
mise. 3u, they will not set it. First. b.
cause compromisc Is not in the nature Of
things; and. second, because the Repub.
Icon party are fully determined no, TO make
one. An effective comprouise Is nv. posi-
ole when the parties have no faith in each
other, and this 4. the cass with both tie
Northern and Southern parties"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1861-01-04

CooKr>G . GoosE. A boyihas been arres,.
cI in Paris for stealing, cooking and eatin.
goose, the property Of an old woman who
employed him. Z" DO no, deny" said tho
boy, " that | took the goose. but it was BE-
cause my mistress dld no, give me enough
10 eat 81. it true that you did not al.
low him sufficient food 2' asked the Pre,i-
dent. +" lIe alSays had the same as had.
sir" The same as you YES" said thu
boy. +" bu, IT you live On almo', nothing, |
cannot Do 50; and was starving =" And
it wa, to ca, the goose that you stole IT,
Pray where did you get it cooked'' " Dur
ing my mother. absence lighted fire in
her room and roasted the goose :" "Your
mother. on her return. must have seen
what you had done ?" No; for ato it
all before she came back :" "All what
in one neal Z" Yes, sir. had b"en halt
starved for a month, and made up for los.
time :" This answer created some surprise
and loud laughter.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1861-01-04

GEoKGn. Time, change. and meu with
them. Two weeks sso. We estimated tho
vote in our January Convention Us proba
bly, l6g for immediate secession, 10 lJs
against il. \ grca, change ha. occurred
since then. and now We have scarcely =
doub, that the immediate seces.ionisu will
b. defeated a, the January election. W.
d. no. believe from prcscn, indications that
40 immediate .eeo.sioni.,s can possibly 10
slsc.ei ~ the Convention, unless some grsa.
and uniorseen revul'ion takes place. By
immediate -eces-ioni,ts we mean those who
are pledged to carry Georgia out OF tie
Union a. soon as the convention meets,
without waiting to make any further At
ttempt at adjustment Of our troubles.
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and sentinel.
Dec. -.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1861-01-04

A MARRYING Man. good joke is told
of bIgamlst out west. Alter having mar.
ried half q dozen wiies, he was complained
Of and lodged in prison. lie soon managed,
however, to Break Jail, and was again at
large; but he being recognized by "a man
who was desirou' Of obtaining the reward
offered for his arrest. he invited tho biga.
mist to accompany him home, and he went
for an officer. On his return with the con.
stable, what was the poor fellows chagrln
to find that the Lothario bad actually ab.
sconded with his wife.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1861-01-04

], i, rumOred from Paris tha, poor Eu-
genie may be in u situation similar to that
Of the uniOrtunasa Josephine Of the First
Empire. The Countess Ca.tislioue. tor
whom the Third Napoleon is known to en-.
,er.ain suspicious regards. arrived a. the
Taileries few days before the departure Of
the Empress for England, aud some gossiper
asserts .ha, the Palace could not hold both
women.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1861-01-04

An old soater in Boston, being found in
the gutter one rainy night, the water max
ing clear brcactpver him from head to
heels was asked by passer.by what he was
doing there. "0h." said ho. 81 agreed
10 meet mah here"
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1861-01-04

Steamer Bohemian, Capt. Grange, sailed
from Portland at clock. on Saturday
afternoon.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-10-12
A Fighting Clergyman.

Rev. B. C, Ward, pastor of Congrega-
tional Church in the village of the Geneseo,
Illinois, conceives it to be his duty to for
sake the pulpit for the field. He has
received authority to raise company OF
infantry, but proposes to enlist clergymen
only An appeal to his clerical brethren,
published over his own signature, calls up
on 1.-THE fighting stock of the church mill
liant to prove to the world their willing
ness to ''seal with their blood what they
have talked il their puiPits," and colses
with this extraordinary passage:
"Much as we have said and done to prove
our loyalty, we have not yet resisted unto
blood striving against sin. Shall we DOW.
at the call of Christ, come out from behind
our aforementioned barracks. whence We
have so often hurled bold, indignat words
at the giant iniquity of the age, and meet
it face 10 face with the hot shot Of rifed ar
sillery; with cleaning bayonet, or with
clash ng sabers in hand to hand encoun-
ter 90
.Parson" Brownlow of Tennessee, has
hitherto borne the title of the lighting
parson," but be was never gone so far as
this Illinois clergymen. and Mr.. Ward is
clearly entitled TO wear the honors.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-10-12
a Rebel JubiIe

A writer in the ST. Louis {7epn5lieaa.
giving an account Of The seige ofIsexington
thus describes the scenes after the surrender:
The scenes around the streets of Lexing-
ton on Friday, after the surrender, beggars
all description. The bowls of Joy and
drunken jubilation, coming from thirty
thousand throa;s, made up q sound scarce
II less than when two days before, eighteen
pieces of artillery and ten thousand small
arms were SCATTERING the air in hi locus cho-
rus. The officers of the Confederates we're
generally gentleman, and behaved as such /;
but as for the common soldiers and their
course that evening, don't believe it could
be equaled were all He'll TO be turned loose
for general carnival. Whisky, of course,
was therein mems brains, in their eyes,
brandished lin bottles, galloping like mad''
the grand victory, eursing, blaspheming.
yelling, babbling, hurrahing-laying in
the gutter. insulting prisoners, quarreling
among friends-thus and more, did whis-
ky-the grand moving spirit that won the
battle, and then rejoiced over its success.
Very true, scarcely hundred of all the
Confederate troops were niformed-scarce-
ly two had guns alike-no two exhibited
toe same trappings. Here went one fellow
in shirt of brilliant green. on his side an
immense cavalry saber. in his belt two navy
revolvers and bowie knife, and slung from
his shoulder sharp's Rifle Right by his
side Was another, upon whose hip dangied
a light medical sword, in his hand Double
aarreled shot gun, in his boots an immense
scythe, on his heel the inevitable spur, his
whole appearance from tattered boot,
through which gazed audaciously his toes,
indicating that the plunderings of many a
different locality made up his whole. Gen
orally, the soldiers were armed with shot
guns or squirrel rifles some had the old
flint lock muskets, few had mimic guns,
and others Sharp's or Maynard's rifles, while
all, to the poorest, had horses.
The very elite of the Confederate forces
wers there-Generals Price, Rains. Slack,
Parsons, Harris, Green, Hardee, were all
there-Colonels Saunders, Hayn, Beal, Tur-
ner, Craven, Clay, and in short, I believe
the balance of the $4,000 men all either
Colonels or Majors, as / was introduced to
no one who was not either one or the other.
The treatment extended by the Confeder-
ate officers to the prisoners was both hui
name and courteous-they protected them
when possible from insult and plundering.
and as much as possible extended to them
the courtesies with which chivalrOus en-
envy always treats a conquered foe.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-10-12
From JeEerscn CITY.
LEr--.aon Gu

-. SH- fERS0N C1Tf, OcG. 4s
Inc steamer aamilie arrived this morning.
Wild the Wounded from Lexington. About
cne r-adred rebels remained in Lexington
.esday morning. Mr.. Presco..t, a residen t
....noeI 9gton, who was in NLulligan's fortif
cations during the sei:se, con1radicts the
report that Sturgis Lad arrived. Mr. Prescott
says he heard rice tell Rains and Parsons
that now WIS the time to fight, if they ever
INTENDED. TO. Since the surrender, they had
ca', two cannon at the foundry in Lexing'
! ton, which increased their field peiees to
| fourteen. They had taken them south with
Price. Capt. Abel and Henry Starr, who
were captured short time since, while car
rying dispatches from Gen Fremont to Gen
Lane, and were confined fifty hours in dun
geon at Wesport, came down on the Emille'
having escaped from Lexington.
Capt. D. o. Stanley, of the regular cavalry,
who also distinguished himself at DUG
Springs, has been appointed Brigadier Gen
eral, and will assume command of the cav
airy brigade. Gen. McKinstry is not to be
transferred to Kentucky. He will have 8
division in the West, and will start to-mor
row. It is thought that Gen. Fremont vii
also leave tomorrow. He and his arm
are enthusiastic and confident.
Col. Glover, who was left at Lexington
in critical condition, is likely to recover
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-10-12
Making Sugar from 1mphes & Sorghum

Making Sugar from 1mphee & Sorghum.
Last fail made excellent sugar from I'M
phee, by the following process. A large
tub that would hold seAen or eight bushels,
was fitted with a false bottom about two
inches from the lower end or head. This
was marked off in squares of two inches,
and a gimlet hole bored In each square.
Three thickness of flannel were then laid
in, on which three bushels of bone black
were placed, and the tub was then filed
with common hard wood charcoal; this was
used for filtering. Next. quantity of lime
was prepared by putting half peck of lime
into large jar, and covering it with water;
this was done half day before it was want
ed for use. There was also made strong
ooze of white oak bark, by pouring hot wa
ter upon it.
After having pressed out the Imphee
juice into two bushel tub, it was tested
with litmus paper, which was turned from
blue to red. l then added lime water until
The litmus paper retained its blue color when
dipped in the juice. The juice was then
poured into the filtering tub. This process
was repeated until the filtering tub was fill
ed. After having let it stand about half an
hour, the juice between the head and the
false bottom was drawn off and poured up
on the top again, and the faucet left open for
the Juice to run from the filter into the
evaporating pan. Half pint of the tan
ooze was added to the juice, and heat was
applied until it came nearly to boil, when
the fire was slackened and the whole left to
stand twenty minutes. just before the
highest temperature was reached, added
the whites of four eggs we'll beaten and
mixed with a pint of skinned milk. Hav-
ing taken off all the sum, the fire was re-
plenished, and the boiling pushed as fast
as possible, the scum being removed as it
came to the surface. When the syrup was
sufficiently reduced, it was removed from
the fire, poured into tubs and set aside. l
treated FIVE pans of juice in this way, and
all crystalized in from ten to twelve hours.
1 think it gave about sixty Per cent. of sug-
ar, I tried one pan of sorghum juice, but
| it did not form sugar though l have nc
doubt it would have done SO, if only the
three or four lower joints of the cain had
been used.
To facilitate the separation of the syrup
from the sugar, after crystalizing, intend
next season to have large tub made SINH
lar to the 6ltering tub, but with the false
bottom six inches from the lower head, and
only one thickness of flannel laid upon it.
This will allow the syrup to drain into the
lower division when it can easily he drawn
Off Cor. Of american Agriculturist
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-10-12
Panic in The Seeded States.

Late Information, upon which we can re-
", authorizes US to state that general pan
ic has taken place in the seeded States
since Monday last. The preparations of the
Federal Government to sieze certain impor-
tant posts on the Southern coast, and the
unprotected character of that coast, are
among the chief reasons for this rapidly in
creasing feeling.
Davis and the confederated traitors hav-
ing failed in their absurd demonstration up
on Washington, (Which was, in fact, new
err real, are now losing the confidence Of
the troops gathered between Richmond and
the Federal capital, and are daily attcked
with the utmost bitterness by the people
they have seduced into their conspiracy
1t is fact which events will soon estab-
lish, that thousands 1loaU in the rebel army are
anxious to be taken prisoners by the Anaeri-
can army, in order that they may be rescued
from the fearful horrors ~rsder qChich they
are suferingi Nothing prevents an out
burst in favor of the Union in North Caro-
lima, save the invasion of that State by the
South Carolina troops; and such men as
Holden and Morehead will undoubtedly
speak out against the traitors the moment
they feel strong enough so to do.
Every dollar of gold and silver is caught
up and hid away, and merchants and trades
men only part with their goods for the pa.
per of the Confederated Government, and of
the different State authorities, because they
are compelled to yield.
Let the people of the loyal States place
the fullest confidence in the Administra-
ton and the army under General Mcclellan.
They can afford to wait. Every hour that
We delay the blow upon treason strength
ems the good cause and weakens the bad
ne.-ThiLGdelphia Press 21st.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-10-12
GEN. FREMONT.

The protest OF the press and the people is
almost unanimous against the removal of
Gen. Fremont. 1t would be regarded as
most disastrous to the cause in the West,
The people have confidence in Fremont
which they have not in any other man that
could be placed in command of the Army
Of the West. His bold stand in Missouri
is looked upon by the people as one of the
best steps of the campaign. If Fremont is
guilty of misdemeanor in Office, or incom-
potency. lie should, of course, be turned
out, and no one who has the good of our
cause at heart could object, but we have
seen nothing in the charges yet, to convince
US that they are of character to warrant
his removal. So far it looks like misera-.
be blow aimed al his reputation, by his
accusers. because he refuses to be wheedlcd
into the control of certain politicians. Such
charges as the one that certain pistols and
other articles had been sold to Fremont for
more than they were worth, are very weak,
to say the least. and will not reflect much
credit on the War Department. Il will 90
far to convince the country that this is on
y personal war on Fremont.
As to whether Fremont will be removed
or not We are unable to tell. The news
from Washington on this point is very con-
tradietory. The dispatches one day state
that he will be Immediately superseded,
and the next day comes its denial accompa-
MED by the statement that there is not ev
ground to suppose that he will be de- :.
ted. The latest, and seemingly capit
thoritative intelligence in r" most a
matter, was contained ir gard to IL
Times of Lsavenwortl :, our last dai
mo truth in the u. It is as follow
superseded. .umor that Gen. Fremont
AM THOS. A. SCOTT,
Assistant Secretary of War.
% Maj. B. RrsH PLUMLY,
~ .eadquarters Department of the West
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct 3
GEN CURTIS: Gen. Fremont is not ordered
Washington, nor from the field, nor is any Co,
Martial ordered concerning him.
arr . .- w. H. SEWARD, Secretary of State
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-10-12

DRUNKEN OFFIEERs.-That our service
has already suffered very seriously from
the misdoings and short comiugs of drunk
en- officers there can be no reasonable doubt.
Not less than three Colonols. We under
stand, are now in st. Louis to answer to
charges of drunkenness, and at least one Of
them was PROFESSIONALLY sottishly drunk
when he should have been moving with the
force under his command to the assistance
of brave Union soldiers contending with
overwhelming numbers. 1t is unnecessa-
~ to bring any argument to prove that
drunken officers are unfit to be placed IN
command of soldiers in the field. The on
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-10-12
Fron 81. Hoass.
81. Lours. Oct, 4th.

81. 4kOu1ss @Ocsp 4sus
The Democrat of this norning. il an ar
ticIs showing why Gen. Lyon was not REIN
forced, states the entire force under Gen.
Fremont on 9TH August, including Lyon
command of 1000. was 1875, of which
I2, $50 were three months men whose term
of enlistment was just expiring. leaving an
actual force of .759 in the entire depart
ment. OF these Lyon had e $40 men. the
balance 4, $50 being the total strength of Free
mont's available force at this time. Cairo,
Birds Point and Paducah were menseed by
accumulatiDg rebel forces and the President
ordered Fremont to take ali his available
force and reinforce these points, for which
service only 4,196 men including upwards
of 800 st. Louis Home Guards. Rolla the
terminus of the South West branch of the
Pacific Rarilraod, at this time was the de-
pot of a very large and valuable quantity
of army stores and munitions, and was pro-
tected by the seventh Missouri regiment,
Col. Stevenson, and the thirteenth Illinois,
Col. Wyman, the former of which was or
dered to march to Springfield, but in con-
sequence of transportation it could not
move the articles. Also shows distribu-
ton throughout the State of the constantly
disbanding of the three months men, and
says after the battle Fremont was thorough
ly exonerated from blame by very rnany
men now the loudest in condemGiug him.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-10-12
Forgotten.

The follow ing was cut from an Ohio pa
per sevent cen years ago. 1t has beer care
fully preserved by one who, approaching
its value, desires to have it reappear in The
Independent for the benefit of generation
after eneration -
Generation after generation" says an
eloquent modern writer, "have felt as a0e
feel, and their fellows were as active in life
as ours are now. They passed away as a
vapor, while nature wore the same aspect
of beauty as when her Creator commanded
her to be. And SO likewise shall it be
when we are gone. The heavens will be as
bright over our grave as they are now
around our path the world will have the
same attraction for offspring yet unborn
that she had once for ourselves, and that
she has now for our children. Yet little
while, and all this will have happened
The throbbing heart will be stilled, and we
will be at rest. Our funeral will wind on
its way, and the prayers will be said, an
the graye-clouds will be thrown in, and our
friends will all return, and we shall be left
behind to darkness and the worm. And it
may be for some short sine we shall be
spoken of but the things of life will soon
be forgotten. Days win continue to move
on, and laughter and song will be heard in
the very chamber in which we died and
the eye that mourned for US will be dried
and will glisten again with Joy, and even
our children will cease to think of US, and
viii not remember to lisp our name. Then
Then shall we have become, in the touchin
language of the Psalmist, forgotten and
clean out of mind,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-10-12
INDIANS.


There is now no doubt but the Cherokees,
Ross and all, have gone over to the Con-
federacy, and are now raising fighting men.
Every tribe of Indians on the plains, and
evry tribe in Eastern Kansas, have been
tempered with, by Secession agents, and
some of them at least, occupy neutral po-
sition, which is nearly as bad as Secession
itself. Il is now high time that the people
of Southern Kansas were organizing. Let
every man join some military company
and hold himself in readiness to meet the
proable iuvasions of rowing bands of Secs
sion Indians. Something should also be
done by our authorities to keep the Indians
of Kansas from joining the Secessonists
The Secessiouists claimed great victory
at Springfield. and there is no doubt but
what this determined the course which has
been taken by Ross and his people. Anoth'
er fight or two of that kind will take other
tribes over, to sweet their ranks.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-10-12

TRIAL OF COLONEL BLAIR.-The St. Louis
correspondent of the New York Tribune
speaks as follows of the forthcoming trial OF
Col. Blair by military tribunal, under the
orders of Gen. Fremont:
g The trialof Col. Frank P. Blair, jr.. on
the allegation of bringing charges against
his superior officer in a manner contrary to
the army regulations, will take place before
court7martial in a few days, Major B. NJ
Corwin acting as Judge Advocate. Among
other documents of intrest likely to be
brought out in evidence, viii be letters from
Col Blair to members of the Cabinet and :
letter from Presiden: Lincoln to Mrs. FIRE.
mont written during her recent visit to Wash
ington. 1t would, of course, be unjust tc
attempt 10 decide upon the merits of the
case uutil he evidence is developed"