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Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-10-18

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,s IN. ,.,u.c.. a.. IN. ipto the 6eA from
- S,.,as IN .rc.lsn. st,Is and Ivss very much
- n, ,ba c,mnlstensr. of the vsy In which the
rS.,h u..s.cb,.st,, Regiment Vas turned ont With
asasa. .1ona tents uuiforma horses. coumissariat
1870, .o that II vss ad, for oamp,gu 10 al re-
1917 s,csnt th,t the men-ane stout hardy docking
fslIovs-vere not acquainted with their drill The Yer
mont Regiment was provided with spendd stteess and
An a.,rrS.y n had spendid b,tiaou from Pennsyl-
,.ns Rnt tbere IA stil great inequality In the arms,
eouinmsnta and efficiency Of the line. Col Burnside,
no promoted 20 the rank Of Brig dier-6sneral sp-
noined To take charge of all the regiments on their s'
val and TO ees them into working order before they are
sent across the river Every thing done that can DO
,dectsd by the superior ofcers but the men still In.
dulye in grumbDg aud and then shoot each other
Eventually however. ard In no long time there WIZ De
q new spirit among them. q
Cen scotts order in which be congratuates the army
m the prospect of being paid in papsr instead of gold
has not produc any marked effect on the troops but
At the same time they do not complain Of It. The vet
er.n chief of the American army speaks Of retiring In
another month 10 Joy an honored rspose Ill fare they
who serve Republic Washington's estate Wilder
ness-his monument unfinished. Gen. Scots mama has
f,llsu ont of mems memory In few weeks There are
great expectaiiors of the rev General Hallsck mes:
Sstnousbed West Point officer long connected With the
overoment of Oaforni., who has come out Of private
s in that State in order to lead the troops Of the Uni
ted statee The Navy Department b making prodisous
EFF ,rts TO procure cannon and several English frms
gardless Of the Queens proclamation, have sent over
their here to make offers for contracts to
supply steel and other ordnance.
vrELISs AT THE SOUTH.
The mass of the South fighting for Union OF their
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-10-18
Tn. AIbcmarle Congregational District.

RG.H Kean, ESQ, of Lynchburg, has accepted the
call of number Of his fellow-citizens to become
candidate fos Congress in the District OF which that
CITY composes a part. As Mr.. X. Is not SO well
nown in portions of the District the other gentlemen
whose names have been announced, we depart nothing
from our purpose to take no part in advocating the
claims of particular candidates, in saying that be is
Young gentlemen whose political sentiments moral char
acer, attachments and intellect wouli grace the position
for which he is a candidate He is now in the ranks Of
the Army of the Potomac illustrating his patriotism BY
his acts. The following is his reply to the call made
upon him
CAxP HARRISON, MAR FAIREAx COURTHOUSE
October IL, 1861.
r., U,,,r, T. L Aysaistead, SrR1tsi B. Ohrtstidn n.
" P,ssU I Un,sr7aysr, J. " Gordon, William u.
Branch and others:
GsxrLruES Il have Just seen in the Lyrchourg "fr'
einsu" of the llh insL your letter, calling en- me 10
hermit myself TO be voted for candidate for seat
m the first Congress of the Confederate States :.
If IA shall be the pleasure Of the voters OF the dis
rct 10 honor me with their oonhdepce so far as to elect
me can only pledge myself TO do whatever inous'ry
and zeal NAV accomplish, to vindicate their choice
The active duties Of an "enlisted man., belonging to
the advanced forces OF the Army OF the TO mac VII
prevent my seeing anything OF the people OF Tie dsr O.
be ore the day OF election Never having SOUGHT puoc
oai.e am personally uuscquainted in portions OF the
street To the people then would briefly say that am
fer msn aiming to the utmost the principles upon when
the present revelation has proceeded in virginia ana
b,t II elected shall Abor earnestly to secure ne H.
erests Of the people in putting the new INTO
successful operation and by warning against the mai
fold conceptions whose presence In the OLD one contrib
used largely render the establishment oil Inc ne" one
necessary ~
Respectfully, &C., X. q. Il. kEAN
Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1861-10-18


or the ultimate power Of the Eorthern and Western
States to subugate the seeded States In the south
they put forth all their strength and means by sea and
land have no doubt whatever. The South mus. die Of
s,rophy aiter time II every channel Of line is thut to
IT, By the end Of this month, the United States will
have large ,et the coasts and the rivers and
have reason think that expedition will be organ zsd
also to attack the Texan Secessonists from the West
far as that Is away naval officer said TO me the other
day It seems as II the moment an American sees an
Englishman he things the latter s going TO say
thing about cotton "You heed not b, afraid OF any
want Of cotton in England. By October we will have
few good ports down South, and pl MY OF cotton for all
the world"
Fernandez may possibly 60 soon there is an eye
Pensacos also, and New Orleans is by no means safe
Tho cond on to which the blockade has reduced many
classes in the South is bad enough il will become still
worse Tea, coffee and clothing arc nearly exhausted
or have the American phrase has Il, given out be-
cause there Is none TO give out at oil. Lead, Sulphur
and salt are very scarce Shoes flannel quinin' beef
and butter CLOTH tin and leather are 10 the same cate
CORY II the blockade be enforced the distress and want
Of all things, natural produce, will be intense.
CONDITION AND IMPROVEMENT or TIE ARMY.
Sloveliness Of dress and gait, when of duty long
looks unbutoned coats unpolished boots and equip.
ments mark many Of the men, and the practice OF salu
ting officers OF high rank, Is rather exceptional
Bat things arc vastly improved. General Mcclellan
knows that he has number OF brave and intelligent
in bis hands they not an army, but they arc
the making, as we cav, of splendid one. They have
been formed into br gsdes and divisions but that Ia for
the convenience of commands the brgades are OF
10 in q condition TO oct in that initial capacity The
drills to which the men are subjected are still OF the
most elementary character but their marching very
good indeed and attempts, recently made, to d.
rect brgades from point 10 point and 70 sh them from
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-05
The scylla aud ChnrybdI. of Every mnn,l

H-
Every man has them-a Seylla and
Charybdis-equipped with them as much as
he is with hands and feet. Always avoiding
the one, he is forever in danger of encount-
ering the other.
"a. X. H. b." whose forcible papers in
FTdSey's Magazine are, we are glad to know,
to be forthwith issued in b ok form has writ
ten capital article showing in striking
light what pendulums we all are how,
striving TO steer wide of the one wrong, we
get far over into the other.
The subject is so new, from the point he
considers it, and the treatment so vigorous,
that we are free to confess it has been a long
time since we took so much pleasure in read
ing magazine article.
ut seemsS' he says, to be great law of
the universe, that wrong lies upon either side
of the way, and that right is the narrow
path between. There are the two ways of
doing wrong--too much and too little. &c
to the extreme right hand, and you are
wrong; go to the extreme left hand and you
are wrong too. That you may be right, you
have to keep somewhere between these two
extremes; but not necessarily in the exact
middle All this, of course, is part of the
great fact that in this world evil has the
advantage of good. 1t is easier to do wrong
than right.
ut is very natural to think that if one
lining OF, course DC wrong, lIS reverse must
be right. If it be wrong to walk toward the
east, surely it must be right to walk toward
the west. If be wrong to dress in black,
it must be right to dress in white. Itis
somewhat hard to say, DUN infant stulh vita,
n conHdrid ctsTtsat-to declare, as if that
were statement of the whole truth, that
fools mistake reverse of wrong for right.
Fools do so, indeed; but not fools only. The
average human being, with the most honest
intentions, is prone 10 mistake reverse OF
wrong for right. We are fond, by our natural
constitution, Of broad distinctions--of class
ifications that put the whole interests and
objects of this world TO the right hand and
to the left. We long for aye or motor heads
OF tails. We are impatient of limitations,
qualifications, restrictions. You remember
how Mr.. Micawbe explained the philosophy
of income and expenditure, and urged people
never to run in debt. Income, said he,
'fl0O a year; expenditure, f99 19s.: Hap
piness. Income, f100 year; expenditure,
fl00 Is. Misery You see the principle
involved is, that if you are not happy, you
must be miserable-that if you are not mis-
cradle, you must be happy. If you are not
any particular thing, then you are its oppo-
site. If you are not for, then you are
against. If you are not black, many men
will Jump to the conclusion that you are
white-the fact probably being that you are
grayp
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-05
Singular suicide of a Printer in I,ost0u

Francis Pennell, a printer employed in the
Rdtt1cdy Times, Boston, committed suicide
on Monday, in a singular manner. He was
observed to be i'll in the morning, and a
physician was sent for. He conversed with
the landlady and others in the afternoon, and
at about three o'clock he was found in his
room by the cbambermaid, lying on his bed,
a corpse. He had severed one of the veins
of his throat with a pen. knife, and his hand
was at his throat, clasping the knife, which
was thrust into his neck. Both blades were
open, but he had effected his purpose with
the smaller one. On examination it was
found that he had also stabbed himself five
times in the region of the heart, with the
blade from sword-cane and it now appears
that he had also taken laudanum -
1t is supposed that he took the poison on
Sunday evening, and that an overdose occa-
stoned his illness Of the next day, instead of
intervention of physician was likely to
save, he used the sword-cane, and that, fail
ing to hit the heart he then had recourse to
his knife.
He left letter, dated on Saturday, re-.
questing that his body might be sent to
Portland, and giving directions in regard to
his property, but containing no clue to the
trouble which led to the act. II is supposed
that he must have been afflicted with i'm
sanity, which appears to be hereditary in
his family. A painful circumstance, in con-
nection with the affair, is the fact that a
brother of the deceased committed suicide
several years since, while sitting at a table
and eonversing, by stabbing himself to the
heart with pair of scissors. ...
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-05

Account of the Composition Of n Popular
Opern-HistOry of "La Dame Blanche"
The Paris correspondent of the New Or
leans Piedyune says '' .'F
Boildieu, in his master piece, La Dame
Blanche, certainly took more pains, with this
score than he took with any other of his
operas. Its success has repaid all the labor
he bestowed on it. The history of this
opera is so singular it warrants the telling.
After having given to the world a great
many operas which met great success, Boil
dieu, like a good many other men, dis
contented with the fame he possessed, took
it into his head he would like repose and
quiet and obscurity. 1t was not long be-
fore he found that obscurity 10 q man who
has been long in possession of fame is very
much like death, and consequently any
thing but agreeable. Monsieur Scribe, hear
ing how heavily retired life weighed upon
Boildieu, wrote a "book" of an opera
comique (the best "book," by the way, he
ever wrote and carried it TO the composer.
The temptation came in a plant hour it
was powerful; Boildieu was weak; he 'ac-
cepted it, enioined Monsieur Scribe to keep
his secret, and set to work.
After working for some months, he showed
his labors to several friends, pledging them
to secrecy. They, of course, told the secret
10 llSlf AllGuuSi anu luOSCt W
theirs all Paris was soon in the secret. The
manager and the actors and the actresses OF
the Opera Comique besieged the door, beg
ging, the manager for the opera, and the
Others for the best parts in it. The manager
begged for a long while In vain. Boildieu
was afraid to confront the footlights again.
His work did not seem sufficiently polished.
He rewrote-then he wrote it again, and
the most important parts Of it he wrote sew
eral times more. Never did he polish work
as he did this, for he was an easy composer,
At last he yielded TO the opportunities OF
the manager and Of his friends, and retoueh-
ing it 10 the very last moment he gave it 10
the opera-house. The whole day and all the
evening Of the first performance Of il, until
the curtain fell, he was in state Of nervous
ness and anxiety he had neyergknown be-
fere. The opera was more than successful !
it was tTiumph--a triumph unparallele in
the history of the lyrical theater. Il was
play ed l56 times in the first twelve moAths
of its career. Labor not only conquers all
things-it gives immortality.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-05

REHARKABLE PHENOMENA IN BORING FOR
On IN CAEADA.-A numoer of residents of
Michigan went over to Sombra, O. W., in
the early part of October, and commenced
boring some fifteen or twenty feet from
creek, under the belief that oil would be
found, and on the nth of the month, when
they had got down about fifty-seven feeli
they struck a vein of gas. ...
On removing their auger, which was
several feet in diameter, the gas rushed with
great force from the ap, dIe, and tontinulA
70 throw up dry sand for an hour. IL then
ceased, and the boring was resumed; but as
soon as this was done, the gas again rushed
up with such violence as to throw the drill
piece Of iron one and a half inches in diamCs
ter, eight feet long, and weighing fifty
pounds-clean out of the hole and it con-
tinued to discharge gravel, water and stones
some of the latter weighing twenty-five
pounds, up into the air distance of 100
feet. .....-
The stream widened out to the diameter
of barrel, after leaving the hole, and the
quantity was such as to raise the creek con-
siderably above its ordinary level, though it
is here above twenty-five feet wide. After
the flow Of water subsidized, the gas was fred,
and an explosion took place which shook
the ground for half mile, and then con-
tinued to send up sheet of fame as high as
the water had previously gone. This fame
could be seen for miles, and was ultimately
extinguished with great difficulty. Ii il
thought that the oil spring, for such 10 has
proved to be, will be one Of the best IN the
country.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-05

The OLD MoTTo OF SOUTH CAAoLINA.-
The old motto of the State of South Carolina
was sous SepGrabit?"-WhO shall divide us2
1t referred to the bundle Of spears represent
ing the Union, which lie under the protect
ing shadow Of the Palmetto-tree, in the
State coat of arms. The Union has been safe
from external assaults; but now it is assailed
at home, by South Carolina herself. Gould
there be more bitter sarcasm, a more with
ering taunt, to this refractory State, than
that contained in her own heraldic device
and motto2 The Union has been unassailed
by every foreign power But, forgetting the
honorable device of their fathers, the present
race of South OaTOlinians are dishOnoring
their own escHtcheon. They are trying to
break up the Union upon which depends all
their glory, past and future. But let the rest
of the Union try to save them ff9m this dis
grace, and adopting, as a national cry, the
motto Of South Carolina, proudly ask, "QUis
SepdTabit ~
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-05
Description Of the Paris POIIee-BIOdei
Guardians Of the CIty,s Peace.

The street police Of Paris furnish model
worthy of imitation. The Partisan police
mans dress is peculiarly attractive. II con-
ssts of cooked hat without feathers, but
tastefully ornamented; a dark blue cloth
dress. coat, with the prettiest cut swallow
tail Imaginable; blue pants and small sword.
This office is entirely filled by deserving
soldiers, as a reward of merit. The Partisan
policeman is agentleman; he is never oficious;
always pleased when he can be useful in
directing the inquirer or relieving the fire.
quently entanged mass Of carriages at the
crossings of the vast thorOughfares. One
remarks how few policemen there are, and
yet how surely, when any thing occurs,
there always seems to happen that one is
just at the spot on the occasion. Our Ameri-
can cities might profit by sending committees
to get the hang of this variation from our
characteristics. .a.
Wherever there is to be gathering of
the people, competent posse of police is
provided by Government. The race-course,
the theater, the public dancing-saloons the
concert, find always, inside and outside, Of
fetal vigilance, which never fails to preserve
peace and decorum.
Troopers are seen, also, at the outgoing
from the operas, keeping order among the
carriages. In every direction one sees the
good effects of this vigilance. Order reigns
no rude or boisterous alterations are heard
but quiet good humor and universal polite
ness win your notice and your cordial ad-
miration. s..,
A driver of cabriolet on the Boulevards,
was apparently so much elevated by wine
as to make him an unsafe guide among the
closely-crowded carriages on those finest
thOroughfares of the world, though he was
not what we should call intoxicated. The
vigilant policeman quietly took the horses
by the head, and beckoned the coachman to
descend, which he did without word. He
was placed in custody of another officer,
while the first one, after inquiry of the COM
paDy inside, mounted the box and drove
them to their destination. There was no
noise and no audible word spoken nor were
persons allowed to gather as spectators.
A cabman, in making turn into the
Boulevards at the same time, had the mis-
fortune to have his horse hurt by slipping
! on the smooth fiat stones which formed the
| crossing. A policeman, as usual, was on the
spot in an instant. He interrogated several
bystanders, who certified that the thing was
a casualty not chargeable to the driver, but
in a great measure to weak knees and over
worn horse-shoes. After having aided to
| get matters right, Re handed the coaehman
| his card, as a reference for his employer.
| This saves him from discharge.
Sc when bus is belated by Instructions
or excusable cause of any kind, the police
mans card is always given, and this settles
the matter with the owners.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-05
secessiou n smpeudoas OIndnes,.

A few years ago Mr.. Boyce, now one of
the Secession leaders, and lately member
of Congress-where he distinguished himself
by his ability and good sense-ridiculed the
idea of Secession as extreme nonsense. In an
address to the people of South Carolina, he
said:
''South Carolina can not become nation.
God makes nations-not man. You can not
extemporise nation out of South Carolina.
1t is simply impossible; we have not the re-
sources. We could exist by tolerance; and
what that tolerance would be, when we con-
slider the present hostile spirit of the age to
the institution of Slavery, all may readily
imagine. trust we may never have to look
upon the painful and humiliating spectacle.
From the weakness of our national govern
ment feeling of insecurity would arise, and
capital would lake the alarm and leave rs.
"But it may be said, let capital go To this
/ reply, that capital is the life-blood of a
modern community; and in losing it, you
lose the vitality of the State.
Secession, separate nationality, with all
its burdens, is no remedy. 1t is no redress
for the past; it is no security for the future.
1t is only magnificent sacrifice of the pres
ent, without in any wise gaining in the
future. Such is the intensity of my eonvic-
tion on the subject, that if Secession should
take place-of which have no idea, for
can not believe in such stupeRd0uS madness
shall consider the iRstiAtiOR of sLdUery as
doomed, and that the great God, in our blind
ness, has made us the instruments of its
destruction"
Since Mr.. Boyce wrote this, Secession has
taken place, and we should like to know if
be has changed his opinion.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-05
A LegaI View of ShakspeRro-An At
torneyss Criticism ON tSShyIOck.O


own that | never perused my chief fa-
yorite, the Merchant Of Venice, without q
mixture Of melancholy to think that it has
so many faults, and in particular that the
distress turns chiefly upon embarrassments
with which no lawyer can seriously sympa-
thiEe. There are several striking flaws in
this drama. In the fist place, "Antonios"
difficulties arise entirely from his gross over
sight in not eifecting an insurance upon his
various argosies. He should have opened
set of policies OF once upon the Rialto, where
marine insurance Is perfectly well under
steod and where the brokers would have
got him fifty names in a forenoon to any ex-
tent upon ship, freight or cargo, lost or not
lost. This prudential step would have giyen
q totally different turn 10 the whole affair
When he wanted to help' Bassanio' with
1000 ducats for three months, he could easily
have raised the money at four per cent. on
the security of an assignment of the policy.
"Shylock" says of him, Antonio is good
man, yet his means are in supposition: he
hath an argosy bound to Tripolis, another
to the Indies; / understand, moreover, upOn
the Rialto, he hath a third at Mexico, a
fourth for England, and other ventures he
has squandered abroad. But ships are but
boards sailors are but men there be land
rats and water rats, water thieves and land
thieves-I mean pirates; and then here is
the peril of waters, winds and rocks"
Now, these are the very risks which the
contract of insurance is intended to cover,
as is clearly explained in Marshall and other
writer's and as expressed in the following
clauses inserted in all policies; Touching
the adventures and perils which the said
assurers are contented to bear, and to take
upon them in this voyage, they are of the
seas, men-of-war, fire, enemies, pirates,
rovers, thieves, jettisons, &c, barretry of
the masters or mariners, and of all other
perils, losses and misfortunes that have or
shall come to the hurt, detriment or damage
Of the said goods or merchandise, aud ship or
vessel"
With this precaution Ano1io's menn5
would have teen no longer in supposition,
but in certainty, and as good as hard cash,
under deduction, merely, of the premium of
insurance. finally, when intelligence was
received of "Antonio's argosies being
wrecked, it is plain that he might, in these
circumstances, have at once abandoned to
the underwriters, and claimed for total
loss. 1t is painful to see so many amiable
characters involved in griefs and in difficult
ties, which this simple aud natural expe-
dent would have obViatad. My feelings at
this affection are some thing akin to those
of very susceptible medical friend, who
declares that he can never sit out Romeo and
Juliet from the thought that judicious use
of the stomach-pump, in the last scene,
would remove all the distresses, and make
two lovers happy.
Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-01-05

A MASSACHUSETTS SAVIEes BAEK.-The
shoemakers Of Lynn, Mass, are not by any
means destitute Of money but have some
thing laid away for a rainy day. At re-
cent meeting Of the Lynn Five Gents Saw
ings Bank, which has been organized but
short time, il was announced that the de-
posits amounted 10 about $3l, 900, there
having been constant increase for some
time past. fH