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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-10-18
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confidence on It's speed, transit
The kAics OF Freight
To any point ln the Ness b. the Pcnnss lsania Rail
Road. al all times As FabuIABLE AS AhE
CHARGED BY OTHER COMPANIES.
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The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-18
The way Government Work is Done.

! The Washington correspondent Of the
| Nashville Patriot has been Investigating the
mysteries of government contracts, and gives
the following striking illustration of the sub
lect -
The way the government gets its work
done is curious AS an illustration, you and
your family meet in convention OF the whole,
and adopt q resolution authorizing the con-
strdction OF hen coop in your back yard
You at once appoint me superintendent of
the work, putting o thousand or two of dol
lars in bank for me to check on. | get you
to appoint my bro,herin.aw chief engineer.
I appoint two Of my brothers assistant super
intendents and my brother in.law appoints
two of his brothers assistant cnginecrs--all
at your expense. We buy US each fast
horse and buggy, and ride around town. drink
hot cocktails and play billiards s,unti' the bank
deposit gives out, when we make out print
ed report of Is pages, furnishing you COM
pete topogra phical survey of your back yard,
and vast amount Of statistical information
with regard to the number Of hens you are
likely to have for the next forty years. We
wind up the report with the announcement
that the site OF the hen coop has been select
ed, aud u call for another appropriation to
prosecute the work, which We assure you will
be done with visor.' You place another
thousand or two in bank, and We employ two
hundred hands at three dollars day to
transport Is Cts. worth Of lumber (Which
costs you under our management about ten
times that many dollars) to the place of oper-
ations, which requires about 3 months. In
the meantime we drive around and 60 on vig-
orously with the liquor and billiards. We
then come up with another report, and de-
mand for another appropriation. With this
we get the walls Of the structure up,and with
one or two more appropriations, and a great
many m2re cocktails and biliards,we get the
thing covered in,and at the end Of II moths,
which we very appropriately style our fiscal
year. we put you in fornel possession of a
$4,000 hen-coop tha, any negro carpenter
would have been glad to knock up some SAT
ur'lay afternoon for salt ofyour old clothes.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-18
A Senator's Decision upon Rival Applicants
for Post Office.

At the late exciting Session, when tho
rush for post Office appointments was so great
the following, from Holbrook's United State'
Mail, may be read with interest:
:" The subject Of post,mistrcsscs remind.
US of an amusing anccdotc which is related
Of an ex-senator, the Hon. Daniel S. Dick.
inson. A po:t-ofioe not far from his resi-
dence becoming vacant, lively contest
sprung up for the appointment, and among
the applicants was Mrs. Nancy W
Cong ess being in session at the time, the
worthy Senator, in accordance with uses in
such cases, was requested to Call at the DE.
partment to look at the papers in the case in
hand. The request was promptly complied
with, and the documents duly inspected, not
without some perp'cxi'y in the mind Of the
Senator; for two of his personal and po)iti-
cal friends, both highly respected and compe-
tent men, were, as appeared from the papers,
about neck and neck in the race for office,
so far as influential signatures on either side
could make them so.
But suddenly light dawned upon the
Senator. A neatly written note, in a lady's
handwriting, came to view, applying for
the office in her own behalf, and giving but q
single name as reference, snd that the name
of the honorable Senator himself. He had
known her deceased husband intimately ard
most favorably Tor many years, and was no
stranger to the young widow herself. After
a moments reflection he carefully returned
tue delicate missivc to its place, and made
the following laconc enforcement upon the
paper | &c for Nancy" Nancy was, of
course, appointed, and is still faithfully serv-
ing the public in til, capacity of post-mls-
tress.'
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-18
THE ApPoJNTNENTs.--A'N New York correspon.

The APPoJNTMENTs.--A New York correspon-
dent of Zlon's Herald says 9 In these regions.
long before the Conferences sit the appointments
Of preachers are pretty much fixed, and your
clerical readers may be Interested to know, what
is secret known all over town. in New York
that the following is pretty much settled on
An eloquent preacher, son of a distinguished
minister OF the Gospel decease d, is to be Trans
ierred from the Philadel phia Conference to ill
the pit of one of our leading Churches; Rev
Rev. G. S. Hare, the popular minister Of the
Central Methodist Episcopal Church, will go to
trinity the splendid church on Thirty
Fourth street DIR. Abel Stevcns now wihouta
charge, but actively employed on his History of
MethodisM, goes to Seventeenth Street as its
pastor Rev, Mr.. NJ 'Kown, now in Thirty
Fourth. Street, "up the River" as we call it
here, namely, up the Hudson, say to Pough-
kcepsio. That amable man and worthy mission
a'y, Mr. Maclay, sails for China with his fam.
lily the beginning OF next month
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-18
1flisfellallp.
From the Christian Messenger.
War Commenced.

We give in this issue, as far as we are able,
the particulars in regard to the attack and sur
render of Fort Sumter. The event, Of itself
considered, is not matter of great account
,, We have not Us yet learned that any lives have
been sacrificed, but . number of persons have
been wounded. The Fort could be of no great
moment to Us if held by our troops. But t;.,
king the event in all Of it's connections, it is
one of alarming magnitude. 1t was delbcr
ate attack upon our Government, which hal
been long premeditated and matured by a band
of rebels, in treason against the Government
The event fully inaugurates the dreaded horrors
of civil war, and demonstrates that the infatu-
atcd South have become so recklessly insane,
that they are willing 10 take the consequences
of an avowcd hostility to the General Govern
mcnt. If civil war must come, VIC arc glad
that the responsibility of sprlnging this flood
gate Of ruin belongs not to our Government-
The rebels have been treated with the greatest
clcmency until even forbearance has apparently
ceased to be o virtue. The South, in this mat
ter have been treated with mercy which they
never have shown to others. They have not
been willing to tolerate, among their own citi-
zens, the freedom of speech or of the press
Think of the fate of John Brown and his asso.
cates: who were adjudged as guilty of treason.
While our Government remained inactive in
regasd to the reinforcement tof Fort Sumter,
the rebels were busy in planting their batteries
and marshaling their soldiers They had
agreed to grant Major Anderson his supplies,
and only fed him until they had fully matured
their plans to storm the Fort, and then demand
his surrender, and still claim no responsibility
in the commencement of hostilities Our Gov
ernmcnt did not even ask tho privilege of put
ting men into their own Fort, but simply to
carry food to her starving soldiers, and even
this was denied.
We know not how 10 account for this mad
ness of the South, but on the suppositon that
they are left to this hardness of heart to rush
into position which must lead to the abroga.
tion of that foul system of American Slavery
r''';"l' hos always been reproach and curse to
the Country.
Similar instances Of judicial blindness may
be found in the history of the world. We have
an illustration in the drowning of Pharaoh
and all his mighty host, in the Red Sea. After
witnessing the miracles by which God had just
desolated the land of Egypt, nothing but abso-
lutte Judicial madness could have induced them
to march into the deep after their slaves.
Another example we have in the destruction
of Jerusalem by the Romans, as recorded by
Josephus. That more than q million of Jews
should suffer themselves to bo shut up by vic
torious army in one city, there to perish by
famine, and by falling into factions, and but
cheering one another, cannot be accounted for in
any other way, than by ascribing it toa judi
cial madness through which the wrath of God
was poured out upon them to the uttermost.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-18
1)oetrp.
Dead Love

Dead Love
We are face to face, and between " he"
Is the ;ove we thought could never die
Why has it only lived year!
Who has murdered it-you or
No matter who--the deed was done
BY both, and there it lies:
The smile from the lip forever zone,
And darkness over the beautiful eyes.
Our love is dead, and our hope is wrecked;
So what does it pro fit to talk and rave,
Whether it perished by my neglect,
Or whether your cruelty dug its grave!
Why should you say that am to blame,
Or why should charge the sin you?
Our work is before us all the same,
And the guilt of it lies between US two.
We have praised our love for its beauty and grace
Now stand here, and hardly dare
TO turn the face cloth back from the face,
And see the thing that is hidden there.
Yet look ah that h cart has beat its las,
And the beautiful lite of our life is o'er,
And when have buried and left the past,
We two, together, can walk no more.
You might stretch yourself on the dead, and weep,
And pray as the Prophet prayed, in pain;
But not like him could you break the sleep,
And bring the soul to the clay again.
Its head in my bosom can lay,
And shower my woe there, kiss on kiss,
But there never resurrection day
In the world for a love so dead as this!
And, since cannot lessen the sin
BY mourning over the deed we did,
Let us draw tn winding sheet up to the chin,
Ay, up till the dea.h blind eyes are hid
Chambers Journal. PHEBs CARY
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-18

VINO THE PEOPLE WANT FOR A MlNIsrER-
Presiding Elders have chance to learn what
kind of preachers the people desire. We have
some letters before US on this subject much af-
ter the same sort, and they speak for themselves
4 good brother writing US in regard to their
next preacher says Send US u man who has
experienced rehgion, a man Of God, an enorget-
ic, working, pious man,
Another writes . If We canno. have q
preacher who will visit among the people, it is
Of 70 use to have one sent If we arc to have
nothing done but little preaching on the Sab
bath, our local preachers can do that. We
want man who is social, and knows how, and
wM make pastoral visits, even if he cannot
preach.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-18

4 CRY FULL OF GRAIN.--The total
amount of grain exclusive Of rye and bar
ley} in store at the present time in Chicago
is calculated at 3,900,S40 bushels. The
warehouses arc 80 full that they will hold no
more, and the current receipts have to be
put into vessels. All the railway compa-
MES excepting the Rock Island and Bur
lington} have given instructions TO their
agents not to receive any more grain in bulk
at their respective stations Tor the present
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-18

The effect of the use Of tea has been discussed
Professor Johnstono, a good authority, has as
serted that it prevents TIC waste OF the body,
and nourishes it, Dr.. Smith, IN I. lecture re-
comfy delivered before the Society of Arts,
maintained that tea was good only in helping
our digestion Of fat or fArlnaceous food, and
thus far was nonrishng but If the tissues are
wasted by oxcrtions or too profuse perspirations,
tea is injurious. 1t does not suit Il spare hab
it, or much exerton, or low temperatures. or u
defective skin, These opinions are not gene
rally held
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-18

CorroN FROM THE SoUTH.-Wuhin three days
last week eighteen thousand bales of cotton
have passed through Buffalo en- route for Boston.
The cost for transportation per bale from Mem
phis to Boston is 81 40. This is cheaper than it
can be shipped via New Orleans, and the differ
cnce in time is abont thirty days in favor Of tho
Northern route.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-18

RINGwoEM.-Thi is called o disease, al
though it does not seem to affect the general
health of person injected with it, Chill
dram appear to be it's subjects, and it is so
infectious that it has been known to rnn
through whole school. Itappears in cir
cular patches of little pustules, and destroys
the bulbs of the hair when it forms on tho
head. The proper treatment for it consists
in keeping it clean by frequent washing in
soap and water. 1t is more liable to attack
weakly than strong children, and although
dsagreeablo in appearance il is not danger
Gus. An ointment composed of vegetable
tar mixed with a little sulphate Of zinc,
ground to powder, will soon ,cmove it. Mer-
cu.ial ointment is sometimes used, but it
should seldom, if ever be employed. When
a riugworm appears on the face, an ointment
of honey mixed with little flour Of sui phur
is said to be an excellent remedy. Black
iok is sometimes employed as a lotion in this
disease with good effect; but solution of
sulphaie OF iron, or copperas, as it is gene
rally called will do equally well.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-18

p. Green asks the following conundrum -
w hat beverage--for yourself and your friend
does Shylock's mouth suggest Two JeW
Ups!
Also, speaking of Jews and beverages, why is
Wilson's brewery like Jewish tavern Be-
cause Hc-brcWS drink there.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-18

She that lveth in pleasure the insipid
word here is not sin, or sloth, or deceit; but,
" she that liveth in p'eosurc-is dead wAie
she Ryeth.'
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-18

The French revolution is another illustration.
In that reign Of terror no man nor woman
was safe, and under it the Government and the
governed pershed in their own blood together.
1t was an epidemic, and contagious madness
seized alike upon the rulers and the people, and
hurrying them alternately as victims and exc
cuti,ncrs to the all devouring guillotine.
1t is downright madness, it can be nothing
short of this, that has driven the cotton States
into their present position. " If it cannot be
averted, it may, by the sweep of its terrible
vortex, draw in the border States up to Mason
and Dxon's lire, and then where are we?-
Two dslocated fragments Of one great, united
Republic, 50 lately the hope of liberty, and the
terror Of tyrants in other lands Let us con-
tinuc in fervent prayer to the God of our IA
theirs, that He will robuke the madness of the
people, and save us. But should Llc as Il pun
ishment of our sins permit it, let us still hope
that herein He will cause the wrath Of man to
praise HIM, and the remainder of wrath re-
strain"
Vermont is called upon to furnish soldiers lor
National defense, and the North will be likely
to learn, in this struggle. that they have some
thing to do with Slavery. Let every Christian
lift his heart to God in prayer, that these con-
vulsons may be overruled as shall be for the
glory of God, and the best interests OF His
at the head of our National affairs, and pray
that they may have grace and wisdom from
above, to enable them wisely to direct and su-
perlntcnd our National interests.
BREvlrr.-" Quid Nunc,'' in the Piltsburgh
Adrocote, furnishes chapter on "Formularics''
for % Ministerial Associations =. Revival No
tices,' and Obituaries. Speaking of the
latter he says:
Z" In the estimation Of the people generally
We fall into at least two grievous errors l. In
an obstinate use Of the threadbare expressions
and phrases. 2. In drawing them out to an
annoying length. Our editors have been plead
ING with us tor years to make our obituaries
shorter; and SO urgent is the necessity that ono
of our General Conference editors says, We
must now insist upon brevity. 1t will not do
to say that yours is a special case. What ne
cessity in the vast majority OF cases is there to
do more than Mr., Wesley did, that is, to state
in six Or eight ines the place Of birth, age, and
death, and the spiritual state Of the deceased ?
Though the friends might wish various facts
embodied in the notice, such as removals, mar
rage, nature Of disease, and the skill of the
physician, and the sore berea vement of the sur
viving friends, and the text from which the fu-
neral sermon was preached, and the vast mul.
titude that attended the burial, and such like,
yet they arc not proper nor necessary. If one
has the privilege of writing about all these
things, all others have the same privilege; and
if all were to do it, what room would there be
left in the paper for anything elsn?'
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-18
Agricultural.
Extent the Crrfant Culture,

One OF the most valuable of the small
fruits, and one that will grow and produce
well in almost any climate, is the cu.rant.-
In addition to this, it is oLo that is most ca.
silly raised Of any. The reason of This last
fact is, that some Of the varieties arc ind.
genous to our soil.
Currants are 80 tenacious Of life that thew
will grow equally as well from cuttings,
though not quite so quickly, as they will
from their roots. They like o good soil,
little moist, and 50 contented are they With
this, that any ont Of the way torncr will sat.
lsfy them, especially if they can have year
Iy dressing of chip.dung, muck, sawdust, or
spent tan, about their roots. With such a
chance they will flourish and bear abundant
y tor years. It is most natural for them to
grow up in the bush form--t throwing ap
suckers or new shoots from year to year, uil.
til what was u little stick carelessiy stuck
iuto the ground gets to be large clump'
OF bushes Its early fruit is always accept.
able, and every good housewife knows how to
work t.cm into 4 great variety Of dishes,
both palatablc and nutritious. They are casi.
ly preserved as we'll in The berry as in the
many kinds of jams and jellics They make
excellent vine and vinegar of the first quail
ty.
While on this subject, we would urge more
attention to the culture of the black currant.
Few people care about laving this variety
about them. 1t is struggling sort Of bush,
and its fruit is neither handsome or palata.
bic. Notwithstanding this, it is very use.
full fruit.
1t tproduccs one of the best wines for use
in certain eases OF debility, especially in sum.
mer complaints or diarrhea, that we have met
with. This shrub is not quite SO hardy az
the red variety. We do not mean that it sill
not endure our climate as well, but that it
does not accommodate itself quite so ,eadily
to the rough chances Of growth as the other
will.
There is one advantage in regard 10 its
fruit. 1t is not so Subj ct to the depreda-
tion Of garden thieves and fruit stealers as
is that of other sorts.
We hope that more attention will be paid
to the several varieties of currantsduling the
coming season. We know of some very
thrifty people who have not Sit gle bush Of
the Kind on their premises. Let every ono
put down only single twig or currant cut
ting every spring and the crop would very
soon be doubled and treblcd.
A row of cuttings may be stuck in tho
crevces of garden wall, and with g little
rich earth to give them start, they will
prevent the growth of small bushes which
are often complained Of as nuisance.
Currants arc we'll known to produce an ex.
cellent sauce, and a kind Of wine which is
more useful in cases of sickness than any
foreign wines which are now imported.
And yet many farmers are found who have
not currant bush in their gardens.
Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-04-02
COLUMBUS. OHIO. TUESDAY Ey B. 1861


difficult 10 pronounce sa Judgment There are
some improbabilities 10 the lsdys stofy, espe-
clally as regarded th % alleged Scotch marriage
but on this and other important points she was
well corroborated by facts and Witnesses, and
during y long aud seyefe examination she was
not shaken in a single particular, In finding for
her, the Jury have probably cometo q sound con.
clpsioD, though their verdict can have no effect
on the principal point In issue. On the other
hand, the case of Yelyerton was Obviously ante
cedently improbable, and that In very remark.
able degree. s,I IL rested in the main on his own
statements, with every possible motive for
falsehoodi and 1t broke down In. its vital point
.---the assertion Of cohabitatioh for fortnight
before the marriage in ireland. As regards the
actors in this woful drama, it ID easy to form
an estimate Of them. The msn who, in his own
words, conceived "the idea" Of systematic 60.
daction--committed, If we may credit himself,
Q most abominable outrage upon lady who had
Just been the guest of his superior oficer--pro-.
famed Q solemn and most holy rite for the vile
purpose of fraud and sensuality- abandoned his
victim in the hour of her peril, with hints about
"avoiding an event" which may well beara ter
rible interpretati finally crowned the
climax Of bis deeds by running, through his con-
tact, another woman-we may leave to bis SELF
inflicted misery. With his own, COUNSEL, We
simply give him up, and can only suppose, in the
public interest, that his name viii soon disap-
pear from the Army List. But what shall we
write about his partner in this dark history Of
folly and ruin, who now floats a wreck on sea
of mlsfortunes, BY reason, In part, Of her own
failings, and whose very success must cause her
the keenest anguish We may lament her
wrongs and sufferipgs, but cannot conceal from
ourselves 0the fact that they principally arise
from her own misconduct. Let US takeit that
she was technically chaste, and that she never
cohAblted with Yelverton I'LL after the secret
marriage in ireland. But with her behavior,
even from the first, in accordance With feminine
proprety, and is il not plain that through all
these years 1t was she who was really following
-Yelverton, not Yelverton who vas seeking her
In marriage7 This, iudsed, 10 the only possible
plea which can be urged In excuse Of his mis-
uSeusil ase.Hr-at 1ss.r rsr.I.etg f-Efg.