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Girls with Spy.GIasses.

Old Governor Stuyvosant, some years afte,
the British possession of New York, appeared
before the British Governor, (Carteret,) with g
complaint that he was annoyed by men and
boys bathing in front of his house. in a nude
state. Governor Carteret assured him that il
should be stopped; but happening to recollect,
said:
"Why, Governor, your house is at some
distance from the river, and how can it incom-
mode the ladies of your family7"
Ivy, you see," said old Peter, shaking bis
cane, mine gals have got a pig spy-glass!"
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-09-19
A Hit at the Times.
Our rout at Bull Run stands contest,
The hurry -burly and the hustle;
We made good time, bot not the best-
The best Bulls Run was that of Russell!
New Refrain of q Slave Song.
For we're band Of nissen,
For we're band Of nigeers,
A contFaband Of ni:sers,
And we cant 60 10 de war!

One Of the Western Obituary Notices.
Mistar Edotur:-Jem bangs, We are sorry tn
staff, has deseized. He departed this life last
mundy. Jem was generally considered gud
Teller. He died at the age of % years old
He went 4th without airy struggle; and SIGH is
Life. Tu Da we are as pepper grass, mighty
smart; tn Morrer we are cut down like COW.
cumber of the ground. Jem kept nice stoar,
which his wife now waits on. His virchews
wos numerous to behold. Menny is the things
we bot at his growcery, and we are happy tn
staff to the admirin wurld that he never cheet-
ed, speshully in the waite of makeral, which wos
nice and smell sweet, and his survivin wife il
the same wa. We never knew him to put sand
in his sugur, tho he had big sand-bar in front
Of his house; nur watur in his Lickers, tho the
ohio rivur runs past his doar. Pece to his re-
names! He leves a wife, 8 children, q COW,
horses, growcery stoar, and other quadrupeds
10 morn his loss; but in the SPLENDID langWidge
Nv the poit, his loss is thare eternal game.
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A Wisconsin Soldier,

A young man who applied at recruiting sta.
ton across the lakes for enlistment, was asked
eff be could sleep on the point of bayonet,'
when he promptly replied by saying, "He could
Try it, as he had often slept on a pint of whis.
key, and the kind they use in Lisbon would kill
further than any shooting iron he ever ssv."
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-09-19
To Preserve Curra1ts.

To Do. Of ripe eanants add lbs. Of clear
sugar. and lbs. Of raisins. Put IN in the ket.
dc together. and let them boil slovly until The
ffait b dess. Thea Dip ost and cook he syrup
two o. three hours. TIE raisin are . ersst
improvement
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-09-19

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As the patented process ofthe Company ena-
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thereby securing faithful portraits and furnishing
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In order to furnish facilities for the gratifca-
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Vases Of every quality Of Finish,
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Twenty 70 One Hundred Dollars the pair.
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All letters to be addressed to
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J. G. SCOTT,
Attorney 1t Law & Land AGENT

SENECA, NENAHA CO., KANSAS.
SPECIAL attention paid 70 The Colleetio,
~ Of Claims In Nsoaha, Masshall and Brow
Counties.
REFERENCES:
nE 2 : WILLIAMS, White Cloud, Kansas.
V. d. MARxaAn,
Jam. CAnaIL : Co.. St. Joseph, No.
Hon. SAnuEL r. CuRsls, Keokuk. Iowa.
3. B. HAL1, Banker, Cleveland, Ohio.
Hon. DAMEL B. TnoeH,
MCnH. GnI 3 Co, Chicago, Illinois.
r. y. TollIY, Dist. CHI, Nenaha Co. H.r.
july II. SLY.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-09-19

What great national privilege may be aptly
illustrated BY vigorously grasping the hand Of
. friend, The power of the press.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-09-19
Secession Logic.

Secession Logic.
Says Val. to Breck.: "HowstR yes feel,
My conscience sofsly gals me;
The way the people We deceive,
own II quite sppals me-"
ats dirty work. quosh pioas Brech.,
"But this will quite relieve Us
We don't deceive, whats'er We say,
For no one will believe us!"
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-09-19

Why should an Alderman wear Q Tartar
waistcoati To keep . check on his stomach.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-09-19

John Chedgey. Of London, has succeeded in
turning end boring glass. He makes glass eyl.
inders perfectly round and smooth.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-09-19

Mother Goose and Beauregard.
Little Boy Beanresard, 90 blow your horn;
Oar ships hold your cotton, our meadows your corn
Where is the cash you hold Rebels TO payl
Safe in our Bank-vsults piled away!
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-09-19
Cholic in Horses.

The Farmers Advocate prescribes for cholic
in horses: A blanket wrapped around the body
and drenched with cold water. 1t steams like
a boiling pot, and cures in fifteen minutes.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-09-19

Some delicate officers Inquired of an old army
ohicer about transportation of their trunks. he
could give them no information, He said he
went through the Mexican War with two extra
shirts and pocket comb.
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An Infallible Remedy for Dysentery and
Protracted Diarrhea.

The following simple remedy, long known in
family practice, was recently tried in the camp
ofthe New York twenty second regiment, where
there were from eighty to one hundred cases
daily Of dysentery, and with rapid cures in every
case:
Recipe: In teacup half full of vinegar, dis
solve as much salt IS it will take up. leaving q
little excess of salt at the bottom of the cup
Pour boiling water upon the solution till the
cup is two-thirds or three fourths full. A scum
will rise to the surface, which must be removed
and the solution allowed to cool.
Dose: Table spoonful three times day till
relieved,
The rationale of the operation of this simple
medicine will readily occur to the patholo-
gist, and, in many hundred trials, have never
known it to fail in dysentery and protracted d.
arrhea.
CHARLES G.. PAGE, M, d.
White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-09-19

When is man, like friendship, mos severe
~ tried7 When he stands a-loan.
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Fl |n.B. I b.
Cheaper than Ever!
STEAM saw Mill, !
In, Full Blast!

TsHE undersigned, proprietors Of the White
i CIosd Steam Saw Mill, take pleasure in
announcing 70 the public, that their mill IL in
the very best order, and they have commenced
operations for the season. They are prepared
to do saving Of every kind and description ON
the shortest notice. They will saw on the
halves, or for msney. very cheap. They will
constantly keep on hand 1 $3.50 iie
ALL KINDS OF LUMBER!
which they will sell . little cheaper than can
be had anywhere else, for Gosh, or TO good men
on short time. They have also an excellent
nish LATHS in any quantity; at low rates. \
Give rs call, and satisfy yourselves that We
can dol Just what We say, a s...
WIN. MAUCK 4 SONS.
White Cloud, March II, l65S-sf.
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asefal arla Gnrious.
How Bo-b-shelIs are Made.


The manufacture Of bomb-shells is very in
terestiug. The shell is Gst filed with old FASH
toned round leaden bullets; melted sulphur Il
then poured in to ill up the inteutiees and
bind the bullets in one solid mass; the shell ID
then pot into kind Of lathe. and . cylindri-
cal hole, the exact size of the shell, Is bored
through the bullets and sulphur. This cavity
is filled with powder even With the interior edge
of the orifce, . 6x-inch shell Of he kind
here described holding about . half poond.
The fuse fitted into the oriice 10 . recent Bel
gian invention, made Of pewter, and resembles
the screw cap used for the patent fruit cans.
An examination of this pewter cap shows, how
ever, that it is made of hollow discs Of metal
screwed together and filled with meal powder.
A number of fine holes are drilled in the lower
disc, while the outer disc is entire, and marked
with figures in circle. 1, 2, 3. 4. In this state
the shell 10 waterproof. When taken for use
the gunner, by means of small steel instru-
ment, scoops out portion Of the outer soft
metal surface, and lays bare the charge Of COM
position powder below it. If the shell Is de-
sired to explode in one second after leaving the
gun, the soooping ID made on the figure ]; If
in two seconds on the 2, and 90 on-the idea
being that the shells Of this description shall
first strike the object aimed at and do execution
as ball, and then explode sending the bullets
forward - il from another cannon, located at
the point where the fight Of the shell is a.
rested. Large shells of eight or ten inches are
filled with powder only, and bursting, do execu-
ton by means Of their fragments. These large
shells are generally fred by means of a fuse of
meal powder. extending through brass plug
screwed into the mouth of the shell. In both
cases the fuse is fred BY the ignition of the
charge in the gun.
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The proprietor of the "NEw YoRK PArH
FINDER," desiring to manifest his zeal in th
defence Of his country, the honor Of the Star
and Stripes. and the supremacy Of the Consti
tuition, proposes to establish Weekly Journa
devoted to the progress of the war, by land ant
sea, THE ENTIRE PROFITS TO BE DE
VOTED TO THE PATRIOTIC FUND. TO
the support of the Volunteers and their Fami
lies. Il win be entitled
ssTHE NEW YORK
NAVAL AND MILITARY PATHFINDER"
A large Four-Page Paper, and will contain q
full and reliable account Of the movements Of
the United States forces; the doings of the
Rebel Army, and every item Of news Of the least
interest connected with the Great Struggle
As the publisher, will reap no advantage from
this undertaking, il is hoped that that they will
be patr0nized a. becomes people determined
to suppot the Union, and succor and maintain
it's brave defenders and their Wives and FaEi-
lies.
TIE NAVAL AND MILirARv PATH. FINDER will
be published on Monday next, the 18th of April,
and every succeeding Monday.
Price Gents per Copy.
YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS a $500
Shorter Periods in proportion.
A LIMITED nsm6eS Of Advertisements received.
% All Orders, Communications, &C., to be
addressed to the
editor OF THE NAVAL AND MILITIA.
RY PATHFINDER, 66 JOHN srakEr, New
York"
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Lawyers. doctors, and women. are all fee
males.
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june 81, 60-tf.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-08-24

The town of Rolla, to which Gen. Sigel
was retreating at our latest adviCes, is at
the terminus of railroad extending from
St. Louis into southwestern Missouri, and
we should judge is some ffty or sixty miles
northeast of Springfield. where the late
battle was fought. st Louis letters of the
10th state that two regiments had arrived
at RollO, to reinforce Generals Lyon and
Sigel, and additional troops can be sent
fcom ST. Louis to that point in few hours
Since Gen. Pillow has broken up his camp
at New Madrid, and returned to Memphis,
the Government will be able to dispatch
Any number of men that may be required
to reinforce Sigel.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-08-24
The Battle In Missouri.

In another column is published all the
particulars contained ia the general dis
patch, relative TO the battle in southwestern
Missouri. st. Louis letters received by the
previous Pony stated that Gen. Lyons
forces numbered about 900 volunteers and
1000 home guards. the latter being poorly
armed, and that the rebel forces numbered
not less than 10000. by the late dispatch,
it appears there we're only 5000 Fedora
troops actually in the battle, while the reb-
els, according TO their muster rolls, had 49,
900. 1t is no wonder the Federal troops
were compelled 10 retreat, aud considering
the great disparity of numbers it s surpris.
ing they were not entirely cut off. AS it
was, they retreated in good order, carrying
away their baggage trains, large number
of prisoners, and leaving only one gun.
The Federal loss is stated at eight hundred
killed aud wounded, and among the killed
was General Lyon, who fell while bravely
leading his column. His loss will be severe
ly felt in Missouri. He was the right man
in the right place, aud bad proved himself
a brave aud accomplished commander. On
the death of Gen. Lyon, the chief command
devolved upon Gen. Sigel, who is every
way qualified for the position.
The rebel loss must have been heavy, as
their tents and wagons we're destroyed in
the battle, and their muster rolls seized
Ben. Mccullough and Gen. Price are report
ed among tho killed, and no mention is
made of the rebels having pursued the Fed
eral troops. Their experience in pursuing
Sigel on former occasion probably indu.
ced them to keep out of the range of his ar
tillery.
The details of the battle were brought by
this Pony, aud will be read with interest.
Gen. Sigel will undoubtedly be able to main
tain bis position in the vicinity of Spring.
field until reinforcements can be sent him
from ST. Louis.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-08-24
AK TE1EGRAPH.
SAN FnANoIsoo. August "a.

SAN FRANCISCO, August "a.
The military board of examiners has re-
jected the services of Capt. Daniel Oregan
in consequence of the sentiments hereto.
fore expressed by him relative to the pres
ent civil war.
A correspondent of the Call says that
McCullOch was in secret council with Gwin
before he left Washington, and that Gwin
is furthering the efforts of secessionists 10
precipitate revolution.
The Union Democracy made the follow
ing nominations for members of Assembly
last night: A. J. Bryant, II. Worthington,
Myers Mulhaney aud Geo. Treat.
A number of soldiers, honorably discharg-
ed from the U. S. service. hold meeting
tonight to form volunteer company.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-08-24

MCCONNELL AT MARYsVILLE.-The Marys-
vile Democrat, in its account Of McCon-
nell's speech in that place on Tuesday eve
ming last, says:
Mr.. Mcconnell informed his hearers that he
was strong Union man; that the Union was
dissOlved-eleven States having gone out of the
Confederacy. He declared himself opposed to
secession and coercion. He talked an hour or
so on the negro question.
The last half hour of the speech was devoted
to what the distinguished gentleman was pleased
to term an explanation, concerning charge
made against him, to the effect that he had sta
ted here, in a conversation, that he would go as
Kentucky did on the Union question, and that
he believed she would secede. The explanation
was as follows: He said he recollected having
approached a group of gentlemen in the streets
i'll this city, some weeks ago, and being asked
how he stood upon the war question, he said he
gave curt reply, but could not remember 1hGt
Il tCGsi
He then went on to say that he was in the
habit of conversing loosely, and of forgetting in
fifteen minutes what he had said. He could
not therefore say what he had said on the occa-
sion referred to. lie did not deny the truth of
the assertion made in this paper, viz: that he
did say: GAS goes Kentucky so will go, and
as sure as we stand here, Kentucky will be out
of the Union in two weeks" He could not de-
ny it. He said he could not remember what he
did say at the time referred to. This he re-
peated number of times. He said that he
never could have said anything capable of being
construed into declaration that he owed allie
glance TO Kentucky instead of California. He
avowed himself Californian.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-08-24

last year, when the Custom House,
Mint, etc., were under the control of the
Breekinridge party. assessments were reg
nlarly levied upon the employees for elec-
tjOnecring purposes; but the assessments
did not at any time exceed seven per cent.
of the salaries. The Federal Offices are now
in possession of the Republicans, and it ap-
pears they have improved upon the repre-
hensible example set them by their co-work-
ers in iniquity. The assessments upon the
Republican officers, this year, amount to
thirty per cent. of their months salaries,
afording a large corruption fund where
with to support their travelling orators.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-08-24

A YOUNG WOMAN KILLED.-Miss Emma
jackson, aged fifteen, died on Saturday last at
Tomales, Marin county, from injuries received
two days before, by being thrown from a horse
which she was riding, with mans saddle The
horse, says the Alta, became frightened, and
threw her from her seat While falling, her
hoops got fastened on the pommel of the saddle
and thus suspended, she was dragged along for
some distance, her head striking against the
rocks with such violence that her skull was
fractured.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-08-24

THE REBELS AT RIcHMoND.-A cOrrespon-
dent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, writes
from Baltimore as follows:
l am told on good autho rity that a merchant
in this city has received late letter from his
correspondent in Richmond, which significant y
indicates that the people of that city are heartily
sick, not only Of secession and its sorrowing
fruits, but of tn" war. 1t is also asserted, If
President Davis md his army do not meet With
better success than they did at Bull Run and
Manassas, a counterfeeling will manifest itself
among the people by no means encouraging to
the rebel President and the cause he has es-
poused. The slaughter of the Confederates is
represented as terrible, far greater than init
mated by accounts in the papers. The truth
regarding killed and wounded is suppressed, as
far as there is any possibility of doing so. When
the whole story of Manassas is told, if ever, il
will prove astonishing. Great distress prevails
among the southern troops. They are not only
destitute of comforts, but of the absolute neces
sites of subsistence. Clothes, shoes, food war
munitions, all are lamentably scarce, as is
money also.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-08-24

IT appears that Harry Thornton, who
accompanied Austin E. Smith TO the East,
wrote from Aspinwall, to some friends in
California. stating that he and Smith had
made arrangements to take British steam
er for St. Thomas, aud from thence they
intended to proceed to the Florida coast,
having no doubt of being able to run the
paper blockade" They must have changed
their minds, however, for the New York pa
pers give full details of the arrest of Smith,
aud there can be little doubt of his identity.
A young mau who accompanied Austin E.
Smith, and who gave his name as Smith,
was also arrested, but afterwards released.
This may have been Thornton. Smith was
confined in the military prison at Fort La
fayette, aud complained that the proceeding
was courageous" aud unconstitutional"
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-08-24

We would remind the Douglasmen that they
have cause for congratulation that their party
was defeated in the election last year. What
would have been the result had they succeeded?
Their great leader is dead, and Herschel v.
Johnson, leader in the Secession army, would
have been President to day. Who can contem-
plate the escape without horror.-[ Journal.
Had the Douglas party been successful in
the last election there would have been no
serious attempt at secession, and the coun-
try would now have been in the enjoyment
of peace. Those only who delight in fu-
riOHs civil war such as is now raging have
cause for congratulation in the defeat Of
Douglas. 1t is true, the secession leaders
have been anxious to precipitate the South
into revolution for many years past !; but
they very we'll knew that should Douglas
be elected they could not induce the people
of single State to secede, hence they divi-
ded the Democratic party with the express
view of electing Lincoln, 10 order to give
them an excuse for raising the standard of
revolt. The secession leaders played into
the hands of the Republicans in order to
bring about the very state of affairs that
now exist.
This is the first time we have seen the
statemant that Herschel v. Johnson is now
leader in the Secession army, and we
doubt its truth. Johnson was member of
the Georgia Convention, and used every
influence in his power to defeat the passage
of the secession ordinance. But the Ordi-
nance passed against bis vote and protest
and when he found that his exertiOns could
no longer avail to stem the tide of revolu.
tiOn, he retired to private life.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-08-24

LAMP EXPLOsIoN.-On Saturday night last,
a camphene lamp, in a saloon at Red Bluff, ex-
ploded, creating some considerable excitement
A man, while rushing into the building came
in contact with the blazing lamp, as it was be-
ing thrown out into the street, and had one of
his arms and hands severely burned. Cam
phene has the unpleasant, though fashionable,
accomplishment of getting on "bust" occa-
sionally.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-08-24

HAY BURNED.-Some eighty tons of hay,
belonging to Mr.. Neel, aud supposed to
have been set on fire by Mexicans, was
burned near Tehama, on Wednesday night
Of lsst week.