The Oxford intelligencer., 1861-05-29

when you have to use water for cooking or drink
ing from ponds or sluggish streams, boil il we'll
and, when cool, shake it. or stir IT. so that the
oxygen Of the air shall get to it. which greatly
improves it for drinking, This boiling arrests
the process of fermentation which arises from
the presence Of organic and inorganic impurities,
thus tending 10 prevent cholera aud all bowel
diseases II there Is no time for boiling at least
strain il through cloth, evea if you hare to
use shirt Or trowscr-leg.
20. Twelve men are hit in battle dressed in
red where there are only five dressed in a blush
-gray-a difference of more than two to one =
GREEN, seven; brown, six.
80. Water can be made almost ice cool in the
hottest weather by closely enveloping filled
csnteen, or other vessel. with woollen cloth,
kept plentifuly wetted and exposed.
81. While on a march lie down. the moment
you halt, for rest. Every minute spent in that
position tesreshes more than five standing or
lettering about
80, A daily evacuation Of the bowels is indis.
pensable to bodily health ygor and endurance
this is promoted in many cases By stirring a
tablespoonful OF corp Qndian) meal in glass OF
water, and drinking il on rising in the morning.
33. Loose bowels, namely. acting more than
once day, with feeling of debility afterwards
is the first step towards cholera. Tie best rem
cdy Is instant and perfect duietude of body, eat
ing nothing but boiled rice, With or without boil
ed milk in more decided cases. woollen fan
mel, with two thickncsscs In 'front.' should be
bound tightly around the abdomen, especially II
marching is necessity.
81. To 'have been to the vars" is lifelong
honor, increasing with advancing years. while to
bave died in defence of your country win be the
boast and the glory Of your childrcns children.
~ The New York Tribune admits that the
prevalent opinion North that the South can be
easily subdued, is an error Greeley says in a
late number of his paper: +.
. "Nor will Il answer to deprcciate the military
resources and efficiency of the rebels. Even
towards in their position would fight desperate.
", and they are no towards. Most of them
have been trained from the cradle TO consider
personal bravery the very first requisite Of man.
" character, and skill in the use Of arms the
first necessity Of a gentleman. The rifle and
revolver have been their playthings from boy
hood, and the duel or some difficulty involv-
ing peril to life, are with them themes Of daily
contemplation and frequent observation. And,
while VIC are confident that n majority Of the
Southern people are at heart Unionists to-day,
we Judge that seven-eighths Of the fighting force
the chivalry' of the slave States, the young
the daring, the ambitious. the dcsperatc-haye
been drawn into the meshes Of the rebellion
They have many of the very best Of our late
army officers, and their soldiers will at first be
better led and handled than ours. Such are the
advantages with which they will enter upon the
contest, and to which it must be fought mainly
on ground which they know thoroughly and We
very imperfectly, in the midst Of their resources
at a distance from ours, while ten of the inhab-
itants of the seat of war will eagerly give infor-
nation to their leaders, where one viii venture
to give any to ours"