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The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-11-09
Two vols. complete. $3.50.

An Act to establish anifoT made Of Discipline and
Field Exercise for the Militia If the United States
''Sec:ion l. That the system of discipline and
field exercise which is ard shall be ordered 10 be
observed by the regular Army of the United States.
in the different corps of Infantry. artillery and
rifemen shall also be Obseyued 6y the militia in the
exercise and discipline of the said corps, respect
lively, throughout the United Stats
Approved, Washington, May IL, 1929.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-11-09
HARDEE.S TACTICS.

HARDEE'S TACTICS
Rife and Light Infantry Tactics, for the exercise
and maneuvers of Troops when acting as Light
Infantry or Rihemen: Prepared under the d.
. reetion of the War Department. By Brevet
Lieutenant Colonel W. HARDEE. e. s. A
Vol. I.-SehOOEs Of the Soldier and Company; Ia
stTuctiOns FIR Skirmishers. Vol II-Sciool Of
the Battalion.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-11-09
CAVALRY TACTICS

"a ALh1 IACTJC0.-
Published by order of the War Department. First
Part-SchOOI Of the Trooper. Of the Platoon and Of
the Squadron DisHsuDted Second Part-Scho9L
of the Trooper of the Platoon, and of The Squadron
MouRted. Third Part-Eroluti,ns of q REGIMENT
Three vols. iSmo. 1915.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-08-02

have to sleep out Of doors. 1t agrees with
us first rate, and l never want to sleep in
a tent again, unless it rains, and then ]
can stand it. All of the boys who came
from your vicinity are well and hear
ty. We all of US would like to sec
the Lamoille County people, and visit with
them. l wish you would send your paper
to me regularly as it is great comfort to
we boys to get the news from our county.
Direct TO Washington, I'd Regt. vt. V. NJ,
Go. H. Your truly,
U. A. WOODBURY..
P.S. Next time I will write more of
the particulars of our campaign. could
write enough to fill your paper, Of one
days occurrences. F
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-08-02

that hereafter civilian has no business
on battle field. st-s
The flight of the army from Manassas
is called a " shameful rout," an "igno-
minious rout, bad sorts of a rout.
Well we suppose it was; but we shall not
be likely to have another. The lesson is
learned. 1t is costly one; but we may
have need of it by and by. 1t must be
remembered that the great mass of these
men were volunteers, yet volunteers who
had proved their personal bravery by a
day of splendid fighting They did not
because they were towards; they ran be-
cause they lost their reason. Let the man
who cries shame" be caught in burn
ing hall, from which incompetent means
of egress forbid an immediate escape of
the crowd. If he will stand coolly back,
undisturbed, while the masses are passing
madly out, trampling men, women and
children down in their progress, then he
has right to cry shame" But there
is no use in abusing these brave soldiers
Their flight humiliates us, but it was not
shameful Not one man in one thousand
has the power to resist the influences of a
panic like that But the panic is over
with the army, and it should be over with
the people, Washington does not seem
to be in danger. Our troops are back at
their old posts, and we presume the enemy
are back at Manassas. The next time
they are attacked, the job will be under
taken with force very likely to overcome
them. In the meantime let us wait with
patience, and insist no more that in the
space of three months our government
shall accomplish preparation for war
with those who have been preparing to
fight us for the last three years. The
impatience to push by the military Judge
ment of the veteran commander-in- chief,
and the cry for moving on the army weeks
ago are proved by the events at Manassas
to have been the rawlings of ignorant en-
thusiasm.-,SprinaJieM Republican.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-08-02
LETTERS FROM THE SEAT OF WAR
From U. A. Woodbury., Second Regiment.
EASTERN DIVISION Z. S. A..
Julv Doth 1891

July ZOtn, 1901.
DEAR EDITOR: Since last | wrote, we
have moved our quarters from Bush Hill
some % miles. We have encamped about
four miles from Centervillc, in Fairfax
County, Va. We left our encampment
about o'clock last Tuesday, and marched
until l2 o'clock. through forests, over bogs
and through creeks, until we were nearly
Jagged out; then we encamped on an en-
iuence, where we had plenty of cobble-
stones under us, to keep us from sleeping
too soundly. We started early the next
morning, and marched within few miles
of Fairfax, where we expected to have a
brush, but we were about two hours be-
hind time, for the rebels had left in double
quick time, and left many articles of value
behind them, among which were several
barrels of -four, sugar, corn, &C. We
remained near Fairfax until o'clock P.
NJ. Thursday, when we started for our
present encampment We made forced
march, as it was expected that we should
have to assist in the attack on Manassas
Junction that night; but we did not, and
are now waiting for reinforcements to as
sist us in the attack. Gen. Patterson will
advance from the west, and our division
from the north, and another division from
another direction. We probably shall
have force of $4,000 men tonight.
Beauregard is commanding at the juno
ton, and Gen. Mcdowell is commanding
our army in person. Gen. Scott will be
here, it is said. We probably shall make
an attack tomorrow morning. We are
all willing to fight, and expect to. Proba-
bly, many of us will not return to the
Green Mountain State: but we are will
ling not to, if we can but free our land
from this unnatural war; Probably you
have heard of the rash attack upon bat
terry near Bulls run, by one brigade of N.
Y. and Mass. troops. 1t was brave but
disastrous affair. The enemy we're about
$4,000 strong About l3 were killed
and az wounded. Report saysm many more
we're killed and wounded. Perhaps there
was; but we have more reports than one
man can hear, unless he gives his undi-
vided attention to them. pf
Il think there is no such thing as fail,
In our attack. fa 7i ie eiih --i lia ~
Wehsve no tents now, and Consequently
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-08-02
THE SOLDIERS TEAR.

Upon the hill he turned
To take last fond look,
OF the valley and the village church,
And the cottage by the brook;
He listened to the sounds,
So familiar to his ear,
And the soldier leaned upon his sword,
And brushed away tear.
Beside the cottage porch,
A girl was on her knees;
She held aloft snow-white scarf,
Which duttered in the breeze;
She breathed prayer for him
A prayer he could not hear
But he paused to bless her as she knelt,
And wiped away a tear. ,. i,.
He turned and left the spot;
o, do not deem him weak,
For dauntless was the soldiers heart,
Though tears were on his cheek.
Go watch the forward rank,
In dangers dark career
Be sure the hand most forward there,
Had wiped away tear.
.,.f T. H. BAYLE1
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1861-01-10
RATES or ADvEErIsTRTos
NO. 81.

dress are in fault. Children should havS
free play of body and limbs, so as 70 Be
able 10 run, jump, drive hoop, see saw,
&c, Sc, without restraint; but this, the
fashionable modes of dress viii not easily
allow The fabrics are too nice TO allow
of violent or prolonged exercise. A few
Of the rich may dress their daughters in
silk and musllns, and when they are torn
oros lied by outdoor play, they may re-
place them by new ones; but by the
greater part of the people this cannot be
done; and instead Of dressing their child
ren in prints and woolens, that will bear
hard usages, they dress them in rich ia.
brics. and then teach them 20 be careful
of their dress. to the injury Of their
heal.h. The silk dress must not be soil.
ed or torn, will not allow the little girl 70
take free out-of-door exercise a. the
school recess, or in her mothers garden
at home.
She must be restrained, no. only in
school hours, but out Of school hours,
Not unfrequently is the teacher request.
ed by the mother to LEI her little dauph.
ter stay in the school-Foom during the
recess, because she is frail and delicate.
Why is she frail and delicate Whatever
may be the cause, the request is, ordina-
rily an unwIse one. Ordinarily, the out.
of-door play Of the recess is just whatths
little girls needs.
Again, school duties and fashionable
dissipation cannot go hand in hand ioge-
ther with impunity. The one or the 9TH
er ought to be relinquished. Il is unfair
to attribute hard study required BY the
school, the lassitude which arises from
late hours, not Of the required hard stu
dy, but of exciting amusemeDls. The
school girl, doing faithful duties Of the
school, must be gifted indeed TO be able
TO enact, al the same time, the part Of
fashionable lady of fashionable society.
When she assumes the latter character,
let her relieve the school Of its responsi.
bility.
The preceding remarks, however, are
not intended to make teachers less care.
ful of their pupils health than they hith.
erto have been, but more careful of it,
By assigning to the evil its true cause,
all will he bic to work more intelligens-
ly and efficiently for its removal than Gy
assigning it to a false one. The spiritUf
the time must be recognized. No one
person, or class of persons, must be held
responsible, but each and all partially so.
As general rule, not less study in the
school is needed, but less excitement Of a
deleterinus kind. out of school. The
teachers directions to his pupils has been
for ages, study hard and play hard study
in its proper time and place, play in Us
proper time and place. The teacher who
shall judiciously enforce this direction,
will do much toward introducing proper
system of Physical Training into our
Common Schools"
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1861-01-10
Orertasklng PuplIs in SchOOl.

B. w. Dwight. principal of a high
school in western New York, has written
a book upon "The Higher Christian Edu-
cation" He regards physical health as
a duty, and informs US ''that the educa-
ZION of a Greek youth consisted Of but
three parts-grammar, music, and gym
nastlCs-the latter Of which occupied, up
10 his sixteenth year, as much time as the
other two combined; and from that age
TO eighteen, excluding them altogether" "
The following extract from The report
of the Dorchester { Mass. School Com
mittee, deserves the speclll attention of
parents. and shows that there ls peril
outside as we'll as inside the schools:
Much is said at the present time Of the
everlasting of pupils IN public schools.
The subject is an important one. and de.
serves the careful attention not only Of
teachers and school committees, but Of
the community IN general. That many
of our boys and girls are puny in stature,
pale and sickly, nervous and exeitable )
that they do not promise, either in them
selves or in their posterity, strong and
enduring manhood or womanhood, is not
to be denied; but that everlasting them
in the schools, is the cause Of so much Of
the evil, as tits sometimes represented to
be, is, TO say the least, very doubtful
The schools are only part Of the organ
izauon of society, and they can be respon-
sible only for part Of whatever good or
evil exists. No doubt teachers like to
see the intellectual developments Of the
children entrusted to their care. To fos-
ter this development IS one Of their most
important duties. Ifihey did not do this
they would not hold their Office for a day.
Taking the scholars as a whole, very
few of them, indeed, are injured solely,
or even mainly. by the hard study requi-
red of them by their teachers. Their
teachers are generally more willing 10
wait for that normal development Of the
mind which comes from years, than the
parents are. II is the parents, rather
than their teachers, who are in haste
Teachers may not be entirely guiltIess +;
but, if they drive, they are also driven.
Chlldreni especially girls, have not
enough out-0f.doors exercise. The habits
Of society are IN fault. The modes Of
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1861-01-10
Sailing Beef for Summer Use.

From the New England Farmer whose
editor has in answer to inquiries, gath.
cred them from various sources, we copy
the following modes for the benefit Of our
readerss
Is qts. Of salt, and 4 OF. saltpetre, for
each 100 lbs. beef.
Rub the peices all over with salt, and
pack in edgwise, and after layer is
completed, take an axe or maulan pound
down solid. Then sprinkle on a little
saltpetre and fill up all interstices with
salt, and so on until the cask is full
Those VINO do not like saltpetre may omit
it without injury to the meat.
Mr. A. Wanzer, who communicated
this recipe to the Albany CultiUqt0r,
says he has salted his beef in this way for
fifteen years, that it needs no soaking be-
fore boiling, and will be tender and sweet
the year around. By this way of sailing
il makes its own brine, and never wants
repacking, nor the brine scalding. If the
brine should not cover it in the spring.
sufficient may be added for that purpose.
Take barrel and turn it up over ar
old pan or kettle, and burn cobs or har
wood for seven or eight days, keepin
water on the head Of the barrel to pre-
vent its drying.
Make pickle as follows:
6 OF. saltpetre. 2 qts, Of .nolasses, 3 ga
Ions of water, for each 100 lbs. Of ham.
Boil and skim the pickle thus prepared
Pack the ham in the barrels, and whe
the pickle is cold pour it onto the mea
and In four weeks 1t will be excellent, yer,
tender and well smoked.
.9nOther- Make pickle as follows:
5 PTS. of molasses, 5 OF. Of salipetre,
and 3 gallons Of water, for each 100 lbs.
Of beef or ham.
Boil these over a gentle fire, am .i,;n
OF the scum as it rises. Pack ,ams ,,.'I, ,,,;,h
the shank end downward. od when he
pickle IS cool PoIr II over them or he
beef, They E'ill rec4 4aire to lay in the
pickle from. two % six weeks, ACCORDING
to the SIZE of me peices and the state 81
me |gathe7-as they require to lay in
the pickle longer if the weather is cold.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1861-01-10

per acre, III like quantity and proportions
Early IN May, SOW, in like manner, ell
ther of the above grains.
Between the 10Th and 20th Of May,
sow Indian corn (Southern Dent being
best, in drills, three bushels to the acre,
in like quanIy and proportions.
About the 25th of May, sow corn in
like manner and proportions.
About the 9th of June, repeat the SOW
ing of corn as above.
After the last mentioned sowing, bar
ley should be sown in the above mention
ed quantIty and proportions. in the follow
ing the 18th and 25th Of
June, and in the first week in July, bar
ley being the best qualified to resist the
early frosts."
These various provisions for a variety
of crops will supply food something in the
following order, viz;
"The oats sown early in April will be
ready TO cut for soillng between the lst
and 10Th of July, and will usually remain
succulent until about the middle of the
month.
Those sown about the Doth of April
will be ready to cut the 18th and goth of
July, and will last nearly or quite till the
1st of August.
Those sown early in May will be ready
to succeed the proceeding, and will last
till near the middle of August.
The corn sown on the 10Th and 25th of
May and early in June will supply, in
succession, excellent food till early in
September.
The barley sown in July will continue
a sufficient supply of good feed until the
first of November, when, as sometimes
before, the tops of roots--as carrots, beets
and turnips, with cabbage-are a never
failing resource.
Reduced to single statement, my ex-
pericnce and system is, for the support Of
my soiled stock during the months ofJuly,
August and September, to sow in the
months of April, May, June and July,
equal to three quarters of an acre for each
head of cattle to be soiled, in such order
as will give a regular succession of sucu-
lent food during the three first mentioned
months.
For their support from the Doth of May
and during the month of June, l reserve
early clover and other grass at the rate
of One-qudrtsr Of an acre for each head of
cattle soiled.
For their support from the 20th of
October, depend upon the second growth
of the half acre cut over in May and June
and the second grOgth of oats and corn cut
over in July.
1t now remains to show the cost of rails
ing, cutting and distributing the food to
the stock, is compensated by these savings
above mentioned, Upon this point, my
own experience has satisfied me that the
manure alone is an ample compensation
for all this expense, leaving the savings
of land, of food, and of fencing stuff as
clear gain from the system.
A popular objection to this mode Of
keeping miIeh cows is, that want Of exer-
else must effect injuriously the health of
the animal. To this, European writers,
some of whom have kept, in this way,
large herds, reply ttat they ''never had
one sick or one die, or one miscarry, in
of this mode of keeping. y
After more than ten years persuing Of
this practice, my experience justifes me
in uniting my testimony 70 theirs on this
point"
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1861-01-10
Lime! Lime!l Li1ne!!!

me uudersi9ned whose k1ns situated nine miles
Brwnville on the road leading toFt Kearney,
keeps constantly on hand very superior article Of
me which he invites the attention Of those wshA
Ing The Lame wiIlbe delivered at thekiln at any
FEES, IsSS o@ Z. n. LONG.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1861-01-10

APpoPlexy is most prevalent he,ws On
forty and sixty,
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1861-01-10
STATIONERY.

Foolscsp paper fancy letter paper gilt edged notes
and envelopes plain. fancy and embossed pens pencils
ana pen-hoders,s inks Of all kinds inkstands waters
and sealiug-wax.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1861-01-10
PURE LIQUORS.

no fahl 5in IRISH whisky, Bourbon whisky Ginger
Brasdy Cordial Port Vine Madeira " me Wbite vine
and Malaca Wine.
both By day and night.
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1861-01-10

a good story IS told concerning the
writing Of certain railroad manager
He had written TO a man on the route
notifying him that be must remove .
barn, which 10 some manner incommoded
the road. under penalty Of prose ecution.-
The threatened individual was unable 10
read any part Of his letter bur the signa-
ture, but took il TO be a free pass on The
road, and used il for a couple Of years as
such, none Of the conductors being able
to dispute his Interpretation,
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1861-01-10
SOiIing Stock.

A correspondent OF the Dollar .NeWs-
paper. Philadelphia, gives the following
as his evidence in relation 10 the question
which is so often asked, twill soiling
pay %
AS many people doubt the proftableness
of soiling for stock. allow me to make
them acquainted with case that came
under my own observation. Five years
ago my attention was directed 20 a field
which had been cropped for many years,
and which would require liberal manuring
10 secure any crop. The owner for the
succeeding three years expended nearly
fifty dollars per year on one and one
fourth acres in subsoiling and trenching,
in the meantime manuring very freely
and receiving an ample return in roots
and corn for the manure and labor, sepa.
rate from the fifty dollars before mention
ed. Having brought the field to proper
state of cultivation, it was last year seed
ed down to clover and timothy. The
success of the high culture was so COM
plete that on the first day oy May, the
present year, the owner commenced cut
ting on each morning a quantity sufficient
for eight cows and one horse. The cows
were confined in stables except two or
three hours each afternoon, when they
were allowed to run in large yard
Each morning a load of grass and clover
sufficient for the day was cut and taken
TO the barn, the time Occupied by man and
horse being little less than enc hour
each morning. This course was contin-
ued until June 18th, when two Of the
cows was disposed Of, and the one and one
fourth acres continued to yield an ample
suficiency for the remaining six COWS and
horse until August lst, when there was
still large amount of growing clover
The plan of the owner being to allow the
remaining growth to decay upon the
ground, and the cows having averaged
Ten quarts each of milk per day, witch
has been sold at two and half cents per
quart. The account of the field may be
rendered thus:
Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1861-01-10
Balance S46 so

Balance $46 so
As comp nsation for labor and use of the cows for
the three months, besides the keeping Of ono horse
for three months
1t is but Justice to the field to say that
the cows were purchased without knowl-
edge of their milking qualities, and of
course would not nearly equal like num-
Der that have been carefully raised or
selected by farmer. BY sale of the
milk at three cents per quart, the profit
is increased TO S17S,40. 1t will be seen
that over taco gears of food for one COW
was produced on the one and and-fourth
acres. The keeping of the cows is con-
tnued through-the fall on corn sowed
broadcast, hay, early roots, &C., and in
the winter, cut straw and stalks with
ground oats and corn, and daily allow
ance of hay and roots, the plan Of the
owner being to keep as many head of cat
tie per year as he has acres of ground, by
a proper portion in clover, grass. corn ,pats
and roofs and all in high cultivation.
Mr.. Joseph Quincy, of Massachusetts,
writes as follows on this subject
MY farm being compact, the annoy
aIce of having fifteen or twenty head of
cattle driven night and morning to and
from the pasture ; the loss of time in Of
ten turning the team and plow, owing to
the number of interior fences, and the
loss of surface OF good land, capable of
being plowed, owing to them and the
many head laLds, all drew my attention
to the subject of 'soiling' and its effects.
| found that the European writers
maintained that sir distinct advantages
were to be obtained by the practice of
'soiIing' over that Of pastureing cattle in
the summer season:
/. 1t saved land.
2. Ii saves fences.
3. 1t economised food.
4. 1t keeps cattle IN better condition
and greater comfort.
5. Il produced more milk.
6. 1t increased the quantity and quail
ily of manure.
Satisfied in my own mind of the benl-
fetal effects Of the practice, adopted it
IN the year 1914. and adhered to IT until
1922, keeping from fifteentO twenty head
of milch COWS. with sohe other stock. and
with entire satisfactory success. From
that time, being occupied in varieus pub
lie offices, in Boston and vicinity, l exer-
cised no superintendent over my farm
for twenty years.
Resuming its management in 1S47. /
returned 10 the practice of soiling. Since
then, ] have kept from thirty to thirty
five head of milch cows in this way; so
that, in my mind my experience is con-
elusive on the subject.
To, ,p1 oduce sufficient quantity and
succession Of succulent food-abouI one
and half or two square rods of ground
TO each COW TO be soiled-sow as follows
As early in April as the state Of the
land will permit, which is usually between
the 9th and 10Th, on properly prepared
land. oats at the rate of four bushels to
acre.
About the 2Oth Of the same month, soc
either oats or barley, at the same raw