Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1861-12-19
ALL SORTS OF PHARAGRAPs.

have been arrested in Washington for stealing
Congressional documents.
The rebels are sending their cotto, to North
ern Alabama for safety.
BE jabers," says Pat, "the divil show
man has who waits till he's kilt before he acts
on the defensive"
The Chicago Post notices the arrival in that
city of the remains Of a member Of COL Farms.
wor,hs cavalry regiment, who had been tried
and SHOT for sleeping while on duty as guard,
Scouts from Gen. Wadsworth's Brigade pass
ed through and beyond Fairfax village on Satur-
day, and report that Flint Hill and Fairfax
Court House are entirely deserted.
With all the other crop disasters, the crop Of
chesnuts has failed in France. In France chest,
nuts take the place Of potatoes with the poorer
classes who consider them most important
par, Of their Diet
Mrs. Douglas, wife of the late Senator, re.
fuses to allow the two sons of the first wife Of
her husband to 60 South in order to save an
estate there from confscaton She contends
that the children belong in Illinois and not in
Mississippi
A man in Boston is exhibiting new inven-
ton by which he makes boots in fifteen min
ute,. and the Boston Post declares that he per-
forms the work neatly and within the time speci.
fed
A movement is on foot among tho ultra anti
slavery men in Congress 10 organize an opposi-
ton to President Lincolns administration. A
meeting will be held this week.
The proud have no friends not in prosperity,
for then they know nobody nor in adversely,
for then nobody knows them.
Vice President IIann has appointed Sena-
tors Fesscnden and Trunbnll, Regents of the
Smithsonian Institution 10 fill the vacancies oc-
casioncd BY the death Of Senator Douglas and
the treason oil Nilsson.
Gen. Mcclellan is directed by the President
TO seize on military arrests such fugitive slaves
from the enemy as may come under the fugitive
slave law, by virtue Of the cond,cHion act.
A con'raband at Beaufort thus describes the
fight eff the rebels: -'Fust the A 'a5amians
run den de Georgia cavalry went iero them.
and dey didn't come back, den the Sour Caro-
Iiniins run and lef de Dutch to be Killed -
Hhe Germans manned their guns.
An elderly lady of Albany, n Y, was so
frightened by gas explosion, at house OPP
posie, the other day, which she witnessed, tina,
she was completely Frustrated, aud died the
following morning.
A Significant Remqrk NJ PlcEi@rM liz
co1u.-Sud leading Democrat Of tho West
the other day to the President, III those who
helped to place you in power were as truly
your friends, and as uuse'G,h and honest in
their support of your Administration, as those
who opposed you, you would have less trouble"
81 legim 10 mint so,' replied The Presiicnt,-
Pyoridcnce Post
The bIookading vcsrels at the mouth of the
Mississippi have the news sent TO them by loyal
friends in New Orleans, who enclose slips Of
newspaper aud letters in bottles, which ale
sealed and n,ated down the river.
A dispatch from Chattanooga, East Tonnes
see, to the Memphis appeal states that on the
Goth nit. a scouting party Of 500 rebels return
ed from an expedition in which they captured
fourteen horses and took 100 Union men pris-
oners some 70 whom were found concealed in
the caves of the mountains.
TIE MlscnlEF Begun The c'amor of the
Abolition press in favor of emancipation is al
rr adv doinp its wntL in tho horlrr Sfa,aa mar,
tcularly in kentucky and Missouri, where the
Union men are unanimous in condemnation Of
this monstrous proposition. We may reason
ubly suppose that in these States the attach
ment Of thousands Of mcr to the Union cause
is being gradually weakened and byoked down
by the mere apprehension that this miscbievous
faction may succeed i'll their ,tlor's,-N Y.
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