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The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1862-03-06
McNEIL'S LETTER.

Sometime in January, the constitutional
convention Of this state passed the following
resolution, viz;
RtSolrcd, That the committee on military affairs
be instructed to enquire whether the soldiers sent
into the field rom this state have been and con.
tInue TO be provided for in all respects as the
troops sent into the field from other states have
been provided for; and If the committee find the
Illinois troops have not been thus provided for,
that they be instructed to inquire further whether
the negIectrs Justly chargsable TO any person or
persons holding oiic under this state, and rcport
the tact to the convention.
The chairman Of the committee on military
affairs, IN accordance with the instructions Of
the convention, addressed letter to all the
officer. Of Illinois regiments, in order to oh.
tam the information required. The following
is a copy of the circular letter viz.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1862-03-06
GILT OEiI.S,

ct new aud beautiful designs, suitable for Pho
Io"RAPhS or AMBRoTfrES orany size.
GLIDING.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1862-03-06
GILT FRAMES! GILT FRAMES :,

DokIkAir AND PICTURE FRAMES,
on short notice. Also
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1862-10-29

GYMNAsTIc c. sruME FOR LAp1Es.-Dr
Lewis, in his new work, "The New York
Gymnastics gives the following hints as
to the proper costume Tor ladies to wear in
performing gymnastic exercises:
The most essential Of the dress is Der
feet liberty about the waist and shoulders.
The female costume may be never short, if
the waist or shoulders be trammelled, the
exertions will serve no good purpose. If
the arms can be thrust perpendicuIarly up
ward without drawing quarter of an ounce
on the dress, the most vital point has been
secured. 1t is made very loose about the
head and shoulders, worn without hoops,
but with thin skirt as near the color of
the dress as possible. and only stiff enough
to keep the outside skirt from hanging
closely to the legs. This skirt should be
fastened to the belt of the dress so that it
will not hang below the dress when the
arms are raised.
THE present style Of Garabaldi waist is
very beautiful. 1t is particularly appro
pirate for gymnastics, as it allows the free.
est action of the arms and shoulders. Blu,
to permit this waist to fall over the belt,
which is its peculiar feature, the belt is
usually made tight enough to keep il in
position. This is wrong. Buttons should
be placed on the inside of the belt, the same
as on gentlemen's pants for suspenders
and the same kind of suspenders should bs
worn. In this way the belt may be very
loose, and yet being supported over tn,
shoulders, 1t will remain in its proper DO
sition.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1862-10-29

NUMBER OF WORDS IN ACTUAL UsE.-It
is curious thing that, with some l25, 900
English words, people can get on with very
few. Mr.. Dorsey, philologist of ability,
records that country clergyman in Eng.
land told him that some of the laborers in
his parts had not 800 words in their vo-
eabulary. On the average, the children of
persons with ordinary education do not use
more than 200 words, until the age of ten
Max Muller says: "A well-educated per.
son in England, who has been at a public
school and at the University, who reads
his Bible, his Shakespeare, the Times, and
all the books OF Nudes Library q. e. nine
teen twentieths Of all the books published
in England,) seldom uses more that 5000
OF 1000 words in conversation. Accurate
thinkers and close reasoncrs, who avoid
vague and general expressions, and wait
till they find the word that exactly Ats their
meaning, employ larger stock and elo.
quent speakers may rise to command OF
10000. Shakespeare, who displayed a
greater variety Of expression than probably
any writer in any language, produced all
his plays with about $1,000 words Mil
tons works are built up with 5000; and
the old Testament says all it has to say with
1912 words '-Press
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1862-10-29
49, - -------------------
Agricultural.

CARE OF MILCn Cows The Boston Gull
tivator. after recommend ng proper care aud
food for cows, says:
eff there is any animal which policy
would dictate the good treatment of, it is
the mich COW. 1t shout, h., remembered
that it is only the fool she consumes be-
yond what is required TO support the natu-
raj waste Of thu system, that can afford a
snrplus in the way Of milk. Hence the food
which would :barcly support two cows and
leave nothing for the owner if eaten by one
COVE, would enable her to return the value
Of one half Of it in milk. SO that the adj
vic, of a close observer to dairyman, 10
sell one-half Of his cows to increase his pro-
ducc of butter and CHEESE, had reason at tire
bottom of it. Cows should be well fed and
shelter ed in fact, they should BIZ kept in
all respects in the condition that is well ex,
pressed by the word comfortable"
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1862-10-29

IF A young lady in one Of our s'rural
districts" was once escorted home from an
evening party by young man to whom
she was not particularly partial On taking
his leave he remarked: II guess I'll come
and see you next Sunday night" "Wen,
Bill Smith," replied the lady, you can
come as friend, but not as feller." Bill
didn't 60 either way.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1862-10-29

WHAT WILL TAKE THE SCENT OUT OF
CLoTIuNG.-Sitting on the piazza Of the
Cataract, was young foppish looking gen
tlcman, his garments We're highly scented
with a mingled odor Of musk and cologne.
a solemn-iaccd, old looking man, after
passing by the dandy several times, with a
look of aversion which drew general notice,
suddenly stopped, and in confidential
tone said :-"Stranger, | know what'll take
that scent out of your clothes, you
What! What do you mean, Sir ~ said
the exquisite fired With indignation, start
ing from his chair. "Oh get mad, now
swear, pitch round, fight, just because
man wants to do you kindnessr cody
replied the stranger. But tell YOU do
know what will take out that smell -phew!
You just bury your clothes bury 'em a
day or two. Uncle Josh got foul of a
skunk, and he" At this instant there
went up from the crowd simultaneous
roar of mcrriment, and the dandy CLEARED
the coop" and vanished up stairs.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1862-10-29


DRYING PUMPKINS We love pumpkin
pies, more especially wacn there is not en-
abundance Of tree fruit. We have tried all
modes of drying, but no plan is equal, we
tlink, to the one we recommended a year
Ago. and which We have recently tried on a
larger scale than hitherto. 1t this: Take
the ripe pumpkins, pare, cut into small
pieces, stew soft, mash and strain through
a cullender, as if for making pies. Spread
this pulp on plates in layers not quite half
an inch thick; dry it down in the stove
oven, kept it such a temperature as not to
scorch it. In about day, it will become
dry and crisp. The sheets thus made can
be slowed away in dry place, and they
are always ready for use for pies or sauce
Soak the pieces over night in little milk,
and they will return to nice pulp, as deli
cious as the fresh pompkin-we think much
more so. The quick drying after cooking
prevents any portion from slightly souring,
as is always the case when the uncookcd
pieces are dried; the favor is much better
preserved, and after cooking is saved. This
plan is quite as little trouble as the old
mode, to say nothing of the superiority in
the quality Of the material obtained. Try
it, and you will not return to the old meth
cd. we are sure, and you will also become
great lover of pumkin pie "all the year
round,' and feel less the loss of the fruit
crop.-Anacrican Agyiculturist.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1862-10-29

CoHN.-Never since the State was first
settled, has the prospect for finc yield o!
Corn appeared better than it does now
The season is also propitious at the present
writing, the 9TH of August, for its continu-
alton. One month more Of such weather,
and the corn fields of Iowa will yield an
aycfage OF not less than sixty bushels per
acre. Such are the reports we have from
all parts Of the State, and strangers, from
the eastern states, especially, who arc tray
cling over our productive soil, look upon
the vast forests Of corn with wonder, even
excellng, they say, the far famed bottoms
Of the Scioto, in Ohio.
The same sections Of the State report for
1862, an average increased breadth of corn
over that Of 1861, Of one-fourth. As the
number Of acres in 1861 was 400, 900,
this would give, if we average for the whole
State, that reported for less than one.haf,
an increase of $4,000 acres Bat as we
have taken but about oncthrd of this in.
ferrel increase for wheat, we will add only
$4,000 acres as the increase breadth OF
corn planted for 1862, which makes a total
Of / 525, 900 acres. If the season contin-
nes favorable, so bushels per acre, which
will give an aggregate of 76,250,OO bush
els, being abont 100000 bushels only
over the yield Of 1861 The yield may
reach the enormous amount Of 100, 900, 600
bushels.
The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1862-10-29

~ Why are book-keepers like chick.
ems! Because the have to scratch" for q
living.
The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-11-06
The Two COmpOnents Of Seces-
sion Sympathy.

The Philadelphia Press-a Democratic
journal-truly remarks: There are two
main components that make up Northern
rebellion so, and so only, must the
nefarious sympathy which the Southern
rebellion meets here be called and we
feel it to be the more important to expose
them in bread, clear light, inasmuch as
the abettors of conspiracy endeavor to
muffie the hideous outlines in snowy rhet-
eric and speeious special pleading. 1t is
aot enough that from the cauldron of their
internal passions and plottings this veriest
hell broth must seethe up and spread its
pestile asial fumes through the land, but
certain perfumes are mingled with it,
soothing, enticing, cnchanting-and the
people are made to breathe, with sense of
salts sfaction, a sweetened sin.
The first is certain tenderness towards
the rebels, mildly suggested, slipped slyly
underneath contrary protestations, limited
vaguely, even assuming the garb of hu-
manitarian charity. l. appears in all the
speeches now making In the New York
canvass in SEYMoUR's delivering and
not destroying our Southern brethren ;"
in Prince JOINS declared policy of tax
ing Richmond first, and then ''letting our
wayward sisters go in peace )" and in such
a sentence as this of JAMES [. BRADY {:
Southern as / have been politically in
battling for the rights of the South in ref
erence to the question of slavery and every
other, would say that the South in
leaving as at tie l,Grticts}ar time size DID did
SO without the slightest pretence of fjnstIti-
sation Or excuse
Gould insidious disloyalty go farther !?
No word of cheer fer the Etorth no
sspousal of cur Lofy cause no applause
al car brave boys in the field /; no paaegy.
ric of the tens of thousands that lie in
erayc-trenches; TO recognition even of
the principle for which the North is
making this awful expenditure of blood
nothing but "battling fer the rights of
fhe' sassth in reference to the question of
slavery and coery otiscr," though It is done
nnder the gui.c Of friendly counsel to the
North And, as if the nleanuess OF this
abject trucking were cot enough to
consign Mr. BRADY forever to the con-
tempt Of all decent men, the traitor darcs
to stand up in New York and say that he
blames the South only for "lcaying VI at
The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-11-06
E5sEfSEsG sss- /:
ThanksSivEng PrOciansation.
PE.NNSIL V.I.NI.i SIS:
:::::::NONEMBEk 6.

PENNSYL F4.NIi SIS:
In the Name and IN The IHho~ity Of the Com
moR~eaIh Of PenasyleaRia, ANDREW G.
CURTIN, CoCsrnor IF said Commonwealth
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, 1t is good thing to render thanks
unto God for ali His mercy and loving kind
ness
Therefore, /. Andrew c. Curtin. Governor
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylyania, do
recommend that
THURSDAY, 27th DAY OF NOVEMBER, NEXT,
be scs apart by the people of this Common
wealth, day OF solemn Prayer and Thanks
giving to the Aim ghty-Giying Him humble
thanks that He has been graciously pleased
to protect our free Institutions and Govern
IReTIt, and to keep US from sickness and peSti-
lence-and to cause the earth to bring forth
her increase, so that our garners choked
with the harveSt--apd to look so faYorabiy
on the toll of His children, that industry has
thriven among us, and labor had its reward
and also that He has delivered from the
bands of enCTnies-and filed our officers
and meu In the field with a1Oyal and intrepid
spirit and victory-and thH He has poured
eUt upon (abeit unworthy) other great
and manifold blessings
Beseeching Him to help and govern Us in
His steadfast fear and love, and to put into
our minds good desires, so that by His contin-
nal help we may have right judgment in all
things
And especially praying Him to give to
Christian churches grace to hate the thing
which is evil, and to utter the teachings of
truth and righteousness, declaring openly the
while counsel of God =
And most heartily enIreatins Him to bestow
upon our civil rulers wisdom and earnestness
in council, and upon military leaders,
zeal and yigOr in action, that the fires OF re-
bellion may be quenched-that being
armed with His defence, may be preserved
from all perils, and that hereafter our people.
living in peace and quietness, may. from gem
Grafton to generation, reap the abundant
fruits of His mercy, and with joy and thank
fulness praise and magnify His holy name.
Given under my hand and the great seal of
the State, at Harrisburg this Twentieth
day of October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. and
of the Comm onwealth the eighty seventh.
A. G. CURTIN.
Bl THE GOVERNOR.
ELI SLIFER, Secy. Of the Commonwealth
The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-11-06
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years time
Superior to any $40 map ever made 3,
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or fifty cents; 31U,00U names are engraved On
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Money refunded to any ons fnding sn error
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From the Tribune, Auc. 2-@LToyd's Nap
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Map is very large its cost is but p cents. and
1t as dse best ttai c1H be purchased"
Lloyd's Great Map of the Mississippi River,
from actual surveys bv Cupts Bart and Nm.
Bowen, Mississippi River Pilots, of St Louis,
Mo, shows every mans plantation and Owl
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and landing. aid All places twenty miles back
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Oct %, lSG2-3t
The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-11-06


the particular time she did p We ven
ture to say-and risk nothing in the as
sertion-that Mr. BRADY's Southern phil
anthropv had no idea of blaming his pet
for even this. The simple facs is, and
any man who can read the words can see
it, that Mr. BRADY gives his ,nquali ifedap-
proval to the South but not daring to
promulgate such rank and unmitigated
treachery, he adopts this exception as the
thinnest possible covering for the missha-
pen abortion he would fain hide. Such
is the Democratic platform of New York.
The second component of this wretched
Secession sympathy is villifcation. There
is a regular conspiracy among the journals
in the interest of Northern heresy to put
forth every misrepresentation that distor-
ton of fact can suggest: or, when thar
source is exhausted, every downright lie
that rebellion frehzied imaginations can
invent; or, wearing this threadbare, every
opprobrious epithet that an extensive bor-
rowing from plantation slang can supply.
Hence the constant ringing of changes
upon "radicals," ''abolitionists:" negro
worshppers,' etc, to say nothing of out
raeeOus personal abuse.
But this is only the surface underneath
lies something not generally apprehehded
bold defence Of traitors cunningly tuck
ed away liz an epithet. For it will be
noticed that, whatever variety of form is
given to them, all these aspersions and
charges rest only upon one basis it is al
ways and forever, slavery" and 'the
abolitionists" Now before the Proclama-
ton of Emancipation all this might have
passed as mere billingsgate, but now it has
plain seditious intent. Who are the
"abolitionists President LINCOLN, his
cabinet, and the whole loyal people of
the North. The powers that be have
decided that Emancipation is measure
absolutely necessary to the public safety /;
the people are rife for it or anything else
that vii! help to save us, and embrace it
gladly. Any sneer, therefore, at "aboli-
tionists" is covert stab at the Administra-
ton, and through the Administration at
the Union, and through the Union at the
elimination of all political truth-the
principle Of Representative Democracy.
Let us, then, tear off the wells, and see
the assassinators of our liberties in all the
hideousness of their moral and political
deformity.
The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-11-06
I'd EGISTER'S NOTICE

Ia Notice is hereby given that thc follow
ing Accounts have been passed aud .fled in
the Registers Office, at Ebensburg, and will
be presented 10 the Orphans Court of Cam
bria county for confirmation and allowance.
on Wednesday, the Sd day of December next,
to wit:
The second and final account of Charles
Bi.estine, administrator of John MCIoskev,
decd
The first and final account Of Samuel Pot
ter guardian of Joseph Garfield.
The final account of John Stull, guardian
of Lydia and Sarah Eye, (now Lydia and Sa-
rah Kring)
The account of John Stull, administrator
Of Joseph Strayer, deceased.
The account of Samuel Becher and Henry
Becher, administrators of Nicholas Becher.
deceased.
The Anal account of John Paul, administra-
tor of William Faul, deceased.
The first account Of J ohm G. Noel admins
traitor of John Noel, deceased.
The second account of Catharine Cassiday,
executriX of Lewis Cassiday, deceased.
The second and final account of William
Kittel, trustee to sell the real estate of
Thomas Jackson, deceased.
The first account of William Kittell, admin
istrator of Robert Finn, deceased.
The third account of Jane Rodgers, acting
executrix of John Maxim, deceased.
f. F. LYLE, Register.
Ebensburs, November 3, 1862.
The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-11-06
A Reverend Traitor Arrested.

A man named j. Slime, protesting
to be Lutheran minister, was arrested on
Friday, charged, among other things, with
having betrayed Captain Palmer, Of the
Anderson Troop, into rebel captivity
The prisoner halls from Perry county,
and has long been suspected of secession
proclivities Soue time since he volun-
teered his services to the Government as
a scout, and was accepted, because Of his
familiarity with the local divisions,
streams, roads, aad mountain passes of
Virginia, Maryland and nsylvania.-
After the rebels Were at Antietam creek,
Capt. Palmer had occasion to cross the
Potomac. lie was accompanied by Slime,
who conducted him to farm house near
dam No 4, where they had crossed.
Shortly after arriving Slime absented him
self and remained away about an hour
Not long after Slime departed TIE rebels
entered the house and at once captured
Capt Palmer, since which tine he has
not been heard from. Thus the affair
stood. Nothing was seen or heard of
Stine until the rebel raid on Chambers
burg. He arrived there in advance of
the enemy, and remained during their
stay. lie vas recognized by a number
who knew him, and closely watched his
movements. lie was frequently seen in
conversation with some OF Stuarts officers
On this point the evidence of respectable
men and women is positive. Beside this,
it is confdentially believed that the
accused had perfected plan to have Gov
ernor Curtin captured. When the Gov
ernor visited llagerstown the rebels had
left. He remained there u short time,
ard within all hour or two after he re-
tired part of the rebel cavalry made IA
grand dash into the town, and from GER
tain remarks which fell from some of their
lips they were evidently in search Of him
He escaped only few hours before the
rebels made the dash. The prisoner was
taken to Philadelphia, and sent thence to
Fort Delaware for examination
The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-11-06

Armstrong and Westmoreland, James
\ Mccullough, ID, Samuel Wakefield, ID,
Richard Graham, D.
Fayette, Daniel Kaine, d.
Greene, DR. Patton, ID.
Washington, Wm Hopkins, D, William
Glenn, ID.
Allegheny, 2 C Shannon, A Slack,
Wm llutchman. a ii Gioss, John Gilfl-
Ian, all Union Republicans
Beaver and Lawrence, VIM Henry, L
II, W White, L II.
Butler, Ii W Grant, L +, Fl { M'Coy,
L r.
Mercer and Vanango, Jas G Brown, [
Z, NJ G Beebc, u II.
Clarion and Forest, " L Alexander, ID.
Jefferson, Cear6eld, NJ 'Kean and Elk,
DR.. G X Early, ID. g Boyer, ID.
Crawford and Warren, II johnson,
L II, " ID Brown. L II.
Erie, Jno Z Vincent, L r, L ".
Twitchell, L II.
Potter and Tioca, 4 j Armistead, L
r, c A Brown, L Il.
The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-11-06

nea. An easy conscience IS a good
thing. The imperturabie Old Public
Functionary, James Buchanan, formerly
President of the United States, has eabo
rately replied to Lieut.-Gen. SCOTS late
ly published notes on the rebellion. He
makes very poor show through an inor-
dinately long apology, and finally winds
up by saying that he can solemnly declare
before God and his country that he cannot
reproach himself with any act endargering
it's happiness, Its prosperity, and its safety
since the existing troubles commenced
The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-11-06
Democratic majority, =

Rsy- There seems to be no good reason
to hesitate about accepting the good news,
that comes to Us through rebel sources, of
the capture of Mobile by our forces under
Gen Butler. \ few days ago we learned
that G en Butler had arrived NJ Pensacola
with force of 1000 n,ca, and the object
he had IN view was no secret We may,
therefore, regard the rumor that has reach
ed Cairo, according to our kilograms from
thence, as likely TO be well funded
The rebel prisoners taken by ou~ scouts"
are probably the "roH,,t co'U-jrrs If ihc coed
news, that MoaILE Is OURS Next to
New Orleans, no more important point
can be found on The map Of the whole
Southern coast. The possession Of it
promises great and Immediate results 70
the nationa cause.