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The mountain Democrat., 1863-02-14

The CoTToN MANUFACTURE of Russia
has development of which few people
in this country have any idea. Every
Russian peasant, male and female, wears
cotton clothes. The men wear printed
shirts and trowsers, and the women are
dressed from head to foot in printed cot
ton also. When it is remembered that
Russia contains something like S3,000,-
900 Of serfs, besides other classes amount
ing to 10000, 600, all using this article
more or less, one can estimate the demand
for cotton goods. This is supplied chiefly
by native labor, in mills containing ma
chinery made in Oldham and Manchester,
and superintended by EngliShmen from
the same neighbOring towns. There may
be five or six millions of SpindleS at work,
spinning this cotton, together with the
weaving and printing of the same, which
forms indeed large item. perhaps the
largest among the manufacturing pro-
cesseS of Russia, and employs a capital
Of one hundred and fifty millions of dol
lars The largest mills are in the neigh
borhood of st. Petersburg, one Of these
having some hundred and twenty thous.
and spindles, and a few others having
sixty or seventy thousand; but the great
bulk Of the trade is in Moscow district
and scattered about the land in that di,
rection. The number of Spindles there
may not be so great in any individual
mill as in some of the large ST. Peters.
burg establishments, but the mills are
more numerous, some of them nearly as
large, and all of them are of respectable
dimensions.
The mountain Democrat., 1863-02-14
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The following thrilling iheldsal n ~
unsuccessful chaTge at ftrdeIi 6nfs,
is from the pen Of cotEeG e. -
Missouri Republican ,5 ...7:..
Parts Of Summers grand corps chnFrsd
three times up the declivity, q. annt e
the enemy's works, and were e nllsa
repulsed with dreadful slaughter, Amid
the grcans of the dying, the shfieka Of
the wounded, and the defiant cfies uf fhs
retreating column, which fell back eheer-
ing, Hurrah for General Mcclellan. Z"
could be heard above the roar Of battle.
sometimes from our defeated soldiers.
sometimes from the wounded, and often
from the dying soldiers. The heFUest
lighting ia sAe center ragged in front II .
-..,, rN >,NO lavsN SSeAt6f iSiIi5y IN
advance Of the batteries of the enemy.
The rebel infantry were sheltered behind
it, while their artillery played over their
heads. Immediately in its front was .
line Of rife pits, occupied by q small force
of the enemy. The order was given to
charge this position, and our troops I'D.
vanced upon the slope. when they were
greeted with heavy cannonading. APP
preaching nearer, they received the fire
of the rebel sharpshooters in the ride
pits, but undaunted, they continued to
advance, driving the rebels from the riHe
pits, who disappeared from behind the
stoncwall and in. the woods beyond.
The advance continued shot ard she'll
with desultory musketry tore throuKh
the ranks, but there was no ALTERING.
The gaps were closed up, and the AO0k
line Of bayoEets approached within enc
hundred yards OF the wall, The proppeet
of its being captured looked promising
and once taken it would afford our troops
protection in turn, and give good posi-
tions for our field batteries. AS yet the
enemy's infantry had not shown them.
selves. Occasionally refugee from the
rife pits would arise and .dre and theu
scamper off to the rear. but no AeaSy
mpsketry told that the enemy wefS6 6s4
hind it in force. Within fifty yards was
reached. The pace increased to rush,
and the line braced itself for the last en-.
counter. Suddenly a brigade of grey
coats arose from behind the wall; long
line of bright rifles flashed in the sunlight,
then came a deafening roar. The ad.
vancing columns received the leaden' hail,
fell like grass before the scythe, wavered,
reeled, turned and fled. Two thousand
five hundred dead and dying were left
under the guns of the enemy, and tfVe
hundred fell before the shelter of ra-
vine was gained. The wall was about
six hundred yards in length, and every
foot of it cost US two men. 1t was the
battle of New Orleans repeated.
The mountain Democrat., 1863-02-14

TIE CHANCES OF THE GIRLs.-Whaf 6
there in the glance of a young girit No
thing and everything mysterious abyss
half opened and then suddenly closed.
There rs q time when every young girl
looks thus. The first glance Of o s0at
which does not know itself, is like a dawn
in the sky. 1t is the awakening Of sonhH.
thing radiant and unknown. Nothing eGR
express the dangerous charm Of this uu-
looked for CLEAN which suddenly sufSUsss
adorable mysteries, and which is made up
of all the innocence of the present and the
passion of the future. 1t is kind Of ir.
resolute lovingness which is revealed hy
chance, and which is waiting. tits snare
which innocence unconsciously spreads,
and in which she catches hearts without
knowing it, and without intending It. II
is maiden glancing like woman. Iii
rare that deep reverie is not born Of this
glance wherever it may fall. All that h
pure, oil that is vestal, is concentrated IN
the celestial and mortal glance, which b
more than the most studied ogling aflhs
coquette, has the magic powsFof Badllss-
ly forcing into bloom, in the depths ~ the
heart, this sweet flower Of the shade Sail
Of perfume and pOisons, which b 'c1lled
| love. '-@ rSss
The mountain Democrat., 1863-02-14

INTELLECTUAL FoREHANDEDNESS.- 1t IS
an important element in all success in life
to acquire the habit Of being beforehand
with whatever you undertake. can.
perhaps, best illustrate what l mean By
an example taken from another branch of
the subject. There are two friends, gen.
'tlemen Of large means, whose estates and
whose annual incomes are about equal
One Of these is always short Of money,
buys everything on credit, and On ~
longest credit he can comm1ud, ollsU
when travelling hns to borrow money u
take him home, and really has to make d8
many turns and shifts to get along as II
he were poor. All because helives twelve
months on the wrong side of'his income,
The other man, whose annual income sad
expenses are about the same as those Of
his neighbor, never has an open account;
buys everything for cash. always has
plenty of money in his pocket, and plenty
more in bank, and is apparently without
care in the world, so far rs money &C.
concerned. All simply because he lives
just twelve months on the right side Of
his income. The two men have equsi
resources. In the course of their lives
they spend about equal amounts. Yet
the one is always poor and harrassed, the
other is always rich and at his ease. -
The picture has its counterpart in the
history of many professional men. Some
men in their intellectual disbursements
are always beforehanded and at their ease,
while others of equal resources live ha-
bitually from hand to mouth. You will
see an editor scratching and scrambling
for copy at the very latest moment, and
living, it is to be feared, in great dread Of
the office devil. You will see the profess.
or quaking over his uncompleted expert.
ments, or his half-6nished manuscript;
anxiously dreading the summons to Itc-
ture. You will see the clergyman locking
himself up on Saturday, to push through,
under high pressure, the sermon that must
be delivered on the morrow. .+.-a
These all, and others like these; simply
in consequence OF bad habit OF mental
action, pass through life in a perpetual
state Of discomfort and professional pOV1
erty. Brain. work so dong, is generally
badly done, and is done at q ruin01s
waste of the life-force.
The mountain Democrat., 1863-02-14

LET'S TAKE A DRINk.-" Let's go and
take drink, boys" said a well dressed
young man as the cars stopped at sta
ton. And so the boys did, re entered the
cars with their language and persons
marked by the bar-room color.
Take a drink The young men were
we'll dressed fools. They have taken a
step which will bring a fearful rctribution.
Years hence thousand woes will blossom
in the footprints now made in young life.
A false light gilds the deadly miaSma
which dogs their footsteps. They see not
the smoking altar towards which they are
tending. A host of shadowy phantoms
of vice and crime are fitting on before.
Red handed murder laughs at their folly,
and death is in waiting at the fresh open
ed grave. There are tears to shed by
those who at this hour dream not at the
sorrow these false steps shall bring upon
them.
Take a drink All the uncounted host
Of drunkards, whose graves in every land
mark the pathway of intemperance, took
drink. They took drinks and died. The
drunkards of to-day are taking drinks
Three out of four of the murdererS of the
past year took a drink. Their steps were
towards the cram shop, and then from the
scatfold, out upon the fearful waste which
lies beyond. The palsied wretches who
totter in our streets, all took drink
Families are beggared by single drinks.
He'll is peopled by them.
We involuntarily shudder when we see
young men crowding the deeply beaten
path to the dram shop. They are all con-
fident Of their own strength. With the
glass in hand where coils the deadly ad-
der, they ha, ha, about the fools who drink
themselves to death They boldly leap
into the tide where stronger arms have
failed to beat back the sullen flow. They
dance and shout in the midst of the grin
ming and ghastly dead, and riot upon the
reeking fumes Of the graves foul breath.
They boast Of their strength And yet
they are but the reed in the storm. They
wither like grass under the sirocco breath
of the plague they nourish. a brief time
and they are friendless, homeless and de-
graded. Another day, and the story Of
their lives is told by a rude, stoneess
grave in Pottcr's Field.
Don't take a drink! Shun the Dead
Sea fruits, which bloom on the shore
where millions have died. The bubbles
which float upon the beaker's briln, hide
the adder's fang. The history Of ages
points sadly to the maddened hosts who
have offered themselves, soul and body,
to the demon Of the cup. The bondage
of the iron gals but the limbs. That Of
the dram fetters the soul.
The mountain Democrat., 1863-02-14

than said, and, like q madman, the wide
awake the 'shrewd' Douglas raved about
the room-the light had burst upon him
in moment, and had overwhelmed lin
His wife sat and looked aghast, wholly
unable to guess the meaning Of his singu
lar behavior.
You gave it him p
Yes, the thousand pounds-there is
your note, and here the key Of your desk,
said his wife, rising.
1t isn't mine, cried he, putting out q
bunch to compare them. 'Alasi they are
alike though. lam ruined forever!'
1t was long time before he was suffi-
GENTLY calm to explain; and ere he had
half done so, the last words of the depart
ing ~79tain: spoken in the foreman's bear
ing, recurred to him, and he rushed fran
tically out of the house back to the shop;
but it was too late.
But few minutes elapsed between his
leaving the shop and the removal of the
hamper in carriage with the one-armed
sea captain, who had doubtless watched
his departure. All efforts to trace the
nautical Douglas proved fruitlesS. NG4
could any clue be attained to his mystic
rious possession Of the key, or knowledge
that the notes which were only in the
desk one day, and would have been in the
bank the next, were in the keeping of Mrs.
Douglas.
Thus in one day was the man, who
vaunted his shrewdness, done out Of one
thousand pounds and an equivalent in
plate. When he next hears it said that a
man must rise early to get the best Of
him, We doubt il he will reply as before,
that 'he must not go to bed at all, and
then it could not be done Neither will
he claim so close relationship to a chance
customer bearing the illustrious name Of
Douglas.
The mountain Democrat., 1863-02-14

administering that benificeRt government
which our fathers handed down to US TO
be preserved as . sacred trust.
WhSt, si2t1 pro Va 10 do? The act
ing powers Of the Federal Government
have ceased to inspire confidence. OF
the three co-equal functions into which
that government was distributed, the one
most entitled to our reverence-the Ju.
diciary--has been insulted, stihed, out
ragged, by the Executive. The other,
fractional, and incomplete, functions Of
government-the Executive and Legisla-
tivc-by openly and shamefully violat-
ing the Constitution by which alone they
exist, have annihilated their own title to
authority.
/; Iii III nc. chaos, thea? Is it not the
declaration of anarchy2 Fer from il
The essential principle OF our American
political life is, and has always been,
State Sovereignty. In this, now is our
refuge. 1t is the State that has the legit-
innate authority over person and property,
the Common Law jurisdiction in regard
to all interests on account of which gov
erenment is essential to human society
Most people in this country are aware Of
this, though New England intrigue did
manage in a grave conjecture, to maneu-
yer into the Presidential Office an indi-
vidral who, after he was elected, avowed
that he had never learned the difference
between State and county.
The Union is, for the moment, para
lyzed, but the States remains to US. To
these, as lovers of order, we must cling.
We must sustain and strengthen the SOW
creignties of the States. When the
Union was formed, it was formed by the
States that freely accepted and ratified it.
All the States of the old Confederation
did accept the Constitution Of the Union
some with less, others with longer hes
itation. States can do again what they
have done before. Adversely has its
uses and will have its lessons. All wis
dom has not died with our grandfathers.
Liberty, peace. and prosperity, are what
we should seek. These we must secure
first by securing and reasserting the in
dependence Of our several States, and
then by a wise aud mutually forgiving
policy, by uniting again the great broth
erhood of Independent American States.
This is our duty. This is our hope!
The mountain Democrat., 1863-02-14

A TRUE picture of despair is pig reach
ing through hole in the fence to get a
cabbage that lies few inches beyond his
reach.
AT late break up of the tetotallers,
they were described as retiring from the
temperance festival full of spirits.
A LADY once entered stage coach with
so much powder on her face that she blew
up the driver.
A MAN in Bristol was such an inveter-
ate gambler, that he not only lost all he
possessed one evening, but lost his way
home.
If every care drives nail In our coffin,
every merry laugh draws one out
The mountain Democrat., 1863-02-14

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The mountain Democrat., 1863-02-14

\ SuINPLAsrER SroRY.--A shinplastcr
story has been localized here and applied
to popular dry goods dealer. The story
may have been in print, perhaps, but a
repetition would do no harm. As the
story goes, farmer purchased few
cents worth of dry goods, from this ira
der, and gave him bill to make change
from. The latter returned him eighty
five cents in his engraved promises to
pay, genteely known as checks, but vul-
carly as shinplasterS. What's them ?"
inquired countryman, inspecting them
with great curiosity. "Oh," said the
merchant, "thoSe are sort of currency
we dry goods dealers have" and went off
to attend 10 another customer. The coun-
tryman went off, not exactly satisfied,
but soon after returned and bought near
ly dollars worth of goods. After re-
cciving the neatly tied up package, and
being told the price, he deposited num-
Der of pumpkin-sceds on the counter.
"What are those ?" inquired the aston.
ished merchant "Oh," replied the
countryman, coolly, "them's sort o.
currency we farmers have" and there
upon left the store. The story has il
that the dry goods dealer. who appreci
ates good jokes, was SO amused he die
not call his Improbable customer back
Il Boston Herald.
The mountain Democrat., 1863-02-14

FASHIONABLE society generally kas has
two faults first in being hoiloW- -heAdsd
and secondly, hollow. hearted.
The mountain Democrat., 1863-02-14

A PROVINCIAL contemporary says there
are hundreds of people who become re-
ligous when danger is near, and adds :
ave know Of man who fell from a
bridge across certain river, and just as
he found he must go, and no help for it,
he hawled out at the top Of his voice
Lord have mercy on me-and be quick
too
The mountain Democrat., 1863-02-14

MoDEsTY is generally the cOppan ~
virtue, innocence, and real abilltie
The mountain Democrat., 1863-02-14

EACH IN HIS SPHERE. Humphrey
Davy changed the whole face of chemiS-
try, but he was not cut out for Prime
Minister. The reason why Benjamin
franklin not only tanned the lightning.
but tanned politicians, and even mOnarchs,
is that he had u great fund of good sense,
rare commodity in these times. We
have heard and read much Of Egypt,
Greece, Asia Minor, and the Holy Land.
Chatcaubriand, Madden, Eustace, Lamar
tine and others, have written attractively,
but the first and last of these were travel
ing romancerS, coloring all things with
their poctical fancies. The temples tombs
and obelsks of Egypt for centuries mock
ed the travelling public with their mystic
rous characters. The rocks of Sinai, too,
exhibited strange language, which none
could decipher. Here there were ruined
halls and palaces in the East-there were
subterranean works of art, curious and
instructive, into the depths Of which none
had penetrated. Centuries had rolled
over them; hoary Time had concentra:-
cd them. Pages Of history were written
in the earth, but none could read them.
At length the man was found. Layard was
the man. lie was to disentomb palaces
and temples from the sepulchre of ages.
He was to disiHer Nincveh ITSELF and
make that ancient city stand in midst of
posterity Nincvch, that was destroyed
600 years before Christ, or a century and
a half after Rome was founded. The
superior mind that educed order and
beauty out Of these material ruins, ex.
hibitcd its supremacy over the wild and
capricious Arabs, for they were wonder
fully managed and controlled to execute
the plans of Layard; as we'll those in
power, as the subordinate rank and file
Of the children of the desert. The genius
Of the traveller, the antiquarian and the
philosopher arc combined in him, and he
would seem to have a mind even for par
liamentary influence. We rejoice in all
the talent and genius Of the age, where
soever found Wars must ultimately
cease, and peaceful pursuits everywhere
engage the attention Of men. There are
citizens of the world who, like Humboldt
and Lyell, seek, in propagating scientific
knowledge, to make it available for ce-
menting the friendship Of nations.
The mountain Democrat., 1863-02-14

To what race Of giants Dc lips Ae'
long! The tight-uns (Titansl
The mountain Democrat., 1863-02-14

EVERY door may be shut but death S
door.
they are not reformets who simply ab-
hor evil.
The mountain Democrat., 1863-02-14
THE MOUNTAIN DEMOCRAT,

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The mountain Democrat., 1863-02-14
once, on COloma street.
F. A. HoRNBLOWER,

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
viii practice in all 'hr Courts of lie tll irl:~al
District. OFFICE-At PIot HI, T.! Dorado Can.
ty nayl1.3.a
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-01-17

PRAIRIE GRovE-AH Ixc1DEzT.-A most thrill.
ling incident Of the late terrible fight at Prairie
Grove is thus related by Lieut. Will s. Brooks,
of the 10th Iowa volunteers Writing to .
friend in this city, be says:
'sThe fight Was most determined, and the
slsuRher immense. Twas struck at O'Clock D.
m, while We were being driven back from too
far advanced position. We were outflanked and
had to run three hundred yards over open
ground and exposed to . murderous fire from
the right, left and center, or rear. Here We lost
our Lieut.. Col. Mcfarland. We lost one half
our regiment, and in company D, more than half
our effective men. Twas hit at the commence.
ment of the retreat, and was near being cap
tured, as could not run. When more than
half way to our battery our color sergeant fell,
and received the colors. The pursuing rebel
Colonel shouted: "G-dd-n 'ns, take their
colors N This enraged me, and followed back
-"You can't do it." The cowardly SIS Of
b-s did not dare to close on me, out let 60 a
volley which left nine holes in the flag and ls
in my clothes. Four bullets passed through
the cuff of my shirt sleeve, but they could not
wound the hand that held the old Alag"
The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-01-17

The Difference AND WHAT 1T MEANS
One of the charges against Kennedy, of the
New York police, to answer to which he is or
dered before Governor Seymour, is the fact
that he made an effort to protect the polls at
the last election against the votes Of parties
who had claimed foreign protection to escape
the draft. Doubtless this proceeding was quite
serious offense in the eyes Of the pro slavery
Democracy. 1t would be an interference with
the freedom of the elective franchise, which
they have, on not few occasions, carried to
the extent of allowing pretty much everybody
to vote, provided he could pass for white, and
as often as he chose.
1t is somwhat singular that while the Dem
ocracy, or at least portion of thems appear
to regard it as hardship, that men who re-
fuse to fight for the government under which
they live should be refused the privilege of
sharing in its direction, they look upon it as
nothing more than just that our soldiers who
are engaged in fighting the battles of the
country should be denied that privilege
Hence, while the Police Commission of New
York City is arraigned before the Governor of
the State as We have stated, in every Legisla
ture in which the question has been presented,
the Democracy have opposed and denounced
the soldiers vote.-[Missouri Democrat.