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The weekly union record., 1864-06-11
Noses, What They Mean.

You will never be able to find man Of in
tense reflective powers having a nose thin AID
sharp at the nostril The grand nose of Law
ater we have already described; but the cogi-
tatiye nose Is somewhat different from it. It
only refers TO the gristly parts below the bridge
Of the nose Il may or may not be found il
connection with beauty. Oliver Cronwell's
is truly ugly, but so indicative of vigor and
portentious energy that a sensitive man might
throw himself into a fit of terror by mere dint
of gazing on its dropping flesh point. rostrated
and broadly incurved, like the adj of ship
wright Coeridge's forms remarkable con-
trast TO Cromwells. Ii has the broad thought
fol character in a very large degree, but in
other respects it is weak, lamenlably weak
nose, only quarter Of the length OF the face,
whilst Cromwell 5 exceeds third. There Is
10 physognomy in all picture galleries, sculp-
tors chisel work, or numismatic record, since
kings first struck their type in metal, that
stands out like terrible old Nolls, for q
man to govern, lead fight, yet on the whole
do justice. There Is wavy beautifuneSs
about Philips head of Colerdge-but We are
upon noses, and must say, a las that nose.
There is nothing commOner than the defect OF
that nose. Every tenth man yOu meet Is
Liliputian Roman; and while such superlative
energy belongs to the genuine eagle beak that
the sagacious Greeks bestowed it on Jupiter
himself, this Liliput Roman is the very anti
thesis of will. Embellish it prodlgally as you
will with gifts, it has no power 1t is weaker
than a "snIb.' 1t is at the opposite pole TO
Roman energy. Beware of trusting business
to a Liliput Roman. Yet We have seen these
noses pretending to authority, to be fathers of
family. and 10 have a wife in subsection 10
them. Subjectionl why nothing could make
anything on earth submit to lhtm but another
inch in length tackled on to them. The differ
ence is startling when you turn from this period
to the noses Of the Fferch Revolution, and the
general expression of the counteuance Pettish-
ness distinguishes the nose, and cruelty the face
Of these IN. n. One sees distinctly in the French
counienauces what history demonstrates, that
these men were leaders by accident rapidly
succeeded each Other and were the product or
scum OF chaos and anarchy. 1t was not their
individual will shaping events, and grandly di-
recting, that raised them to that eminence, but
volcanic eruption that losses ont stones IN
showers, which quickly drop, yet leaves cloud
OF ashes and lighiest dross floating for time,
until blown away miles to seaward 1t has
been said that words etymologicaliy considered
are 'iossil history" and so the noses of an
epoch are a synopsis of its history.-E1tectlc
and Congregational Reuielc.
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Charmed Rings,

Ii is related that Chariernagne loved cer
tain mistress so pasSiona;ely that tor the en-
jovmeut OF ber society, be to'slly neglected
his imperial duties While the Court was IN
a state of great GneaSinesS at the strange We
hemeuce Of so disastrous passion the lady
was taken i'll in the city OF Cologne, and
shortly after. 10 the great relief Of his states
men, she died. Now comes the wonderful
par; of The relaiionl Death did not aeaie 40
iota of Cbarlemagne's ardeut devotion, or
break the spell that bound him to her: the
body being embalmed. be caused il to be dre.
sed aud placed on a couch ; then, taking hlS
seat by the senseleSs clay, he would iu his IN
fatuatiou appeal to it for comfort and counsel.
The venerable Bishop Of the Cathedral Of Co
logue, who coHs idered a living beauty was
preferable to tie remains of departed oue.
rebpked his sovereign for his wicked passion,
and revealed to him the important secret that
bis love arose from q charmed ring that lay
under the tongue Of bis mummy mistress.
Whereupen the Bishop putting his finger into
the mouth of the emballned belle. distinctly
felt the crclet under the tongue, which he re-
moved. When the Emperor saw, as be now
did, disenchanted, the CHASTITY features that so
long fascina ted, the ghsstly features that so
long fascinated him. be turned away 10 dis
gust, aud gave immediate orders for its inter
ment. And DOW the poor Bishop. who bad
pocketed the ring, found himself sorely annoy
ed by lis possession for the monarch, still
spell bound to the owner of it. became as af
fectionate towards the Bishop as he previously
was TO bis mistress To be freed from these
vexatious caresSes, the prosecuted eccleSiastic
took the ring 10 the euvirons Of AIN. aud
threw it into lake or marsh. A year or two
after, the Emperor happened to be attracted
to the site of the submerged ring, and found
such attraction in the dismal swamp" that
here he determined to end his days, aud biiher
accordingly the Court was transferred. First
a noble palace next fine cathedral and then
flouri>hing town, appeared in rapid succes-
sion. aud from that time to the present Aixla-
Chappee has ever been favOrite and fash
lonable place of resort, though few are aware
of the reason.
Some historian tells Us that King Solomon
was one day Fastening to the river Jordan to
battle, and was accosted on the bank by two
likely ladies' who, entering into conversation,
soon inveigled him into giving up his ring
into their custody, when mot caring that the
monarch should retain his wisdom but the
contrary one of them threw it sportlvely into
the stream; and both soon had the satisfac
tion of seeing that the loss of his siguet had
rendered Solomon as foolish as themselves.
The glitteriDg jewel in the meantime, was
swallowed by large fish, whose intellect was
so little improved by the bait that he allowed
hmself, shortly siterward, to be caught and
taken the palace. The cook, on discovering
the ring as be cleaned the fish, brought it to his
royal master, who, replacing it on his finger,
recovered thereon full possession of his wits
and wisdom.
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Southern Girls Learning Yankee Habits

Southern girls are at last adopting Yankee
habits. The necessity which compels their
departure from home and its endeared society
strikes US as having in it the Providenta hand
These young girls, if virtuous-as We doubt not
they are-will become self reliant, like the
Northern women. They will learn lessons in
domestic economy, and, after they become
welded matrons, teach it to their children.
These children will look upon labor as honora
Bile, and by this gradual educating OF the
Southern mind. lis people will become great
and Ingenious in industrial pursuits, and the
accursed institution of slavery, which has been
eating like a cancer into the vitals OF the body
polite. will go under and give place to
brighter and better state Of things. The
Richmond Examiner of A April 9th says;
Oue hundred and thirty ladies employed as
note signing clerks in the treasury department
at Richmond. passed through this city yester-
day morning, en- route for Columbia, S. c.,
where they are hereafter to conduct their pecu-
liar branch of business. 1t has been aScertained
that living is cheaper in Columbia (how much
we do not know than it is in Richmond, and
the policy OF the government, which is an
economical one, is TO remove their field OF oper
ations thilher. The ladies filed three coaches,
and were conveyed Immediately from the depot
In Pocahontas TO the Southern depot, where
they attracted much attention until the train
left for the South. a good many of them found
friends aud acqualntances in waiting for them,
who entertained them during the several hours
of their stay in front of Jarrets Hotel. 1t is
an unfortunate necessity that compels the re-
moval of these ladies so far away from their
homes and friends and the sympathy of the
public is very naturally extended to them.
Many of them are young, handsome and intelli-
gent, but by the force of circumstances are
compelled TO labor for their living, and, as
matters now turn out, not at home, where the
company Of family and friends are enjoyed, but
hundreds of miles distant. where everything is
strange, aud everybody stranger.
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John Bull and the Rebels in New Spec
ulation.


It is impossible 10 deny the rebel leaders
certain degree Of cleeerness in the manage
neut Of their finances. Not being troubled
with any conscientious scruples. they have
achieved ibe temporary success that usually
attaches to disregard Of the ordinary rules
of honesty. By reckleSslv ignoring the most
solemn obligations, they have succeeded in ob
tanning the means to carry on the war far be
yoDd the period when it should naturally have
died out for want Of resources. Like the high
wawman who has succeeded in dcdging the
police, and flourished for awhile iu congenial
baunts on the fruits of his i'll gotten gains. the
bogus Confederocy still continues to exist on
the fruits Of plunder aud reputation. En-
boldened by their sueceSs in wipiug ont the
twelve hundred millions of cGrrency. which
represented only portion of the amount of
the peoples means that had been wasted in
war, they now turn their attention TO their
English friends and sympathisers, and are out
in new project TO tap the plethOric pockets
Of John Bull The plan is TO revive the
credit Of the old cotton loan." BY forming q
new "Blockade-R Running Company" with q
capital yario1sly reported at from one TO five
millions of dollars. The programme Is TO
build or purchase the fastest blockade runners,
load them with English munitions of war, for
the account Of the rebel Government, run
them into some blockaded port, and return
with a cargo Of cotton. 1t is claimed that
owing to the want of munitions in the South
and the demand for cotton in England. the
profits viii be immense on the outward ard re
turn cargo. The cotton is to be delivered to
the holders of the Confederate bonds. which
are 10 be cancealed to their amount when the
cotton, which they represent, is delivered up
The plan, ike all the rebel projects, is plansi
ble on It's face. and does not differ in principle
from the practice Of cur New York mer
chants to advance money and bills of credit
on Western produce 10 be delivered in this
city. But fatal obstacle interposes in the
shape OF our blockaders, which increase in
number every day. We have no objection
that John Bull should nibble at the tempting
cotton bait set for him by his Confederate
friends. The English jeff Davisites have an
equal right to be feeced with the Southerners,
and We hope they will go largely into the
blockaderuunins business, inasmuch as we
need few additional fast ships; and if this
grand Blockade Running Company" sees fit
to susply US by diSpatching them 10 our
shores, SO be it.-N Y. Sun, -fprH ID
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The "C.EsARIAS REPUBLIC w hen John
c. Burch wrote his famous Cactus Letter"
he proposed to call the new Government the
"Cacsarian Republic" A traitor named c. r.
Street-now editor of the Marysville Express
was then conducting the Shasta Herald, in
which Bnrchs unfortunate letter appeared.
Street, not understanding the word Cacsarian,' =
brought bis slender education accomplishments
to bear, and not fuding the queer word "Cac
sarian" in Webster, thought there must be
some mistake. at should be 'Cesarian :"
quoth Street, and so the word was printed
Most people understood that the "Casarian
operation" implied the birth of an infant BY
surgical process; Caesar, it is said. was born
thus, The idea of creating new republic By
a process so cruel and hazardous to the old one.
struck the public as peculiarly funny. and
s;raightway they laughed Burch out of coun-
tenauce and into obscurity, though the absurd
ity Of his treason was wholly attributable TO bis
blockbead confederate, Street, who still lives to
spell God" with a little g, and "gnat"
without any "g" at all.-Anericdn Flag.
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Army Chaplains,

Writing Of sermons. did you ever make one
at S field preaching at the front? If not, |
must give you a homely little picture | saw
Yesterday, which By the calender was Sunday.
Biundering past rusty camp, the tents stained
and rent, came upon group Of about as
many as met Of old "iu an upper chamber
and not az officer among them uuless II might
be sergeant. They were seated upon logs.
and the Chaplain was just leading off in a
hymn, that hoated up and was lost, Ike bird
in a storm. amid the clash Of bands and the
rumble Of army wagons IN the valley below.
The Chaplain wore bet with feather in il,
that be might have been born in, for any
evidence have TO the contrary; for, during
the entire services praise, prayer and preaching.
the voice came out from beneath the hat with
a feather in IT, Perhaps il would have struck
you as irreverent, but il msy be that he feared
the misfortune Of the wolf who talked hoa7sely
with little Red Riding Hood. because be bad
a cold in his head. Al the heels OF the Chap
lain, as he preached. kettle was bubbling
over Ere. and q soldier boy on his knees
beside it was apparently worshipping the
hardware. But he was no idoator, for all
that. since closer look discovered him fishing
in it tor something with fork. Around the
preacher, but just out Of sermon range, boys
were smoking, darning, chatting. reading,
having a trolic; the voice of muleteer came
distinctly up from below, as be damned the
hearts of his six 10 haud-for no teamser |
ever heard was so wild as to swear at mules
soul; the passing trains of ammunition crushed
the chaplain's sentences IN two, and now and
then whistled a truant word away with them
but he kept right on, clear, earnest, sensible
no matter for the hat with feather in it-and
could not help feeling profound respect fot
the preacher and the little group around his
feet The result Of my observation of chaplaius
is already a matter Of record In your columns,
but ] must say that have seen little reason to
vary my opinion, that there is no officer in a
regiment so utterly useless as an inefficient
chaplain, nor so decidedly damaging as an un-
worthy one. Said q profane Colonel to the
question: "What shall We do with that rebel
we have taken-he says be is chaplain y
DO" returned the Colonel, keep him, -
him; we are out of chaplain" Now, the
doctrine Of total depravily is good deal like
the adverbial sink in the old time parsing
when we found word and did not know what
to do with it, we called it an adverb. So
people are apt to credit an evil TO total deprav-
ity, when perhaps but for them it might not
have existed at all. The chaplain that Colonel
was just "out of might have been good man,
but he was a good man out Of place. He
lacked-to borrow word from the artillerists
-"the heavy metal OF character; did not carry
guns enough TO inspire spect-Correspond
snce Chicago Journal.
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Nor THIS FLAG.-The Louisville Journal
tells good story on the gallant young Lieu
tenant Colonel of the Thirty y-second Missouri,
who is proof against rebel guns, but falls an
easy prey to bright eyes. The Colonel attended
festival at Hartford, Illinois, recently and
several ladies who waited on the table wore
beautiful aprons, bearing the embems of our
flag. The Colonel remarked to one Of the
wearers That's pretty apron you wear"
Yes" said the maiden; 1T is my flag.
Il have fought many hard battle under
that flag" rejoined the Colonel.
Not this flag !" Indignantly exclaimed the
beauty, as sne swept away, leaving the gallant
son of Mars dumbtounded
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Lee was entirely across the Po river. while
Others construed the bea7v caanOuading Of
yesterday afternoon into another great battle
The Western troops suffered in sll The bat
ties. The Fourth Michigan, Nineteenth and
Twentieth Illinois, and Que Wisconsin regi-
ment lost heavily.
There are some four Thousand 10 Thursday 5
aBd Fridays fight who are very slightly
wounded. Several hundred have arrived here,
most Of whom are able to walk TO the hospi
tails. and large numbers are about the streets
smoking and drinking. The Provost Marshal
has arrested most OF them, and they are being
seut back 10 their regiments.
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THE LIoS-In providing food for his young
the lion has recourse to an expedient we'll
worth the consideration of scientific men, and
calculated to puzzle those who dsbelieve in
the magnetic power of animals. As the lair
inhabited by the lionness and her young is al
ways at distance from the Arab encamp-
ments it would be difficult task for The lion
to carry or even to drag an OK or a horse so
far. To avoid this labor be brings home a
living animal. Yes, reader, the lion possesses
the power of compelling bull TO leave the
herd, aud forcing him TO precede him, 10 what
ever direction he pleases for whole night.
thus driving him into the most inaccessible
mountains
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A CAREFUL measurement of the monster
whale on the beach southwest of the Laguna
del Merced. shows his extreme length to be
eightytbree feet, and his breadth across the
flank twenty feet He is over twice the
length of the "humpback" which was cast
ashore few miles north Of that point some
months since. Those who desire to take
look at the monster must go soon, as the
carcass is fast becoming too decayed TO be a
pleasant object to walk on the leeward side
of.
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GENERAL SHERMAN has way of tightening
trains which is equal to that which Is the
effect in theory of the condensed ration. The
soldiers move without tents. and every but one
blanket each. Pack mules are largely en-
ployed and they must fud their own forage.
Beef goes along on the hoof. The General
himself goes with but one blanket, and sleeps
on the ground without tent. That is the
way to make the army go.
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Ma. TUTTLE, the astronomer, completely ex-
poses the iaacy of the prediction, attributed
to Prof. Newmanager, that our globe is en-
dangered by an impending collision with
great comet. In the first place Prot. New.
mauger is unknown 10 the astronomical world
and secondly there is no comet now known Of
which such a career can be predicted.
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4 LITTLE drummer boy. named Orion P
Howe, of the Fifty-ffth Illinois Regiment,
who was wounded at Vicksburg while carry
ing ammunition, has been adopted" by the
Board of Trade of Chicago aud Ar. Lincoln
recognizing his merits and bis bravery, has
given him q vacancy al the Naval School at
\ewport.
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SEYMOUR on THE LATE GENERAL WADs-
woRTH.-Governor Seymour, of New York,
issued the following general order on the re
ception of the intelligence of Genera! Wads
worth's death:
announce with painful feelings the loss OF
General James 5. Wadsworth, in the recent
battles on the Rapidar. He met death brave
ly, at the head Of the forces under his com
mand. 4 leading aud wealthy citizen, be ex-
ercised wide influence by the vigor and en-
ergy Of his character. As 4 public man he
was always decided aud resulue in demanding
purity of legislation and an economical and
wise administration of the affairs of our OVID
State. Long prominent among Us in civil life,
when the war broke out be was prompt and
among the first to join the. army. From the
outset an ardent supporte@bf the war, to him
belongs the merit of freely periling his OWE
person in upholding the opinions which he
advocated Assigned at once TO a high mill.
tary position. be has been up to the day of his
death actively and earnestly devoting himself
TO the performance OF his military duties.
As mark of respect to bis memory, the
American flag will be displayed at hall mast
on the Capitol and upon all the arsenals Of the
State.
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Ms. JOHN Y. Fos7Ea late of the New
York Evening Post, has accepted The editorial
chair OF Harper's Weekly. George W. Cur
tis, who has been temporarily in charge of the
paper, will continue to conduct his special
department of Harper's Monthly Magazine
and will also coutinue to contribute to the
pages Of the Weekly.
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SUIT AGAINST JOIN MoRRIssEY An action has
been commenced in the New York Court of Com
mon Pleas against John Morrissey, by Mexican
named Pablo de Arista, to recover twenty-three
thousand dollars, which, it is alleged was lost at
the gaming table. Nine thousand dollars of the
amount are claimed TO have been lost at Saratoga,
last Summer and the balance at the Defendants
house in this city during the Fall.-N Y. Tribune.
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WHAT is contentmeut? The philosophy Of
life and the principle ingredient IN the cup of
happiness-a commodity that is undervalued
in consequence Of the very low price it can be
obtained for.
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4 gentleman who had the honor of pres
ding at a Sunday school celebration not long
since. being little inclined to put on airs, in
formed the audience, in rather ostentatious
manner, that they would now have some "vo-
cal music on the brass band"
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A MAN named Aron Bedbug. of Montgom-
cry county, Pennsylvania, intends petitioDing
the Legislature to change his name. He says
that his sweetheart. whose name Is Olivia, Is
unwilling that he should be called 4. Bedbug,
herself o. Bedhug, and the little ones Little
Bedhugs
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onions that Wethers6ed is looking up. Where
as, onion seed in that lively Connecticut village,
sold before the Var at forty two cents pound,
it now commands three dollars.
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WHEN tights were fashionable, fellow re-
turned a pair of lrowsers TO bis tailor because
tbev were too small for his legs.
.'But you told me to make them as tight as
your skin" said the tailor.
True" said he, "for can sit down in my
skin. but I'll be split if can in these breeches.
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DOES the State Platform of the Democratic
party. recently adopted in Contention at San
Francisco, favor peace, or does it favor war;
QUINCY Union.
OF course it does Why do you ask such
foolish questions, Buckbee? Constitutional
Democrats pays their money and they takes
their choice. .'-Neuada Gazette.
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SIXTEEN substitutes in the Sd n. H. regiment OF
mounted infantry have deserted to the ehemv with
their horses since the regiment has been stationed
at Florida. Six more attempted the same thing.
but were intercepted, and one of them shot as
warning.