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Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-06

to the sternest, strictest duty. Gen
10. Johnston ftly designated him
the Chevalier Bayard of the Southern
army-whose spotless escutcheon
was s,tns peur ct sans rep4oche.
We are the personal friend of Maj
West. Our State has few gentlemen
of higher order of talent, of more
capacity for usefulness, or of such
agreeable traits of character: Our
remarks on his letter to Raymond
are such as we feel to be due from
the magnitude it has been made to
assume. We have extenuated, whilst
we have not set down aught in NAL
ice. He committed b'under. In
formation acquired by his official
position, or deriving weight from his
official position, ought not to have
been communicated, or commented
on in such an oracular manner to
those from whom he disagreed in
public sentiment" But there are
few men more likely to realize quick
ly, and repair as fully as possible any
unlucky blunder into which he may
have tripped.
Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-06
We clip the following from ths
Natchez (Miss.) Courier

we clip the following from ths
Natchez (Miss.) Courier
We have heard very industri-
Gus escape Of a Lieutenant of the
Union army. from the rebel prison
at Shreveport, La. The gentleman.
to whom we aIlude. arrived Ia
Natchez day before yesterday. We
did not learn his name. It appears
from the statement made us, that he
had nothing but a candle and a pino
knot in his cell wherewith to work
his way out. These he Used to the
best advantage. He had two Inch
plank lining the inside of his Prison
next heavy logs, and finally a brick
wall Of two feet thick. At first III.
burnt hole in the plank lining Of
his room, by blowing the fire from the
Pl1e-knot dgainst the plank. This
hole was large enough to, work
one ofthe logs Into his cell. He next
dug with his hands and pine-knot
through the brick wall, out of which
he made his escape, Setting his feet
upon the soil outside of the prison:
he made his way to a rebel gunboat
on Red River, where he appropriated
one of her cutters, and floated down
to the Union gunboats where he was
free again.
The Lieutenant looks we'll and had
the appearance of good treatment
whilst among the Cohfeds. During
his Imprisonment he was well sup
piled with food by the Union ladies'
OF Shreveport, who at various times
sent him 1ioney,ahd one time dis high
as fifty dollars. He represents tie
Union sentiment as quite strong id
Upper Louisiana, especially among
the Ladies. The people, he said, wero
tired OF the war, as they have no mar
ket for their products, and would
gladly return to the Union were il
not for Buckner and his troops.
The subject of the above, as manv
OF our citizens remember, made his
appearance in this city some time in
November last, and represented him
self as deserter from the Yankee ar
my. He engaged himself al o clerk
In one of the establishments of this
city, but had not served month be-
fore he was arrested on a charge of
larceny and committed to prison.
he made two attempts to escape
but in the first he was recaptured
and lodged in..the parish Jail But he
at last succeeded. in company with
five other prisoners, in making his
escape.
Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-06

Secretary Trenholrn is at work
in the money market. For some
weeks past it has been noticed that
kegs of specie were coming rapidly
into this city, but it was not until
this morning that it is vas known
that there were Treasury agents IN
the market buying government bonds
for gold at As for /. This fact COM
ing to light, unfavorable comments
have been made. tits to Trenholm's
interest, say the people. to keep gotd
up; forgetting that to Trenholm we
owe the fall of gold from 20 for + to
its present price, As for L. At all
events, no more Treasury notes are
to be issued, and S70O,oOO,oOo
year are to be raised by taxation.-
AS to the story that the army is to
De paid off, that is not credited.
Richmond Letter.
Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-06

We have received a New Orleans
paper of the Sth, containing the fol-
lowing additional news:
Dr. IVm. NJ. Gwin.-We see it
stated on the authority of the Times,
of Mazatlan, Mexico, which must be
an English paper, that the depart
ment of Sonora and Sinaloa are both
to be opened to European and Ameri-
can emigrants, under the charge of
DR.. WIN. NJ. Gwin, former U. S. Sen
atsr from California. The colonies
are to be protected by French troops.
This statement makes the original
story of cession of territory to France,
at least for the purpose of sale to re-
imburse advances, quite plausible.
Fifty emigrants, supposed to be
the vanguard of 10000 more from
the Western part of the United
States, had arrived at Orizaba. in
Mexico. These come with their ag-
ricultural implements, blooded ami
mails, and capital sufficient to go to
work. The municipality of Vera
Cruz have assigned to these useful
emigrants the municipality lan6s
near Cordova. Besides these, thirty
California emigrants had arrived at
Topic. Th .se reported 400 more on
their way, and that the greatest en-
thusiasm prevailed in California
respecting emigration to Mexico.
Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-06
Physical Resources of the
Confoder2CY.

From the Richmond Wing.
The idea has been 1pressed abroad
and studiously enforced at the North,
that the resources Of the Confederate
States, as to arms bearing men are
on the point Of exhaustion. Many
well-meaning people among ourselves
have yielded to the delusion, not less
from certain natural timorousness,
than because of the pertinacity with
which the Yankees have insisted on
an assertion 80 replete with encour-
agement and consolation. There can
be no doubt that belief of this kind
has had powerful influence in re-
conciling the Yankees to contin-
uance of the war; and just as little
doubt that year of the same kind,
not perhaps strengthened into be-
lief has produced whatever of des-
pondency aud di.trust exists among
cur own people. And ye. no pro
position is more erroneous than
that the Contederacy is exhausted,
or even nearly exhausted. Of its arms
bearing population. Onthe contrary,
we have around us in profuse abun-
dance the materials of which armies
are composed in an abundance in
deed quite sufficient to enable us not
only to maintain our armies at their
present standard of effectiveness, but
to rut into the field force surpass-
ing any that has yet been put under
arms on either side.
To prove this fact, we have only
to refer to the statistics Of the United
States census. and compare its data
with an estima Of actual losses. and
diminution of resources evidently
sufficient to cover all decrease in our
supply Of arms bearing men. The
task is one of some labor; but its re-
suits are 30 satisfactory as to compen-
safe amply for all the trouble be-
slowed on it. Without farther pre-
face we proceed to our denonstra
tions.
The following table shows the
whole population of the Confederate
States, excluding Missouri and Ken
tncky, as determined by the United
Statas CenanS of 1860.
Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-06

sons, outraged your helpless families,
and with demoniac malice, wahtonly
destroyed your property, and to sub.
Jugate or ahnihilate the freemen OF
the South, would stamp with infamy
the names of your gallant dead, and
the living heroes of this war. Be
patient, sbedient and earnest, and
the day is not far distant when you
can return to your homes, and live
in the full fruition of freemen around
the old family altar.
N. b. FORREST,
Major General.
Comd'g Dist. Miss, e. E. La.
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CKTeS's MILL, Titus Co, Texas, /
March lst, 1865.

Mr.. Editor
Dear sir: had the pleasure, at Mount
Pleasant, Texas, few days ago, of looking
wagon-making. all under the care and
management of Capt. Bonhart. The Capt.
is well suited for his position, possessing
high executive capacity; he and hi, faith
flI and energetic men deserve mich credit
for the amount and quality Of transporta-
ton furnished the government weekly from
these shops. Every Southern man should
feel proud of such shops.
Respectfully, &c,
ltsw Itw."1 DIP. WHITE:
Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-06
5 4l9,373 2 799,Sls

Ofthis number of males, those be-
tween the ages of II and so are rep
resented by the following table, the
calculations of which are based on the
expectation of life," in the State of
Maryland. the only test We have at
hand. Whatever may be the varia-
ton from this standard, the practical
deductions are quite near enough to
the truth for our purpose. The right
hand column shows the number that
have arrived at the age of II since
1860:
Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-06
irsiEsrtant to Parents.

DT recent order from Gen. Smith.
ID boys from II to l8 years of age are
school. A company is now forming at
Waco University, under Captain Jas. 7.
Daniel, late of c. s. A.
Boys wishing to avail themselves of q
years instruction by an. experienced
faculty, will report ut once.
FACULTY.
Rev. r. c. Burleson, President. ...,,
Rev. r. b. Burleson, Professor Naturn,
Science.
J. T. Strother, Professor Mathematics.
William H. Long, Professor Ahcient
guageS.
Capt J. T Daniel, Assistant and Instrt
tor Tactics: -.
Address Rev. r. c. Burleson, President
Waco, March I'd, 1865.
mariS-wlmSsw4t
Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-06
Mai. Vests Letter,

In week or two from this date
the people will begin to put a proper
estimate upon the value of the letter
of Major West. 1t seems that the
higher officers of General f. Kirby
Smiths staff Major West and Colo
mel Guy NJ. Bryan) are sounding the
public sentiment of the Trans Mis-
sissi ppi Department, on the assump-
| ton that the rebel cause is lost. Can
| they dare to do so without the sane
ton of Gen. Smith IN. O. Inde-
pendent.
AS Maj Vests letter seems to have
attracted more than unusal attention,
we republish an editorial from the
Houston Telegraph in relation to the
Major and his letter.
I'VE publish communication
from Major G. 8. West, relative to
his recent letter to Austin, which has
been the subject of much curiosity,
interest, gossip and animadversion
Tor several weeks past.
Major Vests present communica-
ton is not only unexceptionable, but
commendable. Opinions may differ
from it on particular points, but its
entire tone and spirit are patriotic,
evincing the right devotion to our
cause, and containing good practical
suggestions. OF his fidelity to our
struggle for Independence, we have
never entertained the slightest doubt,
though we are glad to know that in
our defence there are those of more
steadiness of ideas and hopefulness
of character.
His letter to Austin we read and
condemned. 1t was evidently penn
ed in a despondent, gloomy moment,
when a seat in the Texas Legislature
seemed to be more useful than con-
tinuance in the military service. 1t
was polite letter TO secure that OBJ
ject-at a time when the feelings and
tempers of men were such that po-
| lite letter to oAe with whom he " did
not agree in public sentiment on
many matters" was extremely y liable
to misinterpretation by all who should
see it, and consequently to do mis-.
chief rather than good. This, ac'
cordingly has been the case and in.
stead of being understood, and valued
as an electioneering document, it has
been regarded as State paper of tn.
most ominous import. The most un
due Importance has been attached tc
it. Those unfriendly to our cause
have magnified it into an evidence O
the speedy collapse of the rebellion;
those devoted to our cause, especially
those who have not read the letter
but have seen some person, who saw
another man, who had heard al
about it, have magnified it into som,
deeply laid, dreadful and diabolica
scheme.
Ofone thing we needed no assur
ance from Major West, because w
knew it as it had been confrme,
to us by Holy Writ, and that was
that Gen. Smith had no privity witt
Major Vests flank movement to
wards the Legislature, or with any O
tho opinions, feelings, or intimation
f on which it was based. We are jus
. as capable of distrust of Robert Z
Lee as of Kirby Smith. The one nc
a more than the other, is the soul {
= ihonor, conscientiousness and tidelit
Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-06
For State Treasurer.

We are authorized to announce Colonel
ROSS f. BURKE, of the Parish of Nstchi-
toches, as a candidate for State Treasurer,
for the ensiiing election.
ap4-w& sw-tde
We are authorized to announce S. D..
Oliver as a candidate for State Treasurer.
Louisiana papers copy. [April 6 to
Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-06

devastation across the border, and re-
deem those States which have al
ready been overr,ln. Our statement,
however, would not be complete
without showing the resources at our
command for replenishing our armies.
This consists in the number of Youths
passing annually from 16 to II years
of age, and will be found expressed
in the following tah,a
Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-06

Subject to military duty 722,257
Thus it will be seen that making
all allowances for death from erdina-
the dimunition of the erea of our pop
ulation, there must be at this moment
within the Confederacy and subject
to the control of our laws more than
100000 arms bearing men. We
have, in our estimate, made no al
lowance for those who annually pass
beyond the age of so, because their
number is small, and, moreover, they
are still capable Of service in the Re
serves. But We will make a still
further deduction of per cent. to
cover the number of those who have
left the country. This number
amounting to 36,452, is much too
large, but it will serve to compensate
for deficiencies that may exist in
other estimates of probable deduc-
tons. We find, then, at last, that
we have now a force of CO.,, 100 fight.
ing men. If of these one out OF
every three be detailed for such pur-
poses as the President may deem
necessary, admitting that the powen
of detail remain in his hands, ou>
army in the field should consist o
46l,S64 men at least, or n large
force, we candidly believe, than tn,
enemy had ever brought against u,
at one time. At all events, it il
much larger than any force we hav,
ever had under arms, and is amply
competent not only to defend tn
country, but to turn back the tide o
Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-06

within the actual limits of the Con
federacy. and under the control of our
laws, we must make considerable de-
duction from these figures. Our es-
Inmates stand as follows;
Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-06
1,2o9,760
33l,656
l,65l.g56

Deducting from these numbers the
natural average mortality Of four
yeara-that is 90 say, 200 900 mem
and we have figure equivalent to
the number of fighting men now re-
naming in the Confederacy, leaving
out of account the mortality attribu-
table to the war.
The accounts thus far stand thus :
Number between II and so in
1860 1929 700
Arrived at IL since 1860 331 656
1851 $50
Deduct natural mortality 100000
Aggregate remainder 43l,356
To hnd out tho number remaining
Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-06
Total.

From which it will Be seen that
our net loss is about $4,000 men, at
the high rate assumed for this year.
Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-06
$40 SIS

States named, and by commissions for
others, will be more than counter
balanced by recruits from Kentucky,
Maryland and Missouri. and refugees
from other portions of our territory
now in the hands of the enemy.
We come now to another necessa-
ry computation. for which facilities
ought to exist, but for which, unfor-
tunately we do not possess the relia-
bic data. We mean the number of
men killed in battle, or who have
died Of disease, or who have been per.
nanently disabled by the casualties
Of war. 1t is useless to attempt even
an approximation to absolute precis-
ion in an estimate of this kind. We
can only assume a number, which, in
all reasonable probability, must in
clude the true number. If we as
sume, for instance, that the casual
ties in Gen. Lees army for this cam
paign have amounted to $4,000, We
shall exceed what we know to be the
truth. If we suppose, of this mum
ber, 5000 to have been killed, and
5000 permanently disabled by wounds
We have, for the army. n reduction of
10000. IT We assume an equal mum
Der for the army of Tennessee, and
still another equal number for the
other armies of the Contederacy, We
shall have 10000 as the figure within
which must be included the number
of killed and permanently disabled
Admitting extraordinary diseases
that is to say, diseases 'ributable
entirely to the military service, and
therefore not to be estimated in the
ordinary mortality, to exceed the
above number by 80 per cent. and we
have $1,000 as expressive of the re-
duction, during the year of $4,000
men. But this year has been fertile
in casualties than either of the for
mer years of the war. In the first
year the losses in battle were almost
nothing. In the second and third
year they Were perhaps, nearly as
large rs in this one. Let ur, there
fore, adopt the following estimate of
losses incurred since the beginning
Of the war:
1861, 10000
1862, 10000
1868. 10000
1864, $4,000
Total actual loss, 225,OSO
From these premises We construct
the following table
No. bet'n II s. 60 in 1860 100000
Arrived at II since 1860 S3l $50
1851 366
Deduct for ordinary mortal
ity 100000
For population within the
enemy's lines. 340,s45
For losses in battle and by
unusual diseases 225,ooo
Remainder, 500 81
Deduct 10 per cent. for eN-
emptions for disability
and other causes,
SG,534
Prisoners in the enemy's
hands, $4,000
Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-06

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futsd . square. No deduction or increase
made to correspon With the charges of
other papers, publishing similar advertise
nents, as appear in this paper. Take due
sotics snd govern yourseires accordingly.
Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-06

FOR SALE,
4 FRESH supply, OF. Cream Laid Letter
N Paper, Pens andtEbvelo pes. at the
Post office. March lS; wsw.
Semi-weekly news., 1865-04-06

Wanted.
A T the State Foundry, old cast n
"A ings and charcoal, for which q -
PLows, PLOw POINTS, L,NDSInES, W
ScooTERs, SKTLLETs and OVENS will be
exchanged on liberal terms,
A. W. MOFFETT,
Superintendent Stat, Foundry:
aprli-ti
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Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-09-07
Tomato Cheese.

1t is nice, neat dish for luncheon, nice
relish at tea time really hope, Mr. Care
less, that you and great many other house
keepers will learn to make it, as it is cheap
and good, and l am confident will keep the
year round
l take dozen large, ripe, smooth toma-
toes scald, and remove the skin, then thor
oughly mix them, after cutting into slices,
with pound of sweet dried beef, shaved as
thin as tissue paper. Put in with the toma-
toes and beef the sweet white curd from a
quart of milk, season with pepper and ground
cloves, put the whole into stout bag Of loose
ly woven linen, and after kneeding and ma
nipulating until all the ingredients are per-
fectly incorporated, first squeeze out every
drop of liquid can force through the cloth.
Then, place the material in "hoop' that l
improvised out of a round wooden spice box,
by knocking out the bottom and cutting in
one edge four little notches as vents for the
escape of any juice that may remain. Iplace
the removed bottom on top of the mass as a
follower" and-well, | used my husband S
copying press for my cheese press. 1t per-
forms admirably, but any convenient heavy
weight applied to the top will answer all pur-
poses Press twenty-four hours, and put by
in cool dry place. For use, shave off in
thin slices. Such a cheese ought to last such
a family as ours, Mrs. Careless, ten days at
least but don't suppose twill average more
than week in this neighborhood. d.
Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-09-07
Chedder Cheese-IIOw made.

Warm all the milk at all seasons to about
9O0 before introducing the rennet A curd
is thus produced of the proper consistency to
make one cheese at that heat Use calves
rennet, soaked in cold water, with plenty of
salt to preserve it. When the curd becomes
solid and the whey commences to separate,
cut the curd each way with long knife
leaving it in blocks of an inch square; then
leave it half an hour for the whey to separate
and the curd to toughen then break the curd
carefully with the hand so as to help the
separation of the curd from the whey, gently
moving it for twenty minutes, and gradually
increasing the heat to 960. The process of
drawing off the whey now begins The milk
is heated by steam at the same degree of heat
through the seasons. Keep the curd gently
moving in order to retain all of the cream OF
richness in the curd.
In from two to three hours the curd will be
sufficiently dry to receive the salt, which is
an ounce to every Ave pounds of curd. 1t is
mixed in the vat, and when sufficiently cool
lift it into large hoops, and put it under press
for half an hour; it is then moved and ground
Gin mill for that purpese) into particles as
fine as Indian corn; it is then put into small
hoops and pressed for two days, turning them
once in the time. When taken from the
hoops they are inserted into scalding brine to
form rind, which is impervious to flies. If
the curl is sufficiently cool it obviates the diff
fculty of the sticking to the stringcr. The
weight to be applied is. | 600 pounds to every
20 pounds of curd. Annatto is used for col
oring inside and out, and is mixed with but
ter for the outside This cheese is sold in
market at wholesale for forty cents per pound;
size of the dairy thirty cows, and will produce
about $50 pounds each.
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Links i'm the Chain.

The blast that drove the storm clouds
across the heavens shook the oak and the
acorncup, loosened from its fruit, fell on the
pathway
The cloud burst the raindrop filled the
acorncup. f
A robin, wearied by the sultry heat of an
autumn day, and troubled by the fury of the
storm, hoped upon the path when all was
calm, and drank of the raindrop. Refreshed
and gladdened he flew to his accustomed
place in the ivy that overhung the poets win
dow, and there he thrilled his sweetest, happi-
est song. 4....i
The poet heard, and rising from his reverie,
wrote chant of grateful rejoicing. The
chant went forth into the world, and entered
the house of sorrow and uttered its heart-str-
ring accents by The couch of sickness. The
sorrowful were comforted, the sick were
cheered
Many voices praised the poet He said
"The chant was inspired by the robins
song. ''"s
'' az owe my song to the raindrop," said the
robin" t'' PM" ~ 'i'
az should have sunk into the earth had not
the acorn-cup received me, said the rain-drop.
81 had not been there to receive you, but
for the angry blast, said the acorn-cup, = -
And so they were comforted (and praised
the blast); but the blast replied. "Praise Him
at whose word the stormy wind ariseth, and
who from darkness can make light, making
his mercies oftentimes to pass through un-
seen, unknown and unsuspected channels,
and bringing, in due time, by his own way,
the grateful chant from the angry storm cloud"