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Year: 1863




THE CoNscRIPTIoN AcT.-The New
York Times has the following in reference
to this law:


The law does not fix $500 as the sum
that any one must pay in order to obtain
exemption from the draft. 1t gives to the
Secretary of War discretionary power to
fix the sum which shall buy exemption in
each individual case, but in no case shall
over $500 be demanded. The Secretary
may require of rich man $500 for exemp-
ton, and he may let a poor man of-one
who deserves exemption for reasons Of sick
ness and helplessness of his amily-for The
sum of SO, if he will. The language OF the
law is this: THAT any person drafted and
notified to appear as aforesaid may, on CT
before the day fixed for his appearance,
furnish an acceptable substitute to take his
place in the draft, or he may pay to such
person as the Secretary of War may au-
thorize to receive it, such sum, not exceed
ing $500, as the Secretary may determine,
for the procuration Of such substitute


A CONDEscENDING DARKEY "A mill
tary officer wished to compliment negro
by drinking with him. "Well, captain"
replied Cuff, Else very dry, so 1 won't be
ugly about it. Some niggas is too proud
to drink with a milishy ossifer, but think
a milishy ossifer, when sober, is just as
good as nigga-specially if the nigga is
dry"
Year: 1863

CoLoRED MEN TO BE DRAFTED The
following is from the Washington cores
pondence of the World:


It is reported in official circles that the
first draft in the North will be from the
free negro population. All the able-bod-
led colored men between twenty and thirty
five years of age, are to be taken to fill up
the ranks Of the various negro brigades
now under way This has been decided
upon, it is reported, at the instigation Of
Gov Andrew, who is furious at the free ne
groes fo1 their backwardness in coming to
fight for their race. There are not enough
of negroes to be had within our present
army lines to garrison the sea-coast, as gov
ernment designs, by this class of troops,
and the imprcssment of The northern ne
groes would immediately add about 10000
effective men o the black army. Radicals
and Democrats here are both agreed as TO
the proprety Of trying a conseription
among the blacks first
Year: 1863

ADAPTING THEMSELVES TO CIRCUMsTAN-
CEs.-A spruce young couple visited Sac
ramento recently to make some purchases.
They applied at hotel for lodgings, but
we're told that the rooms were full except
a small one with a single-bed. This em5ar-
rassed them for a while, but after whisper
ing an earnest consultation, these young
Californians told the landlord they would
take the room, as they thought they could
''adapt themselves to Circumstances" They
went Immediately to clergyman and had
the nuptual knot tied, and then returned to
their room at the hotel From the joyous
look of both when they came down to
breakfast next morning, it was eviden:
that they we're well satisfied with their new
formed relation.
Year: 1863

THE purity of moral habits is of very
little use to a man unless it is accompanied
with that frmness that enables him to act
up to what he may think right, in spite Of
solicitations to the contrary.
Year: 1863

THE FEELING AT THE SOUTH.-The
Richmond Enquirer comes to the conclu-
sion that another year of war at least is be-
fore the South, and perhaps more. They
must either fight or submit. There is no
hope either from foreign intervention, the
lack of cotton or the hoped-for friendship
of the Northwest. The Yankees, in the
opinion of the editor, are Just beginning to
fight, and in few weeks time even that
eloquent friend of the South, Vallandig-
ham, whose great speech is flying over the
Confederacy in pamphlets and newspapers,
will stand where Van Buren stands now,
and will be clamoring for war to the knife.
In this view of the case the editor says


owe are going to have great campaign
the greatest of all and the army wants
every soldier. The country must and will
sustain and arm them. If high spirit and
honor do not impel stragglers to return
to their duty, let public opinion do it. Let
the women present crochet needles to all
laggards at home, as they formerly served
distafs to the too patient gentlemen of
France. The crisis is upon US. The sun
rises high, and spring breezes are making
favorable and verdant baltle-helds, and
with firm earth beneath for the hoofs of
cavalry and the wheels of artillery, the bat
tie buds and will blow ere long. War is in
season peace IS out Of order.


THE REBELS ARMING THEIR SLAVES.
The Nashville Union, Of April oath quotes
from the Atlanta Georgia. InteAigencer
and Contederacy, the following passage,
urging upon the rebel commanders the ne
cessity Of arming the slaves:


We must eight the devil with fire." by
arming our negroes to fight the Yankees.
There is no doubt that in Georgia alone we
could pick up ten thousand negroes that
would rejoice in meeting fifteen thousand
Yankees in deadly conflict. We would be
willing almost to risk the fate of the South
upon such an encounter in an open field.
Year: 1863

How many kinds of insects are in exist
ence is a question that would require a
good deal of figuring. Whence come
many varieties is another question to which
no one can pretend to give an answer
Scarce a species of plant exists without a
distinct variety of insects that grow upon
it. The idea appears an absurdity, yet it
seems as if animal life was impaired by
light alone, when its germ has no exist
ence.


A curious illustration was shown to us
Mr.. Hubbel, the well-known apothecary,
was experimenting on different colOred
glass, with a view to finding the tint that
would best prevent chemical change in sub
stances, contained in the jars and bottles,
made from it.. This was four years ago
He applied the test to African peppers
These peppers are bright vermillion in
color, with a surface as beautiful as coral
They are as hot as a dozen American
grown pepers, concentrated into one. He
filled with them two Jars, one of white
glass, the other of blush green, made to
his order. The peppers in the white jar
underwent change, and after two years,
though the vessel was hermetcally sealed,
were filled with minute worms. No ordi-
nary vermin could exist among African
peppers. Opening the jar a short time
since there was nothing left but odorless
powder, utterly void Of pungency, COM
posed of the dead and dry worms, and the
worthless debris of the peppers. The con-
tents Of the other jar were as sound and
bright as on the day when first deposited.
We were also shown tin can of sambow,
a medicinal root in thick slices, brought
from Siberia 1t had arrived sound, but
not being Immediately used had become
full of little purple insects, unlike to any
thing hereabouts to be SEEN The germ
of these insects must have existed, when
it was dug up by the Russian exiles in the
high latitude from which it came If not,
why not


Be this as it may the fact is worth know
ing that greenish blue grass neutralizes the
chemical agency of light, and entirely pre-
vents the efloresceuce of chemical salts,
and the deterioration of quality in articles
kept up in bottles Of that color
Year: 1863




SEC |. The owners or managers OF every cir
Gus caravan or menagerie hereafter exhibiting or
performing within the corporate limits Of the
town of Auburn shall pay to the said town for
each performance a license tax OF five dollars.
And the owners or managers OF every other pub
lie show, exhibition, theatre or concert or other
public performance, for which an admission fee
is charged. shall pay to the said town for each
performance within the said limits a license tax
of two dollars and fifty cents; provided, that the
owners managers ot any exhibition before
mentioned, may exhibit or perform Tor thirty
consecutive days on paying therefor license
tax Of fifty dollars or for any consecutive ninety
days on paying therefor license tax Of one hun
dred dollus.


SEC. 2. The said license tax shall he paid to
the Marshal of said town, or to the Treasurer
thereof; and the officer to whom the same is paid
shall give to the person paying the same, re
ceipt therefor, which receipt shall specify the
amount paid, the character of the exhibition, and
the time Of the performance thereby licensed.
Sec. 3. Every person who shall open, or CON
duct, or carry on or cause to be opened. conduct
ed or carried on. any of the performances on
which license tax is imposed by the first section,
actor, without the license tax as provided in the
first section having been paid. and the receipt
specified in the second section having been OBJ
tanned therefor, shall he deemed guilty of mis-
demeanor, and on conviction thereof before any
Justice of the Peace. shall be fined for each
offensc not less than ten nor more than one hum
dred dollars. and may he imprisoned in the coun-
ty Jail until said fine be paid.
Year: 1863

Say what is life? 'Ts to be born


A helpless babe, to greet the light
With a sharp vail. as if the morn


Foretold clondy noon and night;
To weep to sleep, to weep again,
With sunny smiles between; and then?
And then apace the infant grows


To be Il laughing, pulling boy,
Happy, despite his little woes,


Were he but conscious of his joy;
To be, in short, from two to ten,


A merry, moody child; and then?
And then, in coat and trowscrs clad.


To learn to say the decalogue.
And break it; an unthinking lad.


With mirth and mischief all agog:
A truant oft by field and fen
To capture butterflies; and then?
And then increased in strength and size.
To be anon, a youth full grown;
a hero in his mothers eyes,


A young Apollo in his own;
To initiate the ways of men


In fashionable sins; and them
And then. at last TO be man;


To fall in love; to woo and wed;
With seethng brain to scheme and plan,
To gather gold. or toll for bread;
To sue for fame with tongue or pen.
And gain or lose the prize; AND THEM
Year: 1863

PUNISHMENT ENoUeH.-Dnring the recent
rebel raid into Western Virginia one of
Gen. Jenkins men stole lady's hoop skirt,
which so enraged the General that he orderl
ed the fellow to wear il hole mouth--so
he was obliged to 90 with it around his neck,
amid the jeers Of his comrades; and to see
him holding it up when riding his horse
is said to have teen ludricous in the ex-
tIeme.
Year: 1863

When a female is in trouble or afflicted with
disease, and requires medical or surgical assist
ance, the inquiry should he, where is there a nhv
sican who is fully competent to administer re-
lief-one whose knowledge Of the fem ne system
is perfect, who thoroughly understands the an.
plcation OF medicine to disease whose scientific
nttanments in surgery have made him preG eminent
in his profession and whose respectable standing
in society recommends him to the confidence of
the community? Unless these and many more
questions, be satisfactorily answered. the
afflicted should pause before consulting any one


DR.. &c. YOUNG, understanding how imperl-
lively necessary these requirements are. feels
called upon to nterpoSe, and by calling the at
tenion OF the afflicted to the fact that he has been
a professor of obstetrics and female diseases for
twenty years, and is fully qualified to administer
in all cases. both medically and surgically. not
in a superficial manner. but in as thorough n
manner as years of study and practice both in
hospitals and private familes-can make. to save
them from the hands of the unqualified. unscru-
puous and designing. Therefore, families can
rely upon him as upon father. All in anlction
can lind in him one who can feel and symplthize
with and beiriend them in troublesome in whose
secrecy the utmost confidence can be placed
Come, all ye that are afflicted and in trouble
and you vii be relieved and cured.


ES-Apartments privately arranged, 50 as to
preclude the possibility of exposure. and afford
those who wish a home all the advantages of con.
stlnt attention and unremitting private attend
lnce.
Year: 1863

presence Of mind he would not have de


served to have been the husband Of such


woman. He made slight gesture to


show he understood her, and said aloud


T" Excuse me, my dear, left the none


down stairs. I'll be back in two min


utes." Within that time he returned


pistol in hand. He looks at the prmnr


walks 10 the alcove, stoops, and while


the iorefnger of the right hand is on the


trigger, with the other band lie seizes
one Of the feet, and cries in voice of
thunder, Surrender or you're dead
man y He drags by the feet, into the
middle OF the room, a man OF most i'll.
favored aspect, crouch.g low TO avoid
the pistol which is held within an inch
Of his head. He is searched, and sharp
dagger is found on him. He con fesses
that the girl was his accdmplice, and had
told him NJ. Aubry would bring large
sum home that night. Nothing remains
now but TO give them over to the author
tiles. Madame Aubry asked her hus
band TO pardon them, but the voice of
duty is louder than that OF pity When
NJ Aubry heard from his wife all she
bad gone through, he could only say.
Who would have thought you SO cour,
ageous p But in spite Of her courage,
she was attacked that night with vio-
lent nervous fever, and did not get over
her heroism for several days.
Year: 1863

Parts are entirely destitute even Of
sand, being smooth, compact, sun baked
clay other parts are covered with heaps
Of sand, disposed like snow drifts in
waves of fifty and eighty feet in hight.
Near the mountains along the Colorado
there is a terrace as flat as the floor, and
paved with pebbles Of nearly uniform
size, ofporphyry, jasper, quartx, cornell
an, and agate, all rounded by the action
Of the water, and polished till they gist-
en-, by the driving sand. In this respect,
again, The porch of our Great Desert is
like that which outlines the Lybian
Desert. Doubtless the northern part Of
the desert is the dry bed of .2n ancient
lake of fresh water, whose beach lines
are strongly marked. Probably, at a
comparatively recent period, the water of
the California Gul covered all the clay
surface Of the desert II lies below their
level now, aud ii channel were cut
through the natural embankment Of the
Colorado, it would doubtless cover again
with water. Ii is very probable that the
Colorado Desert region was uplifed
within historic times. Earthquakes oc-
casionally agitate its surface, and in l8
SO there were eruptions Of mud and hot
water in the central parts of the valley.


The National MteHigencer says that an
enterprise is on foot for converting this
formidable desert into fruitful field by
introducing water from the Colorado
river on and over it, thus causing yer,
dure 10 replace slerility, causing the
desert to bloom as the rose"


The propagator Of this enterprise hav-
ing devoted several years in the prelim
mary work, and having fully determin.
ed the practicability Of the measure by
actual instrumental surveys, now awaits
the action of Congress TO make cession
OF this Sahara to the State OF California,
in compliance with the expressed wish
Of her Legislature. Itcannot be doubt
ed that Congress will at once comply
with the application made by California,
and allow the parties 10 g on with this
novel work, which promises to be Of so
much benefit to the government and
mankind = Scientific Americon.
Year: 1863

a striking trait of courage in iadv
forms the subject OF conversation at pres
ent in the French metropolis. Madame
Aub,y lives in solitary chateau, not
iaI from the town of -. The fam
Ily consists only of NJ. Aubry. his wife,
= child about one year old and one maid
servant. In a lille town, every light is
out 10y ten O'Clock. and OF course ihe
most perfect solitude rei.ns at that hour


in their house which lies of the road


completely hidden by ire 5. One night
last winter, Madame Aubry was sitting
alone reading. Her husband had left
her in the morning TO visit friend six
or eight miles off, and as he expected 20
bring home considerable sum of mon
ey, he had taken the usual precaution of
arming himself with a pair Of pistols


At about six o'clock the lady went up to
her room TO put her child TO bed. Her
apartment was q large room on the first
floor, filled up on one side BY an old


fashioned chimney aud on the other bv
a deep and eapacious alcove, near which
stood her infants cradle The night
was gloomy one, cold and dark, and
every now and then dash o. rain beal
against the gothic windows. The trees


in the garden bowed to the wind, and
their branches came sweeping against
tie easement; IN short, it was a night in
which the solitude of the mansion was
more complete and melancholy than US
ual Madam Aubiy sat down on low
chair near the fire, which, by It's sudden
flashes, cast an uncertain light over th4
vast apartment, throwing its antique
carvings and mouldings by turns into
brighter relief or deeper shade She
had her child on her lap, and had just
finished preparing il for the cradle. She
cast her eyes toward the alcove, to see
il the cradle was ready to receive its
little occupant, whose eyes Were already
closed. Just then the fire flashed up
brightly aid threw strong light Oh the
alcoye, by which the lady disting guished
pair OF feet. cased in heavy nailed
shoes, peeping out Fl ON under the curtain
in front OF the bed. A thousand
thoughts passed through her mind in al
instant. The person hidden there was
thief, perhaps an assassn-thal was
clear She had no protection. no aid a


hand, Her husband would not return
ill eight at soonest. and il was now only
half past six. What was now 10 bt
done She did not utter a single cry


nor even start on her seat The servan
girl probably would not have such pres


ence of mind. The robber probabl,
Fmeant TO remain quiet where lie was Ill


midnight. and then seize the none,


her husband was to bring with him (; bn


il he should find that he was discovered


and that there was nobody in the hous
but two women. he would not fail {


leave his hiding place and secure thei


numbering them. Besides. might nc


the girl be the robbers accompice
Several slight causes OF suspicion occu,
Year: 1863

NARY A PRAYER.-Tbere is a rule OF Oberlin eel
ege that 10 student shall board at any house where
prayers are not regularly made each day. certain
man fitted up boarding house. and filed it with board
eTs bat forgot until tie eleventh hour the prayer pro-
viso. Not being praying man himself, be looked
around for one VINO was. At length he found one a
neck young froG1 Trumbui county, who agreed to
pay bis board in praying For while all went smooth
but the boarding master furnished his table so poorly
that the )ardeGs began to grumble and leave and
the other morning be praying boarder actually struck
Something like the foLowinging dialogue occurred at
the table:
Year: 1863

From the Raleigh State journal.


We publish below the declaration of G. q. Perkins,
who recently examined in Raleigh under writ of
.6eaS corpus. 1t will be that he avows himself
an enemy of the Confederate States and further that
be ewes his allegiance TO the United States.


The recent act of the Legislature of North Carolina
upon the subject Cf the writ of habers corpus was
avowedly passed to force trial of the prisoners
rested by the Confederate States Under that Per
kins brought before Judge, d because there
proof OF technical treason against him-because
two witnesses could be produced to show that he
ever gave direct assistance to the enemy, either by
giving them information otherwise aiding them, he
released bail open avowed enemy s permitted
TO 60 at large to gather what information he to
send to the enemy and to mperil the lives of SOL
ders


Because the Government restraints its enemies howl
has gone forth from every pair Oh Conservative lungs
in the State over the violation of personal lberSy-
Phe rs: victim OF Confederate OPPRESSION as they call
it, turns cut to be open eneuy.


Cau anything show more plainly than this one act
W. st regard Conservatism pays to the interests of the
country aud how tendery it treats the enemies of the
CCnederaey?
Year: 1863

An eccentric preacher asked where he
thought Ralph Waldo Emerson would 60 after death.
soul don't in him any evidence of saving faith
but then don't know what Satan could do with him.
Year: 1863

Last night or this morning, We believe, tho moon
changed and the change of the noon is accompanied
by high tides, known as Spring tides" The occur
renee of these Spring tides today would appear to be
about the only thing that goes indicate it particular
y as the day set apart for opening the ball at Charles
ton.


All the present indications go to show that tie at
tempt cannot be made upon Charleston during the
sent Spring tides. BURNSIDE breads another repulse
like that at Fredericksburg and will very eau
tio-sly His forces require organization and
tratioo His ironcads have not yet proved their in.
vincibity The swamqs of the coast present serious
obstacles TO the advance of invading army and the
main dependence must be upon the feet which is DIS
souraged by the failure at Fort McAster and the
severe loss sustained at Port 2'son
Year: 1863

ithoussnd Stewards and Summers. We trem-


BILE to see their anwholesome advances


still more to see sort of morbid craving


here to respond to them, under the delusive


idea OF promoting intestine division at the


North. Oh Dictator Lincoln lock We up


those two peace Democrats--together with


Richardson III some of your military


prisons"


Now. We have no idea that this savage


assault on the Copperhead Democracy-at


least upon their designated champions


have any more effect upon them than the


touch of f" wait-a bit t.orns'' on the hide of


rhinoceros. They are proof against all


such rs that long ago. Butif the rank and
file Of the Northern Democracy-some Of
them-do not, for very shame and indigna-
ton. wheel about and join the ranks of
those in arms to chastise this insolence,
then language must have lost its power to
move men.


Let the reader go back over the quotation
we made. and see the scathing contempt
betrayed by the Richmond press for every
thing like Democracy or the Democatic
principle. Let all see how plainly the
counsels of Mr.. Calhoun have been follow.
ed-the idea indicated by him in his half
century ago conversation with Commodore
Stewart, that is: to kick aside the Northern
Democracy when they could no longer be
rendered available for the peculiar purposes
songht by the Cotton States politicians. in
building up an aristocracy on the basis Of
slavery. No wonder that, in the exhibit Of
conduct made by the loyal and disloyal at
the North. they have come to detest and
despiss the treacherous and uncertain Cop.
perhead Democrat more than they do those
who meet them manfully with an out and
out defiance in the open field; and plain
enough does it appear now that this feeling.
with regard TO all here, will be more and
more intensified as the war progresses, let
the period Of the conflict be longer or
shorter.


And let all note. finally. that in this fero-
cious demonstration from Richmond there
is not single indication of hope being en-.
terta;ned. II is the yell OF angry defiance,
it is true. but it is the yell which might
preceie the suicidal application of the match
to the magazine of the fortress no longer
capable of defence.


Let all take hope from it. who look to
lee retrbuton fall where it is most deserv-
ID. The Copperhead Democracy are fad.
ny their true place. both vish tie North and
he South. II will be such that when all is
ummed up, all consummated by the return
t that peace which must come some day.
heir fate will be such that none other in
ny part of this W lie land bus will con-
raiulate themselves that they are not of
hem.