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Year: 1861

~ we'll regulated and PropOrtionate quantity
Of bile upon the stomach, Is always requisite for
the promotion Of sound beatn-it stimulates di-
gestion and keeps the intestinal canal free from all
distractions When there is deficiency of bile
the body is constantly costive On the other hand
an over abundance Of bile causes frequent nausea
In the stomach and often promotes very B0vcTe az
tacks Of disease which sometimes end in death
Year: 1861

The NEws.-In this paper will be found
a variety Of intelligence from the East, re-
liable and otherwise, received since our
Thursdays issue. The news in some re-
spects possesses interest. The combined
naval and land forces captured the two
forts at Port Royal entrance with little diff
flculty, and the Federal Government has
got firm foothold on South Carolina soil,
which can be used as basis for military
operations in that quarter. There is some
talk of an advance being made by the ar
my Of the Potomac, but the season is now
70 far advanced that it is not likely any inn
porlant land movement will be undertaken
before next spring. From Springfield, Mo-,
we have dispatch stating that the Federal
forces are on the way back to ST. Louis,
and that Price and McCulloch are about to
retire into Arkansas to take up their winter
quarters
Year: 1861

SHOWER or WoRMs.-The Grass Valley
National states that on Monday morning
last, just after the rain, the p!anks on Mill
street we're covered with myriads Of angle
worms, which must have fallen during the
shower. They were confined to a space Of
about four hundred feet in length, by just
the width of the street. They also fell in
more limited quantities in other parts of
the town. So abundant were they that it
was impossible for one TO put his foot down
without crushing them 10 numbers, and in
some places hundreds might be seen on a
spot not more than six inches square. Tde
National advances the theory that they
were produced by an almost instantaneous
electrical action Of the atmospheric
elements of such production being present
under favorable circumstances. The worms
were all of the same size, which would not
be the case were they taken up in water
spout from bodies OF water.
Year: 1861

-" We will be free-we will be free y
He heard that shout from DER the sea;
His young wife gently bade him stay,
But no; his mission was away,
And needing not Kings command,
He hastened to the Western land.
He vow'd TO be our country's friend;
For her his youth and wealth TO spend,
And history's page tells us now,
How well he kept that noble vow,
And he upon the battle-plain
To cheer the valiant in that hour.
And when the battle-storm was Ger,
And forth he went to distant shore,
How many soldier wept to part
Forever with that manly heart
And to the country he had blest
He came once more; nations guest.
And then peoples loud acclaim
Did honor to the hero's name.
He missed the voices that had fed
As the swift years had onward sped,
And wept while standing by the grave
OF him the bravest of the brave,
While thinking of their manhood's pride
When stood the heroes side by side.
As long as gratitude shall be
With men who prize their liberty
As long as an unselfsh deed
With admiration men shall read
As long as love goes toward the brave
As long as stars and stripes shall wave,
America shall not forget


The noble hero-LAFAYETTE.
Year: 1861

'Tis said that by the Dead Sea shore


The fruit most tempting, is but ashes;
And so you'll find the cold hearts core,


From which most boastful promise flashes
If sacrafice or trial come,
It's high pulsation twill benumb.
No, never did loud tongue bespeak


High purpose, but was purposeless;
And never did it battle seek,


Save from the depths of nothingness;
When challenging foe unseen,
1t vents not bravery but spleen.
The maxim of the poet old,


Will through the lapse of time attest,
That courage purified as gold,


Is ever silent in the breast,
And never seeks the battle never,
But meets it like a rushing river.
Year: 1861

BY j. J. OWEN.
Floating along we glide together
Down the silent river of time;
Now we enter the swifter current,
Bearing US on to another cline


Floating along.
Fading away-the shores of childhood,
Hinged with the morning roseate hue
Scenes where my thoughts still love to linger
Slowly receding from my view


Fading away.
Over the stream-the doubtful future
Shadows envelop the other shore:
Many craft in its clouds and darkness,
Pass from my vision evermore-


Over the stream.
Carelessly on The sons of folly
Eagerly crowd the swelling sail;
Needless alike of storm or breaker,
Speeding along before the gale


Carelessly on.
River of Time. Oh, bear me onward,
Not where thy darkest currents low;
Engulf me not in thy gddy whirlpool,
Bury me not in thy caves below


River of Time.
Year: 1861

preacher, whose text led him to speak of
the prophet Jonah, among other things, said {;
am of the opinion that Jonah was cleanly
old man, neither smoking nor chewing, from
the fact that the fish retained him so long in
his stomach If the fish had swallowed the
house where we are worshiplng he would no
donbt have vomited himself to DEATH"
Year: 1861

In moments of vexation, with which ad-
miration is largely intermingled, you ask
yourself whether a Demosthenic regime OF
pebbles and seashore ought not to have
been prescribed for the young politician?


If any is heard, why not all The singer
who bites his words is made to practice
with cork between his lips. Why are
inarticuiate sounds so provokingly mixed
up by this orator with audible words of
weight and wisdom which 'give us pause"
even when they do not carry conviction


His gestures confirm you in the belief that
this versatile genius never thought it worth
his while to go through the drudgery of
preparation for parliamentary and political
s.laffe. He often gesticulates with his spine,
makes low salaams to the door, and will
neither learn grace from D'Israeli, nor
dignity from Gladstone. Yet all these
defects are swallowed up and lost in the
pleasure which his brilliant sallies and
pointed apothegms produce.
Year: 1861

A great error that the Republican press
es are now instilling into the Northern
mind is that the South has not the capaci-
ty to feed itself. They find it straighten-
ed for food at this time, and therefore
conclude that such must always be the
case, if cut off from Northern supplies.
The severe drought last summer is the
cause of the present scarcity OF food at
the South. Kansas is suffering from the
same cause. The Northern part of Ohio,
a few years ago suffered from like cause,
and SO severely that cattle died for want
Of provender. Nopart Of our widely ex-
tended country is exempt from such
calamitous visitation. To show that the
South can produce the articles necessary
to sustain people in war, we have made
the following exhibit from the census table
of 1850 And it is only necessary for the
South to doub these figures, to put un-
der cultivation only about half the num-
Der of acres now devoted to cotton and to-
oacco, and devote the other to the raising
Of corn, wheat pots toes, etc. The fol-
lowing are from the census statistics OF
1850, of articles produced in the slave
States that year:
Year: 1861

NEGRO APPLICANTS FOR OFF1cE.-The
Washington correspondent of the New
7 York Express in recent letter to that
journal says:


t'The number of applicants for minor
Offices by colored men is perfectly astound-
ing from Massachusetts, alone. [ am in
formed that for postm aster's berths there
are on file over 21O applications, and the
supposition is that there are several black
applicants filed away amongst the white
ones. In order to save trouble, let me
suggest to each applicant the propriety Of
making an affidavit as to color of his skin,
&C., and enclose it in his application,
while those whose applications are already
on file should forward it to the department.
immediately. This plan would undoubt-
edly facilitate business, and enable the
applicant to obtain his appointment much
sooner than he would if he leaves the de
partment to find out his color breed, &C.,
as the department are determined not to
make appointments from the coloreI ranks
without knowing it, no matter how we'll
they may be endorsed
Year: 1861

The following letter showing the GET
fects Of Secession has gone the rounds of
the whole Black Republican press of the
North. It is fair specimen Of the whole
sale lying which has been the chief wea
pom hitherto used by the organs Of the
Administration against the people of the
South:
Year: 1861

Washington, where fifteen or twenty thousand
men were encamped, and daily exercised in
movements In large masses Gen Mcclellan
IS said to attribute the disaster and panic at
Bull Run to defects in the instruction of the
troops as 10 the movements in mass, and to be
directing his energies to the thorough training
OF the army In this respect.


Nothing was known certainly of the intend
ed movements of the enemy's force on the Po-
tomac, beyond the impression that they had
fully decided not TO offer battle. The entire
force at Washington aud in the whole Mary
land division Is SO variously estimated as to
defy what we therefore do not attempt-cor-
rectuess of statement


The resort to the system Of drafting men was
being urgently recommended to the Govern
ment as the most appropriate and efficient
measure of improving the material of the Yam
kee army. 1t was likely to be shortly adopted
for this ingenious reason, as we'll as from cir
cumstances of necessity.


The city Of Washington is represented as a
vast storehOuse of all sorts of materials and
munitions necessary for the support of an army
Immense bakeries were established through
out the city. One of these mammsth arrange
ments, in the neighborhood of the Capitol,
Is said to be Of such extent to turn out 60 900
ioayes daily for the use of the army
Year: 1861

The St. Joseph (Mich.) Traveller says:


We learn that James Graham, Esq, our
Sheriff, whose adventure with the wolf
which, it will be recollected he skatod down
and caught on the river last winter, yester-
day was the hero of an adventure more
wonderful than the one above alluded
to. While crossing piece of marshv
ground near this village yesterday, he dis
covered two extraordinary large blue racer
snakes just ahead Of him, and although arm
ed with nothing but an insignificant stick,
he resolved at once to dispatch tho mon
sters. Therefore, by describing circle, he
headed them off and hemmed them in next
the water, which this species of reptile dis
likes exceedingly, but as he approached
nearer and nearer, the largest one, with
head erect, turned upon him, and, in an in
slant, coiled its strong, siuewy body about
his legs with such tenacity that it was i'm
possible for him to move from his tracks
without falling over, But in spite of this
trying predicament, the sheriff was not
much alarmed until he saw the other snake
which had meantime been running from
sido to side, suddenly start toward him and
with the quickness of lightning leap upon
him catching his right arm in its embrace,
and binding it to his body as firmly as if il
had been secured with chains of steel. and
OF course Notwithstanding he strained every
nerve In the effort, he could not release it
With his left hand he drew sheath knife
from breast pocket of his coat, and made
short work Of severing the coils of his disa
greeable foes. The largest of these mon
sters measured seven feet, four and ono bal
inches, and the other five feet eight inches
in length,
Year: 1861

Quick WoRK.-At the term of court
just closed here, divorce was granted one
James Mills who, not relishing the idea of
single besseduess, married again in one
hour after the decree was granted If that
is not orowding business, we should like to
know what is. We hope this hitch will
suit ORsiea Democrat.
Year: 1861

I have to say on the subject will spring from
experience.


About twenty-five years ago, set n man
20 chopping wood some time In the month oil
June, and il 50 happened that he only cut
one tree, a chestnut, about a foot in dame
ter, and split and piled the same. drew It
in the winter after, and it dried the best and
brightest of any wood ever cut. | have
cut some thousands Of cords since. There Is
one objection to cutting wood between the
time Of the sap having passed up into the
branches and back again into the roots. One
yelr, cut several cords early in September,
which has not sprouted until this day. while
wood cut on the same slope in winter sent up
sprouts five and six feet the hrst year alter
being cut.


MY method of managing woodland Is to
thin out all the small trees after they get to
be of considerable size, and leave the main
ones TO grow. BY this process | find the
timber makes very fast and when | cut clean
II there are any thrifty trees, | leave them
until the wood is ready TO cut again. BY
this procedure get large and tall timber
For instance, twenty or twenty-five years
ago, | left ON an acre thirty or forty chestnut
trees, from six to eight inches through and
they are now from fifty to seventy feet high,
and from twenty to thirty inches in diame-
ter.


Twcnty-one years ago, set about twenty
Eve rods Of board aud plst fence. cut the
posts and peeled them theyear before. set
the fence as soon rs they were perfectly dry,
the butt-ends all in the ground. The posts
were from six to eight inches in diameter,
and are nearly all standing now. The soil
where the fence was built Is gravel.
Year: 1861

parations, and fear they may still further ex-
asperatc the South But Is it not the part
OF wisdom to arm and prepare for war, when
PEOPLE and States who declare us enemies ARE
arming, and have secured, and are securing
our public property?


Should the law-abiding, Union loving pso-
pie of the North be deferred from military
preparations because II is disagrceable to the
people of the South, who are already armed
and excited rs much as they can be?


Will not this preparation, end at q proper
time, the movement Of troops, convince the
hot-heads of the South that something moro
than threats will be requisite to make usgiyc
up possession Of Washington, and that they
will find soldering something more than a
holiday amusement?


Can it with propriety be called coercion to
defend our property and rights that are dear
to us ?-to defend the glorious old Flag Of
the Union that Is honored and respected in
every quarter Of the globe, and has 80 often
waved in triumph over our armies on land
and ocean?


am for maintaining our Government as II
is, guaranteeing to all what they are justly
entitled to under the Constitution, and in
turn exacting from all proper respect for,
and obedience TO-, the laws of the land. This
is the sentiment OF nine-tenths of the Democ-
racy, and all other parties In this State. i.


Very Respectfully,


Your Ob't Servant,


i. I. LALLY.
Year: 1861

most ingeniously disguised, but evidently the
motive power Of the mechanism.


.Why, Hugh this isn't perpetual motion.
This spring in the little box makes II co.
And the wiic looked up in utter surprise.


The monomaniac glared back with an ex-
preston in which wild rage shame and scorn,
struggled and writhed for control of his fea-
lures. Lifting his hand with tragic air,
he brought his finger to point at the
frightened and covering woman, and said in
slow, unearthly tone:


Its lie.'


Then bright dagger cleaned in the wax
light, and with the lightning quickness OF
insanity was plunged into the bosom Of his
wife.


lie carried her home in his arms, laid her
upon her own bed, and invited the neigh
dors with bland smile to come in and pre-
pare her for burial. He was Mistaken
She was not dead, for the aim had been un.
true.


IL you had called at the cottage thirty
years after, you would have met an old man
with much dignity of bearing, and woman
somewhat beyond the prime of life, living
tncIc, hHu w IiCho-
ant and useful. Talking with the old man,
you would have been struck with the sense
and beauty Of his thoughts and the ease of
his expression. If the conversation had
leaned in the least degree to any topic sug-
gestive of mechanism, your host would have
said blandly:


Il discovered perpetual motion. Would
you like to see the machine, ,sir?' and, rising,
would have led the way to small, window
less room, and there, with tho words: Be
Observation-Disclosures" would have sud-
denly removed the side of a wooden box and
thrown the light OF six wax candles upon q
beautiful combination of wheels in regular
and graceful motion.


Then the matron would have pointed out
its qualities. saying: 1T has been running
thirty years, sir, and must be perpetual, =
looking into your face all the while to see If
you understood her. She would say truly
that 1t had been running thirty years, for
every Sabbath morning she had stolen in and
wound the spring herself.


l ventured to ask her once, il she had not
been afraid to live with him after her terrible
danger


20, no. she said. Il understand him per-
fectly now. never cross him on that point.
am proud OF him now, SIR
Year: 1861

Inoticed in your paper quito a long article
ON the subject OF cutting timber, the best
time To do Il. &c. have had more or less
experience for many years in cutting wood


and timber, and making fence, ~ that what
Year: 1861

An Albany Zousve who was in the
Bethel affair, says:


The enemy soon found out where we
were, and began to throw their fire into the
wood, but fortunately for Us, they aimed
little too high. Every instant We could
hesr the balls Whizzing through the air
and crashing among the trees. We could
tell each kind Of ball or bullet by the sound
it made in passing through the air. There
was one rihed cannon, the balls from which
rushed along with shrill, angry shrek
as it may be called, like the sound Of o
steam whistle the big balls and shells
went humming along, aud there was also
the hiss of grape shot and rife and mus
ket balls.
Year: 1861




Il Is surprising, bat nevertheless 8 fact
that We havemen among as Who are willing
to buy peace With the South at almost
any sacrifice Of principle and are anxiously
praying that the Congress which is % as
semble in July may adopt some measures
of compromise that can be agreed upon,
end thereby relieve the country Of the
horrors Of the civil war, in the midst Of
which We new live. Some GO SO far as to
cay that the North have brought about the
state Of sfIairs in which We End ourselves,
by not adopting the Orittenden amendment
50 called, Of the last session Of Congress
that il the said amendment had been passed
al would nov bs quiet, and harmony reign
all over the land. For the confederation Of
such, We commend the careful perusal of
the following extract from the Mobile Mer-
curry:


The Congress that is to meet on the Goth
Of June, If they do not forthwith issne
declaration Of war, and pass q non-inter-
course set they will furnish The world with
conclusive proof that they are unfit for the
times. This var must 60 on. The South
must 6ght until the North sues for peace.
Pass non-interoOurse act, and then she
viii soon begin TO feel the ruinOus pressure
Of the var. We must dictate the terms of
peace, the frst article of which should be
an acknowledgement Of the right Of seces-
sion. This is fundamental principle. The
nrf1ala rhnrrfa ~ hat 81. a. aL,
uttermost farthing, the expenses of this
var. The third is, that she pay for the
destruction Of all property, both public and
private, which she may appropriate to her
own use. This fourth is, that as an evil
dence Of hsr sincerity, she impeach and
remove from office Abe Lincoln, indiot him,
and hang him for treason and other crimes.


This looks very much, upon the part Of
the South, like disposition to enter into any
eomprOmiss whsteYer that would be accept.
sble to the North. They viii settle allthis
difhculty provided they are allowed to die
tate the terms Of peace, snd what are
they list acknowledge the right Of seces-
siOnI ID, pay ell the expenses Of this war;
3D., pay for the destruction Of all property;
and 4th, hang Abe Lincoln for treason.


Can any Northern freeman doubt for q
moment that this is the feast to which
they are invited, if compromise is now
effected.


The Mobile Mercury only makes public
what have been the designs Of the Slave
power, for the last thirty or forty years, to
Witi to ride over the North, or crush her
Out--tO rule this government, or overthrow
It.


It is a matter Of surprise to the masses
that there are any who have an idea that
cur troubles can be brought TO & close while
the cause remains.
Year: 1861

WEGyIL IN THE WnEAT.-Duringth the past
week several Of our farmers residing in the
Southern part Of the country told us that
the WeaTil vas working In the wheat in
very destructive manner. Upon further
inquiry, however, We are happy to learn
that destruction is not general. There is
st present prospects Of fair crop Of wheat
in ibis county.-At VernoH Banner, Jane %.
Year: 1861

THE Mobile Mercury says: This war must
go on. The South must fight unSil the North
sues for peace. Pass non intercourse act,
and then she will soon begin to feel the ruin
Gus pressure of the war. We must dictate
the terms of peace, the first article Of which
should be an nowledgement of the right
of Secession. This is fundamental princi-
pal. The next article should be that she pay,
to the utmost farthing, the expenses of this
war The third is, that she pay for the de-
struction of all property, both public and
private, which she may appropriate to her
own use. The fourth is that, as an evide nee
of her sincerity she impeach aud reilove
from Office Abe Lincoln, indict HIM and hang
him for treason and other Grimes
Year: 1861

A WoMAN's PATRIOTISM. An elderly lady
who attended meeting of the First Vermont
Regiment, just before they left for the seat of
war, certainly evineed the most patriotism of
any one yet heard of IS soon as the pro
minent speakers had finished their patriotic
speeches. the old lady arose. full of enthusi-
asm, and said she was able to do something
for her country; her two sons, all she pos
sessed in the world. were in the regiment
and the only thing she had to regret was,
that she could not have known it twenty
years ago-she would have furnished more
of them.
Year: 1861

They are very naughty people in Sacra-
mento. The political asprants up this way
resort to no such practices Can the Union
tell us what is to be done with all the money
TO be paid by candidates?
Year: 1861

CosTlSuED.-Thc sale of free negroes who
have failed to pay their taxes was begun in
front Of the Court House yesterday morning.
by the Sheriff, but adjourned until tomorrow
morning.
Year: 1861

Coal BRANDY,-Among the inventions of later
years, the existence Of which is not generally
known as it might be, is coal brandy. A weekly
paper states that owing to the moulding and rotting
of the grape, French brandy-makers have adopted
bituminous coal as q substitute. They distill q
potent spirit from this substance, which is thus
fre-one for the comfort of man and the other for
the destruction of his health, and his senses and
his soul. Large quantities of alcohol distilled
from coal, and % doctored with certain chemicals
to give it the Gognac favor" are now exported
from France to England Coal brandy is the latest
adaptation of the good gifts of Providence to The
purpose of poison-mongers that has come TO our
knowledge. Coal tar has long been used for
fayoring whiskys; but liquor with coal basis
is q specimen of chemistry which might well make
the IS best fellow shudder.
Year: 1861

T The Tory Democracy of Ohio
have caught Tartar in Jewett. their
nominee for Governor. In his letter of
acceptance, he comes down rough-shod
on the Southern traitors. lays all the
blame of the war upon them, and express
ses himself in favor Of putting forth ev-
cry energy of the Government to conquer
them. This is more than the Tory Con-
vention bargained for. If Jewett is in
earnest, he is decidedly out of his place
on that ticket; but if he only aims to
gull voters, he is fooling his time away,
for the ticket which he heads is fated .to
an overwhelming defeat.