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Year: 1861

A most extraordinary statement OBJ
tanned yesterday in the highest official cir
cles of the recognition of the Southern
Confederacy by Great Britain. 1t is GER
tain that dispatch agent arrived here
yesterday from England, having landed
in the British possessions and essaying to
reach the South through Michigan and the
West His report is understood to be
that he was arrested in Ohio and robbed
of his dispatches, subsequently effeoting
escape to this city. The assertion of the
agent is that the dispatches contained as
surances of the immediate recognition OF
our Government by that Of Great Britain.
We give this statement, which is made in
the most positive manner, without adding
any opinion of our own, or protesting to
know how the Government has verified or
credited the report, beyond semi official
expressions of confidence in its truth,
which reached US last night.
Year: 1861

The single railroad track between here
and Baltimore is unequal to the increase
of freight business which is now done by
the Government Goods have been two
weeks in reaching here from Baltimore,
and it is with the greatest difficulty that
the regular mail and extra trains can be
run through on accurate time. Il has
been proposed TO lay another track enly TO
the Annapolis Junction, where the road
branches to Annapolis Freight can be
brought TO both places, either from Per.
ryyilIe or the ocean. It is now quite APP
parent that something must be done, ia
view OF the closing of the Potomac.
Year: 1861

ATTEMPT TO KILL A RIVAL IN CHURCH.-On
Sunday evening last, the congregation wor-
Shipping in the Beaver Street Methodist Epls-
copal Church, at Allegheny, Md, was thrown
into a state of intense excitement by the re-
port of "A pistol which had been fired III the
vestibule of the church Immediately after the
conclusion of the sermon. Upon inquiry it
appeared that one Lawrence DilWorth, who
had determined upon accompanying young
lady of his acquaintance home, followed her
from the body of the church into the vestI-
bule where he had the mortiication of seeing
her take the arm of a rival, named Charles
Kehew. Stung with rage and disappolnt-
ment Dilworth drew pistol, and aiming II at
Kehew pulled the trigger at the same instant
his arm was struck up by a bystander. The
ball thus diverted missed its intended object
and lodged itself in the wall, from whence 1t
was subsequently dug. Dilworth was held
to bail to answer charge of assault with in
tent to kill.
Year: 1861

A LIONS Love FOR A BACK TIGREss.-The
Philadelphia North American records the fol-
lowing singular case


SIN one compartment of the cage in which
the animals perform at Van Amburgh's beau
tiful menagerie, in Chestnut street, is huge
tawny Asiatic lion. His roommate is black
female tiger. The tiger is small compared to
the regal lion, but is highly valued as Il zoo
logical curiosity, and the only specimen OF the
black tiger in this country. She was pur
chased by Mr.. Van Amburgh some two years
ago and has lived with the lion ever since
The attachment between the two is some


thing remarkable. When other animals are
in the same cage and any a1ront is offered to
the little tiger, she runs under the belly OF
approach her. No matter how hungry he
may be, the lion never touches his share of


their daily meat until his little chum has Sc


lected her share, and even this he never en-


tirely consumes until certain that she has


enough. All the animals are as fat as moles,


but this black tiger is aldermanic i'll her pro-
portions, and no remedy exists for the matter.
She has been twice removed from the lion,
but until she was returned the generous beast
would take neither food nor rest, while the
frantic manner i'll which he dashed at the
bars was sufficient warning that the further
detention of the tiger would be a dangerous
matter. Should his mate die, the lion would
| probably pine to death. Once when she was
| taken away a lioneSs was substituted Ihe
| lion instantly fell upon her, and at single
bite broke her spine, and crushed some OF her
ribs, Careful nursing saved her life, and she
| is still living, but with her hinder parts i'm
moyably paralyZed. "
Year: 1861

WILL OF THE LATE KING OF PRUssIA.-The
will of William V. of Prussia, just dead, was
written in 1854, before his mind became af-
fected The following is an extract from 1t :


"If God the Lord decree that l terminate
my terres tial career peaceably III my country,
and if which l fervently entreat OF Him on
survive me, this paper is to be delivered to
her Immediately after my death. Whatever
she shall change shall be executed as if that
were written here; her order shall be mine
Moreover, l wish one day TO repose by her
side, in the same tomb, as near to her as pos
sible.


AS soon as my decease shall have been
to be washed and opened. My heart, deposited
in a large heart formed of granite from the
country of Marche, and placed at the entrance
of the vault in the mausoleum OF Charlotten-
burg (and consequently at the feet OF my Roy.
al paren ts,) shall be enclosed in the ground and
covered by it.
Year: 1861

Resolution FOR COMPROMISE The delega-
ton OF business men, from Milwaukee, who
are on visit TO Washington, met at hotel
there Tuesday night, and adopted the follow
ing resolution:


Resolved, That we owe higher allegiance to our
country than TO any mere party piaIorm ana no
while we represent all the politlcai parties Whicn
larger majority of were the supporters OF me
successful candidate, we earnestly invoke tne
Senators and Representatives. in Congress from the
state of Wisconsin, TO sink at this time partisan
prejudice for the Ike of the Union
Year: 1861

don't reeollect which, and stood right in the door
said. Mr.. Bernard, what In tie world IS the mat.
ter with you! Don't do that, for Gods sake
The word had not got out Of my month before he
shot me. He had the pistol pointing right st my
brsast--he was about six or eight feet from mel
in the ward aud he In the door. fell At once
Bill Barnett and Carter ran up. / heard Barnett
say, what on earth are you going to do, Bernardi
Are YOU going to kill a man on the groundf or
shoot man when he Is dead,-or something Of
that sort. He had the pistol cooked and presented
right at ne He did not make any reply to this
Barnett AN right in and he and Carter took me mp:
did not strike him at all at any time. had
nothing ia my hand when he shot me. had took
up the little bed and brought II out aud dropped 1t
down. The time l had the cedar brush Ia my
hand, was away out near the stable. think
when evertook, him took hold Of him-l think
Of his coat or arm--but did not strike him at ALL
He pulled loose. We thon went on to the house
together, as stated


No further ties stimony was introduced for
the Commonwealth, and the counsel for the
prisoner did not desire to make any defence at
this time


The magistrate then remanded the prisoner,


to be examined before the County Court at
the February term.
Year: 1861

Each regiment will consist Of $50 officers
and men as its full complement.


The President requests the Executive Of
each State to inform him how soon their
quota can be ready, and he will then send
officers to administer the oath Of allegiance
to thesUnited States and muster them into
the service.
Year: 1861

The enat tment Of fhe-bill 80 ably SUD
ported By Senate Trumbul1, would, though
it might offend the tendcr-foo1ed Enionists
Of the Border States. give unalloyed salts
faction to nine out Of every ten men Of the
North. And what is hardly less, it would
50 Simplify the duties Of the commanders
Of our armies that without wilful wicked
ness and disobedience, they could not go
wrong. Half Of these-more than that
proportion in the regular army-believc, or
act as if they believed, that the quickest
way to squelch treason is to cherish its
cause and strengthen its right hand. AL
such imagine that Heaven lies way OF
South somewhere, and that when they die
they will 60 in that direction, and Of course,
will need when they gel there, il for no
other rurpoac, to have somebody around
whom they can swear at for fun and kick
when they are out Of humor, As we un-
derstand the temper Of a majority Of the
officers Of the regular service, they are not
to lie trusted with discretionary power in
this matter Of slavery. Too many Of them
arc yet in doubt whether they love slavery
or the onion most; and no one thus be-
logged, has, go far as We know, permitted
any act Of his to give the former any cause
Of apprehension. With few honorable
exceptions, they all need Il law behind
them to insure their action whenever the
institution" is to be acted upon: and Sena-
tor Trunbull's hin is not whit TOO strin-
gent. As soon as the gentlemen in lace
learn that the nation is in earnest, those Of
them who do not resign, will, their pay and
commissions being at stake, suddenly learn
that Freedom Is not so bad a thing after all.
Let us have the law and see what viii come
of -
Year: 1861

From personal observation We can testify
that the hospital at Cairo, under the direction
Of Dr. Burke, is in capital order, and every
thing is done for the comfort and restoration
Of the sick and wounded soldiers that medical
skill can suggest and the best and most caro-
full nursing can accomplish.


Gentlemen just returned from d visit to
Cairo and Mound City, report the hospital at
the latter place under the care Of Drs Frank
lin and Denning, also in the best Of order.
The row Of large unoccupied stores, built
some years since, and which all who have Wis
tied Mound City will remember, has been ad-
mirably fitted up, and the soldiers have every
comfort and attention q hospital can afford.
The friends OF tic soldiers stationed at Cairo
and its vicinity will be gratified to know that
such ample provision has been made for their
welfare, if sickness or accident befan them.
Year: 1861

All OUT readers will bear us witness, that,
from the very first. We have had Whole
some distrust Of the depth and earnestness
of the patriotism Of the Border Slave States
We have warned the Administration again
and again that its reliance was not upon
The men, who, in Q crisis like this, could
pretend to neutrality between the rebels
and the Government: and that if it leaned
uron such, il would, in the hour Of greatest
peril, find itself betrayed. In spite Of all
that the best friends Of the Federal cause
have been able to say, and in spite Of the
evidences Of the truth Of their words, which
the facts of every day brought to light. the
policy at Washington has been to so
conduct the war, that, though the earnest
and always reliable patriots Of the North
were compelled to groan in bitterness Of
spirit, by reason Of the hesitation, delay,
,imidity and inaction which have retarded
the good cause, the sen,i-secessionists, the
doubtful loyalists, the conditional Union
men, the supporters Of neutrality might
not he offended Mr. Lincoln has his re-
ward. His Message, moderate beyond all
expectation, considerate beyond what is
needed or polite, timid in expression if not
lacking in decisive recommendations is as
sailed Ay the men who have thus far shaped
the policy OF the Administration, with a
fury which his mildness ought not to have
provoked, and with vituperation which is
in striking and painful contrast to the
studied inofensiycness Of his words. We
commend the Louisville Journal, as the
type Of others Of its class, to his pc
rusal If he does not there find more
forcible exposition Of the banefu]
policy that has been pursued than any that
we can make, We shall be ready to confess
that language has lost its meaning, or that
Honest Old Abe has outlived the power o.
comprehending. Wlilehe is learning the
lesson which is thus presented to him II
q way that it cannot be 1nisinterpreted
Others who have been daily deprecating ths
doing Of anything decisive, lest son,cbod,
should be displeased, may also learn tha
they have not monopclized all the wisdom
nor all the prophetic foresight which th'
conduct Of this war demands.
Year: 1861

When there is a strong wind blowing from
the north at temperture of forty or fifty
degrees below zero, the sensation with
which you endure it can only characterize
as continued struggle for life. Then you
rot only feel the cold, but you ACTUALLY see
it. The air is hazy with the frozen mos-
ture. The sky is like vault of solid steel,
so hard and pail does it appear. And the
wind is like blast out of that fabulous
frozon hill of the Scandinavians. The
touch of it on the face is like cutting with
an exceedingly dull and jagged knife. l
endured this weather during two days of
travel in an open sleigh. but very Fortunate
ly it was blowing on my back, or | would
have been obliged TO give up the battle.
Every man met who was travelling against
the wind had face either already frozen or
just in the act of freezing. Those purple
faces surrounded with rings of ice did not
seem to belong to human beings. DR.. Kane
described to me his sensations upon being
exposed for two days to storm at tenn
perature of 47o below zero. Although the
physical effect was not particularly painful,
yet the mental effect was such as to make
him and his men delrious for some days
afterwards. The physical effect of an ex-
tremely low temperature-prehaps the low
est which the human frame is capable Of
feeling-is sort Of slow, penetrating,
deadly chill rather than an acute and and
painful sensation. But after the battle is
over, on entering a warm room, than pain
/ ful sensation commences. / experienced a
curious counterpart Of this on the African
desert. During the warm hours Of noon
day, with the air Ike the blast of furnaces
did not suffer any feeling of intense heat
but after sunset, when the temperature fell
rapidly, than I began TO burn and glow


through and through Ike live coal. Il
Year: 1861

| was once belated in Canada on fine
winter day, and was riding over the hard
snow on the margin of wide lake, when the
most faint and mournful wall that could
break a solemn silence seemed to break
through me like a dream. stopped my
horse and listened. For some time could
not satisfy myself whether the music was
in the air or in my own brain. / thought
of the pine forest that was not far off but
the tone was not harp-like, and there was
not breath Of wind Then it swelled and
approached and then it seemed to be miles
away in a moment and again it moaned,
as if under my very feet. 1t was, in fact,
almost under my feet. 1t was the voice Of
the winds imprisoned under the pail of ice
suddenly cast over them by the peremptory
power of the frost. Nobody there had
made air holes for the place was wilder
ness and there was no escape for the winds.
which must moan on till the spring warmth
should release them. They were fastened
down in silence; but they would come out
with an explosion when, in some still
night, after warm spring day, the ice
would blow up, and make a crash and rack
ct from shore to shore. So | was told al
my hosts that evening, where | arrived
with something of the sensation of baum
ted man. 1t had been some time before the
true idea struck me, and meanwhile the ris-
ing and falling moan ma lie my very heart
thrill again. Once-a-week.
Year: 1861

II g all work and no play makes Jack a
dull boy" all work and poor pay is quite as
likely to make him discontented one. The
labor Of boys is,as general rule, ,shamefulIy
underpaid. The salary Of lad IN retail
dry good store is from fifty to one hundred
dollars per annum, and for this pitance he
devotes from twelve TO fourteen hours out Of
twenty-four, during six days of the week, to
his employers service. In other retail
stores the allotment of work and the scale
of remuneration are about the same as in
the dry goods establishments. The lawyers
are, if anything, little harder than the
merchants upon their youthful employees.
In busy times the latter are sometimes de-
tanned at the office, copying law papers, un-
til nine or ten o'clock at night, for which
they raerly receive any extra compensation,
even in the shape of twenty-five cent
piece to buy supper. If the boys, thus
overworked and poorly paid, were learning
business or profession during their novi-
ciate, il would be something but this is
seldom the case. Thr morotonous and
incessant drudgery to which they are sub
subjected Teaches them nothing. 1t simply
wearies and Supplies them. Not one
tradesmsn professional man in hundred
condescend to explain TO his boys the theo-
ry or the practical working of the business
or profession in which he is engaged and
if a lad picks up any information on these
points while he is performing his uninstruct-
i've task, he generally owes it TO his own
quick tact. and not to any intrest taken in
him by his task master.


As lads usually receive better wages
while they are learning trade than they
can obtain in /" situations where they learn
nothing, it is to their manifest advantages,
in every point of view, TO becme opprentices,
rather than errand boys, or cash boys, or
writing machines in law offices. Let boys
and parents remember that the cadets Of
the workshop are qualified to earn their
own living in any part of the civilized


world, and that the Clerk market is eyey-
where and always overstocked
Year: 1861

To be born with silver spoon in your
mouth is lucky but twice lucky he who
can open his mouth withoet betraying the
spoon.


Little boy, why did the people throw
stones at Stephen?" "Cos, sir, l spose
they wanted to hit him.


When may man be strictly said to be
in the habit of always excepting his word p
When nobody will ever take it,


"What would our wives say if they knew
where we were r. said the captain Of a
schooner, when they were beating about ID
a thick fog, fearful Of going on shore.--
"Humph should not mind that replied
the mate, ''if we only knew where we were
ourselves"


One of the most agreeable consequences
of knowledge is the respect and importance
which it communicates to old age. Men
rise in character often as they increase in
years; they are venerable from what they
have acquired, and pleasing from what they
can impart.


Hope writes the poetry of the boy, but
memory that of the man. Man looks for
ward with smiles, but backward with sighs.
The cup Of life is sweetest at the brim the
flavor is impaired as we drink deeper and
the dregs are made bitter, that we may not
struggle when it is taken from our lips


The farewell of some wives 10 their hus-
bands every morning-6uy and Jayi
Who is it that is in two situations at once
A lover, for when be is beside his fair one
he is usually beside himself.
Year: 1861

MEssRs. EDIroRs-Allow me to call the attcn- tion of the people of this State to one thing of very great importance the raising of forage for he horses employed by our cavalry. This is subject very liable to be overlooked, as we are not ill the habit of cutting hay. Few farmers are aware what an amount of hay can be saved on few acres of land.

 1 would suggest to those who have stubble land, to blow the stubbe under and harrow 1t down srlO0tEe, and before frost there will be fine crop Of crab grass, which can be cut with a common grass scy the and saved with but little labor- Anothel plan is to SOW milet, hungarian, sOrgum or common corn, and cure 1t in the same manner. Now is the time to attend to this matter. Those living prtiries cut the wild grass, and it is to be hoped they will not fail to improve their opportunities. Our horses must be fed, and tue crop is not yet made, drowth may yet cut it short. Northern tyrants expect to starve out, let us teach them that can raise enough for man remember the noble horse SO useful il peace and We cOntendng with foes whose hearts black the soot generated in the smoke pipes of hell, and 1t behooveS Us to guard against famine, surprise and treachcry of every kind

 One thing more-ought we not have some per- son at every important military point our State, whose duty it shall be to carry important news to and from commandants ot the army and between them and the authorities at Little Rock? It seems to there should be system about this matter.

 C. l.. T.
Year: 1861

G95~ Gunshot wounds are not painful immediately, but become so by innamma- tion. Their treatment is first to avoid a collapse, and this is to be done by encout- aging language, and if necessary little stimulant, administered with care, as it may increase the inflammation. The next thing is to stop the bleeding, by the appH- cation of pressure; the next, to find out if any bone Is broken and, Ii so to steady 1t and place 1t in natural and comfortable position. After this, cold water dressing may be applied, though many surgeons are in favor of q warm water Concentration, but we think their practice untenible, for cold water removes inflammation by evapora-

 ton, and warm water may impart heat,

 instead of removing it. In the case of q slight injury, cold water dressings and rest of the musccls will complete the cure. For desperate wounds, the subsequent treatment

 requires the skill ofa Larrcy or Abcrnethy.
Year: 1861

}sGGscnIr11oN OF CorToN TO CoNrEpGRAjE Go vFrNuENr.-ln looking ever the long list of sub scrbcrs of cotton to the Confederate States govern nent for its defense against the unholy war made upon it, we observed the name of Edward c. Nor ton for one half Of his crop. The agent informed us that Capt. Morton offered to subscribe his whoe C crop, but it vas declined, because the government did not wish the whole crop of any individual, but desired 10 divide out the amount needed among all

 Capt. Morton is one Of the very largest cotton growers in the State, and his subscription shows him to be also one of the most lib raj and patriotic We trust that the rains of heaven may be supplied to him generously and cause his fields always to teem with plenty
Year: 1861

We must require advance payment fol our paper in all cases. It is right and proper that we should to so, and we trust it will give offence t. no one.

 Money remiacd through the mail will be at our risk, There is no objection to send ing gold dollars or even larger coin in a letter. Subscription taken at any length of time at $22 per year.
Year: 1861

= Into che jaws Of desih,


Into thu mouth OF bell"


when tho men stand in their front capable Of
leading them.


But it is not only i, time Of action, but in the
discipline and the organization OF the camp. the
good officer is needed. Indeed. unless the rank
and file have first come under bis personal infu-
ence, unless soldier and officer are put en- rap
port with each other 80 as to be the head and
body, "ft head to fit body" of the great ma
chine, precise the most curious mechanism,
and yet instinct with human intelligence and will
--unless these intimate relations be established,
then the soldier goes to battle inefficient and dis
organized. For the ordinary duties of the camp
beside, for the proper use and proper economy
of food for cleanliness Of tent and person, for
care of arms aad clothing, for habits of sober
ness and order--lor all these things and many
more that will make the wel-ordered camp, the
educated officer is indispensable. II is not
Through willfulness but through ignorance that
raw recruits need as much care and teaching as
cbildrea before they can be made good soldiers;
but COW with officers as much children as them
seyes in oil these duties can they ever learn
them A, 1t is we presume, the evidence of this
necessity in the camps, and the certainty that
all their own counsel is thrown away while this
reform is neglected, that prompts the Sanitary
Committee to take the interest they feel in this
list of West Point Graduates. Among these men
there ought to be many who would gladly serve
their country in places of trust aud responsible
IL and for which they are peculiarly fitted by
the education tho country gave them.