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Year: 1861

PHILADELPHIA, -Aprii, Iool.


FRIEND SAWYER My business called me,
the other day, to 90 down to Front Street
and Delaware Avenue. These streets lie
along the Delaware river, by the wharves aud
docks have but little time for mere sight
seeing, nor for writing about what | do see
and 50 write on the trot, as | suppose you
and your readers have noticed


But my eyes were open and Hooked round
and among other things which saw was n
sunken ship;-that is, saw, not the hull
but where it was. and the nasts, or the tops
Of thcm, as much as was above water.
had heard Of the case before. Indeed saw
notice Of it in the papers when it occurred
last winter. They propose, if they can, to
raise her. Preparatory to that, and with a
view to save what they can of the cargo, they
are at work, by means of diving machines,
getting it out. But it is a slow and slavish
business The divers go down, not in div
ing bell, but clad in submarine armour with
a breathing pipe attached to the head case,
the end of which remains above water, so
that they have fresh air all the while. Still
they do not stay down long at one time, but
work away for time, sending up by means
Of line, traied by those above, all they
can find and get out, and then they come up
and rest and breathe, like the porpoise, and
then return again to their task.


In this way they expect to unload the ship,
and then, at last raise her to the top OF the
water. The shipping at the wharves in this
port look very meagre compared with those
in New York or even in Boston. There are
comparatively few Of them, and those gener-
ally Of small size.


/ saw large quantity of fruit mostly
from the West Indies, being discharged-sev-
eral cargoes of oranges and lemons. after
wards noticed that they were offered for sale
everywhere, all over the city and in the rail
cars, far into the country and very cheap too.


had occasion to visit the Navy Yard
Ny object in going there was to call on Rev.
Mr.. Perry, one of the seamen's chaplains,-
lie lives hard by the Navy Yard. He had a
meeting appointed on board the Receiving
Ship, then lying at the wharf in the yard,
and invited me to 90 with him on board to
assist him in the exercise. / consented. In
gong to the ship We passed directly through
the yard 1t struck me as not being equal
to that in Charlestown, Mass. They have
two ship houses OF ample size, ] suppose to
accomodate the largest ships OF the Navy.


No ships are building at this time, but |
noticed large amount ofmaterials for build
ing, snugly housed.


There is dry dock here, as at Charles
town, and great conveniences for repairing
as well as building ships. Few men seem
now to be employed in the yard. A small
vessel was lying there, said to be ready for
sea. called the Water Witch. think she
was put in commission Immediately, and was
one Of the number that went down TO the
nest of rebels at Charleston, S. c.


We were disappointed in our meeting
The men were so engaged, all hands, In haul
ing that vessel into the stream and getting
another to the wharf, that it was not conyen.
lent for them to attend, though they wished
10 do 50, fox there is at this time pleasing
religious interest among them. D. u
Year: 1861

pa-A good joke is told on a
member Of one of the volunteer
companies which went down to
Pensacola. We think it was a
Mississippi company and is said to
be fact. Being accustomed to
fresh water, living in the interier,
and not being in the Gulf of Mexi-
co, before he was in blissful igno-
rance ofits briny properties. Get
ting up in the morning as usual to
perform his daily ablutions, he drew
a bucket of water, sat down by his
comrades, and retired for soap and
towel. Returning with the articles,
he soused into the bucket of water,
hands and face. The consequence
can be imagined. Recovering
from the shock, and rubbing his
burning eyeballs, he exclaimed
81 can whip the id rascal that
salted this water. A man can't draw
a pail of water and leave it for a few
moments, without some one playing
pranks on him" Dashing the water
aside he left amid the shouts and
jeers of his companions, who had
been silently watching him. He
soon found out his mistake.
Year: 1861

A millionaire of Paris wrote to
Scribe:


Me dear Sir, 1 have a great de-
sire to be associated with you in
som dramatic composition. Will
you do me the favor to write COM
medy and permit me to add to it .
few lines Of my own? I will then
have it produced in the most costly
and splendidsty tyle upon the stage, at
my own expense, and we will share
the glory!


To which Scribe answered:


My dear Sir, l must decline your
flattering proposal; because religion
teaches me it isn't proper that q
horse and an ass should be yoked
together.


To which the millionaire replies:


Sir, 1 have received your imper-
tinent epistlc. By what authority
do you call me a horse?
Year: 1861

Is still in session, and as long as
any money remains in the Trea-
sury to pay the per diem it will not
adjourn. If the Republicans Of
Ohio feel proud of their Legislature
and it's services, we are sure their
temper is of the most amiable kind.
The sincere wish of all Taxpayers
hcrcabouts, is that the Legislature
will adjourn sometime before next
Decsmber.-Seneca Advertiser.
Year: 1861

~-The followingis an exact co.
py of a printed notice which is at
present posted in New jersey
stage: Lost-a caltred. He had a
white spot on one of his behind legs
He was a she calf. l will give
three dollars to everybody what
will bring him home.
Year: 1861

WILLIAM N. EvARTs-This distinguished
New York politician and lawyer is thus de-
scribed in an article on the Century club in
the New York Commercial Advertiser:


In that pale and almost emaciated face,
that fragile enwrapment of body which
stands shaken with the earnestness of its
own talk under the picture of Humboldt at
the mantelpiece-is packed that library of
knowledge and that fiery concentration of
eloquent speech which collectively make up
the product among men called VIM. NJ
Evarts Oe looks like a man whom his soul
has burned up with its own intensity till all
that was inaammable has exhaled- leaving IA
thin asbestos body and face lit up with
great, weird, far-seeing eyes. He seldom
laughs, but be is not ungenial only so i'm
measureably in earnest that he has no time
to laugh.
Year: 1861

In a little book for popular reading, wash
ing the skin is called " the exercise of Gu
taneous ablution." In tract written for
village poor, man with drunken look is
said to have an ebriated aspect" In a
dictionary Of common things, professed to
be written in the plainest way for the COM
mon people, the writer in his article on
gardening, in April, says: " This month is
favorable to the development of that species
of creation which is noXious to vegetation"
Unfortunately, very many of those to whom
our children's education is intrusted, are
themselves educated in schools where the
pupils are taught to be genteel and where
the chief mark of gentility is counted to be
the using of fine language. Very sensible
was that dame who, doubtful, / suppose, of
her patrons understanding the fine insLip-
ton, "Seminary for young ladies'" added
under it the translation, " A girls school.


liz Punch there is a parody, very little
exaggerated, on this style of composition,
called Desultory Reflections"


"One individual may pilfer a quadruped
where another may not cast his eyes over
the boundary of field.


In the absence of the feline race the
mice give themselves up to various pas
times.


Feathered bipeds Of an advanced age
are not to be entrapped with the outer husks
of corn.


More confeclioners than are absolutely
necessary are apt to ruin the potqge."


Complete letter-Writers are mines of fine
English. In one, the editor, who recon-
mends his book to those who "prefer an
English diction to the vulgarity which care
might avoid" thus advises US to write to in
vite friend to stay with US in the coun-
try:


Will you do US the favor of making our
rural retreat your temporary abode ?''


And when a mother sends present to
her boy at school, he is advised to answer
her thus:


"Knowing as do that your whole life is
occupied in promoting my improvement and
happiness, can only fell that each fresh
token of your affection lays an additional
claim upon my gratitude"


We may consider it a general rule that
the best English is that in which Saxon-de-
rived words are used most freely; that it is
better for common purposes, at least, to say
like than similar, help than assist
give than present. beg than Solicit
kinsman' than relation 'neighborhood
than vicinity, Epraise' than 'encomium.'


That is good advice of the author of
1" "Guesses at Truth :" When you doubt
between two words, choose the plainest the
fine words as you would rouge; love simple
ones as you would native roses on your
cheeks. Let US use the plainest and short
est words that will grammatically and grace
fully express our meaning"
Year: 1861

GREAT INTERESTS INVOLVED IN THE WAR.
DR.. Tying presents in the Protestant
Nurcdman powerful. though brief, argu.
ment on the war. He says:-


':To yield to the demands of the rebels
who are in arms against this rghtful Govern.
ment of their country is either to acknowl.
edge their authority in subjection, or to con.
cede their right to depart with all that they
have seized. The one is to establish human
slavery Throughout our nation, and to turn
every city on the soil into mart Tor the sale
and purchase of slaves to break up forever
the dominion and the hope of human freedom
here, and the prospect of freedom for the
rest of man to yield the right of speech,
Of choice, even OF thought, to terrific des-
potism to place ourselves under as shock
ing tyranny as the world ever saw; to-sac-
ri6ce every object for which past generations
have contended in the warfare for human lib
orty; and to yield vast majority of free
and Independent citizens to the will Of few
men as unprincipled and wicked as the world
has ever known-lit iterally to become, by our
own action and consent, the most contempt.
ible and debased Of Slaves; and to maintain
! future peace only BY perPetu2:i1g speech
less subiection.
Year: 1861

Like spectral hounds across the sky,


The white clouds scud before the storm
And naked in the bowling night 81
The red-eyed light house lifts its foriii.
The waves with slippery fingers clutch
The massive tower, and climb and fall,
And, mnttering. growl with baffled rage
Their curses on another world.
Up in the lonely tower he sits,


The keeper Of the crimson light
Silent and awe struck does he heaf


The imprecation Of the night.
The white spray beats against the panes
Like some wet ghost that down the air
Is hunted by troop Of ficnds,


And seeks q shelter anywhere.
Year: 1861

The Star of last evening says it has inform
alton that the majority in the Convention for
the ordinance of secession was about thirty.
three, and that il is to be submitted to vote
of the people on the fourth Tuesday of May.
1t confirms the rumors that intimidation was
resorted to by the Richmond mob, to force
through the ordinance, and that some of the dis,
senting members of the Convention barely es.
capped with their lives.


1t will be seen that these disunion conspira.
tors, in advance of the ratification Of secession
by the people, and while there is no pretence
that Virginia is not as much in the Union as
she ever was, have made or menaced attacks
upon the United States arsenal at Harper's
Ferry and navy yard at Gosport This is a
continuation Of the policy of preciptating
States into revolution.
Year: 1861

FORT SUNTER.-From the accounts Of ofh.
GERS and soldiers of this fort, who have arrived
a. New York. it was undoubtedly defended,
not only with the greatest bravery, but with a
wonderful endurance Of the labor of working
guns by so small force. The fight could not
be kept up, as there was nothing to make car
tridges Of, and the last biscuit had bean eaten
two days before the surrender. The brave gar
rison deserved we'll of their country.
Year: 1861

Orders have been issued from headquarters, author
zing the organization Of Home Guard on the basis Of
the militia regulations. Gen. Sandford will at once
proceed 10 forming complete guard for home defense,
to be enlisted for such period as le contingency may
demand
Year: 1861

And where Is t,at band who 50 truthfully s57ore
That the might Of the law, and stern retribn-


lion,
4 hold for rebellion should leaTe Us no more.
Their gnns have ploughed up our footsteps pol.


1ut1Unl


Their protection We crave, both rebel and slave
Mime other we hope for except in the grave,
And cur Bar-Stranglcd Banner no longer ehall wave
U'cE the land OF the thief and the home Of the
e1aFet
Year: 1861

There was certain king, who, like ma
ny Eastern kings, was very fond of hear
ing stories told. To this amusement he
gave up all his time; but yet was never
satisfied. The eXertiOns of all his Cour-
tiers were in vain. He, at Ias:, made a
proclamation, thatif any mIn should tell
him story that should last forever he
would make him his heir, and give him the
princess, his daughter, in marriage; but If
any one should pretend he had such story
but should fGil-that is, If the story did
come to an end-he was to have his head
chopped off. 81,


For such prize us beautiful princess
and kingdom many candidates appeared;
and dreadfully long stories some of them
told. Some lasted week, some month,
so me six months. Poor fellowsl they all
spun them out as long as they possibly
could; but in vain. Sooner or later they
all came to an end, and, one after another,
the unlucky story tellers had their heads
chopped of.


AT last came man who said he had a
story that would last forever, if his msjes-
~ would be pleAsed 10 give him trial.


He was warned of his danger; they told
how many others had tried, and lost their
heads; but he said he was not afraid, and
so he was brought befor the king. He
was man of a very composed and deliber-
ate way of speaking, and after milking all
requisite stipulations for time for his eat
ing, drinking and sleeping, be thus began
his story:


"Oh, king there was ence a king who
was great tyrant. Aud desiring to in
crease his riches, he seized upon all the
corn and grain in his kingdom, and put
in an immense granary, which was built
ON purpose, as high as mountain.


''Thfs he did for several years, till the
grnnary was lnite full up to the top. He
then stopped up doors aud windows, and
closed it up on all sides.


"But the bricklayers had, by accident,
left a very small hole near the top OF the
granary. And there came a fight Of To-
Gusts, and tried to get at the corn; but the
hole was SO small that only one locust
could pass through at a time. So one To-
Gust went in and carried of one grain of
corn, and then another locust went in aud
carried of another grain of corn, aud then
another locust went in and carried of au-
other grain of corn, and then another To-
Gust went in and carried of another grain
of corn, and then another locust went in
and carried of another grain of corn, and
then another locust went in and carried of
Year: 1861

Tie MOUNTAIN MESSENGER We have re-
eeived this welcome yisitpr for the fret TIM
since the La Porte fire. 1t is as handsome in
appearance as ever, and fall of interesting
news and miscellany. May it live forever.
Year: 1861

NINE TlCkElS.--ltis hardly necessary
to cay that our enemies have put all sorts of
bogus tickets in circulation. Let every
Union Democrat look well to his ticket, and
see that it has upon it the names of the cam
didates of his choice
Year: 1861

MAJOR SINGnn's CAVALRY COMPANY This
company now lacks but eight men to com
plete it. We understand that it will organ
ize on Friday and start for the Bay on Sat
urday next. AS it is the only cavalry com
pany thnt is ordered to be raised in the
Northern District, those who wieh to avail
themselves of the opportunity of getting
in this desirable branch of the service should
apply at once Although but eight more
members are wanted to make up the mini
mum number twenty more will be taken,
in order to increase it to near the maximum
number of nety-five
Year: 1861

The news we published from Arizona yes
terday, although of most exaggerret ted
description. and full Of impossibilties. has
awakened our people to the fact that black
treason has Joined its willing allies in that
territory, and that with the slightest encour
agement from the election to day, it would
be inoolent enough b. rear its vilIainous head
in the lower portion of this state The ef-
fort to establish rebel camp within our
borders, would be the signal for a financial
crash from which it would take us long to
recover. We have full confidence that Gen.
Sumner is wide awake and prepared for the
worst There is no doubt that the volun
teers to be raised in this State are to lie inn
mediately engaged in keeping not only Cali
foinia, but the adjoining territory Of Arizona
free from the tread Of the invaders. We are
nearer to the enemy than we have been Will
hing to admit. WILL CALIFoRNIANs ruBM1r TO
THE INTRUSION OF HOSTILE FORCES WITHIN THE
BORDERS OF OUR OWN STATE? There are
traitors among us, but we do not believe
they amount 10 Hlteen tnOuSaDu. May Tue
future prove that not half that number infest
the State. If Californians will not protect
their own homes against Texan flibusters
let US become an appendage to that barren
wilderness. and abandon all pretensions to
being free people.


ARE YOU DEMOCRAT ? If so, vote
the Union Democratic ticket The man who
votes for a single Secession nominee can ncyer
hereafter claim 60 be Democrat


AREYOU A UNION MAN? If so, vote
for no man who apologies for the Secession
war now being waged against the Govern
ment


ARE YOU FOR PEACE? Then vote for
John Conness. The election of Mcconnell
will encourage the traitors to persist in their
rebellion.
Year: 1861

LET EVERY MAN Do HIS DUTY.-Il
we labor as the Secessonists will to day, We
shall achieve glorious victory Is not the
| right worth as great exertions as will be put
forth for the wrong?


AN APPEAL will be made to all old line
Democrats to vote for Secessionists to defeat
Republicans. That is not the way the fight
stands The real contest is between true
Union Democracy. and Secessionisn Besides
is not any man who stands by the country's
flag preferable to any man who goes against
it?


A BASE LIE "A wilful falsehooI has
been in circulation for several hours, in the
city. to the effect that a fusion had taken
place between the Union Democratic and
the Republican county tickets. more
wicked fabrication never was uttered hy man
A mere reference to the tickets at the polls
to-day will show that the gallant standard
bearers of the Democracy are, Sc they al
ways have been. faithful to their trust, and
batting for the good old Democratic cause


DEMOCRATS, if you expect to defeat Re-
PubIic"nism, is it not plain that you must
vote for Conness and the whole ticket? Can
the Secessioniss seriously entertain hope Of
carving the State ?
Year: 1861

stern-''Lucy Love- little girl Of our
neighbor, who because of her long curls
and pretty round face, was the chosen "a
yorite of my little boy. Her curls ':wero
long since cut of, and she has grown into
a tall, handsome girl How the red comes
to his face when he shows me the name
on the boat. Oh I sec it ali as plain as
IT it We're written in, book. My little
boy is lost, and my big boy will soon be:
Now he puts on his overcoat. Oh,
Lucy Lowe, do you think am ready to
give you my boy yet !? Poor Mrs. Lowe
she has lost her little, girl, too! l suppose
she is feeling just as badly as l, i. ~,


He is there by this time, and Lucy is
glad; and he is ;glad--but /? I am so
lonesome, and yet I want my boy to be
happy. It is growing dark-I must have
lights. Oh, l wish he were little tired
boy in long white night gown, lying in
his crib, With me sitting by, holding his
hand in mine, pushing the curls back
from his forehead; Watching his eyelids
droop, and listening to his deep breathing.


If l only had my little boy again, how
patient would be How much would
bear, and how little I would fret and
scold can never have him back again !;
but there are still many mothers who
haven't lost their little boys. l wonder
if they know they are living their best
days that now is the time to really enjoy
their children? T think If r had been
moro to my little boy, I might now be
more to my grown-up one.-Wauerty
Magazine. -: ..4c. ., .~"
Year: 1861

BISHOP KING.
Sleep on, my love, in; thy cold bed,
Never to be disquietedl
My last good night! Thou wilt-not wake
Till thy fate shall: overtake:
Till age, or grief, or sickness must
Marry my body to that dust
It 50 much loves, and fill the room
Ny heart keeps empty in the tomb.
Stay for me there will not fail
To meet thee in that hollow vale.
And think not much Of my delay
I am already on the way,
And follow thee with all the speed
Desire can make or sorrows breed.
Each minute is short degree, .....,
And every hour step toward thee.
At night whom 1 betake to rest, II:
Next morn I rise nearer my West ,.
OF life, almost by eight hours sail,
Than when sleep breathed his drowsy gale
Thus from the sun my bottom steers,
And my days compass downward bears
Nor labor to stem the tide ,.,t,
IT'S true, with shame and grief yield,
Thou like the van first tooE'st the field,
And gotten hast the victory.
In thus adventurihg to die
Before me, whose mere years might crave
A just precedence in the grave.
But, bark! My pulse, like soft drum,
Beats my approach-tells thee come;
And slow howe'er my marches be,
I shall at least sit down by thee.
The thought of this bids me go on,
And wait my dissolution -:
With hope and comfort. Dear, forgive
The crime I am content to live
Divided, With but half heart,
Till We shall meet, and never part.
Year: 1861

In speaking of the Capital location last
week, we referred to the fact that the only
objection urged against permanent loca-
tion at Topeka, at the present time, was,
that the people were unprepared to GO into
the expense of erecting Capita. buildings
We then suggested that public halls and
rooms, suitable for Legislative and State
purposes, could be procured at Topeka at
reasonable rates, until the State would be in
better financial condition, than now, to
erect such buildings.


There was one matter in this connection
that we omitted to mention in that article,
but which is of the very highest importance
to our tax paying citizens throughout the
State.


The Congress of the United States grant
ell, when this State was admitted, ten Sec
tions of land for the erection of Capital
buildings. 1t is, therefore, of the utmost
importance, that permanent location Of the
Capital should be made as speedily as pos
sibIe, and at such place as to remain per-
manent, so that this fue donation of the
government will not be squandered upon a
temporary location, and the people then be
obliged to erect public buildings, at the per-
manent Capital, out of their own pockets.


This seems to US q most important view
of the subject, aad the more we reflect up
on it, the more we are satisfied, that the
best thing our people can do is to locate the
Capitol this fall at Topeka. 1t is as far
west as We can expect to get it now, and as
far east as the Eastern portion of the State
would insist upon its going. The popula-
ton being nearly equally divided by the
kaw river-one-half north, the other south
and situated as it is upon and contiguous
to the great thoroughfares of the State, we
can see no reasonable objection, from all
these considerations, to an immediate loca-
ton at Topeka.