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Year: 1862

One OF the most modern and most re
markabIc achievements of electricity is
thus referred to by a writer in once a


Week


Another great element Of our present
civilization is beginning to make signs of
its existence in the South Kensinaton Mu-
scum. W Q allude to the electric telerranh
BlackWells copying machine is one of
the most interesting of this class rs it
brings before the public eve the means
tLl"t can be employed to write with pen
thousands of miles n length If the At
lantIc cable were in working order. for in
stance, man through its iustrumentalitv
could SIT down to write q letter in London.
and teel certain that fac Sinaile OF his
handwriting was at the same moment
coming out Of the telegraph office at New
1 ork. he manner in which this astound-
ing machine works is as follows. The
message IS originally written on a con
Quoting material. such as tinfoil. with res
IN or some non n-conducting ink. O~er the
face OF this letter, which is placed on q
cylinder, point of metal revolves. this
point Is IN connection with the conductinr
wire, at New York say a piece of cbemi-
caiiv prepared paper is placed on Ike
c} Under to receive the message: both evil
inders are made to move round bv clock
work As the point at this end of the
WIRE passes over the non-conductinr resin
writing no current passes, hence the roint
which moves synony mously with it at New
ork does not change the color of the pa
per, but all the other surface Of the wri-
ting tablet being conductor. the currents
pass and deepen its color by chemical ac-
ton on the tar distant recording tablet
ne receiver thus obtains a perfect fac
Snltte OF hIs correspondents hand wri-
tihs Done IN white upon blue ground
Specimens of this lectrieal hand wri,ino
are place beside the telenrapbic machine
in the Museum of kensinctdn and afford
an admirable example of the caIieraphy
Of the lightning pen.
Year: 1862

An HONEST LIrE.-The poor pittance of
seventy years is not worth being villain
for What matter is it if your neighbor
lies IN splendid tomb ? Sleep you with
innocence Look behind you through the
track of timel y vast desert lies open In
retrospect; wearied with years and sorrow,
they sink from the walks of man. You
must leave them where they fall, and you
are to 90 little farther and you will find
eternal rest Whatever yon may have to
encounter between the cradle and the
grave, every moment is big with events,
which come not in succession, but burst
ing torcibly from a revolving and unknown
cause, fly over this orb with diversified in
tueccc
Year: 1862

RErRIBCTIoN.-A letter from a private
in the Seventy ninth, Higblanders, disclo-
ses an instance of just retribution which
tell On an earnest traitor who should have
been hung months ago 1t will be remem-
bered that, in the early part of summer.
man, employed IN the Washington NAVY
ard, was discovered filing shells with
sand, instead Of the proper material
This man had received a medical educa-
ton, and On his escape within the rebel
lines resumed the practice of his profes-
sion. When the Seyentv-ninth landed at
Port Royal, the hf-t sight which greeted
them on entering the hospital was this
man seated at a table, with a splendid case
OF surgical instruments before him his
left arm resting naturally upon the table
and the position Of his todv indicatinr
perfect ease. but, upon closer examina-
ton, 1t was discovered that the entire up
per portion of his head had been cut
away, from the crown to the back of his
neck, by cannon ball-N Y CONNER
ctat AdrertiS,r
Year: 1862

AhE DER r y ID EhS
WRITTEN I. BUCHANAN READ.
Our flag the land and our flag on the ocean,
An angel Of peace wheresoever it goes
Sobly sustained by Coumbia's devotion,
The angel Of death it shall be foes


True to its native sky
Still shall our eagle fly,
Casting his sentinel gances afar


Though bearing the olive branch,


still in his taions staunch
GrasPing the bolts Of the thunders of wari
Hark to the sound there's a foe on our border
\ foe striding o. to the gulf Of his doom;
Freemen are rising and marching in order,
Leaving the pillow, the anvil and loom.


Rust dims the harvest sheen


OF scythe and sickle keen
The axe sleeps in peace by the tree It would mar,


Veteran and youth out


Swelling the battle shout
Grasping the bolts Of the thunders OF war;
Our brave mountain eagles swoop from their aerse
Our ithe panthers leap from forest and plain
Out Of the West flash the flames Of the prairie
Out Of the east roll the waves Of the main.


Down from their Northern shores,


Swift as Niagara pours,
They march and their tread awakes the earth with jar
Under the Stripes and Stars,


Each with the soul Of Mars
Grasping the bolts Of the thunders Of war;
Spite of the sword or assassin's stiletto
While throbs heart in the breast Of the brave,
The oak of the North or the Southarn palmetto
Shall shelter foe except in his grave


While the gulf blow breaks


Echoing the northern lakes
And ocean replies unto ocean afar,


Yield inch OF land


While there's patriot hand
Graspng the bolts Of the thunders of war
The world is rife with noble thoughts


That trenble the tongue
The world is fun OF melody


Jnwritten and unsung.


The music OF a march Is sweet


But action Is sublime


And You may live a nobler verse


Than can be told in rhyme.
Let Tyres and lutes, with tinkling breath


To l0ve-sick girls belong
The rythm OF a well-spent life


IS sweeter far than song


I'm weary Of the Of words


Our world dead
IL half our bards would cease to write


And live their verse instead.
Year: 1862

Postponed The second concert of the
Hoier Family has been postponed until Mon
day evening, when it will come of at Huston
Hall.


The concert last night was excellent. The
.warbng excelled any thing we have had in
this city for long while Their Tyrolean
mode of snging is novel and pleasing. The
violin and flute solos were most artisticAlly
given; and the Star spangled Banner, as
sung by Madame Hoier, was alone worth the
price of admission. Our German readers
would be especially delighted with the per
formanee, as part OF the programme is in
their language, and we hope they will turn
out in force on Monday night t1t)f


The Hofers are worthy people and good ar
tstes let them have full house on Monday
evening.
Year: 1862

TEMPORARY DEAFNESS, arising from cold,
sitting in drauEht and other causes, may
be relieved and cured by letting fail into
the ear ten drops of mixture of sweet oil
and one OF glycerne every night until the
duct which leads from the ear to the nose
is cleared; this will be known 10y the SEN
sation OF the fluid passing at once from
the ear into the noatril If, from attea-
tion, the wax becomes hardened, and thus
also induce temporary deafness, then the
above mixture is to be applied for two or
three days, and followed by thoroughly
washing the ear with soap and warm
water. No hard probe or pick IS to be
put into the ear on any account, as il is
very liable to injure the membrane.-.Ssp
filn,ls Iicsss.
Year: 1862

The following information is given for
the benefit of young sailors. We don't
know what ultra-Iaarine wrote it, but We
suspect it was Secretary Welles: The
sterrpost is not weekly paper The
berths on board do not necessarily add to
the census. The hatchways are not hens
nests Pugilists are not engaged to box
the compass. The boa.swain does not
pipe all hands with a neerschaum The
braces are not suspenders, The deck is
not a pack OF cards. The men are not
beat to quarters with club. The bow of
a ship is no evidence Of its polteness.
Year: 1862

4 very tall man was in the streets of
Boston, when an old lady who admired his
gigantic stature, thus addressed him
Mister We're you large when you were
small 7 Yes, marin, was considerable
big when was little.
Year: 1862

A western clergyman, in presenting q
revolver to volunteer, said: " If you get
into a tight place, and have to use it, ask
Gods blessing if you have time, but Se
sure not 70 let your enemy get the start OF
you. You can say amen after you shoot.
Year: 1862

HUMANITY Victoria, to one who
spoke to her of resignation in view Of the
approaching death of the Prince Consort,
replied as well as tears would allow, "
suppose l must not mourn too much, for
many poor women have to so through the
same trials
Year: 1862

There is a man in Pennsylvania who
has the power os divining the existence of
an oil spring merely by the smell He is
said to possess this penetrating faculty
from having very strongly Developed oil.
factory nerve
Year: 1862

Lord Shaftsbury recently stated in a
public meeting in London, that from per-
sonal observation he has ascertained that
of the adult male criminals OF that city
nearly all had fallen into a course of crime
between the ages OF eight and sixteen
years; and that if a man lived an honest
life up to twenty years o. age, there were
forty nine chances in his favor, and only
one against him, as to an honorable life
thereafter.
Year: 1862

BoY PAID FOR HIS LEARNING Father,
said young hopeful the other day, how
many fowls are there on this table p
& Why, said the old gentleman. as he
looked complacently on pair of nicely
roasted chickens that were smoking on
the table, there are two Two re
piled the smart boy, there are three, sir,
and III prove it Three 7 replied the
old gentleman, who was plain, matter-of
fact man, I'd like to see you prove it, y
Z" Easily done, easily done. Is not that
one p said the smart boy, laying his knife
on the first land that twoY' pointing to
the second; And do not one and two
make three?' Really said the farmer,
turning to his wife, who was stupe6ed at
the immense learning of her son, ''really
this boy is a genius. and deserves to be
encouraged" and then, to show that
there is fun in old folks as well as young
ones, he added, Wife, do you take one
fowl, and I'll take the second. and John
may have the third for his learning"
Year: 1862

Second, to give the teacher an opportun'tyo OF
explaining to the class, any difficulties that may
occur, instead Of explaining them to each pa
pill separately, as was formerly done; thus sas-
ing mu,h time and labor. In class of twcn-
ty an explanation given once effects the same
purpose that a repetition of it twenty times
does, by the old Individual method still practic-
ed in many parts of this county.


A third object of recitation is tofx the parts
and principles of the lesson more indelibly in
the mind of the pupil 1t is a law Of our men
tai nature that repetition aids retention. Any
one may satisfy himself of this by looking close
ly into the operations of his own mind An
eminent jurist well understood it when he said,
81 read many things which am sensible for
got but found withal that if I had once talk
ed over what had read, I never forgot that"
Recitation supplies the needed opportunity Of
talking over the facts and principles to be re-
tanned.


The fourth and last object of recitation that
we shall name, is to cultivate the pupils pou-
ers Of expression. The pupil should not only be
taught to kno,v but TO communicate, Also This
can only be done by practice, and practice can
nowhere be better secured than in recitation.
Indeed, no more valuable exercise could be de-
sired for all who aim at ease and accuracy Of
expression. We have often thought we could
tell students who never rectcd by the stiffness
and awkwarlness of their utterance Such, too
often are our self-madc men--men who by their
own ndomitable will, have pursued a liberal
course of study without the aid of school or
| teachers.


These being the chef objects Of recitation,
it will follow that all methods of recitation are
good just in proportion as they attain these OBJ
jects. We propose to examine the most apprc-
we'd methods now in use and try them by this
Standard.
Year: 1862

armed, black and white, who can aid in
crushing the rebellion that every inch
Of rebel soil be taken and sold to pay the
debt Of this war. will not go with the
President 10 paying for all the slayes-I
did not vote for his resolution--I will not
vote TO pay for any slave Of rebel.


g But j will uphold the administration
as far as possible--saying at the same
time that il is all in vain unless they
change their policy. Would it not be bet
Ter that $4,000 armed slaves should lie
unburled around Manassas than that your
friends and mine should lie there The
rebels might have slain them they would
have saved us, and our own men would
have gone fresh into action and to victory.
Yet at this sympsthizers at the North
cry abolition = Aboltion-yes! abol-
lsh everything on the face of the earth
but this Union free every slave-slay
every traitor-burn every rebel mansion,
II these things be necessary to rresery q
this temple Of freedom to the world and
TO our poslerity Unlezs We do this We
cannot conquer them. | have spoken
this In Congress-and in the last week,
after few remarks of mine, the vote
was elghty-four to forty-two--eighty four
agreeing with me, where year ago not
fifty could have been found and If 90
back there again, if we have any one left
TO tight by that time, the whole nation will
be with me Either we must pursue
that policy, or the war will be disgrace.
fully abandoned at last, and our country
dlvided-and he is traitor who talks O,
separation upon any terms. Again,
thank you--I have said more than I in.
tended when began, less than | expect


ed last night; but have told you these
things, that even if my principles b.
wrong, they shall never be hidden.n
Year: 1862

Thaddeus Stevens, of Pennsylvania,


having res eived unanimous re denomination
for Congress from tue Union III en- Of his
district, acceptedit in the following speech,
delivered before the convention, in Which


he discusses the policy Of the government


with great boldness:


"FEILow CITIZENS: | have come for
the purpose of thanking you and accept
ing your nomination. IL is always grati-
flying u aapublic man to be assured of
the continued Sonfdence of those whose


servant he is, but especially so in times
like these, when the wisest nlen differ on
questions Of policy. | had prepared to
speak on those questions, and to criticise,
not in fulsome manner, but as thought
it deserved, the conduct of the war and


the present policy of the administration;
but in the last hour | have hesitated


whether to speak as | had intended


whether it were proper to criticise now,


in this hour OF deepest gloom, when we


know not where our armies are, but only


that they are nowhere successful. Bu.


whether we advise the government, or
Auu Aduit Will VIC Htunt ALI OC eS6fy-


thing 10 strengthen the nation. Let US
not despair; lite is not ali sunshine--it


has gloom with JOY, adversely with pros


perity-nor is victory always to the just
human energy and earestness will often


wrest from fate what would seem to be-


long to justice alone. Possibly we have


not yet suffered enough; but let no man
falter in his loyalty to the government,


no matter how he may criticise it's policy;
for he who falters now is traitor not on
ly to his country but to humanity and to
his God.


/ have not determined whether to speak
as l had intended; perhaps, when We
know the result of these few days l may


meet you and speak to you. / have pro-
tested against the present policy, not on


ly to the people, but to the face of the


President and his cabinet, and on the
door of Congress, rs those know who
have done me the honor to read nv
speeches, told told them that they were exer-
cising too much lenity at the request Of


border statcsmen-not one of whom, in


my Judgment, has loyalty in his heart.


have accused the Prime Minister to his
face for having gone back from the faith


be taught me, and instead Of arming eve
~ man. black or white, who would fight


for this Union, Withholding well mean


ing president from doing 90 until, as we


advance into their country and our armies
dwindle away from miasma and disease,
they spring up behind us and retake what
We had gained. They still hold the Mis-


sissippi, and threaten US even on the


banks of the Ohio: all because the slaves
1t home are giving them no trouble-be-


cause We are. at the point Of the h.ycnct,


keeping them loyal to their masters instead
Of to the Union.


81 have told these things to the Pres.
ident and Cabinet, and they replied It
may come to this "Come 10 this =
when zoo, 900 men have melted awsy and
$1,000, 600 ,O0O been spent. Come To
this!" when another half million of lives
shall have been lost, and . billion of more
dollars laid upon you in taxation. / cam
not and will not stand this-and> If YOU
elect me l shall vote that every man be
Year: 1862

DULL.--The un(avorabIe condition of
the weather yesterday kept the people in the
city and country mostly within doors. The
streets were quiet, and but little was done in
any line Of business
Year: 1862

TICKET HOLDERS will please notice
that the horse which Col. Wentz rode will be
drawn to night at o'clock. at Jake H@ring's.
Every man who has q ticket mght prevent
some annoyance by bringing along q halter
with him. The horse is perfectly gentle. No
one ne,d feel afraid to ride him home
Year: 1862

SLIGHT MIsTAKE.-l'he Gazette claims
priety Of building = new Court House. All
the difference there is bet " cen US, the Gozcte
is far and We are against the Improvement
Our neighbor will please re.udjust his glasses
and take another look
Year: 1862

A Coon APPoINTMsNT.-At the last
meeting Of the Cay Council, Charles w. Yer.
der was unanimously chosen City Assessor for
the ensuing year. We venture to state that a
better man for that business could not have
been found in the city. He will take up the
Job and prosecute it steadily. and every part
of it will be done right. There will be no mis-.
take about that. He has been engaged az
clerk 10 hejMarshal's Office two years or more
and understands his bus ness thoroughly.
Year: 1862

The people in all ages have been fighting the
assumptions of superiority and right to rule in
matters of politics, morality, and religion. The
struggle for freedom of personal action, so far as
consistent with the rights of others, and freedom
of conscience, has made many battle fields as
the love Of power and conquest. And it would
would seem that the war was never to end. 1t
is true that as contest after contest has achieved
guaranteed rights for the people, and civilization
and enlightenment followed in their train, we in
this country have lain down the sworn and rested
these rights in the guarantees of the Constitution
But the same spirit is incident to human nature,
and when organized into fanatical majority il
uses its power in the form of law as tyranically
and as vindictiyely as if it rested its claim in
pretended divine right and divine commissions.
Hence we have had prescriptions for places of
birth, prescriptions for religious belief, and pro-
scriptiOns for individual opinions and actions.
Hence we have had of late years Know Nothing-
ism AbOlitionism, and Maine elawism.


Organized fanatical majOrities the worst
tyrants of the whole brood. Processing to be
laboring for the good of mankind, their conceited
judgment points the way and their power applies
the coercion. They never learn anything or for
get anything. When they see in the long cata-
logue of the past not only the utter failure OF
their system to accomplish any good, but its alb
sOlute and palpable results as nothing but evil



cism, they seize the same weapons to force upon
others the dOgmas of their own opinions. The
South, they say, must and shall believe and act
upon the subject of slavery we do. The
whole people shall take their morals upon the
temperance question from our dictatiOn. There
fore, we, the self-constituted possessors of all
public morality, by the power of the State which
we have been able to grasp, proclaim that every
body else shall do as we profess to do, and to
this end ali personal rights, and all rights Of
property or liberty. inconsistent with our pur-
pose, are hereby abolished.


The last measures of these organized fanatics
is from the Legislature of Iowa. That august
assemblage, we understand, at its last session,
passed extremely pronibitory liquor law. Be
sides imposing the severest penalties for viola
tons Of the law, it provides that any person may
give information where liquors are known or sus-
pected to be kept, on which information search
warrant is obliged to be issued, and no change oI
venue is allowed to the accused. no matter be
fore what court he may be brought on the com.
plaint. The selling OF alcoholic liquors is made
penitentiary offense.


That enactment is after the genuine pattern.-
Chicago Times
Year: 1862

sefwith the naval and military gentlemen imme-
diately interested stepped on board. The active
little craft ran down by the mortar fleet, Captain
Myndiers giving his orders to the several NOR
tiers as she passed the boats, and then she headed
for the opposite shore, the pilot having orders to
place her directly opposite the bend. As she
passed it (the bend) the bluffs lifted to view and
when we reached the middle of the river the up
per rebel battery was to be seen distinctly with
the naked ere. The tug headed up stream and
kept steady while the officers swept the hill with
their glasses Presently the signal was given to
the first mortar boat TO open fire. A volume of
smoke rose slowly up. heavy roar so loud that
l have not language to describe it succeeded and
this was followed by rumblihg as of distant
thunder as the shell sped through the air These
immense shells do not scream or screech in their
progress as lesser missiles do-they rumble and
reverberate almost beating nature in their im-
tation of thunder Every eye was strained to
note the effect of the shot. Moments elapsed,
the thunder rolling on and on, when small
white cloud was seen Immediately above the cliff
which sent back a sound like a twenty-four
FOUNDER. The shell had burst--the range was
right. Another and another succeeded in rapid
succession from the other boats, followed and
mixing up the thunder in such confusion that
earth and water seemed to quake. They all had
range. The rebel gunboats below steamed up to
get out OF the way, for we could see The black
smoke from their stacks getting blacker and sway
ing in large clouds above them. The reconnois-
sance was over--the fight was opened and Capt.
Mynders gave orders to run for the mortar boats.
The rebel batteries were slow to respond. but
when they did open they kept up the fire briskly
and with their heaviest guns. Their shells most
ly burst in the woods on the promontory and
their solid shot went clear over the mortar boats.
The boats were hid from their view by the timber
and they aimed tor the smoke of the guns as it
rose above the trees. In half an hour the fight
was hot and the constant roar of such heavy ar
tillery was deaiening. The rebels evidently have
some fine guns in position and of heavy caliber.
A one hundred and twenty pound shot struck
within few feet of the CarOndOlet, dashing the
water over Mr. Fishback of the ST. Louis Demo
crat, as he sood, one of the group on her deck.
The sight was grand. The decks of all the yes
sells were crowded with spectators and the pano-
OF the broad bay with its infinite variety of
craft and the many thousands witnesses was
exceedingly beautiful, if such word can be ap-
propriately used amidst such stormy cannon
ade. For two hours the mortar boats Numbered
and the rebels replied, when orders were given to
throw our shell every fifteen minutes and keep it
up at that.


The trip to the feet paid well if only to witness
the bombardment of few hours which have so
feebly described B.