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Year: 1861

A FEMALE SAILoR-A Romantic Story.
This morning young person in sailors at
tire was brought before Justice Osborne, at
the Tombs, on a charge Of being a female
in male attire. The prisoner al once con-
tessed that the suspicious against her were
well founded, and stated that her name was
Bridget Delacry, that she was about sixteen
years of age, and that her parents resided
in the county Of Clare, Ireland. About
three years since, she formed an attachment
for young sailor who had been visiting
her fathers house in Ireland, and had prem
ised to marry him, but her parents would
not consent.


She then purchased sailors garb and
shipped on board vessel bound for this
country, in the hope of discovering her afii-
anced lover, but she was not successful
Hayig acquired taste for seafaring life
however, she continued 10 retain her mate
attire, and made thee more voyages to this
city no one suspectrg that the stout, hardy
looking sailor was a female. Her sex
was not discovered until last evening, when
during trifling dispute which occurred be-
tween her and one of her comrades, her
vest was torn open, and the secret which
she had so well preserved was disclosed.


Bridget is now incarcerated in the Tombs
but as no charge Of disorderly conduct is
brought against her, she will probably be
released as soon as she can obtain female
attire. She is strong, hardy-looking girl
but appears TO feel keenly the unpleasant
situation in which she has placed herself
N. Y. Commercial
Year: 1861

have not been very prolific bearers of men
tai fruit.


Other intcllects are slower in growth
They generally belong to bodies that are
growing fast and strong. They cumpre-
hend slowly at first, but surely; and aie
frm and uucompromising, and are apt TO be
rather skeptical upon subjects whicl, oppose
their intuilions. Such are sure TO meet
with little charity at the hands Of prtn-
gogue and yet a' | call to mind those Of
this latter character which have come with
in my care. find them to have grown
stronger as they have grown older, and to
have been prolific hearers of noble fruit
From this source we derive our original
minds, and, also, most Of our intellectual
giants.


Teachers, seek TO understand the c0pdci-
ties of your scholars before yoI begin TO
force the mental food upon them. If you
seek to I'LL them with learning as you would
fill barrels with water, you may make some
great mistakes. Ten chances to ore that
you may put tie fooIs-cap on the broad
brow OF a Daniel Webster-.that you may
give the position Of Ounce TO Christie
pher Columbus,-while you may set anotl-
er Bill Shakespear over among the girls
because he looked that way when he ought
to have been studying.
Year: 1861

Did you ever think, ambitious, energetic.
bustllng reader, man or woman, what a
blessing it Is that q great ma jority of the
people of the world arc not like you If
you have not, stop a moment and consider,
and YOU will thank fortune that it is so.--


Men that never talk at town meetings, that


don't try to become postmaster at every


change in the administration, and don't stick
| their elbow into you in q crowd, are very


unlikely to pass unnoticed through the


world, and you have the mistaken notion


that they never did you any good. Women


who attend to their baking and babies, who


never talk scandal at sewing societies, and


don't insist on making the tour of tho fash


ionabio watering places every summer, will
| live and die nobodes in the estimati of
all but their immediate household circle.


Thank God for just such nobodies. What q


hubbnb We should live in else The very


thought of it is painful; how much worse
would be tho fact. Quiet people must be
those angels in disguise that imaginative
people talk so much about. Very likely
they will never do us anv positive good
the blessings We receive from them are neg
ativo, and We pass them by unnotced =
They let US alone. and the inhabitants of
Secessa are not the only persons who wish





feeling more times than we can tell. We
get tired OF tho iuCessaDt rattio of tho INA
chInery of society, and long to shut down
the gate Then We appreciate tho unoo
trusiye attentions of our quiet friends; they
don't talk to US when we wish to be silent,
or at least thoy only address us with the ST.
lent language Of the eye, which expresses so
much but never woaries us. They mover
bore US BY making us listen to their am-
bilious plans, and more, they mover anger
us by telling US of our faults. They don,
fatter us whom present and don't SANDER US
when away. Indeed, they pass tho world |
silent and unnoticed. like tho feather that |
falls from the wing of the soaring bird.


1t is doubtless wisely ordered that some
mon should be willing to bo leaders of soci. !
ety, ana should enter the list as candidates
for the honors of the world. There are men
who can no more restrain their ambition
than they eau dam up the ocean. Their
blood grows stagnant in tho country, and
they rush TO tho city to engage in its more
excited pursuits. Thor goal is ever before
them, never reached, and they are happy
only from incessant toll. But the mass OF
mankind always come in and go out at tho
back entry of life, and are never scon in the
parlor or on the great thOroughfares. They
arc tho substrata of mankind, rarely soon,
but supporting the rest. The minister fur
nishss them with their theological opinions,
the newspaper gives them thoir views on
other things, They DO their own work In
their own way, and live aud die, peaceful,
contonted and happy. Let US never sneer
at quiet people, then. Thoy fill their ap.
propriato place exactly. and perform their
duties faithfully. Can as much DO said of
all o: us :-SPringheid Repubiiedn.
Year: 1861

Tho condition in which a man is, will
ofton decide character for courage. He
who has nothing in particular to fight for,
who rsks much by a combat, with chance
of gaining but littlo, may be excused if he
gives no distinguished indications of valor
The mere love of fighting will carry some
mon through. in such cases but that is by
no means the most respectable kind OF
courage.


Tho steadiest and noblest intropidity is
that which is stimulated by tho lovo of
country, or some high moral purpose. But
bravery is not always OF this fino quality.
Not few become soldiers. and exhibit ex-
traordinary daring, merely because they do
not wish to live, having met with some
disappointment or loss which ronders exist
euce burdensome. Often tho excitement of
camp or baltic fold cures thom of their
melancholy; and when they have risen to
distinction by their gallantry, they become
moro choice Of their persons. As their
value of life increases, their courage do
creasOs.


Piutarch tells story OF q soldier who
showed himself so valiant that he won tho
especial regard of his General. To the
latter he complained of a distressing disease
which rendered bis life irksome. Immediate
ly tho ply sicisns were charged to effect his
cure which they succeeded in doing After
that tho man grew very jolly, and rather
averso TO personal risks and hardships. His
General demanded to know what had taken
away his spirit


"You," TO said, "who had taken away the
pains that made me weary of life"


The instinct of a nan--eVen of a woman,
to protect home. property, children, often
supplies a courage Of which they would not
previously have supposed themselves capa-
bie The annals of Indian warfare furnish
memorable instances of this individual aud
domestic prowess. Some mon will go coolly
and resolutely to fight where their honor is
at stake conduct admirable in a good
cause, but very foolish In q bad ONE
Ambition, tho love of military glory, is the
secret of many mems intrepidity. Then
thoro are others who need the spur of
revenge to fight at all. A Roman soldier
had once been plundered by the enemy,
and to recover his loss, he performed an
exploit which gained the favor and esteem
of his commander. But afterwards the
latter was very much surprised to find that
the man refused to engage in an exploit
which required just such daring fellow as
he.


"Not !" said he, "but send some poor
devil that has been plundored as / was !"
Year: 1861

"Some people visit nearly all the time,
and so waste their own lives and their
friends substance some rarely visit at
all. and SO deny themselves and their
neighbors one Of the greatest pleasures OF
social existence. Some people make their
visits so short tha. they are no: worth the
trouble they cost 4; others stay SO long
that the visit becomes a 'visita!ion'-iiEe
a fever or famine. As use is always es.
senlial 10 excellence in any art, only those
who have certain amonnt Of practice.
know how to visit well while those who
visit too much sin in another way, and
become bad visitors, from imrrudence and
carelessness. But we are writing the
essay which we began with simply sug-
gesting, aud will only add, in conclusion,
that sll rules must vary more or less with
the character Of the visitor. As an old
epigram says


What smiles and welcome would give


Some friends TO see each day / live


And yet what treasures would pay


II some would always stay awayn"
Year: 1861

IT is only by freely, openly, joyfully pro-
claiming in simplicity the truth which the
false teacher mutilates, that he can share
his dominion over peoples minds. There
is hardly rule of greater moment for de-
livering people from error than this See
what the truth is, wherein lies the strength
of that truth, oppose the System which is
stropg by its abuse.
Year: 1861

As a remedy for this most distressing aud obsti-
nate malady, the VEGETABLE LIFE MEDI-
CINES deserve a distinct and emphatic recommen-
dation 1t is well-known to hundreds in this city,
that the former proprietor of these valuable med
icnes himself afflicted with this complaint for
upwards of thirty five years, and that he tried in
vain every remedy prescribed within the whole
compass of the Materia MedicG. He however, at
length tried the medicine which is now offered to
the public, and he cured in very short time,
after his recovery had been pronounced not only
improbable, but absolutely impossible, by any hU-
Year: 1861

Are composed of Vegetable ingredients exclusively


as can be ascertained by chemical tests Their
prominent qualities those of an active and
searching, though perfectly mild and agreeable de-
teigent aperient; Of a gentle suporfc, promoting
the insensible perspiration Of pleasant duretic
invigorating the kidneys and bladder; and of a
delightful tonic cardiac exciting appetite by the
demands Of active digestion, and cheering the mind
with that grateful sense of renovated health which
~ one Of the most elieitous feengs Of our natnra
Year: 1861

HfS- well regulated and prOportionate quantity
of bile upon the stomach, is always requisite for
the promotion of sound healtn-it stimulates d.
geston and keeps the intestinal canal free from all
Instructions. When there is a 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 at
tacks of disease, which sometimes end in death.
Year: 1861

THIEF CAuGHr.-Yesterday morning greas-
er from VALPARAISO, was discovered under sus-
picious circumstances behind the counter of T.
Ellard Beans Co. The light fingered hom-
bre was speedily corralled by the gentlemen in
the store, and found to have the..contents of the
money drawer. A dollar was IN one hand not yet
deposited in his clothes The soft side ofa pick
handle de1terously applied to the back and
shoulders of the miserable sinner induced him
gradually came forth the missing change. The
greaser when bereft of his ill-gotten treasure,
was trotted before Justice Smith by Constable
Asher and from thence he was soon seen on his
winding way to the Hotel de Lenhart to await
an inquisition on his moral standing by the
Court of Sessions
Year: 1861

The New England factories were never
doing so prosperous business as now
In Manchester every spindle in the large
factories is running on full time; the pay
roll amounting to $4,000 per month
The Atlantic Corporations at Lawrence, had
declared a dividend of 20 per cent. on a
capital stock of three million dollars
Year: 1861

NEBRASKA SnAFT.-The miners in the Ne
braska shaft came up Wednesday morning
at o'clock and refused TO go down again. The
The timbers were giving away and the shaft was
scarcely serviceAblc any longer. The mines
were paying about g., 900 week over and above
expenses when work was suspended. Probably
r new shaft will be sunk on the grounds of the
COMPANY before long:
Year: 1861

.ScARLEr FEvER.-We regret to state that
several families in this city afflicted with
scarlet fever. The youngest child of Henry
Whitman died on Wednesday with the disease,
and the other child is also down with it. The
daughter Of Col. Whitman is also seriously i'll
from the same cause. Death has robbed the
household Of one precious gem. May he be
content to stay his hand.
Year: 1861

We print this morning the news by two ar
rivals from Europe The news from England
is very warlike. There has beena reaction -
ii is stated, and the English government now
proposes to make 4 short and decisive demand
for Preparation, in the Trent case. ltlooks as
if England and France bad agreed to take &C.
casion from this case to force our government
into quarrel in order to interfere with the
blockade of our southern ports, and recognize
the southern coniederacy. There has been no
official indication by our government Oh 'He
answer it will be likely to make to such a de-
mand as that which, it is said, Lord Lyons is
instructed to urge Il England really intends
to make war upou us, nothing ON our part can
turn her from her purpose, and we must en-
counter the hostility as best we can. 1t Eng
land and France are not seeking preteXts Tor
pursuing a hostile policy towards MS, it will
not be possible for war to arise out of the
Trent affair.
Year: 1861

The classical Charles (Sumner) has surely
gone ngger-mad. He can't even visit the
grave OF friend without Iueging a niger
along with him.--Prorideace Post.


The chaste and beautiful euIogy which Mr.
Sumner pronounced over the grave Of his
friend, the late gallant soldier and senator
Baker, is given on he first page Of the Spy
this morning. The readers OF it will not be at
a loss how to characterize the assaults which
are made upon him, Of which the above from
the Post is an example.
Year: 1861

had one which tould TO be excellent, but
when the navy met with such mishap in the
Mississinpi was compelled to lel Flag Officer
Mexican have it, and one Of my Il FOUNDER
PARROT guns, to ppt on one OF his ships, to
save them from being driven out OF the waters
by a little steamer having a rlHtd gun on
hoard "
Year: 1861

LOCAL History. - The Webster Times
states that the four cergymen Of that town
have been designated as historical committee
to act till the annual town meeting shall APP
point permanent committee, whose duty is
to be to Collect arrange, and put on record the
doings OF the town, either by her executive
board or by her citizens in aid of suppressing
the rebellion against our government; also to
record the names OF all who have entered the
and especially TO solicit for record such ex-
tracts from the letters of our volunteers, as
shall be of permanent interest and value to the
town, state, or nation. The example is most
commeudable and worthy to be followed.
Year: 1861

A medical correspondent of a
London contemporary recently sta
ted that thirteen ounces of arseni-
cal poison had been found in one
tarlatan dress. Another CORES
pondent of the same journal calls
attention to the following extract
from the report made by NJ. Van
Brock to the Belgian Government,
upon thesubject ofpoisonous colors;


cit is not merely the poor work.
women who have to suffer from the
poisonous emanations Of arsenical
flowers. Those who work them
up, merchants and milliners-
those above all, who wear them
often experience, without being
able to account for what they feel,
the pernicious effects of the poison
which surrounds them. The head
of one of the most important
houses of business of this kind as
sured me, lately, that every time he
presided over the arrangement of
a trimming into which a luXuriant
foliage enters, he experienced a
more or less violent headache, ver-
tigo, nausea, and an obstinate dry
cough.


The workwomen whom he en-
ploys, being more exposed than
himself, present these disagreeable
symptoms in a still more marked
degree. Moreover, my informant
assured me that it is always with
extreme reluctance, and by express
command, that he undertakes such
a task. After such an avowal, it is
not difficult to imagine what passes
in the midst of those worldly vor-
tices where at the same time pas
sions and flowers are agitated and
shed. Shaken, crushed and bruised,
the poisonous foliage delivers to a
burning atmosphere its brilliant
and dangerous dust; the latter
spreads everywhere, and on every
thing; clothes, hair, the moist skin,
the air we breathe, nothing escapes
its assaults, which are certainly
not unconnected with the frequent
illness which follow gay and extern
sive reunions. Sometimes, even
the effects of arsenic of copper are
Immediately perceptible; and more
than one woman is indebted to it for
the redness of the skin, and sufi-
GENTLY serious cutaneous irrita-
tions.
Year: 1861

The boOtmaker, Ignorant of tho
relative use and Importance of the
different parts Of the foot, has
steadily persisted for centuPios, and
to this day usually persists, in Sc
shaping the shoe that the great toe
is forced upon the other toes more
or less ont of its right line with the
heel. Nine civiIizedpersons in ten,
perhaps, have their great toes thus
by course Of submission to mis-
shapen boots and shoes so far turn
ed inward, that q line run down in
the middle Of them from point to
ball, if continued, would not fall
any where in the heel at all, but
several inches away outside of the
body. The necessary consequence
is, that the full strength of the neu-
trail lever for raising the body is
destroyed; the effort has to be
made at a disadvantage, and with
pressure; the act of walking loses
some of its grace and much of its
ease; so that although the boot
may be so wei! adjusted to the spoiIt
shape of the foot, as to cause no
pain, an honest twenty or thirty
mile walk is more than the hamp-
cred foot machinery has power to
sustain.


For this reason, says DR., Meyer,
it is wrong to suppose that because
a shoe is easy it is right, or that a
cast Of the foot, unless it be Il
healthy one, would make the best
last for the shoe it is to wear. Al
lowance should be made for the
gradual return of the great toe to
its place, by leaving its place Ito
some extent at leas0 vacant for it,
and permitting gentle pressure
where the JOINT has been forced
into undue projection. When the
shoemaker now tells the customer
that he trcads very much on one
side, he in fact compliments him
by the information that he has a
healthy and unsubiugating foot,
determined to tread straight. 1t is
precisely because chiIdren's feet
are only in the first stage of injury,





and are more nearly as God made
them than as they are destined to
be made by the shocmakers, that
children especially come into trou-
bic with the shoemakcrs, or with
the parents and guardians who be-
lievc rather in shoes than in feet,
for "treading on one side" A
strong and healthy foot tramples Il
foolish shoe out as far as possible
into the form it ought at first to
have had.


Even the distorted foot, after the
shoemaker has done his worst, will
often tread over the leather of the
inner side of the boot heel, because
of a natural effort of the foot heel
to bring itself into some approach
to the right line of the great toe.


In q properly made shoe, then,
the great toe and the heel have
their right relative places furnished
for them. And, since they are tc
be in a line together, it must fol-
low that if well-made pair Of
boots be placed side by side so that
their heels touch, their sides also
Year: 1861

The Brigadicr General whom we
have in our minds eye is the same
who published in this city that, af-
ter slavery shall have been disposed
of in the South, "Popery must be
looked into" He processes to be
loyal citizen, but this is a curious
method Of inducing other citizens
who are truly loyal to rally to the
support Of the Constitution, the
government, and the laws Of our
country.


Even our Catholic DR.. Brown
son, holds that slavery is the cause
Of the war. This happens to be
simply impossible, except in the
sense that a mans carrying money
on ahis person is the cause of his
Year: 1861

In the ST. Louis letter of the Union of yes


terday is the following:


"Some commotion was caused in town thi


morning on the report that Charles G. Ram


sey, proprietor of the Evening News, hat
been placed under arrest by the Provost
Marshal. The News has always been a
strong Union paper, and seemed to be an
admirer OF General Fremont when he first
took charge of this Department Since the
/ Blair and Fremont difficulty broke out, the
! News has taken decided ground for Colonel
! Blair. The cause of Ramsey's arrest is said
to be the following article on The Fall of
Lexington" which appeared last evening =
(Then follows the article, too lengthy for
our columns, at this time). 1t will be ob
served that the commotion was caused Gy
" the report that Ramsey had been arrested
10y the Provost Marshal 1t is not even re-
ported that Fremont ordered the arrest
Then the letter.writer says: "The cause Of
Ramsey's arrest is said to be the following
article" Here is the only evidence that
Fremont has ordered the arrest Of an editor
for writing articles calculated to create dis
satisfaction and perhaps mutiny, in the ranks
of Fremont's army, and also TO excite or in
crease general distrust of Fremont among
the people of a State which is under mar
tial law. But the letter seems to be regard
ed by the Union as a sufficient basis for n
most unqualified condemnation Of General
Fremont, and a demand for his removal
That journal upon no other information than
that above quoted. says:


Fremont is carrying it in St. Louis with
rather a high hand For commenting upon
his stupid failure to reinforce Col. Mullignn
at Lexington, he ordered the proprietor of a
loyal Union paper to be arrested and i'm
prisoned, The Evening News has been
firm supporter of the Government against
the rebellion; but for censuring the acts of
General Fremont it is arbitrarily suppressed
by his order This savors rather too much
Of military despotism. We suppose he jus,-
lies himself under his martial law proclama-
ton; that document, however, only aprlies
legitimately to those who prove traitors to
the Government of the nation; it does not
and cannot apply TO structures on the militia
ry blunders of Fremont as General. This
act ofitself shows that Fremont is totally un-
ut Tor the position he occupies, and that he
should be removed forthwith by the Presi-
dent.


The Union is loyal and patriotic Journal
and cireuntes in every town and mining
camp in the State Its influence is great, and
is generally welded with discretion. In the
present instance we think it has Departed
from its usual course of fairness and modera-
tion. The Union cause will suffer if men in
high places are to be denounced, and their
heads demanded upon such gossomer reports
We think the editor of the Union did not as
carefully read its st. Louis correspondents
account of the Ramsay matter as we have,
and that he would not willingly do injustice
to any man.