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Year: 1863

Here is some advice which married ladies
can bet high on:


Get up at four O'Clock in the morning,
clean out the stoves, take up the ashes, sweep
the front sidewalk, and scrub the front steps,
nurse the baby, put things to warm, see the
shirts aired, boil the mackerel settle the cof
fee, set the table, rouse the house, carry up
some hot water for shaving to that brute of a
lazy husband, and dry the morning paper.
By this time you will have an appetite for
breakfast. Hold the baby during the meal.
as you like your breakfast cold. After break
fast, wash the dishes, nurse the baby. dust
everything, wash the windows, wash and
dress the baby-(t that pantry wants cleaning
out and scrubbing g)-nurse the baby, draw
the baby in his wagon five or six miles for
the benefit of his health nurse him when
you return put on the potatoes and the cab
bage, nurse the baby and the corned beef,
(don't forget to nurse the baby) and the tur-
nips, and nurse the baby sweep everything !;
take up the dinner, set the table, fill the cas-
tors, change the table cloth, There, that ba-
by wants nursing.) Eat your dinner cold
again, and-nurse the baby. After dinner.
wash the dishes, gather up all the dirty
clothes and put them to soak, nurse the ba-
by every half hour; receive dozen calls, in
terspersed with nursing the baby drag the
baby mile or two; hurry home make bis
cult, pick up some Goldfish, cut some dried
beef. Catnip tea for baby's internal disar-
rangements I; hold the baby an hour to quiet
him put some alcohol in the metre; baby
a specimen of perpetual motion; tea ready !;
take yours cold, as usual. After tea, wash
up the dishes; put some fish to soak chop
some hash; send for some more sugar, (gra.


IL
cents pound, get down the stockings and
darn them; keep on nursing the baby);
wait up till twelve O'Clock nursing the baby.
till husband comes with double shuttle on
the front steps, decided difficulty in finding
the stairway, and determination to sleep in
the back yard. Drag him up stairs to bedI;
then nurse baby and go to sleep. Women
in delicate health will find that the above
practice will either kill or cure them.
Year: 1863

grown. Sometimes she bathed in the
dews Of the eglantine or sweet jessamine I;
sometimes she swung on the raspberry
blossom, or the locust full Of white flowers
and sometimes on the crest Of lofty tu-
lip tree, or rushed into the woods for fra
grant flowers. But every day she grew
happier Her songs were now cheerful
and loud. She laughed at her former
dread of work, and what was curious just
in proportion as she worked size grew
handsomei The bands that encircled
her body became wide and bright like pol
shed gold, her wings shone like silver
Her eye grew bright, and lost its squint,
if it ever had any. Her feet, kept clean
by tho morning dew, were beautiful in
proportion. In short there was not a
happier or prettier bee in the whole hive.
Even the lazy drones bowed and hummed
admiration as she passed. AT the end of
her sentence she stood once more before
the queen, "Hebe the Beautiful p' as she
was then called.


"Ah," said the queen, "I see how it
is. 1t is the law of God that she who is
willing to work, and do good to Others,
shall be happy and grow beautiful by the
process. Beauty casts her mantle only
on the industrious and good.-John
Todd, d. d.
Year: 1863

There was n terrible commotion In tho
Beehive. The sentnels at the doorway
ceased to fan with their wings to
listen; the drones murlnured with q
hoarse voice; the bees run out and in great
confusion; the work all stopped and dis
solution seemed to reign in the honey
kingdom. What was the matter! At
ter a great deal of noise and clamor, it
was discovered that the bees had brought
criminal before their queen in order to
know what should be done with her,
The queen turned found slowly and ma
jestically, as queens should do, and then
inquired:


"What is the matter? Why have
you brought that young bee before mel"


"Please your majesty, she wont work !"


"Wont work A bee wont work 2"


No, your majesty, and she is not only
idle, but is all the time complaining and
finding fault with everybody, and thus
makes the whole hive unhappy"


"Hebe, is this so? what have you to
sayT


"Please your majesty" whined poor
Hebc, "Im The most unfortunate of all
your subjects. The fact is Tn not hand
some! Ny face is small, and one Of
my eyes seems to squiut; and though I'm
an Italian bee, yet my dress is not rich
gold, but has dim, leaden look, aud ny
feet are large, and my arms are
hairy, and my ears are to long. In Short
I'm so plain that nobody ever notices me,
and / have no admirers, and actually
overheard gentleman say How
homely Hebo grows! Those who are
handsome and have admirers can afford to
work, but for me there is nothing but cha
grin and modification"


"Foolish one" cried the queen
"Now hear my sentence! You will, l
hope, have long lie, even nine moons
longl You have already wasted four
days. | condemn you to rise at early
morn, to 60 out at once and wash your
face and hands in the dew, that gathers
in the clematis. Then you are to go from
flower to flower and bring in honey suffi-
cient to feed ten young bees. 1t will take
you out twenty-five journeys every day,
and require the honey of one hundred
flowers each journey"


"Oh dear" cried Hebe, "to think of
sucking twenty-five hundred flowers each
dayp


eyes, and you must nurse ten young
bees all the time, and thus mature one
every day on an average, and you must
do this during three moons. This is my
sentence, and you arc not to appear be-
fore me during that periodT


The queen turned away and the sister
bees led poor Hebe to the door of the hive
and pushed her out. At first she was be-





wildered and cast down. But the sun
shone bright, and the birds sung and the
air was filled with her sisters coming and
going, flying and singing. She spread
her wings and away she flew. Away
she went over fences and trees, till she
found field Of white clover. Then she
came down, and TO her amazement found
it easy work. In a short time she had
drawn from her hundred clover heads, and
then straight back to the hive. In she
came singing and began to feed her young
charge. And then off again, morning
noon and night she was coming and going.
Her young bees loved her, and sang with
her and went out in company as fast as
Year: 1863

WE are Informed, by gentleman con
nected with the Office of the Provost Mar
shal at Grand Rapids, that over 100000
have been paid as exemption money of
conscripts, and not more than one person
in twenty Of those drafted enter military
service.
Year: 1863

Two birds within one nest;


Two hearts within one breast;
Two souls within one fair


Firm league of love and prayer,
Together bound for aye, together blest
An car that waits to catch


A hand upon the latch;
A step that hastens its sweet rest TO winS
A world Of care without,
A world Of strife shut out,


A world Of love shut in.
Year: 1863

We will support the administration in
the conduct Of the war, in all its constitu-
tional measures, and shall be in favor of
giving it all the men and money that
may be necessary TO carry on the contest
for restoration Of the Union, but not one
cent or one man to carry out confscation
or emancipation proclamations, or to for
ward the radical project of placing the ne
gro on an equality with the white man;
and it is our earnest hope that the day is
not far distant when the American peo-
pie will awake to the fact that their liber-
ties are being taken from them, one by
one, will arise in their might and crush to
powder the infamous party that is endeav-
oring to destroy the last best government
and constitution on earth.-Jacksoa Pa
triot.
Year: 1863

The PRESIDENTS ACTs.-The Presi-
dent solcmnly declared in the onset that
il was not his intention to meddle with
the institutions Of the States, and said he
had no constitutional right to do so.--
with such declarations he gained first the
confidence of the people, and then their
hearty support in carrying on a war for
the restoration Of the Union. Once
chained to his professed objects, off comes
bis mask, and he breaks down and de-
stroys an institution which was the corner
stone of prosperity TO nearly half the
States, and then to fortify himself in his
wrong against deceived and outraged
people, strikes down at one fell swoop
their last safeguard, an appeal for griev-
ance committed by his minions, to the
courts Of the land. 1t is love of power
which animates him and those who APP
prove his course, and a tact and quiet
submission TO his acts is a proof that the
people are ready for the yoke of despot.
-Pontiac JackSoaiaa.
Year: 1863

A BRIDE WORTH HvA1No.-The Rock
ingham (Va.) Register publishes the mar
riage of Miss Lucy Roller, the daughter
of wealthy farmer in that county, and
adds:


"Sho is what we call an independent
girl sure enough. Her bridal outfit was
all made with her own hands, from her
beautiful and elegant straw hat down to
the handsome CATERS on her feetl Her
own delicate hands spun and wove the
material Of which her wedding-dress and
traveling-cloak were made, so that she
had nothing upon her person when she
was married which was not made by her
self! Nor was she compelled by necessi-
ty or poverty 10 make this exhibition Of
her independence. She did it for the pur-
pose of showing to the world how indie
pendent southern girls are"
Year: 1863

EATING HABiTs.-The most common
way to a premature grave and one Of
the shortest cuts to that destination is
down a mans throat. There is a mul.
ttude which no man can number, daily
eating immoderately, thus sapping the
constitution and laying the foundation
for innumerable ills and a too early
grave. The wise man does it, and tho
fool; the virtuous and the abandoned;
the kind and the cross, Of all climes, are
among the errorists. But there are
some who are wise as to this point, and
the number is increasing; the number Of
those who are men and women of force;
who think for themselves, observe for
themselves; who have vigor of intellect
enongh 20 compare causes and effects,
antecedents and consequents. There Is
constantly coming to us the knowledge
of mothers, who, by the teachings Of
this Journal, have been led to regulate
their households nationally, and are
reaping rich reward in the shape of
health for themselves, and what is dear.
er still, increasing health for their chill
american.
Year: 1863

Over the river they bocken TO mo


Loved ones who've crossed to the further side
The CLEAN oftheir snowy robes see,


But their voices are drowned In the rushing


tide.


There's one with ringlets Of sunny gold,


And eyes the reflection Of heavens own blue
lie crossed in the twilight gray and cold,


And the pale mist hid him from mortal view
Wc saw not tho an gels that met him there;
The gate of the city We could not see,
Over the river, over the river,


My brother stands waiting to welcome me
Over the river, the boatman pale


Carried another--the household pct
Her brown curls waved in the gentle gale
Darling Minnie see her yet
She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands,
And fcarlcssly entered the phantom bark
We watched it glide from the silver sands,
And all our sunshine grew strangely dark.
We know she is safe on the other side,


Where all the rsnsomcd and angels be;
Over the river, tho mystic river,


Ny childhood's idol is waiting for mo.
For none return from those quiet shores
Who cross with the boatman cold and pale
We hear the dip Of the golden oars,


And catch glimpse Of the snowy sail,
And 10! they have passed from our yearning


hearts


They cross tho stream and are gone for aye,
We may not sunder the veil apart


That hides from our vision the gates Of day.
We only know that their barks no moro


May sail with US DER lifo's stormy sea
Yet somewhere, know, on the unseen shore,
They watch, and beckon, and wait for me.
And sit and think when tho sunsets gold
Is finishing river, and hill and shore,
shall stand one day by the water cold,
And list for the sound Of the boatman's oar;
shall watch for CLEAN of the Tapping sail,
l shall hear the boat as it nears the strand;
shall pass from sight with the boatmnn pale,
To the better shore of the spirit land;
j shall know the loved who have gone before,
And joyfully sweet shall the meeting be-
When over the river the mystic river,
The Angel Of Death shall carry mo
Year: 1863

Mr., Crttenden, of Kentucky, in a
recent speech, defined the duty Of pat
riots in crisis like the present:


Neither on this nor any other occa
sion has it been my habit to make an
outcry and clamor; but when usurpa.
tions of power are made dangerous, and
when encroachments upon my liberty
and the liberty of my constituents, and
upon the Constitution intended to guard
the liberties of us all are made, would
have every man have spirit enough to
declare his opinions and offer his pro
tests. Without this freedom of speech
there can be no lasting liberty-the
Republic cannot exist. If every man
should close his lips, and not venture
even a word against violated rights,
who could maintain free Government?
A people who cannot dis
cuss the public measures of the nation,
and apply the necessary rebuke to Sc
cure correction of wrongs, cannot be
free people, and do not deserve to be.
But it is not necessary that it be dono
with passion. You are portion of the
people of the United States; act in \
manner becoming your high characteter.
Sedition does not become it; clamor
does not become it. Action, at the
proper time and in the proper manner,
according to the legal and constitutional
is whatwe want, and what
he world has right to expect.
Year: 1863

EE" There is reason" says the
Boston Post, "why the Northwest is
moro impatient at the prolongation of
the war than this Northeast; the West
is losing and the East is gaming wealth.
Is no: that very good reason, especial
ly as it is the wealth which the West
loses that the East gains, and as the
West cannot endure the drain very much
longer without such suffering as no
people ought to bear except in a good
cause? Tho West would bear this suff.
ering uncomplainngly in q war for tho
Uuion, but she sees that it is war against
the Union, and she will not bear it I'm
complainingly.
Year: 1863

|


mighty Dollar, and have a curiosity tc


know what it is? Dollars may be Al.


mighty, but the dollar ia subject to


many variations, and while it was one
thing yesterday, and another to-day, il


may be still another tomorrow, and so
on TO the crack Of doom. Indeed We


may say that tho dollar is the represcn


tative Of change-though there is no


change in circulation-and that is what
it will bring, like that of everything else
"a bushel of wheat, ton of coal, a
shoddy contract, or a Congressman
What is a dollarp We can remember
the time when FIVE of them would buy
a barrel of flour or ton of coal; when
one of them would buy tcu, twelve or
sixteen yards Of cotton shirting; four
of them would buy pair Of excellent
boots. In the summer of 1861, ten
thousand Of them would buy ten.
thousand barrels Of tar in New York
city but in the autumn of 1862, the
tar cost forty dollars barrel. A dol.
lar once meant eight pounds of coffee,
three pounds of tea, twelve pounds of
sugar, or six pounds of butter Now
it is a different matter altogether
worth scarcely half as much. This dol
lar which we speak of is harlequin-it
goes and comes, and we cannot count
it. Then, how different the dollars of
different people are every day in the
year. The farmers dollar is as heavy


as milestone. 1t represents real labor
all that is required to raise bushel of
wheat or two bushels of corn, or four
of oats. To him it is getting up before
light aud doing chores after dark. See
him lift it when he goes to market-it
does not part from him lightly. But
what an aerial thing is the dollar Of q
young merchant, stock speculator, or
a contractor, or gambler. Its specific
gravity is zero. 1t does not mean as
much toll as the farmers or mechanics
dollar, and it jumps away at hint. A
fast horse can haul great many Of
them, and fast women can cover myriads
of them with her skirts. A dollar in
Boston is one matter; a dollar in San
Francisco is another; a dollar in Aus.
trailia is another. A dollar in the coun.
try is twice as large as a dollar in the
city. A man has five hundred of them
a year in the country, and is rich he
has thousand in the city, and is poor;
fifteen hundred and he is no better;
two thousand and he will run in debt.
Public combinations make the dollar 90
farther, and by living gregariously we
can buy newspaper for two cents,
which would cost hundred dollars TO
manufacture if every man had tho tools;
and one can ride five miles on the horse
railroad for FIVE cents, whereas priva,e
team for the purpose would cost three
dollars. Hence we see that the reign
of the Almighty Dollar is not absolute,
but that tits to us just what we make
it, as it is to the counterfeiter, always
inU that va haya ono nm hand
Year: 1863

At the great Union meeting in Gin
ciunati, letter was read from Bishop
Rosecrans, brother Of the General, ex-
pressing the most loyal and patriotic SEN
timents. We quote:


"To abandon our free Government be-
cause we must wait year or two to get
rulers to suit US, would bo unutterable
meanness of spirit. 70 give up our ma.
tioual integrity, our legitimate Govern
ment, our old flag, disband our army, and
wait to see what disposition Gen. Bragg s
army will choose to make of Us whe1 it
comes North again, would be suicidal
folly.


"God keep US from such folly and its
disastrous consequences! May the gloom
that hangs over us now make US forget
all differences of minor importance, and
join together, heart and soul, in giving
the cause of order and justice triumph
over both the shortsightedness of its
friends, and the treacherous violence OF
its enemies.
Year: 1863

Send your soldier little parcel of
cayenne pepper and another Of cloves. -
The Government rations include no aro-
matics, and no condiments but salt; aud
the moderate use of these tends to pre-.
vent scurvy, and to keep the bowels in
order. Add also little paper of larkspur
seeds. Spirit or boiling water iu which
they have been soaked will effectually de-
stroy lice. The whole may 60 in letter
under one postage stamy.
! Let the recruit see that his rule Of
packing be not how much he can get in
his knapsack, but how little. Friends
will press many things upon you which
days march will prove burden. Take
with you such things as you cannot dc
without. Gen. Mansfield went through
the Mexican war with three hickory
shirts and his blanket An ounce be-
! comes pound towards the end of days
march


Look to your feet, cut your nails and
corns, wear seamless wooden socks and
easy shoes. When you halt, lie down.
When you camp, eat and 60 right to
sleep. A little pepper in the mouth will
prevent you falling asleep on your post.
A little pepper in stagnant water will
prevent bowel complaint.


Don't eat, when on the march, all your
rations at onc.. Garry a small vial of
brandy, but don't use it except when ab
solutely necessary. When wounded it
may preserve your life; therefore save it
for an emergency.


When going into action, don't think
you are coward because you tremble.
The proof of courage is that, notwith-
standing you know and feel the danger,
yet you face it.


Don't grumble, but make the best of
everything. Be cheerful under difficul-
ties Above all be spiritually prepared
for death.
Year: 1863

Treasury or depository designated fas
that purpose for United States notes
equal in amount to the Treasury notes
offered in exchange, together with the
interest accrued and due thereon at The
date of interest.
Year: 1863

WE have positive Information Of the movements
OF the enemy this State, but from certain indications
We led to believe that an advance in force in the
direction Of Ki2ston may be regarded as probabie-
We suppose we must watch add wait. We nothing
else it,
Year: 1863

MARD1 GRAs-Yesterday was Mard 6ras, bu. how
unlike the day in the calender of former years
Where the murnerers and neods;e that kept high
carnival? Where is the "Mystick Krewc OF Kemus p
We saw nothing OF them yesterday. Last night the
merry makers met nether at the ball nor the festive
board. There were sounds Of Tevelry for mjrtb is
longer one of our peculiar institutions"


The OVERFLOW REMARKABLE EsCAPE.-Y Y ester lay
the city Was visited By shower series Of showers
OF wonderful force and volume much so indeed as to
completely Geluge thoronghfarte making Canal
street impasSible almost all the streets in the city
Daring the overflow little girl attempted TO cross Ju
liza street at its intersection with Baroule but as he
crossing completely hidden trom vhw, che made
msstep and at>once drawn By The 2rce of the
rent beneath the iro1 bridge plates Several PERSONS
who saw the occurrence attempted snatch the child
from the angry current, bu, unable to d. >he
swept in beyond their reach, and il Impossible
to her lie Fortunately however, the sulce
free from obstructons, and 10 half minute after she
went in at one end she emerged from the other. The
water she had swallowed during the middle passage"
made her SICK but after she had relieved hc stomach of
the dose she walked of if nothing had happened not
even complaining that she was wet.


On the previous might two horses went through a
bridge the of which had been swept away, and
it required the united exertiOns of six men draw
them out again. Such some of the pecularties of
our water privileges.


SIXTH D1sTR1Gr CoURT-Judge HotceH.-In this
court yesterday petition for divorce nlimony and
division of the community property filed on behalf
Of Mary Ann Cough against f. NJ. Fisk, whose law
full wife she claims to be- A similar petition was fled
in 1855 by the same party, but was subsequently COM
promised and withdrawn the payment of a consider
able sum to petitioner The parties have not lived to-
gether for many years. for defendant had the reputation
of being unusually susceptible to passional attractions
and Inclined
Year: 1863

At present be is supposed to b. living somewhere in
the Confederacy and his large estates here have been
completely tied up by confscation and sequesration.
Finding that creditors of every kind were making
dead against the property OF her first lord aud mas.
ter, Mrs Fish, Mary Ann Cough, concluded doubt
less that she might well have finger in the pie so
she renewed her old suit. She is represented in the
prosecution by Thomas Howard, Esq, her counsel 10
the original case, and seldom have the dull records OF
her courts been reved by legal document OF such 70.
mantle interest and literary merit the petition fled
in the premises.
Year: 1863

The DetaWarean has made rather an ad.
vance upon the usual desire of the so.called
democratic papers, TO shut and lock the
lips OF all ministers who do not preach TO
please them. A correspondent to whom he
gives considerable amount of his editorial
space, is very much excited, and grows very
earnest in his abuse of one of the minister's
OF this city, calling him hard names because
he saw lit TO write Il letter to paper in an.
other city. So it seems that the ministry
are not only not to preach except what the
Democracy permits them, but they are
not eeen TO a0rite letters except on subjects
that this immaculate and pious party ap-
proves We have heard before of muzzling
the mouth, of controlling the pulpit, but
never before Of controlling the pen and
keeping '0atcls over tie Oritinq table of
Tie minister. 1t is newt democratic in.
vention.


Yet we hardly think the doctrine will
prevail at least in New Castle County. 1t
may do in Dover, where, turning minister
from his charge because he does not pray to
suit the party, and where stapping a man's
face in public church meeting By an elders
soJe may become fashionable, but we do not
see it so here