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Year: 1862

ed. Permit me to order you some din
ner-the best the house can afford


1T is highly necessary l replied
somewhat sullenly.


You required a proof Of my love. l
have given you the best in my power, by
running away with YOU


a fine proof. Any one else could have
done as much


Then why did no one else think Of
doing so? But l have yet to give you a
proof of my esteem, and this do by re-
tiring. Suffer me to pay my respects to
you in the morning.


sOh now, ther,' said l half laughing.


He left me and the next morning we
were married.


This is the whole story of my abduction.
1t was a dangerous frolic, | must confess,
and you will be better pleased with what
follows. have persuaded my husband
to buy Grange Hall, and we intend to
settle down among you, and to esehew
the folles of that gay world which suits
his feelings no better than they do mine.


Thus ended Hates narrative.


The happy couple are living among us
yet, yeritable Darby and Joan, sur
rounded by large family OF lovely chill
dren. Highly popular among their
neighbors, their chief joys are in the at
fractions and pleasures of a home, cele-
brated through the whole country for hos
pitality, and considered as Il model home
for all young couples.
Year: 1862

BIThcre is a beautiful legend illustrat-
ing the blesscdness Of performing our duty
at whatever cost to our own inclinations.
A beautiful vision of our Saviour had APP
peared to monk, and in silent bliss he
was gazing upon it. The hour arrived in
which it was his duty to feed the poor OF
the convent. He fingered not in his cell
to enjoy the vision, but left it to perform
his humble duty. When he returned he
found the blessed vision still waiting for
him, and uttering these words Hadst
thou stayed, | must have fed.
Year: 1862

MKETHa.-Therc will be q meeting in BrJ-
ant Hall on Monday afternoon at three clock,
to make definite arrangements for the picnic
on the Fourth Of July for the Hospital Re
lief Society. The ladies are requested 10 at
tend.
Year: 1862

where arc the south ChrOlininns2


In the accounts of the recent battle at
Winchester it is stated that Jackson's
army was "entirely composed of Vir-
ginians, with the exception of an Irish
battalion" At Drainesville the enemy
opposed to our forces were all Virginians
too; at Balls Bluff, even, there were no
South Carolinians. Where are the Palmet-
to chivalry? They began the row; they
forced other states into secession by their
own conduct; they Dragged more loudly
than any one else of their anxiety to
fight the Yaakees; and yet with the eX-
ception of the battle of Bull Run, where
the whole of Davis's army was engaged
and of the attack on Fort Sumter, where
they brought ten thousBnd men together
to attack seventy, and spent months in
fOrtifying themselves, before opening fire,
we have not heard of a South Carolina
regiment actually in battle. Massachu-
setts men have proved themselves on many
occasions. If the Palmetto chivalry had
been as anxious to meet Massachusetts
Yankees as they professed to be, they
need not have gone far to find them; but
the South Carolinians seem to have shown
no anxiety Of that sort since they enter
ed Virginia. Is the Palmetto blood real
Iy too precious to spill? Are the Palmet-
to legs too ready TO run, TO be trusted in
front? Some foolish rebel out West is
reported to have said; ooh, we know you
western men will fight, but we want to
see if the Yankees have any pluck" 1t
might be retorted: eve knew these Vir-
ginians and Tennesseeans would fight
the men of the border states are a good
deal like ourselves-but we want to see
the South Carolinians try their hand"


An attentive examination of the lists
of regiments, and of killed and wounded,
in all the battles which have been fought
within year past, will show that proba-
! blv not fifty South Carolinans have been
hurt. The only time they have been under
fire since the battle Of Bull Run was at
Port Royal, and there they ran away be-
fore we got close enough to them TO hurt
anybody. They used to talk tremend-
Ously in Charleston last spring of their
"unconquerable determination: did they
mean only an unconquerable determina-
ton to secure their own safety?-Er-
| C6qDOp
Year: 1862

An Irish auclioneer, putting off pair of jet
earrings to very respectable company of
ladies' said they were "just the sort Of articles
he himself would purchase for he wife were
she widow"
Year: 1862

We have hinted that certain militia officers, elected in time of peace, should resign and let competent men be elected, but they refuse to do so We are informed that one of these officers was elected by one vote which was cast at the cleo ton. At another election only two or three votes were cast, reminding us of story. There was a vacancy in the office of coroner in certain county, and special election ordered. A gentleman who resided a short distance from the county site, saw one of the two candidates returning from the town the evening of the election day He stopped him and asked him the result of the electon.- Wel,'' replied the other, 1" he beat me, but it was mighty close. He only beat me one vote" A short time after the successful candidate came along, when the following colloquy ensued:

 "So, Tom, you beat him, ehl''
Year: 1862

How 1T is DoNE.-We yesterday visited a
Chinese tea establishment, where they were
engaged in finishing up green teas for the
market. and drying and re dressing black tea
which had been wet by the food at Sacra-
mento. The black teas were simply dried
rapidly over charcoal fire upon broad circu-
lar trays with bottoms of finely split and
braided cane. While drying, twas re-curl-
ed by hand, and was then ready for re-pack-
ing. The green teas were dried in the same
way, and then finished up with preparation
of Prussian blue and Glenfeld starch, giving
it beautiful pearly green color. A SUBJ
stance was also added, the name of which we
could not learn, to give it the fine " boquet"
or aroma so valued by tea fanciers. We took
up some of the fine compound, and said to
John, who stood politely at our elbow:


''Do you know that this is poison ?"


"Oh, yes !" was his reply, g me know him
poison, but Mclean man want him zis CO.
lori"


And such is the fact. There is poison
enough in a single ounce of this green tea to
kill man, iftaken at once. ''Tea Tasters"
employed in Custom Houses soon sink into
the grave from the effects of this slow poi
son.-CdH.
Year: 1862

A CoRREcT OPINION ABOUT THE NASHVILLE.
The London Star of the 22d ult. com
mences its leader in this emphatic language
Pirate or privateer, Confederate or corsair,
the steamer Nashville, now lying in South
ampton waters, is hideous blemish upon
our nineteenth century civilization. A wild
beast or bird of prey is an object of dread
but not of adherence. The Nashville is
both-a floating den of brutalized human
beings, making destruction the immediate
business of their lives-the destruction of un-
armed and unoffending ships, carrying on a
peaceful traffic upon the common highway
of nations. If Captain Pegram holds COM
mission or letter of marque, the law of
nations-to our shame be it said-will have
nothing to say to him but the moral sense
Of mankind will still pronounce his achieve
ment an outrage on humanity. Ifhe did not
carry either of those documents the law of
England at any rate will adjudge him guilty
of every specific offence, according to the
facts stated against him, and remit him to the
authorities of the nation which he disgraces,
to be dealt with according to its laws. In
either case, we repeat, he has done deed
which should make the ears of all men to
tingle, and bring to - speedy conclusion the
abominable system of making war at sea up
on the persons and property of peaceful cit
izens."
Year: 1862

A NEW SUBSTANCE IN THE ARA scien-
tifc writer says that the theory of Mr.. Glenn
son, head of the agricultural department of
the Patent Office, of living organism; that
there is phosphoric acid in the air, derived
from the successive generations after genera
tions ofmyriads of these organisms produced,
living and dying in the atmosphere; that
such organisms exist and are at work, assim.
ilating from one to another, preparing food
for perfect organisms, from the microscopic
point of life up to the most perfect animal
existence. 1t is expected that this discovery
will explain why the earth is increased in
fertility by being broken up and exposed to
the air. 1t connects meteorology with ag-
riculture, and will, when fully developed,
open a new page to the learned of the rela-
ton of the spots on the sun, the degree of
the fertility of the earth, and electrical
changes of the atmosphere and magnetical
condition of the earth.
Year: 1862

TREATMENT OF CRoUP.-Croup is an in
fammation of the inner surface of the wind
pipe Inflammation implies heat, and that
heat must be subducd or the patient will in
evitably die. If prompt efforts are made to
cool the parts in case of an attack of Group,
relief will be as prompt as it is surprising
and delightful. All know that cold water
applied to hot skin cools it, but all do not
as we'll know and understand, that hot water
applied to an infamed skin will as certainly
cool it off, Hence the application of cold
water with linen cloths, or of almost boiling
water with wooden flannel, are very efficient
in the cure of Group. Take two or three
pieces of wooden flannel of two folds, large
enough to cover the whole throat and upper
part Of the chest put these in a pan ofwater
rs hot as the hand can bear, and keep it thus
hot, by adding water from boiling tea ket


tie at hand; let two of the fannels he in the
hot wafer all the time, and one on the throat
all the time, with dry flannel covering the
wet one, SO as to keep the steam in to some
extent: the fannels should not be so wet,
when put on, as to dribble the water, for it
is important to keep the clothing as dry as
possible, and the body and feet of the child
comfortable and warm. As soon as one fan
mel gets little cool, put on another hot one


with as little interval of exposure as possible,
and keep up this process until the doctor
comes, or until the phlegm is loose, the child
easier, and begins to fall to sleep; then gently
wrap dry flannel over the wet one hlch is
on, so as to cover it up thoroughly, and the
child is saved. When it wakes up, both fan
nels will be dry.-HaU's Journal of Health.
Year: 1862

TIE PREsIDENr.-"Old Abe" is reported
as saying, says the correspondent of the
Springfield, (Mass.) Republican, that he had
but four years to stay in Washington
s'When l left Springfield" remarked the
President, was reputed an honest m IN !;
but here hardly know what my friends do
call me. am beset by hundreds of men
anxious for place, and in the hurry of the
moment l sometimes give encouragement to
people who, in consequence, charge me with
q want of truth if they do not receive the Of
fee for which they apply. 1t is much easier
to please your neighbors and maintain fair
reputation in Springfield than in Washing
tom" This is true enough. Mr.. Lincoln
is still the same plain, blunt man of the
prairie that he was year ago. He is frank,
honest, easy of approach, and generally pop
ular among those who see him. He is an in
veterate story teller; Not even the civil war
puts damper upon his propensity to narrate
funny stories 1t is nature to him. The
day after Bull Run Mr.. Lincoln found some
thing ludicrous to relieve his mind from the
dreadful sorrow and anxiety of the time.


of. mount vicious horse.


Ir you are too fat, and would like to fall
Year: 1862

ALBANY April 20, 1862.
Az effort will be made tomorrow to pass the Albany
Susquehanna Appropriation bill over the Governors
veto In the Senate its friends sangune Of success
but are doubtful in the Assembly.


There is TO strangle tho bill for the reor
ganizaton Of the militia by pushing other matters ahead
Of the Senate and by keeping it back until too late for
the Assembly to concur in the amendments.


There is likewise determination to strange the Public
Defence bill by delay Important public measures have
give way to party and private schemes. Both the
New York eves are as yet unactsd upon the Senate
The county bill is in Committee Of the Whole The city
bill in the hands Of select committee, and will DO re-
ported tomorrow morning


Notwithstanding tho slow progress in the early part OF
the session. nearly two hundred more laws wall be placed
on our statutes this year than last Last year the Co
vernon signed three hundred and forty bills. He has
now signed three hundred and seventy five, and has
about fifty moro before him awaiting his action and
more will be sent to him Tomorrow Twothirds OF all
these have passed since the 1st o Aprhe direct
results Of grinding committees.


The Unsafe Building act has been signed. The Troy
University and Peoples College appropriations will pro-
baby meet the Governors approval.


Some of tho members have gone home. Serving with
out pay does not agree with them. Others packing
up, preparing for sudden departure.
Year: 1862

MORE REBEL GUNBoArs.-It is stated in the
Memphis papers that the rebels are construct
ing thirteen large iron-clad gunboats at New
Orleans, one of which is intended for service
at sea and the rest on the harbors and rivers.
The large one, it is said, will carry thirty guns
In view of these facts, the question arises
whether the government should not decide
upon the capture of New Orleans at once, and
get possession of these ugly customers before
they are completed. We could finish them
afterwards at our leisure, and they would
navy which is now in course Of construction
Year: 1862

The MILITIA FINE NUIsANcE.-We are glad to
perceive that the Grand Jury of the Court of
Oyer and Terminer have preferred an indict-
ment against the Militia Marshal for endeavor-
ing to extort fines for the non-performance of
military duty. This will be great relief to all
classes Of our citizens, and we hope the indict-
ment will be pressed to trial speedily. This
militia fine business. has been good deal Of
farce and more of nuisance for long time
past, and every one will be glad to get rid of it.
The militia marshals have been bore to men of
business, who would not consent to repair to
the filthy and often disreputable localities
which they call courts, to present defence
for non-appearance at parade; and they have
been the terror of timid ladies and servant
girls, whom they scared with their printed sum-
monses and warrants, in the absence of the male
portion Of the family. The sooner we are done
with them the better.
Year: 1862

TELEGRAPHIc.--Tbe telegraph line has
been kept so constantly engaged to day,with
private messages and newspaper dispatches
from the East. that We have not been able
to get any news dispatches this afternoon.
We understand that the line between Sac
ramentO and Marysville will be repaired
and in working Order to-day. which will
greatly relieve the lire BY of Rlacer-
willie.
Year: 1862

The SUPPRESSION OF TREASON AT THE NORTH
We published yesterday telegnphic des-
patch to the effect that General Wadsworth
Military Governor Of the District Of Colurlbia,
had been sent to Harrisburg, by order of the
War Department. to arrest the editors and pub
fishers of the Patriot and Union of that city on
charge of printing reasonable pIacards, cal
culated to embarrass recruiting i'm the State Of
Pennsylvania. It 10 added that General Wads-
worth efooted the arrests, and took the prison
ers with him to Washington. This is right and
proper. But the old adage, that what is sauce
for the goose is sauce for the gander never ap.
piled more forcibly than it does here. We re-
produce in another column q speech of Wendell
Phillips against the war and against en-
listments whose tendency and injurious con-
sequences must far exceed all the evil that
could possibly be caused by all the posters that
could be printed at the Harrisburg newspaper
Office in the course Of . whole year.r


Is fish to be made OF one and fesif6f another!
ne small fry newspaper men to be arrested
and imprisoned for..interfering with enistmen,s,
and traitors of such large dimensions as Phil
lips to be allowed to 60 at large, and stalk
over the land, uttering foul treason at
every meeting to be published in every news-
paper? This arch traitor demands dissolution
Of the Union, and that another life shall not be
lost to prolong the war; and lie makes an in
aammatory appeal to the passions of the public
to supersede "the present turtle at the head of
the governmental other words, the President
Of the United States. What more could JEFF.
Davis propose than this? He says "tbe present
war Is conducted without reasonable object,
and is q total loss OF blood and treasure" What
more could be said to retard the progress Of
enlistments than this? Y ever treason was ut
tered, here II is. Yet Wendell Phillips Is let
loose propagating such incendiary sentiments.
In the same way Greeley, of the New York Tri-
bure, is permitted, day after day, to publish
articles against the government and The gene
rails in the field Of the most seditious character
their palpable object being toput stop to enlist
ments and to break down the war for the Union.
The obscure editors and publishers Of Harris
burg paper are Gagged, while Greeley and all
the editors and publishers Of the Tribune hail
ing from the Empire City, the great commercial
metropolis Of tie country, can indulge with i'm
punity in treason OF a blacker dye


Is there not screw loose somewhere at
Washington, and are net Ntte times out OF
joint" when sucn glaring inconsistency pre-
walls at the War Department. Enisting has
received heavy blow and o great discourage
ment through the articles and speeches of
Horace Greeley and Wendell Phillips. Let
General Wadsworth pay visit TO both these
gentlemen, and the result will be that the i'm
partial vigor Of the government will give an
immense impetus to volunteering and afford
the best guarantee Of successful prosecution
Of the war Tor We UojoG
Year: 1862

From th6 JacAsOn Mlssls5pplan, MAY ..


We hail with Joy unspeakable the assurance from the
President aud the military authorities that ancient
and renowned capital Of the noble old Commonwealth or
Virginia is to be defended at all hazards the last
extremity We had been led to fear from the delay
making preparations TO receive the enemy that like
New Orleans, II was TO be surrendered without blow
being struck gun fired Our heart sank within us at
the thought OF such calamity. And yet, day by day
the enemy drew nearer and nearer and witnessed
the delay and the apathy well the divided
which seemed to prevail the apprehension grew upon
that such calamity was almost inevitable. We could
hear too Of the removal OF the archives of government
to other point and OF part Of the
authorities which seemed to have other significance
but q premoniton OF the looked for catastrophe.


Very few events Of the have filed with goomier
appreheusions. Not because II Richmond is lost all is
lost Thank God our cause being the OF truth Of
justice and OF human liberty ana therefore indestructi
Bile and eternal every city, village and hamlet in the
southern confederacy may be destroyed but long
the hearts Of the people beat the
freedom, will remain unconqusred and
Year: 1862

From the Richmond Enquirer, June 6.l


Immediately upon the heels OF the Roanoke and Donsl-
disasters IL became exceedingly popular divert
attention from every other channel and concentrate it
selves But the truth great fault had
not in looking abroad for aid, in dependence upon
Others but in too great confidence in ourselves We held
ourselves invincble; Roanoke and Donslson awoks us
from the delusion. These sweet lessons Of adversely
have not been lost upon Driven back at point,
properly aroused We are unconqusrabe-that the war
may rage with various fortunes for twenty years and
the aim Of subugation be far from accomplishment
ever. The South cannot yield; the Norn it seems will
not desist. Yet, II the Is to terminate all with
out foreign Intervention 1t must be by change Of North
realize the mpossbility Of the task thsy have Under
taken, or that IL possible II would not be desirabs to
accomplish IL.


very important step towards securing such re-
dictionary conviction in the Northern would be
recognition abroad Our Independence acknow-
ledgsd our adversares must for very shame soon dis
gust themselves with the nonsense about " rebels"
traitors &C., and come to regard the in its truo
light Of conquest and plunder The world would
regard it, and the Northern people would learn
70 look upon independence, as far that
Csrned as tdt dccomp and the degenerate into


contest for boundaries. These considerations prove
she importance Of pressing, by every available means
recognition abroad.


We have not adverted to the involved in Se-
wards declaration that recognition will be considered


declaration OF In the darkest hour Of struggle
We do not know that the President has departed
from his original policy boldly announced, OF not
courtng foreign alliance interference he simply asks
she justice of recognition. But II this implies then
let England and France accept the gage cry havoc and
let slip the dogs OF the Atlantc let them
hevo their own suffering population in Europe and
and cooperate with ours, in America.
Year: 1862

once summoted to surrender on pain o


instant war, and taunted with cowardict


in the event of their compliance. How


hard is it to see the justice of demand


which is urged by one who claps pis.


tol to your head How much harder
still if we are told that refusing to
yield we shall be instantly shot yield
ing we shall be branded as baffled cow
ards


Are there not many Governments or
dinarily straightforward and just who
would rather risk all than submit to such
demand, who would become incapable
of recognizing the jnstice of any claim
sustained in such manner 1t is i'm
possible to deny that it was in this tone
the utterances of that which too many
believe to be English public opinion ech-
oed across the Atlantic into the ears of
the Federal Government. That Gov
ernment has taught the world splendid
lesson. 1t has not even the imputation
of yielding to force what it would fain
have denied right.


Calmly, in the midst of immense pop
ular excitement all around passionless,
despite the insults and the taunts which
every new packet, brought from Lon
don the Federal Government considered
the question decided, and, in the face of
the world, repaired the error of its zeal
Gus and impulsive servant. Tho found
alton of the United States was welcom-
ed as the first grand recognition of hu-
man freedom, as the central principle of
government. May not this act of the
United States be welcomed as the first
great acknowledgment of the principles
of justice in the guidance of interna-
tional diplomacy ?--London Star.
Year: 1862

THERE ARE NO TRIFLEs. There are
no such things as triAes in the history
of man. Drops make up the sea. A.
corns cover the earth with oaks, and the
ocean with navies. Sands make up the
bar in the harbor's mouth on which ves-
sells are wrecked aud little things in
youth accumulate into character in age,
and destiny in eternity. All the links
in that glorious chain which is in all
and around all, We can see and admire.
or at least admit; but the staple to which
all is fastened, and which is the conduc-
tor Of all is the Throne of Deity.