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Year: 1862

Man has the power of initiating almost ev-
cry motion but that of flight. To effect these
he has maturity and health sixty bones in his
head, sixty in his thigh and legs, six 1.-TWO in
his arms and hands, and sixty-seven in his
trunk. He has four hundred and thirty four
muscles. His heart makes sixty-four pulsa-
tions minute, and therefore three thousand
eight hundred and forty in an hour, ninety
two thousand one hundred and sixty in a day.
There are also three complete circulations of
his blood in the short space of an hour. In
respect to comparative speed of animated be-
ings and impelled bodies, it may be remarked
that size and construction seem to have little
influence, nor has comparative strength,
though one body giving any quantity of mo-
ton to another is said to loose so much of its
own. The sloth is by no means small ami
NAL, yet it can travel only fifty PAGES in day;
worm crawls only five, inches in fifty sec
onds; but a lady. bird can fly twenty MILL On
times its own length in less than an hour
An elk can run mile and half in seven
minutes; an antelope mile in minute; the


wild mule Of Tartary has speed even great
or than that. An eagle can fly eighteen leagues
an hour, and a canary falcon can reach two
hundred and fifty leagues in the short space
of sixteen hours. A violent wind travels six.
ty miles an hour; sound one thousand, one
hundred and forty-two English feet in sec
ond.
Year: 1862

~ In Deleware, parties arc dividing on the
Emancipation Message Of the President


Judge Fisher, the present able representative
Of that state In Congress, will probably be the
candidate Of the Emancipation party for Cor
aFnnr
Year: 1862

HOME CouRTEsIEs.-In tue home in
itercourse it should be remembered that
each one has his place and his part. A
happy and pleasant home is an impossibillty
where any one Sights his duty. Home is
not place where you are to eosset your
own fancies, or be entertained by the rest
You have no right to sit down listless and
dull, and say, Come, amuse me, and see
how pleasant you can make home You
have no right to complain that home is un.
genial till you are sure that you lave tried
your best to make it genial. The men who
complain of homes are mostly those of whom
the homes complain, men whose dignity is
offended at the bare suggestion that they
have something to do toward making il
pleasant. Home is not mere place of en-
tertainment, sort Of tavern, and he who
turns to it for entertainment merely deser-
yes TO be disappointed. Hast thou nothing
to do, oh, man but to throw thyseif upon
sofa, or monopolize the easiest chair, and,
holding back all thine own information, de-
mand that wife and children amuse thee
or wilt thou go moodily out to club or store,
declaring that thou wilt not stay where so
little is done for thee And shall the young
man say, My sisters do nothing to make
home pleasant to me, when he has done
nothing to make home pleasant to them P
do not think the different members Of a
home realize how much the pleasant, profit
able intercourse of home depends on each,
or how hard il is when one and another
hang back for the rest TO supply the def
ciency.-Rer. j. +. ". Ware.
Year: 1862

TEE ROAD TO WEALTH.-We fear tlrat
some-indeed, but few-of our merchants
have yet found found the true road to wealth..
To those who would be acquainted with il,
we commend the following extract from tho
New York correspondence Of the Boston
Jeurael. The experience of the ssold school,
New York merchant is but an example wor-
thy of imitation by many Of our country
merchants, who, with no greater outlay for
rents and clerks salaries, might as well be
ION the high road to wealth" as plodding
along in their ''snug and safe" business
The people depend on printers ink for their
information, and the merchant who avails
himself Of that indispensable means Of COM
municating with the public is but wise for
his own interest -


"a merchant of New York has been do
ing business in Maiden Lane for years.
snug and safe one. He was Of the old school.
He disdained to call in the aid Of anv new
tangled modes to control trade. Every tub
must stand on its own bottom. He asked
nothing ofthe Press. He would not thank
any editor in the land to give him all the
puffs and lacdation he could put in his col
umns. But trade run away from him. His
wares would not sell. He was man Of
sense. The war came on and he was about
used up. He saw that men who advertised
had business, and money spent in this way
was like seed corn. He sent out a few
went on from paragraph to column. He
now advertises more than any other man ia
New York, except Bonner. ! have seen
an entire column in the Journal, with his
name added to it. saw him yesterday
He told me of the astonishing revolution in
his irade-that he had more to do than he
could possibly turn out. He is on the high
road to wealth through the liberal use Of
the press. Vire Ia Printer Z"
Year: 1862

SAVING FOR OLD AGE.-No one denies
that it is wise to make provision for old
age, but We are not all agreed as to the
kind Of provisions it is best to lay in
Certainly we shall want little money,
for a destitute old man is indeed a sorry
sight, and suggests to every one the sus,
picion that his life has been foolshly il
not wickedly spent. Yes, save money by
all means. But an old man needs Just
that particular kind of strength which
young men are most apt to waste. Many
i foo ish young fellow will throw away on
holiday certain amount Of nervous en-
crgy, which he will never feel the want
OF until he is seventy, and then how much
he will want it 1t is curious, but true,
that bottle of champagne at twenty may
intensity the rheumatism at three score.
1t is fact, that everlasting the eyes at
fourteen may necessitate the use of spec
tacles at forty instead of eighty. We ad-
wise our young readers to be saving of
their health for their old age, for the
maxim holds good with regard to health
as to mOney-waSte not, want not. 1t is
the greatest mistake to suppose that any
violation of the laws of health can escape
its penalty.


Nature forgives no sin, no error. She
let's off the offender fifty years, some
times, but she catches him at last; and
intiicts the punishment just when, just
where, just how he feels it most Save
up for old age. but save more than mon
ey; save health, save honor, knowledge
save the recollection Of good deeds and
innocent pleasures; save pure thoughts,
save friends, save love. Save rich stores
of that kind of wealth which time cannot
diminish, nor death take away.
Year: 1862

A writer in the Now York Leader, In .
sketch of things about town on New
Years, describes . scene in one Of the
miserable "homesn of the poor of that
city. None but the actively benevolent
know anything of the misery that exists
in that great metropolis in the biting cold
of winter.


Ipresume might say that the place
into which we went was like the Black
Hole of Calcutta, or the rat-infested cell
at the TOmbs, or the dirtiest corner of the
Augean stable-or | might suggest the
multiplication of those three somewhat
celebrated localities together, with sub
sequent addition of combination Of in
tolerable smells, and thus give the reader
a faint idea that it was a very small, dark,
dirty and noisome room; but | assure you
it was worse than that


1t was cold, it was damp, it was very
dark, it was filled with a moist smell Of
mould and suggestive odor of foul decay,
so much so that | was forced to take great
l5Vnp~, anu 10 repent OF my UnHetE&X
object.


Presently I saw in one corner a small
straw bed upon the floor. There was no
pillow on it save roll of rags, no under.
sheet, and no covering but very thin old
shawl. A small pine table. stool, three
legged chair, an unhandled pitcher, two
cups, and faded calico dress, we're sue.
ceSsively disclosed TO view, as little by
little became accustomed to the dimness
of the light.


On the bed was a sick woman-and oh,
how pale she was One arm was thrown
carelessly above her head, and the Other
was upon her face, over which she con.
staDtly moved her almost skeleton hand,
asr|Ss HssONSsi%g, said:


Why must die-why must I die ?"


DOson on the fOor sat a


SISTER OF CHARITY.


Gently she was smoothing the white
skinned forehead, and soothingly she whis-
pered words Of consolation known only to
such as she. AS we entered, she turned
her mild motherly face toward US, and the
mOmentary flash of light from the outer
world showed her to us-kind, gentle,
self-forgetful, charitable.


The little girl bounded to the sick ones
side; the woman in fur followed her, and
together they knelt by the side of the Sis.
ter, who looked inquiringly at them.


What a tdbIeau!


A dying beggar on dirty cot.


A friendless little girl in rags.


A woman of the town in purple and
fine linen.


A Sister of Charity-an angel on earth.


| will not prolong the story-it soon
became painful. The woman struggled,
tainted, revived, was seized with convul-
sions, and died.


The little girl was taken by the Sister
to the Cathlic Orphan Asylum, and the
woman Of this world received the blessing
Of the woman of brighter world for her
sympathy with the sick, and her subsc-
quent generosity to the orphan.
Year: 1862

FLIRTATIoN.-A brilliant filtration is a
grand display of nothing, in nothing, all
for nothing It is filling two cups with
sorrow, one Of which'we must drink, the
other must be drained by the one we have
called-our friend. 1t is moekery of life's
sublimest feeling-friendship. 1t is des.
ecration Of life's dearest attribute-love.
1t is stimulation of reality TO prove re.
alities unreal. >-r


To mind that has learned to love the
food of excitement, a Irritation may be
pleasant while the excitement lasts, but
when its fame dies out, and we see moth.
ing but the cold ashes of disappointment,
and around the altar, where once the flame
OF seeming love was burning, blighted
hopes and fond hearts, now well nigh bro
ken, and we weigh their loss with our pet
ty gains-'tis then we drink our cup Of
sorrow for the course we have taken
theirs is already drained to the dregs.


Filtration always has an after-piece, and
the closing performances often leave bitter
feelings. Filtration, if it be all Irritation
on the one side, and all faith and love on
the other. is like the game of some of our
Indian traders, who give to simple natives
glass beads and feathers, or worthless
trinkets in return for articles of value.


For man to accept from woman her
hearts best love in return for such little
attention as he can spare from the serious
pursuits of life, or seek to win her heart
just for the conquest, and then to refuse
the obligation which pure heart has lain
upon the shrine Of his ambition, is a cruel
Irritation, is base, is trifling, is degrading
crime.


And, for a woman to use those winning
graces which God gave her for holy
purpose, to entrap hearts worthy of true
hearts love, simply for the cruel pleasure
of seeing them droop under this disap-
pointment,is Irritation which will sooner
or later visit tbs firt with cruel VEN
geance. They who would trifle with pure
affection, must belong to one or the other
of two classes: either their affection has
been trihed with and slighted, until their
hearts have become nisanthropic, or they
are wanting in principle from having no
purity in the heart to be tritied with
They therefore delight in conquest over
others. Like pirates, who have nothing
but the craft in which they sail to lose,
they are ever ready for rich and unguard-
ed prizes. ...-.- 49,


Friendship is the hearthstone of the
social world. Love is the silken tie that
binds kindred hearts. Filtration is the
bane which destroys both.
Year: 1862

follow the use of alcoholic drinks. But q
teaspoonful ofgenuine /" cspsicum" is worth
tenfold its weight of tea-leaves, especially y
in summer, in many ways For example,
a single quarter of a pinch will save a
mans life-that quarter of a pinch being
put 10 a sleepy sentineIs eye. If it don't
waken him up, and everybody else within
an Indian yell's distance, then it is not a
Ir.me article of capsicum.


A single pinch in a glass Of fiat or warm
ish water will nuliify these qualities, and
besides satisfying thirst, will invigorate and
effectually prevent that uncomfortable sem
sation arising from having drank largely of
water. A good pinch, eaten at each meal, or
whenever a cup of coffee, or tea, or water is
swallowed, will always invigorate digestion,
adds to prevent aeidity, and is, besides, a
great antagonist of the diarrhpa dysen-
terry, hux and slooseness," which are the
great scourge of all armies. A level tea
spoon of capsicum daily, taken in eating or
drinking, or both, or II taken pinch at a
time during the day or night, would do
more real good, aud that without any i'll
result, than ten times the cost in rum and
quinine, as a preventive against chills and
fever. a -'


Liquor and Gninine initiate the soldier
into intemperate habits; they will wake up
love, craving, slavery TO strong drink,
which pepper and water will never do
The latter invigorates like food; the former
merely exeites, then leaves weaker Than
before. A pinch of capsicum, which is
simply pure cayenne pepper, willdo great
deal more toward warming up a soldier,
toward keeping him vigilant on guard, and
toward modifying thirst or fatigue, Than
the best glass of grog ever swallowed
Capsicum goes further, and is more efficient
for all purposes than black pepper; if by
express or privately, send half pound at
time, in a tin box. If you have nothing
else to send in your letters, send few pins,
or needle and some thread. Many have
seen the time when a string or pin would
have been worth ten times its ordinary
value. Hcl
Year: 1862

The July number of Halls Journal of
Health contains the following advice to
thoses who are writing to soldiers in the
army:


If you write to q soldier, friend or rela-
tive in the army, using common envelop
and sheet of foolscap paper, you may also
add, without exceeding the weight for
which three-cent postage stamp will pay,
as much as teaspoon will take up twice,
or as much black or cayesne pepper, such
as is obtained from a good drug store under
the name of "capsicum," as you can take
up at once with a common teaspoon, and
the smaller envelop of thin paper to hold
either.


Chew the tea, pinch at time, every
hour or half hour while keeping guard, or
under circumstances of great thirst or of
excessive WEAKNESS or sleepiness, will en-
liyen, will modify thirst will invigorste, or
will waken up to a grateful extent, consid-
ering the amount Of tea used, and its per-
feet safety from ulterior i'll results, such as
Year: 1862

We have said but little in relation to the an
nual election to come off on Monday next. for
two reasons first, we have had matters of
more transcendent Importance to engross our
attention,-matters relating to the salvation of
our country and its free institutions, and the
proper agencies to be set at work to accom-
psh its delyerance from rebellion and blood
shed; and second, because we have not deemed
it necessary TO spend time in that direction.
The election can terminate only in one way.
ABNER CoBuRN will be elected Governor by
an overwhelming majority. Gen. Jameson,
we hope, may take the lions share of the
votes withheld from Mr. Coburn, and for the
honor of our goodly State we hope that the
vote for Mr.. Bradbury may be small, not so
much from any personal opposition to the can
didate, as because of the Interpretation that
will be put upon his vote. 1t will be regarded
as indicating the strength, if not of the dis
loyal element of the State, at least of that ele-
ment which will work with no cordiality for
the prosecution of the war, the suppression of
the rebellion, and the overthrow of treason.
Every rebel sympathizer in Maine will vote for
Mr.. Bradbury, and this fact is enough TO taint
and bring just suspicion upon the whole vote
that will be given TO him.


The Republican nominees for Congress will
all be triumphantly elected; SO with the Sena-
tors. Not a democrat will be returned to the
Senate except in those cases, as in Penobscot.
Lincoln and Washington, where loyal Demo
crats have separated from the Dana faction,
and formed an alliance with the loyal men.


Entertaining such views, we do not deem il
necessary to say more. The election will pass
off quietly, and Maine will stand forth pledged
anew to stand by the Government until the
last vestige of rebellion is crushed out. and the
old flag floats again in proud and defiant tri-
umph over every foot Of American soil.
Year: 1862

sy- The Knights Of the Golden Circle are
busy with their traitorous proceedings in llli-
nois. The officers of the government have
tracked them to their secret dens, have detect
ed them in correspondence with the enemy,
and in pledges to render no aid to the govern
ment. The evidence taken, shows most con-
clusively, that the organization is wide spread,
that many of the members have arms, and that
they have resolved to use them il necessary in
opposing the government. 1t is also stated in
testimony, that there are signs by which the
members in the opposing armies can recognize
and avoid shooting each other. Among the
men arrested, are several of high political posi-
tion. A stern example will doubtless be made
OF these plotters against the peace and liberties
of their country Providence Journal.


The members of that internal organization
in this state are not idle. They are as busy
here as in Illinois, although not so numerous.
But the eye OF the Government is upon them,
and in due time their iniquitous proceedings
will be exposed to an indignant and outraged
people
Year: 1862

that glitter upon the brow of night
There is naught too deep, too high
too distant for its penetration.


Thought has ascended beyond the
clouds ; it has pierced the veil which
separates the visible from the invisi
bic. Even to the throne of the Eter
nal has it wendcd its way, and found
no obstacle there to stay its course
for there was its birthplace and the
child is ever welcome to it's home. BY
the power of thought the noble souls
OF past ages become our companions,
and by the same power we shall work
the problem of the future.


A STUDENT.
Year: 1862

Our attention has been called, by Mr..
Phin's admirable work on grape culture, to
the great Importance of proper summer care
Of the fruiting vines-in order TO secure
full and satisfactory yield Of luscious grapes.
BY stopping, is meant pinching OF the ends
of the shoots. II the lateral shoot is allow
ed To grow unchecked il will consume its
portion OF TODD in the production OF many
leaves and some grapes, and the more there
are Of the former the less will DO tho weight
of the latter. But il the shoot is stopped
after having formed two leaves, all that
quantity OF food which would have been
consumed in the production Of other leaves,
is applied to the increase Of size in the grapes
and the two leaves that are left, which are
to give flavor. sweetness and color to the
grapes. BY summer pruning we do not
mean the removal of large quantities OF leaves
as is often done to the injury of the fruit, as
il il we'll known that the finest punches grow
and rlpen under the shade of the leaves
But what is required is simply to break oil
the ends of the shoots; this should be at
tended to at this season.-ROehester Demo-
crat.
Year: 1862

who had long since consigned him. and his
whole army to the dreary wastes of oblivion.
De;achments took possession of every place of
importance, and occupied all points OF defense.
The Commissary issue full rations again from
the very simple fact, that they have them to
ISSUE and the Volunteer ignores the idea of
bidding this sunny world Goodbye, y at
least for the present


The mail comes in occasionally and gives
little life to the picture. Reader have yon
ever seen soldiers letter? if so, you can
skip this; if not, it may serve to. break the
monotony of my sketch. 1t was received by
certain captain in the 18th, about the same
day of May.
Year: 1862

LEGAL TENDER NOTEs.--By reference to
the extract in another column, from the de-
cision of the Supreme Court, in the case of
Perry vs. Washburn, it will be observed
that The Court avoids giving any opinion as
to whether the u. S. Treasury notes are a
legal tender for private debts They mere
ly held that taxes due the State are not in
the nature of debt, and that the State has
the right to prescribe the kind of money in
which the taxes shall be paid, and TINS re-
Trained from deciding any thing more than
was absolutely necessary in order to
give judgment iu the case before them.
The question as TO the right OF Congress to
make the notes legal tender, will doubt
less soon be decided by the Supreme Court
of the United States, and the decision of
that tribunal will be Gnal. AZ the notes
are receivable for all internal taxes levied
by the Government, and are convertible in
TO six per cent. bonds, the interest payable
in coin, it is not likely they will fall much
below their present value.
Year: 1862

SUICIDE OF A NOELEMAN RAG PICKER.-
We mentioned yesterday that on Sunday a
French rag picker, named Dessorne, who resi-
ded at the corner of Drumm and Sacrament o
streets had attempted self destruction in lone
ly place near Lone Mountain, by stabbing him
self in the breast several times with butcher
knife; but that being fortunately found soon
after, he was conveyed to the county hospital,
and there was possibility Of his recovery.
Yesterday afternoon the man strangled himself
in the hospital with the bandages which had
encircled his wounds. He must have done the
deed with remarkably silent determination, for
none of the many patients in the same ward
were conscious Of his death until long after it
had occurred. But what is yet more strange,
is the fact vouched for by parties who assume
know, that the real name of the suicide and rag
picker was Charles de Zorn, and that he was a
nObleman, with the title of Baron Won Klep-
steinl He was born on the banks of the Rhine
near StrasbHTg, and was about forty-four years
old. Why or how he sunk to the avocation of
a rag picker in San Francisco, or why he COM
mitted suicide, doth not appear. Here is food
for the novelist.-[S. +. Herald.
Year: 1862

Early in the last year, when civil war
seemed impending but had not actually
broken out Gen. Scott, then at the head
of the army, wrote two papers containing
his views, professional and political, on
the crisis, and the rights and duties which
devolved on the Government in the mo-
mentous conjuncture. These two papers
were subsequently lent to many friends
to read, and one of them has recently
been published, without the writer's con-
sent, evidently for party purpose. As
the illustrious Old Warrior processes to
belong to no party other than that of the
National Union, he has deemed it proper
to give to the public himself the second
of the papers referred to, lest it also
might find its unauthorized way into
print He has, therefore, forwarded it
to us for insertion in the National Intel
ligencer, having added to it a few expla-
tory notes" which the lapse of time
seemed to render proper.


The paper now submitted to the public
by Gen. Scott throws food of light on
the history of the rebellion in its incipient
stages, and will inspire every reader
with deep interest 1t establishes, in the
first place, the patriotic anxiety of the
wise and watchful General-in- Chief to
prepare for the coming storm, and his
earnest and repeated efforts to prevail
on the Government to garrison and Sc
cure the Southern forts against every
possible attack; and it discloses, in the
second place, the causes of his failure,
which, it is now evident, resulted from
the indecision Of the Executive, misled
doubtless by treachery in the Secretary
of War, if not in other members of the
Cabinet, in whom the head of the Gov
ernment reposed a misplaced and absurd
confidence. This paper, we may add,
must have the effect, with every candid
mind, of vindicating the character of the
illustrious veteran General himself from
imputations which he has been recently
assailed by presses whose standard Of
merit is regulated only by party tests.