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Year: 1861

The following touching incident, under
the above heading, we find related in the
Examiner, and it is forcible illustration
of the wide range of the means of useful
ness within the reach Of the humblest
Christian. God abuqdantly rewards those
who are faithful in little, and often gives
a power to humble efforts that apparently
far exceeds in results that accomplished by
more imposing instrumentalities


4 few weeks ago q poor little boy came
to one of our ward missionaries, and hold
ing up dirty and worn out bit of printed
paper said, please, sir, father sent me to
get a cLeon paper like that Taking it
from his hand, the missionary unfolded it,
and found thai it was a page containing
that precious lyrical epitome of the Cos
pei, of which the first stanza is as follows


"Just as l am, without one plea


Save that thy blood was shed fol me,


And that Thou bddst me come TO Thee


0 Lamb of God!-I come"


The missionary looked down with inter
est into the face earnestly upturned to him,
and asked the little boy where he got it
and what he wanted with clean one
'We found it, SIR said he, in sisters pock-
ct, after she died, and she used to sing i!
all the time while she was sick, and she
loEed it SO much that father wanted to get
clean one and put it in a frame to hang
it up. Won't you please to give Us clean
one, sir?


This little page, with single hymn up
on it, had been cast upon the air like a
falling leaf by some Christian hands, no
ping to do some possible good. In some
little mission Sabbath school probably this
girl had thoughtlessly received it afterward
to find in it, we may hope, the Gospel Of
her salvation. Could she, in any probabil
ity, have gone down into death sweetly
singing that hymn of penitence and faith
in Jesus to her latest breath, without the
saving knowledge of Him which the Holy
Spirit alone imparts


The incident was SO impressive that il
was related in a Sabbath school subse
quently, and copies of the same beautiful
hymn were given to all who promised t
learn it, Groups of children from suci
schools have since been seen repeating o
singing it. None can tell what these sim
pie lines have done or are destined to d
for the salvation of the lost
Year: 1861

S - ~~SS Va ~SAOSt'
What teacher does not remember the
varied incidents Of the first day?' 1t is
with some trepidation that the experienced
no less than the inexperienced teacher en-
tiers the schoolroom at the beginning of the
! term. Visions of former first days float
before his minds eye, and he takes in the
whole panoramic view, with its dull and
bright coloring, at glance, before he eros
ses the threshold.


While perhaps with many years of ex-
perienee the teacher is prepared for this
work, he still remembers that first impress
sions on the minds Of children are often
the most lasting. There are always some
scholars in the school to whom everything
is new and strange, and there are little
eyes Watching every movement aud little
ears listening eagerly to every word the
teacher utters. This must be observed by
every teacher, and his movements governed
accordingly. The inexperienced teacher
is seldom cognizant Of this, hence the fre-
quent failure of many in good government.


The teachers work on the first day of
school is no easy one. There are count
less difficulties to be met and surmounted
if possible. There are new scholars to be
examined, old books to be discarded and
new ones to be recommended, classes to be
arranged and new ones to be formed. -
There are little perycrse wills to be firmly
guided into habits Of order and obedience.
There is also much with which to contend
in the opposition Of parents, some conten-
ding tor the right Of sending their child
rem to this or that school Rome was not
built in day. neither in one day can all
the scholars that attend the public schools
be put up for the winter in the school of
their choice.


Patience is an invaluable gift, but it is
nearly lost sometimes, when teachers and
directors are assembled on the street or in
the schooroom. by persons who insist that
they (the parents) are alone fit judges of
what is bast to be done The teacher who
can by tack and prudence overcome these
difficulties successfully is blessing to the
school and the community in which he
lives.


The trying first day being over the
succeeding ones, though they bring much
labor, yet bring much more peace The
teacher haying his mind released from the
harrassing perplexities that attend the first
opening Of school, has time to think seri-
ously of his duty and responsibility; has
time to miss the little Charlie or Fannie
who sat in yonder corner the last term, and
whose bright eyes have been closed all
through the summer in their long sleep;
and he has also time, not to dream of, but
to do noble things, so that he in departing
may leave behind him footprints on tie
sands Of time T..
Year: 1861

As the ship Dreadnought was proceed
ing down New YoIk Harhor for Liverpool
Oh Monday, the Captains attention was ar
rested by the strange conduct ofone of the
passengers, veil dressed woman who was
booked as Mrs Rose. She was accompa-
MED by a beautiful little girl, but four
years Of age who seemed somewhat afraid
Of her, and acted in a manner quite mex
plieable. Concluding that she was insane,
the Captain placed the woman and her
baggage on board a tug boat to return to the
city, and proceeded on his way She was
closely watched by the pilot Of the tug,
and when off Staten Island the woman, ap-
parently, raised the little girfin her arms
and deliberately threw her overheard. The
pilot stopped the boat, and without hesita-
tlon jumped overheard, saving the poor
child from watery grave. The woman
was then Plaaed where she could do no in
jury.


On arriving in New York, the woman
was questioned by the police, who got the
following story from her:


Her name is Mary Monroe, and she is
married The child is not her own nor
her husbands, but the man wished it de-
stroyed because the girl was entitled to
some property which would revert to him
in case of her death. He had sent them
away in order to get lid of the child, and
she had thrown the girl overheard because
she knew that its destruction only was de-
sired Beyond this the would be murder
er has nothing to say
Year: 1861

'Saoear Hin, and Let Him Go,-The
best piece of satire upon the lenieney OBJ
served by the authorities in reference to
rebels found committing depradations, is
in the shape of story which is told, We
believe by Governor Pierpont AS the sto-
ry goes, some of the soldiers in General
Cox 8 camp, down in Kanahwa, recently
caught large rattlesnake. The snake
manifested most mischievous disposition
swapping and thrusting out his forked
tongue at all who came near him. The
boys at last got tired of the reptile, and as
nobody wanted such dangerous compan-
ion, the question arose, what shall we dc
with him? This question was propoundcd
several times without an answer, when a
half drunken soldier, who was lying near
upon his back, rolled oyer upon his side,
and relieved his companions by quietly re-
marking Damn it, swear him and let him
go -
Year: 1861

ing the place, will fit about within few
feet, seeming greatly distressed


This bird is five inches long; the general
color above is BLACK, CLOSED with blue; the
sides of the breast, part of the wings and
tail, Of a fine orange, and the under parts
white.
Year: 1861

Declaration of Treason.


Threats were made the other day in
Dayton to mob the Daily Empire, owned by
Gen. Vallandigham, the Congressman from
Montgomery County, on account of an
offensive editorial, but the editor reinserted
the article on Tuesday, and expressed his
determination to adhere to the Anti Admin
istration cause, if need be, at swords points.
The article is as follows, and, while we read
it, we blush to think it appeared in an Ohio
psper


Civil war is at last upon US, by the act of
the Lincoln Administration, and as the
natural result of the election of Lincoln.
The 'irrepressible conflict has eliminated
at last in its bitter fruits. Coercion, so lately
denounced all over the country and aban
doned by the Lincoln Administration, has
been commenced. "The master. stroke of
policy" of evacuating Fort Sumter, has
given way TO fruitless and bloody attempt
TO re, enforce it. The result now will be the
immediate Secession of Virginia, and the
Secession soon after of all the other slave
States, with the loss of the Capital of the
United States. This will end the civil war
in the disgrace of the present Administra-
tion. 1t can not last long in any event at
present, though it may lead to occasional
hostilities hereafter, and hopeless disunion
forever.


Having taken our own position in the
beginning against the policy Of eoercing we
intend to stand by it to the end. Whatever
others may do, we stand firm and immova-
BILE against men or money for civil war.
The people will at last again be with us. Let
our Democratic contemporaries trust the
people and not be carried away. The war
can not and will not last long. The coercion
policy must and will be abandoned. Stand
finn all along the line. Let the watch-wor
be "Compromise but no coerciOn-no war"
Year: 1861

We find the following statement of the
piratical intentions of the rebels in the No
bile (Ala.) Advertiser of April 4


We have no vast shipping interest to be
imperiled. We have no empire of the sea to
defend. We are not vulnerable on the
ocean, but Lincoln's people are-most vul-
nerable. The sails of their shipping whiten
every sea, and the navigation interests of
that country involve an Importance to its
citizens second only to the importance of
the cotton interest with US. The destruction
of that would be, to the considerable section
of country which thriVes by it, as the de-
struction of the entire cotton interest would
be to this. To destroy that interest would
impoverish almost as many in the Eastern
and Northern States as the annihilation of
the negroes and cotton plantations would in
the South. These can not be attacked, but
the shipping can. There is no sea on which
the ships of New England and New York do
not cluster thickly, each one rich prize for
the daring privateer.


Let the note of war be sounded, and soon
hundreds of crafts, bearing letters of maruue
from the Confederacy, would be securing the
ocean TO prey upon the defeaseless commerce of
Lincoln'S people. The mercenary down.
easter who goes slave-trading in his clipper,
the Spaniard, the Englishman, the French
man, the Italian, all would be among those
taking out letters of marque, and working
in our behalf for their own profit. The en-
emy could not retaliate in kind. We have
no shipping, so to speak, to capture. English
and French shipping will be doing our car
rying, and unless Lincoln be at war with
those powers, their ships can not be captured
by craft under his flag and if they were
captured, he would be at war with them
very soon. So, should we come to blows
with the United States, navy would be
improvised for us ct once; a navy universal
through the waters of the world, daring,
reckless and terocious in its plInder. seeking
7odrfdre on the most vulnerable as well as
valuable interest of Lincoln's nation.


We do not commend privateering. Nei-
ther do we commend war. It is said that
privateering is little better than piracy
We can see no difference in the cases OF a
merchantmen being captured by a man. Of
war or by priVateer. She is the prize of
war in either case, and for the profit of the
csptors. IfLincoln makes war on us he will
have work enough for his little navy with
out attempting to blockade our ports. He
will need it all TO guard merely the gates of
his own ports, and drive off the fleet of pri-
vateers which will hover around to pounce
on every vessel which shows itself outward
or inward bound.
Year: 1861

Sundays New Orleans Delta says:


Not since the news first reached this city
of the great victories obtained by General
Taylor over the Mexicans on the Rio Grande,
at the beginning of the Mexican war, have
we witnessed such manifestations of universal
patriotic Joy fulness as were exhibited by all
classes of people yesterday, as the intelli-
gence of the capture of Fort Sumter was
diffused through the city. All business was
suspended, all other topics discarded, and
nothing was talked of or thought of, but this
first triumph of the South over the insolent
foreign invader, who has sent his myrmidons
to subdue and dishonor free and gallant
people. When the fact of the surrender of
the fort became known, the joy was un-
bounded. Our volunteers, who were under
aims and in uniform during the day, await
ing the signal to assemble, in conformity to
orders from the Governor, were fred with
new zeal by this victory. The enthusiasm
extended to the women and children, and
the negroes.


What added to the general Joy and pride
of eur people, was the fact that the COM
mander of the Confederate forces in this first
engagement was creole of LouisiAna---One
of our own citizens. General Beauregard,
who was selected by our soldier President
for this important duty, is endeared TO our
people by his many noble qualities. When
he was designated for this command, all who
knew him felt assured that he would reflect
honor upon his native State. Should the
war which has been so rashly inaugurated
by the Black Republican Government be
persisted in, this distinguished Louisianian
will give other and still more brilliant proofs
Of his high soldierly qualities.
Year: 1861

still small voice Of conviction and earnest
purpose, would touch all hearts North and
South with electric force, and would be
worth thousands of soldiers to the Union
cause. No appeal of Peter the Hermit sv.
or met such q response as awaits this com.
ing voice. He sought merely to snatch q
sepulchre from . nation, but we seek %
save . nation from sepulchre.


The slave would hail it as "glad tidings
Of great joy All his sympathies and
activities would be enlisted at once in ouI
behalf, and invaluable aid and information
saving perhaps thousands of lives, would
be received as, 1--WE go marching co."


To the leaders in rebellion the effect
would be much like the pouring out Of the
fifth vial of apocalyptic wrath upon the
seat Of the beast, filling his kingdom with
darkness.


Secession sympathizers at the North
would be awed into silence by the moral
sublimity of such a sight.


Il would meet with opposition in GER
tain quarters of the slave states that re-
main loyal. Butt woxld come only from
those wdo love slaverg better than the Un-
ion; they are false friends: let them betake
themselves where they beloug-to the en-
emy-leaving a clear field. Such an an
nouncement once made would be immense
" popular. As it was with the first Dec
lara,ion, so would it be with this; called
premature" before accomplished, but au-
nounced, it became ahe purpose of q great
people.


l have hope of this result. The nation
al heart to-day calls for final settlement
OF the slavery question upon the enduring
basis of justice and everlasting right. 1t
must be that the Administration, the ar
my, or the people will see this fact and
dare act upon it.


But there is such thing as letting the
golden moment pass by delay. The fu-
ture is uncertain, to-day is ours. But
whatever the result may be, to slave
holding, slave-hunting government with
new guarantees and new fetters and new
degradations, never will submit.


A. B. B.
Year: 1861




A portion of the citizens assembled at the Court
House last evening the 3Oth) for the purpose Of
ganizng into Cavalry Company


On motion of r. H. Cowan Esq, J. A. Baker was
called to the Chair and John D. Barry requested to
act Secretary The following Resolutions were then
adopted


On motion of MIR. Fremont,


Resolred, That We do now change the original plan
organization and form ourselves into Troop of Horse
Artillery to be armed and equipped such st the expense
of the State. -
ResoEUed That Committee be appointed by the Chalr,
proceed to Raleigh, the organization com
peted and apply the Governor for the proper arms and
equipment and the Legislature for such material aid as
the organization of such force may require and the Leg
isiature be justified in granting.


la support of the above resolutions, MIR. Fremont
explained the object of the change as follows:


While Horse Artillery possessed all the essential elements
of Cauay as force for sudden and rapid movements,
while it would be equally efficient for purposes Of mounted
patrol of need had the additional advantage OF
being most efficient of service Artillery Armed
as should be- with two four brass sixpounder guns
wi the complement of casons, each carriage drawn by
four horses and driven by Positions for battery OF ma
neuure perhaps the most efficient arm IN connection
with Cavalry and other light troops that could pe prougn
into the field.
Year: 1861

OLD STAND.
IA THE SUBSCRIBER takes this method of returning
R her sincere thanks to her friends for the


liberal patronage her house has received for the past
few years. and would respectfully inform the public that
she prepared accommodate Boarderseher Transient
or Regulation the most liberal terms.


Her house being situated the South side of Chestnut
street, below Front is n convenient location to business
Her table will all times be found amply provided with
the best the market affords Her kept in the best
possible manner rendering every comfort and convenience
to her guest in her power.


continuance of public patronage respectfully solicit
ed MARY S. NcCALEB.
December IL, l860-dtf.
Year: 1861

At the Academy of Music, on Friday night Dan
Rice had grand complimentary benefit, the chief
nstigators of the same being his brethren of the
Independent Order of the Sons of Malta. The
house was crowded. and the performances were in
every respect great. ...... .. ....,.


When Dan was in the midst Of his chief act, a
crowd of gentlemen appeared, standing in the
parquette, at the edge of the ring, and called him.
He came forward, listened to a handsome speech
from the spokesman, Mr.. Jacobs, and received
from his hand morocco case containing beauti-
ful gold emblem of the Order Of the |. 0. S. II.
Dan pinned the ornament on his left breast, and
though dressed in his character of clown, made a
responsive speech, the earnestness of which could
not be disguised or its truth denied. In conclud-
ing Dan spoke of his Vcissitudes as Snowman,
his ups and downs here and elsewhere, and par.
ticularly did he dwell upon the kind and generous
treatment he received here some years ago, when
deeply in debt, he left this city with his " one
horse show" 1t was the first serious speech We
ever heard Dan make, and we were sorry the
whole town could not be there to heal it.


Dan gave his last performance at the Academy
last night. Tonight and tomorrow he and hi
great company will appear under canvas on thu
Railroad, in the Third District; after that he vii
be off to Algiers, Carollton, and other inland part
of this freshly foreign country. To our friends il
the Third District we recommend Dan Rice and hi
| great show most cordially.
Year: 1861

Young man named Aldg6 a dry-goods mer
chant and a member of one of the companies Of
the Chasseursa-P Pied, declares that on Friday
night he was stopped and shot at by party of
men at the corner of st. Peter and st. Claude
streets, without cause rprovoeaton. He had just
come out of the armory of his company, at that
corner, (formerly the Globe Ball-room) and was
quietly passing along when he was ordered to halt,
and shot at, but luckily not hit. He ran back into
the armory, notified his comrades of what had hap
pened, and crowd of these comrades going out
with him, were met by the shooting party, who
stood their ground and said they were the citizen
patrol. Mr. Aldig6, as we hear, afterwards hunted
up the captain of that company, said to be Mr..
Robin, druggist, corner of ST. Ann and Villtr6
streets, and complained of the treatment he had
received. Mr.. Robin told him that if he had been
stopped and shot at as he alleged be (9obin)
would hold himself responsible for it. The young
man afterward went to Recorder BlaGhe to COM
plain about it. Whether warrant was issued or
not, we did not hear.


Citizen patrol companies have been and are in
the nightly habit of patrollng their respective
parts of the city; some Of them have done not a
little good service in quelling drunken disturbances
and arresting suspicious characters and vagrants
and they will continue to do well, SO long as they
go this far and no farther. They have no right
however, that we can see. to challenge a respect
able citizen passing quietly along, when they have
gaslght to see who he is or to shoot at him if he
does not stop instantly at the word. Mr.. Aldigt
declares that he was thus treated, and by some oi
the patrol of that part of city. He may, however
be mistaken; and, for the sake of the patrol com
panies, we hope he is.
Year: 1861

The drayman, John Ryan, who drove over a
young girl two or three days ago, at the corner OF
Canal and St. Charles street. was yesterday released
on bail by Recorder Emerson, the child being de-
clared out of danger. A gentleman who witnessed
the accident says it was purely an accident; that
Ryan was pulling his mules around to avoid COLI
sion with an omnibus that suddenly came out OF St.
Charles street, and pulled so hard that his lines
broke and he fell off the dray and came near being
killed himself; also that the girl, who is an apple
peddler, was, according to her custom, sitting in a
dangerous place, against which she had previously
been cautioned that is, on the street outer curb
of the gutter, with her back to the street.
Year: 1861




The Southern Congress will meet in Montgomery,
Alabama to-day Six States will be represented
South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama,
Georgia and Louisana-and Texas will unquestion-
ably have delegation there in ten days. ArEan-
sas will be on hand in short ORDER and the time is
very near when every slave State will be properly
represented by delegates, with the exception per-
haps, of Maryland and Delaware. As Delaware has
no direct interest in slavery and as her predilec-
tions tend Northward, nothing is to be expected
from her, nor would she be of any special value to
the great Southern combination now formed, and
in process of formation. AS for Maryland, we can
not resist the conviction that she will, sooner or
later, link her destines with her Southern sisters.
She may be the last to come in, but when she does
come in, she will not be the least The old Mary
land line" will never separate from Virginia and
the South and although she may lag at this mo-
ment we believe, when she takes her stand, that, as
of yore she will be first in the onso and last in re-
treat


The first duty-in fact, the paramount duty of
the Montgomery Congress- will be to form Pro-
yisonal Government with the least possible delay.
The moments in these days of revolution and peril,
are of priceless value, We must have de fdcto
Government of the States which have seeded as
soon as possible. That de fdcto Government we
have good reason to believe, will at once be re-
| ccgnzed by France, England Spain and Russia
| and their recognition of our Governmental exist
ence will he followed by the remainder OF the na-
tions of the earth. This will give our new Govern
ment prestige, power and standing, and will enable
Ms to enter into such treaties and alliances as may
be most beneficial to u.s. to say nothing Of the tre-
mendous engine of destruction against our Northern
enemies it will place in our hands by bestowng
upon US the undsputed right to issue letters OF
marque and reprsal, od LJitlna.


| Therefore, let the new government be put ID
operation as speedily as practicable and let not an
instant of precious time be lost in sending duly &C.
| credited Ambassadors abroad. When the ruthless
Abolitionists of the North learn that the chances
are ten to one that if, in addition to innumerable
other wanton outrages upon us. they add the
| frirhtful crime Of war, there will not be in SIX
months a Northern merchantmen upon any sea un
der the canopy of Heaven, they will be apt tc
come to their senses, and, no matter how dishonest
will be very careful not to provoke contest II
which their ocean supremacy will be lost, and |
successful on land will only lead to the lasting de
struction Of their most vital interests.