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Year: 1864

Tho existence of great conspiracy
sgains, the government, for its final over
throw this fell and submission to lie JEFF
Davis government is being developed and
exposed by loyal paper. Throughout. the
Northern States. The designs and prep.
erations Of the X. G.. c. movers in the
conspiracy are enormous and astounding.
There is no, a county in the United States
that does no. contain men who are coop
Grating in this movement. Our own Marshall
county has men who belong to the organ
ization, axd ICE hare the proof tha, cannot
be gaiusayed. Let loyal men beware how
they act. These things will all be exposed
in due time. No man doubts the accusa-
ton, that if the traitors at the North rise
With prospect of success there will be
. party of abettors in this county and loyal
men would be cruci6ed.
Year: 1864

Lady Horeby, speaking of dress and
easy attitude, says:-Nothing that have
seen in life or in pictures can give the
slightest idea of the wonderful grace, the
extreme delicacy and bird-of paradise
like usefulness of the Turkish belle.
ers, and are really cultivated so the high
est perfection of physical beauty, having
no other employment but to make their
skins as snow-white, and their eye brows
as let black, as possible. When young,
their skin is literally as white as their
wells, with the faintest tinge of pink on
the cheek, like that on the inside Of a
shell, which blends exquisitely with the
tender apple leaf green and soft violet
colors of which they are so fond. The
reverse of the picture is, that, after the
firstbloom of youth is past, the skin be-
comes yellow and sickly looking, and
you long TO give the yashmak a pull aud
admit fresh breeze, to brighten up the
fine features. A belle, and a beauty, too,
the Turkish woman must be; for nothing
can be more Wretehed than to see the
poor thing attempting to walk, or to
make herself at all useful She shut1es
along the ground exactly ike an embar-
rassed paroquet, looking as if her loose
garments must inevitably flutter offat the
next step. The drapery which falls so
gracefully and easily about her in car
riage or while. reclining on cushions,
seems untidy and awkward when she is
moving about In fact, if she is not a
beauty, and is not the property off rich
man, she is the most miserable looking
Year: 1864

From the Richmond Examiner July II.


We have before us letter from an Off
Ger giving sketch of the operations of
the cavalry during the recent invasion Of
Maryland and the District Of Columbia.
We give below all of the letter that is me-
cessarysto the interest of the narrative; q
part Of it we consider it proper to with
hold.-
Year: 1864

PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS,


Jan. Is, 1864


Editors Journal:


at last we have again been blessed
with a mail-the first of the year. 1t
brought the Journal of the 24th of De-
cember. We are always disappointed
when q mail comes without the Journal,
as it always brings US the home news.


The Old First still lives, and has an
existence, but is about to lose a good
share of its pride and strength. One
hundred and sixty odd have re-enlisted
as veterans, and will likely be ordered
home in week or two for organization,
and to receive the thirty days furlough
promised them. So look out, good folks
at home. Two years and five months is
long time to be separated from those
we love so well, and whatever we were
when we first became "Bold Soldier
Boy" you will find us nova rough,
rollicking, jovial set, disposed to make
the most of our thirty days grace, and
the single ones, especially, have visions
continually fitting before them of bright
eyed Hoosier lasses, that fairly set their
hearts humping as they think of the
meetings in store for them. Indeed, the
! brave fellows are deserving of all the
good wishes, kind words, and kinder
acts, which they know they will get.
Re-enlisting, as they did, under very un-
favorable circumstances, in the midst of
very cold spell of weather, when the
duty was onerous in the extreme, a night
on picket or scouting being almost
enough to freeze the patriotism out of a
saint-their time within few months of
being out-and yet still willing to fight
on as long as treason can find friend
willing to defend it, shows that patriotism
is not dead, no, nor sleeping, but alive,
wide awake, and ready for anything but
dishonor All honor to the veterans of
our gallant Union armyl


The river is at last free of ice again,
but has fallen to very low stage, so
that boats which we were fondly expect
ing to come up and open direct commu-
nication with the Mississippi have been
obliged to delay their trip until more
convenient season.


A large amount of cotton is being
brought in here. Specula tors would
like to be able to ship it North. The
number of bales slowed here now amounts
to thousands, and every day adds to the
pile. Men who, before the arrival of the
army, were loud-mouthed Secsssionists,
are now very active in buying cotton and
preaching Unionism. l trust and hope
they are serious in their profession, but
it certainly looks little singular thai
we have to come hundreds of miles tt
protect them while they make their for
tunes, and we have to do the drudgery
and hard work. Come, gentlemen, doI
Uncle Sam uniform, shoulder your gun
and help rid your State of traitors ant
"a treason, then you can buy your cotton il
safety, and we can go home and attent
to our affairs, and have fully as mucl
confidence in your patriotism and low
of country as what we have at the pres
3 ent time.


!. Major Weathers has been absent on


scouting expedition eight days. He ha
! with him about Is men. The last hear
l of him he was near Arkansas Pos
t Our scouts are bringing in prisoners e,
|. cry day. As many as thirty have bee
Year: 1864

/ brought IN the past week; among them
seven officers


The Union men of the State are earn
estly striving to get State Government
organized. A convention is now in ses-
sion at Little Rock to decide on the best
policy to pursue. Arkansas has now
about 1000 white men in the Union ar
my. The northern part of the State,
from White river up, is comparatively
free from the enemy, and there are many
precincts where an election could be
held. The amnesty offered by the Presi-
dent is very favorably received, and
could they be assured once of our pro-
lection from the rebel foe, many even
down in Southern Arkansas, would glad
ly avail themselves of the opportunity to
return to their first love.


The contrabands here have been or
ganized into companies and clothed in
Uncle Sans uniform. No arms have
been furnished them yet, but they do an
immense amount of the fatigue work.


But enough for this time, and be sure
you put the draft through The army is
in favor of it almost to man.


SPENCER COUNTY
Year: 1864

CATS AT SEA -Considering how much
the cat abhors cold water, our readers must
often have wondered why sea-fariug men
are so fond Of taking the animal with them
on voyage, says writer in Once Week.
This is explained by two circumstances
Marine insurance does not cover damage
done to cargo by the depredations of rats;
but if the owner of the damaged goods
can prove that the ship was sent to sea un-
provided with cat, he can recover damages
from the shipmaster. Again, ship found
at sea with no living creature on board, is
considered as derelict aud is forfeited to
the Admiralty, the finders or the Queen
I, has often happened that, after ship has
been abandoned some domestic animal
dog n canary bird, or most frequently a
cat, from its hatred of facing the waves has
saved the vessel from being condem ned as
dereict.
Year: 1864

Correspondence Of the London Times.l


Elsinore is dying, dead-the little town
could not survive the abolition of the Sound
dues, on which it throve for so long time.
1t has two or three heavy old churches,
towering and numbering, giving a certain
air of grandeur and stateliness to the place;
it boasts q few consular establishments,
with lofty fagstaffs; its fish-market is still
renowned, and the hotel is respectable. In
Hamlet" after all is said, lies the spell that
will forever attach itself to dear, declining
Elsinore. 1t was by the steamer Hamlet
that went up the Sound the other day; it
was by the Horatio that came down this
morning; and you may go tomorrow by the
Ophelia. They took me to a spot in the
woods Gan elevated spot) where, embosomed
in q grove of beech trees, two hundred
years old, there stands a mound of earth
surmounted by dwarfish pillar, which, |
was told, marks the spot of Hamlet's grave.
There may be doubts as to the last abode of
the "Prince of Denmark" there can be none
as to his home in the Kronberg castle. Had
been there by moonlight, instead of in the
glare OF clear, frosty morning, l should
have been as sure of falling in with the
sold mole" burrowiDg the ground of the bas-
tion as the worthy Dane was who hewed at
the apparition with his partisan and Glove it
in twain, making no more impression on its
ghostly substance than he would have done
upon vapor or gas. If Shakespeare spun
Hamlet out of his brain, then he created
the castle, and the town, and the whole
surrounding scenery, both land and sea-
You may as well disbelieve the evidence of
your own senses as question the reality of
the action, which has made Elsinore for
ever memorable. Denman's 'Denmark"
may be mere tissue of myths, but Hamlet,
Prince of Denmark" is your true history.
/ lived the whole drama over again, and
was, for whole hour, in the seventh
hnavan
Year: 1864

A shameful outrage was perpetrated up
on the family of Mr.. George Geiger, at Ma
hanoy city, Lancaster county, on Tuesday
evening, October 18th. Mr.. Geiger is a
Democrat but had been active at the polls
during the day, in favor of Colonel Cake.
For this, the copperheads determined to
have revenge; and accordingly a, gang of a
bout fifty Of them went to his house, and
not finding him at home, they took the
crutches from his son, badly wounded SOL
dier, and beat him shamefully with them.
His aged mother attempted to intercede for
him, when they set upon her, and beat her
also. They then went to a she'd, and beat a
COW almost to death Comment upon this
cowardly outrage is unnecessary-titt full
grown copperhead making a charge upon
an old women, q crippled son, and a COW
but if these are the kind of chaps who are
going to make our streets run with blood
when President Lincoln is reelected, why
we don think there is much cause for a
larm. Two brothers. the ringeaders Of the
gang, were arrested and bound over for
trial one of them is member of the Bor-
ough Council
Year: 1864

ALEXANDER STARNE, is the Copperhead
candidate for Treasurer of Illinois, and
true to his party and its principles, made
this remark at Democratic mass meeting
at Winchester on the 9TH instant:
Fire hundred thousand of our soldiers
gone from the battLetietdtoheI IN order to free
the nigger ~


TIE Winchester Democrat says What
renders the expression still more revolving
and heinous was the fact that it was addres
sed to the fathers and mothers the brothers
and sisters, the widows and orphans of many
of those gallant and glorious men who have
offered up their lives cheerful and willing
sacrifices upon the alter of their beloved
country p
Year: 1864

And they would east off with loathing and
scorn the harness of party whose prospects
brighten with disaster to our arms, and dar-
ken with the victories that perch upon our
banners-a party that vampire-like, feeds on
the blood of our soldiers, and prospers on
the agony and tears of the widow and the
fat herlnSS
Year: 1864

II the body is tired, rest; if tho brain is
tired, sleep. If the bowels nre loose, lie
down in warm bed and remain there and


eat nothing till you arc well. fan action If
the bowels does not occur mt tho usual hour.
eat not an atom till they 60 act at least for 36
hours, meanwhile, drink largely of cold water
or hot teas, exercise in the open air TO the
extent Of gentle perspiration, and keep this
up until things are rghtcd this one sugges-
ton, if prac,iced, would save myriads olives
every year, both in the city and the country.
The best medicines in the world are warmth,
abstinence and rcpose. Journal Of Health.
Year: 1864

Tue great Sanitary Fair to come off short.
~ in New York City viii be held IN build
ing two hundred by four hundred feet, which
viii be covered by roof Of q single span.
The structure il already nearly completed.
Its ultimate purpose is that Of rcgimcntr|
drill ROOM
Year: 1864

CURIOUS Doc ANEcDoTE-A friend has
received from San Francisco correspond
ent the following anecdote respecting dog
owned in that city. 1t is well worth pub
fishing:


Among the many curious things here
there is one which l think will interest you.
1t is the story Of dog. The animal re-
joices in the name of "Bummer," which
being translated means "loafer" Some
tima ago hummer found another dog who
had his leg injured and was very i'll, lying
in the street. lie carried him off and hid
him in vacant lot and daily carried him
food until he recovered, when they appear
ed togetherin the streets and always remain
ed together from morning until night.
hummer and Lazarus las the other dog
was named, )were as well known to every
one in the State as A, B, O,-every one
petted them-wCen hungry all they had
to do was to 90 into any restaurant, where
they received the best of everything. Laz-
srus died some months ago but hummer
is still to be seen lounging around the prin-
cipal streets and restaurants; the latter es-
TEEN it great favor to receive a call from
him. They have carried it so far here, that
the city has really passed an act exempting
hummer from the dog lawl and woe betide
the person who should be bold enough to
insult him. I thought the story of Bum
mer and Lazarus quite a touching ono
when heand il, and it is really true.
Year: 1864

Until one begins to feel the effect of i'm
paired vision, he can hardl 3 estimate the
value of the eyesight and, consequently,
from ignorance or csreleasness, he is apt 10
n, glect few simple precautions, by the
observance of which his sight might be
preserved. First, never use a writing desk
or table with your face toward the window.
In such cases the rays of light come direct
ly upon the pupil of the eyes, and, causing
an unnatural and forced contraction there
Of, soon permanently iDjure the sight
Next, when your table or desk is near a
window, sit SO that your face turns from,
not towards, the window while you are
writing. If your face is towards the win
dow, the oblique rays strike the eye and
injure it nearly as much as the direct rays
when you sit in front of the window. 1t
is best always to sit or stand while reading
or writing with the window behind you,
and next to that with the light coming
over the left side; then the light illumes
the paper or books, and does not shine
abruptly upon the eye-ball. The
same remarks are applicable TO ar
tificial light We are often asked, what
is the best light-gas, candles, oil or cam
phene2~ Our answer Is, 1t is lmmaterial
which, provided the light of either be
strong enough, and do not flicker. A gas
fish-tail burner should never be used for
reading or writing, because there is a con-
slant oscillation or Pickering of the flame.
Candles, unless they have self-consuming
wicks, which do not eluire snufhng should
not be used. We need scarcely say that
oil wicks which crust over, and thus dim
inish the light are good for nothing, and
the same is true of compounds of the na-
ture of csmphene, unless the wicks are
properly trimmed of all their gummy de-
post after standing twenty four hours .
But, whatever the artificial light used, let
it strike the paper or book which you are
using, whenever you can, from over the
left shoulder. This can always be done
with gas for that light is strong enough,
and so is the light from camphene, oil, etc,
provided it comes through circular bur
ner like the argsnd. But the light what
ever it may be, should always be protected
from the air in the room by a glass CHM
ney, so that the light may be steady.
Year: 1864

ing of the Peace Men,


The next best thing to lamentation which
the World could do over the detection Of
the Peace men, headed by the Neps and
Crisis, was to go into ecstasies. Hear If
over the withdrawal of the Ne,0s:


Thank God for a purified, regenersted,
disenthralled Democratic party Thank
God that every burden is lifted from its
back, every inpediment removed from IFS
victorious path


The men who have been the curse of the
party have gone out of the party. Close
up the anksl Welcome the new recruits
Now we 90 into the November fight with
out flaw in our armor, without speck
upon cur stainless shield, and with no dread
of " fire IN the rear"


This may do very well to cover retreat
and defeat but the World viii find that
Peace men in the West are decidedly in
the majority The HC.trsc Of the Party
may prove a greater power than the World
calculates upon. These raptures at least
show the former hypocrisy of the World
if nothing more.
Year: 1864

1t Is not cotton alone which is high
priced abroad, but silk is very dear, so that
the manufacturers of Lyons complain loud
ly. They also suffer by the high prices
they are compelled to pay for labor.


The total circulation of notes of the
Bank.of England, the private banks and
joint stock banks of the United Kingdom.
was on the 23rd of July last about 1885,
100000.


In the year ending December 1863, the
revenue derived by the British government
on 7,O36, sol pounds of leaf tobacco, was
thirty millions of dollars. The consump-
ton of Cavendish, is at present confined
in England to the supper ten"


"A part of the stone ruins recently
found on the plains of Troy are to be used
in rebuilding that part of Constantinople
not long since destroyed by fire.


The death rate IN the towns Of Scot
land is now on the increase, according to
the last report of the Registrar General.
1t is not because there is.any epidemic, for
the mortality of all diseases is on the in
crease. Il


The cure of diabetes is now effected in a
very simple manner. 1t is this Taking OF
fresh BARN or yeast three or tour times a
day, at the same time meeting the waste
produced by the disease on the system BY
the free use of Dublin porter, and all the
solid nOurishing food the patient can take.
Cardinal Wiseman has been cured of an
attack by this method.


There was a great time recently in tLC
Island of jersey. A lecturer on the mas,
and indulgences was driven from his place
of lecturing by excited Irish mob
| WhereupOn on the next occasion the DO
lice, military and Governor of Island turn.
ed out to protect the speaker who had an
audience of fifteen hundred people, and ex-
pressed his obligation 10 them for permit
ting free speech in the Isle of Jersey.
A series of papers addressed by NJ. NJ
Davanne and Girsrd to the Academy O
Science on the subject of photography
make some curious revelations with regard
to the waste of precious metals in the oper-
ations. For instance the silver alone
which is employed for photographs in Pari
amounts to several millions Of francs
Now, as only three per cent of the silver
employed remains on the photograph, nine
ty-seven per cent will continue to be lost
unless some method be found for recover.
| ing it, NJ NJ. Davanne and Girard, who
make this startling announcement, propose
that plates of copper be put into the ar
gentiferous liquid, whereby in the cours,
of three or four days the silver will be pre-
cipltated In n spongy state. -.-
Year: 1864

A lady who was prostrated by severe i'll
ness called to her side the mother of q
young lad In whom she was interested, and
said earnestly; Be sure and have Willie
read the account Of Farragufs entrance
into Mobile Bay, that he may know Of
what metel some men are msde-win of
iron, heart Of gold, brain of mercury"
Year: 1864

ELI TREAT, once again would inform eD his old customers who have go liberaly patronized him during the past twelve years that he has sold the Store he now occupies and it will change tenants on the first of Octo- Der next. The next six months he will devote his time to selling off his entire Stock of goods. Let no one entertain doubt, as to the fact that his goods are to be sold out entire within the next six months Every person is interested in this sale at this present time, particularly where goods in market rule so enormously high, especially when they are assured that almost nine tenths of his stock was purchased before the advance

 If anybody wishes to cat the Corners they now have an opportunity as the Goods will be sold out entire. Every thing except Fixtures will be sold at private sale, if possible, and if any thing remains, the Auction hammer will close up tho balance.

 J. ELI TREAT. New Milford, April l, 1864. tf52
Year: 1864

The best Tonic Bitter ever offered to the Public. Mingled with the rich flavor of the bourbon are number of other ingredients Tor restoring the appetite and imparting life and yigor to the whole system.
Year: 1864

TIE peculiar tai1,t or infection which we

 call ScRoFyLA turks

 fin the constitutions of

 multitudes of men. It produces or is produced by an len- feebled, vitiated state of the blood, wherein that fluid becomes in- competent to sustain the vital forces in their action, and leaves the system to fall into disorder and
Year: 1864

die than place it in his power to make me 50
completely wretched.


1t was not till Patty stood beside him
whom her heart had 50 freely chosen, to be
made his in the presence Of God and nian
that she dared to shadow forth the blissful
and happy emotions that filed her bosom.


The change was so sudden and complete
that her father noticed it


"Ah, she is making the best OF it as I khet
she would" he said to his wife, in a tone Of
triumph, "See what it is to have frmness
and judgment. If she could have her own
way, she would have married that contempt
ioIe coxcomb, Fitzpoodle, instead of being the
wife Of an honest and sensible man."


As time passed on, proving the truth worth
Of the heart she had won but binding it to her
own by yet nearer ties, Patty felt that earth
did not contain happier home than her own
Her father, however, took the whole credit
to himself declaring that she owned her hap
piness entirely to him, and often asked her if
she did not remember how bent she was on
rejecting Charley, and throwing herself away
upon the most worthless man in town.


Patty never attempted to disproye these
assertions, though She sometimes remarked,
with aroguish smile, that she was not the
only person who "went by contraries."
Year: 1864

stralian bush is not uncommon, is the most
beautiful little animal I ever saw-hardly 40
large as common mouse. with skin as soft
as velvet reddish gray, brown. fawned-oolor-
cd and white, It much resembles the Httle.
fying-sqpirrel in, shape, With a parachute
membrane extending along the sides, which
enables these little fairy y-iike creatures to aoat
h5m q tree to the ground something ike fy-
ing. have always heard that there Is the
greatest difficulty in keeping these little ami
mails alive


The tail is like that Of the squirrel. with
long hair, which can be spread out fat on each
side, doubtless, much assists the little animal
in its airy flights. That it can also be used
for other purposes, and one most singular
one, is proved by the following fact, related
to me in letter by one ofmy old Australian
mates written from the banks Of the Murray
That it was fact, I will answer for, beeaEss
implicitly rely on everything he tells mes.-
He was shooting On the banks Of that riivsg,
and had lain down one hot day to rest him
sell, when he witnessed one of those little fsi.
lows creep down to the extreme edge OF ths
river bank and there take his stand. Won
dering at what he would DO next, he silently
watched and admired the patience Of tEis,
mouse. Suddenly he perceived bin make q
spring out into the water as he thought, but,
instead, the mouse landed on large musk
leaf, and began to ferry himself over by the
aid OF his tail, which he reached safely.-Lon-
don Field. 92