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Year: 1864

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In the House of Lords he 4th OF July the Earl OF
Hardwicke advertng tie details of the con-


ct Eetween the Alabama and the Kearsage, asked the
noble duke at the head of the admiralty whether his
tenon had been directed the question of protecting
ships-of war by chain armor. The subject was not
new one for it had been discussed in letter written in
1862 to the noble lord at the head of the government
oy an iron master resident ct Belfast in which he drew
attention to the important results which might be gain
ed by suspending chains over ships sides 10 act
foil against shot.


The Duke of Somerset said the defence afforded by
the chain plating the Kearsage must have been very
small, for it only extended space about thrtysx
feet In et gth and the chain OF the kind known as
one and threefourth inch Tee firing from the Ala
baa could not have been good for this strip of plating
was only struck twice during the engagement one OF
the shots glanced of and the other which was the only
one that bit the fairly pierced it and lodged n
The side of the vessel At the same tme it was known
that the Alabama entered upon the contest under great
disadvantage her powder being either damp or very
bad and the vesself herelf in o very unfit state.


Two or three years ago the admiralty made some ex
perments with chain armor, and the result that
with common sixty-eight FOUNDER and cast iron shot
1T was knocked all to pieces, 80 that against steel pro-
Jeclles it would afford defence whatever. 1t did not
at all fellow that make shf it would not be bet
ter than nothing and long distances, as in this Case
it had some advantages But what the admiralty h-d
TO decide was given certain weight how to apply
it most effectively for the defence OF ship. (Hsar
Year: 1864

AFTER having been cool for few days, the weather
has sgan set in hot and oppressive, sultry During the
present month"; and part of next meats and other things
decompose sooner, and at lower temperature than
in June.
Year: 1864

posed to the President and for the sake of opposition


10 the President takes Or appears to take the part of
General JOHNSTON.


Sometime since this correspondent set aoat the ru-
mour that General JOHNSTON restrained from fight
ing by orders from Richmond This turns out to have
been directly the opposite of truth and the correspond
ent either knew that it &C. or be knew nothing about
it, and ought to have said nothing The administration
really desired and expected General JOHNSTON to have
fought tor the defence of upper Georgia well for
that OF Atlanta. But General JOHNSTON did not and
would not, and this correspond:n mt that tritd
find fault with the Government tie ground that it
kept General JoHNEToN from fghtirg now attacks it
because it removes General JOHNSTON for not fighting
He tells story about General Hoop. "General Hoop,
they soy telegraphe yesterday, Myself ard every
officer and colder in this army desire that General
JOHNSTON will continue iG command" A very con-
venient cover this phrase they say, but we feel
sured tLat whether they say it not the thing is not
so. General HOODS last order shows plainly what he


hinks Of this thing of being continually anked cut of
po ions and is inconsistent with the idea OF his send
ing any such despatch. VINO are theyi'
Year: 1864

Mrss AIIens IhOIOgflph A1bums and
Prizes.I will send one of my beautiful Photograph
Albums made of the finest Turkey Morocco with double
heavy gold plated extension clasps and valuable price
by express prepaid for five dollars


No send the money until they know what prize
win accompany the Album Persons first send
their try their luck They will be notified by
return mail of the result of distribution when they
have the privilege Of sending the Album and prize
not, as they choose Splendid inducements offered to
agents. adesh well as gentlemen Full particulars with
circulars, sent by mail Address with stamp return
postageD Mrs LUCY ALLEN. box $685. New York City.


gS PS-Any person who will cut ont this adver-


seIDent and enclose il, in letter. to some friend in the
army, and notify of the fact and to whom sent shall
receive by return mail beautiful exact life photo-
graph OF Major General GRANT worth Mt retail 10 cents
single stamp will both the return Photo
graph and trial of luck both be entn letter.
12w4 MRS. ALLEN.
Year: 1864

The following is lion the Herald's " ashingtCn
dispatch:


The repeal Of the commutation clause of the
EnTolment act is In Il muddle again. The Senate
will not agree 10 tue House bill, and the House
will not agree 10 the Senate bill. The result is
doubtful
Year: 1864

! to win the campaign upon which VIC have just
entered. We have passed through great tri-
aIs of afilction, but suffering and humiliation
are the schoolmasters that lead nations to
selt.reliance and Independence These dis
ciplinary proyidences but mature and develop
and solidily our people. We beg that the
supplies and resources Of the country, which
are ample, may be sold to the government to
support and equip its armies, Let all spirit
OF faction and past party differences be forgot
ten in ths presence Of our cruel foe
Year: 1864

Almost FIRE Before the above was sub
dued an alarm was given by FIRE having caught
from sparks on the roof Of the building occu.
pied by Gilman B Dodge as boarding
house, on Main Street, only short distance
from the scene, but the timely application Of
two pals Of water proved an extnguisher.
Year: 1864

Robbery in Name. ester On Monday night
the smoke house Of the Manchester Cotton
and W,olrn Factory was broken into aud
robbed uf between two and three thousand
dollars worth of bacon. The bacon Was u
part Of some that had been collected on
hand previous to distribution to the opera
liYes nex daY.
Year: 1864

III General Grant was lately rallied about
the New York Htrazd's persistent and prepos.
ferrous use Of his name for the Presidency.
The General replied: II aspire only to one
political office When this war is over I
mean to run for Mayor of Galena, (his place
Of residence.) And If elected, I intend to
have the sidewalk fixed up between my house
and the depot.n
Year: 1864

MEDARY's ARREsr-We hope our sub
scribers will not feel any alarm at the glo-
rious storm raised in the Republican papers
about our being ARRESTED" on last Friday
by Deputies U. s. Marshals Sands and
Wheeler for conspiracy" We responded
to the gentlemanly summons with all free.
dom, and was only surprised on arriving at
Judge Leavitt's courtroom that they all
seemed more anxious to get rid of us than
We did to part with them, and We returned
the same night, to appear again when they
want us. We shall give our readers full
account Of this affair in due season. II it
does not turn out humbug, then there are
no humbugs in this world at this time. 1t
has given the Republican papers, some Of
which are no better than they should be, q
good chance to blow off steam, and they
should make the most Of it. There is q
nice little story behind this, which will not
look quite SO will when made public, if we
have got the hang Of it correctly.


TO Marshal Sands and his Deputies we
return our thanks for their very gentleman
ly conduct in this business, and the friend
ly interest they took in returning us to our
family and business on the shortest possible
time. AS it was our first appearance
'under arrest" We no doubt appeared a
little awkward, but they showed us how to
act. and we went through SUCCESSFULLY
Columbus Crisis.
Year: 1864

The New York Meas refers to the sx.
cuse given for the arrest Of New York
editors:


HAS it come to this, that our public
journals are to be suppressed by arbitrary
power because they lack omniscience and
are subject to the chances of being imposed
upon by trick When tho victim is to
be punished by military action for want Of
caution, it is time to reward the rogue for
his dcxterity. We shall soon, at this rate,
learn that the citizen whose pocket has
been picked must be arrested and sent to
Fort Lafayette, to enforce upon the com.
munity the necessity of greater caution
than has hitherto been exercised in matters
Of this kind.
Year: 1864

A SORRY affair." Our readers remcm.
Der the unfortunate occurrence at Youngs-
town few weeks since, in which ce, tain
females of that place were so unwomanly
as to attempt moral reform by committing
grevious assault and battery upon two OF
their own sex, who had scandalized the
town and brought grief to one or more
household. There were two women who
were then personally injured. One has
just recovered q verdict CT IS, 900 against
the women who committed the injury
There are two suits pending; one by the
second woman, and another by the father
Of the two. 1t looks as if this first lesson
in moral reform would prove a very dear
one before the end comes, but the reproof
OF the jury is just Cleveland Herald.
Year: 1864

Madam Beecher Stowe never said truer
thing than when she wrote to the Christian
Watchman, Little did the convention that
nomina ted Abraham Lincoln for President
know what they were about"
Year: 1864

Commonly in the churches, after
the morning services are over, every
door and window is shut. and the care.
fuI sexton keeps them shut till night.
The consequence is the air is dead
putrid, and everybody is drowsy. If
the weather is cold and fires nee,led,
some Of the upper sash ought to be so
fixed as to permit ventilation to 90 on,
especially it the house is very close.
But, in all weather, the instant a
congregation leaves the house the
windows should be raised and COM
pletc ventilation accomplished. This
is important to devotion and to health.
If sections will not heed this obvious
suggestion of common sense, then the
official or private members of the
church ought to remind them oft and
enforce it.
Year: 1864

How THE News FROM GRANTS Army rs
Srrrnrs.ED.-Tho following extract from an
cditoriol in tho Now York World shows how
the news from Grants army issuppressed


In common with all the morning journals,
save one, we rolminod yesterday from giving
such news as was in our possession touching
the movements OF Gen. Grants ARMY This
was done in compliance with the very prop
cr request made by the miltrry authorities.
Ono paper however, the only one which dis
tincty and openly supports Mr.. Lincoln for
the Presidency, disrogarded the request of
the War Department, and published as full
details as it could, II there was any force
in the wishes Of the War Department not to
make this news public il must have been be-
cause it would have give aid and comfort to
the enemy and imporil the lives Of our sol
diors in the field We again refrain from
publishing the details which are in our pos
session Of the movements Of Gen Grants
army
Year: 1864

DELIoACY.-A lady recently called up
on a professional gentleman to have a
corn removed from her toc.. Being some.
what modest and refined, she had drawn
a silk stocking over her foot to conceal it,
having first cut hole in the garment
large enough for the protrusion of the Of
Tending excrecence. Tho professor con-
templated the delicate arrangement for a
moment, and then deliberately drew from
his pocket and put on his hands pair Of
white kid gloves, before proceeding with
his surgical labors.
Year: 1864

A New DoDGE.-~A Cincinnati woman,
having an earthen vessel in her apron,
entered grocery store the other day and
bought pound of coffee. Removing
the lid, and was about to pay for it, when
she discovered she had forgotten to bring
her money. Not to have her honesty
suspected, she said she would leave her
purshase till she went home and got her
money, and accordingly set her crockery
on tho counter, where it remained until
the grocer thought something must be
wrong, and on removing the lid, he found
there was no bottom to the vessel, and
of course the woman had gone of with
the coffee in her apron.
Year: 1864

LEWIS A. HORTON, of Plainfeld, Con
necticut. has had a merry time for few
years past. AT the beginning of the war
he enlisted in the navy and was wrecked
on the Bahamas. He afterward under
took TO take prize ship into port, but
was himself taken prisoner md confined
in the Libby. When he was exchanged
he went on board the ship that was to
tow the Monitor to Charleston, and when
that vessel went down, he, while attempt
ing to rescue the crew, was drifted off in
to the gulf, and was not picked up till
the next day. Afterwards, while firing
a salute at st. Domingo both his arms
were blown off by the explosion of gun
and "last stage of ALL" was married at
Newburyport last week.
Year: 1864

HOUSEHOLD Windows
are kept free from ice by painting the
glass with alcohol with brush or sponge.


Odors from boiling ham, cabbage, &c,
are prevented by throwing red pepper
pods or a few pieces of charcoal into the
pot.


Percussion-cnps are found to poison
children, il swallowed.


Pigeons are hatched in eighteen days;
chickens, twehty-one; turkeys, twenty
six; ducks and geese, thirty.


A cement which is a good protection
against weather, water, and fire, to GER
tain extent, is made by mixing a gallon
Of water with two gallons Of brine, then
stir in two and a half pounds of common
salt; put it on with brush like paint.


Put potatoes of equal size into water
while boiling; when done, pour of the
water, scatter in some salt, cover the pot
with coarse cloth, and return it to the
fite for five minutes, when they are ready
for the table; even watery potatoes are
thus made mealy.


Common cut-nails are easily driven in
to bard wood if rubbed with little soft
soap; saliva Is better than nothing for
that purpose.


Never condemn your neighbor unheard /;
there are always two ways of telling n
story.


The best way to cook potato is 10
bake or roast it in an oven; when done,
crack tho skins open and allow them TO
dry out few minutes before placing them
on the table.


To avoid family quarrels, let the quar-
reling wretch have il all TO himself; reply
never n word.
Year: 1864

Cows SHEDDING MILK.-Some cows
teats will leave more or less of their milk
to leak or run out. TO prevent this leak
age, take, after each milking, thin piece
of muslin about as large as a three-cent
piece, and wet in collodion, and apply it
quickly over the orifico of the leaking
teat, as it will dry Immediately and ad
here firmly and so prevent oil escape of
milk, and what is more, it gradually
contracts the leakage orifce, and thus OPP
crates, TO some extent at least, rs q per-
manent cure of the evil. This muslin COW
ering can readily be removed at the next
milking.
Year: 1864

THE Chicago Times, noted as one of
the foremost peace organs in the country,
frankly takes ground against the conclu-
sions arrived at by Congressman Long in
his now famous speech. 1t argues strong
ly against any movement looking toward
a recognition of tho confederacy, and de-
MES that any considerable portion of the
Democratic party are disposed to take
that ground
Year: 1864

Whoever intends to purchase good Family
Sewing Machine, Of any kind, will do well TO
call at tho News Office. We can furnish them
at all times upon tho most advantageous terms.


PRopRIEIoRs on THE News.
Year: 1864

Advertisements for the WEEKLY HERALD must be hand
Cd in before ten O'Clock every Wednesday evening Its
circulation among the enterprsng mechanics, farmers
merchants manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the
eourry is increasing very rapidly Advertisements in
eerted in the WEEKLY HERALD will thus be BY large
portion OF the active and energetic people Of the United
Year: 1864

TnE West PoRr MILITARY ACADEMY There
are two academies in this country supported by
the government, the military and the naval.
The former is Of more ancient date, and its ap-
proprstions have been so small as to made
quately sustain the establishment Some time
since we called attention to this fact, and con-
trasted the position Of the West Point Academy
with that of our more literally endowed Naval
Academy. We sec that bill granting larger
appropriations to West Point has passed through
tbc Senate, and We hope that by the action Of
Congress II may become law. The Military
Academy should be amply supported.
Year: 1864

My train left Dantzic in the morning general Fly about eight o'clock but once week wei had to wait for the arrival of the steamer from Stockholm. It was the morning of the steam |er's arrival that came down from the hotel land found that my engineer had been SO seri- |ously injured that he could not run. A railway carriage had run over him and broken one of his legs. went immediately to the engine house to procure an engineer, for knew there were three or four in reserve there, but I was disappointed. 1 enquired for Westphal, but was informed that he had gone to Steegen to see his mother. Gondolpho had been sent to konigsberg. on tho road. But whore was Mayne? He had leave of absence for two days, and had gone, no one knew whither.

 Here was fix. I heard the pufing of a steamer in the Neutahwasser, and the passen- gers would be on hand in fifteen minutes. l ran to the guards and asked them if they knew where there was an engineer, but they did not. I then went to the 6remen and asked them if any one of them felt competent to run the en- zine to Bromberg. No one dared to attempt lit. The distance was nearly one hundred miles. What was to be done7

 The steamer stopped at the wharf, and those who were going on by rail came 1oeking up to the station. They had eaten breakfast on board the boat, and were all ready for fresh start. The baggage was checked and register ed the tickets bought, the different carriages pointed to the various classes of passengers and the passengers themselves seated. The train was in readiness in the long station house and the engine was steaming and pufang away impatiently in the distant firing house.

 1t was nine o'clock.

 .Home why don't we start ]? growled an old Swede, who had been watching me narrowly for the last fifteen minutes.

 And upon this there was general chorus o anxious inquiry, which soon settled to down. right murmuring. At this juneture some one touched me on the eblow. I turned, and saw a stranger at nay side. Iexpected that he wa going to remonstrate with me for my backward ness. In fact, began to have strong tempta tions to pull of my uniform, for every anxioui eye was ixed upon the glaring badges whlcf

 aarked me as the chief officer of the train.

 However, the stranger was a middle-agee

 man, tall and stout, with face of energy ane

 inteli,gence. His eye was black and brillian ESQ brilliant that could not for the life O

 me gaze steadily into it; and his lips, whicl

 were very thin, seemed more like polished

 marble than human flesh. His dress was blacl

 throughout, and not only set with exact nicety

 but vas scrupulously clean and neat.
Year: 1864

At that moment tall stout German student came over the platform where we stood, and we saw that the madman had his heavy pistol l saimed at us. He grasped heavy stick of ! wood, and, with steadiness of nerve which I scould not have commanded he hurled it with ! such force and precision that knocked the pis- atol from the maniac's hand. l saw the move ment, and on the instant that the pistol fell, Ssprang forward, and the German followed me. grasped the man by the arm, but should have sbeen nothing in his mad power alone. He would have hurled me from the platform, had not the student at that moment struck him on ] the head with a stick of wood which he had brought as he came over the tender.

 Kroller settled down like dead man, and on the next instant shut off the steam and open led the valve. As the freed steam shrieked and howled in its escape, the speed began to de- crease, and in 8 few minutes more. the danger was passed. As I settled back, entirely over |come by the wild emotions that had ragged with lin me, we began to turn the river and before I was fairly recovered, the fireman had stopped the train in the station-house at Schwartz Martin Kroller, still insensble, was taken from the platform and as we carried bm to Fthe guard-room, one of the guard recognized 1 him, and he told us that he had been there Iabout two weeks before.

 He came said the guard, 'and said that an engine which stood near here was his. He said it was one he had made to go to the moon lin, and that it had been stolen from him: We sent for more help to arrest him, and he hed 'Well,' replied with a shudder, wish he [had approached me in the same way but he was more cautious at Dantzic.'

 At Schwartz we found an engineer to run the engine to Bromberg and having taken out the w. stern mail for the next northern train to take along, We saw that Kroller would be pre- |perly attended to, started on.

 The rest of the trip was run in safety. though II could see that the passengers were not wholly lat ease, and would not be until they were en- |tirely clear of the railway. A heavy purse was made up by them for the German student. and The accepted it with much gratitude, and I was |glad of it-for the current of gratitude to him 'may have prevented far different current, (which might have poured upon my head, for having engaged madmau to run a railroad train.

 But this is not the end. Martin kroller re- manned insensibe from the effects of the blow

 upon the head nearly two weeks, and when he

 recovered from that he was sound again-his

 insanity was all gone. l saw him about three

 weeks afterwards, but he had no recollection of

 me. He remembered nothing of the past year,

 not even his mad freak on my engine. But l

 remembered it, and remembered it still ; and

 railroad passengers need never fear that I shall

 be imposed on again by a crazy engineer.-Re

 port of C laussian Engineer.
Year: 1864

AsPARAGUs.-It is quite surprising that a vegetable so excellent and wholesome as asparagus, is not more generally cultivated in

 |the gardens of farmers. think it's absence may be attributed to two causes-frst, because

 we are obliged to wait two or three years after sowing the seed before gathering crop; and

 secondly the directions generally given for its culture are tedious, and involve so much labor as to discourage the novice. In answer to the

 first objection, you may begin to realize mode rately in one year from transplanting the roots, or in two years from sowing the seeds; and in answer to the second objection, you may raise

 very good asparagus without going through such tedious process in preparing the ground and when you once have good bed started it

 will not be necessary to renew it in l2 or l5 wears.
Year: 1864

FRUIT TREEs.-The proper shape for fruit trees is that of an umbrella reversed. When this shape is communicated by pruning, the

 foliage is more freely exposed to the action of the solar rays, and to the air, which ought al ways to have free circulation among the feli.

 age and fruit. By communicating a conical form to any tree, although it may be rather more graceful and elegant, in its effects upon

 Ia landscape, we certainly injure it in many ways, Hooked upon as an object of profit. |The frait of apple trees which grows on the interior limbs, where the surrounding foliage and branches prevent the suns rays from pene

 |tratiAg, and where the direct influence of heat are never felt, is, to certain extent insipid i;

 lit does not mature thouroughly, and will not keep so long or so perfectly as that which grows on the outside branches exposed to the sun and the wind.-Maine Farmer.