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Year: 1863




From the tountry Gentleman
The Winters the time toprepare for the Spring.
And much can be done in the coldi
For talk as you please, it i low just tue thing
To haul out the muck and the mold.
Then fetch the wood home and repair all the


mounds
And oil the old geers when it rains,
And when the frost breaks take u walk round


the grounds
And look to your bitches aud drains.
Your horses aud kline, which are all Of the best,
Of course are kept up in the stable,
And after they're fed and shut up TO rest
YOa'll put your legs under the table.
Now feeling refreshed by the good things you've


had,
You reach out your paper to read
Advice that is good you select from the bad,
Decide pretty soon what you need.
Then lay out your plans to buy males that are


good,
(This paper will help you to choOse).
For by them il is now quite well understood,
'Tis easy best blood to iniuse.
Now talking Of males what shame it does


seem,
That many will keep such queer bIutes,
For its dearth on the COWS and Il blast on the


team,
To raise such Internal offshOots,
AS taxes are now pretty well oil the go,
Let good one be put upon males,
And rid US Of those which are only so.gO,
Till prices will double on sales.
This is reason and sense, altho' you may laugh,
For horses and COWS and the flock,
In two generations will better by half,
Thro' males from the best blooded stock.


NovIcE.
Year: 1863

SPECIFIC FOR DIPTHERIA- "A gentle
man who has administered the following
remedy for diptheria says that it has al
ways proved effectual in afiording speedy
relief: Take a common tobacco pipe,
place a live coal within the bowl, drop
little tar upon the coal, and let the patient
draw smoke into the mouth, and discharge
it through the nostrls. The remedy is
safe and simple, and SHOULD be tried
whenever occasion may require. Many
valuable lives may be saved, the informant
confidently believes, by prompt treatment
as above.-N. 7. Post.
Year: 1863

ANft4f


We are daily receiving accounts across
the lines of the dreadful condition of
things in rebeldom. The soldiers are only
kept from open mutiny and insubordina-
tion by the promises held out that peace
will be made within ninety days. The
army is very tired Of the war, and would
accept peace on any terms which wonld
restore them to their homes again. The
people, too, even in Mississippi, openly
express wish that the Yankees would
come along and end the farce. The de-
moralization among the Louisiana and
Arkansas troops ar Port Hudson is rep
resented to be extreme, aud thousands
would desert if an opportunity offered,
The conscription is found to be a very
slow and also very dangerous business.
The people in the country kill every officer
who comes around hunting up conscripts.
AT least twenty have been killed in the
performance of this kind of duty. The
people will not serve as conscripts if they
can avoid it, and the swamps and hiding
places of Louisiana ae full of fugitives be-
tween the ages of l6 and so. What re-
lief will the coming of the Union troops
be to these Provisions, clothing, and all
the necessaries of life are very scarce, and
everybody is miserable, except the heart
less spectators and the more heartless
leaders. 1t is said that if the supply of
salt was cut off for three months, it would
crush the rebellion Salt might save the
TTninn
Year: 1863

A gentleman whose house was repair
ing, went one day to see how the job was
getting on, and observing quantity of
nails lying about, said to the carpenter,
"Why don't you take care of these nails 2
they'll certainly be lost NO." replied
the carpenter, you'll find them in the
bill''
Year: 1863

A New MODE OF RoBBING.-A new
mode of robbing was recently developed
in Paris. An elegantly-dressed female
entered a jewelry shop, and was soon
busily engaged in examining expensive
diamond iewelry. A hand.organ was
playing in the street before the door,
much to the annoyance of Madame she
accordingly went to the man, gave him a
piece of money, and thus hired him to
move. on she then continued her exami--
nation of rich goods, but decided not to
purchase. As she was retiring the mer-
chant missed valuable diamond ring,
and charged her with stealing it; she
was indignant, and demanded that his
wife should at once institute an investiga-
ton. A search revealed nothing suspi-
cious, and the dame departed, followed,
however, by the merchant of jewels. She
shortly entered another shop; again the
hand-organ stopped before the door /;
again she gave the man money to move
on but with the coin was second dia-
mond ring.
Year: 1863

arm and hand streaming with blood, fled as
it for life. Subsequently she was found
exhausted from loss Of blood and almost
frozen, crouched In the corner of stable,
whittier she had been traced by her blood
upon the snow."
Year: 1863

\ few days ago woman called at the
post Office in indianapolis and obtained
letter. She could not read and requested
a gentleman to read it to her, which he did.
II was from son in the Union army in
Tennessee, and informed her that Of her
four sons in the battles near Murfrecs-
boro he alone was left alive, the other
three having boen killed while manfully
offending the old nag.
Year: 1863




There are some politicians who argue that the
only way to conquer the insurgents is to wage a
war OF exterminalion against the Southern people.
To practical minds tseems more logical to say that
war OF extermination can be waged only after the
military power Of the insurgents has been conquer
ed, and then no such war will be necessary But,
before the policy OF " determination is seriously
adopted, il may ka veil for its patrons to ponder
the following historical statements, made by their
favorite paper, the New York Tribune, in its num-
bsr of the 24th ultimo:


Pensive people, who may thus be wrought up to the
belief OF annihaton may take comfort and be peace
The end snOt yet They should remember that if sangh
tered by thousands we multiply by tens of thou ands The
anniha0n 0f people has heretofore turned out to be
one of tie most difficult undertakings attempted
We should find equally if attempted to diver sify
Chinese rebels have been for ten years engaged such
butt though they have cut off many thousands of
heads yet there millions OF the sort still
erect and waggng Russia has been thirty years endea-
vorng to extemnate the Crcassans but the end yet
10 the remote future. Spain fortytwo years in kill
100000 OF American Indans yet very far from
exterminatiDg them. The people Of this country have
been for two centuries engaged in the Christian
terpse yet millions of the aborignes survive The Span
erudes OF the faegot We kill with rum and iiAes Yet
these two deadest weapons of high civilization have
failed to exeImiDate infinitely defenceless
than ourseve Since the Christian the providence Of
God seems to have put end to such entire destruction
OF a nation was frequently enjoined Moses
Year: 1863

is indeed still coaaitutioEa, forum" for the pur-
pose designated, but it is OF legal under the
act of Congress passed at its last session And both
Mr. Seward in penning the despatch, and the Pfe.i-
dent in accepting il his response to the French pro-
position, seem to have forgotten that, under recent
legislation, if there be nothing "legal' which is
not also constitutional" there certainly some
things " constitutional which are not also "legal"
We may be permitted to express the hope that in
due time the constitutional forum for debates
between the alienated parties may also become a
legal one, and that in the end the answer of Mr..
Seward may be as much in conformity with the
statutes of Congress it is with the reason and
judgment of the people
Year: 1863

1t reported that the Senate when in Executive session
on Thursday night resolved to send back to the President
all the nominations for Major and Brgsder Generals which
he has made to that body for months past order
that the number may bo reduced in accordance with the
new law which proposes TO add to the present number
twenty liser Generals and fifty Brgaders The course
adopted by the Senate returning the entire list Of po


nahons amounting probably to three times the number
authorized deemed respectful to the President
ihan il that body had reduced the number Of the list with
ont consultation reference to the Chief Magistrate
Year: 1863

contracted in unfortunate srecula,ions.


When she walked the street, after this
announcement, she could plainly see The
difference of feeling manifested t1wards
her by those who had formerly prof.ssed
tp be her friends. Several OF her quon.
dam lovers affected not to know her, and
lance even, when they chauced to meet
her. The day OF sale arrived. The .en-
tire property was bid off by an entire
stranger to all who were present.


The next issue Ut the Golden Banner
made the announcement that the late Ro
bert Gale had proved to be insolven,, and
had been sold tor sum Insufficient 10
hqu!date his Indebtedness; aud ;hat his
only child was thrown upon the cold char
ties of the world, after havl"g been raised
in ahsoence and wealth; and, just as she
expected TO come in possession Of large
AMOUNT Of wealth, the cup OF happiness
had been ruthlessy dashed from her ex-
pectant lips.


About q week after the sale Harry Carl.
ton saw the notice above referred TO, and
it inspired him with hope Now The one
he loved bess of all on earth was on IL
level with himself, in pecuuiary point;
and if she needed a Protector, he would
be the one who would defend her with his
strong arm and brave heart.


He wrote her le,tet Informing he,.
what his feelings had long been, and that
the difference in their positions was all
that deferred him from unfolding his sent.
meats to her before. He told her that he
l.l H.. H.. 1 IL


fast gaming patronage. and :mp'orrd her
to Iet him know whether he might indulge
the hope that the privilege of walking the
rugged path Of life wlth her mi ght b- his.


Her answer was such one a. brought
him 81, eddy to her presence, and in less
than one mouth he welded, as be supposed,
por'ionless bride


Great was his astonishment, about a
week after their marriage, as she placed a
deed Of settlement in his. hands 10 all
which her father had previously possessed,
which had been made ou, by her lawyer
cousin in her name, some lew days pre-
,io"s to thsir msrris'Go.


He was then It'd that the sale had been
but rusa. in order to test the sincerity of
those who prolessed the warmest affection
for her ard now she was satisfied that all
save him she called by the holy name OF
husband, were Influenced by the hope Of
gain rather than by any true lovefor her.
1t is not easy t" describe The CONSERVATION
Of the young fons who had hoped to pos
sess her vast wealth. when they saw the
poor student raised to the hi hest position
Of wealth and fF'nence, and occnryinc
the place they had hoped might be theirs


Time passed on, aud Ant"inette never
had reason TO regret the choice she had
made.
Year: 1863

| resistance to its authority or give aid to its
enemies, that we deprecate any armistice OF
peace while single rebel remains in arms
against the Government, pledging ourselves
to sustain the whole Union with not a star
erased or stripe etf;lced from its glorious
and time honOred standard.


Resolved, That we hereby renew our unal-
terable devotion to the Union and declare
its preservation to be paramount to all other
questions.


Resotred, That we repoSe unlimited conf
dence III the integrity, patriotism and abil-
ty OF our distinguished President that we
endorse every measure he has adopted for
the suppression of the rebellion: we pledge
our hearty support to the Government in a
vigorous prosecution Of the war till the last
vestige OF tn. rebellion be swept from the
land


RSo!rcd, That we hail with pride and
pleasure the course Of His Exccllency Will
liam Cannon, Governor of the State of Del
aware we most cordially approve of the
principles enunciated in his inaugural adj
dress and in his last message to the General
Assembly that we commend him for his
energy, courage and patriotism, and con-
gratulate the State in possessing at last =,
Governor that is loyal and true to the Union
and who " knows his rights, and knowing
dare maintain"


Col. S II JENKINS, Pres't


Lieut.. MANUEL EYRE, Secretary.
Year: 1863

The New York Observer thus forciblv re-
plies to the urgent appeal of the London
Peace Society that we make peace:


"Now, will the London Peace Society
tell us dor to make peace? We had peace.
and loved it, and suffered for it-submittinr
for years to the dictation of those who are
now fighting us. We yielded to them for
fifty years, and would have yielded to them
probably fifty more, if they had not battered
down our forts, plundercd our garrisons.
threatened our capital, and reared rebel
Cover nment among our own citizens


Now we want peace, and how shall we
get it? Shall we give up the principle for
which we are contending! 1t has cost us
already the lives of a hundred thousand men
and more treasure than we can count Shall
we acknowledge the right of any fraction of
ofour people to dismember the nation at
| their pleasure! Shall we abandon our ma
ti0nGi existence altogether, and sink into the
conditions of a constitutional mob0cracy, IL
able to be dissolved at breath of popular
discomfort! This VIC 90 if we consent to
the secession. What would tho london
Peac. Society advise if the Scotch people
should throw off allegiance to the British
Crowni If England should march her ar
mics North, would the London Peace Soci-
ETY. interpose and beg her to make peace
Did the society ask its own Government to
let the East Indians alone when they asser-
ted their independence!


eve do want peace. We are perishing
by thousands in this horrid war II is a
shame, a burning shame, that such war as
this should be, in the nineteenth century, in
the midst of the full blaze of the Gospel and
the light of the highest civilization. But Ii
IS not Ou'' fault, and We capnot stop it. If
tho London Peace Society would address
itself to their own neighbors the merchants
and manufacturers of England, who are sem
ding ont arms and stores to aid the rebellion !;
if the Peace Society would address the Gov
ernnent and people Of England who have
fosiered the rebellion, and given It AL their
mora support If the society would send its
appeal to our Southern people, who have
committed the highest crime known on earth,
in disturbing good government and bring
ing on us and them the awful miseries of a
useless, wicked, wasting war, then the socie-
ty might do some good. 'asf Il. = st't..a
Year: 1863

At three O'Clock Sunday morning Oct. lth,
lunatic named Robertson, resident of


Brush Valley, Indiana county, escaped from


his room in Dixmont Hospital, by biting


through portion of the window casing, by


which means he was enabled to remove the


sash. He had been in the habit of tearing his.
clothing from his person, and had to be kept


almost nude. When he got the window sash


removed, it became necessary for him to
clothe himself in some way before he would
start home-as that was his intention. A


large blanket was obtained, and with this sin
gle article he dressed himself from top to toe.


With his teeth and hands he tore hole in


the blanket, at one end, large enough to ad-
nit his head. Two holes were then made at
proper distances, through which he thrust his
arms. He then tore the blanket up the CEN
tre, and with each half covered his legs by


binding the blanket around them with strips


torn of for that purpose. His whole body was
covered in this way-even to his feet, over
which portion of the blanket had been turn
ed and tied. He had taken off his shirt, of
red flannel, of which he made most comicaI


looking cap, or turban. 1t was kept in shape


ny WeeuS, Wnlcn ne nad inserted for that pur-
pose. In this wild and fantastic costume he
left the hospital, before daylight, and took
over the hills towards Allegheny. On the
way up, and after wandering about for sever
al hours, he got very hungry, and stopped at
little log house for breakfast. He frghten-
ed the people almost TO death, and they bar
red their doors against him. He then went to
one of the windows, and in order to get rid of
him they handed out a large hunk of bread
with which he made off. Towards the middle
of the day he reached Allegheny, and the SEN
sation which he created may be better mag-
lned than described. He was soon after ta-
ken in custody by officer McKain, and detain-
ed In the Mayors office until the afternoon,
when he was conveyed to his old quarters at
Dixmont. While in the office he related his |
adventures in a very rational and connected
manner, and was very much amused at the
trepidation exhibited by the people to whom
be applied for breakfast. He showed no vi
cionsness whatever, and although willing to
go back he declared he would not remain
there, as there was nothing at all the matter
with im.-PiffsbUrg Gazette.
Year: 1863

| The Hartford Post perpe trates the following
| with introduction thus:
The following history of the celebrated edi-
| flee erected by J. Davis, Esq, is authentic
1t was written for the purpose of giving infant
politicians clear, concise, and truthful de-
| scription of the habitations and the fortunes
and misfortunes and doings of the inmates:
/. The Southern Confederacy.-This is the
house that JEFF built.
ii. The Ethiopian.-T is the malt that
lay in the house that jeff built.
III. The Underground Railroad.-This is
the rat that eat the malt that lay in the house
that jeff built.


". The Fugitive Slave Law.-This is the
cat that killed the rat that eat the malt that
lay in the house that JEFF built.


V. The Personal Liberty Bill.-This is the
dog that worried the cat tina killed the rat that
eat the malt that lay in the house that JEFF
built


VI. Chief Justice Tanny.-This is the COW
with crumpled horn that tossed the dog that
worried the cat that killed the rat that eat the
malt that lay in the house that JEFF built


VII. James Buchanan.-Ths is the maiden
all torlorn that MIXED the COW with crumpled
horn that tossed the dog that worried the cat
that killed the rat that eat the malt that lay in
the house that Jeff built.


VIII. G. Cesh.-This is the man all latter
ed and torn that married the maiden all for
lorn that milked the COW with crumpled horn
that tossed the dog that worried the cat that
killed the rat that eat the malt that lay in the
house that JEFF built.


TX. Plunder.-This is the priest all shaven
and shorn that married the man all tattered
and torn to the maiden all forlorn that MIXED
the COW with crumpled horn that tossed the
dog that worried the cat that killed the rat
that eat the malt that lay in the house that
JEFF built.
Year: 1863

We meet upon the level and we part upon the
square
What words of precious meaning those words Ma
sonic are
Come let us contemplate them-they are worth Y


of thought
With the highest and the lowest and the rarest
they are fraught.
We meet upon the level, tho from every station


come,
The king from out his palace, and the poor man
For the one must leave his diadem outside the


Masons door,
And the other finds his true respect upon the


checkered flour.
We part upon the square-for the whole world


must have its due,
We mingle with its multitude, a cold unfriendly
But the influence of our gatherings in memory is


green,
And we long upon the level to renew the happy


scene.
There's a world where all are equal we are hur-


rying toward it fast,
We shall meet upon the level there when the gates


OF death past,
We shall stand before the Orient, and our Master


viii be there
To try the blocks we offer with His own unerring


square.
We shall meet upon the level there, but never


thence depart;
There's Mansion-'ts all ready for each trust


ing, faithful heart
There's Mansion and welcome, and a multi


tude is there
Who have met upon the level and been tried up


on the square.
Let us meet upon the level, then, while laboring


patient here,
Let meet and let labor, tho the labor be Sc


we're;
Already in the Western sky the signs bid us pre-


pare
To gather up working tools and be tried upon


the square.
Hands round, ye faithful Masons all, the bright


fraternal chain:
fe part upon the square below to meet in heaven


again;
Oh what words of precious meaning those words


Masonic are,
Wemeet upon the level and part upon the square!
Year: 1863

How SOON WE FoRGET.-A leaf is torn from
the tree by rude gale, and borne away to
some desert spot to perish. Who misses it
from amongst its fellowsa Who is sad that it
has gone Thus it is with human life. There
are dear friends, perhaps, who are stricken
with grief when loved one is taken; and for
many days the grave is watered with tears of
anguish. But by and by the christal fountain
is drawn dry; the last drop oozes out; the
stern gates of forgetfulness fold back upon the
exhausted spring; and Time,the blessed heal
er of sorrows, walks over the closed sepulchre
without waking single echo by her footsteps.
Year: 1863

HUMAN Tom.-The sentence of toll and the
promise of glory had issued from the same
throne. Even our troubles here may make
the material of enjoyments above the circum-
scription of the earth. All are agents in the
restorative mercy of Great Disposer; all turn
into discipline. The obstacles to knowledge,
of the heart, the thousand roughnesses of the
common path of man, are converted into mus
cular force of the mind. We are but sowing
in the winter of our nature the seed which
shall flourish in immortality.-Dr. C,oIy.
Year: 1863

A stranger in printing Office asked the
youngest apprentice what his rule o f punctua-
ton was. 81 set up as long as can hold my
breath, then put in comma; when cape
l insert semicolon and when want chaw
of tobacco, make paragraph"
Year: 1863

GIVE HIM A TRADE.-If education is the
great bucklcr and shield of liberty, well
developed industry is equally the buckler and
shield of individual independence. As an un :
failing resource through life give your son,
equal with good education, good honest
trade Better any trade than none, though there
is ample room for adoption of every inclina-
tion in this respect. Learned profession and
speculative employments may fail man; but
an honest handicraft trade seldom or never
if its possessor chooses to exercise it. Let him
feel, too, that honest labor crafts are honora-
BILE and, noble. The mon of trades-the real
creator of whatever is most essential to the
necessities and welfare of mankind, above all
others, in whatever repute they have been held
by their most fastidious fellows. must work at
the ore of human progress all is lost. But
few brown handed trade workers think of this
or appre ciate the real power and position they
compass. Give your trade, no matter
what fortune he may have or seem likely to
inherit Give him trade / He can always battle
with temporal want with this, and can always
be Independent.
Year: 1863

Man goes forth like the day, and straight
way arises the roar of busy toll, the sound of
human voices, and the rush and tumult ofactiVe
life-the ministrations of woman are like those
of the quiet night, when the dews tall upon
the dropping leaves and flowers, and in holy
stiffness the stars come out to watch the tired,
slumbering earth.-Chapman.