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Year: 1861

Get stone pillars for the foundation, a
foot square, and to stand 2 l-2 feet high,
and for the top a piece Of sheet iron 8
inches wider than the top Of the stone,
and paint it to prevent rnsting. Then
build your house the size to suit you.-
Mine is 20x36 feet; the door at the end,
and bin on zach side to within four feet
of the back end, which is for wheat and
oats, and is divided by partitions The
wheat and oat bins hold 400 bushels each
corn bins 500, and there is room enough
left, in which have a work bench and
tanning mill. The floor should be as
high as the bottom of a wagon bed which
is easy for unloading, and if the ground
is rising in front of the building, It is ca.
sy to back to the door.


To preserve Butter Milk, take a YES
sci that contains nearly twice as much as
you wish to save. While milk is plenty
two-thirds full of butter-milk, and then
ill up with water. Drain off the water
and refill with fresh once a week, stir IL
well each time after filing, and you viii
have good article always ready"


If you are looking at a picture you
try to give it the advantage Of a good
light. BE as courteous to your fellow
creatures as you are to a picture.


The nett profits, to those in the dairy
business. on good COW is frequently more
than on three poor ones.





Benefit your friends that they may love
you the more benefit your enemies that
they may become your friends.


The hotter the weather he faster The
corn grows.


Cut your Winters weOd in Summer
Year: 1861




by E.E. STOUT, NEAR BROWNvILLE-
We've raised our banner bright above
Our eountry's Union cry
The ssars aad stripes We ever love
All others We defy.
Then Goat proud banner to the breeze
Thousand watch thee from ajax
A nation glory and her pride
Glad freedoms morning star.
Wave on high this Gag Of TRUTH
Gather meath its folds
Come one come aI-both great and small =
Help Us battle for it bold.
Our bone and sineW, can't be crushed
Beneath oppression wild
The HOME GUARDS viii their rights adjust
By means that's undefled.
Twas raisedin freedoms holy cause
While freedom blood poured fast
Then fear not LADIES Wen defend
That flag unto the last.
If the enemy here, should show its head
Our flag Wen fereely wave
And with a frmness ever tread
Down TRAITORS to the grave.
Its stars and stripes SHALL proudly wave
O'er NEBRAsKA Of the free
Beneath its sacred folds, wen march
Onward to victory.
Its glorious stars in azure shine
The radiant heraldry Of AsaUss
It's stripes in beautsous order tWine
The EM38LEH Of our UatOs given.
Untamed the EAGLE still shall soar
Who dares molest its flight
Willfnd sulied name no mora
And freeman in the right.
Flag Of the free, still peerless shine
Through ethers azure vault unfurled
Till every hand and heart combined
To SWEEP OPPRESSION from the world.
Year: 1861

A Portland correspondent of the .NsiC
England Farmer gives the following easy
and simple remedy. If any of our read
ers have occasion to try it, will they please
write us the result -" Ike instant a
creature becomes choked, no matter what
with, the throat becomes dry, and the
longer the substance remains, the dryer
the throat. The following is sure
remedy. Take some oil, no matter what
kind, and hold the creatures head up and
turn down about one gill of oil, and then
let go of the head, and the creature will
heave it out in two seconds? l have tried
it for years, and knew it to fail"
Year: 1861

DIR. Edison Smith contributes to the
american .Agrieulturist the following di-
rections for preserving butter in good
condition for any length Of time. In
May or June, when butter is plenty, work
it thoroughly two or three times, and add
to the last working nearly one grain of
saltpeter and teaspOOnful of pulverized
loaf sugar to each pound of butter. Pack
1t tightly in stone jars to within two inches
of the top and fill the remaining space
with gtrong brine. Cover the jars tightly,
and bury them in the cellar bottom, where
the butter will be keyt unhurt for long
time.
Year: 1861

A novelist tells of lovers who agree to
wave their hands toward each other at a
certain hour aeoss the Atlantic OCEAN
One might suppose there would be waves
enough between them, without trying TO
make any with their hands.
Year: 1861

All things considered, the Managers feel
warranted in saying to the stockholders
that, long as their stock has been dead
property to them. the time cannot be far
distant when they may look for reasonable
dividends. The bond holders can require
no further assurance than the exhibits
made, that the interest and principal can
be promptly provided for by the road.


The treasurer's Report shows that the
cost of the road proper and its appendages,
has been as follows, to wit:
Year: 1861

We cannot afford to lose Beauregard
So distinguished traitor as he ought not
to perish by comnon shot. Providence
has designed for him q cross-heam and q
stout rope. We give no credence to the
conjecture that he was killed during the
bombafd,nent OF Fort Sumter.
Year: 1861

1t was an old distorted face
An uncouth visagc, rough and wild;
Yet from behind, with laughing grace,
Peeped the fresh beauty of a child.
And so contrasting, fair and bright,
1t made Inc Of my fancy ask
If half earth's wrnkled grimness might
Be but the baby in the mask.
Behind gray hairs and furrowed brow
And withered look that life puts on,
Each, as he wears it, comes to know
How the child hides, and is not gone.
For. while the inexorabe years


To saddened features fit their mould,
Beneath the work of time and tears
Waits something that will not grow old?
And pain and petulance, and care,
And wasted hope and sinful stain
Shape the strange guse the soul doth wear,
Till her young life look forth again.
The beauty of his boyhood's SMILE
What human faith could find it now
In yondcr man Of grief and guile
A very Cain, with branded brow?
Yet, overlaid and hidden, still


1t fingers, of his life part;
As the scathed pine upon the hill
Holds the young fi5crs at its heart.
And, haply, round the Eternal Throne,
Heavens pitying angels shall not ask
For that last look the world has known,
But for the face behind the mask!


atlantic Monthly for Mar
Year: 1861

Troublesome Duty.-In addition to the other
duties OF The Mayor always onerous,l has
been imposed that of issuing passports to non :
resident sojourners who evince a desire to
repair to more congenial latitudes during the
pendency of the present troubl On Thurs
day the Mayor deputed Capt Seal, of the po-
lice, to attend to the matter, and that officer
remained in the Court room the entire day.
Yesterday, while the Mayor was holding his
Court, an individual applied for an exodus
pass whom the Mayor would have been entire
lyJustifiable in seizing. The fellow would have
sold readily At $40 per poun: as guano. He
was more odoriferous than the most highly
scented Peruvian, Jarvis Island or Manipu-
lated. A good many of the immigrants conform
to this description Let them 60
Year: 1861

6oeernor,s Body Guard company ID, lst
regiment Va. Volunteers, lately organized
under the command OF Captain J q. Girls
void, Is already uniformed la whole or in
part, and from the character Of the material
OF which II is composed, bids fair to do good
service in defence OF the State. Company ID
has been chosen as the Governors body guard
The equipment OF the corps Is not yet COM
plete in all details
Year: 1861

Prosperous. despite the general dullness
OF the times, the canal boats pursue the even
tenor of their way. We can see no diminu.
ton in the amount of trade carried on by
boats between this city and the interior. -
Little villages on the line of the Canal have
poured into this city their quota of troops
destined for State defence, without stint in
large numbers, healthy condition, and full of
the right spirit OF resistance 10 tyranny and
oppression. They will give the enemy a VA st
deal OF trouble, should they be afforded the
pleasure of coming face to face with them
Year: 1861

The war is likely to affect the finances as lit
tie in our State as any in the Union, but the
pressure OF these times ls felt even in Vermont,
but it more seriously commercial and manufac-
tuaing interests ... ...


In the first place, we have the complete in
Eruption Of trade from the South and the re-
pudiation of Southern debts. Then again, we
have the depreciation of Western currency aris-
ing from the diminished value Of Southern Sc
curitics upou which banking at the West has
been largely based. In the third place, we
must suffer from the accumulation of foreign
commerce and the consequent check upon all
domestic industry in any manner connected
Herewith, and lastly, from the general policy
of war and blockade reversing financial relation,
creating numberless unwonted sources of anxiety
and risk, and interfering in o thousand ways
with the settled habits of production and COM
mercial activity under which we have hitherto
grown so peacefully prosperous and 50 rapidly
rich


Nevertheless we have strong faith in the re-
Operative energies of our people. We are not
accustomed to permanent failure in any enter
prise, and though we may be compelled to en-
dure commercial disasters Of the most serious
character, yet the ultimate lessons of sturdy
Christian manhood which such trials will teach
may be worth all the suferings and embarrass
ncnts they cost. Hf. gay
Year: 1861

"G0oD News > TO BE DISTRIBUTED AMONG
THE SoLprnEs.-At 4 regular meeting of
thc Tract Socic1y,in New York,it was unan-
i'aousIy resolved to send two thousand copies
Of the Good Neacs monthly to our armies in
the Fast and West during the continuance Of
the war. The papers arc to be sent to the
chaplains who belong to the Methodist
Church, to be distributed among the men in
the army. The Society also resolved to
place two hundred copies of the Go,m Nems
monthly in the hands Of the Young Mems
Christian Association of Now York, for dis
tributon among the fire companies Of the
c;tE.
Year: 1861

QVEBECi 5uly g
1t was exactly eight days from The time
the Liverpool pilot left the Great Eastern
till the Canada pilot boarded her, during
which time she had only twenty hours of
clear weather. She made Cape Race in six
days from Liverpool. She nearly ran into
the Arabia in fog on ths ID, and would
have done SO if She had had bowsprit.
Year: 1861

BRIGADIRR GENERAL PIERCE Tile Taunton
Gazette says that this officer is at present at home
In Freetown, In feeble health, and that the news
paper statement that he has been serving as a pr
yate In Colonel Webster's Regiment arose f.. II
the fact that while on visit TO Co onel Webstp,
he twice volunteered In case Of alarm, and once
came near being shot by the careless use Of mus
ket in the hands Of a volunteer
Year: 1861

PENNSYLVANIA 0L.-The Pittsburgh Post
says: "People at distance have little idea
of the magnitude of the oil business in West
ern Pennsylvania. In Philadelphia, we are
told, most of the business men regard the
oil business as speculative and chimerical in
its character. Such is not the fact. The
product of the oil wells is already promi-
nent article of commerce, and is daily be-
coming more important. On Monday, the
Allegheny river being in excellent boating
order, three small steamers landed at our
wharf, from the wells in the vicinity Of
Franklin, 1867 barrels of oil. This is but a
single days receipts here, and larger guam
titles take the Northern route to New York
city. The success of oil boring speculatioDa
is greater than most ifnot all kinds of min
ing. The incidental trade which this busi-
ness causes to our city is already very large,
We regard it as a fixed fact that the oil bus
mess is destined to become one of the great
est trades of Western Pennsylvania, and it
will not be many years before our sub
stantial oil men" will rank with our sub
stantial iron men on the score of wealth"
Year: 1861

In Prize Essay ON the Sabbath" writ
ten by journeyman printer in Scotland,
there occurs the following striking passage |:


Yoke-fellows think how the abstraction
of the Sabbath would hopelessly cnslave the
working classes, with whom we are identifi-
cd Think of the labor thus going on in one
monotonous, and continuous, and eternal cycle


limbs forever on the rack. the fingers for
ever playing, the eycballs forever straining,
the brow forever sweating, the feet forever
plodding, the brain forever throbbing, the
shoulders forever dropping, the loins forever
aching, and the restless mind forever schem-
ing! Think Of the beauty it would efface,
of the merry y-heartedness it would extingu-
ish, of the giant strength it would tame, of
the resources OF nature it would exhaust. of
theaspirations itwould crush, of the sickness it
would breed, Of the projects it would wreck,
of the groans it would extort, of the lives it
wsuld immediate, of the cheerless graves it
would prematurely dig! See them toiling
and moiling, sweating and fretting, grinding
and hcwing, weaving and spinning, sowing
and gathering, moving and reaping, raising
and building, digging and planting, unload
ing and storing, striving and strugging-in
the garden and in the field, in the granary
and in the barn, in the factory and in mill, in
the warehouse and in the shop, on the noun
tain and in the ditch, on the roadside and in
the wood, in the city and in the country, on
the sea and on the shore, on the earth in
days Of brightness and Of gloom. What a
sad picture would the world present il we
had no Sabbath p
Year: 1861

The beautiful have gone with their bloom
from the gaze of human eyes. Soft eyes
that made it spring-time in our hearts are
seen no more. We have loved the light Of
many smile that has faded from us now !;
and in our hearts have fingered sweet voices
that now are hushed in the silence of death.
Seats are left vacant in our earthly homes,
which none again can fill Kindred and
friends, loved ones, have passed away one
by one; our hearts are left desolate; we arc
lonely without them. They have passed
with their love to THAT land, from whose
bourne no traveller returns" Shall we never
see them again9 Memory turns with linger-
ing regret to recall those smiles and the loved
tones of those dear familiar voices. In fancy
they are often by our side, but their home is
on brighter shore. They visit us in our
dreams, fioating over our memory like shad.
ows over moonlit waters. When the heart is
weary with anguish, and the soul is bowed
with grief, do they not come and whisper
thoughts of comfort and hope? Yes, sweet
memory brings them to us, and the love we
bore them lifts the heart from earthly aspra-
tons and we long to join them in that better
land. They hover round us. the ethereal,
dear, departed ones-thc loving and the loved,
they watch with eyes that slumber not. -
When gentle dreams are wandering to the
angel land, in whispers wake the hymning
strains Of that bright and happy choir, reveal.
ing many tale Of hope, and bliss and ten
derness, and love. They tell of sunny realms,
ne'er viewed by mortal eye--of forms array
ed in fadeless beauty-and lofty anthems to
their great Creators praise are sounded forth
in sweet, seraphic numbers. And this vision
of the blest dissolves the tumult of life's Jar
ring scenes; they fade in air, and then we
glory in the thought that we are heirs of i'm.
mortality. And why is it that we regard
with such deep reverence and love, those
bright, celestial beings of another sphere p
All, it is because they take an interest in our
welfare, and joy over our success in the great
battle of life. They are not selfish in their
happiness, but fain would have us share it
with them.--fiagmood Chronicle.
Year: 1861

help his old partner, who was :" fiat broke"
that he could think Of, was to give him the
"big chunk T" and let him exhibit it; as it
contained a good deal of quartz which be-
sides adding to its size made it very snowy
specimen and people would very willingly
pay quarter Of dollar to see it. So the
kentuckian took the specimen and showed
it through all the large towns, making
good deal of money and doing much better
than he had expected. Arriving at length
at San Francisco, he concluded to take pas
sage in the steamer and 20 to the Atlantic
States and exhibit his "chunk" in the large
cities there.


Meanwhile Mentz was working his claim
in the River hosting out huge boulders and
endcavoring to get a hole down to the rock
in the bed Of the stream where they expect
cd to find pay, but one day great rock es.
capped from the tackle as they were hoisting
it out and falling knocked Mentz down and
rolling over his left arm crushed the bones to
a powder and il had to be taken off near thr
shoulder. For a long time he was laid up
with his wound; all Of his money was gone
and he had for sometime been living on the
credit of his claim, in which they soon ex-
pected to reach pay, when the rainy season
suddenly set in and everything was swept
off by the rising Of the river. His landlord
now refused to board him, saying he had
kept him long while for nothing and it was
but fair that others should do something for
him. So poor Mcntz was forced to beg from
town to town and the generous hearted mi
ners never let him do more than state his
misfortunes till they literally supplied hi
wants. He had tried in vain to hear from
his Kentucky friend and "big lump" hui
after tracing him to San Francisco, could hear
nothing more of him and finally was forced
to conclude that he was scoundrel and that
his money was gone; and whenever he men,
toned the circumstance he was told that he
was very SILLY for letting his "lump" go
out of his sight: so at last he never mention
ed it and began to think himself that he had
been fool. But about this time letter was
advertised for him in the Golden Era, and on
sending for it he found that it was from a
gentleman in Kentucky stating that he had
in his possession large lump Of gold left
in his care by his nephew, who had died at
his house of consumption. and that he would
forward 1t to his order. This was good news
for Mentz; he got his gold in due time and
had 1t smelted down--it yielded little over
$4,000. Mentz soon after built large brew
cry in Nevada in so his establishment was
totally destroyed by fire and as he had neg
lected to insure he was again "smashed
and went into the " cabbage and turnp line, !"
where found him making another raise.


SILVER CirY. U. T., March 9th, vi.
Year: 1861

BAD CHARAcTER.--The importance of prc.
serving good reputation for truth and honesty
is quite strikingly set forth in the following
mortal fever prevailed on board ship at sea.
and negro man was appointed to throw the
body of those who died, from time to time.
overheard. One day, when the Captain was
IN deck, he saw the negro dragging out of
the iorrcastle sick man, who was violently
struggling to extricate himself from the ne.
gro.s grasp, and demonstrating very bitterly
against the cruelty of being buried alive
What are you going to do with that man.
you black iascaly" said the Captain "Go.
ing TO throw him overheard, massa, cause he
dead. Dead, you scoundrel p said tho
Captain, don't you see he moves and
speaks?" Yes, massa, know he saws he
no dead. but he always lie so, nobody ever
know when to believe him."
Year: 1861

The subjoined is an extract from letter
written by Senator Douglas to the Chairman
OF the Illinois State Democratic Committee:


l know of no mode by which a loyal citi
zen may so well demonstrate his devotion to
his country as by sustaining the flag, the
Constitution and the Union, under all circum-
stances and under every Administration ire
gardless ofparty politics. against all assail-
ants at home and abroad. The course of
Clay and Webster toward the Admnisra-
tion of General Jackson in the days of nulli-
fication, presents a noble and worthy exam
pie for all true patriots. At the very mo-
ment when that fearful crisis was precpita-
ted upon the country partisan strife between
the Wings and Democrats was quite as bitter
and relentless as now between Democrats
and Republicans. The gulf which separated
party leaders in those days was quite as
broad and deep as that which now separates
the Democracy from the Republicans. But
the moment an enemy rose in our midst, plot
ting the dismemberment of the Union and the
destruction Of the Government, the voice of
partisan strife was hushed in patriotic ST
ence. One of the brightest chapters in the
history of our country will record the fact
that during this eventful period the great
leaders of the opposition, sinking the parti-
sanin the patriot rushed to the support of
the Government, and became its ablest and
bravest defenders against all assailants until
the conspiracy was crushed and abandoned,
when they resumed their former positions as
party leaders upon political issues.


The acts of patriotic devotion have never
been deemed evidences of infidelity or pol,i.
cal treachery, on the part of Clay and Web
ser, to the principles and organization of the
old Wing party. Nor have any apprehen-
sion that the firm and unanimous support
which the Democratic leaders and masses are
now giving to the Constitution and the Union
will ever be deemed evidences of infdeiIy
to Democratic principles or a want ofloyalty
TO the organization and creed of the Demo-
cratic party. five hope to regain and per
petuate the ascendency of our party, we
should never forget that man canno5 be
true Democrat unless he is loyal patriot.


With the sincere hope that these, my con-
seientious convictions, may coincide with
those of my friends,


am, very truly, yours,


STEPHEN a. DoUGLAs.


To VIRGIL IIIcoX, Chairman State Demo-
cratic Committee.
Year: 1861

WAR Terms, The Columbiade or Paxhan
pronounced pay-zan) is large gun design
ed principally for firing shells it being far
more accurate than the ordinary shot mortar


A mortar is very short cannon with a
large BORE some of them thirteen irches in
diameter, for firing shells. Those in use in
our army are set at an angle of fortyiive de-
greea, and the range of the shell is varied by
altering the charge of powder. The she'll is
caused TO explode about the time it strikes,
bv means of fuse, the length of which is
adjusted to the time of flight to be occupied
by the ball, which of course corresponds
with the range. The accuracy with which
the time of the burning of the fuse can be ad-
iustcd 10y varying its length is surprising
good artilcrists generally succeed in having
their shells explode almost at the exact in
slant of striking. In loading a mortar. the
she'll is carefully placed with the fuse direct
ly forward, and when the piece is discharged
the shell is so completely enveloped with
flame, that the fuse is nearly always fred
The fuse is made by filling wooden cyln-
der with fuse powder, the cylinder being of
Sufficient length for the longest range, and to
be cut down shorter for shorter ranges as re-
quired.


a Dahlgren gun is an ordinary cannon,
except llliJ IL Is uduC very lIIiCh dJ IiIC
breech for some three or four feet, when it
tapcrs down to less than the usual size. This
form was adopted in consequence of the eX-
perlmcnts Of Captain Dahlgren, of the United
States Navy, having shown that when gun
is burst it usually gives way at the breech.-
The Niagara is armed with these guns, and
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard there are sixty
weighing about 1000 pounds each, and six
of II, 600 pounds weight the former of which
are capable of carrying a nine inch, and the
latter a ten inch she'll a distance of two or
three miles; and there is one gun Of this pat
tern which weighs 1876 pounds, and is war
ranted to send an eleven inch shell four m les.


A casemate is a stone roof of a fort made
sufficiently thick to resist the force of cannon
balls, and a casemate gun is one which is
placed under casemate.


A bartette gun is one which is placed on
the top of the fortication.


An emhrasure is the hole or opening
through which guns are fired from fOrtitica-
tons.


Loop holes are openings in wall to fire
musketry through.