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Year: 1861

A STORY.

 BY ROSE TERRY. In gleam of sunshine gentian stood, Dreaming her life away, While the leaves danced merrily through the

 wood,

 And rode on the wind for play. She stood in the light and looked at the sky, Till her leaves were as fair blue; But she shut her heart from the butterfly And the coaxing drops of dew. Dreaming and summing that Autumn noon, She stayed the idlest bee That ever fingered to hear the tune Of the wind in 8 rustling tree He had golden cuirass on,

 And a surcoat black as night, And he wandered ever from shade to sun, Seeking his own delight. Now were the blossoms of Summer fled, And the bumble-bee felt the frost; He knew that the asters all lay dead, And the honey-vine cups were lost. So he poised and luttered above the flower, And tried his tenderest arts, With whispers and kisses, weary hour, Till he opened it's heart of hearts, Not for love of the gentian blue,

 But for his own wild will; All he wanted was honey dew,

 And there he drank-his fill No more dreaming in sun or shade! It never could close again! The gentian withercd alone, dismayed; The bee flew over the plain.
Year: 1861

ments and publications may, in this way, be en- forced by Federal Judges throughout the free states The editor of the Tribune is said to have been once indicted in Virginia, for circu- lating incendiary publications in that State, his sole offence consisting in mailing his paper in New York to his subscribers in the Old Donin- ion. The Governor of New York was little likely to surrender him on such an indictment would not answer for his fate in the hands of some of our Federal Judges

 The measures which have described have-all been reported by the Committee in the House. For the reason have here hastily indicated, have been unable to concur in that Report. I would very gladly do all in my power to restore peace to our distracted country. have conce- ded to the very verge of principle, and there I must stop. Every concession has been answer ed with the booming of cannon from Fort Moul- trie upon the flag of my country, with the march ing of hostile forces upon the forts of the Gulf, and with the planting of hostile batteries upon the banks of the Mississippi. If five have Gov ernment, it seems to me that the time has come to ascertain its strength.

 ORRIs s. FERRY
Year: 1861

The following suggestions, which we find in the
Jackson Mississippian, win prove invaluable to
those who with to make pickles or yinsgar for The
volunteers


MADISON County, July 81, ISsI-Permit me
through your paper to make a suggestion to the
ladies Of Mississippi and others who are preparing
stores and proVisiOns for cur soldiers.


TO make a healthy, grateful and cheap pickle,
good to prevent scuFvy in those who live On salt
proEisOns, take an empty whisky or molasses cask
do not wash It unless dirty inside. I'll 10 with firm
hard peaches, not too ripe gathered with the hand
without bruIsng, add two or three dozen pods of
Ied pepper and one quart Of salt, then pour on
vinegar until the rask Is full and head This pickle
will keep well and the vinegar is finely favored
It does well &c use IN cookery or at table. For
family use, any spices preferred may be used in Rd-
dition to the PEPPER ami salt. have peaches over
year old, put uD in this way, which are a. fair
and good as " hen put up.


/ would say also TO thO ladies'. dry all the fruit
you can, to send to the solfieFs; also okrx spllt
and dried in tle shade. is good flesh for SOUPS
and stews, and if boiled well is good with the ad-
dillon of pepper and vinegar as a vegetable, and
will be luxury to those n camp who are fond Of
It.


Every Southern hOusekeeper may make her own
vinegar "a d. thus. Take ore head cut of an empty
mOlasses cask put in gallons Of mOlasses and fiji
the cask three quarters full Of water; add bushei
of ripe apples cut small, or, if apples are scarce,
save the psellngs and cores Of the apples dried
used IN cookery, and as you get them, put in he
vinegar cask; also add all the skimmings Of pre-
erTes and honey. If the cask IS not then full add
more water. Cover il with the head to keep out
dirt In two Ur three months you will have q good
eask of vinegar, which IS to be strained of aud
bunged up in . tight eAsk for use.


j have, every summer for thirteen years, made
my OWE vinegar in this manner, and have always
had good vinegar both for picking and table use.
Year: 1861

Il would seem that the Secretary Of the Navy
has awakened to the necessity of vigorous action in
his department, as already the Secretary Of War
has in his The complaints which have been made
regarding the Intellectual blockade Of Southern
ports, and the dsprsdati0ns Of privateers like the
Year: 1861

Thus far capita and labor have been applied TO developing the
soil the great resources Of the Staten and almost
untouched The nvarabe rule that mechanic arts flourish
best where food and fuel cheapest will follow at an early
day in Illinois snd in the OF the next years the
raj laws and necessities Of the belief that
least Eve hundred thousand people engaged in the State
o. Illinois in the various nfaeturinR emploYlnents
Year: 1861

How THEY GIT NEws.-The officers Of
the blockading feet at New Orleans receive
late news by bottle express, Aoated down
the Mississippi river, which some of their
Uniou friends 10 New Orleans and up the
Mississippi send down TO them sealed
This is a very good idea, and the Union
mon throughout the South could use the
same means of giving correct information
Of what is going on without exposing them
selves at all TO discovery. They should try
the experiment wherever the mode of con.
veyiug intelligence is available. All that is
going on at Richmond and at Norfolk could
be communicated nightly in this way.
Year: 1861

Mr.. EDITOR:


notice in the last issue of the Herald
an extract of letter purporting to have
been written by resident Of this town to
the Cincinnati Times, and which reflects
anything else than credit on the author.
find on examination that there are five
or six numbers taken at this office but none
by any citizen of the town. Some al least
of the subscribers of that sheet are men
who are regarded as being above suspicion
so far as Southern principles are concern
ed. They subscribed for it merely as n
literary journal and without thinking it
would so soon become abulitionized. |
would suggest to those subscribers through
this medium that they at once take meas
ures to dissipatc every suspicion so far as
they are concerned, and if possible TO fix
the authorship upon the low flung grovel-
ing scribblcr who, seeking shelter undcE
the flag of the Confcdcracy, with the film
sy pretoxt of being "a Union man, does
not scruple TO give aid and comfort to the
enemy through the medium of an aboli-
tion Sheet. | think it is high time we
should dispose of all such gentry III some
way.


Pursuant to the Proclamation Of the
President, the citizens of our town and Vi
cinity met yesterday at an early hour NJ
the Masonic Hall for Divine service
The Presidents proclamation having been
read by DIR. II. J. Moffett, Rev. w. i. Aus-
tin delivered very imposing and eloquent
discourse, in which he took strong grounds
in favor of his native South, after which
the Divine aid was fcrvently sought by
seTeral gentlemen. At night the good
people met again to call on the Almighty
for succor in this dark hour of our coun-
trys peril. They prayed like men in earn
est. Every kind of business was suspend
ed throughout the day, all seeming to take
a deep interest in the exercise.


SUBSCRIBER.
Year: 1861

Ray"See military notice of Gen. Darncll.
Here is good chance to get into service,
under an experienced officer, and who is
willing to serve his country on the battle
field ms on the hus.ings. This is MS good
chance for active service as any we have
set heard Of
Year: 1861

Bay- We are under many obligations to
our distinguished friend Capt. Short of the
Shelby and San Augustine Cavalry, for
the compliment paid to tho Herald Office,
last week. In return we can only say that
the Herald would seek no greater happi-
ness than to record after the first battle,
that Capt. Short and his company were
victorious aud were in the thickest Of the
fight Such we expect to do---depcnd up
en- it,
Year: 1861

BIy" We learn from good authority, that
Judge Gregg declines most percmpiorily to
permit his name to be used as candidate
for Governor. lie is now engaged in or
ganizing a Regiment Of men for the service
of the Confederate States, to operate, we
hear, in Virginia. This leaves many of
his friends to cast about for another name
OH which to concentrate their support
AS thcre are yet several good and true men
in the field who will not object to receiving
these Gregg votes" there need be no hes
itancy or fear of losing chance ioeect one
or the other. Clark, Lubbock, Stockdalc
and Chambers are all candidates, and will
not Object TO these yoics
Year: 1861

The undersigned, citizens Of Islip, Suffolk County,
take this method of assuring you that they voted the
Republican ticket with the understanding that the Issue
with the Democratic party at the late election was that


no United States territory should evernore be cnrsed
with Human Bondage and We look with utter abhor.
renee on those who would make any concession or com
promise Of that fundamental Republican principle For
your bod ind manly support Of the Of Liberty,
and your endeavors 10 keep party true TO its princ


pies, we tender you our hearty thanks and affirm that


if the doctrine Of peaceable Secession be sustained
vaunted Federal Government is simply snare and u
Year: 1861

Your present course in relation TO embarrassed
political affairs meets with the hearty approval of all
the genuine Republicans of Wisconsin. The case locke
almost desperate, and yet believe that prudence and
rmness on the part Of the Executive may yet
beloved country from utter rack and ruin. And if
worst cones TO worst, what hinders that the united
Northern States may build mp for themselves alone
glorious republic that shall be free indeed, and self
preservave because consistent in all lie principles and
institutions


do not agree with those who think that our country
must inevitably 90 TO utter destruction because por


ton Of the States have separated themselves from the
Union-eyen though they return, which believe
they Will. Our eatest danger lies in the direction Of
base and unboy compromises, which must rot only
pose us to the contempt Of the world but likewise
the wrath of the Almighty.


TIE TRIBUNE is the greatest political power in
America. Heaven keep true to the best interests Of
humanity and the country


FROM AsHTABUIA COUNTY, Ono


must take the liberty 10 express TO you the great
pleasure we feel hereabouts at the course Of TnE
TRBUSE in regard to present political troubles.
What folly to Jy peace queer precedent to estab-
hsi-that. "The wages Of Gin is DEATH" For years
past the policy Of the Government and Of the Church
but too far has been TO encourage and foster the great
wrong of human Slavery-ibe robbing and punderlng
Of Innocent Now, when it suits the convenience
Of tLose whose hands we have thus staid up in this
work, they turn and plumber u.s.


THIS is Just what we might look for-wbat Will
always happen. We plurdered Mexico to &C. Texas-
we knew 1.-THE world knew it-Texas knew it.
Now Texas in Ieyolpg and setting uP for herscf and
stealing our property, is doing precisely as we did to
Mexico.


And now the politicians would perpetrate another
outrage on natural Justice, for another supposed pot
cal or pecunimy gainl o. blind leaders. Are there
the five righteous left We shall see. God save US
from another compromise
Year: 1861




In this section Of the country we are Republicans Of
the radical stamp; we are readers Of The TRIBUSE;
we believe that the majority should rule; we believe
i'll the doctrines of the Chicago Platform we believe
in the Constitution it is know the history OF
past compromises with Slavery; We know that the
came majority which made them can break them down;
consequently all compromises which surren-
der princpeOr give Slarey the advantage over Free
dom. We gave Lincoln handsome majority in No
vember 1860, and were the contest to be tried over
again, we would give him greater and more over
whelmng majority. We have responded to the call OF
starving Kansas, and we will give means and men, II
it need be- for the punishment of traitors to our gor'
country We believe that all the property stolen
from the United States should be wrested from the
hands of the rebels and Dsnnionsts. We believe
that if the policy Of foreahers is resorted to- our
now disordered country will become prosperous and
happy, and, moreover, that Mr. Lincoln will enforce
the laws in all sections of the country.
Year: 1861

Accept the grateful sympathes of lover of freedom
for the fixed and unwaverng purpose with which The
TRIBUNE continues to defend the constitutional rights
of tie American people.


AS long as you sustain yOur present position, f"o'
that you will be supported the majority of the people
of Michigan and of the whole Northwest, who stand
side by side with the patriots of NewYork and New
England pledged to the support of the Chicago plat
form pure and undefled, and an uHcompromisiHg de-
Tense Of the Constitution and laws Of the country and
also the prohibition of the extension of the crse Of
Slavery over one inch more of territory now free.
Continue faithful to the sacred Of Liberty, and
the great mass of the American people will hold your
course in grateful remembrance long after the memory
of weak-kpeed politicians and corrupt compromisei
who now dsgace the National Capitol has been left TO
rot by the spirit Of deceucy.
Year: 1861

SECTION Ill. The judicial power Of the Con-
iederacy shall he vested in one Supreme Court and
in such inferior courts are herein directed or as
the Congress may..from time TO time ordain and es-
tablish.


?. Each State shall constitute District iu which
ihsre shall Ne court called District Court which
Year: 1861

THEY ARE MORE ARIsToCRATIo THAN ARIsToCRATs.


In speech on the Reform bill debate in the
British Parliament, short time ago, Lord John
Russell said:


GAS the question has gone on, and as the
matter has been discussed, there has been, as
perceive, less and less of favor shown to the
further amendment of the Constitution, and,
must say, it has not been like the opposition
that was made to the Reform bill of 1899 and
to reform before that bill was introduced That
was an opposition very much OF the upper class,
and emanating good deal from persons in
terested in the close monopoly which existed be.
fore the Reform bill was passed. The opposition
to the bill Of last year has come particularly from
the middle classes. Hear, hear. In the dis
cussion which took place upon the Reform bill
OF 1899, we who passed it never attempted to
disguise that it was transfer of power 10 the
middle classes of this country. That has been
its effect, and We say it would now be wise to
share that power with proportion of the work
ing classes; but there can be no doubt that for The
tioO or three gears last past-esDecidlly last year


1t Dasleuideat hatthe middle classes Of Ibis cOun.
try feared great admission ofthe oorking classes
into the number of those pho at present czrcise
the franchise, and that the opposition to the bill
of last year was stronger from these classes than
from the House Of Lords or from any portion Of
the upper classes of this country. Hear, hear.
Such being the state of things, am much dis
posed to concur, as a general question, in an
observation made by the right honorable gentle
man the member for Buckinghamshire (Mr,
Disraeli), that ifyou wish to take up the ques-
ton OF reform, it is better it should be by some
comprehensive measure, rather than it should be
by particular measures introduced from time to
time. Nay, Sir, will say even more than this.


will say that in the present state Of parties, not
only in this House but.in the country do not
think that any comprehensive measure Of reform
would be likely to succeed, but measure which
was founded upon the opinions, not Of one par
ty, or upon the interests of one class, but upon
general consideration Of the prevailing opinions
of the many different parties, and Of the inter-
ests Of all classes Of the community. It may be
long before that general agreement can take
place." $685.


Classes, classes, classes, nothing but classes
Well, is not Britain free country7 Working
men may be good and honest people, but the!
shall not vote-shall not be allowed to vote.
Year: 1861

A good anecdote is related of man, who
went by the name of Whispering john
which was given to him in ridicule. People
said he talked as though he were brought up
IN mill. One cold morning he walked into
a public house, and called out in his usual
laundering voice


Good morning, landlord, how are you p


Very well, how do you do ?"


80, I'm well, but I'm so cold can hardly
talk"


Just then nervous traveller who was
present, ran up to the landlord exclaiming
PLEASE have my horse brought as soon as
possible


why, what is the matter ?" asked the
landlord.


Nothing" replied the traveller, ..but |
want to get away before that man thaws I"
Year: 1861

Senator Johnson's style of caGyasslng in
Tennessee is thus described in the Washing
ton National Republican


"The style of Mr.. Johason's canvassing
may be Judged from the commencement of
his speech at Cleveland, Tenn, where threats
against him had been largely INDUCED in.
He told the crowd that he did not come here
to be shot, but to shoot = that if there was to
be fight, he and his friends were ready tor
it, and that he preferred finishing up ueyfght-
inq before making his speech. Nobody COM
ing forward to fight, the intrepid Senator
proceeded to speak, and by the time he had
finished. Observation-Disclosures of the audience
were with him. He told them among other
things, that JEFF Davis and the Governor of
the State ought to be hanged, and would be
hanged, at that not far distant period when zen
the judicial power of the Government could
be brought to bear upon them"
Year: 1861

The STEAM GUN."-A correspondent of
the Courier and Enquirer, saw the steam gun
recently captured IN Baltimore, before it left
the machine shop where it was made He
could not imagine, at first, what it vas
Finally, he says, set it down for Potato
Planter, but should never have guessed
gun, as it was so ricketty on IT'S legs that il
would scarcely stand alone, much less knock
down regiment Of soldiers. They finally
let it shoot, and the way it threw the bullets
was caution to the engineer, and as it was
full as liable to kill him as any other man, and
little more so, they let it rest until recently.
Year: 1861

An organized band of armed rufiians
was broken up in Indiana last week They.
had attacked the office Of the Treasurer Of
Martin county-blown open the safe with
gunpowder, and extracted $1,000 in money.
The Home Guard was on the alert-and be-
fore the gang could escape with the booty,
they received a round OF lead One was
killed, two wounded, and nine in all taken
prisoners, after a desperate resistance. The
band is said to consist of about one hundred
members, and the citizens are determined to
root them out by the rifle and halter
Year: 1861

SINGULAR BEQUEsT.-Miss Theody Dick
lnson, late of Brattleboro, and recently de-
ceased, left the income of her dwelling house
for the benift of her pet dog, a small cur
about the size oft cats. After the death
of the dog the property reverts to a nephew,
who can apply at his leisure the old maxim,
" if you love me, love my dog"
Year: 1861

A LARGE ARMY.-The State of Ohio is
now organizing for action 100000 men in
addition to the number demanded in the re-
QUESTION of the PRESIDENTIAL of whom are
to be held subject to immediate transfer into
the " active army of operations" while the
State military authorities estimate the total
number of " militia of reserve" at the enor-
nous figure of 500 ,0O0-the whole of which
gigantic force also are (in the words OF the
Adjutant- General) to be brought as soon as
possible into a condition " to meet any de-
mand the exigincies OF the Union may re-
quire."
Year: 1861

A certain bright-eyed boy, whose history
whole city OF Bradenburg By the name OF
Soldier Fritz. He looked for oil the world
like little general, and was always chosen
one of the commanders-in-chief when his lit
,sle friends had mock battles. In fact, every
body said that Fritz was born to be sol
der.


When he was ia his thirteenth year, the
war with France broke out, and ths Pruseian
regiments, in one of which his father was an
inferior officer, received orders to march to
the river Rhine. A sad day was it when that
sznan took leave Of his family and kissed them
all goodbye, perhspe, the last for life. Fritz
cried to 60 with his father, but that could
not be; he was too young and weak for such
an undertaking.


Sig months passed away without a word
from from the distant father and husband
But one morning shortly afterwards the fam.
lily received letter from him, containing in.
telligence that he had been in, good health
and had been raised from his humble posi-
tion, and made sergeant. "Rut what is
che use Of this new homer" he continued in
his letter, !" if one has nothing to eat? Oh,
if ] only had a single peek Of our splendid
potatoesi How delicious they would bel
We have to hunger here on the Rhine toI
three days together; and, indeed, / have moi
had single potato since left home.'


This part Of the letter aroused Fl;tz SC
much that he stood up in the middle of the
floor, and wonld not, let his mother read an
other word until she had read this over again
three times, nor did be soon forget it. Il
panied him severely to think that his fathe.
Year: 1861

TREASON IN CHICAGo.-The City Councils
of Chicago have passed an ordinance calling
upon all those traitors in Chicago who are not
willing to renew their oaths of allegiance to
the Union and the Constitution, to leave that
city and making it the duty of the Union
Defense Committee to ascertain the names of
all such disloyal persons, and have them pub
lshed in the city papers. The Mayor has is
sued his proclamation accordingly, and the
Union Defense Committee has resolved itself
into Vigilance Committee for the proper OBJ
servance OF the Ordinance.
Year: 1861

The success which has attended the new
loan is the most extraordinary in the history
of financial affairs. Already, even before the
notes are ready, thirty hundred appl-
cations have been made for it in New York
city. From the millionaire down to the SER
ing of gold,'' the applicants are thronging by
hundreds to the Sub Treasury.
Year: 1861

An elderly lady who attended meeting of
the First Vermont regiment arose, full of en-
thusiasm, and said she thanked God that she
was able TO do something for her country
her two sons, all she possessed in the world,
were in the regiment, and the only thing she
had to regret was that she could not have
known it twenty years ago-she would have
furnished more of them.
Year: 1861

ENGLISH Bankers WANT $50, ,0O0, 900 OF THE
LoAN.-It is stated upon reliable authority
that an offer lately made to Secretary
Chase, on behalf of foreign bankers, to take
S50,000,000 OF the loan, provided the Govern
ment would promise to pay the interest at
Frank fort on the Main. The Secretary, how
ever, declined the offer, as he is confident in
the ability of the Government to maintain it
self without asking the aid of foreign capital.
Year: 1861

Tobacco Culture in the North is a novelty
and yet it is pronounced success. There
are many acres of the weed growing in Mas
sachusetts, New York, and other Northern
States, and as an evidence that our soil and
climate are not unfav vorable to the plant, it is
said that Northern grown tobacco is already
becoming a noticeable element in the market.
The crop in New England this year is repor-
ted to be very promising.