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Year: 1863

The old dhimuey corner It is endeared to
the heart from the errliest recollections.-
What dreams have been dreamed there F! sto-
ries told what bright hours passed 1t wa,
place to think in, place to weep in, to laugh
in, and much the czoiest place in the house
10 rest in 1t was there where dear grand
mamma used 10 sit at her knitting, warming
her poor rheumatic back against the warm
wall where grandpa used TO fall asleep over
his newspaper where mamma used to place
her spinning wheel, and papa used to sit there
too, and read in the great arm chair.


1t was there where you used to read fairy
tales in your childhood, folded all so snug, and
warm, aid ctzy, in IFS great warm lap, while
the wind of winters night was whistling
without Your faYorite plum-cale was nev-
er so sweet as when eaten there, and the sto-
ries you read by the sitting treside were
never half so fascinating as thoes read IN the
chimney corner.


If you were sad, you went there TO cry. il
you were merry, you, with you brothers and
sisters, nestled there to have right merry time
Even puss and the house dog loved the old
chimney corner!


Look back to the old house, where every
room, every nook is so full of pleasant recol-
lections-the family sitting-room, where were
so many pleasant meetings your own chamber
with its little window, where the sun came
peeping in at morn = mothers room, still sa
cred with with her presence. But after all
the brightest memories cluster about the chin
ney corner. You long 10 be folded in its faith
ful old bosom again, as you were in childhood
and have coed cry over all those past happy
times.


1t is desolatc now. The bright faces that
clustered there Of yore will never come back
again. Black and dingy are the loved walls
and the smoke from the kitchen fire never
makes them warm any more. But still mem
ory sets up some ofthe holiest and most beau
tirul statues of her carving ia the old chimney
corner.
Year: 1863

There is delicious feeling in the the air o
twilight a something that steals o'er the hear
and mind, pleasant but indescribab!e. A Sc
renity and peace envelope the earth all seem


wrapt in quiet, soothing calmness. It brings
relief to the weary head and the sorrOw-striek
en- heart. Every one, more or less. have haI
some time in their life which they think o
with pleasure, golden hours full Of JOY and hap
piness, but shOrt-gone ere they are felt toe
soon they vanish away. and are buried in the
great mOurnful ocean of the past, TO come back
in reality never more, though we strain cur
eyes to catch glimps of them, and wolud
lain recall one moment of that happy time
The twilight hour seems to fill our hearts
with these feelings. The twilight breeze as il
watts gently by, takes cnr thoughts and meni'
ory back IS the days Of yore-summer days
when love and hope made earth very para
disc. Golden days full Of joy and happiness
without breath ofsorrow or woe. Days and
hours so joyous, that in our ears the very BIRDS
sang sweeter and in our eyes the flowers SEEM
ed more beautiful. DAYS given US that, when
the dark clouds came, and the cold, and the
cutting wind of sorrow swept from US the



and hope-when it came Temorselessly and
swept them all away, making the very sun
grow dark and the starlets pale, We might
look back, aud the remembrance of those
other days be something to cheer US. Oh
We beau teous twilight hours, in ye we forget
The Injunction OF Him who hath written, Look
not monrnfuIly into the past, it comes not
back again wisely improve the present 1t IS
thine 90 forth to meet the shadog future,
without fear and with manly heart" Again Il
friends whom we love and cherish are far away
how the twilight seems to bring them back
to our memory how unconsciousiy It takes
The thoughts OF their absence away from US,
and leads us with gentle hand to those by
gone days, those past twilight hours, when
the loved one was with US. We fancy they
are again beside US, we seem 10 hear their
loved voices whispering to US, as in those days
of old. We are living again in the joyous
past, but the twilight fades and with it the
happy Illusion. We awake TO the reality oi
the dreary present, awake TO feel we are living
still, in cold. unsympathizitg world, to strive
and TO fear, putting on the false smiles and the
false laughs, listening to the worlds picture,
Ike apples of the Dead Sea. "iair to tie sight
ashes 10 the touch" Ne must bury our Sc
cret sorrows in our heart, for the dream is
Ger, that short and brief, but joyous twilight
dream-a moment stolen from the husy world
come and gone leaving the impression only
leaving us to battle with the strife of life"
Year: 1863

/ inclined to sustain yonr domestic laws, if By
possibility they might be with safety to Tie
/ Union.


months of experience and Of observation
have forced the conviction that the existence
Of slavery is Incompatible with the safety Ell
TIER of yourselves or of The Enion. As the
system has gradually grown to It's present
huge dimentioDs, it were best if it could be
gradually removed but it is better, far better
that is should be taken out at euce, than that
1t should longer yiciate the social, political
and family relations of your country. I am
speaking with no philauthropic views as re
CARDS the slave, but simply of the effects OF
Slavery upon the master. See for yourselves.
Look around you and say whether this
saddcning influence has not all but destroyed
the very frameworks of your society.


L am speaking the fsrewelI words of one
who has shown his divotion to his country at
the perile of his life and fortune, who in these
words can have neither hope nor interest, save
the good Of those whom he addresses aud let
me here repeat, with all solemnity of an appeal
to Heaven to bear me witness, that such are
the views forced upon me by experience.


"Come, then, TO the unconditional support
of the government Take into your own
hands your own institutions; remodel them
according to the laws of nations and OF God,
and thus attain that great prosperity assured
TO you by geographical position, only a por-
tion ofwhich was heretofore yours.


BENZ. f. BUTLER.
Year: 1863

Little habits drive nails into our collins
They more than make up by theit number
what they seem to lack in individual Importance
They are the true seeds Of character. We
might as well plant acorns, and not expect
them to grow, as cherish small virtues and-not
calculate on their increase; or as reasonably
hope to see the firm aud noble oak where no
acorns were ever planted, as true greatness
and success in life, where the seedlings of thou
sand little habits of industry and virtue had
not been first carefully cherished. In word
character is the sum oflittle things rather than
great ones. The true estimate of an individ-
ual is not ascertained by his incidental or oc-
casional achievements, but by his every day
habits. A nations character is not determin-
ed by its famous men, but the habits Of its
famous men, and the character of the age by
the vices or virtues that were so inherent as to
be unneticed
Year: 1863

Ny DROPS TO CURE Suppression of the
Nenses, from whatever cause, though care
should be taken to ascertain if pregnancy be
the cause, as these Drops would be sure to
produce miscarriage; they will also certainly
PREV ENT conception, If talien two OF three
days before the monthly period; therefore,
wish it distinctly understood, that do not
hold myself responsible when used under such
Year: 1863

DEFAcED u. S. .CURRENoY.-Onr people should
know that the U. S. currency depreciates in
value when pieces are torn from notes, large
or small, in proportion to the size OF the pie
ces so torn off. For instance, ten cent note
with hall torn of, is worth five cents, and SO
on. This is a matter that will be of interest
in a short time, as the notes in circulation are
fast wearing out, and, so far as We know there
has been provision made for their exchange
for new ones.
Year: 1863

Obeying merely the letter Of the law and not
the spirit, is like fattering yourself that you
are following the injunction, "Look not up
on the wine when it is red,'' by useing liquor
of some other color-Jersey tightening, for
instance, which is dirty yellow.
Year: 1863

The news of the late rebel reverses bad
reached ngland, and its effect was consider
ed so favorable for the Union that the rebel
loan stock had declined 18 and 20 per cent
discount, and perfect panic ensued in that
description of stock.
Year: 1863

One of the incidents of the late battle was
the shelling of farm house by rebel bat
terry, commanded by the son of the occupant.
During charge of the Union troops the son
was killed, but the father refused to look up
on the remains of his ungratefnI child.
Year: 1863

1t is stated that number of treasury notes,
altered from low to high denominations, are
in circulation. Among these, twos altered to
ffties are the best calculated to deceive. A
close inspection will enable nearly any one to
detect the base character of any bill suspected.
Year: 1863


Down to the wharves, as the sun goes down
And the dayghts tumult and dust and din
Are dying away in the busy town,


go to see if my ship comes IN.
gaze far over the quiet sea,


Rosy with sunset, like mellow wind,
While ships, like lilies lie TRANQUILITY,


Many and fair-but | see not mine
Iquestion the sailors every night,


Who over the bulwarks idly lean
Noting the sails as they come in sight
" Have you seen my beautiful ship come np'
"Whence does she Gomez" they ask Of me-
" Who is her master, and what her name? ~
And they smile upon me pityngly


And my answer is ever and eyer the same.
Oh, mine was a vessel Of strength and truth,
Her sails were white young lambs fleece,
She sailed long since from the port Of Youth
Her master was Love and her name was Peace
And like all beloved and beautcous things,
She faded IN distance and doubt away
With only tremble Of snowy wings,


She tloated, swan-like, adown the bay
Carrying with her precious freight


All bad gathered by years of pain,
a tempting prize to the pirate Fate


And still watch for her back again.
Watch from the earliest morning light


Till the pale stars grievc O'er the dying day,
To catch the CLEAN OF her canvas white


Among tho stands which gem the bay.
But she comes not yet--she viii never come
To gladden. my eyes and my spirit more
And my heart grows hopeless, and faint, and dunn
AS wait and wait on the lonesome shore
Knowing that tempest and time and storm,
Have wrecked and shattered my heauteous bark,
Rank sea-weeds cover her wasting form,


And her sails tattered, and stained and dark.
But the tide comes up and the tide goes down
And the daylight follows the nights eclipse
And still with the sailors, tanned and brown
wait on the wharves and watch the ships.
And still with patience that is not hope,
For vain and empty it long hath been
sit on the rough shores rocky slope,


And watch to see if my ship comes in.
Year: 1863

sale of his Wines, in the


BASEMENT OF THE RUSS HOUSE,


Corner of Pine and Montgomery Streets,


The reputation of California Wines has suffer
ed much from the many bad and adulterated ar
tcles put up by irresponsible parties, and brand
ed I" Pure California Wine"-present profit be-
ing their aim, although destroying confidence in
the purity and quality of Native Wines. Others,
again. probably without any intention 20 deceive,
but from want of knowledge Of the treatment OF
wines, have bottled for sale wines that were not
properly made, or that were not in condition Tor
bottlng. Such causes have had an injurious ei'
feet with consumers In order to give the public
perfectly sound and pure article, the under
signed will for the future, attend personally 10
the putting up of his Wines-the product oil his
own vineyards-confdent that their superior
quality will make them the favorite brand with
consumers. In order more fully to guard the
public against limitations, there will be attached
to each bottle an additional label bearing fac
simile of his signature.


Now on hand and for sale by the case or pack
Year: 1863

IMPORTANCE OF THE SoUTH.-The Importance of
the South has been overrated II the Southern
States were swallowed up by an earthquake, the
world would be again supplied with cotton in two
years. Cotton is an annual plant requiring for
its production only seed soil and necessity. The
seed is always to be bad-the soil constitutes a
zone round the earth Of some seventy degrees
the necessity is furnished by starving Europe,
and by the high price OF cotton, which now makes
it by far the most profitable crop that can be
anywhere raised. Two years more of vigorous
war and blockade will cause the world to supply
itself with cotton, without an earthquake. The
hundred new places which are now struggling to
raise cotton, will be five hundred next year. And
when the production shall have once more over
taken the demand cotton will become drug /;
and if it shall ever happen that the pacilied South
shall be able to return TO the cultivation of cot
ton it will only be to render it still more drug,
exceeding in that character all other kinds of
property except negro property, which will then
not pay for keeping.
Year: 1863

OF Communication Of his sentence. Much
less is it "a new trial under the act Of July
18th, 1922


We are Of the opinion that the censure
cast upon Gen. Hitchcock and his associ-
ates was exactly adapted to the case, aud
that all the members Of the court who con
CURED in the sentence ought to resign their
commissions and apply for admission into
the Government Hospital for the Insane.
Cashci was receiving the patronage Of the
Government in furnishing pasturage for
cattle intended to feed the army. His own
State, as we'll as the United States, had
been attacked BY armed rebels. The first
squadron Of the enemY's cavalry found
him faithful friend and a valuable spy.
He did all that he could to aid the enemy
and subVert his Own Government. The
difference between his conduct, and that Of
one who should show the rebels . secret
avenue Of approach to the Capital, is diff
ference not Of kind, but Of degree. Cash
ell did what be could, and JEFF Davis
would not ask him to do more. To say
that the court were bound by their oaths
to fix sentence according to the law and
the evidence, and, therefore, they would
not have fixed 3 different sentence without
incurring the guilt Of perjury, is simply
saying that they aretoo young, or too old,
to know what constitutes turpitude No
one doubts that they are loyal men, and no
one accuses them Of violating their oaths.
The charge against them is that Of appal-
ling ignorance Of the nature Of crime OF
this they stand convicted before the bur Of
public opinion, and they are properly re-
ieved Of any further duty in the trial Of
offenders against the rules and articles Of
Year: 1863

0EAUAAS0AAD AMI AaE 0aA-


We are glad to observe that Beauregard,
rebel as be is, is forced to admit the gen
eral correctness Of the intelligence con-
tanned il the Chicago TRIBUNE. In hisre-
port Of the evacuation Of Corinth, printed
by order Of the bogus Confederacy, in
speaking Of that event, he says:


Thtse orders were executed. An happy to ny,
with singular precision, Is will be found fully ad
uitted in the correspondence, from tho scene. Of
the Chicago TRIBUNE, herewith transmitted.


Even Beauregard ought to know that
the TRIBUNE has been the most faithful
and reliable and tho earliest chronic1er Of
all events in the West, OF which it could
have cognisance; and though We object to
his citation Of our letters to mike his case
good with lis master, Davis, We are glad
to know that he reads our paper atten-
lively whenever he can get it, and we pro-
mise him that if he will designate the
place in which he can receive it, he shall
have copy Of the Daily mailed regularly
to his address. We should hope to make
him good anti-slayery man, to whom the
selling Of human being would be akin to
u profession Of Atheism and the conse-
quent denial Of God. We trust that Gil
more Will take him prisoner at Charleston;
then we shall apply ourselves to the task
Of his conversion.
Year: 1863

70 We notice that Gerritt Smith, who
always had more shirtrcollar than bra1ns,
is about to prove again as be did when the
Nebraska bill was under discussion in the
House Of Representatives, that he cannot
sit up until after 0 o'clock at night His
late speech at Albany was made after that
hour. and it is just as vapid and nonsensi-
cal Us his theological disquisitions. Good
Lord deliver the country from such senti-
mental cllarlatans as hel
Year: 1863

The peaceful progress Of the DRAFT in
the city Of New York is triumph Of the


Government over ignorance and faction, Of
which all Union men may well be proud
It is, at the game time, humiliation Of
Seymour that ought to excite the pity Of
his friends. His error is that he miscalcu-
lated the strength Of the disloya1 element,
auy friends" upon which he depended,
and, Of course, the moral and physical
mower of the Government and the true
men by which it is supported. He would
hare ipaugurated civil Tar if he dared
The viper would have bitten the fi1eI
Year: 1863

NEW BRIDGE ACROSS ROCK RIVER, LII
The Illinois Central Railroad Is bnilding
new bridge, to be entirely Of iron, acsoss
Rock RiTer, Ut Dixon It is quite long
bridge, and will be ono Of the most snbstan-
tial structures Of the kind in the country.


Anew wooden bridge tor teams and loot
passengers Is also being built across Rock
River at Sterling, to take the place Of the one
that was carried away by the ice freshet two
wears ago,
Year: 1863

B-It is q most significant fact Of the taint
OF disloya1ty in certain political party, that
not q single one of the many Democratic
Conventions held during the past SIX weeks,
has expressed jubilation over the National
Victories.
Year: 1863

The knots are now making their ap-
pearance on the Plum and Cherry trees,
and require attention. Those who will
make careful examination of the ex-
cresencs will be able to find small marks
upon them, sometimes crescent shaped,
like the curculio mark upon the fruit
BY very careful dissection, minute
white speck may be found in the middle
of the coneave portion of this crescent.
This is an egg of an insect. 1t is believ-
ed that the egg causes this excresepce,
and we suppose so, because we know that
this egg becomes grub, and burrows in
and feeds upon the substance of this knot.
These grubs, if raised to maturity become
beetles, so like the ourculio that stings
the fruit, as not to be distinguished from
each other. Still they may be different
kinds of beetles that look much alike
The pea-bug and the beetle from the worm
in the chestnut, both look much like the
curculio, but differ greatly in their habits.


When we cut into one of the little balls
found growing upon an oak leaf, and find
there full grown perfect fly, and no pos
sible way it could have got there from
without, we suppose that the parent of
that fly, in some way or other, caused that
ball to grow, and that it grew to afford
protection and food for her young, This
is natural supposition, and is probably
true, although it would be hard to prove.
Acting upon such a theory as regards the
black knot, we should say cut them off as
they appear, and you destroy the embryo
insect that would cause similar knots an
other year.


We have seen both plum aud cherry
trees about this city, and indeed almost
everywhere we travel, perfectly deformed
with these ezcrescences, and permitted to
stand year after year, mere nurseries for
spreading this evil.


Many people carefully cut off these
knots early in the spring, and it is we'll
enough to do so even then, as it certainly
removes a deformity, but it then avails
nothing towards getting rid of the cause


By careful watching and prompt cutting
away during the early part of July, you
may keep the enemy under your control,
but by neglecting them for year or two,
valuable trees, or even orchards, will be-
come orthless.--Nerarh Mercury
Year: 1863

The editor of the Boston CultiOator truly
remarks that there is no domestic animal
in regard to which there is generally so
much neglect to provide properly, as the
milch cow. The idea seems to be too
common, that she may give milk for the
greater part of the year, supporting at the
same calf in the fetal state, with no more
nor better food than is given to animals
which have only their own bodies to sup
port. The consequence is, that the milch
cow is worn down by this unnatural tax
on her system her fat is taken away in
butter; the substance of her muscles is
cheese and oven her bones are weaken
ed by the phosphate of lime which the
flow of milk carries off. Surely, such a
sacrifice demands consideration and re-
compense, which it would be profitable to
the farmer to besfow. If there is any
animal which policy would dictate the
good treatment Of, it is the milch cow
1t should be remembered that it is only
the food she consumes, beyond what is re-
quired to support the natural wastes of the
system, that can afford surplus in the
way of milk.


Hence, the food which would barely sup
port two COWS, and leave nothing for the
owner, if eaten by one cow, would enable
her to return the value of one, half of it in
milk. So that the advice of a close OBJ
server to a dairyman, to sell one-half his
cows, to increase his produce of butter
and cheese, had reason at the bottom of
it. Cows should be we'll fed and shelter
ed; in fact, they should be kept in all
respects in the condition that is we'll ex-
pressed by the word comfortable"
Year: 1863

To MAKE HENS LAY IN WINTER
There is another inquiry which we may
as well answer at the present time. How
shall we manage with our hens in order
to have them continue to lay in winter,
the season when eggs are scarce and sell
at the highest price 7" The most practi-
cal mode that occurs to us would be to
confne the earliest pullets after they are
two or three months old, feed them well,
and keep them until the first of October,
when they should be allowed full liberty.
A week or ten days afterwards they
should be confined in warm, dry room,
where the yicissitudes of the weather and
storms will not reach them. G. ~. Be-
nsens IN Country Gentleman.
Year: 1863

To BRoIL A FowL-Split the fowl
down the back, season it very well with
pepper, and put it on the gridiron with
the inner part next to the fire, which must
be very clear. Hold the gridiron at a
considerable distance from the fire. and
allow the fowl to remain until it it is near
ly half done; then turn it, taking great
care that it does not buru. Broil it to a
fine brown. a duck may be broiled in
the same way. If the fowl is very large,
half roast it, then cut It into four quarters
and finish u on the gridiron.
Year: 1863

Almost Extraordinary and UnequaIIed SUCCESS.


1t is approved by Editors and Mechanics, by
Statesmen and by the Clergy, by every Man of
Science and by every Lady Of Taste.


1t is to be seen in every steamboat and rail-
road car in the country, and is to be procured
from every News Agent.
Year: 1863

We give below List of all the Public Officers
in this County, with their post Offices, for the
convenience Of those having business with or de-
string to communicate with said officers:
Year: 1863

and upon the conviction of which the punish
ment is death.


Nor yet we're they made to hold persons to
answer for any capital OR other infamous
crinos; nor were the proceedings following, In
any constitutional or legal sense, criminal
prosecutions. The arrests he shows were made
on totally different grounds and tho proceedings
following the arreats, the President would be
glad to correct on reasonable satisfactory evi-
damn