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Year: 1861

Tue STATE FA1R-Everybody agrees Tint 1t
is most desirable that the next State Fair
be held in this city, and go It will be located if
the matter be properly brought before the ES-
ecutfyc Board, who have their meeting on the
18th inst Who is moving In the mattery It
il something our business men are all inter
ested in, and should not be permitted to go by
default.
Year: 1861

The idea ofdesignation candidates for post
masters by popular vote, or the vote Of the
dominant party in caucus, has been favor.
lite one With, some presses, and has been
adopted to considerable extent lately
Some members of Congress have favored IT.
quite as much to relieve themselves of res.
possibility in the matter as with any view to
get fuller expression of the choice of the
people. The system has obvious advanta.
ges, but it may well be doubted whether on
the whole it viii work satisfactorily The
candidate selected in this way is quite as
likely to carry his majority Of votes on the
ground Of general personal popularity as oI
special fitness for the position. In some
places the interest in the selection would be
so limited that but small minority Of the
people would engage in the canvass, and Sc
the most industrious canvasser get the nom.
ination, when perhaps his appointment would
be obnoxious to the larger portion of the
people. In fact noninotions have been thus
made which were obviously unfit to be made
and candidates destitute Of business capaci
ty and moral character have carried the eau
Gus majority. The business men Of place
have of course the largest interest insthe ap-
pointment of a proper postmaster, while bal
of those who get together in an ordinary
caucus have little or no interestin it, and
no means ofjudsing as to the comparative
fitness of candidates. It's rather running
the democratic idea into the ground to refer
executive appointments in thisway to eau
Gus vote. The post office department needs
advice on the subject, but it should obtain il
from those qualified 10 give it, and they are
clearly the public men and business mer
having the largest interest in the faithful per.
formance of the duties Of the Office. The
members of Congress have, next to the peo-
/ pie of each town or city; the best genera
acquaintance with the pubic men Of their
particular dist, lets, and are thus qualified tc
advise in many cases where the appointing
officers are in doubt between rival candi
dates. But if the appointments should bs
made as 4 6, neral thing on the strength Of
caucus nominations alone, we are inclined to
think the crop Of postmasters would average
quite as poor as fthey were drawn by lot
like jurymen. We presume, howeve, ha,
caucus nominations will not by any means
be considered decisive at Washington, but
while they viii have their Influence. as they
should, other considerations viii he taker
into accoantin making the final decision
Springfield Republican,.
Year: 1861

u won't stop and think. | say Ill never
forgive her, aud won't. Call her in


Wife left the room in search Of Minnie She
was gone long while /; from which circum-
stance have always had the suspicion that
she spent the time in soothings and comfort.
ings, scarcely to be considered as abetting
my view Of the case At length they re-
turned, both fearful. We sat down together,
a constrained group-Minnie very fearful,
but very sweet and beautiful. The inter
view was short, and these were the closing
words:


Father, have always been du,iful
child-you will do me that justice. But
love this man. You grant me that his char.
acter is unimpeachable, but you forbid our
marriage because you have a prejudice
agains: him. love and honor you, father
You cannot doubt that; but in this case
must follow the dictates of my own heart. y


"Do so you will but remember, You,
her will never forgive you."


Thus ended the interview sobbine
distressfully, Minnie weeping quietly. and
sitting glum and angry. did not forbid
the house, as most angry fathers do; but
told Minnie again that she had lost my love
and care. Then was so foolish as to see
Jemny 3run. and in very silly speech in
form him that, since he was taking my daugh
ter from her father without his consent. hs
need expect no gifts or favors now or hence
forth. She would not be allowed to share IL
the family inheritance, nor should | rcndel
the least assistance If they should come I,
want l shall never forget the queer loci
Year: 1861

A NEAFoLITAN TRAeEDY.-0ne night q
few weeks ago Naples was the scene Of a
dreadful murder, Of which the exact cause
remains undiscovered. One Of the most beau
tiful and wealthiest girls in Naples, on the
moment Of returning from the San Carlo The
aler, was shot at he door Of her own house BY
a pistol ball, which passed right through her
heart. The dress and face Of the unhappy
mother were splashed with her daughters
blood and she found that she was holding In
her arms corpse. The girl gave one pierre
ing cry and expired.
Year: 1861

The DANGERS OF THE NEAPoLIrAN SrREErs.-Tbe
theits and assassinations in the streets of Naples
have recommenced it hoped that this
was at an end. Not a night passes that one does
not hear of three four cases, even r the most
frequented places, and not at very late hours. But
to these cut-purses and cuthroats it ally matters
very little whether their attempts be made in FREE
quented or lonely spots, in the night The middle
of the day. The theft is generally managed after
this fashion, One robber, armed with revolver,
but more commonly with dagger, plants himself
before his intended victim, whispers to him, "keep
silence, or you are dead man; give up your purse
and the money in your pocket" When, as in most
cases, the booty is given up, it is Immediately
passed on to accomplice stationed behind the
thief, and the latter seldom fails to take off his hat
and make polite bow on parting from his prey.
Should the person thus robbed attempt to arrest
the thief, he the risk of being assassinated,
and if he should escape that danger, there is a
chance of his being compelled to pay heavy
damages to the thief in whose possession the stolen
goods are never found. d.-Naples Cor. of the Morn
ing Post.
Year: 1861

The Southern Commissioners are busy in prepa-
ring an ultimatum to be published to the world in
support of the rectitude of their intentions, and
tb, President is getting ready proclamation to
give to his countrymen one more chance to return
to and peace, before they invoke the hor-
rors of civil war.


The excitement in regard to the activity of the
War Department is on the increase, which is not
lessened by the arrival and departure of special
messengers at the White Heuse-the only means
ot ccnveYins information that the President will
trtt
Year: 1861

material. Turn it from its course and make
it subservc your purpose before it passes
beyond your reach. Improve all the means
at hand for enriChing your soil by gathering
up the fragments, too many Of which, by
yuur present system, are lost.
Year: 1861

farm. Some of these could not be made productive
without much labor, and therefore it might not be
advicable to look after them now when harvest
Is just at hand and the labor of cultivating the
growing crops is pressing. Others can be made
productive with very little labor and now is the
very lime to steal few hours from the regular
farm work and make them contribute to the i'm
gathering of the coming Autum. In one place
you may find the corner, already fenced perhaps,
where little or nothing is growing, but on which a
patch of turnips could be grown adva1tag eousy;
and in another piece of land, where corn for tall
feed might well be grown. These are small INA t.
terr but are worth attending 70.
Year: 1861

beliered possible 10 keep the government on foot.


And does not this sentence reverse the intended
meaning of the writer


"T'heir memoranda on the the subject made
Enclosures of Major Anderson's letter"


Were not the memoranda inclosed in, intsead of
being made Enclosures of, Major Andersons
letter.


The mixing of singular and plural in the follow
ing sentence is indefnable:


1.-The sophism itself is, that any State may with
draw, &C., themselves to be the sole
juGge."


The message winds up with the declaration.
that the Executive chad no moral right TO shrink"
without saying from what. A man six feet four
has alwa vs. the right to shrink and every well
grown bog should shrink from such an exhibition
of careiessness and ignorance as this message ex
hibits. The President says that there is hardly
regiment in the service of the Union from which
President or Cabinet might not be selected COM
petent to administer the government. Why did
he not call upon one of those men to correct his
composition
Year: 1861

In the Irish Gardeuer's Maga. inc it is stated no
only that deaccton of the leaves of the cam
om;le will destroy insects. but that nothing con
tributes so much to the health of garden AS a mum
ber of the plants dispersed though it. No green
house orhot house should be without it in green
or dry states either the stalks or flowers will an
swer. 1t is singular fact that if plant is droop
ing and appirantly dying in nine eases out of ten
it will reco'er if you place a plant of camomilc
near it.
Year: 1861

To the Editor of the Enquirer:


In a discussion with IA friend, yesterday, I said
that Jefferson Davis, and the Southern members
who were IN Congress last session, voted for the
Crittenden Compromise. He said that they did
not and that they were willing to vote for any COM
promise. C IN ended trat they were willing to
conn mise. Wea agree to let YOU decide which of
Us is right.
Year: 1861

The New York State Democratic Convention
which assembled recently, passed resolutions de-
claring it TO be "a monstrous doctrine to refuse to
settle controversies with our own people with CON-
promises" and they favor the adoption of the
policy that will give satisfaction 70 the border
States, and favor the appointment of committee
to memorialize the Legislature, urging the sub
mission of the Crittenden Compromise to the vote
of the electors of the State at the earliest pract
cable day They urge Congress 10 provide at nm
early day for Constitutional amendments, or in the
event of the failure of Congress to take action,
they urge the Legislature to take the initiative
steps for summoning general Convention to pro.
nose amendments 70 the Constitution Of the United
States.


The resolutions strsnuously oppose civil war,
and urge the seeding and non-seceding States to
join hands in staying the progress Of dissolution.
Year: 1861

The following order has been issued by the &C
ting Governor OF Kansas


l hereby order every man IN the Slate, betwee
the ages of I3 aud As, capable OF carrying arms
to Immediately enroll himself in some miitar1
company, in accordance with the militia law 9
this State, and each company is hereby ordere
to hold itself in readiness for immediate marcI
ing orders. Each man will furnish all the arm
in his possession. The refusal of any man t
obey this order will be taken as evidence 9
his disIoyalty, and he will De treated according
Year: 1861

We surrender our columns to-day principalI,
TO Northern accounts Of the war and other
matters, which, though in many instances
very wide of the truth, viii he found interesting
nevertheless Heretofore the Yankees have
always claimed to be our superi5rs in mapy
respects aud we have usually pursued course
that seemed to yield assent to their claitn as
being just but the war has served to verify
nothing more fully than the fact that they are
superior to US in nothing save the art Of lying,
an accomplishment, we think, entirely un-
worthy of emulation. If the official reports
which have been published in the papers as
eminatlng from their commanding officers are
: 6on47fds-the genuine reports-the reports
that are placed on record to go down to pos
terity, they will serve no other purpose than
to damn the officers that make them and the
government that receives them, in the es4ima-
ton of all honest people in all time to come.
Surely no nation upon this earth, no matter
howsoever dark the age may have been in
which it's nationality existed, has ever dis
PLAYED so much wickedness and corruption as
the Northern people have in the last six
months
Year: 1861

power Of truth over the human soul is inyincibls.


A review Of the events Of the past year shows
steady growth Of consciousness Of strength in
the North, and determination NOS to surrender
all its rights 20 the Slave Power.
Year: 1861

l. The President shall, from time 20 time
give to the Congress information of the
State Of the Confeaeracy, and recon mcnl
shall Judge necessary and expedient he
may. on extraordinary occasions, convene
both Houses, or either of them and in
case OF disagreement between them, with
respect to the time of adjournment, he may
adjourn them to such time as ha shall think k
proper he shall receive ambassadors and
other public ministers {; he shall take care
that the laws be faithfully executed, and
shall commission all the officers Of the
Confederate States
Year: 1861

battles that are to be fought? By no
means. They merely prove that the Ad-
ministration have had, as yet, no proper
conception of the magnitude of the var,
and that we have been cursed hitherto
with lot of incompetent Generals. Hug-
ging the delusive fallacy that there is a
strong Union party at the South who
would cooperate with the Union army,
the Administration has never believed
that the people of the eleven seeded
States are unanimous in their determine
tion to sever forever their connection with
the Northern States. But this fact is
now too evident to be longer denied,
There is authority for saying that the
President and Mr.. Seward are both now
convinced that the South are united as
one man in this attempt to achieve for
themselves a separate nationality and
that to crush the rebellion and conquer q
peace. it will be necessary to call forth
the entire strength of the loyal States,
and to put into the field at once not q
half million but q million of troops. This
will be urged in the forthcoming Presi-
dents message as sine qua non for the
successful prosecution of the war
Year: 1861

And there ] stood. my boy. on that
lonely boat, looking down upon that fallen
type Of manhood. aud thinking how sin
gular it was he had forgotten to give me
back my quarter The sight and the
thought so affected me that was obliged
to turn my back on the corpse and walk a
little way from it,, When / returned to
the spot the body was gonei Had it gone
to heaven? Perhaps so, my boy-per-
haps so, but haven't seen my quarter
since,' f,.-.
Year: 1861

The SLAVERY QUEsTIoN.-The difference
between parties or section OF parties on the
slavery question as connected with the war
have somewhat subsidized in the presence OF
foreign complications The appointment of
Gen. Lane Of Kansas as brigadier general,
with his known convictions on the subject, is
considered a certain indication that the admin
istratiOn is advancing in its position in refer
ence to slavery. The dangers of a foreign
war have convinced the most peaceable dttache
OF the government that it is high time for ac.
ton One of the most prominent men in
Washington, senator, remarked yesterday
1t is now necessary for US to show foreign
governments some proof that we can beat back
the rebellion; till now we have only boasted-
we must fight now, or go to the wall.--New
York EUenng Post
Year: 1861

president and the secretary of war to be
brigadier gen eral in Gen. Buffers expedition,
portion Of which has already arrived at Ship
Island, below New Orleans. 1t is believed
that Gen Gushing will be commissioned to
relieve Gen. Phelps whose recent injudicious
proclamation is calculated to damage the Union
cause in that quarter. Gen. Cushing's ap-
pointment will afford him the opportunity of
rendering that signal service to the country
which may reasonably be expected from his
conspicuous abilities, fully employed to main.
tain the supremacy of the constitution and
the power of the general government.-Boston
Treascript
Year: 1861

The FIFTEENTH REMEMBERED.-We learn
from a private letter from one of the staff of
the fifteenth regiment, that their hearts have
been gladdened by gift to the regiment Of
$1,000, on behalf of the merchants of Boston.
The twentieth regiment were remembered in
the same kind and generous manner The
same letter assures us that Lieut.. Col. Ward
is daily improving, and that he may soon be
expected home on a short ftrlouqh
Year: 1861

The TEA PARTY at Horticultural Hall, TO-
night, by the ladies OF the Old South church,
will not be forgotten Of course The public
are invited, and our word for it, they will be
well entertained.
Year: 1861

We are also requested to state that box
of blankets, OF which many members of the
twenty fifth regiment stand greatly in need,
will be made up at the office of VIM. S. Den
this week will be forwarded They can be
directed to individuals, or be there dstrib-
uted to the most needy The expense of for
warding them in this way will not probably
exceed ten cents each, and it is suggested that
each contributor could easily deposit this small
amount with the blanket, rather than to tax
the soldiers Col. Upton has promised that
extra articles of this kind, for the soldiers
comfort, shall be taken along with the regi-
ment at all events.
Year: 1861

To l-nfiIes Ordering Cloaks.-We give notice
to our customers that have in the few days near
y doubled force of Cloak Makers and can now take
orders to be executed without any delay.


Ladies who place their orders with us before Friday
noon can have their finished and sent home
Saturday.


None but the most thoroughly competent Cloak Max
ers employed in the establishment,


oil DIFF BARNARD, SUMNER. q co.
Year: 1861

AS the season for making hay is approach
ing, we will give few words of caution in
advance. Dont dry your lag too much.
Hay may be dried till it is as worthless as
straw AS good coffee-maker would say,
Don't burn your coffee, but brown it," so
we say, don't dry your hay, but cure it.
Our good old mothers, who relied upon herb
tea instead of ''potecary medicine, % gather
ed their herbs when in blossom, and cured
them in the shade. This is the philosophy
of making good hay Cut in the blossom,
and cure in the shade. The sugar of the
plant, when it is in bloom, is in the stalk,
ready to form the seeds. If the plant is cut
earlier, the sugar is not there; if later, the
sugar has become converted to woody matter


Hay should be well wilted in the sun, but
cured in the cock Better to be a little too
green than too dry. If, ON putting it into
the barn, there is danger of cheating in the
mow," put on some salt. Cattle will like it
none the less.


Heat, light, and dry winds, will soon take
the starch and sugar, which constitute the
goodness of hay, out of it; and with the ad
ditlon of showers, render it almost worthless.
Grass cured with the least exposure to the
drying winds and searching sunshine, is
more nutritious than if longer exposed, how
ever good the weather may be. If ever
cured, it contains more woody fibre and less
nutritive matter.


The true art of hay-making, then, con-
sists in cutting the grass when the starch
and sugar are most fully developed, and be-
fore they are converted into seed and woody
fibre; and curing it up to the point when it
will answer to put it into the barn without
heading, and no more Ohio Farmer.
Year: 1861

The man who stands upon his own soil,
who feels that by the laws Of the land in
which he lives, by the laws of civilized ma
tions, he is the rightful and the exclusive
owner of the land which he tills, is by the
constitution of our nature under the whole
some influence, not easily imbibed by any
other source. He feels, other things being
equal, more strongly than another, the char
acter of man who is the lord of an inani-
mate world. Of the great and wonderful
sphere, which, fashioned by the hand OF
God, and upheld by his power, is rolling
through the heavens part of his--his from
the centre of the sky. 1t is the space on
which the generation before him moved in
it's round of duties, and he feels himself con-
nected by visible link with those who follow
him, and to whom he is to transmit home


Perhaps his farm has come down to him
from his fathers. They have gone to their
last home; but he can trace their last foot
step over the scenes of his duty labors. -
The roof which sheltered him was reared
by those to whom he owes his being. Some
interesting domestic tradition is connected
with every inclosure. The favorite fruit
there was planted by his fathers hand. He
sported in boyhood beside the brook which
still winds through the meadows Through
the fields lies the path to the village school
of earlier days. He still hears from his
window the voice of the Sabbath bell which
called his father to thcshouse of God near
at hand is the spot where his parents laid
down to rest, aud where, when his time has
come he shall be laid by his children. -
These arc ,tc feelings of the owners of the
soil Words cannot raint tllcm golI can
Year: 1861

VERAcIrY.-The groundwork of all man.
Iy character is veracity. The virtue lies at
the foundation of everything solid. How
common it is to hear parents say f have
faith in my child so long as he speaks the
truth. He may have many faults, but
know he will not deceive me. I build on
that confidence" They are right. 1t is a
lawful and just ground to build upon. And
that is beautiful confidence Whatever
errors temptation may betray child into,
so long as brave, open truth remains. there
is something to depend on, there is anchor
ground, there is substance at the center.
Men of the world feel so about one another.
They can be tolerant and forbearing so long
as their erring brother is true. It is the
fundamental virtue. Ordinary commerce
can hardly proceed step without good
measure of it. If we cannot believe what
others say to US, we cannot act upon it
and, to an immense extent, that is saying
that we cannot act at all. Truth is COM
mon interest When we defend it, we de-
fend the basis of all social order. When
we vindicate it, we vindicate our own foot
hold. When we plead for it, it is like
pleading for the air of health we breathe.
When you undertake to benefit lying man,
it is like putting your foot into the mire.-
c. f. Huntington.


PREJUD1CE.-All men are apt to have a
high conceit of their own understandings,
and to be tenacious of the principles they
profess; and yet almost all men are guided
by the understandings Of others, not by
their own; and may be said more truly to
adopt, than to beget their opinions Nurses,
parents, pedagogues, and after them ALL and
above them all, that universal pedagogue,
custom, fill the mind with notions which it
has no share in framing which it receives
as passively as it receives the impressions
of outward objects and which, left to itself,
it would never have framed perhaps, or
would have examined afterwards. Thus
prejudices are established by education, and
habits by custom. We are taught to think
what others think, not to think Of ourselves;
and whilst the memory is loaded, the under
standing remains unexercised or exercised
in such trammels as constrain its motions,
and direct its pace, till that which was srti-
|6e;z Aecomes il. some sort n2tursl spd ths.
Dur r5 is uruv, III ,nauy oa.ue. y say. that II
men had learned less, their way Of know
ledge would be shorter and easier. 1t is
indeed shorter and easier to proceed from
ignorance to knowledge than from error
They who are in this last, must unlearn,
before they can learn to any good purpose
and the first part of this double task is not,
in many respects, the least difficult, for
which reason it is seldom undertook
Year: 1861

Gs"When you find a person little bet
ter than his word, little more liberal than
his promise, a little more than borne out in
his statement by his facts, little larger in
deed than in speech, you recognize kind
of eloquencc in that persons utterance, not
laid down in Blair or Campbell.
Year: 1861

What wondrous sensation it is to
feel that a chance expression we have used ,
few stray words, have been stored up as
precious memories. Is there any fattery
like it? What an ecstasy to feel that we
could impart value to the veriest common
place, and without an effort, without even a
will, sit enthroned within some other heart.