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Year: 1861

Needle-work is thus greatly eulogized
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, IN the Marble
Faun ;"-"There is something exquIsi-
lively pleasant and touching-at least Of
a very sweet, soft, and Winning effect
in this peculiarly of needle-wOrk, dislin-
gushing men from women. Our own
sex is incapable of any such boy play
aside from the main business Of life; but
women-be they of what earthly rank
they may, however gifted with intellect
or genius, or endowed with artful beauty
have always some little handiwOrk
ready TO fill the tiny gap Of every vacant
moment. A needle is familiar to the
fingers Of them all. A queen, no doubt.
plies it on occasion; the woman poet can
use il as adroitly as her pen; the wom-
ans eye that has discovered a new star
turns from its glory to send the polished
little instrument cleaning along the hem
of her handkerchief, or 10 darn a casual
flaw in her dress. And they have the
advantage of US in this respect. The
slender thread Of cotton keeps them uni
ted with the small, familiar, gentle inter-
ests Of life, the continually operating in-
auences do much for the health Of the
character, and carry of what would 9TH
erwise be a dangerous accumulation Of
morbid sensibiliIy. A vast deal of hu-
man sympathy runs along this electric
line, stretching from the throne Of the
wicker chair of the humble seamstress.
and keeping high and low in species Of
common union with their kindred helngs.
Methinks it is a token Of healthy and
gentle characteristics when women Of
accomplishments and high thoughts love
to sew, especially as they are never more
at home with their own hearts than when
so occupied"
Year: 1861

There are multitudes of men who
all their life long fail of earnest Chris
tian duty, but always hold before
themselves this ready shield : 81 meant
right" Now, the proper evidence of
meaning right, is doing right. There
is no other evidence that can Justly be
accepted. An imbecile good nature
is not meaning right. There are thou,
sands of men who, if mere amiableness
is meaning right, if kind Of useless
benevolence is meaning right, have
right intentions. There are thou
sands of men that pass through life
without any distinct purpose, appar-
emily, without any seeming desire to
do right, who hold themselves to be
excusabie for their faults and failings
simply on the ground of meaning we'll,
of having good intentions.
Year: 1861

The great secret of success in bust
mes is to "stick to one thing" Who
ever knew anybody to do this for ten
years, without accomplishing his ends?
Continual dropping wears away the
rock the highest obstacles become at
length as cobweb barriers before a
never tagging energy.


"Go out in spring, when the sun is
yet far distant, and you can scarcely
feel the influence of his beams, scat
tered as they are over the vide face
of creation but collect those beams
in a focus, and they kindle fame in
an instant. So the man that squan-
ders his talents and strength on many
things will fail to make an impression
with either; but let him draw them to
a point-let him strike at single OBJ
Iceland it viii yield before him"
Year: 1861

Some men who know that they are
great, are so very naughty withal, and
insufferable, that their acquaintances
discover their greatness only BY the
tax of humility, which they are obliged
to pay as the price of their friendship.
Such characters are as tiresome and
disgusting in the journey of life, as
rugged roads are to the weary travel
er, which he discovers to be turnpikes
''only by the toll"
Year: 1861

" The following from the Albany
Erenin2 Journal is well worthy of re-
publication.


d" One of the most violent Pro-Slavery
sheets in the North is the Boston Courier.
1t goes into spasms every time a propo-
sitlon to touch the negro during the war
is broached. 1t lives in constant agony
lest in some manner or other the Pecu-
liar Institution" should be brusied in the
conflict. 1t appears to consider it of more
consequence that four millions of human
beings should be held in bondage than that
the Union should be preserved.


We do not envy such a spirit. 1t re-
fleets ne credit either upon the head or
heart of Northern man. We do not
desire to see the war assume the form of
an abolition crusade; but we do desire to
see Slavery severely let alone" We
would not assail it as such; but we noould
let it take care of itself We would not
deny it single constitutional right but
We would hedge it about by no special
sanctties. We would make no assaults
upon it so long as ii keeps ats place i: but
we would furnish it with no body-guard
to shield it against the accidents of war.
Through all our ranks the watch-wor
shoul be 3; We march against Treason
and let Slavery take care of itself ~
This is the only true doctrine-this is the
only creed worthy Northern patriots. To
90 beyold this would be to provoke yet
fercer and deadlier elements to strife to
stop short of this would be to turn an ar
my of Freemen INTO Il pack of slave-catca-
ers The Courier hangs on to the latter
horn of the dilemma. Let it hang! II
will find but Il sorry squad of followers o


its degrading creed.'
Year: 1861

We have just risen from the reading Of
the beautiful culoges pronounced in the
Senate, by Charles Sumner, on the char
acters of the late Senators Baker and
Bingham. Faultless in style, simple yet
eloquent in expression, and marked by
that peculiar classic elegance which dis
tinguishcs all the public efforts Of that
distinguished Senator, they not only give
expression to depth of feeling and a
warmth of tender affection for the de-
ceased, but also with singular art and
power gather around these testimonials to
their public and private virtues, an extra
ordinary argument against slavery. His
tribute to Senator Bingham can be justly
applied to the orator himself =


!" His political philosophy was simply
moral philosophy applied to public affairs
Slavery was wrong, and therefore he was
against it, wherever he could justly reach
no matter what form it took-whether
of prctentions or Establishment whether
stalking lordly like Satan, or sitting squat
like a toad; whether cozening like Me-
phistophiles, or lurking like a poodle !:
whether searching as Asmondeus, even to
lifting the roofs of the whole country, he
saw it always in all its various manifesto
tions, as the Spirit Of Evil, and was its
constant enemy


Such is the political philosophy of Chas
Sumner-a man who, III our jud gment has
not his peer among the statesmen of the
day. No matter what may be the direc-
tion of the popular tide, no matter what
may be of personal advantage or disad-
vanta e, no matter what friend or foe
may think, Sumner may always be found
speaking for the right, and emitting no
proper time to set forth our duties 20
God and man. Even those who differ
from him, cannot but respect the tcnaclty
and courage with which he asserts his
opinions, and stands by what he believes
to be right The event thus far has
proved that he reads the future with a
profound philosophy which those who
have stigmatized him as fanatic" and a
onc-idea-man, had not the capacity to
understand. Had it not been for such
sentiuels on the watch-tower of freedom
as Charles Samner, our country would
now be lost beyond redemption. Heaven
be praised for such noble man When
history shall record the names OF the
great men who saved our country and its
free institutions, the name of Charles
Sumner will stand among the irst.-Lel0-
iSton Falls Journot.
Year: 1861

PRoTAN1rY.-I the use of profane words,
no idea is to be expressed, no object to be at
tanned, no end secured, no ear to be pleased,
no appetite to be administered to, no passion
to be fed, no title to be acquired, no wealth
to be earned, no possible good either real Or
imagined is had in view. They mean moth
ing. They are wicked cheats playing game
Of deception, attempting to palm off bIus-
terng sound for substantial thought.


Profanity is surelya good witness Of q
terrible dearth Of wisdom, frightful search
ty of ideas. Nor will any one pretend that
there is any good in profanity for besides
being an arrant cheat, it is an id and wick
ed use of the names OF the greatest and best
Being in the universe the best and ruest
friend Of every human creature.
Year: 1861

HsA- The Independent publishes an extract of
the crops have failed" consequently produc-
ing tightness in the money market, and pre-
faces the same with the intimaton that it will
give US an idea of one among the many evils
upon the country Thereupon the Independent
proceeds to talk about the explosion Of chimera!
If such thing were possible, what chimera
will be exploded? The old political chimera
that the principles of the opposite party will
cause failure in the crops? Lord bless you,
that chimera was exploded in the Log Cabin
days of lS40
Year: 1861

tag The harbor of San Francisco is to be
surveyed by Government officers, in order to as
certain the proper remedy for the filling in of
the same. Such survey would settle beyond all
question the propriety of bulkhead.
Year: 1861

stA-eur teiented young Senator made a
speech in the L. S. Senate, on the lst instant


He says the people of California "will ratify
any settlement which will satisfy the South y
that they will speak, vote, give their money
and fight for the Union, and "to maintain the
Year: 1861

BG~Frank F. Fargo, Alameda, is candidate
for Register and Receiver at San Francisco


That accounts for Franks desire to rope our
Legislature into the very small business of play
ing the toady to Col Baker.
Year: 1861

On IA resolution was recently offered by a
Republican in the Assembly, endorsing the late
message of President Buchanan, and didn't re-
the Assembly was eager to damn every man who
wouldn't endorse anything that old Buck thought
or done. How art the mighty fallen How true
it is that " the whirling of time brings around
its revengesn
Year: 1861

On Monday night an attempt was made
to blow up the North market, at St. Louis,
with gunpowder. A fifty pound keg Of
blasting powder was placed on table be-
meath the market cfice; stirrup cloth So
turated with turpentine had been used ss
train, and when discovered about two feet of
this strip had been burned off. Further, on
the table and near the keg was gallon jug
half filled with combustible fluid. the jug
leaning upon it's side, so that its mouth lay
close against the saturated cloth. In neigh
boring parts Of the market were three other
similar jugs similarly charged and ca
reened. Had the explosion taken place the
seven watchmep who were sleeping in the
market Office must have been killed and the
entire building demolished. Several at
tempts have been made to destroy the build
ing by fire as it was deemed nuisance to
the neighborhood. Bills have been intro
duced into the City Council for the removal
of the old rockery, but they have senreeIy
ever succeeded in reaching their third read
ing. The last bill before the Board, mana
ged to slip through one day by three
majority. As soon as his Honor, the May
or, got glimpse of the ordinance, be place
ed his veto upon it, and North Market has
not been mentioned in the Council since.
But the people so anxious for O removal
Of the marker, made up their minds that
the old shell should come down. The man-
ner of carrying cut their designs cau!d III
ly have been suggested by the most wick
ed and reckless mind; for nothing WI uld
have been more disastrous in it, conseque! ces,
than this scheme had it succeeded
Year: 1861

My friend Kelley was walking down
Main street, Milwaukee, last autumn, in a
brown study, upon some abstruse subject
his yisiSn horizontal and vacant, his step
rapid and careless, when just as he had
forded ore of the cross streets ard had lift
ed one foot to place it upon the curbstone
a big but cowardly yellow dog came sweep
ing along, followed by a little black animal
Of the same species. The yellow dog
whizzed past him, but the black specimen,
oblivious to all things but the object Of
pursuit, as every dog should be en- such an
occasion, and possibly, somewhat under the
control Of his own momentum, struck Kel.
ley's perpendicular leg while the other was
walking, and knocked it out from under
him. My friend went down instanier.-
His glossy beaver bounced upon the pave.
ment and continued its journey. Specta
cles danced jingling into the gutter, while
his shawl stuck against a shop-man's win
dow like paper pellet on a wall.


Kelley gathered himself together, picked
himself up, and looked after the dog who
had done the mischief, expecting 10 fnt
him "hove to- in canine dismay at the ac
cident he had caused but to his utter as
fonishment. ths animal seemed as regard
less of his equilibrium as Of any other triv
ial matter, and was making after the afore
said yelloy dog at a great speed as though
be had not tipped over the best fellow il
Wisconsin,.


While my friend was down, clear, mu
sical, girlish laugh had rung out upon ih'
air. 1t was so evidently spontaneous, Sc
charmingly musical, was so suddenly check
ed and had wi,hal SO good cause, tina
Kelley could scarcely be angry or even
Disconnected.


F.. When the gentleman had recovered from
his surprise at the heedlessness of the quad
ruped, he bethought him Of the music
There were half dozen ladies in view
nut bv a irigonometrical calculation h
reached the conclusion that the laugh mus
have come from either dainty little ha
with delicate, straw-colored trimmings, OF
decidedly sober and ancient brown one
the two being in conjunction, OF eours
Year: 1861

Poor little Pearl good little Pearl.n
Sighed every kindly neighbori
II was so sad 10 see girl
So tender, doomed TO labor.
A wee bird fiuttered from its nest
Too soon, was that meek creature
Just fit 10 rest in mothers breast,
The darling Of fond Nature.
God shield poor little ones, where all
Must help to be hread-bringsrs
For once aioot, there's none too small
10 ply their tiny fingers
p,or Pearl. she had no time to play
The merry game Of childhood;
From dawn to dark she worked all day,
A wood.ug in the wild wood
VIXEN others played, she stole spart
In pale and shadowy quiet,
Too full OF care was her child heart
For laughter running riot.
Hard lot for such tender LIE,
And miserable guerdon
But like womanly wee wifo.
she hravely bore her burden.
One wintry day they wanted wood
When need was at the sorest
Poor Pearl, without bit Of food,
Must up aud to the forest.
Bat there she sank down in the snow,
All over numb and aching
Poor little Pearl, she cried as though
Her very heart was breaking.
The binding STOW shut out the house
From little Pearl so weary {;
The lonesome wind among the boughs
NIoaned with its warning eerie.
To little Pearl Child Christ came,
With football light as fairy
He took her band he called her name,
Ills voice was sY~eet and airy.
His gentle eyes filled tenderly
With mystical wet brightness;
And would yoG like 70 come with me
And wear this robe of wbiteness
lie bore her bundle 10 the door,
Gave her flower when going
" My darling, shah come once more,
When the little bud is blowing.
Home very came little Pearl,
But on her face strange glory
They only fnougut, w mar mis- the E1rT y
And laughed 70 hear her story.
Neat morning mother sought her child,
Aud elasptd it 70 her bosom
Poor little Pearl in death she smiled,
Aud the rose was full 10 blossom


AZ the YeGr Round
Year: 1861

THE SECESSION QUEsTIoN.-Hon. Francis ".
Plckens, the present Governor OF South Carolina,
has suit against the North Atlantic Steamship
Company, now pending in New York CITY, on the
trial term calendar of the Marine Court for to-day
for loss OF baggage and musical instruments when
he was on his recent return from Russia where he
had been American Ambassador up to recent
date The question will here arise, as to whether
the plaintiff Gov. Pickens) can maintain an ac-
tion in that State, he being, he Claims citizen
of an independent sovereignty, which is at war
with the United States.
Year: 1861

SUICIDE OF AN OLD SoLDER.-At Raymond, Miss,
A. r. Beae, an elderly man, blew his brains out
with shotgun. He died almost instantly, leav-
ing no writing or clue to his reason for termna-
ting his existence, other than expressions made
day or two before his death to an acquaintance.
Having been a volunteer in his native State MARY
land) in the War of 1872, he frequently gave ut
terance to his strong attachment for his country,
and for the Union OF the States, and declared that
ne could not live to see sundsred Union and civil
Year: 1861

Cincinnati mercantile house has received let
ter from correspondent in Mississippi, in which
the writer says whenever you hear people say
that we will repudiate our debts, tell them it is
false We intend to pay the last dollar We owe
Year: 1861

DRINK LESS WITH Your MEALs.--Many men have
relieved themselves Of dyspepsia by not drinking
even wafer. during meals No animal. except man,
ever drinks in connection with his food Man ought
not Try this. dyspeptcs; and you will not wash
Iown mechanically what ought to be masticatei and
insaliyateI before IL is swallowed
Year: 1861

TRAIToRs IN LOYAL STATEs.-A large part,
however, of the dsloyal men in our midst,
are beyond the reach of the observation end
vigilance of the Government, and the correc-
ton of the evil must, therefore, largely de-
pend upon the condemnation of public opin-
ion. The men who give aid and comfort to
the enemy by secretly furnishing them infor-
nation, by advocating their cause, 10y sowing
dissenson in our midst, by insidiously dis
conragng loyal citizens from entering the
military service, are more fatally the foes Of
Our country than if they were in the ranks
of the Confederate army, and they are,
morally at least, as guilty of the death of
those who fall in defense of the Government
as if they had met them with loaded muskets
on the battle feld-and they should be
treated accordingly. [ repeat it emphatically,
they should he treated accordingly. In rail-
road cars and on steamboats,, in every thor
oughfare, and in every business and social
circle, disloyalty should be reprobated and
blasted as leprous and lcathsome thing
When, therefore, such men offer you their
hands, look well to them, and if you have
the eyes which have, you will see that they
are stained with the blood of brave and true
men-it may be your kindred and friends
who have perished and are perishng sill
upon the battle fields of the South and you
will turn away from them with indignation,
acorn and disgust. .-JOSeph Holt
Year: 1861

TIE CAUSE OF THE WAR.-We have heard
much said about the rights of this section and
of that section, about the right of this sort of
property and to that sort of property, but
tell you that the true cause of this strife Nays
deeper than any such current. Ever since
men began to be organized into civilized COM
munities, there have been those who contend
ed that all power originated in usurPation,
and that the few were born to rule the many.
This is the principle which underlies the coz
test now going on Cries of That's SO. J.
indy Johnson
Year: 1861

ARMY MATTERS, Yesterday, the city was
hIled with rumors of an advance movement in
the direction Of Fairfax Courthouse, but we
were, late last night, assured that no advance
had taken place, but that everything indicated
an approaching battle.


Yesterday, the rebels were discovered erect
ing battery about half mile above General
IIaucock's headquarters to the left, and about
mile distant, there is another battery Of three
guns, supposed to be forty-poupders; they are
in such o position that they can she'll the army
with great ease and certainty.


On Saturday, there was slight skirmish
which resulted in driving in the picke's Of the
seventh Pennsylvania regiment.
Year: 1861

The bad surgery in the rebel army has called
forth an order to have them examined by a
competent board, before they receive an ap-
pointment This has excited the indignation
of the sargeons who threaten to secede from
the army unless this implied suspicion of their
ability is retracted.
Year: 1861

charge the regular price for work, for your
pay from me stops to-day


This of course the barber gladly assentrd
to.


But said the old man, on leaving, take
care you never cheat man by charging ten
times the usual price tor a shave; for it may
be another old Bill Gibbons = Commercial
Bulletin.
Year: 1861

OuTRAGEs AT THE NoRTu.-sA gentleman,
an editor Of a paper in Pennsylvania, call
ed at the office Of the New York Day
Book, and stated that he had been driven
from hishome by parties who had threat
oned his life for expressing sympathy
with the South, and scarcely had he left
when n mob surrounded his house and
rendered even his family unsafe. 1t Is
only the ether day that Democratic cd
itor in Troy, n. Y, who condemned the
war policy Of Linconln, was forced to flee
20 Canada for his life, and the Day Book
is credibly informed that man was hang
ed in Ulster county, N. Y, for expressing
his sympathy for the South in the present
struggle.
Year: 1861

DANIEL S. DICKINSON IN 1S49 AND IN
l86l.-A correspondent Of the Savannah
Republican, speaking of the position that
Daniel S. Dickinson has taken in the
present crisis, says: "There is no man
living on this continent for whom / had
greater respect than Daniel S. Dickinson,
of New York, until very recently.


think that it was in lS40 that he
spoke about in this language;


Asa Northern man, will never cross
the portals of government brought into
power upon Southern sectional issue, -
! would animate my countrymen TO flee
it as q oontagion; and were ! Southern
man would never recognize a govern
ment brought into power upon North
ern sectional issue-NEvER!


But when the Southern people act as
he said he would act, he is ahead of the
most rabd Aboltiouists in denouncng
them, and says that he would wipe the
South and her institution from the earth"


And for what does he propose to do
this? Because the Southern people act
ing in accordance with what he soid IN
1910, have refused to recognize govern.
ment brought into power upon North
ern sectional issue Oh, the duplioity ol
such men Thank God the South has
learned to LOOK upon these men in theil
true light; they now know that II is idle
to talk about aid or peace from the myr
midons Of Lincoln. We have got them
to fight, and we have got to give them O
sound threshing before we can have
nanoe.D
Year: 1861

Those who are filled with sympathy or
apprehension for the South, lest their
people shall starve for want Of our bread
stuffs, will do we'll to look little into
the statistics of trade between the two
sections. They will thus perhaps discov-
er that in ordinary seasons (the last was
an exception, on account OF the drought
IN the Southwest, we take as much food
from the South as they purchase from us.
If we supply them with some Of their
articles Of necessity, we take from them
large quantities of flour and wheat, of
beef, rice, sugar, &C., to say nothing of
the luxuries in the way Of sweet potatoes,
peas. strawberries, and other articles.
which the palatcs of epicures even now
miss from that region Of country. We
may as well make up our minds to wait
for these articles this year unless they
mature on Northern soil.
Year: 1861

NJ Office is HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL PER
IN sons using water from the Oroville Water
Works, that the same must be paid for monthly in
advance, at the E" OFFICE OF THE COMPANY -
before the tenth day Of each month, or the water
will be shut off and will not be turned on again,
except upon the payment of all arrearages, and in
addition thereto two dollars for closing and opening
stop cock. JOS. GLUCKAUF.


jn-1 If.
Year: 1861

WASHINGTON, June %.


Shrewd military men predict that no stand
will be made at Manassas or between here and
there. Now, since the evacuation of Harper's
Ferry, they have nothing to keep Manassas
for. Their line of defence is on James river.
with Richmond as its Gentry and it is said
that they must retire to it, without offering
battle. As soon as Patterson appears with
his troops coming down from the direction Of
Leesburgh, the rebels will see that they are
out-hanked, and will retire to Richmond where
their communications will not be cut off
There may be fights between pickets and
scouting parties but no general engagement.