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Year: 1861

An Illinois paper suggests the follow
ing plan of fighting the Seeded States
and conquering disunion. 1t is the most
plausible Of all the plans emanating from
Northern or Southern patent right Union
savers;


now TO FIGHT THE SOUTH WITH PEACEFUL


WEAPONS.


There is good deal said about collect
ing the revenue at the Southern ports and
the difficulties to be encountered in do
ing so. For our part we think they are
very great, and not easily overcome


1t will be hard, if not impossible to col
lect revenues under the Morrill, Tariff on
board ship. How can it be done? Bulk
connot be broken, and every separate
piece examined. And how can an entire
cargo be overhauled on board ship in
the otfing ot some Southern harbor, with
high sea running2 But look at the cost
Of Keeping up the steam fleet required
for this purpose. 1t would be more than
treble the amount of revenue collected.


Our plan would be to cut, rather than
seek to unravel this Gordian knot Let
the Northern States go in for the old
| jackson doctrine of free trade and direct
|
disunionists of the South and the tax-eat-
| ing politicians of Tho North. AT one
broadside we would demoish secession on
the one hand and official corruption on
| the other. We would diminish the horde
| Of Government officials more than one
half.


Then there would be low taxes, plenty
of bread any amount of commerce, and
most hourishing manufactures throughout
the land.


In that event we would not need even
| to blockade the Southern ports, Tor no
trade would be done at them.
The South now taxes tea, sugar, cotton
goods. and thousands of other necessa-
ries Of life. Let us have free trade. and
we would cut oil their revenues and com
pei them to tax their rich slveholders
and landowners. This would soon pro-
ducc such howl OF discomfort through
out the Southern States as would knock
their Coniederacy into ruins about their
ears.


70 meet this disunion movement some.
thing must be done, either in peaceful
or warlike manner. Count the cost and
the probable result of both plans, and
see if the free trade move is not far the
most effective. War would no doubt
ALLEVIATE these people from US forever, and
make secession in the end an absolute
necessity.


In case of free trade the same officers
that collect the State and county could
collect the national taxes.
| 1t the Government wants money let
them issue certificates in small sums bear
ing interest at low rate and receivable
for taxes. These certificates would be
current all over the Union, and being in
small amounts, every man that held them
would be interested in the prosperity OF
the country.


The difference in the tariffs-the North
ern and Sourthren-promlses to cause a
great deal of trouble 1t works very dis
advantageously to us abroad also, as the
liberal European Government are alien
ated from us by the Morrill, tariff and at
tracted to the South by theirs. This is
just the very thing their statesman desire,
and strengthens them in their weakest
point. A free trade policy on our part
would knock out their under-pinning
bring them up all standing, and squelch
| secession in sixty days.
Year: 1861

awe expect very soon to see two par
ties arrayed in the Contederacy, strug-
Cling for the Presidency next fall, and the
division will probably be upon the point
of admission of other States. That seems
to us now the most probable point upon
which parties will organize-one tavoring
the admission of other States which may
choose to accept our Constitution, the
other clinging to the delusion ofa pure
slaveocracy. The present Provisional
President and Vice President, both favor
the idea of ultimate reorganization, upon
our basis and upon this ground an oppo-
sition party will be perhaps arrayed against
them"


The above we lirdin the Augusta Chron-
icle and Sentinel, Of Saturday. We dissent
entirely from our esteemed, but somewhat
eccentric contemorary. In our judgment
there is not the slightest prospect of the
issue suggested by the Sentinel ever be-
coming practical. 1t is far more likely,
we are sorry to believe, that we shall have
to repel non-slaveholding States as foes,
than embrace them as friends. AS for
ourselves, we feel entirely indifferent as
regards this question. We think the ques.
ton Of freeHrade is much more likely to
form the primary issue in the next Fede
raj elections, and greatly fear our friend
OF the Sentinel will be found on the wrong
side in that contest.-Ga. Journal and Mes
SenJer.
Year: 1861

A STATE IN Coop CoNDITIoN.-No State
tax is to be levied in Illinois for the next
two years the accumulation of the sink
ing found for paying off the State debt
beyond the amount falling due, and the
revenue from stock in the Central Rail
Road, will defray all the expenses of the
State Government.
Year: 1861

To DESTROY CABBAGE WoRMs.--Rreak of
a large leaf from the bottom of the cab
bage, and place it on top, upper side
down. Do this in the evening and in the
morning you will lind that near or quite
all the worms on each cabbage have taken
up their quarters on this leaf. Take of
the leaf and kill them, or feed to the
chickens, and place the leaf back if there
be any more to cat ch.


DSy" The man everybody likes is gener
ally a fool. The man nobody likes is usu
ally n knaye.
Year: 1861

LAwyERs,-Lawyers are said to live
longer than men of most other profes-
sions. Perhaps this is because they have
more to repent Of than others, and are
therefore allowed to have more time to
repent in.
Year: 1861

CooL.-Tho coolest people we know Of
are the newspaper patrons who send you
a few lines Of advertisement and accom-
pany them with yard or two of pufis,
which they request you to insert in the
editorial column' This is like paying a
shopkeeper for pound of sugar, and ask.
ing him TO throw in barrel of flour.
Year: 1861

SEE HERE, GIRLs.-An eminent writer
says; ut is my firm opinion, derived
from much observation, that the period
of courtship should be short. / have
reason to say, when you have hooked
your FISH, the sooner you use your land
ing net the better"
Year: 1861

The total number of arrivals since 1913
is 4,3S6,44l. This is population greater
than that Of the whole thirteen Colonies
at the time of the Revolution. These are
facts which ought Immediately to COM
mand the earnest attention of all patriots,
and especially of all our law makers.
Year: 1861

WORTH KNowING.--As "hy time" Is
nearly upon us, we may remind>our read
ers that it is said that if three or four on
ions are boiled in pint of water, and the
liquid is brushed over glasses or frames
the fly will not light on the article wash
ed, This may be used without apprehen-
sion, as It will not do tho least injury to
the frames.
Year: 1861

DeEn A curious fact in regard to hill
near Bradford, England, is noticed in n
Liverpool paper, 1t is of q considerable
size at present, but has been noticed to be
grdually attaining greater elevation dur
ing n period extending over the last thir.
ty years. There are even young men
who remember the field being quite level,
whereas now there is high mound near
the middle of it, The cause of this sim
guar elevation. has given rise to much
speculation. Some persons suppose that
it was owing to the upward pressure Of
the water in the bowels of the earth.
Year: 1861

At the hour of midnight last night, the dis- very was made that there was man con planadc -4be yard of the Mint, corner of Es- encc first became the levee. How his pres but the party to whom arrrA have not learned, discovery belongs is MT. FrederIcnar of the this city. He boldly seized the man, ant subjected him to close questioning, which however, was of no avail for the fellow seemed too well prepared with.his answers. He as- serted that his name was George Antoine, and that he merely went into the yard to find a place where he could sleep during the night without being disturbed by the police. He also persisted in saying that he did not know the building was the Mint.

 No confederate appeared during this inter- rogation of Antoine, either to rescue him by force or secure his escape by strategem and the prisoner, probably knowing what kind of a man he had to deal with in Mr. Lauer, did not make even show of resistance. Consid- ering 1t best under all the circumstances to leave the matter in the hands of the civil power the police were called in and Antoine was taken to the Second District Lookup, where he found securer lodging for the night than the yard of the Mint would have af- forded.

 As to the rumors in connection with this affair, about the locks of the gates and doors having been modelled last month in wax, and 1 keys fitted for them, we are bound to say that there is no reliable foundation for them, and although a gentleman called upon us this morning to assure us of the fact to the truth of which he was willing to make an affidavit in any competent court of jurisdiction, that a deeply laid plot about the Mint in this city was existence, we yet believe that candid explanation of it would not have the effect of throwing our citizens into any unnecessary alarm, for the deeply laid plot to which he referred is simply the grass plot on which Antoine was lying when discovered last night

 P. S.-At late hour, we learn upon au- thority that the Esplanade Guards have not been called out Antoine is in Recorder Blache's Court, awaiting a trial.

 New Orleans Delta 22d ult
Year: 1861

We copy the following from the The Jackson port Herald of last Saturday, the 23d ult: "We have to record the death of a man who was most foully murdered on last Saturday evening by two men by the name of Barstow and StanselI. The murdered mans name was Hayhurst and is rep resented to have been industrious and hard working man, but addicted to drinking. As near as can learn, it occurred thus: The three men, who live in Independence, were on their way from this place, all being very much intoxicated. They, in company with Mr. Elliott, crossed the river in skiff, having left their wagon on the other side. Barstow and Stanseu got into the wagon; Hayhurst getting up behind Mr. FL hott, was riding horseback. The men in the wagon commenced abusing Hayhurst, applying to him all manner of vulgar and insulting epi- thets. Hayhurst told Elliott that if he would see him fair fight, he would whip Stansell He then got down from the horse and engaged in q fight with Stansell, when Barstow seized club and struck Hayhurst a blow with such force on the head as to render him senseless, and while in that condition repeated it two or three times, when they left him. Soon after, gentleman came along, and seeing Hayhurst laying in the road, got down from the horse, supposing him to be some man drunk, and tried to wake him, when Ae discovered that life was extinct The two men were arrested and had preliminary examination and were committed to jail, the case not being bailable"
Year: 1861

WE take the following from The Memphis Enquirer, and advise those who may be so lucky, in these hard times, as to have anything do with twenty-dolar notes, to examine them well:

 Twenty-dollars bills altered from ones, on the Traders Bank of Nashville are in circu- lation in that city, and will shortly find their way here. We advise our buisiness friends to scrutinize carefully the denomination of the bills on that bank before receiving them, as the alteration Is so ingeniously executed as to be extremely difficult of detection.
Year: 1861

A NUT FOR THE ABoLITIoNIsTs.-W learn that Joe Clark, colored barber of Co., lumbus, has written a letter to Governor Brown, offering to raise company of free colored men to be enlisted in the service of the State of Georgia in the present crisis.

 TConstitutionalist
Year: 1861

T AM OFFERING MY ENTIRE STOCK OF Il Dry Goods at Cost and ten per cent Every body is invited to call and see for themselves. My goods inferior to none in this market, and my object in selling off at cost and carriage is enable me to replenish with stock which will be bought exclusively with cash.

 tov3-tf. LEVIN HARRISON
Year: 1861

I'm THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FIF-
a teeenth Judicial District Of the State of Caifor-
MIA in and for the County of Butte.


The People of the State of California vs.. O. p
Watson.


Action brought in the District Court of the Fif-
teenth Judicial District and the complaint filed in
the County of Butte, in the office of the Clerk of
said District Court.


The People of the State of California send greet
ing to o. Z. Watson: You are hereby required to
appear in an action brought against you by the
above named plaintiffs in the District Court of the
Fifteenth Judicial District of the State of California
in and for the County of Butte, and to answer the
complaint filed therein, Ga copy Of which accompa-
nies this Summons) within ten days Exclusive of
the day of service after the service on you of this
Summons-if served within this County; or, if
served out of this County but in this Judicial Dis
trict, within twenty days; or if served out of said
District, then within forty days-or Judgment by
default will be taken against you.


The said action is brought to obtain Judgment
against you for the sum of S6G alleged to be due
Plaintiffs from you for taxes levied upon real and
personal property, in the year A. d. 1888 in Butte
County, fully described in Plaintiffs complaint
and if you fail to appear and answer the said COM
plant as above required, the Plaintiffs will take
Judgment by default against you for said sum Of
S6l6 l and for costs of suit and fees provided by
law.


49,, Given under my hand and Seal of the
I SEAL. District Court of the Fifteenth Judicial
'-r-i District, this oath day of May, in the
year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one.


HIM. PHIPPS, Clerk


By MILES CHAPIN, Deputy Clerk
: L..
Year: 1861

METHODIST brother had occasion to preach
a discourse against the doctrine of immersion,
but could not find a text, until, with great
shrewdness and good sense, he hit upon this
Beware OF diyers-and strange doctrines"
Year: 1861

NEW YoRK, March 23-The service on the
overland Butterfield mail route is about to
cease, in pursuance Of. the act Of Congress
so mails for California, from all parts Of the
country, must 20 rid Panama until the new
route via Salt Lake and PlacerVlle, goes into
operation on the LIST Of june
Year: 1861

E3- Id1eness Is the mother Of mischief the
Instant horse is done eating his oats, he turns
to and gnaWB down bis mapger. Substitute
labor for oats, and virtue for manger, and what


is true Of horses is equally true Of men and
Year: 1861

WASHINGTON, May 1s.-The bridge con-
Meeting with the Virginia shore was guarded
last night by larger number Of effective
troops than heretofore An armed vessel
was in the vicinity. These measures were
precautionary in view of reports of design
to injure the bridge by Secessonists.
Year: 1861

In answer to the Union of last week, we
have but one word. The editor of this sheet
is at present absent and being unadvised ol
his wishes, We shall say nothing of the why's
and .wherefores of his appointment as Post
Master. We Save no pecuniary interest In
this matter, and therefore may be allowed to
express our opinion. We say that Mr..
Norris was justified in accepting the appoint
ment-under the circumstances every man,
who desired the place, would have done the
same. If all the facts and circumstances
were understood none would blame Mr.. N.
for accepting the appointment. Even as it
is, we think it would be far more manly in
some of Mr.. Ms. ellow-townsmen, if they
would come to him and have personal ex-
planation of the matter; rather than to sneak
about and conardly slanaer him. But mems
tastes and habits are an index of their
breeding.


But this matter in no wise concerns cur
fiiendjo. If Mr.. N has done wrong let the
Grand Jury look after him, as they some
times do after Others
Year: 1861

want had dealt severely with him, and the
cheering bowl had drowned his better nature,
and laid his form PROSTATE in the gutter, that
ne became fitted for the service of his employers,
and accepted situation in the Skunkto Skunk
forum" of their organ. Certainly, all the humane


instincts that ennoble man must have been crowded
from the heart of Wyman, when, in 1859, he per-
mitted one of the oompositors in his office to die
neglected in hovel on Myers street, and to be
carried, solitary and alone by the undertaken, to
paupers grave at the expense of the county He
had no time to follow the remains of the Printer to
his unmarked grave. We have viewed with
true spirit of pity and commiseraton the soporiic
productions of his softened brain laborousy ground
firth, with Breckinrldge or secession organ upon
his left knee, as guide through the darkness and
gloom of anarchy and dissolution into which he
was being unwillingly hurried. He comes gingerly
to the Endorsement and whtewashing of Smith, as


if there still fingered around his heart faint re-
membrance of once noble, honest, manly pur-
pose in life. The poor, feeble-headed old man
starts in his defence of the pundering measure by
saying ave know nothing personally of the
merits of the bill in question" That is frank ac-
hHohlcuShSHs vi HIS IOr Wnlcn we
give him credit But his masters expect him to
sustain the plundering measure, and he comes up
to the labor exacted of him. and closes the same
paragraph in which the above acknowledgment Of
ignorance occurs, by saying: 1.-The assertion of


the Record that the Bill 'legalizes the assessments
of property in Orovlle made prior to the destruc-
tion OF the town by fire, in 1858, and renders any
property that the person against whom the assess.
ment was then made, may now hold, liable there
for is to say the least Incorrect. After this tri-
umphant escape from acknowledged ignorance by
denying the plain provisions of the bill, he closes
his astute remarks on the subject by saying ave
think "the Prosecuting Attorney ais abundantly
able mot only to protect the bill but himself from
the attacks of the Record.' Shakespeare makes
one of his characters say ''Look you I'm but
fool yet have the wit tc THINK. =
Year: 1861

The Ch"rl"stuu correspondent Of the
Providence journal writes as follows in
regard to the " floating battery"


The floa,ing battery has at last proved
failure From the weight being all on
one side, it was found necessary to build
a staging extending beyond the other
side, n which were piled bass of sand in
order to bling it to an even keel, which
had the effect TO break it in two. and
thus render i, useless, as it is improbable
that it can be strengthened sufficiently
t" be Of any utility hereafter. AID it
will remain after they have expended
twenty thousand dollars upon it, mon.
umcnt of Charleston ingenuity.
Year: 1861




MEssRs EDITORS Il desire short space in your
paper cOunteract far necessary the effect likely
be produced to the injury of the G rona Guards by
communication under the signature Mlitare, published
in the Daily Journal of the 5th inst.


The proposition Of Militare to merge the " Carolina
Guards and the Wilmington Rife Guards into
Company exactly fair to either organization. 1t is
just about week since it undertaken get up the
company of Carolina Guards Each day adds its numbers
and already has 30 80 MEMBERS with the prospect of
very decided future success.


Ii Wilmington contains twelve thirteen thousand in
habtans certainly six companies ought to be raised and
sustained it. There is advantage in having good
number because who would object to joining
would very readily join another In this every
in the community, subject to military duty might be suited
and afforded opportunity of learning the drill and the
use musket And here would suggest that any cit
who liable to be called to his State and who
fails avail himself of these opportunities for learning to
fight doing himself justice. The who may now
take the field should certainly understand much
as he of military tactics. The " Carolina Guards
intended to be permanent organization, but merely to
many of the citizens be induced to the
company in the drill and to be ready for any emergency
of the State in these gloomy and uncertain times


Let every man in Wilmington, who capable OF bearing
arms show interest in matters, and attach himself
of the companies organizing or already organ
ized. CAholdNA GUAhU. =
Year: 1861

OLD STANU.
- THE SUBSCRIBER takes this method of returning
M her sincere thanks to her friends for the
~ liberal patronage her house has received for the past
few years. and would respectfully inform the public that
she prepared accommodate Boaders-ehe Transient
Regulation the most liberal terms.


Her house being situated the South side of Chestnut
street, below Front convenient location business
Her table will at all times be found amply provided with
the best the market affords Her kept in the best
possible manner rendering every comfort and convenience
to her guest in her power.


continuance of public patronage is respectfully solicit
ed. MARY s. McCALEB.
December II, l66O-dtf.
Year: 1861

PoIsoHNED- The Washington correspon
dent of the New York Herald writes:


A ease of poisoning with pies filed with
pounded glass was discovered al the en-
campment of Col. lIowards Third Maine
Regiment to day Three of the men were
seized with violent illness The symptoms
were peculiar, and surgeons from neigh
boring camps were called In consultation
Upon interrocating the sick men, it was
founb that they had all eaten pies early
this morning from pie vender about the
camp. part of one of these pies was
produced. and upon examination it was
found to be filled with pounded glass One
of the men is expected to die, and tue
other two are in a dangerous condition. =
The pie vender has not yet been discover
ed. a patrol was detailed for tha. pur-
pose but up to this evening their efforts
were unsuccessful.
Year: 1861

WIFE DrsArPoINTED.-A volunteer Of the
Second Ohio Brigade, who has been giant
ed a few days furloHsh prior to leaving for
active service, returned to Camp Dennison
on Thursday with his trigger finger wrap
ped up in bandaee He replied to the
curious questions of his comrades concern
ing it that his wife bitterly opposed bis de-
sire to enlist for three years, and during
his visit home she took chisel and NAL
let, and while he was asleep, chopped os
the end of his finger, under the supposi-
ton that such mutilation would cause his
rejection by the mastering officer. Great
was her vexation when her obstinate ltus-
band informed her that as he was drum
mer it could not affect him. The soldier
insists upon going, and his " better half is
supposed to be disconsoiate. We know
this to bs true says the Cincinnati Cem-
merctGL
Year: 1861

And testimonials new, and almost without number,
might be given from ladies' and gentlemen in all grade
Of society, whose united testimony none could resist


that ,of Woods Hair Restorative will restore the bald
and gray preserve the hair Of the youth to old age
In ali Iia unnthful beauty.
Year: 1861

the expression Of his feelings until he could get back to
tAat home from which be was row fugitive without
crime. Bat he assured the people o; Tennessee tha;
KentuckiSns would yet preserve the liberties OF that
ate andrep the Liuceln invaders who outraged her
soil, and would yet embrace Tennessee sister who
bad come to her assistance in the hour Of her depes
Year: 1861

Tae Hot the Warm and the Healing springs are 6lled
wish SEX soldiers. We hear on good authority, that
they are not dsd to as they should be- Where the
blame las properly do not pretend to say The MAJ
ter should be looked into Immediately. We are not Of
those who believe that everything is being done for our
sck soldiers that and Oush. be DONE and, uale


speedy reform is iaAuglrA.sd, it will become our duty
% speak quite plaialy lhis subject
Year: 1861

GcvEnNoR DowNEY.-There is a Los An
geles gentleman in town who was present on
Saturday week when Gov. Downey made his
speech, and says, as Irinted, it is nothing like
his speech AZ delivered His remarks fell
like a wet blanket upon the audience. This
man positively asserts that the Governor did
say that this is an abolition war carried on
bv abolilionists and that all the armies in
the country could not make him take back
one word Of his famous political letters
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