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Year: 1861

The company which is being got
ten up here is meeting with flattering
success. But Il few more names il
requisite to f'llthe compliment, there
fore persons anxiously wishing to go
and try their skill at shooting our
enemies, have a splendid opportuni-
ty offered them. Be up and doing
for now it the time
Year: 1861

THE FRENCH AMBULANCE SysTEM.-A
number of medical gentlemen met lately in
this city to discuss the medical equip
ments necessary for an army. Drawings
were produced of an ambulance made after
the latest pattern used in the French army
in Algeria and the Crimea. This ambulance
is an omnibus shaped vehicle, to be drawn
by two or more horses, weighing some twelve
hundred pounds, bat constructed in such a
manner that it may be easily detached
separated in several pieces in the interior
the mos, important portion easily carried by
several men The interior is, when fully
standing. a row of beds, carrying six or eight
men, with great ease, but when crowded.
may be forced to transport three times that
number Each bed is a ';6eld stretcher" or
portable cot, which takes the wounded
man from the field, and without any fatigu-
ing change places him in this portable hos
pital An india-rubber bath is also attached.
Scientific American.
Year: 1861

This Mill has just been completed and is ready to
supply LUMBER of all kinds, and in any quantity at
short notice Having the very best of Timber and all
the modern Improvements in machinery. we can give
entire satisfaction to those who may favor with
their patronage.


Dee. 9, 1880. CLARK eco.
Year: 1861

THE LAMBERT WHEAT.-An Ohio paper
gives the following account of variety of
wheat called the Lambert wheat, which has
been tried and prOpagated by James An
dersOn, of Hillsboro Highland County,
Ohio. The correspondent writes


Anderson last week informed us that he
had raised about seventy acres of q new
variety of smooth wheat called the Lam
bert" or weevil-proof," the seed of which he
obtained year before last, from Muskingum
County. He raised eight acres of this
wheat last year, which yielded well, and
was entirely unaffected by weevil, while
his common wheat, sown in the same soil and
under precisely similar circumstances, was
badly injured. He reserved sufficient of
his crop to sow seventy acres for this
season, and sold the rest to his neighbors
for seed. These seventy bushels will yield
him one thousand four hundred bushels,
over one thousand of which he has already
sold at $3.50 per bushel, making pretty
handsome operation for such times as these.
The grain is large and plump, and Mr.. An
derson assures us there was not head OF
it injured in the least by the weevil, al
though it is estimated that nearly one-half
the entire wheat crop of our country this
year has been destroyed by this cause; all
who have sown this kind of wheat have in
every instance, as far as he has heard, met
with the same success. ..
Mr.. Anderson informs us that there is q
remarkable popularity about the chag Tor
husk covering the grain) in this variety OF
wheat It is much sitter and harder than
| that of the ordinary wheat, and what il
most remarkable, never opens so as to ex.
pose the grain inside. The grain is thus
entirely protected from the attacks of the
weevil, which is unable to penetrate the
husk. The grain is of considerably lighter
color than the Mediterranean wheat, bu


not as fair as the common, white variety
Year: 1861

A correspondent of the St. Louis Demo
crat relates the following incidents of the
battle field at Belmont:


One poor fellow, after he was wounded,
bethought himself to take a smoke he was
found in sitting position against tree,
dead, with his pipe in one hand, knife in
another, and his tobacco on his breast.


A young lad, about sixteen, was found
lying across log, just as he fell, grasping


A wounded man with both legs nearly shot
off was found in the woods singing the "Star
Spangled Banner" but for this circumstance
the surgeons say, they would not have dis
covered him.


A captain Of one of our regiments to-day
was looking at the prisoners we captured q
Belmont, and recognized one of them as his
own brother. .tH
Year: 1861

Not drum was heard, nor funeral note.


As his corse to the ramparts we hurried
Not soldier discharged his farewell shot


Der the grave where our hero buried.
We buried him darkly at dead of night,


The sods with our bayonets turning,
BY the noonbeam's pale and misty light,


And our lanterns dimly burning.
No useless coffin enclosed his breast,


Not in shroud nor in sheet we wound him,
Bat he lay like warrior taking his rest


With his martial cloak around him.
Few and short were the words of prayer we said,
And we spoke not word of sorrow,
As we steadfastly gazed on the face of the dead
And bitterly thought of the morrow.
We thought "a we hollow'd his narrow bed,


And smooth'd down his lonely pillow.
That the foe would be r.oting ever hi. head
And we far away on the billow.
But half OF our weary tlsk was done,


When the clock told the hour Cor retiring,
And we knew by the distant signal gun


That the foe was then sullenly firing.
Slowly and sadly we laid him down


From the field of his fame fresh and CORY;
We carved not a line and we raised not sto ne
But we left him alone in his glory.
Year: 1861

SSG Ak HOf ONAlLsDb1


by FINLEY JOHNSON.
Speak not unkindly unto those


Who stray from virtues path,
Nor pour upon their sinful heads
The yials of thy wrath
For unkind words but wound the soul,
Breed misery and death
And oft destroy what good remains,
BY their pernicious breath.
Why turn to dark and fearful hate,
a warm ard loving breast,
When kindly tones, like h ealing balm,
Would give unto it. rest;
Why give reproof instead of praise,
A frown, and not smile;
Why seek to plunge still more in vice,
Misfortune's sinful childl
Upon this earth are erring souls.
Whese will is to do good,
If kindness only with its train


By them in mercy stood
But when unto their broken hearts,
Unkindness adds its gall,
Then spring to birth those seeds of vice,
Which are within US all.
Then kindly act, and kindly speak,
To those who 20 astray;
Let kindly tones like lamps of light,
Lead all in virtues way,
And every soul which you may save,
Shall be q jewel rare
To grace thy brow in Paradise,
With endless glories there.
Year: 1861

Major Anderson remark ed to gentle
man, as they watched our Massachusetts
Eighth regiment on its march up Broad
way, that fine looking as the New York
Seventh were he had rather attack them
than the Massachusetts, 9Th. There was
that in the determined air Of the latter,
which showed :hey would prove formida-
BILE opponents.
Year: 1861

New ARMoRY.--The determination OF
tn. Government to abandon the Armory
at Harper's Ferry, and build one on Rock
Island--the Military Reservation in the
Mississippi, between the cities of Daven-
port and Rock Island will meet the APP
probation of every man who knows how
peculiarly fit the location is. Beauty,
hearlthfuIpess and security. with water


power measured only by the volume of the


Mississippi, ease of access and conven-
fence to all localities in the West, all long
ago indicated that the Government. owning
the land would make it the site of some OF
its public buildings We are glad to
vouch for the steadfast loyalty of the peo
pie, and to congratulate them on the pros
pective addition to the population and at
fractions of their neighborhood-- Cha. 1ri6
Year: 1861

EF-A young lady of this city writes to
the publishers of the Altd Pete to know
how she is to avoid chapped hands during
the cold weather. We hardly know. II
she attracts the chaps by her eyes, she
must expect some difficulty in getting them
off her hands.
Year: 1861

The Zouaves have now become house
hold word, yet but few persons. who read
with so much interest the siege of Sebas-
/ topol, are aware that it was largely owing
to the French Zouaves that the Malakoh
was taken. Capt. George B. Mcclellan, U.
5. A., who was sent out by our govern
ment to examine into the different modes
of warfare, thus describes the ingenious
device adopted to capture that fortress, af-
ter bombardment Of many months
In their admirable arrangements for the
attack of the Malakoh, the French counted
on two things for success first, they had
ascertalned that the Russians were in the
habit of relieving the guard OF the Malakoff
at noon, and that a great part of the old
guard marched out before the new one ar
rived, in order to avoid the loss which
would arise from crowding the work with
men ; in the second place, 1t was determln'
ed to keep up a most violent vertical fire
until the very moment of the assault, thus
driving tie Russians into the bomb proofs,
and enabling the storming party to enter
the work with but little opposition.


The hour of noon was therefore selected
for the assault, and the strong columns of
Zouaves intended for the work were at an
early hour assembled in the advance
trenches, all in admirable order, and fur
nished with precise instructions. The
mortars maintained an unremisting fire
until the moment appointed. The very
instant the last volley was discharged the
stormiug party of Zeuaves rushed over the
thirty PAGES before them, and were in the
work before the astonished Russians knew
what had happened. 1t was stated that this
party lost but eleven men in entering the
work Other troops advanced rapidly to
the support of the storm:ng party, blig-
ade was formed by rolling up five ladders
with planks lashsd to them, a communica-
tion was at once commenced between the
advanced trench and the bridge after
bridge passed over, the redoubt was at
once occupied by the stoIming party, and
thus the Malakoff, and with it Sebastopol,
was won. The few Russians remaining in
in the work made desperate resistance


Many gallant attempts were made by
the Russian columns to ascend the steep
slope in the rear to regain The lost work but
the road was narrow, difficult and OBJ.
structed. the position strong and the
French in force. All their furious efforts
were in vain, and the Malakoff remained


in the possession of those who had SO gal
lantly and skillfully won it. With regard
to the 6Eal retreat to the north side, it can
only be said that personal examination of
the locality merely confirms its necessity,
and the impression SO generally entertain
ed that it was the finest operation of the
war; so admirably was il carried out that
not astraggler remained behind a few men
so severely wounded as. 70 be unfit for
rough and hurried transportation were the
sole ghastly human trophies that remained
TO the allies.
Year: 1861

in care Of Capt. Dahlgren.


Washington is greatly excited over tho
strange news, and there seems to be much
doubt among the citizens as to what bo,
really been accomplished / am as vel
ignorant OF the movements Of other troops
sent to occupy the place, but there can be nc
question but that an ample force, for all the
purposes we need to carry out, is now there
L only attempt to furnish record of that
part Of the expedition which | witnessed.
and to supply the particulars, which would
surely be sought after, of the bereavement
which has caused our grievous sorrow.
am sure that no young officer in our North
ern land could be more sincerely and uni.
yersally mourned than Col. Ellsworth will
be. Perhaps none so much so, for his name
was familiar token for all that was brave.
aud loyal, and true. There is not a town
that did not know him, and could not speak
ofhim to his honor. Hisfriends, while lament
ing his early fall, may assure themselves
that he persisted in performing daring and
courageous action, in resenting a shameful
and long unredressed insult to his Govern
ment and the Chief Magistrate of his coun-
try. 1t may be said that his deed was rash.
but L should not Ii Ike to hear this reproach
too hardly urged against him. He was
young, and ardent, and full of ambition.
and perhaps knew not that sense of caution
which a colder nature would possess. But
it would be well for many of us if we were
as free from faults, and as rich in manly
virtues, as was this gallant, noble and de-
voted soldier.


/ find that | have been free in speaking
OF my own very slight connection with the
events OF this morning. 1t certainly was
not from any anxiety on my part to do so:
but because could not, in making rapid
and yet particular narration of matter in
which so few persons acted, avoid alluding
to each incidentprecisey as it occurred, with
out pausing to consider, at this time, the
question Of personality.


lhe loowing is the card Of the proprietor Of the Mar
shnii House, whose death is recorded the novs


MARSHALL HOUSE.


james w. Jackson Proprietor


Corner OF Pitt md King streets


Alexandria. Virginia.


vrginin Is determined and will conquer under the COM
mand OF JClf Davis
Year: 1861

THREE YTAR SERvIcE.-The three year
proposition has been the subject of conversa-
tion in every tent for few days past. After
pretty thorough investigation among the
men, we have no hesitation in saying that
out of the IL 900 volunteers at Camp Dem
nison, 5000 will take the oath for the long
term. Thus far but one regiment the
Ninth-has been sworn in for three years.
There was not dissenter in the ranks
This example will be followed by many 9th
ers. For every man that refuses to enlist
for three years, any company can get six
recruits. A few days ago the sense of the
different regiments was taken on the subject,
and there was not regiment that had not d
majority in every company for the war sar-
vice. Those of each company who do not
desire to go, will be released at the expira-
ton of three months and their places filled
immediately Cincinnati Gazette.
Year: 1861

The Philadelphia Ledger says:


Recruits going to the war always talk
of their return with proyiso, that the
enemy's bullets do not prevent them
Yet it is an established fact that in mod :
ern campaigns the danger to life is
three to one greater from disease than
from the bullet. The British army ir
the Crimea lost three thousand SIX hun
dred and forty three out Of ninety four
thousand troops Of these only one
thousand seven hundred and sixty one
died of wounds But sixteen thousand
two hundred and ninety ight died of
disease at the seat Of war, and nearly
thirteen thousand were sent home on
account of sickness. Where one man
was under the surgeons hands for
wounds, twelve we're under the doctors S
for typhus fever, disentary, or some
other of the insufficient camping ar
rangements, or the dissipations incident
to crowded camp, in which men have
much idle time.


Seven thousand FIVE hundred French
soldiers were slain in battle; fifty thou
sand perished of disease, and sixty-ive
thousand more were discharged and sent
home from the seat of war, as inyalids.
In our Mexican war our army lost
nearly thirteen thousand men, while
quite as many were discharged for SEEK
ness. Only one thousand five hundred
and forty-eight men were killed, or died
of their wounds, in all the battles fought,
as numerous as they were. These facts,
while it should inspirit the soldiers in
battle, should also make them cautious
of their health when lying in camp, or
on long marches Good plain food eaten
at regular intervals, healthfui and anu
sing exercises, sufficient clothing to pro-
tect the body from the sudden changes
of weather, and the avoidance of all e1
cess in eating and drinking, especially
intox icating stimulants, will do much
to preserve the good health Of the SOL
dierS
Year: 1861

rea. When in Washington, Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher was presented
with huge ring and staple, to which
the neero-who was found in the slave
pen, at Alexandria, when invested BY
Federal troops-was attached. John
C. Underwood, of Virginia, made the
presentation speech, in which he said:


Take it to the great School House of
Liberty, your own church of Brooklyn:
Show the enlightened, devoted, and
Christian people Of your charge, by this
sign, the great redemption which the
sons of the furitans are now working
out for the sons Of the old Cavaliers of
Virginia. Let it pass from Northern
hilltop to hilltop, over your great
plains and valleys, like the Gross CT the
Hermit, or the signal of the Highlander,
inspiring the brave defenders of liberty
to do and dare for our common country,
our time-honored Constitution. and our
beneficent Union with fervent pray
ers to our Heavenly Father for the
speedy coming Of that good time when
ours shall, indeed aud in truth, be the
! land of the free and the home Of the
| brave. As a citizen Of Virginia, sur
frender this trophy to your hands.
Year: 1861

Think OF It.


There are still some people in the
North, they are now very scarce we be
Iicve, who do not believe the reported
outrages upon Northern men ana Union
men in the seeded States. Let such
persons, and all others as to that matter,
weigh the following from the Louisville
Journal Remember, leading paper
in slave State, warns one of the most
eminent and talented men in another
Slave State that he cannot go back home
except at the risk of his life:


Mr.. ETHERIDGE-We don't know
where Mr.. Etheridge is at this time, but
wherever he may be, we would warn him
Of the danger Of his returning to Ten
nessce. We could give him facts which
would convince him that he can return
only at the imminent risk of his life.
Instructions have certainly been given
by Gen. Pillow that he shall be hung,
or shot, or otherwise killed at the first
opportunity. He has been watched for
in all directions Men were hunting for
him last night in the cars, near the Ten
neSsee line.


These things are true, and their truth
could easily be proved.-LoHic0i1F
JONrnut.
Year: 1861

A writer in the Congregationaztst de-
scribcs the religion which the times re-
quire, in the following sensible and
pointed language:


We want religion that goes into the
family and keeps the husband from
being spiteful when the dinner is late,
and keeps the dinner from being late
keeps the wife from fretting when the:
husband tracks the newly washed floor
with his muddy boots, and makes the
husband mindful of the scraper and the.
door mat-keeps the mother patient
when the baby is cross, and keeps the
baby pleasant--amuses the children as
we'll as instructs them-wins as we'll ae
governs~projects the honey moon into
the harvest moon, and makes the happy
hours like the eastern fig treo, bearing
in its BOSOM at once the beauty of tho
tender blossom and the glory of the
ripened fruit. We want religion that
bears heavily not only on the exceed
ing sinfulness of sin, but on the ex-
ceeding rascality of lying and stealing


"a religion that banishes small meas
ures form the counters: small baskets
from the stalls, pebble from the cotton
bags, clay from paper, sand from sugar,
chicory from coffee, otter from butter,
bee juice from vinegar, alum from Bread
strychnine from wine, water from milk
cans, and buttons from the contribution
box.
Year: 1861

She sat in the shade of the portico,


Busy with some sweet task;
The Spanish eyes and the forehead low


Hid by the airy mask
Of the dusky hair that had ripled down


As he sprang DER the fcwer-bed-
In sooth, she had purposed to frame frown.
But she framed a smile instead.
lie took her hand in that certain way,


More eloquent than words;
No sound fell into the silent day,


Save the chirp of the orchard birds:
Her work lay close by her side unscanned,
The book on her knee unread
In sooth, she had purpesed toloose her hand,
But he caught the other instead
And when with the wealth of rosy June,
The bees to their hives had got,
He leaned through the lull of sleepy noon,
And whispered a-you kno,o achaa
She swayed from his earnest eyes, and low
She buried her blushing head
In sooth, she had purposed to say, ''No no!''
But she murmured '.Yes! instead
Year: 1861

Getting their Eyes Open.


The following article from the New
Orleans Bee shows how our Southern
neighbors were deceived in their expec-
tations Of divided North in case of
war between the two sections of the
country. The Bee no doubt feels bet
ter after this open acknowledgment,
that "thousands of Southern men were
completely deceived in this matter. -
The Bee says:


awe plead guilty to the charge of
having in times past talked confidently
of and trusted implicitly in Northern
conservatism, The fact is, the professed
advocates of that particular isns ex-
pressed themselves habitually as warmly
in favor of tie South, secuted so 1oftily
the idea of coercion, and advocated with
so much apparent sincerity a system of
Cancellation and concession, that thou
sands Of Southern men were completely
deceived. There is no doubt whatever,
that an opinion prevailed among US
that if Lincoln should attempt to make
war on the South, the conservative ele-
1nent in the North would oyerwhelm
his administration, and by timely di-
versions would extend aid and succor to
US. 1t was thought that thirty thou
sand att Lincoln maj rity in New York
City would act substantially with the
South, or at all events would exhibit its
genuine sympat by with that section by
declining to take up arms in behalf of
the Federal Government. There were
not wanting among US, too, numbers of
shrewd and experienced citizens who
calculated largely on the commercial
ties and identity Of interests between
the South aud the West, and who be-
lieved that ultimately Ohio, Indiana,
and other States in that quarter would
be glad to unite their destinies with
those of a Southern Confederacy. How
the first blast of the Northern bugle
has blown away these bubbles of the
imagination.
Year: 1861




No nobler spirit has been manifested
in any country or age of the world: than
the enthusiasm with which our young
men have rallied and placed the living
and impregnable wall of their manly
hearts around our country and flag.
In every point of view it is worthy OF
praise and honor. Every one must now
feel far greater confidence in the stabil-
ity of our institutions, in our power Of
self-defense, in the vigor of our national
| life. Each man when he thinks of the
heroic thousands, whom from among the
best of our young citizens, have girded
themselves to do and suffer, will feel that
he and his family through them are rem
dered more secure.


They will be enshrined in the hearts
of our -peopls, they. will be remembered
in the prayers of millions, if they fall
their memories will be cherished, if they
return they will be honored.


We have word, however, for those
who have not enlisted. The whole SER
vice Of the country, in this hour of peril,
is not to be performed upon the field
There are duties to be performed at
home, as needful and valuable as those
of the soldier. Our armies cannot be
maintained, the Government itself can
not go forward unless the usual avoca-
tions shall 90 forward at home, while
our soldiers are upon the field. He who
is tilling the earth that there may be no
scarcity Of food, he who in any peaceful
employ yment is helping to preserve the
regular order, aud carry forward the
usual business of society, is really in
the service Of the country as the man
who stands in the ranks with his arms.
The one is no more truly the defender
of the country's honor than the other
1t may not appear so prominent, it may
be attended with less of observation and
glory, but the honest business man at
home is giving to the Government sup
port which can no more be dispensed
with than that Of the glittering ranks.


The success Of this war depends very
much upon the order and steadiness
which can be given to tho movement of
society in the Northern States, and
every man who is found faithfully in his
place, at home, may feel that he is di-
rectly contributing to the triumph.


II the whole machine Of business and
social order could move On very much as
before, if the ranks Of peace could be
filled with Industrious workers, the
Government could not be seriously
checked in its operations and the country
at large would scarcely feel the shock of
war. Now that the first great need of
the country has been met, it is safe to
say that far more men are offering them
selves than the Government requires.


We would say to all, then, do not now
be anxious to rush away from home be-
fore the country needs you. Remain
quietly in your lot, do patiently The
work which you are engaged in, and
you may feel conscious that you are
yielding your country as effective aid as
if you were in the field. When really
needed, and not till then, hasten to the
ranks.