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Year: 1861

MOORISH LADIES 1t is rarely that Moorish
ladies OF rank, says a writer in the Home
Journal, ever leave the precincts of their
own habitations. Whenever they do so, it is
generally for the purpose of attending the
bath, and their transit thither from their
abodes is effected in IA closely covered car
riage. their faces at the same time being
studiously concealed from the vulgar gaze.
There was one respectable old lady who had
been seventy years in Algiers, and being one
day persuaded to pay visit to European
lady, was utterly astoGnded at the size of the
town and the appearance of the country
around, of which she knew no more than if
she had passed her life on an iceberg. The
most they ever do is to walk on the house
tops at dusk, and enjoy for a short time the
serene beauty of the evening and the daz-
zing magnfcence of the planetary orbs
above And how can minds, wild and untu-
tored as theirs, enter into the magic poetry
that breathes around in every wavelet of the
scarce concealed blue of the atmosphere
DeBd alike to the external world and know
ing naught of the uneXplored recesses of the
internal, they live life Of unconquerable
eanUi, and die Ike dogs-no expectation, no
nope lpf lntuli OF au1nl save iHe udIh eternity
Of nothingness. Yet the Moorish lady has
one object in life-that of getting as fat as
she possibly can The more Acsh she makes.
the better is she pleased, as the Algerians
look upon beauty in particularly solid point
of view, Judging it in great measure by the
comparative number of pounds, avoirdupois
or troy, which it may contain. The larger
her proportions, the more chance has the
Mauresque of securing her husbands affec-
tion-a by no means inferior consideration
in country where wives form staple article
of commerce. To attain this Object there
are few things she will shrink from eating
and drinking, and a legion, (rather dubious,
| am afraid is ahoat concerning European
lady, who actually succeeded in making a
Moorish woman swallow "A teaspoontul of cod
liver oil, which she had with truth informed
her would fatten most wonderfully. The
poor barbarian made terrible face after it,
and appeared as if she were about to call
for the steward" and, need scarcely say,
preferred ever after her own dietary princi
Piles to the most skillful pharmacopgian pre-
scriptions
Year: 1861

THERE is nothing formidable about death
except the consequences of it, and these e
ourselves can regulate and control. The
shortest life is long enough if it leads to bet


ter, and the longest is too short ifit does not.
Year: 1861

New Discovery OF LlME-lhe Grass VAL
lev National says that Messrs. Brace and
Grant have recently opened lime quarry
on the east side of Greenhorn creek, about
half mile below Lewis saw mill, on the
Walloupa road. 1t is situated about seven
and half miles from Grass Valley, and seven
from Nevada. The ledge is about fifteen
feet in thickness easily accessible, and the
lime of very superior quality. The discovery
is very imp portant to Nevada and Grass Val
lev. as the ledge is accessible at all seasons,
and the distance less than to any other ledge
now being worked.
Year: 1861

SENATORS on a LARK.-It is refreshing oc-
casionally to turn aside from patent bummers
and chronicle line or Two relative to Hon
cradles who may occasionally get on lark,
as they arc after all merely flesh and blood
and susceptible of the weaknesses thereunto
apperaining. A Sharp game in which no
compromise could possibly be entertained
came off on Monday night Of which the fol-
lowing yeritahe account is a shadow. Two
of our Senators, being on a lark called at the
hotel of an attache of the Legislature and
sent the sable Mercury to his room with
note advising him that there was a lady be


low who wished tG see him. The Legislative
attache-a Teuton-came down duty
bound, and inquired of the colored Mercury
who it was that gave him the note. The lat


ter pointed to a female who sat on a sofa at a
short distance, and just distuguishable in the
dim gaelight The attache approached her
very CALAMITY and seated himself by her
side She began to sob "Mine Got" said
he, "what hash been doing?' No answer
being returned, he cireed her waist with his
arm and tried to soothe her, and as last re-
sort ventured to kiss her. The last dodge let
the cat out of the bag-the lady was seized
with Mysteries and proved to be one Of our
Senators. Suffice it. that the attache took it
all in good part-treated all hands and is
down on feminine disguises.- Sac. News.
Year: 1861

The colored people Of Canada arc making
quite u formidable movement towards
Aay:i The Chatham Piaaet Of tho i7ih
notices the departure Of u party Of onC
hundred and for'y-fOur eolored people foI
New York whence they take ships foI
Hsy'i. A few days before another large
party left Chatham for tho same Island, and
The fore part of November about one han.
dred and hiiy more WIN leave the same
locality for the colored mans chosen home.
The Planet says We are given to understand
that this is but the beginning ofau EXTENSIVE
movement OF the oolored people now 10
Canada In tho same direction. Iss I U
Year: 1861




the same labor as abroad, II would be better
10 protect that article. Labor is the true
standard Of value. II bar Of iron got out
Of the mines Of England, and bar Of iron
taken from the mines Of Pennsylvania be
produced at the same cost, it follows that u
the English be shipped from Manchester 10
Pittsburgh and the American bar from
Pittsburgh 10 Manchester, the cost Of car
riaEe is appreciably lost. (Langhter.) u
we had no iron here, then We should encour-
age its shipment from foreign countries, but
not when we can make it rs cheaply in our
own country. This brings Us back to our
first proposition, that if any article can be
produced at home with nearly the same
cost as abroad, the carriage is lost labor
The treasury Of the nation Is in such low
condition at present that this subject now
demands the attention Of Congress, and will
demand the immediate consideration Of the
new Administration.


The Tariff bill now before Congress may
or may not pass at the present session.
confess do not understand the precise pro-
visions Of this bill, and / do. not know
whether it can be passed by the present
Congress or not. 1t may or il may not be-
come the law Of the land, but if it does, that
will be an end Of the matter until modih-
cation can be effected, should it become
necessary. If it does not pass, and the IA
test advices have are to the effect that 1t is
still pending, the next Congress will have to
give II their earliest attention. According to
my political education, am inclined to be-
lievs that the people in various sections Of
this country should have their own views
carried out through their representatives in
Congress, and if the consideration of the
Tariff bill should be postponed until the
next session Of the national legislature, no
subject should engage your representatives
more closely than that Of a tariff, and if I
have any recommendation to make it will be
that every man who is called upon to serve
the people in a representative capacity,
should study this whole subject thoroughly,
as intended to myself.


Looking to all the varied interests Of our
common country, go that when the time for
action arrives, adequate protection can be
extended to the coal and iron Of Pennsylva-
MIA, the corn Of Illinois, and the reapers of
Chicago, permit me to express the hope that |
this important subject may receive such |
consideration at the hands of your repre- |
sentatives, that the interests Of no part Of |
the country may be overlooked, but that all |
sections may share in common the benefits |
of just and equitable tariff. (Applause.) |
But 1 am trespassing upon your patience |
(cries of "no, nc" I" 90 on, !" we'll listen, -
and must bring my remarks TO a close. |
Thanking you most cordially for the kind |
which you have extended TO me.
I bid you all adieu. Enthusiastic applause.) /
Year: 1861

That " CITIZENS MEETIEs.-The Herald
of last evening states that the Leader false
ly reported the number present at tho An
gier House meeting, on Thursday night
We had our information from two separate
and disinterested gentlemen, both of whom
were present at the meeting, and in both of
whom we have the most perfect confidence.
According to each of these informanhs, the
number was about twenty-five.
Year: 1861

~ Owners of coal oil wells who want
to do their work BY steam, can purchase a
tiP-top boiler, exactly. suitable for that kind
Of work, at low price It IS in all respects
as good as new, and is large enough to run
a five horsepower engine. Inquire at LEADER
Counting Room. If
Year: 1861

Now, fellow citizens, must confess that
there are shades Of difference in construct
ing even this Platform; but am not now
intending to discuss these differences, but
merely to give you some general idea upon
this subject. l have long thought that II
there be any article Of necessity which can
be produced athome with as little, or nearly
Year: 1861

SECESSION MADE EAsY-The Springfield
Republican says that if the new theory that


State may go out when she pleases shall obtain,
its converse must also be correct, and State
which has once seeded may also come back


when she pleases, or threaten to spill 'buckets-
full of blood" if denied the privilege. So that
by and by people will say, "Well, how many


States are there in to-dayP "Is South Caro-
lima in to-day" no. but she is coming in to-
morrow to get an appropriation for a new rail-
road, and will go out again next week long
enough to import a stock of dry goods from
France free of duty" That would certainly
inaugurate new sensation era, when kaleid-
oscopic government shall make as many cham
ges in year as France has made in a decade. I
Year: 1861

INSULT TO Our STARRY FLAG.-Some
midnight traitor tore down and destroyed an
American flag at Los Angeles, whereupon the
News exclaims:


A man who could wilfully and mahciously
tear down and rend in pieces the glorious star
spangled banner of his country is too contemp-
tible to live, and too degraded to go among hon
est people. The darkness of night is a fitting
emblem of the deed and its perpetrator.
Year: 1861

situated on the Franklin Turnpike, within half mile
o the city opposite the residence of the late Jo-
ses,h W. Horton This perhaps, the most command


ms site IN the vicinity Of Nashville and IS most de


,reabIe country residence. The house will be sold
with ~ or Is acres Of land the purchaser may
Year: 1861

sees to pay, 80 that he may enjoy monop-
oi5 OF the business Of furnishing medi-
um Of exchange, without furnishing any
capital in it, charging On his fiction, mean
while, 10 per cent per snnum interest as
money. Obviously this occupation Of the
channel Of circulation suppreases the pro-
ductive business that would Otherwise re-
produce the capital, which would return
the money to the circulation aud to the re-
sources Of the State.


An idea prevails extensively among mer-
chants and practical men, that the banks
borrow capital in their notes and credits,
and that there is, consequently, capital in
the debt currency, although borrowed; but
this is not 50. 1t contains neither capital
nor value, nor even representative value:
for nothing is borrowed in this currency
but its counter debt-the one debt repre-
fenting the other-the two being inmate
rial equivalents, eating each other up like
The Kilkenny cats, and, as to material ex-
4stence, as much a myth as they. If the
legislators and intelligent people Of Hi
nois would add some $12,0O0,0 900 Of capt.
tai, IN its most tangible and effective form,
to the resources Of the State, they can do
it by suppressing the fictitious currency,
and requiring the banks to borrow exist
ing value by paying interest fer it, like
honest men in every other department Of
business


The obscurity Of this subject in popular
apprehension appears to arise chiefly from
contosmdiug the material value of political
economy with the immaterial or ideal
value OF feeling, thought and expectation,
with which political economy has nothing
to do. You may have valuable friend,
q valuable idea, and q valuable expecta-
ton, without being any richer for the pos
session When your friend gives you a
horse or homestead, or your valuable
idea is paid for in good gold, OF your mai
den aunt dies and leaves you her estates,
political economy will attend to your case;
but while these material blessings are in
allegiance, and merely give promise Of be-
ing yours, they may be golden expecta-
tons, but to you they are not wealth.
So all the promises Of debt currency are
expectations, only more unfounded, for
they are based on absolutely nothing; they
are not wealth. Wealth and productive
power are in capital, not in promises to
pay it; and while these promises are &C.
cepted in lieu Of capital, repelling it as
they do dollar for dollar in every instance,
it Is perfectly obvious that there is so mach
less capital to borrow, so much less pro-
ductiye power, and SO much less wealth in
the State.
Year: 1861

Every vote cast against the Charter
Amendments to-day is vote to render it
impossible to hold peaceable election here
next fall, if not impossible to hold any
election at all. The new election law pro-
vides that every man whose vote is chal-
lenged mist bring forward tao aoitnesses
who must be knowing to the fact that he is
duly qualified The witnesses must be
personally k',o,en to the judges Of election.
The voter himself must tell where he has
resided for the past sixty days and what
occupation he has followed, and one Of
his Witnesses must swear that he the
challenged party has resided in the
State one year. Now it will be
literally impossible to poll all the legal
votes of the city under this law without
more voting places, and the Council can-
not make more voting places for State
or county election than there are wards in
the city. A very general misunderstand-
ing exists on this point The law distinctly
provides that each ward in city
shall be u voting precinct for State
or county elections, and that such precincts
ahau not BE- divided For municipal elec-
tions the council may create as many
voting places is they choose, but for all
other elections the number Of polls must
be just equal to the number Of wards-no
more and no less. If the charter amend
ments are voted down the number Of wards
cannot be increased till the next session Of
the Legislature two years hence. Mean
while we have the election of delegates to
the Constitutional Convention next fall,
which will probably bring out the largest
vote ever cast in Cook county, and the
regular election for State officers, men,
ber OF Congress and members Of the Legis-
lature next year. II, by the vote Of to-day,
the number Of wards in Chicago is limited
to ten for the succeeding two years, those
who are instrumental in bringing about tlc
wild confusion and disorder sure to result
at the polls next fall, sciH BE- Sorry for it.
Mark that
Year: 1861




II the amendments to the Charter arc
voted down to-day the people will be de-
prived Of the benefit of smaller Wards.
Instead Of having twenty-three voting
places, they will have but ten for State and
county elections.


Also Of the benefit Of the provision to
preserve the purity Of the ballot hog, by
preventing the colonizing Of voters from
one Ward to another on the eve Of an
election.


The section that prevents malicious cred
itors Of the city, from leyying on the fire
engines and horses, will be 1ost-thereby
suhjecting every mans house to the hazard
Of destruction.
The section that compels the Police Court
Clerk to pay over to the City Treasury all
witness and other fees uncalled for, instead
putting it into hia pocket, will be lost,
thereby depriving the city Of some thou
sands Of dollars of revenue.


The section authorizing the Council. to
regulate junk shops will be lost.


The section authorizing the Council 10
regulate the weight and quality of bread
will be lost


The section authorizing the Council to
order The arrest Of loaters, vagrants and
beggars who have no visible employment,
will be lost.


The section which transfers the two per
cent tax On insurance companies to the
City Treasury for the support Of the steam
fire department, will be lost, and tile tax
payers will thereby lose about $12, 600
per year.


The benefits that would accrue from all
these amendments will be lost to the peo-
pie if the "Against Amendments ticket
prevails to-day.


Will men stand in their own light and
Tote against their OWL interests
Year: 1861




sIsIF sos-Ths following is portion of q
commuuicHtion-one of many which we
have received on the same subjeet--which
has been handed US by volunteer. If the
facts set forth are SO, the matter should at
once be talzensil hand. Our own observa-
ton had led US 10 different conclusion, bat
it may be that we have not seen everything
that is to be seen.


$50 Twill state few facts, and if
your readers do not believe them let then
visit Camp Taylor and enquire and exam
inc for themselves. l.J 1-


here is no cleanliness about the cooking.
y Is very common thing for a soldier to
pick out hairs from the butter while eating.
The meat--if meat some Of may be called
lis often half cooked, and Of the poorest
quality. Some Of the bread has been put
on the table at least half dozen times, and
would answer very well as toast. Sunday
afternoon strong stencil arose from the re-
fuse matter thrown from the table, and not
two feet from it on our marching to dinner.


lean bring fifty Witnesses of nv aeuuain-
tance to prove the above. Is this the time
to coin money from men who are fighting
she battles Of our countryY


rs Qii4 oNE EHo KNOWS.
Year: 1861

As / have been in the habit Of read
ing your paper. and have received much
valuable Information from it. ] take the
opportunity of giving some Of my expe-
rience in destroying lice on cattle and
calves, and ticks on sheep. / have tried
almost every recipe that I have heard
Of. but found none that had the desired
effect without injury 10 the animal. such
as feeding sulphur and copperas in suf-
fieient quantities 10 saiuraie the blood
more or less, according to the weather al
The lime Of feeding. Ny way is 70
smoke them with tobacco, blowing il in-
TO the hair about The head and neck. nose
and along the back. and wherever the
lice are most 70 be found. I have used
this for four or fve years TO . perfect
satisfaction. Il makes the hair soft and
smooth. and makes il smell so much like
a tobacco smoker that they cannot stand
it. What it does not kill, run for their
lives; they cannot stand the smoke.


The instrument l use IS made Of tin,
shaped like tia horn. about six inches
long, with a cover that fits tight over The
big end, two and a half inches in diam
eter, with a small tube In the center, sol
dered to the cover TO blow through. Put
the fcbaeco IN, with a coal Of FIRE on TOP,
and the cover fitting tight, the smoke
goes through the tobacco, which makes
il all the stronger. Last fall ! bought
several calves some Of them we're poor
and covered with blue lice; I smoked
Them twice. and now there Is not one 10
be found on them. and they look slick as
kiuens.- Wisconsin, Farmsr.
Year: 1861

According to the Scientific American, DIR. j.
g. Bunting has published very interesting
and useful facts IN relation to the digestion of
food in the human stomach, deduced from his ex-
periments with st. Martin, the man with
larged bullet hole in his side, through which can
be seen all the processes of digestion. In speak
ing of the nutritious property of farinaceous food,
| and the proper state in which it is most easily
digested, he gives the following most excellent
advice:


"Hot bread never dIgests. Bear this in mind
reader, if you are accustomed to eat the hight and
tempting biscuit at tea, the warm loaf that
looks so appetizng upon the breakfast table. AZ
ter long season of tumbling and working about in
the stomach, it will begin to ferment, and will
! eventually be passed out Of the stomach
welcome tenant of that delicate organ, but never
digests-never becomes assimilated to or absorbed


by, the organs that appropriate nutrition to the
body. 1t is frst-rate Dyspepsia producer. The
above is true, as has been repeatedly proved from
actual observation through the free side of Alexis
St, Martin"


This is one of those numerous demonstrations of
Science which induce people to exclaim, as Mr.
Bundle does of the Law, "Science is an ass" We
have great respect for the worthy gentleman, AL
exis st. Martin, who permits himself to be ex-
perimented upon in this way for the public good,
and who keeps the enlarged bullet hole in his
side" as window through which the medical
faculty inspect the state of his digestion. But
the result is not satisfactory The experiment has
been tried on a wider scale than tie case of a
single individual, and by people whose stomachs,
not being deeayod aud exposed by enlarged bull
let holes" are in better condition to decide what
kind Of food is most nutritious to the system in
sound condition. In the Northern States, where
cold bread is alone universally eaten, there is
hundred times more dyspepsia than in the South,
where warm bread is the unvarying accompani-
ment of every meal Every man can very easily
find out for himself what kind of food agrees or
dsagrees with him, and would much better con-
suit the state of his own system than any "Scien-
ti6c Agencies" Or "the free side Of Alexis ST.
Martin"
Year: 1861

Entertaining the opinion that some movement
should be instituted at the earliest moment to ar
rest the progress of events which seem to be rap
idly hurrying the Government of the Union to
dsmemberment, as an initiatory step, have, with
great diffdence, concluded to submit to the Gov
of the slave States series of propositions,
and ask their counsel and operation In bringing
about settlement upon them as basis.


Should the propositions be approved, they can
be submitted to the assembling Legislatures and
Conventions of the slave States, and Convention
of all Of said States, of those only approving, be
called to pass upon them, and ask general Con-
vention of all the States of the Union that may oe
disposed to meet US this basis for full confer
ence. The present good to be accomplished would
be to arrest the secession movement, until the
question as to whether the Union can be preserved
upon fair and honorable terms, can be tested. If
there be basis for the adjustment of our difficult
ties within the Union, nothing should be left un-
done in order to its development To this end it
seems to me there should be conference of the
States in some form and it appears to me the form
above suggested would be most effective.


/, therefore, as the Governor of a State having
deep stake in the perpetuity of the Union, and
at the same time much selicitude for the main
tenance of the institution Of slavery as any other,
would respectfully beg leave to submit for your
consideration the following outline of propositions:





tion of the United States, all laws in the free
States in any degree multiplying or obstruct-
ing the execution Of the fugitive slave law.


2. Amendments to said law to enforce its
thorough execution in all the free States providing
compensation to the owner of the slave from the
State which fails to deliver him up under the re-
quirements of the law, or throws Instructions in
the way of his recovery.


Sd. The passage of law by Congress, compel
ling the Governors Of free States to return fug-
tives from justice, indic.ed by a grand jury in
another State, for stealing ensicing away slave
4th Te amend the Constitution so as to divide
all the Territories now belonging to the United
States, or hereafter to be acquired, between the
free and the slave States, say upon the line of the
37th degree of north latitude-all north of that
line to come into the Union with requisite popula-
ton free States, and all sonth of the same to
come in as slave States


9th. To amend the Constitution so as t, guaran-
forever to all the States the free navigation of
the Mississippi


9th. 70 alter the Constitution so as to give the
South the power, say in the United States Senate
to protect itself from unconstitutional and opprcs
sive Legislation upon the subject Of slavery


Respectfully, your obedient servant,


BMAGOFFIN