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Year: 1861

GRANp JuRy.-This body organized yester-
day, and went vigorously to work, examin-
ing matters which properly come within
their jurisdiction. They expect to be able to
do their work thoroughly without making
the session lengthy one.
Year: 1861

What will you give for a valuable
piece Of information, reader? We can't
charge you anything for it-not even a
three cent stamp, yet we warrant it ap-
plicable on all occasions, and something
that will be more useful than all the
receipts for glove cleaning, hair-dye, and
washing made easy ever invented


Choose the RIGHT TINE for saying
things. If your wife looks wearied and
wern out, be sure that is not the right
time to tell her that the tea is not hot,
or that the bread is sour. Comfort her
cheer her up Use the ten thousand
little stratagems you were wont to handle
SO skillfully in the courting days, to
bring out the smiles around her lips.


If you are annoyed or vexed at peo-
pie, just remember that it is not the
RIGHT TINE to speak. Close your mouth
shut your teeth together firmly, and
our receipt will save you many useless
and unavailing regret, and many bitter
enemy.


If you happen to feel little cross
and who amongst US does not at some
time or other? don't select that season
for reproving your noisy household
flock. One word spoken in passion
will make a scar that a summer Of smiles
can scarcely uproot.


Ifyou chance to be woman, the ad-
vice is Just as good. Never tease your
husband when he comes home, weary,
from his days business. 1t is not the
RIGHT TIME. Don't ask him for expen-
sive trinkets when he has been talking
about hard times-that is most assuredly
the WRONG time.


If he has entered upon any under
taking against your advice, don't seize
On the moment Of its failure to say, Il
told you so!'' In fact, it is never the
right time for those four monosy yllables.


Oh, if people only knew enough to
discriminate between the right and the
wrong, there would be less estrange-
meut Of heart! The greatest calamities
that overshadow our lives have some
times their germ in matters as appar-
antly slight as this. If you would only
pause, reader, before the singing taunt,
or the biting sneer, or the unkind scoff
passes your lip-pause just long enough
to ask yourself, "Is it the right time for
me to speak?' you would shut the door
against many headache!


The world hinges on little things.
and there are many less trivial than the
RIGHT time and the WRONG!
Year: 1861

dore was to call for water, and when it
was brought he dashed three buckets
full into the Internal eontrivance, and
he then breathed more freely.


"No, no. he muttered, as he leaped
from the hold. '.Do nothing rashly.-
Let me go in the cabin first. You may
follow me-


Commodore Tucker strobe into the
cabin, walked up to the bunk where his
passenger lay, and grasping hold of the
female dress, he dragged its Hearer out
upon the floor. There was a sharp re-
sistanee3 and the passenger drew pistol,
but it was quickly knocked away-the
gown was torn off, and Man came forth
from the scattered remnants of calico and
linen. 1


ThelGell was assured that his whole
plot had been discovered, and at length
he owned that he had planned to turn out
in the course of the night, and get hold
Of the ball of tw1ne, which he had left
in convenient place: he then intended
to have gone aft carefully unwinding
the string as he went along, then to have
got into the boat, cut the falls, and as
the boat fell into the water, he would
have pulled smartly upon the twine.


"And [ think you know" he con-
tinued with wicked look, ''what would
have been the result. [ shouldnt have
been noticed in the fuss-I'd have got
out Of the way with the boat, and you'd
have all been in the next world in short
order. All say is I'm sorry 1 didn't
do it,"


1t was with much difficulty that the
Com modore prevented his men from
killing the villain on the snot He
proved to be one of the enemy's officers,
and was to have had heavy reward if
he succeeded in destroying the American
Commodore and his crew.


The prisoner was carried on deck and
lashed o.the main rigging where he was
told he sE ould stay till the vessel got
into port.


"What a horrid death that villain
meant for u3!'' uttered Carter.


eyes, a horrible death" replied
Tucker with shudder.


"He belongs to the same gang that's
been Robin, and burning tie poor folks
| houses On the eastern coast" said one
of the men.


EYES," returned the Commodore,
while the muscles about his mouth
twitched nervously. sr


4 bitter curse from the prisoner here
broke upon the air, and with clenched
fist the Commodore went below.
In the morning when Commodore
Tucker came on deck the town of Semin
was in sight upon the starboard bow
but when he looked for the prisoner, he
was gone


Garter said he sternly, ,"where's
that villain [ lashed here last night?"


81 IN sure don't know where he is,
Commodore. Perhaps he's jumped
overheard The Commodore looked
into Carter's eyes and saw twinkle of
satisfaction cleaning there. He hest
! tated moment-then turned away and
murmured to himself:


"Well, well-l cannot blame them
If the murderous Villains gone to his
death he's only met With fate which
! he richly deserved Better far that it
be him than that my noble crew were
now all In the oceans cold grave"
Year: 1861


In these lines, addressed to wife "On
Wedding Day." by Gen. MASSEY, there is tn
true touch of nature:


Nine years ago you came to me,
And nestled on my breast,
A soft and winged mystery


That settled here to rest;
And my heart rocked it's babe of bliss,
And soothed its child of air,
With something 'twixt song and kiss,
To keep it nesting there.
At first thought the fairy form
Too spirit-soft and good
To fill my poor, low Lest with warm
And wifely womanhood.
But such cozy peep of home


Did your dear eyes unfold;
And in their deep and dewy gloom
What tales of love were told
In dreamy curves your beauty droopt,
As tendrils love to twine,
And very graciously they stoopt
To bear their fruit, my Vine
To bear such blessed fruit of love,
As tenderly increased
Among the ripe vine-bunches of
Your balmy-breathing breast.
We cannot boast to have bicllered not
Since you and 1 were wed;
We have not lived the smoothest lot,
Nor found the downiest bedI
Time hath not passed DER head in stars,
And under foot in flowers, rrae.-
With wings that slept on fra grant airs
Thro' all the happy hours.
1t is our way, more fate than fault,
Loves cloudy fire to clear
To find some virtue in the salt
That sparkles in tear!
Pray, God, it all come right at last,
Pray, God, it so befall,
That when our day Of lie is past
The end may crown it all.
Year: 1861

l was working few days since. The
the same wages was worth inserting, be-
cause it illustrates some truth-the diff
ference between the common American
and the common European We were
preparing to throw our bridge across
the Idlewild brook. A quiet, little,
narrow shouldered American, with my
horses hitched to a drag, was drawing
stone for the roadway beyond, and a
broad shouldered fellow from the old
country, was digging earth to fill in. I
stood looking on a moment. [ saw a
thrifty little cedar, which was partly
uprooted, and requesting the digger to
shovel some dirt around it, [ walked on
Returning few moments after, saw
my cedar erect enough, but its roots
were still exposed "Why didn't you
cover it with dirt?" l asked. 'Sure,
SIR said sturdy Great Britain, with a
look of most honest regret that he had
not been able to oblige me, "you told
ME to shovel it, and l had no shovel" ;"
He Was working with spade.


1t was not ten minutes after this that
l saw my little Yankee dollar al day un-
hitching the horse from the drag
"What are you going to do?" asked.
"Why, there's no more stone to be got
on this side, and as the carpenter don't
seem to be coming along to fix this
bridge, l thought Id step over and get
what's his names oxen, and snake them
timbers up, and haul 'em across with a
block and tackle, and tinker over, and
put on the planks. l could draw stone
from the other side then" Here was a
quiet proposal to do what l had looked
forward to as quite problem, even for
a professed mechanic. l had bespoken
a carpenter for the job three weeks be-
fore.


There stood the abutments six feet
high and twenty-five apart; the stream
swollen by the treshet, and hardly ford
able on horseback, running between;
and how those two immovable timbers,
thirty feet long, were to be got across
without machinery and scatfold to span
this chasm of twenty five feet, was
not engineer enough to see. 1t was
among the "chores that man with
common gumption could do easy
enough" however as my little friend
said; and it was done the next morning
with block and tackle, rollers and levers,
he going about it as naturally and han
dily as if he had been bridge builder
by profession. There being no higher
price for day labor with his amount of
'gumption," " and day labor such as the
other mans who could not conceive how
spade might be used for a shovel,
shows how common ingenuity is in our
country, and how characteristic Of a
Yankee it is to know no obstacle.-N
p. Wills.
Year: 1861

Bornx In Washing.


The washer women in Holland and
Belgium, so proverbially clean, and who
get up their linen so beautifully white,
use refined borax as q washing powder
instead of soda, in the proportion of a
large handful Of borax powder to about
ten gallons of boiling water; they save
In soap nearly one half


All the large washing establishments
adopt the same mode. For laces, cam
brics, &c, an extra quantity of the
powder is used, and for crinolines (re-
quired to be made very stiff strong
solution is. necessary. Borax being
neutral salt does not in the slightest de-
gree injure the texture of the linen; its
effect is to soften the hardest water and
therefore it should be kept on the toilet
table. TO the taste it is rather sweet,
is good for cleaning the hair, is an ex-
cellent dentifrice, and in hot countries
is used in combination with tartaric acid
and bicarbonate of soda as a cooling
beverage. Good tea cannot be made
with hard water; all water may be made
soft by adding teaspoonful of borax
powder. to an ordinary sized kettle of
water, in which it should boil. The
saving in the quantity Of tea used will
be at least one fifth.
Year: 1861

Keep off Broadway when "great bar
gains and ''extraordinary reductions"
ARE advertised.


Leave your purse in the bureau drawer
|at home, if necessity compels you to pass
a ''cheap store"


If you catch yourself thinking how
mice it would be if you could have a
new carpet, transfer the adjective to
another subject, and reflect how ''nice"
the old one still looks.


IF you see anything going at "ruin-
Gus sacrafce e"-let it go.


Don't subscribe to that doctrine of
economy which buys shilling calico
''to save" and then Fay dress maker
three times the value of the fabric to
make it up.


Settle in your mind just what you
can afford to buy before you go to mar
ket, and don't allow yourself to be
tempted by any "surprisingly cheap"
luxury.


Have your purse big enough to hold
the pennies, and keep them there.


Don't feel mortified because your
neighbor sneers at the darn in your
pocket handkerchief, or the mended
place in your gloves: the time may prob
ably come when all the needles and
thread in Christendom will be Insult
clent to mend her broken fortunes


Remember that your expenditures
must be regulated by your own circum-
stances, not the SAY So of Mrs. Grundy.
"Let every woman judge for herself" is
capital motto.


And, above all, never allow yourself
to forget that money goes faster after
cheap things than expensive ones. And
that, as the wife cannot earn money, it
is her duty to save it.


FOR GENTLEMEN.


Get portmonnaie with good rheu-
matte clasp to it-those purses that are
easily opened are easily emptied.


Don't carry bank bills about with
you, unless you want to use them i'm
mediately; leave your money at home
with your wife, and it will be great
deal easier to say NO to those borrow
ing friends who come within the Scrip
ture clause of "never re-paying.'


If you feel inclined to smoke six
cent Havana, just put a good rye straw
between your teeth instead, and "chaw
it at your leisure. 1t is astonishing
how superior you will find the flavor.


Don't get into car or omnibus to
ride half dozen blocks, but walk, and
set your sluggish blood into brisk cir
culation. Thereby YOU will save two
things-your fare and your doctors bill.


Remember how superior water is to
sherry cobblers and brandy smashes on
all occasions. Let no day pass without
laying by something for cloudy weather.
Half dime is better than nothing. If
you can't save something out Of the
smallest salary, you may safely consider
yourself en- route for the poor house.


Don't think how long you have had
that old coat of yours; think rather how
much longer you can make it last.
Year: 1861

We are face to face, and between rs here
Il the love We thought could never die;
Why has Il only lived year?


Who has murdered it-you orI
No matter who-the deed was done


By one or BOTH and there 1t lies:
The smile from the lip forever gone,


And darkness over the beautiful eyes.
Our love Is dead. and our hope Is wrecked;


30 what does Il profit to talk and rave,
Whether It perisbed by ny nep lect,


Or whether your cruelty dug Its grave
Why should you say that am to blame,
Or why should charge the sin on you
Our work 10 before us all the same,


And the guilt OF II lies between Us two,
We have praised our love for It's beauty and grace
Now stand here, and hardly dare
To turn the face.oloth back from the face,
And see the thing that Is hidden there.
Yet look an, that heart has beat its last,
And the beautiful life Of our life 10 DER,
And when we have buried and left the past,
We two, together, can walk no more.
You might stretch yourself on the dead, and weep,
and pray as the Prophet prayed, In pain;
But not like him could you break the sleep,
Andbring the soul to the clay again.
It's head In my bosom can lay,


And shower my woe there, kiss on kiss,
But there never was resurrection.day


In the world for love 20 dead as this
And, since We cannot lessen the sin


By mourning over the deed we did,
Let us draw the winding sheet up to the chin,
Az, up till the death.bllnd eyes are hid
-lCAdmbsrS Journal. PHGBE CARY.
Year: 1861

CTATE OF MICHIGAN-County of Cass.-ss
y At session of the Probate Court for the
County of Cass, holden at the Probate Office, in
Cassapolis, on Thursday the first day of August
in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty
one. Present-Clifford Shanahan, Judge of Pro-
bate. In the matter of the estate of William
Barnard, deceased. On reading and filing the
petition duly verified, of Hannah b. Barnard
praying for license to sell real estate of said
deceased. -a


Thereupon 1T is ordered, that Saturday the
fourteenth day of September next, at ten O'clock
in the forenoon, be assigned for the hearing of
said petition, and that the heirs at law of said
deceased. and all other persons interested in said
estate, required to appear at session of said
Court, then to be holden at the Probate Office,
in Cassapolis and show cause, if any there be- why
the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted


And it is further ordered. that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said estate,
of the pendency Of said petition, and the hearing
thereof by causing copy of this order to be pub
lished in the Cass County Republican, newspaper
printed and circulating in said County of Cass for
four successive weeks previous to said day OF
hearing y. SHANAHAN,


"a true copy.1 Judge of Probate.


Angus l, 1861. augS-16w4
Year: 1861

w A little girl who has brother
in one of the volunteer regiments now
in the Federal service, had been told
by her mother to pray for him: Upon
retiring TO bed one night she frequent
lv lisned: go Lord, let brother Joe
shoot the others, but don't let the 9TH
ers shoot joe"
Year: 1861

'EsJoYIEG LlFE.'-I must pity that young
man, who, with a little fnery of dress and
recklessness of manner, with his coarse
passions all dagueorotyped upon his face,
goes whoopiug through the streets, driving
an animal much nobler in its conduct
than himself, or orswaggers into some haunt
of shame, and calls it enjoying lifep He
thinks he is astonishing the world; and he
is astonishing the thinking part of it, who
are astonished that he is not astonished at
himself. For look at that compound of flesh
and Impudence, and say if on all this earth
there is anything more pitiable. Does he
know anything of the true JOY of lifea As
well say that the beauty and immensely of
the universe were all inclosed in the field
where the prodigai lay among the husks
and swine.
Year: 1861

A tailor in Dublin, near the residence of
the Dean, took into his head that he was
specially and diviney inspired 10 intsrpret
the prophecies, and especially The book Of
Revelation: Quitting The shop board, he
turned out preacher, or rather a prophet,
until his customers had left his shop, and
his family was likely 10 fafnisii.


His Inonomania was we'll known to Dean
Swift, who beneyolently watched for some
convenient opportunity TO turn the current
of his thoughts. One night the tailor as he
fancied. got special revelation TO go and
convert Dean Swift, and The next morning
took up his line OF march for the deanery.
The Dean whose study was furnished
glass door, saw the tailor approach, and in
stantly surmised the nature of his errand-
Throwing himself into an attitude of soIem-
nifty and his eyes fixed on the tenth chap
Ter of Revelation he awaited his approach.


The door opened, and the tailor announce
ed an unearthy voice, the message. "Deah
Swift, am sent by the Almighty 10 an-
nounce 10 you-' Come in my friend, said
the Dean, Il am in great trouble, and no
doubt 'the Lord has sent you TO help me
out of my difficulty


This unexpected welcome inspired the
tailor, strengthened greatly his assurance
in his own prophetic character, and dispo-
sed him 10 listen to the disclosure.


My friend, said the Dean, Il have just
been reading the tenth chapter OF Revela-
lion, and am greatly distressed at difficuI-
ty. | have met with; and you are the very
man sent 10 help me out Here is an ac-
count OF an angel that came down from
heaven. who was SO large that he placed
one foot on The sea, and the other on the
earth, and lifted up his hands to heaven
Now my knowledge of mathematics, con-
tinued Dean, has enabled me 10 calculate
exactly The size and form of The angel but
am in great difficulty, for wish 10 ascer-
tain how much cloth il will take 10 make
him pair OF breeches, and as that is ex-
acty in your line of business, have no
doubt the Lord has sent you 10 show me.


This sudden explosion came like an eIee-
tric shock TO the poor tailor he rushed from
the house, ran 10 ais shop, and sudden
revulsion of thought and feeling came over
him. Making breeches was exactly in his
line of business. He returned 10 his occu>
patton thoroughly cured of his prophetical
revelation by the wit Of the Dean.
Year: 1861

The following is pretty good take-of on
the fulsome style of or public speakers


A negro orator thus concludes an account
of the death of a colored brother "De last
word da, he was Leard 10 say, de last word
he was known to speak, de last word he
was noticed 20 utter, de last word he reber
pronounced, de last syllable he heaped, de
last idea he eber calculated; yes my brelh.
rem. de berry last word he eber was known
Year: 1861

CoETESTloN-I never love salananders
that are never well but when they are in
the FIRE of contention. will rather suffer
a thousand wrongs than offer one--I will
will suffer many, ere will complain of
one, and endeavor 10 right it by coniendiug.
have ever found tina. to strive with my
superior, is furious-wiih my equal, doubt
Year: 1861

The Baltimore Sun says, in lateissue:


The Administration has in a spirit of con-
ciliation which none can deny, sought to
avert from our city the calamity and desola-
ton of conflict; and inasmuch as the military
highway they have selected proves equal to
the demand, we have no reason to believe
they will suffer unnecessary intrusion upon
the people of Baltimore. 1t is quite easy for
any man to perceive the great change which
must Immediately take place in our relations
to the Administration andlto the. Free States,
should sovereign Convention adopt an or
dinance of secession. Our State would in
stantly become the blazing theater of war
and carnage.


But in position of this sort we must talk
frankly, for there can be no concealments.
The Administration understands all that we
have said perfectly well, and has very nat
urally concluded that Maryland will do no
such foolish thing as to seeede with such a
doom menacing her. Hence there can be no
double-dealing in 80 plain case. Then
comes the question, what will Maryland do
il she does not secede2 We think she may
with propriety do this: She may elect Con-
ventiOn and suffer it to sit and adjourn from
time TO time until the next session of the
Legislation, if necessary. Why'd this2 For
the purpose of exercising the sovereign au-
thority of the State at any suitable time.





trap for the Administration" But we are
not talking to Suspicion, but to Honor, and
we would have the honor Of the State in this
thing inviolate.


The Administration knows very well that,
although our first desire and passion is for
the old Union, and how gladly we would
have done any thing to preserve it. our next
will incline the masses of our people by the
associations and sympathies of feeling, and
the interests of our commercial, manufacture
ipg and institutional relation to the Southern
ConfedeTacy. Hence it would be needless
and crucial experiment on the part of the
Administration to require Maryland to as
sumo arms against people with whom she
may at no distant period be in alliance and
equally upgenerous on the part of the South
to demand that she should immediate herself
in an prscticable antagOnism to the Cen
eral Government.


In assuming such position as this from
Typographical necessity, if nothing else, il
| would of course require at our hands {
pledge of good faith, made on the honor o
| the State, and without reservation, not Il
take up arms against the Federal Admins
tration, 80 long as the city of Washington
was held aud occupied by them nor to offel
any hostility or opposition to the Admins
| tratiOn, or the army assembled for its sup
| port, upon the soil Of Maryland. The res1l
| of this position would secure 70 the Admin
| istTation the enjoyment of all the advantage
TO be derived fIOm the territory Of neutral
with the assurance Of absolute safety within
| that territory and with the possible main
tenance ofpeaceful relations, until the Uniol
was restored, if that be practicable, or unit
the Independence of the Southern ConfedeE
acy is recognized.
Year: 1861

VALUE OF THE HARDEE RIFLE AND LIGHT
INFANTRY TAoTIos.-This work, which has
received the highest approval of military
men, is really translation of French work
and Colonel Hardee has no more to do with
it than to introduce it to the military of this
country, modestly, however, like most Of the
Southern officers, appropriating its author
ship to himself 1t had the recommendation
OF jeff Davis when he was Secretary of War;
and he, being military man, would not be
likely to recommend TO his own section an
inferior work. Scotts is an excellent work,
and has always been the received authority.
Hardee, however, contains all the new move
Inents inaugurated in the Crimean and Italian
campaigns, and, therefore, is a more modern
production, making the soldier acquainted
with movements now considered necessary
in the battlefield. The Federal Govern.
ment has adopted the Hsrdee tactics, and the
State Governments will probably do So
They would not do so, unless there was
great merit in the work.