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Year: 1861

BURsErr's CocoAISE.- famous
preparation for the Hair, under the above
title, has won for itself great popularity
in this city and throughout the South
Coming from source of uuquestionabls
skill and responsibility, the public are led
to impose sufficient confidence in the srti-
Gle to give it a trial and when once tried
its reputation is fully established as being


the most elegant and beneficial Hair Dres-
sing in the world The ladies who have
been accustomed to the use Of animal oils
and alcoholic wasAes, speak in strong terms
of its superiority. NORFOLK Pa )Day
Book. ss.5;a9 s5sf est 5saaa - raa
Year: 1861

Il will be received with very Great cnthu-
siasm throughout our Stale, the announce-
ment made in our special dispatches that
Major General Hunter will soon arrive
here to put himself at the head of our lii
nois troops. A more gallant officer there
is not On the army rou Had the share he
bore at the head Of his division IN the af-
1air at Bull Run been equally well sustain
ed by others in command, quite another
record would have been written
Of The events Of that day. Gen-
eral Hunter was formerly a resi-
dent of this State, and was appointed to
the Army from Illinois He is the only
one Of the recently appointed Major Gen
erals taken from the old Army List, the
others being officers reinstated in the ser
vice, or appointed from volunteers Gen.
Hunters rise in promotion has been rapid
since the breaking out Of the war, but he
will de- honor to any position, and IN bis
present one there is peculiar fitness. No
more acceptable leader could havc been
given to our brave Prairie State velun'
teeTS
Year: 1861

The NEwsPAPER-A maa eats up a
pound of sugar, and the pleasure he has
enjoyed is ended; but the information be
gets from newspaper is treasured up in
the mind to be used whenever occasion or
inclination call for it; for a newspaper is
net the wisdom of one man or two men
the wisdom of the age-of past ages, too.
A family without newspaper is always
an age behind the times in general infOr-
nation besides, they never think much,
or find anything to think about. And
there are the little ones growing up in
ignorance, with no taste for reading. Be
sides all these evils, there is the wife who,
when her work is done, has to sit down
with her hands in her lap, and has moth.
ing TO amuse her mind from the tolls and
cares Of the domestic circle.
Year: 1861

tala lH.1slsaasZ'V", Idke an ounce OF
eogwood, and ten grains of bi-chromate of
potash and dissolve them in quart of hot
rain water. When cold pour into glass
bottle, and leave it uncorked for week or
two Expose to the air is indispensable.
The Ink is then made, and has cost FIVE or
ten minutes labor, and about three cents be
sides the bottle. This ink is at first an in
tense steel blue, but becomes quite black.
We have recently given this ink a fair trial,
Sand know whereof we affirm" SO far as
we know it is new.
Year: 1861

Da- A young lawyer lately concluded
his argument IN a case of trespass, with
the following sublime burst "If gentle
men Of the jury, the defendants hogs are
permitted to roam at large over the fair
fields of my client with impunity and
without yokes-theh--yes, then indeed
have our forefathers fought and bled and
died ia vain"
Year: 1861

Judge Story gives graphic picture of
what The States were before the adoption of
the present Union, and what they would
likely be again, if it should be dissolved


The most opposite commercial regulations
existed in the different States; and in many
cases, and especially between neighboring
States, there was perpetual course of re-
taliatory legislation, from their jealousies
and rivalries in commerce. in agriculture.
or in manufactures. Foreign nations did
not fail to avail themselves of all the advan-
tages accruing to them from this suicidal
policy tending to the common ruin. And
as the evils grew more pressing the resent
ments of the States against each other, and
tie consciousness that their local interests
were placed in opposition to each other,
were daily increasing the mass of disanec.
ton, until it became obvious that the dan
gers Of immediate warfare between some Of
the States were imminent.


But the evil did not rest here. Our for
eign commerce was not only crippled, but
almost entirely destroyed. Foreign nations
imposed upon our navigation and trade just
such restrictions as they deemed best for
their own interests aud policy. All Of them
had a common interest TO steal our trade
and to enlarge their own. They did not fail
to avail themselves, to the utmost, of their
advantages. They pursued a system Of the
most rigorous exclusion of our shipping
from all the benefits Of their own commerce;
and endeavored to secure, with a bold and
uuhestating confidence, monopoly ofours.
The effects of this system of operations, com
bined with our political weakness, were
soon evident. Our navigation was ruined;
our mechanics were in state Of ineXtrica-
BILE poverty; our agriculture was withered,
and the little money still found in the coun-
try was gradually finding its way abroad
to supply our immediate wants; aud state
of alarming embarrassment in that most
difficult and delicate of all relaiions-the
relation of private debtors and creditors
threatened daily an overthrow even of the
ordinary administration Of justice. Severe
as were the calamites of the war, the pres
sure of them was far less mschievous than
this slow but progressive destruction of all
our resources, all our industry and all our
credit.
Year: 1861

LoUIsJANA.--The report of the Adjutant
General Of the State, according to the New
Orleans Picayune. reveals the following un-
pleasant condition of things:


Since the Presidential election the organ
ization of new companies and the call for
arms have been unexampled, but the State
is entirely without the means Of meeting
the acquisitions made. The firearms in the
possession Of the State are totally unfit for
use and dangerous in the hands Of the mi.
litia. The report aud accompanying docu-
ments present the State in a condition OF al
most destitution, as it regards well arm
ed military force; and the facts developed
would make State action necessary, even to
give security in case OF domestic need Of
armed bodies, 10 time Of universal peace.
Year: 1861

The grandest of all problems with which
science has ever grappled is the relation of
the stars to each other. Sir William Her
schell, with his great telescope and his
comprehensive mind, led the way in this
sublime study, and the path which he mark
ed out is now being pursued by able and
earnest observers all over the civilized
world. The results yet obtained in regard
to the position Of the fixed stars in relation
to each other and their distances apart, are
neither rs positive nor as definite as our
knowledge of our own solar system. still,
within certain limits, some facts have been
determined which almost overwhelm the
mind with their inconceivable grandeur.


First, it has been ascertai1ed that our
sun is one of an innumerable multitude Of
stars which are grouped together in one col
lection or system, separated from other
stars in the universe. The general form of
this stellar system, aud our position in il.
have been roughly determined. 1t is in the
form OF an irregular wheel, with deem
notch in one side, and with portion Of an
other wheel branching out from it. Our
sun is situated pretty near the middle of the
system. and about where the branch divides.
The dimensions of this collection of stars
are SO vast that if expressed in miles they
would require rows of figures of such con-
fusing length as to convey no definite idea
to the mind, and the plan has been adopted
of stating the time which ray of light
would require to traverse them. 1t would
take locomotive 500 years to pass from
the earth to the sun, while ray of light
makes the journey in eight minutes, ana
yet ray Of light moving with the same We.
locity, would require three years to reach
the nearest fixed star! In applying this
measuring rod to our stellar system, it is
found that. through the thickness of the
wheel the distance Is such that light would
occupy about 1000 years, and through the
diameter not less than 10000 years, in
making the passage! In some directions,
indeed, the system stretches away into the
depths of space beyond the reach of the
most powerful telescope to measure.


If we pass through the inconceivable dis
tances we have been considering, ont be-
yond the boundaries of our stellar system.
we find a region Of empty space. destitute
of stars, at all events of those which are lu-
minous and visible Traversng this void
space through distances which appal tho
mind by their immensty, we lind other sys-
TENS Of stars probably similar to our own.
And astronomers are now considering the
possible relation Of these several clusters
to each whether there is not a svs.
TEN of systems! This is the most sublime
problem which has ever engaged the atten-
tion of the human mnd.-[Scientifi Amer.
lean.
Year: 1861

IN The decline Of life, shame and grief are
OF short duration, whether it be that we are
easily borne along, or that, finding our
selves in age less regarded, we less regard
others; or that we look with slight regard
upon Affections to which we know that the
hand of death is a5out to put an end.
Year: 1861

Ye who listen to stories told


When hearths are CHEEKY and nights are cold
Of the lone wood-side and the hungry pack
That howls on the fainting travellers track
Flame-red eyeballs that waylay,
BY the wintry noon, the belated sleigh
The lost child sought in the dismal wood
The little shoes and the stains of blood
On the trampled snow 20 ye that hear,
With thrills of pity and chills of fear,
Wishing some angel had been sent
To shield the helpless and innocent
Know We the fcnd that is crueler far
Than the gaunt grey herds of the forest are
Swiftly vanish the wild feet tracks
Before the rifle and woodlands axe;
But bark to the coming of unseen feet,
Pattering by night through the city street!
Each wolf that dies in the woodland brown
Lives spectre and haunts the town.
All night they snuff and snarl before
The poor patched window and broken door
They paw the clapboards and claw the thatch
At every crevice they whine and scratch
Their tonguer are subtle and long, aud thin,
And they lap the living blood within,
Icy keen are the teeth that tear,
Red as ruin the eyes that glare.
Children crouch in corners cold,
Shiver in tattercd garments old,
And start from sleep with bitter pangs
AT the touch of the phantom's yiewless fangs
Weary the mother, and worn with strife,
sul she watches and fights for life.
But her hand is feeble and weapon small
One little needle against them all
In evil hour the daughter fed
From her poor chamber and wretched bedi
Through the city's pitiless solitude
To the door of sin the wolves pursued.
Fierce the father and grim with want;
His heart is gnawed by the spectre gaunt;
Frenzied stealing forth by night,
With whetted knife to the desperate fight,
He thought to strike the spectre dead,
But he smites his brothcr-man instead.
o yc who listen to stories told,
When hearths arc CHEEKY and nights arc cold,
Weep no more at the tales you hear,
The danger is close and the wolves are near.
Shudder not at the murderer's name,
Marvel not at the maidens shame;
Pass not by with ayerted eye
The door whence the stricken children cry.
But when the heat Of the unseen feet
Sounds by night IN the stormy street,
Follow thou where the spectres glide,
Stand like Hope by the mothers side,
And be thysclf the angel sent
To shield the hapless and innocent.
He gives but little who gives his tears,
lie gives his best who aids and cheers.
lie docs well hl the Urest Nlld
Who slays the monster and saves the child;
But he does better and merits more,
Who drives the wolf from the poor mans door


Aaantjc Monthly for December.
Year: 1861

That depends upon the manner in
which you conduct the business. A very
large portion, perhaps nearly one half, OF
the cattle bred in Ohio, are raised with
out profit. Wherever we find a farmer
who takes no care in selecting animals to
breed from, and always has his cattle on
short rations, we find man who is losing
money. And this is true in regard to
hogs, sheep, and horses, as well as cattle.
Does it occur to you, Mr.. Editor, it is a
vain thing for me to be calling attention
to a truth so self-evident as this Do
you say that every body knows it TO be
true? Perhaps so, but how few act upon
it! Take days ride into the country in
any direction you please, and see how
many animals you can find that have
been kept months, and even years, with
out gaining anything, and whose owners
have, therefore, lost what they have con-
sumed in the mean time. Upon this text
/ insist you shall preach, and continue
preaching, until we have general refor-
nation.


A good farmer will select good cows,
and breed them to a good bull until his
calves are six weeks old they should have
plenty of milk fresh from the COW, for
the reason that during this period they
can eat nothing else; and because it is
important that a thrifty habit be now es-
tablished. For the next ten weeks, one
half the milk of the dam will do, if the
calf have plenty of good grub, upon
which at four or five months old it may
be weaned. During the first winter,
good hay with bran, shorts, or a little
corn and cob meal, will keep up the
the thrifty habit, and bring them ont in
the spring in such good condition that,
with plenty of good feed through the
next summer, the Steers III l1e IAN VIVA
be worth eighteen TO twenty dollars
Now contrast this practice with the meth
cd adopted by too many of our farmers,
and compare results. AT two days old
the calf is taken from the COW and put
upon skim milk, then upon sour milk and
other "slops," or, if the new milk is con-
tinued at all, so small quantity is al
lowed that the calf at two months cd,
excepting bis abdomen distended by be-
ing forced to an unnatural consumption
of rough feed, is really of less weight
than it was at two days old. 1t is all out
Of shape, and, instead Of the thrifty habit,
it is now thoroughly established in the
Year: 1861

Snow Pretty well for the last Of
March. On Tuesday morning. we were
visited by q regular. old. fashioned snow,
covering the ground to the depth of some
three inches. and lying for more than a
day. As it was . long time since we
had rain, and the ground was exceeding
ly dry, so much so as to induce the folks
to croak dismally Of another drought, the
snow was enthusiastically received; and,
slight as it was. it will be worth hun
dreds of thousands of dollars to Kansas.
Year: 1861

; ~ A number of teams, from Brown
County. have crossed the river. at this
place, within . few days past, on their
way to Iowa. to procure seed wheat,
corn and potatoes. Some one inquired
of teamster why they did not procure
supplies at Atchison? He replied that
they had been to Atchison, and there
was plenty there. but they could get
none: the only reason being. as nearly
as he could learn, that the Brown County
member Of the Legislature had refused to
pledge his vote to Pomeroy for the Sen.
ate! If this was not true statement,
the person did wrong in making it; bu'
from what has been revealed, and the


revelations still coming. We should moi


be surprised if the above version wcrt


pretty nearly correct.
Year: 1861

There is a great deal said Just now about
finding work for the unemployed, and we
see that q CON mittee of unemployed persons
has called upon the Mayor of New York to
find them public work. There is much pro-
priety in finding employment or support for
the wives and daughters of those who are
fighting the battles Of our country, but there
is none at all in the people taxing themselves
to find employment for men, when the Gov
ernment Is Offering good wages and support
to every man who will enter the army. The
effort it is making to sustain the institutions
Of the country and maintain its integrity is
endangered for the want of such aid. 1t
would be bad policy In city at this time to
hold out inducements for able-bodied men TO
stay at home by finding them public employ
ment at the expense of the citizens, when
by doing 80 they keep the General Govern
ment, who wants their services, and offers
good pay for it, from getting the assistance
it requires. One patriotic gentleman in
Boston, who was largely engaged in build
ing, suddenly stopped all work upon his
houses as he said the Government required
men to sustain it, and he did not intend to
be a competitor against the Government


Besides, he thought the Government would
need the money he was expending, and it
was better to pay it to secure good Govern
ment than it was to extend or beautify city
which might have TO submit to a despotism.
There is no need of men asking the city to
find them something to do, when the Gov
ernment is soliciting them to come and take
employment. If their patriotism is so small


that they are not willing to help protect the
Government at good wages their claim upon
| public assistance is but small indeed.
Year: 1861

CoTToN, TOBACCO AND THE BIocKADE-
1He Present Supply Of Cotton in England and
Afoat-Not a single bale of American cot
ton (says the Cotton Supply Reporter is now
known to be at sea, and those engaged in the
cotton trade must not expect their stock of
it to be repleHished during the blockade of
the Southern ports. After calculating the
total stock of cotton in the port of Liverpool
on the 23d of August last, and adding there
to the probable further receipts to the 9th of
December next, our cotemporary estimates
that the stock in Liverpool on the last mem
toned date will be about five hundred and
forty. nine thousand bales, which, at thesup-
posed rate of consumption, would keep the
mills going for about eleven weeks beyond
Christmas. AS it is difficult to see how, with
the continuance of the American blockade,
demand can be much longer prevented from
exceeding the supply, the position is very
alarming, as in the manufacturing districts
the system of short time must be generally
introduced, and the privation and suffering
which this system causes are too we'll known
to need recapitulation.
Year: 1861

In gallery in Paris hangs q famous pic
ture by Murillo, of an old Spanish monk
seated at his desk. He had begun the chron-
icle of his life. Death had summoned him
before the work was done; but he had
sought and obtained leave to return to earth
and finish it. You see in the monks pale
face more than natural energy. Those
sunken eyes had looked beyond the vail,
and CLEAN with the visions Of eternity. The
soul within has communed with the unseen
world, and beheld face to face Him who is
invisible.n And the solemn task is renewed
with the earnestness of one who has passed
the fading scenes of time, and is absorbed
in the realities beyond. So let the record OF
your life be written as in the light of eternity.
which shall soon surround you, when you
stand before your Judge. -e.r .
Year: 1861

A BALTIMORE paper contains the follow
South seriously expect to add Maryland to
their Cenfederacy, it shows how much they
are deluded. The pretended desire to get
Maryland is only to make sure of Virginia
and the other States south of the Potomac.
Be sure of that, for it is most true. We have
heard of the farmers forgetfulness of his
farm in order to get the little potato patch
outside which belonged to his neighbor.
Depend upon il, then, all that is pretended
about the Confederate desire for Maryland Is
at most only the lust after the potato patch
outside If any Marylander wants to secede
from his State, he may do so, but the State
herself can not and will not secede."
Year: 1861

MARROW EsoEPE-rhe Toronto Leader
states that Lotus, a contractor ON the new
jail, met with this singular accident: While
standing under scaffold experimenting
some work, broad, heavy chisel descended
from great hight, pierced his hat through,
close to the ribbon, cut off his shirt collar,
grsEed the side Of his neck, taking off the
skin close to the iugular vein, and stuck in
the ground.
Year: 1861

WHEN red-hot shot are fired, the ordnance
used Is elevated to the position desired before
the gun is shotted. The powder in the gun
is kept from explosion by means Of waddine.
Between the explosive substance and the
heated mass are generally three layers Of
Wads. That next TO the ball is dry, the sec
ond Is wet, and upon the powder a dry piece
rests. The ball is discharged soon after be-
ing placed in the cannon.
Year: 1861

THE CONDITION OF HUNGARY,-The Lon
don Times thus describes the position of
Hungarian affairs:


The rupture between Austria and Hun
gary is complete. No overt insurrection is
anticipated, but coercion on one side aud
passive resistance on the other will be car
ried as far as they can 60. The Hungarians
will not recognize the acts Of the Imperial
Government nor will they pay any taxes
into the Imperial Exehequer. They do not
threaten any immediate rebellion, but they
intimate in plain language that on the first
favorable opportunity they will appeal to
arms.
Year: 1861

But ONE HorE FOR THE REPuBLIc.-The
New York Leader very truly says:


There is but one hope for the Reptile. Il
must assert itself, crush out rebellion, and com
pei the fear and respect of its enemies abroad
and at home-or it is lost There is no mid
die ground-there is no middle course. Let
the men of the people shake off this discour
agement, and recognize at once eur duty and
our power to triumph, and the work will soor
be done Then-the duty of the present met
we can easily take care of the future.
Year: 1861

It is useless--crminal almost-to at tempt to disguise great, important facts. We arc in the midst of a revolution. It is as yet bloodless, but we know not what day or what hour may bring us the boom ing of cannon and the red harvest of battle. To the gallant people of the south we hope war has no terrors which could cause them to swerve from principle or the path of rectitude, but prudence is the proper hand maid of courage. and useless waste of blood, of time and treasures, should if pos sible be avoided, To regret it. it is enough for us to know that war must necessarily cause much misery, that it must retard the material growth of the country, that it must destroy educational enterprises, cheek the building of railroads, and thwart the many benevolent projects of the country. On the other hand war has its glories-its proud victories-and the first summons that calls the sons of the south from the peace ful avoeatons of life, will gather, swifter than Scottish clansmen at the signal of their chieftain, hundred thousand brave hearts to the |" feast of swords" But not withstanding the triumphal arches that we might erect, and the splendid ovations that we might achieve, the true patriots of the land will sincerely deplore the necessity that forces us into civil conflict.

 The question then suggests itself, what is the most practical method for avoiding war? And here we have the strongest argument in favor of the secession of Ar kansas. If the south is united, we may. and very probably will, avoid the bloody arbitrament of arms. On this subject the SouA Carolinian very justly remarks:

 Matters have gore SO far that there is no longer doubt that two coufederaces must be formed. If formed now, and in peace, the people of each will live on terms of greater amitv than under one go vernmept If be not formed now, they will be later, after bloody and terrible contest, in which embittered hatred will be engendered and the pros poets of future friendship forever dissjpated. The spirit of modern civilization does not require con solidation of many people and States under one go- veFnment, but the free exchange and intercourse of the people of the States of the world.

 Let us then act cordially with our sister States of the South. as the best method to secure, not only our rights and preserve our honor unstained-not only as the last resort to keep the constitution of our fathers in- tact-but as the surest mode of preserving the peace and keeping our State from the evils of anarchy and the desolation of war and civil commotion. In the union of the South there is strength, peace, prosperity