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Year: 1861

g. Remember them not in thought merely, but
in deeds. They are our sacred charge. The
poor ye have always with We. Keen searching
winter is upon us, and laps his icy hand on the
starving poor. Added 10 the rigOrs of the
season are the afliction of money panic
They need shelter, clothing, food, fuel, and
above all sympathy. Alas that the human
sympalhies should stiffen and deaden in such
time. The manufacturer discharges his help.
The merchant curtains his expenses. The in
dependent wrap their possessions around their
hearts aud smother their noble impulses. Hun
dreds cf genial souls freeze into stolid indiE
ference upon a financial pressure. The con-
sequences are that thousands are driven to
crime How sharp the conflict of a sensitive
nature, when starvation and beggary frown
him in the face How keen the remembrance
of better and happier days How biting the
approaches of their more fortunate brethren
What if they have been improvident! Is
chat the terrible school in which economy is
taught! Shall we deny them our symPathies!
We pity even the hardened criminal. Even
our Justice is tempered with mercy. Think
of their trials, their sufferings! Think of
their humanity and destiny.


We have within a week met with such
touching cases of abiect poverty as caused our
very heart TO bleed. Young men and young
women, once happy in their bright homes,
now wandering like outcasts, honest, industri-
ous; intelligent, yet crushed by load of mis-
fortune; some among them so timid and SEN
sitive as vainly to attempt to hide the neces-
sitv, wearing the meekest countcnances while
the stomach was craving for food their very
respectability bar to their sustenance. No
work, no money none to be had
Willing hands and trusty hearts, yet hardly
able to keep soul and body together. A
struggle for existence indeed Pity for their
hard lott Pity for poor shivering humanity.
Omen and Christians o parents and chill
drenl o citizens and brethren, listen to the
words of your Lord: "1'hou shalt love thy
neigbbor as thyself" We conjure you by
your holy religion to remember that Faith
without works is dead > they are the test oi
the llSiBg faith not to forget that the fruit Of
the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temper
ance against such there is no law. We i'm
plore You by the consciousness OF an all-seeing
Ruler who hath committed unto you this
charge TO visit the fatherless and sick, for in
asniuch as ye did it unto the least of these yC
did 1t unto me. Let your light so shine be-
fore me, that they may see your good works
and glorify your father which is in heaven"
Year: 1861

Sickne IS has come, and the time for watch
ing, and weariness, and prayer The child
Who had lived long enough to be the music
and light of your dwelling, twining itself
around your living self, and associated with
every hope and happiness Of your lite, is now
in fearful peril. It's hot and hectic check lies
against your own, as You pace the room in the
dead Of night, bearing it to and fro in its
Suffering and patience. in those hours of sus-
pense and pain, the seed is dropping fast for
. future harvesting-if your child should live
IN love, and tenderness and sympathy should
ii die, bosom full Of memories and great
thoughts, too great for words, clustering
about this one belief, that should you act
Alright, you will meet in heaven bright spirit
who will call you father.


see in your dwelling a little collin. and
within il u form exquisitely moulded, the
ringlets parted on its white and rounded lore
head. An unopened bud lies on Its BOSOM
2 and were it not for that marble coldness, you
might take it for sleeping ange.e And there
you stand, the tears raining down your checks
ns the raindrops drip from the boughs after
q shower Tell us now, does the thought ever
Occur to you, to wish that the child had never
been given to you? Would you purchase eX-
enipiion from all this grief, at the price OF
sIofgetfuIness 4? Would you, if you could
overstep all this anguish, and be again as you
were before that child had existence? Never
That brief scene of expressed sorrow is more
uGailhfui in all things which belong to a soul
harvest, than scores Of years passed in a cold
and polished prosperity and from the small
grave you will reap many sheaf Of blended
memories and hopes, and gentle affections eV-
cry year, till you are yourself laid by its side
@"-t The good are better made by i'll,


As o,.ors crushed swcctcr still


1t is said that one Of the most distinguished
Senators of our country, who was bereaved
of little child, months afterwards when his
ave r, sicd on a small wurstcd shoe-recailing
ms few things can more vividly, the bright
thing which had fed-put it into his bosom,
where, as was known, he carried it along next
to his manly heart. The heart had calmer
pulse, gontle sympathy, richer sensibility,
a trucr greatness, be cause Of contact with that
small memorial of domestic sorrow-Rer.
". Hams.
Year: 1861

The Disunisnists In all the slaveholding
Suites are bitterly opposed to having the
question of Disunion submitted to the popular
vote. They are afraid Of the people, and we
guess they will see cause ere long to be a
good deal more afraid of them than they now
are-L LouispiNe Journal
Year: 1861

Mr.. MAYoR-Ladies and Gentlemen A
few hours ago 1 stepped out of the Capitol of
the State Of Indiana l said to myself. have
never seen so many people together, on any
! occasion whatever. j am no longer able to
say that but ii could he reasonably expected
Of this great city of Cincinnati. ! confess my
self entirely overwhelmed with the maenii,
cence of the reception, | will not say given to
me- but to the President of the United States
of America a. Most cordially do l thank you,
one and all, for it. I have been reminded by
the address of the Mayor, that this reception
is given not by any one political party; and if
had not been so reminded by his Honor, the
Mayor, L could have known the fact by the ex-
tent of the multitude. l could not but have
known that all parties join this reception.


This is as it should be. 1t is Us it should
have been if Mr.. Douglas had been here as it
should have been if Mr.. Bell had been here
as it should have been if Mr.. breckenridge
had been here as it should have been, and
should forever be, when any citizen of the
Uuited States is constitutionally elected Prcsi-
dent


And allow me to say, think what has hap
pened here, could not happen in any country
in the world without the influence of the free
institutions, that we have enjoyed in the
United States, for three quarters of a century
There could have been 10 such turnout, and
enjoy such a scene, except under the favorable
influence Of free institutions; and, hope, that
while we have some threatening national diff
culties, that when these free institutions so con
tinuc to multiply and multiply, a thousand
millions of free people, we may see this re-
peatedly-once in every four years-by the
increased free population of the. country.


! hope that our late difficulties will also
pass away, and that yoa shall see in the spirit
of Cincinnati-good old Cincinnati-for years
and for years to come and that once in every
four years, by your constitutionally elected
President of the United States Of America,
Year: 1861

"My fellow-countrym You call upon
me for speech; L have none to give to you,
and have not sufficient time to devote to it if
had. 1 suppose you are all Union men here.
[cheers and cries of "Right"l and suppose
that you are in favor of doing full justice to
all, whether on that side of the river (ponting
to the Kentucky shore) or on your own
loud cheering and cries of I'VE are"l If
the politicians and leaders Of parties were as
true as the PEOPLE, there would be little fear
that the peace of the country would be dis
turbed. I have been selected to fill an i'm
portant Office for brief period. and am now,
in your eyes invested with an influence which
will soon pass away but should my admins
tration prove to be a very wicked one, or what
is more probable, very foolish one, if you, the
PEOPLE, are but true to yourselves and to the
Constitution, there is but little harm, l can
do, thank God"'
Year: 1861

A M0LAssEs Dopag.-In Troy, N. Y, on
Saturday evening last, man entered grocery
store in that city and made u purchase Of some
molasses, which he told the keeper to put in
his cap. In explanation of this he said that
he had bet with'a man that he dare I'LL his
cap with molasses and as the bet was Of more
consequence than the cap, he would fulfill the
Conditions OF the wager and take the money.
The grocery keeper filled tbs cap as desired,
vhef the man remarked to him that the mo-
iassex was musty The store,keeper bent
ever 10 smell of the molasses, when the fellow
dashed Il in his face, filling his fa1e and eyes
with the saccharine substance He then ran
behind the counter, robbed the money dra"ei
Of six dollars in change and made or
Year: 1861

Company 3d." LIST Regimeat.--We desire
again to call attention To this company by
reference to another column, 1t Will be seen
tht a meeting will be held ut the City Hall
to night for the purpose of reorganiziag, II q
sufficient number be then enrolled. Livery
Young man who is not attached TO an organ
lied company, should at once send in his name.
Let it not be said that in Richmond, and ut
such time this, company, already sup-
piled with arms and equipments, failed To re-
organize for the want of men. Will the young
men of Richmond allowitf The responsibility
is upon them.
Year: 1861

The convention at last adjourned on last Monday Among its important acts arc the passage of the secession ordinance; the two million appropriation for war purpo ses; prohibition of the citizens of Arkan. sas paying any debt due the North under penalty of imprisonment in the peniten tiary; the passage of general stay law, and an act to relieve volunteers from civil process while in active service; the adoption of new State constitution, and ratifca- tion of the constitution of the Confederate States; the apportionment of congressional districts, making four districts in the Stste, and providing the time and manner of the election of congressmen; passing q new re- venue bill; leaving out the prohibition of banking in the new constitution; providing for the appointment of supreme judges by the State Senate and the executive; the passage of law organizing military board, and the appointment of the three members OR the board that the law requir- ed. These are some of the most important acts of the convention.

 The failure of the convention to put the State on substantial and active military basis is a source of regret and dssatisfac- tion. The creation of the military board has proved failure, and has rendered the military system more inefficient than it was under the old law, which confded more power to the executive. This ineffcicncy doubtless is owing to the appointments made to fill the board, than the system it. self As 1t stands, it is feared that the military system is elogged by the new leg islation.

 The appointments made to the various offices, with three or four exceptions, were not appropos to the times. having no doubt been made more with an eye to pay off old polificn deJts, than to the interest of onr endangered country. Much inconsis- tency the convention has been guilty of, which ha. weakened its influence on the public mind. Upon the whole, it has given great dissatisfaction to the public, and has lost much of its power for future good The public are much better satisfied that the members have gone to their homes, and woulc have been delighted if the con- vention had adjourned sine die instead of leaving a gap open for another convention. Nothing but the troublous times, and an indispqsitiqn to create divisions at the pre- sent time. have saved many sore heads.- Pine Bluf 4News.
Year: 1861

TIE FEELING IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS, A letter from citizen of southern Illinois to q gentleman in Tennessee describes the condition of things in that section as fol- lows:

 "1'he war fever is running high here. There is one company from this county, with tight squeeze. The democratic par tv was for the Union, as long as there was any hope for it; but they are now for peace and against coercion. A large majority of the southern part of Illinois have strong southern feeling, and are opposed to the North trying to coerce the South to submis- sion, as we know that can't be done. Hi nois has ten thousand troops in the field five thousand at Cairo, and the balance in different parts of the State The word Union here means coercion, and those that are opposed to coercion are called se- cessionists. The legislature at its last ses- sion passed law which proscribes fine of five hundred dollars and one years i'm prisonmant in the penitentiary against any man who shall say any thing in favor of the South. So the people that have south eln feelings are tied down by the law. The leaders of the republican party are not in the field, only when they can get an office. Their followers, who are volunteers, are generally street loafers and those destitue of means to live on or support their faini lies. If the South has no better army than these men, I think there is a bad chance for either side to do much in the way of fighting. think there is more blowing than fighting in the republican ranks They talk loudly and boisterously,"
Year: 1861

TIE HAMPSTEAD RFLEs.-This finely organized company, commanded by Capt GRATloT arrived here on Saturday morning on their way to headquarters on our iron tier, and remained until Sunday, when they took up the line of march. While here the company held meeting among themselves, and passed the following resolution:

 ResolOed, That we the members of the Hampstead Riaemen, tender our thanks to the citizens of Van Buren for kind and friendly treatment, and, most especially to Judge J. B. Ogden for his patriotic and distinguished hospitality. And, to the citizens of Fayetteville and the people ot Washington county, men who can appreci- ate the worth of men from distant part of the State who offer themselves for the defense of common country; and also most especially thanks to the ladies of Fay, ettevile for their kind attention to men far from home, giving us prominent position in the presentation of their banner to their own company and the pleasure of listening to the elegant strains of their fair oratress Mrs. Lizzie Pollard; and in fact paying such attention to us, as only southern women can give to southern men and fer which, "God bless them," and we hope that old Hampstead will forever remember the kind and brotherly treatment that her sons have received from the citizens of Crawford and Washington
Year: 1861

APPRECIATION OF THE SoUrH.-Greeley, of the New York Tribune, is beginning to appreciate the war footing of the South. In his issue of the l6th he says:

 Nobody knows how strong an array the seccssionists may present; but they cer- tainly have more than one hundred thou sand men this day under arms, and they could concentrate that number in Virginia within ten days if they could only fill their ciest by levy on their suspended banks. That is larger army than we can oppose to them on the Potomac on such short mo- tiee; it will be better drilled than ours, and 1t is made up of the very best fighting ma terial to be collected fron twelve or thir teen States. Kentucky professes to be ncu- tral, but every fighting secessionist within her borders, except her Governor, is already in Jeff Daviss ranks or oil the way to join them.'
Year: 1861

How TO MAKE BALL CAsTmoGEs.-Pre- pare stick four inches long, perfectly

 round, and little smaller than the ball; cut small slices of paper, an inch and a half long, and wide enough to go one and a half times around the stick; prepare mucilage of water and gum Arabic; roll the papcr on the stick one time, then put on the mncilage and press it firmly by enrolling 1t; then trim the stick one eighth of an inch and put mucilage in the end of the paper, insert the ball and stand it on the point Tn T cup of flour, or fine dirt or sand, and let remain until it is dry This mode IS much more convenient and better than the or dnary mode of tying the paper to the ball.
Year: 1861

Ey- The Arkansas Baptist has been sus- pended for want of payment on the part of it's subscribers. This is disgrace to the denomination and we hope they will soon pay up, and thus enable Elder Watson to resume the publication of his paper.
Year: 1861

We must require advance payment for our paper in all cases. It is right and proper that we should do SO, and we trust it will give offence ts no one.

 Money remitted through the mail will be at our risk. There is no objection to send ing gold dollars or even larger coin in a letter. Subscription taken at any length of time at Ss2 per year.
Year: 1861

Y IST OF LETTERS remaining in the Post

 S / Office at Little Rock Arkansas on the 3lst day of May, 1861, which if not taken out in three months. will be sent to the General Post Office as
Year: 1861

From The Pensacola Observer


We are enabled this evening to give fuller
account of the engageme4t Of Tuesday night
last on Santa Rosa Island, between the Conied-
crates and the Yankee troops.


Although il was a serious and bloody fight,
there were many amusing incidents IN the en-
gageIneut. There was some $500 in gold and
d watch taken by the soldiers from the tents Of
the officers, besides other valusbles. Many OF
Wilson's Zouaves were bsvoneted while in their
tents, and it must have been amusing 10 see the
scamps escaping from the back part Of their
tents, and our boys after them.


We were shown a letter taken from the pocket
Of one OF the Zouayes. The envelope had on it
a representation of a soldier holding in his hand
the United States hsg-his foot placed upon an
anchor, with the inscription underneath, " Long
NAV It wave" The letter was from an affec-
iionste sister in New York to her brother-the
one from whom it was taken. We understand
that the person who took and read the letter
could not help feeling for the sister, Tor it seemed
by the same that her whole affections were upon
that brother, who now lies cold in the arms OF
death


Captain Maugham fully displayed the bravery
and coOlneSs for which he is everywhere charac-
terized. lie arrested three prisoners alone and
unaided and marched them to the guard and
we would feel like doing injustice to a brave and
noble man, did wc not mention that Adjutant
Black Of the 9Th Georgia regiment, arrested a
sergeant who was at the time sergeant Of the
guard and had with him his report, and used the
very gun he took from his prisoner in making
one or two more Yankees bite the dust


Taking into consideration the disparity Of our
forces, being but about 100, and the enemy
over 2000 We are proud to say thatwe gained i
most complete victory. We attacked them in
their very dens-whipped them ont, and de-
stroyed their properly. Their loss, it is estima-
ted viii quadruple Ours.
Year: 1861

Calf.


Ship Island and the Chandelier Islands, now
occupied by the national forces in the Gulf Of
Mexico, lie in range south OF Mississippi City,
in the direction of the delta of the Mississippi,
Their occupation cuts off navigation to New Or
leans by way of Lake Pontchartrain. The south
orn reports that a quantity of lumber has been
landed there, sufficient to build quarters FOR ten
thousand men, indicate that the islands have
been occupied as a naval station and as a rem
devious for troops, from which they can descend
without notice on any part OF the Gull coast
from Pensacola 10 the Rio Gmnde. The station
is about fifty miles north of the mouth of the
Mississippi, about the same distance from New
Orleans by way Of Lake Pontchartrain, aud
about midway between that and Mobile, near
enough TO keep those places aud the whole coast
in pleasing state Of tXhilaratiOn, and within
very convenient distance Of them.


1t is probable that the government is looking
ont for winter quarters for our troops in the sun
nv South, where The climate in the winter is
most favorable 10 military operations and will
be much more comfortable TO our soldiers. This
is one Of the advantages Of q great country; its
diversity of climate enables our armies to keep
the field through the whole year, by changing
the scene Of the campaign, thus giving them
steady occupation, and improving the protTacted
preparation that we have been making through
the warm season.


Our southern brethren win see the propriety
of this. and will doubtless accede to the military
necessity. Il would be cruel both 10 our sol
djers and theirs, to keep them in the field in
northern latitudes during the winter. In the
south all viii be comfortable. In the spring,
when the southern people become reconciled TO
the presence of northern troops, they viii return
North overland. Thus it viii be seen that this
country seems to be peculiarly adapted to war
like purposes, and 70 military operations for the
suppression of a southern Tebellion.-H. Louis
Republican.
Year: 1861

press contains the following:


Bishop Odenheimer, of New Jersey, has issued
q form Of prayer for the use Of the Protestant
Episcopal clergy Of his diocese on the day OF
the national fast, in which there is no intima-
ton Of desire for the success of the nation In
its struggle for life. The whole thing is devoted
10 the personal wants and trials of the army,
and can be used by Secessionist with at least
as much satisfaction as by a true, loyal Chris
tim The patriotic clergy of the Episcopal
Church Will spew il out Of their mouths. or add
petitions OF their own more suitable to the
J occasion
Year: 1861

-~"Arms have been smugSled into
Virginia in cofiins." There Is evident
forecast in this duplex importation. We
DO rot know a place where the demand for
cofins is likely TO be more lively for some
time TO come than Virginia
Year: 1861

Tho following extract from the opinion Of
the Supreme Court in l8l3, in the Dorr re-
bollon case, delivered by Judge Tauey,
seems to show couclusivcly that if he was
Judge then, he is very like traitor now,
both to the Government and to his own
decision. He then said:


Unquestionably, Il State may use its mill
tary power to put down an armed in5urrcc-
ton, too strong to be controlled by the
civil authority. The power is essential to
the existence of every Government, es-
scntial TO the preservation Of order and free
institutions, and is Us necessary to the States
of this Union as to any other Government.
If the Government deemed the armed oP-
position so formidable, and SO ramiiied
throghout the State, as to require the use Of
its military force and the declaration Of
marital law, we see no ground upon which
this Court can question its authority. 1t
was state of war, and the established
Government rcsorted TO the rights aud us
ages of war TO maintain itself and to over
come the unlawful opposition. And in that
state of things, the officers engaged in It's
military service might lawfully arrest any
one who, from information before them,
they had reasonable grounds to believe was
engaged in the insurrcCt.on, and might or
der a house tG be forcibly entered and
searched whom there was reasonable
grounds for supposing he might be there
concealed. Without the power to do this
martial law and the military array Of the
Government would be mere parade, and
rather encourage attack then repel ii.


If a State can do this, how much the Ma
tional Government, which is supreme over
the States,
Year: 1861

The authorities at Columbus are frequent
ly put in false position by officers who send
three months L. S. soldiers from Camp
Dennison there with instructions to demand
payment from the State Treasury. The
State has no more to do with their payment
than with the payment of troops at Camp
Defiance, Cairo. 1t is surprising people do
not learn that Camp Dcnnison is exclusively
a United States Camp. The State authorities
have not now either control of or anything
to do with the management of that Camp,
No order has ever been issued by Gov,
Dennison respecting it, except upon specific
instructions from the Federal War Depart
ment making him the special agent for the
General Government.