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Year: 1861

In the late Report Of the Secretary of War, he
suggests that the detection of such immense
numbers of army officers is duo to the fact that
in the punishment OF onenses at West Point no
distinction is made between mGia prOhibita and
maia-ia-se.


This il novel but will scarcely bear analysis.
The real reason is simply that for thirty years
past army officers Of the most limited amount Of
observation could not fail to perceive that every
place of any prominence or emolument was filed
by Southern influence, and that for any one to
oppose the Slave power was to result in total neg.
lect Of him, II not actual persecution. d
Year: 1861

VUEBEOl HIUHUHyi July ., IoUf'


The steamship Great Eastern commanded by Capt.
Kennedy late Of the Etna, his first tip in command
and the number of officers reduced one half, was
Hes at anchor opposite to the city. II was exactly
eight days from tie time the Liverpool pilot left till
the Canadian pilot bearded her. during which time she
had only twenty hours of clear weather. The Great
Eastern made Cape Race in six days from Liverpool,
but the weather was too thick to communicate. She
nearly ran into the Arabia in fog on the %, and
would have done so if sbe had had bowspri On the
same day she several iceberg,


Two births occurred on board during the passage.
number of soldiers wives were found concealed on
the steamship The weather was moderate throughout
the passage the sea being smooth but dense fog pre-
vailed from the 29th OF June TO the 9TH OF July The
shin will not probably be ready for inspection for q
week, and will probably remain over for a month.
Year: 1861

Ii appears that the speculation in the steam
boat Catine was even more lucrative than we
stated yesterday. She was purchased by Samuel
w. Morton-ex.Depuiy Secretary Of State under
Gideon j. Tucker, aud recently editor of a
Secession journal in Brook lyn-for $1,000 instead
of $4,000. as was originally stated. Mr. Nor
ton having been advised Of the opening for u
charter to the Government, made the purchase
on speculation trusting to luck to raise the
means of paving her first cost. Her previous
owner fearing that he would not get his money,
was about to take possession of her again, when
Morton, or his principals sent her out south.
ward one night, and though fired at by the reve-
bue cutter for sailing after sundOwn, she got
safely out of port, and headed for Fortress Mon
roe. Whether the highly profitable charter was
NEGOTIATED before or after she left port we have
not learned, but at any rate she went to work
at once about the fortress, and her first cost
was paid BY her purchaser with draft for four.
Gflhs of her first months earnings. We do not
wish to be understood as charging that the De-
partment or officer who engaged her on such
liberal terms was dishonest; but certainly who
ever is responsible for such reckless squanderiog
of the peoples money is quite too extravagant
with what does not belong to him.
Year: 1861

Mr. Holman Of Indiana yesterday introduced
into the House Of Representatives resolution
which was adopted, providing that the House at
this extra session shall entertain only such bills
and resolutions as have to do with military and
naval aaairs, and that oil others be referred to
the proper Committees, and be considered at the
next session Of Congress.
Year: 1861

IL IS high time that our regimental officers dis
played little more consideration for the health
and comfort of their men. Fancy eight hundred
poor fellows staggering along for FIVE or Elk
miles through our hot streets, under blazing
midsummer sun, for 10 earthly reason save to
minister to the vanity of those set in authority
over them. Such spectacle we witnessed yes
terday in the departure of the De Kalb Regi-
meDt Col. Won elisa apparently supposes that
bis soldiers are salamanders, or he certainly
would not have put them through such fiery
ordeal. 1t is time enough to try the mettie of
the men when the occasion calls for it. No
doubt they win stand fire as well as the foremost
Of our brave fellows, but it was hardly neces-
sary to test them so terribly, without q more
pressing necessity than simply to honor his Ex.
cellency Fernando Wood with marching salute.
These men have enough work before them in the
enemy's country, and it is desirable to keep them
in the best possible condition tn they are called
upon 10 cope with the common foe. Yet the
poor fellows were dragged through long march
of over three hours duration, under a heavy
load Of arms and knapsaeks, till over 80 of them
fell down fainting from the heat in the public
highway. How much easier and more comfort.
able to have taken the steamboat on which they
were to embark for Elizabethport to the foot of
Sixty-frst street where they were encamped and
to have marched them Oh board there. Let us
hope that this cruel ineonsiderateness will not be
repeated.
Year: 1861

FELLOW CITIZENS: A few weeks ago an
nounced myself as a candidate to OTepresent you
in the legislature Of the State. My feeble
health precluded me from entering the service
CT my country in the capacity Of a volunteer
in the army, and thinking that might sub
serve its interests in the legislative halls,
placed ny name before you and asked your
suffrages for the position indicated. At the
time OF my announcement there were no other
candidates in the field, and it was thought that
I would be permitted to run without opposition.
Recently, however, a clique Of SOmerviIle
politicians have been at work to effect nv
defeat, aud need not name the candidate WHO
is brought out for that purpose, for you all
know to whom l refer. Everything is being
brought 10 bear against me by this clique, and
have to trust to your justice and magnanirnity
for nv vindication. / believe that shall not
trust in vain, and that your verdict on the 1st
day Of August will be population Of the
dictations OF the SomeTville clique.


need scarcely tell you what my position
on the questions of the day is. AS editor Of
the Southern Repsblie l have promulgated my
opinions, aad you ali know what they are,
Year: 1861

EDIToRs APPEALi Moved by the eonsidera
alton Of a manifest desire on the part Of many
friends, with my own deposition and readiness
to be thrown into whatever channel it may be
- - h.-useful to the country or the
Year: 1861

Most faithfully has the State Convention
represented the Union masses by whom its
delegates were chosen. At the head Of the
ticket is one of the bravest defenders Of true
jackson Democracy to be found anywhere in
the land. The people will be delighted with
his frank and earnest style, and wherever he
| speaks he will make havoc among both wings
of the opposition.


| Richard Irwin is q true-blue Union Demo-
crat. He is practical man, and one of the
beet presiding officers we ever saw. lie will
make friends wherever he goes during The
canvass.


OF our Congressional ticket we may truly
be proud The dauntless McKibbin, who
| braved all the powers and resisted all the
temptations of the perfdious Administration
of James Buchanan, and fought the Lecomp-
ton swindle while it had life or motion, is u
fit man to represent Us now when none but
tried men can be trusted. The people Of this
| State, in our opinion, wanted an opportunity
to endorse this gallant and unbending man.
Party lines will have no power to keep from
him the support Of any who are sound on
the Union, and who know how to admire an
honest man. Mr.. McKibbin is a sound and
forcible speaker, and will, we presume, can
vass the State as he has before,


Henry Edgerton Of Napa, the other Con-
gressonal nominee, is a most brilliant man.
His speeches upon the Union resolutions in
the Senate last winter, were wonderful for
unansw erabe logic, and overpowering elo
quence He will electrify those who hear
him this summer, ana we hope lie will speak


in every portion of the State His second
speech in the Senate last winter would have
given him a leading position in any public
body, not excepting the Senate of the United
States. The friends Of the Government in
California will hail with joy the nominations
of McKibbin and Edgerton as the Union can
didates for Congress


The nomination Of Major G. W. Bowie, for
Attorney General, is an excellent one. Maj
Bowie is staunch Union man, and has
served his country in the field with great
honor. II9 is a Balimorean, and is in favor
of planting the star epangled banner over
every spot on the continent where the United
States ever had jurisdiction.


A dispatch received at late hour last
evening announces the remainder Of the
ticket. Want of time and space prevents any
extended mention of the nominees. We can
truly say that no party in this Stute ever pre-
sented q ticket more worthy of the support
of the people than that which we place at the
head cf our columns this morning. We en-
ter upon the campaign with high hopes for
the triumphant success Of the Union Demo-
cratic ticket.
Year: 1861

RENOVATION OF TILE THrATER Our snug
little theater is as good as new after having
been in the hands of the carpenters painters
and upholsters for fortnight. The seats in
The dress circle and parquette have all been
made two inches wider than before the
backs have been made to incline more. and
all have been newly covered ard painted.
The old orchestra box has been removed as
well as the old rails which enclose the orches-
ira seats, and now there is straight railing
the entire width Of the parquette almost
eight feet from the stage, within which are
large number of arm chairs, for the benefit.
We presume, of those young gentlemen who
cannot enjoy the ballet when seen from a
distance. Oil mating has been laid down
between the seats, and MANILA mating in the
places where TIE walking is done. The whole
interior is newly painted some new scenery
has been furnished end the old retouched :
and take it all in all, as we said before our
snug little theater is as good as new. We
learn from the agent, Mr.. Wilbur, that the
house will be opened shortly by Maguire
with WheAtlegt AS the attraction
Year: 1861

PEACE AND WAR-The Nevada Democrat
in criticism upon the recent speech OF John
r. Mcconnell upon the occasion of that gen
tleman's leap into the Gulf Of Seces'ia says;


Mr. Mcconnell was in favor Of peace; SO
were we all He is still in favor OF 1t; ana
still we and all humane men are agreed. But
we do not quite agree with him as to VINO
should take the first steps to establish IT,
Mr. Mcconnell thinks the Administration
should sheathe its sword in the scabbard
which the South boasts to have thrown away;
that il should offer compromise when none
will be received, and meet cannon and bombs
with olive branches and supplications; that
the Mississippi should not be obstructed lest
the enemy hunger, nor MonoDgahela whisky
intercepted lest he thirst This would be an
emnently humane, and perhaps Christian
policy; but Mr.. Buchanan's success in get
ting Goals of fire on jeff. Davis's head ny
such tactics was not very encouraging. we
are in favor of peace-of the only peace
worth having-the peace that shall follow
the maintenance of the Constitution and the
enforcement of the law. War with all its
horrors were preferable to the peace, short
lived and disgraceful as it must be, which
should recognize the right of traitors to sub
vert the Government, of robbers to plunder
its treasury, of pirates to assaiI its haS, and
Of telons to murder its citizens
Year: 1861

THE TRUrH THE Sacramento Union says
Of John Conness


His bold, decided stand for the Union and
his able speeches in support of the Constitu-
ton and the laws, were the admiration of
the people of the State. 1t was that stand
and those efforts which gave him the nomi-
nation for Governor The people recognize
in John Conness an unconditional Union
man, and one upon that point who is fully to
be trusted
Year: 1861

Tuesday, Nov. 5.-We have to report some.
what singular condition Of the market for beef
cattle this week, for it opens with less than
half tie number stated in our last report,
and although at an advance equivalent to half q
cent pound on the net weight Of beef, there
is no life in the Business. Butchers come and look
and acertan the price, and walk of again, with the
remark that they do not want cattle bad enough to
pay the price, Others say that they will buy two or
ihree a the advance, who usually take tive or riy.
Year: 1861

his glory, in the full flower Of his fame,
tho hearts Of twenty millions Of people
throbbing at his tomb. Ho died breath
ing hope and confidence into the patriotic
bosom, and ne left behind him many who
arc animated by bis example and inspired
by his sentiments. Nothing became him
in life so much as the leaving of II; but
when Davis died with the whole moral
argument against him and his cause, con-
demned by his country, condemned by his
God, and, 1 think 1 may say it, condemn
ed by himself. Who. l repeat, will be
his successor b
Year: 1861

WHAT 1T MKANs.-From the determi-
nation Of General Price to organize his
army upon an infantry basis, the Missouri
Democrat deduces two things, viz: that
the re bel General intends to deprive his
men of tho opportunity Of scattering or
going home if thoy get tired Of cam
paigning and that he is determined to
give General Fremont fair, stand up
fight, whenever the occasion offers.
Year: 1861

ES The National Itelli1encer has
some very pertinent and timely remarks
touching Missouri and Kentucky. "Next
to tho City OF Washington" says that
staunch advocate of the oountry's cause,
"the States of Missouri and Kentucky
engage, as they deserve to engage, the
despest interest of all loyal citizens who
are alive to the importance, both civil
and military, of the attitude they hold in
the present crisis Being slaveholding
States, they stand, in common with loyal
Maryland and Delaware, as SO many in
disputable witnesses to the nationality of
the contest in which the Government is
engaged--a contest visibly waged not
against 'the institutions of any State,
but for the maintenance of those consti-
tutional rights which are common to all
the States alike, whether slavehoding or
non.slaveholding. The loss of Missouri
and Kentucky, by the subiugation with
which they arc now menaced, would inaict
an incurable wound on the prestige of the
National Government, which would thus
be shown unable to give these Statos that
protection from internal revolt and exter-
nal violence which is due no less to its
own obligations than to the great major
ity of loyal citizens who call aloud for
the the intervention of their Government
And, as has been well said by an eloquent
defender of the Union cause, the war of
invasion aud subjugation now waged by
the Confederates in Missouri aud Ken
tucky, and with which Maryland is threat
ened, would become war of devastation
if carried beyond the boundaries of these
States into the confines of the non-slsye-
holding States of the Union. 5if


at is in the light of these considera-
tions, and in view of the desperate ends
and aims undoubtedly proposed to them
selves by the military and political lead
ers of tho Confederate States, that the
importance of defending the loyal status
maintained by the great majority Of the
people of Missouri and Kentucky becomes
apparent to every rejecting mind, and
we doubt not the Government will in
stantly bend its best efforts to the rescue
of the former and to the preservation Of
the latter from the calamities by which
they are both environed. Their condi-
tion calls for the most prompt and vigor
GUS action
Year: 1861

I love this holy time. The forest leaves
Beneath the noiscless dcws are bending low,
And family glowing in the starlight pale,
As if the visions that come DER their sleep,
Were Of the Spirit-land. The mountain pine
Has hushed its melancholy music now,
The weary winds are slumbcring in the heavens,
Or keeping sacred vgls on the cloud
Par glimmering in the sun .set-all is still,
Save that tho distant waves arc murmuring low,
Like a lost angel mourning his sad lot
OF exile from the blessed.
Year: 1861

FIVE WAR VESSELS are being fitted
out and viii be ready for sea this week,
at the Boston Navy Yard. Crews arc
ready FOR them. They carry from four to
eight heavy, eight-inch shell and Parrot
guns. The new gun-boats will be ready
for sea carly this month.
Year: 1861

How TO TAKE GAZE OF THE HAIR.-As to
men, we say, when the hair begins to fai out,
the best plan is to have it cut short; give it 4
good brushing with a moderately stiff brush
v lille the hair is dry; then wash il well with
warm soap suds; then rub into the scalp,
about the roots of the hair, little bay rum,
brandy, OF camphor water. Do these things
twice a month-the brushing of the scalp
may be profitably done twice a week. Damp
the hair with water every time the toilet is
made. Nothing ever made is better for the
hair than pure soft water if the scalp is kept
clean in the way we have named. The use of
oils or pomatums, or grease of any kind, is
ruinous to the hair of man woman. We
consider it filthy practice, almost universal
though il be- for it gathers dust and dirt, and
soils whenever il touches Nothing but pure
soft water should ever be allowed on the heads
of children. 1t is different practice that
robs our women eff their most beautiful or
nanlent long before their prime; the hair of
our daughters should be kept within two
inches, until their twelfth year Halls Jour
nal OF Health.
Year: 1861

TRAIN TAKEN Possession OF.-Yesterday
morning one of the trains OF the Western
Maryland Railroad was taken possession of
by a party OF men who proceeded on it as far
as Wes stchester. Who they were or what was
their object was not ascertained, but they
Were going in to the country towards the Penn
sylvania line, though probably with an in
tended diversion towards Virginia. They had
with them engineer, who was prepared to
run the locomotive had the engineer of the
train declined to do so.-Baltinaore Susa, TAuTs-
d0g.
Year: 1861

The Sedsoa,.-Ihough rather cool out Of the
direct influence of the sun q rays, the weather
has been pretty enough, in all conscience, for
several days. In the country nature gives to-
ken, visibly and audibly, of her presence the
birds sing clearer and sweeter song; the
leaves glow with new depth of green fow-
ers burst into fragrant bloom. The grasses
whisper it the trees tell it to each other; the
streams make 1t the burthen of their glad
singing; even the millions of insects futtering
in the air grow troublesome with their fam liar
and unwelcome approaches; while the cattle
browse upon thousand bills and the air is
filled with the perfume Of flowers Summer
is beautiful. Let as sec that it has also glori-
ous fruits that may be plucked ere the return
of stern winter. SO mote it be.
Year: 1861

Select for sailing that part of the carcass
that has the fewest largest blood vessels ,and
do not attempt 10 pack until entirely free
from animal heat. Removing as much OF
The bone as possible, pack The peices close
in the beef barrel, and place on them
weight sufficient TO sink them. For one
hundred pounds of beef, dissolve five quarts
OF good coarse salt, and FIVE ounces of pure
saltpetre in two pals of soft water, boil and
skim well, and while boiling pour it over
the beef covering it closely. If the meat is
not entirely covered, make more brine as
soon as possible, and pour it in hot, as at
first. This is my winter mode. The
meat will be fit to boil in twenty four
hours, Oui viii not keep weet longer than
the first Of April. 10 summer often corn
little say twenty pounds, for Immediate
use. / prepare dried beef in The same
manner using for this purpose the ans,
and Is that intended forsummer use, allow
ten quarts OF saItto 100 pounds. 1t is of no
use TO add salt offer the first coming.
once lost a half barrel in that way; The
full vanity OF sal; must be put on a. the
same time.


In packing pork remove the lean meat 10
be used for sausages, it is hard and almost
worthless when salted. Take out The bone
leaving only The clear side pork. Cut this
in strips sbeut six inche wide. Cover the
bottom Of the barrel with a layer of good
salt one and half inches thick | ay in the
pork edgewise,a and crowding il as com pact.
ly as possible, and cover with a layer o;
salt like the frst, an d SO on until the whole
is packed. Enough space should be left at
the top OF the barrel TO allow from four to
six inches brine above the meat. When all
is packed lay heavy weight upon j, and
pour over i, brine made OF soft water and
salt, as strong as possible, that ~, giving it
all the salt the waller will dissolve. The
brine should always cover the pork a, least
four inches deep.
Year: 1861

A Man KILLED BY a SHARK.-On Saturday
last three seamen, belonging TO the Ameri-
can ship T w. Sears, we're bathing along
by shark. The monster first seized him by
the shoulder, bu, the force with which he
rushed on his victim, caused him TO lose
his hold, driving the unfortunate man sew
eral feet out OF the water The shark again
seized him by the back and finally by The
neck and disappeared with his prey All
this happened within plain veiw of his
shipmales who Immediately lowered boat
and alter taking on board the other two men
proceeded to drag for the body. They had
been occupied in this way for some time,
when the shark was observed to rise some
distance from them, still with the body of


the helpless man in his mouth shaking it,as
is described, as dog would rat.


The mate of the vessel armed himself
with boarding pike, and rowed toward
The spot, and the shark was so much occu-
pied with his victim, that he allowed him
self to be stabbed several times before again
disappearing. Thinking the animal had
received his death wound, the boat returned
10 The ship, out scarcely had she arrived
alongside when the shark reappeared as be
fore. A harpoon was now taken into the
boa:, and the shark again allowed himself
10 be approached sufficiently near 10 be
struck, when he again disappeared. Line
was now paid opt, and the boat was towed
some distance, till assistance arriving the
monster was killed by repeated stabs of
The lance.


Most of the contents of his NAV were
DISCO rged while being hauled on board, and
on being opened, some fragments, which
were uurecognizable, and an eighl-pound
lin of preserved meat, were all Iha, was
found The shark was of the species
known as the ground shark, and about ten
feet in length. The girth OF the body was
immense and is stated TO have been eight
Year: 1861

FATAL FEAsrs ON LAMB, WITHOUT Peas
N. Clark OF Salisbury, Conn, recently found
one Of his lambs dead and badly toru. lie
sprinkled stryohnine on the body and lefl il to
be devoured by the murderer, and on the next
day visited his bait and found defunct ID
headed eagle, which measured seven feet and
four INCHES across its wings from Tip to tip.
He again visited the spot, and found large
dead wildcat, and upon the third visit he found
two dead crows and skunk. On the fourth
visit he found nothing but ascent.