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Year: 1861

From the London Telegraph


If we might believe the last assurances from
the United States the monetary position there
has actually improved" as much as il has
here: for they tell us among other things, that
Mr. Secretary Chase has secured the second in
stalment of ten millions sterling toward the
national loan. i is obvious, however, that the
grounds of hope are at least as weak in Now
York and Washington as they are in Paris and
London. The latest movement Of the Federals
indicates the reverse Of any real progress in the
war, unless it be a step toward a fresh defeat for
their government Everybody knows that the
aim OF the Coniedcrates has been to draw Gen.
Mcclellan into an engagement; and for weeks
the Young Napoleon has been making reconoi-
s8nces in force in order to test the true nature of
the enemy's position.


Heretofore he has prudently sbstained from
any forward movement; but the last advices IN
dicate a change. They inform us that the Con-
federates have decidedly made a rctrograde
movement, and that the FedeTals Immediately
began 10 march, with great slaughter on both
sides. At the same time It is evidently annOunc-
e,l that Gen. Fremont in at last advancing upon
Laxingtou-aiter it has fallen into the hands of
the C0n.ederates Such military movements
mag be steps toward a closing of the war, but
they DO not look favorable either to the suprem-
acv Of Mr. Lincolns government, or TO the mon
etarv operations of Mr.. Secretary Chase.


All this Is known in New York as well as il is
here; and we believe the statement which is
made 10 us that Mr. Chase has succeeded" only
in Disgusting the real failure Of the second in
sta.lmeut He has, we believe agreed to take
treasury bonds as part and parcel Of the funds
which are to be furnished to him. These bonds
stil had some years 10 run, and they carried in
terest 0foHly six per cent the government, there
fore, Is simply taking back its own paper at
discount, with the chance OF any real cash that
may happen TO float in along with the bonds.
So that the real monetary value Of the ten mill
ions les somewhere between that sum and nil,
bus Whereabouts, no one can say.
Year: 1861

MILITARY MovEMEETs.-sThe quiet of more
than one neighbOIhu0d in our city has been
broken within the past two or three days by the
marchngs and countermarchings Of soldiers-by
the inspiriting sounds Of martial music, and by
the noisy hustle consequent upon the movements
Of large bodies Of troops. The precise object OF
this unwonted animation in military circles, is
of course matter wholly of conjecture, but it is
safe 10 assert that they are dictated by thor
ough knowledge Oft the hostile designs Of the vim
dictiye Yanks, and that they are controlled by
sound requirements of tho public safety. Quite
/ a large number Of troops have arrived here from
: Enquirer
Year: 1861

We are now prepared to manufacture our
goods with dispatch, as our force is much larger
than heretofore.


We have the best Of workmen, and no effort
will be spared on our part to give entire salts
faction to all who may favor us with their pat
ronaoe. nol0-3m
Year: 1861

DR, WARNER, with grateful thanks, mas
the honor to inform the ladies and gentlemen of
Memphis, that, through the kind and liberal
patronage which he has received from them, he
has been induced to settle here permanently
and become citizen of Memphis. lie cousid-
ers it unnecessary, in this connection, to pub
lish the hundreds Of


EYGGterjsIg Tes gi9sIOEsiaIs
Which he has received from gentlemen Of the
highest TesPectability, in this city and else
where They arc in his po iession and open
for the inspection of ALL but The reference be-
low are Of a nature that will abuudantly satisfy
al who peruse them.
Year: 1861

In this exigency the government must be
maintained. and the more slupei.dou- and
overwhelming are our preparations, the
shorter Will be the struggle. But, my
countrymen. we must remember that Ger


tain restrictions are to be observed We
must not forget that we are Christians.
and that war must be waged in Chris
lian spilit--not against the rights of a
people against the rights of women
and children. Say that you will sanction
no war on rights. and say that never will
You lay dcwn your arms until those which
yen claim as your own are recognized We
were born under the Constitution Of the
Unit-d States, and lis provision are our
birthright. Then be prepared to enforce
the inalienabe rights which it confers.


We have peculiar reasons why We can
not recognize the right to secede and
break up the linton. Once recognize it
and you not only destroy the Govern
ment. but annihilate order, and inaugurate
anarchy such as disgraced the history of
the worst days of the French Revolution


My friends, you have a solemn du'y to
perform. Use all your power to maintain
he Constitution and the Government
which our fathers gave us. The greater
the unanimily the less the loss of life and
property, and the sooner the establishment
Of peace. | am aware that we have some
prejudice TO encounter, but that does not
surprise me. 1t is but few short months
since we passed through stormy election,
and it takes some little time to drive out
the party contentious and substitute pat
rioiism land yet he who would not sacrifice
political differences does not deserve the
support of his country. How then are we
TO present united front? ? Cease to dis
cuss, cease to criminaie and recriminate.
Indulge in no taunts as to who caused the
trouble, but unite manfully now, and when
the flag waves over every inch Of our
country, argue the point of authorship
When We shall have government for our
children to live under. it will be time
enough to discuss its difficulties, but now,
let him be marked an untrue patriot who
dlstrusts our cause ard shows diasenSion
have said more than intended 1t is a
sad task, but sad as it is. bloody as it will
be, l believe IN the justice Of our cause,
and earnestly hope TO see every patriot
rally around the flag of his country in the
hour of its peril. [ renew TO you my
grateful acknowledgements for the impo-
sing reception which You have given me.
acknowledge it on behalf of the Govern
ment, and the flag of our country. You
have demonstrated that you prefer TO lay
aside party feeling. and unite to man in
the councils of TIE nation, in tire field and
everywhere that men can make them
selves useful and patriotic. Illinois occu-
pies a proud position before the nation,
and let her sons unite in the determined
resolve never to permit this Government
to be dissolved
Year: 1861

Only little while, darling


Only day or year;
The golden hours are slipping past,
The web to the end is rayellins fast,


The twilight is drawing near.
Only little time at best


But little time to love;
The fairy hours with inged feet,
Grow swift, and solemn, and strangely sweet,


As they near the home above.
] dreamed of angels yesternight,


And this was the song l heard
Life is too fleet en- its arrowy wing,
Love is too sacred and holy thing,


For ever an angry word.''
i is but little while, darling,


Maybe but day or year
The loving and tender, the leal and true,
Are fading from sight and slipping from view,
And the nightfall is getting near.
Year: 1861

Though many and bright are the stars that appear
In that flag b. our country unfurl'd;
And the stripes that are swelling in majesty there
Like rainbow adjoining the world
Their lights are unsullied as those in the sky,
By deed that our Fathers have done
And they're leagued in true and as holy tie,
In their motto of "Many in One
From the hour when those patriots fearlessly aung
That banner of starlight abroad
Ever true to themselves, TO that lotto they cluug
As they clung to the promise of God;
By the bayonet traced at the midnight of war,
On the field where our glory was won;
Oh perish the heart. or the hand that would mar
Our motto of "Many in One
Mid the smoke of the contest the cannons deep roa
How oft it had gather'd renown
While those stars were reflected in rivers of gore
When the cross and the lion went down;
And though few their lights in the gloom OF


that hour


Yet the hearts that were striking below
Had God for their bulwark and truth for their


pow'r,


And they stopp'd not to number the foe.
From where our green mountain tops blend with


the sky,


And the giant st. Lawrence is rol'd,
To the waves where the balmy Hesperides lie,
Like the dream of some prophet of old j;
They conquer'd-and dying. bequeathd to our
Not this boundless dominion alone-
But that banner, whose lovelness hallows the air,
And their motto of "A1any in One.'
We are many in one, while there glitters a star
In the blue of the heavens above
And tyrs nts shall quail mid their dungeors afar.
When they gaze on that MOTTO of owe
1t shall CLEAN Ger the sea, mid the bolts of the


storm,


Over tempest, and battle. and wreck
And fame where guns with their thunder


grow warm


Meath the blood on the slippery deck.
The Oppressed of the earth to that standard shall


fly.


Whereverits folds shall be spread
And the exile shall feel It's his own native sky,
Where its stars shall float over his head.
And those stars shall increase till the fulness Of


time


It's millions of cycles mas run
Till the work. shall have welcomed its mission


sublime,


And the nations of earth shall be one
Though the old Allegheny may tower to Heaven.
And the Father of waters divide,
The links of our destiny cannot be riven
While the truth of these words shall abide
Then oh. let them glow each helmet and brand
Thougl our BLOOD like our rivers, shall run;
Divide as We may IN our own native land,
To the rest of the world we are one
Then up with our hlg = let it stream on the air
Though our fathers cold in their graves;
They had hands that could strike, they had souls


that could dare,


And their sons were not born to be slaves
Up up with that blnne r, where 'er il NAV call
Our millions shall rally around
A nation of freemen that moment shall fall
When its stars shall be traii'd OH the ground.
Year: 1861

As fast as the wheat is gathered in
some portion of the Gulf States. they plow
up the stubble fields and plant it in corn.
previously y prepared by being soaked in
water. They are determined TO set all the
food out OF the land they can.
Year: 1861

The CRoPs.--We hear some com plaints
of chess in the growing wheat of this
county. but 1t Is supposed il will not be
seriously injured. Corn is growing finely.
with every promise Of bountiful crop.
The weather for the past few DAYS has
been very favorable for it.-Lqtagetie
Joatrnoi.
Year: 1861

FANNY FERN on SoNs-IN-LAw.-


Fanny Fern, Mrs. parton) having los


her eldest daughter in marriage, make


the following reflections, by Eer rathe


significant When she penned ther


"Doosticks' (Mr. Thompson, had proba-


bly, just declared his intentions:


How any young fellow can have .th


face to walk into your family and deliJer


ately ask for one OF your daughters, sur
prises me. That it is done every day


does not lesson my astonishment at the
sublime impudence Of the thing. There
YOU have been, eighteen or twenty years
Of her life, combng her hair and washing
her face for him, 1t is lucky the thought
never strikes you while you are doing il,
that this is to be the end of ALL What i
you were married yourself? that is no rea
son why she should be witched away into
a separate establishment Just rs you begin
to lean upon her, and feel proud of her


or, at least, 1t stands to reason that after
you have worried her through the meas
les, the chlckenopoS, scarlet fever and
the hopping cough, and had Ler properly
baptized and yaceinated this young man
might give you a short breathing time lie,
fore she goes. lie seems to be Of differ
cnt opinion; h6 not only insists upon Ia.
king her, but upon taking her immediate,
ly, if not sooner. lie talks well about it
very well you have no objection TO him,
not the least in the world, except when
the worlds full Of girls, why couldn't he
fix his eye upon the daughter of some.
body elsey There are some parents who
are glad to get rid Of their daughters.-
Blue eyes are as plentiful as berries why
reedit be this particular pair? Don't he
have meat and bread, and clothes enough,
to say nothing Of love? What is the use
Of certainty for an uncertainty for an
uncertainty, when that certainty is o
mother, and you can never have but cne?
You put all these questions to her, and
she has the saucinoss to ask if that is the
way you reasoned when father came for
you; You di5dain to answer, OF course (;
it is mean lodging of the question, But
she gets round you, for all that; and so
does he too though you try youI best not
to like him and With q "well if must,
must" you just order her wedding clothes
muLtering tOyourseli the while, Dear dear,
what solt of fist will that child make at
the head of a house? How will she ever
know what to do in this, that, or the othS
er emergency she WHO'S calling on moth.
fifty times a day, to settle every trifling
question what folly for her to set up
house for herself! How many mothers
have had these toreboding thoughts over
a daughter And yet that daughter has
met life, and its unexpected reverses, with
o herosm and courage as undaunted as if
every girlsh tear had not been kissed
away by lips that, alas may be dust, when
the baptism and womanhood comes upon
her."
Year: 1861

How very true it is, that "blessines


brighten as they take tEeir flight" We


DO not venture an assertion beyond the


ready acceptance Of every thinking mind


when we say, that whatever may be the


partisan or sectional animosities awaken


eu IA the present strife, nineteen -twen-.


tieths OF the people Of all sections and of
all parties sigh tor peace. Peace. lovely
peace, a thousand times more beautiful
and precious when set round with the
grim frame work of war; than when she
reigned urdisturbed throught the land =


we are and have ever been for peace
pace at any sacrifice but honor. There
can be no good thing come out Of this war.


1t involves the destruction of cur present
form OF government, and its immeasura-
Die evils will engage and disgust tho at,
tentlon Of mankind for generations TO
come. When the land Is filled with wild.
oWs and orphans, when our homes are
draped IN mourning, and the broad bosom
OF our beloved land has been scanned with
the hlougAshare OF ruin, then we " i'll mako
peace the peace Of dessolation, When
the vain effort Of conquering millions of
treemen has been tried and failed. when
the seeds OF hereditary and unquenchable
hatred have ripened to their bitter fruit,
then efforts will be made for peace. Why
not make those efforts now before all
those tremendous efforts have been borne?
Is there no voice potent enough to speak
peace to the raging elements? Would
that the very thunders Of the Almighty
should proclaim from the mountains to
the seas, Peace be still. ."-Richnoad,
Va,, Dispatch.
Year: 1861

Gov. Ellis, of North Carolina, recon-
mends TO the Legislature, the passage for
bidding the issue of any process for collec.
ton of a debt against all persons whether
they have enlisted into the service or not.
He says:


Property of every species has deprecat-
ed in value, gold and silver are not to he
had, and there is neither morality nor JUS
tice in allowing the few persons who may
be disposed to take advantage of the great
public calamity to impoverlsh their fellow
citizens for their own gain.
Year: 1861

OF the seventeen Governors of the free
States this side of the Rocky Mountains,
who we're called upon for troops, only one
of them, Governor Sprague, of r. l., put
himself at the head of his quota for active
service. That Governor is the only Demo
crat on the list


The above has appeared in the Messenger
Extra at least twice in the past few days
If to have voted for Lincoln, aud to have
used all his influence TO secure his election
and his complete and hearty approval oi
all his official acts down to this time, make
him Democrat, then Governor Spraguc
is Democrat, otherwise not.
Year: 1861

The peace men of the North have been
wont to assert that it is impossible to force
the rebels to return to a condition of loyalty.
A few days ago we were informed that
Key West, Florida, had become loyal
city. The last arrival from there says "Key
West remains loyal" This is attributable
to the salutary influence exerted by "frown-
ing columbiads."
Year: 1861

The people of the Northern States are
not going to forego their usual cold wealth
er amusements the coming season, on &C.
count of the war, aud even if such thing
were possible, it would not by any means
be desirable. Those who labor physically
or mentally will need their relaxation and
recreation as much as ever, and surely we
are not SO much reduced by war, that our
usual amusements must be deemed illtimed
or in bad taste But at the same time, it
would be we'll if the balls, and parties, and
sleigh rides might be merged in some 9th
er form of amusements, which would be
equally as pleasant, and at the same time
have patriotic intent to furnish the sol
diers with clothing and other useful arti-
cles This double object might me obtain
ed by the introduction of social meetings,
or oeiables, % into every village or school
district, where the old and young might
come together and work for the soldiers
and have social times y series of such
meetings as those held every one Or two
weeks during the winter would be produc-
tive of much coed to the brave fellows
who are fighting cur battles for US, and
would be a source of much rational enjoy
ment besides. Such sociables might be
started in any village if some patriotically
inclined individual would only take bold
of the matter. and If balls and such costly
amusements should be dispensed with this
winter, and all classes devote their surplus
funds to the good of the soldiers, and at
the same time have their customary enjoy
ment by carrying into effect some plan
like the above, it would be consumation
very much to be desired.-sPringfeld Re
publican.
Year: 1861

had fastened to his belt the colors of his
regiment. He fell at last but the colors
still waved over him. And yet Mr.. VIM.
Russell says there was no hand to hand
fighting at Bull Run.


They ted the tale tenaerly to the wo-
man in the brown house, and her heart
met it's death blow as they told +; but she
only said He would have rather died so
than to run, and | would rather he would
In the years to come, sif Freedom and
Truth want them, there will be two sons
of John Plummer who will leap as cxult-
ingly to their CALL and de as gladly at
their bieing as did their father, thanks
for their mothers teaching,
Year: 1861

In the matter of the guardianship of the minor
heirs of John Negus, deceased


On reading and filing the petition of Maria Negus,
guardian of said minors duly verified, setting forth
description of all the real estate of which said deceas
ed died seized and the condition and value of the
spective portions thereof that it necessary to sell
portion thereoffor the support and maintenance of
said minors, and praying that license be to her grant
ed to sell portion of said real estate. Ano appear
ing by said petition that there not sufficient person
al estate in the hands of said guardian to support
and maintain said minors and that it is necessary
sell portion of said real estate


It is therefore ordered that all in
IN said real estate appear before the Judge of this
Court on Monday the 7th day of October next at II
o'clock A. NJ, at the Court House in the village of
Jefferson and show cause, if any they have why IL
cense should not be granted to said guardian to sell
said real estate according the prayer OF said peti
ton.


And 1t Is further ordered that copy of this order
be published for three successive weeks prior to said
day of hearing, in the s'Watertown Republican,
weekly newspaper, published at Wrtertown, in said
County.


Dated the 2a+ h day of August A. D. 1861.


By he Court, SAMUEL BAIRD.


sep6W3 County Judge.
Year: 1861

During the progress of the trial Of
Northern traitors in Ohio, recently arrest
ed, among the revelations as to the char
acter of the Infamous order of the Knights
of the Golden Circle, was the discovery of
the following eaths which members of that
order are required to take when initiated:


FIRST OATH.


Il do trust and solemnIy promise ana
swear that will not reveal any word, ell
ther directly or indirectly of what | am
about to receive, except it be to some true
and faithful brother of this order. and net
unto him or them until after strict exam
ination, shall have found him or them,
as Justly entitled to the same, as | myself
am about to be under the no less penalty
of having my body severed into four parts;
tie first part cast out at the north gate,
the second part at the south, the third
part at the east, and the fourth part at the
west gate I furthermore promise that |
will always hail and answer all signs and
signals that are given to me by brother
Of this order if in my power to do SO; and
I furthermore promise and swear that
will protect and defend all Constitutional
Democrats, their lives, property, and per-
sonal liberty from mob violence, during
this Southern insurrection, so long as they
obey the laws of the G. s. A, let it como
from whatever source it may this obliga-
tion to be binding on me as long as the
war shall last"


SECOND OATH.


"And I further promise and swear, in
presence of Almighty God and the
members of the Golden Circle, that will
not rest or sleep until Abraham Lincoln,
now President, shall be removed out of the
Presidential chair. and I will wade in blood
up to my knees, as soon as Jefferson Da-
Wis sees proper to march with his army to
take the city of Washington and the White
House, to do the same. So help me God,
and keep me steadfast to do the same"


In whom do you trust?


In God.


Your trust being in God, l will give you
the seal that will relieve you out Of the
camp of your enemy.
Year: 1861

Our readers should remember that the
hanks of this State have fund for the
liauidation of the notes of the Bank Of
Portage and the Waupun and Dodge Coun-
tv Banks ngT If they are paid into The
bank before the first day Of Desenbsr. Af-
ter that date they will recognise no re-
sponsibility in regard to them SO look
over your pile and sort them out and re-
turn them to some bank.
Year: 1861

THERE is a great deal OF skirmish'
ing and winking among some when
mention is made of the shot that
struck Fort Sumter the other day,
and which was overlooked in clear
ing out the big Armstrong. 1t is
said that the ball shattered ten feet
square Of the plastering on the side
of the fort, and made q most beauti-
ful beginning at big hole. When
it was told to Major Anderson that
the whole affair was purely accident.
al, il is said that the gallant Soldier
just smiled and said he hoped there
would be no moro such Mistakes
Mistakes, however, will sometimes
happen to big guns, and tell exactly
their power and range before IL is
over with.-[ Atlantic Conysdsraey.