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Year: 1861

The Union! The Union the hope of the free
Howsoe'er we may differ, in this we agree
Our glorious banner no traitor shall mar,
BY effacing stripe, or destroying star
Division! No, never! the Union forever!
And cursed be the hand that our country would


sever!
The Union The Union! twas purchased with


blood,
Side by side, to secure it our forefathers stood;
From the North to the South, through the length


of the land,
Ran the war-cry which summoned the patriot


band!
Division! No, never! the Union foreveri
And cursed be the hand that our country would


sever!
The Union! The Union at Lexington first,
Through the clouds of oppression, its radiance


burst
But at Yorktown rolled back the last vapory


crest,
And, bright constellation, it blazed in the west
Division! No, never the Union forever!
And cursed be the hand that our country would


sever!
The Union! The Union its heavenly light
Cheers the heart of the nations who grope in the


night
And athwart the wide ocean, falls, gliding the


tides,
A path to the country where freedom abdes
Division! No, never the Union forever!
And cursed be the hand that our country would


severi
The Union The Union! in God we repose
We confde in the power that vanquished our


foesi
The God of our fathers-oh, still may He be
The strength of the Union, the hope of the Free !!
Division No, never the Union forever!
And cursed be the hand that our country would


sever!
Year: 1861

POWERS OF ENDURANCE AND DlET.-EXper-
fenced trainers of the prize ring cannot
decide what is the best food for training men
up to their greatest powers of endurance.
They have prejudice in favor Of mutton
chops and underdone beefsteak: but it is by
no means sure that this is the best. The
Roman soldiers, who conquered the world,
and built roads from Lisbon to Constantine
pie, and who were well-trained athletes,
marching under weight of armor and
luggage that few men in our day could
carry-lived on course brown wheat and
barley bread, which they dipped in sour
wine.


In our day the Spanish peasants are among
the strongest and most agile men in the world.
He will work all day In a copper mine, or at
the olive press, or the wine press, under a
bot sun, and then dance half the night to
the music of guitar. What does he live
on? A piece of black bread, an onion, per-
haps half watermelon. You may see him
dipping his piece of bread into horn of
olive OIL and then into some vinegar, made
hot with pepper and garlic, and then he is
happy. Sometimes he gets draught of
harsh sour wine, but not strong. All the
strong wine is sent to England


The Smyrna porter wakes off with load
of eight hundred weight His only food day
after day, is little fruit-a handful of dates,
few figs, bunch of grapes or some olives.
He eats no beef, pork or mutton. His
whole food does not cost him penny a
day.


The Coolie, living on his rice, can outwork
the negro fed on his bacon. The Arab,
living on rice and dates, conquered half the
world.


The most tremendous muscular force,
and the greatest powers of endurance,
may be nourished upon a very moderate
diet.
Year: 1861

The Louisville Journal beautifully saws =
There are times when the lssiIse lies low in the
bosom and beats slow in the veins when the
spirit. sleeps the sleep, apparently, that knows
no waking, in its house of clay, and he win
dow.shuttcrs are closed and the door is hung
with the invisible Grape of melancholy when
we wish the golden sunshine pitchy blackness,
and are very willing to fancy clouds where no
clouds be. There is a state of sickness when
physic may be thrown TO the dogs, for we will
have none of it. What shall make the heart
beat music again, and the pulses dance to it
through all the myriad -throngrd halls in our
house of lifeI What shall make the sun kiss
the Eastern hills ogain for us with all his Old
awaking gladness, and the night overflow with
moonlight, music, love- AMI flowers? h1ve it.
self is the great ,timulant-the most intoxica-
ting Of all and performs all these miracles !;
but it is q miracl. itself, and is not at the drug
store, whatever they say. ] he counterfeit is in
the market, but the winged god is not money
changer, We assure you.


Men have tried many things-but still they
ask for stimulants. The stimnlants we use, but
require the use of more. Men try to drown
the floating dead of their own souls in the wine
cup, but the corpses will rise. We see their
faces in bubbles. The intoxication of drink
sets the world whirliDg again and the pulse
playing widest music, and the thoughts gallop-
ing-but the fast clock runs down sooner; and
the unnatural stimulation only leaves the house
it fills with widest revelry more silent, more
sad, more deserted, more dead.


There is only one stimulant that never fails,
and yet never intoxicates-Duty.-Duty puts H
blue sky over every man--up in bis heart may
be--into which the skylark Happiness always
goes, singing.
Year: 1861

There is as much connection between the
words and the thoughts as there is between the
thoughts and the actions. The latter are not
only the expressions of the former, but they
have power to react upon the soul, and leave
the stain of their corruption there. A young
man who allows himself to use one vulgar or
proiane word has not only shown that there is
foul spot on his mind, but by the utterancc
of that word be extends that spot and in.
flames it, till by indulgence it viii pollute ami
ruin the whole soul. Be careful of your words,
as well as yonr thoughts. If you can control
the tongue, that no improper words are pro.
nounced by it, and save that from corruption,
you extinguish the FIRE by snaothering it, or
preventing bad thoughts bursting out into
language. Never utter a word anywhere
which you would be ashamed to speak in the
presence of the most refined female, or the most
religious man. Try this practice little
while, and you will soOn have command ofyour
self.
Year: 1861

tnlng that Is worm living lor


But must close this letter. The news has
Just now come that the Union men have been
driven out of Piedmont, a number of them
have come here for arms. We want to go
and help them drive the scoundrels from their
town, bat they say they can do it themselves
if they have arns. The General has supplied
them with arms. We VII be off at once to
help them, if they viii let as.


Yours truly J. s. JoNEs.
Year: 1861

Many papers give us the dying words of
great men, but none of them are so touching
and beautiful as the last words of the old
schoolmaster;-"It is growing dark-school
may he dismissed" Down to the gates of an
unseen world he carried the love and regard of
the children he had trained. It was his last
kind dismissal in this world of schooling.
Year: 1861

WORLDS HAIR DRESSING e essential TO US wiih
the Restorer, and often times in young persons will
stop the Hair from falling 1t IS the best dressing for
the Hair known, rendering it soft silky and glossy,
dsposng it to cnrl, and remain in any desired posi-
ton. Read the advertisement No other preparation


has such an array Of convincing testimony. del 2w
Year: 1861

The business Of swearing is carried to g ridiculous excess in the North. The northern officials not only swear the Yankee officers and men, as well as those they dare not trust otherwise. but they administer the oath of ale riance 10 sewing girls, and to children; and For ney. of the Philadelphia Press, recommends that no public meeting be held hereafter, unless the audience first take the oath of allegiance before proceeding to business,
Year: 1861

OF the most important and to be retaken at any cost &
oSce At the same tims there opened at Pensacola
immense coal yard and every in it, as at Nor
folk was known to be tool of the South. The Navy
Yard in this city put into the Of Capt Buch-
anan, who Secretary Of the Naval Board; and the
revelations from this Navy Yard have shown the seees-
sion tendencies of the employees Pendergrast, who
has been put to the blockade off Virginia is brother
inlaw of two strong Secessonists in the Navy Blake
and Barron and already several OF bis men have re-
signed. Meantime, Floyd was arranging the plans for
supplying the rebellion with arms on land so that when
the Navy should be all right on the seas the Army
should be all right on land Ship and shore were both
made sure as they could make them. The time came,
and the South struck their bow-the North ell unpre-
pared"
Year: 1861

CLERiCAD SECESSlONISiS IN NCN-Iphh'
To the Editor Of The Y 7ribuEs


SIR: The Rev. j. Poisal, whose Southern proclivi-
ties have led him directly The JoarR0to Commerce
as the medium Of his communications asserts he was
afraid of mob law and dissolved his connection with the
Bedford street Methodist Episcopal Church, and like
Dr. Hoge, of Brick Church notorety, is going or has
gone to bis dear sacred soil, and in sympathy with
traitors and in the arms of rebellion finds that comfort
and safety which he AYERS is denied him IN New-i ork'


The simple truth is this minister of the Gospel was
requested TO pray for the President Of the United States
in his public mnistratons which be fatty refused to do
and resigned.


PERHAPS il was not more Secessionsm than fear oil
variety in his pulpit services that the cause OF his
refusal as is declared by bis friends that lie has spent
the most of his valuable life sermon and under
all the changes Of varied texts you may soc its old Ia
mar face


New-England Puritansm and an Abolition Press are
the glib terms and stereotyped sentences winch ndl'
cate the iaundiced medium through which be surveys
the uprising of great people in defense OF the
Union Constitution, and enforcement Of the laws and
can only see in their patriotic efforts the Yankee Pur-
tan and Internal Abolitiouist.


We call the attention Of the public TO the fact that
the reverend gentleman has been treated with the ut
most and uniform kindness by the members of said
Churb excepting the polite request above referred TO-,
and has availed himself OF imSy pretexts to create
popular sympathy which, Of course, should not sur
prise us after our experience of Southern chyay and
veracity only in the fact that the pulpit emua'es the
press and the divine apes the politician, IN using the
DEVILS weapons to help the devils cause


NetD. York. Sept s. 1861. T.
Year: 1861

OIL.-The demand for oil for railroads and fac
tories is now very great in the South, and we have
recently been applied to for information as to
where oil can be obtained We have been unable
to furnish the information, We have seen no ad-
vertisement of oil manufactures. The Atlanta
Confederacy says there several such in the
southern States, but does not mention where they
are located. The Confederacy pertinently asks,
"why don't these establishments advertiser If
any one will send the information We will pub
lish it gratis. Oil is needed in this section.
Year: 1861




Scorr AND McCLELLAN.-A meeting was
lately held in New York for the relief OF
the loyalists of North Carolina. Among
the speakers was Gen. Burnside, Of Rhode
Island, who, in the course Of his remarks,
said:


Our grand old chief who has justleft the head
of the army needs no eulogy from me. His
history is made. He has place in your hearts.
Nothing could say would raise him IN the es-
timation of the American people, and especially
the people of New Y ork, who are so dear TO
him, and to whom he is so dear. But ask
your patience, your forbearance for, ana your
confidence in, the young chief who has assumed
the command. / have known him intimately;
as students together, as soldiers in the held,
and as private citizens; for years we have lived
together in the same family. ! know him as
well as know any human being upon the face
of the earth, and know that no more honest,
conscientious man exists than Gen. Mcclellan.
I know that no feeling of ambition beyond the
good of his country and the success OF our
cause ever enters his breast. know that all
he does is with single eye to the success OF
this Government and the breaking down OF tnls
rebellion. And know that nothing under the
sun can ever induce that man to swerve from
what he believes to be his duty. He is an hon
est, conscientious, Christian man. And now
let me add what believe; and what is believed
and felt by every person who has ever come IN
contact with him, that he has the soundest head
and the clearest military perception ofany man
in the United States.
Year: 1861

MASON AND SLIDELL.-The following from
late number Of the Richmond Enquirer,
will read well now, when these gentlemen
are guests OF the nation ~


BY this time our able representatives abroad
Messrs. Mason and Slidell, are pretty well over
the briny deep towards the shores of Europe.
We commit no indiscretion in stating that they
embarked upon a vessel which will be abund-
antly able to protect them against most of the
Yankee cruisers they may happen to meet, and
the chances are consequently, hundred to one
that they will reach their destination with safe
ty. The malice of our Yankee enemies will
thus be foiled, and the attempt to capture them
fail of success. Great will be the modification
Of the Yankees when they shall have learned
this result. Our Ministers did not choose to
leave at any other port than one of our own, or
under any but the Confederate flag. We be-
lieye that, at no distant day, Mr.. Mason will
have the pleasure Of signing treaty of amity
on behalf of the Confederate States with one OF
oldest and greatest dynasties OF Europe, and
| thus cement those relations of commerce upon
which our future so largely depends.
Year: 1861

INeRATITUDE OF THE TRAIrcRs.-ln the
work of secession tand rebellion, the very offl-
cials and sworn guardians of our Government
have been the foremost plotters. 1hey nave
used their opportmities and their trusts for
the most perfdous purposes. Nothing, but
perjury in the very highest places could have
Initiated secession and rebellion, and to this
very moment they derive all their viigor IN the
council-chamber and on the field from fore.
sworn men, most of whom have been trained
from their childhood, nurtured, instructed, and
fed, and all of whom have been fostered IN
their manhood, and gifted with their whole
power for harming her, by the kindly mother
whose life they are assailing. If the Man with
the Withered Hand had used the first thrill
of life and vigor coming into it by the word
of the Great Physician to aim blow at his
benefactor, his ingrattude would have needed
to stand recorded only until this year Of our
Lord, to have been matched by deeds of men
who have thrown this dear land of ours into
universal mourning.
Year: 1861

SUPPOSED TO he A VOLCANo.-The Virgin.
ia City Enterprise, referring to the bril-
liant light visible to the eastward of that
place, says:


There is scarcely doubt but the strange
light which appeared on the eastern horizon the
past week, is an active volcano. Last night it
was exceedingly brilliant, and illuminated the
sky for the space of several degrees. Owing to
the thickness Of the clouds, X was difficult to
obtain fair view, the light constantly varying
in brilliancy either in itself or from thechanges
of the clouds. 1t is too large and steady TO be
any common confagration. At the great dis
tance which it appears to be from us, it would
require all the wood between here and Salt Lake
to make fame sufficiently large TO emit the
amount Of light which emanates from this
source.
Year: 1861

The Legislature Of Nevada Territory very
properly rejected the bill appropriating
$4,000 to pay the expense of Commission
ers to the Worlds Far 10 London. A Was
hoe correspondent says they preferred to
appropriate the amount to buy arms to
maintain the Union, which England would
prefer aunihilated in spite of her pretended
sympathy.
Year: 1861

WIRES DowN.-The telegraph wires are
down in every direction from this place,
and we are unable to get any intelligence
as to the damage by the 1ood in other parts
of the State There is every reason to fear
that Sacramento and Marysvine are both
overnown. In such event the destruction
of life and property would be immense.
Year: 1861

No BIDDERs.-The Trustees of the State
Insane Asylum advertised for bids for furnish
ing that institution with three hundred barrels
of flour, to be delivered in certain quantities
per week, for the next six months, but did not
receive single bid. The Independent says
dealers have no desire to take leap in the
dark to the extent which the price of flour sax
months hence would be likely to lead them.
Year: 1861

NOTICE is hereby given that on the


second Tuesday of May next and the next
at the Office Of the Treasurer of the County
of Jefferson, in the State of Wisconsin, so much
of each tract or parcel Of land described in the
following statement as shall be necessary for
the payment Of the taxes, interest and charges
thereon. Said sale to be open between the
hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and four
o'clock in the afternoon.


Jefferson, April 18th, 1861.
Year: 1861

CooL.-A gentleman residing in a village, finding
that the diminution Of his EOod-pilss continued
after his fires were out lay awake night in order
10 obtain, possible, some clue to the mystery. At
an hour when oil honest folks should be in bed,
hearing an operator al work in the yard. he eau
ticusly raised his chamber window, and saw 3 lazy
neighbor endeavoring to get large log into his
wheelbarroE. "You're pretty fellow" said the
owner, "to come here and steal my wood while
Sleep sYes," replied the thief . and suppose
you would stay up there and see me break my back
with lifting before you'd oer to come snd help me
Year: 1861

Now Is the time to gather leaves that have
fallen in the forest. They are valuable, as
every farmer knows, for litter, or bedding for
cattle. horses. hogs, &c. They are valuable,
also. to throw among the young trees, grape
vines. &C., in the garden, to protect them
from the effects OF frost and freezing during
the winter and early spring. They are also
valuable, as every gardener knows, to enter
into composts and the formation OF leaf
mould to bo used in the culture Of flowers
and delicate plants. A good way to gather
them is to rake them together when little
wet or moist from light rains. Then have
large bags made Of burlap very much like
wool sack, into which they may be crowded,
and thus early harvested and cnptied into
the place you wish to keep them for use
Bags Of this kind would not be very costly,
and IL taken care OF will last for years it
dried and laid away when the harvest is over.
Ne. Farmer.
Year: 1861

The hand Of the King. that sceP,rs hath borne,
The brow of the Priest, that the nitro hath worn
The eye Of the sage, aud the heart Of the brave,
Are hidden and lost In the depths " tho grave.
Year: 1861

BULL We. BEAR.-The Mariposa Gazette
says A valuable horse was killed not long
since on Bull creek by bear; also a COW was
much injured. Bruin, however. met his re-
ward, for large bull plunged at him while try
ing to kill the COW, driving one Of his horns its
fun length into him. After this the bear was
quickly finished by the infuriated bovine.
Year: 1861

AN ANTIDoTE.-Dr. Beck, Of Dantzig, it is
said, has discovered an antidote, or rather the
counter poison for alcohol 1t is mineral
paste which he incloses in an olive, and which
once absorbed, destroys the effects Of drunken
ness. The Doctor had best ship large in
voice to this coast with all haste.
Year: 1861

A MAw-WoRM.-A correspondent at the Dalles
writes to the Portland Christian Advocate: g
am to inform you that God is with us in this part
Of the world" The remark is no better than
blasphemy. Did the sanity hypocrite wish to
say that until he favored the Daes with his pres
ence, God was not with those living there The
fellow deserves sound rebuke for writing in the
style he used. Such maw-worms do more tc
damage the cause of true religion than do1ble
their number of openly bad men.-Oregon Ga
zette.


The above extract is worthy only the pen
and heart of a libelous scavenger, whose
particular forte is & sharp practice" even
to cheating his printers out of their pay fol
services rendered. There is not a sem
blance of truth in the spiteful allegations
made against this man, nor any justice in
the criticism, as all know who enjoy his
personal acquaintance.
Year: 1861

1a~ We will issue Supplement this
evening, containing the Presidents Mes
sage and the latest news from the Atlantic
States. The Message is too lengthy for
insertion in our paper, without greatly
limiting our quantity of local matter. Those
wishing copies of the message, who may
not be supplied by the carrier, will please
call at the office and get them.
Year: 1861




DST The MOuntaineer publishes letter
from Mr.. ]. w. Knight, dated at the Una
tilla Agency, which gives the report of a
party sent out by that gentleman to test the
feasibility of a trail from the Grand Ronde
valley to Powder river, and also to learn
whether practicable trail could be found
from the Grand Ronde valley to the mines
on Salmon river. This letter states that a
''passable trail was found from Grand Ronde
to a point six miles above the mouth of
Powder river, and twelve miles above Sal
mon river" We suppose the author means,
twelve miles above the mouth of Salmon
river. The letter also states that the dis
tance from Grand Ronde to this point is
sixty miles, and that large Indian trail
follows up the south side of Salmon river.
The party which was sent out did not make
the trip through to Salmon river, but re-
ported that there was no apparent obstacle
in the way of such trip. Judging by the
descriptions we nave naQ from men VINO
have attempted to pass over the mountains
from the Grand Ronde valley to where the
rich mines are situated, we think that as
yet no feasible trail, over which animals may
pass heavily laden, has been discoyered in
that direction The descriptions of this
country which have come to us through old
mourtaineers, are that it is extremely wild
and mountainous, the worst country that
ever a man attempted to pass through" +"
presenting on every hand insurmountable
obstacles, and rendering it utterly impossi-
BILE to locate trail with any directness
from the Grand Roude to the mines on Sal
mon river. However, we shall see what
the energy and will of man may develop in
this regard during the coming season.


70 Mr.. Gains sale of town lots on Sat-
urday last was we'll attended, and quite a
number of lots were sold, at reasonable
prices. Persons investing money in town
property in this city are sure of receiving a
fair interest on their investments.
Year: 1861

Zoo Much FOR Hm-The Princess Mary. Of
Cambridge, whose betrothal to the Duke of New
castle has been announced, is very comely per-
sonage but very stout-so stout in fact that she
finds crinoline entirely superauous except around
the bottom of her skirts and it is said that Z. mas
been necessary of late to enlarge the door of her
carriage. A marriage was proposed between her
and Victor Emanuel, and he was delighted at the
prospect of a connection with the royal family of
England through the owner of so charming face
as that of the portrait shown to him. But when
on his visit to England, he saw the lady-himself
no slender lad-he retired preoipitately from the
negotiation. :" 1 cannot marry that woman" he
said: she's broad enough to sit upon the seven
hills of Rome!"
Year: 1861

Judge Wyche went to the Sound yesterday tc
have a consultation with Judge Oliphant, and tc
determine in conjunction with that gentleman
upon the place where the next session CT the Su
preme court is to be held.


In the foregoing paragraph no mention is
made of Judge Hewitt. Does the Chronicle
mean to inform us that the Chief Justice ot
the Territory has nothing to do in regula-
ting the sessions of the supreme court? The
sentence is undoubtedly intended to near
something-probably suggestion that the
Chief Justice should not be included among
the personages who are to settle this mixed


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