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Year: 1863

HEALTB-Nature has so knit the mind and
body together that they act and react upon each
other Who has not felt that the state of health
gives a coloring to everything that happens him.
One man whose health is depressed, sees his own
freside, that used to burn so cheerly only coored
with gloom and sadness. Another of bright
and joyous mind, in the full vgor of health, will
go forth, and the very desert, to that mans eyes
will rejoice, and the very wilderness, to his view,
will blossom like the rose, and saddest nature will
sound to him the most joyous and brilliant. A
sufferer goes out and looks on nature and its roses
all the sweet minstrelsy of the groves and forests
sound to him like wild wailing through all the
sounds of nature.
Year: 1863

The New York Commercial is exercised
by new question. 1t says that by the
military bill before the Senate, it is provi-
ded that if arms, clothing or equipments
are found in the possession Of any one not
an officer or soldier, they may be seized
1t is undoubtedly provided also that the
party having them may prove his title to
them, the object Of the Government being
to protect itself against acts of fraud. The
section to which we have referred, simple
as it seems, is of great importance to many
thousands Of our citizens. The wearing Of
soldier clothes no longer indicates soldier.
The military coat and button have pen, ira
ted 10 all the walks of life. A large por-
ton of the working community is protect
ed from the cold by the army overcoat.
The army pantaloons abound in civil life.
The cap and vest are ubiquitous. One has
but to look about the streets to be con-
vinced Of this. The car and stage drivers
wear this livery very generally. Probably
more than half of the omnibus drivers wear
the overcoat. 1t is a singular fact that the
hackmen do not wear this coat Out of
one hundred and sixty non-military per-
sons in borrowed plumage seen in Broad
way, only one was hack driver Cartmen
teamsters, express drivers and dock labor
ers wear it, and even beggars appeal for
charity from beneath the martial covering
Of Uncle Sam One poor fellow on Broad
way bears over his military trappings, the
words Il am bind" 1t is possible he is
blind to the fact that an amendment to The
military bill may divest him of his warm
coat. These overcoats are in an excellent
state Of preservation, and will last for a
long time. 1t is probable that they will
descend from one proprietor to another, un-
til they bring up on the shivering limbs
that poverty and vice alike have brought
to rags.
Year: 1863

ABOUT LIFE-If it is well for a man to live at
ALL he should endeavor to avoid all those inhu-
ences which detract from the beauty and harmony
of human existence. In other words he should
make the most of life" and not allow himself to
be distracted, annoyed, or confounded by any
thing. He should fully possess himself being at
peace with his own soul and having great good
will for all mankind.-Life then, will have beau
tifance to himj its current will be deep and flow
gently on-in all tie beauties of the world re-
fected.
Year: 1863

A BABY IN "OUR HoME."-Not a borrowed
baby either, nor a sick baby come to be cured
and then to go away again. Neither is it a make
beIieue baby made of rags stuffed with bran, or of
wax. or India rubber. But it is true baby Just
as much alive as little young kitten or a little
calf is alive. Ii can double up its fists and scratch
its chin as well as anybody in the world and it
can wink, and cry, and kick 1t has some little
brown hair, and some little blue eyes, and little
white frock, and a darling little worsted sack
and every way is nice little creature. And it is
our own, to keep. We can watch it as it grows,
and be glad when it learns to laugh, and to sit
on the floor, and to tumble over on its back and
put its big toe in its mouth, and to stand alone,
and to walk, and to climb up on the table, and
TO cut holes in its mothers dresses with the scis
sors.-Er.


HEAVY ONTHE CoPPERHEADs.-In noticing the
efforts of the peace copperhead Democrats in IL
linois and Indiana to get up Peace Convention
at Louisville, the Richmond, (ya.) Enquirer
sneerlingly said


"If they repudiate the debt they have contract
ed and abandon the Government they have
established and recant the vows; and break
pledges and eat drt--it is we'll. We shall be
charmed the movement will suit US perfectly
and, although we shall not exactly respect the
actors in that affair, yet shall not be unwilling
to trade with them-hoLding our noses a little

and to show them all suitable civlities, but at a
proper distance


After reading the above, we should suppose the
rebel-sympathizing copperheads of the Northwest
would feel very much disgusted with their friends
in the rebel South The rebels treat all propo-
sitions for peace founded on compromise and a
restoration of the Union, as well as those cop
perhead Democrats who produce them with con-
tempt-Sdc. Union,
Year: 1863

Money was never spent more freely than
now. For dress, luxury, amusement, al
classes spend with freedom close akin 10
recklessness and prodigality. There seems
10 be no thought for the future People OF
moderate incomes and no reserved means
spend quite as fast or faster than they re-
ceive. Wcrkm IN who find il difficult TO lay
in a winters stock of coal send their children
into the street, week days, dressed in a style
tnat woul! have been considered extrsva CANT
for holiday costums three years ago. Tne
most expensive fabrics are worn by almost
everybody, and there seems to be little re-
gard paid 10 the cost OF anything. II If is
stylish and attractive il i. bought, even if it
takes he Inst dollar, and there is neither coal
nor -four in store for the cold and hungry
months coming. Can We So on in this way
for any lenglh Of time?


We do not spend our money as the South
ern people DO. because it is too uncertain TO
keep. Its Ultimate retention in gold is so
we'll assured that the few no have il ali are
boarding it IS if il were specie, and millions
of dollars of it nave been sold South TO peo-
pie who forsee the END of the present contes,
and want something reliable 10 fall back upon
when the final crash comes. We squander
because it is the fashion. The shoddy aris-
tocracy begun it, and almost every body has
oeen swept into the prevailing current. We
had better hold up little. 1t is going to
cost something to live through the next SIX
months, AMI it will be convenient to have a
few greenbscks constantly on hand. Prices
are not going to improve, as the purchaser
reckons Improvement. In fact TIE mercan'
tile classes have got so used to marking up,
and the people spend with SO little ques ton
or care, that many articles which cost no
more they did formerly are sold at greatly
Increased prices.


Economy is the virtue just now to be in
CulCdtSG dIu pa dIllCSO pai sAluO..
but wise expenditure, limited by our means
and some forethought OF the necessities and
possibilities of the future. To spend for
mere show and ostentation is too expensive
and too vulgar for any but the sh ,ddy aris-
tocracy. Ii the majority Of us can get the
whereSithal for substantial comfort in the
house and decent and becoming appearance
in the street, We may consider ourselves for
tunaie, and We had better stop short with
that for the present. The advice to take no
thought for the morrow was not meant for
our cold climate and sterile soil, and if we
use up in summer all the avails of the season
We must expect TO starve and freeze The
other half of the year. Why don't some
body reproduce Poor Richards" ma1ims
Year: 1863

The following is furnished the American
Ag-iculturist by a correspondent:


Il have twenty-eight chickens. | obtain
ed but few eggs III the fore part of the win
ter-not more than one or two 4 day. the
feed was corn and oats. In January | tried
The experiment of hot feed once a day, in
the morning. As soon as the fire was start
ed in the cook stove, put quart or so of
small potatoes in an old dripping pan, and
set them in the oven. After breakfast took
quart or more of wheat and buckwheat
bran, mixed, put in the sgill-pail, and mixed
into thin mush. with boiling water, then ad-
ded about one quart of live Goals from the
stove, and put in the potatoes hot from tie
oven, adding all the egg shells on hand, and
sometimes a little salt, and sometimes lit
tie sulphur. These, mashed together, are
fed Immediately in trough prepared for
that purpose, made about ten feet long, of
two boards SIX inches wide, nailed together.
and two short pieces nailed on the ends, with
a narrow strip nailed lensthwise OH the top,
and two bearers under. Tie object of this
was to keep the hens out of the trough, and
leave room to eat each side of the narrow
strip. At noon fed six ears of corn cut up
in pieces an inch long, and in the evening
oats and wheat screenings about a qIart.
Now for the result. In about a week the
number Of eggs increased six fold and in
about two weeks, and since, they have ranged
from twelve TO twenty eggs per day. The
coolest weather made no difference. when
it was cold and stormy kept them in the
henhouse all day ard genarally until ten or
twelve o'clock. Such singing over Corn at
noon never heard from hens before-a con-
cert of music that would have done any low
er of eggs good ID hear"
Year: 1863

pistol struck him on the temple and felIed
HIM to the ground. A noble young fireman
-God bless the fremen for their manly
deeds-a noble young fireman by the name
McGovern instantly cgme to the rescue, and
slnsle-handed held the crowd at bay. TAX
lns the wounded and unconscious boy in his
arms, he Went to the house of an American
cillzen close by and asked to nave him receiv-
ed. But on her knees the woman begged
him not to leave the dying sufferer with her,
" lest the mob should tear her to pieces. >
1t was suffering Saviour in the person of bis
humbest child. Naked and wounded and a
stranger, they took him not in. But kind
hearted German woman made him a sharer
o: her poverty. With more than mother IS
care did she nurse the forsaken one.


A physician was called and both night and
day she faithfully watched over the bed of
HIM ou'cast from his brethren. Our hearts
bless her for goodness to our child. By





name she is yet unknown, but by her deeds
well known and well beloved. His distract
ed mother found ner cherished boy in these
kind hands. Aud when she saw him. in the
earnest simplicity Of her spirit she kneeled in
prayer to thank God for the fultiIlment of
his promise. "God hath taken him up'"-
The lad fingered until Thursday evening
when the Saviour released him from his suf-
teriogs, and the child was caught up to God
ard the throne" This is the pastors memo
rial 10 little J joseph Reed. martyr to the
brutality aud inhumanity of men, to tie
cause Of law and order and right. A tablet
to his memory shall be placed on the walls
Of the Sunday school room TO which he low
ed 10 come. Those WHO were kind to hin
We count as benet.cioGs to US. May the God
OF all grace richly reward them with the
lessinss of His love. Buried on earth
without PRAYER, but with praises welcomed
IN He, wen, the chosen loved child OF the
lam ~, Joseph is not.'
Year: 1863

C A little ;hree-year old child ran away
from home and came over to a neighbor's
house about eight o'clock in the evening
while her mother had gone to the well for d
pail of water. Rather surprised at seeing
her out at so late an hour, We asked her
"Are you not afraid to come So far from
home in the night ?" son no,sir," replied the
confding little thing, "Tse got on mother,
hood :"
Year: 1863

f'all the ultimate consequences Of ones


acts are 10 be laid TO his charge. the man


who invented rocking cradels for children


rests under fearful load of responsibility.


The downright murder of tens of thousands


of infants, and the weakened brains of hun


dreds of thousands Ct adults, are undoubted
results Of his Invention. To rock a child
in cradle, or swing him in a crib, amounts
TO Just this: the rapid motion disturbs the
natural .fOw of the blood, and produces
stupOr or drowzinsss. Can any body suppose
for moment that such an operation is
healthful one? Every one knows the dizzy
and often siekening effect of moving rapidly
In swing; yet wherein does this differ from
the motion a child receives when rocked in
cradle. 1t is equivalent 10 lying in ship


perth during violent storm, and that sick
ms nine people out Of ten. A very gentle,
slow motion, may sometimes be soothing
lhough always of doubtful expedieney, but to
move a cradle as rapidly as the swing of
pendulum three feet long, that is once in
second, is positive cruelty. We always feel
ike grasping and staying the aim of the
mother or nurse who, to secure quietude,
swings the cradle or crib with a rapidity
equal to that of pendulum a foot long.
Ii any mother is disposed to laugh at our
suggestions, or consider them whimsical, we
beg of her to have bed or cot hung on
cords, then lie down in it herself, and have
some one swing it with the same rapidity
that she allows the cradel to be rocked
What she will experience in both head and
stomach is just what the infant experiences.


We insist that this rocking of children is
a useless habit. If not accustomed to rock
ing, they will 60 to sleep quite as well when
lying quietly, as when shaken in cradle If
they do not, there is trouble from sickness,
or hunger, or more likely from an overload
ed stomach; and though the rocking may
produce temporary stupor, the trouble is
made worse thereafter by the unnatural
means taken TO produce quiet for the time
being.-Amerioan dgricult,uist.
Year: 1863

The majority for Senator in the Portage
and Summit district, will not vary much
from three thousand sevss hundred. Judge
Day has q constituency, Of which he may
well be proud.-RdUenHa Democrat.
Year: 1863

GENEROUS AND UNSELFISH PATRIOTISM


We learn that the same citizen of Rich
mond who has already, at different times,
handed to the Secretary of the Treasury two
Thousand dollars in gold, with the condition
that bis name should not be made known,
has just delivered to the Secretary another
thousand in gold, upon the same condition.
We honor the motives and generous bearing
OF our townsman. He deserves the appre
citation and gratitude of his countrymen for
the noble example which he has set.
Year: 1863

A Good Hit.-Some misohievous wag, not
having the fear Of Lafayette or Warren be-
fore his eyes, has perpetrated the following
parody on striking passage in a memorable
public document Of recent issue. He calls it
Opinions of an honest old-barkeeper" -


Taste isvarious. Thus there are those
who are for the union of brandy and water
with but not without sugar-those for it
without but not with-those for it with or
without but prefer it with, and those for it
with or without, but prefer it without Itthus
becomes a question not of two sides merely
but of at least four sides, even among the bib
uous, saying nothing of teetotallers, who
oppose it altogether Confidence dies and
universal suspicion reigns There is no com
fort in bar-tendinR."
Year: 1863

All the Rage.--The wonderful and beau
tiful Gem pctureal taken by Col Gross
Main street, opposite the Court House, are
still all the rage in this community. Every
body who gets them, are highly pleased, and
tell their neghbors, who go Immediately and
get dozen or halfdozen of the Gem pictures.
During the past few days, his Gallery has been
crowded with customers from morn till dusky
eve. No other kind of pictures are thought
Of since the "Gems" were> introduced. They
have monopolized the whole trade. IL you
don't believe all we say about them, go to
Col Gross Gallery and be convinced of its
truth young lady would as soon think Of
doing without the latest style Of bonnet, as
not to have her likeness ina Seem" picturel
That's So 90
Year: 1863

I am nothing If not critical"


1t is pleasant TO turn for moment from gazing at
the gigantic and thrilling drama of war-whose stage
extends from the Chesapeake the Rio Grande whose
curtain is the suphurous smoke Of battle whose m.
sic is the loud and rattling nusketry-to con-
template tho quiet and pleasant field of fiction:
and to listen to the voice of criticism in eucdation of
its mysteries in praise of it's beauties in rccommen.
dation of its utility 1t makes long for the days of
peace when the grabbed professors of strategy and
international law and the learned doctors of taxation
finance and kindred thorny subjects, will descend from
the critics chair and give place to the sweet toned ac-
cents of the accomplished Bellies Lettres lecturer
morceaa OF this now rare uxury-a in December
we are pleased to fer to our readers this week. Re-
commencing it, however Of it's elementary
character, not much to the admirers of the Merchant
of Venice as to our young friends, who contemplate
an acquaintance with that much admired play We
could no where lay our hands upon so compendious
description of the central character in 1.-THE celebra
ted Jew For the further information of any such
tyro, would state that is the decided opinion of
the most acute critics and learned commentators upon
this author that Shylock a creditor of Antonio
that he held the bond his debtortat he attempt
ed to enforce his contract in most unusual and un.
considerable manner. And we would also state to
our young friends that it is not uncommon to denomi
nate as Shyocks those creditors (the term would be
inapplicable to other persons who for their own graft
fcation (whether by the way of revenge, money.ma-
king or money saving) demand from their debtors
the performance Of the very letter of their contract
though such performance should involve the crue
and unnecessary destruction Of the debtor or rnin Of
the State We would impress upon their minds that
is not so much the fact that he an "intepse He
brew"-a hater Of pork-a broker and revenpefu. il
not one nor all Of these that raised him to the
bad imminence" of becoming type Of certain
casss of creditors There are those who eat pork and
who follow other calings than that of the broker who
yet resemble him in their disposition to take advan


ge Of the very letter Of the law let the consequences
be what they may, and who, though they demand not
the "pound Of flesh" require the specie to pay their
debts though every man is unable to furnish it as
poor Antonio to produce the ducats he owed.


BY the way we would rescue the reputation of the
the stately and generous merchant fiom the mputa.
ton of being Jast (unless the term is applicable to
every borrower Of money for any purpose whatever)
Year: 1863

which is confusion of persons and ideas essentially
unlike and which we did not expect from the acu-
men and discrimination Of Merrimac" whose test of
these qualities ut there any force in frequent quota
tlon) must consist in distinguishing a "hawke from
hand.saw."


And then as 10 the o-recurrng egg" illustration
"Ihen why is your pertinacous in trying to
transfer his eggs to the Of his creditor who
lent him good eggs years ago? Why does he stir up
this unseemly squabble? Can it be because ne thinks
hss eggs are unsound and would like get rid of them
as sound? p Let all men judge who first stirred up
the squabble and who first implied by their conduct
unsoundness. The payment of debts is and has been
according to the abundance scarcity of money moro
or less OF daily Nor is this done nor has
been done always in specie notes convertible into
specie. Debts were paid in 1878 in the notes of
suspended banks, and the creditors wero glad to re-
ceive them though snch were not specie nor con-
vertble into it. Why were creditors willing to receive
what was confessedly not money' in payment of
specie debt? Because they believed in tile ultimate SOL
vency and good faith of the Banks of this State whose
bills were rendered them. Twelve month ago-siX
months ago. nay, far aware to the contra
ry, up TO within month ago this process of paying
debts in the ordinary currency of the country was un
interuptedy carried on The debtor glad to be able
to pay and the creditor willing to receive Treasury
Notes. But objections have lately been raised to the
continuance OF practice uninterrupted before IN the
whole history of the community viz the practice of
receiving the ordinary currency of the country in pay
ment of debts And it lies upon the part of the OBJ
Jectors to assign satisfactory for proceed
ing so extraordinary Their refusal to continue a
course of conduct which had universally prevailed
heretofore, raised the squabble. The creditors COM
menced it. And currency, both State and Confed-
crate which "conessedly is not money" has been re-
ceived n payment Of specie debts until very recently
this novel and unookedor refusal is calculated to pro-
duce alarm and nllct injury. Why were the bills of
suspended banks received in payment of debts? Be-
cause the sovency and good faith of these institutions
were implicitly believed in. Why Treasury notes
now refused? Is it not because there is such thing
as reputation of debts by individuals and governments
such thing scaling them-such thing as refti-
sal to pay interest on them prompty?' Weare forced
to believe from the conductof "y man" that he has
very serious doubts upon tho subject of Confederate
ability and good faith in this regard


We deprecae the whole of this discussion The
idea of Reputation should no more be entertained and
discussed, than the idea of subiugation We know the
latter never will be our ate-why this uneasness and
restlessness in regard to tho other? Let Treasury
Notes be received, they have been up to this time
Year: 1863

to still higher authority than the Bard of Avon, and
eXclaim,


Ephram is given to his idols; let him aloneY
But before pronouncing such a sentence, I invoke
again solid reasoning upon real case, not windy dec
lamatonany sort Of pleading, special general or any
other Sort that shall eliminate the very truth and not
vain or mschevious and delusive fiction. More anon


MERRIMAC
Year: 1863

1ho young ladies Of Camden and vicinity propose


series Of Tableaux this evening" for the benefit of the
soldiers. The object is that commends itself to
every mind-whist the manner of celebrating the i'm
memorial festival of May Day is such as BELTS our
present circumstances
Year: 1863

The PEACE SLoGAN.-Thc Detroit advertiser
and Tribune, of date 10th January makes some
extracts from the sayings of the Democratic ora
cles, squirting towards peace, and comments as
follows


We could prolong these extracts but it is need
less. They speak the universal spirit OF the
South. There has been no indication of a pacific
character from the rebels since the war began.-
Nothing will satisfy them. No State in any pub
lie delberaton no meeting of citizens at a
cross roads, even no voice of pulpit or press
the North humiiating themselves and deudng
the public by representations that the war may
be honorably closed, and lasting peace secured
This is most cruel mOckery. There can be no
peace except that which shall come from the
surrender of the rebels, aud now they claim to
have been victorious on every battlefield. viii
they who think themselves vctors accept terms
from the vanqushed? The idea is preposterous,
We are only losing time dabbng with this peace
nonsense. The enemy is fortifying, and drilling
bio t.onps, while we parley There is no way
out OF this civil war, but that of victory on the
battlefield. We must fight out. We cannot ar
que out, or beg out We may eOncede every
thing and prostrate our manhood in the dust
twenty millions bowing to eight-and then such
confession of weakness and lack of spirit would
stimulate the rebels TO strike again for independ-
ence. The people have yet to learn what this
rebellion is. There is coming an adversely that
will compel unity, aud the warning factions of
the North will disappear, and the whole people,
bent on cOnquering peace, will rise in resstless
strength and majesty aud put down this rebellion
so that it can never rise again. The time is not
yet, nor is it SO far Off as many may think.