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Year: 1861

This explained all. She read the scroll
and dropped upon her knees, prayed for him
who had written il. Aud who was "llenry y
Ten years ago he loved that same Maria,
when they both lived in Brooklyn; and he
would have made her his w:le-for she told
him she would be his-had he rot taken TO
drink and gambling, and GnnlIy forged the
name of his employer, for which he was
given home in Sug-Sing. When he was
worthy Of her love he gave her that ring,
and she had KEEP, it in remrmb rance of
what he had been. This is the story of the
ring.


On the return Of the husband from Sac
ramento the vile related the adventure, and
showed him the note but he is not jealous
nor has he attempted to arrest the burglar.
California MagasiRe.
Year: 1861

REBELS IN CRINoLISE.-Thes secession
women in Washington use the immunity of
their sex in the service of the rebellion. A
few days since lady in Washington, the
wife OF prominent official under the last
administration, forwarded 10 Gen. Beaure-
gard, through her son, magnificent sword,
as present from a number of ladies resid-
ing in the second ward, who desired thus to
express their esteem and sympathy for him
IN his present position. A day or two af-
terward the same lady herself went as Far as
Maryland Point, with one hundred letters in
her possession for the rebels, which she had
conveyed to them in the following manner |:
On reaching Maryland Point she shot off a
rocket as signal for the boat on the oppo-
site shore, which immediately came over
with muiiled oars, took the package, then
left, after which the lady returned to the city.
On Thursday last she repeated the expert
ment, this time attempting herself to pass
over in the boat, but was compelled to re-
turn, when within about three hundred
yards of the Virginia shore, by shot from
the Resolute. The lady is now in WASH
ington, probaly awaiting another opportuni-
ty to advance the cause Of the rebels in this
clandestine mode.
Year: 1861

eyes from that majestic pageant, and, though
experiencing new necessity, were frozen
to the sight.


The martial tide flowed on, the lengthen-
ing regiments growing into thirty thousand
men, with mass OF black cavalry in its
center, the whole moved toward US, as the
sun danced upon its po mp of bayonels, with
the solema step of fate. This was war
compact, well.made, and reasoning war. 1t
was war, too, in all its pomp and glory, as
well as in its strength, and we at once com
pretended we were beaten. In vain did
our startled faculties dart alertly hither and
thither for some hopes in vain did our
thoughts turn quickly upon Patterson. 1t
would not do. Johnston was there before
us, with his cool fresh thousands, and our
Waterloo was lost. That steady and un-
tired host outnumbered the whole of our
worn and staggering columns, and it pene-
trated US with a conviction of rcsistless
power. Decently, however. did we gather
up our force, not by general order, but by
one sensible, acorcd and sad, and panied, and
wearied, yet conscious of victory as far as
we had fought, we folded up our columns
for retreat. The only ones whose hardi-
hood clung spltefully to the strife were few
regulars at the batteries, with the infatua-
tion of experts, and begrmmed with the
mire of battle from all ordinary recognition,
kept peppering at such batteries as would
still provoke their fire.


Among the last to turn their faces from
the fight they had SO gaily sought were the
Burnside brigade, which, accompanied by
Sprague and its gallant brigadier, and head
ed by all Of its colonols, retired in line of
battle, with orders TO cover the retreat
Thus honored for lis steadiness, the Rhode
Islanders took off their battery, and the list
departed with its guns. All, thus far had
gone well with the departing movement, and
our battalion, from every portion OF the
tSiN NN'N ANhaAitS W ith dtIOi ull NltNii bt Il
sudden some of the persistent regulars who
were charged with the protection Of the re-
treat, getting out of ammunition sent back
their caissons for fresh supply.


] have described how that branch of the
service made its charges in the morning, and
how utterly reckless it always sought its
way to the front, through the formed col
umns of the volunteers. In the same man
ner did it now go back upon its errand, rid
ing down everything in its road, and scatter
ing the ranks of The regiment in every di-
rection. The volunteers who had never
before seen such a sight, and who were al
ready penetrated with the fearful pageant
Of the descending enemy, could but under
stand the movement in one way. Those
flying carriages, and those madly excited
men were rushing TO the rear, and their ac-
ton was therefore turned into a wild retreat.
The thought which appeared to their agita-
ted mind was, that if the regulars were in
such haste to escape it was necessary they
should hurry for themselves, and one fearful
panic took possession of them all,
Year: 1861

4


Col. Magec, of this place, is with compe-
tent force, at present engaged in removing
impediments to the navigation of the Sacra-
mento river above Red Bluffs, the accomplish
ment of which will enable steamers to run in
three miles of this place. 1t will be done,
for it is in the hands of men who do not fail
in what they undertake. Not thevery small
est of the benefits conferred by this enter
prise, we would remark, is that it enables
our neighbor of the Red Bluff Independent to
exhibit kind of galvanic hilarity-a sort of
grave yard jocoscness- the absurdity of
the notion that any man could suppose that
Red Bluffs was not the head of all navigation,
and the hub of the universe generally. Let
him not denude himself of his inside garment.
We expect in one year to loan him our roller,
or borrow his'n," at the new town which
will in short time be built at the head of
navigation Of the Sacramento river.


THE EVIDENCE AccUMuLArISG- pub
lished the week before last a long editorial,
in which we advanced the idea that if the
rebel States did not stop their mad career,
the institution of slavery in their midst would
cease to exist, for the all,suficient reason
that it would not pay to further tolerate it,
This notion was based upon the idea that
without the production of cotton, negro or
slave labor was at best a proftless species of
property. Though it looks like stating
paradox, the pro-slayery rebels of the South
will yet abolish slavery, and for all practical
purposes of aboiitionisnl, are the yeriest 40
olHionists that ever swindlcd Sheriff of his
fees by evading hanging. They are in the
same boat with Giddings and Wendell Phil
lips, and Giddings and Wendell Phillips
have the worst of it., One year from next
April, it will be time wasted to plant cotton
or cane in the Southern States, and when the
cause is written up, history will tell the
world that Southern Abolitionists, il the
guise and deceit of friendship, brought it
about. The London Times publishes recent
ly a significant article-o this question, from
which we extract paragraph, which is as
follows:


Whatever country sends US the best cotton,
at the cheapest rates, and with the greatest
regularity, will command the market. 1t
will be fortunate in many ways if the prize
should fall to India, but commerce looks to
to its own needs only We doubt if any
country could have driven America from the
field if America had remained exempt from
troubles, but the contingency which has now
happened has been so long and so uneasily
anticipated, that the actual event tells strong
ly against the chances of America, and in
favor of competition. If the civil war should
last another year, the cotton trade will prob
ably lie revolutionized, and with it the for
tunes and dcstinies of States.
Year: 1861

We see it stated that Charles L. Scott, for
merly Member of Congress from this State,
and now Colonel, or something of that sort
in the rebel army, lost an arm in the Manassas
fight. This worthy married down South while
a Congressman, and made himself immortal
by personating at Gwin's fancy dress balls
the Earl of Rochester, and had his pipe-stem
legs clad in the tight fitting inexpressibles of
the day in which that nobleman fourished.
We presume we will never again hear dis
QUESTION from him on the subject of the
'9S and 90, nor that pleasing anecdote about
the young lady crossing the Plains. -
Well, Charley, you are the hangman's
meat" sure.
Year: 1861

We have sufficient authority for saylng that
the folio wing, from the Cairo City Gazete,
does not reflect the opinion Ct the masses Of
the people In Southern Illinois. We believe
that they are in the main loyal, and that, If
there is any doubt or hesitation at this mo-
ment about taking up arms against these
with whom they arc related by ties Of blood,
the unwillingness will soon disappear, and
that IS early as they will be wanted, ten thou
sand volunteers, brave and hardy men, could
be mustered in Egypt for carrying the Old flag
TO the Gulf The Gazett says:


OuR Pos1r1oN.-1st We are opposed to OF.
gambling and arming the militia except for
home defence,


I'd, We are opposed to our Legislature
voting one cent to aid in equipping troops to
be eeHt out Of the State tor the purpose OF
prosecuting the unnecessary war inangurated
bv the present Administration.


3d We call upon the people Of Southern
Illinois to stand unitedly as mediators be-
tween the North aud the South.
4th. We so1emn1y aud earnestly protest
against the occupation Of our city or any
part Of Southern Illinois BY troops from either
section.


We firmly bslieye from our knowledge Of
our people, that the foregoing are the sentl.
ments OF the people Of Southern Illinois and
we earnestly hope our Representatives will
have the manly courage to stand By and as fa1
as possible enforce them
Year: 1861

St. Martin had numbered his years and
the remainder of his days seemed discounted
by St. Thomas. Like criminal cast to
die, he doubted if the die was cast, and ap-
pealed to his wife:


"Thee hast watched, dame, at the church
porch, then %


cay. master"


"And thee didst see me spiritously p


''In the brown wrap, with the boot hose.
Thee was coming to the church. by Fair
thorn Gap, in the while were coming by
the Holly Hedge"


For minute the farmer paused, but the
next he burst into fit of uncomfortable
laughter; peal after peal, and each higher
than the last-according to the hysterical
gamut of the hyena. The poor woman had
but one explanation for this phenomenon /;
she thought it delirium-a Tightening be-
fore death and was beginning to wiring her
hands and lament, when she was checked
by the merry yeoman:


Dame, thou bee st fool. It was my
self thee seed at church porch. seed thee,
too, thanks to God, thee bee'st living, and
that is more than cared to say of thee, this
day ten month %


The dame made no answer. Her heart
was too full to speak; but throwing her arms
round her husband. she showed that she
shared in his sentiment And from that
hour, by practising careful abstinence from
offence, or temperate suferance of its ap-
pearance, they became the most united cou-
pie in the country; but it must be said that
their comfort was not complete till they had
seen each other. in safety. over the perilous
anniversary of St. Marks Eve
Year: 1861

Sow very early this month, if you have not
yet done so, or wait till the frost is entirely
out of the ground; then harrow when the
ground and weather are moist, but not wet.
and follow immediately with the roller
Keep stock off last years seeding till the
middle of May. Sow plaster as soon as the
leaves begin to unfold


TOBACCO BEDS


If your tobacco seed is not yet sown. lose
no opportunity to get it into the ground at
the earliest time that the ground can be got
in order. Early seeding things be-
ing cqual-giyes earlier and better plants.
But it is of the first importance to have the
ground in such condition as to moisture.
that it will work we'll, and to bring it to the
finest possible condition by choppiug and
raking. New land it is desirable to burn.
to get rid of the chahy surface, which would
keep the bed too light and spongy, but many
planters avoid the great labour of burning.
and find the free use Of guano good sub
stitute-using at the rate Of from 600 to as
much as 1 900 pounds to the acre. A free
use Of guano at any rate, is Of great impor--
tance in securing quick growth, security
from fly, and early plants. The whole APP
plcation may be dug at once into the ground,
or part Of it may be reserved for light
top-dressing as the plants begin to come up.
and after the first picking of the bed. $3.50,


TOBACCO IN THE HOUSE. '@s


Let the tobacco crop be stripped in pre-
paration for market as opportunity offers.
Look we'll to the bulks that have not been
removed since they were stripped Do not
wait till they get warm. Their approach
to this condition will be indicated by the to-
bacco becoming soft, when it should be sha-
ken out at once, and put into another bulk
or hung in the house to get thoroughly dried.
If allowed to remain too long in bulk it gets a
bad smell, which it will never get we'll rid Of


CORN CROP.


The ploughiag for this crop will be done.
in part, this month, and we suggest here.
that the manure from the yards, if used, be
put on after ploughing, and that any COM
mercial fertilizer you may use be applied on
the surface and as early as you can, to get
the benefit Of spring rains, and harrowedin.
Year: 1861

Eel am sick of opinion. am weary to
hear them-my soul loathes their frothy
food. Give me solid substantial religion;
give me an humble lover Of God and man -
a man full of mercy and good fruits man
lying himself out in works Of faith, the pa
tience of hope. and the labor Of love. Let
my soul be with such Christians wheresoev-
er they are, and whatsoever opinions they
may hold ''He that doeth the will of my
Father in Heaven, the same is my brother.
and sister, aud mother. John Wesley ,
Year: 1861

WORK. Work." said L: t.'airn your
own pork, and see how sweet it will be-
Work. and see how we'll you will be- Work.
and see how cheerful you will be. Work.
and see how independent you will be. Work.
and see how happy your family will be-
Work, and see how religious you will be
for before you know where you are, instead
of repining at Providence, you will find
yourself offering up thanks for all the nu-
merous blessings you enjoy" Sam Stick.
Year: 1861

No farmer in Maryland who deserves the
name, will dispense with the clover crop as
a part Of his system. We hope it will in
time become as common in the more South
ern States as il is here where it iscen sider-
ed the very ground-work of improvement as
we'll as Of successful cropping. For prepa-
Year: 1861

This crop does best on light rich soil.
If sown on ground not rich. it should have
hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds
of manipulated guano or its equivalent in
other manure. One and half to two bush
sis of seed should be sown. Prepare as for
oats, and SOW whenever the ground may be
in order.
Year: 1861

by the national forces, we hope that the gener.
ais who command them, will not consider it
their sole business to put down iusurgent black
men, but that they will also pay little atten'
ton to putting down insurgent whites. If the
national Government assumes the suppression
of all the servile instructions which are likely
to occur at the South the national army must
be increased very considerably.
Year: 1861

The Western Virginian, published at Graf:
ton, says:


"We have argued this subject of secession
in all its various phases, in a fair candid, and
concliatory spirit, endeavoring, as best we
could, TO show to our fellow citizens, of North.
western Virginia, that there is no cause for the
secession of this or any other State; that if
there were any just cause of complaint against
the Federal Government, the efficient remedy
lies within the Union and not in secession !;
that the so.called secession ordinance, passed
by the Richmond mob, is null and void, and of
no effect in law that the true interest of Vir-
ginia, and Western Virginia in particular, is in
remaining true to the Constitution of our IA
thers and that, if the Eastern tyrahts of our
State are determined to join the Southern reb.
els in their mad and unhoy but futile attempt
to blot out this Government from the catalogue
of nations, they have no power to drag US into
the damnable crusade. But, from present in
dications this contest here is not solely to be
one of words, of reason, of argument, and OF
votes but there is some reason to fear, If any,
body does fear Il, that we are TO be forced into
Q contest of bayonets. We therefore need
Year: 1861

New YoRK, March THE Board of AL
dermen this morning adopted resolution
providing commission, on behalf of the Com.
mon Council, to request the Legislature to
submit to the State the propositions of the
Peace Congress. f|-.I =
Year: 1861

Sat, during the Inaugural ceremonies in a
carriage on Capitol Hill about a square from
the Capitol, with some orderlies beside him
and company of flying near him.
de heard, by means of aids, quite frequently
and the procession was re forming and
moving back to the White House, the officer
ID command of the District Militia, who had
been at the Capitol, galloped up to him and
said: General Scott, it is all over and well
over" Upon receiving this intelligence, the
old veteran sank back in bis seat, while bis
face expressed that sense of relief which one
feels whose unpleasant anticipations have
not been fulfilled. " : -
Year: 1861

AN now in receipt Of my large and well assorted
lstock of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, which am
Offering very low prices


As quick sales and small profits is my motto, am
willing to take up with the latter accomplish the for
mer and will offer great Inducements to all who Will
favor me with call, especially to buyers. Come
and see for Yourselves DAVID HUMPHREY,


sept2I-u No. % South side OF the square
Year: 1861

situated on the Franklin Turnpike, within half a mile
Of the CITY and opposite the residence Of the late Jo
set,l W. Horton This Is perhaps the most command


g site II. the vicinity Of Nashville, and IS most de
with IL or Is acres OF land as the purchaser may
Year: 1861

We have the pleasure of seeing
our old friend, Col. Matt Ward, in
town, yesterday morning. He was
on business trip, but feels much
interest in the present political cri-
scs.-IIis views and ours arc very
similar. that we should have prompt
action. and that decided acton now
is the best basis for good in the fu-
turo.-CG CGarEsriHe Standard.
Year: 1861

HoEowAYs OINTMENT AND PmLA- Bilious
Headache, and al affections Of the system that
result from deprAved or insufficient or super
abundant bile, are relieved with wonderful
celebrity and most thoroughly, by these mild
aperient Pills They are not, however, aperient
only, but have peculiar and specific influence
upon the blood, which they al once purify and
stomach always sympathise with each other, and
that the liver Is never much disordered itself
without causing some similar disturbance or i'm.
pediment In the organs Of digestion. These
truly wonderful Pills act powerfully and simul.
taneously on both the liver and stomach, and
thus the double cause Of what is called bilious
headache Is subducd at once.
Year: 1861




The piratical proclamation Of JEFF. Da-
Wis has reused the New York merchants
and populace to fury It aims blow at
the heart Of the city. The Times thus
comments on ii /:


Jefferson Davis might as we'll have
thrown lighted match into powder
magazine, as menace the commerce of the
North with privateers. The effect Of
this proclamation upon our community
has been only to deepen and make tcnfold
more intense the hatred and indignation
of the public. Our people begin to real.
lZc the real character of the foe with
whom they have to deal All the illu-
sioas they have hitherto cherished about
fraternity and kindly feeling towards
their sister States have been rudely dis
PEELED. Those whom they had looked
upon as brothers prove to be pirates. The
men whom We have associated with cur
selves, as sharing with Us the glories and
blessings OF our common country, turn
out to be the assassns of the Republic
They cannot even make war in the spirit
of civilized nation, but 60 back to the
habits and practices of the barbarism of
hundred years ago. The first seizure of
an Anaerican vessel by one Of his privat-
GERS ~W let loose upon the South more
Joh" Bro'ons than he can hire pirates In
a gear. And if he doubts the effect of
such an invasion upon the people Of the
Southern States, Gov. Wise can enlight-
en- his mind upon that subject.
Year: 1861

maa and bate must experience the hor-
rors of war when war is upon US. And
if in.urrection is added to the usual ca
lamitics Of civil strife, the innocent must
suffer with the guilty There is no 9th.
er way under heaven. Would to God
there were!


The dread event is upon US. The All.
seeing One alone knows the end Of the
atiction. While We deprecate that phase
of the conflict which shall set four mil
lions Of imbruted negroes to fighting for
their freedom, we must sorrowfully own
that the catastrophe seems now ovcrhaug-
ing the South. We can only repeat,
They would have it SO; Mcy could hare
II So. - Chicago 2ribune.
Year: 1861

Hon. Caleb Gushing, at the flag raising
this afternoon, addressed the citizens of
this place. He was for the Union under
any or all possible circumstances, and
against all its foes His whole affection
was with Massachusetts,, and neither
friend or foe should separate him from
her: He was ready on the field of battle
to live or die IN her defence or in that of
the Union.
Year: 1861

Judge Garrson's decision to issue a
writ of attachment against Col. Burke,
the commandant at Fort Lafayette, for
contempt Of court in not making Il prop,
er return to the writ of hoLeas corpus in
favor ofthc Baltimore police commission
ers, amount. to notlrg, as the writ will
not be obeye a great cutlery has been
made in Baltimore and elsewhere because
the President has assumed the authority


to suspend the habeas corpus without at.


thorization by Congress. But auy per
son who will take the trouble to reject


will see that the liberty Of the citizen is
better guaranteed than if an act had


been passed authorizing the President to
suspend it. Such an act, to meet the
possible exigeDcies of the war, would ex-
tend over the whole country, and insure
to the President complete .mpunity il
Year: 1861

the public defense. May Congress not
say er~ry t'och, man must .fght? 10 the
war ot ,ho Revolution, Virginia passed
an act Of Assembly that every slave who
would join the army should be free. At
seme future time, Congress will search
the Constitution to sec if they have not
the power of manumission. And have
they not, sir? Have they not the power
to provide for the general defense and
welfare May they not think that these
call for the abolition Of Slavery! May
they not pronounce oil slaves free! ! and
will they not be warranted by that pow
cr? The paper speaks to the point: they
have the power in clear unequivocaI
terms, and viii clearly and certainly e.
ercise it,"
Year: 1861

SOUND. No State tax is to be levied
in Illinois for the next two years. The
accumulation of the sinking fund for pay
ing off the State debt beyond the amount
falling due, and The revenue from stock in
the Central Railroad, will defray all the
expenses of the State Government.
Year: 1861




A SENSIBLE ADM0NITIoN.-A CORES
pondent in Preble County suggests the
following sensible advice to the farming
community:


1t is now a certainty that war is in
evitable, and hence every tiller of the soil
should know that every variety of farm
and garden product will be in unusual de.
mand. The great quantum of rain has
as yet prevented the sowing Of oats, which
will be in great demand for army pur.
poses. 1t is hoped those who have fields
sufficiently dry to pillow will at once put in
their oats, and every nook and corner
should be planted in something that viii
supply the millions that are and will bs
consumers, and not producers.