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Year: 1861

BRACE UP.-Those who have any
thing which smacks Of deprecated currency
about their premises, will do we'll to shove
1t off before the first of April. Farmers who
have not the daily means Of keeping themselves
posted on the money market should be ex-
tremely cautious % to what kind Of money
they take home with them when they come to
town with their produce, for it might not be
worth par the next morning. We cannot too
strongly urge this upon the minds of the coun-
try folks and city folks too. for thst matter. 1t
10 said that it never rains but it pours, and it
may so prove In this instance. Keep . sharp
look out on all sides. II will save many .
hard earned dollar.
Year: 1861

eeSSioh oh oatu'u"y'


Police MATTERs.-Before Justice Clark.-
Andrew Hanson was arrested by Officer Fan.
ming for committing a nuisance, and fined
$2.l7.


Patrick Ragan was arrested by the same Off
Ger for throwing stones, and fined $l.94.


Before Justice Cal.-James Gates got on a
spree, and stirred up his anger by drinking too
much bad whisky, which caused him to under.
take to whip his wife and kick up muss gen
orally. He was, however, arrested and brought
before the squire, who committed him to Jail
in default of security to keep the peace.


The Dog Cdse.-A short time since, as a
gentleman was driving along the avenue, he
was attacked by ferocious dog; and his horse
taking fright, ran off with the vehicle throwing
him out, but happily without doing him much
injury. A police officer near by was called
on to shoot the dog, who declined, the regula
tions of the police making it obligatory on
their part to first procure an order from the
Mayor or Chief, before they can justifably com
nit dog murder. No one interesting him
self to procure the death.warrant of the ami
NAL, his life was spared, but the voice of warn
ing had no effect, for day or two ago he made
an outrageous attack upon one OF our worthy
magistrates. A warrant was soon issued TO
the owner of the dog, and the case was ruleC
before Justice Gull, who, after patient ant
careful hearing, imposed fine Of $5.58 on th
accused. When this Judgment was rendered
tears began to flow from the eyes of all present
especially from the accused and complainant
the sympathies of all having been enlisted TO
Year: 1861

Each stateroom will be ventilated with one
air port, and there are to be four on each side
of the forward berth deck The cabins, ward
rooms, and steerages will be fitted plainly, but
with view to comfort, All Of them will be
schooner rugged.
Year: 1861

Should they join the latter Confederacy
the result seems inevitable, however to be
deprecated. As each in succession be-
comes the frontier, seli.protection will re.
quire it to part with its slaves. II will
then no longer consent to be taxed for
the support or fight for the protection Of
slavery, but will join the Free Stntes.--
North Carolina and Tennessee viii find
it hard to do this, whatever may be the
case with their more Northern sisters.---
They will find their interest in not rum
ming the risk of becoming the frontier to
a hostile country and will readily discov-
er that in the Southern league they would,
from soil and climate, be but laggards in
the cotton race, whilst in the Central I'm.
ion they would have the monopoly Of the
home market. H1i -ff7


Many other views might be suggested
to the same end, hut i only throw out
these in the hope that some. good tney
arise from their consideration. Ss-ssrsiiSS
multitude of counsellors there is wisdom,
and every man should be willing to give
his aid, however feeble, in the present
pressing dangers Of our common country.
would preserve the Union rs it is, if
that be possible, consistently with the
honor and safety of all the States. If
that cannot be done, then we must all con-
slider the question, Where shall we eo?"


nv
Year: 1861

The Mobile Register very opportunely
says:


There are many hot and Incorporate
spirits that are burning to signalile our
exit from the Union l,y every lick back"
which can be devised, and HIS IL a tenn
per which is quite as dangerous to us as
it is to the North. We shall have enough
tn do for months and years after separa-
ton in organizing new government
and endeavoling to keep out of war
with the North, withou; trying 10 got
into onc. We want the stagnated cur
rents OF business to resume their health
ful How as soon as possible; TO commence
the onward march of new and unpre-
cedented prosperity at tile earliest mo-
ment. Aud this will not be if we are
embroiled in warfare with the North
We will want all the money we can con-
veniently raise in establishing new gov:
ernment, which is an expensive job, i'll
fostering trade relations. in arming and
equipping the country, as we have al
ready begun to do in readiness for any
warfare which may be forced upon us.
But let us not seek war. We are not
afraid of the North. She cannot whip
us. But any war is to be deplored, for
generally one side suffers as much as the
other, the one that suffers a little the
most being defeated by the one that suf-
iersa little less, but still suffers much -
So it would especially be in war be-
tween the South and the North


Not only do wo want no actual war
with the North, but we should begin our
career as an Independent power with in
ternational relations of as decidedly
friendly character as possibly can he
negotiatedwith honor. Such are essen
tial to our prosperity. Therefore every
movement on the part of the States on
citizens OF States which sayors of hos
tile, or, as it is called, a Revolutionary
spirit, is to be deprecated and in every
way opposed by wise and patriotic men.
Year: 1861

There never was a greater mistake made
than when childhood was called the happiest
portion of life l have seen q little child's
breast swell with an anguish as great as would
ever agitate it though it should live to four
score. Call it " trife," if you will, that a
playmate jeered him before d laughing crowd of
boy Judges no verdict of after life would be
harder to bear and when, sure of sympathy,
he tells his story to some one whom he fancies
will sympathize, and that man or woman or
child listens with indifference, or pooh-poohs it
away - do you think that child will ever
drink bitterer drop? l tell you nay, and
if the rough grinding heel of the busy, iDsa-
tiate world were not on US all the time we
should know and feel it. Nor is the suffering
rnomentary, as many suppose. How can it be,
when some such juvenile experience often col
ors a whole life? say children suffer i'm
mensely more than is believed. Take childs
first day at school thrust into a crowd of up
roarious, mischievous little savages, shrinking,
covering, trembling away from their rude con
tact, with heaving chest, and tear-laden eyes,
choking down the misery made so intolerab!e
by suppression, do you tell me that is "a tri-
fle?" Take the child who sits intensely lis
tening TO some story related conversationally
between grown-up people, when suddenly his
presence is recollected and the peremptory
summons " to bed is promulgated without a


thought of the tUise cleneney of reprieved
ten minutes l well remember, in my days Of
pinafore and pantalettedom, an old maid who
used to say that child in tone that made
all my curls stand on end. For years I agita


ted my mind with the question whether ole
maids went to heaven because, strong a'
were my predictions of that biissful state
was in no wise content to share them with her
Nor shall 1 soon forget the transition age
when too tall for short dresses and too shor


for long ones called nothing but child


when l was most anxious to do the stately


young lady and begged to recollect that
was no longer child" when fit of obstrep


orous romping overlook me with a vigor


could not resist called goose for blushing
Year: 1861

Lieut.. Simmer the commander at Fort
Pickens, Pensacola, now shares with
Mai. Anderson the attention of the country.
Pensacola is called the key of the Gulf, and
Fort Pickens is as much the key Of Pensacola
as Sumter is of Charleston. The Mobile Adj
vcrtiser of Tuesday, says


There are three forts at Pensacola, q navy
yard ana redoubt. Lieutenant Simmer
has abandoned the Navy Yard and Fort Ba-
rancas, removing munitions and spiking guns,
and transferring his forces, amounting in the
aggregate to between two and three hundred
men. from the main land to Santa Rosa Island,
has prepared TO make good his position within
Sc Immensely strong fortihcations Of Fort
Pickens. Whether he has abandoned Fort
McCrec, also, we are not advised, but we
doubt if he has. This fortress is a powerful
and castle-lile masonry erection, butt ON u
low sand-spit of the main land, and appearing
to rise out Of the water. 1t is further scaward
than Fort Pickens, of which it is the UiS.a-piS
across the channel, and vessel entering must
needs run the guantlet of its guns before ap-
preaching the latter, which, however, of itself
eftctualiy closes the harbor against the ad-
mission Of all enemy of even very heavy force.


Fort Pickens is designed to mount no less
than two hundred and twelve guns, and under
the protection of its immense batteries the
ships of an enemy could make good their har-
Dor in the bay Of Pensacola, or if they did care
to run the risk from shore batteries which
could not be in very dangerous range, they
could land forces and supplies on the fort to
the eastward on Santa Rosa Island, which is
some forty miles long, ana thus throw in rein
forcemcnts and rendezvous even an army at
the fort without interruption, unless of force
entrenched on the island itself, in the rear of
the fort-which, however, is almost if not quite
as defensible from rear as front. If we are to
have war. the seizure of this stronghold is, Of
course of the last Importance. for, unless it is
occupied by us, it will secure to the enemy a
base of operations along our whole gulf coast,
and keep open road right into the heart OF
the South which can not be obstructed by
| any fixed fortiications.


Once within the gates of the harbor, and an
army could be disembarked at any point on
the wide bay which it might select. 1t could
run up beyond the Escambia river and land
many hours ahead of any opposing force which
might be at Pensacola, beside placing wide
river between it and the latter-or even two
rivers the Escambia and Blackwater-by GO
ing far enough up. Hence, with start of at
least forty-eight hours, it could march into in
terror Alabama. An enemy holding Fort
Pickens could rendezvous a naval force there
and keep up blockade of all the ports of the
Gulf, unless we could meet it on the sea.


Proceeding then to speak of the possible
necessity of the capture of Fort Pickens the
Advertiser thinks it could be done by sudden
attack from the island to the eastward, though
it would be "a bloody business
Year: 1861

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We learn that the attention which has re-
Gently been directed toward the traitors among
us, who are buying aud selling arms and ANU
milton to be used against the Government, has
thrown them into state of great consterna-
ton. The fact is the Indifference Of our eiti-
zens had so emboldened these people that they
allowed themselves TO exercise much less dis
cretion than formerly in their reasonable deal
ings.


But the charge of Judge SmaIy has ava
kened them to consciousness of their guilt
and a Just dread of the condgn consequences
which must follow. Our personal reference to
some of these gentlemen has greatly terrified
them, and by the early trains on Wednesday a
number of them left for the South. Among
these conscience smitten fellows was General
r. L. Thorn, an agent for the State of Ala
bama, who ran away so fast that he forgot to
provide for the forwarding Of his contraband
purchases, till he had put himself beyond the
limits of the State, when he stopped and tele-
graphed to the New 7 ork house, telling them
how to ship them. We learn that the mer-
chants are not a little puzzled how to act, not
wishing to break profitable bargain, not





within reach of the law Railroad, Steam
ship and Express Companies are also becom-
ing very cautions about receiving unlawful
| freghts, lest the Grand Jury should take them
| in hand. A Hartford banker and an arms
manufacturer from Chicopee are, we hear,
very much afraid that their conduct the for
mer in making advances for the purchase OF
arms, and the latter for selling them to re-
bellious States) will be made the subject of
judicial inquiry for, from the extent of their
operations, they would unquestionably fare
badly.


The steamship State Of Georgia, belonging
to the Philadelphia and Savannah Steam Nav
| igation Company, which came here last week
is said to be intended for war steamer for
the State of Georgia, and to have been sent
to this port to be strengthened for that pur
pose. This rumor should receive prompt at
tention. 1t would also be well for the Grand
Jury to ascertain by whom and upon what au
thority offers were made within day or two
for the purchase of several of our stoutest har
Dor lighters, with view to their being trans
formed into Alabama gunboats, TO be used a
Mobile against the Government Of the United
States. The Circuit Court of the United
States in this District, and the Grand Jur,
thereof, have already effected much good b,
warning our citizens of the dangers which the,
incur in giving aid and comfort to the enemy
and a strict adherence to the letter of thei
duty will no doubt eff6ctuully stop the trad,
with the South in articles contraband of war
Year: 1861

Sir Edward BulWer Lytton, in a lecture re-
Gently delivered in England, gave the follow
ing history of his literary habits :" Many
persons seeing me so much engaged in active
life, and as much about the world as if l had
never been a student, have said to me, " When
do you get time to write all your books? =
How on earth do you contrive to do so much
work ?" 1 shall surprise you by the answer
make. The answer is this, -" contrive to
do so much by never doing too much at a time.
A man, to get through work must never over
work himself; or, if he do too much to-day
the reaction of fatigue will come, and he will
be Obliged to do too little tomorrow. Now
since began really and earnestly to study
which was not till left College, and was &C
tually in the world, may perhaps say that
have gone through as large a course Of gener-
a reading as most men of my time. have
travelled much, and have seen much have
mixed much in politics, and the various busi
ness of life and in addition to all this, have
published somewhere about sixty volumes
some upon subjects requiring much research
And what time do you think, as a genera
rule, l have devoted to study - to reading
and writing? Not more than three hours 1
day and, when Parliament is sitting, not al
ways that. But then. during those hours,


have given my whole attention to what wa
about"
Year: 1861

There is one luxury that the South viii lose
by disunion, that is the luxury of lynching
Northern men. To suppose that seperate
nation would allow its citizens to be treated in
the way ours are now in the South without re-
taliatioA, would suppose it fit for slavery, and
entirely unfit for its own government. Every
honest man knows that the charge that any of
these men have interferred with slavery is an
after fabrication, to justify the barbarity. Are
martyrs so plenty in this material age that
men are constantly taking their lives in their
hands and rushing into the power of a fero-
cious mob for no purpose which could be of
advantage to them or anybody elss p? 1t is to-
tally incredible. Southern men insult the in
telligence of the public when they fabricate
such impossible theories, to justify the brutal
ity of their cowardly mobs; and only partisans
gone in hopeless idiocy repeat it at the North
No such interference is required to make a
case for lynching at the South. Ii is sufficient
that man is from the North. Or if that is
not enough, every Northern man is put to the
inquisition, and if he is Republican, or vot-
ed for Lincoln, that isthe cause for all the at.
rocity that is making for the Southern people
character worse than that of the Feejee Is
lahders.


No nation ever submitted to such abuse oi
its subjects by foreign people, as the North en-
dures from the South.


No nation would deserve to be independent
which would submit to it. The cruelties o
the British prison-ships are outdone on our cit
izens in States where the Constitution guaran
tees them equal rights. 1t is the price which
we pay for the Union. But with disunion il
must stop.


But one fugitive has escaped the clutches o
the Fugitive Slave law in this State. Ant
for him thirty citizens suffered Imprisonment
In every respect the State of Ohio has dis
charged its duties to the South, and he is unf
to reside on its soil who says contrary. Bu
our citizens, in the pursuit of their own lawlu
business, would be safer, alone and defenseles
in Dahomey, or in the most savage isle of tn
South Seas. than in any of the States Soutl
of Kentucky. And yet a committee is aE
pointed to soothe the South in order to per
suade it not to break up the Union. AS eve
ry inducement is valuable at this time, it wi
have union saving influence to remind tn
South that, after secession, the Lynching gam
is one that two can play at Gin. Daily Pres
Year: 1861

if young man spoke to me, and did l think
he could notice such a child as me ?" and beg
ged to remember my manners when I
bounced off next time without noticing the
young man. Driven to The verge Of despera-
ton BY my inability 70 define my place in the
world, end disgusted enough with this terres-
trial ball to kick it as 1 would any other
A few more inches to my stature, however,
settled all that. Then was my time Fanny
Fern.
Year: 1861

Mr.. SICKLEs said it was now too late to
discuss the right of secession. 1t must be
looked as fixed fact. We should avoid by
all means the employment of coercion and the
adoption of any policy of aggression, but a
like purpose and like spirit should animate
those who protest against coercion, while at the
same time they seize the arsenals, forts, navy
wards and ships which come within their reach.
When the Southern States themselves employ
force, they can not cry peace and complain OF
coercion.


After showing that secession ordinances
could not deprive the Government of ceded
Jurisdiction, and property in the forts, &c,
which are for the common defence, he said, the
danger lies in collision. The act of secession
from the beginning to the end, was as perfect
as human agency could make it. No inter
ference was attempted by the Executive or
Legislature Of this Government, therefore, in
no sense has coercion been employed, but the
acts of South Carolina, including the firing
into the Star of the West were acts of fla
grant war, which if it had been attempted by
any foreign power would have raised every
man in the nation to resistance. At the close
of his remarks, Mr. 8. said =" Whatever
nlay be the issue of events whether happily
by Cancellation, and justice to the South, we
may find an honorable and fratcrnal solution
of our difficulties or whether unhappily, we
bIndly drift into alienation, war and irrevoca-
BILE separation, the great commercial interests.
the destiny Of American civilization, de-
mands that the political and territorial con-
trol of this continent, from the mouth Of the
IIuison to the mouth of the Mississippi, from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, shall remain where
it now exists in the hands Of the Government
of the United States. In all the partizan is
sues between the South aud the Republican
party, the people Of New York city are with
the South, but when the South makes an un-
tenabIe issue with our country, when the flag
of the Union is insulted when the fortified
places, provided for the common defense, are as
saulted and seized, when the South abandons
its Northern allies for English and French CO.
operation then the loyal and patriotic popula-
ton of that inrporirl city are unit for the
Union"
Year: 1861

So we see that the forts and iortresScs Of
the general government have been seized be-
cause the loyalty of the people to the Union
was depended on for their safe keeping. ~
we reinforce them, gonllen'en proclaim the act
as civil war. If we leave them dricnceleSS
they are at once taken foreible possession or
l tell those gentlemen that this secession is re
bellion, and that the property Of tbs United
State cannot be surrendered ut thO conses
quences be what they may. | am MT unwil-
ling 10 do something to remove the dc,o ion
Year: 1861

about Hamlins muatto birth, a.


The speech was gal! and wormwOod to the
disunionists. Etherdses rep'y to Leazes
question-on which side he was speaking p
Il am speaking on The side which has few
champions on this fpor--0n the side of my
country" was crushing. and drew ont loud
and irrepressible applause. His Grafton was
in the highest strain Of patriotic elqquenee,
and electrified every auditor. He said if the
worst came to the worst. and Tennessee vas
dragged to the fatal precipice 81 disunion, he
would go with sword in one hand and a
torch in the other, and fight to the last
breath for the flag Of our common country.
Year: 1861

Patriotism has become starveling bird
ling, clinging with uuhedged wings around the
nest of twigs where it was born. A statcS
man must not only narrow his mind and give
up to party what was meant for mankind, but
he must recede su5missively as blind horse
in bark-mill to every perverted opinion
which sits, whip in hand, on fhe revolving
shaft, at the end of which he is harnessed=
To be a diamond of the first water, be must
stand in the Senate House 6f his Country ard
in the face of forbcaring people, glort n be:
ing traitor and a rebel. He must soleUply
proclaim the death of the nation to- which BE
had sworn allegiance and with the grave stO-
liditv OF All undertaken, invite its citizens TO
their own funeral He must dwarf and pro
vincialze his patriotism to the state ON whosS
local passions he thrives, to the country where
he practices court: to the city where he fauhtg
in all the meretricious dignity Of a Doge o.
Venice. He can take an oath to support tAe
Constitution Of the United States, but he can
enter with honor into a conspiracy to oFef-
throw it. He can, under the sancity Of tho
same oath advise the seizure Of forts and mr.
sanas, dockynrds and ships, and money, be-
longing to the Union, whose officer he ~, and
find most loyal and convenient retreat In
State authority and State allegiance. Tie
was ready to laugh in their faces if they only
told him that, before the time when be was
'muling and puking in Lis nurses arms" there
lived a very obscure person named GeorsS
Washington, who, before he died. became en-
inent by perpetrating the immortal joks Of
advising the people of the United States that
it was of infinite moment that they should
properly estimate the immense value Of their
national Union--that they should cherish n
cordial. habitual and immovable attachment
to it-that they should watch its preservation
with jealous anxiety, disccantenance whatever
might suggest a suspicion that it could in any
event be abandoned, and Indignantly frown
down the first dawning attempt to ALLEVIATE
any portion Of the country from the rest. or
TO enlaeble the sacred ties which linked To-
gether its various parts.
Year: 1861

A Coon NEwspAPER.-The reading of a good and well conducted newspaper. even for the short space of one quarter of a year, brings more sound instruction. and leaves dseper impression, than would be acquired probably at the best school in twelve months. Talk to the mem srs of a family who read the papers, sud compare their information ami n'eliigence with those who do not. The eitslen.a is be- yond cemparisan1
Year: 1861

Let US worship the good and the beautiful,


The honest; kind hearted, and true;
Let US always to virtue be dutiful,


With heavens bright promise in view;
And sweet pleasures shall ever more glad'n US


We will learn that we live not in vain,
No bereavement, no trouble shall sadden US,


And pearls we shall find cen in pain.
Let US cling to the pure and immutable,


The hearts that are friendly and warm,
Let US think of His wisdom inscrutable,


And lean Oil His nerciful arm;
And when trouble and danger hang over US,


And threaten our joys to delay,
The broad wings of His power shall cover US


And drive our Affections away.