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Year: 1861

BURNET's CoCoA1SR.-This is an article
which we can heartily recommend, and that
from knowing its great virtues. One par
ticular case in our family of its efficacy, we
will mention. The person had suffered with
a slow fever, which was most tedious, and
which left her with terrible neuralgia in
the head. The effect Of these complaints
wss to cause much of the hair To fall OF,
and there seemed to be no power in the skin
to give life to what remained. After she
had tried some other preparations with no
good results, we procured for her bottle Of
Coc0diae, and the change which its use soon
made was truly remarkable. The roots of
the hair at once received new life, and be-
fore bottle had been used, the large spot
upon the top of the head which appeared TO
be bald, was covered with what seemed a
new growth of hair. And now she has as
fine and healthy head of hair as before her
sickness. This Cocoaine is also valuable
article for childTens hair, which is apt to be
dry. A very small quantity will keep their
hair moist and their heads clean.


What we say Of this article we say from
our own actual knowledge, not for the sake
Of putting the Cocoaine, but because we
think others may be benefited by our expe-
Iience.--Boston Ohristidn Freeman.
Year: 1861

The Union Feeling in the SOuth-Public
OpiBion In North Carolina.


A correspondent Of the New York E5ening
Post writes from Raleigh, N. c., on the Goth
inst: 4aa f. ir. n.H


The people ofthis State are for the Union
now and forever. The result in our late
election was not brought about by the rich
men, but it was an uprising of the working
men, who are determined not to be led by
the Secessionists into Oonfederacy where
the poor man will be subject to such laws as
will necessarily make him poorer, and where
he will perhaps be exposed to all the horrors
of civil war-all for the benefit of the aris-
tocratic slave owner.


If the Secesslonists of the Border slave
States were the most rabid Abolitionists in
the land, they could not adopt more effect
uni mode of driving slavery out ofsaid States,
and Of eventually making them free, than to
effect their Secession from the Northern
States. Were the Border States to follow
the example of the seeding States, twenty
| five years would not elapse before slavery
| would have nothing more than than NOM
inal existence in all the Border States.


While this latter, result would be "a con.
summation most deVoutly to be wished
for it is acknowledged ON all hands that but
for the blight Of slavery these Border States
would eventually become the wealthiest and
most populous of any of the States of the
Union-the men in these States who "earu
their bread by the sweat of their brow" car
not be made, even to accomplish so desirable
an end, to relinquish the blessings theJ
are deriving from Government from which
they have never endured an oppression, anC
under which they have always been thriv
ing, contented and happy.


Since the appearance of the Presidents
| Inaugural few Douglas Democrats, who
were never very firm in their Union senti.
ments, have sided with the Secessionists
They affect to regard its language as threat
to coerce the Seeding States, and excuse
themselves for going over upon those
grounds. If all the Douglasites in this State
were to go over it would not detract much
from the strength of the Unionists nor ado
materially to that of the Seeessionsts, fol
Douglas only received about 1000 votes il
the whole State in the last Presidential con
test. 7


Let the Administration but pursue tn
peaceful policy indicated by its recent acts
and you may rely upon it Secession will, il
a short while, be killed stone dead in all th
Border States, and ii you kill it in thes
States it is bound, sooner or later, to die ou
in all the States south of us, for it is unprof
liable that so few people as those States con
tain can bear the heavy burdens of taxation
which will necessarily be imposed upOl
them. ...


The Secessionists of this State are strain
ing every nerve TO create disunion feelin
in this old State but they "can't come it.
The people here are naturally hard TO NOV
out of old habits. Put the question to-mol
row to them U nion or Disunion-and the
would vote it down by 10000 majority.
Year: 1861

" n
sition, that il is wrong in principle, wrong
radically, and therefore never TO be rendered
proper by any change of circumstances
which may make IL 10 our interest that il is
becoming in the General Government to take
organic action to arrest The action of the
C6nfederacy is, then,1 declaration Of that
fact, and IL were vain to sustain the institu-
tion ip the face Of such admissions to its
prejudice. a.. p 1850.


bro DARING INNOVATION,


II will be said that at the outset Of our ca
reer it were wise TO exhibit Difference TO the
moral sentiment of the world the obliga-
tion is as perfect TO respect the moral senti-
mentof the world against the Institution.
The world is Just as instant to assert that
slavery itself is wrong, and if we forego the
slave trade in consideration of the moral
feeling Of the world, then why not slavery
alsot 1t were madness now to blink the
question. We are entering at last upon q
daring innovation upon the social institu.
tons Of the world. We are erecting ma
tionality upon union of races where other
nations have but one.


We can not dodge the issue; we can not
disguise the issue; we can not safely change
our front in the face of vigilant adversary.
Every attempt to do SO, every refusal to
assist ourselves, every intellectual or polit.
ical evasion is a point against US. We may
postpone the crisis by disguises, but the slave
republic must forego its nature and its des-
tiny, or it must meet the issue, and our as
sertion Of ourselves will not be easier for
admissions made against us.


And is it not in fact from sense of weak
ness that there is such admission Is there
man who votes for this measure but from
misgiyings as to slavery, and as to the pro-
priety Of its extenson2 Therefore is there
not the feeling that the finger of scorn will
be pointed at him without; and is he who
doubts the institution, or he who has no
higher standard of the right than what the
world may say about it, the proper man to
| build the structure of q slave republic9 The
members OF that Convention are elected to
important posts in the grand drama of hui
man history. Such opportunity but seldom
comes of molding the destiny of men and
nations.
Year: 1861

The President has received several appli-
cations from Louisiana for Cadetships at
West Point.


The Virginia Secessionists are beginning
to despair of passing a direct ordinance OF
Secession, and arranging the adoption of the
Arkansas plan, to submit to the people the
questions of Secession or Cooperation. The
Union men are. confident that Secession
would be voted down by large majority,
but they are unwilling to involve the State
in the bitter contest which would result, and
therefore oppose such submission.
Year: 1861

PEAs.-To have early "peasco!s, the
seed requires to be sown as early as the
ground will permit, and where the sol. is
inclined to be wet 1t will be found ia
vorable expedient to SOW The peas on the
surface, and throw an inch OF soil over
them, drawing it up with the hoe, forming
a slight ridge. There is no fear of the
seed rotting when thus elevated, and the
soil being dry and warm, they soon vege-
tate. Peas are not very tender when
young, and will not be injured by slight
freezing, but they may be afforded a slight
protection by inserting the supporting
stakes us soon as the young plants make
their appearance above ground. Last
summer we saw a good crop OF peas grown
without upright stakes. To keep chick
ems from disturbing the seed, a quantity
of brush was laid thickly on the top OF
the rows, and not being removed in time,
the plants were allowed to grow into and
over the brush. They spread and formed
a thick looking ridge Of foliage, and pro-
duced abundantly We thought the plan
worthy of uote.-Farmer and Gardener.
Year: 1861

Next to him in influence, perhaps, may
be ranked Preston King, OF New York
lie, too, is rarely heard in the Senate
His voice is shrill falsetto, which coming
from a man built like a rum. .puncheon,
sounds queer enough. But he is very
sound in coupcil, and perfectly brave.
His temper is merry, and the normal con-
dition of his face is broad grin
Year: 1861

An old soldier offers the following excel
lent advice TO volunteers:


"My boys! If any among you have
been in the habit of drinking much whisky,
quit it If you continue to drink hard,
you are dished-your more sober comrades
will have to bury you. In the service you
have to undergo, whisky will kill you with
more certainty than the ball or she'll. If
you are exhausted after long march, a
jorum of strong tea and chunk of stale
bread will do you more good than all the
whisky that was ever concocted. The boat
men of Canada will tell you that A jor-
um of strong black tea will check tenden-
cy to dysontery and bowel complaint
Soup is good. Much meat is bad in hot
weather; the less meat the less blood, the
less blood the less of load to carry-bono
and sinew make the soldier, not blood A
light diet may go hard on men of strong
appetites; but he that lives soberly and
lightly will recover of wounds quicker and
trouble the hospital less than the man that
drinks hard and gorges himself incessantly
Year: 1861

lcDne6secs


The Louisville Journal says in an article
on the secession of Tennessee


As Illustrative of the character of the
tyranny established over souls in Tennessee,
we may mention one circumstance out of
the thousands which the Tennessee papers
would not dare to mention. One gentle
man of our city, a substantial man whose
word none would question, was recently in
that State on business. He repeated 10 us
yesterday, conversation that be held with
native Tennesseean, q Union man, who
deprecated secession as deplorabe blum
der and n terrible crime The two gentle
men were alone in a large room, no other
person being probably within a good half
mile Of them, yet the Tennesseean lowered
his voice almost to whisper as he fancicd
that the very walls had ears TO hear
and tongues to repeat. "Lately," said he,
81 thought was worth eight or ten tbous-
and dollars; now am worth nothing. [
owe sum of money, and carefully laid by
every dollar in my power for the purpose of
meeting my obligations and saving my pro-
perty; but all that had has been taken
from me.


They have raised military companies in
my neighborhood, and although my opiu-
ions were known, they levied upon me, as
they did upon otbors, whatever they pleased
and l had to furnish the required amount
or be spotted and persecuted-probably
driven out of the State as an abolitionist."
Any dozen or even half dozen secessionists
in any part of Tennessee can band them
selves together at pleasure, as thousands of
dozens and half dozens are doing, and levy
the most oppressive and enormous black
mail for secession purposes upon secession
and Union men alike, marking each mans
tax opposite his name upon piece of paper
and then presenting the paper with the
foot-pad command of"stand and deliver"
And from the authority of the relentless
and remorseless robbery there is no appeal;
no power exists to which the sufferers can
successfully turn for protection or redress.
A giant despotism, subdivided into count
less petty despotisms, covers the land with
a shadow deadlier to life than the shadow
of Java's poison tree.
Year: 1861

The Government has made an arrange
ment to use the Calcium light at Fortress
Monroe, and the apparatus will be set up
on the parapets in few days. This ia
nous light possesses extraordinary illumi-
mating power. One of the rehectors, which
was once placed on the Latting Obserya,
tory in this city, cast distinct shadow at
Tarrytown, thirty miles distant By the
aid of this light the garrison at Fortress
Monroe will be able to detect any vessels
that may attempt to pass the fortress at
night, and give its artillery distinct OBJ
ject on which to be effective, no matter how
great tho surrounding darkness.
Year: 1861

first laid upon the ground, then the straw,
and then the blanket, the suggestion was
adopted, but the laugh was enjoyed aud
kept up for some time, Can you guess
who It was was he married, or a Bachelor L!
Year: 1861

There was quite a change manifest in the
public mind yesterday. Many of our reapscta'
bic citizens who have heretofore been support
ing Vult6, wheeled round for Brown when they
discovered that the only effect of persistlng in
throwing their votes away on candidate who
has no possible chance Of success, was to elect
the very worst candidate for Sheriff now be-
fore the people. As soon as it was made clear
TO the public mind that either Brown or Lynch
muet be elected, there vas quite change IN
favor of the Peoples Union candidate. Among
intelligent and observing citizens, We fancy
there are but few men now left in the city
who care to take the responsibility Of indirectly
assisting to elect Lynch.
Year: 1861

The Tammany men yesterday talked very
confidently of the election Of Tweed the Tam
many candidate for Sheriff, and even offered
10 bet large sums of money on bis election.
They mysteriOusly limited that an arrangement
had been made by which Browns tickets were
to be kept out of the boxes. We beg to as-
sure these gentlemen that the intelligent voters
Of this city are not to be swindied out of their
votes by any continuance Of this character.
Those who have made up their minds to vote
the Peoples Union Ticket viii take the trouble
to hunt it up, even if they should succeed IN
buying ND a few of the ticket distributors.
Year: 1861

The Democratic candidate for the Assembly
in the With District is Daniel Young. lie
was q member of the last Legislature, and
voted against the appropriations for the war.
He was then n secessionst. and whatever his
professions now, he ought not to be elected to
that Office again. The Union and Republican
candidate is HENRY j. RAyMoND. lie ha,
been twice a member of the Legislature, and
has presided over both Assembly and Senate.
There ia 10 question about his eminent ability
or bis fidelity to the Union cause. Vote for
him
Year: 1861

When the election shall be over the four or
FIVE thousand citizens who will have been de-
luded into throwing away their votes on Vulte
for Sheriff will have the satisfaction Of know
ing that they have come pretty near electing
James Lynch. They do not mean this aud If
they viii only wait an hour at the polls and
see how the votes run they will refuse to do
it. We believe Lyneh's friends pay for the ad-
yertisements which appear in our and other
journals advertising columns eIhOrting every.
body to support yultf. 1t is simple dOdge
to divide the Union vote and let in the candi-
date of Fernando Wood and Levi s. Chatfield
Year: 1861

A friend of one OF the Democratic tickets
stated yesterday that his party was bound to
succeed, as they had " fixed the Canvassers. +"
The only danger to be apprehended as to the
success Of the Peoples Union ticket is in this
quarter. If the people are vigilant and watch.
fll, and the police perform their duty faith
fully, ii will not be possible for corrupt and
vennl Canvassers to rob honest men Of their
yofes.
Year: 1861

TIE Secretary Of War and the Secretary ol
the Treasury arrived in this city on Saturday
night, both on business connected with their
Departments. They timed their visit to the
journey of Gen. Scott, and made that the oc'
casion of demonstration of personal respect
to the veteran commander on his way to re-
tirement from his labors and his rank.


Mr.. Chase's visit was connected with the
interests Of the Financial Department over
which he so ably presides. Secretary Cameron
Inspected yesterday the Notifications which
guard our harbor. He will go to-day to West
Point, aud thence TO Springfield in Massachu-
setts 10 examine the United States Armory.
He will probably continue his journey to Bos'
ton to inspect the defcnses of that city against
attack from the sea.


Mr. CaInerons great labors in raising, equip
ing, and organizing the army with which the
rebellion is TO be crushed-the vigilance, Wis
dom, and practical ability with which he has
guarded the public interests while providing
for the sudden expansion Of the military power
of the nation from eighteen thousand men to
half n million, are at last recognized by the
country, and will coon be matter of history.
At the age of 63, and in the possession OF an
ample fortune acquired in business enterprises,
tie Secretary took charge of the War Depart
ment at time when its duties were more
burdensome than ever rested upon any
War Minister of France in the years OF her
greatest struggles, whether under the Republic
or under the Empire. The National impatience
has demanded impossibilities. When the mag
nitude of the contest we are engaged in has
been appreciated BY the people, and their de-
termination TO succeed has settled into on In
flexible moral principle, justice will be done to
Simon Camoron's administration Of bis enor-
m0us trust
Year: 1861

ELECTORS OF NEw-YoRK! your State Elec'
ton be gins and ends TO-DAY.


We do not ask you to vote for the candl-
dates of any political party. The dark cloud
that now lowers over the country renders party
strife trivial and impertinent. What we do
ask YOU is to VOTE so AS TO INDICATE YOUR
FIRM RESOLVE TO LIVE AND DIE CITIZENS
OF THE UNITED STATES.


DO not say that this is super6uous. The
journals, the orators, the open avowals and
secret Vaccinations Of the Regency faction be-
tray fixed purpose to coax the traitors back
into the Union by concediDs whatever they
may please to exact. In other words: they
would buy present peace by treaty which
would encourage the defeated party in every
future election to raise the standard Of insurrec-
tion and disuniOn.


To our mind, no other conceivable result
can be 50 disastrous as this. 1t would degrade
our country at once to the level of the chronic
anarchies which have forever disgraced the
name of republic throughout Spanish America.
To be rent in twain by gigantic rebellion
would be sad fate for the Model Republic;
but it would be only misfortune, not debase-
ment. To succumb to traitors, and plant their
feet on the neck of the Nation would be
draining the cup Of baseness to the very dregs
Take any shape but that !" We want peace
but not peace that exalts traitors on the
downfall of patriots. We insist at all hazards
on the principle that what is lost by an cleo
ton is not to be regained by a rebellion.


The Union State ticket was nominated and
will be supported on the simple platform Of
STANDING BY TIE GOVERNMENT IN THE
UNITED STATES IN ITS PRESENT ARDUoUs
STRUGGLE WITH ARMED TREASON. To vote
for it commits you to no party dogma, no Bal
timore, Cincinnati, Charleston, or Chicago
Platform, but simply to do your best to pre-
serve the Government founded by our Reyolu-
tionary heroes from being oyerthrown by
faction who purposely threw away On election
and then made its loss pretext for fomenting
a rebellion. The Union movement is mutual
pledge to resist and defeat this rebellion-that
and no more.


Patriots Americans lovers Of the Country
and of Freedom we entreat you to rally as
one man to the polls and vote the Peoples
Union tickets
Year: 1861

We learn that in one Of the uptown wards.
few of the professed Republican leaders have
entered into an arrangement to cell out Brown
and Hoxie, for votes for local candidates. We
caution these men that if they attempt TO carry
out this fraud they will not only fail in accom-
plishing their purpose, but will bring down sa
their heads such storm of popular indigua-
ton as will not be easily alayed. Such mea
would sell the country itself for the sIoausst
Office.
Year: 1861

Beware Of Illegal voting There is scheme
on foot to bring to the polls swarm oi iilesai
voters who are to take the names oil the brave
fellows who are now at the seat Of war. LOOK
out for them. The city will pay Sloo each
for tile detection and conviction oil these rs''
cala
Year: 1861

COP BLESS MY McTnER--A chaplain in one
of the United States ships Of war, describing
the prayer-meeings on board his vessel, gives
the following incidents to illustrate the deep
feeling that prevailed. They should encourage
the heart Of every pious mother. He says;


Not many nights ago, the whole meeting
was moved as the heart of one man, by noble
looking youth Of eighteen, who, in the midst
of broken-hartcd prayer, burst forth in the
earnest suppllcation 20 God, bless my dear
mother! thank thee that thou hast heard her
many prayers, and that l, so long the object
of her love, have at last become the subject Of
thy grace And on the last night the feelings
OF every one present were again moved in like
manner by the testimony of a sailor in middle
life, given, with sobs and tears, to tho blessed
influence of a mothers prayers in restraining
waywa1d son from sin, and i'll bringing him
at length, by the grace of God, to the hope
Of salvation


Let the praying mother whose prayer seems
not yet to be answered. take courage, aud cx'
ercise new faith in reference to the son OF her
love, from such proofs that praying breath is
not spent in vain.
Year: 1861

TIE EFFECT OF PRAYER.- Most persons
find no difficulty in believing that prayer ex'
erts happy desirable influence on the w1r- or
shipper hin,clf but even this can hara!y aE o1'
if t is generally understood that this is all.
Indeed, cannot help thinking that conscience
itself would dissuade many from resortins to
PRAYER. if brought to look on it as no better M
than kind of wellmeant cheut which We
practice on ourselves for its moral uses
PRAYER. to have much effect on ourselves
must be believed to have all effect on God
Il is too solemn transaction by Tar 10 o'
made use Of as kind of spiritual strategy


No; make not our prayers to seem one tol"l
and be another Strike not our deVo''on
dead by the skeptical sophism that ,u they ca'
onlv have an effect on oursrires. They VIII
have an effect on God; Tor lie has SAID Una
they will, and the promise cas- been rat'he


and confirmed in the experience Of holy an


,levout men of all ages. They will nave a


effect on God, for lie who is :" in the o0S0'
Year: 1861

What has brought these evils upon our
once happy country What but the lack Of
moral and religious training! Men have not
been taught to reverence magistracy as an or
dinance of God. They have not been taught
the sacredness and binding moraitics of the
oath. They have not been duly impressed
with the sinfuncss OF covetonsncss. Our
whole distress aay be traced to detective
education. The men who were trained IN
the Shorter Catechisrn, and grounded i'll the
great truths Of the Christian religion-the
men who laid the foundations OF our Govern
ment have slept with their fathers, and IL
their stead there has arisen generation to1
wise to walk in their fathers footsteps, ant
too knowing to be taught by the Word o
God. Is it with the evils Of this retrogres
sion before our eyes--a retrogrcss'on origin
atine in the abandonment Of the Bible a
the great national textbook for school AM
college, thai we are concluding to give u
our religious educational efforts ? No, TO
forbid With these evils, as so many pillar
of salt, to warn us, let US turn to the schoe
and the college as, instrumentally and unde
God, the ark of our national safety, the pa


ladium of our countrys hope.-Home an


Foyeiqu Record
Year: 1861

of the Father" has said that they will. "Ask
and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall
find" Again it is said: "Let us come
boldly unto the throne of grace, that We my,
obtain mercy and find grace to hep in time
of need" And more atfeotingy still in the
words OF the text If ye then, being evil,
know how to give COED gifts unto your chill
dren, how much more shall your Father which
is in heaven give good things to them that ask
him." Wherefore, g Be careful for moth
ing; but in everything by prayer and sup
plication, with thanksgiving let your re-
quests be made known unto God and the
peace of God, which passeth all understand
ing, shall keep your hearts and minds thro


Jesus Christ. .'-.Dr. Walkers Sermons.