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Year: 1861

\ ARKANSAS WAR BoNDs.-By the card of the merchants of Helena to be found in another column, it will be seen they take Arkansas war bonds at par.

 Parties here from Memphis who furnish cd supplies to our troops, and had agreed to take part of their pay in Tennessee pa per, preferred to take bonds, at two per cent discount, so as to make the rate of interest ten per cent. It is false that the Military Board has ever discounted these bonds twenty per cent. The rumors that troops were selling their bonds at heavy discount is a lie, told by interested parties in order to enable them to do some petty swindling At that time no bonds had been paid to the troops. It onl y requires that the merchants generally throughout the State should take these bonds, to make them good circulating medium. They are better than any bank paper in either confederacy.
Year: 1861

A NEW RUMoR.-A correspondent of the New York Times writes from Washington that he has learned, {" from sources entitled to unquestionable credit that the British government, acting in con- cert with that of France is about to request of the United States government the exemption of one southern cotton port from the blockade, so that they may get needful supplies of the staple"

 The consent of the Confederate govern ment is as necessary to the success of this scheme as that of the United States, and that consent will hardly be given. The privilege of buying our cotton will only be obtained when the blockade is completely raised. Until that is done we have no de- sire to sell Cotton controls the world and we control the cotton, and we will not part with that control until it is made our interest to do so. When England and France recognize our independence, and scatter the fleet that blockades our coast they can get our cotton and not before.
Year: 1861

Ar LAST THEY BEGIN TO CALCULATE.-- The philosopher of the New York Tribune begins to calculate the cost of the war; This is one of the virtues of the Manassas defeat. Before that battle they thought to put the whole expense of the war upon the South and did not care. But now they fear the South may not be caught to be sad0led with 1t. Therefore the burden may fall upon themselves, and hence al- ready they begin to calculate the amount of it. Another such defeat and they will be brought perfectly to their senses. They will begin to see in glaring colors the fatal results of their mad attempt to subjugate the South. Hear old Greeley:

 "The wastefulness and ruinous cost of a great war have seldom been fully realized. That our government is rushing into debt at the rate of nearly million dollars per day, is generally un- dersood but this is only the first item in the heavy bill which is rolling up against the authors of this atrocious rebellion. The destruction and consump ton of stocks and stores of timber, powder, lead cartridges firearms, etc., etc., laid up in navy yards armores, and arsenals in time of peace, the burning of ships and other property to save them from capture on one side, prevent their on the other, are among the inevitable incidents of such struggle.

 But the rebels would seem to have resolved to make this contest as runous as possible by the wanton wholesale destruction of canal dams, rail- road bridges, engines, cars, etc., etc., and of pro perty generally. Tbeir ocean forays will have cost much in vessels and cargoes captured, but far more in the paralysis of our commerce and navi- gation through fear of kindred fate. Industry arrested, families pining in hunger and misery be- cause of the sudden withdrawal of their means of subsistence, and thousands sinking through want into vice and crime-such are among the inevitable consequences of such struggle. This war cannot be ended so soon that it will not have cost peo nle one thousand million of dollars, or about the actual cash value of all the property in the State of Ohio, or half that of the State of New York"
Year: 1861

LEAD.-Some of our exchanges in the Confederate States have expressed an anx- iety concerning supply of lead during the war. We have excellent lead mines in Arkansas, and some so rich that hunters have moulded bullets directly from the ore. We have lead mines in the vicinity capa

 ble of yielding enough lead to supply the Confederacy. Will not some enterprising person or persons take this matter into consideration and have these mines worked
Year: 1861

CoLD STEEL.-We have endeavored to learn, says the Richmond Whig, the exact number of separate and distinct bayonet charges made by our troops during the bat tie of the 2lst. We believe there were at least six, and perhaps more. It is stated that the enemy in no case awaited the charge, but fled precipitately as soon as the cold steel was visible.
Year: 1861

The deep rich lean Of the prsires cultivated with won
deu facility that the farmers Of the Eastern and Middle
moving to Illinois numbers. The Of Illinois
about equal to that Of England and the soil rich
1t viii support twenty millions OF people
Year: 1861

EHE TRIAL OF Mrs. GRAYEs.-Mrs. Graves
appeared before jury of her peers last
might, his Honor Judge White occupying
the bench. Most Of the evening was taken
up in empanneling jury and discussing a
technical question, and the dispute rose so
high that it was found necessary to summon
the police TO maintain order. The trial was
adjourned till Monday night.
Year: 1861

FINES PAID.-The persons convicted at the
last term Of the Common Pleas settled the
matter this morning BY paying their fines.
There were six of them in all, and the aver


age amount of each fine was nearly one
Year: 1861

D1ABoL1oAL.-The Lafayette Journal says
it has received information that an attempt
was made on Monday last to throw the train
bearing the Presidential party from the
track. The particulars, as given by Mr..
Chas. Rich, Of the 7. & W. R. R., are that a
short time before the tram was due at the
State line, an engineer who was preparing
to take out train, found Unnecessary TO run
out to the wood yard for fuel. Running at
moderate speed, he noticed an obstruction
upon the track, and stopping his engine
found that a machine for putting cars on the
track had been fastened upon the rails in
such manner that if train at full speed
had struck it, engine and cars must have
been thrown off and many persons killed.
Year: 1861

- Owners Of coal oil wells who want
to do their work by steam, can purchase a
tip-top boiler, exactly suitable for that kind
Of work, at a low price. It isin all respects
Is good as new, and is large enough ts run
five horsepower engine. Inquire at LEADEH
Counting Room, If
Year: 1861

TIE CHANNEL TO BE TEsTED.-We learn
from Capt Basset, the contractor, that he
will have the channel across the bar ready to
be tested at the next low tide which will oc-
eur the last of this week 1t is his intention
to have all the distractions removed such
as the scows, anchors and the dredging ma
chine, so that at low water the boats can run
through the channel, and make the regular
trips at the usual hours If they succeed it
will be something that has never been done
yet at low tide. This test will be watched
with considerable interest by our people, who
are anxious TO know whether or not this en-
terprise is going to be successful. If the
boat is able to make its trips without inter
Tuption at the time alluded TO-, much of the
opposition to the dredging project will sub
side. We shall await the anticipated trial
with the curiosity and anxiety that prevails
among our citizens generally. AiaHeda Her.


How CoRALs WoRK.-Prof. Agassiz in a
recent lecture, thus described the mannerin
which corals multiply and grow: 1t is not
unlike the growth and multiplication of trees
from buds and seeds. The corals lay eggs,
which hatch, and the young swim about like
shoals of herring, until they find place
suitable for them, where they alight, fasten
themselves, aud commence to multiply and
build.
Year: 1861




Shocking SUlcIDE.-Our readers saw the
dispatch in our paper rehtng the suicide of
iindermon at San Francisco. The following
are the particulars from the Mirror:


Tn new year continues unrelentingly its
remorseess category of blood. We have
another terrible deed of violence to record
suicide at half past two o'clock this morn
ing. Charles Linderman put pistol to his
mouth and blew his brains out 1t appears
that he had served five years as a soldier in
the U. 5. army, from which he was honora-
bly, discharged, some thirteen months ago
lie was gunsmith 10y trade, but lattery has
failed OF getting any employment Three
weeks ago he went to Sacramento to seek a
living there, but after trying in vain for
three days to get work, he returned again to
this city. Since then he had sold his last
coat for S5 to subsist on, and last night dis
gusted with everything in this world he
drank deeply in various lager beer cellars,
and proceeding to the front of the house ION
the north side of Pacific street, between
Kearney and Dupont) he drew the single
barreled pistol he habituahy carried in his
pocket, and terminated his unhappy and in
digent career in the summary manner above
stated. The unfortunate man was a native
OF Germany, about 50 years of age and sim
gle. His parents, who reside in Germany,
are said to be wealthy, but his education was
meagre.


The corpse is now lying at the dead house
a horrible spectacle, the cold, white flesh of
the spectre-lke face being split up by the
explosion and SO disfgured as to be barely
recognizable. A young German named Hen
Ty lived with him in the house on Pacific
street, and this afternoon, as we stood by the
body of the suicide, the poor fellow also
came in to gaze upon the dear features of his
comrade once more. Grasping the pulseless
hand, he wrung it; and scalding tears chas-
ed each other down his cheeks, as he cried,
in German, "0h Charley, my dear friend,
thank God that | again squeeze your dear
hand" AS we witnessed this affecting trib-
ute, we could not forbear thinking it more
touching than even the "In Memorian" of
Tennyson. Want was the cause of this self
murder. Starvation stared the poor man in
the face; and he preferred the embrace of
the King Of Terrors. Had we properly or
ganized relief committees in San Francisco,
We should have fewer, and perhaps no deaths
from destituton to chronicle. 1t is not too
late TO do this; and now, when we have
this pistol report of this sad suicide ringing
in our ears, let our citizens move in the mat
ter.
Year: 1861

The history of that era OF our Govern.
ment, to be known hereafter as the Age ol
Fraud, is yet to be written because ali the
hideous facts in regard to it are undoubt.
edly yet to be revealed When q new
Administration comes into power to sweep
away the present incumbents Of office,
when accounts are to be made up and bal
ances paid over, there can be no reasona-
BILE doubt that disclosure of fraudulent
official bankruptcy will be made unparal-
ieled in the annals Of our government that
has had written history. some of these
gigantic villainies have been exposed from
time to time in the public journals, and, at
this moment. when the attention is direct.
ed to the latest fraud upon the Treasury,
it IS well to group them together. as the
groundwork of the chaptes is still to come.
We do not include in this list the various
measures of corruption resorted to in va.
nous parts of the country by the Office
holders of the Administration, from the
President down to the navy-yard black
smiths, to defeat and carry elections. It
refers only to positive burglaries on the
. nited States Treasury made by distin-
guished official cracksmen," to fill their
own hungry and capacious pockets. We,
perhaps, omit even some of these, but the
list is nevertheless bad enough:


Ndnse efSwtndls Aut Nane Cabinet M;xS.tsr,
Year: 1861

The Inaugural message of Gov. Wash.
burne, of Maine, to the Legislature of that
State gives an encouraging view of the ma
terial growth and prospects of the State
He recommends concliation aud tokens Of
good will towards the South. While no
-recriminations should be allowed to inter-
rupt the setting of ourselves right in what.
soever respect we have been wrong, and
the offerings which as good men and patri-
OTIS we should lay upon the altar of our
country, and in doing this we need consent
to the abatement of not one jot or title of
the principles affirmed by the people at
the recent election.


We will stand by the constitution of our
fathers-the constitutio as ii is--and make
tho compromises that would involve Us in
he guilt of moral treason and justly .ren-
der US the scorn of mankind. He devotes
a paragraph to the subject Of personal lib-


rty bills, recommending the repeal of any
statutes which may be found to be uncon.
sttutional or Justly as offensive, but quite
plainly implying his conviction that Maine
is not really a transgressor in this respect.
Year: 1861

No adjustment can be reached unless the
Southern States formally agree to abandon
all prctentions, for all time to come, to Sc
cede from, and break up this Union. They
must recognize the Government as q Gov
ernment capable Of preserving itself How
can they propose to reconstruct Govern
ment while claiming the right al any time
to secede from and destroy it. Senator
Wade, of Ohio, made the overwhelming
point IL The Senate Committee Of Thirteen
this morning, when he said that he had no
idea Of making bargain with men who
might carry their State ont and Join the
common enemy at any time, or turn the
forts of the Federal Government against
the Government itself. Here, then, ia the
only platform upon which tho Union can
be preserved. No concession to secession,
and when secession is abandoned al the
rest is plain. Was. cor. Phia. Press.
Year: 1861

Accounts from the interior of Pennsyl-
vania are to the effect that eDroilments of
volunteers are quietly going Oh among all
classes, under the name of ''Union Men.
The question Of Democrat or Republican
is sunk.
Year: 1861

down and wrote them a reply, tell
ing them they had better forth
with make out a call for old DIR.
Dwight, in heaven ; for he did not
know of any one in this world who
answered this description; and as
DR.. Dwight had been living so long
on spiritual food, he might not
need so much for the body, and
possibly he might live on $500.
Year: 1861

The Farewell of the Seal.


There is, or there was, a tradi-
ton in Shetland that seals come
some times on shore, and divcsting
themselves of their skins, dance
upon the sands, after which they
resume their covering, and return
again to their natural element. 1t
is said that on one occasion q fe-
male seal, ,%who may be considered
as sort of mermaid, having mis-
laid her skin upon the land, and
being thus unable to return to the
sea, came into the possession Of a
Shetlander, with whom she lived
for some years as his wife, and bore
him several children. Some years
after, one Of the chilaren having
found on the beach an old hide,
brought it to his mother, when it
proved to be the long lost skin.
With many tears and marks of
agitation the mother put it on, and
taking an aftectionate leave Of her
children plunged into the sea, and
swan off in company with large
male seal, who had before been
seen lowering on the coast.
Husband, FAREWELL for many year.
I've proved a true, obedient wife,
Your hopes to crown, your hearth 10 cheer,
Has been my aim for half a life.
How poorly have done my part,
cannot now but feel and say,


But earlier wishes claimed my heart
And bore my fancy far away


This earth was not my native home,
And human love was all unfet;
| Twas mine in other realms to roam
With other sympathics to melt.
| longed to float on oceans breast.
And dive beneath its swelling wave;
To wander or to be at rest,
In sparry grot, or marble cave
There was the region of my birth,
And there dwelt happy bride,
Ere yet learned to walk the earth,'
Or breathe beyond the salt sea tide.
There with my bosom's genial lord,
My hours flew by with sunny gIce;
How has he since my loss deplorcd,
And sought in vain to set me free.
But fortune has redressed the wrong,
That bound me to the drcary land
Again in native yigor strong,
haste to quit the unkindly strand.
With him my first and rightful mate,
[ soon shall clcave the foamy brine;
Yet mindful in my happier state
Of what lose in thee and thine.
Ny children! there indeed I feel
That parting is bitter pain:
Tears like woman's, downward steal,
To think we ne er must meet again.
O foster them with double care,
As of one parent thus bercft;
Tell them my bosom still they share,
And ever shall while life is left.
From yonder rock, at evening hour,
When soft tie mermaid's g music rings,
As wandering near they fcecl its power,
Say, lis for them their mother sings.
But, bark I'm summoned to the deep;
l feel thesurging waters swell;
Some kind remembrance strive to keep,
Other you loved; farewell! farewell





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Year: 1861

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Year: 1861

There are many who doubt as to the readl-
ness with which the authority OF the Union
may be restored in the healt Of secessiondom,
in South Carolina particularly, because they
think this demonstration so furious and ullpTe-
cedented that it signifies a radical and incura-
BILE hostility. The history Of that district IS
full of strange incidents, however, and lesson
may be drawn from them that will help us to
the solution of the present complicated case.
They fought us in 1873 and 1850 very furious
ly in Georgia and South Carolina, and though
our armies were much in those States in the
latter part of the Revolutionary war, it is not
too much to say that the royalist troops they
put in the field from beginning to end outnum-
bered the patriots two to one. The South
Carolina militia would not go to the defense OF.
Charleston when it was taken by the British IN
1850. There we're no South Carolina or Geor
gia regiments in the Revolutionary army out
OF the limits of those States, and very little was
ever heard or seen of any Southern regiments
north of Virginia. The rOyalist forces in the
South, after the war began in that quarter,
which was not until January l779, were often
made up of royalist militia almost exclusively.
Bodies of 700 and of 900 Of these tories are
several times named in the history of the two
years most active warfare there. A few partl-
san bands after this time steadily adhered to
the patriot cause, out the lTuln Is lldL OOul
of the people who got up the present rebellion
fought us with fair share of zeal and yigor
whenever opportunity offered in the Reyolu-
tion.


AS to allegiance, it is we'll known that while
the people of South Carolina were ready enough
to adhere to the Union after their British de-
tenders were compelled to retire, they frequent
ly renewed their oaths of allegiance to the
British Government during the war. The
British civil authority was two or three times
renewed, and put in easy operation, always
with the cheerful concurrence Of the people Of
Charleston. There is nothing in the events of
the Revolution to induce a high estimate of
either the power or the purpose Of the citizens
Of the central district Of secession to resist the
Government which prevails in the country gen.
orally, after that Government has shown that it
has purpose and power of its own. They defed
us now because they were confident of being
able to drag other States into the conflict, il
one should ensue, and they have so compelled
other people to fight all the battles that will be
fought. When Virginia is beaten, South Caro-
lima will not bring her own precious militia
into further conflict, and the history of the
earliest war on this continent will be repeated


in this last one in the darkese center Of seces-
sion fury. 1t is quite as evident now as in
Revolutionary times that the choice Of South
Carolina cannot be permitted to control the
destines of this grerat nation Phil. American.
Year: 1861

The jews IN THE FEDERAL ARMY.-The
Jewish Messenger alludes to tho patriotic
action of tho Jews as follows:


In the army of the Union our people will
be found TO occupy no Insignificant part
taking into consideration their comparative
fewness of numbers. Commissioned and
non-commissioued officers as we'll as priyates
of the Jewish faith there are many; some, in
command of fine regiments and gallant
companies have made their mark already
sumo have been stricken down by the hand
of the destroyer; some have received wounds
which lifetime may not heal; but. on the
whole, they have been singularly blessed.
The patriotism Of our community has mani
tested itself in various ways; the unwonted
spectacle of the star spangled banner float
ing from a Jewish synagogue has bOcOms
su sVOry day sight
Year: 1861

from which mankind suffer over large part of the globe, is the consequence of diseased action in the system, induced by the poisonous nlasm of veoetable decay. This exhalation IS evolved by fhe action of solar heat on wet so and rises with the watery vapor from it. While the sun is below the horizon this vapor fingers near the earths sur face. and the virus Is taken with 1t through the

 lungs into the blood. There it acts as an irritating noison on the internal viscera and excretng organs of the body The liver becomes torpid and fails to secrete not only this virus, but also the bile from the blood. Both the virus and the bile accumulate in the circulation, and produce violent constitl- tional disorder The spleen, the kidneys, and the stomach sympathize with the liver, and become disordered also. Finally, the instinct of our or ganism as if in an attempt to expel the noxlous infusion. concentrates the whole blood of the body in the internal excretofes to force them to cast 1t out. The blood leaves the surface, and rushes to the central organs with congestive violence. This is the CHILL But in this effort it fails. Then the FEVER follows, in which the blood leaves the cen tral organs and rushes to the surface, as II in another effort to expe the irritating poison through that other great excretory the skin In this also it fails and the system abandons the attempt exhausted, and waits for the recovery of strength to repeat the hopeless effort another day. These are the fits or paroxysms of FEVER AND AGuE. Such constitutional disorder will of course under mine the health if 1t is not removed.

 We have labored to find, and have found, an antidote