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Year: 1862




How MoRTARs ARE LOADED AND FIRED
The following description of mortar
practice is by correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Commercial.


| took position on shore, near the
point and along side the mortar, to wit
ness their practice. The firing of NOR
tar is the very poetry of a battle. A bag
of powder weighing from IS to 20 pounds,
is dropped into the bore of the huge mon
ster; the derrick drops the shell in; the
angle is calculated; long cord is at
tached to the primer; the gunner steps
out upon the platform, and the balance Of
the crew upon the shore. The captain
gives the word, the gunner gives his cord
"a sudden jerk, crash like a thousand
thunders follows, a tongue of fame leaps
from the mortar, and column of smoke
rolls up in beautiful Aceey spirals, devel-
oping into rings Of exquisite proportions.
One can see the shell as it leaves the NOR.
tar, flying through the air, apparently no
larger thana marble The next you see
of the she'll, a beautiful cloud of smoke
bursts into sight, caused by the explosion.
Imagine / . of these monsters laundering
at once, the air filled with smoke clouds,
the gun-boats belching out destruction
and completely hidden from sight in
whirls of smoke, and shells screaming
through the air with AN unearthly sound,
and the distant guns Of the enemy send
ing their solid shot and shell above and
around us dashing the water upin glis.
tening columns and jets of spray, and you
have the sublime poetry Of war.
Year: 1862

he was standing on the square with some
Of them, prattling away an hour Of leisure,
when the attention of the young men be-
came arrested by young and elegant lady
who, at the side of an elder one, was slow.
ly walking over the place. 1t was the
daughter of the Gov. Of Upsala living in
the city, and the lady was governess. She
was generally known for goodness and
gentlcness of character, and looked at with
admiration by all the students. AS the
young men stood gazing at her as she
passed on like graceful vision, one of them
sddenly exclaimed


Well, it would be worth something to
have kiss from such q mouth


The poor student, the hero Of our story,
who looked on that pure angelic face, ex.
claimed as ifby inspiration, Well l think
could have it


What cried his friends 10 a chorus, are
you crazy Do you know her


Not at all he answered, but / thing
she would kiss me now If asked her.


What in this Place--before all our
eyes2


In this place, before your eyes.


Freely


Freely.


Well, if she will give you kiss in that
manner, / will give you thousand dollars!
exclaimed one of the group.


And land |. exclaimed three or four
others for it so happened that several
rich young men were in the group, aud the
bets ran high on so improbable an event.
The challenge was made and received in less
time than we take to tell it.


Our hero (my authority tells not wheth
er he was handsome or plain have my
peculiar ideas for believing that he was
rather plain, but Sngularly good. Hooking at
the same tiine), Immediately walked up TO
the young lady and said


Mine traulien, my fortune is now 10 your
hands.


She looked at him with astonishment, but
arrested her steps. He proceeded TO state
his name and condition, aud his aspirations,
and related simply aud truly what had just
now passed between him and his comrades


The young lady listened attentvely, and
at his ceasing o speak, she said, blushing,
but with great sweetness, If by so little a
thing SO much good can be accomplished,
it would be foolish for me to refuse your
request and publicly in the opon square
she kissed him.


Next day the student was sent for by
the Governor He wanted to see the man
who dared to seek kiss from his daughter
in that way, and whom she had consented
to kiss So lie received him with a
scrutinizing bow, but after an hours con
versation was so pleased with him that he
| ordered him to dine at his table during his
studies at Upsala Our young fIiend pur-
sued his studies in O manner which soon
made him regarded as the most promising
student in the University Three years
were nov passed since the day OF the first
kiss, when the young man was allowed tC
give a second kiss to the daughter of the
Governor. He became, later, one of the
greatest scholors in Sweden, and as much
respected for his requirements as for bis
character. His works will endure
while time lasts among the works of
science and from this happy union sprang
a family well known in Sweden even at tue
present time, and whose wealth and high
position in society are regarded as triAes
III comparison with its goodness and love.
Year: 1862

I keep it still the faded flower
Through long and cherished years,
In memory of that happy hour


Which time the more endears,
When from the hand the gift took,
And saw the tear drop start,
And clasped with fond aud gentle look,
The giver TO my heart.
That flower, like her who gave it, then,
Was loveliest Of IFS kind
And vainIy might look again


So fair n flower 20 fnd
But grief alike the JOY and bloom,
It withered in day.
But grief alike the joy and gloom,
! bore it far away.
In distant lands, midst care and grief
That flower was yet more dear,
And often every cherished leaf


Was moisteDed with tear
And still keep the fnded flower,
And hold it while its life shall last,
The memory of that hour,


Which consecrates the past.
Year: 1862

WILL THE PERSON WHO SAW THE ASSAULT b
w policeman on gentleman IN n Twenty third stf ce
stage corner OF Coiandt and broadway, Monday n.
terno0n aud who interfered In his behalf and who
roughly handled by the policeman be gooc
enough to address w. box ,5J5 Post ONCE.
Year: 1862




Provided further, that the exemptions herein
granted to persons by reason of their peculiar me.
chanical or other occupation or employment net
connected with the public service, shall be subject
to the condition that the products of the labor OF
such exempts, or Of the companies and establish.
sments With which they are connected shall be sold
and disposed Of by the proprietor at prices not
ceeding seyenty-fvs per centum upon the cost Of
production, or within maximum to be fixed by the
Secretary of War under such regulations as he may
prescribe; and ii is further provided, that if the
proprietors of any such manufacturing establish.
ments shall be shown, upon evidence, to be SUBJ
mitted to and judged Of by the Secretary of War,
to have violated, in any manner invaded the trae
intent and spirit of the foregoing proviso the ex.
emptions therein granted shall no longer be ex-
tended to their superintendents and operatives in
said establishments, but they and each and every
one of them shall be forthwith enrolled under the
provisions of this act and ordered into the Confed-
srse army, and shell in no eYens be again exempted
Year: 1862

HIT spr.y-N lth more modification and regret than can be experienced by any Of our subscribers, we are compelled to issue the True Democrat on half sheet. By issuing OF half sheet we will have paper enough iortwelVe months. We hope this will only be temporary for we shall seek all possible avenues and incur every reasonable expense to procure more pa- per, and then resume whole sheet

 Tn justice to those who have paid in advance and to ourselves we will discontinue all subscrlp tions as the time expires for which the paper has been paid for.

 All advertisements that possibly can will be excluded, so that the paper will contain nearly its usual quantity of news.
Year: 1862

Nol put not single seed in the grotnd; would not say that he who plants cottor this spring is a traitor, for argument or counsel, to be effective, should not be offensive: But would ask every cotton planter to look at the map and see where our supply of bread stufs and provisions came from, prior to thefaderal blockade; look further and see what portion of that country is now in possession of the enemy, reflect further as to what portion of territory, not now in their possession, may be devastated by this war, preventing all agricultural labor look at our army, its ranks are composed of the "bone and sinew" that have furnished us with bread and meat; we now have them to feed also their loved ones at home. Admit that the cotton States have done some good fighting for our sacred cause-we will do more of that resolving, as one man, not only to fight for, but feed our glorious Confederacy.

 Gen. Beauregard, in his eloquent appeal for plantation bells, to be cast into cannon, says "be of good cheer, but time is precious" In humble imitation of that great and good man, in sincere and heartfelt sympathy for our sacred cause may not the writer exclaim, ''be of good cheer but plant no cotton. M.
Year: 1862

CREMATloN.-Atter the battle of Elk Horn, or Sugar Creek as it is called by some, the fed erals piled their dead, covered them with logs and brushwood and set fire to the pile. We as- sert this on the authority of men who saw il done, and on that of others, who saw the charr ed and half burnt remains. The manner of dis posing of the dead, is one of custom or taste and if cremation is resorted to, the bodies should be throughly burnt, and the ashes gathered and preserved or buried. But to partially burn oI roast the bodies and leave them to be devoured by wild beasts has in it degree of horror that is revolting. Alas! how little did the deludee wretches who came to enslave free people, i'm agine that, instead of fine farms, their fate would be so awful. Slain by the freemen whom they came to conquer, their bodies are cooked by their friends to make repast for wolves.

 This thing was not only done after the late battle but it was previously done at Forsyth in Missouri.
Year: 1862

TIE WHOLE NIGCER.-The St. Louis Repub. lican says that an abolition convention was res gently held at Boston, at which Stephen r. Eos ter. in one ofhis speeches, said that they had something else to do besides giving the negro lis freedom, and added: We must put him in the senate and admit him in our social circles. We have got to swallow the negro whole, with all the wool on him. When we can do that, then we shall have the millennium, and not till then. If we are not prepared to do this, we had bet ter fight on the Confederate side would not support the government in it's present position. I have endeavored to prevent all the young men could from enlisting, telling them that they were going to fight for slavery
Year: 1862

The late Sydney Smith, divine as emil


nent for wit as piety, once wrote to friend
THAT he had made an estimate Of the food
that he had eaten during the first thirty
years of his life, and found that be had il
that period unnecessarily called on his pa


tient stomach to digest meataud vegetables
enough to fill twenty seven wagons, at Q
cost of twenty FIVE thousand dollars. He
added, with words of regret, that had be
been more abstemious at the table, he would
be worth in hard cash 80 many more dol
lars than he was, and that by over feeding
he had been guilty of double injury-
firstly to himself, and secondly to society
for, had he eaten less he would have en-.
joyed better health, and others would
have that to sustain and nourish them
which he had wontonly wasted. arss' E..


Sidney Smith is not the only person who
has had reason to accuse himself of excess
at the table. The fact is We all eat more
than our stomachs can we'll digest, and for
! it we are daily punished, sooner or later


When the stomach is imposed on it sooner
or later rebels, and disease is the conse.
quence-disease in its most disagreeable
form, dyspepsia .....,rr
Could we refrain our appetites---could
we teach ourselves the important lesson
that it is better to eat to live than live &c
eat, how much better off we all would be.
Could we rise from the table with an in.
clipation to eat little more instead OF
1gormandizing to the full, the general health
would be thousand times better than lis,
and soon would be rid our bodies Of dis.
eases which now seem to be almost natural
to US -....... 49,.
People complain of the "hardness of the
times," the dearness of food" the "doctor's
bills" and of "sickness," and yet they
possess the means within themselves of
removing all these standing complaints by
exercising a little self-control over their
appetites. "Eat less and you will have
more" is an old adage, and although a
homely one, it is not without its grain OF
wisdom.


Drinking is not the only intemperance
that is INDUCED in. There are more peo-
pie who destroy themselves by eating than
by drinking alcoholic stimulants. Alcohol,
it is true, is a very bad thing to take into
the stomach for the reason that fumes there.
of fly to the head and induce iutoxication !;
but what shall, we say of the stomach de-
bilitated by its continued efforts to reduce
the enormous masses of food, half mastica-
ted, that are forced into it for molneutary
qualification Can we ask the blood to be
pure or the stomach sound that is treated
three or four times every day with unheal-
thy, indigestible trash. If you want to
stupefy brilliant mind, stuffthe stomach
but if you want it to do work so its corrus.
cations may be seen Of men, let the body
be uourished with light, pleasant food, that
is thoroughly masticated before 1t is finally
deposited for assimilation. ..-t.


If you would live long and be exempt
from diseases, resolve "henceforth and for
ever" to eat just food enough to sustain
life and no more--in other words, eat to
live and not live to eat.
Year: 1862

VI pldCCo Ou luO 1tiFCl


New Madrid is 165 miles above Mem.
phis, and is situated in bend of the Mis-
sissippi River on the Western or Missouri
side. The-place is protected against flank
movement on the North side by bayou and
on the South by curve of the river, which
sweeps around it to the left. With the
assistance of our gun-boats, which can run
up the bayou on the right and around the
bend of the river to the left sufficiently neal
to participate in the action, it is thought
that our forces are fully able to hold the
Il place and repulse any attack that may be
made upon the position. Should it be
found necessary, reinforcements can be
easily sent down from Island No. 10, which
is only ten miles above.


Fort Harris is seven miles above Mem.
phis, on the Tennessee side of the Missis
sippi River. Fort Pillow is seventy miles
above, on the same side Of the river. New
Madrid, on the Missouri side, is 165 miles
above. Island No. 10 is ITS miles, and
Columbus, on the Kentucky side, is 22C
miles Thus you will perceive that New
Madrid and Island No. 10 are within sup
porting distance of each other by water
It is of the utmost importance, however,
that our position at New Madrid should be
maintained, as the loss of that point would
probably eveutuate in the abandonment Of
the island above. With both banks Of the
river above and below in the possession o.
the enemy, it would be difficult, if not i'm
possible, for US to hold the island. The
average width of the river is about one
mile and the island lies nearly midway, i
I Am correctly informed.
Year: 1862

WHEREAS THE UNDERSIGNED HAS BEEN INFORMED on
w good authority that great irreguariy exists in the taking
killing Of the wild cattle the mountains Hawaii be-
longing His Majesty and to the Government by parties who
claim pretend claim right under bills of sale from His aj
the Government and Whereas from the
the country and other IL almost impossible 10 place
the interests of His Majesty and of the Govern
ment and all parties having legal claims the said
wild cattle already had time sufficient if they have used
due diligence remove the


therefore, the undersigned hereby gives notice to all
purchased wild running the mountains Ha
previous the lst of January 1851 the
already removed before the st day Of May
after which time parties taking wild cattle will De prosecuted


Interior Office, L. kAMEHAMEHA.


Ian "a ls5s 4stf
Year: 1862

- Love is as natural 10 a woman as fra
GRANGE is ts q rose. You may lock girl up
You may cause her to change her religion
or forswear ber paren.s-.hese thing ar pos
siblc; but never hope to make the sex forrso
their heart worship.
Year: 1862

MIXED DMETApHORs.-Thc Portland Adrer-
tiser in an article on what it is pleased to call
the Union Democratic Convention Of Ore
gon," says:


Abolitionism had been famed into fame
and continually harped upon by the men
who now hold the first position in the gift of
our government, that in 1860 it caused eight
millions of our citizens to rise in armed rebel
lion against the Federal Government.


That reminds one exceedingly Of the west
ern lawyer. who perforated thus MAY it
please the Corrt, ! smell a rat; hear its de-
ceitfnl music brewing in the gale, and by the
help of justice, Ill nip it in the bud"
Year: 1862

I will not please those who wish to see from
him nothing but decree of unconditional
emancipation proclaimed By him as Com
mander-in-Cbief of the army. The big dogs
Of the Herald aud Journal Of Commerce, too
and Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart of the
Rutland Courier and Burlington Sentinel aud
Bellows Falls Argus, whose fear lest Slavery
shall take some detriment is thousand
times greater than that the Union should be
injured, will howl in unison but the mess
sage will be likely to have weight with Con-
gress, and help towards solving the
great problem Of the country.


While the resolution, proposed by Presi-
dent Lincoln to Congress for its adoption,
contains the nu5 of his message, the accom-
panYing remarks suggest some pregnant
hints. FAIR warning is given to the rebels,
that the war is 10 90 on till the rebellion is
crushed, root and branch, and that if the
process now in practice fails to secure the
end in a reasonable time, other means must
be resorted to. The President recommends
the gradual abolition of slavery as 'One OF the
most efficient means of self preservation for
the Federal government, but if a mild plan
Of gradual extinguisnment shall not be
adopted, or fail of lis purpose, and a sudden
choking out of life of the monster shall pro
mise great efficiency towards ending the
struggle" the latter "mUa aud lriH come. "
This is said - not hastily hut deliberately,
and it is a good saying.
Year: 1862

THE ARRIVAL AT CHARLEsTows.-We pas
sed the field in which poor John Brown was
executed. the jsi where he was confined and
the courthouse in which his farce of trial
was held, and with the men singing th
'IIallelujah chorus we marched down the
principal street. We saw no friendly faces;
no Union flag save our own waved in the
town. Those who dared scowled, but most
of the inhabitants looked on in silence from
the corners of the streets, or peered out at
US from behind the blinds. One of the in
habitants told me they all expected we would
burn the town, and that if we didn't do that
they didn't care what else we did; and in
deed this town deserves burning, if any does.
Ii is perfect hotbed of secession. 1t has
sent company and many recruits to the Con
federate army, and has done great deal to
wards furnishing them with provisions and
supplies. And when our troops marched
through here last summer half-starved. the
people would give them nothing to eat for
love or money. But burning villages is not
our style of making war, and the people
are fast learning how erroneous was their
opinion Of US.
Year: 1862

The Proclamation by the Mayor Of Nash
vile to the citizens of that city, given IN an
other column, does not Indicate any paTticu-
lar intention On his part to Idle in the last
ditch" The mayor is evidently disposed tc
accommodate himself to the new order Ol
things with as little friction as possible, and
the fact, announced in the same connection,
that forty citizens of Nashville have applied
for clerkshipe in the Post Office there under
the U. s. postal agent, shows similar dis
position on the part of some of the Popula.
ton.
Year: 1862

SELL MY GOODS Fur CASH. DON'T DO
Credit Business Therefore hope every person that
this Advertisement will not ask me for CREDIT-because
am not able 10 do credit business; and have to pay
CASH myself ~


have called ON every person that owes me DOLLAR,
and have been able to collect the first CENT. wish
you would call on some one that is able to credit


j. B. FRANKLIN.


April 19, 1861. SS-
Year: 1862

From FLORENCE CIrY.-We make the follow
ing extracts from letter received by j. S. Pit
zer, Esq The letter is from Bob Stuart, and
is dated Florence City, April 9th;


"The mines here are about what | have writ
ten you before John Olvany and myself have
two claims each, the miners laws allowing per
sou to hold creek, gulch and hill claim at the
same time, provided he represents each by work
ing il once in seven days. We have gulch and
creek claim, each. The gulch may prove to be
very rich the creek claim we only expect to pay
good wages-$l2 to SIS day. Neither are yet
prospected.


The snow here on the first day of this month
had settled to four feet, on level ground This
il did in the last two weeks of March, but now it
is nearly six feet deep, and continually falling.
This was as cold morning as ever experenc
ed in Trinity. Provision trains can only get to
the foot of the mountains, twenty-five miles dis
tant. Two or three hundred mule loads have ar
rived there, but what is that to three or four
thousand hungry men, all just out of grub, which
sells there at from 81 to 81 pound. We are to
have some pretty hard times here yet. Many and
many poor fellow has had nothing but flour
straight" (as they call it) for weeks past. They
can not and do not pretend to work on it. Sour
Wy ia making its appearance in many places, but
it will pass away with the opening season. am
drinking fir tea as preventative got along first
rate until | learned that one kind was poisonous.
Since then have had to try little at time
as don't know the poison kind from the other,
| drink little at time if it don't kill | re.
! nnat the dose y
Year: 1862

al WISH WAS IN DIxIE"-An ambitious party
of Juvenile Phadelphans were recently serc-
nading the daughter Of a wealthy Quaker. They
had sung the popular air " wish vas in Dixie,
for about half an hour, when n window was
raised, and night cap, surrounding an elderly
face, appeared Presently. in measured phrases,
the old gentleman proceeded to say "my liddling
and singing young friends. this is an unfit hour
to sing songs and play upon instruments to the
disturbance OF weary people ie express the
wish ye were in Dixie and must say and my
daughter Esther earnestly wish the same But if
Dixie is distant place, would advise ye to move
on, or ye will not be in Dixie until late hour"
And the window went down with a bang


TIE steamer ST. Louis sailed from San Fran
cisco on the 9th inst with rs passengers, aud
S562,399 in treasure. The Oiizaba arrived the
same day with over 100 passengers.