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Year: 1862

The WAY TO MAKE AN OMELEr.-It is.
surprising that dish SO easily prepared and
so delicious as omelet has come into use to,
so small an extent in this country; there are.
extensive districts where it never has been.
heard of and many housekeepers who met
with it in their travels, never have it upon
their own tables, because their cooks do not
know how to prepare it. Omelet is eggs
simply beaten and fried in butter. Break
three fresh eggs into bowl, add little
pinch of salt and teaspoonful of water, and
beat the eggs thoroughly. Then put a table
spoonful of good butter into fiat fryiugpan,
and hold the pan over the fire with the han
die little elevated so as to incline the
bottom at a small angle. AS soon as the
pan is warm pour in the eggs, and as the
mass begins to cook, run case knife under
it to keep it from burning to the pan. As
soon as the surface is about dry fold one'hslf
the omelet over the other, and it is ready to
serve 1t can be made in five minutes and
is an exceedingly dsiicate morsel.
Year: 1862

To PREPARE Trees FOR PLANrINe.-Will
sharp knife cut off, sloping from the un
der side, any bruised Or broken roots; then
reduce the tops to correspond with the los:
of roots cutting off surplus branches and
reducing those formiug the head to three or
four buds on each of asst years shoots. This
will cause more healthy and vigorous
growth of newly planted trees.


In setting let one person hold the tree in
its position, while another fills in the mellow
earth, pressing it firmly among the roots
with the hand, taking care to leave no cavi,
ties underneath, and when the roots are all
covered, pressing the whole down firmly
with the foot.


Avoid deep planting. When all is finish,
ed the trees should be no deeper than when
in the nursery.


Grapevnes should be cut back to two OF
three eyes, and only one Of these be per.
mitted to grow the first year.


Raspberries and blackberries should be
cut back within one foot of the ground


Goosberries and currans should be cut
back to one or two eyes of last seasons
growth.


The time for planting, in the autumn, is
after the first hard frost until the ground is
closed, or any other time in the spring before
the opening of the buds. Trees procured in
the fall may be kept safely for planting in
spring by burying them half their length in
mellow earth lin a soping positon) where
no water is liable to stand; slight cover.
ing of brush or forest leaves over the top
will be of service in case the winter should
prove severe. Small bushes, like raspberries.
grapes, &c, may be buried entirely in the
earth.


Trees planted in the fall should have earth
billed up around the stems, six inches or
more in height, to hold them firmly in posi-,
ton during the winter, and protect the roots
somewhat from frost anG excess Of wet
This is also protection againt injury by
mice.-In spring the earth should be level
ed, and two or three inches of coarse ma.
nure or litter spread on the surface over the
roots for space of four or five feet in d.
ameter; this will keep the surface moist,
prevent baking, and check the growth Of
weeds.


If planting is done rather late in the
spring, and in dry weather, it is we'll to give
water freely, after setting the trees and COW
ering the roots with earth, letting it settle
before finishing up; then if the surface is
mulched, as recommended, no further wa.
ter is necessary.
Year: 1862

NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTIONS. Some peri
sons having heen served with newspaper
for many months, reading it themselves and
giving it to Others to read, give as an excuse
that they never ordered or Subscribed for it.
Happily in the eyes Of the law, this amounts
to nothing, and where the publisher chooses
to prosecute, which is seldom DONE the de-
linquent is not only made to pay subscription
but also right good sprinkling of costs.
The newspaper law is Congressional one
and pretty old at that, and there is no
use trying to dodge it. Our attention has
been particularly directed to this matter by
the report of decision of the Supreme
Court at Albany, New York, in favor Of
Seahury, against B. o. Wait, for seven years
subscription to his paper-the judgment and
cests amounting to between two and three
hundred dollars. Although a subscriber
orders his paper stopped, the publisher may
continue to send it until all arrearages are
paid, and charge therefor The only legal
way to stop paper is to ask for the bill,
pay it, and then say stop"


Pacific Echo.
Year: 1862

REVOLUTIONARY PENsoNERs.-By the re-
port of the Commissioner of Pensions, it
appears that on the 3oih of June last, there
were only thirty Revolutionary pensioners.
The report for the year previous gave the
number at sixty two-showing that more
than half have died during the year.
Year: 1862

From CHARLEsroN.-Beauregard and the
city commissioners of Charleston have given
notice in the papers that non combatant in.
habitants able to provide for their own re
moval should leave the city, with their slaves.
and movable property, as soon as convent.
ent, and thereby avoid the embarrassments
to which they will be subject if they delay
till necessity arises for the sudden removal
of the entire population.
Year: 1862

The apples are ripe in the orchard,
The work of the reaper is done,
And the golden woodlands redden,
In the blood of the dying sun.
At the cottage door the grandsire
Sits pale in his easy chair,
While the gentle wind in twilight
Plays with his silver hair.
A woman is kneeling beside him,
And fair young head is pressed,
In the firstrwild passion of sorrow,
Against his aged breast.
And far from over the distance


The falteri1g echoes come,
OF the flying blast OF trumpet,
sAnd the rafting call of drum.
And the grandsire speaks in Whisper
"The end no man can see
But we give him to his country,


And we give our prayers to Thee"
The violets star the meadows,


The rose-buds fringe the door,
And over the grassy orchard


The pinkwhte blossoms pour.
But the grandsire's chair is empty,
The cottage is dark and still:
There's a namcless grave in the battle field,
And new one under the hill.
And pallid fearless woman,


BY the cold hearth sits alone,
And the old clock in the corner


Ticks on with steady tone.
Year: 1862

A pickerel was caught the other day with
squirrel in his stomach. Query. Did
the squirrel 60 into the water after the pick
erel, or did the pickerel climb tree after
the SQUIRREL problem for a debating
society.
Year: 1862

should write longer letIer, OU Iee'
troubled and sad to-day, and more like tt M ng
than wri, / remain" DC.
So this is the end ofour friendship
] knew it would come at last.
That is the way the world rolls on;
That is how life is passed.
We say goodbye with a heart-warm grasp
OF the hand we shall see no more
For many year perhaps--perhaps
Clasp again ON the mystic shore
Where flows the fountain of craseless love
Where there is no beginning nor end
Where we dwell forever in the fadeless light
In the land of the Changeless FRIEND.
We part and the days roll onward :
Some whispering hating tongue
Sets a lie atloat-and at last its toll
On the weak friends ear is wrung.
And So down into the heart it sinks
This whispering hateful lie
And the heart grows sad but the work is done
And frien dship has but to die.
There is no need to confess the change
Snch changes are hidden-ncper /;
And SO, divided, these hearts grow cold,
That had vowed to be friends forever.
Year: 1862

He who strives after long and plea
sant term Of life, must seek to attain
continued equanimity, and carefully to
avoid everything which too violently
taxes his feelings. Nothing more quick.
ly consumes the vigor of life than tho
violence of the emotions of the mind.
We know that anxiety and cares can de.
stroy the healthiest body; we know that
fright and fear. yes, excess Of joy, be-
comes deadly. They who are naturally
cool, and Of quiet turn of mind, upon
whom nothing can make too powerful
an impression-who are not wont to be
excited either by great sorrow or great
joy, have the best chance of living long
and happy after their manner. Pre-
serve, therefore, under all circumstan-
ces, a composure of mind which no hap
piness, no misfortune can too much dis.
turb. Love nothing too violently-hate
nothing too passionately-fear nothing
too strongly. For still. eventually, eve
rything which befalls thee, the good as
well as the bad, deserves neither i'm
moderate hatred nor love; for already
on many occasions hast thou perceived
though often truly too late. that thou
hast placed too high value on those
things which passionately charmed or
panied thee.
Year: 1862

New METHOD OF FILLING AN ICE
House A gentleman residing at New
Hartford, Conn, has a pipe, leading
from spring above, passes through his
icc-house. This is pierced by numerous
small holes, and when the weather is
very cold the house is thrown open and
water turned on. The fine spray and
jets freeze as they fall, and in few
days or weeks at furthest, the house is
filled with one solid lump of ice, with
no labor of cutting and hauling.
Year: 1862

The Montgomery AdUsTtiseT in its notes OF
Col MOTgan's visit TO that city, says that after
he had entered the carriage to go TO the boat be
was brought dispatch from the telegraph office,
informing him that passenger who had arrived
at Chattanooga stated that LieUt.-COl Wood
and the men OF his command who we're taken
from him a short time ago at Lebanon, Tenn,
had captured the boat that was conveying them
down the Cumberland river from Nashville, and
made good their escape somewhere near Clarks-
vile. Co onel Morgan was confident it was
true, and felt greatly TeiOiced that his comrades
should have escaped a loathsome Imprisonment" ."


The Atlanta Contsderacy says


We have further information on this point.
Parties well known, have arrived here from the
vicinity of MurtreeSboro, who, before leaving
there, saw gentlemen from Nashville, and from
them learned the facts in the case. 1t was also
the common talk of the country about Murfrees-
bOrO' for two days before these parties left there
The circumstances were these:


They were put on q boat to be sent down to
the Cumberland, 10 be carried thence up the
Ohio to Cincinnati The boat got aground in
Harpeth Shoals The crew first, the passengers
next, and n, ally the guard were ordered out 10
assist in getting the boat ahoat again. While
they were thus engaged, Col Wood gave bis men
the wink. They made bold rush and succeed
ed in capturing the arms which were on the YES
sci, when they compelled a surrender of the crew
and guard. They then had the boat carried down
the river to the point where they wished to get
off, where the boat was brought to, the guard
parOled, and the brave men departed, and are
most probably before now doing good service in
the Confederate army.
Year: 1862

Yesterday ening, about six o'clock, two of


the Federal gunboats approached TO within range


Of our lower batteries. One slOOp took her posi-
ton near the Louisiana shore and commenced
paying her compliments by vigorous lombard
ment on the lower batteries. 4 smaller gunboat
approached on this side and took her position
behind the point nearly opposite her consort
They We're, no doubt, trying to hunt up our bat
terieS, and kept firing away some ten or dozen
shells before they could coax shot from the
batteries. Ouy men at last opened on them and
treated them TO some four or five shots from our
water battery, several of which came unpleas-
antly near the Yankees. The first shot fell short
the second went over and fell some distance back
OF her stern, and is supposed TO have taken effect
in her rigging. Another shot fell very close to
her bow, and it is supposed by some that it took
effect, as the vessel Immediately began to make
tracks down the river at Bull Run speed.


The smaller boat kept up her fire for some time
after, and then withdrew to her companions A
large number of citizens were on the bank OF
the river and on the hills to witness the scene.
No damage was done to our batteries, and no one
was hurt. Some of their shells went clear over
and fell a long distance behind the works, and
some fell short The move was no doubt feint
for the purpose OF drawing the fire from all our
batteries, in order to find out their precise local
ity; but in this they discovered that our men
are wide awake, and when the proper time ar
rives the Yankees will find out 70 whereabouts
and exact capacity OF ali our batteries. The
action lasted about one hour, and the enemy
fred twenty shots altogether, without dong any
damage wbatever.-T T,cksburg CuizeH, May 81
Year: 1862

The Richmond Whig, OF the 22d, thus speaks
of this tremendous humbug:


Mcclellan, who telegraphed to Washington
nearly three weeks ago that he was in hot pursuit
Of the flying rebels, that no time should be
lost" and that he would push them to the
wall - has made no demonstration since the
stunning blow he received at Williamsburg and
the damaging Iepulse he sustained at BaIhams.
vile, by land-and the equally decisive check
giving him by water a. Drurys Bluff. The
people Of the North are beginning to perceive
that his spread-eagle dispatches were all gam
mon He is evidently afraid to advance, except
under ground. Eight thousand Of our troops
drove back his thirty thousand hirelings at
Williamsburg, with loss to them OF over three
thousand, aud he may well tremble at the
thought Of having to face our whole line in bat
tie array. He distrusts his own men as much as
be breads OuTs-else how could he have con-
sented to lie ten months within cannon shot OF
an army not half his numbers without giving
battle He, gene. al, whose spurs are yet to be
won-who is young and ambitious-who is re-
puted TO be able and accomplished-has for ten
months this day stood in this relation to US, and
with this result His course is without a par
alle in military history, and can only be explain
ed by the hypothesis either that he is s coward,
himself, or that he knows those under him to
be such
Year: 1862

Yesterday morning no little excitement was
created by rumOr which rapidly found circu-
lstion, that the enemy had intercepted commune
cation on the Central railroad, about ten miles
north Of the city. The report was credited the
more readily on account of the fact that it yvas
generally known that small parties of Federal
troops had visited the neighborhOOd several days
previously. A considerable sense of relief was
experienced, however, when about 9 o'clock it
was sscertained that the report was without
foundation, and the mail train, which had been
detained till that hour, left for Staunton We
are assured by those who have favorable oppOr-
tunities of obtaining information, that such is
the disposition of our troops along the line OF
this road that no fears felt for its safety. The
train passed through safely and we learn was
heard from in good time at Hanover junction.


In the afternoon, a brisk engagement occurred
about seven miles from Richmond, and about
three miles from what is known as the head OF
Mechanicsville turnpike. The forces engaged on
our side were one regiment of infantry and two
pieces of artillery, against three regiments of the
enemy The fight lasted about one hour, when
the forces of the enemy were Withdrawn. We
heard of no casualties resulting from ths engage
ments, and the above is all that we were able to
learn with reference to it at the Office of the ad-
jutsnt- t-general-RiohBsOHd Dispatch, Maya.
Year: 1862




The infamous IntimatiOn of Gen. Butler, that
| every southern woman who does not smile upon
the invader shall be treated as a street haTlot Is
| a natural emanation Of Yankee wickedness.
These villains have Just driven away the
guardians OF the women of New Orleans. They
now employ their advantage to insult and des-
| troy Their helpless victims. The mothers and
sisters Of New ORLEANS TO be regarded as - wo-
men OF The town " and treated accordingly
Holy Heaven to what has the wickedness Of
our enemies conducted them! Shall southern
women be insulted with the language and treat
ed with the indignity which betal the wretches
10 whom they are thus compared Has civil
cation known such an enoImity Can bar
barism present parallel


Europe manifested some uneasiness of interest
when national usage was threatened with viola
tion in the destruction of a commercial harbOr
Can Christianity or civilization look with COM
posure upon a mode OF warfare unworthy Cos
sacks England was reprosched for the watch
word attributed to Packenhsm. The " booty
and beauty" Of New Orleans was then as now
the infamous object of the brutal invader The
world stamped its condemnation upon the one as
it will upon the other


England was filed with mourning and misery
for the Outrages perpetrated upon the wives and
daughters of her officers and soldiers by the in
fuTisted baTbsrians of India. Have her people
become recOnciled to the adoption of similar in
EQUITIES by nation claiming to be governed by
principles of enlightened Christianity


Let the world note that the " glorious Union -
is to be restored by throwing men into dungeons,
or making them PeIjure themselves by enforced
allegiance The property of a whole people is
confscated to the cost of their subjugation
The hearts aud hopes of a generation are to be
crushed by this Juggemsut, snd women-inno-
cent wOmen-sre to smile obedience upon their
masters upOS penalty of insult and dishOnor


Is there q son, brother, a husband, a father,
& man, who does not know that the rule of New
Orleans may be that Of every city and hamlet in
the South Does any miserable creature, who
has pledged allegiance to the Yankees, hope that
they will respect himself or his family any long
ar than it may suit Yankee deceit to defer Yam
kee oppression Let no man deceive himself
This is to be the late of ALL sooner or later, if
Yankee domination should succeed Grasp,
then, your arms with renewed resolution. Strike
the last blow that fainting nature gives against
the foe. and then one other for the mother that
bore the wife that loves, or the sister that cher
ishes you. They must be protected and avenged.
Esrbuaoad Hin
Year: 1862

JAN DEsTRUCTLoN.--The neighboThoOd Of the
Jail was a very animated spot Poor people were
allowed to carry off tho wood and the fence aud
the out buildings were very quickly demolished
by them The iron work, doors and windows.
and the slate rsof were removed The interior
is to be set On fire and afterwards the walls viii
be taken down
Year: 1862

SALTPETER-This great necessity Of the re-
public cries aloud TO all who can embark in its
preparation to do so without delay. Its prepa-
ration from soil under old houses, and from re,
fuse matter generally, is so simple, and the profit
so immense, that we are surprised to ind in our
community SO little attention paid to the serious
want of the country. We saw, few days ago,
a notice headed How Woman Makes Gun
powder" A lady in the South. seeing call
upon the people to prepare saltpeter, with de-
tail of the plan, got the earth from beneath the
houses on the farm, emptied the ssnes from her
lye hoppers, Teflled them three in number) with
the earth, and poured water into hopper number
one this water, after running through, was
pourned into number two, and then into number
three, the process being repeated until all the
salt was thus washed from the earth; she then
mixed lime with the liquid until it ceased to cur
die, and upon its crystslzing she obtained one
hundred pounds pure saltpeter, at the govern
ment value of fifty cents per pound. The patri-
otic energy of this lady can and should be imi-
tsted by many hundreds in the country Lynch
burg Republican
Year: 1862

Yesterday added no new feature to the condi-
ton of affairs IL and around Richmond The
same uncertainty with regard to the operations
of the enemy that has existed for the past week
still continues, and although we have the most
ample evidence upon which to establish the be-
lief that he is preparing for grand attack upon
which to base prediction when such an attack
will be made


There can be no doubt that considerable
force OF the enemy have reached the Chicks-
homlny, and 1t was reliably stated that they were
yesterday engaged III re building the Long
Bridge over that stream, which had been de-
stroyed IN obedience to an order from Gen. John
StOn.


1t Is Indeed refreshing to witness the cool de-
termination with which citizens and soldiers
await the approach of the foe. There is no
trepidation manifest and on all hands there is the
hrmest resolution to contend for every inch of
ground la defense of the city The policy of
the Confederate and State Governments, and the
feelings of the people, are in harmony, and if
Richmond ever falls-a contingency which we
do not anticipate-it will not be for want Of
hearty and cordial co operation Richmond Dis
patch, May 22
Year: 1862

CoTToE BURNING.-.The cotton lying at Fort
Pickering was burned aE half past one yesterday
morning. Il Is SAID that similar burnings took
place at Brownsville and other points 1 small
lot was also bIrned on our bLulf in The afternoon
Year: 1862

Passing Counterfeit Money.-Several persons
have been taken in custody in Richmond and i'm.
prisoned, to be examined the charge Of passing
bogus money. The law against counterfeiting and
circulating false issues Of Confederate Treasury
notes IL severe enough to prevent any attempt at
imposing the public by that means, if it is only
carried ont to Its full extent and meaning Already
one man Is under sentence of death for this very
offence, and he would have been executed long
since had it not been deemed sdvisablsto await sae
result in prosecutions of similar nature against
other OFFENDERS
Year: 1862

The Hsiis.-Though the City Council has authna-
lied the digging of twenty four wells and two thirds
Of them have been sunk, not one has yet been put
the last meeting of the Council held Monday even
ing, 1t was intimated that new plan had been dis
covered for making these avenues Of health imine-
diately available to the people the pump makers
be used The well at the corner of llth and Main
streets has been used for some days past by mpro.
yised buckets