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Year: 1864

Once Bruce Of Scotland flung him down


In lonely mood to think
'Tis true he was monarch and wore a crown,


Bat his heart was beginning to sink.
For he had been trying to do great deed,


To make his people glad;
He had tried and tried but he couldn't succeed
And his heart was sore and sad.
He flung himself down in sore despair,


AS grieyed as a man could be;
And as hour after hour he pondered there,


81 must give up at last" said he.
Now just at the moment a spider dropped,
With its silken cobweb clue;
And the king, in the midst of his thinking


stopped


10 see what the spider would do.
1t soon began to cling and climb


Straight up with strong endeayor,
But down it came, time after time,


As near TO the ground us ever.
But, nothing discouraged, again Il went
And Travelled a half-yard higher;
Twas a delicate thread it had TO tread
And a road where It's feet would tire.
Again it fell and swang below,


But again it quickly mounted;
Till up and down, now fast, now slow,
Nine brave attempts were counted.
"Sure," cried the king, "the foolish thing
VIII strive no more to climb,
When it tolls so hard to reach and cling,
And tumbles every time"
But steadily upward, inch by inch,
Higher and higher It passed,
Till bold little run, at the very last pinch,
Put it into its web at last.
Bravo brayol" the king cried out,
"All honor to those who try
The spider up there deied despair
lie conquered: why shouldntI"
And Bruce Of Scotland braced his mind,
And, as gossips tell the tale,
He tried once more, as he'd tried before,
And that time he did not fail.
Year: 1864

How My BoYs BREAK CoLTs TO
THE HALTER.-Take three-eights cotton
cord, "a piece of bed cord will do, make
tight loop, just large enough to pass
around the lower jaw, and pass the cord
over the neck, bringing the cord down
through the loop. Then, standing by
the animals side, give him q sudden
check. Then pass on the other side and
do the same thing. This maneuvering
for short time will learn him to turn
without check. Then stand in front,
and with gentl e pull the colt soon
follows. If be does not follow give the
colt few more checks, and in few
minutes the colt follows with a slack rope.


c. G. TAYLOR.


An instructor in managing colts and
horses, who essays to rival Rarey ties
the cord around the neck about twelve
inches from the head, rather close, then
passing the cord through the mouth and
also through the cord around the neck,
and then performs as above.
Year: 1864

as long at least as the English nation has
lasted that we have as yet but scratched
the ground with a hoe, while in Europe it
has been already trenched and manured /;
that our greatest sources of wealth are
untouched and that while we are free
we shall enjoy not only our national in.
crease, but the enormous addition Of
population and wealth which comes to US
from the fact that we drain oyer.popula-
ted Europe of its laboring classes.-N.
7. Ere. Post.
Year: 1864

Are you bald?

 Does your hair fall of :?

 Has your hair become thin l?

 Does it feel harsh, and dry and fever Is it turning gray before its time? Are you troubled with itching, burning sen- sation of the scalp? Are you troubled with Dandruff?

 Are you troubled with what is called Scroll ula or Salt Rheums

 Have you had the Erysipelas and lost your hair Have you had the Measles, and lost it Have you had the Typhoid Fever and lost it?

 Have you had the Brain Fever, and lost it ? Have you lost your hair by any sicknessf Do you wish luxuriant hair Do yo, wish soft and lustrons hair? D, you wish gray hair restored?

 Do you wish your whiskers glossy? Do you wish them restored in colOrf Do you want dressing?

 Do you want it for your children?

 Do you want it for yourself, for father or mother, for brother, sister or friend? Do you want to make a present.

 Do you want perfume for your toilet? Do you want harnaless article? Do you want double distilled article? Do you want cleansing articles

 Do you want the best preparation out for dressing, stimulating, protecting, restoring the color, and rendering soft, silky and lus- trous the Human Hair?

 If so. we warrant
Year: 1864

SALT FOR ANIMALs.-There has been
much discussion rs 10 whether salt is
beneficial for animals, many arguments
being addaccd for and against, but tho
following experiment made by Il German
agriculturst, lately, seems to settle the
question as far as sheep are concerned.
The sheep experimental upon were kept
in low, damp pasture, and ten animals
were selected and their usual allowance
of salt withheld. In the first year FIVE
of this number died Of rot and worm,
while among the remainder of the flock,
numbering over four hundred, only four
sheep we're lost The second year new
lot of ten sheep were deprived Of salt, lost
seven, and after the close of the year, the
other three unsated died the remainder
of the flock lost only five. The third
year was very rainy; sixteen sheep were
deprived of salt. aud the whole of them
died of rot and yermiculaI pneumonia.
Year: 1864

SEEDING Down WITH SPRING GRAIN.
- Grass stands dry summer better
when sown in autumn than in spring.
Still this cannot always be done, and we
must sow grass at this season. If sown
alone on spring plowed land, the soil
should be well mellowed and great
abundance of seed put on. Farmers sell
dom use enough seed. After sowing,
light soil should be rolled, and heavy
ones either bushed or let alone altogether.
If sowm with spring grains, there should
be liberal quantity of seed used. The
varieties must of course depend upon the
land aud the demands of the farm. For
permanent meadow, the greater number
of kinds the better. The grass seed sho'd
be sown after the grain is covered, and be
left upon the surface to be washed in by
the rains. A light dressing of gypsum
and wood ashes is very beneficial after
the grain is well up and covers the ground
omewhat.-1gricultWiSt.
Year: 1864

Whoever intends TO purchase good Family
Sewing Machine, Of any kind, will do well to
call at the News Office. We can furnish them
at all times upon the most advantageous terms


pRoPRIEroRs OF TUE News.
Year: 1864

MANY years since the Chief Of the
Senecas, very powerful nation In
dams, brought to the eminent Dr.. Cha
pin, quantity of medicine, which he
wished the Doctor to take and try IFS
effects on cases Of dyspepsia, which he
did with the most perfect success.
Some time elapsed and the few that
had been benefited by the medicine
became clamorous for more, which the
Doctor was unable to supply. Shortly
after, the chief Red Jacket, made his
appearance, when the Doctor was able
to get from him the names and proper
ions of the Ingredients used in the
bitters which he used in his practice
many years, adding only d few herbs to
make them moro palatable. These
Bitters ore now put up in quart bot
ties and offered to the pablic- the
formula being assigned to the present
proprietors and sold by all druggists
throughout tho country. Call fer the
Red Jacket Stomach Bittsrs aud
take no other.
Year: 1864

An eccentric old gentleman
being waited on with his surgeons
bill, coagitatsd some time over it's
contents, and then desired the
man who called with it to tel. his
master that the medicine he would
crtainly pay for; but as for the visits
he had received he should return
them.
Year: 1864

A fast young man, on his return
from his first visit to the West: was
glowingly describing the beauty Of the
situation and the fertility Of the soil
where he had spent about three
months. How about the water, Gus2'
asked an impuls;ye friend. Il forgot
Year: 1864

to afford a basis for million md q
half additional. Paper aud lampblack
redeemed in paper and lampblack, tho
Tribuae may exclaim. Not so; it is a
uniform currency with which the peo-
pie are even waiting to blessed redeem
able IN greenbacks now worth - for
IS. The President recommends it in
his message. The Secretary Of the
Treasury extols it, and the comptroller
of the Currency says the people want
nothing else. This is true, though
aching to be taxed. they won't return
their incomes properly, for fear of par
ting with it. ..s


Out upon your copperhead Tribun.
1t was just such talk that led to the
reputation of the Continental money
after the revolutionary war. It was
only viping out an already worthless
article, they said Why the loyal vo-
tcrs SO anxious to be taxed, might vote
for the reputation candidate; if the
Tribune satisfies them that they have
to pay back FIVE good dollars for only
two dollars Of value received. Re
tract the assertion that SIS greenback
is liar! 1t makes it's creator the Faith
er of Liais, or we will commend you to
the tender meroies of General Barn
side or General Lewis Wallacc.-Cir-
cinota Enquirer. ... .-...
Year: 1864

band who marched from East Tennesses
to Kings mountain in the old Revolution,
and the time viii come when we nay
again be proud to be called E ast Tennes-
scans.


This appeal, however, to East Tennes-
scans to stand By their eOlOrs, is super
auOus, as they sre unconditional Union
men, and cannot be driven from duty By
the thieves who rob their families, nor By
the jeers Of Irresponsible cOWardly let
ter-writers, who are continually writing
to Northern journals about their ignO-
rance, nor BY that most ssakiaiasst cat Of
aH"-the charge Of ooluaraics. They will
still rally around the flag" with faith
in the peEpetuity Of ths Union As unfal-
tering ss that which animated the Isras-
lites Of old in following the "pillsE Of
cloud by day, and the pillar Of FIRE BY
night"


1t would be improper to conclude this
article without giving proper credit to
Major General Howard, who kas won
golden opinions from all loyal people
everywhere through East Tennessee, and
is everywhere regarded by them as a
friend, not an enemy. And it may be
proper to further remark that there are
many officers who disspprOve Of such
conduct as have narrated, among whom
may mention Gen. Thomas. Yet there
are many who not only permit, but seem
to countensnee and encourage the deVas-
tating process which has been resOrted
to in East Tennessee. may say fur
ther, this public complaint Of the con-
duct of certain portions Of the army,
would not now appear, were it not Tor the
fact that longer silence on the part OF
East Tennesseans, might be construed
by the pusillanimOus soribblers who
write about US, into an acknowledgment
Of the chargesof eOwardice and Ignorance.
Such insinuations and charges made
wholesale by these scrib5leFs is intended
to beget in the minds Of Northern people
and Government officials q sort Of con-
tempt for cur people, in order that no
attention may be paid to or sympathy
shown to them when they complain Of
their losses. No doubt such scribtlers
are paid by some QuaFtermsster to do 50.
At sny rate such attacks are mean and
cowardly, and in bad taste, and no man
having Che least particle Of prineiple
would thus attack 3 people who have
shown such devotion to the cause OF The
Union. To all such, general challenge
from East Tennesseans is rendered, TO 60
into the ranks with them and stay ca Tie
field as long as they do This is all the
East Tennesseans will demand Of any
who believe them towards or ignorant ct
their rights. This communication is al
ready too long, but the enOrmities and
outrages committed on loyal East Ten
nesseans demand public attention; and
little pOpinjay shOulder-sirappad gentry
need not think that because we have sub
mitted thus long that we have no spirit;
aud the day may not be far distant when
they will fad, instead Of women and
children, some manlier forms will be
there to project the loyal families Of the
soldiers Of East Tennessee.
Year: 1864

SOUTHERN WATERING PLACEs.-Among the in
ducements advertised in Southern papers in
favor Of certain watering places is their "re-
msteness from danger" One landlord de-
scribes his place Is one not troubled BY late
Union raid, and that there is nothing about
or around to attract the enemy, unless they are
in search of health, good water, pure and
healing atmosphere aud unsurpassed mountain
scenery" Is not this an admirable place for
General Grant to make his summer headquar-
ters or for the location Of hospitals for sick and
wounded soldiers by the United States Sanitary
Commission 7
Year: 1864

THE PEACE QUEsTIoS-A DIVISION IN THE
EsEMY's CAMP.-According to our correspond.
ent at Niagara Falls, there is, on the question
of peace, broad line of demarcation between
the volunteer rebel peace agents in that quar-
ter and the accredited ambassadors of JEFF.
Davis-such as Mason and Slidell. Those
volunteer rebel peacemakers in Canada
Clay, Holcombe and Company--are looking to
q reconstruction Of the Union, while Mason
and Slidell and all that set are still beating
about the bush for the rescue of their Southern
confederacy through the Intervention Of Eng
land and France. Mason and Slidel represent
the implacable originators and leaders Of the
rebellion, who have nothing to hope for, North
or South, in restoration of the Union, while
Clay, Holcombe and Company represent the
great body of the Southern people, who, 6nan-
cially ruined by and weary Of the war, are
prepared to return to the Union for the sake OF
peace. Hence the manifest wisdom Of propo-
siton from Washington for an armistice and q
convention of oil the States, in which the old
implacable leaders Of the rebellion will be
supplanted in negotiations for peace by dele.
gates fresh from the people Of the Southern
States
Year: 1864

DABoIL's LARGE Foe TRuMpsr-wo mentioned few
months since that the English government had given Mr.
Dabo the pioneer and inventor or fog whistles an order
for a large fog signal apparatus We now informed
that the order required certain notifications before tho
work could be commenced, which having been com.
pleted Mr.. Dabo received order from the English
government by the last steamer authorizing him to
build and furnish the government with larger and more
powerful signal (of the kind than has ever been
made II will consist Of twenty -four inch caloric
engines placed side by side upon platform or bedpate
OF cast ron Upon the same platform will be tan
receivers into which viii be condensed the air for
blowing the trumpet But engine will be made use
OF at q time. the other one being case OF
accident and either can be fired up in about half
hour. The automatic arrangement by which the trum.
pet Ia blown and operated readily be changed from
engine to the other. The trumpet Intended TO
revove half way round and back In about minute and
blow lie blasts IL around. This apparatus
specally intended for Dungepess, where Mr. Daboll
erected smaller signal Of this kind last season. and
Cape Raco must wait while longer Now all this
part Of the English government 10 striking contrast
with the tardness and remissncss OF own govern


ment in the matter Of fully developing this Import
ant signal Of protection 70 life and propory at But
there are good many screws loose which must for
adjustment until tho people speak next November
Year: 1864

THE CopPERHEADs AGAINST UNION PEACE
The coppsrhead World still fights against our
suggestion Of an armistice and convention Of
States, because il knows that this measure, II
adopted, would end the war and save the
Union. The opposition Of the World is one Of
the best possible proofs of the merit Of our
plan. The copperheads desire disunion, and
therefore they bitterly attack our Union pro-
position.
Year: 1864

city is rebel sewer, where all the Trash,
scum and filth Of the Southern papers collect.
Everybody is disguised with it. 1t would have
been suppressed long ago had not Lincoln
made q bargain with the Woods to break up
the democratic party and SECURE bis re-eleo
tion.
Year: 1864

Work AND WAoEs.-The Daily Ne,os had an
article yesterday on work and wages, bat did
not tell us what we want to know. The work
OF the Ncws is evidently to bolster up the
rebel cause and divide thu democratic party at
the North. What are its ,NagesY
Year: 1864

Grant and Lee on the james.


Once more the question Of possibilities is
open in the Virginia campaign. Early and
Sheridan, at one end of the line divide the inte-
rest with GRAFT and Lee at the other. EARLY,
with his present force is probably not able to


fight Sheridan. He has withdrawn as far as
Strasburg, and Sheridan still presses him
closely. VIII he still continue to retire? Will
he relinquish the valley entirely, and so play
out and lose at last the great card Of a rebel
advance to Northern soil that the Richmond
papers and the Northern organs of the confede
racy have So hurrahed over? Hitherto it was
considered in certain quarters as very small
matter that Grant had q great army near to
Richmond because it could be said that Lee
had little army on the Potomac which threat
ened our capital, as ours threatened his, and
even gave such positive evidence of its presence
as to burn Northern city. II now Early re-
treats before Sheridan so as to give up the val
ley entirely, the confederacy will be in posi-
ton that its adherents both in Richmond and


in this city will be less disposed to glory over.
1t will be beleaguered at its capital, and its
"army Of INVASION" to relieve that capi tai,
will have been driven backward, step by step,
into the lines it left two months ago. Rich
mond will be the sole centre Of the situation in
Virginia once more, and the plan to divert
Grant will have failed entirely


Lee will not permit the military fortunes Of
the confederacy to fall into this position if he
can possibly help it. But how can be help it.
Only by the reinforcement Of Early. 1t is even
said that reinforcements have gone to EARLY
already. But to further reinforce EARLY would
SO considerably deplete the army Immediately
under Lee that he will study Grants move
ments very closely before he determines upon
. measure SO dangerous Certainly, If he could
afford to send Early away while the Sixth corps
was still with Grant it would seem as if he
might, upon the departure Of the Sixth corps,
send away another body equal to it. But there
is limit to this. Any given advantage that
Grant may have in numbers becomes proper
tionately greater as the numbers of the two
armies lessen; for seven to six is nothing like
such odds as three to two or two to one; and il
Lee continues to assume that his Notifications
are equal in value to ten or fifteen ousand
men, and to predicate advances down the val
ley on that assumption, he may find it mis-
chievous before he knows it. Grants move
ment Of troops to Deep Bottom will be very
likely to affect the question whether or no Lee
will reinforce Early. If he has already started
twenty thousand he will recall them. If he
has not sent any he will not until the issue Of
this movement is clear. Grants movement
may not have any other result than to show
Lee that be must stay where he is; but by
doing this it will keep Sheridan all right in the
Valley.
Year: 1864

GENERAL SHERMAN ON NEGRO TRooPs-A
REBuKE TO A MASSACHUSETTS, COMMISSIONER
We publish to-day letter from General Sher-
man to one of the commissioners of Massachu-
setts sent into Southern States to recruit
negroes and others in order to enable the State
to fill up her quota Of troops. In this letter
General Sherman administers sharp rebuke
to these State agents, and informs them that
they have his full permission to visit the cities
in possession Of the rebels for recruits, but that
as far as he has seen, there is not an able bodied
man, black or white, in Northwest Georgia who
is not in our army or the one opposed to it.
This, be might have added is not only true of his
section of the country, but is undoubtedly also
true of other parts occupied by Union troops.
1t is therefore, as General Sherman says, a
waste OF time and money, as it is an insult to
soldiers now in the field, to attempt to recruit
from the refuse in localities now occupied by
our troops, and to attempt to place them on
par with our veteran fighting men. The
General is as sound upon the question
of negro troops as he is upon other
points involved in this matter; and his
judgment is entitled to very great weight when

the consideration Of the subject is undertaken.
He claims to be friend of the negro as well
as the white race, but states that he prefers me-
groes for pioneers teamsters, cooks and SER
wants; and he wisely and humanely AYERS
that be would not "draw on the poor race
for too large proportion of its active, athletic
young men; for some must remain to seek new
homes and provide for the old and young, the
feeble and helpless" He further says:-"The
negro is in transition state and not the equal
Of the white man." This opinion is shared, be
says, by a large portion of his fighting men.
Coming from an army of such unconquerable
material headed by such a clear-headed and
sagacious chief, this sentiment deserves more
than passing weight. 1t shows that the aboli-
ton theory of equality Of races has been tested
in the fiery ordeal Of battle, under the eye Of
one Of the best generals Of the day, and that
it has been proved a chimera of the fimsiest
character.
Year: 1864

reflect that sound mind and body the most neces-
sary requisites to promote connubal happiness In
deed without these the journey through life becomes
weary pgrimagei the prospect hourly darkens 70 the
view; the mind becomes Swallowed with despair and


led with the melancholy reflection that the happiness
NJ another becomes blighted with our own, les
Year: 1864

NEW YORK, Now 26.


The Augusta, Georgia, Chronicle prints
the following extract from letter dated
Madison, Ga, Nov. 7th


If Governor Brown tells the truth in his
message, we live under worse tyranny
than was possible in the old Union. If, by
the blessings of Providence, you can once
get on the track and the train started for
peace, all the powers in Richmond or
Washington cannot stop or throw it off.
Show us how to negotiate, point out some
leader, let him be open, frank and fearless,
and the people will foHow as suro as the
sun shines. Let him be a man who can in
spire confidence, and equal to the task of
stopping the madness Of these days,


At the session of the Georgia Legislature,
at Milledgeville, on the 18th, the public
fands were ordered to be removed to place
of safety, and measures were taken for p
speedy adjournment. On the 1sth there was
a general stampede among the members,
and most of them had gone home, or were
wsnderin about and studying how to get
there
Year: 1864

Supplies In Georgia TO be Destroyed


The Enquirer commends the Senate bill
suspending for sixty days the law which
requires the state reserves not to go beyond
their respective States calls on the people
Of Georgia to defeat Sherman by destroy
ing before him what he will be sure to
destroy behind him, and says; Is it not
the duty of the military authorities to take
this matter OF destroying provisions into
their own hands, and not trust to frail
man duty so necessary to the country,
yet so ruinous to himself2 If legislation
is required, we hope the Congress viii
promptly act in this matter. Unless we
deprive Sherman Of supplies he viii march
to the eosst and return again in the spring,
TO continue further his march of ruin and
Observation-Disclosures Wing NoV. q.
Year: 1864

The break on the Erie canal, about SIX
teen miles east of Rochester, will not be
repairedthis season.


The steamer Skiddy on her way to New
York, last evening, ran on to rock about
six miles below this city and sunk. Her
freight and passengers were uninjured.