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Year: 1864

Coon JoKE.-A citizen of Jamaica Plains, L.
l., went to answer ring at the door at the re-
quest of his wife, where he found nothing but a
basket On removing the cover a beautiful lit
tie child appeared, some five months old. The
lady screamed q lady visitor took up the baby
and found Il note pinned to its dress which
charged the gentleman with being its father, and
implorng him to support it. A rich scene en-
sued between the injured wife and indignant
husband-the latter denying all knowledge OF the
little one, and asserting his innocence. The
friend interferred, and at last the wife was in
duced to forgive her husband, though he stuck
to it like Trojan that ne had always been a
faithful husband. Finally the lady very roguish-
ly told her husband it was strange he did not
know his own child, for it was their own mutual
offspring, which had just been taken from the
cradle for the purpose of playing the joke.
Year: 1864

CHAPPED HANDs.-The following is said to be
a sure receipt for the cure of chapped hands
Dissolve three cents worth of clarified bees-wax
in three cents worth Of pure sweet oil, by heat
ing moderate fire. Apply at night before
retiring. If desirable it can be scented
Year: 1864

THE Quincy Union (Plumas county, of the
Both ut. contains the following sad intelligence


On Sunday last a party of ladies and gentle
men visited one of the tunnels at Sawpt Flat,
and as usual in such cases got into the car for
the purpose of riding out upon the incline which
runs into the tunnel. The car started but soon
got under such Roadway that it was impossible
to check it, and the down the incline at
lightning speed, and struck one of the blocks
fused for the purpose of stopping the car when
loaded with dirt and was thrown from the
track. One of the ladies' Miss Mary Wheeler,
about seventeen years of age, was thrown dis
tance of thirty-eight feet, and striking upon her
head, was instantly killed. Another, Miss Ray,
was thrown out of the car, but her " crinoline y
caught upon the track and saved her from fall
ing the same distance, and in all probability
saved her life.
Year: 1864

CtTATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF TRINITY.
Dit appearing to me by affidavit that the
plaintiff in the above entitled action has good
cause of action, and that the said defendant has
departed from the State, it is hereby ordered that
service of summons in said action be made upon
defendant by publishing the same in the Trinity
National once week successfully for at least
three months p H. PAYNTER,


Justice of the Peace of said Township.


Waavprville Nov 1863
Year: 1864

trust, and counsel 10 her absent son;
and she opened them, one by one, she
saw how some tender passages, breath
ing her full hearts love. or telling oEthe
dear old home that stood with open
doors to receive him, were blOtted with
tears which the brave heart could not
hold back.


Her picture, with its worn case, into
which his eyes had gazed SO many
times; and as she opened it little slip
of paper tluttered out, with the words in
bis own hand, Sweet mother, what n
blessing God has given me in you'll
She had been blessing to him, she had
taught him the way Of eternal life
God be ptoised Tor that. But it was u
broken hearted mother the kind neigh
bors raised from the place, where, over
come with grief she has pillowOd her
head among the treasures Of her SON


only for liglo while, poor mother;
my heart aches for you as write, and
for the thousands Of hearts made desc.
late, for whom can only pray as pray
for my own loved ones in this hour Of
danger.


0nly for a little while; the pearly
gates are not closed. They were LEFT
ajar as that dearly one entered in, un.
seen and waiting iOryOu.


This incident is strictly true Home
Mngasine,
Year: 1864

The Louisville Union Press thus
wrecks q common Coppcrhoad false
hood


Another fallacy. propagated with
the utmost diligence by the copper
heads is, that the emancipation policy
has united the South, has barred the
way to compromise, ombittered the
struggle, extinguished Union senti-
ment in the rebel States, and indeffi-
nitely prolonged the war. Perpetual
assertion of this is easy, and no doubt
many an honest man supposes there is
something in it. Yet, it is without
the shadow of a foundation. Union
sentiment in the South was eXtinguisE-
ed by rebel bullets and bloodhounds
long before emancipation was talked
of. Whatever of that sentiment sur
vived in that to be deviled region the
first six months of the war, still lives
and bides its time The South has
been n unit to all intents and purposes,
from the first. The masses a unit in
submission, the leaders unit in
boundless schemes of ambition and
empire. The rebel Congress, at the
outset of the war, declared, with the
utmost insolence, that if blank piece
of paper were offered them on which
to write their own terms Of reunion
with the North, 1T would be no in
ducement for them to return. They
have never sweryed from that declar'
alton since. And as for bitterness
like other human qualities it is finite
and the utmost limits of hatred tC
which the human heart can attain
were already reached before secession
itself was or could be consummatcd
Any one who will refer to the rebeI
newspapers of that period will see that
that quality has not augmented since
nor can it augment. And as for com
promise, there has been no possibility
of any thing of the sort since the wal
commenced. We do not acknowledge
the sincerity of any intelligent mar
who claims that there has. If we car
rout, destroy or disperse the rebc
armies, we can restore the Union, anC
restore it on the basis of freedom anC
Justice to all men, as easily as on any
other. And if We cannot conquer those
armies, there will be Southern Con
federacy, though Coppcrheads anc
compromises should become like thu
sands of the sea in number.
Year: 1864

Cut the cucumbers from the vines
without bruising the stems lay them
carefully in a basket; take them to
the cellar; sort and pick them in bar
reIs, putting different sizes in seperate
barrels, spread a layer Of salt between
each layer of ofcucumbers there should
be sufficient salt to entirely cover the
pickles between the layers. Continue
10 pack the cucumbers daily as they
are picked, never using any but fine
cucumbers, dscarding all that are
crooked or Of slow growth. Keep
boards over the pickles, and weight
to press them under the brine, which
will be formed without the addition
of water, with JUICE extracted from the
fruit by the salt. Pickles packed in
this manner may be preserved for
years, If there are no impurities in the
salt; but if the salt is mixed with lime,
they will soon soften and spoil. In
two months after the barrel is filled,
take them from the brine, freshen and
green. To green cucumbers, prepare
alum water; put the pickles in vat
or boiler, lined with timed copper /;
heat the alum water, and pour it over
the pickles. This is the process which


is usually employed by pickle makers,
except that they throw steam into the
watts TO heat the um-water, and if
managed properly the pickles may be
greened with less action of copper
than when scalded in the usual meth
Cd in bright brass kettles. Take the
pickles from the vat when a little
green, and pour over them water boil
ing hot. If not greened sufficiently,
repeat the hot water until they are the
desired color, and when cold, put them
in good vinegar, let them remain un-
til quite soured; the change to pret-
ty strong vinegar. which will keep tho
pickles hard and sour; add to barrel
six large peppers, without bruising,
and keep the pickles uhder the vine.
gar with weights.
Year: 1864

How TO SUSTAIN Your LOCAL Pa
pER-Subscribe and pay for it.


Send your printing and advertising
TO the office.


Help make the paper interesting by
sending items of local interest to the
editor.


Lay aside your fears that tho editor
will grow rich.


Fight the common enemy instead OF
abusing the Union editor.
Year: 1864

IHISK OF THIs.-"l'll take your paper il
you'll let me have it for dollar and a-half
year, just as you used to" says old 400 acres
and money at interest. We suppose SO; and
we viii! take what butter you have to sell if
you will let US have it at shilling pound.
just as you used to. and your surplus pota-
toes if you will let US have them at two shil-
lings bushel. just as you used to. Friend.
two years ago We could buy more and bet.
ter paper for 50 than we can now for 1oO.-
years ago you sold potatoes from tive to
three shilIings now they arc worth dollar,
and you expect to sell some for dollar and a
quarter before long. In fact everything you
have to sell has doubled in price within the
last two years. Our paper was furnished
too low then, and at $500 now, it is not
what it should be in proportion to the price
of everything else.-Er. hange. . .'e5fS
Year: 1864

Would respectfully announce to the citizens of Wy
ming that they have located at Tunkhannock wher
hey will promptly attend to all calls in the line of
neir profession. May be found at his Drug Storo
Vhaa not professionally absent.
Year: 1864

There win be offered for sale at bile auction on
THURSDAY, June 2, ut II o'clock, at the
Tinted States Navy Yard, Washinston: about sew


II can be examined At any time previous TO the
day Of sale npon to the t OF
scale have shown 80 per cent. of metallic copper.


Twenty per cent of the purchase money must be
deposited st the time of the sale, and twelve days
will be allowed TO remove il fro n tha yard; and If
% removed the deposit will be forfeited to the


All paYments to be made In Government funds,
and bt fore the scale is removed from the Navy
yard my4-eO2w
Year: 1864

The Richmond Dispatch of June contains
an article relative 10 Gen. Grants tactics which,
while evidently intended to rdicue and defame
that officer, betrays clearly the fears of the wri-
ter as to what may befall him ut the hands OF
our leader. The following paragraph is so alb
surd and mendacous that we give it as a sam
pie of the rest


"The Confederacy has great cause to con-
gratulate itself upon the choice Lincoln has
made of Lieutenant General. They desire
TO see this war brought TO an end, and Grant
between Richmond and Spottsylvania been 100
miles greater we are disposed to think he would
have reached the end Of his journey with moi
more than 100 men,"


The same paper elsewhere speaks in the fol-
lowing manner as to what may happen in the
vicinity of Richmond


"The storm of battle which ragged so furious.
ly last week in the immediate vicinity Of Rich
mond has been succeeded by comparative
calm, and matters are now almost as quiet as
when the contending armies were seventy miles
away. Grant has evidently become tired Of
'butting against the rebel Notifications, and
what he failed to effect by brute force he now
essays to accomplish by strategy. Consequently
we find him stealthily moving away from oul
'front.', and sliding down the south side OF the
Chickahominy, endeayoring, il possible, to
reach the James, with view of cooperating
with Butler, who is still pent up between thai
river and the Appomattox. The uncommon
stiffness that pervaded along the lines yester-
day has given rise 10 the belief that the Yam
KEGS were engaged in burying their dead--s
privilege which they asked of Gen. Lee under
flag oftruce.


Notwithstanding the generally received
opinion TO the contrary, it may be that Grant
VIII again offer battle on the memorable scert
OF Cool Arbor He measured strength with
the Confederates there last week, and failed, i
is true but as it amounted to only check
with heavy loss of his numbers, he had thu
Year: 1864

SuIcIDE.-It has long been our rule not 10
publish cases of suicide, having once observed
tha, ONE published case in this vicinity was
speedily followed by two or three more cases.
We relax the rule in behalf of JOHN C.. FIRE.
MONT, as his is the most extraordinary case on
record and will in all future time be a warning
To- men who shall be tempted TO sacrifice patri-
otism to personal ambition and spite.


Orr readers have already had Fremonts let
ter Of acceptance, and we refer them to it for
the details of the lamentable affair." When
John Z. Fremont resigned -lIis commission a,
Major General in the army of the United Sta
ter for the purpose of accepting nomination
for the Presidency, on the express condition
that he is TO run against Abraham Lincoln and
nobody else, he turned his sword from the re-
bells to use it against the commander.in- chic
OF the loyal army of the country. What if every
other officer and soldier in the army should
initiate that example The rebels could in nc
other way win so cheap end so complete tri
umph; ard BY that token we count Fremont a,
felo de Sc.


American people can tolerate personal am.
bitiun when it seeks its ends by patriotic prin.
ciples and brave and glorious deeds they ad
mire the self-sacrificing hero or statesman, and
never tail to give him just reward but the
public man, in cabinet or camp, who refuses
in time of war to serve his country in any po.
sition, however exalted or humble, and seeks
to distract 1t by factions engender ed in disap
pointed personal ambition or personal spite
will also find just reward in the contempt o.
all loyal men. Fremont is evidently playing
for the nomination at Chicago and We should
rejoice to see the copperheads put them selves
under his lead. But they are too shrewd fol
that. They wont run dead man, if they car
find live one.-IPaltons Journal.
Year: 1864

THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW REPEALED. The
House of Representatives, Monday, passed the
bill repeating the fugitive slave law by a vote of
eighty two to fifty-eight. The bill had already
passed the Senate, and now only awaits the sig
nature of the president tc become effectua.
Viewed in all its aspects the fugitive slave law
was probably the worst law ever enacted by the
American Congress. There is no light in which
il can be made TO appear justifable. 1t was an
act of unmingled baseness and cruelty. 1t as
sailed the conscience and insulted the pride of
halt the people in the country, who protested,
but were compelled to submit to the humia-
tion. This was one. of many causes which
quickened the public sentiment of the free sta
ties to sense of the atrocity of slavery and aid
ed in concentrating and organizing it into a
formidable, and ultimately triumphant political
form. The repeal of the law marks an impor-
tant step in the progress of legislation upon
the subject of slavery. 1t anticipates but a lit
tie the passage of that crowning act of justice
and national union by which slavery will be
made impossible under the federal constitution.
Spy.
Year: 1864

duties, appear most conspicuous. How should
you like to see tall, lank, .straight-hared
Carolinian wearing cockney hat, the brim
pinned up on one side, and oranamented with
a rude effort to initiate in needlework the pal
metto or South Carolina cabbage tree, march
ing along under guard of three blacks, who oc-
casionally accelerate his reluctant pace with
such incentives as, March along dar, massa
no struggling to de rear close up dar, sar p
1t is one of the most amusing spectoces which
we have the pleasure of witnessing in the ar
my and the situation is singularly suggestive Of
the propriely and fitness of things"
Year: 1864

Take a robins leg,
Mind, the drumstick merely;
Put it in q tub,


Filled with water nearly.
Set it out of doors,
In place that's shady;
Let it stand a week,
CIhree days for lady.)
Put spoonful in


To a five quart kettle;
1t should be of tin,


Or perhaps bell metal.
Fill the kettle up,


Put 1t on boiling;
Skim the liquor well,
To prevent its oiling.
Let the liquor boil


Half an hour or longer;
(lf It's for man


You may make it stronger.)
Should you now desire


That the soup be flAvory,
Stir it once around


With stalk of savory.
When the soup is done,


Set it by to jell il:
Then three times day


Let the patient smell it.
If he chance to die,


Say twas nature did il;
But should he get well,


Give the soup the credit. PUNCH.
Year: 1864

One fact has come to be pretty universally
recognized, viz, that fortunes are not made
in trade without some forms of advertising


There are more fortunes established in a ju-
diciOus system of advertising than in any
thing else, and knowing exactly how to ad-
vertise, is knowing exactly how to get trade.
The public have become accustomed to having
the claims of all trading establishments pre-
sented to them in some form of advertise
ment Each man has his own way of ex-
pressing himself, and each trade has its own
special wants. There is the fact, of course,
that the absolute necessaries of life must be
bought somewhere, and in the long run peo-
pie will buy where they can buy the cheap
est; but many q shop could, by good adver-
tising, obtain a business in six months which
it would otherwise be obliged to wait years
for. Everything should be advertised-every
new invention, every luxury, every discov-
cry; and it is here that the greatest degree
of talent is requisite and manifest If
man fail in the advertising department of his
business, he will fail in all departments.
Year: 1864

Many who think themselves the
pillars Of the church are only its
sleepers.


There are two things which you
should not bOrrOW--trouble and a news
paper.


The door between us and Heaven
can not be opened if that between us
and our fellow-men is shut.


A keeper of a saloon advertising
his establishment, concludes thus
" Those of my patrons who may desire
it, can be sent home in 4 Wheelbarrow
gratis
Year: 1864

Q the weary solemn silence
OF house without the children,
o the strange, oppressive stiffness


Where the children come no moral
All the longing Of the sleepless
For the soft arms of the children,
All! the longing for the faces


Peeping through the opening door


Faces gone foreyermore!
Strange it is to wake at midnight
And not hear the children breathing,
Nothing but the old clock ticking,


Ticking, ticking by the door.
Strange to see the little dresses
Hanging up there all the morning:
And the gaiters-ah their patter,


We will hear it neycrmore
On our mirth-forsaken floor
What is home without the children
'Tis the earth without its verdure,
And the sky without the sunshine;


Life is withered to the core
So Wen leave this dreary desert,
And we'll follow the Good Shepherd
To the greener pastures vernal,


Where the lambs have 'gone before
With the Shepherd eyermore
o the weary, solemn silence
OF a house without the children,
o the strange, oppressive stiffness


Where the children come no more
All ! the longing of the sleepless
For the soft arms of the children;
All ! the longing of the faces


Peeping through the opening door
Faces gone foreyermore
Year: 1864

ANECDoTE.-When | used to tend
store at Regulator, in Syracuse, the old
man comes round one day, and says he


Boys, the one that sells most between
now and christmas gets a vest pattern as
present.


Maybe we didn't work for that pat
tern l tell you there were some tall
stories told in praise of goods just about
that time but the tallest talker, and the
one that had more cheek than any of US
was certain Jonah Squires, who room
ed with me. lie could talk dollar out
of mans pocket when the man only in
tended to spend sixpence and the wo-
men God bless you u!-they just hand
ed over their pocket-books to him, and
let him lay out what he liked for them


One night Jonah woke up with-'By
Josh, old fellow, if you think that ere's
got any cotton in it, I'll bring down the
sheep that it was cut from and make him
swear to his own wool 'Twon't wear
out either-wore pair of pants of that
kind Of stuff myself for five years, and
they are as good now as when | first put
them on. Take it at 80 cents, and |
will say you don't owe me anything
Eh, too dear? Well, call it 28 cents
What do you say ? Shall | tear it /? All
right-it's bargain


could feel Jonah's hand playing
about the bed clothes for an instant, then
rip, tear, went something or another, and
l bid my bead under the blankets, per-
teetly convulsed with laughter, thinking
that Jonah had torn the sheet from top to
bottom. When woke up on the next
morning | fouud-alas unkindest tear
OF all-rihat the back Of my night shirt
was ripped from tail to collar





Do not attempt to keep your spirits up
Year: 1864

A STUFFED BEEF5rEAK.-Prepare a
dressing Of bread scaljed soft and mix
ed with plenty Of butter. Add a little
nepper and salt. Lay it upon one side
of a round steak, cover with the other,
and haste it down with needle and
thread. Salt and pepper the outside Of
the steak, and place in a dripping pan
with half an inch Of water When bak>
an brovn on one side, turn and bake the
other.
Year: 1864

BATTLE OF WATERLoO.--Tbe night


before the battle Of Waterloo 1t rained.
"The ground was saturated the rain


had collected in holows of the plain as in


tubs at certain points the ammunition


wagons had sunk in up to the axletrees
and the girths Of the horses ifthe wheat
and the barley laid low by this mass of
moving vehicles had not filled the ruts
and made a litter under the wheels, any
movement, especially in the valleys,
would have been impossible" "


Napoleon, accustomed to hold all his
artillery in hand like pistol, waited un-
til the field batteries could gallop freely
Alas The sun did not come out, and it
was noon when the first gun was fired
Had b e battle commenced two hours
sooner, says Victor Hugo, il would have
been over by four o'clock. Blucher
would have fallen into the hands Of the
victor, and the map of Europe, and the
Of the nineteenth century,
would have assumed a new form. The
difference between a throne and a pris-
on may be the result of a rain, a
yet no human science can avert or an
ticipate it. He who said that Provid-
ence was on the side of the best served
proved by his own sad history
the falsity of the statement, He who
walketh upon the winds taught him how
vain it was to struggle with his cold or
rain. Providence is on the side of jus
lice and truth, and sooner or later will
demonstrate this.
Year: 1864

Whoever yields to temptation, debases
himself with dcbasemcnt from which he
can never arise. This, indeed, is the
calamity Of calamities, the bitterest dreg
in the ctp of bitterness. Every un-
righteous act tells with thousand fold
more force upon the actor than upon the
sufferer. The false man is more false to
himself than to any one else. He may
despoil others, but he'will be the princi-
pie loser. The worlds scorn he might
sometimes forget, hut the knowledge of
his own perlidy is undying. The fire of
guilty passions my torment whatever lies
within the circle Of its radiations but
fire is always hottest at the centre in the
profit igata's own heart. A man may be
wrongod and live but the unresisted,
unchecked Impulse to do wrong, is the
first and second death. The moment any
one Of the glorious faculties With which
God has endowed us, is abused or misa
used, that faculty loses forever portion
of its delicacy and energy Every in
jury which we infict upon our mortal
nature, in this life, must dull forever, our
keen capacities of enjoyment though in
the midst Of infinite bliss f; and weaken
our powers of ascension, where virtuous
spirits are ever ascending. 1t must send
us forward into the next stage of exis-
tence manned and crippled, so that how
ever high We may soar, our flight will
always be less lofty than it would other
wise have been; and however exquisite
our enjoyment and bliss it will be always
less cxqusitely blissful than it was capa-
bic of being. s..hr


Every instance Of violated conscience,
like every broken string in harp, will
limit the compass of its music, and mar
its harmonies forever Tremble, then,
and forbear Oh, man, when thou wouldst
forget the dignity Of thy nature, and the
immortal glorics of thy destiny for il
thou dost cast down thy eyes to look with
complaceucy upon the tcmpter, or bend
thine ear to listen to his scductions,
thou dost doom thyself to move forever
through inferior stages of existence thou
dost wound and dim the very organ with
which alone thou canst behold the splen-
doris of eternity. " 70 .I ,NH.. .