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Year: 1863

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MAKING A NEEDLE.-Needles are
made of steel wire. The wire is first cut
by shears, from coils, into the length of
the needles to be made After batch
of such bits of wire have been cut off.
they are placed in hot furnace, and then
taken out and rolled backward and for.
ward on table till they are straight
They are now to be ground The needle.
pointer then takes up two dozen or so of
the wires and rolls them between his
thumb and fingers, and their euds on the
grlndstone, first one end and then the
other. Next is a machine which Hattens
and cutters the heads of ten thousand
needles in an hour. Next comes the
punching of the eyes, by bov, so fast
that the eye can hardly keep pace with
him. The splitting follows, which is run
ming fine wire through a dozen, per.
haps, of these twin needles. A woman,
with little anvil before her, files be.
tween the heads and separates them.


They are now complete needles, but
they are rough and rusty and easily bent.
The hardening comes next. They are
heated in patches in furnace, and when
red hot are thrown into a pan of cold
water. Next they must be tempered,
aud this is done by rolling them back.
ward and forward on a hot metal plate.
The polishing still remains to be done -
On very coarse cloth needles are spread
to the number of forty or fifty thousand.
Emory dust is strewed over them oil is
sprlDkled and soft soap is danbed over
them the cloth is rolled hard up, end.
with several Others of the same kind,
thrown into sort of washpot, to roll to
aud fro twelve hours or more. They
come out dirty enough, but, after rims
ing in clean hot water, and tossing in saw.
dust, they become bright, and ready to
0e sorted and put up for sale.
Year: 1863

A marked and decided reaction In sentiment
and feeling for the rebel Confederacy may be
expected Immediately in England among the
very classes who have given direct aid and com
fort to the rebellion. The thinking, moral and
religious people Of Great Britain may not have
.vmpathzed with the insurgents, or If they
did, have corrected their error, but monied and
mercantile Adventures have invested largely
In rebel stocks, in various ways. They have
lent to rebel agents the money to pay for the
rams built by Laird d Thomas. These agents,
desparing Of getting the rams away, have sold
them to the British Government. The English
have thus possessed themselves Of three war
vessels superior to anything else in their navy,
but the individuals who advanced to the rebel
agents the pounds sterling required to pay for
constructing them will have to whistle for
their pay.


Instead of receiving the principal of the sums
advanced and share of the plunder to be Sc
"ured by the piratical craft on the high seas,
they will be compelled to pocket their losses
while the rebel agents walk off coolly with the
proceeds Of the sale of the rams to the English
Government.


Those who arc vctimized will raise tempest
that will blow away from English shores all
res,iges OF sympathy with the rebel cause.
Year: 1863

Would respectfully announce to the citizens of Wy
ping that they have located at Mehoopanv where
.ey will promFtIy attend to all calls in the lire of
Eer profession. May be found at his Drug Stare


len not professionally absent
Year: 1863

Whatever may be the result Of the great
battle now going on between Hooker and Lee,
We must soon have more men. II that ba' tie
is favorable to US, we shall need them to sup
ply the place Of the gallant dead. lit is dis
sstrous. to form another army. This war Is
upon us. We cannot have peace unless we
conquer or be conquered. Let no one sup
pose there is any halfway measure--any com
promise. We can conquer We MUST CON
ouER! Right justice, and the principles Of
free government call Us 10 net, not to despair


Let US follow the example Of the Roman peo-
pie, who, when their last army had been des-
troyed and the victorious Hannibal was
marching on their Capital, weui out and thank
ed the Consul that be did no, despair Of the
Republic Tha, was Romes grandest hour !
Then was shown true patriotism-child Of
light and knowledge, Of faith and courage
that rises higher grows brighter in the night
of deepest gloom. Had Rome then despaired
and failed 70 meet the enemy at her gates,
Carthage with her cruelest system Of slavery
and her haughtiest plan Of government would
have been upon their necks. II now we fail
to follow up our advantage or check that Of
the rebels, woe unto all who shall survive
our al The Conscription" WI soon
take our young men, but why should they
wait for this why not rush to fll the places
Of the fallen brave at once when Rome
was sssailed, they said Let US all go"
So should say every young, vigorous man Of
Vermont. TKAxus
Year: 1863

MEMoRAEDUM,-A patriotic citizen has
taken the name Of every man he met who
seemed to be gratided with the repulse Of
Hooker's brave army. The stain of Toryism
incurred IN the revolutionary war sticks to
this day. So will it be with the reputation
of modern Tories.
Year: 1863

Special dispatch from Washington TO the
Evening Post, dated yesterday, says " hear
upon the highest authority that there Is no
danger Of a collision with England. The OF
fetal correspondence is entirely pacific IN ITS
character
Year: 1863

This section of the State, so extensively
ravsged by the enemy during his occupation
of it, is now comparatively free of lis hated
presence and already we hear of arrange
ments in progress to again place the people
under the protection Of our own arms, and Sc.
cure the vast amount Of supplies that may be
drawn from thatrich producing section. What
these are will be developed to the enemy in
due season, bat we are satisfied that good
progress has been made, toward the accom-
plishment OF these purposes, and that We shall
soon be in communication with our friends,
who had supposed Themselves abandoned. Z
And as it is now generally admitted that the
late rstrograde movement was an unnecessary
ono-that there was in fact no exigoncy dc
manded it should be made--we may, with Ger
tainty, rely upon it that another blunder Of the
same kind will not be committed but that any
Iposition our army my occupy will be held, un
til, atleast, a greater necessity for retreat ex
isis than was the case upon the retreat from
Abbeville.


All accounts agree in announcing the arriv
al of the greater portion of Grants army al
Memphis, and we presume there is no doubt
of the fact. The professed object of this move
is to cooperate on the riAer with McClernand
and this is the view Of our generals, and they
are preparing accordingly. But as we view
ed it the retreat to Memphis was necessity
The gallant cavalry raid under Van Dorm, who
penetrated to and destroyed the enemy's lines
of advance, demonstrated the insecurity of the
positions they occupied, and that supplies
could not be obtained without great risk OF
what is equally probable, being entirely cut
off. The destruction Of the supplies at Holly
Springs was only a temporary advantage, but
I the loss of them, and tho fact that our troops
approached the railroad above and thus de.
monstrated their ability to interfere with
transportation at will, was serious matter
which we believe contributed to induce the
Federal commander to retire Memphis Ap-
peat, 225tH,
Year: 1863

HARD WND.-Old Peter H-lvcd in one
story wooden house of not very extensive dimen-
sions and when it was subjected to. the force Of
one Of those hurricanes so numerous Of late years
at the west, its powers of resistance were INSULT
cient to Withstand great PRESSURE and it yield
ed the point without straightforward was
not upset, nor torn to pieces but merely moved u
few rods. In the course of the journey the stove
was upset and the fire split out, and the danger Of
conhagration was imminent. Old Peter was too
much excited to notice the removal of his house,
and seeing the necessity of Immediately applying
water to the burning embers on the floor, he seized
bucket and darted out behind the house, when
great was his establishment to find all the traces Of
his well obterated. After looking in blank aston
isbment moment, he called to his wife:


"Sarah, I'll be blamed if the. wind has not blown
the well clear ont Of the lot!-There is not So
much as . stone left !"


PRooF OF VALoR.-A good story is told Of a
certain officer who was accused Of showing the
white feather in an engagement with the rebels
The story got whispered around until it came back
to the officer in the columns of a newspaper
SEEKING the paper, in ahigh state Of indignation,
he rusaed into the presence Of his superior officer,
and exclaimed, Z" Now, Captain, didn't wave my
sword, and rave, and curse and swear, and,do you
suppose would have waved my sword, and cursed
and swore if had been afraid"


The Captain had nothing to say against such
conclusive evidence Of valor as this.


Some officers, perhaps little envious of his
rood luck, were abusing brother officer who had
recently been promoted. s'Why, what has B,
done. I" said a mutual acquaintance, joining the
group. g Oh" replied a waggish Lieutenant,
Hhis offence Is raak!"
Year: 1863

the hatred we thon and there bego


for the sea and all things therein


alone saved us from watery grave


before we reached Sanfrancisco.


Byron evidently was land-lubbe,


when he wrote those untrue but beau


tiful lines.


And l have loved the ocean and my joy
OF youthful sports was ON thy breast 10 be,


Borne, like Thy bubbles onward" &c.


But later in his years when he COM
pleted the stanza, he had evidently
been 'half seas over" at least.
And if the freshing sea


Made then a aterror-'twas pleasing feir,
| For i was as IL were IA child Of thee,


And trusting TO thy pillows far and near,


CIT laid my hand upon my stomach-here."


Most proverbs are hyperbolical, not
so that one which aflirms that "after
storm comes a calm" When Tom
aroused us to consciousness by an OK
traordinary effort to capture the dem
Jon of brandy that was floating around
loose, the good ship was quietly lay
ing upon an even keel with Paddy's
Hurricane slapping her great wings
against the masts in dull monotony.-
We first discovered that brandy was
sure cure for qualms of seasicbness as
well as conscience by the evident eff
feet it produced upon Tom. After
glueing his lips to the mouth of the
demijon for the space of five minutes
he was able to stand alone. He hastily
swallowed can of preserved meats,
a dozen soda crackers and morsel of
smoked halibut, after which he waded
to the door and surveyed tho cabin
with the look of a wolf looking through
the fence of a sheep pen. The sight
seemed TO stagger his reason, and with
terror in every line of his face he
turned and exclaimed "No breakfast
yet-no table spread-I declare they
intend to starve us before we are out
of sight of land" He rushed out
upon deck with tho evident intention
of swimming ashore before breakfast,
but in his way he fell in with the cook
who kindly promised him something
to eat very soon, and thereby saved
his miserable life. Cooks are an in
stitution at sea, and Tom afterwards
acknowledged that he was indebted to
this one for many a miserable hour of
a miserable existence.
Year: 1863




Sunny eyes may lose their Brightness
Nimble feet forgot their lightness
Pearly teeth may know decay;
Raven tresses turn Ia gray;


Cheeks be pale and eyes be dim,
Faint the voice and weak the limb;
But though love and strength depart,
Fadeless is loving heart.


Like the little mountain flower;
Peeping forth in weary hour,


When the summers breath is fed,
And the gaudier fiowrets dead;
So when outward charms are gone,
Brighter still doth blossom on,
Despite of Times destroying dart,
The gently, kindly, loving heart.
Wealth and talents will avail
When ON life's rough sea we sail;
Yet the wealth may melt like snow,
And the wit no longer glow;
But more smooth Wen find the sea,
And our course the lairer be,
If our pilot when we start,
BE kind aud loving heart.
Ye in worldly wisdom old
Ye who bow tho knee 10 gold,-
Doth this earth as lovely seem,
As it did in life's young dream,
Ere the world has erusted DER
Feelings good and pure before
Ere yc sold in Mammons mart
The best yeanlngs Of the heart
Grant me, Heaven, my earnest prayer
Whether life Of ease or care
BE the one TO me assigned
That each coming year may find
Loving thoughts and gentle words
Twined within my bosom's chords.
And that age may but impart
Ripper freshness to my heart
Year: 1863

graded or deformed human nature.
One section will stand In menacing and hostile array
against the other. The collision OF opinion will bt
quickly followed by the clash Of will not at
tempt to describe which happily lie concealed
from our view. Abotonlsts themselves would shrink
back in dsmay and horror at the contemplation OF des
oaed fields conhagrated oites, murdered inhabitants
and the overthrow OF the farest fabric Of human gov
enment that rose to animate the hopes OF civilized
man.


! have said, sir, that after MIR. Lincoln had
given us the assurance that he should not inter-
fere with the domestic institutions of any State;
in short, after be had said that he should ad-
here to the platform upon which he had been
nominated, which declared In express terms,
"that the maintenance inviolate Of the rights
of the States, and especially the right Of ca ch
State to order and control its own domestic insti.
tutiOns according TO its oton judgment erclusiue-
ty;" the Democracy rushed almost blindfolded
to his support, and the prosecution Of the war.
We were mistaken, sir. We should have given
more heed to the admonitions OF Washington
and the Fathers, who had again and again as
sured us that an administration brought into
power by sectional party, must necessarily be
destructive of the Union. We were also ad,
monished by the very best men of our own, and
the past age, that war once begun, must ne.
cessarily end In the dissolution Of the Union,
In other words, that the Union could not be
preserved by coercion.


ito be continued
Year: 1863

A gentleman, while passing through a
street Inhabited by poor people, in New
York, hoard an infantile voice from base.
ment crying. Help help !" He rushed
10, and found little five-year-old boy,
holding bed blanket around his little sis
ter, two years younger, who had caught her
clothes on fire and the little hero had sue
ceeded in extinguishing the flames. The
boy, in answer to the question why be
wrapped tho bed blanket around his sisters
burning clothes, said his ma had told him
that was tho best way to put out fire I; and
as to why no haloed "Help help i thai
he was afraid he could not succeed. and
wanted some to help him. Ho was ther
asked why he did not leave his sister, ant
run into the street FOR help, He answered
with tears in bis eyes, and o fixed determi


nation Of countenance, "No, never woulC
have left ber. She was my sister. Hal
she burned up, would aaye burned too"
Year: 1863

Acurous document supposed TO have boon found In ono
Of the deserted camps Of tho Army Of tho Potomac
wherein the poet expreeh his indignation al Secretary
dsantons military banking system.
Year: 1863

CnAMpKRrY.-- There is a bill before the
Legislature amendaiory of the Civil Practice
Act, which provides that all contracts made
between attorney and client to divide the
amount of property or thing recovered in any
action or poceeding, and all contracts be-
tween said person dependent upon the con
tingency of recovery, as to amount OF conn
pensation to be allowed to such attorney for
professional services, shall be absolutely void
and no action shall be maintained thereon


Bee
Year: 1863

BALL At LINcoLN.-The order of Good
Templars, have about completed fine brick
hall, in dimension, sixty by thirty feet, and
intend opening the same with a Ball on
Friday evening, January lst 1864. The Ball
is to be given to aid the expense Of construct.
ing the hall, and it is desired that the young
people will turn out in numbers on the festive
occasion.
Year: 1863

INsANE.-Dane Barber Of Bath, in this
county, laboring under insanity, was convey
ed TO Stocktoa this week by Deputy Sheriff
Kennedy. Barber was former resident OF
the State Of New York.
Year: 1863

INFLATED CURRENcY.--Thec currency ones
ton is one Of absorbing interest with pru-
dent, intelligent men. They know that
Chase's greenbacks add nothing to the
wealth of the country. Speaking of tho
present inflated prices Of everything the New
York World says:


"Ihe truth is. we are in the midst of mad
intoxication induced by an excess of ire:
deemable paper money. Everything will 60
on swimmogly until pay day comes, and
then-heaven he us all! In the meantime
it would be we'll for every one to make hay
while the sun shines. We advise all who
have made money by the imitation to invest
it in real estate and sound dividend paving
stocks. BY doing so, and keeping out Of
debt, something will be saved in spite of the
storm, which is as certain to come as death. )"
Year: 1863

The machinery is preparing and the
thumb-screws being set to force from the
miners Of the Pacific Coast untold millions
by direct taxation upon their claims. The
people Of the East favor it, large party
in Congress are ready to insist upon it, and
the Secretaries OF War and the Interior re'
commend it. And even herein California
and Nevada-we have men so impoltic or
Indifferent as to urge the same thing. Tho
Constitutional Convention of Nevada provid
ed for the taxation Of the mines to raise rev.
enue for the new State, while in our Legis-
lasure, Mr.. Hi,tell, of San Francisco, has
proposed to remove the exemption that has
always heen made in favor Of mining claims.
and make them taxable as other property.


From the foregoing it will be seen the
Pacific mines are threatened with double
direct taxation from the General Government
and from the State. The people Of the Att
Ian!ic States, who have seen the vast treas
ure shipped TO their shores from California,
cannot understand why the fields that con.
tains these precious metals, and upon which
miners have entered upon without restraint,
should not be taxed directly to supply the
wants Of the national treasury. They view the
matter in a partial light. The aggregated value
OF the precious metals produced here seems
to them, and in truth is magnificent gem.
Where so much wealth is obtained, they
think there mnst be valuable property for the
assessors schedule. They don't know or do
not appreciate the fact that the millions that
appear in the shipping lists is the aggrega
tion Of the toll of tens Of thousands Of men,
scattered over vast territory stretching
from the borders Of Mexico TO the British
possessions, and from the Pacific ocean to
the Rocky Mounans-obtained by infinite
toll, exposure and hardship and that among
this large army Of laborers, large majority,
do not more than make the current expen.
ses of their living. They do not know that
mining is the most uncertain lottery in
which money mind and muscle was ever
invested. Until they do know tbis-untl
facts and arguments are piled mountain high
to remove their pre- e-conceived notions, they
will be clamorous for taxation upon this, the
great industrial interest Of the Pacific. But
ifminers are careless, if they are not prompt to
counteract these movements, in little while,
not shovel Of earth, or a pound of rock
can be raised in the mine without the auth.
ority of mining license. The freedom of
the mines will be at An end-and the fields
heretofore so inviting to the energy and la
Dor Of the poor men Of the country. will be
under the lock and KEY Of the ine1orable
taxlgatherer.


As to the taxation of the mines on the
part Of the State, the remedy can be directly
applied to the Legislature by petitions, re-
monstrances and Instructions on the part of
constituents.


This question is destined soon to grow in
Importance, in both State and nation, and it
is none too early to Drepare for its discussion
Year: 1863

GOVERNMENT PLUNDERERs.-The sup.
porters Of the Administration have been
correctly named Government Plunderers.
While the people are suffering and ex-
travagantly taxed "to prosecute the
war vigorously" Abolition loafers and
scoundrels are coming money out of the
calamities Of the country, and are encOur-
aged in their villainy by the powers that
be. The way they are fleeing the Gov
ernment is illustrated in the fact that q
ship carrying 5000 sacks Of corn was
chartered to sail from New York to New
Orleans for $l2O per day, and was only
one hundred and twenty two days on the
trip, making the corn cost for freight
alone two dollars and fifty cents bushell
In another case the vessel was out SO
long, at so extravaganza q charter, that
the corn cost $5 per bushel for freight |!
The owners Of the vessels are loyalists
and savage denouncers Of peace Demo-
Gratis They want the war continued to
put down this wicked rebellion. Such
wretches are employed by the Admins
tratiOn to manufacture public opinion
and advocate its war policy.
Year: 1863

BLESSED ARE THE PEAcEXAKERs. This
divine precept is peculiarly applicable to
the nation at the present time, when the
tragic events Of calamitous war, among
kinsmen, have marked the land with inef.
faceable ruin. Two years Of carnage and
destruction have resulted in devastation
from which this country will not recover
in generation, while it has encountered
US with debt which almost bids defiance
to calculation, and Of the ultimate liqui-
.dation Of which no man can tell. Before
this fratricidal contest commenced we
were great and prosperous nation work
ing together for our common good, and
the nations of the world envied US our
free institutions, our boundlcSs resources,
our wealth and exemption from taxation.
We excited, in . word, the admiration
and jealousy Of the rest Of civilized man.
kind. But behold US to-day with the
sinew and muscle, the health and strength
of our country diverted from the ordinary
channels Of progressive labor and fight
ing suicidal battles on desolated fields,
with a vast army of buried slain, and our
citizens burdened with a taxation which
can vie with European Budgets, and the
future giving promise Of being still black
er than the past. Is it not the duty OF
every sincere lover Of his county and
fellow men at such q time Of revolution
and ruin to use his influence to stay the
tide Of destruction which is sweeping
over the land ? Blessed are the Peace.
makers" and in peace lies the country's
only means tor escape from unlimited
bIoodshed, anarchy. and the worst evils
of fanaticiSm, ending in the complete and
final overthrow Of our priceless but much
abused inheritance-Liberty.
Year: 1863

A MINISTER who presented new shell
Of his invention to the War Department,
said that he had long preached.hell in the
abstract but thought he had got it there
in q concentrated form.
Year: 1863

GLORIOUS LlBERTY.-Handcuffs for free
men, chaingangs Of white men, bastiles
for Democrats and negro equality-these
are some of the feeble terms that family
shadow forth the inexpressible degrada-
tion and slavery to which the American
people have fallen in their efforts to carry
out the views Of the Abolition traitors ol
the North. A Russian serf may as justly
boast of his freedom as subject of the
second rate lawyer Of Illinois.