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Year: 1862

For several years we have made a ten gal.
Ion key of currant wine, which is Of rs good
q quality rs any VIC have tasted. and is gen.
orally 50 pronunced by those who have had
on opportunity to judge. The mode Of man
ufacture Is simple, and can be easily followed
by any family having the curnnts and the
disposition to make the wine. For general
information as we'll as in reply to private in
quires, VIC give tho receipt after which We
make 1t, and cordially recommend IL.


Tho currants should be fully ripe when
picked; put them into large tub, in which
they may remain day or two then crush
them with the hands, unless you have small
patent wine-press, in which they should not
Be pressed too much, or tho stems will be
bruised and impart disagreeable taste 10 the
juice. II the hands are used, put the crushed
fruit, alter the juice has been poured of, In
cloth or sack, and press out the remaining
juice. Put the juice back In the tub after
cleansing 1t, where 1t should remain about
thrco days. until the first stages OF fermenta.
ton are over, and removing once or twice o
day the scum copiously arising to the top
Then put tho juice into q vessel-a demijohn,
keg or barrel-of size to suit tho quantity
to be made, and


To each quart Of juice add


Three quarts OF the best sugar,


And water enough 10 make gallon.


Thus ten quarts Of juice and thirty pounds
of sugar will give you ten gallons Of wine,
and so on in that proportion. Those who do
not like very sweet wine can reduce the guam
tity Of sugar 70 2 l.2 or 2 lbs. per gollon.


The cask must be full, and the bung or
stopper left out until fermentation ceases,
which will be in twelve or fifteen days
Meanwhile the cask must be filed up daily
with water, or what is better. currant juice
left over, as fermentation throws out the i'm.
pure matter. When fermentation ceases,
rack the wine or carefully, either from the
spiggot or by syphon, and keep running all
the time. Cleanse the cask thoroughly with
boiling water, then return tho wine, bung
up tightly, and let stand for four or five
months, when it will bo ft to drink, and can
be bottled IL desired.


All the vessels. casks, &C., should be per-
fectly sweet, and the whole operation should
be done with un eye to cleanliness. In such
event, every drop Of brandy or other spritu.
Gus liquors added will detract from the flavor
of the wine. and will not in the least degree
increase its keeping qualities. Currant wine
made in this way will keep for an age. unless
It is-drdnk.-G1maniolc Telegraph.
Year: 1862

Among the late decisions of the State Super
intcndent we note the following:


1t is not lawful for parents to send their chill
dren to school when a contagious disease is in
the family. IF there is no rule by the Board
on the subject, then the Teacher should exclude
such children as a measure of just and neces-
sa1y precaution, andreport the case to the Board.


That if a asrbscription school is kept in a COM
mon school house after the close of the regular
term, it is to be regarded and conducted as a
common school in all respect, except that the
teacher is to be paid by the parents of the pu-
pills who attend, and not by the Directors. The
teacher must hold valid certificate from the
County Superintendent, and the school must be
open to the visitation of the Board of Direc-
tors and the Co. Superintendent


That no rent is to be charged for the school;
and that all the pupils who attended the school
during the preceding term, are to have the priv
ilege of attending, if they pay, in preference to
others from other schools.


That if the teacher who had the school dur
ing the preceding term is competent and gave
satisfaction, he should have the house for pay
school in preference to all others; he being best
acquainted with the pupils, and best qualified tc
Year: 1862

take them right on in their studies without loss
of time That if the teacher did not give sat
isfaction, the Board is to their discretion in
choosing another appointing none without a
proper certificate.


The teacher is bound to take his monthly re-
port to the Secretary, and until that report is
filed with the Board of Directors the teacher
cannot receive anyPay


The teacher in charge of school, whether
day or night school, has the same right to expcl
intruders and disturbers Of its peace after warn
ing and requesting them 10 leave, that the own,
er of a dwelling house has to put cut similar in
tru(lers
Year: 1862

WHO DID iT.--Who plundered the Treasury
Who furnished rotten provisions and defective
fire arms to the Government Who swindled
it in horse contracts? Who raised the clamor
at the removal Of Fremont? What class OF
men are now importuning and annoying the
Administration about emancipation? Whomade
an assault upon General Mcclellan in the House
of Representatives Who are thus endeavor-
ing to undermine public servants and our mil
itary chiefs Not the Democratic party, but
the party of mobs The party that brought a.
bout a dissolution of the Union and the present
civil war, and the party that will yet ruin the
country if the government is not taken from
their hands.
Year: 1862

The space occupied by ten lines of this size of
type counts one square. All fractions of square
under five lines will be measured a half square
and all over FIVE lines full square. All legal
advertisements will be charged to the person hand
ing them.in.
Year: 1862

THE FAcrs.-The Trinity Journal furnishes
the following sensible facts concerning the orr
gin of the rebellion:


We have ever claimed and wrote that it was
the reckless, selfish ambition of the political
leaders in the South that made this rebellion,
not the people; they, that is large majority,
were loyal at heart. but were forced and hurried
into this fratricldal war by appeals, suasion and
threats by men to whom for years they had
trusted their political affairs, and who, to graf
ify their lust for rule and power, betrayed their
trusting countrymen, and attempted to destroy
the only really great, free Government on
earth. Our statement was true whenever our
army has appeared on the advance into the
Southern States it has been welcomed with
open arms by the inhabitants along the Ten
nessee river our soldiers were received with
shouts of joy. The Richmond Norfolk and
Memphis papers are compelled to acknowledge
this fact attribute their defeats to this cause
and howl over the tratorons Southrons these
papers for the present must do this-they are
under the surveillance Of rebel armies before
the summer solslice comes these same journals
will be rejoicing over the proclamation of peace,
and noble Government saved from wreck and
ruin.
Year: 1862

if the celerity of your movements had not ex-
celled those of Gen. Pillow in leaving Fort
Donelson! Just hang to our coat tail, and
you shall not be arrested, Dan. There is no
such thing as Imprisonment for er post facto
treason. How we do love q man after we
have fought him
Year: 1862

What will the Hawk.Eye say when we assure
it that we are glad to hear that Missouri is like
" to become free State by the voluntary act
Of its own people Dubuque Herald.


The Hawk. Eye believes this the biggest lie ev-
er uttered by Father Mahoney. q


cE- A telegraph cable had been laid across
the Potomac at Aqua creek connecting with the
station at Budd's Ferry, SO that Washington is
now in direct telegraphic communication with
Fredericksburph
Year: 1862

the military programme Of General Mcclellan


will soon relieve the suffering people Of the
Soxth from the necessity of any such foolish ex-
pedients. We are inclined to believe that the
Burnside expedition will, in good time, smoke
Beauregard out of his den ut Manassas. and that
then we shall have the practical developement
of great Southern popular reaction in favor
of the Union, beginning with the restoration of
the "Old Dominion" and North Carolina, and
rapidly followed mp with the recovery of Ten
nessee and Arkansas. 1t is said that England
and France will most probably not indulge us
in our Southern Blockade beyond the Limit of
year, dating from the fall of Fort Sumter. Be-
fore that date, however, we expect that England
and France, in every form, will cease to recog-
Mise or sympathize with this over-mastered and
broken down rebellion. We have the rebel
armies so completely invested that when our
heavy blows begin to fall they cannot escape.
We shall, perhaps, be able to reopen the ports
of the South to all the world on or before the
LIST of Nav
Year: 1862

BILE distance of our march we overlook a
small party on foot.


Ny attention was attracted by aslittle girl,
about eight years of age, who was toddling
over the stones by the wayside, and ask
ed how far she had travelled? t.From Win
chester" they said. We were then about
twenty-seven miles ON our march. Ire
quested the cannoniers to give her a lift,
aud the gallant men who had hung upon
the rear of the column for its defence the
greater part of the distance answered with
alacrity. No successful efforts were made
to ascertain her complexion. but it is not
impossible she belonged TO the class refer
red to in the resolution, and that her little
limbs had been strengthened by some vague
dream of liberty to be lost or won on that
hurried night march.


have the honor to be, with much re-
spect, your obedtent servant


n. P. BANKS,


Maj-Gen Commanding.
Year: 1862

John Bright who is one of the most sagacious
and earnest of English statesmen, and, who has
been one of the truest friends that the Union
has found in England, describes our case in a
very few words. He says in letter, which has
Just appeared, addressed to Mr.. Jewett:


'aIfy are for the Union, and think it can be
preserved by concliatting the South, | confess
/ am amazed. They have made war upon you,
because they suspected that you would yield
nothing more to them-are You to yield more
under compuision of the war, or because you
can neither conquer the South, nor yet subsist
as an independent state without herG If you
love slavery and wish to continue it and If you
think you can build up with honor a restored
and united republic by humbling yourself TO
the South / can only express my surprise at the
dream which possesses you. You may seperate
-or you may fight out this contest and win
but to leave the slave still a slave viii expose
YOU to the contempt of the civilized world. l
applaud the proclamation Of the President, az
does every man in Europe who Il not foe 10
freedom, or moved by base hostility TO the
American Republic because 4 - republic and
because it is powerful.


The leaders of the South do not want Union;
they will never again come into il willingly;
and they make mock Of all offers OF pence
They know that slavery must be a subject OF
perpetuai agitation and finally Of extinction,
within the Union, and they are determined
therefore 10 set up for themselves. They will
be independent, or they viii be nothing.


Mr.. Bright states another truth when he says
that the proclamation is hailed throughout the
civilized world by all lovers Of freedom, or by
all those who do not wish TO see the American
republic broken up, because it is republic and 4
powerful one. That this is the cause Of the pre-
vailing hostility in England can no longer be
doubted. They care little for slavery OF anti.
slavery there; nothing for the North and moth.
ing for the South; but they do want the Unitst
States destroyed. Mr.. Peacock, at the great con
servative dinner at Colchester said that ~h'
frankly acknowledged what he heard every bod
else say in private, that he believed it would b
for the interest of England that the United State
should be broken up, while il was for the inter
est Of the starving millions Of this country tha
this protracted war should be brought to a
speedy termination a. possible."-k " P0st
Year: 1862

The Rev. Robert Colyer tells this touching
incident of the war:


"When / was in jefferson City last Fall
found the hospital in the most fearful condition
you can imagine. cannot stop to tell you of
the scenes ] saw; it is enough to say that one
poor fellow had lain there sick on the hard
boards and seen five men carried away dead,
one after another, from his side. He was worn
to skeleton-worn through SO that great sores
were all over his back, and filthy beyond telling.
One day, little before my visit, old Hannah,
black woman, who had some washing to do for d
surgeon, went down the ward to hunt him up.
She saw this dying man, and had compassion
on him, and said %, doctor, let me bring this
man to my bed, to keep him of the floor. The
doctor said, The man is dying; he win be dead
Tomorrow" Tomorrow came, and old Ham
nah could not rest She went TO see the man.
and he was still alive. Then she got some
help took her bed, put the man on it, and car
ried him bodily to her shanty; then she washed
him as all over as woman washes a baby, and
fed him with spoon, and fought death hand to
hand day and night, drove him back and saved
the soldiers life. The day went to jefferson
the man had gone furlough to his home in
Indiana. He besought Hannah to go with him
but she could not spare the time there was all
| that washing TO do. She went with him to the
steamboat, got him fixed just to her mind. and
and then kissed him, and the man lifted up his
voice as she left him and wept like a child.
say we have grown noble in our suffering"
Year: 1862

w The old Commonwealth Of Massaehu-
sets is exercised, Just now, over the question
Of compelling the Bible to be read in schools.
The Springfield Republican and other papers
are opposed to any sectarianism, and say that
the next generation will wonderat our higggslingg
over 60 plain question As to relie~ education
of ill religious trammels. The question is be-
fore the Legislature in the form Of repeal OF
the present law, passed by the Know Nothing
party. It is the great staple Of debate; but
the repeal party will probably carry.
Year: 1862

We trust that in the present agitation Of
various projects for taxation and reform, /
systematic war is not to be made upon the
prees. But If all the measures now intro
duccd into Congress and the State Legisla-
lures arc carried, large part Of the news
1apers will hare to give up tile ghost. Al
ready VIC perceive the country Journals cry
out With one voice against the taxes on the
spread Of knowledge, which have bcea broach-
cd at Washington, while the publishers Of the
principal weekly papers in this city and its
neishhorhood join in the following protest:
Year: 1862

How THE YANKEE CHEATS EUROPE
The Yankee thief who went South "to open
a clothing store," with no other capital
than ga crowbar and dark lantern," was
a fair type Of bis piratical countrymen, who
have opened the ports of New Orleans and
Norfolk by a similar union Of force and
fraud. The terms employed 10 describing
these operations are as delusive in the one
case as the other.


Europe is informed by proclamation that
the port of New Orleans is "open p Why,
lit is closed by double blockade. 1t is
obstructed by the Yankee fleet, and enclo'
sed by our army. Not only is all inter
course thereby cut off, but as the occupa
ton of the Yankees caused the destruction
of all the material of commerce in the city,
so their progress is lit by beacon fires fed
by the very staples which Europe is invi
ted to take away. The port of New Or
leans has opened like the grave, to close
effectually over the object of solicitude.


This proclamation may bring the ships Of
Europe on FOOLS erraud. If they come
in ballast they find the greatest product
port of the world is empty and idle. The
great staple which they seek has beer
burned, and after taking in supply o.
water and yellow fever, they may depart
for some other port.


If these vessels bring merchandise, how
can it be disposed of? Where are tht
customers of New Orleans? With wha
Year: 1862

state above that our advanced troops up
the Pamunkey found a saw mill at con-
veiient point up that stream, with plenty
of lumber sawed, and large quantity Of
sawed logs all ready for the saw"
Year: 1862

ent to it; to dismiss every cabinet officer who
disputes or discredts it, and to silence every
press that lifts its guilty columns against it,
The border States, SO long tenderly borne with,
should have no further indulgence. Their 10y
atty has proved far better than was hoped Pay
them for their slaves, but leave them no option
about freeing them. You make them wholly
loyal only when you make them utterly free
from slavery
Year: 1862

We give the following extracts from DR..
Bellows able address, lately given before the
Autumnal Convention at Brooklyn.


His position as President of the Sanitary
Association makes his opinion valuable, aside
from his well known abilities.
Year: 1862

hundred thousand pixies strong and resoluts hands,
added 90 the Confederate mics OF defence, would la
our Judgment, immensely increase It's physical power
while there ID no calculating lie moral effect Of such
armament upon our r0ols upon the enemy and upon
the civxed world which IL the pscttor Of this strug
gle. II all other In favor OF the pike fail
there one that Is Irresistible and that is that pixies
BET or than no arms at all At present whole armies Of
hghting men are 10 be had for tho CALL who have
s ALL Put pikes and bowie knives in their hands, drill
them as light troops and send them to operate foot
iancers upon The field OF battle.
Year: 1862

Read the noble words of Secretary Seward
to the voters Of New York, who are to-day
engaged in the work of selecting Union men
to govern that great State. Let us stand by
the old ship, and speedily and trulywe may
sit down in peace and say to the world,
q alps leeN. y
Year: 1862

FINE CALF.-One Of the finest calves ever
produced in this section, was raised by WIN.
M Bell, of this town, and sold few days since
to gentleman in the country for SIS 90
though not quite four months old. 1t is of the
Devon breed model of beauty, and possessep p
of all the marks which stock dealers like to
6nd in good mixer.
Year: 1862

The second quarterly meeting Of the Kent
county association of Dad Fellows will be held
IN Smyrna, on Tuesday, the 1st day of July
next, at 3o'cOck, pm From the prepare tions
making we presume they will have fine time
OF 1t and large turnout of the fraternity. II
we understand the object of The association no
Odd Fellow should fail TO be present.
Year: 1862

,Tis sad to think of all the homes
Whence loved ones have departed
Their gladsome steps no more to come,
To cheer the broken-hearted.
'Tis sad to think Of all the graves


On which the grass is springing,
Where sleep our lost and noble braves,
Nor heed wars clarion ringing.
OH sad that human blood must flow,
And drench the earth like water;
brother, in brother finds foe,


And fall mid strife and slaughter.
And sad that o'er our land SO fair.


The scourge Of war is sweeping,
And death and carnage in our midst,
Their carnival are keeping.
Yet better far that blood should flow,


That homes and hearts be riven,
Than that our fair inheritance


To traiters should be given.
The gift our fathers bought with blood.
Will we, their children. cherish,
Nor yield the priceless treasure up,


Till name and nation perish.
Oh, God of justice! speed the right,


Soon may the day be dawning,
Which ushers in the golden light


Of Freedoms radiant morning. M. A.
Year: 1862

loyal States are muttering by your side.
Here they come. ENTER young ladies, rep
resenting the loyal States Of the Union


U. S. This is the proudest moment Of
my life 1t is worth all my pains to see
SO many of my children gathering around
me, in this, my hour of tribulation and
danger. (The young ladies sing the Star
Spangled Banner.)
Year: 1862

Hon. Judges Ingraham (P. J.), Clsrke and Leonard.
ACTION FOR LOSS OF ExI0RANTs' BAGGAGE AND


MONEY.


MARCH 17.-Pdtrick Foley u.s. Sutheriery Mdck.-rhis
action is brought against the Defendants common
riers the Of the baggage and effects Of the plain.
til who, with his famly-a wife and seven children
we're passengers beard the ship Constitution sailing
from Liverpool 10 New York; Of which vessel the defend
ants are The vessel arrived at the port OF New
York the Sd Of November 1855. The passengers
landed from the vessel, which anchored in the bay by
lighter which came alongside.


A chest, containing property Of tho plaintiff, aud
ninety Ave sovcregns, while being transferred from
the ship TO the lighter, by the employees Of
the vessel, broken open and the contents lost by
falling into the The plaintiff then requested that
another and larger chest containing clothing aud fI8 in
silver, should be delivered 10 and landed with him,
his only remaining property. He compelled TO leave
the vessel without It, although he informed the mate
who commanded the vessel in the absence of the captain
that Il contained that amount OF money. The mate
promised 10 send tho chest on board the lighter and
when the lighter moving OF from the vessel with
the passeng and their luggage he said that the painn
could get II the next morning at Castle Garden where
the passengers stopped The plaintiff landed, with
his family from the lighter at the Castle Garden depot
emigrant passenger The vessel remained out In
the stream and did into dock until two or three
DAYS afterward when the plaintiff went Immediately on
board to obtain the chest which had been detained from
him. On production by the captain he found u had
been broken open, and the contents taken away with
the exception Of tring articles The action was
tried at the court below when the Jury found general
verdict for plaintiff for 81 1921 Exceptions were taken
by the defendants, and the case now comes up
motion for q new trial. Decision reserved.
Year: 1862

NBW MATCH I6bZ.
NY DEAN SIR-I may safely asserted that the Moni-
tor is the best ventilated vessel aoat The blowers
draw from the external atmosphere upwards Of four
thousand cubic feet of fresh air in every minute part Of
which passes through the boiler furnaces and part
through the entire vessel The trouble during the pas
SAGE 10 Fortress Monroe caused by the breaking
over and passing into the ventiating runks-theso not
being made high enough.


There appears to be general lsechespton Of nearly
every important point relating to the impregnabe bat
terry The most serious the assumption that its
power fay developed during the contest Hampton
Roads. The power OF the guns alone tested. With
guns OF such cabre as the structure bear
the Monitor would sink the Merrmae or the Warrior In
the nrst round Yours very truly J. ERICSSON.