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Year: 1864

GONG Passing away, passing away, is
written everywhere in staring capitals. We
read it in the fading flower; in the scar and
yellow leaf; in the dying verdure; in the
silver threads interviewer in the locks Of
age; but little DO seif-secure mortaels heed
the warning, so long as they imagine they
have firm hold on the Present. The
fugitive moments refuse to stay. Who can
count them as they fly? Who os number
those little rain drops as they fall upon the
bosom of the eternal ocean. and are lost for
ever? There is radiant beauty everywhere;
but, oh! how effervescentl The rosy tints
of morn-how soon they are blauched by
the same solar power that painted them!


How be 'utiful the occideut, at early
evenings hour when the celestial goddess
hang out their scarlet petticoats from the
glowing windows of the West! But 10!
they are Withdrawn, and now night uhrolls
her black blank ket-bisoker than the book
ofsins in the day OF judgment. Oldl oldl
ali is growing old. The caput Of Time
himself has bscome bald as gourdshell;
but not even grey hair can be found in the
whiskers Of eternity, nor will there be, ,whe n
rolling years shall have ceased to move
Love and Friendship wax old and cold, and
perish at last; while Hope and Faith tor
ever young, strew fresh roses at the ports
of the tomb and plume their bright pniou
for a glorious Immortality,
Year: 1864

On the blue mountains of our dim child
hood. toward which we ever turn and look,
stands the mothar who marked out to us
from thence our life; the most blessed age
must be forgotten ere we can forget the war
NEST heart.
Year: 1864

DARK HoURs.-There are dark hours
that mark the history Of the brightest years.
For not whole month in many of the mil
lions Of the past, perhaps, has the sun shoue
brilliantly all the time. There have been
cold and stormy days every year. And yet
the mist ana shadows of the darkest hour
disappeared aud fled heedlessly away The
most cruel ice fetters have been broken and
dissolved, and the most furious storm loses
its power to harm. And what a parable is
this in human life-of our inside world
where the heart works al its shaduwing of
the dark hour, and many a coldIblast chii Is
the heart to the core. But what matters it?
NJ an is born a hero, and it is only in the
darkness aud storms that heroism gains its
greatest and best development aud the
storm bears it on more rapidly to its destiny.
Despair not, then. Neither give up; while
one good power is yours use it. Disap-
pointment will not be realized. Morufy-


ing failure may attend this effort and that
one-but only be honest aud struggle on,
and it will work well.
Year: 1864

] would That we're INC again,


and sparkling the girls AZ night.


For an engagement there you see


Would be better than all looking over
this desecra.cd soil looking Tor chaLce to fight.
The ultimate line may be like this war
alittle too long for good thing Then here
is another verse, impromptu but not impe-
dent.
Year: 1864

ADVICE TO YouSo L.wyEa.-The follow
ing is the advice OF an examining judge to a
young lawyer. on his admission to the bar =
"Sir, Il would be idle 10 trouble you farther.
You arc perfect and l will dismiss you with


o lew words of advice. which you will do
very we'll to follow. You will find il laid
down ne maxim OF civil law. never kiss tho
maid when you can kiss the mistress Garry
out this principle and you are safe. Never
saw ..b,o'' to q goose when she has the pow.
or 10 lay golden eggs. Let your face be long
and your bills longer. Never put your hand
in your pocket when anybody'selse is handy.
keep your conscience for your own private
use, and don't trouble II with other mems
matters, Plaster tho judge and butter tho
Jury. Look us wise rs an owl and DO rs or
acnlar us town clock. But above all, get
money honestly il you can. my dear cir.
but get money. Welcome you to the bar"
Year: 1864

when the storm comes, to find the SYM
patty Of the outer world withdrawn. IF
we are to believe the friends Of the Pa
pal Government, no change is to be
made; the Pope Is neither going to make
reforms nor to recognize an army for the
defense Of his temporal power He is
going, as they say, to LET things 20 as
they may, and in this case it is not diff
cult to cay what will take placs. If the
Roman people make a revolusioa, and
demand the instalment Of the italian
Government at Rome. the Pope will
again abandon his capital, and call upon
the Catholic powers for protection.
Year: 1864

In the atlantic Monthly for December is
a story as terrible in its episodes as it is
fearful in its warnings. Philip Nolan was,
in 1907, lieutenant in the army of the
West. He fell in with Burr, and was Sc
duced by that accomplished traitor into
company with his schemes-during Burr's
trial, Nolan was court martialed at Fort Ad-
ans, Mississippi, as much in fun as anything
else, by his brother officers When asked
why sentence should not be pronounced upon
him for treason, he angrily exclaimed =
damn the United States wish l may
never hear of the United States again p -
This was too much for the loyalty of the
court, composed in part of Revolutionary Of
fcers, and they, after consultation, without
being any longer in fun, decided that his
wish should be gratifed. The sentence, af-
terwards approved by President Adams or
dering him into the navy Instructions
were given that never in his presence again
should the United States be uttered; that
he should never be permitted to see his ma
tive land, and that his reasonable desire
should be satisfied to the very letter. For
more than half century Che died last sum-
mer in the Levant) this wretched man knew
nothing of the United States. From those
who surrounded him he could gain no in
telligence. From books and papers every
allusion was carefully cut out; the buttons
which he wore on his coat bore no insignia ;
he fought in the war of 1912 without know
ing wherefore; he was frequently tantalzed
by homeward voyages, which terminated as
soon as an outward bound vessel was met !;
he was ignorant of the growth, prosperity,
and increased Importance of the country he
had cursed ever craving some scrap of
knowledge, all things relating to its history
were carefully kept from him.


He became wretched- literally homeless,
until he found country beyond the grave
Miserable in this horrible isolation, drag
ging out an existence prolonged beyond the
usual life Of man, it was not until he lay on
his death-bed-that briefly he learned the
story of his country's greatness, but happily
heard nothing of the sad story of its present
woe, which sprang from the fulfllment and
the execution of anathemas similar to that
which fell from his lips, and which was
brought on by more successful conspirators
than the one who sowed the seeds of treach-
cry in his heart. He died repentant and
begged that his epitaph might be Gle
loved his country as no other man had loved
her; but no man had deserved less at her
hands"


Whether or not this story be true, it is,
at least, an allegOry of faithful and fearful
significance 1t shows what would be the
condition of many man, to-day, if the NUT
tered curse, or the disloyal wish were full
filled and gratifed as it ought to be, by and
for those who murmur or cherish it; who
hate and despise their country" or like far
too many, who, in their heart of hearts, say
amen to the awful imprecation against the
land which protects them.
Year: 1864

A DOG MAIL TRAIN.-The following ex-
tract from private letter from Pembina
shows how the mail is transported from that
point to Grow Wing: 2al


should have written to you four days ago,
but the mail had to lay over one trip on, ac-
count of the lameness of one of the carrier
dogs. You will probably think it strange
that the great United States mail should be
delayed several days for such cause, but it
was. The mail is carried from here to Crow
Wing, distance Of three hundred fifty miles,
by dog trains, and if one set of dogs get foot
sore when their turn comes the mail has to
lay over. Tomorrow they say the dogs will
be right and the mail will go forward Isaw
the first dog mail train leave here on last
mail day. 1t consisted Of three middling
sized dogs They looked more like wolves,
than dogs. They had regular harness, very
fancifully ornamented, and buckskin saddless
gorgeously worked with beads The DOGS are
driven in tandem style. They go from for
ty to fifty miles per day. the half breed dr-
yer trotting behind the most of the way
81. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer
Year: 1864

A GAMBLER FoILED.-A few DAYS since
a sporting character lounged into one Of our
hotels and looked around for a victim AT
length he thought he saw one, so he took
out pack of cards and began to amuse the
bystanders in the bar room with a number
of ingenious tricks with them, which soon
drew crowd around him. 1.aloa


'Now,' said he, after giving them shuttle
and slapping the pack down upon the table,
'Pll bet any man ten dollars l can cut the
Jack of Hearts at the first attempt


Nobody seemed inclined to take him up,
however, till at last a weather-beaten New
F~.''- ! 80 . "a iacket stunned
him by = claluhn5 .(--r


'Darned if don't bet you But stop
let me see if all's right"


Then taking up and inspecting it as if to
see that there was no deception in it, he re-
turned it to the table, and began to tumble
about in a side pocket, first taking out
jack-knife, then twist Of tobacco, etc., till
he produced roll of bank notes. from which
he took one of ten dollars and handed it to
bystander; the gambler did the same, and
taking out a pen-knife, and literally cutting
the pack in two through to the middle, turn
ed with an air of triumph to the company,
and demanded if he had not cut the Jack of
Hearts.


mo, I'll be darned if you have bawled
Jonathan, for here it is safe and sound3


At the same time he produced the card
from his pocket, whittier he had dexterously
conveyed it while pretending to examine the
pack to see if it was 'all right The com
pauy was convulsed with laughter, while the
poor child of chance, was fain to confess he
had been outwitted
Year: 1864

f| The New York World called
upon the Chase and Fremont men in New
Hampshire to defeat the Union ticket and so
"ikill off Lincoln" Either there are 70 Chase
and Fremont men there, OR, what is more
likely, they are too patriotic to take copper
head advice. The Union Ticket is elected by
a majority which proves the loyalty Of New
Hampshire to be as compact and immovable
az her eternal hills of granite.
Year: 1864

Are the most reliable regulator ever known,
and cure, like magic, all those Irregularities
that have dcfied the doctors skill.


Will YOU waste away with suffering from
Eeucorrtpa, Prolapsus, Dysmenorrhea, and
thousand other difficulties all summed up
under the name of suppressed and obstructed
nature, when al investment OF one dollar in
Year: 1864

will surely save vou.


Do not use the Drops when forbidden in
the directions, for although a positive cure,
and harmless at all other times, they are so
powerful and finely calculated to adjust and
govern the functions Of the sexual organism,
that, if taken at improper times, they would
produce results contrary to nature, against
which all, particularly those who would re-
produce, should carefully guard.
Year: 1864

The jury in the Cincinnati rape case
the State Us. Willard StOms-brought in
. verdict Of guilty. The defendant and
his counsel were taken by surprise. No
tice was given Of = motion for q new
trial, and IN sTTest Of judgment.
Year: 1864

chance to be caught upon Southern
soilj to imprison any schooI-mistress
who may attempt to teach the alpha
bet to pickaninnies. 1t means the
right to call to their aid the armies of
the nation, to help in hanging any
madd&ning, demented old man whom
the exercise Of these rights, in the
murder of his sons and the destruction
of his property, has made lunatic.


1t means the right to steal our ships,
our money and our arms, to seize our
our forts and arscnals, to make war up
on us, whenever the Democratic party
may fail or refuse to elect President.


1t means the right, when they get
tired of rebellion, to come back into
the Union with all their rights restored
and few more hitched on, for the
sake Of appeasing ''our injured breth-
rem" 1t means the right to have their
war debt paid from the national treas
ury, together with the value of every
freed or confiscated slave, and all prop
erty destroyed. In fine, the Demo-
cratic idea of constitutional rights is
to give the South all it asks; and the
South never did and never can ask
anything, from the rendition of fu-
gitive to the secession of State, that
the Democracy is not willing to grant
and recognize as constitutional right.
And the vaunted doctrine of State
Rights means very nearly the same
thing, viz: Congress has no right to
interferewith the prerogatives ofSopth-
ern slave States, but it may legislate
slavery over every free State; and the
refusal Of the citizen to assist in the
enforcement Of such legislation shall
subject him to mprisonment, while
the passage of " Personal Liberty
Bills" or any other bills asserting the
rights OF States to protect their citi-
zens in the free exercise OF conscience
shall bring down upon them the whole
military power of the Government.
Year: 1864

No subject, pro obably, more forcibly de-
mands the attention of the American peo-
pie at present, than the intense granduer
and Importance of human liberty, are in.
deed SO intimately connected with the
most profound interests. as well as with
the most exalted aspirations of the human
race, that any material departure there
frem, must be fraught with evil to the
living, as well as to millions yet unborn.
They are So inseperably interviewer with
all that is great, andgood, and glorious in
the destiny of man, that whosoever aims
to form or tozpropogate such views,
should proceed with the utmost care, and
laying sasile all prejudice and passion, be
guarded by the voices of reason, reyela-
tion and experience.


Henceit is to be deeply regretted that
| the doctrine of liberty has SO often been
discussed with so little apparent care,
with SO little moral earnestness, with SO
little real energetic searching and longing
after truth Though its transcendenti inn
portance demands the least exertion of
all our powers yet. has it been, for the
most part, theme for passionate decla-
nation, rather than of severe analysis or
of protracted and patient Investigation
( In the warm praises of the philosopher,
no less than in the glowing inspiration OF
of the poet, it often stands before US as a
vague and ill-defned something, which all
men are required to worship, but which
no man is bound to understand. 1t would
seem, indeed, as if it were mighty
something, not to be clearly seen, but
only to be deeply felt; and felt it has
been, too, by the ignorant as we'll as by
the learned, by the simple as well as by
the wise; felt as fire in the blood, as a
fever in the brain, and as a phantom in
the Imagination, rather than as form Of
light and beauty in the intelligence How
often have the powers of darkness sur
rounded its throne, and desolation mark.
ed its path? How often, from the altar'
of this unkno,on idol, has the blood O.
human victims streamed! Even here, IL
this once glorious land of ours, how otter
do the too religious Americans seem tt
become deaf to the most appealing lessor
of the past, while engaged in the frantic
worship of this, their tutelary deity. A
this very moment, the once highly favor
ed land in which. wed live, is convulset
from its centre to its circumference b,
the agitations of these pious devotces o
u freedom, and they have caused the mos
Year: 1864




In scores of houses along the route OF
marches and battles, wounded rebels ta-
ken in by the inhabitants off the field
still lie suffering, unable to rise, orr be
moved. The care and self-sacrifcing de
yetien with which these soldiers are at
tended is at once, touching and sublime.
Some of them have been altogether with
out medical attendance. and some cf their
wounds are frightful. The won en- of the
houses minister to them, the young wo.
men being foremost in the duty. It is
just, to observe that no purer or more re-
fined ladies exist than many who thus de-
vote themselves; yet what is commonly
knowD as 'sfalse delicacy" is utterly dis
carded among tbem.ufThe young girl of
eighteen has learned to bathe and dress
the most horrible. wound without a culver
cf the nerves and with only. that palor of
the cheek that denotes how much of the
suffering she alleyiates passes into ana is
borne within her own breast.


In large brick house beyond Cedar
Creek lie at the present time two wound
ed rebel soldiers. Returning to the army
from New York about eight days after
the battle of the 10Th 4lt., I stopped, at
this house one evening on the way to
camp. 1t was house which, among all
Others in the valley had suffered worst
along the track of war. = The family con-
sisted of an aged man, middle:aged la.
dy, two daughters Of eighteen and TWEEN
Year: 1864

the State, and adopt suitable measures for its
distribution. Especially do | commend TO
your consideration the sick and wounded, scat
tered in the various hospitals provided by the
Government. In this emergency, it is impos-
sible that all can be tenderly cared for by the
nation. Our own regiments are the mem bers
of our own famihes--the children of the
State. | earnestly advise that an agent be
appointed in its behalf, to look after their
welfare and that sufficient funds be placed to
his disposal to ensure their comfort"


The necessity for such measures is more
urgent than ever. They are demanded by
every consideration that can address itself to
the benevolence, patriotism and humanity of
us all. They are far above mere partisan is
sues, and appear to their higher and better
sentiments to free portion of the suferings
of our race, and call upon us to use every eff
fort to relieve it. A cold and vigorous winter
is upon us every article of comfort and ne
cessity is dear; and those who have not the
means to provide must necessarily suffer
much. 1 earnestly commend them to the
sympathy and favorable consideration of the
General Assembly.


| cannot close this communication without
expressing profound gratitude to the Al
mighty for his protection and care through
out another year; for the victories that He
has given to the cause Of Liberty and Union;
for the preservation of our State from inva-
vasion; for upholding the Government and
the laws; for the manhood which He has de-
veloped; and for the fortitude with which He
has inspired our soldiers in the field, and in
the hospitals; for the many gentle hands
that He has raised to minister to the comfort
and repose of the sick and the wounded. l
invoke His blessing upon the citizen and the
soldier, upon the State and the General Gov
ernment, and wish that this year may wit
ness the authority of the National Govern
ment vindicated and maintained, the laws
everywhere enforced, and the country restored
to permanent and honorable peace.


WILLIAM CANNON.
Year: 1864

There are great many methods given to
preserve eggs, but the following from the Sci
entifc American is worthy the attention of
farmers:


Since the "hen-persaader" has failed in its
object, and fowls cannot be prevailed upon to
lay eggs all the year round, it is advisable
for those who are fond of eggs to preserve
them in season when they are plenty. How
ever close aud compact the shell Of an egg
may appear to be, it is nevertheless full Of
minute holes and pores invisible to the naked
eye. The effect of these holes is apparent in
the decrease of the moisture of the egg, and
the subsequent change in the contents occa-
stoned by contact with the air. "As full as
an egg is of meat" is an old saying, but in all
stale eggs there is vacancy proportioned to
the loss they have sustained by evaporation.
If the end of fresh egg be applied to the
tongue it feels cold, but in an added egg it
feels warm, because the albumen Of the egg
being in contact with the she'll absorbs heat
from the tongue more rapidly than the air
bubble in the fresh egg, If the pores of the
egg shell be kept closed. the contents must be
preserved intact, as no change can occur, and
the object is to close this atmospheric cOnnec-
ton in the simplest and cheapest Manner
Any kind of varnish will answer the purpose
in one sense, but will defeat it in another; as
eggs, being particularly affected by strong
sents, would lose their delicate flavor by the
cdor of the ooasting.


A better plan would be to employ beef suet
or mutton tallow, provided the eggs can be
kept in cool place. The eggs should be
dipped in the fat and afterwards wiped off, as
any access of grease over that required to fill
the pores, would become rancid. After this
the egg should be set perpendiculsrly, with
Year: 1864

the small end uppermost, and p laced in
box filed with bran and tightly covered up.
If the egg is laid on its side, the yolk will ad-
here to the shell. Charcoal finely pulverized
is good substitute for bran, as it is a deo-
dorizer, and will absorb any dsagreeable ef-
feet that might be perceived from the grease.
Some dealers are said to practice dipping
their eggs in diluted sulphuric acid. This
feasible plan, chemically as the acid on the
chalky shell would deposte sulphnte of lime
in the pores and thus close the connection.


Strong vinegar would doubtless answer as
well as vitrol, Eggs require an unpleasant
odSr by coming in contact with strong smell
ing substances, such as mahogany saw dust,
lime water and musty straw; and the great
est care sheuld be observed in having all the
materials used each excellent after its kind.
1t is common practice to preserve eggs in
lime, but they are at best doubtful when SO
kept, and cannot be praised. An egg is very
much like a razor--either excellent or good
for nothing; and those who preserve eggs for
market would do well to give the above men
toned receipts trial.
Year: 1864

Seventeen was the age at which first
met Charlotte Elizabeth-under water.
What think you of that, Mr. Editor Are
not such circumstances Of first love new?
Permit me also to add that they are more
over true.


1t was Sunday afternoon, and was
spending it at the POLYTECHNIC. A voice
exclaimed, Experiments with the diving
bell" Upon this, great rush was made
to that circular pond of clear green water,
the excessive depth of which has always
been marvel to me.


Then the intrepid diver made his toilet,
loaded with heavy weights, and having
hemlet on his face. ri.


Covered with polypi in the shape of
India rubber tubing, this monster tadpole
clumsily descended by an iron ladder into
the pond, the bottom of which was always
strewed with half pence after this we
could dimly see him waddle and stoop,
made more hideous than even before by
the watery medium-exaggera dispro-
portioned, slow-the most horrible picture
of cupidity that the mind is capable of re-
ceiving. Above him rose large airy bub-





as to his head and shoulders, and tap the
metal hemlet with the half pence to let us
know he had picked them up. was at
tracted towards this amphibious pursuit of
his; l felt as if I too should like to ex-
plore those airless depths. When he came
out at last like two-trunked elephant,
and bowed in his repulsive manner to the
spectators, | was almost afraid he was GO
ing to offer "any lady or gent" the loan of
mis- apparatus. was relieved when saw
it put away ia a cupboard, for now no un-
natural temptation f s.gJff
'iAn lady or gent for the diving bell 7"
exclaimed the sonorous voice. 'The ma
chine is about to descend. ..... ii,.


| gasped out, Stop minute take me
in, please do" The crowd that already
surrounded the machine parted to the left
and right, to let me pass There was not
the least hurry of course; butifI had not
spoken at once, should not have done so
at all. was the first to volunteer forAthis
tremendous enterprise, and an object Of
public interest. sysuf sa


81 wouldn't do it myself for ,undred
pound" /" observed one gentleman for the
purpose of re-assuring me, 1 conclude, and
friend of his replied, 'sNo, nor vet for
two 'undred It's fool 'ardy,"
passed the little barrier, gave the
manager the requisite shilling for a sub
marine passage, and crept under the great
goggle-eyed bell amid quite popular ova-
tion. A narrow seat ran around the inte-