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Year: 1865

QUEBEC, Jan. 70.


In Parliament last night, the Attorney
General brought in q bill TO provice for the
suppression Of outrages on the frontier,
the manufacture and shipment Of arms for
unlawful purposes, and for the seizure Of
suspected vessels, also to give notice to per
sons proving unworthy Of the hospitality
of this country to remove from it. The
bill is copied in part from the Imperial
Act and in part from the Act Of Congress
of 1898. The bill was read first time,
and passes to its second reading to-day.
Year: 1865

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Vice Admiral Porter is so much pleased
with General Terry and the manner in
which he conducted his part of the opera
tions before Fort Fisher, as to deem it wor-
thy of special dispatch he says: A
timid man would have hesitated to attack
the works by assault, no matter what as
sistance he might have had from other
quarters, but Gen. Terry never for an in
slant hesitsted, and though feel some
what Asttered at the confidence he reposed
in my judgment, am quite ready to be-
lieye that he acted on his own ideas as TO
what was proper to be done in the matter
and was perfectly qualified to judge with
out the advice of any one. Throughout
the whole affair his conduct was marked by
the great desire to be successful. not for the
sake of personal considerations, but for the
cause in which we are all alike engaged.
Year: 1865

day; appealing for protection for the mail
stations, andststing that if Julesburg should
be sacked the overland msil must be sus-
pended until the spring grass is sufficiently
advanced to afford substance to the live
stock Of the company.


Cottonwood Springs station is LOG miles
east of Julesburg.
Year: 1865

A Times Washington special says; The
War Department has determined to take
prompt action in regard to interference by
the Indians with the overland mail. It
very probable the section of country now
infested by the Indians will be SO organized
as to prevezt any future trouble.


CANAL AROUND NIAGARA FALLS.


The same special says that the scheme
to appropriate six millions to the ship
canal around the Falls of Niagara has
about exploded. A motion will be made,
when it comes up, to indefinitely postpone
Year: 1865

The Worlds army correspondent from
the james says the rebels on the night Of
the oath made a demonstration OF our
picket line in front of Bermuda. They
found the pickets prepared for them, and
there was but short firing through the
niobt.
Year: 1865

awful doom, his lips refused to speak
again and before midnight his wretch.
ed soul had flown into another world {!


Here is a solemn sermon for city pas.
tors aud for plous parents in the country.
It is an admouition to the one to watch
well over the tempted youth in our great
Sodoms it is a warning to the others
against sending their sons too eagerly
aud hastily into the fiery furnace of city
temptations. A young man in New
York, without a parent to watch him, or
Gods grace to keep him, lives on tho
dizzy edge Of the pit. .


Young men as you read that poor
profigats's doom, be careful lest it be
your own. His history may be yours.
II you have forsaken Gods house for the
house Of debauchcry, or the haupts Of
the scoffer-if your evenings are spent
10 the theater, the drinking circle, or at
the card table-you have good reasons to
tremble. Stop short or you are lost
You are on Satan's trap door. Beneath
you are the damned While you have
conscience left ou, hear it and obey it
That conscience bids you to flee for yo,ir
life, aud Ace to the pardonng grace aud
strong arm Of God -Mdcpendenf.
Year: 1865

the extent Of the scare, aud some of
them vowed revenge. by and by, the
excitement died away. All being quiet
again on the vidette line, the regiments
broke ranks, and tho men returned to
their huts to flush their dreams.


At an hour later, some Of the cavalry
men were heard to say: "Now, let's start
up the Johnnies to'pay for that scare of
theirs" Word went along the line, and
fire was opened by our videttes. With
a muskotry volley, our men raised yell
That started the alarm over the lines
In the camp of the Johnuics 'the drum
did beat at dead of night" FIRST from
one regiment, then from another; far up
towards the Charles City road, aud away
towards the river sounded the peel OF
the long.roll and arousing all who had
slept before. Then there was hurrying
to aud fro among them. Any new re-
cruits they had from the cradle or the
grave were disturbed in dreams Of their
former home. Their veterans had a
chance to speculate on the probabilities
OF fight. Their officers were out, half
dressed and half awake, and soon their
line of battle bristled along their works
from right to left. This time the laugh
was among our men, and the swearing
was among the outwitted pickets. 1t
was we'll towards morning before the
Johnnies had chance to break ranks to
return to their huts and finish their
dreams.


Our boys felt that they were quits
with the Johnnies, but were not satisfied
about the first scare. They thought it
was hardly warranted by the circum-
stances. A fair faced youth, not yet
more than nineteen, although re. enlist
ed veteran soldier, said on his return to
camp the following morning, as if his
pride was touched by the alarm of those
he defended, "You needn't have sound
cd the long roll in here. Did not you
suppose we could keep back the Johnnies
till you could turn out in the reg lar
way? We could ha' held a line of battle
for three hours if you'd ha' wanted US
to-" Old soldiers enjoy q joke; but
they don't want it carried too far.
Year: 1865

/ have previously alluded to the M
merous cases of extreme suffering
among the poorer classes Of this city,
and not even confined to them alone
Among the wealthy, or those who were
once wealthy, there Is q great deal. of
suffering even for the barest necessities
of life.


The rice captured by US has been
turned over to the Mapor and Common
council, who, under direction Of Gen.
Geary, commanding the city, distri butte
it to the poor Of the city Woau COM
mittees have been organized to ascer
tain who arc 10 want, and a small
quantity of rice is given by them TO
those found worthy Enough Is given
to sustain life; but beyond that can say
little. No bacon, beef or pork can be
had for distribution, the Commissary
Department not being in a condition at
present to feed ten thousand additiokal
mouths.


In few days a quantity of rice will
he shipped North, on account of the
city, to meet the liabilities foz the pur-
chase Of articles Of food, through Col
Julian Allen, who went North by the
Fulton, the authorized agent of the
city. But the quantity of subsistence
ordered will 60 but little ways. 1t is
to be hoped that the people of the
North will, by donating literally to the
relief of the poor of Savannah, show to
the South that they are not the implac-
able enemies of the South that JEFF
Davis and mis- crew would paint them
Year: 1865

A New counterfeit is described by Gin
cinnati paper. Excepting few minor dis
crepancies the spurious note is an exact fac
sim,ile of the genuine bill. The general APP
pearance of the bill is also very good. The
green ink is of somewhat lighter shade
than that used on the genuine, and some
paris of the note look scratchy and blurred.
The figure on the green scroll work on the
lower right quarter of the note are printed
in green; in the genuine they are white.
The face of Mr.. Chase, in the counterfeit, is
badly executed.
Year: 1865

are seeking homos by tens Of thousands, On tho
western continent They arc Injured TO toll by
habits Of industry and labor--the true elements
Of wealth. Regarding labor as honorable they
cherish just pride in working out with their own
hands competence and securing for themselves
and their families comfortable homes They also
bring with them more or less wealth. invite
your attention To the importance Of this subject
and will express the hope that such legislation
may be had as will materially aid in inducing
immigration TO our soil. This Is the more necess-
airy from the fact that Michigan has often been
misrepresented, to her disadvantage, either thru
ignorance or prejudice, by those interested in Sc
curing the greatest possible share Of this immi-
grafton TO States lying still further west and bo-
yond US.
Year: 1865

MATRIMONIAL ADvIcE.-Our young wo-
men are cautioned against marrying dissi-
pated young men but, with equal, if not
greater propriety, may not young men be
cautioned against marrying idle and ex-
travsgant young women, for great many
unhappy marriages are the result Of the
latter, as well as of the former. Nothing is
more destructive of domestic happiness
than the present mode Of bringing up our
young women. Foolish mothers think
they act atfectionately by indulging their
daughters in their fondncSs for the giddy
pleasures of life, and allowing them to
contract habits Of Incidence, not dream
ing that they are thereby unified for the
stern realities of life which must surely
await them. Let them marry wealth or
poverty, they will be unable to support
either condition. Let them remain sim
gle, and life will become more and more
burdensOmc as it advances.
Year: 1865

RELIGIOUS FREEDoM. Episcopal
Bishop and Clergy of Alabama have been
suspended from their functions, forbidden
to perform religious services. and their
churches have been closed by military
orders, because they refuse to pray for
''the President and all in civil authority"
The clergy avOw their desire, duty and
intention to use this prayer when their
State is restored to civil rule, bat viii not
do SO as long as it is held as conquered
province and governed by the bAyonst-
What beautiful illustration Of civil md
religious liberty, in this bOdsted ''lApd Of
the free and home Of the Oppsesssd'1 Il
Year: 1865

CooSlNG PorAToEs. s.-We have seen
boiled potatoes from an untaught cook
coming on the table like Jumps of yellow
wax,-the same article, the day after, un-
der the directions of skillful mistress,
appearing in snowy balls Of powdery
lightneSs. In the one case they were
thrown in their skins into water, and suf-
fered to soak or boil, as the case may be,
at leisure, and after they were boiled tc
stand in the water till she was ready to
peel them. In the other case, the pota-
toes being first peeled, were boiled as
quickly as possible in salted water, which,
the moment they were done, was drained
off, and they are gentlcly shaken for
minute or two over the fire, to dry them
still more thoroughly. We have never
yet seen the potato so depraved and given
over to evil, that could not be reclaimed
by this mode of treatment. AS to fried
potatoes, who that remembers the crisp,
golden slices of the French restaurant,
thin as waters and as light as snow fakes,
does not speak respectfully Of them p
What cousinship with those coase, greasy
masses of sliced potatoes, wholly soggy
and partly burnt, to which we are treated
under the name of fried potatoes q Ia
America?
Year: 1865

AN INFALLIBLE RECIPE BY WHICH TO
TURN A CONFEDERATE INTO LOYAL"
CITIZEN. This war has drought out"
many things. 1t has given ideas on in
ternational law that we have never heard
before. 1t has vastly enlarged our con-
ception of what the Union was, is and
ought to De. Among other things it has
given the following recipe for making a
truly "loyaT citizens out o! "rebel," p"
which we find in the Metropolitan Rec.
ord:


II he has property worth over TWEEN
ty thousand dollars, conhscate it.


If he has property worth less than
twenty thousand dollars, confiscate it.


If his wife has any jewelry, turn it over
to the wife of loyal naA.


II he has piano, let it make music
and harmony in some other household.


If after burning the house over the
head Of the family is not enough, try the
virtues Of cell in some one Of the many
Bastiles that are still to be found in the
Land of the Free and Home of the Brave"


If the Confederate should happen to be
the President Of Southern College there
is another way Of reaching and rousing
into activity his latent loyalty away
his library, transport it to New England
and sell it to some Of the institutions oi
learning with which the Land Of Pump
kin Pies, steady habits and wooden nut
megs abounds.


Make over The disloyal churches to the
loyal sects of the North, and let them be
run" by the righteous"


And finally to take away political righ is
from the white man of the South whose
fathers fought for self government and in
dependence, and confer them exclusively
upon the negroes"
Year: 1865

Not long ago was found at Toledo, in
Spain, in a monastery, paper con.
tanning the following prophecy:


"In the far West beyond the ocean
will rise nation which will he great
in power and wealth; and Satan, in
one of his walks TO and fro on the
earth will observe this nation, and,
determined to destroy their happiness,
will there send two monsters, one to
81 North and the other to the South,
and he will give them strawberries,
and they will cat them. and, after they
have eaten, they will feel great
thirst, not to he qnenched with any
thing else but blood. They will, there.
fore, cause the brother to clay the
brother, the father to slay the son,
anil the son the father, and they will
drink the blood of the slain, and 1t
will bring lamentation and wailing
throughout the land. And, when the
time is fulfilled, there will rise a
strong nan in the North who will take
the monsters and bind them and draw
them into the sea where it is the deep.
est. and peace and happiness will
again prevail throughout, and the
people will praise the Lord. "


It IL said the monks in said monas.
terry maintain that this prophecy was
written before the discovery Of Amer
lea hy Christopher Columbus that
Ferdinand and Isabella were, Ia the
main. induced bv il to lit ort the ship
for Columbus, and that the first part
of It is fulfilled in America, and that
the other part soon will come to pass.
Year: 1865

Dogs in Texas are trained by put
ting them with the sheep when they
are blind puppies, and rearing them
with the lambs. Tho dogs arc regular.
ly fed at certain hour in the evening.
and so never fail to bring the dock IN
at the right time.
Year: 1865

THE CRoPs.-The wheat crop, which we
have noticed as being greatly injured by the
fly, is now nearly beyond its ravages, and by
the last of this week or the first of next the
harvest will begin. In some instance the crop
is almost destroyed, more especially in New
Castle co. In the lower part of this county
and in Sussex but little injury has been done
by this insect. The next scourge is the
rust" and the foggy mornings recently give
just grounds of fear that it may suffer from
this plague.


The hay and grass harvest has been COM
menced, and should no damage befall it III
cuEing large crop will be gathered The sea
son has been very favorable.


Oats and corn never looked better. The
crops present healthy and thrifty appearance
Year: 1865

Tue LEGISLATURE The Legislature met
at Dover on Tuesday last, and without trans.
acting any business adjourned to meet again
some time this winter. The necessity or sense
ofthis practice, by the majority Of the Legisla-
ture is not apparent
Year: 1865

We find the following extravaganza in the
" Persona" column of the last Home Journal,
and transfer it for the interest it may have in
this locality:


Miss Martha Haines Butt, the beautiful
belle and talented writer, is on a visit to New
York, for the purpose of selecting and pur
chasing her bridal troSSedu, which, by the way
is to be extensive and expensive. She is t
be married in Norfork, Virginia of which city
she is a resident, land a native, we believe,
early in July. The happy bridegroom is al
officer in the army, a native of Connecticut
and his name is - but we are not permittet
to divulge this just yet. At all events, he
a gentleman of fine education, rare attainment
and mot the least in his favor has Tough
bravely for his country. Indeed, he is quite
lover and believer in the Union.
Year: 1865

Spangler, one of the convicted conspirators


at the Dry Tortugas, has written letter to
friends in Baltimore, declaring his innocence
OF any knowledge ofthe intended death of the


President, or of any assistance in procuring it.


and giving his experience of life in that rather


desolate land. Dry Tortugas is in his opinion


hard place to live in, and the fare bv no
means sumptuOus. Salt horse is the stanIn
garnished with bread, and occasionally the
luxury of soup is INDUCED to the prisoners
There are small fish to be caught at the break
water, and Spangler is stipulating for supply
OF hsh hooks to add to the variety Of his Bill Of
fare, and to amuse any leisure hours ''hard
i, labor may possibly leave on his hands. The
sons seeking pleasure or recreation. Itwasintcn.
ded for Just what it is, place of punishment
and 1t tultis all the conditions of one.
Year: 1865

THE PRESIDENTS PLAN ABRoAD.-The eff


feet ofthc President conciliatory policy abroad


has practical illustration in the news from
Europe. The Presidents speech to the South
ern delegation is said to have inspired general
confidence in the speedy and cordial reunion of
the North and South Along with this gene
amount of business done in American securities
has been of a magnitude unprecedented since
the outbreak OF the rebellion" Further, we
are told. Five-twenties have been largely
taken at an advance of quite t,oo per cent. s.
The advance, however, does not extend alone
to government bonds, but to other American
securities as well. The great central fact with
which the improvement in our credit is conncc-
ted, we take to be the Interpretation which is
put, abroad, upon the Executive policy of re-
construction. The idea is, that a permanent
military occupation of the late insurgent States
means national bankrupty; that reunion, on
the President's simple method, signifies nation
al strength solvency and good faith with the
public creditor. This foreign view of the case
entirely comedies with liberal opinion here.
Year: 1865

Go to Baggs & Cotton's if you want cheap
suits Of Clothing.


THE FALL OF THE WATERFALL" while il
may not cause fashion single pang-chance
is its delight will grieve the heart of many n
poor peasant girl in France and Switzerland
They supply the hair which adorns the head of
ty to eighty dollars pound. The peasant Girls
cultivate the natural growth of their hair to %
sell to the hairdresser, the money thew get for T
the crop serving as a marriage portion for
themselves As fashion no longer needs this
artificial adornment, the demand for The the ba;S a;s
crop will diminish, and its value decline. "''
: A law has been proposed in the Tennos0oo
Legislature providing for stay execution for
DEBT until the tarmers have time to gather two
fitting clothes. ~ "@"' soou
Year: 1865

+.+Devoted to the cause Of Republicanism
the Interests of Agriculture, the advancement
Of Education, and the best good Of Potter
county. Owning TO guide except that OF
Principle, it will endeater to aid in the work
ef more fully Freedomizing our Country.
Year: 1865

In the New School Presby yterian Gener


al Assembly, now in session in Brooklyn
the committee on Domestic Missions


made report in which allu,ion was made
to the field of labor now open to the


church among the freed negroes of the
South. ~,
Considerable discussion was called out
by the questions mooted in the report,


particularly that relating to the freed


men, and the Rev. John B. Reeve, of the
Fourth Presbytery of Philadelphia, made
telling speech in favor of his brethren.
He said that it is the duty of the church
to take possession of the field that Provi-
dence has opened for it, and then to treat
the black men as men and brothers, not
As dependents upon charity and synipa-
thy. We are tired of sympathy; we want
fam and manly recognition of justice aud
of our prerogatives. We are not at VII
ashamed of the name Of Africans, but we
are Americans, and wish to be admitted
among you as such, not to have bone
thrown at MS. Unexpected to come back
for more Establish churches among our
people South and they will soon take
care Of themselves; our churches now do
more for themselves than our white breth-
rem, proportionately Our people are
naturally Presbyterians; it has only been
their unchangable faith in the eternal
purpose of God that has sustained them
through the bitter past. They are not
Methodists--they are Calvanists, quite as
much as their masters, except that the
latter believed God had one eternal pur-
pose, and the down-trodden race believe
the exact reverse


The Rev. Charles Fl Thompson, of the
Newark IN j. Presbytery, objected most
strenuously to putting the freemen into
the churches with the whites; white
pastor over a colored congregation would
be an impossbility Mr.. Reeve had
quoted an instance in his own parish OH
that point He had once white clergy
man to come to preach for him-which
was generally source of anxiety to him
lest there should be some misstep--and
the good brother got through his sermon
and the other exercises very well until
he came to his closing prayer, and then
he would say, ooh. Lord, we know that
the soul of the black man is as dear to
Thee as the soul of the white man." and
that, of course, spoiled all the rest. The
fact is. the blacks are much prejudiced
against the whites. daughter Mr..
Thompson deemed Presbyterianism the
proper faith for the negro; Methodism
degrades them, since it excites and
rouses their sensibilities, which need
rather to be quieted; and as to the Ro-
man Catholics, who are seeking to win
them over to that faith, a negro deems
all Roman Catholics Irishmen, and that
is enough for that argument


Both of the above speeches were list
ened to with great interest and were
warmly seconded by others.
Year: 1865

the feeling in the Northern States, and


Of the policy of the new administration,


that the Presidents inaugural address of


1861 was successfully concealed from the
people of the South who were not in the
councils.


Ina conversation with Governor Aiken
the day of my arrival, he assured me he
had never seen the Presidents first in
augural till that day, and that the ac-
counts of it which were published at the
time in the Charleston papers were who'll
ly false. giving the subsistence of a con-
coction deliberately made. and quoting
Of the whole original message but line
or two in places made TO fit Governor
Aiken himself thought that had that ad-
dress been read throughout the South it
would have killed the secession move
ment. Other gentlemen whom met diff.
fered with the Governor in the extent Of
this opinion-they thought South Caro-
lima was at that time too fully commit
tod to secession TO retreat, but all united
in the belief that knowledge of the in
augural would have killed the movement
in every other State.
Year: 1865

WHEREAS, The 4th section of the 4th
article of the Constitution of the United
States declares that the United States
shall guarantee to every State in the
Union republican form of government,
and shall protect each OF them 1rom inya


sion and domestic violence j, ana, wnere


as. the President of the United States is
by the Constitution made commander IN
chief of the armies and navy, as well as
chief executive officer Of the United
States, and is bound by solemn oath
faithfully to execute the Office of Presi-
Year: 1865

Auction FrR SALE-Every imaginable
style Of furs will be sold at public auction
this evening at Parker & Van Tuyl's rooms,
on Brady. A full and complete assortment
has just been received from Chicago. and it
must be gotten off hands immedi ately, to
make room for more that ara coming. Now
IS the time. Anv one id want Of any thing
in this line, should be promptly on hand
The present stock must be disposed Of at
any prices which it will gain. Procrastina
ton is the thief Of money as well as Of time.
Cal to- night. and you will save money by
% doing.