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Year: 1861

SECESSION THE Doom OF SLAvERY.-An-
drew Johnson, of Tennessee, in his late
speech in the U. S. Senate, said:


There are many ideas aiioat sbout this
threatened dissolution, and It is time to
speak out. The question arises In reference
to the protection and preservation of the in
stitution of fslavery-whether dissolution is
remedy or will give to it protection. /
avow here to-day that if were an abolition
ist, and wanted to accomplish the overthrow
and abolition of the institution of slavery
in the Southern States, the first step that I
would take would be to break the bonds of
this Union and dissolve this governmet. l
believe the continuance of slavery depends
upon the preservation of this Union and q
compliance with all the guarantees Of the
Constitution. believe an Interference with
II will break up the Union and believe q
dissolution of the Union will, 10 the end
though 1t may be some time to c0me-over-
throw the institution of slavery. Hence
we find so many in the North who desire
a dissolution OF these States as the most GER
tain and direct and effectual means Of over
throwing the institution of slavery.


What protection would it be to us to dis
solve this Unionl What protection would
il be to us to convert this nation into two
hostile powers, The one warning with the
other Whose property is at stake Whose
interest is endangeredi Is it not the prop
erty Of the border Statesi Suppose Cana
da we're moved down upon our border, and
the two separated sections, then different
nations, were hostile; what would the insti-
tuition of slavery be worth on the border
Every man who has common sense will SEQ
that the institution would take up its march
and retreat, as certainly and as unerringly
as general laws can operate. Yes, Il would
commence to retreat the very moment this
government was converted into hostile DOW
ers, and you made the line between the
slayeholding and non-slaveholding States
the line Of division.
Year: 1861

HAPPY WoMEN.-A happy woman! is
not she the very sparkle aud sunshine Of
lifea A woman who is happy because she
can't help it-wbose smile even the coolest
sprinkle Of misfortune cannot dampen. Men
make terrible mistake when they marry
for beauty or style; the sweetest wives are
those who possess the magic secret of be-
ing contented under any circumstances.
Rich or poor, high or low, it makes no diff
ference; the bright little fountain of joy
bubbles up just as musicaly in their hearts.
Do they live in log cabin, the fire that
leaps up on its humble hearth becomes
brighter than the gilded chandeliers in AL
ladin's palace. Was ever the stream of life
SO dark and unpropitious that the sunshine
Of ashappy face falling across the turbid tide
would not awake an answering CLEAN p
Why, these joyous tempered people don't
know half the good they do.
Year: 1861

His grasp of Milly was relinquished, and
she fell 10 the floor.


10, sir" she cried to the new conner
"This man has robbed US, and would muir
der me that l would not tell of it."


"Fear not, madam, he shall not harm
you" responded thestanger. "Fellow, sur
render yourself"


sect out of my way" cried the robberi
making rush for the door, and striking
at the stranger with large knife.
Giving back few steps, the stranger
seized the robber by the collar, whirled him
around, and threw him on his face in the
snow. The robberstruggled, but the stran'
ger knelt heavily on the small of the back,
and grasped his hair.


"Lie, still" said the stranger, "or l will
send bullet through your BRAIN


The robber felt the cold barrel of pis-
tol at his ear and. obeyed. Milly quickly
brought ropes, at her rescuer's request, and
the robber was bound hand and foot.


'1t was a strange providence" the new
conner said, shat overlook me with snow
storm on the prairie, and forced me an
hour ago to take refuge in your smoke
bouse, nearly dead with cold"


Milly acknowledged the truth of the re-
mark, and she knelL and thanked her
Father in Heaven for her deiverance.


The next day MilIy's husband came
home, and when he had been told all, he
remarked:


"This fellow was in the tavern at the
village the day sold my produce. 1t will
learn me lesson-never to let stangers
know when money is plenty with me, lest
they be tempted to crime and bring ruin
on me and mine."


That day some sixty or seventy men
gathered at the house of Mr.. Dean. The
robber was recognized as notorious horse
thief who had long infested the neighbor-
hood. There was a summary trial, and
then in dogged silence the wretch who
would have burned a harmless infant and
murdered faithful woman, submitted TO
his inevitable fate. A rudely constructed
gallows and "a stout rope ended his exis-
tence. So on the thinly settled frontiers
of the West, do they meet out justice to
offenders against property and life.


There were about seventeen hundred
dollars in bills found on the person of
the robber, besides the gold he had taken
from Mrs. Dean. AS there was no claim
ants for the bills, at the suggestion Of the
stranger, whose life had been saved from
anger of winter storm by the shelter he
found in the smokehouse, thousand dol
lars of seventeen hundred were presented
to Milly in consideration Of what she had
passed through, and the remainder was
divided around. --.-


On the very spot is now a thriving town,
and one of the finest residences in the place
is that where dwells Milly Dean and her
husband - Geason's.
Year: 1861

In the log cabin in the valley of the
streanlet, Milly Dean sat alone. Her hus-
band had gone to distant town, and the
young wife was left with her babe Ac-
customed to the solitude she felt safe; and
sat in contentment before the blazing fire;
the flames leaped right joyfully up the
chimney, and the green logs sized and
cracked in the heat like things of line
Out doors, the wind was bowling drearily,
and the snow falling heavily; but Milly
cared not, for it only made the fire more
cheerful.


There was rapping at the door.


allow strange! Who can be at our
door ip this wild night?" she said as
she arose and went into the little entry.


The rapping was repeated.


"Who is there!" she asked.


"For heavens sake, let me in; I am
freezeing to DEATH"


"Who are you, and how came you in
this lonely place on such an evening as
this 2"


81 am traveller from below; I lost my
way, and am dying with cold. For pity
sake let me in or l shall perish"


Milly hesitated. She was alone, and it
was three miles to the nearest neighbor's.
What could she do? she paused in per-
plexity.


30, save me-save me! am dying?"
were the words that me: her hearing
There was heavy fall against the door,
and low moans. In her woman nature, true
to the instinct of her being, she unbarred
the door and threw it open. A closely
muffled figure reeled by her into the room,
and shutting the door she followed. On
reaching the fireplace, the stranger threw
off his disguise, and stood erect and strong,
without sign of Inconvenience from the
effects of the weather. Milly retreated
from him in amazement; but recovering
herself, and putting the best face on the
matter, she tremulously addressed the man !:


81 am sorry, sir, you are SO cold. It is
bitter night to be abroad. Will you not
sit down by the fret" and she pushed a
chair forward.


The man made no response, but stoop-
ing over, ran his finger through the blaze.
Then be turned and stared at her with a
Year: 1861

Lay down the ak, fling by the spade;


leave in It's track the toiling plow;
The rifle and the bayonel blade


For arms like yours were filter now;
And let the hands that ply the pen


Quit the light task, and learn to WELD
The horsemsn's crooked brand, and rein


The ch arger on the battle field.
Our country calls! away, away;


To where the blood stream blots the gIeen
Strike to defend the gentest sway


That Time in all bis course has seen.
See from a thousand coverts-see


Spring the armed foes that haunt her track
They rush to SIN ite her down, and we


Must beat he banded traitors hack.
Ho! sturdy as the oaks ye cleave,


And moved rs soon to fear and flight,
Men of The glade and forest! leave
Your woodcrait for the field of fight.
The arms that WELD the ak must pour


An iron tempest on the foe;
His serted ranks sha II reel before
The arm that lays he panther low.
And ye who breast the nountain storm
BY grassy steep or highland lake,
Come, for the land ye love to form


A bulwark that 10 foe can break.
Stand, like your own gray cliffs that mock
The whirlwind, stand in her defense;
The blast as soon shall move the rock
AS rushing squadrons bear ye thence. ..
And ye, whose homes ar, by her grand
Swift rivers, Using far away, ..... ..-..
Come from the depth Of her green land
AS might in your march as they;
A. terrible as when the rains


Have sweled them over bank and bourue,
With sudden floods to drown the q lains
And sweep along the woods uptorn.
And ye who lhrong beside The deep
Her ports and humets of strand,
In numbers like The waves that leap
On his long mu Inuring marge of sand,
Come like that deep, when, DER his brim,
He rises, all his floods TO pour,
And filings the proudest bGrks that swim,
A helpless wreck against his shore.
Few, few were they whose swords of old,
Won this fair land in which we dwell;
But we are many, we who told


The grim resolve to guard it well,
Strike Ior that broad and goodly land
Blow after blow, till men shall see
That Might and Right move hand in hand,
And glorious must their triumph be.
Year: 1861

MEETING AT THE CORN EXCHANGE


The members of the Corn and Flour Exchange
were called together this morning bv Col Chest
nut, the Vice President who stated that it was de-
sirabe that some public expression should be made
in relation to the action of our city authorities in
prohibiting the shipment from this port of -four,
grain and provisions, and he said he was ready to
receive and lay before the meeting any suggestion
or motion in relation to this matter; whereupon
Mr.. Crlchton came forward and said 1t has
been suggested, Mr.. Chairman, that the restric-
tons placed upon the export of -four, grain and
provisions, by the Mayor and Board of Police Com
mlssoners Is greatly injurious to the trade of the
city, and that it is directly defeating the object for
which, no doubt, the restrictions were intended -
Ii there are no exports permitted there will of
course be no imports. Parties will not send sup
plies of produce here, when they know that there
is no market or outlet for them. The desire of
every good citizen should be to sustain any proper
action OF our authorities which may tend to the
protection and welfare of the CITY in the present
emergency, but We at this moment as eflecual-
" in a state of blockade as though that blockade
was kept up by foreign enemy. / feel assured
that when 1t is announced in grain-growipg
districts, and in the West that our market is again
open to the world. that supplies will come forward,
and We need have no fears of scarcity A commit
tee, an informal one, of gentlemen connected with
the Hour and grain trade, called last week upon the
Mayor AMI Commissioners of Police, and
represented to them that there a stock
here OF upwards of sevcnty-fve thousand barrels of
Hour, and they further represented to them the in
jury that was being done to the trade Of the city
by the restrictions placed upon it, but all their argu
ments were unavailing to convince them of the pro-
priety of removing them at present. 1t has been
suggested that committee formally appointed by,
and representing this large and respectable body
(the Corn and Flour Exchange) would have great
er weight and influence with the authorities, and
move, Mr.. Chairman, that committee of five be
appointed by this meeting to lay this subject again
before the Mayor and Commissioners of Police and
ask the removal OF the restrictions upon our trade
to such degree as may be conducive to the inter
ests of our city in its present emergency.


Mr.. Crichton's motion adopted, and the meet
ing appointed Messrs. VIM. Crichton, Charles A.
Gambrill, b. F. Newcomer, Thos. w. lowering and
Israel NJ. Parr the committee to wait upon the
authorities, and subsequently Col. VIM. Chestnut,
the chairman of the meeting, was added to the
committee.


A meeting of the members of the Provision Ex-
chang held subsequent to the above meeting,
and Messrs. Frank Sullivan, Aaron Fenton and j.
G. Nicodemus were appointed a committee to CO.
operate with the committee of the Corn and Flour
Year: 1861

HOLIDAY STREET THEATRE-The Forty There's
as expected, drew a crowded house at Holiday
Street Theatre last evening. The scenery is gotten
up in excellent taste and in creditable Manner
The cast is a strong one, being composed OF al
the old company and number of new artists, Wht
act their parts we'll
Year: 1861

MAJOR ANDERsoN.-lt is reported that this Office
has asked permission to take command of the
Jersey quota and that his wishes will probably be
acceded to by the Government. So says the
Boston Atlas.
Year: 1861

Kansas company called in a body at the White
House to take leave of the President. Colonel
Vaughn, Of Leavenworth, delivered short speech
the burden of which was that the loyal people Of
the North expected the Government to crush out
the Southern rebellion at all hazards.


The President in his reply said:-'Fhe last hope
OF peace may not have passed away. But if have
to choose between the maintenance of the Union
of these States and OF the liberties of this nation
on the one hand, and the shedding of fraternal
blood on the other, you need not be at a loss which
course | shall take"
Year: 1861

Camp Myler, wealthy and patriotic
citizen Of Spencer Co., is now in Camp
Vanderburgh with company enlist
ed for the war. His company hav-
ing been ordered into camp before it was
quite full, his wife with all the zeal of
our revolutionary matrons, started out
to recruit for her husband, and enlisted
FIVE the first day. The company will
soon be full under the efforts of.so ex-
cellent recruiting officer -Evansviile
Journal.
Year: 1861

A correspondent of the New York
Times speaks of Major General Polk in
the following: 5ag


He is tall raw-boned man fifty. eight
or sixty years with q pleasant but unin-
tellectual face, and decidedly military
bearing; a man of position, but not q
man Of talents or high Information. He
was classmate with JEFF Davis at West
Point Military Academy, graduating
about 1926. He must have entered the
study of the ministry Immediately after,
for we find his name in the catalogue OF
1880 He has been an Episcopal minis
ter for thirty years, and may possibly be
now solcier by instinct.
Year: 1861

A son was born to the 37tn New
York Regiment in camp the other day,
and was christened abe Lincoln with
great ceremoniousness. The Chaplain
performed the rite, the Lieutenant Col
and Captain stood godfathers and the
Surgeon sponsor. The natural father
was somewhere in the crowd
Year: 1861

Livery subjects duty is the kings: but
Every subjects soul is his own. Therefore
Should every soldier in the wars do as
Every sick man in his bed, work every
Mote out of his conscience; and dying, M
So, death is to him advantage; or not dying
The time was blessedly lost, wherein such
Preparation was gained; and in him that
Escapes, it were not sin to think that
Making God SO free an offer, let him
Outlive that day to see his greatness, and
To teach others how they should prepare"
Now l understood the secret of Ser
geant Blacks good conduct, good feeling
and good character, the secret of his love
to his Queen. his country, and his CON-
rade's; his scorn of danger aud his hap.
pinsss in death. The secret lay in his
just and sincere appreciation of what 8
soldiers duty is.


On the following evening. at sun ct, the
whole regiment followed the body to the
grave. and the funeral ceremony was con-
Quoted with great solemnity remained
behind, and stood by the covered grave,
and thought to myself, "would that every
soldier could die as this man diedP /
used often afterwards to revisit the spot.
A cypress was planted at each end of the
grave, and marble slab was placed there
upon which the following words were in
scribed
Year: 1861

Tue following letter was taken from the body Of =
soldier of the New York sixy-nInth regiment after
the battle Of Manassas Plains. How terrible must
be the suffering which LIxCoLx's war is bringing
upon his own people.


THURSDAY, NEw YORK, July 9Th, 1851.


1y Dear Husband: l write this time to let Won
know that and the children are all well, thanks be
TO God, and hoping this to find you the same. Dear
Husband, mean TO let you know that the money
from the Relief Committee is stopped for the last
two weeks, and dear husband, what to DO | do not
know. We de not expect to get any more so By any
chance do not volunteer any more to remain from
me and your five children.


hope will see you soon. You know what
suffered when bad been turned out in the street
it will not be the case again, and if it is, would
sooner go into the wOrkhOuse, than be thrown in
the street, as had'been before.


Dear husband, am this time sending YOU 81 80
as to drink our health in Dixie's land before you
come home.


We have seen in the Express this evening that all
the Temperance Societies to be ready to turn out
to receive you on the 23d of this month.


Dear husband how well the Seventh came home
when their time was up. Is not the Sxtyninth a.
much entitled to come as the New York pets. [
should think they are, and great deal more so.
Who worked hard day AMI night building a Fort,
But that is nothing, they poor Irish and they
are good support to stop ball.


! Come home, dear husband. COlOnels and Cap
tains sport their money, but God help the poor
privstes. He must be kept down, while all the
poor women and children starving here in the
city. Big bugs are sporting their figures, and you
and your equals going TO fight, and we fighting with
hungry children, and striving to pscify them.


If had sheet of paper that would reach from
here to you, dear husband could not state to yon
all the rOguery that is carrying here. Don't let
anything fatter you and keep you from coming
home to me and to y1ur FIVE children. I am living
in Laurence street-in the very house that we were
taking befOre-you know the house; it is between
Grand and BrOome streets Give my best respects
to Terrey Collins.


have no more to say, dear husband, but remain
your wife until death. &C L..
Direct as before 20 me and answer as quickly as
possible, and let me know if you are for coming
home or not. saw Seargent Bell the other day,
and he would not tell me one word Of truth IsaW
the COlonel's (CorcOran) wife too, and it just
the same. She takes no notice Of poor people here
to talk to them. As God has brought you safe
through the three months for which you enlisted,
would not endanger myself again from my family,
for if any thing should happen to you, the poor
house would De me and your children's home for
ever more. Good bye for a while, and may the
great God bring you home safe to Us


&C L-T.


No. 4i Lawrence street, New York.
Year: 1861

The following letter was taken from the body Of a
soldier of the New York xtyninth regiment after
the battle Of Manassas Plains. How terrible must
be the suffering which LyCoLS's war is bringing
nnnn his own nannlat
Year: 1861

SECRErARY WELLEs.-The report Of the Sec
retary Of the Navy Is universally commended %
an able and valuable document There was q
disposition some time since to undsrrate the
energies of Mr.. Welles, but this idea has long
since been dissipated. The navy Is becoming
the right arm OF the Government, under the


management of the able head OF the Depart
ment-N. y Journal of Com.
Year: 1861

MAIL ARRANGEMENTS. - In our advertising
columns will be found a schedule of the arri
val and departure of the mails to aud from our
City Post Office, but we are inclined To the,
belief that little reliance Is to be placed In it
so far as the arrivals are concerned, from the
fact that the trains due at this place, for the
last three mouths, have scarcely ever arrived
at schedule time or even within an hour of it.
This is caused, doubtless, by the immense
amount of Government freight, and the large
number Of troops being conveyed over the
roads between here and New York. The Post
Office Department has done all in Its power to
remedy the evil, but 30 far without any avail
The mail for instance, due yesterday morning
at six A. NJ, did not reach the City Post Office
until ten o'clock A. M.
Year: 1861

d


1t is useless to dictate to business men
about advertising. We have seen one
horse traders and third-rate merchants
who were dOgmatic in their assertions
that advertising don't pay" But when
we look at the fact that they languish in
poverty, while single advertiser in New
York pays $4,000 to one newspaper in
one year, and grows rich at it, We can
scarcely credit the assertion.


There are those, among me shrewdest
aud most successful, who advertise with
renewed zeal just when others get scared
and quit. We have just become acquaint-
ed with a case in point Business is very
dull in Philadelphia; manufacturing estab-
lishments not making expenses, some
Wholesale dealers have gone into liquida-
tiop, and others are selling at retail; but
in some of the old retail stores the crowd
of buyers is tremendous, three or four
deep at the counters. a correspondent of
a New York paper says of this fact: 81
note n curious coincidence touching this
matter-those whe advertise tue most are
selling the most goods. j. noticed the
same coincidence iu 1857. remember
various men who in that crisis kept them
selve from failing by extensive advertising.
That expedient brought them customers
enough to put them out of debt. People
make the grand mistake of assuming that
in times like these nobody has got any
money. No mistake could be greater
Money can be had for almost anything
man has to sell, by extensively advertising
it,"


To make the application: Tie Iatelligen-
Ger has circulation several times greater
than the accustomed circulation of papers
in Wheeling. Its advertisements are all
conspicuous. We believe now is the time
to advertise.
Year: 1861

under favorable circumstances and high
cultivation. the yield is two or three times
greater Farmers who have gone most
largely into fruit culture, are generally
the best satisfied with it. 1t furnishes
something TO sell from August until
March. The early apples have to be mar
keted in their season, but the Winter va
rieties can wait fer good prices from three
to six months without damage to their
quality. Pears though more perishable
than apples, and requiring more skill 10
their handling and ripening, are enough
higher in price to make them profitable


Not the least advantage of an abundant
supply of fruits in the family, is their iu-
fluence upon health At this season of
the year they are the greatest safeguard
aud were they freely eaten in all our fam-
lilies, the sick list would be greatly d.
minished The craving of children for
fruit. almost universal, Is not so much an
evidence of total depravity, as the work
ing Of ipstinet, seeking what it does rot


ind in bread and meat


Then, as We haze referred to the child
rem, and mean to say good word for
them, there is no tie to bind them to the
old homestead, outside Of the warm cur
rents of domestic love, like the fruit yard
and orchard Who does not recall among
the happy memories of his childhood, if
he we're so highly favored, the old trees
whose shade was bis play ground and
whose fruits were his daily food, the gar
den walks lined with berries, and the
vines upon the arbor aud bouse-side that
g.es purple in the October sun.--4mer-
ican AgrictittaSisi.