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Year: 1861




Try to compute your artificial wants
the number of things which you fancy
come under the list Of must haves' merely
because other people possess them, and not
because you would not be quite as well off
and as happy in their absence Try it for
one week, whenever you are tempted to
daily with your purse strings. Record in
your memorandum book what, in view of
this, you sepsibly resolve not to buy, and
see what nice little sum will be left you
for real necessaries. 1t is seldom by these
last thai one is hampered or annoyed
Make the experiment and see if it is not
so. A just economy is not niggardliness ;
one need not be miser in avoiding the ex-
trayagance Of q spendtbrift.
Year: 1861

The Richmond papers of the Gath,
contains the following account Of the
great battle fought on Sunday last:


We are able to give the reader an
authentic statement of this battle.


General Beauregard disposed his
Year: 1861

Too BAD.-We are told that . seces.
sion gas-pipe in Oregon promises to come
over and course us blind" Couldn't he
spare one of our eyes? We would be
thankful for the privilege of "going one
eye on it." We feel very melancholy
over the prospect, when we remember
that the same individual. just about four
years ago, called upon our entire town to
protect him from the wrath Of boy
whom he had assaulted with heavy
cane! Our melancholy increases. when
we remember that be. attempted to raise
a vigilance committee Of our citizens, to
put certain psttifogger into the river.
who was employed by the boy to take
charge of his case in Court And then
we have to "snicker right out" when we
notice that said blasphemous menacer Of
eyes and said pettifogger are now doing
honor to the same quill


Don't provoke us-in secession par.
lance, "let us alone'-or you msy set
us to work on q rich but hitherto "un-
prospected" vein Of history, reminiscen.
ces and incidents.
Year: 1861

r. We observe that the Northern
States are now raising regiments Of sharp
shooters for the war. If their object is to
bring the traitors to Justice. what they
need most are swift runners
Year: 1861

v Dingus says he is heartily rejoicsd
that the scene of war will soon be re-
moved from Manassas Junction. He
thinks poor Manassa must be tired enough
of so much fussing about his Junction
Year: 1861

CoTroN IN NIcARAGUA.-Late advices from
Nicaragua-the country that Walker and the
knights OF the Golden Circle wanted to open
to slavery and annex to the Southern Confed-
eracy which was then in contemplation-rep-
resent that the growing of cotton is creating
considerable excitement there, and large
quantity of the fabric is likely to be planted
this year. A steam cotton gin is now at work
in the State. How secession does advance
Southern interests to be sure
Year: 1861

A SURE CURE.-The habit of drinking can
be cured by giving the drinkers all the liquor
they want to drink all the time. We know of
two in our experience who were cured in three
weeks. One jumped out of four story win
dow and run curbstone into his head. The
other didn't get up one morning and has now
a curbstone growing over his head in the
graveyard.
Year: 1861

more stealthily than I did at that time.


That morning we met. May Stevens
aud /, at the breakfast table, in the
character Of the newly-arriyed that morn
ing-ard were formally introduced, dur
ing the ceremony of which we astonished
every one present, and planted thorn Of
wonder in the sides of Nettie and Carrie,
by bursting simultaneously into hearty
laugh, which we never fail to repeat when
the memory of our first meeting come;
up.


And now cousin Jane, you have the
whole story Of how first met my wife.
Year: 1861




1t looks as if we are to have fight in
this vicinity soon. The enemy appear
to be abandoning places of less impor-
tance with view to the concentration of
their forces in front of Bowling Green
and Columbus, both of which points will,
We think, be attacked simultaneously
with an attempt to advance into Eastern
Virginia. The Federal troops have been
withdrawn from the Sandy Valley to
swell the numbers under General BUELL. !;
and the retreat from London to Crab Or
chard was not from an imaginary enc
my threatening them from the direction
of Somerset but to get them in a position
to cooperate with the main army in its
contemplated advance. And in this the
enemy acted wisely; for Cumberland Gap
is impregnable; and if the Northerners
get into Tennessee this winter it must be
ria Bowling Green.


Another reason we have for thinking
the enemy 'tmean business" is the actiy-
ity of their spies and informers as indi-
Gated in the number Of "good Southern
men" who have just discovered that it is
necessary for them to return home to
Louisville. The Yankee General evil
IDENTIFY doesn't wish to strike in the
dark, and his friends apparently are will
ling to serve him under any disguise it
may be necessary to assume and to any
extent he will pay them to go. There is
really no difficulty in getting passports
through our lines; and we learn that an
extensive intercourse is kept up between
Gallatin, Tennessee, and the North, via
Scottsyille, Campbellsville, and Column
bia, on which route no passports, we be-
lieve, are required and none obtained.
Within few days, shrewd, sharp, OBJ
servant man, who has been here for sew
eral weeks in familiar intercourse with
citizens, soldiers, and officers, though his
brother is surgeon in the Northern ar
my and he had given no evidence of his
loyalty to the South, departed this vi
cinity for the North, and has doubtless
given our enemies the benefit of all the
information he acquired here. Another
| one had been arrested as spy and de-
tanned for several days, but his brother,
| in whom the Federals had sufficient con-
fidence to justify them in giving him q
pass through their lines, arrived here di-
rect from Louisville, obtained his re-
lease, and both are now en- route for the
Northern camps. Though we think al
this time il would be better and safer
| to permit no communication whatever
between this city and Louisville or 9TH
er places in the North, we mention these
facts, not to complain of them, but as a
reason for our belief that the enemy con-
template forward movement, for which
they need more information relative to
the Confederate forces than they have
had.-Louisutle Courier, 30A.
Year: 1861

NOTICE THE ECONOMY IN THE USE OF THIS STOVE
will reduce your wood hill from twenty to thirty per cent
These Stoves warranted to bake the point
which all other Stoves found wanting See they diff
fer from other Stoves


The Charter Oak
Is the only Stove containing FILLEY PATENT HOT AIR
FLU by which heat equal to 400 degrees Fahrenheit is radi
ad from the fire chambers The forward part of the
thus protecting the top Of the bread from being burnt while the
OF baking going the bottom and carving the
surplus heat poiNt where it wasted-hence they
consume less fuel than any other Stove.
Patent Increased Draft Flues- Improve
ments contained in no other Stove,
The Fues of this Stove which gradually enlarged from
their their termination at the pine collar
thereby increasing the size of the Fues-hus area is given
the heat round the oyen which has the effect to
create increasing acceerating draft the Stove which
continues through the pipe into the chimney hence none of
these Stoves fail to have gool draft.
THREE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED of these STOVES


In Daily Use in this City!
PRICE FROM S25 to S10O-WITH CAPACITY TO COOK
For from Persons up to 400.
RS-Every Stove delivered free charge for dayage


RICE BROTHERS & CO.,


SOLE Agents.
No. 2i2 rchouptouas street. sign ohe Golden Stove above st.
Mary's Market. =
On Magazine street, ST. Andrew and Josephne streets
above the Magazine Market ais 2plt&6tend
Year: 1861

NOVELTIES OF TItE OVERLAND TEL
EGRAPH.-The whcle continuous stretch
of telegraphic wire between Cape Race
and San Francisco is nearly 5000 miles.
Its extremities comprise 20 degrees Of lon
gitude, making difference in time Of more
than four and half hours. The agent at
Cape Race might send dispatch forward
at set of sun, and the news feach San Fran
cisco while that luminary was still above
the horizon. The state of the New York
markets might affect these of its future RI
val on the Pacific the same day. Gold
dissets on the Yuba may read in their own
journals the accounts Of events which hap
pened day Or two before on the Potomac
and on the Usage. If telegram were In
simultaneously sent over the whole line, it
would reach San Francisco st a tir1e, ac-
cordiug to the clocks OF that city, about 3
hours and fifteen minutes before the tifiie al
which il left New York according to the
clocks there. Thus dispatch sent from
New York at the high business hour Of f0I
A. ~. would arrive at San Francisco be.
lore the maa to whom it was addressed was
out of bed; while dispatch started from
New York in the edge Of evening would
find the same man up to his neck in busi-
ness. Though these astonishing things are
theoretically possible, yet practically it takes
an appreciable space of time to get dis.
patch from New York to the Pacific. The
weather is rarely fasorable for the tele.
graphic feat Of working so long distance
without repeating and even If 1t were; the
Sariotfs divisions Of tle line would seldom be
nnoccupied With btfsness which could be
suspended to let a dispatch straight through.
Under the present arrangement, the New
York telegram is copied four OF five times
before IT reaches San Francisco, and has 20
take its turn with other dispatches at every
repetition. Messages may be sent and an
swers received IN the same day; but if The
wires are crowded with business; commun-
cation back and forth will probably take
part OF two days. For all practical pur-
poses this is almost as good, thoug.. not
near SO amazing, as the instant telegraphic
Hash. On specially important occasions
like the arrival Of Edropean steamers, when
the atmosphere along the whole line is just
right, the wires will be worked from New
York, aud even from Halifax, 10 San Fran
cisco without interruption. Twenty years
ago, few of our people knew more of CAL
ifornia than they NOV do about the Ant
arctic continent; at present they are placed
in daily Intercourse with brothers and sons
who have sought homes and built cities in
those secluded wilds.
Year: 1861

HENS NEsTs. Fowls Of all kinds, whom
laying like secret place where their ~


lc Us cannot see them. They do not like u
squat down in the hennery, surrounded by
greedy flock, that are ready TO pounce in,
to the nest as soon as an egg is laid, and
devour it Therefore TO crafty the her's
secretiveness, and at the same tinie save the
eggs from being devoured by one Of the
fiocks, my practice has been for numbef
of years, to make their nests in nail kegs
not those that are very snial, nor the largSst
ones, but of those that viii hold about ohS
hundred pounds cf nails. In years past I;
have been accustomed to fill d keg about
half full of straw for nest; bdt the rast
winter have sawed all the kegs in two
equal parts, knocking out the heads, and
then nail piece of cloth over the large end
Of each half keg. for bottom. Any kind
Of old or new cloth may be tackled on with
small trimming tacks. During the winter,
these half kegs are nailed up against the
side Of the hennery, about four feet from the
floor. Hens that lay will soon learn that


When they get into these nests, their fellows
cannot see them, as they are completely
secluded in their cosy little nests; and if
they themselves are disposed to eat eggs,
they find that, if they attempt it while stand-
ing on the edge ofthe keg, they cannot reach
them conveniently ; and if they hop down
into the nest, and attempt TO pick the eggs,
they viii roll down against their feet, and
they soon learn that they are not able to
pick hard enough in such position to break
the shell. ] find that cloth bottom is
superior to wooden bottom, covered with
a nest Of straw AS the weather becomes
warmer, so that the hens seek nests in the
yard we make nests in secluded hooks, or
fIle kegs might BE removed from the hem
merry and nailed against the sida Of the fence,
and a little roof made over them.
Year: 1861


Correspondents of both the New York


Tribune and the Philadelphia Inquirer


write in describing the present and prospec-


tive condition of the Charlestonians as de.


plorable in the extreme. The latter writer
says:


am sorry to inform you that distress
arising from want of employment and the
high price of provisions, is daily on the in
crease. There are now scores of families
here who scarcely know where to look for
tho next meal. Meantime, all kinds of pro-
duce and provisions are steadily increasing
in price; beef, of what is here considered de-
cent quality, but which, in Philadelphia,
twenty-five cents per pound, and other
things are equally expensive. Clothing and
fancy goods are cheaper tnan usual, and for
two very evident reasons. In the first
place, scarcely anybody has money to in
vest in them; and secondly, the shopkeep-
ers are compelled to dispose of some, upon
the proceeds OF which to live. | see nothing
but ruin staring these people in the face. 1t
IS a sad sight to see our Southern brethren
so blinded by passion, at having been defeat
ed in Presidential election, as to lose sight
Of all the material interests of their families
and their State. They will speedily be in
the midst OF hundred difficulties
want, war, disease; and this year the last is
not likely to be the least Yellow fever,
which always seems at home here, seems to
be specially inviting this year. Filth and
stagnant water meet the view upon every
vacant lot; the five or six hundred poor emf.
grants who have been deluded in the cities
of New York and Baltimore into enlsting in
the Southern army, will doubtless be
amongst the first victims, unless they previ-
ously perish at the cannons mouth.
Year: 1861

The war has at last commenced The
rebels have struck the first blow, and now
let the responsibility Of the conflict rest
upnn their own heads! We have no fears
as to the issue. Our confidence is no: based
upon the fact that our side is stronger than
theirs. but upon a firm conviction tha. the
God Of battles will direct the issue in favor
Of the Right. Fort Sumter has fallen into
ths hards Of the traitors, but that will not
end he contest OK cause the Government to
yield i,s authority over the soil Of South
Carolina.


1t should be borne in mind that our news
concerning the fighting in Charleston harbor
eomcs from the enemy. These reports
should, therefore. be received with great
degree Of allowance.
Year: 1861

A Washington letter writer has the follow


ing: .rl-


''The new Administration keep their secrets
very close, and it is impossible to get hold Of
facts enough to predicate policy upon.
This is very unlike Buchanan and his crew,
for they allowed the New York Herald every
morning to give the full details Of the yester-
days Cabinet quarrel, and the President al
ways seemed delighted whenever the report
was accurately given, though it night reflect
no credit upon himself Mr.. Lincoln mana
gcs his affairs with more prudence and sta es-
manship. He keeps almost everything that
transpres at the White House to himself,
and the members of the Cabinet are as retlc.
ent as himself. Doubtless this is an excel
lent thing for the country at large, but it is
vexatious to the newspapers and their cores
pondents, who find it hard to know what the
Administration is driving at"
Year: 1861

BALTIMORE, Wednesday, june ~, 1861.


There was considerable excitement in Baltimore to-
day in consequence Of Col. Smith, Of the 18th New
York Regiment seizng and tearing up some Cofeder-
ate State envelopes, which little boy was vending.
The byetanders nerered and made up collection for
the boy and cautioned Col. Smith not to repeat the
act Shortly aferward the Colonel seized lot Of Jeii
Davis likenesses from mans store, and also tore
them up, declaring that if he caught him selling any
again he would have him taken to Fort Mcilenry.


The replied he had already sold them to officers
there, when the Colonel said he had better not bring
any of such reasonable stuff out to his camp The By
ISLANDERS also nterered in this case and the excitement
was growing intense, when the Colonel retired Mar
shal Kane Gays if he any other police officer had
been present. in either case il would have been his duty
10 have arrested the Colonel and taken him to the
Station-House. The Marshal will call upon Major
Gen. Banks TO have the affair investigated.


Although the city is at present profoundly quiet
every little act like the above tends 10 exasperate and
may eventually lead to serious consequences.
Year: 1861

Tho country has no very great interest IN


my consistency. The preservation OF this


Union, the integrity Of this Republic, Is


of more importance than party platforms


or individual records Hence | have no


hesitation in saying TO Senators on all
sides Of Il is Chamber that | am prepared


to act on this question with reference to
the present cxIgencies Of the case, as it !
had never given vote, or uttered a word,
or had an opinion upon the subject.


Nv hy cannot you Republicans accede
TO the reestablshment and extension OF
the Missouri compromise line? You have
sung paens in its praise, and uttered i'm
precautions and curses enough on my head
for its repeal one would think, to justify
you now in claiming.a triumph 10y its re-
establishment. lfyou are willing to give
up your party feelings-to sink the paGti-
san in the patriot and hel me to re.cs-
tablisk and extend that line, as perpeto
ual bond of peace between the North and
the South, | will promise you never TO re-
mind you in the future Of your denuncia,
lions Of the Missouri compromise so long
as was supporting it, and of your praises
OF the same measurc when we removed 1t
from the statute book, after you had Gauss
ed it to be abandoned, by rendering it i'm
possible for us 20 carry it out. ! seek no
partisan advantage; desire no personal
triumph. am willing to let by cones be
by-gones with every man who, in this eXs
igeney, will show by his vote that he loves
his country more than his party.
Year: 1861

SOME people are eternally searching for
the motives of another's conduct, forgetting
that at least fifteen out of every twenty
things in this life are done without any mo-
tive at ALL
Year: 1861

Ir is reported of a polite Boston deacon
that he was once heard to pray, 80 Lord, we
would not presume to dictate, but VIC would
suggest that a revival of religion is very
much needed
Year: 1861

waters Of the North Atlantic prepared Cor any gency
heeols leaving India Iq planhed over his water tnAs
SO - 20 make a solid platforms elevated above his oul
works On this he NOW ted two long twoyeponndsfs
one pointing The stayhoard and tho other oyer inc
arhoatd side OF his ship lie thus showed q once re-
spectacle armament besides hay ing secured clear 3ase
on which TO work IT, In addition 10 thus ne Was Ne' sup
Piled with small arms and hoatamg implements,


The sequel shows tha in all this he was not over prov
dent, tor Captain Mayo reports that on tho -oh OF NO
yempcr, whom latitude 20 degrees north, and lorsi-
ude 5s sest he discovered suspicious looking v,sse ON
his lea quarter, which renamed in sight unti the morn
ing of the 27th when at about e!g O'Clock, another
ship hove in sight also his len quarter out soon bore
away for the vessel which had beon in ha compny for
the past two days after running before the wind Tor
ha an hour the second, or strange ship, again nauiea
her and and starred after the Grey Feather and con-


hue tho chase Tor four hours and half, or until one
r. NJ. when she had so, within about two miles of her
the Grey Feather being deeply laden that her speed
was not equal 10 that oi the ship Al this time Captain
Mayo deemed prudent to prepare to meet an enemy
and determined 10 defend his vessel to tho last With this
object in view he loaded and shot,cd his long twelve
Founders, and made clear for action Atths time the
suspicious vessel being about anG half miles dis
tant Captain Mayo hoisted hs ensign In the usual manner
in order to attract the strangers attention 10 this the
ship did reply Captain Mayo then bore away and
brought The stranger range and fired shot across her
bows This had the effect OF causing her to hoist the
American flag after which she hauled sharp the wind,
and disappeared in q short time.


The spirited and successful example OF Captain Mayo
aud Messrs L. H. simpson Sons, the OF the Grey
Feather, worthy the attention Of and might be pro.
ftaby initiated by all other and masters OF sea
going vessels in these troublesome times.


The Grey Feather had valuable cargo board and is
herself very line vessel having her outward voyage
made the TO Melbourne in eighty-two days. The
vessel and cargo would doubt have been welcome
| prize 10 privatcer
Year: 1861

ADAM AND EvE.-We never thought Of
that. Adam never played marbles He
never played hockey lie never drove a
tandem of boys with a string lie never
skated on pond or played ball. or rode
down hill on a hand-sled. And Eve, she
never made play house she never took
ate with another little girl from the little
tea table set out with the toy tea things !;
she never rolled hoop, or jumped rope,
or pieced baby quilt, or dressed doll.
They never played blind mans buff or
pussy wants a corner or 'hurly burly,' or
any Of the games with which childhood has
disported itself ever since. How Flank
their lives must have been, wherein no
memories Of early youth came swelling ur
in their hearts, no visions of early childhood
floating back from the long past; no moth
er's voice chanting a. lullaby to the ear Of
fancy in the still hours Of night; or no
fathers word of kindness speaking from
the church yard whore he sleeps Adam
and Eve, they alone Of all the countless
millions Of men and women that have lived, !,
had no childhood.
Year: 1861

A SCARE Crow The following is said
to be remedy against the depreda,ions of
the crow and black bird, in the cornfield:


Take fine plump seed corn--a quantity
Of it-string each kernel on a horse hair
white is hest--tying knot in it to prevent
its slipping off. Scatter 1t over the field in
spots where the birds will see it and alight.
They will cat but one kernel Of it, and
will not trouble that field Cor any other)
again. The two ends Of horse hair stick.
ing out of their mouths well anchored in
their craw by fine kernel Of corn, is by
no means pleasure TO them.