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Year: 1863

MDMeHr. -Hufeland, in his treatise on


Gleep, has some curious rs well as tOrcible


ideas on the necessity Of devOting mid


night to rvst and sleep. He considers the
period Of twenty -four hours, which is
produced by the regular revolution Of the
earth upon its axis, marks its influence
most deHmitely on the physical economy
Of man. Diseases show the regular inf1u.
ence in their daily rise and fan. Settled,
regular fever exhibits twenty four hours
hux and reflux. In the healthful state
there 10 manifest the same regular int1u-
ance. and the more habitual our meals.
our hours Of exercise or employment, and
hours Of sleep, the more power is in the
system to resist disease. In the morning
the pulse is slow and the nerves Calner,
and the mind and the body bettcr fitted
for labor. As we advance towards the
evening Of the day, the pulse becomes
accelerated, and an almost feveriSh state
is produced, which, in excitable persons,
becomes an absolute evening fever. Rest
carries off this fever by its sleep, and the
refreshing opening of its p res which
sleep produces. In this nightly reSpira-
ton there IL an absolute crisis Of this
evening fever. and this periodical crisis
Is necessary for every Individual, as it
carries off whatever useless or perniciouS
particles our bodies have imbibed. This
evening fever, Hufeland thinks, is not en-
tirely owing to the accession Of new chyle
to the system, but to the departure of the
sun and the light. The crisis Of this fe-
yer, to be most effective by its regularity,
ought to take place at midnight, when the
sun is iu it, nadir and the body will be-
come ref sshed for the early morning la
Dor. Those who neglect this period, eli.
ther push the diurna crisis into the NOR
ming, and thus undermine the importance
Of its regularity, or lose it entirely. and
arise tn their lahors unrefreShed by Sleep
Their bodies will not have been purified
by tho crisis, and the disease will have
thus been planted. Nervous people are
peculiarly subject TO the influence Of this
evening fever, and they think they cannot
labor without it's excitement. Hence
their mental efforts are perfurmed in the
night alone; the important time for the
crisis Of this nervous excitement passes
over in WakefulneSS, and no refreshing
perSpiruti"n cleanses the body or recupe-
rates the nerves. Such people will wear
out soon, unleSs they change their habits
and sock rest when nature and the human
constitution dictate. These considera.
tiOns ought to be deeply studied and re-
garded by all who are in the ruinous hab-
It Of turning night into day, and chang
Ing the functions Of both. A failure OF
health will soon manifest the truth Of
these remarks.
Year: 1863

The BEAUrTuL.-Beautiful things are
suggestive of purer and higher life,
and ill US with a mingled love and fear.
They have a graciouSness that wins us,
and an excellence to which we involunta-
rily do reverence. If you are poor, yet
modestly aspiring, keep a vase of flowers
on your table, and they will help to main.
tain your dignity, and secure for you con-
and delicacy of behavior.
Year: 1863

WHEN you hear a woman exclaim Oh,
what fool ! was to reject so many lovers
and then take up with what I did l. be
assured she married the first man who
made her an offer, doing more than half
the courting herself; and that many q
time her hen.pecked husband has wished
she had rejected him
Year: 1863

1NPERTINENCE.-A Western soldier
wants to know if it is an evidence that
the people are incapable of self govern
ment, because they have voted for rail
splitter who has split the Union. A de-
bate on this suggestive subject would
prove interesting. 1t is said Starr King
has taken it for his next lecture.
Year: 1863

Our Creator has enjoined upon US
in terms of the greatest clearness
the duty of being happy. The pow
ers with which he has endowed US,
the circumstances in which our lot
is cast, with all the blessing Of his
benifcence shows Enthusiastically his
mind and will, that we should be
happy. Many do not consider this,
and in their selfshness and igno-
rance labor most earnestly to thwart
his design. Some seem to think
that happiness is the very last thing
to be thought of, if not to be abso-
lutely Stunned, as though their mer-
it lay in depriving ourselves of it.


What is decisive on this point is
the fact that whatever conduces to
our highest good is most cOnsonant
with true enjoyment; while a viola
ton of sight always involves pain.


Not that our sole aim is to be hap
py; but we may be assured that no
demand of truth, right or duty will
ever require a sacrifice of happiness
on the whole, and that it is both ou1
privilege and duty to be happy as
possible.


How are we to seek happiness!
We answer: By benevolence. By
Strive to promote that happiness OF
others in the highest degree. This
will administer directly to your
pleasure, and cultivate in you facul
ties most conclusive to the same
end. The one whose heart glows
with love, whose hand is active in
ministering to the good of his fel
lows, cannot be Notwithstanding
Star.
Year: 1863

Strength of character consists o.
two thing: power of will, and pow
er of restraint. It requires two
things, therefore, for its existence
strong feelings, and strong command
over them. Now it is here we make
a great mistake; we mistake strong
feelings for strong character. A
fore whose frown domestics tremble
and whose bursts of fury make the
children of the household quake;
because he has his will obeyed, and
his own way in all things, we call
him strong man." The truth is,
that he is the weak man; it is his
passions that are strong; he, master
ed by them, is weak.


You must measure the strength
of man by the power of the feel
ings he subdues, not by the power
of those which subdue him. And
hence composure is very often the
highest result of strength. Did we
never see a man receive a fragrant
insult, and only grow a little pale,
and then reply quietly? That is a
man spiritually strong. Or did we
ever see a man in anguish stand as
if carved out of solid rock, master
ing himself ? Or one bearing hope
less daily trial remain silent, and
never tell the world what cankered
his home-peace? That is strength.
He who, with strong passions, re-
mains chaste; he who, keenly sensi-
tive, with manly powers of indigna-
tion in him, can be provoked, and
yet restrain himself, and forgive
these are the strong men.
Year: 1863

Who are Abolitionists What is there in
the word to he afraid of? The most radical
Abolitionist now known in the nineteenth
century is the secessionist. By inaugera ting
this rebellion, he gave slavery stab in the
heart He did not mean to DO this, but the
practical result is the same as they were his
most cherished desire The negro has become
a most formidable engine of power in the
hands of the seeessionists against the Govern
ment If it is possible, (and it is possiblc,)
why not wrest that engine out of his power
and use it against himself? But oh, Federal
Government if you do that you will be an
abolitionist, and to be that is unconstitutional,
because there is no law in the Constitution to
the especial effect that if our enemies use their
slaves against you, you have right to use
their slaves against them. But the Constitu-
ton does say that the Government has a right
to defend ITSELF and of course that implies un.
mistakeably the right to use all means neces-
sary for that purpose. The Government did
not desire or intend to interfere with the in
stitution of slavery; but the rebels by their
own acts have compelled it do so. Ii is now
already measure of self preservation that
slavery should be abolished Nashville I'm
Inn
Year: 1863

From Governor Morton's Proclamation to
the people of Indiana


The criticism of one who is friendly to the
Government, and who is anxious that it shall
succeed and be preserved, and who points out
its errors in order that they be corrected, is
wholly different from that denunciation which
seeks to bring the Government into contempt
and render it odious TO the people, thereby
Withdrawing from it its life, when struggling
in battle with a powerful enemy. The one
can never be mistaken for the other. 1t must
De borne in mind that the exercise of the
plainest rights and privileges may be greatly
modified by surrounding circumstances that
what may be proper or innocent and harmless
at one time may be dangerous and criminal at
another.


To advocate the right of secession and re-
belion, or the dissolution of our Government,
might be harmless in time of pround peace,
but when the country is engaged in desper-
ate civil war, which is consuming the best
blood and treasure of the natioH, and the mis-
fort une of arms might within few days bring
the enemy upon the soil of our State, will it
be contended that the privilege of free speech
gives the right to advocate the rebellious re-
sistance to our Government, or the abandon
meGt of it to its enemies That which is idle
talk in time Of peace may become "aid and
comfort to the enemy" and punishable by the
laws of the land when the enemy is at our
doors.
Year: 1863

Never give way to discomfort, no
matter in what position of life you
may be placed. Not surer and more
certainly does oxygen eat away iron,
than will discomfort weaken the
moral and physical forces; often
causing premature death. If in
misery or pain, remember that Kit
is a long lane that has no turn" and
when you do get to that turn, you
will be out of your difficulty A
discontented mind is stunned by all,
while a contented one becomes a
magnet of attraction, around which
everything that has life in it gathers.
Do well and cheerfully whatever
you are called upon to do, and take
the world easy;so shall you go down
to the grave with a streak of sun
light in your composition-your
head crowned with the SHOWS of
many winters.
Year: 1863

LAWRENCE GRESSAS, COMPANY D, 10Th O. VI
Written on the death of GILIsoN HUMPHREY 7
member of Company G, 96th Regim eEt
O.V. l., who died at Milliken's Landing
La He was a quiet. peaceful, exemplary
Young man, and an intimate friend of the
writer When it was proposed to take home
his remains for burial, his mother replied; =
ST am willing he should rest where he is
1t will do us no good to- remove his bones
His spirit is with his maker, his body return
ed to its native earth. We could see him no
more as he was when he left. Let him rest
Let him rest l''


He went with his comrades as true men should go,
In the army of Freedom 10 meet the proud foe;
Not long he survived, but he bore his part WELL
Till at Miiliken's Landing the young soldier fell
To bring home his remains friends did request.
But his mother replied, Let him rest, let him res'
Let him rest let him rest am willing he should;
To remove his bones would not do any good,
For his spirit has fed 10 the God Of his birth,
And his body returned to its own native earth;
His rude narrow grave would never mOlest,
Let him sleep undisturbed let him rest let him rest
Where the fragrant Magnolia and Jessamine bloom
And wild Southern flowers exhale their perfume,
Where earths mighty river the fertile shore laves
And the waves break in murmurs patriot graves
The cods OF the valley lie cold on his breast,
But he sleeps undsturbed let him rest, let him rest
Let him rest let him restl we shall see him no more
Till we meet him again on Eternlty's shore;
In the kingdom Of peace where enjoyment is sweet,
In the patience Of hope let trust shall meet;
With the martyrs of Freedom the sons of the West,
Let him sleep till he wakes to a glorded rest.
YIoKRBURG Miss, July H. 1863
Year: 1863

The triumph of woman lies not
in the admiration of her lover, but
in the respect of her husband; and
that can only be gained by a con-
slant cultivation of those qualities
which she knows he most values.
Year: 1863

One Of the signs Of the complete
exhaustion of the South is the utter
breakdown of its finances. 4 con-
fedcrate dollar is now worth only six
cents on the gold dollar, and at the
present rate of depreciation will not
be much more that two cents on the
dollar by the first OF SEPTEMBER
The breaking up Of the rebel army
is accounted for by the fact that the
pay Of the soldier is not now much
more than fifty cents Of real money
in the month. Of course no disci-
plined army can be kept together for
any length Of time without money
or the hope of any. 1t is therefore
no wonder. th.., tbessmenad desert to
the homes from which they have
been absent for so long a time, when
o continuance in the army brings
them neither money nor glory. Ser
vice without pay mas do in French
revolution, which is an affair of q
week, but fighting for years at that
compensation is very different mat
ter
Year: 1863

DRAFTED EDrroR-IIow HE TREATS
IT.-Thc editor of the Cuba On. W
True Patriot has drawn prize, and
the chap soysin his last paper: Hero
VIC rro Having received u polite
invitation from the Provost Marshal
of this District TO attend select
party which is TO come of somewhere
down South, we this week take leave
of the readers Of the True Patriot
for longer or shorter period, as God
Wills it. In other words, we have
been drafted into the United States
service, and we ore coming Father
Abraham, one hundred and ninety
seven pounds strong. We have on
" time to state that VIC do not grum-
Bile because we've been struck. Not
a bit of it The draft is bully. Let
it 90 it -
Year: 1863

THE BEAUTY OF A BLUsH.-Goethe
was in company with mother and
her daughter, when the latter beng
reproved for something, blushed and
burst into tears. He said lilo"
beautiful your reproach has made
your daughter. That crimson hue
and those silvery tears become her
much better than any ornament OF
gold or pearls. These may be hung
on the neck Of any woman, but those
are never seen disconnected with
moral purity. a fuIl-blown rose,
beswriukled with the purest dew, 10
not so beautiful as the child blushing
beneath its parents disp!easure, and
shedding tears ofsorrow for her fault
A blush is the sign which nature
hangs out to show where chastity
and honor dwell.
Year: 1863

At his meals he never took much
of wine or an other termented IL
quor, and he was not fastidious in
his food; yet his taste seems to have
been delicate and refined like his
other senses, and he had a preference
for such viands as were OF Al agree
able flavor. In lis early years he
used to sit up late at his studies, and
he continued this practice while his
sight was good; but in his later years
Year: 1863

He declares TO the people of the State
and the nation, that if elected Governor
and any of the seeding States lay down
their arms and desire to return to the
Union under the old Constitution, with
all its guarantees just as our fathers made
them, he would use his Gubernatoriai
power to prevent their return. In his
speeches at Marietta and Cleveland he
declared that he was for war until slave.
ry was abolished.


Such is the position Of the Abolition
nominee for Governor, and all who
support Brough stand upon the same
platform. 1t is tor the entire destruction
of the old Union, and the abrogation o.
every clause in the Constitution which
does not suit their purposes. They are
disunionists; they now proclaim it open
ly and above board, and what is worse,
they intend to protract the war until
slavery is overthrown, regardless OF all
their promises and all constitutions.
They intend to keep our soldiers into the
field, and call millions more, not to re-
store the Union, but to abolish slavery.
This is the doctrine Of the party. and
every shoddy contractor. Federal office.
holder, treasury sucker, and fanatical
rattle brain in the State, joins in the
cry, "War, war !" not to restore the
Union but to aid the poor niger and
give them a chance to make money,
Men who vote for this state Of things
this fall must not complain in the hour
of calamity. If taxes are piled Up
mountain high, and their sons are one
after another called to the field from yeal
to year until all are gone, and their prop
erty mortgaged for generations, let them
not complain, for on all such voters
rests the responsibility of protracting q
terrible war for the mere purpose of feed
ing and clothing the negroes. The wal
for the overthrow of the rebellion i:
virtually over. and II Lincoln would say
to the rebel States. Come back, take
all your rights" many of them woult
return within three months. But Lin


coin, Brough, and all the tribe of Abo
litionists who stay at home and urgt
others to go to war, say to them, "W,
wont have you unless you abolish slav
: cry" This most abhorrent Union doc
f trine is now boldly promulgated, an
t he people should wake up to its ruinou
aud destructive consequences, before it
I too late. Let these wicked men continu
s to rule. and our nation is utterly dei
: troyed. The South will become desolatt


and the north will be enslaved to perpet
5 ual labor and poverty to pay taxes. Al
t will be gone; universal ruin will over
, spread the land. No honest man ca
vote for or support such party leaders
. and such destructive measures Circle
D uille Democrat, -..
Year: 1863

Gen. Jackson said "the Constitution
cannot be maintained, nor the Union
preserved by the mere power of the Fed
eral Government. The foundations of
the people; in the security it gives to
life, liberty, character and property in
every part of the country" Yet Tin the
face of this God dinspired declaration, we
hear the Abolitionists non claiming to be
jackson men, and at the same time
breathing fire and sword not only to
those in arms and all who temporarily
submit in the Southern States to their
power, but to every man in the non-se-
cedcd States who does not mouth the
same language and vote the same ticket
with themselves Can such desperation,
inconsistency. and falsehood deceive the
lowest creature that walks?
Year: 1863

"There is no place like home" says
the poet. Right unless its the home Of
the young woman you are after This Is
of course an exception. Future poets
will please note this, and note the kind
of "home of which they POLITICALLY
sing. There is a wide difference in
them
Year: 1863

The Detroit Free Press says: "What
the state of the country was from 1900
up to the Presidential election in 1860,
the Democratic party is responsible for.
What the condition of the country now
is, aud has been since the 4th of March,
1861. the Republicans are responsible
for"


The Union was divided by defeating
the Democratic party; it will be restored
when the party again comes into power
Year: 1863

HOME FROM THE WARs.-The Portland
Transcript gives graphic sketch of the ar
rival of the 10th Maine regiment in that city
Here are some Of the incidents:


One woman, with babe in her arms, in
quiring for her husband, was told that he
was left in the hospital, and turned sadly
away. There was another woman who had
waited for hours the arrival of the train,
fondly expecting to see her kl sband returned
safe to her. When the regiment came out of
the depot she started forward to look for him,
but a female companion by her side laid
hand upon her shoulder and said, II would
not go, you'll only be disappointed :" '.Why
do you think so2H said the aager wife. BE.
cause yoir husband IS dead" said her com
panion. q Did you know it," inquired the
wife with trembling lip. g Yes, we have
known it for a month, but didn't like to tell
you" Here sympathizing bystander asked
the woman why she had allowed the wife to
come to the depot with the expectation of
meeting her husband. She could only say
that she feared to tell her of her husbands
death, but that the time had come when she
mus: be informed of it. The poor victim of
this cruel kindness meanwhile stood as if
struck dumb. but presently. slowly turning,
she moved away from the scene of happy
greeting around her towards her now des-
olate home. Her companion started to FL
low her, but the stricken one turned upon
her and said, "don't como with me-never
speak to me again."
Year: 1863

SELF CREATING POWER OF MoNEY-A pen
ny at FIVE per cent. simple interest, for
eighteen hundred years, amounts to seven
sMpipgs and seven pence half penny, but at
compound interest, it would be larger
sum than could be contained in six hundred
millions of globes, each equal to the earth
in magnitude, and all in solid gold.-Greo.
ory's Dictionary.


In these few lines is the secret of the i'm
mense wealth of the Rothschilds. the Astors
and Girards. As Mr.. Astor once said, the
only difficulty in becoming rich is that of GET
ting the first thousand tp commence with. -
Ignorance of this wonderful power in money
to reproduce itself, is a chief cause of the nov.
erty of the poor. In most of the countries of
the old world the great bulk of the popula
ton need all their earnings for the support
of their families. 1t is not so here. There
is hardly ar industrious man in the United
States who cannot. if he will, make hand
some provision for old age. In other words,
it is almost always mans own fault if he
does not lay up in the course of a few years
enough for every reasonable want OF his RI
pened age. The only secret is to let your
sa.ings, however small, accumulate. Inc
geometrcal increase cited abose'Sili astonlsh
those not before familiar with the wonderful
results of interest accumulating on1nterest.


TIE last marvel In medicine Is OF man
in New Hampshire, who curing his last sick
ness, manifested an inordinate craving Tor
onions, but his physician utterly prohibited
his eating them. The patient died, and
q post -mortem examination disclosed IN his
stomach a calcareous substance of the size
of small hen egg. which was taken TO be
the cause of his death. To preserve the
curiousity, the doctor had 1T mounted on ms
staff, which one day he CHANGED 70 nA upon
an onion he'd. Returning some hours after
wards for the cane, he found it had fallen
upon the bed. its head completely di-solv-
ed by onion juice which had come in contact
with it. The inference is the patient would
have recovered if he had been permitted to
eat the article he 80 much craved. - =
Year: 1863

-n|Ma NA Na.
AN IaoN Eee,-In Dresden there
is an iron egg the history ofWhieh is
something like this ;t,t VS., Isras


A young prince sent this iron egg to
a lady to whom he was betrothsd. She
received il in her hand and looked at it
with disdain. In her indignation that
he should send her such a gift, she cast
it to the earth. When il touched the
ground a spring, cunDingly hidden in
the egg, opened and a silver yOlk rolled
out. She touched q secret spring in tho
yolk and golden chicken was revealed.
sho touched spring in the chicken and
crown was found Within sheI touched
spring in the crown aud within it was
diamond marriage ring. ia aasu.


There is moral to the stoEy.mii ilys.
Year: 1863

Hope writes the poetry of the boy,
but memory that of the man. Man
looks forward with smiles, but back
ward with sighs. Such is the wise prov
idence of God. The cup of life is sweet.
est at the brim, the flavor is impaired
as we drink deeper, and the dregs are
made bitter that We may not struggle
when it is taken from our lips.
Year: 1863

Some one has beautifully said: "The
water that flows from spring does not
CONCEAL in winter, and those sentiments
of friendship which flow from the heart
cannot bo frozen in advcrsity."