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Year: 1862

Colonel Forney writes to the Philadel-
phia Press:


Il know that there are those in the free
States who will resort to every artifice to
turn the Presidents proclamation into a
means of injury to the common cause
God help our country in this her last trial.
Attacked by traitors IN the South, betrayed
by ingrates in the North, she now, more
than ever, needs the service and support
of her children. Will not her many suf-
ferings awake the fire of affection in the
hearts of those who have heretofore been
deaf to her appeals? A strange nation, in
the condition of the free people of this
country, would excite the sympathy OF
these sympathizers with treason. But
they are Indifferent to the cause OF the
mother country that bore them, ON whose
broad breast they have grown rich and
great. Out of every act OF the Admin
istration to protect and preserve the
Government, these wretched partlsans
fabricate new elements of strife and dis
sension. There is-there must be-a
limit to this atrocious treachery IN our
midst. The people should see 1t, or they
are lost. If the authors of the rebellion,
the advocates of Breckinridge in 1861,





and of his reasonable doctrines OF lSd2,
are now permitted to sow the seed OF new
reyolt-in fact, to lay the ground work OF
a peace that would breed unending war
six months more will find the loyal States
broken into dozen fragments, the de
pendents of a way to crush and anticipate
this great danger. The people must re
buke the shameless demagogues who,
under the cloak of loyalty, are tolling on
the side of rebellion; and who, III oppos-
ing Mr. Lincoln's Administration, expect
to see that of jefferson Davis taking ITS
place. The Presidents proclamation Will
give these secession sympathizers IN
Pennsylvania and elsewhere another
chance to show their hands. May it al
so teach the people that the toleratlon OF
such treason is certain forerunner OF the
overthrow of the Republic!
Year: 1862

nA-A puctual man is rarely P9ef
man and never man of doubtful credit
His small accounts are frequently settled
and he never meets with difficulty N rat
sing money 20 pay larger seleI1ss'tis
Small debts neglected ruin credit ana
when that is lost man will soon be AT
the bottom.
Year: 1862

CoRErG.rED IRos PLArISG.-Mr Owen Collins
Of this city has shown usa model Of a gunboat OF
corrugated iron. BY the corrugation Of the iron he
estimates that four inches thickness is equal to seven
inches of solid iron in resisting shot. The exterior
of the vessel is perfectly smooth.
Year: 1862

PUBLIC REsOLUTIoN-No. II.
A RESOLUTION TO authorize the Secretary


OF War to accept moneys appropriated


by any State for the payment of its


volunteers, and to apply the came as


directed by such State.


RESOLVED By tie Senate and House of
Representatives Of the United States Of
america IN Congress assembled, That il
any State during the present rebellion
shall make any appropriation 10 pay the
volunteers OF that State, the Secretary OF
War is hereby authorized TO accept the
same, and cause it TO be applied by the
paymaster general TO the payments de-
signated 20 the legislative acts making the
appropriation in the same manner as if
appropriated by act of Congress- and
also to make any regulations that may
be necessary for the disbursement and
proper application Of such funds 20 the
specific purpose for which they may be
appropriated by the several States.


Approved, March 10, 1862
Year: 1862

The receipt of the glorious news of the sur.
render of Norfolk, and the blowing up of the
MerrinGc. was jOyously received here. as else.
where. Flags were flying in all directions
and everywhere the friends Of the Government
were congralnlatiDg each other on the success
of the Union cause.
Year: 1862

CHANGE OF TIME..-A change was made on
Monday on the Delaware Railroad in the time
Oflhs morning train. which will leave this de.
pot hereafter at 6.55 instead of9.30. By the
present time persons can have between five and
six hours 10 the city and return the same day
Year: 1862

a friend has permitted US to publish the fol-
lowing private letter from Mr.. Fisher in an
swer to one written to him inquiring as to the
specific language used by him in recent
speech:
Year: 1862

> The Legislature is now in the fifth
week of the session, and the people natu
rally begin to look for some evidences of
what is to be done in the way of retrench-
meut and reduction of our State and
local taxes, 10 order to make tn. burden
of the inevitable Federal taxes as light
as possible.


2 Il is quite probable that each member
of the General Assembly feels deep in
terest in the matter, and that there is an
all pervading desire to cut down our taxes,
in certain branches of the public service,
but with all this. we incline to the opinion
that the new burdens the Legislature will
impose, will in the end exceed any re-
duction which will resql, from its labors-
and therefore, SO far as the people have
looked or may look to this Legislature
for relief, we incline to the opinion they
will be disappointed


We do not say this in any spirit Of
ult.finding, and sincerely hope We may
be mistaken, but still we venture the pre-.
diction that beyond the cutting down ol


the salary of some unfortunate Office
holder. but little will be done by the
"Union" Legislature of the State o


Ohio, in the way of retrenchment and re
form. Should it be otherwise. we viii


make the necessary Acknowledgements.
Year: 1862

in him, and no hostile criticism of the
gentleman here can shake that faith. The
attack of my colleague is like that of the
"pigmy with straw against a giant cased
in adamant'


My colleague is not satisfied with any
thing short of an advance at every haz-
ard. He is not satisfied with the Presi-
dent, for he defers to Mcclellan; not sat-
is6ed with any Commander-in chief. for
no one can command even three hundred
thousand men; not satisfied with what has
been done He would discourage all our
efforts, aud make taxation weigh like q
useless burden on an anxious and sad
dened people. His policy would disor-
ganize the army, and realize his theology
by making hell on earth, laughter
without giving US the satisfaction of fu.
ture state, where Secession may have its
fit eternal doom. Laughter.
Year: 1862

The confessions which are daily being
made to the potency Of Democratic pris
ciples are but a repetition Of history.
The political creed framed by Jefferson
and Madison, and defined and fulfilled by
subsequent Democratic statesmen, embod>
les the fundamental principles upon which
the Union was founded, and must be CO.
equal with the Government. A violation
of the Democratic faith is violation of
the spirit of the Constitution, and the
most sacred instincts of the people. A
departure from that faith engenders dis
cord, oppression taxation and dissolution.
The time has never been in the history of
the Government when permanent tri
umph of the opposition to Democracy
would not have engendered great trou
bles involving either separation. or on es-
sential change in the character of the
Government. We have been saved here
tofore from the evils of opposition tri-
umphs by the immediate revuisions in
popular sentiment We may be saved
this time from the disaster of Democrat
ie defeat by an equally thorough chaage
in popular sentiment. This, now, as in
times past, is the sole rational ground for
hope.-Milteaukee Netcs.
Year: 1862

The following. furnished by correspondent
of the Sacramento Union, we regard as emi-
nently sensible on the proposition to tax the
labor OF the State:


TAX ouR LABOR, YOU SToP CUR WORK
Nessrs. Editors: read there is q proposltion
to tax the Chinese laborers, or their employers
81 per month This viii make their labor
come 50 high we might as well give up the
idea of using our overfowed lands at once
We would not, if this law passed be able to
cultivate rice, cotton, or sugar, at all, nor be
able TO plant hops, tobacco, and many other
matters which require abundant labor, except
on very small scale; 10 fact, we should be
confined to the business we have been doing,
and no more In common with many other
farmers. the raising Of grain crops had COM
petely crippled me before the freshet, and now
that business life has to be commenced again,
it looks hard to see opportunities thought
existed to make my land again valuable legis-
lated away Please tell our representatives to

please, but let them alone when We get them
in the plains and valleys. We cannot work
without help; we cannot plant such crops as
| have mentioned above without labor in abun-
dance, and at times cheap. Make US pay this
tax, land it comes from the employer and we
must give up all thought of agricultural busi-
ness that requires laborers in any numbers.


Let it be once understood that the value of
labor, ard the amount of monthly wages is to
be matter of legislative jurisdiction, and no
more money will be invested in the improve
ment of lands, or the growth of those crops
which admit Of after manufacture The move
ment now making, in the form it presents it
self, is bat the entering wedge towards style
of legislation that has long since been shown to
be impracticable in older countries our busi-
ness at the best is, and has been uncertain and
precarious as to profit limit our supply of
labor and the future is involved in too much of
hazard to allow of present outlay towards any
crops or improvement, on which the profits
are not Immediate.


Just the reverse legislation is now wanted to
bring out CALIFORNIA; true interest. Instead
of discouraging Chinese labor in the tillage of
the SOIL it should be encouraged in every pos
slble way. With their help, we can introduce
new crops, make business for every boat upon
our rivers, teams upon our roads and build up
dwellings, business and manufactures in the
cities. The moment our labor is taxed or in
terfered with, all these advantages must be
given up for the present, md only be thought
of as things which may happen in the dim and
distant future, when our State is crowded with
white laborers. Cotton, rice and other pro-
ductons grown by slave labor, have given en-
ployment to millions of white men. On a
small scale, the productions of Chinese labor
may be made TO benefit the white men of CAL
ifornia. Mr.. Editor, please call attention to
this subject, which, 1 hope, will be written
upon by more able hands than mine.


FARMER"
Year: 1862

LIQUID FIRE AS a WEAPON OF WAR.-Some
experiments were recently tried at the Wash
ington Navy Yard with an apparatus for the
election of liquid fire, which to all intents and
purposes is the famed Greek fire revived. the
secret of which has been lost The chemical
composition may not be the same, bat the ef-
fects are as terrible as those attributed to the
inextinguishable FIRE Of the Greeks The com
position and the apparatus for ejecting it, are
the invention of Professor Greenough of Bos-
ton, who, though for years nearly blind, has
pursued his chemical Investigations with una


bated zeal, until he has produced what promi-
ses to be a terrible auxiliary in modern war
fare. The experiments were under the direc-
ton of Board, consisting of Captain Fox,
Assistant Secretary Of the Navy, Captains
Dahlgreen and Wainwright and Lieutenant
Badger. \ target was erected upon a plat
form fifty feet long by thirty feet wide the
target being made of solid oak timber three
feet in thickness. The fluid was elected in an
inert state from 4 pipe of 3-l6 of an inch in
diameter, and was thrown from thirty TO fifty
yards before it reached the target. At dis
tance of several feet from the nozzle of the
pipe the fluid ignited, expanding to diameter
of two feet, with an intense combustion which
covered the target and the platform with liquid
fire. The fire was apparently inextinguishabe,
burning on the water aud consuming the tar
get. 1t emitted dense fumes and smoke which
darkened the atmosphere, and would suffocate
any human being TO come within its Influence.
The experiment was quite successful. Expert
ments have also been made with shells filed
with this liquid and with great success.
Year: 1862

Judging by what one daily reads in the
newspapers, or what he hears in converse
tion, it does not seem to he generally under
stood what a rife is. We all know that an
ordinary gun, such as musket or fowlng
piece, 10 furnished with barrel the inside Of
which is perfectly smooth. Now take such
gun and cut on the inside CT the barrel
three or four grooves, all running from the
brecch to the muzzle, spirally, like cork
screw, and the gun becomes what is known
as rife. If cut in a musket it is called
rife musket; if cannon, riAsd cannon


The operation can be performed on any wea.
pom, new or DID, Tho riHing OF cannon is
modern invention Of. Sir William Armstrong,
hence when the Armstrong gun is spoken of
it is understood TO mean rifed cannon.
The object Of thus rifiing gun, is to secure
greater certainty Of the ball striking the tar
get, whether it be man or beast, as well as
being able to kill at greater distance than
from a smooth-bore weapon. -.. q
Year: 1862

WoMEE are some on pitch battle. 10 =
street colIoquy between Mrs. Smishers and
Miss Bander, the other day; the former lady
told the latter that she was skeleton man
traps remark which the party addressed
reeiprocated by calling her antagonist q 10
ccmotivc lying machine dressed in cotton
batting. THIS was clincher, and converted
the verbal SIX irmish into digital tussle which
resulted in the loss Of eight artificial teeth
and sorrel wig. -
Year: 1862

JEFF. DAVIS ON REvERsEs. his late
message to the Confederate Congress al
Richmond, JEFF. Davis thus alludes to the
rebel defeats at Roanoke and Fort Donel.
son:


have hoped for several days TO receive
the official reports in relation to our dis
comfture at Roanoke Island and the fall Of
Fort Donelson. They have not yet reached
me, and am therefore unable TO communi.
cate to you such informa tion OF past events
and consequences resulting from them, az
would enable me TO make recommendations
founded upon the changed condition which
they have produced. Enough is known Of
The surrender of Roanoke Island to make
us feel that IL was deeply humiliating, how
ever imperfect may have been the prepara-
ton for defence. The hope is still enter
tanned that our reported losses at Fort Don
elson have been greatly exaggerated, mas
much as am not only unwilling but un.
able to believe that large army of our
people have surrendered without desperate
effort to cut their way through the invest.
ing forces, whatever may have been their
numbers, and endeavor TO make junction
with other divisions of the army. But in
the absence of that exact information, which
can only be afforded by official reports, j
would be premature to pass judgement and
my own is reserved, as trust yours will be
until that information is received. In the
meantime strenuous efforts have been made
to throw forward reinioFeemaDts 10 the ar
mics at positions threatened; and cannot
doubt the bitter disappointmeUts we have
borne. by nerving the people TO still greater
exertious. will speedily secure results more
accordant with our just expectations and as
favorable 10 our cause as those which mark.
ed the earlier period of the war.
Year: 1862

FOR THE RAPID CURE OF
Coughs, Colds, Influenza, HOarsenesa
Group, Bronchitis, Incipient Com


sumption, and for the Relief


of COnsumptive Patients


I'm advanced Stages


of tho Disease.


This Is remedy 80 universally known to surpass any
other for the cure Of threat and lung complaints that Il
s useless here TO publish the evidence of Its virtues Its
unryaed excellence for coughs and colds and Its truly
known Throughout the civilized nations of the earth.
Few arc the communities, families among them
who have not some personal experience OF Its effects
some living trophy in their midst of its victory the
subtle and dangerous disorders Of the throat and lungs
As all know the dreadful fatality Of these disorders and
as they know oo the effects Of this remedy we need not
do more than to assure them that It has now oil the yr
tues that It did have when making the cures which have
won SO strongly upon the confidence Of mankind.
Prepared by DR.. ]. c. AVER g. CO., Lowell, Mass
Year: 1862

THE LAST DAY OF GRAcE.-Holders
of boxes at the Post Office who have not paid
their rent and postage. need not he surprised
If they are obliged t, 60 to the General De-
livery" for their mail matter. The thirty days
of grace expired last evening. No favor will
be shown to anybody, but all boxes in arrears
will be Z" scratched
Year: 1862

Of the eight pounds which man
eats and drinks in day, it is thought
that not less than five pounds leave
his body through the skin. And of
these FIVE pounds a considerable per-
centage escapes during the night while
he is in bed. TIE larger part of this
is water; but in addition, there is
much effecte and poisonous NATTER
This being in great part gaseous in
form, permeates every part of the
bed. Thus, all parts of the bed, mat
tress, blankets, as we'll as sheets, soon
become foul, and need publication
The mattress needs this renovation
quite as much as the sheets.


To allow the sheets to be used with
out washing OF. changing three or six
months, would be regarded as bad
house. keeping; but [ insist, if a thin
sheet can absorb enough of the pois-
onous excretions of the body to make
it unfit for use in few days, thick
mattress, which can absorb and retain
a thousand times as much of the pois
onoUs excretions, needs to be purified
as often certainly as once in three
months.


A sheet can be washed mattress
cannot be renovated in this way
Indeed there is no other way of cleans
ing a mattress but by Steaming it, or
picking it to pieces, and thus in frag-
ments exposing it to the direct rays of
the sun. As these processes are
scarcely practicable, with any of the
ordinary mattresses, am decidedly
of the the opinion that the good old
fashioned straw bed, which can every
three months be changed for fresh
straw, and the tick be washed, is the
sweetest and healthiest of beds.


If, in the winter season, the por-
BUSINESS of the straw bed makes it a
little uncomfortable, spread over it
comforter, or woolen blandets, which
should be washed as often as every
two weeks. With this arrangement,
if you wash all the bed coverings as
often as once in two or three weeks,
you will have delightful, healthy bed


Now, if you leave the bed to air,
with open windows during the day, and
not make it up for the night before
evening, you will have added greatly
to the sweetness of your rest, and in
consequence to the tone of your health.
Year: 1862

Thousands of acres of Chinese Su-
gar Cane are now growing in Ohio,
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Ne
'braska, and even in California, to say
nothing of the large tracts planted in
many of the other States. AS far as
heard from, with very few exceptions,
the cane is maturing we'll, often re-
markably so, and ripening heads in
dicate that the season of manufacture
is at hand. For several years people
planted more as an experiment than
for profit, and in many cases the cane
was suffered to waste for want of suit
able implements to grind and evapo-
rate the juice. The low price of
Southern and West India sweets was
not favorable to the profitable grow
ing of the northern cane, with the
limited knowledge then possessed
The case is far different now. Sugars
are high, and the results of the past
few years experiments have proven
that not only syrup of good quality,
but well grained sugar can be manu-
factured from the northern cane at a
profit, even were prices much lower
than at present. Much, very much is
due to improved implements or mills
for grinding, and especially for eVap-
orators which Will rapidly convert the
juice into thick syrup for granula-
ting.


But what we wish to urge now is
that suitable provision be at once made
for promptly working up the coming
crop. Too much reliance should lot
be put upon neighborhood mills, and
evaporators, convenient and ecOnomi-
cal as they are, for with the vast
amount of cane to be disposed of,
some will doubtless spoil before it is
reached in rotation. Every person
who expects to raise a few acres Of
cane each year, needs a good iron
mill and a medium size evaporator,
and he should not leave the procuring 9
of them until wanted for use, as there
will doubtless be scarcity the pres
eft season, so great is the Demand
Year: 1862

Admiral Fitzroy, in his instruction
to meteorological observers, is careful
not to cut off any source of .informa-
ton, as he especially notes that the
observations of nature are to be
watched. Thus, when sea birds fy
out early, and far to seaward, fair
weather may be anticipated; on the
contrary, when they hang about the
land, or fly inward, stormy weather is
indicated. When animals, instead Of
spreading over their usual range, seek
sheltered places, storms may be ex'
pected. Dew is an indication of fine
weather; so is fog +; but clearness Of
the atmosphere near the horizon, is a
sign Of wet. When q mountaineer
sees the hills cutting sharp against the
sky, he wraps his plad around him.
A good hearing day is also an indica-
ton of coming wet. The public viii
feel all the more confidence in the
Meteorological Department for not
disdaining the phenomena noted by
the weatherwise, as they rest upon
exactly the same foundation as what
may be termed the more scientific
signs-namely, experience. Now that
meteorology is elevated into an ap-
piled science, we feel confident that
immense progress will be made. 1t
it great thing to know that there is
a central department, instituted pur-
posely to collect ali information bear
ing upon the subjecl, and it has chief
like Admiral Fitzroy, whose heart is in
his business, and who seems never
better pleased than when he is collect
ing from any source, however insig-
nifcant, fact that is noteworthy
unless it be when be is diffusing his
knowledge so attained, either to indi-
viduals or to the public at large. The
growth of this new department seems
to bear the same relation to the Ship
wreck Relief Society and the Lifeboat
Society, that preventive medicine does
to remedial medicine. Indeed, as we
progress in knowledge, we are begin
ming to find out that prevention is
better than cure; and, what is more
to the purpose, we are becoming
enabled to put this prevention in prae-
tice.-Once Week.
Year: 1862

A poorly made, light mill, is little
better than nothing-often worse
When the cane was first introduced,
hand mills were to do the crushing,
but with two strong men at the cranks,
it was found that but small portion
of the juice was extracted. Next
wooden rollers and light iron mills
were tried, only to break down in the
midst of the work. A strong three
roller mill, worked by at least two
horses, is needed where much grind
ing is to be done, the feeding rollers
being one / inch apart, while the final
pressure is given by rollers which run
directly upon each other, the whole
keyed up very strong.


If the cane can be used up before
heavy frosts, let it be cut and either
stached in the field, covering with
straw. or packed away in shed or
barn to be worked up as soon as prac-
ticable. It is better to strip off the
leaves before grinding which may be
done with the hand after cutting, or
by striking them from the cane with
forked stick, while standing. Save
the ripest heads for seed, and remove
at least two feet of the upper end of
the stalk as worthless.


The juice should be rapidly evapo-
rated as soon as it is expressed, using
some kind of a shallow pan so as to
expose as much surface as possible,
both to the fire and air. To granulate
set the thick syrup in shallow Vats or
other vessels, in a moderately warm
place, and stir occasionally. After it
has grainedput in barrels or hogsheads
with holes in the lower end to drain
off the molasses or syrup. Of course
everything connected with the grind
ing and boiling should be done in a
cleanly manner. Nothing is needed
clarity the syrup, if it is rapidly cOn~
centrated and the scum faithfully re.
moved, nor will such syrup need going
through the refining process of the
sugar house to prepare it for market.