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Year: 1861

WAR DEPARTMENT, January 18th, 1860.


SIR Your letter of the 18th instant addressed to the
President OF the United States has by him been referred
this department. and he nstruct to express his gra
cation at the prompude with which you have ordered the
expulsion OF the lawess who recently occupied forts
johnson and CasWe He regards this action the part of
your eXceency as in complete harmony with the honor
and patriotic character Of the people of North Carolina
whom you Worthily represent.


In repyto your enquiry whether is the purpose the
President TO garrison the forts of North Carolina during his
am directed to say that they, in common
with the other ors arsena and public property of the
United States are in the charge of the President
assaed no matter from what quarter under what pre-
text his duty to protect them by all the means which
the law has placed at his disposal is his purpose to
garrison the forts to which you refer present. because he
considers them entirely safe, heretofore, under
ter OF that law abiding sentiment for which the people
have ever been distinguished Should they
however, be attacked menaced with danger of being
seized and taken from the possession of the United States
ne could not escape from his constitutional obligation
defend and preserve them. The very satisfactory and
patriotic assurances given by your exeelency, justify him.
however in entertaining the confident expectation that
such contingency will arise.


l have the honor to be, very respectfully
Year: 1861

THE OoTroH Supply IN ENeBAED.-We
learn by late number of the New York
Economist that the stock of cotton in
Liverpool at last accounts was l,l20,0Oo
bales, with leo, 900 bales in transitu, 50
that, it remarks, if the blackade were
raised in February next we are informed that
no national inconvenience would be felt,R-
This is an important tact and must needs
have conJderable bearing upon matters II
this country as connected with the Cotton
States. Whether the Government is disposed
to make the best use of the margin thus ae-
corded to it will only be known by the
renewed efforts it may make within the enext
few weeks to make quick work with the
war. The fact is apparent, however, that the
Cotton States cannot suddenly /" move the
lever that moves the world, with England
SO we'll prepared to supply her mills and as
only seven per cent. of her people are en-
gagged in the manufacture of cotton, It is quite
Questionable whether she would not do betteI
to help them past a single season rather
than enter on q war with this country in ar
attempt to break the blocksde,--Tx.
Year: 1861

Russell, the correspondent of the London


Times whose apparent partially for South
ern institutions was the subject of such severe
comment on the part of the Northern press
soon after his arrival in this country, does
not, after all, display any fOndness for the
''peculiar institution as the following ez-
tract from his letters will show. The first is
Year: 1861

A mysterious thing is the Rebel Army in
the Old Dominion" il the telegraph is to
be credited. That VeraciOus authority
stated its strength, before the Bull Run
battle, at fifty or sixty thousand. After
the battle it was reported ct ninety thOu-
sand. Since that they tell US forty thou.
sand have advanced into Maryland, though
exactly whore they are stationed does not
appear The latest figures are two hun
dred and forty thousand, quite q respeota-
bic body Of men, 90 far as numbers are
concerned. Whence these troops have been
80 suddenly procured is not so clear, nor
do We OPins il will be soon, for the whole
tale may be set down IS pleasant fiction.
Year: 1861

The armament breaks up. In black eclipse
Light after light goes out. One evil star,
Luridly glaring through the smoke of war,
AS in the dream. of the Apocalypse.
Drags others down. Let us not weekly weep,
Nor rashly threaten. Give us grace to keep
Our faith and patience: wherefore shoe we leap
On one hand into fratricidal fight.
Or. on the other, yield eternal right.
Frame lies by law, and good and i'll confound:
What fear we: Safe ON Freedoms vantage


ground


Our feet are planted let us there remain
In unrevengefuf calm. no means untried
Which truth can sanction. no uSt claim denied
The sad spectators of a suicide
They break the links of Union shall we light
The fires of hell to weld anew the chain
Draw we not even now 4 freer breath
As from our shoulders falls a load Of death
Loath>ome as that the doomed Mazentius bore
Why take we up the accursed thing aerin
Pity, forgive, but urge them back no more
Who, drunk with passion. hoist disunion's rag
With its vile reptile blazon. Let us press
The golden cluster on our brave old flag


In closer union. and. if numbering less.


Brighter shall shine the stars which still remain


Amesbury. 18th day Of lst month. ]. G. W.
Year: 1861

Yesterday morning terrible encounter
took place at Astiey's Amphitheater. An
under-groom named Smith was literally
throttled to death BY one of the lions which
play SO prominent a part in the holiday en-
tertainments at that favorite place Of amuse-
ment. The lions, three in number, are con-
fined in cage at the back of the stage
When the night watchman left the theater
yesterday morning, a few minutes before
:, he reported "all right" Shortly afterward
Smith. the deceased, entered the place and
found the lions prowling about. They had
torn off heavy iron bar which crossed the
front of their cage, and then burst open the
door. Smith was alone, and, not being IA
miliar with the animals he attempted to es-
cape into an adjoining stable-yard. His sit
uation was frightfrl one, and most men
would have acted precisely as he did under
similar circumstances; but the probability is
that if he had stood his ground boldly his
life would have been saved. Unfortunately
one of the lions-that which is known by the
name of Havelock-caught sight of the re-
treating figure, and instantly sprang upon him
seized him by the launches, pulled him to the
ground, and then fixed its teeth in his throat
Death must have been almost instantaneous,
but, as Smith was found a good deal cut and
bruised at the back of the head, it is SUP
posed that the lion, after burying its fangs
in his throat, dragged him about and dashed
his head against the ground. 1t seems, In
fact, to have worried him, though the wounds
inflicted by the brute are neither so numer-
Gus nor SO severe as might have been expect
ed. There were no cries for help. but sort
of shutfiing noise was heard bv a man in the
stable yard. lie suspected WI at had occur
red and did not venture to open the door
through which Smith had endeavored to es-
cape, blt he gave the alarm, and in a few
minutes was Joined by several grooms and
others connected with the theater. They
were all, however, too much afraid to enter
the place, and nothing was done to ascertain
the fate of Smith until the arrival of Crock
EFT, the Lion Conqucror, to whom the ami
mails belong. As soon as he reached the
/ spot he passed through the door alone, none
of the others daring to follow. The body of
Smith was lying face upward 4 few feet from
the door, aid !ia' clock was crouchlng owe!
it as hungry dog hangs over a piece of
meat Crockett Immediately threw the ami
NAL off and dragged his body into the yard
1t was still warm. but lie had been extinct
for some time. \ surgeon was sent for, but
of course he could render no assistance
Crockett lost no time in securing the lions
They allowed him to capture them easy e
nough. Even Havelock did not offer any re
sistance. and the other two. which had taker
no part in the terrible scene with Smith
seemed rather afraid than otherwise. In 6
few minutes all three were back in their cage
again, and last night they went through then
usual performances before crowded audi
ence. Smith was unmarried. There will
of course. be an inquiry into the the circum
stances which attended the unhappy man:
death.
Year: 1861

Many printers are in the habit of holding
types between their teeth. When the types
are damp, and especially when they are new,
substance is on their surface which, when
applied to the lips, causes troublesome fis-
sures, which sometimes end in incurable can
GERS, which eat life away by piecemeals in
the slow process of weary months.


This same substance sometimes finds its
way to the inner side of the lips BY means of
the tongue and saliva, causing troublesome
tumors, which infame, ulcerate, and rapidly
assume the form of torturing cancer The
only remedy is prevention, by keeping the
type out of the mouth. The most common
OF ali diseases among printers are those of
the air-passages, of which bronchitis is the
most frequent. Next TO that, Inflammation
OF the lungs and consumption, in consequence
of the bent position of their bodies, which
prevents full, deep breathing. when the lungs
from inaction become debilitated, and unable
to resist impressions from cold, to which
printers are SD liable, in consequence of their
rooms being kept warm, and their inatten-
ton to proper rules when leaving them.-
Being so much in the composing room, they
become forgetful of the cold without, and at
the close of the day, in that tired, weary con-
dtion that follows ten hours labor, they
come out on the street, stand around the Of
tice-doors talking with one another and look
ing around, and before they are aware of it,
they are often chilled through, and thus,
through mere inattention, the foundation is
laid for the fatal ailments enumerated. Near
" one-fourth Of printers die from consump-
tive forms of disease. Hernia is common,
especially among pressmen. Dimness of
sight, short-sightedness and weakness of
eyes, are very common, in consequence of
the constant straininS of that organ, and its
exposure to artificial light. Fissures and
hard Jumps often form on the forefinser and
thumb of the right hand from handling damp
type. But the great disease which sweeps
so many of them into premature grave is
consumption, but which would not occur With
tithe Of the frequency if the following few
precautions were habilually taken:


First, regularity in eating and bodily hab-
its. Second, pat on all the extra clothing
before going into the street, avoid stopping
an instant, but move on at brisk pace with
the mouth closed, so that Instead of a dash
of cold air going in upon the lungs at each
breath to chill them, it may be first warmed,
by being compelled to pass around through
the nostrils.-Hal's Journal Of Health.
Year: 1861

Northern capital and enterprise, her steam
packets would not have been built. Yet ev-
cry possible provocation is being given to
drive this capital and enterprise away. As
the trade of Charleston has declined, so that
of Savannah has been steadily increasing
Notification in 1882 made many of her citi-
zens beggars but rebellion in 1861 is pau
perizing all. The taxation and forced loans
now exacted are synonymous with ruin.


1t is instructive to remember that various
Southern cities have been actually blotted
out from the map. St Marys, in Maryland,
is row desolation. The site of jamestown
can scarcely be identified. Sunbury, short
distance from Charleston, was once flour
ishing seaport bat her inhabitants blocked
the harbor to prevent the approach of an en-
envy, and though better port than Charles
ton, yet the city has long since been aban-
doned to solitude. In each of these cases a
single calamity was sufficient to produce ut
ter ruin. But in the case Of Charleston, an
accumulation of calamites is seen to be
hanging over her. How long she may sur
vive under them it may be difficult to say
Unfortunately, the heaviest of them are self
imposed, and therefore the less likely to be
acknowledged But it will be safe to predict
that she can never entirely recover from the
depth of ruin into which her present mad
ness is fast precipitsting her. She will linger
on, gradually sinking into insignifcance, un-
I'll ships cease to enter her proftless harbor,
and buzzards hold exclusive dominion in her
grass-grown streets, black spot npon the
map. it may be, but blacker one in the his
tory of human folly. No Northern city has
experienced such fate. How much the
frenzy of South Carolina is calculated to ex-
cite our pity, even when her treason shall
have ceased to receive our forbearance.-N.


\. Tribune.
Year: 1861

far in their fond, one might almost say amor
Gus, solicitude for that old decrepit sinner,
as not only to fly into passion on her account.
not only to forget that calm, dignified civility
in diplomatic intercourse, which gives au-
thority to the strong, but they actually take
upon themselves to act the police for Aus
tria, watching the doings of the Hungarian
emigration in foreign countries /: nay, while a
few years ago England did not shrink from
great war rather than allow Russia to in
wade the Danubian prineipalities, at this mo-
ment unless l am strangely misinformedl
the English government approves of the
menace Of Russia to occupy those principali-
ties in case there would be reason to believe
that some little mischief might possibly come
from that quarter against the safety of Aus
tria's usurpatory rule over Hungary. Really
there is urgent occasion not to relax the
watchfulness."
Year: 1861

C When the New York police entered
the premises on West twenty street,
where woman named Love had been muir
dered by her own brother and another man
because (as supposedD she would not prosti-
tute her body, they found the two men drunk
and stupid with liquor and the dead body ly-
ing on the floor, and the rats were eating the
fingers.
Year: 1861

1t has been judicially decided in New
York that where husband knocks his wife
down twice by blows Oh the nose. once by
blow on the cheek, and then shakes billet
Of wood at her. 1.-THE provoeation is too slight
to dissolve that sacred tie which binds her to
her husband for life, for better or worse. "
The husband must keep doing SO if he wants
his wife to be freed from him. But how
long?
Year: 1861

O.; In any of the above. or in other towns pay
ments may be made. when more convenient, to
the Postmasters thereof; or the amount may be
sent directly to this office but we must insist on
settlements every year.
Year: 1861

Run HIM OUT OF CANA letter from
Camp Latham, at Los Angeles, says: "We
had live Secesher' in camp few days
since. Some of the boys heard him re-
joicng over the death of Colonel Baker,
and hoping that all who went South to Eight
would meet with similar fate they in
formed on the fellow. and he was given
thirty minutes to get outside of the boun-
daries of our camp. He ought to have had
about three minutes instead of thirty, for
then q little double quick would have been
necessary. AS it was, he made himself in.
visible In very short space Of time.m
Year: 1861

Number 55.1


A N ORDINANCE, Providing for the
"A Planking of portions cf Nam and Cay yote streets
The Trustees Of the CITY Of Nerada do ordaia as foolcs:
SECTION l. II shall be the duty Of the property
holders on both sides of Main street from the bridge
to the junction of Cayote street. and of property ho
des on Cayote street from the junction of Main to
the upper end Of the gas works building and they
are hereby required on or before the 25th day of
september, 1861, to plank said streets, in front of
their property.


SEC. ,. Said planking shall be done under the d..
reetion and supervision of the City Marshal, and
each property holder shall be required to plank to
the middle of the street


SEC. 3. Should any property holder on Main and
Cayote streets, between the termini above specified
neglect refuse to plank the streets in front of his
or her property, required it shall become the duty
Of the City Marshal to let out contract for having
the work done and the property along line thereof
shall be held responsible for the reasonable expense
Of the same.


Passed August 9th, 1861. CHAS. KENT,


II. II. FEAGG Clerk. President
Year: 1861

From Chill there is news of particular import
ance. The coming Presidential election engrosses
public attention. The Indians in the South have made
no further demonstration. In Valparaiso business has
been little more active during the fortnight ending
Dec. than il was during the previous one.
Year: 1861

To DRESS CUCUMBERs.-Take three good
sized cucum5ers, pare them, put them in
cool watre for an hour, take them out and
cut them in the usual way sprinkle salt
upon them, and let them be so until an
hour before dinner; drain off the salt
liquor: put them into a vegetable dish.
Take pint of sour cream, mot too old a
good tablespoonful of cider vinegar, piece
of butter the sive of a hickory nut; put 1t
on the fire and let it come to boil: pour
it over the cucumbers while hot set them
by in cool place until dinner. We think
this is the only way to eat them Try 1t
iLucli.cn EarNer.
Year: 1861

MILITARY ANEcDorE.-A captain (iately
a railroad conductor) was drilling "A squad,
and while marching them by flank turned
to speak to a friend for moment On
looking again toward his squad, he saw
they were in the act OF butting up
against :ence In his hurry to halt them
he cried out: Down brakes! Down
brakes"


Another one wanting to leave the squad
he was drilling for moment, brought
them to crest in this style squad
break ranks but il one q go" ted"e .yo'r pta'
css till I come back, IH hare yoa pat IN the
ouard house f'-Harprrs Mug
Year: 1861

BarAxFAsr RoLIs-Pare and boil four
good sized potatoes, mash fine, pour in
water sufficient for four or six quarts of
-four three tablespoons of hop yeast, one
of salt, one cup of lard or butter, two we'll
beaten eggs Kncad well over night. work
in teaspoonful of saleratus in the morn
ing, cut them out as you would biscuit and
roll them long, put them on the tin, let
them stand till light and bake in quick
oven
Year: 1861

Washington, Aug. 3O.-There are
no war-like reports from Virginia to.
day.


Ne.o York Daily Nems IN Reply
to tie Iudic1me'st.-On the morning
after the day the News and other
New York papers We're indicted, it
came out with the following manly
and straightforward replication


Strenuously, consistently and un-
swervingly, the Daily News has
maintained, since the bombardment
of Fort Sumter, an event for which
the Administration Of President Lin
coin is wholly and solely response
Bile


/. That the civil war in which
the country is involved is iniquitous,
uncalled for, and destructive of the
property of the Republic, and that it
had grown out ofa wicked and de1aa-
gogical catering to Abolition fanati-
cism on the part Of the authorities at
Washington, which cannot be too
severely reprobated.


9. That every drop of blood that
has been she'd in the present contest
has been a calamity and that every
life that has been lost has been a
murder, which might have been avoid
ed, had patriotism and moderation
prevailed in Federal councils.


). That the increase of our army !;
the expenditure of money without
permission Of Congress the block
ade OF Southern ports the procla-
nation Of martial law the suspen-
sion of the writ Of habeas corpus
the invasion of sovereign States
without summons from their EXecu-
tives OF Legislatures the overthrow
of the authority of local courts and
the abrogation Of our military and
naval laws, have been utterly uncon-
stitutional acts, committed in defiance
and violation Of the oath Of Office Of
the Chief Magistrate of the land, and
for which he ought to be impeached
and deposcd.


i. That it would be far better to
permit the discontented portion of
the United States to depart in peace,
and more in conformity with the
views and intentions OF the original
trainers of the constitution to suffer
the Republic to be divided into two
Confederacies, than to array the diff
fcrent sections against each other in
strife, and to blast the
future prosperity of the whole Union,
by an expensive, improbable and
bloody war, which must inevitably
end in leaving sectional issues, as
unsettled as they We're before it be-
gan.


5. That the grievances of which
the Southern States have complained
have been, mainly, well founded, and
that the compromise plans suggested
by Senator Crittenden and Bigler in
the Thirty-sixeh Congress, and by
other conservative representatives of
the people in the extra session of the
present Congress, ought to have
been adopted.


6. That the acknowledgment by
the Federal Government of the right
Of slave owners to convey and hold
their property in the common Terri
tories, would have been pre-eminent-
ly just, and that the Confederate
States will do wisely to insist upon
constitutional right to self-evident, at
Year: 1861

In one of the last speeches Wigfall made
in the Senate, he made the following pre-
diction:


Cotton is king. We can ship our cot
ton; there is no trouble about that But
perhaps you will say that you will block
ade us. In the first place, naval officers
like to have a little pay now and then, if
only to buy grOg with. You cannot keep
them in service unless you pay thcm--
How are you going to pay them unless you
tax your people? Your operatives will
have nothing to do; your capitalists will
be broken; and whom are you going to tax?
How do we stand ? We have our cotton,
and Europe is obliged to buy it You
might cram the granaries of England to
bursting. and stop eur supply of cotton for
one week and she would be starving"


Every word of the above was believed
by the whole South, from Virginia to Tex
as, but never were people more entirely
or more cruelty selfdeluded. Everything
Wigfall said the North could not do it has
done, while the South has been utterly un-
able to make the world bow down to its
focculent idol. Northern corn is Today
of more account in eastern Europe than
Southern cotton, and, however the war will
end, the monopoly in that great staple is
gone forever. T. World.
Year: 1861

"a Catholic journal in Baltimore, now
known as the Express, but formerly as the
Southern Rights, is out to-day with strong
articles for the Union. Its editor is a rel
ative of Archbishop Hughes"


We are requested to say that Archbish-
op Hughes of New York has no adult rel
ative competent to be the editor of news
paper. The principles adopted by this
newspaper are creditable, but the Arch
bishop has no knowledge of the editor
He has eight nephews born in this country,
who, like their ancestors, live by honora-
bic industry, and the Archbishop hopes
they will continue to do 50. and by upright
conduct, truthfulness and industry, live
and die enjoying the same respect which
surrounded their ancestors in another land.
Capable or not, he trusts that by the same
industry they may exempt themselves from
any temptation to become editors of news
paper.
Year: 1861

Previous to the recent meeting Of. tht
American Board In this city, arrangement
were made for accommodating delegates al
private houses so far as might be necessary
those who could receive guests sending
in their names to the committee Of arrange.
ments. A gentleman who resides in the
upper part Of the city found upon return.
ing home Oh the noon Of the first day that
a gentleman and lady had been set aparI
to receive his hospitality. They were vel.
coined and entertained until the hour fol
dining. At the table the Delegate" was
requested to ask blessing, which, strange
to say, he declined. The time for the
Boards afternoon session came and went,
but the gentleman and lady started out
for stroll, and returned, blissfully uBcOn-
cerned about either missionaries or benight-
ed heathens. The evening passed away,
and at an early hour they retired


The next morning in the course Of con-
versation, the lady of the house inquired
of her female visitant if she had ever kept
house, a negative reply was returned.


How long have you been married.?


Since yesterday morning


A few words developed the following
facts The couple lived in country town,
and had been informed by their minister
that the Board of Delegates was to be held
in Cleveland, and that strangers would be
provided for, and passed at half fare over
the roads. This was too good an opportu-
nifty to be neglected, and the worthy pair
were forthwith united in holy bonds, and
started out on journey which resulted SO
to them


Our Cleveland friend had little idea
that he should be called upon to entertain
such angels when be sent in his name
CleUe. Leader.