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Year: 1861

In these DAYS, when diseases Of the throat
are so universally prevalent, and many cases
fatal, we feel it our duty to say word in
behalf of simple, and what has been with us
most effectual preventive. if NOT positive
cure Of sore throat. For many years past,
indeed we may say during the whole OF a
life Of over forty years, We have been sub.
ject to sore throat, and more particularly to
dry hacking cough, which was not only
distressing to ourselves, but TO our friends
aud those with whom we are brought into
business contracts. Last fall we we're in
duced to try what virtue there was in COM
mon salt. We commenced by using il three
times day, morning, noon, and night. We
dissolved large tablespoonful Of pure salt
in about half Of tumbler full Of cold wa
ter. With this We gargled the throat most
thoroughly just before meal time. The re-
suit has been that during the entire winter
we we're not only free from the usual coughs
and colds to which, as far as our memory
extends, we have always been subject, but
the dry hacking cough has entirely disap-
peared. We attribute these satisfactory
results solely to the use of salt gargle, and
do most cordially recommend a trial of il
to those Of our readers who are subject to
diseases of the throat.


MANY persons who have never tried the
salt gargle, have the impression that il is
Unpleasant. Such i not the case. To the
contrary, il j. pleasant, and after few days
use no person who loves a nice clean mouth
and first-rate sharpcner Of the appetite
will abandon ii. Gardener and Farmer.
Year: 1861

MAY BALL.-Pat. Desmond advertises a
May Ball, to come off, at his hotel in this
place, the California House." on the even
ing of the first day of May next He is first
in the field this year, and is determined to
spare no sxertians in making it a grand
affair
Year: 1861

year the Breckenridge wing of
the party, backed by the tremendous leverage
of Federal Office, polled some four or five thou
sand votes less than the regular or Douglas
wing. And yet now, without even one chance
in dozen of being second to the Republican
party in the coming fight, and with not even
the hope of winning, their Central Committee
attempts to ignore the existence of the regu
lar organization. This thing was done through
the instrumentality proxies. For instance,
the Breckenridge party of this county were
represented in Committee by Zach. Mont
gomery, the very last man in the whole State
whom the mass of the party would have Sc
lected-for the simple reason that nearly all
of them are anxious for union of the two
wings. The Breckinridge men who done
most of the talking and working in this coun-
ty last canvass, are loud in their censurc of
the action of the Committee, and declare
themselves utterly opposed to an organization
of the party in this county the ensuing can
yaSS
Year: 1861

VUVHE TAXPAYERS OF THE COUNTY ARE


informed that it is my intention, either in per-
son or by deputy to accompany the Assessor in his
official tour through the county, the law directs


for the purpose of collecting all taxes assessed upon
Year: 1861

The lent season was originally Instituted
to commemorate the sufsrings of the last
days of tbe Savior of the world. and extends
10 the period of his crucifxien and resurrec>
sion The lent is always preceded by
Shrove Tuesday, which signifies the Tues
Gay of confession. In years gone by, Shrov
Tuesday was held as high festival in the
Catholic church, it being the last day prior
to the long season Of-fasting or lent, and is
the occasion for holding the Roman carnival.
The word carnival refers to the lent season
ensuing, and means farewell to meat


Formerly, in every parish of England, the
people were obliged to confess their sins, one
by one, to their own parish priest and in
their own parish chu -ches. In Scotland.
foot ball was the great sport of day, and if
any man failed to take part in the game, he
was obliged to pay fine to the authorities /;
while cock fighting held high place on the
occasion. By some the day was termed
pancake day. because that day was the day
on which pancakes were usually made by the
Scotch. Another custom among the Scotch
was to thrash with a fail every hen that
failed to lay an egg on that day. These
things, however, have passed away, and but
little regard is paid to the day preceding to
the advent of lent.
Year: 1861

DOUGLAS AND THE TARIFF.-It will be re-
msmoered BY our readers that while looking
for his mother last fall, Mr.. Douglass made
speech at Harrisburg. in which he took high
ground in favor Of Tariff. And it will also
be remembered with what zeal and earnest.
ness his friends everywhers proclaimed him
friend to Pennsylvania interests. We have
now another fact which will also be kent
in mind. and which we commend to the no.
tioe of the friends of that Senator. 1t is this,
On the final passage Of the Tariff bill in the
Senate last week. Mr.. Douglas beth spoke
and voted against the bill and did so on The
ground that the measure did not please the
South. Have hia friends any excuse to offer
for him p -Kedehe.
Year: 1861

yT,HE WHEAT CHEER YEAST CAKES will always IN


sure good wholesome bread. For Is cents you
can get one dozen Yeast Cakes, which will make %
large loayes Of the best bread


Inn CAKES SILVER SOAP, hourly expected by
express Almost every family N town has used IT,
For Spring cleaning it is invauabe-ior washing Pant
Looking Glasses Gilded Work, Marble Silver or Plated
Ware. =,


REFRIGERATORS- have sold q large lot Of
those famous Philadelphia Refrigerators- We have
Isrge lot coming They are warranted give satisac
ton as they are only the best but they are the
cheapest known


apr14-n MACKENZIE q AiNCfil-'-
Year: 1861




One of the editors of the New York Tribune,
who has been around considerable in the camps
Of the volunteers, says


It is very evident, in the camps visited, that
the earnest-mnded and religious men did not
exert the influence they ought, and which they
wanted TO exert. There are several modes Of
reaching these evils. Every regiment ought to
have Chaplain not merely an ornamental and
respectable appondage, but a christian man who
desires TO do good Without knowing any of
the chaplains personally. have fear that
MANY Of them are to say the least, not we'll
adapted to their places; this is an impression
derived more from the talk of soldiers than any
positive evidence, and therefore may be doing
them injustice. Let each community be sure
that its own regiment OF volunteers has chap
lain-and good man.


The advantage Of an official religious person
in a regiment is, that it makes d kind Of center
or necleus for the moral and religious life Of
the CORPS. The men do not knew one another,
hut those of u certain moral and earnest cast
will naturally seek TO know the chaplain, and
TO onther together as Christian community;
and they will speedily draw in and influence
others. Thus a high moral tone can be com
menced in many bodies Of our army. 1t is o
shame that in our regular army the chaplain
should have no official existence. The English
army has one officially to each brigade. The
North are fighting this battle as one Of law,
liberty, and righteousness, and they must fight
it as their Puritan forefathers, with Bible and
Psalm Book in hand.
Year: 1861

know from personal observation that our men
had more food and Of better quality than is SER
we'd to the troops in the garrison The men ale,
however, becoming accustomed to the living
and their cooks are more frugal, and no doubt
that in a few days we shall hear no more Of
short Iations at all events the men have Jared
much better than the offcers.''
Year: 1861

a correspondent of the Rutland Herald, speak
ing Of the burial of young Underwood, of
Bradford, says:


He was buried in the woods about l-2 miles
from the Fort in the country with military hon
ors. The burial ground being in the enemy s
territory, q detachment of two companies un-
der Lieutenant Colonel Washburn, tho Rut-
land Light Guards, and Woodstock Light In
lantry, were detailed as an advanced guard to
the funeral party, and also to scour the country
in that vicinity and drive in the enemy's pickots
They were supplied with 40 rounds of ball cart.
ridges per man. The advance guard of the de-
tatchment, 70 men was under the command OF
Lieut.. Roberts OF the Light Guard.


The advance party fell in with . strong party
OF the enemy, some of whom were mounted,
who retired to the main land under cover of u
wooden building.


Night coming on, Colonel Washburn ordered
the recall, and the troops returned to quarters,
well satisfied with their first essay in field SER
vice


The same correspondent in another part of
his letter says:


" Our boys are anxious to have a hand in a
fight. Their blood is up and they will give
good account of themselves.


One word in regard to the fare. | do not
doubt that some pretty sharp letters have been
written home in regard to it. 1t is one thing to
live comfortably at home, but quite another to
come down to United States army rations.-
Quarter Master Morse is most assdious in his
endeavors to make the men comfortable.
Year: 1861

The two thousand loafers, under the name of
the militia of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida,
who have been assembled about Fort Pickens,
but always we'll out Of the reach of the guns of
that fort, are dispensing, as we predicted they
would, as the provisions seized at the Pensacola
navy yard are disappearing.


This investment Of Fort Pickens is the first
military attempt Of the new cotton empire, and
its failure is not auspicious for the future.


The Columbus (Ga.) Recorder says:


"The impression is strengthened by advices
from all quarters that the idea of attacking
Fort Pickens for the present has been aban.
doned. OF course there will be disappointment
at this change Of policy, and many Of the vol.
unteers will return home disgusted and cha
grined. But we are inclined to think that the
sober second thought of those who ordered
the concentration of troops there is wise one,
and will end in the Souths obtaining her de
mands without bloodshed. A heavy expense
has been incurred, and perhaps our enemies at
the North, misunderstanding the real state Of
the case, may find occasion for rdicule in the
withdrawal of the force without an assault on
the fort But the South can afford to let such
taunts pass unnoticed. Our Southern Govern
ors can hardly be expected to engage in the
new business of warlike operations without
committing blunders at the start but they have
at least tested the readiness and ardor of our
people to engage in any undertaking in the
cause of the South, and they will learn by ex
perence how to ecouomize and act effectively"


We hardly see that these Southern Govern.
ors can be reproached with a lack of economy"
They have equipped no troops, except with
arms stolen from United States arsenals, and
they have maintained no force about Fort
Pickens, except upon stores seized at the navy
yard. The whisky bills may have been large,
but there can have been no extravaganza in
anything else.
Year: 1861

The Union victory in Virginia on Monday
was so overwhelming, that it will take some
little time to appreciate all its effects.


1t is in vain that its signifcancy is attempted
10 be impaired, by saying that some of the dele
gates elected to the Convention as Union can
didates, are for disunion if certain things are
not done here in Washington. Undoubtedly,
such delegates may be found upon the lists,
but the people voted for the best Union men
who were in nomination, and have unmistaka-
bly, declared, besides that there shall be no Sc.
cession without their own assent to be given
hereafter.


The persons who attempt, in this way, to
make the result in Virginia on Monday, sub
stantially meaningless one, have so befogged
themselves with their own useless disputations
about this and that platform, that they are to-
tally unable to comprehend the terrible earnest.
ness with which the people have grappled with
the real question of secession, with all its pal
pable results of public and private ruin.


Beyond a peradventpre, the party in Virg ginia
which desires disunion per Sc, which believes
that Virginia is compelled to secede because
the Gulf States have done SO, the party, in
short, of the Hunters, Masons, and Richmond
Enquirers, is hopelessly beaten. If this party
succeeds hereafter, it must succeed by recruit
ing its ranks from those who are now for the
Union, but who may hereafter be made to see
reasons for favoring disunion. As q present
question, disunion is stone dead in Virginia.


The tide has turned, and secession can no
longer be mistaken for the popular side.


We believe that Virginia is for the Union, out
and out, through and through, and will remain SO
until some reason to make her otherwise, shall be
given by the conduct of the incoming Admins
tration, contingency which will never happen
But this belief, instead Of being reason for
refusing fair requests from that quarter, is the
strongest reason why they should be granted.
The Union men of Virginia have displayed an
energy and power, which should encourage the
policy of such measures as will enable them
TO hold their ground, and consummate their
the whole tribe of secessionsts and plotters
who have ruled so long and so recklessly in the
Old Dominion. No measures looking to that
end, which are consistent with Republican
principles, should be refused by Republicans
Justice, generosity, and gratitude, combine tc
dictate this policy.


Virginia has saved the country, in all proba
bility, from the calamity of civil war. The
people of Virginia have had the sense to see
that the way to preserve the Union was to re
, main in it. They have not been led away by
idle dreams Of reconstructing what their fathers
constructed so well and so durably. They have
perceived, not that Virginia must 60 out be
cause the Gulf States have gone, but that the
Gulf States must come back, if Virginia refuses
to go. That is the true philosophy of the case
which the people have understood and acted
upon, Notwithstanding all the specious appeals
of Senators, who have been trusted only to be.
tray.
Year: 1861

We copy the following from late number
Of the New York Daily. News:


Among the hundreds of soldiers. wives and
others who daily apply for relief or infor-
nation at the Mayors Office, awoman yester-
day, Of unusually respectable appearance
though hagsard fro-n evident want, called in
reference to refusal on the part of the com.
mittee of her district or ward, to pay the lit
tie stipend her ticket call led for They had
for some reason-her husband regiment not
having yet left for Washington, as is under
stood was the case-tnrned the cold shoul-
der upon her and refused all relief She sta
ted her ease most earnestly Her landlord
was about to eject her for non-payment Of
two or three dollars rent of a room. She had
locked two small children in her apartments
and left them actually crying for bread
the third and sick one, some two years
age, she had borne to the residence of the
committee man, where she was denied re-
lief, and from tnencs to the M.yor's Office.
Here she pleaded in tones of eloquence which
hunger aloLe could give utterance to. With
anxious eyes steadily fixed upin her eyi-
IDENTIFY fast sinking child, and while sire was
yet speaking and inquiring what she should
do, the spirit of the child took Its fight to a
better world, literally dying from starvation
1t was painfully sad, sickening sight, and
could any man OF feeling have witnessed the
terrible agonles of that mother and the cold,
lifeless form of that child follow ed her trem-
bling steps out of the hall with a dead babe
in her arms, vending her way to other stary-
ing, perhaps dying, ones at home-surey
they would have offered up urgent and SIN
cere prayers for peace, instead Of the savage
cry for war and blood And this one of ten
Thousand cases with which our city abounds.
Year: 1861

slavery Tor It's corner stone, is not likely to be
accepted, as but lately seemed possible, not only
by all the slave states, but even by the border
free states nor to be proclaimed from Wash
ington as the new national law in the name of
the United States. Compromises will no longer
be offered by peace conventions, in which sia-
very is to be made national negroes declared
property all over the land, and slavery extended
over all territories now possessed or hereafter to
be acquired. Nor is the United States govern
ment yet driven from Washington.


Events are rapidly unrollng themselves, and
it will be proved, in course of time, whether
the North will remain united in its inaexible
purpose, whether the South is rs firmly united,
or whether counter revolution will be effected


in either section, which must necessarily give
the victory to its opponents. We know moth
ing of the schemes or plans of either govern
ment.


The original design Of the Republican party
was to put an end to the perpetual policy of
slavery extension, and acquisition Of territory
for that purpose and at the same time to main
tain the Constitution and the integrity of the
republic This at the South seemed an outrage
which justified civil wur for events have am
ply proved what sagacious statesmen prophesied
thirty years ago-that secession is civil war


Ifall is to end in negotiation and separation,
Notwithstanding the almost interminable dis
putes concerning frontiers, the stronghold in the
Gulf, and the unshackled navigation of the
great rivers throughout their whole length,
which it is probable, will never be abandoned
by the North, except as the result of total
defeat in the field, it is at any rate certain that
both parties will negotiate more equitably
with arms in their hands than if the IN.
armed of either section were to deal with
the armed. If it comes to permanent separa-
tion, too, it is certain that in the commonwealth
which will still glory in the name of the United
States, and whose people will doubtless re es-
tablish the old Constitution with some import
ant amendments, the word secession will be a
sound of woe not to be lightly uttered 1t will
have been proved to designate, not peaceful
and natural function of political life, but to be
only another expression for revolution, blood
shed, and all the horrors of civil war.


1t is probable that long course of years will
be run, and many inconvencies and grievances
endured, before any one of the free states Sc
cedes from the reconstructed Union.
Year: 1861

PRAYER AMONG UNlvERsALIs The Tru,,a-
pet of the 18th speaks Of the common idea that
the Universalsts are not men of prayer, admits
that the fault is a serious one, and concludes
with the following excellent language We
wish, then, to see the religion of prayer among
US; prayer in the home circle prayer in private
as we'll as in public. If we have hitherto neg
lected this duty, it is time for us to awake and
begin life anew-spiritualli life. This is ourwant
spiritual life; and the more of this there is among
as, the more shall we do for God and for Christ.
Gnd will bless with spiritual increase and great
shall be the peace nf the penple
Year: 1861

The editor Of Wilkes IN. ~ Spirit of lhe
Times is soldier now in Washington. In a
late letter to the Spirit, he thus remarks on the
weapons with which the battles are likely to be
won


Some Importance has been attributed to the
fact that the Southern men, as Il general thing,
are better markSnen than the soldiers of the
North, and that they will consequently possess
great advantage through such superiority, in
the hour Of battle. But while do not believe
that this is the case to any great extent,i would
not, even il 1T were so, give much consideration
to the TACT for in battle but lew special shots
are made, and the coming struggle is not design
ed to be a contest OF mere workmanship or ev0-
luton. War began with the spear for its wea-
pom after variety OF changes, through several
centuries it yielded its retinements, Sand under
Napoleon Ill, on the fields of Magenta and Sol
lerlno, came back to the spear again. On those
bloody and bitterly contested fields the alert
Z0uaUes and the athletic ChaSSeurS d AfriqMe
refused to accept Of the rations of powder and
ball, when served out to the troops, just previous
to battle, nay, when the charge was given,
refused even to discharge the loads which were
already in their weapons, but, rushing forward
through the fire, they engaged the Austrians
hand to hand land bayoneted them in the ranks.
This is unquestionably the true resource Of su-
perior physical condition. On this plan the
coming war between the North and South will
surely be contested; and in part evidence
thereof, will merely point to the fact that the
Government has already taken away the little
costly breech loading toys which the munificence
of New York put in the hands of Col. Ellis
worth's regiment, and served out to them the
spear, in the shape Of sabre on the end of
MIME musket, and may Heaven help those un-
der the edge Of whose bayonets these '' pet
lambs" shall succeed in getting. There will
be some strange fighting, in which, possibly,
even g butting" and wrestling and throttling
may form II part but, after short turmoil the
result will be a heap of slain and flying rem
nant, each of whom will probably render his
verdict of the struggle in the exclamation that
=" those fellows are not gentlemen = The sabre
bayonet is also to be distributed throughout the
entire army, and [ feel certain, from what
have gathered through military men, that the
actual embrace of battle, man to man, is what
the Northern captains Of this war intend mostly
to rely upon.
Year: 1861

THE FULFILLMENT OF PRoPHECY.--A
correspondent of the Rutland Herald thinks
the time has come for the fulfllment OF the
following prophecy:


And at the time of the end shall the King
of the South push at him and the King Of
the North shall come against him like a
whirlwind, with chariots and horsenen, and
with ships and shall overflow and pass over
Daniel xi: 40.
Year: 1861

FATAL ACCIDENT-A man named Thos
Smith, while at work on brick building
at Grass Valley, one day last week, lost his
balance aud fell from the wall distance of
ten or twelve feet, striking on his head and
shoulders. He died a day or two after,
from the effects of injuries received from
the fall.
Year: 1861

A LITTLE GIRL, daughter of Henry Henri,
at the Mission Dolores, was burned to death on
the Fourth. Her dress was ignited by the bur
ming of firecrackers, and the poor child was so
badly burned that she died next morning.
Year: 1861

ALMOST F1RE.-The woodwork over one
OF the ovens in Kendalps Bakery took fire
yesterday morning, and for short time
threatened serious conaagration. The
timely presence Of the employees, However
coupled with energetic action and several pals
OF wafer ezlnguiEhed the fire without serious
damage.
Year: 1861

INTERESTING TO MILITARY You've NFS-
We have received very neat and pretty little
billet from some anonymous Young lady, as is
evidenced by the hair line chirography, an
nouncing " that the young ladies Of Dixon aro
resolved not to marry gentlemen who haven't
been in the war; After this, shouldcr-straps
Will be in the ascendant, olive branches at a
discount
Year: 1861

No DOUBT OF 1r.-Economy is the
road to wealth. Those who would travel IL
that way should buy their dry goods Of Viii
lisms. Els new styles are now received and
command the attention Of the people generally
Go to Williams.'