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Year: 1863

The tattoo beats-the lights are gone
The camp around in slumber lies
The night with solemn space. moves on
The shadows thicken o er the skies
But sleep my weary eye hath flown,


And sad, uneasy thoughts arise.
think of thee. oh dearest one!


Whose love mine early life hath blest;
OF thee and him-our baby SON


Who slumbers on thy gentle breast
God of the tender, frsil and lone,


Oh guard that little sleeper's rest
And hover, gently hover near


To her whose watchful eve is wet
The mother, wife, the doubly dear,


In whose young heart have freshly met
Two streams of love so deep and clear,
And cheer her dropping spirit yet.
Now as she kneels before thy throne.


Oh teach her, Ruler of the skies
That while by Thy behest alone a .. -.
Earth's mightiest powers do fall or rise,
No tear is wept TO Thee unknown,


No hair is lost, nor sparrow dies
That Thou can st stay the ruthless hand
OF dark disease, and soothe its pain;
That only by Thy stern command


The battles lost. the soldiers slain;
That from the distant sea or land


Thou bring'st the wanderer home again.
And when upon her pillow lone


Her tcar-wet cheek is sadly pressed,
My happier visions beam upon
The brightning currents of her breast,
Nor frowning look, or angry tone H5#'.
Disturb the Sabbath of her rest saa
Whatever fate those forms may throw,
Loved with a passion almost wild,
BY day, by night, in joy or woe,


BY tears oppressed, or hopes beguiled,
From every danger, every foe, ... ....#
oh God, protect my wife and child


H. j.
Year: 1863

The following beautiful and touching STAN
zas were written by a soldier during the struggle
with Mexico, in 1846 Penned as they were
amid the turmoil and hustle of camp life, they
breathe true poetic spirit, which will find a
ready response in many heart among our
brave soldicry at the present time
Year: 1863

When you visit Nee cregor, call at French s
Watch and Jewelry Store. The only place in
Northern Iowa where watches are made from
the rough material. All work and orders sent
from the country are as faithfully attended to
AZ though the parties were personally present
Year: 1863

the United States which they have always felt.
1t has been their great ambition to change or
pervert it. Not being able 10 succeed in peaceful
times, they have seized the opportunity of war
to accomplish their desire.


The rebels are 10 precisely the same condition,
They too don't want the Union as il was. They
are as much opposed to il as Hamlin. They say
il was house divided against itself, that would
not stand; ami they propose to take their part of
the house, and have Hamlin 4 Co. TO take theirs.
Believing as they and Hamn do, We submit to
any tribunal in the world, to say which is the more
just and generous, these Southern rebels, or the
Northern ones


This house a common Inheritance. There
was way to change it. whenever two-thirds of
the State would propose and three-fourths ratify
the change. Each parry that desired to change
the house, had the right to seek the change in a
constitutional way.


But one side assumes to take their half of the
house and ft 1t up to suit themselves and have
the other to take their half and adjust it their
own notions.


The other faction say no. We must fix up
both halves 10 suit ourselves. We will not con-
sent to let your half remain as il was, and as
sert our rights in il; but we will change it by
force to suit our notions, without regard TO laws
or constitutions. Now, one side has no more
right TO make this arbitrary change than the
other had to run of with one half Of a common
and indiyisable inheritance. Both are rebels and
revolutionists. They don't ike the Government
we have had; and when they swore support it
they didn't intend TO keep the oath il they found
an opportunity to do otherwiss. Both now sneer
at the Government they swore TO support. They
think man knave or a fool who would regret
its destruction.


Now, there is no doubt but that three fourths
of our people are the poles apart from these two
factions, and having the power, why do they not
take the control of the Government out of hostile
handsb Why did the people ever commit the
honor of the Union TO men who proclaimed in
advance their dissatisfaction with iti Why do
they now allow it to remain under their controlf
We shall see on Tuesday If the people of Ohio
and Pennsylvania are really for the Union, or if
they agree with this Northern faction, that the
Government must be changed or something
else be substituted for it, Louisville Journal.


We think, from present indications, that some
thing else is substituted for it.
Year: 1863

Vice President Hamlin, in his late speech at the
Cooper Institute, said:


"We have a class of men among us in Maine
who very much want the Constitution as it is and
the Union as it was. Have you got them heref


Voices, 'Yes.1 l am very sorry indeed that
they cannot have it. 1t is mere demagoguisul,
mere clap trap; it is nonsense-it is not very
good nonsense Why, the Union as it was2 IL
there are men in this goodly city of New York
who have any tears over such results, am in
clired to the opinion that they are crocodile
tears. II you have got those here who have tears
to shed over the Union as il was, think that
would form very good sketch for picture
This is from the Vice President of the United
States 1t is a sneef at the Union as it was. Ii
was a sad day for us when party got power in a
government Under Constitution they were op-
posed to, and over Union they disliked. This
man took an oath to support the Constitution as
Il is and the Union as il was, when be evidently
was opposed TO both He thinks any one who
sheds tears over the Union as it was must shed
crocodile tears He Is not one Of them. He


thinks man who would weep over the Union as
il was would make good sketch for a picture,


to be laughed at for sorrow over the loss OF such
an evil. s


| If Hamlin we're alone in such expressions. he
would be pointed at as q mopstrosity; but unfor-
tunately he Is ventilatirg the common opinion of
party In control Of the government; and they
only proclaim now a sentiment of opposition to
Year: 1863

superior law of love. Until that moral subjec-
ton is complete. we may not hope TO remove
from the poor the burden of poverty and its
attendant griefs. But we may devise regula-
ton of tae different relations Of life such as to
save the poor from much sorrow and the world
from much vice and crime, at the same time that
we extend the true principles of liberty and
bring men into their influence who now enjoy
only an imaginary freedom in Old England and
New England
Year: 1863

THE WEATHER. Improve the beautiful
evenings by visiting the great War scenes and
moving diorama at Deering Hall. Tonight
the diorama of the sinking Cumberland, and
naval engagement between the Monitor and
Merrimac, win be performed before the throng
of astonished admirers. No one should fail
to see 1t, for it is really a great work and
should be seen by all.
Year: 1863

CoLLIsIoN.-A couple of wagons came in
collision in Congress street yesterday forenoon.
The wheel of one of them was taken of, and
one Of the arms of the other was broken. The
drivers were slightly injured.
Year: 1863

line of the Manassas Gap railroad with large
body OF men, but it ought to have beer. larger.
Some troops, also, were doubtless retained at
Falmouth as reserve, though we see no men
ton of them Sufici.nt divisions, according
to the reports we have thus far were not
available at the critical moment, much less an
army corps. Hooker fought with what men
he had, and when they were disabled or ex-
hausted he lad no strong columns TO fall back
upon. Did this arise from any deficiency OF
trrops? Not at all. Sixty thousand soldiers
are Scattered among the defences of Washing
ton or the Potomac river whose places could
have been temporarily supplied by the organli,
zed militia of our cities, while they were held
within supporting distance Of the main army.
Why was no call made for these before Hook
er began to move? Was Gen. Halleck asleep,
or did be suppose himself able to reverse the
plainest dictates of foresight and prudence?-
Why did the President allow Hooker to move
until he had made assurance doubly sure, by
placing second army, easily gathered from
about Washington and Baltimore on his
back"


AS to the first Of these alleged defects, we
have nothing to say until we are placed, IN pos
session Of Gen. Hooker's reasons for the dlyl-
sion Of his army in way which resulted SO dis
asterousy


AS to the second specification, under which
it IS is sought m to % cast on the shoulders of Gen.
Halleck or of the Secretary Of War, or of the
President himself, measure of blame tor Gen.
Hooker repulse, it may be safely affirmed
| that Gen. Hooker deemed his forces more than
ADEQUATE in point of numbers to the work he
| purposed to perform IF there has been fail
ure any where it certainly has not been on
the part of the Administration in withholding
from Gen. Hooker the reinforcementsv he is
supposed to have needed.


The London correspondent of the New York
Herald sends the following, dated April %:
II have positive reliable information that
the entire naval steam reserve of three hundred
vessels is ordered ready for sea Immediately in
view of the critical position Of American af-
fairs. The public mind has not been SO excl
ted since the affair of the Trent | have talk
ed with numbers of people of all classes, and
there is universal opinion that we are In
most imminent danger ofa war.


The National lntelligencer quotes the speech
of Lord Palmerston, during the late discussion
in the British Parliament on American affairs,
and saws: tWith such sentiments anlmatlng
the British Ministry there is no reason TO be-
lieye that any cases Of outstanding difference
between the two Governments threaten to dis
turb the friendly relations that now exist.


The following is an extract from an order
recently issued by Adjutant Thomas at Hele-
ma: Zone of the duties of the regiments OF
African descent will be to secure abandoned
cotton and have it conveyed to the levee for
shipment to the quartermaster at Memphis
Tenn. Accordingly, all officers belonging to
such troops will see to the execution OF tn1S
order, and the Quartermaster' Department
will be furnish the necessary transportation Tor
Year: 1863

~ History has recorded the fate that
overlook the Tories who opposed the Un-
ION during the Revolution. and what be-
come of the Federal party who opposed
the Union in the war of 1926, and his
tory will record the fate of the still NOR
infamous Copperhead party during the
siaveholder's great rebellion. AS the
crime OF that latter is greater than that
committed by either the Tories or Fede-
rails, so will the execrations Of pos.erity
he hotter and heavier ara:nst them.
Year: 1863

R5 No attention will be paid to communications sent for
publication the JOURNAL unless accompanied by the real
nam of the authoruot for publication, but to guard
against imposition.
Year: 1863

1t is strange that, with all the time Amer
lean women bestowed upon dress, so few know
how to prepare simple dress with taste To
be weldressed means, with most, TO wear rich
material, made up in gorgeous style, and with
all the usual accessories of lace and iewelry
to add to the maguifeence of the general effect.
Never was a greater mistake To be well
dressed is only to have attire suited to time,
place and circumstances, made in a becoming
manner. This attire may be a shilling calico
or rich silk, and yet in either, ifit is adap-
ted to the conditions we have mentioned, a
woman may be said to be well-dressed.-
Where household duties have to be perform
ed, and the care of children devolves partly
upon the mistress of the house, neat dress,
fitted gracefully to the figure, is much better
for morning wear than the faded remains of a
more pretentious costume. Nothing looks
more forlorn than to see would-be lady per-
forming household Offices, of not the most re-
fined character, in an old torn dirty silk dress
or soiled and draggled open wrapper. One
of the secrets of dressing well is to dress appro
priately; another, to be careful of the details,
the minute of the toilet. Thorough personal
cleanliness, glossy well-brushed hair neat
shoes and stockings, are as essential to a good
personal appearance as the material and fash
ion of the dress. Indeed, lady who is par
ticular in these minor matters, can hardly ever
be said to be addressed, as this delicate refine
ment will not only excuse faults, but natural.
ly show itself inIthe good taste which will guide
her selection, no matter how small the cost
may be. Some persons have an extreme hor-
rOr of being caught as they call it, in a morn
ing dress. Why they should be so sensitive
on this point, it is difficult to say. If it is
clean and adapted to the work in which they
are engaged, there is no shame in wearing it,
and, above, all, it ought to be remembered
that no attire is good enough for the family
which is not good enough for mere acquain-
tances who may chance to favor you with
their society. 1t is much better to be caught
in plain morning dress than to be caught
very much over-dressed, as some unlucky in
dividuals are, at small evening party I'm one
case there is real cause for modification, il
the other there is none
Year: 1863

Life is one: therefore it is well that child.
hood and youth should be happy; every life
should begin in Eden; should have its blest
traditions to return to, its holy places on which
an eternal conservation rests. The dew OF
the birth of each most hallowed, most bu unan
thought and impulse within US is of the womb
of the morning, and there is surely literal
meaning in our Savior's words, Unless you
become as little children ye cannot enter the
kingdom of Heaven" The moments that set
its doors widest open show us this; at times
when the great unseen world is nearest to u.s.
the thought of childhood will return, and at
the sonnd of the everlasting ocean, we stoop
down to pick up the shells we used to play
with. When a great happiness foods our
life and lifts it far above its accustomed level
it sets it down upon no peak or summit oI
ecstacy, but brings us upon its wave some
childish, trivial, joy, some fondly recollected
pleasure; it fills the heart with sunshine OF
some long, golden afternoon of holiday, or with
the freside warmth of some deserted parlor-
Do you remember how Joan of Arc when
crowned at Rheims, sees the kind homely fa-
ces of her sisters in the crowd, and is at once
carried back to the green valley, the silent
mountain, the free simplicity of her early days?
All that she has attained since then seems
dream and shadow. "The evening and the
morning make one day. - Iaco Friends.
Year: 1863

Ministrative Of evil, is the principle that
woman can benefit her children by sacrificing
herself. II teaches that pale, thin faces and
feeble steps are excellent things in young
mothers-proyided they are gained by mater
Dal duties. We infer that i: is meet, right
and the bonnden duty of such to give up So
ciety, reading, riding, music, and become indiE
ferent to dress, cultivation, recreation, to eve
rything, in short, except taking care of child
ren. It is all just as wrong as it can oe It
is wrong morally; it is wrong socially; it is
wrong in principle; it is wrong in practice.
It is blunder as well as a crime, for it works
woe II is wrong means to accomplish an
end; and it does not accomplish the cad after
all, but demolishes it. On the contrary, the
duty and dignity of mother require that she
should never subordinate herself to her child
ren. When she does it is to their manifest in
jury and her own. OF course, if illness or
accident demands unusual care, she does well
to grow thin and pale, in bestowing unusual
care. But when mother in the ordinary
routine Of life grows thin and pale, gives up rid
ing and reading, and the amusements and occu-
pations of life, there is wrong somewhere, and
her children shall reap the fruits Of it. The
father and the mother are the head OF the fam
ily, the most comely and the most honorable
part They cannot benefit their children by
descending from their heaven appointed places
and becoming perpetual hands and feet. This
is the great fault of American mothers. They
swamp themselves in slough of self sacrifice.
They are smothered in their own sweetness.
They dash into domestieity with an impetus
and abandonment that annihiIate themselves.
They sink into their families like light in a
poisoned well, and are extinguished.-
Hamilton.
Year: 1863

BY F. R. ELLIOTT, CLEVELAND, OHIO.


Never water the ground around


the trees, any time for one year


from the day of planting out. If


they do not swell readily in spring
take a fine rose sprinkler and Just at
sundown each night sprinkle the
tops. If the ground becomes hard


around the roots, loosen it with the


hoe, an inch deep, and then cover it


with three inches deep of sawdust,
tanbark, chip dirt, or any litter that


will keep it again from drying, and


prevent any great changes Of tenn


perature or moisture in the soil a.


bout the roots, and thus assist in


their formation and growth. This


is called Mulching, and should al


ways be put around trees in the fall
to keep them from being acted up
on by the frost heaving and crack


ing the earth.


If by any accident tree has its


bark rubbed off, or broken, trim it
smooth with a sharp knife, but avoid


rubbing any earth or preparation
Of any kind over it; left untouched
except the smooth trimming, it will
soon heal over. When newly plan
ted trees or. vines have to be in
grass land, as is sometimes the case,
when near the house the earth
should be kept mellow and light,
foot or more in4diameter beyond the
area of the branches; and to keep
the appearance good, the mulch
may be of new mown grass, renew
ed from week to week or as fast as
it becomes brown. In the autumn,
such trees should have a coat of
well rotted manure mixed with lime
laid all over the previously munched
circle, and left to be desolved and
conveyed to the roots by the frosts
and rains of winter.


Should tree, or trees, exhibit
any feebleness in growth, or it's
bark become messy or rough, wash
or rather rub it well with strong
soap suds or weak lye water; this
will not only give renewed action to
the bark, but destroy any insects
that may have fastened to it.


Of crops to be grown among trees
during their early years, or until
they require the whole of the land,
all grains and grasses are to be
avoided, potatoes, tomatoes, ETC.,
adopted. A very good way is to
cultivate the land during the early
part of the season with horse and
and in August sow tur-
nips; when the turnips are grown,
pull and remove the bottoms of the
best ones, and turn the poor ones
with their tops underneath, by u
sing light one-horse plow, and
blowing only two or three inches
deep. Top dress the land every
fall, if it be not rich, with good, well
rotted composted manure, or with
lime or bone dust, or such other
special manure as the land may de-
nand. Plots of dwarf trees in the
garden are easiest cared for by
the ground deep, thus
keeping down weeds, and the land
light, loose, and uniform in temper
atUre and moisture.
Year: 1863

Every seven years, we are told, the human
body is renewed; every particle of which it was
composed at the beginning of that period will
have disappeared before the end of it, and
fresh matter will have been drawn from the
earth. air and water to supply the void. So
with the sea; it is continually ascending to the
clouds in vapor, and descending in rain. The
earth itself is subject to the same conditions, is
constantly decaying, and must constantly be
repaired. Like the pelican of the classic leg
end, it has to feed its offspring with its own
bOdy-vegetation of all kinds is perpetually
preying on its vitals, and robbing it of its
most essential essences. But when vegetation
takes its natural course, it returns to the soil
in its decay, as much as it withdrew when it
sprung into existence, and thus new crop is
able to find sustenance in the ashes of the old
Exchange.
Year: 1863

Reverend signors, young as l am, may
venture to speak before you? I would speak
in behalf Of one who has none else to help her;
and 1 viii not keep you long. Much has been
said-much on the sacred nature of the obli-
cation, and We acknowledge it in its full force
Let it be fulfilled, and 10 the last letter. It is
what we solicit, what we require. But to
whom is the bag of gold to be deliverd? What
says the bond? Not to one-not to tIDo-bltt
to the tiree- Let the hrSe stand forth and
claim it."


From that day-for who can doubt the issue
none were sought, none employed but the
subtle, the eloquent Lorenzo. Wealth follow
ed fame; nor need say how soon he sat at his
marriage feast, or who sat beside him.
Year: 1863

Three things should be thought of by the
Christian every morning; bis daily cross, his
daily duty, and his daily enjoyment; how he
shall bear the one, perform the other, and en-
Joy the third.
Year: 1863

Shortly before the departure of the la
mented lIeber for India, he preached sermon
which contained this beautiful illustration


Life bears us on like u stream of a mighty
river. Our boat at first glides down the mar
row channel-through the playful murmuring
of the little brook and the winding of its
grassy borders. The trees shed their bios
SONS over young heads, the flowers on the
brink seem to offer themselves to the young
hands, we are happy in hope, and we grasp
eagerly at the beauties around us-but the
stream hurries on, and still our hands are
empty. Our course in youth and manhood is
alone wilder and deeper flood, amid objects
more striking and magnificent. We are ami
mated at the moving pictures and enioyments
and industry passing us; we are excited at
some short-liyed disappointment. The stream
bears us on, and our joys and griefs are alike
left behind us. We may be shipwrecked, but
we cannot be delayed; whether rough or
smooth the river hastens to its home, till the
roar of the ocean is in our ears, and the toss
ing of the waves is beneath our feet, and the
land lessons from our eyes, and the floods are
lifted up around us and we take our leave of
earth and its inhabitants, until of our future
VOYAGE there is no witness save the Infinite
and Eternal
Year: 1863

d. Waxarcr, in . treatiseaps i Z. Diseases
the Heart, p relates some cases of the sudden
changes of the hair from black to white. A
lady, who was deeply grievcd on receiving the
intelligence of great change in her worldly
condition, and who had a very remarkable
quantity of dark hair, found on the following
morning, the whole of her hair had become
of silver white Some striking instances OF
this kind are narrated by historians. 81 was
struck" says Madame Campan, with the
astonishing change misfortune had wrought
upon Marie Antoinette's features; her whole
head of hair had turned almost white during
her transit from Varennes to Paris" The
Duchess of Luxembourg was caught making
her escape during the terrors OF the French
revolution, and put in prison; the next morn
ing it was observed that her hair had become
white. A Spanish officer, distinguished for
his bravery, was in the Duke of Alva's camp,
and an experiment was made by one OF the
authorities to test his courage AT midnight,
the Provost Marshal, accompanied by the
guard and confessor, awoke him from his
sleep, informing him that by the order OF the
Vicerov he was to be Immediately executed,
and had only quarter of an hour to make his
neoce with Heaven. After he had confessed,
he said that he was prepared for death, but
declared his innocence. The Provost Marshal
at this moment broke into fit of laughter,
and told him that they merely wanted to try
his courage. Placing his hand upon his
heart, and, with CHASTITY paleness, he ordered
the Provost out of his tent, observing that he
had" done. him an evil office;" and the next
morning, to the wonder of the whole army the
hair of his head, from having been a deer


black color had become perfectly white.