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Year: 1862

We like Gen. Pope, and the way he falls
to work in the Shenandoah, but we trust
his real merits may not. presently
BE- swamptd and beclouded by q
food tide Of puHery and battery
There is 3 danger We have all
seen in building up for general a
reputation in advance, for the processes Of
e}ectment from the temple Of military
fiame are very slow. Every patriot will
pray for tile success Of all our generals, but
The crop of laurels should this time wait
awhile. Will The army correspondents bear
this in mind, and have this tender regard
for Gen, Pope that they spare him unmcr-
ited elevation in their heroic prose Never
fl1e1ess, lie is well ut work and his
orders have the right tone, and are based
on the right principle Of conducting the
war. 1t hos been severe enough upon loyal
mcn it is DOW proposed It. render it un-
plcnsiDE To HE rGl,tlE.
Year: 1862

quire perhaps q million men, aud it will be
better to startas we can hold out.


The measure Of levy1ng this tax is emi-
ncntly just and right. It will fall equally
upon our taxpayers, many Of whom can
be reached in no other way Some are ex-
empt and will never be called upon, others
arc non-resilents; and few, it is to be
feared, have no sympathy with the
cause Of the Union. The tax-gatherer will
visit all alike, and the burden be equally
borne. And in this connection it deserves
to be stated that the city has
now in hand $4,000 in funds lying
idle Of sums reimbursed it by the Govern
ment for war expenditure It is proposed
that the city loan tlis to the county to put
the latter in funds for immediate use,
af1ording the more time for the negotiation
Of the proposed loan-


The work is going on well. The people
are In earnest, We shall get the new regi-
men1s. As for the old regiments in the
field, let drafting commence at once and
without delay. The latter mustand should
be filed first.
Year: 1862

accomplish much moro than was possible ~
years ago. The manure acts as mulch to
the roots Of the grass Immediately. Itmakcs
the mos, Of every rain and dew that falls,
and soon changes the bare meadow to a green
Geld. The aftermath is much moro luxuri-
ant, and we get, in the increased burden of
grass, return for the manure within two
months Of its application. We believe
meadow land may bc kept up to q yield OF
three tons to the acre, by the annual appli
cation Of compost as soon as the grass iscut.


We have before US q strip o! meadow ma
nured at this time two years since, and
another by its side treated in the ordinary
way !. O., moved and left to take care OF IT.
self. The one has a promising growth OF
timothy, and upon the other this grass and
the red top have mostly given place to sorrel.
We know Of no reason for the difference ex-
ccpt the top-drcssing in July 1860. WenOw
apply manure to meadow land, more or less,
at all seasons, but manage to have a good
supply for the land as soon as the hay crop
is gathered. BY this course, we expect to
keep some fields in grass perpetually, with
no falling Of in the yield.


A Connecticut farmer, recently speaking
of the very great value of scawecd partic-
ularly rockwecd, told us he had employed
an old man with an old horse to draw
rockwecd last year, and spread it daily up
on mowings from August to November
The loads were small. A very great good
effect was seen, but most markedly by far,
where the application was made earliest in
the seasOn-equally shown in the iirss crop
and in tho aftermath this year.
Year: 1862

Tho best plan for learners, whether in
fresh or salt water, is to attach cord TO q
tree, or boat. or the machine; or, II these
are not available, get companion to hold
tho end OF the cord on shore. With this
cord tied around tho arm or waist, lot the
beginner walk out till the water Is up to his
chin, and then turn round and face the
shore. He may even then back out little
farther, when he will find tho force Of the
water taking him of his legs, and he will
then find no difficulty In making few strokes,
even at tho first attempt. In fact, by hold
ing the head we'll up, which necessarily eI-
pands the chest, he will find he cannot help
himself from swimming, or rather floating !;
and by gently thrusting out. and drawing in
the hands and feet, exactly in imitation OF
the movement Of frog in the water, be will
accomplish more in two or three days than
in as many weeks with the corks and blad.
dcrs-that is, he will have moro confidence
In himself, and know moro Of tho power Of
tho water to sustain him on its surface.


A better knowledge even Of this he will
have by keeping his back to tho shore till
out in deep water rs far as ho can go, then
throwing back his head, expanding Ills chest,
making as II were, curve with tho back,
and allowing the legs to float outward and
from under him, he will find that his com.
panion on shore could draw him completely
in without sinking. A few such experiments
and then he might, by the gentle action oi
the hands and feet, work himself on shorc.
With the cord, the young beginner will have
no fear, save f0r few mouthiuls 81 water,
and these he will not care about 50 long Us
he learns to swim.
Year: 1862

One quart Of milk. l tea cup OF rice
Boil the rice and milk together until done
then pu, in the yolks Of three eggs and enough
sugar to sweetcn il. After il is taken from
the oven, make frosting Of the whites OF
tho eggs-spread it over the pudding, and
place it in the oven long enough to become a
light brown. think tho rico pudding is
better cold than warm.
Year: 1862

Agreed your plan heartily approve,
Rules would be nice-but who shall make them,


love.
Nay, do not speak!-let this the bargain be,
One shall be made by you, and one by me,
TIL all are done
Year: 1862

St: Cloud is point, to which the
Northern half Of tbs State will naturally
look for educational advantages and it is
an imperative duty of the present inhabi-
tants to see that solid beginnings are made !;
or, at least that the ground is kept clear Of
flash institutions which will mos cfectual-
ly prevent the establishment of others such
as we need. One might better SOW his
fields to Canada thistles in order to have
something growing until he can buy seed
wheat, than lay foundation for sham
schools, as preparation for something bet-
ter. The Institute died from want of
breath, and We do not want the corpse
galvanized, as proposed by Mr.. Norris.
Year: 1862

Some Of our St. Cloud folks feel ay-
grieved by our notice of the proposed re-
opening IF the ''St. Cloud Institute" and
say We should have waited and give, Mr..
Norris fair trial before condemniny him.
The people or St. Cloud have spent seven
years in giving teaches fair trials and, up
to this time, have had no school. True.
We have had earnest, faithful and good
teachers who have done their best, but
the system which has left it all to the
chances Of trial, has left them without the
means of accomplishing much. 1t is not
tue that community ought to keep
their schoolhouses and purses open, for
the use of any ore who comes along and
claims a trial to prove whether he cal.
teach. His competence should be fully
asccrtained before he is entrusted with the
most vital interest of any community.


We judge of Mr. Norris fitness, for the
important post Of educator of the young,
by the evidence before us The St. Cloud
Institute, is very pretty wooden build
ing standing in a beautiful grove. It has
one room about 10 by so feet, and a cock
loft about 8 by IL. designed for the use OF
a choir, but SO close to the ceiling that
the singing in it, sounds like the squeak
ing o! three blind mice in a meal bin.-
The house is unfinished, is not weather.
boarded, has but one coat of plaster, and a
floor 50 open that there is danger Of pu-
pills getting their feet frozen as they sit,
unless the house is 50 he,ted by stoves
as almost to produce vertigo. The floor
is closely packed with little, fixed wooden
seats; and. not a desk to support book or
slate, SO that the pupils put their feet up
on the seat before them and support their
states and books upon their knees, as best
they can, so doubling themselves up and
bending themselves down as to keep the
lungs crushed and the spine crooked all
the time Of study. ahen, there are sta
tionary desks running around the cock.
lott, to which set Of perpendicular stairs
lead from the lower floor. The classes
have been composed Of boys and girls in.
Discriminatory, as all school classes ought
to be, and the boys have sat on that side
Of the house from which tho stairs lead
up. When class was to take lesson in
writing, they arose, from all parts Of th<
room, and fled off tramp, tramp, up those
stairs, single file, small boy often climb


ing, close as possible, at the heels of I
young lady in hoops-Well, the schoo
was under the charge of Methods


preacher who has electrified this commu


nifty by his sermons against the indel
icacy of dancing and low necked dresses


He has shown great deal Of praise wor
thy energy in getting up the building. ant
there is much about him that We like an
admire, the whole arrangement was know
Year: 1862

We published yesterday the statement of the
banks OF this state, showing their condition on
the 2sth OF June, as reported to the Suparinten-
dent of the Banking Department. The annexed
table will distinguish between the New York city
banks and those out Of the city
Year: 1862

PROPOSITION has been started to n of $500.
900 establish factories in Ireland relieve the distress
that prevails there by giving employment to all who
willing to work.


TIE above paragraph, which we see floating
around through our exchanges il all boSh! The
only thing that can relieve Irish misery il The
fetal abolition of the internal land system which
has been engrafted on the Island through British
legislation, or else a terrible revolution and the
expulsion of the foreign vampires who curse th e
fairest of auds.-Mountam Messenger.


A fact which we imagine every Irish citizen of
this State will bear witness to certainly those
who have ever been subjected to the mseries at
tendant upon Englsh misrnle.
Year: 1862

In RELATION TO SOLE TRADERs.-Female bus
iness men had better remember that by an Act
OF the last Legislature married women doing
business under the present Sole Trader law must,
before the first day of November, give notice, by
four weeks advertisement. of the fact, or they
forfeit their rights as sole traders
Year: 1862

MEMPHIS. December 9 1861.


E. J. PARK, Esq.-Desr Sir: have been engaged in
tanning and manufacturing leather for fifteen years,
snd may be considered to understand it practically
well theoretically, and feel it but simple justice
state that your system Of tanning is decidedly superior
to anything with which acquainted It saves at
least fifty per cent OF bark when is used equally
that in when bark is EN- .loyed and tans in
vastly shorter period than possibly be done BY the
Old plan. The Important feature Of course is the
great economy, in tine and money and the facility Of
using bark or tanning without it. The system must
prove satisfactory 70 any purchaser.


Yours etc, J. OLDRIDGE.
Year: 1862

COLES CORNERS, Tenn, January 1fth, 1904


E J. PARK, ESQ.,: Permit me, sir, to tell you about
my experience with yohr system Of tanning.


Isupposed yours was hot process, using hot ooze,
which had fully tested but which fund uoald not
answer the purpose. pleased TO find that you de-
nounced ths hot in tanning have ussd bark ex
eusVely and l have tanned as good sole leather As
ever sold, in thirty days, by your process, with
great deal less labor and with nearly oneba less bark
After get my hides haired and fFss Of lime and got
them IN your first mixture and then pat the oozs on
can accomplish more in day in tanning than could
before in a month dOa't Uant any better system
than yours it will perform all and more than you claim
FOR it, The kip which now tan in ten days used to
work hard to get out in five months 1 am pleased
with it, and believe 1t viii save bark enough and labor
enough to pay for itself In six months
Year: 1862

1t is stated upon tae authority Of the Third Ass
ant Postmaster General, that, while tie Pos-Otico
Department cannot authorize tie uss Of soiled
deaced, or torn postage-stsmPs upon letters 10 be
sent by mail, il does not follow that such
be ultimately redeemed, If they have no, previously
been used for postal purposes On the contrary,
measures will be taken for their redemption as sool
AS practicable
Year: 1862

We have faith in our national credit
strong as that we have in our national ex-
istence. What nonsense TO apprehend the
bankruptcy of a nation with such ter
ritory and such resources as ours, in
consequence Of debt of 100000, 0,000 or
81 l,000,O00O00,or time that sum contract
ed in war for our very life Besides,
we actually believe that our people will
stumble on huge gold mine just as they
did after the Mexican war which will
make the precious metal plentiful Bet
ter even than this, we already possess
the inexhaustible treasure of a free, en-
lightened, industrious people. Nothing
can bankrupt such population and we
despise the croakers who are trying to
palsy the Administration with the cry of
debt, debt!
Year: 1862




"The tender mercies Of the wicked
are cruelty" is one Of the many Scrip
tural phrases so filed with pith aud
power that they could not die even with
the death of Christianity herself, but
must survive coeyal with The life OF our
language. We are often reminded Of
that expression when reading Of Rebel
atrocities Among these we have heard
of many mora brutal, hut none more
heartoss, than one OF late occurrence in
Arkansas, a little ways from Memphis.


A poor widow, with an only son, had
raised and stored away, by her own la
bor, nine bales of cotton. The son was
drafted for the war; and killed at shi-
loh The noble minded cotton burners
came along, and told her she must burn
her cotton or they would burn it for her.
She earnestly begged them 10 spare II,
foy d i0ag her dH She told them that siIr-
had sacrificed her only son for their
cause, and now, in her loneliness aud des-
titution, this cotton was all that stood
between her and beggary. They heed
ed not her piiiful petitions, but burned
her cotton, and left her 10 her helpless
solitude


And these are the men who call them
selves cavaliers. These are they who
profess 10 love and reverence woman in
the abstract
Year: 1862

Deny it though he may, disguise it as
best be car, still man can not shut out from
his serious thoughts the consciousness that
the Wrong is'furever weak. His inner soul
can never be rid of the constant conviction
that it is only in righteousness that there is
strength. And so rot only nature prompts,
but all philosophy teaches. The Right is
always comfortable to law and the laws of
right are eternal, from everlasting to ever
lasting; they are as old in the Past and as
everlasting in the Future as the eternity Of
Gods existence. Right is, in the universe.
a Monarch governed and governing by law ::
Wrong is an anarchy, without law. 1t is
not even law unto itself. Nor is it simp
iy a Degation law,-itis is an an actual inva.
sion of other laws. 1t can, therefore, onIy
beget contests and confusion, till "Chaos
comes again" 1t is therefore utterly des-
titute OF both permanency and power. 1t
may have its temporary triumpbs, but new
er eau be crowned with established sue
cess.
Year: 1862

One of the prisoners now al Fort Warren
managed to escape about the time they
were sent there from Fort Lafayetre. He
enlisted in the Navy under an assumed
name, in the hope of being placed upon
vessel from which he could escape. and
JOIN his friends at the South. Finding that
his chance of success 10 this project was
small, and not wishing to serve against the
Confederate States, he revealed his true
name, and the fact that he had escaped
from custody, whereupon he was sent to
Fort Warren


Col. Dimmick had an interview with him,
and told him that he might have the same
privileges as the other prisoners, ifhe would
give his parole of honor no to attempt to
escape again. The man hesitated mo-
ment and then>frankly replied:


"Nu, Colonel, cannot do it; if | make
the promise shall feel bound by it; but
really | cannot consent to give up the
chance to escape if an opportunity occurs. -
The Colonel told the man if he did not give
his parole, he should put him where escape
would be impossible, but he remained firm,
and is now is close confinement.
Year: 1862

CAUTIOUS MEN Some use words as rifle
men do bullets. They are little. The few
words used 20 right to the mark Tbnv
let you talk. and guide with your eye and
tace, TIL what you say can be answered in
a word or two, and then they launch out
sentence and pierce the matter 70 the
quick, and are done. You never know
where you are with them. Your CONVEX
sation falls into their minds as rivers into
deep chasms and are lost from sight by its
depth and darkness. They will sometimes
surprise you with words that go right to
the mark like a gun shot, and they are
silent again, as if re,loading.
Year: 1862

AN HONEST LrFE.-The poor pittance of
seventy years is not worth being a william
Tor. What matter is it if your ncighbor
lies in splendid tomb? Sleep you with
innocence. Look behind you through the
track OF time A vast desert lies open in
retrospect; wearied with years and sorrow
they sink from the walks of man. You
must leave them were they fall; and you
Will 60 little further and you will find
eternal lest Whatever you may have to
encounter between the cradle and the
grave, every moment is big with events,
which come not in succession bus bursts
ing forcibly from revolving and unknown
cause, fly over this orb with diversified
influence
Year: 1862

Attending the war are thousands of cases
where sad scenes occur when the yolun-
teers quit home, wife and family for the
cause of liberty; while on the other hand.
Innumerable cases occur of an opposite
character. OF such, the following is relat-
ed by recruiting officer:


On Wednesday last, a man attired in a
new suit ot clothes entered the recruiting Q
othce and enlisted, after which he was ta-
ken to camp and dressed in blue. His
wife, hearing that he had enlisted visited
the camp, and appeared greatly distressed
moaning and weeping bitterly. When suf-
ficiently calm to talk she "a d she had no
objection tc her husband joining the army,
but she did not want him to take away his
new suit of clothing. After being closely
questioned unon the latter point, she hest
tatingly replied that in all probability her
husband would be killed.
Year: 1862

Somebody has said that we ought always
to believe less than we are told" This
may be safe maxim for general use, but
when woman intrusts you-in conf
deDee, of cOurse-witb her age, you may
always behave great deal more than you
are told.
Year: 1862

There is scarcely an error On ibe subject
oi religion which can not be traced to ig
norance or forgetfuliness of the great truth
that Gods thought and ways are infinitely
hightsr than those Of men.
Year: 1862

How many objects of pity are there all
around usi How reasonable 1t is that we
should be pitiful! How can we live intent
upon our own happiness when there are so
many lonely, sad, sorrOwfal, breaking
hearts around US.
Year: 1862

Every man should aim to do one thing
well. If lie dissipates his attention en- sew
eral objects, he may have excellent talents
entrusted to him, but they will be entrusted
to no good end. Concentrated on his prop
er object, they might have a vast energy 4;
but, dissipated on several, they will have
none. Let other objects be pursued, indeed,
but only so far as they may subserye the
main purpose. BY negIecting this rule, /
have seen frivolity and futili,y written on
minds OF great power and by regarding il,
have seen very limited minds acting in
the first rank of their professiong-I have
seen large capital and great stock dissi-
pated. and the man reduced to beggary
and have seen a small capital and stock
improved to great riches
Year: 1862

Every man has an aptitude for one pur-
suit, but not everybody can find the work
congenial. The woman who does our
washing by the week may disdain the idea
of hanging-out, and utterly ignore such ar
ticles as clothespins or, having once ironed
some fancy dresses, she may deem her forte
to be the ballroom, and, with her hair in
curl-papers, prefer ''soap-locks" to locks of
soap. The bcttle-washer aspires to the
post of chief cook, and the turnspit envi-
ously surveys the head butler The milli-
ner's apprentice, as she puts the last stitch
to the bonnet in fashionable mourning,
sighs for the time when she shall be pro-
prietor, superintend the openings and
personally bargain with the vivifed FASH
templates that inspect her last french styles.
The walking gentleman dreams Of a coed
time coming, when he shall be juvenile trag-
edy, and the singing chambermaid would
fain be leading lady. From the profess
siOnal lounger Ito use no worse name), who
entreats us for three cents for lodging, to
the most deliCately scented debauche from
the loathed outcast in tatters to the brill
liant prima donna, laden with jewels and
surfeited with applause-how many ways
are there of making a living How many
fears, envyings, hopes, despairs and crimes !
There is but one method now which all ad-
mire, which none contemn-it is the life of
a soldier. Mid the blood and thunder Of
the battle, mid the dreary tedium of the
hospital, his life is one of fortitude and of
courage. In the everyday scenes of life,
he must feel more forcibly than ever before,
the truth Of those hackneyed words, sin
the midst Of life we are in DEATH" He
works not to make his living, but 20 make
the living of his country His life blood
is hers, and the sweat on his brow and the
blood on his bosom, trickling hotly, but all
unheeded, amidst the loud echoing conflict,
feed the pulsatiors of his country's heart.


The natural disposition has certain fin
ity which no combination of circumstances
seems able permanently to remove. Thus
the pickpOcket will pick pockets to the day
Of his death; the 'Athenian' would as
soon think Of starving instanter as of not
marking his cards and fleeing poor sheep
ish greenhOrns and the preacher breaches,
and the schOolmaster castigates and cate
chises, and the housewife keeps up her
bright fire and her clean hearth, and the
miserly father Operates while his spend
thrift son gambles-(for there is a differ
ence)-each in his own way, till death puts
an end to all, and proclaims dust to DUST
So, he who has once tasted the relish of
warfare loves the life, and is loath to leave
it A battle is to him what the dram is to
the drinker, the drug to the opium eater,
and the tone of his heart, mind, and body
grows healthier in the conviction that his
cause is just, and his reward everlasting.
Year: 1862

A paragraph is going the rounds of the
press to the effect the price of the princi-
pal daily journals of New York has been
raised from two to three cents a copy, ow-
ing TO the greatly increasing cost of their
printing paper. The Hartford Times re-
marks on this subject:


The Government tax on newspapers is
excessive. 1t reaches them in four differ
ent ways. The tax on white paper is large
ON nixon every advertisement-on the
income. 1t would seem that the tax was
arranged to embarrass newspapers. 1t GER
tainly forces them to raise their prices or
publish at an actual loss. TIE price of
white paper has increased within the past
three months to the extraordinary degree
of Sc per cent The raise is now nearly
100 per cent These heavy taxes and the
unusual advance in the price of paper, must
work fatally upon many newspapers.
throughout the country. Certain it is that
none of them can live in anything like a
healthy condition if they pay their bills,
without advance in price for it is quite
evident that they cannot on the old and no
more than living profits, under the weight
Of thete great taxes and advance in the
price of their paper, Of ink, and of every
article they buy


The RockpOrt, N. Y, Republic remarks !:


Most of the large daily papers in West
ern New York have advanced the price of
their issues. Many of the country journals
have also been published at increased pri-
ces. The advance is caused mainly by the
advance in printing stock.