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Year: 1861

u Both the bank of France and
that of England have now reduced the
rate of discount the former to seven.
the latter to five. Both these figures
are still considerably above the normal
rates.
Year: 1861

killed and three wounded. The fatal case was
tnat of North Carolinian who volunteered to
nIe one OF the houses behind which they were
statt1hed. He started from the breastwork to
accomplish 1t, but was shot in the head. He
died this morning at the hospital The wounded
are Harry Shook, Of Richmond, of Browns
battery, shot in the wrist; John Worth, do, of
the same battery, shot in the leg; and Lieut.
Hudnell, Of the same battery, shot in the foot.
None Of the wounded serious.


The Louisiana Regiment arrived about one
hour after the fight was over They are fine
looking set Of fellows.


As there was force enough at Old Point to
send up to Bethel and surround us, we took ND
the line Of march and came to Yorktown,
where we now are.


hear to-day that troops from Old Point are
now marching up to attack US, but cannot say
cannot say whether it il so or not
Year: 1861

- 1cu cannot go into the meadow and pluck


mp single daisy by the without break
-sr- ing up society of nice relations and detect
q Z Ing principle of most extensive and refined
49, gravtAton. The handful Of earth that fol-
lows the tiny roots of the little flowers is re-


plete with social elements, a social circle


hes been formed around that terminating


daisy. The beam and the soft summer


breeze whispering through the tall sum


mer grass to join the silent concert. The


earth took them to the daisy gcmi and all
went to work to show that daisy to the


Each mingled in the honey Of its influence, and


they nursed the ave canny thing" with al


imeut that made it grow. And when ii lifted
-s its eye toward the sky they wove soft car
q pet of grass for its feet. And the sun saw it
,1a through the green leaves and smiled as he
gr passed on ; and by starlight and by moon-


light they worked on And the daisy lifted


up its head and one morning while the sun


was looking, it put on its silver rimned dia-
zsa5s dem, and showed its yoOw petals to the stars.
= z- And it nodded to the little birds that were
ives swimming in the sky and all of them that bad
- " silver lined wings and birds in black gray
and quaker brown came and the queruous
~ blue bird and the courtesying yellow bird
came rnl sang a coronation of that daisy.
Year: 1861

LOTSB


A Charleieton correspondent Of The Boston
Post writes under date of April 10:


''The greatest fear now is that the supply of
provisions viii be so small as to raise the price
to a degree hard to be borne by those who
have so long been suffering in their business.
The markets are very poorly supplied The
fishermen are not allowed to go outside the
bar, and if they were would be afraid to do So
as they are mostly negroes, and are not partial
to the neighborhood of powder AMI shot
Hence there is Il great scarcity of fish, which
IS usually il abundance. The flesh market is
somewhat better supplied, but prices rule high.
There is hardly any game, as those who shoot
it have for weeks and months been doing mill
tary duly. The troops stationed here will re-
quire large supplies, and the back country
must send them, or we shall be reduced to poor
fare at famine prices.
Year: 1861

Of New Hanover pay nearly twentieth
part Of the taxes Of the State. The town
Of WILMINGTON was foremost in the present
enterprise Of peaceable secession. She should
get through the FIRST act of secession before
she drops the curtain and prepares to enter
tain US with the second.


With these remarks. await the verdict
of the people. to be rendered at the polls on
Wednesday the 9th Of November.


Very respectfully,


JOSIAH TURNER, in.
Year: 1861

more and more open their eyes to its suici-
dal effects always provided the South
should not sustain any great reverse in bat
tie. The world is given to standing by
those who show that they are able to stand
alone. and if the South continues, as hereto.
fore, to show this. and to keep the Bull
Runners on the trot. the disaffection Of all
these classes at the North will grow till i
becomes an overwhelming torrent, that will
sweep Lincoln and all before it.
Year: 1861




It is useless to dictate to business men
about advertising. We have seen one
horse traders and third-rate merchants
who were dogmatic in their assertions
that advertising don't pay" But when
We look at the fact that they languish in
poverty, while single advertiser in New
York pays $4,000 to one newspaper in
one year, and grows rich at it we can
scarcely credit the assertion.


There are those, among the shrewdest
and most successful, who advertise with
renewed zeal just when others get scared
and quit We have just become acquaint-
ed with "a case in point Business is very
dull in Philsdelphia, manufacturing estab-
lishments not making expenses, some
Wholesale dealers have gone into liqufda-
ton, and others are selling at retail; but
in some of the old retail stores the crowd
of buyers is tremendous, three or four
deep at the counters. A correspondent Of
New York paper says of this fact: 81
note curious coincidence touching this
matter-those who advertise the most are
selling the most goods. noticed the
same coincidence in 1857 remember
various men who in that crisis kept them
selyc from failing by extensive advertising.
That expedient brought them customers
enough to put them out of debt. People
make the grand mistake of assuming that
in times like these nobody has got any
money. No mistake could be greater.-
Money can be had for almost anything n
man has to sell, by extensively advertising
it,"


To make the application: The Lntelsgen-
Ger has circulation several times greater
than the accustomed circulation of papers
in Wheeling. It's advertisements are all
conspicuous. We believe now is the time
to advertise.
Year: 1861

We are glad to learn that Company is being formed in the Housatonic Valley and vicinity, to join the 9th Regiment of Volunteers. It is un- der the charge of thoroughly educated drill-of. 6cer, who is competent to make it one of the best drilled companies in the State. His Head quarters at present are at New Milford, with William J. Roberts, Esq, and there will shortly be recruiting office at West Cornwall or Falls Village, for this Company. We understand the Company is already half filled, and will go into camp at once, or within few days.

 We learn that F. B. Swift, Esq, a native of Cornwall, now practising Lawyer in New York, has been applied to command the com. psny, and it is said, is willing to accept.

 We think that there are about fifty men in the Western part of the county now ready to po and unless we are misinformed, the balance can be procured in week or two at farthest, At .nv rate, we can cordially commend Capt. Swift and his company to all recruits who are willing to go at once into the service of their country, and who are only looking for the best opportunity and the best company te serve in. We hazard nothing in predicting that this will be the cfacl company of the 9th Regiment.
Year: 1861

The brilliant naval victory and the news from Western Virginia, which we give in cxtenso, in our columns this week, will cheer the heart of every patriot who reads or hears of it. It seems that at last we are to have something beside Big Bethels and Bull Runs-and that the policy of attacking the enemy from the rear, thus placing them between two fires, is about to be used, and Is already SO successfully inaugurated.

 Add to this news, General Fremont's startling and decisive Proclamation in Missouri, by which he warns all the rebels and sympathizers with the rebel in that State, that their temporizing and uprizing will hereafter be speedily quenched by MARTIAL LAw-and the signs of the times are at least encouraging.

 At last, we are to have v1GoR-and it lacks but this 10 have the war still short one

 To meet this evident energy of the Govern ment, we must be ready to do our part with cor responding activity. The Government still wants troops-and two of the four new regiments called from this State, are yet unified. There has nev CT been up to this time so excellent an opportu- nity to go to the seat of war; with prospect of Immediate service, and this State offers greater bounty to her Volunteers than any other State in the Union.

 If therefore there are any in this County thinking of enlisting, we advise them strongly to enlist noD-at once-in one of the Regiments forming at Hartford OF New Haven. We are sorry to know that the Western part of our County has done less toward recruiting than any other portion of the State-but are assured that this will be remedied in the future
Year: 1861

The Rebel Army is now at its very culmina- ting pitch both in point of numbers and strength and resources. It will never be stronger, it can never be larger, it esa never be even as formida- ble as it is now. Every man and boy through out tie rebel states capable of bearing arms has enlisted and gone to the war. In one county of Georgia having not nine hundred voters, we are told by young man who has just made his es- cape from thence, there are tsree full companies enlisted and gone to Virginia. It is in almost the same proportion as if three full companies had enlisted from the old town of Litchfeld (in- cluding Morris,) and from any and eoe'y one or two of the towns of our County. None but old men, women and children, and slaves are left at home.

 Hence it would appear and it is the fact that in point of numbers for her army, the South IS at about the end of her rope. She cannot get more men to replace those who fall in battle or die in the hospital, for there arc no more to De had. So it with their resources. From reliable authority which we gather every day, we know that alresdy the rebel army is in the most desti- tute condition not so much for food as for shoes and clothing. Winter is hastening on-what they have of clothing now will not last till then, and then they must either retreat or surrender.

 It seem then that the South must soon make a desperate push upon our lines or be forever van duished. Skirmishes we shall doubtless have, and masked batteries encounter, for the next six months or year, in the rebels country; but one decisive, fair and square fight on the banks of she Potomac will go long sways toward set ding the question.

 Are we prepared for it? Gen. Mcclellan has been gathering an army larger and by far better drilled than the one with which his predecessor engaged the enemy at Bull Run. Troops are even now constantly pouring into the vicinity of the Capital, and though we are stronger by eve " days delay of the enemy, we cannot be too strong in the day of battle. For, we have enga- ged the enemy thus far, in every quar'er, with a vast disparity of men, and although we have ac- complished some glorious victories here and there, and our loss has been small, yet we have not been able to follow them up, on account of the paucity of our forces.

 General Fremont, on the western frontier of our lines, is gathering also a mighty host, and with unparalleled skill and euergy is moving for ward measures to sweep down the Mississippi Valley with the first frost, and drive the rebels back to the Gulf.

 Naval Expeditions are inaugurated, such as that of last week is but the forerunner of others to follow, which shall re-take the forts from the enemy, efectually stop their harbors, and land federal troops in numbers sufficient to hold the positions they take, and advance into the interior of the rebel country.

 Thus active and energetic operations are evi. dently going on, and we can easily see that we are on the eve of something more decisive than any thing we have yet learned
Year: 1861

pA- Various rumors have reached us during the past week of contemplated attack upon our of lice by the peace people and secessionists of Transferable, Rockville and that direction We still live, however, notwithstanding the ru- hofs' and if any of the rumored rufians will pay Latchfield and the ENQUIRER visit on such an er- rand they may be led to perceive the difference be- tween receiving little cold lead and upsetting it
Year: 1861

cite, where he now" rests from his labors"

 And this is ye true and faithful account of ye great Peace fzz1e and ye large U"'o" meeting in Morris, from ye beginning to ye ending, and let us hope it will be the last that will ever be heard of in this town or any other of our county.
Year: 1861

nea- We publish the last of the Public Laws passed at the last legislature, and we are as thankful as our readers that they are done. We hope that they have been as pleasant reading and as profitable to our readers as they have been to us.
Year: 1861

psp We cannot at all approve of breaking in to mans house or store and destroying his property, even though the man may have made himself hateful or his shop odious to the feelings of the community. If punishment is to be given let it fall upon the man himself, and not upon his family by depriving them of portion of the mans income. Aside from the lawlessness of the act, it is cowardly to break into house or store and destroy the goods when the proprietor is absent and cannot defend them Let every thing that is done be done open and above-board and we shall never suffer from the low and vul- gar inuendoes of those who would call unionists mobs, and more, we shall hold those, who are not the most cowarlly under the greater and more wholesome fear.

 Our Ltchfeld readers will see the point!
Year: 1861

The following extract contains mine
of truth, and may be truly suggestive to
many who look at human action and mo-
tives with dark suspicion


"The bee sucks its honey from the
same plant which the viper turns to ven
ON. In mortal, as in material vision, the
color of objects depends far more on the
ORGAN of vision and the intervening me.
dium than upon anything inherent in the
objects themselves. | have no sort of
respect fcr that species of talent which
bases its reputation entirely upon the
ability to find fault. To discover and
appreciate what is good, is far more diff
fcult task than to detect what is evil
The two states of und differ, as wisdom
differs from cunning. The one sees only
evil; the other both evil and good. The
man who would be thought 80 possess a
profound insight into human nature, be-
cause he can suggest base motive for
every appearance of goodness, draws not
only his premises from bad heart, but
his logic from a narrow head. The char.
ity which 'hopeth all things is not a
surer index of moral than of intellectual
greatness. In women especially, the dis
position to see only the dark shades of
the picture of human nature, is odious in
the extreme, and is ftly represented by
Speucer's persouiGcation of SANDER No.
thing IS all dark. There can not be a
picture without its bright spots; and the
steady contemplation of what is bright in
others has reflex influence upon the be-
holder. 1t reproduces what it reflects.
Nay, it seems to leave an impress upon
the countenance. The features, from
having dark and sinister aspect, become
open, serene, and sunny. The counte-
nance so impressed has neither the vacant
stare of an idiot, nor the crafty, penetra-
ting look of the basilisk, but the clear,
placid aspect of truth and goodness. The
woman who has such face is beautiful.
She has beauty which varies not with
the features, which changes not with
years. 1t is beauty Of expression. 1t is
the only kind of beauty which can be re-


lied on for permanent influence with
the other sex.
Year: 1861

[ The following lines, written eighteen yeal
o, sound like prophecy fulfilled at the pre-
ut crisis.


O, for God and duty stand,
Heart to heart and hand to hand,
Round the old graves of the land
Whose shrinks or falters now.
Whose to the yoke would bow;
Brand the craven on his brow
Freedoms soil has only place
For free and fearless race;
None for traitors false and base.
Perish party perish clan
Strike together, while we can,
Like the arm Of one strong mani
With one heart and with one mouth
Let the North unto the South
Speak the word beftting both:
What though Issachar be strong
Ye may load his back with wrong
Over much and over long.


Patience, with her cup o'errun,
With her weary thread outspun,
Murrurs that her work is done.
Boldly, or with treacherous art,

Strike our blood wrought chain apart!
Break the Unions mighty heart
Work the ruin, if ye will
Pluck upon your heads an i'll
Which shall grow and deepen still
With your bondmen's right arm bare,
With his heart of black despair,
Stand alone, if stand ye dare!
Onward with your fell design
Dig the gulf ard draw the line
Fire beneath your feet the mine
Deeply when the wide abyss
Yawns between your land and this,
Shall ye feel your helplpssness.
Year: 1861

VALUE OF Knowledge One of the
most agreeable consequences ofkuowledge
is the respect and importance which it
communicates to old age. Men rise in
character often as they increase in years /;
they are venerable from what they have
acquired, and pleasing from what they
can impart.
Year: 1861

All stories should have a moral. We
do not claim any particular merit for the
following, except in the fact tEat it admin
isters pointed rebuke to that class of per-
sons who profess to believe that the life of
pastor is one Of case and luxury.
Year: 1861

CHILDREN of any age can now have their pictures
~ taken perfect, as we have built Room expressly
for their Groups of Children also taken frzc
ton of second, clear weather. Mothers need not
now have the trouble take them Gallery dozsn
times, and at last put up with a caricsture, they
will but go at


feb1S-u HUGHES PREMIUM GALLERY
Year: 1861

1t is well known that sold Hickory" was
eduaIIy popular in tho army aud among the
people at largo. No man over lived IN this
country about whom so many characteristic
anecdotes have been related by those who
wero among his personal friends. Below
We give one of these. which wo do not re-.
member to have seen in print before:


Several years ago, an officer, who was
one Of the most distinguished of his gyado
in the service OF tho United Statos, on his
way home from dinner party on a certain
occasion, was attacked so violently with
vertigo that ho became impressed with tho
idea that the ground was rising up against
him, and that tho fro plugs wore after him
with hot haste. Under those cIrcums stances,
ho determined TO conceal himselfin a friend
ly gutter, and wait until tho enemies had
disappeared. In this condition no was
found, and, Of course, one of tho numerous
troop Of Oiiice.hunters was soon ready to
communicate to General Jackson, then
President of tho United States, tho fact that
the gallant defender of Fort - had been
found drunk in tho street. Tho old man
stood for moment. rejecting thcn, turning
to his informant, ssid-"Very bad conduct,
sir, in tho Colonel. But, by the Eternal, he
has done fighting enough never to draw
another sober breath in his lifo." Ever
afterwards it was tho recognized right of
the veteran Colonel to get drunk as often
us he pleased, provided he kept himself out
0fsight.
Year: 1861

A lady was compimonting a clergyman
on the fact that she could always recollect
aud recte moro of the matter of bis sermons
than those of any othor minister she was in
the habit of hearing. She could not account


for this; but she thought the fact worthy
observation. The Rev. gentleman remark
cd. that no thought no could explain tho
cause. Il happen" said be, "to mako
particular point of classifying my toplcs-it
is a hobby of mine to do SO; and, therefore,
l nevor compose sermon without first SET
ting the relationship and order of my argu-
ments and illustrations. Suppose, madam.
that your servant was starting for town, and
you we're obliged hastily TO instruct her
abou: few domestic purchases, not having
time to write down the items and suppose
you said: BE sure you bring some tea,
also some soap and coffee, too ; by the bye,
some powder blue; and don't forget few
light cakes, and little starch, and some
sugar; and now I think of it, little soda
you would not be surprised il her memory
failed with regard to one or two of tho
articles. But if your commission run thus;
Now, Mary, to- morrow We are going to
have some friends to tea, therefore bring a
supply of tea, and coffee aud sugar, and
few light cakes and the next day you
know is washing day, so that We shall want
soap and starch, and soda and powder blue /;
and il is most likely she would retain your
order as easily as you retain my sermons"
Year: 1861

SUNDAY LAW AMONG FOREIGN CITIZENS.
The Echo du Pacifque argues strenuously
against the Sunday law-that being, of all 9TH
ers, the day of relaxation to the great body of
the French people all the world over, and to
Germans and other foreigners as well. The
law in its operations, argues the Echo, will
bear upon the poor man, who does not receive
his salary until the eve of the day on which he
has been in the habit of resting from his labors.
He who has only Sunday in which to take his
bath and get himself shaved, will be obliged to
dispense with this element of health and we'll
being, while the rich man, who has at home
his own bathroom and servants, is obliged to
stint himself in nothing. The Echo regards
the law as undemOcratic-an unfortunate law
which monarchial government would not
have dared to produce in this century. The
French, however, will probably observe the law
like good citizens so long as it is operative, but
there seem to be cogent reasons why it should
be removed from the statutes-not the least OF
which is that there appears to be no urgent ne
cessity for it.
Year: 1861

Be a ordained by the p'ople ofthe State of Arkan- sas ia Conuenon dssen,bled, That the county court of any county in this State may levy and collect tax on all objects of taxation for State purposes, for a military defence, and such other purposes as they may deem necessary for the protection of their respective counties; Prorited, That said tax so assessed, shall not in any one year, exceed one fouth of one per centum on the assessed value of said property, and that such county courts may appropriate the internal improvement fund, anu all other funds of their respective counties, except school fund.- for the purposes aforesaid.

 Ben ftrther ordained, That, when any county court shall deem it expedient to levy any tax or appropriate any county fund for the purposes afore said. it shall be the duty of such county court, or the judge thereof, to direct the sheriff to notify each justice, in writing, by personal service, or by leaving copy of such notice at the usual place ot

 abode of such justice, that such tax will be levied and appropriation made at the next term ot said court, and if such justices do not attend, then the justices that do attend may, by vote of the majority, levy such tax and make such appropria- tions as aforesaid.

 Be t further ordained, That this ordinance be subject to repeal either in whole, or in part, by legislative enactment

 Adopted May 18th, 1861.