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Year: 1861

Fifth Street and the White House.


There was q sensation on Fifth street
yesterday, occasioned by a letter ad-
dressed to popular milliner by the
lady Of the White House Gan autograph
letter in an envelope,) under the frank
of the President ofthe United States, or
dering a bonnet. The documents were
placed in the window of the fortunate
shop in a frame, and were sufficiently
attractive to arrest the attention of a
crowd This is authentic. Fifth street
supplies the White House with bonnets.
Mrs Lincoln ordered bonnet here last
Fall, and was SO well pleased with it
that she sent her order for her spring
bonnet to the shop where it was pro-
cured. That's right. Cincinnati is the
hub of the universe-ths Paris of the
New World.-Cfnc5nnati Commercial.
Year: 1861




A pertinent illustration on this point
is furnished by recent writer in the
Rural Neao- Yorker. He says: "In Phil
adelphia, last summer, l happened to
be in meeting Of pratical gardeners
Some one spoke rather lightly of the
value of manure, when the gardener of
Girard College arose and stated that he
had family of FIVE hundred to feed,
and the ease with which he was able to
do this, depended upon the amount of
manure he had on hand at the commence
ment of operations, With abundance Of
manure, he could supply all wants with
ease; if manure was short, he was OBJ
liged to work harder and accomplished
less, as he worked to disadvantage and
wasted labor"
Year: 1861

to assist in the election of one of our citizens who
has proved himself faithful and efficient officer,
withdrew my name from the list of candidates
for the Sherifalty, with the intention of again
presenting it at the proper time. AS party lines
have become for the present obliterated, and it
is not probable that party nomination will be
made for. the office of SHEPIFF, offer myself as
candidate for that position, and can assure my
fellow citizens that, if elected, will endeavor to
the best of my ability to discharge the duties of
the office with humanity and impartiality.


WIN. ]. PRICE.
Year: 1861

A Bremen journal contains the
following advertisement: "A young
gentleman on the point of getting
married, is desirous of meeting a
man Of experience who will dissu-
ade him from such a step.'
Year: 1861

4 cannot imagine what makes
my hair turn SO gray; sometimes
fancy it is the essence of rosemary
with which my maid brushes it.
What do you think?' 4 should
rather be afraid, madam replied
the distinguished dramatist, drily,
that it is the essence Of time!'
Year: 1861

Why Jimmy said one profes-
sional beggar to another, are you
going knock off already? It's only
two o'clock. No, you thunderhead,
replied the other, who was engaged
in unbuckling his wooden supporter
Pm only going to put it on the
other knee. You don't suppose a
fellow can beg all day on the same
leg, do you.
Year: 1861

A la y who has read of the ex
tensive manufacture of odometers.
to tell how far a carriage Lad been
run, said she wished some genius
would invent an instrument to tell
how far husbands had been in the
the evening, when they say Just
stepped down to the post-otfice.'
Year: 1861

'What is the difference between
woman and watch 2 1t is given
up of course. and we relieve the
curiosity Of the party by informing
them that 'one reminds, you Of the
time; and the other teaches you to
forget it,
Year: 1861

Cor Laurel aud Church SIS,


NOW open for the reception Of strangers and per
manent boarder,. will spare expense to make
my house home to ALL aud equal to any in the state
outside "fNew Orleans. Ny rooms all well venti
lated and the location is convenient to business being
the Post office, and within ten minutes walk 6f
he State House. 1t will afford me much pleasure to
See my old friends and patrons when they next visit
Baton Rouge. Gets
Year: 1861

Veracity.


The groundwork Of all manly charac,
ter is veracity. This virtue lies at the
foundation of every solid. How com
mon it is to hear parents say, II have
faith in my child so long as he speaks
the truth. He may have many faults
but l know he will not deceive me.
build on that confidence" They are
right. 1t is lawful and just ground to
build upon. And that is beautiful
confidence. Whatever errors tempta-
tion may betray child into, so long as
brave, open truth remains there is some
thing to depend on, there is anchor
ground, there is substance at the center
Men Of the world feel so about one an
other. They can be tolerant and fore
bearing SO long as their erring brother
is true. 1t is the fundamental virtue.
Ordinary commerce can hardly proceed
4 step without good measure of it. II
we cannot believe what others say to us,
we cannot act upon it, and to an i'm
mense extent that is saying that we can
not act at all. Truth is common in
terest. When we defend it, we defend
the basis of all social order. When we
vlndicate it, we vindicate our own foot
hold. When we plead for it, it is like
pleading for the air of health we breathe
When you undertake to benefit lying
man, it is like putting your foot into the
mire.
Year: 1861

The world is half darkened with croakers,


Whose burdens are weighing them down;
They croak of their stars and i'll usage,


And grege in the ditch for crown.
Why talk to the wind of thy fortune,
Or clutch at distinction and gold,
IF thou eanst not reach high on the ladder,


Thou canst steady its base by thy hold.
For the flower, though hid in the corner
Will as faultlessly finish its bloom,
Will reach for sparkle of sunshine,


That clouds have not chanced 10 consume.
And wouldst thou be less than flower


With thought, and brain, and hand?
Will wait for the dribbles of fortune,


When there's something that these, may COM
There is food to be won from the furrow,


And forests that wait to be hewn;
There's marble untouched by the chisel,


Days that break not on the forehead of June
viii you let the plow rest in the furrow-


Unbuilded house or hal2
Nor bid the stones wake from their silence
And fret, as if fretting were all?
Go learn from the blossoms and aunt-hill


There's something your labor must give,
Like the beacon that pierces the tempest,


Strike the clod from thy footing and live.
Live-not trail with with thy face in the dross


heap,


In the track of the brainless and proud,
Lift the cerements away from thy manhood,
Thourt robbing the dead of a shroud!
There are words and pens to be welded,


There are thoughts that would die if unsaid,
Weuldst thou saunter away amid roses,


Or sepulcher dreams that are dead?
No, dreg the hope to the pyre,


Dreams dead from the ashes will rise;
Look not down on the earth for its shadow,
There is sunlight for thee in the skies.
Year: 1861

Most of our fair friends have deci
ded ave Esion to that part of their duty
which falls under the. patching and
darning" denomination; they are of the
opinion that "a rent may be the accident
of day, but darn is premeditated
povertyr" But if bhey only know how
pretty we'll executed piece of repairs
looks, when you see in its warp end wool
the bright threads of economy, and in.
depe ndence, and womanly thrift, cross,
ing and recrossing one another, they
would lay aside embroideries and crochet
work, and take up, instead, the mending
basket.


We rode down the other day, When
the only other occupants of the stage
were young gentleman, and lovely
girl, of, we should think, about eigh-
teen. She was the pretties, freshest
looking girl one would want to see
there were no tell-tale traces of mid
night parties, headachery mornings in
those peach blossom cheeks and clear
bright eyes, and all the numberless lit
tie items of her dress was as fresh and
trim as herself-from the pink bonnet
string down to the neatly fitting gloves
and delicate gaiter boots. If we had
been an old bachelor, or young one
either-we should certainly have fallen
in love with that girl, particularly after
we found out that she was as industri-
GUS as pretty.


And how do you suppose we found it
out?


The handkerchief that lay on her lap
told US so. The neat little darn, elabor-
ately executed. in its corner, with its
small white stitches and skillful hand
work had a voice quite audible to our
ears. Time, and patience, and wise
economy had been there. The gentle
men sitting opposite saw the little token
also; we noticed his eyes turned from
the handkerchief to the blooming face,
and back to the handkerchief again, and
we knew we'll what he was thinking of
the good wife that young lady would
make, and how neat her husbands era
vats and stockings would be! Poor fel-
low, the edges of his shirt bosoms were
little frayed, and one of the buttons
were missing, whose detection the most
skillful arrangement of his cravat ends
would not conceal. Perhaps he had a
wife who didn't believe in mending and
darning-perhaps he had none at ALL
However that may have been, his admir-
ing eyes appreciated the darn on that
handkerchief more than if it had been
the richest and most sight destroying
embroidery-not for what it was, but for
what it betokened. a


Girls! don't shrink from a mending
place as if it were plague spot; the
longer old things last, the better able
you WILDE to have new ones by-andby.
Sensible people read your character in
little things; and no one will think the
worse of you, whatever may be your
wealth or station in life, for the exercise
of economy and thrift. ga stitch in
time saves nine" and sometimes it saves
4 great deal more than that.-tSelected.
Year: 1861

An honest old German, who, by pick
ing up bones about the streets, had saved
up money enough to purchase cheap
lot in the suburbs of Brooklyn, left the
street as picker, and commenced as
trader-buying the bones from the chif-
foniers and selling them to the bone
black makers. He drew his handcart
filled with bones, regularly twice day,
with his purchases. AT night he would
cross the ferry with his empty cart to
his home-not exactly empty, however,
for it always contained at least one brick,
which he was never at loss to find in
the streets of New York. His daily
brick was deposited on his lot, and in
the course of time old Jacob waxed rich
enough to think of building house on
his lot. His bricks had, by this time,
become considerable pile, SO consider
able, indeed, that he actually built q
snug small two story house, without
being obliged to call on the brick yard
for single one Old Jacob certainly
got a cheap house, which he now resides
in, without mortgage or lien upon it.


After he b1ilt his house, as he still
brought his cart over nightly, and was
not in want of bricks, he brought over
one or more cobble stones at every trip.
So that by the time that the street was
ordered to be paved, he saved the ex-
pense of paving stones, furnishing his
stock on hand. Now this old man
thought it no sin to pick up an isolated
brick or stone-for such were only
proper in his eyes to take-they be-
Ionged to no one, and he took up stray
brick as he would pick bone out Of
the street. To have taken brick from
a pile, or a stone from heap, would
have been in Jacobs eyes, stealing, an
the old man would have gone HON.
empty, rather than do either. No,
Jacob house is an honest house as any
in Brooklyn.-Journal of Commerce.


Beautiful Figure.


How beautiful is the following, and
how happy must be the heart that can
see these beauties and understand them:


Why is it that the rainbow aud clouds
come over US with beauty that is not
of earth and then pass away and leave
us to muse on their faded lovelipess?-
Why is it that the stars that hold their
nightly festival around the midnight
throne are placed above the reach of our
limited faculties, forever mocking Us
with their unapproachable glory? And
why is it that the light forms of human
beauty are presented to our view anil
taken from US, yet leaving the thousand
streams of affection 80 flow in Alpine
torrents upon the heart? We are bor,
for higher destiny than that Of earth.
There is realm where the rainbow
never fades--where the stars will ho set
before us like islands slumbering on the
ocean, and where the beautiful beings
tn; pass before US like neteors will
stay in our presence forever.


E~A negro orator thus concludes an
account of the death of a colored brother:
"De last word he was heard to say, de
last word he was heard to speak, de last
word he was known to utter, de last
word he ebber pronounced, dc last syl-
liable he heabed, de last idea he eber
Year: 1861

Any person obtaining five subscribers, and forwarding
Ahe money, shall be furnished with copy Of the Inelli
gencer for this service long the number shall be
kept good.


Business pertaining to the paper can be transacted
with the Publisher any day at the Office If Publication


Communications may be addressed to the Editor, who
will promptly and faithfully respond to them.
Year: 1861




Nany man supposes that when the TR1-
BuEE speaks in denunciation Of the semi
secessionists in this city, we mean that
they should be treated with personal
violence-rode On rail, i ynched, driven
out or in other way harraed in their per-
sons-he is grossly mistaken. We believe
that traitors should be socially tabooed and
politically prescribed; such punishment is
proper and within this limit of the law.
But as long as this is the country Of free
speech, we shall not cease to insist upon
the right Of every man to have and express
in decent manner any opinions on po' iti-
cal, as well as all other matters, without
let hlndrance or danger Of censorship.
One cause of the present quarrel with the
South, is in the fact that the mob in all
that country has exercised the right to
regulate the tongues of Northern men, and
compel them to sing the praises Of slavery
or keep silent We protest that Northern
men shan not initiate the bad example Of
the enemy, and set up here tyranny, the
exercise Of which they have so often and
| so properly condemned in others. We
know that these are war times, and that the
proyocations to violence are often hard to,
| be borne Where those who. differ with
the masses Of or people attempt to en-
barass the Government .:by discor. r.rasing
the men who would come up h, its sup
port, OF where they are: wicke dly factious
and malignant. they should be dealt with
by the authorities as distutbers of the pub
lie peace But let Us lave no mobz-no
violence-no limitation Of the right Of free
! discussion.
Year: 1861

It has leaked out that the secessionist
sympathisers IN this city are arranging to
secure the arrest Of another fugitive, not
with the expectation or desire Of sending
him back to a1aVey, but with the hope
that in the present state Of the public mind
a rescue would be effected. They believe
that such result would aid the secession
cause in the border slave States, and SO be-
1ieving will make every possible 'exertion
to have it brought about It is rumored
that warrants are already out for this es-
pecial prupose. In view Of these facts we
again advise those who are in danger to
lose no time in placing themselves beyond
reach
Year: 1861

This is not the time for rhetorical dis
play, Neither the President nor the Gov
ernor indulges in any unnecessary words.
This Is the time for work, not gas; hence,
they tell in plain words that all can under
stand just what they mean. When men
get fearfu1ly in earnest they speak in short
sentences and ia almost pure Saxon The
President and Governor afford proofs Of
+he correctness Of the rule.
Year: 1861

The CoLoRED PoPULATIoN OF GEoRGtA,-A bill
has passed the Georgia Legislature which provides
that every free person of color who has reached
tie age of fourteen years may choose an owner
and go Into voluntary servitude for life that pa
rents may choose owners for their children when
the latter are under fourteen years of age and
that all free persons Of color found in that State
after the first day of May, 1868, who have taken
no steps to select owners shall be liable to seizure
and sale as q slave for life.
Year: 1861

KEEP 1T BEFORE THE PEOPLE, that Ed
mund Randolph. the most influential man
in the Mcconnell party. prays to God that
the bullet Of the assassin may reach the
heart Of the President Of the nation J


Tod Robinson, another prominent mem
Der of the party, said


ave will fight against il Ohe government)
in our civic battle fields, and it war comes
If the worst comes upon ms, as It has fal-
len upon our fellow citizens elsewhere-we
will contend against it upon The field OF
battle. and in this cause we cannot fail to
triumph"
Year: 1861

He will also give special attention to busi-
ness before the Departments of the General
Government at Washington, and especially te
Land Cases, and obtaining Land Patents


As the head of one of the Land Patent Ru-
reaus in the General Land Office at Wash
ington for several years, and possessing a
large experience in the transaction of public
business, he possesses extensive facilities for
the transaction of business with the Govern
ment.. nS4v2y1
Year: 1861

A MAssAcHUsRTTs WOMAN In one OF the
companies attached to the regiment of Col Jones,
which left Boston on Thursday evening was a
newly-enIisted recruit, the eldesr son OF a widow
in one of the country towns who folIowed be,
son to the city to take last look Of him until he
returns from the war. She did no: come at all 10
urge him to return TO his peaceful home and pur-
suits, but rather to cheer him with a mothers
blessing. Fearing that her son might want for
money during his absence, the noble woman
raised sum by the sale OF COW that she owned
and being admitted inside the lines Just before
the troops left the State House, she pressed the
money upon her boy Ii is almost needless 20 saw
that her offer was declined, as the Massachusetts
troops will come to no want
Year: 1861

WAsnISsToN BANK NOTES The banks Of this
but nftv thousand dollars The stoc Fbolders are
known TO be worth millions Of dollars In the apore
gate, while IL is not disputed that in law tyeyv
stocEnolder 10 bound In the whole amount of his
property for the redemption Of the notes OF tb,
bank la which be ownsstOck. We submit there
lore, that there IL no substantial reason whatever
Tor the panic that exists among persons In trade
mere upon The subject OF receiving District notes
We hear that poor woman was actually charged
twenty per cent. by butcher In market this
morning, for changing her only money, a Wash
Ington IS bank hote-a piece Of shameless extor
HOB Indeed; the note being intrinsically worth
ie face IN gold, far security for its eventual
redemption In gold is concerned
Year: 1861

PRESIDENT PIERCE ON THE CRISIS The Boston
Courier says that General Pierce has anxiously
sired and urged many Of his most intimate per
sonal friends, connected with the militia 10 90
at once, and with the utmost alacrity, to the aid
OF the Government, and that these friends are
In preparing to comply with these orders
Year: 1861

WAR TERMs.-A casemate is a stone roof TO a
fort, made sufficiently thick TO resist the force OF
cannon balls, and a casemate gun is one which Is
placed under a casemate. A barbette gun Is one
which b is placed on the top OF the forti tiicatiop
An ernbrasure is the hole or opening thrauo
which guns are fred from Qualifications Loon
boles are openings In walls to are musketry
through
Year: 1861

COUNSEL TO orr VoLUNTKERs-Roe to Pre-.
pare for the Campaiga The following hints to
volunteers, from Gan Old Soldier are timely
(says the New York Post) and should be needed !:


l. Remember that In a camp ign more men die
from sickness than by the bullet


z Line vour blanket with one thickness of
brown drilling This adds but four dances in
weight, and doubles the warmth


3 Buya small India rubber blanket fonly al SOY
TO lay on the ground or to throw over your shout.
ders when on guard duty during a rain storm.
Most ofthe Eastern troops are provided with these.
Straw to lie on is not always to be had


a. The best military bat in use is the light
colored soft felt the crown being su ciently hig
to allow space for air over the brain. You can
fasten II up as continental In fair weather, or
turn it down when II is wet or very SUNNY.
s. Let your beard grow, SO as to protect the
throat and lungs.


8. Keep your entire person clean; this prevents
fevers and bowel complaints In warm climates.
Wash yonr body each day, II possible Avoid
strong coffee and ely meat Gen Scott said that
the too free use Of these together with neglect in
keeping the skin clean) cost many soldier his
life In Mexico


sudden check Of persp,ration by chilly or
night air often causes fever and death When
thus exposed do not forget your blanket.
Year: 1861

Old Deacon Sharp never told a lie,
but he used to relate this He was
standing beside frog pond-we have
his word for it-and saw large gar
ter-snake make an attempt upon an
enormously big bull frog. The snake
seized one of the frogs hind legs, and
the frog, to be on par with his snake
ship, caught him by the tail, and
both commenced swallowing one an
other and continued this carniverous
operation until nothing was left of
either of them.
Year: 1861

The Liverpool Mercury of January
l4th says: :" A letter from New York
of which We published an extract on
Friday last, will have painfully brought
home to every thoughtful reader a
question which can never he long alb
sent from any mind that knows how to
appreciate its impor,ance The catas-
trophe contemplated by the writer may
or.may not be so imminent as he be-
lieves but in the present temper Of
parties in the United States all things
are possible. and it is assuredlg high
time for us to look in the face an emer-
gency which may arise no man knows
how soon. What are we to do for
cotton in the not extravagantly i'm
probable event of the disruption fthe
American Union leading to a general.
or even a partial, suspension of the
staple agricultural industry of the
South? In other words, suppOsing
certain political forebodings (Which no
one can pronounce entirely unfounded)
to be realized, what is to become of
the manufacture which supports, di-
rectly CT indirectly, some five millions
of our population, and Which supplies
a full third of our annual imports Of
the raw material of this colossal manu-
factnre we are indebted to community
which appears at this moment to be on
the brink of political dissolution, and
which is, to say the very least, violently
and dangerously disturbed. What are
we to do if, as many expect, this most
precarious source of supply should
suddenly fail ns?"
Year: 1861

GENERAL ScoTT UNDAUNTED.-It
is utterly untrue that the Presi-
dent and General Scott have had a
difference These two aged men agree
in every step that has yet been taken /;
and the hero of Lundy's Lane and
Bridgewater told gentleman lately
that he was ready for any emergency,
and that if the capital was attacked by
the traitors he would gladly forfeit
his life in its defence.
Year: 1861

DOING AND NOT DREADING. If we
spent the time, the nervous energy and
mental fire, in doing the duties of life,
which we often spend in dreadsng
them, we and the world would be
stronger and better. All the severe
tasks of life only grow more and more
formidable as we look at them from q
distance, while we grow weaker all the
while, and less disposed to grapple with
them. We should inquire, with an
honest, brave heart, what are our du-
ties here and now /; and with what of
mental energy we can summon at the
moment, we should go forward to per-
form them. Not before, but at the
time, the needed strength viii come.
Not while we dread, but while we do
the work of life, the Master helps us.