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Year: 1861

THE Empress of the French, it is said, is
about undertaking a pilgrimage to Jerusa-
lem. She will replace the diamond stars
stolen from the cave of the Nativity, and
make costly additions to the decorations of
the Holy Sepulcher.
Year: 1861

THE Erie canal is to be opened about the
10Th of April, The winters effect on the
structure is now thoroughly understood, and
with the force of the Engineer department,
the work is so controlled as to be available,
and this river, as it is now, can be brought
into use at the earliest day.
Year: 1861

The public have been often imposed on by un
priucIcd men who have advertised worthless
ncsrums AS valuable Medical Remedies for disease,
that it is now extremely difficult TO Introduce an
article Of rcaf merit.


In calling vour attention to
Year: 1861

TELEGRAPHUNG THE DEPAsTMENTs.-In our
paper Of yesterday appeared an order on the
indiscrminate use of the telegraph by those
who have business with the Departments at
Washington. The Adjutant General has had
to pay about 81 400 a month for dispatches
nine out Of ten OF which could just us well be
transmitted through the United States mail
The Secretary OF War, more unluckily has been
taxed nearly $4,000 month Tor dispatches
and hence the order to use the mail instead Of
the telegraph.
Year: 1861

Gs- General Dix has forbidden the Mayor
Of Baltimore to continue the payment of the old
police force, and Mayor Brown, whilst protest
ing against the mil ary authority to interfere
has signifled his compliance.
Year: 1861

Cavalry horses are being sent from Cincin
natl to St. Louis as rapidly as possible The
contracts in Cincinnati ore chiefly for the army
aud the horse trade in that city is therefore
very brisk.
Year: 1861

As moving time is fast approaching, "A
contemporary gives the following excel
lent advice, which, as the almanac ma +.
kers say. will suit one latitude as well as
another.


In the first place don't move!


Remember the famous story of the
fish that moved out of the frymg-pan
into the fire--call to mind all the allie
gories, ancient and modern, respecting
the folly of charge if the leaky roof
can't be meE3ed-considor whether the
range bakes so very badly-roconcile
yourself to narrow Kitchens and defec-
tive water-pipes-be at peace with all
the world, and your house into the bar
gain, and don't move!
But if this advice comes after the bill
has been put up and the house let, and
another one taken, the next best thing
is to arrange matters as philosophically
az possible, and the following scraps of
counsel may be advantageously adhered
to.


Don't keep your house in confusion a
month before the eveutfal Rigera "a
week is quite long enough to MAKE cha
os Of


Don't undertake to clear up things
generally. 1t is not economy to bargain
away your husbands best coat to rag
man, mistaking it for his old moth eaten
toga- neither is it wisdom TO burn all
the receipts and family papers, along
with old letters and newspapers, just to
get them out of the wayP
Don't think it necessary to feed your
household on cold beans and luke warm
tea, or to quarter them on Aoos beds
with carpet bags for their pillows, be-
cause you happen to be getting ready to
move.


If your husband is handy man,
send him about his business as early in
the morning as possible, on moving day.


Handy men are nuisances at any peri
cd, but at such time they are an aggra-
vation beyond The power of words to de-
scribe.


Keep your wits about you, and when
your courage begins to fail. just bolster
it up with the comfortable conviction
that what a woman cant do, is not worth
doing at all


Don't pack canary-bird and a cat TO-
gether. aud object decisively to the dres-
sing glasses being steadied with coal
scuttles or smoothing irons.
Convince the cart-man at once that
you are the director of affairs, not no, and
don't let him impose upon you in the
matter of short loads. What if you arc
ouly small woman, and be an Irishmar
Of the amplest pattern Napoleon wa.
not six footer. that ever we heard of
i If you hear anything jingle. stop you
Tears, and don't lcok round until you hay,
Year: 1861




TIE OFIUM EATER. When Thoma.
De Quincy was at Oxford he spent all
his money in buying books. SO that lit,
orally he had none left for any other pur.
pose, and his wardrobe was the part of
his expenditure in which il was least un-
pleasant for him to retreach. He car
ried this so far that one day, On going
to dine in the hall, he could find no
waistcoat sufficiently presertable, so he
went without and buttoned up his coat
to hide the deficiency. Two of his
neighbors at table soon made him aware
that it was evident enough.


Have you heard, said one, that an
order in council hasjust been issued pro-
hibiting waistcoats ?


Yes, said the other, 'and there is to
be another next week to do away with
trosers.' This was the only remark
which--as far as he knew-tis poverty
ever excited at Oxford.
Year: 1861

If not, call at 5. T. LITTLE'S JEWELRY
Store and sec his Photograph at tho same time
do not forget to examine his extensive stock
as he has just returned from the Eastern and
Northern factories with full assortment in
his line of business and is able to sell exceed
ly low for cash.


Sign of the big watch north side of Baltimore
st near the railroad.


S. T. LITTLE,
N. D. the American watches at factory
prices, Nov. g..
Year: 1861

E The Norfolk Herald Of the Stli
contains tn. following gratifying
piece of intelligence. We colnntcnd
Its wise reserve:


We Will not undertake to speak Of
the forces and preparations for the
defence of this port against our
Northern enemies for if there was
not manifest imprudence in doing
so. We might not represent them as
strictly accurate We shall, there
fore, simply centine ourselves to the
fact that our preparations for defence
are far more efficient than they We're
at any period Of the war Of 1872.
The volunteers we have with us now
are well equipped, well drilled and
finer looking body Of troops are
nowh here to be met with. We will
not. however. speak ofthe North,
though we doubt not they will give
a good account of themselves, and
| show their enemies, at least. a pretty
fair specimen Of Southern pluck,
Year: 1861

and three dollars and thirty three cents, and re-
ported the same to the Treasury for payment
Fortunately, however, before the money was
actually paid, Congress interposed, AMI rescind
ed the resolution under which the Secretary Of
War had acted, and so defeated the consum.
nation Of this last act in the great swindle.
This last allowance Of $66,sO3.33 was made by
Floyd on precisely the same evidence that was
before him when he made his former. allow.
ance, not an iota of additional evidence hav.
ing been filed in the mean time.


A simple statement of these facts is sufficient
to awaken profound suspicion, to say the
least, that there must have been gross corrup-
ton in the case. But from our personal knowl
edge Of the case, we do not hesitate to say, that
it is impossible that these enormous allowances
could have been honestly made, by q man Of
ordinary sense and intelligence.
Year: 1861

A SPECIMEN HERo.-The Louisville Courier
gives the following sketch, which may answer
for that Of thousands Of the many spirits who
are leading Off in revolution at the South:


"Co Jack Allen, the filibuster, was in the
city Yesterday, arranging for regiment or two
to aid the Southern Confederacy in fight, If
it needs men. That cause enlists the sympa.
thies and services Of the true men Of the South.
Allen is an acquisition to any army. He fought
at San Jacinto; was in the Mexican war, and
under Lopez in Cuba. He served under Walk.
er in Nicaragua-and ever with gallantry and
conceded ability. There are many filibusters-
there is but one Jack Allen"


Anything to live upon, but by preference the
license of war and revolution, is what these
Col. Jack Aliens whose number is legion,
want, and what they see prospect Of obtain
ing in this Southern Confederacy. What is
going on in the Gulf region, is not more rev.
oluton as against the Union, than it is a social
revolution, by which the Col. Jack Aliens, who
have nothing to do, and who do not know how
to do anything except to fight, are to enjoy
military rank and pay and opportunities for
plunder, at the expense of their quiet and in,
dustrious neghbors.
Year: 1861

respected for strength and justice abroad
an encouraging model to all the nations Of
the earth-we are deliberately pulling down
upon our heads house which, without i'm
piety, could be said to be "not made with
hands," but erected by the loving providence
of God. We are deserting and destroying
a Union which alone has been our strength
and glory and honor. Standing before the
great rebuking assembly of the nations, VIC
are forever blighting our fame by commit
ting most useless political suicide. We
cannot pray that God will forgive those who
would effect our ruin. We can only pray
that He may yet arrest our hands before that
ruin is complete.
Year: 1861

Few farmers comprehend the importance
Of attending to this item in the preparation
of their stock Of fertilizers. They are often
carried to the field in the Spring, in the coars-
est form possible, the hay and straw not fer.
mented at all, and the coarse clods carried
into the yard last Summer. not broken. They
are spread in this state, and the large Jumps
are plowed under, SO that they are not i'm
mediately available for the sustenance of
plants. Plants feed mainly at the extremi-
ties Of the rootlets, through many mouths too
small to be seen by the naked eve. The f.
ner the manure is made, the more easily it is
dissolved in water, and the sooner it passes
into the circulation. This doubtless is one
reason Of the immediate visible effects of Pc
ruvisn guano. II has passed through the di-
gestive apparatus OF birds, and reduced to a
much finer powder than it could be by any
mechanical means. So small quantity as a
hundred pounds. spread upon an acre Of now
ing in wet May-day will improve its ap-
pearance in very short time.


All observing farmers have noticed that
the finest and most thoroughly worked COM
post, other things being equal, gives uniform
ly the best results. The minute division of
the particles is favorable to the chemical
combinations that take place in the soil. 1t
becomes much sooner available and the cul-
tiyator gets an earlier return for his invest
ment in fertilizers.


Fortunately, at this season, we have very
powerful agent that we can put to this work
of communion without any expense. The
frost with a fair chance to work, is better
than any clod-crusher or mill to powder a
compost heap. One Of the best means Of e.
conomizing frost for this purpose. is to plow
up the yard whenever there comes thaw, or
say twice a month. Every turning Of the
contents Of the yard exposes new surfaces to
the action Of the frost. We have found II
very profitable employment to fork over the
compost heaps in the barn cellar, and in the
field during the Winter, where the heaps are


large; this can be done quite rapidly, even
in freezing weather; and the more it freezes
and thaws, The finer il becomes. Heaps thus
turned and thoroughly beaten up with show
el, come out in the spring, fine homogeneous
mass, good TO spread and pIow in. admirable
for dropping in the hill, and irstrate tor top.
dressing grass land. american Agriesifurisi.
Year: 1861

HoLD up YouR WHIP IN DRIVING OXEN
The Ohio Farmer says there is more in the
movements Of the driver Of an ox-team, and
in carrying Of the whip, than most farmers
think. Oxen, however quick in their move
ments, or upright their walk in the yoke,
soon become dull, and get the practice of
|" showing" or ".hauling," in consequence Of
the driver tagging along, or, as is often the
practice, going ahead Of the team, and from
time to time stepping back and whipping
them. A driver of an ox-team should walk d.
rectly opposite to the yoke, walk straight, and
carry his whip as upright as soldier would
his gun. Use whip stock with short lash,
and never strike them on the nose or over
the eyes.
Year: 1861

The FRENCH MoDE OF GRAFTINo.-The
French are practicing new method Of
grating, knowledge Of which may prove
valuable TO American horticulturists, mas
much as it can be performed at any season
Of the year. when the sound matured buds
can be had, whether the sap is in a flowing
state or not. 1t is performed by removing
small piece Of bark and wood, leaving a
smooth and fiat surface, to which similar
piece containing the bud, which is to form
the future tree, is fitted, which is sealed over
Immediately with colodion. This forms a
strong impervious cuticle, which secures a
free circulation Of the sap on the approach
Of warm weather and perfect union Of the
parts.
Year: 1861

A BABY FOUND IN BAGGAGE RooM-The
baggage master Of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
and Chicago Railroad found in the baggage
room at Crestiine, on Thursday last, a female
child, apparently about six days old, dressed
in pink frock and with quarter shawl
around it, the face being left exposed, doubt
less, with a view to prevent its being thrown
aside as a bundle, or perhaps to make it more
readily noticed. When found life was nearly
extinct in the little waif from cold and want
of sustenance, perhaps; but careful nursing
soon restored its natural vitality. The child
was adopted by family in Crestiine, and q
number of .he railroad men intend raising a
fund for its main tenance. 1t is supposed 20
have been purposely left by passenger on
either the Southern or Western train on We'd
nesday night.
Year: 1861

volume, is the record which he has given Q.
himself. Take this book, my dear young
friend, read it, and l shall pray that Gcd
may bless it to YOU The youth readily ac-
ccpted the gilt and the signal for departure
just then sounding, they parted, to meet 10
more in this world


Five or six months AFTER the brief, though
bloody campaign being over, the Regiment
was ordered back to France. The young
soldier had escaped all the dangers of the
battle field, but his days were numbered
Immediately after reaching the garrison town
he was attacked by severe illness, sent into
hospital, and, after a short time Of suffering,
died


Nothing is told US of his last hours; there
were probably no Christians at hand to speak
Of hope or consolation to tho departing spir-
it. But as soon as all was over, the reg
mental surgeon was called upon to see the
body, and give formal medical certificate


in regard to the cause of death. AS the al
tendants were stripping the corpse III MS
presence one Of them exclaimed; o what
strange thing sec, our comrade has car
ried little book on his heart A sna!,
volume was handed to the surgeon, who looked
at it with evident emotion and then left the
room.


He was not religio Us man; but not long
afterward he songht an interview with d
Christian of his acquaintance, and spoke to


him with unusual earnestness. He related


the incident connected with the soldier )
death, and said, / cannot tell you how
much finding this book, the New Testament,
on the corpse of that young man, has m
pressed my mind. A copy OF the same was
given to myself before we left for lta y
And when saw how carefully his had been
: preserved, and, from the ink and pencI


marks in all directions, how diligently it bad


been studied, and could not but ask myseii


What use have ! made of the Gospe


placed in my hands under similar circun.
stances Had l, like him, been on the beo
5 of DEATH what answer could [ have given tc


the Judge of all, on his saying to me,
! sought thee when thou soughtest me not /;
f called thee by my word, and thou hast de4
r pissed the call?' There is every reason e
e believe, we are told, that these impression
G have since deepened into conviction, and tha
q the surgeon had not only read his own Ne'
= Testament, but received its truths to the So.
- vation of his sou.-Brltish Messenger.
Year: 1861

u bill under consideration to reduce the small
pay now given.


The Chaplain of the army has much hon
or. He holds a commission; men touch
their hats to him as they pass-tho scntrles
halt at his approach, wheel to the front and
carry arms. For six days in the week he
feels as useless as the fifth wheel to co1ch
He is allowed and often assigned tc the
drudgery of the Post Office in the camp. lie
can and under the articles Of war must teach
school, He has low rank on the Staff and
has the comfortable feeling that on almost
all occasions he is quite out oil place. All
guests, especially the military ones, must be
invited to drink liquors when water Is scarce
and if the Chaplain don't drink his presence
is regarded as a rebuke. IF he does drink
he loses his influence with the men. Like
the man on the tongue Of cart the oxen are
ready to kick him off and the wheels run
over him.


Whether all this honor is an equivalent
for what he must endure-.the reckless and
indecent profanity that is almost universal


the general obsccnlty and vul garity OF the
camp, which he can control no more than hi
can the flow of the Nagara-which spares
Mother his tender feelings nor his profession
which runs from high to low, is matter tha
each one must decide for himself. But
sketch this picture from liie---not in ON
camp, but in many.
1t is a great folly, as we'll as danger for


Chaplain to go armed, unless he really mean
to take part in the war. The person OF


Chaplain and surgeon are regarded as sacre
, and in case of battle are not shot at gene
, rally, and if taken prisoners ct war are re


leased at once, or tenderly treated. But
found armed to the teeth would be deal
with as other men are But as none OF ou
. troops intend to be taken, the caution nee'
not be needed.
Year: 1861

pRorlrs OF A SLAVE VoYAGE.-Thc captain
q SLAYER goes to Havana with one half of bis
ships register and false bill of sale, which he
forwards to the New York Custom House, accor-
ding to law, and in the meanwhile presents
himself to his principal with the following
halnnce sheet
Year: 1861

MUsHRooMs.-So many accidents occur
from mistaking the pisonous toadstool for
the edible mushroom, that too much caution
cannot be used in gathering them for the
table, and none but experienced hands should
be trusted. Without giving the botanical
characters, we notice some of the marks by
which they may be distinguished. The
mushroom has no bad smell. The skin on
the top of the mushroom will readily peel
off. The gills or plates on the under side OF
the mushroom are of a white and pnkish, or
rosy hue, though turning brownish by age,
yet never of that lurid brown of the toad
stool. When sprinkled with salt and allowed
to stand a few hours, the mushroom gives a
juice, but the toadstool becomes dry and
leathery. If all these characteristics are
united in the specimen, it may be safely eaten
otherwise, it itshould be rejected, as it would
be better to throw away acres of mushrooms
than to eat one of the poisonous toadstools.
Homestead
Year: 1861

nPA man 10 Newark, N. D.. was
cleaning a gun and blew into the barrel
to see if it was loaded, the nipple being
near a lighted candle at the time. The
gun exploded, bluwing the mans head Oil.
The barrel recoiled striking the mans
mother in Law in the breast and killing
her. The mans wife rushed in and fell
senseless across the body of her husband.
Year: 1861

H-


Every man has them-a Seylla and
Charybdis-equipped with them as much as
he is with hands and feet. Always avoiding
the one, he is forever in danger of encount-
ering the other.


"a. X. H. b." whose forcible papers in
FTdSey's Magazine are, we are glad to know,
to be forthwith issued in b ok form has writ
ten capital article showing in striking
light what pendulums we all are how,
striving TO steer wide of the one wrong, we
get far over into the other.


The subject is so new, from the point he
considers it, and the treatment so vigorous,
that we are free to confess it has been a long
time since we took so much pleasure in read
ing magazine article.


ut seemsS' he says, to be great law of
the universe, that wrong lies upon either side
of the way, and that right is the narrow
path between. There are the two ways of
doing wrong--too much and too little. &c
to the extreme right hand, and you are
wrong; go to the extreme left hand and you
are wrong too. That you may be right, you
have to keep somewhere between these two
extremes; but not necessarily in the exact
middle All this, of course, is part of the
great fact that in this world evil has the
advantage of good. 1t is easier to do wrong
than right.


ut is very natural to think that if one
lining OF, course DC wrong, lIS reverse must
be right. If it be wrong to walk toward the
east, surely it must be right to walk toward
the west. If be wrong to dress in black,
it must be right to dress in white. Itis
somewhat hard to say, DUN infant stulh vita,
n conHdrid ctsTtsat-to declare, as if that
were statement of the whole truth, that
fools mistake reverse of wrong for right.
Fools do so, indeed; but not fools only. The
average human being, with the most honest
intentions, is prone 10 mistake reverse OF
wrong for right. We are fond, by our natural
constitution, Of broad distinctions--of class
ifications that put the whole interests and
objects of this world TO the right hand and
to the left. We long for aye or motor heads
OF tails. We are impatient of limitations,
qualifications, restrictions. You remember
how Mr.. Micawbe explained the philosophy
of income and expenditure, and urged people
never to run in debt. Income, said he,
'fl0O a year; expenditure, f99 19s.: Hap
piness. Income, f100 year; expenditure,
fl00 Is. Misery You see the principle
involved is, that if you are not happy, you
must be miserable-that if you are not mis-
cradle, you must be happy. If you are not
any particular thing, then you are its oppo-
site. If you are not for, then you are
against. If you are not black, many men
will Jump to the conclusion that you are
white-the fact probably being that you are
grayp
Year: 1861

A few years ago Mr.. Boyce, now one of
the Secession leaders, and lately member
of Congress-where he distinguished himself
by his ability and good sense-ridiculed the
idea of Secession as extreme nonsense. In an
address to the people of South Carolina, he
said:


''South Carolina can not become nation.
God makes nations-not man. You can not
extemporise nation out of South Carolina.
1t is simply impossible; we have not the re-
sources. We could exist by tolerance; and
what that tolerance would be, when we con-
slider the present hostile spirit of the age to
the institution of Slavery, all may readily
imagine. trust we may never have to look
upon the painful and humiliating spectacle.
From the weakness of our national govern
ment feeling of insecurity would arise, and
capital would lake the alarm and leave rs.


"But it may be said, let capital go To this
/ reply, that capital is the life-blood of a
modern community; and in losing it, you
lose the vitality of the State.


Secession, separate nationality, with all
its burdens, is no remedy. 1t is no redress
for the past; it is no security for the future.
1t is only magnificent sacrifice of the pres
ent, without in any wise gaining in the
future. Such is the intensity of my eonvic-
tion on the subject, that if Secession should
take place-of which have no idea, for
can not believe in such stupeRd0uS madness
shall consider the iRstiAtiOR of sLdUery as
doomed, and that the great God, in our blind
ness, has made us the instruments of its
destruction"


Since Mr.. Boyce wrote this, Secession has
taken place, and we should like to know if
be has changed his opinion.