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Year: 1861

Editors Of the Dispatch Il herewith send
you a recipe tor making superior butter-a
thing most OF our people are greatly defic'ent
in. j have no hesitation in recommending II
to the public. as 1t was given me by one who
puts up all his bntter in that way and always
has prime table butter, though made for a
length Of time: Take one third of saltpetre,
one third Of fine SALT and one third of LOAF
sugar. pounded W, II, have the milk thorough
ly worked out OF your butter, without the 'e
Of water, and add one ounce OF the above max
ture to each pound OF butter; pack 1t away IN
pots or wooden VI tssels, taking care that tn .
wooden vessels are made Of wali-season
timber, white oak or ash beil z pre- erabie, al,i
when filled, place cloth over the top and
pack salt in the cloth sufficient 10 exclude The
air, set it away in the coolest place about
your premises, taking care 10 have it where
there is no charge in The temperature OF the
atmosphere. Butter put up ia the above
manner and take n care of as here stated, will
keep sweet for AZ lea It Gelve months


SOUTHERN CoSFEDERACY.
Year: 1861

A PLuCKY WOMAN We know OF a Northern
born ana Northern raised lady, who married
q Southern planter, and who, with her hus
b and, make her anode at point just back OF
Il certain city on the Mississippi river, not q
hundred thousand miles above New Orleans.
THIS lady has never let an occasion slip on
which she could abuse and viilify the South
ern Confrderacy A short time since she WAS
on board steamer, going up from New Or
leans aud was, AS usual, wasging her tongue
at 2:4o rate against our section Among her
audi yory was q LADY of tbs tru- Southern xrit, ,
who lis ened to the harangue, while her
cheeks grew pale ard red by turns, and her
teth made deep indentations In her coral
lips. AT last, when she could stand it no
longer, the Southern matron rose from her
seae and walked over to where the female
speaker was letting OF her alb olition gas, and
shaking her finger in that lady's face, slowly
and dis tinctly said:


m d ,me, | have a husband. two sons and
three brothers in the army Of the Southern
Uontederacy Taey are fighting for their
coun Try, and if they are killed. they will die
like gallant men, and however great the loss
may be to me, l shall have the consolation of
kno wing they fell in good cause. You are a
woman, and you itk as you do becau-e you
know that no Southern gentleman will force
you to stop am Southern woman. and I
now tell you that you sh IL not abuse my
people In my presence. lfyeu say another
word against the Southern Conieder ICY,
shall whip you in the presence Of these pas
sengers -


The Southern blood was up, and thers
would haze been an awful wreck of de lame
and crin"line II that Yankee woman hadn't
been In,m' dlately struck dumb To make safe.
ty doubiy sure, she also retired to her state
room. and locked the door, with the key In.
side


That's the stvle of woman for Louisiana to
swear by.-N o Delta
Year: 1861

AN Quo RBBEL.-We clip the following
from the u ~ ton tOhio) Empire:


While We do rot wish TO be considered in
trusive, We would suggest t. those who a Q
To 90 the - hanging" for the X publicans,
numerous that they will not have hemp
enough in tho country to mplete the job.
Year: 1861

The Rochester Union relates the circumstances Of


q narrow escape from destruction experienced BY


the passenger train from Buffalo to Rochester which


was stopped by the snow near the latter city on the


night Of the terrible storm-ThursdSy the Tth inst


The facts of the case it says though they have not


been published before, are no secret TO some who


were exposed and to the railroad men generally.


It's account is as follows:


The Night Express train from Buffalo, it viii be


remembered. remained in the snow a short distance


west of the city the better part of the night unable
to move. The Conductor took the usual Drecaution
to send men back with red lights give the signal
should any train follow them from the West These
men stopped some distance apart the second to give
the signal if the first was not seen. By and By q
train with two locomotives pushing a great snow
plow, weighing thirty forty tuns, came
laundering from the West. The first man
swung his lamp, but was not seen the second
did likewise but no signal to brake came from the
engines. and he saw that he was not observed. Il
was an eventful moment and something was to be
done. The man stepped from the track as the train
came down, and hurled his lamp at one of the en-
gines. The lamp did not go in; but it broke win
dow in the cab, and the engineer suspecting that
something was wrong, instantly gave the signal to
brake, and stopped the tram just in time to the
people who were quietly awaiting delivery from the
snow In the Express train, short distance ahead.
Il was an escape bordering on the miraculous. That
ploW WOulQ nave tOfn tne paSSenseE coaches mo
fragments, and would have found no check TIL it
reached the snow bound locomotive The effect Of
such a collision must have been terrible. Many of
the passengers did not know the danger to which
they were exposed.


The engineers of the train with the snow plow
had consulted the way down, and expected to find
hard pushing when they reached the cut where this
passenger train was stopped, and they agreed to
put on steam before they got to the sticking place
and go through in hurry. They were under this
increased motion when the signal was given to stop.
Year: 1861

Amid impending dangers that have al
ready P oatrated many of the most relia.
bile branches of industry, and, that threat,
en- to end in anarchy and blood shed, it
may be well to ask what is the sentiment
of Columbia. To such an inquiry we feel


safe in remarking, that her sympathies, in


storm or calm, are with the law-abiding
and Constitutional loving men of all par
ties and sections. Her interests are the
interests of the many interests that demand
the Introduction of such measures as shall
at once silence all party feuds and section
al wranglings' Snow that we have fallen
upon evil times" we rejoice that in Colum-
bia there exists band of wel tried patri-
ots. Men VINO, insured to the yicissitudos
attendant upon a life of toll are ready to
stem the current of aggression come when
or how it may. The Democracy of Co.
lumbia have stood firm at the helm while
her neighboring 'lsIns' hay deserted the
Year: 1861

EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENA IN
BORING FOR OH IN CANADA.-A number
of residents of Michigan went over to Som
bra, Canada West, in the early part of
October, and commenced boring some
Nteen or twenty feet from creek, under
the belief that oil would be found and
on the seventeenth of the month, when
they had got down about fifty ssven feet,
they struck vein of gas.


On removing their augur the gas rushed
with great force from the aperture, and
continued to throw up dry sand for an
hour. 1t then ceased, and the boring was
resumed i but as soon as this was done,
the gas rushed up with such violence as to
throw the arill-a piece of iron one and Il
half inches in diameter, eight feet long,
and weighing fifty pounds-clean out of
the hole, and it continued discharging wa
ter and stones, some of the latter weighing
twenty-five pounds, up in the air dis.
tance of one hundred feet.


The stream widened out to the diameter
OF barrel, after leaving the hole, and the
quantity was such as to raise the creek
considerably above its ordinary level,
though it is here about twenty-five feet
wide. After the flow of water subsidized,
the gas was fred. and an explosion took
place which shook the ground for half a
mile, and then continued to throw up
sheet of flame as high as the water had
previously gone. This flame could be
seen for mile, and was ultimately ex-
tlnguished with great difficulty. 1t is
thought that the oil spring, for such it
proved to be, will be one of the best in the
country.
Year: 1861

A PECULIAR MARRIAGE.-The mar
riage relation is very often nsw-a,days
spoken Of with irreverenee, and the love
and harmony, naturally supposed to exist
between those who have been united in
the holy bonds of matrimouy, much ridi-
culcd. A marriage, however, took place
in Hartford, Conn, short time ago,
against which all ridicule falls harmless
for the married couple will be very like'v
to live in peace for while. The happy
man is a German, who cannot speak an
English word The blushing bride is an
Irish girl to whom the German tongue is
Greek.
Year: 1861

The WILLIAMspoRT TRAGEDY
DEATH OF THE MURDERER.-OnM Monday
We published an account of the murder. at
Williamsport, of an Irish woman, by her
husband, Barney Helan. The deed was
committed two weeks ago, and on Sunda ay
last the remains of the murdered woman
were found in an clubhouse connected with
Helan's shanty, where they had been
buried. When the news was communi-
Gated to Helan that the body of his wife
had been found, he attempted 10 commit
suicide by cutting his throat, but the wound
was promptly sewed up, and the physician
thought he would recover. The prisoner
fingered in suffering condition until
yesterday morning, when he died, thus
saving the county the expense of trying
and executing him. The supposition is
that the human monster murdered his
wife while she was lying in bed stupid from
the effects of whiskey, as both were in the
habit OF drinking to excess. Her thro at
was cut from ear to car and her skull
broken in several PLACES. From some
expressions Of Helan previous to his death
it seems that he had been twice married
and murdered his first wife also. lie was
tailor by trade, and frst.class work
man, but could not refrain from excessive
indulgence in whiskey, and failed to pro
vide for his family. lie leaves four small
children, who are now in the poor house
Of Lycoming county. May He who
"tempers the wind to the shorn lamb"
watch over and protect the helpless little
ones thus suddenly orphaned by the
brutal deed of drunken father.


Harrisburg Telegraph.
Year: 1861

THE PUZZLED MISUNDERSTANDING our
last conflict with Great Britain, number
of our troops were engaged in repairing
the Notifications of Niagara, and whilst
so enga5ed the enemy commenced pretty
sharp fire, so that it occupied nearly the
whole of the time of our forces to keep on
the look out for the shots of the enemy.


Finding that they did not make much
headway, they stationed son of the Emer
aid Isle to give warning when a shot or
shell was coming.


This the sentinel faithfully performed
alternately singing out, shot, Shell, shot,
Shot, until finally the enemy started a
Congreve rocket, which Pat had never
seen before.


He hesitatod, and seeing it elevate, he
shouted


Shot, and be jabers the gun with it,
Year: 1861

A good story is told concerning the wri-
ting of certain railroad manager. lie
had written to a man on the route, mott.
flying him that he must remove barn,
which in some way incommoded the road
under penalty ofprosccution, The threaten
ed individual was unable to read any
part of his letter but the signature but
took it to be II free pass on the road, aud
used it for couple Of years as such, none
OF the conductors being able to dispute
his Interpretation.
Year: 1861

Power OF ENDURANCE AND DIET
Even the experienced trainers of the prize.
ring cannot decide what is the best food
for training men up to their creates st
powers of endurance. They have a preju.
dice in favor of muttoR chops and under
sure that this is the best. The Roman
soldiers who conquered the world, and
built roads from Lisbon to Constantinople
and who were all trained athletes, march
ing under weight Of armor and luggage
that few men in our day could carry,
lived on coarse, brown wheat or barley
bread, which they dipped in sour wine,-
In our own day the Spanish peasants are
among the strongest and most agile men
in the world, He will work all day in a
copper mine, or tho wine press, under a
hot sun, and then dance half the night to
the music of guitar, What does he live
on?
Year: 1861

To FATTEN A WoMAN,-Curds and
cream are almost the only food given to
girls in Southern Africa, to make them
marriageable attractive-that is to say
fatter. So says Burton in his Central
Africa and he adds that the drink for
males is fresh milk, and for the females
sour milk, to make the men lean and the
women plump,
Year: 1861

WHAT greater thing is there for two
human souls, than to feel that they are
joined for life-tQ strengthen each other
in all sorrow, to always be with each other
to minister tQ each qther in all pain, and
to be one with each other in silent, unspcak-
able memories at the moment Of the last
parting!
Year: 1861

A YOUNG minister was preaching ona
day for an old Scotch parson, and was
somewhat fowery. The old man made
the closing prayer, in the course of which
he said go Lord, bless the young
servant, and in thy wisdom prick him with
thy spirit, and let the wind out of him."
Year: 1861

IHE triumph of woman lies, not in the
admiration of her lover, but in the respect
OF her husband, and that can only be gain.
ey constant cultivation of those qualities
which she knows he most values.
Year: 1861

Nor CoYsULrED.-The special point of COM
plant of the retiring Secretary of the laterior
is, that the orders for the reinforcement of Ma
jor Anderson were gipen Withom his knowledge,
in violation of an agreement that nothing of
that kind should be done without Cabinet con-
sultation. If such an agreement was really
made, it was more honored by the breach than
by the observance. AS the Cabinet has been
and is constituted, no measure connected with
the support Of the Government can be safely
discussed in it. The only prudent way to sue
cor Major Anderson was to keep it carefully
concealed, both from the Secretary of the In.
terror and the Secretary of the Treasury, SO
that it should not be prematurely betrayed to
the rebels at Charleston.
Year: 1861

We have given some references in our col
umns in regard to the fearful famine now
raging in India. Brother Parker and others
have made some communications in regard to
it. An exchange says:


"The Indian papers give heart-reuding
pictures of the famine at present pcrvading
Northern India. Every Christian feeling
must be stirred up in deepest sympathy, and
in desire to afford aid to these poor sufferers.
A letter from Lahore says:


1t is only by placing together, side by
side, the private communications Of friends
who are on tho spot or in the neighborhoods,
that one can form any conception of the
acuteness Of suffering and extent OF misery
daily witnessed and experienced in those
parts. From one of several now before me,
[ learn that children are being sold by their
starving parents at the rate Of two annas a
head the purchasers, am told, contemplate
employing them when grown up as domestic
servants, educating them in the Christian re-
ligon, or having them instructed in some
useful branch of art so that when sent out
into the world again they may be able to earn
their bread by honest labor Another friend
thus writes On going out the other day for
my usual constitutional, was driven into
the house again, and there saw pitiable
sight A young woman, in the last stage of
inanition, had dropped dead during the night
at my gates while the crows were rapidly
gathering round in anticipation oe feast.
saw on her breast the body of q little child,
which, with its mothers nipple in its mouth,
had breathed its last in the final endcavor to
draw nourishment from the exhausted foun-
tain A third writer says: Such horrors,
such awful scenes The cry rings through
the land, come over and help u.s.


1t is not sufficient 10 know that mothers
have eaten their offspring, that wives have
satisfied the raging demands of hunger with
the flesh torn from the bodies of their dead
husbands, and that all the tics of life arc
torn up by the roots and scattered to the
winds 1t is question whether, in the un-
governabe madness of their appetite, they
have paused till life was really extinct in
those whom they have devoured. Narratives
Of individual privations and suffcrings are
carefully excluded from the official reports
a piece Of folly, for which the authorities
and the Secretary of the Relief Fund cannot
be too severely condemned. Doubtless there
Year: 1861

monthly paper, r,-the same that attracted SO
much attention at the last meeting of the
American Institute of instruction, and which
has been introduced into many Of the schools
! Of Massachusetts,. Considerable amusement
was afforded by attempts at practical llustra
tion of some of the simpler exercises of the
system, small bags of very common variety of
pulse being provided for the purpose. 1t may
be proper to add that these sacks Of legumnous
fruit were brought there for seed, and it is to
by hoped that the seed will be found produc-
tive, not as an esculont, but as an educator ;
and perhaps the time may not be distant when
the now vulgar and nonsenscal inquiry, wheth j.
er the teacker knoUs beans, will have serious
significance with examiners and even attain to
the high dignity Of being admitted to the Leg
lslatnre and helping to make law.


During the discussion of the several ques-
tions there was manifested general desire to
know how many persons in the county would
become members Of q teachers training school
for fortnight, next fall, if there were an op.
portunity; whether an opportunity, if desira-
bic and desired, could be provided and if 50,
how it should be done and Dr. Bates of North
field, Rev Mr. McAnn of MONTPELIER, and Mr.
j. S Spaulding of Barre were appointed com.
mittee to find out OF course, those who are
interested in the matter will confer with the
committee.


In considering the third question, it was
thought desirable that examinations should be
conducted wholly or partly in writing, and that
the Superntendents of the different towns should
meet and confer upon the kind and number of
questions for written examinations, and what
proportion of them mi ght be missed by cand-
dates who receive certificates.


Please tell them too, since you did not report
the meeting at the time, that the attendance
and the interest in the proceedings indicated
that the cause of education is progressing even
while there is so much to divert attention, -
that there were a good number of educators
there, from the merry school girl just beginning
to be a teacher, her bright, laughing face very
little sobered by this first approach to matronly
dignity, to the veteran preceptor whose pupils
pupils are teachers, and whose wise suggestions
respecting whatever topic was considered were
the truit Of many years Of constant laborous
experience in the school room or the reverend
College President who does not forget the com
mon school Then there were superintendents
and legislators who sec that there is still room
for improvement, physicians who know the value
of a " sound mind in a sound BODY and min.
listers who do not overlook the mutual depend
ence of religion and education. can furnish
no ttlng report Of the essays by the ladies, the
able lecture by Rev. Mr.. Parker, or the elo
lueut and patriotic address by President Pease,
which was in itself both preaching and prac-
tice on the duty of educators to be teachers Of
loyalty and patriotism Yours truly,


PEDAGoGUs FERIATUs.
Year: 1861

Mr. G. NJ. FREEMAN, MONTPELIER, VT,


Sir: As general rule, [ do not intend to
have anything to do with witchcraft, or any
thing resembling it; but one cannot help
feeling that it must be exceedingly convent
ent to possess the power which you are said
to have of going thousand ways Il; once and
holding private interviews, simultaneously,
with ever so many different people whom it
would be next to impossible to bring together ;
and do believe that your familiar, by whose
assistance you do such wonder. though he has
been called by SO bad name ever since the days
Of Mr.. Faust, and though the first impression
that he makes is often very dark, is really an
honest and benefcent creature after all, and
worthy of our confidence and gratitude. With
this belief l have less scruple in asking you, if
in passing about the country you meet any
who are interested in the podagogic art and yet
were not present at the last meeting OF the
County Association at Northfeld, to call their
attention to the following questions which were
there discussed " 70 what extent and in what
way, should Physical Exercises be introduced
into cur Schools?" " g Is it expedient for
Washington County to establish the coming
autumn, a Teachers Institute to continue two
weeks, for the purpose of giving our Common
School Teachers q more thorough training in
the art of school teaching?" What stand
ard of qualification should the Superlntendents
of Common Schools, in the examination of
eachers, adopt?"


The first question does not demand attention
so imperatively in Vermont as in the large
cities and villages Of some other States, whose
children are generally I" more refined that
is, less robust (perhaps some of the city editors
would expect me to say robustious) than our
Green Mountain boys and girls: still it excited
considerable interest The discussion was
chiefly upon the system of physical training
advocated by DR.. bio Lewis Of Boston, in his
Year: 1861

The BORDER. The Central Advocate has
a letter from Maryland correspondent, one
of whose paragraphs runs thus


"Nothing is now said about the new chap.
ter. The Baltimore Advocate is dead and
its witty editor has seeded from the chair
editorial. Peace to its ashes The quick
est possible oblivion is the best tribute to its
memory And may the editor's future time
be better employed than seeking to rupture
the Church, and thereby strengthen the hands
oPdisunionsts !! The action of the ma ajority
of the Baltimore Conference did much to in
crease disunionism in Virginia. The major.
ity of our preachers there arc, so far as | can


learn, secessionists Like the preachers of
the Church South, they wish to appear con-
sistcnt and prove to the South that they
are true to the South, that is, to the peculiar
institution, though l have not yet heard of
any of them joining the Southern army, like
the patriotic Southern preachers. These pat
riotic Southern preachers, did not it seems,
wait for the commands of their venerable pa
triarch Bishop Soule The Constitution of tho
Confederate States ought to so be amended as
to have an established Church South. 1t is
worthy of such honor, because it has done
more to bring about the Southern rebellion
than any other ono thing. Then, like the
Southern Contederacy, it is founded on sla
very. There ought to be fitness in things.
Year: 1861

If the teachings Of History prove any
thing, it is the fearful fact that Republics
when they change lapse into Monarchies,
Democracies into 4: solutisms- Not from
any inherent weakness Of System, but be-
cause for the time being the administration
Of the Government falls into weak, timiJ,
or yacilatipg hands. The masses are slow
to rouse, but when once fully awakened,
they are not patent. Quick to perceive
where danger is imminent, they will not
tolerate delay or over caution. The people
of the United States with their sensitive,
nervous organization are especially prone
to chafe under any symptom Of executive
inef1cieney. In no other country but oul6
has the FLAWS delay" stimulated the
masses so frequently and fear'ully to in
augurate the reign Of King Lynch. The
telegraph and the press carry into the bo-
SON OF every family, every day, the news
IRON every portion of the country, and in-
tellects quick to perceive and judge, criti-
else, with no inconsiderable sagacity and
with deep emotion, the acts Of their official
servants, whether State or National. 1t is
to be hoped that the Administration at
Washington il fully alive to the fact that
the eyes Of the country are upon it with
challenging scrutiny. Thus far the move
men1s of the Government have certainly
not anticipated the wishes or spirit Of the
people. Let it now place itself in the van
guard! The eager masses are behind it
with spirit of enthusiastic determination
that brooks no unnecessary delay, and
whichd emands, with imperious threatening,
time for ACTION,