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Year: 1861

Wealth is an application of nature, and the
art of getting rich consists not alone in indus
try. Much lies in saving, but far more in
being at the right spot One man has strong
er arms or longer legs; but another sees by
the course Of streams and the growth of mar
kets where land will be wanted, makes clear
ing to the river, goes to sleep and wakes up
rich. Steam is no stronger than it was hun
dred years ago. but it is put to a better use.
A clever fellow was acquainted with the ex-
pansive force of steam he also saw the wealth
of wheat and grass rotting in Michigan. Then
he cunningly screws on the steam-pipe TO the
wheat crop Puff, now, 0 steam The steam
pufis and expands as before, but this time it is
dragging all Michigan at its back to hungry
New York and hungry England. Coal lay in
ledges under the ground ever since the flood,
until a laborer with pick and windlass brought
it to the surface. We may well call it black
diamonds. Every basket is power and wealth.
1t carries the heat Of the tropics to Labrador
and the polar circle and it is the means of
transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted.
Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of
mankind their secret, that half an ounce of
coal will draw two tuns q mile, and coal car
ries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada
as warm as Calcutta, and with its comforts
brings its industrial powers. When the far
mers peaches are taken from under the tree
and carried into town, they have new look,
and a value hundred fold over that of the
fruit which grew on the same bough and lies
fulsomey on the ground. The craft of the
merchant consists in thus bringing q thing
from where it abounds to where it is COSTLY
Wealth begins in tight roof that keeps the
rain and wind out in two suits of clothes, so
as to change your dress when you are wet in
good pump that yields you plenty of sweet
water; in dry sticks to burn in a good dou-
ble-wick lamp in three meals day. in a
horse or locomotive to cross the land in a
boat to cross the sea in good tools to work
with; in books to read and so, in giving, on
all occasions, by proper tools and auxilaries,
the greatest possible extension to our powers,
thus adding, as it were, feet and hands, eyes
blood, length to the day, and knowledge and
good will-Ex. Paper.
Year: 1861

RESPECT FOR THE AGED.-In ancient Sparta
there was law which compelled the youth to
rise when an old person approached; to be
silent when they spoke; to yield them the
path when they met them. With US, what
the law does not enforce, decency should
prompt US to perform. Respect for the aged
teaches such beautiful moral that those who
forget to practice it themselves can do no less
than applaud it in others. An ancient Athe-
nian was looking for seat at the Olmympic
Games, but the benches were already filed
Some of his youthful fellow citizens called to
him to approach them; and when be had, with
much difficulty. complied with their request
instead of welcoming him to seat, they only
greeted him with coarse bursts of derisive
laughter. Pushed about from one place to
another, the gray haired old man approached
the place occupied by the Spartans. These
youths, faithful to the sacred custom of their
country, modestly arose and gave him a seat
among them. The same Athenians who had
SO impudently Knocked the venerable man.
were the first to recognize the generosity oi
their competitors and the loudest applause
burst from all sides. Tears rolled down the
cheeks of the aged man, as he exclaimed with
enthusiasm The Athenians know what is
right, but the Spartans practice it =
Year: 1861

A COOP SroRY-The Charlestonians tell a
good story at their own expense which well
illustrate the want of discipline. A company
was keeping guard at the Arsenal. The Col
onel of the Regiment passing by, saw the SEN
tinel inattentive to his duty. He took away
his gun, then entered the Arsenal. A subor-
dinate officer was coucocting a cocktail.


Where is the Captain?' the Colonel
asked.


Up stairs"


Please say to him that want to see him.


Well, after take drink )" said the sub
altern After swallowing his toddy, he went
up stairs to the Captain.


The Colonel is down stairs, and wants to
see you, Captain"


Well, if he wants to see me more than l
do him. just tell him to walk up" said the
Captain, who was lying on bed.


The Colonel went up stairs, and found the
Captain taking things easy.


Sir, you ought to be drilling your COM
pany. Your sentinel don't know how to do
his duty and l took his gun away from him. %


Well, 1 dare say he will be very much
obliged to you. reckon he was tired of car
rying it."
Year: 1861

CALICo.-Calico dresses are grand institu-
tions. Delaines, silks, and even satins are
good enough in their places-in the parlor or
bandebox, and all such, but after all, the old
" standby" the substantial, is the shilling
calico. Care must be taken not to soil the
silk, nothing must come in contact with the
nice dress that will rumple or stain it but
the calico is made for work, and as the high
falutins say, nobly does it fulfill its mission"
Silk rarely finds its way into the realities of
life; that is, into the kitchen at home or the
hut of the sufferer abroad But calico, OH
what rich meals we get by it how it cheers
the suffering, as with its bright colors and
cheerful presence it stands with soft and gentle
hands ministering to our distresses. Calico
seems to be always more willing and ready to
give to want than silk. 1t is curious fact
of our nature, that the nicer our dress the
harder our heart is, as if when dressed in silk
we changed our natures, and rose above base
worldly things. What our silk dresses to be
seen near enough to that poor workman to
give him assistance, or drabbling into a dirty
hut? No, neverl Calico might do it-silk
it's just impossible J But when, in addition to
all. calico comes in, rosy with the exercise of
kitchen duties, which it knows how to do so
well, and loves to do so dearly, and sits down
at the piano or melodeon, and makes the liquid
melody flow sweetly forth; aye, even blending
its own sweet voice with the music of the in
strument, then do we appreciate and admire
calico.
Year: 1861

An EXCITING INCIDENTAL member of the
Connecticut Fifth Regiment Volunteers, with
Gen. Banks Division, in writing home, relates
the following:


"On Thursday l was on the second relief
from IL P. NJ until A. NJ, when, as l was
treading my beat, guarding two springs of wa
ter thought l saw an object moving towards
one of the springs at the furthest end of my
beat l stood for moment and watched,
when it remained stationary, but when l turn
ed to go on it moved again l then challenged
again, and was about to do so for the third
and last time, when the thing sank on the
ground and began TO move off. AT that I f.
red, at distance of about six rods, when he
fell with a groan like bull As soon as /
saw him fall, got my neighboring sentry to
help me carry him TO the officer of the guard,
to see where he was hurt. On examination,
we found he was shot las the doctors say) in
the groiu We had his wounds dressed and
took him to the hospital, after taking away
from him q pound and half of arsenic, with
which he was about to sweeten our spring
The camp was thrown into some excitement
by the shot We found a revolver on him,
and why he did not use it 1 don't know. He
is not fatally injured, and 1 am glad of it, as
he deserves worse death"
Year: 1861

BATT1Es.-Duane, in his Military Dictiona-
ry, says:


Battles have ever been the last recourse of
good generals. A situation where chance and
accident often battle and overcome the most
prudential and most able arrangements and
where superiority of numbers by no means en-
sures success, is such as is never entered into
without clear necessity for so doing. The
fighting of battle only because the enemy is
near, or for having no other formed plan of
odense, is not the way of making war. Darius
lost his crown and life by it. Harold of
England, did the same and Francis the First,
at Pavia, lost the battle and his liberty King
John, of France, fought the battle of Poictiers,
though ruin attended his enemy if he had not
fought The King Of Prussia lost his country,
and the reputation which Prussia acquired
from Frederick II, by the battle of Fena A
skillful general will give battle when his army
and situation can not be worse, if defeated
than if he does not fight at all and when the
advantage may be great, and the loss little"
Year: 1861

A PEASANT in Paris for the first time was
much interested in all he saw, and asked nu-
merous questions of those with whom he spoke.
One day he walked into little Office where
there was only table covered with writing
materials and chair A young man who
was seated there idle


Sir" said the peasant, will you be kind
enough to tell me what you sell here?"


Certainly" said the man, wishing to re-
venge himself for the interruption we sell
asses heads"


Why" said the peasant, with an air of
great simplicity, what good sales you must
have had see only one left in the place.
Year: 1861

ORIGIN OF THE CAP OF L1BERTY.-Among
the Romans cap was always given TO slaves
when they were made free; ; whence it became
the emblem of liberty. Saturninus, in bis
sedition, when he gained possession of the
Capitol, exalted cap on the top of spear,
as a token of liberty to all the slaves who
would join bis standard. The conspirators
against Julius Caesar, after they had dispatch
ed him, in order to quiet the alarm of the peo-
pie, marched in body, through the most
public part of the city, with cap carried be-
fore them on spear, thus proclaiming peace
and liberty to all, and declaring that no further
violence was intended. On this occasion there
was medal struck with the same device, and
which is still extant.
Year: 1861

Observation-Disclosures is not couch
whereon to rest q searching and restless spirit;
or o terrace for wandering and variable mind
to walk up and down with q fair prospect or
tower of state for proud mind to raise it
self upon or a sort of commanding ground
for strife and contention or a step for profit
and sale but O rich storehouse for the glory
of the Cerator, and the relief of mans estate.
Year: 1861

An exchange has seen letter from a men,
Der of the gallant New York Goth, which
speaks volumes for the mGteriale of which that
regiment was composed, as also the manner in
which true bravery is received and applauded,
by those in arms against Us
Year: 1861

10 OUR NoLUNTEERs-We cordially recommend
the following from the Southern Episcopalian.


CITIzEN-SoLDTERs:- You go forth at your coun-
trys call, to uphold your countrys honor, and pre-
serve her institutions.


Permit a friend to give you few hints in the way
Of advice.


Cherish deep feeling of dependence on Almighty
God who alone can shield you in the hour of danger
and crown your mission with success.


Remember the Sabbath day, and endeavor so to
keep it holy unto the Lord


BE sure to carry your Bible with you, and use it
as book given to men to be lamp unto their feet
and light unto their path.


Seek to make your camp christian camp, where
daily prayer shall be offered to God.


Allow no vindctive or revengeful passion to have
place in your heart.


Let your very calling remind you that there is
but step between you and death.


General Havelock was not the worse soldier for
being deveut Christian.


The great and good Washington discountenanced
prolane swearing in the army, both by precept and
example.
Year: 1861

l SELL MY GOODS FOR CASH. 1 DON'T DO A
Credit Business! Therefore hope every person that
this Advertisement will not ask me for CREDIT-because
am not able 10 do credit business; and have to pay
CASH myself.


have called on every person that owes DOLLAR,
and have not been able to collect the first CENT wish
you would call on some one that is able to credit


j. B. FRANKLIN.
April IL, 1861. S.
Year: 1861

The papers in the Confederate States have heard
that objections have been made in the Northern, and
even in the Border States that their new Constitution
was not submitted to Vete Of the people. They
justify themselves the ground that their people
elected their delegates with full knowledge OF
what was TO be DONE and did not desire to be trou


bled with being again called to the polls The times
were revolutionary, too, and people had other and
very different matters to attend to- They say also,
that they have most excellent authority for their
course in the example of the sold Thirteen" in rati
fyng the Constitution of the United States. That in
strument was never submitted directly to vote of
the people 1t was ratified in Convention, whose ac-
ton was final And there was NO such apology for
the omission then as exists now. Then peace reign
ed throughout the land, and the people were in no
apprehension of civil war. In the Virginia Conven-
ton on full vote, the Constitution was adopted by
only 10 majority. The vote stood SO for to 79
against Well-accredited tradition asserts that a
large majority of the people were opposed to the
decision of the Convention, and knowledge of that
fact had no little weight in preventing the submis
sion of the question to a popular vote.-Richnond
Whiq.
Year: 1861

A PREDICTION VERIFIED.-It win be remembered
that our distinguished Secretary of War, in his
speech from the balcony of the Exchange Hotel on
Friday night last predicted that the flag of the Con-
federate States would be waving over Fort Sumter
in less than twenty-four hours from that time his
prediction Is fully verified. and has now become q
matter of history. He likewise predicted that IN
less than three months that ensign of our ma
tionalty and independence would be triumphantly
waving over the dome of the Capitol at Washington!
Time will determine as to whether this last prophe-
cy is to be ful6led.-Montgomsry Advertiser, april
"a
Year: 1861

VoLuSTEIK FORCE OF GEeRGIA.-That our enemies
may see that Georgia is prepared for any emer-
gency she is likely to be called to face We copy
elsewhere from the Southern Recorder an official
list Of the volunteer companies in the State. They
add up 22S, nearly two to county, and fixing the
average number of men at 80, which we are con-
vinced is short of the mark, we have an available
force of volunteer soldiery, ready for action at =
moments warning, of eleven thousand four hun
dred men,


1t will thus be seen that the State of Georgia is
prepared to fill many such acquisitions as have been
recently made upon her by the Confederate Govern
ment and that without drafting single man for the
seryice-Srrdnndh Republican,
Year: 1861

SUIcIDE-One day last week, the body of a mar
was found suspended by the neck, in q deserted
shanty near the Nashville ard Northwestern Rail
road, few miles east Of that place. Coroner
Wright held an inquest over the body; the jury
gave as their verdict that he to his death by
Hanging by his own hands, No evidence could be
obtained that would enable the jury to identify the
Huntingdon Patriot, April II.
Year: 1861

n just man IS always simple. He is a
man of direct aims and purposes. There
IS no complexity IN his motives, and thence
there is no jarriug or discordancy in his
character. He wishes to do right, and in
most cases be does it. lie may err, but it
,s.by mistake Of judgment, and not by
Perversity of intention. The moment bis
judgment is enlighted his action is correc
ted. Setting himself always clear and
worthy end, he will never pursue it by any
concealed or unworthy means. We may
carry our remarks, for illustration, both, into
private and public life. Observe such q
man in his home. There is cta-m about
him which no artificial grnce has ever had
the power to bestow there is sweetness
II had almost said a music-in his man
ners, which no sentimental refinement has
ever given.


His speech, ever fresh from purity and
recti.uds Of thought, controls all that are
within its hearing with an unfslt and vet
reslstless sway. Faithful to every domestic
as to his religion and his God, he would no
more prove recreant to any loyalty of home
than he would 10 blaspheme the Maker in
whom he believes, or than be should for
swear the Heaven in which be hopes. FIJI
de''ty and truth to those bound by love aud
nature to his heart are to him most sacred
principles; they are in the last recesses of
bis moral being; they are imbedded in
the life; and to violate thsm would seem
to him as spiritual determination, the
suicide Of his soul.


Nor Is such man unrewarded' fos the
goodness that he so largely gives is largely
paid back TO him again; and, though the
current Of his life is transparent, it is not
*bs|lov. On the contrary, it is deep and
strong. The river that flls its channel
g''des smoothly along in the power of it's
eourse-it is the stream ~hich scarcely
covers the raggeduess Of its bed, that is
turbulent and noisy. With all this gentle.
ness there is exceeding force; With alI THIS
msekness there is imperative command
but the force is the force of wisdom, and
the command is the command of love.
And yet the authority that rules 30 effec-
tua''y never gathers an angy or an irritible
cloud over the brow Of the ruler; and this
sway, which admits Of no resistance, does
not repre's one honest impulse of nature,
ono moment Of the souls high freedom one
bound Of joy from The heart's unbiddeu
essdoess, in the spirits Of the governed.
Year: 1861

Every young man should remember that
the world honors industry. The vulgar
and useless idler, whose energies of mind
and body are rusting for want of occupa--
ton, may look with scorn upon the laborer
engaged at bis toll; but his scorn is praise
his contempt honor.
Year: 1861

The BLOCKADE OF THE POToMAC.-While the
communication with our national capital is
under a blockade which no vessel can pass,
except in a very dark night, or by special per-
mission of the Confederate batteries, the ques-
ton is still agitated this side of Washington,
why is it that, with two hundred and fifty
thousand men encamped along the Potomac,
and with any quantity of war ships and gun
boats at Fortress Monroe, Annapolis and other
convenient naval stations, this rebel block
ade of the Potomac is still permitted to
exist. In this connection we are asked what
is the loss entailed daily upon our Treasury by
this blockade, in the matter of the overland
transportation of army supplies to which we
are thus reduced.


In reply we can only conjecture that the
plans of General Mcclellan do not embrace any
little piecemeal operations, such as would re-
suit from any detached attempts to break up
this rebel blockade. We might silence and
remove rebel battery to-day only to find it
replaced tomorrow. Or, to hold this position,
that and the other, against all contingencies,
we should require large force at every
point from which the rebels might be dis
lodged, and thus our whole army Of the
Potomac might be frittered away into de-
tachments divided from each other by almost
impossible ravines and intersecting streams and
creeks, and subject at any time to be cut up in
detail by combined movement of the enemy
from the open approaches of the interior. The
only effective way to break up this rebel block
ade of the Potomac is to dislodge the army
of Beauregard from his position in front Of
Washington. With its expulsion this blockade
will cease to exist. Let us be patient yet a
little longer. Rome was not built in day.
Year: 1861

The United States steam transport Star Of the South
living at the foot OF North Moore street. North river,
now taking in coal.


The United States steam transport Curlew sailed At
noon with full cargo Of provisions, ammunition and gun
carriages for Locust Point.
Year: 1861

COOLING Down SoNEwHAr-The tone Of
the advices received by the Edinburg
and Arago indicates an improved feeling
towards us on the part of the English
press. This is attributable less to msgiv-
ings as to the proprle!y of their course than
to newly awakened distrust in regard to France.
The omission Of that passage of JEFF. Davis
message, in the Monite,1, which repudiates the
possibility of reconciliation between North
and South has startled good deal the journals
in England which have been trying to precipi-
tate a war between that country and the
United States. It is one Of those facts slight in
themselves which have always had premoni-
tory significance in tho Emperor's diplomatic
moves Then, again, the sudden return home
of General Scott after an interview with NJ.
Thouvenel although he had but just ar
rived in France in search of health, has
not contributed to lessen their perplexity.
They do not know how to interpret circum-
stances so suggestive Of q line of policy on the
part of the Emperor different from that which
his previous assurances to the British Cabinet
had foreshadowed. There has been all along
AuSUI"S cucPlCiOu Oh tlC pdIt vi tuc
public that their imperial ally has been using
them as the monkey did the cats paw--to draw
the chestnuts (cotton) out of the fire They
are now beginning to entertain a belief that
the French neutrality, upon which the Constitu-
tiO,,nel insists so much in the event Of war
between Great Britain and the United States,
may in the end turn out just such
neutrality in our regard as that of England has
proved in reference to the South. The bare sus-
picon ofthis fact is enough to make the most ra-
bid ofthesecessionist sympathizers amongst them
draw in their horns, and calculate the chances of
a contest in which they might have French fire
in their rear. If they had not been blinded by
their passions they would have taken it into ac-
count before. France can have no object in as
sisting to provoke a rupture between Great
Britain and the United States but to cripple the
naval power Of the former when she gets her
involved in conflict with another great mari
time Power. 1t was with this view that she has
been trying to induce her to break the blockade;
1t is with the same view that her press has been
since bounding her on to war with us. This con-
vction seems at last to be breaking in on the sto-
lid English mind. Let us hope that it will have
the effect Of recalling it to something like
sense Of decency and reason.
Year: 1861

capital been provided with steam fire engnssSs
tho ravages Of the fire in question would, in all
probability, have been arrested before it had
resulted in consequences so serious. But il is
TO be hoped that the government, If not the
local authorities, will now see the necessity Of
increasing the efficiency of the fire brigade
without further procrastinaton.
Year: 1861

This fne body of men, intended TO compose ths Second
regiment Of tho Ira Harris Guard cavalry left for tho seat
of Monday last, and is encamped in beait
fu location at York Pa whore they will remain For some
time for tho purpose OF perfccing the In drill


All recruits belonging To this regiment who absent
either with without leave, requested 10 report
themselves Immediately 10 Lieutenant Wright, at the
Eastern Hotel whitehall street. whore they will be fur
nshed with necessary and Of transportation
TO join their regiment.
Year: 1861

Secession in Virginia gels on at linn,


ing pace. Wise made a furious speech
some days ago against referring things to
committees, because lie considered it L
mean, miserable dodge to delay business.
He WAS for action, and he believed every
man was as competent to vote on distinct
propositions at once, as after they had been
through the grinding process. i seems
however, that the only business done by
the Convention is to tumble resolution at'
ter resolution upon tile various committees


We shall expect to hear soon that Misc
has seeded from the Convention.