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Year: 1861

In good old times, when we were nap
py ard united people, that man was re-
garded as Patriot who loved his whole
country, revered the Constitution, obeyed
the laws and faithfully performed all his
obligations as a citizen He might sup
port the Administration in power, or op-
pose it, without having his loyalty 10 the
Government or his patriotism questioned.
Men equally good and true were to be
found on both sides. But in these troub-
lous times somewhat different test of
patriotism is sought to be applied. Loy-
atty and disloyalty patriotism and treason
are not what they were in the paImy days
of the Republic. We live under new
dispensation, and words have acquired an
enirelv novel significance.


If, for instance, a citizen who used to
exercise the largest liberty in abusing the
President of the United States, ridiculing
the Supreme Court, encouraging viola,
tons OF tho Fugitive Slave Law, adyocat.
ing the 'lrrepressible conflict" aud hint
ing that, in certain contingencies, the I'm.
tion might slide is now a fast friend OF
the Administration, in favor ofgagging or
hanging every person who ventures TO
whisper word Of dissent to its policy, he
is Patriot lie may encourage violations
OF the Constitution, infringements upon
private rights, turbulence and mob VIC.
lence, and still he IS Patriot. He must
have keen scent for treason and Trai-
tors. lie must discover that his honest
neighbors, who 10 not participate in his
violence, are "secessonists" and mildly
suggest hanging. If these neighbors
should intimate that the President of the
United States is not exactly u second
jackson, our Patriot will mark him as a
suspicious character; and if by any chance
he should so so far as to express the obso-
lete opinion that the Constitution is the
Supreme law of the land, suspicion will
deepen into absolute conviction, and our
Patriot no longer donbts the necessity of
establishing the guillotine TO rid thecoun-
try of pestilent Traitors.


On the other hand, ifa man deplcres
the exercise Of unconstitutional powers,
he is a Traitor. III he doubts that war
will accomplish the restoration of the
Union he is Traitor. He may perform
all his duties as an an upright and loyal
citizen; he may never have been guilty OF
a dishonest, mean or discreditable action;
he may have fought the battles OF the
oonntry, and have contributed literally OF
his means 70 sustain the Government and
provide for the families OF those who have
gone forth - fight the battles Of the coun'
Year: 1861

~ Owners of coal oil wells who want
to do their work by steam, can purchase a
tip-top boiler, exactly suitable for that kind
of work, at low price. 1t is in all respects
as coed as new, and is large enough to run
Eve horsepower engine. Inquire at LEADER
Counting Room. #
Year: 1861

AHoTHEE PUzzEE.-A solution Of knotty
questions being somewhat the order Of the
day, suppose some Of our curious readers
try a hand at unraveling the following dog
and rabbit example, which we cut from en-
Year: 1861

plates around its walls. Let your children
be so surrounded IN the school that when
the eye wanders from the book or slate it
may gather knowledge at every obServa-
tion, and learn lessons of instruction when
wearied with the assigned task. These
silent educators are powerful mediums
for conveying great truths. Many a
scholar has learned more from the walls
of the school room than from his books
and teacher together. Let your children
take pride in adorning and adding to the
comforts and beauty of the school house.
But do not leave them then alone without
a word of encouragement or sympathy IN
their doings.. Visit the school; lend
your assistance if necessary, but more
particularly your advice. Let them see
that you appreciate their labors, and take
an interest in their education. In this
way you will inStill the principle of order;
you will foster habit of neatness and
practical cleanliness. not only at the
school room. but at home, and you will
accomplish more in correcting the morals
and adorning the lives of your sons and
daughters, than by daily sermons and
lectures, or years of admonition and cor
reCiOn.


IT'S well to see a judicious spirit of
emulation pervading district; to see the
people taking a Just pride in their own
school. Itspeaks for the intelligence and
character of the people, and is seen to
advance them IN prosperity. An intelli-
gent people are always a law abiding
people; moral and humane in their deal
ings with mankind. Now is the tine to
lay the foundation for a sound morality, a
prosperous future and an undying good
TO the present generation. Let US, then,
be alive to our present duty to our chill
dren and our God ERo.


Nebraska City, NJ T.
Year: 1861

possible, leaving the trees 70 be frozen
to death by the first cold of November,
which Nebraskians generally know to be
very severe; then if we would ensure
good, perfect growth, and soundness in our
frlit trees, see that the surface Of the
plat, at least Immediately around the trees,
winter, and also kept damp in Spring and
early summer by covering of some kind.
Stable manure I have always found best
for protection and growth of trees s; only
if fresh unroIted manure is used (and
this is the best for the purpose menioned) }
see that 1t does not touch the body Of the
trees.


J.F.B.
Cass IN NJ
Year: 1861

For seven years | have had home
in the West, and for seven years my OBJ
servation has extended over a portion of
Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska
In all this time it has been apparent
have talked and written it-that our far
mers do not study their own interests
do not, as a majority, look to the advanc-
ment of agriculture. They appear to be
content with the common necessaries of
life which keep soul and body together ;
and when this is done they feel that all
Is we'll Almost every seasen, if the
ground is plowed, and sewed, rernu-
nerative crop will be the result; yet a
higher state of cultivation is required at
your hands, farmers of Nebraska. Let
your land be we'll and deeply plowed
each year before seeding. If not natu-
rally drained, let it be done before you
commit any seed to the earth. For upon
well drained, deeply plowed, highly cul-
tivared land, where you now get thirty to
fifty bushels of corn to the acre, you
might have from eighty to one hundred;
where you get twenty bushels Of wheat
you might have forty or fifty.


Let the truth of these statements ava
ken feeling of inquiry in the minds of
every farmer in the West. They have
but to turn to New York or New Hamp-
shire, Pennsylvania or Ohio, for the
truth of what we assert. How is this,
my friends. that the limestone hills Of the
East, now cultivated more than half a
century, can produce almost double that
Of the deep rich soil of our prairie 1t
is this: They cultivate, recuperate, re-
new. Let me lay down course for you
and those who try il will then satisfy them
selves upon this important question:
Every Spring, carefully place in pile
all the manure from your stable and cat
tle-yards; let it there remain at decom.
position until the next Spring, and then
spread it over your ground evenly, at the
rate of tw nty loads to the acre and al
so save, and when thoroughly leached


put on all the ashes you make in the year
This should then be plowed in deeply
and the crop raised upon it will pay you
81 per day that season for your labor ex'
pended more than upon "wild" land
The soil in all localities, particularly oul
prairies, needs tanning. To do this i


must have air, ventilation and warmth
The earth, twelve inches below the sur.
face should be thrown up with a subsoi
plow, to get that air, while the surface
which has been cultivated, and exposed
to frost, air and heat, should now take
its place. / am but young man viii
not one tenth the experience Of many il
Nebraska-stiIl study ard think 9th
ers should Do the same-,be great anC
parfec, composition Of natural matter; it


cause and effect in producing and re
, producing annually the predictions tha
, spring from the earth We should close
/ ~ sc-Udcize and make ourselves familiar
, with the chemistry Of The so1 we culd
vate.
Year: 1861

A CLEAN OF REAsoN.-Wcndcll
Phillips, one of the usually crazy
fanatics of New England, lately
said:


Tho Administration at Washing
ton does not known its time. Here
arc series of States girding the
Gulf who think that their peculiar
institutions require that they should
have separate government. They
have right to decide that question
without appealing to you or me. A
large body Of people, sufficient to
make nation, have come to tho
conclusion that they will have a gov
ernmcnt of a certain form. Who
denies them the right? Standing
with the principle Of '76 behind us,
who can deny them the right?-
What is matter of n few millions
of dollars or few forts? 1t is u
mere drop in the bucket of the great
national question. 1t is theirs ust
as much as ours. | maintain, on
the principle of &c, that Abraham
Lincoln has no right to a soldier in
Fort Sumter.


But the question comes secondly,
"supposc we had right to interfere,
what is the good of it?' You may
punish South Carolina for going out
of the Union, That does not bring her
in. You may subduc her BY hun
dreds OF thousands Of armies, but
that does not mako her Il State
There is no longer u Union.


Inaugmajo war, we know not
where il will end. We arc in no
condition to fight. The South is
poor and VIC are rich. Tho poor
man can do twice the injury to
tho rich man that the rich can do
to the poor Your wealth resides
safely on the bosom Of the ocean.-
All New England has its millions
aaoat. The North whitens every
sea with wealth. The South has no
commerce, but she can buy the pri-
vatecrs of every race to prey on
yours. 1tisa dangerous strife when
wealth quarrels with poverty.


Driven to despair, the Southern
States may be poor and bankrupt
but the poorest man can be a; pirate
and as long as New England's ton
mage is third of that OF the CIVIL
lied world, the South can puIish
her. We prokoke strife in which
we are defenceless.
Year: 1861

FIGHT OR STARvE.-Capt. C. F.
Rue informs the Norfolk Herald
that the excitement in New York
is scalming down, and the enlistments
were confined to those who had
nothing else before them but starva-
tion. He saw a company of men
without coats or shoes who were to
be sent South, but the men were
more anxious to go where they
could get something to cat than to
fight.
Year: 1861

Ed. LEADER:-The crops IN this section
are growing well, but are sadly in want of
rain. We have net had rain enough in the
last three weeks to lay the dust. Grass
and potatoes suffer much from the drought,
A larger amount of crops were put in this
season than usual, but this section Of the
country is more adapted 10 stock raising
than grain growing.


Yours, &C.,
Year: 1861

the Senate, that very eatresponsibity rests
me, in position to which the votes of the Ameri-
can people have called me. am deeply sensible OF
that weighty responsibility. | cannot but know,
what you all know, that without name-perhaps
without a reason why should have name-there
has fallen upon me task such did not rest then
upon the Father Of his Country. And, so feeling,
| cannot but turn and look for the support without
which it will be impossible for me to perform that
great task. | turn, then, and look to the American
people, and to that God who has never forsaken
them.


Allusion has been made to the interest felt in re-
lation to the policy of the new Administration.
In this, have received from some a degree of
credit for having kept silence. From others, some
depreciation. | still think was right. In the vary"
ing and repeatedly shifting scenes of the present
without a precedent which could enable me to
judge by the past, it has seemed fitting that before
speaking upon the difficulties of the country,
should have gained view of the whole field To
be sure, after all, being at liberty to modify and
change the course of policy as future events make
change necessary, have not maintained silence
from any want of real anxiety. 1t is n good thing
that there is more than anxiety, for there is
nothing going wrong.


1t is consoiing circumstance that we look
out there is nothing that really hurts anybody.-
We entertain different views upon political ques-
tions, but nobody is suffering anything. This is
most consong circumstance, and from it Judge
lance on that God who has never f0rsaken the
peoDle.
Year: 1861

late letter from the COntTO1Ief Iennessee says:


The State Of Tennessee will hereafter pay all bonds
coupons payable to bearer to the holder without nqur
ing how he into possession, unless enjoined from
doing


The Legislature of the State of Indiana is about to make
an important change in the free banking law of that
State so to require all banks hereafter formed file
Indiana State SIS basis of circulation and those here
formed within given time, replace their
rites with them


The official Bank returns of New Orleans made up for
the Board of Currency to-day compare follows with
those of last week.
Year: 1861

The town of Llanduno, in North Wales, was on
the 18th ultimo the scene of singular pageant.
Two ladies' sisters, had recently lost sister, and
instead of erecting a useless mausoleum over her
remains, they bought lfe-boat at a cost Of one
thousand dollars, and on the anniversary Of her
death, presented it to the little coast village of
Llauduno. The occasion of launching and man
ming the boat was made a holiday
Year: 1861

Memories sunny and golden,


Thoughts of the days agone,
Come to my heart like the flashing


That heralds the coming dawn
They, the beloved and trae-hearted,


That gladdened the days OF yore,
Arc thronging through Memory's portals


And sitting beside me once more
Holy and sweet are the echoes


Deep in my heart doth DWELL
They come like the chimes of the silv'ry
Sound of far-off bell;
Voices, the true and tender,


Strike on my listening ears
They, the beloved of my childh hood-


Friends of my ripper years.
Thoughts of that dear young sister,


Who passed to the land of rest.
Far from the home of her childhood
Far in the prairie West
One hope mid the gloom and darkness,
Cleans bright DER our sorrowing night
We know our beloved is henceforth
A glorified angel of light.
And think, sometimes, that these holy
Memory haunted hours
Are sent like the Autumn sunshine,
To brighten the fading flowers
So. whenever the mists of the earth-life,
Their darkening shadows entwine,
Bow low at the hush of twilight,


AT Memory's holiest shrine.
Yes, they come, the loved and the absent,
Some on earth, and some in heaven;
And they meet around my freside
In the quiet hour of even,
Like tho bloom that tints the rose leaf
Like the flush of the sunset sky
Come memories sacred and holy


Of the loves that never shall die.
Year: 1861

A WELL AT SEA.-Mr. w. A Booth, the
coast pilot of the revenue cutter Harriet Lane,
reports the discovery of boiling fresh water
spring at sea, off the coast of Florida. He
says the spring is situated twelve miles, north
by east, from st. Augustine, Fla, and eight
miles of shore. 1t boils up with great force,
and can be decried at distance of two miles,
When first seen it has the appearance of a
breaker, and is generally avoided; but there
is no danger IN the vicinity. as there is five
fathoms of water between it and the shore
Ten fathoms of water are found to the seaward,
but no bottom can be reached with the deep
sea lead and thirty fathoms of line at the spring
itself. The water in the spring is fresh, and
is by no means unpalatable. One popularity
about this phenomenon is, that when the ST.
Johns river is high it boils up from six to
eight feet above the level of the sea, and pre-
sents rather a forbidding appearance. This
spring has doubtless deceived hundreds, who
have hastily put about from. as they thought,
imminent danger, and reported seeing srock
with water breaking over ito The Harriet
Lane has passed through it several times, and
water has been drawn from it by a bucket
thrown over the side, and when drank no un-
pleasant taste or smell has been found. Its
position and harmless character have been
long unknown, but now the supposed danger
has become, as it were, s'a we'll of water in a
barren land.''
Year: 1861

The richest thing of the season, says the
| Newburyport Herald, came off the other day
in the neighborhood of the market. Tho
greenest Jonathan imaginable, decked out in
a slouched hat, a long blue frock, and pair
of cowhide shoes, big as gondolas, with huge
| whip under his arm, stalked into a billiard
| loon, where half dozen persons were impro-
wing the time in trundling round the worries,
and after recovering from his first surprise at
the, to him singular aspect OF the room, he in
qured If ssany of EN- had seen a stray steer,"
affirming that fsthe blasted critter got away as
he came through town with his drove t'other
day. and he hadn't seen nothin' on him SINCE"
The bloods denied all knowledge of the ami
NAL in question, and with much sly winking at
each other, proceeded to condole with him in
his loss in the most heartfelt manner. He
watched the game with much interest, as he
had evidently never seen or heard anything of
the kind before, and created much amusement
by his demonstration of applause when good
shot made-ssJ erusalem 10 being favor
lite interjection. AT last he made bold to re-
quest the privilege of trying his skill, when he
set the crowd in by his awkward move
ments. However, he gradually got his hands
III, and played as we'll as could be expected
for a greenhorn. All hands began to
praise him, which so elated him that he actu-
ally thought himself a second Phelan, and he
offered to bet dollar witt h his opponent, which,
of course he lost. The loss and the laugh so





game, and bet two dollars which he pulled out
of large Ioll-for it seems his cattle sold well
and he was quite flush. This bet he lost as
the fool might have known he would when
mad as March, hare, he pulled out fifty
spot, the largest bill he had, and offered to bet
that on another game. The crowd mustered
round and raised money enough to cover it,
and at it they went again, when, by some strange
turn of luck, the greeny won. He now offer
ed to put up the hundred he had won against
another hundred. OF course he could not
blunder into another game, SO they could now
win back what they had lost, and fleece the
fellow of his own rolls besides. They sent
out for famous player, who happened to have
money enough to bet with, and another game
was played, which Jonathan won. Another
hundred was also raised and bet and won; and
it was not until he had blundered through
half dozen games and by some unaccounta-
BILE run of luck, won them all, draining their
pockets of about four hundred dollars, that
they began to smell very large ssmice.''


When everybody got tired of playing,
gawky pulled his frock over his head, took
his whip under his arm, and walked quietly
out, turning round at the door and remarking :


ssGentleman, if you should happen to see
anything of that steer, wish you'd let me
know.''


AT last accounts they had not seen the steer,
but they came to the conclusion that they
saw the elephant.
Year: 1861

Brownlow thus felicitously describes ssthe
height of impudence - An Alabama Seces-
sion paper inquiries if the Border States knew
what is s'The Hight of Impotence 20 We an
swer for the Border States, that it is to see
and hear man staggering and swearing in
every crowd he enters, that he will go out of
the Union because he cant get his rights, by
paying the privilege guaranteed to take slaves
in the Territories, when, in fact, he docs not
own negro in the world, never did, and new
er will and withal cant get credit in any store
in the county where he lives, for a wool hat,
or pair of brogans
Year: 1861

Of all the annoying men in the world, de-
liver us from the man who thinks himself
more righteous than his neighbors-who i'm
AGNES that his way to heaven is the only true
way, and that those who don't believe in him,
disbelieve in God.
Year: 1861

DOUGLAS SPEEeH-The speech of Sena-
tor Douglas on the state of the nation


long looked for, has arrived under his ewr
frank and has disappointed most of his
friends. We had expected from the tone
of bis speeches in the southern states and
elsewhere during the late canvass, that his
voice would be for the Union without
any reserve or qualification. The repor t
brought by one Of the ponies not long since,
to the effect that Douglas was strenuously
in favor of putting down secession, led his
friends to believe that he intended to take
the view of jackson in 1892, and endeavor
to tread in the footsteps of the old hero
as far as his position would allow. The
expectation of the friends of Douglas has
not been realized. 1t is true that he pro-
fesses to be in favor Of putting down Sc
ceSsion, but he argues in such way as to
lead us to suppose he thought coercion
could do us no good and that the time to
strike had passed. We are sorry to see
this course of the great representative of
the popular sovereignty party, because the
loss of any prominent man from the cause
of the Union, is a loss indeed. But one
consolation is left. He will fail to carry
the bulk of his old friends with him. The
Douglas men are for the Union at all haz-
ards, and they are not going to argue the
question whether the delays and vacilla-
tions of Buchanan are reasons for doubling
the policy Of making an effort to save the
Union in its full integrity. The Union is
the heritage of the American people, and
cannot be given up under any excuse what
ever. The speech of Douglas is positive
enough as to the right of the government
to use force against traitors, but it is i'm
paired by doubts and hesitation as to the
policy of using the right.
Year: 1861

GEN. ALLEN quotes the assertion of the Tran
script that Northern and Southern men hate
each other cordially, after we brought the thing
to his notice. an pronounces it " silly, impcrti-
nent and characteristic" We never believed
the General entertained so poor an opinion Of
the fraternal feelings of Northern and Southern
men. 1t is true, the General condemns our re-
marks on the little bit of nonsense that inadver-
tently crept into his paper, but as he acLnowl-
edges the bit to be silly, and sets the North and
the South right towards each other, we are con-
tent. We wouldn't have the Northern and
Southern men feel that they hate each other
without any other cause than because newspa-
per said so, we know. As the General seems tc
agree with us that the little slip of the pen wa:
silly and impertinent-a conclusion to which ws
understand the majority of the people appear tc
agree also-we pass the subject. Keep YOU
TEMPER General
Year: 1861

A BILL TO COLLECT DELINQUENT TAXES
We learn that bill to provide for collect
ing the delinquent taxes of the county will
be- acted upon by the Legislature now in
session at Sacramento. The main provi-
sion of ths bill is, that the delinquent list
shall annually be passed over to the Dist
rict Attorney who is required to proceed
agains. and collect the taxes of delinquents
in the same manner as any other debt is
collected. There are fifteen thousand dol
lars due from delinquents in this county,
most of which may be collected if the pro-
posed law is enacted. We hope our repre-
sentatiyes will see that the law Is passed.
Year: 1861

WINNING A NAxE.-Major Anderson is rap
idly winning name. No officer ever occupied
more fortunate position to reap laurels, and
he really seems to be made of the right material
to profit by the advantages of his position
That he has the heart of patriot we believe
That he is true soldier, none can deny. AL
eyes are turned with hope to him. If he proves
equal to every emergency, secession will quickly
receive its quietus. There are heroes to give
him encouragement, and he can hardly fail tC
make figure in the future annals of tn,
country.