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Year: 1861

The light at home how bright it beams,
When evening shades around US fall I
And from the lattice, far it CLEANS


TO love, and rest and comfort call.
When wearied with the tolls of day,
And strife for glory, gold. or fame,
How sweet to seek the quiet way,


Where loving lips will lisp our name,


Around he light ut home.
When through the dark and stormy night,
The wayward wand erer bomsward HES,
How cheering is that twinkling light,
Which through the forest gloom he spies!
1t is the light at home-he feels
That loving hearts wilt greet him there;
And softly through his bosom steals
The Joy that banishes his care,
3 Around the light ut home.
The light at hotnel Wiener at last


1t greets the seamen through the storm,
He feels no more the chilling blast,


That beats upon his manly form.
Long years upon the sea have fled


Since dear ones gave parting kiss,
But the sad tears which then were shed,
Will new be paid with rapturous bliss,


Around the light at home.
The light at hou1ei how still and sweet
peeps from yonder cottage door,
The weary laborer to greet,


When the rough tolls of day are Ger
Sad is the soul that does not know


The blessing that the beams impart--
The cheerful hopes and joys that flow,


And lightens up the heaviest heart,


Around the light at heme.
Year: 1861

THE subscriber ADOPTS this method of in
i forming all those who are desirous of set
ting out FRUIT TREES during the coming
fall that he Is now better prepared than ever
to furnish them with the different varieties at
much more reasonable rates and in much bet
ter condition than they can be procured from
he agents of foreign nurseries.


Those who desire to purchase can visit his
Nursery at Upper Sandusky and select trees
that will suit them. and not be under the ne
cessity 0: paying for trees that have been
Knocked about on the railroad for weeks.


Call ard see me. will do better by you than
foreignnurserymen can possibly do


Arg 16 '60-tf j. HEFFLEBOWER.
Year: 1861

WEIGHTS AND MISUNDERSTANDING the off,
ces created by the Legislature to reward
partizans and party services, is that of Sealer
of Weights and Measures, with its one or
more deputies in every county of the State.
The tax which it imposes is oppressive to
the small dealer, without affording particle
of protection to the buyer. IF the dealer is
dishonest, he will have one set of weights
sealed, in compliance with the law, and use
another to defraud his customers. However,
there is little danger Of fraud in these days.
Nearly every family has its pair Of patent
scales, which are used when there is a doubt,
and should the merchant be detected in Civ
ing light weight, it would ruin his reputa-
ton as business man in the community.


The laws of trade govern themselves, with
out legislative interference. Let this extor-
tonate act, therefore, be wiped from the
statute book. Now is the time, when parties
are broken up, to correct all such legalised
abuses.
Year: 1861

PROPER SENTIMENTs.-Mr Hill, venerable
State Senator from Sonoma, in the course of a
speech on Edgertons Union resolutions, Tues.
day last, uttered the following patriotic senti-
ments. They form a striking contrast to the
traitorous language of Crittenden. He said:


"I know that men feel attachment to the State
in which they were born it is natural and right
that it should be so. It was there they first
spent the merry scenes of their childhood. The
graves of their ancestors are there. This feeling
is no doubt stronger in youth than in advanced
age. The American statesman and patriot loses
the narrow limits of State in the more expand
ed view of his country. His State is from the
river st. Lawrence to the Rio Grande, and from
the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean,"
Year: 1861

p@As a general thing, the secessionist
is a Southern man but all Southern men are
not secessionists. In looking around over
the State, we observe that Southern men of
the most infuence-those who have an abid-
ing interest in the country, reputation to
defend, and a patriotism which reaches be-
yond the boundary of mere local laes-are
committed for the Union, because they can
appreciate the blessings that flow from it..
Those who favor disruption are generally
men without reputable occupation-place-
hunters, to whom popular breeze might
blow a crumb, and to whom even crumbs
are always acceptable. These men will not
effect much harm, however willing they may
be to do it.
Year: 1861

REPEAL IT.-The Legislature is about to
make some inquiry into the Pork and Beef
Inspection Law. 1t is said the Office of In
spector is worth from sixty to seventy thous-
and dollars per annum. This is outrageous,
when it is considered that the consumer has
to pay the tax, and that the law never was
demanded by any actual necessity which ex-
listed. Our members of the Legislature will
be expected to do what they can towards the
repeal of this obnoxious measure.
Year: 1861

GooD FOR THE OLD HERo.-It is said of Gen
Wool, that being asked :" if the army would be
likely to divide in case of secession, and fail to
obey the President :" that he replied-"D Do you
at the moment it is needed! No, sir. Further
more, allow no officer or man under my COM
mand to admit the possibility of disunion, and if
hear that any one has spoken in favor of it, l
will court martial him with all possible expedi-
ton and Gen. Scott feels as do, sir.


There is many game of whist left in the vet
eran General yet; although it was thought by
many while he resided in this State, that he was
about "played out"
Year: 1861

CARRIED.-It is stated, after all, that the cleo
ton returns as reported from the Secretary of
States Office to the Legislature, show majority
of some fifteen hundred in favor of Constitu-
tional Convention. This, we think, is rather
unfortunate in the present agitated state of the
public mind. The fact thus early announced,
however, will afford the people an opportunity to
look around for suitable men to represent them
gence, who understand wherein the Constitution
requires amendment, and wherein it is good
without amendment, and who are loyal to that
higher organic act, the Constitution ofthe Union.
Year: 1861

"We find that a general disafection pre-
walls among all political parties and parti-
sans, and that the condition of the country
demands, and there win soon oe formed from
the debris of the old organizations, new
party-a Union party upon principles OF
union-possessing all the elements of pure
democracy"


So it is to be hoped-with democracy q
little purer than that which has brought the
country to the verge of ruin.
Year: 1861

A SOURCE OF PRIDE.-Fiye newspapers are
published in Nevada county, every one of which
is for the Union. The proportion of seces-
sionists to true patriots in the county is only
about one in hundred. When the proper time
arrives for an expression of embodied opinion
on this subject, and in condemnation of the Pa
cifc Republic heresy, the mountains will speak
to the sea" in tones that will make the hearts of
treason -plotters quake.
Year: 1861

TO THE PATRONS OF THE HYDRAULIC PRESS.
Judge o. P. STTDGER having purchased my
interest in the HYDRAULIC Press, he and Mr.
WIN. BAUsMAN will hereafter conduct it-Mr
BAUsMAN, as heretofore, having charge of the
editorial department Under the present man.
;agement, the paper will be made worthier of the
support of the community, and l trust will receive
its deserts. It's present proprietors are of you,
and have alike with you, an interest in the ad
vancement and prosperity of your town and its
neighborhood. was one of the original found
ers of the PRESS and if for no other reason, feel
an interest in its future welfare. 1t was ushered
into existence under many disadvantages. In
heriting weakly constitution, it required un-
wearied attention and a thorough course of medi-
cation to eradicate the prejudice existing against
it in the public mind. From the tottering and
uncertain step of infancy to the firm and self
reliant tread of manhood, it has slowly passed,
and is now permanent institution. My only
reward for nearly three years of hard labor, is
the satisfaction of knowing that / have con-
tributed in part, to its establishment in public
favor.


In bidding farewell to the good people of San
Juan, return my sincere and heartfelt thanks
for many kindnesses and friendly acts towards
me personally.


ID IT yr-AT
Year: 1861

GIN the present state of affairs, if there are
men enough in the Legislature who are Union
men in reality it is their duty to elect Senator,
who is for the Union, no matter what his politics
may have been heretofore"
Year: 1861

R9 Gen. Allen, we insist, that even though
the lady from s'Sweetfands" gave you the
information herself, that she had received
ill-treatment from the residents of that place,
there is some mistake about the matter. A
gentleman well known for his philanthropy
and whole-souled generosity, felt the charge,
if true, to be disgrace to that community.
He therefore made it his business to inquire
of every family in the town, not one of whom
had either seen or heard of mother with
an infant in distress, muchless to deny them
the common charities demanded by their
misfortunes. General, you who know that
people so intimately, would not think of ac-
cusing them of such thing.


AS to your perversity in adhering to the
"Sweetland-s," consider our gauntlet down.
Well meet you with pipes on that subject.
Year: 1861

Out in the river i. winding


The link of its long, red chain,
Though belts Of dusty pine land


And gusty leagues of plain.
Only, at times, smoke wreath


With the drifting clouds track Joins
The smoke of the hunting lodges


OF the wild Assiniboins
Drearly blows the north wind


From the land of ice and snow
The eyes that look are weary,


And heavy the hands that row.
.nd with one foot on the water,


And the upon the shore, 80
The Angel of Shadow gives warning
That day shall be no more.
Is it the clang of wild geese


Is it the Indians yell,
That lends to the voice ofthe north wind
The tone of a fare off bell.
The voyageur smiles as he listens
To sounds that grow apace
Well he knows the vesper ringing
OF the bells of st. Boniface.
The bells of the Roman Mission.
That call from their turrcts twain,
To the boatmen on the river,


To the hunter on the plain
Even so in onr mortal journey


The bitter north winds blow,
And thus upon life's Red River


Our hearts as oarsmcn row.
And then the Angel Of Shadows


Rests bis feet on wave and shore.
And our eyes grow dim with watching
And our hearts faint at the oar.
Happy ia he who hearcth


The signal Of his release
In the bells OF the Holy City,


The chimes of eternal peace.
Year: 1861

Cheerlcss was tie attic which little
Alice entered one dreary December dav
alter long walk in the icy stress There
was no fire whatever in the broken crate
and ,he keen air whistlcd through the
halt covered roof, sitting down the fac
snow on the bare floor. But though the
place WAS SO utterly cheerless, there was
a smile, as well as tear, in her brown
eyes as she entered IL that low room,
wss he only heart on earth that cared
for her. a loving sister watched for her
return, and had ever gentle word and
Kiss for The litlle one she had received
from dying mothers arms, and over
whom she had watched with Ka,ernal
tenderness.


Day by day she had toied for her sup
port, unheeding the cruel exactions and
often harsh words Of her steel hearted
employer. Not unfrequontly was she
kept busy until FAR into the night, work
Ing costly fabrics into cloaks, and man.
tilas, 10 glitter in the fashionable prom
enase thinking sometimes, poor girl,
bow a single yard Of that costly trimming
would bring plenty to her destitute home.
Still she was usually content with her
frugal fare, for the white wings of purity
and peace were folded in her bosom. and
she blessed God that actual want had
never stared them IN the face.


But at length dark day came. The
racklng cough that bad SO long distress
ed her, became deeper seated, and she
could no longer rise from her bed. AT
ter the scanty earnings were exhausted,
the few articles of furniture were parted
with, one by one, TO obtain the daily LOAF
OF bread ; but in ltlle time this resource
failed, and ghaslly famine glared upon
them.


To-day. little Alice had wandered out
hoping to find a few sticks with which 10
make little blaze, and on her return.
she found her sister much weaker.


. Dear Jenny" said the child, 81
could find nothing to eat but these tur.
nip and potato parings, which | picked
up in rubbish box on the sidewalk, |
have washed them quite clean at the
pump, and they will be better than moth
ing. ! eat some Of the lurnip chips raw
| was SO hungry. got these few sticks
and cinders too. from an ashtub, though
an old woman with bag on her back
beat me with her iron hook, because
took them. A policeman saw her, and
said, Lot the child alone or she might
have hurt me worse, she was so angry
But. poor sister, YOU are almost starved
10 death, | will cook these things rs soon
as | can make the fire 20. There are
six matches left IN the box ] have bit
OF paper ! found in the street just after
they bad swept store" The child set
herself busily TO work, and soon a litte
glow was kindled, and the only sauce
pan was set over il with little water. aud
the uninviting repast was prepared.


p" You oannot eat il, Jenny" said the
child, with tears in her eyes, as her sis
ter pat aside tho dish, after slight ef-
fort 10 ea'.


:" You have done very nicely. liule sis
Year: 1861

PILOT MOUND, IowA-Pilot Mound,
on the Northern boundary OF Haucock k
County, in Nothern Iowa. is an object
OF interest and should find place in the
history OF the Great West. though per-
haps it may not be 50 celebrated as the
Starved Rock or Mount Joliet of her sis
ter State of Illinois. Raised up as Pilot
Mound IS, to a hight of between the
aud four hundred feet above the level OF
the plain around and terminating as il
does in a conical form, it has very i'm
posing appearance. This elevation is
situated in n dense forest, although the
Mound itself is destitute Of shrub or
brush. Pilot Mound has its history, in
ocribed in the memory and related in The
traditions OF the red man Of the far West.
The White hunter and the hardy trapper
also, the successor 10 the Indian. point
this spot and vicinity as the place Where
many exciting scenes of the chase and
ard the trapping OF wild game once &C
cupicd their world Of thought and adyen-
ture. Here it was that the Indian watch
ed from the towering summit the herd OF
buffalo and the elk upon the distant prai-
ries, ready and fierce 10 pounce upon the
unsuspecting victim that might come
within his range Of vision.


This watchman of the chaparel and
plain is the beacon of the weary traveller
From twenty to thirty miles around nay
This sturdy watchman be seen and We
may say, had it not been that this mini
ature mountain held up lis head on
high. many weary sojourner on the
boundless prairie would have lain down
70 his last and final sleep. from which
there is no waking.
Year: 1861

/ DEDICATED TO THE sTAY-AT-HOME RANGERS.
! Now, while soldiers are lighting our battles,
| Each at his post to do all that he can,
! Down among rebels and contraband chattels,


What you DOING my sweet little man?
All the brave boys under canvass are sleeping,


All ofthem pressing to march with the van,
Far from the home where their sweethearts weep


ing,


What you waiting for, sweet little man
You with the terrible warlikc moustaches,


Fit for a colonel or chief ola clan,
You with the waist made for sword belts and sashes,
Where are your shoulder-straps, sweet little man
Bring him the buttonless garment of women!
Cover his face lest it freckle and tan,
Muster the Apron String Guards the Common,


That is the corps for the sweet little man!
Give him for escort a file of young misses,


Each of them armed with deadly rattan;
They shall defepd i him from laughter and hsses,


Aimed by low boys at the sweet little man.
All the fair maidcns about him shall cluster.


Pluck the white feathers from bonnet and fan,
Make him plume like turkey-wing duster-


That is the crest for tie sweet little man!
0, but the Apron String Guards the fellows
Drilling each day since troubles began
s.HandIe your walking stick!' shoulder Umbrel-


lasu'


That is the style for the sweet little man
Have we a nation to save In the first place,


Saving ourselves is the sensible plan-
Surely the spot where there's shooting. s the worst


place


Where can stand, says the sweet little man.
Catch me confding my person with strangers


Think how the cowardly Bull-Runners ran!
In the Brigade of the stay-at-Home Rangers


Marches my corps, says the sweet little man
Such was the stuff of the MaEakoff-takers,


Such were the soldiers that scaled the Redan
Truculent housemaids and blood thirsty Quakers,
Brave no. the wrath OF the sweet little mani
Yield him the sidewalks, ye nursery madens


.Sagce q,d peud ! Bridget and right about, Ann
Fierce as a shark in a school OF manhaGens,


See him advancing, tie sweet little
When the red fails Of the battle field threshers
Beat out the continents wheat from its bran,
While the wind scatters the chaffy seceshcrs,
What Will become of our sweet little man
When the brown soldiers come back from the borders
How viii he look while his features they scan
How will he feel when he gets marching orders,
Signed by his lady love sweet little man!
Fear not for him, though the rebel expelIs him
Life is too precious to sharpen its span
Woman her broomstick shall raise to protect him,
VIII she not fight for the sweet little man?
Vow then, nine cheers for the stayat-Home Ranger !
Blow the great fish horn aud beat the big pan
First in the field that IS fart he from DANCER
Take your white feather plume, sweet little man
Year: 1861

ct with fearfully insipid beverage AT
times, too, they make their appearance as
street preachers, snd always play great
part in the intrigues of the religious sects.


TIE PRIVILEGED SEX.


On board the steamers, and in other
modes of communication throughout the
country, the ladies have every sort of priv
ilege. On the railways they exert a Wig
orous right of appropriation over the gen.
tlemen, even should he have taken his
seat at previous station. On many 9th
er occasions, such as at theatres, in the
galleries Of the house, or wherever there
may be anything to be seen or heard the
''lord of creation can ever feel safe in
his seat, however early he may have ta-
ken possession Of it. If any one tap him
on the shoulder and whisper in his ear the
words Of terror, ga lady, he must spring
up at once, and is swept aside like dust by
the crinoline to seek another seat where
he can.


And yet it would be possible to endure
all this, and more, if the ladies united With
their authority, graciousness and pleas
ant show of gratitude, and if they--the
petted and the 6lasees-did not regard all
the SURFACES and indulgen es of the men
with such indifference, and as tribute
necessarily theirs. Generally, however,
they behave as if the men did nothing but
their duty. You may dislocate your spine
in picking up anything a lady has let fall
or, like Raleigh, lay down your coat before
her, so that she may pass dryshod over a
puddle, and rarely will you be rewarded
even by a smile. And all this robs the
weaker sex Of its sweetest charm, the gen
tie and irresistible power by which it else
where enchains and thralls the heart Of
man. Among us the stronger being bows
to woman, and the weak darling, conscious
of her need and support, rewards him with
her gratitude, But, in America, Fridolin
does his duty like a negro slave, and, Of
course, now and then grows weary of the
affair. It IS not unfrequent to hear the
chivalrous Americans, when out of their
wives earshot, indulge in the most awful
declarations Of rebellion
Year: 1861

In the matter of the guardianship of the minor
heirs of John Negus, deceased.


On reading and filing the petition of Maria Negus,
guardian of said minors duly verified, setting forth
description of all the real estate of which said deceas
ed died seized and the condition and value of the
spectve portions thereof that it is necessary to sell
portion thereoffor the support and maintenance of
said minors and praying that license be to her grant
ed to sell portion of said real estate. And it appear
ing by said petition that there is not sufficient person
al estate in the hands of said guardian to support
and maintain said minors and that it is necessary to
sell portion OF said real estate.


1t is therefore ordered that all persons interested
in said real estate appear b, the Judge of this
Court on Monday the 7th day of October next at II
O'Clock A NJ, at the Court House in the village of
Jefferson. and show cause, if any they have, why IL
cense should not be granted to said guardian to sell
said real estate according the prayer of said pet
tion.


And 1t IS further ordered that copy of tins order
be published for three successive weeks prior to said
day of hearing, in the ''Watertown Republican,
weekly newspaper, published at Wrtertcwp, in said
County.


Dated the 24t day of August A. D. 1861.


By the Court SAMU Ell BAIRD.


sep6w3 County Judge.
Year: 1861

A BRIGHT EXAMPLE FOR OUR YOUNG
MEN.--The young Governor Spragua, of
Rhode Island millionaire, not satisfied
with his liberal contribution of money TO
the cause Of the Union in this war, was
one among the first to offer his individual
services in the field, and was among the
brayest of the brave on the bloody hills of
Manassas. Lately, in explaining his non
attendance at an agricultural fair in Yer
mont, he writes Permit me to say, and
especially to the young men of Vermont
that class whom | am trying to represent
in my own person-tLat the glorious priv
ilege of doing some real service to ones
country now exists, and that ''a lifetime
may neucr present another such occasion"


AN INCIDENT WITH MoRAL.-A chap
lain in one Of the regiments of the Poto-
mac narrates the case of a sick soldier,
which strikingly illustrates the reasoning
of many men in the camp and out of it
Some one had mentioned to the soldier the
case of the Vermonter who was sentenced
to be shot for sleeping on his post. Du-
ring the evening following, the fever set
ting in violently, the sick man imagined
that he was the man sentenced to be shot.
The surgeon being called, the following
conversation ensued:


"Doctor, I am to be shot in the morn
ing, and wish you to send for the chap
lain. l desire to make all necessary prep
aratiOn for my end


'They shall not shoot you, I'll take care
of you. Whoever comes to take you from
here, I shall have them arrested and put
under guard


evil you, dear doctor? Thank you
thank you-well, then, you need not send
for the chaplain Just get,


The chaplain, in mentioning the instance
adds: "Hew like sinners at home ~