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Year: 1861

A soul that will love me is all that ! ask,


A heart that beats true to my own;
care not in fortunes bright sunshine to basli,
I'd live in loves starlight alone.
Though often its pleasures mingled with sadness,
In moments of hcart-ache and PAIN
Yet give o, but give the bliss of that madness
Contented I'll carry the chain.
This life without love is a wilderness drear,
Its beauties attract not the eve;
The sweetest melodies fan on the ear,


And wake but in answer a sigh.
Yes shut from me nature with all its rich treasures,
Yon far spreading curtain of blue;
Take the world with its honors, its wealth and its


pleasures,


And give me heart that is TRUE.
Year: 1861

ABOUT BEDBUGs. According to an article in
the last number of IIarper's Magazine bedbugs
are an American invention, and have been ex-
ported from this country to all parts of Europe,
excepting Ireland, where a bcdbug is never to be
found. The insect made its appearance in Eng
land as early as 15O3 when two noblemen were
''punctured" by them and the physicians, call
ed in great haste. The bug is parasite Of the
bat family; and is so tenacious of life that no
degree of cold or heat can affect it. Freeze one
till you can break it in two thaw the pieces and
they will revive. Freeze the eggs until CONCEAL
ed in ice; let them thaw and they will hatch
again us usual Boil both insect and egg and
they will revive as soon as cool If they can get
nothing to cat they will live and propagate on
what nourishment they may derive from the at
mosphere
Year: 1861

STRoSG DRNK.-A New York chemist recently
bought of an importer bottle of what was call
ed genuine Champagne, and found, on analysis,
that It contained quarter of an ounce of sugar
Of lead. He analysed also sixteen samples of
Port Sherry, and Madeira wines, finding sulphur
nc acid in all, but not one drop of the juice Of
the grape in any.
Year: 1861

The work Of forming volunteer companies
throughout the State is still pushed rapidly for
ward. Many counties have from three to five
companies averaging seventy five men each.-
We do not know of single county in the State
without company of either infantry or cavalry
The scarcity Of arms so sensibly felt few weeks
ago is fast being relieved by the actual arrival of
arms in the State The Governor now has over
ten thousand stand at jackson for distribution.
Our railroad system is now so perfect that the
forces Of the State could be concentrated at
single point in three or four days. We hazard
nothing in stating that Mississippi could form an
army of $4,000 men in week, and double that
number in a month, and if it was actually nec-
essary to defend the State from invasion 100000
men would take the field. There are fully that
number of men in Mississippi to-day who would
prefer death rather than see the State conquer
ed,
Year: 1861

II was not a moment too soon. The clock
work in the Hope had been better adjusted than
the slow match in the Fortune. Scarcely had
Alexander reached the entrance of ST Mary's
Fort at the end of the bridge, when horrible
explosion was heard The Hope disappeared,
together with the men who had boarded her,
and the block house against which she had struck;
with all its garrison, while a large portion Of
the bridge, with all the troops upon it, had van
ished into the air 1t was the work of single
instant. The Scheldt yawned to its lowest depth,
and then east its waters across the dykes, deep
into the forts and far over the land The earth
shook as with the throb of volcano A wild
glare lighted up the scene for one moment and
was then succeeded by pitchy darkness Houses
were toppled down miles away, and not living
thing, even in remote places, coqldkeep his feet.
The air was filled with rain of ploughshares,
the heads, limbs and bodies Of what had been
human beings. Slabs Ofgrante, vomited by tho
flaming ship, were found afterwards at leagues
distance, and buried deep in the earth. A
thousand soldiers were destroyed in a second Of
time-many of them being torn in shreds, be-
yond the semblance of humanity.


Richebourg disappeared and was not found
until several days later when his body was dis
covered, doubled around an iron chain, which
hung from one of the bridge boats in the centre
of the river The veteran Robles, Seigneur dc
Bill, aPortuguese officer Of eminent service and
high military rank, was also destroyed. Months
afterwards, his body was discovered adhering to
the timber work Of the bridge, upon the ultimate
removal of that structure, and was only recog-
nizcd by peculiar gold chain which he habitu'
ally wore. Parma himself was thrown to the
ground stunned by a blow or the shoulder
from flying stake. The page, whow"s behind
him, carrying his helmet fell dead without
wound, killed by the concussion of the air.
Year: 1861

Is 1t not desirable that we should show
the 18th Regiment some attention


Thanksgiving day was overlooked and
Christmas is the next most appropriate
time. If SO, then why not send them q
repast Gu that day Win the Ladies do
IT. All who are desirous of contributing.
are requested 10 come 10 tie Chatham
Square Church, on Saturday, at 3 0 clock
p. III.


This is probably the last regiment that
We shall have here. Shall thy leave ns
without our showing them that we appre-
ciate the great sacrifice they have made
for US. We're they at home, as we are,
they would thenenjoy the customary feast.


Shall we feast ourselves and let them
be forgotten, or shall we send our own
turkeys aud do without ourselves if we
cannot procure twoy


Come, Ladies, send something good
They deserve 1T. One or You.
Year: 1861

1t will be recoliected that on the 18th
inst, the steamer Key City, Bound down,
collided with the steamer Luzerne, having
on board Dan Rice's Circus Troupe Of
Trained Animals, etc The cage contain
ing the trained rhinooeros, weighing over
1000 lbs, which was on barge alongside,
was knocked into the river. The door of
the cage was open, the animal being tied
to the front end Gift By chain which was
fastened to a ring in the monsters nose.
In hopes that the cage might in the acci-
dent have been broken so as to allow the
rhlnooeros TO escape, several of Rice's
men were stationed along the bank of the
river, but when morning came no signs of
him could be seen, and after awaiting a few
days the men returned to the company.


On Saturday morning two men living
below here named Charles J, Potter and
Conrad Ereson, saw from the bank of the
river what they supposed to be row boat
bottom side up in the slough. They soon
got skiff and pulled it to the place, and
when within, as they thought, about SIX
rods ofthe supposed boat, it sank and they
then returned.


The pilot of the steamer Golden Era
coming up on Saturday saw near the same
place what he took to be large brown
horse floating in the slough, several rods
away, but as it sank soon, he paid no after
tion to it, but kept on with his boat.


On Saturday afternoon Charles Wright
son, L. Y. Brown and Robert Eggleston,
while roasting green corn On the bank of
the slough, were half scared to death by
hearing heavy tramp, and in few mo-
ments the rhinoceros, as he appeared here
on the occasion of his first visit in July,
minus the blanket and chain in his nose,
rushed upon them with a terrible below,
catching Eggleston on his snout and throw
ing him, as he says, at least Fifty feet over
the back of him, breaking an arm and two
RIBS by the fall The monster plunged in
to the river, and the two ether persons,
badly scared, but not hurt, procured bug
gy, took the seat out, filled the box with
grass and blanket, and brought Eggles-
ton to his home in this city, where he is
now under the care of DR.. Cameron. The
RIBS were evidently broken by the snout of
the animal, as the flesh was badly torn


The slough in which the animal doubt
less is at present is about FIVE miles below
here, very deep, with muddy bottom, and
Year: 1861

A Brace Girz-A Aeroia exploit is told
of beautiful young woman in the village
of Spinelli, in Southern Italy. The house
of her uncle, liberal priest, was invaded
by some twenty brigand rufians. One of
the leaders was amusing himself by stab
bing the priest, who was old, when the girl
rushed in, fung herself on him, and
snatching in an instant the brace of revol-
vers be bad in bis belt, shot him dead
She ran through all the rooms, firing upon
every brigand she found engaged in plum
dering tha house She shot down four Of
them Alarmed at this unexpected at
tack, and not knowing what to make of it,
the rufians in the other rooms ran out.
She still pursued them and succeeded, be-
fore they could get knowledge of the en-
emy they had to encounter, in closing the
front door against them The brigands at.
tempted to set hre to the house From the
balcony she put out an old musket, belong
ing to her uncle, and fred upon them
again, and then, displaying from the win
dow tri eolored flag, cried, with al her
breath, Viva Garibaldi'g The miscre-
ants fred an Intellectual shot or two and
started off. A few moments after a cap
tain of bersaglieri, whojust game up, found
the exhausted girl in faint upon the dead
body of her uncle.
Year: 1861

This is one Of our earliest spring visit
ants Its notes, like those Of the blue bird,
are pleasing, not for any melody they con
tain, but for the idea Of spring and return,
ing verdure, with all the sweets of this
lovely season, which are associated with his
simple but lively ditty, WHICH is nothing
but pe'ree, peEiHitec, leree for whole
morning, 1t begins to build in March, on
some projecting pa t under bridge, in a
cave IN well, often under a shed, in the
low caves of cottage, and in such places
The nest Is composed of mud mixed with
moss, lined with flax and horse hair, and is
generally large aQd sQli4. T.lis bird is six
inches and half in length; the upper parts
are dusky olive; whole lower parts pale
delicate yellow; the plumage Of the head
is loose and crested
Year: 1861

though it is Just such place as he was
captured from in the East, there is no tel
ling how long he may remain quiet with
out taking notion to prowl around the
country in search of better fare


This afternoon several of our s2ortsmen
went down to the spot to make arrange
ments for his capture, when, if successful,
they can start a show of their own. He
vas seen this afternoon swimming in the
waters of the slough, but sank after sport
ing, if we may so call it, few moments
with back and nose above water About a
hundred persons have gone down to help
in his capture. Grass Democrat, 4u9
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Year: 1861

PAsTURING MowING LANDS IN AU-
TUMN,-John Johnson, who is good au-
thority on all matters relating to practical
farming, writes to the Boston CuGtirat0r
as follows:


l think it bad policy to pasture mead
ows-mowing ground-in autumn OF
spring. We can get here, double the
quantity of hay, if the meadow is not
pastured, and therefore we only require
half the land to get the given quantity OF
hay from, and the other half can be ap-
propriated to something else This
agrees with the opinion of the Maine
Farmer upon the subject, but a corre-
spondent of the Valley Farmer gives the
reason for an opposite course. lie
says;


My experience is that pasturing mead
ows of this kind in the fall season of the
year, is a decided advantage to them,
provided that they are not pastured too
much, and for the following reasons =
II meadow is left to stand after harvest
without pasturing in the months of Au-
gust and September, if there be any fall
rains, the wild grass and weeds will
spring up, and as they grow much taller
than the full growth of timothy or blue
grass and if the weeds and wild grass
are allowed to remain all winter and
spring, they will be materially in the way
of the following harvest. | have made
ample experience to prove this in our rich
bottom lands. My opinion is that mead
ows should be pastured after harvest, say
in the months of September and October,
sufficiently to keep down the weeds and
wild grass. / have noticed, particularly
in our bottom meadows, where a parti-
ton fence ran through the meadow and
where one side was paStured regularly
every fall season, and on the other side,
being a cornfeld, or in some way not ad-
mitted pasture by stock, that while the
side of the meadow regularly pastured
every fall would keep good set, the 9TH
er side, not being pastured, would in a
few years be taken with wild weeds and
become worthless, unless broken up and
newly set.
Year: 1861

In the certain part of certain city il
the United States, not very far from New
York, there lived once upon time, a sour
Grabbed, and anything but sweet dispo-
sitioned professor of physiology, who
kept school, with the express intention
of teaching noting but that science.


During one of his previous lectures on
that science, he happened to mention the
fact-in a physiological sense--of people
not being the same in the morning as they
were in the evening-that is, the body
undergoes several transformations during
the night, and, in fact, in not many min.
utes.


One day, the professor being irritated
at not receiving correct answers from one
of his promising pupils, genuine son Of
the Emerald Isle, insisted on his staying
away from his lectures.


All went on very well until the day of
the next lecture, which was to take place
during the following week, when, as usual
instead of staying away, as the professor
wished, he presented himself in readiness
for the next lecture.


The professor being engaged in some
writing, did not perceive bis arrival until
he was about to commence his lecture,
when observing Pat snugly ensconced be-
tween two companions, in the farthest and
most obscure corner of The room, he thus
addressed him:


Patrick McMahon, thought | told
you at the last lecture, never to show
yourself within the walls OF this ROOM"


You never told me anything of the
kind before shure. Och! murther, to
say that to my mothers own son p


What Do you mean to tell me that
didn't order you never to come here
again? Explain yourself!"


Well, you must know, sir, at the last
lecture, you said we weren't the same
people in the morning as we were atnight,
aud shure / can't be the same person |
was last week, can |, sir 7" asked Pat
with the utmost noncbalence.


The professor tried to look hard at
Pat but after looking at him for a few
seconds, his countenance relaxed, and he
laughed long and loud, together with his
pupils, at the singular manner in which
he was caught.


1t is needless to add that Pat was al
lowed to visit the following lectures, and
the professor often relates to bis friends
how he was puzzled
Year: 1861

A FIGHTING CLERGYMAN.-Rev. b
G. Ward, pastor of a Congregational
church in the village of Ganese, Illinois
conceives it 20 be his duty to forsake the
pulpit for the field. He has received
authority to raise a company of infantry
but proposes to enlist clergymen only
an appeal to his clerical brethren, pub
lished over his own signature, calls upon
" the fighting stock of the church mill
tant" to prove to the world their willing
ness to seal with their blood what they
talked in their pulpits," and closes with
this extraordinary passage:


Much as we have said and done to
prove our loyalty, we have not yet re-
sisted unto blood striving against sim
Shall we now, at the call of Christ come
out from our velvet cushioned barracks,
whence we have so often hurled bold,
indignant words at the giant niquity of
the age, and meet it face to face with the
bot shot of riAed artillery; with the
cleaning bayonet, or with clashing sa-
bres in hand to hand encounter?"
Year: 1861

life. Happy they who are thus favored
of God Yet, let us not think that they
alone are regarded with favor-that God
accepts nothing but the best. No, in
every nation, he that feareth God and
worketh righteousness is accepted of him.
Whatever phase our piety assumes, if it
be felt in the heart, if it strives for holi-
ness, God will approve. There is room


in our world for all the varieties of char
acter we see. Each has a place, and a
mission to perform. Each is commend
able within its own sphere. And as all
cannot be alike beautiful, Or alike wise,
so all cannot be alike in spirit. We
have room for the cheerful phase of
Christianity; for innocent mirth and
healthful amusement. We have room
for the men of practical turn, who sub
ordinate all things to reason and calm
ness. Such men are pillars of strength
We have room, too, for the ardent men +;
men of will, of impulse, of expedients
Extremes as they are, and restless as
the sea, they have yet strength which
we should not despise, and develop a
form Of Christian life often seen, but
not always attractive, and frequently
deprecated. And we have room for
those pure and holy spirits which bring
heaven down to earth. We had almost
said, the more of these The better but
we do not forget that God sends such
rarely; and that there are more Peters
and Pauls than Johns. But we love to
meet them we do them reverence
Such souls fill US with the spirit of Je-
sus.


Reader, whatever your piety is, let it
be true. BE not a hypocrite. BE sin
cere, even if you are not in all things
what you should be. Strive for better
things seek to walk in the most excel
lent way and look to God for direction
and guidance. Trumpet.
Year: 1861




The maid who binds her warriors sash,
With smile that well her pain disscmbcs,
The while beneath her dropping lash
One starry tear-drop hangs and trcmblcs,
Though heaven alone records the tear,
And fame shall never know her story,
Her heart has shed a drop as dear


As ever dcwcd the field OF glory.
The wife who girds her husbands sword,
Mid little ones who weep or wonder,
And braveIy speaks the cheering word,
What though her heart be rent asunder--
Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear
The bolts of war around him rattle
Hath shed as sacred blood as c'cr


Was poured upon the plain Of battle
The mother who conccals her grief


While to her breast her son She presses,
Then breathes a few brave words and brief,
kissing the patriot brow She besseS,
With no one but her secret God,


To know the pain that weighs upon her,
Sheds holy blood as Ger the sod


Received on Freedoms field of honor
Year: 1861

APPLYING THE RoD.-The Medina
Tribune states that whipping affair re-
Gently occurred in village up that way,
in which a lady was the heroine. She
had been invited to attend a ball by a
young man, who took another lady, ma
king a second choice. The sighted
young lady was driven in buggy by her
young brother to the scene OF the dance,
and just as the faithess young man was
handing has second choice into the car
riage to go home, she attacked him with
whip and lasbed him soundly, to the
great amusement of fifty or more per-
sons.
Year: 1861

When on a drear and stormy night
The pale moon sheds itful light,
That half reveals the distant grounds,
The loyal sentry, on his rounds,
Is glad to look aloft and find
The old flag streaming in the wind
The star-gemmed fag-oer land and sea
The banner of the brave and free.
While patriot ardor fills his breast,
He is relieved and goes to rest;
Another sentry takes his place,


An6while he trcads with measured pace,
He, too, may look aloft and find
The old flag streaming in the wind
The star-gemmed f1ag-o'er land and sea
The banner of the brave and free.
So, SCoTT, thou hero of three wars,
Defender of the Stripes and Stars,
When victory is thine again,


Ere death subdues thy mighty brain,
The NATION will look up and find
Its flag still streaming in the wind
The star gemmed hag-o'er land and sea
The banner of the brave and free.
Year: 1861

COMMODORE STRINGHASr AND THE
GIANT.-An "Old Salt" who sailed with
Commodore Stringham, the hero of Hat
teras lnlet, in his earlier days, relates
the following interesting incident: when
a First Lieutenant of a frigate he was
short in stature, and slender in form, but
was endowed with great muscular power
of limb. At one time the frigate was
laying in the harbor of Naples, where a
giant was on exhibition, who was invited
on board the vessel. As he approached
Lieut.. Stringham he lowered above him
like tall father by the side of his child.
The Lieutenant gave him quizzical
look and stepped up to pile Of heavy
cannon balls. Taking up one of these
he placed it on his hand and held it out
at arms length for nearly a minute. The
giant looked in astvnishment. When he
attempted the same feat he found that
his strength was not sufficient, and utterly
failed in its performance.
Year: 1861

Weaponed well to war we ride,
With sabres ringing by our side
The warning knell of death to all
Who hold the holiest cause in thrall;


The sacred Right


Which grows to Might
The day which dawns in blood-rcd light.
Weaponed well to war we ride,
To conquer, tide what may betide,
For never yet beneath the sun
Was battle by the devil won;


For what to thee


Defeat may be,
Time makes glorious victory,
Weaponcd well to war we ride
Who braves the battle wins the bride;
Who dies the death for truth shall be
Alive in love cternally;


Though dead he lies,


Soft, starry eyes
Smile hope to him from purple skies,
Woaponed well to war we ride
Hurrah for the surging thunder tide;
When the cannons roar makes all seem large,
And the war-horse screams in the crashing


charge,


And the rider strong


whom he bears along
Is a death-dart shot at the yielding throng.
Weaponed well to war we ride
The ball is open, the hall is wide
The sabre, as it quits the sheath,
And beams with the lurid light of DEATH


And the deadly glance


OF the glittering lance
Are the taper lights Of the battc-dance.
Weapoped well to war we ride
Find your foemen on either side,
But wo to those who miss the time,
Where one false step is a deadly crime;


Who loses breath


In the dance OF death
Wins nor wears nor wants the wreath.
Weaponed well to war we ride
Our swords are keen, our cause is tried
When the keen edge cuts and the blood runs


free,
May we die in the hour Of victory


We feel no dread


The battlefield,
Where'er it be, has heaven o'erhead.
Year: 1861

e. A pretty girl was lately complain
ing to a Quaker friend that she had a
cold and was sadly plagued in the lips by
chaps. Friend" said Obadiah, thee
should never let the chaps come near thy
lips"
Year: 1861

HINTS FOR THE FARMERs.-Dig your
potatoes when the ground is dry you can
then gather them free from dirt; then
stow them away under cover where the
frost will not touch them.


In feeding corn, sixty pounds ground
goes as far as ore hundred pounds in the
kernel,


Corn meal should never be glound
very fine, as it Injuries the richness
of it.


Turnips OF small size have double the
nutritious matter large ones have.


Rats and other vermin are kept away
from grain by sprinkling on garlic when
packing the sheaves. - Ohio Taltey
Farmer.