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Year: 1864

AN English OPINION OF TIE SANITARY
CoMMIssIoN.-The London Spectator pays
this high compliment to our noble Sani-
tary Commission:


''In every way we cannot help think
ing the existence and success of this COM
mission is most creditable to the Ameri-
can people. 1t shows not only with what
a resolution they entered in this struggle,
but with what fund of good sense they
are endowed. We doubt whether even
in England voluntary society could be
entrusted with so much power, and yet
carefully abstain from trenching on the
province and duties of the executive. In
America they can do these things, and
the same Cabinet Minister who originally
gave the Sanitary Commission a six
months span Of life, now admits that it
has been of the greatest service to the
country; that it has occasioned none of
the evils expected from it, and that it has
lived down all the fears and misgiyings of
the Government"
Year: 1864

SoReuM SUdAR.-The Washington Re-
publican says: can experiment was
made in the Department Of Agriculture,
day or two since. before a large number
OF persons, clearly demonstrating the
practicability of every man in the North
making his own sugar. A gentleman
from Nebraska, Mr.. J. F. Riggs, who is
about taking out patent for his process.
was the operator. From sorgho syrup,
sent to the Department for exhibition. in
the course of a few moments he produced
Il clean and pure sugar equal in all res
poets to the best coffee sugar, the residue
of the syrup proving to be an excellent
ly favored article, strongly resembling
amber or golden syrup of the shops, and
entirely free from sorgho TASTE"
Year: 1864


Upon the battlefield,


From home and friends away, d.
With life-blood cbbing out,
The dying soldier lay.
No mothers gentle voice


Fell on his dying ear;
No words of solemn prayer
His parting soul did share.
No sister from his brow


Wiped off the cold death dew,
Or tenderly watched DER
His couch the dark hour through
None pillowed that faint head
Upon pitying breast:
No friend was there on whom
His dying gaze might rest.
But, mid the madening fight,
And the fierce battle cry,
He looked his last on earth,
And heaved his dying sigh.
But angles hovered near
Till the last sigh was given,
Then bore the soldiers soul
Up'to the gates of heaven.
They bore him to his grave
Without psalm or prayer,
Then joined the ranks again,
And felt no difference there.
The tide of war swept on;
They missed not from that host
The dark-eyed, sweet-faeed boy
They had 50 lately lost.
But in a northern home
An untouched vacant chair,
A mothers pale sad face,
A fathers whitening hair.
The pause, and faltering sob,
In morn and evening prayer.
Where his name used to come,
Tell of the difference there.
Year: 1864

Eg Professor johnson says that a
pound of cheese is eqnal in nutritive val
ue to two pounds of flesh. The Euro
Peans seem to be better acquainted with
this fact than our own people. With us
cheese is regarded rather as a luxnrv
while in England it is considered one Of
the substantial articles of food, and it is
not uncommon for workmen there to make
full meal on bread and cheese alone
Year: 1864

AT dancing match at Chicago recent
ly, buxom Dutch girl danced nine hours
constantly, when her partner acknowled-
ged himself fairly beaten and very tired.
The damsel then took six glasses Of larger
and quietly went to breakfast.
Year: 1864

The Richmond Sentinel says, gentle
man from abroad is boarding at one of the
best hotels in that city, who pays his
bills in in specie at sixty cents per day.
In rebel currency the rate is nearly as
many dollars per week.
Year: 1864

Wonrn CONSIDERING you make
up your mind 70 buy . Sewing Machine it
u very imprudent and wasteful to get any
but the best. The best machine in the
world for doing all grades Of sewing is the
SIx0ER- It stitches alike on both sides. It
will hem and fell. tack and gather, and is
the only one that uses linen thread equally
as well - silk. Il II most substantially
made, and SO simple in construction that
any one can run it. Tho Singer is the ma.
chine to buy. II will last you one hundred
years. An assortment constantly kept By
X. Krause. agent. 6alesroom in Daven.
ports Block, corner Of Main and I'd streets
up stairs.
Year: 1864

CouRr MARTiAL-A court martial is now
in session in this city of which Major Ten
Brock is President. The criminals on trial
arc that dclectrble set Of scamps known rs
bounty jumpers" We have no sort Of
idea that they will get less punishment than
the law allows. at tho hands Of the officers
Who constitute the ccsirt.
Year: 1864

GIVEN TO THE PooR.-.At the close Of the
New England supper last evening it was
found that there was large supply Of pro-
visions on hand, whole and broken, that
had not been used. This was donated to
poor families in the city, who camc with
their baskets this morning and took it away.
Year: 1864

Ihls would be a happy world enough
were men more content with to-day, and
less anxious about tomorrow. One hall
the misery in the world is not real but an
tlcipated misery. A concern for this bug
bear Tomorrow is at the bottom of a
majority of our troubles. And yet, if man
will but glance over his yesterdays, he will
at once see how foolish it is to fret himself
about the time to come; for he will find in
every yesterday miniature grave, as it were
dug by too fearful imagination, in which
is buried all his little store of daily happi-
ness. A prudent thoughtfulness for the fu-
ture every man should entertain; but it is
worse than folly to permit the breadth of
to-morrpw, like a mildew, to blight the flow
ers around our pathway. Let US enjoy the
sunshine while it is about us; and if be-
meath the horizon clouds are concealed, why
anticipate the gloom in which they will en-
shroud US? Truly has the poet asked
''What avails it that indugent Heaven


From mortal eyes has wrapped the woe to come,
If we, ingenious to torment ourselves,


Grow pale at hideous fictions of own?


Enjoy the present; not with needless cares


OF what may spring from blind misfortunes womb
Appall the shortest hours that life bestows


Serene and master OF yourself, prepare


For what may come and leave the rest to Heaven.


This is the only true philosophy. 1t is
often the case that an imaginary evils pro-
ductive of more mischief than the real ca
lamity It has been frequently observed,
in times Of great mortality, that where dis
ease carried off its one thousand, fear de-
stroyed its ten thousand. So Of the minor
evils of life-where the happiness of one is
affected by real misfortune, that, of ten is
destroyed without any just cause. The
truth IS, men are not content with their
every day happiness. They slight the good
they have, in their anxiety for the good to
come. They waste their daily supply of
oil in fruitless attempts to procure supply
for the morrow, forgetting that he who re-
plenishes the cruise seisinexhaustible. Every
man has oil enough in his lamp to light
him to contentment-tha better name for
happiness-if he will but use it Alright. But
he will not use it Alright, and that is the mis-
chief of it.


Some men seem to act as though there
were not evils enough already in the world,
b{sessetting {ss US one very hand, and'so they go to
them at once into so many giants, and then
waste their strength and spirits in battling
them. There is hardly man who has not
a lion in his path, roaring like all possessed
And yet the growl is all that is known of
the lurking danger.


While to some this same "to-morrow" of
which we are talking is pregnant with moth
ing but direful evils, to others it is the great
storehouse Of hopes and enjoyments. The
past is nothing-thc present nothing-th
future everything Neglecting all themeans
of enjoyment scattered profusely around
them, they press on to the attainment Of
some unattainable good. 10 them, happi-
ness like the bird Huma, is ever on the wing


fitting tantalizingly before them, but
never perching so that they can lay hold on
it. And SO they wear away their lives in
one vain endless chase. f
Year: 1864

ne must have recIted from me mory for it
was 100 dark to distinguish a word.


Thea they sat silent The fire gIoye,l
red through the darkness, the chill No>
vember wind swept past the window.


MeiIcent rose presently to bring a light


lie laid hi. hand on her arm


Wait, and she sat down. Dent spsiI
my dark. | waited for the twilight to an.
swer your question


My question?


told you had another election mend
ing | rls ked something on the one and
have just lost. On this one have risked
-everything Shall tell youg


No answer, only waiting silence


have chosen the sweetest woman in
the worls to he my wife Will you cunfirn'
my choice? The turning vote Is YOURS,
dear MeliceGt'


Still! 40 answer, but through the gather
ing dark, tiny fingcr-tips touched his cheek
and drew IN down, and very softly she cast
her baliot-this sweetest woman in the
world


Hsw long they sat thus. the fire glowing
red through the darkness, have no right
to tell. But ! kno~ that sitting there
Melicsnt thought, smiling unseen. that
love had not gone out Of the world that
stories might be lived and written vet
Year: 1864

4 YnuNG lIrRo.-A gentleman. while
pa.sing through stree, inhabited by poor
people in New Yerk, heard an infsntils
voice from a basement crying Help
help lie rushed in and found q little
FIVE year old boy holding o bed blanket
around his little sister, few years young.
er, who had caueh: her clothes on FIRE.
and the little hero had sucsecded in ex-
tinguishins the tlarnes. The boy, in answer
to the inquiry why he so wrapped the bed
blanket around his sisters burning clothes.
said his ma had told him that was the beat
wav to put out the ere and IS 10 Why he
LA. vowed n.lv he!o that he was sraid
he could not succeed, and wanted some
one to help him. lie was then asked why
bs did not leave his sister and 60 into the
street and cry for help lie answered with
t.ars in hi. eyes and fixed determination
of coun,erance, ' No. never would have
left her She was my sister. Had she
burned up would have burned toe
Year: 1864

TVynE subscriber would inform the public that he Is
i now run ming the above MIL, and is prepared to do


CUSTOM AND MERCHANT WORK
In the best possible manner as the Mill has been
thoroughly Repaired and is in first rate order GOOD
and attentive Mflers are employed and will be con-
stantly hand wait upon customers Farmers and
oterswill find their advantage to give callbe
foe going elsewhere.


B-Orders for Flour or Feed be left At the City
ret atthe Mill, will be promptly TO-
urtawa. Oct 6, ] S6O -F J. WOOD
Year: 1864

Ii INCLINED TO Rsrarn A tender has been
made the City Battalion, originally organized
for the purpose of doing guard duty in and
around Richmond, but who have been post
ed tor the past three or foUr months at Chat
hn's farm, to again resumetheir old quarters
in this city; but we learn that they have,
with great ananimity, declined the cffer, and
earnestly solicit the privilege of remaining
where they are
Year: 1864

THE TRUE TEsT-Gal Hamilton writes to
her fair sisterhood We often have seen in the
columns Of religious newspapers sketches OF
eminent Christians. / read one lately, OF a
farmers wife, who used 70 delight in prayer
meetings, celebrated her children's birthdays
by prayer, and spent whole days in praying.
All these are favorable signs; hut before / pro.
nounced her an eminent Christian, should
like to know whether, previous to her with
drawal from the family circle to pray all day,
she made any provision tor the extra labor that
her absence would devolve on others or
whether Bridget had to skim the milk and wash
the pans, besides cooking, sweeping and dust.
ing, or whether the next day went smoothly
should like to know whether, when a little
restless chubby hand upset the gravy boat on
the clean table cloth, she bound herself over TO
keep the peace; whether in her house cleanli-
ness was made subservient to comfort or
comfort to cleanliness; whether she had ever
laid down her sewing and took into her arms
the half.sick and wholly cross, fretful and
miserable four.year- old boy, to charm away
his unhappiness with fairy story, or anykind
gave her heretical neighbor credit for as much
ard unselfsnness in his religion as he deyel.
oped and she recognized in his character of
citizen, neighbor and father; whether the de-
lcious green-pea soup that she sent to the sick
woman next door was the result of an extra
amount made for the purpose, or whether her
poor girl dined,per force, that day Off cold boiled
pork and potatoes whether she was generally
ready to step into the wagon when it came to
the door on Sunday morning, or whether she
provoked her husband to wrath by keeping
them all waiting.
Year: 1864

F1NANCIAL.-Rumors that Grant was ad-
vancing on Richmond sent down the price of
gold from 2l5's TO 2054 in Wall Street


The supply OF capital seeking temporary
investment is ample. Commercial paper is dull
at 9al2 with atew exceptional transactions at 3.


The payments on account of the new loan are
coming in freely The opinion is in some quar-
ters gaining ground that the looking up In the
Treasury of so large an amount of currency
will make severe but temporary stringency
in the lean market. But it is forgotten that
there have been very large issues of per cent.
compound interest notes during the last sixty
days which have swelled the volume Of the
circulation, and that in consequence the pre-
yailing tendency is towards an accumulation
of currency in the great financial centres.


The stock market opened feverish, became
panicky, and closed with slight improvement
Governments are dull, bank shares fat, rail-
read bonds quiet, and railroad shares weak and
lower.-N. !. Evening Posi-, ,1Sh
Year: 1864

Now, men of the North will you join in the strife
For country, for freedom, for honor for life?
The giant grows blind in his fury and spite
One blow on his forehead will settle the fight!
Flash full in his eyes the blue lightning of steel,
And stun him with cannon bolts, peal upon peal!
Mount, troopers, and follow your game to it's lair,
As the hound tracks the wolf and the beagle the
Blow, trumpets, your summons till sluggards


awake!


shake: aaf a
Yet yet, the signet is STAN ped ON tic scrol'
Their names may be trace d on the blood sprinkled
Trust not the false herald that painted your
shield:


Her escutcheon shows white with blazon Of
The lifedrops of crimson for liberty shed!
The hour is at hand, and the moment draws nigh!
The DOG star Of treason grows dim in the sky!
Shine forth from the battlecloud, light of the
morn,


Call back the bright hour when the nation was
born!


The rivers of peace through our valleys shall
run,


AS the glaciers Of tyranny melt in the sun;
Smite, smi,e the pLoud parrcdc down from his
throne
His sceptre once broken the world is our own
atlantic MonthiyJor February.
Year: 1864

"Agate' of tho Cincinnati Gazette
tells the following good one:


"Washington has been full of strange
illustrations Of late, Of the burial Of pre-
judices under the avalanche Of change
the war has wrought; but | know Of 10
stranger one, in its humble way, than
curious little fact connected with u street
railroad. When it was begun, two years
ago, it was poison for white man to
breathe the same air with negro in u
street car or omnibus. Let the storm be
as pttiess and tbs car as empty as YOU
chose, the negro woman with babe in
her arms must stand on the front plat.
form and bear it, lest her presence in a
corner within should contaminatc the
scattered passengers. by and by it be
gan to be suspected that perhaps the
negroes might be chtitled to ride within,
If they had cars to themselves; and tho
suspicion became very strong one, when
it was found it would pay. That was a
few mouths ago. This morning rode
down to the Capitol in car labeled,
'Colored persons can ride in this car
1t was crowded with ladies' aud gentle
men, who, year ago, would have been
horrified at such position; and by their
sides sat the negroes, to whom the car
riyhtfully belonged. The whites had
actually taken possession Of the negro
car, and the most aristocratic ladies sat
beside well dressed negroes without q
shuddcr. La this casual way, know of
no happier illustration of the discovery
that many have been making, that worth
has as much as color to do with what is
respectable and wha, is not"
Year: 1864

A stranger in printing ofiic asked
the youngest apprentice what his rule Of
punctuation was. IL set up as long as
| can hold my breath, then put in
comma; when gap l insert a semicol-
on and when l want chew of tobacco,
| make paragraph"
Year: 1864

Our merchants have been kept unusually
busy during Fair week and their sales have
been very extensive. A large number OF
their customers were people from the dis
tance who do not ordinarily do their busi-
ness here. This goes to show a particular
adyanta-e that the fair confers upon this
city. 1t increases the circle of the trade ev-
ery year.
Year: 1864

Our OF THE DRAFr.-The city Of Rock Is.
land has furnished her quota under the last
call, and consequently her citizens rest un-
disturbed from any apprehensions Of draft
at present. Good for Rock Island.
Year: 1864

JOINT DIscussIoS.-By reference to an
other column it will be seen that the chair
men Of the Democratic and Republican State
Central Committees have gled upon a list
OF appointments to be filed by the respect
i've candidates in the several districts. Pa
pers OF every Pablicai stripe throus livut the
State are requested to copy, and present
their bill to the next administration.
Year: 1864

A FREAk.-During the enrolment for the
draft in this county, last summer young
man by the name of Moore, who for the
past tive years has resided in Missouri was
paying a short visit to his mother who re-
sides here. The young man was enrolled,
and, what is more, he was drafted lie will
be surprised when he comes to hear of it.
though it is doubtful if he be counted in.
This is one of the freaks Of the draft.
Year: 1864

The modification of General Dixs order
BY the President is causing some excite
ment. The Herald says it will cause much
rejoicing among the rebels and their
friends, and thinks the modification was
made by the advice of Secretary Seward.
Year: 1864

The UNION BLUEs.-By this tile we
do not mean military organic alton
far from it--but we mean those whose
patience is not adequate to the present
national crisis. and who are found de-.
spending, and sometimes almost despair
ing. They are not blues by reason of
their exterior color, but because they are
blue in spirit. Some Of them are regular
hypochondriacs--their liyers are not
healthy. Others love their money better
than the old flag. and are distressed at
every call Of patriotism upon their pock-
cts. Others still live TOO much in the
company of Copperheads. whose rebel
souls breathe forth an influence that con-
teammates impressible persons. Then there
are others who we are afraid place
value upon heir chicken.hearted consti.
tu!ions far above their real worth. By
the aid Of the Union Blues the Copper
Year: 1864

second time already. Our men are in
healthy condition, although there is
some Ague, they are much more healthy
than month since. You are doubtless
aware that on the 25th of Sept we had
two men died, one Robt A. NJ M'Candless,
of Butler county, the other, VIM. Swartz
of Clarion county; both sudden.


Any soldier who votes Mac, bellies his
action, and shows that he was either fgh-
ting for money, ambition, or because he
could not help it. No man who believes
he did right in acting soldier, can believe
he is doing right in voting the Mac. and
Pendleton ticket, and l would put the
question to such and ask them to vote as
they expect to render an account at last.
Letsuch men solemnly ponder their act,
and [ know some who should tremble.-
But | leave them to their conscience.


W r. HUTCHINSON.
Year: 1864

So .se.--<%-


How TO MAKE FRIENDS UNCoMFoRT-
ABLE.-The same utterance may be an
impertinence, an unpalatable truth, or u
disagreeable thing, according to time and
circumstances, For example, in fit of
absence, we perpetrate some solecism in
dress or behavior. 1t is an unwelcome
truth to be told it, while there is yet op-
portunity for remedy, or partial remedy;
it is an impertinence to be informed of it
by stranger who has no right to concern
himself with our affairs; tits disagree
able thing when-the occasion past-our
friend enlightens us about it simply as q
piece of information We all of us, no
doubt, have friends, relations and acquaint-
ances who think it quite a sufficient rea-
son for saying thing, that is true Prob
ably we have ourselves known the state
of mind in which we find a certain fact
or opinion burden, load to be got rid
of; and under the gross mistake that all
truth must be spoken, that it is uncandid
and dangerous not to deliver testimony
convinced that the truth like murder,
will out, and that our friends, sooner or
later must learn the unacceptable fact
we come to the conclusion that it is best
for all parties to get the thing over by be-
ing ourselves the executioner We have
most of us acted the enfant terrible at
some time Or other. But this crudo sim
plicity of candor, where it is the result
of the mere blind intrusive assertion of
truth, is real weight and the primary
law of politeness, never to give unnecessa-
ry pain, as soon as it isapprehended is well
coined as a deliverer. Children and the
very young have not experienced enough
forany but the most limited sympathy, and
can only partially compare the feelingsof
others with their own. Indeed. the idea
Of the comparison does not occur to them.
But there are people who, in this respect,
remain children all their days, and very
awkward children, too, who burst with II
fact as the fool with his secret, and, like
the hair-dresser in Leech's careature, are
impelled to tell US that our hair is thin
at the top, though nothing is to come Of
the communication. These, as Sidney
Smith says, turn friendship into system
of lawful and unpunishable Importance,
from, so far as we can sec, no worse cause
than incontinence of fact and opinion
feeling it to be a sufficient and triumph
ant defense of every perpetration of the
sort, that it is true "Why did you tell
Mr.. So-and so that his sermon was ffty
minutes long?" Because had looked
at my watch" Why did you remind
such one that he is growing fat aud old!"
Because he is" "Why repeat that un-
faYorable criticism p 81 had just read
it." "Why disparage this mans partic-
ular friends?" 81 don't like them"
Why say to that young lady that her
dress is unbecoming?" 2" g really thought
So" 1t is, however, noticeable in per-
sons of this obtrusive candor, that they
have eyes for blemishes only. They are
never impelled to tell pleasant truths, from
which, no doubt, we may infer certain
acerbity Of temper, though these stric-
lures may be spoken in seeming blunt,
honest good humor. Still they talk in
this way from natural obtuseness and in
herent defect of sympathy.-Essoys on
Year: 1864

The following is copy of the Precept
issued by the Commissioners of Butler
county, to the Assessors of the different
Districts in the county. All should read
it, in order that they may act understand
ingly, ard be enabled to make correct re-
turns to the Assessor when he makes his
call


The Commissioners of said County,
Year: 1864

OwISG to the failure ou the part Of Congr
to MAKE an appropriation for keeping
Washington aqueduct in repair, the On
Engineer has notified the authorities that
utmost economy will be necessary TO scout
constant supply Of water.