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Year: 1863

II is AMUSING TO WITNESS the perfection TO
which Selring Machines have been brough. at
the present day, aud The Unlimited variety of
work which can be performed by one, at least
Of the many styles befor the public. We have
been astonished of late, at the effect which the
present fashion has produced in the elegant and
elaborate embroidery and braiding which forms
so beautiful trimming for the garments Of
our lady friends How IS il done? How is it
possible 10 so short time, for such an immense
amount Of embroidery to be executed as has
made its appearance Of late? Our answer
was that with q Grover i Baker" Sewing
Machine anything was possible; that it would
embroider or braid as rapidly as it would sew,
and to trim garment in the hight Of fash
ion was fascinating pleasure unknown to
any but the fortur ate pOssessor of this marvel
lous machine.
Year: 1863

BILLIARD SALOON FoR SALE.-Hunt's
Fine Billiard Saloon is offered for sale at a
bargain. Those seeking an opportunity for a
lively aud Profitable investment, should give
Kim q call. Having been chosen to serve his
country in the County Treasurer's Office, he
will dispose of his present business TO the great
advantage Of the purchaser.
Year: 1863

Military Reuieo.-Col. Elliott, Of the City
Battalion, is to have review Of his COM
mand on Saturday afternoon, at O'Clock, in
the field opposite Hollywood Cemetery
The battalion is composed Of fine material,
the officers are efficient and energetic, end
all connected with it have sufficient pride in
the performance of duty to make the review
highly attractive.
Year: 1863

nation goes down 10 the dark sea Of anarchy
and rnin Which then do you choose. and
to which will you be deaf--the solemn
warning Of the patriot standing at the very
portals of eternity. or these latter utteran-
ces. these inAsmmatory appeals to the peo-
pie against the Government. so seditious as
to sfartle the loyal ear and chill the popular
hearth Let every man answer TO bis con-
science and his God.


THOMAS B. BRYAN.
Year: 1863

A CoMKoN TERM BEAUTIFULLY DEFINED.
An old soldier in lately appealing to his son
to 60 and fight for the Government and the
Union said


Perhaps you have never thought what
your country means 1t is all that sur
rounds you-all that has brought you up
and fed you all that you ever loved. This
country that you see, these houses, these
tees, those girls who go along there laugh.
ing-this is your country! The little room
where you used to see your mother, the
rem m:mbrances she has left you, the earth
where she rests-this is your country !!
The laws which protect you, the bread
which pays for your work, the words you
interchange with others, the joy and grief
which comes to you from the men and
things among which you live-this is your
country You see it, you breath it every
where. Think to yourself of your rights
and duties, your affections and your wants
your past and your present blessings
write them all under single name, and
that name will be, your country. We eve
it all that we are and he who enjoys the
honor of having free country, and does
not accept the burdens Of it, forieits his
honor, and is bad citizen. Do for your
country what you would do for your father
and mother. Your country is in danger
Year: 1863

In consequence Of so much water great
many Of our men have taken bad colds and
are now on the sick list, and some Of them
are beginning to feel rheumatic pains in
their limbs; but we have gone to work and
raised our tents from the ground and put
floors in them, and most Of them have got
chi,nneys in them, or outside Of them
(this latter is southern style). Were you
to come into camp at any other time than
drill h ,urs, you would suppose you had
mistaken the place and got into a new
town built on the canvass order. The men
still keep to work making improvements,
and | think that by the time VIC are order
ed to march We will be pretty comfortably
fixed up.


Rather sad accident happened to Jona-
than Smith, Of my company, few nights
since. He had laid his gun along side Of
him in his tent, and Ivy soms neglect for.
gotten to disch rye the load or even remove
the cap. Toward morning, whilst in the
act Of adjusting his blankets, he raised the
hammer sufficient to break the cap, dis.
charging the piece. The muzzle being in
the direction OF his feet, the ball and con-
tents passed through his foot making a
severe wound, but fortunately it passed be-
tween The bones without breaking any Of
them. lie is getting along very well, and
can go about on clutches, but it will bc
sometime before he will be able to do duty.


Our men in hospital are all improving
little. Lieut.. Benjamin, who has been sick
for sometime, is getting well very fast, and
will return to duty in few days, think.


Our papers come very irregularly, but
old or new they are always acceptable.


Yours, Tuos G. DRIps.


p. S.-Since writing the above, Corp.
King, Of my company, has arrived in camp,
being the first of those left sick at McGreg
or that have returned. We hope to see
others of those soon.


Mr.. King informed me that Capt. Lief
ingwell put him in possession Of some
valuable information, which enabled him to
arrive here free Of travelling expenses, for
which | feel grateful to him. Please tender
him my heart felt thanks. lie also in
formed Mr.. X. that he would chcerlully
give like information to any one that would
desire it. BY publishing this you will con-
fer favor on your humble servant, and
perhaps help those who have still to return.


Corporal King looks well and feels we'll
We are all rejoiccd to see him restored to
health aud the company.


Yours, T. G.. d.
Year: 1863

most rendered a disgrace to hold. IrScott,
Pope, Mcclellan, Burnside, and others
are all incompetent, the Government must
have been very unskillful in choosing them,
and if there are men in our army Of real
military genius, (of which no one can rea.
sonably doubt,) the Government has been
prominently skillful in Guiding them
Whether the Generals have been at fault or
not, the Government cannot be justified.
Whether it is the effects Of politics or not,
I will leave for others better able to judge
than to decide. 1t is enough to make
soldier or patriot despair of the war ever
being ended with success and honor to our
arms. a true Union man cannot help be.
ing disgusted when he reads most of our
papers. Editors and politicians, Of the two
parties are as bitter towards each other, as
an honest man should be to traitor. When
will these newspapers and party men see
the necessity Of letting party questions -
to the devil? This is question Of en-.
crossing Importance to the soldier, and to
every lover Of the Union, and our nations
honor.


We occasionally got copy Of your val
uable sheet, but hope to SIC it more fire.
qucntly.


The weather is very cold and clear with
over six inches snow on the ground, yes
terday morning the thermometer staid be.
low zero, something very unusual in this
part Of the country.


The health Of the regiment is tolerably
good, no contagious disease.


Yours truly,


CLERNoNr.
Year: 1863

The Turks undoubtedly understand how
20 smoke better than any other nation
They 90 not seem to be harmed by it, since
they live to healthy old age in the con
stant use of the weed but whether harmed
or not, they evidently excel al! other people
in the luxury. We have already remarke ed
that the Turk uses clean clay pipe He
also uses long wooden stem. This is the
important characteristic of the chibouk,
and the theory Of the thirg is this: All
woody tibres, in burning, are decomposed,
giving oil quantities Of oxygen and hydro
grn, which compose water This water
passes Oft in vapor, having in solution the
nicotine and other component parts Of the
tobacco. What is commonly called the
''oil' in pipe is ninety nine hundredth
part water. 1t cannot but be evident that
this hot water, or steam, passing as it does
directly from the fire to the mouth when
one smokes short pipe or cigar, is uncom
Portable, if not unwholcsome. A long
wooden stem, with large bore, is there
fore advantageous in this respect, that il
permits the smoke TO remain in the tube
sometime, before it is tai en- into the mouth.
1t deposits its steam, and lage part of the
nicotine in the wooden tube, and the
smoker takes into his lips dry smoke
The Turks clean these stems daily with
strong coffee. They prefer the wood of the
jessamine or the wild cherry to all others
although they make pipe stems Of every
wood. Indeed it is not uncommon for a
luxurious Turk to send out for the branch
of large rose bush, have his servant bore
the stem with the ever ready gimlet and
string, and then hand the pipe to his guest
blooming with fragrant roses. JeSsa,ains
and cherry stems cos: in the Turkish
tazaars from one to ten and even fifteen
dollars each. 1t is on the stem and mouth
piece that the expense is wasted. Th'
amber mouthpicce is itself costly, choice
amber, milky and delicate in color, being
worth almost its weight in gold in trienta
countries, and the mouthpecc is ornament
I'd with jewels according to the wealth o
the proprietor. Thus mouthpiccc worth
ten or twenty thousand dollars may b.
frequently seen, whilc the bowl Of the pip


IS worth but the tenth Of cent.-N. Y
Journal Of Commerce.
Year: 1863

s- 1t is astonishing to observe how
much Everybody knows. IF only Every.
body's advice had been followed the war
would have been over long ago. If you
seat yourself in a car for little Journey,
you cannot but hear the conversation be.
fore you and behind you, and Everybody
knows everything to that degree that it is


ncomprehensio'e why we have not long
ago done all that we long ago undertook to
do. The movements Of the army Of the
army especially, and the councils Of the
Government, are re erealed in detail to Every
body-while poor Nobody evidently knows
nothing about them
Year: 1863

paign was made ineffective BY deliberate
purpose on the part Of officers subordinate
10 him, to defeat his matured plans
for q victory. They did not want him to
win; and the thousands Of our brave men
who fell on the Rappahannock are so many
victims Of the official Jealousy, if not the
accursed treason, that found fitting
nucleus in the staff, and around the person
ofD1ajor General Mcclellan. We are glad
that one Copperhcad 1as had his fangs
extracted. Now for some more Of the breed
of snakes! Hell is gaping for half hun
drcd Of them.
Year: 1863

News from Washington is yoluminous |
I,o,u tho feet that important dispatches
delayed by the storm at the East came TO |
land 10 swell the lengthy dispatches Of
lest evening. They will be found to cover
an UNUSUAL variety Of interesting g news.
Fitz John Porters shoulder-straps are torn
from his shoulders, and TINT officer iicked
out of the army He was the next friend
10 Mcclellan. Out Of both grew the defeat
If the army under Gen. Pope, and peril
.i4e greatest the Union cause has known in
this war. Both are canonized in the Cop
1,cfhcad calendar, for their skill in the con-
t!uct Of the war after their own peculiar
fashion :


Burnsidc's army is not in motion, and q
battle is unlikely. The whole corps both
Of right and left hare crossed on the pom
looms that have not arrived, the mud being
SO heavy that nothing lower than balloon
can move at all There was heavy fight
ing on the day that Hooker was mortally
wounded, being the same day that the two
Senators spoken Of in our dispatches came
back in disgust at finding no fight at all.
The whole subject seems to be stuck in
mud too deep for the reporters. We have
been only able to decipher our dispatches
10 this extent. Will the army correspond
cnts let public expectation alone until the
time comes?


Brave, direct, stout, true, and honest
Ben, Butler is to 90 back to New Orleans.
Howl, Conservatism, and turn over thy
vocabulary for fresh cpithets. He goes to
nnnish Traitors and set m examnle Of di-
RICHNESS. t1,oronrhness and earnestness Of
rnrnose which re hone Is contagious and
already caught at Headquarters in Wash
ineton. Northern traitors will breathe
freer. Some Of them had begun to believe
Year: 1863

won by the overthrow OF public enemies
Let us stand by each other and the con-
stituted authorities until ali within the
bounds of our country shall either sui
NIT willingly or be compelled to submit
to the Constitution and the laws. Then
the labor of single generation of men
will wipe out all the losses and sacrifices
OF this war, and the Great Republic will
tread again its unexampled march of
progress and liberty. Applause


And now, my friends, in conclusion, l
ask you when you go home to discuss
this among yourselves. Do not be de-
ceived by false pretenses; and think ten
thousand times before you vote for
traitor for Governor of Ohio Long
continued applause.
Year: 1863

A HospITAL INoDENT.-A few days
ago a wounded soldier died in the Ham
mond Hospital at Point Lookout. On
the fly leaf of his Bible was written:


"If 1 die on the field or in hospital,
in the name of humanity write home"
To this was signed his full name and ad-
dress. A lock of his hair was cut off
and laid on the leaf in the Bible, and this
sad relic is the message to his family in
forming him of his death.
Year: 1863

After long and laborious investigation
by scientific men, the true cause of the
potato disease has been ascertained to be
a fungus, which, being first developed on
the leaf, soon affects the plant so as to
produce the blight. Beyond all reasona-
bic doubt it is believed that the potato
never rots without the fungus, and that it
always rots with it. Planting the fungus
on sound potatoes develops the disease,
while those shielded from it are unaffect-
ed. The rot invariably commences where
the fungus starts to grow, each microscop-
ic cell of the tuber becoming discolored
and rotten only when penetrated by the
parasite. ...


During the progress of the investiga-
tion into cause of disease, it was ascer-
tained that the blight could be produced
on healthy potato leaves by sowing the
spores, and causing the fungus to develop
on them. To do this it was merely nee
essary to keep the spore and leaf in suf-
fciently moist place for few hours, to
see with the microscope the fungus devel-
op and the leaf turn yellow and finally
brown, with all the symptoms that are
observed when the disease has occurred
naturally.


Among the experiments related are
those with cut potatoes, in which the dis
ease was artiicially produced on one half
of potatoe, whilst the other remained
unaffected. 1t is further stated that if
the soil of field brown from blight be
microscopically examined there will be
no difficulty in finding spores among the
particles of earth. In proof of the man.
ner in which the mature fungus is carried
into the earth by rains and reaches the
growing tubers, it is related that sound
potatoes buried in sand from one to three
inches deep, over which were laid blighted
potato tops, in all cases became affected
in eleven days, while others buried in a
similar way, but over which no bIighted
tops we're laid, were entirely unaffected.
Year: 1863

SIlvER.-The Alta says that all the people
of that city are interested in silver mines: -
"Not only the capitalist and the banker"
says that journal, "but the Wholesale and the
retail merchant, the lawer and the physician,
the preacher and the editor the carpenter
and the blacksmith, the jeweler and the ho
tel keeper, the talr oand the shoemaker, the
the drayman and the stevedore, the clerk
and the laborer, the milliner the teacher, the
man servant, and the maid servant-al own
shares in some silver mine" When the
whole people become spectators AS the A lta
say the inhabitants of that city are, there is
great certainty that somebody will have to
suffer. No less than $25,oo0,OOO of silver
stock is now owned in that city. According
to the authority from which we quote.
Year: 1863

POLITE JuDGE.-A very polite Judge in
delivering the sentence of the Court TO a sen.
sitive lady who was guilty of mnrder, was
done up in following manner: MADAM.
the Court finds you to be the instrument and
cause of the sudden and premature depart
ure Of your late husband. Therefore on the
18th of the following month, you are to be
taken from your place of confinement to the
place of execution, and there, between the
hours of 8 A. M. and Pm, to be suspended
by the neck until you are deceased deceased!
deceased"
Year: 1863

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little is known in Africa. On arriving at
the age of puberty, if he be freeborn per.
son, the young man finds few wives, the
number in proportion to the means of his
father, awaiting the time Of their espousals;
and to this number he may add any that he
may have fallen in love with in the foolish
nesss of his boyhood; provided they are not
betrothed to another and provided further,
that he is able to pay the required dover,
which varies from five to forty-fve dollars.
If he be slave, he may find one or more
appropriated to him, according to the taste
Of his master; and to these he may add &C
cordng TO his inclination and ability to pur-
chase, and over those purchased he has per-
feet control; but at his death they become
the slaves of his master. The wishes of the
woman are seldom if ever. consulted with.
She is often purchased when still child,
and is told, when old enough to understand
such things that she is to forego all thoughts
of others than the purchaser, and any disre-
gard of this advice is punished as severely
as though the marriage ceremony had already
been performed.


African mothers are fiattered to have suit
ors for their daughters while they are still
young and often dispose of them to the
highest bidder without the least respect to
the appearance, age or character Of the buy
er. The purchaser places string of beads
on the neck Of the girl or child, and in the
case of the death of her mother before the
child is of age, the husband expectant re-
moves her to his home and places her under
the guardianship of an old woman. Some,
times. however, girl is lucky enough to
find herself unsod when overt aiken by the
tender passion. She may then propose-for
it is always leap-year in Africa-and if the
man of her choice has still vacant chamber
In his heart-capaciou hearts these fellows
have-and the means of buying her from
her parents, union is formed on the basis
of mutual attachment. Sometimes be-
trothed girl falls in love, and if the object
of her regard can arrange matters with the
husband by purchase, her marriage with him
is allowed Thi, is often delicate and diff
cult matter; but if her husband is old, or
pretty well supplied the affair is easily con-
summated.


Love, like hunger, will break through a
stone wall; and unlawful amours are con-
stanty occurring, notwithstanding the sever
ity with which adultery is punished. The
punishment of woman, if her husband de-
sires it is mutlation the nose, an ear, or a
finger is taken off; the man, generally is
enslaved to the injured party. There is a
difference in the domestic and social stand,
ing of the wives purchased as slaves and
those received by dover and the consent of
parents. The latter mav leave their hus
bands at at any time, by the restoration OF
the dover with certain interest The form
er are slaves for life; and the children Of
both are the property Of the father. Among
most tribes each wife is furnished with hut
and the families dwell apart, but they are
under the supervision of the head wife, who
is generally an old and, from her position
an influential person.
Year: 1863

No HONEY IN TIME OF WAR.-It is prev
alent belief that bees will not do we'll in time
of war. Three or four gentlemen in our
office on Saturday, each the proprie'ors of
sundry stands, confirmed the popular notion
by their own observation since the war began.
Their bees produce no honey of any conse
quence and fail to swarm. How is it else
where? Eastern PAPER
Year: 1863

The PMos. The Arizona correspondent
OF the Santa Cruz Sentinel:


II was somewhat interested with the works
of the Pimos Indans-their system of irr,
tatlon and agriculture. They are quiet
and Industrious race and very friendly
They raise as fine wheat and corn AS | ever
saw. They have the Roman features of the
pictures have seen of the ancient Mexicans
or Aztecs. There is a marked difference be-.
tween them and any other tribe have seen
or those tribes which are very near them
There are plenty of old ruins in the vicinity
of the Pimo Valley, which are reconed to be
nearly a thousand years DID, and which ind.
cate that they were constructed by a people
of quite high state of civilization. turn
ed oft the road about a quarter Of mile,
and visited the ruins of what is called Casa
Blanca" 1t has the appearance of "A mound
but on close inspection one can trace out
the walls which have separated the rooms
These traces can only be seen by going to
the top of the mounds where they appear
just even with the top Of the ground. | un.
derstand the Indians have some superstition
about it; and SO there is no chance to see
what evidence of an ancient civilized peo,
pie may be sluin bering in its BOSOM
Year: 1863

CREATION OF MAN.-Among the American
Indians exists the following tradition Of the
creation of Man: Gitche Manito, the Great
Spirit made mould in mans shape, and
filled it with clay, and baked it in an oven.
When he turned it out, 10! there was a White
Man! He filled the mould again. and baked
it rather better this time, and thus produced
the Red Man! He was now satisfied with
his work; but the devil who is always up to
mischief, chanced to pick it up, and would
also try his hand at man making. He filled
it up, baked his clay, and turned out-the
Black Man!
Year: 1863

EARTHQUAKE AT MANILA.--The following,
from the Straits Times Overland Mail, is the only
considerable account of the terrible earthquake at
Manila which has been received, ii


On the Sd iustant( June), at halEpast in the
evening, crcumambient flame was seen to arise
from the earth and grid the city Of Manila, and
at the same time most terrific quaking Of the
earth took place. IL lasted scarcely minute, but
in that short space near the whole Of fair Manila
has been reduced to heap of ruins. We believe
that upward Of thousand have been killed, and
many thousands wounded, but it is impossible to
say or TO estimate. Scarcely an edfce has escaped
without dead or wounded. The good priests,
their chorsters and sacristans, and the faithful
who were hearing the vespers Of Corpus Christi,
have been nearly all buried and suffooated under
the ruins of the cathedral and other churches
The only church that has escaped wholly is San
Augustin, the same that withstood the tremendous
shock OF 1915.


The palace, and nearly all the public and private
as well as commercial edlfces, have been ether
thrown down or shaken from their foundstions.
Thank God! not single foreigner has been killed
but two we hear have been seriously hurt, though
not dangerously. The Rodrigues property left to
the British nation, and where the British
Consulate was, has been entirely destroyed, and 10
nothing bufa mass of ruins. The city Is deserted
nearly, for the edifces threaten to fall suddenly
and there may be a repetition. Before the earth
quake took place sulphurous odors were perceived,
rumbling like the fire of ordnance, and then like
the approach Of an immense locomotive and train.
The flame that surrounded the city was seen from
the bay to as,send toward the sky and another,
triple snake one, came from the land over the
water to the shipping, and threw them up at least
two 70 three feet iwhie on shore the earth has
everywhere sunk at least two feet.