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Year: 1862

Of the eight pounds which man eats
and drinks day, it is thought not less
than FIVE pounds leave his body through
the skin And of these FIVE pounds a
considerable percentage escapes through
the night while in bed, The larger part
of this is water, but in addition there is
much effete and poisonous matters.


This belngin great part gaseous IN form
permeates every part Of the bed. Thus,
all parts of the bed, mattrass and blanket
as well as sheets, soon become foul and
need puritication.


The mattrass needs this renovation
quite as much as the sheets. To allow
the sheets to be used without washing or
changing, three to six months, would be
regarded as bad housekeeping; but |
would insist If thin sheet can absorb
enough of the poisonous excretlOns of the
body to make it unfit for use in few
days, a thick mattrass which can absorb
and retain thousand times as much of
these poisonous excretioDs, needs to be
purified as often, certainly, as once in
three months.


A sheet can be washed. A mattrass
cannot be renovated in this way. Indeed
there is no other way Of changing mat
trass but by steaming it, or picking 1t to
pieces, and thus in fragments exposing II
tc the direct rays Of the sun. AS these
processes are scarcely practicable with
any Of the ordinary mattresses, [ am de,
cidedly of the opinion that the good old
fashioned straw bed which can every
three months be changed for fresh straw
and the tick be washed, is the sweetest
and healthest of beds.


In the winter season if the porousness
Of the st.aw bed makes it little uncom,
Portable spread over it comfortable OF
two woollen blankets, which should be
washed as often as every two weeks.
With this arrangement, if you wash all
the bed covering as often as once in two
or three weeks, you will have a delightful
and a healthy bed.


Now, if YOU leave the bed to the air,
windows open during the day, and not
make it up for the night before evening,
you Will have added greatly to the sweet
ness of your rest, and in consequence to
the tone of your health.
Year: 1862

A HIGHER EDUCATION NEEDED BY
EVERY HUMAN BEING.-The common
notion has been that the mass of the peo
pie need no other culture than that nee.
essary to fit them for their various trades
and though this error is passing away, it
is far from being exploded. But the
ground of a mans culture lies in his ma
ture, not in his calling. His powers are
to be unfolded on account Of their inher-
ent dignity. He is to be educated be-
cause he is a man, not because he is to
make shoes, nails, or pins. a trade is
plainly not the great end of his being, for
his mind cannot be shut up in it. x
A mind, in which are sown the seeds of
wisdom, disinterestedncss, frmness of pur-
pose, and piety, is worth more than all
he outwaed material interests Of world.
1t exists for itself, for its own perfection,
and must rot be enslaved to its own or 9TH
ers animal wants
Year: 1862

Hark to the call of the bugles


Hark to the roll Of the drums
Forth for the Union battle,


See what an army comes.
Down from the Alleghenies-


Down through the central gate
Soldiers to guard the Union,


Sons of the Keystone State
Measure them not by hundreds,
Thousands have come that way,
Ready TO die if need be,


Rather tha shun the fray.
Pouring in hosts to the border,


From the early hours till late
These are the troops Of the nation,
Sent by the keystone State.
Pledged for the good Of the country
Pledged to the land of their birth,
Straight from The field and harvest,


Straight from the citizens hearth,
See how they rally in squadrons;


Each other for a mate,
Guarding the Arch Of the Union,
Bound by the Keystone State. .
Look to your drama, We traitors


View your stage with dismay;
And while the curtain is rising,


Down and prepare for the play!
If it is a tragedy bloody,


Picturing to you your hate,
Wait not the acts that's committed


Unto the Keystone State,
Year: 1862

The Boston Courier publishes letter
of correspondent on board the United
States steamer Massachusetts,, off Ship
Island, October 26, giving an account Of
the affair between that vessel and Rebel
steamer; in which the following extraor-
dinary exploit Of a rife cannon ball is
chroncled


During the action I think we hit her
four times, and | know she hit US once
with a 60-pound rife shell lthat is the
way we got the exact size of her rifed
gum. The shell entered on our star
board quarter, just above the iron part Of
the hull; it came through the side ang-
ling aft; Gas we were little abaft his
beam when it struck u.s. and took the
deck in the passage way, between two
state-rooms, and completely cut off eight
cen Of the deck plank, and then struck a
beam, which canted it UP little; Sc that


it took the team-heating pipes under our
dining table. cutting off tive of them, aud
tearing our dining table all to pieces
then went through state room bulkhead
and ceiling of the ship on the opposite
side, and struck one of the outside tim
bers and broke every outside plank abreast
of it short off, from the spar to the gun
deck; it then fell down on to the cabin
deck aud exploded, knocking four state
rooms into one, breaking all the glass and
crockery ware, shattering the cabin very
badly, breaking up the furniture, and set,
ting fire to the ship; but we had three
streams of water upon the fire at very
short notice. and put it out before it did
any damace-keepios up our chase as
though nothing had happened"
Year: 1862

A pedlar called on an old lady to dis
pose of some of his goods and inquired Of
her if she could tell him of any road
which no pedlar had travelled. Yes
said she, II know one and only one, and
that is the road to heaven"
Year: 1862

A Printer whose talents were but in
different, turned physician. He was ask
ed the reason of It, He said "ip print
ing all the faults are exposed to the eye,
but in physic they are buried with the
patient, and one gets off more easily"
Year: 1862

She has no mother What a volume of
sorrowful truth is composed in that single
sentence--no mother We must 20 far
down the hard, rough, uneven paths of life,
and become Injured to care and sorrow in the
sternest form before we take home to our
experience the dreadful reality--No MOTHER
without struggle. But when it is said
OF fran young girl, just passing from child.
hood toward the life of woman, how sad is
the story summed up in that one short SEN
tence. Who shall administer the needed coun.
sel-who shall check the wayward fancies-
who shall bear with the errors and failing of
the motherless girl?


Dcal,gcntly with the child. Let not the
cup Of sorrow be oyeriillcd by the harshness
oi your bearing, or your unsympathizing
ccoidness. Is she needless in her doings !?
Is she careless in her movements? Re
member, oh, remember she has no mother |!
When her. companions are gay and joyous,
does she sit sorrowing? Does she pass with
downcast eye and languid step, when you
would iain witness the gushing of youth +?
Chlde her not, for she is motherlcss and
the great sorrow comes down upon her soul
like an incubus. Can you gain her conf
dence-can you win her love? Come, then,
to the mothcrless, with the boon of your
tendercst care and by the memory of your
mother already passed away-by the posi-
bllity that your own child may be mother
less. far al y,,., may 4, relieve
the loss of that fair, fair child, who is writ
ten 'mothcrlcss.
Year: 1862

The CRUSHED PIANT.-A gentleman was
walking in beautiful garden, and he took
great pains not to tread upon, nor in any way
injure any of the flowers. While he was
walking from place to place, having his at
tention fixed on snowy flowers, he trod on
rare and very beautiful plant that just
lifted its lonely head above soil


Thus il often happens in this world, that
the great, perhaps worthless ones of the
earth arc treated with attention, while the
worthy are forgotten or trodden under foot.
BE careful not to commit this fault. BE on
the lookout for modest merit. DO not,
through carelessness, treat il with neglect.
Do not become SO much interested in those
who are rich, who live in splendor and oc-
cupy high stations, that you forget the poor
who may have far stronger claims On your
attention, who may DO iarmofe worthy Of
your regard.
Year: 1862

EDITORIAL DIGNITY.-Here is the best
paragraph on editorial dignity which we can
purloin from the purloiners: Editors are
sometimes dignified. We know of some
that are excessively so; they print exclusive
ly for our church; they walk soberly and
cautiously the same old threaabare express
ions from day to day, frem year to year. If
man lies, they say he is laboring under a
wrong impression. They never know or
state anything positively--they ''opine."
The glorious sunshine fun entereth not in
to their souls. They seem to re-
gard . newspaper as they would coffin
"a very grave matter, and so move slowly
and lugubriously forward, treading gently
on the decayed eggs of humbug folly and
rascality, ignoring the bright side of life,
but always printing dignifed papers.
Year: 1862

AN English editor makes the following
sweeping assertion :-"What man and
never in love Pshaw he must have heart
of ice soul as lilelcss as corn-cob, the
gizzard of a goose, and head As sappy as a
cocoa nut p
Year: 1862

Oh Lord, thou knowest that this thing of
praying is altogether out of my line. and as
hard for me to do as for Wigfall TO keen
sober, or jeff. Davis to be made pay his
debts, or Floyd to keep from stealing. But
thou knowest We are some on tangle foot
whisky, good at horse racing and tip TOP at
poker, and can hold four aces about as often
as John Morgan, ''or any other man. -
Help us this day, for We are in peck of
trouble, AMI it will be the last time I'm ever
trouble you. AMEN!
Year: 1862

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 1862.


EDITORS OF THE PRESS 1t having been
announced through the public journals that
Major Mann had been dismissed from the serv-
ice on account of absence without leave, /
deem 1t but an act of justice to the Major,
and his numerous friends in Maine, that brief
statement Of the facts and circumstances con-
nected with the affair, should be made public.
The Major received despatch from Maine on
Monday, the day he left Washington, notify
ing him that it was necessary for him TO visit
Portland, to attend to some very important
business, involving pecuniary interest of con-
siderable Importance to himself The Major
at once applied to the Paymaster General for
permission TO be absent for few days, and
was there informed that furloughs in the Pay
Department could be granted only by the Sec
retary of War. He then went to the War OF.
nee, but Secretary Stanton and others connect
ed with the office were SO busiy engaged that
his matter could not be attended to. Major
Mann then consulted with several of the old
paymasters here, and they all, with one accord,
expressed the opinion that no possible injury
TO the public service could be inflicted by an
absence of few days The Major was in
formed the very day he left Washington, by
the Paymaster General, that probably no funds
for the payment of troops would be furnished
for some time. Indeed, there was no evidence
whatever that his services as Paymasterwould
be needed till long after the time he had ap-
pointed to return. He was absent but three
days and half, and when he returned he
found that his name had been reported to Sec
retary Stanton, and that in consequence of be-
ing absent without leave he had been dismissed
from the service.


The Major drew up brief statement of his
case and presented, it to Major Fry, Paymaster
General, who very cordially endorsed the pa
per to Secretary Stanton, adding that he hoped
the paper would receive the Secretarys most
Mann conld be restored, he had no doubt he
would make most efficient officer, As soon
as Secretary Stanton, in the multiplicity OF his
business, reached the case he ordered that
Major Mann be reinstated. Such are the cir
cumstances of the Majors case, as related by
persons of reliable authority. l may add that
my acquaintance with Major Mann enables me
to say that no officer in the service desires
more sincerely to perform faithfully every du-
ty pertaining to his Office and no officer would
be more reluctant to do an injury to the pub
lie service. Major Mann is held in the highest
estimation by all the officers of the Pay De-
partment and by all who have had the pleas
ure Of forming his acquaintance since he has
been in the service, and / have had occasion
to know that his restoration is regarded by
those who, under strict sense of military du-
ty, were Obliged to report him, as an acts OF
perfect justice which the circumstances of his
case clearly warranted, and that it gives them
much pleasure to greet Major Mann once
more, as one of the most efficient and manly
Psymasters in the service.


Truly &C., w.
Year: 1862

THE SLAVERY ORGAN IN MAINE.-The
Portland Advertiser, under the editorial man
agement of Mr.. +. O. j. Smith, its proprietor,
(Mr. Case, the editor, being absent.l has with
in few days past taken open ground in sup
port of the proprety and expediency of Alri-
can slavery-adopting the Southern idea that
as the colored race is. on the whole, inferior to
the white race, therefore the Creator intended
that the former should be always held in subor-
dination or practical slavery by the latter
This is precisely the argument by which the
Southern shareholders defend their position.
that human slavery is "divine institution"
We must confess that we never expected to
see the old Advertiser prostituted to the SER
vice of slavery, much less to see it thus OPEN
ly insult the Tree sentiment OF the North
viii the people of Portland continue to sup
port an open-mouthed slavery organ p Ban-
gor Wing.
Year: 1862

New YORK, Sept 27.
A rumor from Washington says the Presi-
dent contemplates issuing proclamation max
ing Florida cotton plantation, inviting labor
ers, black and white, to settle there for that
purpose, who will have ample protection from
the army and navy; the State Constitution to
be put aside temporarily, and Florida reduced
to a territorial condition. This movement is
said to be preliminary to the policy to be
States.


Reports from Apalaehicola say that two
rebel iron-clad gunboats are nearly ready for
sea, under the command of Catesby Jones,
who says he will sink every gunboat on the
Gulf coast
Year: 1862

h'uuc thtil ne HIS III fdisliS cuTTanlS. lie Is
prepared to furnish vines or roots to order,a and
recommends that they be set out in the fall


gg- If any of 'our friends on the Kenne-
bee think it bad policy to tell the truth in re-
lation to political opponent, or TO be fair and
courteous towards neighbor who may hap
pen to adopt different creed or to worship at
different shrine, all is, "we don't see it in
that light We have never known success to
come of unmanliness; we have never known
any thing worth possessing to be lost by hon
orable and high-minded treatment of oppo-
nents; we have never known any good come
of treating men suspiciously and shabbily
may do something that we can't approve
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof"


sY- Saturday we made brief visit to
Camp Abraham Lincoln-the first time the
writer of this had been on the ground-and
we were most agreeably disappointed in the
appearance of the troops. A finer set of men
have never been mustered in this or any other
State. They were getting impatient to be
mustered into the U. S. service. Inactivity is
not the element for our Maine boys. Colonies
Fessenden and Virgin were exercising their
commands in regimental drill and we under
stand that they give promise of being exceed
ingly popular with their men. Col. Tapley-
of whom we hear an excellent report-we did
not see. Col Fessenden has had experience.
and is every inch soldier. On the ground
we saw our honored OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
thing that concerns the weltnre of the army.
He has two sons now in the service, and u
third recently fell on the battlefield at Centre
vile.
Year: 1862

1t is seldom that we publish an article
which it is necessary to continue from
one number to another ON account of its
length; the following treatise on modern
military tactics, which we copy from the
Southern Literary Messenger for January,
1858, is, however, so clear and compre-
hensive, and withal so full Of interest in
this season of "grim-visagea war,"-and
particularly interesting for having ema-
mated from locality which is now the
capital of the revolted States,-that we
have determined to give it place in this
and our next issue, and assure our read
ers that 1T will amply repay the trouble
of keeping the numbers together, that it
may be read, and if desired, preserved
entire. Many improvements in military
science have been made since this was
written, even, the details of which, we
hope, will be presented in q form equally
as acceptable to the general reader as the
Year: 1862

AN ACT to amend the law in reference to the


sale of intoxicating liquors.


81. BE it enacted by the General As
semby Of the State ct' b,ca, That no
privilege claimed by any person to sell
intoxicating liquors, granted pursuant to
the provisions of Chapter l57 of the acts
of the Sixth General Assembly of the
State Of Iowa. shalt continue to be in
force more than sixty days after this act
takes effect.


s.. That all such permissions hereaf-
ter issued by virtue of said act, shall
specify the house 10 which intoxicating
liquors may be sold by virtue of the
same, and the length Of time the same
shall be in force, which in 20 case shall
exceed twelve months


SO. The account book of purchases
and sales required by the third section Of
said recited act, to be kept by any per-
son having or obtaining said privileges,
SHALL at all times, be subject to the in
spection of the Sheriff or any Constable
or Marshall, and of all Justices of the
Peace of the county, and shall be pro-
duced by the party keeping the same, to
be used as evidence on the trial CT any
prosecution against him, or against liq-
uors alleged to have been seized from him
or his house, on notice duly served that
the same will be required as evidence.


S4 When any person, resident Of the
county, shall file written information,
on oath, before any county judge, charg-
ing any one now holding, or who may
hereafter hold such privilege, with viola
ting said act, either by failing to keep a
correct record of purchase or sale, or by
making false entries in such record or ac-
count, or by selling colorably, and under
pretence of complying with the law, but
substantially in violation thereof, or when
any sheriff, constable, or marshal of the
county, shall, in his official character,
make, sign, and file such written informa.
ton, it shall be the duty of the county
Judge to issue his notice to the accused,
to appear before him in court, at a time
fixed, to show cause why his permit should
not be vacated;and for the purpose of trial,
either party may have witnesses summon
ed as in other cases.


The defendant may answer the com
plant or charge, and the county court,
either in default, or in answer, or on find
ing any of the charges sustained by proof,
shall revoke the permission to the party
to sell liquor, and shalr adjudge the de-
fendant to pay the costs; and no person
whose permission shall be revoked by tho
county court, shall be capable OF holding
such privilege sgain within this state for
the spsos Of two yesrs thereafter
Year: 1862

II We were led to believe by dispatch
es from Springfield that many Of the OBJ
:, nolous and odious provisions Of
tbe Egyptian Constitution had been
stricken out during the last days Of
the Convention. But we are sorry
to find that such is not the case. Its bad
features realize our worst feats, while It's
good ones fall far short of our reasonable
expectations. The people are sold" But
the remedy is still in their hands. Vote it
f7nxs-u
Year: 1862

FEAR OF DEATu.-There are per.
SONS whose dread Of death is so in
tense that they cinnot enjoy life.-
They are vainly told that it is IRA.
tionsl to be continually disquieted
about an event common to all, and
that cannot be aver:eJ. Because it
ia inevitable they shudder and turn
pale at the thought oft. This NOR.
bid foar Of the change is no. confined
to those who have most cause for ap.
prehension. 1t is shared by many
whose consciencos are void of OF.
fcnse. Even pious men are some.
times haunted by a vague horror OF
tho universal doom; and in como
cases their terror takes the form of
mania, and its victims throw them.
selves unbdden into the arms OF the
spectre, AS if drawn to its dread EN-


brace by an irresistible fascination.
The best method Of dealing with
this ghastly form Of hypochondriasis,
is not to attack it with reason and
philosophy, since the sum OF all that
logic can say upon the subject is the
hackneyed truism, that what cannot
be prevented should be faced man
fully. The promises of the Gospel,
understandingly and trusttnIly read
aud applied, are the only panacea
Tor such gloomy forebodings.
Year: 1862

The following passage, written by Lord
Auckland, when Ambassador at Madrid,
some seventy years ago, would scarcely
require to be changed, were the date al
tered to the present time:


off you go into booksellers shop and
buy ten or twelve books, no lnducement
will make him send them home; and he
will rather return my money to me. IF a
servant is sent to buy twelve pounds of
sugar, the woman Of the shop says, Have
you brought something to put it n?' If
the servant answers No. she quietly puts
the sugar away, and wishes you good
morning, for it is not her business to fur
nish paper; and this same Indifference
goes through every branch of trade.


"One Of my servants, a few days ago,
carried slipper to be mended the shoe
maker told him that it was his business
to make and mend shoes, and nothing
would induce him to touch the slipper !;
and the stay-maker employed for the chill
dren, refused to alter some stays made
for them at Paris; he said that, as he had
not made them, it was not his business to
mend them. If you want a looking-glass,
you must buy the plate at Ildefonso; /;
you must next send it to one part of
Madrid to be silvered, and to another
to be gilded. All this trouble is given to
you with perfect civility, and by poor
creatures who are in extreme want of
money, which they will not take, because
they will not go one step out of the beat
en- track; and the consequence is, that a
great part of the business is done by bad
manufacturers here; for the prejudices are
such that Protestants have little encour-
agement. @
Year: 1862

CUR1osITIEs OF NATURE.--Among the
papers published in costly style by the
Smithsonian Institute at Washington, is
one on the microscopic plants and ami
mails which live on and in the human
body. The animal which produces the
disease called itch, is illustrated by an
engraving half an inch in diameter, which
shows not only the ugly little fellows
body and legs, but his very toes, although
the animal himself is entirely invisible to
the naked eye.


When Lieut.. Bergman was sounding
the ocean, preparatory to laying the At
lantic telegraph, the quill at the end of
the sounding line brought up mud, which,
on being dried, became a powder SO fine
that on rubbing it between the thumb
and finger it disappeared in the crevices
of the skin. On placing this dust under
the microscope, it was discovered to con-
sist of millions of perfect shells, each Of
which had living animal. a r
Year: 1862

DON'T STAND STILL,-If you do you
will be run over. Motion action--pro-
gress-these are the words which now gil
the vault Of heaven with their stirring
demands, and make humanity's heart pull
safe with stronger bound. Advance, or
stand aside; do not block up the way and
hinder the career of others there is too
much to do to allow inaction anywhere or
in any one. There is something for all
to do; the world is become more and
more known-wider in magnitude, closer
in interest, more loving and more eventful
than Of old. Not in deeds Of daring; not
in the cnsanguined field /; not ID blood,
and tears, and gloom, but in the leaping,
vivifying, exhilirating impulses Of the
better nature of the soul. Reader, are
you doing your part in this work