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Year: 1861

Instead of reaping harvest through the
present war says the New York Journal Of
Commerce, the indications are everywhere
palpable that the press feels its effects fnju-
riously, if not to the disastrous extent suffer
ed by most other branches OF business. We
have the names Of some thirty newspapers
that have suspended publication from various
causes within the past month; and since our
means Of Information are solely through the
medium of our limited exchange list, it is
reasonable to infer that these are but a
traction Of the ngabe- Of newspaper suspen-
siOns throughout the country, North and
South. Probably the actual number is be-
tween one and two hundred. OF those that
survive, the greater portion have either re-
daced the size OF their sheets, or raised the
price per copy, or the annual subscription
Price. Doubtless efforts have been made by
=allto curtaii expenses, in various ways. Few
who read the daily news have any conception
of-the immense expenses incident to the pub
Hoation of daily paper at the present time.
The single item of telegraphic dispatches, as
furnished to the Associated Press is in itseli
a modest fortune The receipts of a news.
paper must-indeed be lergo-to place great
profits in the pockets Of its publishers. We
Opine that contracts for the army supplies
are in many cases more remuneraiive, and
that editors are not to be.engied above othel
persons.
Year: 1861

A SPIRITED WoMAN.-The Washington
correspondent Of the Philadelphia Press
tells a good one of woman in the interior
of Pennsylvania, now at the former city,
who hearing Of the shameful manner in
which the troops from that State have been
treated, went to the portrait of a high pub
lie funetionary, wbica was hanging on the
wall Of her room, and shivered the affair
with q blow of her fist. The husband of
this woman had written to her, that owing
to the shame he felt at being in the service
of the great Keystone, he thought some Of
procuring q discharge and going home.
She replied, Don't you do it; you would
bs disgraced. would rather 60 South to
the battlefield, and gather up your bones.
| he didn't 90 E1ehanQe
Year: 1861

BLACK VS. GREEN TEAs-Since the great
advance in green teas, public attention has
been a good deal directed TO the use of black
teas, which have not been affected by the
rise in green. Apart altogether from the
question of saving by using black tea, we
believe medical men generally recommend
the use of black tea in preference to green as
being more wholesome. This subject is we'll
worth attention. as tea is one of our staple
articles Of consumption.
Year: 1861

from which mankind suffer over large part of the plobe is the consequence of diseased action in the system, induced by the poisonous nasln of vegetable decay. This exhalation is evolved by the action of solar heat wet soil, and rises with the watery yapor from it. While the sun is below the horizon this yapor fingers near the earths sur face and the virus is taken with it through the lungs into the blood. There acts as an irritating poison on the internal viScera and excreting organs of the body The liver becomes torpid and fails to secrete not only this virus, but also the bile from the blood Both the virus and the bile accumulate in the circulation, and produce violent constitu- tonal disorder The spleen, the kidneys, and the stomach sympathize with the liver, and become disordered also. Finally, the instinct of our ganism, as if in an attempt to expel the noxious infusion, concentrates the whole blood of the body iu the internal sxoretores to force them to cast 1t out. The blood leaves the surface, and rushes to the central organs with cengestiye violence. This is the CHILL. But in this effort it fails. Then the FEVER follows, in which the blood leaves the cen- tral organs and rushes to the surface, as if in another effort to expel the irritating poison through that other great excretory -the skin. In this also it fails and the system ahandons the attempt exhausted and waits for the recovery of strength to repeat tse hopeless effort another day. These are the fits or paroxysms of FEVER AND AGuE. Such constitutional disorder will of course under mine the health if 1t is not removed.

 We have laiorsd to find. and have found, an ar+;dofe
Year: 1861

TIE EFFECT OF SHOT on VEssELs-A shot
does no, make q hole of its own size right
through wood but indents It, the 6bres SPRING
ing back after the shock. Generally, the course
Of the shot only can be traced with wirs
sometimes by hole as large asa man's finger.
The damage most often happens in the inside sf
vessel, in splintering and breaking the wood.
after the main force OF The shot is spent. Forts
Hamilton and Richmond which are about
mile apart, with a vessel lying between them
could not with their guns, send shot through
two feet of is Iimbers. There is rarely an
instance where ship was sunk by solid shot.
Hot shot and shells do the mischief. The
latter will sometimes max. apertures of sey-
eral feet in oxtent through the sides Of Vess.
es,
Year: 1861

A few years ago German got out to Peru
a few hives Of bees, an insect formerly unknown
there. The first year he obtained plentiful
supply of honey, but year by year it decreased,
until the animal will hardly collect any. And
Why! The climate is SO equitable that flow-
srs can be had all the year round, and the
sagacious animals having discovered this fact,
have evidently lost the instinct of hoa riding
honey for winter that never comes.
Year: 1861

DANGER NEAR.-A French philosopher pre-
uicts that the accumulation Of ice at the South
role will eventually tip up the earth, bring
ing new continents to light and deluging the
old' The Frenchman announces that this
unfortunate event will take place FIVE thou
sand years hence.
Year: 1861

A FRIEND gave Garrick cane, containing
razor and other sha ling utensils, telling
him at the same time he would find some
other pretty little things in it. IL hope
said Garrick. that one of them is a pretty
little barber"
Year: 1861

That times very hard, and money very tight
That the people have not ork, and in bad plight
And that for Carpets and CrOckey they cannot pay high
And that, fo1 ali extras, they must pass them by:
Of this and other matters the people they complain,
And it makes me feel sad to their faces filled with


pain:-
And II by selling cheapif this will make them SMILE
Therefore have concluded without regard to cost, to


sell
All my Kitchen Goods Cutlery and Carpets as well;
Also my Croekery and Glass Ware at discount am


selling,
With Hrooms and Bru'hes, and everything all cannot


be telling


Therefore ladies and gentlemen, GUY upon this


invitation.
Fer have full supply of House Furnishing Goods at
tits located III the Bay State Block, at the Poets


ner.
Here have good Stock of Goods and as ceaD as any,


upon my honor
Now come one and all, buy your goods and times


for better will change,
And your money is little 1t will hold out if you buy at


the Poetca Exchange.
And should my capital the end Of the be light
Why then here is energy and ambition wich is in tor the


fight,
Forfe 4 battle field, and if do right my customers


will rally.
And we can put flight hard times, with vigorous


sally.
And in conclusion, my customers thank for the avors


that are past;
Also, for those which am receiving in the way of pat


ronage-lnay it always last
n B.-lhe people respectfully invited TO call at
the Foetca Exchange, and examine my Goods, which
are new and of the latest pattern.
iele diff ORS0N N HEATH.
Year: 1861




The Baltimore American pays the following
handsome tribute to the Union sentiment OF this
State:


"Indeed, no matter what the mystiications OF
Democratic party politics in former times, there
never was an hour in her history when the de-
votioD of Virginia to the Union Was not the
most prominent and unmistakable feature of her
political character. This magnificent loyalty to
the Union has always stood out IN Vlrgiuia pol
itics like her own Peaks of Otter above the sur
rounding mountains The Uuon was the first
born child OF this illustrious Mother of States.-
It was born of her patriotism, it has grown
strong and glorious under her training. George
Washington himself was not more truly and etn-
phatically Virginia production than was the
American Union. She first conceived the idea
of the present form of government; she hrst sug-
gested, and led the way to the conference which
set the ball in motion; she was the pioneer OF
the whole movement; she was the founder, the
expounder, the en1ower of this Government
And can this Mother of the Union, more unnat
ural than wild beasts, more self.stultifying than
iuDatics, be expected to turn upon and rend and
devour her own offspring? This Union she has
illustrated by her greatest names-it is Identified
with Washington, who is at once the chief glory
of Virginia and of America; with Marshall, the
most resplendent lulninary of Virginia and OF
America in law with Jefferson, first OF Repub-
lican statesmen; with Madison, whose luminous
and cogent vindications of the Constitution will
live as, long as that instrument itself; with an
interminable and immortal roll of statesmen and
soldiers such as no other Commonwealth in A
merica can boast. She has thus tar found both
glory and safety in the Union, and now, at this
decisive hour, 10 the amazing unanimity of her
action with reference to the Convention, she
proclams with the blast of a trumpet that she is
UNION
Year: 1861

1t is most fearful fact to think of, that in ev.
cry heart there is some secret spring that would
be weak at the touch Of temptation, and that is
liable to be assailed. Fearful and yet salutary
TO think OF; for the thought may serve to keep
our moral nature braced. 1t warns us that we
can never stand at ease or lie down in this field
OF life, without sentinels of watchfulness and
camp-fres of prayer.
Year: 1861


The sunsets sweet and holy blush,


Is imaged in the sleeping stream,
All natures deep and solemn hush


Is like the silence of q dream;
And peace seems brooding like dove,
Ger scenes to musing spirits dear
Sweet Mary, tits the hour of love,


And were blest if thou vert here.
The myriad flowers of every hue
Are sinking to their evening rest,
Each with timid drop of dew,


Soft folded to its sleeping breast;
The birds within yon silent grove
Are dreaming that the spring is near
Sweet Mary, tits the hour of love.
And were blest If thou vert here.
On yon white cloud the night wind furls
Its lone and dewy wing to sleep,
And the sweet stars look out like pearls
Through the clear waves of fheaven's blue deep
The pale mists float around, above,
Like spirits of holir sphere
Sweet Mary, tbs the hour of love,


And were blest if thou vert here.
The pale full moon, in silent pride,


Der yon dark wood is rising now.
AS lovely as when by thy. side


saw 1t shining on thy brow;
It lights the dew-drops Of the grove,


As hopes bright smiles light beauty's tear
Sweet Mary, tits the hour of love, M


And were blest If thou vert here.
ALI as muse, strange, wild thrill.


Steals DER the fbres of my frame
A gentle presence seems to fill


My heart with love and life and flame;
feel thy spiri. round me move,


know thy soul is lowering near
Sweet Mary, It's the hour of love,
4 And | am blest, for thou art here.
Year: 1861

CONE, IT WILL.-Manhood will come, and old
age will come, and the very last look you shall
ever cast upon your acquaintance will come, and
the agony of the parting breath will come, and
the time when you are stretched lifeess corpse
before the eyes Of weeping relatives will come,
and the coffin that is to enclose you will come,
and that hour when the company assemble to
carry you to the churchyard will come, and that
minute when you are put down into the grave
will come, and the throwing in of the loose dirt
into the narrow house where you laid, and
the spreading of the green sod it ALL all will
come on every living creature and in a few lit
tie years the people who now listen will be car
ried to their long homes, and make room for an
other generation. Yes, the day of final reckon
ing win come, and the appearance of the Son of
God in heaven, and His mighty angels around
Him, will come, and the standing of men of all
generations before the judgment-seat will come,
and the solemn passing Of that sentence which is
to fix you for eternity will come.


a s 1896 DIR. Chalmers.
Year: 1861

The RELIGION OF PAYING DEBrs.-The follow
ing remarks from two contemporary papers, con-
tain lesson worthy of serious consideration:


ssMen may sophistcate as they please. They
can never make it right, and all the bankrupt
laws in the universe cannot make it right for
them not to pay their debts There is a sin in
this neglect clear and deserving Church disci-
pline as is stealing or false swearing. He who
violates his promise to pay, or withholds pay
ment of debt when it is in his power to meet
his engagement, ought to be made to feel that in
the sight of all honest men he is swindler.-
Religion may be very comfortable cloak under
which to hide but if religion does not make a
man deal justly, it is not worth having"


Good every word. So if you owe anybody a
cent? and have cent in your possession, go and
pay it, Ifyou have none, go work, dig, ditch,
plow, work any honest work, until you get it
and pay it out. You will breathe freer, sleep
easier, eat and digest better. You will honor
and love all men and women.
Year: 1861

MoRE VIRGINIA GAsooNADE.-The Rich
mond (Va.) Examiner says; Virginia has
suffered previously from the delusion she
cherished SO long respecting the temper OF
the Northern people. She slept three months
upon danger against which she ought to
have been for three months making the most
active preparation. She has now TO do pre-
cipitately at great cost, and with hazardous
imperfectioU, what she might have done de-
liberately, perfectly and economically. All
her present great work Of preparation for
war has been commenced within a week; and
the consequent confusion, chaos and precipt'
fancy must sooner or later result in priVation,
suffering and heavy loss. '


On the other hand, the North in her delu-
sion respecting the weakness Of the South is
preparing a heavy crop Of suffering for her
soldiers, Of which the fate Of the Boston and
New York regiments Is but foretaste


Nothing could be more disastrous than the
collision of a fierce aud warIike yeomanry
with horde Of raw and undisciplined troops
having no other claim TO the title Of soldiers
than their uniforms and their plumes.


The more of such troops they precipitate
upon The South, the more food they will give
TO our Rultures, the more manure they will
! furnish for our battle fields. The worst gen
eraship known to military science is that
which undertakes the enemy. The general
! ship Of the North has begun the war with
this fatal blunder, and they will not be able
to retrieve il before many thousands of their
men are lost ar d until, possibly, the issue Of
the contest shall be determined. sf.
Year: 1861

MONTREAL BANKs.-As there ia large amount
Of Canadian currency going into circulation here
at the present time, It is important to know the
standing OF the various banks current in Montreal,
we annex the following abatement Of the value Of
tho shares OF each:
Year: 1861

On reading the descr ption of the scene il
he camp, at Springfield, when the order came
or his removal. 1.-The General spent much
f the afternoon expostulating with the Off
ers, and urging them by their patriotism auc
heir personal regard for him not to abandon
heir posts"


Fremont, Fremont, thy native land


Has wronged herself in striking thee,
Thou patriot strong, thou leader bold,


Whose name was pledge of victory.
a million hearts now bowed with grief,


Yet in their sorrow proudly thrill,
To see thee, in this ordeal, prove


All they believed thee-noble still.
Serene thou art, for truth is strong;


And clear will shine thy loyal name,
When they whose hate has sown thick dlsst


Are lost to sight, or linked with shame.
And when upon our waiting ears,


The joyful song Of peace shall fall,
And freedom, in this second birth,


Become the glorious boon of all;
In lowly homes with tender pride,


Shall grateful lips repeat thy name,
While thy enfraRchised country twines,


For thee her greatest wreath of fame.
WEST GROVE, Pa. P.
Year: 1861

Ye who listen 10 stories told,


When hearths are CHEEKY and nights are cold
OF the lone wood-side, and the hungry pack
That howls on the fainting travellers track
FIame-red eyeballS that waylay


Nv the wintry moon, the belated Sleigh
The lost child sought in the dismal wood,
The little shoes and the stains of blood
On the trampled snow,-O We that hear
With thrills of pity or chills of fear,
Wishing some angel had been sent
To shield the hapless and innocent,-
Know We the 6end that is crueller far
Than the gaunt gray herds of the forest are
Swiftly vanish the wild feet tracks
BEFORE the rifle and woodlands axe:
Bat bark to the coming of unseen feet,
Pattering by night through the city street



Lives spectre and haunts the town.
By square and market they stink and prowl,
In lane and alley they leap and howl.
All night they snuff and snarl before
The poor patched window and broken door.
They paw the clapboards and claw the latch
At every crevice they whine and scratch.
Their tongues are subtle and long and thin,
And they lap the living blood within.
lev keen are the teeth that tear,
Red as ruin the eyes that glare.
Children crouched in corners cold
SILVER in tattered garments old,
And start from sleep with bitter pangs
At the touch of the phantomS' viewless fangs
Weary the mother and worn with strife,
Still she watches and fights for life.
But her hand is feeble, and weapon small
One little needle against them all
In evil hour the daughter fed
From her poor shelter and wretched bed.
Through the city's pitiless solitude
To the door of sin the wolves pursued.
Fierce the father and grim with want,

His heart is gnawed by the spcctres gaunt
Frenzied stealing forth by night,
With whetted knife. to the desperate fight,
he thought to strike the spectres dead,
But he smtes his brother man instead.
q you that listen 10 stories told,
When hearths dre CHEEKY and nights are cold
Weep no more at the tales you hear,
The danger is close and the wolves are near.
Shudder not at the murderer's name,
Marvel not at the maidens shame.
Pass not by with averted eye


Aue uOOE WHERE kI4C SlIIChCu CAIluISH u
But when the beat of the unseen feet
Sounds by night through the stormy street.
Follow thou where the spectres glide;
Stand like Hope by the mothers side
And be thyself the angel sent
To shield the hapless and innocent.
He gives but little who gives his tears,
He gives his best who aids and cheers.
He does we'll in the forest wild
Who slays the monster and saves the child
But he does better, and merits more,
Who drives the wolf from the poor mans door
Year: 1861

The readers Of THE TRIBUNE are already aware
that the Union cause has triumphed in tho recent
election in Maryland, yet they will hardly have an
tcipsted the sweeping extent of the victory. The
returns, as far as received are as follows;
Year: 1861

OLD ABE BLACKS HIS OWN Doors.
A correspondent of the Tribune,
in his great admiration Of old Abe,
gets off the following gossip about
his private amuscments:


Perhaps it is not known as much
as it ought to be, that the President
elect is in the habit of acting as his
own servant, ,;blacl>ing his own boots
and brushing his own clothes, and
that he will not allow himself to be
served. He intends to adhere to
this habit also at the White House.
/ cannot imagine the beautiful eff
feet of the contrast, if one day the
English or French Ambassador
should pay him visit, earl y in the
morning, and find him at the back
door of the White House engaged
in polishing his brogans, with the
profound air of a freeman, sclt-dc-
pcndent and self-reliant. Such a
man we need, in order to brush and
scrub the puffed-up aristocrats oi
the South, and extract a little Of the
dust from their jackets.
Year: 1861

The recently issued address of the Breck-
inridge State Central Committee is thus
commented OH 10y the Calaveras Chronicle
once strong Breckinridge journal:


The wlIdle tone and spirit of the address
is but false sympathy for those who m,e in
open rebellion against the laws OF the Unied
states; and emanating as it does from those
who were instrumental in the breaking up
OF the Democratic party, it will be very apt
10 command the respect of those Democrats
who nobly stood by the organization and the
champion of their principles, against the very
leaders that this wing Of the party then sup
ported.
Year: 1861

wuA4 ARE WE MADE FoRs-The following
suggestive article is from the pen Of Diver Wen
dell Holmcs:r ,Hals t af


If the reader Of this paper lives another year,
his self-conscious principles will have migrated
from his present tenement to another, the raw
material even of which are not yet put together.
portion of that body which is to be, will ripen
in the corn Of next harvest Another portion
of his future person he will purchase for him,
headed up in the form Of certain barrels Of po-
tatoes. A third fraction is yet to be gathered
in the Southern rice field. The lirlbs with
which he is then to walk will be clad with flesh
borrowed from the tenements of many stalls
and pastures, now unconscious of their doom.


The very organs of speech with WHICH pc
talks so wisely, plesds so eloquently, or speaks
SO effectively, must serve bis humble brethrer
TO bleat, to below, and for all the varied utter
ance of tristled or feathered barn-yard life
His bones themselves arc, to 2 great extent ~
posse and not esse. 4 bag Of phosphate lime
which he has ordered for his grounds, contains


large part Of what is To be his skeleton. An,
more than all this, by far the greater part o. IA


body is nothing al all but water-the pain sub
stance Of his scattered members is to be looke'
for ID the reservoir, in the running streams
the bottom Of the well, in the clouds that fioa
over his head, or diffnsed among them all. z'il.
Year: 1861

Wv learn through friend from Hsrnctt County,
that the secession feeling is largely the increase
and that If vote were taken now in that county
she would cast her voice for secession whereas if it
had beeu put to . vote three weeks or . month
since the Cnionixt would have triumphed. THE IL
rrliab1- and the gentleman from whom got the
information has vet missed in his estimate Of
Harnett ssntiments,-th!s We know
Year: 1861

| l. hAu tAV pAC0SAiC VI al lulIOUuCllOu.
this morning, with the Florence Nitin-
gale Of America-Miss Dix. She is
moving round on the errahd of love as
an angel Of mercy. She has an efficient
corps Of nurses and is a woman herself of
great intelligence as well as self sacrifice
and patriotism. The blessings of the
unfortunases who need hospital aid and
the thanks of her country are and should
be lavishingly bestowed upon her. Her
name and praise are in almost every SOL
diers mouth.


They are daily expecting battle at
Manassas Gap, and we've been informed
that this would be the principal surgical
hospital; that in view of its being so
near the Potomac river, If a battle oc-
cured, the wounded would be brought
here. Hence there will be good deal
Of surgery in this hospital. | have been
assigned the responsible but enviable
position of first assistant here. The hos.
pital is not yet opened and there are a
great many things to get ready. 1t will
be in two or three days They had an
engagement at, or rather took possession
of Fairfax g. H., yesterday. 1t is the
current belief that they will not fight
that they will prove their right to the
tide of F. T. VS." Fleet Footed Vir-
ginians'


| have been looking for some letters or
documents from some of my Iowa friends
| hope you won't forget me altogether
Once l get on duty, l will not be able to
write SO frequently. As it is, | write
always necessarily in considerable haste,
and hence hope, the critics will spare


THE DOCTOR.