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Year: 1861

We have seen somewhere latcIy-we think In
Hsrpers Monthly--an assertion 10 tho effect that
10 these troubled tunes the newspaper press 10
entirely without influence, nobody minding or
caring for anything that journals may say. Aud
we have also seen somewhere iatelJwe think
in Harpers Weeky-an assertion Of o character
so exactly opposite, that the writer apprehended
the most disastrous results, even from mere
popular misapprehension Of the wishes Of well.
known Journal, so great was iss influence over
the public mind. Now the truth, we believe,
lies between these two extremes, ard while it
is impossible in o country where people do think
somewhat for themselves on questions Of conduct.
to lead the headlOng and heedless into great
folly or great crime, yet it is quite possible 10
exercise through journal, strong influence
for good or for evil in the discussion Of abstract
questions or current events. The habitual and
careful reader Of daily paper can hardly fail
TO have his opinions modified, IL not formed by
js general tone on my glvou subject, however
much be might refufe to follow its lead in any
sudden enterprise for which his mind was urpre-
pared.


While we do not believe, therefore, that The
Rsu. York Nsws, for instance, has the slightest
chance of stirring up, as it has been trying to do Of
late, the citizens Of this town to "any sudden
tiny" cr while we doubt that oil the Secession
press Of the North eau arouse even the small body
II tie people flat constitute their readers 10 auy
Year: 1861

The BrookIya Eagle has seen the error Of its
ways and has abandoned the cause of Secession
and Treason. Very good. We presume some
other journals will soon follow this excellent
example
Year: 1861

Win .sih 10 you about compromise Al ne cc~yvc~t ThaW
10 moks 6 Ms Constellation Of Ae United Stassa"
This is the only ground on which any man
who is not mere party hack. or traitor at
heart, can safely stand. And it is the ground on
which the loyal People of oil parties have placed
khemaeIvea
Year: 1861

the South becomes a San Domingo
Even supposing that the Abolition Gov
ernment at Washington. after ''recon-
struction." should affect to execute what
il had promised. is there any Southern fool
SO utterly besotted as to suppose that that
Government would not wipk at and pri-
vately promote raids like that into Vir-
ginia, and steadily promote the ''fire and
strychnine" policy, which is the basis of
ell their statesmanship?


"Our rich men. thank Heaven. are. as .
general rule. doing their duty like men. by
princely donations TO the cause of indepen-
dence. Our poor men are out in the field
ready to give their blood for the land they
love. All those who intend to remain
among US are for independence. Let us see
how many there are of those who wish to
hoodwink our people that they may make
good their escape"


As nobody in Virginis advocates disu-
nion because deemed desirable in Itself. and
as all, SO far as we aware. who favor Sc
cession in that State are committed to the
policy of "reconstructing Onion already
dissolved" it only remains for us to re-
mark that the chief, it not the sole ground
on which disunion has been avowedly de-
Tended in Nrginia is now taken from under
the feet of its reluctant champions. The
battle of the Union has been fought by lis
destroyers in the Cotton States il only the
friends of the Union in Virginia shall be
true to their principles. and If the slvo-
Gates of Reconstruction" shall prove their
sincerity by stunning further alliance with
the enemies of the policy.
Year: 1861

THE Boston Post touches the secession ques-
tiou with needles point. 1t says:


What spectacle is this monstrous hypocrisy
of the North Railing ut the sin of the South
in keeping and working slaves, while the North
lives upon manufacturing the products of Slave
labor, and Massachusetts alone works 200, 900
slaves to keep her cotton mills going And now
when the supply of the staple and the markets
of the South are barely interrupted by this
d" battle Of the States" which the Abolitionists
have raised up with their cries Of :" Eve
headed barbarism' and " sacred animostyn and


heels on the neck of slave power, every body
is wondering and fearing and doubling whether
we shall be able to get through all this without
general and financial crash and breakup.


The remedy for this, says the Post is " in an
entire change of the Northern aspect of hatred
to the slave-holding States. The people of the
North must shake off this incubus of sectional
ism. They must turn their backs on the men
who hayesdeceived them; they must resolee to
lire up TO eir constitutional obligations, and let
slavery NE in every thing except turning to
the best count for the benefit of mankind
Year: 1861

Most persons are particularly spitefpl
against those foibles In others which they them
selves have They remind US OF q monkey
scratching and grinnipg at the mimic monkey
In the glass. liF
Year: 1861

] have thought it my duty to hold myself
open and ready for the best adjustment which
could be practically made, and hav" Il ere
fore been obliged to ask this commrte to be
content with the assurance that | would ex.
press to the public aud to the Senate. that
he spirit in which they come is perfectly sat
isfac'ory. 1t is gratifying to me to see that the
proper spirit-a ,p'It Of fatcrnal kindness.
# cancellation and atfcction-is adopted by so
large a portion of my fellow citizens Of the
State 70 " hich belong.
Year: 1861

Slow AND SURE.-The river Amazon,
the longest river in the world, which dis
charges into the sea the largest quantity
of water is, at the same time, the slow
est. 1t falls but one foot in fifty miles,
yet it would be just as difficult to stop its
course, or prevent its flowing into the
ocean, as it would to dam up the Niaga-
ra. That one foot in fifty miles is just as
good as though it were hundred. What
an image the mighty flood presents Of a
resolute will determined to accomplish a
certain purpose; let but the will be form
ed, aud it matters little how slow the
means may be, the object will be accom-
plishcd sooner or later. In these fast
days, when every thing seems to have re-
ceivcd certain impetus, and great enter
prises are taken up and executed with
a flash, it is very we'll to bear in mind
thai the greatest things that have been
accomplished in the world have been done
by slow and patient movements.


The brilliant result may have suddenly
burst upon the world, but the processes
by which it was accomplished have been
deliberately planned and slowly executed.
The electric telegraph is now the type Of
rapidity; but consider by what slow and
patient steps it was brought to perfection.
1t took full hundred years of plodding
thought, of patient experiment, of slow,
deliberate movements, to reach the ulti-
matum of rapid progress.


There are a great many things done in
hurry. 1t is very good thing to be
fast, when, as Davy Crockett said, you
are sure you are right. But it is much
better to be slow and sure, for then there
will be no danger of overshooting your
mark,
Year: 1861

Many years since the writer had the
pleasure of spending a summers after
noon, in company with others, at an inter
view between gentleman from the State
of New York aud one of the oldest of
the Chiefs Of the Ottawa tribe of In
dans.


The object of Judge Hutchinson was
TO ascertain the connection Of the tribes
of Michigan and the West with the Six
Nations--so called in the early wars of
our country-and also TO learn if at
the present day the old treaties with the
British Government were recognized, and
if so, in what manner, and if ever re-
newed.


Not few in our State are interested
in the history and legends of the Indian
tribes who formerly occupied and ruled
this Peninsula, and, therefore, relate the
scene-premising, however, by saying
that the circumstances and the Chief who
spoke gave an interest to the narration
which he will not attempt to attach to
this communication, were it even possible.


The old veteran warrior, gray with age
and trembling with feebleness, commenc-
ed with the history of their tribe (the
Ottawas,) as handed down TO them by
tradition, from their first knowledge OF
the white man, which occurred in this
wise:


The tribe was located on the river OF
tawa, Lower Canada. On certain oc-
casion their Chief was in his tent; over
the camp fire was placed his rude kettle
of clay, in which was his scanty meal
and on rugged mat near by was frolick-
ing his only child. From some cause the
kettle crumbled in pieces, or was detach-
ed from its support, and the contents
emptied upon the child, who, after great
suffering, died. Day and night the fathel
mourned for this his first and only SON.
refusing comfort from any of his subjects
After nights of watching and WEAKNESS
nature gave way, and he fell into deer
sleep, or trance, as the veteran expressed
it, and dreamed Or saw vision, to wit:


A being appeared before him and in
quired the cause of his despondency.-
After hearing him relate the cause of hi:
grief, he told him to journey along the
banks Of a certain river, until he saw Q
particular bird, which was described tc
him in his dream, and there remain, and
he would hear something Of great benefi,
10 himself and his tribe.


He forthwith SET out for the spot wher,
he expected 10 have restored 10 him, BY
some good spirit, the object of his heart
Year: 1861

waumpum be destroyed; but silver will
remain the same as long as the nations
exist. These plates were bound with a
silver cord aud carefully preserved. Since
then the representatives of the two
nations have often met and drawn
the cords still closer, as indicative of the
frmness of their friendship and perma-
nency of their obligations. He said, to
this day the Indians regard their obliga-
lions to the English paramount to all
other, and most of them would render
service 10 the British nation, were they
called upon, in the event of an invasion
by the armies of England.


He was asked if that was the feeling
of his tribe? ...t ....


Not altogether, he replied. For him
self he could say, when he concluded a
peace with his American brethren, he did
it without deceit. lie did not take tie
tips Of their fingers, hoping their hands
'0ould slide array from his, Jm Nth a
firm grasp, that they might feel the firm
grip Of friendship. He said he was too
old for war; but were he in the prime Of
life, his war-cub could never be raised
against those he had solemnly promised
before the Great Spirit he would never
molest


This good Indian Chief has gono to
his anticipated hunting grounds. No
one of his many acquaintance will say
but that the white man ever received at
his wigwam the best cheer the lodge cord
provide, ever exhibiting the sincerity of
the pledge he gave our ancestors and our.
selves, w.
Year: 1861

The EFFECT OF SHoT ON VESSELS
A shot does not make hole of its own
size right through wood, but indents it,
The fibers springing back after the shock.
Generally, the course of the oall only can
be traced with wire, sometimes by n
hole as large as n man'sfnger. The dam
age most often happens in the inside Of a
vessel, in splintering and breaking the
wood, after the main force of the shot is
spent. There is rarely AN instance where
a ship was sunk by a solid shot. Shell
and hot shot do the mischief. Shells
will sometimes make aperetures of seve-
raj feet in extent through the sides of YES
sells,
Year: 1861

chorister, what you really ought to have
sung were words that did not need to be
thus cloaked. They were full Of spirit of
the Sabbath, very ointment box of psalm
ody. These were the words you travested /:


"Welcome sweet day of rest


That saw the Lord arise,


Welcome to this reviving breast,


And these rejoicing eyes,"


Well, what did you gain in giving the
version which, as stated, has startling re-
semblance to Pottawattomie Z Was devo~
tion heightened by your efforts Why
should you do this Music should be the
vehicle of the sentiment. Dear chorister,
does not your vehicle greatly resemble one
of those conveyances known to the travel.
ing caravan, and useful only in defeating
the purpose of surreptitious inspection of
the animal inclosed Don't you remem-
Der how painfully futile were your own
juvenile exertions to see the kangaroo or
some other hairy exotic, through crew
ice? You knew the animal was there !;
you were none the wiser for what you saw,
and the menagerie man was the most de-
lighted party to the transaction. Now,
yesterday the poor hymn (poor only because
exposed to your murderously musical as
saults) was similarly shut up, and inclosed
from all the senses, and for the life of US
we could not have told by any process of
listening, whether you were vocalizing in
English, Italian, or native Indian. Chor-
lister, don't do it any more.
Year: 1861

Only picture-and is that all
Only picture upon the wall
The smile so becoming, the cheek so bright,
The eye so dancing with sunny light,
almost fancy my baby boy.
But tits only picture upon the wall,
A silent picture-and that is all
Only lock of silken hair


Lying alone in the casket there
Where is the head that in sportive glee
Was wont to toss it so careless and free!
The baby head that upon my breast
So lovingly nestled each night to rest
Only lock of its silken hair


Is lying alone in its casket there!


Only these relics-and nothing more
Can nought to our arms the loss restore
Must we hopeless yearn as the years go by,
For the bounding step and the beamlng eye;
And all that beauty and life and grace,
So fOndly cherished, retain no trace
Save these silent relics? "Oh, nevermOre
Will the grave to our arms the lost restore W
Oh, woe for love, when from all its store
1t points to these tokens, and nothing more!
When the vacant hall and the silent chair
But echo the groans of its wild despair,
And from all the voices in earth and sky,
Comes back no word to its living cry.
Save the mournful ech0--."Oh, nevermore
Will the grave to thy arms the lost restore y
Oh, Joy for love, when it yearns no more
For that which the grave cannot restore
When it upward stretches its dropping wings,
And in darkness and sorrow still sweetly sings
OF the brightness and bliss of that better home
Where the lost are found and no partings come;
Oh, Joy for love, when its priceless store
There safe is garnered ever more
Year: 1861

A Member OF Congress from Pennsyl-
vania states that Immediately after the
appointment of General HALLECK to the
Department of Missouri, General FREMONT
wrote to him (the member) saying that this
was the wisest and best appointment the
President had made, and we are glad to see
that this is the sentiment of the country at
large. The Missouri Democrat, that was
inimical to him at first. grows daily in
admiration of him. His recent orders are
SO energetic, SO unsparing to the rebels,
and moreover are SO rigidly enforced, that
the ardent temper of the Democrat is fully
satisfied, and its grief over the removal of
FREMONT seems to be almost forgotten.
Thus far the command OF General HALLECK
in Missouri has been marked by prudence
and success. His personal demeanor is
also much to the liking OF the general pub
lic He has stated hours at which he is
accessible to all who may have business
with him; without ceremony. he has no
sentries at the door, and no cumbersome
machinery OF aids, secretaries, and orderlies.
A singe sergeant is always IN attendance
to usher visitors aud run on errands. With
this unostentatious style he manages to
keep up the business Of the Department,
and finds time for arranging his plans for
the onward movement down the Missis.
sippi. ass
Year: 1861

The Washington correspondent of the St.
Louis Republican gives the following sketch
of the eloquence of Charles SUMNER, the
occasion being the day of mournful eulo.
gies in the Senate on the late Senator Ba.
ker of California


There was an instant rustic, dying into
dead silence when Sumner rose. There is
magic in that mans voice and manner, that
atones for all the shortcomings of his life,
even in the minds of those who hate him
most earnestly. And in the ideas of most
who in these latter days throng the gale.
ries of the Capitol, the majesty of his pres
ence is enhanced by halo of sacrifice, and
the wonderful melody of bis voice sounds in
their ears like the bugle, prophetic OF the
victory to be. Every one listens rapt
when Sumner speaks. Those who curse his
doctrines listen to bis eloquence, and admire
esthetically what they condemn politically.
He talks more than formerly. He seems
to have resolved to omit no opportunity to
strike blow at slavery whenever in sea-
son or out of season an opportunity occurs.
He made a hero of Kinsley Bingham On
Tuesday, because Bingham honestly hated
slavery He rode rough sho1 over facts,
on Wednesday, to show that Baker was
a type of the civilization of the North, as
opposed to the barbarism, fighting which,
he fell. He called him weaver's boy,
whose father was school, teacher he or
phaned him in infancy, whose father lived
to see his son brilliant and successful laws
yer, and whose mother yet mourns him. Yet
be bore the sympathies of the vast audience
easily on, till every heart thrilled with the
passionate energy with which be arraigned,
as the murderer of the dead Senator. not the
General Commanding, nor his superior, but
the power behind the rebellion, saying,
4" Petat-ceSt maoi-slavery.
Year: 1861




There are numerous instances of noble
self-denial on the part of soldiers. Their
pay per month is $l3. and they receive their
pay every two months. A day or two since
soldier came to the chaplain Of the Seventh,
and wanted to purchase eighteen cents worth
OF postage stamps. ''It is all the money /
have," said he fand / want to write home
once in while" The chaplain knowing
him to be steady, economical soldier, re.
piled, "How is this you were paid off the
other day." 81 know it but there is my
family at home sent them twenty three
dollars then there were the bodies of those
two men who died, gave two dollars to
send them home, and then there were few
little things must have, which took the
eighty~two cents, and here is the other
eighteen, which makes up the twenty>six
dollars" There is self denial for you. I
do not suppose that this is an exceptional
case; there are thousands of men in this
army whose most anxious thoughts are for
those whom they have left behind.


THE ECONOMY OF THE REGIMENT.


l doubt if any other regiment has sent
home larger amount of money than this.
At last pay day the amount was little rising
$4,000. This would average nearly $l9
per man. Such an amount must be accept
ible to the families of Norfolk and Bristol
at this season of the year. The correspon-
dence of the regiment is very large--the
number of letters sent averaging $50 per
day. Some days nearly six hundred have
been mailed. TO show the excellent disci.
pline OF the regiment it may be stated that
the guard house is often without an inmate
and that the offences deemed worthy of pun.
ishment are very rare. Such regiment is
an honor to the old Commonwealth
respondence Boston Journal.
Year: 1861

HOEF q Man Feels Under Fire.


How q man feels when in battle Is
question that our volunteers have doubtless
frequently asked themselves. We yester-
day stumbled upon q volunteer on furlough
who 6rst smelt powder at Bull Run. Dur
ing an hours chat with him be gave US 8
very good general idea Of The way in which
q man feels when under an enemy's guns.
Our friend didn't claim to be especially
courageous BE placed no value upon the
integrity Of the American eagle, but en-
listed mainly because he had no other en-
ployment at the time. he did camp duty
faithfully, and endured the hardships Of
long marches without any special grum-
bling. That be dreaded to confront the
enemy he freely admits. While willing at
any time 70 kick bigger man than him
self under iustifable proyoosion, he dis
liked the idea Of the sudden sensation i'm
parted by 8 bayonet thrust in the abdomen,
while only second to this was his horror Of
being cut down with 8 rife ball like an
unsusPeotiDg squirrel.


When his regiment was drawn up in
line he admits his teeth ehattered and his
knee-psns ratified like q pct closet in q
hurricane Many Of his comrades were
similarly affected, and some of them would
have lain down had they dared to do So
When the first volley had been interchang-
ed, our friend informs US every trace Of
these feelings had passed away from him.
A reaction took place, and he became al
most savage from excitement. Balls Whis-
tied al about him, and cannon shot cut
in halves G companion ct his side. An
other was struck by some explosive that
49, ~ 80,
informant but so far from intimidating,
ell these things nerved up his resolution.


The hitherto quaking civilian in half an
hour becomes g veteran. His record shows
that he bsyoneted two Of his rebes enemies,
sRd discharged eight rounds Of his pieces
with as decisive aim as Though he had se-
lected q turkey for his mark Could the
entire line Of an army come at the same
time into collision, he says there would be
no running except after hopeless defeat.


The men who played the run-aWsy at
Bull Run were men who had not partioi-
pstedin the action to any extent and who be-
came panic stricken where, If once SMELL
ing powder In the mAnner above described,
they would have been abundantly victori-
Gus. In the roar Of musketry and the
laundering discharge Of artillery there is
q music that bsnishes even innate coward
ice. The sight Of men struggling together,
the clash Of sabres, the tramp Of cavalry,
the gore stained grass Of the battle field,
and the coming charge Of the enemy, dimly
visible through the battle smoke, ali these
says our intelligent informant, dispel eE-
cry particle Of fear, and the yeriest coward
in the ranks, perhsps, becomes the most IL
ger like At the battle Of Bull Run the
r chaplain Of one Of the regiments, man Of
small stature and delicate frame, personally
out down two six foot grenadiers in single
combat II these things are so-and We
incline 70 think they are s5-the best cure
for oowardice is to crowd man into fight
and there keep him. The fugitiVes from
Bull Run we're men who imbibed panic be.
fore il could have reached them.
Year: 1861

The Watervliet Arsenal, situated
at West Troy, is the largest arsenal
for the construction and fabrication
of military implements, other than
for small arms and cannon in the
country, and I; visit to its workshops
at the present time, powerfully inn


presses one with the power and re-
sources Of our government. Every
thing at present is on war footing,
and from three TO four hundred hands
directly, and as many more Indirect
Year: 1861

Il our readers who are not served with
the TRIBUNE as carly in the morning as
they should be, viii be patient for few
days, we shall be in condition to meet all
their requirements. We are in daily ex-
pectation Of receiving from New York one
Of Hoes Fast Printing Machines, which
when set up, will enable US not only
to keep oren TO later hour in
the morning, but to serve our city
readers so satisfactorily that they will al-
ways have their paper with their morning
coffee. We are now printing daily edition
Of q, 600 or double cylinder feat nev-
er accomplished in any other printing cs.
Enlistment in America-and wo cannot
begln 10 supply the demand. But, few
days will put us to rights. In The mean
time, We ask for patience.
Year: 1861

Our dispatches from Cairo this morning
will be read with interest. Our Chicago
boys are not idle, as will be seen. They
occupy the most important point in the
whole West. Meanwhile the troops at
Spring dtld are dIjllirg hard every day.
We are prepared to hear at any time, OF
their making a Ten strike" They are
the chaps to do whatever they undertake.
God arms are their greatest want, but we
presume that deficiency will shortly be rim.
ediej, and that they will be in possession oI
an ample supply Of the neatest and bes1
tWeapuu5 Ct Of precision"