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Year: 1863

ANTIQUITY OF THE PIG.-Ihe pig is the ex
isting representative of q very ancient race of
mammals which lived and died upon this earth
long before there were Christians to devour
flesh. The same species Of wild boar that was
hunted by our forefathers was cotempo7ary
with the mammoth, cave bear, and the long
haired rhlnoceros. Some pers1 ns imagine that
geology deals only with fossil shells Or fishes ;
the geological history Of the predecessors and
representatives of our domestic animals We
know that the wild ancestors of our domestic
pig was in existence before the separation CT
England from the Continent Of Europe and
that the hunter, had hunters then lived might


have chased the boar through the fores's the
site of which is now occupied by the waves Of
the English Channel Mammoths, tigers, and
rhinOceroses persisted, bat the wild boar lives
still on the Continent Of Europe, though ex
tnct here.-LO.d Bones by the Rev. W. 5.
Simonds.


KITCHEN ACCOMPLISHMENTS don't


be ashamed 10 learn how to do homework
Learn all you can, and be as proficient as you
can, in every accomplishment, science and de
partment of knowledge-especially 10 the use
fuI and social-but by all that you prize most
on earth, happy home, DO not neglect the all


important part of every womans education.
the proper management of a household


Whatever your station, do not neglect any
portion Of the kitchen apprenticeship necessary


to a thorough practical knowledge of house
keeping. None know how to command so


well as those who have first learned to serve


Learn to do-then You will know how to
direct
Year: 1863

when = great battle was ne2rl : certain 10 nap
pen. Il was the same silly couduct which
made Melas lose the battle Of MarengO. The
cavalry ought . have formed the utmost right
wing in the large wheeling movement which
our army performed and in which the left
wing formed the pivot.


General Hooksr's operation IS modelled on
the operations Of WaFmser and Alviuci, IN
1923, in Italy; those Of Jorioa. in 1929, at
Stoekaeh and, in quite modern times. on that
Of the royal Napo.iian army, in 1850, at the
Nol.usno. On the contrary, General Lee took
good lesson from the action of Napoleon the
Aricbduke Charles and Garabaldi, on these
different occasions. Gen. Lee has certainly
gained for himself by this battle, the name OF
one of the ablest Generals Of the present age


II would be wrong to make General Hooker
alone responsible for his defeat. We are told
that his army is to be reinforced by thirty
thousand men from Washington, aud forty
Thousand to fifty thousand from Suffolk. Is i;
bot strange that these troops did not join
Hooker before the battle? What is the use
of thirty thousand idle men in Washington
What the use of these iny thousand in the
Blackwater? Why are some twenty thousand
standing sentry in North Carolina What
have the thirty thousand done yet near Char
lesion?


Is there not common sense enough in our
great Generals 10 understand that 10 keep thou
sands of men as sentries to prevent blockade
runners from coming iato Southern ports is
ridiculous that it is more reasonable TO mass
all those troops. and to crush with this saperi-
ority the enemys main armies, because then
the blockade runners will find no more buyers
for their goods?


But how could such reasonable action be
expected from General in Chief who ad-
vanced against Corinth with a snale like pace
to undertake the siege of feldworks which the
rebels afterwards. under Van Dorm. did not
hesitate moment to storm; and who sent
Pope With 10000 men to capture an army
which he, with 100000 could not defeat?


II is the same General who, in August last
gave Gen. Burnside the strange order to stay
quietly at Fredericksburg with his troops
meanwhile Pope was defeated at Manassas
The same who ordered Pope to retreat to-
ward Washington instead of ordering him to
retreat towards Salem and Berlin, which would
have prevented the battle at Manassas and the
invasion of Maryland. 1t is the same who
gave the fatal order to Col. Miles TO hold Har-
per's Ferry when the rebels were already in
Maryland, and when therefore Harpers Ferry
had lost all importance.


Have there not been useless butcheries and
failures Of operation enough to warrant finally
the adoption of sound military plans? Til
this is done, We can only hope that fortune
will once more smile upon the country of free
DOM
Year: 1863

at least, has. now the opportunity to
turn every dollar due him, if he should
not need it for immediate use, into an
investment which has the double ad-
vantage of being Just as good as
green back " for currency, if they
should be needed as money, and six per
cent better if they should be preferred
as an investment. @


At the present price of gold, on which
the interest on these bonds is paid, the
income they will yield the soldier will be
about 9 per cent, fully equal to the first
average investments of money or real
estate. On the other hand, the advant-
age to the country in giving the soldier
pecuniary interest in the permanence
of the Government is obvious. The
bonds are little better than green backs,
and of course can be used in their stead.
If the bonds should not happen to be
ready for delivery when the Paymasters
go round, they are to take certificates,
which shall be to the soldier the same as
a bond. Now, great many soldiers
will leave the service with the last en-
stallment of bounty due, $75, with his
advance bounty (if he re-enlists) in his
hands SIS, with his advance pay $13, and
whatever back pay may be due, not un-
likely to amount to $50 or more, and can
in nine cases out of ten invest 5000 to
S3OO,la very pretty sum to lay up against
rainy day.
Year: 1863

A BRIEF BUT EvENTFUL HIsToRY.-
From the Detroit Free Press we clip the
following:


The history of Federal soldier named
Robt Lane, who entered the service as
private in Loomis's battery, has many
features which characterizes it as one of
extraordinary qualities. Briefly summed
up it is as follows After being in that
company nearly year be was discharg-
ed for physical disability He then re-
turned to this city. His stay here was
limited, and the next heard of him he
was in Nashville, connected with some
sutler. Shortly after this he was chief
clown in circus--swallowed the sword
and other gastranomic feats of more or
less wonderful nature. He then, accord
ing to reports, entered a Kentucky regi-
ment of cavalry, but soon closed his con-
nections with this troop, whether by dis
charge or desertion is not known. When
next heard from he was Sergeant in an
Indiana regiment of infantry, from
which he deserted to enlist in another in
which greater bounties were paid. An
ether regiment, offering a still higher
bonus, induced him to risk the chances
again. He did so, and the next heard
of him he was prisoner in the Indiana
penitentiary, awaiting court-martial for
his numerous enlistments. The trial
resulted in conviction, and he was SEN
fenced to be shot The extreme penalty,
however, was commuted by the President
to one years hard labor with chain and
ball Now there is petition, signed by
the commissioned officers of Kentucky
company of artillery, sent to the head Of
the Executive clemency, praying for a
full pardon of the deserter, that he may
receive a Lieutenancy in that company.
Verify he is a lucky man, and the officers
of that battery are a funny people"
Year: 1863

|


The Louisville Journal-an intensely
Conservative and Pro Slavery but not ex.
actly pro.Rebel sheet--thus tartly rebukes
the more reckless Copperheads


"We look at the columns of the Pbila.
delphia Evening journal; we read the
speeches of Peace faotionists and the reso.
lutions of their meetings, and while they
have no word of commentator or encour-
agem ent for those who are engaged in fight.
ing the battles, of this war for the preserva-
tion of the Union, we find that they are
equally and most significantly silent in con-
demnation and execration of the Rebellion
and of those who are endeavoring TO over
throw the Government. When such men
propose an armistice, we can see but little
difference between them and Rebels in arms
the former would destroy the country by
cunning strategy, and the latter by open
assault. The patriotic Democracy, to which
we turn with hope and encouragement in
these terrible trials, is firmly in favor of sus-
tanning the Government in all these meas
ures which it deems indispensably necessary
to secure peace by putting down the Re.
belliOn, and the more steadily and resolute.
ly it adheres to this policy, the more ex-
tended will be the scope Of its usefulness,
and the more brilliant the successes which
it must achieve before the people,"
Year: 1863

the Copperheads Of the other States farther
West may continue their nefarious prac.
tees. Let them do so, If they think it safe,
looking even to the events close at hand
But little time will elapse now, before the
patriotic legions of General Grants army
will--some Of them at least-with such un-
compromising haters of treason as General
Logan at their head, be at home, aud then
we look for admonitions such as will not be
disregarded


With the brave soldiers from Ohio too,
all the patriotic Of the land are beginning
to entertain feelings of loathing and disgust
against these ''home traitors" such as can
hardly be paralleled when we think of those
openly in arms. Cowards, brawlers, mere
gabblers, because they deem it their safer
course, there is nothing whatever to respect
in them; and the time is close at hand when,
North and South, they will be looked upon
as political pariahs, outcasts, whose very
touch is pollution. All men respect an open
enemy; but what shall be said of those who
take advantage of the forbearance of pa
ternal Government, to live under its pro-
lection and yet seek to stab it to the heart?
baltimore American.
Year: 1863

THE GLASS BLowERs.-Th Troupe have given
two exhibitions at the Theater this week-the
one last evening we were glad to notice was well
attended. This is probably the most instructive
and satisfactory entertainment our citizens have
ever bad opportunity to witness, and as they
only remain here this (Friday) evening, every
person who can possibly do so should attend.
The admission fee is reasonable, when we con.
sder the instruction and qualification afforded
for one dollar. Go to the Tbeater tonight you
may never have an opportunity to see the Glass


Blowers again. Saturday evening they give an
entertainment at Douglas City, and Sunday even
Ing at Feter's. Oregon Gucb. They will ex-
hibiI at Mnersville and Trinity Center during
the early part Of next week, and we advise the
citizens of those points to see them by all means.
Year: 1863

NlGILANr-A dispatch to the Sacramento Bee
says that one of the officers at Fort Alcatraz was
returning at an unusually late hour to the Fort
on the night of the I'd, and either not needing or
hearing The sentrys challenge, was fired upon
The long roll was instantly beaten and in three
minutes from the alarm being given, the entire
garrison was under arms and the batteries man.
neo' ready for action. The officer got bullet
,nrongh his hat, and the sentry was publicly
'oanked for his vigilance by the commandant
Year: 1863

AFTER ALL THE BEST Is TUE CHEAPEST LONG Run
Sensible people have long ago made the discovery that is
cheapest to purchase good article of Clothing that will
look well and do theu justice than waste their money in
the slop clothing stores which abound everywhere Fur
chasing goods in some stores is actually than throw
ing money away, when the disappointment occasoned by
wearing miserable garment is taken into consideration
Buy all your clothing at the elegant mammoth of
Heuspn Hastings Co. San Francisco your garments
will last until threadbarc and then look better than some
peoples clothes after only weeks wear.
Year: 1863

are gathering in the angry sky over our
heads. Already the deep mutterings OF
its wrath can be heard in the distance.-
Will you stand still in stubborn mutiny
against the raging elements Of popular in
dignation which injustice and political de
bauchery have aroused, and be crushed
There ia but one pathway of escape and
safety. 1t is the pathway on which the
light of the Constitution is shining in all
its original luster. Ii is the pathway Of
the fathers, in which the footprints OF
Washington and the sages of that ha!lowed
period are yet plainly visible. IL is the
pathway Of justice, of trnth, and o. honor.
1t is the pathway Of constitutional freedom,
and leads to national life, union and
peace
Year: 1863

The following we select from speech
recently delivered in the U. S. Senate by
VIM. Salisbury of Delaware. 1t comes
plainly 10 the point, and is good advice:
RESIST To THE DEATH ARBITRARY ARRESTS


HEREAFTER.


Sir it may be said that there is no dan
ger to the loyal citizens from this assump-
ton OF power OH the part Of the Presi-
dent; that he is honest; that his only OBJ
ject is to suppress the rebellion. and that
the innocent will in no manner suffer-
Such confidence may well become the
willing slaves Of power, the CONSCIOUS tools
of despotism 1t becomes not me. "lhe
price of liberty is eternal vigilance" The
best guarantee of liberty is the observance
of the Constitution of ones country. |
have no confidence in the honesty OF any
man who, after having sol1inly sworn to
preserve, protect and defend the Consti-
tuition of the United States. can so tia
g-antly attempt its deStruction.-i know
there is danger to the liberty of the citizen
from this assumption of power; know that
the Innocent have suffered from it.
know that peaceable and unoffending citi
zens of my own State have been "bastiled'
in different parts of the United States -
.sCut off from their family, their friends
and their every connection In behalf OF
the people of ny State, l have appealed in
person to the President, and to his Secre-
tary of War. My appeal has been in vain.
| have appealed to this body to make re-
spectful inquiry in reference to the cause
of their oppression. My appeal has been
refused. make no other and no more,
except to my fellow citizens of my own
State. While | ever have and ever shall
counsel my Stale to be the last to abandon
the Federal Union into which she was the
first to enter, and to patiently wait and
bear until returning reason shall convince
all sections that the best security for their
rights of lie. liberty and property, as that
Union and under that Constitution which
our fathers formed, and the dismcmber-
ment of sections Of that Union may from
this conviction again become reunited: yet
| now and here say to the people OF my
State-speaking to them as individuals
who arc conscious that they have ever been
true AID faithful to tie Constitution and
laws of their country-being conscious
of your innocence of just cause of ofiense,
let no minion of despotic power hereafter
arrest or impriscn you, unless in accor-
dance with the Law of the land. Against
,pronqful arrests DEFEND YOUR
SELVES; and in that defense use Just that
amount of force which is necessary for
your protection; and whatever shall be the
result, Your conduct will be in accordance
with tie law Of the land, and will meet the
Year: 1863

THERE is an old Turkish adage that
every young man should plant a tree
under whose shade he could recline in
his old age. 1t is a good adage, too
BY all means plant at least one tree.
Year: 1863

You have undoubtedly read the Abe L.
paper my boy. in the reliable morning
journals, making due allowance for the
typographical outrages committed by the
printers of opposite politics; but there was
one portion Of it gotten up for the honest
Abe by the chaplain # The mackerel brig
adc, and this portion is 50 muilated in Il 2
publishing that | cannot refrain from gir
ing the true version. Speaking Of the
cost TO the country Of emancipation with
compensation, ;he Chaplain wrote:


Certainly it is no; SO easy to pay some
thing as it Is to pay nothing; bat it is cas-
ier to pay small sum than it is 10 pay Il
large sum; and it is easier to pay any bill
when we have the money than it is TO pay
smaller bill when we have no money =
Compensated emancipation requires no
more money than would be nccess ~ &c
the progress of remunereted enfranchlse
ment, which would not close before the
end Of five hundred years. At that time
we shall undoubtedly have five hundred
times rs many people as We have ROW
provided that no one dies in the meantime
and suppotins the premium on god to IN
crease in the same rallO a 1t haS increase,
since our last census was taken; ihe pre-
MUM on the specie belonging to five han
dred times our presant Population will b'
amply sufficient TO pay for al persons 0
African descent.


do not sta;e this inconsiltrately y
the same latio Of increase as we now real
ize, American gold will soon lie wort
more than all Europe We have len mill
ion nine hundred and sixty three thousan,
miles, while Europe has three million
eight hundred thousand, and yet the aver
age premium on specie, in some of III
States, is already above that Of Europe
! Taking the brokers in the aggre gate,
find that If one gold dollar is worth 81 5
Year: 1863

There Is an Eastern story, which has its
version in many languages, OF beautiful
damsel to whom genius OF surpasssing
power desired TO give q talsman. He en-.
ioiped her to take herself across field of
standing corn; she was to pluck The largest
and ialest ear she could fud, but she was


to gather it as che wont forward, and never
pouse in her path to step backward 10
search Of her object. In proportion to the
size and richness of the ear she gathered.
SO would be its power as talisman. She


went out upon her quest, says the legend.
aud entered upon the field. Many tall
stalk of SURPRISING excellence met her glance
but still she walked onward, expecting al
wavs to find some one more excellent still


At last she reached portion Of the field
where the crops were thinner and the ears,
moro stunted. She regretted the tall and
graceful stalks she had left behind, but dis
dained to pick those which fell so far below
what her ideas we're of q perfect ear. But


alas the stems grew more ragged and
more scanty ss she trod onward on the
margin of the field they were widowed and


when she had accomplished her walk
through the waving grain. che emerged on
the other side without having gathered any
ear whatever. The genius rebuksd her fol
her folly, but We are told that b gave hen
an opportunity Of retrieving Der error. We
may apply this mystic little Indian fable te
the realities Of daily life. E
Year: 1863

II has always appeared to mo extremely
bad policy, in any preacher wrO desires TO
keep up tho interest Of his congregation, to
announce at the beginning of bis sermon
that, in the frst place, he will do so; and, In
the second place, such anothor thing and,
Ia the third place, something eisc aud finally
close with some practical remarks. Gao
say for myself, and, whenever l bear any
preacher say anything like that, an instan:
feeling Of irksomoness and weariness pos
sosses mo. You cannot help thinking OF
| the long, lirosome way that is to be got
over before happily reaching the end. You
choke off each head of the sermon as it
closes but your relief at thinking it is done
is dashed by the thought of what deal
more is yet TO como. No; the skillful
preacher will not thus map out bis subject
telling bis hearers 90 exactly what long
way they have to 20. He will while them
along step by step. He will never let them
have loug look out. Let each bead o.
the discourse be announced as Il 10 arrived
at People can hear one at time, WHIT
would broak down in the Simultaneous pros
poet of three, not to say Of seven or eight
And then, when the sermon is nearly done
YOU may, ia sentence, givo o connected
Wow Of all you have said, and you skill viii
be shown II people thipk TO themselves
what a long way thoy have been brought
without tho iesst sense OF weariuess.


lately heard o sermon which was divide,
into sevon heads. II the preacher ba,
named them all in the beginning, tho con
gregation would have ceased TO listen; o
would bave listened under the oppressiy


thought Of what vast deal awaited tbcr
before they would be free. But each wa


announced Just as il was arrived at; th


congregation was whiled along insensibly
and the sermon was listened TO with breath


less attention, from the frat sentence {
the last.--Country Parson
Year: 1863

In our list Of the candidates OF tne Mceoo
ana Of the Constitutional Union party published IN yes
terdays HERALD the of Gideon j. Tucker who ha
been renomnaed for Surrogate by both these organza


ons. was accidentally omitted. Surrogate Tucker haN
received the nomination Of all parties factions except
the republican party, and s siugnary enough the only
candidate for any county Office standing In that position
Tho vote which he may receive therefore, will be the
only clear test of the strength Of the democrats Of h
Year: 1863

A letter war found by Que Of Bar
son's brigade after the fight at Chick
-esaw Bayou, from an intelligent lady
in St. Louis, IN which it said


X think you had better come home
ana let the secesh people go their
own way, for you will never accom-
plish your designs, there has somany
lives been lost, and they are no near
CT whipped than when we first began.
Smart and influential men, who have
been always for the prosecution of
the war, now come out in bold terms
for peace
Year: 1863

Shut up within the walls they live, nor
do their lords give them much of their
society. They never dine together after
the wedding day The women live apart
from the men Of the family, and there is
nothing of that sweet social family inter-
course which, is the,chief delight of home,
The ladies spend their time chiefly in
playing cards and smoking tobacco; nor
is it the delicate cigarette in which they
indulge, but the pipe-yes, the same as
mans pipe--a small brass or silver bowl,
a long thin stem, and gadestone mouth
piece, or else an onyx stone.


have seen some very good-looking
faces among them. I do not think they
would be at all an ugly race if they were
educated, and allowed the use of their
limbs; but there is an expression of va
cancy and cunning, the result of their po-
sition in society, which spoils their pref
tiest faces. And then, when you see the
creature, you know it cannot walk, and
that its legs are like the goats.


The Chinese do not seem to place much
reliance upon the virtue of the female
sex, and will give you, as an explanation.
of the custom of cramping their feet, that
it prevents them from straying far from
home.


The ordinary story which you hear
about their small feet is, that the wife of
one of the emperors was discovered by her
lord near the door of the apartment of one
of the ministers of State and when ques-
toned as to how she came there, she re-
piled, "that her large feet had carried her
there against her will whereupon, half
of each foot was ordered to be cut off, and
she, in order to cover her own disgrace,
"introduced the fashion," which has pre-
vailed ever since.


1t is, | think, the most barbarous of all
customs in the world, and destroys that
which is, perhaps, the chief beauty of
woman-the grace and poetry of her mo-
ton. These wretchcd beings hobble and
stump along like lame ducks They have
their toes, except the great one, turned
down, so that they walk upon the heel and
upper part of the foot, from the instep to
the toe.


How any nation can expect the bless
ing of Heaven, while it destroys one of
the most beautiful of its works, cannot
understand.