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Year: 1861

THE WAY TO STOP PApER.-If you wish
to stop your paper, pay for it in full to the
time when you cease taking it, as an honest
man should do. Don't 60 sneaking to the
postmaster, and tell him to send your paper
back, "refused," but send for your bill !;
deposit the money with the postmaster, and
ask him to forward it; or 60 to the Office of
publication yourself, and pay your honest
dues like man. Some people complain
that they can't stop paper that they have
once subscribed for, but there is no difficulty
if they take the right way. Pay up all you
owe, and if the paper is continued contrary
to your orders, you are not liable for it.
Don't undertake to cheat the printer out
of his dues, whether it be ten cents or ten
dollars.
Year: 1861

A clergyman of a neghboring city met a
little boy of his acquaintance on the cars,
and sard to him, "This is quite a stormy day,
my son." "Yes, sir" said the boy, "this is
very wet rain" The clergyman, thinking
to rebuke such hyperbole, asked if he ever
knew of any other than wet rain" The boy
answered that he never knew personally of
any other, but he had read in certain book,
of time when it rained fire and birthstone,
and he guessed that was not wet rain
Year: 1861

"My son." said a philosophical old gentle
man, "when draymen take the temperance
pledge and the policeman refuses bribes-
when an omnibus half empty goes the same
pace as a full one then the laws Of private
property extend to umbrellas, and when
bachelors in lodgings find shirt without a
button off, then thou mayst chance to find
a wife who will not object to travel without
eight-andtwenty packages, and who will
show herself possessed of such self-denial
as even to refuse thine offer of a new dress,
simply because she thinks she does not need
it,"
Year: 1861

WHY
does Crisadoro's Excelsior Dye present stronger
claims to public confidence than any other Hair Dye
in existence


BECAUSE
it ts the only that has ever been anslyEed ana
publicly approved by the highest Chemical authority


ALSO
or the reason that no other dye has ever been ubec
ted TO chemical analysis at all


MOREOVER,
besides being free from every poisonous Ingredient, it
confers hner black brown, and in shorter space
of time than any other dyein the World Sold every
where, and applied by all Hair Dressscs- Cs:srADoEo
No o Astor House New York. nhIo
Year: 1861

Should any of our subscribers be
overlooked this week by our carrier
they will please call at our o lice
get their paper, and notify us of the
same. Our carrier having seeded
from this establishment, we are COM
pelled to try another.


We agree with Senex in his views
about the 4th of July. Let us heal
from you again.
Year: 1861

D~ A report has been circulated that a
number Of the soldiers letters are retained in
our City Post Office because unlawfully frank.
cd. We are authorized to say such is not the
case, as the Postmaster has in every instance
when letters from the soldiers have been de.
posted in the office with frank which he
knew not to be genuine, put himself to the
trouble to have them refranked by some mem.
Der ofCongress, aud sent of Immediately.
Year: 1861

The only chance of our getting an inkling of
the utents of General Scott, is through the
Star man, who sleeps with General SCOTS
ra1et, and thus is in position to get hold of
what leaks out that way.
Year: 1861




Little Marie was an orphan; q woman
had the care Of her, but she was hard
and unfriendly 20 the little child, and
made her work very hard 30 that she
grew unhappy, and often wept and long
ed to bo With her father and mother 10
heaven.


In winter, Marie was compelled to
90 to the forest to get wood, aud If she
did not bring enough TO The house, the
bad woman received her with harsh
words, and often beat her. Once, Ma
rie was obliged to 60 out 10 the forest,
and went weeping on her way, for al.
though the winter was nearly over, it
was still cold, and Mario's clothes we're
scanty and much worn-for since her
parents died, she had received no new
ones. When she came to the forest,
she sought diligently for the dry
boughs, bending hither, and thither,
till her little hands could grasp no more.
Now she wished to 20 to the house, and
came to an open place in the forest;
there she saw, under a tree a snowdrop
standing, and because sho was 30 tired
from running and stopping, she sat
down beside it, and laid her bundle Of
wood near her. AS she sat there, she
looked at the flower, and thus addressed
it, "What a lovely green garment hast
thou, dear snOwdrOp, that adornest thy
self so beautifully; wilt thou not also
freeze, as I, poor child, shall in my
torn garments? and such beautiful
white cap as thou wearest, will never
receive from the bad woman"


So speaking, she laid her head upon
the bundle Of wood, and began again to
weep bitterly, till at last she fell asleep
She dreamed that light wind moved
the snowdrop, and she heard it begin tc
ring and tingle softly. Then little Ma.
rie perceived the snowdrops that vel
slept in the earth rub the winter SLEEP
from their eyes, stretch their limbs, and
come forth to the daylight, open theii
cups, and begin to ring lightly, lightly
with silvery tones, so that it re-echoec
very wonderfully. But Marie never
awoke from that beautiful dream but
went dreaming to heaven, to her father
and mother.


When they sought her on another
day, they found her dead, surrounded
by the blooming snowdrops, which GOV
cred her, even in DEATH with thei
green leaves FROM the German.
Year: 1861




How any young fellow can have Tho
face to walk into your family, and dc
liberately ask for one Of your daughters
surprises me- That it is done every
day does not lessen my astonishment al
the sublime impudenoe of tho thing.


There you have been eighteen OF
twenty years of your life, combing her
hair aud washing her face for himi II
is lucky, the thought never strikes you
while doing it. that this is to be the
end of it all. What if you we're mar
ried yourselfP That is no reason that
she should be bewitched away into a
separate establishment, just as you be
gin to lean upon her, aud be proud of
her; or at least it stands to reason tn at
after you have worr ed her through the
measles, the Ch;cken-poz, scarlet fever,
and whoOping cough, and had her prop
erly bapiised, and vaocinated, this young
man might give her short breathing
time before she goes, He seems to be
Of a different opinion; he insists not
only on tuking her but on taking her
Immediately, if not sooner. Ho talks
well about livery WE'LL you have no
objections to him, not the least in the
world, except that.


When the world is full of girls, why
couldn't he have fixed his eyes on
somebody else? There are some par
ents who are glad to get rid of their
daughters. Blue eyes are as plenty as
blue berries, why need it be this par
ticular pair? Isn't she happy enough as
she is2 Don't she have meat and brend
and clothes enough to say nothing Of
love? What is the use ofIeaving a GER
tainty for an uncertainty, and that GER
tainty is a mother, and you can never
have but one? You put all these ques.
tions to her, and she has the sauciness
to ask if that is the way you reasoned
when father came for you. You dis
da n to answer, Of course; it is mean
dOdging of the question.


But she gets around you for all that:
and so does he, tool you try your best
not to like him; and with a well, ifI
mrat you just order your wedding
clothes muttering to yourself the
while, dear, dear, what sort Of fist will
that child make at the head of a house?
How will she know what to do in this,
that, or the other emergency? she who
is calling on mother ffty times a day,
to settle every triding question: What
folly for her to set up house for herself
How many mothers have had these
foreboding thoughts over a daughter
and yet that daughter has met life, and
its unexpected reverses, with heroism
and courage as undaunted as if every
childish tear has not been kissed away
by lips that, alasl may be dust when
the baptism Of womanhood comes upon
her, FANNY Fern
Year: 1861

In the report Of the Insane Asylum,
at Hartford, We fud the following
statements as to female insanity and its
causes. viii farmers take notioe2


"Although generally more difficult to
control, they are, think, more durable
than the other sex; their homo attach
ments arc stronger, they realize moro
fully the Importance Of their services in
the circle Of home duties, and naturally
respond more readily TO our efforts to
induce q more perfect Belf-control as
the first step towards recovery. They
arc also more impressible; they more
kecnly aud readily appreciate the gem
|ial and soothing influences Of those
means of moral treatment to which l
have so frequently alluded, and upon
which I 80 greatly depend The use
Of the needle, and the larger number Of
domestic female employments, gives
them also a greater variety at least Of
passing occupation. All this is an il
iustration of the greater Importance
and efficiency Of woman in her especial
element, that sphere Of boundless in
hueuce-home


Cover three thousand cases Of finsani-
ty have come under my direct care and
observation. Tn a large proportion Of
these cases I have found that the re-
mote predisposing causes of insanity
could be plainly traced to the malign
influences of childhood. When tho
duty of making home wise and happy
shall be better realized, we shall have in
our land less Of vice and crime, and
much less of insanity. The neglect Of
physical training, and the imperfect
physical development which follows,
consequent to this neglect, are striking
I ly evident in many of our female pa
/ tients. The various causes which are
reported to me, as the sources of disease,
ald which are classified in the tables
under the head of ill health intense
mental and bodily effort, grief do
mestir u1happiness, etc, may very fire.
qu9ntly be traced, in their primary in
fuences, to tho one cause of a want Of
physical stamina


"Of the one hundred and eighty-sev-
en- female patients admitted during the
three years, thirty-four per cent. we're
the wives Of farmers and mechanics
quite an undue proportion Of the COM
parative number Of these classes in the
community. The consideration Of the
causes which led to this most natural
result, showed that between nursing
tho accumulation of household duties
and drudgory, and the miserable, short
sighted economy, which often led the
husband to refrain from supplying the
necessary domestic assistance, the poor
heart. broken and discouraged wife has
lost in turn her appetite, her rest, and
her strength; her nervous system had
become prostrated, and, sinking under
the burdens she had sought refuge in
the Retreat One of our worthy female
patients remarked one day to q lady,
Only think of it DR.. Butler is keeping
me here, and 1 have six children and
fourteen cows to take care Of at home
Twenty excellent reasons for your re-
naming here till you are cured, was
the timely answer, Thoy were the
twenty reasons which had made her in
sane. Parents and teachers both should
inculcate upon children Of both sexes,
the Importance Of health bringing eX-
eroises Boys need but little urgency,
but girls should be compelled to take
it,"
Year: 1861

A Trick WORTH THE PERFORMANCES
A young man was studying in college. One
afternoon he walked out with one of his
structors, and they chanced to see an old
pair of shoes lying by the side of the road,
which appeared to belong to poor man at
work close by. "Let US have alittle anus.
ment at his expense" said the student.
"Suppose we hide these shoes, and conceal
ourselves in the bushes to watch his per-
plexity when he cannot fnd them :" II
can think Of a better trick than that" said
the instructor. "You are rich, and suppose
you put silver dollar in the toe Of each
shoe, and then we will bide." The young
man did so.


The poor man finished his work soon,
and went to put on his shoes. You can


imagine his surprise, when he stopped
down to take out pebble, as he supposed,
from the toe, aud fOued il to bo a hard
dollar, and then his sbsolute perplexity
and astonishment, when he found still an.
other in the other shoe. His feelings over
came him; he fell upon his knees; looked
up to heaven, aud uttered aloud a fervent
thanksgiving, in which he thanked kind
Providence for sending some unknown
hand to save from perishing his sick and
helpless wife and his children without
bread


Do you wonder that the young man stood


in his hiding place deeply affected, and his
eyes filed with tsars2 Young friends,
when YOU want TO enjoy real fun, real pleas.
at witnessing the perplexity of others, sec
if you cannot in some way initiate the
student. Such tricks are worth per.
forming,
Year: 1861

Who ARE THE JoNAus?-The leading spirit
of the Secession movement in Florida is a
native of the North, and the editor of the
Charleston Mercury, whose inkstand over
flows with the gall of treason, is a man
named Gordon, a native of Massachusetts,
and only two or three years resident of the
South This anomaly has been observed
in so many instances that it were tiresome
to repeat them. The most offensive speeches
and the most unpopular measures ever agi


tated in Congress in connection with Sec
tional issues, have proceeded from similar
sources. A. this day, with all their hasty
words and actions, the men of the South do
not seem as heartily bent on the destruction
Of the Union as several agtators in New
York and Boston, who, while riding to death
their peculiar hobbies, find time nevertheless
to amass fortunes in the pursuit of the theo-
ries they advocate. These men are mere
sectionalists, and crush their own cause by
the fanatic phrenzy with which they pursue
their arguments. The men for the hour are
not men of either the North or the South,
but american citizens, pledged to maintain
the interests and legislate for the welfare of
all the States, and not clique or section !;
aud he who seeks the North for the purpose
of the more safely indulging in his personal
spleen against the South, or he who seeks
the South for similar purpose, is a base
wretch, for whom the name of traitor is a
name too complimentary.-S. f. Mirror.
Year: 1861

81 was once condemned (says writer on


single blessedness) to pass summer in an


old-maid's village. The whole female popu-
lation seemed to have espoused celibacy.-
There was but one married lady in the place,
the clergymans wife; for no clergyman could
venture there without being married, for fear
of breach of the peace. There were posi-
lively no young ladies in the place. In one
house lived the two maiden sisters of re-
tired alderman but they were past all dan
ger. and were drawn about, quivering with
Antiquity, in two chairs. In the next, were
two more maidens. far from comely, whereof
the one was confirmed invalid, and Was
likely to remain so, as long as the handsome
Young doctor Of the place, who attended her
daily, continued to bea bachelor. The other
sister passed her time at her window, kindly
playing detective for the parish, and commu-
nicating regular weekly report 10 the cler-
Year: 1861

IL have learncd,' says the melancholy Postal
zzi. that in this wide world no one heart is abb
r willing to help another"
O say not we through life must struggle.
Must tOll and mourn alone
That no one human heart can answer
The beatlngs OF our own.
The stars look down from the quiet heaven
Into the quiet stream
And see themselves from its dewy depths
In fresher beauty CLEAN.
The sky with its pale or glowing hues.
Ever painteth the wave below:
And the sea sends up its mist 20 form
Bright clouds and the heavenly bow
Thus each does of the other borrow
A beauty not its own;
And tells us that no thing in Nature
Is for itself alone.
Alone, amid life's gricfs and perils.
The stoutcSt sou. may quail
Left TO its own unaided efforts,


The strongest arm may fail;
And tho all strength still comes from HEAVIER
All light from God above,
Yet we NAV sometimes be His angels,
The apostles of His love.
Then let us learn to help each other,


Hoping unto the end
Who sees in every man a brother,


Shall find i'll each friend
Year: 1861

u In any Of the above. or in other towns pay


ments may be made. when more convenient. to
the Postmasters thereof; or the amount may be


sent directly to this office but must insist Oh
settlements every year.
Year: 1861

Is LABOR DEGRADING Among certain
people the idea seems to prevail that labor is
degrading that is, such labor as a farmer is
obliged to perform. Digging the potatoes he
eats, would, in the estimation of some, de-
grade man more than the forging of note.
have at present in my mind one case of a
young man of good ability and who was also
once of moral excellence, who left Dartmouth
with this idea, expressed in his own words
4 cannot beg, and to dig am ashamed
Not long after he left, his funds were gone.
and to replenish his purse he resorted to for
gerry, and the result was, that his home for
two or three years was in the Massachusetts,
State Prison. Nor is this solitary case, but
one of many. The question that has often
presented itself to my mind is this: Would
not the public good be much better promoted
by dispelling the idea that labor degrades,
than by adding agricultural departments to
the colleges now in existence, or the found
ing of new colleges
Year: 1861

ecution. He was slow mentally, over
cautious through age, and too willing to
hear the opinions of his friends. These
facts are not urged against him ) they
are only spoken Of as the concomitauts
of old age. Mcclellan came, and in less
than a month discipline was restored.
Not that Mcclellan is better general
than Scott-that is yet TO be proved
but that Mcclellan could show himself
on the field, could use his own eyes ra-
ther than trust to the tales of others.


This is the way in which matters stood
three months ago. Ever since, the pow
er has been imperceptibly passing from
the older to the younger General. Scott
has been gradually making up his mind
to take this step-one very hard for him
to take, and one which presents the
strongest proofs of unwavering patriot
ism. The people needed young blood, a
General who had the sagacity of the
great man united to the bravery of the
young man, and when Scott saw such an
one come forth at the bidding of the
times, he proved himself hero by giving
the hand of welcome.


So we, the American people, crown
General Scott with the wreath of GRAT-
ITUDE, and General Mcclellan with that
of HopE.-BOSton Journal.
Year: 1861

A FAoT.-A veracious townsman
gives US the following, the truth of which
he knows AT village in the interior
of the State of New York, few weeks
since, a man rushed into hotel one eve-
ming, excIailning, "If l could sell out my
property, would pull up stakes here and
join JEFF. Davis army" A clergyman
sitting very quietly in corner OF the
room asked in a subdued tone OF voice,
What did you say, sir 2" The secesher
repeated his remark, when the clergyman
rising and coolly observing that he bad
never struck a blow for his country, but
felt that it was about time to do so, knock
ed the rebel to the floor.


The Major says says it must be edify-
ing to sit under that mans preaching
.Ns.g Psafar4 Nsyelfyy.
Year: 1861

A DINNER TABLE CLEARED IN A
HuRRY.-A singular incidert-one that
does not happen twice in a life time
recently drought down the house n
mong the people of quiet village in the
south par; of Barnstable. 1t was about
the time of the midday meal. The
thrifty housewife bad the table set, near
ly it not quite ready for dinner--a nice
dinner-and was using the waiting mo-
ments for her husbands return by put
ting things "to rights" in the cellar. I'm
luckily a trap door communicating with
the cellar was left open. Just then an
elderly woman. visitor from Is. entered
to make a call upon a family in another
part of the house. She did not see the.
trap until it was too late, but as she went
through the opening, Der presence of
mind" led her to seize the nearest thing
at hand, which proved to be the table
cloth, aud with this flag of truce, and
smashing load of glass, crockery ware,
eatables, etc, TO bear her company, she


landed gracefully in a soap barrel. It's
easier to imagine than describe the con-
sternation of Mrs. -, on receiving
caller under such peculiar circumstances,
Suffice it to say, although, as the reader
NAV guess, there were many fractures,
simple and compond, there were no bro
ken bones TO render the mishap as seri-
Gus as it might otherwise have been.-N.
Bridgewater Gazette.
Year: 1861

SHIPMENT OF WHEAT FROM THE
WEsT.-On the 25th ult. the amount Of
wheat shipped from Buffalo to New York
was from a million and quarter to a
million and half of bushels, at the rate
Of rs cents per bushel freight.
Year: 1861

To this course we are impelled by the
highest sense of duty, and the irresistible
instincts of manhood. To defend your
birthright and mine, which is more pre-
cous than domestic ease, or property, or
life. l exchange with proud satisfaction,
a term OF six years in the Senate of the
United States for the musket of SOL
der


This letter is written at the first mo-
ment since my expulsion from home,
that could place my feet upon the soil
of Kentucky. l have not been able to-
see or communicate with my friend and
colleague, Gov. Powell, nor do ] know


what course he will think it proper to
take. But this, you and know-that
his conduct will be controlled by pure
motives. Your fellOw-citizen,


JOHN c. BRECKENRIDGE.


Bowling Green, Ky, Oct. 8, 1861"



CALLED SHOULDERS IN HoRsEs.-
Says a correspondent of the German
town Telegraph: CHANGING one day to
take hold Of an English agricultural jour-
nal, the first thing that noticed an edit
orial proposing that a piece of leather
should be laid on the horses neck, under
and disconnected from the collar. i saw
that the theory was good, and concluded
that as one hide had to take the rubbing;
the collar and leather might settle it be-
tween them as best they could. So
having procured paper aud scissors, L
cut out pattern for my havelock.
cut the pattern so that ii could be sewed
top of the neck and in front Of the breast.
and at the same time fit the neck neatly,
without creasing. They were made con-
siderabIy wider than the collar, say from
ten inches to foot. then applied my
pattern to a piece of leather, and cut out
their counterparts and sewed them to-
gether ana after soaking them over night
| applied them tn the horses necks, taking
care to keep them nice and smooth
Since then my horses have never had
sore shoulders and any one seeing the
havelocks after three months use would
not wonder that the horses shoulders
were not sore. | have cured the shoul-
ders of horses with the following COM
pound Good brandy, one quart one
half pound alum powdered.


The brandy and alum should be placed
in bottle, ard when used should be well
shaken. The mixture should be rubbed
on with a sponge, and pad Gan old
stocking leg stuffed with straw should
be placed below the gall. and will ensure
a cure if the collar is as soft as it should
be. have cured shoulders with this
mixture even when the skin was broken,.
without taking the horse from bis work.
But use the havelocks and you won't
want the mixture.
Year: 1861

ED. JOURNAL Your critique on the Nevada
Directory induced me to look over the thing,
which found dangling by a long string in the
saloon of A. r. jenkins. 1t is truly lamenta-
BILE waste of the raw material. To what good
use it may be applied am at a loss to say. 1t
is certainly not a Directory in any rational
sense. When l became patron of the thing, l
supposed it was to be gotten up in a shape use
full a work of reference, but | find SO much
left out and the remainder so badly spelled as to
be unreliable, that the book is comparatively
worthless. A good Directory would be of little
consequence to our citizens who know where
every body lives in small town like this, and
stranger can certainly make no use of poor
Directory which does not have a map of the
streets accompanying it, that he may know
where to look for street in the absence of any
signs upon tho corner. Nevada has no such
signs and Of course, the stranger is obliged to
inquire the street, and while he is about it, he
may as well inquire the way to the spot he seeks.
Our streets are not SO long but the most remote
houses may be pointed out or described so as to
be easily found by any but blind man.
Schemes like this to raise the wind don't suit