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Year: 1861

If Gen. Scott don't do somthing before
long TO appcaso those of orr brethren who
are clamoring so loudly and SO constantly
for forward movement Of the army, we shall
have an open rebellion amongst them. Know
ing so much more than the old veteran docs
abont the management of a campaign-hav
ing had 50 much mere experience than he has
IL military matters--understand 50 much
better whist is required to move successfully
and cxpeditousIy an immense army, and be.
ing so much more familiar with the condition
and position of the rebel army, it is natural
that they should refuse any longer to submit
to the dilitory policy of Gen. Scott. What
right had he to keep large army loafng a.
bout Washington for weeks under the prctext
that they are not sufficiently drilled, or ell
armed, or because he has not transportation
wagons. lie has no right to get ready be.
fore exterminating to the rebels.
Year: 1861

The rebels propose to bay one half the cot
ton crop. Tho cotton obtained from the
planters is 10 be sent to one point, probably
New Orleans. Mr.. Cobb then expects to say
to England, awe have gathered one hal
crop at one point; you must raise the block
ade and let it out" If England's necessities
are so great as to impe her to such an act,
Cobb expects then that the remainder of the
crop will be sent forward through the same
direction by the planters, and thus the entire
crop will be sold and the cash realized. 1t
is the key of Cobb's scheme. The prospect
Of such market induces the planter to give
the rebel Government one half Of his crop,
While concentration induces England TO risk
war with this country. This is the way in
which cotton is expected to prove its is king
We can't sec it.
Year: 1861

Er Sheridan said beautifully: women
govern Us; let us render ;bom perfect The
more they are enlightened, so much the
more shall we be. On the cultivation Of the
mind of women dopealf the wisdom of men.
1t is by woman that Nature writes on the
hearts Of men,"
Year: 1861

Es y tipplcr who had his load on, ,"fe,ch.
I'd up against the side Of house which bad
bean newly painted, Showing himself clear
y vigorous effort. he took n glimpse at his
shoulder, another at the house, third at bis
iand, and exclaimed, swell that is n care.
ess trick in whoever painted that house, TO
cave it standing out all night for people to
un against
Year: 1861

THE INDIAN LEAGUE.-The Indians to the
eastward Of the Cascade Mountains in Oregon
are organizing, beyond doubt, grand league
or secret association with the view of driving
the whites from the country in the coming
spring. They profess to have received assurr
anoes from the Great Spirit that plenty of
powder and balls will be provided them, and
appear to have derived from some source un-
known a stimulous 20 their confidence. In any
event, the settlers have full information of the
movements of the redskins and are not to be
taken by surprise. Government may find IL
self too much pre-occupied to give the requi-
site reiuforcements, but the people are ready
to organize at very short notice, and aid can
be obtained from California and placed upon
the scene of action in several days, with all
the equipments, if necessary. Prospecting
parties will have some severe experiences to
recount in the spring Of 81, and Oregon will
have capital chance of incurring new war
debt,
Year: 1861

New SrEAMER.-An elderly gentleman, says
the News, by the name of Swimmerton. has
been engaged for eight or ten months in
bullcing small steamer on the bank of the
Sacramento, below the r street levee. During
this time we have paid the old gentleman sew
eral visits to obtain an outline of his craft and
meagre idea Of his plans, but he fails to be
at all communicative, although he freely con-
verses about other matters, and to all external
appearances seems TO be much of clever old
gentleman. His boat is afoat, and the cabin
covered and lined, inside and out. This work,
with the assistance of one hand, he has thus
far accomplished, and he continues to toll and
labor on his boat as if it was the pet of his
advancing age.
Year: 1861

MUsHRooMs.-A gentleman at Sacramento
informs the News that mushrooms are growing
in great abundance, few miles from town. and
in circles. On first noticing an instance of this
kind he supposed it was freak ofnature ; but
on examination he found the ring feature quite
common. The circles are perfect from ten to
fifteen feet in diameter, and their edges thickly
studded with file fresh mushrooms. He said
too, that it was sign" Of something that
it would be a good year for marrying-or a
bad one, we don't remember which-but it was
one or the other.
Year: 1861

John Levy, laborer in Agers, has lately been
great drunkard, and a brute to his poor wife,


Having violently expelled her from the house, she
accepted the kind protection of aneighboring fam
lily named Smith. On Monday, the demented
Levy took double barrel gun loaded with buck
shot, and went in quest of his wife. The Smith
family and she were at dinner in the kitchen, when
he came to the half-open door, swore he would
have his we's life, stuck the gun in at the door,
and fred both barrels at her. Fortunately his
drunkenness unsteadied his aim, and the whole
double charge of shot went into door without
hurting anybody. The screams of the women at
Year: 1861

The Charleston Mercury, after saying that to
send an armed ship to Charleston to collect the
revenue will be an actual declaration Of war;
adds, - the end is certain delycrunCe. In the mean
time, 1Gnl1 commerce will be made the spoil Of
our pTirQteeFS."


This is talk worthy of a first class maritime e na-
ton" bpt for some time to come the only pTlrote
tears South Carolina will have, are those shed over
its own folly not to say vic edness.


III. y Commercial Advcr User.


Let not tho New York Commercial Advertiser
be too sanguine. Let it not dslude itself the
fancod distresses of Carolina or the South. It's
sympathy is not asked for, nor is its advice at
all necessary. It had better look at home, and
take care of home. There may be danger there
great danger-and within a very few weeks at that,
if the Abolition prosecutors of the South dare add
to thoir long black list of msdeeds, the horrid
crime of attempting wholesale slaughter.


What makes New York wealthy and powerful :?
Commerce! Cut off that commerce and what
would New York become? A third rate city, to
say tho least! Now, then for the application: A
Southern Confederacy will be formed, and have a
governmental operation before the 4th OF March, in
all human probability. That government will be
recognized at home and abroad as such, and will
be clothed with all necessary powers Let the
North Or the Federal Government fire a war gun
upon The south, ana ettefS OF naFque anu repfsal
will be at once issued, and hundreds of pryateers
will swarm upon the ocean as if by magic, preying
upon and destroying New York and Northern COM
mercc. From all the ports of the North and from
Europe-as privatcering is immensely profitable
privateers will come, only asking to be furnished
with the necessary papers. Our new government
will always have an abundant supply of those doc
uments on hand, and if the necessity is forced by
the North, will use them with no sparing hand.
Year: 1861




At the quarterly meeting of this body, on Mou-
day night, resolution was unanimously adopted,
requesting the different companies OF the Fire
Department to act in unison with each other in
forming military guard for home protection, and
appointing committee composed of one member
from each company to carry out this object. As
some six or eight of the companies are already
taking measures to appear in Il military character.
have little doubt but that the thing will soon be
universal among the tiremen.
Year: 1861

tractcd some men in the neighborhood who ran up
and disarmed Levy, and allowed him 10 return
home, where he took a table knife and tried to cut
his throat. He gashed the right side of his neck
horribly, but without indctng a mortal wound.
All covered with blood, he was soon discovered
and brought over to Charity Hospital where he
now is. He will have nice NttIe piece of business
to settle with Judge Fortier when he gets well.
Year: 1861

Yesterday was something worthy of the name ;
il was all sorts of weather. Early in the morning
heavens sluice-gatcs opened, and the torrents
poured poured with little intermssion during the
greater part Of the day. Toward evening there
was ii hold-up, but the heavens still lowered and
the atmosphere grew so chilly as to set the indoor
CRATES ablaze everywhere. The next change will
probably be cold and clear one.
Year: 1861

A ZDuave was observed sitting
on the side of the road having his
hand nearly severed from his wrist
by ball, which he was endcavoring
to wiring off the sinews. As the
Soldiers were passing him, he was
observed to elevate his hand to his
month, as if to bite it off. With an
oath, he remarked that "Ncw York
was the game" which were proba-
bly, the last words spoken by him, us
ne was fast sinking from loss Of
blood when lost seen.
Year: 1861

A considerable number of balls,
covered with peculiar substance,
supposed to be of poisonous nature.
were found all over the field. A
number of rifle balls, with brass
cartridge cases attached, such as are
used in an English breech loading
rifle OF late invention, were all found
on the field.
Year: 1861

EEP-RAlsISG.-We never thought that
sheep-raisng would be an Improbable bust
ness in this mountain country. Aud nov
that the South has determined 10 forever
sever lis connection with the North and re.
" upon its own resources, We must think
that wool raising will be one Of the most
profitable asocations followed by the South.
ern people.


These mountain sides, that are covered
with d rich and heavy coat of just such .
native growth as will iatten sheep. furnishes
better 6eld for an enterprise Of this kind
than can be found elsewhere. And as nearly
the whole population. white and black. will
have to wear woolen goods, that capital and
enterprise properly expended in this direc-
tion, will yield abundant profits. Will moi
some of our people 20 at once into this bu.
sinesss Western CaroLaian
Year: 1861

easily stripped OF. Take to the barn or
shed'loft at once, that is, before night. and
spread them out thin. II left in the wagon
over night. they are apt to heat, especially il
a little green. When in this state, a good
rule is to spread it not so thick that you can
not see the floor through it. Poles or rails
are better than floor. but inconyenient.
Year: 1861

"THE RIGHT OF FREE SpEEcu."-Tho
right of free speech, like every other right,
may be abused and turned into licen-
tlousness. That it is abused by aboliton-
lists to the subvcrsion of the very con,titu-
ton which guarantees it, we have abund-
ant evidence. Henry Ward Beccher,
Wendell Phillips and George W. Curtis
have so abused it that it is necessary to
employ the police and military force to
protect their persons from violence in the
three principal cities of ths North. This
treatment is bitterly complained of BY the
organs a.d abettors of the orators.


y great outcry has been raised BY the
republican journals and orators against
the Southern population because they
take the law into their own hands and
execute summary justice upon incendary
abolitionistS who try to sow the seed, o..
servile insurrection among the negro pop
ulation. But when this que ton comes
home to the business and bosom of the
Northern people, and they find that the
harangues of the abolition crusaders have
brought the Union to the verge of disso,
luton, and vast multitudes Of the popula-
ton to poverty and starvation, they begin
to think it is time to put a stop to them
and the fears of the orators go beyond the
intentions of the people, and hence the
employment of the police.


The idea that the amendment to the
constitution which establishes liberty of
speech confcrs the right of licentiousness,
and secures to every citizen an absolute
right to speak or write or print whatever
he pleases, without any responsibility,
public or private, is" says Judge Story,
IA supposiion too wild to be INDUCED by
any reasonable man for that would be
to allow every citizen a right to destroy
at his pleasure the reputation, the peace,
the property and even the personal safety
of every other citizen, and to stir up scdi-
ton, rebellion, and even treason, against
the government itself, in the wantonness
OF his passions, or the corruption of his
heart This is just what the emissaries
Of abolition have been doing both al the
South aud the North, aud the people Of
neither section seem disposed to Civ, tlem
free scope anylonger.
Year: 1861

This communication viii be handed to you by
Colonel Bowen, Chief Of my Staff, who will be
able to explain anything not fully set forth in the
foregoing. am sir,
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,


Brigadier General ID. NJ FROST,
Year: 1861

May be cured with The greatest certainty n large quSn
titles Of The Ointment be well worked into the complain
ing parts, and this peIseveFelngy done for some time


10 no use 10 smear q on the skin only, t must be got
into the system. Take many Pills nightly will act
two or three times during the a hours eschew the use
Of cGa and ell stmnlants When these compaints are
leaving the system. the virulence Of the complaint ne
quently seems 10 increase.
Year: 1861

Here are the concessions we are in
favor of, in seriatim:


!. We want the Southern States to
concede that ours IS a Government in
deed, and not a mere compact between
States.


,. We want them to concede that
State cannot dissolve It's connection with
this Union at its own pleasure.


). We want them to coHcede that
this Government has right to enforce
rs laws and protect its property.


4. We want them to concede that il
IS the duty Of this Government to re
take from Southern traitors It's stolen
forts and arsenaIs.


>. We want them to concede that
Old Abe was consttutionaIlyeIected and
bad right to take his seat.


8. We want them to concpde that
the seeding States have violated the
Constitution, and, while they are in
armed rebellion against It's authority, it
is the duty Of this Government 10 put
that rebellion down.


Z. We want them TO condede ,hat
the taking Of the Federal forts and fir
ING upon our flag are wrongs and insults
that should be we'll atoned for.


s. We want them to concede that
Northern creditors have a right to sue
for and cellect their demands in South
ern Courts.


9. We want them to concede that
they have no right to tar and feather
every Northern citizen that goes among
them.


10. We want them to concede that
it is the duty Of this Governm ant TO
hep"g or shoot at once every traitor
scoundrel IN il.


And in demanding all these things.
do we ask the South to make a single
concession which the Conrti,rti On of
these United States does not require of
them?
Year: 1861

But there is still degree of cold be-
yond all that which | have described. 1t
is when there is a strong wind blowing
from the north at temperature Of forty
or fifty degrees below zero. The sensa-
ton with which you endure it can only
characterize as continued struggle for
life. Then you do not only feel the cold,
but you actually see it. The air is hazy
with floating particles Of frozen moisture.
The sky is like vault of solid steel, so
hard and pale does it appear. And the
wind is like blast out of that fabulous
frozen hill Of the Scandinavians. The
touch Of it on the face is like cutting with
an exceedingly dull and jagged knife. l
endured this weather during two days Of
travel in an open sleigh, but very fortu-
nately it was blowing on my back, or l
would have been obliged TO give up the
battle Every man / met who was trav-
cling against the wind had face either
already frozen or just in the act Of freez-
ing. Those purple faces surrounded with
rings of ice did not seem to belong to hu-
man beings.


DR.. Kane described TO me his sensa-
tions upon being exposed two days to a
violent storm at temperature of forty
seven degrees below zero. Although the
physical effect was not particularly pain
ful, yet the mental effect was such as to
make him and his men delirious for some
days afterward. The physical effect Of an
extremely low temperature-perhaps the
lowest which the human frame is capable
Of feeling--is sort Of slow, penetrating,
deadly chill, rather than an acute and
painful sensation. But after the battle is
over, on entering warm room, then n
painful sensation commences. | expert
enced curious counterpart Of this on the
African desert. During the warm hours
of MONDAY, with the air like the blast of
a furnace, | did not suffer any feeling of
intense heat; but after sunset, when the
temperature fell rapidly, then L began to
burn and glow through and through like
live coal. 1t would seem from that,
that the absorption of either heat or cold
into the body is much less sensibly felt
than the giving of it out again.


BAYARD TAYLOR.
Year: 1861

NEURALeIA.-We publish at the
request of friend, a recipe to cure neu-
ralgia. Half a drachm of sal ammonia
in an ounce of camphor wpter, to be tn
ken teaspoonful at dose, and the dose
repeated several times, at intervals of five
minutes, if the pain be not relieved at
once. Half dozen different persons
have since tried the recipe, and in every
case an immediate cure was effected. In
one, the sufferer, lady, had been subject
cd TO acute pains for moro than a week.
and her physician was unable to allevi
ate her sufferings, when solution of sa1
ammonia in camphor water relieved her
in n few minutes.
Year: 1861

How TO PRESERVE HEALTH.-Medi-
cine will never remedy bad habits. In
diligence of the appetite, indiscriminate
dosing and drugging, have ruined the
health and destroyed the lives Of more
persons than famine or pestilcnce. Ifyou
will take advice, you will become regular
in your habits, eat and drink only whole
some things, retire and rise very regular
ly. Make free use of water TO purify
the skin; and when sick take counsel Of
the best practical man you know, and
follow nature.
Year: 1861

ADMINISTERING A PREsoRIPTIoN.-A
physician in Wisconsin being disturbed
one night by burglar, and having no
ball or shot for his pistol, noiselessly load
ed the weapon with dry, hard pills, and
gave the intruder dose which he thinks
will go very far toward curing the rascal
of decidedly bad aliment.
Year: 1861

A FATALIsT.-A Western paper pub
fishes the following: awe knew an old
man who believed that what was 10 be-,
would be- He lived in region infested
by very savage Indians. He always took
his gun with him when going into the
woods; but this time he found that some
of his family had taken it. AS he would
not 90 without it, his friends tantalized
him by saying that there was no danger
of the Indians; that he would not die
till his time came, anyhow.


Yes, yes" said the old fellow; but
suppose l was to meet an Indian, and his
time had come, it wouldn't do not to have
my gun"
Year: 1861

SO denominated from their astOnishing power of
creating life and health, it were, from the
very ashes of the most dlapidated constitutions
are more strongly tonic and more Immediately in
vigorating than pills; containing the same choice
vegetable extracts the latter, in different mod
iication Although really less cathartic than the
LIFE PILLS, they nevertheless begin cleanse the
alimentary canal much sooner; generally slightly
operating within three or four hours, and produc-
lug a decided sense of relief to the head and stoln-
ach, aud exhieratng the mind even in less time
har
Year: 1861

The chapter Of accidents, is certainly
very much against the holders Of Illinois
shinplaste.z. At the particular juncture
when it becomes possible for the public to
realize something in the good bonds depo-
sited for the security Of the notes, the
Treasurer and Auditor are required to 20
to New York to remain ten days, for the
purpose Of paying the State interest and
negotiating the VIII lean. The banking
departments of their respective offices will
be closed until their return. Of course
the interim will be judiciously employed
by the wild CATERS in buying up their de-
preciateI notes, and still farther svindling
the public


There is one remedy for this accident, if
people will act upon it. Let no one sell
dollar Of the notes Of the twenty-three
banks upon which the cali has been made
until. the Offices at Springfield are re-
opened Those who sell in the interim
will Of course be cheated.
Year: 1861

RANK COMMISSIONERS, REPORT.


The report Of the Bank Commissioners
which is printed In fill On the second
page Of this paper, should be carefully ex-
amincd hy all who have any interest in
Illinois currency, Or who expect to have
any n future. Willis the Commissioners
were not required to make any report at
This time, circumstances seemed to render
it fitting that they should gifi!o the public
all the information they possess in the
premises:


Tie document which they have pre-
sentcd US is marked not only By good
sense and careful attention to details,
but ty emphatic justice to all concerned.
No more banks without habitatiqns; no
Year: 1861

PERSONAL. We had the pleasure yester-
day. Of seeing our old friend Lance Nightn-
gill who has just returned from the llum-
toldt country. He looks little thin, but is
The same hearty good soul that we have ever
found him.
Year: 1861

CHEAP Day GOODS &C odchaux Bros d
Co. d street, advertise that they will close
up their business in this city on Friday next
Iney will continue the sale up to that date
and great bargains may he expected.
Year: 1861

THE bend work, of which there is large
quantity. is nothing to boast of, and for the
sake Of the exhibition had better be lightly
passed over.-Sac. cor. Express


The case of bead work exhibited at our
Fair, is on exhibition at the State Fair, and is
something to boast of. 1t is a very hand
some display 1t exhibits the American and
English flags, but no Secession emblem. Is
that reason why it should be eighty passed
over?
Year: 1861

The BRIDGE CASE DECIDED The petition
of L. W. Thomas, for the removal of the
lsnda bridge had hearing yesterday before
the Board of Supervisors who denied the
prayer of the petitioner.
Year: 1861

ing extravagant prices for anything
he has for sale. While the soldiers
are in camps, and pure, patriotic men
and women are at home laboring and
sacrificing for their comfort, these
vampires are charging the most eN-
travagant prices for everything they
have for sale, whether it is purchased
for the poor soldier in the field or for
their fellow-citizens at home. This
is no time for speculation the man
who is guilty of it has no patriotism,
and is worshipper of mammoth
Mark such men and remember them
in future. We are willing that sales
men should get a reasonable profit for
their articles, but to take advantage
Of the necessities of the people and
the Confederate Government and
grind the face of all. is the quintes
sence of heartless Yankeeisn. Among
the rest the factories are running up
their figures at ENORMOUS rates. In
a free country like this we know Of
no way to punish such home vandal-
ism. unless by bringing down, with
milestone power. public opinion upon
them, and making them Il kissing and
a by-word among all patriotic men
and women.


We see the press is everywhere
holding up these pocket pirates to
public gaze in all their moral detormi
tv. Continue TO it to them South
Western Baptist.
Year: 1861

.ats.IWhi some erudite and learned
pundit of the law tell us what In To become of
the patents granted by the United States. IL
the Union be subjected to any more dissoiu-
tion? The cement that bound the old etifIce is
getting more shaky every day.