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Year: 1863

The YANKEES ABovE.--The latest we have
from the Yankees up the Yazoo river is that
they are making their way through. As yet
they have not got through Cold Water, We
have information that the Instructions, if not
already impassable, will be very shortly, as
competent engineers and hands in large mum.
bers are at work. We deem il advisable not
to state what other preparations are being
made for them, but merely state for the infor.
nation and encouragement of the weak kneed
that something is being done that will defer
indefinitely their proposed visit to Yazoo City,
should they succeed by any possibility in
making their way into the Tallehatchio. We
hope Bx next week TO be able to repor dis
comftufe or destruction of the expedition they
are sending against u.s. XdsoO CITY Banner,
20A Wh. -31s 1F. l -s
Year: 1863

Under this head, the Missouri Re-
publican has an article concluding as
follows:


"The Democratic and Conservative
party of the North must not place itself
in a position to be reckoned in any
sense the champion or apologist of Dis
union, for, if it should do so, it iS plain
that peace will be only the further rO
moved by the encouragement the South
will have to hold out for its original de-
mand, viz. the unconditional acknOwl
edgment on our part of a divided ma
ton.


However the case may have once
stood, or may hereafter stand, it is quite
apparent that love OF Union--the whole
Union. the great Republic of our faith.
ers--and opposition to the further pros
ecution Of the war, are now incompati
ble in the loyal States, viewing the
present incorporating and lnsolen
attitude of the leaders of the rebellion
When the issue is so unmistaksbly
made up, and no disposition is sbowr
to receive any peuceable overtures what
ever, we see no resource bot to fight.


ave cannot turu back now, thougl
there is great room to modify, amen
and rescind, in the political policy o.
the war. IF we would have an honor
able peace we must fight for it; or i
we stop the war at the stage it is in, We
know not where, beyond the dissolu
ton of the Union, the Southern Con
fedcracy may see fit to pause in thsi
demands for our humiliation"


1t would be improper to omit to men
ton in this couaection--though tn
character of the Missouri Republican
pretty we'll known-that that paper is
bitter opponent of thelPresident's proc
lamation policy, and ranks as the Con
servative paper of Missouri.
Year: 1863

/ 1t appears that up to 100 incursble lunatics in
France were confined in cells six feet square, to
which air and light were admitted by the door
alone the food being introduced by sort o
wicket The only furniture consisted of narrow
plarks fastened in the damp walls, and covered
with straw. At one asyum-the Saltpetrie, in
the department of La Seine-rats found theil
way into the cells which were on a level with the
drains, and often attacked and severely wounded
the lunatics, and sometimes occasoned then
death.


"All we read Of" said Dr. Connolly, "concern.
ing the original hospital, called New Bethlehem
in Moorsfeld, near London, is of chains, manaces
and the stocks. A Committee appointed in 1898
declared the house to be SO loathsome and dirty
that it was not fit for any man to enter. The new
building, defective as it was, became the subject
of much commendation; but its praises were
chiefly sung by its own officers, and we possess
little authentic information as to the state of the
institution, except that down to 177O the inmates
were exhibited to the public for money, and that
the price of admission was two pence, and after.
wards one penny.


"We are told that more than thirty years after
the passage of the enactment, luratics supposed
to be under the influence the moon were bound
chained, and even fogged, at particular periods
of the moons age, in order to prevent renewal
of their violence. But some German physicians
suggested still more atrocious modes ofpunishing
them. They wished for machinery by which a
patient just arrived at any asylum, and after be-
ing drawn with freightful cangor over a metal
bridge, across moat, could be suddenly raised to
the top of tower, and as suddenly lowered into
dark and subterranean cavern and they
avowed that if the patient could be made to alight
among snakes and serpents, it would still be
better"


Another invention was a circulating swing,
which was recommended to the profession as a
"safe and efectual remedy" and by means of
which the maniacal or melancholic patient, fast
bound on a couch or chair was rotated at various
rates up to 100 gyrations per minute. This pun
ishment was successful that the patient sub
jected to it was ever afterwards terrified at the
mention of the swing, but it lowered the pulse
and temperature to such degree as to alarm the
physician.
Year: 1863

more one of these days. o, no, none could ever
have received my name but the one who did
Adelhie, care not who nor what she is, she is
mine alone. No parent can ever have her unless
they take me too.


"How queer it looks to see little slipper peep
ing out from beneath my bed, and the little pink
apron hanging on the wall Stranger than all,
to see the owner of all these things sitting in my
easy chair, before my CRATE. But I like such
srangeness.


There, expected before got through writ.
ing that that torment, Emma, would be here.
There they come up the walk l must prepare
to meet the bride of year, as have not seen her
since she was married


July l, l86O-"With my tvj children on
either knee l will endeavor o-write on the last
page of my dear Journal The five years of my
married life have passed so rapidly away that 1
have seldom found time to think of it.


"Adelhie and Emma are very fair, and like the
two for whom they were named, they are four
years old to-day, and are asking me what makes
my hair SO white and mammas so black. AS they
speak my beart sinks to think L am so old, and
my wife so young, beautiful. Who will care
for her when ] am taken away The tears steal
into my eyes in spite, and Adelhie puts her arms
about my neck and draws my head to her pure
bosom, and calls me her darling


'Then my conscience reproaches me for having
tied her to me closely, but she sooths my grief
Nth her gentle words, and says, Look at your
children, husband are they not beautiful ?"


81 loved her before we were married, but how
l love her since Heaven sent US these babes l
cannot tell. No power could find words to por-
tray my feelings There is that tie between us.
so sacred so lasting that nothing but death could
sever it. With my dear family l shall pass the
rest of my days in peace. And when pass on
to the other world shall stand at heavens gates
watching for the old mans love, my baby, my
pet, my Adelhe,"
Year: 1863

PUSH ON.-The following extract from the
writings of Joel Neal may have met the eyes of
many of our readers before. 1t is worth repeat
ing, and the truth it contains is worth remember
ing:-


"There are people who, having begun life by
setting their boats against the wind and tide, are
always just ready to give up, and for that very
reason always helpless and good for nothing.
Good voyages are made both ways.


"a certain amount of opposition is a great
help to man. Kites rise against, not with the
wind No man ever worked his voyage anywhere
in dead calm. The best wind for anything in a
loug run is side wind. If it blows aft, how is
he to get back?


"Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of
opposition. Opposition is what he wants and
must have, to be good for anything. Hardshps
is the native soil of manhood and selfreliance
He that cannot abide the storm without fnching
or quailing, strips himself in the sunshine, and
lays down by the wayside, to be overlooked and
forgotten.


"He who but braces himself up to the struggle,
when the wind blows, gives up when they are
done and falls asleep in the stiffness that follows


"Did you ever know anybody to stick to any
kind Of business, no matter how uncompromising,
ten years at most, and did not prosper ? No mat
ter how bad it might be at the beginning, if he
stuck to it earnestly and faithfully, and tried
nothing else, no matter how hard he might have
found it sometimes to keep his head above water,
still if ne persevered, he always came out bright
in the long run-didn't hep"


THE desire Of being in fashion does not always
arise from the mere monkey instinct of imitation
but often from desire tina: there may be no in
ference as TO our pecunisry inability 70 be so.
Year: 1863

CAUTION TO YOUNG LADIEs.-An Eng
lish woman thus sagaciously points out the
"breakers ahead - Women, acute and
well, judging on other subjects, are blind
as beetles when man addresses the subject
of love to them. moral mist rises be-
fore their understanding they become
credulous as bigots, and the poor man,
even if his suit be hopeless, is instantly in
vested with some sort of merit by virtue of
the tender passions. 1t is remarkable too
that in the inverse ratio to other things,
experience in these affairs seems not only
to avail woman nothing, but to throw her
off her guard. To refuse twenty good Of
fers and marry an apprentice at thirty, is
next to proverb. Well-seasoned hearts,
perforated with many an arrow from Love S
quiver, have always some weak spot in
them, and yield often in minute. For
my own sex-the result of many friendly
confdings-I would sooner trust the dis
cernment of sixteen in these matters than
of six and thirty. And while it is usual to
talk of the dangers of eighteen, and the
folly of young girls, the moralists who wish
well to womankind should point out the
shoals of eight and thirty, the extreme
rashness of forty, the next to madness Of
forty-fve.
Year: 1863

Emerson speaks somewhere of the wis
dom of the men of State Street, who buy
by the acre to sell by the foot again, there
by realizing sure fortunes. That is exact
ly the way it is done. The expression
merely implies forecast-thrift 1t is the
way of the world-the true law Of trade
1t may be all wrong, as some thinkers as
sumo, that one class shall have it in their
power to keep back needed supplies from
the other and consuming class, until, by
thus taking advantage of their needs, they
are able to realize an advance in values
which brings them TO fortune but so il
will be, as long as all cannot perform the
work of exchange between producer and
consumer. And we must remember, too
that if the gains of this middle class are
sometimes rapid, and large almost to fabu-
lousness, they are likewise extremely un-
certain, and, when secured, very liable to
change owners. These circumstances are
all to be carefully considered.


The acre-and-foot principle is the only
one in trade It is the only one in other
kinds of business We have so much time
given us in which to accomplish what am
bition or interest set before us but we
may as well have no time at all, as to neg
lect to improve every moment and hour OF
it, taking no thought at all of solid day
1t is the little things-the minutes-that
tell at the last So with accumulating
money; we mistake fatally, if we wait to
see the tens and the hundreds, before con-
senting to take good care of the ones and
the fractions. 1t is as the Scotch proverb
says-"Many a mickle makes muckle. =
Keep stepping, and days journey of miles
is finally accomplished. Own what you
WILL in the matter Of time, one can use
only minute at once. Have as many
acres as you will, the best way to make il
valuable is to dole it out by the strip
and the foot. The man who continually
makes his farm smaller is obliged to work
what is left him mere thoroughly; and it is
manifestly for his gain that his estate is d.
minished. There are a great many ways
in which this very plain principle applies
to the law of life and the ways of society
Year: 1863

THE desire Of being in fashion does not always
arise from the mere monkey instinct of imitation,
but often from desire tina. there may be no in
ference as to our pecunisry inability to be so.
Year: 1863

Prof. Mapes, in the Working Farmer, es-
Inmates that underdrained soils require one
third less manure 10 secure full fertility; and
the elements of the soil itself ale more rap
idly developed for plant use. Underdrains,
he says, are incomplete if their upper ends
are closed. Both ends should communicate
freely with the atmosphere. The lower end
if immersed in an outlet stream, would cause
lis functions as an underdrain to cease. The
upper end may be connected with the surface
by short chimney of stone Drains so con-
structed will have continuous stream Of air
passing from the lower to the apper end, in
such volume and force as sometimes to blow
out lighted candle With such drain, he
thinks no excess of water can re:.ain in the
soil: neither can a deficiency of moisture oc-
cur.
Year: 1863

How NATURE COVERS Up BATTLE FIELDS.
Did | tell you ever, among the affecting
little things one is always seeing in these
shifting war times, how | saw on the second
Bull Run battle field, pretty, pure, delicate
flowers growing out of enptied ammunition
boxes, fine rose thrusting up IFS graceful
head through the head of a Union drum
which doubtless sounded IFS last charge (ol
retrea. as The case may have been) in that
battle. and cunning scarlet verbena peep
ing out Of fragment of bursted shell in
which strange cup il had been planted p
Wasn't that peace growing out of war;
Even so shall the graceful and the beautiful
ever grow out of the horrid and terrible
things that transpire in this changing but
ever advancing world. Nature covers even
battle grounds soon with verdure and bloom.
Peata and plenty soon spring up in the track
of d1Nasiatins campaigns, and all things IL
nature AID in society shall work out the
progress CT mankind and the harmony O.
Gods great designs.-Letter from the Army
Year: 1863

\ SILENT ClTY.-Fruits Of rebellion. The
first thing that strikes one as he passes along
the levee a. New Orleans, IS the Sabbath ike
stiffness that seems to reign over The city.
Inc levee, as far as the eye can reach, is bare
Of everything save rich crop of grass
which, although a ine thing in an artificial
point Of view, is not calculated to convey q
great idea of commercial activity Cor.
Boston TrQreller.
Year: 1863

A dairyman noted for the large amount of
cheese yielded by his COWS, told the editor of
the Dairy Farmer that one of the secrets of
his success in this respect was the careful
manner in which he treated his herd. His
cows we're driven to the stable leisurely. No
dogs were used for the purpose of driving
the COWS. and the persons in his employ who
were caught striking or in any way abusing
cow. were discharged on the instant Let
the COWS have All abundance of food, and
take their time in coming TO the barn, es-
pecially in hot weather. Milk clean and reg
ularly. And from fifty TO one hundred lbs.
m ore cheese can be made per cow during the
season, than when they are dogged out of
the fields night and morning.
Year: 1863

propose hereafter, for the benefit of those of
onrosntry frendswho donot have access to the daily
paparsto give in each issue short summary or ab.
stracsofall the important of the week up to the
honrofgoing to press. BY this means we hope to
keep our subscribers well advised of what is going on
at'poneand abroad We shall begin this series of
articles in our next paper
Year: 1863

1F President Lincoln has adopted policy
which we can cordially indorse. as an exempli6
cation of Emcrson's theory Of compensation He
has sent Beast Butler back TO his old 6eid Of Big
Bethel the scene of his only encounter with
masculine rebels during the war, and where be
won as much glory as over the rebels In crinoline
Of New Orleans
Year: 1863

INDIANAPOLIS, OctOOer 81, 1908.
WILLIAM F. PIDeEoN. Eso-DEAR SIR: Your
favor of the 23d has been received. / have de-
layed answering it, that | might fully consider
the matters of which you speak have thought
long and earnestly on the subject OF the next can
vass in this State, and have tried to think that
might find it possible to accept the nomination
for Governor, If offered TO me; but have not been
able to obtain my consent TO do so. If we had
been defeated in the State in tho late elections
might not have felt ut liberty to decline any po-
sition which might have been assigned TO me;
but the results Indicate unmistakably that In
diana is thoroughly and decidedly Democratic,
aud furnishes the assurance that we may rely
with certainty on carrying the State in 1864,
feel that may properly consult both my inc
notion and interests by declining the race.


In my judgment, the welfare of the country is
bound up in the success of the Democratic party
in the contest of 1864 and | am willing to labor
with all my strength, to aid in achieving its sue
cess. But want office If the Convention
chooses to place my name on the Electoral tic
ket, | will accept the place. and devote nv entire
strength to the work. Ii not in that position,
shall still, private. do my duty to my coun-
try and my party.


While | most sincerely thank nv friends for
desiring to place me in nomination for the high
est Office in the gilt of the people of the State,
must be permitted most positively 10 decline the
of ms name in that connection. If this de
termination shall disappont them, will regret
IL; but shall hope that the choice OF the Conven-
ton will he such as to 90 away with any moment
AIRY disappointment they NAV feel, and that they
will do me the justice to believe me when as
sure them that no light considerations have in-
duced me to the course have taken.


Respectfully, yours.
Year: 1863

The Gallant Second Of New Hampshire.


Lieut. Colonel Bailey, commanding, passed
through this city to-day, en- route from the
Army of the Potomac for the Granite State to
recruit. They left homo with one thousand
men, and return with only three hundred. The
tattered colors they bore spoke eloquently of
the deeds of the regiment.
Year: 1863

The Democratic State Convention passed the
following resolutions unanimously and they stand
rs he creed OF the United Democracy Of Cali
lornia:


Reso'red, That the Democracy OF the State of
California are in favor OF an unatcrable adhcr-
ence to the Constitution OF the United States.
with all its guarantees Of civil liberty uninl-
paired.


Rrsolvcd That We are in favor of the restora.
ton and preservation of the whole American
Union: that we recognize to the fullest extent
the rig2t and duty Of the Government to resist
by every Constitutional mode rebellion or insur-
rection against its lawful supremacy; but we re-
cognze that right solely for the purpose of restor
ing its constitutional authority and for no other
purpose whatsoever.


Resolred, That it is the duty of the State of
California, rs n member Of the Union. to yield
obedience TO all constitutional acts of Congress
and the Federal Executive and that any indivi-
dual. OF any party. who shall cndeavOr to incite
nsnrrccion or rebellion within her borders, or
dsatfecton and dscord among her people, isa
traitor to her best interests.


Resolved, That the aim and object of the Demo
cratic party is to preserve the Federal Union and
the rights of the several States unimpaired: and
they hereby declare that they do not consider the
administrative usurpation of extraordinary and
dangerous powers not granted by the Consitu-
tion-the subversion of the civil by the military
law in States not in insurrection or rebellion
the arbitrary military arrest, imprisonment trial
and sentence of American citizens in such States
where civil law exists in full reign-the suppress
sion OF freedom of speech and of the press the
open and avowed disregard of State rights the
fanatical attempt to place the negro on a social
and political equality with the white race and
the employment of unusual test oatbs-as calcu
lated to preserve or restore union of the several
States or perpetuate 4 government 'deriving its
just powers from the consent of the governed"


Resoipcd, That we are opposed to all secret
political organizations and societies. as danger.
Gus to the liberties of the people and destructive
to our republican form of Government.


Resoired That we claim and demand as nal-
ienable rights, freedom of thought freedom of
speech and Of the press, and further declare that
government agents should at all times be held to
strict accountability to tie people, and that all
errors of such agents should be liable to full and
free discussion for the purpose of correction by
the ballot-box.


Resolved That we denounce and unuual lifiedly
condemn the Emancipation Proclamation of the
President OF the United States as tending it to
protract indefinitely civil war, incite servile in.
surrecton. aud inevitably close the door forever
to restoration of the union of these States.


Resolved, That we disapprovc of all Congress
sional laws tending to substitute paper curren.
cy in California in place of our own metallic cir
culating medium.


Resolved, That the spirit and meaning of the
Democratic Platform of this State are compro-
missed in the words THE Constitution as it is
and the Union as it was.'
Year: 1863

three hundred thousand vounteers' Tie eS""i'"
all citizens and State officials TO assist In strensthen


ing the army by voluntary enlistment and carrying
ou, the wishes of the President to the utmost OF


their power He says, in urging the necessity oil
immediate obedieRce to this cal that at this time
the defenders Of the national capital are rnenaced
by superior force. the Army OF the
Cumberland is in an imperilled condition.
and the military operations Of the govern
ment are delayed and hindered by the
want of adequate military power and are threa-
tened with serious disaster and that in this emer-
gency it is the duty of all the citizens 10 listen to
the appeal set forth by the President, and to give
efficient and cheerful aid in filling up the thinned
ranks of our armiea
Year: 1863

DoUGHNUTs.-Put two tablespoonful
of yeast into three pints of warm water /;
stir in -four till it is a middling thick bat
ter; let it rise about three hours, till it is
light but not sour take six quarts OF
-four, three pints of brown sugar, rolled
fine, three quarters Of a quart of sweet
lard melted and warmed with pint oi
milk, one Tablespoonful of fine salt, and
one ounce of powdered allspice. Put all
together and knead as you would bread
If not quite wet enough, put in a little
warm water. 1t should be about the stiff
ness of bread-dough, and well-kneaded.
Let it stand over night and then knead
it again. Roll it upon a pastry-board,
and cut it in such forms as you please.
Fry the cakes in sweet lard as hot as pos
sible without burning Gencsee Farmer.


MUFFINs. Three tablespoonfuls of but
ter melte d in three pints of milk when
cold stir in six eggs, one teaspoonful of
salt, two tablespoOnfuls ofyeast, and flour
to make the batter as thick as you can
beat it. 1t will rise in three hours Ibid


A CURE FOR WHooPING CoUGH.-
Cochineal, pulverized, ten grains salt Of
tartar, thirty grains; sugar one ounce.
Mix with one-half pint of hot water.
Dose, one teaspoonful three times day.
Ibid


How TO SOFTEN HARD WATER.-0ne
half an ounce of quick lime dissolved in
nine quarts of water, and the clear solu-
ton put into barrel of hard water. The
whole will be soft as it settles clear
Ibid.


How TO Cook A RABBIT. fol
stewing the same as with fowls, and aftei
par-boiling, change the water, adding salt
Three hours steady stewing is not toe
much for an old rabbit; the great point
is to get it tender, but not ragged. When
cooked, add wo-thirds of teacup of but
ter and stir it while boiling, two table
spoonfuls of -four in cup of water, then g
little pepper. Toast to surface brown
but do not harden, three slices of bread
butter them freely while hot, lay on the
platter, and pour the stew over them
american AgricuituriSt.


ZINC WASH FOR RooMs.-Mix oxide
of zinc with common size and apply it
with brush, like lime whitewash, to the
ceiling of room. After this apply a
wash, in the same manner, of the chlorid,
of zinc, which will combine with the oxidt
and form a smooth cement with shining
surface. IS Selected.