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Year: 1861

1t is sad fact, that nearly every young Ia
Gy in fashionable life has lateral curvature of
the spine. This comes on at the age of ten
or eleven, and continues slowly but steadily
to Increase, unnoticed even by mothers
watchful eye, till the child is really deformed
one shoulder Is much larger and higher than
the other, and one hip higher, SO that the
dress-maker is obliged to put cotton in the
dress, to make the back look fiat and square.


The boys-their brothers, have no such
trouble; why should they? The question
may well be asked by every thoughtful parent.
l answer that improper dress and other physi-
illogical errors, in which girls constantly in
dulge, produce this mischief. The dress of
the girl is always tighter than her brothers.,
and this is begun while she is quite young, to
give her form,'' the mother says, as if God
did not do this when he made the child.


This constant pressure upon the muscles of
the spine, which are designed to keep it
straight, causes absorption Of those muscles,
and as the right arm is used more than the
left, the spine is drawn under the right shout
der blade, thus making it project. The mus
cles are so weakened by absorptions, they can
not bring the spine back to its proper posi-
ton, and you have case of lateral curvature.


In addition to this tight dress, l have seen
girls of thirteen and fourteen with corsets on.
Often these are adopted by thoughtess moth
ers, in the hope to straighten the child, but
under their cruel pressure the difficulty rapidly
increases, till the poor deformed girl is sent
to spinal institution to be treated. While
this difficulty is gradually increasing the
young girl is sent to school, to spend five or
six hours each day bending over desk, and
when she returns home, instead of being al
lowed to play ball or any other active game In
the open air, as her brothers are is placed on
high piano stool, where her toes but just
touch the floor, with nothing to protect her
back. In this position she must sit one long
painful hour. Do you wonder she has a
crooked spine {? l wonder that any escape,
for all are obliged to pass through the same
killing ordeal.-Lewis's GYMNASTICS.
Year: 1861

on this question, had not seen il stated, that
an order had been issued by General Mellow
ell IN his department, substantially forbidding
all fugitive slaves from coming within his
lines, or being harbored there. Is that order
to be enforced in all Military Departments 7
II SO, who are to be considered fugitive slaves 2
Is slave to be considered fugitive whose
master runs away and leaves him /? Is it for
hidden to the troops to aid or harbor within
their lines the negro children who are found
therein, or is the soldier, when his march has
destroyed their means of subsistence, to al
low them to starve because he has driven off
the rebel master? Nor shall the commander
OF regiment or battalion sit in judgment upon
the question, whether any given black man
has fled from his master, or his master fed
from him? Indeed, how are the free born to
be distinguished Is one any more or less a
fugitive slave because he has labored upon the
rebel entertainments If he has so labored,
as l understand it, he is to be harbored. By
the reception of which are the rebels most to
be distressed, by taking those who have
wrought all their rebel masters desired, mask
ed their battery, or those who have refused to
labor and left the battery unmaSked


81 have very decided opinions upon the
subject OF this order. 1t does not become me
to criticise it, and | write in no spirit of criti
cism, but simply to explain the full difficult
ties that surround the enforcing it. If the





of the Government, |, as soldier, shall be
bound to enforce it steadfastly, il not cheer
fully. But if left to my own discretion, as
you may have gathered from my reasoning, l
should take a widely different course from
that which it indicates.


s'In loyal State would put down SER
vile insurrection. In state of rebellion l
would confscate that which was used TO op-
pose my arms, and take all that property,
which constituted the wealth of that State
and furnished the means by which the war is
prosecuted, beside being the cause of the
war; and if in SO doing, it should be objected
that human beings were brought to the free
enjoyment of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness, such objection might not require
much consideration.


ssPardon me for addressing the Secretary of
War directly upon this question, as it involves
some political considerations as well as pro-
priety of military action.


81 am, Sir, your obedient servant,


sBESJAMIN +. BUTLER
Year: 1861

A SUGGESTION TO VoLUNTEERs.-The New
York Examiner says. GA medical friend
whose European experience gives value to his
testimony, and whose heart has been panied
at the number of deaths which have already
taken place in our army from the loss OF blood
from wounds begs us to suggest that the per
chloride of iron, an article to be obtained from
all our larger druggists, checks hemorrhage,
even from large blood vessels, promptly and
effectually. Four or five drops sufficient


to check completely the flow of blood from
anything except the largest arteries, and a
half teaspoonful will arrest bleeding even
from these. He advises that each non-com-
missoned officer should be provided with a
small fiat tin bottle of this, containing say
couple of ounces, which he can wear in his
breast pocket, and that the bottle should have
wound around it little bat cotton, on which
the iron could be dropped, or poured, to apply
it. This simple device would have saved sew
eIal valuable lives at the affairs at Vienna and
Great Bethel. Will not the Sanitary Com
mission see to this matter"
Year: 1861

MOSQUITOES AND THE BLoCKADE.-The editor
of the Cincinnati Gazette is perfectly jubilant
at the effect the blockade of the Mississippi
has had upon Mosquitoes. The editor says
the 'scool spell'' may have had its effect in
producing this happy state of affairs, but We
verify believe we are indebted to the stoppage
of steamboat connection between Cincinnati
and New Orleans for no inconsiderable a.
mount of it. Mosquitoes are among the most
unbearable of Southern hum-bu
Year: 1861

1t is said that Judge Wayne, of the U. S.
Supreme Court, though citizen of Georgia,
is now in Washington for the purpose OF TAX
ing his accustomed seat upon the bench. In
the general bankruptcy of character with which
so many of the foremost men of that State
have allowed themselves to be carried away
by the secession mania, the firmness of this
distinguished jurist is the more admirable.
All honor to Judge Wayne.
Year: 1861

A correspondent of the Boston Transcript
writing to that paper under date OF June %
gives some interesting particulars of the state
Of the Military Academy and the recommen'
dations of the recent Board Of Visitors. The
Board, which has Just closed its session, recon
mended an increase in the number Of cadets
The maximum number that can now be admit
ted is 273, while the barracks to the buildings
are capable Of accommodating 400. Although in
the last forty nine years. the population Of the
country has been multiplied four fold, the legal
number OF cadets admissible into the Academy
has been enlarged by the addition of but twenty
three. The complement in 1912 was ESQ.,
The Visitors, therefore, recommend that the
corps be raised to 400 cadets, that each United
States Senator, and each United States Repre-
sentative, be allowed, respectively, to nominate
one, and that the remainder be appointed by
the President at his discretion.


Another and quite important suggestion OF
the late Board is, that the cadets be hereafter
taught the use of the telegraph, so as to be
come practical operators The course of study
now covers period Of five years. 1t is pro
posed to reduce it to four years, which was the
term originally adopted. The graduation OF
two classes this year. the fourth and fifth, viii
create large number Of vacancies, and will con
siderably increase the size OF the class which
will enter on its studies this summer. In the
whole corps there remains but thirteen cadets
from the South, and but one OF these is IRON
the Cotton States.
Year: 1861

The telegraph, or rather the Agent OF the
Associated Press, through the telegraph, has
spread all over the country q special dispatch
from Washington to the New York Herald, in
which it is said that "a spirit is being aroused
that will result in placing the man who shall
dare to offer a proposition to compromise with
traitors in the same category, and to hang
both"


The above announcement coming from the
National Capital says the Ohio Statesman, may
Re taken by some as having the sanction of the
Administration, as it is addressed to paper as
fierce for the continuance Of the war to the last
extremity, as it was violent in its opposition at
the commencement Of hostilities.


The idea of hanging the man who shall dare
propose opening negotiations with view oi
putting an end to the civil war now raging, for
the expression, compromise with traitors"
can mean no more than this, reminds one ofan
assertion made by President Lincoln in his In
augural. Addressing his countrymen, the Pres.
ident said,


"Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight al

ways; and when, after much loss on both sides,
and no gain on either, you cease fighting the
identical questions as to terms oil intercourse
are again upon you.'


Was this reasonable suggestion in Presi-
dent Lincoln? In mis- opinion we cannot fight
always; there must come time when fighting
will cease, and negotiations be opened with
TRAITORS on the identical questions as to terms
of intercourse which were agitated before the
war began.


The President may have been right or wrong
in this statement. That is question we do
not undertake at present to decide, but are con-
tent to leave to his party to settle among them
selves. They can denounce him as traitor,
if they choose, and call for his deposition and
eyacutiou, but still we think that at any stage
ofthe war, the discussion Of the proprety ofits
longer continuance may be eminently proper
and patriotic. 1t is evident that such discus
sion must be had some time or other, or the
war will be nterminabie.
Year: 1861

NTour State Government has become SO
hopelessly corrupt that capitalists refuse to lend
1t any more money, for the reason that they have
no guarantee that the money will be applied to
the purposes for which it was borrowed. The
"tin cup' administration is at a low ebb, and
the only salvation ofthe State is the success o.
the Democratic party at the next election, Il
its soul has not departed before that time.
Year: 1861

The following table will show what proper.
ton of the officers for the eleven new regiments
ordered by Government are from the regular
army, and what from civilians; 1t was under
stood that the arrangement of the War Depart
ment was to have them about equally divided
but the proportion of civilians is more than two
to one over those from the regular army;
Year: 1861

AN ARCTIC SCESE.-The appearance ofsthe
bay and mouth of the North river at an early
hour this morning was really sublime, in
its wildness and wintry grandeur. The
mouth of the river was filled with large
floating fields of unbrohen ice, while down
the bay hillocks of ice, crested with snow of
purest whiteness, were floating towards the
Kills or the lower bay. In various directions
steamers were trying to force their way
through the ice, some succeeding only after
repeated efforts and circutous routes, and in
the midst Of a large field was sloep en-
bedded which her tow boat had to abandon.
The Staten Island ferry boat Flora, which
came within speaking distance of her deck
st few mlnutes past eight, was unable to
iAnd her passengers until half past. The
slips on the North River were filled with
floating ice, and altogether the scene was as
Arctic as we would wish to see in this To-
calty
Year: 1861

Suppose the little cowslip


Should hang its golden cup,
And say, "I'm such tiny flower,


I'd better not grow up,
How many a weary traveller


Would miss its fragrant smell:
How many n one would grieve


To lose it from the dell?
Suppose the glistening dew-drops


Upon the grass, should say,
"What can paltry dcw-drop do
I'd better roll away"
The blade on which it rested,


Before the day was done,
Without drop to moisten it,,


Would wither in the sum-.
Suppose the fragrant breezes,


Upon a summer day,
Should think themselves too small to cool
The traveller on his way
Who would not miss the smallest
And softest ones that blow,
And think they made great mistake
II they were talking so?
How many deeds of kindness
A little child may do,
Although it has but trifing strengths
Or will, compared with you!
ptwants loving spirit,


Much more than strength, to prove
How many things child may do
For others, by its love.
Year: 1861

Why IT SUPPORTS CoNNEss.-The San
Francisco Times, Republican journal, which
recently took down the name of Leland Stan
ford for Governor, and hoisted that of Con-
ness gives the following, among other reasons
for so doing


As matter of course, we have had the best
means of obtaining information as to the
strength of our party in this contest, and we
regret to confess that the prospects of success,
so far as the Gnbernatorial candidate is con-
cerned, are not hattering. The people at this
time require firm and experienced Executive
officer "a man of nerve. quick to resolve and
as ready to execute. From the best informa-
tion we have received, no doubt IS left in our
mind that the people everywhere look to John
Conness as the man who is best suited for the
times, and he, therefore, will receive our earn.
est support from this hour until the day of
election. Whatever may be said py parti
zans who are crazy after office, and to whom
the peace of the county is matter of smaller
consideration than the qualification of their
lust for the spoils, we are conscious, before
Heaven. that we are only pursuing the path Of
duty, and are acting exactly in accordance
with the wishes of a vast majority as the Re-
pubcans of this State.
Year: 1861

Resoired, That we are in favor of the pres
eryation of the Union upon Constitutional
guarantees which will be acceptable to both
sections of the Confederacy, but if that desira-
ble consummation be impossible, then we are
in favor of the recognition of the independence
of the Confederate States, and a treaty of
amity and peace between them and the United
States Government as the only alternative
which will terminate the horrors of civil war
and bring back peace and happiness 10 our
distracted country.


The above is the whole sum and substance
of the platform of the California Secessionists,
and when figured up amounts to Just this :
They are not in favor of peace unless it is
matter how low in the depths of humiliation
and degradation the Federal Government may
be placed. JEFF. Davis and his cohorts must
emerge from their robes of treason unscathed
Ii such compromise cannot be made, then
they are IN favor of recognizing the indepen-
dence oil the Southern Confederacy; thereby
acknowledging the right of n few ambitious
unprinciped politicians to bind themselves to-
gether, institute reign of terror over the
people in their immediate vicinity, steal the
property of the Government, drive loyal men
from their fresides. and appropriate their
property to their own use, in short-to create
a political chaos with none, to molest or
make them afraid" On Wednesday next the
voters of Butte County will be called upon to
cast their ballots for State and County officers,
and We warn them against voting for men for
any Office who stand upon that resolution, for
1t contains Secession rihed cannon, aud
should be indicted for carving concealed wea-
Year: 1861

Much has been said and written by Seces
sion orators and writers recently about the
speech made by Senator Douglas in the United
States Senate in March last, but after the
existing rebellion had assumed the magnitude
of general uprising of the Cotton States in
open warfare against the Government and the
Constitution, he said in his letter to the Chair
man OF the State Democratic Committee of
Illinois, dated Chicago, May 10th 1861, that


All hope of compromise with the Cotton
States was abandoned when they assumed the
position that the separation of the Union was
complete aud final and that they would never
consent to a reconstruction 10 any contingency
not even If we would furnish them with a
blank sheet of paper and permit them to in
scribe their own terms


Still the hope was cherished that reasonable
aud satisfactory terms of adjustment could be
agreed upon with Tennessee, North Carolina
and the Border States, and that whatever
terms would prove satisfactory to those loyal
States would create a Union party in the
Cotton States which would be powerful enough
at the ballot box to destroy the Revolutionary
Government and bring those States back into
the Union by the voice of their own people
This hope was cherished by Union men North
and South, and was never abandoned until
actual war was levied at Charleston and the
authoritative announcement made by the Rev
olutionary Government at Montgomery. that
the Secession flag should be placed upon the
walls Of the Capitol at Washington, and a
proclamation issued inviting the pirates of the
world to prey upon the commerce of the United
States


These startling facts, taken in connection
with the b0astful announcement that the rava-
ges of war and carnage should be quickly
transferred from the COTTON fields of the South
TO the wheat fields and corn fields of the North
furnish conclusive evidence that it was the
fixed purpose of the Secessonsts utterly to
destroy the Government of our fathers, and
obliterate the United States from the map of
the world


In view of this state of facts there was but
one path of duty left to protect men. 1t was
not party question, nor a question involving
partisan policy it was a question Of Govern
ment or no Government country or no coun-
try and hence it became the imperative duty
of every Union man. every friend of consttu-
tional liberty. to rally to the support of our
common country, its Government and flag, as
the only means of checking the progress of
revolution and of preserving the Union of
States.


This is from his last communication to the
public-aud does away with all those stale
opinions that were made long ago but when
the crisis came and men, and patriots had to
choose between their country and its overthrow,
the great Douglas was found on the side of bis
country and its Constitution
Year: 1861

THEY CoUNT THE Cosr.-The secessionists
affect to stand appalled, at the enormous cost
of the war which their friends in the South
have forced upon the country, and parade it
before the public as cause for the Govern
ment to lay down its arms and meekly submit
to the behests of traitors They must think
that they loyal portion of the people of the
United States are such mercenary misers that
they would suffer the government of their love
to be torn asSunder and destroyed without un-
loosing their purse-strings in an effort to save
it. They need not lay any such hattering unc-
ton to their souls, for the people have not yet
forgotten that fortunes and years of dreary
toll were expended in establishing this govern
ment, and that a Washington battled for it
through eight long years of grim visaged "
war without one dollar Of pay for his services.
Like their forefathers. they now place " their
lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor =
in the scale, and ask not for home or peace
without country.
Year: 1861

One of the New Jersey volunteers
writes from the camp Of his regiment at
the scat of wari


"Sleeping on tho floor, or any other
hard substance, is a more agreeable op-
GRAFTON than one would imagine, unless
from actual experience. The security
one feels, knowing that there Is no dan
ger Of rolling out Of bed, is great salts
faction. Feathers having been recon-
mended TO us as a fine thing TO lie upon,
we purchased one tho other day while in
Washington, and gave il a fair trial.
The first night wo laid il down broRdside
and found we had slight feeling ofrhen-
mGt'sm In the morning, probably owing
TO It's softness. The next night we prop
ped II up with the sharp end skywnrd, and
found tito be just about the cheese. All
the members Of our company now use
them in the same manner" ...r.l.1.
Year: 1861

IN
"A the construction of Sidewalk on Water street.
The Trustees Of The City of Neudda do Ordain as Jollo,.


SECTION l. 1t shall be the duty Of the property
holders ON the southerly side Of Water street from
the junction Of Nevada street to the residence of
Charles Kent, or before the first day of January
1862, to construct sidewalk in front of their prop
erty.


SEC. 2 Said sidewalk shall be four feet in width
and shall be constructed under the direction and
supervision Of the City Marshal


SEC. 3. Should any property holder on the south
ery side Of Water street. between the termini spec
ned in the first section Of this ordinance neglect or
refuse to construct the sidewalk in front of his or her
property, as required it shall be the duty of the
Marshal to let out contract for having the work
DONE and the property along the line thereof shall be
held responsible for the reasonable expense of the
same.


Passed November goth, A. D., 1861.


CHAS. KENT, President.
Year: 1861

Non-Attendance On Public Worship


In recent issue we called attention to tn


painful fact, that large portion of the in


habitants Of our State were in habitual ncglec
} of public worship upon the Sabbath There


are undoubtedly various influences that con
| tribute to this neglect, some of which, VIZ


have already mentioned. 1t is not, however
of so much consequence to know what are
the causes, as to be able to know by wha,
means remedy may be provided We dc.
sign in this article to make suggestions in re-
gard to means which may be applied to awak-
en- greater interest upon this subject.


1t is important that the professed children
OF God, in this regard, set an example worthy
Of imitation. It is obvious that no small por-
tion of this neglect Of the house Of God, lies
at the doors of those who profess the highest
regard for the claims of the Gospel. Among
these are found not a few who not only neg.
lect social meetings, but are often absent
from the sanctuary. They are not apparent
ly dictated by any strong unbending princi-
| pies, but consult their own convenience and
indifferent feelings, and regard it of but lit.
tie account whore and how the Sabbath is
spent. Every professed Christian is under a
strong obligation to give his or her influence
to sustain the institutions of the Gospel. We
have right to expect that they will cheer.
fully pay of their substance for its mainte-
nance, and also give to this cause the weight
Of their example. How many families and
neighborhoods have been led to treat the
means of grace with Indifference from the
neglect Of protesting Christians If any
thing is needed to convince any one of the
magnitude Of this neglect, let them calculate
the average attendance Of the members of
their own church upon Sabbath services In |
this matter, there is great responsibility |
resting upon the professed disciples of the
Savior. We fear that many who are guilty
do not know what they do-they do not re-
fleet upon the nature and results of their
course. ....


In addition to o good example there should
be systematic efforts to call into the house Of
God these neglectors of salvations. All will
be ready to coucede that it is the duty Of the