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Year: 1863

In small town on the Schuylkill river
there is church In which the singing
had completely run down.


1t had been led many years by one OF
the deacons, whose voice and musical pew
er had been gradually failing.


One evening the clergyman gave out
the hymn, which was in metricaf meas
ure, rather harder than usual, aud the
deacon led off. Upon its conclusion the
minister arose and said


Brother B will please repeat the
hymn, as cannot conscientiously pray
after such singing"


The deacon very composedly pitched it
to another tune, with manifest imp prove
ment upon the first effort, and the clergy
man proceeded with his prayer Having
finished, be took up book to give the
second hymn, when he was interrupted
by the deacon gravely getting up and
saying, in a voice audible to the whole
congregation


"Will Mr. - please make another
prayer? 1t will be impossible for me to
sing after such praying as that l''


How TO CURE A LONGING FOR DI.
voRCE.-Bishop Burnet, in his Travels
through Italy, France, Germany and
Switzerland" states that in Berne they
had novel method of dealing with mat
rimonial disputants. Divorces were free
ly granted, but first the applicant must
go through the following test /:


A small room was prepared, in which
the husband and wife were put, the door
being then closed to remain 80 for six
weeks, except it should be opened at the
urgent and united request cf the welded
pair. There were in the room cne stool,
one plate, one spoon, unity of all the
requisites, and the solitary bed was of
such dimensions, that if they choose to
use it, they must needs lie very close to-
getber. Ofone thing, and one thing only,
there was duplicate and that was a
little treatise on the duties of husbands
and wives towards each other. No visitor
was permitted to go near them and they
had only a glimpse at intervals of the
grim face of the janltor as he pushed their
food through hole in the door.


The Bishop states that this test was
attended by the most wholesome results
In most cases the parties were most ex-
cellent friends in few days, and few
could stand out for more than fortnight.
Another very gratifying circumstance
was, that they had scarcely on record a
case in which a second application was
made by persons who had already gone
through the ordeal.
Year: 1863

THR AMApoR.--Neaf fifty men are daily
employed on this ledge, stripping it, run
ming a tuunel, &c. If this energy is con.
tinued during the Winter, the Amador
will by Spring be 10 q very advanced
stage of development, and an immense
amount ofrock will be ready for crushing.
We are pleased to see such enterprise
II all our mines would or could exhibit
such, it would require only q few month
to develop to the satisfaction of all, the
vast riches of this region.


MOUNTAIN QUEEN. This ledge is situa-
ted at the lower end of Marshall Canon.
1t is well defined and crops out very
plainly on the su'EasS. \ tunnel is being
run which win Stifke the ledge about one
hundred and twenty five feet below the
surface. 1t is now about one hundred
and six feet, and work upon it is being
vigorously pushed forward. It is thought
that the ledge will be reached in about
twenty feet further, when the Company
expect to Immediately take out 6ne pay
rock. There are seventeen hundred and
fifty feet in location.


TIE DAVENPORT. This is the name of
ledge recently struck by II. o. Ward,
and is situated near the top Of the hill, on
the south side Of Coral Cauon. Although
but very little work has as yet been done
upon it, We learn that ten dollars foot
has been offered and refused for one hun e
dred feet The original locators have
divided the claim, and formed two com
Panics. The Chapman" and "Dayen.
unit
Year: 1863

Take equal quantities Of water lime
and quick-lime and mix With sand as
usual, put two or three inches of NOR
tar and coarse gravel in the bottom of
the hole so the end of the post will not
come to the ground, then set
your posts in, top end down,
fill in several inches Of thu mortar :,
then several Of the coarse grav.
eL pound it down, then more mortar
and gravel, and so on, until the cement
is raised above the ground several inch.
esaround the post. Slant it away from
the post in every direction so as to turn
off the water: then take coal tar and a
brush, paint around the bottom OfthO
post aud Gil the interstice between the
posts aud cement with coal tar. IN. B.
Only mix enough mortar for one hole
alta timO.J Your post will be as solid
as if set in stone: it don't heAve out
with the frost, aud sag around and pull
the boards of, as the water aud air can.
not get to it. @. w. o.
Mt Gilead, Sept, 1868 70. Farmer.
Year: 1863

A farmer at Adsms, Mass, lately got
so mad with the weather, that he dumped
his hay into tho river. Probably he
felt great deal better. He certainly
didn't hurt the weather, and would have
done better had he sown turnips.
Year: 1863

THE RADICAL Press AND GENERAL McCLEr.
LAs.-One Of the radical journals has at last
published General McClellan's report. Why
has not Massa Greeley the candor to follow
the example Of bis contemporary It is never
too late to turn to honest ways He has given
General Hooker's testimony before the Com
mittes on the Conduct Of the War and many
other matters not favorable TO the late COM
mandant Of the army. Let him now publish
General McClellan's statement. Fair play Is .
Jewel
Year: 1863

men,


The City Fathers having acted their part towards the
construction Of the extension OF tho Harlem Railroad
through Broadway viii meet again to-day ready 70 can
any project Tor the bensnt Of the metropolis and
themselves Alderman Farley will call up his resolutions
In reference 10 the dismissal OF General Fz John Porter
and their adoption notw outstanding the veto Of the
Mayor and they will doubtless be adopted
Year: 1863

How the Rebels treat the Old Whigs.


The following we quote from the Nash
Vile Union:


ait is reported, on good authority, that
a distinguished Wing politician Of this
State, who succumbed to the pressure Of
the rebellion at a late hour, has within the
past few days written letter to one of his
friends in this city. The report adds that
the distinguished exile says in the letter
that the whole rebellion is under the con-
troll Of Southern Democratic leaders, who
on all occasions manifest a disposition to
ostracise and Danish from both civil and
military positions in the COnfedCracy, es-
pecially the former, of trust and profit, all
who were their political opponents in for
mer days. He says that the Whig and
American leaders, especially such as were,
prior to the rebellion, known as Union
men, are ignored in all Confederate delib-
erations, while everything is done accord
ing to the views Of the simon pure South
ern Democracy-a faction noted, of late
years, for its intolerant spirit lie says
that they use their old opponents only as
tools to forward the rebellion, for their
own aggrandizement.


"This evidence, which, if genuine-and
we do not doubt it-comes from q source
whose truth cannot be gainsaid, forms
another addition to the towering columns
of proof already before the country, that
this rebellion, ostensibly commenced for
the defense Of Southern Rights is in
reality the devilish work of defeated
faction, which is seeking to wade through
slaughter to a throne, even though it
should shut the gates Of mercy on man
kind in its mad career. And will old
Wings and Americans grovel in the dust
and tamely kiss the feet of their old enc
mics, who reward them only with cuffs,
kicks, and insults Is the lofty soul of
the old Wings so fallen as that? Did they
learn such spiriHess submission from Web
ster and Clay It is base enough to be
a traitor, but baser far to be The covering,
craven, despised and insulted menial and
henchman of traitor, the performer of
his drudgery, and the receiver Of his in
suits. Shame on such conduct. It is be-
meath the dignity of a Hottentot"
Year: 1863

WEST SIDE STREET RALRoAD.-Last
night in the City Council an amendment to
the ordinance with regard to the West Side
Street Railroad was introduced, allowing the
company to start their road at the intersee-
ton of Superior aud Seneca streets, running
down Seneca to Champlain and down Cham
plain to Center street, substituting that route
for the proposed route down Vineyard street
from the Atwater Block. The ordinance had
its first reading last night. Tho new route
will afford much easier grade than Vim
yard street hill, which is quite PERCEPTIONS.


The work on the road will commence about
the middle of May. The route from the cor
nor of Seneca and Superior, to the Circle.
West Side, will bo built first, running on the
following streets: Seneca, Champlain, Center,
Detroit, Pearl and Franklin. This route win
be put in operation immediately on being
built, turnouts being constructed so that ears
may be run both ways. The route from the
West Side to this side by way of the Main
street bridge and Union Lane will not be
built Immediately. Cars will leave the
corner Of Seneca street every FIVE minutes.


There will be no connection at the corner
Of Seneca street with the railroad on supe-
riOr street, the guage being different. The
street railroads now built have gauge of 4
feet inches. The West Side road will be
five feet guage. The grade on some pOr-
tiOn of the latter road being heavy it is nee
essary to have large and strong horses, re-
quiring wider space between the rails in
which to travel. The wide gusge will insure
wide and comfortable cars.


This road will be of great convenience to
hundreds of our citizens and should receive
every possible encouragement. The differ
ence between gliding smoothly from one side
of tho city to the other in easy street cars,
and being bounced over the road in crowded
smnibuses, can well be imagined. The
sooner the road is built the better.
Year: 1863

New York, April q.
The Common Council at its session last
evening, by a vote of ten in Alderman and
fifteen in Councilmen, adopted a resolu-
ton permitting the Harlem Railroad Co.
to extend their track from Union Square
down Broadway to South and Fulton
street ferries.
Year: 1863

WEST SIDE.-The population of the West
Side is now 7,e0O. 1t has increased greatly
of late, and is still increasing. The manu-
factories that have been built on the Flats
have caused great increase of population
on the West Side. There are no houses to
rent there We are told, which has caused
quite an advance in rents. The southern
and western borders of that portion of the
city are being populated by industrious la
borers, many of whom own the houses they
live in, with gardens attached. The prinei-
pal streets Of the West Side are being inn
proved by the residents thereon, and great
improvements are manifest throughout that
section Of the city. There is an abundance
of both public and private enterprise among
the citizens there, and disposition to keep
pace with other portions of Cleveland
Year: 1863

No PAFER MoxET N CALIToRSIA-To a
believer in hard money, this account Of bank
ins must be good news


There is no paper money in California. The
Constitution of the State prohibits banking.
and the creation ofpaper to circulate as money
No bank-notes have ever been current in this
State or on this coast nor are hank notes used
on any part Of the coast between Acapulco and
Sitka and We arc 50 far from the countries III
which paper money Is current, that no attempt
is made to introduce it here. In our banks there
are great piles of double eagles, but no bank
notes arc visible. Wherever you so. or whatever
YOU buy, you sec only gold AMI silver people
do not think of paper
Year: 1863

After quoting John Locke, that blind
man took his idea Of scarlet from the sound
of a trumpet, witty fellow says that hoop
skirt, hanging out Of shop door, always re-
minds him Of the reel Of a belle
Year: 1863

An Entsll>huidn, NIltll- u TUT -. = IT,
wHg Post. says


No unprejudiced. clear -healed Englishman
can conscientiously defend the Government in
the face of the Foreign Enlistment Act and the
Queens Neutrality Proclamation The Solicitor
General, in his place in the House Of Commons
is s'of counsel for the defendants" and he made
an excellent speech to the jury in favor OF his
client.


The bulk Of tho people Of England will take
practical common-sense Wow Of the case they
will not trouble themselves much with inquiring
into the international law, MUNICIPAL law; they
will only look at the right or the wrong of the
thing, and come TO a CONCLUSION adverse TO the
/ course of the Government.


We believe this Is true The English peo-
pie have moral sentiments and human feel
ings; but the Government OF England has
neither The Government Is an irresponsi-
bic power. having " Empire - its motto,
and yields To- force alone. Any thing IT may
do to favor a rishtecu, cause - a matter Of
policy, and nothing more
Year: 1863

CoLD WINTER. We notice that our
cotemporaries are recording various signs
of coming cold weather. We beg leave
to contribute our mite the sun is run
ming lower and lower every day, and De-
cember and January are close al hand.
Year: 1863

Bold ATTEMPT AT MuRDHR.-The
Rochester Union of Wednesday, has an
account of an attempt to take the life of a
citizen of Rochester, which is scarcely
credible. The Union says: AT or near
the hour of two o'clock this morning. du-
ring the storm Of rain and wind-the
house of DR. Naramore was entered by
man in disguise, wearing mask or cowl
over his face. The first knowledge that
any Of the inmates of the house had of
the presence of stranger came to Mrs
Naramore, who awoke and found man
standing at her bedside reaching his arm
ever her and pointing pistol at the head
OF her husband, who was sleeping beside
and next to the wall of the room where
the bed stood. Mrs. N. shrieked at the
discovery, which alarmed her husband.
and he sprang up in bed. At the same
instant the man standing near snapped
his pistol, cooked it again and fired. The
ball struck the struck the forehead Of DR..
N. just over the right eye, cut cash up-
ward across the front uf the skull. and
passing out entered the wall of the room.


9 wound was not SO severe but the
bounded man retained his senses, and
umping over to the front side Of the bed,
seized the man and was dragged by him
to the sitting room. There he lost his
hold, falling to the floor, aud the assassin
ran out the door he had entered and made
his escape. DIR. N. retained one Of the
buttons of his coat in his hand.


The DR.. though not fatally injured, is
not able, as yet, to give much information
TO the police. No trace Of the assassin
has been discovered
Year: 1863

The TEST OATH.--A great clonor has
been raised by the opposition press about
the oath which vsters in MARYLAND and
Delaware who were challenged as disloyal,
were required to take. But these papers
were very careful not to Let their readers
know what that oath Is out Of which they
attempt to make so much capital. We
copy it entire and ask every reasonable
man ifthere is anything in il or about it
which is Objectionable to y loyal man.
and whether in the present condition Of
the border States, infested As they are by
rebels, it was not wise precautlon to
adopt such measure to prevent them
from carrying out their nefarious pur-
poses:


!" / do hereby solemnly swear that I
will support, protect and defend the Con-
stitutlon and Government of the United
States against all enemies, whether de-
mestic or foreign that / hereby pledge
my allegiance, faith and loyalty to the
same, any ordinance, resolution, or law of
any Sta.e Convention, or Legislature, to
the contrary Notwithstanding that will
at all times yield a hearty and willing
obedle nee to said Constitution and Gov
ernment, and will not, directly or indirect
ly, do any act in hostility to the same, Ell
ther by taking up arms against them, or
AIDING, abetting, or countenancing these
in arms against them: that without per-
mission from the lawful authority, / will
have no communication, direct or indirect,
with any States in nsurrection with the
United States, or with either of them, or
with any person or persons within said in
surrectionary States. and that ! viii in all
things deport myself as good and loyal
citizen to the United States. This I do
in good faith, with fall determination,
pledge and purpose to keep this, my sworn
obligation, and without any mental reser-
walton or evasion whatsoever.
Year: 1863

By General Order No. III, issued from the
War Department, no officer or soldier shall,
without proper authority, leave his colors or
rank TO take private property, or to enter q
private house, or for any purpose, under pen.
atty Of death.
Year: 1863

UvUEE this head, the Missouri Republican
Of Feb. I6, has an article concluding as fol-
lows:


The Democratic and Conservative party of
the North must not place itself in position
to be reekoned in any sense the champion or
apOlogist Of Disunion, for, if it should do so,
it is plain that peace will be only the further
removed by the encouragement the South
will have to hold out for its original demand,
viz: the unconditional acknowledgment on
our part Of a divided nation.


However the case may have eaee stood, or
may hereafter stand, it is quite apparent that
love Of Union-the whole Union, the great
Republic of our fathers--and opposition 10
the further prosecution of the war, are now
incompatible in the loyal States, viewing the
present uncompromising and insolent attitude
Of the leaders of the rebellion. When the
issue is so unmistakably made up, and no dis
position is shown to receive any peaeeaBls
oTertures whatever, we see no recourse but
to fight In this connection we may note
and we are in hopes the secessionists win note
the speech delivered by kir. John Van
Buren,, in New York, few nights ago. We
have no need to refer to the position Of Mr..
Van Buren as a partisan. He has been claim
ed as belonging, emphatically, to the peace
party, and We believe that last Fan the reb-
els hailed him as almost one Of them. A few
passages from his speech in New York are
copied into another column, from which it
win be seen that he declares that q this war
must go on, the determination of the South
not to return to the Union, making any at
tempt to hold aconvention, and negotiate for
peace, barren mission.


We can not turn back now, though there
is great room to modify, amend and reseind,
in the political policy Of the war. If we
would have terms Of an honorable peace we
must fight for them; forif we stop the war
at the stage it is in, we know not where be-
yond the dissolution Of the Union, the South
ern Confederates may see ft to pause IN their
demands for our humiliation.


It would be improper to omit to mention
in this eonnection-though the character of
the Missouri Republican is well known-that
that paper is bitter opponent of the Presi-
dents proclamation policy, and ranks as the
+" Conservative" paper of Missouri
Year: 1863




A SERIES of resolutions have been Of
fered in the Legislature of this State,
proposing an armistice between the con-
tending parties in the unhappy struggle
now desOlating the country, with view
to an adjustment Of the question at issue.
Resolutions to the same effect have been
passed by the New Jersey and other Leg
islatuEes, and public meetings for like
purpose are being held in different sec
tions.


y lJOyfully as the American people might,
and doubtless would, hail the return of
peace, we doubt that majority of them
will acquiesce in any propositions to that
end, which will humiliate the Govern
ment Of the United States in the eyes of
the world, and leave a stain upon the
American character. Our Government
is engaged in a gigantic struggle-not a
struggle for conquest and gubjugation-
but a struggle for its own preservation;
and it behooves US all, as good and true
citizens, to be active and uRceasing in
our endeavors to uphold and sustain it
against the wicked attacks of all who
seek its subversion.


We owe no affinity 70 traitors in arms
against the Government which we revere
from the inmost depths of our heart, and
which affords US protection alike in our
person and property. As soon would we
strike palms in token of esteem with the
assassinsBh would slay us for our mon
ey, as to affiliate with those who are en-
gagged in the hell-concieved conspiracy to
disintegrate the American Union, and
subvert the best Government under the
expansive canopy Of high Heaven. En-
emies to our Government, these traitors
are enemies to US and all we possess. If
they succeed in their devilish eonspira-
cy, they virtually rob us of our Govern
ment, for the day that proclaims the sue
cess Of the rebellion VIII also toll the
death-knell Of the Government of the
United States.


As to the proposed armiStice, we can
not look upon 1t as else than humilia-
Year: 1863

THE Albany Standard of Wednesday pub
fishes the following:


A marriage by telegraph took place yes
terday afternoon, between a young lady in
one Of the principal villages on the Oswego
railroad, and an artillery soldier on duty near
Washington. The chaplain of the bride
groom's regiment telegraphed the material
question ofthe marriage ceremony to the lady,
viz: Do you take -- to be your hus-
bandY directing her to answer, I do and
to authorize him to propose a like question to
the gentleman. In two hours after the lady
rady received the chaplain's first message she
received a second announcing that the soldier
and she was man and vile. This telegram is
her marriage certificate. 1t is understood
that the parents of the lady were opposed to
the union, and that this method was taken to
outwit them. The time for the ceremony
had been fixed by correspondence beforehand,
and the lady was in waiting when the first
message was received at the telegraph Office,
Year: 1863

MRs. DOUGLAS has written letter relative
to the report that she was about to be married
again. sThe following extract is published: ::
" Although I live so quietly, the world seems
determined to talk about me. I have been
disturbed by rumors that I am engaged. I
hope you will think enough of me not to al
low any one ever to say such thing to you
without resentment
Year: 1863

A New York letter says Stewart has the
credit of buying up great class Of the goods
sold. He has warehouses all over the city
crowded with goods. He will sell only a
bale or two at time. Other men can buy
goods; but Stewart is the only man that can
buy and hold He sells never from necessity,
but only when he chooses. Old GiFard is re-
ported to have had dispute with one of the
rich men of the Penn City II can buy you
and sell you again, Girard, said the angry
merchant. And can buy you and keep
YOU was Girard's response.
Year: 1863

THE first year of the URBANA UNION is
drawing to a close. That it has faithfully
fulfilled its expressed purposes no one can
deny. It has been, and viii continue to be,
a paper for the people Of Champaign county
"a supporter Of The Lava firm advocate
Of the Union and the Constitution. We ask
our friends to continue their support, and to
request the patronage of Others, Every sub
scriber can easily obtain another--every town.
ship can more than double its list VIII some
friend in each township go to work at once
and procure good subscription list for Vol
ume Two of the UNION?