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Year: 1861

er against brother, in bloody ,inhuman,
fratricidal war.


l read the other day letter from Je-
re Clement, containing an account of
the tearing down of the national flag and
running up the flag of Alabama in its
place, and / cried over it like a very
child. My eyes owe: ow as ! write, and
the burden oftears lie heavy on my heart
all the day long. I have felt for the
past month as though ! were sitting by
the bedside of dear f:iend, watching
the approach of a dread destroyer, but
still hoping almost against hope that the
uplifted hand might yet be staid.


| If / hear q strain of one of our old ma
tional melodies it sends an icy chill to
my heart like the falling of the earth
upon the coffin lid Never would / be-
lieve that those clarion notes, that once
set the blood bounding through my veins
would ever fall So like wall of despair
upon my ear. :. is true I love the
South-my hopes and my prayers are
with her-but none to the exclusion of
all other portions of my country.


Although love the Old Dominion as
the home of my mother, the blue noun
tains of Tennessee as the shrine Of many
fond associations, the happy home of a
dear brother and sister, and the birth
place Of our four little darlings, dear to
me as the apple of mine eye; though the
banks of The Great River are sacred to
the momory of loves young dream and
endeared to me by the calm sweet dream
of a welded life, and the God-given
treasure of my little blue-eyed pet; yet
still cannot forget that. cold and still,
in one of Ohios silent cities lies my beau
tiful mother; that upon the messy noun.
tains and beside the singing stream of
the Old Keystone State l laughed and
sang away the sunny hours of childhood
and there, too, still watching prayerful-
ly the fate of the loved ones who have
gone out from the shadow of the old
roof tree, to find home in the land of
the song-bird and the sunbeam, are the
blessed old folks at home. To me there
is no North, no South, no East, no West;
all is my country, all my kindred. -
Alas! that | should see that country
Stru Cling, dying. Forbid it, Heaven,
that should live to weep amid my coun-
trys ruin?
Year: 1861

Red Stain for lrory.-P7ocure from
military tailor some threads or pieces
of scarlet cloth; take a handful of them
and boil them in pint of water, into
which few pieces of alum should be
thrown. Let the Ivory be immersed in
this when very hot until the required
tint is obtained.


Green Dye.-Wool, silk, and linen,
are usually dyed green by giving them
first blue color, and afterwards dyeing
them yellow; when the yellow is first
given several Inconveniencies follow; the
yellow partly Sc, Arates aga in in the
blue vat, and communicates green col
or to it, thus rendering it useless for ev-
cry other purpose except dyeing green.
Any of the usual processes for dyeing
blue and yellow may be followed, taking
care to proportion .ho depth of the shades
to that of the green required. When
sulphate Of indigo is employed, it is u
sual to mix all the ingredients together
and to dye the cloth at once; this produ-
ces what is known by the name Of Sax
on, or English green.


Maple Sugar Caady.--Take i've
pounds of sugar and half an ounce of
cream of tartar; break the sugar and add
two tumblers Of water; when the syrup
boils up throw in a little water and take
it from the fire, and skim it; continue
to do this while any impurities rise, then
boil slowly without stirring until it reach
es the sixth degree or cracks; drop a
little in cold water often. to be able to
decide when it is boiled sufficiently; have
the pans ready buttsred. pour hut little
in each pan, cool speedily BY setting the
pans ou ice or floating in water, and
stretch the candy as soon as it can be
handled; if not stretched very warm, it
cannot be worked, as it is very brittle
Pull it back and forth with the hands,
or throw it over stretcher until it is as
white as possible. then twist il into small
strings and break it into sticks. This
candy requires great care to make and
not have it grain, but is as good ss any
oonsectioneE's when properly made
Year: 1861

A little philosophy enables us to read
with sort of curious pleasure, that the
water we drink, the mir we breath, and the
food VIC cat, are instinct with animal life;
that myriads of tiny creatures, whose active
little bodies evade the scrutiny of the keen
est eyesight, arc leading busy life around
us. When, however, wo are told that man,
who regards himself as having dominion
over oil other varieties of animate nature,
is likewise the abode of tbrongs of living
creatures, which find no portion of his body
sacred from their intrusion, pleasant sur
prise is changed into wonder, and we ask
ourselves. can it be SO: Our conceived
superiority in the universe receives a shock,
and our monarcbical exclusiveness in the
scale Of creation at once falls to the common
level. We prematurely find ourselves
IA brother to the insensible rock, and the slug


gish cod,


Which the rude swain turns with his share and
TIRE ads upon."


We are but common clay, after all. Yet
so 1t is as devotee Of science rather graphic
ally tells us in his preclude to the peculiari-
ties of "mites." "Man, the last and most
wonderful of all the Creators works. is but q
tissue of living matter acting independently,
10 its decay and reproductions, of the breath
he received from Heaven. Invisible beinga
live unfelt and unknown upon the very
throne of intellect and reason crawl in the
muscles, swim like leviathans in the clear,
soft liquid of the infants eyes. and remain
unscathed by the fiery glow of those of tho
warrior in the field of battle" Let Us re-
member that we are but microcosms of in
sect life
Year: 1861

Here is specimen of Dragging done in
The best New England style. Richard II.
Dana was called upon at Cambridge Mass,
few nights since. to speak in behalf of the
soldiers fund. He said he felt in a bragg
ging mood and proceeded after this fashion.
Every ybody will admit that he didn't 90 out
side of the record:


On this continent, Massachusetts estab-
lithed the first school, incorporated the first
academy and endowed the first university.
She set up the first printing press. printed
the first book, and published the first news
paper. She launched the first ship, killed
the first whale, and made the first discover
les in the Pacific and South Seas. She
digged the first canal, and built the first
railroad coined the first money and un-
furled the first national flag. She fired the
first gun, shed the first blood, and gained
the victory in the war of the Revolution.


She drew the first lightning from heaven,
performed the first painless operation in
surgery, and invented the magnetic tele.
graph. She taught the first blind and deaf
mute to read, and established the first
school for the discipline of idiots. And
now in the latter days, she came first to the
relief of the Capital, and fired the first gun
and shed the tirst blood in the war of the
Constitution. Shall the call of such moth
or as this to her own children be met by
any other spirit than that of the sincerest
admiration and lover
Year: 1861

THE PORTER AND THE CzAR.--Peter, while
in England, was one day, to his wrath,
shouldered aside in the street by porter,


with so much violence as to bo thrown into


the kennel. He was proceeding 10 take
personal vengeance, when lord Carmarthan,
who had been appointed bis bear leader, ju-
diciously prevailed on him to be quiet. His
lordship thought fit at the same time to give
an angry rebuke to the porter, asking him
if he did not know that ''this was the the
Cur" "Czar = cried the porter, who had
tho blood in him of tho future heroes Of
BaIakaya, "We arc all Cars here"
Year: 1861

] HAVE fold you of tho spaniard who
always put on his spectacles when about to
eat cherries, that they might look bigger
and moro tempting In like manner,
make the most of my enjoyment; and
though l do not cast my Dyes away from
my troubles. / pack them in as little com.
pass as can for myself, aud never let them
annoy others.-Souihey.
Year: 1861

This is the total force Of regular ships and
guns at the command of the Administration.
But this is by no means all of our force.
Fifty vessels have been chartered for the
blockade by the mercantile marine, and
forty-one of them ore already in commission
in the naval service, many of them fine ves-
sells. In all, therefore, tie Government has
about one hundred and fifty vessels afioat,
subject to its orders, carrying two thousand
one hundred and eighty-four guns, a very
formidable armament indeed, and one which
will be able, probably, to maintain pretty
efficient blockade of the Southern coast.
Year: 1861

TRoTTIYG FOR THE COMING SrRING-F Fine Pros
poets for the Seo8on.-The advent of spring is
enough to make the trotting horses prick their ears
with joyous expectations, and look forward to tie
time when they shall say among the thousands
cha, ha!' upon the tracks of the country. A
little more of such open weather as we had at the
end of last week, and trainers and drivers will be
gin to give their horses gentle work, preparatory
to putting them in condition for the contests of the
coming campaign. Little Flora remains at
Baltimore, in excellent health, we hear, and with
every prospect of sustaining her reputation through
yet another season. George NJ. Patchen, too, is
expected to come out in strong force this spring,
and if all is true that hear, he will have need of
his fine powers 10 maintain his position as premier
trotting stallion. There are whispers of stallion
OF the get of Black Bashaw, of whom it is confident
ly predicted that he will be second to DO entire
horse in the world when regularly introduced to
the trotting turf. Hints given, too, of a dark
horse, who is said to have made fabulous time in
private, and will make his debut upon the trottinp
turf at an early day. His friends confidently hope
that he will beat all competitors, and achieve for
himself the place of honor so long and so worthilv
filled by little Flora Temple. Altogether, there is
promise OF rare sport among the trotters; and the
proprietorS Of the Union Course, Long Island, have
already advertised no less than sixteen stakes and
purses, to be troted for in the latter part of April
and the month of May.-W Wilkes Spirit
Year: 1861

Ex-POsTNAsTER FowLEa Al THE HEAD OF A FAC
ToRY.-Letters were received in New York on
Friday last from Isaac V. Fowler, dated a few
days ago in the city Of Mexico The report that he
was about to take charge OF silver mine is not true
lie has taken the superintendency of large cotton
manuactery near Mexico, at a salary of three thou
sand dollars year, and house to live in. Living
is so dog-cheap there, that five hundred dollars
year is equivalent to five thousand in New York
He writes III capital spirits
Year: 1861

why Mas. LINCOLN CH.NGED HER ARRANGEMENTS.
According to correspondent of the Cincinnati
to Washington were changed By recommendation
OF General Scott by telegraph, that it would be
prudent for her to accompany her husband, as it
would show more conhdence in the country. This
Is said to explain the change of programme. There
was time when no idea of this kind would have
been suggested.
Year: 1861

ATTEMPT TO Throw THE PRESIDENTIAL TRAIN
FROM THE TRACK.-We were on Saturday night
in possession of the astounding information that
an attempt was made, on Monday last, to wreck
the train bearing the President elect and suite,
about one mile west of the State line. The partic-
ulars, as given US by Mr.. Rich, of the Toledo and
Western Railroad, are, that short time before the
train was due at State line, an engineer who was
preparing to take out train, found it necessary to
run out to the woodward for fuel. Running at
moderate speed, he noticed an obstruction on the
track, and stopping his engine, found that ma
chine for putting cars on the track had been fasen-
ed upon the rails in such manner that if train
at full speed had struck it, engine and cars must
have been thrown off and many persons killed. 1t
is almost impossible to think that any one is so
thoroughly depraved as to attempt so damnable a
deed, but we are assured by informant that his
information comes from undoubted authority. The
matter would have been made public before, but it
hoped that the perpetrators Oft the dastadiy out
rage could be detected and brought to justice. The
whole thing was admirably planned-the obstruc-
tion so near station and straight track,
where it would not be be deemed necessary to ex
ercise any great degree of caution.-LGfayette
hid Journal, Feb. Is.
Year: 1861

THE PROPOSED NATIONAL CONVENTION.


WAsHIHGToN, Feb. 20.-lt is as clear as the day
that the North intends to test the question in the
most direct and positive manner, whether we have
a government or not, and will not stop to concede
or compromise until that question is settled. The
resolution of Mr.. Fenton, of New York offered in
the House as an amendment to the report of the
Committee of Thirty-three, "that the proper tri-
buna to which all existing disturbing questions
should be referred for deliberate consideration and
final settlement, is convention of delegates from
the several States Of the Union, to be called in the
mode prescribed in the constitution" is the grow
ing sentiment among the Republicans, and in the
Peace Congress TO day, the same doctrine was ad-
vocated by Mr.. Field, of New York. More than
this, nearly every member of the Peace Congress
from New Engan is in favor of constitutional
convention. 1t seems now to be basis upon which
a settlement of the whole question be reached
and there is no doubt that Mr.. Seward at the pro-
per time will favor it, and Mr. Lincoln will sane
tion it in his inaugural.


VIRGINIA.


Intelligence from the most trustworthy Union
delegates to the Virginia Convention states en-
phatcally that unless Congress shall adopt some
plan of conciiaton before adjournment their State
will secede, despite all efforts to prevent such
rash course. An extensive organization exists
there and in North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky
and Mary land, looking to this contingency, which,
it is supposed, will overwhelm the Union men,
unless they strengthened here. Some of the
letters express willingness to fall back upon
General Convention of the States if better cannot
be done.


A gentleman who arrived this afternoon from
Richmond reports great excitement at the Vir ginia
Convention, growing out of Stanton's bill before
Congress. Ii the bill should pass, his impression
is that Virginia will secede at once. The Com
missioners here express doubt of any such pro-
gramme


THE INAUGURATION.


The committee on Inauguration fully agreed to
their plan to day. At first it decided to admit
people into the capitol, but objection to this ar
rangement was at once apparent, and the usual
procedure previous to Inauguration will be fol-
lowed. The platform will be erected next week at
the eastern portico OF the capitol.


The assertion of Northern Journals that the mill.
tary and civic companies will join in any process
Year: 1861

WASHINGTON, June 9, 1861.


Gen. Beauyegard has been at Charleston during the
past week. While there he was the recipient of mucH
attention. public and private, and dinner was ten.
dered him by the Common Council. To the Committee
who rendered him the invitation, he in declining ,he
honor made brief speech.


lie deprecated the policy which up to that timA
guided the action of the Confederate army, and which
caused it to be scattered at various points. He sad
that in his opinion concentration at Manassas Junc
ton Harpers Ferry all-imporant, and unfolded
his plan of future operations rs follows:


lie intends TO concentrate and is now doing so an
army of from 50 900 to $1,000 men at Manassas juno.
ton, which shall be thoroughly and efficiently guarded
and defended 80 TO defy successful attack.


He believes that the Federal army is composed of
restless and uneasy men, who will not long be kept
from action-that nsubordnation is already at work.
and that the leaders will be forced to make early at.
tack. eff" said he they attack US at the Junction.
we can Withstand them until they spent and then
pour forth upon them with irresistible fury What
if they do 90 on taking this and that place before
they attack u.s. il will be of practical lasting
benefit; they will then be compelled to attack our
army, and, when that is done we shall be success.
full"


The General seemed confident of ultimate succeN1
and based bis belief on the facts that the Federsl
army is determined to make an early movement, and
that movement be arranged by the Confederate
leaders that defeat to the troops OF Scott cannot but
be inevitable.
Year: 1861

From Our Own Correspondent


BALTIMORE, juno 8, 1861.


The current is rushing by this part Of the great
stream of war-fo with fearful apcity carrying it's
surface the strangett congomeraton Of things. give
you notice of such of the drifts catch my eye.


The big Union gun is at the bottom Of the basn in.
stead of being the ramparts Of Fortress Monroe. 1t
broke down the skids which they sliding it
board the vessel Locust Point and fell in five feet of
water The loss incident raising il is the contract
ors, but it will not DO long before be will have it
board the transport This is only instance Of
the deplorabe want Of foresight in people in adapt
ing means 10 the end. We are q belter-skeer BET
after all.


There is no doubt that Judge Taney has laid his traps
for the arrest for Gen. Cadwalader, should he make
bis appearance outside Of the Fort. The instruments
TO be used WILL Of course, not be the United States
Marshal or his Deputies but the Secession Police
thority Of the city, The Chief Justice is not to
stop ut tres in the attainment Of his purposes you
may readily suppose. To bring about hostile collision
between the Judiciary and the Executive is The darling
object of bis heart the present uncture. But Gen.
Cadwalader will not give him the opportunity.


Somebody here is writing just now to The N. y.
Times in vindcaton Of Judge Taney's conduct and
the innocence Of Menyman, over the signature Of
W. l.. NJ, evidently designed to convey the impression
that the writer Ia the Hon. William l.. Marshall The
author of that letter has not concealed his identity by
this miserable shift The ostrich may hide bis head
but his i-shaped body is patent to every dscerning
eye - trick if just like that which The American
-.wspaper was guilty Of in putting Judge Marshall
upon the stand W p,U-Si- t.iG.. sL rLiiO .eOt-
ing Of tde 10Th Of April when the speaker Charlie,
Marshall. Judge Marshalls loyalty to the Union aud
Year: 1861

ding fall.dress is PRESENTED to the delighted
father, make it a condition paramount that TINS
i-Omened member of the alphabet is not 70 DO
allowed to 60 into the baptismal gilt OF the heir
or heiress. Guard against it as you would
against whooping- cough or scarlatina in the ten
der years of infancy. Do not let the chances OF
President or Congress or Governor in the male
or female line be made so utterly hopeless as
they must be by such an irremedable impru-
dence. Even should we come to the determine
tOn hereafter to select our own high officers as
we now constitute our jurors, by putting the
name of everybody into box, and taking o'H
the slip upon which is written the name OF the
future Chief Magistrate or Senator, the contemn-
ing blight would be to him as much OF an e1-
clusOn as the absence of the letter to the oys-
ter consumption in the nomenclature OF the
months. And now, leaving Mr.. Bell to Ills
liquor, Mr.. Bolts to his letter-wrting, MI.
Breckenridge to his weakness, and Mr.. Bayard
to his wallow / make respectful bow 10
them and to the audience, and retire to the
green-room, with the expression of hope that
some bone, and not all gristle, will enter into
the compound of the next Presidential candidate
of the party of Constitutional Supremacy and
Observance of Law.
Year: 1861

FKLLow-C -CirlzESs:-You will see from communca-
ton addressed by me to the Governor OF Virginia. copy
of which is subjoined, that have Welded up the trust
which By your free and almost united suffrage was con-
ferred on me- upon the fourth day of February last
avail myself of the first issue of the county newspapers
to give publicity to my resignation IN order that the
proper steps may be adopted to gil the vacancy.


Nothing but an imperative sense Of personal duty,
could induce me to withdraw from the position to which
your partiality and confidence assigned me. But the
condition ofmy family, coupled with the slow Of
communication and transit between this Valley and
Richmond, precudes my absence at such distance.


regret now that did not resign in time to have
Year: 1861

We know no reason why there should
be any faltering about the execution Of the
plain duty which now devolves upon The
Postmaster-General, in relation to the
United States mails in the seeding states
The last Congress invested him with dis
cretionaty power which he might now
exercise, with beneacent consequences to
the Uni n movement IN the North and
the Border States. We need not set
forth the facts:upo which this opinion is
based-they are patent to every man, wo-
man and child in the land; nor Geed We
say That # the Administration at Washing
ton Is about to make the rebels and tra.ttr
ors feel that there is a government, there
is nothing which will admonish them Of
their poverty and littleness, so quickly and
SO cheaply aa the withdrawal Of mail facil-
tiles that they HOW enjoy, mainly at The
expense Of those whose destruction thew
are plotting - =. -
Year: 1861




The city reporters Of the n. r Herald
are filing up columns that sheet with de-
ecrip,ions Of scenes ut the Custom House
since the new tariff has gon. into effect.
Every apparent difficulty is Il n.agnifed into
the side Of q real one, and all sorts of OBJ
jections are made. The reporters are in
structed to find Ill the fault that is possible,
and raise all the embarrassment they eau.
But one~sided report fails to hide the ad-
mirahle features Of the law as revenue
measure. The specific principle works
like charm, IN despite Of the hindrances
thrown in it's way. It was discovered to
be no great trouble to weigh an article
which was taxed so much per pound, and
the amount Of duties were then easily
calculated The insurmountable difficult
ties predicted by the importers organs
were found notto exist. The result Of four
days experience under the new law-vas,
on the whole, quite satisfactory. The
amount Of revenue collected was nearly or
quite double what would have been OBJ
tained under the late law-not that the
rates of duties are doubled, but the evasions
and frauds practiced under the act of 1857
ere stopped To the honest importer the
new law will be far more beneficial than
the old, as it will protect him against the
undue competition Of those who imported
under false inyo:ces-


The old Satanic frightened it's New York
readers, or such Of them as we're sIlly
enough to credit its statements, with the
idea that the new tariff would be prohibit
oryr and no more goods would be imported
into New York after the 1st Of April, 1861,
until the act was repealed. But it appears
from its own columns that several ship-
loads day Of foreign goods are arriving
and paying the new rates of impost. a
year from now, and the present clamor
against Morrill, tariff will have ceased. in
New York. and mainly IN England. It will
be shown that nobody has been seriously
hurt, while the industry Of the country and
the revenues Of the Government, have been
immensely benefited.