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Year: 1865

OUR HARnoR. Legislature ct its
last session passed laws, under the proyis-
ions Of which the village is authorized TO
issue its bonds in the sum OF $50, 900, and
tbs county in like amount. It will be seen
By notice given by the Sheriff, that ;he
elsc:or. Of the County are to vote upon
the proposition Of giving aid 10 the pro-
jecs,


The property holders aud business men
Of tho village have a large and more di
rect interest in the construction Of this
harbor than the people Of the country, and
they can hardly expect that the electors
will vote favorably on the proposition now
submitted 10 them under the notice 0: the
Sheriff, unless they shall have first voted
10 raise an equal SUM to be levied Oh the
property of The village.


The people Of the village must take the
initiative step in this matter, and if they
do, and should vote to raise the $50, 900,
there is no doubt the people of the coun
" will come up nobv to the work, and
give us all that is asked by the law
Why tbs village authorities have not
moved at an earlier day in this matter, is
mystery to the people, from whom has
been withheld the chance to declare in
favor of the harbor bill


Though :bere is no man who owns
property in any portion Of the county
whose interest would not be promoted by
,he construction of the harbor, it can
hardly te expected that any one out side
OF the village corporation will vote for
county aid to he work until the village
has first put itself right upon the record.


With the Larbor completed and he rail
road to Menasha in operation, millions Of
dollars would be added to the wealth Of
the coua,y, and M,uitowoc would soon
rank among the iirst>cass cities Of the
State; and when i, is known that these
two works could have been accomplished
by the resources at the command Of our
citizens in years that have gone by, and
cannot be recalled, and that the same can
now be done, every live man will fee! like
denounclng those who have prevented and
shall continue TO prevent tie consumma-
tion Of these projects, az worse than drones
aud laggards-as cancers feeding upon The
substance Of our people.


If the people of the village and county
were to devote 100000 10 the con
siruc,ion OF those two works, they would
add five told of their cost 10 the wealth of
the county. As delays are dangerous,
ws hope the people will move at once and
etfectually in the right direction, aud se~
cure all the benefits they can under the
laws now in force and if they think these
laws will not prove efficient 10 the desired
end, let them see that they be amended
al the next session Of The Legislature.


Let US have a good ha,bor and rsil
road connection with the business wOlll :,


BOUHTY CLUB AccOrdip,r O tho notice
Year: 1865

BY the following letter, although writ
ten before the Convention, it will be seen
that Gen. SLocUM will accept the Demo-
cratic rominatlon for Governor of New
York, and that bis views coincide with
the resolutions adopted by that body:
Year: 1865

GENERAL ScoTr's OPINION OF GENE
RAJ TAYLoR.-With q good store Of
common sense, General Taylor's mind
had not been enlarged and refreshed by
reading or much converse with the world.
Rigidity Of ideas was the consequence.
The frontier and small posts had been
his home. Hence he was quite ignorant
for his rank, and quite bigoted in his
ignorance His simplicity was childlike,
and with innumerable prejudices-amu-
sing and incorrigible-well suited to the
tender age. Thus, if a man, however
respectable, chanced to wear coat of an
unusual color, or his hat little on one
side of tho head, or an officer to leave
the corner of his handkerchief dangling
from his outside pocket-in, any such
case, this critic held the offender to
whom he would not, to use BIS off,
repeated phrase, TOT n with . pair of
tongs." Any allusion to literature much
beyond good old Dillworth.s spelling
book, on the part of one wearinga : sword.
was evidence, with the same judge, of
utter unfitness for heavy marchings and
combats. In short, few men have ever
had more comfortable, labor-saving
contempt for learning Of every kind
Yet this old soldier and neophite states
man had the true basis of great cha
racter; pure, uncorrupted morals, COM
bined with indomitable courage. Kind
hearted, sincere, and hospitablc in
plain way, he had no vice but prejudice,
rnanv friends. and left behind him not an
enemy in the world, not even 10 the au.
photographer, whom, in the blindness OF
his great weakness, he, after being named
for the Presidency, had seriously
wronged. Autobiography.
Year: 1865

In the fall of Fort Fisher the troops of
the Confederacy have lost fort, but not
their honor. North Carolina, in particu-
lar, has reason to be proud of the prowess
of her sons. This is not the first, the
second, nor even the fiftieth time, that
the soldiers of that State have proved the
mettle whereof they are made. There
are no better soldiers in the Con(ederacy
or the world. There is very little gas Or
humbug about North Carolina but, at
the pinch of the bill, she is always strong
and true. We have no words to express
our admiration Of the stern and steadlast
heroism she has exhibited in this war.
Year: 1865

Of the British Government have no
thought Of interfering in our quarrel. =
They are busy nursing their gouty limbs
and strengthening their hold upon power,
in the hope that when they are called
upon to "shuffle off this mortal coil !"
they may die with the harness on their
backs. Their course, though they are
too blind to see it. will ~ certainly lead
to war with the United States as that
the earth endures-a war in which the
South, if subjugated. will not be reluc-
tant to enter. 1t was only the other day
that Mr.. Anthony Barclay, formerly Bli>
tish consul at New York, and pow resi-
dent in Savannah. was rudely repulsed
by General Sherman with the remark,
that as soon as the rebels were disposed
of (Which he seemed to think would be
done in a few months) the United States
would turn their guns against Great Bri-
tain. He said the ocean would soon
swarm with five hundred Federal cruisers,
which would sweep the British flag from
the sea and that after England had been
sufficiently reduced and exhausted, he
would land upon her shores and pitch
his tent in Hyde Park. These threats
may never be carried into execution, but
they prove the ontmns Of the North, and
leave no doubt that the first thing the
Federal Government will do, upon the
conclusion of peace with the South, will
be to provoke war with "pcrfaious
Albion"


A monitor was sunk last night about
eight hundred yards from Fort Sumter,
probably by torpedo, and only her
smoke stack is visible to-day. About fifty
yards distant is another wreck, supposed
to be second monitor sunk while going
to the relief Of the first. There were
seven off the bar yesterday, and now
only five can he seen.


Persons lately arrived from Savannah
say that Mr.. G. B. Lamar, resident
there, and at one time leading banker
in New York, has taken the oath of allie
glance to the United States.
Year: 1865

New ENGLAND CivILIzArIoN."-We
copy the following paragraph from .
Yankee paper: ~ s


GA man in Connecticut, troubled with
an insane daughter, built sort Of shed
some seven or eight feet in the rear of
his stable, and connecting with It BY
little yard, into which all the offal Of the
stable is thrown. In this shanty the
poor creature has lain, in her own filth,
during the. severe cold Of the present
winter. without any FIRE whatever. A
physician and citizen residing in the
neighborhood recently paid her visit.
They found her in state Of perfect
nudity, lying on mattress Of straw,
with no covering whatever but some
coarse coffee sacks and apiece Of old
sail. The poor creature IS SO emaciAted
that she looks almost like AAeleton."
Year: 1865

There is no place, after all, like home, and no
home like our own sunny land. Home is where
the heart IS, where the dear ones gathered to-
gether and whether it be hovel or palace,


the chief attraction and JOY of it are the fond at-
fections which clus ter and put forth their flowers
and fragrance beneath its roof. The South,
though desolated by the hand of war, is still the
spot where we were born whose beautiful land
scapes are mirrored in hearts; whose men
and women are the companions of our childhood
and of maturer years, flesh Of our flesh and bone
of our bone dearer to US from the sufferings
which have been the common lot. If we have
been tried in the fiery furnace of adversity, We
have come out purified by the process If we have
lost much, we have not lost all. The over-arch1ng
heavens and the mother earth are still the same
the stars which we watched in our infancy still
shine serenely over our heads; the grand old
mountains, the lovely valleys, the beautiful
rivers still offer their charms to our eyes; the
moral dignity, the elevation of the soul, the
generosity of spirit which have always char
acterised our people, and have formed the
peculiar glory and establishment Of our So
cial state, are still unimpaired. There are no
ruins which the vines of domestic virtues will not
render less unSghtly, and no storm so dark that
religious faith and hope will not discover some
rent in the clouds. and rejoice that behind the
transient vapors shine the everlasting stars. Here
is our home, and on the soil where we were born
there let us abide, and there return to the cart
from which we came Richmond Dispatch.
Year: 1865

We have already advised says the Richmond
Republic all able bodied men who are out Of en-
ployment to go to work the farms where there
is a great demand for labor The example sss
by most of the returned soldiers of Generals LEs's
and JoHNsrok's armies is worthy of general imi
taton. The large corn crop of the State is due,
in great measure, to their manly industry
Young men who are lounging about cities and
villages in quest Of clerkshps would do we'll te
initiate the example sf the greater number Of re-
turned soldiers. They would, besides, secure for
themselvessa much larger pecuniary return than
any clerkship, public commercial, affords. If
any of them cherish the delusion that labor is be-
meath the dignity Of . gen tleman, We have moth
ing to say to them. Such hopeless idiots are nos
to be reasoned with. The time has gone by when
labor was the peculiar badge Of the servile class.
If labor Tas not respectable formerly, ii is necss.
sary to make it so now. The State Is never GO
ing to be regenerated if any considerable number
Of its white population sits with folded hands and
spends its time in invoking foreign labor and de-
nouncing the Incidence of the blacks It is ne
way to bring foreign labor here, to brand labor
with diggrace, nor the best mode to cure negroes
of laziness by showing them that the white peo-
pie regard work special hardship.


Virginia cannot afford now to have single
dron in the hive. The idle man now is the enc
my Of his State, and ought to be treated as such.
Incidence must now be the badge of degradation
Public sentiment should brand with disgrace
cry creature who, amidst universal poverty, in
sists upon being consumer and pensions himself
upon the public industry. more disgusting
spectacle cannot be found than that of an able
bodied man loafng up and down and old family
mansion whose inmates are threatened with ac-
tual want, whilst broad acres spread around cry


ing out for cultivation, but which he refuses to
touch because labor is beneath the dignity Of a,
gentleman gentleman indeed Such ami
NAL has not the faintest conception Of Hhata geu-
teman means
Year: 1865

How vast is the influence of woman in society
and the world at large, as she moves along like
angel of light, doing good to all who may
chance to come in her way


But alas, how many forget the sphere in which
God intended them to move, and only desire to
sway the scepter over the gay and giddy fhrong
sof thoughtless beings which surround them. Such
was the subject of our tory.


'tWoman thou fond and fair deceiver.


How prone are s.ripllngs 10 believe thee"


In the fall of l6-, took my first parting kiss
of my fond mother and affectionate sister, and
with young friend set out from the little town
of Nj, for the University of Va, to finish
my education. My friend was a man of high
moral character and great 6rmness, and remark
able for the firm manner in which he refused all
kinds of Intoxicating spirits, on all occasion ;
when thrown among the giddy and reckless crow ds
of young men who then thronged that far famed
institution of learning.


After an absence of nearly three years, we re-
turned to Nj. My friend was soon pa ying
his addresses to a young lady of high family and
exquisite beauty, the star Of every company, the
object of universal admiration Numerous were
the devotees at the shrine of her charms she
heartlessly disdained every offer of affection
an adept in the game of hearts, she cared little
for the consequences.


When George Nj entered society, all eyes
were turned on him. His noble form-his spark-
hing eye and brilliant intellect made him an uni
versal favorite.


1t was soon apparent that he had made deep
impression on the heart of Miss P, and as
| saw them constantly together, when opportuui-
ty offered, thought if ever there mateh
made up IN heaven that was one One night al
bali lady remarked that she did not believe
there was person in the world, who could iu-
duce Mr.. Nj to drink wine; when Miss
P came forward and said, let me try my
hand on him. H politely refused, but she con-
tinue to urge him, till at length she got linn to
take glass Of wine. Then he had to takea glass
with another, and still another, till that night, fer
Year: 1865

sprightly correspondent Of the National
Hatelligencer, writing from the West, gives a
glowing description of the mountain scenery
in passing beyond Cumberland at an carly
hour of the morning, just as the stih had graspE
ed the hill-tops to give the earth another turn.
He says:


"The antelope could not climb so well nor
so swiftly for ere the sun had reached an al
titude from which he could obtain glimpse of
the deep gorgcs in the mountains, we were on
the "Glades" at Oakland, 300 feet above the
level of the sea. From the car windows we
could see that New Creek was ruin, having
been burned during the war. AT Piedmont
the fine machine shops of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad that were destroyed by a raiding
party in the summer uf 1864 have been all re-
built on a more extensive scale thah before the
destruction, and the town is brisk with the
shipment of coal and the labor of machinists.


o. neglected to mention in my letter from
Cumberland that work had been resumed on
the road from that city to COnnelsyille, which,
with the road from Point of Rocks to Washing
ton, on which the work has been begun, will
form the shortest line of communication be-
tween the great Northwest and Southeast,
bringing Washington, Pittsburgh, and Clevc-
land In direct connection; and glance at the
map will show that these three cities are on an
almost direct line between the lakes and the
South Atlantic coast of the United States.


''That the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pauy are Interested in the great work of thus
uniting the East with the West is a sufficient
guaranty that it will be speedily and success
fully completed; and thus the great 'moun-
tain road company will have the control of two
lines, intcrsecting each other at Cumberland,
that will be the great central connecting routes
between the four quarters of our country.


"Ofiicers who have the sagacity and energy
to keep in successful operation road on the
very borders of hostile sections, during a war
of four years, will certainly comprehend the
advantages of the combination | have alluded
to- and use every exertion to effect its speedy
accomplishment"
Year: 1865




"DEAR BRoTHER Happening to have a
few leisure moments tonight, IAN unusual
thing) / thought could not better employ
them, than by writing you ; not only for my
own qualification, but hoping that may elicit
a response which may lead to a regular cores
pondence eventually between us, and thus con-
duce greatly to your mental improvement; for,
can assure you from considerable experience,
that there are few as simple things as letter
writing, which tend in so great degree to re-
duce to form and beauty the chaotic waste of
thoughts which dwell in the minds of youth,
and to give tone and vigor TO the expression of
these same ideas. In fact, it is an everyday
ACCOMPLISHMENT. which even the man of COM
mon sense must possess, if he does not wish TO
be made the butt of many a pun. There Is
nothing that CRATES more harShly on the gram
NAUTICAL ear. than Che tautologieS, barbarisms
and solecisms of which many are gtiilty from
their unskillfulnesS. in this simple art nor,
are these errata confined to the beginner
Many men in the various labors of life from
carelessness. in addition 10 this, murder their
ortboqraphv in the most shocking manner
This should warn YOU TO look well to your
Grammar and dictionary. Moreover, through
this channel Of communication. You can often
sxnress vour emotion or thoughts, when from
delcacy or other fortmtous causes You would
OF could not express them otherwise; and do
not be discouraged in your attemps, though at
FIRST your diction be abstruse or ambiguous
With practice and some attention, it will be-
come clearer-Souf language will flow more
easily and YOU will finally attain to polished
and interesting style Of writing.
Year: 1865

WHY BEES WORK IN THE DARK.


A lifetime might be spent 10 investigating
the mysteries hidden in beehive, and still
half Of the secrets would be undiscovered
The formation OF the cell has long been
celebrated problem for the mathematician,
whilst the changes which the honey under
goes offer at least an equal interest to the
chemist. Every one knows what honey fresh
from the comb is like. 1t is a clear yellow
syrup, without trace Of solid sugar IN it,
Upon strsining, however, it gradually as
sumes a crystalline appearance-it candies,
the saying is, and ultimately becomes a So
lid lump OF sugar. 1t has not been suspect
ed that this change was due to photOgra-
phlc action that the same agent which alters
the molecular arrangement Of the iodine of
silver on the excited collodion plate, and de-
termines the formation Of camphor and iodine
crystals in bottle, cause the syrupy honey
to assume a crystalline form. This, however,
il the case. M. Scheibler has enclosed honey
in stoppered hasks, some Of which he has
kept in perfect darkness, whilst others have
been exposed to the light. The invarisbe
results have been that the summed portion
rapidly crystalizes, whilst that kept in the
dark has remained perfectly liquid. We now
see why bees are so careful TO work in perfect
darkness, and why they are so careful to OBJ
scure the glass windows which are sometimes
placed in their hives. The existence Of their
young depends on the liquidity Of the sac
charine food presented to them, and if light
were allowed ac'ess to this, the syrup would
gradually acquire more or less solid consist
ency it would seal up the cells and in all
probability prove fatal to the inmates Of the
hive" Chronicle of Optics" IN he Quar-
teriy Journal of Science
Year: 1865

How TO HANG AN AXE.-Put the helve
loosely into the axe at first, so that it can be
moved to the proper position now let the
centre Of the edge of the blade Of the axe
and the butt Of the helve (or part taken hold
off, be brought each down to horizontal
line, which may be done by imply placing
them on the floor, and the axe is ready for
wedging - Country Gentleman. E. C.


Bennington, VI.
Year: 1865

In this region Of Vermont on Wednesday
afternoon and evening the weather was spring
Ike. with gentle wind from the South, and
few flashes Of lightning in the evening,
thermometer above the freezing point; where
as or the West side Of the mountains there
was a strong gale from the Southwest and
drifting snow-storm, stopping the railroad
trains
Year: 1865

MAPLE SUGAR R-lf the press of the State
will give early attention to the subject, and
there is not one, we presume, that will not
be glad to do 50, we believe very full returns
OF the amount Of maple sugar manufactured
this spring may be obtained Some one in
every school district can easily ascertain the
amount, and report to some one person in
own and the aggregate sent to the nearest
newspaper, or they can send by districts to
their newspaper il they choose to do so.
Wherever there is farmers club it will be a
very easy matter to organize sugar census.
Our article under the editorial head this
week may give some interest to this matter.
-Beliotos Fails Times.


Very good. Now we say to our sweet
friends among the naples, send in the re-
turns. The sharp nights and brilliant days
are warning you Of the sugar orchard, II last
spling gave two millions Of dollars worth Of
sugar to the farmers Of Vermont, thero is a
strong inducement TO tap the trees again.
Year: 1865

NoN-REooGNtTIoN OF THR REBEL LOAN.
The following is the resolution submitted
by Mr.. Sumner in the United States Senate
last Friday and adopted


Whereas, certain persons have put in cir
eulation the report that On the suppression
Of the rebellion the rebel loan may be recog
nized in whole or in part by the United States
and whereas such a report is calculated to
give false value to said rebel debt OF loan
therefore


Resoi'ed By the Senate (the House concur
ring, That Congress hereby declares the reb-
el debt or loan simply agency of the
rebellion, which the Uni ed States can never,
under any circumstances, recognize in any
part or in any way
Year: 1865

NEW DIGGNgs.-A gentleman from Banner
informs us that company of seven men win
tered in the mountains about eighty miles
north of that place; that they were Joined
early in the Spring by six more from this place,
who took out provisions with them on sleighs.
Recently two of the party returned, but refused
to furnish information about the diggings.
Since that time another of the party passed
through Banner, arriving nearly exhausted. He
says the company has about ten-dolar diggings;
that the country is limited, and they have loca-
ted about all of any value; and that during the
winter they kept themselves well supplied with
fish from the head Of the streams Our inform
ant thinks their location is on the South Sal
mon. The miner came into Banner in three
days.-Idqh0 World
Year: 1865

Gen. Halleck is to superscede Gen. Mcdowell
in command of the Pacific Military Department.
late dispatch states that Haleck's transfer
was induced because he was getting the rebels
into power in Virginia From this we presume
that he is transferred SO that be may get the
rebels into power on the Pacific coast. There
must be some mistake about this transferring ar
rangement, or at least in the telegraph's version
of it, for it seems improbable that the Union
authorities at Washington would send rebel
sympathizer to command the Pacific Depart
ment If so, it is pertinent to inquire, "Where
are we drifting2'
Year: 1865

THE EBT-Financers have been figuring on
the National debt and have come to the con-
clusi6n that the whole amount can be paid off
in twenty years time, if the people so desire it.
We would much rather have those merchant
Princes of New York pay it off in about twenty
minutes. But as they are not likely to embark
in such an enterprise, and as we are not among
those who believe that "a national debt is a ma
tonal blessing, and as the debt must be paid
sometime, according to all accounts, we say the
sooner it is Iiquidated the better it will be for
tie masses.
Year: 1865

DOC TAx.-You that have dogs within the
limits Of the City had better go to the Record
er's Office and pay the annual tax on them. In
few days the City Marshall will be around
the streets inaicting the penalty of death on the
dogs that may be found running at large with
out the proper license tags on their collars
Dogs confined within the premises of their own
ers will not be disturbed.