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Year: 1862

With due attention to temperance, exercise,
and early hours, you may set dyspepsia at def
ance. Neglect one of these precautions, and you
lay yourself open to the approaches of the enemy.
Neglect two of them, and it is hardly possible for
you to escape. And above all things keep this
in mind, that no other disease affection of the
body is so stealthy or insidious as dyspepsia. If
the first few instances of carelessness or trans
gresson were to be visited with the pains and
penalties that aflict the patient when the malady
has become chronic, few men would be so insane
or so obstinately reckless, as to postpone the
work of reformation. But the earlier symptoms
are rarely of an alarming kind. The appetite is
not sensibly affected, though the digestion is i'm
paired I; and the complaint seems to be limited to
fatuency and heartburn. Such unpleasant SEN
sations, however, can be easily removed. Essence
of ginger and fluid magnesa, seldom fail to give
relief, and the patient fatters himself that there
is no ground for apprehension. But the symp-
toms do not disappear They recur with great
frequency; and the antidotal doses, though in
creased, are found to have lost their efficacy
The stomach has now become more seriously de-
ranged. All kinds of food generate acid and in
this stage the patient usually has recourse to the
carbonates of soda or potash, which in their turn
give temporary relief though without in any
way arresting the disorder. BY this means dys-
pepsia, like an insdous serpent, has fairly folded
the victim within It's embrace, and is squeezing
him at its leisure. Everything he eats disagrees
with him, ard seems to undergo some wondrous
transformation. That which was served up at the
table as haggess, seems converted, two hours af-
terward, into a ball of knotted tow-a mutton
chop becomes fiery crab, rendering the interior
with his claws; and every rice pudding has the
intolerable etfrontery to become a hedgehog
After that comes nausea and vomiting You de-
rive no benefit from the food you swallow. From
twelve stone weight you dwindle down to ten.-
Your countenance becomes ghastly, your eyes
hollow, and you totter prematurely on your pins.
The mere notion of exercise becomes dstasteful.
You feel as if you had no strength for anything.
You are pensive, moody, and irritable. Your
mind loses its elasticity and power and when
you sit down to compose, instead of manly mat
ter, you produce nothing but the drearest of nom
sense.
Year: 1862




A lady correspondent of the Bulletin, writing
from London recently, says of this famous singer


1t was seven O'Clock when we got back to town.
and we had made an engagement to hear Jenny
Lind sing at night. 1t was half past seven when
we got to Exeter Hall, and it was still two miles
to our lodgings. 1t was impossible for us to 60
home, change our dresses and return. We did
not like to make our appearance at Exeter Hall
among crowd of fashionables in our travelling
dresses, dusty, tired and hungry. Yet it was our
only chance to hear Madam Goldschmdt, for this
was her last concert so we determined to make
the best of it and go. assure you that it required
no little courage to join the throng of well dressed
people which was pouring its steady current into
the vast hall. We succeeded in finding our way
to our seats (Which happened 10 be very good,)
and saw ourselves in a vast assemblage strangers
and alone. The piece was Elijah-a sublime
oratorio-but rather tiresome. The chorus was
superb. Madame Goldschmidt and the promi-
nent singers occupied chairs on platform in front
of the chorus and orchestra. She looked a little
worn and thin, but very like her pictures. She
wore dress of blue silk, covered with a tunic of
exquisite point lace, crossed bya blue scarf on the
left side. The corsage was low and ornamented
with clusters and brilants, and suspended from
her neck was magnificent cross of diamonds
On her arms were bracelets set with the same
precious gems. We could see them glitter as the
light fell upon them from the great chandelier
above. Her hair was simply parted in front, but
far back upon her head she wore parure offeath-
ers blue and white, corresponding with her dress.
Altogether, she looked just as l expected to see
her-modest lady-like and sefpossessed.


My heart thrilled when she opened her mouth,
and l heard her sing for the first time But after
the first emotions of surprise over, it thrilled
me no more. never heard great singer who
touched me so little l never heard voice so
wonderful-so clear so artistic, so perfect, so fin
ished but it never reached my heart-t was so
cold, so unimpassioned-it had not even that re-
lgious fervor which 1 looked for. 1t was like
some wonderful, unequaled instrument, but there
was no tone of feeling in it-none of its sorrows,
of its joys, of its hopes, and none of its
fears So it seemed to me. 1t may have been
my own fault. l expected so much of Jenny Lind
that in all probability nothing could have satisfied
me with the range of mortal voice. We could
hear every note and every word she uttered her
lowest accents were as distinct as her highest her
articulation was perfect-but the charm ended
there We were so little interested that we did
not remain until the concert ended but then we
were very tired, and the oratorio is very heavy,
even with Jenny Lind, Sims Reeves and s~--- l.
of hundreds-and Goldschmidt for director. l
kept thinking all the while, Oh! if l could only
hear her singing 10 her children
Year: 1862

The following is from Agassz's article on Meth
DDS of Study in National History in late num-
Der of the Atlantic Monthly:


Among the astounding discoveries of modern
science is that of the immense periods which have
b1GGIed in the gradual formation of our earth. So
vast were the cycles of time preceding even the
appearance of man on the surface of our globe
that our own period seems as yesterday when
compared with the epochs that have gone before
it. Had we only the evidence of the deposits of
rock heaped above each other in regular strataby
the slow accumulation of materials, they alone
would convince us of long and'slow maturing OF
Gods work on the earth, but when we add to
these the successive populations of whose life this
world has been the theater, and whose remains
are hidden in the rock into which the mud or sand
or soil of whatever kind on which they lived has
hardened in the course of time-or the enormous
chains of mountains whose upheayal divided these
periods of quiet accumulations by great conyul-
sions--or the changes of different nature in the
confagratons of our globe, as the sinking of lands
beneath the ocean or the gradual rising of conti-
nents and Stands above it--or the wearing of
great river beds, or the filling OF extensive water
basins, till marshes first and dry land succeeded
to inland seas-or the slow growth of coral reefs,
those wonderful sea-walls, by the little ocean ar
chitects whose own bodies furnish both the build
ing stones and the cement that binds them togeth-
er and who have worked so busily during the
long centuries, that there are extensive countries,
mountain chains, islands, and long, long lines Of
coast consisting of their remains-or the countless
forests that must have grown, fourished, died and
decayed, to fill the storehouses of coal that feed
the fires of the human race to-day-if we consider
ali these records of the past the intellect fails to
grasp chronology for which our experience fur
nishes no data, and the time that lies behind us
seems as much an eternity to our conception as
the future that stretches indefinitely before us"
Year: 1862

ST. PATRICK's FIsH.-St. Patrick, once over
come by hunger, helped himself to pork-chops on
fast day. An angel met him with the forbid
den outlet in his hand but the saint popped them
into pail of water. pattered an Aye-Mary over
them, and our indugent lady needed the appeal
by turning them into couple of respectable and
orthodox looking trout. The angel looked per-
picked, and went away, with his index fixed on
the side of his nose. And see what come of it
In Ireland, meat dipped into water, and christened
by the name of " st. Patrick's Fish," is common
ly eaten there even on fast days. and to the great
regret of all those who eat greedily enough to
acquire an Indigestion.
Year: 1862

PRAYER BY Texan RANeER.-Oh, Lord,
Thou knowest that this thing of praying is alto
gether out of my line, and hard for me to do
as for Wigfal to keep sober, or jeff Davis to be
made to pay his debts, or Floyd to refrain from
stealing But Thou knowest we are some on tan
ge-foot whiskey, good at horseracing, and tp-top
at poker, and can hold four aces about as often
as John Morgan " or any other man." Help US
this day, for we are in peck of trouble, and it
will be the last time I'll ever trouble you, Amen.
Year: 1862

nearly every enterprise and energy in the State.
There is certainly wanting evidence right at home
to prove conclusively that an entire metallic cur
rency is an entire curse. We are now offered a
sound paper currency; let us act the part of SEN
sible men as well as patriots, and accept its
F. Euening Journal.
Year: 1862

Children often rise in the morning in anything
but an amiable frame of mind. Petuant, impa-
tient, quarrelsome, they cannot be spoken to or
touched without producing an explosion of i'll
nature. Sleep seems to have been bath of vim
egar to them, and one would think the fluid had
invaded their mouth and nose and eyes and ears,
and had been absorbed by every pore of their SEN
sitive skins. In condition like this, have seen
them bent over the parental knee and their per-
sons subjected to blows from the parental palm ;
(hers is mother we wot of who always uses her
slipper,) and they have emerged from the inhic-
ton with the vinegar all expelled, and their faces
shining like the morning-the transition complete
and satisfactory TO all the parties. Three-quarters
Of the moods that men and women find them
selves in are Just as much under the control of the
will as this. The man who rises in the morning,
with his feelings all bristling like the quills of
hedgehog, simply needs to be knocked down.
Like solution of certain salts, he requires a rap
to make him crystalized. A great many mean
things are done in the family for which the moods
themselves are the most inexcusabe things of all.
A man or woman in tolerable health has no right
to indulge in unpleasant mood, or to depend upon
moods for the performance of the duties of life.
If bad mood comes to such persons these, it
is to be shaken off by direct effort of the will,
under all circumstances for Life
Year: 1862

YOUNG lady lately appeared in male attire in
Baltimore, and one of the editors says that her
disguise was perfect, that she might have passed
for man had she had little more modesty."
Year: 1862

New INvENTIeN.-A gentleman in this city is
now making to order, new specimen of LADIES'
hoops, which, if successful, will be much more
convenient than those used at present. The hoop
is formed of small pieces of steel, about three
inches in length, which are riveted together, but
turn on swivelj thus the lady, desiring to in
crease or decrease the size of the hoops can do so
by means of small attachment to the circles, and
thus clear crowd, or spread her dress to the ut
most capacity.-S. F. Journal
Year: 1862

A PERT young barrister once boasted to a mem
Der of the bar that be had received 20 guineas for
speaking in a certain lawsuit the other replied,
"Freceived double that sum for keeping silent in
that very case"
Year: 1862

THE object of conversation is to entertain and
amuse To be agreeable, you must learn to be a
good listner. A man who monopolizes a conver-
sation is s'bore, no matter how great his knowl-
edge
Year: 1862

The pleasure Of skating being sucicnt to attract pso
pie 10 tho Park there is no hope Of the Railroad compa
nss furnishing music, 30 We must help ourselves when
perhaps the companies will add something. propose
that tho Park Commissioners boxes be placed
conspicuous locations exposing this PLAN which is that
the money contributed will be used to furnish music
soon as sufficient amount deposited. On skating days


there are less than 10 900 persons who visit the
pondoftentmes 10000. but 900 Of this multitude
contribute but half dime each the object would be
compshsd and good music furnished tho day the
Ice in condition. say from four Till nine O'Clock r. NJ
Year: 1862

In behalf Of several female friends well myself,
and knowing how ready you always arc 70 take part
with what Is just, induced TO trouble you relative


communication In yesterdays issue Sunday, 10th inst
suggesting tho removal Of skating chairs from Central
PAX for tho convenience Of persons skating. Now this
how then such persons. some mothers as are too
weak past learning to skate 10 Ind recreation while
the Ice with their famieaS Tne zee chair all we
have for recreation and health In the delightful sports OF
our lovely pond Pardon my troubling you and II space
can be spared in your valuable Journal do please insert
this in Justice 10 the many OF who will be able
skate AN OLD READER.
Year: 1862

THz HABEAs CoRPUs Gaze here, attracts
considerable attention through the country.
Tie New York Times Of Friday sums up
the facts of the case, and adds The next
term Of the Court is not held until October,
and many changes may take place between
now and then. 1t remains to be seen whether
the Government or the Judge will yield
Year: 1862

The two Regiments now in camp in this
town are composed of as fair body Of men
as were ever collecte together IN this or any
other State. They are mainly from as good
families AS there are in Vermont, and are
men OF character and standing who viii be
greatly missed in their respective towns


These Regiments were reviewed by the
Governor and inspected by Adjutant General
Washburne and Quarter Master Gen. Davis,
on Saturday Of last week. On Monday they
were mustered INTO the service of the United
States, and the next day were paid off by
Major HalseY. Treasurer Page is now en-
gagged IN paying them their State pay, after
which they will be sent forward, Ii is thought
that the lO;h Regiment will be forwarded ON
Saturday next, and that the lIth will follow
the next day.


The following is q correct list OF the fed,
commissioned and non-commissioned staff
tas tar as appointed) ami line officers Of these
K giments
Year: 1862

GENERAL McDowELL.-It is to this unfor-
tunate officer that the country isiindebted
for the defeat in the second as in the first
battle of Bull Run. The panic in his espe-
cial command was as disgraceful on Satur-
day last as on that fatal Dist of July. The
whole army is now unanimous in denoun-
cling HIM, and the Pennsylvania Reserves
(what is left Of them) have thrown down
their arms and refused to submit any longer
to his leadership.-N. Y. World.
Year: 1862

TEE FALL Tern in the University, opened
on Thursday. Only nine or ten students
have been examined for admission to the
Freshman Class, and the whole number of
students thus far present is under forty OF
course this number will be incr eased but it
is evident that in the present stage Of the
war no very full att enhance Of students is
TO be expected.
Year: 1862

GRAND Isle CcUNTT.-Ths following Is
the vote in Grand Isle County for Senator
and Judge Of Probate The vote for Govern
or and the remainder Of the County ticket
probably viii not vary from that for Sens-
Tor
Year: 1862

general officer, who was in all recent conflicts,
states that We could not have had over thirty
thousand men actually engaged and gives it as
his opinion that the enemy's force was about sO-
600. Our losses be estimates at about ten thou
III
Year: 1862

The rebels assisted our men IN the burial
Of our dead Tuesday night, whom they strip
ped Of their clothes with the exception OF
their pants. Our men say the enemy were
Sd hungry az the time that they rushed for
the hayersacks Of our killed and wounded
Our men saw the columns Of the enemy on
the Warrsnt1n turnpike, marching towards
Thlr5ughiire Gap
Year: 1862

To prepare iron cement for stopping, leaks,
take sixteen parts Of clean wrought Iron filings,
parts flower Of sulphur; mix all well together,
and preserve the compound in a stoppered
vessel and In dry place till wanted for use,
Then ke one part of the mixture and add 10
IL twelve parts Of clean iron filings, and mix
this new compound with as much water as
will bring 1t to the consistency of a paste,
having previously added to the water a few
drops Of sulphuric acid 50. r. H--
Year: 1862

You can not get butter out of milk, if there
Is none in it. Feed the cows well, and thus
secure good milk, and there is not much trouble
in churning even in winter. Keep the cream
in q warm room till 1t turns somewhat sour.
Let the churn be scalded before putting in the
cream, 30 that 1t will be well heated through
and not cool the cream. Let the cream be at
temperature OF 81 to 20 deg, and there will
not be much difficulty in making the butter
come. We see it stated that If little rennet
is added to the cream just before churning. il
will help materially. We think this quite
likely, as it would help to generate Tactic acid.
But do not put in too much.
Year: 1862

'Put up your pistol, and so viii l." re-
piled.


He did so, and came forward and I ex-
planned the impossibility of seeing the train
sooner as l. had no head light; and they had
carelessly neglected to leave light on the
rear of the other train. / advised the choer-
ic Colonel to go forward and expend his wrath
and curses on the conductor of the forward
train, that had stopped in such place, and
sent out no signalman in the rear, nor even
left red light He acknowledged / was
right. l then informed him that / was an Of
ficer in the ordnance department, and was in
charge of shipment of ammunition for Bow
ling Green, and would have him court-mar-
tailed when we reached there, unless he apol-
ogized for the theats he had made. This in.
formation had calming effect on the colonel,
who, at heart, was really clever fellow
From Three months in the rebel army"
Year: 1862

NO Organs of the human system more impor-
- tant to health and comfort than the EYE and
EAR, and yet none are less understood or more neg
lected. They seem to pass even common observation
and yet every part of the body is dependent upon
them for life aud health.
Year: 1862

You have hitherto earned, with some
exertion, your own bread, and that Of
your family but suddenly employment
fails, or yeur health gives way. or your
usual resources vanish. This is an op-
portunity which the devil will not neg
lect to improve. He will not dare to
propose to you to deceive or to steal; bus
he will say. Has God. thy Father. no
other banquet for thee but those stones.
and those thorns, amidst which he Al
lows thee to vegetate2 Well, since He
forsakes thee. help thysell; be not afraid
of wandering little from the beaten
track, and of providing for thy wants
by some of those means about which
you are too scrupulous. Speculate. try
the dazzling chances Of the gambling
table; be less exact respecting tho choice
of thy acquaintances; command this A.
lone that it may be made bread Let
your answer be, The God whom l serve
can deliver me y and He will deliver
me but if not, I will not turn aside
from his paths and should die OF
hunger, l will abstain from every sp-
pearance Of evil p
Year: 1862

A little more than year ago. when
Beauregard, after being permitted by
the imbecile President and reasonable
Secretary of War at Washington to
build Notifications for the purpose Of At
tacking Fort Sumter, opened upon that
little devoted band who had been suffer-
ed to be half-starved in their castle BY
the Vaccinations OF the traitors, thou
sands of the citizens of that rebel nest
were to be seen upon the wharves.
cheering on the murderous bands which
had been raised in her midst to destroy
the gallant Anderson and his heroic
guards; at the bursting of every shell
and the stroke of every shot, the frantic
shouts of exultatien from men and wo-
men were heard, and the whole city WAS
holding a jubilee on the occasion. Ths
scenes have now changed +; these same
demoniac. see that glorious flag which
their traitor Governor declared, whom
it was hauled down from Sumter. WAS
for the first time trailed in the dust, now
proudly floating in the breeze in front of
their doomed city; her population fleeing
in terror from the impending storm which
the conspirators have caused to be rsis-
ed around them and their professsd
'chivalry' shaking in their shoes at the
approach Of the indicators Of that flag
which they had attempted to disgrace !;
they feel that tho hour Of retribution is
at hand; and the Mercury, whose boast
full threats of blood were 50 blatent .
year ago, is now preparing for flight
to the hills and mountains. which they
are calling upon to hide them from tho
wrath of an indignant nation. High
is the honor to be awarded to that man
who first plants the "Star Spsnsled
Banner" upon the walls Of Charleston
a civic procession should be decreed to
him in every loyal State Of the Union.
Il Baltimore Clipper.
Year: 1862

AcQuAIsr yourself perfectly With your
business. See that you excel in that.
II your business is blacking boots, SEQ
that YOU black them better than any
body else. So, whatever you engage in.
see that you excel in it.
Year: 1862

LET your promises be sincere, and 50
prudsntly considered as not TO exceed
the roach of your ability he who prom
ises moro than he can perform is false TO
himself and he who does not perform
what he has promised is false to his
friends.
Year: 1862

There is good authority for stating that
Brigadier General Sigel has not resigned his
position in the army. We presume that Mr..
Lincoln has intimated his wish that any inten-
tion to do so might be econsidered-which
being the case, our German friends here can
afford to postpone their proposed orations till
moro convenient season.-N. Y. World,


We trust that the World is correct in it's
statement. for General Sigel has shown him.
self an able officer and the country CAD ill
afford to lose his services. But even if he
has resigned or has grievances to redress we
doubt very much whether the popular move.
ments in certain localities in his behalf meet
bis approval.It is said that be is thoroughly
educated military man and if 50 it 10 not pos
sible he can desire or countenance the inter-
ference of the mob in questions of purely
military character; and if be is true patri-
OF and soldier, hs will net throw up his
commission in the face Of the enemy because
the Commanding General does not zee fit to
assign him the command which he may covst
or deem his due. II his grievances are
other than of . military character they
should be made known, and then the peo.
pie, without distinction of nationality, will
claim the privilege of seeing him righted.
The town meeting method of bolstering up
an army officer against superior authority
failed of success in the case of Fremont, as
it should in every similar case.
Year: 1862

1t is generally understood that Gen. Nc.
CLELLAN's recent exposition, made to the


Congressional committee to inquire into
the conduct of the war, of 60 much of his
views and plans as he deemed prudent to
trust to the public, was eminently satisfac-
tory to those gentlemen, who interrogated
him for nearly three hours. 1t is said that
he repeatedly in reply to questions, frankly
pointed out to the committee their impolicy,
and on each occasion satisfied them that be
was right in preferring to keep to himself
the particular information they were after.
It is certain that the result of their inter.
view has been to bring the committee up to
the work Of laboring to induce Congress to
aid MCCLELLAN in his measures and policy,
with the frank confidence that must be accor-
ded to him if that body would really do their
duty to insure the quick suppression of the
rebellion, that depends so entirely upon the
harmonious concert of action between all
branches of the Government service in labo
ring to work out common ends. More than
one of the committee who went into the in
terview with minds warped came out oft
with the fixed belief that the path of success
in the war, is to stand firmly by the COM
mander-in- chief, and support his measures
and plans.