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Year: 1861

of an Usurper2 If false, how can he be trusted
in any official capacity If, in the pressing
necessities Of this great crisis, the President
has been unable to find precedents for some
measures adopted for the preservation OF the
Government, it is because such diabolicGl as
saults were never before made upon the ma
tiona existence, as the rebel cut throats have
made and are still making. All eXtraordin-
ary measures so adopted, have been approv-
ed by Union men of all parties and those
who croak about "usurpation," want to see
rebellion have an advantage in the contest.
This. we. in common we believe with Union
men generally, have long since ceased to
doubt Those who felt depressed in spirits,
after the shock of the defeat al Bull Run, had
nothing to say about Executive usurpation. "
To have wiped out the temporary disgrace
Of that disaster, they would, for the time be-
ing, have clothed any man in the country,
with unlimited power. Their depression"
was nothing like sympathy with the rebel


lion, or dsapproval of strong measures for


its suppression. We may "lament over our
msfortunes," without denouncing as "usur-
patton, the prompt and summary treatment
of those who are laboring to destroy us as a
people. IfGeneral Denver can convince the
people Of this State that he is an earnest and
hearty supporter of the Government in this
crisis, we greatly overrate their intelligence.
If he is to be in command of the Department
best of it; but we still hope that the Govern
ment will either assign him some other COM
mand, or allow him to enjoy that ease in
which we all know he so much delights.
Year: 1861

CLEARING THE HARBoR OF SEBAsropoL. Col.
pol, writes that he was getting on very
slowly with the raising Of the Russian ships
which were 80 rotten that none of them
could bear their own weight He had raised
in all about so vessels, and the harbor was
partially clear.
Year: 1861

We would call the attention of Justices of the Peace
to the assortment Of Blanks for sale at the DEMOCRAT
ofice. They are Of the latest and most approved
orms and will be sold at liberal rates.
Year: 1861

The editor Of the Union, in commenting
upon this letter, very truly says, concerning
the writer: "IIis expressions of loyalty, and
determination to respond whenever called
upon to serve his country. are appropriate
for his present position, but they do not re-
move the doubts created in the minds of the
people of the State by his letter to his broth
er. They naturally conclude from the cir
cumstances that he has two sets of opinions
-one private. the other public-and that his
real sentiments and feelings are expressed in
his private and not in his public letters"


The General says that when he charged
venality and subserviency upon the National
Congress, and usurpation upon the President
it was latter our disaster at Bull Run, when
every one who felt any love for the country
was greatly depressed in spirits" He re-
grets the expressions used but can make no
other defense. The charges were either true
or false. If true, how can he accept COM
mand, and become'an instrument in the hands
Year: 1861

THERE is considerable anxiety to know
what the city fathers sre going to do about
lighting the public lamps The prevailing
opinion among Taxpayers is that if they have
to pay for the gas they would Ike the fun of
seeing Il burn.
Year: 1861

The sidewalks are in a very slippery
condition. IS general thing, causing many an
upright. moral citizen 70 change his position.
and utter words found in no we'll regulated
family library. We don't know that there is
any help for it except to use extra caution or
take the middle of the streets
Year: 1861

ACCORDING to proceedings Of Super
visors. it will be seen that the jail is in fair
way to get fenced in and have q new roof.
The flat one now in use, Leaks badly and 1t is
thought double roof will be much better A
proper safe is to be prepared 10 which to pre-
serve the records Of the county from ravsges
Of FIRE This lie a wise provision. There is too
much property at stake to be left in the con-
dition it has been for several years. Judge
Weston commenced the good work in putting
in fire proof vault for the Recorders office.
The county has trusted to luck long enough.
Year: 1861

The attacks upon the Constitution
upon freedom of speech, upon the rights
of the press. must cease They have
gone quite far enough. Men will write
and talk. as. they please in this country,
subject only to prosecution by the civil
authorities. and they will hold Admins
trations and Presidents responsible fo-
their acts. We have not get become en-
Austria or a Russia, although it is no
doubt intended by some that we shall sink
by aud by to that melancholy state The
press now ought to be unusually alive
and vigilant. While frmness, moderation
and patriotism guide its course. it should
not be sparing of censure upon public
policy which it sees is calculated to iG.
volve as in one common ruin. 80
Year: 1861

The Postmaster at Chicago is put to great
Inconvenience and trouble by many Postmas-
ters in the country failing to date Return
Registered Bius." The Return Bill ought to
be IN craet duplicate Of the original, names,
date and all. Will Postmasters note the fact
Year: 1861

FIRE AlARaI-The fire alarm last night was
in efTtct simply an invitation to the Fire De-
pattmeut to visit the carnival ut the North
Side Skating Park, the light from which set
the bellman of on false scent,
Year: 1861

in order to form permanent federal
government. establish justice. insure
domestic tranquility. and secure the
blessings to ourselves and our poster
ity-invoking the favor of Almighty
God-do ordain and establish this
constitution forthe Confederate States
OF America


Now, what could have been the
object of the President in making
that pretended quotation? Was the
falsehood stated to give more point to
his argument against secession; or
was it made in entire ignorance of
the subject upon which he professed
to eniighten the people?
Year: 1861

Yesterday morning during the ex:
citement on Texas street, the alarm
Of five was given, which proved to
be the roof Of kitchen belonging to
the house Of Mrs. Taintor, on Travis
street. The prompt cxertions of our
citizens prevented the flames from
spreading and doing any serious in
jury, other than the destruction Of
the roof.
Year: 1861

We have been reliably informed
that at the above named place, the
next great battle will take placeip all
probability, some time this week.
Should such prove to be the case, and
tho Almighty causes us to be victori-
Gus, and the battle prove as decisive
a victory as that of Manassas. we
predicta a caving in of the enemy
As it is, the majority Of the federal
army are becoming heartily disgust
ed with the cause they espouse. Ev-
cry day we receive intelligence of
dissatisfaction among their ranks
some desert, others, whose terms of
enlistment have expired, will not,
under any circumstances, re-enlist.
With feelings of this description no
body Of men can fight. 1t is there
fore useless for our enemies to persist
in a warfare which only INJURIES them,
the longer they are engaged in it.
They are beginning to view the pres
ent condition of affairs in the same
light that we have described, and


from this we draw our conclusions.
Year: 1861

We noticed a friend Of ours yes
terday, marching about the street, all
solitary and alone, with broom as 4
substitute for muskct. He is fully
bent on doing mischief to the enc
my, and is making grand prepara-
tions with the expectation of follow
ing the Rebels to the war. He was
seen doing daring and strategical
feat-attacking a hog which was
quietly rolling in the gutter-as he
charged bayonet on grunter, friend
grasped his arm, and prevented blood
shed. So much for the times
Year: 1861

1t is reported from Fortress Monroe that the
Secretary of War has promised Sen. Butler that
he shall at once be provided with whatever is ne
cessary to render the army under his command
competent for duty in the field. We rejoice to
TO hear this. The visit OF the Secretary and tho
consequent promise have not been made
moment too soon. Hitherto Gen. Butler has
been kept in systematic deficiency of many things
that are absolutely indispensable TO his rendering
any valuable service; indeed. if it were intended
to cripple him and deprive him OF every possibility
Of doing what the country expects him to do, the
course which has hitherto been pursued toward
him, would suffice with scarcely variation.


Gen. Batter has at Fortress Monroe and New.
port News some fifteen TO twenty thousand men,
all volunteers and militia, but up to the present
hour, not single fl officer has been sent to aid
him in the work of organizing these regiments
into brigades. The only Brgadier-General he
has had is Gen. Pierce; aud the consequence has
been a comparative paralysis Of the whole force.
We presume one of the 6rst acts Of the Secreta.
~ will be send at least two experienced COlonels
of the army, in addition 20 Col. Duryec and Col.





10 bo promoted, to act as Brigsdicr-Generrls.


The next important want TO be supplied is that
of field artillery OF this Fortress Monroe ia al
most entirely destitute; and yet bow can But
ler cooperate in the great movement against
Richmond, in which his cooperation is indispen-
sable, unless this deficiency be promptly and fully
supplied


Then be must have horsomen. Opposed to hin
is q great number OF Virginia irregular cavalry,
whose sudden attacks annoy and tax bis men 10
an ntolerable degree, but who cannot he pursued
without horses. IA yet not single cavalry SOL
der has been attached to the force at tie Fort.
ress. We presume tlat the Secretary wiz at
once meet this pressing want, so far as it may
be possible. We believe that if Eve hundred
horses could be sent him with the necessary
equipments, Gen. Butler would find no difficulty
in mounting them with efficient men from the
forces now under his command, organizing, in
deed, not regular corps OF dragons, but
body OF scouts and rangers who would prove in
the highest degree scrviccable.


OF course the column which moves from the
Fortress will have other wants, which will be
attended to; but We believe We have indicated
those which are most important. We have done
this not at all for the information of the Secre-
tary Of War, but to justify Gen. Butler with the
public. 1t s true tnat he has not yet accom-
plished what was hoped Of him, ard that COM
plsinis Of imperfect organization and many abuses
at the Fortress have become current; but the
people should understand that this a6c officer has
been placed in position OF comparative helpless
ness. We have not the slightest doubt that Just
as soon as he is even half furnished with the
requisite means he viii amply and brilliantly an
swer The anticiphtions Of the people.
Year: 1861

and cspable at a moments notice Of answering
any drafts upon its resources sometimes through
mbecility he has beea incapable Of providing the
necessary supplies, when in other places; aud
sometimes through q sordid knayishness he has
deliberately cheated those whom be was bound
to serve. In other cases the Government con-
tractors have been in fault, and they baye de-
lberately starved the men whom they are PAID
to feed, that they might add to gains already
large.


But, wherever the fault iS, it is intoierable'
and not to be endured for single moment
where tho necessity Of the case does not make
it inevitable 1t is not merely question OF
comfort to the men, but one Of endurance on
the march, of courage in battle, of health az al
times. aud often of life and death. The soldier
must have enough TO eat, and the food must DO
good. 1t must not only be good in ITSELF Dut III
and proper os TO its kind for men dong uhac-
customed work in an uneccustomed climate 90
important is the whole subject that it must COM
mand the immediate attention of the Sanitary
Commission. who have, at least, the power OF
calling the attention of Goyernmentto tine ABUSES
the oversights, tho ignorance, and the irauos'
that will be revealed to them. A Wholesome IN
Auence would be exercised if Government would
break a few incompetent Quartermasters' and
hang the first contractor who should stint the
soldier in the smallest degree, either IN Tue
quantity or quality of his raticns. II, then good
food of the wholesome sort should be provided,
and the raw hands taught by old campaigners
and other competent persOns how to use the
food when they get it, many life will be saved
that otherwise will fell a sacrifice to the Summer
campaign.
Year: 1861

follow their example could they be sure that
their services would be accepted. All over Italy,
as they tell US, the cause of the Union Is felt to
be the cause of Liberty and of Constitutional
Government, and the enthusiasm for it is uni
Yersal.
Year: 1861

We give elsewhere abstracts Of the most I'M
portant bills to be prepared at this Session OF
Congress- It viii be seen that they are fully up
to the Presidents idea Of dealing with the great
rebellion.
Year: 1861

Add to this the 143OO of South Carolina and
we have a grand total of 2iG, 900 for the military
strength of the Slave States. supposing that they
all enter heartily into the rebellion. They can
furnish the men undoubtedly but where is tho
money to como from to equip, feed, and pay such
force The Slave States bave no credit IN
the money markets Of the world aud very little
cash, and wo do not believe they can in any way
procure the funds to equip and maintain 10 .
condition fit for service an army Of one.half this
magnitude. In the most Important article OF
provisions they must soon find themselves Partlcu'
larly deficient.
Year: 1861

The pecuniary loss which the country mas "
ready suffered from the JEFF Davis rebellion can
not be- less than S5OO,OOo,0Oo. Does anybody
suppose that the people wall consent to patch uP
with any halfway arrangement controversy
which ba, cost them so dear, and leave it to b
revived again hereafter Such supPosition n
ahsurd. The business is now to be finished and
settled forever 10 that it can never be brought
ND for consideration again.
Year: 1861

The steady increase in the city circulation Of The
TRIBUNE increases its value a medium for city ad
vertisng. Advertisers will oblge by sending in
their advertisements as early as possible, as we are
obliged to put the paper to press at an earlier hour
than formerly
Year: 1861

The California Assembly have passed by vote
Of 81 Yeas to Nays the amendment to tho
Constitution of the United States, which provides
that it shall never be 90 altered as TO give to
Congress power to interfere with Slavery in the
States. The nine votes in the negative are said
to represent the Secession sentiment Of the
States.
Year: 1861

The flag of the United States was raised at
noon yesterday on the Post Office and Custom
House at Baltimore. A large crowd assembled
to witness the ceremony, and the standard, as it
spread to the breeze, was greeted with tre-
meadOus cheers after which the multitude
joined in singing the Star-Spangled Banner.
Year: 1861

Commissioners from Western Virginia visited
Washington yesterday and told the President
that if be would supply them with arms the
Unionists would take care Of that part Of the
State.
Year: 1861

1t is reported that Mr. John Minor Bolts has


written public letter urging that hostillties


should be suspended in order that a NatioL al
Convention may be called to consider the condi-
ton Of the country. We do not believe this re-
port The John Minor Bolts whom We have had


the honor Of knowing, is both brave man and


d sensible man, and could never have written a


cOwardly and foolish letter. He understands per.


fecty, for he has repeatedly expressed it in terms
Of igorous eloquence, that the Nation cannot be
destroyed by tue COnsprators Of South Carolina
and the Regulators of Mississippi. lie knows
that the people Of the loyal States Will never allow
the Mexican system Of rebellion after lost cleo
tions to be established in American politics. He
knows that they will rise in one overwhelming
mass to defend the Constitution, maintain the
Union, and enforce the laws; and that they will


spend their last dollar and shed their last drop Of
blood soouer than see the Republic divided. Know
ing, and understanding all this, it is impossible
that Mr. Bolts should have put forth the propO-
stiOn attributed TO him. On the contrary, we
are confident that when he addresses the public,
il will be TO declare that there is no alternative
except to crush treason and preserve the Govern.
ment; and that if tho seeding States wish to
avoid forcbe reduction TO order and obedience,
they must hasten tO abandon their reasonable
conspiracy aud return to their duty and TO peace.
Year: 1861

Under the administration of dIstIn-
tested for twenty years in the public Hospitals
well as in their private practice with such complete
success as to have acquired the unqualified approval
of the medical faculty. and is now held in the highest
esteem and is universally used.
Year: 1861

ANOTHER WoRD.-At the meeting Of
the Agricultural Board yesterday. Commit
tee Of three was appointed 10 wait upon citi


z.us and ascertain hos much they will give
ior the sake Of having the State Fair held At


this place next year. That Committee has


commenced work and will caussse pretty
thoroughly to-day. and whether the Fair comes
here or not will be based entirely upon the


willingness Of the people to subscribe. Let
thos4 who want it and expect to Re prodted
by the operation. put down their names and
fgues with liberal hand. The Society is not


over etxious ahont 1t - it will be loair e
game for it but the people have frequebtly
Expressed desire for State Fair, and now let
US see whether they mean what they say


The action Of this day will decide the question
for the next tvo years.
Year: 1861

Too MEAN TO BURN.-Y esterday


morning one OF our citizens attempted to start
Ere In his sitting room stove. and as ueual
placed at the bottom a piece Of newspaper.
la match was applied but the paper would
only char without blazing. Curiosity induced
the gentleman to examine the remainder OF a
paper which, under such urgent circumstances


refused TO burn, when he disoos sered he had
been using q portion OF the New York hide
pendent and no longer wondered at his III
success. The paper was too pesky mean 10
burn We think the editors Of the Ialepend


snt stand good show of being vel! scorched
Year: 1861

farm Is the number of cattle it feeds-and
the cattle in turn feed the soil.


Let us, then, endeavor to secure this crop
in its best possible condition. well-6tted to
sustain the waiting herds that will seek it of
our hands, when they return from the barren
pastures in the fall.
Year: 1861

Answer me for you are better read
in the Bible than L am, and have
more learning; is there any hope for
your poor sinful brother?'
There is hope, John, for all who
repent and sincerely ask forgiveness
answered l. Your offences have
been light offences, my brother, and
if any one may hope to be pardoned,
surely it is you. You must ask God
to forgive you, and it is my belief
that if you ask in sincerity he will


But do you know my dear broth
ers, that we have not prayed since
this calamity befel us =


1T is indeed true,' said James
what would mother say if she knew
we had been three days without pray
er2 what would our good, father say
if he knew that we had received such
great 1nercies and forgot to thank
the giver Of them; We were not
taught this neglect in our fathers
house.,


1t is not too late to pray yet,' said
the sufferer And oh Pray for my
poor soul, and pray for father and
mother, and Sally, and all the rest of
them.


We knelt down in the boat around
him, and l, at the request Of my
brothers, and according to the best
of my ability, offered up the pray
ers which We're required by his situa-
ton and ours When had finished,
he asked US to sing the beautiful
hymn to with he had referred, and
which went in our house by the name
OF: mothers favorite:'


While we were singing the two
first stanzas, he heard occasionally a
low moan from him; but during the
last he was perfectly silent. When


we had finished it, james raised him


up and asked him 'hew he felt now
|-he spoke to lifeless corpse.
! We did not commit him to the
ocean; but with the hope that W.


might yet be permitted to inter hin
on the land, perhaps in the old mos


sy church-yard At, we wrap
ped up his remains i'll the toai -s.a..


and laid him down Gu the bottom O.
the boat.


, No;hing now remained for thu


survivors but 20 wait patiently the
appointed time for our deliverance o.
death. In the meantime we grew
, weaker and weaker every hour. Wa
ter failed us, food we had none, ant
CONTINUED IN OUR NEXT.
Year: 1861

o thou delicious Spring!
Nursed in the lap of thin and subtle showers,
Which fall from clouds that lift their snowy


wing
From odorous beds Of oflight-enfolded flowers,


And from enmassed bowers,
That over grassy walks their greenness fling,


Come gentle Spring!


Thou lover of young wind,
That cometh from the invisible upper sea
Beneath the sky, which clouds, its white foam


bind
And, settling in the trees deliciously,


Makes young leaves dance with glee,
Even in the teeth of that old sober hind,


Winter unkindy


Come to us; for thou art
Like the fine love of children, gentle Spring!
Touching the sacred feeling of the heart,
Or like a virgins pleasant welcoming;


And thou dost ever bring
Al tide of gentle but resistless art


Upon the heart.


Red Autumn from the south
Contends with thee; alas what may he show?
What are his purple-stained and rosy mouth,
And Drowned cheeks, to thy soft feet of snow,
And timid, pleasant glow,
Giving earth-piercing flowers their primal


growth,


And greenest youth?


Gay summer conquers thee;
And yet he has no beauty such as thine;
What is his ever-streaming, fiery sea,
To the pure glory that with thee doth shine


Thou season most divine,
What may his dull and ifeless minstrelsy


Compare with thee?


Come, sit upon the hills,
And bid the waking streams leap down their side,
And green the wales with their slight sounding


rills;
And when the stars upon the sky shall glide,


And crescent Dian ride,
too will breathe of thy delicious thrills,


On grassy hills.


Alas bright Spring. not long
Shall 1 enjoy thy pleasant influence;
For thou shalt die the summer heat among,
Sublimed to vapor in his fire intense,


And, gone forever hence,
Exist no more: no more to earth belong,


Except in song.


So who sing shall die:
Worn unto death, perchance, by care and sorrow;
And, fainting thus with an unconscious sigh,
Bid unto this poor body good morrow,


Which sometimes l borrow,
And breathe of joyance keener and more high,


Ceasng to sigh!
Year: 1861

THE ROMANCE TAKEN OUT OF LIFE ON THE
OCEAN WAvE.-A jelly good fellow was DR..
Sergeant Of Boston. | was introduced to
him just as the steamer Star was leaving her
dock at New York for Europe. For the first
twenty-four hours Orchard was himself
again." but that fell destroyer, who neither
spares age, sex nor condition, sea sickness,
seized him, and nothing more was seen of
the jolly old doctor for several days. We
had left the banks and were steaming along
beautifully, when one morning | saw the
doctors head emerging from the lower re-
gions. But what face long, lugubrious,
distressed; his hair uncared for, dress untidy,
eyes bloodshot. | could scarcely believe
this apparition was the jolly old doctor who
had kept US all in roar the first day out.
"Well, my dear doctor, how do you feel by
this time ?" "FeelT said he, and there was
an unmistakable earnestness in his eyes
"feel why feel as though / had but two
objects in life now. One is to put my foot
on terra .trma, and the other, to find out
and whip the fellow who wrote Life on the
Ocean Wave 7"