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Year: 1861

The Fredericksburg Recorder in an article in
advocacy Of the reelection of Vice President Ste.
phens says:


His ripe Judgment his thorough acquaintance
with all the details and machinery of Government,
render him pre- eminently the man to serve as our
Vice President and if needs be to fill the Chair Of
State"


In alusion to the argument against Mr.. Stephens
because of his geographical locations it says:


"God forbid that we should seek to inoculate the
system Of the new Republic with seettonnlism, that
baneful disease which proved the curse of the old
Union. Let such an attempt be frowned upon by
all patriots
Year: 1861

The Queen Of France is deep suffer
er from melancholy occasioned by the
death Of her sister. The Queen of Aus
tria has been travelling for health. Vic
toria suffers under the dangers from the
hereditary taint of insanity. Apropos of
this, the London correspondent Of trothal
Of the Prince Alice to the Prince of Hes
Sc Dramstadt, says:


"The marriage has been hurried on, /
believe, and viii take place great deal
sooner than was first intended. Her Ma
jesty's very delicate state of health is the
cause for this. 1t is believed to be q mat
ter Of the very first Importance that
something should be done to rouse her
from unnatural melancholy into which
she has fallen since the death of her mo-
ther. A propos to this, curious state
ment was made to me in the beginning
of the week, namely, that her Majesty's
state of health was used as an argument
against turning out the government, in
the lobbies of the House of Commons, for
few days before the great division. 1t
was said that if oil the anxiety and worry
Incidental to change of ministry wero
thrown upon the Queen at the present
moment, the consequences might be too
serious even to speak of. There was
really good deal Of force in the argu-
ment, and it had weight, understand,
with some two or three men, who conse-
quently abstained from voting"
Year: 1861

Says the London Daily News--"It is
often lightly asked why the two sections
of the American Union cannot separate
and live peaceably, side by side? The
question may be met by another. If
nothing hinders them living peaceably,
side by side, why should they separate
and sacrifice the Union, which is their
common strength and glory? If Presi
dent Lincoln prevents the execution OF
the Sothern programme, preserving the
abundant constitutional rights of the
Southern States, as members of the Union
we shall say that he has defended the
cause of liberty, and not whit the less
because the dominant party in the South
has its own projects for rearing an empire
of Tyranny and oppression. Until the
millenial day comes, war can be waged
for no higher object than to maintain the
Constitution of the United States over
the length and breadth of the Union.--
If the vast majority Of the people decide
that the Union and its full Constitution
shall be northumberland the population
of the Free States is to that of the Slave
ptaloS oS ~ W V-thcy haNc 'ho hicaHo
of carrying out that decision without
trenching upon any rights in so doing,
and they will save this generation from
shame, and bequeath their children a
blessing instead of curse"


Such are the words, and such is tho
spirit of the London Daily News, by the
last mail. This is honest, intelligent,
just. 1t is what the great part OF the
people of Great Britain feel-it is what
the Derbyites, the high-bred aristocracy,
hate. Our cause is the cause of man
kind; and, in the language of the Daily
News, we candidly believe, and we be-
lieve that it will be the judgment of APP
preciative history--history written when
the winds of passion, of material interest,
and of partizan discord are still, that
"WAR CAN DE wAGED FOR NO HIGHER
OBJECT THAN TO MAINrAING THE CoYsrI-
TUITION OF THE UNITED STATES OVER THE
LENGTH AND BREATH OF THE UNION. -
Boston Post
Year: 1861

past, hoary with the grossest tyranny
over the bodies and the souls of men,
looks pretty evenly, and very composedly
on the contest, as between the United
States and the Confederate States. 1t
is with this class, the old case over again,
precisely; the battle between the hus-
band and the bear, and the don't-care-
which. beats woman looking on. Their
hope and belief is, that provided both
sides fight long and hard, the National
power that has successfully combatted
monopoly in commerce and compelled an
acceptance of reciprocity, and that has
gloriously disputed the arrogant claim OF
the dominion of the seas, viii be hum
bled. There is not one of these shallow
articles that does not speak with the ut
most contempt of "the vaunted Federal
tie" or OF Republicanism; while they lay
the insurrection to the door of Republi-
canism as sort of natural fruit. No
doubt the whole of this oigarchal class
expect to see Democratic institutions 90
down, and expect that the hereditary
principle, in all its phases, just as it was
about giving up the ghost, will rise and
get new lease of life. That's about the
lump Of tho talk of the oligarchy. Its
ruling passion is to put its heel Oh Re-
publicanism.


Ia all this, the oligarchy who rule Eng
gland are acting out their nature. 1t is
they who have made other nations hate
her. 1t is they who have never ceased
to demand that other nations shall have
allowed to them only such rights as are
consistent with her interests. 1t is they
who hate the very name of Republicanism.
One of the profoundest an1 fairest of
modern men was DeTocqueville--the
grand author of that wonderful book
The Old Regime. In one of his letters
to Mr.. Senior, he attributes the dislike OF
England everywhere "to a conviction
felt by all people in the world that Eng
land never considers others except from
the selfish point Of view of her own gran
deur that all sympathetic sentiment for
Ohat is not herself, is more absent in her
than in any nation of modern times; that
she never notices what passes among
foreigners, what they think, feel, suffer-
er or do, except in reference to the ad-
vantage that England may draw there
from-occupied in reality only with her
self, even when she seems most occupied
with them. There is certainly some ex.
aggeration in this notion" adds NJ De
Toqueville, "Jm / cannot sag there is not
much truth IN 10"


The blunder England is committing
is in the nature of crime. She is act
ing the part of an unfriendly power, when
we are but going through the ordeal
through which she has had to pass on to
greatness. 1t is impossible to conjecture
where she will bring up, if she goes on
in the course marked out by her infamous
proclamation Of neutrality and by the
disgracefui utterances of her Tory-heart.
ed press.
Year: 1861

The howl of rage and excitement rails
ed through the North over the death of
their chief bully of the Zouaves, is second
only to the uproar which they raised
when they tried to intmidate Virginia
from hanging that eminent Ohio saint,
the late John Brown. What an exceed.
ing moderate, modest and rational idea,
that they should invade our country,
with the most horrible threats against
all we hold dear, and that if we raise a
weapon in self-defence, it is the most in
fernal outrage upon these excellent peo-
pie ever recorded in the annals Of man.
kind. They expect their men to 60 to
war, and if one of the "lambs" gets kill
ed, it is an unheard of brutality. They
expect to come on Virginia soil and pro-
fame it with their accursed presence, and
not be "wclcomed with bloody hands to
a hospitable grave" We can tell them
that jackson, who fell at the Threshold,
avenging nobly the infamous act of q
piratical invader, is but type of South
ern millions, who are ready to die, if
need be, for their flag, and who would
count death a JOY and triumph at any
time rather than be subject to such a
people. But, dying, they will make their
enemies pay the full cost of every life
On that certainty the invaders may as
well base their calculations from the start.
Our unerring marksmen will take down
the leaders and officers at every crack of
the rifle.
Year: 1861

EE A probable truthful story of one
Of Ben. Buffers shrewd professional freaks
is told by young factory girl formerly
in one of the Lowell mills. She had been
discharged, and the corporation refusing
to pay her. she sought legal redress and
retained Mr.. Butler for her counsel He
listened to her case with much interest,
and afterwards consulted the representa-
tive of the corporation who still refused
to pay the girl her wages Butler then
issued writ, and attached the main wa
ter-wheel of the establishment, and by
bringing the whole manufactory to a stop,
the corporation rather than allow their
mills to remain idle and wait the laws
delay, paid the girl her wages, and resum-
ed operation.
Year: 1861

Prentice says if any fellow thinks
him tnctured with abolitionism or free
soilism, he is guilty of misconception,
aud his maternal ancestor was guilty of
a still worse one few months before he
was born.
Year: 1861

Almost every paper that comes to US from
Memphis, Vicksburg, or New Orleans, con-
taius the record Of the arrest and hanging Of
some Northern man. They have almost
abandoned the mild old ways Of tarring and
feathering, rail-ridiDS and hOgging on the
bare back Hanging is found to be very
much speedier, and far more eficaCIOus. IL
silences all doubt and pats an extlnguisher
on any future danger of the culprit proving
his innocence, and returning to plague the
Inventors Of ms persecution. All that now
Is necessary in some of the Confederate
States, t. give man swift passport to the
other world, Is to den0uncc him as an 'AbO-
lltionist." The mob asks no proof Of what
they are predetermined to believe of every
man born outside Of the Southern States.
Here is u sample Of the cool way in which
these things are recorded in the Southern
presses, from the Memphis Bulletin


"The Committee proposed to forgive him
if he would take an oath to support the
Southern States. He Indignantly repelled
the proposition, and sad he w01ld die first.
Finding that he was determined and malig-
nant, they threw u rope over the limb Of
tree, aud swung him up twenty-five feet,
where he was hanging last night"


lhlS poor NACtlm WIS not cNcu Il NtItU-
ern man. lie was native of Norway, and
a paaceable, industrious and quiet citizen.
who proposed only to maintain his allegiance
to the Government Of the United States,
which had heretofore thrown its protecting
arm around hIm For this fidelity he was
strangled to death in cold blood, by men
who were bound by the highest obligations
of fealty to the same Government.


These iendish murders are constantly be-
iug perpetIated Human life is Of small ac-
count in a community where TO be " strung
up" to the limb of tree. without judge Or
Jury, Is regarded as a just punishment for
'f1eIitv to the Union and the oath OF citizen
ship. Nothing more conspicuously marks
the essential barbarism Of Southern society,
than the method Of dealing with persons OBJ
noxious to the pOpulace. Even the refined
eruelties of personal torture which are some
times applied, have now given way to the
summary determination OF the haugman's
rope.
Year: 1861

The letter from Washington below, will
command attention by its clear and valuable
d s.ription OF the position of military affairs
by its authentic information-for obtain
ing which the writer has uncommon
advantages aud by its representation
Of the views and words Of General Scott, IN
teresting to US all. but especially 20 to our
soldiers, now about to march to take the
place allotted them in tie plans Of that great
Year: 1861

FOURTH OF July is t) be celebrated in old
fashioned style in Richmond we learn
Military companies Will be in from other
towns, and there will be some speechmaking
and good deal Of Sc trainin "
Year: 1861

SPEEDY AND SURE CURE


IS WITHIN THEIR REACH.
AL Of these Testimonials mere uasoli1itel by Mr.
SPALDING, they afford objectionable proof o,
the efficacy Of tiis truly scientific discovery
Year: 1861

EI A French writer has said. that to
dream gloriously. you must act gloriously
while you are awake : and to bring angels
down to converse with you in your slscp.
you must labor in the cause Of virtue dur
ing the day."
Year: 1861

We learn that the l.arkin Edwards
is now lying at Camptc. The river
is so low that she could not make the
contemplated trip to this place; her
crew has been discharged, and all
hopes Of soon reaching fhis place
given up for the present.
Year: 1861

Perhaps the people generally may inquire what is
the matter at ARROWS new store, when. after look
ing around some they find out that this is The
very place TO buy cheap Goods. Under the present
crisis such an inducment will lead any man, woman
child 10 stop in. without searching further, and
this is where the bargains are. The greatest pains
has bee taken BY the subscriber to select a choice
and desirable stock of Fancy Dry Goods, including
Cass ssimeres Cloths. &C. The greatest and effort
will he made to show the public his assortment.
feeling sure, after a close examination they will be
ready buy The fact this idea has been suggest
ed hy several. Come and see his cheap lot Of Sugar
Tor 81, Z, and 10 cts. per h. ap4-4t
Year: 1861

IRISH PorAroEs-7He Way to Sape Seed
We had an Irish po alto presented TO few
days since, which was rs large as any we ever
saw, no matter where 1t was raised. We did
not weigh 1t, but our readers can guess It's
size when we cay 1t was as l.ree as our two
hsts This potato was rsised from seed
planted last March was a year ago and as It
is likely that no foreign potatoes will be i'm
ported in time for n Xt springs plan ting we
readers to explain how Ihe gentleman IA
planter) who presen ted rs the potato man.
aged to save seed for the planting Of last
springs crop. He informs MS that shout the
first Of August Of last year he plOughed m
the ground where the spring crop had been
planted and gntherei, but er ough seed had
been left to produce u fall crop. from
which he used as late as Chr,s tmss -
Early In January and not until then.
he had the to'afoes remaining in tba
ground taken up ard put Ia dry place His
reason for takirg Them up was that If they
remained they would sprout rrema turely ard
be killed by cold Gather. At the usual tin e
he plan ted the seed thus gathered, and rails ed
as good crop and as large potatoes as any OF
his netahbOrs raised


This process is worth trying, and we have
thought 1t our duty TO describr il to our read =
ers They will r. mem Der that the ground
where the sIring crop was plan ted must be
ploughed about the first of August and the
pofatoes that come up must be cultivated az
usual; then about the fret OF January take
mp all that car be fonnd and put them away
in dry place for planning in the spring Wa
war and the blockade will learn he Southern
people more than they ever knew before, ard
viii make them more self freliaIt.-CahaIa
(Alo Gazette
Year: 1861

We present on the third page, as fully
as our space will permit, the results of the
investigation had at st. Louis, by the Con-
gressional Committee, on the management
off affairs in Missouri, by Gen. Fremont
1t is abridged from an article in the Chica-
go Tribune that occupies nearly page of
that paper. We ask the careful attention
of our readers to these developments, and
particularly of that class who are impressed
with the idea that all opposition to FIRE.
mont's administration is based on his anti
slavery proclamation. They will have
occasion to change their minds, when the
facts are before them. In presenting the
evidence of Frem0nt's criminal recklessness
and incapacity, the tribune says:


" The readers Of the TRIBUNE, who are in this
crisis anxious to sustain the Government of
their choice, and who are willing to listen to
plain facts, will find in this mornings paper a
glance at few of the reasons that have in
tuenced the Administration in the removal of
General Fremont. After giving them their
attention, they will agree with us that the
action of the President has already been too
long delayed, If any should still doubt, the
forthcoming report Of the Congressional In
vestgating Committee will open their eyes,
and force conviction upon the most stubborn
of unbelievers; but we know that the evidence
which we present in relation to the manage
ment OF the Department, is but minute part
OF that yet to come.'
Year: 1861

THE FUTURE OF ST. PAUL.--FOur years
of hard times have not crushed our young
city. Far from it. In spite of the pitiabie
ruin which has fallen upon SO many of our
early adventures here, and of the COM
plants which have been wrprg from the
sufferers, the city and its trade have held
their owp, and in all the clements OF perp
Elanent aud substantial growth, we have
gone steadily forward and not backward.


The prime cause of our msiortunes may
be fairly and soberly ST down by the pen
of history, in few words :--1be facility of
borrowing, and the importunate eagerDess
to lend money at enormous rates OF interest.
1t is not cause confined in existence or
operation to ST. Paul or Minnesota, but
mora destructive in pioneer society thar
elsewhere, because OF the unguarded and
hopeful spirit Of pioneer life I: masked
battery not likely to be soon forgotten Or
approached by those who have felt its fire
and almost as fatal by its recoil upon the
artilerists, as by its fire at the port holes.


1t is not necessary to print cautions upon
this point. 1t is here referred to, to justify
cur confidence in the future prosperity of
our favored city and State, now measura-
bly, delivered from this influence, and awake
fO ita fatal character


During the four years OF hard times
whose adverse current St. Paul has been
doomed to stem,--the facts OF our history
show conclusively that cur progress towards
The point of being the commercial city of
the Northwest has been constantly onward
and our actual condition and prospects
are eminenty cheering.


With your leave, Messrs. Editors, we
will give in another article some facts to
justify this hopeful view. Yours, X
Year: 1861

HOSPITAL STAwABD.--We are glad to
know that our young friend Geo. Mcdonald
Lambert, SOB Of Judge Lambert Of this
city, will receive the appointment of Hos
pital Steward Of the Fourth Regiment.
Tie has served long apprenticeship in the
apothecary business, and is abundantly
qualified for the position 70 which he will
be appointed.
Year: 1861

Our readers must excuse any little
seeming neglect OF our part that may
appear in this light during this week.
Apologies we are not in the habit Of
making, but we know that the in
dulgent readers Of the News will be
lenient with us during our atfiiction-
Last Sunday we had death i'll cur
family, besides this we suffer much
from sickness, and when not confined
to bed, are tortured with pains and
feel perfectly emaciated.


Our business is Of such a nature as
to require our personal presence In
the office. otherwise we would take
short trip to the Arkansas springs
as recommended. During this spell
we are not inclined, nor can We write
much. Persons who may have beer
compelled to edit for their livelihood
know that there is no fun attached te


it aat best" We hope to regain ou
health in a measure. as the cold sea


son approaches, in the mean tim


kind readers, be indulgent.
Year: 1861

If there is one thing pride myself up
on in the housekeeping line, it is being
able to do a big washing with little trou-
BILE, and while articles innumerable are
appearing in the papers on that weekly
important subject, l would add my mite
to ease the common lot.


Washing is hard work at best, but the
labor may be much lessened by always
putting the clothes in soak over night, in
cool rain water. Wiring them in the
morning and prepare them for rubbing;
put tablespoonful Of pulverized borax
into your hot water. immerso the clothes
and let them remain half an hour, then
rub them upon the washboard. Ifyou
have girls or boys that have leisure, a
pounding barrel is great advantage, or
even husband may give turn, if he has
nothing else to do. Rub or pound
thoroughly, and you need not boil your
common white clothes. They must be
very thoroughly rinsed also.


The people Of the tropics never boil
clothes, and they are capital washers. If
our lady friends think borax too expen-
sive. we will give them cheaper rule
next week. but we would advise them to
count the cost Of time. toll, wood. soap,
etc. before they cry out against this ex-
cellent and safe article for easing their
labor. Half the soap will be saved aud
with one half tho labor. 1t is equally
good for colored clothes and fannels.
and makes 6ne muslins rs white as new,
with little or no rubbing Votes.
Year: 1861

An amusing matrimonial story is told
of the olden time in New England. 1t so
fell out that two young people become
very much smitten with each other, as
young people do. The young woman's
father was a wealthy Quaker--the young
man was respectable. The father could
stand no such union, and resolutely op-
posed, and the daughter dare not disobey,
openly. She "met him by moonlight"
when she pretended never to see him
and she pined and wasted in spite of her
self. She was really in love--a state Of
sighs and tears which women oftener
reach in imagination than reality. Still
the father remained inexorable.


Time passed on, and the rose on Mary's
cheek passed off, She let no conceal
ment, like worm in the bud, prey on
that damask cheek, however. but when
her father asked her why she pined, she
always told him. The old gentleman was
widower, and he loved his daughter
dearly. Had it been widowed mother
who had Mary in charge widows pride
would have given way before the impor-
tunities of daughter. Men are not,
however, stubborn in such matters, and
when the father saw that his daughters s
heart was really set upon the match, he
apprised her one day by breathing out:


MARY, rather than NOPE to death,
thee had better marry as soon as thee
chooses, and whom thee pleases."


And then what did Mary? Wait till
the birds of the change, or until her faith
er had time to change his mind again?-
Not bit of it. She clapped her neat
plain bonnet on her head and walked as
directly to the house of her intended, as
the street would carry her. She walked
into the house without knocking--for
knocking was not then fashionable-an
she found the family just sitting down to
dinner.


Some little commotion was exhibited
at SO unexpected and so unusual an appar-
ition as the heiress in the widows cottage,
but she needed it not. John looked up
inquiringly. She walked directly up to
him and putboth his hands into hers.


"John." she said. "father says l may
have thee"


And John got up directly from his din
ner-table, and went to the parson's--in
just twenty-five minutes they were man
and wife.
Year: 1861

The Republicans have been denouucing
the Democracy. because they have favored
compromise rather than war, as traitors
Long denunciatory articles have been
written and warnings have been giver
that when the new order Of things were
brought about that "home traitors" would
be first cared for. They have now go
the government in their hands, why dom
they go to work? Under present con
tingencies they have the President anC
Cabinet, the Army and Navy, and botl
branches Of Congress. The Presiden
can call Congress together and they cal
commence the work at once. Go at it
You have the power il you have the incli
nation. Pitch in. Hang home traitor
first thing. why don't you go to work
Fremont Messenger.
Year: 1861

FREAK OF NATURE.-A story is told Of
an apple tree planted over the grave of
Roger Williams to this effect: The tree had
pushed downward one of its main roots
in sloping direction, and nearly straight
course, toward the precise spot that had
been occupied by the skull of Roger Will
liams; there making a turn conforming
with its circumference, the root followed
the direction from the backbone to the
hips and thence divided into two branches
each one following the leg-bone to the
heel, where they both turned upward to
the extremities Of the toes ofthe skeleton.
One of the roots formed curve at the
part occupied by the knee Joint. thus
producing an increased semblsnce to the
outlines Of the skeleton, as if, indeed,
mol led thereto by the powers of vegeta
bic life. This singularly formed root has
been carefully preserved, as constituting
very impressive exemplihcation OF the
mode in which the contents Of the grave
had been entirely absorbed.