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Year: 1861

The London Times pays more attention to
the American letter of the Czar than is con.
sistent with q sense of security. That paper
feels naturally bitter in view of the fact that
an utterly different race has interpo5ed its
alien sympathies TO supply the deficit of
those which America might have expected
from its own flesh and blood, and wince5
pardonably as it remembers that Great Bri-
tain may lose a friendship which has been
far more valuable to her than to us, and
which she is certainly conscious Of having
done little to retain.


Undoubtedly there are many grounds of
sympathy between America and Russia,
which do not exist between America and
England. In Russia there is absolute polti-
cal equality, more absolute perhaps than the
best constructed democracy can ever secure.
The spirit Of its external policy has been
hitherto uniformly aggressive, and the doc
trine Of manifest destiny had been the creed
of the nation hundred years before il was
reinvented for the benefit of the United
States. If Peter the Great was not much
like Washington, he was not without a GER
tain resemblance to Jefferson and jackson,
the Jewelers. of American society and Amer
icau institutions.


"Then Russia has many negative recon-
mendations. She has no free trade to be
standing reproach to the retrograde tariffs of
the United States; she has no free press to
show how liberty may be enjoyed without
ribaldry or slander; she has no literature in
the same language to mortify by O sense of
its superiority; she has no Parliament to fix
upon itself the attention of the world and
oVershadow the deliberation of Congress- she
has no great mercantile marine to fill every
port and every sea; she has no undisputed
pre-eminence in the carrying trade Of the
Atlantic; she has no great colonies on the
American continent, the steady progress of
which in all arts of peaceful industry offers
notifying contrast to the waste and crimes
of a civil war; and she had to the month
of March of this present year the golden link
of slavery to attach to her the sympathies of
the Confeder States, link which can not
yet be said to be wholly broken.


"For these reasons we are sanguine that the
letter of the Emperor of Russia will meet
with a more favorable reception than would
have been accorded to similar missive from
Queen Victoria, and that in consideration of
the cordial sympathy which has so long ex-
listed between American Democracy aud
Russian Absolutism, the Emperor of Russia
may be forgiven what would be in others the
objectionable offense of striving to put an
end to a war the most fruitles5 and ground
less that history records, of counseing peace
where there is no peace, and of striving to
gain a hearing for the voice of reason and
common sense, amid the tumult of unrehect-
ing passion and of antipathies all the more
bitter because they are utterly groundleVs"


All of which means that Russia has no
reason to be jealous of the power, the trade,
the wealth and the literature of the United
States, and may therefore speak her honest
sentiments openly, and without qualification.
Year: 1861

CHINESE LIFE The American Consul at
Swatow, China, has written letter to the
Rochester AdvertiSer, in which he states
some very interesting facts respecting the
habits and manners of the Chinese. Speak
ing of the people Of the district of Hankow,
some FIVE hundred miles above Shanghai,
and which has become, in the place of Cam
ton, the Dorado of the Empire, and the great
tea port of the country, he says they are a
bold, turbulent lawless set of rascals, in con-
slant war with each other. AS regards the
state of society, he expresses the opinion that
nothing like it is to be found anywhere else
in the world, not even in Africa. In proof
of this, we are told that boatmen at Swatow
and men at work are often seen "entirely
naked Female children are but of little
account in a region that is the most populous
of any in all the country. The correspondent
says that he ''can obtain large baskets full of
live, kicking Chinese babies "a dozen o.
more in each-for two dollars basket" He
adds, it is mot uncommon to find them by
the roadside or rolling on the beach"
Year: 1861

RYE SUBSTITUTED FOR CoFTEE.-ltis is stated
that, in some parts of the South, rye, as
substitute for coffee, is bringing three dollars
per bushel. The writer remembers the time
In Virginia when rye coffee was the common
beverage Of the people Of that State,
Year: 1861

ACCORDING to a statement made by Miss
Dix, ladies will best exhibit their patriotism
by knitting yarn stockings for the soldiers.
Knowing the patriotism Of the ladies, we ad-
wise store.keepers to increase their stock Of
yarn and knitting needles,
Year: 1861

baltimore ana Oh1O Railroad, &C.


Special to the Commercial Advertissr.I


WASHINGTON, October 1l.-A dispatch
from General Wool to the War Department
confirms the statement that the rebels met
with heavy loss in the engagement with the
Monticello off Hatteras Inlet.


Fort Hatteras will be made perfectly Sc
cure by the immediate dispatch of reinforce
ments.


Those who sympathize with Secession in
the Common Council are eudeavoring to
procure an order for a new charter election
The purpose is to oust Mayor Wallach, and
put into the office man of less pronounced
loyalty.


The Government will have nothing to do
with the opening of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad to Cumberland. They WILL how
ever, guarantee a military protection to the
road.


Quartermaster Rucker advertises for one
hundred thousand bushels of oats, to be de-
livered here.
Year: 1861

To any and all Postmasters and friends, sending
us the Cash for five new subscribers to the Weekly,
or two to the Tri-Weekly, we will send one copy Of
the Weekly gratis for one year.


Positively no subscription will be received for the
Weekly or Tri-Weekly UNION AND AMERICAN, unless
accompanied with the Cash.
Year: 1861

The DAILY publishes a very large quantity o
matter, and the TRI-WEEKLY is made up Of two
Daily issues and the WEEKLY is one of the largest
handsomest, and cheapest sheets printed in the
Union
Year: 1861

PoRK.-There is no good reason why pork should be high priced this winter. There are more hogs at the South than at the North and 8 less population to feed. The corn crop was an abundant one, and the supply of hogs ample.- We should bear in mind than an unusual quan- ttv of beef will be salted and drei this winter an go far to supply the place of pork. The a ny will consume and waste great deal, but there is yet enough for all and no gool reason cla be given for asking or receiving exorbitant prices
Year: 1861



 Oct 25, 1861.

 NR EDIrcR: There is but little doubt tn It the legislature at its coming session will elect mem bers to the Confederate States Senate, and the only question is whom will they elect? From what can learn the two distinguished and patriotic gen tlemen whose names appear at the heal oi this ar ticle are the favorltes of Sebastian county. h. deed why should not the people be in favor of their election? If We cast aroL and look over the State, in valn do we look for whose tai- ents energy and means, have been more largely contributed to southern liberty and independence than Johnson's As regards Johnson as the Van Buren Press has truly said the people of this part of the State are unanimous in favor of his election. And why >houldnot the legislature elect Charles B Mitchell They elected him last winter to the Senate of the United States and surely the histo- " of the times records no reason why they should not elect him this winter to The Senate of a more free and more glorious government. Mitchell has many, many friends 1T: Sebastian county It is true that when he and Can't were candi. dates for Congress that this county cast her vote for Gantt yet Mitchell popular man; and when he left the canvass in Sebastian, his far ness and frankness and liberal feelings, shown to those who opposed him, endeared many to him who actually cast their votes against him. The writer of this article used every exerton he could honora- by to elect Can't, yet he would have been well satisfied with Mitcbel'5 election. And when he met Charley Mitchell afterwards he met friend A man who accorded to others the same privileges which he claimed for himseIf-the high privilege of exercising in this free country untrammeled the elective franchise. Such s the man. And that he may be elected to the Senate by an oyerwhelm ing majority is the wish of the people of

 SEBASTIAN COUNTY.
Year: 1861

gG~ The masonic bodieS-Grand Chapter and Grand Lod5e-have both been in session in our city this week, the latter not yet having finished it's labors. The Chapter was we'll at tended, and its proceedings marked with the utmost harmony and good feeling The Lodge is more numerously attended than was antici- pated. A more intelligent or fine looking body of men cannot be found any where.
Year: 1861

House met

 Under resolution of Mir. Boone, rules of last session were adopted for government of present.

 Mr. Yell presented preamble and resolutions relative to insructng the ju iiciary committee to prepare and report bill provlng for the assump- ton and payment of the Confederate States tax, by extingushing so much of the debt due by the Confederacy to the State, as shall be equivalent to he same. Adopted.
Year: 1861

CooL.-The Gather is getting rather
cool lately, with a prospect of frost. We
are not in favor Of any euch visitation at
present, by a good deal. There is too much
unripe vegetation about to make the prospect
at ali pIe asant
Year: 1861

LARcENY.-A young lad stole pack
age of pocket knives from Orr's auction store
the other day and went into the peddling bus.
iness strong. The theft came to light. and by
dint Of little perseverance the owner suc.
ceeded in finding part Of them. Mt. Orr did
not procure the arrest Of the young chap, not
wishing TO bring him to shame. He had bet
ter take warning from this lest he fall into
woree hands,
Year: 1861

An accident occurred in the asmorv
at Baton Rouge, which resulted in
the explosion of some old six pound
shells the men were unloading and
from which the powder was mistaken
ly supposed to have been taken. Three
men " ere wounded
Year: 1861

She had no mother! What volume
of sorrowful truth in that single sen
tence--no mother We must go down
the hard, rough path Of life, and be-
come Injured to care and sorrow in their
sternest forms, before we can take
home to our own experience the dread
reality-no mother-without struggle
and tear. But when it is said of a
fair young girl, just passing from child
hood toward the life of woman, how
sad is the story summed up in that one
short sentence. Who now shall check
the wayward fancies-who now shall
bear with the errors and failings of the
motherless girl Deal gently with the
child.


Let not the cup of sorrow be over fl
led by the harshness of your bearing or
your unsympathizing coldness. Is she
. needless Of her doings! Is she careless
. other movements Remember, oh er-
j member, she has no mother When
hdr young companions are gay and joy
Asotis, does she sit sorrowing-does she
pass with downcast eye and lapguid
step, when you would fain witness the
gushing and overfowing gladness Of
youth ?-Chide her not, for she is moth
'erless, and the great sorrow comes down
upon her soul like an incubus.


Can you again confidence. can you
win her love? Come then, to the mo-
therless with the boon of your tender
est care, and by the memory of your
own mother perhaps alrady passed
away,-by the fulness of your osyn re-
imembered sorrow-by the possibility
that your own child might be mother
1ess-contribute, SO far as you may, to
relieve fhe loss of that fair, fail child,
who is written rnotherless.
Year: 1861

Mdrridge an LapLand.-It is death
in Lapland to marry a maid without the
consent, of her parents and friends.
When young man has, formed an
attachment for female, it is the fashion
for the friends to meet to be hold the
young parties run race together.


The maid is allowed, in starting, the
advantage of one third of the distance
so,that it is Impossible, except willing
herself, that she should be overtaken.
IF the maid outrun the suitor, the mat
ter is ended; he must never have her,
it being. criminal for the yaung man to
regard the potion of marriage. But if
the virgin have4an affection for him,
though at first she run quite fast to try
his, love, She will, without Atlanta's
golden balls to retard her speed, pretend
casualty and voluntary halt before she
comes to the mark at the end of the
race. Thus none are to marry against
their will and that is the reason that
in this poor country the married people
are richer in their contentment than in
other lands, where SO many feign love
Sand cause unhappinesss
Year: 1861

THE Wtt.-It is not un frequently
the wife mourns overthe alicnated affcc-
tions of her husband, when she has
made no effort herself to strengthen
and increase his attachment. She
thinks, because he once loved he ought
always to love her, and she neglects
those attentions which gained his heart.
Many wife is thus the cause of her
own neglect and sorrow. The woman
deserves not husbands love who will
not greet him with smiles when he re-
turns from the labors of the day; who
will not chaiu- him to his home by the
sweet enchantment of "A cheerful heart.
There is not one in "a thousand so un-
feeling as to Withstand such influence
and break a way from such home.
Year: 1861

t3 Two gentlemen the other day,
at public table, got into a vehement
dispute upon a subject of which it was
quite evident both were profoundly
ignorant. A big bulldog, which had
been quietly sleeping on the hearth was
aroused by their Violence, and began
barking furiously. An old gentleman,
who had been quietly slipping his wine
while the disputants were talking, gave
the dog kick, and exclaimed, Hold
your tongue. you brute. You know no
more about it than they do The
laugh of the whole table was turned
Immediately upon the noisy brawers.
Year: 1861

TY' Somebody says: Every hour that
u man is in debt, is a year spent in sla-
very. Your creditor is your master;
it matters not whether u kind or q
severe one, the sense of obligation you
incur saps the feeling Of manly inde-
pendence, which is tho first charm of
youth and, believe us, it is always
through the rents in moral feeling that
our happiness oozes out quickest.
Year: 1861

DENTAL NOTICE-Dr. H. N. E;c..ssr,ss CASE. office new building, opposite the 0IT1iis Gazette oifice where be is prepared to operate in every branch of his profession. Artificial teeth with artificial gums from one to full set inserted so as to look perfectly natural All full sets inserted on the suction, or atmospheric pressure principle, feel perfectly natural and easy in the mouh and answers all the legitimate uses of natural teeth.

 Teeth, if taken in time, can be plugged so as to preserve them for life.
Year: 1861

Go forth to the contest,


With confidence strong,
And dare to encounter


And battle the wrong;
Though fierce be the warfare
Sustained by the right,
Stand up in thy manhood,


BE first in the fight.
On! make no concessions,


BE true to thy trust,
And never abandon


The cause OF the Just .
Though hope may be mantled,
In darkness forlorn,
The future hath brightness,
10 smile back the storm.
what matter though errors
Adherents oppose,
Perform well thy duties
Care not for thy foes;
But strong in thy purpose,
The right TO defend.
With eheertttlncss labor
Andtoil TO the end.
Year: 1861

NASHVILLE, IENN-
VIyUL keep always on hand q large and complete
w assortment Of everything kept IN the Drug line
which VIII sell cheap as the chenpest, and as
sood the best which ready 70 prove all the
and any time day night, to the satisfaction
Of ali good citizens who will favor with call and
patronage JOHN J. BEECH
sept 1e-1
Year: 1861

1t will be remembered that just before
camp JacosOn was surrounded by the
Government forces, numbers of the Seces-
SION troops sought safety in precipitate
hight, throwing down their arms and
casting of their military clothing. A
roundabout thrown away by one of these
lu9ltlVes was found the next day near
house IN the vicinity Of Camp jackson,
ana IN hls pocket was discovered a letter
lneIosed IN q JEFF Davis envelope We are
permitted to make copy OF the letter
Here it is


CAMP JACKSON, ST. LOUIS, May 9.
DEAR BROTHER. Natchez Miss. Since
| last wrote YOU we have had accessions
to our Minute Men, making in all about
/ 500 men including State troops Ours,
that is the Minute Men, have daily acces-
sions. Our rendezvous, corner Of Fifth
and Pine, Is kept busy recruiting In a
short time We shall have enough to bring
the Union men or Black Republicans into
our terms, or force them to leave the
State. We have a Governor who is a true
blue. He is trying TO Get a bill through
the Legislature that will bring them to
terms When we get say from 1000 to
5000 Minute Men, well armed, we shall
be all ready for them We pulled the
wool over their eyes by making them think
we only intended to stay in camp six days
/ We intend to stay here till the Governor
gets all things right at Jefferson City BY
that time we shall have all the men we
want. We shall force them into measures
to suit Us or leave the State. We are for
the South


| have Just received news that Capt
Lyon intends to attack Us tomorrow.
and shall have to close writing for the
present and 30 to work We shall whip
the damned United States forces Our
fag sti I flies at Fifth and Pine and we
shall conquer, and expect hot work. We
viii make these Union men cry for GUAR
ter vet Iiurrah for the Southern Con
federacv and JEFF Davis, and damn Lin
colin and the stars and stripes How is
+ 2 How is. etc. etc ? am in a hurry
viii finish after the battle IS won, and
tell You how we have whipped them. |
have got some JEFF Davis envelopes |
enclose this letter in one. ours truly.


O. W


?. : | shall mail this on Saturday.
when | can give YOU all the particulars
q our glorious victorr.
Year: 1861

xMt VA II CUA eAaEys

 Tomorrow is the anniversary of the birthday of GEORGE WASHINGTON. . One hundred and twenty-nine years ago to- morrow, he was born into the world at Accomac, Virginia, and was raised up among men to be at once the preserver and defender of the land which gave him birth.

 The birthday of WAsHrNsroS should be cele- brated throughout the land, if not with .pomp and ceremony, yet with the devout recognition and thankfalness of the heart, that such a man was born and lived and died for our whole coun. try and for us, even to this latest generation which enjoy its benefits and reap its blessings.

 And if in our age, men rise up who shall seek to tear down the glorious fabric which Washing ion and his couipatriots helped to build, let the universal anathema and execration of the whole people be heaped on such, and this day of the birth of the Father of his Country, be taken as m occasion for renewing the vows of fealty to the Union and the Constitution of our Fathers, and of resolution and determination to uphold and defend them both, as they are, without con cessionto traitors, or compromise to slavery prop ogandists, I,sIs..s ls3.
Year: 1861

who met

 wierlent death this spot Is hundred & 40 too-He was shot by his own pistill. it was not one of theinew kind but old fashioned one bras barrel and of such is tho Kingdom of Heaven.
Year: 1861

ISg~A preacher presented a revolver to a soldier before his departure to the seat of war with the following injunction:

 If you get in tight place and have to use it; ask Gods blessings if you have time, but be sure and not let your enemy get the start of you. You can say amen after you shoot.
Year: 1861

The federal papers repeat the assertion that their troops will need but little winter clothing as they will be far south in a few weeks. Some of them, no doubt, VIII go so far south, as to reach a clime where no clothes are worn.
Year: 1861

She stern, hard woman. But far away, up
great many pairs Of winding stairs IN her heart was
door easily passed by, and that door was written
Woman.-CEarIcS Dickens.


And It Is with the drunkard. Far up great ma
ny pairs of winding stairs in his heart, Is door, and
that door is written Man, and we must knock once
twice, seven times; yea, seventy times seven tllnes
that 1t may open unto Us.-J0hH b. cough.


He was an old man-not so old either,
for the years of his life could not have
wrinkled his forehead and whitened his
hair, and the hands locked together on the
low pine table, did not tremble so with the
weakness Of age; yet very ola and very
miserable looked the solitary occupant Of
that narrow room or entry, with It's faded
red curtains, and its atmosphere rendered
almost intolerable by the bar-room into
which it opened A hat, bearing unlnis-
taxable evidence of long intimacy with
'brickbats and gutter maintained safe
position on one side of the owners head /;
and a pair Of elbows thrust themselves
through his coat sleeves in rejoicing con
sciousness tIatthev s5uld afford 10 be ont
Year: 1861

The following annecdote is not new, but
will bear republication, for the reason that
it is brimful of fun. The scene is laid in
Georgia:


Jake was little negro boy who belong
ed to Dr. Taliaferro, and was said to have
in his little frame heart as big as Gener-
al Jackson's-to say nothing of Napoleon
Bonaparte and zack Taylor. He didn't
fear even old Nick, and as to GOODNESS he
was as cool as the tiptop of the North pole


One day DIR. Taliaferro, upon occasion Of
the commencement of medical college Of
which he held the chair of anatomy, gave
a dinner. Among his guests was well
known ventriloquist. Late in the evening,
after the bottle had done its work, the con
versation turned upon courage, and the Dr.
boasted considerably of the lion heart Of
his favorite Jake. He offered to bet that
nothing could scare him, and this bet the
vontril5auist took I'D, NAMING at the same
Year: 1861

4AC VI OCdCA'


Death is voiceless teacher, but his les
sons come to all He is no respecter of
persons, and all climes are included in his
domain. With impartial step he approach
es those who long for him and those who
passonately cling to life. His countenance
seems ever stern, unless when he rides on
the storm of battle, and in chariot of fire
translates patriot souls to a richer reward
than earth can offer. Then his summons
comes like the triumphant voice of an an
gel, and his features are not gloomy, but
lighted up with prophetic TRANSPORTATION.
To many brave heart comes the consola-
ton which martyr patriots ever feel 1T is
sweet and honorable to die for oae's coun-
try Nor is this solace confined only to
those who fail In upholding the freedom
and fame OF their native land, but it causes
rainbows to arch over the grief of those
who give up their beloved ones when their
country calls Brave hearts break that
liberty and peace may be the heritage of
generations to come; they sacrifice years of
their lives that those who shall live after
them may lead freer, happier, more peace
full lives. And SO we embalm them in our
memories, and death seems but as a
kind, swift-winged messenger bearing them
to the rest and glory of their heavenly in
heritance. The lesson taught by such
death and by the emotions it produces, Is
that freedom and just character are more
excellent than earthly life, that it is cow
ardly to cling to this world so eagerly as
not willingly to yield it, With al its joys and
Year: 1861

~ A Missouri legislator, who was
opposed to project for a new eotat'y
"came down. upon the locality after
the following original style:


''The soil is SO poor that it would not
GROW pennyroyal. Sir, you might NOV
the country with a razor, and rake It
with fine tooth comb and you would
not get fodder enough to keep slcF
grasshopper through the winter. oIr
thew plant corn with croW-bars, ant
hold the sheep by the legs while the!
nbble the grass in the cracks OF th<
cliffs"