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Year: 1861

Ak INCIDENT AT THE FoRTs. The Pensacola
Observer is the authority for the following an
ecdote:


One night last week Mr.. Doyle, one of the
head maciiinists of the yard and well known
here for his reckless daring, made visit to
Santa Rosa Island to ascertain what was going
on at Fort Pickens by the light of the stars
He built decoy fire some distance up the
beach which attracted the attention of the I'd
Lieutenant at Fort Pickens, who, whilst ap-
preaching stealthily towards the fire, was ar
rested and taken prisoner by Doyle After
lengthy interchange of views respecting the
crisis. and a copious drink of Doyle's good
brandy. the prisoner was discharged with sew
eral "bricks in his hat and high opinion Of
the skill and generosity of his captor. A few
evenings thereafter this same Mr.. Doyle made
another visit to the Island, and by the darkness
of the night actually succeeded in efiecting an
entrance into the Fort for the purpose of spik
ing the guns, but was discovered too early to
accomplish his purpose. He was taken before
Lieut.. Slemmer, to the astonishment of the
whole garrison, who threatened to swing him
bv the neck for his Unreasonable audacity. =
But DOYLE, reminding him and the Lieutenant
ofthe latter having been under like circumstances
on previous evening, was spared so painful an
infection and was simply confined during the
night and sent to the Navy Yard the next morn
ing incharge of file of men.
Year: 1861

MARRIED LovERs.-In the flush and brilliari
cv of carly married love, the first faint impress
sions of the future wife and future husband
commence As lovers, their dispositions were
in a state of pleasant antagonism; as welded
pair, they are presumed to be amalgamated, and
form an entirety which recognizes mutual inter
ests, advantages and concessions, as the basis Of
their mutual happiness. The husband, then
even in the dawn of his marital life, should be-
gin to create in his wife's mind those favorable
sensations which are the precursors of those
solid ideas which bind woman to man by that
strong, invisible intercommunion OF soul, which
only death can interrupt This obligation is
equally imperative on the wife. In the hey-day
of her husbands love, while his heart beats re-
sponsively to her every wish, and his mind is a
fair tablet, on which none but summer thoughts
are engraved, she should begin the study Of his
character, SO. that when the necessity arises
she may be able to accommodate her own more
plastic one to it without effort or Inconvenience
Indeed, with both Of them this should early be
an object Of anxiety, so that there should grad
ually grow up between them coneiliatory pre-
disposition Of tone. and manner, which, when
brought into requisitiOn; would appear more a
habit than duty
Year: 1861

MESSAGE OF THE PRINCIPAL CHIEF OF THE
CHocTAw NATIoN.-The Memphis Enquirer pub
fishes the Message OF the principal Chief of the
Choctaw nation to the Legislature, convened in
extraordinary session to consider what course
the nation should pursue in view of the proba-
BILE dissolution OF the Union. In an editorial
notice the Enquirer remarks:


"The document is well-prepared State pa
per, decided, but temperate in its general tone,
and does infinite credit to its author. While
counscling the several Indian nations to cast
their lot with the Southern States, in the event
of their secession, and to send delegates to a
Southern Congress, he also advises the sending
of commissioners to Washington to confer with
the presidentof the United States and to look af-
ter the security of their monied investments =
In conclusion he calls upon his countrymen to
stand by their rights, and never to surrender
them even though national annihilation should
be the consequence of refusal to submit The
General Council responded to the message of
their Chief by passing a series of resolutions re-
cognizing it to be the duty and interest OF the
Choctaw nation to unite their destinies with the
Southern Confederacy."
Year: 1861

A HARD CRowD-A dispatch in the Rich
mond Enquirer gives the following picture of
the strangers who now abound in Washington
& The inferior appearance pinched and cunning
features and scanty wardrobes Of the thousand
visitors here is the subject Of general remark
The conductors Of the various railroad trains
say that on an average there is only one trunk
TO one hundred passengers The rest are sup
plied with CARPET bags The hotels and board
ing houses ask pay in advance. The haekmen
rrumble at the mcanncss Of visitors. The bar
bers and bootblacks are momentarily asked for
the loan Of razors and brushes without even re
eeiying thanks in return all Of which painfully
exhibits the difference between the new patrons
and the princely Southerners.
Year: 1861

AFRAID TO ToucH.-A few days ago, says
the Washington correspondent Of the Newbern
On. c. Progress, box was received at the
War Department per express, for Secretary
Holt, sent from South Carolina. The Secretary
refused to receive It believing it to be an Infer
nal machine" It was carried back to the ex-
press office and the top removed, when beau
tiful collection Of rare flowers met the eye
These were looked at and admired, but no hand
could be found daring enough to attempt their
removal from the box, every one fearing that
such attempt would be followed by shower Of
unwelcofne lead
Year: 1861




A gentleman is a man who is gentle Titles
-graceful accomplishments culture
-princely yealth-great talents-geBius--d
not constitute a man with all the attributes
needed to make him a gentleman. He may be
awkward angular, honely, or poor-and yet
belong TO the uncrowned aristocracy. His face
may be bronzed at the forge or bleachcd in the
mill-his hand huge and hard-his patched vest
like Joseph's coat, Of many colors-and he may
still be true gentleman. The dandy is dry
goods sign, and not gentleman, for he depends
upon his dress, and not upon his honor and vir-
tue, for his passport to the best circles Of socie
ty. "The man who has no money is poor-hc
who has nothing but money is poorer than he, :"
and is not gentleman. Some Of the most dis
tingushed men in the world of letters--in the
world Of art-have been unamiable-gross-
vulgar-ungentle consequently not gentlemen


You are plebeian,' said a patrician to Cice-
70. i am plebeian,' said the eloquent RO-
man; the nobility of my family begins with
me that of yours will end with you hold
no man deserves TO be crowned with honor
whose life is failure; and he who lives only to
eat and drink and accumulate money is failure
The world is no better for his living in it. He
never wiped tear from sad face-neycr kin
died fire upon frozen hearth. repeat with
emphasis, he IS failure There is no flesh IN
his heart he worships no God but gold Even
here at the North there are persons who deem
it discrcdtable and ungentlemanly to labor
hence vast multitudes of young men shirk the
yoke Of toll, and rush headlong into professions
and positions for which they are totally disqual-
flied


There is true dignity in labor, and no true
dignity without it, He who looks down scorn-
fully on labor is like Hermes, who had mouth
and no hands, and yet made faces at those who
fed him-mocking' the fingers that brought
bread to his lips.


He who writes book or builds house, or
tills farm, or follows any useful employment
lives to some purpose, and contributes some
thing to the fund Of human happiness. Look at
that farmer, he has a share in the bank; but his
bank is bank of loan, his share is plough
share-and the more his share breaks his bank,
the greater will be his dividends He need not
send his notes to New York to be redeemed, for
nature has endorsed them.


Garibaldi, the greatest hero of the age, is a
working man. Henry clay was the mill boy
of the slatches Daniel Webster knit his iron
frame into strength by working on his fathers
farm when young The men who have blood
power enough in their veins to work the brain
mills upon their shoulders, are men who labor
Year: 1861

Our stock Of these articles is very complete, and
has been imported expressly for trade We shall
continue to receveby nearly every vessel arrives
from the Atlantic States, additions to our present
large stock
Year: 1861

But it is unnecessary 20 enumerate the many
cases in which these purely vegetable medicines
have been successful but let enquiries Why are
they so universal in their happy effects


Because they purify the blood, and thus reno
vate all cause Of disease in the system.


Because they act powerfully upon the seorstions
of the body, aud remove all impurities at once.


Because they do not reduce the system, but inYig-
crate it-thus requiring restraint from pleasure
or bnainesa during their operalion.
Year: 1861

DANIEL S. DICKINSON IN 1910 AND IN
lSGl.-A correspondent of the Savannah
Republican, speaking Of the position that
Daniel S. Dickinson has taken in the
present crisis, says: "Thcre is no man
living on this continent for whom had
greater respect than Daniel S. Dickinson,
OF New York, until very recently.


think that it was in 1919 that he
spoke about in this language:


AS a Northern man, will never cross
the portals of II government brought into
power upon Southern sectional issue
! would animate my countrymen to flee
it as n contagious; and We're | a Southern
man | would never recognize govern
ment brought into power upon a North
ern sectional issue-NEyERo


But when the Southern people act as
he said he would act, he is ahead of the
most rabid Abolitionists in denouncing
them, and says that he would wipe the
South and her institution from the earth. !"


And for what does he propose to do
this? Because the Southern people act
ing III accoruahce WIN Nhao ne salu III
lS49 have refused to recognize govern
ment brought into power upon a North
crn sectional issue Oh, the duplicity of
such men! Thank God the South has
learned to LOOK upon these men in their
true light; they now know that it is idle
to talk about aid or peace from the myr-
midons of Lincoln, We have got them
to fight, and we have got to give them a
sound threshing before we can have
peace"
Year: 1861

OvTRAGGs AT THE NoRru.--A gentleman
an editor of a paper in Pennsylvania, call
ed at the office Of the New York Day
Book, and stated that he had been driven
from his home by parties who had threat
encd his life for expressing sympathy
with the South, and scarcely had he left
when mob surrounded his house and
rendered even his family unsafe. 1t Is
only the other day that Democratic cd
itor in Troy, n. Y, who condemned the
war policy of Linconln, was forced to flee
20 Canada for his life, and the Day Bcok
is credbly informed that man was hang
ed in Ulster county, y. Y, for expressing
his sympathy for the South in the present
struggle.
Year: 1861

THE PRoBABILITY OF A REcoGNITIoN.-
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Express, forming his conclu-
sion from the position occupied by the
foreign ministers at Washington, says:


whenever the Southern Confederacy
can manage to stand alone, it will find no
difficulty in securing its recognition by
the leading Powers of Europe. Such at
least is the belief of neutral Southern
men of great intelligence, resident in
this city.O
Year: 1861

Mr.. Ewing introduced into the House of
Representatives of Tennessee, on the Goth
April, the following resolution, which was
adopted and sent to the Senate for con-
currence:


Resolved By tie General assembly Of the
STATE Of Tennessee That in view of the
dearth Of the past two years, and the pro-
bable extraordinary demand for cereal
and forage, to supply the absolute wants
of our State and tho entire South, that
the agriculturists Of the State be and they
are hereby requested to devote the breadth
of arabic land in the State to the culture
Of grain and grass.
Year: 1861

Those who are filed with sympathy or
apprehension for the South. lest their
people shall starve for want of our bread
stutis, will do well to look little into
the statistics OF trade between the two
sections They will thus perhaps discov-
er that in ordinary seasons (the last was
an exception, on account of the drought
III the Southwest,) we take as much food
from the South as they purchase from us.
If we supply them with some of their
articles of necessity, we take from them
large quantities of flour and wheat, of
beef rice, sugar, &c., to say nothing of
the luXures in the way of sweet potatoes,
peas. strawberries, and other articles
which the palates of epicures even now
miss from that region of country We
may as well make up our minds to wait
for these articles this year unless they
mature on Northern soil
Year: 1861

Maryland is still in the Union, and with
in few days, from the presence of an
overpowering force ini ide of her borders
and ON every side Of her disorderly cap
ital, we hope for a reaction against the
miserable mob o. ruiiians which has usurp-
ed the control of the State. She must
stand by the Union as Il good child, or she
will be soundly thrashed into submission
as bad one. This is as true as that the
sun will rise tomorrow morning; and we
apprehend that this alternative of repen-
tnnce or terrible punishment will apply
to ell the seeded States.


Virginia, next to Maryland, will be sub
jec.ed to this test. She has seeded. and
hence she will probably risk the breaking
Of every bone in her body.
Year: 1861

REMARKABLE DEATH OF LITTLE BoY.-An in
quest was held in New York on Thursday upon the
body of Henry M. Toner, boy 13 years of age
whose death resulted from intermittent fever, con-
sequent upon an accidental injury to his eyelid,
received on the 22d of last December. On the day
in question the deceased was playing with his COM
panions around the barn. In running round the
corner of the building be came in contact with
pitchfork which using to load a cart
with manure. The only apparent injury was a
scratch upon the eyelid, but the lad at discovering
the blood became very nervous and having been
taken home, sank into insensbity. He continued
unconscious about week, only speaking when
aroused. Afterwards he recovered sufficiently to
go about the house, but remained feeble, and inter-
mttent fever setting in, he died. Deceased was of
a very nervous organization, and had tainted at
the sight of blood, when his enthusiastically cut
his finger. There is doubt that his fatal illness
resulted from fright at the slight injury he suf-
fered.


England has now, for wonder, but one war on
Year: 1861

The aggregate number of failures throughout
the Union for the entire year 1860 only 1876,
and it will thus be that the failures of the first
month of the present year are very considerably
above the average per month in 1850.
Year: 1861

dearth of provisions of the vegetable kind is
beginning to be felt in England and ireland. Pota
toes in the latter country are rising in price and
taken up largely for expectation to England at six
teen cents per fourteen pounds nearly double what
they should be- Indian corn and oatmeal will soon
be the chief reliance for the poor. In England the
seed wheat is said to b. turning out'badly.
Year: 1861

Accurate photographs of large number of old
manuscripts of the seventh and ninth centuries, in
the converts of Mount Athos, being copies of the
Old and New Testaments, have been recently taken
by General SebaStianoff, and will shortly be made
known to the literary and religious world.
Year: 1861

The speeches of Mr.. Lincoln in the West are the
signal for an active development of opposing COM
binations that have been in existence for some time
to control him. 1t is easy to see that he will arrive
in Washington with dizzy head, and staggering
under the responsibilities surrounding him. He is
unequal to the crisis, and will feel it SO sensby
when he arrives here that it is inferred he will rush
for safety into the arms of some man of strong will,
who will keep his conscience and manage his govern


ment. The struggle is, who shall it be- And on this
question probably suspended the issues of peace
Year: 1861

TEE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE ETC" An over
truc tale =" is related of the adventures of a ce-
lestial Obadiah 0ldbuck, whose joys were con-
summated and sorrows ended on Monday night,
of the current week. All Wau-for such is the
name of the amorous swain-tock fire in the
usual way for All 500, the prettiest creature in
his eyes the sun ever shone on, and bought her
for four hundred dollars. But there was the
devil lurking to destroy all All Wau's contem-
plated happiness, in the person of All Cut, who
brought charge of theft against the would be-
happy Benedict, and he was cast into damp
dungeon provided for criminals of the deepest
die, beneath the Court House. The villain, All
Cut, then proceeded to abduct the lovely All
500. He took her to Grass Valley and sold her
for three hundred dollars to some barbarian who
had moro money than sense to appreciate the
rights of woman. All Wau was in jsil-Ah 500
was sold to another Though incarcerated with
in tbs four walls of dungeon, All Wau would
not give up his darling without struggle. He
brought the abductors before the judges Of the
land. A spurious All 500 was dressed up il the
true ones clothes and brought up to swear she
had not been abducted. All Wau exposed the
nrtifce and dispatched the officers of the law to
Grass Valley for the idol of his heart. She was
brought, and expressing her souls desire to be-
come Mrs. All Wau for the remainder Of her
days, and All Wan having pledged his word,
which is supposed to be as good as his bond, to
provide her with wholesome and abundant prov
ender, love, honor and comfort her during life,
tho twain were made of one flesh after a little
Chinese incantation by Judge Belden. Two of
fcers of the law stood guard during the holy
ceremony, kissed the bride gallantly after all
was over and generously passed the jug to the
guests. The adoring pair went to their cell
happy in spite Of the damp walls and the want
of rico and chopsticks.


All wau was brought up on .ho charge OF
theft rcxt day and discharged. The rest of our
story is quickly told The triumphant couple
are inhabting the most odoriferous part of Com
mercial street.
Year: 1861

BENEFIT FOR NEVADA HOSE Co. No. 1.-fhc
members of Nevada Hose Company No have
concluded to raise the wind by means of Grand
Gift Entertainment, to come off on the second
of March. The number OF tickets is fixed at
1856, at II dollar each. Il is calculated that by
judicious management enough money be
raised from the project to build house for the
Company.
Year: 1861

PhOPE WHATI
III Prove that you can get your WOOD there
Q eSper than elsewhere In the city and then you


KNOW WHAT?
IL Know that you get GOOD MEASURE and
the very best of WOOD for less money Cur
SPLIT, AND DELIVERED FREE OF CHARGE.
Year: 1861

We find the following paragraph in the
Chicago Tribune:


GA gentleman who arrived here from
st. Louis day or two since, informs us
that deputation of the ak. G.. C.'s" from
st. Louis came up to Chicago in the same
train with him; and from their conversation
he is satisfied that they came hero with the
intention of organizing the secessiouists-
of whom there are probably fifty or sixty
into secret organization, for the purpose
of aiding their brethren of st. Louis, by
sending them information of the move
ments of troops to st. Louis and other
points, to the aid of the Union men of Mis-
Missouri. This matter had better be at
tended to at once. Since the battle of Bull
Run the secessionists here have been quite
bold and insulting, and they probably i'm
agine that they can now venture to do what
they have all along desired to do, but dared
not Some of them havo long earned their
living out of the free North, and now they
are dastardly enough to turn around and
spit in the faces of those who fed them"
Year: 1861

There is no doubt whatever, from the
developments that have already taken place,
that there is a direct, explicit alliance be-
tween the so called peace newspapers and
their supporters in the North and tho ul-
ira secession party in the South. The
former hope to aid the latter by creating an
insurrection here. A careful review of the
proceedings of the late Congress will show
that the anti-war faction in the Northern
States were unable to conceal their disun-
ion proclivities. The names of several
members of the Senate and House Of Rep
resentatives could be quoted, who ought to
be domiciled at Fort Lafayette, and may
be before long. Under such circumstances
the Administrative should beware how it
minces matters. Martial law should be
proclaimed at once, aud every newspaper
should be suspended which does not heart
lily go in for the suppression of the South
ern rebellion. The Journal of Commerce,
News, and other secession journals should
be suspended, and vigorous measures should
be used to put an end TO the conspiracy in
favor of Southern traitors which is growing
Up in the Free States.-M Y. World.
Year: 1861

The controversy between the Union men
and the Secessionists in Kentucky is wax
ing hot Rebels are disposed topush loyal
lists to the wall, and the Louisville Journal
of the 22d uses the following emphatic Ian
guage:


Now, gentlemen of the secession party,
you must stop ere the Rubicon be passed.
Be assured that, while we, the Union men
of Kentucky have no thought of invading
Tennessee, and while we sincerely and
earnestly wish peace with you--be assured,
we say, that if you attempt to carry out
this villanious scheme you may make up
your minds to FIGHT The Union men Of
Kentucky are not entirely unprepared TO
meet such an emergency. They have
struggled for peace from the commence
ment Of this conflict. They desire it now.
But, if you have made up your minds to
give them WAR, THEY WILL MEET THE ISSUE
AS BECOMES DRAvE, TRUE, AND LOYAL KEN
TUCKIANs. God forbid that you shall pre-
sent such an issue.
Year: 1861

The N. Y. Evening Post sketches, with
a master hand, the contrast between the
humane course of our government and the
inhumane course of that of the Rebels:


ave restrain our soldery from treading
the soil of State that wears the mask of
of peace and protests her loyalty, until she
casts aside her pretense and reveals her hills
covered and her wales lined with batteries.
We spare the lives of traitors, relying on
the honor of their oaths, and soon after find
the subjects of our mercy in the ranks of
the enemy. We have respected in all
cases the signals of a truce; but they con-
found the hospitalties of war by using our
banner as a decoy, and having won by so
base and cowardly an act, an advantage of
position, they pour murderous fire on our
soldiers who were about to embrace them
as brothers. We give our wounded enemies
water, and with reviving strength they
plunge the bayonet into tho hearts of their
benefactors. We give free access to our
military posts and prisoners of war, even TO
Congressional traitors, while northern men
are imprisoned or shot, all over the South.
We gallantry permit wives of the rebels in
arms to boast of their family disloyalty in
the circles of the Capital, and indirectly
live from the public treasury, and at the
same time complacently hear of Northern
women, sojourning in the South, being
stripped to the waist and then whipped
with the knout, for no crime but love for
the government of their fathers. We with
hold, nay, suppress the instructions of a
servile race, while they force their negroes
to throw up entrenchments that they may
with comparative safety deal out death to
the defenders of the Constitusion. We de.
cline the services of men whose color, as we'll
as whose occupations, are objectional to our
fastidious foemen, and send our white citi-
zens alone to do the parallel entrenching
and fall under the fire of negro battalions.
We discourse feelingly of our recent fra
ternal relations, and hope that the rebels
will lay down their arms and return to obe-
dance to the Constitution and the laws of
peace; they point us to their newly formed
alliance with the pirates of the seas and the
Indian savages of our frontiers. Tho world
can Judge which side of our national strug-
gle glows with that glory of 'chivalry' that
accounts it honor to give the odds to your
enemy in a deadly contest"