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Year: 1861

The New York Times has contriv-
ed new and ingenious plan to stop
the war. 1t is thus explained:


That cotton is the most potent eie-
ment in the struggle is most certain.
England will make every effort to OBJ
tain it. Every day is the prospect OF
securing the crop being weakened.-i
The necessary consequences OF Its
loss will be the want of employment
of a vast capital, of millions Of operat-
ives, and almost incalculablc CONNER
cial embarrassment. This question is
soon to convulse that country almost
as deeply as the war does our own. Its
importancc, in fact, almost transcends
that due to the war between the
North and South. In this thereis no
doubt where success in the end must
rest. But the effect Of the loss of the
crop to England cannot be estimated.
Conjecture must 60 entirely VIDE OF
the mark.


Had there been the least idea at the
South that our blockade would have
been respected, the Southern States
never would have rebelled. AS 1t ls'
ther. is but one course for the govern
ment to pursue. Cotton is the staff
of life to the South. tits food, shelter
and clothing. Destroy it, and we put
and end to the war. Wemust strike at


what includes all other means OF sup


port and aggression. 1t is tor the IN


terest of all nations that the war be a


short one. We are seeking success


by weakening the means OF the


rebels. Their only stock IN trade Is


cotton. If we keep every bale OF II


from market, such Il demonstration OF


mower wonld have as much influence


as a half a dozen decided welcomes


The South must be made to feel tins


power or they will never yield no'


respect us after they have yielded
{ Let our government strike at once a


Vulnerable point, land reduce then
to obedience by the complete destru'
ton Of their material interests.


If England is disposed to interfere
we cannot know this to soon. w hel


once involved in hostilities, it is goo'
f time to settle up all old scores, an'
, learn where We stand, and what to
j, the future we may expect.


: This is all very nice to talk about
!, but how is it to be done! The Time
{ is surely in error when it blows
: this way, and fails to enlishten 1t
e readers about the mOduS operand', to
5 it would be very interesting.
Year: 1861

Cotton.-A late arrival from Liver
pool brought news of a decline in cot
ton. This puzzels and alarms the
Yankees. With only six months
supply in England and with a block
ade of the whole Southern coast to rem
der the receipt of any more impossl-
BILE, there is only one solution of the
decline. It is that England does not
intend to pay much respect to the
blockade, and that the manufacturers
know this to be the intention OF the
Government. This is the Yankee
explanation of the matter. 1t is very
reasonable one.
Year: 1861

General Cameron's order 10 the authorities Of
Iowa not to draft men for the army, as was pro-
posed in that State, is commented upon very
generally at the North. some taking sides with,
others against the order from the Secretary Of
War, Commenting on this subject, the Pitts
burg Post says:


It is certainly desirable that the army may be
filed up without drafting but it must be ac-
knOwledgcd that many Of the States, especially
those in the North, are slow in sending forward
reintorcements The Bull Run affair has been
repeated, and worse than repeated in its results,
in Missouri, and that too, solely on account Of
the mcagerness Of our army in that State; and
yet Fremont is called upon, and is actually send
ing troops forward to defend the capital, while
our eastern cities are tecming with unemployed,
able-bodied young men who refuse to come for
ward ID defense Of their country. This thing is
mystery to all classes here. The very State
whose representatives. in Congress were most
ready TO vote the President an army Of 100000
men, have not yet sent in their quota of men
for an army for even half that size Massachu-
sets is offering men $50 each bounty, and, with
that iuducement, Gen. Wilson's regiment is
filing up but slowly Vermont and other North
ern States are also backward in sending forward
men, and the indications are not at all favorable
for full army at an early day without a draft,
at least from some of the States.
Year: 1861

- a dashing young widower in one of the
southern States, by the name of " Fowler tool,
quite liking to young lady whose name was
Cloud, and whose flashing eyes dealt largely
in electrical influences. During their courtshiD.
which was somewhat public affair-town and
country drives being the order of the day-tbe
gentleman's friends frequently expressed their
regret at his becoming SO JeciOudcL After their
marriage one Of them congratulated him on the
happy occasion, at the time expressing the hope
that, though long beclouded," he would have
clear sunshine before him the rest Of his days. A
by-standcr at this shook his head and gravely
replied that, invariably, when Clouds turned
Fowler" " you might look out for squalls.
Year: 1861

. It is good thing to furnish the
hogpen with a plenty Of Of straw ana
litter-for grunter will manufacture i
into the best manure, beside, ! warm
nest will make him comfortable, there
fore cause him 10 thrive.
Year: 1861

BACKING 0Cr-The comet, Of whose origin
and course nothing definite is known, is rapidly
whisking back into starry space, and is now SO
high in the heavens that il describes its narrow
orbit without sinking below our horizon at oil,
whirling around like huge iire-wheel that does
not go fast enough to make its switch Of sparks
seem a flashing circle.
Year: 1861

LIBERTY or SPEECH IN New ESGLAED.-
The Boston .4dosTiiser has the following com
ments on the destruction Of The newspaper
Offices in Concord and Bangor:


We trust that the patriotic and liberty
loving nen in Neg York will take these things
to heart, and will be warned by the fret steps
in work OF mischief which, once fairly on
foot, will be a shame and a cause Of repent
ance for them forever. Let them beware how
any mans liberty of speech or publication is
limited by popular violence. Let them beware
OF any tribunal or any standard for jud.ing
the counsel or conduct Of any man, except such
IS are recognized and provided by the law
For generations has New England zealousiy
guarded against every sign Of Infringement
upon those great rights, which are Justly re-
gsrded as tie foundation Of our liberties, in
spite OF the reckless or mlsehievous desisn
with which those rights may have been exsr-
cised.
Year: 1861

departed brother came from slavery. Every
gaping wound of his lacerated bosom testifes
against slavery. Every drop of his generous
blood cries ont from the ground against slave
ry. To hold others responsible is to hold the
agent and dismiss the principal


Let not our grief be Il hollow pageant let
it not eXpend itself in vain words. 1t must
become a motive, and an impulse to patriotic
action, But patriotism now is only name,
unless you resolve that slavery the barbarous
enemy Of our country, the disturber of the
peace, the violator of the constitution, the
vampire of our national ife sucking its best
blood and the assassin of our children, shall
be overturned. Until this is done, the patriot
can only say sorrowfully,


"Bleed bleed,gpoor country


Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,


For goodness daTes not check thee"
Year: 1861

Posr OFFICE SrAMPs.-The Moni- gomery .fdvertiser says there seems to be anxiety in regard to postage stamps when the Confederate Government, through the Post Office Department, takes charge of the service. There need be no alarm on this score, for design has been select ed and contract partially made for sup ply. The new stamp is very beautiful, and quite in contrast with the old. The size is trihe larger, and in the center is an elegant steel engraving of Washing ton, Ca front view taken from his well known por,rai; painted by Stuart. It will meet with universal appreciation. and will probably meet the public eye early in June, or as soon thereafter as practicable.
Year: 1861

My native South, my native land, The country of the brave and free, Our fathers when little band, Bought with their blood our liberty; And since we have to greatness grown, And all the sweets of freedom known, Can we now hesitate to brave All things, our native land to save? Our Fathers had their union too, Their banner, and they loved it long; But when the greater section threw On their part of the country wrong, When one part of the country sought To rule the rest the fathers thought The time had come, when they should be An independent State, and free. Secession in that day arose, In all the majesty of right, In contempt of their naughty foes, And conquered in the gory fight. Then fellow-country-men arise, The North your ev'ry right denies, Your country now your service claims, Wnlie stlll your liberty remains. My native land all Europe now, In anxious thought is turned to thee; Shall we to one proud section bow, Or dare defend our liberty2 Posterity but waits to know, What heritage we shall bestow; Shall they not find, we have maintained The freedom that our fathers gained? Thus we who have been willing long, Our country's freedom to defend,

 Are urged by ev'ry motive strong, For independence to contend:s By our loved native land endeared: By our fore-fathers names revered: By those who, at this moment, brave All dangers, our own rights to save.
Year: 1861

In Consequence OF the pressure OF other upon
space and also in consequence Of the excitement prevail
ing in the city, have been compelled to defer the
combustion oeur report OF the great monster meeting
Union square until to-day In issue OF Sunday last
gave eighteen columns Of the report Of the meeting
and row publish the remaining teen, a. there have
been and anxious inquiries made by read
for them. The report embraced in the two papers
win be fosnd to be the most complete Of any the city
Year: 1861




To apply manure to corn, the common
course 10 to draw out the manure on the fiel,
10 be planted, and throw it of in heaps, sa,
four to the load, and left lying ill piowin.
time. when 1t is spread and plowed under
This 70 . great deal better than none at al
and is perhaps the only way that can be q.
dopted when help is very scarce, but still il
IS wasteful method. AS far as manure il
concerned. the same amount reduced 10 con-
post and applied 10 the hill would secure a
far greater yield Of grain.


But as applied to the wheat crop, consid
er its application as dressing by Ear the
cheapest. best and most profitable.


My reasons for this opinion are these:


LIST. II is more evenly spread than it usu-
ally IS when drawn and thrown on the ground
and spread before plowing and thus il can
be made 70 reach and sustain all the wheat
plants.


2d. BY being put on the top il is Just where
Il is needed to nourish the young plant and
give il strong and healthy roots. so that il il
not easily thrown out by the frost-it also
prevents winter-killing by freezing.


Sd. Having tired il my self and having seen
others try it. knoW that it is altogether the
best way. that IS if the appearance of the
growing crop and the looks of the shocks az.
ter the wheat IS cut are any criterion by
which we are 10 judge.


But the objection will be that il takes too
much labour to prepare manure for such a
use, aud that il takes a team and a hand
from the pillow right in the busy time Of seed
ing. consequently il won't pay. Let US see
about that. In the first place the manure
should be taken from the yard Cor il lhe yard
- large enough Il can be done in ii) and pill
ed in heap 50 that il will rot aud become
pulserzed. suppose it would be better If
i should be pitched or shoyeIed over before
using, but still that is not necessary if care
Is used while making the pile to mix the
coarse and fine together. II there is much
coarse manure. the pile should be made rath.
er Hat on the top to ALLOW the rain 10 90
down through and rot il. | said il was
cheaper. and the reason is that this can all
be done when the ground is too wet to pillow
or to allow the manure 10 be hauled over il
TO the field.


10 the fall, after ploughing for seed and be-
lore sowing. haul the manure and scatter il
from the wagon. and il can be put ON thick
or thin as desired. | believe one load thus
applied is worth two put on before the fa!lo~
is broken.


Experience and observation have satisfied
me that where land needs manure az all for
wheat. Two acres thus handled will produce
more than three without il. so while ii takes
little more time during seeding. il is not a
loss bot gain.


Having given my opinion. am prepared
to back u with this offer: II any man who
does not take the Fsrmer. whose barn. yard
resembles the one kinted at in the beginning
Of this article. will make the experiment fair.
" and fnds il does not pay. he may draw on
me for one years subscription.


Cor. Michigan Farmer.
Year: 1861

A SUGGESTION FOR THE TMes.-We have
received the following communication from
a city correspondent.


I" A very good coffee can be made, costing
only l2i cents, by mixing one spoonful Of
coffee with one spoonful Of toasted corn
meal. boil well. and clear in the usual way.
| have used il for two weeks, and several
friends visiting my house, say they could
not discover anything peculiar in the taste
Of my coffee. but pronounced it very good.
Try il and see if we cannot get along com
fortably, even while our ports are block
AIDED by the would be King. / can as
sure You it is very pleasant though not strong
enough 10 make US drunk"
Year: 1861

THnDREN of any age can now have their pictures
~ taken perfect, we have built Room expressly
their use Groups of Children also taken in q frac
ton of a second, clear weather. Mothers need not
have the trouble take them to Gallery dozen
times and at last pps up with q caricature, If they
viii but go once 10


feb1s-H HUGHES PREMIUM GALLERY.
Year: 1861




Manhood will come, and old age will come,
and the dying bed will came, and the very last
look you shall cast upon your acquaintance will
come. and the agony Of the parting breath will
come, and the time when you ere stretched q
lifeless corpse before the eyes CT weeping rels-
tves will come, and the coffin that Ia to enclose
you will come, and the hour when the, company
will assemble and carry you to the churcbyard
will come, and that minute when you are put
in the grave will come, and the throwing in Of
loose dirt into the narrow house where you arc
laid, and the spreading of the green cod over IL
all will come on every living creature who
now hears me; and In o few brief years the min
lister who Noow speaks, and the people who now
listen, will be carried to their long homes and
make room for'another generation Now all this
must and will happen--your common sense
and your common experience serve to con-
vince you of it. Perhaps it may have
been little thought of in the days Of care.
less and though.!ess and thspkless uncon-
cern which you have spent hitherto, but cell
upon you TO think of this now, to lay 1t serious
ly to heart, and no longer triAe and delay
when the high matters of death, and Judgment,
and eternity thus set 30 evidently before you,
And the tidings whereWith am chsrged--and
tae blood lieth upon your own head and not up
on mine, IL you will not listen to them-the OBJ.
jeot Of my coming among you Ia to let you
know what more :idings are to come, |. is to
carry you beyond the regions Of sight and sense,
to the regions of faith, end to assure you 10 the
name OF Him who cannot lie, that es sure as
the hour Of laying the body In the grave
comes, 60 surely will also the hour Of the spirit
returning to God who gave it. Yes, tho day Of
final reckc ming will come,and the appearance Of
the Son of God in Heaven, and His mighty An
gels around Him, will come, and the opening Of
the books wilt come, and the standing of nen
Of all generations before the judgment seat will
come, and the solemn passing Of that sentence
which is to fix you for eternity viii come DIR
CRahners, -g,., = s,rsl--. ~, .1..
Year: 1861

The MORALITY OF DUTIEs.-Such
is the great Indignation manifested by
the merchants of New York at the
new Tariff bill, that one would sup
pose what they call "Morrill'' in Wash
ington is Immoral here.
Year: 1861

q You've WOMAN CRAZY FOR To
BACCo.-There is now living in the
county jail i'll AEorgantown, Monongalia
county, Va, young female who is a
singular instance of the evil effects of
tobacco. She was brought to the iail
for safe keeping, somewhat more than
a year ago, hopelessly crazed by the
inordinate use of tobacco, in all it's
forms, and was for long time closely
confined, and prevented from using the
noxious weed. She, however, became
SO much more wild and unmanageable
that, after time, it was determined
to allow her, as an experiment, a limit
ed quantity Of tobacco. Under this
treatment she became speedily quite
dociIe and easily managed, and has
now for some time been engaged in
doing ho0sework in the Jail, and in the
family Of the jaiior, being looked upon
as quite harmless, Though we under
stand there is no hope Of her ultimate
recovery. She is only about twenty
one years OF age, and by no means re-
pulsivo in personal appearance, or
would not be if she were to let tobacco
alone. She chews considerable
amount OF tobacco daily, and smokes
cigars whenever she can get them, as
they are not furnished her. This is
certainly 6 singular case, from which
may be doduced warning against the
Use Of this vile narcotic poison, to
those at least who have not as yet ac-
Quired the habit. To those who have.
precept and example are alike useless.
--LOTgGHt01c21 EtGr.
Year: 1861

SURB-Walter Savage Lander never
wrote more truthfully than when he said
Z" We fancy that all our Affections are sent
directly from above; sometimes we think
it in piety and contrition, but oftener in
moroseness and discomfort. 1t would be
we'll, however, if we attempt to trace the
cause of them; we would probably find
their origin in some region of the heart
which we had never well explored, or in
which we had secretly deposited our worst
indulgences. The clouds that intercept the
heavens from us, come not from the heav-
ems but from the earth"
Year: 1861

POCKET-MoNEY FOR CHLDREN.-There is no
error more fatal than imagining that pinching a
youth of his pocket money will teach him frugal
ity. On the contrary it will occasion his running
into extravaganza with so much more eagerness
when he comes to have money in his own hands
as pinching him in his diet will make his appetite
only the more rapacious. If you will put into the
hands ofyour child more money than is suitable
to his age and discretion, you must expect to find
that he has thrown it away upon what is not only
idle but hurtful. A certain small, regular income
any child above six years of age ought to have
When he comes to be capable of keeping an ac-
count, he ought to be obliged to do it he will
thereby require habit of frugality, attention, and
prudence that will be of service to him through
his whole life. On the contrary, to give young
person money to spend at will, without requiring
any account oft, is leading or rather forcing him
upon extravaganza and folly
Year: 1861

LIVE FOR PURPOsE.-The secret of all success
in life, of all greatness nay, of all happiness, is to
live for purpose. There are many persons al
ways busy, who yet have no great object in view.
They fritter away their energies on hundred
things, and never accomplish anything, because
never giving their attention to only one thing.
They like butterflies, fitting from spot to spot,
never gaining wealth while the ant, who keeps


to certain circuit around her hole, lays up stores
for winter comfort. Such persons are doomed to
be dissatisfied in the end, if they are not sooner
for they find in the race of life they have been
passed by all who had purpose. 1t is not only
the positive drones, therefore, but the busy dlers
that make blunder of life for the want of pur
pose.
Year: 1861

No GREAT SuAKEs.-The prize, which
Barry the comedian was reported to have
drawn in the Havana Lottery, turns out to
be only eight thousand dollars instead of
eighty thousand. What falling off was
there
Year: 1861

The HARVEST OF DEATH.-Dr. Lyon,
brigade surgeon, at the battle of Wilson
Greek, was witness to the following extra
ordinary incident -


" A tall rebel soldier waved large and
costly Secession flag defantly, when a
cannon ball struck him to the earth, dead
y second soldier instantly picked up the
PROSTATE flag, and waved it again--a sec
ond cannon ball shattered his body. A
third soldier raised and waved the flag,
and third cannon ball crashed into his
breast and he fell dead. Yet the fourth
time was the flag raised, the soldier waved
it, and turned to climb over the fence with
it into the woods. As he stood astride the
fence a moment, balancing to keep the
heavy flag upright, fourth cannon ball
struck in his side, cutting him completely
in two, so that one-half of his body fell on
one side of the fence, and the other half
the other side, while the flag itself lodged
on the fence, and was captured few
minutes aftorward by our troops"
Year: 1861

SAVING FOR OID AGE.-No one de
nies that it is wise to make a provision for
old age, but we are not all agreed as to
the kind Of provision it is best to lay in
Certainly, We shall want Il little money for
a destitute old man is indeed a sorrowful
sight, and suggests to every one that his
life has been foolshly if not wickedly
spent, You save money, by all means
But an old man needs just that particular
kind of strength which young men are
most apt to waste. Many foolish young
fellow will throw away on holiday Ger.
tain amount of nervous energy which he
will never feel the want of until he is seY.
enty; and then how much he will want it..
1t is curious, but true, that a bottle of
champagne at twenty may intensity the
rheumatism at, three score. 1t is fact
that everlasting the eyes at fourteen may
necosstate the aid of spectacles at forty =,
instead of eighty. We advise our young
readers to be saving of health for their old
age for the maxim holds good with re.
gard to health as to money-waste not
want not. 1t is the greatest mistake to
suppose that any violation of the laws of
health can escape its penalty.


Nature forgiyes no sin, no error. She
lets of the offender for fifty years, some.
times, but she catches him at last, and iu-
hicts the punishment just when, just where
just how he feels it most Save up for old
age, but save more than money; save


ealth save honor, save knowledge, save
the recollection of good deeds and innocent
pleasures save pure thoughts, save friends,
save love, save rich stores of that kind of
wealth, time cannot diminish, nor death
take away,