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Year: 1861

VAN bUREN, Aug. l3.


Mr.. DUNHAx: would like to address
the citizens Of this and Sebastian counties
through your columns. There seems to be
an erroneous impression with regard to Capt
Fosters company. The men have all re-
qnested me to correct it. by simply placing
the truth before the people. They are not
an independent company, but are subject
to the orders Of Gen. McCulloch. They
were among the FIRST that were ordered out
on the Frontier. They started as cheerful.
ly as any company in the service they had
got as far as the Dripping Springs, when
they were ordered back on = forced march,


They returned in the night in drenchiug
rain. The fatigue and exposure FASTENED
one of their number to al early grave.
They remained there till about three weeks
orders. they joyfully took up the line OF
march for the battle. field. They had
scarcely gone seven miles ON their journey.
when they were ordered to return in conse-
quence of company from Sewer county
refusing to stay at the Fort. 1t would
have been left without single man to gar
rison the Post. had they not obeyed orders.
and returned. / was commanding 1t the
time, and can testify to their unwiliingnsss
to return. Thus. you SEE. they only remain
there through necessity. not through fear,
as some of our good citizens seem to think.
They were among the first who responded
to their country's call. and now must they
be branded towards. because . general, in
whom we all have implicit confidence. has
ordered US to keep our Fort in q condition
for defence. should it be attacked. Now /
do hope all our citizens. as well as those Of
Fort Smith. will keep this in mind, and try
to encourage them when they are there SO
much against their wishes, instead of taun-
ing them as towards, and continually SOW
ing the seeds of discori and contention.
Year: 1861

WASHINGTON, April Sit is understood that the
Secretary of the Treasury will receive offers for
Treasury notes redeemable in two years for the
balance of the loan not taken under the last no
tice. An offer has been made for two millions at
Il Dn- cent Dremium
Year: 1861

Two of the night watchman at Cleveland were
frightened and ran like hares, a few nights ago, at
the sight of what they supposed to be ghost but
which was only an anxious mother, in her night
dress, hurrying to call physician for her sick
child
Year: 1861

The last despatch of our Secessionst friend at
Montgomery leaves no room for hope of peace
able adjustment of our country's intestine troubles
The jeff Davis Confederacy has resolved to wage
offensive war on the Government of the United
States, and will assault or open fire on Fort Pick
ems en- forthwith. Meantime, the limited daily supply
Pickens to be furnished to Fort Sumter has been
stopped, and we may hear at any moment that this
FORT, too, has been carried by assault, or is so
pressed that it must speedily surrender Within


lew days at farthest, the of the insurgents
VIII 2e oattering down the delences and slaughter
ing the defenders of the American Union.


At length the great Slaveholding Rebellion is
ready to unmask its batteries and open fire on the
most exposed and isolated of the National defences
Inc challenge OF its opening cannonade will soon
reverberate over the country. The Union flag on
Fort Sumter is to be shot down by the rebel bate
RES unless speedily lowered by the devoted garri
son. The American Republic now enters upon the
gravest perils it has known since the treason OF
Arnold. God grant that it pass through them
with undoubting reliance on the omnipotence Of
Justice, and emerge at length, however tried anG
tested, unwavering in its loyalty to Freedom anG
the Rights of Man ~
Year: 1861

The South Carolinians are evidently tiring of the
yascillating policy of the Administration, and we
expect to hear of some determined action on their
part in few days, if we are to Judge from the
following parag raphs, taken from the papers of
Charleston of THURSDAY:
Year: 1861

A SAD SEQUEL TO THE DIAMOND WEDDING.-Every-
body recoects the diamond wedding of the rich
old Cuban and the young New York belle. re-
cent letter from Cuba says: ''It may interest nv
of Signor Oviedo, the hero of the diamond wed.
ding. Here he is known as a muIatto, at least half
black, and he is said to be a Blue Beard for brutal
ity. He is rich; but, as he and his bride are of
course excluded from all good society, his wealth
can hardly compensate his lady for the sights and
secluSon to which her life is henceforth destined
sad and dearly-bought conclusion of so brilliant
a bridal"
Year: 1861

PRESIDENT LINCOLN ENDANGERED BY HIS Owy
EIRrUE.-The correspondent of the New York
Erening Post save: 1T is impossible for the Pres-
dent to pass over political contests and rivalres
with the ease of callous hearted, hypocrticaI
man of the world, and hence his very virtues are a
source of danger to him. The crowd attendant
upon the White House diminishes daily, and there
is ground for congratulatiOn in that fact. In
few weeks the President will be allowed the enjoy
Year: 1861

III seems that the Administration is about to WELD
10 the war section of the Republican party, and
pursue coercive policy towards the Southern
STATES The movements of troops, and the prepa-
ratlons making at the Northern Navy Yards, all
indicate some active aggressive movement on the
South We give below such intelligence bearing
L.
Year: 1861

In the valuable library of the late Mr..
Webster, among busts and portraits OF great
men, hangs small profile of woman, the
mother of that eminent statesman, whose
genius was the boast of his country, and
whose death has been so universally lament
ed. Beneath the profile is written, in the
well known hand writing of her son, my
excellent mother, d. W."


The world gives honor to Daniel Webster
his heart dedicated this honor to his mo-
ther. Would it not be worth the attention
Of statesmen, as we'll as philosophers, to in
qnire which Of the two, the mother or son,
is the more worthy Of being honored?


In order TO ascertain this, we must con
slider which Of the two had the most impor
tant part to perform? which was favored with
the best means of preparation? and which
has best discharged their duty.


That the mclher's otlice--to preserve the
child, and stamp its character for time aud
etelnity-is the most important a human
being can hold, will hardly, think, be ones
toned by Christian men. That the mother
Of Daniel Webster did her duty well, his
own testimony confirms, and his life also;
for his errors were not of the kind his mo-
theirs teachings or example would have in
dnced. Bnt his religious feelings were pre-
cisely those that early instruction fixes in
the mind of boy, and which no circumstan
ces can etface. Though the brightness of
those truths may be dinmed by the glitter
Of worldly glory, and their sweet purity lost
for while in the labyrinth where luxurious
pleasure leads her votaries, yet the voice of
conscience that speaks to the man in the
mothers tone to her cbill, recalls the mind
of the sternest and loltest to his chlldhood's
faith, and he turns for strength and hope to
the God he first bowel to worship at his
mothers knee Aud thus Daniel Webster,
in bis age, acknowledged openly his faith in
the Christian truths which, dnrng infancy
and childhood had been instilled into bis
heart.


Thus the mothers duty had been faithfully
discharged so far as she had been qualified
for her office. A that we know of the pri
yate history Of Mr.. Webser's mother is this
Her maiden name WAS Abigail Eastman; she
was a native Of Salisbury Massachusetts, and
was ever noted tor intelligence and pietv


But, in those early days, the opportunities
of education for females were very limited;
nor is there any reason to think Mrs. Web
ster had received any more than the mere
rudiments of what is now termed a common.
school elucaton. How much more power
full and sa'uary her influence might have
been over her son, had she been alIe to train
his mind as vel as his heart lie was pre-
pared for his career in life hy a liberal eda
cation, and all the means OF acquiring
knowledge which The country conl talnish
vet y ,hat he has done is bat for this world
for time. His mother wrought for heaven
entirely. Ought not the education of woman
to be provided for 10y the public as literally
as is done for men, when to her forming care
belongs the moulding Of human character,
the life Of the heart, if not the salvation Of
the soul?
Year: 1861

BEARDs.-Dr. Hayes states that he never
saw but one of the Exquimaux with beard;
the exception to the general rule was an ola
man, with hairs upon bis upper lip and chin,
which were silvered with age. The faces of
all others of the tribe were as innocent of
hair as woman's The boards of DIR Kane's
party excited great curiosity and admiration
among the natives of the arctic regions.
Year: 1861

MILITARY DEPARTMENT OF OREGON.-1he
Portland Advertiser rejoices at the informa
ton that they are to have separate and dis
tinct military department, and Gen. Wright
is to command it.
Year: 1861

The Ohio Eagle publishes the following extract
from IL private letter written in New ! ork:


The sagacious portion of the people of New
York are looking forward with alarm to a terri
BILE winter of severity TO the poor classes The
civil war with which we are scourged by the
Judgment of God. for our individual and national
sins, has paralyzed every description of business.
What with the loss of the Southern trade, upon
which the prosperity of this great metropolis was
chiefly built. and the immenscS drain of capital
from its ordinary channels to be expended and
squandered upon Court favorites at Washington,
and other distant places, the heavy hand of ad-
vcrsity has fallen upon every industrial interest
that was want to carry joy and gladness to every
hearhstone, to feed the hungry and clothc the
naked. Already the ragged children at every
corner and in the increasing throngs of beggars
in our streets and thoroughiares admonish us of
the fearful realities we must encounter when the
rigors Of winter set in, and when the demands of
nature are thrice augmented by the season OF pit
iless SHOWS and bowling tempcsts. Doubtless
much will he done by the dthuen and the charita-
bic to succOr the poor md the destitute, and to
drive the wolf lrt m the door by timely aid to the
suffering and the owly; but the fact is, the war
has affected all classes. has so impoverished the
general community, that the heretofore large
class who cheerlully opened their purses in the
service of benevolencc, has been sensibly dimin-
ished; in hundreds Of instances the almoner has
become the mendicant and will now have to i'm
plore that mercy and charity they once dispensed
with prncely liberality 1t is indeed sad pic
turc to contemplate. II is but another ilustra-
ton afforded of the unmitigated horrors Of civil
war; and in proportion to the evils which it
brings in its train will be the responsibility of
those who have invoked its terrible actualitics
and eXpiation and atonement rendered when the
day oil reckoning comes, as come 1t surely VIII, with


the sword of vengeance upraised to strike the
guilty as with the besom Of destruction.
Year: 1861

DEATH FROM HYDRoPHoBlA.- Mr.. John
Earnest, AN influential citizen of Norris.
town Pa. died few days ago, OF hydro
phcbia He was bitten about month
Since by dog which had no appearance of
being rabbid, and which was accidentally
strangled shor. time after. A. times du-
ring the conyulsions and spasms of the
deceased, it took the united strength OF
four and five men to hold him. When
not in convulsions he was perfectly sensi.
BILE, and fully conscious Of his awful condi.
ton. During his lucid intervals he would
warn his attendants to be careful so that
he would do them no harm. From the
first moment Of his attack till his end, he
declared that there was no hope for him
but in death.
Year: 1861

neA.T Tenderness of conscience is always
TO be distinguished from scrupulousness
The conscience cannot be kept too sensi-
BILE and tender; but scrupulousness arises
from bodily or mental infrmity, and dis
covers itself in multitude of ridiculous,
and superstitious, and painful feeling.
Year: 1861

mander has not unfrequently by his acts
of tyranny proved more destructive to the
subject than to the enemy, to the loyal than
to the disloyal. 1t is dreadful when, in ad.
dition to the necessary costs aud disturbances
suffered by people in carrying on a war,
there is to be borne the pressure of hard
and overbearing despotism for which the war
furnishes a pretense, though not justiR-
cation.


In the United States, it is true that we
have no code of martial law, but it can not
be contended that the jurisdiction Of either
courts or officers under declaration Of mar
tial law, is therefore unlimited. On the
contrary, every specific grant of power is a
limitation of power, and where powers are
granted by statute the presumption is that
no power other than the ones granted can
legally be exercised.
Year: 1861

The CRoPs IN ENGLAKD.-We hear unfa.
vorable reports of the crops from the north
ern section of New England. Both corn and
potatoes are suffering from the want Of rain.
This is the general complaint in Maine, New
Hampshire and the northern part of Massa-
chusetts. There is not 80 much complaint
from drought in Vermont, though the crops
are not hourishing. The Burlington Free
Press says the wheat crops in Chittenden
County will not average more than two
thirds as much as last year. The corn is lAte
and will not give an average crop; probably
not one fourth of it is as yet large enough to
boil for eating. The apple crop will be
complete failure in every section OF New
England York P0sL
Year: 1861

There is a small paper called the News,
published at Cynthiana, KY, by Canadian,
from which we take the following choice
extracts-gems of Secession literature:


A BALD HEADED COWARD Last week
General Houston, a member of the Legisla-
ture from Clark County; presented q bill
there, which has for its object the suppression
of free speech and free press, and proposes to
put every man in the penitentiary in this
State, who dares to express sympathy with
the Southern Confederacy. A large ma
jority of the people of Harrison County must
prepare to 60 TO the penitentiary, or resist to
the death such odious State legislation as
this proposed by Houston, the bald-headed.
The bill is denounced by every gentleman
we have met since we heard of its introduc-
tion, as the lowest and dirtiest effort of the
cowardly Abolitionists who now control the
Legislature, to build up Lincolnism and free
niggerism in Kentucky.


The old bald-headed dog would consigu
honest Christians to place where, perhaps,
if justice had dealt fairly with him, he would
long since have been lodged in the peni-
tentiary.


CONFEDERATE SoLDIERs.-Any young man
in Ohio or Indiana desirous of joining the
Confederate army can do so on application at
this Office.


We understand that it is the purpose Of
the State authorities Of the above States to
resort to drafting very soon, and men who
have no sympathy with the advancement of
Abolitionism and agrarianism can have no
heart to fight for these twin. sister heresies,
will find geniality with their friends in the
South and the Southern army.


LAY ON, MAoDUFF.-One would Judge from
the hang-dog countenances of the Lincoln-
ties that wander about Cynthisna, that the
angel Gabriel was about to make his appear
ance here. Well, let him come-if he is for
the Southern Oonfederacy he is welcome; il
he is opposed to it We would advise him to
stay at home.


The 'Italian dagger and the "stilletto'
done good work in the recent revolution in
Italy. These instruments of war are the
terror Of tyrants and those who sustain
them, and it is hoped they will not be for
gotten in this day of terror and usurpation,
A dog will sneak to his kennel at the sight
of cold steel. Couldn't few DOGS be ken
neled in this State2


General Zollicoffer is most respectfully
invited to move his camp to Harrison
County. He will meet with hearty well
come here.


We hope he will come, a. we have re-
ceived information that we have many
friends in Indiana who will join him and
fight under him.
Year: 1861

NOiAbio Faets in the History Of the War,


The two most suggestive facts in the
history Of the extraordinary war in which
the country is engaged, are thus noted by
the National 1ntslligencer


Let. That while the pending military
operations Of the Government assume pro-
portions which, 90 far as relates to the
numbers actually engaged on each side,
place the contest in the rank Of the most
gigantic wars known In authentic history,
the great movements Of society, Of industry,
and trade, within the loyal States, move on
in their accustomed channels with compar-
atively little diversion.


2d. The fact that never did civil war
like that which now visits cur land befall
any government, however Opulentin resOur-
ees or arms, with go little detrime Mt to the
public credit. The current quotations Of
The United States six per cents, re deemable
Ia 1881, range between "a and SO in the
New York stock market--a frRG tion, il is
true, below their par value, but sufficiently
accounted for by the comparative advsn-
tsges which the government oilers to in
vestments in another species OF bonds pay
lug higher rate Of interest Than this
significant fact no better evidence is needed
in confirmation Of the strength possessed
by the loyal States, while the popular con-
iidenee in their ability 20 sustain the Ma
tional Government (upOn whose perpetuity
the redemption Of these obligations is sus-
pended) is expressed in the undoubting
credit which gives to such 'Paper prom
ises" substantial value, uuimpaired by
the vicissitudes Of politics or the hazards
Of war Ia order to measure this attesta-
tion TO the stability of the government and
TO the wealth Of the loyal States in its real
force, We have but to imagine what would
be the effect on "consols" in LQndon, if 3
civil war like that now pending in the
United States should break out in Great
Britain, involving one third of the United
Kingdom in revolt against the British
Government. And the fact We have thus
designated is not without its suggestive
teachings in regard to the real seat Of the
financial power, which some political econ
omists have been won't TO place under the
sceptre Of King Cotton, but which on trial,
is found to be located further north, where
the diversity Of labor and the stimulus Of
free competition tend to the development
OF these natural resources which constitute
the true revenues Of the State.
Year: 1861

their expense and if possibly grow wise
by experience.


Another conclusion is, that not even
to escape the evils Of actual war, would
we yield submission to the outrageous
demands of.slavery which we have speci-
fed. This is an awful remedy for evils.
But a short war i. better than an inter
minable despotism. SO thought oar faith
ers; so think the Italians.


Slavery IS an awfM crime, whatever
the South may think, when upheld, vim
dicated, spread and perpetuated. The
fire will not melt that opinion out of the
Northern people TO make ourselves a
party to its spread and perpetuation i, to
commit the treble crime against human.
iy, oar own conscience, and against
God. Let US be patient, and hasten on
no unrighteous peace.
Year: 1861

4 (tHliDREN of any age now have their pictures
~ taken perfect, as We have built Room expressly
for their Groups of Children also taken in frac-
ton OF second, clear weather. Mothers need not
now have the trouble take them Gallery dozen
times, and at last put up with caricature If they
will but go at once to


febIS-tf HUGHES, PREMIUM GALLERY
Year: 1861

'n "Ha 't'-H si in 5BOnnS8D00s ' 1905


To make easy the minds Of the Unionists
in Memphis and throughout the State-a
doubt about the purpose Of our party being
suggested in communication in the Bulletin
Of yesterday-we say that We will run can
didate for every Office, from Mayor up to Gov


ernor. We do not intend to let the most re-
mote opportunity pass which will afford us a
chance Of fighting them. We will have Il
regular party organization in Memphis, IN
Shelby county, in fact all over the State
We will never give up the fght uutil We drive
them from the last place Of honor and trust
in Tennessee II they whip us we viii try
them again, and IL whipped again we win Try
them another time, and 30 on without end
/ Ours iS q war until Tennessee secedes, or Of
a lifetime il she does not We cannot strike
hands with q nion howler upon any issue in
volving even the most infinitesimal extent oi
EPolitieaIPcwes.4A Memphis ASalanehe. a.
Year: 1861

Hon. R NJ. STEWART, the predecessor
of CLAIRBoRNE F. JACKSON, as Govern
or of Missouri, has recently made an elo-
quent appeal to the people of that State
against the Secession movement. Although
always actively identified with the Demo
cratic party, he has no sympathy with
the reasonable designs which the ambi-


tious and desperate conspirators of the
South have sought to conceal and promote
by their false professions of Democracy.


He warns the people of Missouri that they
can never gain peace or security out Of
the Union, and truly says that "when the
United States Government surronders its
right to navigate the Atlantic Ocean. it
may abandon its only thoroughfare to the
Pacifc-not before" He also calls their
attention to the fact that "it was part
of the original programme of Secession to
remove the burdens of the war from the
Cotton to the Border States y and that,
in pursuance of this selfish and artfui pol
icy, Virginia and Missouri have been
drawn into terrible snare in which they
will be greatly injured Speaking of the
objects of the war he says


"Citizens of Missouri, you can bear me
witness that during my ofHcia! life I have
labored earnestly against the doctrines
and practices of the extreme fanatics of
the North. Abolition and Secession are
two extremes that now unite in the de-
struction of everything we hold dear. DO
not hatter yourselves that this social war
in Missouri is against Abolitionists. 1t
is just what they have prayed for, be-
cause they saw in it the utter annlhiation
of our domestic Institutions. The only
practical Abolitlonists in Missouri are
those who have inaugurated and are now
prosecuting this unholy war. If allowed
to continue, it will accomplish in year
what could not have taken place in CEN
tury-the practical abolition OF slavery iu
Missouri. The only safety for Missouri
is IN the Union. Out of it,
either by force or by treaty, their proper
ty is utterly valueless. You have been
told that this war is waged on one side
for protection, and on the other for the
destruction of slavery. This is false
hood, snare, and delusion. This war
is for the life of nation, and the lives
and fortunes of twenty millions of peopig
are pledged for its prosecution. Aboli-
tionism is swallowed up and lost sight of
in the magnitude of this terrible crisis.
The war is to decide whether free gov
ernments are practicable, and It's issue
will fix the fate of Republics for veal or
woe, during the next thousand years. If
YOU would save your homes and your