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Year: 1861

Three weeks later, he was united to
Jenny Wheeler. Soon afterwards I at
tended party at widow Deans and had
the happiness (?) of oyerhearing Philips
indifferent remark to Fred. Lee, kind
of explanatory apology for the Irritation
between us " A dear little girl, but a
poor cook"


In time my parents returned and l
was only too glad to put off RESPONSE
bility Of which was heartily tired. l
shrewdly suspected that my father had
an eye on Philips Golfers, for he was
cross toward me for three whole days af-
ter hearing of the wedding. just as
though l could have helped it. l learn.
ed two lessons that young ladies may
profit by. Firstly, it is different thing
to play kitchen maid, with mother for
overseer, than to play the same without
her. In the former case, if yoa forget
sugar, saleratus, or the oven, she will
not. Second, never allow lover. whom
you wish to call husband, declare his
passion at breakfast, dinner, or supper
time, especially if you are forced to pre-
pare the meals yourself. Be too busy.
be skittish, be anything, rather than to
allow it. If possible, delay it till the
hour of twilight or moonlight, .her you
will not, like me, have the seal Of old
maidenism stamped indellibly upon your
brow.
Year: 1861




IMPORTANT DECISION. NOR
ming Judge Dillon decided an important
question Of law, involving the righ, to
imprison for debt under the supple men.
larry proceedings as set forth in the new
Code Of Iowa. The case at issue was one
In which Martin Grace had been brouph,
before the County Judge OH supplement-.
airy process and vas required to pay over
. eertsis sum of money he had about
him into the hands OF the County Judge.
This he refused to do, and was accord.
ingiy sent TO jail for contempt of court.
according 10 the provisions Of the new
Code. He was taken out on n writ of
ha6eas eorpas. and yesterday the Judge.
alter hearing argument and after mature
delIberation, decided that no man in this
State could ba imprisoned for deb, except
in case of fraud and the supplementary
proceedings laid down in the New Code
are unconstitutional. Mr.. Grace was
SCI a, liberty. The opinion was lengthy
one. but was generally concurred in by
the bar, we believe Dap. Dem.
Year: 1861

The customs are warm in Iceland il
the weather is cold. 1t is said to be a
custom with the people of Iceland, when
a meal is over, for the guests to kiss both
the master and the mistress of the house,
thanking them for their kindness. AT
meeting and parting. the kiss is the uni
versal salutation. On entering family.
the visitor must salute all according TO
seniority or station, beginning with the
highest. Al his departure be reverses
this, and the lowest is taken leave Of
first.
Year: 1861

A correspondent Of the London Times
gives the following account of the feats Of
a juggler in the streets of Pekin:


He first of all spoke for about five
minutes with all the volubility of Chas.
Matthews, evidently saying something
witty, for the people round laughed
heartily. In the middle of his harangue,
however, he was seized with fit Of cho.
king, and after an effort of trying to get
something out of his throat, drew forth a
little slip of bamboo, like Lisbon tooth.
pick, then another and another, then he
sneezed, and out they came from his
nostrils, then from his eyes, until he
completed the number of thirty seven. by
making one appear halfway out Of each
oriice at the same time, and threw the
lot on the ground for any one to exam
inc.


He next took three glass balls, about
an inch in diameter, and placed them
singly between his lips, sucked them in
to his mouth and swallowed first a red
one, then blue, and last of all a white
one. Here was little interlude Of tooth
picks and talking. after which he walked
gravely round the ring, stopping four
times /; each time he gave himselfa shake
and jump, when the balls were distinct
ly heard to jingle inside of him. On
completing his round, after several eff
forts, he spat the balls out on the ground
in the same order he had swallowed them
the red first, the white last. He then
took two more balls, one Of polished
steel about the size Of a hens egg, and
another of glass, the same size. These
he first let fall on the ground to show
they were solid then, placing them be-
tween his lips swallowed them like the
smaller ones. but with great difficulty, i,
swelling in the throat rs it went down /;
here more toothpicks and talking, while
he prepared two swords, about an inch
wide and twenty long, very like polished
hoop iron, clashed them together to show
that they were real, and passed both
down his throat at once, until they
struck the balls with an audible click
Withdrawing these he placed his hands
behind him, and after several apparently
painful trials, each ball rose in his throat,
and fell from his mouth to the ground
with a heavy thump.
Year: 1861

Away back in the morning Of creation


AS soon as there were hearts to fill with
the fountains of love, friendship and AZ
tection--!here were telegraphs whose si-
lent messages were ever weaving closer
the holier ties Of earth The red winged
lightning is laggard when compared
with that OF thought Over mountains
ACROSS oceans and coutinenls--in The
csverns of the sea, or the graves on the
land--out through the eternal night
which dwells between the worlds and up
10 the throne OF God---the message is
born while the electric current is harness
ing its steeds.
Year: 1861

LII TELL PA WHEN HE COMES HOME.
"A friend Of ours. who had taken pride
tor several years in cultiya,ing full
crop of hair on his face, was called from
home on business some time since
While absent, an inexperienced barber
spoiled his whiskers in trimming them,
which SO chagrined him that he directed
the barber TO make clean job of il by
shaving whiskers and moustache Off
The barber obeyed, and orr friends face
was as smooth and delicate as when in
his teens. He returned home in the
night. Next morning his lilIe girl did
not recognize him on waking up. Look.
ing over her mother. and seeing. As she
supposed, stranger in The bed, she re-
marked in her childish simplicity. mis-
ter. get out of here fH teH my pa on
you Whss As comes hon,e %
Year: 1861

to the power Of practical and extended sacli-
flee Of life and property as in this great srug-
gle, end in weakening national morality p
Shall heroic virtue bripg, as its fruit, desrad-
ing vice? Never. We do not expect the
ordinary laws of social intercourse to be mir
aculously suspended so as to prevent the eX-
ample Of the vicious III the army from inAu-
enciog their more upright5 ompanions in arms
but under the circumstances wo DC oXpcc
such influence to be at its minimum, and TO
be infinitely more than counerbalanced by tie
moral vigor aud self.reepcct which must result
to the nation at large. Whatever may be
true in particular instances the nation, as
whole, will have yielded to the best and pur-
est ideas, and will be more thoroughly welded
10 them than ever before To f1ht the bat
tic Of mere ambition and to suffer for mere
power or for false ideas will demorai;zo 2 NJ
ton, and the opposite course must bring op-
posite results


Nor must it be forgotten in studying the
effect Of this war upon or national caarac-
ter, that g nation, like an individual, needs to
be consolidated by trials II must not only
have good government, but must be deeply
and firmly convinced of its exccIency. Now
in times Of peace such vivid convictions are
not easily obtained. We are not brought il
any practical way to make the comparison be.
tween the just principles Of the Government
and its transient interests. We compare them,
but We do it in the sunshine and amidst the
flowers; We do it rhetorically and poetically.
We feel what is excellent rather 5estAetically
than ethically, and proudly fancy it were easy
to a necessary sacrifice. But there is q great
difference between estimating burden and
actually bearing it. And when the trial
comes to nation, and the poetry Of patriot
ism is required TO become the patriotism Of
sacrifice, that nation is not only tested, but it
the test is endured it is improved. Thus it
is with US, this war both proves and improves
U.s. That the nation rises under this load
with shout and bears it onward without
shrinking, both shows what her convictions
were. and gives her q strength and &3lidity
which only the burdens and the dangers Of
war could impart.


As to the assertion that civilization Or
Christianity will be injured by the var, moth.
ing could be shalower As well might we
say that these results would follow the execu-
ton Of the laws against crime at any other
time. For this is the same thing, only upon
a scale of terrible grandeur. Why, the very
aim of the war, and the war itself, considering
its aim, arc among the noblest illustrations On
record Of the power Of Christian civilization.
Christian civilization might seem to pause for
a moment before the gigantic conflict, but it
would cnly be in amaZement at the mad wick
edness which made the war necessary, at the
forces which the rebels have mustered in so
bad a cause.
Year: 1861

There are some honest but thoughteSs peo-
pie, and some dishonest journals, who talk as
though the five hundred or thousand millions
of dollars, which the saving Of our country
is to cost us, were 50 much struck out of ex-
istencc, CT sunk to the bottom Of the deep.
Were this indeed so, the Republic which
includes within itself all We possess as indi-
viduaIs, all we are Or hope to be---wouId be
preserved at cheap price; but it is not SO.
These millions only change hands; arc ex-
pended among ourselves; and in the present
deranged condition Of affairs-business OBJ
structed in all its channels by the madness Of
the rebelion-the putting aaOat OF all this
money by the Government will do much to.
ward sustaining US till better day comes.


The effect is the same on the country at
large, as it would be locally on the city, were
some moneyed man among us to put ten mil
lions of his locked up capital into buildings,
or the city to hire twenty millions and build
another Croton aqueluct. There is not one
of us but, directly or indirectly, would re.
alize substantial benefit, and in hard times
find great relief from the expenditure Of
them.


For is it true that the repayment o. these
Government loans will ever involve sacrifice
of any part of the real or personal property
Of the country. 1t will be money changing
hands again-thc large amount will be grad
ually liquidated, returned to first hands,
whether reimbursed by tariff duties or direct
taxes, from the current earnings Of ensuing
years. True, it is burden, but not without
compensation. Aside from the prospective
contributions in making repayment, in which
We must all share, large Government debt
is at war with our Republican in.
stincts We have pride in seeing our na-
tion, like thrifty individual, free and unem.
barrassed. We wish to set proper example
to the world But whether we shall tenn po.
rarily incur large debt is a triaing question
compared with that other, whether we shall
forever preserve the Union, the Constitution,
aud the Liberties which have made US great,
happy and prosperous
Year: 1861

Charley Andres has received the following
letter 1t contains Intelligence which may
he interesting, as coming from late citizen
OF Marysville:


PoTosGA NEW MEXICO Jan &c, 1861.


FRIEND CHARLEY Having an oprortuni-
" of sending in l thought ! would try and
scratch off few lines TO you. Well, to be
gin here We are, as rough set Of looking
cusses as ever you saw, fat, ragged and sau-
cy. We are whaching away, that is work
ing on the claim. We have got our furnace,
building and blacksmith shop also going
up. Well, ! think that in about four weeks
more we will be ready TO begin smelling. |
have been out prospecting the most of the
time Since have been back, there have
been eleven new leads discovered here. and
they all prove fair to be good. | have been
over on the Colorado a prospecting that !
was not here when they were found, We
did not find the gold mines over there as we
expected for We got out Of grub and had to
come in; but we leave again tomorrow, and
think we will find them this time The
Indians are mighty sauey over there, and we
may have to fight, if we do, we will go IN,
you bet. There are about fifty men here now
and We have got houses and several more
going up. There is bound to he a big rush
this spring Well, in regard to your claim
here, there is some of the company here, and
they will commence work on it soon, but |
will see that your interest is kept all right.
For the present the laws are one days work
in each month or fifty dollars for year


Yours truly, Ira +. CmAMr1lN.
Year: 1861

HKETUKNING SINCERE THANKS
TO THE PUBLIC for past fayors and patron
age, and being DETERMINED to MERIT
continuance Of same by strict attention to
trade, and prompt delivery of Goods,
would call the notice Of the public to the fact that
having Large and we'll Selec ted stock on
hand, and being in daily receipt Of goods from the differ
ent markets. atter myself that offer to the cti
Of Columbus or to any who may desire to purchase
assortment Of articles appertanlng to the GROCERY
trade, UNEQUALED ID by any house in the city
The price and quality of the goods offered, guar-
antee 10 give satisfaction.


Goods Delivered Free of Charge.


nov27 WIN. MCDONALD.
Year: 1861

The subscribers take pleasure In announcing the
Citizens Of the United States that they have obtained the
Agency for and enabled to offer to the American
public the above justly celebrated and word-renowned
article. The
Year: 1861

Have been sold during the last six months and In In
stance has II failed In giving entire sasfaction Who
then, will suffer from Weakness or Debility when Nc
LEANS STRENGTHENING CORDIAL will cure you1


No language can convey adequate idea Of the mme
date and almost miraculous change produced by taking
this Cordial In the diseased debated and shattered
nervous system whether broken down by excess weak by
nature impaired by Sickness the relaxed and unsunR
organization 10 restored to its pristine health and vgor
Year: 1861

The PEOPLE OF LoU1srAN. OPPOSED TO
SEcEss1oN.-The St. Louis Republican pub
!lshes the following extract of letter from
New Orleans, from gentleman born in
Virginia, and who has always resided in the
South, and is now resident of that city,


" am glad that l am here, where can
see the ball of revolution in motion. The
doings of the Southern politicians excite me
considerably. conscientiously believe that
the people have very little to do with it. The
ordinance of secession was received in this
city..with perfect Indifference They attempt
ed to get up an illumination, but not one
window in hundred had candle in it, and
1t Is very we'll known that majority of the
people are opposed to disunion, but all have
to yield to the storm of popular fury and
madness that is raging at the present time.
l am strong in the belief that the Gotten
States will be glad enough after awhile to
get back under the shadow Of our National
flag"
Year: 1861

PERISH COMMERCE !'-This remark, once
made by celebrated politician, now appears
to indicate the theory Of one of the new
republics lately Matched out "down South"
Alabama has but one sport-that of Mobile
but it seems that this has already become
one too many for the floufishing trade of the
new Republic. Measures are therefore about
to be token to sink vessels in tho ship
channel of that harbor, as they have already
done at Charleston, and thereby prevent the
entry and departure Of commercial vessels to
and from Mobile. If they are fools enough
to blockade their own harbor, and save the
General Government the trouble of doing it,
we don't see who need complain. We will
venture to say that they will soon get tired
of this kind of fun.
Year: 1861

~ Gov. Seward has certainly said good
many clever things in the course of his public
life. Take, for instance, the following gem
out of his speech at Chicago, on the I'd Of last
October:


"The battle is ended, and the victory is ours.
Why, then, say they, why not withdraw from
the field? For the simple reason that, if the
victor retire from the field, the vanquished
will then come back, and the battle will not
be won. Why should the victor withdraw
and surrender all his conquests to the COO
quered enemy? Why should he place the
enemy back upon the field, and withdraw his
legions into the far distance, to give him a
| chance to re-establish the line that has been
broken up The Republican party will now
complete this great revolution"


We commend this to those Republicans
who may cow feel inclined to surrender their
principles. which brought them triumphantly
out of the campaign, merely because few
Doughfaces clamor for compromise.
Year: 1861

Ex-Seeretary Floyd publishes a statement
that the report of the committee of the
House is an er parte arraignment of his Off
cial conduct, upon e1 parte testimony, taken
in secret during his absence. 1t is labored
attempt by inuendo and by means Of circum-
stances, in the absence of proof, to fix upon
him some unexpected completely with the
robbery of which he had 40 knowledge till
about the time it was publicly disclosed He
promises to meet the report of the committee
with full response.


There is no truth in the report that Floyd
has pleaded the act of 1851 in bar of the
prosecution against him.
Year: 1861

For several months past, our country has


been in an excitement bordering en- revolution,


although no new measure has been passed or


new change made affecting the interests OF


any section. The representatives of the in


coming administration are assailed upon one


hand about Southern rights violated, to which


is added q combined revolt of the Southern


States; and on the other hand by cowardly


clamors for compromise and concession. Does
any rational man suppose that amendments
to the Constitution made at such . time Is
this, in violation Of tie Constitution itself,
and rushed through Congress with railroad
speed, for the purpose of placing slavery and
the interests Of 100000 Shareholders above
and out of the reach Of the people, will be
quietly submitted to? Can such swicdle,
proposed and carried for no purpose but to
defeat the voice of the people, so emphatcally
expressed in the last election, be followed by
a general calm? No! concessions to slavery
at this time will be followed by greater excite
ment than We have ever seen. Ihe people
will not submit to be cheated in SO weighty
matter by crafty politicians. The South is |
exasperated now for no cause let not the
North be goaded to resentment by betrayal |
Of principle. The Constitution givca US by
the fathers is as good now as it was then.
That sacred instrument should not be tirkered |
with in time Of excitement such as the
present. fit must be amended, let National
Convention be called for the purpose, and let
it be held at least six months after notice of it
is given, SO that there may be ample time fol
deliberation and cool action. The only gu.r-
antee that we, as Republicans, are willing to
give to slavery at this time is that it shall not
be intersered with in the States where it
already exists. This is all any reasonable
man ought to demand.
Year: 1861

sW There are but three points upon
which the South and the North have even
appeared to be divided-the Fugitive Slave
Law, the Personal Liberty acts, and the
occupation of the common Territories. Upon
the first two, no cause of disagreement re-
m aims, if, as we believe will be the case, the
views announced by Mr.. Seward meet with
general acceptance at the North. And is it
worthwhile to break up the Union and bring
on civil war now on account of any question
as to the occupation of the Territories-a
question which is likely to have no practical
operation during the lives of the present
generation and may have none in all time to
come? Who will venture to say, that, if the
present miserable disturbances can be quieted,
all sections will not be prepared to render
each other the most liberal justice in very
brief time 7-LoaisoilIe Journal.
Year: 1861

THE SOUTHERN CoNFEDERACY.-Thce election
of Davis and Stephens by the Montgomery
Congress is regarded as good sign, as
neither of them has opposed reconstruction,
and it is believed they favor return to the
Union. South Carolina was not represented
in the Congress. 1t is stated that her
authorities are not satisfied with the manner
in which she was thus ignored. AS the first
to set the ball of the revolution in motion, she
claimed unusual honors from the Provisional
Government.
Year: 1861

w Mr.. Slidell, of Louisiana, in taking
leave of the Senate, uttered a prediction that
the secessionists of the South would restore
the Democratic party to its ascendancy in the
free States, and that then the Union could be
reconstructed on ultra pro-slavery principles
This is no doubt the view many of the Dem
ocrats take of the question, both at tie North
and at the South, but they are badly mistaken.
Year: 1861

|; Our readers will keep in mind the sale


Of piano .fortes, by Gilbert q Sampson, this
morning, as It is IN opportunity never before
offered In this city, for those who are In want
Year: 1861

WHICH SHALL DE PRESERVED?


The plain question now presented to
the North Is, shall the Republican party
or the Union break The New York
Tribune says that tho Republican platform
must be lived up to Or the Union is bro.
ken into fragments. The Democratic par.
ty and the conservative Republicans say
that the Union must be preserved at all
hazards no matter what becomes OF party
organizations and party platforms. 1t is
a simple question Of value. Which is
worth the most, the Union or the Repub-
llcan party? We have managed to live
happily and prosperously without a Re-
publican party for many years, and can
do so for many years to como +; but can we
live without the Union? When the real
ity of this issue is fully realized, we im-
/ agine there are very few men living in the
State Of Pennsylvania who who would not
rather see the Republican party sink into
nothingness, than that the Union should
be broken into fragments and the country
converted into the theatre of bloody
lratriCidal war.


"Compromise not only destroys the
government and destroys tho Union, il
destroys the Republican party" says tho
Tribune. Well, if the Republican party is
so inimical to the interests of the Southern
States that it cannot survive peaceful
settlement OF the troubles it has created
and cherished, it ought to perish: Whens
ever aparty gains the ascendancy in a
country whose organic law was created by
compromise, that cannot afford TO perpet.
uate the existence of the nation in the
same spirit of mutual accommodation,
this fact affords sufficient evidence thatit
was constructed upon a wrong basis.
There is nothing left Tor it but to do right
or break. If it persists in wrong doing, it
deserves annihilation.


If the Union is not to be preserved by
compromise, because compromise would
injure the Republican party, how can it
be preserved? Force will not do it.
Successful war would not do it, for it would
end in one side being the victor, and the
other the qushed-and this would
prove destructive of a Union Of equals
Unsuccessful war would not do it; for it
would establish the independence of a
Southern Confederacy. Nothing can do
it but compromise, Mutual acoommoda-
ton, renewed and perpetual amity.-Pa-
tr;0L d Union.
Year: 1861

Bsg~" Mind your own business" is an
old, somewhat homely maxim but never
theless one that contains a deal Of use
full instruction Men who attend to their
own affairs usually find themselves prof>
tably employed, and in the end avoid
much vexation that is inseparably con-
nected with an officious, meddlesome na'
ture