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Year: 1861

Love ENDING IN TRAGEDY.-In New York two
young men, Iron-founders by trade and rivals in
love, turned out for fight, in order to settle the
veKatious claim. When stripped and ready, one
advanced to the other and fred pistol close to
his head. The slugs entered his face and neck
and he fell senseless. He is supposed to be in q
dangerous condition. The would be murderer
fed to the foundry, and was for time defended
by his fellow-workmen, but is now in the hands
of the police.
Year: 1861

Hives should stand near the ground, and each
one on stand by ITSELF 1 have bottom board
for mine, little larger every way than the bot
tom OF the hive-two pieces of studding or joist
are nailed, one at each side Of this-making the
height from the ground only few inches-
These stands should be as far apart as convent
ent from each other--never nearer together than
three feet. There are important reasons for this
arrangement, but cannot give them without
entering more largely into the natural history of
the bee than the limits of these articles permit
Year: 1861




Have been tried by many here, and elsewhere.
1t is thought by those who commence them that
they possess q great advantage over common
hives inasmuch as they do not swarm. However
large the palace or hive may be in which you
put bees, it will neyer contain but one Queen
Bee. This fact is uudisputed. The Queen is
the mother Of the hive-consequently the bees
in each small hive containing Queen may in
crease as fast as those in the large one. The
former will not swarm, the latter may be made
to do 80 one or more times each season.


Suppose the non-swarmer to be worth at the
beginning five dollars; at the end of ten years it
is worth no more, if as much. We might get
seven dollars worth OF honey every year from it,
amounting to seventy dollars. In the meantime
the swarming hive, on the most moderate calcu-
taken care OIL and make US dollars worth of
spare honey Ito say nothing of what the young
swarms might make) The second year there
will be two swarms to do the same. Taking this
rate for ten years you have 5l2 stocks, each as
valuable as the non-swarmer, and obtain q thou
sand dollars worth of surplus honey Add this
all together, and you have the snug little sum of
So, 500 against S75.


When l saw a calculation something like this
in Quimby's work on Bees in the early days of
my interest in the matter, l hardly thought it
possible to realize such gain from SO small an
outlay. Now kno,c that it is moderate COM
putation Any one can do as much as this in
that space of time, l hope, judging from what
have already done, to do much better than this
in ten years. But, again, let me say this is no
ROYAL road to wealth-eare and labor are r..
quired as in every thing else-but, unlike many
occupations, this so awakens the interest as to
make bee keeping most fascinating intellectual
-nura,t HJ r-e t
Year: 1861

An outrageous trick. Some time ago
there was dancing party given up
north Most of the ladies present had
little babies, whose noisy perversity re.
quired too much attention to permit the
mothers to enjoy the dance. A number
of gallant young men volunteered to
watch the young ones while the parents
INDUCED in breakdown. No sooner
had the women left the babies in charge
of the mischievous rogucs than they
stripped the infants and changed their
clothes, giving to one the apparel of an
other. The dance over. it was then
time to 60 home, and the mothers hur-
riedly took each baby. in the dress OF
her own, and started. some Of their homes
ten or fifteen miles off, and were far on
their way before daylight. But the day
following there was a prodigious row in
that settlement; mothers discovered that
single day had changed the sex of their
babies, observation disclosed startling G
physiological phenomena, and then COM
menced some Of the tallest female ped
estrianism. Living miles apart, it re-
quired two days to unmix the babies,
and as many months to restore the wo.
men to their naturally sweet disposition
To this Cay it is unsafe for any of the
baby mixers to venture within the ter
ritory. &C .Hfornia Paper
Year: 1861

The Richmond (Va.) Wing say, few
Sundays ago n modest young man of
our acquaintance attended the morning
service in one of our fashionable chur-
ches. He was kindly shown into lux
uriantly cushioned pew. and had hardly
settled himself and taken an observation
of his neighbors. before beautiful
yonng lady entered. and with graceful
wave of the hand, preventing our friend
from rising and giving her his place
quietly sunk into seat near :he end -.
When the hymn was given out, she
skilfully found the page, and with a
sweet smile that set his heart humping
handed her neighbor the book. The
minister raised his hands in prayer, ard
tho fnir girl knelt, and in this
posture perplexed her friend to know
which most to admire, her beauty or her
dcvoutness. Presently the prayer was
concluded, and the congregation resu-
med their seats. Our friend respectful
ly raised his eyes from the fair form he
had been earnestly scanning. lest when
she should look up, she would detect him
staring at her. After couple of Sec
onds he dartcd fugitive glance at his
charmer, and was astonshed to see hor
still on her knees he looked closely and
saw that she was deeply affected trem-
bling in violent agitation. no doubt from
the eloquent power of the preacher
Deeply sympathizing, he watched her
closely.


Her emotion became more violent,
reaching her hand behind her. she would
con vulsively grasp her clothing, and
strain, as it were. to rend the brilliant
fabric of her dress. The sight was cx
ceedingly painful to behold, but he still
gazcd, like ono entranccd, with wonder
and astonlshmeDt. After minute, the
lady raised her face, heretofore concealed
in the cushion. and with her hand, made
an unmistakable bcckon to her friend
He quickly moved along the pew toward
her, and inclined his ear, as she eviden-
tIy wished to say something.


please help me. sir" she whispered 4,


my dress is caught, and can't get up


A brief examination revealed the
difficulty. The fair girl wore fashion
able high.hceled shoes; knceling on both
knees, these heels of course stuck out
ut right angles, and in this position, the
highes. hoop of her new tangled skirt
caught over them and thus rendered il
| impossible for hor to raise herself or
straighten her limbs. The more she
struggled, the tighter she was bound; so
she was constrained to call for help. 49,
This was Immediately if not scientiical-
ly, rendered; and when the next prayer
was made she merely inclined her head
on the back of the front pew thinking
no doubt that she was not in praying
tune.
Year: 1861

Don't be discouraged, if in the outset
Of lie things do not go smoothly. 1t
seldom happens that the hopes we cher
ish Of the future are realized. The path
of life, in the prospect, appears smooth
and level enough; but when we come to
travel it, we find it up hill and generally
rongh. The journey is q labOrious one,
and whether poor or wealthy high or low, +,
we shall find it so to our disappointment,
five have built up any other calculation
To endure cheerfully what must be, and
to elbow our way as easily as we can ,ho-
ping for little, yet striving for much, is
perhaps the true plan. But don't be
discouraged, if occasionally you slip by
the way, and your neighbors tread over
you little; in other werds don't let a
failure or two disharten you. Accidents
happen, mscalculations will sometimes
be made, things will often turn out diff
ferently from our expectations, and we
may be the sufferers. 1t is worth while
to remember that fortune is like the
skies in april, sometimes cloudy, and
sometimes clear and favorable; and it is
folly to despair of again seeing the sun.
because today is stormy; so it is equally
unwise to sink into dependency when
fortune frowns, since in the common
course of things, she may be surely ex-
pected to smile again. And agaiL: don't
be discouraged if you are deceived in the
people of the world. 1t often happens
that men wear borrowed characters, as


well as borrowed clothes, and sometimes
those who have long stood fair before
the world are rotten to the core. From
sources such as these, you may be uncx-
pectedly deceived, and you will natural


ly feel sore under such deccptions--- but
to these you must become used. If you
fare as most people do. they will lose
their novelty before you grow grey, and
you will learn to trust men cautiously,
and examine their character closely, be-
fore you allow them opportunities to in
lure you. Don't be discouraged under
any circumstances; 60 steadily forward
Rather consult your own conscience than
the opinions of men, though the last i.
not to be disregarded Be Industrious
be frugal--be honest IDEAL in perfect
kindness with all who come in your way
exercise neighborly and obliging spir-
it in your whole intercourse; and if you
do not prosper as rapidly as your neigh
bors, depend upon it you will be as hap
py.---iSchelbvuiUe EapOsitor.
Year: 1861

The mark which persons who are unable
to writc are required to make instead of their
signature, is in the form Of cross, and this
practice, having been formerly followed by
kings and mobiles, is constantly referred to as
an instance of the dsplorable ignorance of
ancient times. This signature is not, how
ever, invariable proof OF such ignorance ce; an
ciently the use of this mark was not confined
to illtcrate persons; for among the Sax ons
the mark or the cross, as an attestation oi
the good faith of the person signing. was re.
qulrcd to be attached to the signatures OIL
those who could write, as well as to stand in
the place OF the signature Of those who could


not write.


In those times, if man could write, ol


even read, his knowledge was considered
| proof positive presumptive that he was in ho
| ly orders The word ciericus or clerk wa!
synonymous with penman, and the laity, OF


people who were not Clerks. did not feel any


urgent necessity for the use of letters. The
| ancient Use of the cross was, therefore, uni
| versal, alike by those who could and by those
who could not write it; it was, indeed, the
symbol Of an oath from its holy associations
| and generally the mark, On this acccut


Mr.. Charles Knight, in his notes to the Pic


torial Shakespeare, explains the expression oil
God save the mark, as a form of eiacula-
tion approaching to the character of an oath
This phrase occurs three or more times in the


plays of Shakespeare, but hitherto it has been


left by the commentators in its original OBJ
scurity,
Year: 1861

From an interesting lecture recently
delivered by Sir f.. L. Bulwer, the nov
elist, we extract the following passage:


The law which binds one man to the
one woman is so indelibly written by
nature, that wherever it is violated in
general system, the human race is found
to deterioriate' in mind and form. The
enobling influence cease the wife is a
companion-a hundred wives are but a
hundred slaves. Nor is that all: unless
man look to q woman as treasure to be
woed and won-her ST. lie the charm of
his existencc-her single heart the angel
of his desircs-that which deserves the
name of love cannot exist, is struck out
Of the healthful system of society
Now, ift there be a passion in the human
breast which most tends to light us out
of epotism aud self. which most teaches
US to live IN another-which puriies and
warns the whole moral being-it is love,
as We of the north hold it and cherish
it. For even when the fair spring Of
youth has passed. and when the active
life is employed in such grave pursuits
that the love Of his early years seems to
him like q dream of romance, still that
love having once lifted him out of ego
tism into sympathy does but pass into
new forms and development-it has
locked his heart to charity and beuevo-
lonce-it gives smile to his home, it
rises up in the eyes of his children
from his hearth it circulates inscnsibly
on the laws that protect the hearths to
the native land that spreads around it.
Thus in the uniform history Of the world
we discover that wherever love is crra-
ted, as it were. and sanctioned by that
equality between the sexes which the
permanent and holy union of one heart
with another proclaims, there; too. pat
riotism, liberty--the manly and the gen
tie virtues--also find the place; and
whenever, on the contrary. pply2amy is
practiced, and love disappears in the
gross safety of the senses, tthere we find
neither respect nor humanity, nor rev.
ereDcc for home, nor affection for the
natal soil. And one reason why Greece
so contrasted in all that diguifes our ma
ture, the effeminate and dissolute char
acter Of tho east which it overthrow, is,
that Greece was the earliest civilized
country in which. on the borders of those
great monarchies, marriage was the sa-
cred tie between one man and one wo-
man; and man was the thoughtful father
of a home, not the wanton lord of Sc
raglio.
Year: 1861

A pupil Of the Able Sicord gave the
following extraordinary answers:
What is gratitude?'


Gratitude is the memory Of the
heart


What is hope?'


Hope is the blossom of happiness
What is the difference between hope
and desire?'


Desire is a tree in leaf hope is tree
in flower, and enjoyment is tree in
fruit.


What is eternity!


"A day without yesterday or to.mor-
mow-a line that has no end


What is timeT


A limo that has two cnds "a path
which begins in the cradle and ends in
tho grave


What is God,


'Thc necessary beng, the suu Of otcr =
Year: 1861

A letter from Petersburg, Virginia, to
the Schenectady Star, gives the follow.
ing delightful description of the manner
of preparing chewing tobacco in that re-
gion :-.-


Commence on the upper floor, which
is as dirty as d COW stable. In the cor
ncrs are large heaps of tobacco. AT
one end is large cauldron, into which
is put liquorice, rum and tonca bean.---
On one side of the room is large space
like n mortar bed, into which is put the
weed, to be sprinkled with the above dc.
coction Two or three darkies are stir.
ring up the tobacco with their feet. SC
that all portions may become equally
saturated.


After this operation il is dried upon
poles over head, until it is fit for work
ing in the room below.


'On the second story, tho leaf is di-
vested of its stem by numerous black
women and children. 1t is then in n
supple state made into rolls an inch or
two inches in diameter, and Of any re-
quired length.


'On the ground floor, the rolls arc
squeezed into plugs, and carefully pack
ed for transportation to the tobacco
loving people of the North. Some may
think part of this description highly
colored, but it is literally a true account
of what saw more than once; and il
what heard be true, the drugs and filth
are hardly halfportrayed


1T might be supposed that people here
do not chew, but this is not so; almost
everybody does, but then they chew the
clear leaf. And it is worthy of remark
that the hands engaged in these facto-
ries make no account of throwing their
spittle and t 'eir cuds into the heap for
a second mastication
Year: 1861

-


WILL BE OPENED AUGUST LIST, 1861


The undersigned having leased the above House
for term of years, and having had the same fitted
up with great and expense. would respectfully
announce to the citizens of Evansville and vicini
ty and the travelling public generally, that said
House is now in p most excellent condition in sv-
cry respect and iR every department.


1t is our intention to keep sSid house a first
class Hotel, and in such manner will give gem
eral satisfaction to all who may favor with their
patronage. 1u fact, such house as Evansville has
for many years stood greatly in need of, and we
respectfully solicit the patro mage OF all in
taking.


The American House is situated the bank OF
the river, at the corner af Water and Sycamore
Streets, opposite and convenient to the Steamboat
Landing The guests of the house favored with
a full view of eight ten miles of the beautiful
Ohio, and also with continual cool and refreshing
breeze from tie river during the summer months
These considerations render it by far the mo st
pleasant aud desirable location for a Hotel in the
city.


street watch will be kept day aud night for
passengers arriving OF departing by boats, and an
ON nibus will run to ana from the American to all
passenger trains On the E & @. Il. r.
Our rooms will at all times be kept clean and in
excellent order, and furnished with good and clean
( beds.


Our table will at all times be furnished Wteh the
best the market affords, and plenty of it, and We
shall use every exertion in power to render te
AMERICAN HOUSE home to all who may favor
with q call.


the wants of the public, to obtain lBrge portion
of the public patronage, of which we shall endsa-
vor to render ourselves worthy
/ W. II. BOICOURT, formerly Of City Hotel.
/ J. J. PILLSBURY, formerly OF steamer Masonic
Gem. july3O-tf
Year: 1861

The news of the passage Of the sequestration
law by the Confederate Congress. has fallen like
bomb-shell in the midst of the Yankees. 1t has
produced panic second only to that which hur-
rled their heroic sodiery from Bull Run. For
few days terror, perhaps, will completely para
lyze their energies, but they will bring the
whole battery of their cunning and ingenuity to
bear upon the act for the purpose of defeating it.
All sorts of attempts to evade the stringency of
the law will be made by that nation of slippery
eels with which at Already we hear
of attempts at fraudulent transfers of stocks and
other species of property. Fraudulent conveyan-
ces, false in date aud in fact, will be attempted by
our enemies.


Fortunately, the sequestration law is full and
complete in its provisions against these attempts.
1t imposes such penalties that few if any, Of such
attempts can prove successful. But we neverthe-
less caution the public against the thousand and
one efforts which will be made to protect the pro-
perty Of our enemies. We admonish all clerks,
bank officers, railroad officials and others, who
cOgniZant Of the existence of any and every species
Of Yankee property, real or personal, hold to
it until the Courts issue their sequestratng process
Concealment Of the knowledge Of the exis-
tence of such property is now crime which the
law most severely Furnishes All the Yankee pro-
perty at the South is a vast fund, of
which the losses of our people from Yankee rapne
and plage must be paid; and he who aids i'll the
withdrawal Of any~portlon Of this fund by helping
the Yankees to evade the provisions Of the seqIes
tration act, is traitor to the South.


No clerk or other official should not record any
transfer of Yankee real or personal property for
every transfer which is attempted since the passage
OF the sequestraton act the badges Of fraud,
whatever date the transfer may bear. Fraudulent
dates Will not save any portion OF the sequesratlon
fund, and the parties to all such attempts should
q ted n nd ut.1l 10 hIir-
dens of taxation upon the Southern people will
depend very much upon the extent Of the fumes
which may be accumulated by honest and
faithful enforcement Of the Sequestration law.
Year: 1861

Mr.. J. G. Miller, living near town, informs us
that in the Spring of 1859 he had three Yews
with lambs which he turned on grass lot. When
the lambs were ten weeks old he butehered them.
They netted him 1915 each. The Yews being in
good order in July of the same year, he butchered
two of them and found them to be with
lamb: the other dropped her young about the 1st
same Yew had two lambs. These were kept about
the house and yard until they grew large enough
to become mischevous. In the Spring of 1861,
after clipping them, MIR NJ butchered them. They
netted him Sl050, besides the wool, some four
pounds from each, The old Yew dropped lamb
in Feb. 1861, which at six months old weighed
so lbs; and another the lst of August following


Mr. Miller recites these facts for the purpose of
showing two thugs, viz: the rapidity with which
this kind of stock increases and the profits arising
from it. He assures that all the sheep here
spoken Of did not consume gallon of corn aud
that he fed them no dry provender Mr Miller
believes sheep to be the most profitable stock
farmer can raise, to his entire satisfaction. There
can be but one serious hndrance to general success
in this bmnch of husbandry, viz: the dogS, the
DOGs!-the mean and worthless ours and hounds
which run at large night and day to worry, kill
and devour the timd lambs Of the flock


AS one of the farmers Of the State, Mr. Miller
asks the protection of the Legislature against dogs
A heavy tax on them, exempting one for each
farmer, would be useful as a source of revenue
and a means of ridding the State of worthless
ours. We all feel the need of wool at time like
this especially; but unless something be done to
prevent the ravages of dogs there is no doubt we
shall ere long feel it much more seriously AS an
article of food, physicians unanimously testify
that mutton is for many preferable
to almost any other kind Of meat.-SaIisLuyy
Uufcb1n0n
Year: 1861

so lately struggling with such desperate fury, so
lately busy with his terrible efforts to defeat the
vengeance of the law, fell like lead through the
draw and hung, slightly oscllating, struggling,
violent human being no longer
Year: 1861

VEILs.-We frequently meet ladies on the
streets almost closely yelled as oriental.
There two good reasons why wells should not
be worn. In the first place they obscure the
charmg OF beautiful face; and in the next place
they are injurious to the sight. The ceaseless
vibration induces constant effort of the eye to
accommodate itself to the motion.
Year: 1861

has won for itself such a renown for the cure of
every variety Of Throat and Lung Complaint that
1t Is entirely unnecessary for us to recount the
evidence of its virtues, wherever it has been en-
ployed. AS It has long been in constant use
throughout this section, wo need not do more than
the people its quality is kept up to the best
1t ever has been, and that it may be relied on to
do for their relief all it has ever been found TO do