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Year: 1861

We are Indebted to the Rev. DIR. Bellows for
a list which we publish in another place, of
graduates of West Point who are not now in
service. We do not know that the list was
prepared by the wish Of the Sanitary Board,
but it may very properly be regarded as sug-
gestion quite in accordance with the duties Of
that body. That ignorance is tho root Of all
(" evil" we most OF us learned at very early
age, and the events of Sunday, the Dist of July
dies ire have impressed it upon our ma
turer years in way not likely to be forgotten.
The fatal want at Bull Run was the want OF
officers. The men were brave enough, and 90
probably the officers would have been in their
places; but to the duty Of fighting was added
the duty Of knowing and directing, and under
that added responsibility which it was impossible
for them to discharge, they failed altogether.
Ignorance was not only their own disgrace, but
a terrible misfortune to the whole country, and
of the evil of that day it was the prolific root.
IL is true that the best of officers may not al
ways make good soldiers; but it is certain there
are no effective troops that are not well COM
manded. We have no fear of the fighting quail
ties of our Northern army. Bat they must have
officers on whose military knowledge, discretion,
and on that coolncss coming from confidence in
Oae's own competency to command, they caa
Year: 1861

The Committee who have been acting as judges
rpcn the question of National Hymn have re-
rorted that they received twelve hundred manu-
scripts, but that no one of them was considered
worthy of the prize They have, thereSre, re-
tired from their position.
Year: 1861

FUsIoN.-The leaders of the former Breck-
inridge party are making desperate efforts at
fusion. Some of the secession-sympathis-
ing State officers have, by spiritual vision,
seen the handwriting on the wall, and are
anxious to take refuge somewhere, from an
impending doom. Their ideas of honor and
"high-toned" gentleman!y bearing, do not
seem at all to conflict with the propriety of
drawing salaries, even though they profess
no admiration in common for the laws and
Constitution which they are SWORN to uphold,
nor the people by whom they are surrounded.


If the real Democracy, by whatever quail
flying adjective they may be known, or any
other party protesting respectability, can be
gulled by these office-seeking sharks, they
have far less brains than we gave them
credit for.
Year: 1861

"THE MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA."-The Union
men of the mountains will make good report of
themselves at the ballot-box, when the proper
time arrives, if the sea" will only do its part
in the contest. Nine-tenths of every mountain
town and community are for sustaining the Gov
ernment in repelling invasion by force, and pre-
serving the integrity of the UNION intact.
Year: 1861

It is folly for men of merit to think of
escaping censure, and a. weakness to be
affected with it. Fabius Maximus said, he
was a greater coward that was afraid of
feproacb, than he that fed from his en-
emies,
Year: 1861

"An attempt at coercion would precipitate
the question upon our people. Peace in our
own borders, peace between our sister States
the hope of adjustment the happiness aud
prosperity of all sections, forbid the applica-
tion Of force"


Das~ This is the language of Judge Lind
J ley's address to what was once known as the
} Breckenridge party, and was written before
1.-the attack on Fort Sumter. Wonder if the
honorable gentleman issof ithe same opinion
: still? Who broke the ''peace?" Who has
resorted to "coercion y Doubtless he would
say the Government did wrong In not NOV
ing the Fort away, to prevent it from being
attacked Secession Sytnpathsers have a
remarkable facility in the use of sophistcal
arguments.


EMBLEMATIc.-As an evidence of the bitter
hatred borne to the North by the traitors of
the Southern ConfeGeracy, we give the
following item, clipped from the New York
correspondent of the Bulletin:


A day or two since, when one of the mail
bags coming from the South by way of
Alexandria was empted in the courtyard
of the Postoffice, box fell out and broke
open-trom which two copperheads, one Al
and the other feet long, crawled out
The larger one was benumbed and easily
killed the other was very lively and venom
ous and was dispatched with some difficulty
and danger. What are we to think of "a
people who resort to such weapons Of
wv arfare?
Year: 1861

DEMANDS or THE SlcEsslOEIsTs.-T
Mobile Mercury, a leading organ Of the
rebels, of late date, makes the follow
log very moderate demands:


This war must 90 on. The South must
fight until the North sues Tor peace. Pass
a non intercourse act, aud then she will
soon begin to feel the ruinOus pressure OF
the war. We must dictate the terms OF
peace, the first article Of which should be
au acknowledge Of the right OF Seces-
sion. This is "A fundamental principle.
The next article should be that she pay,
to the uttermost farthing. the expenses OF
this war. The third is. that she pay for the
destruction Of all property. both public
and private, which she may appropriate
for her own use. The fourth is that, as an
evidence of her sincerity. she impeach and
remove from Office Abe Lincoln, indict and
hahg him for treason aud other crimes.
Year: 1861

MANY, since the great discovery Of Prof Wood, hays
attempted only initiate his restorative, but profess
70 have discovered something that would produce result
Identical: but they have come and gone, being carried
away by the wonderful results of Prof Woods prepara
ton and have been forced to leave the field to its ress!
less sway Read the following;
Year: 1861

"on my return, I visited Camp Lincoln, four
old camp,) to pay a visit to the graves of our
brave boys who fell at Vienna. / found the
third New Jersey regiment encamped here, the
boys Of which had built fence entwined with
evergreen around the graves Of our men, within
which they had built a mound finely sodded, on
the top Of which they had planted a beautiful
spruce tree, showing thereby the love they have
Union"
Year: 1861

"THE Pressure OF PUBLIC OPINIoN."-
When this broke out we had a very respecta-
bic and gcntcel colored barber here-Isham SWEET
by name-who was induced to give up his tonso-
rial operations here and accompany two Of our
Company officers to the war waiter, &c. After
about four months Of camp life he came home all
ing and declined to return to camp But soon he
called upon the lady of one of the officers to say
that he about to 90 back, and to ask her com
munds. ',Why, SWEET" said she, 81 understood
that you had tired Of camp life and had come
back to stay" $50 had, madam, was the re-
ply; ''and have made every effort to stay but the
pressure Of public opinion is too strong for me and
| am compelled to return to my duties in the
camp"


This IS pretty falr Illustration Of public opin-
ion in Fayetteville, which is not only thoroughly
depleted Of its young men capable Of bearing
arms, but even a respectable free man Of color
can't stay at home if well enough to go-F"yette-
rifle OJSerGer.
Year: 1861

The following lines were suggested by the pa
rlotic declaration Of young lady, that the great
st sacrifice she could make for her country wa
o consent for ali the men to go to the war an
herself to live an old maid
Not lover yet have I,
AT my feet to sit and sigh
For one smile
Yet they've said that I was fair,
And my cheeks like roses were,
All the while.
L have eyes OF melting blue,
And warmer heart and true


Ne'er Cupid taught.
SO L really can't divine
Why this taper hand of mine


Ne'er is sought.
Yet for song of every bird
Answering note is always heard
Far above
Though his face | never may see,
Well L know there's made for me
One to love.
If the truth must now be told,
| am growing rather old,


Waiting here;
And when next you gaze on me
Gone the roses all will be,


Much | fear.
In the happy days gone by,
i eli was heard the fierce war cry,
Sounding wide,
I did hope my love would come,
Taking me to heart and home,


Happy bride
Now, to meet the invading foe,
Eagerly I'd bid him go,


Flowers to take
Should he fall, resigned am L,
Maid to live, maiden die,


For his sake.
Year: 1861

CoFFEE.-We learn by the last Texas papers
that train from the Rio Grande recently brought
to San Antonio 800 sacks Of Coffee. It is thought
that brisk trade will spring up in that section
of country-cofee will be brought in and cotton
taken out to Mexico GEL ~ -~
Year: 1861

The Great Eastern has again reach
ed our shores. Her voyage was made
less than ten days. She brings the
pleasant intelligence that the English
journals are almost unanimous in their
sympathy WITH our Government in its
defense of the Constitution and the Union.
1t could hardly be otherwise.
Year: 1861

Gen. Gideon J. Pillow: l have iu,
received your messase, through Mr..
Sale. requesting me to serve as Chaplain
in your brigade in the Southern army;
and in the spirit Of HI dness in which
this request is made. but in all candor
| return for an answer, that when shall
have made up my mind TO go to hell,
will cut my throat and 60 direct. and not
travel round by way OF the Southern
nfederacy.
Year: 1861

a thirty two FOUNDER has also been
completed. which Can be driven by steam
upon the same principle.


An effort will be made to induce the
Government to patronize this new inven'
ton, and, il is said, MIR. Mcleod Muir
ply intends taking one for his regiment
IN. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
Year: 1861

We hear great deal, nowadays, about
the sacredness of party platforms. We
believe the Republican menbers of the
Legislature esteem the Chicago platform
revelation of more than human wisdom, in
its utterances on the negro question, but in
matters relating to the interests OF the white
people of Minnesota. they are not so regard
full of the pledges upon which they were
elected. We. have case in point. Will
the reader please compare, the following
resolution on the Railroad question, unani-
mously adopted by the Republican State
Convention which met in this city in
August last, with the declaration adopted
last week by the Republican members of
both branches of the Legislature:
Year: 1861

adopted By tho Republican


Legislature, February


1851.


Resolved, That the
construction of our
land grant Railroads
should not be delayed
nor made in any manner
dependent upon an at.
tempted settlement Of the
State Railroad Bonds.
but each question
should be considered
and determined upon
its own merits.
Year: 1861

STRANGE DISEASE IN CINCINNATL-A some
what strange disease of the skin is prevailing
in Cincinnati and vicinity, which, in som,
cases, bears a striking analogy to the small
pox, but is pronounced by the best physi-
clans not to be that disease, and to be only
slightly contagious, though in most instance.
it goes through family where it gets foot
hold In the worst cases, the whole surface
of the body becomes inhamed, and is little
less than mass of purifying sores The
complaint is preceded by fever and pain in
the head. The physicians pronounce the
malady to be a malignant form of the chicken
pox. No deaths have yet occurred from the
disease proper, but many have been serious
ly i'll, and there is considerable alarm felt
upon the subject. The disease is principally
confined to children, but number of grown
persons have been attacked
Year: 1861

BELLIGERENT YourH.-Ye esterday afternoon
the BOYS Of the Public School went out, after
school hours to the bank Of the slough, and
there two of them got to fighting one was
whipped when a third boy (not belonging
to the SCHOOL, came up and licked the victor.
Thereupon boy of about the same age -one
of the scholars--advonced to whale the in
truder whereupon the latter drew pistol
and his antagonist retired. This all occurred


among boys varying from l3 TO 10 years Of
Year: 1861

Revolution IN CALIToRNIA AND OREGON -
1t is positively stated, says the S. T. Mirror
that Government has received information o.
u serious plot to revolutionze California and
Oregon, with view to separating the States
of this coast from the confcderacy. The plot
it is said, duplicates Gen. johnson and other
well known officers, but to what extent il
has been carried we have no present means
Of ascertaining. We only know that there is
truth in the rumor and that the lighting of
the torch of civil war at the East, by dis
tracing the attention and crippling the re-
sources of the General Government, would
afford the revolutionists an opportunity of
making at least one attempt to carry their
designs.


buchanan Buchanan! beware of the day
When the country shall meet thee i'll battle array"


There is assuredly not hole in Wheatland
that you will not be glad enough to crawl
into, should Americans be driven by your
criminal negligence into that fratricidal strife
whish usually heralds the downfall of ma,
tions
Year: 1861

TnE profits of the London Times are de-
rived chiefly from the advertisements There
are in each issue about 600 lines, which at
moderate conjectural charge, must yield
considerably more than million of dollars a
year. To this must be added the profits of
the circulation. The entire annual earnings
of the paper, over all expenses, have been
stated TO exceed million and half
Year: 1861

ton correspondent of the New York Times
says that when the Star Of the West was fired
upon 10y the Morris Island battery, all the
negroes threw themselves fiat on the sand
and buried themselves in il
Year: 1861

BoNNETs.-The bonnets this season. says
the New York Herald, are more beautiful
than ever in form and arrangement, in the
style and disposition of the trimming, and in
those minute details which, though trihing
in themselves, go 50 far in making up per-
feet whole We never remember 30 have "as-
sisted at an opening in which the essential
element OF success was so apparent 1t SEEM
ed as if the eXigency of the times, the polit.
zeal and monetary crisis in which we are in
volved, and the necessity for asserting the
superiority Of New \ ork in matters of taste,
aud yindicating its claim to be considered
the Paris of the New World, had melted our
modistes TO do their speedy utmost" to
display all their resources of taste and in
yention, and to prove that, no matter how
things go, the Empire City will still be the
centre Of fashion and the capitol Of the
world of taste. We think that no motive
less lofty could have produced these exqui-
site little fabrics SO firm, yet SO light, SO sim
pie yet so distingue, that we saw Yesterday.
They must have been devised by busy brains
and compounded by ekllful fingers, for the
glory of New York and the subiugaton OF
all the Southern DANES and demoiselles that
wandered within eyeshot. May they have
been many.
Year: 1861

MATRIMONIAL Secession AND AN EXPLOSION.
A correspondent of the Yreka Journal, wri-
ting from Deadwood, in Sierra county, ae-
lates the following:


In the way of scandal we are well supplied
For instance, there is the case of MIR. and
Mrs. -, being a case of conugal secession.
rhe particulars are these, as near as | can re-
member: Mrs. - came on this river, (hu5.
band and child accompanying sometime be
tween the months of May and July. The
husband is a blacksmith, but a aohite man,
and 10y industry and economy, with the help
of his better half, contiived to support the
family until such time as a sewing machine
could be procured whercwth to provide for
future wants more easily. In short time
Madame found that she had no use for two
machines, so the husband was &c cut adrift. !"
But, being of a social temperament, she con
cluded to take in partner in the person of
one of the proprietOr5 of a rich quartz lead
Rumor says that they were as good as mar
ried, but not knowing this to be the truth,
shall not concur" BE that rs it may, they
lived as cosy as two whip-poor- Wills under
a bass wood log for some time, until the lady
came to the conclusion that he couId not sup
port the family, and having possession of the
goods and chattels which was formerly the
property of masculine No. l. told No. 2 to
" git" which he did, and got as drunk as an
amatuer polka dancer, and appeared in all
the agony of plug hat and three pound
watch seal. He is now under the care of the
medical fraternity undergoing repairs Last
night, understand, the amable lady was
slightly astonshed by a small earthquake
in the shape of a cotton ball about the size
of rock, stuffed with powder. The explo-
sion caused the glass to secede from the sash
and ciockery of various and sundry descrp-
liens to clash and rattle around, it also ruin
ed the appearance of a section of picket
fence but the richest part of the affair is yet
to come. This morning, one of the boys"
"a pretty good fellow, Gy the way), called on
the Madam she, thinking him to be one of
the perpetrators Of the cotton ball tragedy,
made dash at him with kettle of hot wa
ter, which caused the aforesaid hombre to
"vamose the ranch in double quick time.
Year: 1861

We publish in another place an Official no.
tice from Hon. j. 2. Hoge, Chairman of the
Democratic state Central Committee, sum
moning the members to meet in San Fran
cisco on the 7th of May for the consideration
Of very important questions The calling OF
the Committee together is Of course neces-
sary, in order to prepare for the coming cam
paign, although it would have done no par
ticular harm, perhaps, to have deferred the
meeting to later date The main question
10 be discussed by the Committee is, wheth-
or the Douglas forces shall join hands with
the Breckinridge organization. in order TO
make united contest against the Republi-
cans, or whether the Douglas party shall, 10y
virtue of its regularity, make its own terms
for the Democracy at large, and simply eX-
tend 10 those who like the platform an invi-
totion to stand upon it. 1t will probably
also be considered, whether it would not be
advisable, in view Of projected Pacific Re
public, or, in other words, in view Of seces-
sion in this state, TO prepare the way for n
grand Union party, whose great object
would be, of course, the perpetuaton of the
Union, and determination to resist aeces~
sion on this coast


These are certainly grave questions. II
the two wings Of the Democracy could
be joined on any fair basis, they would be
able to defeat the Republicans in the next
contest. But the differences have been so
broad and deep that it will be difficult to
I4armonize on any common principle Merely
to organize on vague, misty, general no
tlon Of peace, seems TO us ridiculous. We
think the wisest thing the Douglas party can
do Is 70 rely on its own principles make its
own tests, and put forth platform upon
which all Union loving men can stand Let
those who are true TO the Union take their
position on the said platform, and all those
who are not, stand aloof 1t is better to be
defeated than to sacrifice principle or to aflil-
late with men who might lead the country
into secession and revolution, similar to that
now existing in the Southern portion of the
Union.


BY the time the Committee meets, howey-
er, things will be pretty well determined in
the East, and we can act more advisedly than
now. 1t will shortly be known With Ger.
tainty, whether there is TO be a reconstruc-
ton Of the Government on a basis salsfac-
tory TO the Border States or an eternal sep
aration into two Conlederacics There is
great deal of sense, now, in mems waiting to
see what is going to transpire, and what the
future Of the country is TO be, before fully
making up their minds as TO what political
position they will take TASTY action at a
time like this, so fraught with vast and un-
counted consequences, will be regretted by
every intelligent and patriotic man who
plunges into it, Think before you leap
Pause before you take step which you will
be unable to recall.
Year: 1861

The sunset crimsons on the heights,
Flushing the cold snow with its kiss,
The crags are rich with yellow Light
am all lost in silent bliss,


Thinking of thee.
The red light pales along the range,
And glOoms to mournful violet,
The dying glow grows sad and strange
My eyes with some stray tears arc wet,


Thinking of thee.
Fall on her, tell her, dying glow,
How am dreaming of her here,
And kiss for me her snowy brow
Love, am weak with hope and fear,


Thinking of thee.
Year: 1861

D1% It is fact little known, that
for the first five years of our Govern
mcnt, the United States Senate always
sat in secret. The first time the doors
were opened for public discussion was
on the contest as to the right Of Albert
Gallatin to scat in tho United States
Senate.
Year: 1861

SACRIFICES REQUIRED BY THE WAR;
The war must be a long one, and will require
from us long sacrifices. 1t is well to face up to
the fact at once, that this generation is to be
compelled to frugality, and that luxurious ex-
penses upon trihes and superhuities must be
changed for the large and liberal costliness of
a noble cause. We are not to expect or hope
for a speedy return of what is called prosperity;
but we are great and abundantly prosperous,
il we succeed in extending and establishing the
principles which alone can give dignity and
value to national or individual life, and with
out which, material abundance, success in trade,
and increase of wealth are evidences rather of
the decline than of the progress of a state. We,
who have so long been eager in the pursuit and
accumulation of riches, are now to show more
generous energies in the free spending of our
means to gain the invaluable objects for which
we have gone to war. There is nothing dis
heartening in this prospect. Our people, ac-
customed as they have been during late years
TO the most lavish use of money, and to general
extravaganza in expense, have not yet lost the
tradition of the economies and thrift of earlier
times, and will not find it difficult to put them
once more into practice. The burden will not
fall upon any single class; and when each man,
whatever be his station in life, is called upon to
lower his scale of living, no one person will
find it too hard to do what all others are do
ing Atlantic Monthly.
Year: 1861

Tow LAFoNT, the we'll known negro min
strel met horrible death at Benecia on Thurs
day evening last In attempting to pass from
a steamboat to the wharf, he fell and was
crushed to a jelly betwixt the boat and the
wharf
Year: 1861

Yesterday a detachment from the First Penn,
sylvania Reserve Cavalry, went oat on scout
ing expedition beyond Drainsville, where they
were fired upon by party of rebels in am
BUSH One OF our surgeons was seriously, il
rot mortaly wounded, aud the horse of Col
Bayard was shot from under him. Elever
rebels were taken and brought to this city al
prisoners
Year: 1861

THE ENTIRE SPEECH OF
COLONE Ell COCHRANE
DELIVERED TO HIS REGIMENT,


AND A FULL ACCOUNT OF
The Grand Review
WILL APPEAR IN THE NEXT
EEKLY REP UBLIC AN.
WILL BIZ READY TO MORROW MORNING.