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Year: 1861

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FRIEND WALTON The First Regiment Of
Vermont troops left here at this morning, to
go on board transports at New York for Fort
Monroe, Va.


I regret to see that some false statements
have found their way into your columns in re-
laton to the delay of these troops, and the
understanding between the State and the
General Government, and most Of all, be-
cause such misrepresentation copied into
other papers, only serve to bring discreditup-
on the State.


So far from these troops being delayed by
any action Of the State officers, or there be-
ing any want Of understanding between the
Executive and the War Department, the fact.
are precisely the reverse and that ours First
Regiment is now en- route for the Scat Of War,
/ while other troops are remandcd or kept IN
rendezvous, the State is directly indebted to
the energetic efforts Of the Executive, whose
only fault in this matter seems TO have been
that he deemed it most important to secure an
order to move the troops at an early day, and
uHimportant to inform the sidewalk committee
Of his plan of operations in advance Of action


You were perhaps aware that no more
[ three months enlisted troops were to be recey
| ed, and hence the order to " keep the troop,
in their place of rendezvous = and only
through especial personal effort, overriding
all red tape, was the order secured for the
First Regiment to 90 forward.


do not write as "your own correspond
ent,' for enough has been said from RutlaDd
but it is t0icted just now to put our State an,
Executive in a false position and as fnoc
beyond a peradoeatare that SO Gar from on
hour having been wasted, the troops have ac
tually been /orcarded in advance of all posi-
biities, under any other than the precise eoprs
adopted by the Executive #
Year: 1861

WOULD LIKE TO BE LET ALONE


So would Catalnc have liked in former a.
ges, and Bristol Bill in modern days Ras-
cality Of all grades would be both pleasant
and profitable. if this only prayer of its de-
vout moods.-this all it asks could be
granted in consistence with the common veal
Secession would be like sailing with the wind,
or like swimming with the tde,-a waiting,
buoyant process altogether. If in answer to
JEFF Davis suggestive hint, it could be let
alone Instead Of that it must be made ac-
quainted with a rope $ end or spoken to with
the cannon's mouth-not left alone any more
than sparks among shavings or near a gum
powder magazine. The Inaugural Of Mr.. Da-
Wis is not 50 Illuminating as most productions
Of the Southe-s prese. ltia in stylo ard tope
fair, scholarly production, rather apologize
than boasting, Disgusting fear for the present,
but hopeful Of the dim future; calculated,
however, to lead his constituents into still
deeper dousiou, and false in premise as it is
in conclusion. He casts a gloahng eye over
the map, taking in with comprehensive gaze
all the border States which are as good as in
his grasp, while he revels over the rich fields
of conquest in the distant South. Coercion,
once deprecated and protested against, is now
considered out of the question; that a united
sentiment Of any force should exist anywhere
when the Union is dissolved by so many Sc
cession ordinances, does not appear to enter
into his head-nor that this Government /,
established on any base which win not mel
away suddenly before the volatile and stormy
elements which have been conjured up. Al
he asks therefore is, that no farther batterie'
be thrown up, and that the winds and waves
should be permitted to beat where they will
But there are many millions Of people in thes,
parts, who. without a dissenting voice, have
decided that this prayer cannot be allowed


that they will no longer stand still, but move
onward in solid column, and oppose theil
breasts to meet the shock, clearing up o
the atmos phere before long may be, We
hope, without rashness, safely predicted. if
while weakness is so conscious of its strength
strength is not deluded with the idea that i
has no points of weakness.
Year: 1861

We have heard it asserted that the people
Of the South feel conscious of the same right,
and that they are in the like position as their
forefathers in the days Of the revolution.
But if they feel so, it Is not so. Two cases
could not be more Numerically opposite
The Southern movement has not the moral
dignity of revolution. In the eyes Of all
christcndom it will be considered treason
and rebellion Of the most criminal kind. The
people of the American colonies were from
the mother country. They were permitted to
elect .heir own magistrates, and found no
hindrancc except f'ow e,savagc foe, in the en-
/ Ijoymeut Of those rec Institutions which they
mcnt, three thousand miles away, from whose
arbitrary policy they had fed into the wilder
ness. attempted to stretch long arm over
the ocean, and to tax them without represen-
tation, they rose as one man, while posterity
has confirmed the justice of the principle for
which they fought 1t was a revolution bas-
ed upon grounds the most holy Il did not
sweep men into its ranks by the force Of ter
rorsm, and violate the first principles of that
/ liberty for which it professed to contend 1t
was spontaneous pledge Of life. Ct fortune,
and Of sacred honor. 1t was not passionate
outburst, but a deep calm, earnest movement
Of irresistible power. 1t was not the off
spring of petty jealousy or ambition, Of a de-
sire to rule or ruin, but Of a determination to
maintain and hold what it had been already
possessed Of at so much sacrifice. The Mont
gomery Congress is composed of different
stuff 10 does not even represent the people
at home; and humane and advanced civiliza-
ton, the world throughout, look upon it with
contempt 1t has discarded the shallow pre-
texts on which it first met, aud relies solely
or the stupendous yillainy Of a plot. The
mask falls from the faces Of the conspirators
They hope not to produce better state o
things by success. They know that the bur
dens Of the people will be immensely aggra-
va,od by a change.


They have to complain Of no bad faith on
the part ofa government which they have
themselves SO long controlled. The eonsti.
tuition, by whatever hands administered, ha.
defended their rights. With more Ignorance
in their mid with fewer elements of mora
power or ofa healthy prosperity, they have
contriyed, owing to the course of politics, tc
monopoliLo the posts Of dignity and honor


and now they have inaugurated rebellion
not for liberty but for slavery, not for th'
greatest good OF the greatest number, bu
Year: 1861

We see by the kilograms that our Regiment
is at New York, on its way to Fort Monroe.
Less than three weeks ago this fine body of
men were engaged in their peaceful ayocations
without a thought Of war. Now they are five
hundred miles from their homes, ready to do
battle for their country and Government
That they will do some work for this end no
one acquainted with the material of our Green
Mountains can doubt They are a tough,
muscular, enduring set Of men, and will out
last almost any other troops in the field
To our impatience it has seemed a long time
that this regiment has been in starting. Now
that they are in the field, we are compelled to
acknowledge that no slight dispatch has been
used by the authorities of the State in their
enrolment, equipment, and mastering into
service. A cool aud dispassionate Judgment
will award great credit to the business capac-
ity OF the Governor, Adjutant and Quarter
Master Generals. 1t is not easy to create a
regiment in a week, and provide it with all
its furniture. Our officers have done well
let us be content. We wait now to hear from
our soldiers, confident that in every emergen'
cy they will do honor to the State.
Year: 1861

1t appears that the Secretary of the Interior
does not approve of the issuing OF bounty land
warrants to the volunteers engaged in the pres
ent war, on the ground that warrant for one
hundred and sixty acres to each volunteer would
absorb over one hundred millions of acres,
which would deprive the Government of ell in.
come from this source, and would afford but lit
tie benefit TO the volunteers. The warrants are
now sold in the market at about fifty cents per
acre, ard If this large additional quantity was
thrown in the market the prices would be re-
duced TO o mere nominal The bounty of the
Government, dispensed to the volunteers in this
form, would fail to realize to them the advan-
tages intended. All the best lands would fall
into the hands of speculatora, who would be en-
abled to purchase them at a nominal price and
sell them to settlers at full prices as fast as en-


igration TO the West would require them for
settlement. II additional compensation to the
volunteers, beyond the amount now authorized
by law, shall be deemed just and proper, the
Secretary suggests that It will be better, both
for the Government and volunteers, to make
auch compensation by direct appropriation Of
money, or Of Government securities This
would give them the full benefit of the appro-
pristions made, while the Government would,
by keeping the lands until they shall be de-


manded for settlement, realize their full
value. 'a'.''
Year: 1861

And testimonials, new, and almost without number
might be given from ladies and gentlemen In All grade
Of society, whose united testimony none could resist


that Prof. Woods Hair Restorative viii restore the bald
and gray and preserve the hair Of the youth 70
In all fta Youthful beauty. a- = y
Year: 1861

The secession had been contempla-
ted and threatened for some thirty
years past. 1t was defended by ar
guments as good as have usually
been advanced for national insurrec-
tions and if it was in opposition to
the dictates Of political wisdom, it
was in conformity with the passion
of human nature. The States of
the old American Union would per-
haps have been more prosperous at
home, and certainly more tosanida-
ble abroad, if they had remained uni
ted but the same may be said Of the
States Of all TIE empires which have
fallen to pieces. Union is strength
always everywhere, and the larger
the population that can be retained
under these conditions the .reaterwill
be the result. But it happens that
these considerations are not
allowed to prevail against in
huences of Il more immediate kind
The unision of Independence is more
attractive than the vision Of power.
The people of the Southern States
are only doing what the people Of a
hundred other States have dons be-
fore them. They may be short
sighted, but they are determined.
They may be mistaken, but they
know their own minds. They may
be wrong, bu, they are ten millions.
The Fcderalists themselves admit
the right Of insurrection, but deny
that instruction can be justified III
the present instance. That argu-
mcnt however, can never stand. 1t
is absurd to say that rebellion is a
sacred popular privilege, but that it
can only be exercised with. the as
sent of those against whom it would
be directed. The Emperor of Russia
might admit the doctrine as thus
stated. If people have right to
rebel against Governments, it must
be when they think fit, and not when
the Governments allow it.--London
Times.
Year: 1861

The following are the resolutions
adopted by the Southern Rights Con
vention of Kentucky, which met rs


Gently at Russellville:


Whereas, the majority Of the Leg
is'ature of Kentucky have violated
their most solemn pledges made be-
fore the election, and deceived and
betrayed the people have aban-
dosAed the position Of neutrality as
sulned By themselves and the people,
and invited into the State the organi-
lied armies of Lincoln; have abdi-
Gated the Government in favor OF the
military despotism which they have
placed around themselves, but can
not controle, and have abandoned
the duty of shielding the citizen
with their protection; have thrown
upon our people and the State the
horrors and ravases OF war, instead
Of attempting to preserve the peace,
and have voted men and money for
the war waged by the North for the
destruction Of our constitutional
rights; have violated the express
words of the Constitution by bor-
rowing five million Of dollars in mon
ey for the support of the war arrest
and Imprisonment OF our citizens,
and transferred the constitutional
prerosatives Of the Executive to q
military commission of partisans );
have seen the writ of habeas corpus
without an effect for its
preservation, and permitted our peo-
rle to be driven in exile from their
homes have subjected our proper
.ty to confscation, and our persons to
confinement in the penitentiary as
felons, because We may choose to
take part in a contest for civil liber-
tv and constitutional Government,
against sectional majority waging
war against the people and institu-
tions of fifteen Independent States Of
the old Federal Union: and have
done all these things deliberate
ly, against the warnings and vetoes
of the Governor, and tho solemn re-
OF the minority in the
Senate and House of Representa-
tives Therefore, be it


RESOLVED, That the unconstitu-
.ienal edicts of a factious majority Of
4 Legislature thus false to their
pledges, their honor, and their in
ercsts, are not law, and that such
Government is unworthy of the sup
,ort of brave and free people, and
We therefore denounce their uncon-
titutional acts and usurpations, and
id defiance both to the Federal and
state Governments.
Year: 1861

WOODEN MlTTENs An officer from West
Point, who commands one of the finest regi-
ments in the service, suggests that woolen
mittens for the soldiers will be greatly needed
when the cold weather begins Will not all
who can employ themselves in this way help
to furnish five hundred thousand pairs They
should be knit with one finger, to allow free
use OF the finger and thumb. 1t is said there
were more soldiers disabled in the Crimean
war from lrost-bitten fingers than from any
other one cause. Allnewspapers please copy
this
Year: 1861

More than one half the diseases of the human system
are caused from the Of impure breadstufs; and
saeratus and soda the essential properties for using
1t becomes doubly necessary TO be watchful Ierrck
Aliens Gold Medal saleratus is the only perfectly
healthy article to be relied npon. Try one paper and
you will be convinced that what say is true Never
use soda if you procure this article Go to your
grocer and get paper Depot liz Liberty street, New
N+a,I
Year: 1861

WORCESTER THEATER Next Monday
night great attraction will be offered to our
citizens. The beautiful dancer, Seuorta Gu.
bas, assisted by Sgnor Ximenes and full and
efficient support by ten ladies OF the corps de
ballet, now playing with great success at the
Boston Academy Of Music, will give per
t0rmance at our theater. The Boston critics
speak rapturously OF the lady, as possessing
both beauty OF appearance and briiliancy Of
execution. The entertainment will be blended
with petite comedy, which Mr.. Pauncefort
presents to US with such satisfaction. The
enterprise is deserving of full house
Year: 1861

We are tired of hearing the girls say they
have "no time" to read Nacaulay and Milton
when they will sit up half the night to find
out whether the hero of red pepper novel
gets knocked on the head, or escapes from
the shipwreck with his lady-love and hen
bandboXes, on a board four inches square


We are tired of hearing women complain
that their husbands don't care so much for
them as they used to, when it is nothing on
earth but the sour bread and burned ham at
the breakfast table, and slovenly personal ap
pearance of wives after they are married,
that causes their neglect


We are tired listening to the outcry of
"hard times" from business men, who wonder
where on earth the "money slips TO-" when
part OF it is leaking in at the top of their
head, through costly Panama hat, and part
shut up in Il cigar cage in their coat pockets,
and part going down their throats in a
brandy smash"


We are tired of seeing women box THEN
baby's ears for making such racket with
their trumpets and drums, and then set the
! neighhorhood's nerves on edges with piano
practice and throat splitting bravuras.
We are tired of the men who chew tobac-
co in your face, and pull out their pocket
knives to trim their nails, while they are
talking with you.


And, we are tired Of all old ladies who
dress in the style of sweet sixteen
Year: 1861

lsh-are perhaps entirel ly forgotten The
student, lost in lofty conjecture or wrapt
IN admiration Of the wonderful revelations
of the telescope, is apt to overlook the
mental drudgery necessary to enable the
mind to freely grasp the mighty questions
propounded for solution to the astronomer.
or even to make the simple calculations of
an almanac.


A knowledge of the higher departments
of algebra, and its application to geometry,
OF the integral calculus, and of the phe
nomena of optics, are necessary to him who
would emulate Newton or La Place, Mitch
ell or Loomis. He who would devote his
researches to chemistry, should first COM
prehend the relations of bodies to each
other, as revealed by natural philosophy.
He who would follow in the footsteps of
Button, Cuvier, or Owen, must first learn
the structure of his own body.


What we would more particularly urge
upon the young student is that he should
not suffer himself to be so dazzled by the
contemplation of the more beautiful fea-
lures of science as to become mere
drearler, always intending to begin study
in earnest, yet always deferring it. The
Italians have proverb-" Hell is paved
with good intentions, and he who would
achieve eminence must work while the day
lasts. a celebrated English jurist being
asked whether he thought there would be
opportunity for another lawyer in London,
replied, "There is always room enough up
stairs" There are many fields open to
the youth of our day. The science of or
ganic chemistry is almost in its infancy.
Many of the phenomena of acoustics, the
chemical laws governing light, the powers
and functions of magnetism and electrici-
ty and their relation to each other yet re-
main to be developed by research or veri-
fed by experiment He who is desirous
of adding his mite to what is already
known need not despair of finding objects
worthy of investigation, or of gratifying
his aspirations for distinction. "Therc is
always room up stairs"


G. F. d.
Year: 1861

he greatest cOnsternation was excited
IN the northern part Of the city last week.


by suicidal act Of nature more than or.
dlnary distressing. A young wife and
mother whose remarkable charms Of Der.
son and manner are within the recollection
OF large circle of acquaintance, in a fit
of temporary arrangement cut her throat
with razor, dying almost immediately.
She had been married about fifteen months.
and at the time of her death was residing
with her father and husband, (both De-
partmant clerks, on Tenth street, between
u and IL. On Thanksgiving eve she gave
birth TO child, since which time she has
been very i'll, at periods deliriaus, and had
threatened to put an end to her existence
so that 1t had been deemed advisable to
keep everything from her reach hy which
she could DO herself bodily injury Yes
terdy, about /! II. NJ, while the family
were at dinner, she managed to make her
way unobseryed to an upper room, where
she obtained q razor and drew it across her
throat with SO much determination Of nur-
pose as to put an almost immediate end to
her existence. Dotted on as she wae by her
husband ami parents, their distress may be
imagined. She was truly amiable woman,
and worthy member of the Church Of the
Ascension. Her marriage at this church
some fifteen months ago, with every cir
cumstance auspicious Of happy future,
was chronicled in the Star at the time, and
the announcement is doubtless in the mem
ory OF many of our readers Washington
Star.
Year: 1861

Fine Fellow-The man who advertises
in our paper, the man who never refuses to
lend you money, and the fellow who is
courting your sister.


Genteel People-Thc young lady who
reads romances in bed, the friend who is
always engaged when you call, and the cor
respondent who cannot find time to answer
your letters.


Unpopular Personages-A fat man in an
omnibus, a tall man in a crowd, and short
man on parade.


Timid People-A lover about to pop the
question, man who does not like to be
shot at, and steamboat company with a
cholera case on board


Dignifed Men-A cit in country town.
a midshipman on quarter deck, and school
committee on examination day.


Prosecuted People-Wo by that ty-
rant man, boys, by their parents and teach
ers, and all poor people by society at large.


Unhappy people-All old bachelors and
old maids.


Ambitious chap-The writer who pays
the magazines for inserting his communi-
cations, the politician who quits his party
because he cannot get into Office, and the
boy who expects to be President


Humble Persons-The husband who
does his wife's churning, the wife who
Year: 1861

An English journal says ;-' Perhaps no
more severe weather was ever experienced
on the Yorkshire moors than that which
prevailed during the past week. The
snow storms were continuous and heavy,
occasionally attended with thunder. and in
some of the valleys the drifts of snow are
twenty feet deep. All traffic was stopped,
and the partridges and grouse were driven
OFT the moors by scores, and were picked
up in the streets Of Nation half dead with
cold and hunger. Vast numbers of crows
and other birds are found dead. The
works on the Rosedale railway, now in
course of formation, have been entirely
suspended, and the laborers reduced to great
distress. Forty of these men were driven
from the works to seek shelter at the Esk-
hit Huts, on the bleak moors, where il
seems they were SHOWN over and could not
escape. Their continued absence caused a
search party to set off over the moors, and
by dint OF great labor passage was made
to the huts, where, on the door being omen.
ed, the poor fellows were found in a Verv
exhausted condition. They had been pris
oners for two days and nights, and had eat
en- their last provisions and used their last
fuel
Year: 1861

We know not beforehand when and how
or by what means We, or others, shall be
brought to death; by what road we must
go the way whence we shall not return.
what disease or what disaster will be the
door to put us into the house appointed for
all living.


We cannot describe what death is, how
the knot is united between the body and
soul, or how the spirit of man goes upwards,
10 be we know not how. With what
dreadful curiosity does the soul launch out
into the vast ocean Of eternity, and resign
itself to an untricd abyss Let us make it
sure that the gates Of Heaven shall open
to us on the other side of death, though
1t IS way we are to go but once.


We have no correspondence at all with
separate souls. nor any acquaintance with
their state; it is an unknown, undiscovered
reigon to which they are removed We can
neither hear from them nor send to them.
While We are here in a world of sense, we
speak of world of spirits as the blind do
of cOlors, aud as we move thither we shall
be amazed to find how much we have been
mistaken.
Year: 1861

One Drop at a Time.-IIave you ever
watched an icicle as it formed? You
noticed how it froze one drop at time un-
tll it was foot or more long. If the wa
ter was clean, the icicle remained clear, and
spal kled brightly in the sun but if the
water was but slightly muddy, the icicle
looked loul and its beauty was spoiled
just so our characters are forming. One
little thought or feeling at a time adds to
3 influence. IF each thought be pure
and right, the soul will be lovely, and will
sparkle with happiness bnt if impure and
wrong there will be final deformity and
Wretchedness.