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Year: 1864

The following sensible remarks upon the
proper temperature of rooms, we cut from
the Gardiner Me.) Home JomuM We
would particularly call the attention OF
our lady readers to what the writer
says OF the insufficiency of female ap-
parel in winter-time. That ladies' should
absolutely wear thinner clothing from
head to foot in winter than men wear in
summer, is certainly an Irrational prac-
tice, an anomaly that requires correction.
With suitable quantity OF warm cloth
ing, there is no doubt the temperature OF
rooms could be reduced without inco1veni-
ence, and health, instead OF suffering as it
now does from vitiated air and sudden
change, be vastly benefited The eco
nomical aspect of the question IS also
worthy of consideration at this time As
it takes 2 double expenditure of fuel to
raise the speed of a steamer from twelve
TO fourteen miles an hour, so it takes dou-
ole also to raise the temperature of room,
IN cold weather, from G5 degrees 20 75:


TIE PROPER TEMPERATURE OF RooMs.-We
think, as genearl thing, in winter. nearly
every one keeps his rooms too warm The
other evening we We're in a neirhbor's house
and the good woman was sitting close bv the
stove. which We thought uncomtortablv warm.
i thermometer was hanging in the coolest
part OF the room. and we had the curiosity 10
look at it, and we found it standing az
eightv-siX degrees. Nor was this an eX-
treIne case. for we have seen in the same
house at 81. and Notwithstanding all we can
say about il we find it just about as had al
home. Now. why is it that people want theil
rooms in winter-when wood is 81 per cord
so much warmer than they can bear in sum.
mer when the sun warns them for nothing
The hottest day we had last summer. the ther-
mOmeter was down TO 81 in our office. and we
could hardly stand the heat.


We think the trouble is that we-ladies es.
Deciallv-dO not wear clothes enough and so
as soon as we step into the cold we get unduly
chilled. and then when we get where the fire
i. we have no more than is healthy 70 warm
Us up again. Do advise all to wear more
clothes and keep less fire. Don't allow voul
rooms to @et above 80. and ii YOU can beai
them down to -. 50 much the better. We
keep our office down TO that temperature
and work in our shirt sleeves. \ man. how
ever. i'll his shirt sleeves. has more clothe.
on than woman generally wear. Ii the weaker
(but together so far as standing exposure is
concerned) sex would wear more good warm
clothing. and shoes and have their clothing
more equally ditfu>cd over their whole system
We should have far healthier race of women
(and men too for the sins of the mother are
visited on the off>pring) than we now 90
Is not this question. ladies. one worth think.
ing of: and will it not be better. and cheaper
TOO 70 burn less wood. and take the money
thus saved and lay it out III wool? WIN you
pardon u. if we advise yOu to take more out
door eXercise-nO matter if il is cold W-ea. her;
wear more flannel and keep less fire.
Year: 1864

Correspondence Of the Louisville Journal.


NASHVILLE, January 1S.-News from the
front is that the army is shivering in
torpor. Fuel is so scarce in. the camps that
all the stumps in the valley have been
Clipped to the ground. A scythe would
not shave the grain from the field more
closely than the axes Of the soldiers have
shaved the vast forest in Chattanooga VAL
Icy. Wood could be procured near Mis-
sion Ridge, but we have actually no ami
Year: 1864

Minnesota:


Not only heroes but gentlemen. This is the
La Crosse verdict concerning the gallant Sec
ond Minnesota Regiment which came yesterday
and went to-day, en- route for a brief respite
from labor and danger. This remnant of q
brave and famous regiment of stalwart Mime
sotians has been purified by the terrible vista.
tions of war, and return home filled Justly with
the pride they so well know how to honor. and
are greeted along their route with the most
earnest cheers and good wishes. During their
too brief stop in this city no one heard q word
or saw an action not gentlemanly. God bless
them all.
Year: 1864

By,a, passenger who arrived here on
the Central railroad last night, from the
West, we learn Of one of the most fear
fal and heart rending affairs that has
ever occurred in this Sc -tion Of the
country, viz: that family of seven per.
soRs were frozen to death during the
cold weather on Friday last. About
thirty miles from the boundary line be-
tween Michigan and Indiana, in the lat
ter State, about midway between Cen
treyille and Crown Point, lived Ger
man, with his wife and FIVE children,
named ,Krutzer The oldest was boy
of seven years of age, the next boy of
kye, and three girls all of them less than
the boys, the youngest but an infant


The country where the family resided
is very rolling, and the snow had drifted
into the hollovs, making the roads al
most, if not wholly impossible for even
pedestrians "a
n The driver Of the stage coach coming
from Crown Point to Lake, via Cen
terville, found that Krutzer's dwelling
had been burned to the ground, It is sup
posFd the night previously, but none of
the family were to be, seen About d
mile further on however, he was horri-
led to find the father and two boys fro
zen to death The boys were in the faith
er's arms, and it is supposed that he had
fallen with them after having been so far
affected with the frost as not to be able
to proceed. The three corpses were
placed in the stage, but before it had
proceeded more than a quarter of mile
on its destination, the body of the Oldest
girl was found in a snow-drift, with
shawl wrapped closely around it, where
it had doubtless been deposited by its
weary mother, while yet alive, in the
hope that some chance traveller might
rescue it from an impending fate


This corpse, too, was placed in the
coach, and again it started Oil its way,
only to find, after travelling a short dis
tance, the lifeleSs remains OF the mother,
with the two youngest children. The
body of the mother was standing erect
in snow drift, with the children in her
arms, the youngest being at the breast.
The seven hfeless bodies were con-
veyed to CenterviIe by the driver of tho
stage, at which place they were decently
inferred BY the inhabitants.


This is certainly the most appalling
disaster that it has ever been our duty to
record, and the bare recital of the facts
could not fail to bring shudder even, to
a heart of stone. A whole family usher
ed into the presence of their Creator,
and none to tell the tale. Of their suffer
ings
Year: 1864

A Doc MAIL TRAIS.-The following
extract from letter from Pembina
shows how the malls transported from
that point to Grow Wing:


i should have written to you four days
ago, but the mail had to lay over one day
on account of the lameness of one of the
carrier dogs You will probably think
it strange that the great United States
mail should be delayed several days for
such cause; but, nevertheless, it was.
The mail is carried from here to Grow
Wing, distance of three hundred miles,
by dog trains, and if one set of dogs get
footsore when their turn comes, the mail
has to lie over. Tomorrow they say the
dogs will be right, and the mail will &c
forward. l saw the first dog mail train
leave here on last mail day. 1t consist
ed of three middle-sized dogs They had
regular harness, very fancifully orna
mented, and buckskin saddles, gor gsous
ly worked with beads The dogs arr
driven in tandem style. They go from
forty to fifty miles per day, the half
breed driver trotting behind most Of tn
way.-St. Paul MINI. Pioneer.
Year: 1864

Ba- The Nashville Press of Monday
says: We understand that our military
authorities have issued an order by which
every load of wood offered by its owner
at higher price than fifteen dollars per
cord shall be con6scated. This is a
most righteous order, and We hope to see
it enforced to the letter, the poor getting
all the wood confscated. During the
past week wood sold at from twenty to
forty dollars per cord-hence the justice
and necessity for this confscating Or
der" If man can't make money by
selling wood at SIS per cord, he ought
to sell out to somebody that can
Year: 1864

@ Mary, why did 5op hiss your hand to
Che gentleman opposite this tnorning?' said d
careful mother to her blooming daughter Of
sixteen. 'Why, the gentleman had the im.
pudence to throw q kiss clear across the
Street to me, and, OF course, I threw it back
Indignantly. You void not have rue sns
courage him BY keeping it, would your
Year: 1864

EDS. STATESMAN -


For the past six weeks the weather has
been beautiful most of the time and vegeta-
ton is much more forward than it was at
this time last year. Altogether, who have
had an open winter.


You have been misinformed in regard to
the amount of stock that has died in this
valley. "The casualties" have been con-
fined almost entirely to the Bovine species,
and very few of that class have died except
those that were turned out without any
reasonable hope of their recovery.


On the Goth of February the Democrats
Of this precinct held their primary meeting.
There was much enthusiasm manifested
The party turned out in procession with mu-
sic, banners, transparencies a2d appropriate
notices. 1t reminded looker-on OF those
good old times, when the Democracy went
forth to do battle at the polls with almost a
certainty of success. We hope for a return
OF those good old times, soon. One thing
is certain, the Democratic party is not dead,
and although we must admit there are some
radicals in the ranks, still at the present
day, we have no place to look for unadulter-
ated patriotism but among the ranks of this
time honored party


The emigration to the mines has COM
menced in earnest. AS high as one hun
dred persons a day have passed this place,
and "the cry is still they Gomez If the
travel continues at the present rate Califor-
MIA must become nearly depopulated the
present season.


There IS great probability of our having
before long a small sheet published in this
town-neutral in politics and devoted to the
interests Of the valley When the project
develops itself you can get all the news by
exchanges, and thus relieve


Yours, truly,


C0NsCRIPT.
Year: 1864

EDS. STATESMAN - notice in your last
issue an item in regard to supplying the city
with water from Mill creek 1 concur in
your ideas upon the subject, and know that
in case Of fire, water thus supplied would be
much more efficient than our Engine Ev-
cry house could have its hose attachment
and throw stream nearly as large as the
engine can. As party interested, l would
therefore recommend, for the consideration
of the fremen and the city fathers, the, sale
Of our engine and the construction Of water
works. If every man would furnish hose,
orpipe for his own building (Which they no
doubt would all do the works could be con
structed at cost of no more money than
we have paid for our engine.
Year: 1864

SANITARY BALn.-A proposition has
lately been made by some of the ladies of
our city, to get up Sanitary Ball. The
idea is good one; provided the Ball is got
ten up in such style that it will not take
all the proceeds to pay the expenses, as is
almost universally the case with public balls.
We would suggest to the ladies that in case
they proceed with their party (and we hope
they wil) that they dispense with the costly
supper which is falsely deemed by some
ball-goers an indispensable requisite to an
evenings enjoyment at dancing party
Make it @Calico party" or, to adopt the
fashionable name given them in the east, a
starvation party, so that the proceeds VIII
not be entirely swallowed up by those at
tending the ball, but kept for the benefit of
the sick and wounded soldiers, which is un-
dcrstOod to be the object Of the party
Year: 1864

THE TRAVEL TO BoIsE-Mr. A. Kyger,
who came in this week from BannOck, in
forms Us that the travel to Boise is already
immense On the road from Bannock to
Graud Ropde Valley, he met every day from
one hundred and fifty to two hundred per
sons. Mr. K. states that the emigration to
Florence two years ago was small in compar


son to that now going to Boise fHoT
Year: 1864

Lower referred, on two or three occasions,
(the last time on the scafold) to a letter he
had written, which he did not want opened
until after he should be cut down from the
gallows. After he was cut down the sher-
if took the letter from his pocket, and the
contents proved to be the most obscene and
revolving language that a depraved mind
could conjure up. t ISLANDER BY.
Year: 1864

AT the ratification meeting in Boston,
Hon. Charles Sumner said:


The voice of victory is now sounding
throughout the land-"Glory Halleluiah.' y
We are here to celebrate funeral and a
birth. Laughter The funeral that we
celebrate is that of the Democratic party.
which we now bury where it can never be
raised again. Applause Loathsoms
and putrid it has been nuisance while
above the ground, and we now hasten 10
bury it. Look at the conrSe of the Demo
cratic party. You can find no parallel to
its shame or its baseness as it day by day
renounced all obligations to the country.
Let the glad tilings go forth 10 all the
people, whether bond or free. to the angels
above and 10 the devils below; let it go
forth that from this time forward this Re-
public will live and >lavery shall die.


Hon. Edward Everett said
Nothing but the glorious success Of the
day could have drawn me from my home
this evening But could not remain at
home when heard that four thousand Of
my fellow citizens were here in Faneuil
Hall to exchange congratulations upon
this glorious success. had the honor to
address you two or three weeks since in
this hall. not without anxiety, about what
might be the result OF this election; but /
confess | did not expect you would pro-
nounce yourself with such uusnmi,y-
This election is the most important which
has ever heen decided by the American
people. We were called upon to decide
whether this Republic should remain an
example to the nations of the earth aud
prove that man is capable of elf-govern-
ment. or whether it should go down in
ruins. As far as depends upon you, that
question has been settled
Year: 1864

The citizens Of Michigan City have ia
ken hold OF the project oil making a bar
Dor at their place, with determination
and energy that ought to insure success.
A Joint stock company is to be formed for
the undertaking. The Louisville. New
Alabamv d Chicago Railroad Company
have subscribed one hundred thousand
dollars. the citizens have already raised
one hundred and eighty thousand dollars
and expect to increase it to two hundred
thousand and upwards. An application
will be made to the Legislature for State
aid, and in view of the great Importance
and value to the State of having good
port Of entry within its limits. we can
scarcely doubt ,hst the application will
prove successful The location of Michi-
gan City for harbor and pl ace of COM
mercial importance is excellent, aud 1t has
long been the desire of our citizens that
we should have such port. Congress has
been repeatedly applied to for aid, and
some appropriations were made; but they
were so small, and made at such intervals.
that the money was frittered away without
accomplishing the object sought. Now
that the work is to be undertaken by a
compspy feeling deep interest in its
accomplishment, we hope for more
successful result. and trust we shall yet
Zee commercial ci:y arise within our
own State. on the border of Lake Micbi-
gan. which will rival in importance many
OF the other lake cities. aud add TO the
commerce and prosperity OF the State and
aid in developing the resources of North
cru Indiana.-H. Uayne Sentinel.
Year: 1864

When Mary and 1 were married, We
were young and foolish, for we had moth
ing to be married with; but Mary was
delicate and though. could take care of
her best | knew | had a strong arm and
brave heart to depend upon.


We rented chamber and went to
housekeeping. We got together little
furniture-a table, bedstead, and dishes
but our money failed us before we got
the chairs. told Mary she must turn up
tub, for [ could not run in debt-no NO.


1t was not long before our rich neigh
Dor. Mrs. NJ, found us out. and sub
piled us-half-a-dozen chairs were added
to our stock They were old ones, to be
sure but answered just as well for u.s. 1
shall never forget the new face those chairs
put on our snug quarters--they never look
ed inst right before.


The ia bles are turned with Mrs. H
and me now--she has turned poor wild
owl But she shall never want for any
;hing-neverl 1 shall never forget those
old chairs.


All, now the secret is out. It was the
interest of the old chairs which maintain
ed the old widow. She was living on the
interest of little friendly act done years
before, and it sufiiced for herself and her
daughter. How beautiful it is to see how
God b'esses the operation of his great
moral law. "Love thy neis shbor," AMI
we should o.tner see it. should I'VE look
into the hidden paths of life. and find it is
net riches-not self interest-nor fame
that binds heart to heart. The simple
power OF friendly act can do no more
than they. 1t is these--the friendly acts.
the neighborly kindness. the christian
sympathy of one towards anothe:-whith
robs wealth of its power to curse, extract
the bitter sorrows, and open the well of
gladness to desolate homes. We do not
always see the golden links shining in
the chain of human events: but they are
there and happy is he who feels their gen.
tie but irresistible influence.
Year: 1864

Riches are no evidence of personal
worth. The Colchian ram had fleece of
gold, but he was probably very mean
mutton.


The great secret is to learn to bear with
each others failings; not to be blind to
them--that is either an impossibility or o
folly. ~


Do your duty. however dangerous.
Death comes 10 all. and the world does
not heed your bodily presence SO much as
it does your moral beroism. s-f
Year: 1864

Through late Northern papers We have the me-
lanchoy intelligence Of the death Of Colonel George
Patton Of wound received i'll the battle near Win
chester Oh the 10th ultimo. Colonel Patton was a
son of the late John Nj Patton of this city, and is
the second Of the family who has yielded his life in
this war for Southern independence. He was a
graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, but
adopted the profession of the law, and settled in
Kanawha county, where, as the partner of George
w. Summers, and by the application OF his own
brilliant intellect, he attained high position
at the bar. When the war broke out, however, he
among the first to offer his services to his coun
try. In arduous campaign i'll Western Virginia
he greatly distinguished himself, and was
badly wounded at the battle Of Scary. As
soon as he recovered he again took the field, and
was i'll command Of our forces at White Sulphur
Springs which defeated Averil in the summer of
1868. In many battles in which he was subse-
quently engaged lie proved his bravery and his
fitness to command. The South could i'll afford to
lose such man in a period like the present; but
he has left behind him an honorable name, and his
memory will be cherished 10y all who entertain
spect for courage, maniiness and high h-toneI CHI
yalry. Colonel Patton not probably more than
thirty wears Of age, but he had achieved reputa-
ton Of which many older officers might be proud,
Two Of his brothers are still in the service, both
holding the rank of colonel
Year: 1864

GONE TO THE FIFLD.-One hundred and ten pri-
soners confined i'll Castle Thunder were permitted,
at their request, to organize themselves into
company on Friday last and enter the field of opera
tiuns around the city. They were under the COM
mand of efficient officer, and went off to fight the
Yankees with hearty good will. According to the
conduct Of these men, the charges against them will
be mtigated, and rs the opportunity offers
they will be sent to their original commands.
Year: 1864

Special to The Evening Telegraph


WAsnIEGroN, December 29.-The mail steamer
Webster, from City Point, reports all quiet when
she left there Tuesday morning. The Rebels
have for some days been actively engaged in
throwing shells from their new battery before
Petersburg at our trains on the railroad from
City Point, but no damage has been done thus
far. At Dutch Gap they also spend considerable
powder in shelng our men, but with little effect.
The only serious casualty has been the wound
ing of Lieuenant-C Colonel Strong, 10th New York
Artillery, who was struck on the left foot by
piece Of shell, rendering amputation necessary.
The Webster ran aground at Upper Cedar Point
In the fog where she remained eight hours.
Year: 1864

bility to be robbed and insulted on the


high seas, without The ability 70 punish or


resentit.


Ifeverlthere was q cruel and q cause


less war on the one side, and Just and


holy one on the Otheer, this Is that waE.--


Yet we find bad men in our midst endeay-


oring TO paralyze the arm Of the soldier,


and the efforts ofthe people and the Pres


ident by representing this war as wicked


and unjust, prosecuted by wicked men, by


wicked means, and for wicked purposes


how sbamefnli how vilel-Why not rather


nerve the arm ofthe soldier in battle, and


ssOthe his dying moments with the con>


sciousne-s that he was fighting and dying


in a lust cause2 Why not leave his pa


rents. relatives and friends the consolation
and happiness this conviction would


bring7 Judging of others by myself, 1
confess if these bad men could convince
me that my four sons, now fighting the


battles of their country, were fighting in
a bad cause, IcOuld not sleep upon my
pillow, or offer up prayer to Heaven for
US spurn and spit upon such vile and vii
lainOus suggestions, and under the aspi-
rations ofa good cause rally TO the stand
ard of our beloved country, and strength
en- in every way in our power the hands
of our honest and excellent President in
his patriotic, untiring and GOd-inspired
efforts TO save the Union and bring this
war to q speedy and successful termina-
ton.


God is in this War-and who dare inn
peach His wisdom and goodness by sup
posing that having selected this mighty
continent, to plant upon it his chosen
and favored people, and to build up here,
as if by magic, great and free republic,
a beacon light of liberty TO illumine the
world, would now msdly destroy il, and
tear down forever this glorious work OF
his own hands, thus leaving the world to
the dominion Of darkness, desPotism and
will he not rather vindicate
and display his justice as we'll as his
goodness aud wisdom, in first Furnishing
by this war, our national sins, especially
the sin Of slavery, correcting our errors,
and restraining our tendencies TO stray
away from the path He set before us, and
then to perfect and carry out His great
original purpose by restoring our Gov
thus purified and improved, on
Surer and safer foundations and make 1t
what he at first intended it to be, the
great model republic, the home of the
free, the asylum Of the oppressed, the
star, the light to guide the footsteps OF
freedom and her followers, thrOughOut
the world, hencefOrth and forever.
Year: 1864

the Union causef 1t looks to me as though
8 rare opportunity was lost for compelling
either the Democracy Of the Loyal States
or the despOts Of Europe to fOrego further
manifestations Of sympathy with the reb-
els in their desperate struggle. may be
mistaken in this, but cannot in my con-
Vietion that every indication of desire on
our part to arrest bloodshed aud restore
amity tends to disabuse aud conciliate the
great perverted mass ofthose now fighting
70 divide and destroy their and our couu-
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