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Year: 1861

The Pittsburgh Post, hitherto a violent par
tisau journal, in speaking Of those who
would place party above cOuntr5, says;


Symptoms ofthis condition ofieeling are
already visible IN Ohio to a considerable ex-
tent, and more or less in others of the North
ern States. The politicians are struggling
like death to maintain their accustomed
ascendency over the interests of the people.
It behOOves the people to watch them most
closely and to prevent In the North the crea-
tion Of two antagonistie parties, one (which
must of necessity oppose to the extent of its
power the onward progress of this war for
the Union It's in Che poWSrof the conser-
vative men of the North to crush out this
partisan spirit which betOkens 90 much
danger to the glorious cause of our country.
Year: 1861

SMOKING FoR EFFECT.-The following is
extrast from dIetfsr written BY an officer
who was in the battle Of Bull Run;


I did one thing for effect during the
heavy fre, which had Ahe best influence on
the men, when I tried them by Civ
Ing them orders, and that was the
little trick Of quietly smoking a cigar, while
The men were falling around me. l M ust
confess my coolness was rather forced, but
1t had the desired effect on the men, and l
was satisfied. q iHATgFHa
Year: 1861

The Columbus correspondent of the Mem.
phis appeal, in his letter of the 10th in
slant, says:


awe have had another engagement with
the gun-boats to-day, which resulted as usu
all in their retreat. The fight to day, how.
ever, was little more serious than the en-.
gagement at Hickman, and lasted much
longer Gen. JEFF. Thompson, of the Mis-
souri, brigade, had thrown his whole force
over the river on the Missouri side, and
had planted battery of four guns some six
miles above here. The enemy discovered
his position somehow, and made an attack
upon it, evidently with the design Of diver
ting his attention while they were busily
engaged in landing four thousand of theil
troops at point five or six miles above
him, to cut off reinforcements from US


Their scheme is a failure, however, SC
far, as the gallant 4th, commanded by Col
Nicely, and the 18th regiment, commanded
by Col. Douglas, together with the field
battery and large force of cavalry have
been ordered to cross the river Immediately J
and give General Thompson all the assis
tance he may require. Our force, in con
junction with Gen. Thompson's, will prove
more than match for all the Hessians they
may have, be that number small or great
If they remain until we reach them, you
may expect good report from US. As an
connected with the 4th regiment, I can give
you no further account until our regiment
returns, when I expect to give you full par
ticulars of the expedition.


Our army is already large and is rapidly
increasing every day. Not a train come:
in that is not freighted with soldiers, anc
the cry is "still they come" Where they
all come from is the question; yet the sup
ply seems far from being exhausted. LIE
them come, if they are all Of the same ma
tertal as those already here, aud the hou
of the Kangaroo despot is at hand; 7eIe
will be his fate and Upharsin his destiny
Year: 1861

GoD REIaNs-THE Masses IMPRESSED
WITH 1T.-The Banner Of Peace, a relig.
ious journal, contains the following truth.
full remark:


"Among the 6erceness Of human passion
and the demoralizations of war, there is, to
the careful student of events, striking fact
now exhibited throughout the South. New
er before, so far as we have observed, was
there SO general an impression on all classes
of men that there is just God, who rules
in the affairs of nations. There seems to
be prevailing public faith, national faith,
that God, who has sigually blessed them
with victory thus far, will ultimate this war
in the complete establishment of the ma
tiona1ity of the South, and with it the es-
tabishment of constitutional liberty, the
right of freemen to govern themselves, and
the right Of those free white men to govern
and direct Helpless, but useful, se:vile
population. The masses feel that they are
in the right, and that God will defend them.
Men feel this, and are overwhelmed with
the impression, who never perhaps before
recognized the dominion or oversight OF
God. When we have gained victory the
ascription of honor and power are given to
God by the acclaim of the multitude. The
secular press is unusually solemn and de.
vout in its tone. The Bible tells US that
sAll things shall work together for good to
them that love God 1t is not too much
for US to believe that this execrable war,
forced on US by usurpers, may not only
break their power, but humble and impress
the South in wonderful manner with the
power and goodness of God."
Year: 1861

A PLOT DISCOVERED We were inform.
ed yesterday that plot to oVerpower the
guard and break out of Liggon's tobacco
factory had been discovered on the part Of
the Yankee prisoners confined therein
The prisoners are kept separate-the Off
GERS being confined in the first story of the
building, and the men in the second and
third stories. 1t is said that the captain of


one of the New York volunteer regiments


contrived to make bis way among the men,


where his Establishments and representations
procured their assent to the "rising," which


was appointed to take place on Tuesday
night. 1t is further related that on the de-
tails being related to the occupants of the


first story, it was opposed, but unsuccessful
ly, when one of the officers, dreading the
issue of the attempt, divulged the leading
features of the plan, which led to the re.
moval of the chief conspirator to the county
Jail. The latter plead hard to be allowed
to remain with his comrades, even if IN
irons, but the indulgence was not allowed.
A large portion Of the Hessians now con-
Year: 1861

MAJOR GENERAL G. W. SMITH.-The
President has confirmed the important com.
mission of Major General upon Major G.
W. Smith, late superintendent of streets
for the city of New York. Gen. Smith is
a native of Kentucky, and was one of the
distinguished class of cadets that gradua.
ted at West Point in 1916. He graduated
at the head of bis class, and beat McClel'
Ian for the highest honors of the institution.
He went into the corps Of Engineers Of
the army, and in that capacity served
throughout the Mexican war, winning a
higher reputation in army circles than any
other officer of his grade in the service, and
was brevetted a major. By the universal
attestation of the old army, be is man Of
extraordinary abilities. Gen. Smith goes
up to Manassas this morning, and will take
command of the army heretofore command
ed by Gen. Joseph E. johnson, Gen
Beauregard retaining command of his own
Gen Johnston will assume general command
of the two columns. It may be safely said
that these three generals present an array
of talent and skill not to be equaled or
the continent. t.-Richmond Dispatch.
Year: 1861

But even if the story were not true, ii
must soon become so, for there is more than
one armed vessel fitting out in British ports,
and intended to be run under the British
flag till they have escaped the blockade and
landed their cargo. Then they will be.
come ships-of-war, no doubt: and cruise as
the Southern national fleet The English
Government. true to its neutral ground,
will not interfere to prevent the fitting out
of these vessels until its own interest be-
gins to suffer
Year: 1861

The London correspondent of the New
York Times writes (August 24) as follows


The news Of the battle of Bull Run fell
like spark of gunpowder among the se-
cession agents here, and startled them into
supernatural activity While our credit
sinks like lead, these busy hands are wri-
ting money articles forthe Times, and pump
ing their ideas into the brain of that jour-
nal's city oracle. They are in the markets
all over the country, bidding furiously a.
gainst our Government for arms, and, as
seems to be thought, not without success.
They have got money-ready money-ot
that there can be no doubt, though from
whom, and at what awful discount, do not
undertake even to guess. They are san
guine as ever Of recognition, and very likely
have their reasons for being so. Nor is all
this the worst.


Within the last few days it is rumored
that they have succeeded in equippiug and
sending off an armed steamer with cargo
of arms and ammunition for the Southern
States, which has been for some time past
quietly receiving its stores, under the d.
rection of Liverpool firm in the American
trade. Of the particulars of this affair |
am not informed but it is said, still fur
ther, that the British Government, when
called upon to prevent tie departure of the
vessel, declined to interfere-on what
grounds have not heard


If these stories are true, and whether
they are so or not, must soon be known, all
talk of the good will of this Government
towards US, and talk of the English press a.
bout our ingratitude, will receive quie-
tuS.
Year: 1861

sD The London Post says: It is we'll
at last that the cotton manufacturers have
got good fright They have been warned
year after year, of the folly Of trusting to
any one nation for supply. All remedies
in their power now were at their command
ten years since, yet they neglected them
Even still there is a hope that either by
compromise or conquest the civil war in A
merica will be ended so as to give US South
ern cotton yet a cheaper rate. But as day
after day closes in, the difficulties Of adjust
meut increase. These are building houses
on the sand while the floods are threatening.
That February next will see the end of our
American cotton, and that we are nearl ly ig-
norant Of the quantity We may expect to
reach US from other countries, are announce
ments sufficiently alarming.
Year: 1861

Of mutual interests. There may be misun-
derstandings, which will beget jealousies
but nations have lived beside each other be-
fore, and may do it again. The thing is GER
tainly not unprecedented and if there is
any thing in our nationality, or in our de-
mocracy, that renders the United States
unfit to inhabt the same continent with any
other nation, we had better get rid Of it as
soon as possible.


The idea of an infinite subdivision to take
place in case one division is permitted, is
simply an argument against the right of Se-
cession; and as such is proper enough; if
one State can secede, so can another. But
there is no reason to suppose that because
one division between the North aud the
South becomes inevitable, there will be 9TH
ers. 1t requires irrepressible conflicts to
force peoples apart who are Of the same
blood and origin; and of these, there is but
one upon this continent There is no gen.
eral tendency to disintegration-th North
with itself, or the South with ITSELF 1t is
probable that the Pacific Statesmen from
enmity, but for reasons Of convenience-will,
at no very distant day, ask to be permitted to
possess a separate nationality, and pursue, in
their own way, their own destiny and if
they should do so, their petition will be
granted: but that any other tendencies to
division will be developed, is not very pro-
bable.


Foreign writers, when they speak of US,
and the weakness we are to experience in
case of the division of our national territory,
forget the nsrrowness of their own. Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and Michigan contain as
much land as England, Scotlandand Ireland,
and greater capacity for the support of a
population. We have room for dozen ma
tions Of the size of some of the great powers
of Europe; and there is no reason why any
of them should not, in time, become as pow
erful
Year: 1861

LOUISVILLE, KY, October Sit is re-
ported that fifteen thousand Confederate
troops are between Green River and Nash
vile, and about regiment per day were ar
irving at Nashville from Southern points.


The Contederates claim TO have forty thou
sand men in Kentucky.


The rumor Of the capture of New Orleans
IS revived at Nashville, and details thereof
are said to have been received there.


Tomorrow mornings journal will contain
the correspondence between General Ander-
son and Haldeman, late editor OF the CIurier.
relative to the suspension of the Courier and
his exodus TO the Southern Confederacy.


Ex-Governor Helm has taken the oath Of
allegiance to the United States and returned
home.-


Green River bridge is mined and ready to
be blown up by the Oonfederates.


The pending Congressional elections en-
gross public attention throughout the Com
federacy. In five States only electoral tickets
for Presidential Electors are thus far put up.


1t is evident from the tone of the Southern
papers that the Rebel Army of the Potomac
will act strictly on the defensive.
Year: 1861

In statement in the Toledo Herald in re-
gard to the lake propellers, i would appear
that about twenty five million bushels OF
grain, and including sailing vessels at least
fifty million bushels have been carried east
ward this season. The total list of propellers
is between ninety and one hundred.
Year: 1861

THE REBEL ARMY CoNFEssEDLY WRETCHED.
We find in the Charleston Mercury this un-
willing confession of the deplorabe condition
of the rebel army on the Potomac;


The terrible sanitary condition of our army
on the Potomac is matter Of painful inter-
est to the whole people of the Confederate
States. There are few in the Confederate
States who have not near relatives at Ma
nassas or on the Mississippi. And those who
have not should he there themselves. The
.trighgW condition Of the camp is a subject Of
universal interest and alarm. In the spirit of
Spartan fortitude we are willing that our
troops should be sacrificed, if need be, in the
cause Of the country. But that they should
fall victims to the mismanagement of an in
efficient department is utterly unendurable.
1t is not our business to depose and reform ;
but it is our duty to expose that inefIcency
which is disastrous to the public welfare.
Ten thousand lives are now in jeopardy
through this folly. The fruits of the great
battle at Manassas have been sacrificed to this
almost criminal faulty. 1t is time to be
done with it. The country must be served,
and personal predictions on the part OF our
authorities must no longer control our desti-
MES and mar our proceedings. The state is
not 10 be sacrificed to fancies. How much
longer is favoritsm and folly to sacrifice
lives and obstruct our arms2 Mothers, faith
ers, widows. all cry aloud, and plead fol
those they love.
Year: 1861




Federal fort on Cheat Mountain;


The fort on Cheat Mountain is said to be
defense almost impreguable. Some of our
men, Colonel Rust among them, have ap-
preached it SO nearly as TO look over into it
and see all that was going on in it, and also
the exact nature of the fortification. 1t is
built on the summit Of Cheat Mountain, in
Randolph County just where the road crosses
upon hill which has no level land upon its
top, but suddenly descends on both sides.
The forest along the road at this point, as for
many miles of the adjacent country, consists
Of the white pine, which are tall and stand
close together, while the underground is al
most wholly mountain laurel, SO dense and
interlocked as to be almost impenetrable.
Here the enemy cleared several acres on each
side of the road. On the outer boundary
they placed the tall pines they had cut down,
partially trimmed and skinned, with their
tops outward, presenting to any one ap-
preaching a mass of sharp points raised to
considerable hight, and strongly interlocked.
Inside Of this they built wall of logs and
cut q deep ditch.


In the road they built up, in line with the
fortifcation, breastworks of great strength,
and mounted them with pivot guns while
in the center they erected q block-house
pierced and armed also with cannon. On the
east side from the fort to the Cheat River,
one mile and a quarter distant they cleared
the road for some distance on both sides, and
this can be all the way swept by the cannon.
The same is the case on the road westward
for some distance.


Recurring to the remarkable fort on Cheat
Mountain, while it is creditable to the inge-
nuity of the enemy, it induces very earnest
regret that we ourselves had not held that
position when we had it. But if it can not
be taken, of course it can and will be turned
General Lee has indeed already turned it;
but he had still some hope of taking it, which
we suppose this expedition will induce him
to abandon. 1t is defended by twelve hun
dred men, who are good with their protec-
ton against probably as many thousand. But
if our force march on beyond it, the position
is useless to the enemy, and will have to be
abandoned.
Year: 1861

destroy that proud Government, who's
formation she. with the aid of tories
and traitors, could not prevent in 70
We believe the conspiracy the most
damnable Of modern times, and will be
so proven to the world.


Well, if our theory is true, and Great
Britain is to take up the cause Of the
Seceders, let her come on. We are now
on war footing and in war mood
We whipped her and our traitors nearly
century ago, and we can do it again
One ball from British gun at the Stars
and Stripes, and millions of freemen
will be instantly in arms. just as soon
as John Bull puts his fingers into this
fight he will get them SO badly scorched,
that he will have to nurse them for
another century.
Year: 1861

Wool at Chicago.


1t is eyident that the farmers do not
desire to dispose Of their wool at the
present low prices. Cur wool, they say,
is an article we can keep with little or
no Inconvenience, and it will De just as
good after 4 while as now-priccs, they
say, will not get much lower. And, we
think, they are about right. If the
farmer can store his wool away, and
Withhold it from the market, we do not
think he will lose anything, and, per-
haps, may do better y sample of
about 600 lbs OF excellent WOO! was ex-
hibited on Change TO day, for which
SOC was asked. 1t was full three quart
ers blood and nicely washed, and ali that
was offered for it was 28c-at least
lG0l5c less than the same quality of
wool brought last year Another lot of
2,300 lbs. equally as good, held by a
large dealer, was bid on at the same fig
ure, but it Was refused In fact, there
have been no transactions Of any i'm
portance in this market this season.
Dealers are receiving daily small lots,
bIt no extensive operations have taken
pace. During the week shipments Of
wool have been made to the East for
the market there, but the holders are
not sanguine of realizing very large
fortune. Times.
Year: 1861

"WnAr's IN A NAME PA good deal,
especially if it is bad one, Eugene Sue,
in his "Mystcrics Of Paris" happened to
choose 4 very respectable street as the scene
of some of the worst and most revolving OF
all the crimes which abound in that book
The effect was prodigious. Rents fell f;
some of the best families moved to other
streets; and great was the grief of all the
habitucs that, for no fault of their own, their
own, their neighborhool was regarded as
little better than Infamous At last, how
ever, it occurred to some clever fellow to
have the name of the street changed. 1t
was done and presto, all was right again
The novelist WAS conquered, and the good
people were as respectable and jolly as ever


lyt5 What maintains one vice will bring
II t@c Children
Year: 1861

EgA wrctchcd editor who hasn't any
wife to take care of him, went the other night
to a ladies' fair. He says he saw there IAN
article which he fain would own, but it was
not for sale, declares that since that night
he is 'wrapturously wretched." AS the
article was bound in hoops, the reader is
left to infer that it was either girl or keg
of whiskey. They are both calculated to
make wretch "wrapturous.
Year: 1861

In the midst of national troubles that will
draw off from agricultural and other labors
more than half million of men, for the
military service, and at least one third more
as tcamsters, camp followers, &C.. economy
in the cultivation of crops must be considered
more than ever. In addition to this drain
age upon the usual force of the rural dis
tricts. The farmers and landowners will be
subjected to heavy expenses in the shape of
war taxes, for no war on such scale as that
in which We arc now engaged, can be carried
except at a vast expense of blood and treasure.
Heavy loans of money must be negotiated.
and, the annual interest on those loans will
have to be paid-or the nation must 60 into
bankruptcy.


In this state Of things. al word or two of
advice may not be inopportuno. To meet
the emergency of want of labor and incrcas-
ed taxes, our farmers and planters have but
one course to pursuc-thcy must decrease
the amount of land usually put under crop
and increase its product by system of high
culture. They must make one acre of land
yield as much as two formerly did, and so
make up the deficiency in farm labor. If
the crop from fifty acres can be made equal
to what the crop from one hundred acres
usually is, everybody knows that it will re-
quirc further hands to gather it, and thus
so much expense will be saved. This is not
theoretical view of the case it is the pro-
blcm that the English farmers had to solve
when the corn laws wcrc abolished, and
they were left to contend against foreign
competition and high taxes By subsoiling,
ditching, draining and high manuring, they
succeeded in overcoming the difficulty. BY
the application of scientific principles to ag-
riculturc, by the use of laborsaving ma
chimes, and by increasing the fertility of the
soil to its maximum, they draw the largest
possible crops from the smallest possible
amount Of land, and so save rent and taxes
and tho cost of extra labor 1t is example
pregnant with instruction. and it is one
which our people will now do we'll to follow.


With these preliminary remarks. we proceed
with the work for the month
Year: 1861

ES- Not an oath is uttered that does
not vibrate through all time in the wide
spreading current of sound; not prayer
is lisped but its record is STAMPED on the
law of Nature by the seal Of the AL
mighty's will.
Year: 1861

A farmer in Wi.consin had a son who
joined the sth Res simept of that State
without bis fathers consent. Several let
ters were written by the father to the sou
while the regiment were in quarters al
Camp Randall, for the purpose Of persua
ding bin to return. At last he wrote
bin that be must come-that he had a
large amount of tbreshipg to do-that be
could not afford to hire help, il it were to
te bad, which was hardly possible, owing
to the plumber of enlistments-aod that
be must return home and help him, even
if he enlisted again aiterward. The young
man replied:


DEAR FATHER: can't go home at
present | -hould be very glad to help
you, but Uncle Sam bas got mighty
sight bigger job of thresbiDg on hand
than you have, and In bound to see him
out Of the woods first"
Year: 1861

Mix quart of buck VI heat -four with q
pint of lukeWarm nilk. some prefer wa
ter; add teacupful of yeast, and set in a
warm place over night to rise. In the
morning, if sour, add teaspoonful of sal
eratus aud little salt Bake as grid
dles, and butter them hot These are
nice for breakfast, or with butter and su
gar for tea.
Year: 1861

Gen Seigel. it is said, worked at an
iron foundry in Cincinnati, when be first
cane TO this country, for FIVE dollars per
week. There is where be learned to work
in iron, which is now so well prscticed By
him.