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Year: 1861




The Crisis and It's Duties,


DEAR NEws:-Now, since the war has
been started, 1 think the time has at
length come when it is proper for those
who really prize the Union to cease cry
ing peace and compromise, and to pre-.
pare for action.


The suspense has been so long and
terrible that the certainty of war makes
one breathe more freely, and now the
only practical question remaining is,
how to bring it to a speedy and success
ful termination,


have watched the progress of events
and my hopes arose with the prospect
of peace, and my spirits dropped when
war was in the ascendant, but now that
the sword has been uusheathed by trail
tors, l trust that patriots will not be the
first to return it to its seabbard.


In all probability upon the ro-ussem-
bling Of Congress there will be a gener.
al call for volunteers In the mean
time would it not be we'll to organize a
company of militia in each township Of
tho county, in conformity to the State
law upon the subject? Those who might
wish to join the Federal forces when op-
portunity offered, could thus be afforded
the means Of salutary discipline, and
those who might remain would be in
readiness to meet any emergency thai
might arise,


The contest so reluctantly and delib'
erately entered upon by the government
may become general, and rage upon Our
border or in our very midst-God only
knowsl It may be long and doubtful
obstinate and bloody. In any case il
is well to realize the very worst tina
may befal us. 'Eorewarned, forearm
ed"


Think not that the invasion Of our
Year: 1861

Our telegraphic advices from Charles
ton announce that Major Anderson aud
his fellow-oficers have left that port in
the steamer Isabel, for this city. Mrs
A. has been at the Brevoort House dur
ing the last few weeks.


Major Anderson will meet with q
hearty welcome in this city, as, indeed
he would in any part of the country. 1t
is very easy to say that he has done
nothing more than his duty, and he
would himself be the FIRST to say it.
But he has done it with a steadfast f.,
deity, and a degree Of wisdom aud dis
erection seldom surpassed in any service.
He has been the first of our officers to
bear the brunt of this great rebellion.
1t was a fearful and trying emergency,
but he has met it with the skill of a
good officer, and the loyalty of a true
Amerioan.-[N, Y Times
Year: 1861

II HE sTAR-sPANGLED BANNER.


The story connected with this cello.
bratod Poem by Francis Scott Key, is
we'll known, but will bear repetition:


A gentleman had left Baltimore with
a flag Of truce, for the purpose Of get.
ting released from the British feet a
friend of his, who had been captured at
Marlborough He went as far as the
mouth of the Pawtuxent, and was not
permitted to return lest the intended at
tack on Baltimore should be disclosed.
He was therefore brought up the bay to
the mouth Of the Patapsco, where the
flag vessel was kept under the guns Of
a frigate and he was compelled to wit
ness the bomburdmcnt of Fort McHen-
ry, which the Admiral had boastod he
would carry in few hours, and that the
city must fall. He watched the flag at
at the Fort through the whole day, with
an anxiety that can be better felt than
described, until the night prevented him
from seeing it. In the night he watch
ed the bomb-shells, and at early dawn
his eye was again greeted by the flag Of
his country;
Year: 1861

Even If there be war, the people of
the Southern Confederacy will have at
least one oonsolation-they cannot lose
their freedom, for they have none to
lose. They are living under a despot-
ism now, and they are in no sort Of
danger Of finding themselves under
more absolute one Lou. journal,
Year: 1861

The New York Herald, in noticing the
reception of the war news in the city
said:


"From the remarks of many of the
speakers it. very evident that a great
change has lately taken place in the
feelings of the community, who now
think that Abraham Lincoln should be
assisted with the whole force of the
North"


New York is the city which was ez.
pected to join the South or be ovorrun
with mobs.
Year: 1861

MOVEMENT IN THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES
The Santa Barbara Gazette says: 1t APP
pears to be the fixed determination of the
merchants, stOrekeepers, woOl-grOwers, etc,
TO form joint company for the purchase
of an ocean steamer to trade on the south
ern coast. They further propose to reduce
the price of freight and passage 10 such
figure as to defy opposition. They wisely
affirm, that the saving to them by the re-
duction of their freight bills will rapidly re-
pay them their subscription to the stock of
the company. That the low price of pas
sage will, as in every other part of the
world, greatly augment the amount of trav-
ell, and tend necessarily to settle this part
of the Stale. This movement is in the hands
Of energetic enterprising men. who study
their own interest at the same time that
they consult for public good"
Year: 1861

1t is most depressing and miserable work,
getting up at candlelight. 1t is impossible to
shave comfortably; it is impossible to have a
satisfactory bath it is impossible to find any
thing you want Sleep, says Sancho Panza,
covers a man all over like a mantle of comfort;
but rising before daylight envelopes the entire
being in petty misery. An indescribable vacui-
ty makes itself felt in the epigastric regions,
and leaden heaviness weighs upon heart and
spirits. 1t must be a considerable item in the
hard lot of domestic servants, to have TO get
up through all the winter months in the cold
dark house let us be thankful to them through
whose humble labors and self-denial we find the
cheerful fire blazing in the tidy breakfast parlor
when we find our way down stairs. That same
apartment looked cheerless enough when the
housemaid entered it two hours ago. 1t is said
when you are lying in bed of a morning, lazily
conscious of that circling amplitude of com
fort to hear the chilly cry of the poor sweep
outside; or the tread of the factory hands shiv-
ering by in their thin garments toward the great
cotton mill, glaring spectral out of its many
windows, but at least with a cozy suggestion o
warmth and light.


Think of the baker, too, who rose in the dark
of midnight that those hot rolls might appear
on your breakfast table and of the printer
intelligent, active, accurate to degree that youi
carless folks who put no points in your letters
have little idea of, whose labors have given you
that damp sheet which in little while will fee
so crisp and firm after it has been duly dried
and which will tell you all that is going on owe
all the world down to the opera which closed a
twelve, and the Parliamentary debate which wa
not over till half past four. 1t is good occa
sionnlly to rise at five on a December morning
that you may feel how much you are indebte'
to some who do so for your sake all the winte
through. No doubt they get accustomed to it
but so may you by doing it always. A grea
many people, living easy lives, have no idea G
the discomfort OF rising by candlelght. Prob
ably they hardly ever did IL when they did il


they had blazing fire and abundant light t
dress by; and even with these advantages
which essentially change the nature of the cr
terprise, they have not done it for very lont
-Recreatioas Of a Country PdrSon.
Year: 1861

Professor Marcel of Geneva, has lately ex-
amined series of meteorological observations
from 1900 to 1860, with reference to the inhu-
ence of the moon on the weather. He finds
that its influence on the rainfall may be regard
ed as nothing On the question of changes of
weather, he finds by calculation that the average
probability of change of weather on any day
is O.120, that the probability of a change of
weather on the day of full moon is 0.12l, and
O125; for the day after the full moon 0.143,
and for the day after the new moon O.14s.-
Both at new and full moon these changes have
been from foul to fair l60 times where they
have been from fair to foul II times. The Gel
ebrated rule of Marshal Bugeaud was this =
Eleven times out of twelve, the weather during
the whole moon follows the weather of the fifth
day of the moon if on the sixth day it remains
as it was on the fifth; and nine times out Of
twelve it follows the fourth day, if on the sixth
day it follows the fourth. Mr. Harrison has
long since shown the dissolving action Of tho
moon on the clouds.
Year: 1861

SALLY LUNN.-I am tempted to send my re-
cipe for this most delicious tea bread, which
once eaten at your table, will cause your friends
to rejoice when asked to come again.


Take stone pot, pour in one pint bowl of
sweet milk, half teacup of bakers or other
Yeast, one-quarter of pound of melted butter,
q little salt, and three beaten eggs. Mix in
about three pint bowls OF flour Let it stand
to Turk heads or other tin pans, in which Sally
should again rise up before being showed into
the oven, to be drought out" and presented to
your friends as the beauty and belle of the eve
ning.-Cor Country Gentleman.
Year: 1861

The Washington correspondent Of the Phila.
delphia Iaquirer says:


At recent dinner given by Gen. Mcclellan
be is said 10 have remarked to guest, that there
was no power on earth, neither that Of the press
or of politicians that should cause him to swerEe
IA hairs breadth from the policy which he had
adopted in relation 10 the present war Awaiting
himself Of all the military wisdom that is in the
possession Of the officers around him, together
with his own UIature experience, be has, 70 the
best Of his own ability, adopted plan of warfare
70 which he intends 10 adhere most rigi1ly.
Knowing, as be does, that the fate Of a nation j.
in his hands and that single bunder might
forever estrange him from the support and conf
dence Of the people, he has resolved to propose
and dispose Uf all the military power now at his
command aud to venture u blow only ~ the
time when, in his own mind, h- is convinced that
the exigencies Of the occasion demand that it
should be struck
Year: 1861

The following extract from the late ad-
mirable message Of President Lincoln, will
explain the manner ia which he proposes to
continue the war against the rebels:


at is now recommended that you give
the legal means for making this contest a
short and decisive one; that you place at
the control Of the government for the
work at least 100000 men and $400, GOO,
900. That number Of men is onc-tenth OF
th ose of proper ages, within tho regions
where, apparently, all are willing to engage;
and the sum is less than the twenty-third
part Of the money value owned by the men
who seem ready to devote the whole.


A debt Of six hundred millions OF dollars
now is less sum per head than was the
debt Of our revolution when We came out
Of that struggle; and the money value In
the conntry now bears even greater pro-
portion to what it was then than does the
population. Surely each man hasas strong
a motive now to preserve our Liberties as
each had then to establish them.


Alright result at this time will be worth
more to the world than ten times the men
and ten times the money. The evidence
reaching US from the country leaves no
doubt that the material for the work IS
abundant, and that it needs only the hand
Of the Executive to give it practical shape
and efficiency. Que Of the greatest per
plexities Of the government is to aTold re-
esiyiDg troops faster than it can provide tor
them. In a word, the people will serve
their government, if the government Itself
will do its part only iudifFerently well"
Year: 1861

Awake, arise, for liberty,


Uufurl your banners to the air
The God that made your fathers free


Will guard you with a jealous care.
The nation sounds the dread alarm
And shall our ensign trail in dust!
No, no, ye brave arm, freemen, arm,
Our strength is sure, our cause IS just
Awake, arise, search out the foe


And smite him quickly to the ground
The world and coming time shall know
That tyrants cannot here abound.
The tickle fruits Of Compromise


A vain and useless time have served;
Then brave the worst, awake, arise,


The Union "it must be preserved"
Awake. arise, no sluggard heart


Need join the hosts Of ireemen now
Earth's millionsinto being start


And leave the Office, loom and plough.
The nation sounds the dread alarm


And shall our ensign trail in dust ?
No, no, ye bravel arm, freemen arm,


Our strength is sure, our cause is JUST
Year: 1861

HEALTH OF THE ARMY.-Iti is somewhat
remarkable that Notwithstanding the hard
marching our men have had to undergo, and
the extremely hot weather Of the past few
days, the health of the Army is excellent
less sickness prevailing in the different
Regiments then has been known at almost
any former period of their service. This
pro7es that the Army is made up of the
right kind of material, and that in the dis
charge Of duty SO noble as that in which
they are now engaged, hardships and pri-
ations can be endured without finching.
Year: 1861

TIE ORpHAS FAR--A Fair for the benefit
OF the Protestant Orphan Asylum will be held
at Bryan Hall, on Wednesday, Thursday and
Fridsy Of next week So excellent IN object
should meet with the warm encouragement d
4ha
Year: 1861

GOAL OIL manufactured the kanawha
| ~ River, warranted equal to any Kerosene or
Coal Oil manufactured in New York, Boston or
Portland for sale by the bottle or less quantity as


low us it can be bought in any other city, thus
saving the freight ami exchange. A constant
supply, for sale BY HENRY COON & co.
loo
Year: 1861

The following description is relate'


by Anthony Sherman, gentleman O


ninety years. who had it from the ols


General himself. The darkest period o


the American revolution was in the yea


1777. when Washington. after dreadf fu


revcrses, retired to Valley Forge. to eu


camp during tho winter. Often did
see the tears of distress course down til,
checks Of the loved commander, wher
he reflected on the extreme suf'erings O
his brave soldiers. Washington had the
habit of praying to God for help and
prosperity. The assistance of Jehovah
alone he knew we'll would avail. A
certain day Washington spent by him
self alone in his chamber. when he
came be looked unusually pallid. Then
he related as follows:


GAS I sat this afternoon writing, and
my mind was deeply weighed down with
trouble, l discovered opposite me a most
beautiful female form. I was much
surprised. for I had given most persmp-
tory orders not to be disturbed by any
one. l could not, on the moment, fnd
words to inquire Of this unlocked for
visitor. Three or four times I inquired
without receiving an answer. She only
elevated her eyes little, now felt q
most extraordinary sensation through.
out my whole body. Iwould have risen
up. but the staring Of my mysterious
visitor made me displeased with her. 1
attempted again to address her, but my
tongue was tied. A certain unknown,
irresistible power overpow-
cred me. I was unable to do anything
more than to stare at the apparition.-
By degrees the room became filed with
q remarkable light; the image herself
became luminous and bright. I now
had the feeling Of dying person. I
could not think, reflect or move. I am
only conscious of this fact that looked
sternly on the vision. Here heard the
voice saying, Son of the Republic look
and learn, at the same time the figure
Year: 1861

Pooh! q scratch. And question
of etiquette, too! You must fight it
out -.r.


So the officers had to fight gain, and
one of them received wound that kept
him confined three weeks to his bed
In the interval, several others applied
for permission to fight, but the duke
would not grant it; they must wait,
he said, till the first quarrel was settled


One day he met the wounded officer
taking fresh air. and leaning on the arm
Of friend.


'WhatP be said, 'on foot again p
Capitall Tomorrow you can fight a.
gain. and let this affair be finished with


The two officers met again, and both
fell dead. The duke then summoned j
before him those who had requested por-
mission to fight, and he said he would
grant them their wish, bu. it must be
to only two at time, and in each case
he was determined to see the quarrel
settled as in the instance that bad lust
occurred. The lesson had its effect
The duke received no more requests for
permission to fight.
Year: 1861

by EMILY D. CARROLL.
All honor to the hero brave


Who nobly battles for the right,
Who mid the fathless faithful stands,
A star amid the gathering night.
When through our fair and fertile land
R"ged fierce and loud disunions cry,
Unmoved, and firm the patriot stood,
Resolved to guard our flag or die
The land for which our fathers died,
The flag for which they nobly fought,
Shall traitors rend that flag in twain
That by such precious blood was bought?
Up ! patriots, up! your country calls
And will ye idly list the cry
Up up! and guard your native land,
Or iu her battles bravely die.
And honor ye the loyal heart,
The noble, true, and manly hand
OF him who stands unmoved and firm,
Resolved to guard his native land.


- in after days they tell


9ost in the fight,
- @pIoRS he kent
AS one who battles for the right
Year: 1861

this Republic the second is the great
est When this is overcome, then the
whole world cannot conquer it. Now
let every citizen of this Republic learn
to serve God, his fatherland and the
blessed Union With these words the
image disappeared. I arose from my
chair with the full conviction that this
was a revelation to me of the birth of
this Republic, its progress and its va
ried destinies


All this history, says Mr.. Sherman, I
myself heard from the mouth of General
Washin gton.-Lancaster (Ohio) Ga
zettc,
Year: 1861

Among the decorated envelopes which
have sprung up in such great variety
since the attack of the insurrectionists
upon Fort Sumter, is one which is adorn-
ed with the first secessionist. The dark
color of the figure might cause it to be
taken, by a casual observer, for the
likeness of some negro who had seeded
from the field gang of Southern mas :
ter. But a closer inspection discovers
the horns, the vast bat like wings, the
barb-pointed tail and the cloven foot,
which medieval Imagination assigned to
the arch enemy of mankind. It is in
verify Sathanis himself and never was
there truer designation of him. He
it was who first rebelled against the be-
nefcent rule of right, because it re-
strained his evil will and repressed his
bad ambition. He it was who first
plotted and conspired, and drew the third
part of heaven after him his motive be-
ing merely that disappointment which
one of his distinguished emulators on
this planet and in these times with ex-
quisite simplicity and candor, owned was
at the bottom of The secession insurrec-
tion The secessionists prate of sfree
dom ) but the sort of freedom for which
they have de6ed the Constitution and
the Government is just that freedom
which he sought when he vainly rose
against the Omnipotent. This Milton
saw. sturdy republican though he was,
and so he makes the fallen cherub'
say. when be first shows him prone upon
the flaming floor of He'll


"Here at least


We shall be free; tho Almighty hath not


built


Here for his envy; will not drive us hence
Here we may reign secure +; and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven"


This is the very spirit of secession.
The Union and its Government have
been benefcencc itself to the South
They have given it the very strength
that now makes them formidable But
in this beneficent Union they last Au-
tumn ceased to rule; and therefore it is
that they now rebel against it, and seek
:. - destroy it, that they may make po-
'l'lcai heI' in which they may be su-
preme' If they sould go alone. they
might we'll be left to their own destruc.
lion, but like their prototype, they seek
'y their lying arts to draw the third
part of the heaven they would leave
after them.
This is no fauciful resemblance. The |
'reat philosophical critic of modern Eng.
ish literature, Coleridge saw it. lie
ays, in one of his criticisms upon the
Paradise Lost, The character of Sa.
an is pride and sensual indulgence find
ng in itself the sole motive of action
{ as the character so ofien seen in lite
pom tile political STAGE


Milton has marked in his Satan the
,tense selfshness, the alcohol of ego
SIN, which would rather reign in hell
ian serve in heaven 1t is the alcohol



egotism in the leaders at the South ,
'mbined with another sort of alcohol
the led, that has made Sc secession de- q
rable and in measure possible to .
EN-. There is no holier, wiser motive
this insurrection, which is a feeble
itation of that great one instigated by
he first secessionist. ~ Y. World. -
Year: 1861

A worthy minister of Cleveland a day
or two since. handed q revolver to o
captain of one of the city companies,
with the following remark


"lf you meet secessionist and have
time, pray for the unfortunate mans
soul but if you haven't time for pray
ing, don't fail TO shoot him I"
Year: 1861

How man feels when in battle is o


question that our volunteers have doubt


less frequently asked themselves. We


recently stumbled upon volunteer on


furlough, who first smelt powder a. Bull


Run. During an hours chat with him


he gave US very good general idea of


the way in which man feels when under


an enemy's gun. Our friend didn't


claim to be especially courageous. He


placed due value upon the integrity Of
the American eagle, but enlisted mainly


because he had no other employment st


the time. He did camp duty faithfully,
and endured the hardships of long


marches without any special grumbling.
That he dreaded to confront the enemy
he freely admits.


While willing at any tine to kick .
bigger man than himself under justif-
able provocation, he disliked the idea of
the sudden sensation impaired by bayo.
net thrust in the abdomen, while only
second to this was his horror of being
cut down with rifle ball like an unsus-
pecting squirrel. When his regiment
was drawn up in line, he admits his
teeth chartered and his knee pans rat
tied like q pot-closet in q hurricane.
Many of his comrades were similarly
affected, and some of them would have
laid down had they dared to do 80.
When the first volley had been inter-
changed, our friend informs us, every
trace of these feelings passed away from
him. A reaction took place and he be.
came almost savage from excitement.


Balls whistled all about him, and 9
cannon ball but in half companion at
his side. Another was struck by some
explosive that spattered the brains over
the clothes Of our informant, but, 90
far from intimidating, all these things
nerved up his resolution. The hitherto
quaking civilian in half an hour became
a veteran.


His record shows that he bayoneted
two of his rebel enemies and discharged
eight rounds of his piece with as decisive
an aim as though he had selected q tur..
key for his mark. Could the entire line
of an army como at the same time into
ho says there would be no run.
ming except after hopeless defeat.


The men who played the runaway At
Bull Run were men who had not partici-
pated in the action to any extent and
who became panic stricken where, if
once smelling powder in the manner
above described, they would have been
sbundantly victorious. In the roar Of
musketry and the laundering discharge
Of artillery there is music that banishes
even innate cowardice. The sight OF
men struggling together. tho clash Of
'abres. the tramp Of cavalry, the n
stained grass of the battle -fiela-., sof0


-,z.,z.-sss.s - and the
coming charge of the enemy dimly visi.
'Ie through the battle smoke all these.
ays our informant. dispcl every partiol.
+ fear, and the veriest coward in tho
anks perhaps becomes the most tiger
Ike. At the battle of Bull Run the
haplain of ono of the regiments, = man
t small stature and delicate frame, per.
'nally cut down two six feet arenadier,
single combat.


If these things are so-and we incline
think they re-the best cure for COW.
dice is to crowd man into fight and
'ere keep him. The fugltives from Bull
un were men who imbibed panic before
could have reached them. .-Phiad.l.
h. North american.