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Year: 1863

FAcrs FOR FARNERs.-Ii you invest your
money in tools, and then leave them exposed
TO the weather, it is the same rs lending
money to spcndthriit without security
dead loss in both cases.


IT YOU invest your money in fine stock and
do not feed and protect them. it is the same
as dressing your wife in silk to do kitchen
work.


Ir YOU invest your money in choice fruits
AMI do not guard aud give them chance to
.rnw and pruye their value. it is the same
as pnttinc y good hand INTO a field with poor
tools to work with.


II You invest your money in good farm
and do not cultivate it we'll, IL is the same
as marrying u good wife and 50 abusing and
cnslavins her as to crush her energies and
break her heart.


n YOU invest your money in strong drink
Il i Tho same as turning hungry hogs into a
growing corniicld-ruin will follow in both
cascs
Year: 1863

BIG Pas AND PuurSlNs,-To have b,s
peas or other fruit, ut work on the stalks
that bears them the point OF an adjoin''ns
shoot then you shall sec what you shall see
81 saysa French amateur enthusiastically ~
the irnit line. II You want big pumk'ns
aud sIuashes, just bore little gimlet hole
in their Tind when the fruit is few days
old, and push in 4 long piece of cotton with
tho loose end in a pan Of water. Tho cot
ton will suck up the water, the pumpkin
will suck the cotton, and bv the time YOUR
fruit is ripe you viii have the largest pump.
kin that ever was seen.
Year: 1863

ing going the rouhdS Oh tno freSS. Itn
simple remedy and is easily tried:


Break upa small lump OF ice in towel.
and put the pieces in q bowl. Take position
slightly inclined backwards, either in chair
or on sofa. Proceed for halfan hour with
n tea spoon to feed yourself with small humps
Of leo, letting them dissolve slowly in tho
back part Of tho mouth or tho entrance Of
tho throat. A single such application will
often break up n common sore throat, which
otherwise would have course OF two or
three days. In case Of o bad soro throat.
use the leo frequently and freely. In case OF
liberation or diptheria keep a small lump
of leo constantly in the mouth.
Year: 1863

Tile bill for enlisting 15o,oo negroes
into the army has been passed by the House
of Representatives, and will pass the Senate
and will be found in to.day's Wing. The
long debated question whether negroes will
make soldiers we suppose will now be set


tied, by trying them against rebels. Our
soldiers say that they have seen negroes
among the rebels firing at them. We think
it very logical conclusion, that if the
rebels can fight them against us we can
fight them against the rebels, but where
there is difference of opinion the only
mode to convince all parties is fair trial.
If the negroes prove to be good soldiers as
all history records them, their employment
against the rebels will save the lives of
many white men in the Union ranks, and
go far towards Undermining the ground.
work of the great rebel structure, by using
Its supports against it. The sensibilites Of
the treason sympsthizers have always been
very much shocked at The prospect Of arm,
Year: 1863




notice in the" Whig' last week of the Hol-
lingsworth mansion in Elkton having been
the stopping place Of General Washington
in Revolutionary times, recalled the follow
ing anecdote OF that great man, which the
writer had from an old citizen of the county !:
1t was shortly after the war, and having
learned that General Washington would stop
ut Eikton, he went to the public house above
referred to, and saw the General arrive
When the stage stopped opposite the door,
the proprietor spread carpet from the
door to the stage for the General to walk
on, but Washington on alighting from the
Stage, threw the carpet aside with the point
of his cane, and on the naked ground re-
celved the congratulations Of his country
men.
Year: 1863

CPECTAL NOTICB.-THR ATTENTION OF CAPITAL
y lists, who wish make money In legitimate business
Is solicited for the examination OF the greatest improve
men for one q ne most n
per month be made every dollar invested.
whether the capital be large or email The great advan


this important discovery H. portions Of II can
one day and ready f9r market the nett
can made Of its extensive SALE as every human being


consumer Mono but those who mean busuess and have
capta need call The manufacturing process Will
be fairly shown all who call which be done In less
than thirty moutes -. .....
Year: 1863




INAUGURAL ADDRESS, MARCH, T. 1902


1t is proper you should understand what deem
the essential principles of our government, and
consequently those who ought to shape its admin
istration. 1 will compress them within the mar
row compass they will bear-stating the general
principle, but not its limitations:


Equal and exact justice to all men of whatever
State or persuasion, religions or political.


Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all
nations, entangling alliance with none.


The support of the State Governments in all
their rights, as the most important administrations
of our domestic concerns and surest bulwark
against all anti-republican tendencies


The preservation of the General Govern
ment in its whole constitutional vigor, as the
sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety
abroad


A jealous care of the right of election by the
people, mild and safe correction of revolution
where peaceable remedies are unprovded.


Absolute acquiescence in the decision of the
majority, the vital principle of republics, from
which there is no appeal but to form the vital
principle and immediate parent despotism.


A well dciplined militia, our best reliance in
peace and for the first moments of war, till regu-
lars may relieve them.


The supremacy of the civil over military au-
thOrity


Economy in the public expenses, that labor may
be lightly burdened.


The honest payment of our debts and sacred
preservation of the public faith.


Encouragement of agriculture, and of COM
merce as its handmade.


The diffusion of information, and arraignment
of all abuses at the bar of public reason.


Freedom of religion, freedom of the press and
freedom of person, under the protection of the
habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartally Sc
lected.


These principles form the bright constellation
which has gone before us and guided our steps
through an age of revolution and reformation
The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes
have been devoted to their attainment. They
should be the creed of our political faith, the
text of civil instruction, the touchstone by which
to try the services of those we trust and should
we wander from them in moments of error or
alarm let us hasten to retrace our steps, and to
regain the road which alone leads to peace, liber
ty and safety.


GLAD OF THE CHANCE editor Of the
Saratoga Republican tells the following at his
own expense; Yesterday, wishing like others,
to evince our patriotism, we informed the six
compositors in our Office that if they would en-
list we would pay them half wages while they
were gone to the war. They replied THAT is
more tLan we ever had BEFORE" and the whole
crowd enlisted That's what's the matter.
Year: 1863

Twas the solemn hour when the midnight bell
Tolls deep on the startled air
And the brave soul as it lists to the knel,
Is moved with the pulse of prayer
And strange form swept with hurrying fight
And a noiseless pinion by;
His wings were tipped with glimmering light
The rest was Of midnight dye.
Then 1 sought my futtering heart to still,
And my bloodless lips to part
And to wake from the soul benumbing chill,
Ere the vision should depart.
Butmy faint words died on the air away
As the breath of the wavering tree;
And the warm blood ceased in my heart to play,
AS he answered, " Come with me /"
Then he swept with the leecy clouds on high,
And over the ocean foam,
For a span to him was the boundless sky,
And the wide earth was his home.
And we traversed the depths of the palace hall
To the room where the monarch lay;
And he left behind him a sable pail,


And he bore king away.
We went where the shivering miser told
With palsfed and trembling tongue
The shining heaps of his yellow gold,


That canked as the death shrek rung.
And he waved his wing where the dyinglght
OF the pallid student burned,
sAnd the beamng eye grew more widely bright
And the flush Of the cheek returned:
And as radiant visions of deathless fame
Waxed bright on the futures sky,
His scornful laugh the still air came
Like fallen angels sigh
Then we entered the crowded festaI room,
When laughter and song were high;
And he cast from his wings their fearful gloom,
And smiled on the rosebud nigh.
But his breath went up on the fragrant air,
And he singled out his prey;
And be watched the form that was farest there
And said, Twill be mine to day
We rode on the glance of the morning ray,
To the house where Love had smiled;
And fair yong mother knet down to pray
By the couch of her tirst-born child.
And his chilling breath glazed the half-closed eye
As he stilled the throbbing heart
Nor paused for the mothers frantic cry
As he hastened to depart
Then we fed to the city's crowded street,
To the race and storm of life,
And he paused the rich and poor to greet,
As he mingled in the strife.
When the last faint light of departing day
Had with crimson touched the sea,
We swept DER the bilow's crest away,
On the tempests pinion free.
And he paused where the gallant ship so gay
Sunk down meath the foaming wave;
Where wildly went up with the waters lay
The Shrek of the seaman brave
As I saw him shake from his silyery wing,
The oceans glttering foam,
We fed to the spot where my heart-strings cling,
And l sought once more my home.
And again I heard that fearful laugh,
Like fallen angels sigh,
As he fled from my sight on the viewless path,
Where the summer breezes fly.
And my soul in that long and powerful flight
No longer sought to share
But it rose through the mists and clouds of night
With the snow white bird of prayer.
For knew had been with the conqueror Death
On his strange and tireless way
And felt the blast of his ftful breath
On the chords of my spirit play.
Day dawned, and walked from the thrilling dream
The vision had passed away;
But the shadow That fell from its fearful CLEAN
Fled not with the morning ray.
Year: 1863

Many are the matches which l have had against
time in my time and in his time Il. e. in times
time] And all such matches, writing or riding
are memorably unfair. Time, the meagre shad-
ow, carries no weight at all, so what parity can
there be in any contest with him What does he
know of anxiety or liver complaint, or income tax,
or of the vexaton connected with the correcting
of proofs for the press? Although, by the way,
he does not take upon himself, with his villanous
scraw, to correct all the fair proofs of nature
He sows canker to the heart of rosebuds, and
writes wrinkles (Which are his odious attempts at
pothooks) in the lovliest of female faces. No
type so fair but he fancies, in his miserable con-
ceit that he can improve it. No stereotype so
fixed but he will alter it and having spoiled one
after another, he still persists in believing himself
the universal amender and the ally of progress
All that one might, if it were but for one day in
a century, be indulged with sight of time forced
into personal incarnation, so as to be capable of
personal insult-a cudgelling, for instance, or a
duckng in a horse pond Or again, that once in
century, were it but for a single summers day,
his corrected proofs might be liable to supercess
ion by reUiSes, such as I would furnish, down the
margin of which should run one perpetual itera-
ton of Stet stet everything that the hoary scoun-
drel had deleted, rosebuds or female bloom, beau
tr or power grandeur or grace, being solemnly
reinstated, and having the privilege of one days
resurrection, like the Arabian phoenix, or any
other memento of power in things earthly and in
sublunary births, to mock and to defy the power
of this crowned theft whose insatiate scythe
mows down everything earthly Thomas De-
Quincy.


A clergyman lecturng one day to his female
Pensioners said, "Be not proud that the lord paid
your sex the distinguished honor of appearing
first to a female after the resurrection, for it was
only done that the glad news might be spread
the sooner
Year: 1863

POVERTY AND DEBT.-Poyerty is a bitter, Bit
ter draught, but may sometimes with advantage
be gulped down. Though the drinke- makes
wry faces, there may, after all, be wholesome
goodness in the cup. But debt however courte-
ously it be offered, is the cup of a siren, and the
wine, spicy and delicious though it be, an eating
poison. The man out of debt though with
crack in his hat, is still the son of liberty, free as
the singing lark above him but the debtor,
though clothed in the utmost bravery, is no more
than a serf upon a holiday, slave to be reclaim
ed at any moment by his master, the creditor
My son. if poor, see wine in the running spring !;
think threadbare coat the only wear and ac-
nowledge white washed garret the fttest hous-
ing for a gentleman do this and fee debt. So
shall thy heart be at peace, and the sheriff con-
founded.
Year: 1863

We have looked over the National Bank
ing bill that has passed Congress in win,
to find section or clause imposing tax
upon the existing fourteen hundred shin
plaster shops, called "banks." The act
taxes those who do business under it, two
per cent, on tL.ir circulation, but imposes
no tax upon the present heterogeneous
mass Of trash that circulate as money,
We regard this omission as fatal to tile bill,
and unless heavy tax is laid upon the
issues of the miscellaneous banks, the Ma
tional Banking law will remain dead let
ter upon the statute books. a tax Of ut
1cast four per cent. per annum should be
put on their circulation. This would cause
them to retire it at the rate Of not less than
ten or Twelve millions per month, which
would make vacuum for the National
currency, cause gold to fall rapidly, and
induce capitalists 10 do business under the
new law. We repeat, that unless stiff
tax be laid on the present banks, the Ma
tional Bank law will prove abortive, as it
actually discriminates against stockholders
under it, to the extent Of a two per cent.
tax, while letting the present Tabblc banks
co scot-frec. What folly!
Year: 1863

The peculiar faint OF


infection which we call


S6RoFULAi turks in
the constitutions Of
multitudes Of men. It
either produces Or is
produced by an en-


fecbled, vitiated state
of tho blood, wherein
that fluid becomes in


competent to sustain
the vital forces in their
vigorous action; and


leaves the system to


fall into disorder and
decay. The scrofulous
Year: 1863

let 1t remain at what 1t is now worth
about a grain aud half of silver to the
dollar. Ifa debt is incurred by the gov
ernment it will be among ourselves, for no
other people, believe, will take our credits,
and the people must be taxed the amount
II may be found necessary to redeem il"


Is 1T not strange sort Of paradise at
which the deludsd people have arrived at
last2 Their currency deprecated Eve per
cent. day, until it could sink no lower
And now by TOombs's confession, having
no money, they have no credit. The only
hope of raising the value OF their currency
is to resort to unprecedented taxation. A
pretty picture is that which ToombS now
sketches, to hang by the side Of those with
which the orators at the south delighted
and misled their hearers three years ago.
Year: 1863

The people of Arkansas are determined
to go back to the Union, as they now fad
themselves, and they are not to be frighten-
ed from their purpose by having the word
Consistency or 'Abolitionist thrown OF
them"
Year: 1863

The friends ofa young lady at AlOnny
gathered one evening last week to see her
united in marriage to II young man from
Syracuse. lie did not make his appear.
ancc, and lato the same evening the scamp
sent n paper to the family announcing his
marriage to another lady.
Year: 1863

The following article from DR.. Halls
Journal Of Health contains practical
hints upon various subjects, that are
worthy Of attention -


|. 1t is unwise to change TO cooler
clothing, when you first get up in the
morning.


2. Never ride with your arm Or
elbow outside Of any vehicle.


3. The man who attempts to alight
from a steam car while in motion is a
fool.


A. In STEPPING from vehicle while
in motion. let it be from the rear. and
not in front, for then, if you fall the
wheels cannot run over You.


D. Never attempt to cross road Or
streetin hurry, in front Of a passing
vehicle; for if you stumble or slip, yon
will be run over. Make up the half
minute lost in waiting until the vehicle
has passed, by increased diligence in
some other direction.


6. 1t is miserable economy to save
time by robbng yourselfof necessary
sleep.


7. you find yourself inclined to
wake up at q regular hour Of the night
and remain awake, you can break up
the habit in three days by getting up
as soon as you wake. and not going to
sleep again until your usual hour of
retiring: or retire two hours later. and
rise two hours earlier for three days in
succession; not sleeping moment in
the daytime.


8. Ifinfants and young children are
inclined to be waketul in the night, or
very early in the morning, put them
to bed somewhat later; and besides,
arrange that their day nap shall be be-
fore noon.


9. Order is heavens first law" reg
ularity is natures great rule; hence
regularity in eating, sleeping, and ex-
ercise, has very large share in secur-
ing long and healthful life.


10. Hyou are caught in a drenching
rain, or fall mo the water, by all means
keep in motion sufficiently vigorous to
prevent the slightest chilly sensation
until you reach the house; then change
your clothing with great rapidty be-
fore blazing fire, and drink instant
ly pint Of some hot liquid.


II. To allow the clothing to dry
upon you, unless by keeping up vigor-
Gus exercise until thoroughly dried, is
suicidal.


y. Ifyou are conscious Of being in
a passion, keep your mouth shut for
words increase it. Many q person has
dropped dead in rage.


-. fla person 'faints,' place him
on his back and let him alone; he
wants arterial blood to the head. and
it is easier for the heart to throw it
there in a horizontal line, than in a
perpendicular one.


II. Ifyou want to get instantly rid
of beastly surfeit, put your finger
down your throat until free vomiting
ensues, and then eat nothing for ten
honrs.


10. Feel noble pride in living
within your means, then you will not
be hustled off to a cherries hospital in
your last sickness.
Year: 1863

ment, country 0rno country; and hence
it became the imperative duty of every
Union man, every friend Of constitu-
tional liberty, to rally to the support
of our common country, its govern
ment and flag, as the only means of
checking the progress of the revolution
and preserving the union ofthe States.


| am unable to answer your question
as to the policy of Mr.. Lincoln and his
Cabinet. am not in their confidence,
as you and the whole country ought to
be aware. / am neither the supporter
of the partisan policy nor apologist for
the errors of the Administration. My
previous relations to them remain un
changed; but l trust the time will
never come when | shall be willing to
sacrifice any personal feeling and party
policy for the honor and integrity Of
my country.


L know of no mode by which loyal
citizen may SO well demonstrate his
loyalty to his country as by sustaining
the flag, the Constitution and the I'm
ion, under all circumstances and under
every Administration, (regardless OF
party politics. against all assailants at
home and abroad. The course ofClay
and Webster toward the Administra-
tion of General Jackson, in the days
of notification, presents anoble, wor-
thy example for all true patriots.


At the very moment when that fear
full crisis was procipitated upon the
country, partizan strife between Wings
and Democrats was quite as bitter and
relentless as now between Democrats
and Republicans. The gulf which
separated party leaders in those days
was quite as broad and deep as that
which separates the Democracy from
the Republicans. But the moment an
enemy arose in our midst plotting the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the Union and the
destruction Of the government, the
the voice of partisan strife was hushed
in patriotic silence. One ofthe bright
est chapters in the history of our coun-
try will record the fact that during this
evcntful period thc great leaders of the
Opposition, sinking thepartisan in the
patriot, rushed to the support of the
Government, and became its ablest and
bravest defenders against all assailants
until the conspiracy was crushed and
abandoned, when they returned to
their positions rs party leaders upon
political issues.


These acts ofpatriotic devotion have
never been deemed evidence of infdcl-
ity or political treachery, on the part
Of Clay and Webster, to the principles
and organization Of the old Wing par
ty. Nor have | any apprehension
that the firm and unanimous support
which the Democratic leaders and
masses are now giving to the Consti-
tuition and the Union will ever be
deemed evidence of infdelty of Demo
cratic principles, or a want Of loyalty
to the organization and creed of the
Democratic party. Uwehope to regain
and perpetuate the asceHddncy Of our
party ue should nerer forget that man
CANNOT BE A TRUE DEMOCRAT UNLESS
HE is A LOYAL PATRIOT.


With the sincere hope that these, my
convictions, may coincide with those
of my friends, | am very truly, yours,


STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.


TO VIRGIL HIcEoX, Esq, Chairman
State Democratic Committee.
Year: 1863

/ BRAUrIFUL ExrRAcf.-The follow
ing waif, afoat on the sea Of literature,
we clip from an exchange. We do not
know its paternity, but it contains some
wholesome truths, beautifully set forth:


Men seldom think Of The great event
of death till the shadow falls across their
own path, hiding forever from -theif
eyes the traces Of loved ones whose
living smile was the sunlight Of their
existence. Death is the great antago-
mist of fife, and the cold tboughtof the
tomb is the skeleton Of all feasts. We
do not want to go through the dark val
ley, although its passage may lead to
Paradise; and with Charles Lamb. We
do not want to lie dowfi III muddy
grates, even with kings and princes 10
our bed fellows. But The fat Of nature
Is inexorable. There Is no appeal or re.
lief from the great law which dooms US
to dust. We flourish and fade as the
leaves Of the forest and the flowers that
bloom and wither in day have not a
Trailer hold upon life than the mightiest
monarch that ever shook the earth with
his footsteps. Generations Of men ap.
pear and vanish as the grass, and the
countless multitude that throngs the
earth to-day, will tomorrow disappear
as the footsteps on the shore.


In the beautiful drama Of Ion, the
instinct of immortality, so eloquently
uttered by the death devoted Greek,
finds deep response in every thought
full soul. When about to yield his
Young existence as sacrifice to fate,
bis beloved Clemanthe asks If they shall
not meet again, to which he replies:-
al have asked that question of the
hills that look eternsl--of the clear
streams that flow forever-of the stars,
among whose fields of azure my raised
spirits have walked in glory. All we're
dumb. But while gaze upon thy liv-
ing face, / feel that there is something
in the love that mantles through its
beauty that cannot wholly perish. We
shall meet again Clemanthe."
Year: 1863

HEverything usefal or nscsssary
is the cheapest. Walking the most
wholesome exercise,s water the best
drink. and plain food the most healthy
diet. Even in knowledge the most use
ful is the easiest acquired.
Year: 1863

~It is said that every boy'servant
on q farm requires q man to look after
him. The following is also rural say
ing: zone boy is a boy; two boys are
half boy; three boys are ne'er a boy
at all"