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Year: 1862

The common falacy is, that intimacy
diSpenSeS with the necessity of politeness.
Ine truth is Just the opposite Of this. The
more points Of contact there is, and the
more carefully should people guard against
IT, If you see a man only once mouth, it
is not of 50 vital Importance that you do
not trench on his rights tastes, or whims.
He can bear to be crossed or annoyed oc-
casIoually. If be docs not have q very
high regard for you, it is comparatively
unlmporlant, because your paths are gen.
efaiiy SO diverse But yon aud the man


with whom you dine every day have it in
your power tomake each other exceedingly
! uncomfortable. A very little dropping


win ware away rock, if it only keep at is
The thing that you would not think Of il


IL occurred only twice year, becomes an


int olerable, burden when it happens twice


a day. This is where husbands and wives


run aground. They take too much for
! granted. If they would see that they
have something o gain, something to save,
as well something to enjoy, it would DO
better for them but they proceeded on
the assumption that their love is an mex
hnuSlihle tank and not fountain depend
ing FOR its supply on the stream that trick.
les into it. So, for every little annoying
habit, or weakness, or fault, they draw on
the tank without being careful to keep the
supply open, till they awahe one morning
to fnd the pump dry, and, instead of love
At best nothing but cold habit of COM
placence. On the contrary, the more in
innate friends become, whether married or
unmarried, the more scrnpulously should
they strive to repress in themselves every
thing annoying, and to cherish both 10
themselves and each other every thing
pleasing. While each should draw on his
friends love TO neutralize bis oSn faults
Love should be cumulative, since Ii cannot
be stationary. If it does not increase, it
decreases Love, like confidence, is
plant OF slow growth, and Of most exotic
fragility. 1t must be constantly and ten.
derly cherished. Every noxious and for
eign element must he carefully removed
from it, All sunshine and sweet airs, aud
morning dews. and evening showers must
breathe upon It prepetual fragrance, or it
dies into hidcons and repnlsive deformity
lit only 10 be cast out aud trodden under
foot of men, while, properly cultivated, it
is Tree OF Life AHqntic
Year: 1862

Not among the suffering wounded
Not among the peaceful dead
Not among the "MTssING )"
That was all the message said.
Yet bis mother reads it over
Until through her painfu tears
Fades the dear name she has called him.
For these two and twenty years.
Round her all is peace and plenty
Bright and clean the yellow floor
While the morning glories cluster
All around the kitchen floor
Soberly, the sleek old house cat
Drowses in his patch of sun
Neatly shines tue oaken dresser /;
All the mornings work is doue.
Through the window comes that fragrance
or sunny harvest MORN
Fragment songs from distant reapers,
And the rustlng Of the corn.
And the rich breath Of the garden
Where the golden melons lie
Where the blushing plums are turning.
All their red cheeks to the sky.
Stti-g there within the sunshine
Leaning in her easy chair
With soft lines upon her fnrhead,
Aud the silver in her hair
Blind to sunshine-dead to fragrance
On that royal harvest morn
Thinking, while her heart is weeping,
or her noble-browed first brown.
How he left her in the Spring time,
With his young heart lull OF fame,
With his clear aud ringing footsleP,
1 With his lite and supple frame.
How with tears his eyes were brimmiug,
As he kissed last good bye
Yet she heard him whsting gaiy
As he went across the rye.
MIs,ING Why should he be missing ?
lie would fight until be fell T.
And If wounded, killed or prisoner,
Some one there woul be 10 tell
MISSING Still hope to chear her
Sale triumphant he may come,
With the victor-army shouting
With the clamor Of the drum
So through all the days of Autumn
In the eve and in lhe morn
She will hear his quiekeuing footsteps
In the rustling OF the corn.



Or she will hush the household,
While her heart goes leapmg high,
Thinking that she hears him whist,lng
In the pathway through the rye.



Far away through all the Autumn,
Ina lonely, lonely glade
IL the dreary desolaiion


That the Battle Storm has made
With the rust upon his musket--
In The eve and in the morn-
10 the rank gloom OF the fern leaves
Lies her noble browed first born.
Year: 1862

NELSON CREEK, Sept. 80, 1851.


On. J. c. YOUNG,-You win remember what q
poor wretched creature | was when last saw you.
and the result has astonished me as well az my
friends Your invaluable prescription and excellent
advice have completely overcome ailments such as,
II seems to me- never afflicted mortal before new
wrote letter with greater sat faction than pen
this shall remember you with gratitude as long
as live. That you may live long to alleviaie the
suiierings of others you have mine is my earnest
prayer Please accept my heartfelt thanks that you
have brought this almost hopeless case to so happy
a termination. Yours truly,
Year: 1862


late Professor Of the University Of Pennsylvania,


CAN BE FOUND AT HIS
Private Medical Office and Hospital,


NO. 76l CLAY STREET,


Opposite the southwest corner Of the Plaza,


SAN FRANCISCO,
WHERE HE CAN BE CONSULTED
w privately. and with the utmost confidence by
the afflicted, at all hours daily. from A. NJ to Bpm.
DR. YOUNG addresses those who are suffering un-
der the aiction of private disease, whether arising
from impure connection the terrible vice OF self
abuse Devoting his entire time to that particular
branch of the medical profession he feels warranted
in GUARANTEEING CURE IN ALL CASES, whether
of long standing or recently contracted, entirely re-
moving the dregs of disease from the system, and
making a perfect and PERMANENT CURE.


He wou ID call the attention Of the afflicted to the
fact OF his long standing and well earned reputation,
furnishing sufficient assurance Of bis skill and sue
cess. -
IJpwarIs Of five thousand cases have been dis
charged cured In the year ending July LIST, 1860,
showing a record SURPRISING any hospital in the
United States.


CONSULTATION, by letter or otherwise, FREE.
Year: 1862

witnessed the trial of some newly invented riff
ed cannon. The trial was of short duration,
and jury brought in verdict Of innocent Of
any intent to kill


The first gun tried was similar to those used
ia the Revolution, except that it had larger
touchhole, and the carriage was painted green
instead of blue. This novel and ingenious
weapon was pointed at target about sixty
yards distant. 1t didn't hit it and as nobody sa
any ball, there was much perplexity expressed.
A midshpman did say that he thought the ball
must have run out OF the touch hole when they
loaded up, for which he was instantly expelled
from the service. After long search, without
finding the ball, there was some thought OF
summoning the Naval Retiring Board to decide
on the matter, when somebody happened to look
into the mouth of the cannon and discovered
that the ball had not went out at all. The in
ventor said that this would happen sometimes
especially if you didn't put a brick over the
touch hole when you fred the gun.-The Gov
eminent was so we'll pleased with this explana
ton, that it ordered forty of the guns on thu
spot, at two hundred thousand dollars apiece
The guns to be furnished as soon as the war il
| over.
Year: 1862

LOST AND FOUND.
DUR0LARY-sToLKN FROM s2.S WAYNE STREET,
ID Jersey City, one Gold eenc one do Watch Key one
do. Breastpin marked NJ. p; do Locket marked M
and two old silver Table spoons, marked T.
Any person Offering The same and giving Information that
may lead the detection Of the thief Will besuitably
wArded
Year: 1862

WHITE SLAVERY IN HELENA ARK,-Iwas
greatly surprised the other day by the
declaration of person with whom had


been conversing in the post Office of this
place, when in reply to a suggestion of
mine about his loyalty, he answered,
why my dear sir, am a slave. | be-
long to Dr." l looked in his face,
unable to believe my own eyes. His COM
plectian was whittier than my own; his
eyes blue gray; his hair and features
Caucasion his language free from the
negro dialect. | asked him again: ''ls it
possible that you are slave! Why don't
you go North and claim the privileges of
freeman ?" He answered, have wife
and children" and | don't want to 90
till can take them with me they've been
allowed by master to follow by business
as barber in this place, and by giving
him stipulated sum, have been permitted
to enjoy measure of freedom, and to
possess little property of my own. As
soon as | can realize something of this
property, intend, while the opportunity
exists, to secure the freedom of myself
and family" Our conversation had COM
menced upon written document which
he had been showing me, and which he
could read as well as myself. When he
left me, | wondered greatly that such a
man, at least 40 years of age, evidently a
gentleman and Christian, could he be
held a slave, and another white man be
allowed to take his wages for naught in
Christian community. And then / re-
membered that the modern doctrine of
the South, as taught by the Richmond
Enquirer, and other expounders of the
system, is that slavery is not based upon
complexion or race, but that capital
should own labor, and the best condition
of society is that in which the entire Ia
boring population are slaves. This is
the doctrine on which the leaders of this
rebellion are trying to establish South
ern Confedracy, and thousands of labor
ing men in the South are blindly led to
give it their aid by fighting against the
government of their fathers from mere
sectional hatred and prejudice.-Tnb,tne
Correspondence.
Year: 1862

The following remarkable case of the
cure of lock-jaw, is related by the H0E
ian Medical Gazette of Milan. A hair-dress-
er of that city accidentally received a cut
with scythe on the palm of his left
hand, near the wrist This occurred
about the beginning of March, 1861; the
wound healed in six days, and it was not
until the Both following that, on rising
from his bed, he felt some difficulty in
opening his mouth, beside contraction in
his left hand, which he could not stretch
out, and pains in the right hip and thigh.
During the first days, these phenomena
disappeared on going to bed, but COM
menced again as soon as he rose and ex-
posed himself TO the open air. On the
10th of April, the symptoms becoming
more intense, he was taken to the hospi-
tai. On the following day a spasmodic
contraction of the muscles of the lower
jaw, and rigidity in those of the neck
were observed; the left hand experienced
a contraction every time it was taken
from under the bed clothes, and the pain
on the right side continued: the pulse
was very slightly agitated. Sixteen
ounces of chloride of barytes. dissolved
in a pound of distilled water, were pre-
scribed, to be taken in the course of
twenty-four hours This treatment was
continued until the 2lst, when the symp-
toms of lock,jaw having nearly entirely
disappeared the dose was reduced to
eight grains day, and the remedy en-
tirely let off on the Goth; two days later
the patient left the hospital in perfect
health.
Year: 1862

No human being can be isolated and
self-sustained. The strongest and bravest
and most hopeful have yet, acknowledged
or unacknowledged, to themselves, mo-
ments of hungry soul-yearnings for COM
panionship and sympathy. For the want
of this, what wrecks of humanity lie
strown about us. Youth wasted for the
mocking semblance of friendship. Adrift
at the mercy of chance, for the grasp of a
true firm hand, and kindly loving heart
to counsel. 1t is affecting to see how
strong is this yearning, so fatal to its pos
SCISSOR, if not guided rightly, such a life
anchor if safely placed. " FriendlessH'
What tragedy may be hidden in that
one little word. None to labor for; none
to weep or smile with; none to care
whether we lose or win in life's struggle.
A kind word or smile, coming to such
an one unexpectedly at some such crisis
of life, how often it has been the plank
to the drowning man, lacking which he
must surely have perished. These, sure
ly, we may bestow as we pass those less
favored than ourselves, whose souls are
waiting for our sympathetic recognition.
Fanny Fern.
Year: 1862

Cotton, says the Memphis Bulletin, still
reigns supreme in Memphis. Scarcely a
day passes that hundreds of our country
cousins" do not come in with the article.
which they are mighty willing to part
with at prices ranging from thirty-five to
sixty cents. Some of them tell US that
the Confederate guerrillas forbid their
bringing more than bale aa time
They only wink at it as special favor to
the needy planters who are wanting in
the necessary family supplies On our
bluff almost any day there will a whole
regiment of country wagons and carts, all
having one or more bales, and some of it
brought from fifty to one hundred miles
to get TO our market, and at prices which
will pay the planter for bringing it to
market. Let them, then, bring it along
Trade in cotton is different thing from
what it used to be. Then the banks were
in operation, and a good deal of cotton
changed hands without the least cash
Now it is exactly the reverse. All trans
actions are now for cash only. This
serves to make the business good. and at
the same time profitable.
Year: 1862

No case is remembered, in the practice
Of quarter of century, where malt Ii
quors or any alchoholic drinks whatever,
have ever had a permanent good in i'm
proving the digestion. Apparent adyan-
tages sometimes result, but they are
transient or deceptive. If there is no ap-
petite, it is because nature has provided
no gastric juice; and that is the product
of nature, not of alcohol. If there is ap-
petite, but not digestive power, liquor no
more supplies that power than would the
lash give power to an exhausted donkey.
If torture does arouse the sinking
beast, it is only that it shall fall into a
still greater exhaustion, for which there is
no recovery; so with theuse of liquor and
tobacco as whetters of appetite, when at
length, the desire for the accustomed
stimulus ceases, and the man sickens;
there is no longer a relish for the dram
and the chew; and life fades apace, either
in a stupor from which there is no ava
kening, or by wasting and uncomfortable
diarrhea.-HalPs Journal Of Health.
Year: 1862

Says the Richmond ErGnlineT: What
more familiar sights in Richmond for a
year past than these two inseparable OBJ
iects-inseparable, because associated with
death and the grave! Their passage on
the streets have become as frequent as the
vehicles of merchandise, and death drives
the brisker business and the faster nag
The sight of hearse and the shape of a
pine coffin, so terrible to the children of
other days, have lost their effect upon the
children of the present day. Familiarity
with death and its associations has bred
contempt.
Year: 1862

1t breaks largely into FIVE dollar note
to buy days marketing. You have to
pay S25 for pair of pants; $50 for pair
of boots; $50 for a gallon of brandy; $50
for barrel of -four; sos for one hundred
pounds of bacon; 81 per pound for butter;
SO per barrel for meal, and a similar scale
of prices for everything else which you
are compelled to buy. Really, it costs a
man something to live now, and yet We
hear of no starving. But there is vast
deal of short cutting in eypry article, and
it is by this means alone that those who
formerly lived comfortably are now able
to live at all.
Year: 1862

BI- Time wears slippers of list, and its
tread is noiseless. The days come, In
dian file, softly dawning one after an
other; they creep in at the windows; their
fresh morning air is grateful to the lips
of those who pant for it; their music is
sweet to the ear that listens to it; until,
before we know it, whole life of days
has possession of the citadel, and time
has taken US for its own.
Year: 1862

cate that in few months this rebellion
will be substantially closed. And at the
: end of the contest, when the sweet angel of
Peace shall again spread her wings over


our whole country, there will be 10Y in


hetven and rejoicing on earth. The morn


ing stars will again sing together and again
will the sons of God shout for joy. And
the soldiers who have, during this war,
conducted themselves as brave men, will be


forever honored by their countrymen, as


the defenders of those wise and free insti-
tutions that our fathers have bequeathed to


u; but those who have failed to do their duty


will be forever disgraced. After the battle


OF Leuctra, so fatal to the LacedemonIaus,


the soldiers who fed or showed cowardice


in any way, were wept over by their


friends, the State decreed that they should


forever be incapacitated to hold Office or


sit in the public Assem- bIies, and made it


Infamous to unite with them in marriage.


But the friends of those who fell fighting


for their country, went to the temples, Of


fered sacrifices, and thanked the Gods that


their sons had done their duty. So, fellow
soldiers, when this war is over and we re-


turn home we will be houored or depised,


according as we have neglected or done
our duty while in arms And should it be
our lot to fall in battle and sleep by the
side of the thousands ho have already
gone in this rebellion, we will not be for
gotten. As long as the seasons come and
go, as long as the tides ebb and flow and |
while the waters course from the mouT-
tains and roll onward to their ocean homes, |
a grateful people will cherish our names |
and bless our memories.
Year: 1862

The February term Of the District
Court commences to day. The docket is get
Ting very Iov. and . strenuous effort will be
made to reduce it to very marrow extremity
before the term Is closed.
Year: 1862

THE PLACE TO INvEsT.-House
keepers looking for a place to invest large or
small sums in The best kind OF faulty grocer
les. will always find it to their advantage to
call at the Hawkeye Store. corner Of Third and
Brady. Mathews has but one price, and that
is low, for which he gives the bes. article 10
the market. SO al cay who have tried it. and
that number is net small Call at tie hawk
eve and call often
Year: 1862

~ A New York paper thinks the prospects
Of the fashionable season are far from encour-
aging TO the pdter faBstlias who has to foot the
bills. There is no symptom of retrenchment ON
the part of the ladies and 6heir oracles, the
milliners. While the materials of which dresses
are made are higher in price than ever before,
the demands of fashion require an inordinate
amount Of material for each dress-all Of which
is bad for Pater, in fact mournful.
Year: 1862

SThe rumor that Ward Beecher threw up
his pep as well as his hat, and at once enlisted
when he read the Proclamation, we trust Is In
correct 1t would be cruel 10 the south to let
such a sanguinary warrior upon them. He
would slaughter more than the undertakers
could possibly take care Of. So would Summer,
if his friends didn't keep his trusty sword from
him.-Boston Post. , g.. g
Year: 1862

We have seen nothing from the scenes of
war more touching and sad to the Christian
heart than letters from devoted woman in
an hospital not far from the nations capital
She is the only pious nurse in all that asy~
lum of suffering many Others treating
lightly the souls salvation. She begs for
prayer and comforts for the body OF the
wounded and the sick soldier. She writes !:


The mufaed drum and fife have just passed
by my window, and their comrades have oar
ried to New York two beautiful young men, by
whom stood, and who in their dying hour
clasped my hand and cried aloud for mother.
One of them was delirious and in his last mo-
ments uttered the most beautiful prayer ever
heard. am witnessing scenes which at home
would seem perfectly hOrrid; and why is it that
can stand, even in the stiffness of the night,
and close the dying eyes, look after the crazy
man, and yet have no fears, and have entire
control over myself ls not the Lord in all
this2 Why is that my patients are inquiring
the way Of eternal life Has not God said,
s.Ask and ye shall receive" Will you ask the
church to remember the dying soldier, as he
offers prayers that are heartrsnding -


We have ventured to give this extract to
call forth deeper interest and more earnest
prayer, that God win move, by bis Spirit,
through the apartments Of pain and death.
and give soon to ell the victims Of terrible
war Christian physicians and attendants tc
point them to the Lamb Of God. ~ Boston
Recorder.
Year: 1862

In the March number of the Atlantit
Monthly the Country Parson" has a
charming little essay on 6 The Sorrows OIL
Childhood" in the course of which be
makes these remarks:


An extremely wicked way of furnishing
children is by shutting them up in dark
place. Darkness is naturally fearful to
human beings, and the stupid ghost sto~
ries of many nurses makes it especially
frearfal to child. 1t is stupid and
wicked thing to send child on an er,
rani in dark night do not remem-
Der passing through greater trial in
my youth than once walking three miles
alone lit was not going on an errand) in
the dark, along road thickIy shaded with
trees was little fellow; but got over
the distance in half an hour. Part of the
way was along the wall of a churchyard--
one of those ghastly, weedy, neglected, ac-
cursed-looking spots where stupidity has
done what it can to add circumstances OF
disgust and horror to the Christians long
sleep. Nobody ever supposed that this
walk was trial to a boy of twelve years
old, so little are the thoughts of children
understood. And children are reticent. /
am telling now about that dismal walk for
the very first time. And in the illness of
childhood children sometimes get very
close and real views of death. I re.
member, when I was nine years old, bow
every evening, when l lay down to
sleep, used tor about year to picture
myself lying dead, till l felt as though the
coffin was closing around me. I used to
read at that period, with curious feeling
of fascination, Blair's poem, "The Grave"
But never dreamed of telling anybody
about these thoughts. l believe that
thoughtful children keep most of their
thoughts to themselves, and in respect Of
the things of which they think most are as
profoundly alone as the Ancient Mariner in
the Pacific. have heard of parent, an
important member of very strait sect OF
the Phariseea, whose child, when dying,
begged to be buried not in a certain
foul old hideous church. yard, but in
certain cheerful cemetery. This
request the poor little creature made
with all the energy Of terror and de-
spair. But the strait Pharisee refused the
dying request, and pointed out with polem-
ical bitterness to the child that he must be
very wicked indeed to care at such time
where he was to be buried, or what might
be done With bis body after death. How !
should enjoy the spectacle Of that unnatural
heartless, stupid wretch tarred and feather.
ed i! The dying child was caring for thing
about which Shakespeare cared and il
was not in mere human weakness, but " by
faith" that =" Joseph, when be was a-dying
gave commandment concerning his bones