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Year: 1861

A gentleman dining at hotel where
servants were few and far between, dis
patched lad among them for cut of beef.
After long time the lad returned, and,
placing it before the hungry gentleman was
asked:


Are you the lad who took my plate
for this beef!'
= 'Yes SIR


Bless me- resumed the hungry wit 'bog
you have grown .
Year: 1861

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9, 1887.


DEAR SIR: acknowledge the receipt OF your.
note OF the 7th, and regret that WAS not at my
lodgings when yeu called. I would readily have
presented to you my views of public Affairs at that
time .r.ES


There was no authority fer the public report
which you refer to, that I had fully endorsed
Gov. Hicks course inasmuch as had not pro-
claimed my opinion on the subject. But do not
hesitate to say to you, that when the deman nd was
| made upon him tor call Of the Legislature, l
WAS not satisfied of its necessity. i preferred
that time should be given to Congress to accom-
plish an adjustment, which hoped the patriotic
and conservative feeling Of the country would
sanction, and indeed require. In this hope have
been disappointed, and the prospect of such an
adjustment becomes more faint willie the progress
of events is so rapid and threatening that now
think that the Legislature ought to be soon oaled.
We cannot, by remaining quiet escape the storm
which now seems likely to burst uponus. Anxious
as AIN for the preservation Of the Union, tho
value Of which to all the States has been immense
and most precious, think that the dangers which
threaten us may be best avcrted if at all, by the
action Of he people through their representa-.
tives. hope, therefore, that the Legislature will
be called together by the Governor, whose SINGER
ity do not in the least question. If Congress
cannot recommend some adjustment to the con-
ventons of the States, shall fear the disruption
Of the Uninn unless the people Of tie States in
their conventions, can find hatremedy, ior which
Congress is at loss.
believe that the South would accept the prop
ositions submitted by the eloquent and eminent
Senator from Kentucky, (Mr. Crittenden,) whose
noble character is guarantee of his honest and
patriotic purposes. If the representatives here of
the non slaveo olding States will do nothing to al
lay the agitation which dstracts the country, our
only hope is in the people of their States acting
through other representatives @s


I shall myself sustain any plan of adjustment
which promises peace to the country.


I should be wanting in frankness if did not
add that do not believe secession to be Q censti-
tutiona measure, but revolutionary, and that
should deplore the secession of Maryland, especi-
ally at early day, certain to direct upon our
State the storm of civil war. =


Very respectfully, truly, your servant,


J. A. PEARcE.
Year: 1861

To amend section seven of an act


for opening and regulating roads


and highways, passed January


81, 1858.


SECTION 1. Be 1t enacted by the
General assembly Of the State Of
Ohio, That section seven of the
above recited act be amended, SO
as to read as follows:


That the surveyor shall survey
the said road under the direction
of the viewers, and cause the same
to be conspicuously marked
throughout, noting the courses and
distances, and at the end of each
mile shall cause the number of the
same, and also the commencement
and termination of said road OF
survey, to be marked on a tree, OF
monument erectod for that pur,
pose; he shall also make out and
deliver to one of the viewers, with.
out delay, a correct certified return
of the survey of said road, and 8
plat of the same; and the viewers
shall make and sign a REPORT ir
writing, stating their opinion in fa
vor or against the establishment OF
Year: 1861

Z S% Education, when properly
conducted, is the greatest earthly
corrective Of selfishness. When it
has failed of a beneficial effect,
every man must commence a course
of discipline for himself. Self
knowledge must precede reforma-
ton. It will show US that there is
a great moral fault in the constitu-
ton Of our nature.
Year: 1861

y


not pour forth stream of vituperation a
gainst the President. the Administration.
and the conduct Of the war? Has it ever
uttered word derpgatorg TO the rebelsg
Has Il not on the contrary extolled their
valor and ridieeuled the courage of our own
troops? And does it notin every issue in
innate that we ought to conclude peace
with them on their own terms? What
more could any man do to give aid and
comfort 10 the enemies of the country?


ri Ought the Government to ask us to 60
South TO fight rebels, and leave treason fes-
tering behind us. which is certain to ripen
and break out in open rebellion. as soon as
they can gather sufficient number togeth-
er to drive out or massacre the remaining
loyal inhabitants? Why not arrest the
ringleaders at once and either hold them as
prisoners of war or try them for treason!
There is no doubt but proof sufficient to
establish their guilt can be adduced.


Their object in reviling the powers that
be and characterizing all their acts for sup
pressing the rebellion as unconstitutional
and tyrannical. is to excite distrust and
destroy the confidence of the people in the
agents Of the Government, so that yolun-
teers enough cannot be obtained to conquer
the rebels. They croak continually about
the expenses Of the war. and the debt il
will entail on the, country, all for the pur-
pose of organizing an anti-war party to
embarrass the Administration and force il
to conclude humiliating and dishonora-
bic peace with the rebels. Were they true
and loyal men they would defer arraigning
the Administration before the country up
on the charges they are continually ma
king until after the war. But their invet-
crate partizanism and chagrine over their
defeats has crushed out what little patriot
ism they ever did possess. and they prefer
that the country shall be ruined if the peo.
pie will not let them rule It, Let them
rave They will, if they have not already,
soon commit some overt act of treason,
when the strong hand of the government
will be laid on them. They set the exam.
pie Of arresting and imprisoning men fo'
constructive treason even. in Kansas. in a
time of peace, and they win not complain
we suppose, if the precedent.is Invoked a
gain. {. -siansgnfa.ss "a lsss s,
Year: 1861

The London Economist states in late
number, that it receives numerous letters
almost daily, urging the British Govern
ment to break the blockade of the Southern
ports. That journal replies at length to all
such urging, by affirming that the right of
blockade belongs to all beligerents, and for
England to insist that the United States
shall abandon the blockade, would be neith-
er more nor less than declaration Of war!
A beligerent power has the right TO en-
ploy any recognised mode of warfare to
conquer or subdue its'enemy. This block
ade is the most effective mode within the
grasp of the United States and to cause it
10 be raised would be simply wrenching
from their hands their most formidable
weapon. II would be just the same as if
England we're to insist upon the United
States fighting the South with ri6ed cannon
or MIME muskets To interfere In The
blockade would be to interfere in the war
TO foregO the nentI al position which Eng
land processes TO have assumed. and become
therefore responsible for the conditions of
peace.


"If the United States can blockade the
Southern ports so as TO prevent any cotton
leaving them, they have just as unquestion-
able right TO do so, as they have to shoot
Southern soldiers, or to capture Southern
privateers, or to destroy Southern proper
ty. If the Federal army entered the plant
ing States, and burned every bag of cotton
stored or growing there, they would be
merely exercising the habitual and un-
doubted privileges of war; We might call
them brutes aud rufiians, but we should
have no claim of redress, and no legal COM
plant against them. We want the cotton,
and we are willing to buy it but it does
not belong to us, but 10 the secessionists,
their foes. If then, they might destroy the
cotton, a fortiOri they may confscate it, seal
it up, lay an embargo upon it. The same
argument which would warrant us in de-
manding that the cotton shall be allowed
to come forward because we need it and
cannot do without it, if pushed one step fur
ther would justify us 10 seziug it by force
from its owners if they refused to sell it 10
us--as it is affirmed by some they intend to
do. Nay more it would almost warrant
us in insisting on the negroes growing cot
ton for our use, so long as their masters de.
sire them to do so. For if the urgency Of
our needs is an excuse for one act of un-
lawful interference and coercion, why not
for another"
Year: 1861

SINGULAR Notwithstanding TO q
discovery just made. some one must have
alighted upon the Salmon River mines a
long time ago, and made good thing of it.
A Mr.. Block just from there, mentions o
circumstance connected with these mines
which remains a mystery. A set of sluice-
boxes were discovered about ten miles from
town, and small creek partially worked
out. Nobody seems to know how or when
they were used 1t is supposed the Nor
mons at some period used them, as they
had settlement some sixty miles from Sal
mon River, or others who we're killed by
the Indians.
Year: 1861

THE REPUDIATORs-Some of the Southern
merchants are surprised and disgusted at
learning that they will be required TO pay
over to the rebel treasury what they owe to
Northern merchants. They expected to
wipe out their debts entirely with the Sc
cession sponge; and this compulsiOn TO pay
to the rebel Junta at Richmond has wonder.
fully cooled the ardor of their devotion to
the cause of jeff. Davis q Co. II they are
not to enjoy the blessings of reputation.
they think they might just about as we'll
have stayed under the rule of Lincoln
baltimore Patriot.
Year: 1861

COLLIsIoN.-We learn from The New AL bany Ledger of Saturday, that collision occurred on the Louisville, New Albany and Salem Railroad, at l:40 P. M, on Saturday. mile and a half north of Corwin Station between the accommodation train bound nor and an extra freight bound south A brake man named William Stewart was instantly killed. No other person was injured One of the locomotives was much damaged, the other slightly. Two freight cars were broken up, and others slightly injured. The cause of the accident Is attributed to the following facts For several days the unusually large freight business has required the running of many extra trains, both day and night, and during Friday all the trains were more or less delay ed in consequence of the two rear cars of a freight train being thrown from the track near Little Wea bridge, on Thursday night by the falling of brake bar, resulting in a general tearing up of the track on the bridge The operator at Corwn had a special order to hold the passenger train coming south and the accommodation north at his office, for orders from the Train Dispatcher, until the extra freight bound south arrived. The order was repeated back in the usual form. The passenger train received her order and left meeting the north bound accommodation at Linden; but when the accommodation arrived at Corwln, the operator there forgot his order to hold that train until they had left the sta tion. The result of his heedlessness and care lessness is above stated.
Year: 1861

INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE FROM TEXAS. The last copy of the Wcathcrlord (Texas) White Man glvcs an interesting account of the recognition of the white woman taken by Ross in the recent Indian fight She was taken prisoner when she was d ch Id nine years old twenty-five years ago. After recall ing her infancy to memory she was able to give an account of her captivity, the murder of her father and several other whites. She also said that she had lived with the Indians ever since. Her home is north of Santa Fe She has three chlldreen two of whom are left at home. She adds the f0lowing

 All the Comanchcs get together in the fall and come down to get horses; the friendly Reserve Indians always help to steal; Caddoe. quit stealing with Comanches; Comanche, and Caddocs fight now; friendly Comanchcs always come to help steal Take horses tc Santa Fe and sell them to white men; some of them swap to Mexico; all the Indians on Sweet Walker Fork of Red river, the fourth prong on the south side above Big Witchita think there IS about five hundred; the little boy the Indians took was killed before they came to me; he fought the Indians and do not want to go and they killed him.

 The White Man has accounts from Young and Pale Pinto counties of abundance of fresh Indian signs in both of these counties.
Year: 1861

TIE DEMOCRATIC STATE EXECUTIVE IN NEW YORK-The most earnest and determ- ined feeling against any attempt at coercion of the South and a full belief that the policy would destroy the Union, characterized the proceedings of the late Democratic CT Union convention in New York As specimen of its spirit, we copy the following:

 "James S. Thayer next addressed the con- vention in very eloquent strain, taking the bold ground that Northern men will not allow the coercion of the sovereign States of the South He declared that the dangerous stream into which the Republicans seek to plunge the people by the cry of the Union, the Constitution and the enforcement of the laws, leads to the ocean of coercion, and has no other outlet, and that the people of the North will denand that the revolution shall begin at home, if it is to come at all He instanced the case of William Tell, who, hay ing dropped an arrow after trial of skill on an apple placed on the head of his son. had replied to the question of Gesler, "It was for thy heart, tyrant, if I had harmed my boy" making the application to those who sought to array the North against their breth- ren of the South, and declaring the first ar row driven to the heart of an American citi- zen would be the signal for cloud of arrows to darken the heavens in the North"
Year: 1861

A MODERN HERCULEs.-A letter from Warrington, Florida, to The Pensacola Ob- server, thus describes private in one of the companies:

 Professor Day is just six and half feet high in his stocking feet. His weight is three hundred and ten pounds, and he meas ures seven feet in the girth. He is the tall est and biggest man in the regiment, and is noted for his great strength as we'll as his huge proportions He has been known to shoulder a six hundred bale of cotton and has frequently taken a whisky barrel by the chimes, raised 1t an arms length, and drank at the bung-hole. On one occasion he threw mustang pony and his rider over a ten-rail fence For this offense he was tried and con- victed in the circuit court of Laudcrdale county, and fined $500 This remarkable man is the youngest and smallest of seven- teen brothers. His father is two and half inches taller than he is, but is not so thick His brothers are taller, but none of them are so stout as the professor. It Is necessary to remark that his father has been twice mar ried and has eight children by his first wife, and nine by his present wife.

 The professor IS the principal of the Mari on high school, and is a learned man in every sense of the word. He is master of six lan- guages, and as a mathematician he has no superior He is, besides, one of the best men living, and is noted for his good humor He has never had but one fight in his life, and then he killed horse, and nearly murdered man.
Year: 1861

SAD CASE OF DRowNING.-The Vicksburg Whig of the 9th, says that on Monday even ing young man named James D. McClntock, was drowned about mile below that city, by being thrown into the river by the rolling ot log in the water, on which he was walking. He rose once, but the current was so strong that he was carried beyond the reach of help. He was printer, about twenty three years of age, from Cincinnati, on his way to Texas, where he had engaged work He only ar rived in the city the same afternoon and was on his way to visit friend, when he met his untimely fate. He leaves a wife in Cincin- natl, to whom he was married about month oOo
Year: 1861

ALL IN THE DRAw-A laborer walking along Front Row last evening, in passing a clothing store, put his hand through broken pane in the window, and drew forth fine vest. The proprietor of the store witnessed the operation, called for sight, and start cd after the fellow. who took to his heels The race was spirited one, the Israeite, hat less and of light weight, holding his own with vigor that astonished everybody. The rogue had the heels of him, however, and sud denly darting into an uptown grocery, he made his way through it and was lost to sight The proprietor of the vest was completely " blown" and could only cjaculate 'Tamn rascal.' Memphis Avalanche
Year: 1861

"EIGHT MORE AS TWELVE Some time since Dutchman in Columbiana county, Ohio, leased his lands to an oil company, on condition of receiving one-eighth of the oil procured The we'll proved to be pretty good one one, and the Dutchman began to think that the oil men should give him bet ter chance, and ventured to tell them SO. They asked him what he wanted. He said they ought to give him one-twefth The agreement was finally made, with the under standing that the Dutchman was to tell no one. All went on smoothly until the next division day came, when our friend was early on hand to see how much better he would be off under the new bargain. Eleven barrels were rolled to one side for the oil men, and one for him. This did not suit him. How's dish?" says he; ''I tnk l was to get more ash before. By jinks, you make mistake The matter was explained to him, that he formerly got one barrel of every eight, but it was his own proposition to only take one of every twelve hisreyelation took him aback. He scratched his head, looked cross, and re- lieved his swelling breast of feelings of self reproach by indignantly remarking: Well, by dunder. dat ish de first time ash ever 1 knowed eight wash more ash twelve"
Year: 1861

A NEW CURRENcY.-Out in California there has been new currency introduced to take the place of the more cumbrous gold. Recently in San Francisco a gentleman was called upon for contribution to some charita- blc object. He subscribed without hesitation 1000. When the day for collection came he promptly rendered certificate of owner- ship of l00 feet in the " Dig and you'll find 1t 2" claim of Esmeralda. This sort of paper Is called " Utah wild cat" There is no limit to its amount, and no holder can grumble at the security for all he has to do is to go to the ledge and get the gold for himself
Year: 1861

TIE LAND OFFICE RoBBERY.-The result of a protracted scrutiny in the Land Office at Washington discloses the fact that number of warrants for several thousand acres of land have been abstracted, and that some of them were sold in Baltimore A Clerk who re- signed some time ago, and one recently dis missed, are suspected.
Year: 1861

THE rat " printers of Buffalo have made arrangements to celebrate the approaching anniversary of Franklins birthday We fear the spirit of the old philosopher will not honor the occasion with its presence.
Year: 1861

'THE PEG Plies COM PL AMT.
That times are very hard. and money very tght,
That the people have ork, and in bad plight
And that for Carpets and Crockey they cannot high
And that, for all extras, they must pass them by:-
Of this and other the people they complain.
And it makes feel sad to their faces filled with
And If by selling cheapif this will make them smile
Even if my money lose, they share it awhile.
Therefore have concluded without regard to cost. to


sell
All OF my Kitchen Goods Cutlery and Carpets as well;
Also, my Crocsery and Glass Ware at discount am


selling,
With Brooms and Bru hes and everything, all cannot


be a telling.
Therefore, ladies gentlemen come Guy upon this


invitation,
For have nll supply of House Furnishing Goods at


my Poetca Staton,-
is located in ie BAY State Block, at the Poets



Here have good Stock of Goods and as cheap as any,


upon nv honor.
Now and all. buy your goods, and times


for better Will change
And if your money is little 1t will hold if you buy


the POctCa Exchange.
And should my capital the end of the he light,
Why then here is energy and ambition, wich is in or the


fight,
Forlife s battle field, and if do right my


will rally.
And we can put to flight hard times with one vigorous


sally.
And in conclusion my customers thank for the favors


that are past;
Also, for those which receiving in the way Of pat


ronage-luay it always last,
B.-1he people respectfully invited to call at
the POetical Exchange, and examine my Goods which
new and Of the latest pattern.
iele dtf oRsoN n. HEATH.
Year: 1861

A ROADSIDE C0LLoQUY.-aAnd SO.
Squire, you don't take county paper


No Major, | get the city papers On much
better terms, 50 take couple Of them. :


But, Squire the county papers often
prove great convenience to Us. The more
we encourage them, the better the editors can
afford to make them


''Why | don't know Of any convenience
they are to me-


The farm you sold last fall was advertised
IN one Of them, and thereby you obtained a
customer Did YOU not r


Very true, Major, but paid three dol
lars for it.


And you made more than three hundred
dollars By il. Now, if your ncighbors had
not maintained the press ana kept it ready
for use, you would have been without the
means to advertise your property. But |
think saw your daughter marriage III those
papers did that cost you anything g


mo, but


And your brothers death with long
obituary notice And the destruction Of your
neighbor Rigg house by FIRE You know
these things are exaggerated till the anthem
tls accounts Of the newspapers set them
right


70, true but


And when your cousin Splash, was up
for the Legislature, you appeared much
eratifcd At his defence which cost him
nothing


Yes, yes, but these things are news to the
readers They cause the people to take the
papers


No, Squire Grulgc, not if all we're like
you. Now | will tell you, the day will surely
come when somebody will write long culogy
% Your life and character, and the printer
will put it in type with all your riches, this
will he done for you Is ! grave for pauper
Your wealth, liberality, and all such things
will be spoken Of, but the printer boy, as he
spells the words il arranging tile type'to those
sayings, Will remark Of YOU Poor mean
devil, hc is even spunging an obituary -
Good morning, Squire
Year: 1861

The dav IS cold. and dark and dreary
It rains and tie wind is never weary;
The vine still clngs to the mouldcring wall,
But al every gust the dead leaves fail,


And the day IS dark and drcary
Ny life is cold, and dark, and dreary
It rains and the wind is never weary;
Ny thoughts still clngs to the noulderng past
But the hopes of youth fall thick il the blast,


And the day is dark and dreary
Be still. sad heart. and cease repinine;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining
Thy fate is the common fate Of all,
Into each life some rain must fall.


Some days must be dark and dreary.
Year: 1861

SUBSTANTIALLY long been endorsed by the
medical faculty mild, safe and effective ape
rient and Alternative. To extend its usefulness,
all the scientific appliances of modern chemistry
have been put in requistion by Messrs, Sands, to
obtain pure extract of its medicinal properties.
Combining Herewith vegetable products, they
are euapIed with confidence to offer to the public
a sure and certain remedy for all diseases arising
from impurity of the blood, or arrangement of
the hillary functions.
Year: 1861

PARsoN GREEN is ia the habit. sometimes, of
drawing upon box of sermons bequeathed him
by bis father, who was also minister, upon one
occasion got hold of sermon, by mistake, which
the old gentleman had once preached TO 1he state
CATION were becoming deeply interested, when
all at once the parson surprised them with the
information that " had it not been for the Gle
meney Of the Governor, every one of them would
have been hung long ago"