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Year: 1861

| hereby approve Of the plan of organization
proposed by the Sanitary Commission, as above
given; and all persons in the employ Of the
United States Government are directed and en-
Joined to respect and further the inquiries and
objects Of this Commission, to the utmost Of
their ability. l ..
Year: 1861

The Telegraphic dispatches to the Bulletin of
last evening informs us that at about one o'clock
yesterday morning a fire broke out in the lower
story of the General Hospital, on Judiciary
Square, Washington. originating from n furnace
The combustible parts of the main building aud
of the right wing, together with the root, were
destroyed.


When the flames were first discovered, hurried
preparations were made for the removal of the
sick and wounded soldiers abont fny in num-
her. This was effected in good order anil with
safety to the patients, who are now comfortably
cared for in the neighboring City Hall and other
buildings in the immediate vicinity,


Most Of the chamber furniture was saved.
The antiquated and insufficient city fire ap-
pAratus prevented the entire destruction of tie
hospital. The employment Of a steam apparatus
has become public necessity.
Year: 1861

WooLLEN MITTENs.-An officer from West
Point who commands one of the finest regiments
in the service, suggests that Woolen mittens for
the soldiers will be greatly needed when the cold
weather begins. VIII not all who can employ
themselves In this way, help TO furnish 100000
pairs They should be knit with one finger to
allow the free use OF the first finger and thumb.
IL is said there we're more soldiers disabled in
the Crimean war from frost bitten fingers than
from any other cause.
Year: 1861

Some Of the journals which we're presented 70
REASONABLE by the Grand Jury last week, aud
others which were accidentally omitted from that
presentation, as for instance the Courier des
Etots Unis, printed in French, ard the National
Zeitung, printed in German, and both Of them
among the most pestent advocates Of the Rebel
cause are now making much ado about the
Freedom of Speech, md the fact that the
Republican party has always claimed to be the
party Of Freedom.


Now this ID no question of the Republican
party or of its principles. The controversy has
assumed totally different aspect. What is now
at issue is the Constitution OF the Union and the
existence of Democratic Institutions Nor is
this any longer q matter of discussion. II is a
matter Of ,oor, and the rule which held good
while il was open for debate to be argued
about and voted upon, holds good no longer.
The only principle that now controls the case is
this: that Government at war cannot tolerate
friends and advocates of the enemy among the
journals published in its territory. 1t mght
about as well tolerate agents of the enemy
among its civil and military officers.





des Etai. CRis-and none the less reasonable be.
cause it is published by unnaturazed foreigners
contends, in its impression of yesterday, that
so long ~ the opposition press does not attack
the existence Of the Government its liberty should
not be interfered with. This is a phrase which
in its present application amounts 10 nothing.
The truth is, that in war like this every news
paper which gives aid and comfort to the enemy
is guilty of treason; and it is equally the truth
that every newspaper which now does this at
tacks the very essence and existence of the Gov.
ernment. This is also very different thing from
the criticisms which sssa this or that act of the
Government, and which are intended to render
the war more vigorous and effective. The evident
animus of the newspaper, as of the citizen, fixes
the character of the action.


At the South, whore the war sooner became a
serious business, all newspapers that opposed il
were.long since brought to understand their duty.
Here the Government acts with q leniency, de-
liberation, and absence OF rigOr which the peo-
pie have not always approved; but il seems plain
that the time is at hand when journalists who
write and print in the interest of JEFF. Davis
and his conspiracy will be dealt with according
to law. Treason cannot always lift aloit its head
in flourishing insOlence among us.


Upon the simple and indsputsble principles
which we have here laid down, the United States
Marshal at Philadelphia yesterday suppressed the
sale of Tie N. Y. Duly Nsps in that city. We
congratulate hin VI having done Via duty.
Year: 1861

We take the liberty of making another sugges.
tion, which seems to US to DO of good deal Of
practical importance. When a man proposes 70
enlist, the consideration Of the support Of hs
family ia one of immediate interest. The momeat
he enlists he gives up suy means of subsistence
he may have relied upon before from his Owa
labor. He gets no pay until one month after
enrolment, and in the mean tine his family or
whoever may be dependent upon MIN, may be


reduced to want. How to tide over this inter


val between leaving his old employment aud the
first payday in the new is a serious question to
the volunteer. and one which the allotment tick.
cts we suggested yesterday do not provide for.
That ticket puts him at ease as to the future,
after the first pay y-day, but that time is certainly
q month, possibly six weeks or two mouths, oil,
aud in the mean time, how is bis wife OF
mother to pay the rent go 70 market on satur-
day. aud TO the bakers every morningi Tho
man who considers these things is all the moro
worth having as soldier, and The aim should be
to enlist just such men rather than those who
rush recklessly into regiment without thought
Of the future.


Why not, then, in addition to the allotment
ticket, give bounty to every volunteer whea
mustered into seryice1 1t would set at rest Of
once oil doubts as TO the support Of 6mily OF
friends, leave the proposed recruit only ono
question to consider, nsmeIy-whether he is will
ing to 20 10 the war and no logger enbar-
rasSed by the other questionwbether be eau
afford 10 20! Nor need such plan add any
thing to the cost of recruiting. The law now
gives TO each volunteer 800 at the close of the
war Let him have $50 Of it at the commence
meut instead, or such sum up TO $50 o. he
chooses TO take on the day be is mustered into
service. As we see the raw recruits about the
streets in squads, in our limited walk, they
seem TO us to be Of class of men who would
appreciate a facility OF this sort, and who are
too respectable to take 80 important step %
enlistng without considering il in all its bearinss
At any rate, the bounty, We do rot doubt, would
give an impulse to recruiting, and IL 10 simPy
Justice 10 tho soldier, ss Vel as wise ior tho
country, that every induceuent should be offered
To promote enlistment.
Year: 1861

tle country ana pracnce wito piow betw


them. The upexampled extravagance of the


tire nation must be checked. II is such as


amaze the world, and ought to amaze ourselves.
Check it, and the recoll will be instant and
astOnishing--that alone will make us snug. But
National Debt and Protection to Labor mean the
same tbng--thes go together, and VIII thrive
together. The Stter will be as lOng-lived as the
former. The supply of our own wants secured
to us, aud we shall be able TO snap our fingers,
even at direct taxation. Let no needless alarm
be entertained. A century ago England would have
stood sghast if told that her debt would ever
rise to where it now stands. But she would
have been equally incredulOus had her present
enormous wealth been then predicted. Ii IS
exactly so with us. Our wealth will grow at
rate outstrpping both debt and taxation. The
predcament we are 10 is formidable only because
of its novelty. The only element we lack is Pc
cuniary courage.
Year: 1861

The Union meeting at Bridgeport, Conn.,, yester-
day, of which we, this morning, present full
report, was startling and eficaciOus rebuke to the
Secessionists of that place and vicinity, and viii
probably be the means of causing the disloyal men
who have too long hourished there to hide them
selves from the sight of the upright and loyal The
occasion of the meeting was the reception Of return
ing volunteers, and the whole affair was cheering
and satisfactory to all except traitors
Year: 1861

The authorities should have an eye wide open
to the officers of the United States Navy belong
ing to the Rebel States who are returning from
foreign service. Most of them will unquestiOn.
ably resign and 60 into the service of the enemy,
If they cam and they can't if they are promptly
arrested and kept where they can do nobody any
harm. Resigned naval officers are doing our
commerce damage with the priyuteers. Resigned
naval officers are closing up the Potomac, and
it will be under cover Of the guns planted by
them, and BY their skill in sesmanship, if at all
that troops will cross tho river and invade Mary.
land. Shall we supply the COnfsderacy with
more valuable men for the work.
Year: 1861

More may be learned by devoting few mo-
ments daily to reading, than Is COMMONLY sup
posed. Five pages may be read in fifteen min
utes, at which rate any one person may peruse
twenty six volumes Of two hundred pages each
In o year. You may say you have none to guide
you. The best scholars and men Of science
will tell you by far the most valuable part Of
their education is that which they have given
themselves. Volumes have been filled with the
autobiography of self-taught men. Think Of
Franklin, the printer; Of Lime, the shoemaker;
Of John Hunter, the cabinetmaker; of Herschel,
the musician; Of Donald, the weaver; Of Tur-
ner, the printer; Of Buritt, the blacksmith.--
Love learning and you will be learned. Where
there is will there is way. w


\ Begin at once, take time by the forelock, and
remember that 1t 10 only the first step that
costs, and having begun, resolve to learn some.
thing every day. Strike the blow, and avoid
me weakness Of those who spend half Of life
In thinking what they shall do next. Always
have q volume near you which you may catch
up At such odd minutes 40 are your own. II is
incfedible, until trial 10 made, how much real
knowledge may be acquired In these broken
fragments Of time, which are like the dust Of
gold and diamonds.
Year: 1861




de was chivalrously brave and on
one occasion, when two Savoyarls had
toosened a bear upon 6ne dog which
was barking at it, finding all bis re-
monstrance thrown away, he snatched
a pole out ofthe hands of one of the
fellows, and dealt the bear such a
blow That he stunned her. The dog
got away, but the bear turning upon
Lambert, the dog again attacked it in
the most gallant style. Lambert aimed
h'ow after blow, and he was in the
hover OF his strength and could carry
i've hundred weight with ease. his
blows must have rather stonished the
bear. Still the bear pressed on, de-
lending her head in the most scientific
style, and her antagonist having fallen,
ewing to the slippery state of the
ground, she was so close upon him, that
he felt The heat of her breath. At
this crisis he gave her blow on the
skull with his fist, which brought her
to the ground. She immediately
took to flight; The people tumbling
over one another in heaps to get ont
OF the way, while smaller bear, which
had been standing upright with a
cooked hat on against the wall staring
at the scene, no sooner beheld the is
sue of the fray, than it took off its hat
and turned summersault at Lam
bert's feet in token of submission.
Year: 1861

A traveller who rode horse of
very large size and especially of un-
common length, lately stopped at a
pnbilc. house in the western part of
Massachusetts, and ordered his steed
to he put in the stable Feeling anx-
loss for the comfort of his four-foot
companion, he afterwards inquired Of
his hostler ifhe had put his horse up
as he had directed. Why, yes, I've
put up one end of him; he's SO long
L had to leave the other end in the
orchard"
Year: 1861

Five thousend more troops are called for
from California; Four regiments of infantry
and one regiment Of cavalry are to be placed
at the disposal of that glorious old pnt'lo'-
soldier G enefal Sumner We expect to see
our people begin TO realize. now, that they
have something to do with the great nation
of which California is part. There is some-
thing to be done by Californians. We have
no fears but that they will respond as be-
comes them. Ten days should be ample
time in which to raise companies and reach
San Francisco. Our military men throughout
the State will take immediate action, and the
day on which the Governors proclamation
reaches n given town, is the proper day for
opening an enlisting off ce. The Union Of
to-day will probably contain the document
Let those who intend to act, do it to-day
and let the papers of tomorrow morning
notify those who are ready to volunteer, that
enlistment rolls are waiting for their sigma
lures. The Government wants troops now
Let our favored State be found quick in re-
spending to the Nations call
Year: 1861

Coon SENsE.-In patriotic and able arti-
Gle the Morning Call says


Throttle on the stump all such internal
mischief-makers who, like Pixley. pretend to
be for the Union, yet proclaim they would
'sooner vote for Mcconnell than Conness,"
and strangle all Union Democratic stumpcrs
who dare bawl aloud that they would soon
er vote for Mcconnell than Stanford A
score of pretended Union men of the Pixley
stamp on the stump, will do more to carry
California TO the verge of Secessionism than
can all the Davisites in the State OF what
avail is it for Republican speakers to go
around the country loudly denouncing as
false to the Union their Union Democratic
opponents? or " hat good is to be accomplish
ed 10y Union Democrats indulging in bitter
trades, questioning the patriotism of Repub-
lican-? Such a course not only disgraccs
those engaging in it, but it tends to weaken
the strength OF the Union cause in this State


We have no confidence in any man who
could prefer Secession synrpathizer TO any
man who, from whatever motive, supports
the Government in this crisis.
Year: 1861

COLLISION ON THE SAN JoAQUIN-On Tues
day evening, August 90, the steamer Eureka,
while proceeding from Sacramento to Stock
ton, encountered schooner about twenty
miles from the latter city, which ran into her,
staving in the deck partially, carrying away
the rail and injuring the pilot house. The
damage to the steamer is not heavy.
Year: 1861

This is one of the prime ingredients
of noble character 1t, therefore,
should be first in the consideration of
those who are sowing good seed for the
future. There is hardly better place
to observe its workings than among the
pupils of school. There is scarcely an
act amag their daily actions, but what
shows it in its nobleness or exhibits the
sad want of it, 1t is seen in the distri-
button of the dinner among the children
Of family, in the workings of every
game on the play ground-in all the
changes of the busy hours, shedding
happiness upon the mirthful group. 1t
is the opposite Of sel6shnes and brings
joy where selfshncss would bring pain.
This lovely flower of character is an ex-
otic, yet one tina. abundantly repays the
work of cultivation. Though unnatural
to the heart of many, if not of all, it yet
may be made to flourish upon the most
barrea soil. How can it be done! is the
teachers enquiry. l claim not myself
to have learned, but the few suggestions
seem not to conflict with reason nor my
little experience. 1t cannot be done by
any one lesson. 1t cannot be done by
any number Of precepts given in forma
lectures. 1t is a gradual work Ever,
opportunity must be taken to encourae,
Year: 1861

FROST MUsIC.-I was once belated in Cana
da on fine winter day, and was riding over
the hard snow on the margin cf wide lake,
when the most faint and mournful wall that
could break o solemn silence seemed to pass
through me like a dream. stopped my horse
and listened. For some time could not sat-
isfy myself whether the music was in the air or
in my own brain. thought of the pine forest
which was not far off; but tho tone was not
harp-like, and there was not a breath of wind.
Then it sweiied and approached; and then it
seemed to be miles away in moment; and
again it mOaned, as If under my very feet. 1t
was, in fact, almost under my feet 1t was the
voice of the winds imprisoned under the pail
of ice suddenly cast over them by the the Pc
remptory power Of the frost. Nobody there
had made air holes, for the place was a wilder
ness; and there was no escape for the winds,
which must moan On till the spring warmth
should release them. They were fastened
down in silence; but they would come out with
an explosion when, in some still night, after a
warm spring day, the ice would blow up, and
make crash and a racket from shore to shore
SO was told at my hosts that evening, where
l arrived with something of the sensation of a
haunted man. 1t had been some time before
the true idea struck me, and meanwhile the
rising and falling moan made my very heart
thrill again.-ORee-a- Week.
Year: 1861

III knavish hack driver, at Chicago, having
to drive an old lady about mile, to the house o.
her friend, persuaded her that Ii was four miles
as he bad to take a circuit to avoid a broken
bridge. Driving her about the city for an hour
he set her down at the house of her friend, who
being informed Of the charge he had made, go
him to carry the luggage into dark room, locked
him In, and kept him there till he had refunded
81 so, by slipping the cash under the door
Year: 1861

MILITARY IN MAINE.-The Kennebec Journal
says the Legislature has accepted the bill reported
by the Committee on the Militia, placing the
whole military power In the hands Of the Cover
nor, and appropriatng fifty thousand dollars for
the purchase Of ammunition for the purpose of
aiding the General Government In contending
with rebellion. The bill Ii In the course of It's
enactment, without word Of opposition
Year: 1861

WHAT IS LAWFUL SoUNDNEss OF A Horse
In reply to this question by correspou-
dent, the american Stock Jourmol publishes
the following:


On consulting 'Oliphant,' on the law of
horses, you will see that he defines sound
ness as follows We may define horse
to be sound when he is free from hereditary
disease, is in the possession of his natural
and constitutional healtl, and has as much
bodily perfection as is consistent with his
natural formation.


Amother definition Of soundness THAT
horse is sound in which there is no defect nor
disease, that shall impair his present or fu.
ture uSclulnc,a.


A third definition Of Soundness. THAT
horse is sound that is perfect in structure
and function.


According to the above definitions of
soundness,' it would be matter of impos-
sibility to find a sound horse; therefore |
advise you not to warrant an animal which
you suppose has corn.
Year: 1861

TRIMMING FRUIT TREEs.-Some people are
now trimming their trees, not because this is
the best time, but because they have more
leisure. Young and thrifty trees should not
be trimmed till planting is over. When the
leaves appear they will take up the sap that
circulates in the tree, and the wounds on
trimming will not blecd.-PIougAn,an;;
Year: 1861

THE following little poem in the London critic, from
ncy, set off and balanced by simplicity of expression
STOOD by the open easement,
And looked npon the night,
And the westward going stars
Pass slowly out ofsght
Slowly the bri ght procession
Went down the cleaning arch,
And my soul discerned the music
OF the long trumphal march;
Till the great celestial army,
Stretching far beyond the poles,
Became the eternal symbol
Of the mighty march of souls.
Onward, forever onward,
Red Mars led down his clans
And the Moon, like a mailed maiden,
Was riding to the
And some were bright in beauty,
And some faint and small
But these might be in their great nights
The nobest of them all.
Downward, forever downward,
Behind earth's dusky shore,
They passed into the unknown night,
They passed and
No more oh say not SO!
And downward is not just;
For the sight is weak and the sense is dim
That looks through heated dust.
The stars and the mailed moon,
Though they to fall and die,
Still sweep with their embattcd lines
An endless reach of sky.
And though the hills of Death
May hide the bright array,
The ma rshaled brotherhood Of souls
Still keeps it's onward way.
Upward forever upward,
| see their march sublime,
And here the glorious music
Of the conquerors Of Time.
Aud long let remember,
That the paest faintng one
May to diviner vision be
bright and blazing SUM-
Year: 1861

Lord Campbell said he himself heard Judge
at Stafford thus sentence prisoner to death for
forgery -" And trust through the merits
and mediation of our blessed Redeemer, you
may experience chat mercy in another world
which due regard to the credit of the. paper
currency of the county forbids you to hope for
here"
Year: 1861

The PoTAro D1sEAsE-A correspondent
Of the Bristol (English) Times draws atten.
ton to method employed in Russia to pre-
vent the disease. Prof. Bollmon, of St.
Pctersburgh, planted some potatoes which
had been accidentally dried near stove till
it was thought they would be quite useless
for seed. They grew, however, and while
all the other potatoes in the neighborhood
were very much distressed, these remained
sound The Professor afterwards adopted
the principle of drying his seed potatoes at
high temperature, and the plan has never
failed. His example was followed by various
other persons with the same success and on
many estates drying houses have now been
built to carry on the process. 1t is said that
the progress Of the disease on potatoes par.
TALLY attacked is completely checked by the
heat. The experiment is very simple, and
it has this advantage-it may be tested
without any serious amount of trouble or
loss
Year: 1861

A man who has been brought up among books, and is able to talk of nothing else, is a very indifferent companion, and what we call . pedant But we should enlarge the title, and give it to every one that does not know how to think out of his profession and partic- ular way of life What is greater pedant than mere man of the town? Bar him in the playhouses, catalogue of the reigning beauties and you strike him dumb. The mil itary pedant always talks in camp, and is storm ing towns, making Judgements, and fighting battles, from one end of the year to the other. Everything he speaks smells of gunpowder; if you take away his artillery from him, he has not word to say for himself The law pedant is perpetually putting cases, repeating the transactions of Westminster Hall, wrang ling with you upon the most indifferent cir cumstances of life, and not to be convinced oi the distance of place, or of the most trivia point in conversation, but by dint of argument The state pedant is wrapped up in news, and lost in politics. If you mention any of the sovereignslof Europe, he talks very notably but if you go out of the "Gazette," you droI him. In short, mere courier, mere sol dier mere scholar, mere anything, is an insipid pedantic character, and equally ridic ulous.
Year: 1861

THE ARABS PRooF-Some years ago a Frenchman, who like many of his country men, had won a high rank among men of sci ence, yet who denied the God who is the author of all science, was crossing the great Sahara in company with an Arab guide. He noticed with a sheer, that at certain times his guide, whatever obstacles might arise, put them all aside, and kneeling on the burning sands called on his God

 Day after day passed, and still the Arab never failed, till at last one evening the phil osopher, when he rose from his knees, asked him, with contemptuous smile,

 How do you know there is God?"

 The guide fixed his burning eye on the scofer for moment in wonder, and then said, solemnly:

 "How do know there is a God? How did I know that a man and not a camel passed my hut last night in the darkness Was it not by the print of his foot on the sand? Even SO" and he pointed to the sun, whose last rays were dashing over the lonely desert, "t that footprint is not that of man" ]"