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Year: 1865

A pretty little bit Of romance developed it.
self in one Of the State street cara on Friday.
Among the passengers was q pale, quiet little
woman, plainly dressed, and very pretty with.
al Presently a one-legged soldier lsbored
into the car on his crutches The seats were
crowded end the soldier had to stand. The
young woman got up, pulled the blue sleeve,
and pointed to the seat she had vacated For
the first time, as he turned, she had a full
view Of his face, and neither OF them paid
any more attention to the empty seat They
stared each other minute, and then. in spite
Of the awkard motion Of the car, embraced
and kissed each other with hysterical fervor,
At first, the passengers we're somewhat aston
ished at so public demonstration but all
of them soon Joined in congratulating the
delighted couple, upon learning that two per-
sons thus suddenly brought together were
man and wife, long separated by the vieis-
situdes of war. The soldier had been
desperately wounded in Tennessee and taken
prisoner He was supposed to have been
killed, and before be was restored to freedom
and able to write, his wife, or widow, as she
supposed herself, removed to Chicago, and SO
his letters never reached her The poor fel.
low, as soon as be could travel, set out for
home, with desponding heart to learn why
his letters had never been answered, He
reached Chicago on Friday, on his way thither,
when the generous impulse of a kind little
woman to MANNED soldier, brought her
back loving husband, and threw him in the
arms Of wife who had long mourned him as
among that innumerable host who have lain
down their lives for the salvation OF their
country Chicago Republican.
Year: 1865

How Many Lives the War has Cost.


Whether through negotiations or by
war, peseein some way is not far distant.
1t is good time, therefore, to note what
has been the waste Of life by the war.


Official statements, carefully made up in
the War Department, will show, it is said,
that the number of soldiers in our service
who have died since the war began will
reach the startling number Of two hundred
and forty thousAnd, or nearly quarter OF
a million Of these, two hundred and
twenty-one thousand have died in the SER
vice, from wounds or sickness in the field
and in hospitals. The authorities estimate
the number of deaths from wounds or dis
ease contracted in the service, which did
not prove fatal till after discharge, and do
not therefore appear in the foregoing state
men3, at twenty thousand more.


These figures will prove to many pleas
ing disappointment. So much has been
said of our Hhetacombs Of slain" that near
ly everybody supposed only millions could
enumerate them. That our whole loss in
four years has not been nearly so great a.
our increase by emigration, to say nothing
of the natural increase Of population, is
itself the proof that we are in no sense re-
duced by exhaustion TO make peace on any
terms save the absolute submission Of the
insurgents.
Year: 1865

The question is, will it be wiser to take
it as it is and help TO improve it, or to re-
isct and disperse it. Can Louisiana be
brought into practical relation with the
Union sooner by sustaining or disc.rding
Year: 1865

ADVENTURES OF CAMERON, THE REBEL ME5SEN-


0ER-HIs soJOURN AT CINCINNATI, ETC.


(From the Cincinnati Gazette, Feb. 90


About the last week in January STRANGER, IN very
ragged apparel, and almost barefooted, called at tho
Spencer House. in this city, and inquired Of the
clerk IL such lady giving the namo) boarded
there Being answered in the affirmative, he begged
from her son, who was In the rebel army
The lady granted the stranger interview, and,
introduced him 10 gentleman boarding there whom she
supposed to be rebel In mind, II not In action and
begged him to provide the stranger with clothing and
furnish him funds, saying she would that all bills
paid The stranger entered his name on the register
Of the hotcl as d. Noremac, Chilcothe He told the
and had made his way through the Union lines into
Eastern Kentucky, and came down the Big sandy TO the


He gave as an excuse for stopping here that he was
out Of money but that he had clcgnphcd 10 his father
In Canada TO forward him sufficient funds enable him
10 reach home. day or two afterwsrd he received
telegram informing him that the money was sent, and
could be had by application at ono Of the express oces
gold Noremac told his pseudo friend that his real
was Cameron and that ho was on his way 10 Canada


Prior to his departure from this city he WI visited some
this sdc he seemed TO be quito ushi Of meney freely
showing his cash. which was principally In gold pieces Of
the denomination OF twenty dollars During his stay
the hotel Of the Chicago consprators who are q
present being tried In the city by military court Of in
quiry, was confined In the same house Noremac was
observed in close conversation with tho conspIrator on
occasion, which excited the suspicion OF repent
ant rebel who informed upon him and had him arrest
U
but no evidence could be adduced against him warrant
his imprisonment conseqdenty he discharged from
custody. On the Tth Of February he left the Spencer
the oochl OF that establishment would bear from
him.


Soon after leaving one Of the clerks Of the hotel had
occasion 70 examine the register and then found that
Noremac had added his real name, making II read d.
Nremac Cameron. The reader can see That the word
Norsmac ID the spelling Of Cameron The next
we hoard Of tho gentleman was . telegram fpm Mon
Fcal 10 the Associated Press day before yesterday, IN
forming Of the sas arrival at tha place Of CAMERON
special envoy from the court sf JeR Davis II seems
that four had been dispatched by the rebels
with letters Of instructions 70 leading members OF the
ccnfedsracy In Canada but only Of them succeeded
In getting through Cameron being one q the lucky
ones OF The unsuoosssful messenger, one was oap-
tured East, and II at present In prison.
Year: 1865

In letter written by DR., Peabody, of
Harvard College, he makes the follow
ing interesting statement of the char.
tiles of Harvard College, which will as
tOnish those who have been accustomed
to think that the advantages of this in
stitution were only for the rich;


1t may not be generally known to
what extent HerVard College is a char
ity school. The funds distributed by
the faculty among poor students amount
to about twelve thousand dollars annu-
ally. A nearly or quite equal sum is
distributed by private liberality, about
half of it through the agency and at
the discretion OF individual members
of the faculty. The recipients of this
bounty average not far from one hun
dred, and many Of them have no other
pecuDiary dependence. There is no
department OF their official duty in
which the persons entrusted with this
charge are more diligent, careful and
faithful than in seeking out the condi-
ton Of the poor students, and in ad-
.justing the aid awarded to them in the
due ratio of need and merit.
Year: 1865

The 4th Ward Committee, appointed to
fiji the quota under the last call, find that
subscriptions are not being made with that
liberal spirit which has characterized the
Ward heretofore on similar occasions, while
much larger bounties ara required than ever
before. Something must be done! Money
must be raised for volunteers or the com.
mittee cannot proceed to fill the quota of
the Ward. The committee propose to
make one more effort and call on the citi-
zens again, and if still unsuccessful will
call a meeting of the Ward and ask to be
discharged. Committee.
Year: 1865

GREAr SAcssr1cE.-M. Hohenfels has de-
termined to close out his large and choice
stock Of winter clothing, and for the next 30
days will dispose Of his heavy goods at
trenty foe per cent less than usual. Every
body will find the hugest kind Of bargains
at this popular establishment, No. 8 East I'd
street. You can't help making money
when you purchase Of Hohenfels.


ART REcRRArIoNs.-We understand that
efforts are making to have NcDonald's
Mirror of the Universe exhibited in this
city, for the benefit Of the Christian Home.
Those who have seen this great work Of
art pronounce it one Of the most beautiful
and instructive exhibitions Of the age.-
The newspapers have termed it with the
most remarkable stories Of this great sci
entific discovery, and we are probably to
have the double satisfaction Of having It
exhibited in Davenport, and that the income
derived therefrom will be appropriated to
the purchase and repair Of the Home.
Year: 1865

tion Of such onormitios, yea Of such sac.
religion, on tbepart ofolHccrs who should
bo cxemplars of purity and integrity to
tbecommunity in which they live and IN
honor to the government which they re-.
present OH that tho President had eyes
to sec these men as they are seen here,
and that he could know them as they are
known in New Mexico.
Year: 1865

DoN'r Know Amour 1.-THE Gold Hill News
says party OF young folks went on, for berries,
and after returning one Of the ladies went about
her accustomed work until bed time, and upon
undressing to retire found a snake twenty inches
in length. Of the spotted adder species. snugly
entwined around her waist, between ber crino-
Line and under clothes.
Year: 1865

have known a country society which
withered away all to nothing under the dry
rot of gossip only. Friendships once as
firm as granite dissolved TO jelly, and then
run away to water, only because Of this;
love that promised future as enduring as
heaven, and as stable as truth, evap-
Grated into a morning mist that turned TO a
days long tears, only because of this; father
and son were set foot 70 foot with the fiery
breath of anger that would never cool again
between them, only because Of this; and d
husband and his young wife, each straining
at the hated leash, which in the beginning
had been the golden bondage of God
blessed love, sat nourniuIly by the side Of
the grave where all their love and joy lay
buried, and only because of this, | have
seen faith transformed to mean doubt, hope
give place to grim despair, and charity take
on itself the features of black malavolence,
all because of the spell words of scandal,
and the magic mutterings of gossip, Great
crimes work great wrongs, and the deeper
tragedies of human life spring from its
larger passions, but woefGl and most mel.
ancholy are the uncatalogued tragedies that
issue from gossip and detracion; most
nournful the shipwreck often made of noble
natures and lovely lives by The bitter winds
and dead salt.wa'e Of SANDER. So easy TO
say yet SO hard to disprove-throwing on
the inocent, and furnishing them as guilty
if unable to pluck out the stings they never
see, and to silence words they never hear.
Gossip and SANDER are the deadliest and tie
crueest weapons man has for his brother
hurt. ALI the Year Round.
Year: 1865

The Lynohbarg Virginian, referring to
the election of Worth over Holden, Tor the
Office Of Governor of North Carolina, says:


He is, and has been during the whole
war, the most consistent and thorough
Union man in North Carolina. Worth
was never a seceSsionist in his life, but on
honest and conscientious Unionist all the
time. This is what elected Worth and de.
feated Holden. The people of North Car
olina knew very well that Holden has not
been honest or consistent in any part Of his
conduct, while, never having doubted the
honesty of Worth, they are not afraid TO
trust him.
Year: 1865

Later advces reveal the fall extent OF the dis
astcr inflicted by the terrible cyclone in India
\ Calcutta letter to the Londoa Tm.cs just re-
ceived, says


% ! see that the news Of . 900 person, having
been lost in the cyclone was received with in
credulity in England. The estimate wide
of the truth. but only because it vastly under
rated the calamity. As every one who knows
this country will readily conceive, there is no
possibility Of ascertaining precisely the loss OF
life because hundreds might be swept away and
leave no trace behind. But not without
data for arriving AT a conclusion, and it has now
been calculated that there cannot be'fewcr than
GO 900 persons drowaed otherwise killed by
til at fearful storm.


In the Island of Sanger alone. before the cy-
clone there were 8. 200 persons. There are now
about 200 have any left it to 90 elsewhere.
Seven thousand were carried clean away by the
storm wave. All up the river the population has
been swept off if not in the same proportion yet
in very large numbers. AS We all anticipated
disease is raging everywhere cholera, fever and
smallpox. The epidemic fever, which have
mentioned in previous letters this year, is de-
populatng whole districts. magistrate told
me the other day that he had been riding through
village in which there was hardly grown up
person left They had died without hope of as



the crops rotting the ground in many
places where the salt water rushed in.


The Bcngalesc arc in dcplorable plight, and
the zemmdars increase the general misery by
turning the rvcts out Of their huts because
they behndhand with their rents. There il
money enough here to give reef-such relief AS
be got for money. But human means seem
quite roweress 10 stop the awful diseases that
walking through the land, carrying thousands
before them. The native feels himself i'll, wraps
himself III his blanket says it is fate, and SO
pcrishes. In this enormous population-let it
be remembered that here in Bengal alone We
have at least forty-fve million of people-the
few Europeans can only do good here and there,
and yet it is solely hF Europeans that good is
being done.


The rich native will not help his countrymcn
God gave him his money, and God intended him
to keep il. That is pretty much his mode of
reasoning. Sometimes the fever strikes him,
and then in abjcct terror he offers English doctors
fee of five hundred rupees to and visit
him. In recent case OF that sort, the man
who was worth about four millions sterling-had
refused to give piece to the poor after the cy-
clone. When death was at his throat he altered
his mind, and promised large bencfactions if he
recovered. He not spared to add fasehood
TO his cruel service "
Year: 1865

make Home Beautiful.
More than building snowy mansions,
More than dress and fine array,
More than domes and lofty steepies,
More than station, power and sway
Make your home both neat and tasteful,
Bright and pleasant, always fair,
Where each heart shall rest contented,
Grateful for each beauty there.
More than lofty, swelling titles,


More than fashion Turing glare,
More than mammons gilded honors,
More than thought can well compare
See that home is made attractive


BY surroundings pure and bright
Trees arranged with taste and order.
Flowers with all their sweet delight
Seek to make your home most lovely,
Let it be a smiling spot,
Where in sweet contentment resting,
Care and sorrow are forgot.
Where the flowers and trees are waving,
Birds will sing their sweetest songs
Where the purest thoughts will linger,
Confidence and love belongs.
Make your home a second Eden,


Initiate her smiling bowers
Let neat and simple cottage


Stand among bright trees and flowers.
There what fragrance and what brightness
Will each blooming rose display;
Here q simple vinc-clad arbor,


Brightcns through each summer day.
There each heart will rest contented,
Seldom wishing far to roam;
Or, if roaming still will cherish


Memories of that pleasant home.
Such a home makes man the better,
Pure and lasting its control;
Home with pure and bright surroundings,
Leaves its impress on the soul.
Year: 1865

The COLORADO SILVER MINES. There is prospect
of excitement respecting the silver mines OF
Eureka district, on the Colorado, near Fort Yuma.


Several ledges of marvellous richness have been
struck. which New York company are preparing
to work on a handsome scale. The main vein
has been opened TO depth of some fifteen feet,
whore il presents body OF ore seven feet IN with.
Year: 1865

To FATrEY PoULTRY.-To fatten poultry cheap
", SO that it will be tender and juicy, mingle
equal quantities of wheat -four and Indian corn
meal together, and wet the mass with boiling
water, and some boiled potatoes. Prepare fresh
batch for them every morning. By allowing them
to have access to food at all times. they will
consume less and fatten faster than they will to
feed them several times day.
Year: 1865

A young lady was heard to declare that she
couldn't 90 and fight for her country. but she
was willing to allow the young men to 90, and
die an old maid, which she thought as great
a sacrifice any body could be called upon to
ma
Year: 1865

Read at the Illinois State Horticultural Society, by


II. 3. HULL.


Before considering sites best suited to
the wants of the Horticulturist it will be
necessary first to understand the ability
of plants to adopt themselves to differ
ences of climate.


The question of acclimating plants
briefly stated, means nothing more nor
less than this, that the climate, site and
soil, or the three combined, should be
such that will give plants of the greatest
hardihood and will produce the most per
ectly developed and mature growth, just
at the time when the cold of autumn ar
rests and holds in check further circula-
ton. This period of development will
be reached by plants of a given species,
sooner or later in different seasons and
in given latitude, will be found to vary
from year to year as the seasons are hot
or cold For axample let US take two
trees Of the peach, one grown in northern
the other in Southern Illinois, in which
every condition necessary to rapid growth
has been properly attended to- Now at
inc emu VI Sue ecdsou ict US examine INTO
the condition Of the trees The north.
ern grown plant will on the approach of
winter be found in the full vigor of
growth, with all that degree of succu,
lency, common to immature development.
If we leave it whore it grew to resist the
severity Of the cold, it is killed to the
ground by the first hard freeze, or if we
remove it south it is still too immature to
resist our mildest winters, or if by
chance it survives, one or more years
growth will be necessary to make it as
strong as it was before its removal.


Let US now turn to our southern pro-
duet. Although every appliance neces-
sary to rapid and prolonged growth has
been bestowed, yet owing to the greater
heat and length of the season 10 this
more southern latitude, our plant has
gradually formed the terminal bud of the
vertical or main stem which is developed
early in September, after which, through
the medium of its leaves the bran co
and buds swell to those proportions
reached only BY mature trees. Should
Year: 1865

ing at an elevation not above so feet,
where the drainage to the river was un-
obstruc.ed, and from that point to the
summit before referred to, frost was not
observed, and tender ANIMALS and plants
remained unhurt until the third Of No
vember, when they and the surrounding
country were enveloped in snow. While
at the same time basin near the summit
level containing about two and . half
acres, aud depressed eighteen feet, to.
gether with the surrounding country,
from which no direct outlet to the river
existed, was, between the Goth Of Sep.
tember and the Sd Of November, fire.
quently visited with frost Of sufficient
severity to destroy plants. In the basin
referred to above, the cold was Of the
greatest severity at the bottom near the
southeast side, to which point the gentle
pressure of tho descending atmosphere
from the northwest had driven, while
that part of the hollow a. which it enter.
cd was exempt from its effects. During
the following day, when the destruction
became visible, its effects were marked
by line commencing at the bottom of
! the depression at the west and north
sides, and reaching the summit on the
southeast side at an angle Of about three
degrees. Our cold winds being from tho
north and west, these observations will
serve to show that the motion Of tho
atmosphere may obstruct the free descent
of cold air which from its greater densi.
ty rolls down from the high lands into
the lowest depressions, and thus render
north and west exposures Of less value
for the production of tender plants than
south and east.


From what has boon said, it will also
appear that those situations which arc
elevated in immediate vicinity of largo
bodies Of water, are most free from late
and earl y frosts and other sites elevated
above the surrounding levels, into which
cold air will fully descend. are scattered
throughout the length and breadth Of
the States, and will DO found we'll suited
to most products of the orchard.
Year: 1865

A delegation from the North Carolina Con.
vention had an interview with the President
yesterday and favored him with the reasons
why, in their judgment, that State should be
now considered as fully reconstructed" The
President replied that there was one thing yet
left undone-the ratification of the Constitu-
tional Amendments. He further informed
them that he should continue Gov Holden IN
power as Provisional Governor until relieved by
snncinl order
Year: 1865

The Secretary Of State telegraphs to Gov.
Perry OF South Carolina that he is TO continue
to exercise the duties OF Provisional Governor
until relieved by special order from the Prri-
dent The Secretary also expresses the regret
OF the President that neither the Convention
nor the Legislature Of that state have declared
the Rebel debt to be Illegal, and that the
state seems to decline 10 ratiiy the Const-
tutional Amendment aboli-hing Slavery. This,
and the reply Of the Pre- idcnt 10 the North Car
olina delegates, seem to indicate very clearly
that there is to he no hurry in admitting the
late Rebel States to renew their old relations to
the Union, and that they viii be kept under
provisional government until they have fully
complied with the requirements Of the Admin
istratiOn.
Year: 1865

The ripe result of the election has complete
and a symmetrical beauty which it is soothing
to contemplate. There never was q canvass in
which the issues were more plainly, candidly
and courageously presented, and the verdict IS
Of proportionate value. 1t is a verdict in favor
of Liberty, of Law, of Order, Of Justice and Of
Humanity. Had the popular intelligence been
less acute, and the popular conscience less SEN
sitive, the State might have been scared out Of
all reason and equity, and, by different deter
mination, dsastrouSly affected the cause OF
rational reconstruction throughout the nation.
The telegraph will carry cold comfort to the
unregenerate maligDants of the late "Confed-
eracy." Their Northern stronghold has fallen
their Northern allies have bitten the dust
benceforth there is nowhere In the
wide world for them to look for sub
stantial aid, or even for shadowy sympathy.
The position is not pleasant one, but it will
do them good, as st. Paul was converted by
being knocked down. We do not dare TO say
that the coalition between the Copperheads OF
New-York and the sOre.heads OF the South is
completely dissolved; but it has received such


staggerer that henceforth our work will be


palmer, ca less dubious. There is now


good reason to hope for an honest. incorrupti-


bic and able City Government which viii. not
Year: 1865

folded, the dim eyes closed at last, self-re-
proach took hold on them and they wept--
They felt that they might have kept her,
They remembered allther lazy, careless ways,
and how wornout with care and toll they had
allowed their mother to become. Every
groan they had heard her utter, came back
to them, and they were filled with remorse for
all they had failed to do. The weeks and
months only showed them more and more
plainly what they had lost, and how guilty
they had BEEN But it was now too late to
make atonenent All they could do was to
lay the lesson 10 heart and try to improve by
it. This they all did, aud they cherished their
dead mother as they had never cherished her
while living.


If any Of our fair young readers are walk
ing in the ways of the Gray girls will they not
at once take warning from their fate, and en-
deavor to cherish their mothers while living,
rather than to wait, until they are dead, and
then endeaver to atone fortpast neglect tbyIin-
dulging in ceaseless regrets2 There are few
agonies more hard to bear than to look on o
dead face more hear and dear, and feel that
our treatment has hastened the parting hour.


God save all our young readers from such
fofn