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Year: 1861

NORTHERN SEcEss1ov.-Truly, these are
stirring times. There is no knowing wbat the
example Of South Carolina will lead to. Just
read this manifesto from a citizen of Red Bluff,
which appears in the Independent


!" ] maintain that the Northern part of this
State, commencing at the mouth of the Sacra-
mento river, is, and ought to be, a separate
and independent Republic; and that Red Bluff
is and ought to be Tie capital Of the new ma
tion. In the first place. we have nothing in
common with the people of any county south
of Solano. We arc an agricultural people
they are trading class. We live by honest
labor, they by their wits. We believe in Dig
ger involuntary servitude; :; they don't They
manufacture sour wine, and we are compelled
to drink it. They buy up the Legislatures,
and we foot the bills. They draw the saleries
and we pay the taxes"
Year: 1861

BEAUTIFUL THoUGHr.-There is but breath
of air and breath of the heart between this
world and the next. And in the brief interval
of painlulness and awful suspense, while we
feel that Death is pressing upon u.s. that he is
all powerful and we are powerless, and that the
last faint pulsation here is but the prelude of
endless life hereafter we feel in the midst of
the stunning calamity about to fall upon us,
that earth has no compensating good to miti-
gate the severity Of our loss. But there is no
grief without some benefcient provision to
soften its iutenseness. When the good and the
lovely die, the memory of their deeds like the
moonbeams on the stormy sea, light up our
darkened hearts, and lends to the surrounding
geam beauty 50 sad 50 sweet, that we would
not if we could, dispel the darkness that envi-
rons it.
Year: 1861

FHNHE POPULARITY OF THESE BITTERS is


Il justly due to the purity of the materials of
which they prepared, and the delicate combina-
tion of simple alternatives and toncs so well calcu


lated to act upon every part of the digestive organs
and through them to reach and cure all complaints
arising from diseased condition OF the Stomach
and Bowels.
Year: 1861

"IT is WELL TO LEAVE WELL ALoNE."-
An account was given some months back OF
one Bonnard, Mayor of small village called
Ruaux, in France, having been condemned to
fifteen years hard labor. by the Court of Asst
zes of the Department, for having beaten to
death, by blows on the head, the village school
master, man of the name of Cornu, his reason
for the crime being that the latter had accused
him and his wife of having killed child to
whom the woman had given birth. The man
appealed to the Court Of Cessation, and as his
advocate succeeded in showing that some tech
nical irregularities had been committed in the
case, the condemnation was quashed, and a
new trial before the Court of Assizes of the
Meurthe was ordered. This trial took place a
few weeks ago, and it ended in the man being
convicted anew, and in the sentence on him be-
ing increased to twenty years hard labor.
Year: 1861

A TELLING FACT WELL SrATRD.-In his
great patriotic speech at Tunkhannock, Pa,
Daniel S. Dickinson, of New York, stated the
case as to the origin of this war so concisely
and admirably that it might be taken as the
motto Of all defenders Of the Government.
"South Carolina began to scrape lint before the
votes were taken." And it is positive histori-
cal fact
Year: 1861

WHY is 1T So!-An exchange says: !:
"Fasten a nail or key to a string, and suspend
it from your thumb and finger, and the nail
will oscilIate like pendulum. Let some one
place his open hand under the nail, and it will
change TO circular motion. Then let third
person put his hand upon your shoulder, and
the nail becomes in moment stationary"
Year: 1861

THE BLoCKADE.-F Four-ffths of the stories in
the Southern ne"spapers, about vessels run.
ming the blockade, are mere inventions to
keep up the courage of the Southern people,
and to operate abroad by creating the impress
sion that the blockade is not legal, because not
effective. And, in many instances, where yes
sells do actually get and out of certain
harbors, it is not through the regular channels
TO the sea from such harbors, but through the
inland navigation which is popularity of the
Southern Atlantic coast, and which connects
with the sea by iulets and plug holes" all OF
which it has not yet been possible to stop WI
Thus it is said, and upon the best authority
that the Theodore, with Mason and Slidell on
b ,ard, did not go out of Charleston harbor
nor did the Bermuda enter Savannah harbor
but both found passage through some of the
iulsts to which we refer. Our navy is doing
its full duly, with the means at command, and
we are satisfied that these means have been
expanded to the proportions of the sudden
emergency arising with all possible rapidity
and energy.
Year: 1861

The following rules are laid down for the
direction OF ladies at the South willing to knit
socks for the Confederate soldiers:


Get large needles and coarse yarn, cast on
sevenly-eight inches, and knit the leg ten inches
before setting the heel. The heel should be
three and half inches long, aud knit of double
yarn, one liue and one coarse for extra length
The foet should be eleven or twelve inches
long"
Year: 1861

INFLUENCE OF FAMILY PRAYER.-A few
years ago, man travelling in Ireland, being
benighted, opened cabin door and requested
permission to lodge there, which was granted.
The poor man who inhabited the house was
according to the usual custom, reading chap
ter of the Bible to his family. When the
stranger was seated he resumed his reading
and having prayed, the family retired to rest.


In the morning the same thug again took
place, which seemed to attract the attoltion Of
the stranger. On rising from their knees the
stranger thanked his kind host for his hospi-
tality, and informed him that he had travelled
into that part Of the country in order to at
tend fair, ior the wicked purpose OF passing
bad money; that he had brought with him
base coin to the amount Of four pounds that
this was the first time he had taken up such a
practice, but that what he lad heard in the
cabin had made such an impression upon his
mind, that he had resolved it should be the
last. He then took out of his pocket small
bag, containing the counterieits and threw
them into the fre-LadieS Repository.
Year: 1861

5 ~ The two White Cloud boys in
the First Kansas Regiment. which took
an active part in the battle near Spring


field, We presume are safe and sound.
We have seen list of the killed and
wounded of the regiment. their names
not being there. If they were able to be
on duty, that day, they now know how
powder smells.
Year: 1861

I In our list of traitor papers in
Kansas, we should have included the
Atchison Union. That was its "style''
at the beginning of the rebellion after
wards, it took the side Of the Union
but lattsrly it seems to be striving to out
do the meanest in opposing the war for the
presertion of the Government.
Year: 1861

~ From the constant threats which
the Missouri tories are making against us,
We presume they like Us as we'll a. we do
them. In fact, we are terribly afraid of
them-that's the reason why we are SO
careful never to say anything against them!
Year: 1861

sS~ The following letter, which emphaticaly speaks
for itself, was written by the Dean Of the Faculty OF
The Phadle hia College Of Meliciuc-to the editors
Of the Pacific Medical and Surgical journal, san Fra
cisco, for pub cation;
Year: 1861

A BEAUTIFUL SENTIMENT.-Lifeb bears
US on like a stream of a mighty river
Our boat at first glides down the narrow
channel through h the playful murmurings
of the little brook and the winding of the
grassy borders. I he trees shed their BIOS
SONS over our young heads, the FLOWERS
on the brink seem to offer themselves to
our young hands, we are happy in hope,
and grasp eagerly at the beauties around
US; but the stream hurries on, and still
our hands are empty. Our course in youth
and manhood is along wider and deeper
food, amid objects more striking and mag
nifcent. We are animated at the moving
picture of enjoyment and industry passing
around us; are excited at some short lived
disappointment. The stream bears us on
and our joys and griefs are alike left be-
hind us. We may be shipwrccked, we
cannot be delayed; whether rough or
smooth, the river hastens to his home, till
the roar of the ocean is in our cars, and
the tossing of waves is beneath our feet and
the land lessons from our eyes, and thu
floods are lifted up around us and we tax,
our leave of earth and its inhabitants, unit
of our farther voyage there is no witnes
save the Infinite and Eternal.
Year: 1861

\ GIRL going to market with basket
of eggs her head had them knocked off
by rowdy, for which he was fined, and
had to pay for the eggs. When asked
how many eggs she had, the answer was
"When l put them in two at time, there
was one over; three at time, one over
and when l put in four, five or six at a
time, there was one over; but when put
them in seven at time, they came out
eve n" How many eggs had he to pay
for
Year: 1861

Drew another big crowd to Odd.Fellows Hall
last evening, all OF whom went away perfectly
delighted. This afternoon they give grand
matinee, and tonight appear In another diver
aihed hill.
Year: 1861

THE WAY OF LIFE.
A youth would marry maiden,
For fair and fond was she;
BNt she was rich, and he was poor
And so it might not be.


a lady never could wear


Her mother held it firm


~ gown that come ofan India plant


And not OF an India worm
And so the cruel word was spoken,
And 50 it was two hearts were broken
\ youth would marry a maiden,
For fair and fond was she;
But he was high, and she was low,
And so it might not be,


A man who had worn spur


In ancient battle won


Hadscntit down, withgreat rcnown,


To goan his future son
And so the cruel word was spoken,
And SO it was two hearts were broken.
A youth would marry maiden,
For fair and fond was she;
But their sircs disputed about the Mass,
And so it might not be-


A couple of wicked kings,


Three hundred years agone,


Had played.a royal game of Chess,


And the church had been pawr.
And so the cruel word was spoken,
And so it was two hearts was broken.
Year: 1861

REArlNG.-The amusement Of reading
is among the greatest consultations Of life |;
it is the nurse Of virtue; the upholder Of
adversely the prop Of independence the
supporter Of just pride; the strengthener
of elevated opinions; it is . shield against
the tyranny Of all petty passions it is the
repeller Of the fools scof and the knave's
ranc0n
Year: 1861

The golden everlasting chain, described
by Homer as reaching from heaven to earth.
and embracing the whole world, was no
fable. That chain is love.


Stand not in too much awe OF opinion.
The strength Of criticism lies only In the
weakness Of the thing criticised.
Year: 1861

has sent the army away to the utter.
most corners and wildcrnesses of the
nation. The navy has been sent to
the farthcst seas, and lastly it is dis
covered that even the poor Indians are
robbed of their much needed annuitics
Was there ever such an adminstra-
tlon since the world began? These
arc the fruits of proslavery rule. Can
the stream be expected to rise higher
than the fountain? Slavery itself is
founded on fraud and theft, and is
maintained by brute force and dcspot-
ism. Men are first robbed of them
selves, and then of their free will and
the fruits of their toll. How could an
administration whose fundamental
principle is that slavery is not only
right but a divine institution, be other
wise than traitors to the Constitution,
enemies of the Union and perpetra tors
of grand larceny on the public mon
cys and other convertible property
of the government Old Abe is go
ing to have delightful little job in
putting things to rights when he takes
up his abode in the White House.
Year: 1861

In the Senate, on taking up the pro.
posed amendment of Hon. Andrew
Johnson of Tennessee, that gentle
man spoke at length upon the distract
ed state of the country politically,
and made u most able and eloquent
speech in behalf of the Constitution
and the Union. He argued that a
State could not go out of the Union
on its own voltion, and read extracts
from Madison's writings. to show that
such was the opinion Of the founders
of the government.


Jefferson held that it was not nee
essary to give the government the
power to enforce the laws in the
Year: 1861

The old year is breathing its last
sigh, and as if to atone for the many
frowns he has given us, he closes his
career with a sweet pleasing smile.
But for the snow which cnyclops the
earth like a mantle, we could scarce
ly realize that December has flown
that, at the midnight hour, when the
church bells ring out their requiem for
the old, and their invocation to the
new year, 1860 will be no more. Oh,
what short, very short, time it is
since we were ushcring in the the
year, which is now bidding us fare
well Yet, what great changes have
taken place on our earth +! Thrones
have been oveteurncd, the strong and
mighty have been broken or bowed
down freedom has triumphed over
oppression, and down-trodden liberty
has been once more rcinstated, and
and revived.


And thou, too, oh Death, hath stalk
ed among us and borne off our state
liest and faircst flowers How many
have gone on before us to the untried
world Methinks | can now see one
who at the commencement of the new
year of 1860, bid fair to live long, an
ornament to society, who now lies
sleeping beneath the cold prairie turf
Is it possible she is indeed dead |?
that we shall never more see her who
was the light of our social circle, the
admired of all !? Yes, it is indeed SO;
" her sun hath gone down while it
was yet day"-gone down ON this
earth, to rise again in the world where
suns never set She is one of the
number who strike their golden harps
and sing the praise of Him, "Who
captive led captivity, and took the
sting from death !" Yet when Win.
ter shall cease to reign, aud Spring
shall come to take his place, and with
her Ithuricl wand removes the fetters
from the ice-bound streams, and brings
back the birds and flowers again, we
Year: 1861

Be kind to thy father-for when thou vert young.
Who loved thee so fondy as he
He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue
And joined in thine innocent glee.
BE kind to thy father, for now he is old,


His locks lntcrminsled with grey,
His footsteps are feeble, once fearless and bold
Thy father is passing away.
BE kind TO thy mother---for 10 on her brow
May traces Of sorrow be seen,
Oh, well mayest thou cherish and comfort her now,
For loving and kind hath she been
Remember thy mother-for thee will she pray,
As long as God giveth her breath,
With accents of kindness then cheer her lone way,
Fen to the dark valley of death.
BE kind TO thy brother-hs heart will have dearth,
If the smile Of thy love be withdrawn;
The flowers Of feeling will fade at their birth,
II the dew Of affection be gone.
BE kind to thy brother-whercvcr you are,
The love of a brother shall be
An ornament purer and richer by far.


Than pearls from the depths Of the sea-
Be kind to thy sster--not many may know


The depth of true si,terly love;
The wealth of the ocean lies fathoms below


The surface that sparkles above
Thy kindness shall bring 10 thee many sweet hours
Aud blessings thy pathway to crown
Affection shall weave thee garland of flowers,
More precious than wealth renown.
Year: 1861




FREMoNTAT CHURCH. attended
Beecher's church last Sabbath. AT the
conclusion of the services the congregation
rose, and general rush was made for the
pew, in which Fremont and lady sat. Hun
dreds of hands were outstretched to greet
him, and after submitting to a severe man
ipulation for about half an hour, he and
company made their exit from the church.
followed by the congregation AS soon as
the Major General and his party were seated
in their carriage the crowd got
up cheer and continued TO surround the
carriage, shaking hands with himself and
lady until the patience Of the later was near
ly worn out, aad directions were given to the
driver to go ahead, which he did, and the
crowd followed the carriage nearly
as far as Fulton ferry, where the party got
aboard and returned to New York. .-fNew
York Herald.
Year: 1861

which that accomplished officer discharged
the duty assigned him was sufficiently attes.
ted by the success ofthe review, which, be-
sides presenting brilliant military display,
afforded to. the young Genoral-in in Chief a
presage Of the reliance he can place on the
expedition that will be brought to the fulfill
ment Of his orders whenever it shall be me-
ccessary to combine the forces now in the field
Tor any operations Of an active character.
Year: 1861

lHE MATCHLESS oCENERY.-A cores
pondent of the New York Examiner writing
from Port Royal, South Carolina, says:


Let me for a moment seek more cheerful
topic than ''the war and the tumult with
which earth is filed" Nothing can be
more matchless than these skies, especially
at sunset. Last evening, friend said TO
me, 'erhis is sight worth coming all this
way to see. And he pointed eastward,
away from the feet and the smoke ofbattle.
The whole sky was filed with the golden
light of the setting sun, the broad Atlantic
was before us, and on its bosom, just ripplel
by light wind, was the Great Republic, her
acres Of snow-white canvas all spread, and
radiant in the SUMS rays. The picture was
indescribably beautiful And on Sunday even
ing, the sun had gone down, but had left the
clouds and the western horizon all bathed in
Year: 1861

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27, 1861


TO the Synod of Neio York and Ne,o JERSEY


REVEREND GENTLEMEN: The minute,
containing your resolutions on the condition
Of the country, which you directed to be sent
to me, has been submitted to the President
of the United States


l am instructed to express to you his
great satisfaction with those proceedings,
which are distinguished equally by their
patriotic sentiments and purely Christian
spirit. 1t is a just tribute to our system of
government that it has enabled the American
people to enjoy unmolested more Of the
blessings of Divine Providence, which affect
the material conditions of human
society than any other people ever enjoyed,
together with a more absolute degree Of re-
ligious liberty than, before the institution of
that great Government, had ever been hoped
for among men. The overthrow of the Gov
ernment, therefore, might justly be regarded
as calamity, not only to this nation, but a
misfortune to mankind. The President is
assured Of the public virtue and of the pub
lie valor. But these are unavailing without
the favor Of God. The President thanks
you for the invocations of that Indispensable
support, and he earnestly solicits the same
invocations to all classes and conditions of
men. Believing that these prayers will not
be denied by the God Of our fathers, he
trusts and expects that the result of the most
unhappy attempt at revolution will confirm
and strengthen the Union of the Republic,
and ultimately renew the fraternal affections
among its members so essential to restora-
tion Of the public welfare and happiness.
.ia am, very sincerely, ..s
l your very humble servant,
t. Hl WILLIAM III. SEWARD.
Year: 1861

Why are you lying there, mother,


Under that cold gray stone,
Always out in the wind and rain,


Lying so still and lone?
Little Minnie is very sick


On her lip lies the gathering foam:
Why don't you come and mind her now?


. mother come home come home!
Harry ana |, ere we fell asleep


Last night in our little bed,
Were trying to think what they meant by it,
When they told rs you were dead
When we asked our father. he answered,
The knowledge would come with years,
But his hands were casped before his face.
And under them fell big tears!
Hc said, too, twas because you were good.


mother;


That God took all who were such.
Harry thinks we might get you back again,
If we asked God very much!
But why don't you speak when l speak?


Why don't you come to US now,
To hear US say our prayers at night,


And TO kiss Us upon the brow2
Old nurse cries, and says to Minne,


That with you she soon will meet;
For night after night on the candle


Is a little winding sheet
I'd rather that you came back to us


And loved US as you used to do
But if Minnie is going to see you,


o mother may 80 too?
The morning you spoke to us all last,


When you kissed US each and blessed
You said, | WAS the eldest,


| should also be the best,
And indeed, | try to be good, mother


Since you went meath that cold, gray stone
Won't you come back and see how good am
O mother come home, come home !
Year: 1861

CHARLESTON, Dec. p, 1860.


Charleston is now the scene Of uncom-
mon things. We have the Convention,
the Legislature, the Governor, and We are
the seat of Government, in fact. AS a
matter of course. great many leading
citizens from all parts of the State, and
from other States, are drawn hither. Gov
Pickens exerts marked influence in Civ
ing direction to affairs. He is favorite
with all sorts of people, and more than
anybody else is an embodiment of the rev.
olution. Last evening, the Minute Men
of the city gave him a serenado at the
Mills House. The object was to get a
speech from him-and they succeeded,
The Governor declared that his reliance
was on the military, but said that he was
in possession of information that induced
him to believe that there would be no APP
peal to force on the part of the Federal
authority. At the same time, Should