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sE5F We publish this morning the ma tionaI song written when the enemy with whom our country WAS at war was bonn harding Fort McHenry, and the booming of the guns was ringing in the ears of its author: The Star spangled Banner ~

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SINGULAR FANcIFs.-Napoco7 died in his military garb, his Field Marshal uniform and boots, which he ordered TO be put on o short time before his death. Augustus Ceser chose to die in standing position, and was careful to arrange and dress for the occasion. Sew ard, earl of Northumberland, when on the point Of death, quilted his Led and put on his armor, saying it became not man to die like a brute, but to show bis dignity. Maria Lou. isa, of Austria, the unfortunate cosort Of Ma. poleon, sohrt time before her death fell into a sort Of insensitiIity, and her eyes being clos ed, one of the ladies in attendance remarked that her Majesty seemed to be asleep" NO" said she, II could sleep if | could indulge in repose but l am sensible of the near approach of death, and will not allow myself to be surprised Ivy him in my sleep. l wish to meet my dissolution awake"

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How TO CARE FOR THE HAIR.-As to men we say, when the hair begins to fall out, the best plan is to have it cut short, give 1t a good brushing with q moderately stiff brush while the hair is dry, then wash it well with warm soap suds, then rub into the scalp, about the roots of the hair, a little bay rum, brandy, or camphor water Do these things twice month the brushing of the scalp may be proftabiy done twice week Damp the hair with wa ter every time the toilet is made. Nothing ever made is better for the hair than pure soft water. if the scalp is kept clean in the way we have named. The use Of oils, pOmatums, or grease Of any kind, is ruinous TO the hair of man or woman We consider it a filthy practice, almost univer sal though it be, for it gathers dust and dirt, and soils whatever it tonches Nothing but pure soft water should ever be allowed on the heads Of children. 1t is different practice that robs our women of their most beautiful ornament long before their prime the hair of our daughters should be kept within two inch es, until their twelfth year.-HaTs Journalof Health.

1861

How TO MEASURE TREE.-A mechanic wishes to cut a piece Of timber thirty feet long. lie selects tree but is not certain whether the lenglh will hold out. How shall he ascertain without felIiug it or climbing up to measure it? 4 simple principle in trigo. nometry will answer If two sides Of right angled triangle are equal the triangle will be eqaiIateral. Measure thirty feet from the tree on level surface, cut stick that will, after being driven into the ground vertically, reach up to you eyes. New lie down with your feet sgaiust the stick thus driven into tie ground, aud If the top Of the stick ranges with the place where you intend to saw the tree it will be just the desired length. This principle will hold good for measuring the height Of any oO ject, always remembering to measure the de- sired length from the base of the object to where your eyes will be, or drive in the stick at any place and calculate the length Of the object by the equilateral triangle. Tins, If the distance from the eyes Of the observer is one hundred feet, the height Of the object will be one hundred feet-Educut0r

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PoETIcAL VIEW OF CHILDHOOD We could never have loved the earth so well if We had no childhood IN it-if it were not the earth where the same flowers came up again every Spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as We sat liSping to ourselves on the grass the same hips and haws on the Autumn hedge rows - tho same redbreasts that we used to cali Gods birds" because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monOtony where every thing is known, and loved because it is known? The wood | walk is on this mild May day, with the young, yellow, brown foliage Of the oaks between Inc and the blue sky, the white sarhowerS and the blueeyed speedwcl and the ground ivy at my feot-what grove Of tro- pic pains, what strange ferns or splendid broad pe.alled blossoms, could ever thrill such deep aud delicate libreS within me as this home scene ? These familiar flowers, these well re- membered bird notes, this sky with IFS ftful brightness, these furgowed and grassy fields, each with d sort of personality given 20 it by the Clpricions e0gerOws--such things as these are the mother tongue OF our imagination, the language is laden with all tho subtle incXir- cable associations the fleeing hours Of child hood left behind them. Our delight in the sunshine on the deep bladed grass to dav might De more than the faint perception OF weared souls If il were not for the sunshine and the grass in far of years, which still live in Us, and transform our perception into love.--INW o" tie Floss.

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Mr. McKibben, of Sierra, said he was ner- ponaIy known to most cf tie delegates. and he hoped the part he had taken in the poll tics of the State was familiar to all. lie was not there to say what were his merits, nor upon what ground he was a candidate; for If he had not yet found lodgment in the hearts of the people of California he would rot seek it now. Applause He came SIMPLY to indorse the platform, and to say that there was not one line in it which he mad not indorsed all LIS life. Applause | lie found in it not only strong patriotism, 'ut also the honored principles Oh the Demo- cratic party. 1t was said many years ago that when the Democratic party went down, the Union would go down with it. So they had seen that with its waning fortunes, ca lamlty, peril and disunion had come upon the country. With the defeat of that party night and darkness had come upon the Amer lean people Whether he should be n candi. date or not he would contribute in the con- Nass to rebuild the party, because unon II were centered the hopes of the countrv Applause. 1t was not now question of individuals, nor whether this or that man was the strongest; but the question was The existence of the Democratic party. AS far as he could he would serve the interests of the party, the State and the whole country lie would like to go back to Congress. be- cause there he was dirgraced, and for three years he had rested under the obloquv of having misrepresented Democratic princi- pies. 1t was question of right more than OF honor. He would like to 90 to johnson OF Tennessee, to that good old man Brown. low, who should he made parson of all the armies of the land, [" Good" and applause. | and bear them the news that California had no part in the sectional strife, that she was against the anti-slavery and the pro- slavery party, for the Union, the country the Con- sutution and the laws, and tell them to be of good cheer. There could be no settlement of t9e strife, except on the platform that the convention had adopted. [Applause. After receiving the nomination: Mr. McKibbin, having been called to the platform, said that the Convention could not understand what triumph it was for him. 4. 4. was the termination of long battle, for n'm ;! TO come again into the political arena M"n the Endorsement Of his party. and the i!Snest honor that could be conferred on nm nm Having received the nomination he r"u out one duty more to perform, and that ,o;os war 10 say all he had of energy, anything he nl'sht have of ability, he cheerfully devoted ~ the canvass In the canvass and out of Il tS NV ana for the future, he would stand upon '"e Platform. [Applsuse1

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There were calls for DeLong, to which he responded, thanking the Conyention for hav. ing given him one of the proudest teztimoni- ais of the love of people that any man could obtain. The recollection of that hour would nerve his arm to v:rtuous exertion in every hour of temptation. Every energy he possessed should be devoted to carry their |Ianner and their platform triumphantly through the canvass. Applause.

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DECISIONS or THE SUPREME COURT. OFFICIAL DeeIsiens Of the saprems court ss the j Hehnsssee at Nashville, De- John catrOn vs.. Warren and Moore. :. The question in this ease-is "a to the liability of the plaintiff IN error on contract made bv his wife Mrs. Cstron has separate estate settled unon ba- but the writing instrument under y-h;c5 &c A. rves title was not read in evidence. and the sxact ! nature of the estate the power Conferred 80, her in regard 70 il does not appear Oral evidence / of the existence Of such an estate was received without objection and the fact is conceded in aru,, nent on both sides. On the 24th Of January. 1853 ! at Nashville, where she and her husband resided ! and during his absence in Washington. she in her | own name entered into contract, 10 writing with the defendants in error mechanics Of Nashville tc furnish the materials and erect for her cottage in the village of Tullah0ma, to be used as summer residence, at stipulated price. and 70 be completed by the first day of June next thereafter, according | TO style and plan designated. She also, in like manner, but without writing stipulated price, en- gagged them 70 furnish the materials and erect 9 | kitchen and servants room. Soon after the making of these contracts, namely: en the 18th Of March | 1855 she purchased, with funds derived from her separate estate, lot in said village, and took the deed in the name Of her trustee and had the same duly registered in which the lot was secured TO her sole and separate use, free from the control of her husband, liability on account Of his debt during her natural life, with power in her to sell and con- vey the same upon 4 written direction TO her trus- tee to that effect 70 devise the same by last will and Testament as fezne SOLE Upon the lot 50 pur- in error, under the direction Of Mrs Catrcn and she and her husband took possession of them on the 4th OF July, 1858, and, during the summer months, have resided there ever since. Judge Catron having also, since the completion Of these buildings, caused additional rooms to be made with his own means. Judge Catron was not par ty to the contract SO made by his wife with the de- PENDANTS in error, and seems at the time to be ig- norant of her purpose to have the buildings erect ed. 1t is proved by witness who resided in the family that she was present at some of the inter- views between Mrs. Catron and the defendant in error, Moore, when the contracts were being nego- tiated, and she heard Mrs. Catron tell Moore that she was building the houses out Of her own funds, without Judge Catrons knowledge or ccnsent-that she wanted to surprise him on his return home that he was then at Washington holding Court There is some conflict in the proof as TO whether Judge Catron was at Tullahoma until AFTER the de- fendant in error had completed the buildings and also whether the cOttage-allowing for alterations was constructed according to the contract The witnesses also differed TO the value of the other work. As the buildings advanced Mrs Catron made the defendants in errorSundry payments-the checks and receipts being exclusively in her own name, and ali the transactions in regard to the buildings from first to last until their completion being with her and not her husband-she being considered as the ewner; and the evidence to say the least Of Intends strongly TO show that the tracts were made and work performed upon the credit of Mrs. Catron, and under the expectation that she to pay for it. The defendants in error claiming that there was still balance due them after applying Mrs Catron's payment, on the 18th of October, l857-instituted suit for the recovery Of the same against her and Judge Catron, and obtained judgment against the latter, to reverse which, he applies to this Court Il appears that in November, 1857, after the commencement Of the suit, Warren and Judge Catron, accompanied by Coleman and Hughes mechanics Of Nashville, with view 10 settlement Of the matter, ,Iwent to Tul- lahoma for the purpose Of measuring the work, and ascertaining what was due, and that Coleman and Hughes did measure and esti~ mate the work BY the written contract, which Judge Catron had slong-he pointing out the work to be measured and stating thatit ought TO have been paid for long ago-snd that he could not pay more than the contract price for contract work, and for the other work in proportion. Coleman went at the request of Warren, and Hughs at the request Of Judge Catron, who stated to him that Mrs. CatrOn had contracted for the work and he wanted them to go up and measure it. The result exceeded what Judge Catron regared as right, and he refused to have anything more to do with the matter. In dispOsng Of this case we shall lay out Of view the doctrine upon the subject Of necessaries fur nished the wife (saYe only so far as the same may be incidentally touched as inapplicable to these contracts In genersl-and it was 80 in this case description Of contract during the coverture on her account TO incur any legal liability there on although she is entitled to together with the husband, upon covenants or other engagements that may have been entered into loih her. But the hus- band will be heldable upon her contracts, provided he appears to have expressly or implicitly sanction ed what she has done-she being treated as his agent in making the contract. Even in the of deed entered into by the wife in her own name Of the part and the plaintiff of the other part the covenants therein entered into by the wife cannot be enforced either against her her husband (she not being bound and having no power to bind him with out power of attorney although the covenants that may be entered into tc her by the other party to the deed may be enforced against him in joint action by the husband and wife. But in order that the party who has entered into this anomalous and one-sided engagement, rendering himself liable TO be sued by the husband and wife, but giving him no remedy against them or either Of them, may not have all the burden Of the performances Of it without any of the corresponding benefits, the law gives him right to sue the husband upon q QIdntun merlIi, for q reasonable compensation for anything done under the daed, just the same it had never been made. If, for example, he has per- formed work or labor, rendered services, or sup piled goods upon the faith of 3 covenant for pay ment or remuneration therein contained, be n en- titled to the husband for the fair value Of the work and services, and of the goods supplied, just as il the covenant had never been in existence But then, the husband must have expressly or i'm plicitly sanctioned what she has done--for which purpose no power of attorney is requisite, any more than in.the case of simple contact and the Jury must consider all the facts and ereumstances attending the transaction, whether the engagement be with without writing, to ascertain if this sane tion has been given. If no authority from the hus- band can be shown, the contract does not bind him and it cannot be enforced as we have already seen against the wife, by reason of the coverture, and her inability to contract on her own account during the continuance of the marriage If the things furnished or the work done for the wife be not what are termed necessaries, the presumption of the law is that the husband did not authorize or sent to her contract and in action for the price the plaintiff viii be obliged to prove airmativey that the debt was contracted on the express or implied authority of the husband. 1t IS however, the office of the jury to decide frsm the facts of each case, whether they indicate an assent by the husband to the contract of the wife and it will be very mate rial to consider whether the things furnished, or Ia Dor performed came to the use OF the husband, or was enjoyed by him. II the wife purchase goods or order work to be DONE and the husband, by any act precedent or subsequent, rstifes the contract by assent the husband shall be liable upon it. wheth- er the goods or works for himself, his children, or for his family. II the goods or work, although they have not come to the hands of the husband to his use. are known BY him to have been ordered by the wife, and the husband has made objection to her use and enjoyment of them or given the parties who supply or labor for her any ntmatien Of ldisapproval be will be deemed TO have adopted and sanctioned the wifes expendi- ture, unless it appears that Ehe has seperate in come at her own disposal, 70 be expended by her free from the control of the husband 1t is held to be the duty Of the husband, when he sees his wife iadulging immoderately, in expensive tastes, and knows she has no separate income Of her own to spend in luxures and superhuities to give notice to those who supply her, or labor for her that the outlay does not meet his sanction and that he does not intend to pSy for the goods or work ordered by her And if he chooses to lie by and permit the goods to be delivered or work done without saeh notice and warning, he will be presumed toshave given subsequent sanction and ratification Of her acts which u equivalent m all cases to precedent au- thority. But II, by marriage settlement or other wise, separate income has been settled upon the wife, to be received and expended BY her free from the control Of her husband, the mere circumstances Of the husband being aware of the w1fes possession and use Of the things fruits Of the labor will net fx him with Subsequent adoption and ratification Of the wifes contract even If he express no disap- ha thorn IN

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was all foolish lark - and SO the case ended AS the prisoner was guarded out of court by the police to where the painter was in waiting to receive her, an immense crowd of women followed and jeered her

1861

The New York World pays the fol lowing just and discriminating tribute tt the qualities which characterize the vet an General-in Chief of the United States forces who, it will be remembered, has never lost a battle: Our actual Commander-in in Chief, the Lieutenant General of our Army though as brave as Achilles, is rs serene as Az. amemnon and as prudent as Ulysses. = From his youth he has been soldier and victorious one. He has seen NOR, service than any man under his com. mand. and was never known to be even Disconnected by danger. A strict dis cipllnarian, and something of martin ct, it was iocOsely said of him, in his younger days, that he would drill Il bat talon under fire. Yet General ,ScoT1 is as chary of mems lives as a mlser Of his gold; and SO was the Duke Of Well ington. He never moves, if he can a void it, until he sees not on Y that he can accomplish a good purpose, but un- .il he can accomplish it at the least pos siblc risk of his men. 1t is his avowed belief that an officer who exposes troops to needless peril is guilty of degree OF manslaughter. And he not only thus regards himself as responsible for the lives of men under his command, but he looks after their health and comfort. - He will not accept regiments unless he can see clearly the means to feed, clothc and shelter them. The consequence of this prudence on his part Coined. as it is known to be, with the most daring spirit and great military sagacity) is that, after little experience, men fight under him with entire confidence. They come to believe that if he gives an order it is not one which will expose them to needless risk, or to chances of defeat, if in battle they justify his confidence in their bravery. Through all the excite ment of the past few weeks at Washing ton he has remained undisturbcd. The announcement Of the approach of twenty, thirty, fifty thousand men, be has rccciv- ed with impurturbable incredulity. He knows better. lie knew that Gen Da- Wis could no more march fifty thousand men upon Washington than fifty thou sand witches. He knows exactly what provision is required for the transporta- ton of even thousand men five hundred miles. he knows when to be alarmed and when to reposc in confidence, when torcpress ardor and when to give it way He knows that it is one of the first du- ties Of a military leader to restrain and direct his own enthusiasm as well as that of the men under his command IL is prudent. Nay, he is prudence incar- nate, und so all other eflicacous quail. ties attend him.

1861

Col. Anderson, made the following meet little speech to the scholars of the German Mission Sabbath School in Cincinnati: 4 did not expect, my dear children and friends, when | came here, to be asked to address you, but it is well, perhaps, for me to say few words. | have been placed provldcntlal'y, in position that has attract. ell the attention of our country to me and to my little band. But | would not have Won mlsundcrStand me or my position, and the causes which have led me safely through the dangers by which have been surrounded. - No mortal assistance, no individual aid would hav c sntficed to that end am willing and am not ashamed frankly to tell YOU. my young friends, that no event, no transaction, took place there, in any day, of any Interest or Importance to our cause, without nv first appealing to God in the morning. to give me spirit Of wisdom to understand, that might comprehend His will, to give me strength of purpose and resolution to know my duty to Him and my country. Therefore the credit OF whatever was done does not belong to me. Before left Fort Sumter received letters telling me that | should be in more danger from my friends than | was from my enc mies-that must be careful not to be spoil ed by tattcry. The advice was well timed; but trust God that lie has saved me from the dan gers in which | was placed. Feeling, be- licvEg and hoping thus, confess have not believed in my own mind that | was enti- tied to the least credit for what have done. because God put it into my heart to do that which | did. Therefore, my young friends. would calupon,all of you in the transactions of lie that y1n will be ca He'd upon to per- form, and each individual has transactions to perform as mnmentous to him as what have performed is to me, his eternal happi- ness depends upon it-I would have you all put your trust in God Do that with an humble heart, and you will be blest in this life and prepared for everlasting happiucss in that which is to come. | can say no more

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A patriotic New York gentleman sent to Col. Wilson $500, for the use of his regiment of Zouaves, when the messen- ger put his hand into his pocket to get out the money and hand it to the Col it was gone, he then told the Col. his pocket had been picked and the money stolen. The Col. replied, its all right, l saw the boys in their tent, counting and dividing the money.

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We learned yesterday that the JOURNAL Extra did not reach Woodville regularly. 1t is GER tainly no fault of ours. Three times a weak they are sent by mail, and on those days ccrtain- ly there should be no failure The other two days in the week we have to trust to the citizens of Woodville who are in Fremont to call and get them. If they will signify any way in which they can be certain Of their package, wc will comply with their suggestions.

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PRESIDENT LINCOLN AS PoEr.-Every boy and girl TOO, has to pass through period Of life remembered afterwards for its mumps, poetic fits lovesickness, and the measles. The Presi- dent of these United States was afflicted in n certain degree like the rest of his kind. How he " broke out" we going to let our readers know. The following lines will tell the story:

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| Dec. 18th, 1861. DEAR ENQUIRER Our long talked-of march to Frederick has at length come off, and to all appearance, our present camp will be our per. manent winter quarter. The new tents have ar. rived. They are of the Sibley pattern, five to a company, and are warmed by double cylinder stoves fitted to the center poles which serves as pipes, being hollow iron tubes. do not believe, and say it with all confidence that there is re- giment in the service in better condition so far as comforts and accommodations are concerned than the Fifth Connecticut | When we first arrived in camp, Col. Ferry made us one of his laconic but pithy speeches, in which there were many touches of true mili- tary. He promised to get for the regiment and do for the regiment all that lay in his power, and he asked in return that the boys should prove themselves worthy of confidence. Every intelli. gent man in the regiment knows that he has done his whole duty in the past, and believes he will fulfil his promise, for the future. The site of our camp is in snug nook among the hills where the sun shines cheerfully the whole day long. Before we could pitch our tents, many sturdy monarchs of the forest had to bow beneath the axe and many an old stump had to be dug out with spade and pick. Our boys showed themselves as expert with these tools of peace and civilization as with the imple- ments of war. Your readers can hardly imagine the immense amount of work that is necessary to pitch a camp in the woods But there is feeling of independence quite fascinating in thus clearing claim and locating in the virgin forest l as did our fathers before us The city of Frederick, from which our camp is distant about four miles, is not exactly under martial law, but the military arm is in strong force there. The place is literally filled with soldiers. General Banks Body Guard, Captain Collis' Zouaves and the Sd Wisconsin, whose commanding officer, Colonel Ruger, was by re. quest of the citizens of Frederick, appointed Provost Marshal, are the most conspicuous. If you go into a barber shop or a daguerreah gallery, you have to wait for your turn until ar. tillery, infantry and cavalry are waited upon. After long exercise of time and patience in recent visit, I succeeded in getting No 10 in one of the former, and No. 20 in one of the latter places. To all appearance, Frederick is now strong Union place, and displays the right flag from sl- most every building. The division in passing through, was received with considerable enthusi. asm. Business must have received a sudden i'm. pulse from the arrival of so large body of men. Our boys are not sorry on the whole to be re. licved from picket duty on the Potomac. Many more comfortable situations for winters night can be conceived of, than narrow tow.path be. tween two bodies of water, the river on one side dnu tue cdildl Ou tue Otner, Wltu SChnt Supply of fre-wood. Long after the battle of Balls Bluff, the bodies of our soldiers were found on the islands in the river, and when on picket, less than fortnight ago, l was informed by one of the lock-keepers that he found the bodies of two men on neighboring island, both of them ap- parently soldiers. One of them had the daguer- reotype of a young lady in his pocket, whom the man described as very beautiful. Many a sad story is told by the waifs which the river washes up on its shores, but many more sad secrets are borne along in it bosom to the waters of the ocean. But this is Aggression. Our dress parades make quite sensation among the inhabitants of the neighborhood. The whole regiment is supplied with white gloves, which compensate in great measure for defects in other more important articles of apparel. It seems little like old times in Hartford too see citizens straying about the camp and looking at the parades and drills. The great phrase in Maryland is fright smart The people say, " There is right smart of soldiers about yer, and they'll stay right smart time, l reckon" These idioms please the boys greatly, and you will hear them often firing them at one another. The weather for the past last fortnight has been lovely, more like the balmy days of the In. dian Summer than the commencement of win ter. Even the nights are growing warmer, and I should not wonder if winter were to be left out entirely from the years calendar. Truly Yours, D,

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And now we conclude. If in our Christmas rejoicings we have not those wild and reckless scenes which have heretofore remained it is still hoped we shall celebrate our festival with all the joys which the Church sanctions; that at this season of the year, they whom God hath blessed with this worlds goods, shall remember the poor and needy, and gather around their hearts those from whom they can hope for no reward; thus initiating Him who emptied Himself of all but love- that We might be made rich. With this hope we pray in words still dear to all our hearts, that all may have merrie Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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Nor should we need an Angel now The joyful news to bring, Nor need we yet again to learn Of Angels how to sing. But if my little child should wake At midnight hour, and hear The Christmas ssng of those who watch Without in moonlight clear; Then, like the shepherds, -mayst thou rise Nor tarry till the dawn; For so they sought the blessed Babe, And worshipp'd ere the morn: And thou mayst kneel upon thy bed, And in thy chamber dim, With folded hands repeat to God The holy Angels hymn. THE SECOND IS AS JOSEPH WAS A-WALKING. As Joseph was a-walking, He heard an Angel sing "This night shall be the birthtime Of Christ the heavenly King. "He neither shall be born In housen nor in hall, Nor in the place of Paradise, But in an ox's stall. " He neither shall be clothed / In purple nor in pail, But in the fair white linen That usen babies all. "He neither shall be rock'd In silver nor in gold, But in wooden manager That resteth on the mould" As Joseph was a-walking, Thus did an Angel sing; And Mary's Child at midnight Was born to be our King. Then be ye glad, good people, This night of all the year, And light ye up your candles, For His star shineth clear. And all in earth and heaven Our Christmas carol sing, "Good will, and peace, and glory,' And all the bells shall ring

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q that you fall considerably below my ideal. do not wonder at Edwards disappointment Tears began to fall over the young wife's cheeks. I'm sure, she said, sobbing, that have been to him all that know how to be. 1flove would draw upon me favors and kindness. he would never look at me, as he does, sometimes with cold eyes and clouded face, nor speak in angry impatience, words that hurt, me worse than any blows I But you have not done for him all that you know how to do,' said Mrs. Barton. I fail to comprehend you, mother was re- piled to this. You do not make this home as pleasant as it should be. There seems 10 be no anticipation of his wants. and no provision against discom- fort. Everything is left to your two servants, who do pretty much as they please Why, motherH It is true my daughter. I have looked on with closely observant eyes, since l have been here; and must say that am disappointed in you. In every case that Edward has shone i'm patience in my presence, the source of annoy ance lay in your neglect of plain household duty. It was so this morning and so yesterday. He was annoyed at the burnt steak this morn ing said Martha in answer. That was not my fault, I'm sure. I'm rot the cook It is your place to have competent cook, said Mrs. Barton. If l can find one, mother.' The one you have now is not to be trusted to prepare meal.' I know that but how can I help r,yself?' And knowing that you never went near the kitchen to see that she did not spoil the steak intended for your husbands breakfast. It might have taken you ten or fifteen minutes to super intend. personally, the preparation of this morn- ing's meal, and so made it worthy of being set before your husband but instead of this, you set reading or talking. from the time you were dressed until the bell rang When we went down there was no butter on the table no knife and fork to the dish of meat no salt. or any napkin to your husbands plate. The table cloth was soiled, and you scoded the waiter for not putting on clean one. The meal opened in dis order, which you might have prevented by lit tie forethought, and progressed and ended in an- noyance and bad feeling. Now who was to blame for all this 2 But mother. you don't expect me to go into the kitchen and cook ? said Martha. 'Thc captain who undertakes to sail ship must know all about navigation. Is it more un- reasonable to expect that a woman who takes upon herself the obligations of wife, should know how to conduct a household? Is wo- ltSS IcSpOllSiUlt Ill pUSlGOU tutll l ildH. If so, what moral laws gives the distinction? I have not seen them. The captain does not trust the ship wholly to the man at the helm. He takes observations, examines charts, and sees and knows for himself that everything is done at the right time and in the right place. His thought and his will are active and predominant in every part of the ship, for on him rests all the And it is so everywhere in mans work. You ask if expect you to go into the kitchen and cook? 1 answer yes, in case there Is no one else to prepare your husband s food. If you have an incompetent cook, or one not to be trusted then it is your duty to make up her deficiencies by personal attendance in the kitchen, just as often and just as long as the case may require. You contracted to do this when you became wife don't remember that the subject was even referred to- said Martha, who did not yet see clearly, and who felt that her mothers view of the case actually degraded the wife into house hold drudge Was it stipulated, answered Mrs. Barton, that Edward should engage in business, giving himself up to daily re and work. in order to secure for his wife the comforts of home? 1 don't remember that the subject was even refer red to. And yet it was as much implied in the act of taking wife, as the other was implied in the act of assuming the relation, that you now hold. Do you suppose for moment, that he isn't active in every part of his business. That he trusts an incompetent clerk, as you trust an incompetent cook? Thought. purpose, hands are all busy in his work, and busy throughout every day busy for you as for himself. He can't find time for reading four or five hours eve ry day; nor time to call on pleasant friends; no, no. His work would suffer losses might follow, and comfort and luxury fail for the wife he tolls for. But his wife is too indolent or to proud to go down into her kitchen and see that his food is made palatable and healthy to be present in all parts of his household with taste order neat: ness, economy and cleanliness. don't wonder that he is disappointed and dissatisfied Martha's perception was beginning to be a lit- tie enlightened. She did not make any reply. Let me tell you how I have found it Tn your badly managed household resumed the mother. to better appreciation of things as they really are. Twice, since have been here, there has beer no water in my room, and had to come down in the morning, and get it for mvself.' 'Oh, mother! That is too bad To think Margaret should have been 50 careless! The daughters face crimsoned. Now, if you had been careful housekeeper, or a thoughtful one, you would have visited my chamber to see that all was right there. ou would never have left your mothers comfort dependent on the uncertain administration of a servant Next, the room hasn't been dusted twice since I've been here. My fingers are soiled with eve- rything touch. and am sure, it hasn't been swept under the bed, or bureau, for month"; But this only affects your guests-is only so much taken from their comfort Let us look to some things that involve the comfort of your husband for these are of the highest considera- tion. You asked him, yesterday morning, to get you some pink lined envelopes. He brought them at dinner-tne. He asked you to darn rent in a black alpacca coat so that lie could wearit. Did you do as he requested? No, you read and toyed with fine needle work all the morning but never touched the coat and when he asked for it, what reply did you make? Oh, you hated alarming above all things, and told him he'd better direct his tailor to send for it. The day had become unusually warm, and he had to go out. after dinner, wearing thick cloth coat, just because you had almost wilfully neglected to per. form so light service for your husband. Do You imagine that he never thought of what he had asked? That he didn feel your indifference to his comfort? Your kiss, depend upon it, Martha, touched his lips coldly and your loving words, if any were spoken, were as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals in bis ear. He lock- ed past all lip afrmations and saw the failure in deed. And failure indeed seems to be the rule un- der your administration of his household, instead of the exception. Most especially is this the case in what appertains to the dinner-room and kitchen. The meals are always badly cooked .l ,.,,-,d Tho slovapIiness with which

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SUIT OF NEGRO AGAINST A WHITE GIRL FOR BREACH OF PRoMIsE-A cunning breach of-promise case is TO be tried in Boston next week. Henry L. w. Thacker, acolored gem Heman of some note, sues Miss Ellen l.. M. S. Thompson, white girl for breach Of promise of marriage. Miss Thompson was for several years a servant Or housekeeper for Mr.. Thaeker, and while in that capacity, as she claims, lent him money and trusted him for wages. After leaving his employ and her suit is awaiting the decision of this Able and Jealous counsel have been employed on either side, and the trial will probably occupy two or three days, as many witnesses will be called to show the relations which these parties have held to each other. Should verdict be given for the sable suitor, it will be q novel precedent. I..

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soon as the Towering season is over, about the middle of September, the ends Of the shoots are nipped off to Determine the sap to the fruit The capsules are collected as they ripen, to- dious process, lasting two months then comes the separation of the cotton from the seeds There does not appear to be much difficulty in the process, nor need land be Withdrawn from other crops, for here, wherever water can be commanded, it is distributed, as in Lombardy and Tuscany, among every kind of crop. A little energy, little enterprise, and supply Of cotton seed, would put South Lancashire out of danger, and relieve the whole country from a painful and we'll founded apprehension" The English will evidently no longer rest content with having, ss another London editor expresses it, fee millions Of the population Of Great Britain dependent for bread upon sup ply Of cotton from single region," and that region now plunging headlong into revolution, with all its tremendous possibilities, if not prob. abilities, of civil war and servile insurrection.

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The LEvEE WoRN.-There is said to be species OF worm that eats into the dykes of Holland and occasionally endangers the over now OF the whole country. In the event of an iniuriated warfare between the North and the South, might there not be troublesome animals eating through the levees of the Mississippi in high water? The bare thought is one Of ter. ror.-Frentice Of Louisville

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A WORD TO BUSINESS MEN. This paper has now a circulation in this city larger than all the city papers combined, with the exception of one, and therefore affords q most excellent advertising medium.

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SENATE. The Clerk Of the House of Representatives informed the Senate that the House was ready to proceed to count the votes for President and Vice President of the United States. The Senate then proceeded to the Hall of the House in the following order: Sergeantat Arms. Vice President. Secretary Of the Senate. Messenger with vote.

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How TO TAKE CARE OF THE HAIR.-As to men, we may say, !, when the hair begins to fall out, the best plan is to have it cut short; give it a good brushing with moderately stiff brush, while the hair is dry; then wash it we'll with warm soap suds; then rub into the scalp, about the roots of the hair, with little bay rum, BRAN DIV, or camphor water. Do these things twice a month--the brushing of the scalp may be profit ably done twice week. Damp the hair with water every time the toilet is made. Nothing ever made is better for the hair than pure soft water, if the scalp is kept clean in the way we have named The use Of oils or pomatums, or grease of any kind, is ruinous to the hair OF man or woman. We consider it filthy practice, almost universal though it be, for it gathers dust and dirt. and soils whenever it touches. Moth ing but pure soft water should ever be allowed on the heads of children. 1t is a different prac- tice that robs our women of their most beautiful ornament long before their prime; the hair OF our daughters should be kept within two inches, until their twelfth year.-[HafPs Journal OF Health. ," As1i 1iag p}- 4sa-a as.'lA @i2t1

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/. The ratification of the Conventions of five States shall be sufficient for the establishment OF this Constitution between the States 80 ratifying the same. g. When five States shall have ratified this Constitution in the manner before specified, the O. ngress under the Provisional Constitution shall prescribe the time for holding the election of President and Vice President, and for the meeting of the Electoral College, and for count ing the votes, and inaugurating the President. They shall also prescribe the time for holding the first election of members OF Congress under this Constitution, and the time for assembling the same. Until tie assembling of such Congress, the Congress under the Provisional Constitution shall continue to exercise the legislative powers granted them, not exceeding beyond the time limited by the Constitution of the Provisional Government

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gally assembled in their several Conventions, the Congress shall summon Convention of all the States, to take into consideration such amend ments to the Constitution as the said States shall concur in suggesting at the time when the said demand is made; and should any of the proposed amendments to the Constitution be agreed on by the said Convention voting by States-and the same be ratified by the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, or by Conventions in two-t thirds thereof-as the one or the other mode, Of ratification may be proposed by the general Oonvention-they shall thenceforward form part of this Constitution. But 90 State shall, without its consent be deprived ofits equal representation in the Senate

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1t would be difficult to find in the whole range of fiction more affecting incident than is con- tanned in the following extract from letter written by British seaman to his wife 1t was his first service as soldier, he having been sent On shore with boats crew of marines to silence fort and take some guns: m sgA s a. ssWe dispersed at a few hundred yards, dis tance from the beach to keep the coast clear, while the boats crew made prizes of the guns. The enemy had advantage of the wood, and also knowing the country well aud troop Of them showed in advance. We we're ordered to fire. / took steady aim and fired atmy man at about sixty yards. He fell like stone. l4 - ssAt the same time broadslde from went in among the trees, and the enemy disappeared, we could scarcely tell how. felt as though l must 60 up to him and see whether he was dead or alive. He lay quite still, and was more a. fraid of him than when he stood facing me few minutes before. 1t is strange feeling to come over you all at once that you have killed man. He had unbuttoned his jacket, and was pressing his hand over the front of the chest where the wound was. He breathed hard, and the blood poured from the wound. and also from his mouth, every breath he took. His face was as white as death, and his eyes looked SO big and bright as he turned them and stared at me. shall never forget it. He was fine young fellow, not more than fve-and-twenty. ssI went down on my knees beside him, and my breast felt so full as though my own heart would burst. He had real English face, and did not look like an enemy. What 1 fell, nev- er can tell but if my life could have saved his, believe should have given it. laid his head on my knee, and he grasped hold of my hand and tried to speak, but his voice was gone. could I OF tell a word he said, and every time he went to speak the blood poured out; so | knew it would soon be over. i am not ashamed to say that was worse than he, for he never shed a tear, and | couldn't help it. His eyes were closed, when gun was fired from the - to or der aboard, and that aroused him. He pointed to the beach where the boat was just pushing of with the guns which we had taken, and where our marines were waiting to man the second boat, and then he pointed to the wood where the ene- l-my was concealed. Poor fellow he little tho't how shot him Gown. | was wondering how could leave him to die, and no one near him, when he had something like convulsion for a moment, and then his face rolled over, and with out sigh he was gone. 1 trust the Almighty has received his soul. laid his head gently down on the grass and left him. 1t seemed SO strange when looked at him for the last time. somehow thought of every thing heard about the Turks and Russians, and the rest OF them, but all that seemed SO far off and the dead man so near" Scenes like this are destined, we fear, to be too common in our hitherto happy land.

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There is as much connection between the words and the thoughts as there is between the thoughts and the actions. The latter are not only the expression of the former, but they have power to react upon the soul, and leave the stain of their corruption there. A young man who allows himself to use one vulgar and pro- fame word has not only shown that there is a foul spot on his mind, but by the utterance OF that word he extends TO that spot and infames it, till, by indulgence, it will pollute and ruin the whole soul. Be careful Of your words as we'll as your thoughts. If you can control the tongue that no improper words are pronounced by it, you will soon be able, also, to control the mind, and save that from corruption. You ex- tinguish the fire by smothering it, or by pre- venting bad thoughts bursting out in language. Never utter word anywhere which you would be ashamed to speak in the presence of the most refined female, or the most religious man. Try this practice little while, and you will soon have command of yourself.

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We, the people of the Confederate States, each State acting in its sovereign and independ- emf character, in order to form permanent Fed eral Government, establish justice, insure do mestic tranquility, and secure the blessings OF liberty to ourselves and our posterity-invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God-do or dain and establish this Constitution for the Con- federate States of America.

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NOBLE ADvIcE.-Alex. H. Stephens said the other day at Atlanta:9 lsaS = 10 evs ear 5gg.f be "My friends forget not the soldier Send him contributions to make him comfortable while ne is in the service. Take care of bis family while be is absent. Employ your hands and your sub stance in doing works of charity in thislday of your country's trial. If-any should fall in the battle, remember the orphan and the widow, and take care of them. God will bless you in such noble performance of patriotic duty"

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Ex PRESIDENT PIERCE ON THE Wharf.-The Boston Post publishes letter from Ex-President Pierce, which concludes as follows: a.. ..r, ''The very idea of the dismemberment of the Union has always been to me one of terrible significance Still, if it holds a place in the in evitable march of time-if the noble fabric must totter to its fall-there is / humbly hope no in exorable necessity that its ruins be stained with GORE If our fathers were mistaken, and time has developed in our system, or if the madness of their sons has planted there the germ of an ssirrepressible conflict" which forbids US longer to live together in peace, then in peace and on just terms let US separate. Fearful would be the responsibility of those who would cast the last element of human woe-that of arms for fratricidal slaughter-into the general chaos = The wisdom of man fails may God in mercy guide usn gJ -

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CoNvENIENF AETIDoTE FOR PoIsoE.-HaUS s Journal of Health says if person swallows poison deliberately, or by chance, instead of breaking out into multitudinous and inco- herent exclamations, dispatch some one for the doctor; meanwhile, run to the kitchen, get half glass of water in any thing that is handy, put into it teaspoenful of salt and as much ground mustard, stir it in an. in slant, catch firm hold of the persons nose, the mouth will soon fly open-then down will come the poison. This will answer better in a large number of cases than any thing else. If by this time the physician has not arrived, make the patient swallow the white of an egg, followed by cup of strong coffee, as antidotes fol- any poison that remains in the stomach, be- cause these purify larger number of poisons than any other accessible article.

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The RHINooERos-Hs Peculiar Means of Detecting the Approach Of Mdn.-As these animals depend much upon smell for their existence and safety, it is necessary to ad- vance upon them from the leeward side, if the aim be to get close without being dis covered. In pursuit they always trust for guidance to the same sense, and may be heard foreibly inspiring the air when they have lost the scent ofthe object they are fol- lowing. The ticks and other insects with which they are covered supply them with another means of kno Wedge, inasmqch as they attract number of BIRDS which sit quietly picking them off when nothing strange is in sight, but fly away when any object excites their alarm. So well does the rhinoceros understand this that he goes on feeding with the greatest confidence while the birds are perched on his back; but the moment they fly, the huge animal raises his head and turns it in all directions to catch the scent. Whether he accomplishes this or not, he generally feels so uncertain of his position, from the fight of his companions, that he moves to some other locality.

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EFFECT OF THE ECLIPSE ON THE ARABS The Arabs generally received the announce meut Of the late solar eclipse with incredu lity; but when they saw the prediction full filled, they affected indifference, in order not to acknowledge the superiority Of the Eu- ropeans. But a celebrated Marabout, well known for his hostility TO France, had taken upon himself to declare that the prediction I of the Christians would come TO nothing, and that there would be no eclipse. When the eclipse came on, the crowd turned reproach- full eiances on the Marabout who assured them that ''the sun would not be covered entirely but would continue to shine. When the luminary was completely hidden the enraged Mussulmans began TO throw stones at him, and would have killed him had he not succeeded in making his escape,

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SENATOR MCDoCGALL ON THE CRISIS The Marysville Democrat publishes the following extract from letter written by Senator NcDOugall to gentleman in that citv: The called session will require my departure as early as the first Of June. shall 90 there with the fixed determination to do all in my power to demonstrate that the great expert ment of our ksthers is not miserable failure; that this is in fact Government with sufRsient power to crush out rebellion and maintain hseh intact in ell its parts

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FELLOW CrIESs:-I am informed that, for the pur- pose OF preventing my election to the Office of CITY MARSHAL certain parties circulating the report that have promised TO appoint on the Police, il ! am elected. parties unsuitable for such appointment Such report is intended only to deceive you. The appointment Of the Police is the duty Of the Board of Trustees and not that of the Marshal and you will see that the right sort of men be put that Board Three years continuous service in the Police Of this cityis a sufficient pledge that ifI elected Marshal will faithfully discharge the duties Of the Office. May 4, 1861. b. II. RIDER.

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Some politicians here speculate that the Southern States of America will soon find themselves m such need of strong govern ment that they will take some yOungster Of a royal line to make king of him. Don't you do it; if you do you viii often wish you were back again under the regime Of what Mr.. Ste phens calls the "eorner groceries"

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view, out of the relation of African slaves to the domestic population of the country. Freedom is to them as to all mankind the chief subject of desire. Hitherto, under the operation of the Union, they have practical ly remained ignorant of the controversy, especially of its bearing on themselves. Can we hope that fragrant civil war shall rage among ourselves in their very presence, and yet that they will remain stupid and idle spectators? Does history furnish us any satisfactory instruction upon the horrors of civil war among a people so brave, so skill ed in arms, so earnest in conviction, and so intent in purpose, as we are? Is it mere chimera which suggests an aggrayation oi those horrors beyond endurance when, on ! either side, there shall occur the interven- ton of an uprising African slaye..population of four, or six, perhaps twenty millions? The opinions of mankind change, and with them the policies of nations. One hun dred years ago all the commercial European States were engaged in transferring negro slaves from Africa to this hemisphere. To- day all those States are firmly set in hostili- ty to the extension and even TO the practice of slavery. Opposition to it takes two forms, one European, which is simple, direct abo- lition, effected, if need be, by compulsion the other American, which seeks to arrest the African slave trade, and resist the en- | trance on domestic slavery into Territories where it is yet unknown, while it leaves the disposition of existing slavery TO the | considerate action of the States by which it is retained. 1t is the Union that restricts | the opposition to slavery in this country within these limits. If dissolution prevail what guarantee shall there be against the ! development here of the fearful and uncom- ! promising hostility to slavery which else where pervades the world and of which the recent invasion of Va. was an illustration Mr.. President, l have designedly dwelt so long on the probable effects of disunion upon the safety of the American people as to leave me little time to consider the other evils which must follow in its train. But practically, the loss of safety involves every other form of public calamity. When once the guardian angel has taken flight, everything is lost. Dissolution would not only arrest, but extinguish, the greatness of our country. | Even if separate confederacIes could exist and endure, they could severaly preserve no share of the common prestige OF the | U Union. If the constellation is to be broken up, the stars whether scattered widely apart or grouped in smaller clusters, will thence forth shed forth feeble, glimmering, and lurid lights. Nor will great achievements | | solution would signaize its triumphs by acts of wantonness which would shock and astound the world. 1t would provin- cialize Mount Vernon and give this Capitol over to desoation at the very moment when the dome is rising over our heads | that was to be crowned with the statue of Liberty. After this there would remain for disunion no act of stupendous infamy to be committed. No petty confederacy that shall follow the United States can prolong, or even renew, the majestic drama of ma tional progress. Perhaps it is to be ar rested because its sublimity is incapable of continuance. Let it be SO, if we have in deed become degenerate. After Washing ton and the infexible Adams, Henry and the peerless Hamilton, Jefferson and the majestic Clay, Webster and the acute CAL houn, jackson, the modest Taylor, and Scott, who rises in greatness under the bur den of years, and Franklin, and Fulton and Whitney, and Morse, have all performed their parts, let the curtain fall ! While listening to these Debates have some times forgotten myself in marking their contrasted effects upon the page who customarily stands upon the dais before me, and the venerable Secretary who sits behind HIM. The youth exhibits intense but pleased emotion in the excitement, while at every irreverent word that is uttered against the Union the eyes of the aged man are sufused with tears. Let him weep no more. Rather rejoice, for yours has been lot of rare fell city. You have seen and been part of al the greatness of your country, the towering national greatness of all the world. Weep only you, and weep with all the bitterness of anguish, who are just stepping on the thresh- old of life; for that not greatness perishes prematurely and exists for you, not for me, nor for any that shall come after us. The public prosperity how could it sur vive the storm? Its elements are industry in the culture of every fruit, mining of all the metals; commerce at home and on every sea; material improvement that knows no obstacle and has no end invention that ranges throughout the domain of nature increase of knowledge as broad Us the hs- man mind can explore; perfection o. art as ! human genius can reach and social refine ment working for the renovation of the world. What guarantees will capital in vested for such purposes have, that will outweigh the premium offered by political and military ambition? What leisure win the citizen find for study, or invention, or art, under the reign of conscription nay, what interest in them will society feel when fear and hate shall have taken possession of the national mind Let the miner in California take heed, for its golden wealth will become the prize of l the nation that can command the most iron. } Let the borderer take'care, for tbeIndianwill again lurk around his dwelling. Let the pioneer come back into our denser settle ments; for the railroad, the post road, and the telegraph, advance not one furlong fur ther into the wilderness. With standing armies consuming the substance of our peo- ivolo fha nd l steamers Withdrawn from the ocean, who will protect or respect, or who will even know by name our petty confederacies The American man-of-war is a noble spec tacle. have seen it enter an ancient port in the Mediterranean. All the world won dered at it and talked of it. Salvos of ar tillery from forts and shipping in the har- Dor, saluted its flag. Princes and princesses and merchants paid it homage, and all the people blessed it as a harbinger of hope for their own ultimate freedom. l imagine

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AT West Point the cadets are daily trained to shoot at target with the musket or rifle. They fire ten targets, the size and form of a man. Each squad is arranged in lines, SO that each cadet and each squad is recorded, so that the qualities Of each as q marksman are we'll known to the instructor. While on visit to this famous military school last summer, we paid close attention to the rifle shooting of the cadets. 1t was what may be called in general, loose firing yet we could bot fail to notice how some Of the cadets appeared to be born marksmen, while others appeared TO be naturally inca pabls of learning the art. One cadet, whom we watched, tried in vain to his target at moderate distance Not believing the fault was in himself, he con D aimed it must be in the rifle. He was soon convinced of his error by the instructor taking up his rife and planting a bullet right in the "bulps eye." We made some inquiries of the instructor respecting the quail tiles of the cadets in learning to shoot, when he told US that the youth to whom we have just referred could not make marksman. Chapman, in his book called The Ame1i- can Rifle" states that all men dodge in firing some before, and others just after the shot is fred. The latter class may learn to be marksmen, the former never. In learning to shoot with rifle, person should endeavoI to acquire steady, cool demeanor, with a true, quick eye and nimble finger. Practioe, and nothing but practice, can make good marksman. At the same time mere firing is not the only practice necessary.

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What is to be done with Northera sympa> thizers with treasons You may know them by the piteous winnings with which they deprecate war-by their groanings about coercion" and subjugation," and by their extreme concern about Mr.. Lincoln's viola tions of the Constitution, in his efforts to pre- serve it, although they have nothing to say about Davis effort to destroy it altogether. They are all Of them sneaking hypocrites, and the surest way to judge them is TO watch their faces upon the receipt of news. If it is disastrous to the rebels, their visages at once put on a heightened, solemn look. If the Union army has met with disastsr-if one of our faithful officers has been assassinatad by rebel, their eyes brighten at once. These men, were they in Maryland or Mis- souri,. wouldsmuggle powder andshot to their Southern brethren-would engage to the ex. tent of their courage in driving out friends of the Union and confscating their property or destroying it. But they are where their reasonable sympathies can do no harm and where we can allow them to remain and en- joy the protection of the Government which they would gladly see destroyed. All that we would lay up in store against them is simply a truthful record Of the fact that in the hour of it's greatest peril they stood with the ene- mics Of the Government and gave their SYM pathies to the conspirators. We would have this known for at least one generation, and to this end hope they may be inspired with sufficient courage to place themselves where they belong. They can do it safely.-Har- ris5urg Telegraph.

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A Richmond IVA. journal utters this idle talk: Luckily we cannot too often repeat or too strongly impress it upon our readers, we of the Southern States are wholly independent of all cooperation from foreign Powers We can live and prosper without assistance from any quarter. But not SO with others. The most civilized and powerful nations of tbe globe are directly dependent upon us for their welfare, and even for the subsistence of their people. 1t is this consideration of self interest which will make them our friends. AS we hate the Yankees with hate which every day only serves to increase and inaame we rejoice at any circumstance which tends to multiply their enemies and embarrass their condition. Next to being able to exter- inmate them ourselves, the greatest pleasure we can enjov is To witness their extermina- ton by others. For this reason, it is, we pray eternally that they may be involved in horrible wars with all the Powers OF the earth-be swept from the ocean and be ex- terminated from the land The English, who have come to appreciate the Yankees at his true value, and entertain a just contempt for him. imagine, and probas bly, very correctly, that his doom is sealed. without blow from them. But if that blow is necessary, it will not be withheld.

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AN ACT to define and punish certain con- spiracies. Be 1t enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States or America in Congress assembled, Thet if two or more persons within any State of Territory of the United States shall conspire together to overthrow, or put down, or to destroy by force, the Government of the United States, or to levy war against the United States. or to oppose by force the authority of the Government of the United States or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of the law of the United States or by force to seize, take, or pos sess any property of the United States against the will or contrary to the authority of the United States or by force, or in tlmidation, or threat to prevent any person from accepting or holding any Office, or trust, or place of confidence, under the Uni ted States, each and every person so Offend ing shall be guilty of high crime, and up on conviction thereof in any district or Cir cult court Of the United States having juris- diction thereof, or district or supreme court of any Territory of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by fine not less than five hundred dollars, and not more than five thousand dollars or by Imprisonment, with or without hard labor, as the court shall determine, for period not less than six months nor more than six years, or by both such fine and i'm prisonment. Approved, July 81, 1861.

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Old Kentucky again most gloriously ex- pressed her attachment and devotion to the Government under which we live. "She was the first new State to come into the Un- ion, and she will be the last to go out" In spite of the recent National disaster at Man assas, and the sneaking but vindictive treachs cry of her Senators, Breckinridge and Pow ell, and her representative Burnett-Ken- tucky bas by tremendous vote repeated the verdict she declared in June. Then she gave near fifty thousand majority for uncon- ditional loyalty to the Union, in her choice of Representatives in Congress. Now, with far less important issue before the people, and under greater difficulties, she has given nearly as great a majority for the maintance of the Union and Constitution against the attacks of all their enemies. The new legis. lature is largely for the Union, and compar- ative few of the counties have given decent vote for secession. Kentucky still clings with unfailing tenacity to her ancient faith, and will never be carried over to th cause of treason by the degenerate sons who seek to betray her. In Joseph Holt the Unionist CT Kentucky possess tower of strength, and with such sentinel of liberty upon the ram part, the schemes of her rebel Governor can not avail to plunge her into the vortex Of de- struction.-Bucks County Intelltgencer. GFN. McDowELL's REASONS FOR HIS De- FEAT.-Gen. Mcdowell says that our defeat was caused by the superior forces Of the en- envy. That the men composing our army represented every profession in civil life, but were unacquainted with the rules aud tao tics of warfare. That the teamsters even the artillery could not change their position without creating alarm. Mcdowell also said that be would wager his life that two.thirds of his officers had never before seen can non ball in the air.

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1.-THE following lines, written eighteen year 60, sound like prophecy fulfilled at the presen isis. o! for God and duty stand, Heart to heart and hand to hand, Round the old graves of the land Whose shrinks or falters now, Whose to the yoke would bow, Brand the cravan on his brow Freedoms soil has only place For free and fearless race; None for traitors false and base. Perish par ty perish clan ! Strike together whils ye can, Like the arm of one strong man. With one heart and with one mouth Let the North unto the South Speak the word beftting both What though Issachar be strong, Y o may load his back with wrong Over much and over long. Patience, with her cup srrun, With he1 weary thread Outspun, Murmurs that her work is done. Boldly or with treacherous art, Strike your blood wrought chain apart Break the Unions mighty heart ! Work the ruin if ye will Pluck upon your ewn heads an i'll Which shall grow and deepen still With your bendmand g right arm bare With his heart of black despair, Stand alone, if stand ye dare Onward with your fell design Dig the gulf and draw the line Fire beneath your feet the mine Deeply when the wide abyss Yawns between your land and this, Shall ye feel your helplessness.

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trine by "apostolic Knocks" and puts his faith into the heartiest possible practice One of his quaint sententious paragraphs was that he fought the Democrats six days in the week and the Devil on Sunday" A bitter and "irrepressible" feud existed between him and brother parson OF the same persuasion, named Haynes, for years, but inomitable Brownlow always came on ''the top of the heap" Their wrangle kept their conferences in hot water-and Billings gate had full reign in all their controversies, but the Fighting parson" triumphed and Haynes was turned out of the church. A characteristic story is related of him which is worth reading. Upon the borders of Virginia, there was settlement of rough "hard shelp' Baptists. The Methodists had long essayed to effect Judgement in this quarter, but were summari!y defeated by the decisive mode Of turning their missionaries neck and heels out of the place and this is no very tender or " do as you would be done by" style of christian treatment. With such vigor did these Baptists hold this tower of the Lord, that the Metbodists with all their zeal for propagating the gospel, and their resolute devotion to the great duty, paused before this Baptist Gibraltar. The task ap- pearei to be hopeless one, and no one of the faithful seemed anxious to encounter the risk of personal viooLce- especially as a coat of tar and feathers had been designated as the fate Of the next warrior of the cross who sh ould appear in that region in Metho- dist garb. AT last, however, Parson Brownlow was appointed to the duty of converting these heathens frcm the error of their ways. The Parson was much younger and less celebrated than he is now, but the same fiery and reckless spirit animated him that has since extended his reputation so widely lie knew the risks he was chosen to encoun> ter. and rather relished the novelty and ex- element of this new field. Accordingly, he mounted upon his horse, with the inevitable saddle bags of the Southern horseback trav' eler, be entered the enemys camp, and an nounced his purpose to give the barbarians Of that locality ''a creed of the true doctrine on the holy day to follow" The result was that his horse and saddlebags were taken as spoils. bis person roughly maitreated, and be was turned loose in the "outskirtb" of the place, and ordered, at his peril, never to study daylight in that quarter again. The Parson footed it home as best he might, but soon after re-appeared at the seence of con- test and conflict, with another horse and an. other pair of saddle bags, to commence his labors. His treatment was commensurate with the hearty and religious Indignation of his foes, aud once more the parson footed it home sore and horseless. A third time the irrepressible Brownlow appeared upon the field, to be served about as before only his pertinacity and courage had worked upon The curiosity as we'll as the fancy of a portion of the good people of that section. Some were for hearing what ''the cuss was arter" but be was finally again unhorsed and unsaddle-bsgged, and started home afoot; but be had effected Judgement among those rude people, who loved pluck and grit if they did not love Methodism. Of course he was expelled again. And sure enough the fourth time, with the fourth horse and fourth pair Of saddle bags appeared the perseveribg Brownlow. By this time there had arisen decided curiosity to hear what the "cuss had to say and the parson was allowed to preach. Well suited to the rude congregation before him, he soon won their confidence, and closed decidedly popular man. A dozen invitations pressed him to dinner-a universal request that ne would come again as soon as be could, and full res toration of the value of the lost horses and saddle Bags proved the final triumph of the "irrepressible Methodist" The final result was, the place became the most invincible of Methodist strongholds, and Parson Brown low one of the most popular preachers among them.

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The are all in the army, My three brave, and gallant boys They've changed the peace of homo life For martial pomp and joys. It tore my heart strings sadly To see them march away, But when their country cal led them, / could not say them nay. There's one that grasps true sword, Commissioned to command There's one within the ranks found With nlusket in his hand; There's one, and he's my youngest Whose stirring drum doth beat The faultless martial measure For proudly ste piping feet. Their Father fought before them On many bloody plain At Erie and at Chippewa, At York and Lundy's Lane. o, may his spirit nerve them When in the battles brunt For should they fall, I know then They bear their wounds in front. God shield my three brave darlings Throughout these crimson wars God help them in defending Our good old Stripes and Stars. God speed them on their miss ion To quell the Rebel foe ! With strength, that each arch traitor May need NO second blow. And when my youngest boy beats The loud long roll at night, To tell of foes advancing, And bids them arm for fight, God give unto my other boys, Amid the battles flame, To one-a dashing soul to lead, To one-unerring aim. The list of slain and wounded I'll read with trembling breath, To see how many darling sons Have met untimely de ath. And should mine be among them, And fell they there like braves, I would not wish them holier death, Nor ask them prouder graves

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| impetuosity of your civilians. With every confidence in General Scott and his able corps of engineers, one thing is sure, they have too much to attend to-too many apprentices to oversee. This is no time for idle speculations. Your countrymen mus. be up and doing no time must be lost. Prepare your civilians to act the part of SOL diers. Your President should place an army Of at least six hundred thousand men in the field at once the men have been offered and should be accepted at once an army of two hundred thousand strong should be at Wash ipgton division one hundred thousand stroug at Fortress Monroe. Generals Pat terson and Mcclellan should at once, or as soon as possible, unite and take a conveni- ent distance from Manassas Railroad, in en- trenched, strongly fortified earth works. The Fortress Monroe column should move tow ards point in the rear of the railroad, be- | by certain, unfailing military understanding e, | should all attack the enemy at one time, the same hour. Tbls will be sure to crown your arms with success. At the same time an army should be organized in your manufac- turing States, at least so, 900 strong, to en- bark on board of ships, to attack on South ern coasts ; another equally strong should en- ter the Mississippi river towards New Or leans 100000 good men should be muster ed at the confluence of the Ohio aud Missis- sipi rivers, and 60 South by the latter riv- ers; $4,000 men should be sent through Kentucky, to cooperate with the other d. visions of your very grand army; still anoth- er force of 200 900 men should be held in reserve, to act where their services may be most needed. Such force can conquer : rest assured smaller one may fail. To foreigner accustomed to the rigidity | of individual power, your institutions appear, | if anything, more magnificent than they are. Yours is the only real republican nation that has ever existed, and the eyes of all civilized nations are anxiousIy awaiting the result, to s.s whether your people think the Govern | ment worth sustaining. There need be no fear of any frst-cass | European Power acknow Lodging the indie pendence of the rebel States, without satis- factory evidence of their being able to sus- tain themselves, for many reasons England distrusts Canada, ard sees turbulent spirit in Ireland, only awaiting favorable time to revolutionize besides, she is not entirely confident of her new bed fellow, Napoleon !; and | assure you the latter is too we'll aware | of the existence of the secret Carbonari, and the uncertainty of France, to interfere in any matter where there is no advantage to be de- rived by him. Being on furlough from the Austrian sers vice, with predisposition TO admire the United States, have carefully noted in my travels over many portions of your country, every object or characteristic of your people, and assure you that l cannot imagine any outrage on the part of the Government that could be fagrant enough to cause any of your people to rebel. Yours is mighty country, unequaled in the whole epoch of history, and entreat the people in their majesty to come forward and sustain the au. | thorities. Civilized mankind sympathizes with the North the accursed supporters of human slavery, of despotism, of tyranny, of oligar | chy, are alone in their accursed schemes The unlocked for war may be the cause of very hard times, but the people are or ought | to be ready for the sacrifice. Their late out | pouring of money, men, everything, to sus- tain their good country, convinces me that I | do not plead in vain. Iu this emergency good plan would be to have committe to hire or engage every able bodied man to drill daily; make your city one vast camp for home defence, and, if nec- essary, pay every volunteer two or three francs day. If you nave not the ready money, let scrip, based on the first credit of your city, be issued in such sums as is needed to pay your home forces. Let the pay be ever so small, it would prevent much suffering, relieve the pressing necessities of many, keep the poorest from starving, and, let come what may, would be phalanx strong enough to slaughter any foe daring enough to disturb your quietude. Supposing your taxes would be doubled, would it not be better than to have your city in danger, your citizens suffering from hun ger? A committee of five. or any other num- Der, of your good-hearted, responsible citi- zens in each division of your city, would be appointed to arrange the affair systematical- ly. Though not wishing to doubt the devo- ton Of the citizens of Kentucky, / must say, in all candor, that there are many there of high and low degree who would glory to see the slave propagators conquer. Place your city beyond reach of all such evil disposed citizens. Though devoted subject to his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, whom and whose cause l am ever ready to support with my life, if need be. I offer any knowledge of arm ing and fortifying your city ay possess, without any charge, as my small token of ap- probation Of true liberty, knowing that his

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EDITOR DEMOCRAT In common with the high-toned Southern gentry who, yesterday through the columns of the Express express ell their indignation at that blue-bellied parson who dared to apostrophize the FLAG OF OUR UNION, feel outraged. What right had he, the parson aforesaid, to say that WASHINGTON would have put down treason and traitors? What does he know about a man born as far South as the Potomac Don't we Southern chaps from Oberlin and further North know that every Southern man is secessionist, excepting of course every man who is not? Don't we Connecticut Southrons who have not yet shaken the oats which we used to sell for shoe pegs, out of our trowsers pockets, know that Southern | born men have placed their honor in our keeping? Or course they have; and we, therefore, In their name, protest against all complimentary mention, much less penegyric of the UNION. Have we not been taught to believe that it is League with Death-a covenant with Hellf Now that that dis tingushed Southern Yankee, r. Barnwel Rhett, has adopted the same creed, must we not as true men. of the Oberlin-South stripe. bring all our chivalry to bear against it :? Nothing less can be expected of US and we therefore throw down the gauntlet and defy all comers who dare to say or sing anything about the enforcement of The Constitution the union Of hearts, hands, lands, the Star Spangled Banner, or any other such obsolete twaddle. Away with lackadasical parsons who talk of national memories and endeavor to arouse the fires OF patriotism in the breasts ofall! They commit crime against nature y ours, Indignantly, OBERLIN rel CANADA SOuTu

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CTATE OF MICHIGAN-County of Cass.-ss y At session of the Probate Court for the County of Cass, holden at the Probate Office in Cassapolis, on Monday the twenty ninth day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one Present-Clifford Shanahan, Judge of Probate. In the matter of the estate of John Kindell, deceased. On reading and filing the petition duly verified, of James Apted, praying for proof of will of said deceased. Thereupon it is ordered, that Saturday, the twenty fourth day of August next, at ten Clock in the forenoon, be assigned for the hearing of said petition, and that the heirs at law of said deceased, and all other persons interested in said estate, required to appear at session of said court, then to be holden at the Probate Office in Cassapolis, and show cause if any there be, why the prayer of the petitioner should not be granted And it is further ordered that said petitioner give notice to the persons interested in said estate, of the pendency of said petition and the hearing thereof by causing copy of this order to be pub lished in the Cass County Republican, newspaper printed and circulating in said County of Cass for three successive weeks previous to said day of hearing. G. SHANAHAN, A true copy.1 51- Judge Of Probate. July 20, 1861. e.93ee5 aug1-l5w3i

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WISH tnOSc boys lOVeQ 10 stay at home in the evening"" said mother in my hearing last night; and the sight and look of distress which accompanied her words, told plainly that her heart was deeply panied by the oft repeated absence and she watched their retreat ing footsteps with a troubled counte- nance, and knew not what might be the company they sought, nor what evil influence might be thrown around them. -@i+.- -s..- ''i They were industrious boys of six teen and eighteen, just beginning to fancy they were too large and too old to be louger subject to parental author | ity. They were not vicious or idle, but worked with a willing hand through the day, doing the work of men; but when evening came they sought pleas ure abroad, unmindful of fathers ad- vice or mothers entreaty. / glanced around their home, a comfortable, far mer-like dwelling, where all the wants of the physical nature were well sup piled, but, as it is too often the case, the food for the mind was less abun- dant A few school-books which the boys had never learned to love, Bible and hymn book, constituted the fam lily library; and l was not surprised that they should leave the circle at home, and seek the cheerful throng that were lounging in the store, or to join the vulgar mirth and profane iests that went round the boisterous group. "You are seeing your happiest days with your boy" said a mother to me, as my baby clung to my arm with the sweet confidence of infancy; "you know where he is, and have no anxiety for him now, but when he is older he will be beyond your influence, and 60 you know not where" thought of the old proverb, sTrain up child in the way he. should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it," and | shook my head doubt ingly and said nothing. But we cannot expect children to be like ourselves-steady, old and care worn. Fun and frolic are essential to their happiness, and it is no injury to any one to join heartily in these sports in childhood, and take the lead of their pleasures in youth we shall keep our own hearts young and joyous, make home the center of attraction, and while doing much to educate their mental faculties, we shall find greater salts faction in their society than we posi- bly, can in the artless trust of infancy. A few dollars judiciously spent in books and engravings suitable fol young children, will do much to awak en- love of home; and venture to assert there is nothing which. will have ! a stronger influence in keeping those boys quietly at home than to cultivate ! a taste for reading. Begin early Read to them before they can read fol themselves explain what you read and encourage them to converse with ! you about it. Teach them to observe the common phenomena of nature and to study into the causes which produce the effects they see. A moth : er may do this herself, without being a philosopher. She may awaken theil e curiosity upon the various object: e around them where this curiosity may ! be gratifed; place within their reach 5 useful and and instructive books, and # show by example as well as by precept |, that she appreciates them, and the i pleasures of home will be purer anG y sweeter to every member of the fami . ly, and the children will seldom .hay, It occasion to seek amusements away d from the charmed circle of home. / has been truthfully said, "a good bool !, is the best of company" and the earli : er we introduce our children into tht !, !, society of good books, the greater will be the benefit derived from them, ant the stronger will be their attachmen to the social circle around the evening !. : fire, and there will be less danger o diversion in the society of the idle an( the vicious. But if We neglect to maxi ir home happy, and to furnish entertain y ment for the intellect, be assured tina y the restless desire of the human mine for "some new thing" will frequentl If attract those boys, and girls, too, ava from home in search of amusement Home Magazine.

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mounted rifemen who can fight both on horse back and on fo6t when it is necessary to COM bine rapidity of movement with defensive strength; seems to look with complscency up on the feature Of the Russian system which in ereases the pay of the. soldier with the en- HANGED perils Of the special service, and en- Enthusiastically recommends that there be in scribed on the colors Of each regiment the name of the actions in which it has berne an honorable part, as tending to inspire officers and men to do deeds of courage and bravery. Many other points might be proftably noted. Suffice it to say, these reports on the cavalry service of European nations and the United States are invaluable to all who are connected with or take an interest in this corps of the army. They contain the outlines and most Of the details for q complete system of cav airy tactics. The style Of Mcclellan is terse, clear, and vigorous. As literary compost tions, these reports reflect great credit upon his skill and taste as mere writer. 1t is a singular instance Of the freaks OF fortune and the mutability of human affairs that the cavalry captain who compiled the work we have been contemplating has recently risen to the command of the largest and most powerful army ever marshalled on this continent, whose object is to suppress an armed rebellion of powerful States against the supremacy of the Federal Government, against the inspiring genius and guiding mind Of the man who, as Secretary of War, detailed him to this special service in Europe, and 20 whom he made his report on his return to this country.

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UNION MEETING.-All residents OF Weavervile have noticed the call for Union meeting, post ed throughout our village, to be held at Thomas Hall, on Saturday evening. For the sake of the cause which has prompted this call, and for the reputation Of our county. we trust that the meet ing Will be attended 10y all citizens, party strife and sectional feeling being laid aside, and that a friendly feeling may be cherished by all inter ested Let men who have the good Of their coun- try at heart attend, and assist to the full extent ol their ability in making the occasion worthy of TIE cause. The people Of Trinity county, gene rally, are invited To attend

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LAST MENTIoN.-Let everybody remember that on next Thursday the German May Festival will commence. To all that love to dance and have flrst-rate time, they are informed that if they can't get their moneys worth thore, their dispo- sition for mrth is not the best, and opportunities of this kind are so seldom found that they had better improve the chance.

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President JEFF Davis to the Maryland Commissioners MONTGOMERY, 25th May, 1861. Genemen-I receive with sincere pleasure the that the State of Maryland sympatzes with the people of these States in their determined vndcaton of the right of efgovernment and that the people of Maryland and peace The people of these Confederate States Notwithstanding their separation from their late sister, have not ceased to feel deep socude in her welfare and hope that at distant day, State whose people, habits and institutions closely related and assmated with THEIRS will seek unite her fate and fortunes with those of this Conederacy The of the Confederate States receive with respect the suggestion of Maryland hat there should be general cessation of hostites now pending until the meeting of Congress in July next in order that SAID Dody may possible, arrange for adjustment of exsng troubles by of negotiation rather than the sword but is at loss how to reply without repetition OF the language has used every possible occasion that has presented itself since the est ishment of its ndepend In Difference to the State of Maryland however again assert in the most emphatic terms that its sincere and earnest desire for peace that whilst the government OF the United States tending to peaceful solution of the pending dhcutes the recent attempts of this to enter into negotiations with that of the United States were attended with results which forbid any pro- posals from it to that government. any further of the desire of this government that beng formed of confederation of sovereign States each acting and deciding for ITSELF the right of every other sovereign state to the seacon and self government is necessarily acknowledged. Hence conquests states are wholly inconsistent with the fundamental prn cples and subversve of the very organization of this gov ernment Its policy cannot but be peace-peace with all nations and people. Very respectfully, JEFF. DAVIS. Messrs McKaig Yellott and Harding, Committee of Maryland Legislature.

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WAR OR Two.-The New York Tribune COM ments with characteristic ppancy and bluster on the attitude England has taken the question OF prlva- teering After threatening terrible things if that weak does not change its position and correct the fatal blunder it has fallen into, the boaser says: It will be we'll for all parties if worse comes of it, for war between this country and England, which might readily grow out out it, and which we are in condition to accept-for war or two more or less, would make very little difference to US nov" for long time. But the Tribune is right. The Gov ernment under which that infamous sheet fourshes would indeed, suffer little from half dozen wars than from the one it is now carrying on 1t this war lasts long enough the Yankee nation will be destroyed and if the world were in arms against the mad people, if conId do no more 1t is strictly true, that two more or less, would make very little difference to the LincoInites Charleston Courier.

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The LAST HOURS OF DoUGLAs.-The Chicago Journal says hat for week before his DEATH the amented de- ceased had been only semieonscious Though recognz- ing his friends he unable to locate them, and his mind gave out confused fragments of the great thoughts with which his giant intellect want to grappe. The last week was anxious of hopes and fears, and on Saturday evening more favorable symptoms in spred the belief in his friends that be had passed the crisis and that he would again be spared in this hour, when his country mach NEEDED his strong and his experienced counsels. His physicians men of experience and skill, used every of their profession to take advantage of these favorable symptoms, but in vain At II O'Clock Sunday night be failed to recognize bis most intimate friends and became totally unconscious at O'Clock be commenced rapidly to fail, and bis unwilling physicians pronounced him beyond hope. Their only duty left was mourntu one Of easirg his dying hours. He gradually failed seemingly without pain until eleven minutes past nne when the lamp of life was extngushed without sigh or struggle. His devoted and loving wife re- mained with him to the last moment solacing him as best she could, buried under the weight of the deep aflicton. His death was peaceful and tranquil as the melting away of summer cloud at evening" and the mourning watchers were alone with all that earthly oil Stephen A. Douglas.

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himself he proud of old names and he felt Plea country bis plantations held by old charters or had been the hands of his fathers for several generations and he delighted to remember that when the Suarts were banshed their throne and their country te burpesses oSouh Carolina had soemny elected the wandering Chas hng; OF their State and had offered him asylum and ngenuy in ecturng what would have been result the fugitive had carried his fortunes to Charleston South Carolina contains 1000 square miles, and popu- ation of 720 600 Inhabitants of whom 2S5 900 are black slaves In the old rebellion distracted between revo- utlonary principles and the loyast predictions least half of the planters faithful George ILL., nor did they yield until Washington army support their antagonists and drove them from the colony. In my next letter shall give brief of visit to some Of the planters far be made consistent with The obligations which the rites and rights of hospita ty Impose upon the guest well upon host These gentlemen are well bred, courteous aud hospitable A apply themselves to politics and the guidance of public affairs They travel and read, love field sports racing shots. But after ALL their State is modern Sparts3an arsocracy resting heotay, and with nothing to sincerely to hold opinions in opposition to the opening of the slave t trade it is nevertheless G true that the which prohibited the importation of negroes, was especially and energecay resisted by them, because itself evil and wrong. Their whole system rests on slavery and such they defend it. They entertain very community, although may do full justice military spirit Out of their whole population they cannot reckon nearly 1000 plantations which be, according law, superin nded by white considerable number of the field The planters boast that they raise their crops without any inconvenience by the labor of their groes and they seem confident that the negroes will work without superintendence. But the experiment is rather dangerous, and it will only be tried in the last extremity znoshet Letter MIR. Russell. SAVANNAH MAY l, 1861. 1t s said that fools build houses for wise men to live in" BE that not it is certain that Uncle Sam has built strong places for his enemy to occupy To-day visited Fort Puask which defends the mouth of the sayan take Of ITSELF and the Georgans quietly stepped into it, and have busted in completing its defences that is now capable OF stopping fleet very efecuay. Pulaski Pole who fell in the defence of Savannah against the British, and whose memory perpeuaed in the of the fort which now under the flag and garr soned By bitter foes of the United StaesAmong par ty Commodore Tatnail, whose will be familiar to ears IN connection with the attack on the Peiho forts where the gallant Americans showed the world that I" blood thicker than water Brigader General Law on in command OF the forces of Georgia. and number of 0ava and military officers of whom many had belonged to the United states regular services 1t strange to look at such man as the Commodore, who for forynne long years had served under the Stars and Stripes quietly pre- barring meet his old comrades and friends if needs the battle iedhis allegiance to the country and to the flag renounced his long service flung away his old ties and nectons severed and all this defence the sacred right of )eon the part of his State He not nOw has he been for years, save-owner; all his family and familiar associations connect him with the north. There naval stations the Southern except Pen aacoa and he know almost in the South. He has urune whaever bis feet consists of small river coasng steamers without guns and he said talking the of the south "My will be bleach ed many long before the Confederate States hope to have a navy State rghts To the question is simply inexpcabe absurd And yet thousands of Amer leans sacrifice all tor it. The river at Savannah broad Thames Gravesend resembles that stream very much the coors of It's and the level of shores Rice fields bound it on either side, far down the ruepce of the fresh water extends and the eve wan ders fat eXpanse of mud and water and green Osers and usbe till its search arrested the horizon by the unfain line of forests Ia the fields here and there are the whewashd quare wooden huts in which the slaves dwell locking like tie beginning Of the camp the Crmea At one point small fort covering creek by which gun boats could get up behind Savannah displayed its ga son the walls and lowered its flag to salute the small blue ensign at the fore which proclaimed the presence of | steamer. III guns The paTapet most field pieces mounted on fameworks of wood Instead regular carriages few minutes walk led to the fort which is irregu lar pentagon with the base line curtain face nands and the other faces and bearing on the approaches The curtain which is sim y creme Hated is covered by Redan, surrounded by deep ditch inside the parape of which granite platforms ready for the reception Of The parapet thick and the scrap and faced with solid masonry draw bridge affords to the interior the Redan whence the gate the fort approached across deep and broad moa which crossed by another draw L.idge entered Bedan the guns of the fort broke out into long salute and the bans at the gate struck almost noisy welcome Inside the parade presented of life and animation very unlike the silence of the rolling away and casks of ammunition and provis- IONS others at work at the gin and shears others hongh expecting an immediate attack. Many officers rong under the shade of the open gallery the side of bombproof casemaes Some of them had service in Mexican border warfare had travelled Ita ian and Crmean battle e ds others West Point grad of the regular Army others young planters clerks civilians who mad rushed with ador into the First Georgian The garrison of the fort is hundred and fifty men, and fully that number in and about the work, their tents being pitched inside the Redan the terepen of the rparapets. The walls exceedly solid and well built OF hard grey brick strong ron upwards feet thick ness the casemaes and bombproots being lofty airy and capacous as have seenphough there not quite depth enough between the walls at the salient and the carriages The work intended for hundred and TWEEN ty-eght guns of which about fourth mounted the classmates They are long thirtytwos, with few for tyWos and columbads The armaments will be exceednly heavy when all the guns mounted they get ting the ten-inch coQmblads into position en- 6dr6ee Everth which could be required, except mortars in abundance the platforms and carriages solid we'll made, the embrasures of the admirably constructed and the ventilation of the bomb proof carefully provided for There three furnaces for heating shot. Nor is discipline neglected. and the officers will whom went round the works sharp in tone ant to their volunteers we'll could be- though th often enlisted only for three by the State Georgia. An excellent lunch spread in the casemated bomb prco which served the Coonels quarters, and before the party steamng towards Savannah through a tdeway full of eaping sturgeon and porposes leaving the garrison intent the approach of large ship, whic had her sails aback off the bar and hosted the Stars Stripes but which turned out to be nothing formida BILE than Liverpool cotton ship. The HOURS OF DoUGLAs.-The Chicago Journa

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CAN'T UNDERSTAND Ir.-The way The scales are falling from the Southern eyes In relation to the sympathy of the North for rebellion, is refreshing. The New OrIean Bee, in long article on the subject, admits the fatal mistake of the rebels. Il says. "There is no doubt whatever that an opin ion prevailed among us that If Lincoln should attempt to make war upon the South the conservative element of The North would overwhelm bis Administration, and by time. ly diversions would extend succor TO us. f. was thought that the thirty thousand aati. Lincoln majority in New York city would act substantially with the Sonth, or at all events would exhibit its genuine sympathy with that section by declining TO take up arms in behalf Of the Federal Government. There were not wanting among ua. too. numbers Of shrewd and experienced citizen 4 who calculated largely on the commercial ties. and identity Of the interests between the South and West. and who believed that ultimately Ohio, Indiana and other States in that quarter would be glad to unite their destinies with those Of n Southern Confede. racy. How the Grst blast of the Northerq bugle has blown away those bubbles Of the imaginationlr

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THE LATE FIRE IN THE Coal MNEs.-The Martinez Gazette says: On Sunday the 18th of May. during the absence of the workmen from the mines, it was found that fire had been kindled in the Cumberland Coal Mines, deep down, where they had been excavating and removing the coal for transportation to market 1t was with no little difficulty. and only owing TO the early discovery Of the flames, that the fire was at length extingnished. 1t was at first seen burning on Sunday morning. Had a little longer time elapsed before the discov- cry, il would have been almost impossible to obtain the mastery. and the loss would have been incalculabe How the fire was kinded remains mystery, but is supposed to have been the work Of incendiaries.

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GRAssHoPPER ScoURGE.-The people of Huntsville. at the Western extremity of this county, are complaining of grasshop- per sconrge. These insects have become so numerous on the plains, that they are eating up every green plant and all the leaves from the fruit trees in the gardens and vineyards Of that neighborhood. A few days since a gentleman from that place hired lot of Indians to kill the grasshop- pers that were approaching his garden They worked away for six hours, at the end of which time be gathered up what he could Of the slain insects, and weighing them, found the net proceeds TO be fOrty.two ponuds.-[S San Andreas Independent.

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HUMANE TREATMENT OF SoLpIRRs.-In Wash ton, u few days ago, while Il com pany OF rsgu- ing, one of the men appeared completely exhausted, and could with difficulty make his way along. A Lieutenant OF the company struck him across the shoulders TO accelera a to his speed and this not seeming 10 have the desired effect, gave him vet a more violent blow, which threw the poor man upon the pavement with such force 10 TO destroy one eye against prclec ing stone, aud lett him sense less on the ground. The company then marched on, leaving the unfortunate man in that condition.

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CBsRIcAL biscoyBxv Some portion Of the clerical taleAt at The North have discovered tnat TINS cause Of the defeat at Manassas was owing 70 the fact that the engagement took place on the Sabbath Obtuse minds will fail TO discover wherein II Is worse 70 fight battles than TO preach war on the Sabbath Had portion Of the Northern clergy given q much attention for q tew years past 70 the principles of peace and good neiEnbornood, 40 snRnciatsd in the Bible, they would not have had 70 mourn the dssecrAtton Of the Sab bath BY contendtnS armies.

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DR. WARNER, with grateful thanks, has the honor to inform the ladies and gentlemen Of Memphis, that, through the kind and liberal patronage which he has received from them, he has been induced to settle here permanently and become citizen of Memphis He consid- ers it unnecessary, in this connection, to pub lish the hundreds Of FYGste5.i8sg Ties eSEi7HO5siGIs Which he has received from gentlemen Of the highest respectability, in this city and else where. They are in his possession and epen for the inspection Of all, but the reference be low are OF nature that viii abundantly satisfy all who peruse them.

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As may be seen, insert this week the advertise rneut Of McLlean's Cordial etc. It is very well known we are not particularly favor able patent medicines and general thing, eschew tbs whole of them with but little ceremony, and with these ssnduents we declined inserting this advertise uleut until We knew what were the ingredients Of the medicine, and how compounded This we have learned aud believing as do that the ingredients are good and the compound judciously made, we recommend it as a mixture worthy Of public confidence. The above is from the St. Louis Christian Advoc ate edited by the renowned Rev Dr. McAuallyr which speaks volumes IN favor Of MoLeans Cordial We say to all Try it. See the advertisement in auoror column feb6daw

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We are now prepared to manufacture our goods with dispatch, as our force is much larger than heretofore. We have the best Of workmen, and no effort will be spared on our part to give entire salts faction to all who may favor US with their pat ro,,aC-, nOl0-3m

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sed the Assembly, but the wisdom of the Senate again proved too powerful. In 1860, the people, acting under law similar to those Of 1857 and 1859, took the matter up and acted upon it. The interest manifested in the subject was so general among the people, that party conventions advocated the proposition which does not meet the Governors approval. He 1atIy de- cides the proposition lost, without even con- descending to make showing of the vote; and trusts :hat the good sense and intelli- gence Of the people will not again be ques toned by forcing this subject upon them, which has been sealed so often by public condemnation" By what authority does he decide grave question relating to the SOW ereignty Of the people! He has not even the custody of the election returns. The act requires the Secretary, who it makes the custodian of these returns (and who is an officer in immediate connection with the two Houses), to prepare and lay before the Sen a'e and Assembly, as soon as possible after they assemble in 1861, Il complete abstract of the whole number of votes cast for and against Conventions" as also the votes for members of the Legislature; ma lority of the aggregate vote of the State cast for mem bers Of the Legislature being in favor Of the Convention, said Convention shall he deemed ",o have been called" The report does not pass through the Governors hands. He is not supposed to know the result officially until after the two Houses do, and tie deci sion of the question is with the Legislature. Tie Secretary of State may have present ed to the two Houses this showing Of the votes, but if So it has not been made public; and we object to this Executive dirtation, forestalling of action 10y the proper powers. We have had enough sharp practice In this question. The people have right at all times to consider, alter, revise, or amend, or do whatever else they please, with the ele- mentary law of the State, and they are not to be cheated out of this highest privilege OF sovereignty, by pompous rulings of their servants, shadowy doubts Illuminated by the press, or a wall of technicalites, constructed out of sophistries by interested parties. 1t is generally admitted that a thorough revision of our Judiciary system is ne eded.- This is branch of government distinct and independent of the Executive and Legisa- tive, and if this revision could be made (Nhich we think experience has shown it cannot,) it is not consistent with the genius of our government that the Legislative power should make it--should tear to pieces and reconstruct another totally Independent branch of government, and one too that was intended as a check on the legislative Let us have the report of the Secretary of State, and tie action of the Legislature. Let us have the matter settled openly, fairly, and squarely, the Constitution, the law, and Il decent regard for the inherent rights Of the people alike demand it.

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TRorrING THEM OUT.-The Assembly, in the early part of the week, passed resolu ton to allow the use Of their Hall this eve ming to the Senatorial candidates. in order to give them chance to express their views, if they have any, on the peculiar condition of national affairs. Genl. Jim McDougall, it is said, will avail himself of the privilege, and be trotted out like a school boy to go through his role. This proceeding strikes us as somewhat farcical, but yet it may give the Senatorial question new and queer shape. Who knows?

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the call for Constitutional Convention, when, by the Constitution and law relating to the same he has nothing to do with the matter. Under this head his Excelency says that, "For the third time in the short history of our State, your predecessors deemed it ad- visable to submit the question of revising our Constitution to a vote of the people, and for the third time it has been again de. feated-plainly showing that the people are satisfied with our organic act" Here, the Union, which has been ndefatigable in its opposition to the measure, pats him on the back, and declares him "emnently sound" 1t may be that the measure has failed, but as yet it does not appear. And, in the first place, the measure submitted was not the "revising Of our Constitution" but whether they would take the Incl pient steps to con- slider revsions. Not, whether or no they would revise and amend it-but whether or no they would authorize the holding of a Convention to suggest the same. All admit that i, needs revising; but the enemies of re form cast every obstacle in the way of it, and ra.se all possible technical objections to accomplishing the object in the only feasible and really democratic plan proposed, viz: by the people deputing representatives to a Con- vention for that express purpose. They argue as if The people would necessarily adopt whatever a Convention would utter, and, as if the Convention would necessarily utter some monsrosity, whilst in fact, the real issue is only made on the vote to ratify or reject its work. They suggest all manner of enormities-paper money, extravagant systems Of internal improvements, ETC., etc, and insnuate that the mere giving the peo- pie an opportunity Of considering any i'm provemen:s whatever, will be vote upon and in all probability, the adoption OF, these bugbears. This is not the fact; but if it was so, we are better prepared now to CRAP pie with these monsters-the off pring OF concentrated capital and its cunning friends than we shall be in years to come. 1t is not in old communities where m ney is in the ascendant, that the ballot of the poor man is most efficient for good. But we said the Governor had no right to decide the question now at issue. An officer with his position and inhuenceis wisel V xcuded from meddling with that point-at this stage of the case, at least. The second section of the tenth article of our Constitution says, "if at any time, twothirls Of the Senate and As sembly shall think it necessary to revise and change this entire Constitution. they shall recommend to the electors, at the nert cleo ton for members of the Legislature, to vote for or against Convention, and if it shall appear that majority of the electors, yoting at such election, have voted in favor of calling Convention, the legislature shall, at its next session, provide by law, for calling Convention to be holden, ETC., etc." This section was added to our Constitution in 1856, and is borrowed from the Constitu- ton of the State of Michigan. Un Ter the provisions thereof, tie people of tha. State acted; the Secretary of State submitted an abstract of the vote, upon the one point in issue, viz: for and against Convention; and the Legislature on that showing (here being majority voting for, over those voting directly againsO declared the Convention carried and provided by law for the holding of it, 1t will be seen that unless the Cover nor is required "to make it appear" by showing OF the votes of the Legislature, he has, thus far, no part nor lot in the matter. In 1857, the Legislature passed an act in substance, if not rerbatim, like the one pas sed by the Michigan Legislature, submitting the question to the people. When the Sec retary of State (whose duty it was made by law) submitted "a complete abstract of the whole number of votes cast for. and the number cast against a Convention" there was large majority of votes for over those against, and the friends of the measure in. sisted upon the Interpretation given, under exactly similar circumstances, in Michigan. But the Union, and other wiseacres in and about the Capital, had found new rule by which the will of the people was to be inter preted on this particular question. Some people are so uncharitable to insinuate that those amiable gents, in that vicinity, had axes TO grind; the which, it's said, will oh. scure the otherwise clear perceptions of right and wrong. However that NAV be, the Senate of the ninth session, decided by vote of twenty to ten that the Convention

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PIONEER AND EMPIRE SrABLEs.-Guiou, Towle & Barney have become the proprie- tors Of both these horse Institutions, and have and are fitting them up in a style that shows they understand the business. They have carriages and matched teams that are not surpassed anywhere in the State Their saddle horses are equally as good, and they are prepared to accommodate customers with turnouts that are bound to suit the most particular. They have pride in keep ing the best; and those who have occasion to use their stock will find that it can travel.

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DR.. Flagg, of Cincinnati, weIl known for his connection with Nicholas Longworth in the extensive Production of native wines, | contributes for the Country Gentleman, the following protest against recipes for sugar ed wines 1T is not by mashing up sour. wild, unripe grapes with water, sugar and whisky, that our farmers are to become wine growers, however well the mixture may please the palatcs of unsophisticated women and Children and hard working men, whose olfaetories never knew an 9TH. er wine than Madeira OF American manu- facture, Tell them that good wine is neV- er made Of sugar in any part of The world and that to weaken with water, or strength en- with spirits is downright wicksdaess.- The grapes must be fully ripe, dropping off ripe, and to render them so the vines must grow on stakes or very low trsllises. Tie expressed juice must then be put in to clean ''wine green" casks, and cared :or very much in the same way good cider is managed. This done faithfully, and the product will be wine that will not ferDent over again in the stomacb, deranging the liver and maddling the brain. All tricks of aduIteration and debasement our people will take to naturally enough by mere virtue of their nationality, and without being told. After they shall have learned to make good, pure wine, then they may, for home use, mako cheap beverage in the following way: Into a large cask fling the cheese from the wine press, after all the juice is extracted till the cask is half or two thirds full; then flI up with water and add one pound of sugar to the gallon Of water; let the fermentation begin and complete its work in the cask, and then draw off the clear wine and put it away in as cold cellar as you have, and keep it well filed and closed up Drink it within the year.

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The error of proclaiming a blockade of the southern ports instead of simply depri- wing Of the character of ports of entry is beginning to produce lis natural fruits of diplomatic complications. Spain and other neutral powers have demanded explana- tions as to the jurisdiction of our consuls in neutral ports over merchant vessels un- der the rebel flag; questions have also been raised concerning the delays granted to vessels loaded in the blockaded ports, and also as to the efficiency Of the block ade, England justides her recognition of the rebels as hellieerents BY saying that the proclamation oil blockade is exclusive against an independent government, by the rules Of maritime warfare. Here is quo ted also in defence of this position the phraseology of some of tie communica- tlons from the State Department to Lord Lyons, wherein the National Government is spoken Of as a belligerent, and it is ar gued that if we include ourselves under this name we by that act admit the rebels to the same position All these matters would cause no trouble had a course point ed out by Congress been adopted, by is saing proclamation to the effect that the southern ports were no longer ports of en- try.-N. Y. Tribune

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In the matter of the guardianship of the minor heirs of John Negus, deceased. On reading and filing The petition of Maria Negus, guardian Of said minors duly verified setting forth description of all the real estate of which said ed died seized, and the condition and value of the spectve portions thereof, that it Is necessary to sell portion thereof for the support ard maintenance OF said minors and praying that license be to her grant ed sell portion of said real estate. And appear ing by said petition that there su cien person al estate in the hands of said guardian to support and maintain said minors and that it is necessary sell portion of said real estate 1t is therefore ordered that all persons interested in said real estate appear b fore the Judge of this Court on Monday the Ith day of October next at II O'Clock A NJ, at the Court House in the village of Jefferson. and show cause, if any they have, why IL cenSe should not be granted to said guardian sell said real estate according to the prayer of said petit ton -..-s> -F And IT IS further ordered. that copy of this order be published for three successive weeks prior to said day of hearing, in the ssWatertown Republican, q weekly newspaper, published at Wrtertown, in said County. Dated the 24t h day of August A. D. 1851. By the Court, SAMUEL BAIRD. sepoW3 County Judge.

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The Ashtabula Sentinel says: VIII those papers who have been so free ia their remarks concerning this County please inform their readers that this county will have one Regiment in the Geld before the 9Th OF May. Remember there are no large towns in this county. Our citizens are mostly farmers, and men who can leave home, but by leaving their business undone.

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Was beautiful day. The wind and dust were disagreeable enough in the forenoon, but the dash of rain which interviewed dismissed the one and settled the other, and the calm and sunny afternoon was truly glorious. The religious observance of Good Friday, by the Catholic population, was as extensive as ever. The Catholic cathedrals and churches were crowd ed morning, noon and evening, with devotees of all ages and nationalities; and mutitudes Of those who profess no religion were in attendance, silently observing and hearing the solemn and i'm pressive religious ceremonials of the day. At the St. Louis Cathedral, the masses were especially impressive, and great crowds were in attendance at the different hours of the solemn ceremonial

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Recorder Emerson's Court, by many degrees the dirtiest and worst-furnshed courtroom in the city, got an unexpected washing by the dash of rain which came along yesterday afternoon. The edge of the roof being torn away, in the course of the repairs now going on, the rain came through the ceiling in streams, washing one whole side of the room, and giving the reporters corner an especial drenching-for which we are thankful. Had the rain come along an hour two earlier, it would have broken up the court proceedings.

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Can the painter linn, or canvas portray, a aadder thought than this Passing along one OF onr most crowded thoreughfares, few days since, we saw bright looking little fellow, of some ten years of age, claspng the hand of his reeling, intoxicated father. The feeble strength of the child was taxed to the utter most in the guidance of the father. We caught, in passing, the remark, "oh we'll soon be to jackson Square. There we can sit DOWN." Brave boy, may the future color the picture with more mellow hue.

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and missing. Sergeants should be careful chat the names on their respective rolls have been origin ally placed there with due regard to their correct orthography as it must be intensely annoying to the spirit of defunct warrior to know that, after | having laid down his life for fame, his name has | been misspelt in the paper that announces the sacrifice that he has made. The term missing is pleasantly and conveniently ambiguous, as it may either signify that the individual has been taken prisoner or that he has run away, and should the latter supposition have been the caae, it is by no means necessary that his friends and all the world should know Of his little "accdent." A judicious officer will, therefore, place his name under the | above head. | As soon az it has been officially announced that such and such parties are not expected to rejoin | their comrades at mess again in this world, young men with any degree Of enterprise and spirit, will, without delay, proceed to appropriate any little | creature comforts or spare change that their | lamented friends may have left behind them; but until the list has been issued officially such pro- | ceeding is deemed premature, and "hands off, should be the word. In view of these sad chances of war it is well that every man should at the mencement Of campaign, look about him and find out some one whose size is about his own and, consequently, one whose clothes he can wear with comfort he should also discover if their tastes be similar as to the size and stiffness of brstles of the article toothbrush, if they use the same style of soap, ETC., etc-and having once marked such q man. spot the spot where he slows away his kit, and by attention to this rule after the first action, those that are left will absolutely roll in luxury, while those that are gone, will scarcely miss what they left behind them. We know that there is a proverb which tells " It's i'll waiting for dead mans shoes" but we question whether it extends to his drawers, his brandy flask and his toothbrush, and now, should it do SO, it must be remembered that the proverbs of civilians criterion of what should or should not be done by military man. After an action, during which the officers of Infantry corps gallantly remained full five PAGES behind the line of their men, there are Of course many promotions made, with the accompanying increased pay and rations, while the newspapers TEEN with interesting anecdotes of GOODNESS and selfposseasion; how Lieut.. Smith, in the very heat of the combat, asked one of his gergeants for piece OF tobacco; how Capt. Brown, in voice entirely free from tremor, commanded some one else to go somewhere and do something that was dangerous; and how General Robinson heroically and originally remarked, "Victory or DEATH" And then the officers of cavalry! Who would not be dragoon? True it is that horses require much attention and care, but they repay you for it q thousand times; for be you as arrant a-but no. we will not use such word. Supposing, therefore, that you be nervously timid il your horse be well-trained charger, and you do not become so nervously frightened as to fall of, your reputation is at once made. You are seen charging at the head of your troops yoG do not return till they do, having been in the thick of the fight, and 4n5 20 MO Your horse at night gets his quota Of OATS instead of which, in the same ratio that you were pro NOTED, he should, according to his actual merits, be made brigadier-general. How many officers are there, with huge epaulettes dangling from their shoulders, which said epaulettes, if justly awarded, would be hanging on the shoulders of their horses. We ask, how many; and echo majes- tically replies" Oh, ever many" And meanwhile these poor privates who have been standing up in front and loading and firing at will, Or what is more probable, very much against their will, what is to be done to reward them for the courage and devotion they have ex- hibited? Simply nothing they canno; all be made officers, and hence the question, does it pay for man brought up as a gentleman and accustomed to the Injuries Of life, to go into active service as private? We think that we hear readers monosyable "No" Nor does it to go forth Civ ing MP home, friends, comfort, and perhaps life, for your native State when the powers that be refuse to give you the proper accoutrements and necessaries of life, and fit weapons to protect the lives that.are offered in their service. While the volunteer corps of New Orleans have been for months straining every nerve to perfect themselves in drill that their services might be the more vau Had iIn fhny O0fth corps have expended their every spare dollar to meet the many expenses which ripen such an Or ganzation, the Louisiana Legislature has been too much occupied passing bills of personal aggrand- izement, and of nature peculiar to State Legisla tures to lend even helping hand to these young haryesters in the field of glory. They will neither repay them what they have been compelled to lay out of their outfit, nor will they even give them safe proper or efficient arms 1t is all very well to say, place your trust in the God of Battles,n but he personally would pre- fer, besides the trust aforesaid, something besides musket that will either not go off at ALL or else will explode at both ends at an unexpected mo- ment As we are writing this, of our finest companies have left the city an excursion of pleasure. May the god of target excursions watch over them and send down merciless rains just about the time they are going to shoot at that tar get. for if those muskets go of, many gallant Young soul will go off with them. This. company will probably return, but we fear will return to us decimated We have digressed somewhat from our subject, this being the farewell chapter of Hints to Young Campaigners. viii not some one soon fill their place by Hints to Old Legislators. -~e s~------ | An EDITOR IN TRoUBLE-The managing editor of one of our sporting, journals was arrested a night or two since, and taken to the Fourteenth

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1 Pecniiarities of the Blind. | Those who have closely observed the conduct Of | the blind must, we imagine, have been sometimes startled with the precise knowledge they appear 10 possess OF what is going on around them. 1t would seem as though some new sense had stepped i IN to supply the want Of the faculty which, b1iey nave lost or have never possessed. We know that this is not the case, and that the ready powers of | perception and appreciation which sometimes as fonish US are the results of that finished educaioa OF the other senses, which is in manner enforced | upon those who live in perpetual darkness. We snail Jot down few instances which have come | within our own observation and knowledge, and | which, while interesting in themselves, will serve 70 lil13trate the operation of what some writer's in alludlng to this subject, have wrongly termed the | sixth sense. | poor, blind pensioner who travels London daily to call on his patrons for their contributions, | and whose rounds are not much short of hundred miles per week, on being asked how he finds bis | way abou5, tells US that on starting from home he counts the tnrnings and crossings, however nu- merous they may be, perhaps over Eve miles route until he arrives at the street or row of build ings which he wants. He then +" sticks it,, or counts the houses by their entrances with his stick until he comes to the right dwelling. This once certified, is never forgotten; for, IL he should | chance to miscSunt, he would be made sensible of his error by the different shape of the beilhandle, the knocker, the railings, some triling peculi- arlty in the doorstep, etc. which, though they might escape the observation of ordinary persons, are obvious enough to the blind. / the sound of their football, and will not allow them to pass him without giving them the good day.'' | He can always tell when he is passing house or | houses of two, three four stories high, by the difference in the sound Of his own step, or of the ! touch of his stick on the flags. He knows the trees by their odor. grocer's shop, a chemists shop leather-cutterFs or butchers, is palpa- BILE to him as milestone to traveller or liaht- house to sailor. II he s put ont of his reck oning, it is through meeting friend and having gossip until he forges himself in this case he has either to 60 back or forward sticking it," until | he has recovered one of his landmarks This poor | fellow has perambulated London alone for twenty years, in all weathers, with other guide than bis stick, yet is never known to lose his way. If the reader will compare these facts with his own ex- perience in the dark VITA the cases Of persons who lose themselves in a London fog, in neigbbor- hoods with which they have long been well ac- quainted, he will see sufficient cause to marvel at | the resources of the blind. friend of the writer, attending church on a Sunday morning in village where he had arrived | the day BEFORE encountered blind man cropping | at the principal door, which, for some cause, hap | pened on that day to be closed. Our friend took | him by the hand, and led him in at side door. After the service he led him out; but the blind man was quite nonplussed, "Wil you be so good as TO put me where you found me first ?' he said; and he was conducted back to the front door. Having certified himself of his position by touch, he at once set off for his home which was at three miles distance-our friend accompanying part of the way. When they had walked something more than a mile along the road the blind man stopped, "Will you have the Kindness he said, to put your hand behind that hurdle in the hedge, and lift ont | my walking stick? I always leave it there when go to church" Now the man had been talking all the way from the village, and he could not have been counting his steps or his invisible landmarks, | and there appeared to be nothing whatever in the level road which could have indicated to one stone blind the exact spot on which he stood. As onr friend lifted out the stout cudgel, which certainly did not look at all like church-going article he asked him he could tell SO precisely where he was. | iS n n he nd ma "and that causes lull in the air, because it stops the current; L always know when come to the | tree.n I-- Not many months back, q traveller was riding, on | one of the bleak and stormy nights for which the | past year will long be remembered, over dreary district of hill down and dale, in central Yorkshire. lay in the teeth of the wind and tempest, which threatened to sweep him from the road. As he struggled on, the night grew dark and the storm more furious. Not relishing the idea of being be- | lated that wild spot, he set spurs to his steed and, trusting to the animals instinct and foot edness galloped through the darkness towards his destination. He had reason to repent of his pre- cipitation, for the horse dverged from the track, and became entangled in clump of gorse and | shrub, and he hmseswas thrown, but fortunately, | without any serious injury. He was able to mount again and recover the path, and proceeding more cautiously arrived at the village inn where he in | tended to put up about midnight. Here, on dis mounting, he discovered that he had lost his watch which had been severed from the ribbon that Il | the ground among the gorse where he had been thrown. He grieved at the loss of valuable tme-piece, and bemoaned his misfortune with the landlord. There was poor blind man sitting in the bar, who Immediately rose and volunteered to go in search of the missing watch. The case appeared hopeless to the traveller, who could scarcely de- scribe the spot where his misfortune had overtaken him, and who deemed the attempt to recover it on the part of a blind man as supremely ridiculous; and, indeed, he limited as much. In spite Of this encouragement, however, the blind man seized his staff and set fourth in the midst of the wind ard the pouring rain. He knew the district better than the traveller did. He traversed the six miles of stormy heath and mountain, and, needless Of the driving scud, commenced his search. Having ar. rived at the spot he set his ear to the ground and CROPPED through the gorse in all directions; the wind howled and the long grass whisled around him, but amid those wild and melancholy soundshe was able at length to identity the still small ticking of the watch, which he recovered, placed in his ! bosom, and brought back in triumph. Here is an exploit riyaling almost the fairy feas of Fine ear himself; it is one however, for the truth of which we can vouCh while it is which it is most GER tain that none other than blind man could have | accomplished. | 1t is probable that, in most blind persons, that faculty of the mind which phrenologiBts have sup posed to be demonstrated by the organ of locality, | must be exercised and perfected to eXtraordi- nary degree. A blind workman, if he use a score or more of tools, always places his hand on the | right one when wanted and will tell in IN instant, | and even after q considerable lapse of time, whether his tool.box had been tampered with, or the arrangement Of the implements altered. The perfection of this faculty is sometimes exhibited in blind chess players, who generally attain to re- narkabie proficiency in the most complicated of | all games. We have seen boys of tender age, and who were born blind, playing this difficult game in a mastery way, and generally checkmating their more mature antagonists. Their sole guide is their ! sense of touch and it is astonishing to note with what rapidity they ascertain all they want to know by this means. BY merely laying the palm of the hand and the tinger-tips on the pieces as they stand, they master in moment the position of the contending forces, aud, without being Informed of the adyersary's plans, make the necessary dispo | son to defeat them. | PRESCRIPTION FOR A FASHIONABLE LADY. = | Madam, allow me to prescribe for you. have had long experience in the management of deli. cate women, and believe can give you some i'm /! porant advice. For the present, prescribe only | for your feet: ~

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Capt. Kountz and his company were out last night. We were out with them, and it was so late when we achieved the brilliant success of getting back to No. 70 Camp street. that we are compelled to defer our report. Well have someth ing to say about it on Monday.

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rights are, or that they are really willing to assert them in the face of opposition The wheels Of society are so profuse!y oil ed 10y custom, that most persons grow up in the belief that it is probably right to do What everybody e|a9 lacs, that fashion is queen 10y divine right \ proper school education would be very effective i'll overthrowing such cnfeaLling notions; the teacher could by judicous questions and familiar illustrations. induce his scholars to think for themselves, to consider whether it is wise to surrender their own opinions and conscientious con Victions to the clpric;ous dictations of pop ular fancy. Children should be taught that it is their duty to study into every thing within the range Of their thoughts, that this is one Of their Heaven bestowed rights, and should be most iealo Isly main tanned. This right is superior to all mere courtesy, and still need not check the flow of genial cordiaIity toward all; it is indi vidual, my personal gift from Sod, and must be guarded well. II teachers would instruct their pupils. as opportunity offered, in their rights and in the Just regard which should lie cher ished for the rights Of others, the peace and happiness Of society would be greatly augmented, every just ENACTMENT would find far more intelligent and cordial sup port, and whatever might be deemed ty- ranical or impoltjc could be far more wise ly and efficiently opposed. Is not this matter worthy OF the serious consideration Of teachers and Of the community? S.

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Every woman has right to be beauti- tu}; that is the secret Of her power. her mission, the key which unlocks her desti- ny. But while she has right to be beau tiful, she has no light to be its opposite that IS an injustice to society, which has right to expect from her its lovcliness, its a.aeo and attraction. There are many diff -rcat kinds Of beauty, and it is a great mistake 10 imagine that ii consists wholly. U5 .oior, form, or texture. There IS the beauty OF innocence and the beauty of truth, the beauty Of childhood au1 tla beauty Of the matron, the beauty of wis dGu and the beauty of simplicity. The lowest kind of beauty is that merely physi- cal perfection and splendor which receives no aid from voice, look, or expression, but Is married by tie action OF the mind upon its fair and smooth surface. just as the mud is stirred in a shallow pool by any slight circumstance which touches its depths The ideals Of the ancient poets are all beau tiiul, bat the characteristics are distinct and separate, so that there Is DO Hat and wearjsome samcness; and the beauty Of form with which they are endowed is sim ply the vehicle or expression OF the men I'll idea they wish to convey. Thus, the serene maCton, the brilliant coQuette, the imperious queen. the tender and delicate maiden, the timi4 young wife. and the thoughtful nurse, have all an individuality OF the;r own, to which their outward ap- pearancc is the visible sign and index Their dress should naturally correspond to these mental and physical Indications so as 10 preserve sense OF musical harmony and fitness throughout the entire structure There is nothing that disenchants as soon as the discovery Of folly, Ignorance, stu pidity, bad temper, or vile passions be- meath fair and seductive form The pos session Of any fine and noble qualities, on the contrary, illuminateS the plainest fea- lures and dullest complexion much better than scores Of costly powders and cosmet- les Women who desire to be beautiful make great mistake in trying to increase their attractions, or make themselves charm ing, after any other persons pattern. What IS adapted to one style would destroy the effect Of another; and for every woman to adopt an arbitrary mode or standard of dress is fatal to the aggregate Of feminine beauty, whose great charm Is variety. 1t is natural to have admiration, power and influence, and almost all women may not only obtain these but retain them, by being themselves in the very highest and most perfect sense Of which they are capa- bic, instead of weak and diluted imita ton of somebody else. When the fresh ness of youth and girlhood has departed, let them be succeeded, naturally, by the matured grace of womanhood, and these by the dignity of middle age. The afec- tation Of pretty coquetries aud Juvenile simplicity by sallow specimens of ancient spinsterhood-o worse; by women who bear the name of wife and motherhood not only outrage all true ideas Of taste and ! propriety, but deprive those who indulge in them of their natural claims to attention and consideration. When all women are natural and true, then they will all be beau tiful

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mouutaincers, aud he generally starts on such expeditions before sunrise. lie makes a very light break fast, merely piece of bread and a slice Of cold meat or cheese, which he eats like peasant, without sit. ting at table; but he always makes a nearly jlnrer, laying aside all etiquette. without court or chamberlains On Sun day, the day Of general reception at the palace, the doors are thrown open at | o'clock, aud anybody who feels disposed may enter till three If any person des- Tres 4 private audience, he must apply by letter, and on the morrow or following day will surely obtain it, for Victor Emanuel opens all letters himself One day. when out shooting he met peasant, who, on seeing the king bring down two partridges, right and left, with his doubIe-ba -barrelled gun, went to him, and said: You shoot we'll, you do 1t was not a miss was it 2 responded the king. PERHAPS YOU could rid me OF q fox that steals my hens - Most willingly III you do. will give you two lnutte.' (2e.) Agreed, said the king. i will come tomorrow morning With my dog and shoot your fox Give me your hand on it, said the man. The king immediately shook hands with him, and, true to his word, went the next morn ing, found the fox, and snot it. Thank God for that exclaimed the peasant You have fairly earned your two mute, and there they are The king took them aud said This is the nrst money ever earned The next day IN exchange for the two mute, his majesty sent a dress, necklace and earrings for the peasant wife 1t is impossible to be more easy Of access than is Victor Enamel. He goes out alone on foot, and enters the theatre at the public door, One day the FORTRESS at Ag- nes theatre caught gentleman in the act Of pu6iug the smoke Of his cigar at her cat, which he had found in the corner and kept there. Rushing forward to rescue her fayorite, she seized the tormenter by the arm, and on his turning aronnd, rccog- nized the king

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Retri5utige Justice.-After the attack of the Charlestonians on the Star of the West, a brisk controversy was carried on through the local press concerning the person who was entitled to the credit Of firing the first shot at that vessel The end of the dis pute was the recognition of one St. Clair Morgan as the man who did the deed. st. Clair Morgan wore his laurels proudly, but after enjoying the praises of all Charleston for a season, he betook himself to Florida. At Pensacola, on the 2Ist ultimo, he had a deadly quarrel with an officer Of Captain O'Harra's company, belonging to Bragg's army. a challenge was given, duel was fought, and Morgan fell dead at the first shot. The bail from his antagonists pis- tol entered the lower part of the abdomen and passed entirely through his body. So died St. Clair Morgan-the first man who fred hostile shot in the South.

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e2Babies are quick to perceive the high value put upon their silence, and use their cry as an instrument of offence and defence-erying to depraoate some things, or to obtain a concession of others, oftener than from any sense of pain. But the sooner they are given to understand that to raise their Ebenezer is not a sure way to gain their object, the better for all parties concerned. This is best done, not by chastising them-for this is to excite a

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4 few weeks ago the Rev. Mr.. Brown, formerly a citizen Of this county, deliver ed a sermon in the Methodist church Of this borough. After the delivery OF the dis course proper, the gentleman arose and spoke of the delightful spirit Of peace and harmony which characterized the dclibera- ton Of the East Baltimore Conference du- ring its last session at ChambersbuTg, and then speaking of the lamentable difficulties which were producing so much painful ag- itation throughout the length and breadth Of our nation, he offered up a short but ell oquent prayer to God for the preservation of our liberties and the restoration of IA tional tranquility; and then thrilled his au- dience with the following: [ am in deli cate health, and painfully apprehensive Of the dismembsrment of this Union. re- quested my family ere I left Baltimore, in case it pleased God to remove me from this world while war and treason distracted the country, that they should forbear, as Is Gus tomary, to wrap me in shroud or winding sheet, but that they should envelope me IN the folds of the flag of my country, that the stars and stripes which | SO ardentiy loved on earth should go down with me to / the tomb. / Standing before the large assemblage OF peonls With hair whitened by age and eyes

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REACTION IN EAST TENSEssEE.-From the Knox vile Register of the goth, we learn that the Union men of East Tennessee, under the influence of Liucolns late manifestations, are coming over in crowds to the Southern cause. They give proof of their sincerity by the voluntary manner In which they come forward and especially by the fact that they bring their guns and give them up to the Con- federate service. The subjoined letter from one of them shows that many of these people may have been acting from sincere conviction, and the whole affair is another proof that moderation and not blood thrstness should rule in dealing with the frailties of our felow-men: " -.. MARYYIIE Tenn, Dee H. 1851. Gen. VIM H. Carroll! Commanding b ,igade Knoxville Dear SU-Having heretofore failed to realize fully as | now do, that the separation between the Government of the United States and the people the Government of the United States having failed to extend its authority and protection over the peo pie of the State of Tennessee; and believing that obedience and loyalty should be commensurate with the protection afforded by any Government, am willing to, and now do pledge myself against any act, word or deed, of any kind that would in any way directly or indirectly initiate against 1.-The Government of the Confederate States, or the peace and quiet Of the community in which live, and will give said Government support commensu- rate with the authority and protection it now eX tends or may hereafter extend over me, in com mon with all good citizens of the same. | hereby transfer Myself property, honor, and everything pertaining 10 me, to The Confederate Government to the same extent heretofore regarded them due | to the Government of the United States.

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TOTAL INpEPENpENCE-As an instance evldene- ing the determination throughout the South to be completely emaneipated from the Northern con- troll we give the following item from the Peters burg Wa.) Express, of the 18th. Though the pro- scrihed in this case was q Delaware man, and we yet have some hopes of Delaware, we welcome the event as indicating healthy tone of feeling The large force Of workmen at the Petersburg car and locomotive foundry, on Old street,, We're on a strike for about two hours yesterday morn ing, because of the appointment of James Myers a native OF Delaware as foreman of the foundry 1t was the opinion of the hands, that as the south is now fighting to be independent of the North, 1t is due to Southern citizens that Northern man should not be placed in high position over US. Matters took such a serious turn at the foundry, that it became necessary for Mr.. Myers to resign or be removed, which was DONE and after some little delay, everything resumed its wonted sereni tY. There was no strike for money-nor did money have anything to do with the disturbance. The Woikmen were not satisfied to have North ern superintendent, and openly expressed their discomfort and refused to work under him.

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THE TELEGRAPH.-E one was expecting to hear further news last night from the vicinity of Drainesyille, but were doomed to disappointment. The telegraph, ,,from some at present unaccount able cause, was entirely silent. Possibly the labor necessary to forward such an immense amount of trash as we have recently been afflicted with, has been too great for the physique of the operators, compelling them to desist and recuperate. great institution is this telegraph! Chained lightning and bottled thunder! Little truth and heaps of blunder!!

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Congress as proper to be enforced, do sug. gest. that it will be much safer for all, both in Office and private relations, to conform to, and abide by all those acts which stand unrepealed, than to violate any OF them, trusting to find impunity in having them held to be unconstitutional. 1t is seventy-two years since the first in auguratiOn OF President under our present Constitution. During that period, fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the Exec utive branch of the government. They have conducted it through many perils, and gen. orally with great success, yet with all this scope for precedent, now enter upon the same task, for the brief constitutional term of four years, under great and peculiar diff clties ARGUES THE RIGHT OF SECESSION. Disruption OF the Federal Union, hereto fore only menaced, is now formidably at tempted. l hold that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the union of these Sites is perpetual. Perpe- tuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all ma tional governments Il is safe to assert that no government proper, ever had provi- sion in its organic law, for its own termin- alton. Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever it being impossible to destroy it except by some ac> tion not provided for in the instrument it. self. Again, if the United States be not government proper, but an association of States, 10 the nature of contract merely, can it, as contract, be peaceablY unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to contract may violate it break it, so to speak-but does it not re- quire all, to lawfully rescind it. THE LAWS SHALL BE FAITHFULLY EXECUTED Descending from these general principles. we find the proposition that, in legal con- temptation, the Union is perpetual, confirmed, by the history of the Union ITSELF The Union is much older than the Constitution. 1t was formed, in fact, by the articles of association in l774. 1t was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in l776. 1t was further matured, and the faith of all the old thirteen states expressly plighted and engaged, that it should be perpetuated, by the articles of confederation in ITS; and finally in 1881, one of the declared OBJ jects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was to form more perfect Union. Now if secession by one, or by part only of the states, be lawfully possible, the Union is of less value than before the constitution was formed, for it has lost the vital element OF perpetuating itself. 1t fol- lows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully go out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of vic lence within any State or States against the authority of the United States, are in- surrectionary and revolutionary, according to the circumstances. | therefore, consider that in the view of the Constitution and laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability, shall take care, as the COnsti- tuition expressly enjoins on me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this, deem it to be only simple duty on my part, and shall per- form it so far as practicable, unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means, or in some authorative manner, direct the contrary. HE WILL PROTECT THE PROPERTY AND COL LECT THE DUTIES. l trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as declared purpose that will constitutionally defend and main tain the Union. In doing this, there need be no bloodshed or violence, and there shall be none, unless it be forced upon the national authority. The power confded to me will be used to hold. occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government; to collect duties on imports; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using OF force against or among people anywhere. DOWN SOUTH. Where hostility to the United States, in any interior locality, shall be SO greatand so universal as to prevent competent resident citizens from holding federal Offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people, for that object. While the strict legal right may exist in the Government, to enforce the exercise of these Offices, the attempt to do so would be so irritating, and socially impractical withal,. that deem it better to forego ior time, the uses of such offices. WILL NOT STOP THE MAILS. = The mails, unless repelled, will continue to be furnished in all points of the Union. So far as possible the people everywhere shall have that sense Of perfect security which is most favorable to calm thoughts and reflection. The course here indicated will be followed unless current events and experience shall show modification or change to be proper, and in every case and exigency, my best dis cretion will be exercised, according to cir cumstances actually existing, and with a

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FeHoav Citizens Of the United States :-In compliance with custom as old as the government is itself, appear before you to address you briefly, and to take in your presence the oath prescribed by the Consti- tuition of the United States, to be taken by the President before he enters on the execu tion of the duties of bis Office; but do not consider it necessary at present for me to discuss those matters of administration aodut which there is no special anxiety or excitement. REPUBLICAN PARTY NOT HOSTILE TO THE SOUTH QUOTES THE CHICAGO PLATFORM. Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of Republican Admins tration, their property and their peace, and personal security, are to be endangered There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed, and been open to their in spection. 1t is found in nearly all the published speeches of him who now ad- dresses you. l do but quote from one of those speeches, when l declare that 81 have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to inter- fere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists" l believe l have DO right to do so, and have no inclination to do so. Those who nominated and elected me, did so with the full knowledge that I had made this and many similar decara tions, and had never recalled them; and more than this, they placed in the platform for my acceptance, as a law to themselves and to me, a clear and emphatic resolution which | now read. Resolved, That the maintenance inviOlate of the rights of the states. and especially the right of each state. to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own Judgment exclusively, is essential to that bal ance Of power on which the perfection and en- durance of our political fabric depends, and we denOunce the lawlesS invasion by an armed force, of the soil of any state or territory, no matter under what preteXt, as among the gray est OF crimes. WILL DEFEND THE SOUTH AGAINST "JoHN BROWNS" now reiterate these sentiments. In doing so only press upon the public attention the most conclusive evidence Of which the case is susceptible. that the property, peace, and security OF no section are to be in any wise endangered by the now incoming ad- ministratiOn. [ add, too, that all the protection which consistently with the Constitution and the laws, can be given, will be cbeerfulIy given to all the States when lawfully demanded, for whatev- er cause, and as cheertuly to one section as to another. THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW. There is much controversy about the de. livering up of fugitives from service or la Dor. The clause | now read is as plainly written in the Constitution as any other of its provisions: No person held to service or laoor in one State, under the the laws Thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regula- tion therein, be discharged from such SER vice Or labor but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due" 1t was intend. ed by those who made it, for the retaining of what we call fugitive slaves, and the in tention of the law-giver is the law. all the members OF Congress swear their support to the whole COnstitutiOn-to this prOvi- sion as much as to any other proposition. Then, the slave whose case comes within the terms of this clause shall be delivered up. Their oaths are unanimous. Now, If they would make the effort in good tenn per, could they not, with nearly equal unanimity, frame and pass law by means of which to keep good that unanimous oath. 4? There is some difference of opin> ion whether this clause should be enforced by National or State authority but surely that difference is not very material one. If the slave is to be surrendered, it can be of but little consequence to him or to others, by which authority it is done. And should any one, in any case, be content that his oath shall be unkept, on merely un- substantial controversy as to how it shall be kept. PERSONAL LIBERTY LAws-s0UTHERN OUT RACES ON NORTHERN CITIZENS. Again, in any law upon this SUBJ iect, ought not all the safeguards of liberty known in civilized and human jurispru. dence, to be introduced, 80 that freeman may not be in any case surrendered as a slave? And, might it not be we'll, at the same time, to provide by law for the en- forcement of that clause in the Constitution which guarantees that the citizens ofeach State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States" RECOMMENDS OBEDIENCE TO THE LAWS. / take the official oath to-day, with no mental reservations, and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws

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We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretched from every battle field and patriotic grave to every loving heart and hearth-stone all over the broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

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the national troubles, and the restoration of the fraternal feeling. That there are persons in one section or an other, who seek to destroy the Union at all events, and are glad of any pretext to do 1t, will neither affirm or deny but if there be, to such, | need address no word 10 those, however, who really love the I'm ion, may not speak, before entering upon so grave matter as the destruction of our national fabric with all its benefits. its mem. ories, and its hopes ? Would it not be wise, to ascertain previously, if it is we'll to haz ard SO desperate step, while there is pos sibility that any portion of the ills you hy from, have no real existence ard the GER tain ills you fee too, are greater than all the real ones you fly from? Will you risk the commission OF so fearful mistake? MINORITIEs AND MAJORIrIEs. Ali profess 10 be content in the Union, ifall constitutional rights can be maintained. Is it true, then, that any right plainly written in the Constitution has been denied? l think not. Happily the human mind is so constituted that no party Can reach 10 the audacty of doing this. Think, if you can, OF slugle instance in which IA plainly written provision OF the Constitution has ever been denied. 1t, by the mere force Of numbers, a majority shall deprive minority ofany clearly written constitutional right, it might, 10 moral point OF view justify reyo- luton. 1t certainly would, if such right was vital one; but such is not our case. The vital rights of minorites, and of indl- viduals are so plainly assured to them, by the atfirmations and negations, the guarantees and prohibitions, of the Constitution, that con- lroversy never arises concerning them. But DO organized law can ever be framed with a provision specially applicable to every question which may occur in practical ad- minis ration. No foresight can anticipate, nor any document OF reasonable length con- tain, express provisions for all possible ques- tions. Shall fugltives from labor be sur rendered by national or state authorities Z? the Constitution does not expressly say Must Congress protect slavery in the Terri tories the Constitution does not ex- pressly say. .-.t I-, From questions of this Class, spring all our constitutional controversies, and We divide upon them into majoritles and mi norities. If the minority will not acquesce, majoritles must, or the government must cease. There is no alternative tor cOrtinu ing the government but acquiescence on the one side or the other. If the minority, in such case, will secede rather than acqui esce, they make precedent which will 10 turn, ruin and divide them for a minor ity of their own will secede from them whenever majority refuses to be controlled by such minority For instance, why may not any portion OF new confederacy a year or two hence, arbitrarily secede again, precisely as por. tlOns OF the present Union now claim the right to secede from it? All who cherish dsuniOn sentiments are now being educated to the exact temper of doing this. Is there such perfect identity OF interests among the states to compose a new Union, as to pro. duce harmony only and prevent new seces> sion? Plainly, the central idea Of secession is the essence OF anarchy. A ajority held in restraint by constitutional check and limitation, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinion and sentiments. is the only true sovereign of free people. Whoever re- jects it does OF necessity fly to anarchy or despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of the minority, as permanent argu- ment, is wholly inadmssible. So that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form, is all that is left. THE SUPREME COURT AND ITS DECISIONS. l do not forget the position assumed by some that Constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court, nor do l deny that such decisions must be binding in any case, to the parties to suit, as to the subject Of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consid- GRAFTON in all parallel cases, by all other de partments Of the government, and while it Is obviously possible that such decisions may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be overruled and never become precedent tor other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of deficient practice. 1t is duty from which they may not shrink to decide cases properly brought before them. tits no fault of theirs, if others seek W turn Cneir 0eclSlOnS 10 political purposes. THE "ONLY SUBSTANTIAL DISPUTE" One section of our country believes slavery is right and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute. The fugitive slave clause in the Constitution, and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are as we'll enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be, in a community where the moral sense OF the people, imperfectly supports the law itself. The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligations in both cases; and few, or over, violate them in each. THE EVILS OF DIsUNION. This, l think, cannot be perfectly cured,

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separation of the sections than before. The foreign slave trade, now imperiectIy sup pressed, would be imperfectly renewed without restriction in one section, while fu gitive slaves, now only partially surrendered would not be surrendered at all by the other Physically speaking, we can not seperate we can not remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impossible wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and 60 out OF the presence and beyond the reach OF each other, but the different parts of our country cannot dc this. They Cannot but remain lace to face and intercourse, either amicable or hostile must continue between them. Is it posi- BILE, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory alter sep. aratiOn than before? Can aliens make treaties better than friends can make laws Can treaties be more faithfully enforced be- tween aliens than laws can among friends Suppose you 60 to war, you can not fight always, and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either you cease lighting, the Identical questions as to terms OF intercourse are again upon you This country with its Institutions, he ongs to the people who inhabit it; whenever they shall grow weary OF the existing govern ment they can exercise their constitutional rights iu amending, or through their revolu- tlonary right to dismember or overthrow it. | cannot be ignorant of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous that it should be amended. While make no recommendation, [ full. ly recognize the full authority OF the people over the whole subject to he exercised in either OF the modes presented in the Con- stitution itself, and l should under existing circumstances favor either of them offered. A lair opportunity being offered the peo- pie to act upon it. will venture to add, that to me the Constitutional mode seems preferable 10 that it demands amendment to originate with the people themselves in> stead OF only permitting them to take or re- ject propositions originated by Others not es> pecialy chosen for the purpose, and which might not precicely suit as they would wish Others to accepr or refuse. understand a proposed amendment to the constitution, which amendment, how ever, have not seen, has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic in stltutions of the states, including that OF persons held to service. To avoid miscOn- struction of what have said. depart from my purpose not to speak OF particular amendments, so far as to say that holding such provision now TO be i'm, lied IN the constitutional law,I hope 10 one will object to its being made expressly irrevocable. The Chief Magistrate derives all his authority from the people, and they have conferred none upon hlm TO Tx the basis tor the separation or the states. The peo, pie themselves can also do this if they choose, but the executive as such has moth ing to do with it. His Guty is TO adminis- ter the present government as 1t came TO bis hands. and to transmit it un- lmpairei by him to his successor. Why should there not be patient con fidence in the ultimate justice o. the people Is there any better Or equal tribunal in the world Tor The settlement OF our present dlI' ierences? Is either party without faith OF being in the right? 1t the Almighty Ruler of the Universe, with His eternal truth and justice be on your side, you will surely pre- vail by the judgment OF that great tribunal the great American people. By the lorm OF the government under which we live, this same people have wisely given their public servants but lit { power for mischief, and have with equal wisdom provided for the return of that little to their hands at very short Intervals. While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administra. tion, by any extreme wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space OF iour years. My countrymen, one and all, stand Calmly and dwell upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there can be any object to hurry any OF you in hot haste to a step which you never would have taken deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time, but no good object can be frustrated by it. Such OF you as are now dissatisfied, still have the old constitution unimpaired, and on the sensitive point of the laws of your owni framing under it, the new admins tratiOn will have no immediate cause, if it would, to change either. If it were ad- mitted that those ofyou who are dissatisfied hold the right side Of the dispute, there still is not single reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance On Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still compe- tent to adjust, in the best way, all our pres ent difficulties. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen and not mine, is the momen- tous issne of civil war. The goverement will not assail you You can have no con- tiict without being yourselves the aggres- sors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy this government, while shall have the most solemn one to pre- serve, protect, end defend it. l am 10th to do 90. We are not enemies, but friends.

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concerned either imperfeotly understood OF unknown. For this error the British Gov ernment has 8 right to expect the same reparation that VIC as an independent Slate should expect from Great Britain or from any other friendly nation in q similar case

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GEN SHIELDS, the Illinois hero of the Mexican War, in a recent lecture in Sacramento upon the Character, Life and Tines OF Gen. Jackson said: "Oh, if we could only recall him Gen Jack SOM now, said The lecturer, from that cold tomb If God could send him to us for eight years or even eight months, to be replaced in the Prcsi DENTAL chair and again to rouse the cry "The Federal Union it must be preserved" But we have no such men. In all this wide land, amid this fever of dissolution You have not only not one man but not one combination Of men that can call up and unite the great heart of the American people, Here we are, Brccknridge mon, Douglas men, Bell men or Republicans, scrnmbling after little places here or there. while the whole ex- stence of the Union is threatened. They are fighting about their places upon the floor when the house is on fire. They are scramblng about the pantry instead of getting buckets and fire engines to save the building. They are like the Legislature of Louisiana, which was wrangng about door keeper, while the British columns were marching against New Orleans. /" / do not know how Andrew Jackson would act in this crisis | dare not say-but believe that at any hazard he would execute the laws, and let the consequences be what they may. 81 do not want a mutated Republic. | want the whole. Some say Let South Carolina go ~ give you my word that if am called upon to select an army will leave all such men out Of my ranks. The man who talks that way thinks he is a gallant heroic fellow. "Let South Carolina 90, she is an annoyance anyhowW The man does not see far into that millstone. | am a military man in small way, and tell you if one regiment can rise up in mutiny and be per- mitted to march out Of the camp, with colors flying and drums beating would not give a pinch Of snuff for the army it would leave behind. al only say this / am not for a Southern Republic. nor for a Pacific Republic. am for an American Republic, one and ndyisible."

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THE EYE.-Van and forgotten are all the fine offers of hospitality, if there is no holiday in the eve. How many inclnations are avowed by the evc though the lips dissemble! ! How often does one come from a company in which it may easily happen he has said nothing that no important remark has been addressed to him, and yet in his sympathy with the company, he seems not to have sense of this fact, for a stream OF light has been flowing into him and out Of him through his eyes. AS soon as men are off their cenfers the eyes show it. There eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blue berries. There are liquid and deep wells that a man may fall into there are asking eyes, and asserting eyes, and prowling eyes, and eyes full of faith, and some of good ard some of sinister omen. The power of eyes to charm down insan- ity or beasts. is a power behind the eyes, that must be victory achieved in the will before it can be suggested to the organ but the man at peace or unity with himself would move through men and nature, commanding all things by the eye alone. The reason men do not obey us is, that they see the mud at the bottom of our eyes. Whoever looked on the hero would consent to his will being served he would be obeyed.- Emerson.

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AN EFFEcTUAL CURE FOR THE EARAcnE. - Take a small piece of cotton batting, OF cotton wool; make depression in the CEN ter with tho end of the finger, and Oil il with as much ground pepper as will rest on Ave cent piece, gather IL Into ball and tie up, dip the ball into sweet oil and insert il in the ear, covering the latter with cotton wool, and use bandsge or cap 10 retain It in it's place. Almost instant relief will DO experienced. and the application is so gentle that an infant will not bo injured by It, but experinee relief as well as adults. So says an exchange.

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aB-Tho most intimate friends of Con. Scott have no hopes that no will ever return alive TO this country, many oven anticipa- ting that if the sea is rough he may not sur vive the voyage He was very feeble on tho day of his departure. There is sadness 10 the thought that he may die in foreign land. .- ,... ... ....

1861

Thurlow Weed, till of late, the head-deyil of antSa very agitation now, whether mieu by remOr.e or ter ror-srcken at the consequences of his own mischief makog among the most Jealous advocates Of compro- mise, and willing to make almost any concession required TO the tremendous emergency la late issue of his paper Albany Evening o'Tnai) after de- Tending himself against the ngs and jeers Of some Of his late coaborers he says: "This glorious Union in the perpetuity Of which the hopes Of many millions garnered up in which the welfare Of unborn and untold millions lis concerned-is worth ALL and than all that offer it its behalf And So too he lives imperled, the blood that to be she'd the wives that are be widowed and the chill dren that be orphaned worth immeasuraby more than the sacrifices Of opinion and pride hat would cost IN fham

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The ANALGANATIoN OF LANGUAGES is a grow ing tendency in this age to appropriate the most i've words OF other hnguages and after while to nco- porate them into own thus the word Cephalc which is from the Greek, gnifyng "for the head" is be- coming popularz in Connection with Mr. Spaldng's great Headache remedy, but it will soon be used in = general way and the word Cephalic will become common as Eecrotype and many others whose dsiinC- ton as foreign words has been away by common usage until they native and to the born"

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