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* for the liedJ'oril Gairlte.
Sido Glaiicos at the Fashionables.
No. 2.
Man is a gregarious animal, lie is fond of
the society ot his fellows. From his advent in
Eden down to these latter days of Mormonisra
and Secession, his history is written In the chron
icles of families, tribes, societies and nations.
It is bis normal condition to be social, for soli
tude is a penance to his spirit that is endurable
only when some greater evil drives him from the
companionship of his brothers. Hut this nor
mal condition of the human mind, like a young
tree full of sap, has its exuberances of growth,
which blacken in death, when the tlusli of the
unnatural causes which produced them, passes
away. Such are the prejudices and animosities
which spring tip between religious sects and po
litical parties. Th y are the offspring of unnat
ural excitements, drawing tense, for a lime, the
liotrLj- which hold together particular societies,
but perishing at last, leaving nothing but allies
and dust to crumble in the grasp of those who
once lung to them fondly. Such arc the fan
ciful freaks of fashion, whose hints are the stat
utes of modern sociality. Such are the lines
of distinction drawn between the rich and the
upright poor : between the descendants of weal
thy and aristocratic ancestors and those who tire
denominated -parvenus by established respecta
bilities. Such are many of tho rules and ma
ges which govern the arrangement and manr.ee
ment of social parties, and which seem to be
particularly the speciality of the little village in
which I live.
It is not long since tlint I found myself stand
ing bolt upright in a room "filled to overflow
ing" with other persons, of both sexes, also
standing. Room for locomotion there was none.
In fact you could scarcely find space enough to
straighten up one knee when preparing the other
for its relaxing rest. The people in the room
talked and laughed, and laughed and talked, the
ladies at the piano sang and played and played
and sang, the silent folks in the corners, mused
and and ctcuod itiul vf t **
seemed that the chief purpose of the assemblage
was to ascertain how much standing up could be
done, in a given time, in a common sized villng ;
parlor. Of course I enjoyed myself hugely.
Cross eyed people always do. Hut as they an
swer those who speak to them without apparent
ly looking at them, and, as their eyes seem to be
glancing everywhere in general and nowhere in
particular, it is always hard to tell, from their
physiognomy, on what particular subject, or in
what particular manner, their thinking appara
tus is employed. For my own part, my enjoy
ment, 011 the occasion referred to, did not con
sist so much in any indulgence in the general
source of amusement, viz: standing on one foot
tmil resting the other, as in the absorbing sense of
wonderment which seized upon me at what I
saw and heard. I wondered that some men and
sonic women couM be so vain and weak as to
believe themselves the wittiest and most intelli
gent persons in the room. I wondered that any
person should come there for the purpose of hav
ing her faultless neck "and shoulders (that one
day must lie shrouded, whatever fashion may
say) made the gossip of sarcastic and wanton,
tongues. I wondered that the human voice,
tuned by the hand of G*d himself, should, for
fashion's sake, be affected into squeaks and quiv
erings, ''like sweet bells jangled out of tunc and
harsh." I wondered that Irid)*should vie with
lady in richness of apparel, when her fellow
creatures nre suffering for want of bread, and
when her husband or father owes poor men
debts lie cannot or will not'pay. I wondered
that in society thus composed, the yearnings of
the heart should be utterly stilled, the lover for
the sake of propriety, keeping aloof from his
love, the husband playing the agreeable to the
wife or daughter of his neighbor, and the wife
smiling languidly upon some other cavalier than
the lord of her bosom. Filled with astonish
ment as I reflected upon those things, my con
sciousness fell into a' trance, from which I was
awakened by a sharp punch in the region of the
fifth rib. 1 looked, and behold the standing
committee had resolved, itself into a committee
of the whole 011 the state, of the supper table,
with leave to stand again after supper, and were
now elbowing their way with all possible speed,
toward the dining-room. I was about to ex
claim with the, preacher of old, "Vanity of van
hies. all is vanity!" but when I beheld the mu
nificence with which the kindness of the host
and hostess, had prepared thrir table, how scru
pulous and assiduous were their attentions to
their guests, and how kindly and generously all
this was intended, I could only excuse the la v
ish extravagance, and say to myself, "Well, it's
the fashion!" CROSS EYE.
Purity in those who rule must, ever keep a pro
portionate place with the progrtss of knowledge
m those who obey.
It isn't so bad to be too young for dignitaries
as too old • time will destroy the first, objoction,
but confirm the second
VOLUME 38.
SEW SERIES.
IMF CiIRRESPOMME.
CAMP NF.AU JAMES JIIVKH, July '<32.
Rut: —All lias been excitement with us for the
last two weeks on account of Gen. McClellan
f making a strategical movement, and changing
, the front of his army.
On the 2ffd of June, (Monday) McClellan en
gaged the enemy on the right and drove them
in, when lie commenced changing his position
before Kichmond. lie had three days hard
fighting. 'Chore was great loss on bolh sides.
When the army fell back over the Cliiekahomi-
mndci another stand, and had two
days heavy fighting there, while the main army
was still moving on across the AVhiteOakSwamp !
where wo were encamped. This point, was 011 j
the extreme left wing of the army. On Satur
day, the 28th v our division got orders to move
neross the swamp. All was ready. We mov
ed off, for the other side of WhiteOakSwamp,
in the direction of James river, 011 the Charles
city road. AVe were marched about three miles
he other side of the swamp where we wcro
thrown oft the road into camp, to await the
coining on of the balance of the army, as we
were to be the rear guard of the army from this
point. "Not the rear guard of the imperial ar
my of France," but the rearguard of the grand
ariny of the Potomac. AVe passed the night
quietly, excepting the tramp 01 troops moving.
.Sunday morning came and with it was a little j
excitement for Sunday morning. A squadron !
of cavalry had gone down the road a piece, re- j
connoltreinp, when they were attacked by 100 •
rebel cavalry which brought them into camp "a I
jumping." They enrne up the road after our 1
fellows like a pack of ftends, yelling and hallo-j
ing until they rode on a snag that was in the I
way. We had two masked batteries planted j
down the road a piece, and just as the last ofi
oar fellows got past them and the front files of!
the rebels came tip, the cannoniers let loose 011'
them and canister among them. It i
made "a seafterment," you better believe. They '
killed about 25 and took 18prisoners. Among!
the prisoners was one major and several other
officers. The major was loading them. The
major was wounded so badly that lie died short
ly after he was taken. The balance of the day '
was quiet, except fellows looking through regi
ment after regiment for friends and relatives as
they passed along.
The reserves came up at last, and I had the
pleasure of taking by the hand Adj't. Gaither, .
one*of fim ftffc
Wore Richmond. He looks well, anil makes a
good appearance as an officer.
On Sunday night, about 11 o'clock, we took
up our line again onward towards the
James were all night and until 9
o'clock next Swning, making a march of eight
miles. Our progress was so slow on account of
getting the heavy artillery aloii*, together with
the baggage trains.
Monday, the 30th day of June, our rear guard,
or rather part of it, the division behind us,
was attacked, when a severe battle took place
again. The rebels followed us up. They could
travel much faster on account of having no bag
gage trains or any tiling to bring with them.
We were all run into line of battle again and
kept standing all day. The fight was awful to
listen to. The gun boats got a range off of the
river and just belched shells and canister into
their ranks. There was a perfect slaughter of
them. That night our company was sent out
on picket. Wo had only M> men with Lieut.
Conley, Scrg't. Lawrence and myself. There
were iwo other companies sent out at 10. o'clock
that night to support us, but nothing occurred.
The next morning there was a whole brigade
sent out to us. The place was on a big road
into which a great many other roads led. It
was a splendid place for a ilank movement, il
it had not been watched closely. About nine
o'clock we were drawn quietly off. There were
only two regiments left in the reawtjoni this
point—ours and the 85th New York. During
this time it had rained very hard, and the mud
was knee deep. We had nothing to eat tor 48
hours, but two crackers. The teams were stick
ing in the mud when we caught up, and we had
to heave out crackers, salt, pork, sugar and eve
ry thing else to get them along to keep the trains
from being cut off by the enemy. Some places
they could not. get the empty wagons along.—
When we came up to where all the trains were,
we halted. The 85th was in our rear when the
enemy came upon them and began to throw
some shells, whereupon they got up and "ske
daddled." The next thing wo know was Gen.
Wesel rode up and ordered the 101 st back to
take their place. They were just making the
mud fly in their "skedaddle. Capt. May, who
is acting Colonel of our regiment, in absence of
the Lieut. Col. and Major, left faced the regi
ment, and marched us back again through the
mud about one mile, where we formed our line
of battle along the road. While we were maijdi
ing back an artillery officer rode up to our Col.
and wanted to know what regiment that was
that run. Said they would have let the enemy
take his baftery of two guns that was support
ing thorn. We had to stay there all that day
and that-night and the next day until 9 o'clock
at night. We could see the enemy all the lime,
in shooting distance, but were not allowed to
bring on an attack. Gen. Wesel was in a great
sweat about us, to know how we would get out
of the sua]) we were in, and he was airaid to
send up reinforcements for fear ot bringing on
an attack, and did not know how to get us out,
for we were surrounded on all sides except one
corner where we had to come out under cover
of night along a fence where the mud was knee
deep 0 Gen. Wesel gives our acting Col. great
praise for getting us out of the snap. Captain
May makes as good, if not better Col., than we
have ever had. I would sooner follow him than
any other officer that has ever tried to handle
the regiment. lie is no slouch, I tell you.
I don't think wc. lost many wagons and mules
in this strategical movemcot of McClcllan's
Freedom of Thomt and Opinion.
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY OBJiING, JULY 25, 1862.
drawing the rcbois awny from Kichmond. 'i ll
provisions that, were thrown out, were generalil
picked up by the roar guard. So they did ndl
, much in tho eating line. 1 saw mules thai
j 1 were hitched to wagons driven into swnmpS over)
r ; head and ears, and, of course, left. Ft watt
' 1 lucky if the drivers got out in all cases. E#-
j ry thing that they could not get along was bum
t s ed up in piles—officers' trunks and everything
1 1 else. A great many regiments burned their
; knapsacks in piles, with all except what was oil"
thpir backs. I suppose you have heard of the
death of Col. Samuel AV. Black, and most ofj
the officers in his regiment. The Colonel was |
•shot in tho hollow of the eye and nose. Mc-
Clellan has given thorn an awful raking since,
the commencement of changing his front.
Lieut- -Aliilliu has been sick for two or three
weeks, not ahle to wait 011 himself. lie was
sent to the landing in an ambulance, nnd I sup-"
pose will be either shipped home or to some hos
pital until he gets better. Licnt. Conloy was
in command of us through all our trials in this
movement. AA'e can only muster from 15 to
10 men in our company for duty. Tt takes hard
work to muster 200 men in the regiment for du
ty. When I say duty, I mean good, effective
men. If there is any thing difficult to be done,
Gen* AVesel always calls 011 the 101 st, instead
of some ot his Now York regiments that mus
ter G and 1 hundred men. He places more con
/ fidencc in 0111 regiment than any he has in his
! brigade, even if it is so small. ' Lieut. Beegle;
I of Gapt. Compiler's edinpany, is actin<* aid to
) Gen. Wescl.
j I suppose you are not aware of our division ,
| changing hands. It is not commanded by the
j old grey haired veteran, Gen. Casey, any lon
! P cr - Gen. l'eek is our division commander now. !
jHeis a first rule General, too. lie knows how
jto do things up. He dont leave a stone in the '
1 way unturned. The change took place after j
j we were moved to White Oak B'.-atrip. Gen. '
Casey was assigned to another command, but f
don't know what. Let him he where ho may,
he has our good wishes for his future welfare. '
The whole army is lying here, in and about
.'1 miles from the James Kiver. They are on
the march right back again. On the 4fh day
ol July, the BGth birthday of our National In- j
dependence, Gen. McClellan reviewed all the
troops on the l'eninsula. I suppose it was to 1
see how they looked after wading through the
mud, and lighting their way here.
I here have been a great many troops landed, j
they had their boots blacked and niSs wfitnr
gloves on. Looked like as if they enrao *rigbt
out of a band-box. Wait until they see a few
of the swamps, rains and mud of this Peninsu
la, and they won't look so nice, especially if they
have to do liko wo liavo done all the time, lie
down in the rain and mud any place. A Lieu
tenant of our regiment was down at the land
ing, the other day. when some of the new troops
arrived. . lie pushed himself up to some that
were landed and standing on the bank, when a
colloquy took place between uim and the troops.
Ojfker —"Well, boys, how do you like it I"
New Trotps —"Oh! we have seen h—11!"
Oj/icer —"How is that?"
New Troops —"Why, we have not seen a bite
of soft bread for three days!"
I wonder what they would think if we were
to tell them wo had seen nothing but crackers
since last March.
You have heard, I suppose, that the Hope
well Company were ail taken prisoners, while
out on picket, except to men. Captain, Lieu
tenant and all went it.
I have nothing more to tell you (and I sup
pose I have written too much already) except
that tho whole army has been lying motionless
since we came here. On (lie 3d of July a col
umn of our troops went out and cut off a relwl
battery and took it, together with a lot of pris
oners.
Thcre is one thing that ought to be done;
that is, stop putting a.guard around the rebels'
property. They would not guard ours if they
were like us. They will charge you a half dol
lar for a chicken that weighs a pound, after be
ing picked. They have no feeling for us, and
you dare not say a word for fear of a Provost
Guard taking you up. It is all humbug, this
thing of saving their property and leaving the
soldiers starve on account of them not taking a
fair price for their produce. Yours, &e.,
J. B. HELM.
WHAT THURLOW WEED SAYS.
The ensuing extract is from the Albany Event
ing Journal , the accredited organ of William 11.
Seward, edited by his fast friend Mr. Thuriow
Weed, it is a fact which Democratic journals
have often set forth, and have as often been as
sailed for so doing by Uepublican newspapers
all ovoc tho country. If Thuriow Weed is a
secessionist, and a traitor for speaking as he
docs, so bo it; he isaio doubt able to take care
of his own head. Hut listen to what he says:
J'TheChief Architects of Rebellion, before it
broko out, avowed that they were aided in their
infernal designs by the ultra Abolitionists of the
North. This is too true, for without such aid
the South could never have been united against
the Union. But for tho incendiary recommen
dations wjiieh rendered tho otherwiso useful
Helper book a fire brand, North Carolina could
never have boon forced out of the Union. And
even now, the ultra Abolition press and speech
makers arc aggravating horrors they helped to
create, and thus, by playing into the hands of
the leaders of the Hebellion, nro keeping down
the Union men of the South, aud rendering re
union difficult, if not impossible."
Jecms, my lad, keep away from the gals.
Ven you see. one coming, dodge. Just such a
critter as that young un' cleaning the door-step
op 'tothcr side of the street, fooled yer dad, Jim
my. If it hadn't been for her, you and yer dud
might liavo been in California hunting dimes my
j|fitS %t
;HE ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS.
1 The first session of tho XXXVII Congress
nds to-day. The country may lie congratula
-1 I'd on the abutment ol this nuisance. No Con
gress assembled since the foundation of the Gov
fitment. has reflected less honor and brought
' (fore disgrace upon the nation.
"([ AVben this Congress assembled in extra sos
' 'ton on the 4th of July, 1801, at the call of the
J&sident, the civil war was just beginning,
"ijho country anticipated that the rebellion would
J'subdued before another anniversary cf Amer
aii independence. The immense resources of
|te loyal States, the unanimity of the Northern
jople, and the unlimited supply of men and
' 1 ioney freely placed at the disposal of the Gov
'anient, inspired unbounded confidence in the
Seedy downfall of the rebel confederacy. But
, dark cloud lias overcast all these bright pros
acts. Our military strength Ims been frittered
way, ottr mow y squandered, our hopes dim
ted. Disaster and defeat have followed close
; bon the heels of blundering mismanagement.
; 'cbellion has grown in strength and acquired
' le prestige of victory; and worse than all. that
atriotic enthusiasm which one year ago inspir
l the masses to volunteer in defence of the'
J ;nntry, has sensibly diminished.
This gloomy state of affairs! is directly attribu
tblo to the insane and reckless course pursued
. y the majority in Congress. Their acts seem
1 have been intended to strengthen rebellion
d disgust the loyal Union and Constitution
is ing people of the Northern.nnd Border States,
/lien Congress met in extra session, party and
Actional ideas were for the moment forgotten
> enthusiasm for the Constitution and the
Ijiion, The purposes of the war were de
lured in a resolution adopted with remarkable
j r.finimity. Banishing all feeling of mere pas
sim or resentment, the announcement was sol
ennly made that this war js not waged for any
plrpose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose
<jij overthrowing or interfering with the rights
bijestablishcd institutions of the Southern States,
bit to defend and maintain tho supremacy of
lie Constitution and to preserve tho Union,
'.fifh nil the dignity, equality, and rights of the
staeral States unimpaired: and that as soon as
tiese objects are accomplished the war ought to
({■asc. A hundred times has Congress ruth-
I'lMsly trampled under foot this solemn pledge
j7s> the nation. It was scarcely given before the
Abolitionists commenced their machinations for
jo overthrow am) Lie cT-frfnUr/O" old
ri'ise .. T -ming. lon the National pintform,
they have left nothing undone to produce dis
cord and division among the people, and to
strengthen the rebel cause in the border States.
Kverv question which has caused discussion at
the North, and interrupted the harmony and
unity conspicuous at the. commencement of the
war; has been raised by the Abolitionists in
Congress. Nearly every disaster to our arms
is traceable to their meddling interference. Their
"On to Kiehmond cry!" produced the disaster
at Their jealousy of M'Clellan caus
ed the recent repulJb before Richmond. Their
unceasing agitation of the negro question has
strengthened the rebellion in the rebel States, and
weakened the I nion cause in the border States.'
Had Congress acted with common patriot
ism and honesty, how different might now be
our prospects. Had it adhered faithfully to the
national platform and conducted the war to the]
sole end of suppressing rebellion, maintaining
the Constitution and restoring the Union, instead
of wasting its energies upon emancipation, con
fiscation, negro brigades, homestead bills, the
conduct of generals in tiro field, and other irri
tating questions, which weakened the Northern
people by introducing discord anil to the sqme
extent encouraged rebellion—had Congress ig
nored these topics and resolutely excluded from
its delilierations everything except what related
to furnishing the Government with the means
necessary to put down this rebellion, the nation
might not now bewail disasters in the field and
look with sorrow upon a beclouded future.
]lut the majority instead of eullivating una
nimity and confidence have done everything to
destroy both. The. most reckless parlizanship
and corruption have characterized their pro
ceedings. They have studied to insult North
ern conservatives. They have devoted much of
their time to carrying out.that wretched summa
ry of sectionalism, the Chicago platform.—They
liavo wasted the public lands and stolen the
public money. They have squandered funds
needed for the prosecution of the war, in pur
chasing and maintaining gangs of worthless ne
groes. They have, encouraged the inundation
of tho Northern States with fugitive slaves.
They have patronized corruption and winked at
fraud when the wrong doers happened to bo
"friends of freedom." They have done what
they ought not to have done, and left undone
what they ought to have done, and there, is no
health in them.- The best act of this Congress
is that, by which it terminates its wretched ex
istence.—Patriot ,j- Union, July 10.
®a"Soino. ingenious musical wag wrote (ho
following novel "catch" which was scL to mu
sic in such away as (o make the audience laugh
out loud. It is quite romantic to read, but lu
dicrous to hear sung:
"All! how Sophia, can you leave
Your Jovcr, and of hope bereave!
Go fctcli the Indian's borrowed plume,
Yet richer far than that your bloom;
I'm but a lodgor in your heart,
And more than one, I fear am not."
The music of these lines arranged as
to make one voice cry out:
"A house afire! fire! firo!"
While a second chimed in :
"Go fetcli the Ingiltes! fetch ihe Inginesl"
And a third called out:
"I'mbut a lodger! but a lodger!"
The reader will easily see how this Ludicrous
pronunciation was produeod. It waa quite as
good as a corned/
WHOI.E AIIfSER, 3014
From the American Agrioulturist.
Preserving Fruit~Bost & Cheapest Way.
For several yews past we have been trying to
abolish the old mode of preserving fruits, viz:
1 the addition of pound for pound of sugar, and
stewing them down to an indigestible mass in
order to make them "keep.* Our efforts in
this direction have, been in a measure successful;
the high price of sugar this year will do much
towards the adoption of the newer and better
mode. All kinds of fruits can he preserved for
a year, or more, with the use of little or no su
gar, and at the same time retain nearly all of
their natural flavor. The process is not more
difficult, and is less costly than the stewing pro
cess, while the fruit is far more delicious and
healthful. The whole operation depends upon
simply heating the fruit through, and then keep
ing it entirely free from the access of air.
FRCTT JARS. —Periodically, as the fruit sea-!
son approaches, there are numerous fruit jar
Inventions, patented and otherwise, brought be- |
fore the public with wonderful assurance and
an indefinite number of extravagant rccoinrnen- j
dations. Some teal with wax, others with India
, robber and cast iron; in some the tops are
screwed on ; in others, wedged ; and. in others
wired. Home tin, some glass, and some stone,
but all are "perfect," if the claims of the inven
tors and manufacturers are fully credited. We
have tried most of these fruit jam, and while
many of them arc good, our experience has 11
us to adopt the cheapest kinds of gluts bottles
and jars. Tin cans are not safe. While in a
majorit v of cases they may answer well for a
season or two, there is always danger of their
corrosion, or rusting, and consequent production
of poisonous salts of tin. Jksides, it is desira
ble to have the fruit in transparent vessels so
that it can always be examined. Good well
glazed stone-ware bottles and jars are not ob
jectionable on account of corrosion, but they are
opaque, so that the contents can not be seen,
and arc but little cheaper than cheap glass.
During the past year we have kept several
bushels of fruit of different kinds, always in
good condition, and the portion now unused is
almost as fresli and delicious as when first pick
! ed. For keeping, we have used all sorts ofglats
bottles and jars, holding from a pint to two
quarts each—including several of the patent
jars with caps of various patterns. Among
these were a dozen glass jars with India rub- I
her ring i expanded by a serew.^.i
ever form that can not be turned to account for'
preserving fruits—even junkbottles, soda-water
bottles, jars, etc., etc. The best form is a wide
ntoutlicd quart bottle or jar, the neck drawn in
to give a shoulder for the cork to rest upon.
For the larger fruits wide .necks are needed;
for the smaller, berry fruits, narrow necks an
swer perfectly.
PmepAfliNC. THE PnrtT.—Our method is, to
put the fruit in a preserving kettle of some
liimi—.a glazed iron kettle, or even a tinned one,
or a tinpail will do—and sweeten it with just
sugar enough to fit it for the table. The sweet
ening is added in the form of a svrup made by
boiling from one to three pounds of sugar Ca
sually 2 lbs..) with one quart of water. The
more juicy fruits, such as strawberries, require
loss syrup while pears and quinces require more.
The fruit is heated with the syrup just long
enovssh to seald it through. .Some prefer to
use less sweetening and add more when the fruit
is to be used. Others use no sugar; they think
the fruit keeps just as well, and preserves its
aroma better without any sugar. We prefer to
use all the sugar that i J to he needed, believing
that the fruit will probably keep more certainly
ami it is then always ready to pour out at once
upon the table. The fruit to he preserved should
lie in good condition—ripe but not over-ripe,
nor containing any decayed portions. Toma
toes are peeled, and then cooked down one-half,
as this makes a better sauce, and requires less
bottle room.
To BOTTLE THE FITTTT. —The bottles or jars
are thoroughly cleansed, and each one fitted with
a stopper. ' For these, soft corks are best; but
they may bo made of soft dry wood. For each
bottle or jar we provide a little tin "patty-pan,"
(fig. 1.) costing $ to 1 cent by tho quantity.
Tea-saucers will answer. For cement wc heat
togethor in an old tin basin or iron kettle, one
pound of rosin, and l £ to 2 ounces of tallow.
This may W mixed in quantity, and melted
from time to time as wanted. We formerly
used a little over 1 ounce of tallow to one pound
6f rosin, but further experience is in favor of
a softer cement, when the fruit is to Stand in a
cool cellar.—While the fruit is being heated as
above described, tho bottles are well warmed by
petting them near the fire and frequently turn
ing them ; or better, by setting them in cold
water in a wash-boiler and heating to tho boil
ing point. The fruit being barely scalded
through, it is dipped hot into the heated botlles,
through a funnel it the bottle necks are
small This is done carefully, so as not to
mash the fruit. Tho bottles are filled up to
where the bottom of the stoppers will come;
they are thigr jarred a little to make the air
bubbles rise, ami more fruit or syrup added if
needed. The tops and necks are then wiped
clean, inside and out ami tho stoppers put in,
and sunk to a level with the top. The cement
being warmed in tho mean time, a little is dip
ped on over the stoppers to close them tightly.
The bottles are then turned necks down into
tho little patty-pans, or saucers, (fig. 2,) and a
quantity of cement dropped in to completely
enclose tho stoppers and neeks. When cold the
bottles may be seteitherside up. (fig. 2or fig. 3).
The cooling will shrink tho contents so as to
create a strong inward pressure, hut. the patty
pans prevent the stoppers from beingpressed in,
and llic cement shuts out air.
The whole process is simple and quickly per
orated. After the fruit is prepared, two per
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i Column 800 13 00 30 00
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under five lines will be measured as a half aquare ;
and all over five lines as a full square. Ail legal
advertisements will be charged to the person hand
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sons will heat it, and put up 30 to 100 bottle#
in half a day. We prefer quart bottle# as thcso
furnish enough for once opening. If cork stop
pers arc used, they are rendered soft and pli
able, and may be crowded into a small orifice,
by first soaking them in hot water.
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A FEW PLAIN QUESTIONS.
Who denounced Democrats as Union Savers,
leause they advocated the right of all the
States under the Constitution?
Republicans.
Who preferred a dissolution of the Union
rather than a continuance of slavery and sus
tained personal liberty bills which contravened
the Constitution?
Republicans.
Who openly nullified the acts of Congress,
and counseled armed resistance to the enforce
ment of them?
Republicans.
Who nullified the decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States and appealed to the
higher law?
Republicans.
Who would have allowed the negro an equal
vote in (lie Government with the white man ?
Republicans.
Who "loath and detest all laws which give
or withhold political right on account of color V :
Republicans.
Who are "proud to live in a Commonwealth
where every man white or blnek, of every
clime and race, is recognized as a man standing
npon tjie terms of perfect and absolute equali
ty?"
Republicans. •
Who destroyed Democratic presses within
one year?
Republicans.
Who robbed and plundered the Government
in a single, year of a larger amount, to use Mr.
Dawes' language? a Republican member of Con
gress, tlian the previous administration had re
quired to conduct the Government for tour
years ?
Republicans.
Who incarcerated hundreds of men in forts
and prisons for months in defiance of law ?
Republicans.
Who for seven years have hated the South
and slavery more than they have loved the Un
ion*
Republicans.
Who, years ago, advocated the dissolution of
* In a, Xlw o—^
Republicans.
race is superior, who 'propose to'wait until
time shall develop whether the white race shall
absorb the black, or the black absorb the white?''
Republicans.
Who advocated the irrepressible conflict?
Republicans,
Who four years since inscribed on their ban*
ner "the States must be. made all free, and un*
der it we will march on to victory, after victory,
conquering and conquer ?"
Republicans.
Who arc in favor of an anti-slavery Consti
tution, an anti-slavery biblo and an anti-slavery
God?
Abolitionized Republicans.
Who declnre the Constitution to be "a cove
nant with death and an agreement with hell?"
Abolitionized Republicans.
Who justified the John ltown raid, and
proclaimed him "as a hero truo to his conscience
and true to his God?"
Republicans.
Who, to achieve the freedom of the slave,
"would not hesitate to fill up and bridge over
the chasm that yawns between the hell of slave
ry and the heaven of freedom, with carcases of
the slain ?"
Republicans.
Who denounced slaveholders as more crimi
nal than common murderers ?
Republicans. (See Helper.)
' Who, six years ago, denounced our "govern*'
ment as worse than that, of old King George?"
Republicans. — Alkntoum Democrat.
Tho Pennsylvania Reserves.
"All accounts concur," remarks the Philadel
phia Bulletin, "in saying that the dauntless bra
very of the division of Pennsylvania Volunteers
commanded by Gen. MeCall, usually called the
Reserve Corps, really saved the army of tho Po
tomac. They were in tho. very front, and wero
attacked by superior numbers, during live suc
cessive days. But they always met the enemy
bravely, fighting like veterans, and even when
reduced to half their original streng'.h and worn
out by the battles of live days, They still stow
ed no signs of flinching. With any lets iletor
minod division than this in the front., our army
might have been wholly destroyed or captured."
These Pennsylvanians have covered them
selves with glory; ten thousand strong who:i
first attacked by "Stonewall" Jackson, they now
number less than one third that number, Tho
slaughter of, and the courage exhibited by, tho
Old Guard at Waterloo did not surpass that of
tho bravo sons of the Keystone in tho series of
j battles just terminated on the Peninsula, inVir-
I ginia. lii this intrepid division of tho army our
own county is nobly represented.
Cir A northern editor predicts that "woe!
will be king." Prentice wants to know whoth
cr he means wool on tho back of a sheep or
wool on tho head of a negr -
CrGoneral Gcofgo A. MeCall, reported kill
ed ou Monday near White Oak Swamp, is not
dead, but wounded and % prisoner.
43-The farmer is a conqueror who wins vic
tories upon important fields—at the point ol
the plough-share.
jtfyßead not the writings of an egotist, if
you would not come under the influence ot tho
. evil 1.
fyTdleocss, timidity, or f-hanie,n)sy keep uy
within the hounds of duty; stfd virtue
way With the honor ot it.