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spared for the accommodation of pansengerl.
TIMOTHY DitilUGUEii. Proprietor.
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?dui gattrg.
The Small Becoming Great.
A traveler through a dusty road
Strewed acorns on the lea,
And one took root and sprouted up,
And grew into a tree : •
Love sought its shades at evening time,
To breathe its earlier vows,
And age was pleased, in heats of noon,
To bask beneath its boughs ;
The dormouse loved its dangling twigs,
The birds sweet music music bore ;
It stood a glory in its place,
A blessing evermore.
A little spring had lost its way
Among the grass and fern ;
A passing stranger scooped a well,
Where weary men might turn.
lie walled it in, 'and hung with care
A ladle at the brink—
lie thought not of the deed he did.
But judged that toil might drink.
He passed again—and lo ! the well,
By summers never dried,
Ilad cooled ten thousand parching tongues,
And saved a lite beside !
J O. RITCIIIC
A dreamer dropped a random thought;
Tomas old, and yet 'twas new—
A simple fancy of the brain,
But strong it being true.
It shone upon a pnial mind,
And lo ! its light became
A lamp of life, a beacon ray,
A monitory flame.
The thought was small—its issues great.
A watch-fire on the bill,
It sheds its radiance far adown,
And cheers the valley still.
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A nameless man amid a crowd
That thronged the daily mart,
Let fall the word of hope and love,
Unstudied from the heart.
A Whisper on the tumulet thrown—
A transitory breath—
It raised a brother from the dust,
It saved a soul from death.
0 gem ! 0 fount! 0 word of love !
0 thought at random cast !
Ye were but little at the first,
Bat mighty at the last !
ioritlautono.
How Milton Spent the Day.
At his meals he never took much
wine, or any other fermented liquor.—
Although not fastidious in his foed, yet
his taste seems to have been delicate and
refined, like his other senses, and he had
a preference for such viands as were of
an agreeable flavor. In his early years
he used to sit up late at his studies, but
in his later years he retired every night
at 9 o'clock, and lay till four in the sum
mer and five in the winter. If not
then disposed • to rise he had some one
to sit at his bedside and read to him
When he rose he had a chapter of the
Hebrew Bible read for him, and then,
after breakfast, studied till twelve.—
He then dined, took some exercise for
an hour, generally in a chair in which
he used to swing himself, and afterward
played on the organ or bass viol, and
either sung himself, or requested his
wife to sing, who, as he said, had a
good voice, but no ear. He then re
sumed his studies until six from which
hour till eight he conversed with all
who came to visit him. Ile finally
took a light supper, smoked a pipe of
tobacco, and drank a glass of water; and
after he retired to rest. Like many
other poets, Milton found the stillness,
warmth and recumbency of bed favora
bly to composition; and his wife said,
before rising of a morning, he often
dictated to her twenty or thirty verses.
A favorite position of his, when dicta
ting his verses we are told, was that of
sitting with one of his legs over an arm
of his chair. His with related that he
used to compose chiefly in the winter,
lied he lived to the tenth of next month,
he would have been a hundred and two years
old. He was born in Windham, Conn.,
September 10, 1'762, and bad the advantages
of a common school education. At the age
of sixteen he served as a soldier in the war
of the Revolution, was taken prisoner and
confined in the "Sugar House" in this city.
He wariest last exchanged and returned
hothe, and worked upon his father's farm.—
Becoming a Christian, he studied for College,
and entered Yale in 1784, and graduated in
1788. He was licensed by the Windham
Aiwiciation, and in trig was settled over
the Congregational church at West Sufilekl,
Conn. Ile remained here till 1809, sines
which thpe he has not been a settled pastor,
hut has been stated supply of sevenil churelt
es in New gngland and• New Tor- In
1 86 41 he wail *WA chaplain UP* *ma
pf Represetdatirea in parigusag Arid served
twp years. lie has eiiiitiannit IQ potewhilf tO
a very recent date, and died in great
peace on Saturday. July 80th, 1864, aged
one handfed and one year, tel tiontis and
tweity-one dims. 'Rev. Dr.,
yo= ea.
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Father Waldo.
Restless Nights,
Some persons "toss and tumble half
the night, and get up in the morning,
weary, unrefreshed, and dispirited,
wholly unfit either in body or mind for
the duties of the day; they are not only
incapacitated for business, but are often
rendered so ungracious in their man
ners, so irritable and fretfhl, as to spread
a gloom over the whole household. To
be. able to go to bed and be in a sound,
delicious sleep, au unconscious delicious
ness in five minutes, but enjoyed in its
remembrance, is a great happiness, an
incalculable blessing, and one for which
the most sincere and affectionate thanks
should habitually.go up to that benefi
cent Providence which vouchsafes. the
same through the instrumentalities of a
wise and self-denying attention to the
laws of our being.
Restless nights as to persons in ap
parent good health arise chiefly from—
first, an overloaded stomach ; second,
from worldly care ; third, from want of
muscular activities proportioned to the
needs of the system. Yew will have
restless nights who take dinner at mid
day, and nothing ;Ater that exce;.t
piece of cold bread and butter and a cup
or two of some hot drink ; anything Le
yoncl that; as cake, pie, chipped beef,
doughnuts, preserves, and the like, on
ly tempt nature to eat
when there is
really no cause for it, thus engendering
dyspepsia and its train of evils.
Worldly care. For those who can
not
sleep from the unsatisfactory con
dition of their affairs; who feel as if
they were going behindhand ; or that
they are about to encounter great losses, •
whether from their 'own remissness, the
perfidy -of friends, or unavoidable cir
cumstances, we have a deep and sin
cere sympathy. To suck we say, live
hopefully for better days ahead, and .
meanwhile strive dilligently, and with a
brave heart to that end.
But the more common cause of rest
less
uightsis, that exercise has not been
taken to make the body tired enough
to demand sleep. Few will fail to sleep
sound if the whole of daylight, or as
much thereof as will produce moderate I
fatigue, is spent in steady work out in I
the open air, or on horseback, or on
foot. Many. spoil all their sleep by at
tempting to force more on nature than
she requires Few persons will fail to
sleep soundly, while they do sleep, if
they avoid sleeping in the daytime, will
go to bed at a regular hour, and hero
ically resolve to get up the moment
they wake,
whether it is two,: four, or
six o'clock in the morning. In less
than a week each one will find how
much sleep his system requires ; there
after give it that, and no mom—Halls
Journal of Health.
A Scene in Paris.
Lately a lady, dressed in the height
of f'as'hion and attired in the most ex
pensive materials, entered one of the
most extensive jewelery shops in the
Rue de la Paix in Paris. She looked
over article after article, and found
nothing to suit her, so she left the shod
without purchasing anything. She had
not been gone long when the jeweler
missed a valuable brooch. Nobody had
entered the shop but this fine lady, and
she was certainly the thief . In one
moment the shopkeeper was in full
chase, soon overtook her. and rudely
enough told her what had occured—
adding that she must go with him to
the police station. The lady trembled
violently in every limb, became as pale
as death, and stood silent aid nrition
less as a marble statue. The shopman
became ruder. A gentleman of the la
dy's acquaintance passed by; seeing the
distress she was in he inquired wha'e .-
the matter was. He angrily turned
td the shopman with : 'Do you know
who this lady is ?" but before he could
add another word the shopman joyfully
exclaimed ; "There it is!" and he pro
ceeded to disentangle from the meshes
of lace with which the lady's talma was
trimmed the valuable brooch."Do
you know who the lady is ?" angrily re
peated the gentleman. -"She is the
Baronness de Rothschild." It was now
the shopfnan's turn to tremble and Wu
pale and be speechless, white and mo
tionless as a marble stone. So looked
lie as the lady and gentleman walked
off; the lady vowing that neither she
nor any of her family would ever put
foot again in that jeweller's shop,
"Old Hundred" hi Camp.
A letter from Gen. Sherman's army
contains tl s fofiowingi "At early dawn
this morning, ere the troops were fully
awakened from slumbers, the melodious
notes of 'Old Hundred,' given forth by
one of the brigade bands, rang out upon
the air, and were echoed by the green
capped hills beyond. Soldiers intently
occupied in preparing the morning meal
stood still.and listened to the melody
and instinctively joined in it, It flew
from regiment to regiment; brigade after
brigade took it up, and ere the notes of
the band- ceased to reverberate, five
thousapd voices were raised it 'Praise
God from who Mal) blessings flow.' A
moment later all was stall, Breakfast
VIU3 taken; and so silently did the vet
erans of many battle-fiel is break camp
and fall into line that everybody remark
edit, and-complitneated theta Sor their
Awe *ant faLl thiseat
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, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1864.
A Mother's Hand.
In one of the fierce engagements
with the rebels near Mechaniesville. in
May last, a young lieutenant of a Rhode
Island battery had his right foot so shat
tered by a fragment of shell that, on
reaching Washington after one of those
horrible ambulance rides, and a journey
of a week's duration, he was obliged
to undergo amputation of the leg. He
telegraphed home, hundreds of miles
away, that all was going on well, and
with a soldiers fortitude composed him
self to bear his sufferings alone. Un
known to him, however, his mother,
who had become anxious for the wel
. tare of her son, had come to washing
ton. She reached the city at midnight,
and the nurses would have kept her
from him until morning. One sat by
his side fanning him as he slept, her
hand on the feeble, fluctuating pulsa
tion which foreboded sad results. But
what woman's heart could resist the
pleadings of a mother then! In the
darkness she was finally allowed to
glide in and take the place at his side.
She touched the pulse as the nurse had
done. Not a word had been spoken ;
but her sieepit:g hey .pened his eyes
and “That jeuis 1 1 ,:e my mother's
hand Who Is thi :i by nlO ? It is my
mother ; turn up the g:lss, and let me
see mother:" The two flices met in
one long, joyful, sobbing embrace, and
the fondness nerd up in each heart sob
bed and panted and wept forth its ex
pression. The gallant fellow, just
twenty-one, his leg amputated, on the
last day of his three years' service, un
derwent operation after operation, and
at last, when death drew nigh, 'and he
was told by tearful friends that it only
remained to make him comfm table, said
"he had looked death in the face too
many times to be afraid now," and died
as gallantly as,though frilling under the
enemy's fire 011ie field of battle.
How he Wished to be Taken.
A London capitalist came to me not
many months since, says a sculptor,,and
opened a conversation by saying—
" Sir your name is Robson."
I admitted my name was Robson.
"And you are a statuary," said he.
I admitted this fact also, substituting
sculptor. •
"Sir," continued he, "I will give you
a commission."
I bowed and begged him to be seat
ed.
"Robson, sir," said he, drawing a
paper from his pocket, I am a remark
able man. Iu as born in the environs
of London, and began life by selling
matches at five boxes a penny. I am
worth at this moment two hundred
thousand pounds."
I bowed again and said I was glad
to hear it.
"Sir," he went on to say, "how I
earned that two hundred thousand—
how from selling matches, I came to
running errands ; to taking care of a
horse, to trading in dogs, tobaccoes,
cottons; corns, and sugars ; and how
I came to be a man that„ I am, you'll
find all that made out on this paper,
dates and fiats eorret. Sir, it's a
very remarkable statement."
I replied that I had no doubt of It,
but that I did not see what it had to do
with the matter in hand.
'Sir," said my capitalist, "everything,
I wish to perpetuate my name. You
have a pretty thing, sir, here in Rome
—a pillar wi!.lla proce.:sion twisting up
ail around it, .and a fizger up at the
top, I think you call it Trajart,s col
umn. Now. Robson, sir, I wish you
to make me exactly like it—same height,
same size, and money no object. You
shall represent my career in all my va
rious trades, a twisting around the 01-
umn, beginning with the small chap
selling matches at five boxes a penny,
and ending with the full length figger
of me on the summit, with one hand
my bosom, and the other under my
coat tails."
I made the statute, the artist said, in
conclusion, and got well paid for my
work. I hope my patron is alive and
enjoying himself. lie deserves to.
Death from Intemperance.
Martin Brawdy, the head of the noto
rious Brawdy family (which for years
has been a curse to this community,)
came to au untimely and miserable death
on Thursday evening. The family
have been residing in East Birmingham
for some time past, and on Thursday
one of the children died Mr. Brawdy,
in company with one or two boys, ttar
ted in a wagon to visit the graveyard
beyond White Hall, for the purpose of
making arrangements for the burial of
his child. After having given orders
for the (11.?-ging of the grave, he started
borne, stopping at White Hall and im
bibing f ree l y 0 1 liquor. He also stop
ped at a tavern ou this side of White
Ball, and got two more drinks, Being
unable to sit in the wagon, he lay down
on some hay and fell into a drunken
sleep. Qn arriving home. about six
o'clock in the evening, the boys con
cluded to let him sleep of 'the effects of
She liquor ,
as he was crises and trouble
some when in that state. He lay in
the wagon until eleven Weloolt at night,
31 4 , 41608 an effbrt was - made to wake
law he was , toned- dam. Coroner
MCleag isqualviwthe -Ur*,
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Gathering and Keeping Fruit.
It is becoming a well understood prin
ciple that pears are improved by being
gathered before filly iipe. Some should
approach nearer maturity than others.
But early apples should be fully ripe, as
a general rule, before gathering. Late
fall and early winter apples should not
he eatable when picked, and all the late
winter varieties should be gathered when
too Irrd to yield to the pressure - of the
thumb, always before heavy Fall frosts.
A dry time should be selected if possible.
There will be a few specimens not yet
mature, but you can afford to throw them
out to rave the best and the main crop.
When a good keeping variety begins to
drop freely from the tree, as is sometimes
the case, secure the balance of the crop,
that remains on the tree, as soon as pos
sible; but they should not be mixed with
those on the ground—not one should be
saved with those picked. Windfalls
will not keep, for in addition to the in
jury sustained from the fall, they become
heated by lying upon the ground expos- ,
ed to the sun and hot air, and the ripen
ing process already commenced is hest-
ening it to a rapid decay.
No matter how hot the weather is, an
apple is always cool while upon the tree,
and in that condition should be taken
care of, it we would have it keep in its '
most perfect condition for the full devel
opment of all the delicious juices with
which it is so abundantly supplied.—
How to obtain it in that condition will
be my purpose now to show. We have
seen that it must be carefully gathered
before it is too iipe, as it is commonly
termed; but I say before it is ripe, for !
when it is ripe it is fit to eat, and that
should certainly not be the case with
Winter apples when gathered.
We have also seen that heat hastens
the ripening process, and that cold re"-
tards it. Apples should, therefore, be
kept cool, barely rip as not to-freeze. .A
minimum temperature of thirty-four de
grees is probably about right, with as
little fluctuation 'as possible.
Whether we regard the ripening pro
cess as a vital or a chemical action, it is
quite sure that it should go on gradually
and unchecked nail all the god quali
ties are fully developed, and when the
highest point of excellence is attained,
then the fruit should be used. It ia
never so good as when just fully ripe;
but it is frequently eatable for a long
time. Some varieties became dry and
mealy, others tough and leathery.—
Others. by being kept very cool, will
frequently remain in a verf good condi
tion for a very long time, or by the use
of artificial means may be kept for an
almost indefinite period.
I hold that the ripening process once
commenced, goes on, no matter how
cold, if frost is not present, slowly per
haps, but uninterruptedly, until full ma
turity. Hence the importance of a cool
cellar, which should always be dry and
dark. It should be frequently aired,
when the outside temperature will allow
of it. Some varieties are much more
sensitive to their treatment than others.
The winesap, for instance, which has a
thick skin, may be abused a great deal
in handling and hut indifferently cared
for in the cellar, and yet it will keep
very well; that is, it will rot but little,
but iflept close.and warm, it is subject
to a fungus that renders it scarcely tol
erable to eat. But if it is kept cool and
dry, all its best qualities are retained.—
It is also one of the varieties that does
best kept on open shelves. The Bel
mont, on the other hand, which I regard
as one of the best and most profitable
apples, is very impatient of bad treat
ment. Its skin is smooth and thin, and
flesh of a delicate texture. If roughly
handled and kept in a warm room it
soon decays. if carefully handled and
kept in a cool place, it keeps with very
little waste till April or May. Indeed,
it is with me, ono of the very best of
keepers —Trans. bd. Ifort. Society.
A Sunny Frontage.
A farmhouse should have, in all north
ern latitudes, a sheltered position and a
sunny exposure. Of course, a situation
convenient to the fields under tillage,
and to other tam buildings, is to be
sought, but beyond this, no law of
property, of good taste, or of comfort
is more imperative than shelter from
bleak winds, and a fr o ntage t o th e
south. No neighbor can bring such
cheer to a man's doorstep as the sun.
There are absurd ideas afloat in re
gard to the front and backside of a
house, which infect village morals and
manners in a most base and unmeaning
way. In half the country towns, and
by half the farmers, it is considered ne
cessary to retain a pretending front side
upon some dusty street or highway,
with tightly closed blinds and bolted
door; with parlors only ventured upon
ia an uneasy way. from month to month
to consult some gilt-bound dictionary
or museum, that lies there in state,
like a king's coffin. The occupant,
meantime, will be living in some back
eoraer—slipping in and out at a back
door, never at ease save in his most un—
inviting room; and as much a stranger
to the blinded parlor, which very likely
engrosses the beat part of his house, as
any of his visitor& All this is as arrant
a sham sled affectation, as the worst
ones of the cities.
kept/ tow'
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The Sonive of Strength.
While Rev. Dr. Finely was Presi
dent of the College in New Jersey, at
Princeton, there was within the circle
•
of his acquaintance a man and a friend
who had fallen gradually under the do
minion of intemperance, so as to seem
past recovery. As soon as the doctor
• saw the truth of the case, instead of
abandoning the man in despair, he set
himself earnestly to the work of eman
cipating the victim from his fearful
bondage. Finley was a man of great
magnetic power, as some would call it;
his personal influence was extraordinary.
He was an eloquent speaker, as well as
a man of prayer; and so by means of
private visitation and public address,
he plied every power of which he was
master, in the restoration of his fallen
friend to sobriety and self-control.
It was not in vain ; the inebriate be
came "himself again," and for many
years was a distinguished trophy of Fin
ley's love and fidelity.
At last, however, Dr. Finley fell j
sick, and it was deeply touching to ob
serve the intense interest which this !
rescued man expressed in his daily in
quires as to the state of his minister's
health. All that medical skill could do
was done ; but day by day, the accounts
became more unfavorably. J ust in
proportion to the progress of the doc
tor's disease, this man's anxiety became
distressing. At length the sad news
was announced : Dr. Finley is dead.
At once with a look of anguish, the man
respcnded to the announcement with
the exclamation, "Then I am a lost
man !" And it was so. Returning to
his house, he resumed his cups and soon
drank himself to death.
What a remarkable illustration is
this of the subtle power of mind. This
man was conscious of his own weak-
ness, and of his moral dependence upon
a trusted friend tor the restraining and
upholding influence that would - keep
him from ruinning himself. When that
was gone he sank like a vine from which
the trellis had been taken away. 0,
how different the result if he had only
felt his dependence upon Jesus Christ
as deeply as he felt his dependence up
on the sympathetic support of kie dis
tinguished earthly friend
Let the reader rember that every one
of us is thus dependent upon the Sa
viour to emancipate us from the bon
dage of sin, to uphold us amid seines
of temptation, and give us power of
self-direction. lle is a Friend that
"abideth forever," and in him are the
springs of our strength.
Coffee as the French Prepare It.
A French friend of ours. says an ex
change, who is au fait in regard to the
making of this agreeable beverage, gives
us some hints in the . concoction thereof.
But we will let him tell his own story.
He says: In Paris the Coffee is nectar
compared with the beverage we in (mam
mon call coffee. I was desirous to know
how it was prepared, and soon learned.
The French use three kinds of coffee—
Mocha, Java and Rio — mixed in equal
parts. The coffee, before, roasting, is
iinnowed, to cleanse it of dust, &a., it
is then culled and picked over; every
black or detective kernel is picked out,
as well as small stones, seeds and rat
droppings, which are abundant in most
coffee. It is then put into tubs of clean
water and well washed, their spread to
dry; when dry it is ready for roasting.—
The coffee required is roasted daily at
large establishments; fide warm it is
ground, and put up in glazed papers of
a conical shape, holding from two oun
ces to a half pound, and sealed up.—
Gentlemen, as they leave their places
of business for home and dinner, when
convenient, call and take the needed
supply. The coffee is put into a pot or
digester in cold water, and then set over
a lamp expressly for the purpose, and
there heated, not boiled, but steeped;
from this digester no steam or fumes
arise; when ready you have your cup of
coffee. It is coffee, and a beverage de
'cious, health-giving, not the bitter,
. .rid; filthy, nansions drug we are in the
habit of partaking and calling it coffee.
LEvery one in His own Way.
uo fartbef I" said the Minute
hand to the hour-hand of the time-piece.
“Why, I have been all around the dial
since we parted ; and there are you, just
one figure from the place where I left
you."
"And yet I have done as much work
in thy time as you have," answered the
hour-hand.
"flow do you make that out?" said
he other, as he advanced to pass him.
"So," was the reply. "Yourjourney
411 round, and mine from figure to figure,
are each an hourly value; all are not
blo to - arrive at the same conclusions
with the same ease and readiness. But
-his is no fault on either side; only they
ho fancy that because they are always
a a bustle they -are doing the work of
e whole world, are mistaken; they
ilume themselves. on animportanoe and
:nperiotity by no imams belonging-- -to
hem. It you were to creep like Lan,
to day would last, nobody known s hifiw
ongl and if I Were tosallop
Would be iti'ver . heforelt had welt
-t us each keep outowlipeew
bminees we ateliliK'llpoit ber
iletirsea
well v zi- • -
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461 7 if ay" etware
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NEW SERIES.---VOL. 6, NO. 14.
A Camp Meeting Incident.
At a camp meeting held last week at
Sing Sing, at one of the morning services,
( Gen Anderson who is spending the
summer in the village of Sing Sing, at
tended the service with several members
of his family_ The hero of F Sumter
was reeognized cm the eataM of the
congregation, and he yielded to the
earnest desire of the preachers to be pre
sented to the congregation. Prof. Foss,
of Middletown, m a flew suitable re
marks, introduced the Genaral. Th©
entire congregation rose. to their . feet,
when he hushed the outburst of their
appluse which greeted him, and said:
"My friender, I stand before you a sol
dier, so broken down in health that my
physicians forbid my speaking in public,
but in this sacred plase I cannot forbear
saying that I am not only a soldier for
my countr, - but ram a soldier of Jesus.
How wonderfully He has directed and
protected me! At Fort Sumter I was
among strangers, having been but re
cently assigned to that post. The rebel
lion had just broken out. I did not
know to whom I could talk safely; I had
no resources but to offer prayer to God,
and I did pray to Him, and lie brought
me through. No thanks are due to me,
but to Him who brought me through.—
My friends, if I could see all our people
turn to God, then I should have better
hope that this war would soon end. It
is not the arm of flesh that can save us.
Let me entreat you, my beloved coun
trymen, to pray that God will help us."
Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.
A man who retuses to direct the vitality
within him into regular channels of
la` or—
who simply feeds and sleeps, or nurses his
passions and appetites—whose highest satis
faction comes from sense—is as good as dead
and buried. Of what use is such a man in
the world, to himself - or others ? If he will
not work he is a burden upon society, even
if he prey upon a pile of inherited wealth.
No man has a right to be idle, even if be be
as rich as Croesus, simply because he cannot
be an idle man without injury to himself and
society lle destroys his own happiness,
buries his powers of usefulness, and furnish
es to the world a pestilent example.
The unpleasant odor produced by
perspiration is frequently the source of
vexation to persons who are subject to
it. Nothing is simpler than to remove
this odor much more effectually than by
the application of such costly unguents
and perfunies as are in use. It is only
necessary to procure some of the com
pound spirits of ammonia, and place
about two table-spoonfuls in a basin of
water. Washing the face, ha,ids, and
arms with this, leaves the skin as clean,
sweet, and fresh as one c.)ul 1 wish.—
The wash is perfectly harmless, and/very
cheap. It is recommended on the au
thority of an experienced physician.
The Crittenden Compromise.
KEEP IT BEFORE THE PEOPLE.
The following resolutions passed the United
States House of representatives, Feb. 11th,
1861, by a nearly unanimous vote:
Resolved, That neither the Federal Gov
ernment nor the people or governments of
the non-slaveholding States _have a parpoSe
or a Constitutional right to legislate upon or
interfere with slavery in any of the States of
the Union.
Resolved, That those persons in the North
who do not subscribe to the foregoing pro
positions are too insignificant in numbers and
influence to excite serious attention or alarm
ot any portion ot the people of the Republic,
and that the increase of their numbers and
influence does not keep pads with the increase
of the aggregate population of the Union.
Congress, by a vote nearly unanimous,
passed the following resolutions, at the extra
session of 1861, which expresses the voice of
the nation, and is the true standard of loy
alty:
"That the present deplorable civil war has
been forced upon the country by the disunion
ists of the Southern States, now in wins
against the Constitutional Government, and
in arms around the Capitol; that in this Na
tional emergency, Congress, banished - adi
feeling of mere passion and resentment, will
recollect only its duty to the whole country;
that this war is not waged on their part in
any spirit of oppression or of any purpose of
conquest or subjugation, or purooee of over
throwing or interfering with. the rights or
established institutions of those States, but to
defend and maintain the supremacy of the
Constitution, and to preserve the Union, 'with
all the dignity, equality, and rights of the
several States unimpaired, and that as soon.
as these objects are accomplished the war
ought to cease."
THE oaraixAL PURPO9II OP THE WAR
General order, August 9,1381,
says:
"The General commanding takes thirtse-i
caeioo to remind the ellice,rsand iloadiosol
this SM.YI Alma we ersel.~ l : 101 1 1 41,54111*
the l Uonstitution ami3swe of
States, and in suppress** rebillh
their authority; that *etife - not ' •
ear of rapine, reitifirghlar , ~di
this is not a contest against lopisliA,
against armed forces and political o
tionsithat: Ise struggle carried Mn Wi
the United Stetes,_and should be"" eoii
Indolence.
Worth Knowing.
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