• Abstract and Figures
• Public Full-text

Ib fftlo ir (Kajette, fteuft atth frarttejj. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY EVEXINQ, BY JOHN PORTER & SON, Having made large additions to our former variety of PLAIN AND FANCY Office, No. 5 Custom-House Block, J O 3 3 T "5U JE» 3EJ , We are now prepared to execute with mratbru and dm* patou, every DESCRIPTION of Job Work, such aa TERMS, Cirouiara, Bill-Heads, Cards, Blanks, If paid strictly in advance—per annum, 81,50 I f paym ent Is delayed 6 mos. “ 1,75 Catalogue*. Programme*, If not paid till the close of the year, 2,00 Shop Bills, Labels, Auction and Hand tCT No paper will be discontinued until all arbeara- es are paid, unless at the option of the puplisher. Bill*, &C., &C* CT Single copies, three cents—for sale, at the office. Particular attention paid to IE?- All letters and communications to be addressed PRINTING IN COLORS! to the Publishers. BRONZING, kc, ---------- Liberty and Union, Yon and Forever I took the skiliton and karried it up to the MY BROTHER EPHRAIM. ‘ Well,’ said she, rising to depart, • I ’m Speaking too Soon. Gunpowder.—The quality of gunpowder is Despatch from Gen. Fremont. garret, and hung it in a closet. And besides sure you’ro just the one have friends in the Mehitable Merrit, a young lady of twenty- in general, judged by the uniformity of its tex­ W ashington, Sept. 12— The following de­ One and Inseparable.” ture, its firmness and cleanliness,—by its not I did not want a thing where I should see it Ephraim has gone to the war. army. Now 1 have so much feeliri, I never nine, who had never had a chance to change spatch was received tonight at the Headquar­ being easily crushed in the fingers, nor readily ters of the Army : very often, for somtimes the temptations of When the guns of Port Sumter started could let any of my folks go.’ the alliterative character of her name, was soiling them. St. Louis, Sept.. 12, 1801.—To Col. E. D. Satan will get the better of us in spite of our­ the whole North to its feet, Ephraim ex­ 1 knew that she had so much 'feeliri ’ at seated over the firo in her little sitting room, Gunpowder manufactured by or for the Gov­ selves ! claimed, “ Thank God, the crisis has come !” the lime we made shirts for the soldiers, that Townsend :—A report of Gen. Pope to-day from when a knock was heard, and who should ernment is required to be of a certain density, Ilenneville says he made night marches and A week or two afterwards, Isabel Green, I did not know precisely what he meant, she could not do a stitch of work on them. make his appearance but Solomon Perwinkle. nor must it exceed or be less in weight per cubic reached Green last Sunday, who, however, got the city lady, came up to Dave’s, visiting. nor do I now. 1 felt anything but thankful Indeed, it must be a \ feeliri ’ family, for * Why,’ thought she, I wonder what he’s foot thnn a certain standard. It must be of a notice of his approach, but that he was success­ She carried the biggest skirt that ever I seed; to hear of United States citizens storming when the officer came to town in search of come fo r; can it bo certain strength, and this strength must be uni­ ful in contriving the dispersion of 3000 rebels, form. It is all tested by government officers, I couldn’t repair it to nothing but the wheel United States Forts, as if they had been volunteers, her son was too much overcome Bat we won’t divulge tho thought that who left behind them much baggage, provisions, of an old cart, or the tail of a terrible foreigners; as if Sumter and Moultrie had to make his appearance. Soon after the in eprouvettes, by firing, first samples taken and forage ; also tho public property seized by passed through the lady’s mind. from various kegs, and then mixing the samples Green at Shelbina. Gen. Pope’s infantry was great peacock. I watched her, to see how not both got to be rebuilt nt the public ex­ officer left, he was seen emerging from the ‘ How do you do, Miss Merrit ?, and firing the mixture. By this means they pense ! I said as much to Ephraim, but he too much fatigued to pursue. Horsemen how­ she managed i t ; and when she’d come into clothes-press. ‘ Pretty well, I thank you, Mr. Perwin- can calculate vary nearly the distance which a ever followed in pursuit 10 or 15 miles, until church it was worth while to see her. Old only laughed, and did not explain. Ho was Mrs. Cole has a • Coat of Arns’ hanging klo. Not but I feel a little lonely now certain amount of powder will carry a ball of the enemy scattered. Jenkins the crusty old bachelor, said that always a man of few words. up over the head of her bed, with the British and then.’ a given weight; but there are so many condi­ The railroad east of Brookfield is open and tions that operate to effect the result, that it is she reminded him of a seventy-four gunship It was not till after the news came of the Lion ramping in the foreground, of which ‘ You see, as I was coroimg by, I thought no more secession camps will be made within taking in sail, when she went into the pew; inob at Baltimore, that Ephraim said any-j she feels very proud, because she says it shows always almost necessary, when in actual battle, 20 miles. Gen. Grant telegraphs that tho first I’d just step in and ask a question about— to fire a number of times before getting the gun is in position at Fort Holt, Ky. and sometimes she did have a tough job to thing about enlisting himself, though I knew! that on the • Smith side’ of the house she that is—about----- ’ exact range of the enemy. (Signed) J. C. Fremont. To tlie 4-tli lle&imeiit. git herself and all her rigging in through the pretty well how it would be. I knew, too, ] had ‘ ancestors.’ Now, 1 do not blame any- ‘ I suppose,’ thought Miss Merrit, ‘ he The effectiveness of gunpowder depends upon narrer door. what 1 should do if I had been a man. To : dody for taking a kind of satisfaction in means about the state of my heart.' the readiness with which it burns and the vol­ G en er a l R oaecrn n a’a R eport* But the more I looked at her skirt the be sure, there seemed some reasons why he i having come of a good race, but I feel 1 Tho fact is,’ said Solomon, who was rath­ ume of gass which it produces. In an explo- Gen. Rosocrans’ official report to headquar- Strike, freemen, for your fathers’ glares ! more 1 liked the looks of h er; and when could not be spared. We owned a small prouder of my brother Eparaim fighting un­ er bashful, 11 feel a little delicate about ask­ sion, the whole of the gunpowder passes from ters to-night states that he marched 17 1-2 solid into a gaseous condition, by the elements - . Strike for the flog that over you waves ! you take the first step in the evil way it’s farm, whieh gave us a living, and he was the der the American Flag, tl«m 1 should of all miles before the battle, and found the rebels ing but I hope you wouldn't think it strange.’ of the ingredients entering into new combina­ Strike for your homes and fireside band ! dreadful easy to take the second. You’ll only man on the premises. In fact, he was the escutcheons of all the nobility of Europe ! strongly entrenched in so dense a forest that ‘ Oh, no,’ simpered Miss M",‘ I don’t tions among themselves. When a heat is ap­ Strike for the freedom of your lund ! go down the hill as if you were greased the only male relation we had in the world, Prudence L ane. they were not visible 300 yards off. The rebel think it at all strange, and, in fact, I've been plied to it sufficient to effect the decomposition force was 6 regiments and 15 pieces of artillery. Prom thinking that Mrs. Green looked well fnr we had buriod Seth and Jaoob not long somehow expecting it.’ alter father 'died. Mother is getting along The Old-Pasmoasd Mother. of the smallest particle, more heat is thereby Just as an assult was about to be made night W ho kindled freedom’s holy fires iu a hoop, 1 got to thinking that, perhaps I , Solomon, rather suprised -. ‘ I generated, and the process is continued until in years—rising eighty—aud we are all the Old-fashioned mothers have nearly all eame on, when our force was withdrawn from Withhold the aid their country needs, should look kinder well in one of them too ; believe you have in yonr possession some­ therefore, when the "subatches 119?eEJ3.. the woods and formed a line of battle in front W hen treason on her vitals feeds ? family. But when a man wants to do his passed away with the blue cheek and home­ and one day, when Ichabod had gone to E s­ thing of mine.’ converted into gas as possible, and also into until morning, when run&wky1 e8flirfeantfs''re? duty, it is rather poor encouragement to have spun woolen cf a simpler but purer time.

Load more

  4

Copy Link