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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
August
Year
1861
Copyright
Public Domain
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■Tbe Washington respondent of the Philadelphia North American says that it is well uuderstood. that the final ordor fbf the ïiiaruli of ihtV Federal aruiy towards Richmond did not uieet with tlie cordial approval of Gen. Soott, who eütcrtaincd tho opinión aud. belief that the troops were uot in the, thorough cotdition necessary fo ha. emergency that fflight arise. In anothor wcel{, ar fortnight at least, all would htvve heen ready, but tha orders from tho President wero imperative, and ijere therefore obeyed.. !LL" A story is told of Senator Joseph Lanc, of Oregon, which will bear repetition : Accounts of the Senator'a seutiments and movcments preceded his return home, mi it is said, rendered Iiíbr, very impopular, particularly aftw the' attRQfe on Fort Sufflpte. When he r-eached the shoras of the Pacific hé began to fucl his unpopularity in various ways; but uo reraark that was rasde to bim and in his hearing was more cutting' than that of a stage d'i'iver whoni ho had entered iuto convcrsatión wUbotvVt disclosing his nanle. Ia the course &f his couvcrsation the Senator took occusiou to rcmark that he considered himsuli at that time about the worst abused! man in the State. '-Well, 1 don't ktiow about that," replied the drivcr. "If you are any worsc abiisetï thijr tht Hal,1 Jo. Lane, God help 3'ou." JC5T" I' 's related of a young lady of St. Louis, viha will notgive her name to the world, that having been in tha etistom of ayearly visit to her relativfs,' (ha requisite sum for that indulgence was furuished her this year as usual, b,ut in . her lave for the cause of couutry, of popular goveyuruent, and of hu,in,au libcrty, she dcelined to make the visitrand appropriated the inouey to the of a considerable cj'iantity' of gray flannel," whieh she is uow assiduously engaged iu lüauufactuiing iuto shirts for the defenders of Aujerioau ÍHtioftaiUt,. M.m., :- ,-- , jL2L" The virtue which tho world' wants is a liealthful virtue not a valotudiaarian virtue ; a virtue which cau exDose itself to the risks insé]arable from' ill spiritual exertious", - uot a virtue which keeps out of coinmon air for féai' { ufeetiotr.

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Old News
Michigan Argus