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THE ILLmOIS FAKMEK. 



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came loaded, the warehouse filled to repletion 

 and the levee lined with river craft, busy in the 

 peaceful pursuits of life, exchanging the products 

 of the North for those of the South — now the 

 river guarded with huge cannon and thousands 

 of armed men watching with argus eyes that no- 

 thing pass this great high way cf a nation. Well, 

 when the four hundred thousand despots who 

 have plunged the sunny South into anarchy shall 

 be deposed, and the strong arm of right shall 

 have again asserted her mild and benignaDt 

 reign, Cairo will come forth regenerated and be 

 one of the important points in the Northwest, 

 for it is just here winter bridges th« rivers of the 

 north. 



Naval Cadets. — A resolution has passed the 

 House instructing the Naval Committee to in- 

 quire into the expediency of providing for the 

 appointment of the full number of cadets from 

 such States as have not now in the naval ser- 

 vice the number to which they are entitled by 

 existing laws; and if from any of the States 

 recommendations are not made, the number 

 shall betaken from such States m the same 

 section of the Union as shall apply for the pla- 

 ces in said school. 



Pension to Colonel Ellsworth's Motheb. — 

 The committee on Military Affairs in the House 

 is instructed to report a bill granting a pension 

 to the mother of the late Col. Elmer E. Ells- 

 worth. 



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— A member of the South Carolina Legisla- 

 ture—an old batchelor, by the name of Evans, 

 was introduced to a beautiful widow, also nam- 

 ed Evans. The introduction was in this wise : 

 "Mrs. Evans permit me to present to you Mr. 

 Evans." "Mrs. Evans I" exclaimed the spirited 

 bachelor, '"the very lady I have_beeji in search 

 of for the last eight years." 



— When a generous man is compelled to give 

 a refusal, he generally gives it with a worse 

 grace than the ungenerous one: first, because it 

 is against his nature: and secondly, because it 

 is out of his practice. 



— When an Irish girl was asked, a few days 

 ago, where her mistress was, who had gone to a 

 water cure establishment, she replied that her 

 ladyship had "gone to soak." 



— A rural poet, in describing his lady-love, 

 says : — "She is as graceful as a water-lily, while 

 her breath is like an armful of clover." His fate 

 is certainly approaching a crisis. 



— A Pike's Peaker returned a few days since 

 with five thousand dollars in gold-dust in a 

 bag. His wife brushed fifteen hundred dollars 

 more out of the seat of his old pants. 



Yankee Doodle. 



BT T S. DONOHO. 



"Ysnkee Doodle !" long ago 



They p ayed it to deride ua, 

 But now we march to victory, 

 And that's t e tune to guide ug ! 

 Yankee Doodle — ha ! ha ! ha ! 



Yankee Doodle Dandy ! 

 How we made the red coats run 

 At Yankee Doodle Dandy ! 



To fight is not a pleasant game, 



But if we must, we'll do it ! 

 When Yankee Doodle once begins. 

 Our Yanke' boys go thro' it ! 

 Yankee Doodle — t.a ! ha! ha ! 



Yankee Doodle Dandy ! 

 "Go ahe>id !" the Captains cry. 

 At Yankee Doodle Dandy. 



And let her come upon the sea, 



The insoleiit invader — 

 There the Yankee boys will be, 

 Prepared to serenade her. 

 Yanlsee Doodl — ha ! ha ! ha! 



Yankee Doodle Dandy ! 

 Yanke guns will sing the bass 

 Of Yankee Doodle Dandy ! 



Yankee Doodle !— how it brings 

 The good old days before us ! 

 Two or three begi i to sing, 

 Millions jo'n the chorus ! 



Yankee Doodle— ha! ha! ha! 



Yarikee Doodle Dandy ! 

 Rolling round the continent 

 To Yankee Doodle Dandy. 



YanVee Doodle ! — not alone 



The Continent will hear it ! 

 But all the world shall catch the tune. 

 And every tyrant fear it ! 

 Yankee Doodle ! — ha ! ha ! ha ! 



Yanke" Doodle Dandy ! 

 Freedom's voice is in the song 

 Of " rankee Doodle Dandy ?" 



Is Corn Smut Poisoh:ous to Cattle ? — Mr. E. 

 Wood, of Lester, Iowa, says the Prairie Farmer, 

 lost three oxen, three cows and three calves last 

 winter, he supposed from eating the suou's of 

 cornstalks. He raised one and a half acres of 

 King Phillip corn, -which was very smutty, "not 

 only many ears with smut upon them, but occa- 

 sionally bunches of clesir smut — all left on the 

 stalks, bound and stacked." When cold weather 

 came on the cattle were fed plenteously on these 

 stalks. On the morning of the third day he 

 found one dead, the eighth died within two days. 

 They were supplied with water daily. " The first 

 symptom* were weakness ; would reel in walk- 

 ing If lying down would lie apparently easy for 

 two hourd; then begin to twitch or jerk the 

 shoulders, breathe hard, roll on the side occa- 

 sionally and groan. For one or two hours before 

 dying, would lie continually on the side, with 

 legs stretched out, and manifest extreme pain ; 

 would die within six or eight hours after showing 

 the first symptoms of the disease." All masses 

 of smut grown on cornstalks, or any part of the 

 ears of this grain, should be carefully removed, 

 so as not to taint the fodder or seed of the plant 

 consumed hy man or beast. 



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— A girl re<;.ently stole a pair of gloves, giving 

 as a reason that she only wished to keep her 

 hand iu. 



