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Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-08

IcE.-0ur citizens we've subjected to another North.
ern INVASION last Saturday night, in the shape of a hard
freeze, and ice was plentiful enough yesterday morning.
A week of such weather would make the Rappahaunock
a hard road for the Federal ~gunboats to travel. Il will
be well for those who have ice-houses TO take advan-
tage OF the earliest opportunities to secure Il supply OF
an article so desirable in the warm season.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-08

JoHssos, THE ABOLITION SPY.-Thc man, Chas. John
son, whose arrival here, in irons, We notice a day or ~ o
since, WAS arrested in Loudoun county, aud is said TO lie
a Nirginian by birth. The proof OF his guilt ii we are
correctly informed, is conclusive. We learn that papers
signed by the Abolition Secretary OF War, recognizing
his employment as a spy. were found upon his pcr.on
aud it is further reported that he has been shooting at
and probably killing some Of our p%yckets. Under these
circumstances We should say that Johnson's prospects
for the future were anything but pleasing.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-08
CouRr PRocrroIsos.-In the Hastings Court on

CouRr PRocrEDISGS.-In the Hastings Court on Sat.
urday, u man named Thomas Wilson, was tried for gar.
roting aud robbing John J. Harold. The jury found
him guilty, aud ascertained the term OF his confinement
in the Penitentary at five years. 1t was the opinion of
some who heard the testimony that ten years would
have been light punishment.
Ia the Mayors Court, q negro woman named Marga-
ret was examined for causing the death of Mr. s. G.
Tardy's child, and remandcd for final trial. A 'sLort
shrift aud II long rope" ought % be her portion.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-08
LOST.

an the 81 instant, A BLACK HORSE, about ten hands high.
~ ulh a star la his forehead, and white lh hind foot. lie hsd
on'a troopers brittle and saddle. The horse was taken from
southerland's stable, one door AbJye the Ballard House. I will
pay any one ten dollars 0lUJ who Nnl return him To that stable.
det-H u. ". DAVIS.
A YOUNG gentleman who IL a loyal yirginlan from birth, and
N exempt FROM military duty, wishes to get = SITUATION Ia
some business In Richmond, can write n very good hand, and IL
willing 20 render himself usefulto the south or hs employee.
Adirca v :. NJ, Ruthergin p. o.,
'art-"f Caroline county, Va.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-08

Escape YRoN rHE PEsITESrIARY'-Thre couvicts ef.
iected their escape from the penitentiary a night or two
ago by scaling the walls, and are nov at large. Their
names are Edward Barry, Silas Bcazley and Fouataiue
Rowe. These youngsters belonged TO a gang Of thieves
who were long a terror to honest people in this city. A
their haunts are well snosn TO The police, the probability
il that they will be c.captured.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-08
NOTICE.

DARKSDALE a BRO, Commission Merchants, will receive
ID sonsignmenis Of Wheat, Tobacco, &c, aud make prompt
re urns.
n B.-Any Of our friends having grain bags Of ours, and who
70 not intend TO sonsign wheat oats or corn, IN US soon, will please
return them TO us at once, rs We need then for friends Who wish
10 use them right away. nol2-W
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-08
SALT NOTICE

WE third instalment for Salt for Henrico county Is nov on hand
Il and ready for distribution, by NJ. c. Egsiesion, at the county
Court House. Garry the right change.
salt bags can be had At the rate Of also a niece.
Hours Of delivery from to /, aud from 9 to O'Clock daily.
ELIJAH BAKER,
de4-lWs AGENT FOR sst
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-08

The elections in America are the theme OF general
in England. Tho prevailing Impression is that
these Democratic successes are a step towards peace.
1t is rumored that an attempt had been made on the
life Of the Emperor Napoleou.- .
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-08

Destructive FnE.-A fire broke out Yesterday after
noon in a row of wooden buildings owned by Hiram W..
Tyler, corner of Main and Water streets, Rockets, and
destroyed eleven tenrments. The occupants were per-
sons in moderate circumstances, who are thus rendered
houseless At an inopportune period.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-08

DRowSED.-The bodies OF u white man aud a negro
were found in the Basin yesterday. Their names have
not t%ranspired.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-08
FROM EUROPE.

The steamship Hibernian, from Liverpool, brings Eu-
ropeau dates to November 2lst.
The following bulletin was posted at Loyd's on the
18th:
II is reported that a ste finer has left Liverpool with a
view Of capturing or destroying vessels and cargoes sail
ing under the Federal Tag, and that another will shortly
follow.
The London Times, of Goth. in its city article, says
The report that Mr.. Seward has addressed our govern,
ment in u tone OF displeasure at aid alleged to have
been given the Alabama ia British ports, created for a
time some little uneasincss on the Stock Exchange.
many persons believing that no Minister would be will.
ing 10 put himself in such a position ~ that which Mr..
Seward occupies on this question, unless il were in the
the desperate hope of finding n cause of external quar-
rel At any cost, in order to avert impending events at
homa
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-08

49, TATE N RICHMOND AND MANCHESTER, to be
sHL at Auction, This day 90 The special attention ~ the public i
respectfully called On the sales Of The following very valuable real
estate, viz
Al ~ O'Clock, o. the large four story brick warehouse, or factory,
on the corner 81 eth and Centre street, noW occupied by the Ord
nance department., 1t the rental Of 5000 per annum.
Atus~ O'Clock, TO the beautiful lot on the South side OF Main,
befNseu 2ut and ~ streets
AtS o'clock. 60 the valuable store and dWs lling, In Manchester,
on Main street, occupied by Mr.. Z. Mathews, and TO the large
framed dEellng, on Jackson street, occupied by Mrs. Suslings,
and % several vacant lots contiguous thereto.
For further particulars see suction head.
de.-it GODDIS a APPERSON, Auets.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-08
COMMERCIAL.

LIVERPOOL, Friday evening, November 2l.-Cotton
dull and declined Id a I'd on the week. Sales OF the
week / 1000 bales, at irregular prices. Sales to specu.
lators 5000 bales, and to exporters l,250 bales. Sales
to-day 900 bales. Sales to exporters 1900 bales
Fair Orleans god Mobile Esd; uplands 2id; Middling
Orleans 81 l-2d Middling Mobile I'D; Midiling Up
lands god. Stock in port 292 900 bales of which 2l,.
500 bales are American. Breadstuis steady. Corn
firm,
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-08
IRON WASHINGTON.

The proceedings of the Washington Congress on the
Sd we're almost devoid of interest. The following reso.
luton, offered by Mr.. Salisbury, of Delaware, was OBJ
jected TO aud laid over
Resolved, That the Secretary Of War be, and he is
hereby, directed to inform the Senate whether Or. John
Laws and Whitley Meredith, or either OF them, citizens
Of the State of Delaware, have been arrested and inn
prisoned in Fort Delaware when they were arrested
aud 30 imprisoned the charges against them by whom
made; by whose orders they were arrested and impri-
soned, and that he communicate TO the Senate all papers
relating to their arrest and imprisonment.
The Washington correspondent Of the Associated
Press, on the 2d, t~elegraphs the following
The Democratic representatives yesterday showed
how much they were emboldened by the recent. sue
cesses of that party in the North. The manner Of seve-
raj was decidedly i~nperious, and both their actions and
language gave full evidence that they intended TO sup.
port no measures that we're not based upon the Consti
tuition as al. the Democratic Presidents had construed il.
ADVANCE ~ TuE SEw YORK STOCK MARKET.
NEw YoRE, Dec. Stocks are higher to-day under
the influence of 4 rumor that the Secretary Of the Trea-
sury will recommend an additional issue of currency.
THE " ALABAMA"
BosroS, Dec. 3.-The British barque Mary, at Queens
town, Nov. 18th, from Yarmouth, \. S, spoke Oct. s0th,
in lat. 81, Ion. "a. 80, the rebel steamer Alabama.
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EVERY VALUABLE REAL ES.

ADMISSION, 5eents-uo half price.
ES-S.si. reserved for ladies' until the rise Of the curtain.
de--ls
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-08

1t is stated on good authority, that no less than lone
hundred and eighty thousand" Of the soldiers whose
names now ill the muster rolls are absent, with or with
out leave.
To talk about discipline and organization in the face
Of facts like these is nonsence ultimate TO the utmost
atiainAble limit
The President, too, is reported as having lately made
the remark that the army is less in numbers to-day than
when the last levy was made for three hundred thousand
men.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-08

Highland Fling Harry Mscarthy's Excelsior jig Banjo Sol
OLD Uncle Ned, AMI Robert Ridley, Esq.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-08

BosroN, Dec. S-The British barque Mary, at Queens
town, Nov. 18th, from Yarmouth, \. S, spoke Oct. s0th
in lat. 81, Ion. q 80, the rebel steamer Alabama.
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DIED.

suddenly, on he morning OF the a,h inst, jobs cURRIE, sr;
In The 9th year of his age
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-08

Bonnie Blue Flag Nancy Doslitl-; Ny Joining VAS a sh,
maker. Pat ani Nancy And Larry OBreu.
Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-12-08

90 OTICE.-All persons having work or
dered al my Store preyioas 10 ths date, win please
eau for the same, 40 after this date no work viii be delivered or
sent out to any Que until paidsor.
Manufastirsr OF gentlemen snd lsdies shoes.
III Msin street.
Riehmoui, Va
del-2w Old s,and Of Alexander and Bin s Co.
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70 NTNIT|
Churdeers-Humphr-y Dohbins. Seth ComItock, Hans yosnn
-r nrumsl pJGs Ia ryrOlssn, william HsVsrlsnd, a Coai.d
rate sailor.
SlN.a
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-09-16

The ronderOgicallv, overwhelmingly.
guyascuting extract from the merifc rec
ord of antiquity which follows, if the al
nanac lie not, an cxtIdct from a venera-
BILE manuscript found in an antiauatod
bake oven. explaining the origin Of the
manner 10 which printers are geoerally
paid:
And Skinfinter. the mighty ruler of
the Squashheads. having called his chief
officers to his side, he commanded them
thus:
Go We into all my dominions, and COM
mand my people to gather together their
treasures, even to fnrtting, ard paw
their debts, even the very smallest.
The officers did as they were command
ed, and alter a certain time the ruler called
them again unto him, and demanded Of
them how bis orders had been obeyed:
oh mighty Skinhinter,' they renlied
'your commands were heard ,hrnuebou,
the land, and fulfilled, for your reuple are
obedient'
And is every debt paid?'
Yes even the smallest
Are the merchants. the manufacturers.
and the laborers paid p
AN paid
tled2-
They have been paid
Have my people been provident, Have
they laid up a sufficient sum to feed their
cats and dogs?'
Yea. they have done even this
Wei, my people are worthy. Now. 90
ye again unto them. if there be ANYTHING
lett tell them to take it and pay the print
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Oyer-TeacLfug.

The uncompromising foe If tyrannicai
ana tlgoted pedagogues, Charles Dickens.
Is entltIed to the gratitude of all school.
boys for the success with which be has
held up the examining system" to the con.
tempt and Tidicu'e Of the world. But thu
DR.. climbers are not all dead vet. nor IL
the d of metal discipline that helps TO
destroy Paul D1mbey, aud hopelessly stul.
iifed young Toot-, by any means obsolete;
On the contrary. it prevails in a large pro.
portion OF our schools, to the detrimeut of
the pupils health and the confusion of
their intellects. There is such a thing AZ
over-teaching. An undue pressure ON tbs
brain of child-the exactiou of great eff
fort than nature designed 1t to bear-de.
ieats Its OVID object. Mind and BODY break
down under the spur-intellect and mus.
Gle alike winter in the absence of proper
relaxation. If the teachers in orr schools
understood the philosophy Of education,
they would give Il cir pupils shorter tasks
and more time for play
A child should not DO required to study
more than FIVE hours cut Of the twenty.
four. During the reminding nineteen 4,
should lie suffered 20 ron, and jump, and
sleep and grow. Under these Conditions.
we may hope to see our boys and girls no.
81, vigorous, light-hearted and clesrhead-
ed. Under the forcing method. they are
sure to be pale, sickly, low spirited and
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-09-16
NriVhi INC sournai OF Cci
The Black Race.

Some persons imagine that the ancient
Egyptians were negroes. This nation has
gained ground from the persistent falsifics.
uon OF history. We know more of the
ancient Egyptians, in regard to form and
feature than OF tny other ancien. people.
from The thousands of contemporary pair.
nngs which remain on their monuments
The negro is found on the ancient E,vnt.
tan monuments, but always as n shave
The Egyptian is very different person.
age.
The history Of the
black race is profoundly sad. We know
that three thousand yasrs ago this race ex-
listed in Africa. We know that that ia n
country capable of everything that a nan
needs Tor comfort OF luxury. II has great
rivers. mountains and valleys, rich soil and
seas that wash its shores, which would
carry az adventurous man to any portioys
OF the world: 1t bad withiu 1t the richest
sources OF eommerce,. mines Of gold and
jexei<, BIRDS Of gorgeous plumage, spices
tbQ alma 1or <be luxury o. tbe usnss AZ
niankfhd IIstfefcbes away into tcn,ner<
ate regions, aud bad every variety of en-
mate aud soil. Alas for Africa, that in
the wisdom OF GOd 1t was given to be tho
ABODE oil the black race. Wherever the
other race entered it and gained foothold.
1t was redeemed from barbarism. Egypt
was the mother Of Egyptian wisdom and
civilization. The Pentapolis was rich in
temples and palaces, and glorious work. of
art. Here and there, in the northern p.rt
vt the interior, adventurous travellers lila
DIR. Barth, have fund the splendid remaips
vt Italian art, making the footsteps of the
Roman.
But from the cay the black man poss.s-
sed the soil he has never advanced one
step IN civilization, never built a hut more
convenient than bis fathers buir thousands
OF years ago. never invented a written Ian.
guage, never made a coin, never heCn a
statute or column, never erected temple.
never learned that the world moved around.
never constructed ship or even rude bari.
to navigate the great rivers of Africa. IN
short. the race, If it possessed the arts
which the other descendants of Noah nos
sessed in the earliest period, Lost them all.
reiapsed into barbarisn, and for thousands
oil years has never made one step in adj
va"cc, but steadily plunged deeper and.
ceeper INTO the lowest forms of degradation.
In Asia. the Hindoo temples and palaces
date from remote ages, and the Chinese
CIVILIZATION seeks its origin in the earliest
years. Europe, Greece and Italy attest tb Q
earnest 40 vance of man, and England,
Germany. Russia and France are all the
growth Of civilization from barbarian o-f
gan. In Hmerica, country more thinly
peorIed than any other, and probably in
habited at very late date, grand relics of
ART attest the existence of o civilization
which has no apparent origin in European
or Asian teaching. In Africa, no man
hnds one solitary memorial on which to
found theory that the negro race of bar
barians. There is no alteration Of civil.
zitlon and barbarism in the history Of
Africa. 1t is one long, 5arbaric stasna.
zion,
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Rich without NIonex.

Many man is rich without money.-
Thousands Of men with nothing in the
pocket, and thousands without even a nock :.
et are rich. A mau b IN with a good
stomach, good heart. and good limbs. and
pretty good head-piece, is rich. Good
bones are better than gold tough mu,-
cles, than silver and nerves that a.sb Gre
and carry energy to every function. afo
better than lands.
lt is better than landed estate to,bays
the rIghi kind of father and mother. Good
breeds aud bad breeds exist among men 40
ready as among herds and horses.
Education may do much to check evil
tendencies, or to deve!Ip good ones but it
10 a great thing to inherit the right pro.
portion oi faculties to start with.
That man is rich who has rood dis
rosi;ion-who is naturally kind, patient.
cheerful. and who has a favor of Wit and
Fun in his composition. The bsrdss,
thing to get sling with in this Iife i |.
mans own self. A cross, ssIfsb-s timid
care-burdened maD-thcse are all deform.
ed On the inside. Their feet may not linn.
but their thoughts d..
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Scourse-was it really you though? | never
suspected anything half so sensible of you
sent me last New Year, and a more ac-
.ceptabie present | never received; and
someOody never did and never will make a
better investment of money than that
.unsess he thinks fit to give me thirty five
:aeliars ! want npw. Don't you see how.
with that IN the house, have already saw
ca you more than it cost, By doing my own
sewing, and still found plenty of time to
loid my hands besides? And with such
machine, Mrs. Webb aud Kate could soon
make themselves comparatively independ-
Well. well. Mary when man is defeat
ed oy his own wife, he doesn't exactly like
Ior ms dignity rake, to acknowledge il -
Us equivalent to letting her wear the-you
know what
On never mind your dignity. / was
never particularly impressed by IL; and al
Tor wearing the article you mention, any
smart wife mauases 70 60 that an how. just
'as 90 Row when you gaze NJ thaf---ten
Ind IN ~ ssesnty. ana 6vs sfs <uenry-
nve, and ten are fbirty-five; and fftetn i
have already makes fifty. That's all right.
and you are dear good husband"
The pretty delicate hand closed over the
coveted treasure, and the full rosy lips per
formed their appropriate office, and it was
hard to tell which seemed to be best salts
fed, husband OF wife.
Before many days went BY. there was
joyful surprise at the unpretending dwell
iOg of the Widow Webb and daughter
Catherine, delicate girl of eighteen or
thereabouts. seemed pale and emaciated,
from recent illness, but at the sight of the
spendid sewing machIne-that M first she
could not teheve bnt had been left there by
mistake, until she bad re-read more than
once the accompanying card with her own
name in full, aud the number of her resi-
dence upon 1.-THE blood danced inyiully
from her heart up to her cheeks and ling
led her very fingers ends, at The prospect
oil better days in store for them.
AT first they could obtain no clue to their
kind benefactors, but the truth finally leak.
ed out. And if ever gratitude s1elled the
hearts of human beings. it did 80 towards
their landlord, whom they had hitherto
considered so harsh and unreIentiue, and
to his pretty, kind hearted wife.
When next rent day came Mr.. Early had
not to call upon Mrs. Webb for his money
1t was promptly brought to him, and paid
so cheerfully, that he jocosely remarked to
his wife that he had half a mind to try the
experiment on each Of his tenants, to see il
1t would have an equally good effect.
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Feminine AdYisarx

Ii is wonderful advantage to a man. in
every pursuit or avocatiOn, to secure 40
adviser in sensible woman In woman
there Is subtle celicacy of fact, and a
plain soundness of judgment, which are
rarely combined to an equal degree ia
man. A woman, if she be really yoYr
friend. will have a sensitive regard for your
character. honor, repute. She will seldom
COUNSEL you to do shabby thing, for a
woman-triend always desires to be proud
OF you. AT the same time her constitution
al tImIdIty makes her more cautious than
your male friend. She, there fore, seldom
counsels you to do an imprudcnt thing -
By female friendships, mean pure friend
ships-thOse in which there is no admix-
ture of the passion of love, except ia the
married state. Il mans best female friend
Is a wife Of good sense and goud heart.
whom he loves and who loves him. If he
have that he need not seek elsewhere
But, surprising the man to be without such
helpmate, female friendships he must
still have, CT this intellect will be without
garden, and there will be many an IN
needed gap even in its strongest fence
Better and safer, of course, such friend
ships where dispa-ities of years or circu a,
ton. Middle life has rarely this advan-
tage youth and old age have. We may
have female friendships with those much
older, and those younger than ourselves
Molie-e's old housek eeper was a great helr
ID his genius, and Mnntague's philosophy
takes both gentler and a loftier character
of wisdom form the date in which he finds
IN Maria de Gournay, an. adopted dough
ter, certainly beloved by me-" says the
Horace of essayists, with more than pa
tern"l love, aud involved in my solitude
and retirement, as one of the best parts OF
my being" Female friendship. indeed, j,
to man, "prasidIum ct dulce decus"-bul
wark, sweetener, ornament Of this exist
tence. To his mental culture it is invalu
able; without it all know ledge of book
will never give him knowledge Of the world
--Buii0er LyttUn
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WHY DON'T YOU EyLIsr,

Why don't l eniistl All, you see,
have reasons that answer ME well;
But there is my neiglIbor, young Jones,
why he says, no person can tell
80 hearty, and rugged, and orave,
And little to do here, you know;
He hasn't house nor field,
And there isn't a reason to shovl
It's true, he's pretty young wife,
With sweet little babe in her arms;
But shall We risk the Nations dear life
Because frail woman hath charms
All, hhe eompreh end our need,
Ills wife and his babe would be kissed.
He would tear their white an ms from his neck
And come promptly up and enlist.
But have farm and house.
And cattle and sheep on the hills,
How can turn from prof and loss
To think ola sick Nations iIlsi
What money I'd lose if 1 went
What chances for traffic and gain;
Then think Of the comforts at home.
And the camp: and iilaeafnage, and slain
But there is young Edward Romaiu,
Whose mother Is widowed and old,
And he has but little to do
Since their farm by the Sheriff was sold.
If he should enlist, and get shot,
As many an one has before.
His mother could come on the town,
Or ask aims at the wealthy mans door.
'Tis shameful such fellows as he
Should turn deaf ear to the call.
That some should be slain by the fire
Cannot be the fortune Of ALL
II only stood In his Shoes
With no fortune or kin to protect.
III faltered to shoulder my gun,
fought to be shot for neglect
am ready to cheer the old nag,
And toss up my cap in the air.
As long as it costs not cent,
BY the Union I'm ready to swear!
Let the blood of the Nation fiow out
Like river to vanquish the foe;
Let each father and brother turn out,
(But the doctor says cannot goD
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The Augusta Chronicle says that some
one asked Stonewalls old negro body serv-
ant how be came to be 50 much in the con-
hdence Of his master. Lord SIR" said
he, ''massa never tells me muffin but the
way know is tbis-msssa says bis PRAYERS
twice day. morning and night /; but If he
gets out Of bed two or three tunes in the
night to pray. you see just commences to
pack my hsversack. for knows there will
be The deUts TO pay nea dGy."