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Year: 1862

ULADpIAHIEN> ARMY OF POTOMAC,


Tuesday, Dec. l6.-l.45 L. NJ.


During last night the army evacuated their
position on the opposite side Of the river. The
movement was aperilous one but was conduct
ed in safety. Our artillery was the first to
cross, the last Of the infantry brought up the
rear shortly after daylight. The enemy never
discovered the movement until too late TO do
us any harm. As soon as the last man was
over the pontoon bridges were removed,cuttng
off all communication. Our wounded are all
safe on this side Of the river. There was a
heavy wind all last night with considerable
rain, which assisted us in preventing the rebels
from learning our intentions.
Year: 1862

sB-We are informed byone who has been
connected with the commissary department in
the 7th Regiment, that there is not the slight
est truth in the statements made by some of
the soldiers that their rations are neglected,
some days having none, and that since they
have been here they have had no vegetables
at all. The difficulty that occurred on Sun
day night is susceptible Of explanation, and it
will be explained from proper source.
Year: 1862

We understand that advces have been received
q. the office Of the Pacific Moi Company that eighty
passengers are going forward for the next steamer
direct from England to Aspnwall, by the West India
line.
Year: 1862

Never put pin in the mouth or between
The teeth, for q single instant, because sud-
den effort to laugh or speak may convey it
into The throat or luOgs, or stomach, caus'
ing death in few minutes, or requiring The
windpipe to be cut open to get it out; II 1t
has passed into the stomach, it may, as 1T
has done, cause years Of suffering, ceasing
only when 1t has made its way out of the
body through the walls Of the abdomen or
other por ton Of the System.


1t is better to have no button or string
about any garment worn during the night.
A long. loose night-gown is the best thing
to sleep iH. Many man has facilitated an
attack of apoplexy by buttoning bis shirt
collar.


Ii you wake up 0G cold night, and find
yourself very restless, get out Of bed, and
standing on piece of carpet or cloth of
any kind, spend five or ten minutes in rub
bing the whole body vigorously and rapidly
with the hands, having previously thrown
the bed clothing towards the foot of the bed
so as to air both bed and body.


If YOU Hnd that yen have inadvertently
eaten too much, instead of taking something
to sett the stomach, thus adding TO the
load under which II already labors, take q



10 keep up very slight moisture or per-
spiration on the skin, and do not stop until
entirely relieved, but end your exercise in
= warm room, 80 as to cool of very slowly.


Never put on pair Of new boots or shoes
on journey, rather wear your easiest, old
est pair, otherwise you will soon be Pain-
fully disabled.


A loosely lifting boot or shoe, white trav-
cling in winter, will keep the feet warmer
without any stockings at all, than tight
pair, over the thickest, warmest hose.


Riding against a cold wind, immediately
after singing or speaking 10 public, is sui
eide.


Many public speakers have been disabled
for life by speaking under hOarseness Of
voice.


II yon happen to get wet in cold weather
keep moving on foot with rapdity sufli-
cient to keep off a feeling of chiliness until
you get into house, and not waiting to un-
Dress drink instantly and pleutifuly of hot
tea of some sort; then undress, wipe dry
quickly, and put on warm, dry clothing.


Never go to bed with cold feet, if you
want to sleep we'll.


If a person faints, place him instantly fat
on bed, or floor, or earth, on bis back, and
quietly let him alone at least ten minutes;
il it is simply fainting fit. the blOd, flow
ing on level will more speedily equalze
Itself throughout the system; cold water
dashed In the face, or a sitting position are
unnecessary aud peTniciOus.-[ Halls Jour.
nal Of Health,
Year: 1862

o, the Summer Night


Has a smile of light,
And she sits on a sapphire throne
Whilst the sweet winds load her
With garlands Of odor
From the bud to the rose o'erblown
But the Autumn Night
Has a piercing sight,
And step both strong and free;
And voice for wonder,
like the roar Of thunder
When he shouts to the stormy sea
And the Winter Night


Is all cold and white,
And she singeth song Of pain;
Till the wild bee hummeth,
And warm Spring cometh,
When she dies in dream Of rain
o. the Night the Night
'Tis q lovely sight
Whatever the cline or timei


For sorrow then soareth,
And the lover outpoureth
His soul in tar-bright rhyme.
1t bringeth sleep


TO the forests deep,
The forest bird to It's nest;


To care bright hours,


And dreams to flowers,
And that balm to the weary-Rest.
Year: 1862

A CHILD of five, having seen her father
for the first time-he having been absent in
Californa-was much astonished that be
should claim any authority over her, and on
an occasion of rebellion, as he administered
punishment, she cried out, III wish you had
never married into into our familyW
Year: 1862

Late Professor Of the University of Pennsylvania


CAN BE FOUND AT HIS
Private Medical Office and Hospital,


NO. 75l CLAY STREET,
Opposite the southwest corner of the Plaza,


SAN FRANCISCO,
Year: 1862

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF NEVADA,
On this 18th day of March, A. D.. 1862, personally
appeared before me J. |. CALDWELL a Notary Pubic
in and for said county MARY IRISH. wife OF e. X IRISH
personally known To me 10 be the person described
In and who executed the within and foregoing decla-
ration. or instrument of writing. as party thereto
and the said MARY IRISH was by me made acquainted
with the contents of said declaration or instrument
of writing and she thln and there acknowledged to
me on an examination separate and apart from and
without the hearing of her said husband, that she
executed the same freely and voluntarily. as her act
and deed without fear cOmpulsion, or undeu nhu-
ence of her said husband for the uses and purposes
therein mentioned and that she does not wish TO re-
tract the execution of the same.


- In witness whereof do herennto set my
! hand and official seal, on the day and date


U.s. ! Aforesaid. J.l CALDWELL


Notary Public.
Year: 1862

We ase pleased 10 record the fact
that there is 10 be no backing down
from the position taken By the Presi-
dent two months ago. Abraham Lin.
coin stands firmly by every word ol
The Em ncipation Proclamation. and
will enforce il to the very letter.


On Friday of last week. the President
is represented to have had au inlerview
with prominent unconditional Union
Ken,uckians, in which he discussed at
length the question of emancipation.
and dwelt particularly upon the adyan.
taces to accrue 10 the border States
through the scheme for the abolish
ment of Slavery. lie said lie would
rather die than take back one word OF
the proclamation, and urged them tc
bring the subject of gradual emancipa-
ton fairly before the people, which they
assured him shou!d be done.


In the course Of the interview Mr..
Lincoln expressed determination to
enforce vigorous measures TO rid Ken
tucky Of rebel sympatl'izers. and for
that purpose will appoint new Pro-
vost Marshal General. who has his heart
in the work


This looks Ike something is going
to be done, and we are much sralifed
at the hopeful turn public affairs seem
to te taking.
Year: 1862

The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat
and drink, and sleep4-to be exposed to dark
ness and the light pace round in the mill
of habit and turn though: into an implement
Of irade-this is not life 10 all this but a
poor fraction Of the Consciousness Of humanity
is awakened, and tee saafiIias Still slumoer
which make it worth while TO be. knowledge,
truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alones can
give vitality to the mechanism of existence
The laugh of Rirth that vibrates through the
heart, the music that brings childhood back,
the prayer that calls the future near, the doubt
which makes Us meditste, the death which
stnrtles US with mystery, the hardship which


forces us TO struggle, the anxiety that ends ip
trust, are the true nourishment of our natu-
raj being.
Year: 1862

In an excellent article on the draft, Bishop
Purcell addresses himself as follows TO the
Irish Catholics of Cincinnati and the State:


If you arc drafted, go you must We
have heard of some foolish, some very foolish
men, protesting that they would resist the
draft Let them do it, and they will find that
The war is no child's play. Let them try that
game, and they viii soon be brought to their
proper senses. The man who talks of resisting
the draft deserves scant mercy. 1t is the
same as if your house was on fire, and you
would cut the hose. so that tho water could
not reach the burning building. Our whole
country is in danger--our liberties are in dan
ger-and you wiz resist the draft, VIII yog
II you do, you will forever regret it.


g We have it said, also, that some Irish cit
izeGs in the interior of the State, mslrd by
cunning politicians and eiher persons, have
declared that they would resist the draft. We
do not believe IT, There must be some mis-
take in this. We are engaged in a war which
may be said to be an Irish .war- because it is
Il war of slageLolders against white labor. 1t
is an irish war, because it is every day reduc-
ing the power Of England destroying her
trade, filling her cities with paupers, aud
threatening her with irreparable ruin.


We have captured already her best iron
built mercantile navy, and she dare not de-
clare war The capture of Canada will soon
fpllow-it must follow as a necessity, and Eng
land can do nothing. And it is said that
Irishmen will oppose draft to save our coun-
Try from destruction, and put us under the
feet Of the British aud cotton arstocracy
Are you better than other men, that you as
sumo the right to oppose the draft Are you
better than the American fathers and mohers
and the Irish fathers and mothers whose brave
sons have fallen on the battlefield in defense
of your rights ? When you talk Of resisting
the draft, if it should come, you make your
self not only ridiculous but criminal and it
is to save my Catholic brethren from being
placed in such very false position that this
article has been written. 1t refers, fortunate
ly, to very few, but it ought to be applicable
to no one"
Year: 1862


The Sick and Wounded Soldiers. Preserved Veg


etables.


This is the season when private families are
in the habit of putting up i'll tin cans or other
wise preserved vegetables, and particularly TOM
atoes, for fall and winter use. Let us remind
such of the claims Of the sick and wounded SOL
ders, aud to suggest the plan that they should
double, treple, or quadruple their usual guam
tity, in order that they may thus contribute TO
the comfort and recovery of the sick and woun-
ded. Perhaps there is no one Thing that is
more medicinally useful and beneAcisl to inval-
ids than ripe torlgtQes, and the demand for them
in tin cans las been so great that the supply
las been exhausted for several months. No
more acceptable or useful service cam be per-
formed than by families adopting the plan at
putting up 2 large supply beyond what they may
require for their oMA use. If This plan is gen
orally followed there will be an ample supply
for our Gallent ard suffering soldiers; and in no
way coul2 so small an outlay be so adYanta-
gedasly applied.


We would further suggest that those who fol-
low the preservation OF vegetables as regular
trade and business should largely increase their
usual quantity, as The Government will un-
doubtedly come iuto the market for a very
large supply; and we would indeed suggest that
the Medical Department should at once be au-
thorized TO issue proposals for the probable re-
quired supply Of such articles. a


Newspapers throughout the country, and
particularly in the Western States, will rem
der valuable service by calling attention to
the subject, and keeping it before the public BY
continued insertions at the present moment.
Year: 1862

Too many forget this. There is poetry in
farming to be sure, if It is rightly managed;
but there is nc poetry in ii ifn does not ray
Iii there are no satisfactory material results.
But farming is business. Ii is dollar-and-eenl
transaction 10 produce and market crop
from the turning Of The FIRST lurrow 10 tho de-
Farming should accordingly be conducted in a
business manner. Each item Of expense, eaci
moment Of tine, all expenditure Of labor should
be charged the crops, and Il the market price
of the produce does not cover the cost ami
leave balance, that kind Of husbandry haS
better be abandoned.
Year: 1862




/ Thus the Cambridge Tntelligenoer-one oi


the largest and best local papers in Maryland


issued in the slaveholding county Of Dor


chester, speaks in its last issue:


We have never doubted that tie war


which the rebels have inaugurated, would
prove to be the destruction Of slavery. We
! so warned the people at the time that it be-
! gun, and events have already proved 4he truth
I of our prediction. 1t is truly on the part Of
( the rebels, war Of freedom to the black men
Of he South. But this is not all. There is
another sense in which this is war Of free
dom. There are other men in the South TO
be freed as well as black men. The asilte men
Of fte South need the strong arm Of the GoU-
ernHent to tif the coke from their neeks--
These have endured slavery far transceuding
that of the blacks. The social system of the
South has never been anything short Of a des
potism--a tyranny equal to any of the age.
The mind has forever been bound here. Free
dom of opinion has never been tolerated below
Mason and Dixons line. Men have not been
permitted to hold much less express, their
own opinions. A man might conscientiously
have believed slavery to have been a burden
upon the State but he dare not let the public
know that such were his convictions. He
would at once be prescribed in his business,
and happy indeed might he be, if he escaped
without a coat of tar and feathers. Freedom
of speech aud the press was thing unknown
in the South.
Moreover, all the legislation has been in
favor Of one class of the community. The
Shareholders, though constituting but cne|
twenty seventh part Of our population, have.
ruled absolutely the Commonwealth. And
even shareholders, themselves ruling have not
permitted themselves TO do as they pleased
with their own property. Al bout two years
since the Legislature passed law forbidding
any one from freeing their own slayes, either
by manumission during lifetime, or by will af
ter their death. Here is blindness as well as
tyranny. Such acts are lasting disgrace to
our manhood. They ensave the master as
well as his negro"


Let the mind oe free Let the faculties
be unettered There can be neither prosper !
ity nor happiness where these are enslayed.
1t is degrading to any people. We shall nev-
er accomplish Qpr magnificent destiny until
these are free. The war is uubinding them.
The true glory of the war is not that it liber
stes the black but the white men Of the South.
They are already beginning to shout for JOY.
And when the war closes, they ill join their
voices in one loud haIlelajah to the God Of
Liberty for their deverance. We look with
pride and joy to the good Lime coming. when
American freemen shall be free in deed, as
well as in name"
Year: 1862

TREATMENT OF GRoUr.-HaI's Journal Of
Health says:


Group is an inflammation Of the inner surface
of the win1pipe. IndAmmItion implies heat
and that heat must be sdbdaed, or the patient
viii inevitably die. If prompt effJris are
made to cool the parts in case of an attack o.
Group relief will be rs prompt as it is sur
prising and delightful. Ali know that cold
applied to a hot skin, coois it. but all do not
as well know and understand that hot water
applied to an inhlmed skin. will as certainly
cool it off. Hence the application Of ice cold
water with linen cloths. or Of almost boiling
water with wooden funnel, IS very efficient in
the cure OF Group. Take two or three pieces
of woolen funnel Of two fo!d', large enough
to cover the whole throat and upper part Of
the chest; put these in pan of water as hot
as the hand can bear and keep it thus hot by
adding water from boiling teakettlo at hand;
let two or three aannels be in the hot water
all the time, with dry flannel covering the
wet one. so as to keep the steam in, to some
extent; keep the clothing as dry as possible
and continue this process until the doctor
comes, or until the phlegm is loose, and the
child begins to fall asleep; then wrap dry
flannel over the wet one which is on, covering
it up entirely. and the child is saved. When
it wakes up, both hannels will be dry.
Year: 1862

ghost or raven


"Only this, aud nothing more,
but there stood a beautiful child, boy Ot
some six or eight summers, radiant as May
morning, and in his hand small boquet Of
spring roses.


Ny mother sent these 10 you" be said in
a soft toned voice looking up brightly into my
eyes.


-Indeedr' 1 exclaimed, as took them from
his chubby fist ~and where does your dear
mother live?"


"OYer there" was the laconic reply, as he
pointed with his finger 10 a cottage among the
trees.


''0h, thank you my little mar, and tell
your mother l thank her more than l can tell
for love flowers" was my answer to him,
as he turned and bounded away.


held the beautiful things in any hand, and
looked into their eyes, and they seemed to fad
tongues to talk to ne, and comfort me. They
told me of kind and genial heart near by,
that knew of a stranger, and sent this message
of love and good cheer, to lift the veil from
her eyes, and speak hope TO tie sinking spirit
and there came a glow from the centre, and
spread out over all the earth. I looked up and
the sunlight gilded the forests, the house tops,
and the brown and bare fields. The rooms
were changed, the broken plastering and bare
walls we're blooming with freth roses. clasp
ed them in my hands, and pressed them to my
lips, and drops of gratitude fell into their pure
corollas, as l few with them to the children
crying:


"oee-we are not alone


There is one heart in the neighborhood at
least, that knows the feelings of stranger
one that knew there was gloom even at sun
rise on a May morning, in 4 strange land, in
new home, aud she had sent US flowers, the
most cheerful and beautiful of all Gods hand
iwork of the forest or wood, and by the hand
of little Child. type Of the kingdom of heav-
en-, to link tie past with The present, and TO
gild with brightness the portals Of the future
with hope aud light. Heaven bless her for
that thought, she had swept away in moment
the clouds of doubt and sadness.


Who but woman, gentle and loving, could
have thought of such a delicate compliment
In the depths of her own soul she knew my
need, and answered


went back TO my duty. Day follows day
and night ansGeretb to night, and no such
gloomy hour has come to drape the world in
rose buds are opening everywhere,
and my eyes see them. That one kind act will
gid all coming time, and an eternity will not,
c;tnpot destroy its effect.
Year: 1862

AH Policy Backers i'm This and Other
cities opposed to the supplementary proposition of Sim
Stanley and Others notified that meeting will
take place to defeat the same due notice Of which will be
given.
Year: 1862

Since the recent order Of the Secretary OF
War that the drafted men should be dis
tributed among the old regiments, some OF
those at Camp GAINESVILLE have exhibited
signs of discomfort and threatened to maze
their escape Every exertion was made by
the officers to prevent any snch movement
but on Saturday night 1--WE are informed by
an officer of the 18th regimenD, general
rush was made, and from two to three hun
dred men succeeded in making their escape.
Many of them will be retaken and brought
back. but as they soon after scattered In ev-
direction, it will be i'm possible to arrest
rhsm all.
Year: 1862

When young girl reaches the age Of At
teen or sixteen she begins to think OF tho
mysteriousssub bject of matrimouy-a state the
delights of which our youthful imagination
shadows forth in the most captivating forms.
1t is made the topic of light and incidental
conversation among her companions, and Il
is recurred to with increasing interest every
time it is brought upon the tapsis. When
she grows little older she ceases to smatter
about matrimony, and thinks more intently
on the ali important subject. It eugrosses
her thoughts by day aud dreams by night;
and she pictures to herself the felicity of be-
ing welded to the youth for whom she
cherishes secret but consuming lame
She surveys herself in the mirror. and, as it
generally tells fattering tale, she turns
from 1t with the pleasing conviction that
her beauty will enable her to conquer the
heart of the most abdurate, and whoever
else may die in a state of single blessednesss
she is destined to become. ere many years
roll by, a happy bride. From the age OF
eighteen to twenty is the very witching time
of female life.


During that period the female heart is
moro susceptible to the soft and tender in
fluences of love than at any other; and we
appeal to our fair reader to say. WHETHER II
inclination was alone consulted 10 the bust-
n eSS, moro marriages Wouio ho' s"No P'"S~
place during this ticklish season than in any
by which it is preceded or followed? 1t 10
the grand climax of love; and she who
passes it without entering into the state OF
m matrim ony may chance to pass several year:
of her lifa ere she is caught in the msshes OF
Hymen. The truth is. that the majority OF
women begin to move more houshtfully
when they have turned the age of twenty.
The giddiness Of the girl gives place to the
sobriety of the women. Frivolity is ssucceed-
ed by reflection, and reason reigns where
passion previously held undisputed sway
The care and the anxiety of life press them
selves m more palpably, they tend to weaken
the effect of the sansuine anticipation ofun
mingled felicity in the marriage state which
the mind had formed in its youthful dreams.
In short, to use common phrase, women
after twenty, "look ere they leap"
Year: 1862

The VOTE FOR PREsIDENT.-Had there
been Presidential election this fall, the
States which went Democratic would have
chosen Democratic President, as they have
large maiority of the electoral votes of the
loyal States. The count would have stood
Year: 1862

The PRESIDENT ON ENANCIPATION.-A
Chicago dispatch, of the 2Sth inst, states
that Horace Greedy has addressed letter
to the President, urging more vigorous
enforcement of the coufscation law. The
President has replied in characteristic
letter, in which he says:


Ny paramount object in this struggle is to
save the Union, and not to save or destroy
slavery. If | could save the Union without
freeing any slaves would do it, and if could
save it by freeing all the slaves would do it.
II, by freeing some, and leaving other States
alone, | would also do it. What do about
slavery and the colored race, do because
belieyeit helps this Union, and what | forbear
forbear because do believe it would not help
to save the Union. / shall do less whenever
shall believe what am doing hurts the cause,
and shall do more whenever | shall believe do
ing more will help the cause. shall try to
correct errors when they are shown to be err
rors, and shall adopt new views so fast as they
appear to be true views.


From this we infer that the President is
determined that the war shall still be car
ried on solely with the view of maintaining
the Union and that he not will be forced into
the issuing of an eXtravagant emancipation
decree merely to please the abolitianists.
His position is entirely satisfactory TO eve
ry one who thinks the Union is of more i'm
portance than the niger. If the Union
cause can be strengthed by abolishing sla
very in portion or in all Of the rebel ais
trcts, then the slaves will be set free; but
be will not interfere with the institution
except as means to accomplish The object
] Of the war.
Year: 1862

q BY way Of Fortress Monroe we have news
from Roanoke island up to Sunday, but It is
not important, with thc exception Of The tenn
pornry failure to lay the telegraph cable across
the bay in consequence Of the heavy gale, and
the loss Of The steamer llo6okeh, which w $
engaged in the enterprise White flags are
said to be flying in large numbers ht Mug :
Head and vicinity.