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Year: 1862

supposed possible. Indeed if it goes
through With this more than hcgcu1ean
labor with equal spirit aud energy, and
the same success, it will prove, beyond
cayn or doubt, to all the world, that 1t is
the strongest government in existence.


The strength OF a government is in the
love Of its subjects. And it is quite in vain
for men who are bound to throne by
various silken cords Of birth and place;
who bow to majesty from old use and wont /;
crook the hinges Of the knee with servile
obeisance; repeat by Tote their VOWS Of
homage, and warble with bated breath
hymns and psalms Of God save the King,
to prate.of the mighty power of loyalty
and affect to pity the groreIling condition
end ignohlg life Of the degraded people Who
lack The inspiration and power Of that royal
sentiment. No hearts ever beat with truel
loyalty than the millions IN this land whe
i are to-day rallied for the Union. No king
OF prince ever gathered around his stand
ard so many trHe and devoted men, as to
day bear a1oft the Star Bpang1ed Banner
Never before were so many. stout arm
raised to strike, and so many pure AM
brave hearts lifted IN prayer to heaven 70
their country. This myriad and invincibl
host are glowing NTH an ardor Of devotio'


to freedom such as no king or emperor eve
could inspire, and clad with a resistles


strength such as no monarchy or empir
Fever knew. =
Year: 1862




APPOINTMENTS CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE.
The Senate to-day, in executive session, confirmed
large number OF nominations among them John Lathrop
Motley Minister AUSTRIA and Robert Pruyn, OF New
York as Minister Resident at Japan


ALL QUIET ALONG THE LINES.


Everything been quiet along the lines OF the Army
Of the Potomac The infantry troops devong ther
time chiefly to target practice


PROPOSED SECRET SESSIONS OF CONGRESS ON WAR


MEASURES


Upon the motion Of Senator Wade, s proposed to add
the following the joint rules of Congress-''when,
during tho present rebellion any member Of the Senate
or House Of Representatives shall rise his place, and
state 10 the senate House Representatives that the
Executive desires immediate action Of Congress upon
any pertaining the suppression OF the present
rebellion the Senate House Of Representatives the
may be- shall Immediately into secret session,
and proceed 70 the consideration Of tho measure pro-
posed and all debate thereon, the previous question
shall not have been ordered, shall be limited TO FIVE
minutes for any meuer and the final shall be taken
before adjournment During euch session communi-
cation shall be received made from any person
not member then present. except through the President
Of the Senate Speaker Of the House. and breach
OF secresy OF any matter transacted during session.
unless the injunction Of secresy be removed, by any
Senator or representative, shall be punished by expul-
sion and II committed by any officer OF either body or
other person such punishment shall bc inflicted the
body to which he belongs may impose" The adoption
Of such rule will manifest the disposition Of Congress
itself to the great work In hand and make
all beside subordinate the first duty Of crushing the
rebellion and restoring peace and the integrity Of the
| Union.


THE TELEGRAPH CENSORSHIP.
The House Committee on the Judiciary to-day com
msnced their investigation into the telegraph censorship
| Several witnesses before them
| CONSULAR APPOINTMENT.
Hugh Young for several years editor Of leading re-
publican Journal in Western Psnnsy vana has been ap-
pointed Consul to Santa cro1 in the Danish West Indies
THE RECOGNITION OF HArTr.


The utras will have TO conclude that they are not 10 be
aoyed rule the while the country s engaged in
war for the restoration Of the Union few days ago
an attempt made in the Committee Foreign Rea-
tions obtain indirectly the recognition Of diplomatic
relations with the negro republic Of Hayt but Il was
fortunately nippsd in tho bud.
Year: 1862

Editors Wilmington Journal:


MEN-Your interest in State Troops assures
me that you will be glad to hear of the good health of COL
Clingman's magnificent Regiment The just solici'ude
theraan soldiers in the field enough itself to
justify publication of this fact aside from the addition
al reason why furnish it


An impression has be made in parts
our state relative to sickness and mortality THIS is
based upon misrepresentation calculated to do me in
justice, and to unnecessarily alarm many who have friends
aud relatives in the regiment notice that it has been
ny from death by sickness. TIE reuerse is the truth
We have had considerable Sickness but have lost
men, Our medical statistics when hereafter published
will show that so far have been very fortunate.


Suffice it now to make the following brief statement
Our Regiment comprising in officers and men, eleven hun
dred iOO) has been in service arly nine months. Rails
ed in the mountains the ordered to coast
you know, in September, during the scky There
about three hundred miles further South to Coosawhatche
8. Ca place noted being of the sckest in the
Southern Contederacy. There were in Camp before
frost had appeared and long euough for who
entire strangers to low country evers to mbihe the pes
shown by the of fever that we gathered from such
exposure. From Coosawhatchie to this more
ana more seahy place Since coming here about
This disease occurring in mid winter and in this chaDgea
bic climate has been followed in spite of all by
Ry cases of Inflammation of the lungs and bowels.


And yet under all these disadvantageous circumstances
and influences, have not lost dozen the Re-
glnent OF eleven hundred men took the field If this
bad showg then all efforts to prevent disease all
anxious tolls and to sck have been vain
and fruitess for good


If the Regiment is unpopular with because it
raised mainly in the West because it is commanded
bv that excellent officer and eminent statesman Colonel
Clingman, then cannot help it, except that will
sympahize either with narrowninded prejudces with
those ungenerous motives that wuly msrepresent the
mortality of any Regiment However this be- it is
gratifying for to know that is the orinon of Off
and men, as we'll as those distinguished medical and
military men who have visited u.s. that, comparatively,
have lost very few men.


would not be justice to South Carolina were to omit
in closng to add that from the day Regiment
the State it has been treated with the consdera
on and kindness by her liberal hearted citizens For
own Department say that my labors have been
rally htened by the warm hearts and ready hands of the
ladies here and elsewhere They have rallied around our
Hospital and have done all that do furnish
invalid soldiers with food clothes and medical
forts From all of the State donations have flowed
into continuous and numerous, that have been
filed 10 over flowing. Yours. &C.,


s. 8. SATCHWELL


Surgeon 25h Regiment N. C. Younteers.
Year: 1862

The Charleston Courier says that all the sufferers by
the great fire in that city who in straitened cir
cumsances at the time they were burned ou are now
much better off than they then, by the liberal ap
propriations distributed among them from tie relief
fund
Year: 1862

PATRIOTIC MEETING IN THE TENTH WARD.-A meeting for
the advancement Of recruiting in the Tenth ward Brook
yn, will be held this evening" at No 316 Atlantic street.
is to be hoped that all Union loving citizens Of the
ward will be present. and givo cto to the meeting
to do away with the necessity Of drafting The meeting
is called for eight O'Clock and II IL expected that mum.
ber Of prominent speakers will be present.
Year: 1862

Music IN THE PARK.--The Central Park Commissioners
that there will be music at the Central Park
the mall this Saturday afternoon at half past four
O'clock by the Central Park Band under the leadership
of H. B. Dodworth If the weather is ns The following
Year: 1862




pressively of peace


"Wherefore in what we have written, We
have had an entire singleness of aspiration
and purpose-peace first, peace last, peace
ever. Peace alone can restore the country
10 its proper condition of prosperity. In
peace only can we husband profitaby the
Inheritance of political liberty bequeathed
to us, and save our benefcient Constitution
from the ravshing hand of military despot-
ism. We are therefore for peace-peace,
because it will give to the Union the life
blood of constitutional liberty, without
which the Union must become a consoda'
ted despotism-peace, because it is required
to save the poor from the sutferings of
poverty and the temptation to crme-peace,
because it is in consonance with the inter
ests, and teachings, and charities, OF our
HOLY Church-and peace, because the Din
vine Spouse of that Holy Church hath said:
BLESSED are the peace makers, for they shall
see God"
Year: 1862

In Gsr.-Barstow, the Republican
Speaker, in returning thanks "for the honor
conferred" thus delivered himself:


"War, therefore, war vigorously prosecuted,
war on the most Formidable scale, war that
knows no such word as fail, war with the
world, if it must be so, is that alone on which
our national existence now depends"


We admire patriotism and pluck and
Barstow has both in an immense degree, but
he has selected a poor place to exhibit the
latter quality to advantage. A gentleman
so furious for war ought to prove his sincerl'
ty on the tented tield-the Union ''needs
soldiers"-not retreat to a place of safety
and security and there spout about it.
Beecher and Cheever and others of that ilk
are great war advocates, but no inducement
can get them to share its hardships and
dangers. We must not be understood as
questioning the pluck of any of them, still
it strikes us if they would practice what they
preach they would exhibit more of the man
and less of The braggart


Mountain Democrat.
Year: 1862

ABOLITION LECrURERs.- following is
an extract from late letter Of the New
York correspondent Of the Morning Call.
We make it, not because it contains anything
new, but that it makes some honest admisl
sions, which are not often heard of late. The
writer speaking of Abolition Lecturers says;


So little has been heard lateI of these
gentlemen that we fancied the tribe almost
extinct or possibly had just begun to suspect
that they had done talking enough; but this
was giving them too much credit. Any
quantity of the old familiar names are again
in the field, now that the lecturing season
has commenced, and are ready to spout away
quite careless of the mischief they have al
ready accomplished, and apparently uncon
cous of the stern necessities of the times,
which makes mere words seem mockery.
Right or wrong, there is no doubt that it is
to the efforts of such men as Garrison, Phil
ipps, Cheever, Sumner, Foster, Beecher, and
others, together with the corresponding ex'
tremsts on the other side, that we owe our
present deplorable condition, and while
Toombs & Co. have had the grace and the
courage to show fight. the busterers at the
North either keep dark or resort to their old
trade of talking. 1t is really curious cir
cumstance, and ought to strike shame to the
hearts of their followers and eulogsts, that
not single name among those who were
most prominent at the many Anti-Slavery
anniversaries, or known as the most violent
of Abolition lecturers, has ever been heard
of in battle, or as having raised regiment
or in any way shown a disposition to defend
the county, and the institutions they have
endanceret!; and for these gentry to try to
lecture upon the war, when thousands OF brave
men are risking their lives on the field OF
battle, ought to excite only disdain and con-
tempt
Year: 1862




The Aboitionsm press of the North and
the members of Congress who represent
that intensified feeling Of hatred to the South,
begin to show signs Of deliberate war up'
on the Administration, If Mr.. Lincoln should
persist IN his purpose Of making the restor
alton OF the Union under the Constitution
the chief object of all his efforts. The
country knows that the Abolition party are
now as they have always been, just as soli-
ctous for dissolution of the Union as the
most ultra politician of the South. They
have shown 1t in every way-in speeches in
Congress, in still worse harangues from the
pulpi in their party press, and in the zeal
which they have exhibited in deprving men
of their property when slaves have made
their escape into the free States; and now
they are attempting to bully the President


into the adoption Of their favorie scheme,
Of converting this war in a means of brng'


ing about the emancipation Of four million
of slaves and Of making them the equals Of
the white man. Mr.. Cameron went as far
as man could 90, when he resisted the
demand of the President SO as to modify his
report as to relieve it of this pestiIent and
internal proposition; and before this was done
the Influence Of Congress was attempted to
be brought to bear upon the President in the
sIai Of resolutions, all having this single
object in view. But the President stood
firm. He saw clearly, we may conclude,
that if he gave way to the delusion that the
war must be prosecuted for the emancipa-
ton of all the slaves in the Union, Kentucky,
Missouri, Maryland and Delaware, would ia
evitably be lost to the Confederacy. He
saw, too, that all hope Of an honest and
earnest union of the people in carrying on
the war would be abandoned, that scarcely
a State could be relied on to do its reasona
bic duty; that the ability Of the Govern
ment to procure money to meet its immense
expenditures, must be destroyed; that the
Democracy Of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, New
York and Pennsylvania and indeed of all
the other States, would avow their resou'
ton not to take part in any such war; and
that as consequence of such resolution the
army would become hopeessy demoralzed
and useless; for every one knows that, great
as it is, it contains a large majority of DEM
Gratis, who are fighting for the Union under
the Constitution, and not for negro emancil
patton. Bat the dark day has passed. Mr..
Lincoln stood firm when the devils of the
Abolition party made their iercest attack
upon him; and if they shoul! now, in Con-
gress and through the Abolition press, make
war upon him, he will find his best friends
and chief supporters in the Democratic par
tv and the conservative men of the coun.
try. TO them he has not appealed in vain
for men to fight the battles for the Union,
and he may rely ON them for support when'
ever the Constitution is a>sailed 10y the Abo
huon party.
Year: 1862

A CRowING MATcH.-A new sport has
been inaugurated in France, viz growing
matches between roosters. An account is CIV
en- of little spirited contest between ten large
fowls and ten of smaller breed. The Shang-
haies carried away the palm. We presume
the quantity and not the quality of the crow
ing was regarded, for the growing Of the
shanghai is about the towlest noise that
can emanate from the poultry yard.
Year: 1862

SOLITAIRE REAsoN.--We asked good
looking but solitary man why he did not go
into the society of ladies and brighten up,
Here's the reason: Tn operated on by
the opinion, that the secret of success in
society is to talk all the time, encourage wo'
men to talk fooIishIy and laugh at every
foolish word they utter-rd rather be alone"
Year: 1862

VITALITY IN HORSES. s.-Some experiments
have recently been made in France, by per.
sons skilled in the vertnary art, with view
of ascertaining how long horses may live
without food in certain contingencies; as,
for example being shu: up in beseged places.
The following results have been noted: A
horse may live for twenty-five days withou.
solid food, and merely drinking water. He
may live seventeen days without eating or
drinking He can live only five days, when
consuming solid food, without drinking.
After taking solid aliment for the space Of
ten days but with an insufficient quantity Of
drink, the stomach is worn out. The above
facts show the importance Of water in the
sustenance of the horse, and the desire the
animal must feel to be supplied with it. A
horse which had been deprived of water for
the space of three days, drank eleven gallons
in the space of three minutes.
Year: 1862

HoRRIBLE-At the DaIes on Sunday
night, 29th December, says the Portland
Times of the lst, a man was shot under the
following circumstances:


Some six or eight of the California volun
teers were assembled at the Orleans Saloon
and had partaken freely of liquor A quar-
rel ensued between two OF them, and one
grasped his revolverand attempted to strike
the other over the head with it, when it was
discharged, and the contents entered the
forehead of third person who was sitting
in a chair by the stove, killing him instantly.
The ball entered his forehead and came out
of the back part Of the head and entered the
partition wall of the room. The deceased
had his feet upon the stove, and his position
remained the same, save :hat his head drop
ped a little to one side and his arm fell down
by his side. In this position coroners in
quest was held upon his body. His name
was Appleton. Several of those present
were arrested
Year: 1862

THE SECRET OF McCLELLAN's POPULAR
IrY WITH THE ARMY.-Some Of the News
papers are in doubt as to the reasons for the
wonderful hold which Gen. Mcclellan has on
the soldiers he leads. The following para
graph from an editorial of the A. Y Tribune,
Aug. /, 1861, tells the whole story, and is as
true now as it was then -


"But ,ac personal qualitos of Gen Nc
Clellan and the Characteristics of his mind,
erhsps do more to inspiro confidence in
him as leader than any positive reforms
he proposes to effect. He looks at his arnly
as an army Of men, and Of men who have
brains and hearts and organs OF Digestion
lie has an idea that upon the bodily comfort
and mental cheeriulness Of the individuals de-
pends the trustworthiness of the consolidated
force Acknowledging tho truth of the say
ing, that what one does for himself is well
done, he attends personally to such Of the de-
tails of his camps as he can reach, and exam
Piles Of the mass he is not able to cover. lie
comes soon to know the faces of many of his
soldiers, and to be personally known by all
of them. As an effect Of this they regard
him with an enthusiasm which will send
them with shouts into the most desperate
fight, inspired by desire to win his com
mendation.


All able Generals have declared by word
and act their belief in the truth that personal
knowledge of, and acquaintance with the sol
der, by his leader, are absolutely necessary
for the full development of the formers re-
sourses of bravery. The Little Corporal
could not, in the darkest night of reverse,
make an appeal to his troops that would not
be answered with deathdefying cheer, and
the warmth of affection felt for the great Ma
poleon was born Of his iarsighted care for the
individual soldier If there nave been hun
CRY men sent into desperate battlefelds--il
Colonels aud quartermasters have combined
to deiraud the Government and cheat the pri-
vate of his comiort--if officers have sought
their own pleasure and forgotten tkeir men
if looseness and dull sloth have prevailed
where all should be compact and active, it
will be so no more. A watchful eye, kind
ly heart, a just head, a gentle hand, and a
tongue which will be terrible in ceLsure but
grateful in praise, mark the officer who is now
TO have so important a position under our
General-in-Chief. We may confidently look
for an army well otfcered, well ordered, thor
oughly equipped for brilliant strategy for
courage pervadng the force which will with
stand even that most dreful enemy, panic -
and for future steady advance from victory
to victory"
Year: 1862

The DAY OF CErEBRATroS.-Never in tho
history of our country was the birthday
of Washington celebrated with more uni
versal and earnest interest than on Saturday
last The occasion derived increased impress
siveness from the fact that we combined with
our reverence for the memory Of the man
sincere and hearty feeling Of joy and thankful


ness that the glorious heritage which he left to
us a. the reward Of his labors was to be spared
TO us in all its integrity, Notwithstanding the
Vaccinations of Southern traitors The know
ledge that the national arms had just been
crowned with victory after victory, and that
the Union flag had been restored to all but
one Of the disadceted States, served 10 buoy
Year: 1862

WE publish this morning Mr.. Hills
reply 10 the last article of the Aid Society
Committee. Publishing it. as We did the lac.
article of the committee aforesaid, san ad
vertis.ment. we wish it distinctly understood
that We are in no wise responsible for any
personalities It may contain,
Year: 1862

Ice CREAM AND CoSFEcrloNERY.-
The Blair Bros. Brady street. just above 4th
are driving a smashing business in their line
The secret Of their sue ess is that they make .
capital article and are very accommodating
Th y will be prepared for any amount of GUS
toners today.
Year: 1862

A letter from Brussels to the London
Spectator says:


have found the intellectual portion of
the Belgian community all in a futter on
account of an article by which the celebra-
ted NJ. Proudhon has been pleased of late
to grace the columns of the office de pub
licite. 1t is in the shape of an epistle ad-
dressed to the Emperor of the French.


"Sire,' says NJ Proudhon to the Empe-
ror, "dare do What Mazzini some time ago
advised Victor Emanuel 20 do. Dare !!
dare and you may depend upon it that
Teutonic France, the old inheritance of
Charlemagne, the Rhine, Belgium, Hol-
land, are yours. To all this you have a
claim, being an Emperor; all tLis you are
entitled to demand as a compensation for
what you have Just accomplished in Italy,
at the request of Europe. Who could
withstand you? The Rhine since the time
of Boileau has ceased to be inimical to the
French Both the policy of the Prussians
and the discussions of the German Confed-
Grafton are matters perfectly unintelligible
to the German Rhine Belgium, we are
led to believe, expects you. In Belgium,
as in France and still more than in France.
the people fast and dream the middle
classes digest their food and snore; the
youth smoke and make love; the soldiers
cape; there is nothing but emptiness in
public opinion, and political life is no more.
Tradespeople are aheady alive to the prof
its they are likely to derive from annexa-
ton; the workman looks forW ard to an in
crease Of wages; the clergy will be de-
lighted to get rid, through you, of the idle
clamors of the liberal party the represen-
tatives-is there any energetic resolution
to be expected from men who spend as
many as six weeks in disputing about an
infdel buried in holy ground: The walls
of Anvers will crumble down at the very
sound of your trumpets, and to Orangist
Flanders such a trick played off on the Gov
ernment will be found most acceptable


THE PAPER CURRENcY.-A despatch
from Washington, of date goth October,
says:


There is no foundation for the current
report that the Secretary of the Treasury
will apply to the next Congress for author
ity to issue more Treasury notes. 1t is
probable that Mr. Chase will ask Congress
to legislate so as to curtail the issue OF
bank bills, and thus restore the value OF
Government paper to the gold Standard
1t is the opinion of many fnanciers who
have been IN Washington of late, that if no
more Government paper were to be issued,
and if all the paper issues Of the banks
could be suppressed the Government paper
would instantly rise to the value of gold
The Government is convinced that some
thing must be done to lessen the evil of the
present disparity between specie and paper
money.


1t has been proposed in certain quarters
that henceforth instead Of issuing any
more paper currency, the Treasury Depart
ment shall issue six months and one year
six per cent. certificates of Indebtedness.
The old demand notes are rapidly coming
in, as The importations for the last two
or three months have been very heavy, and
the duties have been mostly paid in the old
notes instead of coin.