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Year: 1862

DIsLoYAL DEMoCRATs.-Savs the Jours
nat of CommTce:


They carried home to Connecticut last
week through this city Of New York, the
dead dust Of as noble man as ever FOUGHT
for bis country's honor on any feI in all
The broad world. Noble Christian, faith
tuI patriot, good man, he fell at lie head
of his men, leading them into the fiercess
gloom of the war cloud that overhuno the
battle OF Antietam. An hour before be-
fell, he wrote in his pencil memorandum
book his last message of love and faith, and
there recorded his latest VOW of allegiance
TO the Union and constitution. lie sealed
tbs VOW with that last seal of human faith.
the blood that ebbed away with life itself.
Do you ask who he was-tor ten thousand
have died .hus. lie was one of your dis
loyal democrats. One of your men that
have "no sympathy with the govern
ment '-one of those despisel Americans
that you say are "perfectly Indifferent
to the success Of the government" And
he was one of a half million that have
gone on the same errand that lie weat
on.
Year: 1862

TRorBLED WITH HUMoR An applicant
for exemption on account Of physical dis
ability informed the examining physician
lhat he was troubled with heart disease
The doctor told him TO run up and down
the stairs leading TO his Office once OF
twice. The applicant DID this, when the
physician, after listening to the motions
of The heart, said: " You will pass, sir :;
dollar, if you please 3" But, DOCTOR"
said the man, . let me run down stairs
once more, and then Try" The doctor
as'ented-tle man ran down stairs-and
forgot to come back.
Year: 1862

attorney and Counsellor at Law-
Has resumed the practice OF his profession in
yanitowoc, and now promise to give
prompt attention to all professional business
entrusted TO him.


-F- Collections made in any part of the State.
For few weeks his Office will be found at
his dwelling house.
Year: 1862

If there are any in the South who have not yet walked mp to the magnitude of the struggle in which we are engaged, and to the danger which surrounds us on every side, let them persue and ponder well the following stirring appeal from one of Georgia's aged sOnS
Year: 1862

TWO HIGHLY EDUCATED YOUNG GENTLEMEN


wish to make the acquaintance OF two young ladies' with


view to marmony possessing the requirements of good
education and instruction., with whom they the
hnemen and taste OF good company Address r. r. d. He-
raid o1ce stating where and when interview be had
Year: 1862

One of these notorious men was on the
Point, at Pittsburg Landing, acting as
picket, and as he had manifested some
symptoms of inebriety before he went
there, Lieut.. Wheelock concluded to look
after the SCAMP. He walked to the spot
where the picket was posted, and found
the fellow seated under tree, brushing
away the musquetoes very listlessly, and
cilrsing the rebels, who were throwing g
shells from their mortars across the river.
Just as the Lieutenant was approaching,
a bomb fell within five feet of the picket,
who saw the fuse still burning, and knew
it must soon explode:


The mortar man looked at it very
coolly, and never stirred, but apostro-
phized the shell thus :" D--n you who
cares for you? Burst and be id no.
body's afraid, you id old rebel"


The fearless scapegrace had hardly
finished his speech when the bomb burst
tearing up the ground and covering hin
with dirt, but doing him no injury
Bah l knew you couldn't hurt nobody
you id old rebel" remarked the NOR
tar man, and continued to brush away
the musquetoes with the most imperturb
able sang froid.
Year: 1862

OF all the sweet sad words OF life,


Whose very sound seems soft and blest,
The one most like benison,


Is that sweet love word - rest.
We grow so weary on life's roed,


Climbing its rocky heights and steep,
That it will seem SO blest TO seek


The shadow land of sleep.
Fen the sweet valley of the world,


The happy land of love,
When we have walked while thersip,
Doth full OF sadness prove;
And weary souls pass from the vale,


Signing with hearts oppressed;
The saddest thing of life is love


The sweetest thing is rest.''
Tie sweetest spots along life'5 road,


And where low pillows weep,
And the one place for smiles should be
Where Our beloved sleep;
And if our friends would breathe prayer
That one be truly blest,
Let them bit pray our God that we


May have eternal rest.
Year: 1862

Sunday afternoon youMg man WHO
first courted a daughter, aged twenty,
then the mother, aged over forty, and was
rejected by both, was, by Justice Fuller,
wedlocked, according to law, to the hired
girl in the family he courted. That chap
did not intend to let his love run to seed
while there was a show left--La Crosse
Democrat
Year: 1862

The number of contrabands with McClel-
lan's army is estimated at two thousand.--
They are well fed, and sheltered in tents.-
For all this says letter in the Philadelphia


Inquirer, (Repubhcan,) the manager of them
has to deal with them as though they were
animals, to keep them in proper trim. They
are up to all kinds of lodges to keep from
work. Yesterday" he adds 81 saw the
guard unearth one fellow who had hid him-
self away under pile of old clothes. How
he got along without being smothereG is a
mystery TO me. He finally marched to work
with shovel over his shoulder, grinning at
his success in sodgering for time. This
one darkey is only type of all seen here.
They imagine they should do nothing but
eat, drink and sleep. There is no Disgusting
the fact, they want the whip badly. The me-
gro women seem to have more energy than
the men, and are very expert in carrying
heavy loads upon their heads
Year: 1862

A thing of beauty is joy forever"


Thus wrote the delicate Keats, but Keats
never knew the luxury of a stick plaster cur
rency. Postage stamps, gummed with the
best adhesive, sticking to sweaty fingers
were unknown in his primitive age If Con-
gress had not adjourned it is believed that it
would have made molasscs candy legal ten
der by this time. 1t seem ed to be trying to
invent currency that would stick to people.
1t is such general complaint that money
cannot be kept, that it was evident by the
bright idea of this Congress to give the peo.
pie something that would stick to them.
Just think, too, how delightful this currency
is for my business With hands all wet
from compounding drinks, am just prepar-
ed to finger postage stamps How they do
stick though BY the way, why not make
a plug of tobacco legal tender Have it put
up in cuds" from one cent upwards in price
it would be just the thing That would
not stick Those who use snuff might put
it in envelopes. after the fashion of postage
stamps. If the war is to continue year or
two longer, 1 go IN for the "legal tender
cuds." Away with the postage stamp nui-
sance. 1t has caused more profanity since
its adoption than can be atoned for in a
twelve month. Ifit is not speedily abolish
ished, shall begin to think seriously about
retiring from BEHIND THE COUNTER.
Year: 1862

Would respectfully to the citizens of Wy
oming that they have located at Mehoopany, where
they will PROMPTLY attend to all calls in the live OF
their profession. May be found at his Drug Store
when not professionally absent.
Year: 1862

; strip has been taken from the west side mex


to the main channel of the river from five to


ten rods in width, and the entire length Of


the Island. Thus is the area of this once


beautiful Island of twenty acres reduced to
less than eight acres, and nearly all that re-
mslns is covered with layer of sand vary
ing in thicknes. from few inches to several
feet. In this manner has been irretrievably
ruined one of the most charming spots in or
adjacent to this village 1t is safe to predict
that this Island will never again become a
habitable abode for human beings. This Sc
we're loss bears with peculiar hardship upon
MIR Cabot, whose property was mostly in Al
ALBANIA at the commencement of the rebellion,
and which is probably nearly or quite all sa-
crificed. The house occupied by Mr. Bing-
ham, in the employ of Mr. Cabot, contained
when it was washed away nearly all the fur
niture, wearing apparel, &C., belonging to the
family. 1t was stranded in Vernon and some
of the goods will be recovered in damaged
condition. Frederick Yaw's house is total
wreck, but most of his furniture was saved.
His loss must reach nearly one thousand
dollars.


Fortunately throughout this whole affair
no life was lost and no person injured. With
the exception of the Island, which for all
practical purposes was part of our village,
but very little damage was sustained by cur
citizens individually.


We learn that quite a number of farmers
along the river suffered more or less damage
from this flood. A Mr. Shaw on Putney
meadows lost all his buildings. Mr. John
Stearns of Hinsdsle, about four miles below
this village, was obliged to remove his cattle
and grain TO higher land, and it is reported
that his family escaped from their house
through the windows. The bridge being de-
strOyed and the Hinsdale road for more than
mile under water, il is impossible to ascer-
tain the extent of the damage on that side
We however are informed that more than
half a mile Of the highway on the opposite
side Of the river, and near the Little bridge,
is washed entirely away as low as the bed of
the river. Mr. Ebenezer Howe of Vernon
has had washed away from his farm two a.
cres of valuable meadow or "interyale"
land.


The town of Brattleboro has suffered loss
in the destruction of West River Bridge.
which will require three thousand dollars to
replace
Year: 1862




We believe this ia the first instance in many
wears in which the Legislature has not added to
our burden Of taxation, by inserting doubtful and
speculative claims, unasked by the local author.
tiles, in our City budget.


Our State Tux will; because Of the War, be
somewhat higher than last year, but, altogether,
the Taxes levied on the Real Estate of this
City will be lighter than last year. This is
unexpected good fortune.
Year: 1862

Our tsx-payng citizens will learn with
Measure that their local taxes for the present
year are to be nearly two millions less than
for the year Ie6l-a result due to the hrmneSs
of the Legislature in resisting all efforts to in-
terpolate tue Tax Levy with items not asked
for by the city authorities. We recently pub
lished a statement upon this subject, showing
what the taxes were to be if the Legislature
would only refrain from swelling our Tax
Levy. and as the figures are the same US We
then qave. we reproduce them:
Year: 1862

fFrom the Memphis Appeal, March 27l


We have Information that Paducah Is now under the
government OF the city authoritiesthe military officers
having surrendered the rulo they have long
The federal force in the city and vicinity Is only eight
hundred Those Of tho citizens who return to their
homes required to take the oath OF allegiance TO the
federal government.
Year: 1862

| DR.. Strickland, the chaplain of BROOKLYN
! Regiment at Hilton Head, gives us some very


interesting sketches of matters and things in


the far south. The following sketch of two


slaves who came to the camp of our army will


be read with interest:


Among the number were two contrabands
from Barnwell district on the main land. Sew


eral weeks ago they left their owner, widow
Stevens, whose plantation is about one hun
dred miles above Savannah They lost their


way several times, as they could only travel


by night. When asked how they knew where


the Yankees were, they said, I'VE heard your
guns, massa. and dey seemed to call US dis


way Once they were surprised by pickets,
and in their fight one of them was shot through


the arm and ear; but, preferring death to sla-


very, they needed not their pursuers and escap-
ell. We knowed, massa,' said they, dat we
could run faster dan dey could and dey had no


blood hounds Living on raw potatoes which
they foraged on the route, and wading swamps
and swimming creeks, at length they reached


Cooper river and crossed over to our pickets
stationed above us on the ISLAND From thence
they came 10 our camp.


The one who was wounded in The arm and
ear had been house servant, and he was of
course better acquainted with the movements
OF our army, as be heard the conversations of
the family from time TO time on the subject,
What is strange in the history of these contra
bands is the remarkable fact that they were
all of one mind in regard to the character of
The war. Their masters told them that the
Yankees were coming to take them off to Gu
ba or 10 kill every one of them; but of the
thousands here not one of them believed it,
Nothing but divine inspiration could have
produced, in the absence Of all instruction,
sach general impression. Tho trumpet pro-
the year of jubilee to the slaves in
the Jewish nation did not utter more certain
sound to those poor oppressed aud downtrod-
den slaves than did the boom of our cannon !
a sound OF redemption to the slaves of these
islan's.


The other contraband, whose name is Pom
pey, was a field hand. He is q years of age.
asked him if he was married. Yes, twice. |
massa My FIRST wife done gone three years ago.
Sent to New Orleans. l didn't beeu married
BY no book, so speet dey had a right to took
her. had another wife one year De overseer
took her for himself, and she has child white as
Year: 1862

Young and vigorous trees when injured or


wounded, soon begin to heal of themselves, and


in time the wound is healed or covered over by
successive layers Of alburnum that each year


forms aud converts into wood. Very many Of


these wounds, however, will heal over a great
deal quicker if little care be taken in cutting
away any dead wood or projecting splinters
aud covering over the wounded parts by some


composition, such as grating clay or grating


wax, or with plaster eflnortar made ofslaked
lime, sand, and pulverized burnt bones. or even


by a plaster of hydraulic lime. -.....s


Any one who passes through an orchard,
that has been subjected to the common toma-


hawk pruning, will learn good many lessons
OF nature IN regard TO her efforts TO heal up
and heal over the wounds that have been in
Aicted. You will see that where limb has
been cut down smoothly, and level or even with
the body from which it started, nature, in a
year or two, has closed it up, leaving only
neat, compact cicatrix. But where a stupnp
has been left sticking out two ur lhree in.hes.
you will see the efforts of nature have been. in
one sense, thwaried. The end of the stump
still projects out dry and hard, while the sever
al layers of alburnum have been laid up one
upon the other. and working inward as if en-
deavoring TO climb over and enclose and hide
it from view. If the life and vigor of tic tree
continues TO project for while as an evidence
of the folly of the man who cut it off, then
the weather begins to destroy it, and decay
commences. The wood rots and falls out and
an unsightly hole or cavity is the result The
lesson TO be learned from this is-cut limbs
smoothly and even with the body from which
they start, and then cover over the wound with
some preparation that will prevent the decay
of the wood exposed and at the same time al
low the layers of alburnum or sap wood to he
lapped on each year by the natural process.


Oflimes these unsghtly wounds can be soon.
er healed. by cutting down the dead wood tn
u level with the bark, OF by gouge little be-
low, so that each successive layer of sap-wood !
shall roll inward and close on and over the !
cut, instead of having to climb up, as it were /
over the projecting stump before it can begin !
to hide the cut across the limb. a very little |
and care in these mstters will soon
give one an insight into the laws by which ma.
ture operates in her healing process, and by |
following nature you can not only prevent
much loss Of her valuable labor. but can even |
hasten, in many instances, her abors and per-
feet the results desired.-Muins Farnior
Year: 1862

Ono would suppose that at this late


day, it would be difficult to saw any.
thing in regard to potatoe culture that
is new or worth reading. Well it is
so IN q great degree, yet we do not
appear to know any more in regard


to the best methods Of culture than
people did fifty years ago. 1t was a
prominent question then as now, Are
small potatoes as good for seed as
large one>?' We are also. undecided.
as We were in "old times" whether il
is best to plant in hills or drills. or
turrows, as is done in many Places
But farmers are quite as eager to learn
how to cultivate this crop, as they
would be, apparently, ifit were a new
vegetable just introduced to the rural.
One says, II am utterly discouraged
with potatoc culture: | frequently Tet
but little more than the seed / plant
cd, and half rotten at that" Another
remarks, / generally have dug my po-
tatoes late in the season, aud have
G eat many diseased ones; but this
year ! dug early, and lost nearly the
entire crops" while third cxclaims,
II duo enrlv. and seldom lost any by
disease; but was induced TO leave
my crop'in the ground last fall till
the middle of October, and when I
went to dig them, they were all gone
except a few not worth the expense of
Year: 1862

IRON CLAD.-All Europe has been startled
by the feals of the Merrimac, and the extraor-
dinary passage at arms between her aud the
Monitor. Parliament is already considering
whether it is best to suspend all wo k no de-
fences, and apply the money to building iron
clad vessels. The London Times of April Ist,
says:


1t must have occurred to many people to
wonder why the new Federal iron ship should
have been called the Monitor-a name express
i've neither of speed, magnitude, force nur
prowess. The builder of the vessel has now
himself come forward to explain its title.


He called his invention the Monitor because
he calculated it would serve as warning to
Downing street, and admonish the British Ad-
miralty not to lavish millions of money on G,-
hrics which might be found utterly unservice-
able when matched with more ingenious de-
signs We are much obliged to Mr. Ericsson
for his hint We take The warning as it was
given, and acknowledge with all frankness that
this last Yankee notion merits all the atten-
tion that he claims for it.


The London Daily News of the same date,
says:


The more we reflect upon the condition of
modern naval warfare the more we beco me
impressed with the fact that nobility is the
great element oil success In this first lesson
we see how the Merrimac did just what she
pleased with ships that, even had they even
iron cased, would have only got into the very
same difficulties of position by their want Of
power and their great draft of water Aud
when the crucial experiment was tried between
The two iren-sides, victory fell TO the queer
looking maehine' that swamped round its victim
like duck, dealing fiery sabs into the vitals
Of her much bigger antagonist.
Year: 1862

Whatever patronage may be accorded to
city journals, whether on account of their
cheapness or the "general' news they contain,
the Importance of sustaining home papers
should not be overlooked. As the medium of
local transactions. and for furthering home in
terests, their value can hardly be over-cstima-
ted. The following article from Cleveland
(O1 "Herald" presents the question in the true
light:


1--WE know of nothing that is more dishear-
tening to the publishers of country news
paper, than to be told. as be too often is,
when soliciting subscribers, 81 feel too poor TO
take your pnper-I take the Tribune" Tor
some other huge foreign weekly and it only
costs me one dollar year, aud it contains
twice as much reading az yours does"-when
the receipts of one week of the office named
above would be double the yearly receipts of
his country paper, and when if the foreign pa
Pers were published seventy years, it would
not result in as much benefit to himself and
county in which he lives as would q single
weeks edition ofhis own paper


Recollect, if home paper is to be support
ed. home influence must do it. Every dollar
sent to the Eastern paper is at the expense of
the local paper. A county acquires promi-
nence through its papers more than any other
way, and TO every one who has county interests
at stake his home paper is a necessity. New
er will such man take a paper printed A.
way from home until he is able to take a sec
ond paper. His first will be his home sheet.
and he will so identify his own interests with
that of bis county as to consider the payment
of his subscription as matter of as early du-
ty as the payment OF his taxes"
Year: 1862

the black mans servitude bad been hung on
the highest corner Of the highest moon All
this We might wish and wish from the lowest
depth Of our hearts. But our thus wishing
does not affect cur present difficulty, and much
less remove it. This must be done by action,
wise, prompt and energetic. Action of some
kind must be had in the present crisis We
must look the evil in the face; grapple with it
with giant nerve and throttle it at once, or
leave it still to exist, and, like a masterdon
crab fasten upon US again, sap out or corrupt
our entire national blood, aud thus weaken,
blotch, curse, and dwarf our entire national ex-
istence. Which shall We do? Which viii we do?


COMMON SENSE.
Year: 1862

A letter to the Cincinnati Times, from Pitts
burg, says:


The official reports of the loss are nearly
all in. 1t will amount, in killed, wounded aud
missing, TO nearly ten thousand or these a
large portion are prisoners or missing. The
regiments engaged on Sunday. suffered more
severely than those who did the fighting on
Monday. The panic-stricken regiments are
the largest sufferers in killed, showing that the
soldiers who stand sqparely up to the work
are in less danger Of being killed than those
who attempt to shirk their duty.


The rebel loss is fearful. So rapid were
they PreEsad back on Monday, that they were
unable TO carry with them their dead, and on
y aportion of their wounded. The fact that
they LEFT the body of their commander on the
field, shows how hotly they were pressed BY
our columns. We have large numbers of their
wounded. and have buried nearly two thou
sand Of their dead What their loss is can on
ly be conjectured from the number left on the
field, and il must be superior to ours.
Year: 1862

AN AFFEcTIoNATE PARTING.-The AL
bany Express has some subscribers who
don't pay for their paper. The EGpress
bids them good. bye in the following ten
der terms;


"This week we strike from our list on.
ly about fifty subscribers who will not pay
their due to the printer. In doing so we
take them by the hand, and with tears in
our eyes bid them an afectionate fare
well. Goodbye old subs! Take care of
Yourselves. Sometimes think of the En-
press, which you have read so long for
nothing. Sponge upon some other print
er now for while. A change of diet
will doubtless be good for you. Poor
old fellowsl we are little sorry to turn
you out upon the dark night without a
lamp, but il must be so. Strike for the
nearest neighbours light. He may let you
in and feed you for year or two upon
your honorable promises to pay at the
end of that time. For ourselves, we have
enough of these curious pledges to sup
ply our cabinet for the present. We have
labeled them carefully, and they are open
to general inspection. With many thanks
for our selfsacrifcing indulgence OF us,
and for your honest appreciation of the
obligation existing toward our office, we
again, finally, say farewell forever