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Year: 1863

The Importance Of physical training to
him who goes into battle, whether officer
or soldier, can have no better illustration
than the achievements during the late bat
lie Of Chancellorsville Of the captain Of the
color company Of the lO2d Regiment N.
7. v, aman thoroughly trained in the use
Of his muscles and his sword After q
desperate hand-to-hand conflict with the
captain and color sergeant Of the 18th
Georgia, he finally wrenched away the
sword of t1e captain, stalwart six-fOot-
er, snd disarmed the color sergeant tear
ing the cOlors from the flag staff, when he
found two more butternuts upon him.
SEEKING his musket from one by sheer
strength, he sent him spinning on his
back, and then seized the other, an ambu-
lance sergeant-in three minutes having
taken without assistance, one captain, two
sergeants and one private. The name of
this hero is William Nelson Green. He
retains the sword By leave Of his Brigadier
General, and the flag was sent to General
Hooker by his order.
Year: 1863

AFFORD TO BE LoYAL.--A correspon-
dent of the Boston Post says the New
York Evening Post is making fifty thou
sand dollars per annum as Navy Agent
The Posts loyalty" is profitable. 1t is
a notorious fact that nearly every Aboli-
ton editor, newspaper and speaker re.
ceives a large sum Of money-the hard
earnings of the people, wrung from them
in the shape of taxes-from the Admin
istration for their services. This accounts
for their indignation when Democrats ex-
pose the extravaganza and corruption Of
their masters. Defeat the Administra-
ton and their wages of infamy are stop.
bed. The Abolition traitors are reaping
a ripe old harvest out Of Uncle Sam, but
it is qualification to know that 10 year
or two, when the Democracy take the
reins Of Government, the miscreants will
be compelled to give up their ill-gotten
wealth. Won't there be wailing and
gnashing Of teeth in the Office of the Sac
ramento Union when the Democratic
party triumphs?
Year: 1863

THE NATIONAL MISsTRELs. This excel
lent troupe Of minstreIs, after successful
tonr through the southern portion of the
StAEe, will give a short series of entertain
mehts at O'Donnell's theatre, commencing
on, Tuesday evening next. They have
wen the most flattering encomiums from
The press and public since they have been
"on the road" and We bespeak good
reception for them here, for we like talent
evea when it is clouded under the sable
shAdOw Of "burnt cork" How about
that immense prayer of Walter Bray's?
Year: 1863

at again seeing what he loved most on
earth, opens his arms to embrace his wife.
She clasps him convulsively, but in mo-
mcnt recovering her self-possession, puts
her finger on his lips, and points to the
two feet peeping out under the curtain.


If M. Aubry had been wanting in pres
euce of mind. he would not have deserved
to be the husband of such woman. He
made slight gesture to show he under
stood her, and said aloud, Excuse me,
my dear, left the money down stairs.
III be back in two minutes" Within
that time he returned. pistol in hand He
looks at the printing walks to the alcove,
stoops, and while the forefnger of his
right hand is on the trigger, with the 9TH
er hand he seizes one of the feet, and
cries in voice of thunder, " Surrender
or you're a dead MANI He drags by
the feet into the middle of the room a
man of most ill-favored aspect, crouching
low to avoid the pistol which is held with
in an inch of his head. He is searched
and sharp dagger found on him. He
confesses that the girl was his accomplice,
and had told him M. Aubry would bring
large sum home that night. Nothing
remains now. but to give them over to the
authorities. Madame Aubry asked her
husband to pardon them, but the voice Of
duty is louder than that Of pity. When
M. Aubry heard from his wife all she had
gone through, he could only say, -" Who
would have thought you so courageous p
but in spite of her courage, she was at.
tackled that night with violent nervous
fever, and did not get over her hereism
for several days.
Year: 1863

A CoppERHEAD AND CRUTcH AT one
of the fashionable hotels in New York,
there boarded, last week. a copperhead--
one of the New England and so the worst
kind,-and chivalric, spirited Major
general of the army, minus leg, and
hobbling about on his crutch. Fired by
natural folly, and luxurious dinner,
the former insulted the latter, as he was
passing through the halls, with loud and
coarse denunciations of the war, and all
who fought on the loyal side in it. The
cripple turned and faced the coward, de-
manding apology and retraction. They
were denied. The man of crutch and
soul then asked the name of the copper
head traducer Of his country and her pat
riots. With natural instinct, a wrong
one was given. Other words followed;
another insult was added by the copper
head; whereupon the hero of Chancellors-
vile and Gettysburgh, I" shouldered crutch
and showed how fields were won by
breaking it over the head of this degene-
rate son of Adam and of Amherst. The
latter then sneaked off with at least one
new idea in his head; and the next,
crippled soldier of the army he insults,


won't be Daniel Sickles-Republicam.
Year: 1863

BY SAMUEL BARBER.
Still, like the dewdrop on flower,
The tear that sparkles in thine eye
Reveals a heart as warm and pure


As ever throbbed beneath the sky.
No wave-born pearl from ocean cell
Fer shed a milder, purer ray
OF light than on thy face doth dwell,
And round thy lovely lips doth play.
Fain would I clasp thee in my arms,
Upon Thy cheek impress kiss,
'Tis pleasure to behold thy charms,
To kiss thee Oh, why that 10 bliss.
Let no foreboding fears come nigh
To chill the hearts outgushing flow;
Thou'rt happy now and so am / i;


The futures not for Us to know.
Then let thy laughing eyes reveal


joys hallowed and enlivening beam
While mirth and frolic set their seal
Upon the page of lifes young dream.
Year: 1863

BABIEs.--It strikes US that more Abs
are told about babies than anything else
10 the world. We all cay that they are
sweet-yet every body who can smell,
knows they are sour; we all say they ara
lovely, yet nine babies out of ten have NO
more pretentions to beauty than a pug
dog; we praise their expressive eyes, yer
all babies squint; we call them littlo
doves though one of them makes more
noise than whole colony of screech owlsI
we vow they are 30 trouble, yet they
must be tended night and day we insist
that they repay US for our anxiety
though they take every opportunity Of
scratching our faces or pokiDg their fin.
gers into our eyes; in short, we make 70
our business to tell the most palpabls
falsehoods about them every hour of tho
day. Yet strange to say, wedlock seems
a void without them, and those who havs
them even while telling these self-evldent
untruths, look just as if they expected
people 60 believe them.
Year: 1863

plantations but have seen none equal to
his, and | think the ground planted will
not average one-balfa bale to the acre.


The scheme itself, so far as it is intend
ed TO be carried out by inexperienced parties
at the North, is failure; and il is not on
ly failure but according 10 the theory
of its friends, it is emiHently unjust to
the poor negroes. 1t proves nothing.
If il was intended to show that the negro
is as profitable working for hire as work
ing by compulsior, it fails because he
works by compulsion here. fit was in
tended to show that the resources of the
country can be developed by free labor il
fails because those who have the matter
in hand have not this object in view. II
the object was, as | supposed it to have
been, to show that the negro is a self-sup-
porting institution, it fails because he
has been deprived of the important ele-
ment of free will and has been made {
tool for Northern Spectators.


eff the African is incapable of doing
anything for himsef-if he needs the con
troll and direction of the Anglo Saxon-we
had better leave him where we found him
but if he is capable of enjoying freedom
he should certainly nor be used as a
mere money-making machine by the be-
levers in cotton"
Year: 1863

sad heart obey your order to the utmost
ofmy power, devoting TO the movement,
one Of the utmost delicacy and difficulty,
whatever skill l may possess, and may
God grant that am mistaken in my fore
bodirgs. I shall at least have the inter,
nal satisfaction that have written and
spoken frankly, and have sought to do
the best in my power to arrest disaster
from my country.


GEO. b. MCCLELLAN,
Major General.
Year: 1863

AN OLD LADIES ADVICE TO HER
SoN-"Now, John, listen to me-I'm
older than you, or ! couldn't be your
mother. Never do you marry a
young woman, before you have con
trived to happen to be around four or
five times before breakfast. You
should know how late she lies in bed
in the mornig. You should take no.
tice whether her complexion is the
same in the morning as in the even
ing, or whether the wash and towel
have robbed her Of her evening bloom.
You should take care to surprise her,
so that you may see her in her morn
ing dress, and observe how her hair
looks when she is not expecting you.
If possible, you should be where you
can hear tho morning conversation
between her and her mother. If she
is ill-natured and snappish to her
mother, so she will be to you, depend
on it, But if you find her up and
dressed neatly in the morning, with
the same smiles, the neatly combed
hair, the same ready and pleasant
answers to her mother, which charac-
torized her department in the even
ing, and particularly if she is lending
hand to get the breakfast IN good
season, she is a prize, John, and the
sooner you secure her to yourself
the better
Year: 1863

The thanksgiving proclamation OF Gov
ernor PARKER, of New Jersey, has been
much condemned as a model of its kind.
In calling the people to Thanksgiving on
the last Thursday of Nov, the Governor
folks like man of sense, as follows:


Let US thank God for abundant harSests;


Let us thank Him for preserving us
from pestlence;


Let us thank Him that order has been
maintained, and the laws respected and
obeyed within our borders


Let us thank Him for victories achieved
by the armies of the nation


Let us thank Him for tho manifold
mercies and blessings he has freely be-
slowed upon us for life and health; for
Christian institutions and privileges; for
his revealed Word and especially for
the gift of His Son, tho Saviour OF the
world, who continually maketh irterees-
sion for us.


While we offer thanks, let us also pray
that God will give us hearts to pity and
relieve the poor that He will give CON
ISOLATION to the widow and orphan who
sorrow for the heroic dead; that lie will
preserve in safety our brave soldiers in
the field that lie will soon remove the
rod of our chastisement that He will
give wisdom to those in authority; that
He will change the hearts Of our enemies
and so order events thai peace may be
speedily restored, and the now discordant
sections of the nation be again united.
Year: 1863

How IT WoRKs.-A widow in West
ern New York, whose husband was
killed in the war, had left her by him
a note for about five thousand dollars
secured by mortgage, At the same
time she owed in Canada debt OF
less than $4,000. Under the legal ten
der law she is obliged to take green
backs for what is due her IN New
York, while she is obliged to pay spe-
cio or its equivalent for the sum she
owes in Canada The five thousand
dollars is not of course, sufficient to pay
this debt The widow don't clearly
understand it, and has lost faith in
"Old Abe's" proposition that it is cas-
ier to pay large debt than n larger
one.
Year: 1863

RS5-Tho Springfield Republican is
one of the few Administration papers
that is blessed with . few grains of
common sense, as witness the follow
ing, which contains moro wisdom
than will be found in the N. y. Trib.
ane for q whole year:-Er.


"There is general jubilation in the
Republican papers over the assumed
death of the Democratic party. They
had better not take that for granted
A party that has just thrown more
votes than ever before in every State
except Massachusetts, and
has been beaten only by the most ex.
traordinary efforts, can hardly be con
sidercd quite dead. y The
moral of the political situation Of the
Republican leaders is that they have
no such excess Of strength as to make
it safe for them to be reckless or de
fiant as to means and measures; that
they are still on trial before the Amer.
lean people as to their ability and in
tegrity in the conduct of the govern
ment, and that they can only hope to
obtain a renewed Lease Of power by
demonstrating that they can and will
use it for the general welfare, rather
than for private and partizan ends"
Year: 1863

"NIsFoRTUNEs NEVER CONE SING
IS,"-A soldier of the 10Th regulars,
a native Of Philadelphia, at the bat
do of Chickamauga was struck with
a piece of shell in the right eye, cut
ting out the entire eye, then passing
under the bridge of the nose and de.
stroying the sight of the left eye, and
he is now perfectly blind, though in
the prime of life. In the same action
in which he lost his eyesight, he had
n father and throo brothers killed
leaving out of whole family only
himself and his aged mother.
Year: 1863

SroNEwALL JACKsoNs ADMISSION
INTO HEAvEN.-I was much amused
at tho rebel prisoners account of
Stonewall Jacksons admission into
Heaven, They were strong admirers
Of Gen. Jackson, and especially of the
success Of his flank movements. "The
day after his death" said they, "two
angels came down from Heaven to
carry Gen Jackson back With them.
They searched all through the camp,
but could not find him. They went
to the prayer meeting, to the hospital,
and to every other place where they
thought themselves likely to find him,
but in vain. Finally they were fore
cd to return without him. What was
their surprise to find that he had just
executed q splendid flank movement
and got into heaven before n


Cor. Boston Recorder.
Year: 1863

Say what the apologists for secession and
rebellion may, the cause Of the war is plain.
ly in the fact that the men Of the South
are determined to secure an additional
portion Of the national domain in which
they may work men without pay. The
warts question Of fwages-wages Of labor;
and it may be stopped in an hour by the
consent Of every employer in the Republic
to give days pay for every days work.
This is so plain, that, when we say that had
this been the rule from the beginning,
there could have been no war, no man will
be bold enough to dispute it.


Laboring men who say tAat this is war
Of ambition, Il war Of sections, q war Of pol
iticians, and that they have no concern in
the result, have but faint idea Of the mag
nitudc Of the issues involved-a painfully
imperfect understanding Of the idcntifca-
ton Of their interests and the interests Of
their children in what is going on. If a
rar-one Of the greatest and b1oodicst
known in history-shall result in the tri-
un,ph Of the heresy that one man may
compel another, because he il black, to
work for him, during whole life time,
without pay, it is not all improbable that
the next war will establish the principle
already announced BY the so-called states
men Of the South-the principle that Capi-
tai should own its Labor; and that other
principle gravely defended in Virginia-
grave]y defended, and, if We admit the cor
rectncss of Slavery at all, logically estab-
lished-that the condition, not the color Of
the man to be cusla7cd, is the justification
Of whomsocyer would seize upon him.
Ard where these abominable doctrines are
the rule in the land, no man will be sure Of
the freedom that he now enjoys.


The question Of wages lies at the founda
ton OF all free institutions. Wages art
tue tribute that money pays to toll. They
arc the balance-wheel that regulates th'
| relations Of the rich to the poor. Hence
whatever concerns wages must concern
every man who looks to his pay for hi
! daily bread. This war, then, involving q
it docs the claim of the South, or the slave
holders, to have each at lis will, whereTc


he p1eaEes, a days work without day


pay, is the thing which, above all othc


things, should challenge the attention {
| all laboring men.
Year: 1863

But large majority Of those accepted
as pensioners are only partially disabled,
and the amount of pension is rated accor-
ding to their disability, which may be one
fourth, one third, onehalf, twothirds,
three fourth, &c The disability is based
on the proportion in which the effects of a
wound received or disease contracted in
public service actually disable one from
obtaining livelihood
Year: 1863

y child, take these eges TO the store,
and 1t you cant get ten cents a dozen, DO
sure and bring them back


Jenny went as directed and came back
again, saving


Mother, let me alone for trade--they
all offered me a shilling al first, but
screwed 'em to ten senis--i Old that i.-t
Year: 1863

"l have often wished there was not such
thing a needle or pin, when have found them
sticking in garments, in my Shirt on my pillow,
in the chairs, on the door rugs, strewed over the
floors and passages, and in the streets. | will
venture to say that the quantity of pins and
needles that have been brought into this territory
has not done One-tenth part of the service they
would if they had been properly taken care of and
not wasted. People will hardly stoop down to
pick up needle or a pin, but they will go to the
stores and buy them. Ladies will take dollar
ivory comb, put it in water, and then comb
ehild's hair with it; it is never dry, the ivory
sOltens and the comb is used up in very short
time, when good comb of that description ought
to last five years in common family. Mothers
have not learned that water will spoil an ivory
comb. There some combs made of gutta-
percha, that comb the hair better than horn, but
they brittle and require to be used with care
but the first you know, one is on the floor, and the
rocker of the rockingchair has passed over it and
rendered it useless Where do you keep your
needles On the floor, in the CRADLE on the bed,
up stairs and down stairs, and in every nook and
corner of the house. Where are the pins All
over; you can pick up one wherever you go. Do
we answer the creation in thus wasting. with
prOdigal hand, the good things which our Heavenly
Father has bestowed upon usl "
Year: 1863

s. Brigham Young's sermons to his flock of
Mormons, In Salt Lake City, partake somewhat of
the practical. We should think from the follow
ing that the g sainted Brigham had been hum
ming over the old dstich
Year: 1863

A writer in the Independent thus dscourses
on our nearness to DEATH When we walk near
powerful machinery, we know that one single
misstep and those mighty engines would tear
us to ribbons with their flying wheels, or grind
us to powder in their ponderous Jaws So
when we are laundering across the land in the
rail-car, and there is nothing but half an inch
ofiron fiange to hold us upon the track. So
when we are at sea in ship, and there is moth
ing but the thickness Of plank between us
and eternity. We imagine then that we sec
how close we are to the edge of the precipice
But we do not see it, Whether on the sea OIL
on the land, the partition which divide us from
eternity is something thinner than an oak plank
or half an inch of iron flange. The machiner,
of life and death is within us. The tissues tha
hold these beating powers in their place are of
ten not thicker ,hara4heet of paper, and if tina
thin partition were pierced or ruptured, it woul
be just the same with us as if cannon ball ha
struck US. Death is inseparably bound up witt
life in the very structures OfOur bodies. Strug
gle as he will to widen the space, no man ca
at any time go further from death than th
thickness of sheet of paper.
Year: 1863

Willie Johnson, aged thirteen years. drummer
IN Company D, Third Vermont Regiment, has
been presented by Secretary Stanton in person
with the Star Medal of Honor, for heroic con-
duet in the seven days fight before Rickmond.
While strong men threw away guns, tnapsacks,
aud everything calculated to impede their flight
this boy clung to his drum, and he was tho on
ly drummer in the division who brought his
drum from the field.
Year: 1863

NEVER SuLK.-Better draw the cork of your
indignation, and let it foam and fnme, than to
wire it down TO turn sour and acrid within you.
Sulks affect the liver and are still worse for the
heart and the soul. Wrath driven in is as dan
gerous to the moral health as suppressed small
pox to the animal system. Dissfpate Il by re-
tlecting on the mildness, humility and serenity
of better men than yourself suffering under
greater wrongs than you have ever been called
upon 10 bear. -hadepende,1
Year: 1863

to defend our bilthright; the blood of
our sires is not contaminated in our
veins; we are neither to be insulted nor
robbed with impunity; the Government
we defend was formed for noble pur-
poses; we are the executors of living,
undying testament, written in the blood
of our fathers, which we will re-write in
our own. To preserve our Government,
is to US law unalterable in our hearts
as the DEGREES of Heaven. We stop not
now to point the finger of scorn at petty
traitors who vainly seek to immortalize
themselves by acts of treason-too cow
ardly to sin with an uplifted hand, too
dastardly to stake life for life, as more
honorable traitors do-let them bear in
mind that there is a time coming when
the honest Indignation of loyal people
will hurl them headIong into an abyss as
bottomless as the Pit