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Year: 1862

Fello,o Citizens of the Senate and House of


Representatives


recommend the adoption Of joint reoo-
luton by your honorable bodies which shall
be substantially as follows:


Resolred, That the United States ought to cooperate
with any State which may adopt gradual abolition Of
slavery giving to such State pecunary aid to be used by
veniences public and private, produced by such change
Of system.


II the proposition contained in the resolu-
tion does not meet the approval Of Congress
and the country, there is the end but if it
does command such approval l deem it Of
Importance that the States and people imme-
diately interested should be at once distinct
y notified of the fact so that they may begin
to consider whether to accept or reject it,
The federal government would find its high
est interest in such measure as one of the
most efficient means of self preservation


The leaders Of the existing insurrection en-
tertain the hope hat the government will ul-
timately be forced to acknowledge the indie
pendence of some part of the disahected re-
gion, and that all the slave States north Of
such parts will then say "the Union for which
we have struggled, being already gone, we
now choose to go with the Southern section. "
To deprive them Of this hope substantial
ly ends the rebellion, and the initiation of the
emancipation completely deprives them Of it,
as to all the States initiating it,


The point is not that all the States toler-
ating slavery would very soon, if at all, ini-
tiate emancipation, but that while the offer is
equally made to all, the more Northern shall
by such initiation make it certain to the more
Southern that in no event will the former ever
join the latter in their proposed Confederacy.
| say " initiation" because, in my judgment
gradual and not sudden emancipation is bet
ter for all. In the mere financial or pecu-
mary view any member of Congress. with the
census tables and the treasury reports before
him can readily see for himself how very soon
the current expenditures Of this war would
purchase, at fair valuation, all the slaves in
any named State.


Such proposition on the part of the gem
eral Government sets up no claim of right by
the Federal authority to interfere with slave
ry within State limits, referring as It does the
absolute control Of the subject in each case to
the State and its people Immediately nteres-
ted. 1t is proposed as a mater Of perfectly
free choice with them.


In the annual message last December,
Year: 1862

To EDIroRs AND Publishers


Your attention is directed to the first of
March order Of the Secretary of War, an
nouncing that the publication Of movements Of
troops from one State to another, or towards
the scene Of war, or their embarkation at any
port, was deemed highly prejudical to the
public welfare, and could not be permitted
This order has been disregarded in several
instances. doubtless from inadvertance. 1t
is hoped that all loyal news papers will
see the impropriety ofrublshing such move
ments, or Of alluding to them at this juncture,
when the government needs aid instead of
embarrassment from the press, and that this
general circular will render needless any fur
ther notice OF action on the part Of this De-
partment, Very respectfully yours,


r. s. SANFORD,


Military Supervisor OF Telegraph.
Year: 1862

sAD.-Mr. w. N. Peck of Montpelier, for
merly of the firm of Keith, Peck e. Co., J
while assisting men engaged in saving wood
by horse power on Thursday, slipped from a
log in such way that his left foot caught
between two logs and he fell, breaking both
bones Of his leg below his knee, SO that when
picked up his foot dangled about in manner
shocking to behold. At last accounts he was
in comfortable circumstances and we hope will
speedily recover
Year: 1862

G1V-The Donation held on Thursday eve
ming for the Benefit of Rev. l. McAnn, of
the Methodist Church of Montpelier. was at
tended by large and happy company, who
manifested their friendship to him in making
up the very liberal purse of S75, which was
gratefully received and acknowledged in his
usually happy manner.
Year: 1862

Aought fit to say: "The Union must be pre-
served, and hence all indispensable means
must be employed" | said this not hastily,
but deliberately. War has been and contin-
ues to be an indispensable means to this end.
A practical re-acknowledgmen Of the nation
al authority would render the war unnecessary,
and it would at once cease. II, however,
resistance continues the war must also con-
tnue, and il is impossible to foresee all the
incidents which may attend and all the ruin
which may follow il. Such as may seem
indispensable or may obviously promise great
efficiency toward ending the struggle must and
will come The proposition now made is an offer
only, and hope it may be esteemed no odense
to ask whether the pecuniary consideration
rendered would not be of more value to the
States and private persons concerned than
are the institution and property in it in the
present aspect of affairs. While it is true
that the adoption Of the proposed resolution
would be merely initatory, and not within
itself a practical measure, it is recommended
in the hope that it would soon lead to impor
tant results. In full view of my great re-
sp9nsiblity to my God and to my country.
earnestly beg the attention Of Congress and
the people to the subject.


(Signed,) ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Year: 1862

AN ELEGANT FOUR STORY NOVA SCOTIA DRAB
"A stone House to let to good responsible tenant the
most favorable 1t is lifted very
nr throughout Apply the premises No. - West Forty
sixth street
Year: 1862

CvURNISHED HOUSE TO LET-THE CONVENIENT


and desirable three story brick house. with furniture
No III Livingston street, Brooklyn, block
Avenue karoad Board for the would be taken
in part payment for the rent desired Apply on the
m
Year: 1862

A letter from Pittsburg Landing, April
IL, tells how the hearts Of the rebel army
Mere "fired" by Beauregard 10 fight for
The hellish cause of treason against the
cause Of the Union. 1t says


"The Southern army at Corinth has
been on half rations for more than a
month. The men have been fed on hard
bread, pork, and rye coifee--a diet very
much calculated to extract from the SOL
dier's life the romance with which
Southern chivalry might be supposed to
invest it. On the first morning of the
late battle, however, an extra ration was
issued, in the shape of a canteen full Of
tangle-foot whisky 70 each man. This
know by actual observation, as well as
by the statements of wounded rebels
and prisoners. On last Saturday / saw
not less than fifty bodies of dead rebels
piled up in one place. by the side of a
ditch, being dug for their burial. Near
ly every one of these had by its side =
canteen with more or less liquor in IT,
On the Sunday in which the first of the
battle was fought, more than one half Of
Beauregard's army was drunk. The OBJ
ject of the extra rations is apparent
On the plea that this is struggle for
human rights, they convert their soldiers
into demons before engaging in it. The
people of the North haye often wondered
how the Southern soldiers could be guilty
Of the acts of barbarism that have dis
graced the American character on every
battlefield from Bull Run TO Pittsburg
Landing But does not the extra ration,
account for them all? 1t does not aston
ish the readers of daily newspapers to
learn of the commission of deeds of afro,
city by the poor wretches brought daily
before the police courts for punishment
and they should not be astonished if the
same cause produced the same effect
elsewhere than in the streets of Cincin-
natl and New York"


First impress soldiers, then make them
drunk, and teach them to cut the throats
of the sick and mangle and mutilate the
dead. Good God can mankind longer
endure such atrocity?
Year: 1862




A touching scene from the battlefield
is thus related by wounded witness
from Newborn


"The Lieutenant was in advance of his
men in the bayonet charge, when volley
from the enemy shattered his right leg
and the Captains left. They were both
removed and laid side by side, when
William called TO the surgeon, and said,
Surgeon, you must amputate my leg;
can't stand this The Captain tried TO
pursuade him not TO have it removed. but
he was determined, and said 10 must be
done The surgeon then administered
chloroform, and amputatcd his leg, As
soon as the operation was performed, Will
liam called for cigar and smoked IL
very leisurely until the fire was very near
his lips The Surgeon then came along
and inquired How do you feel now,
Lieutenant 10 which he replied, Very
comfortable, bus feel as if the stump of
a leg you cut off was on again, and the
toes were caldi This Captain said it
made him shudder to hear William speak
so cody, and he turned his head so as TO
look in his face. As he gazed at him he
thought his eyes looked strangely At
that moment William sat up, and in a
voice which never sounded louder or
clearer, shouted 20 his men, forward
march, and fell dead"
Year: 1862

Our county and city friends will great
ly oblige us by furnishing all items Of
local interest 10 Us for publication. This
is highly desirable owing to the limited
extent of the mails,
Year: 1862

Tic latest a1yices from the other side Of
the Atlantic represent. that, though The
rebels have on the stocks in ENGLAND, IS
many as eight iron-clsa vessels intended
for piracy upon our commerce, not one Of
the number can be completed within six
months. Before the lapse Of that time, the
rebellion ought to be, and now that the d.
nolhings are getting out Of the service, we
may predict that it will be put down.
What say the authorities at Washington
to the proposition?
Year: 1862

A Memphis paper publishes that
whiskey is abundant and not dear in
that city. This gross falsehood is
manifestly the last desperate resource
for getting together in Memphis quo.
rum Of the Legislature.
Year: 1862

BosroN, March S.-Lettcrs from
Port Royal to the Sd, state that Major
General Butler was there on the even
ing OF the lin the steamer Mcclellan,
on his way from Ship Island for Bos-
ton.
Year: 1862

for General Lees retreat under cover Of the
night, across the Potomac. Had Harper's Ferry
been in the charge of competent officers when
assailed by Hill and Stonewall Jackson, Antie-
tam would doubtlessk have been the final
great battle of the war. AS it il, it has turned
the tide against the rebellion, and we have only
to follow it up with energy and promptitude in
order to secure glorious peace before the end
of the year.
Year: 1862

England Of 1925, nullihed the authority Of


the federM government in the same way, and
refused the troops then called for by the Chief
Magistrate Then, too, it Is well known,
reasonable convention was held at Hartford
similar to that which recently assembled at
Providence, and adjourned to meet again at
Altoona and Washington.


All this is as reasonable and disloyal as the
secession of the Southern States, and it must be
put down with strong hand unless the great
federal power is to succumb to the dictation of
every petty State Governor The action Of
these men comes under the provisions of the
recent proclamation of the President touching
'the Encouragement of enlistments" and "ds-
loyal practices" and they ought to be all
arrested and sent to prison, beginning with
Governor Andrew, who ought to be committed
to Fort Warren, in his own State, leaving the
duties of his Office to be discharged by the
Lieutenant Governor; and if the latter should
prove refractory he ought to be sent to keep
the Governor company, and so with each sue
ceeding official, till The federal authority is vim
dicated and disafection is crushed out in New
England, and in every other Northern State in
which it appears. By thus graphing with dis
loyalty and treason at the North the President
may reasonably hope to be successful in putting
down the Southern rebellion in ninety days.
But if he will permit State Governors in New
England or elsewhere to dispute his paramount
authority, and send whatever troops they
please, and at such times as they may think
proper, he might as well stop the war at once,
let the Union slide, and the Confederate States
become an independent Power.
Year: 1862

NEW Hr-of-WAR.-Commodorc Vanderbilt Is con
vertng the noble steamship Vanderbilt which he lately
gavo to the United States government into OF
She viii carry some twelve guns of heavy cabrc, and
will be tho fastest war vessel a1oat. She will probably
be employed to chase privaecrs Whatever she sho
catch The Vanderbilt has threo hundred men work
ing board Of her, and win be ready to receive her
armament in the OF few days Before she goes
tfe Navy Yard she will be thrown open to public in
spcction Tor q day or two.
Year: 1862

THE NOMINATIONS FOR STREET COMMISSIONER
Mayor Opdyke has sent in to the Board Of Al
dermen two nominations for the Office Of Street
Commissioner, both Of which the Aldermen
have rejected. In the meantime, Shepherd
Knapp, ESQ.,, the former incumbent Of the Of
fee, refuses to acknowledge himself kicked out
This is pretty squabble between Mayor OPP
dyke and the Aldermen, but has no interest for
the public. Here we are with everything un-
settled by this great war, with Wall street like
a lunatic asylum, with stocks and real estate
jumping frantically up and down, and with appa-
renhy nothing of any real, settled value, except
gold, iron and COAL and yet the Mayor and the
Aldermen fight like children over a little Office
worth two or three thousand year. They
ought to be ashamed Of themselves. The game
Is not worth the powder.
Year: 1862

This pouting girl "a pout is generally an
invitation to kiss) who calls herself ours
IN fret applies the name "Yankees'' to
all the brave fellows who have come across
the river to quell the Rebellion and the
Rebels. Well, she may compare them 10
Old Nick as much as she likes, and We
must confess that they do fight like the
Devil. We don't wonder that she hates
them, for it is evident that they chased her
sweetheart out of Bowling Green with the
rest of the flying Rebels, and didn't stay
long enough for her TO look about among
them for assubstitute. This was Very pro
yoking. to be sure, and we presume she
gazed wistfully upon the fleeing lover with
his coat tail streaming back toward her in
mOurnful farewell -f,II - :
Year: 1862

The dead soldier, falling while in the act
of loading his piece, lay on his face, gun in
the left hand and rammsr in tho right fast
clehched in death! On the right hand a
dead man, in front dead man, on the left
another with his nose shot off--is,5 perhaps,
what meets your observation Rt first
Perhaps be moans out something which
you family understand to be, Stranger
or friend, waterm YOU cannot help him;
there is no water near, unless you strip a
dead man of canteen yet partially filled.
My heart sickens az the Temembrance of
the sceAes enaeted IN the forest, near 3itts-
burg. on the 9Th aud Tth of April, 1861, and
pray to be removed from such terrible
Year: 1862

We live in a hut on q vacant lot, .
Father, and mother, and 4;
'Tis away up town, and dreary spot,


With old stone quarries hard by.
Father is lazy, and mother she drinks,


And am ragged and thin
And look like thief, for it's hard to be pure


When circled around with sin.
'Tis q desperate place, this vacant lot,


A region of famine and woe;
The ]a5orers found a strangled child
In the quarrios not long ago.
And father is sometimes out all day,


And comes staggering home at night
With money and things that he hides away,
For he never came by them right.
Mother ia always at me to steal,


And "rges her plea with curse
She tells me to sneak through the city crowds


And pocket watch or purse;
And father beats me because say


That I'd rather any day die;
never have robbed, and never will rob,


And I'll tell YOU the reason why.
There came to our hovcl three years ago


A man with sw eet, mild face,
And he held a holy book in his hand


That he tried to read in our place.
But mother she swore at the mild-taced man,


And drove him out Of our den;
And tod him never as long as he lived,


TO darken her door again.
But something made me follow tho mar,


l think he bcckoned to me,
And he led me down to a quarry's cleft,


Where none Of my people could see;
And he read to me things from the holy book
That never had heard before,
And somehow peace came over my heart,


And it didn't feel half SO sore.
They may curse and beat me as much as they


like,


know what they don't know
l know that things in the end come right


For those that suffer below.
No matter how ragged and hungry am,


With no one to like or to l>vc.
know there's vacant lot for me


In the beautiful land ab owe.
Year: 1862

only has one track n Broadway The TO 60 down
the sixth avenue aud other side streets and TO up
IN Broadway There are number Of changes IN other
portions Of the bill.


There will be some six seven railroad Oils mtro-
duced into the Assembly in the next two weeks Also
bill 70 repeal the Belt Railroad grant Raymond Is ~


The Militia Committee are preparing bill for the en-
rollment OF the militia II is nearly completed, ana pro-
vides for the organization Of company every town
ship, regiment in every Assembly district, and bri.
gade in every Senatorial district each 10 meet and drill
ten days each year. and every two years TO spend ten


in camp.
Year: 1862

The Federal bockaders eff Galveston ire on
unarmed citizens nding along the Gulf Shore
road


The Governor has called for fifteen more regi
ments for the war to report to the adjutant-gen-
eral within thirty days of the 26th ultimo.


The Goliad Messenger announces the appoint
ment of John S Campbell as Confederate States
Receiver vice Z. Fauntleroy, resigned, for that
district.


The San Antonio Ne,os of the 7th says:


Cotton is continual passing through this city
to Brownsville, and Col Lucket has ordered that
it be housed a short distance out Of the city, so
that it can be burnt without endangering the
buildings should the approach of the enemy
make 1t necessary.


We close our summary with the following
cheering paragraph from the Houston Teis-
graph;


From all parts of the State we hear most graf
flying evidences of the military enthusiasm Of
the people. Since the recent reverses in Ten
nessee the people Of Texas have begun to think
they are wanted. They have taken up the idea
that this fight will not be whipped till they have
time to get into it, and they are leaving in great
numbers for the wal The fifteen regiments re-
CURED will undoubtedly be filed before the Gov
ernor will be able to fix up fer his draft. Such
rush TO arms as we hear Of from almost every
point has rarely been Witnessed before in any
country. 1t helps to Tighten the load which the
stream of bad news from the other direction
brings upon the spirits
Year: 1862

The FLAG.-It is rumored that COMMITTEES o
Congress had agreed upon National flag to takt
The place OF the present abeminahe parody on
the stars and stripes. We very much appre
bend that upon the mere question Of taste the
Congress viii not devise a proper dag but We
.ust that whatever the device chosen. it may have
the merit C, being wholly unlike either the Fed
eral flag or that we now have With respect to
flags and pictures we put httle faith in the de-
cisious of q legislative body, or any barge nun
Der Of men Il would be better 10 trust the
whole matter % TWO or three gentlemen who are
competent in the premises. Bat, nevertheless,
we would be wiling to compromise on anything
that is novel and entirely mike the Federal aud
present Confederate flag. We would ike to add
that it shall have nO stars in IT, We symoa-
thize somewhat with a distinguished Southern
Senator, (Gen. TOombs) who declared that no
man who talked about stars " had the faintest
conception Of the present revolution.
Year: 1862

We would eal special attention to the re-
marks Of BIr YANcEY, delivered in New Orleans
on Thursday last q synopsis Of which wiz
be found in this days issue.


We presume BIr YANCEY is wei informed
upon the points discussed IN his speech he
has been in a position to procure the latest and
most reliable information respecting the dispo-
sitious Of foreign governments towards the Con
federate States, and what he says, therefore,
may be received as faithful statement of our
affairs abroad


Though we regret to hear that the great pow
eTs are not inclined at once to recognise our IN
dependence and raise the blockade, yet we are
glad to know the precise truth, unpalatable
though it BE-, and to have all doubts removed.
Now that we are advised what to expect, OF rather
how httle to expect, we feel easier snd breathe
freer, and shall be better prepared TO march for
ward in the path which duty and honor point
out. It is something to know the worst that
can befal US, since the knowledge, If rightly I'M
proved, viii enable US to nerve our arms and
brace our hearts to the work before us.


We do not know that the refusal OF foreign
powers to interfere in our behalf, should be
looked upon as a misfortune. If we had won
cur independence after q slight struggle, we
should not, in all probability, have properly ap-
preciated be blessing Fa7ors easily gained,
are seldom esteemed. Liberty is not like ripe
fruit that falls unbidden into our laps. 1t is the
gif Of God to a brave and patient people.


We are not sure but we have manifested too
much anxiety TO have our Independence reeog-
nised by France and England. As with men,
SO with nations, favors arc seldom granted to
those who need them most We not unfrequently
20 out of the way to serve GU. peers, but pass
by with indifference the feeble and dependent


There is O WIDESPREAD and deep-seated preju-
dice in England against the Institutions of the
South, and more or less opposition even ia
France. It VIII require time to overcome this 4
feeling Spain and Brazil, on tho contrary, /
have Ike institutions with ourselves and If the 1
same efforts had been made to conciliate those 4
nations that have been bestowed upon Franc (
and England, We do not know but the Confed- /
crate States would be IN a better position to-day /
That those s,aveholding powers would have
broken the shell and Acknowledged our nation
ality before this, We see but little reason to
doubt Even now, we think Il our wisest pol
icy to coneiiate their favor and to form close
alliance with them.


a man may Be "a gentleman whether his neigh
Dor 50 considers him OF net 50 a government
may Be free and independent, Notwithstanding
other powers may not formany recognise the
fact The acknowledgement Of the Confederate
sta5es is a matter of less consequence to US than
the raising Of The blockade IF England and
France viii open cur ports, as Mr. YASCEY in
Inmates they may Do by the lst Of April, we
shall be satisfied. All we ask is an opportunity
to exchange our produce for good arms the
Year: 1862

PRESIDENTS MEssAGE-OFFICIAL REPORT.
To ne senate and House of Regs seaavoa Of the Con
herewith transmit letter. of the Secretary Of
the Navy, of this date, covering the official re-
port OF the nayal engagement between the James
Roads on the 5 b inst


The officers and men of the navy engaged in
this brilliant affair deserve well Of the country.
and are commended to the consideration of Co
gress


The disparity Of the forces engaged did not
justify the anticipation Of so great victory; and
1t IS doubly gratifying that it has been won upon
an element where we were supposed TO be
least able to compete with our enemy.


Special attention is called to the perfidious
conduct Of the enemy in hosting, on the frigate
Congress, white flag, and renewing fire rom
that vessel under the impunity thus obtslued.


JEFFERSON DAVIS
Year: 1862

q The Federal general Lander, recently
deceased, snd who died from the effects of a
wound received at Edwards Ferry, on the Po-
tomae, left as bis widow that accomplished lady
who is SO wen known TO theater-goers as Miss
Davenport, the actress.