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Year: 1862

The ssSatanfc" ON the Anutversartes-


The N. Y, Herald alludes to the anniversaries
now holding in New York in the following ii
reverent and scurrilous style:


"The religious anniversaries, with which this
city has been blessed for the past few days. are
now nearly concluded. In pecuniary point of
view they have been very, and deservedly, unsuc-
cessful. There is no greater humbug on record
than these annual assemblages of vagabondizing
parsons and seedy phanthropists, who come here
to pray money out of the pockets of simple people
So far from accomplishing any good, the moneys
collected at these anniversary meetings support
only set of idle, worthless ranters, who are 200
lazy to earn their own livelihood, except in this
swindling manner Year after year these gath
erngs have been held, and vice and immortality
are Just about as rampant and prevalent as ever.
Ordinarily such dismal failure to accomplish
anything would be the ruin of any organization,
but when people dabble with religion they seem
TO lcse their common sense, and they have
gone on, giving largely and receiving no returns.
This year we are glad tc notice that the war has
cut off the supplies of the pious anniversary beg
gars, and we hope that they will suffer accord
ingy."
Year: 1862

W ths arrival Of the steamship Bio Bio Captain Drew,
a. this port yesterday placed In possession Of some


important letters from special correspondent Key
West, In which all the from that point given in
detail. and which viii be found very interesting
Year: 1862

In all future personal intercourse between the repre-
sentative Of the United States Of America and the
general or govsrnOrs the interviews shall be
at tho official residence Of the said officers
porary residence the residence Of the representa-


tive of the United States Of America, whichever may
agreed upon between them shall they make any
pretex Tor declining these interviews Current matters
shall be discussed BY correspondence give
she trouble Of personal meeting.
Year: 1862

The superintendent Of customs. in order the colec
ton Of the proper duties shall application made
him through the consul, appoint suitable officers who
shall proceed IN the presence of the captain supecargo
or consignee to make just and fair examination Of ali
goos Ia tie act OF being discharged for importation
laden for expectation board any merchant vessel Of
the United states And disputes occur in regard to
The value of goods subject to al vaiorem duty
regard to the amount Of tare and the bt
satisfactorily arranged by the parties the question may
within twenty four hours and afterward be
TO the said consul TO adjust with the superintendent
customs.
Year: 1862

PARsoN BRowSLow, addressing
himself to the Northern people, says :
"a man who dare advocate secession
ought to be mounted on a fence rail
and rode through the streets. It is no
small matter that your husbands, faith
ers and brothers are slaughtered by
the rebels, and then to have people in
your midst who will sympathize with
the traitors.
Year: 1862

The HARDY TRIAL-The trial of Judge
Hardy, before the High Court of Impeach-
ment is progressing slowly. The defense
have thus far confined themselves to re-
buttal Of the charges of disloyalty and
drunkenness while on the bench. Anum.
Der Of witnesses who admitted themselves
TO be heart and soul for the Southern Con-
federacy, have testified that Hardy was in
tensely loyal. and others have never seen
him intoxicated while on the bench.
Year: 1862

FtSEp.-Timothy Donovan would not
s'more on at the command Of an officer who
vas endeavoring to clear the sidewalk corner
Of Randolph and Clark street Of an excited
crowd on the occasion of the negro riot, and
was assessed q small fine for his contu1nacy,
Yesterday
Year: 1862

BY way Of Constantinople ii is stated that the news
Of the surrender Of Naups is unfounded The citadel
would be able TO hold four months longer The $50
men in ID would treat only with the King. and demand
the dismissal Of the Ministry. the dissolution Of the
Chambers tho arming Of the National Guard the ap
pontment Of a successor TO the throne.
Year: 1862

he can be useful there until he can be
sent away out of the country.


Thea let Slavery be killed while it
can De done; and let us have one land .
ono people. one set OF institutions, and
become the molcl and the hope Of the
world.
Year: 1862

Our EARLY YIcToRIEs.-ThQse men err who
suppose that our early victories at Manassas
and Oak Hills have turned out TO bo ulti-
mate mlsfortunes. We cannot ca lculate their
full value. 1t may be that they saved the re-
public. Ii Is common to say that they lulled
US into a false security, and an arrogant self
confidence. This was true indeed, but we are
cured of that since, very efectualiy, and are
now strainins every energy, firmly but wisely.
We staggered under our disasters, but have
caught ourselves before the fall.


But the hope and confidence inspired bv
those victories, and their moral effect abroad
= have been our salvation. They chanssl the
whole Union sentiment of the South, and the
recent successes of the North cannot re gain it.
They satisfied the nations of Europe that this
was q grand civil war, between competent
beligerents and not emRte or ordinary insur-
rection They fixed the idea of success in the
minds of our people so deeply that they will
not abandon it. They made the rent between
the two sections irreparable.


If defeated at first, Unionists would have
sprung up all over the land. They have gra-
dually changed in the interim into Southern
men. We are now a unit. The exceptions, as
svidenced by Nashville, are unworthy of notice.
We are now invincible, and proof against dis
.ster. We might not have been so at first.
Year: 1862

Essy~ 1t is of the utmost Importance that we
see to it ourselves, that no cotton be allowed
to leave our State by way of Red Rvcr. We
are well assured that they do not want the
burden of it at Shreveport and are actually
shipping it to the country.


The gold of the enemy is a sore temptation
Every body should prefer to follow a course
which will keep him above suspicion. Not
a bale of cotton should be loaded in any down.
ward bound vessel. There is no knowing
where it may get to.
Year: 1862

CARDs.-Citizens wishing to supply them
selves with cotton and woollen cards may leave
sum of money at our law office for that pur-
pose. When a sufficient amount is made up
they will be obtained across the Rio Grande.
Year: 1862

HOLMES IN THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY
AGAIN.-We learn that the distinguished
"Autocrat" and professor will reap
pear in the pages of his favorite maga-
zine next month. His contribution will
be an elaborate article, something long
er, we believe, than anything he has yet
written in a single paper. And the sub
ject will be the search he lately made to
find his own son after the battle OF An
tietam, in which encounter his gallant
boy was shot in the neck The title of
the Doctors article is, Ny Hunt after
the Captain" and we shall look for one
of the most interesting narratives that
any magazine has ever printed We
shall expect thrilling pictures and many
admirable suggestions from such an OBJ
server as DIR. Holmes, whose errand to
the field of battle was one of so much
home interest. We shall be greatly dis
appointed if it is not one of the most
graphic papers the war has called out


We are glad to hear also that Mr.:
Longfellow will break his too protracted
silence with a poem in the next Atlantic,
the subject of which is TO be national
one-the loss of the sloop-of-war Cum
berland-M T. Post
Year: 1862

BI- A smart female thief whose Off
cial calling is the robbery ofladies in the
street railroad cars, is exercising the in
genuity of detectives in New York City.
The Post says:


The lady who so adroitly applies her
calling, wears false. arms, which hang in
nocently in her lap, while her real pick
ers and stealers are at work under the
ladies' dresses. 1t appears that she
changes her apparel for each fresh rob-
berry, and upon comparison of times
and places between the driver and the
policeman, they arrived at the conclusion
that the woman who Is supposed to have
been the culprit in this case, had been
known to change her dress eight times
in one day for as many different enter
prises. Her frequent disguise, and ap-
parently inexhaustible wardrobe for the
business, render it difficult to detect her.
Year: 1862

A RISING MAE.-The most rising man
in America seems to be fighting Joe
Hooker" Whatever he has had to do,
he has done with an ease, frmness, a
quietness, precision and a courage
that mark the man of genius and patri-
otism. He never attempts to shirk a
duty though the path to which it leads be
sown with death. The heart of the ma
ton has taken hold of fighting Joe, -
and he is fast becoming the idol of his
countrymen at large, as we'll as of the
army.
Year: 1862

Every Democratic victory in the North
and West is hcraldUd forth by the secession
papers in all the Border States AS being in
d rect opposition TO the administration and
the war. Democracy in Pennsylvania,
New FORK and the great West, is not the
secession Democracy of Delaware or the
EOrder States, as will be seen from the sub
joined resolutions of the New York State
Democratic Convention recently in session
Ihcy are but portion Of the resolutions
passed unanimously by that convention:


ReSolnel, That the Democracy of New
ork, waving the expression OF views upon
questions not rendered imperative by the
llnPeriIed condition Of their country, hereby
declare:


Hesodrd, That they will continue to rem
der the Government their sincere and united
support IN the use of all legitimate means
to suppress the rebellion and to restore the
Umon rs 1t was, and maintain the Consti-
ton as 1t iS-believing that that sacred in
Strument, founded in wisdom by our fathers,
clothes the constituted authorities with full
power to accomplish such purpose.


Resolutions breathing the same spirit and
pcuSlilS tie enJlfe resources OF the great
West IN men and money for the vigorous
prosecution Of the war until this rebellion
shall have been put down, are passed in
Ohio and throughout the West


1t requires no great discernmcnt even in
men OF moderate perception, to note the
difference in this great bqgus Deaocratc payty
in the Border States. At the North and
West they favor the prosecution of the war
IN Maryland, Delaware, and the other Bor-
der States, this spurious Democratic party,
headed by men who entertain the most ul
ira secession sentiments, are attempting to
hold i'll the meshes of party men Of strong
political prejudices, on the old party ties of
the Past-principles which have long aeo
become dead letter, from the fact that
these very men have ignored both its prin-
cipIes and its policy. How base and de-
based must be the mind and heart of such
a set Of men, who will in such an hour of
our country's gloom make merchandise of
their patriotism, and tamper with the inter
ests OF thirty millions of freemen! They
should meet the scOrn and contumely of all
honest men.
Year: 1862

II has always been a conceded fact, even before
the outbreak Of this rebellion, that the morals Of tbc
people at the South were wofIly behind those Of
the North. morbid political sentiment and bad
"h'SAey have been the predoninating vices in all
political campaigns for years past. Even the rsl
glOus moral standard for purity Of PURPOSE and a
sacredness Of heart has never been held in that et
nation and regarded as one Of the highest christian
virtues at the South BY the puritlns of the North
Religious ideas and notions Of the Northmen have
become part of their being. Large numbers are
scrupuously conscientious of shedding the blood of
their fellow men. They have boen in large district,
Of country at the North fully indoctrnatcd and have


largely part0ken of the instructions and teaching,
Of the society of Friends which is in direct opposi.


ton to war and its manifest evils The whole moral
sentiment Of the North is opposed 10 war. They
mostly a commercial and manufacturing people.
Human life, with them has always been regarded as
sacred


Not 80 at the South. a false pride governed and
controlled by moral sentiment founded upon a
false estimate Of society, and recklessnsss Of hu
man life, have ever been in all the history of the
past the prominent characteristics of Southern life
An insult is followed by a knock down or the shriu
report Of u pstol-the manning of an individual or
the flowing of the warm life blood Of human being.
The best blood of the South has been sacrificed at
the shrine of Southern vengeance and passion.


This state OF society, no doubt, originated from
the false premises upon which society is based at
the South. Hence from the very nature Of things
they have less scruples of conscience---ess moral
sentiment TO overcome and are the better prepared
to enter into contest the most bloody and deter
mined. They did not regard the life Of their own .
citizens if their Indignation was aroused against
them.


The sooner the people of the North throw off this
over squeamishness---this senstvencss and those


false notions of war and the evils resulting therefrom
and enter into the contest without regard for life or
whatever other evils that may follow in the path Of
this dire monster, the sooner will they appreciate
the magnitude Of this rebellion and acting up TO the
Year: 1862

PAYI>d DHGrs. One of our religious
exchanges has the following strong re-
marks on this subject They drive the
nail in to the head and clnch it.


Men may sophisteate as they please,
they can never make 1t right, and all the
bankrupt laws in the universe cannot make
it right for men not to pay their debts
There is sin in this neglect as clear and
deserving church discipline, as i'll stealing
and false swearing, He who violates his
promise to pay, or withholds tho payment
of debt, when it is in his power to meet
his engagement, ought to be made to feel
that in the sight of all honest men he is
a swindler Religion may be q very COM
Portable cloak under which to hide +; but
if religion does not make a man deal
justly" it is not worth having.
Year: 1862

\ NfAfTnrcK.-The Gironde Border
cr states that a respectable tradesman Of
that city was CHEATED by the following
trick lie had set u looking-glass out
side the shop door for sale, when a fash
ionubly dressed man stopped to look at
himself in it. As he stood thus occupied,
with his walking-stick under his arm,
person behind came in contact with the
stick and drove it with such violence
against the glass as to shiver it to atoms.
The apparently innocent cause of this ae-
cident, Immediately offered to pay the
value Of the glass, which was 80 frances,
and handed the tradesman a 1000 franc
note. After receiving fis change he took
his departure, and soon afterward the
tradcsman made the unpleasant discovery
that the note was II forged one,
Year: 1862

"a mechanic having taken a new
apprentice. awoke him the first morning
at a very early hour, by calling out that
the family were sitting down 10 table,
>. Thank you, said the boy, as he turned
OYER in bed to adjust himself for new
nap; thank you, but | never cat any
thing during the night
Year: 1862

IA Western editor thus compliments
a cotcmporary; What a piece of work
is Bartlett! How feeble in reason in
form and moving how like a sneak how
stupid in faculties in action how like a
spaniel! in comprehcnsiveness how like a
troa ~
Year: 1862

TnE PUBLIC CREDIT. s. skies sold yestsr-
day in New York at n premium of half per cent,
They have been ut discout Of one, or two per
cent for three weeks past. The active move
ments in Virginia have doubtless caused the
rise
Year: 1862

IN She gaudy trappings of wealth or covered
with the splendors of name. But they
repent when 1t is TOO late after their sons
have fallen, and after their daughters have
returned back to them from the burial of
drunken and des.auched husbands"


s What else do you see =


| see a splendid mansisn. How nice
ly everything is arranged see there a
very beautiful and spIendidly dressed
young lady. Mercy! she and the tattered
mans wife are the same :"


"They are; and she has had the cup
of earthly happiness taken from her, and
now sips the dregs of misery


| sec decanters and wine TASKS on the
| sideboard in another room, and an old
man standing by with glass in his hand,
| filled with their contents-and see the
labelling on those TASKS which read, fresh
| from the Observation-Disclosures Who is
that man T. a....- ...


"He is the young lady's father. He is
one of the few that has RECALLED himself at
the fountain all his life, without slipping
down the declivity to the pocl of Excess.
He taught his children to drink the waters
Of Moderation, thinking that as he had es-
capped the waves of yon mighty river, his
children would also but how wofally has
he been mistaken! One of his sons died
in a fit of delirium at the pool of Excess !;
another one of them was murdered there :;
and still another while at the pool, mur-
dered his best friend, and was banged
You have seen his daughter-what she


was, and what she is. The old man died


b fore he saw the full disgrace of his fam


lily, but not till they had squandered most


of his wealth. But, as told you, this is


only case among thousands. Now I am
going to take my leave, but to return be-
fore long, when I will show You all these
things again, and many more that you have
not seen. Then | want you to have them
properly engraved, and presented to tho


rising generation, that they may be warn
ed, lest they learn the way to Moderation
for there is no other way leading to Excess
e aud the dangerous river Intemperance, bu
. If they never enter that way, they ar
g safe.o
Year: 1862

stood. The whole household lost many
precious influences which constant family
worship never fails to exert A powerful
barrier a; ainst temptation fell with the
falling altar. And that alarming dagger
was incurred which is pronounced against
the families that call not on His name"


8. The community is harmed when q
family altar falls. If every house had
one, there would be produced moral at
mosphere most favorable to the best well
fare of the whole neighborhood. Even
one such altar is blessing the fall of
one loss. No community can be named
that Is net loser by the fall of family
altar


Then such fallen altar is melancholy
ruin What ought he to think who has
done so great wrong as to overthrow ir
Year: 1862

IL was Dne morning that stood beside
a small lake, fed by Que of the rils of
the mountains. The waters were clear
rs crystal, and everything could be seen
to tho very bottom. Stretching its
limbs close over this pond was gigan.
tic teak tree, and in its thick shining
evergreen leaves, lay huge boa, in an
easy coil, taking his morning nap
Above him WAS a powerful ape of the
baboon species, leering race Of scampS
always bent on mischief New the ape
from his position saw a crocodilc in
the water, rising To the top, exactly
hencatn the coil OF the serpent Quick
ms thought he jumped plump upon the
snake, which fell with a splash iato the
jaws of the crocodile. The ape saved
himself 10y clinging tn limbof the tree,
but battle royal Immediately com


Inenced in the water The serpent,
grasped in the middle by the crocodile,


made the waters boil by his furious


contortions. Winding his folds round
the body of his antagonist, he disabled
his two hinder legs, and hy his cnntor-
tions, made the bones of the monster
crack The water was tinged with the


blood of both cGhnbstants, yet neither
was disposed to yield. They rolled
over and over, neither being able to oh.
tain a decided advantage All this
time the cause of the mischief WAS iE a
state of the highest ecstacy. He leap.
ed up and down the branches of the
tree, came several times close to the
scene of the fight. shook the limhs of
the tree, uttered yell, AMI again frisk.
silence began To come over the scene.
The folds of the serpent began To be
relaxed. and they We're trembling along
the back, the head hing lifeless in the
water. The crocodile also was still,
and though only the splnes OF his back
were visible it was evident that he, too
WAS dead. Tnc monkey now perched
himself on the lower limbs Of the tree.
close To the dead bodies, and amused
himself for ten minutes making all sorts
of faces at them. This seemed TO he
adding insult to injury. One ofIny CON
panions was standing At "a short distance
and taking a stone from the edge of
the lake, hurled it at the ape. He Was
totally unprepared and as it struck him
on the sile of the head, he was instant.
ly tipped over, aud fell upon the croco-
die. A few bounds, however, brought
him ashore, and taking to the tree, he
speedily disappeared among the thick
branches. Rsssarehes IN the East.
Year: 1862

A Western correspondent says: ~ at
tended a wedding few days since
Wishing to say something booming the
occasion, / approached the fair young
bride in the course of the evening, aud
after congratulating her on her departure
from single blessedaess, wished her a
pleasant voyage down the river of life.
She said she hoped &c, but she heard there
was a great deal Of fever on the river nov
she hoped they would not catch it on
the way down.
Year: 1862

A traveller in South America thus des.
cribes what he saw:


"At Montevideo they sew up their
prisoner closely in q wet hide, leaving
out the head and neck only, and then
lay him on the ground in tho sun to dry.
In the drying under the powerful effcts
of the sun, the hide becomes contracted,
and produces the most excrutiating
death"
Year: 1862

4 ork Iri6une says:


II hot tar is applied to boot soles, it
will make them water proof. Let it be
as hot as the leather will bear without
injury, applying it with a swab and dry.
ing it by fire heat. The operation may
be repeated two or three times during the
winter if necessary. II IN 'kes the sur
face of the leather quite hard, so that it
wears longer as well as keeps out the
water. Oil or grease softens the sole
and does not do mnch good in keep
ing the water out. 1t is a good plan to
provide boots for winter during summer,
and prepare the soles by tarring, as they
will then become, before they are wanted
to wear, almost as firm as horn, and will
wear twice as long as those unprepared.
Year: 1862

Tho Rev. Robert Colyer tells this touch
ing incident OF the war:


"Whon was in Jefferson City last Fall I
found the hospital in the most fearful con-
dition you can imagine. i cannot stop to
tell you of the scenes | saw; it is enough TO
say that one poor fellow had lain there sick
on the bard boards, and seen Ave men car.
ried away dead, one after another from ha
side. He was worn TO a skeleton--worn
through So that great sores were all over his
back, and filthy beyond telling. One day.a
little before my visit, old Hannah, black
woman, who had some washing to do for a
surgeon, went down :ho ward to hunt him
up. She saw this dying man. o, doctor.
let me bring this man to my bed, to keep
him off the floor The doctor said, The
man IS dying; no will be dead Tomorrow
Tomorrow came, and old Hannah could
not rest. She went TO SEQ the man, and he
was still aliyo. Then she got some help,
took her bed, put the man on it, and CARR
eG him bsdily 10 her shanty; then she washes
him all over as woman washes baby,a
fed him with a spoon, and fought death
hand to hand day and night drove him back
and saved the soldiers life. The day / wen:
to Jefferson tho man had gone on q fur
Tough TO bis homo in Indiana. He besought
Hannah togo with him, but she could not
spare time; there was all that washing TO do.
She went with him to the steamboat, got
him fixed just to hGr mind, and then kissed
him, aud the man lifted up his voice as she
left him and wopt like child. l say we
have grown noble in our suffering.