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Year: 1862

Persons who are said to be in the con-
hdence Of the French princes attribut
their Temporary absence from the army
TO family affairs Of very pressing ma
ture. II is supposed that the Duke Of
Montpensier, who since his marriage
with Spanish princess. has seriously
entertained the hope TO be called some
day or another TO the government of
Mexico, either as q king or as president
finding the opportunity a favorable one,
has summoned all the members OF his
family in order 10 consider the matter
together and 20 take their advice. The
French princes had received their uncle's
letter three or four weeks ago but did
not deem it their duty 10 leave until cir
cumstances allowed them to do so with
out disrespeot for the distinguished gem
eral under whose orderers they were, and
the brave army in whose ranks they
had the honor TO serve. They intend 70
return to thtir post as soon as the impor-
tant business which calls them home
shall be settled,
Year: 1862

t Secretary Chase, By I formal order Of
the eth inst, has dismissed from the service
a Second Lieutenant Of the Revenue for
Drunkenness. Good! We hope the example
may be infectious and become epidemic in
army and nayy-not the drunkenness. but the
dismissal
Year: 1862

and what room they did not occupy packed
with white spectators, and you can see the
company on that day. Heat, however. and
profuse Precipitation, will soon tell on negroes,
and it did tell here most fearfuly. 1t was
not long before the dear sisters from Boston
began to search for their pocket handker-
chiefs, and such general motion to the nasaI
organs was scarcely, if ever before seen
They made the discovery that there was at
least ONE difference between white men and
negroes too, that could be determined by
person who had lost all of his seven senses
except one-that of smell


| believe these missionaries propose to
cultivate the plantations; but if there is no
cotton raised until they do it, it will be a
long time before the exports of Port Royal
will be extensive. They are without the first
practical knowledge of anything, much less
OF cotton cultivation. The fellow Pearce is
as ignorant as he is conceited, and he is
a sample of the whole lot. They are the
laughing stock of all the officers and SOL
diers.


Depend opon it, all efforts to change the
negro, short of re creating him, are worse
than useless, and these silly people who have
come down here will soon fin. it out. Al.
ready they are quarrelog among themselves.
The women declare the men are spooneys,
in fact no men at all. To use the expressr
ion of one indignant feminine Of the compa-
nv speaking of them, five would not make
one decent man." The record of their ca,
reer here will be record Of blunders
They are on a FOOLS errand, and the sooner
they 90 home and attend to the wants and
administer to the necessities of their own
white sisters, the greater credit it will be to
them. Of the vice and icentiousness, and
shapeessness of the negroes here, l will
not speak. Their religion consists of
words-words- words-whIe their acts be-
tray such want of moral perception as to
shock humanity. They need and must Lave
master, to restrain, guide and care for
them Now, they are becoming rapidly de-
moraized, and can see vast decline in
them since we first landed here. There is
now no steady hand over them. but kicked
and cuted by one, preached to by others,
and taught the idea that no one has any
right to control them, it will not be long be
fore this place will be a pandemonum on
earth. If the Administration desire to do a
sensible thing, it will order these pslam sing
ing male and female Gdeonites to pack up
and go home at once. Then put the planta
tions under the control of some practical
men, and let them have the negro's services
upon the same terms as their masters enjoy
ed them. In this way something might be
done; but as it is. the whole matter is such
a stupendous farce that one can only say:
ITO laugh may show want Of goodness and


grace.


But to be grave exceeds all power of face
Year: 1862




The Pittsburg Landing correspondent Of
the Chicago Times says:


1t is impossible for any person not familiar
with the facts to realize the extent of sick
ness to which our men have been subjected.
An idea of its result may be obtained by
computing the strength of the different
regiments, as compared with their original
numbers. Those who have seen our brave
soldiers march from home in battle array,
with banners flying and ranks filled to the
utmost limit, seeing no evidence of change,
and hearing but tithe of the truth, can
know little of the real fact This, as it ex'
lists, is appalling, for ont of the two hundred
and more regiments now composing General
Haleck's command at this place, there is
probably not one which can muster six hun
dred effective men to enter the battle field.
There arc many which cannot take one hum
dred and fifty men into service. These are
the regiments however, which we're most
severely handled at Fort Donelson, with
severe sickness in the interval between that
event and the battle at this place.


Some of the regiments which suffered
most at Fort Donelson encountered the same
fate here, as for instance, the Eleventh Iii.
nois, which was reduced one half by sickness
during the succeeding two months, and was
again lessened in the same proportion at
this battle. The regiment now consists OF
hundred and sixteen men, all told. There
are many regiments which have but two and
three hundred, and the majority will not
number above FIVE hundred. The rest are IN
the hospitals between here and home, or in
the grave. The Thirteenth Michigan reg''
ment, without having fought battle, mum,
bers but five hundred effective men, and 1t
has not Jared worse than most others.
Year: 1862

1t stands in o sunny meadow,


The house so mossy aud brown,
With its cumbrous old stone chimneys,
And the gray roof sloping down.
The trees fold their green arms around it,
The trees, century DID,
And the winds 60 chanting through them,
And the sunbeams drop their gold.
The cowslips spring in the marshes,


And the roses bloom on the bill;
And beside the brook in the pastures
The herds 60 feeding at will.
The children have gone and left them,
They sit in the sun alone!
And the old wife's ears are failing,


As she harks to the we'll known tone.
That on her heart in her girlhood,


That has soothed her in many care,
And praises her now for the brightness
Her old face used to wear.
She thinks again of her bridal


HOW OreSSeO IN 4 rOOe OF W0lte,
She stood by her gay young lover,
In the mornings rosy light.
Oh, the morning is rosy as ever,


But the rose from her cheek is fed,
And the sunshine still is golden,


But it falls on silvered head.
And the girlhood dreams once vanished
Come back in the winter tine,
Till her feeble pulses tremble


With the thrill of spring-time's prime.
And looking forth from the window,
She thinks how the trees have grown.
Since, clad in her bridal whteness,
She crossed the old door stone.
Though dimmed her eyes bright azure,
And dimmed her hairs young gold;
The love in her girlhood plighted
Has never grown dim nor DID,
They sat in peace in the sunshine,
Till the day was almost done;
And then. at its close, an angel


Stole over the threshold stone.
He folded their hands together
He touched their eyelids with balm;
And their last breath foated upward
Like the close of Il solemn psalm.
Like the bridal pair they traversed
The unseen. mystical road.
That leads to the beautiful city,


"Whosc builder and maker is Cod
Perhaps in that miracle country


They will give her lost youth back
And the flow crs of vanished spring time
Will bloom in the spirits track.
One draught from the living waters
Shall call back his manhood's prime.
And eternal years shall measure


The love that outlived time.
But the shapes that they left behind them,
The wrinkles and silver hair,
Made holy to US by the kisses


The angel had printed there.
We will hide away meath the willows,
When the day is low in the west;
Where the sunbeams cannot find them,
Nor the winds disturb their rest.
And We'll suffer no tel-tale tombstone,
With it's age and date, to rise,
Der the two who are old no longer,
In the Fathers house in the skies.
Year: 1862

The Washington correspondent of the
New York Times writes that the. conviction
is now very prevalent that General Stones
arrest and imprisonment we're brought about
by an Infamous conspiracy. Recollect,
reader, Republican correspondent writes
this to Republican paper.
Year: 1862

Every true and patriotic citizen cannot
but see the necessity Of union Of the loyal
people Of our State and Nation, into one.
solid phalanx in order to restore the Govern
ment. The Weekly Courier.


The editor does not seem certain that we
have Government, unless be is either in
office or in irons.
Year: 1862

Would NOT FUsE.-The Douglas County
Committee Of Calaveras rejected the propo
siton of the Republicans for fusion, by a
vote of five to one. In their reply to the
Republican resolutions of invitation they say
that in their Judgment "the course pursued
by the present Administration is not in all
respects best calculated to inspire the conf
dence of the people Of the different sections
of our country, and to again unite them by
those ties of friendship so essential to the
perpetuation Of our free institutions"
Year: 1862

The last line is brought out with terrifi'
cally loud noise, and as the word "home" is
uttered, down comes every foot as solid AS
slab. This was kept up for over an hour.
Now, lust imagine some hundred or more
negroes in q small room Of hot, sultry day,
Year: 1862

u The rebel presses are very severe and
hlood-thirsty towards Gen Butler. A writer in
the AississipPten proposes that q purse OF SO 900
be made up for the head Of s'tee modern Nero,
the brutal, beastly and sangufnary sevsge, Gen


Butler The ChsrIeston Mercury saws
that "NO quarter 70 Pieayune Butler" should be
the sworn resolve Of every Southern man The
Richmond Examiner exclaims-sSIf there Is a
human being In the city Of New Orleans who
does not weep leans Of bitter agony that the city
was not laid In dust and ashes rather than surren


dered, he is an outcast from his race
Year: 1862

Yicksburg and the Walnut Hills viii figure


prominently in the history of this revolution.


Our famed nights viii be rendered more famous
than ever before. Posterity viii read Of the
seige of YieksbUrg with pleasure and with
pride. Tor we believe the authorities viii mako
such defense as will receive the pIaudits Of the
whole country. We hope that we may be able


to keep them at bay till operations elsewhere
force them to abandon the idea Of holding the
Mississippi. We have place here which can
not be eircum7aIlsted, and is always open to
the supplies and armies Of the country There
is no reason, therefore, why the enemy's boats
may not be compelled to remain here for soma
time, or else withdraw altogether. For should
they succeed in reducing the forts we shall DO
much mistaken if they are permitted peaceably
to occupy our city. Everything indicates that
under the present regime the enemy viii never
have any peace about Yicksburg. Let US then
meet them without any excitement without pas
sion, without a morbid mad Drained terror, with
out reckless fsnaticism-0nly enthusiastic
upon the approach Of danger, without a foolish
fatal e1aggeration Of our position, but with q
steady, dsuntleSs bearing, a resoluts heart, a
bold hand, and a conscience lifted soul.-Whig,
June q.
Year: 1862

The MORTAR FLEET A AFALURE.-Tbe Lon
lsVl!le Journal makes tie following frank con-
fession:


The mortar fleets on the upper and lower Mis-
slssipPi cost great deal of money and great
oeal OF time, and we think they have been very
tar from realizing general expectation. The gen
eral impression, before they were used in actual
night, was that a single bomb from one of them,
exploding inside of fort, would deal terrible
destruction, and that half dozen of the mis-
siles would render any fort untenable, but the
facts Of the case turn out to be far different
The New York World says that nine thousand
bombs were hurled at Forts Jackson and st.
Philip, with scarcely any appreciable effect, as
was proved by subsequent examination of the
forts by Gen. Butler. Commodore Faragut
could have passed the rebel defenses with his
sloOp-Ot-war and gUnboats as we'll on the first as
on the sixth day Of the bombardmenti indeed,
the only real damage tae forts sustained was
from his Parrot and Dahlgren guns. On the
upper Mississippi they have been equally inef-
fective, as witness Island 10 and Fort Wright.
The official testimony Of the engineers who
planned the attack on Fort Pulaski was to the
same effect This experience is that Of all
sieges in former times, bombs do very well to
burn large city, but are generally Ineffective
against earthwoTks and small forts, owing to the
fact that they cannot be fred with a sufficient
degree of accuracy, the slightest breeze baulks
the most skillful aim. This war is repeating
some old lessons in military operations as well
as teaching US many valuable new ones.
Year: 1862

ANOTHER VESSEL OF ARMS AND NUM-
TIONs FOR THE CONFEDERATE SrATEs.-We
have information of q reliable character that
within very few days another British steamer
loaded with large quantity Of arms and other
munitions of war for our government has ar
rived safely in a Southern port, and all her
cargo viii be MiSSisSippiaa.
Year: 1862

q A Confederate prisoner, on parole, who
recently arrived at Richmond from McCIsllan's
lines, says a New York Herald was taken from
him, which contained paragraph to the effect
that the French Emperor had written an auto
graph letter to Queen Victoria, which was trans
mitted by Count Persigny in person, and was
supposed to refer to cotton and the Confederacy.
He stated further, that Just before he left Fort
ress Monroe, a Yankee psymaster came IN and
said that he was on the train fred into by Stuart
in his late circuit, and on the fiat where he was
six were killed and thirty wounded. He jumped
out and ran away as hard as he could, leaving
on the cars Sl72,000 in gold, which be thinks
was lost in the Psmunkey, toward which ths
train was fastening with the velocity Of light
ming, without an engineer to stop it.
Year: 1862

DIGGING DIRT.-Ths dirt-eating and dirt-dig-
ging Yankees have gone to work to plsy a


Sc Yankee trick upon Yicksburg by digging a
canal across the bend below this city. By this
they viii be able to unite their two fleets with
out coming in range of our batteries. The dis
tance is quite short. and the Yankee expeTtness
in working in dirt viii enable than to ditch a
channel through the swamp in very short time.
We are also informed that they are planting a
heavy battery opposite this city, and that al
the negroes and horses have been pressed by
them to render assistance in their work. They
will gain another advantage by this canal, to
wit: they viii have the open communication Of
the whole Mississippi river without calling at
Vicksburg-Ti Ticksburg Citizen.
Year: 1862

r L


The Raymond Gazette is gratihed tOglVe pub
licity to the fact that small experiments made
by Mr.. George Mcdonald, with earth from salt
licks on his farm, lying three miles from Ray
mond, are highly encouraging. The drippings
from two and half bushels of earth from the
licks, when boiled down, produced one gallon Of
salt while subsequent drippings from the same
earth, produced brine sufficiently strong to
save meat even during the intensely hot weather
of the past week or two. The salt thus manu-
factured is Of dark color, resembling brown
.sugar somewhat, but possesses all the qualities
Of the purest ana finest salt in use. The peculiar
color it assumes is the same as that OF the earth
from which the drippings are taken.


Mr.. Mcdonald designs submitting specimens
of his salt for examination and report to our
State geologist at an early day, and, should the
prospect prove favorable for success in the IN
dertaking, as he confidently believes 1t will, ne
will go into the manufacture of the article on
scale sufficiently extensive for the supply OF the
surrounding country. The discovery OF gen
uine salt mine of any considerable capacity, just
at this time, would be matter of greater pub
lie service and more to be desired, than the dis
coJery Of deposite of precious metals What
good would gold and silver do if we were with
out salt? May most brilliant success crown
Mr.. McDonald's experiments, and may we here
after be indebted solely to Kinds county for this
Indispensable article, and never find it scarce,
or offered at the figures of an extortioner.


THE STENCIL OF FAIR OAKs.-One of the
most unpleasant features of our position at Rich
mond is the stencil which arises from. the battle
field of Fair Oaks, around and in which some
of our troops are encamped. The effluvia is of
such strong character as to sicken even vete-
rams at times We shall never know the real
loss of human life at Fair Oaks. The other day
a lot of over $50 dead rebels were found in a
clump OF woods which had not been previously
examined. So far decayed were these bodies
that our soldiers could not approach the spot
long enough to bury tbem.-PdiladelPhia Press.
Year: 1862

Any obtaining five subscribers, and forwarding
the money shall be furnished with copy Of the Inell
eencer for this service long the number shall be
kept good.


Business pertaining 10 the paper can be transacted
with the Publisher any day at the Office of Publication


Communications may be addressed to the Editor, who
wi1lpromptIy and faithfully respond TO them.
Year: 1862

The president OF the court is authorized and
required to administer the following oath or
affirmation to the judge advocate or person Of
ticiating rs such: .,.s -


~, B, do swear Tor affirm) that l will
keep q true record of the evidence given TO
and the proceedings of this court; nor will l
divulge or by any means disclose the sentence
OF the court until il shall have been approved
by the proper authority; nor will at any
time divulge or disclose the vote or opinion OF
any particular member of the court, unless
required SO to do before court OF justice in
due course of law"


This oath or affirmation being duly admin.
istered, each member Of the court, before pro
Year: 1862

Every officer who is by this act authorized
to convene courts-martal shall have power on
reyisal of its proceedings to remit or mitigate
but not to commute the sentence of any such
court, which by this act he is authorized to
approve and confirm
Year: 1862

The proceedings Of the courts Of inquiry
shall be authenticated by the signature of the
president of the court and judge advocate
and shall. in all cases not capital, or extending
to the dimission of commissioned or war
rant officer be evidence before a court martial,
provided oral testimony cannot be obtained.
Year: 1862

The Judge advocate, or person officiating as
such shall administer to the members the fol.
lowing oath or affirmation


:. You do swear (ur affirn) well and truly to
examine and inquire, according tosthe evidence
into the matter now before you, without par
tialty or prejudice.


After which the president shall administer
to the Judge advocate, or person officiating as
such the following oath or affirmation.
You do swear Tor affirm truly to record the
| praceadines Of this court and the eyiden u TO
/ be given in the case in hearing"
Year: 1862

habit Of seltahuse. To which Is added ObServaOnS on
Female Diseases and other interesting matter of the
importance the married and those contemplating
marriage who entertain doubts Of their physical ability
enter that Sent TO any address in sealed wrap
per, on receipt Of ten cents or four stamps


We devote entire time and attention to the treat
of the various private diseases treated Of in pr
report our DSpenSary Is the only Institution of the
America which has been tablished by special
charter an this fact should give il preference the
various quacks of doubtful character be found I'm all
Year: 1862

Tho women o. our land have dstanced
oil their sisters on tho earth for general,
STEADY devotion to tho material needs of the
soldier. We may challenge any people to
show such perfect devotion in such way
When the history of this war is written
tho Sanitary Commission will take large
place in it, and tho Sanitary Commits
sion will have to write, 1--WE should have
been able to do very little for tho comfort
of our men, had it not been for the untriDe
devotion of our women, and thoir generous
boundless gifts of what was most needed.
OF the part takcn by women in that which
palos ali gifts of food and garments, l cannot
this time adequately tell. Mothers gave
their sons, wives their husbands. and then
sat down to their daily life. THAT is por.
trait of young man, the only son OF bis
mother, and she was q widow" a friend said
to mo one day, opening her album "they
arc q rich family he was educated in the
best schools, and had just come back from
tour in Europe when tho war began he
went into the army at once, and was killed
at Balls Bluff.


A lady, now the widow of one from oui
| OVID State who fell at Pittsburg, went ur
| to the field on one of tho first boats, anc
when she arrived found her husband dead
The novelist, who processes to give US lie
as it ought to be, will say, "Then she sa
down by his bleeding corpse al! night long
and wept." The angel who writes down il
the book kept in the archives of heaven. lif'
as il is, has written out in fair. golden char
acters The wife of Gen. Wallace, of OF
towa, went to Pittsburg to find her husband
who was represented wounded, and fount
him dead Then she looked upon the fac,
of her dead, and wept for little season
But she saw all around him on the boat th
men who had fought and fallen with hiu
there yet alive, in pain and thirst, with non,
to help them. So she turned away from he
dead. sent back her tears into her heart, AM
turned to the living, and all night long sh
went from man to man with water ant
words of comfort, and the holy succor tina
must come out of such an inspiration il
such place.-SermOn By ReV. ROIer! Coll
Uer.
Year: 1862

AN Irish suctioneer, putting up a pair
OF jet earrings to very respectable
company Of ladies, said that they were
"just the sort Of article he himself would
purchase for his wife, were she widow"
Year: 1862




The following incident will illustrate the
fact that one of the softer sex, by her heroism.
energy and self-devotion, may accomplish
much. At the date TO which we allude. the
Americans were struggling for independence.
BY series of misfortunes their cause was
nearly lost in the South. The most sanguine
began to feel discouraged. The tories were
fearfully active and the country was suffering
all the horrors of civil war.


Colonel Ferguson, acting under the orders
OF Lord Cornwallis, was ravaging the frontier
towns, and melting the tories to take up arms,
which they were not slow in doing. Colonel
Clarke, of the Georgia volunteers, having been
informed that large party of loyaists were
recruiting for the horse service, resolved to
battle their intentions, and with that object in
view, put his men in motion, and marched to-
wards the scene of operations. His command
numbered two hundred men. On his way he
stopped for refreshment at the residence of
Captain Dillard-an officer at that time acting
with him as a volunteer. Mrs. billiard, a
sprightly, intelligent woman, received them
very handsomely, and refreshed them with the
best her larder could afford. This was done
cheerluliy and with good will. for she was as
pairlotlc as the staunehest whig among them
While receiving the hospitality of Mrs Dill
lard, word was brought TO them by one friend
ly TO the cause of freedom, that a scouting
Year: 1862

his two hundred picked men were running in
every direction. But a few seconds had elapsed
after he reached the scene of conflict, before
without rider. Notwithstanding his disguise
he had been shot through the right arm, and
when next discovered, his right hand hung
useless by his side; he had lost his wager, and
paid it.


This event encouraged the dropping spirits
ofthe patriots, and dampened the ardor of
their enemies; and yet owed its success to the
energy of a heroic woman. The surprise par
ty was remembered with chagrin by Colonel
Ferguson till the day OF his death-[Flag of
our Union.