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Year: 1863

THE FEELING OF THE ARMY.-The New
York World correspondent, writing on the
Ith, thus speaks of the feeling in the army
of the Potomac:


the army moves forward now, not over
confident in lis own strength, though feeling
assured that with equal chances, aid against
man for man, it will be successful. Its CON-
dition is fully equal to any previous time 50
far as regards numbers and material of war.
| am not sure but that it is considerably
stronger in men than at any previous time
when it has moved upon the enemy. We
are SO strong as to enable US TO move straight
and irresistably upon Richmond. in case The
enemy is thoroughly defeated IN the first
pitched battle"
Year: 1863

BEWARE OF BRIGHT CHILDREN DIR Hall
very wisely says II once had little girl
OF thirteen brought to M for disease of the
spine. She had been confined to the bed for
three gears She was then attending school.
and had Thirteen different studies, She
might have had the thirteen, but ten should
have been studies for the muscles. and only
about three for the head. Children should
certainly exercise more. There is no doubt
about that But FIRST, they should STUDY
LESS The best system of bodily exercise
added 10 too much mental already laid upon
the scholar. cannot but fail, as it ALWAYS has.
This Is rule fro n which there should be no
departure: never allow youth habitually
TO tax his powers, mental or physical. to their
full extent Adult maturity alone can sub
jec' Itself to continuous pressure
Year: 1863

objects of interest which we pass, then to
take stroll through the interesting old town
of Zurich, and perhaps to 60 on as far as
Schaffhausen that we may see the Falls of the
Rhine.
Year: 1863

Gen Burnside has thus attempted four at
tacks upon the rebel army in his front since
he assumed command of the army of the
Pptomac. In each instance he has been en-
harrassed and thwarted by those who were
bound by every sentiment of military honor
and Of patriotic duty to give him their cor
dial and effective support. The inference is
very clear. lie shouid either hare tie power
to dismiss tIese cDfcer$. and PIT in their
piaces others 'rho ~iN second his plans, or
he Shouid be yeliered from his command
Year: 1863

The following article is taken from the Charles
ton Courier, paper which was much less anxious
10 enter upon the sea war than its coiemporary,
the Mercury, when the long sown seeds Of rebell-
ion first began to sprout in that hotbed of trea-
son, shows the depth Of misery brought upon the
Southern States


The continuance ofths contest involves increas-
ed suffering. The evils that follow in the train of
this ctlamitous visitation grow more direful with
every day. Other hearts than those now aching
with anxiety and bleeding from bereavement are
rent with grief, and the man who synpathized
with some afflicted one yesterday,to-day weeps Bit
ter tears oTer his own sorrow. The iron is driven
deeper, and our burdens become more and more
heavy And though more than eighteen months
have passed away since the strife was begun, the
end seems more distant than it appeared to be
twelcemonth since. Hope after hope has gone
out in darkness, and expectations we mad fondly
cherished have turned out TO be miserable delu-
sions. So often have we been disappointed and
deceived that our faith rejects every promise and
turns away from every sign. Our foe is as active
and determined, and powerful as ever he was,
and the agent that was to compel foreign nations
10 intervene and put an end to this wicked and in
famous contest has not been potent enough to acl
compsh that end.


We stand alone. Vast hosts are mastering to
repeat in stronger force and with more obstinate
courage the altemps that have been made, and
s.rongholds hitherto unattached will soon have to
bear the most furious nsaughts the enemy, with
his wonderful RESOURCES of ingenuity and material;
is capable of making. To Illustrate his well-con-
ceived plans, to repe these ter ible attacks, we
have to depend entirely upon ourselves. The foe
will do his utmosti military genius and knowl-
edge, the bounless credit Of the Government, the
best mechanical skill mind money, muscle
have all combined to insure success.


And while these tremendous efforts are being
put forth-while cur homes are darkened by the
shadow of deaths angel-wing and our bosom
wruhg with angushZwhiIe we are enduring
grievous privations and hardships, and our sold
iers are almost Naked we stand alone


1t is true foreign tongues mention our name
with respect and admiration. 1t is true our for
ttude and gallantry have received abundant re-
ward in glowing words of praise and in warm.
heartfelt wishes for success. But sympathy and
admiration have afforded no substantial subsist-
ence, and all III ded we brace our nerves for ths
dreadful conflict
Year: 1863

Ny faith is simple and briefly stated. 1t is this:
For all things that are for the Union-against all
things that are against it. am for protecting
my own body, at every cost and hazard, from the
knife of the assassin. No human institution, no
earthly interest shall ever by me be weighed in
the scales against the life of my country. Least
of all will approach with unsandaled feet or
permit to be thus weighed, an institution the
foundation of whose being-the African slave
trade-the laws of my country have for more
than forty years denounced as a crime worthy of
death-a crime not against any particular form of
civilization, but crime against the very race to
which we belong.


yield to no man in veneration for the Consttu-
tion, or in determination that its blessings shall
be extended to those who respect and obey it,
The door to all these blessings is widely open to
the Southern people, and they are earnestly in
voked by the President to enter it and enjoy
them.


Their institutions and their every interest are in
their own hands, and can be saved not only from
ruin, but from the slightest injury, by the utter
dHce Vi d SlllSlt NOIu-d NOtQ VI Quly anu Ol
honor. But, if in their passionate pursuit of sep
arate empire, and in their blind resentments
against brethren who have never wronged them,
they refuse to speak that wcrd, and prefer to per-
sh themselves rather than that the loyal States
shall escape destruction-be it SO. But, is it not
childish pratte to say that the South can claim to
be at the same moment the protege and the de-
stroyer of the Constitution Does it not require
an audaciy absolutely satanic to insist that the be-
nefcent provisions that halowed instrument shall
be secured to States and people who are hourly
spurning and splitting upon its authority, and who
are leading forward vast armies to overwhem it,
ard with it the homes and hopes of all who are
ralying in its defence? In prosecuting the war,
while exercising the right to injure the enemy, we
may destroy not only ships upon the sea, and for
tresses and cities upon the land, but human life
upon the battlefield! But what institution, what
material interest is more hallo@ed than human
life, and what material interest is there belonging
to the enemy that we are obliged to spare, even
though by doing SO we perish ourselves"
Year: 1863

Many people in the Golden State are beginning
to ask anxiously: ais California safe from the
designs of the Rebels?' There is in the State a
population of at least l25,OO able-bodied men
fit for military service, of which it is estimated
that 10000 are secessonists and their sympa-
thizers, opposed to the Government 1t is well
understood that at the commencement of the
war the secessionists planned through secret
leagues and societies, to seize the Notifications in
the harbor, the custom house and the mint in the
city, and navy yard at Mare Island. Nothing
but prompt and efficient action on the part of
loyal men and officers of the Government pre-
vented this from being done. That plan having
failed, the secessionists appear to be trying new
one, which is no less than to establish colony of
Rebel sympathzers in the adjoing Mexican State
of Sonora, so large that they can defy or int;mi-
date the Mexican authority there, and at the same
time watch their chance for striking blow at the
Federal power in California. A man known at
Guymas, where he resides, only as a working Bit
ter secesonists is paving the way for this colony
by establishing trading and mining posts, and has
been for some time past shipping machinery,
stores and other property to the mines owned by
this clique in Sonora, and near the Yaqui river,
and at other points where it is proposed to estab-
lished the colony. 1t is well known that Captain
- now General-Stone fitted out an expedition
some years ago, for the purpose of surveying and
settling the public lands of Sonora and other parts
of Mexico, under contract with the Mexican
Government The expedition did not at that
time succeed.


Danger is supposed to exist from the belief that
France earnestly desires to acquire foothold in
the Pacific ocean, and, if possible somewhere on
the coast of America, where the precious metal is
found in abundance. OF the five regiments of
infantry and one and a half of cavalry raised in
California, but very few of them are in striking
distance of San Francisco and the other thickly
populated portions of California they are mainly
distributed over the entire frontier of the State
from Humboldt to Tucson, while a column of
about two thousand is now in New Mexico, under
Gen. Carleton, and Col. Conner's command is dis
tributed from Fort Churchill to Salt Lake. Thus
the available military strength of the State is re-
duced to q force of few hundred men, to sup
press a sudden uprising of onists on land, or
in case of the advent of foreign foe, upon the
seaboard. The entire harbor defences aloat con-
sst of but single revenue cutter of four or six
guns, and the land forlifca,ions at Alcatraz and
Fort Point.-.N Y World.
Year: 1863

Though the papers have kept remarkably quiet
about it, there is but little doubt that the Great
Eastern steamship has made her last voyage
On the lst of December she was lying almost a
wreck off Whtestone Point, Long Island.


1t appears that on her last voyage for Europe,
she was brought over By an English pilot who
had such conf fdence in his navigation abilities that
he refused, when off New London, to take on
board an American pilot, asserting that he could
bring her into New York. and that too, through
Hesgate But the sequal has proved, unlortun-
ately for HIM and her owners. that his confidence
was an assumption, for when off Montauk Point
he touched her on a reef of rocks, and stove a
hole in her and knocked portion Of her screw
into fragments. This tremendous hole is on port
side, and near her bottom. When they got her
off it was found she was leaking badly. Immedi-
ate steps were taken to mend the breach; but up
to the present time but little progress has been
made. Golfer dam has been placed over the
hole, and they trying to pump it entirely dry
but the pumps have broken down twice, SO far, in
the attempt. A reporter of the Heard who
visited her, says:


She is greatly lurched, and as she loed on her
side she looked like some terrible sea monster that
had beeu wounded, and the immense hawser-
hole on her bow seemed like hugh eye
fixed in determined stare on all that surrounded
her, calmly awaiting a death blow, or whatever
fate may befall her. AS we neared her it was
distinctly observed that she was badly begged
that is, her frame has been so fearfuy strained
that the entire line from her upper deck from
stem to stern, presents the bow like curvature de-
scribed by hogs back. She was drawing for
ward twenty feet of water, and at her stern
twenty-seven feet, and this with her cargo all dis
charged. II was thought she would prove almost,
if not quite, a total loss.
Year: 1863

READING.-Of all the amusements that can
possibly be imagined for working man, after
daily toll, or in the intervals, there is nothing
like reading newspaper or a book. 1t calls for
no bodily exerton, of which the mind has had
enough perhaps too much. 1t relieves his
house Of dullness and sameness. Nay, It accom-
panies him to his next days work, and gives him
something TO think of besides the mechanical
dru1gery of his everyday occupation something
he can enjoy while absent, and look forward to
with pleasure. If I were to pray for a taste
which would stand by me in every variety of cir
cumsta2ees, and be source of happiness and
cheerfulness to me through life, and shield
against its ills however things might go amiss
and The world frown upon me, it would be taste
for reading.
Year: 1863

1t is better for you to pass an evening once or
twice in ladys drawing-room, even though the
conversation is slow, and you know the girls song
by healt than in club, tavern, or the pit of a
theater. All amusements of youth to which vir-
tuous women are not admitted, rely on it, are
deleterious in their nature. All men who avoid
female society have dull perceptions and are stu
pid, or have gross tastes and revolt against what
is pure. Your club swaggerers, who are sucking
the butts of billiard cues all night, call female
ciey ihsipid. Poetry is uninspirng to yokel;
beauty has no charms for blind man; music
does not please the poor beast who does not know
one tune from another but as a true epicure is
hardly ever tired of water, saucey and brown
biead and butter, protest | cannot sit for
whole night talking to a well regulated, kindly
woman about Ler girl Fanny, or her boy Frank,
and not like the evenings entertainment. One of
the greatest benefits man may derive from wo-
mans society is, that he is bound to be respect
full to her. The habit is of great good to your
moral men, depend upon it. Our education
makes us the most eminently selfish men in the
world We fight for ourselves, we yawn for our
selves, we hope for ourselves we push for our
selves, we light our pipes and say we won't go
out we prefer ourselves and our ease and the
greatest good that comes to man from a wonans
society is, thst he has to think of somebody to
whom he is bound to be consistent, attentive and
respectful TKackeray.
Year: 1863

0lD AoE.-A healthy old man, who is not a
fool, is the happiest creature living 1t is at that
time of Fife only that he enjoys his faculties with
satisfaction. It IS then he has nothing to manage,
as the phrase is he speaks the downright truth !
and whether the rest of the world will give the
privilege or not, has little to ask Of them that be
can take H.
Year: 1863

RATHER FoxY.-A Scotch paper speaks Of a
fox having been seen trying to spring steel trap
by means of stick which he carried in his mouth.
We knew a fox that took the well-pole from the
well and pushed the turkey of from the lower
limb of the tree with it, and put the pole back in
its place. At least, he got the turkey, and the
pole was found all right in the morning.
Year: 1863

THE UNwRITTEN HISTORY OF THE WAR.-A
correspondent of Forneys Press writes as fol-
lows:


If any distinguished literary man should ever
determine to risk his reputation in wiring a his
tory of this war, we would advise him to go to
the army correspondents for its true and as yet
secret character These men can tell him pri-
vately HOW this has been brainless war thus
far. They can show him how men-traitors-
have received contracts, and while imperfectly
filling them, have been communicating our plans,
such as we had, to the enemy They will tell
him how Southern officers commanded some Of
our outposts, in constant communication with the
enemy, and how men known to be traitors were
filling high positions in our army. They can
tell him, TOO, though they dare not publish the
fact, of how certain Major Generals have been
surprised by the enemy in the East and West,
while they lay drunk in their tents, and how
these men were complimented, instead of being
cashered, by the commanding Generals, for fear
that their valuable services would be lost to the
army in the future. In fact they will tell the
historian how, with abundance of men and means
10 have crushed the rebellion right out, these
means have been nearly all wasted in the face Of
the foe, while the enemy, according TO Wilcox,
Corcoran, Bowman, and Vodges, is stronger to-.
day than ever before, because he has collected
and concentrated his men AID means and has set
tied a system of prosecuting the war.
Year: 1863

CHARGING A JURY-If the jury believe from
the evidence that the plaintiff and defendant
were partners in the grocery, and the plaintiff
bought out the defendant, paid for the note by
delivering to the plaintiff COW, which he war
ranted mot breachy," and the warranty was bro
ken by reason of the breach mess Of the COW, and
he drove the COW back, rendered her to the de-
fendant, but the defendant refused to receive her,
the plaintiff took her home again and put
heavy yoke or poke upon her to prevent her from
jumping the fence, and by reason of the yoke or
poke broke her neck and died and if tie Jury
further believe that the defendants interest in
the grocery was worthless, and the COW good
for nothing either for milk or beef then the jury
must find out for themselves how they mist de-
eide the case for the court if it understands it.
SELF and it thinks it does, don't know how such
case should be decided.
Year: 1863

IRoN-CLAD MoNIToRs.-It is evident, from
the accounts given of the trial trips of the new
ron-cad steamers, that they are totally unfttedi j
for want of speed ever TO be useful as naval de-
fences upon the ocean. In speed they fail in ev-
cry instance to come up to iha mark. The Pas
ssic IN tolerable water cannot make more than
seven knots, and, that with clean new bottom.
In strong seaside she would be worthless even
for coasting, except she was towed, AID could not
keep her headway. Nearly fifty of these batter
les are now in course Of construction As de-
fenses for our harbors, they will be admirable
floating batteries, and valual e auxilares to our
forts and land batteries. But something more
than this is required for ocean service. A; sea
want speed in our national vessels as a requi-
site Of prime necessity, and the question arises
whether our navy is really growing as formidable
as a national defense as the amount of work in
our shipyards would indicate.-PhiI Inquirer!
Year: 1863

Two WAYs.-"There's two ways of doing it,
said Pat to himself, he stood musing and wait
ing for job. "If l saved me four thousand dol
lars must lay up two hundred year for twenty
years, or I can put away twenty dollars year for
two hundred years now which shall do p
Year: 1863

WOMAN Al C1vIL1zRR.-1 God were
to take the sun aud moon and stars out of
the heavens, the chances of husbandry
would be what, If God were to take woman
out of life, would be the chances for re-
6nement and civilization. Woman carries
civilization in her heart. It springs from
her. Her power and influence; mark the
civilization Of any country. "A maa that
lives in community where he has the
privilege Of womad's society,", and is
subject to woman's influence, is almost of
necessity refined, more than he is aware
Of aud when men are removed from the
genial influence of virtuous: womanhood,
the very best degenerate, or feel the de-
privation. There is something wanting
in the air when you get west Of the Ale
ghany mountains on sultry day Of sum-
mer. The air east of the mountain is sup
piled with sort of pabulum from the salt
water of the ocean, by which one is sus-
tanned in the spltriest days Of midsummer.
Now, what. this salt is to the air, that is
woman's influence to the virtue of q CON-
munity. You breathe it without knowing
it. All you know is that you are made
stronger; and better. And 4 man is not
half man unless a woman helps him to
be! One Of the misciiiefs Of camp life is
tbas women are removed from it. The
men may not know what.it ,s that let's
them down to lower state of feeling, or
what that subtle influence was that kept
them up to a higher state Of refinement,
but it is the absence Of woman ,inl,the one
case, as i was the presence Of woman in the
other, Woman iea light which God has set
before man to show him which WY to 60,
and blessed is he who has! sense enough
to follow it.-H1,W. Bcecher:.,,t
Year: 1863

men were negroes! Even to this extent has
slavery blasted the moral, and political
perceptions Of the nation, contounding the
national intellect. so that it sees no way to
cxticate itself from the bog Of this deep
and damning disgrace. 1t is true that
Philadelphia paper alluded to the fact Of
the seizure, and put it forward as are,son
why the negroes should be trusted with
arms to defend Themselves; but mo one
erer looked upon it as grave violation OF
the law Of nations, return to the worst
customs Of leathen barbarism, reducing
those who practice it, to say nothing OF
those who submit to it in. silence. to the
leTcl of The savagcs Of Dahomey.


Let it be remembered that these negroes
were peaceful citizens, who had nothing
whatever to do with the war as belliger-
ents, not one Of them was slave, and yet
they were seized and sold into slavery.
On what authority, according to what
usage Of civilized warfare was this horrible
crime committed? There is no. precedent
for it outside the history Of the Barbary
Corsairs, who were denounced as pirates,
for these very deeds, and spurned beyond
the pale Of humanity as yermin whom
any one might kill, at his pleasure and
opportunity. Do the people see where all
this leads-are they conscious Of tile tre-
mcndous wrong which has been done to
them, and to all the civilized world? II
they do not protest against it, and urge
the same course upon the Government, we
shall stand convicted Of suffering the
rebels to incorporate system Of barbarism
upon this continent, for which the world
will mt. and ought not. to hold us guilt
less. To seize and sell into slavery an
American citizen whether he be white or
black, is the crime Of a monster, for whom
there ought to be no mercy, and we hare
right to demand tkat every ono Of these
free negroes SO seized and sold shall be
returned to us to demand it in the name
Of civilization, and to call upon all the
civilized Powers, for all ofthcm hayc been
outraged by Ills rebellious deed, not to
help us to conquer the rebels, but to cx-
press their contempt and horror Of the
crime, and to unite with US in insisting
that the negroes shall be returned to Their
homes.


4 chance like this to unite the Euro
pean Governments with us, and band
them against the barbarian rebels may
never occur again during the war; and
although this is comparatively low ground
to take, in view Of the mighty issues in
yolycd, it would be better to adopt cycn
this platform for our remonstrance, than
to suffer the occasion to pass away with
out further notice.
Year: 1863

D'UrAssEY made written acknowledgment
in open Court that his account of expense in
raising his regiment was fraudulent, but stated
that he was unquestionably loyal and down
upon all Copperheads.
Year: 1863

HALF OF THE Pay IN CoIN.-The United
States Paymaster in San Francisco, received
letter from the Paymaster General of the
United States. on Tuesday informing him
that it had been decided to pay half the dues
OF the private soldiers on the Pacific coast in
coin, the order to take effect Immediately
Year: 1863

OPPOSED TO PARTY-The republicans are
opposed to party because they have no party
to cling to. But don't they fight hard for Of
/ fee If they would fight the rebels half so
we'll the rebellion would soon be ended
Year: 1863

.Asamendatory Of the gabble which con-
yevs the idea that General McC Clellan is to
be called back to The: leadership of the
Army of the Potomac, let US suggest that
if any Of the defi1nct are to be invoked in
this emergency, General jackson ought to
be 1esur7ected; or, if the reanimation Of
his bones is impossible, a pair Of his brecch-
es stuffed. and mounted on horseback
could make no worse campaign than that
Of the Peninsula, of which all the lonors
belong 10 Little Mac-.. But why be grasp
ing after the ghosts of dead men? Old
Abe is the man who ought to. lead. Let
him draw his sword and put himself at the
army's head, and The Republic will be safe.
lie is the best General in the fcld.-