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Year: 1862

cast, had been concealed in the impregns-
BILE turret of the Monitor, and hurled
their eleven hundred pound balls against the
Merrimao. How different the result! The first
round would have sunk the stolen vessel, with
her rebel crew. The entire question of the
real aggressive properties Of the Monitor thus
presents itself in new light. We now per-
csive that an increase of tonnage and draught
are not needed to render the Monitor absolute
ly superior in destructive force to anything
afost. We have the impregnable vessel and
turret, and we have the excess of buoyancy
requisite to carry guns of the proposed inor-
dinate calibre. Can we resist the inference
that the diminutive representative of the new
system, with its twenty-five hundred pound
broadside, is big enough to sink all the War
.iors and Black Princes that could be put
against us!
Year: 1862

ton if it required that to save my country
or to save our own race from this destruc-
ton, and he that is not willing to make
such sacrifice has no soul, and is not en-
titled to the privileges Of a free and lib
eral Government. You must now make
choice; you have no discretion in the
matter. It Is forced on you. The ques-
ton is not now the way you would rather
have 1t, but in self-dcfense you are COM
pelled to wipe out the institution or 60
yourselves with wife and children to ruin
You are now at the point that you must
decide. Your lives, your liberty and
happiness are now at stake. Weigh we'll
the verdict. Remember that Pharaoh 8
heart was hardened that he was blind to
reason and common sense until he was
overwhelmed in the raging pillows. A
like fate awaits you. Let me warn you If
the impending danger. Do not fasttn on
vnur children this eva-iasti,,r~ { -.z=
The value Of property in your State will
advance many times the value of your
slases as soon as you make the sale.
Year: 1862

Col FORNAN.--A few days ago, we allu.
ded to letter published in the Sacramento
Union, and purporting to come from a SOL
dier in the 4th regiment, accusing Col. For
man of disoyalty, incapaCity, etc. The S.
f. Journal, referring to the same letter,
says:


An officer attached that regiment says that
he is satisfied the letter was written by an out
slider, who has personal spite against the CO.
lionel; that Col. Forman is the only officer who
has caused arrests in Los Angeles county for
disloyal conduct and insults to the flag; and
that he possesses the confidence and esteem Of
those under his command In the letter allu-
ded to great fault is found with the Colonel for
telling the soldiers they could vote; If he did
tell them so, he committed no offence though
he might have been mistaken in regard to the
law concerning voting; from the fact that he
told them they could vote, he evidently wished
for them to vote, knowing they would vote for
the Union ticket and secure the success of the
Union candidate. If Col. Forman is Seces-
sionist he would hardly desire regiment of
Union soldiers to vote in Secesh county and
thus secure the defeat of the Secesh ticket.
Year: 1862

THE PROPOSED REGIMENT.-A San Fran
cisco dispatch to tie Appeal, dated the
25th, says telegram was received that
day from Washington, refusing TO grant
permission to raise a regiment for the East
The same dispatch says Gen Wright has
telegrapbed to the War Department, that
in his opinion the regiment had better not
leave here. What Gen. Wrigbts object
can be in making sush representations we
do not know; but we infer that he wants it
to appear that there is large Secession ell
ement 10 California which requires the
presence of all the Union men to keep
down. But if his purpose is to keep men
in this State, for fear of an uprising, it will
be failure. 1t is impossible to keep men
here when so much excitement Is going on
at The East, and such tremendous issues are
to be decided upon the battle field. Those
disposed to go, who have the means, VIII
pay their own passage, and many other
good men would go if they could raise the
money. We have no doubt that enough
men to make up regiment will leave here
for the war in the next two or three months.
But arriving at different times, they will OF
course join different regiments, and their
identity as Californians will be lost. They
would all prefer to join California regi.
ment, or brigade, and we earnestly hope
that arrangements may yet be made to
send an organized force from this State.
Year: 1862

THE Cincinnati Gazette says that the sur
plus produce of Ohio, for this year. will ex-
ceed the interest on one thousand millions
of dollars, or the interest on the whole ma
tional debt made by the war in the year
from its commencement.
Year: 1862

A RELIGIOUS VIEw.-The New York In.
dependent, which, like all religious papers
views every thing in religious light. has
the following observations on the progress
of the rebellion:


The first movement of the Public Mind in
America was, to suppress rebellion by acting
within the ordinary lines of our Government
and by forbearing to meddle with the institu-
tions of States. This, with the light which we
then had, seemed the wisest course. Events
have made it impossible. There has been a
divine will overruling human wisdom and turn
ing our best counsels to folly. We have been
defeated in every attempt to conciliate the Un-
ion mengof the South. We have been unable
to conduct war in the seeded States without
disturbing the framework Of their economies.
We have been driven, not by any sense of JUS
tice, or from love of human right, out from the
necessities of war, to interfere with the relation
of master and slave.


We have cOnversed at different times
with quite number of piously-incined in
dividuals, who take a somewhat similar
view of the war. They believe it was the
divine will that slavery OH this continent
should be destroyed, and that 10 effect THE
result the Lord stirred up the hearts of the
shareholders to rebellion, thus making them
the principal instruments in the destruction
of the institution to which they are so Ia
natically attached. Others, whose religion
is of somewhat different cast, regard the
rebellion as the special work of the devil.
The former class have faith that the war
will ultimately result in good to the human
race, while the latter. with darker forebod-
ings, regard it as of unmxed evil.
Year: 1862

The Los Angeles News, of late date,
states that there are grounds to fear that
the numerous desperadoes in that section of
the State may organize a guerrilla band
for murder and robbery, and calls the at
tentiOn of the military authorities to the
subject,
Year: 1862

LEfrEns.-Oh, this watching and wait
Ing for the post, the torment that bcfalls us
all at one time or another of our lives -
However different our characters and our
circumstances; which Of us is there 10 whom
every symptom of this wre.chedness is not
painfully fanailar5 The rising invigorated
by sleep to entertain anew the Joyous hope
that comes with morning; The dressing
little huffieaiy, perhaps, yet all the moro
carefully because that letter Is to reach our
hands, and to make festival OF common
day the sweet surmses respecting its very
appearance, how it will begin, how long it
will BE, what tidings il ~ill bring; the iittef
impossibilty Of giving ourselves to any oc-
cupation before it comes, for come it will
to-day; the cloud before the eyes when u
length the letters are brought in, and then
the sudden resulsioh that follows the dis
covery that The letter is NOT there Some-
thing Of anger will rise; all creatures ara
angry at torture, but soon It is banished
BY fear which has even greater torment;
the fear lest illness, lest death should have
prevented tile writing OF the promised let
ter; Tor love, in many natures, Is " too like
despair" and the darkest solution in the
first ex6itenient Of disappointment seems
the most probable. And then the appalling
length of the remainder of the day how
drag through its hateful hours? Every
espedient is welcome for killing the time
we cannot employ. BY and by more toll
cradle hypothesis present themselves to tho
mind we can bear TO sc reminded of lct-
ters gone astray, of contingencies short Of
tdfai which might yet have marred our
hopes; till worn out with very wretchedl
ness, we grow calm as evening comes, and
expectation begins to revive. The night
mast be slept through that it may pass the
quicker. Tomorrow We shall certainly
hear. But tomorrow comes, and there ii
no letter and al that dreary round, from
the darkness Of utter despair to the glinlz
mering light Of sick hope, has TO be gone
!, through again
Year: 1862

ard ought TO be proved. There will be no
difficulty in showing that this city was
cnce lonorcd hy circle in which the
:. knights did Il vast deal Of reasonable
slouting for the South and against the Gov
crrment We think re can designate
the room in 4 newspaper building in
Chicago, in which The reasonable and ia
,:a;!e:,l eaths were administered. We are
Of the opinion that we can name the man
who brought the charter here and put the
affiliated traitors at work. We can point
out the newspaper upon which he was EN-
plosed then ard subsequently, sometimes
in one capacity and then in another-as 4
correspondent until he was arrested and
put oat Of camp for suspected commurica-
'icn with the enemy. Unless we arc mis-
informed, these things can be substandated,
and public safety seems TO require that they
he made the subjects Of searching inquiry.
And those other places in our State, where
treason, nourishcd, fostcred and shielded by
this organized conspiracy, is growing
::race, and where the hand Of the Govern
meut should be felt.


While, then, the Senate is excalpa.ing
Pocr Pierce, let it be reminded that lis de-
nial that he is a member Of any such gang,
is no proof that the gang does not exist;
and that the whitewash brush applied to
him will not relieve the blackness Of trcsa-
son Of which other men are guilty There
is ground for procedure; and throughout
the West the appointment Of a Committee
charged with the duty Of examining the
evidence upon which the belief Of thou
:anls Of loyal men rests, would he hailed
with 1e1irht
Year: 1862

The violent gale aud storm Of yesterday
reduces us well nigh to the condition Of
the craft before the era Of the telegraph,
and al the present time this meagerness Of
news is 10 be regretted. Tie interim will
prove source Of fruitful rumors, and our
READERS may likely enough hear before night


that The Monitor is taken, that rebel gun
boats have shelled out the boarders Of
the ST. Charles at Cairo, that Island No.
10 has taken Commodore Footc. We
simply advise them to wait for news, Is We
are constrained IN do.
Year: 1862

Az ENORMOUS GCS.-A cannon, said to
weigh y 600 pounds, while passing through
New Haven, on Friday, broke down the car
On which it was loaded, while the latter was
switching off on 4 side track. The curiosity
Of the public to see the monster became so
great that the railroad officials were obliged
to put it under lock and key in an engine
house.
Year: 1862

We would very much like to see our merchants
again open their stores, and resume the bu-
sness which has been interrupted by the events of
the past week. The impossibility of obtaining
usual family supplies except at certain places, and
the difficulty which attends the purchase OF even
the smallest article of dry goods, has been the
cause of serious Inconvenience not to say dssl,s =
sfactien to people; besides it has had the effect
of throwing thousands of poor people out of gu
employment upon which they entirely depended
for living for their families and themselves.


Upon mature deliberation we cannot really see
the necessity for continuance of this general
cessation of business The fate of the city, for
the present at least, has been decided and our
merchants run no more risk of loss with doors
cfpen than with their doors closed. The same ne
cessity which existed for an exposure of their
wares for sale month ago exists now, though
perhaps to less extent, and people can no more
do without articles of ordinary consumption now
than then.


1t appears to US that if the merchants continue
to keep their doors closed and refuse to extend to
the public their usual facilities for trade, that it
might awaken suspicion that the real cause of
this action that they feared to exchange their
goods for the current money of the city, and were
only guided by selfish desire to save themselves
from loss, at the expense of the comfort of their
fellow. citizens. Although we can hardly believe
that such is the fact, that after they have con-
sdered the subject in all its bearings they will per.
sist in their present course, still it has that
appearance and evil. disposed people will believe
it.


/ Our currency is as good now as it has been at
any time during the past six months but whether
it is or not, in times like these every man should
| forget considerations Of such nature, and come
| forward to do his share towards relieving the
general distress.


The merchants of New Orleans have ever been
remarkable for their public spirit and generosity,
and if they were to prove recreant now, it would
| be an astounding example of the changes wrought
| by the present war.


| 1t may be urged by many, that there is little use
in making an attempt at business shut off, rs this
city is, from its usual resources of trade. Rut, il
appears to us, that if ouly is relieved, one
want supplied each day, that would be a sufficient
reason for being ready for business. And, after
all, the people have claims upon the merchants


whom they have bren patronizing for years, ant
these merchants owe it to them not to deser


them in the hoar Of adversty-and, we feel con
ident, that they will not.
Year: 1862

n desirable block in Yorxye private residences,
surrounded by good rovemens free from nuisances of
kind and combining che advantages Of city and country
House 22x2 with the modern lot 26Ae gar
den nicely laid OUT ground may be had for stable u
desired Inquire the premises, southeast corner oil
Eighty fourth and First avenue or Of j. r. SMITH,
No. l Pine street
Year: 1862

CARE THE NEGROES IN CHAIN-GANGs
AT PORT ROYAL ?"-The New York Her.
all asked the above question, and COM
ments upon it thus:


We observe it Ia stated in new York
journal, on "authority," that the negros at
Port Royal are chained together in gangs,
in order to compel them to work, as their
minds were so prevented by the false teach
ings of fanatical missionaries that they
thought they would have to work no more,
and that in future the white men would
work for them, aud spoon-feed them be-
sides. This only proves what we have
often said-that the negroes will only
work on compulsion. If the legal own
ers of these lazy blacks had chained them
in the manner described, there would be a
loud outcry against their inhumanity. We
do not believe there are any examples Of
the kind-au evidence that the Southern
planter knows better how to manage the
negro, and can make him work with less
cruelty, than Northern men, who do not
understand his natnre, and are less kindly
to him. If the statement be true, nothing
can more clearly demonstrate the impossi.
bility of giving freedom to the negroes of
the South without such coercive laws as
will force them to work. The negroes
idea of freedom and of Paradise is to have
nothing to do.
Year: 1862

An apprehension pervades the public
that Confederate Treasury notes will be
valueless If the Yankees occupy Richmond.
This is only true to certain extent. They
will, undoubtedly, be less current than
heretofore, but % long as there is hope
of the Confederate Government, and so
long as allegiance to that Government ex-
lists in the hearts of the people, the notes
of the Confederacy will be good, and their
circulation can only be prevented by Fed
eral bayonets. These notes will, in many
instances afford the test of fidelity to The
cause, and whateverEmay be the professions
of man, his refusal to receive them at
par will subject him to the imputation Of
disloyalty, if not to rough treatment, should
the community become uuduly excited
Let no man who attempts to discredit Con-
federate money cajole himself with the idea
that the Yankees will accomplish the sub
jugation of the South. Though the sky is
now dark, and the tine cannot be far dis.
tant when every invader will be driven
from our soil, and the sun of liberty again
shine resplendent in our political heaven.
Then Confederate money will command a
premium.-Richmossd Wing.
Year: 1862

FRU1r.-Mr. Editor: I desire that you
will call upon the true and patriotic wo-
men of the State, to make the fruit crop Of
the season most available and beneficial to
the soldiers and people, by cutting and
drying the fruit. Well dried and put in
bags, it will become source Of ready rev.
enue to those who undertake it, and fur.
nish good supply Of nutritive, agreeable
and healthful food. This will be more
profitable and certainly much better than
to abuse the benefcence of kind Provi!
dence by converting it into BRANDY.


n GCarolinian. -,-- - -
Year: 1862

The New York Herald has the following
dispatch from Louisville, KY. This whole
sale destruction of cotton cannot be very
pleasant news to the Yankees:


Two thoroughly reliable gentlemen, Ken
tuckians, who have just arrived from Or
leans, report that all along the Mississippi,
from Memphis to New Orleans, there is
one general bonfire of property, particular
ly of cotton, of which 1900 bales were
burned in New Orleans.


At Memphis, the sugar and molasses in
large quantities is on the bluff ready to be
rolled into the river, and all the stock of
cotton is ready to be fired on the approach
of the Union fleet.


The people of the river towns are retreat
ing inward and destroying property along
the Southern tributaries of the Mississippi,
the planters in many cases applying the
torch TO their own cotton.


The rebel government has also boats run
ming up the river destroying the cotton
Among the great number only one planter
was found who objected to the burning OF
his cotton.
Year: 1862

THE FATE OF Observation-Disclosures
TED AT LAsr.-We get the following sig.
nifcaut article from the St. Mary's (Mary.
land) Beacon, the leading journal of lower
Maryland:


Whatever difference of honest opinion
may have existed in Maryland in reference
to the sincerity of the appreheusions which
the Southern States expressed and acted
upon for the safety of their property when
they found the Government passing into
the hands of a sectional party, no one can
doubt that these apprehensions were we'll
grounded, and that South Carolina, with
all her imperfections, was veritable proph-
ct. The abolition Of slavery in the District
of Columbia, the notification of the fugi-
tive slave law by Congress, and the cman.
cipation designs of Mr.. Lincoln upon the
border slave States, are the solemn witnes.
ses which she carries before the bar Of
history to justify her fiery onset upon Sum-
ter. We of Maryland have been enligh-
tened little too late, but at last we have
been enlightened. We have discovered at


last that the war is waged, not mainly for
the restoration of the Union and the honor
of the old flag, but chiefly for the abolition
of slavery Intoxicated for the moment by
the soul stirring cry of "war for the Union," !"
we have assisted to rob the people of the
District of Columbia, and to render value
less our own slave interests.


The scales have at last fallen from our
eyes, and we see now no longer through a
glass, darkly. We have been brought to
realize that "our patriot President" is some-
thing worse than promise breaker, and
that the cry for the Union is a miserable
cheat. We may not now avoid the ruin
which is upon ourselves, but it still remains
in our power to withdraw our sanction from
war which, it is now manifest, is waged
against the Confederate States from vim
dictive motives, and mainly for the e2tir.
patton of slavery wherever it exists. That
the voice of Maryland may be rendered as
effective as possible against the further
prosecution of such war, and against all
emancipation schemes, whether they come
from Lincoln or his allies in this State, we
advocate the ignoring of all past issues and
the formation of a party sufficiently COM
prehensive and broad bottomed to embrace
the whole anti-abolition sentiment of our
State.
Year: 1862

Nimos.-Mr Z. l.. Davenport takes his benefit at this
establishment on Friday evening. lie will appear in
three Of his popular characters and will be assisted
by his eldest daughter, who will appear before New
York audience for the nrst time this occasion.
Year: 1862

MAKING THE MosT OF IT.-At a certain
rcndzvous for one of the new regiments
in neighboring State. young man who
had one leg about four inches shorter
than the other, succeeded in stuffing his
boot in passing the examining physician.


After few weeks service he asked for
a discharge. lie was sent to the surgeon
for certificate, and this time there being
no surplus leather in his boots, he limp
ed terribly. "How did you pass :" ask,
ed the surgeon. The young fellow told
him. "You got your bounty 2" "a es'
"And why did YOU impose yourself up
on the service ?" "Oh, knew the mon
ey was going aud l thought would get
my share of it." no.


The comment of the doctor was that
this is a very pcy triotic war
Year: 1862

would not recall single LAY, for the love
that made my manhood SO bright, shines
also upon me in my white hairs An
old man Can this be so7 At heart /
am as young as ever. And Mary. with
her bright hair parted smoothly from her
brow that has slight furrow in it. is still
the Mary Of my earlier days. To me she
can never grow old or change. The heart
that held her in infancy} and sheltered
her piously in the flush and beauty Of
womanhood. can never cast her out till
Lille shall cease to warm IL. Nor even
then, for love still lives in Heaven.
Year: 1862

The crowd rushed 10 the scene uf thu


new attraction.


The door was fast. 1t was soon burst
open and the mystery explained. The thief
who had carried OF the captains vallss
by mistake for his own, had taken it up Ia
his room and opened il TO gloat over tha
booty be supposed it to contain, thtustint
his hand in after the spoons. In SO doing
he had touched one of the hair triggers, and
the pistol had gone off, the bullet making a
round hole through the side of the yallss,
and a corresponding round hols in the calf
of his leg.


The wounded rascal was taken in chafgs,
first by the policeman, and then by ths
doctor, and the drelllsis and the welded
pair struck up friendship on the score Of
their mutual fnlshaps, which eliminated in
a supper, where the fun was abundant, and
where it would be hard to say which were
in the best spirits,--the captain for recover
ing his pistols, the bride iur getting her
night cap, the bridegroom for escaping the
station house, or the duellists for escaping
each other. ALI resolved to :" mark that
day with white stone," and henceforth to
mark their names on their black travelling
bags, in white letters.