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Year: 1862

A letter from Washington to the Co.
lumbus Soldiers Aid Society relates
the following:


Among the numberess things your
Society have sent, you are aware are
puds-small pillows, they have been
given out when needed; quite recently
one was given, among many other ar
ticles, to a young mau from one Of the
towns northwest from Columbus; his
father, who had come on to nurse him,
in adjusting the pad under his sons am
putated limb, saw the name Of his
daughter inscribed, which discovered to
him the fact that it had been made by
the boys sister, and that she had writ
ten her name upon it, The father told
me with tears in his eyes, that he and
his son had never been more affected by
an incident in their lives 1t appears
that the pad had been contributed to
the Aid Society ofthe young lady's town,
and by tho said Society sent to the Ohio
} Relief Association.


On Of the recent cool nights a patient
in the Patent Office Hospital complain
ed of feeling cold, the attendant know


ing that the New York Relief Associa


ton had a depository in the basement
; of the building, went down and took Q
comforter from a parcel returned and
placed it over the sick man; the wound
cd sufferer turned over one end, where


he found the name Of his wife written
in her own hand as the maker. You
may possibly imagine the poor mans
sensations. The comforter had beer
contributed to the Aid Society of the
soldiers town, and from thence it haC


reached Washington, with hundreds o.
others of like kind, and among the


thousands of sick and wounded in thi;


vicinity had fallen to the lot of the hus


band of the very woman who had con


tributed it TO the common stock of sani
tary stores How truly such casei
evince the truth of the text-"Cas
your bread upon the Waters," sc. ..
Year: 1862

What a Woman can Do.


The Washington correspondent of the
Independent, gives the following &C.
count of great reform accomplished in
one Of the hospitals for soldiers in
Washington by New England woman.
Her name should be given to the public,
that due honor may be rendered to the
real reformer:


can interesting case has come to my
knowledge within day or two, where a
New England woman, alone and friend .
less, achieved a great reform in our hos.
pitals The surgeon having care of this
part cular hospital was a brute, treating
the men in his charge, the visitors, and
in deed the surgeons under him with
contemptuous cruelty. Having politi
cal influence, it was not an easy matter
to remove him, though there were hun.
dred acts Of his, any one of which would
or should be considered u sufficient t
cause for lis instant dismissal from the
service. But every one beneath him
was afraid to take the first step, for fear
the brutal man would turn upon the
person beginning the complaint and
with his superior position and influence
crush the complainant.


'Onc day New England woman
came to the hospital to see her sick son.
Size soon met the chief surgeon, and
was treated with coarse violence, lfhe
could have his own way, he said, he
would not permit woman to come
near the hospital. It was in vain that
she urged that she had not seen her
boy for long months, and that he was
now very i'll and perhaps dying. The
monster continued to revile her, but
dared not refuse her admittance to sec
her son. She soon found the surgeo n
in immediate attendance upon her boy
and told him Of the treatment she had
received from the chief surgeon. Ht
replied that he was not at all surprised
the chief surgeon treated every body
brutally. why then do you submit t.
such cruel outroge?' was the spirited
woman's question. Il suppose we mr.
all of us afraid to make any complain
against him I was the reply. The wo
man found her son incurably i'll and
the proper subject of a discharge. TIL,
assistant surgeon so Informed her.


She then sought the Chief Surgeon
! and asked him to make a report to tn
Surgeon General upon the condition o
{ her son. Hc refused with a dreadful
J oath. The New England grit In tn
i woman's heart took FIRE. You stan
+. there said she, 'and jeer at my sorrow
You use language towards me that


beast would be ashamed Of But lie
me tell you that, poor and fricndless a
am, l am moro powerful than you
!. and 1 will not leave Washington until
: have exposed your brutalityl' Sh


was as good as her word. She went I
Secretary Stanton. lie referred her I
the Surgeon General, with a reque'
that he would look carefully into tn
case, and if the facts warranted her al


sertiOns, that he would metO out rigr


usticc to the hospital surgeon, Th
first oct Of the Surgeon General was
order the surgeon IN charge to make
report upon the case Of the woman


son. HH"
Year: 1862

pD-we are glad to welcome onr avorte contributor,
Sallio," her Temperance in the youths Depart
mcnt and know that she will be as heartily welcomed
back by our hundreds Of young readers, for whose
amusement and instruction she has so often written
On their behalf as well thank her for her
efforts render the NgwsN interesting and agree
able visitor to the many homes in which il is taken
Year: 1862

The Richmond Dispatch says that the whole
nation should be divided into the army, and into
those who feed and clothe the army, ana furnish
it with weapons and ammunition. In this way,
everybody will help the common cause. 1t can
not be expected that all should fight, but the
least that those who do not fight can do, is to
provide for and make efficient those who are in
arms. The man who thinks OF himself at this
time is public enemy. The man who Is using
the present troubles to fill his purse deserves as
much to be put under arrest as any one now in
prison. The men and women who will neither
fight nor deny themselves, are traitors to their
country. Maintained in spirit of patriotic Ia
bor and generous self>sacrifce, the Southern
cause must triumph. Thus, and thus only, Can
we gain our independence, our freedom from
Yankee domination, our right to manage our at
fairs in our own way, and all the numberless
blessings which follow in lis train. For these
great benedictons of benign Providence we
ought to be willing to make any sscrifces.-
Without them, we must be a subjugated, degra.
ded, ruined people. Once triumphant, we cal
turn our attention to our own little ersona
matters, with the gratifying assurance that 6
people who have first secured the safety of theil
country, merit the blessings of individual happi
ness and prosperity.
Year: 1862

PLANT CoEN.-Every planter owes to his
neigh, ors and to his county to plant all the
corn he can, and to make as little cotton and
tobacco as possible. The soldiers Must have
meat and bread, and their families at home must
be provided for. Plant corn! it is the staff of
life. A good corn crop this year will do more
for the Sonth than any thing else.
Year: 1862

A NY one wishing to engage as substitute for the
IA war at good price Can be accommodated BY
calling upon the Editor of the Spectator who has
been authorized and requested to engage one Call
upon him soon. &C


cL
Year: 1862

HOT tHC spectator.


Mr.. EDITOR ALLOW me, through your col
umns, to give my humble opinion in regard to
the injury done our cause by two classes of men
that we find among us One of these classes is
composed OF men whom we meet almost every
day, with long faces and a strange prophetic air,
ever ready to speak disparagingly of our officers
and men and the success of our cause. If such
men are true patriots and lovers of their country
why will they do or say anything that would dis
courage the brave men that stand on our borders,
ready to drive back the enemies Of our dearest
rights and libertiess These men say we may as
wsll give up the contest, for Virginia will be
overrun. If Generals Johnson, Beaureg ,rd, Of
Jackson had on the morning of the fight at Ma
nassas passed through the ranks and said, ssMcn
OF the South, the enemy is upon US and we must
fight, but they have double our number and
fear they will overpower u.s." if such had been
the case, the laurel wreath of victory would have
decked the brows of our enemies, and our land
would have neen laid waste by the despoler.


And another class that does untold injury to
our cause are spectators. I very much doubt
the patriotism Of the man that would speculate
of the families of poor men that are in the ar
my, exposing their health, their lives and their
all to defend tho life and protect the property of
the very individual that is extorting the means
of support from their wives and little ones at
home.


We would call upon these men that are enrich
ing themselves by the misfortunes of their cOun-
try and at the expense Of their -citizens to
pause and reflect before they GO farther. Is it
possible that our beloved State, the mother of
so many great men, there


''Breathes man with soul so dead


Who never to himself hath sad


"This is my own. my native land!'


or, has the love Of gold so blinded his eyes that
he has lost sight of those ennobling virtues that
make nation preat?


Then, we would say to those that hold out the
idea that we will be overrun, to be silent; and
to the spectators, stay your hand, for we have
hundreds and thousands of brave men in the
field EARNED WITH THE HOLY CAUSE OF LIBERTY -
and hundred and thousands more to rush to the
standard when needed. In these and in the Con
of battles will We put our trust, and we SHALL
conquer j. L.
Year: 1862

LOST GIRL.-i esterday young girl
answering TO the name Of Mary Jane Hall LETT
her home or Warren street, between h AMI
9th, since which time che has Lot been heard
FROM She had on when she let Q hat trim
med with velvet, black vel, plaid silk dress
and check shawl. Wears her hair cut short
has q broad face, black hair and eyes 1t ls
feared she has fallen into the hands Of some
person VINO seeks her ruin. Any informal on
Of her whereabouts left at the DkMocRAT AND
News office will be thankfully received by her
sorrowing parents.
Year: 1862

CLOSED IN.-The German Theatre
building is now entirely closedinso that the bad
weather now on hand is no matera obstruc.
that it will bs opened In three weeks The
association is negotiating for the services OF
one OF the most talented German actresses OF
the times to cater 10 the public this coming
winter
Year: 1862

HONE AGAIN.-Mr. Greene returned
Yesterday morning from Missouri, where he
bes been seleciing large stock Of Winter Ap.
plea for THE market. Now is your time to
get q nice article cheap.
Year: 1862

POsr-OFFCE RErOEr-The Report of
PostmaSterGeneral Blair is one of the few
papers from the Departments that will give
universal satisfaction. 1t tells of increased
mail accommodations, Of rigid economy in
administration, and reduction Of over two
millions OF dollars in the expense ofthe De-
partmrnt to the National Treasury. Not
for twenty years has the PoSt-office Depart
ment promised so fairly to become seIt-sup-
porting. A continuance of the policy
Of the present chief may yet give us that
very desirable result


The POst-ofiice Department is one of the
least SNOWY, least ambitious branches of our
Government. 1t abounds in hard work and
in minute and endless details. Yet it is one
of the most necessary agencies Of govern
ment, society and civilization. If it paused
for day it would throw the country into
confusion. 1t seems to be the sphere for a
modest. practical, able man. No politician
has ever made capital or tried to make capi-
tai by an administration of the Post-office
Department. But Judge Blair has not the
less earnestly worked in the interest OF
q perfect postal system on this account
The country owes some recognition of such
services
Year: 1862

Whether the recommendations of the
President touching compensated emanci-
pation," ought to be adopted or not, is a
question open to doubt They are so wide
in their range, and so complex in their con-
sequences, that nobody but a sciolist or a
dogmatist will decide upon them off-hand.
But this one thing we say unhesitatinply ::
the President is to be commended for his
Idrgeness Of rle,c. He rises entirely above the
little makeshifts Of the day, which so easily
satisfy the mousing politician and, like the
statesman, seeks broad policy, which shall
embrace and protect the future as well as
thepreseht. His specific plan may be wise,
or it may be unwise but no thoughtful
man will deny that it originated in Just
appreciation of the mighty bearing Of the
subject upon the future peace and welfare oi
the country.


If our Republic is to be perpetuated, thi:
negro question has got to be seriously and
earnestly met. Two great facts impose this
necessity.


The f1stis that our slave population double.
every thirty years Were the old order
of things to continue, there are those now
living who would see not less than Mirt,
millions of slaves within this nation-a mum
Der equal to the entire white and black pop
ulation at the present time. No rationa
man can. believe that our free institutions
could carry such a weight A convulsior
of some sort would inevitably ensue 1t il
lnfstqatiop TO ebst our eyes and fold ogI
y 4 i Il +
Year: 1862

lands al property 1t is these that give power and
influence. Few men have the commanding genius
aid talent to exercise dangerous influence over their
fellow man without the adventitious aid Of money
and property. by striking down this system of
compulsory labor, which enables the leaders of tho
rebellion to control the of the people, the
rebellion would die of itself.


Another point of attack is by armed settlements
upon the vacant Governmcnt lands in Florida and
Texas. Thousands in the Northern and Western
States nrc inn acntiy waiting the signal of military
movements, to plant their homes in the best territory


# this continent, and bring it back to the Union as
loyal States So far from the Southern States being


nvIncible, no enemy was ever so vulnerable, if the
means at hand are employed against them.
Year: 1862

In Arkansas the Contcderates not only
burned all old cotton, but are now burning
the new All north of white river is to be
destroyed, and a force is now there attend
ing to it. One man who mad two hundred
and fifty bales was allowed to keep fifty.
Year: 1862

The very latest Paris fashions" state
that bonnets will still be worn high in the
front, but much less exaggerated The
principal ornaments being feathers for dress
bonnets, or simple trimming of ribbon or
loco
Year: 1862

RATHER DHtrY-A man III Wisconsin,
while in the river last week. discovered
after an industrious scrub" of his person
for about five minutes, pair of drawers he
had lost about two years before
Year: 1862

Wcare Intelligent beings, eudOSed with
minds capable Of forming ideas and gain
ing knowledge. 1t IS certainly necessary
that we should gain knowledge CT bust
ness but let US also learn to comprehend
the great cause Of our existence learn that
tbs not all of life to live and make money
or glory for our s,lves, but that we should
improve what God has given US, storing
up knowledge while here which win fit "a
to do good to our fellow men and which
will prepare Us TO enter joyfully uFOn un-
ending eternity.
Year: 1862

You are acoward if you fear to tell the
truth when you should do so.-You are q
coward when you insult the week. You
are coward, if afraid to 10 right; if YOU
shrink from defending your opinion for
maintaining that which you know to b.
just and true; and you arc especially .
coward if you know certain things Of
yourself and dare not own them to your-
self-HaiR FriS,rels.
Year: 1862

No person is now living in toe town Of
Belmont. No, where a battle was fought
some time since. the stencil from dead hor-
ses preventing people from living within
miles of the sown.
Year: 1862

Without the girdle of truth, you may fall
into error. Without the breastplate of right
eousness, you may fall into lethargy. With
out the shoes of the gospel of peace, you may
fall into dependency. Without the shield of
faith, you may fall into apostacy. Without
the helmet of salvation, you may fall into de-
spair. Without the sword of the spirit, you
may fall into cowardice. And without prayer
and watching, you may fall into any thing
however bad or dangerous.
Year: 1862

The bin passed on Wednesday obliges tha
" Union Pacific railroad company to organize
and choose officers within three months, and to
open subscription books. When two thousand
shares are subscribed and ten thousand dollars
paid N, the stockholders are TO organize; and
the present commissioners, Of whom q great
number are named, cease to have any power.


The company is to have alternate quarter sec
tions of land along the line Of the road, but alT
that is not sold Of this land in three years after
the road is finished is to be open to prescription,
at the rate Of 81 25 per acre. The government
also agrees to aid the road by its bonds to the
amount Of sixteen thousand dollars per mile, to
be used, however, only when section Of forty
miles is completed and equipped, and in running
order and afterward for other Ike sections.
These bonds are to be redeemed in thirty years.
but by the company, whose road is mortgaged
to the government to secure that At least Eve
per cent Of the net earnings Of the road to be
set apart to be applied to the payment Of the
bonds.


The company is to locate the road within two
years, and to complete it within twelve years, or
by the year 1S74.-EOrtherH Exchange.
Year: 1862

A NEGRO Spy CONDEMNED. I'VE publish to-
day the official report of the proceedings of q
court martial recently held in this military de-
partment, which win be apt to attract attention.
Il is the trial, conviction and sentence of a ne
gro man found making his way to the Federal
lines near Pensacola, who, mistal1ing our pick
els for the Federals, unwiltingly betrayed his
wicked and trsitorous purpose. He not only
proposed to give the enemy all the information
be could, (and what he told our pickets, misiak-
ing them for Federals, was both accurate and
important,) but even expressed his willingness
10 lead them to the attack upon US. The proof
was complete, and the hard but merited penalty
of death has been pronounced and approved,
and the 4th Of July is fixed upon for the execu-
ton of the spy. The case is a singular one-lor
our negroes as a class are remarkably faithful to
the cause of the South, which is hardly less
their own than their masters. But it is well f0I
all, whether white or black, who ara disposed to
set the spy for the benefit of the enemy. thai
swift and terrible retribution viii follow then
conviction of the treason, whether the enemy
resp beneiit from the treaehery or not Mobile
4 REGISTER
Year: 1862

n The ssporting Fraternity" Of this city
on Yesterday made a deposit in proper hands Of
S65S0, for the benefit Of the sick and wounded
soldiers. We learn this is but the balance Of q
fund gotten up for that purpose, the amount
already distributed having been about $l5,500
The example is worthy Of being followed by
that other, and. if anything, far less worthy,
though nominally more respectable class Of the
community, known as merchant extOrtioners.
No such good thing, however, is likely to hap
Den.-R Richmond Examiner.
Year: 1862

There has been recently published bulky
volume, which contains great mass of cor
respondence between our State Department
and our Representatives in foreign States
From the nature of part of its contents, d,
we should infer that some of the matter
ought to have been withheld from publica-
ton. This remark applies to the following
extract from a characteristic letter of Cas-
sius NJ, Clay, giving an account of his iu-
terview with the Emperor of Russia


He 1.-THE Emperor asked me what late ad-
vices had ; and when told him how many
of the border slave States were standing by
the Union, he expressed great satisfaction.
He wanted to know if thought England
would interfere. told him we did not care
what she did that her interference would
tend to unite us the more; that we fought
the South with reluctance; we were much
intermarried and of common history; but
that the course of England had aroused our
sensibilities toward her in no very pleasan;
manner. The Emperor seemed to like my
seeming defiance of "John Bull" very much
He wanted to know if was relation Of
Henry Clay, and that wore the uniform o;
an American Colonel which rank l had
! filled in my own country.
Year: 1862

From lady who has recently returned
with her husband from Richmond, have
had some accounts Of rebel atrocities that
have exceeded any thing have ever before
heard or been willing to believe. | have
been reluctant to think that these men,
whom before this war broke out l knew to
be gentlemen, could have their nature so
changed by the bad passions of rebellion as
to be worse than brutes. AS to the facts Of
this story there CON be no doubt-the lady
is incapable Of exaggeration. am not
permitted to give her name nor the whole
account as she shrinks from such unenvia-
BILE publicity but am permitted TO say that
she when went on to her husband onthe day
after Bull Run, bearing a flag of truce in
her hand, she was met with every insult by
officers whom she had known in society as
gentlemen. One actually boasted to her that
he had killed his wife's uncle and that un-
Gle had supported him until the war begun !
Another offered her oil sorts of tipsy in
suits. That night and the next morning she
was forced to eat at the officers mess, where
the food consisted of fried bacon, coarse corn
bread, and tea without milk or sugar, and
where she heard mocking accounts of
Yankee cowardice and immense boasting of
! Southern Yalor. These chivalrous men were
not even restrained from vulgar oaths by
the presence of refined and delicate lady in
| distress.


Finally, and not until morning had well
advanced, she was taken by guard Of SOL
diers to her husband, and to reach him she
had to cross the battlefield. Never to her
dying day can she forget that scene. There
| lay the dead, many of them with gaping
bayonet-wounds that proved how they had
| been struck when already disabled by some
slight injury, and of all our men, officers
and privates were stripped entirely naked
The bodies, swollen by the last nights rains
presented o sight most disgusting and re-
voting; and yet this lady was obliged tc
walk through this scene of desolation. The
rebel soldiers, ragged and dirty, were
clothed in the blood-stained uniforms they
had stolen from the reeking bodies.


1t is impossible for the pen to attempt t
portray the horrors she witnessed On the
way to Richmond she was insulted by per
petual insults, her head often rudely seizet
and her face turned up that some soldie
might look at the I'd Yankee woman


She says it is also true that the prisoner
were exhibited for ten cents sight. lie
sufferings in the tobacco factory at Rich
mond were too terrible to relate. The onl
food they had during these weary month
was a sort of porridge made of corn-mea
and q soup of corned beef, with the soul
meat, and herb tea. They never had pal
ticle of either milk, sugar or butter, and ye
there were wounded men there.
Year: 1862

The COniederAteS Desire an ADVANCE


The Confederates are quite as impatient
that our armies should advance upon them
at once as our own clamoring members of
Congress, Editors, and demagOgues, can be.
They know, that, if we choose to defer q
moment till spring, we could bear the post
ponement infinitely better than they could.
Every impatient cry of "0nward" that they
hear from our side of the line is music to
their fainting souls. The following para
graph is from the Richmond Dispatch;


The appearance of England in the field Of
strife would have decided influence in the
contest. The first effect of the imbroglio,
even if it should not result in war between
that country and the North, must precipi.
tate the latter in whatever action it may
have been preparing against the South dur.
ing the last few months of busy activity
An attack upon our armies in Kentucky anG
on the Potomac might otherwise have beer
postponed until the spring but the compli
cation with England must ct once determine
the Administration to strike blow withou
| delay.