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Year: 1862

WANT OF FoREsIGuT.-The strange infatuation
which led the authorities at Richmond to neglect
the complete fortfcation of Roanoke Island, and to
make such poor provision for the defence Of Ten
nessee river in Kentucky, are unaccountaole. Two
more important points can hardly be found in the
Confederacy unprotected. The cost of fortifying
them would have been inconsidera5le. To drive
the Yankees either froE, Albenlarle Sound or Ten
nessee river now, would cost the lives of 10000
men and millions of treasure. We fear that the
damage cannot be repaired. What have our North
Carolina delegates in the Confederate Congress been
DOING that they did not move the President to Sc
cure Roanoke Island? Mr.. Smith of the first dis
trict must have known the danger. Have they no
influence at Richmond? Ifso they had better leave
while they have homes to defend otherwise . con-
tinuance of such q course there, will soon leave
them without homes


The Albemarle planters would freely have borne
/, the expense Of its defence themselves. At any
time, if the government had sent suitable engineer
there and sufficient troops, they would have sent
1000 negroes to erect the Notifications and stop up
the channels The Confederate War Tax alone
that those twelve Counties would have paid, would
have made the Island defensible. Now, what can
the government hope to obtain from them?
Year: 1862

-ESLsrxENr-Our volunteer troops, many Of
them, are willing to re-enlist but they prefer in
many cases reorganization Of their companies
and regiments. From the inquiries made, We infer
that they are jealous of their rights to elect new Of
6cers under reorganization, if they prefer it.
This right the late military law of Congress secures
to them. We find the following exposition Of the
law given in an exchange which will relieve their
anxiety:


"Where the members of any company re-enlist,
10 the number of sixty FOUR or more, they have the
right to elect such officers they please and to
make new company organization. 1t had been
popularity supposed, that, If the old officers were
not reelected tn ey lost their commissions in the
Confederate service; but under recent ruling o.
the Secretary of War; it is decided that they will no.
lose their commissions or rank, but may be detailed
to other service by the President"
Year: 1862

WILL % PssTrv G0oD RsCoRD.-If. as
now seems most probable. the war Of rebel
lion shall be closed in the complete triumph
of the Union arms. and . Pacific Railroad
Railroad fairly in process Of conatraction under
National direction. within the space Of two
wears from the date Of the Inauguration Of
President Lincoln, 1t may then be properly
claimed that mo Administration has accom-
plishcd one tithe Of AZ much. in progressive.
practical and moral effect for the country A.
the one IN power
Year: 1862

DEATH OF FITZ-JAMEs O'BRlEN, THE
POET-Anothcr scholar and hero, one who
fought side by side with Lander, and received
his death wound in the same battle in which
his commander was struck down, has just
been laid in his last resting place. Ftz-
James O'Brien was n young Irish gentleman
who had attained an enviable reputation in
the literary world. as writer of poetry and
prose, both in the daily press and several of
our most prominent magazines. He was at
one time attached to the editorial staff Of the
New York Times. When the war broke out
he attended the 7th regiment as a volunteer,
on it's three months service at Washington,
and subsequently received Lieutenant's
commission in tho regular army. AT the
time he received the wound which terminated
in his death, he was attached to Gen. Lam
der's staff The story Of his brilliant skir-
mish on the upper Potomac. where he met
the rebel leader hand to hand. and killed him
on the spot, receiving at the same time his
. own death wound, has already been told.
His wound was at first thought to be slight
one. but subsequently it was found necessary
to amputate his arm, when lockjaw s"per-
vened and soon terminated his lifc The last
production OF Lieutenant O'l,ricn's pen was
the graceful verses entitled "The Picket
Guard" which you will find floating through
the columns Of the newspapers, without the
authors name. Ilc was buried at Green.
wood, detachment Of the 7th Regiment do
ing the escort l,onors, and large number Of
literary men accompanying his rc'nains to the
tomb.
Year: 1862

Young ladies', we would have you
scorn to marry men, who, without inn
perative cause, stay at home in this
war. Better remain single than risk
becoming the mothers OF a race Of
towards.
Year: 1862

CoTroN IN UNION CoUNTY, lit
We are informed by one IF the pro,'sio.
tors OF the new cotton gin below town.
that seven thousand pounds of good
cotton have been brought in TO BE
ginned by the farmers Of the neighbor-
hood, although the machine has but Just
got into operation. The seeds are
closely saved and eagerly sought for by
the people and larger breadth of land
in this county will be devoted to the
culture Of cotton the coming year thar
ever before. We learn that five hun
drel pounds Of good cotton may be OBJ
tanned per acre in this section. At pre-
sent prices, $50 to 40 cents per pound, J
and which are not likely to be any lower
while the Southern ports are blockaled,
nothing would be SO profitable to our
farmers, even ifthe crop did not average
over half that quantity. y.-Jones6orough
Gazette.
Year: 1862

EEiGEaTioN TO lowA-A GRAND
SCHEME on THE TApIs.-Our readers
will remember that few weeks since,
we called attention to the fact tha: the
American Emigration Company had
sent an agent to Iowa for the purpose of
examining the several Land Grants
made to the State. We are happy to
learn through Z. G. y. Mckay, Esq.
their Iowa agent, who is now in the
east, that the Company are about to
submit proposition to one Of the prin-
cipal railroad companies for purchase
of their entire Land Grant, paying a
large amount down, and agreeing in the
purchase to sell the lands only to actual
settlers, in quantities not to exceed one
section, and bind each settlerto improve
a certain amount yearly, and put out
five acres of trees the first year. If this
transaction is made, the Railroad Com
pany will get large amount of ready
money to push on their road. The
Emigrant Company buy the lands at a
low figure, but the State secures the
greater benefit.


We have often expressed our surprise
that our State should have SO long neg
lected to offer inducements to some of
those Emigrant Companies which other
States around us have so literally be-
slowed, and which in return have re-
ceised that increase Of population to
which we were SO justly entitled. The
able repolt of ex-Lieut. Gov. Rush
who has been in New York for the past
two years, and who probably, from his
opportunities, is better acquainted with
the history and laws Of emigration than
any man in the State--dwells at some
length upon this branch Of the subject.
-Des Homes Register.
Year: 1862

A ACoMrARrsoN.-Apleasant, cheerful
wife is 4 rainbow set in the sky, when
her husbands mind is tossed with storm
and tempests; but a dissatisfied and
fretful wife. in the hour of trouble is
like one of those fiends who delight to
torture lost spirits.
Year: 1862

A man speaking Of . place out West,
says it is . perfect paradise, and that
though most al the people have the
fever and ague, yet it Is great blessing
for it 10 the only exercise they take.
Year: 1862

sir, il you can make an estimate OF oil
tho wolul columilies that nTc to-day toli-
ing upon tho nation brought on by Just
such mon as those referred to in the for
mcl part of this article. Then sic you
may estimate what the fearful rctdhuuon
must bo thar will fall upon their guilty
heads, We do not wish to oslin harsh
or unbecoming language, nor will we il
the subject will admit Of mldcr terms,
But the subject in hand is so intensely
wicked onl so Gar beyond any crime
known This side The haunts Of perdjtiOn
that mild terms fail to do it justice.


W. W, II,
Year: 1862

After Heightened period Of depression is cheering
TO find that there rally the estimated stock OF
cotton hand at Liverpool which also confidently
affirmed is nndestated. The movement oil the stock in
the second half Of the year has been as follows as com
pared with the corresponding period Of 1861 and 1860
Year: 1862

Ws deem ourselves to be only discharging
patriotic duty when we call the attention oI
the General-in-C Chief to the subjoined inquiry
by the Correspondent of New York weekly
Journal Like Bartimeus," we have often
wondered why the Government should deny
itself the employment of the highest military
talent al its command. This inquiry is speei-
ally appropriate to the present time, when
the new war policy" seems to call for Gen.
erals who undoubtedly have their hearts in it.
or who at least will have their hearts in il
after 1st of january next.


"There is one thing Mr.. Editor, in the
management of this war, which is so out o.
the reach OF my comprehension, that must
ask somebody to explain it to me. Conquer
ing Generals are needed-Generals who will
never miss of being in the right place at the
right time, and that to bag, the biggest oil
the rebel armies. The inexplicable thing
with me is that the Government has not, long
before this time, called General Goodwin, oi
the Evening IOSJ. OtLeIM OlGSiyI "a tuS
Tribune, General Raymond, of the Times and
General Beecher, of the Independent, into
the field. The military knowledge of these
men, Judging from their journals, must be
stupendous. Every one of them, I think,
demonstrated many days ago, that the army
of Lee and jackson could be 'bagged in
Maryland as easy as any farmer would bag a
few bushels of oats And now that it hasn't
been done, there is hardly one of them that
can speak respectfully of what has been
achieved, notwithstanding Mcclellan and his
heroic army have done the magnificent job
of arresting and driving the hosts of impud-
ent invaders. Why don't the Government
turn to some practical account the skill and
proves Of the fine Generals whose name
have given to you? VIII some wise one
help me to see, the reason who =?


BARTIMEUs.


Among the foregoing Generals we give
our preference to General Greeley, of the
Year: 1862

The following paragraph from the Cinoin-
natl Timesi which strongly supported the Re-
publican State Ticket, is in very good place (:


The CAUSE OF TIE DlsAsrER.--The apologistS
of the Administration are hard put to it to
explain the results of the October election.
Their favorite plea is, that the army is prin-
cipally made up of Republicans, the Demo
Gratis refusing to enlist, with the design Of
carrying the election. This is not only un-
true, but a mean, slanderous and very IN
manly statement; one which no one but a
weakbrained individual OF densgogue Of a
very low class would use.
Year: 1862

Apples are so plenty in Western New York
that they can be brought for Fifty cents a bar
rell Potatoes show no symptoms Of disease,
and the best ones are sold for dollar bar
rel, including package. One farmer has an
orchard of choice grated fruit, and offered the
whole of his crop of apples at twelve and 3
half cents per bushel, the purchaser to gather
the fruit ard select only such as he wanted
and could sell.
Year: 1862

How TO MAKE SMALL CHASOE--The peo-
pie of the city of Hudson, New York, have
hit upon a novel expedient to secure small
change currency without disobeying the law.
The banks Of that city permit persons who
make deposit with them to draw checks fOr
any sum less than dollar. These fractional
checks are now in universal use, and have
driven ont postage-stamps.
Year: 1862

NATURE is great believer in compensation.
Those to whom she sends wealth, she saddles
with lawsuits and dyspepsia. The poor new
er indulge in woodcock, but they have = stylS
Of appetite that converts number one mack
erel into a salmon, and that is quite as well.
Year: 1862

No NAN can safely go abroad that does not
love to stay at home; no man can safely speak
that does not willingly hold his tongue; no
man can safely govern that would not cheer
fully become s subject; no man can safely
command that has not truly learned to obey;
and no man can safely rejoice but he that has
the testimony Of good conscience.
Year: 1862

A JOLLY old doctor said that people who
were prompt in their payments always re-
covered in their sickness, as they were good
customers and the physician could not afford
10 loose them.
Year: 1862

A WONDERFUL INvENTIoN.-ln the Zollver-
ein Department of the international Exhibi-
ton has Just been placed wonderful piece Of
mechanism, only few days from Hanover.
All our readers know the difficulty ofawOken-
ing early in order to catch morning train
Here is a piece Of mechanism which viii not
only ring a gentle alarum to rouse light sleep
ers. but it viii at the same time strike light
for lamp and another to boil cup Of coffee.
If the first alarum be not enough, louder
one will follow sufficiently sonorous to awaken
the dead. II even this should prove insuffc-
lent, the mechanism viii, after a short inter
val, pull OF the night cap, If the sleeper wears
one; and in the almost impossible case Of a
continued slumber after all this, the machine,
as if disgusted at such lazinesV, win tilt the
sleeper out on the floor. In fact, the nechan-
ism does every thing almost but shout the
hour in the sleeper's ear. An extraordinary
amount Of ingenuity has been expended upon
this combination of clockwork, and springs,
and luciferE, and levers.
Year: 1862




NOTICE TO TAxPAYERs.-oFFICE OF THE CON-
~ Of Taxes and Assessments No. 81 Chambers
street. New York. January 49, 1852 Notice hereby
that the rolls Of real and personal estate of the
city of New York for the year 1852 for public
inspection will continue open until the goth day Of April
next inclusive All taxpayers earnestly TO call
and examine the in order that errors In the
may be corrected. Also, all persons entitled hy
reduction of their by of being
clergymen for military servces and also literary
cl aabe institutions law exempt from TAXATION are
quested make application for such reduction exemp
ton previous the closing of the rolls said 30h day OF
April


The following section of the Of April Is 1882 pub
lished for the information of taxpayers-


TO- During the time the books shall be open TO
public nspecou hereinbefore provided application may
be made by considering himself agfeved by the
II such application be made in relation
the assessed valuation OF real estate II must be made In
writing stating the ground of objection thereto aud there
upon the Commissioners shall examine into the complaint,
and IT, In their judgment the assessment erroneous they
shall the TO be corrected If such application be
applicant shall be examined oath b. the said Com
who shall be authorized administer such oath,
any Of them and II, In his their judgment, the as
erroneous they shall the to be
reced fix the amount Of such assessment they
believe just and declare their decision thereon within
No reduction shall be made by the Board Of Super
real personal imposed
under this unless shall appear under oath ahlrma
on that the party aggreved Unable to attend within
the prescribed Tor the correction Of taxes by reason
Of sickness absence from the cy-Laws Of 1889 Chapter
o02 Sections and 10.


A. s. WILLIAMSON,


j. w ALLEN,


j. W. BROWN,


Commissioners OF Taxes and Assessments.
Year: 1862

TREASURY EXTENSION, Nov. Is, 1862
Il ROPOSALLS Will be received at the bureau of
Construction, Treasury Depa' tment. until Decem.
hes 1t. 1852 at IL m. for furnishing and lawn z
Marble Tile for the Halls and Corridors of the west
section Of the Treasury Elk tension.


Sa q Tile lis TO ba Of the host quality Of Italian
white vein ma :ble and the best quality Of clear
black mar bic of equal hardness the Italian and
in such proportions Of esch may be reqrired to
be not les than one inch thick on the ed ge. all
sawed and worked square. Al! well laid in come nt
or Plaster, shall be most satisfactory and with
border of Ehte marble, not less than one foot
may be from Y l6 inches square of size in
each story. The amount required will bs about
GO superficial feet when laid


Samples to be furnished by each bidder, showing
The quality he proposes to furnish and pro posals
state price per superficial foot when laid also to
name nr;-t per square foot separate for the black
and white marble tile; the quantity of each kind
and form, Of laying them to be decided hereafter
The wors OF ing the tile to be done from time to
time as the halls are ms lie ready to receive it,


The Bureau will reserve the right 10 reject any
or all the bids If in its opinion it be not for the in
terest OF the Government to sccept them.


ISAIAH ROC ERS,


Engineer in charge Treasury Depsr tInent.
no Niot Rep Int
Year: 1862

From Or. Theodore Bell, Of NtiO Fork city.


Not only are your Pills admirably adapted to their pur
tho Liver very marked indeed They have in my prac
tlce proved eiectual for tho of bilious cont
pairts than any remedy mention. sincerely
rejoice that have at length purgatiye which is wor-
thy the confidence Of tho profession and the people.
Year: 1862

This is very bad farming. We appeal tc
the most inveterate protectionist, the mos:
distressed farmer that ever lived. the sturdi-
rst stickler for plowing as our fathers plowed
and sowing as our fathers sowed. whether II
would not be the very worst possible style o.
farming for young farmer 10 SOW wild oats
all over his estate-to plart weeds and this
ties in every field. Would it not be found
that the wild oats would destroy the crops OF
grain; that the weeds and thistles would over
power the grass, until the whole presented a
wild and melancholy ruin. which long years and
I large capital could scarcely bring again into
profitable state? As in the physical, so IN
the moral world the seeds Of vice once sown
are difficult 20 eradicate, and the wilful cult
walton Of these in the human heart win pro-
duco astilI wider ruin than the worst weeds
which ever mocked the hopes Of the husband
man.


An old French writer has said that Dis
gust stands at the door Of all bad places p
II may be so; but it is 10 be feared that We
too often Put her behind the door as we co.
ter, and il is only when we would come out
that we meet her face TO face. We cover up
her form with all kinds OF disguises; we en-
deavor 10 cheat ourselves with the thought
that re are only having bit Of spree
that we are in for larkl or at any rate. that
We must SOW some of our wild oats" We
are couddent in ourselves, have great reliance
on our own correct principles and right inten-
tions, and dclude ourselves into the belief that
we are only gaining little knowledge Of the
world, and showing ourselves to be youths oI
spirit. And most miserable delusion this
ii-fostercd and encouraged by the wretched
fallacy we are Illustrating and by the preni-
cious habits of glossing over vile things with
eulogistic names. We began, perhaps, by
sowing our seed with d careful hand, scatter
ing u few here aud few there, with long in-
tervals between themi we are not alarmed by
any very great expediture of seed; we hardly
fancy that the correct principles on which we
rely are disturbed or shocked by these slight
tleviations from the strict rule Of right; we
still keep in the common routine OF oar duties
while we impreceplibly being led into temp
tations that by degrees cause Us to scatter the
seed more thickly, and with fewer interva Is
between them. And we go on sowing the
wild oats" until the days OF our youth are
passed, aud when miserable aud premature
old age draws on, we fad that the tiIIage is
not contpele il is only when irfirmilies have
rendered it impossible to pursue our former
course, that the seed-time is over; and the har-
vest comes upon US al once in the shape Of
pains and penalties grievous TO bear. We
forsake not the sowing until the power 10 SOW
j. departed We forsIke not the sin until the
stu forsakc u.
Year: 1862

The women ofour land have distanced all
their sisters on the earth for general steady
devotion to the material needs of the soldier.


We may challenge any people to show such
perfect devotion manifested in such way.
When the history of this war is written, the
Sanitary Commission will take a large place
in it, and the Sanitary Commission will have
to write, 1--WE should have been able to do
very little for the comfort of our men. haC. il
not been for the untreing devotion of our
women, and their generous boundless gifts Of
what was most nodded" OF the part faken
by women in that which pales all gifts Of food
and garments, cannot at this time adequate
lv.tell. Mothers gave their sons, wives the'r
husbands, and then sat down to their daily
| life. That is a portrait of young mau' the
only son of his mother, and she was a widow, -
friend sa' d 10 me one day opening her album;
"they are rich family; lie was educated III
the best schools. and hal just come back from
a tour in Eurore when the war began; he
went into the army at once, and wrs killed
! Balls Bluff"


\ lady, now the widow Of one from our
own State who fell at l'ittsburg went up 10
the field on one Of the first beats, and when
she arrived found her husband dead. The
novelist, who processes TO give us life as ii
ought to be- will say. Then she sat down by
his bleeding corpse all night long and wept.''
The angel who writes down in the book kept
in the archives of heaven life as it is. has writ
ten out in fair golden characters:-Th vile
of Gen. Wallace, of Ottowa, went to Pitts
burg TO find her husband who was represen-
/ Oh,


looked on The face of her dead, and wept for
a little season. But she saw all around him
Oh the boat the men who had fought and fall
en- with him there yet alive, in pain and thirst
with none TO help them. So she turned away
from her dead, sent back her tears into her
heart, and turned to the living, and all night
she went from man to man with water and
words of comfort. and the holy succor that
must come out of such an Inspiration in such
a place.-Sermon BY ReU. Robert Collyer.