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Year: 1862

ALL my lite long I had known Mary Moore


Our mothers were old playmates and first
cousins. Ny first recollection is Of young
gentleman in turkey red frock and morocco
shoes, rocking cradle, in which reposed a
smny-haired, blue-eyed baby, not quite a year
old. That young gentleman was I, myself
Harry Church that blue-eyed baby was Mary
Moore.


Later still, saw myself at the little red
school house, drawing my painted sled up to
the door, and arranging my overeoat upon it.
that Mary might. ride home. Many a black
eye have I gained on such occasions, for other
boys liked her besides me, and she, I am afraid
was something Of a firt, even in her pinaiore
How daintly she came tripping down the steps
when called her nanel How sweetly her
blue eyes looked up to me from the envious
folds Of her winter hood How gaily her
merry laugh rang out when by dint Of super
human exerti0n, I kept her sled before the
rest, and let her stand upon the steps exul-
tingly to see them all go by. The fairy laugh!
No one but Mary could let her heart lie up so
on her lipsl followed that laugh up from
my days Of childhood, till grew an awkward,
blushing youth: I followed it through the
heated noon Of manhood and now, when the
frosts Of age are silvering my hair, and many
children climb to my knee and call me faith
er, find that the memories Of youth are
strong, and that, grey hairs and all, I am fol-
lowing that music still.


When was fifteen, the first great sorrow
Of my life came upon me. I was sent away
TO a western school, and was obliged to part
with Mary. We were not to see each other
for three long yearsl This, to me, was ike a
sentence of for Mary was like life itself
to me. But hearts are very tough things after
al. left college in all the flush and vigor of
my nineteenth year. I was no longer awk-
ward and embarrassed. had grown into
tall, slender STRIPPING, with very good opin-
ion Of myself IN general and particular. If I
thought Of Mary Moore, it was to imagine
how I would dazzle and beWilder her with my
good looks and wonderful attainments, never
thinking that she might dazzle and bewilder
me stin more. I was a sad puppy, I know;
but as youth and good looks have fed, trust
I may be believed when say that self-eon-
ceit has left me also.


An advantageous proposal was made to me
at this time, and, accepting it. I gave up all
idea Of profession. and prepared to 60 to the
Indies. In my hurried visit home of two days,
I saw nothing Of Mary Moore She had gone
to boarding school in Massachusetts,, and
was not expected home tin the next fall I
gave one sigh to the memory of my little blue
eyed playmate, and then called myself man
again.


In year." thought, as the stage whHl-
ca away nom our door, In a year, or three
years at the most, I will return, and if Mary
is as pretty as she used to be-whv. then
perhaps may marry her"


I stroked back my budding moustacbe with
coEplacency, while settled the future Of y
young lady I had not seen for four years.
never thought Of the possibility Of her refusing
me-ne7e- dreamed that she would not s.eoc
Year: 1862

You have often wondered whether the men
wore their overcoats, knapsacks, haversacks
and carry their blankets, when going into
battle. They depends upon circumstances
Sometimes, when they are marching, they
find themselves in battle almost before they
know it. I remember that on the 18th Of
July, three days before the battle at Bull Run,
some regiments of the army were marching
towards Mitchels Ford, fording-place on
Bull Run when suddenly the enemy fired
upon them, and the men had to fight Just as
they were, only great many threw down
their coats and blankets and haversacks, so
that they could fight freely and easily. You
also wonder whether the regiments fire re-
gularly in voleys, or whether each man fires
as fast as he can. That also, depends upon
circumstances, but usually except when the
enemy is near at hand, the regiments fire only
at the command of their officers. You hear
drop, drop, drop, as a few Of the skirmislers
fire, followed by rattle and roll, which sounds
like the falling of building, just as some of
you have heard the brick walls tumble at a
great fire.


Sometimes, when a body Of the enemy S
cavalry are sweeping down upon a regiment
to cut it to pieces, the men form in a square,
with the officers and musicians in the center.
The front rank stands with bayonets charged,
while the second rank fires as fast as it can.
Sometimes they fire in four ranks deep, the
two front ones kneeling with their bayonets
charged, so that if the enemy should come
upon them, they would run against picket
fence Of bayonets. When they form in this
way, the other two ranks load and FIRE as
fast as they can. Then the roar is terrific,
and many a horse and his rider goes down
before the terrible storm Of iron hal.
Year: 1862

SENATOR Grimes, Of Iowa, has had the as
surance to say, in his place in the Senate, that
he would not vote for the Tax Bill until the
President has more definitely laid down his
war policy Mr. Grimes wishes to know what
has constituents are to be taxed for He is
displeased by the reputation Of Hunters Or
der, and is in general condition of dissatisfac-
ton. Our Washington correspondent, reflect
ing the views Of the clique of anti-slavery ma
lignants, observes that it is doubtful whether
there will be a hearty response to the Presi-
dents forthcoming call for more troops, If the
war is not made anti slavery.


Now if the radical gentleman dare to make
such an issue as this they will speedily find
where the people, whom they are fond Of
claiming as their political property, stand.
Men who will not support the Government in
its struggle for self-preservation, unless their
peculiar nations are consulted, have no right
to call themselves good citizens, and we fail
to see wherein they are an improvement upon
the original traitors II Senator Grimes op-
poses the adoption Of the tax bill: because his
particular phrenzy is not INDUCED. he should
not be, and will not be, any better than Pow
ell or Va!andinghan. Indeed, it may be that
his disloyalty would be more detestable, if
possible, than the sort of allegiance which
those individuals render to the Government


As to the want of policy by the President
Ills instructions to Andy johnson and Ed
ward Stanley, Provisional Governor of Ten
nessee and North Carolina, indicate policy
There is, to be sure occasion for some more
comprehensive system Of management of con-
trabanJs, and more enterprise in hunting down
marauders-5ut those difficulties viii gradu-
ally be worked clear. The citizen who can
not see, in the work of the restoration Of the
Union, enough to reward him for all the sac
riGces he may make, is to be pitied Or hated
according to the proportions Of folly and kna-
very in his cornposition.-Cin Commercial.
Year: 1862

A SOLDIER in one Of our hospitals recently
received the following epistle from his "lady
love" which we pronounce decidedly cool
and practical H assures Us that its reception
is not likely to prove fatal to him:


Kind Sir: reserved your letter-glad to
hear from you. We have ben Corresponding
for sum time to each other. Now we will
have to quit our corresponding to each other,
as have placed my affections on one I was
en't dreaming Of, and soon will be Joined in
wedlOck- I shall have to say farewell to you,
H. As there was not any promise be-
tween you and I, feel at perfect liberty I
would just say to you that I was afraid that
would never come back, you are way down
south exposed to death Disease and a smash
ing Of your teeth out on them hard crackers~
I leave the subject with you, Il, Write
and tell me what you thought when you re-
scved this letter,
Year: 1862

GOD SAVE TIE VOLUNTEERS!
AM" God save the Queen"
GOD save the noble band
Fighting for fatherland


True heroes all
Keeping their faith pure and bright
Uphold them by Thy might,
Whilst they contend for right


And ifthey fall
Do thou their souls receive,
Comfort the hearts that grieve,


Wipe every tear;
Bid all on Thee depend,
Each lonely hearth attend,
Be thou the orphans friend


Conquering fear!
Long as our rivers flow,
Long as our star shall glow,


High in the spheres
Bright shall their mem'ry be,
They who have kept US free,
True sons Of Liberty -


Brave Volunteers
Year: 1862

I AN known throughout the length and
breadth of the land as the Fighting Parsou;
while may say, without incurring the charge
Of egotism. that no man is more peaceabIe,
as my neighbors Will testify. Always poor,
and always oppressed with security debts,
few men in my section, and Of my limited
means, have given away more in the course
of each year to charitable objects I have
never been arraigued in the Church for IN
mortality. I never played card. I never
VISA a prolane swearcr. Inevcr drank dram
of liquor until within few years-when it
was taken as a medicine, never had a cigar
or chew Of tobacco in my month. never
attended horse race, ana never witnessed
their running, save on the fair grounds OF my
own county. Inever courted.out one woman.
and her married '-Parson. Bi'ocnloag.
Year: 1862

A reader sends the following to the Amer
lean Agriculturist : Two boys, Peter. and
Lemuel, lived in the same neighborhood.-
One of Lemuel's friends gave him a beauti-
full tame rabbit. curiously marked with white
and black, to which he soon became greatly
attached. He was never tired of feeding and
petting it, and exhibiting it to his playmates.
Peter often visited Lemuel and played with
the rabbit, but this did not satisfy him; he
wanted it for himself, and tried to buy it, but
Lemuel would not part with it. After long
coveting, he took the next step, and resolved
to steal what he could not get otherwise,
probably thinking he would keep it for day
or two, and then pretend it came to him of
its own accord. So one night, Just at dark.
Peter went cautiously to the garden and crept
along through the currant bushes towards
the rabbits kennel. Before reaching it he
saw his supposed prize cross the path just
before him, and eagerly pouncing upon it.
grasped it tightly in his arms. But instantly
he was almost suffocated with the odor of a
young skunk which he had mistaken for the
rabbit. To add to this chagrin, just at that
moment Lemuers father perceiving the
smell, ran from the house and caught him as
he was running through the gate. The story
was soon known, and Peter and his rabbit
became byword in the village.
Year: 1862

TIE PUGNACIoUs RAM-John B. Cough.
in one of his eloquent temperance lectures,
was encouraging those who signed the pledge
to stick to it Stick to it said he, " as the
old ram did to his bunting" The fable is.
that a farmer had ram which would run
his head against the cows, horses, pigs, and
indeed against everything in motion. The
farmer himself was more than once hunted
over. and he finally determined to break up
this propensity. So he tied heavy block Of
wood upon rope. and hung it on limb Of
a tree. The block was set in motion, and
the ram seeing it move toward him, hit il a
blow. This sent it of, but it swung back,
when the ram hit it again, and so kept on
doing. The farmer watched him until if was
dark. and then left him, true to his nature
bunting away. Early in the morning. on CO.
ing to see how the ram Jared, he found he
had hunted himself all away, except a part
his tail, and that was hammering away at the
swinging block.-That is the way to stick tc
the pledge.
Year: 1862

Needles are made of steel wire. The wire
is first cot by shears, from coils, into tie
length of the needles TO be made. After a
batch of such bits of wire have been cut of
they are placed in a hot furnace and then
taken out and rolled backward and forward
on a table till they are straight They are
now to be ground. The needle pointer then
takes up two dozen or so of the wires and
rolls them between his thumbs and fingers,
with their ends on the grirdstone, first one
end and then the other. Next is a machine
which fat;ers and cutters the heads OF ten
thousand needles in an hour. Next comes
the punching of the eyes, Ly boy, so fast
that the eve can hardly keep pace with him.
The splitting follows. which Is running fine
wire through dozen perhaps of these tsin
needles. y woman with little anvil before
her fl es between The hesds ard separates
them


They are now ccn.p ple,e needles. hut they
are rough and rusty, and easily bent. The
hardening comes text They are heated
in patches in a furnace. and when red hot
ar- thrown into pan o: cold water. Next
they must he tempered, ana this j. done hv
rolling them backward ans. forward on q hut
metal plate. The polishing still remains &c
be done. On very coarse cloth needles are
spread TO the number offorty TO fit, Thousand.
Emery dust Is s,rewei orrr them, ell Is
sprinkled and soft SOAP Is daubed over; the
cloth is rolled hard up. and with several 9th
ers of ihe SAME kind thrown into a sort of
wash pot to roll 10 and fro twelve hours or
more They come out dirty enough, but al


ter a rinsing in clean hot water, and tossing
in SawGust, they become bright, and are
ready TO be sorted and put up for sale.
Year: 1862

A HoRRIFIEp DANDY. 4 laughable Incl.
dent is related of dandy who was seated
on balcony of Saratoga hotel, among q
large company. He was exquisitely dressed
and very highly persumed with musk, which
is very disagreeable TO some persons. A
plain far ner happening to pass near him
commenced snuring suspiciously, and look.
ing around for the cause-of the musky efflu.
via, he soon smelt out the dandy, and thus
addressed him: 81 say mister, | can tell ye
what1l take the smell ont of yer clothes
Just bury EN- under ground for week.
My uncle ran agin skunk once and -
but before the sentence was finished the en-
ragged dandy sped from the crowd to escape
the shouts of laughter. while the innocent
farmer who only meant to do him a kindness,
was wondering what caused his sudden de-
parture.
Year: 1862

The dav is cold, and dark, and dreary.
1t rains, and the wind isnever weary;
The vines still cling to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,


And the day is dark and dreary.
My life is cold and dark, and dreary,
1t rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past
But the hopes youth fall thick in the blast,


And the days are dark and dreary.
Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;
Behind the clouds the sun is shining;
Thy fate is the common fate OF all
Into each life some rain must fall


Some days be dark and dreary.
Year: 1862

especially when aided by improved
cultursand machinery, produce much
larger crops and better cotton than is
now raised by the forced and ignorant
labor cfslayes, and at q much cheaper
rate and a far greater profit than any
crop now produced in the North"
Year: 1862

A STRIKING THoUGHT.-' The death of
an old mans wife, says Lsmartne, is
like cutting down an ancient oak that has
long shaded the family mansion Hence
forth the glare Of the world, with its cares
and vicissitudes, falls upon the old wid
overs heart, and there is nothing to break
their force, or shield him from the full
weight Of misfortune. 1t is as II his right
hand was withered-as if one wing OF his
eagle was broken,a and every movement that
he made brought him to the ground. His
eyes are dim and CLASSY, and when the film
Of death falls over him, he misses those ac-
customed tones which might have smooth
ed his passage to the grave
Year: 1862

For fear there may be some misunderstan-
ding among those who are accustomed to
supply our market with produce regarding
the operations and restrictions of martial
law, we will state that it in no wise affects
them, nor any one else who brings his crops
to town. Ali that is required is a passport
from the Provost Marshal, which will give
them free ingress and egress out of the city.
If any person applying to the Marshal is un-
known TO him, be is required to bring re-
spectacle reference. Business, therefore,
with the exception Of the sale Of liquors, is
net interfered with at all,
Year: 1862

CRESCENT ARTILLERY.-A special meeting of this
company will be held tomorrow evening, at G
O'Clock, for the transaction of important business
and members are requested by the Captain to be
punctual in attendance. See notice.
Year: 1862

The Washington correspondent of the Chicago
Tribune, one of the leading abolition papers of
the Northwest, has recently given an account of
the state of morals in and around the National
Capital. The contrast which he presents is not
very hatterng to the Republican Administration.
We repubIish the following paragraph from his
letter:


The tone of morality here is considerably low
er than it has ever been before. This is admitted
on all hands, and can be proved, or rather needs
no proof, for the air is heavy with public and
private guilt. A few years ago, high Austrian
official, whose peculations were discovered, ap-
piled the lancet TO his own veins, and another,
similarly situated, hanged himself. There is no
such sense of shame here Any coroner's jury
in Washington would find verdict of insanity
for such conduct, and the verdict would be ac
cepted in good faith.


The Southerners as a class. had a very nice
sense Of honor SO far the public treasury was
concerned. Floyd was an observation-disclosures
solitary exception--to the rule. When they held
the power here there was comparatively little
thieving, and when any discovered itwas
promptly exposed and denounced. There has
been change fearful change for the worse.
The frauds and attempted frauds the treasury.
in one channel and another, come so fast, and
from such unexpected quarters, that one is be
widered in contemplating them. Yet nobody
has been brought to justice, and nobody seems to
think it possible that any body should be brought
to justice. "Ob, those rascally coRtractors" says
some honest man in the rural districts For
every dollar wrongfully taken by a contractor,
FIVE have been taken by public servants.


This certainly is alarming. Why is it tolerated
by an Administration which came into power pro-
Tossing honesty. and. promising retrenchment and
reformf Will honest men stop and investigateg-
Ohio Statesman
Year: 1862

If better eounsels should not ultimately prevail
among us, would come at last when he assault
of a foreign foe should point out her opportunity
in our necessity. Is this the statesnaEshiD of
the popular leaders of the North Is this their
patriotism? Are the Northern peope to be led
by such leaders2 We can not beliere il. We
do not believe il.


One of two events is at any rate ertain; and
we state the alternative not in the spirit of dicta
ton or Of menace, but of sad conviction. Either
the people of the North must now voluntarily
repudiate such leaders, or the natioI under their
leadership Will ere long be plunged hto new com
plications that will force our Northern brethren
to throw overheard the demagogues at the point
of public suffering and of public peril compared
with which the present terrible calanities are but
heeting visitation. 0fthis there ian be no rea-
sonable doubt. The fatal breakers are right
ahead in full view; and these falsehearted North
ern leaders, reckless of everythin, save the pres
ervation of their party as an engine of ambition
and plunder, are driving right on The result is
inevitable. If the Northern people do not trans
fer the helm to wiser and purer hands now. they
must after the ship of State shlll be dashed upon
the rocks, if it be not instantly wrecked. The
only question in this respectH whether the trans
fer shall be made before the catastrophy and in
season to prevent it afterwards. But this ques
ton is momentous one A question of more
awful moment has seldom come up for the de-
cision of any people 1t is be real question now
presented for the decision Of the people of the
North. .tt


Let the question be stripped of all DISCUSSES.
and the decision will thrill tie hearts of patriots
with joy and gratitude
Year: 1862

In short, there is not point raised by our CO.
temporary but what has been boldly taken hold of
by the Democratic Convention. All that he
wants declared affirmatively by the approaching
Republican Convention, has been for months be-
fore the people, as the platform of the Democracy
of Indiana boldly and freely uttered. All that
he desires to see condemned has been denounced
without reserve by our Democratic Convention,
by every Democratic statesman, and every Dem
ocratic editor. What more does he desiref


Surely any one who hesitates to support the
platform and ticket, basing their objections upon
the grounds stated above, is anxious to seek a
pretext for a change of front-to cover his retreat
to the enemy. We would have more respect for
men who come out openly on the side of the
scheming, dsunion, sectional Republicans. than
those who wear glasses, and, like scurvy politi-
clans, pretend to see things they do not" in the
platform now receiving the support of all who
deserve the name of Union Democrats-the plat
form laid down on the 6th of January last. Be-
ware of all such meni-Vincennes Sun.
Year: 1862

PITTsBuRG LANDING, Tenn, May Z, 1862.


JJ BINGHAM, Eso.-Time here drags its slow
length along--the only relief to the monotony of
the amphbious life on the river hotels being the
arrival of all sorts of exciting yarns from the
advanced camps, which hunted down prove to be
sheer inventions of the fertile fancy of the team
sters and army followers.


The lines are gradually but very slowly clos
ing around Corinth, and bets are two to one that
no enemy of any considerable number will be
found in the intrenchments of that noted place
when our army reaches them.


The heavy rains of Saturday and Sunday
nights delayed operations. which the fine weather
of week previous had fairly set in motion. The
heavy siege guns have to be dragged along by
oxen, and one nights rain renders the low
swampy grounds of the ravines impossible for a
day at least TO. anything larger than a lap-dog.
The soil of these low places is peculiar to them
selves Cover them with water, which few
hours rain will do, and they perfect quick
sand Give the water day to run off, and they
dry out with few hours sun, and become passa
BILE again have seen division move its artil-
lery and trains over one Of these places with
scarce the trace ofo wheel on the ground. and
one nights rain render it utterly impossible to
bring an empty wagon back over the same road.
You can conceive then the difficulty of moving
forward the immense army.


The good people at home must be patient and
take matters coolly, as the sanitary people and
curiosity hunters here have to do; and if General
Beauregard happens to give Halleck the slip,
they must not grumble until they come here and
see the difficulties the latter had to overcome 10
get at the active little Frenchman.


Gen. Pope's division on the left have had the
principal part of the skirmishing as yet. He oc-
cupied Pennington after shirp resistance, and has
had some opposition to nearly every days move.
He has taken great many prisoners, but no two
gangs of them, am informed, agree in their
statements OF the number Of troops, or the con-
dition of things in Corinth. The impression,
however, grows that the big fight of the war will
not come off in this ''neck of woods" ~


The orders about persons not in the army GO
ing TO the front, are very strict, but strict as