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Year: 1862

PROPOSED Reelection OF THE PAY OF THE
ARMY AND NAvY.-The most atrocious propcsi-
ton yet presented to Congress is that which is
designed to reduce the pay of our army and
navy. The pay seems small enough already,
when we consider the amount Of toll, hardship
and danger Of health, limb and life which our
soldiers and sailors are compelled to undergo,
or when we remember that our army and navy
are doing the real work Of saving and preserving
the Union. How much smaller does il appear,
then, when contrasted with the salaries of those
politicians who would cut down the money of a
soldier or sailor, but who are themselves paid
largely to do nothing, and rob the public trea-
sury into the bargain. If there is any honesty
or sincerity in this desire for retrenchment,
let us see the politicians begin by cutting down
their own salaries, and stopping the Fremont,
Cummings and Morgan leaks in the Treasury.
Let the pay of the soldier and sailor alone until
they begin thus; or, in other words, let it alone
altogether.
Year: 1862

RAMPANT TREAsoN-BRowNsoN AND GRErLBY.-
The fraternization between these eccentric in
dividuals is one of the signs of the times
Brownson, in an anti-slavery lecture at Boston,
proclaims that "the old Union is irrevocably
gone,' and Greeley respectfully and altogether
agrees with DR.. Brownson." This is treason Of
the rankest kind. II is aid and comfort to the
enemy. The sentiments are atrocious, and both
the traitors ought to be arrested. The old
Union is not gone. IL is for the old Union, and
no new Union, that our troops are fighting, and
neither Greeley nor Brownson nor any human
power can induce them to fight otherwise We
want no new Union. We want the old To
fight for the old is loyalty. To fight for the
new is treason. Those who propose to subvert
the old Union are guilty of the highest crime
known to the law. Those who say "the old
Union is gone" are allies and accomplices Of
the Southern traitors, and ought TO be looked
after.
Year: 1862

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detail, were massged with great skill and
ability by our gallant sailors, and that, after


having thus proved more than match for the
elements, we may expect good report of the


movements of the expedition against the rebels
of North Carolina. At the same time the de-
tention of the feet outside Of Hatterss by the
terrific storms of the last two weeks has very
much embarrassed the rebels as to the where


abouts and destination of Burnside; so that, in


their defensive preparations at various other


points, it is probable that at the real points of
attack they will be found weaker than they


were at the sailing of Burnside from Fortress
Monroe.


The Port Royal expedition, in the same way
as this one, suffered some losses, and was de-
tanned off the coast near its destination by
storms until the absence Of any news from it
began to excite very serious apprehensions.
But it weathered the winds and waves, and
accomplished its work very handsomely. So it
will be with this Burnside expedition. Having
entered the sheltered inland waters of North
Carolina it has nothing more to fear from the
dreadful storms of Hatteras, and will soon be
ready for active operations, with an over
whelming weight of artillery, against the Caro-
lima strongholds and arteries of this doomed
rebellion. Burnside, like Dupont, is confident
of the success of his expedition, and so is the
government, and so are we, because his means
are fully adapted to accomplish the objects OF
his enterprise


The rebel armies of the South are in a state of
great alarm. They begin to have some idea Of
the terrible plans and combinations of General
Mcclellan. The suffering and despoiled people
of the South are becoming weary Of the exhaust
ing despotism Of Davis, with its conscriptions
and forced contributions, and the desperate
straits to which it has driven them in conse-
quence of "Lincoln's blockade" The only
thing which prevents the utter decentralization
and dispersion Of the rebel armies is the general
belief in the South, fostered by our abolition
agitators, that our government is aiming at
nothing less than war of conquest, spoliation,
confscation and negro emancipation. If Presi-
dent Lincoln were to seize upon half dozen
Of such of our abolition disorganizers as Owen
Lovejoy, the Rev. DR.. Checver, Lloyd Garrison,
and that horrible monster, Greeley" as de-
scribed by the loyal Senator Davis, of Kentucky,
and were to clap them into Fort Lafayette or
Fort Warren, we verify believe that the moral
effect Of this proceeding in the South would
be equal to an overwhelming victory over tine
main rebel army Of the Potomac.


Considering the time which had elapsed with
out any definite tidings from this Burnside ex-
pedition and the numerous tempestuous days
and nights Of this long interval of doubt and
conjecture, the news we have received affords
us great relief from our apprehensions of a
crushing disaster. The bulk of the expedition
is now secure against the chances of the ele-
ments, and will soon manifest its strength in its
movements upon the enemy.
Year: 1862

CorroS From THE SoUTH.-It ia an interesting
fact in connection with the Port Royal expedi-
tion that its successes included the capture of
million dollars worth Of Sea Island cotton,
the greater part of which has already arrived
at the North. Now, it Is very evident that while
the expeditions to Hatteras Inlet and Port
Royal, and those under Burnside and Butler.
and all other such expeditions that may be
despatched, are part of grand system or
ganized to crush the rebellion, they will be Of
the greatest service in enabling us to obtain
supplies Of cotton, by which not only will they
contribute materially towards defraying the ex-
penses Of the war, but place US in position to
keep the markets Of England and Franceso we'll
supplied with that indispensable fibre that
neither country will have sufficient provocation
or excuse to try the experiment of breaking the
blockade.


There is no doubt that all along the coast and
for many miles inland, from North Carolina to
Matamoros, hundred millions of dollars worth
of cotton might be captured easily, and expe-
ditions should be rapidly fitted out with this
view. There Is every prospect of these expe-
ditions doing more to uproot tho rebellion than
our armies on the Potomac and in the West; and
there is this great advantage belonging to them,
that, while restoring the Union flag over an ex-
tensive belt of cotton country and 80 maintaining
the prestige of the United States abroad, their
commercial results will be such a. we cannot
overrate in Importance. Both politically and
financially, therefore, these expeditions promise
to be Of the highest value.


New OpERAnc SEASON evening tho
combined forces of Grau and Maretzek begin
new operate campaign at the Academy OF
Music. According to the present prospectus,
New York and Brooklyn are to be blessed with
the performances Of this combined troupe on
alternate nights for two weeks. Gottschslk,
the great pianist, is held as sort Of reserve
force, and, altogether, the coalition is a very
Max Maretzek to the New York public; but, in
response to the numerous inquiries Of" Who ia
Grau?" we rejoice to be able to state that, after
prolonged study and acute Investigation, We
have discovered that Grau is the person whs
devised the Prince of Wales Opera in Phila
delphia. In consequence of bis connection
with that affair Grau did not dare show himself
during the Trent excitement, except in such
out of the way places as Brooklyn, where he
defeated the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in sim
gle combat upon the momentous question
whether the Brooklyn Academy was Q churob
or an opera house. The artists engaged are all
excellent, and the sale of tickets here haa
already been so great that we risk nothing In
predicting a fashionable and successful season


CONSISTENCY OF THE TRIBUNE.-This highly
moral journal assails Mr.. Morgan for corrup-
ton in thousands of dollars, in the matter Of
the purchase of ships for the navy. Why does
it not only screen, but actively defend, the cor
ruption in Missouri, amounting to millions Of
dollarss
Year: 1862

HoRsEs. Col. Needham, the Secretary o
the Vermont State Agricultural Society, in hiS
annual message says:


The number of horses in Vernon, before ;he
breaking out of the rebellion was about titty.five
thousand, since which time it is calculated that
nearly ten thousand have been carried from
the State for army purposes. This immense
levy for horses has been made through the en-.
tire country When it is considered that com.
raratvely few Of these horses will find ,heir
way back that the number that will die Of dis
ease or become unfit for service is twenty time,
as great as it would be were th,y used in any
other kind of business; that to meet this grea
want Of the Government n large portion of the
business horses in our large cities wh,h hnv,
been thrown out of srrvice hy general rrostra
ton, have been brought up it readily arpear'
that, even during the war, horses nut advance
in price and at It's close, when business shul
revive and trade resume its former chnnncIs
the demand for good horses mus, exceed the
supply Reasoning from these premises no
more profitable labor san be engaged in than
the production OF good business horses
Year: 1862

respondent Of the Boston journal says: -


"How to tax newspapers' is now a SUBJECT
Of anxious inquiry among the politicians in
Congress. some of whom call themselves pro
gressive statesmen, ard az such will next fall
solicit reelection. The very men who prute
about the achievements Of science, the benefits
OF education, and the enlightenment of the age
really appear anxious to tax the news, apers,
which are the prominent medium for CONVEYING
intelligence in this as in all other civilized
countries. Some Of them have IN their States
made grea' to.do about teaching everybody
to read yet they would now tax what every
body reads the most. A tax Oh u newspaper
is virtually tax on Knowledge, aud is thus a
tax on TRUTH tax on education, a tax on pub
lie opinion, tax on good government a tax Oh
the progress Of human events and the working
OF human institutions. The only excuse for the
Solons who are striving 10 levy this tax, is that
the newspapers have so much to say abou. them
and their co-'egisIaiors, that TO them it appears
they have become "luxuries.'
Year: 1862

TIE Coon OLD TMES.-Ljving was cheap
enough in the oidcn timc. Socrates was sup
posed to have lived worse than a slave. His
colt was shabby, and he gore the same gar.
ment winter aud summer be went barefoot
his chief food was bread and water and as he
engaged in no business to mend his estate or in.
come, it is not wonderful that his wife scoldcd.
Demoslhenes, his sister and their mother, paid
for their board slo5 year, and provided the
house in tho bargain
Year: 1862

SALT FOR THE THRoAT.-In these days
when diseases of the throat are so universally
prevalent, and so many cases fatal, we feel
1t our duty to say word in behalf of a SIM
pie, and what has been with us a most effec
tual preventive, if not a positive cure. of
sore throat. For many years past. indeed
we may say during the whole of a life of over
forty years, we have been subject to sore
throat. and more particularly to dry, hack
ing cough, which was not only distressing to
ourselves, but to cur friends and those with
whom we were brought in business contact.
Last Fall we were induced 10 try what vr.ue
there was in common salt. We commenced
by using it three times a day, morning, noon
and night. We dissolved large table spoon
ful of pure salt in about half of a small tum.
bier full of cold water With this we earcle
the throat most thoroughly just before meal
time. The result has been, that during the
entire Winter we were not only free from the
usual coughs and colds to which, as far as
our memory extends, we have always been
subject, but the dry hacking cough has en-
tirely disappeared. We attribute these salts
factory results solely to the use of salt garele.
and do most cordially recommend trial Of
it to those who are subject to diseases of the
throat Many persons who have never tried
the salt gargle have the impression that it is
unpleasant. Such is not the case. On the
contrary. it is pleasant, and after few dav.'
use no person who loves nice clean mouth.
and first rate sharpener of the appetite,


will abandon it,
Year: 1862

THE Administration journals of the East
ascribe the recent Democratic victories
to popular impatienee at the slow progress
made in crushing out rebellion. conioined
with the absence of so MANY unconditional
Unionists in the armies. the craven fear of
the draft and taxation on the part of the stay.
at-homes and the charm of the word Dem.
oeracy.' though now that word is closely al
lied 70 treason
Year: 1862

\ paragraph is going the rounds of the
French papers which sets forth that an inven-
tor in Connecticut has costructed an omnibus
of Indian rubber in such a way, that there
will always be room for another passenger
c, Ell when it is full. Tie idea is good, but
the joke is an old one.
Year: 1862

ALWAYS ROOM UP STAIRs.-A young
man, who was thinking Of studying law,
said to Daniel Webster:


Mr.. Webster, understand the profess
sion of law is quite full, and that there are
more lawyers than are needed. Do you
think there is any chance for me ?"


"There is always room up stairs" was
the reply, and as true as it was ingenious.
Only few persons reach the high places,
and these are always in great demand.


"There is always room up stairs"


First class farmers and mechanics, as
well as physicians and lawyers, &c. always
find plenty of room, plenty Of work, and
good pay. Whatever calling you choose,
and it matters little, if it be an honest one,
resolve to go into an upper story; but do
not try to jump there by single leap, or
you may fall disabled. Rather begin at
the bottom Of the ladder, and patiently step
upon each round.
Year: 1862

We extract the following from Agassiz's
article ON Methods of Study in Natural


History" in the May number Of the At
lantic Monthly =


Among the astonishing discoveries Of
modern sciences is that of the immense
periods which have passed in the gradual
formation of our earth. So vast we're the
cycles of time preceding even the appear
ance of man on the surface of our globe,
that our own period seems as yesterday
when compared with the epochs that have
gone before it. Had We only the evidence
of the deposits of rock beaped above each
other in regular strata by the slow accumu-
lation of materials. they only would con-
vince us of the long and slow maturing Of
Gods work on the earth, but when we add
to these the successive populations of whose
life this world has been the theatre, and
whose remains are hidden in the rocks into
which the mud, or sand, or soil of whatever
kind on which they lived has hardened in
the course of time--or the enormous chains
of mountains whose upheaval divided these
periods of quiet accumulation by great con-
vulsions--or the changes of different ma
ture in the confguratiou of our globe, and
the sinking of lands beneath our ocean, or
the gradual rising of continents and islands
above it--or the wearing of great river
beds, or the filling of extensive water basins,
till marshes first and then dry land sue
ceeded to island seas--or the slow growth
of coral reefs, these wonderful sea-wails
raised by the little ocean architects whose
own bodies fur nish both .he building stones
and the cement that binds them together,
and who have worked so busily during the
long centuries, that there are extensive
countries, mountain chains, islands, and long
lines of coast consisting solely of their re-
mains-or the countless forests that have
grown up, flourished, died and decayed, to
fill up the storehouses of coal that feed the
fires Of the human race to-day-if we con-
slider all these records Of the past, the in
tellect fails to grasp chronology of which
our experience furnishes no data. and the
time that lies behind US seems as much an
eternity to cur conception as the future that
stretches indefinitely before us.
Year: 1862

MIsTAKEs.-The editors of the Star O
tie West furnish the following modest at
tempt at correcting certain rather wide
spread mistakes.


IT is mistake to suppose that the sub
scription price of a paper is clear gain to the
publisher.


1t is a mistake to suppose that he gets his
white paper for nothing.


1t is a mistake to suppose that it is prin-
ted without cost.


1t is a mistake to suppose that be can live,
bodily, by faith.


1t is mistake to suppose that it is easy
to please everybody.


1t is a mistake to suppose that money due
for the paper would be as good to us in a
year as it would be now.


1t is mistake to suppose that we wo1ld
not be thankful for what is due US, and for
new subscribers.
Year: 1862

"GoD BLESS You, MY LITTLE FEEL.


Iowa crippled beggar in -, was striv-


ing to pick up some old clothes that had


been thrown to him from window, when a


crowd of rude boys gathered about him,


mimicking his awkward movements, and


hooiing at his helplessness and rags. Pres
emily, noble little fellow came up, and
pushing through the crowd, helping the poor
crippled man to pick up his gifts, and placed
them in bundle; then slipping piece
of silver into his hands, he was running a.
way. when a voice far above him said
I" Little boy with straw hat, look upp He
did SO; and lady, leaning from an upper
window, said earnestly: God bless you,
my little fellow God will bless you for
that y The lady was the wife of a man so
distinguished among the great men OF the
world that every ne of those boys would
have been proud to gain her appreciation
and when she wrote down his name as one
she wished to remember, he felt more than
paid for what he had done. As he walked
along, he thought how glad he had made
his own hear, by doing good. He thought
of the poor beggar's grateful look; then OF
the lady's smile, and her words Of approval;
and last, and better Than all, be could almost
hear his Heavenly Father whispering
:. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall
obtain mercy" Little reader. when you
have an opportunity to do good, and feel
tempted to neglect it remember the little |
boy with the straw hat"
Year: 1862

groan-a violent struggle in the water
My heart stood still FOR moment, and then
began beating with suffocaiing violence. j
could but just breathe, and trembled so that
l had no control over my limbs. Once
more sprang off the bed, snatchcJ heavy
cloak from chair, and wrapped it about me,
and had reached the stairway, when at
that moment the clock struck four, the back
door opened, and some one came in. With
a thrill of the most exquisite relief, halted
and listened, and distinctly heard my host
making preparations to build a fire!
felt inclined to laugh aloud. The truth
--or, at least, enough of it to satisfy me-
flashed upon my mind at once, and crept
back to my bed for The last time, thanking
all my good angels most heartily that there
had been no witness TO my genuine terror
and excitement.


My charming friend S. appeared at the
breakfast-table next morning fresh and
rosy, and waited impatently for the ex-
PLANTATION which was sure would come, as
it did, so soon as the morning sslutations
we're over.


My genial host is passionately fond of
gardening, and awaking at thre e o'clock on
this particular morning, he decided TO 60
out to work. He happened TO be engaged
in fixing little plat Of ground, just around
the corner of the house, where every sound
he made could be easily heard, but where
he was invisible from my window. The
footsteps were his, and the intervals between
them were while he was bending down at
work with his trowel. On inquiry, found
that, just before coming into the house, he
had dropped large wooden dipper into the
cistern


The whole of this long hour Of torture
was the result os one little error in hearing
| awoke just as my host was stepping over
the threshold of his apartment, which sd-
joined mine, into the entry. That step was
naturally longer and heavier than the others,
and it was by no means strange that il
should seem TO be step from the stairs
across the hall; at any rate, SO it seemed
to me.


am not fond of being made the laugh
ing-stock of such jolly company as my
friends in b., and had not courage enough
TO tell nv story 10 them but concluded to
reserve it for future use, mean while enjoy
ing many hearty laugh at my own ex-
pense in secret. If this little narrative
should chance TO meet the eye of my friend
s.. trust that she will be duly grateful to
me for my anxiety and suffering in her be-
half during that hour of excitement.
Year: 1862

The man that laughs heartily is doctor
without diploma. HIS face does more
good in sick room than a bushel of row-
ders or gallon of bitter draughts. People
are always glad to see him. Their hands
inssinciively go half way out to meet his
grasp, while they turn involuntarily from
the clammy touch of the dyspePtic who
speaks in the groaning key. He laughs you
out of your faults. while you never dream Of
being offended with him; and you never
know what pleasant world you are living
in, until he points out the sunny streaks on
its pathway.
Year: 1862

the manufacturing interest, and we fear, that their condition will excite very serious anxiety as the year proceeds. In this anxiety we may be quite assured that evefy available bale of cotton will reach England from India; but there, too, great part of the crop now ripened and ripening, must be inevitably delayed till after the monsoon,>that is till the close of the year, and only that which can be transmitted from the interior so as to reach the coast before the end of May, eau be forwarded to us. Whatever it is, it will be gratefully received; but our ob~

 feet is to prove that the manufacturing interest no longer should cling to one source of supply, however good it may be. but should enlarge their connexions, and practically invite exten> sion of cotton cultivation in all possible locali~ ties. Among them, we need not fear, that In> dia will take very prominent place, if indeed she dc not suffice in herself for all future con tingencies."
Year: 1862

2 Jim Lane trade speech in New York IateIy in his usual style. It is no wonder the wretci should utter his sarg about freeing and arm ing negroes, though he went further in his iend ishness and expressed wish that every slave holder should be executed by his or her slave But it shows a wonderful change in the peop of New York who now listen to and applau' such sentiments.
Year: 1862

The federal commander at Memphis has ordered the wives and families of all persons in the mil tary or civil service of the Confederacy to remove from that city. They cannot war successfully upon our men, and vent their spite upon unoffendng women and helpless children
Year: 1862

The union slave owners in the border States begin to fear the loss of their property, and con- sequently begin to vince. The following is a very feeling letter from the traitor Amos Ken dall
Year: 1862

Be MAN OF Your WARD.-When
you promise to do thing do it, Be a
man Of principle in your word. Do not
say that you intend to-day to visit your
sick friend or neighbor and then suffer
the pressure of business to crowd it out
out of your mind. He has been watch
ing for your coming during the week that
is past. Could you have seen the bright
smile that illumined his countenance when
he said, Il hear his voice--his footstep on
the stairs, you would have said that the
keeping of the promise was worth to you
that much choice gold. But when the
vision had disappeared, and you came not,
there was sorrow and pity, even for you
written upon those features. For dollars
and cents had become a formidable bar
rier against that priceless gem in every
mans character, which either shines in its
own conspicuous light of lc<e of the
truth, or is set in the midnight darkness
of dstrust and falsehood. Then if You
wish to do good, and WELD an influence
for truth, be man of your word for
truth is the essence of heaven.