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Year: 1862

The Republicans propose to abandon the party
which they organized in Philadelphia in 1856 and
merge themselves into "Union party" If Re
publican principles are right, if they are best cal
cuated to advance the true interests of the coun-
try, why should they be abandonedI The sur
render is an evidence, may say acknowl
edgment, that the Republican programme has
proven failure, and that the party which sue
ceeded upon the Republican issues only year
and half ago are unwilling to 60 before
the country upon them again. And why?
The controlling motive of those now in power
is to perpetuate the hold they have upon
the Government They can not re-animate the
dry bones of Repubcanism-and hence they
must appear upon the stage in new character.
The cOruptiOns and extravagance of the present
Republican Administrations both State and Ma
tiona. would sink the Republican party, if it at
tempted to carry the load, so they assume new
name and new organization to get rid of that
weight. The condition of the Republican party
is a fruitful theme o. consideration. 1t has been
in power not year. and so odious has it become
by mal-administration that it can not con-
unue It's organization, out unuer ne" SuiSe
hopes to again deceive the people so as to con-
tinue the Government in the hands of those who
have already well nigh involved it in bankruptcy.
That is the object of the Union movement
When it is organized the same managers will be
found that organized and have directed the Re-
publican party. 1t Will be "no-party' to get rid
of the odium that now attaches to the Republican
party and which will be increased as its corrup-
tions and short comings are further developed The
new pill will be sugar coated, but only to deceive
those who induced thereby to take the dose. No
Democrat should be led off by such false ap-
peals to his loyalty and patriotism. The Demo
cratic party is, as it ever has been, the Union
party, the Constitutional party, and faithful
adherance to its principles is the only hope of
storing the Government as it was when personal
liberty, the liberty of speech and of the press,
strained only by just laws, were enjoyed as no
other people had previously, and under whose
policy the Union was a bond respected by all. and
prosperity and progress, national and individual,
had no parallel in any other Government. 1t is
best to stick to the old ship which thus far has
safely Outridden every storm which threatened
evil to the country.
Year: 1862

The President issued a proclamation on the
l4th of April last calling out 600 militia ofthe
several States Of the Union, and conyening Con-
gress on the Fourth of July. In that document
the following remarkable passage occurs:-'1
appeal to all loyal citizens to facilitate and aid
this effort to maintain the laws and integrity of
the National Union and the perpetuity Of popular
government, and redress pronss that AaOe long
been endured II becomes an interesting matter
for inquiry, in the light Of past events, what
wrongs" Mr.. LINCOLN desired to redress which
"haYe long been enduredf" Was the President
influenced solely by the desire to suppress the
combinations which had been formed in the
rebelIious States too powerful to be over
come by the civil authority in the ordinary
way, or did he regard it as the Inauguration Of
the "irrepressible conflict" which should make
the States all slave or all free? This idea he had
endeavOred to impress upon the country and it
was in fact the corner stone Of his politica
faith. Was the contest over the tariff policy, in
which the Northwest and the South have an
identical interest. one of the wrongs which had
long been endured, and which il necessary
to redress for the benefit Of the cotton lords of
New Englandl What wrongs had the whole
country suffered which could not be attributed to
the clashing interests of its various sections, and
had not each the right to advance those that were
best calculated to add to its prosperity and pro-
gress? Is the war waged and the resources of
the country exhausted simply to redress the
wrongs. fanced or real, which one section of the
nation had against the other?
Year: 1862

REAL MEN or BUsISEss.-The true man of
business who is determined not TO allow any lull
in his sales, whether caused by the season or the
dullness Of the times, TO damp his efforts TO sue
cess, does not withdraw his advertisements from
the public press, close as it we're his doors, and
retire within his shell, deploring lack of Gus
toners, but he redoubles his efforts to secure
customers; displays his goods and wares with
more care than to attract the community;
increases the size and improves the appearance of
his announcements in the columns of the public
press, and by these means, persistently and lib
eraIly used he is enabled to continue his business
line with nearly an undiminished amount of sue
cess


What contrast such course presents to the
sleepy or over-cautious man, who would rather
sit himself down, dry up and complain in idleness,
than 70 expend few dollars in an effort to resus-
citate or keep up his accustomed business in sea-
sons when. without such effort, it is naturally
doomed to sluggishness. tits subject of we'll
grounded surprise to persons, who look at things
intelligently, that from the course pursued by
many who seem anxious to get along in the world,
they should take in their signs during large por-
ton Of the year. regardless Of the consequences
not merely for the time being, but in the neglect
TO retain their customers in the future.
Year: 1862

We notice that many of our contemporaries in
the West have suggested the name of General
HIRAM WALBRIDGE, of New York, as a suitable
person to succeed Mr.. WELLEs in the Navy De
partment, who, it is well understood, is soon to
go out of Office. Gen. WALBRIDGE, some years
since. represented the great commercial city of
New York in Congress with signal ability, and
his speeches delivered there and elsewhere dis
played ability and research which placed him
at once among the first statesmen of the country.
Representing the first commercial city on the con-
tnent, he naturally directed his attention to the
adoption Of such measures by Congress as would
best promote and advance our commercial in
terests. To that end he brought forward pro-
jeet which, had it been adopted by our Govern
ment, would not only have enhanced our CONNER
cial greatness, but it would have given us
navy at this time equal for any emer-
Gency. His plan was to secure the passage
of law. with proper guards and restrictions, for
the organization of Militia Navy, an arm of de-
fense corresponding to that employed by the
Government in the land SERVICE under our en-
rolled militia system, by which ship owners
should receive encouragement and aid by law in
the construction of their vessels, so rs to make
them capable of carrying guns, if required. in
the service Of their country. If this scheme had
been adopted by the Government every port in
the seeded States would have been most effect
ually blOckaded at the very inception of the
rebellion, thus saving immense sums of money
which the Government have been Obliged to ex-
pend in the purchase and charter of transports.
General WALBRIDGE is thoroughly posted as to
the wants of the country, and more especially the
Navy, in this trying crisis, and is peculiarly quail


fed to manage the affairs of that great arm of
our defense. bold and vigorous administration
Of which Is much needed at this time.
Year: 1862

has won for itself such renown for the cure of
every variety of Throat and Lung Complaints;
that it is entirely unnecessary for US TO recount
the evidence of its virtues, wherever it has been
employed. As il has long been in constant use
throughout this section, we need not do more
than assure the people its quality is kept up to
the best it ever has been. and that it may be re
lied on to do for their relief all it has ever been
found tn do
Year: 1862

habit of sefabuse To which is added observations on
Female Diseases and other interesting matter Of the ut
most importance to the married and those contemplating
marriage who entertain doubts of their physical ability
that state. Sent TO any address in sealed wrap
per, on receipt of ten cents or four stamps.


We devote entire time and attention to the treat
ment of the various private diseases treated of in p
vate report Our Dspensay is the only Institution of the
kind in America which has been tablshed by special
charter this fact should give preference the
quacks of doubtful character to be found in all


arge cities
Year: 1862

TENHE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS EXHIBIT THE
total receipts and expenditures of this department
from the commencement of my term of Office until the
CLOSE of the last fiscal year, tow from the llth day of
February 1861 to the 3st day Of October 1851 inclusive;
also the State of the Treasury the last mentioned date
and the condition Of the several appropriation


Us. HARVEY, Treasurer of State
Year: 1862

Persons desiring TO make their selections may rely
sending OILY those which really shOwy
and desirable, and Of easy cultivation We believe that
Dur experience will enable to make selections large
small, that cannot fail to give entire satisfaction.
Year: 1862

The Republican Convention for the
choice OF candidates for city officers
assemblies at tile Recorders Court Room at
10 a. H., to-day. An excellent begin
ming was made at the Ward meetings
last evening, and it was fully established
That the Republicans Of this city will
indulge in Liberty and Economy to their
hearts content. without membranes Of
any kind, especially those that favor the
Egyptian scheme comprised in the pro-
posed new Constitution.
Year: 1862

How near akin laughter 10 to tears was
shown whom Reubens. with . single stroke
of his brush, turned a laughing child 10 a
painting to one cryingi and our mother
without beng painters. have often brought
us in like manor. from joy 10 grief by
single stroke.
Year: 1862

G-The energies of the Irish laborers IN
some of the Northern cities are taking wrong
directions. The negroes are not to blame
for working for low wages. they must
either work, starve or steal, and 1t IS decid"
edly to their credit that they are willing to
work for low wages in preference to pilfer-
ing. The Irish may be certain that the negro
will exact as high wages as he can, and that
he does not work for the love OF the thing
OF course manufacturers will employ those
who will do their work best for the least
money, and if the negro, rather than starVe'
will work for less than the Irsh capitalists
will employ the negro. This is settled
law Of political economy and common sense.
The superfluous muscle of the uibernians
had better be expended upon the Abolition
politicians, whose pestiferous asitations nave
assisted in producing the war which is rum
ing the country, and whose policy has
created so considerable an influx OF negroes
into the free States. IF any class deserves
to be kicked about this matter that class is
the Abolitionists, and the best sort of kick


ing to give them is to kick them out of Of
fees which they only fill TO disgrace them
and to briag untold calanities upon the peo-
ple.-Maysville Eagle.
Year: 1862

WASHINGTON, Oct ls.-The report that the
300 is at Mobile is not improbable but positively
untrue. There is information in Washington
which warrants the belief that she is proceeding
in an entirely different direction.
Year: 1862

WASHINGTON, Oct. l9th-The copy Of letter
written by Gen. Scott to the Sec'y of State on
the day before theInaLguration in 1861 published
by John Van Buren, if authentic must have been
derived from some source other than the State
Department, since neither the President nor
Secretary of State has any knowledge Of the
manner in which any communication to either
of them from Gen. Scott could have gotten into
the hands of Van Buren,
Year: 1862

ST Louis, Oct. 2l.-The friends of Genl Ere.
mont last night, welcomed his return to this
Guy IN great serenade. From to 500 people
we're present, and the reception was in every
respect cordial and enthusiastic.


In response to repeated calls the General an
Peared ana made few remarks, referring to his
former visits to this city, stating that the prin-
cipal object of his visit now was to be present
at the trial of his friend and fellow soldier, Gen
believing as he did, that the assaults
upon hlm were made solely because he felt it an
honorable duty to stand by the side Of bis chief.
Year: 1862

but, it is that part of the body in front,
that extends from the neck. about a foot
downward. The lower end of her dress,
caused no doubt, by the upper end being
50 low down on her person, dragged for
some distance behind her on the floor, serv-
ing the double purpose of broom for the
dust, and a mop for the tobacco juice
Her arms were entirely bare, save little
frilled strap somewhat resembling a sus
pender, that crossed the upper end Of each'
to keep the dress from falling entirely off


One wrist was ornamented with a gilt
tering bracelet, Gt may have been gOld,)
her hands were encased in peculiar colored
kids. Whenever she moved she seemed to
be walking over muskrats, and the air was
completely filled with the delicious per-
fume of that animal Her hair-but-
how shall we describe her-we can't, we
won't try.


We will only add little incident that
occurred to Ourself, in attempting to pass
by her, we stepped, accidentally of course,
on her sweeping train, and fairly screamed
with terror, thinking, her dress being so
near of, we had entirely disrobed her, we
were happily mistaken, but even yet, shud-
der to think what might have been the
consequences of that miss-step.
Year: 1862

"If civil war come, if insurreetion come, is
this beleagered government to see millions
of its subjects in arms, and have no right
to break the fetters which they are forging
into swords? No. The war power of the
government can sweep the institution into
the Gulf"


Indeed, there can be no doubt of the
constitutional powers of the general gov
ernment to use any and all means for the
suppression of the insurrectiOn. which Eng
land. or any other independent government
might rightfully use to suppress elVii IN
surreetion, and ensure selfprotectiOn' under
like circumstances.


Nor is there any thing in the fact Of the
Year: 1862

The ToPoGRAPHIcAL CoRPs-Irs VALUE AND


DEFICIENCY the officers of the Coast
Survey are to our naval operations the Topo-
graphical Engineers are to the operations of
Our armies. The value of the Coast Survey has


been clearly shown in connection with our
naval expeditions, and especially at the
memorable bombardment of Port Royal,
and in the recent movement of our feeet
to the rear of Fort Pulaski. There the
officers of the Coast Survey buoyed out the
channel, and, by their accurate knowledge of
the harbor soundings, enabled Commodore
Dupont to devise his brilliant plan of attack.
Now, it is equally necessary on land that our
armies should be acquainted with the ground
upon which they are to fight; and just this
knowledge the Typographical Engineers supply


But this branch Of the service is sadly deficient
and sadly neglected in our army, although
there are thousands of civil engineers in the
country capable of performing such service
and willing to enlist 1t is the duty of Con-
gress, therefore, to authorize the President to
call out these engineers and form them into
Typographical corps This important matter has
been overlooked among the clamors raised
about others of much less moment, and we
hope that it will be attended to Immediately.
Year: 1862

the Burnside expedition, censuring its design
and its mode Of operation, and prognosticating
Its failure. 1t seems that the abolitionists, who
formerly cried "Onward to Richmond, with such
ill-timed vehemence as to bring on the fatal
disaster of Bull run, now take the other tack, and
utter, with the same ill-timed vehemence, false
predictions of Union disasters. The abo-
litionists are ever ready to blow hot or
blow cold, as it may serve their dia-
bolical schemes in and out of Congress.
To our thinking the Burnside expedition is get
ting on very well indeed, and we regard it as
an almost miraculous dspensaton of Provi-
dence in favor of our cause, and as an evidence,
also, of the superior skill, knowledge and judg-
ment in the management of our forces, that so
few accidents occurred during the terrible
storms off Hatteras We still hold to our
conviction that the expedition was weh-plan-
ned; and, if there is any mismanagement about
1t, the fault lies at the door of those contract
ors of the Iribune's own political caste, who
sold the government oil, camphene and kero-
ssne barrels for water casks, and represented
that vessels really drawing thirteen feet of wa
ter drew only seven or eight. Let the IFs6w,e
reserve its censures for these chaps, and re-
strain its eagerness to attack an administration
whose chief fault in the view Of the Tribune,
and greatest merit in the view of all sensible
mon, is its conservatism. What Congressional
schemes the abolitionists have to serve by this
attack we neither know nor care; but we are
certain that Burnside is too good general to
do anything rashly; that his troops are not
shoddy, though his ships may be, and that be-
fore long we shall hear such news from the
Burnside expedition that the Tribune will be
obliged to publish another "Just Once" con-
ifession, and acknowledge itself as far wrong in
its present evil representations as it formerly
was in its "Onward to Richmond" clamor.
Year: 1862

| loyal executive government to RichtnOnd
would be fatal to our separate new State
project. Should our Governor go to Rich
moud, he would, in all probability, call an
extra session of the Legislature. What
would be the result2 Why, sir, tue indo-
mitable thirst for Office, (which was the
prime aud leading cause for this rsbelIion)
you'd again be whetted up, aud nnr Capt.
tol would again be filled with rebel men,
bers, whose object wnnld be to legislate in
such manner as to tic us TO the dead and
rotten carcass Ofold Virginia. They would
hold on to us with the grasp of dying men
and throw every obstacle in the way they
possibly could to prevent US getting a new
State. Our new Constitution, presume,
Is by this time before Congress. suppose
our present Senators and Representatives
in Congress will exert themselves 10 have
our new State admitted into the Union du-
ring the present session. Think there are
no good REASONS why they should not sue-
Ceed. IL they should succeed, why the me-
cessiiy and expense Of - transfer Of our
Western Government to Richmond?


Messrs. Editors, these are only few OF
the reasons why many of us are opposed 10
linking our destinies again with Eastern
Virginia. Why, for the vert short time
that will intervene until we shall have a
new State, shall we send our money to keep
up Richmond, instead of spending il among
the true and noble hearted citizens Of
Wheeling, who ve-alWays been and are
now loyal to the core, and burning for a
new State. t fta INpEx.
Year: 1862

WE BEG TO ASSURE THE PUBLIC THAT


w the we'll known reputation of these Machines
for RELIABILITY will be fully sustained, and
in our rapidly increasing business the same care
will be faithfully exercisedin every department
of their manufacture Every Machine sold by us
is WARRANTED IN EVERY RESPECT.
Year: 1862

THE WAR AND THE PRACTICE OF ECONOMY
The great prosperity Of the United States, the
long prevalence Of peace, and the absence of
taxation, have combined to render us the most
extrsvagant people on the face Of the earth,
Mechanics and shopkeepers here dress about as
well as the nobility and gentry Of England
Every European who visits this country, and
every American who visits Europe. are struck
with this contrast between the Old World and
the New, more than with any other thing. In
Europe man Of fortune will wear hat for
year. Here people will scorn to wear hat
more than two months. The same observation
applies to clothes in general. Four suits in the
year are not uncommon in this country. One
suit in the year Is q fair average in England.
In the case of the fair sex the extravaganza is
still greater--ladies with bursting wardrobes
still crying out, like Flora McFlimsey, that they
have nothing to wear. Dresses which cost, per-
haps, as high as fifty dollars, given to SER
want after being worn two or three times Other
expenditures of women are in keeping with
this, and the dress of the ladies of New York
costs more on an average than it does for the
duchesses marchionesses and countesses of
Great Britain. In mere extravaganza we have
been taxing ourselves at the rate of $50 100000
year. That must be all changed now. What
was spent in that way must now be spent in
taxation for the salvation Of the Union. To do
this rigid economy must be practised in every
household. Even rags must be saved. BY
adopting this course we will not seriously feel
the effect Of taxation, except perhaps in render
ing us better men and women, and in establish
ing habits Of saving and economy hitherto un-
known to Americans. Our superduitiss alone
would pay the whole tax for the war. We are
the only people in tho world. Of whom D much
could be said.
Year: 1862

REBEL DEVICES TO BREAK UP THE UNITY OF
THE NoRTH.-We have before us q singular
document, which was found amongst the con-
iscatsd effects of Colonel Pegram, the rebel
officer who has just been liberated from Fort
Warren and permitted to go South to seek an
exchange. 1t processes to be an erpose of
conspiracy on the part of Massachusetts,
statesmen, orators and public men generally
to break up the Union. To prove this, it cites
every petition, every abolition speech, every
newspaper and magazine article which can, by
implication, be twisted into a squint in that
direction. If Massachusetts, were to be held
responsible for all the rabid utterances of the
abolitionists by whose presence she has been
cursed, she would certainly have much to
answer for. A faction, however, is not COM
munity, and the people of that State have given
the lie to all such charges of treason to the
constitution by pouring forth their blood and
treasure in its defence. No other State has
done so much for the Union, and none has
proved itself more sincerely conservative, as
General Butler and others of her distinguished
soldiers have proved by their conduct on the
contraband question.
Year: 1862

Our CAPACITY FOR TAxArIoN.-K the real and
personal estate Of all the loyal States were
taxed in the same ratio as this city, it would
produce over 500, ,OOO, 600 sufficient to pay
the interest on the loans contracted and to be
contracted for the war. Such is the amount
that might be derived from the taxation of real
and p6fsonsl estate alone, Independently of
revenues from imports and excisable articles
produced in the country. Men Of wealth here
live in the most extravagant style, many of
them in houses worth 100000. Will they not
make small sacrifice for the Union which has
given them their wealth, and which, If destroyed,
will impair that wealth and reduce them from
merchant princes to comparative poverty. If
England incurred debt Of eSO0 0,OO0, ,000-.four
thousand million dollars-to maintain its power,
surely the preservation Of the Union is worth at
least q quarter of that amount, which is the
estimated cost of the war. For such purpose
q thousand millions is mere bagatelle, and
ought not to weigh more than the dust in the
balance against the vast permanent interests,
glory and power involved in the struggle.