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Year: 1862

The past is irretrieyable, but shall it work
its effect on the futnre2 aaT1t-


We know, if the repeated tales Of those who
come from there can be believed, that two or
more iron clad gnnbosts are preparing at
Richmond. We may s'pooh-pooh" them, but
their existence still remains as well vouehed
for rs q rumor, as that of the Merrimac, the
Manassas, or the Arkansas. What the power
or capacity of those boats may be, we have
no means of knowing certainly. But We
know that the rebels are not devoid of seLse,
and viii make their tools do their work. We
are told, and cannot fail to see for ourselves,
that the army of the Potomac is dependent on
our gunhoats for its existence and safety. Let
us look the matter boldly in the face for q mo-
ment, and ask what would be the resultshould
such thing occur a. the destruction of the
gunboats, or as the running of tie blockade by
the rebel iron clads, and the surrender of the
command Of the james river below Harrison's
Landing. a


We are no croakers but we should be worse
than idiots did We not profit by the expert
ence of the past. This may be no danger that
We have heralded, but prudence Is no sin. Is
obloquy to be heaped upon man who has
suffered from afractured limb because he pro-
tsctx it from repetition of he hurt
Year: 1862

1t is too late now to build gnnboats that
shall be in time for this particular case; but
are there not other preventives? The rebel
prisoners of Gaines Mill and Malvern Hill
spoke of boats as facts accomplished. Shall
we pay no attention to these reports, but hang
our hopes on the Monitor and a few other ves-
sells which may prove unable to accomplish
the work for them to do, and then, when
terror and desolation follow upon supineness,
cry out that nobody is to blame2


Forbid it Heaven that so great disaster
shall fall on our country, but whether it does
or does not, we shall never regret that we
raised this small voice of warning.-Frank
Leslie, Aaq Is.
Year: 1862

PERsoSs leaving the State now are required
to give heavy bond, stipulating for their re-
turn to stand the draft.


Our handsome and facetious friend Fam
baker, who left yesterday for New York, was
required to fill such bond. Farnbaker, with
9 smooth-bore, would be quite an accession to
the army. He would never be killed, as even
q rebel would have q horror of making such
an ugly corpse.-Cairo Gazette.
Year: 1862

order of the Secretary of War, thirteen per-
sons were arrested here last night by Police
Superintendent Bradley. They were bound
ford etroit, evidently intending to escape to
Canada to avoid the draft. They were sent
to jail. -
Year: 1862

Some Editor down East gets off the
following bitter pill. The fourth ar
ticle is the most severe:


May he be shod with lightning and
compelled to walk over plains of Gun
powder.
May he have sore eyes, and chest.
nut burr for an eye stone.
May every day of his life be more
despotie than the Dey Of Algites.


May he never be permitted to kiss a
pretty woman.


May his sheets be sprinkled with
cowbage and with bed bugs, and fleas
the sharers of his couch.


May $50 nightmares trot quarter
race over his stomach every night.


May his wife be always cross, and
his baby ever on the squall.


May his demijohn always be full of
blue devil and rot gut.


May his boots leak, his gun hang fire
and his fishing lines break.


May his coffee be swcetened with
flies and his soup seasoned with spid-
ers.


May troop Of printers "devils," :"
lean, gaunt, grim, and a regiment of
cats catterwaul under his chamber
window each night.


In short may his business 90 to ruin
and he go to --the Legislature.
Year: 1862

l sit in my chamber by the blazing fire


And doze away my life,
And the laughing flames leah higher and higher


As dream of a little wife;
On my shoulder feel pressure sweet,


And arms like the snow oh, whittier!
About my neck in a warm clasp meet,


And the flames fash brighter and brighter.
And ringlets of gold pour over my face,


As my head to her bosom's pillow
Sinks down in cloud of perfumed lace,


That heaves like foam on the billow;
And hear her warm. hearts quickoning beat,


And her eyes glow bright as fire,
Az my lips are covered with kisses sweet,


And the flames leap highor and higher.
A soft check nestlcs close to my own,


And the sweet smiles DER it chase;
Like sundrops on calm lake thrown,


Her dmples the smiles effaec-
A flute like laugh and her swelling breast,


Heaves joyous-highcr and higher;
How happy my lot. and how sweet my rest,


With wifo in front of the fire
AMI l drank her beauty into my heart,


And the love light of her eyes;
With crash the rcd brands fell apart


My wife up the chimney flies,
Thus oft in my chair by the blazing fire,


l dozc away my life,
And the mocking flames laugh higher and hghC
At my dream Of love and wife.
Year: 1862

no distress induce him to forsake his
benefactor; studious to please, and fear
ing to offend, he is still an humble,
steadfast depcnder; and in him alone
fawning is not hattery. How unkind
then to torture this faithful creature,
who has left the forest to claim the pro
lection of man! How ungrateful a re-
turn to the trusty animal tor all its
services
Year: 1862




Indulgent nature seems to have eX.
empted this island from many of those
epidemic evils which are SO fatal in other
parts Of the world. A want of rain for
few days beyond the expected season,
in some parts of the globe, spreads
famine, desolation, and terror, over the
whole country; but, in this fortunate
island of Britain, the inhabitant courts
health in every breeze, and the husband
man ever sows in joyful expectation.


But though the nation be exempt
from real evils, it is not more happy on
this account than others. The people
arc afflicted, it is true, with neither fam
inc nor pestilencc; but then there is a
disorder peculiar to the country, which
every season makes strange ravages
among them; it spreads with pestilential
rapidity, and infe,t' almost every rank
of people; what is still more strange, the
natives have no name for this peculiar
malady, though well known to foreign
physicians to the appcllation of Epidern-
ic Terror.


A season is never known to pass in
which the people are not visited by this
cruel calamity in one shape or another,
seemingly different, though ever the
same; one year it issues from bakers
shop in the shape of sixpenny loaf, the
next it takes the appearance of comet
with fiery tail, the third it threatens
like fat-bottomed boat, and the fourth
it carries CONSERVATION in the bite of a
mad dog The people, when once III
fected, lose their relish for happiness,
saunter about with looks Of despond
encc, ask after the calanities of tho day,
and receive no comfort butinheightening
each others distress. 1t is insignificant
how remote or near, how weak or pow.
erful, the object of terror may be, when
once they resolveto fright and he fright.
ed; the merest trihes sow CONSERVATION
and dismay; each proportions his fears,
not to tho object, but to the dread he
discovers in the countenance of others;
for, when once tho fermentation IS begun,
it goes on of itself, though the original
cause be discontinued which at first set
it in motion.


A dread of mad dogs is the epidemic
terror which now prevails, and the whole
nation is at present actually grooming
under the malignity Of its influence.
The people sally from their houses with
that circumspcction which is prudent in
such as expect mad dog at every turn
ing. The physician publishes his pre-.
scription, the beadle prepares his halter,
and few Of unusual bravery arm them.
selves with boots and buff gloves, in
order to face tho enemy, if ho- should
offer to attack them. In short. fence,
and seem, by their present spirit, TO
Year: 1862

WILL attend to purchase and sale of real estate
w locating lands survey ing investigating titles
paying taxes &c, In Saginaw and adjoining Counties


Particular attention given to sale and lease of
City property. Information given in regard to
General Business Operations.


EEI-Cnn be found at all times at bis Office, over
Hough IIerskelPs or at the Baneroft House.
Year: 1862


Thou art safe thou art safe from the scOrehngs Of


fever


The fierce desolation that walketh at noon;
And drank of the waters / hope to taste soon.
How frutless each effort to hush the wild anguish
That quickens my lfe-p pulse. bewilders my brains.
When think for that voice that made earth 5 rich


est music,


ever. OF ever. must listen in vain.
Thou art safe thou art safe from the storm and the
The wild winds of winter fill mortaIs with gloom,
But disturb thee more than the sOft-sighing ze-


phyr.


That chants a low requiem over thy tomb.
Thou vert young, o, so young, but the dcath-aDgel


called thee,


And we who so loved thee. must bow meath the


rod,
And pray for that faith that bids US look upward
And out on the future, trusting in God.
Thou art safe! thou art safe from the slanderer's


whisper;


The false accusation cannot pain thee now,
Nor can envy remove with its foul blighting finger,
The harp from thy hand, or the crown from thy


brow,
Thy robes are washed white thy pnions are folded,
Thy tears fall no more, hushed is each troubled


sigh;
For thy Savior walked with thee adown the dark
1 believe it. know it. for saw thee die.
And bless the glad hour when the Father shall


call me


To bid earth adieu, and to rest by thy side,
For know thy pure spirit now eagerly waiteth
To give me sweet weeOmings "Over the tide
Year: 1862

the presence of air by the fact that all air


breaks and weakens rays of light, which


pass through it. The atmosphere of the


moon shows no such effects. Her land
scapes appear rs clear and distinct on the


margin as in the centre of the orb, and
when stars pass over the latter, they show
no diminution of light at the time of their
entrance into the luminous circle, no in
crease of light when they leave it again
The evaporation of water also would be
betrayed by the same breaking of rays, If
that element were mixed up with the air,
as it is in our atmosphere, or if it covered
any part of the moons surface. Unwill-
ing as we are to banish her inhabitants
exclusively to that side of the moon,
which human eye has never yet beheid,


because it is constantly turned away from
the earth, and there, at fancy's bid to re-
vel in paradise with purling brooks and
balmy zephyrs, nothing is left but to as
sumo that the air is too thin and the wa
ter too ethereal to be perceived by the in
struments now at our command. The
careful calculations of the great astrono-
mer Bessel resulted in the bare possibility
fan atmosphere, a thousand times thin
ner than our own, showing cOnclusively
how little we can expect to find life on
the moon to resemble in any way life on
earth. The inhabitants in that world, if
there be any, must have other bodies than
ours, other blood must run through their
veins, and other lungs breath their air
sCc could never live in such world.
Year: 1862

Is there not some far cline where surcease of sOr-


row."


Is the boon of its dwellers. so happy and blest?
Where none seek IN oblivion, solace to borrow,
For sad memories which caused the spirits unrest!
Must ever plod onward. though sad and soul-wea-
Through scenes which remind me of happiness
Must life ever seem TO be barren and dreary,
And the clouds of despair ever lower overhead?
All never again can the heart bound with gladness,
As its long cherished hopes to fruition are brought
Its bright anticipatiOns are all turned to Sadness
And corrOding despair its fell work has wrought.
IT s not that sou-travail that in present sorrow.
Only hopes to be brought forth like gold from the


FIRE,


But It's that which ne'er cherished hope for the
Like heather devotee on his own funeral pyre.
Like that fearful place where the inscription is writ
Abandon all hope whoso'er enters here"
Is the heart which remains as the tree hghtnlng-
With its best aspirations alike fallen and scre.
But there's nothing SO sad in these gloomy sur
And there's naught which so keenly the feeling
As that sbarp condemnation which checks the heart
In response to the little of joy that remains.
For that holy tie which in friendship doth bind us,
To spirits congenial, is sometimes our all
Through its influence blessed, we cast far behind u.s.
Gloomy thoughts which surround, as dark fune-


raj pail.


How often and often my heart hath been lghtened,
When burdened with sorrow, and weighed down


with care,


p the thought that in grief friendships bond is


but frightened,


Oh! then how much easier life's trials to bear.
If that last resort which my dark fate hath left me,
To brighten what little of life may remain,
Should be by a fate still more cruel berett me
OIL where should turn for relief from that pam.
That refuge for sinners so blest, is denied me-
Though my heart yearns to seek 1t, know 'twould


be vain,


Its joys once knew now their memories deride me,
But from useless longings L cannot refrain.
Oh God, if I sin by doubling thy power,
To free me from chains, forged by my own guilt,
Give faith to believe, and then from that hour,
VIII joy in the power of thy precious blood split
If dared but to hope, when, my pilgrimage over,
l approach the confines of eternltys shore,
That thy ministering spirits around me might hover,
would count all things loss for thy love eyermore.
Year: 1862




Sudden Love and Quick Wedding.


Some bilious author of past years, in
lamenting the decay of stage coaches and
the rapid growth of railroading mourned
because prosaic railroads would kill the
romance of life, and phathetically allud-
ed to the acquaintances formed in a long
stage coach ride, that have ripened into
intimacies, loVe-making and marriage
That railroading has not killed roman
tic, love-making, but only hurried up the
catastrophe little an affair that We have
to relate will prove,


On Tuesday young. pert, aud good
looking damsel arrived in the depot, on
her way to Rochester, n. Y, where she
said her friends lived. Unfortunately
her money had given out, and she had
not the ''wherewith" to purchase ticket
to that place. Lamenting her sad fate
she made inquiry after the Superinten-
dent of the Lake Shore Railroad, for the
purpose of petitioning for pass.


A young man who had also come in on
the cars overheard the enquiries of the
youngwOman, turned to look at her, and
at once


Cupid wicked little rascal,


Took an arrow from his quiyer,


Drew bead" upon his victim.





The young fellow stepped up and offer
ed to see her home" to Rochester if she
would wait until next train, when he
would be going that way. The lady ac-
cepted his kind offer. The attentive cav
alier at once called a carriage; and took
his fair charge up town to dine and rest
until train time.


Wednesday morning the two again
made their appearance at the depot. A
brief, but doubtless deeply interesting
conversation, took place in the waiting
room. The result was that the young man
hastily consulted his watch and then
sought out Depot Officer Clark Warren.
A few words passed, and in a brief space
after. Justice Foliambe hurridly arrived
at the depot and entered the waiting
room. The couple stood up. Justice
Foljambe adjusted his glasses. Our portly
friend Clark Warren-Who for the Occa-
sion assumed the role of the ''slow old
father" whose mission it is to give away
the bride and bless the happy pair-took
out his pocket handkerchief in order that
he might weep decently at the blessing
ceremony. A few words were said, and
this strangely thrown together couple
were made one flesh. Baggage was hasti-
ly gathered together, the Conductor
shouted "all aboard" Clark Warren
gave his parting benediction, wiped his
eyes and blew his nose The train started,
and the parties in this genuine case Of
Glove at first sight," were whirled away
to Erie, where they make a short stop on
their way to Rochester.


We understand that the couple were
entire strangers previous to their chanee
meeting in the depot. We hope they will
not realize the truth of the old proTerb
MARRY in haste, and repent at leisure"
Herald.
Year: 1862

There is one thing that this season has fully
concentrated to the satisfaction of our farm.
;aa community, that is, the extreme adsptibility
Of our soil and climate to the raising Of Fall
Wheat The past summer has been at best
. poor one for crops Of nearly every deserip-
ton-spring wheat on account of the drouth
turning out very poorly and corn will not be
more than half crop; but Fall Wheat, as il
has done every sease that it has been eown in
this section, turns out q most heavy yield, and
as fine looking wheat as We ever saw. We
have heard no estimate made as to the number
of bushels per acre, but should judge from
the fields that we have seen that the average
would be thirty bushels to the acre, dry as it
has been, which would warrant the belief that
in ordinary seasons We should have from forty
to fifty bushels to the acre.


If there we're any number of arguments
needed to prove this an agricultural country,
the one fact of our being able to raise Fall Wheat
abundantly and proftably would establish US
On that basis. And when this Is fully proven.
as it now is, we need no stronger inducement
to hold out to the home-seeklng emigrant. A
wheat-growing country is the Paradise Of the
farmer, and thitherwards he wsads his way.


We need not speak of the superiority Of Fall
Wheat -four to that Of spring wheat; every
housewife can speak on that score. In view Of
these facts-its sureness as a crop, its product
iveness and the superior bread which it makes,
we believe that every farmer should sow as
much wheat this fall as their land and the
amount Of labor they can command will allow
them. No fears need be entertained as to the
possibility Of having market for what may be
produced; there can be no doubt on that point
But few producers are left in Kansas, and if the
war continues until another harvest the troops
within our borders will more than consume
what we produce; if peace is proclaimed be-
fore that time, the immigration that will pour
into our midst will furnish most remunerative
home market. Sow largely, therefore, and you
may expect q bountiful return.
Year: 1862

q Next Wednesday the State Convention
meets in Topeka, to put in the field ticket for
the suffrages of the people The developments
Of last winter admitting the fact that the various
gentlemen brought before that body are sound
on the War, must be the only impulse governing
their selections. The people hold in their own
hands the power Of rescuing the honor of the
State, and it behooves them when in Convention
to act accordingly. Spurn you would the
Devil, that man who attempts to make use of
money in obtaining a position upon the ticket.
We have every confidence that the Convention
will so act.


We are in hopes that GEORGE A. CRAWFORD
may be the choice of that Convention for Gov
ernor. The slightest aspersion whatever has
never been cast against his integrity Of character
and Of all public men his motives have been the
least Questioned. He celsed to act with the
Democratic party, when Buchanan made that
party the subservient tool of Slavery.


The principal argument used against Mr.
CRAWFORD is, that when placed in power he will
sell out the Republican party. Well had We
supposed so We should not have taken him as
our choice; but a character which cannot be
assailed we are confident will not allow him to
entertain a thought of binding hand and foot
those who placed him in power. Did he possess
such treachery, he has been in public life long
enough to have exhibited it ere this. But
the argument would have more weight did i, not
come from those who seek the same position.
Year: 1862

To every rejecting loyal man the intents and
purposes of the Vslandigham Democracy have
been apparent. A mans outward acts, however
much he may endeavor to smother them, exhibit
the feelings of his heart. Nothing assumed can
hide the real. The heart is the great prompter.
and from it springs alike the good, bad, and
indifferent actions Of our lives.


But the following is so plainly indicative of
the sympathies Of the Democracy that we cannot
withhold it from our readers. And We are fur
ther induced to produce it, inasmuch as the
Leavenworth inquirer has, with considerable
gusto. published the proceeding of said meeting
We find it in the Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch:


A Democratic mass meeting was held last eve
ming in Independence Square, to maintain the
National Constitution, and to declare hostility
to the policy and measures Of all who seek to
prostitute the country to the purposes of Aboli-
tionism, and to express the intention of the Dem
ocratic party to do it has always hitherto
done-support the Federal Government in the
exercise OF Its constitutional power. and to de-
TEND 1t at whatever peril against the insidious
and reasonable teachings Of Abolitionism AS
WELL AS TO AID WITH ALL OUR PHYSICAL RESOURCES
IN SURPRISING THE EXISTING REBELLION NOW wAGEp
sY THE sEcrsIoSIsrs OF THE SOUTH"


hat portion In SMALL CARS was added within
u IL" OnN -.


There it is. added within few days."
Who now doubts the magic power of public
opinion! 1t is now engaged in making Union
men as rapidly as Federal bayonets. Added
within few days." means that it was not in
the original 1t is not voluntary, or it would
have appeared at first.


In all seriousness, can loyal men confide the
desnies Of their country in such terrible crisis
as the present. in the hands Of men exhibiting |
so plainly the absence Of the heart in the cause
What evidence exists that they will not betray I
our Government in the hands Of its enemies
There is no love Of country in their souls-on
the contrary devoted attachment to Slavery.
Patriots will beware. and not confide one iota Of
power to men whose henrts give SO plainly the
impress Of disloyal.y. t
Year: 1862

The Arrest OF George Francis Train.


Let no one on this side Of the world get
excited ever the arrest Of George Francis
Train in England, for the good reason that it
is better to wait and know the grounds Of bis
detention than to accept the foolish and i'm
probable rumor which accompanies the Intel
ligence Of the circumstance, that it has any
thing to do with his intended project to EN-
bark in the enterprise of IA sing volunteers In
this country. The suggestion is absurd We
predict that the next steamers news will give
the real root Of the matter In Mr Trains bust
ness operations, Is 1t is well known and not
dscreditably to him, that he has encountered
bitter opposition in carrying forward his
horse railroad scheme, and has more than
orce been before the English courts in ono
capacity or other. We prefer to see In his
trouble now matter purely personal and pfi-
vAterntl we are obliged to concede the as
founding outrage just announced.
Year: 1862

Of soldiers, to the tune Of $1,000 per
month, crime. Ne cannot believe that
it is the intention Of the War Department
to impose Blenker upon Western brig
ade, unless accompanied with an order to
put him at once on trial for theft, and COM
pei him to aisgorge the enormous SUMS be
e1torted from the German troops in the
army Of the Potomac.
Year: 1862

w It is suggested that after those unable
to do military duty have got done making
sffidaSits, the life Insurance companies viii
be looking them over to see whether they
bazmonize with the testimony given when the
policies were obtained. Not bad idea~