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Year: 1862

The Pittsburg correspondent of the St.
Louis Democrat writes:


For half mile / pressed on through the
forest, which covered the entire surrounding
country, without finding any evidence of an
engagement, except here and there the scar
of an occasional shot high upon the trees. l
was told that the hard fighting was mile be-
yond. At last broken muskets, cartridge
boxes, haversacks, horse here and there
stretched out in his blood, began to appear.
Before long found poor fellow mangied and
rotting, who had doubtless fallen the day be-
fore. picked up letter lying upon him, but
reflected that it might identify the body, and
replaced it. These were the first drops in
the tempest of human blood. AT some little
distance beyond, through the encampment of
the Third Ohio, the scene baffled description.
Muskets by the hundreds had been thrown
down and abandoned. Bodies were lying at
intervals of rod in all directions Mangled
trunks of horses were scattered about. The
fighting here must have been well contested
and desperate. To detail all the hideous as
poets of the dead in this field of carnage, if
it were possible, would be simply revolving.
l was drawn by sort of fascination to one
corpse after another. The expression of





fresh as Parrhasius could have wished to
paint. Some were distorted and defiant.
The faces were hard and bearded. Others
were boyish, and wore almost the repose of
sleep. One smooth-faeed lad seemed to
smile. | fancied that in the dying moment
me saw his mother. God pity such mothers !
Most of the hands were clenched; the glazed
eye still glaring as it glared upon the enemy
In the moment of death.


In ravine further on, the corpses of the
enemy lay thickest. Here there had been a
cannonade of grapeshot and balls. Trees a
foot in diameter had been cut in two. Moth
ing seemed TO be unscathed. Two rebels lay
disemboweled and Drained by huge ball,
which had apparently slain horse beyond.
Here lay poor wretch, in the clamminess
and pallor of apparent decomposition. l
supposed he had died Sunday; but conceive
OF my horror when | saw that his chest
heaved, "as in his breast the wave of life
kept heaving to and fro" A cannon-shot
had Drained him, but life still worked in a
spasm upon his features. Behind me came a
strange, agorizing cry; it was that of woun-
ded man borne by on litter A Kentucky
captain was exceedingly anxious that should
superintend the burial of an old friend and
recent enemy, white-headed gentleman of
the manor born, and made him some vain
pledges. He said that it would break his
wife's heart if she knew that he was rotting
there. How many hearts will be broken, how
many homes made deSolate, by the last few
hours One soldier told me that he was try
ing to find the body of his brother, who
might be dead on the field


On the bluff to the south of the landing,
| stumbled over forty-seven bodies of the
wounded who had since died Among them
were Lieutenant-C Colonel and Major.
Year: 1862


ton


Paymaster's Clerks 500 per snnum. and 10
cents per day when actually duty.


Chaplain in volunteers $l46 so


In addition TO the paw as above stated, one ra-
ton per day and abunaant supply of good
clothing is allowed 10 every soldier. Quarters.
fuel and medical attendance are always provided
bv the Government without deduction from the
soldiers pay. If soldier should become disabled
in the line Of his duties the Law provides for him
pension, or he may, if he prefer it, obtain ad-
mission into the Military Asylum, which will
afford him a comfortable home so long as he may
wish 10 receive its benefits.


To the above pay for private soldiers must be
added the additional 81 month 70 be paid du-
ring service, the 800 bounty at the end of the
war, which has already been provided for, and
the quarter section of land that Congress will
provide for at Its coming session. The bounty
and land apply TO officers and privates alike.
Year: 1862

The following statement, taken from Official
sources, will show the army pay roll. In the first
column will be found the nett salary per month
and in the second the total salary per month
which includes rations. servant hi-c, forage, &c
Year: 1862

Col Imboden, giving an account of his expedition
IN Western Virginia, relates the following:


"On the 9th instant, 1 halted near sunset. bv f.
log cabin, in one of the widest gorges on the
dry fork Of Cheat River. An aged mother and
several daug hters were the only members of the
family at home. The father has been in Camp
Chase over year on charge Of being a rebel,
and sn only son is soldier in one of my eompanies
asked for corn to feed over 800 horses. The
old lady said they only had little, raised bv
herself and daughters, but that was welcome to
take 1t II l needed it took half she had and
paid her for it, when she seemed to doubt the
proprety of receiving money from o Southern
soldier, she thought it duty to give us what
We wanted Her sons company was not along
and she did not him. The eldest daughter
said, Colonel, tell brother we are ali we'll and
doing well. We expect our papa will soon be
released from Camp Chase and come home. Tell
him to be contented in the army, and write to US
If he can. Ii we had known that you were coming
we would have had his winter clothing ready to
send to him, but We will have no other chance
when you leave Tell him we girls made enough
corn to do us, and have got plenty of meat We
have caught five large Bears in pen and have
salted them down for winter.-The Yankee Sheriff
came along with five soldiers to collect the taxes
and wanted to take the mare, but We had sold the
bear skins for money enough to pay him. and l
hope it is the last time we will ever have to paw
Yankee taxes" On my honor, as a gentleman,
this incident is literally true and detailed exactly
as it occurred. thought as l rode away into the
wilderness that the stripping soldier, but II years
of age whose home had ust left, would hereafter
IN the eyes of just and impartial posterity have
q prouder claim to honor than the Of any
heartless speculator, though he inherited millions
of fathers ill-goten gains"
Year: 1862

Our MILITARY ORGANIzATIoN.-It is to be
regretted that any obstacles should be interposed in
any portion of the Confederacy to the execution Of
the conscription law. Whatever constitutional
objections may be urged against that measure
should be deferred to the e1igency Of the occasion
in the patriotic and gallant spirit which has
animated the Governor of Virginia. State which
has borne without murmur every demand of
every kind that has been made upon her resources,
her vaor and her fortitude. The crisis is upon US
now in its full strength, and it behooves US to put
forth all our energies. The gale is at its height,
and if We expect to weather it, every man should
be at his post. States or communities which hold
back their men at such moment more danger
ous enemies than the Yankees. No alternative il
left but conscription or subjugation, and we trust
the Government will see that the law is every
where executed with thoroughness uniformity and
impartiality.
Year: 1862

1t is a common thing for the uninformed,
inobservant or short-sightcd to mistake the means
for the end And there is no better illustration
OF this fact than the error of supposng emancipa'
ton to have been the object sought by the radical
statesmen of the North. The leading aud control
ling spirits of the Free Soil or Black Republican
Party, from its origin to this day, have been John
Quincy Adams and William II. Seward. These
men have used the Slavery Question with an
ulterior design. The agitation of the question of
the domestic institutions of the South was adopted
the best means Of arraying the Northern people
an sectional Anti-Southern party for the purpose
Of attaining supremacy Of the North over the
South in the Union, and Of thus making the
Southern section tributary to the pecunlary inter-
ests Of the Northern people in their manufactures
and trade, to their Importance amongst the
family of nations, aud to the am bition Of their
public men. The mastery Of the South was the
end sought, so that with Northern Presidents,
controlling Northern majorities III the two Houses
Of Congress- and on the Supreme Court Bench, the
South could be managed by "tarlfs," "navi igation


laws, ''intcrnal improvements" to the inestimabe
benefit of all classes at the North, public men in
cluded. At the same time, they calculated that
the South could be held in check and kept in a
position of colonial subserviency by apprehensions
Of the programme conceived by the fanatical ele-
ment and the terrors that might thus be let loose
upon the Southern communities.


This was the policy and craftsmanship Of the
Black Republican party. To understand our posi-
tiop and guard against dangers in the future, it is
necessary toat we should not attribute too much
of the hostile career Of the United States against
the Confederate States to fanatcism. This ele-
ment h as been used, and for purpose. The
qualification ofsectiona rapacity and ambition was,
and is the great uterior object oe the sectional an
ti-Southern party 1t is this test, not the slavery
question, which the Northern people cannot stand
They now unite in the effort to c0erce back into
the Union - Charleston Mercury.
Year: 1862

SOAKING SEEps.-0nc Of tho best methods
of preparation of seeds for an early start Is
to soak them in diluted liquid manure. Hen
dung is much recommended for this purpose.
Sometimes soaked seeds do not come forward
or rot in the ground; but frequently the
case that the seeds are not attended to, but
are allowed to heat, or sometimes to get dry,
before they are sown. Another point is to
have, for small seeds, tho soil in warm.
friable condition il the seeds arc soaked and
the surface OF the soil is warm, and the soil
itself is pressed down close to the seed, by
rolling, or the hoe, when tho sowingis done,
il will make material difference in the
time which they take to sprout; and, besides
this, the manure with which their outer
coat is saturated protects them from the
attacks Of worms and insccts.-Miehiydn
Farmer.
Year: 1862

may commence rs soon ms the ground is warm
and all danger of hard frost is over. In this
latitude (lO" n y, this will be IRON the FIRST
to the middle OF May but | have seen very


good crops that were planted as late as the
first OF June. The greatest danger in late
planting is the liability Of injury by irosts
in the Fall. In selecting seed, more atten-
ton should be paid to the appearance than
the name. There is scarcely any end to the


varieties raised, and the same kinds have
different names in different sections OF the
country. You will have to DO governed in
your selection very much by tho climate
some kinds requiring much longer season
than Others. At the North, Dutton, little
Canada. King Philip, and many OF the eight
and twelve rowed yellow and white flint
varieties are f,vorites. The large gourd seed,
a strong growing and not very heavy variety,
is much raised in the middle States, and re-
auires long season Southern white is
much raised at the South, and some persons
here prefer it for cooking. Stowell's ever
green is one Of the best for boiling. For
SEED choose good sized ears with long heavy
Grain and small cob, well filed over the ends;
the small end Of the cob should be entirely
covered. Preparing the seed with gas or
common tar will prevent birds taking it. To
do this, soad the seed about twelve hours in
cold water. then pour OF the cold, and pour
ON warm water just below tho boiling point,
enough to barely cover the corn. Dip a
paddle in the tar or pour little on the corn
and stir till il is all coated with tar. A
very little Of the tar will 90 great way.


When you have il completely coated, drain
the water OF and sprinkle on plaster, stirring
1t up with the corn until il becomes thor
oughly dried and the grains separated. III
you are no, sure Of all your corn growing.
drop enough in each hill to be certain OF
having enough. and thin down to the right
number OF stalks after it gets we'll started.


Ii the seeds was properly saved, there will be
Year: 1862

m the shock.


Preparatiss sf the Crssnd.


Corn is much planted on fresh break OF
sod, and made the first crop in i've years
rotation. Ii will, however, succeed for many
years on the same ground, il the strength Is
kept up by proper application OF manure.
Sometimes lin Pennsylvania) wheat or rye
is sown at the last working OF the corn and
pastured through the winter by sheep or
cows; and sometimes the corn is removed
when cut and the ground sown with winter
grain. The first preparation OF the ground
should he thorough draiRGge, where il is
needed, for no crop is moru affected by water
standing in the soil than this. II fsurlace
draining must be resorted to, the best plan is
to plow the land in ridges and plant on the
top. This will also give more nourishment
To the corn in very thin soils but, exeeptin
extreme cases, il i not advisable, as IL leaves
the ground roug gH6r uneven, and interieres
with good cultivation.


Some farmers abject to putting fresh
manure ON corn land, because it makes weeds
grow; but, with me, this would be reason
Tor applying il to this in preference to any
.other crop, for there Is no other in which the
weeds are 40 easily kept down, while Destroy
ing them keeps the ground loose: l gsner-
ally nut the manure on the sod the tall be-
fore when put ON Immediately before plant
ing, il |: is coarse and not very well rotted,
IL will have to be plowed in; but, IT Il Is
fine enough to admit, il Is best applied alter
plowing, and narrowed in. The quantity oil
manure need only be limited by the available
supply; never knew corn TO suffer IRON too
much manure. At the same time excellent
crops may be raised on new land, or on old
sd without any manure. apply the bulk
Of the manure to the corn crop, but give
light coat to the wheat. Manuring in the
hill, either before planting. or after the corn
is up, is sometimes practiced; but manurlng
the whole surface is better, il il can be done.
Though the manure next the seed helps 10
start the corn, IL is OF very little consequence
after the roots begin 10 spread over the
ground, and there will bc but little difficulty
in starting the corn provided the soil Is
properly prepared.


Piswisg.


This may be done any time that the ground
will admit OF il, from the middle OF Autumn
until planting time. For stiff. clayey soils,
Fall plowing Is best: il also destroys the cut
worm and the seeds OF great many weeds.
Sometimes IL is considered an object TO have
the sod for carly pasture in the Spring, rs it
Year: 1862

Females nurses 40 cents per day and one RI
ton.


Paymaster's Clerks 500 per annum and -
cents per day when actually on duty


Chaplain in volunteers Sl46 80.


In addition to the pay as above stated, one ra-
ton per day and an abunaant supply of good
clothing is allowed to every soldier. Quarters.
fuel and medical attendance are always provided
by the Government without deduction from the
soldiers pay. If a soldier should become disabled
in the line of his duties the law provides for h m
pension, or he may, if he prefer il, obtain ad-
mission into the Military Asylum, which will
afford him comfortable home so long as he may
wish 10 receive its benefits.


To the above pay for private soldiers must be
added the additional So month to be paid du-
ring service, the 800 bounty at the end of the
war, which has already been provided for. and
the quarter section of land that Congress will
provide for at its coming session. The bounty
and land apply to officers and privates alike.
Year: 1862

habit of self-abu>e. To which l. added observations
Female Diseases and other interesting Of the ut
importance to the married and those contemplating
marriage who entertain doubts Of their ply ability 90
enter that state Sent any address IN sealed wrap
per, receipt of ten cents or four stamps


We devote entire time and attention to the treat
Of the various private diseases treated Of in pr
report our B>penSary i the only Institution II the
kind America which has been tabshed by special
charter anI this fact should give il preference the
various quackS Of doubtful character To be found in all
Year: 1862

The following statement, taken from official
sources, will show the army payroll In the first
column will be found the nett salary per month
and in the second the total salary per month";
which includes rations, servant hire forage &C.


GENERAL OFFICERS
Year: 1862

Two HEAPS OF MANURE.-The les.


son incucated by the following, from NJ.


pen Of the Hon. f. Holbrook, in the Neu


E"g'and Farmer, is one of great value


to the thinking farmer. How true is the


remark Of NJ. Coke, late Earl of Lei.


ces.er: "That the value of farm-yaru


manure is in proportion 20 what it is made


Of If cattle eat straw alone, the dung
| is straw alone; the cattle are straw, the


farm is straw, and the farmer is straw
they are all straw together. Not long
ago | had four cows come up to toe sta
ble in the fall, which ! thought might
yield good supply of milk through the
winter, if well FED. also had four 9TH
er animals, cows and heifers, which were
not expected to give much milk till the
following grass season. The first fogr
we're tied in the stable side by side, and
received each, in addition to hay and
stalks, -four quarts Of small potatoes each
morning, and two quarts of corn and
oatmeal each evening, through the win
tor. As we expected, they gave a good
mess of milk, and came ont well in the
spring. The manure Of these cows was
thrown out of stable window, under
the cattle.shed by itself.


The other four animals were tied in
the same stable, next to the first tour,
and received only bay and corn fodder
Their manure was thrown out by itself at
the next stable window, and under the
same shed, so that the two heaps lay side
by side. The heap made by the four
cows that were daily messed with pota-
toes and meal, kept hot and smoking all
winter, and was free from frost. The
other heap showed 10 signs Of fermenta-
ton, and was somewhat frozen. Observ-
ing this difference, curiosity prompted
me to apply these two heaps of manure
separately, but in equal quantities, on a
piece of corn ground. The superiority
ofthe corn crop, where the manure of the
messed cattle was applied, over that
where the other heap was spread, was
quite apparent, and called my attention
to the importance of feeding out our best
products, if we would have the best ma
nure for our lands, and large crops frou
them"
Year: 1862

G. Mans works, even in their most
perfect form, always have more or less
excitement in them. Gods works are
calm and peaceful, both in nature and in
His word. Hence, Wordsworth, who is
above all men the poet Of nature, seldom
excjtes the feelings because be is so true
to his subject.
Year: 1862

HANG Our YoUR BAENER.-We learn
from the National Republican that the
Ohio Relief Association at Washington
has instructed its Executive Committee not
to purchase an article for their wounded
soldiers Of any one who sympathizes with
secession. This is right, and we trust that
loval merchants and business men every
where will show that they deserve the
patronage Of loyal men, BY raising the
American Gag over their places Of busi-
ness.
Year: 1862

n COTIesp pOuueuJ VI Ile NeW 4OEA " WOElu,
in the valley Of the Shenandoah, writes:


When we arrived at Milford on our ad-
vance to Luray we rested for a while At
the house Of q widow and orphans, whose
husband and father had but short time
before been taken from his home to the
cornty Jail, from which he was taken out
at midnight with another, who, like him
self, had committed no crime, except that
he refused to disavow his fidelity to the
Union.


The widowed mother lay sick upon
bed. prostrated by disaster which could
not fail to overwhelm any one of human
sensibilities. Her cOuntenance which
contained intelligence and worth, was
struggling with fortitude under its almost
insurmountable sorroWs.


When 1 was introduced into her pres
ence, and my occupation made known, she
reached out her hand to me and said: "Tell
them that they took my poor husband away
from me, and shot him at midnight in the
woods and left him there unburied.'
| could not converse much with her upon
SO painful subject in the feeble state in
| which found her. 1 preferred to make
my inquiries of her daughter, a very in
telligent young lady, who was bearing
/ with the womanly fortitude which often
surprises US, the burdens which were so
/ evidently weighing heavily upon her.
From her learned that sixteen months
ago her father had gone to Washington
to witness the ceremony Of the Inaugural
ton Of Abraham Lincoln. While there he
learned that it would be unsafe for him to


return; and until the late re-occupatiOn


of the valley by Gen. Shields, he had spent
his time in punishment from his home and


family. He had been home but four days


when Shields retreated up the valley. The


General called at the house Of her father


and spent two hours with him in conTer-


sation. That night, at eleven o'clock,


three soldiers came to the house and took


him away, and he never returned again.


He was conducted to the jail at Luray, and


remained for several days, when at mid
night detachment of soldiers demanded
the keys of the jailer, and carried their
victim from his place Of confinement, with
another another, who for no crime had
been likewise imprisoned, and both were
led to a piece of woods two miles distant
? where, without the ceremony Of an e1eeu


ton or an accusation, they were shot, anC
E left by their inhuman murderers to die.
Several days nfterward his body witt
e that Of the other, were buried by citizens
E and when General Shields again passed
Q through the valley they were exhumed an'
I, decently inferred.
Year: 1862

An appeal comes up from the distant
camps of our army which must not be dis
regarded By government or people, It is
5,om the shattered ranks Of the brave men
Tho have borne the brun: Of battle and
zhe rasages Of camp disease; from the
skeleton regiments Of the armies Of the
Iuion. The first duty must be to see these
filled up to the maximum strength. bIany
of them cannot bring three hundred men
into line to-day. Very many more need to
1ave sent them from two to five hundred
mcn cach. And this is the first and ear
7iest duty. Two hundred thousand men
scrt at once to our armies in the field will
bring up to full efficiency more than 500
Old regiments. There are abundant
1casons why every weeks unnecessary
delay is cruel and dangerous. There c2n
he but one method Of securing these men
promptly. Tie government must designate
zhcm, and the people areready and anxious
to have the work commence. The people
say to the government, "takc men, take
money, both without stint, and restore US
neither if such be the melancholy need, but
push On the work of crushing the rebellion"
We must not see this summer and fill
wasted. Now is the time to enroll tue men
and The first duty is TO restore the old reg
imcnts to their full strength. Let the work
OF drafting tcginI at once. Allot their
quotas TO all our Lyal communities and
there will Re M hanging back.
Year: 1862

THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE.


In our local columns will be found the
particulars Of most enthusiastic meet
ing held yesterday evening by the
Board Of Trade Of this city. Notwith-
standing the Board has already subscribed
upwards Of $4,000 for the war,
last evening they commenced a
subscription to support battery Of ar
tillery, to te recruited by the members
Although only about one-iflh Of the mem
bers were present at the meeting, upwards
of S., 600 was subscribed, and meetings are
to he held each evening at the rooms Of The
Board till the entire company is raised.
All honor to the Board OF Trade. Other
associations in the city would do well to
ktgo and do likewise