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Year: 1862




Correspondence Of the New York Tribune.l


We are permitted to state, upon the au-
thority Of gentlemen holding intimate per-
sonal relations with General Halleck, pre-
cisely what position he takes in cOnversa-
tion, with respect to the principles of the
Presidents Proclamation. General Hal
leck holds that the controlling military ne
cessity that we should deprive the enemy
of the labor by which his armies are sub
sisted, is clear and unqualified; that in
deed it is wholly impossible to subdue the
rebellion while such an army Of labOrers
as the slaves of the South continue to pro-
duce supplies for the fighting army in the
field. OF the three millions and half of
slaves, General Halleck computes that at
least two millions are to-day practically
employed in the work of rebellion, whose
effective strength is greatly increased by
the superior productiveness of the South
ern soil and climate, so greatly that, as is
proved by statistics, the labor Of girl not
more than sixteen years of age in the
South, produces thirty per cent. more than
that of a thorough field hand in the North.
Taking these facts into consideration, Gen
eral Halleck says that, in a military aspect,
he has had no doubt on the question since
the rebellion assumed its present formida-
Bile proportions, and has never wavered
from the belief that if we would conquer
the South, its black labor must be taken
from it. With the question what to do
with the negroes whom the war will leave
upon our hands, General Halleck conceives
that, as General-in- Chief, he has no right
to an opinion, it being a matter for the
consideration of the civil authorities; but
he regards it as problem which deserves
the most serious study of the best minds in
the country. While discussing this branch
of the subject, General Halleck is accus-
toned to advert to the fact that General
Butler is now issuing three rations, and
will, probably, soon be called upon, if ar
rangements now contemplated are carried
into effect, to issue ten rations 10 the ne
groes for every one of his soldiers. Is the
North, asks the General, to feed forever,
the whole negro population, or is the thing
sometime to end, and if so, when and how
In speaking of General MeClellan's Order
No. 169, General Halleck observed that it
is Of course the duty of soldier to obey
his superiors in all things not physically
impossible for him to do.
Year: 1862

GREAT INCREASE OF THE ARMY.-0ur
army during the last two or three months
has grown enormously in numbers. Pro-
baby more than three-foHrths Of the troops
ordered under the last two calls Of the
President arc now ready for the field.
There is nearly quarter of million SOL
diers on the Potomac. General Mcclellan
has attested that the new troops fight like
veterans. They are full of enthusiasm,
health and pluck. We are now in a far
stronger condition for attack than wehave
ever been before We are stronger than
we will be in the ensuing spring-eEen if
the conscription is enforced-should our
army winter in activity; for the wastage
of an inactive winter is appalling.-Nsu


York Times
Year: 1862

The apples are ripe in the orchard,
The work o. the reaper Is done,
And the golden woodlands redden


In the food of the dying sun.
At the cottage door the grandsre


Sits pale in his easy chair;
While the gentle wind of twilight
PLAYS with his silver hair.
y woman is kneeling beside him,
fair young head is pressed,
In the widest passion of sorrow,


Against his aged breast.
And tar from over the distance


The faltering echoes come,
OF the flying b asst of trumpet


And the rattlng roll of drum.
And the grandsire speaks in Whisper
The end no man can see;


But VIC give him to his country,
And We give our prayer to Thee"
The viOlets star the meadows,


The rose buds fringe the door,
And over the grassy orchard,


The pink hte blossoms pour
But the grandsirc's chair is empty,
The colt, &c is dark and still;-
There is a nameless grave in the battle field
Aud a new one under the hill.
And pallid, fearless woman,


BY the cold hearth sits alone,
And the old clock in the corner,
Ticks Oh with a heavy drone.
Year: 1862

General Wilcox's troops, Of General Burn
sides command, to day occupied Uppcrville


The enemy do not appear TO be in any force
in this vicinity, as they have given but slight
resistance to our advance to this point. Our
progress yesterday was made with coritinucs
skrmshing on our extreme front, but the
rebels appeared to have no infantry in support
of their cavalry and artillery. Our loss was
very small during the day.
Year: 1862

Any Englishman who desires to
learn what extent Of brutal bullying
may be tolerated and encouraged in
moment of national passion, can do
nothing better than to read over, in a
calm moment, the leading columns Of
of the Times and the lNornind Post,
tor the past three or four weeks. We
think with shame, as English journal


lists, OF the manner in which, day after
Gay, these two English newspapers
have been slandering, taunting, in
sulting the government and the people
of the United States. No Language
more foul and bitter could have been


employed by either journal if the very


name of American had been the ac-


knowledged synonym Of all that is


base, false and cowardly. People talk


here of the New York Herald in terms
Of just contempt and detestation.-
When has the New York Herald
written anything so coarse, so SANDER


Gus, 50 vulgar, so false as the Times
and the Moruing Post have written of
the American Government and the
|people day after day during the recent
crisis, with a systematic infamy of Ian
guage and baseness Of purpose? .
Had nil this been done to intimidate
the Federal Government, to force it
into yielding TO onr demand, it would
have been sufficiently mean and cow
ardly, but not, perhaps, wholly mex
cusable. 1t,might have aeemed a sort


OF brutal extravagance Of zeal OH be-


halt OF our national interest. But it
had not this excuse. It was not done
to induce the Americans to concede.


1t was done with the deliberate pur-
pose Of goading on the proud and sen.
sative people Of the Northern States
into some passionate defiance Of Eng


land, in order that England, being the
stronger, might crush and trample her
free offspring. All that the Times
and Morning Post could do by taunts,
by jeers, BY vulgar insul, of every
kind, was exhausted in the effort4o
provoke the North into vehement
refusal. It was the. hope and the ef.
fort of those journals that at the very
least the Federal Government might
be forced into a collision with the peo-
pie of the United States, and the prin-
ciple Of Democracy be thus endanger.
Year: 1862

VELOCITY OF L1Gur.----Professor
Tlndall, in one of his recent lectures
on light, at the Royal Institution, Lon
don, stated that it had been proved by
computation that light travelled thro'gh
space at the rate Of 193 900 miles in a
second, and that it came to US from
the sun in seven minutes and half
while it would take a cannon ball tif.
teen years to perform the journey
An express train, travelling night
and day, would require three weeks
to go round the earth light would
do it in the interval betweentwo puffs
of the engine.
Year: 1862

THE GREAT WESTERN BASD.-This Band
appeared in the streets yesterday for the first
time since their return. They wear the marks
of their campaigning, but the quality Of their
music has not dcterior1tcd.
Year: 1862

.E Notice 90 CIub-.uaEkers,


The Editor viii be greatly Obliged to
persons making up clubs for the UNION II
they will remit to the publishers and not
to himself COMMUNICATIONS and sub
scriptions are sometimes mixed up with
private information in such manner as
to cause needless delay and trouble to
all parties.
Year: 1862

We have no time to transcribe COM
munications. We sometimes receive
communications with scrap Of conf
DENTAL information written on the back
of the manuscript. Of course if we use
the manuscript we have TO re-write it,
and this imposes entirely too much labor
on us. We have no time for such work.
Year: 1862

The subjoincd charge was cut from


an old file of the Lancaster hateliigencer,


into which it was copied from the Lon
don Punch about fifteen years ago:
GENTLEMEN OF THE Jury You have


sworn in all cases to decide according to


the evidence at the same time, If you


have any doubt, you are bound to give


the prisoner the benefit of it. Suppose


you have to pronounce upon the guilt or
innocence Of gentleman accused of fel-


ony. You will naturally doubt whether
any gentleman would commit such Of


fence accordingly, however strong NAV


be the testimony against him, you will.
perhapse acquit him. The evidence of
your own sense is, at least, as credi-


bic as that of the witness if, therefore
your cye-sight convince you that the pris-
oner is well.dressed, you have right to
presume his respectability ; and it is for
you to say whether a respectful person
would be likely to be guilty of the crimes
impute to him. In like manner, when
you see a shabby-looking fellow in the
dock, charged, for example, with sheep


stealing. the decision rests with you


first whether or not that individual is a


ragmuffin, and, secondly, how far it is
probable that man of that description
would steal sheep.


OF course, as has been before said, you
will always be guided by the evidence
but then whether the evidence is trust
worthy or not, is a matter for your pri-


vate consideration. You may believe it if
you choose, or you may diabeieve it
and whether, gentemea of the jury, you
will believe it or disbelieve, will depend
upon the constitution of your minds. If
your minds are so constituted that you
de>iIc to find the prisoner guilty perhaps
you will believe it if they happen to be
so constituted that you desire 10 find him
not guilty, why then. very likely You will
it. You are to free your minds
from all prejudice, if you can, and in
that case, your judgement will be uEbi-
asSed but II you cannot, you VIII return
a verdict accordingly. 1t is not strictly
speaking, for you to consider what will
lie the effect of your verdict but if such
a consideration should occur to you, and
you cannot hel p attending to it, that ver-
dict viii be influenced by it to certain
extent. You are probably aware that
when you retire you will be locked up un-
til you contrive to agree You may ar.
rive at unanimity by fair discussion, or
by some of you starving out the others,
Or by tossing up, and your conclusion, by
whichever OF these processes arrived at,
will be more or less in accordance with
'our oaths, Your verdict may be right;
t is hoped it will /; it may be wrong it is
loped it will not At all events. gentle.
nan of the jury, you will come to some
conclusion or other, unless it should so
lappen that you separate without coming
o any
Year: 1862

BY WILLIAM ROSS WALLACb'
o Flag Of New World, thy glory
Is safe as the glory of stars
The Soul of the Universe marshaled
To roll on their sky blessing cars
Thy Crimson by Courage was pictured;
Thy white Is from Purity true,
And love spread upon thee her beauty
4 star lighted Heaven Of Blue!


Hurrah for the Red, White and Rluel


Hurrah for the Red, White and Bluel
And cheers for the Army and Navy


That fight for the Red, White and Blue.
or Union thou art the broad symbol,
Yet Liberty's imaged in theeI
Thy folds rustic time TO the beating
OF hearts that were BON to be freel
Thou'rt chosen the standard Of millions
Who here from black tyranny fewl
0 neer will their proud sons surrender
Thy starlighted Heaven of Bluel


Hurrah for the Red, White and Bluel


Hurrah for the Red. White and Blue!
And cheers for the Army aud Navy


That fight for the Red, White and Bluel
Hark hark from the graves Of the martyrs
curse on all traitors is hurled;
And see, the great Shade of Mount Vernon
Is guarding the Hope of the world!
For all bound in tyranny's dungeons
Thy star eyes shall yet glitter through
The God of the Universe blesses
Thy glorious Heaven of Blue!


Hurrah for the Red, White and Bluel


Hurrah for the Red, White aud Blue!
And cheers for the Army and Navy


That fight for the Red, White and Bluel
Year: 1862

The neblest men know on earth


Are men whose hands are brown with toll
Who, backed by no other ancestral graves,
fIew down the woods and till the soil,
And win thereby n prOuder fame


Than follows king or warriors name.
The working men, whate'er their task,


TO carve the stone or bear the hOd-
They wear upon their honest brows


The royal stamp and seal Of God;
And brighter are their drops OF sweat


Than diamonds in a cUronetl
God bless the noble working men,


Who rear the cities of the plain,
who dig the mines and build the ships,


And drive the commerce Of the main:
God bless them, for their swarthy hands
Have wrought the glory of all lands.
Year: 1862




The Retels Brase A,o1y at ShadowA Sleeper A,cdkened


Torktocn and It's fbrtifcotions, dc.


Two regiments and a brigade reused from their
slumbers early hour this morning. through state
ment smsnang from line Of pickes that the enemy
was coming over TO attack 10 proved false alarm,
and IL is well for the remaining regiments Of the division
that the top their labor at camp moving in the
OF Yesterday the alarm not allowed to extend 10
them.


During the night the rebels fred good many shells
into the woods ss vacated Our boys laughed see the
sport with that degree Of cachinaory enjoyment atri
bu,ed TO the famous dog Of rhyming memory viewing
cow perform the wonderful exploit Of jumping the
moon One Of the shells, however, liked TO have
done some mischief In Its impudent fight
IL came whizzing in close proximity 10 an
old dwelling house division hospital, said
house in fact being the homestead of the plantation
but obscurey Insignificant when its lesser proper
tions are compared with the colossal mansion OF its
modern and more ambitious owner. call the shell i'm
pudent as slept in the antique house Is
10 say II be called sleeping TO be kept awake nearly
all night by some dozen snoring slumberers lying the
same ioor the barking Of what seemed TO be twenty
dogs, and bowling wind and rain that would have
driven King Lear, with all bis love Of furious blasts,
Year: 1862

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above mentioned Billiard Saloon is also intended to
serve As A show and sAlesrOom for


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Model Billiard Tables


And Billiard Trimmings of every description Par
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haze an opportunity Of selecting from varied as
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the superiority claimed tor the Cushions and Tables
Mr.. DAN LYNCH viii always be on hand, and
ready to give all required information with regard
to the merits of these JUSTLY CELEBRATED
BILLIARD TABLES. The subscriber cordially in-
viteS all interested parties 10 call and examine


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Agent for Phelan's Patent Combination Cushions
I and Modern Billiard Tables iye0-3m
Year: 1862

The CENTRAL SKATING pARK.-Another
carnival takes place at the Central Skating
Park this evening. Tie ice is in magnificent
condition, and the Light Guard Band will add
their excellent nusic TO the festivities Of the
evening.
Year: 1862

Run to the door quick, Katie. Bless
me, he cannot have come yet 7


"A note, Miss Julia


The beauty read it eagerly, then
threw it with an angry toss upon the
table.


tHov provoking ? she mutterel.
Frank has been taken i'll with a vio-
lent headache. Just now, of all times
in the world. My dress hurried for
nothing,'-a satin robe, richly embroid-
cred, lay in q recess-'and this is the
first ball Of the season.


There, Katie, put away the car.drops,
and undo my hair. Isn't it ridiculous,
mother, to disappoint me 50, just for
a slight headache :? And her checks
reddcned with two angry spots. 4 de-
clare, if he had only proposed, I would
60 yet.


but if he is sick, daughter


Sick ! Nonsense. He is scheme
er I do believe he is trying me in
some way. Anybody but Frank should
rue it +; but have too much respect for
his property to afFront him now. Well,
I suppose must stay at home but the
idea is so ridiculous. am really angry
| with him.


Katie unbranded and uncurled with
trembling fingers. 1t was new lesson
in life, this fashionable affection Of the
heart, this love for the purse, instead
Of the person-she could not understand
it For long time she sat musing
upon it before the fire, IN the pleasant,
tidy kitchen.


Ia il was an orphan. She had wept
bitter tears above the dying forms of
both father and mother. Nay, more ;
she had held both dying heads, upon
her bosom, and closed their eyes with
her own hands.


She was a girl Of rare natural tai
ents but hitherto undeveloped. Her
manners partook of the innocent sim
plicity of childhood but her heart and
brain those Of woman. She had been
nurtured in povery, yet it had been by
noble parents, who had taught her the
meaning of the word duty She was
humble and unassuming, yet possessed
a natural pride that would submit to
nothing dishonorable.
She was almost companion while
she was servant. Had her lot fallen
where she could have been rightly ap-
Year: 1862

ordered Gen Mcclellan to move without
further delay on the enemy, but that 1t
was not done-that several newspapers
simultaneously, as if inspired from the
same quarter, commenced speaking OF
the lack of supplies for the Potomac
army as the cause of its inaction-and
that thereupon the quartermaster gene
raj and commissary general at Washing
ton proved from their books that every
requisition on them by Gen. Mcclellan
had been filled"


But the President was responEble Tor
keeping these officers SO long in their
places-a responsibility he has acknow-
lodged by removing the two who were
doing the most damage, or, rather, ac-
complishing the least good. If the Pres'-
dent ordered Mcclellan to move, and he
reffsed, the President ought not to have
tolerated such insubordination for an in
stant, but have deprived Mcclellan of
his command, and handed it over, as he
has since done, to more worthy sue
cesSor.
Year: 1862

nG- The Washington correspondent
of the New York Post has the following
in regard to the effect of the New York
election upon the President. It would
seem to a dispassionate observer that
Gen. Mcclellan has felt the effects of the
election more sensibly than any one else:


1t is said the President is grieved at
the result of the election in New York;
but if any Democrat in that State i'm
magines thathe will change his course or
his policy because of the result, he is
wofully mistaken. He will not retreat
from his proclamation, nor will the draft
be abated in any State because of any
election, State or Congressional The
government fully realizes the fact that
what it has to do must be done with dis
patch, and that going into winter quar-
ters means disgraceful peace and an end
of the war-peace and general disinte-
cation. The army, therefore, will not
go into winter quarters, unless it is pos
sible for its Commanding General to
overrule the President. There was con-
siderable excitement over the election
news last evening, but it has died out
already, and people generally acquiesce
in the result good naturedly.
Year: 1862

A majority of two for the Administra-
ton is the net product of the contest,
Notwithstanding the enormous drain on
the Union strength created by the war.
If there had been any sort Of equality
between the contributions of the two par
ties to the army the Breckenridge Dem
ocracy would have elected nobody at all.
They are not insensible to this fact
though it suits their Dragging temper
Just now to leave it out of view, and those
of their leaders, who expect to retain the
reality of the popularity of which they
now hold but counterfeit and know it,
will be cautious how they move lest the
army vote when it gets home will make
conspicuous victims of them.


The Congressional representation from
the States which held no elections this
fall stand as follows:
Year: 1862

We have placed these members as
their record induces US to think they
would place themselves These States
elect Congressman next year, and will
elect majority of Union men, we think,
so that the Administration will, in all
probability, have small majority in the
next Congress.


The States which elect Senators this
winter are the following:
Year: 1862

If New York should elect Breckin-
ridge Senator, as is deemed very improb-
able, there will still be 7 Union members
elected to Breckinridge men, and the
majority in the Senate as well as in the
House will remain with the Administra-
kon
Year: 1862

Resol,-ed, That the issiies involved in the
Nations struggle with ARMED rebellion are
of higher moment than any question OF or
dinary party policy. 1t Is a conflict III Which
is involved freedom and the perpetuity of
the free institutions left us by our fathers.


Resolred, That it is the paramount duty
of the Administration TO sustain the Nation
al Government by suppressing this rebellion
speedily and effectually, and that the prop
erty and slaves of rebels should be used
without scruple, so far as may be necessary
TO this end.


Resolrei, That We heartily approve the
general policy of our National AdminiStra-
ton and its efforts TO suppress the rebellion
which threatens the overthrow of the Res
public; and we pledge the state OF YER
mont TO furnish its soldiers TO the last man,
and its money to the last dollar TO aid In ac-
complishing this end.


Res0lced, That ws rejoice to accept the
emancipation resolution recommended by
the President and adopted by more than a
two-thirds vote of both Houses of Cohstess,
the abolition Of slavery in the District Of
Colnmbia.-the prohibition Of slavery henee-
forward, forever, in the Terriiories,-the
Seward Lyons Treaty for the more efec-
tual suppression Of the infamous Slave
Trade,-as pledges that the Government
has cut itself free from all completely with
slavery, and viii, hereafter, in no partisan
Year: 1862

Some attention should be given 10 one Of
the most oppressed and Sabbaih-ridden of
all classes ministers of the Gospel. Ii
seems like perpetual sarcasm to hear these
overworked men thanking God for this day
Of rest Rest? Why, half the ministers
sal up half the night of Saturday to pre-
pare their two sermons they wrought in
their studies till the bells tell they ofilciate
in the most eNhausting services for an hour
and half They rest one or two hours,
and then return, for another exhausiing
service of like duration and at evening,
being now strung up to the highest nerv-
Gus tension, conduct en- evening prayer.
meeting, or perhaps preach third time.
Then the man lies awake all night, sleeps a
few hours on Monday morning, and on Mon
day afternoon or Tuesday wakes up in the
purgatory of minister's Blue Monday. This
is charmingly entitled day of rest And
like to it is the service OF many man and
woman, overtasked in brain and nerve all
the week, and then, on the day of rest,
working harder than any other day of the
seven The fact is, that church labors are
so arranged that the overwoIked are taxed
still more, and the indelent do nothing at
all. They rest who should work and they
work who should rest. There is vast
amount pulpit desecraiion Of the Sabbath,
and Sunday-school violation of Gods laws
of rest, and of church disregard of Chris
tian observance.-H ". Beecher.