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Year: 1862

IT should be startling thought that Gsd
may take the swearer at his word, and in
eternity pour upon his head those walls Of
wrath which are yet opened. Who would
dare to die ike thatprofane wretch who swors
with an awful oath that he would beat rival
boat OF blow Himself to he'll, end whose body
in five minutes, was scattered IN fragments
over the wharf, and whose soul was IN the
presence of the Being whom he had insultsd
and defed2 What is man that he should dare
to provoke the wratI Of One who can sweep
him into eternity by his breath2
Year: 1862

No BURDEN WITHOUT A C0MPENsATION.-Ther
is no evil without a compensating good. So it
is with the new Tax bill. 1t imposes many new


burdens upon us; but at the same time it will
diminish tho pressure of many old ones.
Hitherto the increase of taxation, municipal as
well as State, has been out of all proportion to
tho public exigencies. The cause of this has
been the shameful manner in which the public
money has been appropriated and squandered
by Office holders. 1t was impossible to impose
any check on their rascaities because the DIFF
ferent legislatures and municipal bodies shared
in the general corruption. The only place
where remedy could be provided was at the
polls, but no one Of any position in the COM
munity cared to lose time or to expose himself
to dsagreeable associations to protect himself
against taxation which he scarcely felt. Be-
sides, fortunes were made too easily for men.
TO occupy themselves with the prospective in
terests of the community at any present sacri-
flee OF their own comfort. The consequence
was that none but politicians of the lowest
order of character and ability were elected to
fill important public offices. All this is going
to be changed. The heavy burdens which the
war WI impose upon us in the shape of taxa
'tion will render every man alive to the import
ance of selecting properly qualified political
representatives. From this necessity will grow
up wholesome and purer state of things We
shall learn from it the duties and response
lbilities of representative institute ons
Year: 1862

EFFECT OF THE New TAX BILL ABRoAD-The
schedule of taxation which has been reported
by the Committee of Ways and Means will do
more for us in European estimation than half a
dozen victories 1t will put an end to the re-
proach which is brought against our govern
sment of a reckless trining with the financial


resources and credit Of the country, and will
inspire faith in our ability to overcome the re-
'bellion. Those abroad who are we'll wishers to
republican institutions will see in it something
more than this. They will feel that, with the
pressure Of heavy taxation, there will arise a
necessity for the exercise of greater care and
discrimination in the choice of those whom we
elect to administer our public affairs. This is
all that has been wanting to offer to the Euro
pean mind guarantee for the stability of our
Institutions. With our characteristic vanity we
have hitherto repudiated the justice of tho con-
clusion. The war, however, has opened our eyes
TO many things, and to this among the number.
Year: 1862




From the New York Commercial AdycrtiseE-Slod.


erAtc Republican.


No one, we presume, will contend that
there is anything illegal or unconstitatton-
al in the measure recommended by the
President. He assumes, as well!he NAV.
that freedom is better than slavery for anv
state, and that some states, those on tho
border especially, would be glad to be rid
of slavery, could they afford the sacrifices
that the change will involve; and lie pro-
poses in a strictly honorable, as we'll as le.
gal and constitutional manner, that the
free states of the Union shall geuerousIv
lend them a helping hand in perfectine, by
making free, NIL their local institutions
The rebels would offer them empire and
perpetual slavery; the President would
offer them a republican government and
assistance IN gradually extinguishihp
slavery. He does not propose to meddle
with their internal affairs, to buy their
slaves at a valuation, or to compel them to
part with them on any condition. He
would have Congress say to the states.
burdened With an institution which all ad.
NIT is au anomaly in a free republic. WIf
youWish to free yourselves of slavery, bpt
are deferred by the expense or temnoraryl
sacrifice which it will involve, we will
cheerfuily afford you pecuniary aid. We
will impose no terms. We do not even
say you ought to do it. Buff you desire
it, we will help you. Do tue work in your
own way, by your own votes and your
own legislation, and we will aid you in
bearingl your selt-imposed burden.h In
all this there Is surely nothing but Eener-
osity aud good will, and nothing to excite
alarm or deserve censure.
. d. u
Year: 1862




When the rocks are gray, aud the shore is steel
And the waters below look dark and deep;
Where the rugged pine in its lonely pride,
Leans gloomily over the murky tide;
Where the reeds and rushes are long and rank;
And the weeds grew thick on the winding banl
Where the shadows heavy the whole day thro'
Lies at its moorngs tho old canoe.
The useless paddles are idly dropped,


Like a sea-bird's wing that tho storm has loppe
And crossed on the raising, one DER one,


Like the folded hands when tho work is done,
While busily back and forth between,


The spider stretches his silvcry screen
And the solemn owl, with his dull ''too hoo"
Settles down on the side Of the old canoe.
The stern half sunk iu the Shiny wave


Rots slowly away in its living grave, ID
And the green moss crceps DER its dull decay;
IIiding the mouldering dust away,
Like the hand that plants DER the tomb flower
Or the ivy that mantles the falling tower;
While many blossom of lovelicst hue
Springs up Ger tho stern of the old canoe
The currontlcss waters are deep and still
But the light wind plays with the boat at will,
And lazily in and out again,


II floats the length Of its rusty chain,
Like tho weary march of the hands Of time,
That meet and part at the noontide chime,
And the shore is kissed at each turn anew,
BY the dripping bow Of the old canoe
o, many time, with careless hand;
have pushed it away from the pebby strand;
And paddled it down where the stream runs quick,
Where the whirls are wild and the eddics are
thick,
And laughed as leaned DER the rocking side,
And looked below in the broken tide
To see that the face and boats were two,
That were mirrored back from the old canoe
But now rs lean DER the crumbling side,
And look below in the sluggish tide,
The face that see there is graver grown,
And the laugh that hear has a soberer tone,
And the hands that lent to tholight sliG wings,
Have grown familiar with sterner things,
But love to think Of the hours that flow
As rocked where the whils their white spray


threw,


Ere the blossoms waved, or the groen grass grew
Der the mouldering stern Of the old canoe.
Year: 1862

by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
Listen young heroes! your country is calng
Time strikes the hour for tho brave and the true
Nor while the foremost are and fighting falling.
Fill up the ranks that have opened for you
You whom the fathers made free and defended,
Stain not The scroll that emblazons their fame!
You whose fair heritage spotless descended,
Leave not your chilsren birthrght of shame!
Stay not for questions while Freedom stands


gasping


Wait not till Honor lies wrapped in his pail
Brief the lips me sting be, swift the hands


clasping-


"of for the wars is enough for them all
Break from tho arms that would fondly caress you
Harkl It's the bugle blast! sabres are drawn
Mothers shall pray for you fathers shall bless you,
Maidcns shall wecpfor you when you are gonel
Never or now cries the blood Of nation
Poured on the turf where the red rose should


bloom
Now is the day and the hour of salvation;
Never or now peals the trumpet of doom!
Never or now roars the hoarsc-throated cannon
Through the black canopy blotting the skies;
Never or now flaps the shell blasted pennon
Ger tho deep ooze whore the Cumberland lies
From the foul dens whore our brothers arc dying,
Aliens and foes in the land Of their birth;
From tho rank swamps whore martyrs arc


lying,


Pleading in vain for handful Of earth.
From the hot plains where they perish


outnumbered


Furowed and ridged with the battle fields plow,
Comes the loud summons, TOO long you have


slumborod,
Hear the last angel-trump-ncvoro or now!
Year: 1862

| froin tho Richmond Despatch.


Ii has been SIX weeks since the las
gun was fred in the fight around Rich
mond that sent Mcclellan skedaddling
to the shelter of his gunboats at West
over. Since then lethargy as deep al
that which pervaded the army and th'
country after Manassas seems gradual
y settling down upon US. We are ap
parently waiting for the enemy to re
cruit his exhausted strength and tC
come forth in the cool weather, that
will be upon us in the next sixty days


BY that time his regiments will al
be filed up, and we shall be assalled by
500, 900 additional troops We shall al
least escape the chance of attacking him
before he is ready. We are giving him
all the time he can desire. lie can new.
er reproacb us with pressing him when
he is not prepared What the conse-
qurnces will be it is not worth while to
anticipate, We saw what they were
last year.


1t is fated, it seems that we are new.
er to reap the fruits of any victory, no
matter how decisive. Manassas was
followed by the aband onment of nearly
half of Virginia. Shiloah was follow.
ed by the entire loss of the Mississippi
and the fall of New Orleans. What is
to follow the victories around Richmond
we cannot imagine. We have not much
more TO give in, unless we mean To
abandon Virginia altogether.


The people of this country ought to
he made aware of the truth efore it is
too late We are rapidly giving way to
the same delusior which lulled our peo-
pie into security last year, while the
enemy were inlistlng and training 700.
600 men; and building and preparing
three hundred vessels of war We are
lulled by precisely the same species of
delusion.


We arc still told that England is no.
only about To recognize our existence,
but to take up arms in our behalf, as if
it were not plain that she not only has
no intention of doing so but that
France would long since have done it
had she not interfered to prevent il,
we are told that the North are discour.
aged, precisely as we were told after
Manassas, that she could not raise men
for the further rosecution of the war.


We listen to the song of the syren.-
We suffer the warm months, when the
Yankees, by the mere force of climate,
are unable to prosecute their designs,
to pass UNDECIDED over our heads. We





snail H0t be awakened until the first
white frost, when we shall be aroused
by the laundering tread of 100000
soldiers, come to reinforce those whom
we have already beaten, and whom we
leave TO receive the expected succor
before they again take the field.


For US the lessons of the past have no
instruction; to US reverse and suffering
lre as though they had never occurred
We are sleeping the sleep of Manassas,
and it seems as though nothing can
break its chain. -......
Year: 1862

VERY WELL PuT.-Some one writes
both gracefully and forcibly: IL would
be gla'l TO see more parents understand
that when they spend money judicious-
ly to improve and adorn the house, and
the ground around it they are in effect
paying their children premium to stay
at home as much as possible, to enjoy
it; but that when they spend their
money unnecessarily 10 fine clothing
and jewelry for their children, they are
aging thcm premium to spend their
time away from hotne--that is, in most
places where they can attract the most
attention and make the most display"
Year: 1862

1t is said Of Canning that ne never
omitted Sunday in writing TO his
mother during her life. How noble
such a custom as this, persisted in, must
tell on .he life OF any one adopting It. q
Year: 1862

"ILL attend TO purchase and sale Of real estate,
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.


D"Can be found nj all times nj his Office over
Hough Ilerskelps, or at the Bancroft House
Year: 1862

Lieutenant Worden, whose gallent bearing
on the occasion of the great fight between the
Monitor and Merrimac has won for him the ad-
mration of the country, has been appointed
commander of the new iron-clad friga;e Iron
sides This is in fact most desirable promo
ton, as the Ironsides is the largest iron-clad
vessel in our navy The name of Worden's
new slip is also historical, and under its tried
commander the new Ironsides will undoubtedly
eclipse the fame of this old namesake, and, like
the "tattered ensign" of its predecessor, the
flag of the new Ironsides will be the symbol Of
victory.


"Many heart will dance to see
That banner in the sky"
Year: 1862

The proof reader on the London Times re-
ceves IN editorial salary, but has to forfeit one
guinea for every typographical error, even a
turned letter, in each days Impression if he
has marked an error on the prouf the compost
tor who neglects to correct it pays the forfeit
Year: 1862

A field officer in the army in Alabama
said to be one of the oldest field officers
from Ohio sends letter to a friend in Gin
cinnati from which the Gazette quotes as
follows, of the southern rebel planters who
demand guards for their property:


"If was sboss of this war for one
month, if l did not make a change and
make these fellows feel what war was,
then you may send me TO that country
where the preachers send all sinners. I
would make these devilish old sinners
feel that they had raised corn for somebody
else beside the Southern army. But in
instead of their feeling thatthis is war, 1t is
to some Of them perfect God-send; they
get double price or much more for every
thing they sell For instance we have
paid them as high as six dollars a bushel
for corn, forty cents for butter, and ffty
cents gallon for buttermilk, and so on
for everything. At this rate how can they
suffer


l confess am getting very tired of all
this. l have now been with the army over
year, and am ready to die there: but
swear l don't want to send to Ohio and
New Hampshire for subsistence for the
army, when it can be had here or any
part Of it. I would take their corn, pork,
or anything else they had, if it was neces-
sary for my men. And in addition to all
this, you have no idea of the amount ofin-
suit we are required to submit to, and es-
specially from the she traitors. They spit
at us, make mouths, curl the lip, turn up
the nose, and when they pass anywhere in
the neighbOrhOOd of us, jerk their frock
tails to one side, as though they were
afraid we might touch them.


'1f they are women, I would let them
know war is in their land, for II know these
she devils do as much harm as the men
but no; we must take it all and stand
guard at their doors like their own negroes
and they appear to enjoy the idea of let
ting us know that they look on us a SER
wants. It is laughable to hear them talk
and see them swell; Why, Abe Lincoln
was once nothing but a common laborer,
and split rails for living. Such Pres
ident as thatP could 60 on and tell you
thousand things like these. l am salts
fed that here, in the South, the people have
not yet felt what war really is; and until
we teach them this truth, and bring them
to feel it, we need not look for peace"
Year: 1862

An immense meeting was held at Chioa-
60 on Saturday evening, to demonstrate
the loyalty Of the city. Men of all par
ties gathered together, actuatod by a COM
mon patriotic impulse. It was noticed
here as at New York, that the more strin-
gent policy the speakers advocated, and the
plumper they hit the bulls eye Of treason,
the louder were they cheered The heart
Of the people was in the work, and they
aOquiesoed most heartily in every measure
calculated to crush the rebellion the most
speedily. There were three mass meetings
at once. Bryan Hall was jammed to over
aOwingi Metropolitan Hall was full, and
Eve thousand people were in Court House
Square. One of the most gratifying fea-
lures of the meetings was the determine
tiOn to root out all treason from Chicago,
from whatever source it might spring.
Year: 1862

Special to the Times


The night of the same day the Arkansas
succeeded in running through our feet,
Farragut made an unsuccessful attempt to
sink her, his entire feet passing down the
river and pouring brOadsides in her as
they passed.


The rebels acknowledge that our seven
inch steel pointed shot went through her,
but this was the only damage sustained.


A reconnaissance the next morning
showed the Arkansas undergoing repairs,
but didn't appear to be any danger of her
sinking.
Year: 1862

TIE BEST KIND OF SPEEcH.-While the
subscription paper was passing round"
at the war meeting in Utica last evening,
Captain Alvin White rose to say that he
was poor, that he couldn't subscribe money,
but would subscribe--hinisslE If there
was any present in the same predicament
and Of the same mind, he would be glad to
meet them ct the Armory Of the Citizens
Corps the next evening. The speeches
were all excellent, but this was the hit Of
the evening. Several jumped to their feet
and expressed themselves willingto follow
the gallant Captain where glory waits.
-AlbaHy EpeSla9 Journal
Year: 1862




[Corinth Correspondence Gin. Commercially


1 am satisfied that the present defensive
attitude Of the armies of the Mississippi
and Tennessee will be Immediately aban-
doned, and aggressive movements undertak-
en-. 1t cannot be reasonably supposed in
the first place, that Vicksburg win be al
lowed to remain in possession of the enc
my, and the Mississippi river consequently
left unopened during the summer. That
the two fleets now before Vicksburg are
unable to reduce the place, is already suf-
feiently well demonstrated. The employ
ment of large land force for this purpose,
seems indispensable, and as no attack by
it on the left flank Of the enemy - such
form the rebel forces at Vicksburg-is
likely to be successful without demonstra-
ton in the front of the main rebel army
now in position on the Mississippi Rail
road, between Jackson and Meridian, it
follows that there is work in prospect for
the whole Of the Federal force now in
Western Mississippi and Eastern Tennes-
see. The railroad facilities enjoyed by the
rebels would enable them to employ their
whole army to repel an attack upon Vicks-
burg, in case it should be unsupported by
an advance on Meridian and jackson of
other Federal corps. In fact an opportu-
nifty would be afforded to the enemy to re-
peat the game played by him before Rich
mond This our Generals, of course, will
have to prevent.
Year: 1862

The direct tax assessed upon the val
ue of all the real estate in the United
States, to raise the annual sum of TWEEN.
ty millions of dollars, has been overlook
ed by many persons, who seem to be un
der the impression that there is but one
national tax, 1.-THE income tax to be paid.
By a law of Congress, approved August
D, it was provided in order to raise the
above mentioned annual sum, that each
State should be compelled to furnish a
certain proportion of that amount, which
is to be collected in the following man
ner: Assessors, appointed by the Presi-
dent and approved by the Senate, will a
bout the first Of March next. ascertain
the value of each piece of real estate, the
valuation being based upon the supposed
money value of such property on the.
1st day Of April. Property exempt from
taxation is that belonging to the United
States or any State, or that is peYma-
nentlv or specially exempted from taxa
ton by the laws of the State in which
it is situated. A deduction of five hun
dred dollars, will be made from this val
uation. All persons assessing taxable
property, or persons having the care or
management of such property, will be re-
qured to furnish written lists of it to the
assessor. A false or fraudulent list will
subject the offender TO fine Of five hun
dred dollars. after the estimates are
completed, public notice will be given by
the assessor where their books may be
seen, and corrections may be made
The place at which the payment of tax
es will be published in newspaper in
each district twenty days before the tax
becomes due; and if persons neglect to at
tend, according to notification, the col
lector will make personal application to
them within sixty days after the receipt
of the collection lists. fthen the taxes
are not paid within another twenty days,
he has power to collect by distraint.-
The apportionment of the State of New
York is S2,6O3,9l which will only be
about one-fifth per cent. upon the pres
ent valuation of property in the State


! The income tax, which will be levied
on and after the first of January next,
will be three per cent. on incomes above
eight hundred dollars, except that por.
ton of such income which is derived
from Treasury notes and other Unitet
States securities, on which the tax will b,
one and half per cent, The tax is tC
be assessed on income dating January
1861. In estimating the income all ma
tional, State and local taxes, assessed up
on property from which the income i
derived, will first be deducted. The pay
ment Of the tax will be due on or belor
the 30th day of June next, and all sum
unpaid on that day will be subject to a
interest at the rate OF six per cent pc
annum, and in default of payment bein:
made within thirty days thereafter, III
collector is authorized to levy the sun
on the visible property of the delanlter
and sell it, after due notice has been Civ
en-, If no visible property is found, tn
person may be examined on oath, an
any stock or bonds he may posses b
sold at public auction A refusal t.
testify is punishable by imprisonmen
until the tax is paid