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Year: 1862

Private Acti0ns Against Public OmceTB.


Mr.. Wade introduced into the Senate yes
terdsy bill to regulate the legal action of
private individuals sgainst public officers to
obtain redress for arrest of such individuals
charged with or strongly suspected Of being
guilty Of aiding or abettiBg the rebels Tie
object is to prevent vexatious proceedings
against public servants acting by authority
OF the President. The bill provides that such
action can only be brought in the Circuit
Court of the United States having jurisdic-
ton of the parties; and that any case now
commenced may be transferred to such court
BY an application, verified by an affidavit
The defendant may, at his option, have his
case continued from tine to time till the close
Of the war. The plaintiff is required to give
bonds for the expenses of the trial. Any
person srresting such officers by civil process,
may be punished by fne and imprisonment
but may petition Congress for redress =


WaShiRgtOn Republican
Year: 1862

these things, and direct his attention
to his legitimate religious duties, or
turn him over Directly in the hands Of
the Abolition party and let them take
care of him, and provide US with a true
minister of the Gospel At any rate
tho present state Fittings cannot last.
If politics are to rule, I shall claim
one half Of the time in behalf Of the
Democratic party, so that there may be
,-s.fair discussion within these walls.
Amen"


This was stumper. It was the
first prayer ever publicly offered in that
ch urch for the success of the Demo
cratic party and its nominees, though
hundreds Of prayers and exhortations
had beeu made against that party
When the old aan had finished, there
was silence Of halfan hour, and the
meeting then adjourned. And thus
ended the political preachin in that
church. From that time forward, the
minister attended to his gospel duties
and left all political ques tions to be
settled by the people outside Of the
church. Again the society prospered
and thare vas better feeling among
its memoers-more Christian charity,
more brotherly love. The old mans
earnist prayer was answered in more
respects than one.
Year: 1862

FONE1GN VIE" OE LAVA" ~ - -
TION. .
It is curious to notice that, while
very unmilitary critics on this side OF
the ocean urge emancipation of the
slaves by proclamation as the panacea
for all our woas connected with this
rebellion, foreign military critics ex-
press very profound contempt for
/ this "usual appliance Of war;" as GER
tain radical journals have claimed it to
be, but have never been able to prove
Not O single European authority worthy
the name, urges emancipation to end
this war,


The Economist, the organ of the
bankers and comercial classes of En-
gland, says very truly in its issue Of
September


"For everybody in America seems
to have abdicated the capacity Of re-
Aection. Let US consider for a moment
/ the arguments and advice of that party
which has apparently the most distinct
aim in view, and the most distinct pol
icy to recommend. They believe that
the North has failed hitherto from half.
heartness- the government
has refused to adopt emancipation as
its war cry. They try to persuade the
authorities to proclaim ut once freedom
to all the Southern negroes, and never
entertain q moments doubt that such q
line of action would paralyze and sub.
due the confederates at once, and term
mate the war triumphantly. Now,
passing over the questionable wisdom
and practioability of changing by a
single and sudden act the entire social
status and individual necessities Of
four millions ef ignorent and very help
less creatures-passing over the rcdu-
plicatien of enmity which such a pro-
ceeding would cause in all the slave
States, and the compulsion it would ex-
ercise on all the border States, Ken
tucky and Tennessee especially, to
fight tooth and nail against the North
what reason is there to believe that
it would bring any material accession
of streangth to the one party, or any
effectual mischief or paralysis to the
other ? The idea proceeds upon an
assumption, for which we have never
seen title of evidence, and which the
whole history Of the war has contra
dicted. For an emancipation procla.
nation to do either the good or harm
expected from it, the slaves must be
in chronic state Of readiness to rise
upon their masters, or at least to throw
off the yoke and strike work in body.
They must hate the confederates and
love tho northerners. Why should
they do the latter ? Under no circum-
stances could an abolition policy be
very telling, except where at hand to
protect and to use those whom they
had set free."


These arc the words Of truth and
Year: 1862

WELL SAlD.-Prentice, of the Lsx-
'sville Journal, gives the following
square hit at the Abolitionists of the
country


We don't credit a mans assertion
that he is friendly to the Union, if hs
evidently does all he can to make other
people unfriendly to it.
Year: 1862

fB The important and necessary order
Of Gov Yates to the enrolling officers Of
the 6tate will attract the notice Of every
vote1, and receive the conmcndation of
every loyal man. It is simply declara-
tion that those persons who have c1simed,
OF intend to claim, exemption from mill
tary duty BY reason Of foreign citizenship,
cannot vote, or if they do vote, they will
be visited with the penalties
Of fraudulent voting. No loyal Amer
ican citizen, whatever his nationality,
will be deferred by it ffom>going to tbs
polls and peacefully deposiing his ballot,
but those who intend to rush off to the
British consul and seek refuge under his
flag whcn they shall be called on for mill.
tasy service, had better stay at home on
election day: The man who is not willing
to fight for the Government that protects
him in the enjoyment Of liberty and prop
crty cannot and should not enjoy the righ!
Of suffrage anywhere.
Year: 1862

An INCIDEHT.-A woman from Indiana,
hearing that her son, her only son, a no
BILE youth, was wounded in one of the
battles before Richmond, fastened to
seek him. She obtained passes, but
searched in vain for him through all the
hospitals in the peninsula. Her endeav-
ors elsewhere were all equally fruitless.-
Having looked through our own hospitals
to no purpose, alone in a strange city,
friendless almost heart-broken with moth
erly anxiety and grief, she hears, while IN
one of the wards, that new boat-load OF
wounded was in the harbor. An uncon-
trollable conviction possesses her that her
son is among them. She becomes almost
distracted with impotence to fly to him !;
and would not wait until the next day,
when the wounded were to be landed
One of our noble uptown ladies, who de
vote themselves to the sick and wounded,
happened to be present and could not re-
sist her distress. She finally persuaded
an officer to procure a boat, and at once
20 with the mother to the steamer. The
very first wounded man looked upon was
her own son. lie sprang to her with the
exclamation, 'Oh, mother, l knew you
would come" 1t was to her Il terrible
shock, lOr Sne saw Jlldl lllc SSe'i VI N'StttAl
was on him He was mortally wounded
through the lungs, and died that night in
his mothers arms. The lady who had in
terested herself in her, anxious to know
her fate, yet hearing nothing, sought the
ship on the next day, and found the
mother alone with her dead boy. almost
beside herself with grief. The wounded
had been taken off the ship, the officers
and crew had gone on shore, and there
was nobody to care for the bereaved wo-
man whom no one knew. This heartless
desertion is lasting shame to the vessel,
whose name we do not care TO disclose
The lady soon made arrangements fol
having the body decently coffined, and
took the mother to her own home. The
American Express Company, to their hon
or, on being acquainted with the facts


volunteered to convey the body to Indi'
ana free of charge, and the mother with
her sacred expense left for her home


Before leaving she was induced to say
something respecting her family history,
and, singularly enough, it appeared that
herself and her benefactor were originally


from the same New England village, and


their fathers had been long and well-trleo
Ifriends.-NeV York World.
Year: 1862

In reply to an inquiry whether sol
der who has enlisted for two or three
years can employ man to locate and oc-
cupy for him a quarter section under the
Homestead act, or must wait until his
term of enlistment Is out, the New York
Tribune says: If the soldier has a wife,
we presume she can locate and make her
home on quarter-section, hiring such
help to build cabin and put some land
in cultivation as she may require, and she
can establish pre-emption in her hus-
bands name in spite of his absence in the
field; but married mans legal residence
is with his family. An unmarried man
must wait till his enlistment is out for
this law knows no such thing as settle
ment by substitute. There is no hurry
about obtaining lands under this beneh-
cent measure. The Government owns
good land enough to give five millions of
settlers quarter section each, and there
will not be so much difficulty as is sup
posed.
Year: 1862

The slate business of Vermont is getting
to be immense, and can well endure the
war tax of so or 40 per cent, soon 10 go
into effect. Of roofing slate her product
is every year increasing, and sells better I;
her enameled slate work IS more 6eautl-
full than costly foreign marbles, and IS tax
ing their place; and she can furnish the
world with slate pencils
Year: 1862

while enjoying many hearty laugh at |
my own expense in secret. If this little |
narrative should chance to meet the eye
of my friend s., | trust that she will
he duly grateful to me for my anxiety
and suffering in her behalf during that
hour of excitement.
Year: 1862

hay- Good temper is the philosophy OF
the heart-a gem of the treasury within.
whose rays are reflected on all outward
objects: a perpetual sunshine, imparting
warmth, light and life to all within the
sphereS of its vast influence
Year: 1862

More men are required for the suppress
sion OF the rebellion Our regiments in
the field are to be recruited to their origi-
nal strength, and in addition, new regi-
ments are to be formed.


Pennsylvania has hitherto done her
duty to the country. Her freemen are
again called on to volunteer in her
defense, that the blood of her sons, who
have already fallen, may no. have been
shed in vain, and that we may hand down
to our posterity the blessings of Union,
an civil and political liberty, which we
derived from our fathers.


The number of men now required, and
the regulations for enlistments will be made
known forthwith in general orders. Mean
while the men OF Pennsylvania viii hold
themselves in readiness for a prompt COM
pliance with the necessary demand up.
on their gallant and patriotic spirit.


Our noble Commonwealth has never yet
faltered, and must stand firm now when
her honor and everything that is, dear to
her are at stake.


Given under my hand and the great seal
Of the State, at Harrisburg, this fourth day
of July, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-two, and of
the Commonwealth the eighty-seventh.


By the Governor.


ELI SLIFER,


Secretarv of the CoTnmonveaIth
Year: 1862

e@An exchange comes tous with the
notice that truth is crowded out of this
issue. This is almost as bad as the up
country editor who said: For the evil eff
fects of intoxicating drinks. see our inside :,
Year: 1862

visory friend the President This Mr.. Hunter would
assuredly b. il il the S.uate where his field Of useful
would be extended and where his long experience
chairman Of the Finance Committee would be nvau-
able We have said more than intended, but no;
more perhaps than the occasion ju'tfes. Our object
has not been to ref upon Mr. Babour but to call at
tenton TO the great outrage sought be p.trated up
on the peonle.
Year: 1862

Hem them in!" is the coantry's cry; "See how the bayonet needles fly! Nothing neglect and nothing leave, Hem them in from skirt to sleeve. Little they reck of scratch or hurt Who toll at hemming the Southern shirt Little they care, as they shout aloud, If the Southern shirt proves Southern sbroud Hurrah for the needles sharp and thin! Cotton is saved by hemming it in."
Year: 1862

The Baton Rouge Sugar Planter OF Saturday says:


Our planters are fast finishing the rolling season.
In two weeks more they will nearly all have done.
It has been an unusually busy season, and accom-
panied by fewer mishaps than might have been
anticipated from the large crops. Notwlthstand
ing the large crop. prices are about the same Tor
sugars as they were in 1853, when there was no
blockade to prevent shipment to the West; while it
must be admitted molasses ranges higher than it
did in that year. Taking everything into considera-
tion planters should be thankful that prices are no
worse.


The Pointe Coup6e Democrat of Saturday says =:


The crops of the year 1861 are almost entirely
gathered OF the corn crop, never before was such
abundance made and so it may be said OF that OF
sugar The cotton crop in this parish will be far
one Upon the whole never were the cultlVators
of the soil better rewarded for their labor.
The Ibervile Sentinel, of the same date, has the
following:


After a severe storm Of rain on Wednesday night
last and next morning, the weather has again
cleared up mild and pleasant AS in June. THIS con
tnued fair and salubrious weather at this season
after the prevalence of storm, is extraordinary
We have had no frosts as yet, to faint even the
| Joints of the stubble cane. The planters are gen
orally through with grinding, and from what We
| learn great deal of sugar is stored away lndeh
nitey in the purgeres
Year: 1862

ABOLITION IMrATIENCE.-The Chicago Tribune,
which is for Cameron's policy of freeing and arm
ing the slaves, don't like the slow progress of the
movement towards the determination of slavery.
1t says:


Plain men, who now reason from what they see,
and not from what they told begin to believe
that as long os any Shareholder in the United States
pretends to be loyal to the Government, the war
will be continued with special reference to his
case, and in such way that the title to the last
hair on his last nggers head may not be disturbed.
Year: 1862

RED RIVER PAcKEr LrSE.-We direct attention
to the advertisement of this hne which appears IN
another column this mornisg. 1t will be seen that
freight for all points in Texas can be forwarded by
it, and that one or the other of the boats leave
twice each week. See advertisement.
Year: 1862

The financial condition of the Lincoln gov
eminent is getting worse with every days pro
gress of the war. So far its credit has been sus-
tanned only by system of deception and un-
serupulous mendacity. The people have as yet
failed to feel the grinding weight Of the nation
al debt that hangs over them, and is acnmuls-
ting with such silent but fearful rsPidity. The
money with which armies have been equipped
and fed, and navies CONSTRUCTED, has not been
w1enched from the hands of the people, but has
been manufactured from waste paper through
the easy insIumentality Of an ordinary press.
But the time is gradually approaching when the
financial ssgscity Of Secretary CHASE, and the
fiscal strength of his government must be fully
tested The war debt is running up to such fig
ures that some show of ability to make ends
meet viii have to be made very speedily as the
only alternative to national bankruptcy, at least
in the event Of disaster Overtaking Federal
arms in either of the great battles expected dur
ing the next thirty days


We see it stated by the Washington CORE
spondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, who is
always quite as accurate in his assertions as is
possible with any publication il d northern
paper, that the Federal Secretary Of War says
that the increased transportation required by the
advance into the territory Of the Confederate
States, has increased the expenses of the Lin
coin government to f0s millions dollars per day.
% More, in the language Of the same couespon-
dent, than the printing machine has the power
to supply" He alludes te the Federal tax bill
introduced into Congress some weeks since in
the following manner:


The tax bill is an awful affair It will raise enor-
amount Of money destroy vast amount Of bus
the other. II wi pass Congress The pub
lie debt BY the lst Of July. viii reach Sl,500Ot0O00
That is the calculation Of the chief aurOT Of the treasury
think short Of the reality. The public really know


little Of what Is the true condition Of the finances They
VIII ind It out hereafter when they called upon to
pay the iuteres Of the public debt. The principal no
person expects UA eDer Be paid!


This is doubtless very fair and candid state
ment of the case, and develOpes the fact that
some other resource must be sought very soon
for carrying on this atrociOus war, than waste
paper and printing machine. While, however,
we may expect the enemy to be greatly embar-
rassed financially, if We viii only hold him in
check, until the approach of summer, we need
not entertain the hope that his troubles will
assume such a character as to altogether impede
his military operations The LINCOLN divan-
whose corruption and dishonesty are only e1-
ceeded by its rancOrous hate towards the South
are determined to prosecute their aims in the
face Of certain defeat, even though they be
compelled to adopt the system of forced loans to
replenish an empty e1chequer, and every other
vile badge Of despotism, indeed. that has ever
characterized the monarchies Of the old world.
Let US not, therefore, commit the too common
error Of relying upon the weakness of the enemy,
but rather upon our own strength.
Year: 1862

EYTho5e leading rebels of Memphis, who,
more than a year ago, expelled the Louisville
Journal from the city and the mails, have got
all their arrangements made for burning the
place If they will do this thing, let them take
q copy of the Journal to kindle the fire with
Louisville Journal.


We will burn the place of its publication,
and convert the sparkling Journal into burn
ing and shining light, first.
Year: 1862

SMALL TREASURY NOTEs.-A bill is before
the Confederate Congress authorizing the issue
of five millions of dollars in change notes-that
is, one and two dollar notes. This bill has al
ready passed the Senate. Aside from the de-
mand for these change notes by the business
operations of the country, the measure is ex-
pected to do the government good service in
keeping Buoyant Confederate notes Of a larger
denomination
Year: 1862

Y The New York Wortd publishes letter
from the Secretary of the Interior, requesting
its authority for the editorial statement that it
had " learned on authority it could hardly dis
credit, that grave and probably valid charges
had been urged against the Secretary Tor i'm
proper speculatons AID other mslfeassnce in
Office" The WOrld declines to give Its grounds
for making the charge.
Year: 1862

EY- The Collector at Philadephia is directed
By the Secretary of the Treasury to clear no
vessel with anthracite coal for foreign aorts or
ports south of Delaware Bay, until further
orders
Year: 1862

Tho world is full of kindness that new
or was spoken, and that is not much bet
ter than no kindness at all Tho fuel in
tho stove makes tho room warm. but
there are great piles of fallen trees lying
among the rocks on the tops of the hills.
whore nobody can get them these 90 not
mako any body warm. You might freeze
to death in plain sight OF all these fallen
trees. if you had no means Of getting the
wood home and making fire with it,
just so in a family, love is what makes
the parents and children, the brothers and
sisters happy ; but if they take care new,
or to say word about it, if they keep il
a profound secret, as if it were crime
they will not be much happier than i
there was not any love among them; they
will seem cold even in summer, and i
you live there, you will envy the dog


when any one calls him "poor fellow"
Year: 1862

Judge Douglas, in his last letter from
Washington to his friends in Illinois, de-
clares that for Partisan Reasons" many
Republican Senators were anxious to
dissolve the Union. Here is the extract
read and ponder it:


"The fact can no longer be denied,
that MANY OF THE REPUBLICAN
SENATORS DESIRE WAR AND
DISUNlON UNDER PRETEXT OF
SAVING THE UNION. They wished
to get rid OF the Southern Senators, in
order to have a majority in the Senate to
confirm the appointments, and many OF
them think they can hold permanent
Republican ascendency in the Northern
States, but not in the WHOLE UNION;
FOR PARTISAN REASONS THEY
ARE ANXIOUS TO DISSOLVE THE
UNION, IF 1T CAN BE DONE
WITHOUT HOLDING THEM RE
SPONSIBLE BEFORE THE PEO-
PIE.
Year: 1862

In New Hartford, on Monday evening
at six o'clock, three boys went in bath
ing in the Pennington river, above the
Greenwood Co.'s mills. one of them a
lad of eleven years, getting close upon
the dam. This boy was drawn under by
suction into hole in the dam an acci-
dental ono) and was barely large enough
to admit the lads body, but he was drawn
into it and disappeared. The other boys
became frightened and ran home keeping
the loss of their companion secret, for
fear Of consequences to themselves. The
next day a search was made; his clothes
were found on tho bank, and the river
was thoroughly dragged, to no purpose
On Wednesday morning the boys were
forced to tell where the lad was, AT
once it was resolved to take up portion
of the dam. This was done, and under
the dam the boy was found aliVe. He
was perched on tie timbers of the dam


the water up to his thighs. He was de


lirious, and was so weak that he had tC


be carried home. wrapped in sheet.
Year: 1862

The apples are ripe in the orchard,
The work Of the reaper is done,
And the golden woodlands redden
In the food of the dying sun.
At the cottage door the grandsire
Sits pale in his easy chair,
While the gentle wind of twilight
Plays with his silver hair.
A woman is knceling beside him,
fair young head is pressed,
In the Wild wind passion Of sorrow,
Against h is aged breast.
Aud far from over the distance
The faltering echoes come
OF the flying blast OF trumpet
Aud the rafting roll Of drum.
Aud the graudsire speaks in whisper,-
"The end no man can see;
But We give him to his country,
And we give our prayer to Thee"
The yocts star the mcdows,


The rosc.buds fringe the door,
And over the grassy orchard,


The pink-white blossoms pour.
But the grandsire's chairis empty,
The cottage is dark and still -
There is a namelcss grave in the battle field
And a new one nnder the hill.
And pallid, fearless woman


BY the cold hearth sits alone,
And the old clock in the corner


Ticks on with a steady drouc.
Year: 1862

Jones was riding up in Winchester
county, n, Y, and saw a board nailed
upon post in the yard of a farm house,
with the sign painted on it This farm
for SAIL. Always read for little pleas
antry. and seeing woman in checked
sun bonnet picking up an apron fall of
chips at the wood pile in front of the
house. he stopped and asked her, very
politely when the farm was to sail. She
went on with her work, but replied to his
question instanter. "Just as soon as the
man comes along that can raise The windi
Jones drove on.