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Year: 1864

A TOUCHING INCIpENr.---An officer, just
returned from the West, relates a touch
ing incident of the loyalty and tenden-
cy of many of the inhabitants of that
nominally secesh land After the battle
at Bean Station, the rebels were guilty
of all manner of indignity toward the
slain. They stripped their bodies, and
shot persons who came near the battle
field to show any attention to the dead.
The body of a little drummer boy was
left naked and exposed Near by, in a
humble house, there were two little girls,
the eldest but sixteen, who resolved to
give the bodya decent burial. They
took the night for their task. With ham
mer and nails in hand, and boards on
their shoulders, they sought the place
where the body of the dead drummer
boy lay From their own scanty ward
robe, they clothed the body for the grave
With their own hands they made rude
coffin, into which they reverently put the
dead boy. They dug the grave and low
cred the body into it and covered it over.
The noise of the hammering brought
some of the rebels to the spot. The sight
was too much for them. Not word
was Spoheui uo oic iheSiieicu, anu WHICH
the sacred rites of burial were performed,
all separated, and the little drummer boy
sleeps undisturbed in his grave on the
battlefield. Such tenderness and hero
ism deserves to run along the line Of
coming generations with the story of
the woman who broke the alabaster box
on the feet of the Savior, and with her
who of her penury cast her two mites
into the treasury.
Year: 1864

How ABRAHAM FLANKED THE VALLAND-
IGHAMITEs-Gov. Bebb represents the
enthusiasm and unanimity Of the West
in favor of Mr. Lincoln's reelection as
without parallel. The enthusiasm for
Gen. Harrison did not equal it. He at
tributes the rousing defeat of Vallandig-
ham and the squelching of copperhead-
ism in all the West to Mr. Lincoln's
shrewd reception of the committee who
called on him to obtain reversal of the
decree of banishment. They called to
make political capital out of the visit
with no expectation that the President
would yield to their request Had the
President been imperious-denounced
them as traitors and threatened them
with arrest-they would have got the
capital they sought But when he did
not ask them to vouch for Vallandig-
hams loyalty or conduct, but simply for
their own-asking them TO admit in
writing that war eXisted-that it was
just war on the part of the government
that they would present no obstacle
to its prosecution to the raising of men
or the appropriation of funds to put
down the rebellion--he would grant
their request-they retired astonished.
The conditions of return for the exile
were submitted to Wood and other
friends of the exied patriot, who deci-
ded that to accept the conditions would
be to hoist the peace party into the air
by its own petard, and could not be &C
cepted. But the terms of release few on
the wings of the wind through all the
land-the refusal of the men to accept
the terms contrasted with their professed
loyalty, was written as If with pencil
of fire--the cry of persecution was hush
ed--the fire of the enemy drawn-the
sentence of banishment approved-and
the whole West made ready to support
the adroit President for another term
Bsvleigh IN tie Boston Journal.
Year: 1864

AihiSS iciutSS tut ioiiOWiuS


The captain of certain sloop, run
ming between that city and Rockaway,
recently perpetrated some very sharp
practice on parties who attempted to
convert him into blockade runner
When in New York, on several occasions
the captain had made public boasts of
the speed of his craft, OF his familiarity
with every inch of the eastern shore of
Virginia, and of his ability to sail in
with his eyes shut Some men doing
business ON South street, and who, it is
suspected, have made successful ventures
to the South, hearing of all this, APP
preached him with inducements to load
his sloop and run the blockade. Three
times was he approached, twice refusing,
and finally, on being promised share in
the profits and indemnity for the sloop
should she be taken, he assented. The
cargo was genuine, boots, shoes, etc.
The sloop was loaded and apparently at
tracted no attention from the authori-
ties 1t was arranged that she should
set out on dark night The night
came, the captain had been previously
dined and wined and wished bon poyage.
Off he slid, and all was well, the con-
signors jubilant and in expectancy of
heavy profits. But the captain sailed
straight for Rockaway, where he dis
charged his cargo and contlscated it to
himself The next day the shippers
were made cognizant OF the fact and,
Notwithstanding their Indignation, were,
and are, of course, powerless. To pros
ecute they dare not; that to them would
be ruin. So they have merely to reflect
upon the great wrong they were attempt
ing to commit, and if reflection makes
them better and wiser men the 81, 900 the
captain has made and the tens of thous-
ands they have lost, are well made and
well lost. The names of the parties are
not made public. .s. .........
Year: 1864

The CAVALRY RRoIMgsr.-A note
from the Burlington Times correspond
ent in the cavalry says the regiment
has been very busy Of late, building
quarters for the men and horses at Ste
vensburg. But small proportion Of
the men will re-enlist


Lieut.. Col Preston, who has been in
command for some time past, labored
hard to induce the regiment to re-enlist
so as to go home and re-organize. Near
ly all the old soldiers would have re-en-
listed had they been sure the regiment
would be re-oyyaaised. But as the regi-
ment is now full Numbering 1907 men,
besides the % who have recently been
paroled by the rebels) there will be no
opportunity for reorganization.


The men are very comfortably situa-
ted, as far as quarters are concerned, but
their duty is very severe. One hundred
and sixty-two is the daily detail for
picket, and in the extreme cold weather
this duty is very hard. But our brave
cavalrymen do not repine under all these
privationS As one of them earnestly
writes us-"We know we are the van
guard of the nation, looking daily upon
its foes across the cold, turbid Rapidan,
and, although our toes are frost-bitten,
and our bodies are chilled in the cold,
frosty winds, the spirit of the soldier is
not chilled, nor does he complain of the
hardShipS"
Year: 1864

THE ANNUAL MEETING of the stockhol-
ders of the Vermont and Boston Tele-
graph Company will be held at White
River junction on the 9th instant, to
elect nine directors for the year ensuing,
and to transact any other business which
may be properly brought before them. :
Year: 1864

AT one of Cora Hatch's recent free
love and spirit-rapping lectures ut New
York, young man took occasion TO
show up his father who had deserted
his wife and family to live with Cora.
No attempts were made by either party
to deny the charges.
Year: 1864

REBEL RESPECT FOR NBUTRALITY.-The
Montreal Herald is stimulated by the Of
fetal announcement at Richmond that
an expedition was lately fitted out in
Canada to rescue the rebel prisoners at
Johnson's Island, TO make the following
comments; ..


This disposes of all the doubts which
Were for party purposes raised in some
of our Canadian journals, as to the reality
of the attempt to commit breach of our
neutrality, and involve us, and not only
us, but the Empire, in a useless and dis
astrous war 1t shows that nothing
frustrated this piratical design but the
action of the British Minister at Wash
ington, in conjunction with his Excel
lency the Governor General, and the Pro
vincial Ministry.


"We hardly know which most to ad-
mire-the audacity of the original de-
sign contrived in utter contempt of In
ternational law, and the wishes of the
British Government, or this bold avowal
of deliberate insult. 1t cannot, how
ever fail to enlighten public opinion
here as to the desperate character of the
Government presided over by Mr. Jeifer-
son Davis, and to show that any encour-
agement offered to the agents of that
Government is likely to lead directly
into conflict with the wishes of our
own"
Year: 1864

General Bruce, of New York, once
made the following apt illustration, in
his speech at u Union meeting, held at
Horticultural Hall. Speaking of the
position assumed by the politicians who
are endeayoring to mislead the Demo
cratic masses in regard to national af-
fairs he said:


Suppose, fellow citizens, the block of
buildings below here We're to burst into
a flame; our first impulse would be to
rush to the scene, and 90 TO work with
will to put out the fire, and save as
much OF the property as we could. Per
haps we might all be horrifled to learn
that women and children were yet in
that burning block. 1t would be nat
ural, under these circumstances, to re-
double our energies, and save them if
possible. Your steamers, your hose car
riage, your hooks and ladders, all man
ned by your brave tiremen, would be
there in full activity No one would
stop for single moment to ascertain
what caused the fire, whether it was
the work OF design or the result of ac-
cident. Under circumstances such as
these, what would you think of class
of men, who might chance TO meet a
short distance of, in the very presence
of the heat and glare OF the confla-
grafton, and pass resolutions such as
these:


Rcsolrca, That the fire appears to be
increasing, and that it is not possible for
the tiremen TO eXtinguish it.


Rcsoired, That we are not in favor
of such fire, and that it ought to be put
out.


Rcsolped, That fire engine No. ought
TO take water from plug around the
corner, and, instead of playing a big
stream on the burning property, should
play on the building on the south side
of the way.


Resoiped, That the people are in dam
ger of losing a supply of water from
Paramount, unless the tiremen stop using
it so freely TO put out the fire.


Rcsoirea, That we are in favor of put
ting out the fire by more conciliatory
measures than throwing water upon it.
Year: 1864

A large number Of very singular bets
have been made in various parts of the
country on the result Of the late election
In town in Massachusetts, bet was
made involving the wheeling of barrel
of salt, distance of two miles. In New
York City, one in which the losing party
is to wheel load of sand through the
length of Broadway, and an other that
the losing party is to sweep the streets
for two hours, in the most public place
that can be found. Mayor Alexander,
of Springfield, Mass, made a wager with
Mcclellan man, that the one who should
lose should treat the other to wheel
barrow ride of two miles On all the
above bets a penalty of 500 was fixed
for non-perfcrmance. In Chicago, a bet
was made, in which the losing party was
to carry the winner three times around
the Court House Square, on his back,
preceded by a band music, orpay 800
In Minnesota town, parties have agre-
ed that the one who loses shall saw all
the wood the other uses this winter.


But the most ludicrous bet Of all was
made at Springfield, Ill, where an ex-
City Marshal and a "nigger" bet game
supper, the best that could be got up
if the Marshal lost, the ''nigger" was to
invite half dozen Of his friends to sit
down with them, and if the ''nigger lost,
the Marshal was to do the same. Guess
the ex-City official will have to eat roy
al game supper in the company Of about
seven s.niggers.'
Year: 1864

in the battle few weeks ago, in
which the Union troop5 in the Shenan-
doah Valley "settled the new cavalry
commander" Rosser, it is said that Gen
eral Sheridan became enthusiastic over
the capture of eleven rebel guns, and
offered thousand dollars from his own
pocket to any company which should
take another one, to make up dozen.
Year: 1864

WELcoxx.--" Papa will soon be here,'
said mamma TO her three year old boy, what
can Georgey do to welcome him ?i' and the
mother glanced at the child's playthings,
which lay scattered in wild confusion on the
CARPET. Make the room neat.' replied the
bright little one, understanding the look,
and at once beginning to gather his toys into
basket. " What can We do to welcome
papa? asked mamma, when nothing was
wanting in the neatness of the ROOM BE
happy to him when he comes ~ cried the
dear little fellow. jumping up and down with
eagerness. as he watched at the window for
his fathers coming. Now-as all the die
tionary makers will tsstify-it is very hard
to give good definitions; but did not little
Georgey give the very substance of well
come? BE happy to him when he comes.n
Year: 1864

Two ladies, while walking in Regent street
in London, were accosted by a man. who re-
quested them to buy beautiful little dog,
covered with long white hair, which he car
ried in his arms. They passing on without
needing him, he followed, and repeated his
entIsaties; they looked at the animal, and
Were at last pursuaded. The man took it
home for them received the money, and left
the dog in the aims of the ladies. A short
time elapsed, and the dog, which had mean
while been very quiet in spite of a restless,
bright eve, began to show symptoms of uneas-
mess, and as he ran about the room, exhibit
ted some unusual movements, which rather
alarmed the fair purchasers. At last, to
their great dismay, the new dog ran squeak
ing up one of the window curtains, so that
when the gentleman returned home few
minutes after, he found the ladies in conster-
nation and right glad to have his assistance.
lie vigorously seized the animal, and taking
out his pen knife, commenced cutting off its
covering, thereby displayed large rat to
their astonished eyes, and of course to its own
destruction.
Year: 1864

is purely scientific preparation, discovered by
long research and study, and can be depended on
being all that it is represented is perfectly
harmless, and will not stain the finest caIabfic.
II the of this preparation Is persevered in,
according to the directions (Which will be found in
full each bottle), there will be necessity of
any one having gray hairs, matter to what age
the person may live.
Year: 1864

PUT ON THE BRAKE. Of the warm
est and ablest supporters of the Admins.
tration are becoming frightened at its ul
ira policy. and are calling upon it to pause
in it's mad career. We published, few
weeks ago, the proceedings of Ere,
State Convention" in Louisiana, in which
negroes participated and were cordially
welcomed as delegates. The New York
Times, Stewards organ, is alarmed and
disgusted at this bold and rapid move.
ment towards Equality and fraternity
1t is carrying the joke little too far
farther than the people will submit to-
In time, it may be, they will submit to
the degradation, but that time has not
yet arrived. Says the Times:


"The Northern men who have gone South
will do well not to push matters too far or too
fast They run the risk of creating reaction
here at the North. which will destroy better
schemes than their own, and give prodHious
strength everywhere to the rebellion. There
is scarcely Northern State which is even vet
quite ready for the recognition of negro equal
ity:-it is worse than folly to push the South
ah cad Of US in that direction"
Year: 1864

BoARD OF SUPERvIsoRs.-Th honorable
body will meet on Monday next for the pur.
pose Of levyiug the State and County taxes for
the ensuing year aud. also. for the purpose Of
equalizing the assessment just made under the
special Act Of the Legislature.
Year: 1864

THE ISSUE.-It is evident that every
day the issue is becoming more sharply
defined between the party of the Con>ti


tuition an1 the party Of Revolution; and
that the Democracy are to constitute the
nucleus and main strength of the former
party. If the Government is to be pre-
Scrved-and we believe it is and are IA
boring for that ohjcct-it will be Ly the
Democratic party. We viii go into the
hght with Governor Seymour's motto -
"The Union and the Constitution and the
Laws. The Union upon equal terms, the
whole Constitution. and all the Laws -
1t is IL holy cause Tor men to fight for, and
no sacrifice is too great for men to make
for its success. Let the people clearly
understand. as they soon WILL that the
Democracy are fighting to preserve, the
AbolItioni>tS TO destroy the Union, and
the party in power will he crushed and
only he mentioned to be eXecrated A
party whose "principleS are infamous
and purposes treaSonahle," cannot long
deceive the pco lie and receive their in
dorSement >
Year: 1864

rsset that sound mind and body the most nsces-
sary requisites TO promote connubial happiness. In
deed without these tho journey through life becomes
view: the mind becomes Swallowed with despair and
allied with the melancholy reflection that the happiness
of another becomes bhghted with our own,
Year: 1864

preservation, by of soldiers who fell in the
first days battle of the Wilderness:


On guard to nightt 'Tis lonely place,
And for two long hours must wearily pace
To and fro mid the tall old pines,


Fringed with moss and cinging with vines.
Scarce smiles a star through the clouds sloft,
And the ocean breeze is damp and soft
That fans my fevered cheek and brow
While think of home and the loved ones now.
ORguard tonight 'Tis lonely beat
And with heavy heart and weary feet
Amid the dark and gloom tread
For I'm watching DER the unburied dead.
All, yester morn how lightly throbbed
Full many heart that death hath robbed
OF Its pulses warm; and the caslpets lie
As cold as the winters starless sky.
How sad the thought that another day
Will bring again the battles fray
And ere the close of the morrows light
l too may sleep like those tonight.
Past midnight hour; and try to hear
step to the soldiers heart most dear
A sound that banishes all of his grief
The welcome tread of the next relief
All here they come And can keep
Ny next four hours in the land Of sleep,
And dream of home and the loved ones there
Who may never know a soldiers care.
Camp on the Potomac, near Belle Plain, Va March
IS, 1864 ....
Year: 1864

In the early part of May, very many
persons begin TO feel that they are not as
well as they have been. There is a degree
of languor and lassitude, an indisposition
to exercise, or even toread or think much,
which makes life almost drug. This
ought not to be. There is no good and
sufficient reason why man should not wake
up to a newness of life, and embark in its
business with new energy and new en-
terprise. The grass shoots up in its green
ness so delightfully."- refreshing, that We
love to look upon it; the buds swell on
the trees, and the beautiful flowers unfold
themselves; while the birds of the wood
fill the sweet air with their rich and glad
some diapasons And why should man
alone, of all the creation, look with Ian
guild eye upon the spring time? 1t is un-
natural, it is wicked, it is absurd; and it
comes about in this plain matter of fact
way. Man alive! do you see that pig yon-
der, lying in the corner of the fence, or at
the foot of the wall, his eye half closed,
and so lazy that he can't summon upcour-
age enough to wag his iail? An hour soon
er he was not so, but was running toward
the eorn-crib, ct the farmers cry of pee
gy.D with the same agility that little
beggarboy viii run from ye1, these times,
on the discovery that you have IN mistake
given him dime instead Of nickel
The pig has eaten so much that he can
scarcely grunt. The lassitude which comes
over multitudes of humanity with the
beautiful Spring, IS the result of eating
too much. There is nothing in the spring
air to cause this; for it is soft and balmy
and blissful, and brings animation and
newness of life to every living thing, man
only excepted


The ''modus operandT is worthy of be
ing studied, and well matured, by every
intelligent reader We are all kept from
freezing by an internal furnace; the fuel
for which is the food we eat; the living
furnace, like that of our dwelling, requires
more fuel in winter than in summer
Who has not, in considerable anger,
abused Bridget for roasting them, by
keeping up greater fire in April than il
mid-winter? and we call it perveTsity.-
But the maid does in the cellar what the
mistress does in the dining-room, shesim-
ply puts the same amount of fuel IN the
crate or furnace daily. The maid roasts
the outside of her mistress, while the mis-
tress herself roasts her inner-man; thus
she is literally between two fires. Is it
any wonder that people complain of
Spring fever? As remedy, Bridget opens
the doors and windows and diminisbes
the heat, while the mistress resorts to ton
les, and the master TO 'bitters, alias bran
dy and water, to whet up the appetite, to
make the stomach call for more fuel, in
stead of attending to the stomach's in
stinct, in calling for less food. In al na-
ture man is the biggest fool.


In Spring be q strict vegetarian, be
strict cold-water man, keep clean, keep
cheerful, keep out of doors, and your
Spring-time Will not be the sleepiness of
the pig, but it win be as gleeful and as
gladstone as that of The sweetest birds Of
May.-RalPs Journal of Heath.
Year: 1864

WHAT YoUNa PEOPLE SHOULD Know
The best inheritance that people can
leave their children is the ability to help
themselves. This is better than hun
dred thousand dollars apiece. In any
trouble or difficulty they will have two
excellent servants ready, in the shape of
their own two hands. Those who can do
nothing, and have to be waited on are
helpless and easily disheartened at the
misfortunes of life. Those who are act
i've and handy, meet troubles with a
cheerful face and soon surmount them
Let young people, therefore, learn to do
as many difersntpseful things Is possible.
Year: 1864

large number of fat cattle and an im-
mense amount of spoils of every acscrip-
ton. From another source we learn
that at last accounts the captured stock
was being driven down the Valley.


FROM GEORGIA.


There was no Official intelligence from
Georgia at headquarters last night. The
telegraph reports pleasant little affair
on the evening Of the roth, in which a
line OF breastworts and a number of prs.
oners were captured. II is to be hoped
that this is the precursor of more i'm
portant successes. Judging from the tone
OF the newspapers of that city, Atlanta
is to be defended with heroism, and the
belief is general that the great battle fol
its possession will come of in'a few days
The army and the people are in fine
spirits, and confident of driving back the
invader of then soil
Year: 1864

The city is devoting itself to making New
Year calls, restoring PROSTATE signs blown
down by the high wind, restraining buoyant
crinoline and chasing fugitive hats. The mild
weather Of the two previous anniversaries Of
the year is varied to-day by most impsrious
gale blowing in all conceivable dlrectlons-ap-
pareutly. II the weather may be taken as an
index we shall have lively times in 1884.
Year: 1864

The number of disasters which took place
the past year aggregate somewhere about $50,
an increase over last year of 20, and over the
season previous, IS. 1t will be seen by far the
greater part of them have taken place on the
st. Clair Flats, as has been the case in former
ypara
Year: 1864

~ The Boston J1arHdl, ucknow edging the
receipt Of three handsome pirkerel, remarks


" When the cook came to dress one of these
pickereI he found in him a little mnnnw an
inch and half long, a. smart aud lively as If
he had just heen taken ont of his native pond
He was put into dish of water and at
last adyices was swimming about as lively a.
ever. 1t was fortunate for him that the piCkcreI
was caught soon after he was swallowed but
how the life of this tishy Jonah was sustained
for more than twenty -four hours out Of his ua-
tive element is a mystery.
Year: 1864

Country Merchants and Milliners would do we'll to
call and examine my stock before purchasing else
where, they want to buy goods from thirty TO forty
per cent. cheaper than they buy the at any
other store in Wheeling, as am positively determined
TO close my business. octl0
Year: 1864

o, the weary, solemn silence
Of a house without the childrenl
o, the strange, oppressive stiffness


Where the children come no mUref
Ah the longing of the sleepless
For the soft arms of the children
Ah I the longing for the children,


Peeping through the opening door


Faces gone for evermore!