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Year: 1862

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o living wore bitter thing


A riddle without reasons,
II each sat lonely, gathering
Within his own hearts narrow ring,
The hopes and fears encumbcring


Tho fight Of earthly seasons.
Thank God, that In life's little day,


Between our dawn and setting,
We have kind deeds 70 give away,
Sad hearts for which our own may pray,
And strength, whom We are wronged TO stay
Porgiving and forgetting
Thank God for other feet that bs


BY ours in life's wsyfaring,
For blessed Christian charity,
Believing when she cannot see.
Suffering her friends infrmity-


Enduring and forbearing.
We are all travellers, who throng


A thorny road together,
And il some pilgrim not so strong
As I but footsore, docs me wrong,
I'll make excuse the road is long;
And stormy is the weather.
What comfort will it yield tho day
Whose light shall find US dying,
To know that once we had our way
Against a child of weaker clay,
And bought our triumph in the fray
With purchase Of his sighingl
Most like our Lord are they who bear
Like Him long with the SHINING;
The music Of long suffering prayer
Brings Angels down Gods golden stair,
Like those through 0livett darkenod air,
Who saw our first beginning
Year: 1862

Too DEMoNsrRATlvE.-.Republicans
who are so furiously erieved over their
recent defeats in the great central States
and elsewhere, would do well to heed
the advice of widow Grizzle to her
nus band who died NJ cholera In the
midst of the most acute bodily pain, al:
ter the hand of death had touched him,
and while writhing in agony, his gentle
wife said to him, swell, Mr.. Grizzle,
you needn't kick round 80, and wear all
the sheets out, if you are dying"
Year: 1862

WoRDs OF PRupESoE.-The New5ury.
port Herald, republican paper, says:


To our minds, the elections Just taken
place are popular condemnation of
radicalism; they are warning to party
leaders; they are declaration in favor
of restoration Of the country to what
it was originally, and they are vote in
favor of peace at the earliest hour it can
be had on honorable terms. If the Re.
publicans will read the writing upon
the wall, aud being warned, reject ultra
leaders, and measures Of doubtful utility,
to say the least, they will yet stem the
tide and keep in their own hands the
adjustment of the present questions that
must soon be settled. The people are
capabls of self-government, and if they
cannot do that one way they will anoth.
er. The people will have the Constitu-
ton and the Union, and everything else
will have to bow before that object. ~
Year: 1862

| she il wss who hoped for returning conscious


ness after all others despaired Atlast they told
her l was dead, and shrouded me for burial.
Learned men decided that the strange preserva-
ton of my frame was caused by the manner Of


death, and at length my body was committed
to the tomb.


had often made my wife promise me that If
l died first she would take the watch into her
own possession, and wear it whie she lived :
and so, now that all was over, she took it, voice
less as it was, and laid it next her bosom. For
three days aud nights she never slepti but at
lass exhaustion did its works, and she fell into
hesvy slumber. She was awakened by sound
ss strange as it was unexpected. The watch,
silent since that fatal day, had begun to tick
fast and furious, as it never tiekad before; loud
enough to arouse hsr-loud enough to make
her spring to her pillow in an agony Of hope and
fear.


Those about her thought she was mad wo-
man. but, nevertheless, the strength of her pur-
pose bore ell before her Ont into the midnight
she went and they followed. Through the
streets of the deserted town she passed in her
white night robes, like ghost, ana they dared
not hold her back. Sac reached the church
yard at last, and beat wildly on the old sections
door,


II am come to tell you to open my husbands
vault" she said he is come to life egain"


He also thought her mad, and yet dared not
disobey her, and all the while the furious ticking
of the watch was heard by each one there. Il
soflened, it stilled, when the doors were opened
and the black sofin stood upon the turf L grew
musical when my wife bent over me and caught |
me to her hesrt-no corpse, but a living man, |
aud it has had change in its regular beat since
that moment.


Is is before me now, battered and worn as it |
was when it first came into my pOssessioni and |
you may laugh alike at the watch and Of the su- |
perslition with which it is connected. But my /
wife believes in it firmly, and loves it as though |
It were living thing and, for the matter Of
that, SO do /.
Year: 1862

TREASURY NoTEs.-The supply of treas
ury notes at San Francisco has run out and
the u s. Treasurer has been compelled to
resume the payment of coin. These notes
are worth more on the Pacific coast than in
any other part of the Union, and are worth
more in Walla Walla than on any other
part of the coast-passng readily at par.
They have been thirty to thirty-fve per
cent discount in New York and are from
ten to fifteen in Oregon and California
placing gold at premium.
Year: 1862

THE BOISE Miners in from
Boise, represent the diggings there as not
differing materially from those of Powder
liver. Inconvenience is experienced in
many localities on account of the scarcity
of water, and in order to work the main
diggings to good advantage it will be ne
cessary to construct a water ditch some six
miles in length. The formation of ditch
company has already begun, and the work
OF construction, will commence early next
spring. There are now four or five hun
dred men in the mines. and those who have
opened their claims arc satisfied with their
prospects.
Year: 1862

We have received three lengthy commu-
nications in relation to the hanging at Au-
burn, all of which, if published, would oc-
cupy full page of our paper. There
seems to be difference of sentiment on the
part of the correspondents in regard to the
affair. Thanking them all for their kind
ness in furnishing us the facts, we select
the following as the briefest, and seemingly
the most impartial:


Particulars of the Murder and Hanging at
Year: 1862

bound, Of every description, constantly on hand.
Just received choice lot of 1000 Novels, of the
latest editions and by the most popular authors which
will be sold at wholesale or retail.
Year: 1862

Major General David Hunter having
been appointed to supersede General
Sherman in the command of tho forces at
Port Royal, Gen. Benhsm having been
ordered 10 report to him without delay,
We are induced to give the following
sketch Of the former. They have already
been before the public during the present
war, but as they are now about to enter
into the heart OF the region of fIPoeldom
and by the very State where it originated,
there is but little doubt that they will not
long be inactive when they arrive in South
Carolina.
Year: 1862

Great Britain by William Pitt in 1877, and on the
success of which much of that great statesman's
fame depends, these enemies should seize the op-
portunity of dealing fresh stab at us. Happily,
we are not dependent on them or their good will.
Their opinions are of no more consequence, and
deserve no more attention. than those of the rebels
at Richmond.


II must be expected that some differences Of
opinion will be developed in Congress on the de-
tails OF the Treasury note plan. majority of both
houses is understood, however, to be in favor OF
paying the whole interest on the public debt in
coin. We believe that the House Committee Of
Ways and Means is divided on the question whether
the legal tender clause shall be made to apply to
pre-existing contracts. Fairness to holders of
mortgages would seem to require that their claims
should not be prejudiced by new legislation, and
that they should not be compelled to receive pay
ment of their dues in any other currency than that
which they consented to receive when the mort
cages were executed. It is proposed, as further
encouragement to holders of Treasury notes. to al
low Sub Treasurers to receive them on deposit and
to pay five per cent interest on them after they
have lain thirty days in any Treasury or govern
ment depository. Another new point which will
probably be raised in the course of the debates
will be the expediency of rendering Treasury notes
and government bonds reciprocally convertible, so
that bondholder may convert his bonds into
notes-that is to say into money-in the same way
and as promptly as holder Of Treasury notes can
convert them into bonds. This is the Russian sys-
tenn, and has been found to work very well in Rus
sia. Its adoption would probably have the effect
of inducing temporary investments in United States
bonds, and would likewise steady the price of the
new skies. All these points will doubtless be
thoroughly discussed in Congress, and mature con-
clusions reached.


The disappointments to which the government
has been subjected in the purchase of the vessels
of the Burnside expedition attract very considera
BILE attention among merchants and shipowners.
People ask, who bought the vessels? Did the firm
which acted for government know that they were
unfit for the service required Of them, or were
they hoodwinked as somebody must be charitably
supposed to have been in the Starbuck case? A
very general impression prevails that parties claim
ing to extraordinary patriotism and excessive
highmindedness have been making fortunes out of
government ever since the war began, and that
the Investigating Committee in Congress has been
SO hot in the pursuit of Mr.. George D. Morgan's
SIC, 900 that they have had no time to look after
other leaks. 1t is due to the public interest and
to the honor of the mercantile community that the
whole of this Burnside matter be sifted.
Year: 1862

habit selfahuse. To which is added observations
Female Diseases and other interesting matter Of the
importance the married and those contemplating
marriage, who entertain doubts of their physical ability
enter that state. Sent any address in sealed wrap
per. on receipt Of ten cents or four stamps.


We devote entire time and attention to the treat
men of various private diseases treated of in pr
va,e report Our Dspensdry is the only Institution Of the
kind In America which has been tablished by a special
charter this fact should give il preference the
various ouacks Of doubtful character be found in all


.~sts.
Year: 1862

our linea His history win some day be
given TO the world, and then there will be
revealed such mass Of mcanncss, treachery,
and yillainy a. will give this small man a
very prominent place among the rascals who
have escai,sI unhung.
Year: 1862

place. He seemed to be as much CON-
posed as one would be in perfect safety.
Our regiment stood their ground we'll.
They fell back only when commanded, and
were not the first to leave The field. Some
two OF our regiments, and those the larg-
est, could not be brought into the field un-
til it was too late. At nine o'clock. both
our force and the enemy's retired from the,
field at the same time, as though mutually
satisfied with the work they had done.
Our men retired toward the center of the,
city in good order, being, however, much
exhausted with the heat of the sun and
the work Of battle, and were many Of
them obliged to leave their baggage in
camp where it remained unprotected .du-.
ring the following night, when some of III
was plundered. Our tents were complete
ly riddled with musket and cannon shot.
They were were probably more damaged



in this way than any others of our army
in this place.


1t is remarkable that not more of our
men We're killed and wounded, how mapv
is not at this time known. In our COM.
pany, only one private was reported
wounded, and he but slightly, and no Of
fcer. T. P. Stevens was hit in the side,
by a rifle ball, causing a slight flesh
wound. was at one time in great dan
ger. For several days before the battle
had been on detail in the hospital
Hearing that Col. Roberts was wounded, |
was sent with two others with stretcher
to bring HIM away. got there in the
thickest of the fight.


The next day some of the rebel officers
came in with white flag asking permits
aion to bury their dead. You will see by
this that the field was still ours. They
wanted four days in which to do the work.
They were sent back empty handed. The
next day our men with goodly number
of negroes commenced the job and finished
it. They reported 400 of the enemy as
found dead. One hundred prisoners were
taken and sent to New Orleans. The
wounded were brought into ou1 hospital
and kindly cared for.


The enemy are reported as reinforced
by 1900. Our orders from headquarters
were to hold the place if possible, if not
to destroy the town and then start down
the river We think we can stand our
l ground. Our men seem determined.
They would die rather than give the trai-
tors an inch, and if no calamity bcfalls
us without doubt the stars and stripes
will not be taken from the State House at
Baton Rouge. ENos FLETCHER.
Year: 1862

those who stood tenderly watching by his
death bed, was the lovely and affectionate
matron of the Home He requested her to
put her hands under his dying head, and
then looking upward, his eyes were fixed
heavenward. And in this posture his life
went out so pleasantly that it was difficult
to fix the time of his departure. His body
was enfeebled to the utmost. But there
was rest in death.


He received from the unwearied kind
ness of the generous volunteer friends Of
the home, where he died, the most devo-
ted attentions. He enjoyed the visits
and conversation of good men, and noble
women,yet with all these alleviations, and
they were many and merciful, it seemed
a melancholy comment on the uncertain
ty of all human calculations, that he who
had labored and fought for his country,
by the space of one year, and had obtain.
ed a furlough of twenty days to visit his
beloved home, remained midway, to die,
away from his home, and his nearest kin
dred. 1t seems mysterious that one so
useful and so needful to the interests Of
his country at this time, and 50 necessary
to his family and brethren in arms,
should be removed so Unexpectedly, yet
we know that it was ordered in infinite
kindness, and unerring wisdom. The ex-
ample of such patriotic citizen and man
is of inestimable value in this day of cor
rupt ambition, political venality and ma
tional peril. His actions were directed to
preserve the integrity of his country, and
civil and religious liberty, in the world.
You knew his platform, He did not wait
to form his policy from the opinions of the
multitude. In the calm light of con.
science and truth, he learned his duty,
and in the clear ligh of the sun, he en-
deavored to do it. Comm.
Year: 1862

General Wilcox Qate Col Wilcox, of
Michigan, and just released from South
crn captivity made a brief speech at
Rutland on Monday last. From the Rut-
land Heralds report we take the follow
ing:


AFTER alluding in very complimentary
terms to Vermont, he said he considered
it the duty of officers to go about their
work and strike and not talk. He was
on his way to his work, and had consent
ed to say a few words while delaying for
the departure of the train, in the hope
that he might be able to do something to
aid the great cause. He did not think
the people of the North were fully awake
to the magnitude of the crisis.


While you arc talking here, and hesita-
ting, Vermonters are spilling their blood
on the field of deadly strife, and are cry
ing to you to come to their rescue and
their aid. You have the same interests
at stake as they. You must make up
your minds that every man in New Eng
land has got something to do, connected
Immediately with this war.


Our Government, the boast of our peo-
pie and the pride of the world, is in dan
ger. That wonderful system Of govern
ment which secures so much individual
freedom, and which imbues all with such
a love for it, that when twenty Americans
find themselves met together in any part
of the unoccupied world the first thing
they do is to organize free government,
came from the brain of New England,
and New England is called upon, more
than all other sections, to fly to the pro-
lection and defence of her own offspring.
This spirit of freedom, said Gen. Wilcox,
is in the West, but 1t was not born there.
1t springs from these grand New England
hills. It flows over the Middle States in
an uninterrupted stream, but 80 soon as il
gets to the line of Virginia it isinterrupt
cd and impeded, until it reaches the cot
ton States, where it becomes sluggish
dreary and dismal, and is blown back il
Elack and suffocating gusts of despotisn
in your faces. Gen. Wilcox declared tha
he spoke from personal knowledge Of wha
he had seen and heard during his impris
onment, when he declared that Southern
ers hate New England, and each individ
ual inhabitant Of New England, with un
appeasable hatred. They hate our schools
our industry. our originality, our invent
i've genius,-but most of all our spirit o
freedom, which is destined to pulveriS
despotism and all forms Of slavery to pow
, der He had conversed with leading mel
Year: 1862

| saw her last night at party,


THE elegant party at Mead's,)
And looking remarkable hearty
For widow SO young in her weeds
Yet know she was suffering sorrow
TO deep for the tongue to express
0 why had she chosen to borrow
So much from the language Of dress?
Her shawl was as sable as night
And her gloves were as dark as her shawl !;
And her jewels-that flashed in the light
Were black as funeral pail
Her robe had the hue of the rest,
How nicely il fitted her shape y
And the grief that was heaying her breast,
Boiled over in pillows of Grape
What tears OF vicarious woe,
That else might have sullicd her face,
Were kindly permitted to flow
In ripples of ebony lace;
While even her fan in its play,
Had quite lugubrious scope,
And seemed to be waving away
The ghost of the angel of Hope
Yet rich as the robes Of queen,
Was the sombre apparel she wore
I'm certain never had seen
Such sumptuous sorrow before
And | couldn't help thinking the beauty,
In mourning the loved anu lne lost,
Was doing her conjugal duty
Altogether regardless Of cost.
One, surely, would say devotion
Performed at so vast an expense,
BETRAYED an excess of emotion
That was really something immense
And yet as Viewed at my leisure,
These tokens of tender regard,
thought 1T is scarce without measure
The sorrow that goes by the yard
All grief is a curious passion;
And yours am sorely afraid,
The very next phase of the fashion
Will find it beginning to fade
Though dark are the shadows Of grief,
The morning will follow the night
Half-tints will betoken relief,
Till joy shall be symboled in white
All well 1T were idle to quarrel
With Fashion or aught she may do;
And so conclude with moral
And metaph0r-Warranted new
when MEASLES come handsomely out.
The patient is safest they say
And the SORROW is mildest, no doubt,
That works in a similar way!


JOHN @. SAKE.
Year: 1862

A Maryland correspondent Of the Phil
adelphia Press says that Gen. Mcclellan
has been opposed to making any advance
until spring, and that nothing but the
advice Of the President and the urgent
demand of the American people has in
duced him to arrange his plans for NOV
ing upon the enemy. If we believed
that Mcclellan has been seriously in fa-
vor of going into winter quarters, we
should certainly give him up as a hope
less case. But we believe nothing of the
sort.


At any rate, we presume it is now a
settled fact that the Army of the POto-
mac will move upon the rebels, and move
soon. Certainly it should move soon, for
October is drawing to close, and rains
and deep mud usually come with the
coming of November. We expect bat
tie in few days, aud, if one takes place,
il will be terrific beyond all parallel in
this war. Considering the immense mag
nitude of the opposing forces and the
momentOus importance Of the issues in
yolved, we can of course look for nothing
but struggle most desperately contested
on both sides. Neither side can afford
TO be beaten. To us defeat would be q
terrible thing to the rebel COnfederacy
it would be death. Let the shock come


If our army is victorious in the pend
ing battle, we trust that the victory will
be a whole one. We have had quit
enough half. yictOries--enough issuel
from which nothing issued-too many
results from which nothing resulted
We have a right to expect that no Gen
Miles or Col. Tom Ford of Harper
Ferry will figure in the next great fight
but that the rebel army will be routel
and pursued and pressed upon until ever.
semblance of an army shall be crushe
out of it.--Louisville Journal 28d.
Year: 1862

RArTLE FIELD ScENg-A member of tie
Massachusetts, 18th regiment. writing day
OF two after the battle of Cedar Mountain.
speaks as follows of the proceedings subse-
quent to the battle


Day before yesterday the battle field was
under the white flag, and open to all parties.
1t was novel sight to the Yankee mud
sills" and the secesh lying on the grass side
by side, debating the war question. Then
YOU would see a group of four playing euchre
two of our soldiers against two of theirs.
The two armies, for the time being. were on
the most friendly terms. There was no dan
ger of disturbance, AS no arms were allowed
by either party.
Year: 1862

RATIONALE OF FORMS OF SALUTATIoN.- Most
modern forms of salutation and civilty are
derived from chivalry, or at least from war,
and they all betoken some difference, as from
a conquered person to the conqueror Just
as in private lifesewe still continue to sign
ourselves fhe vefysd,pmble servants of our
correspondents The uncovered head was
simply TIE head unarmed; the helmet being
removed the party was at mercy. So the
hand ungloved was the hand ungauntlcted !;
and to this day it is an incivility to shake
hands with gloves on. Shaking hands itself
was but token of truce. in which the par
ii held each of the others weapon hand, to
make sure against treachery. so also gen.
tleman's bow is but an offer of the neck
to the stroke of the adversary so the lady S
courtsy is but the form of going on her
knees for mercy. The general principle is
marked, as it ought naturally to be, still
moro strongly in the ease of military salutes.
Why is the discharge of guns salute Be.
cause it leayes the guns empty, and at the
mercy of the opponent. And this is so true
that the saluting with blank cartridge is a
modern invention. Formerly, salutes were
fired by discharging the cannon balls, and
there have been instances in which the com
plimcnt has been nearly fatal to the visitor
it meant to honor. When the officer salutes,
he points the drawn sword to the ground ;
and the salute of the troops is, even at this
day, called presenting arms"-that is, pre-
senting them to be taken.