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Year: 1862

courageous traitors of the South, who are in
arms against us.


In conclusion it may be not inappropriate to
say that in transmitting the approval of the
National Freedman's relief association of my
course, you were-doubtless unconscously-in-
dorsing views which your own earnest elo-
quence had no slight share in maturing
Though without the pleasure of your personal
acquaintance, l was, during year, member
of your congregation, and take this opportuni-
ty to gratefully acknowledge my indebted.
ness to your teachings. Your letter would
have been earlier answered, had not pressing
duties too fully occupied my time. Believe me-
sir, very truly, your obliged and obedent SER
want, ID. HUNTER


p. S.-None of the carefully fostered delu.
sions by which slavery has sustained itself at
the North, is more absurd than the bugbear of
"a general migration of negroes to the North"
as necessary sequence of emancipation So
far is this from being the fact, that although it
is well known that l give passes North to all
negroes asking them, not more than a dozen
have applied to me for ,ch passes since my ar
rival here their Local attachments being ap-
parently much stronger than with the white
race My experience leads me to believe that
the exact reverse of the received opinion on
this subject would form the rule, and that
nearly il not quite all the negroes of the north
would migrate South whenever they shall be at
liberty to do so without fear of the auction
block. Sincerely, oh.
Year: 1862

will include all volunteers from the respective
towns. Against the names Of members of uni.
formed companies should be written, "Member
of Company of Uniform Militia" and state
name of company.


8. Care must be taken to write every name
plainly and correctly, and the first name of
every man must be written in fuH.


8. When the roll is complete, the blank cir
tifcate at the head of the roll is TO be filled out
and signed by the listers, and they will also
sign their names at the end of the roll


10. One copy of the roll is to be deposited
in the office of the Town Clerk, and one copy
is to be sent to the Adjutant and Inspector
General of the State within the time directed
in General Order No. IL.


IL. The extract appended hereto, from the
town of Woodstock, will Illustrate the form re-
quired.


By Oorer of the Governor.
Year: 1862

the African TO do the necessary work about
camp or upon fortifcation. General. YOUR
resignation will not be accepted by me leave
OF absence will not be granted. and you will
see 70 1t, that my orders, thus necessary for the
defense OF the city, are faithfully and diligently
executed, upon the responsibility that s,ldierr
IN IN the h'ld owes to his superior. | will see
mat all proper requisitions for the food. shelter
and clothing of these negroes at work are at
once hied by the proper department. You
VIII also send out proper guard to protect
me laborers against the gnerilla force, if any
there may be in the neighborhood.


CENJAMTN F. BUTLER,


Major General Commanding.
Year: 1862

Each man is to subscribe such contract, with
his name written in full, and his age and resi-
dence correctly stated against his name, and
the Roll, when complete, must be returned to
the office of the Adjutant and Inspector Cen
eral by or before the time above stated.


1t will be TO the lasting honor of Vermont on
the page of history, if her citizens, in this war
for the Union and the supremacy of the laws,
shall freely, and without draft, furnish every
man called for by the President of the United
States. And the Commander-in Chief hopes
and confding in the determined spirit of an
earn st people, confidently expects, that before
the time for legal draft shall arrive, every
man, necessary to complete the requsition upon
the State, will be furnished in the manner above
provided /; a ID he trusts to the people of tn c
State to carry out his wishes in their own way,
without the intervention of Recruiting Officers,
or other official agencies.


BY Order Of His Excellency,


FREDERICK HOLBROOK,


Goreraor and CJmm1nier-iR- Chief


PETER I. WASHBURN,


Admaat and Inspector General.
Year: 1862

towns for the purpose of completing the quota
of four thousand eight hundred and ninety
eight nen assigned to Vermont, as aforesaid
and If the residents Of any town, e-bodied
and between the required ages, equal in number
to the entire quota required to be raised in such
town for the enrolled militia, shall thus become
members Of such company, no men will be
raised by draft in such town and if such res
idents, less in number than the quota of such
town, shall so become members of such com
pany, only sufficient number of men will be
drafted In such town as are required for the
purpose Of completing the quota of the town.


The quotas of the several towns in this State.
required to be raised from the Enrolled Militia.
cannot be determined with certainty. until the
enrollments, required by General Order No. 4 -.
dated August IL, 1862, are returned by the
Listers of the several towns to the Office of
the Adjutant and Inspector General which
will not be until the twenty fifth day of August,
A. ID. 1862. But the quota of the State being
known and the ratio which it bears to the
whole population, the officers of each town can
determine with sufiicier' accuracy, for the pur-
poses Of this order, what will be the number
which will probably be required for such town.


No recruiting officers will be appointed to
receive enlistments under this order but the
town officers and patriotic citizens of the sew
era towns in this State will be expected to ar
range in such mode as shall seem TO them most
proper, for the formation of such companies,
by the enlisting Of the men and combining the
quotas of towns.


The contract of enlistment may be substan-
tally as folows:-
Year: 1862

SET FREE.-Mason and Slidell have been civ
en- up by this Government on the demand of
Great Britain. If by the custom Of war and the
laws of nations we had the right TO capture them,
the Government should have held them even if
war with England should follow but if by these
customs we had not that right then they should
never haze ben taken from the British steamer
1t is probable, however, that our Government
knows what it is about, and that it has not given
them up without making one if not many points
Sacramento Beg.


Very sensible view Of the matter, that.
Year: 1862

SINGULAR PR0cEEDINGs.-At a late Sheriff.
SALE in Sonoma county, the following affair took
place, according to the Santa Rosa Democrat of
Dec 2Gtb.


Personal property was put up at auction the
proceeds of Which were to satisfy an execution
in favor Of j. n Baihache and against Cornelius
Bice j. Ingram, supposed to have been sent on
the part of Bailhache, was informed by many of
the large number of other bidders present
rumor says several hundred that it would not
be safe for him to bid. Others were also threat
ened. The properly was accordingly sold by
Deputy Sheriff Campbell for almost nothing
Horses were sold as low as a bit head. In
short there was an organized party present to
prevent any one bidding on the property, save
themselves, which leads US to infer they were
interested pecuniarily and too, This method to
defraud Balbaehe of his legal rights.
Year: 1862

REGULATION CONCERNING APPEALS FROM
COLLECTION OFFICERS TO THIS OFFIcE.-
Whenever any perstn shall make conmuni-
cation to this Office in the nature of an appeal
from the action of an assessor or an assistant
assessor, In the discharge of his official duties,
or for the purpose of obtaining an opinion as
to the liability of the writer to taxation, such
communication must first be submitted to the
assessor of the district, and his written assent
obtained tc the truth of the statement made in
said commune ton, or the writer must certify
that he has transmitted a copy thereof to the
assessor of the district, either by mail or 9TH
erwlse. The appeal will be considered and
the answer will be forwarded to the writer
through the assessor from whom the appeal is
taken.
Year: 1862

The NAIL ON THE HEAD.--PresideGt
Lincoln is said to have replied to the Senate
Committee who waited upon him to ask for a
reconstruction of his Cabinet, that the one
thing which the sountry wants and must have
is military success. That is it exactly. 1t is
not the triumph of this faction or that which
unfortunatelg are STRUGGLING for political as
tendency but the triumph of our army over the
enemy, which is to give peace and satisfacti on
to the people. The voice of faction should BE-
hushed, in a combined and united determ-
ination to strengthen and sustain the military
arm.
Year: 1862

PosTpoNEp.--The meeting which was call
ed to be held in the Cooper Institute, New
York, on Saturday evening, to consider the
recent conduct of the war, at the request of a
number Of influential citizens has been post
poned until after the report of the committee
appointed by Congress to investigate the
causes of the late disaster at Fredericksburg.
The Express Of Saturday says in reference to
this matter that "Society has about reached
that pitch in which it is not safe to trust itself
to speak out loud, or to assemble the people to
hear The speaking; hence it is thought wise to
cool off before tina people are called together"
The Tribune, not knowing of the postpone
ment, argues the propriety of such a step for
the reason assigned above, and says -s


"Let the whole truth come out, and then let
the great AK fall precisely where it Ought
There seem to have been grave errors commit
ted-let the responsibility rest where it ought,
and let any proved incapacity, imbeeility or
neglect be visited as it deserves. Strike, but
hearr"' ..... ..
Year: 1862

Drawing their reinforcement, and supplies
a, distance greater by three thousand
miles, they will ge, off to: no such sum,
unless they back out before they reach the
Mexican capital If we were allowed to
valiclnate, we should confidently say that
these three Powers will hereafter curse
the day on which they first thought Of in
'erven,ion in the domestic concerns of the
North American continent.
Year: 1862

The National lntelligencer says


"On the 2Oth ultimo a council of war was
held at Galveston at which ii was determined
that it was impossible to defend the city
successfully in case of an attack by the
Union forces 1t was thought best, there
fore, under all the circumstances, to evacuate
Galveston and occupy position in the rear
OF the city, so as to repel any advance of the
Federal troops after they had landed. In
consequence of this determination, an order
was issued for the removal of all the hospital
patients from Galveston to Houston, which
was accomplished Immediately. All the
public and private property was being rapid
~ removed to Houston. The guns had been
taken away and even the newspapers de-
eamped. Such was the condition of affairs
at Galveston month ago, the date of the
latest Intelligence that has reached us.
Year: 1862

What sweet things a re gentle words
sweeter than the first young rose of summer
timei Words that breathe Of love and ten.
Jerness and comfort to the troubled spirit
and the broken heart, are a soothing baIsam
"A treasure to be cherished fondly as riches
-sweeter than anything earth can bestow.-
''1t is not much the world can give,


With all its subtle art,


And gold and gems are not the things


To satisfy the heart:


But oh. if those who cluster round


The altar and the hearth


Have gentle words and loving smile


How beautiful is earth!
Year: 1862

Faretheewell but not for ever;


We may part but for IA while;
Absence gIieves. bat cannot sever,
Love would greet it with a smile.
Faretheewell but. when | leave thee,
May my thoughts forever be
True to one who will not grieve me,


As my heart is true to thee.
Though my thoughts may wander often
From the one l long to see;
Mayhap twill please, rnayhap twill softer,
TO know that heart is still with thee.
Faretheewell and if in sadness


You should feel forgot by me,
Perhaps twill soothe your heart to gladness
To know that heart still clipgs to thee.
Year: 1862

A pious old gentleman, one of the salt OF
the earth sort, went out into the field to
catch mare that was wont to bear him to
town. He moved on the most approved
mode. He shook measure of corn at her
to delude her into the belief that she was
to get it; but she was not to be deceived by
any such specious act She would come
nigh and then dash off again, until the good
man was fretted very badly. AT last he got
her in corner among some briars and made
a dash at her, when she bounded over the
wall and left him sprawling among the BUSH
es. His Christian fortitude gave way at this,
and gathering himself up. cried. 'Oh, help
The ejaculation had passed bis lips before
he thought, but immed lately conscious of its
wickedness, he said, 'lelujah!' and translated
the profane word into note of triumph.
Year: 1862

utterly crushed out. How stupid, blind.
mad is it then, to think Of anything else,
than how to utterly destroy 10 the quickest
yay this monstrous source Of danger and
ruin The struggled is one Of life and death.
Il We do not gather up all ouz strength,
and strike with all our might and destroy
its Life, it is sure to destroy oura There Is
no other choice. Let not foolish fears and
ford hopes keep Us hesitating, until it Is
too late, and the overthrow Of the Union
and constitutional freedom is made sure.
Year: 1862

brigade and regmena surgeons for me immediate dress


ing Of wounds all that humanity do viii be done 70
succor those who may fall in their practical dsvoon 70
their country and their flag.
Year: 1862

In view the limitation of our legitimate in6u-
ence on this continent than the liquidation Of
claims, the major part Of which have been built
up in fraud. and are now sought to be enforced
through unnecessary rigor
Year: 1862

PUNISHMENT OF FRAUDS ON THE GOVERNMENT
The man who would be SO unprincipled and un


patriotic as to practise imposition upon the
government at time Of national peril and en-
barrassment like the present is deserving of
more than ordinary punishment. We are
therefore glad to observe that the Committee on
the Conduct of the War have resolved to advise
the immediate passage of bill to iniict the
penalty of death upon any person who commits
fraud upon the government whereby q soldier


is bodily injured-as, for instance, in the sale of
unsound provisions; also to punish with i'm
prisonment and conhscation of property con-
tractors defrauding the government in the
quality Of goods sold or services rendered. This
Is the first useful thing we remember the COM
mittee to have done, and we hope that their
Year: 1862

Recommendation will be acted upon and
speedily become law. The first Napoleon
had summary way of dealing with fraudulent
characters Of this description, and the fear Of
having a speedy termination put to their ex-
istence had a very salutary effect in deterring
the contractors for his army from the practice
Of dishonesty. The shoddy aristocracy had
find themselves very soon in position so awk-
ward that their lives and property will not be
worth months purchase. Too much fraud
has already been practised with impunity by
individuals who have traded upon the misfor-
tunes of the country, and the interests of the
republic demand that some check should be
promptly and efficiently applied.
Year: 1862

IRON Che Phadoiphia p illetin.


Let any close observer Of the wac take
map of Virginia, and mark how the
separate parts Of one comprehensive and
symmetrical plan Of campaign are now
producing their inestimable results in
that state The greatest army of the
Secession conspirators was entrenched
upon the peninsula, between the James
and York rivers, dispuGng the passage
OF the national forces on their march 10
Richmond. That army is now a beaten.
dispersed, and demoralized mob Of armed
men, seeking some place Of safety or
some avenue for continued flight


On its way It's rear is harrasSed by One
OF General McClellan's columns; Its flank
is swooped down upon by another, and
on the James river it is pursued by the
gum boats Coming down upon 10 from
the north is General Mcdowell. who
holds Eredericksburg. Barring its way
to the valley of Virginia is Gen Banks,
who has or will have possession Of the
Virginia Central Railroad, near Staunton.
Preventing its passage TO the southwest
IS General FTemont's column, which is in
the vicinity of the East Tennessee rail-
road and threatening il upon the south
IS the ever active Burnside, who is re-
ported to be on the march TO Weldon,
where his presence will cut off retreat by
way of the old railroad route through
the Cotton States. This, unless the enc
my attempts some desperate and reckless
enterprise, leaves them hut ono avenue
of escape, and that very poor one. So
far as the map throws any light upon the
subject, they must be precipitated upon
the little town Of Danville, in Virginia,
from which point they have been for
some time endeavoring to close up gap
in tho railroad to Greensboro, North Car
Gina. Their fight may, therefore, be
over this route through the "old North
State" where, let US hope, they will be
met by a sufficient number Of Union men
in tho Sovereign Q Cnventon now assem-
bled, TO send them further on without
the aid Of the national arms


No one who goes over the map, as here
indicated, can fail to admire that mill
tary genius which has made all the
widely separated parts Of one general
plan work so tremendously towards the
one great end, and which now concon-
irates them with such effect and power
upon that point where the political life
is 70 be crushed out Of the rebellion.
Year: 1862

Near Toll House, Auburn, Cal.
ETHEabove firm take this method ofinforming
L tie public that they are at all times prepared
to take contracts build, or do any kind of Car
penters or Joiners work, and which will be done
in n workmanlike manner, and at low rates


Our Shop is on Auburn Ravine, opposite the
Toll House, where those wantinganything in our
line can be promptly accommodated.
Year: 1862

Advertisers are requested, as favor to them.
selves as well as to us, to have their business no.
tces sent to the Office before NINE o'clock in the
so large that, in order to work of our morning
edition in time for early delivery, the public must
assist us in sending forms to press, by handing
evening.
Year: 1862

GENUS AND LABOR-We talk great
deal about genius. What we say is 40 doubt
all very ine. But much as it may seem to
you to be letting the subject dow0, depend
upon 1t, you will not go far astray practi'
caly, If you define genins to be all extra
ordinary capacity for labor. l know well
enough that such definition does not ex-
haust The idea. But have taken some
pains to investigate productions Of genius,
aud the nearer IN any given case have
been able to get al the very interior essence
of things the more have been satisfied tha;
no worldwide greatness was ever achieved
except where there has been prodiglous
capacity for work. Genius. at least that
kind W hicb achieves greatness, is not fitful.
II has an iron will as well as al eagle eye.
This Is not indeed the idea Of genius that
young men are won't to imagine. They pic
iure to themselves rather the sudden erratic
fash, that blazes upon the world without
premonition aud without adequate cause.
1t was once the fashion, for instance, to
represent Shakespeare as a sort of inspired
spendthrift, who dashed OF bis plays with
neglect aud want0n ease, in the mere ex.
uberance aud riot of heaven gifted intel
lect. But more careful investigation has
dispelled this illusion. SO far as anything
is certainly known of the life of the great
dramatist, it all points the other way. II
shows him to have been rather man of
care and method. of decided thrift in regard
to worldly affairs, aud of patient, almost
ploddng Industry. Doubtless there was in
the man at times portentOus energy and
fire. the fervid glow and heat of the first
conception of his plays But there was also
the slow, tOilsOme, patient finishing and
working up. Shakespeare appears 10 fact to
have been more than twenty years in bring.
ing bis plays gradually to maturity and
perfection, so that they may be called a
growth rather than an instantaneous crea-
hon.-[PrOf. Hart
Year: 1862

How SNAILs MAKE LovE-Blackwood
Magazine in giving AN account Of the diff
fernt kinds of snail found in England, mem
tons one that has curious spring door in


sile the opening of her shell, VIII ch she can
shut in q moment when alarmed by the ap


proach of a centipede or vagrant ant-both
shell and door forming piece Of spiral
mechanism which Archimedes might have
studied with delight, had there been any
conchologists in lis days. The snail, too,
has a way of making love which shows it to
have doubtless been the origin of the arrows
OF Cupid. The male is pattern lover
He will spend ten hours at time-a good
deal out of his short life of seven or eight
years-in the most quiet but devoted attenl
ton to the object of his affections; caressing
her occasionally with those pretty little horns.
of which no one seems to know whether they
are eyes, or ears, or hands. They are furn,
ished, too, with crystalline darts, which they
shoe, at each other after preliminary coquet-
ting. These curious love weapons have
been observed sticking in the bodies of snails
after such conflicts. They are contained in
special pouch or receptacle ready for use
and resemble the ancient arrows Of Cupid.
Year: 1862

THE New TAX LAVA Washington
correspondent says the national treasury
already begins to feel the operations of the
new Tax law. The Golfers already contain
revenue obtained under the new law half
million of dollars having been received from
that source during The month Of September
1t is believed that the increasing revenues
cannot fail to strengthen the government
securities, and diminish the almost frighfuI
premium on gold.
Year: 1862

PROpELLER FLEAs.-The have what they
call "prop-er h-as" down South. They
are smaller than the Yank-a musqnitp-
Their bill is like cork screw, and whe
they get in The right place they s art the
machinery by advancing the right freleI
They then work propeller whee which is
of course, at the stern, aud around Lhey O.
like lightning; and you cannot pull them Of
without unsrrewing them.
Year: 1862

Willie Upham, of Racine, Wis, formerly
of the I'd regiment of Wisconsin volunteers,
who was wounded at the first Bull Run bat
tie, taken prisoner and incarcerated in the
famous Richmond tobacco warehouse, and
afterwards exchanged, had the good for
tune to win the special notice and the ia
vor Of the President, and was appointed
by him to a cadetship at West Point. Will
lie is not going to bring any disgrace on his
friends through the neglect of his; tudies.
The Glass he entered at West Point was
quite large one, and being alphabetically
arranged at the commencement, of course
Upham had to take his place near the foot.
The first quarterly examination occurred
recently, when Willie sustained himself so
well as to jump within one of the head of
his class. President Lincoln has evident
ly not misplaced his confidence in this in
stance.-Racine Advocate.
Year: 1862

Sweet, thou hast trod on heart,


Pass there's world full OF men
And women as fair as thou art


Must do such things now and then.
Thou only hast stepped unaware


Malice no one can impute;
And why should heart have been there
In the way Of a fair woman's foot
1t was not a stone that could trip,


Nor was it q thorn that could rcnd,
Put up thy proud uuderlip.


Twas merely the heart OF 4 friend.
And yet peradycnturc one day


Thou, sitting alone at the glass.
Remarking the bloom gone away,
Where the smile in its diinplement was.
And seeking around thee in vain


From hundreds who hattercd before.
Such u word as, 'Oh, not in the mans
Do hold thee less precious, but more ="
Thou'lt sigh. very like on thy part


- Of all | have known or can know,
wish | had only that heart


L trOd upon ages ago J.