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Year: 1862

MARINE SOMNAMBULlsM.-The captain of
vessel now IN the harbOr Of Hong Kong,
China, writing home, relates The remark.
able sleep walking exploits of one of bis
sailors:


was in the cabin when the watch came
aud reported TO me man on the main roy
al mast head. gave orders not to disturb
him, then went on deck. aud found that be
was working at the rOyalmast head, with q
marlin spike round bic neck. He stayed
there about q quarter Of On hour after he
was first seen; then came down the royal
yard, clap. ed bis hands 10 warm them, and
went out upon the port royal yard arm;
knocked the rigging on and made the sail
fast; atterward went TO the royal masthead,
with half his body above the truck; came
down upon The royal yard, aud warmed his
hands as before; went out on the slarbOard
yard, knocked the rigging on, and made
The sail fast on that side. He next came
down upon the topgallaut yard, and per-
formed the same work as on the royal yard.
lie aflerward went on each side of the
cTOss.trees, examined the masthead. and
came down into the main yard aud did the
same thing. He next got into the slings Of
The main yard and stayed about ten min.
utes, examining the slings and truss of The
main yard; then came upon deck, where he
was seized by two men but could not be
awakened, drawing a knife, and exclaiming
that they were all his enemies. lie after
ward walked into The fOrcastle and into bis
berth, where he Vas woke up. lie said he
dreamed he bad been doing some sailor
work. At two. on Monday morning, he
again came out Of his berth and went up on
the royal yarG. lOOsed the yard aud gaskets
of the sail, and came down TO the maintOp;
went up the mizzen tOpmast stay and Ioosed
the mizzen topgallant sail and mlzzen roy
al; came down the mizzen topgallant stay
into the maintOp, and then upon the rail;
ran along ii, went up the fore.rigging and
loOsed the fore royal and fore-tOpgallant
sail; lh"n came down. and was going to
loose jib, but returned to the deck, gath
cred all the loose belsying-pins, went for
ward to the forecastle, and threw them into
bis berth. He then wiped bis feet on the
chest, and went into mis- bunk, where he was
woke up and was quite surprised at seeing
the Delaying pins 10 bis beIth.
Year: 1862

Tue WEsT.-The Cincinnati Commercial
Advertiser, in alluding to the apprehension
occasionally expressed that the West might
take advantage Of its superior political
power to oppress the North, says:


1t Is very probable that hereafter the
West will In measure decide the civil pol
icy of the Government; but her strength
will not be used TO destroy the prosperity
or deny the rights Of the people Of any 9th
er section of the country. We shall proba-
bly, have TO take in hand the radicals Of the
East and South, and preserve the balance
of power between them. We shall hold
them strictly TO constitutional obligations,
while we will see that neither inhicts injns-
tice on the other. The dOwn-Easters will
find in The eDd that the people Of the West
are as just as they are patriotic. Men who
give their own lives and those Of their chill
dren TO the cause of their country, are not
likely to higgle about taxes or shlrk their
share of the responsibility. The people of
the West ask that the burden shall fall equi-
tably upon all, and not with such prepon.
derating weight upon special interests, vital
to the industrial and commercial prosperity
Of the community, as to crush them out.I-
together.
Year: 1862

That question is now mooted in certain circles,
and we expect to hear it discussed with fervor on
both sides, for we take it for granted that there
will be t,oo sides to it. There are on all other
important subjects.


We see that our fellow citizen, Congressman
MITCHELL, of the Fort Wayne District, has been
interrogated on that behalf, no doubt by one Of
his pious constituents, and the question is: Does
President LINCOLN have dancing at his Execu-
tie mansion The learned Representative
answers rather cautiously, but he aims
to convey the idea that there is no regular
dancing at the Presidents, or was not at
''the party last winter" de says there was "s
band of music, and the guests, as is usual at all
parties, promeRaded" That is about as near
as Mr.. MITCHELL wanted 10 get at the nub
of the story. We reckon he could tell more, if
he wished.


We have no idea that this question will engross


great deal of attention till the war is at an end.
OF one thing We are certain, however, dancing or
no dancing. the people of this nation will have
to pay enormous sums of money for the Emusic"
which Uncle ABRAHAM and his friends are max
ing at Washington and elsewhere Whoever
dances, the taxpayers must pay the piper.
Year: 1862

The Providence Post says from the speech of
Senator WADE in reply to Senator MoDoUeAL
relative to the case of General STONE, eve get
some idea of the extent to which insolence can
be carried by Abolitionists in our National Leg
islature, without provoking breach of the laws"
Again, the Post says-"the declaration by WADE
that the man who quotes the Constitution in this
great crisis, is a traitor, is worthy of this Abo
lition leader in the Senate, and shows to what
lengths the party now controlling that body
would carry their assaults upon the rights of the
people. if they dared to go any farther than they
have already gone in thrusting loyal men into
Bastiles. The time is fast coming when the peo-
pie will get their huge paws upon these fattened
and pompous higher law vaunters, and then look
out for full settlement of old accountsl''
Year: 1862

The New Englanders are provcrbial for keen
noses-Dever lose sight of the main chance. The
almighty dollar 70 their eve CLEANS through the
black clouds of the public calamity. The Boston
7raUeier, a good, old fashioned tariff for New
England protection paper, devises a wondrous Sc
ductive PLAN for paying the interest on our ma
tional debt:


The goods of the rebels ought to suffice to
pay the interest on the public debt for ten years
to come and at the end OF that time the indirect
revenue of the country, derived from fair tariff
of duties imports, would suffice to meet nearly
all our expenditures. We should make the men
who have created the debt paw at least the half of
it, and so we shall do unless the country has lost
its senses"


The meaning of this is, that the present encr-
nous tariff shall remain, whereby the w est is
TO pay NEARLY all our national expenditures"
and at the same time both free New England of
any tax at all and sustain her manufactures ut
our own cost. This is very happy Yankee
thought,


Now, we propose something perfectly fair As
Massachusetts aud her immediate sisters brought
on the war, and as Illinois and her immediate
sisters are fighting il for them is it not plainly
lair that we should be relieved of "nearly all the
expenditures" which we paw through the tariff and
which they do not share in, only to be enriched
by it, and that they should pay tax "ior ten
years. while we pay no tariff This Is far
liberal proposition than the TrdUeller's for
ne proposes to make US pay all the Government
expenses perpefually. besides supporting New
England by tariff exacton. Besides, il comes
precisely up 10 his idea. in This, that eve should
make the men pay who have created the debt
Spriaqfeh Re0fsfer
Year: 1862

try the present civil war would have been
averted with all its terrible evils-the fearful
waste Of blood and treasure, and the destruction
of health which will follow tens of thousands to
their graves. While the Secessionists committed
the covert act" which precipitated the war upon
the country, for which they merit, as they should
receive, condign punishment. the Republican
party viii be held to the responsibility for thus
jeopardizing "ihe Union and the Constitution
as they came to us from our fathers, consecrated
by their wisdom and virtue" by placing its
party platform above both
Year: 1862

where the Rebels Expected help and
6where they were Promised IT,"


The Journal of yesterday states that "a refu-
gee from Memphis says he was in that city in the
fall of 1860 when YASoEY came there TO stir up
the secession sentiment. and prepare the way for
rebellion" Among other things-the Journal
represents that this refugee made the following
statement:


"Yancey said he had assurances upon assu
RANGES from eminent publications in all the lead
ing cities of the free States of sympathy with the
rebellion, and of their determined opposition to
coercion"


Mark veil these words. YAsoKr had these
assurances upon assurances. The proof is at
hand. Without further comment we ask every
candid citizen to read the evidence that YAScfY
and all the leading secessionists of the South
had, that all the States which desired " leave the
Union would be permitted to 60 in peace. ard
that there would be no attempt to prevent their
Year: 1862

The GRADUAL EMANCIPATION POLICY The
New York o observer, In chronicling the fact that
President Lincoln has submitted to Congress a
bill to promote the emancipation Of slaves, which
puts Into the form Of asubstantial pledge the sug
gestions which he made some time time ago on
this subject In q special message to Congress, ac-
compsnies Its statement with the following re-
comme ndstion Of that project:


lin every light In which we are able to view
these suggestions they appear to N wise and ne
cessarv, and worthy Of the confident support Of
the whole American people. Repudiating as
they do the radical and unconstitutional theories
Of abolitionism on the one hand, and on the other
the doctrine Of southern secessionism that slavery
is 70 be the corner. stone Of the Government, the
President proposes to inaugurate a system Of
emancipation that is humane, just and practical
BILE -.r .


"If our fellow. citizens of the sloveholding
States would contemplate the plan without pre-.
judce, and receive IL al the great initial step to-
wards ma king the country homogeneous In its
domestic Institutions while IL intefferes with the
rights Of no citizen or State, they would embrace
II with alacrity, and thus prepare the u,ey 90 Z:
harmonious future Of prosperity and power, OF
which it Il vain 70 dream so long as tie systems
Of free and slave labor are aptagonistic In a re-
publican government
Year: 1862

IJTA Constautinople letter In the Journal de
Havre mentions the following: ga man was a
snort time since condemned to death for the
murder OF man whose wife w.s sHesists. The
trial was hardly termlnated when The woman
gave birth TO son. In consequence, the erecu-
non was put OF until the child should attain his
majority, a. he will then have to decide il the
murderer shall redeem the blood of his father FOR
a sum Of money, or IL the execution shall take
place Ia the meantime the murderer viii re-
main In prison -
Year: 1862

Some of the New York papers made a
terrible fuss about Governor Andrew S
response to the late call for troops They
stated that the course of the Governor
had paralyzed the recruiting service in
Massachusetts,. They referred with pride
to the rapidity with which New York
regiments were organizing under the new
call, and deplored the embarrassments
under which a process Of slow recruiting
was going on in Massachusetts,. Mark
what follows A Massachusetts, regiment
organized under the late call, and under
the immediate auspices of this same
Governor Andrews, passed through New
York city and reached Washington, be-
fore a solitary regiment from New York
was on its way to the Capital. This cir
cumstanco is not narrated, of course, by
New York papers; but citizen of this
place was in that city when the Massa-
chusetts regiment was passing through,
and when the New York regiments were
getting ready to depart. We guess it
will be found out after awhile that the
Aboitionized Governor of Massa-
chusotts, and his people, are little more
prompt to fee to the rescue Of their
Government, than the fault nding,
semi loyal John Brown-haters of other
States. Governor Andrews is no tagging
patriot He moves quickly, earnestly,
and effectively, and his soldiers emulate
his example State Register
Year: 1862

The latest advices from England remove
the least fear of present interference in
the affairs of this country. There are not
only rumors, but open charges that the
whole war panic was stupendous finan-
clal, stockholders scheme, calculated to
put money in the already groaning pockets
of the Rothschilds. The family of bank
ers control the London Times, Lord Pal
merston being connected both with the
Times and the financial interests of its
managers. 1t is known that while the war
fever was at the highest, and when, in
consequence of the danger of hostilities,
holders of stocks were disposing of them
at ruinous sacrifices, the Rothschilds were
buying everything in the market, and that
they have consequently added fabulous
sums 10 the untold wealth they had before.
1t is also known that Palmerston and
Russell had knowledge of pacific dispatch
from Secretary Seward-which, in reality,
dispersed every possibility of war upon the
Trent affair-three weeks before its con-
tents were known to the public; and that,
furthermore, Palmerston expressly denied
that any such dispatch had been received.
This was to keep stocks down still longer,
that the unscrupulous brokers might re-
alize their enormous profits at the expense
of the people. Englishmen,cau with poor
grace taunt us with the frauds upon our
Government, when they have such twen-
ty million specimen of rascality among
their head officials. But the game is now
played out, the money is made, the gov
ernment is twenty millions poorer, and
peace once more reigns.


There is still an interest felt IN the
threats of recognition of the Confederacy
1t was said that upon the opening of Par
lament strenuous effort would be made
for such recognition. Upon the 9th in-
slant Earl Derby made an important speech
upon the subject i'll the House of Lords.
This speech was so unsupported in the
Times that the gentlemen was made 10
say directly the opposite of what he really
said. Upon the next day be corrected this
important Misrepresentation. He said he
would not notice the other inaccuracies in
the report, which he believed was not so
accurate as reports in that journal gener-
ally were, and he only alluded to the one
be had mentioned because it attributed to
him exactly the opposite of what he utter
ed. In reference to the recognition of the
Southern Confederacy, the Times report
ed him to say that the time had nearly ar
rived when her Majesty's Government
ought to be called upon to recognize the
successful revolt of those Confederate
States. Now, what he did say was, that
in his judgement the time had not arrived
when Her Majesty's government was called
upon to recognize the Southern Confedera-
cy, and he added that although the prac-
tice of the Majesty's government was to re.
cognize any de ffacto government that had
succeeded in establishing ITSELF he did not
think the resistance of the Southern States
had been so complete and so successful as
to Justify them in recognising the inde-
pendence of State which had not yet
shown the power of securing and main
tanning their own independence.
Year: 1862

The Chicago Tribune, of January sixth
says.


We saw, few days since, two remark
able specimen of petrfied trees from Pixies
Peak. They belong to the University Of
Chicago, and so far as our knowledge ex-
tends, though young institution, it has
the finest and largest specimens of the an
tedeluvian forests with which we are ac-
quainted.


While the change to stone is complete,
the structure of the wood is as perfectly
preserved as if change had occurred
The petrifying agent was silica, and it may
be seen incrusting some portions of the
surface in white and blue globules.


F,om the curvature Of the annual rings
of growth, we judge the tree from which
these specimens come to have been at
least fourteen feet in diameter, and their
number and thickness indicate that it must
have required about one thousand six hum
dred years to grow to that size. The
larger specimen of the two is over nine feet
in circumference at the base, on which
it stands nearly erect, and is five feet and
half high, and weighs one ton and half,
5000 pounds. The other specimen is
nearly as long, weighing half as much, and
is nearly uniform in size from end to end,
while the larger specimen tapers from the
base to about half the size at the top,


The species to which these wonderful
specimens belong has probably been long
extinct, but they appear to resemble very
closely in every respect the California red
wood.
Year: 1862

Elk Governor A. Wright has been ap-
pointedsto fill the vacancy caused by the
expulsion of Jesse D. Bright in the
Senate of the United States. Gov. Wright
is an able and true Union man, and goes
for crushing the rebellion so that it will
stay crushed. is
Year: 1862

The cotton planters OF Natchitoches parish, in
public meeting, resolved that no planter, no mat
ter7whatl may be his force5 should plant or raise
more than five bales of cotton of 00pounds each,
in 1862, unless the blockade be raised before the
LIST of March next,
Year: 1862

Our EXPORTS TO EURoPE.-The shipments Of
breadstufIs continue exceedingly large, the
enormous amount of one million four hundred
aud thirteen thousand four hundred and eighty
four bushels Of grain, and thirty-fve thousand
four hundred and thirty.two barrels of flour
having left this port for Europe since Monday
last, nearly the whole of which went to Great
Britain.


These figures approach very closely to the
almost fabulous shipments of last fall, when
our exports Of grain were larger, by far, than
at any former period in our history. And as
they are continually on the increase, IL is pro-
bable that even these figures may be exceeded
in supplying the extraordinary demands for the
staff Of life from the other side of the water.


With war raging within our borders sur
passing in immensity and wickedness anything
the world ever saw, by which more than three
quarters Of a million Of our men, the bone and
sinew of the grain producing States have be-
come consumers and non-producers, we yot
can furnish another half million of volunteers
IL necessary, to put down the rebellion, and
still have men enough to cultivate our lands
and supply ourselves and the demands of our
transatlantic ncghbors with bread.


The immense territories Of the West still un-
developed by the husbsndman, and which only
await his hand to make them TEEN with the rich
harvests of golden grain, arc not yet needed for
our support or to aid us in furnishing subsist.
ence to hungry Europe. More Independent
and more self-relant than any other nation on
the face Of tho globe, with resources beyond
those of any land ever dreamed of by the in.
habitants Of tho Old World, we can feed our
Year: 1862

The funeral Of this gallant and much amented officer
will sake place at Elizabeth City, N j. this day. at two
o'clock and by the arrangements that have beeu made
to do honor to the remains OF the brave soldier IL WILL
we doubt not, bo both large and respectable.


Mayor Grisr and tho members Of the Common Council
have determined TO pay the last tribute OF respect TO
deserving and worthy officer tho deceased has
proved himself TO be Colonel Loomis OF Fort illism.
Governor Island has kindly intimatcd that military
band and escort shall accompany the remains TO their
last resting place.


The solemn procession will leave Bayway House (Mr
Iotchkiss at two O'Clock, from whence the corpse will
proceed the First Presbyterian church cemetery
Elizabeth for ntermsnt and after their arrival an a-
proprato address will DO delivered by tho minister 70
the donss multitude who VIII accompany them II will
be seon by this mornings paper In list or deaths,
that all tho necessary arrangements have boon COM
uictad
Year: 1862

GENERAL MCCLELLAN AND THE SECESSION AND
ABOLITION PREss.-The operations Of Gen. Nc
Clellan, it seems, are as distasteful to the
secession press as to the abolition journals
Both dislike his ways for the same reason
his sure and steady progress in the work Of
crushing the rebellion and restoring the Union.
The Tribune has never ceased to assail him for
the slowness of his movements. That journal
has now cordial allies in the Richmond papers,
who, strange to say, make the same complaint.
They fear Richmond will not be captured soon
enough, and say they prefer the short and
sharp process Of the guillotine to the slow tor
ture Of death by the rope The Dispatch of
May 20 says:-"We regard Mcclellan, with his
slow, tortoise-like movements, as equal to an
army of fifty thousand well equipped soldiers
on the Southern side." Perhaps he will be
sooner in Richmond than the Dispatch will
want him. The truth is that the rebel journal
lists are appalled, at the anaconda slowly but
surely encircling them in its coils The fable
of the tortoise and the hare, no doubt, occurred
to the Dispatch. The hare was great At run
ming, like Johnston, but lay down to sleep at
last the tortoise, slow and sure, won the race;
and so will Mcclellan. Heuce the rebel and
Jacobin press fear and hate the leader Of the
Army Of the Potomac.
Year: 1862

already fought with McClellan's army, each
increasing in ferceness and magnitude, prove
that they are prepared to give the decisive bat
tie before Richmond; for the moral effect of its
surrender would be death to their hopes at
home and abroad. Their determination and
the reason Of it are well expressed by the
Dispatch Of that city in the following words
"To surrender Richmond would entail consc-
quences that we fear to look at. They may be
too disastrous to contemplate. 1t is too plain
that the handing over Of the metropolis to the
enemy would bring upon us embarrassmcnts
so great that rather than place the State in
such an exigency as that we should fight before
Richmond as though all were lost II we were
defeated"


It must not be assumed that because the
rebels abandoned Corinth they will in the same
way give up Richmond without terrible
struggle. The army Of Corinth defended New
Orleans from invasion by the west; but that
city being captured by our feet ascending
from the Gulf, there was no longer any ade-
quate object to risk battle for against tho
well appointed and powerful army Of Halleck.
On the contrary, Richmond was now in danger,
and Johnston's army needed reinforcements
against the steady advance Of the legions of
Mcclellan, before whom the rebel .ost has
been compelled to retreat from point to point
up the peninsula, till now il is held at bay
before the very walls Of the Confederate
capital. That lost, their cause is lost, and


the campaign won by the Union troops. Hence


they will strain every nerve to save Rich
mond; and we have no doubt that, with the ex-
cepton of the reinforcements sent to Mobile
and Charleston, large portion Of tho demoral-
lied army of Beauregard is now in snd around
the doomed rebel capital. Every moment
therefore, may be now expected intel.
ligence of the greatest and bloodiest battle
ever fought on this continent--a battle which il
to decide the fate Of the rebellion, restore tc
secu ty the imperilled Union, and bring bach
! pea . aud prosperity to our distracted country