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Year: 1862

The New York Euenine Post. a journal
that is not likely to be misinformed, learns
from unquestionabe authority in Washing
ton that 10000 soldiers, once belonging to
the Army Of the Potomac. are now lettering
over the Free STATES "a well as they ever
were. The President found on his late visit
to General Mcclellan that 10000 of the
troops taken to the Peninsula are now miss
ing or absent. It is impossible to believe
that more than 10000 are dead wounded or
sick. General Mcclellan expressed the opin-
ion to the President that more than half Of
the 10000 absent soldiers are now well.-
How they got away it is almost impossible
to tell. A fact. however, has just come to
light which will seem to elucidate the mat =
ter. A single member Of Congress has sue
ceeded in getting furloughs and discharges
for three hundred soldiers during the present
session of Congress This is fact and it
will show ho,o the army has been depleted,
or At least one way in which its numbers
have been reduced. The friends Of SOL
diers-of regiments-have endeavored to
get off every soldier who was sick of the
service. Members Of Congress desired to
be popular in their, districts. and answered
every call upon them. Colonsls of regiments
and generals Of brigades had the same de-
sire-of popularity with their men. and one
and al have aided in this depicting process


till the sum total Of absentees is enor-


nous.


The names Of the miserable demagogues
in Congress or in the armv who have been
guilty Of thus depicting our army, when j,
| is in lace Of the enemy, should be exposed
to tho indignation Of the people
Year: 1862

The muscles of the human jaw produce a
power equal to four hundred and thirty four
pounds. This is only what science tells us,
but we know the jaw of some of our lawyers
is equal to good many thousand pounds a
wear to them
Year: 1862

Females nurses 40 cents per day and one IA
ton.


Paymaster's Clerks 800 per annum, and IS
cents per day when actually on duty.


Chaplain in volunteers SAG So


In addition to the pay above stated, one ra-
ton per day and an abunaant supply of good
clothing is allowed to every soldier. Quarters.
fuel and medical attendance are always provided
by the Government without deduction from the
soldiers pay. If soldier should become disabled
in the line of his duties, the law provides for m
pension, or he may if he prefer it, obtain ad
mission-into the Military Asylum, which will
afford him comfortable home so long as he NAV
wish to receive its benefits.


To the above pay for private soldiers must be
added the additional 50 month to be paid du
ring service, the 500 bounty at the end of the
war, which has already been provided for, and
the quarter section of land that Congress will
provide for at its coming session. The bounty
and land apply to officers and privates alike
Year: 1862

has tor itself such renown for the cure of
every variety of Throat and Lung Complaints.
that it is entirely unnecessary for to recount
the evidence OF its virtues, wherever il has been
employed As it has long been in constant use
throughout this section, We need not do more
than assure the people is quality is kept up to
the best it ever has been. and that it may be re
lied on 70 DO for their relief all il has ever been
found IN ,io
Year: 1862

Oh, whatif the prospect be elouded.


And what if the sunlight be fed; .
The bright sun hirns, lf may be shrouded.


And the bright crown be to.n from his head
But he bends rever long to the rigor


Of the tempest that beats on bis form;
And he comes forth anon full of vigor,


More glorious because of the storm.
From the sun let the soul take its moral,


Nor shrink meath the battle of life;
Near the cypress grows ever the laurel,


And we pluck as we please from .he strife;
Though the foe presses on with his legions,


And We bend for the hour to his will,
Keep you calm in the turbulent regions,


And the triumph enures TO you still.
Year: 1862

Smal-Hba at WashiagtOn.--The
Washington correspondent of the
New York Post, says that the spread
of the smallpox in and about
that city has alarmed the civil and
military authorities. Army and
the people are being vaccinated,
but vaccine matter is scarce. Ca
ses in Washington have multiplied
to such an extent that the news
papers have been requested to put
the people on their guard.
Year: 1862

The Cincinnati Commercial has
a long editorial urging the people
to stand by the Secretary Treasu-
ry Notes. Tie article is a virtual
admission of the sinking condition
of the Yankee Government.
Year: 1862

BRowN PAPER.-We are again COM
PEELED to publish on brown paper We
have made every effort to get our supply of
paper from below, but why it has not
reached US ere this we are unable to mag
inc. We have taken measures to have it
here in time for our nextissue atau events
Year: 1862

~ We have received no later States
news than that heretofore published
Whether this is owing to break in the
telegraph wires, or the fact that our Oregon
exchang are too much engrossed in their
own po itical affairs to publish aught else,
we know not.
Year: 1862

BY REV. NJ. L. HoFFoRD, A. NJ.
Gather the beautiful home to her rest,
Strew the pale roses over her breast;
Like her in beauty let them decay
When the most beautiful passeth away
Bury the faded under the shade
of the sad willow where she hath played
Let a sweet how'ret lovingly bloom
In the bright greensward over her tomb.
Weep for the beautiful; hallow with tears
The grave which the love of the lost endears
Trust to her pillow the beautiful dead,
Angels Of glory watch over her bed
Year: 1862

FIRING A MoRTAR.-The firing of NOR
tar is the very poetry of battle. A bag
of powder weighing from eighteen to TWEEN
ty pounds is dropped into the bore of the
huge monster. The derrick drops the she'll
in the angle is calculated long cord is
attached to the primer; the gunner steps
upon the platform, and the balance of the
crew upon the shore. The captain gives
the word, the gunner gives the cord a sud
den jerk, crash like thousand thunders
follows, tongue of flame leaps from the
mouth of the mortar, and column of smoke
rolls up in beautiful feecy spirals develop
ing into rings of exquisite proportions
One can see the shell as it leaves the mortar
flying through the air, apparently no lar
ge1 than a marble. The next you see of
the she'll, beautiful cloud of smoke bursts
into sight, caused by the explosion. Imag-
inc ten Of these monsters laundering at
once, the air filled with smoke clouds, the
gunboats belching out destruction and com
pletely hidden from sight in whirls of smoke,
the shell screaming through the air with an
aAlear5hly sound, and the distant guns of
the enemy sending their solid shot and she'll
above and around us, dashing the water up
in glittering columns and jets of spray, and
you have the sublime poetry of war.
Year: 1862

To You, Sir why will you delay full
filling that promise you made to your wife
repeatedly, that you would buy her Sewing
Machine in the fall. Now, don't delay any
longer, and allow her to be toiling with her
needle, when she should be asleep ofcourse
you would not think OF putting a sensible
woman of with any thing but Wheeler Il
Wilson Machine, A. H. West, at the Phillips
House, has them, and wouldn't have any 9TH
er kind lie delivers these extra machines
TO purchasers, and teaches them how to use
them.
Year: 1862

ORGANIC REMAINs.-Some enormous pet
rifed teeth have lately been found in Gordon
Gulch by some miners. They comprised two
back and four front teeth Of what was appar-
emily graminivorous animal about twice as
big as an elephant. The grinding face of one
Of the former, which is remarkably perfect,
measured AZ inches by inches. The curios-
tiles have been taken to Stockton, and we hope
they may fall into the hands Of some one who
can tell something about the "horrible brute"
who used them 100000 years ago,
Year: 1862

The receipts Of produce largely The Increase and
The prospects large earnings exceedingly naering
for an the railroad lines centsring in Chicago The eca
trafo Of Illinois Central large present.
and 10 order meet tho demands Of shppers large ad
don 70 present rolling stock 10 required compa
rson Of daily reports Of produce brought 70 Chicago
during the present month show an increase OF between
thirty ave and forty per cent over We Same month in
ls6l and the increase In earnings must show CORES
csrn show large increase over 1851 As YET the new
wheat crop in Northern Illinois has not begun come
forward In any considerable quantity and the Gaena has
far suffered TO extent but the next few weeks
win doubtless enable the line to show hattertng
report OF earnings than Il has for the past month.
Year: 1862

and calm, to degree painful to contem-
plate.


The reading done, the two mates sung
with clear voices the hymn


"There is heaven of peaceful rest
and the body was given to the keeping of
the eternal deep. Our sails were again
set, and with saddened hearts each man
went to his duty.


He died at sea- How often these
four monosyllables tell all that the loving
heart knows, of the last hours of some
cherished idol, of the home and its aifec-
tons. The words of the sorrowing boy,
as he stood leaning over the deck after the
brothers dccease, dropping his tears with
the waves below. 1T will kill mother"
she had one boy who died at sea-
impressed me so deeply, that for that
mothers sake have written this little
Tale of the Sea" Should it ever reach
her, it may be drop of comfort in the
bitter cup to know that even strangers
eyes dropped tears over the last remains
of her boy, and thought Of the grief of
the mother when she should know that he
died at sea.
Year: 1862

The friends of freedom have nothing to de-
plore when contemplating the result of the late
election in this state. Wherever they have
been defeated in Congressional district, it
has been the means, Of calling, out the real
sentiments of our opponents, who rejoice like.
demons that they were able to strike down the
friends of freedom. The very fact that this
disposition has been thus called out, proves all
that we have ever asserted on the subject of
northern sympathy with treason-because the
victory which our opponents sing, is claimed
in every instance as a victory against the gov
ernment, as triumph over the administration,
and thus of course as a blow for the aid and
benefit OF lebeitraitors. If it is not for this, it
is a result barren of all other influences and
effects; because the issue clearly presented to
the people was for or against the government.
Whether the acts of the President, as he repre-
sents that government, were entitled TO support
-wether the laws passed by Congress should
be entorced-or whether both Congress and
the President must be repudiated. The Mob
ocracy stand upon the issue of reputation.
They hold TO the revolutionary or rebcllious
doctrines which give force and vitality to the





sylvania which Frank Hughes led into politi-
cal battle would force Abraham Lincoln
from the Presidency, Andrew &. Curtin
from the Gubernatorial chair, if they thought
| they had the physical force to accomplish
such an act. And from this party, the friends
Of freedom may ever expect the harshest and
most unreasonable opposition. Like the guer-
rillas of Mexico, the Mobocracy of the free
states are determined hereafter to array them
selves on the side of oppression and slavery,
against law and order, that the spirit OF dis
cord and faction may prevail here as it now
RACES among our ill-fated neighbors, Mexico.
With the Mobocracy it is heresy to render
labor free; to place it on an equality with
capital. Whether that effort is made by the
restoration of slavery or the protection Of
white labor from the competion OF the pauper
of Europe, it is still heresy and wrong; a
fauatieisln and crime.


But in the face of all this, the friends of
freedom have no reason to despair or despond.
In battling for our principles, We have no re-
venges to crafty or resentments to serve. The
case is different with our opponents. When
they fail, their aims of personal ambition are
postrated-their prospects of self Haggrandize-
ment fail-their anger and passions are arrous-'
ed, and of course their phrensy and hate are
stimulated to excess, Men of principle gather
courage from triumph. This is just the case
between the friends and the enemies of free
dom., We have no time for resentment or
revenge. Our country is still In danger. Let
this engage our earnest labors--let this stimu-
late our exertion, and let this inspire us with
courage for the present and hope for the fu-
ture. Freedom is worth suffering for.E al
Year: 1862

DEFAcED POSTAGE STAMps.-The use of cam
celed postage stamps for currency, and for
stamping letters, has excited eonsiderab BILE at
tentIon. The Department at Washington has
determined to use every exertion to detect
this mean species of fraud, and in a circular
letter to Postmasters throughout the country,
the Assistant Postmaster General says: Please
eau Sc most careful examination to be made of
letters deposited in your office, and send me
specially all suspected cases, so that the writer's
may be discovered or, if in any case you
have means to know the writer, without hav-
ing the letter opened here, you will proceed
at once to aproper investigation. The Post
master General is anxious to make some pub
lie examples under this law, if violations oc-
cur apprehended, strong temptation being
offered by the extensive use of ordinary post
age stamps as currency.


As the improper use of postage stamps is a
felony under the law OF the United States, and
the punishment of the crime is very heavy,
those practising it would do we'll to hesitate
before incurring so serious responsibility for
SO small profit.
Year: 1862

AN IMPORTANT ADAIssIoN.-Mr. Hill IA dis
tinguished member OF the rebel Congress,
from Georgia declared In the course of de-
bate, few days ago, on the subject Of trea-
son bill, that s.The people Of the South never
dissolved the Union on account of complaints
against the Federal Government. The Su-
preme Court was with us to the last. The
South had majority in Congress"
Year: 1862

The announcement Of the Cabinet changes contained In
oil the papers Of yesterday, occssoned marked ssnsa
sion throughout the city, and was discussed by all classes
" the community, from the parson In his elegant pulpit
TO the bright and intelligent nswsboy the street cor
nsrs who earns his daily bread By vending the metro.
politan Journals and travels these cold days without hand
kesche. The general feeling the subject Of Secretary
Sewazds resignation seemed to be that OF profound re-
gret but this in measure counterbaanced BY the
report that arrived during the day 70 the effect that Sec
retares Chase and Stanton had also surrendered their
insignia Of Office back into the the hands OF President
Lincoln This balancing the evil with the good and
seemed TO AFFORD very general satisfaction. But, notw'th
standing the relish with which the resignation OF Messrs
Stanton and Chase received II was very evident that
our citizens were sgated profoundly as TO the import OF
al these changes and slight uneasness was exhibited
q the intentions OF the President or
his Cabinet. The manifestation Of feeling was the
most SOBER and YET the most nrofOnnd aha. "a haHa
ehs..,ea the commencement Of the rebellion.
Year: 1862

A lady was recently teaching q little urchin to
the pronunciation In vain his teacher asked him
to think and try. At last she asked him, what do
you get when you go out upon the sidewalk on a
rainy day, and wet your feet?"


81 gets licking" replied the rrehin, with great
certainty.
Year: 1862

He won love and deserved to win it, for
even in the flush of life he had none Of the
vices Of young men. II weak on the score
of dress and pomp-ifhe dotted like girl on
flowers, on scents, on the trappings Of q
horse he neither drank, nor gained, nor
ran loose IN love. Though armed with the
most winning ways, and the most glazing
lip in London, no husbands peace was ever
hurt by him, no woman's fame ever drag
ged by him into the mire. He sought no
victories like those of Blount. He brought
no shame like Raleigh to the cheek Of one
who loved him more than her own name.--
No Lady Rich, as in Sidney's case, ever


B.ushed when he was nanlsd."


His life was pure as that Of Milton, or
that of the Penses, he lived in court where
gallantry was in vogue, and beauty bought
and sold. How then with all these claims
on love and help, did he not win his way to
place? He sought it never man with
more haste and zeal, for his brain beat with
victorious consciousness of power he hung
cred to rule mankind:and his blood had that
fiery strength which glows into white heat
at an opposing blast. This question must
be tried. Why, while men, with far lower
claims that have got posts and honor, solicit
torships, secretaryships, embassies, did this
man come to pass the ripe age Of forty-six
without gaining power or place Can it
have been because he was not servile and
corrupt? Ifso, logic is life, and moral
theories sham.
Year: 1862

The chlorate Of potash has now come into
extensive use for the removal Of fetid breath
1t is chiefly used, diluted with water and
alcohol, to rinse the mouth. It may be
made by condensing chlorine gas in solu-
ton of potash. A solution Of soda will ans
wer nearly as well.-Scisntifc Amsrican.
Year: 1862

JEFF Davis, the members Of the rebel
Congress, the Canada papers, and the Chi
cago Times are very fearful that the Prcsi-
dent will violate the Constitution in putting
down the rebellion. It is remarkably Q what
. deep concern these fellows exhibit just
now for the Constitution.
Year: 1862

| said railroad shall be and remain public


highways for the use of the Government of


the United States, free from toll or other


charge upon the transportation of any prop
erty or troops of the United States and


whereas the said grant of lands has, by Vir-


tue of said act, and of an act of the Legis-
lature of the State of Missouri, been applied


in the construction of the Hannibal and St.


Joseph railroad, constructed and owned by


the Hannibal and ST. Joseph Railroad Com


pany, and the Pacific railroad by the Pa
cifc Railroad Company, which last men
toned road is finished and running from
st. Louis to Rolla; and whereas the ability
of said railroad companies to transport the
property and troops of the United States
over their respective railroads has been
greatly impaired by the destruction of
bridges, depots, and other property of said
companies, and the partial destruction of
said roads, and in view of the pressing pub-
lie necessities, the United States, not waiv-
ing the right to have their property and
troops transported free from toll or other
charge by said railroads, as contemplated
by the reservation aforesaid, have resolved
as follows; Therefore be it


ResolOed by the Senate and House of Rep
Tesentat0es of the United States of america
an Congress assembled, That the Secretary of
War is hereby authorized to make such an
adjustment with the Hannibal and st. Jo-
seph Railroad Company and the Pacific
Railroad Company, for the transportation,
past and prospective, of the property and
troops of the United States over said rail-
roads during the existence of this rebellion,
as in view of the public exigency may be
just and reasonable, and liquidate the same.
Provided, hol0eVer, That the sums paid to
said companies shall be as near as may be
the cost of transporting such property and
troops, and not exceeding the prices fixed
by the War Department ON she twelfth day
of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-one,
for transportation by railroads, which ad-
justment and liquidation shall preclude any
further claim on behalf of such eompanies
against the Government for compensation
or damages previously accrued, or for the
military occupation of the said roads by
the United States Government up to the
time of the passage of this act And pro-
Uided further, That the Secretary of War
may, in his discretion, withhold from time
to time such portion of the moneys which
may be due 30 either of said railroad COM
panies, to indemnify the Government
against any failure of such company to
promptly transport such troops and sup
plies; but nothing herein shall be construed
as to prevent the Secretary of War from
taking possession of said railroads and their
appurtenances and applying the same to
the exclusive use of the Government when
ever, in his Judgment the public interests
may reqn ire it, without, in such case, COM
pensation to said companies.


Approved, March 6, 1862.
Year: 1862




AN ACT requiring an oath of allegiance
and to support the Constitution of the


United States to be administered to mas


ters of American vessels clearing for


foreign or other ports during the present


rebellion.


Be it enacted By tie Senate and H0use of
Representatives Of the United States Of Amer
ica an Congress assembled, That it shall
be the duty of the several collectors of the
customs at the ports of entry within the
United States, during the continuance of
the present rebellion, to cause to be admin
istered to each and every master of any
American ship or vessel, steamship or steam
vessel, which shall be about to clear for
any foreign port or place, or for any port
or place within the United States, the oath
of allegiance required by chapter sixty-four
of the acts of the year eighteen hundred
and sixty-one which oath shall be duly
taken by such masters before such vessel
shall be permitted to clear as aforesaid.


SIC. 2. AGd be 1t further enacted, That
the oath or affirmation aforesaid may be
taken before the collector of customs ct the
port from which such vessel is about to
clear, or before any justice of the peace or
notary public or other person who is legally
authorized to administer an oath in the
State or district where the same may be
administered And that any violation of
such oath shall subject the offender to all
the pains and penalties of wilful and cor
ruDt perjury, who shall be liable to be in
dicted and prosecuted to conviction for any
such offence before any court having COM
petent jurisdiction thereof.


Approved, March 6, 1862.
Year: 1862

JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to GER


tain railroads in the State of Missouri.


WHEREAS, By the fourth section of an act
of Congress entitled AN act granting the
right of way to the State of Missouri, and
a portion of the public lands to aid IN the
construction of certain railroads in said
State" approved June the tenth, eighteen
hundred and ffty-two, it is provided as fol-
lows: "That the said lands hereby granted
to the said State, shall be subject to the
disposal of the Legislature thereof, for the
purpose aforesaid and no other" and the
Year: 1862

MI. Harvey claims that he voted "Aye" By
mistake. We give him the benefit Of his
claim, but we are curious to know if that is
the way he usually votes upon IN important
question: question which has been under
discussion for full half hour-f he usually
commits himself without knowing what he is
doing # 60, he should eterna2ly regret that
his vote committed himself to relieving the
Mayor from the odium Of giving the city
printing to Secession sheet.


It Is perhaps the best thing for the comnu-
nifty that the Democracy have thus early shown
their hands. The Post, Democratic paper,
WAS not quite disloyal enough, not pro-slavery
enough, and in its place, by their recorded
votes, the leaders of the Democracy have Sc
lectcd as their organ an openly avowed seccs-
sion sheet The Democratic Aldermen
have endorsed it; the Democratic Mayor hns
| endorsed it, although we were led to believe
from his Inaugural that he endorsed the
present Federal Administration. It is for
tunate that thus early in the.municipal year


they have defined their position, manifested


their intentions and laid down their pro-


slavery secession platform. Nov let them
| stand upon it.
Year: 1862

REMovA1.-N. N. Pomcroy, Stuck Agent
Of the Great Western Railroad Canada is
about to remove to this city to assume the
eame position In the Michigan Central Rail-
road Company's employ.