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Year: 1862

PLENTY OF MONEY. - Nothing occasions
more surprise among financial meE IL ard
about Washington, than the abundance 0.
money, and the high credit Of Government 81
curities. \ redundant currency 10 lorgeT
seems TO produce It's ussal effects Of the expAn-
sion Of business, and sudlen and ruinous Ieae-
ton. The Federal currency is 10 be doubled
in volume in the course Of another year. and il
is believed that it will be absorbed by the
increasing amount Of business.


The Philadelphia Ledger represents similar
plethora of money in that city. It says:


The quantity of money seeking investment
in this city is something wholly unprecedented.
The United States allow only four per cent. in
cash left on deposit, and ii is difficult to place
money at three per cent. with private parties,
on call. The demand for mortgages is some
thing extraordinary, and is so greatly in ad
vance of the supply that parties are now ad
vertising for mortgages On farms and country
property in the adjoining counties. In trans
actions on city property the lenders are in many
cases offering TO pay the commissions and ex
penses usually borne by the borrowers, and il
cannot be long before rates on mortgages fall
to five per cent. This abundance of money
must act as stimulus to all legitimate business
and must promote the very desirable substitu-
ton of cash for credit in business transactions


The following paragraph, from the Balti
more American, is quoted with satisfaction by
the loyal press Of the State and country:


"On Saturday the bids for the Maryland
Defense Loan were opened at Annapolis The
amount 10 be awarded was two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars; the amount fer which
bids were made was nearly two and hall
millions of dollars No bid was made under
par, and they ran up to nearly two and half
per cent. premium. To obtain the amount
asked for it was not necessary to accept any
bid under two per cent premium. These brief
facts speak proudly of the financial credit Of
the State, and the position which her assured
loyalty to the Union has given her. We can
only rightly estimate that position by compar-
ing it with those States of the Union in rebel
lion. Not any one of them would in the money
market of the world this day obtain loan
unless their return to the Union was made a
condition precedent Dishouored and impov.
erished, we may see in their condition what
MARYLAND has eSranad =
Year: 1862

EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF AN IRISH
MAN AMONG CASNIBALs.-The Cork Herald
says: There is at present a person in a
charitable institution Of this city who was a
prisoner on the island of Kikahewa, one of the
Marquesas group in the South Pacific Ocean.
for the space of sixteen months. He describes
the natives as cannibals, aud during his resi-
dence among them he was forced to attend
their k0ekaS or feasts on three different occa.
sions. The natives had taken some prisoners
from another tribe with whom they were at
war, and their feasts on these prisoners are de-
seribed as most horrible and inhuman. He
was forced by the natives to eat with them.
and, to save himself from being devoured by
them, he partook of delicate steak taken
from boy about thirteen years of age He
describes it as delicious, and says that the only
drawback to the feast was the revolving idea
Of human flesh. He was wrecked on the reefs
near the island. Sixteen of the crew were
lost. The captain, cook steward, cabin-boy
and himself escaped to land, and were taken
by the natives. A squaw, daughter of the
NdPe'kd, or king, took fancy to him and
protected him from harm, while the other four
were eaten by the cauubals with great gusto.
He managed to save from part Of the wreck
which ioated ashore some of the effects of the
captain and sailors, and, finding paper and
ink, he kept very minute journal of every
days proceedings His description of their
manners, customs, religion, and amusements,
&c, together with full and complete geogra-
ply Of the island, is most interesting and valu-
able. He brought with him species of nut,
which has effected most astonishing cure Of
a case Of epilepsy, and which viii probably
cause stir in the medical world.
Year: 1862

Star Of the North. whose clear, cold light
Breaks on the darkness Of the sky,
When solemn-paced the pilgrim night


In silence journeys By.
Watcher by heavens embattled walls,
How far through nature circle falls


The radiance Of thine eye!
Thou eenter-point Of m nyriad spheres,
Through aged Times grey round of years.
Bright dweller by the unfooted North,
New light hath ever clothed thy face,
Since the high God first launched thee forth


Into the boundless space;
Mountains have from their base been cast
Earthquakes have opened antres vast


Old ocean changed its place;
Nations and tribes of star-bright fame
Have perished-thou art still the same.
Thy glance is ever bold and bright
Thou never weariest in thy task;
What time departs the sable night,


And morn with rosy mask
Glides through clouds, like hills of snow.
Or in the noonfide's passionate glow


All earth and ocean bask;
Till westward, down the redd ming air
Drops the round sun-thou still art there!
Long vert thou worshipped as a guide
BY the bold dwellers on the sea,
Where neither mark nor track abide


Changefully eternaly!
When Ger them crept the night hours dark.
Through the wide waste they urged the bark,
By science won from thee:
Till the dark presence of the storm
Smote from their eyes thy beaming form.
W hat ages, from yon arctic bed
Hath thy deep-fountaned radiance shone!
Nor may that golden flame be dead


So long as Time rolls on;
But still, with clear and steadfast rays,
Emblem that faith by which we gaze


On the Eternal Onel
The beacon by whose light we ride
Triumphing DER Life's dangerous tide.
0 bright and beautiful in thee
We read Gods love-his power, how strong
That through the sky's immensity


Thy giant mass out-iung
So distant from our rolling world
That were thy sphere of beauty hurled


From the resourding throng,
Thousands of years might pass away
Ere thine old realm in darkness lay.


WESLEY GIBSON.
Year: 1862

GENERAL BUTLER ExHUxEs A BoDY.-Old
" Picayune is not to be fooled SO easily. A
New Orleans correspondent Of the Baltimore
American mentions the following incident -
There was funeral in the city lately, and the
coffin was deposited, after the usual ceremo-
monies, in a tomb. From information which
Gen. Butler had received he ordered an exam
inatiou of the coffin to be made afterwards as
the cause of death Of the person which it was
said to contain was not satisfactory TO him.
On opening the coffin no corpse was found,
but in its place large amount Of gold coin,
which was Immediately taken possession Of in
the name of the Government. Specie continues
to be found which has been secreted By tie
rebels, and in all cases i, is seized
Year: 1862

HE following remarkable case of the lock-
jaw is related by the Italian Medical Gazette
OF Milan A hair-dresser of that CITY acci.
dentally received a cut with scythe On the
palm of his left hand near the wrist. This
occurred about the beginning of March, 1862;
the wound healed in six days, and it was not
until the Both following that, on rising from
his bed, he felt some difficulty in opening his
mouth, besides contractions in his left hand,
which he could not stretch out, and pains in
the right hip and thigh During ihe first days
these phenomena disappeared on going to bed,
but commenced again as soon as he rose and
exposed himself to the open air. On the 10th
OF April the symptoms becoming more intense.
he was taken to the hospital. On tie follow
ing day a spasmodic contraction of the lower
Jaw, and rigdity in those of the neck were OBJ.
served 4; the left hand experienced a contrac-
tion every time it was taken from under the
bedclothes, and the pain on the right side con-
tlnued; ; the pulse was very slightly agitated.
Sixteen grains Of chloride of barytes, dissolved
in pound of distilled water, were prescribed
to be taken in twentyfour hours. This treat
ment was continued until the 2lst, when the
symptoms of lock-jaw having nearly entirely
entirely disappeared the dose was reduced to
eight grains day, and the remedy left off on
the Goth; two days later the patient left the
hospital in perfect health"
Year: 1862

POETRY Is said TO be the flower of literature;
prose Is the corn, potatoes and meat satire is
the aqaa-fortis Wit is the spice and pepper
love'leiters are the honey and sugar; letters
containing remittances ore apple-dumplings.
Year: 1862




From Mr.. McLory, who, IL company
with four others, arrived here from Powder
river on Thursday evening, we have the
following items


The party left Powder river about fifteen
days ago, for this valley, coming by way of
the Grand Ronde and Umatilla. They had
been at Pc der river since November last,
engaged in mining and prospecting. T-ey
found diggings about seven miles from
where Mr.. Littlefeld and hi, party were at
work though it has been so cold since the
discovery that they have not been able to
test them thoroughly, yet Mr.. Mel. thinks
that in good weather, and With proper min
ing imp ements, the diggings will yield
from $40 to SIS per day The gold is
coarse and similar to that brought over last
fall by Mr.. Littlefeld. Mr.. Mel. and his
party had done considerable prospecting in
the vicinity, and they found gold in almost
every gulch. He thinks the indications are
that the Pow der river will yet prove an ex-
tensive mining region. The mines are sit
uated about thirty five miles from The Grand
Ronde valley, on the guIches that empty
into Powder river. No prospecting ha yet
been done along the bars Of the river.


The winter has been severely cold there,
tn ugh there has not been so much snow as
here.


In the Grand Ronde valley there had
been but little snow and the stock in the
valley had done veil.


At the Umatilla he saw Mr. Abbott, who
informed him that his cattle would be driv-
en- to Salmon river ria Walla Walla SO
soon as the road is clear of snow. Mr.. A.
himself intended to go to the Dalles and
bring up pack train for the mines leaving
his cattle in cn rye Of his partner, Mr.
Knight. This is an item for the Noun
Idineer.
Year: 1862

THE WEATHER. = The weather still con-
tinues a fruitful theme for comment in this
locality; but te universal decision now-a-
days is that "all signs fsil, and that
weather prophets, whether scientific or IL
logical, g don't know nothing about it. y
Just before going to press last week, we
made an item co the effect that the snow
was gradually disappearing from the valley;
but on rising the next morning we Nere
surprised to find the snow falling fast
and the ground covered with new coat tc
the depth of for or five inches. That
soon disapr, red, hoN ever, and it has been
thawing slowly ever since; yet, though all
the indication are to the contrary, we have
no assurance that it will not snow before
tomorrow Like the past winter, the
spring, so far, has been unusually severe
for this locality.
Year: 1862

The q. s. Frigate Vermont has not yet
been relieved from her pe1ilous condition,
drifting about helpless in the ocean, though
fcqutnt reports arc received from her By
passing sehooncrs. at last accounts she WIS
about SEQ miles off The coast of North Caro-
lima. Fifty were on tho sick list, mostly FROST
bitten, and three had died. The hull was
still sound, but everything inside had been
broken up By the action Of the ship. There
must be as many as half dozen steamers in
chase after her
Year: 1862

AT a Methodist meeting in
Boston, last week, the clergyman
made an appeal to the people to
enlist in the army. why don't
you come forward lively?" said
he. "I'll enlist now-sfter you
receive the benediction, that will
be a proper time to enroll your
selves under your country's flag"
The result was that In a few
minutes after the services were
closed, the clergyman found his
own name of the head Of sixteen
true men, who will all 90 to the
Union army.
Year: 1862

On DIr.-The name of Col. Ross, OF
Hickory Grove Township, it is rumored, will
be urged for the Colonelcy Of the 18th Iowa
Infantry now forming. The Colonel is q man
Of military experience, and is we'll calculated d
to lead such body Of men.
Year: 1862

MAKE PERMANENT IMPRovEMENTs.-
The Street Commissioner is busily engaged
with large force rounding up that portion of
Sd street lying between Brady and Perry,
putting in cutters on both sides. This is ali
very well as far as it goes, but let Us ask OF
the street Committee how long will that
ground stay where it 10 placed? Not three
montbs. The fret heavy rain We have will
wash it back into the cutters. and al the pre-.
sent labor will have gone for naught. A little
extra labor and expense will cave all this.
The road for about twenty feet in width
should receive bed Of macadAm or gravel.
which would hold the earth firm and render
the street passable during the worst seasons.
Third street from Brady to Perry and Fourth
street from Brady to the Pennsylvania House
and the Depot, are as much travelled ~ any
streets in town, and something should be done
to render them paesable. Do not allow all
the work now beirg done to 60 to waste for
the want of few dollars more expenditure.
Let the improvements be made permanent.
Year: 1862

Vague rumors of a probable intervention
by England and France in the affairs of the
United States occasionally find their way to
this side of the Atlantic. These rumors may
or may not be true; but if England wishes a
hand in this war she will have to commence
operations i'm nediately, as every indication
points with the unerring finger of fate to the
speedy winding up of this rebellion.


For centuries England has been the game
cock of the world, fighting the battles of al
most every nation under the sun. Such Is
the combative and meddling spirit of her peo-
pie that in the event of war between two
neutral nations, she can scarcely keep her
fingers out of it. Ifshe engages in the pres
ent struggle and gets whipped, it will not be
the first time in the history of the world that
she has been punished for embroiling herself
in the concerns of others.


We are perhaps at this moment as we'll
prepared to meet her as we have at any time
during the rebellion, and if she desires to
stake her American possessions on the success
of the Southern Confederacy, let her do it
and she will find that the Washington Gov
ernment," as the Thunderer terms it, has
not yet begun to draw upon its resources.
Before she can fortify and occupy the Canadas
with her armies, force can be raised that
will sweep the last vestige of British power
from off this continent. We are not boast
ing when we say that this war has estab
lished a military spirit among our people that
will not fail our country in any event.
Year: 1862

Now, that the blockade has been removed
from three of the leading Southern ports, un
less England and France are determined t.
have war with US they will henceforth holt
their peace. In the opening of New Orlean.
to the commerce of the world, the provision:
of the old treaty with France, guaranteeing
that no interruption of the trade between that
country and Louisiana should take place
have been fulfilled.


1t will not b, long, probably, before Nor
folk and number of other Southern ports
will be thrown open to the flags of every
nation. n


Whether the European cotton manufactur-
ing nations will be in any way benefited by
the removing of the blockade we are unable
to state. If they are not, however, it is none
OF our fault, and they may thank the rebels,
whom they have all along petted and carressed


By the provisions of the Presidents proc
lamation. issued on the 18th inst, the ports
of Beaufort, North Carolina Port Royal.
South Carolina and New Orleans, Louisiana,
are to be open for foreign vessels by the first
day of June next. Every thing but contra
band articles of war may be brought and
taken from these ports the same as if the
blockade had never existed. Any violation,
however, of the conditions imposed by the
Secretary of the Treasury will result in the
forfeiture of the vessel and cargo, and prohibit
ot the United States during the continuation
If the war.
Year: 1862

PASSAGE OF THE HOMESTEAD BILL.--Congress
has at last passed the Homestead bill, and it
has gone to the President for his 81 snature.-
The Committee of Conference have agreed on
bill which met the views of the two Houses.
1t gives every head of family twenty-one
years of age 100 acres of land, provided he
remains upon it and cultivates the land for a
period of five years. The bill also gives every
person who has been in the military or naval
service of the United States during the pre-
sent war all the benefits Of the homestead act


without regard to the limitations elsewhere
in the bill in regard to residence. There is
no doubt but this bill will receive the sigma
ture of the Pes ident, and thus become law


Ithas been pending in Congress for ten years
Year: 1862

MOBILE 70 BE TAKEN NExr-Oom. Farra-


gut informs the War Department that he is off
for Mobile with his squadron. There is moth
ing to require. his further presence at New


Orleans-Gen. Butler having occupied the
city, and his force being amply sufficient for
''all the contingencies" The energetic Com
modore can therefore push through the k'go'
lets towards the second commercial city on the
Southern seaboard. Fort Pike is the only
work that obstructs the route to the Gulf, and
it is by no means formidable defense. We
expect to hear of tho arrival Of Farragut in
Mobile Bay, before many Gays. s
Year: 1862




From the engineer on board one of our
picket boats, which are always stationed in
the Roads at night, beyond the Monitor, to
learned the following particulars in regard to
her last moments


She remained all night in her old position
this side of Craney Island and in the channel,
watching the movements of the troops at this
point, and also an opportunity to escape
either up James river or out to sea. At A
o'clock this morning my informant thought
he saw and unusual direction of the Merrimac,
and upon closely inspecting it with his glass,
he concluded that she was on fire. Her crew
had doubtless been apprised of the evacuation
of Norfolk and its possession by our troops,
and finding no way of escape, they concluded
to dig the 'slast ditch for their favorite. The
fire continued 10 burn slowly, sometimes
streaming from her port holes, and at others
belching from her smoke stack. 1t soon
seemed to glare all over as if her iron plating
had bscone entirely heated through, and at
five o'clock her smoke stack fell with dull
crash, sending up volume Of sparks and jet
ting fame. Anxiously the spectators awaited
the explosion, and from the fact that the fire
continued so long, it was thought there could
not be much powder aboard. At fifteen min
utes past five o'clock, her black hull was lifted
up as it were by some giant hand huge
volume of fame and fireworks, rivaling the
skill of a pyrotechnist, filling the air, and .
dull report coming across the water told us
that the Merrimac, which had caused such
| wonder in the Old World, and anxiety in
| this. ignoriously sunk, amid the scenes of
her former conflict. Thus has the great ques-
| ton, which is the best vessel, the Monitor or
Merrimac, been left unsettled, and, the pres
| tige which our navy might have gained by
the capture of the rebel iron clad has been lost
beyond recovery. While every one feels re-
lieved that the Merrimac is not coming, still,
a general desire has always exis.ed that she
should have been either captured or sunk by
our feet. Immediately upon the dccease Of
the Merrimac our feet steamed up the cham
mel, and entered the Elizebeth river the Mon
itor leading the van. The citizens of Norfolk
will now have an excellent opportunity to
inspect the "Cheese-box."
Year: 1862

~ The statement so confidently made in
the address of the peace Democrats, to the
effect that the public debt now amounts to
one thousand millions OF dollars, is declared
by the authorities of the Treasury Depart
men. to be monstrous falsehood.
Year: 1862

The apples are ripe in The orchard,
The work Oh the reaper is done,
And the golden woodlands leddea
In the blood Of the dying sun.
AT the cottage door the grandsire
Sits pale in his easy chair,
While the gentle wind of twilight
Plays with his silver hair.
A woman is kneeling beside him,


A fair, young head Is prest
In the first wild passion Of sorrow,
Against his aged breast.
And far off over The distance


The faItering ech oes come
Of the flying blast of trumpet,


And the rafting roll of drum.
And the grandsire speaks in whisper
"The end no man can see;
But we give him to his countr-,
And we give our prayers to thee"
The vioets star the meadows,


The rose ouds fringe the door,
And over the grassy orchard


The pink white blossoms pour.
But the grandsire's chair is empty,
The cottage is dark and still;
There's a nameless grave in the battle


field,


Ana new one under the hill.
And 3 pallid, fearless woman,
By the cold hearth sits alone,
And tie clock in the lonely corner.
Ticks on with steady drone.
Year: 1862

youchsafed him. Al robed in heavenly
garments, he saw the beautiful soui he
had called mother, and streaming from
the brightness of her glorious home, a
slender beam saemed TO come, trembling
to his feet Then he knew that the light
Was placed in the window Of heaven.


Once more he knelt in the little room
where he had left her. Nothing was
moved but oh how much was wanting
There on the wind0w>siIl stood the little
Iamp-that brought the tears afresh.-
But he took his motGer's well worn Bible,
and kneeIing by her bedside, as if she
could hear him, he consecrated himself to
life and work of righteousness. From
that cottage lie went out into tie world,
carrying bis grief as sacred memorial,
but seeing always, wherever his work led
him, his waiting mother, and the lamp in
the window of heaven.
Year: 1862

A BEAUTIFUL SE> enthusiastically be-
tore the departure of the lameneted Heber
for India, he preached a sermon which
contained this beautiful illustration;


q Life bears Us on like stream of a
mighty river. Our boat at first gliies
down the narrow channel-through the
playful murmu5ing of the little brook and
the winding of its grassy borders. The
trees shed their blossoms over our young
heads, the flowers on the brink seem to
offer themselves to the young hands we
are happy in hope, and we grasp eagerly
at the beauty around us-bui the stream
hur,es on, and still our hands are empty.
Our course in youth anu manhood is
along a deeper and wilder flood, amid
objects more striking and magnificent
We are animated at the moving pictures
and enjoyments and industry passing us
we are excited at some short lived disap
pointment. The stream bears US on, and
our JOYS and erefs are alike left behind
US. We may be slipwrecked, but we
can not be delayed whether rough or
smooth the river bastens to lis home, till
the roar of the ocean is in our ears, and
the tossing Of the waves is beneath our
feet, and the land lessons from our eyes,
and the floods are lifted up around US, and
we take our leave of earth and its inhabl-
tants, until of future voyage there is no
witness save the infinite AM eternal
Year: 1862

The fisheries of Detroit are great
source OF wealth. The fishing grounds
extend the whole length of the river ON
the Canadian as we'll as the American
shore, Detroit being the largest market.
The large fisheries average nearly a
thousand barrels each in season. The
smaller ones from fifty to five hundred.
aud from eight 10 ten thousand barrels
of fish are taken, IN ordinary seasons. in
the immediate vicinity of the city. The
average price has been about six dollars
per barrel, but this year the price has not
been above five dollars per barrel owing
TO the embargo on trade with the South