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Year: 1862

husiasE. The glow of patriotism is as
bright rs ever, but the hard, bone work Of
the war is upon us. 1Ien must be lad to
fill up the skeleton regiments. We urge
these facts as reasons why it may be neces-
sary to duly apportion this duty among our
loyal communities and then by drafting
designate those upon whom the country
calls. Not man will hang back. There
will be no Sinking, but the places will be
filled promptly.


And there is smother view TO be taken
Of this subject. There are many men in
all communities who are eager to serve
their country, who would be glad 10 be
relieved from the responsibility Of dccis-
sion SO injurious to their business and fam
ily Interests. 4 fond wife, q loving mother
all constitute tacit if not real pleaders that
the husband and brother will not yoluu-
tarily decide in direction so painful in its
separation and perils The husband fears
his wife may believe him less afecionatc
and true if his choice thus runs counter to
her wishes. The business man shrinks
from stepping forward through fear lest
he may seem less devoted to his calIinr
and the interests that have grown up about
1t. The farm needs the husbandnaan who
hesitatcs voluntarily to leave its broad
acres to other hands. It is the instances
Of scripture over again, from him who
"must needs prove" his new purchase, to
him who "has married q wife and there
fore cannot come" Observe, that to all
these We accord willingness and desire
to meet the utmost duties leyolyed On the
patriot, but the responsibility Of the choice
is the obstacle. These are cases abound
ing in all our communities. AL these LOYAL
men ask is to be called upon. Each says,
IF the country wants me, I will go.''


The country does need its patriot SONS,
and the call is imminent and pressing. Let
the work Of filling up our army be appor-
toned to all our communities, and let each
be assigned its share and the work will be
done. The government may trust the
country. There is no test Of loyalty from
which it will shrink. Set the tax-gathere1
at work and the people will meet all his
demands-only Prosecute the war. Garry
tie emblcms Of mourning into thousand
homes for first born slain in battle
carry out the contest to successful close
Designate how many men are wanted, ant
which men shall go, and there will be NJ
hanging back-only crush the rebellion
| Fill up the ranks, let the volunteers be en-


rolled, let drafting give pronlptness to tn


cDrollment-only let there he policy t


hurt the rebels, push them to the wall, an4


amid the blessed purchases Of bloo


bought peace, give us exemption ever attic


from the perils and curse of Slavery. FL


up the ranks
Year: 1862

In view Of the fact that st least tHo-thirds
Of the rebel army have been forced into it By
censcziptlon, and that eoutherners are being
run down daily BY order OF JEFF Davis to keep
the army from falling to pieces, the statement
OF the Richmond Dispatch that the rebel
troops *' unlike the troops Of the North, have
not been forced into the army, but, on the
contrary, have entered the army voluntarily,
for the purpose OF saving their country" Is
rather imp1udent even for secesh print.
Year: 1862

sition is impregnable, but we must have more
men, and rest for those we have got. Few
regiments in the army have five hundred men
fit for duty, and yet have to do the work of
thousand. How long we shall wait here is un-
known to me; but give us reinforcements and
we will fight the ground over again, hard as it
may be when we have once been within two
hours march of Richmond. "Old Abe" has Just
passed through the camp, and we were turned
out to see him. He looks hard.


Yours, j.
Year: 1862

All ourreadears are aware thatto ask lady
her age is equivalent TO declaration of war.
Wehave always looked upon it as much; still
we have al irresistible desire to know the ace
OF some young ladies, but, bless their souls
we would not ask them for the world. We
have at length come across method by
which the sweet ones may be made to di.
vuge the great secret, without knowing
what they are about; and thus young gentle.
men can learn whether they are paying their
devoirs 10 seventeen or thirty. The follow
iug table will do it. Just hand this table TO
the lady, and request her to tell in which
columns her age is contained. Add together
the figures at the top of the columns in
which her age is found, and you have the
great secret.


Thus, suppose her age to be seventeen.
You will find the number seventeen in two
columns, viz, the first and fifth, and the ton
figures make seventeen. Qt is proper to
state 10 the reader, that this table will not
Indicate the age of any young lady or gen.
tlcman above thirty thrce)


- - i
Year: 1862

In lot Of butter sold at one of the dry
goods stores in this village a week or two
since, was roll which sets wooden nu,megs
and cucumber seeds entirely in the shade.
1t weighed about six pounds, and the out
side, to the thickness Of an inch, was butter
of the first 6uality; then came thick layer
lump of salt.
Year: 1862

The address of Howell Cobb and others.
which we print below, was taken from a late
number of the Richmond Enquirer. This
document is full Of import, indicating most
clearly that the Confederate cause is, in
medical terms, in ertremis. Making all al.
lowance for Southern rhetoric and flourish,
it is evident that the leaders are beginning
to comprehend the power of the Federal
Government, the vast network of opera.
tioDs which is gradually closing around
them, the superiority of the North in mum
bers, equipments or munitions of war;" to
use their own Words the doubt hanging
over foreign interference and the conse-
quent desperation of the rebel cause, and
the absolute necessity of using every exer-
tion to arouse the people to universal self
sacrifice"


And with all the extravagant language
used in this appeal, which comes with pecu-
liar significance after the recent Federal
victory in Kentucky, it is evident that the
south will contest every inch of ground,
aud with the greater tenacity and fierceness
as they perceive their cause becoming des-
perste. In fact, their cause is now desperate,
and we all pray for some signal victory, to
give us an impetus which will be perfectly
irresistible:
Year: 1862

There can be no question that the Govern
ment has the right in time of war to seize
persons in active sympathy with rebellion
The right to do this belongs to the right to
take the lives of the same persons in battle.
No person can consistently condemn the
former without condemning the latter. Our
neighbor down the Avenue, and others of his
kind, who have clamored so loudly and con-
stantly against "arbitrary arrests" and vio-
lations Of " constitutional liberty" have failed
to make distinction between the arrest Of
the innocent and that Of the guilty. They
have condemned all such arrests, contending
that the same privileges should be given to
the enemies Of the country as are extended to
its friends.


The present manner of dealing with intes-
tine fees is not new nor the suggestion Of
ga tyrannical administration" The immor-
tai Washington suggested the idea in letter
to Gen. Trumbull, written in November, 1775,
from which the following is an extract:


Gas it is now very apparent that we have
nothing to depend upon in the present contest
but our own strength, care, firmness and
union, should not the same measures be
adopted in your and every other Government
on the continent? Would it not be prudent
to seize on those tories aoho haze been, are, and
that zoe k,,oto soiU be active against us?-
Why should persons who are preying upon
the uitals Of their country be suffered to
skulk at large, schilst zoe knov they sciu do
Us eusry mischief in their powsrp These,
sir, are points beg leave to submit to your
serious consideration"


Had Washington lived in the present day
he would have been more than ever in favor
of this policy, and would, Of course, have
been denounced by the Courier as q
Udosnof - .4.........
Year: 1862

The battle Of Fredericksburg, as appears
new by the details of Saturdays conflict, was
the most bloody and disastrous to the Federal
army of any that has yet been fought during
the war. French's division suffered fright
full carnage on that desperate charge, as its
thinned ranks show 1t is evident that our
troops were completely surprised by the enc
my's sharp shooters in concealed position
and by masked batteries.


What will be the next movement Of Gen.
Burnside remains to be SEEN The fortifca-
tons of Fredericksburg are too formidable to
be taken in the manner attempted last week.
Some other plan to dislodge the enemy will
have 20 be adopted.
Year: 1862

That some expectation exists in the North
Of difficulties with Great Britain, the following
from the New York Herald's money article,
of tho 7th, may be taken as symptom


We learn that determined effort is going
to be made at this session of Congress for the
repeal of the reciprocity treaty with Canada
Representatives of border constituencies have
always been opposed to it, as, in their view.
it gave to Canada benefits wEich were by no
means required by the province. 4 generous
regard for a neighboring and allied people has
hitherto induced the bulk Of the members of
Congress to oppose the steps taken for its re-
peal, and the project has been deferred from
session to session. This winter, it seems, the
opponents of the treaty count upon success
They have taken the pains to collect complete
files of the Toronto Leader and Quebeck Chro.
nicle-ths Government organs which certain
ly breathe spirit of unreasoning and implaca>
able hostility to the the United States Govern
ment, and of extraordinary and udaccountable
sympathy Cor the rebels and they reckon that
with this adventurous aid, they will be enabl-
cd to induce q majority of the members of
Congress to repeal this treaty.
Year: 1862

The New York Herald calls upon the peo-
pie of the North to Immediately put their har
bors and coas Is in a thorough state Of defence,
to prepare against the action OF Great Britain,
though that paper thinks possibly no war may
grow out OF it.


Cotton took another rise in New York, in con
sequence of the news of the Trent" affair
from Eogl-ad, go;ng up 20 so cents per pound
Year: 1862

A HEROIC ILLINOIS BoY.-When the armies
of the United States, fighting as they are, for
Freedom and the Union, enclose within them
such heroism as that Of the little boy mentioned
in The extract which follows, can It be surpris-
ing that they everywhere oyerwheln those OF
the rebel miscreants who are assailing the life
of the nation2


Let the name of this gallant little fellow
pass along the lines


Let " Charley Bliss be the equivalent Of
noble deeds, all the more exalted because his
young heart yearned for a resting place within
the arms Of his mother. I take the following
from a letter just received, written by gen.
tleman of Illinois to relation in this city.


W. W.


"A little boy, only twelve years old, whose
mother resides in WOODBURY. [Macoupin Co.,
Ill returned last week from Pittsburg Land
ing. He was a drummer in a company of
which his father was lieutenant His name
is Charley Bliss. am well acquainted with
the family, having been their physician. This
boy went through the whole of the Donelson
fight and was engaged during the two days of
that at Pttsburg. His father was wounded
in three places, while he had his clothes pierre
ed with bullets, and blood once slightly drawn
from about the knee. The drum was shot en-
tirely away. The little fellows gear looked
very rusty, and his girlish face was tanned as
dark as chocolate. His colonel sent him home,
with four wounded men, by whom be had re-
mained, aud to whom he carried water on the
field when the battle ragged the hottest. They
say he never hnched. At DOnelson he got
hold of gun, dropped by rebel, and fred
twenty rounds himself, by borrowing cartridges
from the soldiers about him. l tried to get
him to stay over night, promising to take him
home in my carriage, early in the morning.
But no. he said he preferred to walk three or
four miles in the mud and rain, after dark, for
he wanted to see his mother that night. His
father was left behind, in a hospital


Philadelphia Press.
Year: 1862

'ENHE 81 BSCRlBERS hereto do declare it to be


Il their intention to organize company 10 CON
strnct Turnpike Road having its termini at the
town Of Oroyie, in Butte County State Of Califor-
ma ana q point on the laporte and Marysyille
road, at or near what is known as the Woodville
House, in Yuba county, in said State.


The general route Of said road 10 be from the
SAID town Of Oroville to what is known as the Buff
iaio Ranch, thence TO what Is known as the Robin
son Mil, thence 10 is eastern terminus at said
point Of intersection with said Laporte and Marys
vile road.


said subscribers hereby designate Friday the
3Oth day Of May, A D. 1852, at the hour Of IL NJ.
as the time aad the town Of Oroyle as the place OF
meeting Of the subscribers hereto for the purpose OF
forming preliminary organization Of said com
Year: 1862

few steps, the stranger seized the robbar by
the collar, whirled him round ard threw him
on his face in tbesoow- The robber struggled,
but the stranger knelt heavily on the small OF
bis back, and grasped his hair


Lie still said the stranger, or I viii
send bullet through yoar brain"


The robber felt the cold barrel of pistol at
his ear, and obeyei Mhly quickly brou-h ht
ropes, at her rescuers request, and the robber
was bound hand and foot,


1t was a strange providence" ;" the new
conner said. d that overlook me with snow
storm on the prairie, and forced me an hour
ago to take refuge in your smoke house, nearly
dead w,th cold"


Mlly Acknowledged the truth Of the remark,
and she knelt and thank her Father Heaven
for her deliverance.


The next day Milly's husband came home
and when he had been told all, he remarked;


This fellow was in the tavern at the vii.
lage the day sold my produce. 1t will teach
me a Iesson-neyer 10 let strangers know when
money Is plenty with me, lest they should be
tempted to crime, and bring ruin on me and
mine"


That day some sixty or seventy men gath
cred at the house of Mr.. Dean, The robber
was recognized as a notorious horse thief, who
had long infested the neighborhood. There
was summary trial, and then in dogged 81
lence the wretch who would have burned a
harmless infant and murdered a faithful and
gentle woman, submitted to his inevitable fate
A rudely constructed gallows and a stout rope
ended his existence So on the thinly settled
frontiers of the West do they mete out justice
to offenders against property and life.


About seventeen hundred dollars in bills
were found on the person of the robber, besides
the gold be had taken from Mrs Dean. As
there were no claimants for the bills at the
suggestion Of the stranger whose life had been
saved from the anger Of the winter Storm by
the shelter he found in the smoke house, a
thousand dollars of the seventeen hundred was
presented to Milly, in consequence Of what she
had passed through, and the remainder of ii
was divided around.


On that very spot now there Is a thriving
town, and one of the finest residence in the
place is that where dwells Milly Dean aud her
husband.
Year: 1862

The Louisville Democrat, a staunch and re-
liable organ of the unconditional Union men of
Kentucky, to whose efforts, in connection with
its able colleague, the Louisville Journal, we
are greatly indebted for the preservation Of
that State to the Union, says in a recent num-
ber:


"Of course this same Republican party are
opposed to the South ever being represented in
Congress. 1t would upset all their calculations
and dsappoint their hopes They don't want
the Union restored; it is not their interest
They and the rebels South are a unit in oppo-
sition to the Union. A restored Union Will
be death of both of them"


The same paper bears the following testmo-
ny TO the Northern Democracy:


SOUND FOR THE UNION"


"The local elections in Ohio show a vastly
increased Democratic victory. Let all Ken
tuckians bear in mind that, in the present
Congress, wherever you find the vote of the
Border Slave States, you will find the North
ern Democratic vote with them. The North
ern Democratic press and the loyal press Of the
slave States speak the same language.


We admit that some of the Republicans in
Congress are conservative and still more Of
them are SO at home but they are constantly
subjected to party pressure and in their efforts
for wise and moderate policy they will have
to denand chiefly on their nolitical ornaments
to sustain them. On the other hand the De
mocracy Of the North are not only sound for
the Union, but for the Union the right way"


Now in connection with the above, read the
following. Less than year ago. Wendell
Phillips made speech in the fremont lem
pie, at Boston, in which he said


The anti-slavery party had hoped for and
planned disun5on, because it would lead to the
development Of mankind, and the elevation Of
the black man"
Year: 1862

RAILROAD PoETRY-A correspondent Of
the Broome County Republican describes his
iaunt over the Syracuse and Binghampton
Railroad, from Cortland, in the following strain:
So much | wrote in Cortland's bounds, and
would have finished there, had not the down
trains whistle loud, resounded through the air
So shaking Fairchlld by the hand who said
come up again" bade farewell to every
fear, and jumped aboard the train. Rushing
round the hillside, darting DER the plain, over
the rivers, under the roads, Van Bergen drove
his train The moon threw bright efulgent
rays on each small ripple's crest the river
seemed a ribbon stretched along the meadows
breast; the evening wind came stealing thro'
the car with a gentle sigh, and brought cin-
der from the engine, which sprung into my eye.
Few and short We're the prayers I said and L
spoke not a word Of sorrow, but rubbed at
my eye till made it red, and knew 'tw0uld be
sore on the morrow. We soon got home at
the rate we ran, at an hour just right for re-
tiring, and down from his post came the engine
man. and the fireman ceased his firing And
thus too will cease the moral to the tale, be
always sure to mind your eyes, when riding on
a rail.
Year: 1862

In large log cabin, in the valley of the
streamet, Milly Dean sat alone. Her husband
had gone to distant town, and the young
wife was left with her baby. Accustomed to
solitude, she felt safe, and sat in contentment
before the blazing fire; the flames leaped right
joyfully up the chimney, and the green logs
sizzled and cracked in the heat ike things of
life. Out doors, the wind was howling drear-
ly, and the snow falling heavily but Mlly
cared not, for it but made the fire more cheerful.


There came a rappng at the door.


" How strange! Who can that be at our
door this wild nigbt?" she said to herself, as
she rose aud went into the little entry.


The .rapping was repeated.


" w ho is there ?" she asked


For heavens sake let me ni am freezing
to death - was the reply.


who are you, and how came you in this
lonely place on such an evening as this ?"


I am a traveller from below I lost my
way, aud am dying with cold. For PHYS sake
let NE in, or I shall perish -


Milly hesitated. She was alone, and it was
three miles to the nearest neighbor's What
should she do? She paused in perplexity.


20 save me-save me. am dying" were
the words that met her hearing. There was a
heavy fall against the sill, and then loud means
Her woman nature could stand no more : true
to the instinct Of her being, she unbarred the
door and threw it open. A closely mufied
figure reeled by her into the room. and shut
ting the door, she followed. On reaching the
fireplace the stranger threw of his disguise
and stood erect and strong, without sign Of
i Inconvenience from the effects of the weather
Mly retreated from him in amazament; but
recovering herself and putting the best face
on the matter, she TREMENDOUSLY addressed tht
man:


4 am sorry, sir, You are so cold. 1t is
bitter night 10 be abroad. Will you sit BY
the FIRE ?" And she pushed chair forward.


The man made no response, but stoopin.
over, ran bis fingers through the blaze. Thel
be turned and stared at her with a look which
made ber blood run cold. She would pretend
there were others in the house, for she alreadl
felt afraid of the man, and bitterly regrettes
having admitted him.
Year: 1862

The VOICE OF \ True UNION SOLDIER
The Dayton Ohio Empire prints the follow
ing extract from letter, recently received
from Union soldier of Montgomery county,
now in the army at Columbia, Tennessee. 1t
speaks for itself:


4 have always been a Republican, but as
the Dayton Journal is getting to be burlesque
on a respectable community aud the Admins
tratiou is carrying out abolition principles, l
.as well as thousands Of my fellow soldiers
are forever done with the name, as well as
with tie abolition principles Of the Republican
party. We Republican soldiers. and the same
may be said of our brother Democratic soldiers.
did not enlist to expose our lives to aid aool-
tionism. nor enancipate the loathsome negro,
and then to be taxed to the backbone to pay
the bill. We are willing TO fight and sacrifice
our lives for the restoration of peace and the
maintenance Of the Constitution, and the pre-
servation of the Union, and its laws, but We
are not willing to fight for the abolition of
slavery"


The editor adds


"Our correspondent, We doubt not, speaks
the sentiments Of nine-tenths of the rank and
file of the army They did not enlist to fight
the battles Of aboIitiouisis, nor do they desire
to offer their lives for the sole benefit of the
negro.


The Republican Legislature sHelt mice
when they refused to pass bill allowing the
volunteers 10 vote"
Year: 1862

SUPPOSE the result of this war shall be to
restore the Union as it waS-what have we
gained? After all our outpouring of blood
and treasure We shall be just where We were
before, and no better assurance of lasting
peaee.-[ Chicago Tribune,


Here We have the views of the ablest and
the leading Republican paper of the North
west, that restoration of the Union is useless.
That is the old essential abolition idea.
Year: 1862

4 wealthy old farmer was Absalom Lee,


be had but one daughter, the mischievous Kitty
So fair and 50 good and 50 gentle was she


That lovers came wooing from country and city
The first and the boldest to ask her hand


Was trimly-dressed dandy who worshipped her


=" tin


She replied with a smile he could well understand
That she'd marry no ape for the sake of his


skin :"


The next was a merchant from business retired,
Rich, gouty and grnf, presuming old sinner:
Young Kitty's fair form and face he admired,
And thought to himself, a. l can easily win her. =
SO he showed her his palace, and made bluff bow,
And said he might live there but wickedly then
Kitty told him she long ago made rash vow.
Not to marry bear for the sake of his den =
miser next came; he was fearless and bold
In claiming his right to Miss Kitty's affection;
He said she'd not want for home while his gold
Could pay for cabin to give her protection
Half vexed at his boldness bat calm in trice.
She curtseyed, and thanked him, and blushinglv


then


Demurely repeated her sage aunt's advice,
" Not TO marry hog for the sake of his pen -
The next was farmer. young, bashful and shy
He feared the bold wooers who came from the


city;


But the flush his cheek and the light in his eve
Soon kinded fame IN the bosom of Kitty.
'' Ny life will be one of hard labor he said
But, darling, come share it with me if You can
Il suppose she replied, gaily tossing her head
Il must marry the farm for the sake of the mani