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Year: 1862

In order to secure as far as possible
the decent interment OF those who have
fallen or may fall in battle, it is made the
duty of commanding generals to lay off lots
OF ground in some suitable spot near every
battle field. so soon as it may be in their
power, and to cause the remains of those
killed to be inferred, with head boards to
the graves, bearing the numbers, and, when
practicable, the names of the persons hurried
in them. A register Of each burial ground
will be preserved, in which will be noted
the marks corresponding with the head
boards.
Year: 1862




The HOMESTEAD LAW INTHK UNiTEr
STArEs.-While we are discussing and
hesltatIug apoal our oiley for securing q
population--on the one hand sending
agents 10 solicit new Inhabitants, and on
the other. through petty jealousies, pre-
ferences, and fears. not unfrequently pla-
cling secret obstacles in the way Of settle
ment by augers--while we are one day
declaring that no land shall be sold except
to bona tdc settlers, and the next selling
vast blocks to an English Land Company,
who everybody knows never mean to set.
tie, but 70 make p.oht BY peddllng out
what we have sold In block. and who can
afford to pay Il 900 to member Of Par
lament for bullying the Government till
they make the grant on terms more profit
able than was at first intended, tie Amer
itaa Congress has adopted the most CON-
prehensive policy for the encouragement
OF immigration which has perhaps ever
been devised. By the Homestead Act,
which recently became a law, every man
who will settle upon Them may have l60
acres Of land for nothing, and without any
conditions to drive him back into the re-
moter corners or the inferior tracts OF the
public domain. Partial offers of such
gifts have often been made before, but we
doubt whether any endowment on 30 mag
ni6eent soale has ever been conferred
on the money less sons of labor, not of one
country; but Of the civilized world. We
lately mentioned the passage through the
House of Representatives Of the law which
forever prohibits the Introduction of slave
ry upon any Territory now in possession
of the United States, or which may at any
future time come into their possession -
We described this as the chief point in
the ayowed programme Of the Republican
party, which, by the election Of Lincoln,
and the secession of the South, obtained
the control Of the Government last spring.
But the Homestead law is the complete
ment Of the prohibition Of slavery in the
Territories, or rather, perhaps, one is the
complement Of the other. The great
scheme Of policy would be maintained If
either Of them had failed Of adoption, On
the other hand, even the gift Of land
would have been poor attraction to Free
men who are 10 cultivate their farms with
their own hands, if by the side Of them
there should exist an institution which
makes all labor degrading, and the occu-
patton Of an inferior caste. And, on the
other hand, the most effective way to shut
out slavery is to people the new lands,
where it might otherwise sock to extend
itself, with men whose position places
them in natural antagonism to the plantA-
ton system.


The attention Of the world is naturally
turned to the exciting scenes which are
being enacted and are expected tc be ca.
acted. by the hosts of armed men now
confronting each other. Bot war is in its
nature temporary, and perhaps the few
engagements which are called decisive
battles OF the world would be reduced in
numbers ii we could eliminate from them
those which were mere symptoms Of the
direction Of moral and physical forces.
rather than the impulses which produce
that direction. The civil transactions Of
the last few months At Washington will
make their impression upon ages tocome,
Year: 1862

PRESIDENT LINCOLN has sometimes very dry
way of s'putting the question Par example.
A Clergyman recently gave the President his
views Of conducting the war and, after talking
Eve minutes, drew up to hear what the President
had to soy.


''Perhaps you had better try to run the ma
chine week." quietly remarked Old Abe.


Another gentleman, after pouring out his walls
of wrath upon Government officer was sur
nrised 10 hear the President quietly remark


"Now, you are just the man I've beea looking
for. want you to give me your advice and tell
me. if you we're in my place and had heard all
you've been telling, and didn't believe word of
it, what would you do 7"
L WAS poser.
Year: 1862

MoRR CmoIR SINGING. An exchange tell as
that in a church choir in Scotland, the following
atanza was eTecuted:


"And we'll catch the flee,


And we'll catch the flee,


And wen catch the flee;


And we'll catch the flee ting hour
II is perhaps unnecessary to add, that, follow
ing the example of the celebrated "animar' that
Paddy once had under his finger, the flea was
not there when the choir came to look for it.
Year: 1862

On the 20th of November feet of twenty-five
vessels sailed from New London and New BEDFORD 10
.L Sontberp coast In our Eastern letters to-day,
something will be found concerning it, but who was to
command the flee: and its particular destination nave


not been announced There will be no dlhcuty In DIS
covering the bent of its intentions, however, on learning
how the feet composed and with what the vessels are
fre;obted They are all antique whalers, tough and
substantial enough yet for the use to be made OF them
hut too old be trusted for very long voyages any
more They have been collected from New London,
Mvste. Fairhaven Nantucket, Sag Harbor and Edgar
town stripped of their copper. and each fitted with
lead nine in the bottom of five inches diameter, IN which
is 6xed valve that closes it safely until it Is desirable
70 sink the hulk 1t is calculated that in twenty minutes


fer reno, ing the valve the vessel will have sunk to
The botom Each vessel is loaded with picked stone as
deeply as is consistent with safety on the voyage to her
upnanounced destination. A crew Of six men works
each vessel who when the sinking has been made sure


ore 70 he taken off in small boats to the war IN
attendance The captain of every vessel has sealed or
ders which are not to be opened until the plot that
takes her out of port has left


The vessels composing the feet to be sunk are as iOi
lows the figures showing their tonnage Many OF them'
iiIe ali our generals, {" have been in California
Year: 1862

The SANITARY COMMISSION. London
Times is highly satisfied with the report of
the United States Sanitary Commission, and
Is not sorry to take some hints from it. 1t
speaks Of the operations of the Commission as
follows:


1.-The Federals did not wait, as we did in the
Crimesn War, fer the mischief to begin They
actually appointed a Commission TO inquire
into the health Of the army before that army
had assembled, and not minnie was lost by
the Commissioners in entering upon the dis
charge Of their duties. Under the Presidency
of a Doctor, not Of Medicine, but of Divinity,
they have been at work seven months. y y
The Rev. DIR. Bellows seems to have taken his
men or his regiments, and ascertained ali their
'antecedents' with the accuracy of German
police agent. We learn everything about the
troOps-Where they came from, how they came,
how long they were coming, and what kind of
men they were, as well as how they were
lodged, fed, paid, clothed, entertained and
dOctored. II may be well supposed that this
Information is valuable. We must say that we
never met with q more exhaustive report
Tne Commission appears to have been Of great
benefit to the army, and il will now enable the
world to observe how that singular army has
been constituted.P
Year: 1862

The MATERIAL OF OUR ARMY.-The fol-
lowing from the New York Albion of last week
is somewhat different from the description Civ
en- of our soldiers by RUSSELL Of the London
Times, and other defamers of our country and
the soldiers who are fighting for its preserva-
ton:


mot e few British officers from regiments
stationed in Canada, or employed there on spe-
cial service, have been recently permitted to ex-
anime with p ofessiona eye their bone and sin
ew, their equipment their discipline, their ma
ncuvres. 1t comes within our personal knowl-
edge that several of these our soldier country
men, whose opinions are of the greatest value,
report their unJounded surprise and admiration
at the e6ectiCe and promising condition of the
thousands Of tr0ops tchom they hare seen. Oh
the fighting qualities they may have something
to say hereafter, tor-thankS to the unexpected
and exceeding courtesy of Gen. Mcclellan
some of these gentlemen have been allowed to
accompany the headquarters Of the United
States army in its expected onward march
This obligation, we need scarcely say, is far
more appreciated by military men than any re-
views or entertainments got up for their benefit,
while those who could not remain to avail
themselves of this privilege are nevertheless
most grateful for the hospitality with which
they have been received"
Year: 1862

MARV VBLOUS INSTANCE OF SYMPATHY.


a very strange example of the influence of
sympathy is reported to have occurred during
the battle at Pea Ridge. Hiram L. Lord of
2jth Missouri, Col. Phelps while charging up
ravine, fell as if dead, and his companions
an to him and asked if he was hurt He did
not answer and it was soon discovered that he
iad swooned.


On reviving he said he must have been struck
~ ball for he felt pain in his left side, and
distinctly experienced the stunning ana numb
ny sensation that results from gun shot
wound. His person was examined, and no
mark or indication of injury was perceptible.-
lie could not comprehend the mystery, but soon
liter resumed the fight, and forgot the sensa-
ion until he had returned to his camp, when
lie learned, to his surprise and sorrow, that his
win brother, Geor e, was among the dead.
George had been in another part of the field,
md had been shot in the body, and at the same
ime that Hiram had believed himself mortally
Wounded. The sympathy between the two
rotheis had ever been complete, and the illness
of one was usually accompanied by the sickness
IF the other. Strange, il true, say many but
.he stranger the truer, says the student OF Ma
'ure.
Year: 1862




All night long steamers were engaged ferry
ing Gen. Buell's force across and when day
light broke, it was evident the rebels too had
been strongly reinforced. The battle was
opened by the rebels at o'clock from the
Corinth road, and in half an hour extended
along The whole line. At o'clock the sound
of artillery and musketry fully equalled that of
the previous day. Tip enemy was met by our
reiniorcements. and the still unwearied soldiers
Of yesterday, with an energy they certainly
could not have expected. 1t became evident
they were avoiding the extreme of our left wing,
and eldeavoring with perseverance and deter
mination to find some weak point by which to
turn our force. They left one point but to re-
turn to it Immediately, and then as suddenly
would, by some mastery stroke of generalship,
direct a most vigorous attack upon some divi-
sion where they fancied they would not be ex-
pected. But the fire of our lines were as
steady as clock-work, and it soon became ev-
dent that the enemy considered the task they
had undertaken a hopeless one. Further re-
Inducements now began to arrive, and took po-
siton on the right of the main center under
Gen. Wallace. Gems. Grant. Buell., Nelson,
Sherman, and Crittenden. were everywhere
present, directing movements for new stroke
on the enemy. Suddenly both wings of our
army were turned upon the enemy with the IN
tention of driving them into an extensive
ravine, at the same time powerful battery
stationed in the open field poured volley after
volley of canister into the rebel ranks, and at
half past eleven the roar OF battle shook the
earth. The Union guns were fired with all the
energy that the prospect of the enem s defeat
inspired, while the rebels fire was not so vigor-
Gus and they evinced desire to withdraw
They finally fell slowly back, keeping up fire
from their artillery and musketry along their
whole columns. They retreated. They went
in excellent order, battling at every advan-
tageous point and delivering their fire with con,
siderable effect, but from all the divisions Of
our lines they were closely pursued. CALLING
fire being kept up on their rear. The enemy
had now heen driven from our former lines
and were in full retreat for Coruth pursued by
our cavalry. The forces engaged on both sides
in this days bOtele are estimated at about TO-
600 each.
Year: 1862

last rations today, and the supply is depen-
dent upon toe arrival of train which left
New Greek three days ago. Luckily, by
the foresight of General Fremont, we are
provided with beef cattle. General Free
mont assumed the command in March
time enough has elapsed to provide for I'LL
this. Now, who is to be censured /? Ger
tainly not Fremont, for he has exhausted
the vocabulary of demands.


One might ask, why should there be any
army in this vicinity, 80 difficult for militia
ry operations? The answer will be found
in the unexpected and rapid advance of the
rebels, the battle of last week, and the
threatening presence of some twenty thou.
sand of the enemy within five miles of our
lines, who could strike the Ohio and Balti-
more Railroad in three days. occupy Wheel.
ing, Western Virginia, with an amount of
damage in prospect which you will easily
estimate by looking at the map of the coun.
try. You may be sure that our army here
will accomplish all that is possible with the
means.
Year: 1862

"TIMorHY TIrcoMB," alias Doctor Hol-
land, of the Springfield Republican, is down
upon the sour kind of deacons; he likes a
wholesouled man, and thinks the lugubrious
sort of religionsts are very serious injury
to the reputation of genuine Christianity.
He says:


have seen deacon in the pride of his
deep humility. He combed his hair
straight, and looked studously after the
main chance; and while be looked be en-.
ployed himself in setting a good example.
His dress was rigidIy plain, and his wife
was not INDUCED in the vanities of mili-
merry and mantua making He never joked.
He did not know what joke was, any
further than TO know that it was sin. He
carried Sunday face through the week.
He did not mipg!e in the happy social par
ties OF bis neighborhood. lie was deacon.
lie starved his social nature because be was
deacon. He retraiued from all particpa>
tion in free and ge erous life because he
was deacon. He made his children hate
Sunday because ne was deacon. He so
brought them up that they learned to con
slder themselves unfortunate in being the
children of deacon. They were pitied by
other children because they were the chill.
dren of deacon. His wife was pitied by
other women because she was the wife of a
deacon. Nobody loved him. If be came
into circle where men were laughing and
telling stories, they always stopped until he
went out. Nobody ever grasped bis hand
cordially, or slapped him on the shoulder, or
spoke OF him as a good fellow. He seemed
as dry and hard and tough as piece OF
jerked beef. There was no softness of
character-no juciness-no loveliness 10
him.


Now it is OF 20 use for me to undertake
to realise to myself that God admires such
character as this.
Year: 1862

The following very important informa-
tion we obtain from the Vicksburg Evens
ing Citizen of the 18th:


The latest we can ascertain of the where
abouts of the gnnboats below is, that they
arrived at Natchez yesterday evening about
tour o'clock, and that they are anchored on
the stream below that city. What they
are doing, or bow long they will remain in
that quarter has not transpired.


The following dispatch direct from Natch-
ez, was dated at eight o'clock this morning:


We have further report to the effect
that the gunboats had sent yawl with a
flag of truce and bearing a demand for the
surrender of the city. AS the yawl landed
number of people had gathered to wit
ness the proceedings, and the men from the
boat requested that some one in the crowd
should take the dispatches and deliver them
to the Mayor. None could be found will
ling to accommodate the Yankees, until at
last, they prevailed upon fisherman to
carry the note to the Mayor. When be dcs
livered the document, and it was found to
contain demand for the surrender of the
city, crowd of exasperated citizens took
the fisherman and hung him, and that the
Mayor refused to surrender, and the gun
boats gave them till ten o'clock today to
determine what they should do.


From the Memphis Appeal, I7h.


THE FEDERAL GUNBOATs.


The Vicksburg WhSg, of the 18th inst,
says: I" The Federal feet was at N atchez
yesterday afternoon. The distance from
Natchez to this place, is one hundred and
ten miles. II they run last night they may
be looked for this evening. We trust ove-
~ thing will be ready here when they make
their appearance"
Year: 1862

A NOBLE WoMAN.-Mrs. General w.
III. l.. Wa lace, of Ottawa, went up to
Pittsburg on one of the first boats after the
battle, having heard that her husband was
wounded. When she arrived she found him
already dead. For brief season she yield.
ed to the great grief of her bereaved soul.
and wept over her dead, refusing to be
comforted. But when she saw all around
on the boat the men who had fought and
fallen with him there yet alive, 10 pain and
thirst, with none to help them, she turned
from her dead to the living, and all night
long went from man to man, with water
and words of comfort and the holy succor
that must coma out of such an inspiration
in such place. Many incidents of no ole-
ness and usefulness have come to our
knowledge during the progress OF this war,
but no one has touched US more tenderly, or
excited more deeply our admiration than
this.-New Couenant.
Year: 1862

generals who want to push on the war
must do so without counting on the new
lcyies, and the brave fellows who have
already borne the brunt OF the contest
must bear it yet longer dissatisfied


Every consideration Of justice TO those
in the field, the encouragement OF those
about to enter, speedy reiniorcements Of
our armies, economy in means as well as
time--everything points to the necessity
OF using the new levies to ill up the regi
me ITS now in the held--and yet, though
time is precious and the enemy presses,
our State authorities do not seem 10 real
izc the necessity OF the hour, but con.
time a mode OF enlistment which wastes
both time and money
Year: 1862

THE DEFENCE OF THE BEARD.-There
are more solid inducements for wearing the
beard than the mere personal appearance,
and the cultivation of such an aid to the
everyday diplomacy Of life. Nature, com
bning, as she never fails to do, the useful
with the ornamental, provides us with a far
better respirator than science could ever
make. The hair and mousache not only
absorbs the moisture and masma of fogs,
but it strains the air from dust. 1t acts also
in the most scientific manner, by taking heat
from the warm breath as it leaves the ches',
and supplying it to the co d air taken in.
1t is not only resprator, but with the beard
entire we provided with comforted as well
The remarkable thing is, too, that the beard,
like the hair of the head, protects against
the heat of the sun; it act as a thatch does tC
an ice house; but more than this, it becomes
moist with the perspiraton, and then b.
evaporation coos the skin. A ten years
experience may nave made us ourselves
little enthusiastic; but if a total immunity
fran tootha he, relaxed usual coughs, colds
and all the host of rheums be any inducemen
then we can corIialy recommend the beard
in all its glory.
Year: 1862

We are ava G of the difficulties that lie in
the way Of the executive. While he should
keep fully up with the public opinion, yet
he must not 60 far in advance And, when
public opinion demands the liberation of the
slaves of rebel owners, the Government will
be compelled to take such steps leading to
that result as wisdom and prudence may die
tate; and still further, if the popular voice
demands that The slaves be armed to aid
in subduing the destroyers of the Govern
ment, it will have to be done.


San Jose Mercury.
The editor lays claims to being the first
on the Pacific coast who advocated the
emancipation Of the rebel slaves. 1t can,
with propriety, be said, also, that he has the
honor of being the first who recommended
the policy of placing arms in the hands Of
slaves after they are emancipated.


El Dorado Times.
Year: 1862

The Chinese Of the present day are said to
have lost curious secret. They knew for
mely how to paint their porcelain with fish
es and other creatures in such manner that
they never appeared to the eye until the vases
were filled with liquor.
Year: 1862

THE RIGHT VIEW OF TIE REMovAL.-On
the removal of the Legislature to San Fran
cisco, the Marysvile Express says:


1--WE doubt the policy of the change, and
we think majority of the people agree with
us, but that is small matter. In looking
around at the causes which induced members
to vote for change, we are impressed with
the .act that high water was not the only
one. The Union pursued avery indecent
course, better calculated to arouse in the
breasts of members feelings of animosity
than friendship. Sacramento may thank
the Union for the removal of the capital,
and, if it ever comes back, it viii. be when
the Union opposes such STEP,
Year: 1862

J. SMITH, AUCTIONEER-WILL SELL THIS DAY,
IA at l0s o'clock the entire Furniture Of family giving
housekeeping in he private residence No II
street OF Ninth and Third Every
thing must he removed this day Sale positye Deposit
Q1ired from every person.
Year: 1862

Taking a thoughtful perusal Of our Ia
test telegraphic news, we are inclined TO
think that the son to Richmond F" has
commenced in earnest, and that our read
ers may look for astounding intelligence
from the Potomac within the next ten
days. But don't look for any moro Bull
Run affairs. Our opinion of events to
come is just this, that in accordance with
the quietly concocted and deep laid plans
of our military leaders, the rebellion is
Just on the eve Of receiving its death blow,
and that the last head of the hydra mon
star is TO be severed from its writhing
body, and at the ides of March, the gov
ernment will rejoice and the people shout
for JOY that the constitution and the laws
are once more established over anarchy
and confusion. Are We too sapguine p
Are we hoping too muchl What means
the advance of the Grand Army into
Virginia with power that all Rebeldom
is as Intellectual to stop as the puny arm
of men the advance of the mighty whirl-
wind.


What means the evacuation of Colum-
bus, so admirably fitted by nature for a
stronghold, and so strongly fortified by
the most effectual barriers that military
skill could devise3 What means the ter
rible CONSERVATION that has so suddenly
seized the foe throughout all their borders
that they melt away before our armies,
and that causes the knees of their leaders
to become weak and smite together like
those of Belshazzer of old when he was
weighed in the balance and found want
ing" and his kingdom snatched from
him? Is not similar destiny about to
visit treason, so long enthroncd as the rul-
ing element in so large portion Of our
fair domain9 Law and order are to as
sumo the throne, and but few days,
or weeks at most, will pass, we opiuc, be-
fore bonlires, Examinations, and the roar
of cannon will greet the auspicious event.
Year: 1862

DoN'T MAKE L FGss.-We are receiving
continual co1nplaints from fretty, fussy, lndt~
yidusls that their names are put down twice
upon the enrolment LIST Well, what OF It?
We do not see any special reason why man
should complain because his Government is
partial and gives him two chances to be OF
services to his country where others have only
one. Onr own name has been taken four
times: once at our residence, once at this
Office, once from the old assessment roll and
once We presume upon general principles,
ond we expect to take the chances. without
grunting about it. 4 man should esteem it a
personal compliment that his services are
so much in demand.
Year: 1862

This committee, composed Of prominent
citizens and bnRiness men, need no urging to
make this welcome an impressive QUE Their
very best cpdeayors will not carry them
beyond the wishes Of the community.