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Year: 1862

Fnlow- Citizens. In few days the pro- visional government of the Confederate States will live only in history. With it we shall deliver up the trust we have endeav- ored to use for your benefit, to those more directly selected by yourselves, Tho pub lie record of our acts is familiar to you, and requires no further explanation at our hands. Of these matters, which policy has required to be kept secret, it would be improper to speak This address, therefore, will have no personal reference.

 We gre well assured that there exists no necessity for IS to arouse your patriotism, nor to inspire your confidence. We rejoice with you in the unanimity of our State in it's resolution and its hopes. And We are proud with you that Georgia has been illustrated" and we doubt not will be illustrated again by her sons in our holy struggle. The first campaign is over-each party rests in place-whIe the winters snow declares an armistice from on high The results in the field are familiar to you, and We will not recount them. To some important facts we call your attention.

 First, the moderation of our own govern ment and the fanatica madness of our ene- mics have dispersed all differences of opin- ion among our people, and united them forever in the war of independence. In 2 few border States waning opposition IS giving way before the stern logic of daily developing facts The worlds history does not give parallel instance of 2 revo- luton based upon such unanimity among the people.

 Second. Our enemy has exhibited an energy, perseverance, and an amount of resources which we had hardly expected, and disregard of constitution and laws which we can hardly credit. The result of both, however, is that power which is the
Year: 1862

Many remarkable cures Of these affections have been
made by the Alternative power Of this medicine II stmu-
lates the vital functions into vigorous action, and thus
disorders which would be supposed beyond Ito
reach Such remedy has long been required by the ne
cessies Of the people, and confident that this viii
do for tllem NIL that medicine can do.
Year: 1862

NOTTsCHALKs CONCERT.
VI The public IN respectfully informed that


NJ L. N. 0OTTsCHALK
The great pianist win arrive positively the
from Havana and his first concert New York will TAXI
place ten days after his arrival
Year: 1862

mark if they get into battle. The 9th
Ohio was the first regiment that was sworn
into the three years service. and distin-
guished themselves in the battle at Rich
Mou ntain.


1t being time for dress parade | will
have to quit scribbling for this tine. but
will write again after we have battle--il
l am not prevented by any circumstance
The boys are all in good spirits and anx-
ious to get into battle. There are but
few sick in this regiment at present, and
the health has been good all the time com.
pared with the Kentucky regiments. The
latter admit they cant stand soldering like
the Hoosiers. II Kentuckians, who DO la
Dor little, cant stand soldering what will
those do who live in the extreme Soutl
and do no work? They will die off be-
fore we get to whip them.


7 M NJ
Year: 1862

QT There was vast amount of whisky
sorely punished yesterday and last night
Democrats of the strict party class who are
here from all parts of the State. were
forming themselves up to the burning heat
in order to burst forth in flame during
the session of the convention which meets
today. The strength of their combined
action will be in proportion to the depth
of liquor in their stomachs. and if that ac-
tion should be bad we hope. for the credit
Of those concerned, that it will be laid at
the door Of adulterated "high wines" and
not charged to the hearts and brains OF
those affected by the strong water. Ind
Jour. SM.
Year: 1862

! TThe New Albany Ledger. the most
loyal as well as the ablest Democratic pa
per in the State. speaking of the Mason
Slidell case says:


1t is possible our government did the
wisest thing in giving up Slidell and Ma
son. When we frs. heard Of the capture,
we were fearful it would complicate mat
ters and was therefore unfortunate. The
question was not free from difficulties. and
as we were not sure we were right. per-
haps it was better that we should not "go
ahead"


But we must confess that we have but
slight hopes of being able to avoid war
with Great Britain for any great length of
time. Her sympalhies have been SO man.
ifcstly on the side of the rebels from the
start. exhibited in a thousand different
ways, concluding with the tremendous ex-
element and belligerent preparations eau
sed by the Trent affair-that it seems To us
pretext will not long be wanting for for
cling q war upon the United States. Great
Britain seems to think that this hour of
our national peril and trouble is her gol-
den opportunity. and she intends to i'm
prove it to our ruin. if possible. With
Canada on the North. and the Confederate
States relying upon her for protection at
the South, Great Britain doubtless thinks
she will have the young republic complete
ly at her mercy,


We may be mistaken in all this. We
hope we are. But the apparent extraordi-
nary readiness of Great Britain to engage
in war on such question as that of the
Trent. looks very much as If she were on
ly looking for pretext. and was oveljoy-
ed at having found one at last. And
when war does come. our people may rest
assured of one thing-Great Britain will
have France to help her, and we will have
both to fight. in addition to the Southern
rebels. The prospect is not very inspir-
ing one, but we may as well look facts in
the face.
Year: 1862

p. S.-Since the foregoing paragraph
was written we have received special dis
patch from our Charleston correspondent.
fully confirming the report. to which we
are happy to refer the reader


RENEWAL OF THE BATTLE AND defeat OF THE
Year: 1862

At Cooper Institute, on Saturday even
ing, the Rev. Mr.. Carter, of East Ten
nessee, in the course of his remarks,
said


never had any hesitation in saying,
at home as well as here, that regard the
Union of these States as of infinitely
more value than all the negroes in
America and Africa and Europe. There
fore have uniformly said, that if in the
progress of this war it should become ab


solutely necessary, Understand me, in
order to save this Government that sla-
very should die, in the name of my in
suited country let it perish. / say, like
law-abiding citizen, leave that to the
Authorities of this Government Better,
far better, that that institution, and all
our commerce, and all these vast cities
perish in one common ruin. than that
the flag of our country cease to float in
triumph from the lakes to the gulf, and
from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean.
Better, far better, that every house in the
land be filled with mourning than that
this Government of our fathers should
die in our day. But though say am
a stakeholder, did you suppose in look
ing at me-did you do me the great in
justice to believe l loved wooly-head
more than fathers hands? Did you
suppose when your mother gave her son
a sacrifice to her country, that could
not sacrifice the works of my negroes to
save my country? Why, l had rather
give them all away than to have lost for
fifteen months the blessings Of wife's
smiles and a child's caresses. And yet
not only have suffered this for fifteen
long months, not only have l stood month
after month upon Cumberland Noun.
tains, looking toward my native hills in
the distance, but | am willing to abide
my exile for five long years, for life it
self, rather than bow to treason.
Year: 1862

Col +. A. Eastman, in letter to the
editor Of the Chicago Tribune, details a
conversation with the venerable General
Cass, which we append;


| told Gen. Cass that / had always adj
mired and supported him as Democrat,
but perhaps he would not regard me as
Democrat now, as had pledged my sup
port to the present officers of the Govern
ment and to all the war measures. He
replied, "You are right The Govern
ment is right. You young men must
sustain it. :" Invited thus to continue the
conversation, said, "but approve Of
the emancipation proclamation and all.
The old patriot responded promptly, $50
do l." After few minutes spent in
conversation upon general topics, he
came back to the proclamation again.
He observed that whether or not the
President had the constitutional right to
declare the slaves free, the Presidents
friends did not strengthen the measure
by claiming it to be constitutional ~
do not deny" he said, that there is that
in the Constitution to Justify the act, but
the circumstances of the country clearly
justify il" He did not fear its effect in
the South; he only hoped it would prove
ehectual He could not understand how
any old Democrat could have any sympa-
thy with the South, and he hoped that if
there are any persons in the North who
would ever consent TO separation, they
would not be permitted to have any po-
sition or influence
Year: 1862

The New York Tribune, in the course
of long article approving the order of
Gen. Mcclellan, relative to the Presi-
dents emancipation proclamation, says:


General Mcclellan, in this order ex-
presses no other than soldiers opinion
of the Presidents proclamation of free
dom. To have done otherwise would
have been held to Justify the very license
he was constrained to rebuke. But we
happen to knosc the Generals personal
conUiction and deliberate judgment fully
sustain and approve that proclamation,
regarding 1T as a acise, just and neces-
sdry measure Of National defense
against deadly and formidable treason.
Whatever adverse sympathics and pre-
pofssssiSnS sig Saea Geen enehAis6ed, have been dis
sipated by the stern experience of the
last year He gives to that proclamation
and the policy it inaugurates, not only
the ready support of his soldiers arm,
but the full approval of his understand
ing and the benediction of his patriot
heart. In fact, we believe, though we
have no authority for stating, that the
proclamation was not issued until after
General Mcclellan had signi6ed to the
President that the time for it, in his
Judgment had fully come. General Me-
CleIlan had faithfully .labored for more
than year to save the Union without
destroying slavery. Not succeeding in
that experiment, he was ready to give as
| loyaI and hearty support to an effort to
save the Union and let slavery go to the
wall And that effort will now be made.
Year: 1862

fact is significant On our side we have
been uniting parties and discarding par
ty distinctions, that the country may
have an undivided support On the
other hand, we have a party separating
itself from other men, rejecting all prof
fers of union for the cause ofthe country,
and binding its organization around it
with iron force that no one may 80 out
of it to the, help of those who repudiate
party in the peril of their country. We
let the fact stand without comment
Ind. Journal 4 i
Year: 1862

EER All Advertisements
amounting to So or less must
invariably be paid in advance
to secure attention. m


All Job Work must be paid
for on delivery. Transient
Work must be prepaid.
Year: 1862

SropprNG NEWSPAPERS certain man hit
his toe against pebble stone and fell headlong
to the ground. lie was vcxed; under the in
fuence of anger and active self-suiiciency, he
kicked the old mother earth right saucily. With
impcrturbablc gravity, he looked to see the globe


itself dissolved, and only his poor toe was injur-
ed in the encounter This is the way Of man.
An article in the newspaper touches him in q
weak place, and straghtway hc sends word 70
stop his paper With great self-complacency
he looks on to SEQ crash, when the object Of
his spleen shall cease to be. Poor fool hchas
only hit his own toe against o world that does
not pcrceptibly feel the shock, and injuresto no
extent any one but himself
Year: 1862

Gen. MCCLELLAN was serenaded at Trenton.
In response to a complimentary speech of vel
come, be expressed the following noble senti-
ments, which will find response in the heart
of every true American:


MY FRIKNDs-For | feel that YOU all
my friends--I stand before you, not as maker
of speeches, not as a politician, but a soldier.
! came among you to seek quiet and repose, and
from the moment of my arrival have received
nothing but kindness. Although | appear before
YOU as stranger, | am not altogether unac-
quainted with your history. Your gallant sol
diers were with me in every battle from the siege
of Yorktown to the battle of Antietam, and here
| bear witness 20 their devotion to the cause for
which we are fighting Here the uproar com
PEELED the General TO cease for few moments


also have to speak of the ever faithful. true
Taylor; the dGshing intrepid Kearney-men who
have given their lives for the main chance OF our
government And before bidding you good
night. | have this piece of advice TO give you:
While the army is fighting, you as citizens see that
the scar prosecuted for the presercafion Of the
Union and the Constitution. for your nationality
and yonr rights as citizens"
Year: 1862

longs not to warfare or politics. but to the lawl
Let the law have its wise and proper course, but
let arms con6ne themselves TO their allotted work
of suppressing rebellion, and politics to the moral
support of the Constitution, the Union and the
lawsl Let each keep within ITS sphere, and we
shall make the right use of victoryi May the
Constitution triumph all its foes, whether in
arms or in the guise Of friends. A. B.J.


NEW HAVEN, Nov. ID, 1862.
Year: 1862

cE- The New York Tribune says that in case
the Speaker of the next House should be an
anti Administration man, the result will be in
accordance with the general rule, for il is curl
ous fact that for thirty eight years the last House
of Representatives during each Administration
has been controlled by political opponents of the
President 1t gives the following table in Illus
taation as proof of its statement:
Year: 1862


Sitting lonely, ever lonely,
Waiting waiting for one only.
mus count the weary moments passing by;
And the heavy evening gloom
Gathers slowly in the room
And the chill November darkness diua the skv.
Now the countless busy feet
Cross each other in the street
And watch the faces fitting past nv door:
But the step that fingered nightly
And the hand that raped so lightly,
And the face that beamed so brightly,


Comes no more
BY the tirelight's ftful cleaning
am dreaming, ever dreaming,
And the rain is slowly falling all around;
And the voices that are nearest
Of friends the best and dearest,
Appear TO have strange and distant sound;
Now the weary wind is signing,
And the murky day is dying,
And the withered leaves lie scattered round my door
But that voice whose gentle greeting
Set this heart so wildly beating,
At each fond and frequent meeting,


Comes no more
Year: 1862

That your bride may not think slight her,
thought would send You line,
And inform you Of things TO delight her,
To be found at the Coffee Pot Sign
I'd be pleased TO make her call,
And wish her bright [honeyl rnoenshine;
But / could not there make mention of all
keep at the Big Coffee Pot Signi
So tell her, ior me, ere it's too late,
That all she may want she will fad
From rattle to an B c plate
Supplied at the Big Coffee Pot Signi
have Just received fresh supply
OF useful things in household line,
o then tell her, whens she starts out to buy,
Not to forget the Coffee Pot Sign!


4 WHISPER TO THE WIFE.
I've tobacco and snuff boxes, too,


Made ovai--they silver-like shine
Which for your husband I'll present TO you,
If you call at the Coffee Pot Signl
Lewistown, March 26, 1s62-1m
Year: 1862

"Uop hot IL is I've heard this eI.
camation at least fifty times during tho
present heated term, accompanied often
With certain adjectivcs and explctives
indicating no little dissatisfaction con-
orrriug tho weather. Now it is too hot;
no" TOO dry. People will not be salts.
fed any way: they are sure to grumble,
about the weather. good or bad. and We
don't blame that compound or rain and
sunshine, heat and cold. for taking an
independent course and doing just as il
pleases. Tho truth is. people want tho
weather regulated to their individual
wants. not taking into consideration the
necessity for wet and dry hot and cold
weather. One man hopes it will rain
tomorrow, because his corn is suffering,
while his next door neighbor hopes it
will be pleasant, so that he can get in
few loads of grain. No one thing is 50
much complained Of as the weather. It
is never just right to suit everybody
The weather grumbler is always on the
lookout to find fault with the clouds -
He secs bad omens in halo around the
moon or the belts of crimson that fringe
the western sky. He sees signs Of drouth
in smoky atmosphere, or predicts foul
weather from hazy sky. It is we'll
the weather is not regulated BY the whims
of men.
Year: 1862

A gallant fellow in the navy writes to
friend. who counsclled him in all kind
ness to bear himself bravely in the pres
ence of tho foe -'Don't bother mo with
advice. We think but little of the csun-
sci of men who stay at home. Come
out and show US how to be brave This
is spirited and to the point. We wish
some Of those stalwart. strong. .lungsd
fellows, who knows so we'll how things
ought to be done, and arc so fond Of air.
ing their knowledge, would give the
Government the benefit of their skill by
enlisting. Perhaps they are waiting for
draft.
Year: 1862

The comfort aud happiness of home and
home intercourse, lei US here say, depend We
ry much upon the kindly and affectiona te
training Of the voice. Trouble, and care, and
vexatiOn will and must, of course, come; but
let them not creep into our voices. Let only
our kindIier and happier feelings be vocal in
our homes. Let them be so, if for no other
reason, for the little children's sake. These
sensitive little beings are exceedingly suscep.
tiOle TO the tones. Let us have consideration
for them. They hear so much we have for
gotten to hear. Fer, as we advance in years
tur life becomes more interior We are alb
Eiraeted from outward scenes and sounds
We think, we reflect, as we have formerly viv-
idly lived in the present. Our ear grows dul
TO external sound; it is turned inward, and isl
tens chiefly to the echoes of past voies We
catch no more the merry laughter of children.
We hear no more the note of the morning
bird. The brook that used to praltle so gay
ly TO us rushes by unheeded-we have forgot
ten TO hear such things. But little children,
remember, sensitively hear them ALL Mark
how, at every sound, the yonng child starts
and turns, and listens! And thus, with equal
scnsitiyeness, does it catch the tones of huma n
voices. How were it possible. therefore, that
the sharp and hasty word, the fretful and
complaining tone should not slartle and pain
even depress the sensitive little being whose
harp of life is SO newly and delicately strung
vibrating even TO the gentle breeze, and thrill
ing sensitively ever to the tones of such voic-
es as sweep across it Let US be kind and
cheerful spoken, then, in our homes.-Oncc q


Month.
Year: 1862




\ farmer makes quito asmuch mon
ey by selling at the right time as by
cheapness in production. Stock as
well as crops are kept too long for the
greatest profits. A bushel of potatoes
sold in July frequently brings q
dollar; in September, forty cents,
though the cost of production is the
same. A lamb sold in time for three
dollars, often brings more net profit
than the fat wether sold at two years
old. 4 pig will frequently bring four
dollars at eight weeks old. At eight
months, we'll fattened, he will only
bring twenty dollars, after eating
twenty dollars worth of provender.-
With this result it is easy to see the
time to sell pigs in some sections. It
is not so easy to know when to dis
pose Of a young horse. As colt he
may sell at weaving time, say four
months old for twenty dollars, or fifty,
If a handsome animal. 1t has not
cost much to raise him, for he has
lived on his mothers milk and she has
paid her way by her work. But when
he is put up for the winter his keep
ing begins to count. He can do moth
ing in the way Of self-support until
three years old, it were better per-
haps not to work him much even then.
II well kept he cannot cost much less
than hundred dollars before he is fit
to work in any region where hay is
worth fifteen dollars a ton. He may
sell for three hundred dollars or more
than the cost of his keeping. The
farmer may not lose any ything, but he
will Only have made a fair market for
his hay and pasture. La the sale ola
colt during his first summer. or fall
the price is nearly all profit. There
is little risk about it, and the venture
IS made a certinty. IF the sire he a
blooded animal the colt will gener-
ally sell for enough more to pay for
the price Of his services; and often to
pay for them many times over. It is
most in keeping with our calling to
make the profits sure, though small.
= American ArgiculturaList.
Year: 1862

Our Creator has enjoined upon us in terms
Of the greatest cearness the duty of being
happy. The powers with which he has en-
dowed US, the circumstances in which our lot
is cast, with all the blessings of his bene6cence
shows unmistakably his mind and will, that
we should be happy. Many do not consider
this, and in their selfshness and ignorance la
Dor most earnestly to thwart this kind design.
Some seem to think that happiness is the We
ry last thing to be thought Of, if not to be ab-
sOlutely Stunned, as though there merit in de
priving ourselves Of it,


What is decisive on this point is the fact
that whatever conduces to our highest good
is most consoaant with true enjoyment; while
a violation Of right always involves pain
Not that our soul aim is to be happy; but
we may be assured that no demand of truth
right, duty will ever require sacrifice of hap
piness on the whole, and that il is both our
privilege and duty to be as happy as posi-
blc


How are we to seek happiness? We an
swcr: By benevolence. Strive to promote
the happiness of others in the highesls degree
This will administer directly to your pleasure
and cultivate in you the faculties most con
ducive- to the same end The one whose hear
glows with love, whose hand is active in min
isteriRg to the good OF his fellows, cannot be
wretched.- Morning Star
Year: 1862

Give young man taste for reading. and
in that single disposition you have furnished
him with great safeguard. He has found
at home that which others have to seek abroad,
namely, pleasurable excitement. He has learn
ed to think even when his book is no longer
in bis hand, and it is for want of thinking that
youth go to ruin.


Some OF those who have been most eminent in
learning and science made their first attain
ments in snatches of time stolen from manual
employment. Hans Sachs, the poet OF the
Reformation, and the Burns of Germany, be-
gan life as did Burns, poor boy; he was a
tailor's son and served an apprenticeship, first
to a shoemaker and afterward to q weaver
and continued to work at the loom as long as
he lived. The great dramist, Ben johnson,
was a working bricklayer, and afterward
a soldier. ~LinBeus, the father of modern bot
any, was once on the shoemaks bench. Our
immortal Franklin, it need scarcely be said
was . printer. Hersehel, whose name is in
scribed on the heavens was the son of a poor
musician, and at the age of fourteen years was
placed in band attached to the Hanoverian
guards. After going to England he under
took 10 teach music, and then became an or
ganlst. But while he was supporting him
self in this way he.was learning italian, latin
and Greek. From music he was naturally led
to mathematics, and thence to optics and as
tronomy. John DoIlond, the inventor of the
aehromantic telescope, spent his early years at
the silk loom; and continued in his original
business even for some years after his eldest
son came 10 an age to join him in it. Few
cases are more celehrafad than that of GifF,rd
the founder and editor of the Quaaterly Re
view. He was an orphan, and barely escaped
the Poor-house. He became a shid boy of the
mest menial sort on board Of a coasting vessel.
He was afterward for six years apprentice to
a shoemaker. In this last employment he
stole time from the last for arithmetic and
algebra, ard for lack of other conveniences,
used TO work out his problems on leather with
a bluntsd awl. Few names are more noted
in modern literature.