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Year: 1862

= Bad luck is simply man with his hands in his pocket and pipe in his mouth looking on to see how it will come out. Good luck is man of pluck, with his sleeves rolled up and working to make it come out right. Y
Year: 1862

TIMELY WARNING.-At a meeting of Union
men held at Carlisle. Nicholas county, KY, on
the l4th of April, the following preamble and
resolutions we're adopted With but one dissentng
VOICE;


Whereas, Many persons have been guilty OF
the highest crime that can be committed by man
on earth, guilty of treason against the best Gov
erpment ever invented by man, aud have actu-
ally gone forth from among as and joined the
armies of our enemies in time of war, and left
with the avOwed intention of returning in a few
weeks and cut the tbroats of every Uuion man
or run them across the Ohio river and take their
property and others have taken office in civil
capacity under the pretended Government of the
enemy, and are thereby doing all their cowardly
souls would permit them to do against our gor-
i0ps country now, therefore,


RssolUed, That all such persons shall never re-
turn and live 10 this county, aud We are resolved
TO use any means whatever to prevent their re.
turn, aud will protect any man or men that will
drive them off, or any other means to rid
the world of such vipers and all men who have
been TO the South on real or pretended trading
expeditions, and did not join the armies of or aid
the enemy must nevertheless quit their treason.
able talk they must behave, or share the fate
of other traitors sympathizing with the enemy
will no LANCER be tolerated.
Year: 1862

WHERE Do THEY ALL CONE FgOM.--The war
correspondent of the Missouri Republican, writin
from Salem, Arkansas, May 5th, says


"All along our route the greatest astonish-
ment is expressed at the great number of our
troops. At Forsyth. one man reckoned the ar
my was thirty miles in length He had never
seen so many men. A young woman. the other
day, said to me The Northern soldiers are
a heap healthier and stronger looking men than
the Secesh army One woman said, that she
did not suppose there were so many men in the
world As the troops were passing, the people
stand In their doorways and front yards, and
look on with the greatest astonishment. When
told that the Northern armies are recruited by
volunteering, and that no one is pressed into
the service, they can hardly realize the truth OF
the statement The other day ! told citizen
Of this State that there were more men plowlDg
their fields in the free States than there are in
the whole army Of the United States, who stood
ready, when needed to volunteer for the main
tenance of the Union. He expressed great won
der that this should be so, and said, Well L
reckon the Sontb might as well give up first as
last, and come under the old Union. There is
no use in fighting any longer


One of our soldiers, the other day. stopped
at house by the way side, where book or
newspaper is a curiosity and the good woman
of the house was particularly given to the mar
vellous. when the following conversation took
place.


Said the woman, never seed such sight of
men before in all my born days. Where Oh airth
they all come from beats me-


To which the soldier replied with unusual
seriousness and gravity why, my good wo-
man, for several years before this rebellion broke
out, all the Dutch and Yankee women of the
North have been having twins, and all boys and
the country has become so thickly populated il
has become necessary 10 send them to subjugatc
the South, to get rid of them


'Wal,' said the woman, reckon it must be
so, for such an army never seed in all my born
days | reckon the South had better make
peace as soon as they can, or we shall be over
rum


The soldier reckOned she was about right that
time, paid for his hoecake and passed on.
Year: 1862

DEAF AND DUMB AND BLIND INSTITUTION. The
next session of this Institution will commence in
this City, on Monday the LIST Of September. Par
ents and guardians are earnestly requested to send
in the pupils at the beginning Of the session. They
also advised to furnish tho pupils their winter
clothing at home as far as possible.
Year: 1862

We give below the vote in the army for Cover
nor, as far as received. number of detached COM
panies voted separately. We have given the vote
first by regiments and then by companies, and have
footed up the result as far as ascertaned The vote
of the Conscripts could not be obtained except in
few instances; but suppose they have given Col.
Vance eighthundred to thousand majority
Year: 1862

Of all the noble works of God, that of
the human mind has ever been considered
the grandest. 1t is however. like all else
created, capable of cultivation and lust in
that degree as the mind is improved and
rendered pure, is man fitted for rational
enjoyment and pure happiness. That per-
son who spends an existence without a re-
alization of the great ends for which he was
designed; without feeling a soaring of the
soul above mere mercenary motives and
desires; not knowing that he is but por-
ton, as it were of one vast machine, in
which each piece has part to perform :;
having no heart beating in common with
those of his fellow men, no feelings in which
self is not alive. His mind is shut in by
a moral darkness, and he merely exists,
blank in the world, and goes to the tomb
with scarcely regret.


Such things we have seen, and wonder
ed at; wondered that mortal, endowed with
so many noble qualities, and capable of the
hlgh hest attalnments of intellectually,
should slumber on through world like
ours, in which is everything beautiful,
lovely and sublime, to call forth his ener-
gies and excite his admiration-a world
which affords subjects for exercising every
living attribute with which we are gifted,
and opens a scene of the richest variety to
the mind and the heart, and of such di-
versifed character that we may never grow
weary.


If, then, you would wish to live, in the
kr,,o e -, L. II
give vent to pure affections and noble feel
ings, and pen not every desire and thought
in self. Live for the good of your fellow
men, and in seeking their happiness you
will promote your own.
Year: 1862

An Honest Lite.-A poor pittance of
seventy years is not worth being villain
for. What matter is it if your neighbor
lies in splendid tomb? Sleep you with
innocence. Look behind you through the
track of time! A vast desert lies open
in retrospect; wearied with years and sor-
row, they sink from the walks of man.
You must leave them where they fall, and
you are to go little further aud you have
to encounter between the cradle and the
grave, every moment is big with events
which come not in succession, but bursting
forcibly, from revolving and unknown
cause, fly over this orb with diversified in
huence.
Year: 1862

The Way to Preach.-At Methodist
meeting in Boston last week the clergy
man made an appeal to his people to enlist
in the army. why don't you come for
ward lively?' said he. q, IL enlist now
after you receive the benediction, that will
be the proper time to enroll yourselves un-
der your country's flag The result was
that in few minutes after the services
were closed the clergyman found his own
name at the head of sixteen true men, who
will all go to the Union army.
Year: 1862

Come back to me the days are long
And dreary since thou art not here
am alone amid the throng,
With none my sinking heart to cheer.


Come back to me.
sigh rs thro' the streets pass,
sigh as DER my books | bend
And hermit-like muse-alas-
Life is not life without a friend.


Come back to me.
Though all the fields are fresh and fair,
And the sweet violets are a-blow;
Though birds with music fill the air,
And streams to sweetest music flow.


Come back to me.
For oh! the days and nights are long
And dreary since thou art not here
am alone amid the throng,
With none my sorrowng heart to cheer.


Come back to me.
Year: 1862

Uncle Sam and Family.
Yankee Freedom is lad


And Union is his sister;
Uncle Sam he is their dad
And he'll give secesh twister.
For they said Mrs. Sam she died
We always called her virtue
But you, Secesh, indeed have lied.
And now he's going to birch YOU.
Yankee and sister, too,


Are bound on retribution;
For our mother they said they knew
Died of broken Constitution.
But Yankee Freedom will now show
Secesh to have been mistaken:
Though of necessity he's their foe
Until again they right awaken.
Then secesh the tune will find
Was turned as short as this
While turning to the Coffee Pot Sign.
Which don't want you to miss
For your family needs, NAV be,
A little Tin Ware Solace:
And, indeed, you onght to see,
Then come to j. |. WALLIS.


East Market Street
larch D. 1907. Lewistown.
Year: 1862




AS the division numbered only about
5000 men at the beginning Of the fighting
it will be seen that the proportion of the
losses was very great-much greater than
that Of any other division engaged.


A number of officers belonging to the
Army of the Potomac who have been idling
about Washington have been made to re-
join their regiments. 1t is to be hoped the
same process will be applied everywhere
Gen Pope has ordered the seizure of all
horses and stores in Culpepper county not
absolutely necessary to the inhabitants


nea-The War Department has issued an
important order relative to the military
conduct of the war Commanders within
the States in rebellion are directed in an
orderly manner to seize and use any prop
erty, real or personal, which they may deem
necessary or convenient as supplies or for
other military purposes and that while
property may be destroyed for military OBJ
jects, none shall be destroyed in wantonness
or malice Military and naval commanders
are also authorized to employ as laborers as
many negroes as can be advantageously
used, giving them reasonable wages for
their labor. Accounts are to be kept both
of persons and property thus used, which
are to be the basis of compensation in prop
er cases.
Year: 1862

A father once said playfully to his lit
tie daughter, child five years old, MA
ry, you are not good for anything


eyes, am, dear father" replied she,
looking thoughtfully and tenderly into
his face.


"Why, what are you good for, pray.
tell x,e my dear 90


Il am good to love you father" said
she at the same time throwing hel
tiny arms around his neck. and giving
him kiss of unutterable affection.


Blessed child, may your life ever be
an expression of chat early felt instinct
of love. The highest good you or any
other mortal can confer, is 10 live in the
full exercise Of your affection.
Year: 1862

Parsop Brownlow is known to be a de-
cided pro-slavery man, but he is not one
of the sort who are thrown into spasm
of indignation every time the word Free
dom is mentioned. He tells you merely
in reply of the practical difficulties Of
emancipation, and it would seem from
the conversation that he had lately with
the editor of the Evangelist, that he is
not unwilling to see the experiment tried
The Evangelist says:


AS we had the privilege of meeting
him in private a few evenings since, We
took occasion to sound him on this point,
wishing to see if he was rs tonchy on
the subject as some loyal men at the
South, who profess to love the Union
much, but seem to love slavery more
Parson Brownlow, we are happy to say
is not one of that sort. Though, as
Southern man, he sees all the practical
difficulties in the way, and is disposed to
move cautiously and slowly, he is not at
all frightened by the ''mad dog cry Of
abolitonist One of his suggestions
struck us as showing so much Of shrewd-
ness and common sense that we cannot
keep it back. He said: Gas emancipa-
tion was an experiment, he thought it
would be well, before trying it on a large
scale to begin with single State, and he
would suggest, that just by way of ex
pertinent, to see how it would work, they
should begin with South Carolina There
he would like to see the Government
emancipate the slaves, and confscate the
other property of the rebels, and turn
them out to grass -


This is good suggestion; and if there
is to be any compromise when we come
to settle the quarrel between the North
and the South, we trust that Brownlow's S
motion will form part Of it. Slavery is
nowhere more inveterate and powerful
than in South Carolina; and if emanci pa
ton should succeed there, it might be ta-
ken as proved that it would succeed well
everywhere. General Hunter had the
same thought in his head, but he was
perhaps little irregular and premature
in carrying it into execution.-N. York
Year: 1862

We have been handed letter by Mr.
John Frazier, of this place, written BY =
son of his in the Second Iowa Cavalry,
dated at Corinth May 11th, the day after
a skirmish or reconnaissance between our
forces under Gems. Pope and Paine and
a force of twenty thousand rebels. The
Second Iowa made gallant and effective
charges, and their conducts highly COM
plimented by the telegraphic dispatches
and newspaper accounts detailing the par
ticulars of the action. We make few
extracts from the letter:


Wewere on the field in good order, and
had not remained long before the enemy
commenced bidding US good afternoon
with shell, grape and ball, but as good
luck would have it, they passed over our
heads doing no harm to us, but occasional
ly killing horse in our rear. Our bat.
teries did not reply to them. But they
kept up so lively that something had to
be done-our men had to fight or retreat.
We were ordered to make charge on the
batteries, and were in line ina minute
Our Colonel asked for ten minutes to get
us ready. General Pains's reply was, l
ciN give you one minute, and then the word
forward, and away we went sabre in hand.
every man following "hurrah for Iowa"
The enemy opened their batteries on US and
rider and horse commenced to fall. but on
we went and drove them from the batteries.
But we could not hold them long, as they
were supported by thousands of infantry.
We were then ordered to rally on the
right which we did in good order, and re-
treated. The enemy then retired from the
field and we hold it yet. Out of four
hundred men, that was all that engaged in
the charge, ,were9 killed and forty wounded;
our captain was wounded in the leg.


Gen. Pope says it is the last charge for
us to make. We are intrenched with bat.
teries planted, and we wait for them TO at
tack US now which their desert.rs say
they must do soon, or lay down their
arms, or starve. Deserters are coming in
fast and they say that the rebels give out
rations for five days that they can eat in
one they have no coffee at ALL l think
that our Generals intend to starve them
out as they cannot get away from here hor
get provisions.
Year: 1862

QUICK NoRK.-Two young couple
strolled ont from the village of Sumner,
on one of the beautiful moonlight even
ings with which we were favored the first
of the week and on arriving a an eleva.
ted spot on the prairie, about half mile
from town one of the young gentlemen,
who chanced to be Justice of the Peace,
was requested by the other to unite him
self and partner in the holy bonds of mat
rimonv. Somewhat taken by surprise,
but having no reasonable objection to offer,
he consented to undertake the Job, and
soon succeeded in making them man and
wife. according to due forms of law
Atchi'on Champion.


just like you, Ans" for all the world !
Though We confess we had hardly thought
the partnership would be entered into
inquite so private or romantic manner.
Much JOY to our friend and his young
bride, and may they never regret their en- .
tering upon the new relations Of life.
Year: 1862

Now, from the above there should be deduct, ed ten to fifteen per cent. for soldiers in the hospitals, at home, on furlough, and discharg- ed for physical incapability, leaving a total of 430,OO0 men capable of doing duty. The exact number If the exact truth was known, may not exceed 100000 efficient men. Scores of reg> ments that marched from 1000 strong, can muster now only 300 to 300 men, and few regi- ments number more than TOO or 800 rank and file. The rebels have suffered the same de, gree of shrinkage, and perhaps worse.

 The number of soldiers at home on furlough. with sick certificates, is much greater than is generally supposed, and we doubt whether the war department is aware of how many thousand there are of sach. A majority of surgeons find 1t far easier to give certificates to two or three hundred allng men in a regiment, on which they can obtain leave of absence, than to attend to them in their camp hospital; and it is butnatur- al that those who thus get home should he in no special hurry to get well enough to return, as their pay runs on while absent just the same as when present with their regiment. The order issued last winter to stop recruiting to Al up emaciated regiments was an unwise one, and has lately been revoked IT. Chicaqo Tribune.
Year: 1862

IS A letter found on the battle Held of the Seven Pines, from wife to her husband in the federal army, says-Throw away your arms and home, for She people here say there is no use in fighting the rebels any longer.-Pe'ersbwg Er- press.
Year: 1862

We print today from revised copy the
New Constitution framed by the late State
Convention st Springfield, It Is quite time
earnest sud loyal clsizens in Illinois were
on the aler. to Gefeat the schemes Of these
ticksters who arc attempting to make
Egyptian politics supreme in this State for
the next ten years Let every man read
The Constitution, and from such reading
and study, make up bis mind on xtich
side he viii be claesed when election day
a1d1vcs. Not one voter who symps.i,lzes
with the rebels viii go agains:: the Consti-
tuition, not one single pro-slarcry man but
will lend it his hearty support, and these
Vaccinations are too pernicious and dan
gerots to be allowed to pass unscotched and
nnscathed. The indignation Of the people
Of Illinois must blast and wither forever
the party hacks and political stagers who,
being in the minority, succeeded by the
cry Of ''All for country, no party in gain
ing temporary power, and hare left this
Constitution with its enorlnities to disgrace
and in,peril our State.
Year: 1862

E Let US have in the American Navy the
grade Of Admiral, forthwith, and grace the
head Of the List with the names of Dnnont
aud Foote. Both arc now Flag officers the
highest known in our service, but each de-
serves the creation of the new grade
Year: 1862

r : at.-#Fs


If he should discover that the institu


ton of slavery is an element of power in
the rebel cause, that it feeds their armies,
digs their trenches, supports the families
of the masters while they are absent in


an effort to bring about the destruction
of the Government, it would be his right
, and duty to put down that Institution
just as he would pull down fortifcation,
and upon the same principles. Loud
and prolonged applanse.1 THE question
IS stripped of all these political and NOR
al aspects, upon which the country has


been excited in discussions for the last


twenty-five years 1t IS no longer the


question whether slavery in itself is
right or wrong. 1t is no longer! the
question whether tits better for fle white


man on worse for the white man; better
for the black man or worse for the black
man. These are the moral and practi-
cal aspects of the questions that we have
been discussing for quarter of feentury.
Ihasemy opinion on these, the Presi-
dent has his, and you all have yours.
But all these questions have now to be
laid aside The question is not in what
does the power of the enemy consist:
but shall that power be DESTROYED? ?
| That's SOL CApplause. "A voice
. lake them by gunpowder. y Provis-
ions. are as necessary as munitions of
war, We have 6 right to withdraw their
resources and to cut off their provisions
IN any way We can We have a right to
do so by blockading their ports; we have
a right to. do so by withdrawinq from
them, II we can, that labor which pro-
vides these provisions and sustenance of
their armies in the field. Cries of good,
and applause. understand that the
President has proceeded upon this ground
IN issuing his proclamation.


1t seems to be that, so far as the ooes-
ton OF power IS concerned, there can be
no doubt OF his right to take that course
as much as any other. 1t is upon the
question of expediency Of the means to
the end Such question of expediency
as that of march across the Potomac
river, or IN any other direction. 1t brings
us back to the point from which we
started, not in what does the power oftbe
enemy consist, but how shall that power
be destroyed s-e -


We IN the local States have exhibited
great deal of tenderness in our dealing
with the rebels, and, in my opinion, more
than was either necessary or proper.
when we consider the sacrifices which
we are making, in blood and in treasure
we consider what is at stake and
what are the results of this contest. and
the examples which have been made by
the rebels, real and personal of the Union
men IN. IN those States, including slave pro-
perty, making no distinction. But there
was this redeeming feature in regard to
that: The slaves were sold into slavery
again, and the money appropriated to-
ward carrying on the war against our
Government. That's So They have
not hesitated to use slave property in any
Sc eane aHn'eadgE dGE aSSaffaa i Ble y6 their dause:
Year: 1862

BI If a rascally Steward, detected
in stealing the ships stores, and dis
missed in disgrace, steal below, bores
holes in the ships bottom, and the crew
suddenly find the craft filing, the stores
and cargo damaged and are obliged to
call all hands to the pumps, and to throw
everything overheard to keep the ship
afoat, it would be considered tolerably
brassy if the rascally Steward should
come on deck, and harangue the exhaust
ed crew. and remind them of the smooth
sailing and quiet watches they had while
his rascality was undisturbed, and should
accuse them of sinking the ship by med
ding with his rights


But this would be mild and modest
compared with the performances Of the
Democratic congressional candidates,
who charge the war and the war taxes
upon those who are putting down the
Democratic rebellion They ask now
that the people shall restore the traitors
to the control of the nation, and give up
the popular election of rulers, because it
costs SO much to put down Democratic
rebellion.


This war is Democratic war. Demo
cratic leaders conspired the rebellion.
A Democratic Administration betrayed
the national power into its hands.
Where is the Democratic party if the
Democratic rebels are cut off? The
burdensome war taxes are exclusively
Democratic taxes, the legacy of success
sive Democratic Administrations which
have fostered Secession in every depart
ment of the Government, and which
ended in monstrous treason in the
Administration, which has cast stigma
upon Republican Government in the
eyes of the whole world Gin. Goz.
Year: 1862

During the whole Of last week,
train after train of movers from Mis-
sissippi and adjoining States passed
through our city en- route for Texas,
whose resources are now becoming
known, i'll every direction. We can
safely say, without tear OF centradic-
ton, that all the beef and pork we
eat and the flour we use, is from the
industry Of the Texans, We could
enumerate many other things, but
mention only the principal necessaries
of life. Cannot we take pattern after
our neighbor?
Year: 1862

pursued this COURSE Let other par
ishes adopt the Same metho,l, and
there need be no fear entertained Of
the establishment of this Law, which
appears with some very unpopular.
We are decidedly opposed to it.