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Year: 1862

None can be more jealous of the liberty Of the
press than we are, yet at time like this, the ut
most prudence is demanded the part Of the South
ern press. There can be no doubt that in the anx.
iety to crafty the public taste for news most if not
oil the Southern presses may have erred, but in
some points the daily press has been egregousy at
fault The publication of arrival Of vessels in Con-
federate ports with munitions Of war, &c, and the
escape of individuals from the North often times
giving the names of the parties, their mode Of es
cape, &c. cannot, we think, be condemned too high
ly. From all we can learn, at any rate, it is posi-
lively affirmed by intelligent parties from the North
that Lincoln has his e,nissaries all through the
sou.h-that every important fact is communicated
North in a few days, and that nothing scarcely es-
capes their vigilance. Under such circumstances
how important it is that the press carefully avoid
publications which must certainly enure to the ben
eft Of the enemy. Can it be true that Lincoln has
at this late day, emssares in the South3 If so, let
them be ferretted out and punished
Year: 1862

The Delta says that the Banks Of New Orleans
have agreed to lend the State Of Louisiana 000
at the rate of eight per cent interest," to enable it
pay the Confederate tax and meet its own heavy
obligations
Year: 1862

GEoRGrA.-The General assembly Of Georgia
has passed an act authorizing all volunteers and
other troops in the service from that State to vote
at all elections without reference to the place where
they may be in service at the time of such elections
Year: 1862

The Richmond Enquirer has the following just
and sensible observations on this subject. 1t is
"bitter mockery" to punish drunken private and
Enquirer says:


Zone Of the duties which will devolve upon Gov.
ernment during the winter suspension of hostlities
and which may best be attended to at that time,
will be an enquiry into the habits of the officers of
the army. as to sobriety. with stern dismissal of
those whose vicious indulgences disqualify them
for their posts We are sorry to say there is too
much necessity for insttutins this enquiry. Itisa
bitter mockery to arrest drunken private, whose
fault is confined to himself and leave unreproved
the uaudn officer whose fault involves the use.
fulness, and the comfort and even the lives of his
command. The Rawlings of the besotted soldier in
the guard house are far less discreditabe to the
service and far less omnous of evil than the revel-
ries of the General in his &C mfortable quarters
Drunkenness is vice to which many good and brave
and gifted men fall victims bat when they do, how
cver the necessity IS to be regretted, nothing re-
mains but to get rid of them The dead timber must
be cleared away. If drunkard Is of any use in
the world except the trial of mems patience and
womans too, i, is yet to be found out But the last
place for him is that which puts him in command
of others. How can he take care of multitude,
when he is unable to control even himself? Imagine
an officer called upon to issue orders at time when
he gobns in the air. and snakes and rats crawl
ing over his couch! lma.in him scanning a field
when his eyes red and swimming, and covered
with mists! Hear him issning the word of COM
mand when his tongus doubles and his senses reel |!
To such victims Of such vice We would appeal hv
all their pride, ambition, love of country regard for
their soldiers, to set worthier example. Such as
are welded to their ways, should either see, or be
shown, the necessity Of giving place to sober men.
Year: 1862

peril, he would at the end of the war give
them their freedom.


The cry came, though be hoped it was
false, but came, that the Army cf the Poto-
mac was in danger. If so, the Government
was in danger. Ought Congress then to
hesitate We want soldiers, we want them
quickly. Was it safe then for Congress to
go away without passing drafting law to
be used? JEFF. Davis bad drafted long ago
The rebels managed better than we, because
they were more desperate. Oh that the
voice of the people could infuse back bone
into these people that are governing them.
He hoped they would inaugurate new pol
icy. He never wanted to march his column
again through a country filled with every
thing they needed, belonging to armed reb-
els, and yet not be able 10 use it to make
his soldiers comfortable


The General spoke some little time long
er, and retired amid unbounded applause,
cheers for Lew. Wallace, the Hoosier States
fighting men, sc.
Year: 1862

THE REPORTS or OUR LossEs.-Now that
the contending armies have again met In the
shock of battle now that almost every house
hold is looking with painful anxiety for intel
lgence from dear ones on the field OF battle,
and are anxiously scanning the published lists
of those killed and wounded in the cause Of
their country, the people should be reminded
that these lists, particularly the first ones after
battle, are generally very incorrect. An In
stance by the way of illustration, may be men
toned which has already occurred IN regard
to the losses in the fighting of last week
Adiutant Dodd of the 5th New Hampshire
was named in the first list of officers Killed
but he has since, we believe, reported himsel
alive and we'll Such errors necessarily occur
we presume in the haste of making up the frs
reports. Due allowance should accordingly
be made therefor, and the lists not implicitly
relied upon by those who have friends IN th'
conflict.
Year: 1862

WHITE IABoRERs IN THE SoUTH.-1ne
notion that white men cannot labor IN the
South has been upset during this war, along
with great many other popular preludlces.
Unacclimated whites have withstood the worst
climatic influences of South Carolina and the
Gulf, and have freely labored in the open ar.
The heavy work on the levee in New Orleans
has always been done by white laborers. In
a recent speech in New Orleans, Col. T. b;
Thrope, the city surveyor. said ne lhad mad
hundreds of white men working for his depart
ment during four of the hottest months OF an
unprecedentedly hot simmer, on the burning
leyee. and in the bitches, and draining canals
in the rear OF the city, up to their waists ID !,
mud and water, and yet they continued wen
and healthy-had no more sicknes than others
who were notso exposed. He saw no reason
WHY the poor man might not cultivate a few
acres, raise his bale or two of cotton, or lew
hogsheads Of sugar, as easily as the farmers OF


the North and West, their corn and potatoes.
It was certainly just as easy to raise cotton or
sugar. and not more unhealthy, than working
on the levee or in the bitches of the city.
Year: 1862

ENLARGEMENT OF THE CANALs.--One of
the most important questions before Congress
is that of the proposed enlargement of the great
canals in New York and Illinois, so as to con-
meet the Mississippi river with the Atlantic
without going past New Orleans. Each
measure is distinct from the other. The pro-
position to enlarge the Michigan canal is a
separate bill, but it is generally understood
that the friends of each measure will combine
to carry them both through.
Year: 1862

Sorghum will be cultivated in Illinois
next year more largely than ever. A conven-
ton of sorghum growers was recently held, at
which it was agreed that the plant will grow
well on any soil where Indian corn will mature,
and the verdict in regard to the syrup-of
which 100000 gallons have been made in
Illinois the past year-was that 1t IS clearer,
more toothsome, and cheaper than molasses
made from the sugar cane.
Year: 1862

warrenton is post village OF Warren county, Misss-
spp and situated the Mississippi river about oght
miles below yicksburg, with which 1t is connected by .
good turnpike read II contains about four Ave stores
and had population Of about two hundred and fifty per-
sons when the rebellion broke out The county situated


in tho western part OF the State bordering louisiana
and has an area Of about hundred and twenty ve
square mos four hundred and sixty-four thousand
acres. It is bounded on the west by the Mississippi
river along the banks Of which tho village is built The
Big Black river flows along tho southeast border and the
Yazoo river insorsecs it. The surface Of the country
generally level and low, except in the vicinity Of vcs
burg, where tho Walnut Hills rise several hundred feet
above tho river. The soil is auvia very fertile
The county is nterscced by the vicksburg and Brandon
Railroad and had population at last returns OF about
eighteen thousand persons, Of whom over two-thlrds
were slaves.
Year: 1862

established blockade. Tho rebel steamers wore thus
cut or from their last OF escape.


Deserters and refugees continue TO arrive at the fleet
Several who havo just arrived bring the report that the
enemy is about 10 assail the aotlla.


A short tne before the left the fleet tho
ortars which had been silent days, again opened
fire the fort.
Year: 1862

Of the enemy the more certain and decisive.
These great battles were both fought on the
Lords day. It was indeed q "1oud Sun
day" that saw the epoiler Of either CONT
nent shaken down OF driven back; and the
echoes OF its great noise will be heard in
ages to come
Year: 1862

AN ORDINANCE in reference to fees and costs.
The people of the city of Walla WallA do ordain as
follows


SEC. 1. The Marshal and City Recorder shall he en-
titled TO the same fees as county and precinct officers
are under the Laws Of the Territory allowed for similar
services to be taxed and collected as costs against any
party who may be convicted Of violation of a city
ordinance or against any party who may he convicted
of violation of city ordinance against any party
against whom the city may obtain a Judgment and
the Marshal shall be allowed the OF 80 per dav
Of the treasury of the city for the subsistence of
each person who may be in his custody on charge or
convicted of a violation of city ordinance.


SEC. 2. The City Attorney shall be allowed the sum
of two hundred dollars annual salary to be paid
quarterly from the city treasury which shall be in full
for his services except in special cases. In prOseeu-
tOns for violations of city ordinance, for the COL
lection of bail bonds before the Recorder he shall be
entitled the Of ten dollars in each case TO be
taxed costs and recovered against a defendant who
rendered. but in shall the city he responsible
therefor In special cases he may be allowed by the
Council to be paid out of the city treasury such sum
as shall be reasonable or agreed upon between the
Council and the said Attorney.


SEC g. The City Clerk shall receive for his services
the sum of three hundred dollars year to be paid
quarterly out of the city treasury and he shall re-
ceive the further sum of two dollars for each meeting
of the Council which he may attend.


SEC A. Fire Wardens shall receive for their services
the Of two dollars each per day for the time ac
tuay spent in the discharge of their duties to be paid
from the city treasury.


This ordinance to be in force from and after its pass
age, May 9Th, 1862.


Approved


e. B. WHITMAN, Mayor.


BF. STONE, President.
Year: 1862

In the last table allowance is made for some
of the States who furnished more than their
quota under previous calls for troops, from
which it is seen that the government has not
called for quite 100000 men. The figures,
though not claiming tc be perfectly accurate,
are more nearly so than any statement Of the
kind which mas appeared in print. They are
taken from the New York Sunday NercatTy.
Year: 1862

YNHE Tax Payers of the County informed
Il that it is my intention, either in person by
deputy, to accompany the Assessor in his official
through the county, the law directs, for the
purpose of collecting all taxes assessed upon
Year: 1862

Costly apparatus and splendid cabinets have
no magical power to make scholars In all
circumstances, as a man is, under God, the
master of his own fortune, so is he the maker
of his own mind. The Creator has so consti-
tuted the human intellect that it can grow
only by its own action, and by its own action
it must certainly and necessarily grow. Ev-
cry man must, therefore, in an important sense,
educate himself His books and teachers are
but helps, the work is his. A man is not ed
ucated until he has the ability to summon, in
case of emergency, all his mental power in
vigorous exercise to effect his proposed object.
1t is not the man who has seen the most, or
who has read the most, who can do this; such
a one is in danger of being borne down like
a beast of burden, by an overloaded mass of
other mems thoughts Nor is it man that
can boast merely of native vigor and capacity.
The greatest of all the warriors that went to
the seige of Troy had the pre-eminence not
because nature had given him strength and
he carried the largest bow, but self-discipline
had taught him how to bend it.-DanieI Web
Ster.
Year: 1862

GREATNEss.-All greatness consists in
this--in being alive to what is going ON
around one in living actually; in giving
voice to the thought of humanity in say
ing to ones fellows what they want to hear
at that moment in being the concretion,
the result of the present world. limo other
way can one affect the world than in re-
spending thus TO its needs--in embodying
thus its ideas, You will see, in looking in
history that all great men have been a
piece of their time take them ont and set
them elsewhere and they will not fit so well /;
they were made for their day and genera
ton. The literature which has left any
mark, which has been worthy Of the name,
has always mirrored what was doing
around it; not necessarily daguerreotyping
the mere outside, but at least rejecting the
nside-the thoughts, if not the action of
men-ther feelings aud sentiments, even if
it treated of apparently far-olf themes.
Year: 1862

Among the astounding discoveries of
modern science is that of the immense
periods that have passed in the gradual
formation of the earth. So vast were the
cycles of the time preceding even the APP
pearance of man on the surface of our
globe, that our own periods seem as yes
terday when compared with the epochs that
have gone before it. Had we only the evi-
dence of the deposits of rocks heaped above
each other in regular strata by the slow
accumulation of materials, they alone would
convince us of long and slow maturing of
Gods work on earth but when we add to
these the successive populations of whose


life this world has been the theater, and
whose remains are hidden in the rocks into
which the mud, or sand, or soil of whatever
kind, on which they lived has hardened in
the course of time--or the enormous chains
OF mountains whose upheaval divided these
periods of quiet accumulations by great
convulsions-or the changes of different
nature in the confgurations of our globe,
as the sinking of lands beneath the ocean,
or the gradual rising of continents and is
lands above or the slow growth Of the
ccral reefs, those wonderful sea-walks,
raised by the little ocean achitects whose
bodies furnish both the building stones and
cement that binds them together, and who
have worked SO busly during the long cen
turies that there are extensive countries,
lAountain chains, islands and long lines of
coasts consisting solely of their remains; or
the countless forests that have grown up,
hourished, died and decayed to fill up the
storehouse of coal that fed the fires of the
human race. If we consider all these re-
cords of the past, the intellect fails to grasp
II chronology of which our experience fur
nishes no data, and time that lies behind us
seems as much an eternity to our concep,
ton as the future that stretches indefinitely
before u.s. AgaSSiz
Year: 1862

A HORSE DEALER, in showing of a sIirte'
nag to a customer, received kick in his
ribs, and although smarting under the pain
made up the best face he could, and ex-
claimed, pretty playful creature
Year: 1862

A soldier of the Second Rhode Island reg
iment, now in service in Virginia, writes to a
Providence paper the following account of
Yankee contrivance for adding to the comfort
of q tent:


A hole is dug in the centre Of the tent a.
bout two feet in depth and diameter. This
s walled with stones laid in soft clay and
covered at the top with the exception OF
small aperture for the introduction of fuel
For this aperture there must be close fitting
door or cover, which can be opened and closed
nt pleasure. Across one side of the tent
trench is laid and covered with wood and
earth, through which the cool air is conveyed
freely to the bottom part Of this subterranean
fireplace. From the top of the same and
across the opposite side of the tent, another
trench is laid and carefully covered with stone
| and EARTH through which the smoke and sur
plus heat is carried off. This is the whole
machine The merits of it are obvious. 1t
is universally practicable. 1t can be intro
duced easily into any tent or dwelling. The
economy of it, cost, only few hours work
for three or four men. The convenience Of
it: being entirely under ground, it takes up
none of the precious room of our small tents.
The utility OF it: it dries and warns the earth
within and even beyond the entire circuit OF
tho tent, and thus prevents those damp, cod
and unhealthy exhalations from the earth
which are probably the chief cause of i'll
health among soldiers. The tents are thus
also furnished with moist and genial atmos-
phere, the heat of which can be easily in
creased so as to meet the exigencies of the
coolest part of the season.


To realize the importance of this, you must


remember that the walls of our houses are
only thin canvass-that they are so read


lily penetrated by cold, or heat, or moisture


that the atmosphere within follows rapidly


the changes in the condition of the atmos


phere without. Indeed, SO far as this is con-
cerned, there is very little difference between


living under tents and in the open air. With


out some such centrivance, what, therefore
could persons do, who, until within a shor
time, have been accustomed to live in clost


and warm houses? had rather, it is true
r take my chance for long and healthy lif
, in open air. both by day and night, rathe


than in close room, and upon the bare eartl


rather than upon woo!len carpets; but thel
wisdom must be exercised, and time must b
y taken for gradual change. The effects c
= this expedient upon this regiment are easil
traced The cases Of illness from severe colo
: and intermittent or bilious fever, which hav


recently sprung up among us, are, l believ
, all in the tents not thus protected.
Year: 1862

Have you seen, my reader, the face that
had grown old in life grown young after
death? The expres sion of many years since,
los. for years come out startingly in the fea-
lures, fixed and cold. Every one has seen it,
and it is sometimes strange how rapidly the
changes takes place. The marks of pain fade
out, and with them the marks o age once
saw an aged lady die She had borne sharp
pain for many days with the endurance Of a
martyr she had to endure sharp pain till
the last. The features were tense and rigid
with suffering, they remained so while life
remained. 1t was beautiful scene to see
the change that took place in the very in-
start of dissolution. The features sharp for
many days with pain in that instant recover
ed the old aspect of quietude which they had
borne in health: the tense. light look was
gone. You saw the signs of pain 60 out
YOU felt as if suffering was over. 1t was no
more, of course, than the working Of physi-
cal law but in that case it seemed as ii
th ere were further meaning conveyed. And
so it seems to me when the young look comes
back on the departed Christians face. Gone
it seems to say where the progress ofage shall
no longer bring age or iecay. Gone, where
there are beings whose life may be reckoned
by centuries, but in whom life is fresh and
young and always will be SO. Close the aged
eyes. Fold the aged hands in rest-the
owner is no longer old!
Year: 1862

The lint committee, appointed by The
two Houses TO communicate to the Pres
dent Of the Confederate States the Joint
res oIutions Of the General Assembly in
relation to the defence Of the city, have
discharged the duty conlided 10 them,
and respectfully report that their inter
view with the President was in the high.
est degree satisfactory, and his views, Ms
communicated with entire frankness to
the committee, were well calculated TO
inspire them with confidence and to reas.
sure the public mind.


After reading the resolutions, he dc
sired us TO say TO tue General Assembly
that he had received the communication
OF those resolutions with feelings OF lively
qualification, and instructed Us to assure
the House tist it would lie the effort of
his life to defer.d the soil OF Virginia and
to cover her Capital.


lie further stated that lie had never
the though, Of Withdrawing
the army from Virginia, aud abandoning
the State; that il, in the course Of events.
the Capital should fall, the necessity Of
which he did no. see or anticipate, that
would be no reason for Withdrawing the
army from Virginia. The war could still
be successfully maintained on Virginia
soil for twenty years.


All which Is respectfully submitted.


JOSH RoBINsoN,


Chairman Senate Committee.


WooD BoULDIN,


Chairman House COMMITTEE.
Year: 1862

81 1t is said that all the PennsyIvania
railroads have made an aggregate profit OF
eleven millions and quarter of dollars dur
ing the past year. A large portion OF it
came from the conveyance of troops and
s1pplies for the army
Year: 1862

AN ENGLISH VIEW OF THE SLAVERY
QuEsrroN.-The following is from an article
in the London Times, upon the real state Of
the slavery question in this country. Is it
true9 Yes every word Of it) We mean
that it is true that the North occupies the
position stated by the Times: ut appears
that, Notwithstanding all that is said on be.
half Of the negro his real position is very
simple. He is the denizen Of country,
eight millions of the inhabitants of which
are willing to allow him to exist in the ca
pacity of a slave, and eighteen millions are
unwilling to allow him to exist there in any
capacity at all. The South forces him to
labor, but gives him food, clothing and a
home. The North insists that he shall no
longer be forced to labor, but refuses him a
home in the land of his birth, and, while
emaucipating him, denies him all the priv
leges of freedom.
Year: 1862

Ice CREAM.-Miles Furnss of the Star
Bakery Restaurant, attentive to the conf
fort of our citizens in these days of heat and
dust, keeps constantly on hand The best OF
Ice Cream. We are indebted to his atten-
ton for large bowl Of the same, and we
found it delicious.