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Year: 1863

Few men die of age. Almost all persons
die of disappointment, passional, mental
or bodily toll, or accident. The passions
kill men sometimes even suddenly. The
common expression, chokcd with pas
sion" has little exaggeration in it, for even
though not suddenly fatal, strong passions
shorten life. Strong g-bodied men often die
young; weak men live longer than the
strong, for the strong use their strength
and the weak have none to use-the latter
take care of themselves the former dc
not. AS it is with the hody so it is with the
mind and temper. The strong are apt to
break, or like the candle, run--the weak
burn out.


The inferior animals which live temper.
ate lives have generally their prescribe term
ofyears. Thehorse lives twenty-five years
the OK fifteen or twenty, the lion about
twenty, the hog ten or twelve, the rabit
eight, the Guinea pig six or seven. The
numbers all bear proportion to the time the
animal takes to grow to it's full size.


But man of all animals, is the one that
seldom comes up to the average He ought
to live hundred years, according to this
physiological law-for five times twenty
are one hundred but instead of that he
scarcely reaches an averageof four times
the growing period. The reason is obvi-
ous-man is not only the most irregular
and the most Incorporate, but the most la
bUrious and hard-worked Of all animals,
lie is always the most irritable of all ami
mails and there is reason to believe,
though we can not tell what an animal Sc
cretly feels, that, more than any other an.
imal, man cherishes wrath to keep it warm
and consumes himself with the fire of his
own reflection.
Year: 1863

Rev, EenrJ Ward Beecher, in recent
speech made at Temperance Breakfast
given him in London, is reported to have
said


If it were fit, he M Beechcrl could
point 10 several great misfortunes which
had befallen the North on the field owing
entirely to the drunkenness Of officers.
The battle of Chancellorsville was lost
from this cause ; but he had heard It from
almost direct authority that the General
thus implicated. knowing his weakness,
had been previously absTaining but that
having received severe Confusion he had
been prescribed whisky incidentally, and
It was when taking il for this purpose that
the old appetite had been revived and
bad oYercO.re hire.
Year: 1863

JoHN BuNYAN AND MISoE-PIEs.-It is said
that John Bunyan scrupled to eat mince-
pies, because of the superstitious character
popularity attached to them but it would
appear, from an anecdote sent to us by a
correspondent, that if this was true at al
of the author of the Pilgrims Progress,
he must have received new light upon the
subject at a later period of life When he
was imprisoned for preaching ESQ says the
anecdote), in Bedford Jail, superstitious
lady, thinking to entrap him, sent servant
to request his acceptance of Christmas
pie. Whereupon Bunyan replied


Tell your mistress that accept her
present thankfully, for have learned to
distinguish between mince-pie and super
stition."
Year: 1863

lady clothed in the habiliments of woe. Her
eyes were red and swollen from long and con-


tinuous weeping, and the pale wan face spoke
eloquenily of the anguish she experienced
There she sat. with one arm thrown lovingly
across the coffin that contained her dearest
earthly treasure, while with the other hand
she brushed away the insects that gathered
thlckly abont the lid, attracted there by the
almost insufferablc odor that arose there from.
But stencil of decomposing remains of him she
most loved, had nothing offensive to that pale
lone watcher. Faithful in death as she had
been true in life, she had gone to the distant
battlefield of Gettysburg, and, alone and un-
aided, had found ont the resting place OF her
darling boy, killed in that fearful contest,
and by almost superhuman exertons had sue


ceeded in bringing him home, that he might be
near his kindred who had crossed Leath's wave
before him. The first wild burst of grief was
over, and her keen anguish had been Gained
into the gentle tear of recollection. She spoke
hopefully, trustfully, nobly. She spoke as on
ly true follower of Christ can speak. She
did not curse and rail against the Government
because her son had fallen in its defence, but
said that he was her only one-her little lamb
and had she another she would bid him don
the soldiers garb and hasten to the defence of
his imperiled country. But ah such devoted
creatures are "lke angels visits, few and far
between" What lesson for mothers-aye
for all mankind. Such patriotism as hers par
takes Of the divine; surely there is nothing
earthly in it, Such instances of purity of pur-
pose and heroic devotion, seem to lift one far
above the things of earth, and bring him as it
were in closer communion with his Maker.
Year: 1863

A NOBLE MOTHER DEEPLY Arrr,crrn


The Special Boston correspondent of the
Concord (N.H. independent Democrat relates
the following affecting incident which gives an
exhibition Of devotion and patriotism. ON the
part Of a mother who lost her all, that ought
to put to blush the whining copperheads or the
iault-ilnding loyalists of the North. He says /:


witnessed melancholy scene in the Bos-
ton and Maine Depot last week. twas a
scene that shall not easily forget. A coffin
sat upon a bench in the depot, aud by its side
Year: 1863

A man in New York went to bed drunk the
other night, rolled out and broke his neck his
wife found him dead in the morning Moral
Shun the aowing bowl-.or else take the back
side OF the bed
Year: 1863

NEW YoRk, March 3l.-A letter from the
frigate Hartford, reports that she got aground Ia
passing Port Hudson, and was struck frequently
BY rebel shot at Grand Gulf. She was also
struck frequently here. The total loss was TWO
killed and six wounded; all slightly.
Year: 1863

bear arms; while here the order is to take
all between the ages Of twenty ant! thirty
years.


The health of the colored soldiers is
certainly better in this department than in
General Grants; but the mortality among
the unorganized freedmen is about the
same.


There has always been violent preju-
dice in this department agninst making
the negro United States soldier. Among
the private soldiers this prejudice has al
most disappeared; but among the officers
it exists in its original bitterness.


Humbly of submitting to the better
judgment of any body else, l think the
Corps d. Af1'ique will not meet the ex-
pectation of its friends-not from any in
herent difficulty of making soldier of
the black man, but from the manner in
which the corps is organized. To insure
the success of any troops the officers should
be brave and skillful and to secure the
success of troops naturally unreliable, the
utmost care should be taken in the selec-
ton of officers, both commissioned and
non-commissioned


Now, the commissioned officers of the
Corps u Afrique are men not selected
from the white regiments, but men who,
unable to gain position in their former
organizations, have applied for and begged
their present positions and the only quail
tioation asked for a non-cOmmissiOned Off
Ger is that he can read and write. With
the full compliment of officers and SER
geants of the right kind, there is 70 doubt
the negro can be made to fight as well as
the white man; but with the officers and
sergeants in use here, look for nothing
miraculous from the Corps d. Afrique.
Year: 1863

Lieutenant in the navy, then on board man
of-war in the Mediterranean, telling me that he
had learnt that the Russian sailors in the Black
Sea were all supplied with reviewers which
would give them great advantage in boarding
should there be any naval conflicts in the war
then pending. This was in 1854. at once
sent this letter to the Times, asking if it was
fair to the British sailors that they should still
be limited to the old horse pistol and cutlass
The letter was published. Sir Thomas Hast
ings, the head of the Ordnance Board at once
sent for Colt, and an order for four thousand
pistols for the navy was given to him. This
gave an impetus to the pistol trade and Colt
fiourished. 1t is due to state that he treated
my little effort in his behalf with liberality
truly American.
Year: 1863

\ gossippy reminiscent Of people and
things he has known and se;n abroad,
writes to the Boston Jomnm all interest
ing account Of the way the late Col Sam.
Colt got his pistols recognized and adopt
ed by the British government. The writer
says:


One evening, at place of public entertain
ment was introduced by brother member of
the press to Col. Sam. Colt. who had recently
established mandatory of arms on the banks
of the Thames. The revolver had received
much commentator from the small fry of the
press, the starving weeklies which would praise
anything for the sake of an advertisement, but
Colt was sagacious enough to know that one
line in the Times would do him more good than
a column in any other paper. But how to get
to the Times, excepting in the advertising
columns, was the difficulty. Colt was prepared
to pay any sum that might in reason be de-
manded for a paragraph, because he felt as
sured that, by such means. his firearms would
be brought under the notice Of the ordinance
authorities who could not fail to give his man.
ufactures trial. As happened to be well
acquainted with some of the Tines staff, and
also with two or three M. P.s who had the ear
of John Delane, the editor, I told Colt would
make an effort to get him fairly noticed, but.
that might conscieutiously recommend him,
l thought he should show me his new armory.
He objected at first, on the ground that, in or
der to prevent some two or three of his secrets
becoming known to other manufacturers, he
had systematically refused to admit any one
within his workshop. But as made this
sine qua non of my interference, he gave
way. was greatly pleased with the order,
system and completeness which charac-
md fho
ty of the proofs to which he subjected his


firearms, and was turning over In my mind the
best way of carrying out the Colonels views
when received letter from an old friend. a
Year: 1863

rather see the country driven pell-mell
to destruction, than saved by the party
now in power. The foundation Of their
opposition to necessary means is not
humanity but in6delity, and araging
hatredto every thing outside the false
ly styled Democratic organization.
Year: 1863

TWENTY of the one hundred and twenty
houses annually rented for the summer season
at Newport have boon sold, eighty rented, and
the balance will probably be Let by the first of
May. The season thus promises we'll.
Year: 1863

We learn Tint dispatches have been received
here stating that the relelS claim to have
beaten of our iron-clad feet.


They admit that the Federal land forces are
making demonstration upon the city.
Year: 1863

REruRSrp.-We are glad to see by D. j.
Hunters card that he has returned to the city
and reopened lis Office Mt the Sherman House
Tor some time longer. This announcement
will be gratifying to his many patients and
Year: 1863

no means weakens it for foreign aggres-
sion, of which revolutionary France is a
notable example The neors is cheering 10
us, indeed, because it portends the break
ing down of the whole structure of Yam
kee society. Yet the process may be long
and in the meantime the desperate ener-
gy of their war for conquest of the con-
federacy may grow more furious for
season.


No matter we can at least now see to
the end of it. This one insurrection may
be suppressed for the moment, but it will
be the parent of other and still worse con-
vulsions. We have but to perse1ve in our
determined resistance, grid ourselves to
the task of winning our independence
more sternly than ever, yet little while,
and we shall see the giant, but llow
bulk of the Yankee nation burst into
fragment and rushing dowh INTO perdft;' !
ton in flames and blood. Amen.
Year: 1863

A REpENTANT REBEL.-While our sur
geons at Gettysburg were attending to
the wounded as they were brought in to
the hospitals, without regard to the side
upon which they had fought, a Rebel col
onel, covered with blood was ordered to
be placed in q bath. He was lifted care
fully in, and then, casting his eyes about
him, upon those who had taken him up
so tenderly, burst into food of tears,
and wept like child. Recovering him
self, he said to those around him: II
hope I shall be forgiven for raising my
hand against the Stars and Stripes, and if
I recover from these wounds I will not
only never do the like again, but try to
make amends, so far as can, for the
wrong I have done"
Year: 1863

The New York correspondent of the Phila
delphia Enquirer, writing under date of the 30
ins tant, says:


"The dead rabbit Democracy, I understan
are about to give Fernando Wood hauling
over the cools for aunning away from TO Can
ada, when they had been led to expect that he
would stay in New York while the draft was
going on, to show them how they could resist
it. Wood, it is understood, returned from
Canada yesteaday and to-day number Of the
more influential of Gov. Seymour's friends, it is
eported, had a sort of caucus, at which they
determined to call upon the ex-Mayor to de-
mand an explanation of his conduct.


Perhaps Fernando will do as the Governor
did when the Germans called upon him last
week to know if he was going to keep his prom
Use that no man should be taken from the
State till the Conscription bill was acted upon
by the State Courts. The Governor denied
ever having made ahy such pledge; and Wood
will no doubt deny that he ever held out any
hope that the draft could be resisted. Well,
so be it. 1t will have the good effect of open
ing the eyes of a certain class of people here
who usually vote the regular ticket to the in
grain hypocrisy and utter incineerity of the
demagogues who have so long led them uncom-
plainingly by the nose"
Year: 1863

To hear a man who never read the Oonsti.
tuition, nor ever heard it read, rantiug about
its violation.


10 hear men who never did days work In
their lives, bowling about the influx Of mig
gers, and the injury to white Iaborers.


To hear men whose hearts and habits are
blacker than any nigger ever born, splitting
their venom on the black man.


To hear men rave about the Presidents
violation of the Constitution, who are so ut
terly stupid and knaVish that they have never
ascertained that the rebellion is in violation Of
the Constitution.


To see men who came from ignorance and
despotism, to a land of free schools and free
suffrages, trying to distroy the Government
which has protected them.


TO hear men who care not for law, for God
nor man, and who live in daily violation Of
law, brawing about law. -.e-.


To hear men who have fed to our country
but to curse it, threatening to hang and shoot
those who were born here, and whose fathers
fought and died to build the fabric these Bcoun.
drels seek to destroy.


To see men who, were they in the South,
would be treated as the poorest and the mean
est of " white trash," upholding the very men
who degrade labor and dispise those who do
not own negroes.


To hear men justifying JEFF. Davis and the
South, who have not the manhood and decency
to go South and seek home they like so well.


To see a man who likes slavery better than
bis country and freedom.
Year: 1863

An his great speech at Newark, New Jer-
sey, last spring, Vallandigham ext ended the
following invitation to his Southern friend
John Morgan, in case our army " as not with
drawn and the South let alone. John is in as
bad fix as Vallandigham, and they should
condole with each other on the fortune es of the
war, which being prosecuted vigoro usly over
took them both. Vallandigham said:


at has been proclaimed that it never was
the intention Of the Confederates to invade the
Northern States. Yet if this war is kept up,
battles fought, no relenting spirit, no prospect
of peace, no sound of concord to reach their
ears, they ought to be induced to invade the
North"


This is a fair specimen of Vallau digham's
sympathy for the soldier or citizen, who are So
licited by unscrupulous dema gogues to vote for
that Infamous traitor.
Year: 1863

Let Us have no more letters written from home


to the boys who are in the field, grumbling


and growing and telling them that you wish


The unholy war had never commenced, and that


you wish they were at home, and all that sort


of thing, for you only encourage them to de-


sert the cause Of their country. Let US have


no more letters written to the army from pa


rents, that if they come home to come by a


certain mans house, and be will tell them the


best way to get where they can meet other de-


serters and be protected. Let US have no more


of this. Write to them in this way: say "my


son, as long as there is an armed rebel soldier


in the Government, as long as there is trait


or in arms against the United States, be true


TO the flag of your country, be true to the oath


you took when you entered the army. Doyour


duty and when your country needs you no Ior-


ger in the field, come home and we will well


come you with outstreached arms If you de-


my brave son, be buried as faithful soldier,


whose last act was in the discharge of patri-
OTIS duty. Let history render your name i'm
mortal as one of the gallant men who died that
his country might live. Let your country be
proud TO inscribe your name upon its banners
as one of the heroic dead. Let your prayer be
that the American flag may be your winding
sheet while your spirit wings it fight to the
haven of rest reserved for the brave soldiers of
of the American Union. Applausel.


Talk that way to your boys, to your hus-
bands, to your friends, and you will hear such
a shout of joy come up from the camps in the
conquered land of the foe, as will do your
hearts good. Let the poor soldiers feel that
in the performance of their arduous and latig-
uing duties, they have comfort at home as well
as cheers in the army. Let men reflect that
the graves of these many boys-some seven or
eight thousand that we lost in our campaign
this summer, who were fighting for their coun-
remember that their gaping wounds
while they lay weltering in their gore, like
empty mouths, spoke out in thunder tones to
their friends at home:-"Dear friend~ and COM
pannions of mine, here, look at this bleeding |
cash that mas been made by traitor hands.
Will you not avenge my blood? Will you not |
1nfarl the banner of your country and lift a
single joyous anthem to the tune of the Union |
while the shouts of victory are going up from
Zach and every battle field in the land? Will |
you not avenge the blood of your sons, killed |
oy men who are attempting to destroy our ma
ional existence? Swear that you will-that
while there is a remnant of that battle-t torn flag
eft, you will strike such blows as will assist |
ny country in ridding the land of all its foes.
Year: 1863

A committee representing the distilleries oil
southern Ohio, are now in Washington for the
purpose of obtaining from Secretary Chase a
modification of the decision in regard to the
modes of taxation on the production of their
establishments.
Year: 1863

Tie PHILHARMONIC MArIyRE-Our readers
will not forget tho Philharmonic matinee
which occurs on Saturday afternoon, more es.
pecially as it Is the last and best Of the SERIES
The programme, which We published in our
issue of yesterday, is reserved, like the best
wine, for the last, and should command full
house
Year: 1863

F II is worthy Of note that while the
Democratic office seekers were pressing Cor.
ernor Seymour to remove James Bowen from
the New York Police Board, that gentleman
was preparingto remove himself from home
to engage in the military service Of his
country.
Year: 1863

We announce with profound regret the death of
DIR. Ebenezer Emmons, State Geologst of North
Carolina which took place at his residence in
Brunswick County, few days since. His remains
reached here bn Monday morning, and were inter-
red on Monday evening last


Dr. Emrhons had been for a number of years
State GeOlogst, and his hbors have contributed IN
an eminent degree to develop our mineral and ag-
rcultural resources Indeed, his services to the
State in this capacity have been invaluable. he
leaves behind him several works, which furnish
proof of his rare attainments as a Chemist and
Geologist.


DR.. Emmons was native we believe, OF New
York. He was State Geologst OF New York sew
eral years. under the administration Of Gov. Marcy
in which capacity he established the reputation
that led to the invitation he received to remove to
North Carolina and accept the Office which he has
filled so ably and so much to the advantage OF our
people.


He was man of great modesty of disposition
'amiable in private life, and no doubt Q sincere
Christian. We mourn his departure as that of an
attached and valued friend.
Year: 1863

DEsERTERs CAUGHT. companies of the Home
Guard of this County, Captains High and Finch
commanding, left here on Thursday last for the
northern part of Wake to ppk for deserters and re-
cusant conscripts. They captured two, two volun-
tarily reported themselves, and one was killed
We have not heard all the particulars as to the kill
ing, but learn that deserter named Ray was caught
tied cut the rope, and was shot in attempting to
escape


This moveuentwll have good effect We learn
that deSerters in a number of localities are commit
ting depredations, killing stock, breaking open
Stores houses, &c. We are satisfied that there are
more desertions in other States than in this but
this fact does not justify indifference to its evil ten
dencies in our midst. There are many deserters,
however, and recusant conscripts, who may be in
duced to come in by kind treatment. Let such be
dealt with mildly but firmly. Let life be taken
only in the last resort. We can confidently assure
all deSerterS and recusant cOnscrptS and their fam
ilieS that if they will in and report themselves
to Gov Vance, he will do all in his power to protect
them from punishment when they return to their
regiments
Year: 1863

A GooD BT-We learn that Capt Turner, cam
didate for Congress in this District in his recent
speech in Nashville told the people he had learned
that there were some seventy five deserters in Nash
and that the dogs had been put after them. After
expressing his surprise that there should be so
many deSerters in original secession County like
Nash, he said to the people, this not the way to
benefit the service. Call off your dogs, and arrest
dcserters by ordinary means. Talk to the boys who
have deserted-reason with them-assure them of
pardon and protection, and they will go back to their
regiments. They have sinned grievously, but don't
run them down with dogs as you do runaway ne
grOes. Put your dogs after those ablebodied orgi-
nal seceSsionsts who helped to bring on the war,
but who refuse to fight in it, and who are growing
fat out of the suferngs of the country" This, we
learn, brought down the house The hit was al! the
better for being founded in strict truth.
Year: 1863

By slip of the pen in our last isSue we said the
proceedings of the so-caled Army Convention
were first given to the public in the religious press
We should have said the address of the so-called
Army Convention.


Our friends will peruse with pleasure the COM
municatim in the Standard to day over the sigma
ture of North Carolina" It's from Ae pen of
one of the ablest and purest men IN the State We
invite the particular attention of contemporaries
of the religious press to this communication.
Year: 1863

TT Public notice is hereby given that meet
ing Of the frienda Of the Union Constitution, and
an energetic prosecution Of the war will be
held on Friday evening the 10Th inst, at Melm's
Garden, on North Clark street near Chicago
Avenue, for the purpose Of organizing Fifteenth
Ward Union club, preparatory to the municipal
election. All unconditional Union men andfricnds
Of the Administration are urgently invited to at
trud
Year: 1863

Another wonderful Ingredient. OF Spanish origin.
im1artlng beauty to the complexion and brlancy to
tho mind. Is get unknown to the commerce Of the
world and We Withhold its name for the present.