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Year: 1862

Recent developments indicate that the
danger of foreign Intervention, in our do
mestic strife, is really greater than had been
supposed. The French Emperor, it ap-
pears, has made the proposition to the Brit
ish government to recognize the Southern
Confederacy. This, the British have wisely
declined to do; but we owe no thanks to
their forbearance, for they are none the less
the enemies of our nationality They cal
culate on the exhaustion of the two sec
tions, by continuance of the civil war,
with the permanent dissolution of the Union
superadded. The French have proven
themselves our enemies, but until lately
they have concealed their purpose by pre-
tending to sympathize with us in our troub-
les. The employment of the Orleans prin-
ces in our armies created an angry feeling
in the heart of Napoleon. The greatness
Of the American Republic, was stumbling
block in the way of his scheme. His i'm
mediate designs on Mexico and Central
America must fall to the ground if the
Union is preserved The South has de-
signs on Mexico. 1t is included in the
Golden Circle France encourages Spain





dies These are also included in the Gold
en- Circle. The South has just as much in
terest in keeping Mexico and the West In
dies in the hands of the present holders, as
the North; at least, until the time comes
for her to appropriate them. If, in the
meantime, they fall into the hands of
powerful European combination, the very
purpose for which the South have dared all
the horrors of civil war is defeated for her
intention, from the start, was to seize those
countries, and erect a Republic founded on
a distinction of classes.


If the French propose division of the
Mexican territories, it is possible that the
South may accede to it. If they do so, it
will prove that the last spark Of national
feeling has expired in the Southern heart,
and that they prefer the destruction of
American greatness to the defeat of their
plans Happily there are twenty millions
of Americans who do not acquiesce. The
ancient valOr Of the Spanish race is not dead
in the Mexicans. There are nine millions
of people who may be made formidable to
an invading enemy, if they are inspired by
the cooperation of the Unionists of this
country, and armed by the destructive i'm
plements Of American warfare There is
yet the profered friendship of the Russian
Emperor, to look to; and the possibility
that he will launch upon Europe CONT
mental War, in which the compact power
Of Russia and North Germany-numbering
ninety millions of people-would be op-
posed TO the scheme Of Latin unity, con-
nected with slavery propagandism. The
generous sympathy of Alexander of Russia
is a reality. To the philanthropy of How
ard he unites administrative abilities of the
first order; and his capacity for managing
military affairs is only second to the tact
and energy with which be has carried out
civil reforms. When questioned on the
probable action Of Russia, if England or
France should interfere in the American
war, he answered: Russia does not
threaten she collects herself" The inn
port Of such speech, coming from such
man, is more portentous than menace could
bo
Year: 1862

THE FROG TRADE The Auburn On.
W Advertiser says that the catching of
frogs at Montezuma has become quite a
considerable trade. It adds "For three
or four seasons past two men have made the
impaling of frogs their business. Every
other day they slip from Auburn barrel
of frogs for the New York or BufFllo mark
ct. They make very handsome wages
The method of securing these basso pro-
fialdoS Of the marshes is very similar to
spearing fish The men paddle off through
the marsh in the night with dark lantern.
They approach the haunt of the frog very
quietly, and when near enough throw their
dart with a certainty acquired by practice,
always hitting them back of the head, kill
ing them instantly. The hind quarters ere
then carefully skinned and cut off, packed
in barrels, and sent to their destination
They generally secure two or three hun
dred in a night, and are paid Sc a hundred.
Year: 1862

On the other hand, we hear assurances
from Southern leaders, that the South does
not desire foreign Intervention, and that
when it does come it will find us united
again. If this feeling is prevalent in the
South, it will go farther to assuage the bit
terness of this war. If, however, the South
should coalesce with the French, the war
will assume new shape. The last bond
that connects the two sections, will be
snapped The Union will claim the South
ern territory as its own, and war will be
waged to evict the Southern peOple.-Ore-
gOninn.
Year: 1862

il s stated that on the 10Th by ordor Of hIs Nes
~ commiss composed Of the highest generals in tue
SERVICE would meet to consider the possibility Of effect
ing further reduction Of the military budget General
Wrangel would preside. In the approaching meeting OF
the Chambers, several bills upon changes in the tariff
may be expected 1t is also the intent Of government
TO repeal the taxes upon and considerable reuc
ton OF import duties upon rice cattle and meat and also
mining productions the latter to consist Of reduction
OF one per cont annually for the next three years,
order TO support the iron trade against foreign compe
tiOn.


proposal s also under discassion 10 increase the
price Of salt 70 s former rate the purpose Of raising


fund TO be devoted 10 the augmentation Of the Pr1ssan
fleet.
Year: 1862

1t has been decided by the authorities at
Washington that if soldier is discharged
before he has served two whole years, or
to the end of the war, if sooner ended, he
forfeits his 500 bounty. The back dues
for wages, and fifty cents for each twenty
miles Travelled from the place of discharge
to the place of enrolment, he is entitled to
on the pay certificates from his nearest
paymaster. If soldier is killed, or dies of
disease, before the end Of two years or the
close of the war, he has under the liberal
construction Of the law, served to the end
of the war, so far as he is or can be con
cerned. Congress intended by the prov1s-
ions Of the law that no one should have
the bounty until the end of the war. The
500 bounty, by this law, will be immedi-
Gtely paid, so soon as audited.


Under an order and rule Of the War De-
partment, there can be procured for the
wives of soldiers imprisoned in the South
the monthly wages of the soldier to the
date of allowance, except the last months
wages, which the Government reserves
If no wife, the minor children, by their
guardian, are entitled. If the soldier is
unmarried, his widowed mother is enti-
tied.


An important decision has been made
by the Secretary Of War and the Paymast-
er-General in effect, that soldier is en-
titled to pay from the day he enlists, and
that he is not to wait until his company is
full, or the formal muster of the regiment
into Government service.
Year: 1862




What lady is there, that after reading
the subjOined extract, will not feel dOubly
repaid for her previous efforts to eOntri-
butte to the comforts of the soldier, and
redouble those efforts in the future7 We
doubt whether it will be read with eyes
free from tears by any one:


A gallant volunteer who was wounded
iu one Of our recent battles writes as fol-
lows: It was about five o'clock in the
afternoon when ] arrived at the hospital.
Soon after my entrance I was stripped
and bathed in q large tub Of tepid water,
shown to bed, and a nice clean white shirt
and pair Of drawers were given me. I
soon encased my tired anatomy in my new
wardrobe, and while doing so my eyes
caught sight Of the words, From the Wo-
mans Aid Society stamped in black ink
on each garment, laid down. pulled the
blanket over my head and thought Of my
situation. Here I am in q hospital, pros
trated with disease, worn out in body and
mind, over eight hundred miles from any
spot can call home. Ny own mother and
sister long since we're numbered with the
dead, but the noble.bearted women Of the
North--those angels Of mercy-are sup
plying the place Of mother and sister, not
only 10 me, but TO thousands Of suffering
soldiers from every State. Presently felt
two large tears eol.-sing down my cheeks
and running into my mOustache, followed
by myriads OF others dropping on the sheet
under my chin, forming innumerable lit
tie salt water pools. When well, 1 am
strong man, and it requires some sudden
and deep grief to bring me to tears; but
tears Of gratitude lowed from me that
evening as freely as drops Of rain from an
April cloud; and like a spoiled and fretful
child, cried myself to sleep"
Year: 1862

The Nashville Union says that the slave
owners of that region, fearful of the effects
of the Proclamation, are carrying their
slaves off to the South, and adds these
forcible comments:


awe have Our doubts whether these fu-
gitive masters will find the change for the
better. 1t looks to us like leaping out of
the frying-pan into the FIRE. What will
they do with their slaves when they get
them South. There is no work for them to
do, no cotton or tobacco to raise, and moth
ing for them to eat. 1t does not seem to
US that to collect hundreds of thousands of
restless, excited negroes together is exact
ly the best method Of securing and
strengthening the Divine institution of
Slavery, which is sanctioned by the Lords
Prayer and the Sermon on the Mount. To
use plain term, these rebel slaveholders
are a set Of asses they never were
troubled with much brains, and they have
improved very much of late, the wrong
way. If we wanted to stir up mischief
insubordination and the devil generally,
in the Cotton States, we would advise these
Shareholders of middle Tennessee, to do
justas they are doing Just let them pile
up their negroes, four deep, over Mississ-
ippi and Alabama, until these States look
like the deck of a SLAYER, and beyond
all doubt we shall speedily witness an ir-
repressible conflict compared with which
all other conflicts will appear tame and
spiritless. Who would have believed,
twelve months ago, that during a bloody
civil war, the rebel slaveowners, who have
always dreaded instructions among their
slaves, even when they were separated
from each other on isolated plantations,
would, at the most dangerous period of
the war, mass the SLAVES in one formidable
body, and thus render them immeasurabLy
more pol0erfuI to inFietiajury7 This is pre-
cisely what the rebels are doing. But We
have heard nobody object to their doing
so. If they can stand it, we guess we can
endure it, not only patiently, but com
fortably. In fact, we confess that we
rather like the movement The rebels are
kindly putting their heads close together
that we can soon sever them at one blow,
as if they had but one neck. Nor does it
require the gift of prophecy to foretell
what will follow in this State.


"These splendid plantations, whose area
is vast, whose fertility is unsurpassed, and
whose climate is delightful, will not be al
lowed to lie idle. An army Of hardy, en-
terprising immigrants from the Northwest
will soon pour in to fill the places left va
cant by the slaves"
Year: 1862

CarbOnie acid has been employed as an
aesthetic in a surgical OperatiOn-three
parts of the gas being mixed with one part
Of atmospheric air in large india rubber
bag provided with a flexible tube, and
mouthpiece by which the patient inhaled


the mixture. Sleep was produced in about
two minutes, and accompanied by acceler-
alton of the respiratory movements and
copious perspiration on the face. The
moment the inhalation was stopped, the
patient awoke with perfect consciousness.
Year: 1862

One old gentleman on a Jury at Phila.
delphia, was, in common with his col
leagues, handed a great number of papers
to examine in certain case, and looked
at them with Owl-like gravity When the
jury made up their verdict, to which their
names had to be signed, il was found that
the venerable old chap could not read or
write.
Year: 1862

The Anglo-Afrioan announces that the
practice Of acalling" on New Years Day,
amoug the eolored- people, is to be more
general, on the coming LIST of January, than
In any previous year. 4 says, "in view
Of its being the birthday of our people s
Liberty, 1t Is proper that everything that
can be done to make it gala day should
be resorted to. While we will heartily
sympsthise with the millions still suffering
the horrors Of slavery on that day, We will
rejoice that no longer on the side Of their
oppressors is Law"
Year: 1862

1t may be some time before the people
of this State would agree to formally
abolish slavery. We do not fear that
just now but then ii may be left to die
of their neglect, to perish for want Of
protection. For instance, by the law Of
thus State now no slave, it matters no;
what his value, can be assessed for more
than three hundred dollars, except in the
city Of Baltimore. lie may be assessed
as low as twenty five dollars. 1t may
happen in these days, when the State is
groaning under taxation, that the people
of Baltimore may think this invidious
and desire to tax this as o,her property,
which would ruin us.


Again. When IA slave becomes tliet
and worthless to his master in this res.
pcct, if he is convicted and sold by law
as The statute requires, all the non-slave
holders arc taxed to repay his value
not Ills assessed value, but his real value
to his master. This evidently just law,
if repealed, would make the master liable
to lose every vicious negro without
remuneration, and make him responsible,
in the value of his slave, for his morals.


Mere neglect TO protect us without
any formal act of emancipation would be
the ruin of the STAKEHOLDER. 1t has
happened in Western Virginia, and may
happen here, that the politicians in the
western part of the SAFE may begin to
dislike the representa- ion in the Lcgis-
lature which makes five slaves equal to
three whites.* They may dislike the
law which gives to the slave holding
counties of the Eastern Shore U. S.
Senator, when two hundred and fifty
thousand people in Baltimore, and all
the rest of the county in the State, only
have one.


Politicians are no great sicklers for
justice, and if, in order to change this
basis, they begin TO make favor with the
taxpayers of the western coun les and
The city of Baltimore by promising to
abolish the laws we have referred to and
equalizing the taxes, we will 60 to the
wall, as did the Shareholders in Virginia


With these things in view, Mcssrs.
Editors, knowing how tickle and chan
gcablc men are in their party matters,
remembering that in our short history
this Sta.e has already changed from a
slaveendurlng to slave-cncouraging
State, and not knowing how soon it may
change again, we are for treating this
proposition of Mr.. Lincoln seriously
If it is for our interest let us accent it


*Such is not the case. The Mem
bers of the House of Delegates of Mary.
land are apportioncd according to tho
population, and white ane black, free
and slave are counted exactly the same
Maryland is the only Sta,e in which such
an unjust and unequal system obtaines
I'D. Wig.
Year: 1862

Mr.. Henderson (U.l of Missouri, said
be felt disposed to vote for the resolu-
tion. A strong objection was made to
1t in the Border s atcs, on Ihe ground
that it was an attempt to abolish slavery
In the Border States, and then in the
her Sta'es. There was surely no such
intention on the part of the Prcsiden', :,
and he thought none on the part of the
members of the Senate. Although the
agitation of the slavery question was the
cause of the rebellion, there were her
interests in the State of Missouri. They
were deeply interes ed in having the
Mississippi river free 20 the mouth He
had opposed all agta ion of the slavery
question. lie had opposed the bill for
the abolition of slavery in the District
Of Columbia, no because he considered
it unconstitutional, but because it was
not expcdicnt to bring the subject up for
discussion. The South had been
annually frightened by some story of the
Aboli ion monster. Ie', if Congress
should abolish the petty amount of sla-
very existing in the District, he did not
suppose his State would sccede. But
he hoped that if Senators were deter
mined to do this thing, they would be
quick, or the great State Of Delaware
will be getting peep behind the curtain
and discovering an awful plot to eman-
cipa the few slaves already nearly free,
and she might 60 Sou u for her consti


tutional rights. The Senators from
Ken ucky were getting excited, and
those from Maryland and Virginia grow
ing suspicious of some dreadful thing to
happen. He had been opposed to the
bill for the cultivation of the cotton
lands, though he supposed the measure
was a harmless one: yet he feared that it
might have effect on ihc Border States,
and hence voted against it. Yet, if
the statement was true that slavery was
the corner stone of the Government, he
would be wiling 10 fight to the last with
the North against any such Govern
mcnt Nothing would tempt him, how
ever, to raise his hand against the Gov
erment, and all the right of revolution
he wanted was the ballotbo He did
not think that more ;han fifty thousand
slaves were left in Missouri, large num-
bcrs having been taken South. He
thought the people of that State had
lost property equal in value to the whole
amoun; of the slaves at the commence
ment of the war. lie regarded the Pre-
sidcnt's message not as Il threat, but a
prophecy which he felt would be fulfilled
every where, if the war continued. lie
was perfectly willing that the proposition
sh ould 60 to the people of his State, as
it left the matter en- irely to the Sate.-
Ninty-six days expenses of this war
would pay for all the slaves IN Missouri,
Ken ucky, Maryland, Delaware, and the
District of Columbia, and the expenses
of a two years war would pay for all the
slaves in the country. lie regarded
this as change from the rangling of
former years, and the proposition to
leave the question to the cool Judge
mcnt of those entrusted with the future
prosperity of the nation.
Year: 1862

of tobacco, the balance was made up of
brcadstuffs while her trade with Nir-
gina and North Carolina brought within
her borders between twelve and fourteen
millions of grain and flour. Ten and a
half millions of this trade was shipped
coas wise to the Northern States, and
our foreign trade was about twenty-five
and half millions. Our northern
trade directly with goods exported and
sold to the North did not reach more
than ten or twelve millions, while we
received from the North nearly for y
millions of northern productions to be
sold to States South and West.
Year: 1862

An average Of 50 pr head this, multi
piled by the $1,000 900 p"rnlat,n of tho
country. gives us The FOUND sum Of Sl6JC Co.,
0CH revenue.


This estimate is a very moderate one, AID
only applies to the ncc"ssarics Of life. There
are various other articles which are considered
indispensable to a family which are not
included in the estimate. AS the Southern
States are not yet subdurd. and no revenue
can be derived yet from them we must take
the population Of the loyal States as that
which must bear the burden for the present.
Twenty-Five millions of people to bear an
annual taxation of SlGO, 900 900 some cSt-
mates make the sum necessary much higher
will be equal to tax of over 81 per head to
each mcmber ofa family. This tax will reach
c~rry one, for being laid upon every article
of consumption, it cannot be avoided and is
necessary and proper for the support Of tho
Government in its present extremity.
Year: 1862

Look at the war and devastation in the
magnificent Republic that Buchanans Ad-
ministration found peaceful, prosperous and
happy. The Republican party could never
have inaugurated the conflict but for the divi-
sion of the National Democratic party by you
ard your kind. II is not true that your party
polled more votes last year than the RECORD :
party, except on Governor. Our State ticket
poled more votes thar yours. II you propose
ever to vote the Democratic ticket again. you
must tell the truth aud shame the Republicans.
You give them too much national importance
when you assert that they are alone responsible
for the war


The Express is Ike the coy maiden who
swears she will die before she consents, and
then consents-as follows


But. inasmuch as the people have solemnly
decided to settle the matter by an appeal to
arms We, as good citizens. accept their verdict
and are disposed to give that policy q fair
trial. We said Often and we say it now, since
we must have war, let it be corducted as be-
comes a great, powerful Christian Nation
Let the energies of the Nation be put forth to
their full extent TO crush the rebellion and to
preserve the Union. If the experiment is sue
cessful. well if not, our skirts are clear. EB-
tertaining these views and believing that nine
ienths of those who supported Mcconnell share
them with Us, We say we can see no good rea-
son why the Democracy should not unite.
Year: 1862

CHILD SHor.-A singular accident happen.
ed to little son Of Justice Sewell. in Bangor
a few days since. The child was sanding 10
the door of his fathers residence when be was
struck in the forehead by spent ball from a
rlfe with just sufficient force to break in the
outer table Of the skull Dr. Edwards was
called to attend the child, and pronounces him
out of danger. unless erysipelas should inter
vene- The accident happened in this way.-
\ young man fred at a ground squirrel The
ball struck rock upon which the squirrel sat.
and gIanciog in an oblique direction struck
the child IN the forehead. The eccentriclty of
a rife shot is oftentimes truly remarkable. in
the present Instance the only one out of danger
was the squirrel. Fortunately the child was
not seriously injured
Year: 1862

PACIFIC We have received
IRON Congressman Sargent, a copy of bis
speech in favor Of Pacific Railroad Mr.
Sargent expresses the hope that the present
session of Congress will not be allowed to pass,
without providing for the construction Of the
road So do we.