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Year: 1862

ABsURDTrEs IN Our POSTAL SYsrEM.-f our
members of Congress wish to see few of the
absurdties of our postal rates and regulations,
let them read letter in to-day's HERALD from
Mr.. Pliny Miles, the Secretary of the New York
Postal Reform Committee, and the indefatiga-
BILE leader and advocate of postal reform. Let
them explain, if they can, why the plainest
rules and principles of commercial operations
are utterly ignored by those who frame our
postal laws. What mortal who was not a fit
candidate for an idiot asylum would think of
having eighty different regular" rates of post
age on transient printed matter, and for pack
ages that do not exceed sixteen ounces in
weight? How long will it be that the outside
public will be so well informed through the
public journalism postal affairs, and the Post
Office the subject of unceasing complaint from
the people, without some member of Congress
from large city taking the matter up and
giving us a good postal law? One-half of the
intelligence, tenacity of purpose and perse-
verance in member of Congress that have been
shown by Mr.. Miles, and we might have had
good postal system long ago, with low and
uniform rates of postage, a good letter delivery,
a money order system and an abolition of the
frankng privilege. Who will give us this
great boon? All reformers of every effete and
rotten system must be outsiders, like Row
land Hill and Pliny Miles. We read in the
official reports that the people of Great Britain
send through the Post Office 564, ,O0O, 900 letters
in year, while an equal population with us
only write about one hundred and fifty millions.
In other words, the English write an average of
twenty-five letters for each person of the gross
population, while in America our population
write five. The English are taxed eighty mil
lions sterling, or s4OO ZOO, 900, year for the
support of the government. We shall soon be
obliged to raise an equal sum here. What in


stitutiOn or branch of government that contri-
butes so much to aid and foster the trade,
commerce, manufactures and financial resources
OF the country as postal system like the one
in Great Britain 1t is emphatically muzzling
the OK that treads out the corn to allow any
scale of postal rates, high charges or inconve-
nient regulations to stand in the way of the
largest commercial intercourse between the
people of different sections of the country.
Year: 1862

Let Congress rise with the occasion, and be. a.
it should be, an aid to the Union cause instead
of great impediment Silly criticisms Of
generals and of battles, about which Congress
men know as little as the "onward to Rich
mond" organs from which they derive their
ideas idle discussions of slavery speeches
about the proper and improper conduct of the
war--these can never help our armies, but do
really hinder any genuine progress, and breed .
fatal popular distrust in everybody and every
thing.


Our expeditions are moving. Now let Con-
gress move also. Provide means to pay the
expenses Of the war; repress fanatical inter-
meddling and Intermediates; encourage the
Union sentiment of the South, and assure honest
Southern men that we are endeavoring to
force them back to the Union as it was and not
to national abolition society, and then attend
to your regular business, and, having settled it,
60 home In peace. That is what the country
demands of you, Messeurs Congressman. Will
you do it or not
Year: 1862

Notices of the Press.
This is a sound Company


The insurance of a certain sum for ones family
is prudence that every man should adopt in these
critical times"


The man that would be respected and loved by
his family in life, and gratefully remembered in
death. will provide his family against want"
"All our most prudent citizens and soldiers are
insurng competence to their families in case they
drafted. killed in the service it is the only
safeguard In these critical times. nj :9m
Year: 1862

AN ACT to establish a land district in the ter


ritory of Nevada, and for other purposes.


Be it enacted by the senate and house OF
representatives of the United States of Amer
lea in congress assembled, that the public
lands of the United States in the territory OF
Nevada shall constitute a land district, to be
called the district of Nevada, the office for
which shall be established at such place with
in said district as the president of the United
States may from time to time direct, and the
pref -emption laws are hereby extended to said
territory.


Sect 9 And be it further enacted, that the
president be and he is hereby authorized to
appoint, by and with the advice and consent
of the senate, register and receiver for SAID
district, who shall be required to reside at the
site of said office, and who shall have the same
powers and perform the same duties as are
now or may hereafter be prescribed by law
for other land officers, and Ewhose compensa-
ton shall be the same as allowed to such Of
ficers by the act approved April twenty,
eighteen hundred and eighteen, entitled San
act for changing the compensation of receiv-
ers and registers of the land Offices"


Sect. 3. And be it further enacted, that
when the settlers in any township or town
ships, not mineral or reserved by govern
ment, shall desire survey made of the same
under the authority of the surveyor general of
the United States, and shall file an application
therefor in writing, and deposit it in proper
United States depository to the credit of the
United States a sum sufficient to pay for
such survey, together with all expenses in
cident thereto, without cost or claim for
indemnity on the United States it shall and may
be lawful for said surveyor general, under
such instructions as may be given by the COM
missioner of the general land office, and in
accordance with existing laws and instruc-
tions to survey each township or townships,
and make return thereof to the general and
proper local land office: Provided: That the
township so proposed to be surveyed are with
in the range of the regular progress of the
public surveys embraced by existing standard
lines or bases for the township and sub-divis
ion surveys.


Approved, July 2, 1862.
Year: 1862

Our greatest necessity here is the want of pro visions. Now is the time for every patriot within reach of this place to do Iii. country real service Every man and woman who has pound of meat or an ear of corn more than they absolutely need, should send it forward to the commissary at Little Rock Don't wait for it to be sent after, but send yourselves. We shall have thousands of troops here in a very few days, and must have provisions to feed them Our people are patriotic and now is the time for them to prove it.

 One pound of meat will feed a man two days He who cannot go to the war, but, will feed two soldiers, will himselfbe equal to soldier in the field. If Gen. Roane can procure a suifciency ot provisions the enemy will be driven from the State Then let our people send it to him without a mo nent's delay.
Year: 1862



 Brig c Gen'l Roane, commanding this department has placed Little Rock and vicinity under Martial Law, and appointed Judge Geo. C. Watkins Pro vost Marshal. This step, we believe, meets with the approval of every one, and if there is regret at all, it is that the law martial not extended over the sntrc State. The flight of the Executive from Little Rock has left the State without any government whatever, at a time when it was most needed, and we should like to see Gen. Roane sup ply the want as far as it lies in his power. Judge Watkins would make an able and equitable Governor and Provost Martial of the State, and we respectfully suggest to the general commanding the proprety of extending his jurisdiction over the whole. of it. Arkansas, though invaded by her enemies and apparently deserted by her friends, is as true to the Confederacy as ever. Her people have seen the necessity of the concentration of the Confederate forces in Tennessee, and so far from mermuring at their withdrawal from Arkansas, they have approved the act They know that if we victorious at Corinth, Arkansas will be freed from the invader, but if defeated, fifteen twenty thou sand troops could not protect her. The fate of Arkansas is as much involved at Corinth as the fate of Tennessee or Mississippi.

 Gen. Roane is taking steps to expel the enemy from that portion of the State now occupied by them That he will succeed, we have no doubt.-- We have no fears of the enemy ever getting to Little Rock. We do not believe he will even de secrate the northern portion of our State much longer. The gallantry of the Texans now with us, and the patriotism and spirit of our people, will enable him to make short work of all their hopes so soon as his preparat ons are completed.

 Let our people sustain Gen Roane in his patr otic efforts to drive the enemy from Arkansas, and he will accomplish it in less than twenty days.
Year: 1862

THE SEAT OF GovERNmENT.-We would be glad # some Batriotc gentleman would relieve the anxiety of the pubic by informing it of the To- cality of the State government. The last that was heard of It here it was aboard of the steamer Little Rock, about two weeks ago, stemming the current of the Arkansas river.
Year: 1862

gg-The federals complain that they have had nothing but mosquitoes and knats to worry them on White river. In few days they will have something else to trouble them Let them keep sharp look out.
Year: 1862

THE FIGHT AT CoRlNrH.-Every thing from this place indicates an early battle. The two armies are gradually approaching each other, and heavy skirm shing is constant. going on It seems i'm possible that general engagement can be much longer delayed. The two armies are nearly equal in numbeIs-and ours far superior in spirit and courage. We have no fear for the result
Year: 1862

o'clock The enemy landed their forces from gun boats, (some twenty four in number,) at or near West Point

 The number engaged on either side is not known, but that of the enemy was supposed to be very large. general engagement of the two armies is expected. The loss on both sides in the fight of yesterday was very heavy, ours believed to be not less than ,000 up to twelve o'clock. The enemy up to that hour had been driven back three times to within range of their gunboats.
Year: 1862

An old clergyman is quoted as de-
fining this time to be "when your knife
is sharp" He was certainly half right,
for a smooth clean cut is very essen
tial to the healing of the wound. But
there is very great difference in the
healing of wounds on account of the
season in which they are made. Prun,
ing done in March and April, especial
ly if large limbs are removed, often
iniures an orchard for life. The sap
oozes from all the pores and runs down
upon the bark, discoloring and often
times destrying it-called scalding.-
Without other protection, decay be-
gins, and in few years you have a
hollow limb.


We like the month Of June for
pruning better than all others. If the
work is done soon after the new wood
begins to form, the wounds made by
the removal of small limbs will be
nearly covered over the same season
thew are made. The leaves make such
a demand upon the wood for sap that
none Of it escapes from the wounded
pores. 1t is also a favorable time for
thumb pruning. By watching the
growth Of the shoots upon young trees
they may be brought into symmetrical
shape without much use OF the knife.
-Am. 4Agricultatrist,
Year: 1862

HALTER BREAKING You've CoETs-
There is as much advantage in begin
ming early with colt as With boy.
1t is serious business to most farmers
to break stout four year old to the
halter, and to handling but begin
with sucking colt, and you have an
easy task. He takes gentle handling
kindly, may soon be made familiar
with the halter, and do your bidding.
After little training, the boys can
lead him to the pasture and to water,
which will be a good lesson for them,
as we'll as the colt.
Year: 1862

Doubtless thousands of the readers


of the Agrtenltlvist regard the corn
field is the only place for raising
pumpkins. But, however little the
harm that the pumpkins do the corn
-and we believe that in good season
they produce quantity of food which
much more than counter balances the
evil which they may do-they will
yield a much larger and finer product
if planted by themselves. Putting
the hills 8 feet apart, two or three
good shovelfuls Of well rotted manure
being dropped on the surface and
covered by little earth, tie pumpkins
will luxuriate in unObstructed sunshine
and upon the fat Of the land and
when autumn strips the leafy covering
under which they hide, a golden har


vest will be disclosed which will do
ones heart good. Low growing, small
stalked varieties of corn do not essen
TALLY interfere with the ripening Of
good crops Of pumpkins. But if plant
ed with corn they should in no wise
interfere with the thorough culture of
the corn. A goodplan is to drop seed
in every other hill, in alternate rows,
and tits very important to secure good
seed. The medium sized, round dark
orange colored, fine grained varieties
are best, and usually the earliest, most
prolific, and the best keepers. The
cheese pumpkin is preferable for fami
" use or market all
Year: 1862

Az ArpgAL From rnE ARMy.--We in-
vite the especial attention Of our readers to
the letter Of our correspondent from the
Fourth regiment. His appeal to the people
Of Vermont for help to aid her sons now in
the field is such as ought not 70 be disregard
ed, and such, we are happy to say, as they are
ready and willing to respond to. There new
er was time when so many we're ready to
enlist as the present, and all that is wanting
TO see rush to the army from Washington
County, is the opportunity to enroll their
names, and respond heartily and Immediately
to just such appeals as our correspondent
makes. We trust that the opportunity will
yet be given TO those who stand waiting that
they may volunteer ia the service Of their
country. They do not like the idea of being
drafted. but will 60 at once as volunteers.-
They have ever been ready 70 do so and now
that the men must be had, they prefer to go
voluntarily rather than have il said that they
bad to be drafted We learn that the Gov
ernor has not yet fully decided upon what
co rse he will pursue, and cannot do so un-
til he hears from the War Department. We
trust that the decision will not be so arbi-
trary as that the Governor, in his discretion,
cannot raise the quota Of Vermont by vol
unteers. We feel aue it can be done, and
done as quickly as the machinery fyr draft
can be put in operation. Enough stand
ready in this County to enroll their names to-
day, if they can but see the papers, to fll up
even four companies We do not consider 1t
exactly just that these men should be cut off
from the 81 per month paid by the State to
Volunteers, because no opportunity is given
them to volunteer. At any rate, there could
be no harm in the Governors issuing the
recruiting papers, and it, when bis insiruc-
hous from the War Department shall be re-
ceived, he is able to say the men are ready as
volunteers, we do not believe they VIII be re-
iected because they are net drafted men
What say the people Are we not right -
And are you not ready to respond at once
We have no doubt of your answer.
Year: 1862

TRAIroRs AT HoMK.-The following
extract, from the Louisville Democrat
expresses very distinctly the feeling oI
all true Union men respecting treason
at home, and the proper method ol
dealing with it:


at is just as well, too, that men
should reflect whether that freedom OF
speech which rejoices in this rebellion
had as well be voluntarily dropped be-
fore it is forcibly suppressed. We can
not afford to live any longer in the
midst Of lawlessness, robbery and muir
der, under the pretext Of Southern
Rights, or any other sort Of rights
Certainly it csnnet be expected that
this forbearsnce shall last always
There is a law Of this State that con-
signs to the State prison any one who
left the State to take up arms agains. it.
We had hoped that this law might be
repealed, upon the ground that such
offences would cease, and be atoned for
by repentance. We apprehend it will
be necessary, for the peace Of the State,
to enforce this law.


"At the same time, those who went
into the Confederate army as soldiers
are not more guilty than thousands at
home who have done by words much
more against the country and their
State than the soldier in arms.


eve repeat that it is time all aid
and comfort to this rebellion, either In
words or deeds, should stop in this
State. We cannot afford to tolerate
this lawlessness and these enormous
crimes to accommodate faction.


"Those who are not willing to obey
the laws of Kentucky, and who would
foment disorder, or aid or sympathize
with rebellion, should not complain il
they suffer the consequences"
Year: 1862

In society, wholesale don't mix with
retails; raw wool don't speak to half
penny balls of worsted tallow in the
cask looks down upon skies to the
pound; and pig-iron turns up its nose
at ten penny nails.
Year: 1862

The Union nomination election was
conducted with great harmony and spirit
in this County on Saturday The friends
of the several candidates worked with
commendable fidelity and earnestness
throughout the day, and all with apparent
cordiality and good feeling A very
large vote was polled In this city it
reached to l434, which is only so votes
less than the rebellionists polled in the
whole County week ago This is but a
faint foreshadowing of the terrible earnest
with which the people Of this County in-
tend to enter into the contest in Novem-
her. The drubbing the enemies of free
government and the Union will get at the
General election, will be not only well
deserved but right well administered.
Friends Of the glorious old Flag Of the
Free, close up tile ranks stand firm and
solid and let us march forth to the con.
test resolved to blot out, once and forever,
from the escntcheon of Delaware, every
ycstige of treason, and drive back the re-
belionsts into the disgrace and ohscurit,
they so richly deserve.
Year: 1862

In Brandywinc Hundred, some of the
best and most influential men of the De-
mocratic party hitherto, walked up to the
polls on Saturday last and voted for the
Union Candidates for nomination. Like
true patriots they boldly step forth to vim
licate the dignity of their manhood, by
adhering to their country in its hour of
peril. Genuine Democracy has taught
them that, in the lile-struggle of the
Union, their first and greatest duty is to
the Republic which has shed so many
social and political blessings upon man
kind and thus indoctrinated, as honest,
loyal citizens, they could not do otherwise
than mite their efforts and influence with
the Union men of the nation in favor OF
the Constitution, and against the seces-
sion-Breckinridge sympathisers who are
aiming by force Of arms to destroy the
country. -.-
Year: 1862

CATTLE DYING.-We hear some com.
the cause of the death Of many cattle in this
county. There are many farmers who have
not sufficient shelter for their stock, and the
poor brutes have been unable to stand the
peliing storm. This ought 10 he warning to
farmers 10 provide shelter for their stock.
Lumber is 40 very cheap that no good excuse
can be made for neslectin, to furnish eheda fer
cattle We doubt not that the loss of stock in
tie state vii. be pretty heavy
Year: 1862

COLD BLooDED.-Not very far from
Central New Jersey lived two young law
yers, Archy Brown and Tom Hall. Both
were fond of dropping in at MIR. Smiths
of an evening, and spending an hour or
two with his only daughter. One even
ing when Brown and Miss Mary had dis
cussed almost every topic, Brown sudden
ly, and with his sweetest tones, struck
out as follows:


"Do you think, Mary, you could leave
your father and mother, your pleasant
home here, with all its ease and comforts,
and 90 to the Far West with a young
lawyer, who has little besides his profess
ion to depend upon, and with him find a
new home, which it would be your joint
duty to beautify and make delightful like
this 2"


Dropping her head softly on his should
or, she answered, a think i could, Ar
chy."


WELL" said he, in q changed tone,
and Strengthening himself up, there's
Tom Hall going West and wants wife.
I'll just mention it to him."
Year: 1862

ANDREW JoHNsoN.--This patriot, with
commission as Brigadier General from
the President, has gone home to Tennes.
see to pacifcate the State. Here is his
platform in his own words:


II am democrat now; have been
one all my life; | expect TO live and die
one; and the corner stone of my democ-
racy rests upon the enduring basis of the
Union. Democrats may come and go,
but they never shall divert me from the
polar star by which l have been guided
from early life-the great principles of
democracy upon which this government
rests, and which cannot be carried out
without the preservation of the Union of
these States"
Year: 1862

A GEoLoeIsT NoNPLUsED.-An old
bachelor geologist was boasting that every
rock was as familiar to him as the alpha
bet. A lady, who was present, declared
that she knew of rock of which he was
wholly ignorant. Name it madam p
cried Coelebs, in rage. I" 1t is rock the
cradle sir" replied the lady. Coelebs van
ished.
Year: 1862

After Emancipation and Elucation,
the blacks ere here and cannot be deported.
They must lie elevated and brought up
from where the great iniquity has crushed
them down. Where better can the latter
work begin 1han where the Government
has Just Put forth its hand and struck the
shackles from the slaves? The passage in
the Senate Yesterday Of the bill providing
ft,r The education Of the colored race in the
District Of Columbia is 2 token Ill lovers
uf humanity will rejoice at.
Year: 1862

The Editor will be greatly obliged to
persons making up clubs for the UNION if
they will remit 10 the publishers and not
TO himself Communications and sub
scriptions are sometimes mixed up with
private information in such a manner as
to cause needless delay and trouble to
all parties.
Year: 1862

tuition except tue men in whose behalf


these organs of treason are making such
! an uproar. The war against the consli-
tuition is waged from the South, and frouI
the South only. 1t is the slayehOlding
oligarchy who have thrown OF its author


ity aud dehed its defenders; it is the North
that stands by the Constitution, defend,
Il, pourS out its resources, summons the
flower of its population and sheds its best
blood to protect and preserve it. 1t is the


basest of ISLANDERS to charge those who are


doing this with a design to subvert the


Constitution.


Yet We can tell the Journal who are the


real foes of the Constitution in the free


States and at the seat of government. 1t
is those who demand that "concessiousY
shall be made to the enemies of that sacred
instrument; concessions TO the men who
have taken up arms against it; concessions
to the men who stole the contents of our
arsenals, the coin in our mints, the ships
of-war IN our navy yards, 10 make war
-uPoH it, and who 1aade tFaitors of the ofii-
GERS of our army and navy. The only men
1T the North who are laboriug to subvert
the Constitution are those who, like the
Journal, ask us to give way to treason, and
make sacrifices OF opinion" to the leaders
of a causeless revolt, renounciog, on our
part, principles as dear to us as life, and
surrendering the convictions of our own
constituencies for the sake of hollow peace,
which the same restless and ambitious
class, on whose heads is all the guilt OF
this war, would soon find means to break.