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Year: 1862

MEssRs. EDIToRs: 1t seems to necessary that we
should say word the gentlemen who have the charge
River and HaIbor Defences urging them to little
energy and great deal less sandpaper in the
of the of defence. not at all
ry that gunearrages board ships should be finely
finished Good timber in the rough is quite sufficient in
time of to fire of the heaviest kind Of ordnance


that parties have been several weeks in get
ting certain of defense ready when it could
been done week, and at trifng cost, and been
fronting the enemy We here do not want to be put
with the redtape gloved gentlemen
the MerT1Ddc school. Lei exhibit yellow pine
heart, and my word for it, it will keep off the ron-cad
my resides. There plenty Of shipcarpenters
finish all in three days. properly directed So to work
and play after the war il over. Yours etc,


Z IN TIE CORNER.
Year: 1862

WE'LL SAID.-One of the best things
the President ever said was when be met
Mcclellan, after the Army got back into
its old trenches: "Well, General, l
have heard of people being knocked into
the middle of next week, but We arc the
first people ever knew who we're Knocked
into the middle of last year"
Year: 1862

There are s200,000,000 Of specie
10 the Union. That would be an aver
sge of $40 each to every person in the
North. Half of that sum is idle 10 the
Banks, and the other half is hid away on
account Of the issue Of legal small notes
and illegal shinplasters. Banish the
latter, and have q little confidence, and
specie will soon flow as before
Year: 1862

~ Shinplasters for Is cents, issued
down in the State of Delaware, are sought
to be forced into circulation away up the
West Branch! Don't touch anything of
the sort outside Of your county, nor there
unless you can put it of before you sleep.
Year: 1862

Some hundred miles or so North of this
village there is large cotton factory in ope-
ration. Just now tho work of the factory
runs low for the want of hands. Ithas been
suggested that the powers here are about to
forward to the institution quite number OF
females to set the works in motion. They
will select the females from The number of
those who parade the streets of this city in
solently Haunting secession badges in the
faces of the defenders at once Of New Or
leans, and these self-same females. When
this is done cotton manufacturers at the
Baton Rouge Penitentiary will reyive.-N
D. Data.
Year: 1862

diers, thus putting out Of Office one or
two men who had got in by very hand
some majori:ies. The courts here would
doubtless do so too, and we can't well
see how they could do otherwise. Be


sides, the introduction of partisan differ


ences into the army, the canvassing for
candidates and he revival of old party
feelings, is a measure of very questiona-
BILE utility. oa e e ao


All citizens of Indiana who volunteer
or are otherwise engaged in the military
service of the State or of the United
States, are entitled, in the language of
the Constitution, to vote in the township
or precinct where they may reside, but
they can only vote in the township or
precinct where they tesided at the time
they volunteered or otherwise entered
upon said service. They cannot acquire
a residence in any other township or
precinct while soldier in the service of.
the State or Federal Goyernmant b3- res-
son of having been stationed within the
same. Neithes can soldier, seaman,
or marine, in the army or navy of the
United States, acquire residence in the
State in consequence of having been sta
toned within the same, and consequently
! no soldier, seaman, or marine has the
rightsto vote. These are the constitu-
tional provisions ON the right of voting,
and we state them SO that there may be
no misapprehension upon the subject,
and in reply to the inquiries made of US
in relation thereto. State Sentinel b.
Year: 1862

While much is said at the North of the dan
ger,by radical measures, of alternating the 'bor-
der states" and while northern papers are la
boring to prove that treason has effected no
change in the rights Of rebels in arms under
the constitution, and that they, equally with
loyal men, have right to look for protection
Of property under that constitution which they
have ignored, and are laboring to destroy. it
is refreshing to hear occasionally from the real
Union men of the south, and find that they
entertain views more in accordance with the
suggestions of common sense.


Among this class is Judge Geo. W. Lane,
Of Huntsville, Alabama, Union refugee, who
has recently written to the Secretary of War,
demonstrating against the treatment meeted
out to the Union men of the South by our mil
itary commanders, and their mistaken leniency
towards rebels. He says:


The guilty are ever the first to appeal to
the law for mercy. Rebels were the first to
sue to Gen. Mitchell for protection. Thos,
who were Union at heart did not ask for that
which was their due, and thus all the protect
ing powers were granted to the disloyal.'


The policy recommended by Judge Lane is
as follows:


i trust, sir, that the administration of which
you are so powerful and important an officer,
has another policy for the future. for justice
demands that another course should be pur-
sued. Justice demands that the officer now
leading our troops to the re-occupation of
Northern Alabama should announce before
hand that the disloyal are guilty citizens, and
are to be punished as such. The army of Gen
Rosecrans goes with power to push far into
the interior of Alabama and Georgia, and it
should be preceded by proclamation from
Gen. Rosecrans or the President, announcing
that those guilty of aiding the rebellion by
word or decd must keep beyond the lines OF
the army or be punished. The olt-broken oath
of allegiance should no longer be a refuge and
protection to them
Year: 1862

~D- The New South, paper published at
Port Royal under the auspices of the federal
army at that place, in brief article on the
removal of Mcclellan" says:


The most important item which reaches us
In our budget OF news from the North is the re-
moval OF Maj. Gen. Geo. B. Mcclellan, from
the command OF the army of the Potomac.
After long trial the judgement has at last
come like the writing on the wall, "Mene me-
ne, tekel upharsn." 1t is needless to say that
this news is received with very different feel
ings by the army aud people at large-still tue
most stauneh adherents and supporters of Gen.
Mcclellan cannot but feel that the Admins
tration waited long, very long time, for some
thing TO be accomplished; and the alternative
was at last presented of a change or discon-
tinuance of the war. No General in history
ever assumed command of so large and so well
appointed an army under brighter auspices
than did Gen. Mcclellan. He was lauded to
the skies by the entire press and possessed the
confidence and sympathy of the whole people,
even before he had drawn his sword or assum-
ed his rank. Having failed to fulfill all the
bright hopes entertained of him, the time has
come when his iirmest iriends--without abat-
ing a jot of their confidence or esteem-can
yield TO what must appear to every patriot the
best interests of the country.


We cannot forget that Gen'l Mcclellan was
made Commander-in-Chief of the army almost
at the beginning of the war; when the need of
the country was calling peaceful and useful
citizens from their quiet avocations into the
ranks. Our army composed of this material.
was at that time without order or discipline.
His remarkable skill and energy quickly turn
ed this crude material into well drilled and
effective soldiery, and for this the country owes
him debt of gratitude.
Year: 1862

The American Telegraph Company call the atten.
ion of the public to the language of the tax on tele
graph messages, viz;


SEC. lOi-No Telegraph Company or its agents or
employees shall receive from any person, or trans
init to any person, any dispatch message without
an adhesive stamp denoting the duty imposed by this
act being affixed TO copy thereof, or having the
same stamped thereupon. and in default thereof shall
incur penalty often dollars


Section 80 provides that in any and all cases where
an adhesive stamp shall be used the person using or
afixng the same shall write thereupon the initials of
his name and the date upon which the same shall be
attached or used.


The Commissioner ofInternal Revenue has given
notice that stamps are in readiness aud that the law
will be enforced ON and after the first of December
next Stamps can be obtained at the usual places
sale. or at the office of this Company


Messages for which the telegraphic charge is twen
ty cents or under for the first ten words require one
cent stamp; messages for which the charge is over
twenty cents for the first ten words require three
cent stamp


November 2s, 1862 div noy2s
Year: 1862

NEW okk, Dec. 4.
The Times Washington dispatch says the
opinion seems to gain ground that the Presi-
dent designs sending TO Congress u supple
mentary message, when it shall be ready to
proceed to business, and that there are many
reasons why such communication can be
made more satisfactorily at that period than
at present.
Year: 1862

BALTIMORE, Nov. 8.
The American has letter from Dutton. in
Caroline county, in this State, giving an ac-
count of the lynching of negro under arrest
for the outrage and murder of little girl.
daughter of Edgar Plummer On Saturday
night large number of excited people came
into the town, surrounded the JAIL forced open
the doors and took the prisoner and hung him.
While suspended fifteen bullets perforated his
body. He was then cut down and his throat
cut by the iniuriated mob. The body was
dragged through the streets and finally taken
to the front of the church, where it was cut to
pieces and burnt
Year: 1862

to dstrust the intention of the Confederate
government to hold this country, and to he
making preparations to remove their slave
property to safer quarters. The Neuse River
is navigable at high freshet for boats draw
ing four or five feet of water, to Smithfed,
within twenty miles of Raleigh. 1t would be
improper to say what has already been done
to close this and the Tar Rivers
Year: 1862

Alas II was prediction. \ few days later,
when the old guard. and at the end Of the ter
rible Waterloo, closed up their ranks, and to
the demand to lay down their arms, replied
" The Guard dies but never surrendeFs- =
Henri de TankeFyille fighting longest almost
Of all, sank under dozen wounds.


Did his wife regret shat she had done!


g No, no. she cried in answer to the crueI
reproaches of her sister, ~ would send him
forth again if l could. l would rather be d
widow a thousand times over" she added with
flashing eyes. " OF soldier who died for his
country, than the petted wife of one who had
failed France in her hoar of need, for such
would be either q coward or a traitor


Nor, did she ever think otherwise. In after
years rich and titled sutors solicited her hand
but she lived faithful TO the memory of her
lost Henri. Her chief consolation was to take
her child. and showing him the cross of the
legion of honor, which his father had won il
battle, point afterward 10 the portrait which
hung overhead, and bid him emulate the hero
ism and patriotism of the departed.


II is prouder inheritance TO you darling,
she would say, kissing him passionately, than
if he had left you throne. Think how your
heart will glow in years to come, when you see
men pointing to you and saying His father,
too, was one Of the grand army"
Year: 1862

CHco COUNTY-The bill providing for the
organization Of the new county of Chico, was
laid on the shelf in the Assembly on Wednes.
day of last week, and now sleeps the sleep that
knows no waking. We have been credibly
informed that it was one of the strongest lob.
bied measures ever before the Legislature, and
second only to Parsons bnlkhead bill. Money
was freely spent, and noses counted over and
over again, and the friends of the measure were
satisfied that they had a dead thing or II,
bat we all know dead things will crawl some
times This was one Of the times.


The necessity of the case at present did not,-
demand the formation of Chico county. and we
are glad the project was nipped in the bud
The time is not far distant when the wants Of
the people, and rapid Improvement Of the
country will imperatively demand its organiza-
ton, but the day has not yet arrived, and it
will be better for those who have been instru-
mental in rushing this premature measure
through the Legislature to bide their time.


Red Bluff Beacon.
Year: 1862

THE Way IT SrANDs.-All the CONTEMPT
shown by England for America, in our present
troubles, is due to the presence of the Rebel
and Abolition factions. That she has not
thrown her active force and power into the
scale of rebellion, is simply because she was
too pradent to combat the conservative, Union
and constitutional sentiment that pervaded the
masses Of cur people. That sentiment has now
gathered such momentum that factions and
isms are fleeing from before it. as Pillow and
johnson fed from the presence Of the Union
troops at Fort Donelsou.
Year: 1862

The Yankea journals are disgusted with Mrs. Lincoln. They comment with great se- verity upon tho first grand ball which has ever been given at the White House. We annex a few of the articles
Year: 1862

From tho Ichmond (Ind.,) Independent Press.

 If Mrs. Lincoln would study humanity instead of French; practice benevolence instead of dancing; visit the sick soldiers who have sacri-

 feed home and happiness to defend the Capitol of the nation and the White House agalnst a hostile enemy, instead of gallanting the halls of that mansion on the arm of Q European snob; if she would spend her money for the benefit of the families of the brave soldiers who have al

 ready yielded up their lives for the cause of the union on the battle field, instead of squandering ten or twenty thousand dollars in single night for the entertainment of men and women of questionable virtue, she would then be entitled to the homage and respect of the nation; would become an example to be patterned after by the opulent everywhere, and would cease to minded '5In, democratic American men m and women,
Year: 1862

THE TRUE POLICY OF THE PLANTER
A foreign letter received here yesterday, no
matter how, from an old merchant Of Mo-
bile to his correspondent in this city, con-
tains the following paragraph, which is
strongly confruatory of the policy gener.
ally recommended to our planters by the
Southern press. Plant anything and every
thing but cotton is now not only the die.
tate of patriotism, but Of plain pecuniary
interest. The letter is dated Liverpool,
March 26. We copy:


GAIL countries are now sending Us COT
ton, and if your trade should open, for
time, high prices might prevail, but twelve
months would hardly 'elapse without depres-
sion, and within two or three years such
low prices from accumulation from all the.
world as would prove ruinous. If you
should have supply Of three millions OF
bales, you should not think of increasing
it by fresh planting this year, or you will
render the two crops less valuable than one.'


Mobile Register.
Year: 1862

And besides this mechanical process
of drainage, by which the decay of tho
contents is continually washed from the
lands and swept into the caverns of
the deep, there is another important proc


ess by which the sea itself, in its own
domain, is perpetually working for tho
health Of the world. It is set to purify
the atmosphere and SO the winds, whose
wings are heavy and whose breath is
sick with the malaria of the lands over
which they blow, are sent out to range
over those mighty pastures of the deep,
to plunge and play with its rolling billows,
and dip their pinions over and over In
its healing waters. There they restwhen
they are weary, cradled into sleep on
that vast swinging couch of the ocean.
There they rouse themselves when they
are refreshed, and, lifting its waves upon
their shoulders, they dash it into spray
with their hands, and hurl it backwards
and forwards through thousand leagues
of sky, until their whole substance being
drenched, and bathed, and washed and
winnowed, and sifted through and
through by this glorious baptism, they
fill their mighty lungs once more with
the sweet breath Of the ocean, and strik-
ing their wings for the shore, go breath
ing health and vigor along all the faint
ing hosts that wait for them in mountain
and forest and valley and plain, till the
whole dropping continent lifts up its re-
joicing face and mingles its laughter with
the sea that has walked from its fevered
sleep and poured such tides of returning
life through all its shriyelled arteries.


Rec. Lconord ,S,ooin. d. D.
Year: 1862

A Coop WORD FOR A LITTLE Eel
Iowa Frenchman was being terribly
beaten by brawny sailor, who held his
victim to the earth while he severely
thrashed him. The unfortunate fellow
kept yelling out with all his might,
"Hurrah say, hurrah!" but man
who was passing saw his predicament,
and told him to cry enough Enough
enough!" shouted the beAogged foreign


er," by gar Eat is de word / try to think
of dis several minutes gone" The sail
or let him get up, when the Frenchmen
rubbed his hands with delight, and cried,
Enough by gar, tbs very mooch good
word for little fellow to remember
Year: 1862

How TO TELL.-Away down East
wealthy old gentleman who was cspeci-
ally fond of glass Of brandy had cs-
tablished bank, and liking his own
face better than any ones else, had tho
frankness to confess it by placing it on
both ends of his bank bills One eve
ming bill of this description was offer
ed at the village hotel, and was thought
to be counterfeit. "Put glass Of bran
dy to the pictur,' interposed wag, "and
if his mouth opens you may be shure it
is one Of old Winters"
Year: 1862

A WH1ppER 1N.-A clergyman in q
village not one hundred miles from Dunn
fermline has been much annoyed, for
sometime past, by a number of his con
gregation falling asleep during the SER
mon The Reverend gentlemen had tried
several times to reason with his sleepy
hearers, but all to no purpose. So one
Sabbath he stopped in the middle of his
discourse and said, SIfI had coach
mans whip, | think I could use it with
advantage on some of those near me-
Year: 1862

B@The first draft in this country
since the war Of 1912 took place in Hart
ford, Conn on Wednesday last. One q
the selectmen of the city, with hand
kerchief over his eyes, drew from the
box the names of two hundred men who
are to serve in the army for nine months
One Alderman and one policeman were
among the conscripts.
Year: 1862

tion to exchange them or give them up. They
would not readily do it, as to any who should
be desirous of taking the oath of allegiance !;
who should avow desire to stand by the stars
and stripes. These would comprise the whole
or nearly the whole. But the President need
not wait till he takes these persons captives.
He may issue his military proclamation to
them, as well as to the whites, inviting them
to come within our lines, and offering them
freedom and protection. In their case such
proclamation is necessary. For thus far they
have had no clear evidence, that we desire
them to desert the enemy, and work for the
Union. Such proclamation would, we think,
be the means of greatly shortening the war !;
and SO great economy of life and property


JABEz c. WooDMAN.


PORTLAND, Me-, Sept. %, 1862.
Year: 1862

UIEp OF 1STEHrEKASCE.-The verdict Of
the jury Of inquest held yesterday In the case
Of William Hickey, (who Was reported as hay
ing been Killed by his wife, VIE, that he csme
to his death from excessive intoxication, and
not from the blow upon his head.
Year: 1862

It is frequently said, that inssmuch a. 1t Is
only "a fast and Is far a. our armies advance
Iuto the rebel States, that we can act upon the
social and civil condition Of their people, that
therefore no practical good can arise from
agitatiRg questions Of that character, until we
are in the actual possession Of the country to
be affected by our decisions. Proclamations Of
emancipation and acts Of con6scation, 1t Is af-
firmed, are alike an idle waste Of paper, until
we have subdued the military power which as
vet shuts US out Of the South. II the slaves
are to be reached, 1t is argued that knowledge
of our proclamations and legislation will fail
to reach them until we first penetrate to them,
and that even If it did they cannot relieve
themselves from the yoke Of their masters, ex.
cept in the presence and by the aid Of our
armies.


But however true it may be that we must
first penetrate into the interior Of the South
before we can act practically upon any Of its
institutions, the question will still remain, By
,oha! means and upon ,ohas policy u ,oiA be pos
sibk so to penetrate the South. Or more specific
ally, the question will still remain whether 1t
is possible 90 to penetrate South, without &C.
cepting the aid rendered to US by the (now)
enslaved portion Of the population Of the South


If we can put down the rebellion without
that aid, and by military measures merely
then the question Of what shall be done with
the negroes, may be postponed until peace is
conquered That is not view, however
which we have been able to adopt. We be-
lieve, on the contrary that our capacity tc
conquer peace depends upon our acting wise
ly in taking advantage Of possible divisions
among the Inhabitants Of the South. If We d.
not accept the aid Of those Of them who ar
disposed to be friendly, and persist in prefer
ring tVhave twelve millions Of enemies, insteat
Of only eight millions. we insure an inde6nit,
continuance of the same want of success which
has attended our operations down to this time


Thus this question Of the negroes is no idl'
abstraction, to become practical only after VI
get possession Of the South. 1t is upon it, o.
the contrary, that our getting possession Of tn
South at all, depends. 1t Is only by dealin
nationally with the negroes with whom W
come in contact, that we can reach the ints
rior Southern population, both white and blscl
US yet inaccessible to us.
Year: 1862

THE POTTER INyEsriGATI0N.-We shall, to-
morrow, commence the publication of the re
port Of the Potter Investigation Committee
Those wishing copies will send In their ORDER
accordingly.
Year: 1862

A LARGE BusINEss.-The importance Of the
telegraph has a remarkable illustration In the
fact that forty thousand messages have been
sent and received from this office in the last
eight months
Year: 1862

NELSON CREEK Sept. so, 1861


DR.. &c. YoUNG,-You will remember what n
poor wretched creai ure was when last you.
and the result has astonished me as well as my
friends Your invaluable prescription nd excellent
advice have completely overcome ailments such as,
il seems to me, never afflicted mortal before new
er wrote letter with greater sati faction than pen
this. ] shall remember You with gratitude as long
as I live. That you may live long TO aleviaIe the
sufTerngs of others You have mine. is my earnest
prayer Please accept my heartfelt thanks that you
have brought this almost hopeless case to so happy
a termination. Yours, truly,
Year: 1862

late Professor Of the University Of Pennsylvania,


CAN BE FOUND AT HIS
Private Medical Office and Hospital,


NO 75l CLAY STREET,
O posite the southwest corner OF the Plaza,


SAN FRANCISCO,