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Year: 1862

action. we all thought him solely moved by a
high patriotism and sincere devotion to the hap
piness and glory of his country; and, with that
conviction, we should consider respectfully the
important suggestions he had made


After some conversation on the current war
news we retired, and l Immediately proceeded to
my room and wrote out this paper.


j. W. CRIsFIEIp
Year: 1862

THE Next SPEAKER or THE HOUSE, or REPRE-
sESTArIvEs-As the Democracy OF the State
have secured in the House (as well as in the Sen
ate) majority. we are Of those who indorse the
doctrine Of rewarding the competent and the
faithful, we suggest the name of the Hon. Sam
uel H. Buskirk as highly deserving the Speaker
ship. His efficient services in the triumph which
we have Just attained award to him, we think, the
position.-C -COuingf0R Friend.
Year: 1862

There is news from the battlefield to-day,
There is news OF bloody fight,
Thev say that the plain was covered with dead
When the sun went down al night.
They say that the dying Law on the field


While the foe was put in rOut,
And their hollow groans rose high above
The long victorious shout.
They say that the ''list of the killed" was long,
Many brave hearts fell in the fight;
Was he owe dearest and best in the field?
Did he lay with the dead at night!
Is the hand I've held all lifeless now?


Is his name on that fatal list!
Will the lips never more breathe love to me,
Those darling lips I've kissed!
Oh! lcng to see the news to-day.


To see that dreadful list.
Though know twill break my heart to read
The name of the boy have kissed.
| viii! pray to the Heavenly Father now..


That He will my darling spare;
Perhaps he will pity my distress,


And grant my fearful prayer.
Year: 1862

TERRIFIC SToRM.-A terrific storm OF
rain and wind, accompanied by vivid light
ming and heavy thunder, passed over this
pace yesterday morning. The rain fell in
torrents, and an incessant sheet OF lightning
lit up the whole horizon with vivid brillian-
cy. Peal after peal of thunder shook the
earth, while for short time tornado of
wind threatened the destruction of every


thing above ground. Considerable damage
was done in and around our village, in the
prostration of several buildings, trees, fences,
&c. The roof of the Catholic Church was
torn partly of, and the large bell in its Gu
pola was torn from its turret and fell to the
ground, breaking and cracking it in such a
manner that it is worthless. We under.
stand that the bell cost $500. 1t is a heavy
loss to the church.--FarIbault Statesman, ,8th.
Year: 1862

Oh, weep not for those who have sunk to their


rest


In the blaze of their martial renown:
Whose spirits have fed to the realms OF the


bleSt.


Whom the laurels of martyrdom crown;
Oh, weep not for those, who have fed to the


bourne


Where the dust of their forefathers sleep;
Whose relics repose in the rude lettered urn,
Or bleach on the shores Of the deep.
Weep not for the dead for the dead cannot


hear;


They feel not the sting of neglect.
Their Spirits have scared to their own native


sphere


They need not the tears of respect.
Weep not for the dead-nor weep for the


brave.


Who suffer, forlorn and distressed;
Whose sun has declined to the verge of the


grave


Who freeze on ingrat:tude's breast.
Year: 1862

LION ALFRED Ely


DEAR sIn behalf Of ourselves md the friends Of the
members Of the Sxtyn regimens Of this city,
We beg that you will accept the horse noy under
the care of tho messenger who bears this letter,
a. . slight token in remembrance and appreci-
alton Of your continued kindness to the prison
ers at Richmond, many Of whom are very closely
connected TO either by blood ties OF friendship All
Of u.s. be assured have watched with pleasure, during
your long confinement the interest which manifest
cd by you In behalf Of your fellow prisoners and
while we heartily congratulate you your safe return
to your home and family, we would urge upon you the
acceptance Of this memorial Of esteem aud regard
not only for your conduct while at Richmond but for
yourself personally. Very truly yours,


JAMES CONNELLY & BROTHER,


For themselves and others.


RocHEMsR, Jan. 10, 1862.
GENTIExRS-1 have Just received your esteemed COM
muncaion, urging upon the acceptance OF really
munhcent gift in the form Of valuable horse In token
OF your appreciation Of my conduct and bearing while
confined as prisoner at Richmond. While accept,
cannot feel that deserve than any Of my
socates in misfortune this mark Of your favor; but do
in consideration Of the honor which you bestow upon
the slightest efforts Of any to befriend the afflicted
soldier MY endeavor has been TO discharge faith
fully all the duties imposed socially and politically
for which claim no unusual credit reward. That
have done this in ai my relations with those Of suf
fering countrymen confined with at Richmond do
higher reward than the satisfaction fouad in
my own heart am gentlemen, very truly and sincere
yours. ALFRED ELY.
To Messrs. JAMES CoNNsILY BROTHER and others
Year: 1862

~ Are our military friends awsse that
they are furnishing employment to tailor,
who returned to Newbern few months ago,
being fully convinced Of the business of the
rebel cause, and came back to cast his lot
among the people of the South? Having now
become convinced of the iny;ncibility oi
Southern arms" he is apparently strong
Union man II he is now sincere good will
he bear examination That is the question.
Year: 1862

e- Would it not be well for all Union
men to watch closely the boatmen who come
here to market9 There are many honest de-
serving Union uen among them, but we think,
and with good reason, that some Of them come
here for other purposes than the legitimate
purposes of honest traffic. Watch them, and
if you find a. suspicious character or an extor-
toner, report it to the Provost Marshal. He
will provide sure and efficacious remedy
Year: 1862

THAT IS so.-Some music teacher
once wrote that the art of playing on
the violin requires the incest perception
and the most sensibility of any art in
the world" Upon which an editor
comments in the following manner =
+" The art of publishing a newspaper,
and make it pay, and at the same time
have it please everybody, beats fiddling
higher than a kite."-Erchange.
Year: 1862

WORDS are little things, but they strike
hard. We WELD them so easily that we are
apt to forget their hidden power. Fifty
spoken they fall sunshine. the dew and
drizzliug rain, but when unfitIy, like the
frost, ice, bail, and deSolate tempest
Year: 1862

A CLERGYMAN, lecturing one day to bis
female parishioners, said


"Be not proud that our Lord paid your
sex the distinguished honor of appearing
first to female after the resurrection, for
it WIS only done that tho glad news might
be spread the soonor."
Year: 1862

ring, and his best men sent to Washing
ton; Price, with fifteen thousand men,
marching TO Lexington McCulloch
threatening Rolla, Haroee threatening
lronton, and Polk and Pillow ut Coium-
bus; and all over the State were organ
lied bands of rebels-about eighty thou
sand men, threatening him, and he with
an inadequate force to meet them. And
while thus struggling, from every side
were launched against him in the poisoned
arrows of hate and partizan enmity; and
while Fremont was out hunting the enc
mics of his country, somebody was in
s.. Louis hunting aIp witnesses against
him, ard giving er parte testimony taken
there; and while he was facing the foe,
endeavoring to secure victory, synopsis
of the testimony was sent upon the wires
all over the country, SO that the public
mind should be poisoned against him and
his overthrow might be the easie. |


think, in the name of humanity-if there


is no such word as justice-they should


at least have sent him this evidence after
he came back to his post; but to this very
hour the committee have not sent him this
testimony at all
Year: 1862

The Pure HEARr.-The springs Of e,,-
crlasting life are within There are clnar-
streams gushing up from the depths of
soul, and flow out TO enliven the sphere of.
outward existence. But, like the waters.
of Siloah, they go swiftly" You must
listen catch the tones of the little riil,
as it glides from its mountain home; YOU,
may not witness its silent march threugh
the green vale, but its course will be seen
IN the fresh verdure and the opening flow
ers; Its presence will be known bv tho
forms of life and beauty which gather alb
around 1t 1t is ever thus with the pure
on may hear the still small voice. or
heed the silent aspiration, but there is a
moral influence and holy power which
you will feel The wilderness is made to
smile, flowers Of new life and beauty
spring up and flourish, while an invisible
presence breathes an immortal fragrance
through the air
Year: 1862

A speech rrOm col. rorney..-IIc puts


Ihe Responsibility where &c RE-


longs.


At a great war meeting held at Phila-
delphia on Wednesday evening of last
week, Col FoRNEY made a stirring
speech. We extract q paragraph


1t is, believe, my fellow country
men, some four years since l had the
pleasure of speaking from the very spot.
At that period the Administration Of
James Buchanan had begun the series of
measures which initiated the civil war
in which we are now engaged. A few
Independent men attached TO the Demo-
cratic party, appalled, by these tyrannies,
shocked by these usurpations took mp
arms against the organization Of the
party, and from 1857 down to 1851
maintained an almost solitary, and for a
long period an unassisted, resistance to,
that Administration and its controllers.
And now, 10 o-night after these years
have elapsed, l am before You to plead
for the relief and rcscue Of that country
which he and his myrmidons plunged
into fratricidal strife. / make this al
lusion, my countrymen, TO this historical
| period for the purpose of calling your
attention to the patent cry that this war
| was begun by the AboltionistS. That
4 is the charge of thc men in our midst,
I who usurping the organization OF the
Democratic party and desecrating its
! time -honored principles, cover their
| treason by trying 10 eyade the issue,
and 60 falsify the true history of the
war by charging its origin upon the abb
olitionists, in order that the honest mas
ses of the Democratic party may be
misled from their duty, and that our
gallant men now in the field of battle
may be induced to falter in theirs
Among all the infamies TO which he op-
position to this war has given rise, there
is none more infamous than the charge
! that this war was not begun, was not
! provoked and was not precipitated by
the Shareholders of the South History
contains some amazing pages, but there
/ is no page so amazing as that which is
now being written in the blood of our
countrymcn, and which preserves to i'm


mortal shame the names of those who
commenced this war. And when the


future historian comes to write from the
data of to-day and comes to adjust the


issues in the even balances of an un-
prejudiCed judgment, he will be startled
alike at the audacity of those who tried
to change the responsibility of this war


from the shoulders where it rightfully


attaches, and to attach il 10 what is call
ed the abolition party.
Year: 1862




Several times recently we have had re-
peated to US, By travellers msstly, story
to the effect that frsighters and emigrants
at the Mo. river deem it unsafe to travel on
the Military road, the road leading from
the river towns west through this part Of
Kansas; that constant fear Of being rob.
bed or jayhawked, seemed to possess
them. And, what has since added 70 the
confirmation Of this report and made it
seem Of more importance to us, is that a
merchant of this city now in St Joseph,
writes back to his partner that parties in
that city are asserting that Kansasis over
run with marauders and jayhawkers, that
the Military Road swsrms with them; that
the person Or property Of individuals trav-
elling the road are unsafe, and therefore ad-
vising them to avoid it and Kansas alto
gether. And as proof Of their assertions
and the disinterestedness of their advice,
these parties point 10 the case OF DIR.
Hardy,-the circumstances Of which we
have given in another place.


New, we will not at this time impugn the
motives Of the parties engaged in circula-
ting reports calculated to be so hurtful to
the travel Of North Western Kansas
But we will state to those who are inter-
ested to know the truth of the matter, or
have had any doubts as to the safety Of
the read, that they can travel now with
as much security to both person and prop
srty as ever they could in the most quiet
times in Kansas. We say this, supposing
the travellers to be all loyal, Union ncn-
the kind of people we have in Kansas. 1t
is not reasonable to conclude that, because
DR.. Hardy, an avowed secessionist, was
robbed after getting few miles cut from
st. Joseph, other travellers will be molest-
cd. We could not guarantee the safety Of
known disunionist along this road any
more than we could warrant that of o
known Union man travelling on the high
ways of some Of the rebel parts Of Mis-
souri,.
Year: 1862

The following specimen of coronership
is said to have been held over the body Of .
little girl, found lying dead upon the shores
Of a lake in Chicago: Estate of Illinoiae,
Cock County, S.: At an inpuisition taken
for the peopel of the State Of Il!inoise, and
County of Cook, this 56th day a. d. 1854 be-
fore Mr.. Austin Hynes Coroner of said
county of Cook upon the view ofthe body of
a Female Child. name unknown then and
lying dead upon the oaths of Twelve Good
and Lawful men ofthe peopel Of the Said
State and County of Cook, and whom and
who the said came to his or she came TO her
death We the jury do say We the Jurors do
Agree The Body came to her Death by
death alone."
Year: 1862

To SUBSCRIBERS AND ADVERTISERS.-
We intended to have stated in our first is
sue that those wishing to subscribe for
The Union, should hand in their names i'm
mediatsly; SO that By this week we could
have had list by which to be guided in
making up our mail and otherwise facilita-
ting our work. But being short of f"ssrts'
or type, we we're compelled to, omit refer.
ence to the matter. We now, then, ask
those who wish to subscribe, advertise, or
have their advertisements renewed or con.
tinued, at the first opportunity, to hand in
their names orders or favors. The
amount of job work on cur hands and the
extra work incident to the re-establish-
ment of the paper, make it impossible for
US to devote the time We could wish to the
wants Of our citizens; but by their aid in
this matter, we hope to supply their re-
quests promptly and satisfactorily. i,
Year: 1862

Position OF THE METHODIST CHURCH on
sLAvERY.-The following resolution o1
Slavery was unanimously adopted by th)
Methodist Conference at its recent sessioj
held in the city Of Wyandott, Wyandot
county:


WHEREAS, American Slavery is tie
handspring of the existing rebellion, aqd
has been retained in the nation, at the sac
ri6ce of moral principles and civil liberty,
and is atthe present time drinking ,he best
blood of the nation; therefore,


kcs0lved, That we are in favor of the
vigorous prosecution of the war until the
irrepressible conflict between Liberty'end
Slavery is finally settled in the complete
overthrow Of rebellion, and in the entire
destruction of Treason, with its twin mon
ster, Secession, and that We will as ever
pray for the utter abolition Of American
Slavery.
Year: 1862

DEEP sNow.-A correspondent in New
Hampshire writing to US under date of
March 18th, says that eve have snow-drifts
here six and eight feet high; the tops of the
fences are Just becoming visible
Year: 1862

The Senate Committee on the District
of Columbia have statistics showing the
number of slaves to be fifteen hundred now,
though the census Of 1860 placed them at
three thousand. Many Of them have been
sent away since the agitation Of the sub
ject. -
Year: 1862

The Legislature passed an act to restrain
the issuing of county warrants. 1t for.
bids the issuing of a greater amount os
warrants in any one year than the amount
of tax levied during that year for their
redemption. 1t also prohibits comfy off
eers from issuing more than one dollar in
warrants to pay for dollars worth OF
anything required by the county. War
rants are received at par for taxes, and per.
sons working for the county must receive
the scrip at par Fhite Cloud Chief.
Year: 1862

1


spread their civilization ever the South. The.


men Of the North must take the armes out of


the hands.of the rebels; they must cut up their


plantations and give them to Northern men,
who will cultivate them. He had seen thous.
ands Of men lying dead or wounded on the
ba tie fields. All the money in the world
could not induce him TO witness such scenes
again; nothing but ae'ense Of duty to God
and his country. He was averse to war; yet
he firmly believed that there was now no nj.
tentative; We must conquer these menor they
will conquer us, and reduce US to position Of
worse than Egyptian bondage. He called on
his hearers to come forward aud enlist or else
they wsuld be compelled to do SO. There
was an urgent necessity for men, and they
must be forthcoming immo diately, or the lib.
critics Of the nation would be forever destroyed.
If men DO not come forward noby to defend
Their liberties and their homes, drafting must
Immediately be restored to for soldiers must
be had. II volunteering does lot fill up the
ranks Of our army in few days, you will have
the Provost Guard in every city, for the Gov.
ernment will make use Of the military power
to preserve the Liberties Of this nation, and to
destroy the infamous rebellion which seeks to
establish the worst Of all tyrannies.
Year: 1862

among those m whose behalf that inte, Inference


might be attempted. fHcar, hear. go oll
| There is no instance in tho history of the


world, think Of contest such as that which


is now going on in Americs-a contest OF such


magnitude between different sections Of the


sam people. The thirty years war iu Ger


many was a joke TO it ip point Of magnitude.


II was only the other day Ireccived map


drawn by the Quarterma' ter General Of tho


Federal army, in which the position of 72O,-


600 Federal trools was marked, and now We


learn that 100000 moro are TO be called into


tho field Here tn IRE are 1000 900 of men


engaged in active hostilties on the one side,


and perhaps there are not very much less on


tho other side. The irritation and exaspera-


ton on both sides is admitted, and is that the


moment at which it can be thought that sue
cessfu offer of mediation is likely to be made |!
Hear, hear Ny honorable friend says he
does moi care for that; wo had better offer
our mediation even though il were refused
wish to guard myself against anything in re
gard 10 the future. The events of the war
have been so contrary 10 all anticipatons from
timc TO time that no would be bold man
who would prophecy from month to month
what character this war may assume Hear,


But think the House and the country are
Of opinion that the government have pursued
a wise and prudent course. Hear, hear. l.
We should b glad to avail ourselves of it, if
any opportunity prescn ed Itself of fair anu
reasonable prospect that any efoit on our
part might be conducive to establish peace be
tween those parties who are carrying on this
desolating and affecting c,ntest; Tut the
House, l think, had better leave it to the
discretion Of the government to judge Of the
occasions as they arise. and Of the opporuni.
ties that may present thems Ives. Hear -
Upon that account il is that without going in
10 any discussion Of right on one side or the
Other-without saying who was right or who
was swrong-without expressing any judgment
on this point-because il is the business Of
government to abstain from expressing any
,pinon--I say that il at any time we should
DO able by our friendly offices to contribute to
Lhe establishment Of peace, we could only do
70 by presenting ourselves in the shape o. i'm.
partial parties who were not committed by


he expression Of any opinion on the one side
Dr. the other, and anxious only to promote such
4 settlement between the two as may be con-


stent with tn, feelings and interests of both
That is tho only way in which we can hope
o render any service in that matter. Hear.
But to remain in that impartial position, and
o enjoy that condition and character, it is
,eccssury that we should avoid pronouncing
my judgment or opinion. Theref re have
lot followed the example Of those who ha G
an opinion between the two par
les; and therefore l hopc the House will
cave to the responsible government of the
ouutry tie task Of judging what can be Gone,
Shen it can be done, and how it can be done.
Cheers.
Year: 1862

ers if not for ,this matter alone, for his
wanton violation of his marital relations.
Beatty came here little more than a year
ago with something of reputation as a
gentleman. Upon this he for time held
the confidence Of the community; but his
conduct during the past two or three
months has forfeited him all right to an
honorable title, and he has left the place
despised, and with character no more re-
spectacle than himself-leaving his wife to
sell her household goods and keepsakes in
order to obtain means to take her to her
friends. We have written a page Of his
history; we would not write his epitaph.
The OregOniaa intimates that it will re-
fer to the matter ogain. We hope it will,
and give its readers some more of the
principal facts,
Year: 1862

civilization and progress. Between the
heads of navigation of the Columbia and
Missouri rivers, there is a vast extent of
country rich in mineral and agricultural re-
sources, which is even now ready to yield
its treasures to the hand of industry and
toll The wagon road gives convenient ac-
cess to this country, and all along its ex-
tended line these treasures are deposited in
munhcent abundance. A large share of
the westward bound emigration will come
over it the present season, and we have no
doubt will return to their friends in the east
a good account of the trip. This and 9TH
er causes will conspire to produce large
emigration next season, and from that the
rich valleys and numerous gold placers in
tervening betN cen the two points above
mentioned, will receive population and
impetus which will send them rap dly for
ward in the scale of development. The
country once peopled with hardy pioneers,
the introduction of the various arts of civil
ization is secured and certain. Upon this
basis then, we assume that an overland mail
from St Louis to Wa.la Walla will Re re-
quired the coming season, p1d that service
will most likely be "a coscnes over the
Mullan road, A telegraph will immediate
~ succeed this, with its instantaneous lash
es OF Intelligence from the eastern side; and
who shall say, now thtt the bill has passed
both houses of Congress and only awaits
the signature of the President to give it Vi
tality, that a Pacific Railroad will not soon
follow in the wake of these not less impor-
tant but minor improvements? We conf
IDENTIFY believe it will and through all our
national embarrassments and difficulties,
we have had the utmost faith that we shall
at length emerge from night of darkness
and gloom into a bright anu cheering noon
day The Pacific railroad bill will invite
and receive the attention of capitalists at
home and abroad, and when the war is over
and the troubles are settled, we believe ac-
tive measures will be taken for its construc-
ton. In the event the mines in the interior
country prove rich and extensive, this fact
will hasten the building of the road, as it
will be actually needed as means of sup
plying the inhabitants with articles of hus
bendry and consumption. We believe a
Pacific Railroad will no longer be regarded
a myth, vagary, an idle dream of the i'm
agination-but practical, substantial ne
cessity. The degree of progress to which
the country on the Pacific slope is destined
will soon become so apparent as to force its
construction purely through the avarice of
the builders.


Again we say, all honor to the undaunted
heroism of the men who have stood by this
difficult work, and contributed their inces-
SAINT labors to effect its consummaton.-
Their names should be celebrated by our
people, and their memories cherished with
feelings of sincere gratitude.