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Year: 1862

Some days ago, we exposed falslfcation of Scrip
ure, made the interest OF Lincoln, by Boston
gious paper Ii the conductors Of that paper wish TO
Try their skill in the Interpretation Of real Scripture, we
commend them to the following which has been furnish
ed US, from joel, I'd chap. 20th verse


" But will remove lar off from you the Northern
army and will drive him into land barren and DESC
iate with his face towards the aud his hinder
part towards the utmost sea- and his stink shall come
uD aud his LsavOur shall up because he has done
great s"-Rtchnaond Enquirer.
Year: 1862

J


We march into Kentucky tor the purpose OF defend
ing the people Of sister Southern Sta'e against an
invading Northern army and their federal adherens.-
Let be careful to do act OF injury to those we
come to protect. Let no citizen OF Kentucky be
Tested in his person property, whatever his political
opinions may be supposed to be- unless found in arms
against US giving aid and comfort to the enemy No
officer soldier OF this command will be permitted to
take property belonging to any private citizen without
authority from the General in command. Officers com
mandiDg regiments, battalions and companies, will see
that this order is strictly enforced. A lew bad men
must not be permitted to bring reprcsch upon the
whole command, or by awesS acts to convert the peo
pie of Kentucky from friends into enemies. Severe ex
amples must be made Of the few, if any, who disregard
this order. Commanding officers will this order
TO be read to their several commands until all understand
it, By order of
Year: 1862

The Use OF LITTLE IME.-One of the hours each
day wasted on tries incidence, saved and daily de-
voted to Improvement, is enough to make an ignorant
man wise in ten years-to provide the luxury OF neIli-
gepca to mind torpid from lack Of thought-to bright
en- up and strengthen faculties perishing with rustto
make lie iruitfui field and death harvest of glorious
1aadc
Year: 1862

By what authority, and by what sort Of
reasoning does that bigotcd candidate for
office who edits the Repu'lic IN, assume that
because We do not announce who We shall
vote for, that We intend to vote ia any par.
ticu'ar way ? or, does he risk lie for the
sake Of the effect Of the Tie?
Year: 1862

WATCHES REPA1EED.-Cross is again in


the business. His card may be seen in the
column with our new advertisements lie
does all he promises to do.


We would not have our friends forget too,
that Espng is in the trade at his old stand,
and never fails to give good satisfaction.
Year: 1862

BRING II BACK.-We would be greatly
obliged to the individual who carried away
che Hep'dlican Of October third from ,hi,
Office. It he would bring 1t back. We arc
keeping file Of that paper, and intend to
preserve i asa specimen Of choice literature
and political consistency, as a contribution
SoA Worlds Museum.
Year: 1862

THE NORTHERN GOVERNORS AND GEN


MCCLELLAN-We learn that the address of the
Governors 10 President Lincoln is not TO be
made public; 1t having been signed by some OF
them with this understanding. The contra
dictiOn put forth with regard to the statement
that an effort was made by Governor Andrew
TO urge OH the President the removal of Gen


Mcclellan Is true so far no written proposi-
tlon was made or vote taken upon the question


That there was a conversational debate on the
subject, and that Governor Andrew, sustained
by Governor Sprague, declared the removal of
Gen. Mcclellan was a question of ssrital
necessity" no one who was present will at
tempt TO deny. The prompt, and earnest, and
indignant opposition to the proposition by
Governors Curtin, Bradford and Tod caused
the subject 70 be dropped.-Buh. American
Year: 1862

II is still being insisted on around u that Lee
yesterday and this morning made seriouS move
ments 10 recross the river into Maryland. We
continue to doubt The fact, however; though he
is probably making fcints on the rivers bank
above Harper's Ferry to cover movements OF
some portion Of his army in another dir-c-
Year: 1862

We have not been able 10 ascertain that the
statement in This mornings Intelligencer OF al
attemp' OF the rebels TO recro>s back into Mary
land in the face OF our army, Is true, or is il
likely TO occur.
Year: 1862

The FLOOD IN 0REGoN.-The Vancouver
Tele graph, of December 9th, says: The
waters of the Columbia and Willamette
have receded and gone down to their usual
mark at this season of the year. The &C
counts of the damage done by the high
waters on the coast will reach us, and it
will yet be some time before all the dread
ful results can be calculated Much dam
age was done the grazing lands on the low
er Columbia, and should the snow of this
winter lie on the ground any length OF time
great quantity Of stock will undoubtedly
perish.
Year: 1862

New FLOUR MILL.-Stockton x Coover,
Proprietors of the -four mill lately washed
away at Folsom, have made contract for
the erection of another building for new
mill, and are iD negotiation for the con-
structlOn of the machinery. The building
will be Of stone, four stories high, sixty feet
square, and will be built several feet above
the high water mark of the late food.
Year: 1862

GRAIN.-The Farmer thinks that The loss of
wheat by flood will not exceed 1900 tuns
or about $4,000 sacks, but if it reach fifty
thousand or even one hundred thousand
sacks there will'be left in the State not far
from three hundred thousand sacks beyond
o fair supply to carry US through the next
harvest
Year: 1862

WASHING UP OF Wharf.-The Napa Re-
porter says, beside the destruction done by the
recent flood to our town, we hear of the wash
ing away of the seed from many acres.of wheat,
in the upper end of Napa, Valley. Damage to
some extent was also done to Thompson 5
SuscOl Nursery, and some Of the vineyards and
nurseries up the valley, have had the top soil
washed from around the roots Of the trees and
vines Several miles of fence also changed its
location.
Year: 1862

THB WAR TAx.-A concurrent resolution
was adopted in the Senate on Tuesday last,
authorizing the Governor to notify the
Secretary of the Treasury, that California
will collect and pay over her portion of the
war tax levied by Congress.
Year: 1862

NEWSPAPER CoNsoLTDATIoN.-Th San
Francisco Herald aud Mirror, the former
Union Democratic, and the latter radical
Republican Organ, have been consolidated
The new paper is called the Herald and
Nirror.u
Year: 1862

LAKE CoUNTY.-A correspondent of the
Sacramento Union, writing from Upper
Clear Lake recently, says:


Like nearly every other part Of the State,
Lake county, in some Of her parts, has also suf.
fered severely. The present snow storm will
bring the lake all over the entire Lake country.
We have already the water three feet higher
than any Of the earliest inhabitants have ever
seen it. There is no one but very old, gray
haired (Bushika) Indian who has ever seen the
lake as high as it now is. That there is some
thing still severer to come we can see, as the
Indians are moving on to very high ridges. The
greater portion of valuable farms is entirely in
undated with the back water from the lake,
which is still on the rise, and may not go down
for the next three or four months; so there will
be but little chance left to our farmers for rais-


ing much Of crop this season.
Year: 1862

saw her last night at party.


{The elegant party at Mead's,)
And looking remark ably hearty
For widow SO young in her weeds;
Yet know she was suffering sorrow
Too deep for the tongue to express,
Or why had she chosen to borrow


SO iiuch from tie isnguage 1t dressa
Her shawl was as sable as night,


And her gloves were as dark as her shawl
And her jewels, that flashed in the light,
Were black as funeral pall
Her robe had the hue Of the rest.


tHow nicely it fitted her shape y
And the grief that was heaving her breast
Boiled over in pillows of crapel
What tears of vicarious woe,
That else might have sullied her face,
Were kiiialy permitted to flow


In ripples of ebony lace!
While even her fan, in its play;


Had quite lugubrious sccpej
And seemed to be waving away


The ghost Of the angel of Hopei
Yet rich, as the robes of a queen


Was the sombre apparel she wore;
Pm certain l never had seen


Such sumptuous sorrow before;
And 1 couldn't help thinking the beauty,
In mourning the loved and the lost,
Was doing her conjugal duty


Altogether regardless of cost.
One surely would say devotion


Performed at so vast an expense,
Betrayed an excess Of emotion


That was really Sc sohiethng immense;
And yet as viewed, at my leisure,


Those tokens Of tender regard,
l thought: It is scarce without measure
The SORROW that goes by the yards
All grief is curious passion;


And yours-1 am sorely afraid,
The very next phase of the fashion


Will find it beginning to fsde;
Though dark are the shadows Of grief,


The inorning will FOLLOW the nj ght-
Half tints will betoken relief,


Till joy shall be symboled in white
All. we'll it were idle to quarrel


With Fashion, or aught she may do;
And SO l conclude with a moral


And mttaphor-warranted new:
When Measles come handsomely out


The patieht is safest, they say
And the Sorrow is mildest. no doubt,


That works in similar way
Year: 1862

Twenty years had wrought but little
change in the he dark beauty Of ElTice 1rv:
ing. One or two threads of silver had,
perhaps, interviewer themselves in the
abundant braids of ebon hair, and the
peach Blossom color of girlhood had given
place to softer rose on her cheek +; but
Ellice was lovely still, as She stood. in the
frosty October twilight, shading her eyes
with one fair jeweled hand, while the
other pushed aside the crimson trails OF
the FROST touched vine which hung over
the piazza pillars. Looking for her hus-
Year: 1862

WHAT HAS BEEN PRovED.-The war is now so near to close that it is safe, and may be proftableto point out some of the lessons it has taught the American people. Among them are the following :--

 It has proved that the United States have more military resources. and can put into the field greater armies than any nation on the earth.

 It has proved that, in life and death strug gle, slaveholding is no match for free labor community.

 It has proved that the United States govern ment has no friends among the governments of Europe, and furthermore that it needs none.

 It has proved that in crisis demanding self command and prudence such.as the Trent affair nation of freemen can act as wisely as the wisest monarch.

 It has proved that Yankee inventivenesss and mechanical skill is as remarkable in war as in peace.

 It has proved that an earnest devotion to the arts of peace does not disqualify nation for great military achievements.

 It has proved that we were wise in not ha- wing built great wooden navy.-N F. World
Year: 1862

A TOUCHING SCENE A touching scene from the battle field is thus related by a wounded witness from Newborn :-

 "The Lieutenant was in advance of his men in the bayonet charge, when volley from the enemy shattered his right leg and the Captains left. They were both removed and laid side by side. when William called to the surgeon and said, Surgeon, you must amputate my leg; I cannot stand this.' The Captain tried to per suade him not to have it removed, but he was determined and said it must be done. The sur geon then administered chloroform and amputa- ted the leg. As soon as the operation was per formed William called for a cigar, and smoked it very leisurely until the the fire was very near his lips. The surgeon then came along and en- quired, How do you feel now, Leutenant?' to which he replied Very comfortable, but feel as if the stump of leg you cut off was on again and the toes were cold.' The Captain said it made him shudder to hear William speak so coolly, and he turned his head so as to look in his face. As he gazed at him he thought his eyes looked strangely. At that moment Will liam sat up, and in voice which never sounded louder or clearer, shouted to his men, forward march, and fell dead"
Year: 1862

BLANKETS AND CLOTHING FOR OUR SoLD1rRs- Initiating the self-sacrifcng spirit Of the Roman matrons who stripped themselves of their dearly prized jewels, and cast them into the public treasury when the exigencies of their country required such aid the ladies of this city have noby resolved to sur render. for the use of the brave defenders of our homes and liberties not merely articles of ornament but such as have hitherto been regarded indispen- sablv necessary to secure domestic comfort. Not sat isfed with simply devotng their time aid energies to the task of fabricating clothing for the troops in the feld they have determined to take up the fine carpets covering the floors of their dwellings convert them into blankets and distribute them among the soldiers who will ere long, require such protection against the piercing winds of the winter season.

 Will not the ladies throughout this State Louisia- m and Texas, emulate the eXanpe of their sisters of Little Rocka We are sure they will do so with alacritv, for woman has ever been lound capable of performing acts of sefdevotion to the cause of God. of her native land or of her family. Feeling assured that they will, one and all answer promptly the demand now being made for clothing and blank cts for the army, have appeal to make to their generosity their patriotism but will rest content with stating that the contributions of each neighbour hood should be carefully packed together and for warded to this city, to of Maj. Jno B. Burton, Chief of Army Clothing, Bureau of tho Trans Mis- sssippi Department.
Year: 1862

A SPECIAL FRovIDENcE.-It is asserted that the Conv enton. in adopting the constitution, did not intend to abridge the term of the governor. lthis be so, it would seem that God put it in the hearts ofthe members to adopt the clause in the schedule which shortens his term, and which was adopted unanimously. The same kind Providence that presdes over the destinies of States as we'll as the fall of sparrow, interposed His arm to save Ar kansas from utter ruin.

 If the present incumbent could be reelected, our State will be forever ruined, financially, po lticaly and morally. Four years more of such nsrule will sink herso low tha: will take century to restore her. People of Arkansas, we address you not as politicians; not to gratify hatred or spite, for we hope we have laid all such feelings aside, but citizen having common interests with you, as lover of the country and as sent- nel on the watch tower of your liberties. We tell you that the coming election is the most important one ever held in Arkansas. If you will improve the opportunity good God has placed before you, you may yet redeem the State. If you fail to do this and permit our destnes to remain ill the hands they now are, ruin, disgrace and shame awaits us all. For your country's sake ponder these things well, and vote to save the State.
Year: 1862

CANDIDATES FOR THE GENERAL AssFMn1y.-So far as we can learn, the people are determined to send their best men to the legislature Important matters will coms before that body. There are al- legged abuses to BrenQured into; new landed inter- est6 to be attended to; heavy and constantly in- creasing debt to be provided for; Confederate States Senator to be elected and other important matters We should select best men and require that tbey remain at their posts until the last hour of the last day of the session.
Year: 1862

LOOK AT THIs.-The net revenues of this sthtc do not exceed two hundred thousand dollars year. Allowing one-half Of this to pay the necessary ex- pcnses of State government and we have hundred thousand dollars year surplus. It would take thrtytwo years to replace the money in the treasury spent since Rector has been governor If he is eee- ted for four years longer at Ghe same rate the State debt will be ten millions. It will require rate of taxation four times greater than now paid to meet the interest on the debt alone. If it was necessary to spend this money we would not say word, but 1t has been worse than thrown away. Will the people suffer it any onger9
Year: 1862

ARREST OF 4 You've LADy.-M.ss Green, a loyal young lady -in one of tie northwestern counties in Virginia, was arrested and put in jail in Buckhannon, Upshar county, on 2 charge of cutting telegraph wires in the Yankee army. When interrogated, sine confessed she had cut the wires, and sad that she would do so again if set at liberty at the same time refusing to take the oath of Yankee seryitude. One end of the wire cut was found stuck in the ground several inches, and when asked why she did that, replied that great many Yankees had been killed, and as that wire pointed the way they had gone it would doubtless be used to know if there was room for any more
Year: 1862

HAD actually subscribed five hundred dol
lars Not in all the history of my giyings
was there a parallel to this. Five hundred
dollars +! | looked at the filed up check, after
cutting it free from its blank companions, with
fond, reluctant eyes ere passing it to other
hands :; yet was | not the grudgng giver this
little hesitation implied. My heart was in the
cause of national hoaor aud national safety {;
and in sacrificing something for my country |
was but diScharging patriotic duty This
was my contribution TO a fluid our citizens were
raising for hospital and sanitary needs If
double the SUN had been required Of me,
double would have been given.


80 much for my couotry!" | said in my
thought, with feeling of self-appFoval. felt
that was better aud truer man for the act
" If every one would do as well according to
circumstances" There came slight chill to
my enthusiasm, consequent on the thought
that | was doing so much more, according to
my ability than other people had seen the
subscription paper. 1t bore the record of no
larger contribution than mine Two citizens
only had put down their names for five hun
dred dollars.


ITO have given equally" said within N.Y.
self, " Mr. Harland should have made his con
trbution a thousand dollars instead of five
hundred; and Grant should at least have come
up to my 6gures-dolar for dollar, he is quite
as we'll off as am Then, as for Tompkns,
can't see how he had the courage to write
down only fifty, in the face of half dozen
poorer men who gave each their hundred
Bat we have a test of patriotism in this and
know where to place men. Love of country is
Gue thing to talk about, but when sacrifice
is asked, how rarely do we find word and deed
in HARMONY"
Year: 1862

When 0rpheus went down to the regions below,


Which men are forbidden to see.
He tuned up his Tyre, as old histories show,


To set his Eurydice free.
All hell was astonished that person so wise


Should rashly endanger his life,
And venture so far, but how great their surprise,


When they found that he came for bis wife.
To find out punishment due for this fault,


Old Pluto long ransacked his brain
But hell had nottorments sufficient, he thought,


So he gaze him hes sg!fe back again.
But pity succeeding soon vanquishcd his heart,


And pleased at his playing so well.
He took her again in reward Of his art,


Such magic had music in hell.
Year: 1862

4 THOUGHT OF DEATH.-In the long
watches of the winter night, when one
has awoke from some evil dream, and lies
sleepless and terrified with the solemn
pail Of darkness around one-on one of
those deadly, still, dark nights, when the
window only shows murky patch Of
positive gloom in contrast with the moth
ingDeSs of the walls, when the howling
of a tempest round chimney and roof
would be welcomed as boisterous COM
panion-ln such still dead times only,
lying as in the silence Of the tomb, one
realizes that some day we shall lie in that
bed and not think at all; thGt the time
will come soon when we must die.


Our preachers remind Us CT this often
enough, but we cannot realize it in pew
in broad daylight. You must wake in
the middle Of the night to do that, and
face the thought like a man, that It vii!
come, and come to ninety-nine in a hun
dred Of us. not in maddeDing c!atter of
musketry as the day is Won, or in carrying
line to stranded ship, or in such like
glorious time, when the soul is in mas
terry over the body, but in bed, by slow
degrees. 1t is in darkness and silence
only that we realize this; and then let
us hope that we humbly remember that
death has been conquered for US, and that,
in spite of our unworthiness, we may
defy him.
Year: 1862

In studying wars, we acquire an almost
fippant familiarity with great loss of life,
and hardly recognize what it is. We
have to think what beautiful creature
any man or woman Is, for at least one
period of his or her life, in the eyes Of
some other being; what a universe of
hope is often contained in ore unnoticed
life; and that the meanest human being
would be large subject of study for the
rest of mankind. We need to return to
such homeiy considerations as these, be-
fore We can fairly estimate the sufer'ngs
and loss to mankind which these little
easy sentences: "There perished ten
thousand of the allies on this day :" "By
that ambuscade We cut off nineteen hun
dred of the enemy" "In the retreat,
which was well executed, they did not
lose above five thousand nen"-giYe in-
dication Of
Year: 1862

Your calm men always succeed. Their
power is something terrible. They seem
to burn with white heat, and by their
intense quiet, to dissipate and turn to
account all opposition, as a furnace of
molten metal liquifes and laps up the
sharp-sided ingots as fast as they are cast
into it,
Year: 1862

The ladies should know that it is 10
longer "the thing" to make bowl In
leaving a room, or entering It, fashionable
bellies do not bend the head at all but
simply bend the knees and "squat' "a
depression of the figure by movement
which the French call ga Ia paysanne. i"
Year: 1862

*x# Devoted to the cause Of Republicanism,
the interests of Agriculture, the advancement
Of Education, and the best good of Potter
county. Owning no guide except that of
Principle, it will endeaver to aid in the work
Of more fully Freedomizing our Country.
Year: 1862

spares not even medicine for the sick, and
will wiring his per centage out OF the very
agonies of the suffering tratiicking in the
hunger, cold aud nakedness of the soldier
while living and Specializing upon his very
shroud and coffin and grave when dead !;
blockading our homes by land as really, as
wickedly. and as heartlessly as our enemies
are blockading them by sea; brbirg officials
to act as accomplices with them in their
schemes TO obtain undisputed control Of a
market; creating needless panics and pres
sures, that they may wiring from a groaning
and helpless community the hard earnings Of
the poor on whom these exactions must fall
most heavily and whilst struggling coun-
try is bleeding at every pore, instead Of
seeking to staunch that blood, are gathering
it Up drop BY drop to sell like butchers meat
in the shambles, and coin i into gold ;actng
treason more deadly than an armed aid to
our enemies by compelling many poor man
who once calculated the value of the Union
to begin TO calculate the value Of disunion.
and ask what have we gained BY escaping
the leeches and blood suckers OF one Con-
federacy, only TO fall into the fangs Of the
sharks and cormorants of another surely,
surely, we had a right to expect that in a
struggle so sublime, so tremendous and so
desperate as this, we should have been safe
from the cruel greed Of such hungry Shy
locks, such human yultures as these. And
if in any cases we have been disappointed in
this reasonable expectation, il but creates
another reason for coming before Him whose
blond was sold By his own chosen companion
for thirty pieces Of silver, to pray that He
would not only deliver US from the Ahito-
pbeIs abroad, but also. and even more ear
nesily, from the Iscariots II home"