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Year: 1862

Truth TIE BEST PoLIcY.-A merchant at
q country seaport, becoming alarmed on ac-
count OF vessel richly laden which had not
reached its destination, sent to on underwater
to effect Gf it could be done) an insurance on
the long missing vessel before the policy ar
rived, the merchant received information OF the
vessel and Immediately despatched note to
the underwater, saying" If thou hast not
insured the vessel, thee need not, for | have
heard of it." The man had not effected the
insurance, but being unwilling to lose so large
a premium, instantly filed up the policy and
returned for answer" The withdrawal is too
late, the insurance has been effected, and the
premium must be paid" To which message
he received this brief reply: Friend, am
sorry for thee, for thee will be great sufferer !;
have heard of the yessel-vessel and cargo
are both lost"
Year: 1862

TELEGRAPHIc SoHENE.-Lately It was sta
ted and subsequently denied, that Government
had in contemplation to establish telegraphic
communication between Washington and Fort
ress Monroe. by means of a submarine wire
II is now known to be fact that such line
is TO be constructed, and that parties in the
employ of the Government have been in con
sultation for some days with experienced tele-
graphers in this quarter. The design, however,
is great deal more extensive than was at first
meditated, for the plan is to carry the wires
along the whole Southern coast to the Gull
ports. Estimates, at least TO that extent, are
now being made. The necessity fOr such an
enterprise is made apparent every day by the
long delays which interyene in our communica-
tions from the South, sometimes amounting to
weeks, while the rebels, with their inland wire,
can in some cases obtain intelligence from the
EXTREMIST Southern points almost instanta-
neously. Nor is the idea a new one, for such
project was entertained several years ago by
private parties who contemplated the main
tanning a rival line to what is known as the
Southern Telegraph.
Year: 1862

In his New York speech for negro emancipa-
tion, Carl Shurz assumes that il is necessary
slavery should be abrogated, since the interests
of the American people will then become com
mon, all the States will possess similar insttu-
tions, and the country become united.


TO insist that the samness of local institutions
is necessary to national concord and unity, is to
advocate a theory utterly hostile to the funda-
mental principles of our free government. To
practcalize this theory, would destroy that very
liberty which The Constitution protects Cur ia
theirs when they formed the Union, intended to
reserve to the States the unresrained right OF To-
cal legislation. 1t is this which constitutes our
freedom. This is our peculiar blessing as free
and independent people.


Under the American Constitution, all the
States of the world may live and be free. Under
that Constitution every State for itself may
make its own laws, form its own institutions, in
dependent Of all other States. This is practical
liberty. Such is the nature of our Government.
and for this reason alone is il really dear to the
people.


When Kossuth talked in this country eloquent
ly of liberty he never failed to explain that prac
tical liberty in Government meant the indepeDd
ence and sovereignty of the municipalities or of
the local Governments-the whole united in
common bond only for common and general pur
poses. ts.a.sals.e r..-r.ar.


we want no great central Government, with
an iron hand moulding all our local laws into
harmony. We would not submit that the States
of the South should dictate system of labor for
Wisconsin, nor ought we 10 ask that South Car
olina or Georgia should be forced to accept our
local institutions for themselves. The vilest des-
potism on earth would not attempt to enforce this
homogeneity of institutions in spite Of the dversi
ties of climate, habit, education and the popular
will. History does not record such an attempt on
the part of any nation ruling vast and dissimilar
territories In this country, the doctrine is alb
surd and dangerous, as it wars with the whole
theory of the overnment-Miltcaukee Nesos.
Year: 1862

Oh, dark and sullen wave Of Time,
Forever onward flowing,
We drift like seaweed on thy breast,
Nor know where thou art going;
Like bubbles on a sdmmer stream,
Our lives glide onward ever,
And float at last down to epast
Upon the silent river.
Though dark clouds gather round our way,
We must not stoop to sorrow;
The sun that hides his face to-day,
May brightly shine tomorrow.
And should he not, life's storm and cloud
Will vanish soon forever,
And peace anu rest be found at last
Beyond Times rapid river.
The gilded toys that now we prize,
Like autumn leaves will scatter,
And from our sight will fade at last
Like sunshine from the water;
But steadfast faith and noble deeds
VIII shine around us ever,
Like guiding stars to lead us home
Across the silent river.
No guided bubbles must we chase,
No dream of Heeting pleasure,
But steadily bear down life's stream
A freight of fadelcss treasure.
And when upon its twilight waves
Life's last faint sunbeams quiver,
Launched on eternity's broad sea,
Well leave that silent river.
Year: 1862

There is soldier in the Penitentiary at
Joliet q young man from Ohio, the son
and only stay Of q widowed mother. He is
an inmate Of convict's cell, under SEN
tence Of q military court martial for the pc
riod Of the t0ar, and to forfeit all pay His
effense was disrespectful conduct to Major
Baird, of the New York regiment disgrrced
by the poltroonery Of that officer at Har-
per's Ferry. This same officer has Just
been dismissed the service for cow
ardiee.


He was brute and drunkard, and act
ing in both capacities, outraged the young
0hioan, who resisted and took the Major
by the beard. The court martial has done
the rest, and made the boy-sOldier felon.
When is this infamy to cease2 When are
superior officers to learn that only at their
peril they may trample on the rights and
manhood Of Ursoldiers2 When are court
martials to be taught that they may not at
viii make conEicts and felons by the rule
of martinez 2 The young 0hioan will be
released; but those who sent him to Joliet
both those who found and those who ap-
proved the verdict-deserve to be stripped
of their shoulder straps and dismissed the
service. viii the War Department allow
such abuses to go unpunished? Its orders
are already explicit. Let them be enforc-
ed Chicago Tribune
Year: 1862

What Comes Of Getting a 'fsubstirute."


Persons anxious to avoid the draft will
see BY the following official notice that the
act Of procuring substitute frees the lat
ter, but leaves the principal still subject to
the draft:
Year: 1862

The musical critic Of the N. 7. Tribune
charaeteriEes the plot Of TrOvstors as the
periphery Of idiOcy, and the Anvil Chorus
IS about equal to the job Of mending sew
er set::tO music, or repairing pair Of cast
Of leather breeehes.
Year: 1862

A terrible case Of seduction, abortion
and CONSEQUENT death has come to light in
New York the victim being Miss elemen-
tina Anderson, the daughter Of one Of the
most respectable sitiEensOf the city. The
ssdueer and pBysicisn are under arrest.
Year: 1862

General Burnside, although born in In
diana. vas for some Of his early years a
resident of Lebanon, Ohio, and is living
example Of the fslsity Of the old saying
that a tailor is but the ninth part Of
Year: 1862

Private John Kelsser, of the 1O8d New
York has been tried By . court martial for
stabbing his First Lieutenant and SEN
fenced to be hung at sssh time and place
as the Commanding General may direct.
Year: 1862

THREATENED PRo-SLAvERY VIOLENCE.
We have over and over again been
told that the slave holder and slave claim
ants are law-abiding citizens in pursuit of
their legal rights-yet their only effort
seems now to be to seize upon their VIC
tins without the forms of law, or in viola
ton of its first principles, and to bend the
courts of the District out of their judicial
course-to issue warrants without right,
and to institute proceedings without legal
authority, and to apply the odious statute
where, by the terms Of the Constitution,
it is'excluded, and not content with such
efforts, they even threaten personal vio-
lence to those who stand by the weak
and helpless, and insist upon conformity
to legal proceedings and long established
precedents. In fact, they insist there
shall be no law except for the slavehold-
er. In perfect harmony with the fell
spirit of rebellion, they know of no law
but that of brute force. Let them SOW
the wind-they will reap the whirlwind.
i Washington Republican.


NJ Thus far the able bodied contra.
bands who have found their way to the
Government headquarters in Washington
have obtained employment. On Wednes
day an order was sent to Manassas for 6
hundred more, wanted for labor in the
quartermastcr' and other departments
Those who think Washington is overrur
with idle negroes are greatly mistaken.
Year: 1862

gILe following is gem of "secesh"
literature, picked up near Yorktown. 1t
bears no date a.


can tell you ole sal has Got her colt
she had it this morning it is A fine stock
it did mesure three feet en- one inch the
collur of it is like tome it is A hors mule
you must rite it name SOW can name
it it is worth A hundred dollars am
Glad she has Got it sow can rite it you
wont you to rite es some es you Get
this letter du rite A heep i wont you to
rite often & Geve me all the nous you
have in camp wont you write evry
weake if you can wont you to write
don't cair wher you Go rite to me & will
rite to sow now moore rite some sow
Good by Mr. MGinney


s A Mckinney G L Mckinney.
Year: 1862

Washington, July 1.


The following correspondence between the
President and the Governors of the loyal
States will explain itself:


To the Presi ent:


The undersigned, Governors OF States of
the Union, impressed with the belief that the
citizens Of the States which they respectively
represent are of one accord in the hearty de.
sire that the recent successes of the Federal
army may be followed by measures which
must ensure the speedy restoration OF the
Union, and believe that in view Of the i'm.
portant military movements now in progress,
and the reduced condition OF our effective
forces in the field, resulting from the usual
casualties Of the service, that the time has
arrived for prompt and vigorous measures to
be adopted by the people in support Of the
great interests committed to your charge.


We respectfully request, if it meets with
your entire approval, that you at once call
upon the several States for such number of
men as may be required to fill up all mill
tary organizations now in the field, and add
to the army heretofore organized such addi-
tional number Of men as may in your judg-
ment be necessary to garrison and hold all
of the numerous cities and military positions
which have been captured by our armies,
and to speedily crush the rebellion that still
exists in several of the Southern States,
thus practically restoring to the civilized
world our great and good government. All
believe that the decisive moment is near at
hand, and that the people of the United
States are desirous to aid promptly in fur
nishng all reinforcements that you NAV
Year: 1862

Eg A gentleman from New Orleans,
who has excellent opportunities to ascer-
tain the opinions of the ladies of that city,
says that with but few exceptions they
are disposed to approve of the order of
General Butler in regard to those of the
sex who, in the public streets, disgrace
themselves by foul-mouthed attacks upon
the Federal soldiers.
Year: 1862

New York, July /.
1t is stated that on the recommendation of
he Governors of all the loyal States, the
President will call for two hundred thousand
volunteers to hold the points already acquir-
ed and to close the war.


An order has been received in this city to
pay each recruit for three years or the war
one-fourth Of his bounty money, twenty-five
dollars; payment to be made when the regl-
mont is mustered into service.


Secretary Seward stated to-day that Gen.
Mcclellan was in communication with our
fleet on James River; also that there is no
truth in the Herald's report that tro Of the
foreign governments had given notice that
the war should cease.


The above statement was made to a dele
CATION of the New York Press.
Year: 1862

A s GARDENER.-wANTED A SITUATION AS GAR.
"A dener by married map who thoroughly understands
his business In all departments oI gardening, and Is willing
70 devote his whole time 10 the Interest of his employer
reference from last employer Address FOR days T. H.
Herald
Year: 1862

1t will be seen from the above that each
non-commissioned officer and soldier in the
Regiment must now be compelled to pay
the sum of $15 90-l0O dollars for clothing,
such as we have endeavored to describe,
and which they had been led to believe,
was TO be furnished to them gratis, and to


ggravate the case, the money must be de-
Quoted from the payment now due, at a
Year: 1862

time when the volunteer most needs his
pay Many, very many, in this Regiment
have left families at home depending on
the remittances of their husbands fathers


and brothers for the means of Subsistence
during their absence. When the above
amount for clothing is drawn from their
pay now due, there viii be scarcely a dol
lar left for the volunteer to send to his
Year: 1862

In the Mobile Advertiser NC find the usual
comparative statement Of the receipts Of cot
ion ut al the ports for the first four months
Of the COTTON year, viz: from the LIST OF
September TO the 1st u1t. The following is
the resu1t:
Year: 1862

The SOUTHWEST. AROUSED. BY a
gentleman was has just arrived from the
South. west viiasMobile, we learn that the
whole South. west is most thoroughly and
heartily at work. The Mississippi valley
is one camp. The wave is gathering which
is shortly to meet and roll back the tide Of
invasion. Had the elements of resistance
been thoroughly aroused, and the proper
machinery sooner in motion, much loss and
suffering might have been avoided. It is
now matter of time. The enemy's ad-
vance will be stayed and his forces driven
back, but at what point is somewhat doubt.
full. He may be able to compel the evacu-,
alton Of Island No. 10, or be may not. This
will have no serious effect upon the even.
tual course of the campaign, or upon its
FINAL results, although upon the length Of
time during which that post can be held
may depend the extent to which the ad-
vancing wave may CO. Below Forts Pill
low and Randolph the enemy cannot pene.
trate. ~ -


OF further important movements, we do
not feel at liberty to speak farther than to
say that they are in the right direction,
and it is only to be beregretted ties they we're
not sooner made Wlnetngtos Journal.
Year: 1862

What is the North fighting for? They
have set aside the Constitution, and liberty
under it,-so they are not fighting for con
stitutionsl liberty.


They have set aside the honor of an A
mericau citizen, by pretending to respect
property and then destroying it-so they
are not fighting for honor


They have set aside respect for women
and children, which savage nations have al
ways entertained, by numbering them il
cold blood-so they are not fighting for the
principles of humanity.


They have set aside the commandment
"Thou shalt not steal" by maraudiug and
appropriating, or destroying all they can
lay their hands on.


They have abandoned the American
Declaration of Independence, which claim
ed that all men are entitled to Cd fe, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness" so they are
not fighting for political prince.


They have iucarcerated men and wo'
men on suspicion of certain political prin.
ciples professed by them, and universally
aoknowledged-so they are not fighting for
the rights of man.


They have imprisoned editors for assert
ing political rights-so they are not fight
ing for the liberty of the press.


They have imprisoned ags, and worth
and excellence in man and woman, because
they have dared to express the language
of freemeu-so they fight not for free
speech.


They are fighting against the ballot-box
by surrounding it by their myrmidons with
bayonets-so they are struggling against
the right of Democratic representation, and
in favor of tyranny.


For what else, then are they fighting ?
For the unlimited power of numbers-she
right of might-the first element Of savage
society. d


They are fighting for the subjugation OF
a civilized people far superior to them in
the appreciation of liberty and right, and
to reduce to the yoke of barbarous oppres-
sion those who have given character to a
Government which, by fraud on the South,
they have subverted. o.. .


They are fighting for the means of en-
shaving noble race, exalted among the
nations of the earth, on the pretence of de-
votion to an inferior race better cared for
and enjoying more freedom than their own
class Of laboring population.


/. They are fighting for their own existence
as people, who can only live by preylng
upon the labor and rights Of others


This is the Yankee nation-this the
great Lincoln Government, which is great
ia iniquity and its nefarious efforts to pro-
Year: 1862

The Northern people, by professions as
profuse as they are insinoere, would fain
lead the negro to believe that they are his
friends, and from the fact that few Of our
colored population have availed themselves
'fheiopportunity presented by the present
state of affairs to escape from kind masters
and comfortable homes to'6nda refuge a.
mong these miserable bipocrites, we are
lead to iufel that their "blannery" has not
been altogether thrown away.


That the poor deceived wretches who
are thus led away by Yankee lying, find out
when too late that they have misplaced
their confidence, and been made the vic,
tins of cruel oppression, needs no other
demonstrations than their own testimony.
Of this we have an abundance, and it is
all in the strain-regrets that they left
their home-longiugs to return thereto,
and bitter denunciation of their oppressors.
1t will be remembered that we publish
ed sometime since letter from negro
man who escaped to the Yankees addressed
to his master in this city, which he ab-
ljured him to keep strict watch upon his
children, whom he had left behind, and
not suffer them to be deceived that Yam
|kee land was hard road to travel, and
not ft place for his children to be. This
letter was actually received, and was the
production of the negro to whom it is ac-
credited. T..
We have now another proof of the cruel
ty of these hipocrites toward those whom
they profess to love and sympathize with.
1t viii. require but few words to give it
and yet it fully developes the character Of
these venomous reptiles who crawl in the
dust before those who are only when the
object of their venom has been securely
bound and rendered harmless.


It is stated by gentleman who came
passenger in the train from Weldon oo
Monday afternoon, that in conversation
with paroled prisoner from Newbern, he
learned that the negroes at that place not
behaving themselves altogether as we'll as
they were expected to behave, or, if you
please, becoming little boisterous, de
tachment was ordered out, and forty of the
wretches shot by order of the commanding
officer


It is true that, from the account given
us, they used language not calculated to
make the ears of their severe task.makers
tingle with delight-suoh, for instance, as
they were as good as Yankees, and other
remarks of q similar character; yet where
| is thr >ocount of Southern overseer pun
ish.ng with death the insolence Of the ne
groes over whom he has jurisdictionY


Verify, verify, it may be said of the ma.
tion of hypocrtes who so deeply sympa-
thize with the poor slave as to preach a.
gainst his enslavemept and pray for and
contribute of their means to effect his de.
liverance from a nominal serVitude, for the
purpose of inficting upon him such deep
and gross wrongs as would make the heart
of bis humane Southern master shuddel
verify, we say, it may be said of this na'
ton: eye are Of your father, the Devil" "
|--NoYfok Day Book.
Year: 1862

pagate its wicked want Of principle among
a population imported to vote for the good
of the few at the expense Of the many.


Itis against such people that the South
has to assert and defend its glorious prero-
gative-liberty of conscience, liberty Of
thought and speech and liberty ofaction ;
all of which will be defended while life
lasts s-iSotsth Carozinsan.
Year: 1862

Fusion IN YUBA.-The Union Democracy
of Yaba county, have listened to the ap-
peaIs of their political enemies, and the re-
suit is, that as party, their organization
has become demoralized. A portion have
fused with the Republicans and others with
the SecessioDists, Mr.. De Long having been
endorsed for Senator by the latter. We be-
lieve he is the only Union Democrat on ell
ther ticket, and bis election would be but a
poor compensation for the decentralization
of the party in the county. So far as DE
Long is concerned, be is sound on the
Union, aud his influence will never be used
to advance the cause Of the rebels; but that
cannot be said of other candidates on the
ticket with him.
Year: 1862

BURNING OF THE GOLDEN GATE.-The par
ticulars of the burning of the Golden Gate,
40 far as we have been able to obtain them,
will be found in another column. 1t was
the most terrible disaster of the kind that
ever occurred on this coast. The list OF
passengers saved is not complete, as there
are not enough to correspond with the
uumber given; and it has been ascertained
that two or three from Nevada county were
saved whose names are not in the list. We
give, also list Of the passengers who sailed,
taken from San Francisco paper; but we
presume the names of the cabin passengers
only were reported. We shall probably re-
ceive further particulars of the disaster to-
morrow. In another place, We give the
names of the saved and lost, so far as we
can ascertain them, who were from Nevada
county.
Year: 1862

The CRoPs.-The San Jose Tribune is in
formed that the crops are more abundant
the present year than ever before known.
In nearly every instance, the yield of both
brrley and wheat is most plentiful. The
demand for harvest hands is not SO great
as in some other localities, yet there Is
"bread and work for ALL"
Year: 1862

OF the abundance aud extraordinary
goodness Of Fruit, great and small, given
us this year, all possible should be saved
for our soldiers and sailors Fruit, ripe
and dried, will be peculiarly grateful and
healtLful to them.
Year: 1862

Paymaster's Clerks 500 per annum. and IS
cents per day when actually on duty.


Chaplain in volunteers Sl46 So


In addition to the pay as above stated, one ra-
ton per day and abunaant supply of good
clothing is allowed TO every soldier Quarters.
fuel and medical attendance are ALWAYS provided
by the Government without deduction from the
soldiers pay. lfa soldier should become disabled
in the line of his duties, the law provides for h m
pension. or he may, if he prefer it, obtain ad
mission into the Military Asylum. which will
afford him a comfortable home so long as he NAV
wish to receive its benefits


To the above pay for private soldiers must be
added the additional So month to be paid du
ring service, the 500 bounty at the end of the
war, which has already been provided for. and
the quarter section of land that Congress will
provide for at its coming session. The bounty
and land apply to officers and privates alike.
Year: 1862

STOP THE THIEF!


AN SATURDAY MORNING LAST, A MAN
" calling himself W. J TERRY, hired from a horse
and buggy with the avOwed object Of going into the
try his wife, with the pledge that he would
Saturday night Sunday morning. Sad Terry has not
returned and have learned that he did not to the
tlemans nuse he said he going to. have doubt
be villain and may be SPY in tue country. He
rather shabby dressed da Clothes dark hair and black
eyes, about feet high aud well built The horse
small roan with his left hind leg white and somewhat
scratches The buggy black straight body and
considerably learn he took the road to Haywood
or some other point in Chatham County. will give $25
for bis apprehension and the delivery Of the property to
JAS. NJ. HARRIS.


Raleigh, y. c., Jan. 9S 1862. s-tG