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Year: 1862

In the Common Council of London, on
the 22d of May, the freedom of the city in a
gold box of the value of one hundred gum
cas- was unanimously voted to George Pea
body in grateful recognition of the prince
ly muni6cence displayed by him in devotiDg
the sum of one hundred thousand pounds
towards the relief of the needy and deserv-
ing poor of this metropolis, and the Chris
tian liberality of sentiment which dictated
that the fund thus created should be ad-
ministered irrespective of the distinction of
nationality, party or religious belief" Mr..
Charles Reed made an eloquent speech, in
the course of which he said


This stranger might have founded a hos.
pitaI for Americans, endowed church for
bis own people, enriched the foundations of
our great schools of learning, or reared to
himself monument F.; but no, he had no
selfish ends to serve, and in an age of ava
rice and cupidity be descended to the lowest
grade of our social scale and found in our
poorest poor fitting objects for bis splendid
lberslity. He bad made himself familiar
with distress that he might learn how best
to mitigate woe; be had become acquainted
by personal investigationwith the oVerwhel-
ming vicissitudes of the laboring poor that
be might ameiiorate their condition, and he
had given practical illustration of the way
to do it which left busy theorists for behind.
He had seen the natural results during a
series of years of the expenditure of mil>
lion and half of money in the improve
ment of our thoroughfares and the adorn-
ment of our public buildings. in the thrust
ing out beyond our walls of our artisan
population. hear. hear, and he desired to
inaugurate movement which should place
within the reach of the working man the
means of living at moderate rent, near the
scene of his daily toll, without submitting
to the degredations consequent upon resi-.
dence in those most unhealthy and most eX.
pensive dens of misery which, by kind of
cruel mockery, were called their homes.
Year: 1862

From the Philadelphia Press.


1t must have been grand sight, this
battle of the Chickahominy. We can think
OF nothing to equal it, even as it appears
before US now with the faint, meagre, and
bewildering stories that have reached us
the thunderstorm,-the swollen river-the
terror of tempest which seems to have
surpassed in fury the death>tempest that
came with it: Our men were at dinner
when attacked-they met the assault i'm
petuously-the advance division retreated-
the foe was too strong for them singly to
resist, and they fell back The engagement
then became general. Some regiments are
panic stricken and fall back. They form
again and return. The rebels flank Casey
on the right, and while maneuvring to
surround him, he retreats from their snare.
Night comes on and brings with it all the
horrors that such night could only bring.
Our men rest upon their arms in the mud
and water, amid their dead and wounded
companions with desperate foe in front,
and the certainty OF a renewal of the contest
with the rise of the morning sun. "The
surgeons busily piled their art during the
night" says our correspondent, and 10 this
brief sentence the sad part of our glorious
picture is shown. The shadows come with
the sunshine, and are revealed in woe, mise.
ry, and lamentations that are only for the
hearts of the widowed and fatherless. Nor
ming comes and brings with It HeintzeIman.
Mcclellan is on the field. He slept on it
all night, and every operation is directed in
person. If not the best, it is certainly the
popular test of generalship, and he met it
nobly. The results of bis long months of
preparation are shown in the splendid dis
cipline and gallantry of the army he COM
manded. 1t stood like the rock against the
surging sea-. The rebels came again and
again,-they tried to break it on the right,
the left, and .he centre, only to fail and to
tall back discom6ted. At last, on the af-
tornoon of Sunday, came "the fierce and
oriuiant oayOnet Charge" in which the en-
emy was driven two miles at the mnsket-
point. Routed, demoralized, and disheart.
ened, he fell back to his capital, leaving the
Federal troops to bury his dead, and minis
ter to bis wounded.


We have shown the enemy that in any
way the fate of the war may select, we can
meet and compete with him. If the army
of the West has succeeded by its gunboats
and artillery, the army of the East has
shown its prowess in gunpowder and cold
steel. Our men in the army of the Poto
mac have been so long preparing for the
enemy, and anticipating the contest, that
when he appears, they timber their cannon,
and close their cartridge boxes and rush up
on him. They believe in close quarters and
the death grapple. 1t was so at Winches.
ter and Williamsburg, and now we see it on
a grander scale along the Ohickahominy.
We have read the story of this fight without
shame, and when Europe discusses Ameri-
can valor, we can cite those two days
struggle, before the capital of the Confede.
racy as the most brilliant illustration histo.
ry can affOrd.
Year: 1862

The Corinth correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Gazette tells this story


When our lines advanced towards Cor.
inth on the 28th, battery was planted on
an eminence, commanding a considerable
portion of the country, but completely
shrouded from view by dense tbicket.
Scouts were sent out to discover the exact
position of the rebels, and were but short
distance in advance, to give signal as to
the direction to fire, if any were discovered.


One of the rebel commanders, uaware of
our presence, called around him a brigade
and commenced addressing them in some
thing ike the following strain


"Sons of the South: We are here to
defend our homes, cur wives and daughters,
against the horde of Vandals who have
come here to possess the first and violate
the last. Here upon this sacred soil we
have assembled to drive back the northern
invaders-drive them into the Tennessee.
Will you follow me IT we cannot hold
this place we can defend no spot of our
Confederacy. Shall we drive the invaders
back, and strike to death the men who
would desecrate our homes Is there a
man so base among those who bear me as
to retreat from the contemplate foe before
US? will never blanch before their fire,
nor -"


At this interesting period the signal was
given, and six shells fell in the vicinity of
the gallant officer and his men, who sudden
ly forgot their fiery resolves, and fed in
confusion to their breastworks.
Year: 1862

A TRAvELER in Ireland having been in
clined to deny that the peasantry were
humorous, was told to ask any question of
the first laboring man he met on the road.
Accordingly, on seeing sturdy fellow
breaking stones, be says, Now, my man,
if the devil were to come here just now,
whether would he take you or me?" "Me
to be sure" says the man, for he is Ger
tain Of your honor at any time"


-Ir is said that the wheel OF fortune re-
wolves for all ; but many Of us are broken
on the wheel.
Year: 1862


the West was anything ike paying en-
ployment. The diversity of labor created an
exchange Of commodities IL did more Ii
created, also large mechanical, manufactur-
ing and commercial class in the East, who,
also, became consumers of agricultural pro-
ductions. This country seems to be separated
into three very natural and yet very palpable
divisions, thus:


The South raises cotton to supply the raw
material for the mechanics and manufacturers.


The North works up this material, affording
employment to thousands Of mechanics of all
kinds.


The West feeds both the South and the
East-the former while she is raising the raw
material of manufacture, and the latter while
she is working it up.


If the South, therefore, shall mainly aban-
don her peculiar cultivation, and 60 in the
same line of production as the West, it is very
evident that the price of agricultural produc-
tions must average very low This view of
the case has not escaped the attention of
shrewd Western men, and one Republican
paper in Cincinnati, not long ago, expressed
the opinion that this war must be closed up
before the South was forced into grain cul-
ture, or else the West would inevitably be
bankrupt next year, if she had no market In
that direction To increase this apprehension
is also now added the almost positive intorma-
ton that Europe will need little or none of
our breadstuffs.


The future of the West is gloomy indeed.
The farmers OF that section are an INDUSTRIOUS
enterprising class of men. A large majority
were Just getting fore handed in the world
and would, with fair times, have soon been
generally out of debt. But the present con-
vulsions have swept the all of many away.
Some Western papers are filed with foreclo-
sure sales, and the land that ought to be in
the hands of the masses is rapidly passing into
the control of the capitalists. Nothing but
speedy peace can avert the frightful loss of
wealth which is now melting away like an
April snow before the sun.


Just as soon as this takes place, the process
of recuperation will commence, provided, in
the meantime, no changes take place in
Southern society. If the negroes shall be
turned loose, they will be no longer laborers,
and the result will be the same to the West as
if the war should continue. The three great
divisions of labor and industry which we have
noticed must be kept intact. One depends
upon the other. Destroy one and you jar the
harmony of all. If the South do not raise
the raw material the East cannot manufacture
it, nor will either needs the grain of the West.
The Great West, thus cut off from her mar
kets, would be ruined. At the very least, W
Judge that two or three years are to be unusu
ally hard lines for Western falmers.-Cdu
cdsidn.
Year: 1862

n Sut AAes


'Do you see this lock of hair?" said an old
man to me.


.Yes; but what of it? 1t is, / suppose, the
curl from the head of a dead child long since
gone to God"


at is not; it is a lock of my own hair; and
it is now nearly seventy years since it was cut
from this head"


But why do you prize lock of your head
so much?"


1T has story belonging to it, and strange
one. | keep it thus with care because it
speaks to me more of God, and of his special
care, than anything else possess.


IL was little child of four years old, with
long, curling locks, which, in sun, or rain, or
wind, hung down my cheeks uncovered. One
day, my father went into the woods to cut
log, and l went with him. / was standing
little way behind him, or rather at his side,
watching with interest the heavy strokes of
wood sending off splinters with every stroke,
In all directions. Some of the splinters fell at
my feet, and eagerly stopped to pick them
up. In doing so, stumbled forward, and In
a moment my curly head Law upon the log.
| had fallen Just at the moment when the axe
was coming down with all its force. 1t was
{ tOO ieAtO ~ supp Nut biOW- DOhH CdlliC luc
axe. l screamed, and my father fell to the
ground IN terror. He could not stay the
stroke, and in the blindness which the sudden
horror caused, he thought he had killed his
boy. We soon recovered; / from my fright,
and he from his terror.


He caught me in his arms and looked at me
from head to foot, to find out the deadly
wound which he was sure he had inflicted
Not drop of blood nor a scar was to be SEEN.
He knelt down upon the grass and gave
thanks to gracious God. Having done, he
took his axe and found few hairs upon its
edge. He turned the log he had been split
ting, and there was single curl of his boy's
hair sharply cut through and laid upon the
wood. How great the escape! 1t was as if
an angel had turned aside the edge at the mo-
ment when it was descending upon my head.
With renewed thanks upon his lips, he took
up the curl, and went home with me in his
arms That lock he kept all his days as a
memorial of Gods care and love- That lock
he left me on his death-bed.'
Year: 1862

habit of To which added observations
Female Diseases and other interesting matter of the ut
most importance the married and those contemplating
marriage who doubts of their physical ability
enter that state Sent any address in sealed wrap
per, on receipt Of ten cents or four stamps.


We devote entire time and attention to the treat
ment of the various private diseases treated of pr
report Our Dspensay the only Institution of the
kind In America which has been tabshed by special
charter this fact should give IL preference the
Quacks Of doubtful character to be found in all
Year: 1862

HALLECK ON C0NEISCAT10N.e


Our speca1 Washington dispatch brings
the intelligence that Gen. Ha1leck has an
nounced himself very decidedly in favor Of
confscation and emancipation Congress
having enacted that policy into q law, it is
to be expected that all loyal generals will
proceed to enforce it at once, yet it is
especially CRAFTY ing to hear that General
Halleck has been in favor Of it all the time
a new era Is beginning era Of down
right earnest war, such as the rebels have
been dealing in all the time. When We
abandon the spirit of peaee, and con-
mence aiming our blows straight at the
heart Of the rebellion, we shall be SUIT
prtsed to find how easily our soldiers car
put to fight the armies Of the aliens
Year: 1862

There will be grand WET meeting Of Cham
paign county, at Urbana, next Tuesday. A
number Of distinguished speakers will be
present. Let the farmers come out and shoW
that Champaign couoty is for the Union to
the last man and to the last dollar, and the
last tud Of the chap er.
Year: 1862

In action The suns viii be losded and
run out Whils the poft.holsBare away from
the enemy When ready the turret will
be turned as nearly accurate as possible.
By niosly-adjusted wheels, q very precise
aim is quickly obtained, the gun fired, and
instantly the turret is turned to bring the
gunOut Of danger. The gun is then drawn
in and loaded as before. While one gun is
being aimed aimed and discharged, the
other is loading, 60 that almost e oOntinu-
Gus discharge is taking place.
Year: 1862

Early this (Friday) morning Mr.. Block placed
us in possession of the following dispatch


FoRTREss MONROE, May II.


AT 4 o'clock yesterday morning bright light
was discovered in the direction of Craney Island.
Half an hour afterwards an explosion took place
which made> the earth and water trcmble for
miles. In the midst of the bright flames which
shot up in the distance, timber and iron of the
steamers could be distinctly seen. One Of our
tug boats was sent to rcconnoire, and discovered
that all the carthwolks were abandoned, and the
Year: 1862

FROM BELow.-We are reliably informed
that three light draught gunboats, and the
same number of large lake or sound boats ar
rived in the Roads, yesterday, about noon
They were all filled with troops, and the three
former were recognized by our informant as a
portion of the Burnside Expedition.


The troops numbering estimated,
between four and six thousand, were landed at
Old Point Their arrival there was hailed with
many manifestations of delight, and they land
ed amid vociferous cheers and the playing Of
music by the bands.


We are further informed that the remain
der of the Burnside Expedition is expected to
join those now in the Roads In the course of
five or six days. and that they will proceed
to their destination at once. Where this des-
tnation is to be there seems to be a variety of
opinion yet there seems to be but little doubt
that it is intended for the Rappahannock or
James Rivers, Norfolk. Our informant
states that this is the prevailing opinion at the
North, and that the people of that section are
quite confident that the Burnside Expedition
will be the most important in its results of any
that. has yet been sent out


In the House Of Representatives On the Eth,
Year: 1862

THROUGH the Norfolk Day Book we are in


possession of late interesting news from the


Northern Despotism. The New York Herald
ofthe 9Th has lengthy report of the proceed
ings of Congress on the Balls Bluff BuU ran
affair, embracing long discussion on the great
negro question, than which none is more con-
genial to Yankee intellect In this discussion
that of all Williams the most contemplate,
Lovejoy figured very conspicuous: Lovejoy
wants to force resolution through Congress
by which negro slavery shall at once be blot
ed from the face of the earth and the Union
and the Constitution saved Others, not quite
SO rabid on the negro question, have apprehen-
sions that the abolition of slavery might not
have the happy effect of saving the Union and
Constitution and think they had better look to
some other means than freeing the negro 1t
is evident from the discussions in Congress
that they have taken in hand matter entirely
too weighty for their feeble intellects. They
have got few thousand negroes on their
hands already that they have not the ability
to dispose Of and if they cannot ag.ee among
themselves as to what is to be done with the
few they have stolen, what could they do with
four or five millions How exceedingly foolish
it does look to see the Yankee Congress quar-
reling among themselves about bow they shall
save the Union and Constitution when it has
long since been decided by every intelligent
Year: 1862

A review Of the following articles from the
columns of the Herald of the 9Th, will con-
vince the reader that the great bubble is about
to burst in the midst of its glory. The banks
are all broke, and so is the National Treasury.
With 600, 900 men, with arms in their hands,
and no money to pay them with, the North is
not likely to have the good time coming just
now, and it's cities may come in for being
sacked and plundered by its own unpaid min
ions. The Northern commercial and manufac-
turing interests cry for direct taxation, but the
West-the great West-says no. Emphati-
cally, NO!


As preface, we annex an article fr om the
editorial columns Of the Herald:


FINANCIAL CONDITION OF TIE COUNTRY.


Whilst Congress is wasting the precious
hours Of the session in the discussion of ques-
tions which belong to the executive business
of the War Department, and the agitation of
which can be of no sort of benefit at the pres
ent time the financial affairs of the country
are in a condition which excites the utmost
anxiety and alarm. In another week the
Treasury will be without cent, and in finan-
cial and commercial business of every kind
the prospect is fast precipitating matters to-
wards panic. Those who have anything to
dispose of, and who can realize it, are investing
the proceeds in gold or in foreign exchanges
as to be prepared for what seems inevitable
1t is evident that, unless Congress acts speed


lily and cnergetically, not only will we be over
taken by financial revulsion seyerer than any
we have asyet encountered, but the credit Of the
government will be destroyed, and our army
which is being brought into such fine cond-
ton, utterly demorallzed. The issue of ire
deemablc paper money, so far from helping to
eXtricate us from our embarrassnentS, will
only render them less easy of solution. A
nation that has recourse to such expedients
is bent on suicide. In taxation alone can we
find the means of providing for the burdens
that war imposes upon US.


Every article of luxury, every deed or paper
relating to the transfer OF real or personal pro-
perty, promissoary notes and bills Of exchange
in short, that is susceptible of
being thus charged-should bear it's proper
ton of them, in the form either Of direct taxes
or stamp duties. In this way revenue ola cou-
pie of hundred millions could be raised to Sc
cure the interest on the heavy war debt that
we are incurring. and to leave large surplus
to assist in providing for the wants ol the
government. If Congress is animate,i by the
least sense of patriotism, and is desir.us to
spare the country the humiliation of an ami
hilatcd public debt, as we'll as the disgrace
attending the triumph of the rebellion, it will
at once apply itself to the adjustment of the
taxation necessary to accomplish these objects
The country was never in a better condition
to respond to the calls that will be thus made
upon it, and will the more cheerfully meet
them, from the conviction now generally en-
tertained, that they provide the only safe and
legitimate remedy for the difficulties that are
now crowding upon US.
Year: 1862

This Is a remedy so universally known to surpass any
other for the of throat and lung complaints that k
useless here to publish the evidence Of its virtues Its
unrivaed excellence for coughs and colds and Its truly
wonderful cures Of pulmonary disease, baye made it
known throughout the civilized nations OF the earth
Few the communities, or even families among them
who have not some personal experience OF Its effects
some living trophy in their midst Of its victory over the
subtle and dangerous disorders Of the throat and
As all know the dreadful fatality of these disorders and
as they know too the effects Of this remedy we need not


do more than to assure them that ii has all the viz
tues that Il did have when making the cures which have
won so strongly upon the confidence Of mankind ah
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and Tor sale by g. ROBERTs. oolumbus- md by all
dealers in medicine everywhere. tF rs3ai


April ls, lS6e-d&weowly I'D s-tss
Year: 1862




The OPENING or TRADE Win TIE SOUTd.-
The capture of Fort Donelson, coupled with the
occupation Of Nashville by our troops, has re-
suited in the opening Of trade between the
whole CT the section Of which it is the centre
a section Astounding in cotton aud tobacco. AL
Cumberland to New Iork. The opening Of the
Tennessee, still further south in the same State.
lays open the trade of North Alabama and the
river counties Of Mississippi And soon Mem
phis will fall into the hands Of the Union troops,
and then the whole State Will be accessible to
Northern trade. Memphis formerly shipped
some three or four hundred thousand bales OF
cotton yearly for IL is the outlet of very fer
tile and extensive district Of country. This
aud other products formerly went down the
Mississippi to New Orleans: They will now
ascend that river, to be conveyed by railroad
to New York Along the Atlantic scaboard
The same process is going forward, and soon
there will be an abundance Of cotton for The
use of the Northern States. Threats arc made
in tho rebel Congress and elsewhere to burn
the cotton and tobacco which are likely to fall
into the hands Of the Union troops. But we
suspect the owners will not surrender their
chances to get cash for the article for
the worthless promise of indemhiacatio, eor
the loss by the bog,is coniederacy. In many
instances. TOO, towns and districts will be sur.
prised by our advancing lesions hefVre the
more violent secessionists can have time TO ai;N
ply the torch. The revival of Southern trade
in consequence Of the progress of our arms
will be great benefit to North and South, but
particularly to the South, whose products were
Of little or no value because, there was no mar
kct for them, while at the same time the people
had to pay fabulous prices for shoes. salt and
other nccessarics of life. Their s'iferings in
consequence were very great. This state of
things is put all end to by the victories at Mill
Springs, Fort Henry and Fort Doncison, result
ing. as they do in the restoration of The whole
of the magnificent State Of Tennessee and por-
tions of the adjoining States to the free trade
and commerce of tho Union
Year: 1862

The CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION or IfirNors.-
The telegraph informed us yesterday that The
Constitutional Convention Of Illinois had di.
rccted the Legislature TO enact laws to prevent
any negroes entering that State. Will Congress
undertake to Interfere with that actions Just
as we'll might il 10 so as undertake to emanci-
pate slaves In the Southern States or to turn
tlosc States into territorial governments. IL is
clear that The people of Illinois do no, rocog-
nize Tie negro az citizen OF The United States
witbin the meaning Of the constitution; for If he
were y citizen they would have 30 power to
prevent Lis settling among them. IL Is also
plain tfat they do not believe the negro to be
equal to tho white man, and thai they abhor
anal gamaion. Yet u few desperate fanatics
in Congress are attempting to force upon the
Southern States a social and political condition
which the Nor4hcn States wiN not tolerate
tor themselves.