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Year: 1862

Tho noblest men ! know on earth


Are men whose hands are brown with toll
Who, backed by no ancestral graves,


Hew down the woods, and till the soil,
And win thereby prouder fame


Than follows king or warriors name.
The working men whate'er their task,
To carve the stone, or bear the hOd-
They wear upon their honest brows


The royal stamp and seal OF God
And brighter arc the drops Of sweat


Than diamonds in a cOronet!
God bless the noble working men,


Who rear the cities of the plain;
Who dig the mines, and build the ships,
And drive the commerce Of the main;
God bless them for their swarthy hands
Have wrought the glory of all lands.
Year: 1862

hzy"lt is curious coincidence !hat all
the journals which are now bawling 50 lua
tilv for Emancipation, are the very same
ones which agreed last fall with the New
York Tribune that "the South is worth
nothing to the Union, and if she really
wants to leave it we will he'D her oR" II
is not at all unlikely that the Abolition
cries, which ring out with such peculiar
iervor at this time, are intended TO holp
her out" Whether intended or not they
surely have a tendency to do So Weekly
Obsnper.
Year: 1862

We are now prepared to manufacture our
goods with dispatch, as our force is much larger
than heretofore.


We have the best Of woTkmen, and no effort
win be spared on our part to give entire salts
faction to all who may favor Us with their pat
ronage. nolO-3m
Year: 1862

Me Greenwich Insurance Company has declared
Idividend of five per cent payable February l.


The transfer books of the New York Central
Railroad will be closed on the LIST of February,
and remain closed until the Oath Of that month,
preparatory to declaring dividend.


The case Of the second mortgage bondholders of
the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad has been
appealed to the Supreme Court of the United
States. 1t is not known yet whether any appeal
will be taken in the land grant case.
Year: 1862

been shot away by a cannon ball. After
satisfying his thirst, he looked up into my
face and said, "You don't think will die,
corporal, do you' This man said I would
not-he said the surgeon could cure my
feet"


now discovered a man lying in the
grass near him, dead. By his dress rec
ognized him as belonging to the enemy
1t appeared that he had been shot through
the bowels, and had fallen near where Ed
dy lay. Knowing that he could not live,
and seeing the condition of the boy, be
had crawled to him, took off his bucLskin
suspenders. and corded tho little fellows
legs below the knee, and then lay down
and died. While be was telling me these
particulars, heard the tramp Of cavalry
coming down the ragine, and in moment
a scout of the enemy was upon US, and l
was taken prisoner. l requested the of.
ficer to take Eddy up in front Of him, and
he did so, carrying him with great tender
ness and care. When we reached the camp
of the enemy, the little fellow was dead
1t is now about two weeks since ! made
my escape from McCulloch's grasp.
Year: 1862




Tie fort on Edding's Island was visited
and found deserted, like the rest. Indeed
this reconnaissance only confirms the result
of others, that the whole coast has been
abandoned, and ,ha. no effort will be made
to hold any point between Charleston and
Port Royal south of James Islaud. Som.
er Inlet, whose entrance is on the south of
that Island, is the approach to Charleston,
and all appearances indicate that there a
desperate stand is to be made. Batteries
are erected along its northern bank, and
the channel is obstrueted by sunken vessels
and stockades. The position is uudoubt-
edly an admirable one for defence.


THE SCHOOL FOR CoNRRABANDs.


The commencement of the school for
the contrabands has been unavoidably de-
layed. An order for tie blackboards at
Beaufort was given by the Chief Quarter
master, and Mr.. Lee went up to get them.
Gen. Stephens promised they should be
sent. down, but they have not come, and
without them it is not easy to make be-
ginning. 1t is intended to 60 on as soon
as they are received, if the weather is not
too severe. The school must be held for
the present evening, as most of the schol-
ars are at work during the day. The only
school room is the open. air, aud as that is
sometimes extremely cold, and often TOO
keen for such work, there can be no regu-
lar sessions until room is furnished
Quarters for the contrabands are just CON-
menced. Hitherto they have slept in a
few poor tents on the bluff near the fort,
an exposed situation, with little protec-
ton from the thin canvass of which the
tents are made. Four buildings, each $50
feet long by 80 feet wide, will be finished
in two or three weeks, and part of one,
perhaps so feet by 80, will be reserved as
a school room. Before that is ready some
arrangement will have been made for the
permanent establishment of the school, and
at least one teacher is expected from the
North who will give his whole time to in
StructlOn.
Year: 1862

and his army were saved from capture
BY the negro who rode in such haste
into Gen. Keuly's camp and gave in
formation Of the danger 10 time for the
men TO form in order Of battle. and hold
tbs enemy in check until their plane
for q surprise Of the division we're frus-
trated. Ifa slave that negro should Be
be made free.


We think it is time to turn over a
new leaf in the conduct Of the war. and
for the COVE rpment to use al the meac c'
within its roach to crush the rebellion.
Let us hrve done with temporizing. and
strike the monster 10 the heart.
Year: 1862

"CARvING A HEAD SroNE.'-The above is pithy title to the order which we publish be> low. Banks slid; Shields was dismissed by an unanimous vote of the trump Senate and now Woolly Horse Fremont is laid on the shelf The order of dismissal is the most decent thing we have seen that ever emenated from Lincoln:
Year: 1862

thing else, as the last desperate expedient Of
resistance to our advancing armies. Upon
such an issue, with JEFF. Davis, his Cabinet and
Congress in full fight, and with our armies in
full pursuit, the Southern planter, turning to
the interests of his family, will surely decide
against the fearful alternative of self-destruc-
ton and in favor of the supreme law of self
preservation. Already the original confidence
OF the mass Of our Southern secessionists in the
success Of their bold enterprise has been ter
ribly shaken by our late important victories.
But the Confederate government" apparently
calm and confident, is still at Richmond, and 80
its deluded followers are still inclined to wor-
ship it. But let it be ignominiously expelled
and the veil will be lifted from their eyes, and
Davis and his ruling confederates will be met
in their fight by an indignant uprising of the
people they have so ruthlessly plundered and
betrayed; and this will be the end of their
Southern confederscy.


The tricks and impostures by which the
Southern people have been induced so long to
run behind the chariot wheels of JEFF. Davis
are nearly exhausted. In abandoning the line
Of Manassas, his followers In Virginia were
told that it was only to fall back temporarily
upon q moro advantageous defensive line, for
the purpose of enticing "the Yankees" to their
certain destruction. That miserable trick will
be exploded with McClellan's occupation of
Richmond; and then the Virginia people, re-
voting against despotic extortions and mill
tary conscription the most relentless Of mo-
dern times, will set an example of rebellion
against this rebellion which will spread like
fierce contagion throughout the South Let
jeff. Davis and his ruling associates be cap
tured or expelled from Richmond, and in the
Virginia contingent alone fifty thousand men
will speedily be lost to the service of the rebel
government.


The early occupation Of Richmond by Nc
Clellan's army is as sure as the continued rising
and setting of the sun; the only doubt upon
the subject is whether tho rebels will make an
effort against him to hold their chosen capital
or will abandon it without q fght. In any
event, those crushing blows are close at hand
which are destined to put to fight the rebel
government, to scatter its armies to the winds,
and to stir up an astonishing Union reaction
among the Southern people, from Richmond to
Galveston. "The work goes bravely on;' and
completely assured, as we are, of these grand
results, we await in patience their fulflment.
Year: 1862

SEcEssIoNisrs, ABoLTr1oNIsrs AND Mrs. LIN
coIN.-The rebel journals seem to be greatly
delighted with the abolition scandals about
Mrs Lincoln and reprint and endorse them
exultantly. This is as we expected, and doubt
less the attacks upon the wife of the President
were written by the Tribune and Liberator
editors for the sake Of their effect down South


Both secessionists and abolitiopists are Of ono
Year: 1862




We are upon the threshold Of the greatest
events of the war Within q few days, per-
haps within the present week, we may receive
the glad tidings of his occupation of the rebel
capital; Of the capture or expulsion of its
rebel army and its rebel government from
Virginia; of the restoration of the sold flag"
over the city of Norfolk, and, in short. of the
liberation Of the "Old Dominion" from the
fangs of the rebellion, and her restoration TO
the irresistible power and the inevitable au-
thority of the supreme government Of the
United States.


This is the news which we expect, before the
lapse of many days, will become interviewer
among the great historical events of the mo-
mensous month Of April, 1862. Cotempora-
neously even greater successes than these
against the armed forces of the rebellion may
be achieved in the Southwest; but first, let us
consider the probable effects Of the expulsion
of the rebel army and the rebel government
from the sacred soil" Of Virginia.


JEFF Davis and his ruling confederates
Richmond to the last extremity. Hence
the late circular from the Chief of his
Ordnance Bureau, making Richmond
place of deposit for all church and other
bells which may be contributed in Vir-
rinia 10 the Confederate States government
to be converted into light artillery; and hence
the notice, in the same circular, that the facts
of all such contributions from all the other
Confederate States" must be sent to Rich
mond to be placed on file there among the ar
chives of the War Office. The idea is here thrown
out that Richmond is secure against 1.-The Yam
KEGS" and that the rebel government will sure
ly remain there, whatever may be its disasters
in other quarters. What, then, will be the conse-
auences when the fact is made known through
out the South that JEFF. Davis and his Cabinet
and Congress have been compelled suddenly to
| abandon Richmond, and to fly, with such private
and public baggage as they could carry or to
| the interior Of Alabama or Georgia for tenn
| porary place Of refuge?


Such unexpected intelligence as this will in
deed create q panic from North Carolina to
| Texas. and wide spread popular conviction
that further resistance on the part of the cotton
States to the arms of the Union is vain and ut
terlv homeless. Under this impression, the to.
bacco. cotton. rice and sugar planters Of the
South will be very apt to comprehend their
true course of safety upon the question of sub
mission to the Union, in order to save something
from the wrecks of this rebellion, or the dc
struction of all their gathered crops of the las
year, Of cotton, t9baee9, rice, sugar and every
Year: 1862

No less than seven dead bodies have


been found floating 9 in the river at points
on the Indiana shore above the mouth


of Silver Greek during the past two or
three days. Five of the bodies were
those Of soldiers and two were the re


mains of negroes. 1t is supposed that
these persons were carried away by the
current and drowned in the act of wad-
ing the river at the falls. An inquest
was held in each case by the Coroner of
Clark County, but the bodies were not
identified ed.-Louisville Journal, 7th.
Year: 1862

Gen Mitchell, the successor to Gene
raj Hunter in the Department of the
South, at a consultation with his regi-


mental officers a week or two since, took
occasion to address them on the subject


Of slavery, which, as a native Kentuck-
ian, lie said he felt that he had a right
to talk about. The following is an ex-


tract from his remarks: -.E5s g.. :"


"N must destroy slavery, or it will
conquer US. / accept the issue. L be-
lieve that all the hopes of huma nifty for
a thousand years to come are involved


in this struggle. Rather than that this


Government should be overthrowns Z


am ready not only to see slavery exter-


minated, but also have every negro in


the Southern States destroyed-and


more, am ready to see every white


man in these rebel States destroyed also.
1--WE must realize the state of affairs.
We have not done so hitherto. / hear


that there has been some criticism on
the course adopted by my predecessor


in this department in regard to the ne


gro population. There has been some
talking about idle, lousy negroes etc.


The time for such talk has passed. We


must use the negro. At the West We
have protected whole tracts of eo.n and


cotton-property of the rebels-pro-
tected them better than their t,oops


would have done, and then have been


chased out and left them for the enemy
to gather. There can be no more OF
that If we can carry ON these planta
tions here, by the labor of the negroes,


and make it profitable, We must do so,-
and benefit ourselves at their expense
Il ask You all to consider this subject


carefully, thoughtfully, as its Importance
demands" -...
Year: 1862

Many persons are daily inquiring
how bandages for wounded soldiers
should be prepared. They should be
made from cotton which will bear a
hard pull.


Baulages one inch wide should be
one yard long; two and two and half
inches wide, three yarls long; three
inches wide, four yards long. Many
more cf the two and two aud half inch
bandages are required than either the
narrower or wider.


They should be pieced by tapping
one raw edge over the other, fiat, and
should be tightly sewed. Selvedses
must all be removed-and the bandage
tightly rolled and pinned.


These are the directions ofthe United
States Sanitary Commission, taken from
their own Circular. Their direction
in regard to lint are that it should be
roOeled from old .mask or linen cloth
cut four or Eve inches square, laid
straight, not tied, and pack firmly in
paper boxes The broken thread may
be preserved from seperate parcel.
Year: 1862

The CONDITION OF TEE GREAT EASTERN.
We published :: statement in our last issue,
to the effect that the condition of the Great
Eastern, as she lay sunk in Long Island
Sound, was such rs to render the possibility
IF saving her from destruction very doubtful
We see that Rowland s. Aspinwall, her agents,
have published a card contradiciing the state


ncrt as to her condition. They deny. too,
that she is q failure. and attribute the delay in
repairing her to the difficulty Of obtaining
plating in this country, owing to the immense
demand for the same article by our Govern
mcnt. We may, then, expect to sec the great
ocean monster lg,in :1oat
Year: 1862

Ut.


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


Chaplain in volunteers $ll6 80


In addition to the paw 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. Ii soldier should become disabled
in the line Of his duties the law provides for m
a pension. or he may if he prefer il, obtain nd
mission into the Military Asylum, which will
afford him 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 10 be paid du
ring service, the 800 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 privatcs alike.
Year: 1862

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


We devote entire time and attention TO the treat


ent of the various private diseases treated of in pr
report Our DspenSsry is the only Institution OF the
kind in America which has been tsblshed by special
charter this fact should give h preference over the
quacks Of doubtful character to be found IN all


srge cities
Year: 1862

SATURDAY EVENING, May 81, 1861.


There has been gradually increasing improve.
ment in the demand for money during the week,
but 60 abundant Is 1t that al legitimate offerings
we're readily taken and as much more would have
been gladly accepted. The calls to 1ulfn govern
ment contracts make very important item in the
financial affairs Of the city; but Of course the
grain and produce trade furnish employment for
bE far the largest amount Of our capital. Gener-
ally the business Of the city Is good and all classes
have reason to congratulate themselves at the
prosperity manifest on every side. It is in strong
contrast with the dullness that prevails in many
cities that could be named.


The demand for New York exchange has been
rather more active than usun1, owing doubtless to
the usual 1emittances about the first Of each
month. The supply, however, was SO ample that
the larger houses continued to make concessions
from =, the current selling rate to best custom
ers OF round lots. The buying price as heretofore
WAS par@H.


Gold is weaker, but the rates do not vary much
from those heretofore given. The general buying
price Was 8 per cent. premium; selling 87z, from,
which fraction may hare been conc. ded on round
ofe
Year: 1862

We are informed by Mr. Gutherie, superin-
tendent Of the Pumping Works ut Bridgeport,
that the pumps we're not run on Friday night,
MS dispatch vas received from the Superin-
tendent Of the canal at Lockport, stating that
the canal could not receive the water as fast
as thrown, and that it was flooding them. As
there is afall Of only two feet in twenty miles
the current Of the canal is very sluggish, and
can only take certain amount. The pumps
we're get ut work again on Saturday, and will
continue working until news is received again
from Lockport. Already the water from the
mouth Of the river to Lake street bridge ID
very pure, and from Lake street to Van Buren
street bridge very much improved, by the
operations Of the pump during the first half
day. II the canal can receive as fast as one
wheel can throw, In one weeks time the en-
tire impure character Of The river will be re-
moved, and We shall have pure blue water, q
contamination deyoutly to be wished.
Year: 1862

The ANNA BISHOP CoNcERT.-Our readers
will not forget the concert of Madame Anna
Bishop this evening, positively her only one
In this city for the present Tickets are for
sale at Higgins Music Store. and those wish
ing rare musical treat would do well to SC.
cure their seats early to-day.
Year: 1862

of a cellar being dug near by. Some
bones from the butchers and some
chip manure from the woodshed were
mixed in with the soil; also a barrow
load to each hole of we'll rotted ma
nure-the sweepings of livery sta
bic, near by. A moderate quantity
of soapsads and dish water applied
from time to time since, is all the fer
tilizers given. After the holes were
dug and filled, as above described, l
obtained six Isabella grape vines two
years old, and we'll rooted, at a cost
Of 371 cents each. These were care
fully set, spreading the roots. The
first year about six feet of vines were
made. In Autumn | cut them down
to within two feet of the ground
The next Spring single shoot from
the bottom eye of each stalk was
trained up the frame, and grew about
II feet. About four feet Of the tops
were cut off in Autumn, and the re-
naming eight feet simply laid down
upon the ground at the bottom Of the
trells, ont of the way.


In the Spring, when the buds be-
gan to swell, the canes were tied up
on the frame or trellis. All the eyes
sent out one or more side bearing
shsots, but where more than one star
ted from the same eye, it was rubbed
off. The others mostly set fruit, of
which only one cluster nearest the
main stem was allowed to grow on the
same side shoot When the frnit was
about the size of peas, | stopped the
further growth Of the side shoot by
pinching off two leaves beyond the
cluster. The result was, fine large
punches of grapes along the whole Of
the eight feet of the previous years
growth. In the mean time the vines
extended upward over the trellis, and
enough side shoots were allowed to
grow to partly cover the trellis frame.
In November | cut off about two feet
of the ends Of the main stems, and Oi
the leading shoots. The bearing side
shoots were cut back to one bud from
the main stem. The whole vines were
then coiled up and laid down for Win
ter on the ground. In Spring, the
vines were used up, and the same
course pursued with the mainstems
and branches as with the main stem.
last year. This year I. have had ff
teen pounds of fine grapes on eacl
vine. If all had grown without pin
ching off, / should have had fifty lb.
to the vine, but l am seeking to ge
good stroug, healthy vines. The
two crops have paid all trouble anc
cost thus far. and shall hereafter have
large crop annually, with little care
or expense.-COrespOndent Of Agri.
| o9i1flyrief
Year: 1862

1t is surprising, Mr.. Editor, that so
few farmers raise grapes, even for
home use. The Agriculturist has said
good deal on the subject, but not
enough yet, l find for only last week
some of my friends living on a farm
of one hundred acres were in ecstasies
over nice basket of grapes, receiv-
ed from my three year old vines grow
ing on a city lot of only twenty-five by
seventy five feet, and having only 20
feet square for garden. They had
grown no such luxury, and yet they
subscribe for the Agriculturist The
fact is, they confessed that they had
always skipped over all the grape
articles as something for amateurs or
horticulturists, and not for farmers.
| showed them how easy it is to get
good grapes in abundance, and at lit
tie cost and trouble, and they at once
decided to put out few vines without
delay. They thought l ought to tell
the readers of your paper just what l
told them; so here it is:


Three years ago last Spring, built
at odd hours, a rude framework on
the southwest side of my house which
answered not only as trellis for the
grape vines, but also as a serene to
keen off the sun, on hot afternoons.
Six posts, six feet above the ground,
were set FIVE feet apart, and ten feet
from the house. Strips were nailed
across, and small rafters run from the
tops of the posts slantipg up against
side of the house, with strips across
them also. Such framework, though
convenient, is not necessary, as the
vines may be trained up against the
side of the house, or on fence, or
almost anywhere that anything can be
found for them to run on.


Now for the vines. -Four holes, 3
feet across and three feet deep. were
dug at the outside of the frame, and
one at each corner of the house.
These holes were filed up with good
surface soil obtained from the top soil