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Year: 1863

o little feet, that such long years
Must wander on through doubts and fears,


Must ache and bleed beneath your load
l, nearer to the wayside inn
Where toll shall cease and rest begin,


Am weary thinking of your road.
o little hands, that, weak or strong,
Have still to serve or rule so long,


Have still so long TO give or ask
/, who so much with book and pen
Have toiled among my fellow men,


Am weary thinking of your task
o little hearts, that throb and beat
With such impatient, feyerish heat


Such limits and strong desires
Mine that so long has glowed and burned,
With passion into ashes turned,


Now covers and conceals its fires.
o little souls, as pure and white
And crystalline as rays of light


Direct from heaven, their source divine
Refracted through the mist of years.
How red my setting sun appears,


How lurid looks this soul of mine,
Year: 1863

Tue POLAR REGIoNs.-The Icelandic peas
antry are lazy TO the last conceivable degree,
revotingly dirty in their persons and habits,
very curiously devoid of all portions Of deli
cacy and propriety. thoroughly selfish and
mercenary. No power on earth, can deliver
an Iceiander from his accustomed ways. They
thlnk no scenes in any country can equal some
OF their valleys which chance to have a little
green grass and few stunted trees. The u
niversal mode OF ssluti On at meeting and part
ing, is a loud kiss. The peasant kisses the
daughters OF the magistrate, and they kiss him
in return. The pastor is also kissed on Sun
day, after service, by all his flock. In short.
a kiss in Iceland is equivalent to our hand
shaking; yet the people are all honest. There
is no prison on the Island there are no Grim
inals, no locks, or bars, though drunkenness
Is very common vice.
Year: 1863

a ToAD's ToILEr.-Audubon relates that he
saw toad undress himself. He commenced
by pressing his elbows hard against his sides
and rubbing downward. After a few smart
rubs, his side began to burst open along his
back. He kept on rubbing until he had
worked all his skin into folds on his side and
hips; then grasping one hind leg with both
hands he hauled off one leg of his pants the
same as body would then stripped off the
other leg in the same way. He then took his
cast off cuticle forward between his fore legs,
into his mouth, and swallowing his head
came down. he stripped off the sgin under
meath until it came to his fore legs. and gras-
ping one of those with the opposite hand, by
a slight motion of the head, and all the while
swallowing. he drew it from the neck and
swallowed the whole. That is economy-what
IS good tor the back answers for the belly.
Year: 1863

81 think, said farmer. "I should make
good Congressman for use their lanpuaoe
L received two bills the other day with a re-
quest for immediate payment the one 1 or
deFed to be laid on the table, the other to be
read that day six months.''
Year: 1863

Kinglake says, on this very delicate


subject:-"A bodily ardor for fighting


may be more or less masked and hidden;


but he to whom this great passion in want
ing, is without the qualities Of a general.


For warfare is so anxious and complex -


business, that against every vigorous


movement hesps of reasons can forever


be found; and if a man is so cold lover
of battle as to have no stronger guide
than the poor balance of the arguments
and counter-arguments which headdress-
es to his troubled spirit, his mind. driven


first one way and then another. will os-
cillate, or even revolve, turn miserably
on its own axis, and making no move
ment straightforward Now, it is char
aeteristic still marking the Scottish blood,
that often-and not the less so when il
flows in the veins of a gentle hearted be-
ing-it is seen TO fire strangely and sud
denly at the prospect of fight Camp
bell loved warfare with deep passion,
and at the thought of battle, his grand.
rugged face used to kindle with uncon-
joy. The Brigade of Guards will
be destroyed; ought it not to fall back?'
When Sir Colin Campbell heard this say
ing, his blood rose so high that the an
swer he gave-impassioneda and far-sound-
ing-was quality to govern events. at
S better, sir, that every man of Her Mai
esty's Guards should lie dead upon the
field than that they should now turn their
backs upon the enemy" Doubts and
Iuestionings ceased. The Division went
forward with a will.
Year: 1863

gwen to slavery, i, will gather new
strength, and drive freedom from this
country forever. In the nature of things
1t can not exist in the same hemisphere
with liberty. Then let every man who
loves HE country determine that if this
war mUst needs last for twenty years it
shall not end until this root of all our po-
litical evils is weeded out forever.
Year: 1863

A YOUNG lady, now an operative in a
shoe factory at Lynn, was formerly one of
the upper ten" in Central Europe. She
received a superior education, learned
three or four languages, moved in high
circles in early life and waltzed and flirt-
ed with the younger members of the roy
al family of her native land. She left her
castle home with false friend, and, on
her position, preferred to earn
her living by steady toll in an humble
calling rather than plunge into the gulf
of vice.
Year: 1863

TIE WEEKLY TRIBUNE has circulation q on'
Hundred and Fifty Thousand copies and large proportion
Of m subscriber, take no other journal The space IN tins
.hs., sO,,.d to sdver.sments necessarily limited so that
each have the advantage easily 'sen and all are gen.
orally read with u much interest As news matter There i''
o. those who have tried know. no advertising medium In
the country 80 cheap because there 10 none so profitable to
The advertiser The paper ceulses among the industrial and
thrifty cas.eshe farmers, manufacturers, merchants and


mechanics of the country and 10 carefully read BY their


vss and daughters ts safe that each advertisement
In read every week by not less than half million Of the
most intelligent Of the people BE who makes bis business bis
merchandise his manufactures known to this immense
number scattered all the loyal States cannot fail to do
% to his own manifest and great advantage.


Advertisements on the fifth page 81 Is, and the
eighth p,ge 81 line For this weeks issus they must
be handed in to-day.
Year: 1863

We do not know how far the Government
has been made acquainted with the State Of
affairs in this city, or whether they know any
thing about it further than is to be learned
from the public press. But If they depend
upon that source of information, we beg to
assure them of one fact of vital moment, that
is, that this district 10 in lamentable
want of military commander. We yield
to none in respect for the past services
of General Wool, but these are not times to
sacrifice present interests to q respect for o
reputation earned in years that are past.
General Wool is now very old man, and has
neither the physical ability nor tho mental re-
sources to meet the fearful emergency into which
we have been precipitated by the Vaccinations
of the treacherOus "Copperheads" and their
organs. He clearly does not comprehend
either the magnitude or the character OF the
crisis, and failing to do this this, he as neces-
sarily fails to delegate the proper authority
and responsibility to younger and more active
men, who, if left to themselves even, might
prove quite equal to the demands Of the mo-
ment. That moment demands wisdom, energy,
promptness, and above all the courage
of true soldier, who, recognizing that real
battle is before him with desperate and savage,
though undisciplined force, hositates no: an ill.,
slant to use the means at his command to dc.
feat and eYterminate it, Two daya' experience
have proved that Gen. Wool, distinguished as
he is for what be has heretofore done, no longer
possesses these qualities; and in kindness to
him, he should be superseded BY younger
man. 1t is triHing, not merely with the inter-
ests Of this great city, but with the welfare OF
the whole country, to hesitate at such mo-
ment as this upon any point OF etiquette or
any considerations of fancied security. The
speech Of Gov. Seymour from the City Hall
steps yesterday in which he called these sav-
age rioters his friends AS indeed they are
and promised to use his influence TO induce
tho Government TO resort TO the fatal step
of stopping the draft, should arouse the Gov.
ernment to the fact that this city Is IN state
OF revolution. Unless speedily rescued the
town will be given up to confiagration and
pilag. before the week ie out and II must be
saved By the military arm. Give US soldiers,
and give them commander The best Major
General in the army, not now In the held
e1cep. George Is. McClclIan--should bs sta
toned at this post. Give hlm unlimited au'
,hori,y that New-York may be saved ere it ii
too late
Year: 1863

u.op, Of importance until peace and quetness should
opoe more prevail In the city. The brokers Offices were


o,ed at an early hour In many instances for the purpose Of
completing for the internal deenss Of the city
Tho business OF the First Board extremely Light and for
several months have observed complete On absence
animation. The entire business Of the morning did not
eeed 900 shares There excessive anxiety to SELL
and pressure Of cssh stock the market but simply an
indisposton to operate There ws general decline oi
per cent nosry the whole LIST Frsght are very dull but
rates notwithstanding well sustained To Antwerp 300
bbls Flour s The Money Market continues very easy at
previous rates. but exceedingly dull on account OF the
quite general suspension Of business caused BY the os o1
per is the rate with few exceptional ansso
tions at higher lower according to the standing o
the borrowers the character of the securities offered
Gold slightly lower Tho sales ct the Board were ct 1917
dl3l but the market subsequently declined to 1901 though
at the close the price about I3 Early In the day 'tsr


ling exchange was dull at 1~7l but was moderately 90
tive subsequently, and closed firm at 43 Exchange higher
than cold,
Year: 1863

The gunboat Union, from the Bockading
Squadron on Monday, brings the cheering news
that another attack on the defenses Of Charles
ton has begun. and that Gen. Gilmore, by
three days fighting, has driven the Rebels
from all of Morris Island, excepting one fort,
which be was vigorously besieging when the
Union left. tt immense Importance Of this
movement and the value Of the success are due
to the position Of Morris Island with reference
to Fort Sumter which will be threatened and
destroyed by tho batteries of Gen. Gilmore
from the ground which be thus occupies. His
splendid success at Fort Pulaski is evidence
enough of what this officer will accomplish
when once he has established himself within
range Of Fort Sumter
Year: 1863

make il irresistible. Until further advised, we
forbear criticism on his recent movements.


But whatever shall prove to be the fact
about Gen. Meade, Gen. Haleck cannot escape
his share-and it is large One-of accounta'
bility for this misfortune. To only him is TO
be attributed the imbecie strategy which KEPT
the forces of Gen. Dix promenading on the PENN
sula, while decisive struggle was pending IN
PENNSYLVANIA. Whatever the event OF the
Gettysburg battles, Dix was useless where ne
was placed. If Lee had been annihilated'
Richmond was q ripe apple waiting TO drop
into our hands. If anything less than annlhi'
lated, the reanforcements which were thus
withheld would have enabled Gen. Meade
to renew bis attack, and to have forced
Lee to fight again before he could have
crossed the Potomac. Of the issue oil
such q battle between the exhausted
forces of the rebels, and the fresh strength
which would have added both numbers and
courage to Gen. Meade's army, there could not
be doubt. Yet this sure and splendid success
is thrown away in order to prove once more the
total unfitness Of tho General-in-Chief for the
place in which he is retained, against the
unanimous opinion of tho country.


II is still possible, and We have reason to
believe that Gen. Meade will follow bis 70.
treating adversary with unrelentins footsteps.
We trust that force has been already sent,
or, ut least, will be speedily, into the shenan-
doah Valley, to hold some Of its passes, and
to retard if it could not wholly obstruct the
movements of Gen. Lee. BE that as it may,
tho nation will be satisfied with nothing less
than the most immediate and vigorous pursuit,
and will still look for ON early and complete
success.
Year: 1863

Elsewhere in this mornings issue will be
found reprints of editorial articles from The
World, The Ners and The Journal Of Com
meres, which exhibit the responsibility of those
papers for the terrible outrages Of tho mob.
Nothing can be clearer than the deliberate pur-
pose therein evinced to rouse the passions OF
an ignorant multitude into just such q vindlc'
tive and savage insurrection as this city has
been compelled to witnesses.
Year: 1863

We received the following from the Agent
of the Associated Press:-"We understand that
the retreat of Lees army is now rOut and
that its spirit is utterly broken. This places
at the disposition of the Federal Government
ample force to Overawe the rioters in this and
other cities. No doubt need be entertained
that the power of the Government will soon
be shown in the matter"
Year: 1863

sake Of preserving what is called the freedom
of the press. While it is permitted, no man
can wonder that this city becomes the theateR
Of Rebellion, and no man who reads the edito.
rial which we reprint in another column, can
fail to see how openly The World assumed the
leadership Of the rioters a. well as secretly
fostered their plans.
Year: 1863

Slavery and the Rebellion must suffer. which is
at the bottom of all tLis arson, devastation,
robbery and murder. And this fact should
arouse every devotee of Liberty and Law to
oppose TO the rioters the sternest resistance.
Year: 1863

A statement of the work now accomplishing
by the Sanitary Commission and Of the neces-
sites constantly existing for regular. system
attic contributions, will be found in our adver'
t,ing columns. No appeal of ours can add
force to the record of facts therein set forth,
nor can any be needed to insure q generous
response by the country.
Year: 1863

q An exchange contains a notice that
Truth IS croEded out OF this issue. This i
almost as bad a. the np-eou1try editor who said
For the evil effects Of intoxicating drinks, see
our inside
Year: 1863

PRETTY GooD.-A friend tells us story:
In McGregor not long since gentleman
complained to one Of his neighbors that
semc scoundrel was stealing wood from
him-the wood was nicely prepared for
the stove and it was internally provoking
to lose it. "Tell you what to do" said his
friend; "get my dog and keep him in your
wood house,. The hint was taken, the
dog procured, fed for week or two on the
best of bones, &C., &c, till one morning on
rising much earlier than usual the wood.
owner actually saw the dog owner carrying
an armful Of wood away from his pile, the
dog of course looking as happy at his mas,
ter's slight of hand as though he had Of
ten seen the same thing done before. Sew
eral persons in town want to purchase tn,
dog for lending purposes.
Year: 1863

~ New playing cards are spoken of
the pictures on which they are to be tax.
en- from the forms and faces Of men who
have distinguished themselves in the war
Eminent Abolition contractors will SIT for
the knaves
Year: 1863

THE extent and force of the rcaction in
the Middle and Eastern States against the
schemes Of the Corpcrhcads, is both sur
,rising and gratifying to the earnest
friends Of the loyal cause. And though the
West has not yet equa1lcd the East in
their revolution, VIC have tic gratifying an
ronnceneut to send to New York and
New England, that the good work is here
going on; and that the danger in all the
States Of the Lake rcgion-danger that we
might have civil war at homc-is for the
present surmounted. We ought, perhaps,
to except Indiana In thnt State, treason
openly and boldly avows itself; but, oven
there, there are signs that the crisis is past,
and that in the heart Of the Democratic
party itself, the sentiment Of loyalty is re-
uewing itself and will soon accomplish
the wonders that It has elsewhere wrought.
Let the good work 60 onl
Year: 1863

In spite Of the filthy expressions of con-
tempt which, on its first announcement,
tie Copperhead press flung upon the
scheme for Black Brigade, rs o part Of
the Federal army, the originators Of it
were in no wise abashed or in tinidatcd
nor did they stuck fast in the mud Of the
abuse wherewith they were assailcd- On
the contrary, they set zcalous]y to work, as
soon as they were commissioned to do SO
BY the Executive authority; and after
marslal1ing, drilling and thoroughly or
ganizing the men, they felt proud of the
military bearing Of their ebony sculptures,
and confident that so much muscle and bone
would one day tell big tale against the
enemies Of the Republic.


Events have proved that these were no
false calculations, and that Black Soldiers
if they cannot fight as wel1 as volunteers
and regulars, are by no means deficient in
dash and courage. The news Of their ex-
ploits in Florida, under Colonel Higginson
sets the question Of their fighting ability at
rest forever, and must be gall and worm
wood 10 tie miserable copperheads who
1aced against them so madly at the onset


We learn from Hilton Head that these
dcspised and despatched negroes, who
were 10 run away at the first blast Of the
enemy's cannon, did, in reality, nothing Of
the sort, but stood their ground bravely,
and laughed at the balls, shells and bullets,
as pretty display Of fireworks, and a good
Joke, although intendedto be made at their
expense. Nay, more than this, that they
had the audacity to encounter the Southern
chivalry, and let daylight out, and dark
into many more Of them thar rclishcd the
treatment


Their entire behavior on the field is ex-
tol1cd By their officers in terms which
must give a Copperhead the cholic, and,
seeing that he is naturally given to evil
speech, make him, moreover, grind oauls
like fre-crackers between his teeth. =


We are sorry that the particulars Of their
success have not yet reached us; but it is
.authentical]y stated that they have assault
ed and captured many important positions
and large quantity Of munitions and sup.
plies.


This is news of the right sort, and from
the right persons, in the right quarter
There can be no reason. out Of the mind
of q traitor, why the Blacks should not
help to achieve their own liberty; and we
are glad that our Government has knocked
on the head all that silly prejudice against
employing them in the army, which North
ern traitors have tried SO hard to build uE
between the two races, and consolidate
INTO vol Of adamant.
Year: 1863




We give the following from Rochester
Journal, to illustrate to the gentle reader
the style Of tongue-lashing in which some
hard.hearted editors indulge, leaving the
author of it to the tender mercies Of the
indignant fair:


Young women are full Of tears. They
will weep as bitterly for the loss Of new
dress as the loss Of an old lover. They
will weep for anything or for nothing
They will scold you to death for acciden-
tally tearing a new gown, and weep for
spite if they cannot be rcvengcd on you.
They will play the coquctte in your pres.
ence, and weep when you are absent
They will weep because they cannot go to
ball or to tea party, or because their
parents will not permit them to run away
with villain, and they will weep because
they cannot have everything their own
way. Married women weep to conquer.
Tears are the most potent arms of matri.
monial warfare. IL gruf husband has
abused his wife, she weeps, and he repents
and promises better behavior. Women
weep to get at their husbands secrets, and
they also weep when their own secrets
have been revealed. They weep through
pride, vanity, folly, cunning and weak.
ness. They will weep for husbands
misfortuncs, while they scold him. A
woman will weep over the dead body of
her husband, while her vanity will ask
her neighbor how she is fitted with her
mourning! The Widow of Ephesus' be-
dewed the grave Of her spouse with one
eye, while she squinted love to = young
soldier with the other"
Year: 1863

PUSH ON.-The following extract from
the writings of John Neal nay have met
the eyes Of many of our readers betOres
It is worth repeating, and the truths tt
contains are worth remembering:


There are people who, having begun
life by setting their boat against the wind
and tide, arc always Just ready to give up,
and for that very reason always helpless
and good for rothing. Good voyages are
made both ways. ..


A certain amount Of opposition is .
great help to man. Kites rise against,
not with the wind. Even head wind is
better than nothing. No maRPEeg work
ed his voyage anywhere ma aUsA czfm%
The best wind for anything 10 the long
run Is side wind. fit blows aft, bow
is be to get back!


Let NO man wax rale, therefore, be-
cause of opposition. Opposition is what
he wants and must have to be good for
anything. Hardship is the native soil Of
manhood and self-reliance. He that cam
not abide the storm without tlinching or
quailing, strips himself in the sunshine,
and lays down by the wayside, to be
overlooked and forgotten.


He who hut braces himself up to the
struggle, when the winds blow, gives up
when they are done and falls asleep in the
stiffness that follows.


Did you ever know anybody to stick to
any kind Of business, no matter how uD-
promising, ten years at most, who did not
prosper! No matter how bad it might
be in the beginning, if he stuck to it ear
nestly and faithfully and tried nothing
else, no matter how hard he may have
found it sometimes to keep his head
above water, still, if he persevered, he al
ways come out right in the long run.
Year: 1863

WE don't want to spend our existence
ferretting out such subjects as the origin
of evil. 1t is bad enough to have to en-
counter evil and recognize it when We
meet it. Who cares to be always going
backward likc a crab to find out where
things "come from ="
Year: 1863

a GREAT past is glorious; more glorious
is great future--more glorious, for the
least chance that We may be more than
we have been, is more ennobling to the
mind than the largest assurances that We
have been more than we are.
Year: 1863

GOVERNMENT contractors, who are max


ing their fortunes out Of the war, have
fearful responsibility resting upon their
shoulders, and the people may yet call
some Of them to an account for the part
they are acting. Why should they want
the war to cease? They never in the
whole course of their lives were making
money as fast as now. Money is the
great god. Men will sell their lives, aye,
Souls, for money. Patriotism is obsolete,
a thing Of the past. Self.intcrest is the
governing element, and until the people
the masses-thosc who are suffering from
a continuance Of hostilities by the en-


hanced cost Of living and the prostratioD
of business-by the final destruction
which threatens the nation-until they
become aroused and assert their rights
and power, and put down corruption, just
SO long may we expect 10 see hostilities
continue. 1t is asserted by those in po-
sition to know, that frauds to the amount
Of twenty-five million dollars have been
perpetrated upon the government in the
Quartermaster's department alone, to say
nothing Of frauds in other departments.
Contractors are, almost to man, in favor
Of a continuance of the war while there
is pound of paper to print green backs
on. How long this state Of things shall
continue is for the people to say. The
power is in their hands, whenever they
see fit to exercise it.-[Providence Press.