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Year: 1862

The following correspondence took place betwee
q parshoner, who sent to his pastor present of
spare-rib, and the minister:
My pastor dear, as words are oft
An idle foolish waste,
I send you something tangible
To better suit your taste,
For since poor Adam lost a rib
To win his lOvoy Eve
A spare rib all his worthy sons
Are willing to receive;
So please accept this little gift
thus so humbly send
And though it cOmeth from a hog,
Believe me still your friend.


THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
I cannot hope, my worthy friend,
In words of equal rhyme,
To thank you for your welcome gift
That comes in such good time
For my dear Rib who comes in line
From that our Adam lost
Ayers, that spare ribs in their place,
Are better than the first.
And soon my family Of eight
VIII sit in dinner rig,
And bless the kind and generous heart
That shares with us his pig.
Year: 1862

In recent case of assault in Chelsea. the
defendant plead guilty. 81 think must be
guilty" said he, because the plaintiff and
me we're the only ones in the room, and
the first thing knew l was standing up.
and he was doubled over the stove. You'd
better call It guilty.
Year: 1862

It was the Deacon, with sun burned fore
head and butternut- -colored suit, his honest
face beaming with pleasure.


"Well, sister, I've come to bring my little
Kitty home! The fact is, we couldn't get
along without her any longer. Where is
she? Why don't she come to kiss her old
fatherg'


Mrs. Gregory sank down on the nearest
sofa and buried her face in her pocket
handkerchief, sobbing wildly. The Deacon
stared in astonishment.


"Why, what's the matter? She isn't
sick? 2"


Mrs. Gregory could not answer-she only
rose and threw open the folding doors, let
ting stream of light into the room where
lay slender figure all draped in snowy
in the whitest Of muslin, for the grave, with
roses scattered on the breast, and the fair
hands tied together with pearly ribbon.
The touch of art had not desecrated the
the dusky gold of the lovely hair which
rippled in shining waves around the marble
brow The Deacon stood for moment as
the man may stand upon whose fated head
the scorching thunderbolt has fallen-then
he sank senseless to the floor; in blessed
though momentary oblivion, his last words
ringing like knell on Mrs. Gregory's quiv.
ering ear.


"You have killed her-you have killed
my little Kitty!'


Many year after the crimson leaves
drifted like a rain of blood around the lonely
farm house on the hill-many a night the
dancing freight illunined the raftered
kitchen, where the oleanders. still blossomed
and the gray headed old couple rat opposite
one another silent with the everlasting
weight of great sorrow that never could
shape itself into words. But Kitty's foot
| step never cheered their listening ears moro
and the winds on the far off church yard
slope moaned sadly among the leaaess rost
trees raising above her golden hair, as
though they knew that the sunshine of one
lonely home lay under that coffin lida
| And so passed away Kitty Gregory-only
one of the innumerable list of victims swep
from the sunny word by the hand Of the
despot Fashion,
Year: 1862

The chill winds of early December had
shaken off the last gold leaves that hung
trembling to the forest boughs the shining
chestnuts had long ago ratified down from
their russet husks, and been garnered away
by the bright. eyed little squirrels that rust
led through the faded moses and withered
foliage of the gray old oaks, like quick
shadows: and now, at the close of dreary
day of cloud and wind, the rain was falling
with melancholy sound on the sloping
caves of Deacon Gregory's house, at the
bend of the road.


There was no candle in the huge old
kitchen, nor was there need of one, for the
glorious blaze of the giant logs piled on the
glimmering brass sire dogs illumined every
crack and corner of the room with fitful
radiance. Mrs. Gregory's kitchen was as
pleasant an apartment as half the parlors in
Fifth Avenue palaces, with its snowy floor
and cushioned rocking chairs, and white
fringed curtains; and as for conseryatorles,
Mrs. Gregory wouldn't have given fig for
'em as long as her monster oleander ex
panded its pink blossoms in tropical splendor
beneath the warm, low ceiling of that same
cozy, snug old kitchen, and the monthly
roses in the window kept up semblance OF
boomy June even on this bleak, rainy De
cember evening.


"Nine o'clock" said the deacon, taking off
his spectacles to wipe away an unwonted
dew that had settled On their silver circled
ovals; "nine o'clock-how the time does slip
away, to be sure! And to think that this
is the last evening our Kitty will be with us
for three months. Mind, Kitty you don't
forget your old father among those gay city
folk!"


Kitty Gregory jumped up from her low
seat in he chimney corner, and ran across
the glowing hearth to give the old deacon a
shower of kisses which seriously endangered
his blue checked neck handkerchief, and
forced him to sue, between laughing and
crying, for mercy.
Year: 1862

SrocKJoBBiNa aJoURSALrsx.-Already the stock
jobbing journals are beginning to show the
clovsn foot Some time ago such papers as
the imbecile Times tried to write down stocks
by making cowardly predictions Of our defeats.
Now, having secured full supply Of stocks at
low price, they try to get up a great sensa-
ton upon the old news about Mercier's visit to
Richmond, the motive Of which was disclosed
in the HERALD three weeks ago, and they hope
thus to influence the stock market. II is
trouble wasted, however; for the stock market
is buoysnt enough, and our victories will keep
il so.
Year: 1862

STocK SPEcULArroNs IN WALL STREET.-There
has been a regular rush for stocks in Wall
street during the last few days, resulting in .
general rise Of everything bearing that name.
While the stockholders and brokers are having
high time purchasing on rise, the proprie-
tors Of the steckjobbing journals Of this city
have gone to Virginia to ascertain the
prospects Of crushing out the rebellion and the
consequent additional imitation Of stocks. No
doubt these managers and proprietors Of the
stockjobbing newspapers have been sending
home private advice to their accomplices in
Wall street, and, like Bull Run Russell, have
been urging them for several days past to act
o. though they had heard "good news.n
Year: 1862

ABOLITION ATTACKS ON OUR GENERArs-The
brilliant success Of our armies in every quarter
sorcly afiicts the abolitionists Of the Sumner
and Lovejoy school. They see in the success
that has attended the labors of our generals
the speedy crushing out of the rebellion, and
the restoration of the Union on its former basis
Here is where the shoe pinches and the cause
Of all the buster of the abolitionists in and out
of Congress, and their continuous attacks upon
the generals, nearly all of whom are constitu-
tional Union men, and therefore labor for the
speedy and effectual crushiag out of the rebel
lion, letting slavery to take care Of itself. Our
generals and two-thirds of the army being con-
servative men, the abolitonsts are unable to
use them to carry out their grand theory of
negro equality. Hence their rawlings in Con-
gress and elsewhere.


From present indications there is every rea-
son to believe that the rebellion will be soon
brought to an end, and the Union restored on q
constitutional basis, leaving with the several
States to take care of slavery as it best affects
their interests, by accepting or rejecting the
emancipation policy of the President. This
does not commit the President to the protection
of slavery; it does not commit the North or
the Union armies or generals to q slavery
policy, but leaves it where it belongs-with the
States affected by it, as they and their interests
may determine.
Year: 1862

A LESSON IN THE ART OF WAR.-We notice
that General Mcclellan has determined to make
his rebel prisoners pick up the torpedoes and
loaded shells distributed shout the rebel forti-
fications at Yorktown and along the road to
Williamsburg. fhis is an excellent idea, and
we shall be glad to have it strictly carried out
Already We have lost eight or ten brave Union
soldiers by this cowardly and treacherous de-
vice Of the rebels Of putting man traps about
their deserted Notifications, and We think It
about time that they should be hoist with their
own petards. Perhaps II few rebels are
blown to pieces with these concealed torpedoes
we shall be able to infuse some idea Of the pro-
prietes and humanities Of war into those
traitors who run like sheep before our brave
troops, and wreak their weak revenge by setting
cOwardly trsps to destroy the upyGE
Year: 1862

should not be due to accidental rains or sud den rises Tn capricious streams. By such silly dependence we have lost Fort Henry, and the power of railway communication between Memphis and Bowling Green. As a matter of course, Buells east wing will now be thrown forward to menace the Nash vile road and obtain the command of the Cumberland.

 Bowling Green may have to be evacuated to defend its now sole communication, and the army there stationed must face in the field force numerically superior better armed, and composed of men of as fine lighting qualities as any in the world The result of the taking of Fort Henry and the burning of the bridge on the Tennessee will verify our long standing assertion that the hills to the North of Nashville will be the scene of the decisive battle of this cam palgn, If not of this war. Not ten thousand raw levies are needed in Kentucky bnt f}iy H0uSdlld drilled soldiers, and Hicse must Ge tahen from He arMYoFH He PJiomac.

 The idea that the Tennessee lcgislatute can do anything in this critical moment is sheer nonsense. D.attjug rOuf be submit ted to; and if t wore, what could the men una"med do? Superior activity must make up for inierority of numbers, as it has ever done in tine hands of proper leaders. We can only a1l Tennessee lIas done as much for the Confederate cause as any other State, anl cannot see why three hundred thousand mon should be devoted to guard Virginia, and mt fifty thousand be spared to preserve the integrity of Tennessee, which iS and qcW de jn most imminent danger tW our generals gre enqJied to ossaa'e Me odensiee, and that actively
Year: 1862

GREELY DowN ON OLD ABE.-Tho New York I'fbaas of the 25th ult., treats the venerable Abraham as follows:

 MT. Grimes, Senator from Iowa, stated on Tuesday, in the Senate that he had call cd upon the President, on official business. and could not even procure his card admission to that high functionary by the domestic ser wants ot the White House. If such be the experience of Senator, it is not difficult to calculate the chance which private citizen has or getting audience It is just none at all To be sure, there are personal friends Who can obtain access at any time, but all others who get beyond the unpleasant pur- heus of the private secretary, from Illinois, are most fortunate. There was never any President So inaccessible to his fellow-citizens as NIT, Lincoln, and it is to be feared that he may from this cause, be kept in ignorance oi the real state of popular feeling in that part of tke United States which lies north of Kentucky. We, of course, do not believe the President will prove false to those anti slavery sentiments which led the people to transfer him from Springfield to Washing ton' bnt 1t IS not wholesome practice to cut oil intercourse with people of like senti- ments' especially if they happen to be Sen ators.
Year: 1862

I HAVE received the assessment of the Confel- l crate tax made for Phillips county, which will remain in my office at the Court house, in Hee- na. for twcnty-one days after the date hereof subject to the inspection of any tax payer desir- ing to see the same. All persons who may feel themselves agrieyed by said assessment can come forward within the time above specified and have their assessments corrected if the same should be found to be unjust or incorrect.

 B. w. GREEN, lSrJ- Collector of Contederote Tar, for Philips Co.,.
Year: 1862

Coop NEws.-We have been advised by a member of the 1st Arkansas regiment commanded by Col Pagan, and which has been in active service on the Potomac dur ing the past eight months, that the greater portion of the command has re-enlisted for the war, and that the new organization al- ready numbers eight hundred men, all of whom are inured to camp life and are well disciplined. The whole regiment has ob- tained furlough of fifty days, anu num- Der of the officers and men were in our city yesterday on their way home No more efficient corps will be found in the army than this, after its reorganization, and the example afforded by them should be emula- ted by our troops generally.

 Memphis Appeal.
Year: 1862

A GHAsTLY RUMoR.-The Petersburg Er- press of the 3lst inst, says: Intelligence was brought to this city yesterday afternoon by passengers from the South, that the coast of North Carolina was strewn with the bodies of dead men and horses, which had been washed ashore after the late violent gale. They are supposed to be a portion of the men and horses composing the Burnside expedition. What truth there is in this report, we are unable to say, but we arc rather inclined to doubt its correctness. If there should be any confirmation of the ru- nor, it will be found in cur telegraphic columns.
Year: 1862

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That ETHgR THOMPSON as late Sheriff and exof fci Tax Collector Phillips Arkansas, Monday the 10th of March next 1862 the door in the city Helena in

  much of each will be sufficient the penalty and there the before said day sale Sale and after the of ten o'clock said and efromd to osdhn

 NrEf less quantity than the whole and than onehf sold off sold will surveyed of such
Year: 1862

TIE SHORT CoTTJN CROP PoLIcY.-From business letter, written by a very intelli- gent citizen of an adjoining county, we ex- tract the following on the short cotton crop policy:

 By the way, am glad to see you have taken up the subject of ''Ho cotton." l re gard it as the most important matter thatcan be brought before the planters. Unless the planters agree upon some definite rule for the curtailment of the cotton crop, the voice of warning will be raised in vain If the South makes even half crop. e., if the crop of 1862 should reach 100000 bales, we shall be in the power of the English If we make no cotton at all, and produce so much grain that poor men who are in the army can support their families on $l5 per month, we shall be complete masters of the position in regard to both England and the Yankees. But if the cotton planter should fail to see that it is his duty to make his ne groes provide cheap food for the families of the absent laboring mon, next spring will find us with djSbaadcd army and c ruined cause. You cannot say too much on this subject; and after all you may say, you will find each planter thinking your advice the very thing for his neighbor, and the very thing that does not suit his peculiar case"
Year: 1862

Attack upon Trains at Manassas.


Correspondence Of the Philadelphia Inqurer.I


ALEXANDRIA, November 3.-Most of the
accounts relative to the attack upon the train
at Manassas have been exaggerated The fol-
lowing is the true version:-


1t was about three clock on Friday after
noon when the train passed over Bull Run
bridge. 1t proceeded about mile beyond, when
it was thrown from the track No obstruction
was apparent, and the manner in which the
Confederates accomplished the fendish trick
was by cutting off the heads of the spikes
which confined the rails in position. and under
mining the track.


rs the train moved over this spot, the rails
flew cut of position and the whole train, cor
slsting Of twelve cars was thrown from tha
track The engine went down the embank
ment Neither the fireman or engineer We're
killed The latter however was made prison2c
whilst the former escaped.


There were forty soldiers and sixty laborecs
aboard the train at the time. These were all
captured by q compsny Of Prince William
county cavalry that emerged from ambush i'm
mediately after the train was thrown from ,he
track.


Early next morning wrecking train started
out, and, through the exertions of the work
men, the locomotive was holsted from the base
Of the embankment. It was damaged to the
extent Of $1,000 The cars were hurt in no
way. The whole train together with the loco
motive, was brought down to Alexandria t
is thought that no ore aboard was killed,
though murderous fire was poured upon the
train from the carhines Of the cayarymen
Year: 1862

Shall the branches Of the State Bank con.


tinue 70 redeem their bills in gold and silver,


ss literal construction Of the Constitution


seems to require. In giving an answer to this
question it is proper to say that the redemption


Of their notes in gold and silver will defeat the
object Of their creation which was TO furnish Q
sound and convertible currency. While the
banks in the country are in q state Of suspen
sion, all Of them refusing to redeem their notes
in coin, Iowa banks cannot do It without ct
once Withdrawing their paper from circulation.
This they are able, aud so far a. We know, will
ing to do. But just as soon as brokers have
gathered up all their bills aud drawn the gold
for them, we shall have nothing in circulation
in this State except foreign bank paper-bills Of
Eastern banks that We know nothing about. 1t
is fair to presume that with this foreign curren.
cy in the hands of our people we shall again
pay roundly for the privilege Of using it AZ in
stump-t.il times, exchange going up, &c, &c
When there is q resumption Of specie payments
We shall find ourselves "stuck" With worthless
and broken bank psper--for the more worthless
It is the farther away from home It 10 sent, -
general rule.


How this matter may strike others We cannot
say, but it seems to US that the spirit Of its char
ter would require the State Bank to furnish
good, sound convertible home currency, which
it only can do by redseming its paper in Treas
ury notes, which Congress has made a legal
tender. Thus can the State Bank save the
State from being plundered by the Eastern
Banks Should this course be resolved on and
properly carried out it must rebound greatly tc
the benefit ofthe people of Iowa On the other
hand a continuance to pay coin will wind up our
banks, so far ss circulation is concerned in quick
time, and long before July not a State Bank bill
will be seen. We think it better that they re.
deem in Treasury notes and keep their bills
afoat than that their coin should sll 60 into the
hands Of brokers. And that it does 60 into the
hands of brokers we need only say that Of $90,s
600 paid over its counter in redemption Of its
notes since the lst of January by the Burlington
Branch, over $685. 900 was paid brokers, mostly
from other States. What the people want is a
currency which is safe and sound, kept at pa
or convertible into par funds, with exchange at
q fair rate n4 %f So ae
Year: 1862

cE 1t is evident from the tone of our latest
advices that great battle is soon to be fought
at or near Corinth, Miss, which will decide the
destiny of rebellion 10 the West. Both sides
are making tremendous preparations for this
Year: 1862

diabolical course of conduct Why should it?
If they prefer to live under the shelter that
their masters have provided for them, and to
labor day by day without wages for the gratu-
| ity they may receive from the hand of their
former owner, their legal freedom win not COM
| pei severance. I will not vote for law to
compel them to leave. The Senator desires us
| to do so; he proposes an amendment to this
bill that win compel these poor men to leave


their kind masters, to go homeless and penni-


less and friendless into land of strangers. l
voted against his proposition. am disposed


to leave them where they now are, and let them
| work on for their masters; if their masters
| choose to pay them for their labor, all well;


and if they decide to work on without pay,


be it SO. l perceive no motive that can arise


out of the removal Of the legal shackles that


bind them, calculated to stimulate disposi.


tion to murder or destroy. They would be


anomalous human beings if the mere act of lib


Grating them would convert them into savages
and murderers.


..If neither their masters nor they are dispos-


ed to engage in such strife, apprehend there


is no great danger. Inever yet have met a


white man or white woman in the District who


manifested this species ofvindictiveness against


the colored people. am glad for the sake Of


humanity that it is so. Why should they? DO


you answer because they are poor and ugly


and ignorant and feeble. Is it possible that


an American Senator will teach here to-day


that because the white raco is said to be more


powerful and more highly endowed, and has


acquired q high position in the scale Of civili-


cation, he may with impunity trample on the
feeble and defenselesss The advancement o.
such 9 dogma ought to mantle the statesman's
cheek with the blush Of shame. It is at va,
, with every manly impulse. Why, sir, l hav.
, occasionally in passing through the rough so
, ciety which sometimes congregstes on the from
tier, observed strong, powerful man stepping
into the ring in the midst Of broil "to picl
up the glove, !" as it was called, in defense Of
!. gray haired man, or boy, or feeble person


about to be assailed by some thoughtless per


SON Of superior strength, with the declaration
' .'sir, il you must have fight take man Q
your inches" and such An act never failed I
. secure the applause Of the crowd. This
true humanity; it is moral courage; IL is
q kind Of natural religion, superior to much v
}, hear ffom The pulpit Il - true ceursgs
Year: 1862

and closed At decline OF about Ave cents rer barrel


while sales were moderate with the chief demand from
the home trade The transactions embraced about 100
bbs, closing within the range Of the following quota
Year: 1862

Special Dispatch to the New York Evening Post


AsHINGroN, Feb. 81 am in posi-
tion to stase that the dispatches received by
the last steamer from the British Govern.
ment are of the most satisfactory and con
cliatory character. There is not the
slightest ground for experimenting any fur~
ther "dispute" between the two countries
on any pending question, Notwithstanding
the assertions OF mischievous newspaper
in New York that further complications
on the matter of international law, growing
out of the Trent affair "are inevitable"


The opinion is expressed here in dipio
matte circles that Eng land and France will
hencefol th maintain not only a strict neu-
trality towards this country, but will in a
little while, give evidence of their wiliDg>
ness to allow the war to proceed without
even attempting to influence this govern
ment to change its measures with regard to
the stone blockade, or any other mode we
see fit to adopt for bringing the war to a
cose.


Private letters from member of Brit
ish Cabinet to distinguished Senator here
make no complaint whatever with regard to
this or any other question, but, on the cons
trary congratulate his correspondent on the
settlement of the Trent question, inasmuch
as it settles definitely the only thing at all
likely to have led to a belligerent move
ment on the part of Great Britain towards
the United States. There is not the slight
est ground for apprehending armed or any
other interference no such matter is al
luded to in any dispatches or in any of the
correspondence. 1t is considered here as
utterly without foundation and as mere
stock jobbing or cotton speculating rasse.
Year: 1862

KEY. DR.. Putnam of Boston, in re
cent discourse, thus speaks of the lamented
Theodore Winthrop, who fell at Big
Bethel:


The man who could write "John Brent, +"
not as main part of his life.work, but as a
mere incidental side-play, and lay it away un.
published, as if it were but an Insignificant
specimen of his literary wealth and powers,
shows a combination of high ability with rare
modesty which may well claim our admiration
and respect. However great the gain for him
OF his early and heroic death, we must deeply
feel the loss which literature and society have
sustained in his fall.