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Year: 1862

Tho making Of maple sugar in the Northern States has
already commsncod and, the production this year is
likely TO bs largely in of any previous season. and
the trade that article having prospec. Of being moro
brisk and widespread It presumed few facts rotating
TO its manufacture will not be uninterestng


We give below from the returns OF 1850 tho
number Of pounds OF maple sugar made in that year in
tho various states in which IL is Produced and presume
that tho Northern States at least this year .he
will be doubled, owing to the high prices of cane
Year: 1862

from courtesy toward those who desired II,
who will vote for the bill on its final passage |
am scarcely so sanguine of its passage as
at the time my last was written, certain ID
llueuces having been brought TO bear, that
were not anticipated, and the membership q
the Third House being largely increased, some
of whom have vaiaabis reasons, ii may be-
for favoring the continuation of the present
grant, have rendered the passage of the bill
much more difficult, than was at first sup.
posed. ] think, however, the bill will be
passed by the following vote Ayes, II :
Nays, 10.


Surely no opportunity could ever present
itself, more favorable than the present nor
more valid reasons be advanced, than now
are for the invalidation of this grant, and il
the present opportunity is allowed to pass
without declaration of forfeiture by the
State, we shall be under the painful necessi
ty of submitting to continuation of the
practice of this disgraceful system of gam
bling for the next eighteen years. An occa
sion is so rarely afforded to undo the evil
others, that it should whenever afforded
, be taken advantage Of may remark here
that too much credit cannot be attached Il
r the delegation from New Castle County, 70
I their persevering and energetic endeavor
to abolish the system, and BY that means t
f publish it abroad, that Delaware never agai
=. intends to barter away her moral principle
d for pecuniary consideration.


Several bills aud petitions have been acte
r. on in the Senate, hut as they are mostly
!. a private nature they will not lie interestin
to your readers.


q The adjournment sine de- will most like
"a take place the latter part of next week,


NERITAs.
Year: 1862

The House this afternoon took up the
bill known as the Lottery Revocation Bill,
which declares the Morris grant void, and
after refusing a further postponement
passed the bill by vote of sixteen TO
five.


This action caused great excitement in
the lobby. The bill will now go to the
Senate where its ultimate fate will soon
be determined on. M
Year: 1862

Salt in consequence of the supply 10 the
South being intercepted is selling in Wash
iugton at 30 cents a bushel This article
it is said. will be placed in the new tariff
bill as source of considerable revenue,
Year: 1862

OEE OF THE DELEGATES TO the late RepuO'
iican ior Union as they prefer to call it,)
State Convention, informs us that John
Conness does not approve of the course pur-
sued by the Union Democratic Committee
of this county, in refusing to dishand their
organization and join 10 "lhe great Union
movement" II would make but precious
little difference with the party in this coun-
~. as to what Mr.. Conness "Or any other
man" might think Of their course; but If
he ever expressed his disapprobatiOn OF the
action of our County Committee, he was
undoubtedly misinfOrmed as to what that
action was. The Committee did nothing
more than carry ont the views promulgated
by Mr.. CONFESS himself, 10 bis late letter
to q citizen of Shasta; that is, they refused
to take part in Convention called 6y The
Republican State Committee, and the dele
gates to which were apportioned upon the
Lasis of the Republican vote of last year.
We have yet to learn Of a single member
Of the Union Democratic party of this cOun-
" who does not indOrse the action OF the
Committee. There are some who favor
the organization of distinctive Union par
ty. but we know of none who were dispos'
ed to have anything to do with the l7th oil
June Convention.
Year: 1862

NEVADA TERRITORY ITEYs.-The follow
Jag items are from the Carson City Age, of
the 18th aud 18th inst:


We understand that there has been no little
suffering in the Humboldt mining district dur
ing the past two or three months, on account
of the exhaustation of the limited supply Of
-four in that locality. In some cases miners
have lived on straight beef and the roots which
they were fortunate enough to find, without
any bread whatever.


We learn from a reliable source that rock
taken from the Burns and Mckay ledge has
assayed as high as $500 per ton, and that the
lucky owners have refused $50 ton, offered
for it in the mine. The ledge is from TWO to
twelve feet wide, and was discovered about the
middle of last May. There are but four per-
sons in the company, who have taken up 1000
feet.


Silver City does not now present the lively
state of affairs that prevailed there last fall the
severe winter from which we are emerging
seems to have weakened Silver little. The
idleness of that large Phoenix mill Just below
town adds much to the apparent dullness OF the
place.
Year: 1862

CALIFORNIA; FIRsT-BoRN.-Nevada Ter
ritory being almost wholly settled by CalffOr-
mans, and being dependent, after the manner
of colony, on the mother country for her
means of subsistence, might not inaptly be
termed her frst-bon. Then the interests of
no parent country and colony could possibly
be more closely united than are those Of Nevu-
da and California. The colony has untold
wealth of gold and silver, and the mother
country manages, by feeding it and furnishing
it with utensils to set up housekeeping, to get
it all as fast as it is dug out. She will never
have another that win be half such a comfort
to her as NayaG@.-E ETerrihoria Enterprise.
Year: 1862

RhTnER MEAN-A New York exchange
contains the following notice: tt1'


Tho nieaHest man in the world lives in West
Troy. In helping him out Of the river once,
a man lore the collar Of his coat. The next
day he sued for assault and battery.
Year: 1862

I'VE have long since fled our mind dowr
to the belief that if the cause of the South !,
Divineiy founded it will and must triumph
II not, it will and must perish, were it sup
ported by millions of armed men and hundred,
Of ronciad war vessels Of the most powerful
description"
Year: 1862

Who IS REBEL!-1'his is pertinent
inquiry just now Who is rebel? On this
point the New York Times says:


"Whoever is against the Constitution of
the United States in whole or in part, ia
spirit or in letter, is a rebel. Whoever is
against any Of the laws of onr government,
whether they relate to fugitive slaves or Of
freemen. Is rebel. Whoever insists that a
law of Congress can be violated any more in
New York or Massachusetts, than in South
Carolina or Alabama is a rebel. LIE, us
make clear and clean work of our loyalty,
and apply to it the rigid rule that he who Of
fends in one point otfends in ALL"


That's hard lick on Greely from u broth.
er aboitionist
Year: 1862

The war is prolific in humorous screeds as
we'll as bloody honors. For instance brave
volunteer is introduced by the following:


Rev. Mr., a man about six feet four
in bis stockings, and of proportions worthy
sgrenadler, and whose heart is as stout as
bis frame, a thorough Union man, and in
for war until treason is thoroughly crushed
out, was recently conducting religious con,
ference meeting whom brother arose to
speak. who, after alluding to his hopes and
fears in religious point of view, branched
out in reference to the state of the country.
saying that so great was his devotion to the
stars and stripes that he had enlisted, and
begged an interest in the prayers of the
church, that he might be protected by Di.
vino Providence on the battle field, and that
if he shonld fall a victim to the bullets of the
enemy he might be prepared for the change.


Such speech at any time would thrill
with patriotic fervor the brave heart of our
worthy minister, and he consequently spoke
few words of encouragement to the hero.
When the wife of the enlisting soldier vol
unteered her experience, in the course of
which, alluding to her husbands enlistment.
she expressed willingness to give up, even
unto death, in the service of bis country.


In a few moments after the meeting came
to An end, when the minister, all anxiety for
the welfare of the patriotic volunteer, pro-
ceeded 10 make some inquiries in reference
to his regiment, commencing with the very
natural question as to its name and number,
when he received the startling reply:


"I've lined the Home Tuards''
Year: 1862

WHAT A SOLDIER SAYs.-A soldier in one
of the Central New York Regiments writ
ing home, says: "ion know [ have told
YOU that majority of us in the Regiment
were Democrats when we started, You
should take poll among us mow. What
wehave seen-what we have reasoned upon
has made nearly every one of as Democrats
The Republican soldiers talk nothing but
nipger and we are sick and tired of that sub.
iect"
Year: 1862

HARD ON THE RnpuBs. There is no cen
sure too strong and no punishment too Sc
we're, says the New Hampshire Patriot, for
men who take advantage of the suffering of
their country to enrich themselves. Napo.
leon shot every dishonest contractor on the
spot, and similar unishment should be
awarded to those who look upon this war as
an opportunity to make money. If the Ad
ministration followed Napoleon's example,
the Republican party would soon be depr'
we'd of most Of its leaders.
Year: 1862

A new Company of lis men enlisted in
Scranton, Pa, aLd refused to take any
Bounty money. This is one refreshing
instance Of pure patriotism, amongst the
prevailing scramble for money and Office.
Year: 1862

To be miserable, think about yourself
about what you want, what you like,
what people think Of you-aud then to
you nothing will be pure. You will spoil
everything you touch you will make
sin aud misery for yourself out Of every
thing which God sends you; you will be
as wretched as you choose on earth, or in
heaven either.
Year: 1862

At the late conservative meeting 10 New
York, which was addressed By james Brooks
and Fernando Wood, the following letter was
read from Reverdy johnson:


BALTlNoRE June Il. 1862


Gentlemen Your invitation TO address the
contemplated meeting Of Union citizens. to be
held in your city at an early day, is received
It finds me about TO start for New Orleans on
public business. which renders it impossible TO
comply with your request. l am glad to hear
that such movement is to be made The war
itself is nearly at an end. Rebellion is almost
annihilated, and as far as patriotic soldierv can
effect it, the Constitution and the laws will
soon be re-established and tbe Union. for 50
many months wickedly and traitorously disturb
ed, be restored. But to make the triumph com.
plete patriotism must rule the councils Of the
nation Fanaticism. honest with many, but
knavish with the leaders, must be crushed out.
The Union and the consequent prosperity Of
the country cannot otherwise be permaneutly
maintained. Sectional madness on the oua,.
tion of slavery is not more fatal to both when
exhibited in its support than in its destruction.
Conhne the institution TO The States where II
may exlst-leave its continuance or its remov.
al to them exclusively. as the Constitution
does, and all will be safe, and wonted hann;.
ness, fraternal affection and national mower
Will soon and 10 an extent greater than ever
be our condition. The present strife will then
but have served to satisfy the world and to as
sure ourselves that our Government cannot he
destroyed that it will be as perpetual as anv
known institution can be, and as powerful as
any known to the past history of the world.


In saying that fanaticism is TO be banisbed
from our councils, by no means intend to in.
innate that it now controls the Executive
As far as the President is concerned. | know.
think, that it does not. The very station be
ills makes it almost impossible that it should.
Its elevation of itself tends to raise him above
the foles of low sphere. 1t proves him TO
be statesman. Having achieved the highest
object, with US, of human ambition. his only
wish can be to preserve his country and make
1t as it was made by the patriotic wisdom of
all his predecessors, but the immediate care.
the wonder and admiration of the world God
grant that such may be the result of his efforts.
as 1t will be if the people hurl from power the
fools and knaves whose course tells us that in
their opinion the whole object of the Constitu.
ton, in spite of its very terms aud its past his
tory, is to abolish slavery in the States, not
with, but against, the will Of their citizens.
Folly never exceeded this, or, looking to its
certain effect on the Union. did crime ever
surpass it.


With great regard your obedient servant.


REvERDY JOHNSON"
Year: 1862

A UNION PAPER FROM MIssIssIPPI-The
following paragraphs are from the Badger
Bulletin-a little paper printed at Iuka, Miss,
by printers attached TO a Wisconsin battery.
1t will be seen the soldiers take about the
same view as other reasonable men, of the
causes chargeable with the war:


a. This number of the Badger Bulletin was
commenced by the members of the Typograph-
cal Art, and no doubt it would have been
kept up for some time. but we have received
orders to march, and therefore we are compel
led to nip our rising efforts in the bud, and bid
kind adieu TO the beautiful village of Iuka.


If Greeley, Beecher & Co., on the one hand,
and Toombs, Yancey & Co, on the other
hand were put into a room "a by 40, and
made to f hit the issue out with the regular
old fashioned bowie knives there is no doubt
we would have peace in less than twenty days
the old Union restored with the Constitu-
ton as it was and peace and prosperity reign
ing from Maine TO the Rio Grande"
Year: 1862

TAKE coin, (half dime is best.) and wet
il on one side. Then paste it on the under
side of the glass OF your show case, when it
will look as if it were laid on the glass. Dis
honest customers will either try to take it or
try to shove it to you. One instance is on
record of man who took out dime, and laid
it by the side Of 6ve-cent piece, and said be
wanted a fifteen cent cigar.
Year: 1862

IS attempting to carve fowl, new settler
at Adelaide found considerable difficulty in
separating its joints, and exclaimed against
the man who sold him an old hen for young
chicken.


My dear" said the enraged mans wife
" don't rail so at the aged and respectable Mr..
Bush be sowed the first field Of corn that
was sowed in the place


Il know that" said the husband, land l
believe this hen scratched it up.'
Year: 1862

The MONEY When it was
announced that 7. w. Park would be d can.
didate for the United States Senate, it was
simultaneously heralded forth that he had
100000, and more if necessary, which he
would expend to secure his election. Whether
this announcement was made by his authority,
we do not know, but certainly his friends have
often pointed to his money bags as the great
argument iu his favor 1t is stated that his
money did good service at the late primary
election, albeit all of it did not do service in
his behalf Now we have two delegates TO the
Union Nominating Convention crying forward
with positive statement that they had each
been paid the sum of Sl00 by friend of Mr.


Parks for the purpose of inducing them TO
vote for Park candidate for the Legislature.
This last transaction seems TO Indicate pretty
clearly that Mr. Park depends more for success
upon bis money than be does upon his merits
it also shows that he has so little respect for
the intelligence and integrity of the people as
to believe that they will elevate him TO the
Office be seeks, because Of his dollars. Not
long since Mr.. Park was a member of an or
ganizatiOn whose object was to root out those
who made offices objects of barter and sale;
he is now doing that for which he assisted to
banish others. We trust this bribery matter
will be thoroughly inquired into by the Con-
veution, and that those who have resortcd TO
bribery may be rewarded with everlasting
infamy and sure defeat S. F. Journal.
Year: 1862

ABoLITIoNIsM TIE CAUSE, AND SEcEss1oyIsM
THE EFFECT. In regard to abolitionism and
secessiouism it is difficult if not impossible, TO
decide which is the father and which the sou.


Louisville Journal
To which the Democrat adds " Abolition
ism is clearly the father of secession The
sins Of the father are visited upon the children
unto the third and fourth generation, and the
foul Vaccinations of the two would destroy
our glorious Union but for the conservative
element OF the people, which will ever hold
them in check"
Year: 1862

II the views of Washington with regard to
the slave trade commend themselves to our ap-
probation after the lapse of nearly ninety years,
his opinions on slavery are so temperate and so
clear that if they had been followed they would
have established peace amongst us forever On
the 18th Of April, l7S6, he wrote to Robert
Morris: "There is not man living who wish
es more sincerely than do to see a plan adopt
ed for the abolition of slavery" This was his
fixed opinion so that in the following month
he declared to Lafayette: "By degrees the
abolition Of slavery certainly might and as
suredly ought to be effected, and that too, by
legislative authority" On the 9th Of Septem-
Der of the same year he avowed his resolution
"never to possess another slave by purchase" +;
adding; sit being among my first wishes to see
some plan adopted by which slavery in this
country may be abolished by law"


In conformity with these views the old con-
federation of the United States at time when
the convention for framing our constitution was
in session, by a unanimous vote prohibited
slavery forever in all the territory that then be-
longed to the United States; and one OF the
very first acts of Washington as President was
to approve law by which that ordinance might
pass "might continue to have full effect"


On the 9th CT May, lT04, in the midst of his
cares as President, he devised plan for the
sale of lands in Western Virginia and Western
Pennsylvania, and after giving other reasons
for his purpose, he added II have another
motive which makes me earnestly wish for the
accomplishment of these things it is, indeed,
more powerful than all the rest, namely: to
liberate a certain species of which | possess,
very repugnantly to my own feelings


And in less than three months after he wrote
that Farewell Address to which we this day
have listened, he felt himself justified in an
nouncng to Europe his hopes for the future in
these words; "Nothing is more certain thar
that Maryland and Virginia must have laws foi
the gradual abolition of slavery, and at period
not remote"


But though Virginia and Maryland have moi
been wise enough to realise the confident pre-
diction of the Father Country-though slavery
is still permitted in the District Of Columbia
from which Madison desired to see it removed
the cause of freedom has been steadily ad
vancing. The line of SO deg 80 min. whicl
formed barrier to the progress of skilled la
Dor to the southward has been ehaced. Gu
country at one bound, crossed the Rock.
Mountains and the wisdom or our people, as
they laid the foundations of great empires ol
the coast of the Pacific, has brought about tina
to-day, from the Straits of Behring to tn
Straits of Magellan, the waves OF the grea
ocean, as they roll in upon the shore, clap thel
hands in joy, for along all that wide region tn
lana Is cultivated by no hands but those OF tn
Year: 1862

Reader are you man, having the use Of
your limbs and eyes, and do you know how to
put hall into a rifle and bring it out again
with true aim ? If not it is time you were
learning. Provide yourself with rifle and
equipments, and find some one to give you the
FIST lesson in their use, and then practise daily
at target shooting Do not excuse yourself
with the plea that you have no intention to en-
ter the service. If the work of preparation is
left only to those who mean to become soldiers
it will not be done; but if every man proves
his appreciation of this importance by taking
an active interest in It's promotion, the right
men for soldiers will be forthcoming when
they are needed, and the most important ele-
ment of their military education will have been
acquired and it is not impossible that the day
may come when you yourself will feel that the
power YOU have thus obtained is worth more to
you than all you learned in college Are you
loo old and infirm for such service, or are you
a woman, and have you the means of equipping
another who is unable to do it for himself? II
so, it will not be hard to find an able-bodied
young man who will gladly take charge of Il
rifle, ON the condition that he is to be its owner
at the end of six mouths if he can then place
ten successive shots in circle OF a foot in dl-
ameter at two hun4red yards.


"a word to the wise is enough" The word



battle-felds Of the South. Let US prove that
we are wise by acting at once upon its sugSes-
tons


c. C. Hazewell contributes an article on "Ihe
Rehabilitation of Span," suggested by the re-
cent rise in the fortunes of that kingdom and
the prominent part she has lately assumed in
the great drama of European politics. Mr.
norsheimer concludes his account of Fremont S
"Hundred Days in Missouri" with an earnest
defence of the "Pathfnder," declaring that he
worked most laboriously and faithfully, and
draws a comparison between Frcmonts activity
in the West and the quiet on the Potomac.


Professor Agassiz contributes another article
on Natural History, treating of the fossil re-
mains in the northern states and of insect life
The Country Parson has charming little essay
on "The Sorrows of Childhood" in the course
which we find these remarks on


TIE DARK HOLE.


An extremely wicked way of punisling chill
dren is by shutting them up in dark place
Darkness is naturally fearful to human beings
ana the stupid ghost-stores of many nurses
make 1t especially fearful to Il child 1t is d
stupid and wicked thing to send Il child on an
errand in dark night. | do not remember
passing through a greater trial in my you'll
than once walking three miles alone Gt was not
going on an errand) in the dark, along road
thickly shaded with trees. was a little fellow
but got over the distance in half an hour
Part OF the way was along the wall of a church
yard-one OF those ghasty weedy neglected
accursed-looking spots where stupidity has don,