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Year: 1862

Franklin was one Of the wiscst of mod.
ern sages, and were his maXimS rigidly fol.
lowed, there would be little poverty and
less complaint Of Providence. Most peo.
pie, however, are unwilling 10 submit to
such regimen as be prcScribcs, or adopt
such q course as he points out TO secure u
comfortable livelihood. Every man must
live up to his means, or 60 beyond them.
He must live on credit, and what is worse,
he must spend his small change, and no
small amount of that, for little "luxures,"
for lager beer, for instance, or for cigars,
or for some game of amusement forgetting
that penny sared, as Franklin says, is too
pence clear. The poorer classes in the COM
muniIy are, moreover, the most apt TO for
get this maxim, and to dispose Of their
small change in this way. For what, in.
deed, say they, is half dime? Cannot
any man spend this and never feel it ? A
half dime day Why, it isn't worth
noticing, except by miSer." And yet,
according to Franklin'S pllosopy,it is dime
a day, and at the end Of the year 365 dimes,
and at the end of life fortune But must
a man be so provideDt as this What is life
good for, unless one can live while he live =?
can enjoy himself little now and then
can spend some of his money for little e1traS?
This was not Franklin's doctrine, however
"A doctrince, which if now obsolete, is the
only cue which, when tried, will stand the
test, and this will Men may murmur at
the llotments-that luck never favors them
that three cOrids are against them, as we
have heard man say-and that, do
what they will, they can't succeed-and
they may look with envy at their neighbors
and wonder why they can't do as well.
But let them save their half dimeS-let them
| forego their ertrQS-let them live within
their incomes, aud even more, save a part
OF that-and not try merely TO make the
two ends OF the year meet, as the saying is
and in the course of few years they will
cease TO complain of Providence and envy
their neighbors Indeed, they will become
grateful for the bounties of Heaven, and
look down upon those whom they had pre-,
yiously enVed. Nor is it necessary that q
man should receive large income to,be able
to lay up something. A distinguished d.
ID. informed us that he had had variety
of salaries since he had been in the minis
try, and that he saved more money when
he had three hundred dollars than be did
when he had fifteen hundred | Let every
man expend when he must-propery, anC
no more, and if he does not become rich OF
at least well off in the world, after a time
then Franklin'S maxim will fail, and if We
may make the remark, our own observation
too. But let us illustrate our point by an
example.


Edward Gordon and Harry Wilson were
both young mechanics. The former made
his two dollars per day, the latter only three
fourths Of that sum. Here was quite dis
parity in their wages. In the course of {
year the disparity in their incomes would
naturally be still greater Yet, at the enc
OF the week Harry was fiity cents ahead
oil Edward, aud so for every week.


VI course, at the end of the working sea
son the former was quite iu advance of th,
latter.


And how happens this said Edward
Year: 1862


From the Portage County Democrat.


Lullaby.
Sleep, little darling, sleep!
Sleep-for the star beams are falling;
SIeep-fUr the blue bird is calling
Uer rowing mate back to her nest.
Calm is the blue sky above thee
Proud are the young hearts that love thee


Ever SO lightly


Ever so brightly
Sleep, love-and sleeping, find rest
Dream, little darling, dream
Peaceful and light is thy slumber--
Never a care can cucumber
Thy pure little spirit so blest.
Smile where sweet silence reposes--
Walk mid the lilies and roses:


Ever so lightly


Ever so brightly
Dream, iove-aDd dreaming, find rest
Year: 1862

YESTERDAY was proud day for Boston.
The departure of regiment after regiment
of our brave and noble men for the seat
Of war, was grand, sublime, a touch
ing aspect. They left us amid cheers.
and prayers, and the tears of those who
honor and love them; may God pro-
tect and preserve them through all the
perils they encounter. One Colonel said
to us, when he first contemplated going
at shonld ever leave Boston at the
head of regiment do not let us go away
without hearty cheers from my friendsj i
will be SO encouraging so pleasant to
think of while absent. He.hsd them yes.
terday, and from the heart. AS he
passed us, near the station, we caught his
eye; il was calm in its expression, but
full of eloquent gratitude for the symps.
thy which he saw 0caming in every
countenance. He is gallant and honor.
able son of the Old Bay State and will
add new hGnors to her history.


Il Boston Post, 9th.
Year: 1862

The boy who wrote to his father request
ing him to come out West, stating thai
mighty mean men got offices out here" mus
have been a resident of Iowa. We know
that, as general thing it is considered no sin
to swindle the Government in common times.
But these are uncommon times, and the
necessity that honest men should be elected
to offices must be apparent to evory one
Our people will soon be labor:ng under sys-
tenn of taxation such as. they have never
known before, and it behooves our State gov
ernment to cut down its expenses to the low.
est notch. Now, perhaps, many people i'm
agine that the government of this State is
economically administered, but greater mis-
take could not have been made It's but a
short time since Governor Kirkwood vetoed
bill reducing the salaries Of the State Off
GERS The thing was pretty we'll CLOSED over,
but there is no use trying to disguise the fact
that some of our State officials are determin-
ed to make money, people or no people.


One Of the most expensive, uselessly ex-





State government, was the Adjutant Gene
ral's Office. The expenses Of this depart
ment were enormous. Clerks, &C., were en-.
ployed in doing business that was the legiti.
mate work of the Adjutant General himself
The Auditing Board of the State also cost
about twice as much - there was any occa-
sion for salaries being given the Committee
altogether too large for the times.
Again, in the disposition of railroad passes
the money of the State has been most reck-
lessly wasted. 1t has become notorious
fact that friends of certain officers have been
furnished with passes to travel around the
country on mere pleasure excursions. If the
good of the soldiers had been the object of
these trips, we would not have the slightest
objection in the world to offer; but we know
that the benefit of our brave boys was not
thought Of; and journeys taken at the ex-
pense of the State, ostensibly to look after the
sanitary condition of Iowa regiments, were
simply made to crafty the curiosity of the
travellers.


The JOURNAL is and always has been an un-
compromising Republican paper. But we
hope we are not so blinded by party spirit
that we will neglect to notice maladmin-
istration by Republicans. The exigen-
cies of the times demand that strictly eco
nomical line Of policy should be pursued,
and those officers who recklessly squander
the dollars wrung from tax-burdcned peo-
ple may rest assured that day of reckoning
will come sooner or later.
Year: 1862

When the army goes to East Tennessee he
wishes to go with it. Knoxville is in Free
nionts department, and he was glad of it
Fremont was his sort Of man, and he wish
cd to be with him ON visiting East Tennessee
A great deal of hanging had been done on
one side and he would like to superintend
some on the other Without profanity, he
could say that the Federal army would be
received in East Tennessee with Joy une
qualled by the hosannahs of the angels when
Christ was born. "
Year: 1862

Some time ago, private in the Nine
teenth Indiana regiment was tried by
court martial for deserting his post, and
found guilty, the punishment was death.
His execution was deferred for some
time, and he was kept in painful sus-
pense. AT last the time was fixed for his
execution, and five regiments were drawn
into line to witness it, while q file of
twelve men were in advance to execute
.he sentence Of death by shooting him.
The prisoner was led forward blindfold-
ed ; and the usual words of preparation
and command were given in low, meas
ured tone by the officer in command.


During the interval between the ON
mands Take ann" and "fre," and be-
fore the last was given, horseman rode
rapidly up the road, waving in the air
paper, which was understood by all pres
ent to be reprieve. Covered with dust
and perspiration, the officer rode hurried
ly up to the officer in command and de-
livercd to him what really proved to be.a
repiieve. The shout "reprieve" fell upon
the poor soldiers ear, which was already
strained to the utmost in anticipation of
hearing the last and final word that was
to usher his soul into the presence Of his
Creator it was too much for him, and
he fell back upon his coffin apparently
dead. The bandage was removed from
his eyes, but reason had taken its fight,
and lie became hopeless maniac. He
was discharged from the army and sent
home to his friends


His death had really never been inten-
ded, but it was deemed necessary for the
good order and discipline of the army to
make an impression upon not only him
self but the whole brigade for that pur-
pose, the forms of execution were regu-
larly gone through with, in the presence
of five regiments, and the reprievc arrived
in good time as it was intended. 1t was
sought by this means, to solcmnly i'm
press upon the whole assemblage OF SOL
diers the necessity Of strict observance of
duty and obedience, under the penalty of
an ignominious death. 1t was fearful
ordeal for the deserter, but it was certain
ly better than to have completed the
tragedy by sending his soul to that bourne
from whence no traveller retuins."---


Washington Cores. Phila. Press.
Year: 1862

The end of all learning is to make us
wise. Wisdom is not one sided, but
comprehensive culture of the heart and
mind, and soul and body, The end Of
wisdom is use. If it does no good, it is
not wisdom but something else, Wisdom
comes from good natural understand
ing, enriched by the dressing OF large and
wise thoughts, Good books there be,
which nourSh tho mind as food does the
body. In morbid states the stomach may
be consumed by the precise activity OF
the very Secretions and chemical agents
which gave it power. This may serve to
intimate to us that the mind, without its
lit nutriment and proper digestion, by
which it should act, and obey It's natural
law, may consume itself away. Get wis
dom by thought, by reading, by action
Year: 1862




Mr.. EDrroR: There has been considerable said in
regard to the skirmishing near Hanover Court
House, in which cur gallant 18th Showed their
bravery, yet there act of noble daring
which has not been stated by the papers. Capt
John W. Meares, of Columbus county, N G., who
was elected Capt of Go. c. from private, and who
failed to receive his commission in consequence Of
the Misrepresentation of certain officer was dis
charged from the Confederate service, and on the
morning previous to the fight had left the company,
and was on his way home nearly three miles from
camp when a courier overlook him who was carry
ing Dispatch and informed him that the enemy
was advancing, and that the 18th Regiment would
be engaged in repulsing them. No sooner had our
gallant Capt Meares received this information than
his spirit was aroused and, turning back at the
double quick, he thought to regain the 18th Regt.,
of which he was previously member, but being
cut off by company of Yankee scouts who had
managed to get around the Regt, and who rushed
out from their place of concealment and poured forth
volley of minnie balls upon him before he saw
them, yet Capt Meares, not to be outdone, return
ed the fire, unconscious of the immnsnt danger in
which he was placed without making any effort to
get away or showing any symptoms of fear, and
kept up the fire all alone until company of caval-
ry came to his assistance, and which finally sue
ceeded in taking 63 prisoners besides those killed.
These prisoners were taken to Ashland the same
evening" and afterwards to Richmond.


We consider this an act of noble bravery for our
young and gallant Captain for we doubt whether
any other person in the Regiment would have
turned to participate in SO unequal contest after
being discharged.


We greatly prefer the gallant Capt Meares to
such officers as those who treated him unjustly
and then got behind tree in the fight, for We saw
them with our own eyes. ,,, oo,,nn,
Year: 1862

We saw, day or two since, most touching and
beautiful letter, addressed by a lady of Richmond
to the father of volunteer from this State, giving
an account of the sickness and death of his son.
He was mere boy; and, his gentle and delicate ap-
pearance as he lay in the Hospital, having attracted
the attention of ladies, they had him removed
to their house. and kindly nursed and ministered to
him until he died.


We mention this case among thousands of simi-
lar kind which have no doubt occurred in Richmond
Sorely pressed by the enemy, with almost famine
prices for nearly every edible they purchase, with
but few if any luxuries and delcacies, with the
sounds and alarms of war around them, and with
their own sons, and brothers, and husbands in the
army, these noble women are devoting themselves
to the sick and the wounded from every State who
are thrown among them, with patience, fortitude,
and unwearied particularly of attention, and with
forgetfulEess of their own ease and comfort, which
call for the thanks and gratitude of all Southerners,
and which will make their names immortal in the
history of this war. Every father, and mother, and
wife, and sister, and brother, in all these Confed'
crate States, whose near and dear ones have been
succored and cared for by these "ministering an
GELS" will "rise up and call them blessed" The
brave men who encircle Richmond as with wall o
fire, are no doubt deeply sensible Of the attention
thus shown by the noble women of Richmond
to their sick and wounded comrades; and the knowl
edge that they are fighting for such women and fol
such families, as well as for their own resdes, will
give tenfod vgor to their efforts in theday of battle
Year: 1862

TUT tne OtauoaIu.


Nix. EDlroR:-I find the following announcement
IN the Richmond Examiner Of the Gath inst:


"THE CoNscRIpT1oN LAw-We NAV state, for the
benefit Of persons claimed by the government as
conscripts that the enrolling officers have been in.
structed by the War Department to pay no atten-
t'on to certificates Of disability from physicians at
nome, or surgeons in camp, discharges from the
service prior to the passage of the conscrpton act
Except from wounds received in batte.) Conscripts
will be ordered to the camp of instruction, where
they can be examined by surgeons detailed for that
special purpose"


haye no objections to urge against the conscript
law or its designs, since it is claimed to have been
passed as an imperious military necessity to meet
the exigences of the country. But the manner of
Its enforcement is one of legitimate criticism There
fore, DO not hesitate to pronounce this regulation
OF the War Department unjust and oppressive. See
how it will work. Major Mallet who has been
appointed ito take charge of the conscription in
North Carolina" has established his camp of in
struction at Camp Carolina, in the vicinity Of Ral
e'gh According to the order of the War Depart
ment "no attention is to be paid to certificates of
disability from physicians at home or surgeons in
camp but the conscripts will be ordered to the
camp Of instruction, "where they will be examined
by surgeons detailed for that special purpose" So
that poor fellow, living in the extreme western
part Of the State, and liable according to age to
serve under The conscript law, but on account of
infirmity, i'll health or any natural bodily defect,
will be compelled to leave his home and travel all
the way to Raleigh to be examined at the camp of
instruction by the government physicians! This
trip is to be taken at the hazard of health and life
If the conscrpt is too poor to pay his own expen-
ses, who is to provide him with means? In the
name of justice in the name Of the glorious cause
in which We are struggling-n the name Of hu.
manity itself-why are such tyrranical and cruel
ment? Does not every man see that they will
prove disastrous to our cause? JUSTICE,
Year: 1862

The infamous Butler at New Orleans, recently
had a Mr.. Munford hung for taking down the Fede-
raj flag raised there before the city surrendered
1t is said that for trivial cause be is about to
have six others hung Is there no speedy retribu-
ton for this demon in human shape?
Year: 1862

FINE Spun CorroS-For the information of
corresnondent we state that the Post Office of the
Agent of the Island Ford Manufacturing Company
az we'll as we now recollect is Frankinsvle, N. G.
The fine cotton yarn of which we spoke some weeks
ago came for this Factory. 1t is fine enough for
fine homespun dresses, hose, or to be double and
twisted for sewing cotton
Year: 1862

On the 25th of August the one thousandth an
niversary of the foundation of the Empire of Russia,
the Government will be declared changed from an
autocratic to q constitutional form. The Grand
Duke Constantine is the initiator Of this movement.


The correspondent of the New York Times says
that the officers of the British steamer Racer, at
Annapolis, associate chiefly with the avowed Seces-
sIonists at this place.
Year: 1862




/. The Greensboro Patriot says--we regret to
learn that MANY obstacles have been thrown in the
way Of his raising his Lesion,-that very large
number of Companies desired to join bis legion be.
fore they were mustered into sRegiments--but a
deaf ear was given to tHeir wishes, and they were
distributed elsewhere Salisbury Watehman.


The truth is, forty companies we're rendered to
Vol Vance He accepted thirty-aIl he was enti.
eled to in his Legion. Acting urssf Authority, he
appointed KittrelPs Springs Is the place of rendez-
vous but as soon as he was generally spoken Of
ior Governor those in authority commenced to- eta.
barrass him in his efforts to raise his Legion and t
seems now that it is broken up He was refused a
furlough, which he was obliged to have in order to
visit Kittrelrs to attend to his Legion. We know
these things to be So Let the people Of the State
who do not wish to see this party war, judge for
themselves There are Stallfederates and minions
of power, here and elsewhere who would rejoice to
hear that Col. Vance had met with some serious
misfortune But we believe q kind Providence,
who has heretofore shielded him in the crash Of
battle, will continue to protect him; and will pre-
serve his life for great usefulness to his country
Year: 1862

E-ORGASIzAr1oN.- several brgades and d.
visions of the army around Richmond arc undergo
ing reorganization. The troops from the several
States are being placed together in brgades where
it can be done with proprety, according to an act
of Congress. North Carolinians will rejoice at this
Let our brave boys stand or fall together in regi-
ments and brigades. In that case if they uin they
will reap the credit, and if any run it will be known
acho ran.. We are not afraid of our North Carolina
soldiers any where Let them have the right men
to lead them, and they will win or die
Year: 1862

WHEAT CRoP-We observe that several Of our
State papers are speaking more encouragnsly of the
wheat crop than they did three weeks ago. The
crop will probably be large account of the large
quantity sowed. The Georgia and Alabama papers
speak highly of the grain crops of those States.
Year: 1862

SINGULAR AcemENT While two men were
at work on q bridge across the Wisconsin river,
during one Of thu recent thunder storms, they
attempted TO put in its place the telegraph wire,
which had been thrown down SO as to hang in
the river, which Of course conducted off the
electricity On taking hold of the wire, the
man received so severe a shock as to throw him
down from the top Of the bridge on the timbers
at the bottom, breaking his ribs and otherwise
severely injuriug him. His fellow workmen
went to his assistance, and became entanelsa
with the wire, when he WAS struck by lightning
so severely as to entirely paralyze him Both
men have been ia a critical condition since, but
it is hoped they viii recover -Janesgdie (HIs J
GdSeHe,
Year: 1862

There seems to be much reason to fear that
mischief to cur cause may grow cut of the par
tisan branch of the service Under some lead
eTs, and in some situations, the same number of
men could not be more prOftably employed
under any organization. Bat that the spirit and
intent of the act authorizing partisan oTganiza-
tiOns is abused, there can be no doubt, a vast
number of men who might render able service
in the regular line Of the army being shielded
from conscription by connection with partisan
compsnyS, which probably never viii 60 where
they can be OF use, unless closer and more
direct supervision and regulation of their move
ments is provided. OF course, we have refer
enee to no partisan organizations which have
done service, or axe along our coast or land from
tiers. There, they are in the field, and doing
essential service by their mere presence or ac-
tiyity.


We hear that all through the interior of the
COniedeTacy are inchoate organizations which
never seem to get any nearer completion. These
are the object of our structures. Pleasantly pic
niced near their homes themembers find the par
tisan service a delightful recreation, shielding
them from al danger of conscFiptiOn aud from
all the perils and harJships of the field.


Thus are idled away months that grow to sea
sons, and q year may pass before the onnul of
inactiOn may drive them to seek excitement in
actual service. Itwould seem that the condition
OF partisan organizations should be inquired
into. The country would be benefited if the
generals of department would despatch officers
on the special duty of visiting and inquiring into
the condition Of every partisan organization
which has not done service, and learning what
numbers of men it has, how long it has been IN
progress, how it is as to equipment, and what are
It's prospects of completion and usefulness.
They should recognize the presence of, and their
responsibility to, soma Overruing authority, and
be stimulated to activity by some more vigorous
incentive than their own convenience or pleasant
ease. The country needs men and can spare
none through the maladministrston of = branch
of the service which, while it gives scope for
great usefulness, also, furnishes occasion or pre-
text for much dereliction from the duty of every
man able or liable to DO service in the field. The
partisan service should be more under the hand
of authority for the good Of the whole, for while
some leaders need no master and no oversight,
many do-M0bic Register.