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Year: 1862

The Morgan Raid in * kentuclEy---A warm


ing Ten Days Ago


The citizens Of Louisville held a meeting
on Monday night, at which resolutions
were adopted requesting all the Union
men Of the city to enroll themselves into
companies, and favoring the expulsion of
gueriIlas and all who countenance them.
The houses Of Secessionists have been
searched for arms. The Journal says their
efforts have been very successful, though
General Boyle has been much abused in
traitOrOus quarters for this step. It fur
ther says:


Ten days ago we received letter from
a very prominent member Of Congress, re-
vealing secret rebel conspiracy to get up
instructions and guerilla raids simultan-
eously in Kentucky, Tennessee and Mis-
souri,, and although we decided not to
publish the document, we laid it before
the proper authorities, that they might act
in reference to it as they should deem ad-
visable.. The events that are now taking
Dlace in Kentucky and Tennessee are we
have no doubt the results Of that conspira-
cy. We expect to hear Of further out
breaks in the southern portions Of our
State, and in the region toward the Vir-
ginia line. Very likely we are to have at
q once a general uprising wherever the or
ganized rebels think themselves strong
enough to rise. Every gale may soon
come laden with the murdeTous shouts OF
rufian marauders. We must prepare fol
the worst We must keep the rebels
around us under the stern restraint Of a
salutary fear for their own safety, we mus
take from them the arms that would make
them dangerous, we must punish the gull
tv upon the first manifestations Of guilt
and Morgan and his men, no matter how
concentrated or into how many squads
divided, must be vigorously pursued nigh
and day. and captured and made to suifef
the penalty of their shocking crimes.


Probably there is no part Of Kentucky
where the rebels have not, by their Who'll
manner and department during the las
two or three weeks, indicated clearly tha
thew had q secret knowledge Of an import
ant rebel movement soon to be made anon
us. They have not even been able to re
press verbal hints and boastings that thei
day was at hand In view Of such thingi
we ought certainly to have been bette
prepared for the events now taking plac'
Year: 1862

With these fierce words the chief drew his blanke
haughtly about him, and turning away strobe into til
forest Matthew Hvlton watched him until be could NJ
longer be seen, and then turning to his trembling wifi
and daughter, he said firmly


This terrible danger cannot be averted; but we mus
strive with all the means in power to meet it fTm
and do what we for salvation. Let US spend n
time IN useless lamentaon, but prepare ourselves 70
the work OF tomorrow


But can We not escape?" Mrs Hylton asked in
| tremuous tone turning her eyes imploringly to he
husband


NO grieve to say that it it is impossible, but sucl
Is the iaet Too soon would blood thirsty foes trai
os, should we attempt to flee; safety lies in defend
ing our cabin. Let do this with firm hearts relying
upon Him who alone is able to unharmed from
/ this fearful peril


| The calm courage of Matthew Hylton quickly impair
ted itself to his wife and daughter and during the mex
twelve hours teir active hands were employed in for
tifying and barreading the cabin In this task thel
succeeded WELL the structure built of stout
OF itself was amosta miniature fortress whiethe prepa
rations which the defenders able to make yisbl
strengthened it and rendered it more secure.


Hardly had the morning dawned before Matthew Hyl
ton became aware that the woods adjacent the eabir
we're filed with sayages kind OF energetic despair
had taken possession of the mind of the pioneer view
OF his desperate circumstances, and in this mood he
resolved to become the aggrcssor. As of the sava
ges exposed his head torau instant quick report came
from the cabin while the yell Of rage which instantly
followed IT. spoke OF the death OF one at least, Of the
sailans.


Like band OF demons the Indians nowrushed from
their concealmcnt, and surrounded the cabin joining
the same time in rghtful chorus of whoops; but the
cool courage Of the brave defender quick taught them
caution one after another fell under his rapid and ata
discharges, and the assaants retired precpatey
to the forest to arrange more feasible plan Of attack


During the several hours following the Indians gained
no advantage over the obstinate pioneer Hardly an
Indian lad emerged although but an instant from lis
cover without paving for his temeity with hs4ife and
the shower OF balls which they constantly directed to-
wards the cabin sunk harmiesly into the logs There
was another cause, also which aided in the temporary
discontinue OF the Indians; with ah exhibition Of rare
herosm LYDIA Hylton had brought forth spare rife,
ana beng well skilled in Its use more than one painted
lroquos ie before its lcadcn messenger,


wen done my girl! Matthew liyIton cried as he
witnessed one OF her fatal discharges" Should Gala
muck ever force you to enter his wigwam, he must be
careful to remove his rife from your rcae!1


The Indians next tried to fire the cabin but the at
tempt was Intellectual The logs solid, and almost
freproot while the roof WAS Camp from reccn1ans and
not at all lnamable and the party which had been de-
Year: 1862

THE TAX BILL.-EIsewhere in the Star to- day
the reader will fnd q synopsis Of the leading
features Of the General Direct Tax bill-to meet
the necessities Of the Treasury occasioned by the
wsr-reported yesterday from the Ways and
Means Committee. In the main, the country will
be satisfied with Its provisions. It's exactions are
destined to be met by the people with cheerful
ness unexampled heretofore In history. The en-
emies Of the Union on both sides Of the Atlantic
are now basing all their remaining hope Of the
eventual triumph Of the insurrection, upon their
belief In the indisposition Of the people Of the
loyal States to stand the necessary taxation for It's
suppression, and are destined Immediately, al
most, to have that hope dissipated, as all their
otter similar expectations have been dissolved,
one by one, into ''thn air." The readiness with
which the people will put their hands into their
pockets, In response TO this action of Congress, to
maintain their faith In the justice Of the Govern
ment's cause, will astonish Europe, where so
few pay taxes cheerfully except those who live
directly or Indirectly upon disbursements by the
governments levying the taxation.
Year: 1862

Females nurses 4O cents per day ana one ia
ton.


Paymaster's Clerks 500 per annum, and 10
cents per day when actually on duty


Chaplain in volunteers Sl46 so.


In addition to the pay as above stated, one ra-
ton per day and abunaant supply of good
clothing is allowed to every soldier. Quarters.
fuel and medical attendance are always provided
by the Government without deduction from the
soldiers pay If soldier should become disabled
in the line of his duties, the law provides for N
pension, or he NAV, if he prefer it, obtain ad
mission into the Military Asylum, which will
afford him comfortable home so long as he may
wish to receive its benefits.


To the above pay for private soldiers must be
added the additional 50 month to be paid du
ring service, the 800 bounty at the end of the
war, which has already been provided for. and
the quarter section of land that Congress will
provide for at its coming session. The bounty
and land apply to officers and privates alike.
Year: 1862

state reform school as vagrants or on
conviction for any criminal offense, by
any court having competent authority
to make said commitment"


Sec. 2. The superintendent of the
state reform school shall keep an accu.
rate account of the amount due from
each county for the support of persons
therefrom, and shall annually, on or be-
fore the tenth Of October, ir each year,
report to the secretary Of state the
amount which may then be due from
each county for the year ending on the
first day of October preceding, which
report shall state the name Of each per-
son for whom such account is rendered,
the number Of weeks which such per-
son has been in said school during said
year, and the amount charged for each
of said persons respectively; and such
report shall be verified by the oath OF
said superintendent as to It's correct
ness.


Sec. 8. The secretary of state shall
add the amount due from any county
in this state, for the support of such
persons, to the state tax apportioned to
said county, and such amount shall be
collected and paid into the state treas
ury for the use Of the state reform
school.


Sec. T.. The board of managers shall
consist of FIVE members, who shall be
appointed by the governor, and hold
their Offices for three years; said board
to be divided into three classes, and so
divided that the term of one class shall
expire each year, on the first Tuesday
Of March, and shall receive for their
compensation two dollars and fifty cents
per day for every day actually employ
ed, and ten cents per mile for every
mile actually travelled, and shall verify
their account by their oath or affirffaa-
ton.


Sec. S. Sections three, four, five and
six, of chapter 236 Of the general laws
of 1861, and all acts or parts of acts
inconsistent with the provisions of this
act, are hereby repealed.


Sec. 8. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.


Approved June l6, 1862.
Year: 1862

STRATEGY HALL AND HOSPITAL STRArEGY.-
Strategy Hall, my boy, is fine airy hospital ex-
tempotzed from barn, on the estate of pr0mi
nent Southern Union man, now commanding a
regiment Of Confederacies. Tue house itself
would have been taken, as it has somewhat more
roof than the barn, and little more shade but
when the General Of the Mackerel Brigade
learned that Washington had once thought of
taking second mortgage on it, he gave orders
that no Mackerel should 90 within half a mile of
the front door,


On entering Strategy Hall, behcd scene
calculated to elevate sickness into a virtue, aud
shed immortal luster upon the kind hearted wo.
men OF America. Comfortably stretched upon
rails taken from Confederate fences, and Of which
strict account has been kept. with view to
future compensation, were a whole section of the
Mackerel Brigade, in the full enjoyment of
strategic health. Over each chaps head hung
his shovel, and a shngle inscribed with his name
aud address. Thus, the shingle nearest me read :
. Spoony Bill, Hose Company l23, New York
Fire Department"


And woman-lo lovely woman! was there. ad
ministering hot drinks TO the fevered head. bath
log with ice water the brow of those shiverinp
with the cruel ague, pouring rich cruel over the
chin and neck OF the nervous sufferer, and read
Ing good books to the raying and deirious. It
was with specie of holy awe that beheld one
OF these human angels stand hot coffee pot
upon the upturned face Of one invalid while
Year: 1862

COUNTR MERCHANTS
To our unusually large stock of Goods. Our
stock comprises every article in the Clothing and
Furnishing line We have constantly on hand
the largest stock and greatest variety Of CAsSI
MERE and w o o L III AT s., of any house in
the city, and our prices for these Goods are less
than of any other House, as we receive them
direct from the manufacturers Consignment
Our stock of


SUMMER AND FALL GOODS
is particularly attractive. and the great feature
TO the Country Merchant is the unusually low
priceless than the cost of impoi tation.


We also keep the Staple articles in The Dry
Goods line, which Goods we have purchased in
this market under the Hummer, and are offering
them at New York cost--and less. We pnbish
this Card in order that we may make new ac-
quaintances, and induce those who hage4svt here
tofore purchased of us, to call and inspect our
stock.


All we ask is an opportunity to show the Goods
and name the prices, and we have no fear Of the
result Good articles and o,e prices are the great
inducements to all who purchase to sell again.
Merchants who buy of us can make good
profit and sell TO their customers at low figure.
We remain, respect fully,


Your obedient servants,


BADGER q LlNDENBERGER,


Wholesale Clothing and Hat Warehouse,


Nos. All, 413 and AS Battery street.


Corner of Merchant street,)


San Francisco, April 20, 1862. 2Sl3.
Year: 1862

THE firmest friendships are formed in
adversely, just as iron is welded in the
tiercest flames.


IT is impossible to ruin man who
works hard lie will never believe him
self ruined.


LADIES, keep proper rein upon your
husbands whenever they demand great
deal of freedom, give them just little
bit.


The ostentatious man illumines the
outside Of house most brilliantly; and
sits inside in the dark.


APPREHENSION Of evil is olt-times worse
than the evil itself
Year: 1862

TIE term "Rehcl" is getting to be rath-
cr indefinite. There are two kinds Of
rebels we have to deal with those who,
bearing arms, openly refuse the rccogni
ton of The old Union, and those who have
caosen the safer and more cowardly way
of pertidiously destroying it by plots aud
intrigues and inSidious attacks on the
Constitution. The one we meet on the
battle field; but what would be the result
Of all the bloody strife with the former if
in the mean time, the other should sue
ceed in deprving us of the prize for which
we are fighting! The dangers threatened
from the one are known; but if the people
do not soon realize the concealed dangers
arising from the other, and do not in time
put an end to the work of those traitors
in the mask of "Unionism," the Republic
is hopelessly doomed.-SqB0M (N ~
Democrat.
Year: 1862

NEAR Newark, n. j., lived very pious
family, who had taken an unidentified or
phan to raise. lie had imbibed very strict
views on religious matters, however, and
once asked his adopted mother if she did
not think it was wrong for the old far
mers to so to church and fall asleep, pay
ing no attention to the service. She re-
piled she did. Accordingly, on going to
church next Sunday, he filed his pockets
with apples. One bald headed old gentle


man who invariably went to sleep during
the sermon, particularly attracted his at


tention. Seeing him at last noddng and
giving nasal evidence of being in the
land Of Dreams" he "hauled off," and
took the astonished sleeper with hard
apple square on the top of his old pate.
The minister and aroused congregation
turned around and Indignantly gazed at
the boy, who merely said to the preacher,
as he took an other apple in his hand,
You preach and III keep 'em awake :"
Year: 1862

MATERIALS IN THEIR INVISIBLE STATE
If II piece Of silver be put into nitric acid,
a clear and colorless liquid, it is rapidly
dissolved, and vanishes from the sight
The solution of silver may be mixed with
water, and, to appearance, no effect what
ever is produced. Thus, in a pail of water
we may dissolve and render invisible
more than fifty dollars worth of silver
lead and iron; but every other metal cal
be treated i'll the same way, with. sim lal
results. When charcoal is burned, wher
candles are burned, when paper is burned
these substances all disappear, and be
come invisible. In fact, every materia
which is visible, can, by certain treat
ment, be rendered invisible.


Matter which, in one condition, is per.
feet Opaque, and will not admit the least
ray of light to pass through it, will, in
another lorm, become quite transparent
The cause of this wonderful effect of thC
condition Of matter is utterly inexplicable
Philosophers do not even broach theories
upon the subject much less do they en-
deavor to explain it. The substances dis
solved in water, or burned in the air, arr
not, however, destroyed or lost


BY certain well.known means they car
be recovered, and again be made visible
some exactly in the same state as they
were before their inviSibility others
though not in the same state, can bt
shown in their elementary condition; and
thus it can be proved that having ono,
existed, il never ceases to exist, although
it can change its condition, :. like the cater
pillar, which becomes a~ehYysaiiS and
then gorgeous butterfly. If a palful O
the solution of silver be cast into the
stream, it is apparently lost by its diSper
sion in the water; but it nevertheless
continues to exist. So, when bushel o
charcoal is burned in stove, it diSap
pears, in consequence Of the gas produced
being mixed with the vast atmosphere
but yet the charcoal is still in the air. Or
the brightest and sunniest day, when
every object can be distinctly seen above
the horizon, hundreds Of tons Of charcoal
in an invisible condition, pervade the air
Glass is beautiful illustration of the tran
sparency OF n compound, which, in truth
is nothing but a mixture of the rust o.
three metals.


The power of matter to change its con
ditions from solid opacity to limpid tran
sparency causes some rather puzzling
phenomena. Substances increase ir
weight without any apparent cause; fol
instance, a plant goes on increasing in
weight hundred fold for every atom thai
is missing from the earth in which it i,
growing. Now the simple explanation o
this is, that leaves of plants have tn,
power Of withdrawing the invisible char
coal from the atmosphere, and restoring
it to its visible state in some shape or other
The lungs of animals and smokeless
furnace change tuatter from its visible tc
its invisible state. The gillS of fishes ant
the leaves Of plants reverse this operation
rendering invisible or gaseous matter Wis
ible. Thus the balance in nature is main
tained, although the continual change ha.
been going on since long prior to thu
creation Of the extinct animals. Piesse
Year: 1862

A RICH AFFAIE.-A Man Dra1os on q Caty
Farm for a Wtje.-A few days since a respec-
table business firn on Water street received a
letter from customer near youngstown, en-
closing an order fora Wife The customer
was rich, middle-aged, a Dutchman and a
widower. lie said he wanted wife right of,
and had no time to look up one for himself


but should be in town in the course of day
or two to marry the woman which he depend
cd on his city friends having ready for him.
Such an order rather took the merchants
aback, but the man was too good customer
to disoblige. AS they had no supply Of the
article on hand, for sale, one of the firm went
out to hunt it up, and at an Intelligence Office
got track of girl who could speak German
and English, was tolerable good-iooking, and
very much wanted to find husband A bar
gain was struck. The Dutchman came in
yesterday, found the article ready for him, ap-
proved of it, got married, and took hiscurious
purchase home with him. We did not learn
whether the firm charged special fee OF a
per centage commission on the market value
of the article.-CLsUslaRd Herald
Year: 1862

A correspondent Of the New York Even
ing Post asks, "What is there to prevent
the millions Of tons Of forest leaves from
being converted into paper? Millions Of
tons annually decay in our forests. There
is no question but they can be converted
into paper. The beach forests of New
York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey
would afford the very best material; or
any forest where oak, chestnut hickory,
beach, white wood, &C., abound, weuld seem
to afford the very material so much de-
sired. The reader will say the color is
Objectionable. But let us see; are there
no acids or alkalies that will render them
white? The skeleton leaf enclosed has
been subjected to the action of water and
chloride lime, and the paper is perfectly
white. Here is a material which is pro-
duced without labor, and, like the sand at
the sea side, can be had for the gathering"
Year: 1862

Garibaldi writes to friend, in reference
to our war, that he "is at loss how to
understand why nation like the Ameri-
can Republic, with such absolute and soul
inspiring declarations Of freedom engrsft-
ed in her Constitution and laws, should be
so regardless of the dictates Of humanity,
and the enlightened civilization of the
nineteenth century, as not to have slavery,
the barbarous relic Of barbarous age, at
once and forever abolished"
Year: 1862

THE papers relate an anecdote of beautiful
young lady who had become blind having re-
covered her sight after her marriage Where
upon Snooks wickedly observes that it is no
uncommon thing for peoples eyes to be opened
by matrimeny.
Year: 1862

the sweating feet forever plodding- the


brain forever throboing-.the shoulders


forever drooping-theloin forever aching


and the restless mind forever scheming.


Thnk--as your Imagination beholds the


unvarying wheel work, the treadmill


of labor thus going round, and round,


without a change, without pause,


from morn to night, from moon to moon,


and from year To year-think, If you


can, of the desolations that must follow


this absolute reign of labor ever the


wIulc realm of tiine. Think OF the


beauty it would efface, of the merry


heartedness it would extinguish, of tho


giant strengths that it would tame of


the resources of nature that it would


exhaust, of the ASPIRATIONS it would


crush, of the sickness that it would


breed, of the projects it would wreck, of
the grcans that it would cxtort, of the
lives that it would immediate, and of the
cherries graves that it would prema.
turely dig! See them toiling and moil.
ing, aud sweating and fretting, grinding
and hewing, weaving and spinning,
strewing and gathering, sowing and
reaping, razing and building, digging
and planting, unfolding and storing,
striving and struggling-in the garden
and in the field, in the granary aud 10
the barn, in the factory and in the mill,
in the warehouse and in the shop, on
the mountains and in the ditch, on the
roadside and in the wood in the city
and in the country, on the sea and on
the shore, on the earth and in the earth
in days of brightness and days of
gloom-in hours of sun and seasons of
stcrm--in times of trouble and times of
peace lin the heights of day and depths
of night, through the savageness of
winter and through the gentlenoss of
spring-in the energy of youth and in
the impotence of age, when health is
merrily dancing in the blood, and when
disease is eating up the strength--when
death is IN the lonely home, and when
happy life encircleth the hearth--thus
the wheel of labor would go round with
the earth, and the children of industry,
chained to its surface, must follow its
ruinous Recommendations, till, exhausted
by unnatural efforts, they relax their
hold, drop of, and suddenly disappear!
Year: 1862

A writer on gcnealogy in the New
York Post, says, at one corner of the
genealogist's inverted pyramid may be
princes crown; but at another may be
hapgmans rope. and arrives at the
conclusion genealogical societies are
unnecessary evils aud that rather than
have long ancestry, man had better
have no ancestry at all.