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Year: 1862

When Ethan Allen was a prisoner in Eng
land, he was told that If he would turn traitor
to the colonies and join the English cause, he
should, after the colonies were subdued, be
made the owner of vast possessions in the
conquered country. Ethan said he was re-
minded of similar case, when an old fellow
told the Son of Man that If he would fall down
and worship him, he would give him all the
kingdoms of the world ,chen the poor derH
hadn't foot Of land on earth!


We were reminded of this old anecdote by
reading from the Washington correspondence
of the New York World, of the attempts of
Mason and Slidell to purchase European rec
ogntion by offering the coastwise trade of the
South to the intervening powers, when that
trade is most eflectually blockaded,-so effect
ually that John Bull will be likely to think
twice before bunting his head against our
Monitors and other iron-clad naval vessels
The correspondence referred to says:


Private correspondence, received by the
late foreign mail states that Mason and Slidell
are doing their utmost to bring about the rec
ognition of the Southern Confederacy. They
are increasingly employed in paying visits and
sending invitations to subordinate English and
French officials, and in creating an atmosphere
of southern sentiments inside and around the
high officials of the French and English gov
ernments.


II was lately stated at a party given in Paris,
by a member of legation well well known in
the United States, that Mason and Slidell had
made the offer to the English and French gov
ernments to give them the privilege of the
coastwise trade and of the inland water navi-
CATION as soon as the South would have been
recognized-this privilege to last as long as
ship building in the South would not be as
cheap as in the North or in Europe.
Year: 1862

to true Democratic and Republican institu-
tions, and making free men only the basis of
political power, and then we shall go for the
Constitution as it will be.


But enough: We have said sufficient to make
out our point; that the sole end aim, object,
animus of the present Democratic organization
is TO throw its protection around negro sla-
very, and to hold on to the sources of political
power which that affords them. Let the peo-
pie remember this.
Year: 1862

ENLIST.-Persons from towns whose quota is full
desirous TO enlist, enlist part of the quota of
the town of Brunswick and receive the town bounty.
500. Per order Town Committee. Augl4lw
Year: 1862

"Mother is dead!" What a volume oil
thought do these words express! What pen
can bring forth the agony OF mind when this
sad truth is realized? The heart shrinks back
and denies to intruding expression kuowl-
edge of its inward woes. The ima2 ination ol
another fails to picture them; and when we
ourselves who have sustained this loss turn cur
eyes inward for moment to glance at the ua-
ked reality, we are wont to disbelieve il and
repel the overwhelming food Of sorrow, which
ever and anon, like the ocean, flows 10 and fro
upon our hearts until exhaustnd we sink into
lethargv, from which when we awaken it seems
rs il we ourselves had passed into another
world, in which everything seems tinSed with
an unnatural gloom.


1t is sad-it is very sad to know that moth
er is no more.


The sun viii shine, the birds will sing, tic
flowers viii bloom in seeming moekery, the
same as before; but there is void in the fam
lily; her seat is vacant; and ds we gather around
the family boa rd we seem 10 deny the truth TO
ourselves, and listen as though we beard her
coming footsteps. But alas she comes not
Mother is deadl Away from our home have
they laid her IN the ground--the elammy dew
damp of death upon her brow She is shut
out rom our sight forever forever! No, not
forever; the. light of heaven iings brilliant
hope over our sorrows With its aid we can
penetrate the darkest clouds Of grief and look
forward to the bright future with confidence
that we shall meet her again. With its aid
d~th is not death lit has not the sting tile
wo Id would have us think; it is but the trans
fer of the soul from this, its transitory home TO
everlasting bliss; it is but the passage of the
storm which leaves the rainbow of hope to
cheer-its bligh,ed subjects.


We love "a linger5 around mothers grave
and muse u; on the hapHy pat when she was
wi,hus. WeIove 10 thiul1 of the merry Christ
mas and other holy days, and although with
the semblance of them is linked the sad truth
that they can never come again-allhough its
tears open new. wounds of cur hearts, yet We
areswiIling TO snffer these pangs that We may
keep ever fresh in cur memories that happy
past, now forever gone gec
Year: 1862

Some modern agricultural writers
have doubted the necessity Of giving
animals salt The following remarks
on the effects of salt upon health, by
Professor James L. Johnston, Of Scot
land, may be relished by those who
still put salt in their puddings, and
allow their cattle a little now and
then:


The wild buffalo frequcnts the salt
licks of Northwestern America the
wild animals in the central parts Of
Southern Africa are a sure prey to
the hunter, who conceals himself be
hind a salt spring; and our domestic
cattle run peacefully to the hand that
offers them a taste of this delicious
luxury. From time immcmorial it has
been known that without salt mar
would miserablY perish and among
horrible punishments, entaiIing GER
tain death, that OF feeding culprits
on saItIess food is said to have pre-
vailed in barbarous times. Mag@ots
and corruption are spoken of by an
cicnt writers as the distressing svmp-
toms which saltlcss food cngcndcrs !;
but no ancient or unclemical modern
could explain how much suffering
arose Now VIC know why the ami
NAL Graves salt why it suffers dis
comfort, and why it ultimately fails
into disease, if salt for time is with
held. Upward Of half the saline
matter of the blood tifty-scvcn per
ccnt.-consists Of common salt; and as
This is partly discharged every dav
through the skin and the kidneys, tile
necessity Of continued supplies of it
to the healthy body becomes sufficient
iy obvious. The bile also contains
soda as a special and Indispensable
constituent, and so do all the cartil-
ages Of the body. Stint the supply
OF salt therefore, and neither will the
bile he able properly to assist the di-
gestion, nor the cartilagc5 to he built
up again as fast as they naturally
waste.
Year: 1862

How bright and beautiful is love in its hour
OF Innocence and purity--how mysteriopsly
does etherealize every feeling, and concentrate
every wild and bewiIdered impulse of the
heart. Love, holy and mysterious Iove--it is
the garland spring Of life the dream of the
heart--the poetry of nature. Its song is heard
in the rude hut-of the poor as well as in the
gorgeous palace of the rich--its flames en-
belish the solitudes OF the forest and the throng-
ed haunts of busy life, and its light impart9 a
briIIiancy to every heart, no matter what may
be its condition.


Love-pure. holy and devoted love-can
never change. Friends may forsake us-the
riches of this world may soar away, but the
heart that loves will cling closer, as louder
roars the storm; amid the wreck of the tenn
pest it will serve as a beacon to light on to hope
and happiness.


Love is the mystic and unseen spell tha
soothes the rugged tendencies of human ma
ture-that fingers about the sanctity OF the
fireside, and uuites in closer mi on the affec
-tions Of society, and that soul that loves truly
will love forever. Not like the waves Of tht
ocean, nor traced in the sand, is the image i'm
pressed uponA loving heart. No, no-but i
will burn on, undefaced its lustre amid th
Quick rush of winds, and the warning Of tn
tempest cloud and when our fate seems darl
and drearv then will love seek shelter in he
own hallowed temple and offer up as sacrifc
her VOWS ana her affections.
Year: 1862

Paris has been considerably amused at
a little oecurance, which is another ovi-
dence Of virtue being rewarded as well as
a further proof of the proverb about
& early birds - and 'sworms. - An &c
centric gentleman, who spent-a great deal
of money during his life in entertaining
his friends, died recently in the Faubourg
St. German. Wishing to put the friend
ship of those who had eaten Of his meat
and drank of his cup" to the test, he de-
sired in his viii that, in case his death
should occur between October and March,
his funeral should take place at eight in
the morning, and at six, should he die
during the other months Of the year
Letters of invitation to the funeral were
to be sent to all his friends and those
who attended were to receive each one for
the males five thousand francs. and for the
females eight thousand francs. The re
suit was that more than four hundred let
ters inviting attendance at the funeral
at six o'clock in the morning were sent
out, and Of these. how many do you sup
pose had the effect to rouse from their
beds those willing sharers in the former
bounties of him whom they were reques-
ted to follow to his final home? Twenty
nine faithful ones only answered the roll
call, and these were exceedingly surprised
few days afterward, to be informed that
five thousand francs each were awaiting
their disposal at their dead friends no
tary.' Among the fortunate faithful ones
were Count Henri d ARGOS, consul-general
of Spain Edouard Houssaye. director of
the (IqzeHo oeS Be0Hr Ag1S and the IL
brarian OF the Empress. The recipients
Immediately decided to appropriate each a
thousand francs of the legacy toward tho
erection of monument over the grave Of
the giver.
Year: 1862

here are pear trees that have paid :
,unlred dollaA year forascveral suci
;,ssiye years. 4.


Every dollar Of manure on farm u
,ettcr than five dollarsSin any bank or
tock that we know Of 1t is good
stock that pays ten per cent. 1t must bc,
a badly managed farm where deposit Of
manure will not pay three hundred per
cent


A bed Of muck OF mari on farm is
better than gold mine, in long run
when the gold is exhausted that is the
end of it but the enriched farm will
pour out crops for Gel tury.


Every dead animal on farm, which is
not eaten as food, should be stored with
loan, rotten leaves, old plaster powdered
charcoal, leached ashes, or other absorb
cnts, so as to make compost Of manure
that will be worth, in long run, moro
han it would have sold for when living.


The science of agriculture is to know
how to convert the waste and apparently
valueless matters around US into the rich
,st and most important production OF life.
The business Of the farmer is one of the
greatest dignity. 1t is to increase tho
beauty and fertility of the earthly. b!
F,y,1er.
Year: 1862

'@ "It shall not, even till then old
man. The world is wide, and perhaps
somewhere within its borders l may
find my parents. Mayhap, by this
time, they may think they owe some
duties to me, save that Of hanging me
in q basket at your hall.door. Alice
Gray shall be my wife, come what
may.n,l


':Choose your own path, and walk
ye in it." said tho Judge, as he walked
out of the apartment.


For ten minutes, Ralph stood in the
centre Of the room after the door was
closed upon the 'Judge, buried in
deepest thought; then he, too, left the
library.


Anhou aftcr he went ont in the
driving storm, to the White cottage
In vain he tried to persuads the gentle
Alice to become his bride at once
She would not until two years haf
passed, unless the old Judge would rc
lent. .


And it came about, that with many
tears, Alice bade adieu to Ralph and
he, with swelling heart, but with q
firm determination, imprinted a warm
kiss upon her cheek, shook the widow
warmly by the hand, and left the cot
tage; and the next morning, th'
House on the Hilltop, after an atfec
tionate farewell to the one he had al
ways known as mother. No inter
view sought he with the Judge, err
he departed for tho distant city o
N where he determined to taxi
up his abode for the present.
Year: 1862

thing is possible under the sun--when
| tell you who they are beside the old
Judge and his wife. Who should they
be but the Widow Gray and her
charming daughter, Alice Of course,
the old Judge couldpitlive with Ralph
away--he who had always been the
spple Of his eye so, within week
he had gone down to the little cottage
under the hill, and made friends with
the widow and her daughter, much
to the joy Of his wife, and together
they had prevailed upon the inmates
Of the cottage to close it mp and come
and stay at the mansion until Ralph
came, at least.


Soft came round that the old Judge
wrote to Ralph that he was sorry for
what he had said and done, asked him
to come home again and bless the old
mansion once more with his presence.
But the sly old fox said not word Of
what would have gladdened his heart
the most--that Alice was at the man
sion. All! not he /; for he wanted to
"give the boy q SURPRISE" he said.


And Alice 2 She, too, wrote to
Ralph, hinting that if he would come
home she might not be so hard-heart-
ed as to make him wait until the next
Autumn, before he should call her
wife-if he would come back imme-
diately.


They had got letter from him, say
I ing that he would come home today,
and they wanted to give him the
greatest surprise. And he, the ely
dog, never once hinted that lie had
discovered who his parents were, or
the snug fortune he had got by the
discovery. Not he he wanted TO tell
Alice his good fortune by the brick
fireplace in the cottage, with the
wood cracking on the fire dogs to
tell her he was no longer dependent
on the bounty Of the Judge.


An hour later, and lie was with
them. He had embraced Alice, kissed
his mother and the Widow Gray, each
with equal affection, shook the old
Judge warmly by the hand, who said,
with tear In his eye:


"God bless you, my boy! and for.
give your old father for his hard-heart-
edness."


How much there was to be talked
over that day! Each had a long story
to tell of the time that had passed
since they met. How they all listened
to the story of his finding his father
with the utmost interest and how
when it was finished, the old Judge
spoke right out all SO bluntly, that he
was glad he was dead, 80 that he coult
have Ralph all to himself. All s
happy family that was that day.


Old Time, with whom l have hat
the pleasure of an acquaintance fol
some twenty-three years, told me thi'
story, leaning leisurely on his scythe
and he furthermore added, that Ralpf
married Alice, and that the cottage
4 was torn down, and they oil lived lons
and happily in the House on the Hill
Year: 1862

further the public interest. They are
treasured in the breasts Of our troops, IN
delibly burned IN BY the needless pr1va-
tions to which they are exposed. Through
them they are reaching the people. The
evil must be removed, not covered up.
The only remedy viii be one which shall
emanate from the war department and
enforce upon commanders the adoption Of
q rule Of war ole and the same every
where We look to the order OF General
Pope as complete antidote to scurgy in
the army, and what We ask is that it be
prescribed to all our troops. II must not
be left in the discretion Of commanders
to imperl their men. because the Army
Regulations do not prescribe the dimen-
slons Of roasting ears, and succotash is not
put down as an article Of war. Let the
remedy be instant and thorough. :,
Year: 1862

- The order Of Gov. Gamble calling On
all the State militia to fall into line creates in
tense excitement, and the stampede Of the
Missouri secesh continues, all being anxious
to escape from the effects Of the order. Those
who cannot get away will undoubtedly go to
bushHhacking.
Year: 1862

who loves the place Of his birth, take the
map and see what that country would be,
1erritoria1ly with the South stricken of. Let
him look, as he may, into the future aud
see What it would be politically and NOR
ally-as power among the great nations
us the beacon light Of liberty, seen Of all
tie wo1ld-as the home Of the rising gen
GRAFTON, or as the buryipg places Of the men
now graphing with its enemies-if we do
moi succeed No patriot can DO this and
moi swear that victory shall be won, though
lie loses all, even life in the struggle!
Year: 1862

Thirty.Rve Hundred Volunteers I'm


One nay.


The Boston Post gives the following
stirring account of the excitement in
Boston on the receipt of the news of
BANKS danger. What contrast to.
Southern cOnscription does it present


The city was ablaze with excitement
yesterday. Rarely has it witnessed such
intensity. Even that of April, 1861, at
| the breaking out of the Rebellion, was
no counterpart The stirring ProcIama-
{ tion of the Governor, and the no less
paper of yesterday, calling upon the
entire Militia of the State to rally for the
protecti0m Of She National Capital, pro-
duced a complete furore. The whole
State was electrified. In many places
the public bells were rung before day
| light, startling the people from their
slumbers and calling them forth to the
| highways The painful intelligence re-
lative to Gen. Banks and his gallant
army, struggling so nobly against an
overwhelming and relentless foe. The
fear that Washington was not afraid of
the unholy tread of the insiduous enc
my the wild rumors of blood and de-
vastation, of savage cruelty and inhu-
man butchery--all combined to drive
the public pulse 30 a fever heat. Men
assembled in the streets and other pub
lie places with anxious and significant
countenances while at an early hour the
inspiring tramp of soldiers fell CRATE
fully on the ear. Later the railways
came laden with patriotic soldiery ; and
by noon hundreds had assembled upon
the Common, eager to proceed at once
to duty at the Capital It is probable
that no such scene was ever before pre-
sented in our city. Never did there
beat more loyal or truer hearts. Never
were hands more ready to defend the
threatened nation. The good old days
of 1776 were reproduced in 1862.


SCENES AT THE STATE HOUSE.


From an early hour in the morning the
State House was besieged with appli-
cants for commissions TO enter immedi-
ately upon duty. They asked, begged,
almost prayed for opportunity to show
their loyalty and devotion. Young
men, middle-aged men, old men--all
were equally eager TO be put in service.
Place appeared TO be of the last coEse-
quence-a chance TO 60 and do some
thing, was the main thing. So cheering
and significant a sight the State Capt.
tOl has hardly before seen. And yet
all was orderly and quiet Men were
earnest and "meant business"
Year: 1862

TIE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE New YANKEE I,rv,rs
he Washington Star calls the Government To 6l
the old regiments, and let raising new ones alone 1t
says:


1t is stated that p the recent battles in Maryland our
new troops did admirably for which they certainly de-
serve great credit But the truth is but two or three
such regiments ventured under fire. and those only
after the battles in which they engaged had been
substantially won by their veteran companions in arms
and that there was more less alterng the part Of
some of them is well known While the compouents
of cur ne regiments almost universally OF the very
best description to make capital soldlers-are perhaps
better material than those OF the old regiments were
orignalywithout as long preliminary training the
latter had they cannot possibly become reliable and
serviceable they should be when exposed tc
rienced troops serny and effectively disciplined as in
the army of the rebel Lee There is not single army
officer civil unctonary having connection direct or
indirect with the prosecution OF the war, who does not
know this to be positively and undeniably true.


While the former are begging and praying to have
the old regiments filled up as the only possible means
of bringing the TO speedy and successful end the


latter seem to have far greater dread of the effect of the
alleged unpopularity OF craft upon their own pros-
poets n tie approaching elections than of the cost in
loyal blood aud treasure and ultimate consequences of
another year of unsuccessful The late convoca-
ti0n of Governors might have done good, it, in
stead of intriguing to dspace this and that general Of
fcer political ends they had resolved instantly and
rgidy to enforce the draft n their respective States
long since ordered by the President as one thousand
infused by the hundred in ten experienced regi-
ments must for the first year of their service be more
reliably effective than five thousand men with In
experienced officers at their head We can look for no
substantial change in the current OF the war il has
run since the rebels have been conscrpting and since
stopped recruiting by direction of Congress- until
the earnest advice in this connection OF all general
officers m the field shall be energeicaly carried out
Year: 1862

FIVE hundred and fourteen years ago
terrible plague devastated the city Of Flor
cnce in Italy. We have a vivid picture of
the distressful scenes which occurred there
written by the celebrated BocCAcCIo, a CO.
temporary and apparently an eyewitness
of the scenes he describes. Though in a
slight way, the appearance Of things in
Wilmington since the beginning of Sep
tember presents many corresponding fea-
lures. Human nature seems to be not
much different now from what it was five
centuries ago


In the year then Of our Lord 1348,
there happened at Florence, the finest city
in all Italy, most terrible plague; which,
whether owing to the influence of the
planets, or that. it was sent from God as a
lust punishment for our sins, had broken
out some years before in the Levant, and
after passing from place to place, and ma
king incredible havoc all the way, had now
reached the west; where, spite of all the
means that art and human foresight could
suggest, as keeping the city clear from filth
and excluding all suspected persons; not
withstanding frequent consultations what
else was to be done; nor emitting prayers
to God in frequent professions in the
spring of the foregoing year it began to
show itself in a sad and wonderful manner
and different from what it had been in the
cast, where bleeding from the nose is the
fatal prognostic, here there appeared GER
tain tumorS in the groin, or under the arm
pits, some as big as small apple, others
as an egg and afterwards purple spots in
most parts of the body in some cases large
and but few in number, in others less and
more numerous, both sorts the usual mes
8engers of death. To the cure of this ma
lady neither medical knowledge, nor the
power of drugs, were of any effect wheth-
er because the disease was in its own ma
ture mortal, or that the physicians could
form no just idea of the cause, nor conse-
quently ground true method of cure


which ever was the reason, few or none
escaped; but they generally died the third
day from the first appearance of the symp,
toms, without fever or other bad circum-
stance attending. And the disease, by
being communicated from the sick to the
well, seemed daily to get ahead, and tc
rage the more, as fire will do, by laying
OIL fresh combustibles. Nor was It give1
by cionversing with only, or coming neal
the sick, but even by TOUCHING their clothes
or any thing that they had before touched
1t is wonderful, what I am going to men
tion which, had I not seen it with my owl