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Year: 1862




Yesterday afternoon, smart-looking lad,
wearing a military cap and overcoat ap-
piled at the recruiting Office of Captain
Benjamin, in the Arcade, to be enrolled as
drummer boy. He stated that he was
seventeen years of age, and had served as
drummer boy in the army on the Potomac
several months. An officer took him into
private room, where q very brief inspec-
ton revealed the fact that the pretended
boy was q womanl She was handed over
to the custody of the police, and accommo-
dated with lodgings in cell. Apparel
more becoming her sex was supplied her,
and she will appear before the magistrate
suitably clothed if not exactly right in her
mind. She is the same woman that was ar
rested at Albion last winter. She tended
bar at the Clinton House, in that village,
two weeks, going by the name of Charley
Miller. Being detected by officer Foster,
che was taken before Justice BrGley, who
discharged her on her promise to leave
town. ..


She says now that she enlisted last spring
in the Eighteenth New York Volunteers,
Colonel Jackson, as a drummer and served
in that capacity for two months. She was
then transferred to the Forty-sixth Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers, Colonel Knipes, and acted
as servant to one of the officers. She was
then discharged-whether upon discovery
of her sex or not, she did not inform us. She
returned home to her mother, to Cayuga
County, and to whom she gave the money
she had received as wages; but being en-
amored with the life Of soldier, she deter
mined to enlist again, and came to Rochester
for that purpose. In the eighteenth regi-
Oh N
but the name she prefers is Charley Miller
Her real name we do not think proper to
mention, as she disclosed it under the prom
Use that it should not be published


We are informed that this woman is more
than thirty years old, but she gave her age
to us as twenty-one. In crinoline she ap-
peared to be twenty-five or six; in panta-
looms seventeen or eighteen. A person who
processes to have known her twelve or four
teen years, says at that time she was driv-
ing hackney coach for Mr.. Benjamin Nc
Farland. Subsequently she was engaged
in the same business in Buffalo. Almost
from childhood she has chosen.to unsex her
self and lead masquerading life in male
garb. For some two years she Travelled
with a circus. She was here last summer
with a concern of that sort in the employ of
a man who sold whips from wagon. So
long has she followed an adventurous career,
passing herself off as a boy, that she scarcely
retains any feminine characteristics. When
she is in her favorite attire there is nothing
in her ganeral appearance or in her voice,
TO indicate that she is other than she seems
A slight popularity in her walk is alone
likely to betray her.


What disposition will be made of her we
can not say. 1t is scarcely probable that
the magistrate will deem her deserving of
any severe punishment, as no crime or Of
fense is charged against her except her dis
guise.-Rochester Democrat Dec. 18.
Year: 1862

The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore NesOS Sheet writes as follows.
The NssOs-Shsst processes to be a Union
paper, but is not SO generally regarded by
those who are acquainted with its course;


"Whatever may be the result of the Mason
and Slidell difficulty, it can add bat little TO
the complication Of affairs here. Members
of the. Cabinet are exceedingly disappointed
at the failure of the Port Royal expedition
for failure it Island also at the inability,
open the route to Richmond. The Increasing
war expenses begin TO weigh most heavily.
II is the opinion OF men who ought to know,
that President Lincoln and Secretary Chase
would be glad to give the South pen and
paper, and let them dictate their own terms
20 preserve tie UaiOn.l With all OF the Cab
lJinet the war-teVer 10 over. 5gt
Year: 1862

The Port Royal correspondent of the New
York Express writes as follows, giving an
account of the burning of bis cotton houses
by Mr.. Hugh Wilson, and the escape to our
soldiers of a portion of his slaves:


They asserted that they had long been ex-
pecting and praying for our coming, and
they had determined whenever we should
arrive to make their way instantly to us.
Captain Ammen offered them permission to
return, but though they said they had left
their wives and children, "Masss would kill
If we go back, and they preferred to remain.
When asked why they left their master, they
replied-as at least a Thousand negroes have
said within my hearing within the last six
weeks--that they we're badly treated, got
only peck of corn a week, and no other
food; no bacon, no salt; had shoes only every
other year; had had no clothes given them
for long time, but had been worked hard.
The negroes, indeed, of this whole region
persist in saying that they have been miser-
ably fed and clad; not an exception
to this has fallen beneath my notice
Those of Mr.. Wilson's say that they
had been obliged to boil down sea-
water for salt, and many Others had told me
this story; they also said, however, that the
| only salt on the planters tables was pro.
cured in the same way; they had seen no
gold nor silver in long while; they had
scraps OF Confederate paper money with
them. They gave us the first information
we had received OF the great fire at Charles.
ton, and the next day all that they told us
in this matter was confirmed by the papers
found at Rockville. These blacks were ex-
amined separately, and told the same tale,
which l could see no reason to disbelieye
Within an hour or two of their arrival. the
other three who bad been set to watching
Msssa's children also came aboard, and they
had left the children in the caIriage-hou
The meeting between those who first ar
rived and this second party was full of
warmth and cordially. The late comers
we're more intelligent than their predeces-
so1s, but reasserted the same story.


| have been particular in giving these
details, because | have seen it stated in a
number of Southern papers that the slaves
are still faithful to their masters, and in
Northern journals that tue reports about the
fugitives are exaggerated But every thing
/ have seen or heard confirms me in the
opinion that the whole slave population of
South Carolina will desert its masters az the
earliest opportunity. Two of these negroes
declared that they had come from Charleston
within two days. and that the blacks there
waited apxiously for US, and would instantly
join us if we approached. They were all
given the rations of common sailors, and
declared they had never Jared 80 well be.
fore. Their actions corroborated their
words. They manifested the greatest ca
gerness to inform us Of the whereabouts of
rebel troops told of pickets aud small par.
ties stationed at different houses along the
river, and especially that there were four or
five hundred "in tents" near Rockville.
Year: 1862

The President having other fish in the Ma
tional frying pan, which require close watch
ing, can not look after his colonization
scheme with the care which it needs. For il
wants great care and assiduous nursing.
ever to attain the rank of public question,
and, although now thought to be bat slum-
beriDg through the holidays, it is really ap-
preaching that final sleep which knows no
waking.


And it ought to do so. The scheme takes
away the breath to figure at it, and the back.
bone of all Europe would surely be strained
to accomplish it. Our war is heavy load,
but if ten wars were rolled into one, aud the
result presented, we should then begin to
appreciate the burden and expense of trans
porting nation from one soil to another.


To transport the contrabands who have
already approached our lines, aud estab ish
them in another country, would cost US
about ten millions of dollars. The time
taken, to judge by the Florida war, would be
no LEES than one year. To transport and To-
cate the four millions of slaves now at the
South, would require an expenditure of six
thousand millions OF dollars, and take no less
than six years to accomplish. Add to this
cost the price which ought to be paid for
the slaves, and we have an expense OF twelve
thousand millions of dollars, the interest of
which debt would entail upon us an expense
of nearly one thousand millions of dollars
per year.


The results derived would be the incubus
of the above financial load; the deprivation
to our land of four millions of honest labor
ers, with that decrease in our population,
and the severance of the ties of home and
country, to millions of fellow. creatures
probably as much attached to the soil as
ourselves


In view of these difficulties we propose
that WE move out of the United States, aud
let Sambo and the Abolitionists remain.


Our people can move away, and get a fair
start elsewhere, cheaper than our Govern.
ment can remove our load of negroes. Lst
Congress dismiss the present scheme, and
bring up a bill for our nation to emigrate.
Neao York Sun, Republican,.
Year: 1862

and most pleasant, snd the transition of the
atmospheric temperature of the room will
not be so abruptly changed as would be the
case by the Introduction of the cold aud
chilling air of either morning or afternoon.


THOMAS SHEREN.
Year: 1862

The amount Of cotton, taken from
each plantation is carefully ascerta,ned,
each bag is marked with the former own
er's initials, and an account kept both
with the estate and With tie negros, so
that at any time the Government will I've
able to compensate any Of the owners
who shall prove to have been loyal. The
cotton found on these islands is, as is well
known, Of superior quality it IS worth
so cents pound on the island and rs
cents in New York. It is in ordinary
times sent almost exclusively to France,
where it is mixed with silk and cotton
goods ; its texture is of the finest quail
ty, and its culture requires the greatest
and most constant care. There are i'm.
mense quantities Of it yet stored in the
cotton houses Of these islands more
even has beeu discovered than was antic-
ipated at least 100000 worth are
believed to have been already secured.


Since the negroes have discovered that
they will be paid for their exertions, they
have brought in soIne that vas buried
in the interior, and manifested grea, care
to preserve and obtain as much as posi-.
bic. | have heard some instances Of
their giving warning in advance when
their masters or the rebel soldiers con,
templa!ed any new burnings.


As for the ginning. most of it is to he
done in New York it is the opinion of
those who have charge Of the work, that
it can be learned with ease in day by
any workman Of ordinary capacity. and
the labour is by no means arduous. Here
it will require engineers and engines, as
well as gins, and nacessitate a who'e
corps Of assistant overseers, for the ne,
gros are utterly incompetent to do any
thing without incessant supervision.
Year: 1862

pied as to occasion destruction of crops
or property, the Chief Collector Of the
State shall notify the Secretary Of the
Treasury thereof, and shall certify the
facts proper to form Judgment as to tie
ability Of such county, town, district, or
par, thereof, to pay the War Tax.


9. G.. MEMMINGER,


Secretary OF the Treasury.
Year: 1862

Captain Foote o native of Connecticut, Of which State
he citizen, and from which State he appointed TO
che navy Of the United States. He s son Of Senator
the Senate with Of speeches He entered
The United States service the 4h Of December 1922
and has consequently served the country nearly forty
years He steadily in bis profession, and made


commander the 18th Of December 1882 under which
be about two years and three months sea
servics HIS total service nearly twenty years
and half and he performed nearly eight years shore
duty He unemployed for over ten years, and was
last At in June 1865. Al the breaking Of the
present troubles he in Command Of the Navy Yard
Brooklyn. and shortly after the commencement Of
hostitss promoted 70 captaincy. with the charge
Of the Western Mississippi fotla Of which the
commodore flag officer While engaged in his duties he
b reported having worked night and day with zeal
and energy that worthy Of emulation in both branches
u the service, and has accomplished almost hercuean
task. Being dependent upon the Navy Department for
men and portion Of his equipment, and compelled 10
call upon the War Department for other things equally
eessary the Of his misson the inland waters
and apparently object Of jealousy and subject Of ne
stacles and about prepared undertake the opening
up cf the Mississippi river from Cairo New Orleans
He 10 quiet gray haired veteran and although holding


rank equal 10 major general Of the land forces attained
by lies service the broad under the old flag
hAs been quietly and serving his country
- The junction of the Ohio and the Mississippi His pre-
ssnt expedition has bssn carried with spirit and ensr
gy and the result 10 gratifying to the nation.
Year: 1862

NOTICE is hereby given that on the eighth day
IN of August in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty, William Serb
ner, made, executed and delivered to the under
signed Reuben Town. mortgage bearing date on
that day. on the following described real estate, ly-
ing and being in the County of Cass, and State OF
Michigan, to wit: The south half OF the southeast
quarter of section eight. Also the south half Of the
southwest fractional quarter of section nine. all in
township seven south of range fifteen west, which
description conforms substantially with that con-
tanned in the mortgage which mortgage was con,
dtIoned for the payment OF the sum oi one hundred
and ninetv-eight dollars and hty-eght cents to be
paid in six months from the date of said mortgage
with interest


And that said mortgage contained power of
sale in case of the payment OF the said princi-
pal Of the interest thereon any part thereof at
the time limited for the payment thereof


And that said mortgage was duly received for
record in the office OF the Register of deeds of the
County of Cass, in the State of Michigan, on the
fifteenth day of August A. ID. 1860, at o'clock +.
NJ. and recorded in liber of mortgages on
pages 609 and go. And that default in the condi-
tion of said mortgage has occurred, (by which the
said power to sell has become operative) by the
non-pay yment of the whole of said principal aud
the interest thereon, which amounts To the sum
of two hundred and twenty-six dollars and seventy
two cents which is the amount claimed to be due
by the said Reuben Town the date Of this notice
And that suit proceeding at law or IN
equity has been instituted to recover the said
debt now remaining secnred BY the said mortgage,
or any part thereof. And further notice is hereby
given that in pursuance of the power OF sale con-
tanned in said mortgage and Of the statute in such
case made and provided the said mortgaged prem
ises above described will be sold at public vendue
at the hour of O'clock in the afternoon of Sat
urday, the twenty fifth day of October, A. D.1S62
at the front door of the Court House in the viii
lage Of Cassapolis in said county of Cass 1.-THE
said Court House being the place of holding the
circuit court within said county in which said
premises to be sold are wholly situated) by the
Sheriff of said County to the highest bidder, to
saisfv the amount due on such mortgage at the
date of this notice, with amount and costs al
lowed by law, and the attorney fee mentioned
therein.


REUBEN TOWN, Mortgage.


b. T.. CHUBB, Attorney.


Dated July 80. 1862. juiy31-15wl3
Year: 1862

CTATE OF MICHlGAN-County of Cass-ss.
y At session of the Probate Court for the
County of Cass, holden at the Probate Office, in
Cassapolis, Saturday, the thirteenth day of Sep
tember, in the year thousand eight hundred and
sixty-twO Present-Clifford Shanahan, Judge OF
Probate. In the matter of the estate of John Van
Tilburgh deceased. On reading and filing the petit
ton duly verified, of George Peck. praying for
letters of Administration on the estate of said de-
ceased.


Thereupon it is ordered, that Saturday, the
eleventh day of October next at ten O'Clock. in the
forenoon, be assigned for the hearing of said
petition and that the heirs at law of said deceased
and all other persons interested in said estate,
required to appear at a session of said court, then
to be holden at the Probate Office in Cassapolis,
and show cause, if any there be, why the prayer
of the petitioner should not be granted.


And it is further ordered that said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said estate,
of the pendency Of said petition and the hearing
thereof, by causing copy of this order to b. pub
lished in the Cass County Republican, newspaper
printed and circulating in said County OF Cass for
three successive weeks previous TO said day of
hearing q. SHANAHAN,


A true copy Judge of Probate.


September Is, 1862. seplS 22w3
Year: 1862

DY virtue of an execution issued out Of and
ID under the seal of the Circuit Court for the
County of Cass in the State of Michigan, in favor
of Abram COnklin, Plaintiff and against Eli b.
Prater, Defendant, to me directed and delivered,
have levied upon and shall sell at public auction,
at the west door of the Court House, in the village
of Cassapolis County and State aforesaid, on
Monday, the sixth day of October next. at one
o'clock in the afternoon, all the right, title and
interest of Eli B. Prater aforesaid, in and to the
following described real estate, to wit: The west
half of the southeast quarter of section thirty in
township six south and range fifteen west, except
five rods square in the southwest corner for school
purposes Also, two acres and One-half off the
southend of the west half of the northeast quarter
of section thirty. township six south and range
fifteen west. All of the above being IN the County
of Cass and State of Michigan.


b. W. SCHERMERHORN, Sheriff.


Dated, at the Sheriff Office, Cassapolis August
22d, 1862 aug2S-l9w6
Year: 1862

Each has his own one path in life,


A circle small within his ken
And small circle, too. perchance-
We cannot all be famous men! He
And duties are not truly doom


BY painting vainly after fame,
Or fretting for the want of chance
To quickly make brilliant name.
A brilliant namel Too oft is this


The phantom that leads many on
Until, too late, they wake and lind
The time for real endeavor gonei
Better fill lowly place,


And labor there with soul and heart,
Than dream ambitiously for wealth
Till time and youthful strength depart.
Do / speak sadly? Truth it is


That in the lowest place of life
A man can act hero's part,


Amid the daily toll and strife!
Amid hourly din and care,


Even though within the humblest home
Can shine in virtue great and grand,
As ever gilded ancient Rome!
Life's heroism does not need


A spacious or a lofty stage;
Life's greatest deeds are not all writ
Upon the flaming golden page!
Believe me, glorious work is done,
AS the worlds wheels still onward go,
Which ten-tongued rumor never yet.
Hath blazoned, or will ever know.
Self-conquest, self-devotion, these


Are the high gifts which give to all
Who own them that well tempered mind.
Prepared alike to win or fall
Prepared, with fitting mein, to meet
The happy good or bitter ill;
Unshaken, whether fate the cup


With nectar or with gall may fill!
Each of these words, in loftIer truth,
Is sure taisman in life,
To guard and strengthen heart and brain,
In time of hourly din and strife;
All stations they alike beft-
The peasants cot or monarch's throne
To every man priceless gift


They bring, in self-respect alone?
Year: 1862

fTrou1 the Richmond enquirer. July 20.


We have been equally surprised aud pleased with the
accuracy aud ability by the British press in their
discussions OF tho American Considering that they
receive little Yankee newspapers and have hoard
only one side we wonder at the success with which they
have ht upon the real merits OF the contest and the
acutsucss with which they have In the main eliminated
this truth Of history from OF fasehood Not the
least successful and prominent IN this work has been the
London Times. In recent issue of this Journal however
wc aiscover exception to its usual astuteness An
article 10 COPIED from the New York Journal II CONNER e.
In which ii is said 80 There Is to-day, sentiment in
which the whole American people North and South seem
IN agree aud that Is sentiment Of hostility ngland
Th, south Is full Of aad asres n its expressions lha
Year: 1862




Private accounts by persons lately from the North,
With the information obtained from the Northern
pres. that voluntary enisments there virtually
end at least state Of suspension. Premium is
being piled Oh premium, and bounty bounty to temnt
the needy and the mefcrnary but thus far with very
little effect. The opinion Is generally obtaining at the
Norh that nothing but compulsory draft will enable
The Yankee Governors TO meet IncOlns last reqnision.
Whether the temper OF the people would endure that
would 70 be 1t Is not likely that would
Men will submit to any thing, and will honor the most
extreme cali OF their government when necessary do
lend their liberties their homes. But hen thsy
violently commanded to go aggressive against
people who only ask TO be let aone but who may
be attacked with imp ipity-nay, in the frutess and
mglorious attempt to conquer whom quarter OF million
u the invaders have died in camp hospital have
been manned for liethe question becomes very grave
one, and Jonathan, accordingly, shakes his head anu
may perhaps rebol.


We must not however, on part, presume anything
against the enemy. We may worry properly, encourage
our selves with all rational hopes but these hopes
traitors If they to relax zeal On the
trary they should animate endeavors aud energze
operations and add to Let our brave
rally Ia full force under the lead Of generals and
let these last press operations With renewed sleep
sss activity. This is our opportuny-not for Sleep
but for energetic and effective operations Let i'm
prove it,
Year: 1862

battle for his home and for the that shelters his
wife sud little To the ab bodied IL Will now
be double disgrace to shun the fight Our people,
ons man and u the last man must resist SO atrucous


vaity and so terrible faie Bat II, as sappose,
lneo.a a his supporters designed TO address your
fears will you rot show them how little they know your
Fr hen you into submission by threats which he cannot
execute. except upon tho impossible suppsition that you
prove crsyens aud cowards' Avenge the osut and Mt
rebuilding your zeal and your efforts, and by holding
yourselves ready to endure the most extreme dscom-
fort and to make any sacrifice Of life ITSELF
than yield to ioe SO disgusting and so malignant
Year: 1862

FROM tho hlcnmOnu Examiner, July "a


When the train from the West the Central Railroa
reached Fredercks Hall, station fifty miles from this
city, 1t met by that the va ea cavalry had
another raid from Fredericksburg, and had pos
oil the track ut Anderson turnout miles be
low Beaver Dam, aud thirty miles from Richmond. Tho
telegraph wire not being in working order there
At hand Of aceraining the truth or this report
Under the tho conductor not choosing to
risk the and tran took extra loco,n
and down to Andersons q reconnaissance. When
he reached this place he found the report Of the Yankees
at that point correct but they bad left several hours
previous to his arrival He learned the following par
ticulars-


A; quarter past nino NJ just quarter Of hour
after the passage OF the train from Richmond the Yankee
cavalry several hundred in number mado their appear
ut the turnout. Having missed the train, they
seemed 10 have particular object in view but otered
about the neghborhood for . couple of hours They,
however, before taxing leave, searched the house Of Mr.
John T. Anderson which Is the railroad and took
prisoner his son. in the Confederate service but
home sick furough They also took possession
Of Mr. Andssons horses. They made no attempt to tear
up the railroad having doubt had enough OF that bust
at Beaver Dam last Sunday. They did not inter.
sre with the telegraph wire through prudential motives
shrewdy guessing that any meddng with that would give
notice Of their presence.


OF the movements OF our troops occasionsd by this
second mpudcnt foray Ia unnecessary say any thing


The Central train reached this city At eight O'Clock
three hours behind Its usual time.