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Year: 1862

Those who laid these plans sent out their


emissaries into all the adjoining counties


to notify all rebeldOm in Central Kentucky


to come to Lexington, and participate and


make a full showing of their strength


They thought the Union men would think
1t was to be only funeral, made rather


large on account of the popularity of the
young man, and that under this impression


they could assemble one or two thousand


traitors together, and have good time
generally without being detected, The
coffin was kept for several days with the


body of the dead rebel in it. At length


the great day arrived, and about one
thousand traitors filled the streets of Lex


iHgton to join in the grand procession. A
confederate flag was prepared, aud the
procession was getting ready to move to
the Cemetery, and deposit the body of the
traitor under the colors of the rebel gov.
ernment. Yes, all this was to be done,
and that, too, in the centre of one of the
most loyal States in the Union.


About the time that the clan was gath
ering to execute their treasonable de-
signs, and give n public insult to the
State and Nation by hoisting foreign
tag and marching under it in open day,
the tap of n drum and the whistle of a fife
were heard ut the outskirts of the city.
The hearts of the rebels quaked with
tenr-they looked pale-thcy trembled-
they looked into each Others faces in con-
fusion and despair-their trick has been
discovered, and an Indiana regiment of
Union troops had been sent for to come
to Lexington and prevent the Offering of
so gross an insult to our whole loyal pop
ulation. This regiment was quartered
within few miles of the city, and it was
well that it was. The soldiers entered
Lexington in the most respectable man
nor; the officer in command ascertained
the names of all the relatives and imme-
diate friends of the deceased, allowed
twenty carriages to be filled with these
relatives and friends and follow the hearse
to the cemetery, and pay the last sad
rights to tho dead. The great crowd Of
eight or nine hundred rebels that Ind
assembled there for the purpose Of rails
ing and marching under the Confederate
flag, were commanded to retire to their
respective homes, which they did, as q
motter of course. Tho stars and stripes
were raised by the soldiers. and the dead
rebel was con1ucted to his grave under
the flag that he had disgraced, instead of
the new flag in the defense Of which he
had lost his life. rsm
Year: 1862

As though nothing at all had happened,
he picked himself and his burden up,
and Notwithstanding the slackening of
the ropes by the accident conveyed
him in safety to the opposite extremity,
amidst the cheers of the audience"
Year: 1862

By MRS. JULIA WARD HOWE.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the
Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes
of wrath are stored;
He hath oosed the fateful lightning Of His terrible
swift sword;


His truth is marching on.
have seen Him in the watch-fires of hundred
circlng camps;
They have builded Him an altar in the evening
dews and damps;
I have read His righteous sentence by the dim and
faring lamps;


His day is marching on.
have read fiery gospel writ in FURNISHED rows
of steel;
Gas We deal with contemners, so with you my
grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent
with his heel


Since God is marching on
He hath sounded forth the trumpet that shall never
call retreat;
He is sitting out the hearts of men before HIS
Judgment seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him be jubilant,
my feet


Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Chris! was born across
the sea;
With glory in His bosom that transfgures you
and me;
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make
men free,


While God is marching on
Year: 1862

The great evil under which this county la
bors is its enormous debt, and a consequent
high rate of taxation There is not count,
in the State which, in portion to popula
tion and resources, has a debt near the
amount of that which crushes the county o
Shasta. And she bas nothing to show fo,
1T, except it may be, the old Court House
on the hill, on High street, whether that is
paid for or not, We are not informed). The
new Court House was bought on a credit, as
it were, the warrants for which, if not dis
counted in the Redemption Fund, may come
up for payment in due course, about the last
of the next century. There has, no doubt,
first and last been collected for the use OF
the county. since its organization, somewhere
in the neighborhood of one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars which. being added to t..e
debt, shows an expenditure of something
like quarter Of a million. To Offset this,
the county has tbs aid and new Court Houses
worth together about fifteen thousand dollars
Surely there has been, to say the least, lax
management somewhere in the past time
The Court of Sessions, when il was an
auditorial body. and since that time, the
Boards of Supervisors, have had charge of
the allowance of this vast amount, and NAV
have allowed improper bills, about which,
however, we know nothing. The fault prob
ably lays in another direction. The county





Shasta, a fifth rate county has first class
debt, because it is organized'on too extravi-
CANT basis. The fees end salaries allowed
by law, and the Boards of Super visors, are
too great for a county so impoverished. We
recently spoke of the salaries, by way of H.
lustration, of the District Attorneys and
County Judges of this and other counties of
the State. The subject could be further ex.
tended. The County Clerk, for further in.
stance, in fees and pay charged to the coun-
ty has received in the last twelve NOR this about
four''thousand dollars say three hundred dol
lars month, or ten-doilars day. For voting
population of not more than two thousand.
it would seem from this that we have pro-
diglous amount of county business to trans
act; yet in that time, there have been not
more than five criminal cases before both the
Court of Sessions and District Court. What
other business has been transacted for the
benefit OF the county and for which the coun.
ty Is justly chargable, we are not advised
1T bill of items covering this amount should
be furnished us, we will publish it, and the
people can thensce if there is not some wav
by which at least part of this unusual dis
bursement may hereafter be saved. We
shall continue this subject in further arti-
cles.
Year: 1862

NOTARY PuBLc.-The attention of those
interested is called to the card of James
Keen, III our columns today. As the fact
is not generally known, we will here state.
for the benefit of our readers, that BY an act
OF the last Legislature, Notaries Public are
the only officers legally qualified to take
the aeknow Judgments of parties wishing to
transfer, ahenate, or mortgage their home
stead property. or the separate property OF
the wife
Year: 1862

Let US not forget, that with time comes
the new year, with its spring time and Us
promise Of hope,-that death itself is but
one mode of generating life, as the leraviu2
acorn gives to us the young oak, which IL
its turn is to become the pride and glory Of
the forest; as from the rotted seed, springs
the blade of grass and the stalk Of corn,
as too from the dying man springs the i'm
prisoned soul to youth and immortality
Forget that death is but apparent--nor real
that only life is fact-that whrther in
the material or human, death is bnt the birth
Of fresher, truer life,-the chemical process
by which existence is renewed AS the death
Of 1861, is the birth of 1862 And SO
from the womb of time comes hope, life
and love, and all shall live again even to
nations-in another form. These are the
DEGREES of tate,-the wisdom of God, -
that mocks at our short sight and foolish
judgments; that brushes aside our great
schemes as so many straws, and does for u,
whether we will or no, that which is 10 oui
good. And thus hour upon hour, and yeal
upon year, until centuries become member
less, passes into the viewess past the rushin :,
future'-and thus forever and ever will pass
the old year out and the new year in
Year: 1862

Before closing cannot refrain from again re-
ferring to the powerful storm raging furonsly
outside. There seems to be no indication OF a
change for the better and | suppose large share
of the people will pass the night with the hourly
expectations of hearing the bell sound the alarm
the fearful alarm of 1.-The crevasse is widening
the levee has brokcn' Those living in the
lower part of the city, in onestory wooden houses,
will pass a terrible night Come what may, we
shall endure it with commendable meekness. and
try to bless Him who thus scourgcs us for our
many sins. MOkE ANON.
Year: 1862

Landing' p the every trip loaded with soldiers
from different regiments returning 20 duty. Some Of
them have been away sick, others new recruits.


The health officers have made thorough inspection
to-day OF all dwellings, stores and places business at
Old Point Comfort giving the proprietors and occupants
notice that they must be in readiness tomorrow
other Inspection that will justify the officers in making
thorough report for neaness and cleanliness This is
good movement and one We rejoiced to The
health Of the place demands that IL be thoroughly
red out, there being large number Of inhabitants for
so small compass.


The rebels last evening attempted capture schooner
which was lying at anchor above Tarrison's Landing,
but were foed In the attempt. They over in two
boats from the opposite Shore and discovered and
fred into, when they beat hasty retreat After firing
SINE half dozen shots twelve TO fifteen shots
were fired at them, with what effect is no. known.


The new Merrmac is daily expected down the river.
Year: 1862

The musical public will learn with pleasure
by an announcement in another column
that our fellow townsman GRoBR has opened
a Musical Ware Room in this city, 10 which
all may resort in perfect confidence that
whatever they may want in the line of music,
will be supplied them from undoubted
fonrces, by a master mind in the profession.
nne who stands at the very head aud front
Of the department Of Music in this country,
aud whose cultivated taste aud scientific
knowledge of the art have long since made
him favorte in musical circles


We congratulate the public upon this ac-
quisition Of sound, refined and thorough.
knowledge Of the science of music in this
CITY, in the person OF Professor GRoRE.
Year: 1862




The North has Alright to presume tsatg he
hour Of .fRal success is approaching, and that
the secessionists, exhausted by a long
and laborious campaign, dispirited bv
reyerses, and separated from each other
by the advances Of the various Federal
expeditions, will be glad TO come 70 An
arrangement, and re-enter the Union on
the easy and honorable terms which The
North would be glad TO offer. This feel
ing sustains the Federals in all the diff
culties Of their position. Though they
are accumulating a debt for which no
financier is providing, though their ar
mics are threatened with a siclSly sum-
mer campaign should the Confederates
hold out, and though no one pretends 70
explain how Republican Government is
to be worked with eight millions of men
brought into the Union by force, and tax
ed for the payment Of interest on debt
incurred for their subjugation, yet the
elation caused by the recent military sue
cesses is so extreme at the North, that no
Federal doubts full and final victory to
be within the grasp Of the Government.
On the other hand, there is as far as we
can learn, no change in the spirit and at
titude of the South. The ConfederateS
are as loud as ever in their declarations
of undying animOsity, and of their reso.-
luton never to enter the same political
community as the North. The men OF
military age are said to have enlisted in
mass; jeff. Davis is largely reinforced,
Gustavus Smith is largely reinforced, so
is Beauregard The South boasts largely
of the sacrifices it will make, and il would
be wrong TO say that it its boasting is
empty, though the destruction of cotton
and tobacco at New Orleans does not
seem to be confirmed so as TO show that
the people are in earnest in carrying out
their threats of burning the produce OF
their soil and industry rather than sell it
to the best advantage under the protection
Of the Federals.


Though we give full credit 70 the South
erners for the endurance they have shown,
and though iC is probable the fall of New
Orleans will not change their purpose, vet
tits impossible not to feel that the man
ner in which their military leaders have
allowed themselves TO be worsted on the
Mississippi must shake the oonGdenec
both OF their own people and of foreign
ers in the ultimate success of their cause.
Whether it be that they never believed
that the Federals would come up the
river, or that their exertons in other quar-
ters prevented them from giving full at
tention to this important section of the
country, it is certain that the Mississippi
has been bnt poorly defended, and the
chic city of the Confederacy suffered to
fall into the enemys hands with scanda-
lous ease The supremacy of the North
at sea may be incontestable, but the
Southerners, men of the same race, and
to great degree Of the same pursuits,
were surely able 10 maintain a river
against a hostile squadron ascending
from its mouth
Year: 1862

The N. Y. Herald says the Govern.


ment is having built at that port an iron
clad vessel. which is to be launched thi.
month. The following is the dimensions
Of the vessel: Length IT'S feet. breadth
of beam 40 feet, depth I2 feet. Her hall
where protected by the water, will be
formed Of wrought iron plates. five eighths
of an inch thick, and sbose the water
mark the plate will be six inches thick
But very little wood is to be used in her
construction. and the deck will be pro.
tected by plates one inch in thickness
She will be fitted up with Ercisson's pa.
tent steam engine, which together with
her machinery, now being built at Della
matters iron works, foot of Thirteenth
street, North river She will carry two
twelve or fifteen inch Floyd or Rodman
guns. These will be mounted inside an
iron fort twenty feet high. The plates of
which it will be built are to be eight inch
es thick. The most peculiar feature con-
nected with the battery is the fact that
the guns can be brought to bear on any
given point without altering the position
Of the vessel. This is accomplished by
means of a turn table on which the fort
will revolve; it will be turned BY means
of gearing connected with her machinery.
The steersman will be placed inside the
fort, and when in action all the crew will
be protected, as no man will be required
to appear on deck for the purpose of work
ing the vessel. She is water tight and
fire proof, and her deck, which is but
eighteen inches above the water, may be
swept by the wases from stem to stern
without any damage being done, as moth
ing will be left exposed either to the ac.
tion of the waves or the shot of the ene-
my.
Year: 1862

Put sponge cake into deep china
or glass dish, pour round it half-pint Of
white wine and c wine. glass of brandy
Let the cake soak up the wine, and then
strew sifted sugar over it, and pour in
the dish a rich, thick custard. Oroa-
uent the top Of the cake with bits of clear
currant jelly, or blanch, and split sweet
almonds and stick them thickly over the
top.
Year: 1862

WE WILL SELL GOODS DURING 1862 FOR


w cash only. No books memorandums will be
will be kept. No goods will be allowed to leave the
store until fully settled for No orders will be filled
unless accompanied b. the cash. This notice is in
tended Tor one and all and we very much hope that
no one will ask to depart from this rule as we are
determined to adhere to without respect OF persons


Dec 20 3m MARONEY, BOSWELL BRO.
Year: 1862

'JNHE UNDERSIGNED INTENDING TO MAKE


Il change in his business on the first of January
next will dispose of his stock of goods at e1ceediqly
loW prtces until that time for cash. Oh to punctua
customers. My object is to turn as many goods as
possible into cash, giving the purchaser LIBERAL
bargain for his money. H. w. BONNEY
Year: 1862

a IL PERSONS INDEBTED TO THE ESTATE
IA of JESSE F. YOUNG, deceased, either by note
or account will please call on the Administrator and
settle the same, by cash or note wish to get the
business closed up in shape or FORM at an early
day. JMGAYLE Admr.


February ID
Year: 1862

Fellow-citizens, an obscure individual


unknown to fame, asking you for no Office,
expecting no benefit by way of official pro-
motion or emolument, presumes to address
You. He thinks there are many reasons
why your votes should no longer be cast for
the so-called Democratic party. Will you
carefully read what he writes,. throwing
aside party prejudice, so far as it is in your
power to doso? and then when you 90 to the
polls to deposit your ballot, in November,
vote according to your conscientious belief
OF what is best for the country. Never be
fore have you been called upon to vote
when issues so vitally important depended
upon that vote. Hitherto the question has
simply been whether the one party or the
ether should fill the offices of the country +;
Year: 1862

We present in another column the nominees of the
Union Party, Of this county, for Senators, Repre-.
SentatiVes, Sheriff, Coroner and Levy Court Com.
missloners. They are all good men, tried men,
who are Enthusiastically for the Union, and who. il
elected would legslase in harmony with the nation,
aud not IN sympathy with secession. The ticket is
universally pronounced Of the best ever made
out IN this county Every on it is capable and
qualified and is worthy the support of every truly
loyal man without scratch or bIemsh.
Year: 1862

FEELINGS OF INDGNATIoN.-The Editor of the Del
Inquirer, who visited the battlefield of Antietam.
gives vent to the following feelings of Indignation
at tOur dlsunonists


We stood upon the sacred soil, yet red with the
blood OF Dclawareans, and if ever an honest curse
rose In mans bosom, rose in ours for the Bay
ards the Sausburys, and the Williams generally who
gave aid and comfort TO the demons who murdered
such noble men. Great God we thought to our
selves, will retrlbutou follow the men who live
comfortably at home, feed upon the fat of the land.
roll in luxury, and yet sympathize with the men who
slay our brOvcst friends Will not the finger of
scorn point out the men who disgrace our native
State, and visit a merted vengeance upon their
heads! The best blood of Delaware speaks cloquent
y from the ensanguincd field of Antetam, to the
people at home pleading for vengeance. Will era
Ven-hearted Dcawarcans tolerate such rebels among
u.s. and elevate them to olicel We have smcllcd
the blood, we have seen the carnage, and we have
heard the groans of the wounded and the diving and
we have come home to Delaware again to enter the
contest with renewed Cxertons to conquer and put
down tile men who glory in the triumph of the
Inlrmdons of the despotism which is battling
against humanity and free institutions.
Year: 1862

The political campaign may be consider
ed fairly open. One political party has its
candidates in the field, and is preparing for
a strenuous effort to take the State against
the Government, and in favor Of disunion.
They hope to make capital for themselves
ont OF the disasters which have befallen us.
They expect to get many votes for Jefferson
and Temple from those who have hitherto
sustained the Administration, but who, they
think, will be sufficiently dissatisfied with
it to vote against its friends. They NAV
get some such votes, but their candidates
strength will be in another direction, and
among another class of voters We can
specify some votes that they are sure of:


They are sure to get the vote of every
man who has never attended war meet
ing"


They are sure of the votes of every man
who, " if he fought at all in this war, would
fight on the side of the South"


If there is man known to any of our
readers who has refused to take the oath of
allegiance, he will vote for Temple.


The man who wished that our brave fel-
lows who marched to defend our countrv's
flags "would be brought home feet fore
most and our navy "blown to the deyir
will vote for Temple.


The men who drank whiskev 80 FREQ
ly on hearing tho news of the battle of Bull
Run, will all vote for Temple.


The men who are "aiders and abettors
OF the modification Of the rebel programme"
of invading the North will vote for Temple,
and so will those who aided and abetted the
unmodified rebel programme, and hurrah
for " Stonewall" Jackson, will vote for him
to a man.


In short, do our readers know anywhere
in the State man who has felt no throb of
the patriotism which has filed every true
mans heart for the past year and half,
who has refused to lend any aid whatever
toward the heavy burdens which have press
ed upon the commonwealth, whose heart
has been sad when the heart of the nation
has swelled with gladncss, and has been
hlled with malignant joy when the national
heart was depressed and sad, who has re-
Joiced over the wounds and death and can
tlvity of our noblest sons, and has. as far az
dared, struck hands with their mur(lerers-
that man votes and does all in his power
for Temple.


There may be those who will vote for
Temple without any such sympathies. All
we can say Of them is, that they will find
themselves deceived.


A gentleman who was in Frederick CITY
when it was occupied by the rebels, said
that when he was leaving he fell in with
some young men from one of the neighbor-
ing counties who had come to Frederick to
join the rebel army, "but after secinq and
sa@ell'"g 1t, they had concluded to return
home"


We advise any thoughtless persons who
have had thoughts of joining the crowd that
IS going for Temple, TO "see it and smell
it first They will find it to rank with
treason and secession to be pleasant compa-
ny for true lover of his country.