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Year: 1862

The House has done its duty handsomely
in the passage Of the bill, before referred
to in our columns, for the punishment and
intimidation Of rebels It marks an era in
the war, and is worth dozen victories in
the field, simply because without it these
victories arc costly triumpls, leaving no
permanent result. It we're, perhaps, un-
gracious to write that it is rather tardilv in
the history cf the rebellion that this lcgis-
1aion is 50 far consummatcd, that it has
passed only one branch Of Congress, but
this should be an additional reason why it
should meet with no delay in the Senate,
pcr under the hand Of the President.


On the second page Of this issue We give
place to the main features Of the bil1 and
the record Of the votes cast, which latter
will do to preserve, for with some of these
gentlemen It is last appearance. It is q
roll Of infamy to the dozen men from the
free States, elected as Republicans, who
voted against the measure. Kellogg Of
Illinois has probably the lame excuse that
he had just heard from John Wentworth
that Illinois was bound to carry the new
constitution, and the sadly deceived Kellogg
took his cue from that. Good bye, Kellogg,
and Granger Of Michigan and Horton OF
Ohio, et a., when the people get at them
In handsome contrast to these stand the
Indiana Republican delegation who, On
the very day Of the Union convention in
their State, stood squarely up for the Union
by voting to punish its enemies. Let the
people lock over the list as printed.
Year: 1862

The Senate passed the Pacific Railroad
;>iu On Friday with some essential modifi-
cations. From our dispatches we judge
that the Pawnee sWindlc referred to at con
siderable length By our Washington cor
respondent, last week, has been stricken
out At this every real friend Of the
measure should rejoice. The starting
point in the Territory, Of Nebraska,
at or near the hundreth meridian
west Of Greenwich, is undoubtedly in-
tended to be located by the bill at Fort
kearncy. This will best accommodate
1he whole country, being precisely in the
track pointed out by nature in the valley
which the late Senator Benton said the
buffalo had selected as the route for the
great thoroughfare of the continent
In tlis matter the Senate have done wisely
and we'll, and now let the petitions once
more be poured into the House to pass the
Oil at once. Let our representatives be
reminded Of whGt Is really true,
that the country a1e unanimous fol
the measure. The opponents are
not worth The counting. Last week
will ever be distinguished for the passage
Of the Arnold-Loyejoy BILL making free
dom national and slavery sectional
thus bringing the nation back tt
the time honcred principles Of Wash
ipgton, jefferson, and the Other
fathers Of the Republic. That il
glory enough for one week Letiron band!
stretching from the Missouri to the Pacific
be The enduring memorial that shal
mark 1lis weeks labors. Let every
constituent write to his representative urg
ing the immediate passage Of the bill
When that is through there are few NOR
great national measures to complete ant
this Congress will achieve an immor
tahty that will become only the more glo
-ious as lime rolls onward.
Year: 1862

The ladies we know will be inter-
ested in the following, which we clip
from an exchange. The matter is
worthy of experiment ..H ....... .


Choose sonfe of the most perfect
buds of the flowers you would pre-
serve, such as are latest in blowing
and ready to open, cut them off with
pair OF SCISSORS, leaving to each, if
possible, a piece Of the stem about
three inches long cover the end of
the stem Immediately with sealing
wax, and when the buds are little
shruuk and wrink!ed, wrap each of
them up separately in piece of paper
perfectly clean aud dry, and lock them
up in dry box or drawer and they
will keep without corrupting In win
ter, or at any other time, when you
would have the flowers blow, take
the buds at night and cut off the end
OF the stem sealed with wax, and put
the buds into water wherein a little
nltrc or salt has been dff'used, and
the next day You will have the pleas
ure OF seeing the buds open and ex-
pand themselves, and the flowers dis
play their most lively colors and
breathe their agreeable odors.
Year: 1862

Teaching should be viewed and fol-
lowed as a profession, as much as that
of Divinity, Medicine, or Law. The
interests committed to the Teacher
are second TO those belonging to no
other profession, and in many respects
are paramount to all others.


To be able to give a right direction
to all the faculties of the human mind,
soul and body, requires long expert
ence. 1t is only by long and careful
experience that the highest possible
success or skill is ever attained. AT
present, and necessarily too by some,
teaching is followed only brief sea-
son, and chiefly for the pecaniary re-
ward which is connected with it, or
as stepping-stone to some other cal
ling. To make it permanent profess
sion--and it is worthy of the ener.
gics of lifetime ordinarily re.
quire higher qualifications and an in
crease Of compensation. In the larg
Year: 1862

Talking of family ties, and family
love, and family gatherings. where
would they all be were it not for a
family day Z" said poor working
man. What do you meam?" was
asked. Il mean," he replied, that
Sunday is the family day. !, and
thousands of workingmen, would hard
ly know our own children were it not
for the blessed day which brings us
all together. We are off in the mora
ing before the little ones are up, and
when we go home at night they are
mostly gone to bed, or they are tired
aud SO are we, aud it is not very much
we can know of one another at the
fag end Of the week. But when tina,
blessed day comes that is all our own


then we can gather around the table
or tireside, and talk with one another
Year: 1862

When you 60 to McGrcgor, If you want a
nice Watch, call on w, A. Giles, at the City
Jewelry Store. If you want clock that you
can depend upon, call at the City Jewelry
Store. Ii you want first rate Jewelry Of any
kind. call ut the City Jewelry Store. If You
want silver or platcd-ware, a gold pen, pock-
ct knife, portmonae or wallet, call at the City
Jewclry Store. If you want your watch re-


paired SO that you know it will be right, go to
w. A. Giles at the City Jewelry Store-he
warrants all his work and yon can depend
upon him, SO just call on him when you go to
McGregor if you wait any thing in his line.
Year: 1862

Any person obtaining five subscribers and forwarding
The money, shall be furnished with copy of the lnte
Eencer for this service long the number shall be
kept good.


business pertaining to the paper can be transacted
with the Publisher day at the Oce o Publication.
Communications may be addressed to the Editor who
wnpromptly and faithfully respond to them.
Year: 1862

The House Committee on the Pacific
railroad met to-day and determined to re-
port a bill, but without recommending its
passage or rejection.


Gen Stone arrived here to-day for the
purpose of appearing before the committee
on the conduct o! the war. 1t is supposed
that he will not return to Poolesville as he
has expressed wish to be relieved of his
command.
Year: 1862

The GREAT MEN OF THE PAsT.-Setting
aside Washington and Franklin, who arc
admitted TO have been exceptional men
(but who were tremendously pitched in
TO" in their own day ueverlheless). we be-
lievc that there are now in the public SER
vice OF the United States, five times as
many able men as there were during the
revolutionary war. A deceptive halo sur
rounds the men of the past; they are seen
by us as in the light of glorious success,
and at the distance of eighty years. Their
mistakes, their failures. their faults, are all
forgotten. The men of to day we see in q
clear light, that rather exaggerates than
conceals their shortcomings. We are close
to them, and yet they are graphing with
difficulties Of which our knowledge is in
complete. Let them do what they will,
they cannot satisfy the general impatieucc
which clamurs for impossbilities. Half
century hence our leaders will he Letter
understood than they are now.-[New York
Ledger.
Year: 1862

OWEN RIVER AND MONo INDIANs.-We clip
the following from the Esmeralda Star, OF
May 3lst: Captain L. A. Rowe returned
with bis escort, last Sunday, from visit to
the Mono Indians. He informs US that an
equal number Of them came out TO have Il
talk with him. They were armed with long
Kentucky rifles, bows and arrows. He met
them at The lower end of MouO Lake on
the western side. The guide and interpre-
ter went the night before aud remained
over night with about eighty OF them, and
induced them to send number equal to
the Captains escort and have a talk with
him. They appeared very sullen, and did
not seem TO care whether peace was made
or not. They claimed to be MOnoes, but in
their conversation spoke for the Owen river
tribe as if they were their friends stating
that as they had killed as many whites as
the latter had Of them, they were satisfied,
but if the whites felt disposed TO continue
the war, they were as willing to fight as
the whites were. Captain Rowe is satisfied
that part at least OF these same Indians
Who met him, were OF the Owen river tribe,
aud in the late battle which resulted in the
Indians coming of victorious. He agreed
TO meet them again on the fifth of June and
have another talk, and advises that our peO-
pie shall be careful aud tOrbearing with
these Indians, so as not to provoke any fur
ther hostility on their part until he can see
them again. We trust his request will be
needed.
Year: 1862

A DISCOVERY has been made in Chile OF
silver mines Of extraordinary richness, the
ore lying on the surface OF the soil in enor-
nous quantities. The locality is about ten
leagues from COpiapO, in the great des-
ert Of AlAcuma. OF the crowds that had
rushed forward to these mines. many had
perished on the road from want of food and
water, and others, from the same canse had
returned without lug reached the mines.
A regular system of transport vas about
being organized.
Year: 1862

GRAIN IN OREGON.-The prospect for
grain this season is nearly up TO the av.
erage. Many farmers took our advice, and
put in nearly all the grain they could be-
fore leaving for the mines. In Lane county,
We are told there would probably be more
grain for harvest than any previous year.
In Washington county, some farmers have
sown as high as one hundred and fifty acres
each. Such men staying at home, have a
surer thing than hunting a rich claim in
mines which have not been prOspected.-
[Oregon Farmer.
Year: 1862

Cows AND DoGs.-Since the presentment Of
the ordinance before the last meeting Of the
Council, relative to COWS, these animals haTe
taken to grazing in the Court House square.
In addition to the milky mothers, all the dogs
OF the South Division also make it their ren-
devious. We suggest that they be mildly
prevailed upon to skedaddle, unless, as is
probably the case, they are Democratic candi-
dates for Office, in which case they are bound
to remain,
Year: 1862

SINGULAR CIRcUMsTANcE.-While proving
some guns which had been sent TO Fort Indepen.
dence FOR that purpose by the South Boston Iron
Company, II was discovered that one Of them
bad been spiked. Two men were sent down on
Tuesday to drill out the obstruction, and after
two hours labor the gun was again At for use
IL Is impossible TO discover when or by whom the
misc nief was perpetrated, but II Is supposed that
IL was done on Fosters wharf, where the guns
were left shot time last week, previous 10 being
sent to the fort.-SoEh Boston Register, lst
Year: 1862

Iron the Skating pond at the Bois de Bon.
logle a certain space Is reserved for the Emperor
Enelishmen. One EngIish youth Of seventeen
the only unlucky one Of party which escaped
after evadisg the police for some time, wal
caught and imprisoned. The Others escaped
because the crowd orened to give them egress
but the last one was just too late to embrace the
opportunity Of escape.
Year: 1862

Wicker will open his the
atre early this week for the fall season, after
fortnight spenti in renovating and re-deeorating
Of which ne shall speak hereafter. The COM
pany engaged for the coming season is as fol-
Year: 1862

As IT Should BE.-Ne are glad TO learn
that many volunteers who have received fhsir
bounty, are deponiting the money in the new
Savings Bank directly opposite our Office.
TIE cashier is eupply ying blanks gotten up to
meet the wants Of the soldier, printed at this
office expressly fos the purpose. Every To1un-
teer should call and get them.
Year: 1862

hat army for the next half century. W.
cannot hereafter exist as we did before the
rebellion, without extensive preparations 70,
offensive and defensive war. The jealousy
of Europe will not permit us to progress SC
rapidly towards national supremacy, unless
we are prepared to meet and remove every
obstacle in our course. From manifestations
which have appeared in the French and Eng
lish governments within the last year. We
must come to the conclusion that fear of oul
army and navy, and their want of bread, arc
the great causes which have precented inter
vention. God grant that their fear may eve,
be as well founded, and that they may eve,
manifest the same good sense in listening tc
its warnings; and, although we would no,
wish that their people should ever 60 hun.
CRY, yet we fondly hope that they may eve,
tcant our bread.
Year: 1862

rs DARK.--It IS dark when the honest
and honorable man secs the result of loi;a
years swept cruelty away by the knavish


heartless adversary. 1t is dark when he
feels the clouds Of sorrow gather around and
knows that the hopes and happiness of 9th.
ers are fading with his own. But in that
hour the memory of past integrity will be a
true consolation, and assure him even here
OF earth, of CLEANS Of light in Heaven. 1t is
dark when the dear voice of sweet child,
once so fondly loved, is no more heard around
in murmers. Dark when the light, patterins
feet no more rescund without the threshold
or ascend step by step, the stairs. Dark


when some well known air recalls the strains
once oft attuned by the childish voice now
hushed in death Darkness; but only the
gloom which heralds the day y-spring Of i'm
mortality and the infinite light of Heaven.
Year: 1862

PRIZE Corn BREAD.-An organiza
tiOn in New York recently offered pre-
miums for the best recipes for making
corn bread, and the one that took the
first premium is as follows:


To two quarts of meal, adj one pint
of bread sponge; water sufficient to wei
the whole; add one halfpint of -four and
a teaspoOnful of salt; let it rise; then
knead we'll for the second time, and
place the dough in the oven, and allow
it to bake an hour and a half.


The recipe was successful among two
hundred and twenty competitors for the
first prize, and the awarding committee
state that they ate corn bread incessaut
ly for two days and nights.


A correspondent of the Springfield
CO., News, offers the following recipe
which he says he can warrant:


Take pint of corn meal, add no
water sufficient to scald it, add two ia
BILE spoonfuls of -four and tablespoon
ful of salt, stir in one egg, add colo
water enough TO make a thin batter, fry
on the griddle aud serve up hot.


You may improve the above for some
palates by teaspoonful Of cream of tar
tar, and half teaspOouful of soda,
Year: 1862




JEFFERSON ON SLAVERY AND THE
SLAVE TRADE.-It is not perhaps gen
orally known that the original draft of
the Declaration of Independence con-
tanned the following clause, which was
stricken out before the adoption of the
instrument:


"He has waged cruel war against
human nature itself, violating the most
sacred rights of life and liberty in the
persons of a distant people, who never
ffended him, captivating and carrying
them into slavery in another hemis-
pbere, or to incur a miserable death in
transportation thither. This piratical
warfare, the opprobrium of infdel pow
ers. is the warfare of the Christian King
of Great Britain, determined to keep
open market where men shall be
bought and sold. He has prostitutcd
his negative by suppressing every legis-
lative attempt to prohibit or restrain
the execrablo commerce, and that this
assemblage of horrors might want nc
fact of distinguished dye, he is now ex
citing these very people to rise in arms
among us, and to purchase that liberty
of which he has deprived them, by mur.
dering the people on whom he also OBJ.
truded them; thus paying off former
crimes committed against the liberties Of
one people with crimes which he urges
them to commit against the lives of an
other"
Year: 1862

The Paymaster General has decided
that volunteers who have served for n
less period than two years are not en-
titled to the bounty money. The same
will apply to discharged soldiers, except
those disabled in action. This decision
will cut out several regiments, who we're
enlisted for one year, and were turned
over by the State. The Twelfth and
Sixteenth Indiana will be among the
number, as they enlisted for only one
year.
Year: 1862

SEcEsH JUMBLEs.-One-half pound
of butter, one pound of sugar, one tea
spoonful of soda dissolved in a half
pint of cold water; cinnamon and cara
way seed; sufficient -four to mold them
thick enough to roll out and cut in
forms. An excellent cake for school
or travelling basket.
Year: 1862

The sending of Gen. Stone to Fort
Lafayette seems superhuous proceed
ing. If there was proof to justify his
arrest on such charges, there is cause
for drum head court-martial, and q
summary execution. 1t is time some
such electric flashes were purifying the
murky air of treason that hangs over
our army Gin. Gazette.
Year: 1862

Our force is about FIVE hundred and
fifty mon, who have been doing the du-
ties of whole regiment. Thus you see
our boys must necessarily be much ex-
posed, and had they not been of the
very best material, many of them would
have been unable to preForm their du-
ties. But let me tell you we have lost
but fve men by sickness, and none by
accident nor in battle. We have had the
Measles and Mumps through the regi-
ment, and we have quite a number of
cases of Pneumonia, but we have been
great ly blest.
Year: 1862

FROM A LADY To HER HUSBAND, DATED


BRANDON, MISS, JAN. 29rH.


"OhI l fear we are going to see trou.
BILE, but hope for the best. My dar-
ling, what will do if ySu have fight
at Fort Henry2 l am so uneasy for
you; but we must put our trust in Him
who ruleth every thing. 4 X
l hope you have every thing fixed, up
at Fort Henry, and are safe. If the
enemy should come, l hope and pray
that you may be able to kill the very
last one of them; and, if not, to fright
en- them so they will never attempt the
same game any more.


"The weather has been Just like
spring for the last two or three weeks
but to-day it commenced raining, and
is getting quite cool. The peach and
plum trees are all in bloom, and every
thing looks like spring; but expect il
is going to freeze before long"
Year: 1862




Scouting is now the way in which tho
boys are busying themselves. They go
out in squads of from ten to fifteen in
number, of evenings, aud about day
light you will see them returning with
quite squad of prisoners, and many
and various prizes. Company "F"
brought in q few days since among the
prisoners, one Lieutenant and one Or
derly' Sergeant, who had been in the
battle at Mt. Zion, Boone CO., Mo-
They are strong in the belief that the
South will whip US out and establish
their government yet. They insist up
on it, that the South have gained every
victory thus far. They declare that
they intended going 20 Price-were to
start in the morning-but alas for
them, they are in far better hands
There were six taken in one house.
Their clothing is good, substantial
home-spun jeans.


Since Gen. Halleck's late order, the
rebel prisoners are not released on
parole, but take the oath and give bond.
This somc of them think very hard, and
some will not do it, but they will have
to abide the law, let it be what it may.
Year: 1862

The war commenced by Southern trail
tors is rapidly making desolate some of the
richest portions of the the Old Dominion,
and the people are paying dearly for their
own wickedness and follow as actors in
the rebellion. The peninsula lying be-
tween James and York rivers year ago
was the home of populous, aristocratic,
and wealthy community. Now, a Fortress
Monroe letter says, it is deserted region,
save only as it occupied by soldiers, who
have desolated it like field that was burn
ed over in summer. This year no seed
will be sown in that part of Virginia.
Vast fields that last year were cultivated
BY thousands of slaves, and that produced
a large surplus of most greans, now con-
stitute a broad waste; the slaves have
mostly fled, and mansions of the descend
ants of the earliest settlers of the Old
Virginia Colony that have escaped the
torch are now either occupied by soldiers
or entirely forsaken. Even the ancient
seat of learning, where Washington and
many of his contemporaries were educated
has been turned into barracks.


In the part of Virginia to which l re-
fer, no emancipation act that could be
framed could add anything to the COM
pleteness of the extinction of Slavery. The
Slaves that were not takens away by their
owners when they fled have fled them
selves; and there is no probability that
they will bear a part in the restoration of
the institution within this territory. This
has been the necessary fate of Slavery
wherever the hostile armies have approach
ed each other. Here no one has aimed
any direct blow at the institution. 1t has
fallen as the ripe apple falls by the slight
est blow on the trunk of the tree. 1t would
be as impossible to restore the apple to its
original thriftiness as 10 restore Slavery
when thus it has been destroyed.


! am informed that few only Of the re-
belous families who fed in the early Sum-
mer last took with them any considerable
amount of property, and that consequently
most of them are now in a condition bor-
dering on destitution. Subscriptions are
in circulation on the Peninsula. in Norfolk
and the vicinity for this class and the
champion sufferers"
Year: 1862

About the middle of December last,
TlS6l,1 two slaves in the family of a
Southern planter were united in marriage.
The man could read, and be learned by a
paper which came in his way, that if they
could reach the Federal army they would
be free. He Immediately proposed to his
young bride that they should attempt to
make their escape.


At midnight, when the family were a.
sleep, they stole quietly of, and in the
course of couple Of days reached the
Federal camp. They were kindly treated,
and permitted to go on their way to the
North. For seven long weeks they trav-
eled on foot till they reached New York.
They often slept on the frozen ground,
with only the shelter Of tree. Ofcourse,
with their poor, thin clothing, they suffer-
ed severely front cold. The man froze bis
feet so badly that when he reached New
York he could scarcely walk.


This was their wedding tourl She is
very bright and pleasing young woman
only nineteen years old-and was stolen
from Africa when little child. Her mis-
tress was most cruel woman, and often
whipped her severely. After the death
of John Brown the slaves on that and 9TH
er plantations were branded to prevent
their escape. With her own hands the
lady (!) applied the red-hot iron to the
legs and back of this poor girl!


We asked the young lady how long it
took these wounds to heal. She replied,
'for fortnight l could not put my feet up
on the ground"


80 Slayery! thou art bitter draught; !;
and though thousands in all ages have
been made 10 drink of thee, thou art no
less bitter on that accountp'


Is it not high time to sweep this horrid
system of atrocities from our land?


S. J. T.