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Year: 1862

ALBANY LOBBY SrRATEGY-The Grinding
Committee at Albany has again picked up the
bill giving our Corporation printing to the three
papers with the largest circulation Whose
eyes are to be blinded by this move pray This
three paper bill is only feint to conceal the
real movement behind the curtain---a bit of
lobby strategy easily discovered and defeated
The real arrangement is to put the Aldsrmen's
salaries in the Tax bill. and leave County Clerk,
Genet's fees untouched, while the Aldermen
led by Genet, make the Tines Corporation
paper. Some Little Villain must be frightened
at his own work. so suddenly has the bogus
three paper bill been hauled out again
Year: 1862

military view, of General McClellan's success
In that quarters We answer. that the rebels
have chosen that narrow neck of the peninsula
at Yorktown as the protecting gateway of Rich
mond, their " Confederate" capital, and that in
forcing this gateway, General Mcclellan will
secure Richmond without further opposition.


Upon the siege of Yorktown, then, depends
the immediate collapse, from Virginia to
Texas, of this rebellion. or its prolongation yet
little while. After their late disastrous
reverses in the East and tho West, the leaders
and rulers of this rebellion, if driven igno-
mniously from Richmond, and If still at
large, will find no resting place this side of
Mexico. They understand the desperate neces-
sity of final struggle for Richmond They
cannot abandon 1t with any degree Of safety
against popular Southern reaction, and they
have therefore resolved to make q stand at
Yorktown. We think that this is matter for
public congratulssion. because we believe that
in making this stand the issues Of the war are
reduced to this single siege. and that Mcclellan
will thus be saved the trouble Of following up
his enemy into the Carolinas and Georgia.


Mesntime, it is probable that the monster
rebel ram, the Merrimac, and her three or four
iron-coated satellites at Norfolk, are preparing
to cooperate with the rebel land forces Of the
peninsula, in some dashing enterprise in the
James or York river. Supposing, however,
that against this contingency the government
has provided the necessary securities we
calmly await the denouement of the second
momentous siege of Yorktown.
Year: 1862

TIE GENERAL BANKRUPT LAw.-The bill for
general bankrupt law, reported by Mr.. Conk-
ling from the special committee, comes before
the House on Monday next More than one
hundred thousand names, comprising many of
the leading commercial firms in our principal
cities, have been appended to the petitions sent
in to Congress in its favor No measure is
more imperatively demanded in the present
diorganized state Of the country than this. The
ruin that has overtaken so many mercantile
men, not through any fault Of their own, but
through that of the politicians, can only be
remedied by some such enactment. A dis
eliminating law, which, while it assists the
honest trader to surmount his difficulties, in
fexibly. Furnishes the roguishly disposed, can.
not but be conducive to public morality and
the best interests of the mercantile communi-
ty. We are sorry to see it stated that con-
siderable Indifference is manifested in Congress
in regard to the passage of this bill. 1t is to
be hoped that when the measure comes to be
discussed its Importance will be better ap-
preciated.
Year: 1862

WAsMSGroN, April IL, 1852
Captain Fox, Assistant Secretary OF tho Navy, who
returned from Fortress Monroe to-day reports that tho
Merrmac had moved from her position under the guns ol
Caney Island and anchored in the mouth Of James river
had made no attack, and It Is now believed
that she has been assigned this position q Q
floating battery for the protection Of the right
flank Of the rebel army resting James river II now
supposed that she will not for she present at least come
outside of the bar into the Roads where our vessels are
ready to meet her with confidence Of making finish d
hor If she should afford them fair opportunity to attacs
har
Year: 1862

PooR FREMONT N DANGER.-We really pity
poor Fremont. He is in constant danger, not
from the rebels (whom he never sees), but from
the inlictons of the miserable driveller Of the
Tribune Will not some friend of Fremont get
up a subscription to recompense the Tribune
for its pecuniary losses during the past year,
and present the sum, in nice purse to Greeley,
as Matteson presented his 1000 drafts Gree
ley may get good natured then, and be quiet
about Fremont. The manner in which he now
daily dishes up the terrible evidence against the
poor, lost Pathfinder is very unfair. We wish he
would not do IL, and will head a subscription to
quiet him.
Year: 1862

RELIEF FOR Our WOUNDED AT PlrTsBURo LAND
NG.--No sooner had the news of the recent tre-
mendo,u battle near Corinth reached Chicago
and othern Western cities than steps were i'm
mediately taken to send hospital supplies,
linen and comforts of all kinds to our wounded
soldiers. As yet none Of our public bodies
have made the slightest move in imitation of
this example. Some of our private citizens, it
is true, have contributed. 1t is to the patriotism
and energy of our Western men that we owe the
first serious blows inflicted on the rebellio, {,
and but for their heroic endurance in the recent
engagement with Beauregard's forces We should
have had to record disastrous defeat Lot 1t
not be said, then, that the people Of New York
are Indifferent to the sufTerings of the gallant
men who are now lying prostrate from the
wounds received in our behalf. We call upon
both the Corporation and the Chamber of Com
merce at once to initiate measures for their
relief. Apathy must not be charged against us
in matter which has so legitimate and press
ing claim upon our sympathies.
Year: 1862




The Washington correspondent Of the St.
Louis Democrat gives the following inside view of
the position of the various members of the Cabi-
net on the Presidents emancipation scheme:


Tie position of the various members of the
Cabinet on the Presidents emancipation policy,
during the time that it was the subject of Cabi-
net discussion may be accurately stated, and on
a subject of such momentous interest the informa-
ton is due the public. From the outset Gov.
Chase has been the recognized leader in urging
emancipation, and when the matter was at vari-
Gus times under discussion, he was its leading ad-
vocate. Secretary Weles favored emancipation,
but was not specially energetic in urging it, as
he rarely is in urging any point in public policy
outside his own Department Secretary Stan
ton, if not originally active in favor of emancipa-
ton by the approved method; was at least op-
posed TO it in the later discussions. At the same
time he has always been outspoken in declaring
his readiness to strike at slavery under the war
power wherever and whenever slavery could be
reached. Postmaster General Blair was through
out the most determined and bitter opponent of
the emancipation policy, and when the substance
of the proclamation was made known to the
Cabinet, he was perhaps more outspoken than
any of the members in protesting against its
adoption. Not less determined, though perhaps
more cautious in protests, was Secretary Seward
1t may be safely said, that he was the great lead
er in the Cabinet of opposition to any policy of
emancipation resembling that which the Presi-
dent finally adopted Secretary Smith and At
torney General Bates occupied about the same
ground on the subject. They opposed the proc
lamation, not because they were averse to the alb
clifton Of slavery, but because they believed it
would be certainly accomplished by legitimate
progress Of the war without the step the Presi
dent has taken. They believed that abstainng
from the proclamation would save trouble in the
border States, and avoid, possibly, complications
at the North. In short, they believed in pushing
the war as vigorously as possible, and had no
doubt that the necessary result would be the de-
structon Of slavery in the progress Of the war
Secretary Smith is understood to have urged
these views very strongly--Attorney General
Bates with less persistency. There was an actual
majority in the Cabinet against the Presidents
proclamation; but Lincoln, as usual, when he
has made up his mind, took the matter in bis own
hand without much Difference to the opinions of
his Cabinet officers, and even at last, with little
if any consultation 1t is claimed that the eman-
cipation policy is strictly war measure, and as
such it receives the support of Gen. Mcclellan,
who was consulted as to its character.
Year: 1862

A son Of Erin, mourning over the fate that
doomed him to be an exile from bis country and
bis home, said, "if he ever lived to die, but God
only knew whether he would or not he hoped to,
see sweet Ireland before he left Philadelphia.
Year: 1862

We find the following account of the private fu-
neral of Colonel Fletcher Webster, and of the in
specific of his illustrious fathers remains, in a
late issue of the Plymouth (Mass.) Rock:


The tomb at Marshfeld once again opens wide
its portals to receive the lest of .the sons of the
"Great Expounder.'


The funeral of Colonel Fletcher Webster took
place at his residence in Marshfeld on Wednes-
day, September 10th. The body was brought
down from Boston in a richly caparisoned hearse,
with four horses, by way of bingham and South
Shore Several coaches conveyed his Boston
friends from the neighboring towns Rev. Alden,
the village pastor, conducted the services, the
body resting on his fathers writing table in the
library, according to his dying request large
procession followed his body to the tomb, where
the body was deposited with the family HON
the nation mourus.


BY request of Peter Harvey and others, the
oaken box containing the great statesman's coffin
was opened, and the metallic cover of the glass
removed. How were the feelings of those per-
sonal friends stirred within them to find those
lneaments and features, which no man ever look
ed upon to forget, retaining the same color and
impress, natural as when ten years ago they gave
him up to the grave.


The eyes were more sunken, but the heavy
shadows beneath the brows we're always there in
life. Even in death, and for decade the cap
tive of the grave, that kingly presence inspired
the deep reverence and speechless awe as when in
the living temple of his matchless mind. Said
one who looked upon his face again, 81 forgot all
else, and cannot tell you anything of the tomb or
surrounding objects" The velvet pail with its
rich embroidery was in perfect preservation,
though deprived of its primitive gloss.


In silence the lid was dropped and the box re-
closed. Farwell, thou great departed Earth
communion with thee is ore. No more shall hu
man eye behold that face over which thought and
feeling once flashed the light and shade of that
"imperial mind" Rest noble statesman, with thy
patriot sons Thy memory "stl lives enshrined
in a nations admiration and gratitude
Year: 1862

Like the leaf, life has its fading We speak
and think of it with sadness, just as we speak
and thinksOf The autumn season. But there
should he no sadness at the fading Of life that
has done well its work. II we rejoice at the
advent of new Fife, if we welcome the COM
ing Of a new pilgrim to the uncertainties of
this worlds way, why should there be so much
gloom when allthese uncertainties are passed
and life at its waning wears the glory of a
complete task, beautiful as is childhood in its
freshness and innocence its beauty is that Of
untried life. ID is the beauty of promise, Of
spring, aUffbe bud A hoIier and rarer beau
ty is the beauty which the waning life of faith
and dHty wears. It is the beauty of thing
completed, and as men come together to con-
graduate each other when some great work
has been achieved aHd see in its concluding
nothing bat glad2ess, so ought we feel when
ths setting sun fings back its beams upon a
life that has answered well life's purpose
When the buds drop blighted, and the miIdew
blasts the early grain, aud there goes all hope
Of ths harvest-one may well be sad; but when
the ripening year sings amid its graniture of
autumn flowers and leaves, Why should we re-
gret or murmAr; And sosa life that is ready
and waiting for the "well done" of God, whose
latest virtues and charities are its nOblest
should be driven back to God in uneomplain-
ing revsFeBcerYhile we rejoice that earth is
capable Of so much goodness, and is permit
ted such virtue.-[J. F. w. Ware,
Year: 1862

On a certain occasion during Wellngton's
campaign on the Pyrennese, that Great
Captain being displeased with the DISPOSE
tions General Picon had made for receiving
the assault Of Marshal Sout, who menaced him
in front, ordered the plan to be entirely chang
ed. But the difficulty was to delay the attack
of the French until the change could be effect
ed. This the Iron Duke " accomplished in
person, in the following manner. DofIing his
cooked hat and waving it in the air, he rode
furioualy TO the head Of a regiment, as if about
TO order a charge. Thereupon arose tremen-
dous cheer from the men, which was taken up
by corps after corps, until it reverberated
along the whole extent Of Picton's line. As
the roar died away, Wellington was heard to
remark, mnsingly, as if addressing himself
:" SGult is skillul but cautious commander,
and will not attack in force until he has ascer-
tanned the meaning Of these cheers. This will
give time for the sixth division to come up and
we shall beat him" 1t turned out as he an
ticipated. Soult, naturally enough, supposed
these tremendous shouts announced the arrival
Of large reinforcemeuts, and did not attack
until too late. Had he struck at the right
moment he would have won an easy victory;
as it was, he met with bloody repulse. This
was strategy Not the strategy of books, bat
the strategy Of genius, engendered aud execu-
ted in the same moment,
Year: 1862

Parson Brownlow, in a recent speech at Chi
caRo said:


The last one of those that was made the
catspaw Of and the meanest one Of the whole
crowd, By any odds. was the Old Public Func-
tionary of Pennsylvania. Roars of laughter I
An old man whose heart and sou is with the
rebellion to night. That's true l have
canvassed the State OF Pennsylvania. 1 have
been in Lancaster, and all about over that
county. l have not talked with him person.
ally. have not got so low yet. Laughter
But conversed with reliable and intelligent
Pennsylvanians of high standing and integrity,
who had conversed with him, TO whom he said
: This war is all wrong it ought to be
stopped. We ought to stop it. We can new
er subdue this people. They are not the peo-
pie to be conquered, and so on evidently
showing by the tenor and tone of his CONVEX
sation that he is with the enemy
Year: 1862

= Ar. Bradbury, one Of the conductors of the
c New York Musical Review, thus writes On
the death Of his child, Kittie Lizzie, at the
age Of Eve years. Was ever anything more
touchingly penned3


y Kitiie is gone. Where? To Heaven
An angel came and took her away. She was
n lovely child-gentle as a little lamb the
pet Of the whole family the youngest Of them
all. But she could not stay with them any
longer. She had an angel-sister in Heaven
who was waiting for her. The angel-sister
was with MS only a few months. but she has
been in Heaven many years, ard she must
have loved Kittie, for everybody loved her
The lovliest flowers are often soonest plucked
III little voice sweeter and more musical than
others was heard, knew Kittie was near. II
my study door opened so gently and silly that
no sound could be heard, knew Kittie was
coming. II after an hours quiet play, little
shadow passed me, and the door opened and
shut as no one else could open and shut it $50
as ret TO disturb papa" l knew Kittie was
going.


When in the midst Of my composing,
heard gentle voice saying. papa, may stay
with you little while l will be very still,
did net need to look off my work, to assure
me that it was my little lamb. You staid
with me too long. Kittie dear, to leave me so
suddenly and you are still now. You be-
came my little assistant, my home angel, my
youngest ard sweetest singing bird and
miss the little voice that have so often heard
in an adjoining room, catching up and echoing
little snatches Of melody as they were being
composed. miss those soft and sweet kisses.
miss the little hand that was always first to
be placed Upon my forehead, to drive away
she pain" 1 miss the sound of those little
feet upon the stairs l miss the little knock
at my bedroom door in the morning, and the
triple goodnight kiss in the even. miss the
sweet smiles from tie sunniest of faces.


miss-Oh how miss the foremost in the
little group who came out TO meet me to the |
gate for the first kiss. do not stOop so low
now. Kittie, to give the first kiss. miss you
at the table, and at family worship. l miss
your voice in / want to he an angel" for TO !
body could sing it like you. I miss you in
rides and walks. / miss you in the garden
l miss you everywhere; but will try not TO
miss you in Heaven. Papa, if we are good |
viii an angel truly come and take us to Heav-
On when We die ," When the question was
asked, how little did think the angel was so
near But he did % truly" come, and the |
sweet flower is transPlan,ed to more genial
CLINE. !" do wish papa would come home"
VISIT little while, Kittie. and papa will con E.
The Journey is not long. lie will soon lie
home"
Year: 1862

There is delicious feeling in the air of twi
light; a something that steals DER the hear


and mind, pleasant but indiscribab'e a Sc


renity and peace envelope tie earth; all seem.


wrapt in quiet. soothing calmness. 1t briAg.


relief TO the weary head and ;he sorrow ST rick


en- heart. Every one. more or less, have had


some time in their life which they think o


with pleasure. golden hours full Of joy and hap
pness, but short gone ere they are felt; too
soon they vanish away, and are buried in tho


great nournful ocean OF the past, to come back


ih realty never more, though we strain oar
eyes to catch glimpse of them. and would
E'in recall one moment Of that happy time


The twilight hour seems to fill our hearts with
these feelings. The twilight breeze as it WATTS


gently by, takes thoughts ana memory


back to the days Of yOre summer days. when


love and hope made earth n very paradise


Golden days! full of JOY and haPpines, without


breath Of sorrow or woe. D4ys and huu, 8
so joyous, that IN our ears the very birds sang


sweetest, and in our eyes the flowers seemed
more beautiful. Days given US that when
the dark clouds came, and the cold ard the
cutting wind of sorrow swept from us the
bright flowerets that had been reared by love
aud hope-when it came remorse!essly and
swept them all away, making the very sun
grow dark and the starlets pale, we might look
back, and the remembrance Of those other
days be something to cheer us. Oh. We beau
teous twilight hours, in We we forget the in
junction Of Him who hath written Look
not mournfdlly into the past it comes not bach,
again; wisely improve the present; it is thine;
go forth to meet the shadow future, without
fear and with manly heart" Again, if friends
whom we love and cherish are far away how
the twilight seems to bring them back 10 orr
memory: how unconscionsly it takes the
thoughts of their absence away from us, and
leads us with gentle hand To those byg0ne
days, those past twilight hours, when the loved
one was with US. We fancy they are again
beside US. we seem TO hear their loved voices
10 US, as in those DAYS of old
We are living again in the joyous past but the
twilight fades, and with il the happy illusion
We awake to the reality Of the dreary present
awake TO feel we are living still, in Geld. un-
world, to strive, and to fear, put
ting on the false smiles and the false laughs,
listening TO the worlds picture, like apples Of
the Dead Sea, fair to the sight, ashes TO the
touch" We must bury our secret sorrows III
our heart, for the dream is oer that short and
brief. but joyous twilight dream-a moment
stolen from tho busy world. come and gone
leaving the Impression only, leaving us to bat !
tie with the strife oflile"
Year: 1862

The Homestead well observes:
The true economy with land is to
treat it as YOU would labnrer, from
whom you wanted the most work
Let it be well fed, and there is less
danger of over feeding, than ther is
in men or animals. No more should
be cultivated than can he stuffed with
full supply ofpiant food. The sun
and atmosphere arc al! ready to give
you eighty bushels of corn to Tie aero
and ii will not cost a penny more to
draw upon them for the necessary
amount Of hrat, light. carbon. and
moisture to make this quantity of
grain, than To mako twenty bushels,
Give the soil generously and prcsis-
temtlv, and it will give unto YOU good
measure, pressed down aud running
over"
Year: 1862

The first on tie list, followed by the name
of company and regiment that had marched
proudest of all through our streets thirteen
months before, since they had left wealth, and
ease, and luxury, to go out for their country's
sake-a pure enthusiasm in what they believed
in noble cause.


Again and again he had been in the thick
est of the fight and had come out unharmed.
l impiously believed it was my unceasing sell
fish prayers that protected him how impious
and how selfish 1 had never known till now;
for had come to believe the angels had spe-
ca charge concerning him. But that selfde
lusion fell from my eyes like a mist; my pre-
sumption in thinking God would exempt me
from the trials common TO all / dare say
you know every phase Of mind passed through
with, if you have ever been visited with sud-
den shock of loss how, from what / conceiv-
ed TO be loving trust in my Heavenly Father
and glowing gratitude, I found myself madly
rebellious, sullenly faithless, wholly unbeliev-
ing. What were all his promises worth since
it has come to this Only that morning be-
fore left my room l had read with such a
beautiful confidence in the Bible which had
been his earliest gift to me:


"He shall deliver thee in six troubles; yea,
in seven shall no evil touch thee"


"In famine he shall redeem thee from death,
nd 10 war from the power of the sword"


But now He had put forth his hand and
touched all that had,' and the temptation to
"curse him to the face" swept over me. AS it
had through the soul of the patient Chal-
dean


During the slow decline which had taken my
Year: 1862

tory writes to that paper as follows:


"MR. EDIToR;-Your Massilon cor
respondent, in the last Repository
speaks of the recent snow storm
as being unprecedented in this section of
the country. Now I think he and the
"OIasst inha5itaat Of whom be speaks,
have not been very close observers Of the
weather, for although much younger man
than he, distinctly remember of snow
on the fourth of Ootober-I cannot state
the year precisely, but it was twenty-five
years ago or more-which covered the
ground to the depth of four or five inches
and did not entirely disappear for several
days. Again in 1S44-eighteen years ago,
there was, On the twenty-eighth day OF
September, month earlier in the season
than this, fall of snow which exceeded
this in amount and duration. It was pre-
ceded by rain and as the forest trees were
yet in full foliage, the snow adhered to
them to such an extent that much valuable
timber was broken down and destroyed by
the great weight Of snow. This will be
we'll remembered by many persons
throughout the country, especially in the
eastern portion of the county.


October S1st, 1852. G