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Year: 1862

81 sit aloue-aloue with thought


And thronging visions come.


In rainbow tints of beauty caught,


From childhood's happy home,'


Home with what a magical influence
does this charmed word fall upon the ear!
how lovingly it vibrates upon the chords
of the heart and awakens thousand pleas
urable emotions of "by gone hours


"Happy hours of childish glee,


Hours that never more can be-


Home twas there we first learned
to lisp the endearing name of mother
there we first met kind fathers approx
ing smile or word of counsel-and twas
there we exchanged the fond caresses
with loved and loving brothers and sis
ters All of this comes in sweet review
before our mental vision as we list to
the word, even when uttered by the lips
of strangers and again we seem to rev.
el in the joys of childhood, when the
hours flew gladsome by, untouched by
anxious care. Again we greet the famil-
lar faces of our youthful friends, and in
fancy hold sweet converse with them, as
of old. All I! how many fond reminis.
censes cluster around this little word J.
To the absent, especially, it is pregnant
with an immensely of meaning, and their
souls are thrillingly stirred by the utter
ance of it. They may be dwelling in
luxury, yet oft will their hearts yearn for
the


"Lowly thatched cottage again"


New ties may bind them, and new
friends claim their attention and love, but
their early homes will always hold an
honored seat in memory's hall:
"a charm from the sky seems to hallow them


there,


Which, seek through the world. ne e s met with


elsew here. -


Methinks too, the homespell is tails
man against all evil. How could he who
had enjoyed the blessings of happy and
holy one, and reveled in all its elysian
pleasures and tender endearments, 90
forth to i'll with its gentle influence how
ering over him. Temptation may assail,
but his heart will be fortified against it
by the remembrance of the loved ones at
at home, and manfully will he pursue the
path of right.


In battling with the world his heart
may become scared and chilled, but it
will thrill and warm with tenderness, as
some Glance incident recalls scenes
gone by the witching strains of ssHome,
Sweet Home,' perchance will bedim his
eyes with tears of affection, as they cause
his thoughts to revert to the days, when
with band of gentle and loving sisters,
he sang that same old melody round an
honored fathers hearthstone. All, home
becomes doubly dear to the lonely wan
derer from its sacred precinct, and It's
ever thus,


esTake thu bright she'll


From it's horne on the lea


And wherever it goes


It will sing of the sea;
So take the fond heart
From its home and its hearth,


Twill sing of the loved
To the end Of the earth.''


Home There is a wealth of music
breathed in the sound, and adamantine
like, indeed must be the heart in which it
fails to awaken sweet echos.


To the Christian it is precious as being
emblematic of that home of glory beyond
the skies, which the Savior went to pre-
pare for them that love him.
His affection for his temporary habita,
Year: 1862

AS die the embers on the hearth,


And DER the floor the shadows fall,
And creeps the chirpiDg cricket forth,
And ticks the death watch in the wall,
see form in yonder chair


That grows beneath the waning light;
There are the wan, sad features there
The pallid brow, and locks of white.
My father, when they laid thee down
And heaped the clay upon thy breast,
And left thee sleeping all alone


Upon thy narrow couch of rest,
know not why coul not weep


The soothing drops refused to roll,
And oh that grief is wild and deep,


Which settles fearless on the soul.
But when saw thy vacant chair,


Thine idle hat upon the wall,
The book-the pencilled passage where
Thine eye hath rested last of all
The tree beneath whose friendly shade
Thy trembling feet had wandered forth =
The very prints those feet had made,


When last they feebly trod the earth;
And thought while countless ages fed,
Thy vacant seat would vacant stand
UnwOrn thy hat thy book unread


Efaced thy footsteps from the sand -
And widowed is this cheerless world


The heart that gave its love to thee
Torn like the vine whose tendrils curled
More closely round the falling tree;
Oh, Father then for her and thee


Gushed madly forth the sc0rching tears
And oft, and long, and bitterly,


Those tears have gushed in later years;
For as the world grows cold around,


And things assume their own real hue
'Tis sad to fad that love is found


Alone above the stars with you.
Year: 1862

PUBLIC REcEPTIoS.-At meeting Of the joint
Committee on National Affairs of the Common Coun-
cl yesterday it was determined to participate in
the reception Of the wounded soldiers who ex-
pected from Williamsburg, aud to meet ut the Hall
this morning and proceed in body to tender Capt
Bailey the freedom OF the city. The Committee will
also wait upon Lieut.. Worden with the view Of be.
slowing upon him similar honor
Year: 1862

tursd since the fall Of sumter, by North and
South, will leave IN our hands at the close Of
the rebellion perhaps the largest stock Of both
that ID to be found in the possession Of any one
nation. OF heavy ordnance alone we shall
have as much as is required to fortify and rem
der impregnable to q foreign enemy all the un-
defended points of our coasts. From being one
of the weakest, the end of the war will leave us
one Of the most powerful military nations in
the world If the lesson that we lately received
In Hampton Roads be not lost upon US, 1t will
also raise US to an equality of naval strength
with the Power that has SO long doineered
upon the seas. 1t was an unfortunate day for
England when she first initiated the policy to
which our present troubles are owing. In
bounding on the abolitionists to invade the
rights Of the South, she expected by it to
break up the republic. Instead of that she will
have rendered 1t more powerful and indissolu-
bio than ever, and more ready to acquit itself
of the deep debt of vengeance which the selfish
ness and treachery Of the English aristocrats
and Exeter Hall fanatics have accumulated
against her.
Year: 1862




AN ACT to amend section one of chapter


seven of the general laws, passed at the


extra session of the legislature, CONS


mencing on the 18th day of May, 1861,


entitled ian act to amend an act ent-


tied an act to declare the rights and


privileges of such persons as may enroll


themselves in the service of the coun


try approved April II, 1861"


The people Of the State of Wise nsin,
represented m Sena te and ASSEMBLY do en-
act as tollows:


Section 1. Section one Of chapter seven
of the general laws, passed at the extra
session of the Legislature. commencing on
the 18th day of May, 1851, is hereby
amended by adding to said section the
following "Provided, further, that the
said section one shall not be so construed
as to exempt any person or persons from
civil process, who now are or may be here
after indebted as executor, administrator,
guardian or trustee; nor shall sail sec
ton one be so construed as TO exempt any
person from civil process who now is or
may hereafter be indebted as Trustee or
hduciary agent, having or holding in his
possessiou, as such trustee or fiduciary
agent or control any moneys, goods or
other property whatever; and provided
t"rtter, that in all actions against persons
jointly indebted upon contract in which
an order may have been or may hereafter
be made by the court in which said action
is pending staying or suspending the pro-
ceedlng In said action as to one or more
of the defendants in said actions, according
to the provisions of this act, the plaintiff
may proceed in said action the same as II
the summons therein bad not been served
upon said defendant or defendant who NAV
have obtained, or who may hereafter oh
tain, stay of proceedings as aforesaid.
and as If no appearance had been entered
IN sad action by said defendant or defend.
ants; and if, on the trial of said action,
the plaintiff recovered judgment, it shall
be entered and enforced, as provided in
clause one of section eleven of1 chapter
one hundred and twenty four OF the revis>
ed statutes; and provjded further, that
neither this act nor the act 10 which this
act Is amendatOry, shall be so construed
as to exempt from the service of civil pro
cess or trial, nor shall said act in any man
ner apply to any person or persons wuo
have heretofore, or shall hereafter draw
or receive ally mony from this state con
trary to law, either as contractor or officer
under the state"


Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and lie
! in force from and after its pubiication


Approved March Is, 1862.
Year: 1862

that had laiu between US and c.. Now
we bad fourteen miles to go, and my time
showed eleven o'clock and fifty three min
utas.


off l live," said to myself, 81 will
make it" and we plunged down the TWEEN
ty feet grade with all the steam on. Per
sons who saw the train on that wild run,
say it was soon after they heard the first
sound of her approach, when the strange
object, that looked as if fame Of fire
darted by, and then the sound Of its trav
elIing died away in the dis stance, that they
could hardly convince themselves that
they had seen anything. 1t seemed more
like creature of wild dream, than a so
Der reality


"And now let me tell you that no en-
ginser has ever beat the time that was
made on those last fourteen miles. Those
great wheels, eleven feet in diameter, spun
round SO swiftly that you could not begin
to count the revolutions The engine
barely seemed to touch the track as she
flew along, and alth ough the track was
true as it could be, she swayed tearfully
and sometimes made such prodigious jolts
that 1t required some skill for one to keep
on his feet No engine could hold to-
gether if crowded to a greater speed.


Well, just as l came to a stand at the
depot in c., the big clock doomed out
twelve, and the steamboat was getting her
steam on. Roberts got on board in time
and nothing to spare.


"And he saved the money Gid he %
asked, when saw that my friend had fin.
ished his story.


"Yes ; he found i: hid away in some old
boxes as Aldrich had directed"


"If you are passenger for c." said
waiter, 'the bus is ready"


So | thanked my friend for his story
and bade him good bye.
Year: 1862

his duty to transfer such court shall inn
medlately issue an order requiring said
SECRETARY TO show cause before said court,
at some time named in said order, not
more than zen days from the cate of said
order, why he should not transfer said
stock, and shall, in said order, direct the
manner of its service and when said or
der is retGrnable, nuless said secretary
shows cause to the satisfaction of the
court, why such stock should not be trans
ferred. said court shall order such trans,
fer TO be made by said secretary, at such
time snd place as to said court shall seem
reasonable, and may enforce the performs
ance of said order as other orders Of said
court are enforced, by attachment.


Sec. 2. This act shall be published i'm
mediately, and be in force from and after
its passage al publication.


Approved March Is, 1862.
Year: 1862

A FACT TO BE REMEMBERED In the
late Act of Congress authorizing the issue
and sale of s500,000,o0O Of interest bear
ING Bonds of the United States, il is pro-
vided that these Bonds shall be exempt
from taxation. The effect of this will be,
that capitalists will be exempt from taxa
ton to this enormous amount, while the
comparatively poor and industrious people
Of the country will have 10 pay not only
their own share of the tax to support the
Government for the next century. but 10
provide also the means to pay those caPi'
talists interest on the United States Bonds
which they will have bough. at large
discount.


Another thing. nearly all the capital,
lists live in the eastern States, so that it is
the people of the vest who are expected %
pay nearly all the taxes.


This is matter the people Of the "es,
will probably remember as one Of the leg
aoies eff to thsm by the Repub ican Party
How will they show this Party gratitu b.
for such fayoTi
Year: 1862

- 1t seems to me very, melancholy
thing for a man to carry a mental ulcer
with him through life-to feel its prick
and pang in every cffort-to be conscious Of
its presence every hour to be engaged in
covering it from sight, or in the attempt to
deceive the world with regard to it. Life
Is altogether too good thing to be spoiled
by little sore, or a large one, when there
exists an obvious mode of curc. 1t is our
immense and intense self-consciousness
that stands in our way always in this mat
ter. The truth is that the world does not
think half so much about us as We imagine
1t does. A man may walk through the
city Of New York with face ''as homely
as hedge-fence," thinking about it all the
time, and wondering what people think Of
1t, and not man Of all the throng will
even see it. 1t is so in the world at large.
Our personal affairs generally, possess v,ry
little interest for others. They have enough
to do in taking care of themselves, and
have weaknesses and failures and peculiar
tiles enough Of their own and if the world
should spurn oar well-meant efforts in its
behalf, why, let it go. 1t ,nends nothing
to get sore and sensitive over it. When q
man truly learns Of how little Importance
he is in the world, he is generally beyond
the danger Of becoming CALLED by its har-
ness, whatever it may be.-TinsotAy Tit
come. 'f'. ..rI@ -..> .'s .+ '+"".'
Year: 1862

| Ep1taph.


| Here lies the body Of Pocket Gopher, 81.
Ir1l3 Who died to make for another room; =. T.
| lie has gone to the place, Designed by nature,
For trash swept up by faithful Broom.


lNr. Times You see by the above epitaph
that old Gopher is dead. He was too ten
der a plant to live in such an uncongenial
cline. AS have been sweeping his trash
away from week to week have not been
actuated by sordid or unfriend1y feelings,
but that he might know and feel that the
cheek Of the chaste and virtuous must not
be made to blush at his vulgar illusions
and unmanly productions, without the
fact being criticized by the people. l al
ways imagined that his color was that of
the earth in which the most Of his peram-
bulations were made, and from report
find that he appeared at a dime sociable
and showed that my differences were cor
rect, that he was indeed black He seems
to have been swept from existence at that
particular time and his place occupied by a
human gopher, one who can perambulatc
without offending those who arc accustom.
ed to see his operations weekly. No one
is more heartily rejoiced than Broom at the
change and from the noble, manly course
he has marked out for himself to follow he
will find that more broo,ns than one will
be his earnest friend, and sustain him in
his endcavors to relieve the wants Of the
volunteers wife's and children, as all the
worthy poor of our Pocket City. Many a
heart has been checred by the direct or in
direct acts Of journalists, all over our coun-
try, and many heart at the present day.
has cause to rejoice at the relief which has
been brought to it, by the efforts Of the
press, calling the attention of the kind and
humane to their wants. How much more
manly than to be sncaking around hearing,
and seeing those things, designed for others
alone, is the course, our new gopher takes
in bringing before the public, the dishonest
transactions Of contractors, pork dealers,
and exchangers. AS long as our present
Gopher confines himself to this laudable
enterprise, Broom will follow some other
calling, leaving his perambulations un-
swept, and unmolestcd. Trying by his
best cndcavors to assist in thu works Of
charity, being carried forward in our midst,
using the talent God has given him to
help forward the cause Of philanthropy,
which needs so much assistance, both in
time and money. .'@ .-" '.l


How many Of the great characteristics
Of the christian character, Gopher might
exhibit in his pcrambulations, if he would
only take notice Of the good scorks, which
fall in his way and when he found an OBJ
ject Of charity instead of burlcsqueing the
samo, to speak of it in such manner as
would make the humane feel as if they
would like to help them, up the steep hill
of life. Broom sympathises with the new
gopher in his .frst pcrambulatisns and if
none of the relatives of the derunct one are
allowed to help him, Broom will be con-
tent and for the last time will alludc to old
Gopher by saying "Rest q9iet cat In
peace. .-.t II Yours truly. Sd.


Bacon
Year: 1862

We publish, in another column, so much of
the Circular Of the Commissioner of the General
Land Office as necessary for the information of
those desiring to avail themselves of the benefits
Of that Act.


The Law goes into effect on the First Day of
January next.


Applicants for the benefits of the Law must
present themselves in person at the Land Office.


In its provisions this Law differs materially
from the Presumption Act of l64l. Under that
law the owner of three hundred and twenty
acres could not pre-empt quarter section, nor
could man leave his own land to take advan-
tage Of The Act. ibis Law makes no such dis
elimination nor isany one limited to single
homestead, ar denied the benefits of the Law a
second time. All who choose to do so, can
secure homestead by complying with the
requirements of the Act


We advise all interested to examine carefully
the circular Of the Commissioner, that they may
have no difficulty in complying with the re-
qurements of the Law.


Those who have made a second filing on their
claims would do we'll to enter them under the
Homestead Law at once, as the legality of such
filings are, to say the least questionable.
Year: 1862

Senator Henderson introduced an im-
portant bill into the Senate on the 18th,
providing for emancipation in Missouri.
The first section provides that whenever
satisfactory evidence shall be presented to
the President that the State of Missouri
has, through her Legislature or any other
properly constituted authority, adopted an
ordinance for the gradual emancipation of
all slaves in the State, it shall be his duty,
with the assistance Of the Secretary of the
Treasury, to prepare and deliver to the
Governor of Missouri, to be used BY said
State to compensate for the inconvenience
produced by such change of system, twenty
five millions United States six per cent.
thirty year bonds, provided said bonds shall
not be deliverable unless an act of emanci-
patton is adopted by the State within eigh-
teen months after the passage of the act,
nor unless said act shall provide that slavery
shall forever cease in tho State before or
On the 4th of July, 1865.


The second section provides that in case
the act of emancipation to be adopted by
the State shall provide for the manumission
of all slaves in the State upon the 4th Of
July, 1865, the President shall cause the
whole amount Of said bonds to be delivered
Immediately on the passage of said act ;
but should it provide for the termination OF
slavery at date later than the 4th Of July,
1865, then said bonds shall be delivered in
four equal instalments. dating from the
passage of such act to the time fixed for
the termination of slavery.


The third section provides that on the
passage Of law BY said State accepting the
provisions of this act, and adopting q law
for the ultimate extinction of slavery, the
faith of the United States and Of said State
will be pledged to carry out the terms OF
the compact; and should such State at any
time after having received any bonds, again
introduce slavery or tolerate it contrary to
this act of emancipation, the State shall
refund to the United States principal and
interest; provided that nothing herein shall
prevent from making out desired changes
10 emancipation not conflicting With this
act. or lengthening the time Of the exis.
,ence Of slavery.
Year: 1862

President. but Gen. Mcclellan, that he
should drive slavery before him, and if
possible destroy every rebel STAKEHOLDER, un-
less be should lay down his arms and b come
loyal subject. No objection was made to
his plan OF operations BY either President or
Commanding General. Slowly but surely
the Administration is drifting into the right
attitude toward slavery. Already our lead
ing statesmen perceive that We can never
have an enduring Union 50 long us slavery
exists upon the continent. and that il slavery
is to continue as political power in the
country separation is inevitable.


The news which comes from the South Is
encouraging, and men who have been dis
couraged begin TO be hopeful and Confident
Of the ability Of the Government - over
throw the rebellion. The crisis i un-
doubtedly at hand. Il is admitted On all
hands that in three months the question
will be decided. 81 certain Is the Admins
tration that this is the case, that foreign
diplomats here have been urged no. to Judge
the Government by the present aspects Of
the rebellion, but to wait quietly ninety
days lon,er, and then report to their res-
pectivc governments the condition OF affairs
this side Of the Atlantic. If this is good
advice fo- European diplomats aud govern
ments, it is equally good for the people OF
this country. w. B.
Year: 1862

~ The Emporia News and tho Wy
andotte Gazette favor straight Republi-
can State ticket. The Olathe Mirror
and Topeka Tribune seem to go in for .
Union movement. The White Cloud
Chief and Lawrence Journal are alone on
the Robinson issue. Most Of the Republi.
can papers of the State seem to be watch
ing events. and making no attempt to an
ticipate the dim and shadowy future. But
at least dozen candidates are actively
on the alert for a vigorous forward move
ment. Go in !-LsayenworM Conserua-
tire.


The Conservative has not magnanimity
enough to tell the simple truth about one
with whom it differs upon some petty
question. If ono fails to chime in with
its likes and dislikes. although lsboring
for the success of the same principles. it is
deemed ample ground for systematic mis-.
representation upon the part of the Con-
servative. For our position upon the
State ticket question. see last weeks Chief,
which was printed on the same day that
the Conservative containing the above
extract was issued. Until then. We had
not whimpered on the subject, and there
fore it was impossible to know what is
sue we were on.
Year: 1862

fIAH-4fsM- pen EAx-PAxsas.-A consid-
cradle amount of Territorial tax Is yet
due. 1t is for Territorial taxes that tho
delinquent lands in this County have just


been advertised to be sold. In these hard
times. it is an object to save in every item
possible. County Warrants can be pro.
cured at liberal discount to pay County
tag. but most persons have had to pay
cash for Territorial tax. A quantity of
Territorial Scrip has been placed in our
hands. which we are authorized to sell at
. good discount, for cash down, payable
in United States currency. if called for
on or before the LIST of June. This will
pay Territorial taxes. Now is your last
chance.