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Year: 1862

II we would have our bodies healthy,


our brains must be used, and used in ordin-


airy and vigorous ways, that the life giving


streams OF force may flow down from them


into the expectant organs, which can min
lister but as they are administered unto
We admire the vigorous animal life of the


GreeEs, and with justice we recognize, and


partly seek to initiate the vigorous gymaas.


tic and other means which they employed


to secure it. But probably we should make


fatal error if we omitted from our calcu.


lations the hearty aud generous earnsstncss


with which the highest subjects of art, ppec.


ulalon, and politics we're pursued 10y them.


Surely, 10 this case the beautiful aud the


masculine and energetic mental life was
expressed in the athletic aud graceful frame


And were it mere extravaganza TO ask
whether some part OF the lassitude and


WEAKNESS Of life, of which we hear SO much
in our day, might be due 10 lack of mental
occupation on worthy subjects, exciting
aud repoying generous enthusiasm, as
well as TO an over exercise on lower ones B.?
whether an sengrossment on matters which
have not substance enough to justify or sat.
isfy the mental grasp, be not at the root of
some part Of the maIides which affect our
mental convalescence Any one Who tries
it soon finds out how wearyng, how dispro.
portionately exhausting is on overdose of
light literature" compared with an equal
amount of time spent on real work Or
this we may be sure, that the due exercise
of brain-Of thoughts one of the essen
tial elements of life. The perfect health
Of man is not the same as that of an OK or
horse. The prepondera;ing capacity of his
nervous parts demands corresponding life. |
Year: 1862

FEAR OF DEATH There are persor
whose dread Of death is so intense that they
cannot enjoy life. They are vainly told
that it is irrational to be continually dis.
quie'ed about 90 event common to all. and
that cauuot he averted. Because it is in.
cyitable they shuddcr and tnrn pale at the
thought oft. This morbid fear of the
change is not confined 10 those who have
most cause for apprehension. 1t is shared
by many whose concences are void OF of.
Tense. Even pious men are sometimes
haunted by a vague horror of the universal
doom and in some cases their terror takes
the form Of mania, aud its victims throw
themselves unbidden into the arms of the
spectre. as if drawn TO its dread embrace
by irresistible fascination. The best meth.
cd of dealing with this ghaStly form Of by.
pochondriuSiS, is not to attack it with res.
son and phi osophy, since the sum of all
that logic can say npon the subject is the
hackneycd truism, that what cannot be
prevented should be faced manfully The
promises of the Gospel, uderstandingly
aud trustfully read aud applied, are the
only panacea for such gloomy forebodipgs
Year: 1862

The SINS OF OTHERS. The cynics insis,
upon it that all the world is selfish, and e,.
cry son of Adam occupied only with him
self. How absurd is this theory Just
observe with what Solicitude and concern
we all watch the sins and faults of other
people How anxious We are to secure
their reform What pains we undertake
to bring them TO repentance We never
hear sermon that We do net generously
turn it over to an erring brother; we never
hear a wise axiom that we do not mental.
ly apply it to a sinful sister. We go about
lumeutug The habit and sinful weakness OF
our neghbors, and are IN such despair be.
cause Of the sins and vices Of society, that
nothing consoles us bat the balm Of our
own virtues
Year: 1862

CoTToN SEED SoAP.-Put cotton seed into a
large and strong iron pot, in small quantities at a
time, mash them we'll with wooden pestle, and
then pour in a certain quantity of common ley,
and boil thoroughly strain in ordinary seive,
and proceed in the usual way, in drying and
cutting into cakes
Year: 1862

1t appears from the above, that the orders from
the War Department in Washington, and of Gen
Pope and his subaltern Stenwehr, received of
our Government that immediate attention which
was due to proceedings so henous and so broad
in their application. Nothing which has occurred
in the practical conduct of the war, has more
deeply offended and aroused the Indignation and
resentmet Of our people, than the outrages which
it is the object Of the order from our War Depart
ment to redress.


The promptness and the resolution with which
the case has been met by our excellen: President
will be hailed by the people as another proof of
the vigilance and fidelity with which he watches
over their rights and dignity.


The subject was one which demanded careful
consideration under the lights of wisdom and the
promptings of courage. 1t is very easy to cry
out in favor of raising "the black fag;" but those
who really desire it are very nconsiderate War
is terrible enough at best; and it especially does
| not become people looking to the high stand
for honor and chivalry and refinement which we
aspire to take among the nations, to add to its
| horrors. President Davis, therefore, expresses a
very proper and sincere regret at being forced to
take cUgulzance of conduct on the part OF the
enemy utterly opposed to the dictates of
humanity and to the rules Of civilized war, as to
! demand the sternest Misunderstanding was left
however, but to desert fellow citizens the old
man and the infant, the matron and the maid,
and leave them exposed to all the atrocities of a
plundering aud numbering soldiery, licensed aud
/ even commanded to plunder and murder under
the published orders Of their chief, or else to
repress such barbarities by the intimidation, and
the sting Of retaliation. The discharge Of this
painful and solemn duty the President has not
Stunned. The people will sustain, nay even
applaud 1t; for there was no alternative but
isnominy and ruin. The civilized world will
justify it as absolutely forced upon US, and will
tasten the blame upon our atroclous enemies, to
whom it entirely belongs. The consequences Of
this step we yet to see.


We trust it will bring the madmen at Wash
ington to their senses, and that they will hence
forth restrain their malice within the conventional
bounds Ii, however, the result should be other
wise-if instead Of redress, they should respond
! by new outrages-ir is easy to see tha: quickly
the rules OF war will all be laid aside, and
exterminaton become the watchword OF the strife
Deplorable as this would be, yet we shrink not
from it if forced upon us. We viii meet the foul
foe on any and on all terms, resolved in no event
to submit, but to wage the war till conquered
peace shall crown our independence, and sanction
our complete ard eternal separation.


Let our people and our soldiery prepare them
selves for the order of things aud for whatever
may follow. 1he terrors Of war may increase
Year: 1862

HAVE associated with me in business Mr.. G. W..
Sloan. who has been assistant in the store for
number OF years past Hereafter the business will be
continued at the old stand under the firm of


BROWNIr.1 & SLOAN.


feel grateful for the liberal patronage which we have
receivedtruS by strict attention TO business and
the Of customers merit and retain the


r. BROW MING.
Year: 1862

This shows an average decennial in
crease Of 81 go 100 per cent. in popula-
ton through tho seventy years from on.
first to our last census taken. ..


1t is seen that the ratio of increase at
no one of these seven periods is either two
pei cent below, or two per cent above. the
average. Thus showing how iuAexible
and consequently how reliable the law of
increase is. Assuming that it will con.
tinue. it gives the following result:
Year: 1862

Is it doubte1 then that the plan ! pro
pose, if adopted. will shorten the war
and thus lessen its expenditure Of money
and blood T? IL it doubted that it would
restore the national prosperity and per
petuate both indefinitely?


Is it doubted that If we here. Congress
aud Executive. can secure its adoption,
the good people will respond to uuitet
and earnest appeal from Us?


Can we. can they, by any other meana
SO certainly or SO speedily assure thes'
vital objects ? We can succeed only BY
concert. 1t is not, can any Of Us imogin'
better. bat still the question recurs. car
we do better


The dogmas Of the quiet past are mad
equate to the stormy present. The occa
sion is piled high with difficulty, and w
must rise with the occasion. As our cas-
is new. go we must think and act anew
we must disenthral ourselves, and thel
we shall save cur country.


Fellow-citizens: We cannot escape his
tory. We of this Congress will be re
membered in spite of ourselves. No per
sonal significance or insignifcance car
spare one or another of US. The 6ery
trial through which we pass will light u
down in honor or dishonor to the las
generation. We say We are for the Union
The world will not forget that while W.
say this we know how to save tht
Union. The world knows we do know
how to save. We. even we. hold tn
power and bear the responsibility. Fl.


In giving freedom to the slave we in
sure freedom to the free. Honorable alik'
in what we give and what we preserve. VI
shall nobly save or meanly lose the las
best hope Of the earth.


Other means may sncceed. this coulr
not fail. The way is plain, peaceful
generous and Just; a way which. if follow
ed. the world will applaud, and Coz
must forever bless.


ABRAHAM LINCOLN.


Washington. Dec. 1, 1862.
Year: 1862

rily include seven of the slave States.
II obtained. it will give assurances OF
their severally adopting emancipation at
no distant day On the new constitutional
terms. This assurance wonld end the
struggle now and save the Union forever.


do not forget the gravity OF paper
addressed to the Congress Of the nation
By the Chief Magistrate of the nation.
nor do 1 forget that some few gre my
seniors, or that many Of you have more
experiences than l in the conduct Of pub
lie affairs. ~ Ez


Yet trust that in view of the great
responsibility resting upon me. you will
perceive no want of respect to yourselves
in any undue esrnestness l may seem to
Year: 1862

w The Prospectus Of the New York
Ledger will be found in another column
The Ledger is almost the only genuine
lire literary paper now published, and
possesses more energy than three-fourths
of its rivals combined. Bonner says he
does not mean to put up the price on his
patrons, in consequence of the rise in pa.
per. He says he made money when pa
per was low, and be thinks no more than
right that the advantage should now be
on the side of bis subscribers. Read the
advertisement. s.a
Year: 1862

These figures show our country may b.
as populous as Europe at some point be-
tween 1920 and 1880. say about 1925
Our territory. at 735 to the square mile.
heing Of capacity to contain 217. 1856. .3S4
This future we relinquish by the folly ol
disunion, or BY long exhausting war
springing from the only great element oil
discord among us. while it cannot be fore
seen exactly how much our huge example
of Secession. bringing lesser ones, would
indefinitely retard the population, civiliza-
tion and property.


No one can doubt that the extent of il
would be very great and injurious.
THE BLESSINGS OF INDEPENDENCE.
The proposed emancipation would
shorten this war. perpetuate peace, insure
the increase in population, and proper
tionally the increase in the wealth of the
country. With this We should pay al
that emancipation would cost, without
our other debts, easier than we should
pay our other debts without it.


A oAMpAR1soN.


II we had allowed our old national
debt to run at 6 per cent. per snnum.
simple interest, from the end of our rev.
olutionary struggle till to-day, without
paying anything, either principal or in
terest, each man of rs would owe less up
on that debt now than each man owed
upon it then, and thus because our in.
crease of men through the whole period
has been greater than 6 per cent, and
has run faster than the interest upon the
debt.


THE CONVERSATION OF TINE.


Thus time aloue relieves q debtor ma
tion SO long as its population increases
faster than unpaid interest accumulates
our debt. This fact would be no excuse
for delaying the payment of whata justly
due. but it shows the great importance
of time in this connection, and the great
advantage of policy by which we shall
not have to pay until we number 100.-
600. 900, what by different policy We
would have to pay now when the mum.
Der is 81. 1000. 900. In word. it shows
.tba, dollar .siU Be much harder to pay
Year: 1862

rzrO Parents! let no barriers Of distrus'
grow up between yourselves and your child
rem. Keep bright every link Of the golden
chain that binds your hearts together
When little one comes to you saying by
word or deed. al think you had better kiss
me-" act on the suggestion at once, and lei
the kissing be done not perfunctorily, but in
a manner to show that your heart is in 1t.
Year: 1862

MAKING BnoNNG-If you do not begin
you will never come to the end. The first
weed pulled up in the garden, the first seed
set in the ground, the FIRST shilling put in the
savings bank, and the first mile travelled on
a journey, are all important things; they
make beginning, and thereby give hope,
promise, q pledge, an assurance that you
are in earliest with what you have under
taken. How many poor, idle, erring, hes
itating outcast is now creeping his way
through the world, who might have held up
his head and prospsred, II instead Of put.
ting or his good resolutions Of amendment
and industry, he had only made beginning.
Tho Popish fable Of Dennis, who lifted up
his head from the ground, after decapitation
and walked away with it, was drawn by Sir.
Joshua Reynolds with the legend underneath.
"It is but the first step which is difficult"
Year: 1862

Fellow Citizens Of tho Senate and House


OF Representatives.:


Since your last assembling another
year of health and bountiful harvest has
passed. and while il has not pleased the
Almighty TO bless us with return OF
peace, we cannot but press on, guarded
by the best light he gives US, trusting
that in his own good time and wise way,
all will be we'll
Year: 1862




(From Drownson's Quarterly Review for .January.)


THE ORIGIN OF THE WAR.


"Mony worthy people regard war, espe-
raging in the American Uuiou, as the
greatest calamity that can beial a nation,
and so great is their horror of war that
they seem willing,to purchase peace at any
price, even by national dishonor and national
degradation. Yet war is rather the effect
OF evil than the evil itself The real evil
is in the causes that precede aud lead to it.
ln our case 1t is the effort OF the sound
part of the nation to cxpcl disease long
since contracted, and which was gradually
but steadily approaching the seat of lite,
and threatening us with complete dissolu-
ton. To the eye of enlightened patriot
ism our condition as people is less drpo-
rable to-day than it was fouryc ago, be-
fore the war broke out.
Year: 1862

1--WE of the free states have been taunted
by the slaveholdiEg South with being cow
ards and poltroons, with being ready to
sacrifice honor, dignity and glory for the
sake of trade and its profits; and poltroons
in our politics we have been. We eau now
prove that, if we have been ready to make
any sacrifice, even that ofhonor, lopreyent
the dissolution of the Union, it has not
been through sordidncss or cowardice.-
Our honor, our very manhood rs Il free and
living people are now ut stake, and must
be redeemed. We must wipe out the dis
grace of our past concessions, our past
crouchinG to the 'BArous of the South
and prove that those concessions were not
wrung from timidity that springs from 81
want of manhood or from insensibility to
national honor or national glory that we
have not crouchcd because we wanted
spirit to assert or strength to defend our
own rights and dignity, but because we
loved the Gaion, and are now ready to
make any sacrifice to preserve the integrity
of the nation. This we can and must now
prove.
Year: 1862

'But to do this we must take the matter
in earnest, and understand and feel that
the war is q reality, and that it must he
conducted on war, not on peace principles.
X There must be n downright,
straightforward and earnest advance, with
all the death dealing instruments OF war
The war, while it lasts. is and must be in
exhorOble. There must be no fear to strike
lest we fell foe, no fear to fire lest some
body should be shot. This fear or hesi-
fancy may do when we are playing sol 1iers,
but it is out of place now. The very de-
sign of war is, while it lasts, to infliCt the
greatest possible injury in the shortest pos
sible time, and with least possible loss to
ourselves, on the enemy, in order TO force
him to submit and cease resistance. When
he submits, and not till then, may pity,
compassion, tenderness, love be displayed,
and cxcrtcd in all their divine sweetness
and power.


"There is no question that the people of
the loyal States are no. yet fully wrought
up to the stern realities of war; nor fully
alive to the gravity and magnitude or :he
struggle now engaged in for the existence
of the uation. We are not yet fully con-
yinced that we arc in the face.of real re-
bellion, or that the Confcderates are really
attempting anything more than their old
pFacLlce OF gam bIlng on our love for the
Union, and seeking by the game of bluff to
force us to make them new and greater con-
ccssions.


-"Even the Administration, able and pat
riotic as it is, we fear is dccciving itself
with IL specous, but i!lusory theory. Its
theory is, that no State has seeded from
the Union, and that the rebels are merely
faction in their several States, who, by
wicked and artful conspiracy, have usurp-
ed the functions of their respective State
governments. and are exercising gross
and intolerable despotism over the people,
who are in general loyal and devoted to
the Union. The true policy, it holds, is to
strengthen the people in the States where
the faction has usurped the government.
and to enable them through the ballot-box
to recover their political ascendancy.-
Hence, while defending itself against the
rebels, it must protect the people of the Sc
ceding States-the Union PeOple-and a
void irritating them, or doing anything
that might drive them to make common
cause with the rebels, or prevent them,
when therebclliOni is suppressed, from read
Year: 1862

GIVE do not believe the war can, and we
have no wish that it should, be successful
~ prosecuted on any other principles. If
it does not prove us nation. if it leaves it
10 be maintained that we are simply con-
fcderacy OF sovereign States, however it
may terminate, it will have settled nothing,
and all the old sores will remain to tester
and break ont anew. We should gain
nothing by putting down the rebellion on
States rights principles, for the old prctcn-
sion of the righ: of n State to seccde would
be strengthened rather than weakened, and
VIC should have our old battles TO fight over
again. : : = Union which is
only confcderacy is, in our Judgment,
not worth seeking to maintain: for it's ac-
tiOn will always be impcndcd, and its wise
and salutary administration prevented, or
at least embarrassed by threats of dissolu-
tiOn from one section or another. We
have seen it for the last thirty years The
Northern States have been more attached
to the Union than the Southern, and more
ready to make concessions for its preserva-
ton. Southern politicians and Statesmen
have known this, and for thirty years have
gambled on it. Whenever we showed u dis
position not TO vote to suit them, or to per-
sist in policy which, though constitution
al, did not happen to meet theirapprobation
they have resisted us with threats to null
lily the acts of Congress, or to dissolve
the Union. They have ut last attempted
to carry their threats into execution; and
now we wish it settled once and forever
whether the pretended right of nuIlilica-
tiOn or of secession is to be continually
held up in tsrrorcm to compel the sincere
and earnest lovers of the Union to torcgo
their right and stultify their own judg-
ments. Ever since we were old enough to
vote, we have voted under threats of the
dissolution of the Union if we did not
vote to please the slaveholding South
We have borne this long enough. We
want to put an end to those threats, and
to know, once for all, which is the SOW
creign, the state or the nation. We wish
therefore, the issue distinctly made up, so
thatlt shall be decided by the result of the
war, whether We are or are not sover-
eign nation, with the right OF protecting
Itself against ACKNOWLEDGMENT or death.


"We need not fear that, if we bring home
to the revoltcd states all the horrors of
war. we shall maze them one whit more
hostile to us than they now are, or more
difficult TO be rccOnciled to the Union at
ter the war is over.


eve wish the people of the loyal States
to understand well that the people of the
dislOyal States will regard any show of
fOrbenrance, tenderness, or magnanimity
on our part only as weakness, tameness,
or fear of losing them as our customers
These things are thrown away upon them
and injure instead of serving the cause oil
the Union and reconciliation. The South
will never believcin our sincerity aud mag.
nanimity till we have given them a SOUND
Year: 1862

MEMPHIS january Z, Is62
THIS Road has not had any THROUGH AGENT TO
i receive freight, for the past month and persons
continuing ship to he Agent of this company are
notified they have been heretofore that will not
receive it, except through merchant or agent at the
Depot of the Company and then only as we have cars
to transport it. w. J. ROSS,


inp0 On, Canaral
Year: 1862

We are now prepared to manufacture our
goods with dispatch, as our force is much larger
than heretofore


We have the best Of wOrkmen, and no effort
viii be spared on our part to give entire salts
faction to all who may favor US with their pat
ronage. nOl0-3m
Year: 1862

arrived here last evening. As the cars
stopped at Bethel station, about tWenty-four
able bodied and intelligent appearing young
men came aboard en- route for Canada, fearing
that they might be drafted for the war At the
next depot about ten more Of the same class
Joined them, and at Norway about twenty more.
A note was put into the conductors hands re-
questDg him to telegraph from that place to
Island Pond to have q company ordered out to
stop them and scare them back If possible.


The conductor knew that there would be
trouble when the cars should arrive He thought
it beet to try little stratagem on his own &C.
count. He therefore pretended to send dis
patch stating that they would all be arrested go
soon as they should reach leland Pond. This
had the desired effect, and they all left the cars
but four and took TO the woods where they
must have remained over night, as they we're
some fifteen miles distan! from Island Pond.


There we're in the train of freight cars which
went up yesterday morning some forty persons,
and when the fact was made known In one OF
the villages, the men and women turned out
and hooted them.-Cor. Boston TTGu,ler
Year: 1862

ARMS IN PRIVATE HANDs.-We learn from
the Richmond Enquirer that over seven thousand
stand of fire arms have been delivered over to the
military authorities by the citizens of Richmond
in response re recent proclamation by the Gov
nor of Virginia--all of them good and effective
weapons Tn addition to the firearms about two
hundred sabres and seventy artillery swords have
been received There is no way of estimating the
wealth of weapons in private hands throughout
the Confederacy. IF our several State Governments
will but require an exhibit by the people of their
resources in this respect there will be found to be
no want of the means to carry on energetic war
fare