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Year: 1862

4 sort Of moral epidemic sometimes
sweeps over whole community. Every
nun is afflicted in the same way. There
is yearn1ng, sometimes Tor conquest,
sometimes for plunder, sometimes for re-
bellion. THIS unhappy people 60 about
saying VAIN and foolish things, Specializing
On impossibi1ities, dreaming, grumb1ing,
mouthing twadd1e- And they are usually
awakened to the reality Of their condition
by stunning blow from some resisting
force, upon which in their madness they
run hcadlong, This disease, by whatever
name we may call it, afdicts the people Of
the South. AL their acts betray lack Of
deliberate Judgment. They worked them
selves into rage over freedom Of speech
in the North; and their rebellion made
it yet more free. They grew fran
tic at the anti-slayery press, and
they deipsed only those journals
which are mean enough to defend slavery
and rebellion. They complained Of their
burdens under the Federal Government;
and their burdens have been increased five
fold. They were envious because northern
ship-oWners grew rich on the profits oj
carrying their cotton to market; and for a
! whole year they have not been able to gel
| their cotton to market at all They de-
n1arded the retribution Of blood be-


cause 3 slave occasionally made hiE
way through the Free States in
to Canada; and they have brought


Canada down to their very borders. They
| proposed to rule the commerce Of the whols


world; and their seaports became the re


sort only Of smugglers and pirates. They


are burning their cotton to distress th'


North; and the North is in fair way t.


raise its OWL cotton. Hthe rebellion should


succeed, the dominant caste would crust


out what little there is left Of light ant


knowledge, and then revel in the hideou


but congenia1 darkness till the bondmau


throwing off his sAackles, should light VI
the funeral pile Of slavery, and the systen
perish in fire and blood.
Year: 1862

Advices from Gen. McClellan's headquarters
last evening state that reconnaissance was made
yercrday morning as far as Meadow Bridge,
mich found the enemy quiet, but In force. Some
skfmishing had taken place during the day, but
with little result on either side. The weather
was good, and the roads and ground drying rap
idly ..
Year: 1862

GEN. BUTLER ABoUT TO SEND HOME CARGO
OF CoTroN.-A letter from on board the =
steamship Mississippi, of New Orleans, states
that load Of cotton from the upper Louisiana
had reached that city. This cotton was to be put
on board the steamer Tennessee, captured from
good the promise Of Gen Butler that he would
send home freight Of cotton within sixty day 9
after passing the forts The same writer states
that recruiting Is going on for the Federal army
al New Orleans with unexpected suceess-BoS-
ton TJaUstisr.
Year: 1862

u The subject OF uniting the Provinces Of
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia under one Gov
eminent Is now being discussed by the parties
concerned, who are In general favorable to the
measure. The two Provinces united would COM
prise an area Of thirty millions of acres and
population Of 5s0, coo souls aud would then hardly
make a respectable colony.
Year: 1862

not man among the eight millions OF
people in the Western States who would
listen to it-unless he be seccssionist.
No loyal man but will spurn the protIer.
The future Of the Great West is indissolu-
bly bound together with the East, and when
the war is ended the rebels Will have dis
covered that the future Of the South Is
linked to the East and Wcst-taat the
three sections constitute nation one and
indivisiblc.


e Commenting on the Memorial Of
the religious community of Chicago" to
the president, the morning secession news
paper Of this city says:


The meeting resolved to pray the president to
| issue decree Of emancipation. II be should do
that. Kentucky. and Maryland, and Tenne SEE,
and North Carolina would at once unite their lor
tunes with the rebel confederafy. as firmly as
those Of South Carolina are united with 1t.


How does that sheet know they would?
| Mere ASSERTION in the interests Of rebellion
| is not to be set down as facts. But if the
protesting Unionisis Of Kentucky and
| MARYLAND would render the rebel confed-
cracy no more hearty and efficient support
than they have to the United States, their
detection would be no great acquisition ta
JefIuonl. If the secession print is to be
believed, the protesting Unionists Of the
Border States value slaye1y infinitely more
Than the Union. The unity Of the Repub'
lie is small matter in their eyes, when
weighed against the sacred institution, and
this, too, in the face Of an offer
To pay them the fair market value
of their human chattcls. How much is
such loyalty worth to the Cnion cause? \
deere Of emancipation that would de-
li.ivc the rcrcls Of the services
et four millions Of slaves, would
lie worth more 10 the Union cause than
the support derived from fifty kcntuckys
and Mary1ands. lu truth, for any blow
the whites Of the Border States have Struck
for the Union, they have put in two for
the Conftderates. Tie old men have re-
manned mourning in the Union, while tue
young 1len have Joined the rebel armies.
While the latter are fighting for slavery
out Of the Union, the former are working
for it in the Iuion, and have succeeded in
tying one hand OF the Union Hercules, and
thereby enable the rebel shareholders to
blacken his eyes and smash his nose. In
less that Land is unbound, and lie is al.
lowed to weld lis club in tue name oj
Liberty, he will be borne to the earth il
| defeat
Year: 1862

out voice Of his own in the matter.
Now, when the history of the past season
is studied, practical and serious objections
are manifest. In The same communities
the recruiting officers Of the regular army
and Of volunteer regiments have side by
side tested the question. While the former
have only tardi1y gathered company OF
THO, the latter have filed whole regiments
and sen. them into the field. The reason is
obvious. The recruit in the latter case went
III the company offricnds, ,townsnlen, among
whom the List swelled rapidly. In the lat
ter case there could be no guarantee; the
soldier must serve wherever sent, though
the association be ever SO distastcful-


We are glad to notice that q policy has
been adopted III our State, promulgated in
the important order Of Adjutant General
Fuller, which we reprint from this morn
ing's edition, which has been harmouized
and will work with the other general order
referred to, by which recruiting may still
go OIL under the former volunteer system.
There is perfect understanding, and the
plan is sustained by Gen. HaIleek and Ad
jutan: General Thomas. Our regiments in
camp arc to be filed up by en1istments as
heretofore, The United States to provide
for transportation. The recruit to join what
ever command he chooses, without being
subject TO transfer. The State Superintend
cnt, Col. Morrison, at Springfield, is to re
ceiye recruits to fill up our regiments now
in t3n fit11
Year: 1862

been suppressed. had our officers uniformly
trusted in their men and proved worthy to
lead them. For those men have never once
been fairly beaten. Utter incapacity in the
command, as at Great Bethel, or the pushing
of a fraction of our force upon the whole
grand army Of the Rebels, as at Bull Run, or
the repetition of that very bunder, on q
smaller scale, as at Balls Blf, have caused
every disaster to our arms since the outbreak
of the rebellion.


We do not impeach tho courage or military
capacity of the Southern people. Their armies
have generally fought well, and sometimes
spleudidly. But they are largely recruited BY
conscriptcn, or by moral cOnstrant that falls
little short Of compulsiop, and large portion
of their rank and file are not hearty in the
Rebel cause. The Irish and German iaboreTs
of New Orleans, Charleston, Mobile, &C., who
have been forced by thousands into the seces-
sion ranks, have no interest in Slavery, there
fore no real wish to see the Union destroyed.
Famine or the fear OF being s.igmatized Of
hboit.0nists, a nights froc winding mp in the
watch. house. with mornings headache and
police Judges alternative Of three months iu the
work house or enlistment in the Confederate
army, have sent them where their henrts never
would have carried them. They are not will
ing to dio ior tie Rebel cause and iag-why
should they bei Hence the Rebel lines do net
meet boyonct with boyonet, but fly the
touch OF steel. Only while it is more danger
QUE TO Hy than TO stGnd 60 a great portion OF
the Rebel priyates stand by the cause which
was never their own.


Hence we believe that TIE rebellion is near
its end, because we see for the first tiuie the
true strategy Of assailing aud pressing its up
holders at every point generally acted upon.
This strategy DOES not involve the hurling OF
half an army against two whole ones as n'
Bull Run, but vigorous offensive wherever
the means exist or can be had to Justify such
course. And this policy is fast working on,
tho salvation Of the Republic.
Year: 1862

CARL SCuURz This noted orator has
shown the people of this country that he
can Gsh. as well as talk. At the late
battle at Bull Run, be was in the thlckest
of the fight, cool and collected, aud all
agree that he displayed the highest quail
ties of Gcneralship during that severe
hattie
Year: 1862

SHAFT PRAcrICE.-lt is getting to be
q favorite trick of the rebels to leave
their wounded to fall into our hands.
They know they will receive good care
within the Federal lines, and after rccov-
CRY they are sent back to them, BY cx-
change, fresh troops to fill their skeleton
regiments. Our wounded, however, that
fall into their hands receive the poorest
treatment, and are sent back to Us on
parole as soon as possible.
Year: 1862

ESy- The State Fair is postponed until
mex, year, as are the County Fairs gem
orally. There having been few political
meetings held, therefore the people can
have no excuse, this year, but should all
VOTE FOR THE UNION TICKET
Let the women see to it that the Union
cause is not jeopardizrd in this State by
the abscuce ot their true men from the
polls On any account.
Year: 1862

ASK YOUR ENEMIES If you want to know
your faults,a yonr enemies what they are
and you viii. be told If there is broken
place in your coat of mail, :hey will discov-
er II and thrust liz a spear there. They will
pierce you between the joints ofihe harness.
Perhaps some people think that one must
needs be very wicked TO have enemies -
No, no there is not good man or woman
on earth, (unless they be sappily good
persons OF no force of characier,) who has
not al least one enemy. II is no credit 10
man 10 have It said OF him " He has not
an enemy in the world" Such a sentence
would do very well TO engrave upon the
tombstone of an infant or an idiot, but it is
lar from being complimentary 10 man.
Year: 1862

Moore tells story Of dog which is too
good 10 be true. A gentleman went to bathe
taking his favorite Newfoundland dog with
him 10 mind his clothes. When he came
to the edge of the water, the dog die not
know him, and would not allow him to put
them on. Rather bad fix for the nude
owner Of the stupid dog.
Year: 1862

surprise when they saw the white flag


and heard of the sure nder They were


ready and anxious to continue the fight.


Some are quite violent in their denunci-


alton of the act. They insist that they


could have held the fort successfully for


several days more, and they wanted TO
fight it out. They did not like the idea
of surrendering so soon.


The weather since the prisoners came
here has not been very cold. They do
not suffer yet; but when they begin to
feel our north and northwest winds from
the snowy regions, they will shiver-
Their barracks and their food are pre-
eisely those furnished cur own troops, and
they are all much better off than they
were in their own camps. This they
freely confess. Many of them do not
like our wheat bread, and some cannot
eat it. They want corn bread. One
man told me that if he bad -four he could
make bread that would suit him better
than that he did get. ! asked him how
he would make it.


Well said he, Il would take little
grease, and little salt, and a little sale
ratus if | could get it, and mix the flour
with water and bake it. 1t would make
the bread more solid-not so spongy like
as this yer. This yer's sour


! tasted the bread which was perfectly
good, but he said be could not eat it.
lie was not alone. Many preferred
hard bread, and 1 suppose it is possible
that many would prefer the mess which
my Texan friend proposed to make out
Of hour and water and grease, and a lit
tie saleratus if he could get it,"
Year: 1862

erans and be mixed with them. Thirty
thousand men, healthy and vigorous, In
the hands OF an enterprlsng general
might serve to turn the tide of victory
again in our favor. But II they are
kept at home, II they enter the field
mass Of undisciplined recruits, with Of
ficers as ignorant as theemvses, IL they
must be painfully and tedlously drilled
for months before they can be taken
into action-then the generals who
want to push on the war must do so
without counting on the new levies, and
the brave fellows who have already
born the brunt Of the contest must bear
1t yet longer dissatisfied.


Every consideration of justice to
those in the field, the encouragement Of
those about to enter, speedy reinforce
ments Of our armies, economy In means
as we'll as time--everythlng points TO
the necessity Of using the new levies to
I'LL up the regiments now in the field
and yet, though time is precious and
the enemy presses, our state authorities
do not seem to realize the necessity OF
the hour, but continue a mode Of enlist
ment which wastes both time and
money
Year: 1862

/


BY this time the battle before Rich
mond has been as fully discussed as the
meagerness of the news received by tel
egraph will allow. The impression
which this great military event has
made on English society is not TO be
l4nistaKen. f'tnere were ans before who
thought that the resistance OF the
South was likely to be overcome by the
exploits OF General McClellan's army
before Richmond, they are now unde-
ceived. 1t cannot be doubted that a
battle of the highest Importance has
been fought, and that the Federal army
has been thrown back a considerable
distance-several miles indeed-from
its former position.


But if the Virginia campaign has end
ed in manner which shows that the
Confederates are able to carry on long
war, the fighting at Charleston shows
that, even at isolated points, they are
prepared to receive an enemy. The
ambiguity of the telegraph prepared us
to believe that the battle before Char
lesion ended in victory for the South.
The thing is now made clear. A Fed
eral general, plainly ignorant of the en-
envy he was to attack, and the defenses
he was likely to meet, advanced with
some LOO men to the attack of a bat-
terry, and he seems to have been as
completely DEBATED as the British were
at New Orleans, and perhaps much in
the same manner


The moral to be deducted from these
events is clear There is probably at
the present moment, in Europe. but a
single society where the defenders Of
this hateful and atrocious war could
make themselves heard. The impartial
opinion OF every civilized nation is be-
ing more and more strongly expressed
against the enterprise in which the
FederalS are embarked. The orators OF
the Northern States may inveigh as
much as they please against the inter-
ference of England, and the mob may
shout scorn of England advice and de-
fiance of English arms; but English
topinion is, after all, the opinion of the
world, and we may hope that, in spite
of affected indignation and highfown
eloquence, the good sense which has
uniformly marked qnr counsels in the,
affair, may at length prevail
Year: 1862

pie and ingenious. Another feature is the i'm
mobility of the Monitors in heavy tide.
Waves break on the iron maigin of the craft,
and splash in harmless foam about the deck.
They have no hull to strike-no high bulwarks !:
even the turret presents an angle to angry
Neptune at every side.


The Passaic returned late in the afternoon
to the Delameter Iron works, where the finish
ing touches will be put on her, and in a few
days she will be turned over to the NAVY De-
partment, ready for active service.


The ll-lnch gun was not fired on this trip. as
1t was not deemed necessary to use it while
the question of the l5-inch would settle all the
points required The success of the expert
ment will now lead to the placing of two 15-
inch guns in each turret Thus armed. no
lron-clad vessel yet built by any foreign pow
er, can Withstand such a shock and crash as
two such terrible projecties would be able to
make. Two guns of this large calibre can be
as readily fired in the turret at one time as
one; so that in striking, both guns being at the
same elevation, the effect would be fearfully
destructive.


We refrain from giving the details-for the
benefit of our foreign friends or the rebels
OF the invention by which the grand results
above explained are accomplished. The cred
it of it belongs exclusively to Capt. Ericsson,
and the benefit of them to the U. States.--[N.
Y. World.
Year: 1862

The old ones are fast dying out all
through the nlden States. They were
planted hundred years ago, or more,
have done good service, and ought to have
their day. When apples are So barrel
and upward, there is not an adequate
supply IN the country. They can be
grown at a dollar barrel, with profit
The apple crop in single small county
in this State, was worth half million Of
dollars last year. Other counties, in the
older parts of the Eastern States, were
under the necessity of paying out hun.
dred thoasand dollars for this fruit, be-
cause they had not the article at home.
Peaches and plums we may be able to gel
along without, but apples we must have
for sauce, Cor pies. for the desert, and for
the dinner basket of little boys and girls
who cannot come home from school to
dine. We say then to every farmer
plapt an orchard of at least hundred
trees. The trees are all ready for you
in the nursery, well grown, and grated
two and tnree years from the bud. Gel
thrifty trees, Of varieties that you know
viii flourish in your locality, and In foul
years you viii be eating fruit from ahem
Do not fail to plant an orchard this very
month.-.fmeTicag .dgTisultErist.
Year: 1862

Beauty is an excellent gift Of God !;
nor has the pen Of the Holy Spirit
forgotten to speak its prasse butit is
virtuous and godly beauty alone which
Scripture honOrs, expressly declaring
on the other hand that GA fair woman,
without discretion, is as a jewel of
gold in a swine's snout." prov. XII,
229 Many pretty girl is like the
flower called the imperial crown, which
is admired, no doubt, for its shoWy
appearance, but despised for its un'
pleasant odor. We're her mind as free
from pride, sel6shness, luxury, and
levity, as her countenance from spots
and wrinkles, and could she govern her
inward inelinations as she does her
external carriage, she would have none
to match her. But who loves the cat
erpillar and such insects, however
showy their appearance, and bright
and variegated the colors that adOrn
them, seeing they injure and de6le the
trees and plants on which they settle !?
What the better is an apple for its
rosy skin, if the maggots have pene-
trated and devoured its heart? What
care for the beautiful brown of the
nut, it it be worm eaten, and Eli the
mouth with corruption? Even so,
external beauty of person deserves no
praise, unless matched with the inward
beauty of virtue and holiness. tits,
therefore, far better to acquire beauty
than to be born with it. The best kind
is that which does not wither at the
touch of fever, like a flower, but lasts
and endures on bed of sickness, in
old age, and even at death.-GotthaLd
Year: 1862

EDITORS SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN :---lt
has become an important question for
our country, whether fax culture in
the Northern and, more particularly,
the Western States, could not be
brought to rival the cotton culture of
the South if machinery we're invented
for cleansing the fiber and spinning
and weayingit, equal to the machinery
used for cotton.


According to the history of cotton
growing in the South it appeass that
the invention of Whitney's cotton gin
and the natural adaptation of the soil
were the two great causes which led
to the present very extensive cultiva-
ton of cotton. This was about the
beginning Of the present century,
when fax was considered very indis>
pensible crop among our farmers, but
it linty product has since been super
seded by the cotton of the South per-
haps only through the invention of the
cotton gin. We certainly have soil
in the West which viii produce of
clean fax 100 lbs per acre more than
the best cotton lands of the South can
Of cotton, and with much less labor, if
we except the breaking, scutching and
hacking, which should be performed
with machinery. In England, the
spinning and weaving of fax is now
accomplished by machinery with ra-
pidity little short of the spinning and
weaving of cotton, so that there would
at once be a foreign market if the raw
material were raised by the farmers Of
the greet West. A machine that
would perform for the fax growers of
the great West what the cotton gin Of
the South does for the cotton grower
would be great desideratum.


E. L. WALKER.


Somerset, Pa, April, 1852.
Year: 1862

Flax is usually sown on land which
was broken up from grass for corn
crop the preceding spring but it may
also be sOwn after manured crop,
though in this case the quality of the
fiber will rarely be so fine as in the
former case. The land should have
been deeply pOughed in autumn, so as
to secure a fine tilth. The seed, which
should, if necessary, be carefully freed
from the seeds Of weeds by screening,
is usually sown broadcast by the hand
and covered by narrowing with the
grass .seea harrovs and rolling; nine
pecks is the usual quantity of seed for
an acre. The fax crop in the north
of Ireland, where markets for its sale
exist, and where it is cultivated and
prepared for sale, is very remunera-
tive, so much as EGO ($100) clear pro-
fit, over all expenses, rent of land in
cluded, being frequently realized
Unless under very careful managem-
ent fax is, however, most precarious
crop; and, while, on the other hand, it
may be the most valuable which the
farmer. can grow, on the other, it may
be the most worthless. Hence the
extension of it may be the most worth.
less. Hence the extension of its cul-
ture beyond the haxSgrowing districts
should be cautiously undertaken; and
hence, also, the reason for the very
contradictory statements which one
hears regarding the productiveness and
value of the crop.


The above is from the Irish Agri-
cultatral ReView and was intended for
the sowing of the seed in April in that
country; it will answer for May in our
Eastern Middle and Western States,
and in Canada.
Year: 1862

The END OF THE PILGRIMAGE
Fear not, thou that longest to be at
home. A few steps more and thou
art there. Death to Gods people is
but ferryboat. Every day, every
hour the boat pushes off with some Of
the saints, and returns for more.
Soon, 0 believer, it will be said to thee
as it was to her in the Gospel, ''The
Master is come and calleth for thee"
When you are got to the boundry Of
you race below, and stand on the verge
of heaven and the confines of immor-
tality, then there will be nothing but
the short valley of death between you
and the promised land the labors Of
your pilgrimage will then be on the
point of conclusion, and you will have
nothing to do but to entreat God, as
Moses did, 81 pray thee, let me 60
over, and see the good land that is
beyond Jordan, that gOOdly mountain
and Leabanon"-Toplady.