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Year: 1862

INSANE FROM HoIEsIcKNEss.-Dr. Hunt,
of Buffalo, who is now stationed at Newport
News, writes to the paper which he formerly
edited-the Express:


You have learned, perhaps, of that form
of camp homesckness which develops itself
into insanity, and Is written down ia the
books as nostalgia. II is singular and
painfully interesting phenomenon. One of
them only has been developed under my
eye The man came here almo entirely
recovered from fever, and claimed himself
to be entirely we'll, refusing medicines and
talking very nationally about everything
but home. Day after day, as the boat came
to the dock, he would pack bis knapsack
quietly, say goodbye to his ward mates,
aud march down to the wharf only to be
disappointed and to dnd out, as he more
fOrcibly than elegantly expressed il, that
it was not the right boat; 1t was another
id boat" Al night, In his sleep, he
talked continuously of wife and child; day
times he said little; but, finally, be made a
oonfidant of me, and said that all night and
oil day he dreamed and thought of home,
and sometimes, perhaps, it made him light
headed. lie had been year In the service,
and always gay and happy up to the period
Of his recent illness. His family lives in
New York, and one morning had the hap.
piness to see Charley march down to the
boat with his neally,slung knapsack, aud it
was the right boat that time. He has been
at home fortnight now, and have no
donbt will return to his regiment good
soldier. To have kept him here would
have ended, probably, 10 suicide.
Year: 1862

As matters are progressing now, it seems
| likely that the Rebellion will soon be brought
to an end for want of material to carry it on,
on the side Of the rebels. We have taken
from them within two months and a half,
three or four hundred cannon and at least
City thousand stand Of arms. Their facill-
ties for manufacturing more are growing
limited, for the machine shops at Pensacola
are destroyed, the ordnance foundry at Char
lesion was burned IN the great fire, the great
iron works at Clarksville are destroyed, and
their arsenal at Nashville is in our hands.
The f,undries and iron works at Richmond
and Norfolk are out Of coal, it is said. The
importation Of arms from Europe is pretty
much at an end and there can be little
hope Of renewing their stock from that qulr-
ter.


The rebels commenced the war with Il
large supply ofimplements of warrior which
they may thank Floyd, principally-but how
long can they hold out, with such steady
drain as the Federal troops make upon
their stock, and so few facilities for increase -?
We notice already that some of their papers
call for the manufacture of pikes-whether
of the John Brown pattern or not, we do
not know.


When this war is over, the South will be
more bare of arms and munitions than was
the North when it commenced.
Year: 1862

The SUICIDAL PoLIcY Of the rebels in des-
troying their cotton and tobacco upon the
approach of Federal troops is to be lamented.
But what shall be said Of the determine
tion Of their government to have no more
whisky made In North Carolina not only
is distillation prohibited, but the authorities
call upon the distillers to surrender then
copper stills to be used as gun metal. With
out cotton to tempt Europe to interfere, and
without whiskey to keep their courage up
what is to become of them
Year: 1862

THE CASE FAIRLY STATED.-Ihe veteran
editor of the National Ilteih9eHcer says that
as he has not finished his military education,
nor been appointed on the committee on the
conduct of the war. he does not assume to
pronounce any "authoritative" opinions
Referring to the conflicting views of two n.
Y. eotemporaries, one of which claims that
the glory and benefit of the retreats from
Bowling Green. Columbus and Manassas all
belong to the rebels, and the other that it
all belongs to our generals, he well adds


"If we had any opinion to express at all IN ne
premises, we should say that there is measure
Of truth and Justice in each Of these representa-
tions, and the chiet defect consists in regarding
the ore as exclusive Of the other For TetTeai /,
the escape from Bowling Green, Columbus and
Manassas, was undoubtedly in each case a success,
but it was none the less retreat compelled by the
superior force or skill Of the Union armies. If
the strategy which may be justly praised for
bringing about this result had also succeeded in
capturing large portion Of the retreating insur-
gents and their munitions Of war, that strategy
would have certainly been more fortunate pre-
cisely in proportion as the enemy's retreat might
have been made less successful"
Year: 1862

We should like to learn the amount
Of maple sugar made in each town IN the
County, this Spring. viii some Of our
friends III the several towns interest them
selves in getting the facts, and be kind
enough to forward Us the returns?
Year: 1862

VXTANTED-A SITUATION, AS CLERK OR PORTER
w has knowledge OF the general grocery business
good coffee rooster, ersands horses and
knows how make himself generally useful Has and


half years references from last employer Address All
Work Herald Office
Year: 1862

New YORK, Aug, 9.


The Baltimore American of the 9Th inst,
says the excitement is great in that city
among the disloyal residents in view OF
their enrolment Several who had left
have been brought back and lodged in the
Atheneum.


A Hilton Head letter says we have reli-
able information that the two rams in
Charleston Harbor are nearly if not quite
ready for service, and will be used mainly
to protect the harbor and convoy vessels
out and in through the blOckadiug feet.


They are small however, though fOrmid-
able, and can hardly be used TO advantage
or with safety at any great distance from
shore. They have conical revolving tur-
rets, an improvement on the Monitor, and
these turrets are cased with railroad iron.
Year: 1862

TIE FLOOD IN THE COLUMBIA.-The Port
land Times, of June 18th, has The following
ia regard to the food in the Columbia
river:


The damage already occasioned by the food
at the Cascades is really most discouraging.
The railroad has been rendered for the present
at least, utterly useless, and from appearances
it will be subjected to still further injury. Some
three hundred feet of the track has been carried
entirely away, and in several places the road is
submerged to depth of three, four, and even
FIVE feet. Col. Ruckers residence is in ruin,
the chimney fell yesterday, and the building llt-
ted and moved bodily from its foundation. Ev-
erything it was possible for mortal man to do to
secure the portage, has been done by Colonel
Ruckel, but we fear without avail. The strength
of the current is irresistible, and nothing, 1t
seems, can now save the road from utter de
struction but Providence. The bridge at the
"tooth" is loaded with stone, and fastened in
various ways with strong hawsers and chains,
still its condition sprecarious, and unless there
should be speedy abatement of the food, it
will in all probability be swept away. The trans
portation of goods is of course suspended and
under the most favorable circumstances, a
month or more must elapse before means can
be provided to forward freight. This is a seri-
Gus blow to the commercial interest Of Portland
and indeed to the whole State, while to Col.
Ruckel himself the disaster involves immense
loss.
Year: 1862

A NICE QUESTION 1853 an ordinance
was passed by the Trustees of Nevada, tax
ing dogs at the rate of FIVE dollars a year,
in accordance with provision OF the town
charter, and the only means of enforcing
the ordinance was to require The officers to
kill all dogs Of which the owners refused
to pay the tax. The ordinance was eniorc-
ed one year, but the next Legislature hav-
ing passed an act making dogs property, it
was feared that the city would become Iia-
ble for damages if any more dogs were
killed under the ordinance, and the Mar.
shal was instructed by the Trustees not to
enforce it. The ordinance was not repeal
ed, but for three years it remained q dead
letter, and nothing was said as to the rea-
tons 1t was net enforced. The present
Board of Trustees, however, have revived
the ordinance, aud we balieye licenses have
been taken out for most of the dogs now
running the streets. We have all along re-
garded it as very nice legal question,
whether the city, or the officers, would not
be liable for damages to the owners ofdOgs
that we're killed under the ordinance; but
belle wing the tax to be eminenlly just, and
not wishing to have the city involved in a
lawsuit with the owner of every worthless
cur that might be found running at large
without tag, we said nothing about the
State law, while the ordinance was lately
being put in force. We notice that the
same question has been raised in San Fran
cisco, where large numbers Of dogs have
recently been killed under an ordinance
similar to that passed by the Trustees of
this town. Suits are about to be commen.
Ced against the San Francisco Poundmas-
ter, aud the question as to whether that
officer. or the city, can be held for the dam
ages is likely to be settled by the courts be-
fore many weeks.
Year: 1862

Position or THE WRECKED IRoN.cLAD.-
A correspondent of the Tribune, who is
following the army of the Potomac, furn-
ishes the following account of the wreck Of
the Merrimac:


About in direct line from Tanners Point
to Craney Island, and as near as could guess,
a third of the whole distance off Tanners Point
we met pile of iron work and chared and
broken timbers sticking out of the water, these
remnants OF fearfully destructive catastrophe
strangely contrasting with the placid sheet of
water on which lay the soft, broad sunshine.
The pieces of heavy timber fast in the bottom
with their lower ends, as il driven in by pow
erful pile-driver; the wood partially charred
and possessing that peculiar smell of wood not
long since burnt; the end Of a steam-boiler of
the largest size with its safety valves, steam
pipes and other portions of heavy machinery;
and stretched across the wreck, parts of a pow
erful chain-cable, and piece Of hawser-this
is all that remains Of the Merrimac, or the
V irginia, as the rebels very inappropriately
called that anything but feminine monster


Government, it seems, is not disposed to
give up the Merrmac as altogether worth
less, for it is said it has contracted with
an Eastern engineer to bring it once more
to the surface of the water.
Year: 1862

EH- We notice that our old friend
Sol MILLER complains tha. he made a
fool Of himself last winter BY voting for
the impeachment resolutions in the
Kansas Legislature. Honest confess
sion is good FOR the SOUL" we are told.
and we hope Sol. feels greatly relieved
after this public exhibition Of repent
ance and conlrition. AS palliation Of
the error, however. it is but ia to say
that our friend excuses himself on the
ground that the excitement and pres.
sure were very great ahd he was car
ried along with ;he current before time
for second thought, and did not dis
cover that the big ears had sprouted
out to such large dimensions until after
wards. and when it was too late to
remedy the mischief.
Year: 1862

I TIE editorial brethren of Kansas
who have SO kindly welcomed our ar
rival in the State will accept our warm
est thanks. We hope to make personal
fiiends Of all of them. May their nun
Der never lessen. nor their "shadows
grow less
Year: 1862

How Soon FoRGoTTEN.-So lately
dead; so soon forgotten. IT'S the way of
the world. We flourish for while. Men
take US by the hand, and are anxious about
the health of our bodies, and laugh at our
jokes, and We really think, like the fly On
the wheel, that we have something to do
with the turning of the earth. The sun
does not stop for one funeral; everything
goes on as usual we are not missed in the
streets; men laugh at new jokes; one or
two hearts feel the wound of afliction, one
or two memories still hold our names and
from but the crowd moves on its daily
circle; and in three days the great wave
of time sweeps our steps, and washes out
the last vestige Of our lives.
Year: 1862

THE EARLY RISER, Happy the man
who is an early riser Every morning,
day comes to him with virgin love, full
of bloom, and purity, and freshness. The
youth of nature is contagious, like the glad
ness of happy child l doubt ii any man
can be called old, SO long as he is an early
riser and an early walker And, oh youth.
take my word for it-youth in dressiog
gowu and slippers, dawdling over br'ak-
fast at noon, is a very decrepid, ghastly
image of that youth which sees the sun
blush over the mountains, and the dews
sparkling upon blossoming hedgerows,
Year: 1862

Eay- Meanness shows itself oftenest in
little things in scant measure, light
weight, saving half cents in making change,
requesting merchant to take few cents
short to save changing a bill, in being last
at work and first a. dinner, in watching the
clock or the sun at the close of a days
work, and in similar trifes. Like drops
of water they are felt, and in time will wear
out the endurance of the best customer and
the patience of the most indulgent employ.
pr
Year: 1862

ST-People seem to think that love to-
ward God must be something totally diff
ferent in kind from the love which we
feel toward our fcllow-creatures, nay, as
though it might exist without any feeling
at all. If we believe that it ought to be
the same feeling, which is excited by a liv-
ing friend upon earth, higher and purer,
but not less real or warm, and if tried our
hearts, to see whether it is in us by the
tests, there would be less selfdeception OF
this point; and We should more easily b'
conceived that we must be wholly destitute
of that, Of which we can show nc liyel,
token.
Year: 1862

R@'An exchange comes tous with the
notice that Truth is crowded out of this
issue. This is almost as bad as the up.
country editor who said; For the evil eff
fec.s of Intoxicating drinks, see our inside
Year: 1862

An ACT for the relief of pre- emp tors on


the hor.e reservation of the WInneba


goes, in the Blue-earth region, in the


State of Minnesota.


Whereas certain individuals have memorial


lized Congress, setting forth that they


were bona fde actual settlers, under


the pre-emption laws Of the United


States, in the tract of country known as


the Eighteen-mile-square home reserva-


ton of the Winnebagoes, in the Blue


earth region, Minnesota, at period of


time when the Indian title had been


extinguished, and prior to the setting


apart by legal divisions of the said


Indian home reservation, under the


second article of the treaty of the


twenty-seventh of February, eighteen


hundred and ifty-ive, and that by


reason of the setting apart of said home


reservation they were forced from their


settlements and subjected to loss and


damage by the destruction of their


Improvements therefore


Be it enacted By the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United STATES
of America in Congress assembled, That
it shall and NAV be lawful for each of
such settlers, within three months from
and after the passage of this act, to file
his declaratOry statement with the proper
register and receiver, descriptive of the
tract SO settled upon and improved; and
under such regulations as may be pre-
scribed by the Secretary of the Interior,
said settler shall be permitted to establish
his claim by the production of testimony
showing compliance with all the require
ments of the pre-emptiOu law up TO the
period when said settler was ousted by
reason of the premises falling within the
aforesaid Indian home reservation: that
the testimony required under this act
shall be the affidavit of the claimant
himself, taken before the register and
receiver, and shall show the date of the
commencement and the period of cOntin-
uauce of his improvements, the extent of
the same. size of his habitatiOn, the time
and labor required In its construction,
extent of other improvements, and the
cost TO him and value of the same, and
value of crop derived from the same; the
affidavit to be corroboratcd by disinteres-
ted testimony.


Sec. > And be it further enacted, That
upon the return of such testimony to the
Department, it shall be the duty of the
Secretary of the Interior finally TO adiudge
the validity or invalidlty of each claim ;
and in regard to those shown to be bona
fida under the pre-emption law, to report
list of the same, with all the testimony.
to Congress, stipulatiuy such award a.
should be paid as damages growing out Of
the loss and destruction of such improve
ments by reason of the appropriation
of such settlements to the Indian reserva-
ton, as aforesaid: Provided, That the
land offices of the local land Office herein
mentioned shall not receive any addition
al pay or fees for the services hereby
required of them.


Approved, July IA, 1862.
Year: 1862

When exchanged our last good bye
In cheerful voices calm and clear,
The cafeess.peopie standing by


Thought not of pain or griefs that scar
So cool and free the partngs flowed,


You'd thought they meant week from home;
Not that they measured all the road


Through that broad country, Time 70 Come.
Not all tue gratitude of years


Could bribe estrangtd ones not to part;
And each must bear, with smiles or tears,
The pathos Of vacant heart.
Misunderstanding time may right,


But never heal wound Of pride;
our hearts could never more unite;


Should we live henceforth side by side.
The simple thoughts that Gil my days


With her remembrance inlaid
tread the farms familiar ways


Cares cannot make the vision fade,
Our hearts were torn apart so vide


That neither could its grievance tell
So one had spoken, one replied,


That necessary last farewell. 0. ". Q.
Year: 1862

ton.


Paymaster's Clerks 800 per annum, and Is
cents per day when actually duty.


Chaplain in volunteers $l46 so.


In addition to the pay as above stated. one ra-
ton per day and an abunaant supply of good
clothing is allowed to every soldier. Quarters
fuel and medical attendance are always provided
by the Government without deduction from the
soldiers pay. If soldier should become disabled
in the line of his duties the law provides for m
a pension, or he may, if he prefer il, obtain al
mission into the Military Asylum, which will
afford him a comfortable home so long AZ he NAV
wish to receive its benefits


To the above pay for private soldiers must be
added the additional 50 month to be paid du
ring service, the 500 bounty at the end of the
war, which has already been provided for. and
the quarter section of land that Congress will
provide for at its coming session The bounty
and land apply to officers and privates alike.
Year: 1862

habit Of self abuse To which is added observations
Female Diseases and other interesting matter of the ut
most Importance the married and those ontempaug
marriage who doubts Of their physical sb ty
enter that Sent any address in sealed wrap
per on receipt Of ten cents or four stamps.


We devote entire time and attention 20 the treat
meri Of the various private diseases treated Of in p
vate report D>penary the only Institution Of the
Kind in America which has been tabiShed by special
charter should give preference the
various quacks cf doubtful character TO be found in all


sroe cities
Year: 1862

dition-such our prospects. Such is the result
of our speculation, our investment in sectional
PhiladeIphia and Chicago platforms, and sec
tional irrepressibie conflict Presidents.


The present Administration seems to have de
monstrated that, for want of brains, for want of
capacity TO administer the Government, it can
not conquer the South; but thsf it can feed
up favorites; can trample under foot the Con-
stitution and laws can destroy the liberties
and Government which the Democratic pnrty,
during the last eighty years, has preserved and
built up; can squander the national treasure, and
sink the country hopelessly in debt and bank
ruptcy.


The people should remember that the old con-
tnentai currency could not be kept up; the
French Assgnats could not be kept up. Indi
ana State scrip could not be kept up, and the
present national scrip, If issued beyond GER
tain amount, can not be kept up; unless law is
made to hang every man who refuses 70 take it
at par and every banker that refuses 10 receive It
on deposit


know that what have written looks gloomy,
and may not be concurred in by some: but it is
only because we are not now realizing what Is
ere long TO be upon We are now in the con
dition of the man who has just mortgaged his
farm, borrowed money to its entire value, at
twenty five per cent. returne6home and is enga-
ged in spending it, in general bust of himself
and family Times with them, during the ex-
penditure, are good all are laughing and happy
while they think not of the future. During the
borrowing and spending time, all is merry as a
marriagebell. But there is an earning and
paying time a coming and then. there will begin
to be heard the cry of what shall do TO be
saved? So with us now, people, this ques-
ton should begin earnestly 10 be pressed, what
are we do to be savedg Where is the Star of Beth
lehem? where is the cradle of a redeemer,
from whence will break forth the glad tidings of
peace and good viii TO men?


This Government ought not to be lost-this
Union ought not TO be twain; but how is il to be
preserved? Where are the men, and what IS the
instrumentalty whereby this infinite good is to
be achieved?


] may give my own thoughts these queries
in my next. Yours, &c,
Year: 1862

Major Gibson visited Fort Hamilton yesterday with
parts Of two companies of his battalion for exercise
artillery practice This corps is intended for defence
New York harbor During the morning Of Saturday they
wTked the twenty -four pound barbeie guns and IN the
afternoon the thirty two pound easemate guns An into.
rest, spirit and vigoT OF purpose apparent which
viii insure success The corps will visit the fort
saturday next Those wishing join call the ar
mury. 5g3 Broadway.
Year: 1862

Soul of the world the Press the Press.
What wonders hast thou wrought?
Thou rainbow realm of mental bliss,
Thou starry SKY Of thought
A dew unto the thirsty flowers;
As the blessed light of heaven;
And widely as the summer showers,
Thy silent aid is given.
Yet eanst thou flame upon the earth
Like the dread volcanoes glow;
And tyrants tremble at thy birth


As at an earthquakes throe.
Hast thou not lit the darkest land,
And broke the fellest chain
The despot's red. acCursed hand
Shall never forge again?
And priestly craft and kingly power
Have striyen to bend thee down;
But an, how low beneath thee cover
The mitre and the crown
Thy nod can lop the proudest head;
The world thy sceptre owns;
The path thou dost TO glory tread,
That path is paved with thrones.
Yet art thou gentle as the breeze
The latest breath of day;
But chainless as the mighty seas
In thy resistless sway.
At thy command the seals were broke
That bound the silent deep,
And liberty and truth awoke


From centuries of sleep.
Then first to every sinful shore.
That man in darkness trod.
Thy bright and spreading pinions bore
The beacon words of God.
The sage's lamp, the muses. Tyre
Thou brought DER ocean 5 foam:
The stellar light Of vestal fire,
The eloquence Of Rome.
Thou flag of truth thy folds have streamed
Ger many field of blood,
And DER the wreck of empires cleaned
Like the rainbow or the flood;
The patriot eye still turns to thee,
And halls thee from afar,
As the wanderer of the trackless sea
Hath hailed his guiding star.
While to the hearthstone of the hall,
And to the cottage hearth.
Thou bfing'st daily festival
OF nameless, priceless worth.
Thou lightest up the pallid cheek
OF the deserted poor.
And to the captive worn and weak,
0penest the prison door.
Oh ever in thy columns bright
Let truth and virtue blend
Be ever, ever in the right!


Be ever Labors friend.
His strong and honest arm shall be
Thy bulwark in distress:
God bless the land of liberty
God save our country's press.