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Year: 1862

SLvoarsREss OF CoNGREss-WANr OF IMME-
date FINANCIAL LEGIsLATIoN.-It is becoming
more apparent every day, that, while the Presi-
dent, Commander-in-C Chief of the federal army,
most of the members of the Cabinet, and the
greater part of the executive officers connected
with the government, are straining every nerve
to prosecute the war with vigor, and crush out
rebellion in the course of the coming spring,
there exists factious body of selfish, disorgan-
izing abolitionists in Congress who are deter
mined to throw every obstacle in the way Of a
successful issue to the conflict in which the
country is engaged. The national treasury is
so depleted that IL is becoming impossible to
pay the most ordinary demands upon it, and, in
few days there will be no money whatever,
from simple lack. of Congressional action. Al
Year: 1862

FAMILY ON MURRAY HILL WILL LET-WlTH
IA Board very pleasant suit Of Rooms, the second
noor separate or together furnished unurnshed four
story brown stone house between Fifth and
Address Merchant box 2.65s Post Office
Year: 1862

TNHERE is no malady of deeper Importance


| either in a medical or moral point of view
to which the human family is more liable, thar
that arising from impure connections.


As medical man it is the duty of every Ply
sican TO look at disease as it affects health and
life and his sole object should he to mitigate, rs
far as in his power, their bodily suffering. HUI
man nature is at best but trail but all are liable
to misfortune.


OF all ills that affect man, none are more terri
bic than those of private nature. Dreadful as
it is in the person who contracts it, friehtful as
are its ravages upon his constitution, ending fire.
quently in destruction and a loathsome grave. it
becomes OF still greater Importance when it is
transmitted to an innocent offspring Such being
the case, how important it becomes that every one
having the least reason TO fear that they have
contracted the disease should attend to it at once
by consulting some physician, whose respectable
ity and education enables him to warrant safe,
speedy, and permanent cure. 1naccordaRce with
this necessity, DR.. Young feels called upon to
state that by long study and extensive practice,
ne has become perfect master of nl those diseases
Year: 1862

He came to me so smilingly,


And shook me by the hand,
And spoke TO me so slverly,


In tones 80 smooth and bland,
That, though did not know him. yet
His way and mein, so kind.
Proclaimed at once the gentleman
We nowadays seldom find.
He spoke to me so cordially


About his home affairs;
He spoke to me so willingly


OF all his business cares;
He told me most that happened from
The moment Of his birth;
grasped his hand in joy to find
I'd found soul of worth.
He drew me now so lovingly
A little way aside.
And whispered me confdingly,
With air so bona tide,
And said it was with deep chagrin
That he did ask of me
But did l have about me then,
So small thing was "V?''
slipped the sum right eagerly
Into his honest hand;
He bowed to me so tearfully-
My friend he'd ever stand.
We parted-but death soon, alas!
O'ertook this natures prince;
That isl think he must be dead,
For I've not seen him since?
Year: 1862

WE BEG TO ASSURE THE PUBLIC THAT


w the we'll known reputation Of these Machines
for RELIABILITY will be fully sustained, and
in our rapidly increasing business the same care
will be faithfully exercised in every department
OF their manufacture. Every Machine sold by us
IS WARRANTED IN EVERY RESPECT.
Year: 1862

neap In every good prose writer there will
be found a certain harmony Of sentence, which
cannot be displaced without injury to his meau-
ing. His own ear has accustomed itself to
regular measurements of time, to which his
thoughts learn mechanically to regulate their
march. And in prose, as in verse, it is the
pause, be it long or short which the mind Is
compelled to make, in order to accommodate
its utteranCe to the ear, that serves to the
completer formation of the ideas conveyed
for words like waters, would run off ro their
own waste were it not for the checks that
compress them. Water pipes can only convey
their steam SO long as they resist its pressure,
and every skilled workman knows that he can
lot expect them to last unless he smooth, with
care, the material with which they are CON-
posed. For reasons Of its own, prose has
therefore a rhythm Of its own. But by rhythm
do not necessarily mean the moaotonous rise
and fall Of balanced periods, nor the amplif
cation of needless epithets, in order to close
the cadence with Johnsonian chime. Every
style has its appropriate music but without
a music Of some kiud it is not Style-it is scrib.
bling
Year: 1862

SwINDL1NG. THE SOLDIERS The Northamp-
ton Gazette says it has good authority for the
following statement -" A soldier was taken
sick and seut to the hospital. When he be.
gan to recover, he craved some little delicacy
TO soothe his nauSeated palate, and asked for
some currant jelly. He was told that he could
have the jelly bat he must pay for it. He
could have pot Of jelly for 81. lie bad but
two dollars in his pocket, and with that he
was in hopes Of reachiag his home, as soon as
he was able to travel He told his attendant
that he had but two dollars, and that he did
not need the whole jar of jelly, a small part
would he sufficient. No, he must take the
whole or none, and he must pay 81 for it. FL,
naly the invalid bought the jelly, aud on re-
moving the covering he discovered, to bis great
astoniShment, within the wrapper, note di-
rected to himself, and that this very jar of
jelly had been sent by his own family to him.
This is but one among the many outrageS per-
petrated by the uDprincipled men who are
found in our army"
Year: 1862

B9g~ A Philosopher on being asked from
whence he received his first lesson is wisdom !;
he replied {" From the blind, who never take
"a step until they have felt the ground before
them"
Year: 1862

ssMR. CoRwIE's RETURN FROM MExIco--
Gov Corwin's friends here state that he is
likely soon to return from Mexico, and are
talking Of plan to have him returned to
Congress again. He only went to Mexico to
negotiate a treaty, and as the Senate is thought
10 have virtually rejected that, his friends
think he will regard bis work there as ended,
and come home at once. He said when he
went out that he did not expect to be gone
moro than year."
Year: 1862

In CHOLERA, DYsENTEKY, AND DIAR-
RHeA there is one never failing circumstance
always and inevitably present, and never can
be absent under any conceivable circumstance
lit Is the quenchless instinct of nature calling
for absolute rest, bodily quietude, and without
that rest cure is always impossible, and
death an inevitable event.


There is in all these remorseless thirst
Nature calls for two things, TO satisfy her long
ing for rest and drink, and if these two things
are done with sufficient promptness, there is a
perfect cure in nine cases out of ten. Perfect
quietude on bed, and chewing ice, swallow
ing as large pieces as possible, until the thirst
is perfectly satisfied, is all that is necessary in
any ordinary attack of either of these three
diieases. To make assurance doubly sure,
keep the abdomen tightly bound around with
two thicknesses of woolen OF wooden flannel.
eating nothing but boiled rice, with boiled
milk, in ordinary cases; if more violent, let
the rice be parched black as coffee usually is.
then boil and eat it; or what is still more eff
cient, put pound or more of -four in
in linen bag, boil it two hours in milk, take
of the skin, dry it, CRATE it into boiled milk,
and eat it freely, and nothing else, until the
disease is checked. II these bowel-complaints
are checked too promptly with laudanum, par
egoric, or opium, fatal commissions take place
In few hours, as to children, and incurable
congestion or inflammation of the brain. in
grown persons. As bowel diseases are the
scourge of all armies in the fall of the year.
these suggestions should be widely circulated.
Halls journal of Health.
Year: 1862

A married lady, walking in the streets of
washington with her husband, persisted in
mistaking every good looking soldier they met
for her brother. Her husband had begun to
get nervous, and remarked to her that she had
already embraced and kissed six young fellows,
that she said were her brothers.


Suppose did make mistake and kiss the
dear, brave fellows, don't they all deserve il?
Year: 1862

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AP.
u pcation will be made to the Legislature of North.
Carolina at their next session. for Charter Railroad


from Shelby or some other point the Wilmington and
Rutherford Railroad to the South Carolina line for the
purpose of continuing said Road the Iron Region of
Carolina to enable the Iron Masters to obtain sup
ply Of Cpal from the Deep River Coal Mines


Sept 2 1862. 72-Smpd.
Year: 1862

that Q check upon the recklessness OF the
Cabinet has been discovered in the known
confidence OF the slave party in the loyalty
Of the black population. However far this
loyalty may extead, - certain that strong
exemplidcation oft was given at Charleston
where At first the North attempted to ilx upon
the blacks the tsttgmA Of that monstrous incen.
~ afraid Of them. But he II too sound and
to bestow his sympathy in that unhappy
struggle between q people and q Govern :
ment fighting for their free institutions
against &n oliGarchy Of slaveholdsrs. And


engaged on the one side, and the pride Of q


growing and ambitious people on the other,
the member for Bradford IL eau tious and
deliberate in seeking to elucidate the facts


the principles which should govern Its ad-
tustment without sacrifice Of horror on


either side, and, without insisting or hand


and dogmattcally On the resort to arbitra.


tion before he has escertained whether the


opportunity for arbitration has arrived, he


urges that the possibility and propriety OF
appealing to SOM better decision than that
OF the sword should be kept in view. This in


trnth, is all that can Be advan ced with any


show of reason or prudencs at the present


moment in favor of aprinciple which may


not, after all. whether fortunately or unfor-


tunatsly. be susceptible of application to the


It is NOT in these columns that our readers
will look for q word against principle to
which We cleave as a pledge OF q happier IA.


ture for the Old World and the New. But
in such crisis us we are now passing through
1t 10 impossible for us to be quite cocmopoli-


tan as to forget that England Is our country,
and that English rights and interests are the
nearest and dearest to English public wri-
tiers, as 10 the rest Of their fellow country.
men ashore or af1oat.


1t is Ia this spirit that we earnestly con-
denim the policy of dividing English opinion
on the previous question Of national honor.
or represen ting 1t as divided. Our Govern.
msnt has addressed a demand to the Cabinet
of washington as moderate ana conciliatory
in form ~ it is decided in substance; and
having done this, it has a right to count for
something on the strength and imposing ap-
pearance of strength which com es of nation
al nnion even more than of vast materia rs
sources, in supreme emergencies, when the


hsnd is ON the sword hiit, but the heart is
still for peace.
Year: 1862

The real facts III relation o the disaster to the
Great Eastern have never been laid before the
public. The following is believed to be cor
rect narrative:


It will be remembered that on the voyage pre-
viOus to the present one the Great Eastern came
to New York by the bay Of Long Island Sound.
and at that time narrowly escaped a similar &C
cident.


She arrived off Montauk early in the morning
on her late voyage, headed in for Montsuk Point
aud in the same close proximity to the shore as
on the previous voyage, although her pilot on
that occasion had expressed his surprise that she
had not struck He informed the captain of his
narrow escape, and warned him agsins incur
ring similar risks in the future.


The Great Eastern passed the pilot beat and
stood boldly into shosl water when her engines
were stopped and she then drifted on at the rate
of about three knots per hour Shortly after
her engines had ceased 70 move, she struck on
rock and finally drove on over it. The rock lies
about two and half miles TO the eastward of
Montauk Point aud even in ordinary weather
the water has the appearances of being shoal


In about five minutes after she struck the pi-
lot Mr. Joseph Dayton, Of New London, went
on board and took charge of the ship. One of
the first remarks be made on going on board
was. "YOu are in a dangerous place. to which
the captain replied, "She has struck on a rock,
L am sITalQ.


In the course of a short time it was found
that the water was entering the ship and all the
pumps were set at work to keep her free But
in spite of their combined efforts, The compart-
ments aft rapidly filed with water, and the stern
Of the ship settled down so that she drew thirty
feet of water, when her anchors were let 90 in
Flushing Bay


At the time of the accident the captain our
reporter was informed, was in bis cabin asleep,
and most of the officers were amusing themselves
in the saloon, the deck being left in charge of
young officer.


The public have not been allowed to visit
her, nor could any information be obtained from
her officers and men.


The bottom of the ship has been examined,
and it is found that the rock has made a hole
about eighty feet in length by about three feet in
soidh. The opening is by no means in a straight
line, thereby rendering it more difficult 10 re-
pair.


As yet do decision has been arrived at in rela-
ton to the manner in which she will be repaired :;
but it is not unlikely that additional steam
pumps will be put on board, and she be taken to
some place where there is great raise of tide,
where she can be besched.


She still lies in Flushing Bay, and from pres
ent appearances she will remain there for some
time-Ne1o Yori; Commercial Ad1eHiSsr.
Year: 1862




We have letter before US describing dis
covery Of salt, not very remote from this city,
which promises TO yield q great abundance OF
that precious snd necessary article OF eOnsump
ton Il is found in large crystal Jumps weigh
ing about pound each. The proprietor IS now
preparing to work it extensively So far it has
been dug perpendicularly fifteen feet through a
solid stratum, and the end Of it has not been
found. Its superfcies has been examined Tor
one hundred feet and it indicates the same char
aeter and proInlees an almost inexhaustible sup
Dlv. The material is so hard that it hes 10 be
blasted before it can be moved out Of the earth
and is delivered at the mine al four and half
cents a pound.


We have q small specimen Of the crystals It
q as clear as glass and seems to US to be Of the
finest quality Of salt


The writer concludes his letter by saying /:
" We need have no more fears about the want Of
salt"


For an obvious reason, we do not give the
locality Of the mine; but those who wish more
information in respect to it, can receive it By
application at this Office.


We learn that a similar discovery has been
made in the same region of country; but how
far it has been tested We are not informed. Inc
belief is that it is Of vast extent and viii yield
in the greatest abundance.-M0b'ssI IT'5@Hs' "a
Year: 1862

EVIL EFFECTS OF DANCNG.-The following
anecdote is related Of tract distribution at the
hospital in Nashville:


A soldier whose legs had been carried away
above the knees by cannon ball, and who had
been long q patient in the hospital one day,
while sitting up in bed, said to the nurse !:
'' When will those tract distributors be around
again" To-day" she replied. When they
come would like something to read" he added.
A eolPorteur came in during the afternoon and
made hasty distribution of tracts, giving one
to each bed without stopping to read the titles,
or to see the fitness of selection. The poor fel-
low who had lost his legs received little four
page message, and began to read with great
eagerness. The nurse, noticing bis interest,
stole up behind him to see the subject OF the
tract when to her sstonishment, she read the
following title: The Evil Effects of Modern
Dancing" Rapressing her laughter she said
to the man -" That tract is hardly suited 30
your condition" Well, madam, be replied,
10 tell the truth, 1 think my dancing days are
about over"
Year: 1862

How JED MISSED Ir.-Some folks
are in the habit Of thinking in their
sleep, and Miss Betsy Wilson was one
of the number. This peculiarity she ac-
cidentslly revealed to Jededish jenkins
in careless conversation always. Jede-
diah has Just finished the recital Of q
matrimonial dream in which the young
lady and himself figured hero and he
roine, he having invented the same for
the sake of saying at the conclusion it
was too good to be true, and by thus
speaking parallels. assuring the young
lady OF which he dare not speak plainly.


j never Dream said Betsey, but I
sometimes talk half the night in my
sleep and tell every thing know


You don't say sol


Yes, / never can hide a secret from
mother. II she wants to know any
thing she pumps me after I've gone to
bed, and / answer her questions as
honestly as if my life depends on it,
That's the reason | wouldn't go to ride
the other night. knew she would find
it out. It's awful provoking


Some days after this Jed called at
the house and entering the parlor un-
announced, found Miss Betsey, probs-
bly, overcome by the heat Of the room,
had fallen asleep on the sofa.


Now Jed, as the reader has surmised,
had long felt an overwhelming partiali-
ty for the young lady, and yearned TO
know il il was returned, but though
possessed of courage sufficient to mount
the eminent deadly breach, could never
muster spunk enough to enquire the
state OF her heart. But he now be-
thought himself of her confession of
somnsmbulic lonuscity, and felt that
the time to ascertain his fate had come.
Approaching the sofa he whispered:


my dearest Betsey, tell me, oh! tell
me the object of your fondest affec-
tons


The fair sleeper gave faint sigh,
and responded.


Il love let me think there you might
have heard the beating Of Jed's heart
brick Wall)-I love Heaven,
nv country and baked beans, but il I
have one passion above all. it is for
roast onions


The indignant lover didn't wake her,
but sloped at once, q sadder but not
wiser man.
Year: 1862

Greeley.


EXECUTIVE MANSION


" WASHINGTON, Aug. %, 1862.
Hon. Horace Greeley:


DEAR SIR: l have just read yours Of the
10Th, addressed to myself through the New
ITibune. If there be in it any statements or
assumption of fact which | may know 10 be
erroneous, | do not now and here controvert
them. If there be lii it any inference which [
may believe to be falsely drawn, [ do not now
and here argue against them. If there be per-
cepuble in it an impatient and dictatoriaf tone,
| waive it in Difference to an old friend, whose
heart have always supposed to be right.


As to the policy ''seem to be pursuing" as
you say, l have not meant to leave any one in
doubt


l would save the Union I would save it
the shortest way under the Constitution. The
sooner the national authority can be restored
the nearer the Union will be 1.-The Union as it
was" If there be those who would not save
the Union unless they could at the same lime
sooe Slavery, do not agree with them. If
there be those who would not save the Union
unless they could at the same time destroy
Slavery, do not agree with them. My para
mount object in this struggle as to save the
Unie", and is not either to save or destroy
Slavery. If | could save the Union without
freeing amy slave, would do it, and if l could
save it by freeing all the slaves, [ would do it,
and if l could save it by freeing some and
leaving others alone, would also do that
What do about Slavery and the colored race,
do because I believe it helps to save the Un-
ion, and what [, forbear, | forbear because /
do not believe it would he 1p to save the Union.
[ shall dc Tess whenever | shall believe what
am doing hurts ths cause, and | shall do more
whenever shall believe doing more will help
the cause l shall try to correct errors when
shown to be errors and [ shall adopt new
views so fast as they shall appear to be true
views. l have here stated my purpose accord
ing to my view of official duty, and I intend
no modification of my oft-expressed personal
wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.


Yours, A. LINCOLN.


q A Union Meeting takes place at
Beaufort, on Saturday, 30th inst, at
II o'clock A NJ.
Year: 1862

Hitherto it has been noticeable that
the subtraction made from our popula-
ton by the demands of the war, was
not particularly apparent in any local
itv or line of business, But it must be
otherwise when the pending volunteer
ING and drafted quotas shall have been
filled up. Few, probably, have real
lied what a large proportion OF our
able-bodied men Will soon be absent
from their old pursuits, and engaged
in the glorious service Of their country.
of the several towns and cities of the
Commonwealth. show the number Of
Enrolled Militia in the State to be
1914 men. According to the Ad-
jutant Generals last report, the Com
monwealth had then sent to the war
81, ,63G, without reckoning those who
have enlisted in the regiments OF other
States.


This enumeration comprises the
300 three months men, many Of
whom are now absent i'll the three
years regiments, while others will be
going in the new volunteer or drafted
Regiments, and who ought not to be
counted twice Two or three regi-
ments have also been sent off since the
Adiutant General made up his report
Perhaps, the following figures will
give an representative results OF the
total draft which the war, according
to present appearance, will make on
the population of Massachusetts,
Year: 1862

The Roam TO WEALrH.--We fear that
some-indeed, but few--o Of our merchants have
yet found the true road to wealth. To those
who would be made acquainted, with it, we
commend the following extract from the Now
York correspondence Of the Boston journal,
The experience of the "old school" New
York merchant is but an example worthy Of
imitation by many Of our country merchants,
who, with no greater outlay for rents and
clerks salaries, might as well be ION the
high road to wealth" as plodding along in
their "snug and safe" business The people
depend on printers ink for their information,
and the merchant who uyails himself of that
indispensable means of communicating with
the public is but wise for his own interests


"a merchant Of New Yo,k has been doing business
In Maiden lane for yearsa snug and safe one lie was
Of the old school lie disdaned 10 call In the aid Of
any new tangled modes TO control trade. Every tub
must stand ON It's own bottom lie asked nothing Of
the Press He would thank any editor In the land
give him all the puh and audauon he could put IN
his columns. But "a Ade away from him. His
wares would not sell, The war came on and he was
about used up. lie was man Of sense. lie saw that
who advertised had business aud money spent IN
thi, way like seed corn. lie sent out few-went
ON from paraa graph 10 column lie advertises more
iargcl, than any IN New York. except Bonner |
have seen an entire column in the journal, with his
name added IN g. saw him yesterday. ile told me Of
the astonishing revoluiun In his tradetha he had more
L. do than hr could possibly ufn out lie Is on the high
road wealth through the liberal Of the press. Nye
la Printer o.
Year: 1862

D1scHARGED.-Thc State street grocer who
YVES arrested q few days since, charged with
Ehe larceny Of q quantity Of potatoes from the
icpot Of the Rock Island Railroad, was yes
fcrdav discharged by Justice Fitz, it appear
ing that the bill Of lading received from the
freight agent covered the property alleged to
taye been stolen.