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Year: 1862

The first apple was eaten by the first pair.


Wanted to patent the filter of Misfortune, to
separate true friends from the scum.


A youths love is the more passionate; vir.
gins love the more virtuOuS.


Somebody says that every cord of wood given
to the poor is recorded above.


If you do good, forget it il evil, remember and
repent Of it.


The most mischievous liars are those who keep
just on the verge Of truth.


Follow the fashion: you had better display other
peoples fOllies than your own.


Those who heed not Gods writ are often forced
to heed the Sherif's.


Women never truly command till they have given
their promise to obey.


The wise man justly regards goodness as some
thing TO be attained.


What q burthen is leisure to mind uuprcpared
for its enjoyment!


Live down calumny: the best reply to slander.
Gus reports is good life.


In the end, all men find the devils work the
hardest they ever undertook.


An angry woman, like an angry snake, makes q
terrible exhibition Of tongue.


He who knows bis ignorance is the posscssor Of
the rarest kind Of valuable knowledge.


Prosperity is no Just scale; adversely is the only
balance to weigh friends in.
The smallest children are nearest God, as the
smallest stars are nearest the sun.


The vanity Of human life is like river, con.
stantly passing away, and yet constantly coming
on.


The superficial must converse with others, but
the wise can in addition, also converse with them.
| selves.


"Thcy pass best over the world" said Queen
Elizabeth, "who pass over it quickly; for it is but
a bog-if we stop we sink"
A schoOlmaster said Of himself al am like a
hone; sharpen number Of blades, but wear
myself out in doing it"


Forgiveness the noblest of all sclfdenial, is a
virtue which he alone who can practice in himself
can willingly believe in another.


While we are reasoning concerning life, life is
gone; and death, though perhaps they receive him
differently, yet treats alike the fool and the philos
Ophcr.


In the year 1862 the Legislature Of Massachu.
setts passed the following law And hereafter no
person whatever shall make any garment for wO.
men with sleeves more than an ell wide"


King John once demanded Of certain Jew ten
thousand masks; On refusal Of which, he ordered
one Of the lsraslites teeth TO be drawn every day
ill be should consent The Jew Lost seven, and
then paid the required sun. Hence the phrase,
In spite Of bis teeth"
Year: 1862

Such demand we have rarely
known as there was yesterday for our
paper. Unfortunately we could not
supply it, our stock of paper had been
exhausted in Saturdays issue. But wo
have paper enough now to do us many
months, and our issues will be regular.
ly every day, Mondays excepted
Year: 1862

Advices from all parts of the State give US q
general knowledge of the hearty reception which
our ticket has received from the people 1t Is
still more fattering when we consider the vain
glorious boastings of the disappointed trleksters
who hovered around the Convention, and who
flew the track when they discovered the spo'is
beyond their reach.


The people, we imagine, will stick to princi-
pie, and act on, needless of the pratings Of the
demagogues conspiring for the defeat OF the
ticket in the field. The platform upon which
our nominees stand is unexceptionable, being
told in but few words: The fundamental doc
trines of human freedom, vigorous prosecution
of the war, the use of all the means God has put
into the hands of the nation for The suppression
of the rebellion, hearty support Of the Govern.
ment, and an honest administration of our local
affairs.
Year: 1862

The choice of the Union District Convention,
which met last Friday, for Senator, is peculiarly
happy. SAMUEL n. SrRlcKLER, is . man that
cannot in the least be politically noxious to
single patriot in the District. Always staunch
Republican, but never before in public life, he
is we'll calculated to please the War Democrats.
He was the choice of this class Of men in the
Convention. The unanimity and harmony that
characterized the Convention augurs Of his sue
cess by handsome vote.


The selection further meets the wants OF the
times when we consider the great interests in
volved in next winters legislation. Our rail-
road interests will require at the State Capitol
men who will not barter away their character
and their constituencies interests, but who have
the integrity to Withstand the corupting influ-
ences that will then be brought to bear upon
our legislative body. Aside from Mr.. Strickler's
integrity, he possesses other qualifications which
eminently fit him for the position, and the cir.
cumstances of the hour. He has good mental
abilities, is shrewd and far-seeing business
man, energetic and untiring.


1t is to be hoped that the County Convention,
which meets next Tuesday, will look well into
this matter in the selection of a candidate fol
Representative. Let one be selected possessing
the qualifications cited above, and We are safe
The past history of our State is calculated to
give encouragement to monied monopOlies, and
they had better be snubbed in the beginning, as
they will doubtless appear next winter. The
County ticket must be men of integrity, and
whose fealty to the Union has always been
bold and outspoken. Beware Of converted COM
promisers.
Year: 1862

The Leavenworth Bulletin says: Our
farmers begin to see the advantages Kansas
presents as a stock growing country, and
large herds Of sheep and cattle may now be
seen in many pastures Of the State grasing
on her hillsides. We believe in . very
short time Kansas will be the greatest
wool growing district in the United States.
Many broad acres within the boundaries Of
our State still lay unoccupied and covered
with luxuriant growth Of wild grasses.
There never was such an inviting field open
in any country for the emigrant. Since
the passage of the Homestead bill, there
are still greater inducements for the land
less to come to Free Kansas. With an
organized government-s liberal constitu-
tion-wise laws, emigrants with their
families and property are as safe here as in
any portion of the West. The great Pa.
ci6c Railroad and branches will be con-
structed through the State within the next
two yeara work will be commenced on the
main trunk this iall.


We say to all who would seek homes in
the West-in o country unsurpassed II
natural resources-with genial climate
and wholesome laws, come to Kansas.
Year: 1862

In an article on the Presidents emanci


patton proclamation, the St. Louis Demo-
crat says: As the great mathematician,
after passing days and nights for weeks and
years in the wasting toll of brain, in his
great endeavor to solve the problem of o
life's study, makes the discovery, and shouts
3" Eureka" in the gladness of his heart !;
as the brave De Sofa, after struggling for
weary league on league through dark forest
and treacherous morass of an unwholesome
cline in quest of that beautiful stream
which rolled, in his imagination, like the
river of life, through the far-off gardens of
the West, rested upon its bank to gaze in
rapture upon its surprising grandeur, and
listed to the music of its waves; as the
great Wellington, after having from early
morn to dewey eve" stood upon the blood
drenched fed of Waterloo, watching the
progress of the fight as the sun wheeled
bis slow course above that field Of death, at
last, as the shades of night begin to fall,
beholds the enemy waver, break and fly,
and feels that the dreaded and almost irwin
chile Napoleon is overcome; so do We in
this, the hour of our triumph, after long
years of struggle, bitter denunciatiou, cruel
disappointment, and most wasting labor, in
battle with giant wrong, feel, as the
shout of victory ascends for the principle
of our adoption and our love, that we have
not struggled, and toiled and fought in vain
Year: 1862

The success which has attended US during
the past year, as shown by our increased cir
culation, in our securing SO extensive an adver.
tising patronage, and by the high encomiums
which have been received from the press and
people of the State for our bold and indepen-
dent course, in defence Of the Right, have
satisfied the Publishers that the UNION is
fixed and permanent institution Of Western
Kansas.


While thanking our many patrons fox the
bountiful support which they have given us,
and for the encouragement received by the
many compliments bestowed, we would ask
continuance of their help in making the UNION
reflex Of the prosperity and advancement
which is sure to attend the course of Western
Kansas


Strictly identified with the interests Of
Western Kansas, and well knowing its vast
resources, which are only awaiting the magic
hand Of the capitalist and laborer to be fully
developed, and added to the growing wealth
Of the country, We shall spare no pains or
energy to bring before the masses Of the East
the great advantage Of our country as place
of settlement for the home-seeking immigrant.
Everything tending to induce capital to fow
hitherward for the development of our exten-
sive Coal Fields and rich Salt Springs will
receive that particular attention which it
deserves.


In politics, We shall pursue that course
which We believe justified by principles Of
Right and Justice, an6 which tends to Human
Progress, Universal Liberty, and the free
pursuit of Happiness by oil mankind.


The importance Of having . full and com.
plete local department We would not under
estimate, and We are again impelled to ask our
friends to aid US in this matter-give US
information of any thing transpiring in your
neighborhood We desire the UNION to be
perfect history of this locality.


As We are unable to reduce the price Of our
paper, and live by il, at the same time making
1t useful institution, We have concluded, in
view Of the mighty interests involved in the
present struggle, to so arrange our terms As to
give our friends an opportunity of extending
our circulation in their localities:


One year 50 numbersl 81 90
Six months [26 numbes] / 90
Ten copies, one year, Is 90
We will also give to the getter-up Of . club
We would appeal to our friends to aid US in
putting the UNION in the hands Of every man
in Western Kansas.


BLAKELY 4 MARTIN, Publishers.
Year: 1862

The President,as the commander OF the ar
my, has the right to free the slaves, and to
arm them if he thinks best, as legitimate acts
OF war. The constitution has not authorized
it, and the constitution has made no pro-
vision for a civil war. The President acts
TO preserve the constitution, and uses pow
er recognized in the laws of war among all
civilized nations. To attempt to arrest him
in this act. and to palsy his arm when raised
10 strike the blow, will be to throw the coun-
Try into utter confusion and to break down
the government. Hence we would under no
circumstances help to elect any man to Con-
gress who is not fully pledged to sustain the
President in this most important act, as well
as in his general war policy. And for the
same reason would We oppose any man who
countenances partisan plots and cabais against
the commanders whom the President has ell
trusted with the control of our armies. What
every loyal voter should demand as the frs,
and most essential condition of support to
any candidate for office, is supreme loyalty to
the governmental loyalty so entire that il
will forego private opinion and prejudice
when the attempt TO crafty them will endan.
ger popular unity in the war. upon which
now rests our only hope.-Sprin9feld Re.
uMhlic0n.
Year: 1862

II is q fact of 10 little significance that
while the deceptive talk about peace i'll the
South comes from those who adhere to Sc
cesson and the independence of the confed-
eracy. similar talk at the North is only heard
among those who prefer the dissolution of
the Union to its restoration. unless the de-
struction of slavery is involved in the latter.
Mr. Forney, writing from Washington to the
Philadelphia Press in relation TO suggestions
of peace, says:


81 feel authorized to say that no act, or
word. or hint, of any member of MIR Lincoin's
administration, can be aulhoritatively point
ed out in favor of the proposition as set forth
in the Tribune, Or in support of other terms
suggested. There will be no peace with the
armed traitors that is not founded upon the
perpetuity and unity of this republic, land up
on submission to the federal authority on the
part of all the seeded States. If there is
one thing against which the President has
set his face like rock, it is that there can be
neither recognition of the rebellion, nor a
separation Of the Union. hold him to be
alike opposed to the men who desire recogni
ton in order that they may enjoy slavery q
mong themselves, and those who are willing
to concede separation i'll order that they ma.
get rid of slavery. Let Us well weigh thi'
word peace. All classes, North and South
loyal and disloyal, armed and unarmed, de
sire peace, but the largest class much mor'
desire the Union of these States. This clas
is SO earnestly devoted 70 this great idea tha
they can never surrender it. They know tha
peace that does not recognize the Unioi
and the constitution must be hollow truce
Year: 1862

The obituary notice of William Courtland
Prentice, son of the editor of the Louisville
Journal, killed in the rebel service, publish
ed in tha; paper of the I'd, is very touching
1t is the sad lament ola loyal father over a
son who has persisted in bad cause. We
quote portion of il -


This young man, if he had always directed
his energies judiciously, could have made
himself distinguished ornament in any pro-
fession oflife. He might have been an able
and honored statesman in the service of the
republic. But an intense southern sympathy,
in spite of the arguments, the remonstrances,
and the entreaties of those who dearly Low.
ed him, made him an active rebel against bis
country. And, after a brief FIVE weeks ser.
vice in the rebel ranks, be fell, soon to breathe
out his fiery life, receiving the meanwhile
far away from his family, the kindly minis
trations of those against whose cause bis
strong right arm had been raised. Oh, if he
had fallen in his countly's service, fallen with
burning eyes fixed in love and devotion up
on the flag that for more then three fourth'
of century has been star of worship to his
ancestors, his early death, though still ter
rible, might have been borne by c father
heart, but, alas, the reflection that he fell il
armed rebellion against that glorious old ban
ner, now the emblem ofthe greatest anil ho
lest cause the world ever knew, is full of des
olation and almost Of despair. And yet We
shall love to think of Courtland Prentice
that brave and noble though misguide,
youth, during the little remnant ofour live:
Our love for him, undimmed by tears an,
grief, is and will remain an amaranthine flow
er upon the grave Of our busted years"
Year: 1862

a member of the company Of players at
haIlenbach's theatre was to have benefit
night, and the question was how to get to-
gether good audience, as the usual attend
ance at that place Of amusement, even if it
doubled,would produce far too slender sum
to satisfy the expectations of benefit night.
Accordingly, some days before the memora-
be evening, there appeared in all the Berlin
papers an advertisement to the following ef
feet:


"A gentleman, who has niece and ward
possessing a disposable property of fifteen
thousand thalers, together with mercantile
establishment desires to find young man
who wo-ld be able to manage the business
and become the husband of the young lady.
Inc possession Of property or other qualiti-
cations is no object. Apply to -"


Hundreds and hundreds of letters poured
II IN reply to this advertisement. On the
morning of the benefit night each person who
had sent reply received the following note


-iiOSl III POI tdut punt ls, VI SouASo IilaI
You should like one another. and my niece
aEe going to Kallenbachs theatre this even
my and YOU can just drop in upon US in box
No. ~ Of course the theatre was crammed.
Al the boxes, all the best paying places in
the house were filled early in the evening with
mostly male public, got up in style which
IS seldom seen in the loyal opera ITSELF
Glasses were leyeled on all sides in the direc.
ton Of box No. l, and eyes were strained tc
catch the first glimpse of the niece, when she
should appear in company with her uncle
But uncles are provelbialy wicked old men,
and IN the present case neither uncle nj,
niece was TO be found and the disconsolat
.oysrs-of q :ortune--were left to clear u
'"e mystery as best they could The theatr
has not had such an audience for years, and
OF course, the chief lerson concerned reape'


rich harvest by the trick London paper
Year: 1862

the beginning, in fact, of new and an inter-
minable war; the degradation of the brave
soldiers OF the free States the disintegration
Of the free States themselves and worse
than all, the unity of the seeded States, and
their invincibility, aided by foreign arms, in
the work Of destruction and despotism."


This semi-official assurance will be satisfac-
tory to such as have been led into doubt and
distrust by the inopportune discussion about
terms of peace in some OF the papers. The
rebels talk peace as a means of successful
war I; all loyal men must talk war, and do it,
as the only way TO honorable and permanent
peace.
Year: 1862

i correspondent of the n. Y. Era speaks
in the following language of our distinguish
ed senator:


"Mr Foot has seen the end ofanother Con-
gress, and has returned to the privacy of his
home in his dear old native State. Whether
he is to remain there in the enjoyment of the
scholarly retirement which his long life of
usefulness and patriotic service has so we'll
earned or whether he is to return to the
legislative halls of the nation, and aid, by his
wise and moderate counsels, in plotting the
ship of state through the present tumultuous
waters into haven of peace and safety-the
future only can show. In either case we hope
most earnestly that he may long enjoy the
blessings of peace restored; AMI see the now
deserted fields and workshops of his native
State filed with living fruitfuness when her
returned warrior farmers and mechanics shall
have beat their swords into plow-shares, and
s,t'led down once more to the avocations OF
peace


The editor of the Era thus refers to the ar
t!cIe Of his correspondent, and the subject of
it:


III ever there was a man who made his
ma!n On the age in which he lived, and la
bored and earned for himself an enviable rep.
g,a'i2n among bis fellow-men,t that man is the
Hon Solomon Foot, for the last twelve years
th" representative of Vermont in the Senate
ci the United States, a sketch of whose ca
lJcr We present to our readers in the present
number. The energy and force of character
based upon an ineradical sense of truth, JUS
tee ard right, which has raised him so high
in the estimation of his fellow citizens, anC
his compeers in the Senate, shines out in ev
cry epoch OF his history, even from his early
years. Not only is he one of those whom
mankind should delight to honor for what hi
has achieved for hmself-but he is one whom
all should esteem for the glorious example h'
sets before the young men of to-day of tn
results Of perseverance, energy and integrit.
in the performance of every duty in life, how
ever humble.


truly, Vermont may well be proud of he
worthy senator, and hand down his name t
her sons with the veneration it will deserv
long after the bright example is remove
from their midst"
Year: 1862

A T Court of Probate holden at Washington "A within and for the district of Was hington, on the 30th day of May, A. D. 1862.

 Present-Henry J. Church, Esq, Judge.

 Truman Tucker of Marketable in said district, an insolvent and assigning debtor, appeared in Court and made application for the benefits of the 10th section of the Act for the relief of In- solvent Debtors Whereupon, it is Ordered by the Court, that hearing shall be had in his case, and Wellington Watson, the Trustee of said assigned estate is hereby directed to give notice to all persons interested in the said estate to appear, Gf they see cause,) before the Court of Probate to be holden at the Probate Office in said District, on the 16th day of June. 1862, at ten oclock, forenoon, to be heard relative to the said application on said estate by posting said order of notice on public sign post in said town of Washington, nearest to the place where the said debtor lives, and by advertising the same in newspaper published in Litchfeld..

 Certified from Record

 7-t2 HENRY J. CHURCH, Judge.
Year: 1862

BALTIMORE LOYALTY All the secession Nom.
beers Of the second branch OF the City Council
have resigned, in compliance with an intima-
lion from Gen. Wool that their designations
would tend to the preservation Of peace. A
special election will soon take place to fill the





vacancies with loyal mau.
Year: 1862

We have give u pretty full account Of the
war news from the Baltimore Ams lean, one oi
the most reliable and able newspapers on our
exchange list. Its account Of what is now
transpiring n Maryland and the Pennsylvania
border, ispr"bably as correct as anything that
can be- got at now.


We still incline to the opinion that this Ia q
mere rebel raid and that no considerable force
has yet crossed over. But we shall soon know
their purpose and we trust they will know
ours They may yet repent their temerity.
Year: 1862

The Boston Courier, the old Wing organ of
Daniel Webster, and which has remained true TO
the conservative faith so long defended by its
former great leader, after copying iubilant ar
ticle from Western Democratic paper, announc
ing Democratic victories, comments as follows:


"These are indeed cheering words-for we
take them only TO mean that the people of the
West win not allow the institutions of the coun-
try to be perverted and oyerthrown for party ends
or to crafty the foul desires of fanaticsm. They
have the power to save us, and now they show
the will, and only by political changes can the
good work be accomplished. Our own prefer
ences would lead us TO wish for this salvation by
n combination of conservative men of all former
political organizations; though we are sorry to
say we see slight evidence of any disposition, on
the part of the Republicans, to abandon their
party position. IL requires no abandonment OF
political principle whatever for these who have
hitherto been opposed to sectional politics, to
take their stand side by sde for the cause OF the
Union and the Constitution


To all this the Republican leaders and the Re
publican presses are opposed. They sometimes
threaten and sometimes implore, that all party
issues may be laid aside. They declare il is ac-
tual treason to think of setting up an orgaaiza-
ton against themselves, whom they see fit to call
the Goyernment--but none of this cant will 60
down. The people of the West see to what be-
lief It has led the country, and that further be-
lief in il must inevitably and utterly destroy the
country, and they will submit to it no longer.
The politicians who have so grossly deceived
them can cheat them no longer The people see
their short sghtedness, their falsity. their reck
lessness of consequences to the nation, for the
of their own petty ends And the time of these
men is coming. They see the handwriting ON
Year: 1862

that needs to be punished, and who are those
whom the safety of thepublic would permit to be
admitted to their loyalty and allegiance You
here before the thing happens, as is attempted 70
be done by the honorable Senator from Ohio
He says by bis amendment that the President
may extend an amnesty, If be pleases, TO any of
the classes named. Why, sir, that is not what is
wanted. You cannot make the discrimination
now. There may be men as good as Matthew
Hale who have actually taken and hold Offices
under that de facto Government, and who the
gentleman from Ohio would have no more desire
to hang or strip than Charles III. had to hang
Chief Justice Hale. These Determinations can
only be made when the means ard opportunity
for information exist