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Year: 1862

Heavy and solemn,


cloudy column,
Through the green plain they marching comel
Measureless spread, like table Of dread,
For the wild grim dice of the iron game.
Looks are bent on the shaking ground,
Hearts beat loud with a knelling sound
Swift by the breasts that must bear the brunt,
Gallops the major along the front;


. Halt ~
And fettered they stand a. the stark command,
And the warriors, SILENT haiti
Proud in the blush of morning glowing,
What on the hilltop shines in flowing
81 See you the foeman's banner waving
God be with you, children and wife r
Hark to the music-the drum and the fife
How they ring through the ranks which they rouse


the strife
Thrilling they sound with their glorious tone,
Thrilling they go through the marrow and bone
Brothers, God grant, when this life is DER,
In the life to come we meet once more
See the smoke how the lightning is cleaving asunder
Hark the guns peal on peal, how they beam in thei


thunder
From host to host with kindlng sound
The shouted signal circles around!
Freer already breathes the breath
The war is waging, slaughter raging,
And heavy through the reeking pail


The iron death-dice fall
Nearer they cose-foes upon foes,
Ready from square to square it goes.
They kneel as one man from flank to flank,
And the FIRE comes sharp from the foremost rank.
MANY a soldier to earth Is sent,
Many gap by balls is rent;
Ger the corpse before springs the hindmost man
That the line may not fall to the fearless van.
To the right, to the left, and around and around,
Death whirs in its dance on the bloody ground,
Gods sunlight is quenched in the fiery fight,
O'er the host falls a broOding night!
Brothers, God grant when this life is DER,
In the life to come meet once more.
The dead men lie bathed in the welterng blood,
And the living are blent in the slippery flood,
And the feet as they reeng and sliding go,
Stumble still on the corpse that sleens oelow
What! Francis-give Charlotte my last farewell"
AS the dying mar murmurs the thunders swell
g III glve--O God are their guns so near!
Ho comrados-Yon voley look sharp to the rear
III give to thy Charlotte thy last farewell :"
Sleep soft where death thckest descendest like raiI
The friend thou forsakest thy side may regain.
Hitherward, thitherward reels the fight;
Dark and more darkly day gloOms into night,
Brothers, God grant, when this life is DER,
In the life to come we meet once more


Hark to the hoofs that galloping go


The adjutants flying


The horsemen press hard on the painting foe,


Their thunder bOoms in dying


Victory


Terror has seized on the dastards all,


And their colors fall


Victory
Closed is the brunt of the glorious fight;
And the day like a conqueror, bursts the night,
Trumpet aud fife-swelling choral along,
The triumph already sweeps marching in song.
Farewell fallen brothers, though this life be DER,
There's another in which we shall meet you once more
Year: 1862

AN AsToNIsHED " ABoRIGINE." IA Salt Lake
correspondent in speaking of the Overland Tele-
graph relates the following


Talking about telegraphs, the first message re-
ceived over the wires was a sumner, and came di-
rect from his Satanic Majesty to an "aborigine "
1t appears the workmen were engaged in hauling
taught the wire preparatory to crossing a stream,
the banks of which were high and abrupt and
among them, at the extreme end nearest the
banks, was gentleman savage who had con-
trary to Indian nature, concluded to work for a
few days to get dollar to expend for whiskey
and tobacco, They were surging away on the
wire, when little streak of electricity came dash
ing along from a point hundred miles away,
where thunder storm was raging, and quicker
than any hot potato was ever dropped was the
metal from the hands Of the haulers, who under
stood it. all except Mr. Indian, who was suddenly
seen to execute war dance, with his eyes rolling
but he couldn't let go in time; the shock ITSELF Of
which the slight sensation had been precursor
formed a continuity with the "native," and
suddenly a very fiat pair of feet were seen point
ing beavenward and the Indian supposed to own
them going down in a cresent-like curve, head
first, into the creek For moment he disap-
peared, but Immediately emerged, scrambled up
the bank took one wild look behind him, and
then ran as no Indian ever ran before, with every
hair straight up like porcupine's. Ttat Indian
has never been seen in that vicinity SINCE He
must consider the telegraph a perfect sumner a
shocking affair.
Year: 1862

ENENuEs.-Go straight on and don't mind
them if they get in your way, walk round them,
regardless of their spite. A man who has no en-
emies is seldom good for anything he is made of
that kind of material which is so easily worked
that every ones hands are in it. A sterling char
acter is one who thinks for himself, and speaks
what he thinks; be is always sure to have enc
mics. They are as necessary to him as fresh air.
They keep him alive and active. A celebrated
character, who was surrounded by enemies used
to remark, "They are sparks which, ifyoudo not
blow, will go out by themselves" " Live down
prejudice was the iron Dukes motto. Let this
be your feeling while endeavoring to live down
the scandal of those who are bitter against you.
If you stop to dispute, you do but they desire,
and open the way for more abuse. Let the poor
fellows talk. There will be a reaction if you per-
form your duty, and hundreds who we're once
alienated from you, will flock to you and acknowl.
! edge their error.
Year: 1862

Mr.. j. S. Watt, corporal in Col. Bakers reg
ment, was an EYEWITNESS to the following inter-
esting ceremony;


On Tuesday I, with our regiment and all of the
division not on duty, witnessed a very interesting
but a very solemn ceremony-tha. of disgracing
captain publicly 1t appears at West Point,
Va, Company I, of the 34th New York volun-
teers, was color company and the disgraced Off
Ger was captain. The colonel wanted to assign
the colors to another company, and at dress par
ade the captain refused to parade his company,
and even stacked arms and told the men to refuse
to take them. He was arrested and tried by a
court martial for mutiny; convicted and would
have been shot, had not Gen. Mcclellan commu-
ted his sentence


The ceremony took place in a large field The
regiments were formed in columns of divisions
each column was close to the next, so that it made
an unbroken 'front.' They were then formed into
a hollow square; the commanders of regiments,
brigades and division and stats were in the cen





guard, and handcuffed. They marched to the
center of the square. The prisoner stepped two
PAGES in front of the guard the officer command
ing the guard then came forward and told the
prisoner to take off his hat. He then read in
loud voice the charges, specifications, and the
sentence of the court martial which was that
his sword be broken before his face, that he be
publicly disgraced before the division, and serve
one year in the District of Columbia Jail and that
it shall be dsgraceful for any soldier Of the army
of the Potomac to associate with him hereafter"
After this was read, a sergeant came forward and
cut all the brass buttons from his coat, and then
took his sword and broke it in half, saying as he
did so, 81 hereby declare it dsgraeeful for all
men Of the army Of the Potomac to associate with
this man hereafter" and then threw the pieces on
the ground. The prisoner was marched off under
the same guard, and VS. were marched back TO
our camD
Year: 1862

Address of Gen. Mcclellan to his Troops
Soldiers Of the Army ofthe Potomac IL have
fulfilled at least part of my promise to you
You are now face to face with the rebels, who are
held at bay in front of the capital.


The final and decisive battle is at hand. IN
less you belle your past history, the result cannot
be for moment doubtful. If the troops who la
bored so faithfully and fought so CALAMITY at
Yorktown, and who so bravely won the hard fights
at Williamsburg, West Point, Hanover Court
House, and Fair Oaks now prove worthy of their
antecedents the victory is surely ours


The events of every day prove your superiority.
Wherever you have met the enemy you have
beaten him. Wherever you have used the bayo-
net he has given way in ponic and disorder.


1 ask of you now one last crowning effort. The
enemy has staked his all on the issue of the COM
ing battle. Let us meet him and crush him here
in the centre of the rebellion.


Soldiers l shall be with you in this battle and
share its dangers with you.


Our confidence in each other is now founded
upon the past. Let us strike the blow which is
to restore peace and union to this distracted land
Upon your vaor, discipline and mutual conf
dence the result depends.


(Signed) GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN,


Major General Commanding.
Year: 1862

81 would like a situation" said mild sweet
face at the intelligence office. The face was not


what is usually called pretty, but there was a
charm about the whole person that was rather
prepossessing. The intelligence officer looked at
Year: 1862

Coal Oil is said to be sure destroyer OF
bed bugs Apply plentifully with a small
brush or feather. to the places where they
most do congregate. The cure is effactnal
and permanent. Gilt frames. chandelier,
&c, rubbed slight over with coal oil, will
not be disturb bed by flies.
Year: 1862


Mothers who sit in dumb terror and dread,
Holding that terrible list,
Fearing to look lest you see mid the dead
The name of the boy you have kissed
kissing cen those in anguish and pain,
Kiss precious forms of clay,
Fen as you would had you shudderingly lair
lhat dear one in grave robes away.
pity, You, sitting with faces SO white,
Striving to parry the blow
know how that name will torture your sight
Can fathom the depth of your woe.
By the pang that rent my desoate heart,
BY the crushing weight of despair
| know how you too will shudder and start,
Reading that dear name there.
know you'll crush that passiona cry.
Thinking of him as he lies,
With the beautiful face upturned to the sky,
Death vailing the glorious eyes.
/" Fighting he fell p Does feeling of pride
Lighten your grief as you think
How brave was the boy that went from your
How he would not falter or shrink
The mothers love triumphs. Men call woman


weak


All, well, perhaps it is so
| know there are tears cen now on my check
For the boy that's lying SO low
| know that start at each step on the stair,
With wistful glance turned toward the door
Thinking, perchance, that my darling is there
Peace, heart he can come nevermore.
But stilithere's a thought that softens my woe
Above there's Il glorious list;
And one day I'll hear with rapturous glow
The name of the boy have kissed.
Year: 1862

An ex-editor from Dubuque
went to Washington some time ago to
get an Office. After dancing attend
ance for some time on the men in pow
er, he gave it mp as bad job, and
went to Alexandria and hun. out his
sign as physician. At the end Of the
week he had made thirty dollars over
and above expenses, and his good sue
cess still continues. IF any Of his pa
tients die. he consoles himself with the
thought that the citizens Of Alexandra
are nearly all secessionis...
Year: 1862

IT turns out that General Francis Meagher
is not wounded. His horse was shot and
fell on him, stunning him for time. He
was carried of the field on litter, which
gave rise to the report of his being
wounded,
Year: 1862

Habit and long life together are more
necessary to happiness, and even to love,
than is generally imagined. No one IS
happy with the1object of his attachment,
until he has passed days, and, above all,
many days of misfortune with her. The
married pair must know each other to the
centre of their souls--the mysterious veil
which covered the two spOuses in the pri-
mitiye church, must be raised in its in
most folds, how closely soever it may be
kept drawn to the rest of the world
What on account of a fit of caprice, or
burst of passion, am | to be exposed to
the fear of losing my wife and my child
rem, and to renounce the hope of passing
my declining DAYS with them? Let no
one imagine that fear will make me be-
come a better husband. No; we do not
attach ourselves to a possession which we
are in danger of losing-the soul of a
man, as well as his body, is incomplete
without his wife; he has strength, she has
beauty; he combats the enemy and labors
in the field. but he understand nothing of
domestic life; his companion is waiting to
prepare his repast and sweaten his exist
ence. He has crosses, and the partner of
his life IS there to soften them; his days
may be sad and troubled, but in the chaste
arms of his wife he finds comfort and re-
pose. Without woman. man would be
rude, gross, solitary Woman spreads
around him the flower of existence as the
creepers of the forest. which decorate the
trunks of sturdy oaks with their perfum
ed garlands Finally the Christian pair
live and die united; together they reap
the fruits of their union; in the dust they
lie side by side; and they are united be-
yOnd the tomb,
Year: 1862

We copy the following beautiful pas
sage from the speech delivertd d by Hon.
Charles Gibbons, at the National Union
meeting held in Philadelphia, the even
ing OF the 9th. -,l .... .


This is war on our part for the poor
man. Because it is war for the mainte-
nance of the only government on earth
that freely opens 10 him and his children
the way to prosperity and honorable dis
tinction. The school house is free. Con-
science is free. Every business avenue is
free. He finds no gates to exclude him
from any of the high roads to fortune or
fame. The doors of every profession
open at his summons, and his children
are welcome at every portal. No privi-
lege is denied him that is accorded to the
rich, no restraint is. imposed upon him
from which Others are exempt. 1t is here,
under the protection of a government
now beset by armies in the South and ar
mics in the North, who try to conceal
their hostility under the broad mantle of
Democracy, that every poor man may
raise if he will, to the full stature of his
manhood, and, Il man among men, a SOW
ereign among sovereigns, breathing the
invigorating air of liberty, may lead his
children forth, free as the Hedged eaglets
of the mountains, to try the strength of
their pinions, upward and still upward in
the pure atmosphere of Republic. The
career of President Lincoln illustrates
the argument Beginning life as poor
and friendless boy-as poor and friend
less as the ragged little boy that stands
before me; in early manhood a laborer
in the fields by day, and student at
night by the dim light of tallow candle
then the respected member of an honor
able profession next faithful Represen-
tative in Congress, and now in the highest
station on earth--the President of the
United States of America.


If the poor man would find a better
friend than such government as this,
am sure he must seek him in another and
higher sphere than any within the domin-
ions of mankind. And if he would find
a worse enemy than the party demagogue
who seeks to divert him from his loyalty
by stirring up evil passions and criminal
prejudio e /, against the friends of univers-
al liberty, who freely offer their property
and lives for the defence of the govern
ment, he must seek him, not on earth but
in the lowest depths of hell. He must
drag up from the bottom of the burning
lake him who first made


"ImpiOus war in Heaven.
Year: 1862

Be patient with the little ones. Let
neither their slow understanding nor oc-
casional pertness offend you to provoke
the sharp reproof. Remember the world
is new to them, and they have no slight
task to grasp with their unripened intel
lect the mass of facts and truths that
crowd upon their attention. You are
grown to maturity and strength, through
wears ofssexperience; and it i'll becomes you
10 fret at child who fails to keep pace
with your thought. Teach him patiently
as God teaches you, slime upon line, pre-
cept, upon precept here little and there a
little" Cheer him on in his conflict of
mind, in after years his ripe rich thought
shall rise and call you blessed.


Bide patiently the endless questionings
of your children. Do not roughly crush
the rising spirit of free inquiry with an
impatient word or frown, nor attempt on
the contrary, long instructive reply to
every casual question. Seek rather to
deepen their curiosity. Convert if posi-
BILE, the careless question into profound
and earnest inquiry, Let your reply send
the little questioner forth, not so much
proud Of what he has learned, as anxious
to know more. Happy, though, it, in Civ
ing your child the molehill of truth he
asks for, you can whet his curiosity with a
glimpse of the mountain of truth lying
beyond; so wilt thou send forth philoso-
pher, and not a silly pedant into the
world. ,


Bear patiently the childish humors OF
those little ones. They are but the untu-
tored pleadings of the young spirit for
cultivation. Irritated into strength, and
hardened into habits. they will haunt the
whole of life like fiends of despair, and
make thy little ones curse the day they
were born but corrected kindly and pat
iently, they become elements of happi-
ness and usefulness. Passions are but
fires, that they may either seorch Us with
their uncontrolled fury, or may yield us
genial and needful warmth. @


Bless your little ones with a patient
care of their childhood, and they will GER
tainly consecrate the glory and grace of
their manhood to your service. Sow in
their hearts the seeds of perennial bless
edness its ripened fruit will afford y9q a
perpetual joy Mehiggn Journal Of EIDE
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Year: 1862

The Baltimore Sun says:


''The oyster trade of this city, hereto
fore one of the principal trades of the
city, has received a serious check, and
there Is now every probability that it will
not reach to more than fifty per cent. of
the usual amount. Those engaged in the
trade have held several meetings with
view to remedy the deficiency as far as
possible, but thus far there appears no
probability that the difficulty viii be over
come. In the first place, the principal
oyster fields of Virginia are still closed,
and those Of Maryland were so complete
ly dredged last year that they cannot at
ford half supply,


Another difficulty would be if plenty
of oysters were in the field. there are not
vessels to bring them TO the city. 1t Is
estimated that fully five hundred vessels
engaged in the trade have been destroy
ed, or seized and confiscated since the
war began, besides which nearly sll the
small-bOats. usually employed in catch
ing oysters, have disappeared from the
shores, and those formerly employed in
raking the oysters from the water have
sought other employment. The result OF
all these embarrassments Is that oysters
ara much higher than for many years.
and the supply is far short of the demand.
Thus most important branch OF busi-
ness has been partially prostrated, and
the entire West, the largest customers of
Baltimore, cannot be fully supplied, even
at the advance prices which will natural
ly follow so many embarrassments.
Year: 1862

Blessed be disappointment said We
to ourselves one evening, as we sat at the
table of distinguished civilian. Hewas
one of the honored of the land. A good
ly group of ''olive branches" were gath
cred around him. The sweet-vOiced wife
at the head of the table had, in her early
days, been affanced to youth of great
wealth and promise, but, on the appoint
ed day of their marriage, he disappeared
under circumstances OF baseness. What
a disappointment to expectant friends and
ambitious kins-folki But the true-heaFt-
ed girl swallowed her tears of mortifica-
ton, and in fitting time gave her hand to
a wOrthier man, and in an humber posi-
ton in life She lived to see her rene
gade lover reel into the grave of the prof
ligate. How little did she know what an
escape Tod had opened to her through
the dark door of disappointment?


We might multiply instances Of like
characte, from daily observation. A man
hurries breathless to the wharf in order
to reach departing steamer. He is a
few minutes too late The plank is
drawn; and as he watches the stately yes
sci plough her way off through the blue
wuter, she seems to be ploughing through
his very heart. - How provoking" he
exclaimes to the halfsmilling, half pity
ing bystanders. He goes home sulky; he
he retires sulky to his bed, and wakes up
to read in the morning paper that "a few
hours after leaving port, that steamer took
fire, and when last seen was floating on
the water a flaming wreck" He fancies
himself clinging in despair to sinking
billet of wood, and his very blood runs
cold when he thinks how near he came
to being on board that death-freighted
vessel. And yet the very next time that
man is thrown out by Providence, in some
favorite plan, he is slow to apply the les
son of the past, and to thank his heaven
ly Father for disappointment


L do not pretend to be a very apt learn
er; but many of my best lessons through
life have been taught me by the same
stern old schoolmaster dsappOlliB'e1t.-
And one lesson | learned was, that this
,cOrLR ,cas not only made for me. If it had
been, the sun would have shown just
when my hay needed it, and the rain
would have fallen only when my garden
needed to be watered. But God goes on,
and orders things as pleaseth him best,
without consulting us. And when our
schemes were thwarted, the stern school
master said, The world was not made for
you alone, Don't be selfish. Your loss,
perhaps, is another's gain. The rain that
spoils your new-mown hay, makes the
blade of corn to grow faster in your neigh
boris field The fall in grain that cuts
down your rrofts will help the poor wild
ow in yonder cottage to buy bread cheap
er for her orphan babes. SO don't be
selfish ]"
Year: 1862

From the St. Louis Demoetat.


The remarkable character of the follow
ing letter will justify US in giving it to the
public against the wishes of its author.
1t is one of a class which we are now fire.
uuently receiving from the interior of this
State. 1t is a most important indication
of the sentiment which is taking deep
root in the minds of the Shareholders.
They not only see the necessity of eman-
oipatiop in Missouri, but they recognize
the great Importance of an immediate
and through movement on the part of
those who desire to see this free State.


We omit the residence and name of
the writer of the letter. 1t comes, how
ever. from one of the principal slavehold-
ing counties in Western Missouri:


- 500 NOVEMBER l3, 1862.


Editors Missouri Democrat ar
ticle on emancipation, in the Democrat of
the 10th, contains the true doctrine. The
people at the recent election declared for
emancipation, but not by the majority
that would now be given for that meas
ure. In many counties there were no
Emancipation candidates, while many
men from timidity, and others from habit,
voted the anti Emancipation ticket
Many who, before the election, were 81
lent or hostile, now favor it. In this coun-
ty the converts are counted by scores.
All sensible men are now convinced that
Missouri cannot remain a slave State.


''By all means let the emancipation be
immediate. The Congress that meets
next winter will assist the State, but will
the next one? fear not. But aside
from this, we should be done with the in
stitution at once and forever. Remove
the only excuse for rebellion in this State
and identify our interestsw with Illinois and
other Western States. A policy which
would put off the decision of the question
in the meeting of another Legislature
might defeat for years, and is only adyo-
Gated by those who desire that such shall
be the result. If the next Legislature
and Congress act wisely, the rebellion
will result in good to Missouri.


al have some twelve or fourteen slaves.
This letter is written hastily, and of
course is not intended for publication. |
merely wished to assist in holding up your
hands when right.


am very respectfully, &c.