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Year: 1862

! lnttOn OF Debt


The following is from the Milwaukee (Wis) News,
of 9th July


In the same telegraphic report which announces the
adjournment of Congress- told that nearly eight
hundred million dollars have been appropriated during
| the late session.


! There ABOUT 100000 voters in all the Uni
ted States Ii the sum appropriated by Congress at
this single session apportoned among the voters
it would make about 5000 for each voter to pay.
1he State OF Wisconsin now includes nearly one
twentieth of the Northern population She will doubt
less be forced to Eeet quite Onetweneth of these ap
preparations. That would amount to forty million dol
lars II the South pays its proportion Of these appro
pFlatlons even then our share will fall little short of
thirty million dollars. This called upon to pay
in addition to all town and municipal expenses, and in
addition to all that has been squandered by State
officers Such is the cost of Wisconsin of the first re-
guar session of Republican congress under Repub
lican national administration.


We will not now stop to inquire whether Wisconsin
can pay this sum. We owe it, so far as Congress can
make Us owe it. And we owe much more besides We
for hundreds OF millions of dollars in addition for
which Congress has not yet provided It is safe say
that at the end of the present year Wisconsin will owe
than all the real and personal property in the State
would pay if sold to the highest bidder Every acre of
land every building every article of personal property
everything the people of Wisconsin own, movable or
lmmovabe, virtually mortgaged to its lull value to
pay this debt.


| Of course it cannot be paid Not generations
will it be paid. AS Wendell Phillips says, the strength,
the mind the bands of every child in the cradle mort
gagged to pay the interesr upon it.


Yet what good has all this expenditure of money ac-
complished? We are farther from Union oday than
when the war commenced. There are not so many I'm
ion men in the Southern States this hour as there
on the morning when armies summoned to the
held The people OF Virginia and Tennessee, and Ken
lucky aud Missouri, were then almost unanimously
for the UniOnthey are now almost unanimously against
it.


We do not parade these facts for any sinister or un-
worthy pu pose but because they may lead to reflection
and to rig action. There is somewhere fatal mis-
take in the management of public affairs, or we should
not have expended literally nearly our last dollar thus
in vain The Union is worth it ALL it is true and dou
be all that We possess, whether of fe of health of
property-but as the Government is administered,
even these seem an inadquate sacrifice.


In crisis like this, he who fails to consider we'll the
great facts which stare him in the faee would at
tempt to ignore any of the important obstacles which
must be encountered in the struggle in which are
engaged is worthy of very little credit for patriotism
and much less for practical good sense
Year: 1862

How THE GuNBoATs WE'RE PIERCED.-A
writer iu the Sacramento Bee says:


We have read in the dispatches that at
the taking of Fort DonesOn, one of the
gunbOats was shot through and through.
The boats were made to be ball proof so far
as possible, and this account of boring them
needs explanation. 1t is known. that eau
non ball Of great weight from riAed gun
can hardly be resisted by anything naval
If it strike the object fairly, so that II does
not glance of. Now these gunboats are
constructed so as TO cause The ball 10 glance
down into the water, or up into the air If
fired at from the water or low bank. Their
sides are something like the letter (, only
not so much so, with the point to the en-
emy. A water battery shooting at them
might not harm them much; bat at Donel-
son there was one battery fifty feet above
water, and another, one hundred feet above
water. Now one of these batteries firing
down on the boats would probably strike
them fair, so that the ball would not glance
and thus doubtless were they penetrated.
Year: 1862

The law further declares that this tax
shall be assessed and laid on the value Of
all lands and lots Of ground, with their
improvements and dwelling houses, at the
rate each Of them is worth in money on
the first day Of April, 1862.
Year: 1862

We have the pleasure of informing our
citizens that a number Of our patriotic ladies
and gentlemen, Of this town, have taken
the trouble to prepare for them the hand
some entertainment of IaJleaur, which will
be interspersed with vocal and instrumental
music. We can promise our readers a rich
and rare treat on the evening above named.
and as 1t is cause of mercy and ,.ot politics.
all who can, ought to give it their coutc-
nance and support, the object being the
humane desire, flowing from sympathetic
hearts, to raise money for the purpose of
alleviating the sufferings of the sick and
wounded in our hospitals. We hope every
man and woman who can, will be in attcn-
dence to aid in the charitable work for
which these ladies' and gentleman have
imposed on themselves SO much labor 70
effect.
Year: 1862

Price, 81 per BOtte, SIX Bottles 6OrS5


Ayers Cherry PectOral,


has won for itself such a renoWn for the eure of
every variety of Throat and Lung Complaint, thai
it is entirely Unnecessary for to the evil
dence of its virtues, wherever il has been employed.
As it has long been in constant use throughout
this section, need not do more than assure the
people its quality is kept up to the best it has
been, and that it may be relied to do for their
relief all it has ever been found to do
Year: 1862

II What Do they mean BY cat and dog
life said husband to his wife. Look at Carlo
and Grinilkin asleep on the rug together. I
vish Dea lived half GO peaceably With their wives
Stop. said the lady tie them together, and zee
how they will agree.
Year: 1862

To CuRE DYsPEPsIA-Taks a new AZ. put
white hickory handle in it, bore q hole in the
top of the handle, gil the hole with gum cam
phor, and seal it up. Then take the AZ and cut
cord wood at fifty cents a cord, until the heat of
the handle dissolves the camphor.
Year: 1862

tits time now that the sanitary condition of
this town should be attendedto promptly and
efficiently. The warm weather is approaching,
and steps should be taken, at once, to remove
all nuisances, to clean up the streets aud alleys,
to air and dry the cellars and especially to have
such regulations enforced as will prevent the
future accumulation Of filth in and around the
town. This important subject admits of no de-
lay. Under present circumstances, if any cpl
demic disease should break out IN our midst
this summer, its results nigh be fearful With
in the last week, we observe that several Of the
principal streets have been cleared Of much
rubbish
Year: 1862

naSz= We hope to have orders to send the
GAZETTE regularly to the stores and dwellings
Of al the citizens Of Alexandria Orders for
the paper to be sent where the mails are now
running IN the country, Will receive prompt
attention.
Year: 1862

How Hon. Senators could sit in their
places and listen to such reasonable slang
as Salisbury poured out in the United
States Senate on Tuesday, we cannot
imagine. 1t does seem to us that any
loyal man with spark of fire or patriot
ism in his heart would have thrown the
gabbling traitor out Of the highest win
dow without hesitation In the name of
the State Of Delaware aud the loyal peo-
pie in it, male and female, white and
black, we protest against this toddying
Senator being longer permitted TO dis
grace our State with his reasonable ca
hibitions in the Senate house The Sen
ate is supposed to be made up of men Of
dignity, honor, and respectability and il
they would preserve their reputation from
taint, reproach or suspicion, they must
eject Saulsbury from the chamber Mt once.
Delaware despises him as cordially as he
does the country on whose treasury he is
now living, and by whose clemency he i,
spared from the gallows
Year: 1862

The London Post, of the 18th. ut, says
ut appears impossible for tho American con-:
test to continue very long. 1t 10 quite suffi.
clent tor one of the Confederseies to be unable
to fight further in order to insure its termina
ton. Whether the South can continue hos
tilities for an Indefinite period or not it seems
very clearly that the North cannot The Wash
ington Government it thinks, might now close
the struggle with credit to themselves, if they
chose, on the basis of the status quo or at any
rate after few fresh encounters should have
more clearly established the extent of the ter.
ritory they held. But there cannot be much
doubt that If they do not, the struggle must,
before long, close of itself by the collapse of
Northern resources and the impractca biIity
of Northern conquest.
Year: 1862

BY gentleman who has just arrived from
the Southwest via Mobile, we learn that the
whole Southwest is most thoroughly and hearti
ly at work. The Mississippi valley is ono
camp. The wave is gathering which is shortly
to meet and roll back the tide of invasion.
Had the elements Of resistance been thorough
ly aroused, and the proper machinery sooner
set in motion, much loss and suffering might
have been avoided. 1t is now matter of time
The enemy's advance will be stayed and his
forces driven back, but at what point is.
somewhat doubtful. He may be able to com
pei the evacuation of Island No. 1e, or he may
not. This will have no serious effect upon the
eventual course of the campaign or upon its Fl
nal results, although upon the length Of time
during which that post can be hold may depend
the extent to which the advancing wave may
go. Below Forts Pillow and Randolph the
enemy cannot penetrate.


Of further important movements we do not
feel At liberty to speak farther than to ssy that
they are in the right direction and it is on
ly to be regretted that they were not sooner
made.


Wil. Journal.
Year: 1862

injustice TO the living, it may safely be assert
ed that our loss is irreparable. Among the
shining hosts of the great and good who low
cluster around the banner of our country, there
exists no purer spirit mo more heroic soul than
that of the illustrious man whose death | join
you in lamenting.


In his death he has illustrated the char acter
for which through life he was conspicuous, that
of singleness of purpose and devotion to duty,
with his whole energies. Bent on obtaining
country's cause he rode on to the accomplish
very life blood was fast ebbing away. His
last breath cheered his comrads on to victory.
The last sound he heard vas their shout of vic
tory. His last thought was his country, and
long and deeply will his country mourn his
loss.


JEFFERSON DAVIS.


Congress thereupon adopted the following
resolutions


Resolved, lst That we have learned with
gratitude to the Divine Ruler of Nations of
the intelligence OF the great, complete, and bril-
liant victory gained by in Tennes-
see.


Rssolved End. That we tender our thanks to
Gen. Beauregard and all the other surviving
officers and privates Of shat army for their sig
nal exhibition of skill and ga llantry and all are
entitled to the gratitude of their country.


Resolveo Sd, That the death of Gen: A. S.
Johnston affects Congress with profound sor-
row, and obscures our Joy with shade of sad.
ness at the loss of an officer SO able, skillful
and gallant
Year: 1862

Tho greyhound runs by eyesight only, and
this we observe us fact. Tho carrier pig
con flies his two hundred and fifty miles home
ward by eyesight, viz From point to point
of objects which he has marked; but this is
only conjecture. The fierce dragon fly, with
twelve thousand lenses in his eye, darts from
angle to angle with the apidity Of a flashing
sword, and as rapidly darts back-not turn
inr in the air. but with clash reversing the
action OF his four wings, and instantaneous
ly calculating the distance of the objects, or
he would dash himself to pieces. But in
what conformation of his docs this consist !?
No one can answer.


A cloud of ten thousand gnats dance up
and down in the sun, the minutest interval
between them, yet no one knocks another
headlong upon the grass, or breaks a leg or
wing, long and delicate us these are.


Suddenly, amid your admiration of this
matchless dance, peculiar, high shouldered
vicious gnat, with long, pendant nose, darts
out OF the rising and falling cloud, and set
tling on your cheek inserts u poisonous sting.
What possessed the little wretch to do this !
Did he smell your blood in the may dance ?
No one knows.


A four horse coach comes suddenly upon
flock Of geese on narrow road, and drives
straight through the middle Of them. A
goose was never yet fairly run over, nor n
duck. They arc under the very wheels and
and hoOls, and yet, somehow, they contrivc
to flap and waddle safely of. Habitually
stupid, heavy and indolent, they are equal,
however, TO any emergency.


Why does the lovely woodpecker, when he
descends his tree and goes to drink, stop sew
eral times on his way-listen and look around
before he takes his daught? No one can
tell. How is it that the species of ant, that
is taken in battle by other ants to be made
slaves, should be the black, or negro ant ?
No one knows.
Year: 1862

/. Il is best to plow the land we'll before
planting. because that will save work in
planting and hOCiug, although it does not
usually increase the cror-indecd have seen
good corn grow on the same land for several
years in SUCCESSION without the land being
plowed at all.


.. 1t is best (if planted in hills) to make
the rows run both ways, and then the culti-
vator or p,Ow will 90 both ways, and it will
DO but little work to hoe it. It is also best
to put little quick manure in the hill, to
give It an early start, but il gnano is used in
the hill put 1t or q inches one side of the
seed; If it is put under the seed it will kill
il.


). 1t is best to try or sprout some OF the
seed before planting, to be sure il will grow.
Do not get the hills too thick, three and q
half feet each way, four stalks in bill is
right on my lond-if | plant thicker, the
ears will be small. 1t is better to plant some
sort of corn which in;lines to grow cob
longer than will ill out on the tip end, as
there will then be room on the cob for as
much corn to grow as the strength of the
land willadmit of.


4. When hoeing, the top oil the ground
should be kept mellow and level and free
from weeds. When ready to hoe the last
time, which should be tho FIRST part of July,
scatter very little turnip seed all over the
ground. and il the land is in good order,
there will probably be a fair crop Of turnips
tor cattle, provided the corn is cut up by the
roots as soon as it is ripe enough hut il the
corn stand too late, turnips will be scarce.


5. II is hard to keep the same sort Of seed
a long time, because If save for seed the
ears which are first ripe, IN q few years it
gives small, early sort. II l save the larg-
est ears for seed. it only takes few years to
get very late sort. If save such ears as
grow two on stalk I soon have sort which
will grow three, four or fiyo ears on stalk,
but all small.


G, Corn will shrink by drying in the cob
more than we are apt to supposc-probably
2j bushels out Of one hundred. When
succeed in raising 100 bushels Of well dried
corn on one acre in one year, | intend 10 save
the corn till all my neighboT can see it,
c. B. in Country Gentleman.
Year: 1862

The gratis are set, and the sprouts are
starting just below them-tho effort Of ma.
ture to restore the balance between top and
roots, that have been destroyed by the graft
ing process. This balance is OF much more
Importance than most people imagine. In a
healthy tree 1t is always maintained. II
important branches are Topped of, sprouts
start Immediately below to repair the loss
If small branches die, it is an indication of
more wood than the roots can support.


In grating trees of good size, ten years or
more from the seed, not more than third Of
the top should be taken of at once. The
gratis will do much better il the lower limbs
are left whole. Buds for new sprouts will
start soon after the buds upon the cions, and
there is strong temptation to rub them of
upon the supposition that more of tho sap
will be thrown into the graft. Butthis phi
losophy iswrong. Every leaf acts as pump
and the sap drawn up, other things being
equal, will be according to the number and
vigor Of the leaves. These sprouts should
be left until the middle Of the growing sea-
son at least, and then bo removed gradually,
leaving two or three sprouts in the case Of
the most vigorous trees to the second season.
II the cions do not grow it is still more im-
portant that the sprouts should remain.
Year: 1862

Nor ASHAMED or BuSpLrs.-we bayo Of.
ten heard half grown boy say pcttishly to
his mother. al don't like to be seen carrying
big bundle through the streets" But true
pride is ashamed Of such littlenes of mind.
Mr.. Astor the wealthy millionaire OF N. Y,
was once reluctant to sell some goods to q
young man. except for cash. The merchant
paid for them and took them on his own
shoulder to carry to his store. Mr.. Astor
looked on in surprise but before the mer
chant had gone many steps, he called him
back saying, "You may buy on credit to any
amount. can trust you sir. A man who
is not ashamed to do bis own work Is sure 70
succeed" Here is another good lesson '0r
false pride. 1908
Year: 1862

When hives are properly constructed, ants
cannot get into them to propagate their
young. They frequently. however, get into
hives in consequence Of no, being properly
constructed, and do much injury as they an.
noy the bees. injure the hives by eating into


the wood, and will eat the honey II acccssi-
bio. II is very little trouble to drive and
keep the ants away from thcir hive, although
much trouble has been experienced by many,
for the simple reason that they knew no rem
edy. To drive the ants away from the hive
or out Of the retreat, direc, upon them a
small quantity Of the smoke Of wood or to-
Year: 1862

~ There is nothing like courage in mis-
fortune. Next to faith in God. and in his
overruling Providence, mans faith in him
self is his own salvation. 1t is the secret Of
all power and success. II makes man strong
as the pllared iron, or as elastic as the spring
ING steel.
Year: 1862

81 Prentice, of the Louisville Journal,
says-and we commend the remark to GER
tain individual in every latitude:


"u you hear fellow speakof Union men
as Abolitionists, you may set him down as a
Knight OF the Golden Circle"
Year: 1862

We are sorry there is occasion to turn aside
for an hour from the great business before
the country, and we hate the idea and name
ofa nominating Convention. But the fact
remains that even in the midst of war-per.
haps even with more jealousy and particular
itv than at a time more peaceable and pro
ptiouS-the people must give attention TO
their civil machinery. Primary meetings,
preparatory to a State Convention, are to be
held in this city this evening The citizens
included in the call are those who wish to
put aside old party organizations for the time
aud unite all parties and interests in the es
Sential work of saving the country. They
should turn out in strength, and intuse the
popular element into the movement that ig q.
nominy OF the caucus may not rest upon it.


We find the above in the Cincinnati Com
mercia1 of yesterday. 1t as cool a piece Of
hypocrisy and impudence combined as one
would find in a long time. The editor says
he hates the idea o a nominating Convention
and yet urges his friends OF the so o.caled
Union party to "turn out in their strength"
to the primary meetings OF the most rigid ul
ira and selfish party that has ever existed in
Ohio. What precious scamps the editors ef
the Commercial are - Statesman,
Year: 1862

In 1856 John w. Forney, now the leader
of the Republican party in Pennsy lvania was
Chairman OF the Democratic State Central
Committee, and issued an adress to the peo
pie, in which the following eloquent passage
occurred.


"The adversaries of the Democratic party
have dissolved the American Union in ad :
vance, so far as by their own action they can
conSummate that direful result They can
no longer assemble in National Convention;
they congregate as the representatives of a
fragment Of one half OF our happy country,
and they arrogate to themselves the mastery
of the other half by attempting to consoli.
date fierce and anatical sectional majority
in every department. of the government
They declare that the country is or the eve
OF unprecedented commissions, and they pro.
claim their purpose to arrest these convul
slons by ignoring and insulting fifteen sover-
eign States of the Union. They talk OF
peace, and in their owp conventions proclaim
policy which must end in civil war They
appeal to Heaven to sanctiy movement
which, if success iul, would destroy the
airest fabric OF freedom on the globe. They
invite our countrymen to support their cause
in the midst of the most irreverent blasphe.
mics of the Constitution. They prate OF
exclusive Anne ricanism, while they accept as
leaders men who proiane the sages of the
past with inconceivable calumnies But they
deserve credit for their boldness. Thev do
not attempt to conceal the aIiul end which
should they succeed, must crown their ei.
forts. Trne to the history of all sectional
parties, they unite men, not by love Of
country, but by hatred of national princi
pies. Their bond of action is sympathy
of antagonisms-not harmony Of patriotic
sentimen ts;and to consummate their purposes
they would sacrifice every great material in
terest Of society. They have already sue,
ceeded In dividing the Christian Church, and
now they would lay their hands upon the
bulwarks OF our liberties; they would wrest
the Constitution from the glorious purpose
to which it was dedicated by its founders,
and they would erect at " ashington soc
tional despotism whose presiding divinties
would be hostility to the equality of the
States and the equality OF the citizens, and
wage relentless war upon the domestic insti-
tuition OF the South ~p
Year: 1862

We learn that our old friends, the
Quakers, say that they will neither
submit to draft nor supply substi-
tute. One of them remarked that
"war was work of the devil, and the
devil might fight it out


We would warn our ancient Friends,
for we were taught in our youth to say
"thee and thou and to believe that
wars were wrong, that such doctrines
are now TREAsoNADLE, and the conse-
quence prison. We long since, in
pretty early life, repudiated such hea-
thenish doctrines, as that all wars are
wrong, and never expect to 60 back to
the error.


We believe all wars are wrong, which
can be avoided by any possible means,
other than dishonor; and We believe
also that all means should first be ex>
hausted to preserve the peace, before
the first gun is fired. Then we stand
justified for the shedding of blood and
exhausting the wealth of the people,
and not till then.


Now, so far as this war is concerned,
no sect or people stood up more stren-
uously FORTS commencement than these
same Quakcrs. They advocated doc
trines which excited the South to re-
bellion-they opposed compromise,
and cried war as Justify as anybody
could In fact the only opposition to
plunging into the war came from the
fighting Democrats. Now wemust not
be told by these Friend warriors, nor
any body else, that these very Demo-
Gratis who opposed the war being bro t
on, must now fight out without their
help. Walk up, therefore, Mr.. Qua,
ker, shoulder your musket, and if you
are peace man, help us eight for
peace" That is the way to TALK
and the only way. A WARRIOR who
refuses to FIGHT is the most arrant
humbug of all Gods creation, and is
of no manner of use in this world (the
one we now have on handy nor in the
next, (the one which is fast approach
ing)


The man who, at this stage of our
existence, would preach opposition to
war on PRINCIPLE, is either demented,
or else he never read history, nor stu
died human nature. We have got far
beyond the peace point, unless the
whole country would rise up and de-
mand it, thing about as improbable,
as that MAMA will be sent from Hea>
ven to feed our armed hosts Crisis.
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