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Year: 1862




Nercgrel the reluctance with which the |
government accepts what every one sees to
lc tue necessity Of ordering q draft to fiji |
up our agnies in the field. OF its present |
and pressing necessity there is no question |
There have not been 1000 men enlisted for
made, throughout the entire North, and it
would perhaps be nearer the truth to
say not 500 have been secured Certainly
We have heard of none. Public sentiment
and the public mind is right. Commlttetss
cali On the president, and the interview
ends With each being mutually pleased
with the other. sThe old regiments must
be filed up as the frs. duty" and yet weeks
are passing and no.hing done to secure it.
All recognize the TACT that nothing will
brig about the result but draft, and get
the government hangs back.


We regret tits because it is wholly un-
necessary Il is not founded on Just idea
of the 10y ally Of the people. and their ready
devotion to the cause Of the country. By
1s stponing the draft as a great evil, only to
be made the last resort, tue system ofdraft-
ing is unnecessarily degraded, and the re-
la,ioHs Of the conscript to the State are
p1need in false and unworthy light Tue
fact is that drafting should have followed
the first rush of volunteers l. was mis-.
take not to have established year ago q
general sys.cm by which our regiments
could be kept full, not by recruiting, but hy
drafting d D plan should have been
months ago in full operation whereby tht
commanders Of an army could repair 1osse*
on the field and restore shattered regiments
no: by tedious quest Of volunteers, bu,
from depots Of recruits We do not care ts
discuss what might have been done, for VT
have all been learning in the school Of ex
perieace, but We urge that nav the lessor
should be put in practice The point n,
desire to make is that delay ID this resor
has positive evils, by the inference it cor
Teys-


There is moral effect In the system q
the draft, that belongs to no other metho
OF raising an army. It demonstrates th
consciousness Of power In Government
fhe power to command support. The rail-
of volunteers, is noble and inspiring an
our own magnificent uprising struck th
world with sdmiration- Butthere is somt
thing lacking Of the elements Of nation,
strength in such rally, glorious as it va
Year: 1862

| The miserable men who tighten their
pu1se-etripgs nov know not what they do
They fail to realize the truth that with rup.
tnred Union and ruined government, their
wealth would be worse than dross. They fail
to comprehend that with our cause lost, the
millionaire would be worse off than the beg
gar, that Tealta would prove q Nessus-shirt
TO torture and madden the poesessor,
Year: 1862

Gratis stood upon different platforms. While
some sympathized with the rebellion, were
in favor of division of the Union and op-
posed to the war, others were war democrats,
and others again were Union democrats,


avoring President Lincoln's Proclamation.
The same may be said of New York, New
Jersey; Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and other
States. Of the IS members Of Congress
just elected, there are but t,ceuty who are
opposed to voting all the means necessary
to prosecute tho war. What pretty set of
democrats these to go into national con-
vention to nominate national candidate
for the Presidency in 1864? In Maryland
and Delaware we have secession democrats
In Pennsylvania and other States, war dem
ocrats and Union emancipation democrats.
Here is black spirits and white, blue spirits
and gray, and more conglomerated set of
crazy politicians never did or ever will as
semble in Pandemonium than those verita-
Bile democrats when the time shall arrive to
send delegates to a National convention
We would advise all parties to keep an eye
upon them. There will be some fun on the
assembling of such elements. 1t will be
made up of such combustible material that
it will certainly explode should the attempt
ever be made


Before that time shall have arrived, how
ever, We would not be surprised to learn
that they had found another meaning for
democracy and swear that it meant Union.
But little over year ago the democracy
of this State declared the term to mean Sc
cession, but this was not carrying the thing
far enough as they became more bold they
donned the Secession and came out rebel
democrats. Al the last election they were
Constitutional Democrats, now they are
nothing but democrats, and without their
permission, we will add bogus demorats.
Year: 1862

Victory ever ach leved in our country" was


the selection of Mr.. Samuel Jefferson to


stay at home, cultivate his farm and comfort


bis wife and children. A very honorable
occupation, and one that many Of his COM
peers might practice with advantage to
themselves and the community. The real
triumph in the late contest was the election
of WIN. Cannon Governor for four years.
We are the ones that should celebrate the
victory that our State is redeemed from
secession mis-rule. We have the Governor
for four years who has the control of various
subordinate offices they the Congressman
who can have no influence with the Admin
istration patronage and can be of no possi-
bic use but to vote and that too, with a
minority. Agreat victory-thee " Greatest
ever achieved i'll our country"
Year: 1862

Thursday, the 9th ofNovember, will be
observed by all or nearly all the loyal States
as day of Thanksgiving and Prayer.
There has never before been such unanimitv
i'll the selection of the day. Governor Pier
pont, of Virginia, has just come into the
arrangement, and for the first time, we be-
lieve, i'll their history, the Virginians will
have Thanksgiving Day appointed by the
civil authority. This year the festival will
have more of National character than it
has had in any past year. The Southern
people may say that this shows the spread
of Yankee Puritanism" They may be
correct, but it meets with the approval Of
the people.


But the most remarkable improvement
anywhere, is to be foundin this town. Men
who have hitherto almost uniformly refused
to shut up their places Of business and allow
their boys a of day rest and recreation as en-
joyed by their associates; have this year au-
thorized their names to go on a handbill
notifying the public that there will be a
general suspension Of business, in accordance
with the recommendation of the Governor.
W9 have the same Governor, the same Union
as one year ago, yet then they refused to OBJ
serve the day on the plea that we "had no
Government" and "nOtjting to be t!ankf for!'
Now they seem to hare something to be thank
tul for, namely; their election to Office and the
claimed victory of their party. Does not
such actions stamp such men the merest
party hacks? The Nation, the common
wealth, the bestowal of the Divine favor on
the community at large is nothing to them
if they and their party are not in the ascen-
dant. How applicable that unctious prayer:
"Lord bless me and my wife, my son John
and his wife--us four and no more
Year: 1862

NAprINEsS.-Now let M tell you a
S'crct-a secret worth hearing. This
looking forward for enjoyment don't pay
chase butterflies for living, or bottle
up moonshincs for cloudy nights The
only true happiness is to take the drops
Of happiness as God gives them to us
every day of our lives. The boy must
learn to be happy when he is pIodding
over his lesson the apprentice whilc he
is learning his trade; the merchant while
he is making his fortune. If he fails to
learn this art he will be sure to miss hi,
enjoyment when he gains what he sigh,
for
Year: 1862

lg-A young lady went to Washing.
ton several weeks ago to visit her hus-
band, who is in the army, and while
stopping at hotel she observed that the
blankets upon the bed had rather fa'nil
lar look, and, on examination, discovered
her own name on the margin, and re
cognized them as the same she had sent
to her husband some time previous, but
which ho had never received.
Year: 1862

In housekeeping, careless woman can
always make muss, and keep one; but
there is no article more calculated to
make confusion, or wherein more waste
is involved in its use than flour, both
before and after being baked Careless
handling, sitting. or spilIing the -four,
careless mixing, throwing away the bits
Of dough. instead Of working them into
the bread, cake, or biscuit, Most wo,
men put up their Pan or tray covered
with dough, and the rolling pin and
kncadiny board in like condition. Now,
if you ever calculate to get off that dough,
why not do it when you mix, while it is
soft? As you finish up your bread or
biscuit, or cake loaf, you can rub it of
while soft with your hands, or with a
spoon, and work it all in, and put away
your things all clean, ready for another
time. DO not plead the want Of time,
and that you "can't take the trouble, -
&c. DO it in the right time, and it is
done. Ten to one, when you wish to
mix again you will be in haste, and your
time precious; then you take knife and
dig your pan to pieces, and scrape your
board, pin, &c, and run to the swill with
it. o, its but little; of course it is
But all these Titles every day or two, be,
sides the loss Of inc, are wasteful, and if
you had to earn these Titles, you would
sooner find it out, am thinking. And
if in every department under your super
vision you are thus regardless Of tritles,
You arc poor economist, and far from a
model housckceper, wherever you are, OF
whatever you think.


And then, the bite Of bread that many
throw away, and many Of them made BY
careless cutting Of the loaf, haggling il
off one-sided, &c. Cut true, smooth
and do not throw away the crust and the
odd bits left. These can always be used
in some way if you can only "takc the
trouble. EALemc poverty is almost
wholly unnecessary in this country. Look
where you choose around you, and nine
times in ten the poor are shift'ess, waste
full, cxtravagant; and if man works eve,
SO hard, thrlitless women can and vii
waste all he can earn


A woman who "can't take trouble tc
use economically the material her hus-
band gets to clothe and feed his family
is anything but blessing to herself 0
the world
Year: 1862




We have been anxiousy waiting to see what steps
would be taken towards filling up that fomous ditch
cut by the thevng Yankees on the peninsula opposite
Vicksburg. This is the very nick of time to fill it up
that the earth may be settled by the Fall rains The
Yankees sgnaly failed the cause the ancient river to
leave his old bed and occupy the new one they had
prepared No less failure their attempt, by
means of stern-whee steamboat rapidly set in motion
to frghten him out of his of proprety into their
new measure the enraged sire of waters but his long
thumb and fingers tG his ancient nose in that peculiar
attitude whla so emphatcay says you can't come it,
and moved majesticaly in the channel Nature had
made him. We should remember, however, that this
old Father of Waters like fathers of daughters
occasionally gets high and goes of On bender-then
he might fall even into Yankee ditch, when the whole
South would fail to get him out. Let us then while
may, SO fortiy the old gentleman, by filing up and
daDlning the ditch that in the event of his getting
high, keep him straight, and prevent bis fall
ing Low to lie in Yankee DITCH disgrace so foul
that his descendants in all the future would be unable
to wash out. Besides, the commercial advantage of
Vicksbutg mainly depends upon keeping our old friend
close to doors his alienation would deal us a worse
blow than in the power of the whole Yankee nation
to nfict. Hence, while we watchfuly guard against
our vanda oe should earnestly endeavor to keep
our generous friend.
Year: 1862

We give teow, say the Raleigh Standard the list OF
Senators and Commoners elect to the next General
Assembly as far as We have learned them. If any OF
our friends discover an error they will obge US by in
forming
Year: 1862

years, "would to God that the city OF
Washington had been shelled to ashes
last July,"-he would have been hooted
down and driven from the city. Some
of the papers that now condemn the
mob that hunted Phillips, would praise
the mob for hunting Hawks MAJ VIC
not go still further, and say that If
newspaper in this city should advocate
the destruction of the constitution, and
the disruption of the Union, 10 6t Tho
South go, it would be suppressed instantly,
aud its conductors justly held responsib Die
for treason to the government


The New York Tribune says: "It is
wickedly false that Mr.. Phillips advocates
treason" That depends altogether on
what treason is. The Tribune may not be
the best authority on that delicate ques
tion. We believe it is treachery to tie
country now, to wish the city of Wash
ington laid in ashes il slavery is not
abolished in Maryland. Philips says
that, and the Tribune devotes six columns
to spreading the Infamous speech in
which the sentiment is uttered. We re-
gard it as the .quintessence of treason to
speak or print such sentences as we have
quoted from the Tribune, unless we quote
them to protest against them in the namo
of the constitution and the Union. The
Springfield Republican says: Wendell
Phillips has a right to speak his opinions
freely, and every friend of FREQ speech
must maintain that right" No, he has
not No man has right to do wrong.
No man has right to smoke cigar in
powder magazine. No man has a right
to denounce the government of his
country in time Of war. No dismnioniSi
has right to speak his sentiments any
where noW. We are in a state Of war.
Every man must stand by the Union or
keep quiet. We are utterly opposed to
mobbing Phillips or any other man. But
the peace and safety Of the country de-
mand that his seditious tonge be silenced
till the Union is re-established in peace.
Let him be indicted for his sedition, and
held to answer at the bar of justice for
his offences, but let us have no mobs.-
Justice is slow, but mighty. An aboli.
tion-disunionist is as dangerous an enemy
now as observation-disclosures, and if Fort
Warren is open for the latter, let Fort
Lafayette receive the former, or, still
better, put them both together. They
have labored in the same cause, let them
rest together in the same walls.
Year: 1862

The path had become so very narrow
round projecting rock, absolutely to
terminate. / could see nothing more
than thin light streak, as if drawn with
a piece of chalk, and | could not believe
that this was our path. The rock round
which it went did not show the least cut
or notch, where even n goat could have
planted its feet, let alone our clumsy
mules. The little crumbing pieces of
stone which our mules hoofs kicked over
the precipicc, made me sensible of my
danger, falling straight down to a depth
that my blood froze to think of. But
this was no place to stop at; and l OBJ
served closely the cautious manner in


which my guide raised himself in his right
stirrup, not doubling that we were now
at the spot of which he had told me be-
fore, and where mules aad riders were
often thrown over. l was, therefore,
careful not to irritate my mule at a place
where it certainly knew better how to 90
than ! did--accidents having happened
from travellers pulling their brides at
the wrong time. My guide went on very
coolly along trail where mules had to
keep the very edge Of the precipice.-
Mules frequently carry a load over this
track, when they are very careful not to
knock against the overhanging rock, as
the least push would send them over the
precipice. Our mules, it is true, had no
load, but they were accustomed to carry
ing one; and, therefore, kept the extreme
edge, to my great discomposure. But /
left it entirely to its own instinct, oply
lifting my left foot in the stirrup, as
saw the vaquiano do, so that in case of
an accident, | might throw myself off its
back, and cling to the rock. But why,
the reader may ask, did you not &c. off
the mule at once, and pass dangerous
places on foot? Simply, my reader, in
the first place, because the danger is the
same for many miles, and, secondly, be-
cause those men who pass their lives in
leading travellers over these mountains,
know best where to walk, and where to
ride, and l followed the example my
guide set me. Nor, to tell the truth, did
| at the moment think of anything but
my mule, as he moved slowly, step by
step, round the yawning abyss, with
scarcely three inches to spare on either
side. AS we proceeded, the path got still


narrower, the abyss seemed deeper; and,
looking down once, between tho mules
side and my stirrups, ! saw below in the
deep hollow perfect heap of skeletons
mules that must have tumbied down
since the last food -or their bones would
have been washed away In my horror
forgot the warning of the vaquiano,
and, grasping the rein OF my mule, tried
Year: 1862

CAMERoN's CoNTRAcTs.--The Boston
Post says the official investigation into
the contracts of the War Department
made during the regime Of ex-Secretaiy
Cameron, has demonstrated the fact that
about two hundred millions of dollars
will be the ultimate cost Of the luxury
we INDUCED in when President Lincoln
selected that modest gentleman for seat
in his Cabinet. We shall begin to con-
slider Floyd comparatively honest sort
of rascal by and by. The nation only
lest three or four millions Of money by
his "prestidigitation.
Year: 1862

Some of the republicans here at the
West are claiming Governor Sprague a.
belonging to their party. If that be so,
how did it happen that the republican
State convention of Rhode Island, while
refusing to make nomination, at the
same time resolved by vote of 76 to SO,
not to support Gov. Sprague?
Year: 1862

WE would recommend any of our
readers wanting insurance to 60 TO the agency
of Robert simpson. There has never been
loss susta.e1 in this city by any company he
paid inside Of fifteen days after the FIRE.
Year: 1862

advance pay for their families one more chance
remains open, and that is to volunteer for the
old regiments previous to the LIST Of September
After that no more bountes will be paid, as
the draft will then supply the remaining def
ciencies in the quotas Of the different districts
throughout the State. Those who have been
holding back in the expectation of proiting by
the additional bounties offered by individuals
or by the premiums for substitutes will do well
to recollect that only few days are to elapse
before all bountes are to cease. The question
for them now is, not as to the amount they will
take, but whether they will take what they can
get, or be compelled to go into the army with
out getting anything at all. The choice ought
not to be difficult one.
Year: 1862

HURRY UP ron THE BouNTIEs--The limit fixed
by the order Of the War Department for the
payment Of bounties and advance pay to re-
cruits for the new regiments expired yesterday.
According to the terms Of this order the new
regiments that remain incomplete after this
date will be consolidated, and supernuous Off
GERS mustered out. This will dispose of a num-
Der Of military organizations the recruiting for
which has not been prosecuted in the proper
spirit and will, besides, deprive many desirous
of wearing shoulder straps Of that hitherto
cheap mark Of distinction.


For those anxious 70 secure the bounties and
Year: 1862

IMPORTANT TNox MOVEMENT AMONG TEE GERxAys.-A
meeting Of the most influential Germans residing In New
York and its vicinity viii be held at the Astor House st
today for the purpose Of aiding the In
furnishing men and money to put down the rebellion.
Mr.. August Belmont, the well known banker, will pre-
eida ON tha occasion
Year: 1862

The Union Fe cling among Rebel Prisoners


A correspondent of the Gazette writes from
Cairo about the prisoners taken at Fort
Donelson:


No observant man can visit rebel camp
without noticing the vast difference, in point
of intellect and intelligence, between the of.
ficers and men of the troops composing it.
This difference is especially apparent in the
case of the Fort Donelson prisoners. Many
of the private soldiers are wealthy men, own
ers of large farms, or the sons of wealthy
men, but they are the most ignorant set Of
beings ever assembled under any pretense
whatever. The officers, on the contrary, are,
as a class, educated men, most of them
young-few of the Captains and Lieuten-
ants more than twenty-five years of age.
see regiment, | found private who owns
some four hundred acres of most rich
and valuable land in the interior of the
State, yet doubt if he can write his own
name. The individual whom he salutes as
bis Captain, is penniless youth fro m q
Nashville lawyers Office, who, not two years
ago, delighted an audience in New York
college by the eloquent rendition of his
graduating essay. 1t is this species among
the prisoners that are the most vehement In
their determination to fight abolition to the
death" and to contest every inch of ground
with the Lincolnites." The unsophistieated
privates avow that they entered the field
under mistaken idea of the nature of the
war; and expressed their firm determination,
should they again reach their "homes and
firesides," TO pass the remainder of their days
as peaceable citizens, under their own vine
and fig trees. Not one in ten desires an ex-
change, until the term for which they are
enlisted shall have expired. The blast of
war blew in their ears, and they were too
Year: 1862

The New York EVSHing Post with Its &C.
customed ability, in long article, on the
18th inst, calls on the President to veto the
legal-tender clause in the Treasury note
Bill. We make brief extract:


Our Government, in the war for SUPPRESS
ing the Southern rebellion, has just won
series of triumphs. We have carried one
rebel post after another on the Atlantic
coast, and spread. consternation into the in
terror. Norfolk, Wilmington, Charleston,
Savannah and New Orleans are in alarm, and
are making their preparations for the p0ssi-
bility of captIfke. On our midland rivers
we are driving them out of their strongholds,
and penetrating TO the very heart Of their
Confederacy, through region closed against
as for months, yet full Of people ready to
lay down their lives for the Union. Every
blow we now strike at the rebellion makes Il
stagger, and every thing portends that the
war must soon end, and with it the enor-
nous sacrifices which il compels the nation
to make. If the pecuniary credit of the
Government was inirm fortnight since,
when the people were dispiritsd by the slow
progress of our arms, it should revive now
in its full vigOr. The victories we have
gained are equal, at least, TO FIVE hundred
millions Of dollars poured ct once into the
public exchequer. Men see that they can
freely trust the Government when they see
the near end of the war.


You will be told that the Treasury notes,
made legal tender, will supplant and drive
| out of circulation the notes Of the banks
The bankers know better. The notes will
have the same effect here that the inconvert.
ible Treasury notes Of the rebel States have
there; they will be hesped in the banks and
become tho basis of a vast irredeemable pa.
per circulation, the value of which will di-
minish every day. The banks of Pennsyl-
vania are slready, in anticipation of this,
asking their Legislature for leave to in
| crease their circulation. There is not q
bank in the country that does not expect to
begin to put out larger issues Of its notes the
moment you sign the bill. The FIRST effect
of this blow at the sanctity of all contracts
throughout our country, from the Hudson TO
San Francisco, the first result of this new
food of currency will be the entire disap.
| pearance Of coin, high prices, a fictitious
activity in business and inordinate specula-
tioD, and the final result will be commercial
embarrassment and ruin. This is the his
tory of paper money the world over, and
the annals Of finance show no exception to
the rule, ..-.-.. ,-..