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Year: 1862

white glided in, and made straight up t
the Golfers. In q moment the report o


Hsroldson's pistol rang through the old
house, but it was followed By shfiel
from a well known voice, and there wa:
heavy fall. Both rushed 70 the pros
trate man, but they could rot discern
his face. "For Gods sake go and
strike a light" said HareIdson. and
when the clerk brought the candle, he
was standing in pool of blood, and
close to his feet lay the dead white face
Of his son. It was Fred4riek, from
whom he had got one of tho good snd
proper letters that very daY, who had
come, night after night, clad 10 shroud
and sheet, and armed with 9 bunch oI
skeleton keys. to frighten his father's
clerks and rob the bank.


The mode of his entran& was also
visible, one Of the flags forming the floor
on the corridor was turned up, disclos-
ing an open CRATE, ladder of strong
ropes, and a passage below, which
wound away under the bank ill it ter
minated in sort of fissure in one Of the
arches of the Alster bridge hard by, Of
easy access fiom the ice on the river.
Nobody had dreamed of the existence
of that passage, it must have been con-
structed in the monks time as some
convenience to those holy brothers, and
the memory Of it lost in the course of
time. How young Haroldson spent the
money, or who wrote the letters from
Copenhagen was never discovered
The unfortunate banker went all the
way to inquire, but he could only learn
that his son. had never lodged at the
respectable house from whichsibey were
dated, nor been known to any of the ac-
quaintance mentioned in them. He re-
turned to business and tried to go on
as he used to do, but never looked him
self again. Within six months he re-
signed his managership Of the bank,
and before the close Of the year was laid
beside his son. The husband Of his
eldest daughter succeeded lin, dis
Greet man, but the bank did not pros
per under his government, people some
how lost confidence in it after the story
of young Haroldson. If that were
Delapres' revenge. or how be contrived
to execute it. neither time nor inquiry
ever disclosed. When the French oc-
cupied Hamburg, the Danish bank was
the first OF the public funds they seized.
The old house was ruined in:the subse-
quent bombardment, and has since
given way to timber stones.
Year: 1862

EWe are justly called to account
by Douglas Democrat, who goes for
the war and against the rebellion, and
who supports the Administration in all
its efforts to prosecute the one and put
down the other, for speaking OF the
Breckenridge Democracy He says.
with great truth, ''there IS no such
thing as a Breckinridge Democracy
There is Breckenridge party opposed,
TO the war sympathiziug wilh-tbe rebel
lion. but this cannot be called a Democ-
racy. You might designate the slave.
holding treason as a Democracy with
as much truth. When the Democratic
organization fell into the hands of the
BTeckinridge leaders, il ceased to be
Democracy. The only. combination
now opposed to the war and in favor of
the rebellion is the Breckinridge party


We accept the suggestion. Hereafter,
let us refuse to give the name Of De-
mocracy to any men or party that de-
vote themselves to assaults upon an Ad-
ministration that can have no other or
higher ambition than to conduct the war
successfully and to crush out the rebel
lion. .--ForRey's Press. Is
Year: 1862

Railroad Accident AN extra freight train OH the
Danviie Eoad ran of on Tuesday nesr Brown .
Summit. but 20 damage was done beyond lan6iy g
the engine and few cars in The mud along side the
track
Year: 1862




The Legislature convened yesterday
Gov. HarVey's Message first slludes to 10.
cal matters and the healthy financial con-
dition Of the State. In reference to the
war tax to be levied, he says the loyal
people of Wisconsin do not value property
or life itself weighed against the existence
Of the Government which has so long bless
ed and protected them in both. He recon-
mends economy and wise administration
to meet this tax; recommends the introduc-
tion of military tactics and drill in public
schools; strongly urges memorial to Con-
gress for an armory, naval and arsenal
depot at Milwaukee, its ospacious hsrbor,
water power, oheapness Of ship material,
and accessible position, rendering it the
best point on the Lakes.


Alluding TO the rebellion and the rebels
he says: Surely few more lessons will
teach US, if indeed we are not already
taught, to understand what treason means;
to regard these rebels with that horrid
aversion the royslists have for the regi-
eide; they are the regioides of the best
Government under heaven. The contest
must come to be fought on the principle
that the protection Of the Union alone gives
sacredness to soil or institutions. No soil,
person, or any species Of property has any
saoredRess or claim to regard outside the
Constitution and in rebellion against the
laws. Slavery is moreover the interest
which the plotters for q Southern mon
archy have played upon to alarm and unite
their section, until that whole people have
gone mad upon it. Conservatism or poll
tics cannot save it now from the doom that
awaits it. Whether it fuds its fate in the
struggle or dies lingering of its wounds, ID
yet in the order Of Providence, and not to
be directed by our impotence.
Year: 1862

EDS. LEADER As the columns Of your
paper seem to be open for the discussion
Of the relative merit Of the candidates for
the United States senstOrship or express
sions Of personal preferences, l desire to
siste without acting upon the assumption
Of dictator, thst the personal preference
Of nine-tenths Of the Republicans Of the
Reserve is B. F. Wade. It is idle, however,
to presume that the Legislature will fail to
make proper selection when there are SO
many able and competent men. The COM
potency Of Judge spslding to I'LL that
Office with credit to the State and honor to
himself, must be conceded. The next
question is whether or not is there any
osoasion to find fault with Senator Wade,
has he not bsftled manfully for the great
principle Of human rights with zeal and
fearlessness equaIled BY no other member
Of the Senate Why then abandon good,
efficient and Trustworthy public servant,
simply upon the plea that he has held his
Dobltloh LOE Two LoIAa 4Aap any hAaA any
earthly cause to doubt his fidelity, or to
believe that less fealty to right would be
manifested in g third term than in the two
1or1ner7 The great error Of political
practice st the North has been too much Of
an inolinaiion to drop able snd trust
worthy public men simply to make way
for n5itious aspirsnts, the dire conse'
ouencss 81 which has been felt on many
an occasion. The craftsmanship Of Senator
Wade, his political integrity, his conceded
boldness, his able vindicatiOn Of Northern
rights, his repeated denunciatiOn Of South
ern insolence and scurility, cheerfully
commend him to the favor OF every lover Of
right and oontemner Of wrong, and prove
him above ell other men the one to be re-
elected to the United States Senate as a
proper remuneration for his past services.


N. C. W


uur-szrpe Ian. 10. 1862,
Year: 1862

for the truth Of the assertion that my col
league has opposed every Warlike prepar-
rtion Of this Government which really in-
volvedits honor and its dignity, and which
had tendency 10 put down this rebellion.
Aud why is it that my colleague is 80 bel
lioose now upon the position Of England 2
II the members Of this House will read an
article recently published in the Richmond
Examiner, they will find very good cOun-
terpart to my colleagues speech. That ar
I tiole Is in relation to the surrender Of Ma
son end shdell. Cen il be possible thai
my colleague is Of opinion that If we
should get into a war with England, it
might by possibility aid THE rebellion 1
must not state any such thing. But l say
the position Of my colleague upon the
right to ooerce the States in revolt, and
the position of my colleague upon this
controversy with England, give color 10
the suspicion that his belligerent attitude
In the one case may tend to benefit the re-
bellious States, and therefore be is in favor
Of war in one instance, and opposed to
coercion in the other. Upon what other
ground can the difference in the position
Of the gentleman be explained? l do not
see now nc can EcOohoAAc tAo osAnA9sSANg sA
his conduct upon any other hypothesis. l
hope he may be able to reconcile his con-
duet in the estimation Of the country,
When and where has my colleague, from
the commencement of this rebellion, from
the time when these rebels began to seize
aud oonfscate the property Of the United
States, voted for or advocated measure
tending to reduce and subdue the persons
in rebellion, and to establish over them the
authority Of the United States think
since this rebellion broke out that the re-
cord of this House will not show vote or
speech Of my colleague but in opposition
to any measure which might bring the
United States Government into armed col
lision with the rebels. Ibelieve that fair
statement of the position Of my colleague.
And now he is for holding on to Mason
and slidell, although it might result in q
war which possibly might enure to the
benefit Of those persons in rebellion. l do
not understand why tits. hope, IS said
before, that my colleague will be enabled
to explain to this House and to the coun-
try that he is actusted by pure and patri-
otie motives in his COURSE
Year: 1862

These good and great men had gone to their
graves, but the memory of their names was fresh
in the minds of the lovers of progress and of west
ern development, and one more effort was made
by the friends of the North Pacific to secure to
us its peaceful possession, opening up line over
Lewis and Clarke's route by which our citizens
could travel towards this newly explored region,
and thus estrblish an infant colony-an outpost to
our fast increasing Republic.


With this view DR.. Floyd, the elder, (whose
mantle fell upon so shameless a son as the late
Secretary of War; at that date representing his
district in Virginia in the House of Representa-
tives was among the first to bring the matter up
in practical shape by introducing before Con-
gress bill to open a communication from the
Columbia to the Missouri, for which $4,000 was
asked, but which was allowed to slumber on the
table of Congress without successful action.


Though much detailed information was by this
time added to that gained by Lewis and Clark,
still nothing was done by our Government till
later by which we have been enabled to build up
an important arm of our confederacy upon the
racine coast.


Among the any warm admirers of Lewis aud
Clark, man who studied to appreciate their tolls
and their labors, was the late Colonel Benton. In
his aims and efforts to make his favorte State of
Missouri what she is doubtless destined to be-
come-the great central State of wealth and i'm
portance to our nation-he early devoted his la
bors and the powers of his mind towards the open
ing of a practicable highway across the route pur-
sued by these early pioneers. The future por-
trayed not only for the city of ST. Louis the State
of Missouri, but the country at large formed the
oft-repeated theme of his eloquent appeals in the
Halls of Congress- and why ne abandoned this,
his then favorite project for routes amid snow
clad mountain ranges, and over alkaline plains
and arid deserts, nevercould understand, unless
chasing him among the sectional partizans of the
day, who, for private views and private interests,
are often ready to forsake long cherished friends
and projects, and marshalling their talent under
a new standard with new pledged friends, for the
pleasure and profit OF the hour


Conclusion nert toeek
Year: 1862


When first the skies grow warm and bright
And flash with gold the hours,
And In her pale faint robes, the Spring
Is calling up the flowers
When children, with unslippered feet,
Go forth with hearts ofglee
To the straight and even furrows


Where the yellow corn must be;
What beautiful embodiment


Of ease, devoid of pride,
Is the good old fashioned homestead,
With doors still open widel
But when the happiest time is come,


That to the year belongs,
Ofuplands bright with harvest gold,
And meadows full of songs;
When fields of yet unripened corn,


And daily garnered stores,
Remind the thrifty husbandman


OF ample threshing floors
How pleasant, from the din and dust
Of the thoroughfare aloof,
Seems the old fashioned homestead,
With steep and messy roof
When the woodsman plods, with ak
Upon his shoulder swinging,
And in the knotted apple treo


Are scythe and sickle hung;
When light the swallows twitter


Meath the rafters of the shed,
And the table on the ivied porch


With decent care is spread
Then hearts are lighter and freer,
Than beat in the populOus town,
In the old fashioned homestead,


With gables sharp and brown.
When the flowers of Summer perish,
In the cold and bitter rain,
And little birds with weary wing
Have gone across the main;
When curls the blue smoke upward
Toward the bluer sky,
And cold, along the naked hills,
And white the snowdrift lie
In legends of love and glory


They forget the cloud and storm,
In the old fashioned homestead,
With.hearth-stone large and warm!
Year: 1862

A PRINTERS SToRY.-"It was pretty exten-
sve breach of the peace that battle at Shiloh,"
writes a Chicago printer from his prison at Macon,
Ga. "The roar of musketry from six in the
morning till night sounded like an immense wa
terfall. No cessation, no rest-continual and des-
perate fighting. Dead men lay literally in heaps,
In some places where the wounded lay the brush
caught fire, and we could hear them scream as
the flames reached them. shudder when think
of it. Another remarkable feature of the battle
was the number Of dead negroes lying about in
secesh uniform. Draw your own inference. J
have seen negroes with guns in their hands acting
as sentries. No cotton is allowed to be raised
this year-the attention Of planters being given
chiefly to corn. No more whisky can be distilled
in the Confederacy. Whisky is scarce. Every
thing is scarce-but the guard l would like to
make myself scarce, but the guard is in the way,
and Trey have strong proclivity for shooting If
Yankee crosses their beat. They shot at
somebody who tried to escape last night; looked
at it in the morning, and found it was the fence


We have facilities for bathing here. and the men
avail themselves of the chance. To-day did nay


washing Zone shirt) hung it up on the grass and
stood guard over it till dry. Somebody may think
it hard to have only one shirt, but console my
self by thinking that many of us have none"
Year: 1862

Even when the same substances are eaten
in different countries, there is often a strange
difference in the mode of preparing them.
Both we and the islanders use butter, but
they store it up without salt till it is rancid
and sour.


We agree with the Abyssinians in liking
beef, but they would probably object as much
10 the roast beef of Old England as we should
to the half-lying morsels of raw beef in which
thew delight.


Maize, the Indian corn of America has
been introduced into New Zealand by the
missionaries, and the people cultivate and
highly esteem it. But their mode of prepar-
1t for food is to Europeans most disgusting.
They steep it in water I'LL tits putrid, and then
make it into kind of porridge which emits a
most intolerable stencil.


Haman flesh has been and still is eaten in
many parts of the world, and that by people
considerably above the lowest rank of sava-
ges, such as the Fejee Islands and an Indian
people called the Batta, who are said to have
a written language. And even in cannibal-
ism there are great diversities-some nations
eat their enemies and some their friends.


Herodotus relates that a Prussian king
asked the Indian soldiers that were in his SER
vice what reward would induce them to burn
the dead bodies of their friends instead of
eating them. They replied by entreating him
not to mention anything so shocking.


On the other hand, the New Zealanders-
before their conversion, who seemed to have
considered that the proper diet of mankind
is man-seem to have eaten only their enc
mics.


Among the Australian savages, on the con-
trary, it is said that if mother firrls young
baby troublesome to carry about she will eat
it, (although she would not allow any one else
has merely deferred its birth, and that the
next child she bears will be temperance
of the eaten one. When demonstrated with,
she will reply: "Oh massa, he plenty come
again"
Year: 1862

airy adiuncts Of the soldier, and do not
propose to lower him by menial offices,
nor compel him to perform the duties Of
the slave. So, while shall elevate the
slave by giving him his freedom and maxi
ing man of him, | shall also elevate the
soldier and leave him no work to do but
fighting" A voice in the crowd - What
are you going to do with the niggers ?']


THE Gen singing out the owner Of
the Voice, and pointing his long finger at
him, replied, " All, my friend, you are
Just the man have been looking for, /
will tell you what am going to do with
them am going to plant them on the
soil of the Gulf coast, after we have got
through this war let them stay there and
cultivate the land have government ex-
tend protection to them, as it does the
Indians, aud send superntcndents and
governors among them and pay them
wages for their labor There could be no
competition between black and white la
bor." He believed, whether the rebels
liked the idea or not, that the blacks at
no distant day would have possession of
the Gulf country, to which they were ac-
elimated and physically conditioned. He
proposed to establish free state govern
ments as he went along and he could
promise his hearers that either he or the
rebels would be cleaned out.
Year: 1862

The NIGGER OATH.-The following is the
form of oath usually administered to "contrabands
that enter the Yankee lines


''You, Cicero, do solemnly swear that you will
bear allegiance to the United States that you
will take good care Of the horses and mules, and
if any of them get away, you will 60 after them
matter how dark it is, and will also black boots
to the best of your knowledge and belief. So help
you General Mcdowell"
Year: 1862

The Foundry and Machine shop of the late firm OF
ALEXANDER Il MCD0UGALD having been sold,
notice is hereby given those indebted TO the concern
to come forward Immediately and make settlement by
cash or note; and those having claims against the
firm viii present them for settlement The under
signed is authorized to attend to settlements.


lime II 1902 HENRY ALEXANDER
Year: 1862

GEN. lea correspondent of the Charleston
Courier, writing from the army, says OF Gen. Lee


"You cannot imagine palmer or more unos-
tentatious looking man than the Commandcr-n-
Chief of the Confederate armies-General Lee
Take a human form, say five feet eight inches in
height, its constituents we'll knit together full in
its proportions, and yet without supcrhuty. Add
to it wcllshapcd sQuarely built head, with a
front whose every line is marked with energy aud
genius, pair of kecn dark eyes-brown in the
parlor, but black in the ficld--that seem to en-
brace everything at a glance; handsomelr r-shaped
nose, such as Napoleon liked to see his Gener-
ais mouth indicative Of an iron will, and a
countenance whose natural expression is Of
gentleness and beneyoleuce; cover the head
mouth, and lower part Of the face with a heavy
growth Of short gray hair; invest the whole figure
with grace, and an unassuming consciousness Of
strength, purpose, and position let it speak to
you in a voice whose tones of Politeness never
vary, whether uttered to the highest OR lowest in
rank, and you have as full and complete descrip-
ton as | can give of the distinguished man who
at this moment holds in the hollow Of his hand the
destiny of his country.
Year: 1862

\ strange phenomena recently occurred at Pres
que Isle, Maine One morning it suddenly grew
so dark as to require lamps to be lighted. There
very little thunder, and some rain fell, which
was black, and ''smelled ike old chimney burn
ing Clothes that were hung out were covered
with fine black dust
Year: 1862

A Superior MANA certain nobleman,
some years ago, was conspicuous for his success
in the world. He had been employed in the
highest situations at home and abroad, without
one discoverable reason for his selection, and
without justifying the selection by one proof of
administrative ability Yet at each appointment
the public said, "a great gain to the Government
superior man." And when from each office he
passed away, or rather imperceptibly onward to-
wards office still more exalted, the public said, ga
great loss to the Government superior man !"-
He was the most silent person l ever met But
when the first reasoners of the age would argue
some knotty point in bis presence, he would from
time to time slightly elevate his eyebrows gently
shake his head, Or by dexterous smile of sig
nifcant complacency, impress on you the notion
how easily he could set those babblers right, if
he would but condescend to give voice 10 the wis
dom within him.


. was very young when first met this superior
man and CHANGING the next day to call on the
late Lord Durham, said, in the presumption of
early years, 81 passed six mortal hours last eve
ming in company with Lord -. don't think
there is much in him."


"Good Heayens' cried Lord Durham, chow
did you find that out? Is it possible that he
could bave-talked 9"-Sir E. b. Lsjtton.
Year: 1862

Twas whispered in heaven, twas muttered in hell,
And each caught family the souid d as it fell;
On the confines of earth twas permitted TO rest
And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed


Twill be found in the sphere when tits riven asunder
Be seen in the lightning and heard in the thunder.
Attends at his birth, and awaits him in death;
1t presides DER his happiness, honor and health,
Is the prop of bishouse, and the end of his wealth
Without it the soldier, the seaman, may roam,
But woe to the wretch who expels it from home.


In the whispers Of conscience its voice will be found
Nor cen in the whirlwind of passion be drowned


Twill not soften the heart and though deaf to the
Twill make it acutey and constantly hear.
But in shade let it rest, like delicate flower
Oh breathe on it softly-it dies in an hour.-Byr0n
Year: 1862

HEROIC CONDUCT OF TWO LADIES The
conduct of two young ladies of Danvile, on
the occasion of the arrival of the rebels at
that place, was equal to our idea of Spar
tan courage. For many months beauti-
ful specimen of the National flag has hoated
from the residence of Mrs. Taylor, an esti-
mable widow lady, and when the rebels
took possession Of Danville it was but ma
tural that they should seek to remove the
hated emblem. A squad of a half dozen
men were sent to Mrs. Taylor's residence
to take possession Of the flag, but they
were confronted at the door Of the resi-
dence by Miss Maria and Miss Matte Tay-
ior, the two accomplished and charming
daughters of the patriotic widow, the young
ladies announcing their determination to
defend the cherished banner. The chival-
rous half-dozen returned to their comman-
der and reported that it would require a
force equal to a full company to capture the
flag, and company was accordingly dis
patched to make the capture. Arriving in
front Of Mrs Taylor's residence, the COM
mander Of the company demanded the sur
render Of the flag but the two young la
dies again made their appearance, bearing
the flag between them, each armed with a
revolver. In response to the demand for
the flag, the ladies informed their persecu-
tors that they never would surrender it to
rebels, and, drawing their pistols, vowed
that they would shoot the first rebel that
polluted the sacred emblem with his foul
touch The company of rebels retired
leaving the ladies IN the quiet possession of
their flag, which they yet retain.-Louis-
UilIe Journal