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Year: 1862

! One day shepherd, on going to his flock.
which were feeding on the higher parts of


the Grampian Mountains, took his little bow


with him as well as his dog. The child was


only three years old. The father left him


alone while be looked after some sheery


when suddenly a thick fog came on. Thd
father instantly hastened back to find his
child; but it was so dark that he could not


see him, and, unfortunately, lie missed his


way. After search of many hours among


the caverns and holes in the mountains. 3


was at length overtaken by night. Sid
wandering on he discovered by the ligln Il
the moon that he had reached the bottoI|
| the valley, and was within short dist


of his cottage. Hid hoped that the child


gone home but when he enquired, he foon'


his wife had not seen him.


To renew the search that night was etyoal-
ly fruitless and dangerous. lie was tier
fore obliged to stay where he was, havif..s
lost both his child and his dog. wbici, lad
attended him faithfully for years. Next
morning, by daybreak, the shepherd, ac-.
companied by a band of his neighbors. set
out in search of his child; but. after day
spent in fruitless fatigue, they were at
last compelled, by the approach of night.
to descend from the mountain. On return.
ing to his cottage. the shepherd fonnd tbasi
the dog, which he had lost the day befse.
had been home, and on receiving a piece sf
cake, had instantly gone off again. Edr
several days the shepherd renewed tie
search for his child, and still, on returning n
at evening disappointed to his cottage, he I
found that the dog had been home, and onN
receiving his usual allowance of cake, had
instantly disappeared. Struck with this
circumstar ce, he remained at home one dav,
and when the dog, as usual, departed with
his piece of cake, he resolved to follow him,
and find out the cause of this strange con-
duct. The dog led the way to a waterfall.
at some distance from the spot where the
shepherd had lost his child. The shepherd,
stepping from crag to crag, crossed the
roaring stream. The dog at last disap-
peared into cave, the mouth of which was
upon a level with the torrent The shep-
herd with difficulty followed; but, on enter
ing the cave, what was his emotions when
he beheld his little boy eating with much
satisfaction the cake which the dog had just
brought, while the faithful animal stood by
watching his young master with love and
pleasure in his looks


From the situation in which the child was
found, it appears that he wandered to the
brink Of precipice, and then either had
fallen or scrambled down till he reached the
cave, which the dread of the torrent had af
terwards prevented him from quitting The
dog, by means of his scent, had traced him
to the spot. and afterwards preventing him
from starving by giving up his own daily
allowance. He appears never to have quit
ted the child by night or day, except when
it was necessary to go for his food, and then
he was always seen running at full speed to
and from the cottage.-Haper's Sagacity
of Animals.
Year: 1862

4 Fruit BEARING.-If your fruit occupy
too rich soil, and so grow too fast to bear
fruit. though they blossom profusely. you
may make them go into fruit bearing in
various ways, as for example : l, withhold
ing their usual supply of manure: ., remov
ing their rich surface soil and replacing it
with poor soil or 3, cutting off some of the r
roots 4, Sitting the bark open into the solid
wood from the first set of limbs down to the
ground. in one or two longitudinal Sits or
5, boring an auser-hole into the heart of the
tree in the month of January or February,
as each of these treatments will hasten and
ensure fruit. bearing.
Year: 1862

The NIGGER.-A correspondent of the
New Orleans Delta, of the battle of Baton
Rogue, says,


$ The fercest part of the conflict occurred
before and within a house which the rebels
obstinately determined to get possession Of.
The most conspicuous of the rebels at this
place was a huge negro armed and equipped
with knapsaek, musket, and uniform he IL
the rebels, and met his death at the hands Of
one of our men y
Year: 1862

PATRiorIc PRINTERs.-Sixty-s compost
tors in the New York Herald Office, have
resolved to raise a fund for the benefit of
the families of the married compositors in
the Office who may enlist in the army or be
drafted. Said fund to be raised by an as
scssment of two Ter cent. per week on each
mans earnings. Twenty. eight printers have
volunteered from the Herald Office since the
war. OF these four are commissioned and
two are non commissioned officers.
Year: 1862

HARRY MCCARTHY AGAlN.-The admirers of this
talented comedian and vocalist will be glad to
hear that he will be with US again in day or two
and will commence another series of his captiva.
ring entertainments on Monday next at the
Academy of Music. ~
Year: 1862

An UNKNOWN WOMAN KILLED ON TIx NEW HAVEN
RAnRoAD-As the down train from Now Haven ap-
preaching Mott Haven about halfpast ave O'Clock yes
tcrday morning, the engineer discovered woman walk


ing the track short distance ahead of tho locomotive.
The whistle instantly blown to the woman Of
and the train was almost upon her that she paid the
slightest attention to the warning. She then made
oort reach tho lett hand track but before sho could
get out OF tho way. tho COW catcher struck her
infcting such severe injuries that she died IN
Naumann hold inquest upon the BODY whom tho above
facts appearing in cvdonco the jury rendered verdict
of Accidental DEATH. Deceased was about forty yhvo
years age stout built, had black hair and hazel
cycs Tho body removed TO the dead house for tho
purpose Of Identification.


SUPPOSED INrASTIc1DT-The body OF female child was
found in an alley way in Grand street yesterday
morning undor circumstances whchle to tho bocf that
was strangled Coroner Naumann held inquest upon
the body, when tho jury rendered verdict Of " Death
by strangulaton at tho hands OF person unknown
Year: 1862

sea way they roll badly a. TO make their guns
practically useless, at the time reducing their
tuiness IN smooth, shallow water By giving them in
Tor making vessels Of war unreasonably narrow. Tho
consciousness 49, thoy roll oatrsgsousy, ruqnas the risk
OF throwing their guns overheard, and placing them
disadvantage in action with other stsader vessels Be-
sides this they the uncomfortable ships In the
world IN anything but fine weather, and going 10
now adays in gunboat or soop of about tke
thing as the old fashioned punishment Of being TOSSED
a blanket and ducked in the horsepond
Year: 1862

BALTIMORE, March 28, 1862.
Position Of Affairs at Yorktown and Along tho York Rioer


The rebel deserters who have recently como up here
tell stories about the force and position Of the rebels that
do hang well together Their accounts Of matters at
YORKTOWN and along the York river do not correspond
with those that have from other MY nforma
ton leads TO believe that the AFFAIR of yesterday al
Big Bethel might have taken place at any time during
the three weeks far any opposition on the part
Of the rebels Big Bethel evacuated
BY them month ago, and they have not boon hors in
force any time since. Tho statement that th0y had
500 troops there Yesterday is manfesy Incorrect and
probably for $50, the only troops they have
Gently kept Bethel have been picket guards and Scouts
They strong force at Yorktown whore they have
at least 25 COO troops. Yorktown very strongly fort
fed both on the land and river sido. ot
Year: 1862

.% Colonel Jennison, Of Kansas. who is
under bail at St Louis, was serenaded in
that city on Saturday night, and made a
speech. He SAID that he had been arrested
simply because he was an abolitionist, and
was disgusted with the pro-slavery Generals
now in command in Kansas, and of whom he
and the people of that State were suspicious.
&c had eight or ten reminders of that jeal-
ousy in the shspe of bullets and buckshot,
now in his body, and while carrying so much
lead, was not Likely to forget the cause or the
men engaged &ft. He had been branded as
a thief and villain, but no Union man could
say that he had been injured by him.
Year: 1862

~The rebel element in Missouri is ST.
fenced but not subdued. A writer remarks
that the conviction is fast forming in the mind
of every rejecting loyal citizen that there are
no longer the elements of loyal civil govern
ment in Missouri, and that the inevitable re-
suit Of disloyal one will be, sooner or later,
to drive every loyal family out of the State
In Northeast Missouri it is pretty much all
the Provost guards can do to keep the un
easy people strictly to their oaths.
Year: 1862




Recent events have demonstrated the fac
that thorough reorganization of the Amer
ican navy is measure that is imperatively
demanded. We eau no longer depend upo,
our merchant vessels as an arm of the publ
defense. The engagement st Hampton Roads
has established the theory that iron and no
wooden walls are our only protection. Tim,
was when we could cover the ocean with pri
vateers ready and able to cope with the navy
Of any European power, England not except
ed. But against such formidable engines o
destruction as the Mer7imac and Monitor
wooden frigates are but little more than the
paste-boayd arrangement with which the school
boy whiles away an houror two of his afternoon
holiday. England and France, always on the
alert for Improvements in military and naval
warfare, are bending every energy to supply
the deficiency that exists in their naval de-
fences, and the Government of the United
States should follow their example and take
good care that another war shall never find





present rebellion broke out.


Against iron clad vessels of war fortifca-
items even appear to be Of but little account.
Exposing but small surface to the fire of
land battery the floating battery can lay off at
distance and tumble the massive stone walls
about the heads of the astonished artillerist
in quick time. For the protection of our
harbors floating batteries must be relied up
pom, and Aoa'ing batteries only. The En-
gllsh Government is well aware Of this fact
and has discontinued work on all her forts
and fortresses.


Luckily for us at the Inauguration of this
new era we had but small navy, and will,
comparatively, have but little to lose. The
immense fleets Of England, upon which mil
lions have been spent, are of but little conse-
quence, and are not much better than dead
loss. The work must all be done over again
at an expense of millions more. We are but
just starting out in the construction of ma
Wy, and the authorities at Washington will,
no doubt, invest the money Of the nation in
something that is substantial and effective.


A militia navy is talked of. or one that de-
pends upon the merchant marine as means
of existence. In our opinion this scheme is
rather too ancient to engross much attention
from the Naval committee. Merchants can
not now build vessels that would be Of much
assistance to the Government in the event of
war. The commissioning of merchant cap
tains as naval officers would not help the mat.
ter any unless they were experienced in gun
merry and the management of steam vessels.
The only resource left US is the erection of
iron ships to be manned and Differed ny Off
GERS and seamen trained to that particular
branch of ths service. 1t is true that the
treasury viii have to suffer, but our enor-
mousshipping interest, more extensive than
thst Of any other nation, demands such
course.
Year: 1862

wfhe news from England reports a
marked improvement in prices of breadstuffs.
American farmers, in view Ct the unfavorable
prospects with reference to the next crop Of
spring wheat in the Northwest, will be in no
hurry to realize on the stock of grain re-
manning on hand. Prices are not likely to
be lower than they are at present, while q
much higher level may be reached.
Year: 1862

We are informed that in a neighboring
county the President Of a cotton factory
was presented by the Grand Jury for ex-
torton, when the fact was notorious that
one half of the Jurors had locked up
their cribs and sworn they would not sell
a grain of corn for less than t,oo dollars a
b,tshel!


Some poet has said, Gall men think all
men mortal except themselves" How
true is this in reference to extortionl-
Al mon think all men are ertOrtioacrS ercept
themselves!


Some persons in the innocence of their
verdancy, think there is no sin in extor-
ton, when they ask Sl.2j for corn and
SIPS per hundred for sheaf oats--that
only few editors and others have de-
clared it to be sinful. In the Word of
God extortioners are not classed with
common sinners, but come in with mur-
dercrs, adulterers and liarsl Think Of
that ye church members who are selling
articles which are now more abundant
than they ever were at eXorbitant prices!


dbrue HglrLpan
Year: 1862

We have no disposition in these stir
ring times to write long articles. But
we wish to put few figures before our
readers with the hope that they may
reach the eyes of those for whose express
benefit the calculation has been made
The Yankee papers admit that the United
States government has been spending
SO 0O0.0 900 day. The debt of the North
'by the first of July will therefore be
about 81. 100, 100000. Add to this the
old debt of the United States and the eX-
penditures on the civil list, and the
amount which the United States govern
ment will owe after twelve months Of
war will reach the. enormous figure of
81, 300, 100000.


If the South should be conquered this
debt will be forced upon us and we shall
be forced to pay it at the point OF the
bayonet. The population Of the South
ern States is about eleven million. This
debt would require an apportionment Of
Sll7, upon every man woman and child,
white or black, throughout the Confedc'
racy. Or if we estimate the burden in
reference to white population only the
apportionment TO each man woman and
child would be SlS6, burden which no
nation ever could bear


The proportion which the State of Al
ALBANIA would have to pay of this enor-
nous burden would be about Sl20,000,-
600. These are plain statements which
any man can rectiiy for himself. And
vet there arc some men in the South, a
very few we beleve-.still there are some
who are secretly INDUCING hopes Of being
permitted to die in the GLORIOUS Union"
If there are any such still in this State,
we hope that they will not be permitted
to live much longer on.our soil.--1dsca-
iooga Observer.
Year: 1862

Wendell Phillips, that arch-demon o


Aboltionism, recently delivered lecture


at Rochester to large audience, en-


bracing many of the intelligent and in


huential citizens" The lecture was re


plete with atrocious sentiments. W,


take an extract or two from it to aii0rc
an application for some of Carliles utter
ances, and to show the spirit which still
actuates one of the leading men of the
North:


"The present war is the result of nc
accident, nor is it the result of the action
of any particular person or party. In
one sense, "nobody was to blame, for the
war was the result of the national policy
for the last sixty or seventy years. Slave
ry is the real cagse.


81 have been a disunionist and an
honest disunionist. II was only last year
that | began TO see how the Union could
mean Justice, and | am Yankee enough
not to refuse union if can get enough
with it. If we can have justice in the
Union, as we can if we will, ther / am
for the Union. The Union means peace,
prosperous commerce and manufactures,
and extended nationality. Seeing so
much depends upon it, would have the
nation take that course which will make
its preservation certain. The Union,
simply by coercion, would be q worthless
bond, irritating the South and Improbable
to ourselves. The plan of subjugatng
the South by force would result in bald,
barren conquest, bearing no fruit, be-
Mcclellan could, tomorrow, plant the
Stars and Stripes on Richmond and Mont
gomery, and all the principal points in
the South, and TO have force large
enough to hold them there, what then
The elephant would be ours, but what
should be done with it? The people of
the South would be left angry and ready
to rebel at any time, He is merely bar
barian who would conquer with bayonets
alone. He is a statesman who would
conquer people by changing their con-
viction and thus removing the cause of
hostility.


GLOW should we do this? The an
swer is simple. Issue proclamation of
emancipation, and we shall checkmate
the interests of England by an appeal to
her conscience. ] would have a
liberal compensation to all shareholders
who were loyal. And would not have
too close a scrutiny as to their loyalty
would pour money into. the South
This would stimulate industry and enter
prise, and thus with freedom Virginia
and South Carolina would soon become
like New York. X / would leave
none of the ten million people of the
South out of these blessings, but about
$4,000 traitors and rebels who must die
or go into exile. All this is possible, be.
cause we have got into this war, and !
am glad the war has come"
Year: 1862

The Atlanta Intelhgencer says: owe
are satisfied that nothing but the "heay
hand Of military lar" will stop the specula'
tors and extortioners upon PROVISIONS
As valued correspondent SAID through
the Intelligencer only few days ago,
they are an ".mpenctrablc" class, and can
not be made to desist, through the force
of public opinion or the efforts Of the
press. Possibly, in this county, they
may be reached next week by our Grand
Juries. In other counties, Grand Juries
have discharged their duty to the coun-
try and humanity in this respect In
fact, we know Of an instance in which
one Of the Judges Of the Superior Courts
of this state-a most excellent and patri-
otic man too-charged Grand Jury to
bring in indictments against all who
were engaged in speculation and extor-
ton. The Jury did so, and the first in
dictment preferred was against the Judge,
himself, as a co.partner in a manuiactur-
ing establishment. We need scarcely
say, that the Judge was an outside part
ner, and was entirely ignorant that the
establishment in which he was interested
was engaged in the work of extortion;
and we only refer to this instance, to
commend the independence and patriot
ism of the Jury, who, though highly re-
specting their presiding Judge, hesitated
not in the discharge Of a solemn duty
Such an example is worthy Of imitation,
by the Grand Juries in every county in
Georgia; where speculation and eXtoriion
prevails.
Year: 1862

A gentleman from the Gap brings inior-
nation that the Federals and renegades
had fallen back beyond Cumberland Ford
and that the Small Pox was raging in the
Federal camp with great virulence and
fatality
Year: 1862

AMENITIES or THE ENGLISH PREss-It will be
seen by the extracts published elsewhere that
our contemporaries Of the English press are not
absting anything in the virulence and indccen-
cy of their language towards us. The abuse
which they heap upon the President, the MEM
bers of his Cabinet, and the Northern people
generally has rarely been surpassed by the
choicest flowers OF invective thrown Off by
London cabby" or dcnizen of Billingsgatc.


Whilst journals on the other side are thus
losing all sense of propriety and regard for
good manners, we of the American press have
become gentle as sucking doves and decorous
as Quakers If the contrast is permitted to con-
tinue we shall establish in the courtesies and
eeQanoies of life, as we'll as in everything else,
our claim to the title Of the model republic"
Unlike our transatlantic cousins, we can
discuss question in which our feelings
are interested without losing our tempers
or descending to the level Of the ter
magant. We do not think II necessary to
detect imaginary insults in the acts of our
neighbors in order to prove to the world that
we are jealously careful Of our honor. Nor do
we fsstcn disputes upon our rivals In their mo-
ments of weakness in order TO sggrandize our,
Year: 1862

THE REBELLION IN RAGE ABOUT THE Ma
son AND SLIpErL ArrAR.-we publish this
morning most amusing article from the Rich
mopd Dispatch on the settlement of the Trent
difficulty with England. 1t suggests the picture
of as rabd disappointment as was ever ex-
pressed through the medium of scething and
foaming expletives The fatal character Of the
blow dealt to the hopes of the rebels by the deci
sion of our government on this question cannot
be more clearly evidenced. 1t is only impotcnt
rage that overAows thus in the redundancy of q
spiteful vocabulary.


The South played its all upon this stake, and
il has lost IL. II was the main depcndence-th
very life of this rcbellion-this scheme of en-
broiling us with England. The prudence and
moderation of our government, and the ready
appreciation by our people Of the wisdom of its
foreign policy, have given the coup dc grace to
any further expectations Of this kind. The
worst blow the rebellion has as yet received
has been that inflicted upon it by Secretary
Stewards despatch surrendering the worthless
traitors through whose arrest 1t believed all Its
objects were accomplished. 1t was worse than
n dozen defeats in the held-worse than the loss
of Maryland and the detection Of Kentucky
worse, even, than the monster victory Of Ma
nassas, which was success only because IL
was mutual scare, and which, like the cele-
brated victory of Pyrrhus, would have been
followed by immediate ruin If repeated. No
thing, therefore, can be more agreeable to our
feelings or more cheerful in prospect than to
witness the manner in which the temper of our
Southern contemporaries is exercised by the
peaceful conclusion Of our difficulty with Eng
land. We like these frenzies and exhibitions Of
wild passion on their part The violence of
their paroxysms is proof TO us That the mala-
dy with which they are afflicted is beginning to
wear itself out, and that II requires but little
further in the way Of blood-letting to restore
them to oil the blessings of sound oonstitu-
tion,