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Year: 1862

and pointing to the article in his paper
in which were the minute particulars of
his own death, he told the editor that the
account was wrong, that he was alive and
well, and that he(the editor must retract
the assertion. The editor gravely in
formed him that he could do no such
thing-that he "never took any back.
But the most he could do for him under
the embarrassing circumstances was to
inform his readers that as he was being
hung the rope broke and the man lived.


We are not like our Western contem-
pory. In the article in the Caledonsan
of Sept s, entitled " Strange Fatility,"
we wish to take back just these three words
=" and he died." We will give our rea-
son: DR.. Frank Bugbee called upon us
on Monday, and informed us he was the
man we had unceremoniously disposed of
in our paper Of Friday previous, and al
though somewhat weak from severe sick
ness, he gave promise of soon being able
to resume his practice in Glover. If we
cannot rely upon information brought
from neighbo-ing town, and by the
hand of a clergyman, too, how much reli-
ance is to be placed upon the daily tele-
grams from the seat of war? Papers
that have published the demise of DIR.
Bugbee are requested to notice his sudden
temperance upon this mundane sphere
-Caledonian.
Year: 1862

and mutton, but they did not mean that
the raising of sheep should totally divert
attention from raising other stock. They
also believed it an improbable operation
for the growers to wash their sheep before
shearing, for the reason that manufactur-
crs will pay no more for the wool, as they
have chemical process by which they
can clean it at very trifing cost.


Tomorrow Horace Greeley will deliver
an address on Agriculture in Vermont
past and future"
Year: 1862

A house of mourning is our land
A nation filled with woe
brother by a brothers hand
Deep in the grave laid low.
Old men and women, come and weep
O'er every new-made grave
IT'S here ten thousand dead men sleep
They are the fallen brave.
Der all these mounds, not e'en a name
TO mark where patriots fell
Their deeds have won a worldwide fame,
Their graves can nothing tell,
Some sleep unknown beneath the sod.
And some beneath the wave
Fen mothers know not-only Cod
Where sleep the fallen brave.
Some graves are hid meath Southern flowers,
Some shrouded in pure snow;
We cannot tell which one is ours
This we shall never know,
Let women weep in direst woe
That mans to fear slave.
Who will not help to crush the foe
Who slew our fallen brave?


".
Come, rally-rally- and near
The foe such courage dread,
Come all, and let the whole world hear
How freemen mourn their dead
The Union is our rallying cry
Death to the traitor knaye
Before our sword the foe shall fly
Avenged ye fallen brave
Year: 1862

GA PASSENGER" is respectfully in
formed that we publish no Communications
unless properly authenticated. And further.
we are prospective stockholders in the M d NJ.
Railroad, and If every woman travelling with
half dozen children, from eight to fifteen
years of age, is allowed to pass them upon one
ticket, we are prone to believe cur dividends
will be even more diminutiye than they are
now upon the stock OF that road "Pasfei-
GER we think you must have an interest IN
the "red hair" woman, for you seem 10 know
where she slept while In town.
Year: 1862

It is high time that she militia of every
loyal State were organized and armed, and
by militia We mean every able bodied man
in those States. There ought to be SO
thorough preparation Of the fighting ma
1crial OF the country, that on t@cnty-four
hours notice q million Of men could be M,
in motion: and IN a week thereafter mil,
lion more, and SO On to the last man capa-
bic Of drawing trigger There is not {,
moment to be lost, The North is already
invaded By rebel arn2ics and evidence IS
not wanting that there is other danger to
he arprehcndcd, equally fatal to republi-
can institutions, Which We must be epared
to meet and overcome. The libcrtics of
lie people are always safe in their own
lands They ar7 never safe in the hands
Of others. These mayiu1s arc as old
as Greece in her days Of freedom aud
glory and al history vint1ica!es their truth
But apart from any possibilities OF military
usurpation, there is danger enough from
tie presence Of the enemy On our soil to
warrant the utmost exertions Of every loyal
STATE and community. This, Of all times.
is the last for any patriot to despair Of the
republic, or to relax any efforts in behalf
ef his inperilcd country AMI home. We
are strong enough to surn1ount every diff
Guilty, and crush every foe that threatens
,s, if VIC he not caught with our arms fold
cd, huggirg the aclusiye phantom Of Sc
curity.


1pon the people Of the l1yal States
sests the responsibility Of saving the coun-
trv. The issue is brought to their own
doors, Our defense rests now with
our own arms, our own courage,
,.ar own virtue. Shall we be lost through
eu7 Own supineness, While the means Of
resistance abound 10 countless profasion
or every hand We must organize for
lie last conflict and 10 this end every nan
ard every arm must be brought IN reYai-
s!.;uu EitAau; Il moments delay.
Year: 1862

SUNDAY. Oct. 20, 1862.


The export Of produce merchandise and specie
Tor the week ending yesterday was more than
twice the aggregate amount OF the importations
of foreign goods. Besides produce and specie, OF
the export Of which we have an authentic record
a the Custom House. there was sent abroad last
week considerable amount OF American seouri-
ties. chiefly Illinois Central stock and bonds.
Whether IN equal amount was received from
kurope--it IL known that some securities have
been coming oves--there In no means Of ascev-
tanning. The british journals. In their exaspcrs-
ton q, the continued prosperity Of this country,
AMI NJ the mistaken resolution Of our people In
carrying on the wal. congratulate themselves that
when our river navigation closes those enormous
exports ~ produce which have paid for our foreign
imports. and kept the outward How Of coin down
20 = moderate point. viii fall on suddenly. The
London papers are willing 20 inhct upon their own
people the hardship OF dear food, provided only
they can thereby njure but there IL no prospect
that these charitable anticpatons win be realized.
We we're enabled last winter. BY the aid Of our
railways. 10 bring 10 port produce enough TO keep
the balance OF trade in our favor. and we shall do
The same this winter. Most energetic arrange
ments are being perfected on all the trunk lines
tor the increase Of their carrying capacity. IL may
safely be predicted that more produce viii be
moved by rail 20 the seaboard this winter than was
ever done before. The bullion export continues
moderate. and viii not increase very materially
unlcss our imports receive q further development.
The leading importers agree In the statement that
they have sent and are sending but few orders to
the other side. But we have 80 often seen this
assertion followed BY heavy arrivals Of foreign
goods that II must always be received with eau
tion.


The following are the Official tables OF tho trade
Of this port for the week and since January L.
Year: 1862

From the Pctersburg Express, Oct. IL


we learn from letter received at this Office dated
Greensboro Alabama, OCTOBER that very short crop
cotton planted this year, aud the yield Is remark
ably short IL Is stated that IL will not average three
hundred pounds OF seed cotton TO the acre when
ought to have been made from thousand fifteen
hundred pounds The corn crop also very short but
the planters generally will make enough for home
sumption and some 10 spare. Owing 10 almost unpre-
cedcntcd drought proracted through twelve weeks the
wheat and oat crop are entire failures.
Year: 1862

The gteamer Mary Wilson brought this morning
eleven prisoners, who taken about ago by
party OF our cavalry about three miles from Pensacola
There wore tweyo n all; but one "a drummer boy) was
that II they will lay down their arms and give themselves
up they would be paroed and their passage home would
be paid. These eleven mostly Irish, and say that
they and the balance of them at Pensacola completely
tired OF the war; and would willingly give themselves
opportunity IL they certain that they could
get home without being disturbed put in prison. They
state that the troops In Pensacola totally Ignorant
ything that is going They knew nothing d. the
battles Richmond or since, aud under the i'm
preston that Mcclellan held Richmond and that the
federacy was badly whipped


We would advise all those who wart 10 know what IL
going In this leave the federal ranks as they
will stand good chance CLOSING their eyes in ota,
norance of eyoryhnp
Year: 1862




Five hundred and thirty.6ye Yankee soldiers
sent yesterday about ten O'clock TO Varna under flag
Of truce TO be exchanged There but prvates
in the above lot OF whom looked exceedingly dlepi
datcd more in fact than any parcel we have seen
despatched from this Place. Some twenty-five thirty
vehicles brought into rcqusiton transport those
who were unable TO walk The party after their arrival
at yariua embarked board the steamer John A. War.
ner for Monroe Another Gag OF truce will
IN n few DAYS
Year: 1862

that he had not the neral courage 70 be guided by the
cearness Of his perceptions and tho dictates OF hs con-
science.


With such letter this before the Lincoln admins
uaon, what will their people think OF the madness
OF their government precpitang war upon the conn.
try, the end Of which could or can seer what
Mr Sewards repeated predictions that the war would
end IN thirty or sixty days when he had before MN me
declaration of the most experienced military man in the
United States that under the best military guid
ance war Of invasion would be war OF years attended
by frghtful destruction OF life and property, and ending
IL successfu in the destruction cfd free form Of gsusrnmes
Year: 1862

Govcrnor Of the amount Of salt sexed and the name q
the person persons asking for the transportation


Individuals In like prohibited from trans-
porting salt beyond the limits OF the state Any person


may seize and hold the for the State and give like
notice.


II the supply Of salt manufactured be not enough
furnish the people OF this Commonwealth with sufficient
quantity OF salt for home consumption then as soon
such fact shall TO the Governor he will exercise
the authority vested In him, and adisregard any con
tract made with the separate States Of the Confederate
Statesn until the State OF Virginia is supplied.


When salt is procured by the State Virginia. and


its constituted agents shall offer tho for transporta
ton on the route Of any canal railroad, other i'm
provement company, the same shall be Immediately
transported TO the depot designated unless such
portaton will interfere with the transportation OF troops
munitions Of war and army supplies OF the Confederate
government Upon refusal Of such company TO trans
port the said salt the constituted agent OF the State will
be authorized to take control of any such work. and
manage the same until tho transportation be accom-
plshed


Partial Suspension OF lhc COnscrlpt Law.


By general order dated the I'd inst issued from tho
army headquarters in Richmond, "the execution Of the
act approved April 49, 1862 commonly called the Con.
scripton act and Of all the amendments thereto
pended by direction OF the President the States OF Ken
lucky and Missouri Troops from those States will until
further orders be received into the Confederate service
under the act by the Confederate Congress prior
to the acts above referred to- and the execution Of which
is suspended"
Year: 1862

Our exchange list has grown enor-
mously large, extending over all parts Of
the country. II is OF course become an
item of considerable expense. We viii
be glad, however, TO exchange with those
country exchanges which viii give us a
few insertions of our prospectus ana q
notice. We doubt not that in very
short time we shall send out a much lar
ger sheet than at present The Nash
vile UNION has become one Of the insti-
tutions of civilization, and ranks with the
Rocky Mountains, the Falls of Niagara,
the Pacific Ocean and the universal Yam
kce nation
Year: 1862

The Editor win be greatly obliged 70
persons making up clubs for the UNION II
they will remit TO the publishers and not
to himself Communication and sub
scriptions are sometimes mixed up with
private information in such a manner a.
to cause needless delay aud trouble 10
all parties.
Year: 1862

We have no time to transcribo COM
munioations. We sometimes receive
communications with a scrap Of oal6-
deHtia8 information written on the back
of the manuscript. OF course if We use
the manuscript we have TO re-write H.
and this imposes entirely too much labor
on us. We have no time for such work.
Year: 1862

NOR SAI4E-A GOOD sHOEMAKERS BUSINESS
with Stock worth about $50 The OF this has
aons well here for eight good selling place for
ware rent cheap the best stand The Tor selling
= the owner nL his own house and Call at
s7 East Ninth street. the l East TweAy fourth
street.
Year: 1862

GRAPE NINEs.-rhe grape is a great feeder.
Many people wonder why their vines do lot
bear 1t is simply because they are not fed.
Give them an immense top-dressing Of stable
manure, spreading over all the ground where
the roots run, remembering that they run a
great distance. In the spring prune closely.
Year: 1862

heresy of secession was given to under
stand that, if not more quiet, he would
have his throat cut The Post says that
we we're on the eve of Northern in
surrection, and that there would have
been one if the popular feeling in that
section had not declared itself with ir-
resistible energy on the side of the Con-
stitution.


The Michigan members Of Congress
affirm that one of the effects of the con-
spiracy has been to get some of the
worst enemies of the Union and the
Constitution into the army, where they
now are, all working upon that high
vantage ground, with all their might,
in favor of the rebellion. This may ac-
count for the conduct, otherwise mex
plicable, of some of cur military officers
in high positions, and afford some clue
to the deep mystery of the frequent pro-
mitigation, among the rebels, of the pro-
foundest secrets of our military author
tiles at Washington and elsewhere.
Year: 1862

In addition to o1r own force we have in employ
skillful and experienced workmen also, large stock
of tools and materials embracing the latest improve
ments and inventions, and do all kinds Of work in
line, inc.uding the making of and complicated
parts in the best and with dispatch Also pRiu
and ornamental engraving
Year: 1862

Pa, what is this crooked thing for ?" There
it is again. The worn blades with which our faith
ers wrought or the battle-felds of industry, have
passed from the knowledge of our children. Old,
unused and rusty, they hang silently on the wall,
their worn hlts feeling strangely to the youth of
to-day. We take the blade in hand, and the very
touch is electric. The fingers tighten like an old
warriors upon the hilt and like him, we fight
our ba' es DER again" Honest faithful, we'll
worn el 1t never Redeemed with blood, for
the fe' where it conquered were darkened with
but no, ng plumes of grain. Its laurels cast no
dying in the conflict, or sorrow at the hearth.
1t is Z year since it cleaned in the sunlight
and creeping over the edge, yet here and
there tained the Furnishing of the harvest
suns. eye beameth misty, old friend, as we
stand dream, and the scenery of the bending
reaper nd the bright sweep of their weapons
drift L as it all appeared forty years ago. Trusty
vert tn when these hands were steadier and
this frame more sinewy than now, yet like old
friends, discarded for new ones.


This, boy, is Sickle 1t is weapon of the
olden time, relic of day when young men could
reap, and the stoutest arm won honor in the field.
Will keep it too, for it was credit to man once
to WELD it skillfully. There was something manly
in using it. 1t was brave for group of swarthy
men to stand at the corner of the swaying grain,
and at the word, bend to the task. There was
something like fair play in this hand-to-hand con-
test with the broad acres, and the neatly laid
"gavels" were the honorably slain in the steady
march of triumph. But this stealing in with a
monster of wood and iron, and sweeping down
whole acres with relentless clatter, is cowardly
Any left-handed gent can mount box like dri-
YER in livery, and strut over the field by horse
power But it needed men of iron to WELD the
sickle.


But it is of no use-this clinging to those old
friends of the past. Their day has passed by, and
the gentry who do all things by machinery, sneer
at the idea of their use, though it would be but
child's play. Nevertheless, the old blade shall
have one friend, and while we are dreaming, Wen
oul with it and cut up corn as in the good old
Wisconsin Chief
Year: 1862

ONE OF THE WoMEN.-Near the mouth Of
Grand River, the banks of Lake Michigan,
there lives farmer who, about six years ago, left
his family in quite moderate circumstances, and
went with the throng to California to see if he
could not better his condition As he earned
money, he sent home small sums from time to
time, that his family might be comfortably provi-
ded for. The wife, good woman no doubt, la
bored on ndustriously keeping her family togeth4
er and nearly supporting them by her labor, took
the money sent from California and from year I'd
year invested it in peach trees which she had plan


ted on the farm until an orchard of several acres
was the result of her economy and foresight. This
orchard she kept in good condition, increasing its
size as she received the means from her husband,
at the same time woman-like not letting him know
but that the money was all used as fast as it was
received to meet the family wants. Last season
the husband came back, but without his pile, as
most Calfornians return. He came at the close
ofthe peach season, and learned the news that his
faithful spouse had cleared over $4,000 from her
peach crop that season.-.4nn .4rbOr State .NetoS
Year: 1862

BE PREPARED.-It is a bad thing to be too
happy; it makes the mind grow fat and lazy.
Griefs capital spring medicine for keeping the
brain healthy and brisk. If misfortune could be
made, like locomotive, to blow whistle before
it rushes upon US, and give us time to clear the
rails then we might sleep securely on our rose
leaves But the sour-faced jade sneaks at our
heels, pouncing upon US, we trot along, singing
She Is policeman in plain clothes, with an UNI
brella in his hand but the rattle and staff in his
pocket. Fortfy yourselves with course of mild
persecution train for the great combat, that when
the pummeling begins, you may suffer with a
pleasant smile and engaging manner. Accept ac-
commodation bills, and be sued on them and on
the day the bank breaks, the shock will be con-
siderably eased. The man who has roared with
the gout thinks groaning with rheumatism an a
greeable change of PAIN Welcome Guest
Year: 1862

1t was some time before we were so far righted
as to be able to go on, and then, when we were
making up lost time, and overlook sour friends
with their sledges, numbering probably a hun
dred, in a long line on one solitary track, it be-
came necessary to pass them if we would not be
kept at snail's pace for many hours. But the
passing was not easy. The whole line must draw
close to one side, and in some cases into the
snow, and this the men for long time refused to
do. 1t was difficult job involving risks to some,
and the road was theirs as we'll as ours. The
Russian baron, who was one Of us, at length lost
all temper and began to swear as only Russian
can. Being cold and hungry, exhausted and
much shaken, he was anxious to get some shell
ter, especially as night was now closing. Oaths
having no effect, he lost the last glimmer of pol
ish, and came out the born Tartar that he was.
Dragging the cudgel from my hand, he began be
laboring with all his might the men and horses,
dealing blows right and left, and compelling the
men to draw up to one side as fast as we came
up. For an hour this lasted before we had
passed all the sledges.


"There, you canaile !" be cried as he struck
"Take that Give the road, you lazy vermin
Make room you pigs I am baron; don't you
see? A friend of the governors Sons of dogs!
Defilement OF the earth Your mothers are
beasts p and so forth


This was his gentlest style while the blows fell
in a shower. Forty or fifty men submitted to
all this but cowed; they took the blows and in
suits of this one man as dogs take their masters
kicks. They were serfs; he was baron.


After he had recovered his seat and his BREATH
and had wiped the perspiration from his head, he
turned to me and asked, with an air of national
pride, What do you say to that, my lord ?"


81 say that had you struck the poorest of my
countrymen in that manner, they would either
have boxed you into jelly, or they would have
tied you to a sledge until they reached the first
town. and then given you up to magistrate for
an assault" "Oh, as to that, should soon get
away from magistrate. A little money would
soon do that"


"Indeed can tell you that your whole es-
tate, with dozen like it, would not buy one of
our magistrates"


This assertion only caused an incredulous
laugh, and remark from the baron that he could
buy any country magistrate in Russia for 80 ko-
pecks lis 6d)-.4H the Year Round,
Year: 1862

Mr.. Editor:


Give me room to say few plain
words to the teachers Of Bedford county in
yonr columns. I am in favor of common
schools, and OF every means of improving
them. believe most firmly that teaching
A-ahen aceU 6one--is as honorable as any
ealing in the land-yea the most honorable.
I believe, too, that teaching, as calling, is,
and viii continue to be, just what teachers
make it.


4 word in your private ear, MIR. Teacher,
If yon please. The Bedford County Teach
ers' Association, OF which you are or should
be member, holds its semi-annual meeting
on the 9th inst. There are many reasons
why you should be present at that meeting.
1t is presumed you feel an interest in your
calling. IF you do not you made gross
mistake in selecting it, and the sooner you
leave it the better for you and it. We as
sume, however, that you do. Every true
teacher does. Then manifest that interest
by your presence and assistance at this Sc
n1i-annual gathering. You cannot expect
the public to feel an interest in education
unless you do. If Teachers are not inter
ested in teaching, who should be2 The pub
lie estimation of a profession is not apt to
DO higher than that Of its own members,
and Is apt TO be nearly as high. If they
ire alive to its interest and its honor, so are
the pHblic. If they are Indifferent Or luke
warm, so are the public If teachers respect
teaching as they should, so will the public ;
if they show by their conduct that they re-
gard teaching as an inferior calling-a mako
shift till they can get at something better
20 will the public. If they regard teaching
as Of little value, 80 will the public, and
pay accordingly. Don't stay away. You
can't afford it. No teacher can. All! but
you say your salary is small and you can't
afford to come. But when will it be higher
# teachers stay at home, say nothing, do
nothing, 20 press the claims of teaching on
the public? Not soon, | venture to guess
But let teachers themselves manifest proper
spirit, let them turn out at institutes and as
sociations, and show that they are an ear
nest, that they are worthy of higher remu-
neration, and that remuneration IS sure to
come. Out of nearly two hundred teach
ers in the county, how many will be present
at this meeting9 ffty9 Perhaps, perhaps
nst. But suppose there are. This leaves
nearly throc-fourths of the teachers of the
county abscnt-some from necessity, per
haps, but most from indifference. Is this
shoying proper spirit as teachers Agreat
many very good citizens of the county think
it is not. Great credit is due the lace teach
ers who originated and who keep alive the
county organization; and it is matter of pro
found regret that greater number are moi
of this class Come, then, to this meeting
Bring your neighbor along and tell him te
bring his. CITIZEN.