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Year: 1862


True, % a nations heart to its depths is stirred"
And " a ringing call through the land is heard
While trembling lips farewell word,


And the holy cause is this
To war for a rebel horde invades
This sacred soil, where the graves made
OF the honored dead whose hands have laid


The foundation Of home like this
Proud banners on the stirring air,
And the startling boom Of the cannon is there,
Stout hearts bea, faster but not with fear,


For holy cause Is this.
The stirring drGm with the war cry comes.
Laden with grief while our loved ones roam
Far from the happy scenes nf home,


To fight for a cause like this.
Ease rebels have dared our rights to scorn.
From its high standard our banner have torn,
And true hearts to avenge the wrong have sworn,


In this most holy war
The bridegroom hears the martial call,
And mid the revelry of the bridal hall,
BIDS adeu 10 his chosen bride, his all,


And hastens away to the war.
wistfully she gazes on his manly form [.torn
That she fears may be garncrcd by deaths rud
But her heart is filed with true love so warm,


For a holy cause like this.
And though she would fain know his loving care,
Through the pathway hope decked with flowers fair
Yet she bids him not tarry, for his country dear


Calls for true hearts like his.
While the mother blcsses with binding tears
The hope, the prop Of her failing years,
And withholds him not, though foreboding fears


Have sealed each fount of bliss.
He goes forth TO smite the traitor low,
To conquer the insolent, vaunting foe,
Who would our dear bought land o'eriow


With darkness and gloom like this.
For this the gray haired sire doth yield
His boy unto the tented field,
To fight, yea, perchance to bleed


For holy cause Is ours.
But all the tears dim tha, bearning eye
As he hears that trembling last goodbye
81 God grant my darling may not die,


But be crowned with the yictor's flowers -
The gallant sons Of our goodly land
Behold them, what noble band
With hearts undaunted see them stand


The Champions Of Liberty.
All honor crown the noble brow,
Bearing the heat Of battle now,
To those We mourn in death laid low,


crown through all eternity.
Prairie Glen, June ], 1862.
Year: 1862

Gold is selling to-day at 1870 1'2, and
bankers sixty day sterling bills at l45.-
Last year at the corresponding date gold was
at par and exchange was lO7. In other
words, legal tender notes to day are worth
only seventy cents, and about thirty seven
per cent. additional tax, compared with last
year, is imposed on imports of tea, coffee,
and all foreign merchandise.


These figures tell in plain terms to every
business man that the financial system and
commerce in the country are in crisis of
no ordinary magnitude, fraught with ruin to
many who are now rich and bringing hun
ger and suffering to those dependent on
their daily labor for their daily bread.
The laborer who received a year ago one
dollar for his days labor, convertible in gold
receives to day a paper dollar worth only
sixty:nine and three fourth cents in specie or
financial policy of Mr.. Chase, compelled to
give six days labor for the price of four days.
This difference is the most moderate statel
ment of the unprecedented depreciation in
the value of our paper currency which is
whirng the national honor and credit, and
the comfort and happiness of the people, into
a fearful vortex of ruin. The prices of all
commodities are advancing in a greater
ratio than the actual depreciation Of the
currency is marked by the premium on gold;
and every clerk, laborer, or person with a
fixed income, finds each week an increasing
difficulty in making both ends meet. One
dollar out of every three dollars earned is
taken from them by the financial policy of
Mr.. Chase.


This paper money system was voluntary
choice on the part of Mr. Chase. He was not
compelled by the acts Of Congress to use one
dollar of legal tender notes. 1t was left to
his discretion to use or not to use them.
Congress simply gave Mr. Chase variety
of methods for raising money to select from,
and Congress at the same time left the choice
of using any one or all Of them entirely to
him. Mr.. Chase; therefore, stands very
prominently forward AS the real cause of all
our present currency troubles, author of the
griIing proverty which is beginning to blight
the fair paradise Of this once happy and
prosperous community.


" Y Wor1I
Year: 1862

CHANGE OF BAsE.-The old Portland Ad
verliser, which has been the leading Republi
can organ in the State of Maine, has the
following on the Presidents emancipation
proclamation:


"There can be no such thing AS military
necessity on the part of the Federal Govern.
men' for destroying any State Constitution
or ang State institution righfuly existing
under such constitution for its duty aud ob
legation is, to preserve all. When the Fedi
eral Government yields to the destruction Of
either through weakness or revenge 1t yields
to spirit of revolution; and it can no lon
ger claim to fulfill the mission of the govern'
ment of the Union as 1t araS. 1t is no lon,
ger that government but failure supplan
ted bv substitute"


"When the Federal Government shall of
its own measure assent to or aid in the des
tructon of any State Constitution, or of any
State institution righyuHy eristing under
such ConStitusion as does the institution of
slavery it becomes itself party to a revolu
ton; epery citizen is justified IN renouncing
and opposing 1t from that instant as an usur
patton and a despotism and no longer as the
Government acting under or by authority of
the Constitution of the Union. There is
neither rebellion or treason or crime or de-
reelection of duty in fighting suca an usurpa'
patton by all the means that God and ma
ture have put in command of the States or
of Individuals"
Year: 1862

Summer roses twined the lattice, where q bright
young head was bent,
Where the rosy glow of sunset to its grace new


beauty lent,
Beauty smiled Ger earth and ocean, music thrilled
the balmy air.
And fair Nature, crowned with glory, breathed Il
Heaven her vesper prayer;
But the two who watch the sunset, wrapped in ont
deep dream of bliss,
In their old bright world of fancy, little heed the


bloom of this.
All alone they stand together, yet an unseen pres


ence benis.
Where the raven hair of manhood with her sunny


tresses blends;
Youths bright dream OF love is lingering, in its


fresh young beauty there.
Hopes fair angel, crowned with sunshine, hover,


in the shadowy air.
Once again pure hearts worship to a kindred


heart is given,
And the words so softly whispered, yet are heard,


and sealed in heaven.
Yet again beside the lattice stand the lovers as


yore,
With the grief of parting frightened by the hope to


meet once more;
Silent till low voice whispers, q Dearest. though


tonight part.
Still in soul we walk together, hand in hand, and


heart to heart:
Let no sorrow for our parting dim the beauty of


this brow,
When meet my rose of summer, let me find


thee bright now
Yet another scene at sunset, where the white mag


noas bloom,
Trumpets pealing, soldiers charging. through the


dim and deep'n gloom;
Whittier sent and wherefore charging, let their


leaders make reply,
Rushing the serried foeman, all the business is


to die;
Onward, onward, through the shadows, ere the


weary night be DER.


rest for evermore.
Morning, fair as ever, brghtens with her blush the


cloudless skies,
Guarded by the pale Death-Angel on the ground


soldier lies,
Through the night in mortal anguish, hath his


prayer been murmured Ger,
" Let me live till day is breaking, let NE see her


face once more;''
And a comrade, wandering thther, finds him with


picture prest
To the lips that smiled in dying. and the worn


heart is at rest.
Sleep, young soldier, where the pine trees whisper


low their breezy hymn;
Maiden, meekly tread the pathway once so bright


and now so dim;
God, in gentle mercy leads thee, through this dark


ness, TO His throne
And he wills that life should linger, when the JOY


of life is flown;
Mid Heavens palm crowned saints and martyrs,


thine should be blessed part,
They but gave their lives for Freedom, thou hast


given broken heart.
Year: 1862

MIME RIFLE WouxDs-A medical CORES
pondent in Kentucky says that the amount of
injury done by the mimic rife ball is very sur
prising, when compared with effects of the old
round musket ball Twice during the last two
days have | cut down and tied the femoral ar
tery for hemorrhage, resulting from the terrible
smashing done and disorganization caused by
MIME balls, which, making but slight wound
in the skin, have traversed the thigh from the
knee to the pelvis. Two upper arms, also,
from which removed the bullets, showed an
amount of damage done to the bony tissues
which one, Judging from the external evidences,
would hardly expect. 1t makes one think of a
remark of one of Napoleon's marsbals, that at
a certain battle he could hear the crashing of
bones in bis division, like as one would The
breaking Of glass by hail-stoDes.
Year: 1862

An excellent furniture polish is made with
one pint of linseed oil and about half gill OF
alcohol stirred well together and applied to
the furniture with linnen rag. After that 1t
is rubbed dry with soft cotton cloth and in-
isbed by rubbing with an old piece of silk,
when. after several applications, most beauti-
fnl oloss on the furniture will be the result
Year: 1862

y POWERFUL BALsAM.-A manufacturer
and vender of quack medicines recently wrote
to friend for a strong recommendation for
his, the manufacturers, Balsam" In a few
days he received the following, which we call
pretty strong Dear Sir The land com
posing this farm has hitherto been so poor that
a Scotchman could not get living off it, and
so stony that we had to slice our potatoes and
plant them edgeways: but hearing of your
basam, put some on the corner of a tenacre
field surrounded by rail fence, and in the
rning I found that the rock had entirely
disappeared, neat stone wall encircled the
field, and the rails were split into frewood and
piled up symme;ricalv in my backyard.
put half an ounce in the middle of q buckle
berry swamp--in two days it was cleared of,
planted with corn and pumpkins, and row Of
peach-trees in full blossom through the middle.
As an evidence of its tremendous strength.
would say that it drew striking likeness of
my eldest son out of mill pond drew bis
ter all over his stomach. drew load of pota-
toes four miles TO market, and eventually drew
prize of ninety seven dollars IN lottery"
Year: 1862

arduous duties throughout The day TO the officers OF the
line ard tho men from what have N them to-day


only say thai should she fortunes OF
them Under my command, IL will be my pride win
their confidence Gen veach pushed tho enemy with
great wig and front, unt their foc.s were
much increased that IL became necessary TO bring up
under command Of Gen Ilauman which Or
dered al once whereupon the enemy driv, from
their last stronghold-Gel IAunan showing BY his COOL
ness energy and courage that the front his proper
place


Gen. Hurbut has reported TO that he has gathered
about 900 arms already thrown away by the enemy In
their retreat, and expects TO collect large lumber 70
morrow. The OF $50 prisoners have already been
registered and they arestn being brought in From the
nature Of the country which fought II 10 mp0ss
BILE to arrive at accurate estimate OF the number OF the
enemy but this may be inferred from the number OF
thrown away, tho quantity OF their artillery, and
the fact that portion or their engaged against
we're not at Iorinth Guns heard tonight In the d.
reoton Of C0rnth.


General Hurlbut will push forward oarly tomorrow
morning. as it is presumed that Gene Al Rosecrans Is
harassing the OF the enemy. My personal saf-D
vision Surgeon s. H. Davis Captain sharpe and Iieuen
ant Brown Aid amp and Captain Hotaling Second
Illinois cavalry and Aid do Camp-werc, by turns clo-
nes OF regiments captains Of batteries cheering and
always took the shortest line danger the field and
always on hand when wanted commend them 70
the consideration OF the government


4. o. c. ORD. Major General.


rumor comes from the last battle feld that on Mon
day morning Ave rebel regiments threw down their
aud begged for something TO eat.


The enemy being routed and parsued in oil quar-
ters and being driven into pretty small compass and
they are going TO escape IN any organized oroe Can
not


Railroad communication is again resumed north from
this place. and prophesy that will not be again dam
gerously interfered with


We learn from member Of General Ords staff now in
this city the whole force OF Van Dorm was present at
the battle Of the Hatche rebel office who was taken
prisoner stated that If II had been for the fact that
Van Dorm was hold in check by General Ord tho rebels
would have taken COrinth
Year: 1862

Tho Thirteenth Vermont regimon will arrive at Jersey
City at O'Clock this morning, where they will be
welcomed by sons Of Vermont They will partake Of


hot breakfast provided by their state agent Colonel
Howe, and will soon thereafter be the way 70 join
their bre,hern in arms
Year: 1862

MORE MoNIroRs.-The three iron gunboats
of the Monitor model, which were ordered by
the government Immediately after the engage
ment of the Monitor with the Merrimac. have
been commenced by Mr.. Rowland at the Con-
tinental Works, Greenpoint. They are to be
built very much like the Mon tor, except
that they are each to have two revolving shot
proof turiets instead of one. The model is
also slightly altered, so as to make them bet
ter sea boats, and to give them greater speed.
Like the Monitor, they are to be propellers,
the deck beng but little above the water line


Their length IS to be 302 feet over all, with
a breadth of beam of Al feet, and depth OF
hold of IL feet. The armor is to be six inches
in thickness. There are at present bat two
of them commenced. but the blocks have
been laid for the reception of the keel of a
third. The work is we'll along on the first
one, however, which is inside the ship house.
The frame, which is entirely OF iron, is up,
except at the bow and stern, and the work OF
putting on the first layer of iron plates has
already co nmenced. The iron ribs and plates
are forged in separate workshop, but small
forges are set up all along each side for heat.
ing the bolts. As large a crew of men as eau
work with convenience are busily engaged in
riveting the plates. 1t will be at least fou,
months before the first boat is launched.
Year: 1862

1t seems that the "high-minded and hon.
orable" citizens of New Orleans have at las,
found a master in the person Of Maj. Gen.
Butler, who, while he VIII treat them kindly
still gives them to understand that he is the
ruler. This gallant 500 Of Massachusetts, has,
by his energetic and speedy manner of doing
business, rather astonished the mixed popu-
lation of the Southern emporium. He tells
the rich and influential secessionist that he
has no rights which he can demand as rights,
while at the same time he is convincing the
common people that he is their friend. In q
recent proclamation he informs the latter
class that he will distribute among them one
thousand hogsheads of beef and sugar to keep
them from tho starvation that threatens them.


He has already opened recruiting offices
and is bus:ly engaged in enlistng men to form
loyal regiment. By a strategetic movement
he recently succeeded in securing 100000 in
the Canal Bank, where it had been deposited
to pay the interest on Confederate bonds held
IN Amsterdam.


Butler is emphatically the right man in the
right place, and if we had few more men of
his stamp in our army it would be none the
worse for its officers
Year: 1862

The recent action of Gen. Halleck in ex
cluding from the army of Shiloh the news
paper reporters that have heretof.r 81 c,u.
panied him, is, we think, entirely uncalled
for. The disposition to keep all knowledge
of their movements from the people, that pre-
vail among the Generals of our army, is Ia
mentable, inasmucl as this war is, most en-
phatcally, a war OF The people, and they
should be informed of what takes place.
There is scarcely family in this whole
Northwest but has its representative or rep
1esentatives in the army now besieging Cor
linth and few can imagine how grcedily every
little item and particular is seized upon and
devoured by anxious friends at home.


What Gen. Halleck's motive could have
been we are at a loss to imagine. No news
that could have been considered as contra
band has been forwarded. Nothing that
could be considered detrimental to the success
of our army has been published. Why then
did he suddenly order all correspondents and
reporters to depart Immediately


In our opinion this whole scheme of news
paper surveillance aud news suppression is a
humbug, and one that no one derives any
benefit from, unless it be occasionally stock
jobber or broker.


The Commander of the Western Depart
ment is doubtless brave and accomplished
officer, but that he has his weak points such

orders as this and his negro exclusion man
date fully demonstrate.
Year: 1862

If ewed the devil debt and it was to be


discharged by the rendering up TO him of a
dozen Of the meanest, most revo. ting and God
forsaken wretches that ever could be culled
from the ranks of depraved human society,
and l wanted to pay that debt and get pre-.
MUM for the payment, would make an offer
to his Satanic majesty of twelve Northern
men who sympathized with this Internal re.
bellion. Great cheering.l If am severe
and bitter in my remarks, [Cries of "no, no !;
not bit Of it"l-if am, gentlemen, you
must consider that we in the South make
personal matter of thing. Laughter. We
have no respect or confidence in any North
ern man who sympathises with this internal
rebellion Cries of good, good, nor should
any bs tolerated in walking Broadway at any
time. Such men ought to be ridden upon a
rail and ridden out of the North. [Good
good They should be either for or against
the mill dam," and I would make them
show their hands,
Year: 1862

GT The rebels wage war against the Gov
crnment, for the purpose of strengthening
slavery. Then let that fer which they wage
war, share the fate of war. If they shoul1
win, the Government would be destroyed; bat
as they have staked their institution" against
our institution" and as we have accepted
the issue, must not slavery 60 down if Oe
win? Both sides cannot be victorious; and


for that which the vanquisLed side is fighting
must fall with it. Such would be the fate Of
our side if the fortune Of war should be against
US The fact that the slave power attempted
to destroy our system of Government in order
'operpetuate its own rule, proves two things
first, that slavery cannot long exist in this


country, unless it be strengthened, by further


concessions: secondly, that if it be so strength


hencd, our system of government cannot long
survive. They can never be reconcoiled. We
! must choose which We shall give up.
Year: 1862

a gentlemen from New Orleans, who re-
peatedly viewed the Federal men -of-war from
the levee as they lay in the stream, informs
US that they bore many marks of the conflict
through which they had passed. Some of
them were riddled with many shot-holes, and
it was understood in the city that the enemy's
loss OF life was very heavy. The reports are
that the Confederate flotiila made desperate
fight, and that the marks of damage on the
enemy's vessels were the works of our naval
gunners. Many of the enemy's vessels had
to constantly keep their steam pumps going
to prevent sinking, and large force were at
work endeavoring to raise one of the stocks
to enable the repair of damages. Tho Con-
tederate gunboat McRae, which came up un-
der flag of truce, was completely riddled,
and only kept from sinking by iincessant
working OF the steam pumps. She sunk in
short time after pumping was suspended.


The captain Of the Louisiana is said to have
lost leg and arm. The enemy's vessels did
not stay to fight the Louisiana any LONGER
than they could help, but ran right by her,
discharging their tremendous broadsides at
close range, almost touching her as they
passed in up the river. 1t was ''give and
take, "a daring, dashing policy which succeed
ed, as dare and dash generally do in war. It
is said that the enemy have not one single
naval trophy of victory, every one Of our gun
boats having been destroyed by them in the
light, or by ourselves, and not one surrender
ed. Their only prizes were two or three
merchant steamers. The Confederate flag
vas not struck or any thing that bore it on
the bosom of the Mississippi, but went up in
fame or down beneath the waters of the great
Southern river over which II v1ll wave a0ain
the symbol Of empire there A great loss Of
life must have been suferered by our flo-
tlla.


The bombardment of the batteries lust be.
low the city lasted about on hour and quar-
ter, when every gun was silenced By the feet.
which laid close up alongside the bank and
discharged broadside after broadside of their
ornaments at close range. The batteries
mounted nothing but smooth 24s, which were
tumbled over by the great Yankee shot as
n;ne-p are bowled down by the players
balls. No man was killed, nor is it believed
injured by the batteries.
Year: 1862

When Commodore Foote left the Ben
ton, the flag ship of his Mississippi feet,
three loud, long and ringing cheers were
given by the crew. The Commodore stood
up on his crutches as the De Soto moved up
the broad Mississippi, and with tremulous
voice said: "God bless you all! Heaven knows
how hard it is for me to leave you! Better
and braver men never trod deck. I
would much rather stay with you than go
away. But my duty to my country compels
me to yield to stronger, though hope not
more willing hands. God bless you alp
AS he looked at the Benton, perhaps for the
last time, and saw the many familiar faces
that fixed their kind eyes upon him so earn
estly, his trembling hand frequently sought
his qaivering lip, and nervously twitched his
whiskers. One could see his efforts to sup
press his feelings, but nature prevailed, and
the brave officer covered his wan face with a
fan he held to d,ssipate the heat of the after.
noon, and wept like child.