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PATENT
COAL OIL GREASE.
nMIIS Grease is made from COAL OIL
J- and has been found by repeated tests
t 0 be the most economical, and at the
same time the best lubricator for Mill
bearing, Stages, Wagons, Carts, Carriages,
wVhides of aM kLids, and all heavy bearings'
keeping the axles always cool, and not requir
ing them to be looked after for weeks. It has
been tested on railroad cars, and with one
ioakiug of tiie waste it has run, with the cars
20,000 miles ! All railroad, omnibus, livery
stable and Express companies that have tried
it pronounce it the neplus ultra.
It combines the body and fluidity of tallww
beeswax and tar, and unlike general lubrica
tors,. will not run off, it being warranted to
tiand any temperature.
1 have it in boxes 2f to iO lbs. Also kec 9
and barrels from 30 to -100 lbs, for general
psc and sale. The boxes are more prefera
ble: they are G inches in diameter by 2} inches
jeep, and hold 2j lbs net; the bores are clean
(ind hardly q, carman, teamster, expressman
pjjNep ar farmer, that would not purchase
y ne box for trial. F. (i. FKANCISCUS.
Lewistown, February 12, f862.
AMBROTYPES
AND
The Gems of the Season.
fPHIS is no humbug, but a practical truth.
J. The pictures taken hv Mr. Burkholder
are unsurpassed for BOLDNESS TRUTH
FULNESS, BEAUTY OF FINISH, and
DISABILITY. Prices varying according
{o size and quality of frames and Cases. "
Room over the Express Office,
Lewistown, August 23, 1860.
New Fall and Winter Goods,
RF. ELLIS, of the late firm of McCoy
• & Ellis, has just returned from the city
arfth a choice assortment of
Dry Goods and Groceries,
eeleuted with care and purchased for cash,
which are offered to the public at a small ad
vance on cost. The stock of Dry Goods em
braces all descriptions of
Fall and Winter Goods
.suitable for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children,
with many new patterns. His
(Groceries
ei mprise Choice Sugars, Molasses, Java, Rio
-nd Laguvra Coffee, superior Teas, kc. Also.
Boots and Shoes, Queensware, and all other
articles usually found in stores—all which
tiie customers of the late firm and the public
;n general are invited to ejmmine.
R. F. ELLIS.
Country Produce received as usual and the ■
full market price allowed therefor.
Lewistown, November .6, 18,01. j
Carpets, Groceries, &c.
\\TOOLFjS, Linen and Cotton Carpets—
* cheap— Hardware, Xy la^s-
Earthenware, with a good stock of
1 Toceries, as cheap .££ upr neighbors. Please
call and see for yourselves.
/*plß JAMES PARKER.
vOOAL Oily.
D)W I X again ! Best Xo. t at 9 cts. per
quart, at HOFFMAN'S.
RIO Coffee, extra, at 20 cts per lb, at
feb26 HOFFMAN'S.
LADIES' DRESS GOODS.
description—Prints, Ginghamc,
i-'eiaines, Black and Colored, Black and
A !ite. and Second Mourning Calicos, Bro-
Osmanle and Paris Lustres, Orinbra
ahiiuercs, Cray Plaids, China Madonas,
Alpaca Plaids, Black and Colored Dress
Silks, and all kinds of Dress Goods. Flan
ttds, licking, Nankeens, Crapes, Linens,
brilliants, and Bleached and Unbleached
rousliny. Shawls, Balmonel Skirts, Hooped
Skirts, all prices. Shaker Bonnets, Cloth
new stylo, Bonnet Ribbons, Dress
I rimmings, ic. Cash buyers will find it to
their advantage to call and examine the
?toek. (sepiS) JAMES PARKER.
NEW FALL GOODS.
A T y assortment of Goods are of the best
quality and the newest styles, and by
attention to customers f hope to be able to
supply the wants of the community at large.
Fall and see and examine for yourselves.
6e PlB JAMES PARKER.
to the man wrrn tiie brjn new wife
That your bride may not think J slight her,
I thought 1 would send'yop' a line.
Ann snfurm you of things .to delight her,
1 v be found at thi? Coffee Pot Sign !
i d be pleased to make her a eali,
An'! wish her bright [honey] moonshine;
out I could not there make mention of ull
' keep at the Big Coffee Pot Sign I
s ''T" her, for rue, ere 'tis too late,
1 nat all she may want she will find—
[P'n rattle to an A B € plate—
•supplied at the Bife Coffee Pot Sign!
! have just received a fresh supply
if useful thing# it household line,
-'hen tell her, when she starts out to buy,
- * to foVget tfie Cijffee Pot Sign!
A WBISPEK TO TUB WIFE.
■*tobacco and euyff box-s, too,
Al ide oval—they silver-like shine—
• inch for your husband I'll present to you,
if you call at the Coffee Pot Sign I
Fewistown, March 26,1862-lm
Hames and Traces.
V\ AGON' Hames at 50 cts. per pair, f ra
. ces, Chains, Ac., at 75 cents per pair.
" kinds of Chains usually sold in hardware
ores, sold at low rates, by
F. G. FRANCISCUS.
Cultivator Teeth and
A ointe, at reduced prices from past seas-
J -s. tor sale by F. G. FRANCISCUS.
IfHS BIHSTBEi.
TO THE SECESSION SYMPA
THIZER.
NO THANKS TO YOU,
T a\JiH tll!, , nk 1 to y° u > KOod sir!
....7 ft l " >'' "" thanks to voi;,
Thu ttia t VhL P ,-i°l l,e .u' : A c . hin S from war,
<• 11 n • ,he NV hlte - the blue-
I am'floating o'er them like a eloud
m-l " '- v as the >" come:
shifii i Vh ,tl ? n i s V'cssing?, long and loud,
•-hall shout their welcome home!
Oh! then, 'twill be no thanks to von!
4 , 1 ,r . owne d upon their toil : "
At best, tvvas folly in vour view—
| _ Prjtil you .-,ay the spoil.
! 1 ou sighed, and looked amazing wise
At Justice's long delay ;
','A talked a'xuit a " compromise"
1 o keep the hounds at bay.
Oh! yes, 'twill be no thanks to vou!
• uU "ever spoke one word
W here heart and band and all were due,
1 Jiat I have over he 3rd —
, l>ii<- cheering word of svrupathv.
One patriotic prayer-
One word ot faith and hope, to be
A charm against despair.
j Yet you shall reap what ik-y have sowed.
A country shall he yours;
For heroes blood in streams that flowed,
A richness thai endures,
Co. eat the fat. and drink the swret
Bought by the brave and true—
And yet remember as vou eat,
It is no thanks to you! Boston Recorder.
M A. SMITH. County Superintendent.
hor tho kduc&tionai Column.
A Flea for no Shortening of School
Terms.
j To those who are intelligently and truly
, patriotic, even in times of great national
' trial and just solicitude, the condition of
Education in the Country cannot be with
out interest. The situation of the country
must excite tlqe most earnest patriotism and
the deepest concern in every true heart;
but we should remember that the struggle
now progressing is for civilization against
barbarism, fur freedom against the spirit of
despotism, for the inaftenable rights of all
| against the asserted privileges of the few,
—in short, for tho highest good of mankind.
! Education is one of the most powerful
agencies by which civilization, freedom and
right are secured; consequently, while we
would give special vigor tp th.e sword-arm
| of the nation, we ought not let the other
arm grow weak from unwise neglect.
It is to be hoped that School Directors
j will take this view of the subject, and will
> not suffer the educational interests of the
1 country to decline, even though there be a
j seeming propriety in diminishing the taxes
at this time. It ought to be borne in mind
that hitherto the annual term of our free
schools Las not b.eeu so long as the wealth
of Miftlin County would have justified, nor
so long as the interests of the children of :
| the County have required. Had the peace |
J and pro.-.pgii t.y qf tiie country Gonti.,ued
| uninterrupted, we ought to have lengthen
ed the school term a month or two, at the
t least; in the present condition of national
afLirs, if it &een 1 impossible to lengthen
the term, it also seems unnecessary and most
injudicious to shorten it. The people ol
j this county do indeed feel the pressure of
! the war new, an,d will feel it more by and
by, but very lightly compared with the
' people Qf many other localities, —as the
j poor in cities, employees in factories which
the war has shut, dwellers in newer States
which must pay taxes in proportion to their
population instead of their property.
It may be found expedient to repair some
old school houses for the present, and post
pone to a more favoring season the erection
of such elegant and durable buildings as
the Directors of Menno have had the ad
mirable sense to rear as monuments of their
intelligent interest in Education.
If necessary, let the old house stand for
a year or two, rendered comfortable and
convenient as may be; but let not the chil
dren be depriyed of their rightful heritage
and best possession, a good common-school
education. We do well to remember that
the interests of our country will soon pass
into the hands of those whose intellectual
and moral character is now being shaped
by us; that.thn destiny of the country
greatly depends upon the discipline, the
habits of thought and action, the breadth
of character, which the schools shall impart
to the present generation of pupils; that no
other legacy is so valuable to a child as a
true education, which gives him the con
trol of his own powers and passions, which
enlarges bis mind to embrace the interests
of his country and of mankind, which fits
him for the lowliest dußcs as well as the
highest offices, >vlyich develops love for his
country, for his race, for all that is heaven
ly jn .character, and for Him who perfects
all.
jbave a fine to prove that
we are worthy of the freedom and high civ
ilization which we" proudly claim for our
selves, by showing that we value vvealth for
the excellent uses it serves, and not for its
own poor sake, —by upholding, even in this
hour of pressure, the cause of Education
as the clear-sighted ally of Freedom, as the
security of pure democratic institutions, as
the co worker with Religion in the task of
redeeming and exalting mankind. S.
Ha?" The road ambition travels is too
narrow for friendship, too crooked for love,
too rugged for honesty, and too dark for
science
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1862,
WAR NEW I.
THE ADV ANCE of GEN McCLELI.AN
to YOHKTOWN.
The correspondent of the Philadelphia
Inquirer gives the fallowing additional
j items of intelligence in regard to the ad
vance of (Jen. JlcClcllan from Fortress
Monroe :
The Advance.
Ihe inarch was continued tiirough tiie
dilapidated villages of the Half way House
and Rosedown, at which latter place the
.command halted.
Infonpatim beitjg received that a Rebel
fort occupied the hank of Howard's creek,
boyond the mill hearing the same name'
and to the right of the road leading opt
from Rosedown, a line ol battle was imme
diately formed, and the shelling of the fort
commenced. J'he Rebels replied to oqr
tiring at intervals, but after about a half
hour had elapsed the firing 011 their side
ce-sed, when they immediately abandoned
the fort. '1 hey effected their escape with
difficulty, with loss of one of their horses
who was killed by a fragment of shell.
The fort, we have forgotten to state, was
occupied by cavalry.
In the confusion incident to the evacua
tion of the fort many of tlje soldiers made
their escape on foot, they taking one direc
tion and their horses another. After the
abandonment of the fort, two soldiers—one
of them a mere youth, a native ql Boston
—both of them belonging to a Mississippi
regiment, came within our lines and vol
untarily surrendered themselves. Fifteen
rounds of shell were thiown during the
bombardment ol the fort. Some of the
soldiers hoisted the Stars and Stripes upon
the fort as soon as the rebels abandoned it.
A portion ol the advance was continued
on the same day as far as C'ockletown, sev
en miles distant from Vorktown, where
they rested for the night.
From Hampton to Big Bethel the roads
were in fair marching coudition, but be
yond that point the troops and the batter
ies experienced considerable difficulty in
moving over the roads, and the march was,
therefore, necessarily slow and tedious.
Operations on. Saturday.
At nine o'clock this morning the troops
at Cockletown were joined by thqse who
had remained in the rear during the night,
and the march continued towards York- j
town. Scarcely had the movement com
menced before a heavy fall of rain took
place, which lasted until nearly noon 10
day. Ihe route lor a considerable part ot !
the way lay through a dense woods, abound- !
ing in the deepest and worst species of ,
foad-fVft- L" to fhe,sp the wagons ar;d the
carriages bearing the artillery plunged ev- ;
erv moment, but, wfth slow movements and
ihilk'l iyq breakage qf any kind
occurred.
When within three miles of York town
the command was again halted, heavy forts
having been discovered within a mile of
the main road to the right. The troops
were immediately ranged at the most com
manding points, and the batteries wheeled
into position in advance of the infantry,
by whom they were supported. The fire
was opened from the forts to the north (two
| heavy guns), the first shell burying itself
in the ground to the left of the road, about
1 a mile and a half from the fort. A Union
I battery was posted a little to the right of
the lower fort, and then replied to the reb
' el invitation with great precision and accu
racy. Doth batteries then being opened
upon each other, the firing on either side
for a time was heavy and rapid. After an
hour had elapsed, the rebels forces at the
forts was considerably diminished by many
of them withdrawing to a less exposed po
sition, but the firing was still kept up at in
tervals of every three minutes.
So soon as the forts alluded to had open
ed their fire another Union battery was
posted in the woods on the west, and coin- ,
menced to thrown soell into the forts at
that point, from which shell had been 1
thrown among our troops by the rebels.—
The firing on these forts, as also those on
the north, was continued all day long, and j
occasionally after night shell fell among
our troops. Skirmishers were also deploy- |
ed in the woods to the right and left, and
an incessant change of shots took place
between the contending foe.
All day long the skirmishing has been
kept up. The shells from the rebel forts
have been whizzing over our heads. We
hftvc been operating in the dark. Neither i
the force or the position of the enemy have
we beep able to ascertain, further than
what wc have see with the naked eye. —
We have bea?d their wild .cheers, when a
shell exploded in our cpidst, have seen
their soldiers riding across the country, and
moving from fort to fort. They have
heavy guns mounted there; 42-pound how
itzers the heaviest. There ig no doubt of
that, however, for several of them are in 1
possession of our troops.
Shells have been thrown by the rebels j
in all directions; most of them with a view ;
of feeling our position. Our batteries
have been changed from one position to
the other, as the case may require, and our !
men working like soldiers and patriots.
To-night the barracks of the rebels on
the west were fired by them, it is suppos- j
ed. So great was the conflagration that al-1
most the eutire horizon was illuminated. '
! Ihe balloon corps, as we have already
given you to understand, accompanies the
expedition. Notwithstanding "the many
obstacles in the way of inflating a balloon
at so short a notice, in consequence of an
available position having to be secured,
tathui two hours alter the first stream of
gas passed into the balloon it teas floating
in the air at a:i altitude of right hundred
feet, with the Professor in the basket In
j consequence of the lateness of the hour
but a general outline of the enemy's forti
fications could be ascertained, but sufficient
j pq show that the enemy was strongly en
trenched. * or
Sunday lief,re Vorktown.
iu day lias been one of rest with the sol
diers. i here has been little or no firing from
; rebel ,orts, although during the afternoon
some twenty or twenty five shell were thrown
at and into the forts on the north by a Union
I battery. Upon the forts named two rebel
flags were seen floating tq day for the first
■ tune.
The most important feature of the day has
been the balloon ascension, which, in point of
importance to the Government, has been one
qf the grandest balloon reconnoisancea ever
iqace. the first ascension was made at five
o'clock in the morning, and then and there
the position and strength of the enemy were
Ascertained for the first t;nje. Subsequently
reconnoisanees of from one to two hours were
made and important information gained.
Ihe fortifications of tire rebels arc of tho
strongest possiblo character, and sweep an
extent of country of seven miles, extending
across tle Peninsula from the York tq the
denies river. Behind these fortifications tliey
have a large reserve force, so that the entire
strength of tho rebel;* at this pointy rated
from twenty five to thirty thousand men.—
lheir forts are mounted with guns of the
heaviest calibre, and some of them are of a
c mtinuous character for miles, being connec
ted by earthworks. The heaviest chain of
forts are on the west, although those on the
norm the point from which the firing was
first commenced on Saturday—aro sufficient
ly formidable to re. c ist a powerful attack.—
lliere are other niinutiue of these forts in our
possession, which it is not proper to ipake
known at present. Suffice it pu gsy through
the maims of the balloon ascensions, made all
day yesterday, every information is in our
possession of tl;o desigu and intention of the
rebels.
lien. Magrudcr issued a proclamation to
the soldiers of the rebel army on the 28th
tilt, lie states that the enemy is upon them
and that his numbers is far superior to theirs,
lie advises them to fortify themselves in ev
ery possible place, and control every inch of
ground, 'lhree day's rations ?re to be cook
ed, and baked biscuits are to bo carried in
stead of Hour. The light, I-e anticipates,
will take place on the river. In
conclusion, he adv-jscs them to fire low.
Jyhni T. Quigg, correspondent uf the New
ioik \\ orlu, captured a rebel, supposing
him to be the one who shot the Lieutenant
from Maine. lie was taken to headquarters.
Gen. Hamilton had his horse knocked from
tinder him on Siiturdcij. Iho horso was kill
ed, and the General escaped j;,yory.
A circular, issued by the rebels, was found
by one of Gen. Hamilton's aids. The pur
port ot it was a full description of the present
onward movement, with all the details ; also
Gen. Magruder's plan of defeating tlio I'nion
programme.
1 wo men of Martin's Battery were buried
on Sunday morning, about it o'clock. The
Chaplain spoke in a very appropriate and
feeling manner. Ihe bodies wer& interred
under a large tree.
Condition of the Roads.
1 he roads, on account of the severe rain
on Saturday, are almost impassable, and the
transportation of goods is very difficult - the
consequence is the troops and horses' are
placed on short allowance.
At 12 o clock there was nothing of any con
sequence occurred except an occasional dis
charge of heavy pieces by the Union gun
boats.
Affairs on Monday.
NEAR YORKTOW.V, YA., )
Monday, ApriT 7, —9 o'clock, j
All ig quiet along the lines with the excep
tion of now and then an occasional shot from
sharpshooters. The enemy appeared or.
their ramparts this morning as though going
through a dress parade.
0 P 8 _ Beem anxious for an attack, and
speak of it with great enthusiasm.
About dusk the enemy appeared on their
earthworks, as if desiring an attack. A shot
from the pickets sent them helter-skelter to
their covers.
Irevious to the going down of the sun,
-pf Lowe made an ascension in his balloon,
the enemy's works are very extensive—the
centre forming a curve or horseshoe shape.
Iwo guns were fired by the enemy about a
quarter to eleven o'clock on Sunday night.
Ihe sound came booniiDg through the night
air with a dull and heavy sound.
The Advance from Newport News.
division took tho Newport News road,
along the James river, and when sixteen miles
beyond their camp came to Young's Mills, at
eep Creek. Some lebel cavalry and infant
ry were here encamped, wbo dispersed upon
the arrival of the forces. They fired
a volley before leaving,' shooting one of the
Lnion soldiers in shoulder. They left a
camp in perfect ordef—fires burning and ra*
tions being cooked.
The division rested here on Friday night,
and then advanced, intending to form a junc
tion with the othor portion of the army before
Yorktown. '
At half past four o'clock cn Sunday after
noon no shots had been fired for near an hour,
Previous to three o'clock the enemy attempted
to strengthen their works, but the Union
batteries soon stopped them with a few shells.
• 7^ r ' D K Sunday the sharpshooters were
withdrawn, with the exception of a few as
pickets. During the afternoon one gun was
depressed by the rebels, and about dark one
6hot was fired at a squad of men who were
viewing the enemy with a glass. It was a
sp.eudid line shot, but did no damage. The
enemy seem to have the range of the whole
field of battle.
1 ery few casualties occurred during Sundav
as the firing was only intervals, ft seemed
evident that the Union forces did not want to
bring on a general cngagementon the Sabbath.
I he sharpshooters have covered themselves
with glory; so have the artillerists. Up to
Sunday evening the infantry regiments have
been in the background—the artillerists and
sharpshooters doing nearly all the work.
Cri r r
[Correspou.it-nc of the New Yo.ik World.]
From General Banks' Corps.
I' pjXßi n;, } April 2.—Our viptor
iqqs colutifii has again advanced seventeen
miles into the territory of the enemy, and
is still advancing upon a turnpike which
could hardly lie excelled in the facility
which it affords for tl;q transportation of a
large army, and the immense amount of
baggage which it required for its comfort
and subsistence.
Colonel Gordon's Brigade led the ad
vance, deploying the Second Massachusetts
Regiment as skirmishers, and Company M,
Captain Denison, of tho First Michigan
Cavalry, acting as an advance guard, and
charging the enemy treating through the
town ol Woodstock, and again through Ed
inburg and across the bridge over the
Shenandoah, which was burned to prevent
the pursuit.
lliis town, which we now occupy, is a
small village of 500 inhabitants, possibly,
and 00 miles distant from Staunton on the
line of the railroad from Richmond. The
turnpike, which we are now upon, contin
ues to Staunton, passing through Mount
Jackson and Harrisonburg, two towns of
some importance. Staunton is 103 miles
Irorn Iticjiiftond. have already in our
progress from the Potomac, pushed on six
ty-live miles, more than hall the distance
towards Staunton.
M opdstock, the town occupied yesterday
by Colonel Gordon, with Company M, of
Colouel Broadhcad's Cavalry, is twelve
miles from Strasburg, principally situated
on the turnpike, and of about 1,000 inhab
itants. General Banks, with his iStaff,
rode on to the advance, and was inEdin
burg last evening, when the enemy ceased
their firing.
No hindrance tq its progress is made, ex
cept the occasional and sudden appearance
cf Ashby, with his 500 horsrnen and his
three cannon, who, at some convenient
point, as we approach, throws at us a half
dozen shells, only two or three of which ex
plode, and dashes away again as rapidly as
he approached.
This ho doing continually yesterday,
but without much harm to our troops. —
One man, however, was killed, -Jas. Martin,
of Company G, Twenty ninth Pennsylva
nia Volunteers. Capt. Richardson, who
stood by bin), received a slight wound in
his hand. This occurred a short distance
from town, and had not 001. Gordon, Ac
ting brigadier General, ordered his men
into a double ouick, so accurately had the
Rebel Colonel obtained the range, that
many of our men would doubtless have
been killed by their shells. Fortunately,
there was no other accident than those above
mentioned.
Had the liebei General been disposed to
make a stand the many defensible positions
on the road over which we have passed
would have enablcJ him to have met us
with the greatest advantage of position.
At one point we were .compelled to rise
a steep hill, cross a high but narrow bridge
of stone, ascend still farther by a road, en
the left of which ther oeks rose steep above
us, and on tbe right of which they fell
precipitately below us to the bed of the
deep and narrow stream which we had just
crossed.
Such a place would have made an excel
lent Thermopylae, had the valiant Jackson
chosen to verify the long vaunted deter
mination to resist inch by inch the advance
of the invader's foot, and welcome to in
hospitable graves the insolent Yankees.
Warned by the recent defeat, which his
men iull ackowledged to the citizens in the
neighborhood through which they passed,
he prefers to run, and as it was necessary
t° giy.s him so long a space for his flight,
it hardly seems likely that we can catch
him now. His main force is several days
in advance, and he burns the bridges be
hind him and seriously impedes the progress
Qf our pursuit. The cause of the short de
lay now is the burning of the bridge across
the Shenandoah at this place, and there is
another bridge between this and Mount
Jackson, nine miles distant, which is, no
doubt, likewis burned, and the depth and
rapidity of the river prevent the possibili
ty of fording it. This will be a hindrance
to our progress, but the span is not wide,
aad they will soon be connected by tem
porary bridges. Several fine structures
upon tbe Manassas Gap Railroad, which
connects Mount Jackson and Washington,
have been utterly destroyed.
Ravines spanned by difficult engineering,
and long and high bridges across rivers
and creeks, have been destroyed beyond
the possibility pf being early reconstructed.
The Rebels have pretty effectually preven
ted the use of this railraoad for our present
military purposes. Several small streams
have been forded on account of the destruc
tion of the bridges by the retreating forces.
Une which we have lately passed had been
built only a month before.
We have passed into another belt of
country The tine residences, and wealthy,
New Series—Vol, XVI, No. 24.
elegant establishments which wc met be
tween Harper's Ferry and Winchester, and
even beyoud, in some degree- kave giygu
j way to the true Southern style. I mean
i the (Wi-apjrfiated, unthrifty, slovenly appear
ance which a Northerner al ways sees in tho
villages and farms of the South, occasional
j exceptions only. Houses that ought to
havp bfcon torn down fifty years ago, with
the shingles on the roof curled up, till they
will bear a comparison to the hair on the
jraniuui ot the negroes about them, who
; arc so exceedingly gratified and exuberant
to our advance.
At one house on tho road,, in which sev
eral officers had engaged quarters for the
night, I saw a family where one child was
in its mother's arms with scarlet fever,
coughing at every breath ; aqd the mother,
overcome with her trouble, was complaiq
ing sadly and despondingiy, while another
child lay upon a sofa, and its parched lips
j and emaciated countenance showed how
much cause the mother had for ksr sorrow,
and an old man lay half-reclined near by,
upon a couch from which I was told he had
scarcely moved these lour months. The
I family was very poor, and seemed reduced
1 to the last extremity ol .suffering and sor
row. \\ hat little of theirs had remained,
after the retreat of Jackson's army, was
hardly enough to last them for a few weeks,
and with nothing to purchase with, they
j were in actual fear of starvation.
J he wheat fields by the road are looking
Ircsh and green, but uuless the war should
close I fear that when the grain becomes
ripe there will be few reapers to gather it.
1 here are few men through the country,
unless they hide themselves, as s ( qme aro
known to have done. Not long sipce I
spent (he night at a fine residence at which
only two small boys appeared to be at hoinp.
1 heir report might havp ied some to goon
and find another stopping place.
i here had been uickqpsa in the family ;
three had died, and the had ad
| vis.ed the remainder of the family to avoid
the contagion of the house and go to llich
; inond. 4*o all had gone, said the boys, cx
| copt two, who had been left in charge.—
e half a dozen of us —were well enter
tained, hut noticed that most of the house
was closely locked.
j Being on the road mvaclfaftervyard, vyhen
toe arihj had passed through, I called and
found the gentleman who had gone tq
Richmond sitting comfortably before bis
fire, smoking his pipe to his fortunate es
cape from the Yankees
1 here is u general fear of our army by
those who have been actively interested in
the rebellion, and J doubt 11 iu some cases
the scarcity ol men is to be accounted for
in that way.
lISLELUIEOO&
Cotton and its Worshipers.
The Richmond Congress L ptuz,!ed what
jto do about cotton. Mr. Brown, of Missis-
I sippi, proposes to make it a criminal of
fence for a planter to grow more than three
bales for his family and one bale for each
of his field hands. Ffe thought that with
out souic strict prohibitions, 44 a large class
ol graspiug Shylocks" (southern planters
and gentlemen called Shylocks!_) would
certainly go on planting cotton in hope to
make a great profit by selling' it.
It is a curious comment on the loud prq
fessions in favor of free trade and State
rights, that Mr. Brown's resolution, levy
ing a tax of forty dollars per bale on all
cotton grown beyond a certain amount—a
flagrant interference with the course of
trade, and, as Mr. Hunter remarked, an
unconstitutional interference with tfrp
States—received in the confederate Senate
uiue votes out of twenty; counting the mov
er, who did not vote.
Mr. Seiumes, of Louisiana, said in tfaQ
course of debate, that he " had long since
abandoned the idea that cqttqn ic hing.—
We have tested the powers, pf jdng cotton
and found him wanting." Mr.
of South Carolina, seemed of a similar
opinion. lie said: "We must have a mon
opoly of the market. We begin to find
out that we have not a monopoly ; that cot
ton can bp produced elsewhere."
The planters are evidently awakening tq
the fact that are not yet masters of
the civilized world."
Large Stocks of Grain.
There never was a tiqie in history
of the grain trade when such large amounts
of produce were stored, waiting the open
ing of navigation to move eastward. We
find by reference to the proper authorities
that there was in store at
Chicago, March "4, 1862, 3,660,000 bushels wheat.
Tojetfo; March 15, 293,561 do
Buffalo, March 20, 768,208 do
Milwaukee, March 21. 3,800,000 do
Detroit. March 21, 402,300 do
Of corn in store the following is the estimate.
Chieago, 2,356,784
Toledo,' 523,175
Buffalo, 233,917
Detroit, 104,000
The Illinois Central Kailroad has in
store over 1,000,000 bushels. In the city
of New York there are already stored 1,-
250,000 bushels of corn. Millions of bush
els of wheat and corn are stored at differ
ent points cn the lakes awaiting the open
ing of navigation, which would swell the
above aggregate to an almost fabulous
amount. Present indications are that the
grain movement of 1862 will far exceed
that of any previous year