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THE BIG BLUE UNION.
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Notice is hereby given that all the lands
and town lots described in the foregoing
delinquent tax list, or so much of each
tract er piece of land or town "lots as may
b e necessary for that purpose, will on Tues
day the 6th day of May A. D. 18G2, and
next succeeding days, be sold by me at pub
lic auction at my " office, in the city of
Marysville, for the taxes, penalty and
charges thereon for the year 1861, if not
settled before that day.
A.E. LOYELL,
. County Treasurer.
Marysville, March 27, 1862.
The reader "will note that the small
capital T is u?d as a substitute for the figure
two, in the remainder of this Jlist.
The transfiguration of memory.
As there was an hour when the fisher
mea of Galilee saw their Master trans
figured, His raiment white and glistening,
and His face like the light, so are there
hours when our whole mortal life stands
forth in celestial radiance. From our dai
ly lot falls off every weed of care, from
our heart-friends every speck and stain of
earthly infirmity. Our horizon widens,
and blue, and amethyst, and golduch ev
ery "object. Absent triends gone on the
last journey stand once more together,
tright with an immortal glow, and like the
disciples who saw their Master floating in
the clomds above them, wo say, uLord, it
is good to be here!" How fair the wife,
the hmaband, the absent mother, the gray
haired father, and tne manly son, the
bright-eyed daughter, and true hearted
friendi Seen in the actual pnisnt, all
have soaae fault, some flaw; but absent we
see them in their permanent and better
selves. Of our distant home we remember
not a dark day, not one servile care, noth
ing but the echo of its holy hymns and the
radiance of its bright day of our father,
not one hasty word, but only the fullness
of his manly vigor and. noble tenderness
of our mother, , nothing of mortal weak
ness) but a glorified fonnof love of our
brother, not one teasing, provoking word
of brotherly freedem,bmt the proud beau
ty o hi noblest hours of our sister, our J
cnim,(OUI iruiuuj.uuij! ufci,asuHaiv uu
sweetest t o t
' , lfj' k-r-;
ACHiLftoiMtlfADNlTiiiria..
his n?dthehs!ap, a Few evenings" since, when
he suddenly asked-: i'Are the-stars in heav.
eu?The mother of course responded in
the aSnaativp, when the .little1 fellow put
the farther question. Are the stripes there,
too, tfotKer ?"
" '
v Ajounglady of California, recently
broke.ber neck while resisting an attempt
of aSoanc man to kissnerr This furnish-J
es a fearta! warning to young ladies.
tinuajly iBtbfiot water wkk your neigh-.
- - A Year of War.
When, a year ago to-day, the first blow
was struck bythe 'South in commencing
thisTebellion when the arms were taken
up which overpowered the noble Ander
son at Sumter and the news flashed to
the North arousing an indignant but pa
lien t people when they became convinc
ed that the South were actually carrying in
to effect its long-made, bullying threats,
we say when these events came crowding
thick and fast upon us, how various were
the speculations and expressions of differ
ent individuals in regard to fhe length of
the war. While some maintained it would
be a long one, ethers, perhaps more, argued
it would be short, of but few months' du
ration. And considering the matter a mo
ment, who could have 'believed that any
civilized people, occupying the position of
the South, would have continued without
any justification, whatever, on their part,.
a devastating, bloody war, for the length of
time they already have. It would seem
that the saving of lives and treasure would
have compensated them for the chagrin in
taking a backward step that the thought
of such terrible uncalled for . sacrifices
should have caused them to laydown their
arms long'ere this. 1 Having no real
grievance by which she was called to make
the war, setting up no just principle to
fight for, the Soqth engaged in the conflict
with nothing to reccommed her cause, with
no motto upon her lips but "rule or ruin."
An opportunity to ge redress of her whi
lom oraimagined grievances had long been
sought, and when at last the time did
come, so eager were they to improve it, that
"South Carolina began to scrape lint before
the votes were counted."
Laying aside the devastation and con
vulsion of the country caused t by her con
duct, and simply looking at the estimates
of her own losses, with'what force liBrfol
ly, responsibility and wickedness is exhib
ited in reviewing the past year. The bod
ies of over twelve thousand of her btst
men killed and wounded, attest it; and
about twice that number of her sons pris
oners of war, proclaim it. And what has
she established? Has she even found out
yet, or will she acknowledge it if she. has,
what she is fighting for? And she cannot
rid herself of accountability in the lives
lost, the homes destroyed of the noble
fenders of the T0vernment. The
the obligation, which she disre
and which is being
wart hands,
The slain of,
pie ours,
Agriculture.
The shrewd., practicaleconomisV.l)r.
Franklin, encesaid that rtherare but
three ways for a nation to acquire wealth;
first'fcyar, wfcicK is by robbery; the sec
end? jJy commerce, which is frequently
cheatiig; the third byagriculture, which
is the onlyhonest way." Although this
language in its full scope may not be
strictly applicable to us,- we will readily ac
knowledge that our dependence for perma
nent wealth or greatness as a State, must
rest upon a successful and well-conducted
system of Agriculture on some measure
by which can be drawn out the exhaustless
treasures of our soil, a soil as rich and til
able asanyin the world. Even to render
ourselves competent to engage in com
merce, we must first have a solid agricul
tural basis. We may plan, lay off, and
even succeed in building our towns and cit
ies, but without an agricultural community
around them of what permanent benefit
arc they to any one!. They may satisfy
the pride and perhaps avarice of their
founders for a short time, and then relapse
into decay. Every one can point to ex
amples illustrating this fact. Then, look
ing towards a sure mode of obtaining a
competency in this world's possessions to
make ourselves a self-sustaining and pro
ducing people in .order to systemise the
work which is to engage a large majority
of them,' it is necessary that they should
commence aright in the matter. To this
end, or "to promote the improvement of
Agriculturo and its kindred arts through
out the State of Kansas," has been organ
ized a State Agricultural Soeiety. The
officers of the Society are, Lyman Scott
of Leavenworth county, President; F. G.
Adams of Shawnee, Secretary; Isaac Gar
rison'of the same county, Treasurer; and
an executive committee of ten.
Here, now, is a commencement in the
right direction a move, much needed by
the farmers and people generally of Kan
sas. ItwilLlead them to more thoroughly
investigate the subject, gam information
and thereby be enabled to make improve
ment in farming in a 1 its branches.
There are" subjects constantly arising, and
ISLAND HTJMBER 10 SURRENDERED!
- Tsrebellitrolaffiold is no mofe"! " On
the night of the4thinst. the U. S.igunboat
Carondeletraiyht fawitlet of its opened,
muderew batteriee, and on the iight of
thethWe was follewed by the Pittsbug;
both of these boats were exposed to heavy
fires from the Kentucky shore and Island
as they passed on their way to New Mad
rid, but neither of them lost a life or sus
tained damage to crew or boat. From their
arrival at New Marid up to the time of sur
render the combined fleet and land force
under General Pope, were making prepar
ations for an immediate battle with the en
emy. And on the morning of the 8th
Pope commenced the atta'ck by capturing a
floating battery of' 14 guns; the enemy
were then driven from .their works below
New Madrid, leaving behind their artiller
y, baggage, supplies and sick; a laad bat
tery of' 12 guns was also taken. The forco
then proceeded to the Island, and the suc
cess they met with the following dispatches
show:
Headers department of the Miss-
issippi, St. Louis, April 8, 1862. $
Eon. Es Ml Stanton, Secretary of War,
Washington:
Island No. 10 has surrendered. The en
emy has abandoned the upper land batter
ies, and is endeavoring to escape across a
swamp. General Pope is endeavoring to
cut them off. They abandoned every
thing. later dispatch.
General Pope captured three Generals,
six thousand prisoners of war,one hundred
siege pieces and several field batteries, with
immense quantities of small arms,! tents,
wagons, horses and provisiens. t
' Our victory is complete and overwhelm
ing. We have no.t lost a single mai.
H. W. Halleck, Major-General.
The new congressionl apportion
ment. The following table shows the
nuinbeif of members assigned 10 each State,
according to.ihe Congressional Apportion
ment .bill recently passed, based on the
census of 18G0; and also the apportion
ment of that of 1S50-:
1830.
C?KJ
Alabama
Arkansas
California
are already several new subjects . Connecticut
Retributive justice. A Mo. paper
relates that the loyal citizens of Utica,
Livingston Co., celebrated the anniversary
day of a disgraceful proceeding with, and
mal-treatment of, a member of the M. E.
conference by the rebels last year, by tak
ing one Myers, the only man remaining in
town who wa3 engaged in the disgrace, and
rode, him on a Liuc9ln rail, compelling him
the while to sing the same song required
of th6 rebels' victim the year before:
"Children of the Heavnly King,
As we journey let us sing;"
with the chorus:
"And we're riding on a rail."
A man who is a t Democrat, needs no
qualifying adjecti to designate 'his po
litical opinions. 'Leavcnicorth Inquirer.
True. The arch-traitor and wily de
ceiver, the father of-nll lies, "needs no
qualifying adjective to designate" his
moral character or "opinions." They are
kaow without any such qualifying word.
So with ybr-kind' q Democrat or Democracy.
The bill fer theabolition of Slavery, in
ihe-Di&tnct 3of Columbia, passeed the Sea-
vr 'i :l I I .A l....
tb wihUr from freeua. fcv eettme cam-tftneW- MU yw &m T01 V -
to I4 nays.tIt, ntebiWhas -passeed Jne
nouie ere 'nis.j 1 rni I w? P
which may claim the immediate attention
of our farmers. Experiments witn cotton
raising, the manufacture of sugar anc
improvement in quality of the
made trom tne bhinese sugar
growth and method for 1
deiay, the swe'et
of flax and hemp raisi
ed'je and ext(
illy crop that
or thought;
and requiring but
ha almost grown
some that corn is the
ret that can be raised!
a fallaey, as it is, by the
products gathered the coming
:nd, where is there a country better
for agricultural pursuits than this?
e cannot say of it as was said of Canaan
of old, that it isa land flowing with milk
and wild honey though both o'f those ar
ticles do exist here but for corn, wheat,
potatoes," garden'produce, in all its varieties,
and in fact everything which has had a fair
trial, we can boast that it cannot be sur
passed. For stock-raising, for fat cattle it
holds out no mean inducement.
Under a" proper stimulous, such as the
society Jorganizied, will naturally create
through its fairs and means of extending
information Agriculture will receive its
necessary impetus and become more ac
ceptable toall who are engaged in it. Let
the farmer,-then, apt be discouraged yet.
Though his potatoes will not sell for much
ovlr a dime and a half per bushel, and
corn likewise; though his whole " ex-
nfianiro" TrmTr ranfffl lnw not Kll it Tint.
though some of his brother farmers raajn
have become discouraged aad played
"quit;" though many have engaged in "sol
dieriag," let him who remains contented at
home, stand hyhis YLELD-picce.
Delawai e
Florida
Georgia
1850.
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3 Michigan 4
3 Minnesota 2
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rG PenuslVnia 25
1 (Rhode Island 2
9 S. Carolina G
5 Tennessee 10
5 Texas 2
5 Verfiiont 3
lO.Virginia 12
5 Wisconsin 3
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slaughtered in New York tho weight of
which was 3,300 live, 2,473 dead weight,
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This table is interesting as showing the
rapid rise of the Noroi- Western States in
power and iufluence. Illinois, Towa, Mis
souri, Michigan and Wisconsin, all gain
largely in their representations. The old
er free States lose or barely maintain their
old proportion. Of the Southern estates,
the only ones that gain are Texas, Arkan
sas and Louisiana, South Carolina's rep
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two less than the young free State of Iowa.
And yet South Carolina with this insignifi
cant amount of political power has brought
upon the country all the miseries from
which it now suffers.
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Hewlfad PatiN-(s1
It iswonderfal wbt . j:r.r 1 tt
reardS the Wfe
.regarithe rfbelhon. There are Mow,
Sr X? - -nthsbeen decry.
arguing that the wUrt XJ
"conquer the south- mat the bnger b
war continued the stronger and more de
ermmed he rebels would become, and
Aate only true policy was to recognize
the.SouthernConfedecaey. The Union ar
my has been the constant butt of their re
marks, and BullKun and Big Bethel were
standing jokes with them. They secretly
applauded at every reverse, and sneered at
and depreciated every victory of the Gov
ernment arms. But now, when General
McClellan's big snake begins to contract in
earnest, when the rebels find themselves
flanked in all direction?; when the eastern
coast is at last opened to our advance, and
we have effected an opening through the
very heart ofvrebeldom, indicating and
promising a speedy wiping out of the trai
lers from the face of the earth these fel
lows oegin to sing a different tune, and to
talk m the most patriotic manner of the
cause oi me Union, and the villainy of the
rebels, and are even ready to '"pledge their
lives, their fortunes, and sacred honor for
the Support of ihe GovernwiPnt flia
North just now is full of these new made ,
patriots. It is astonishing tosee their
zeai now-a-aays lor the war! We would
suggest, however, that the Government
owes them small thanks for their Sudden
ardor in its cause. When the nnt?nn .Q
in gloom and" dismay when treason was
jubilant and audacious when the threo
months recruits demanded to be discharg
ed these now noisy friends of the Gov
ernment were then the emiallv nn.'; Aa.
famers of what they termed its imbecili
ties ana lanujes. it is. well to mark such
men. They are" known for their vitupera
tion of Bepublicanismand theirj sickly
adulation of the rebel leaders. We ven
ture the assertion that there is not a man
who reads this paragraph but knows- men
such as those to whom we now refer, and
who could, if necessary, point to these in
dividualsjkily. BeecHer's FIRST PrlNTlNG EXPERIENCE.
I recollect the first lectures that I ever
printed. After they had been delivered,and
I had been requested to allow them to be
published, I thought I would read a little
on the subject of which they treated, to see
if I could not make them better; and I was
so unfortunate as to get hold of thcSermons
of Dr. Barrow the man that the king char
acterized as the most unfair of preachers,
because he left nothing for anybody that
came,, after him to say. My first lecturo
was on Idleness, so I took his sermon on
Idleness, and commenced reading it; but
before' I had read it half through, I found
that he had said all that I had ai:d a groat
deal more, and said it a great deal better
than I was capable of saying it, and I
snatched up my manuscript, and threw it
across the room and said, " Lie there ! I
will never be such a fool as to print that."
AbRiEP reply. Bu"nside is one of
the Generals ' that do not issue proclama
tions." He is a man of actions not of
words. This was shown by his "speech "
on the reception of a flag presented to him
at Washington, at an early period of the
war. After the spokesman of the donors
had delivered a flattering speech, and had
presented the flag, Burnside received it
with an air of satisfaction on his counte
nance, made a very courteous bow, and
said : " Yery much obliged to you ! very
much obliged to you ! Move on, men !M
That,isit. No words to spare. "Move
on men."
Republicanism thrives byjtkeeping its
votaries in .the dark respecting national
matters. When that party succeed in pull
ing the wool over the eyes of the people,
ours will be the most ' miserable Govern
ment under the havens. Let us put our
foot on the viper, and crush him out of ex
istence. Atchison Union.
Oh! nol You might "get your foot in't,"
and be in the same predicament that your
brother rebels were when a Foote stepped
upon Forts Henry and Donaldson; a foot
which crushed "out of existence the viper"
treason considerably in those parts.
JohnB. Gough, the eelebratedoTcmper
ance lecturer, a short 'time tince left St
Louis for Canada to deliver a course of
lectures, but he found the sentiments of the
people so bitter against the United States
that he declined to fulfil his engagement
While the section taxing pianos was
under consideration in the House, Mr. AK
dridge moved tejay a tax of five dollars
on all "harps of a thoasud strings."
According to the telegraph Gen Denver
has been removed.freoi hit proposed com
mand of the Department of Kansas. It
would appear that Jhm Lane still lives.
Leavenwortk Conurimtivt $rd inst.
4-
Washingtt letter writers regard it as
certain that a braaeei if the U . S. Miat
wHl beesubliaheiat Denver. It will be
"In the first place, " said Pat, relating
an account of a fight with a bull, "Ihit him
an infernal wallop on the side of the head,
which missed him ; then I gave him another
with t'other hand in the same spot precisely,
and by me sowl, while I was doing it the
ugly baste butted me clane aeros3 the
street into the cannal. Och, but for that
blow, how I would a whaled the ugly div-il."
The Baltimore Express comes out deci
dedly in favor of emancipatioa in Mary
land. Several of the ward Union meetings
in St. Louis accept the President's propo
sition to tho slave States so far as Missou
ri is concerned.
' Mr Thomas Underwood, who was in the ,
battle of Pea Ridge, writes that one of
Sigel,s Majors, with 20 men and one piece
of artillery, killed 35 secessionists at one
fire, with the loss of only two of our men.
Fugitive slaves of rebel masters are flock
ing to Washington from Eastern Virginia
in large numbers. They are now secure
from the summary arrest and imprisenmont
to which they were formerly subjected on
arriving there.
A Vanlrfl Aiiitni intnrlrd in a BOlfl"
ical article that, though he would not call
his opponent a liar, he must sav thai if the
gentleman had inteaded to state wkat was
utterly false, he had been remarkably suc
cessful! n the attempt
the Cmnbtrlimd riverVcVitmaeedV .. " a source of great advavtace to Colorado.
The election in St. Corns, county and
-; lfn.v 1a rVnlted in the tn-
mmph of the Union ticket in every ward
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