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i '4 yX V- j l "a ' " " i i T.i zM V THIS BIG B ii j- . a BT.TG. D. SWEAKINGETS". "Westward the Stiff of Empire takes its "Way." 4tOt,TJMli t, NTJHBERi uStttK MAEYSVILLE, IKANB-AS, SA.TXJKDA.TT, MAY 24, 1862 ,- mmk' - a UllIWl it V. f A V THE BIGTBLUE UNION, IB PUBIMHED EVEBT SATURDAY HOEHINO. O. u. jSWEARlScHESr, Proprietor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy one year, cash in advance, $1.00 One copy, payable daring the y ear, . .t ... 1.50 Ten Copies, one year, " 10.00 A.u extra copy t the getter up of a club of Ten. X RATES OF ADVERTISING. Onesqnare, first insertion 1.00 Each subsequent insertion, "50 Yearly advertisements inserted on very liber al terms. - JOB WORK, Pone with dispatch and in the latest style of ihe art. Payment required for all Job Work on delivery. All Commaaications, or matters relating to ihe business of the office, should be addressed to JNO- P- CONE, Editor ajto Publisher, Marysvilhy Kansas. Egsih Jibbers. "Still, in thy Dream-land, Poes Oh wha t a Heaven 01 Deauty ivtt ; Fairer than the blended glories Of sjthouund sunset skies. Heads and vales of tempo stretching ('Neath soft skies ot changeless btae,) O'er whewe Velvet sod arc clustered Fiord Gems and Pearl of dew." SONG OF THE CAMP. Give us a song 1" the soldier cried, The outer trenches guarding, 'When the heated guns of the camp .allied Grew, weaiy of bombarding. 'The dark Redan in silent scoff, Lay, grim an I threatening under, And the tawny mouth of the Mnlakoff" No lomger belcfeed its thunder. There was a pause. The guardman said; " We storm the forts to-morrow ; i5ing while we may, another day Will bring enoagh of sorrow." They lay along the battery's side, Below the smoking cannon Brave hearts from Severn and from 'Clyde Aid from the banks of Shannon. They sang of love and not of fame Forgot was Britain's glory; Each heart recalled adifferont lame, But all sang "Annie Laurie." Voice after voice cattght up the song, Until its tender passion "3tose like an anthem, rich and strong Their battle eve confession. JDear girl her name he c'ared not speak Yet, as the song grew louder, Something upon the soldier's cheek Washed off the stains of powder. .Beyond the darkning ocean burned The bloody sunset's embers, "While the Crimean valleys learned How English love remembers. And once again a fire of hell Rained on the Russian quarters, TVith scream of shot and burst of shell, And bellowing of the mortars, Aad Irish Nora's eyes are dim, For a singerdumb amd gory! And English Mary niourns for him Who sang of " Annie Laurie." .JUi ! soldiers to your honored rest Your truth and valor.feearing, The bravest are the tenderest The lev ing are the, daring. 1 Bayard Taylor. tHf5RBAMpiraEET" tilfnanittf thee, I dream of, thee, , All through the.traiiqH hours of night; And murmured tones 'of melody My bosom fills with sweet delight Oh, could I gaze in' thy dark eyes, 'Bright as the stars that roll above, Then woald swsetsongs of joyiarise, Attune to notes of peace and love. . " i - r My. heart, ssy heari, is all .thine owm Oh," take it in life'sT joyous hours, Ire alits golden desasas have flows, Ertit lies erusheijMSMl the bowers. 'To slasp thy lily kaad in mint To hear thy vv i sweetest song Oh, tkia ware Mjimm Jirise For-which my weary heart, doth long !, Idrtem;trj&s,lI4raCfthe4, - Of-ievs to bless Ja life's triad day I kafikybrsMeljssfUg.wardto me, . nr - (tjrresprairtwe. - COST Or THE REBELLION, Washington Mat 11 j In the whirl and excitement of putting down the Rebellion we are apt to forget a few things'that ought to he remembered. We have an army of about 750,000 men. The estimates of the Sanitary Com mission give an annual mortality of about 5 per cent of those men from sickness alone. In the Mexican war the loss in battle was about one-eighth that from sickness. Taking that as the ratio in the present war, and we have : Annual mortality by sickness 37,500 Annual mortality in battle 4,687 Total 42,187 This is perhaps the lowest estimate ev er made for an army in like circumstances, and is on the supposition that sweeping epidemics be escaped. The mortality in European armies has ranged from ten to thirty per cent, and in many instances much higher. In the British army in the Crimea the annual mortality was twenty per cent by disease and three percent by wounds. Should our army be obliged to spend the approaching hot season in South ern camps, the ratio of mortality from dis ease will probably exeeed that in the Cri mea, while from the experience of the last few weeks and the immediate prospect before us, that from the battle-field will be much greater- That ratio would give: Aunual mortality from disease 150,000 Killed in battle . 22,500 Total annual mortality i. . 172,500 Assuming the very low ratio of only one married man in ten among our sol diers, and allow but two children to each family, and we have according, to the first estimate : Number of families annually oiphatied 4,218 Number of children made fatheiless 8,436 According to the second estimate : Number of families annually orphaned 17,200 Number of children made fatherless 24,400 Add to these estimates the number who will return unable to provide for their fam ilies in consequence of wounds (at a low estimate,) twice as many as those killed in battle, and at least an equal number brok en down with disease from hardship and exposure, and we have according to, the first estimate as above, 12,1S5; and ac cording to the second estimate, 52,440 children of soldiers annually orphaned or impoverished by the war. Now, by the lowest estimate we have 12,185 children of soldiers aanually or phaned. By the closest estimate yet made of the expenses, thus far, every laboring man must pay indirectly and directly in taxes, in substance, one day's woik out of every twenty during the remainder of his life. The Rebellion tax will be particular 'y bard on western farmers who are owing a portion of their farms. In fact, it is be lieved that thelarms of many of the poor er farmers will be virtually confiscated by our Government for taxes ; and the ques tion narrows down to whether the proper ty of loyal or disloyal men shall be confis cated to pay the expenses of the Pro-Slavery Rebellion. Many of our conservative politicians see constjtutUnal objections to confiscating the property of rebels, though they are mot m anxious about the loyal. Dawes, of Mass., id oae of those anxious conservatives, and his anxiety is shared by Yallandigbam of Ohio tad other creatures of that ilk. Nevertheless Congress will undoubtedly past an aet confiscating a portion of the'prtptrty of the rebels ; but in spite of all that can be done loop holes will be provided by the conservative pro- slavery members in any 'confiscation law, throMgb wMch their friends, the rebels, will slip tujlfh io' great extent un harmed, jv - , If the people will send these conserva tive friends of rebels to Congress thej must expect that rebel interests will be considered first andtnose of Jdyal men afr terwards. Setting a thief toTcatch a thief maybe the best policy j butrjputting pro slavery men at the bead of tMarny, and allowing ultra pro-slavery men to dictate the course of the Government- daring this pro-slavery rebellion, does not seem the cheapest, quickest or best way to end the war. But I need not speak more of the detestable and ever -present rule or influ ence of Slavery. You know what it is in Kansas. But it eometimes overdoes it self. Tame and spiritless as the friends of freedom are, they would nardly pef mit ti e administration to retain in his ap pointment the murderer Emory. But it certainly would not do to-" irritate the South" by turning him out of office, so he will probably be rotated from his present berth intoa better one. There is no chance for anti-slavery men in the army above the position of Lieutenant, One fact is comforting, however, that no one can help the rapid conversion of many pro-slavery generals and leaders into good abolitionists. The Supreme Court stands ready at the first opportunity to pronounce the recent act of Congress abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia unconstitutional, as everything must be in their eyes that in any way favors freedom. Ex-Secretary of War, Cameron has thrown a shell into the semi-rebel ranks in the shape of a thorough and triumphant defence of his course while Secretary of War. It is a stunner, perfectly unanswer able, and all that the pro-slavery negro phobists can do is to gnash their teeth and howl. C. WHO GO TO THE WAR? The Detroit Tribune gives a list of the Supervisors chosen in two-thirds of Mich igan, summing up 268 Republicans and 144 Democrats, showing a small Republic an gain, ine iaitor says : It is an interesting question for consid eration what effect the enlistments for the army have had upon the Republican vote. The statistics upon this subject have not been generally collected, but wherever they have been collected they show that a very large proportion- of the volunteers are Republicans, and that the result of the April elections has been influenced on this account. We will add a few instances : We lose a Supervisor in Georgetown, Ot towa County, where we had a majority last year, and a canvass shows that 30 Repub lican voters of this town have gone to the war. In Livingston County, where we lost this year, in two towns where canvass es were made, the result concerning en listments stood : Green Oak, 54 Republic ans, 1 Democrat. Hauland, 23 Republic ans, 3 Democrats. We only lost 7ir6eSu vervisors in this Countyi The Republic an, in commenting on the result in this county, says it has " yet to hear of a single instance wherein a hitherto avowed Re publican has renounced his creed or for saken his party." In the town of Sparta, Kent County, where the Republican ticket was elected, out of 40 voters gone to the war, oy are nepumicans. -in uaKiana County, the Republicans also lost Super visors. .We have the canvass of a couple of towns in this county. In Highland, eut of 78 volunteers. 70 are Republicans ; in Blooafield the ratio is about the same; and throughout the county, whenever a canvass of this kind has been made, the Republicans have been found to be greatly in the majority. We do not intend to make any invidious distinctions between patriotic men in giving the above facts, but simply present them as a true and just way of r .' i i vxr, v:i i solving pojincai rsuus. it q uu. equal ly well of a Democrat or Republican who risks hie life on the battle.-neld tor the preservation of the tJiion. ' Doubtless, there are States and districts which skew a different state of facts j but there has been so mach underhand effort by Democrats to keep their men from en listing, that such a contrast as is .above shadowed forth must be morji general than is currently ifelieved, Wt regret. ibis, for wja . i .. t , we are molt anxious that the great body of the Northern Democrats should hare a new view of Slaverjpi its practical work ing and inevitable elects. Only let them see what Slavery is, and they cannot be impelled longer to vote for its champions and apologists. ';v A Omrl Cutoff with an Ax. M Do yon see this lock of hair V said in 6ld nan to me. " Yes ; but what f it? It is, I suppose the curl from the head of a dead child l6ng sinee gone to God." 11 It is not ; it is a lock of my 6wn harf : and it is now nearly seventy years since it was ent from this head." " But why do yea rise a Jock f your haif somTjcb?" " It has a story belonging id it, and1 a strange one. I keep it thus with care be cause ic speaks to me more of God and of his special care than anything else I pos sess." "I was a little child of four years, with long, early Itfeks, which, in sun or 1 am, or wind, hung down my cheek's uncovered. One day, my father went into the ffottfe to cut a log, and I went with him I Was standing a little way behind him, or rather at his side, watching with interest the heavy strokes of the ax, as it went up and down upon the wood, sending off splinters with every stroke, in all directions.- SonVe of the splinters fell at my feet, and I ea gerly stooped to pick them up. In dting so, I stumbled forward, and in a moment my curly head lay upon the log. I had fallen just at the moment when the ax was coming down with all its force. It was too late to stop the blow. Down came the ax. I screamed, and my father fell to the ground in terror. He could not stay the stroke, and in the blindness which the sudden horror caused, he thought he had killed his boy. We soon recovered ; I from my fright, and he .from his terror. He caught me in his arms and looked at me from head to foot, to find out the dead ly wound which he was sure he had in flicted. Not a drop of blood nor a scar was to be seen. He knelt and gave thanks to a gracious God. Having done, he took his ax and found a few hairs upon its edge. He turned the log he had been splitting, and there was a single curl of his boy's hair sharply cut through and laid upon the wood. How great the escape! It was as if an angel had turned aside the edge at the moment when it was descending up on my head. With renewed thanks upon his lips he took up the curl, and went home with me in his arms. That lock he kept all his days as a memorial of God's care and love. That lock he left me on his death bed.1 An exchange contains the following neat hit at the New 'York Ledger's " an swers to correspondents :" ( Jenhie :Ministere are not more ad dicted to dissipation than the men of oth er professions. A few of the Kalloch type take gin toddies and liberties with females, but the Majority of them are as good as lawyers and- doctors, ii you want a true christian, marry an editor. An Old Bachelor's Maxim. As people sprinkle the fleors before they sweep them, so some ladies sprinkle their husbands with tears in order to sweep the cash out of their pockets. One of the neatest and sharpest things .ever said by Sheridai, is this: "The gen tleman is indebted ta his imagination for his facts, and to his memory for ,his wit.' The Louisville Democrat thinks Bean regard's premise to water his hone in the. Tennessee river must be a very dry jee to the bene. if- God washes the eyes with- tears until they can behold the land where tears shall come no more. Sharp stomscha make short graces, --$ 2533? J ttaalth si Cows. o Gosd health in domestic animsjlr . h & ways a matter af primary impoft4$g. As bad health ia parents transmit ft- . dency to disease in offspring, it It lt'- tant that every kind of animal we $mkt to continue on our farms should $ k$, ' vigorous and healthy. - ' As domestio animals are asottZc6)ct man food, it is a matter of grtal iffefor tance to preserve them in a heaj thy $&- tion. Diseased meat carries k 4t$ into the stomach of the consumers It g? a serious objection which vegetarian !f$t against the use of animal fool, $fea $& bad treatment they receive renter gkmy. unhealthy. As an unhealthy animal cannst ssjiie&mgr food to as good advantage as a well sj&s,fg is again economical to avoid disease Each of these circumstances k Ktft&e&l reason for guarding with scrupiloi i&t) the health of the animals wt feed: &is'-. when we derive milk, from aaimals, g fe doubly important that they ba kpt fm' from every objectionable taiat A si&lj cow not only yields a diminished prolm she yields sickly milk, and lickly &g ; nigher degree than her flesh. If A cow eats Anything that has a s&teg c or disagreeable odor, it appears in ie? milk. If she eat? anytnin lAwsical, it &mU: out in her milk. If ajie is feverish, her milt shews ftb Ii she has sores about htr, fUr iRftft found in her fltfilk. If she is fed upon decay's ? J3tt food, her milk, since it is torralfreai lit feod, will be imperfect It Ii sis imfffft ble to make good milk from b4 fotdj $g to make a good bmilding from tcdHM &gs ber. If there is anything wToaf afott lfert it will appear in the milk; as that 31 gfe fective source of casting filth frag b-r-ganism. EaUoxadl CazetU. Cuxicma- PhsnosassMSu " How is it that you raise 99c $mg and nice onions ?" I asked if an f & farmer, as I was sitting at table with h and observing some on the table. "Well," said he, "we spremted &, seed with boiling water, tad then pJaifcftl it early and in good ground." " Sprout the seed in boiling wmterf9 I exclaimed, inquiringly. "What 4J. mean, sir, by that? Won't kalilf 1& kill the seed?" "Not at all," he replied; "hut it ttfl sprout them, in one minmte'e time." "It will? Ic looks inereniMe," I Im plied, with surprise. "Well, you toy it," he rtflied, wfesi the time comes to plant, a jesjftltji'& just as I tell you." And, sure enougn, whta'syijftg cam, and my neighbor was plttif Ml & seed, being present, I said : " Jewell, last winter, thera vm mk in Iowa told ma that to tear WMsm waste on black onion need would sprtwt it & minute. Supptse you try it)" " Very well.' said he. And ag JsW teakettle from the stove, he yawed &C boiling water on the seed, which kt hd m a saucer. Looking closely at it let tie menc, ha exclaimed; " Yau have taut fjgfe ly Only look thert." Hooked, and behold, the littm jjimj aUmtaa large as horse haiia weta & ing oat of the opened ends f ssW jwitS He did not retain the watt trntW Mti. above three seconds, and im leas than g&D half minute after it was peart &, thf) sprouts were projecting from the seeds. My Iowa friend assured alt thtt if&Q process would advance the growth of a onion two or three weeks heyond the ordi nary method of ptatiag without sprtafc i"S- ' .L . :v Jn g 4 c n . . St, v -W te I t 5. '0- Utf JST i. V- -.-' . fi v - ?1i l "C'H