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CAPE ISLAND. NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY. MAY I. 13(52. ■ , ,, .. -■ ■ — ^ - ^niuta— an

NUMBER 44

SSmBSSv or the ubkluo*. ' Never could the country »o well appreciate what it costs to put down tbe causeless rebellionjrf tbe slevehwldini; Hi ticiooo-ds at the present moment, ! while tbe borron of the field of Pittsburg ore fresh in view and memory. For tbe life of every noble Union soldier «b»-fell in tbet bloody conflict, these tnen are reeponeible. The f have filled the land with mourning and desoiation ; they, with parricidal hand, have broken down tbe allara of proaperlty nod peace ; they have instigated all the *. crime* and all the evils of whatever sort which now overwhelm the land. These pallid faces, upturned to tbe sky— these maimed and bleeding bodies, strewn in hetseombs upon the battle 'field, are witnesses of their crime against the Nation, Humanity and Qod. Here; is a stupendous /act of overpowering ^ckeduess, before which despicable politicians, seeking to palliate this rebellion or diminish its criminality, must stand abashed. Tliia rebellion is slaughter of loved ones— of your brothers and our* ; it is the desolation of ien thousand hvrnes, the destruction of life's decreet interests ; it is the loss of hundreds of millions of money, the sacrifice of comfort, happiness and ease : it is devastation of country, tbs prostration- of industry and traffic, the breaking up of the very foundation of social order and i*' tranquility,— upon which all interests, *11 enjoyments, all hopes depend. And yet there are turn here and elsewhere who seek to lay it trpon outers, to* make is Insensible to Hi enormity -*who plead that it may be treated with1 ten drrueas and mercy — touched with glove j and not mailed hand*— who inonrn and sigh when rebels are shot down, and burl, epithets into tbe very graves or j the brave men who; leaving wires, children, home, everything have Rone to defend the life of the nation. Oh, that the people cfluld comprehend the full the • damnable magnitude, the infernal chxr icter nu3 Intent of this rebellion, began ! and continued by tttosbilious, reckless, j rtii I conscienceless politicanr — men who #00 Id thrust the natibn through a Rod Sen of blood if thereby they could reach the ;>otrer after which they grasp!'. * . Xttearl Alerenry. TH* DESPOTISM OF A IAD HABIT. O. the tyranny of a bad ha^il ! Coleridge, one of the subtlest intellects and finest poets of his time, battled for twenty year* iyforc he could eraanei- j pate himself from hlir tyrant, Opium: 1 He went into voluntary imprisonment He hired e man to watch him day ahd tlight, and keep him' by force from lasting the pernicious drug. He formed rc*» stations. Tel. during sll tbe best years \if his life, he wasted hie snbslaucc and As health, neglected hit family, and " Bred degraded and'accursed, because he had no resolution to abstain. He

would jag plans To cheat the very man 1 whom he paid to keep the drug from J him, and bribe tbe jailer to whom he j had TOltfnUrily surrendered bjmselt. aw Terrible, UrriUe is tbe despotism of j rb^i habit. TbecAieuf Coleridge is ; eft extreme one, of course. Bat there ; ere many,' whose eyee them lines wiU I meet, who ere as truly the slaves of a perverted appetite as be. Their dewpot may be opiate, tobacco, drink or worse; - but they are so completely under the dominion of their master, that nothing short of a moral war of Independence, which should task all their own strength,, and all they oould borrow from others^ would suffice to deliver them. Trie . Stkvexs Buttsy —The naval-, appropriation bill contains an item of nearly fiMff.MO to pay for and finhh the Stevens battery, tbe money not to he expended unices the Secretary of the ?{avj is of the opinion that tbo seme { will secure aa efficient ertaaut battery. • The section appropriating thirteen mil* } lions merely sari, "To enable the Secretary to contract for iroa-cied steam vet»* geU-ef-war." , •

grants HoouncMPKRs We sometimes catch ourselves won deriug how many of the young ladies whom we meet with are to perform the part of (rouse keepers when (be young , men who now ere them so admiringly ; have persuaut-d them to become their wives. We listen to tbo*e young ladies of ■ whom we speak, and hear them not only 1 acknowledging but bating, of their ig- I norance of all houieurork duliu*. a* if | ' nothing would so lower them iu the e*- | teem of their friends us the confession of an ability to bake bread and pies, or cook a piece of meat i or a disposition to engage in any useful employment. Speaking from our own yuutlrful rccollectiou, wr are Irec to say that taper fingers and lily .white bands are very pretty to look at with a young tnau's 1 eyes, and aometknes wo have known the artless innocence of practical knowledge displayed by a young Miss to appear 1 rather interesting than othertrise. But ' wtf have lived long enough to learn that . life Is full of rugged experiences, and that the most loving, romantic and deli- . ; cute people 'must Hve on cooked or oth- | r ergjsp prepared food, and in homes j - kept clean nnd tidy by indnstrious • hands. And for all the practical parpose* of married fife, it is generally r found that for the husband to sit and jI gozu at a wife's taper fingers and liiy , hands, or for a wife to (it and be looked ; I at nnd admired, dots not make the pot ' boil or put the smallest piccfe of food in 1 the pot. | ' A SUOCEMFDL FLAN OF CODBTSHIF. At a wedding recently celebrated, 1 ' were present «oiue twenty fire yonng j ' | persons,- ajl of them in a condition I j which, Iot various reasons, they general- ? | ly concurred in regarding as undesirable — the "unengaged." Obe of the gen- , ' j llemon of the -party suspected the prevalence among them of feelings that - : might easily be esebanged for others In.- ' fltiUebPraore fixvd and agreeable He ' accordingly proposed the choosinj- of a 1 ( President, a person worthy of ali'confi- ! » | dence, whose duty it should be to re- ' | ceivc from each individual a folded pa- : 1 j per instribed with' the name #f the per- i ■ ' son of the sex whom the first would' be willing to marry. The President, in addition to ibrrfcstrnfnts of his own sfente and honor, was to be put under a Sol- , 5 eran pledge of secrecy. All refusing to j . accede to the proposition were for n ; time to leaTo the room. Those whose j I choice was reciprocal — that is, whose pa- ! peri contained the same two names — j were to be privately informed; w Wiethe . selections of the others were to remain . undisclosed. The result was that the „ trial vu ins do; all shared in the expCr- ] iment, and eleven cooplei were fonnd'to I have made themselves tokpRj — and their , several uuions were afterwards cousatna- » ted* "V * _ _

j " in cedent' of jilt tth, In. the chargo of Premont's body, j guard, under Major Zagonyi, at Spring- | field, Mb., npon the rebels, the Major 1 ' directed one of bis buglers, a FrenchI man, to sound a signal. Tbe bugler did ' j not seem to pay any attention to the ori d*r, but ,dhrted off with Lieutenant Majthenyi. A few momenta after wards * 1 he was observed in another part' of tbe field; vigorously pursuihg the flying in 1 fan try. His active form was always seen In the thickest of tbe fight. When the line was formed in tbe Plaza, Za- ;. gouyi noticed the bnglcr, and, approach- , ing bifn, said: "In the midst of tbe batj lie you disobeyed my order You are unworthy to-be a member of tbe Guard. , j I disrate* you." Tbe bugler Showed his 5 bugle to bis iadfgnsnt commander ; the j mouthpiece of the instrument was shot 1 ( away: lie taM : "The mouth was shot off.- I conid' not bogle " vix mon bogle, ! aud so I bo-li * vis mon pistol and saj bre." It la unnecessary to add, the * ! brave Frenchman wo* not dismissed. •1 W* truu to oar Peote.- Tht rebels must ' trwt lo tbetr fket.- 'j

THE PLOT AGAINST THE FEESIDEVTB LITE. . The Bal'imore correspondent ol the', X. Y.five. Poet, says : "For a loug. time it aas believed that an Italian barber of this city, wes the j | Oreini who undertook to sley President ! 1 Lincoln on his journev)(to the £apital in I j February, 1861, -and il it petsiblc he waa. ' one of the plotter*; but ii came out on j a recent trial of a mau, named Byrne, in j , Richmond, that he was tbe caplasn of ' the Ijaud that wa* to take the life af Air ■ | Lincoln. This Byrno used to bs a no- , 1 torfoos gambler in Baltimore, aud etui- j , gra'ed to Richmond, shortly after the 1 19th of AprfT, TJf bloody memory. He j 1 was recently arrested In Jeff, Davi*' cap- 1 j iulton a charge of keepiug a gambling 1 , house and of di*loyalty to the rhief trai- ^ | 1 tor's pretended government. Wigfall ^ j testified to Byrne's loyalty to the rebel , ! cause, and gave in evidence that Byrne | , | was the captain of the gang who were to -bill Mr. Lincoln, nnd npon this eti- 1 depcc, it appears, he Wa* let go, OT. 1 jcb^j o, to be gnilty of sinh an intended^? '.crime a mantle large enough p) cover j ; up all other ains against society and tbe j 1 j Divine law. 80 Wigfall has revealed ' | I the" Baltimore Oreini at last. Mutual Fouuukce — That house will be kept in tnrmoil where there to no , toleration of each others' errors. If you , ■^4oy a single slick of wood on the grate j , and apply the Are to it, it will go out; • i when yon put on another stick, they will ' ' j burn.; when you put on half a dozen j slicks, ycu wiH be sure to have a bluze j When one member of a family gctajnto a passion, if let alone he will srion ' 'cool down, and may possibly bC ashamed ! of himself, and repent. But when you ; oppose temper to temper; when you pile j . iiu all the fuel; when jotr draw others i intothe group, and when you let one j j harsh answer be followed- by another, and there will souu be a bUzo which will . • enwrap ihedi all. * ... embalnino'thx dead. Home curiosity ba* bren"«*pre«*ad as to i the mode of enmbmlminj, now practiced in ! tlje army. A Washington correspondent j ' - gives the following account of .the process: j The body is placed on an inclined plat- ( j form, 'the mouth, ears, nose, he., nA> ' I i pad with cotton-j if woonded, cotton is put 7 ( in the wonnd and a platter is pat on ; an , ; incision is made in the wrist, the attach- ( ment is made from an nir-puMp, aud fluid , | injected throughout the arteries. The wonnd is then sewed up anil tbe body is I I hoisted op to dry. To save the eyes from 1 sinking in, wax is put under the eyelids. — ' The hair I found to come out very easily* - bat after the embalming it could not be re- > moved. Tbe bodies lake, on an average, l about seren quarts, but lien. Bander's took , seventeen quarts, ^'here were some eiflil bodies oil' hand j some had beasrthere thir- j Ay days. The oporaior* say iwfonr .months ; J the bodies will become solid-lied like mar r ble, but no -.chance has y. t been bad to' " prove it. (*1. Baku 's body cn arriving at •San Francisco was in .^1 advance^ stage of decomposition.

Tna Moos'* Isri.ciu-ca ox- Raw — From t the corapwtson of a, s^riee of ohiervbtions continued for twwatyH-igliSSjreati atilotin-li. Stuitearrl, and AMgsburg by Professor Schubler, it appear* that the maximum | number of rainy days lake* place between the first quarter ebd the new moon. The 1 ji amber of reiny days la tbe last of these intervals is to that of tho first as 6F6 to 8ifi, or irf'Vonnd numbers as 4 to 0. . And this proportion is not only true Of the- ^ twenty-eight years taken all together, bat also of the vepsratA groups of fous yetrs. ■ which give analogous numbers s we see therefore that it raios more frequently dur 1 ing the wane of the moon. Tbe result 1 maintained by Sebobbr, received support 1 from a .series of observations made by Phil- • gram, .of Viehn*. Poverty runs strongly to fub'. A man is , j never >0 fall of jokes as wheb' bw is rednevd , to ooa shirt and two potaton*. . Wealth is , taciturn oad fretful. Stock bfoken would , 06 sooner indulge in a hearty laugh - than , tbsy would land money 00 a second mort- , «»8*- i Womfn— tbe morning star of ear youth- 1 the day star of our manhood— tbe evoaiog I star of og«. Heaves blare our stare

» Our reader* wilt r-r.i>inb*r that about j 1 ' two woek* as" M Mcrcier. our French mio- ! liter tb Washington, paid a visit to the , rebel nctborilie*. at Richmond. There are i a variety of opiuios* as to the object of his ; J tisit- Th« Phil*. fVe*». iti «pcakiog 00 the j i sabjeet, say* : • ' . ! "Ti"he cnnjnctore th»t tli^-Auit Alf- the ' j Krruch minister to Richmond was. caused j 1 [ chirfty by bi* desire to make awaxge. , ment* rn regard to tobacco bet- \ IfJ ' ! probably corn-el. V irginia w»a in IBM) thep ! greatest tobacco-growing S'.ala iu the Un- ; l ! ion. and France tbe greatest consumer* of j 1 | that product. The French Government na- • 1 I tarally btiU a deep interest in al II hat re jt ! to it, on account of the Urge revcrruo 1 1 ; itwnpplies. Intelligence of the "removal j i I into the iutsriur," or the desiiuction of to. ( 1 j bacco and cotton crops, form- \ *ierootyp«d | j feature of the near* from the .South, sod | 1 j show* that tbo rebel* are enforcing tlieir . 1 I dog-io'ibe-manger policy. To what length : ' I they are ready to go, even with property ' I I upon which France ha* pecuniary claim*, j 1 .'cannot be clearly foreseen. Mereier may j 1 ^wani l beui that there is a limit to the for- j I j bearunc* of hi* Government, and that if I : ! they remove or wantonly destroy, on Abe } j approach of our trqop*. unv French tobac. I eo. they may be held to a strict accountability by Louis Napoleon. What Gr.n. Grant Ham Dose.— The Unj ion commander at Pittsburg ha* been cn- | , j gaged in seventeen battle* under the folds j I of the flag of tho Untied State*, fourteen j j*)f which have been foaglil , during the pre- j • tent rebellion. In Missouri he held the ve- ; j riou* rank* of Colonel. Acting Brigadier J General, Brigadier General, and Acting ' j Major General, lie held the chief com' j maud at Belmont, Fort DoneltoA, Fort' I Henry, Xe. I Unity is the heat bond of safety in every' | ' church nnd commonwealth. We shall be | invincible, if wo hu inseparable. Ami this [' ! did tbo tstfgthian king in'Pltn»reh represent 1 j livelily to MTFighty tnii*. He. boin); ready I to die, comtnamled a bundle «C arrows fast ( bound together, they could not; tlien he j cvused t«e banil to be cut. and then they , I broke thtenV with ease. He applied it thh-- ! "My sons, *0 long u* you kk*p together, you I wiH hfe invincible ; but if the band of noj ion be broken betwixt^ofli you will rosily , be broken in piece*." ^ ' ' A diiappainSvd Hibernian, id relating Mja* grief, gave the following spicy item rp-I Mold him had he any iKhroiig beer what ', 1 J wjs good : he axed me ye*, but it was all ' soar and gone." ! . '-It appears that there are nine hnndred t and forty seven liorto thieves in conGne- . , ment throughout the c^flntry, exclusive of ' . those in Fort Warren. » It .is said ihfti th^' rbbels don't go to ■ church r»o*r ot'all. They have seven days • a week of "flumiliatien,'' but not one vf ( ^ ' prayer." .. Wo leam from tbe re'bel forces that there , ( has been an advance ifi pork, bcel, Soar, j corn, opd in the United States armies. I ' At MnhaMns ore tatsght the rebel* how j 1 to run and they have been pYectieieg it ev. . r er since. ,

Try it— no kitte* are half eo sweet e* ' those given at tbe making up of a quarrel. I BY AUTHORITY. LAWS OF NEW JERSEY. : -| A supplement to an act entitled "An eel 1 for the relief of inch portion of the rfi- 1 litie of this slate as rahy be celled icto , syrTice," approved Mey eleventh, one , r^Tlioasand eight hundred end sixty-one. 1 1. Be it enicted by lh9 Senate end Gen 1 ••rei Assembly of theSteteof New Jersey. ] That tbo adjutkot general of tbe slei* i* t hereby aothnrisk^from timo to" time, with 1 the approval of the governor, to establish ^ such rules end regulations, end incur sueh expenses la obtaining information as to - them may seem necessary to secure the payment ol the stele's bounty, provided by 1 , ihe act 10 which this is a supplement, or ' laid act and itajr other aoi or arts abick ' may hereafter exi'l enpplemeutal thereto, 1 to those who under said act' may be aoti- 1 tied Thereto, eud such rules and regula- < lion* as shall prevent framla- end mistakes tn distribution and payment of said boanty end ell county, city sad borough officio duties to discharge relative to the diytrtbutioo of said bouuty ere requested '

. comply with such rulee ahd regulations when tbe same are made known. 2. And t>e it erected. Thet this act shall take effect immediately. Approved, March 19'. ' An act respecting railroad*. s i 1. Be it enacted by the Senate eod Qen-eral*A-»..-iniilv of the Slat# ot N.ew Jersey. Thai it shall tie the doty ot every ra.troad eobtoany in this state, whenever required Lby the owner or ownars of any freight, to J drTy/f tHe une at the termintu of their J>p5l . and the owner or owners of such freight may require any railroad company ooHveyinj such freight, to deliver the same at the junction of their r'dad. or Sty rood i over which they pa»». with any other rellread, or w-itbin a rea«ooable di>unee from said junclioc., not ezcee ling one quarter of | n mile. i 2. And be it enacted. That if any rnil- '■ rtjad company nhalf refose of neglect to • comply « i'h either uf the foregoing pre- • visions, they shall forfeit for every snch re1 fusal or ueglecy'tho sum or one hundred | dollars to any pesee* wbo*mey sue for the same, to be recovered, with cost*, in en meI lion Of debt in a court having cogtiiseflce I thereof. { 3. And be it enacted, That this ec:' shall take effect immediately. Approved March 'JMh. 1802. An net fur tbe protectiuo against mad1 dog*. 1. Bo it ensiled by the senate and Oen- ! era! Assembly of the State of New Jersey, ; That the mayor of any incorporated town j of lite state, 'by the advice end consent of | tbe common council of the town; and the i lownobtn clerk of any township in the stale, ; by the advice of Alio towhsbip committer,' be nnd nre hereby autbbrized. whenever in hi* and tlu-ir opinion tbe public safety tnvv ■ require, t'n i*nue his proclamation uuthorii- ; ing the destruction of ult dogs, mole end , leui.ite. f. tiiuj running at largo within tbo ( limits of the town, except such e* shall ho 1 properly muzzled with a wire muzzled 1 about the nose, securely fastened, after one ! day's public notice by written or printed [ .handbill* ; provided, that nothing in raid 1 proclamation. thall apply tn a dog or dog* j ot a nun. resident pissing through the towa accompanied by the owner or owner* ef - I suth dog or d-.ign. - And be :t enacted. That this act shall take effect immediately, i --Approved March 28rh, 1862. -- A supplement to the uct entitled "An act coucerhing road*,". appfdved April sixteenth. in the year ol our Lord one ibousrud eight hundred and fbrty six; 1. Be 11 enacted by the Senate and, Genrral Assembly of the State ef New Jetsey, j That any railroad company which shall construct any roiifoad by virtue ol powers find ted in their charter by ihisstate, tnby, in Crossing any public highway lur tho purposo of maklnu said 'high hay pas* ovof | or ufider raid railroad at an cosy end suitable grade, elier'the location of raid high way at their gwu expense, eo fef .» shell' j ue necessary to make said highway pass r 1 over or nuder said railroad at such grade, and such alteration sliull bo valid abd of the' j same effect as if made by surveyor* of tb* 1 highway* according to law, and all altera. u tions heretofore mad.; in nny public higb- , ! way in this state by any such railroad com- ' pnny for the purpose and in the manner aforesaid, are hereby confirmed and uiade valid a* if the same had been made by tnr- ' i veyor* of tbe highway according to lew. '. j 2. And be it enacted, Thsf this act shall | take effhet immediately. ; • Approved March 28 lb, 18$:. ' ■ j A sop}>ietnenl to the set entitled "An set i authorizing a loan for the pnrpoees of AUIIlU|l-UI|f - t"*M IVI tun pmpwwer 01

j war, to repel iewasion nnd suppress inI surtedion, aid appropriating tbe same, 1 end providing for the payment thereof," approved Mny tenth, one thua.tand eight I hundred ehd sixty-one. ). Be it enacted by the .Senate and General Anbuhly of the State of New'Jersey. That it shall be lawful for the treasnrfcr of •this state, ar.d he is hereby directed, to psjr « the inlerest'which shall have accrued on loan anthorlzzd by the act to which this) is a supplement, on the firet day of July, on* thonsafKl eight hnndred end sixty-two, out of the surplus remaining in tbe treasury of this suie. of the tsxdl one hundred thousand dollar*, provided for by the said act to which this it a supplement; end *0 much of .the said surplus at may h# necessary for the payment of the said interest is hereby appropriated for that pornoee. .. . 2. And be it enacted. That this act shall take effect in mediately. Approved March 28. 1862. FUStflTtraE,. SASH, SHUTTERS |s DOORS. THE Buh*criber he* on hand a LARGE STUCK or Kt rtSllTCRE, city sod AMae «««■ e/Ortprt. which he eaoeeU at vcrjr uuoiajut C|- All Order. f*f SASH. XHUTT KM aoil IHMJtLt ■Will be eeewptl) and well sttradad Or. J] G FORGE (XIDEX. Cap* MfeyC. H. Dee.*' ^ M bat i« tbe worst kind or fare for a man ' to ltvrf*on* — Warfare, ' y ■ • . ♦ . - ' . V _