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I VOLUME 8. CAPE ISLAND. NEW -JERSEY, T1 1 URS 1 JA NUMM"^?. 'i. j --r~ rt r..

HL BOWER OF THE MUSES. H f ram Ut U eqrrlf Al«f«»ar. H THE SOU A* HARP. V fcaii»t»i»! *»*H mollaa burp! ■ Wtraa ercolor *iiMtow« *«lh«r round. ■ And l.»m Uwlt bluihlag portal* ckwr, ■ I Uatra to ttj- Burarartajc round. Bj Each quivering not*, Ilka magi?, tluilU B ity (Mart and •oil with powerful • ■ Eager t ratrh the trader •train, W Until It hn*v»- dW« awaT. I Soft aa the tigh that hall rcrraU I A aialdan'a Brat uautterad lot* ; Bwaet iwWie pcrfuar-lvlra brew ■ That paaaaa throuj;. the moonlit (rote, ■ Mrthlaka aaeli mild raehaatUu; atrala* ■Lv IWBti a heller, happier sphere, ^B . _>J And, muling, 1 ran taorj now, H A bo*t of angel" hot r ring near. ■ Each thrilling note, each trader chord Awaken* thought* within my heart ^B Too great fur feeble utterance— ■ -Too high for language to Impart. H My Meg filled with naarlra* blhu, V M j-.**|rrr *oul from rarth would rUe ; B 1 'anting twaralh the magic epeU, B t lute the Joj » ol Farad lar. ■ - -tlollnn harp I awrrl wollan harp ! B 'Jlkd alnmbrrlnir bird* and drooping Sower*- ■ While aififit unfoldr her atarry robr, B Thy nuule charm* the rammer hourt. I Many Hanoi. I | ' OL'lt ARMY OOltREHPONDENCK. I Canr Capwai.inrn, ) I Beverly, N. J.. Sept. 12th, 1862. f L- hour Hare. — Knowing. that many of B your render* wHi expect a camp letter ■ from the compar.y made up of tire Den* ■ nil, Lower and Cape Iiland volunteers, ■ I hasten to mtisfy that expectntion. ] Both of my former general letters were ■ written in different quarters, and this, ^B the third, is penned in a third. At first , we were quartered in a chnrch, next j H Omne a private residence, aul now we ^B find oarselvea in barraeka, erected ex* I B presaly for ns. This lest change was • ^B made cn Wednesday. Doring tlie af* | tern, -on of that day, whilo the company If was ont on drill, Oen. Robeson's Aid* . ■ / de*carap rode up to our lloea, and in- j ■ foriprd Capt. Blenkow that we mail • V chiwige. ".qn«rttfOi »Uitl»'p» two__h«>eij». B This order was not wt^^cceived, as we , I had just got comforiaflkiuarterrd in a I pretty bouse, and iu a pWiissnt and qni* . ■ et section of the town ; but, as military < I orders from superior officers are law to j I Uuole Sam's apprentices, wo pnt our I shoplders to the wheel, had supper pre 1 I % pared, and put in Its proper place, our I bed and baggnge upon our Imeks, nud, I sometime ere the two hours had expired, I we were here In our barracks On Orel I arriving, we felt disgusted with the V change, but are perfectly reconciled al I present. That you may know the style j < I of these barracks, I will giro yon their j ■ character end dimensions. Thty arc j 1 H? built of hemlock boards-; about 8 feet t 1 I high, and £>0 fret in length, ilia 15 feet ■ in width. There are 48 bprks In a bar- j ' V rack, each buuk accommodating two j ' I person*, being 6 feet in length, 4 Id i HB width, and S'frfct G inches deep. The i bunks ar« erected on the sides of the I barracks, and down the centre there is a I passage way of abont 7 feet.- There ore i I two doors end six windows in the build- I I tafr Our beds are made of " Irish fea- t I there" — straw. Such Is a description of I ■ a our quarters What, do yoa think of ] ft them 7 ft Oar company has been reaonsbly i ■ nealthyfo far. We hare not Sent tt i I sb«n t c A* hospital, but such aa have i I Keen sick hive bleu eared for afaong 1 ■ ourselves. Slight colds, aad diarrhea t ■ ^ Ore lha common disaaaes. 1 I Two weeks in the service are nearly t expired, and not a show sf uniform has } H come yet. But, ere the ekse of anothsr i week, we hope to be did in foklier's i ■ apparel. Onr dothea look ragged and < Hp uneleaa, and nniess the 8tAle clothes us 1 ' aooa, we shall bare to send home foe a ] I ned outfit. It would be no more than | ft aa act or justice for Uncle Sam to pay I I far the damage of our clothes A beary t B . storm is now raging, and onr boys are 1 K not oat on drill this morning. BL It Is abont time for the mail to open, I* ami aw the com pa ay are eager to see the V " Waves/* which onght to arrive to-day, ■ I will close, aad take s "tee line" to the

2 o'clock, P.M. ' j This morning I obtained the "Wave*," • and they bat* been passed around and | ' read throughout the camp. Last evening I stepped .over td the 1 general's headquarters, and gained some 1 ' interesting information iu reference to ! the organization of the troops here into ' | regiments. One regiment has been ( formed. It was made up entirely cf 1 1 Burlington county companies. Six ! 1 hundred troops were called fur from said ; I county, but sbo has furnished » fall re* . ' giment. The field officers of the regiment are as follows: — Colope) — Jno. 8. ; Cox ; Lieut-Col. — Geo. C. Brown ; { Major — Alfred Thompson. There ore ' g tweuty-seveu hundred troops here, and sufficient more arc to arrive to make up i three reghneut*. A regiment, in which 0 we are to be placed, is to be organized j ■ the early part of next week. Who our t « » field-officers are to be is not known. In j ten days the whole numher^will be form- i , ii ii u.ia uic nuuio iiuuiuir *i in uc toriu- ;

! ed into regiments, and, It is believed by . that time we shall be fally armed and ; equipped. (Jen. Robeson has an excellent set of , staff .officers, nvlio ore continually engag* ,f ed in miliury duties conm-cled witb litis ' x department. Ever and anon you might j . | see them hurrying here and there, and l( t to and fro, faithfully discharging their | official duties. From their movements ' e I judge they would prove competent 1 field officers iu nctife service. I give [ ' t j their names and their rank : — Capl. J. ' 1 1 L. De Lucour, i Ass't-Adjutand Gen; : * . ; Capt. E. J. Anderson, A. D. C.; fiieut. j r . i 8. R. Colwcll, A. D. C. ! J I j s It has rained in showers all day, and | ■ ' our men, not baring any duiies'to' per- ^ • ' form, have wanted to go about town, J ^ ■ and 1 bare bad to write, them passes to | J | go outside the encampment lines; licing 1 . j Sergeant-of-'hc-day. » I have wrflten | ° , : two4inca of this letter and woold th«n f ^ I I have to stop and converse with a'ninti ' i j about a jffiss. When I began I had ' ' . much to any, but uiy mind has been so j ' ' • liarrassed that I do not know what my ° | thought.-, were, or even what I have n i written. In haate I clove it. In ordet to [send it off in time Our,boyai wish their i friends well. ' ,n tt Yoon, J. Gkakyille Leach. w WO HE PLEASURES FOR CHILD REX. , b A child may as cofily be led to usso- j ^ ; ciale plcasnre with home ideas, as to *' j think of it in connection with the home j d of hia playmates. Certainly, if allowed . ei f\ to do vo, he can aa readily connect hap- ; 111 ' piness with parents, brothers and sis- j '* tera, as with those of other kin. And j UI j the child will do so, unless happiness j tc

' and pleasure, when we call for them under the paternal roof, respond, " Not a: home !" All home pleasures should be ' bright ones. The domestic health t should be clean and joyous. If home ^ c is well ordered, tba children having, I according to age, working time, play < time, books, games and household aym- t patbies, tbey will love home, and find f pleasure there. /ii*o the little ones f slates and pencils and encourage their attempts to make pictnres. Drawings i will amuse thom. when noisy plays have t their xeet or are unteuonable j and the art will be useful to them in all^ the V business of after iife. Have them read each other stories and paragraphs of selection, aad savo the funny tilings end the pleasant qoss yon see ta papers I aad baolts to read them at leisure. You cannot, imagine how much it will amuse t them, and bow ii will bind them to yon. choote well for them ; for the ini- j < pression made on their mind* now will j 1 last when the hills crumble. Have them j sing together and sing with tb«ni ; leach j them songs aad hymns. Let tbsm sing I all day — like the birds — at proper times. Have litem motu^Jy interested in the j same thtegm — oaaments sod occopa* tions— listing specified limes for each, so that their hablta will be orderly. Let i ' thcui work together — both boys and |

girls>- Thty cnjoy it equally, unless the J ! boys are taught' &at ii is unmanly to i t understand girls' whrk. They should , j know bow to do it; aad-preetieally, too, as thereby they may wroid much discora- ' fort in future life. Let them work to- L ' gether in the garden — boys nad girls— both need or.t-of-docrs work. Togethlet them enjoy their games, riddles, etc., all their play*, books aad -work — ' while the pix rent's eyes direct and symi pathize, their loud voices blend iu lor- 1 I Ing accord. ! i — •• : HEW *CR£ET "I* THE UHIOH." ' ! Some of the New }Tork journals have 1 jsi last found out that Jersey is really ; " in the Union," and that Jerscymen are t ) of some accuont, notwithstanding ail the ! ; abuse and slang tbey have benpet^opon c Ib the following, the Ooamnvut/ ' j Advertiser does us something like jus* t ticq:— . i

' P /J 1 1 'V. loyal State which has probably [been the "best abused" in the Union, . r : hovset an example that not a few others | would do well to imitate. Accordiugto ' , I the slang whioti was forineriy in vogue, j New Jersey wns not in the Uuion ; she 1 was a monupoly-ijdpen State ; she was , " in the breccbvs-pocket " of one of her i politicians ; she was the State of Camden and Am boy; her people were hal: I century betiiud every other. To hnTe j I Jersey pmd attached to one'u hoots wns | subject him to n jeer from every cock- j ' I be might meet. -New Jersey wns ' i not considered a good State to emigrate ' j/rom, much less into. "But she has made up her quota of ' J the a'x hundred thousand troops called ' 1 and really seeias'to be in the humor ' j of sending off more.\,.Ouly one or lw6 , ( othere, and thoSa in tfie far West, have , 1 i yet done so. PenhsVlyapla came*un to 1 i the noicll only wlien'Tfen. Lee thri uten- , ' led her southern ({order; in New Eng- c j land they pro drafting ; in most of the : ' | other Stales a draft will be requisite to ' meet the demand of the general govern- : •" ment. . 1 " Onr sturdy neighl»or will go off with f more thau one feather in her cap. Tier r as a whole hare rendered* th» 1 most efficient service. Tbey have had, * from tlie outset, a habit of going into 1 and winning it, or Jaying their " bone* on the field. Where is the in- j ^ ; of a Jersey regiment " skedad- 1 whether ui.il«r Burnside, Hookor the lamented Kearney 7 Talk of i admission into the Union ; the question i e is whether the Jersey Dutchmen will ad- t mil the ot'ier three-nnd-frtirty Stales in- j , fellowship witli Aer." ! ^

6JCHD FEET FOB BOLDIEFi. \ I .Major Winthrop'a udrice to volun- n j on the proper care of the fer; fi j ought to be pondered *antj reiocrr.bcred ; y. now recruits. It will be foupd in his y article on the New York Seventh Regi- h ment, published in the Atlantic Monthly s June* 1861, which we publish below, ( for the information of those concerned : I ."And let me say a word to my fellow 1 1 volunteers, actual and prospective, in all f tte armies of all the States. t . A soldier needs, besides bis soldierly t dlfll : I 1. Good feet. i 9- A good vto mach. j < S. And after their, comes the good 1 1 head and the good heart. ' Bat good Teet are distinctly the first ; ^ thing ; without them you cannot get to j . your duty. If a comrade, or a horse, ' ^ < or a locomotive, takes yon ou its back ! , ' to the field, you are useless there. And ! , I' when the field is lost yon cannot retire, ! run away and save yonr bacun. Good shoes and plenty of walking umke good feet. A man who pretend* j to belong to an iufantry company onght always keep himself in traioiog, so that , i any moment be can march twenty - r. I thirty mile* without a pang or raisiug n 1 blister. Was (bis the caac with even a ' . • ■ianaiiBftii i

! ! deeimation of the army who rnshad to | i ! defend Washington ? Were yon so i | trained, my comrades of the Seventh 7 J A captain of a company who will let f his men march with such shore ns I have | t Been cn the feet of some poor fellows in ! ■ ' this war ought to lie garroled with shoe 1 strings, or at least compelled to p!*y f i l'ope and wash the feat of the rfholej'1 nrtny of the Apostles of Liberty. j < If you find t foot soldier lying bent - out by the roadside, desperate as a sea* | ' sick man, five to one his heels ire too j high, or bis soles loo narrow or too | ' thin, or his shoe is uot made straight on ' j the inside, so that the great too can ' spread into iu place as he treads. 1 nm an old walker over Alps across | the water, and over Cordilleras, Sierras, ' and i'raries at home ; I have t done my near sixty miles a day without j ^ discomfort — and, sneaking from large | experience, and with painful recollec ; , | tions of tho suffering and death I bn«e '

■ inown for want of good feet ou tlie , r mnrch. I any to every volunteer': Trust , - in God ; hut keep hour shoes easy."' , | washes for trees. ' Complaints arc made, here and (here, , that certain washes for the bark of trees , do more hurl than good. One, whose I trees were mossy and hide-bound, and inf-stcd with insect*, .used lime- 1 wash ; another used soap ; another a ! solution of potash ; but in nearly every : case, with unsatisfacloiy results. The [ . caustic lime kills parasitic plants and ! the vermin which infest the bark; but whilv a godfl part of it soon washes off, 1 ; w|iut remains becomes converted into j carbonate of lime, which fills the pores | i of tlie inner bnrk, preventing its healthy ' ' expansion and grou-th. Common soap! suds is less hurtful than the eolations of j : Jan stir potnsh i.r the tnr. The safest i nbd best wash known to u*«, is simply a I ' snTnllOn of cvinmon ssI-focI*, (often call- ; ed bleacher's Net. 1 soja.) dissolved in rain water, at Who rate of one ponnd ol soda to a gallon of water, and applied iu 1 Spring and Fall. It will uot hurt the i bat will destroy mosses and other fungi, and no eggs or cocoons of vermui_iMit3tand bciore it. It will work off the dead bark, and leave a clean and , healthy surface. But to insure the high success from litis application, the soil ' about Clie roots of the tree? should be ; drained if it is wetland be manured if it | is barren. j ^ frozen kindness. | The world is full of kindness thnliiev- 1 was spoken, and that is not much ! j better than do kindness at all. — The fuel | I in the stove makes the room warm, but ' . there are great piles of fallcj) trees lying I 1 among rocks smj^in tirtrjop of the bills < where nobody carAgel them ; these doi not makc anybody warm. You niigh|h to death lor waul of wood, in j plain sight of all these fallen trees, if hare no means of getting wood j and making a fire with it. Just! in-family; love is what makes the ' parents nud children, brothers and 'sis- ' ' happy ; but if they take care never ] say a word about it, if they keep it a j profound secret, as if it were a crime, " they will not be much happier than ifi there was not any love among them ; the j will seem cold even in aumuier, and if yon live there, yon will envy the j dog when any one calls hint " poor felIt ^LMtxtXhat » lie# a Frenchman ba* to j wait be smokes ; a German meditate* ; an t Italian sleeps ; an Englishman takes a | walk ■, an American invents aotne new cos. : tertioa of the limbs, and tries to pnt bit j j fret higher than ever,, Btriinm, it is sail), has filed hit exemption from the draft, on the plea that be has j bat one Thumb, Gen. Tom Thumb. Sydney Smith mjt* that mankind are al- ! ' ways happier for having been happy ; so that if you make them happy now, you make » them happy iweuly years beucs by tho t '.memory of-it. i * '' • - \ ' .Af -

TRUTHS AND TmrLE j A thief beiog caught te the proprietor j on the top of hia gard rd wall, was lilked I , somewhat peremptorily, Vkora he was goj ing. to which quastioa he repined, with ad- ' mirabie discretion, • back again.' \ | If a rich old gentleman has a thought of I marrying, let h^in consider well beforehand i'wbat it ia4hat he stands to need of— a wife, heirere, or a nurse. , In these day* of crinoline tba world of fashion *is truly "a wise, wide world." .... ' l'hysiciaos' prrscriptjoas are now called | "d^atb warrant* in I-alin." | "Raising the wind" is now desospinaUd moru classically "excising lite fiaancial I .Lotus." "Done it on my own hook" is now rendered "executed the responsibility on my i own personal curve." . A good-looking young lady recently entered a dyer's shop, and thus accosted him: ■ "You are the man that dyes, are yoi» j not?" "No." replied the gallon!; "I'm the mto

5 J that lives; but IU die for j aji " I i Archdeacoo Fisher was not without a little vanity on t' o subject of'^IH-sermons, and once receive a quiet hint from Oonstablu on the subject. (laving once preached an ol.l sermon, which he wss not aware I ; th-it Constable had heard before, he asked bun ho* he liked it. "Very much indeed . Fisher," replied Constable;" I always did ! like that sermon." ' I Rcmkoi ion Fits.— Bay yonr clothes at ' » slop-shop and you will never have a Bt j afterward*. j The earth is a tender and kind mother to the husbandman, aud vol si on? season be . ulway* harrows her bosom, and at another he palls her ears. I People with morose tompors and soar face» need not wonder that they make so few ' friends. Even little boys who wish to * catch Diet know belter than to take vineI gar for the purpose— they use mulasecf. | If 4 hound dogs with 16 legs, can catch I 29 rabbets with Si legs, in 44 minutes, how '♦any legs must the name rah bits have to 'iret away from 8 hound dogs with 32 lags, in 17 minutes and a half. T 1*1 the three-legged rabbits, like sensible I folks. Borrow twenty nine legs from their neightyrs. Then give thoin a start of a mile and a quarter. And I'll bet you my hat, if you think that 1 oughter." That in seventeen minutes — and a half if you please— A school-girl will givo yon- tbo answer with ease. ! "I have a fresh cold," soiJ a gentleman to his acquaintance. "Why do yon have a frreb on*: wk'J I don't yon have it cured T j "A man is, in geoerel, bettor, pleased." says l>r. Jebnson," "whon ho has a good dinner apon his table than when bis wife Ltilto^nsk." i t Why are shepherds and fishermen like Nbeggnrs ! — Because they live by hooi or A writer, who has jnst returned from !7China, says that the most useful crop • raised by the Chinese is pes*. Tbo C*les i liels are a prudent pCop!*— they mlud their peatjpnd cuts. • ; yfHAT is a rair-xn 7— A friend is one aha ! jumps down and pats on the drag when he I finds that you are going down the hill too v" j fast. - * Wfbttdlo know, whether it i* sure sign, j when a man slips down r.) the mad, that ! be has a urop loo much. An artificial florist lately described binself at - heart gardener to the ladies." Falling-in love is like failing into a'gver, •lis much easier getting in thac ont. A pretty frmale artist can draw tbeyneo' equally with a brush and a bhith. A woman may be indifferent to eoarts, : courtiers and courtesy, but net to court'- ! ship. Why isadog.witha broken )«g like a boy in arithmetic? Because be pets down i three and carries one. Storms generally are a oustery, bat you ~ *1 i can always sec the di^ft of fllnow storm. t j An army sbonld always be teady for , m arching orders by always keeping it.elT , ( i in marching order. % ( • j W Ta\c the '• Occsn Wave." '