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Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-06-01

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show bills to bring your Cephac Pills particularly be-
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send to
One of my customers who subject TO Sick Head
ACHE (usuay lasting two days. cured attack in
hOaT By your Pills, which sent her.
Respectfully yours, W. b. WILKES
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HENRY C. SPALDING, No. As Cedar st., N. i.
DEAR SIR Inclosed find twenty-five cents 25 for viii ca
send box Of Oephaio Pills Senu TO address Of Rev. VIM c.
Filler, Reynoldsburg, Franklin county, Ohio.
Your Pills HOrk Ike chGrH-cure Headache alHoss ~
StaRter. Truly yours, WM. G. FILLKa
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-06-01

From The EIsminer, Norfolk, "a
Cephas Pills accomplish the object for which they WerO
made, viz Cure of headache In all its forms.
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d. kIs:ali.lllsIZIa

Nj RS. WINSLOW, an experienced nurse
and Female Physician presents to the attention of
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-06-01
How to Juy a good Piano Cheapi

Go to GEO. HALL and say, want to buy good Piano
and il is thing know but little about. Your knowledge OF
Papo enables you befend in the purchase Of an in
sument aud am willing to pay what good Piano is worth
Sensible! or course Mr. H. takes pane to furnish his
| toner with good Piano.
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from The Adrerti,er, Precedence, r. l.

The Cephalic Pills said to be remarkable effective
medy for the headache aud the very best for that
frequent complaint which has ever beeu discovered
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1861-06-01

GEO. H3l1z
With experience Is years with direct reference
tanning what make Of Pianos and Mclodeon really the
best for durability tone, fuish &c, Is ready with
than 100 Pianos at command open trade scale with
out parallel in the history Of the business in the United
States. Mr. H. aims at two things First Pecuniary benefit
to himself Second The diffusion Of music through
try Of ongmeed bowed down. gloomy set Of morta whose
ambition to be TO acquire land aud money, for nothing
In particular
The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1861-12-05
What England Must Look To.

We court no war with Great Britain
neither will we avoid it by national dishon-
or. But this We do know, that she is cloth
ed and fed by the United States that near
ly two-hs,bs Of her exports have been 10 the
United States that she is not a continent
like the United States, providing everything
within itself, but little workshop within
very narrow limits, dependent for her very
existence on her supplying the markets of
the world with her manufactures. As
consequence of war with us, she would
lose two-ffths Of her exports-she would
lose our breadstuffs, the proviaions to feed
her, and our cotton, as heretofore, to clothe
her. She would lose the s23, 10000 per
annum of revenue which she derives main
ly from our tobacco. In all the ramifica-
tions Of her business, fully one third of the
people, including women and children,
would be thrown out of employment Her
revenue would be reduced one-half-her
own expenditures would be quadrupled, and
she would be unable to pay SlSO,O0O,OOO
per annum .as the interest of the public
debt, and at the same time support her gov
ernment and war expenditures. She would
encounter revolution from her starving mil
lions, aid her existing government would
be swept into oblivion.-PhH. Press.
The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1861-12-05

We are going to fight and conquer them, at
or near the line from which they have once
driven US back. There will be no Bull
Run retreats or panics, because this time
the battle will be preceded by no July dis
organization, and fought BY no Centreville
mob. wrote you before the 21st Of July
that feared the result of that days con-
test. Let me now say that those most
watchful of this campaign, and therefore
most slow to trust, have at last arrived at
confidence in Mcclellan and admiration for
his army.
As indicated, this great review is without
doubt preliminary to general striking of
tents. General Mcclellan has told the
Paymaster General that he must get
through with the bi-monthly payment, as
the regiments are to leave the neighbor-
hood. Extraordinary activity prevails in
the transportation of ammunition and stores.
There are other causes for expecting an
Immediate movement, some of which / can
not state. and others of which must be seen
by experienced eyes to be understood
Corr. Ne,c York World.
The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1861-12-05

A similar proceeding on the part Of an
English vessel of war will probably come
within the recollection Of some of our read
ers. We refer to the boarding of the ship
Hercules, of Salem, Mass, Captain Edward
West, in Sandman port, some fifty years
ago, and forcioly taking from en- board Lu-
Glen Bonaparte, then on bis way to the
United States. The Hercules put into
port on account of the sickness of Lucien
Bonaparte and at bis urgent request. An
English man-of-war was in port, got wind
of the passenger on board, and sent boat
swain with an armed crew who took Lucien
away by force, carried him on board the
man-of-war, and he was taken prisoner to
England " y .ddcerttser.
The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1861-12-05
MEXICAN AFFAIRS.

Private but trustworthy advices from
Europe, with relation to Mexican affairs.
have been received. Spain and the Span
ish party in Mexico had resolved to impose
a king upon that country at the point of the
bayonet. OF three princes Montenersier
was the favorite. Whether England and
France have fully acceeded to this is doubt
fu!. 1t is not believed that our govern
ment has taken any steps to counteract
these schemes against the integrity of the
power in whose welfare we are most nearly
interested, or to prevent Spain from acquir-
ing country which is surely destined to be
ours. If the latest reports from Mexico be
correct, Mr. Corwin has been instructed to
wound her pride, without being enabled to
give her substantial help or even sympathy.
Tribune.
The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1861-12-05
The Spanish Armada.
yentlOn.

The I" inyincible Armada" which King
Philip of Spain, sent in 1888, for the con-
quest of England, and for restoring to the
Catholic faith ga great many contrite souls
that were oppressed by the treaties" con-
sisted of Go large ships; 10 tenders, Is
small frigates and galleys-in all $50 yes.
sells with a tonnage of $4,000 tons. This
feet carried 2,441 guns, of which 1897
were bronze 4S Founders, 1000 round
shot and 5000 cwt. of powder. The ships
were manned by 5000 sailors and carried
10000 soldiers, and $50 priests and monks.
1t also carried mules and carts, and proyis,
ions for six months.
The English Admiral, Howard, prepared
fire-ships, and sent eight of them into the
Spanish Armada, causing confusion and
panic They cut their cables, run into
each other, and put to sea; when the En-
glish Admirals, Howard and Drake, fell up
on them and kept up running fire for sew
eral days. The Spainards lost Is large YES
sells and 5000 men in the fght-many
more vessels were taken on the coasts Of
Ireland and Scotland, where they fed, and
over 5000 men were drowned, killed and
taken prisoners. OILY 60 vessels of the
/" 1nyincible Armada" returned to Spain,
while the English lost but one ship.
The Great American Naval Expedition
of 1861, to suppress rebellion and subju
gate traitors, was far more imposing and
potential, considering the steamships, than
was the Spanish Armada, and its success
was as resistless and triumphant. as the Ar
mada of Spain was feeble and disastrous.
The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1861-12-05
Clippings from the Scientific American.

THE WAY BANK NOTE PLATES ARE
HARDENED TO harden an engraved steel
plate, and to prevent it from warping or in
the process a peculiar method must be
adopted. The mode practiced by our bank
note companies is to bury the plates in
animal charcoal in clay crucible and
expose them to red heat for about two and
half hours, and then cool them by press
ing them into cold lead. By this process
all of the most delicate lines of the engrav-
ing are preserved in the most perfect man
ner, without the slightest distortion or
damage.
Two or three instance of the perforation
of lead by insects have recently been
brought under the notice of French natu-
ralists. Iu one case which happened in
the Crimea during the Russian war, the
balls in several packets of cartridges had
been rendered entirely useless.
An ingenious soldier of the Fifteenth
Ohio Regiment, now on duty in Kentucky,
has devised method of warming tents,
which is described as follows: ain the
centre of the tent hoe is dug in the
ground about two feet square and two feet
deep. From the bottom of this hole a
small trench leads to the surface of the
ground outside the tent, to admit the cold
air. From the top another covered trench
leads it to the opposite side of the tent to
conduct the smoke out The hole is arched
over, very much like the top of a circular
cistern wall, and an open space of perhaps
foot in diameter is left at the top for
putting in the fuel! Cover this up with
an old stove plate, bit of sheet iron,
smooth stone or the like) and you have the
floor of your tent converted into the top of
of furnace. No room is taken up by the
heating apparatus; the heat is greatest
where it should be, next the feet; the tent
is perfectly free from smoke, and with any
sort of fuel that is not absolutely soaked
with water, you can raise the temperature
just as high as may be desired"
The Chinese were the first who con-
structed cannon with iron bands shrunk
upon them for the purpose of strengthening
them at the breech. The Chinese built
vessels with water-tight bulkheads, hun
dreds of years ago. This has been consid-
cred by most persons quite modern in
yention.
The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1861-12-05
Frecedents for the Mason and slideu Capture

We have already intimated our hope tha
Great Britain ariW claim Mason, SIidell anc
their Secretaries on the grnnud Of the lille
gality Of their capture. We could very
well afford even to surrender them for the
sake of the precedent and principle thu.
established. If Great Britain is ready
for broad acceptance of the principle tha,
free ships make free goods, it does not be
come us to object. But there must be nc
juggle in the premises, but the clear and
simple recognition of a rule of action
henceforth obligatory on both parties =
Nothing Is more certain than that Great
Britain has often acted to our rredjudice on
the opposite principle to that which she
must asset in demanding the liberation of
Mason and Slidell. TO instance but a sim
gle case-:hat of Henry Laurens is COM
pletely in point. MIR. Laurens was lead
ing reoel against the sovereignty of Grea.
Britain, as Mason and Slidell are rebels
against that of the United States. lie was
leader in our fathers revolution, as they
are in that of JEFF. Davis. He was sent to
Holland to solicit her aid In our struggle,
as they were dispatched by jeff to France
and England. He was on board neutral
(Dutch) ship, as they were on board neu-
trail (British) vessel. He was captured and
taken out of his vessel by British cruis-
er, precisely at Mason and Slidell were from
theirs by Com. Wilkes. He was carried to
England, as they have been brought to the
United States. He was imprisoned in the
Tower OF London, just as they have been
in Fort Warren. And We have no recol-
lection that the Dutch ever complained of
his capture as unwarranted; if they did, i,
is certain they were left to take it out in
complaining. Now if Great Britain is
ready to say that her capture and imprison
ment Of Laurens was all wrong, and to es-
tablisb rule which shall preclude hence
forth all captures of belligerants on board
neutral ships, it may be that our Govern
ment will decide that we have more to gain
by giving them up than by retaining them
We do not anticipate its action but we see
clearly that the capture of the diplomatic
traitors is of great advantage to US, whether
we retain or surrender them. And We
once more assure our timorous friends that
Great Britain not only has no decent pre-
text for fastening quarrel upon US, but
that President Lincoln will take good care
hat she shall not get one, at least till we
have settled our little account with JEFF. 4
Company.-Mw York Tribune. |
The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1861-12-05
The Army of the Potomac to Advance.

There are many indications of an imme.
date march to Bull Run.
The Emperor said: I" If you have got to
take Vienna, 60 straight tc Vienna aud take
it," By this he perhaps meant that too
much military strength is expended in
dodgiug foe. in searching for stragetic
approaches, and trying to conquer without
lighting, and that if bad job is to be
done, General must make up his mind to
fire and blood, and not vince at the death.
full sacrifices of the conflict It appears
very certain that the rebels conclude to
maintain their position of menace and de-
fence within twenty miles of the Capi-
tai. The Richmond Enquirer boasts 10
this effect, and de6cs us to force them to do
otherwise. They are really settling down
into winter quarters.
General Mcclellan appreciates the grave
nature of the job to be done; but be knows
that it must be done, and that the oatient
North at length calls on him to do it. He
sees that the conquest of the enemy front.
ing him must precede the fate of secession.
The conquest involves q brave, straight.
forward old fashioned attack.
The North need not fear thu result.
This time We are going to whip them.
The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1861-12-05
The Conspiracy Quarter of Century Ago

The Conspiracy Quarter Of Century Ago.
Ex-Governor Fraccis Thomas of Mary-
land, in Union speech at Baltimore, few
days ago, testified that twenty-five years
ago, he was present at caucus Of Southern
members of Congress, to break up the Gov
ernmens unless satisfactory pledges were
gwen BY the North on the subject of
slavery.
The statement Of Gov. Thomas is, that an
effort was made by Governor Pickens. and
others in sympathy with him. to prevent
Southern members Of Congress taking their
seats; andthis with the evident purnose of
disorganizing and overthrovina the Govern.
ment. A Southern caucus assembled one
day in room in the capitol. When enter.
ing the House of Representative Governor
Thomas says he was surprised to observe
that the members from the slaveholding
States were absent. Whilst rejecting on
this strange occurrence, he was asked why
he was not in attendance on the Southern
caucus sitting in the room of the Committee
of Claims. lie replied that he had re-
ceived no invitation. He went to the
room, and on entering found the following
resolution under consideration. and Hon.
F. w. Pickens, of South Carolina, urging
it upon the approval of the meeting:
"Rcsolred, That no member Of Congress
representing Southern constituency shall
again take his seat until resolution is
passed satisfactory to the South on the
subject of slavery"
Governor Thomas continues:
81 said to Mr.. Pickens, 'What next dc
you propose we shall do? Are we to tell
the people that Republicanism is failure?
If you are for that, 1 am not. came here
to sustain and uphold American institu-
tions to defend the rights of the North as
well as the South; to secure harmony and
good fellowship between all section Of our
common coeutry.' They dared not to
answer these questions. The Southern
temper had not been gotten up. As my
questions had not been answered, moved
an adjournment of the caucus sine die.
MIR. Craig. of Virginia, seconded the mo-
lion, and the company was broken up. We
to the House, and Mr.. lngersoll,
If Pennsylvania, glorious patriot then as
low, introduced resolution which tempo
'arily calmed the excitement"
This statement illustrates and confirms
~ a conclusive example the declaration of
Z. B. Rhett of South Carolina, (who, by
he way, was member of the caucus re-
erred to by Governor Thomas,) that "The
ofS -, 81 ha
# day. 1t is not anything produced by
dr. Lincoln's election, or by the nom
xecution of the Fugitive Slave Law. 1t
las been matter which has been gather
nc head for thirty years."
The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1861-12-05
KANSAS AND NEBRASKA.

We are indebted to the Hon. Mark W.
Delanay, Surveyor General Of Kansas and
Nebraska, for circular containing synop-
sis of his late report to the Commissioner
of the General Land Office, and recon-
mending that Congress make large appro-
priations for extending the surveys of Pub
lie Lands in his district. The amount ask
ed for extending the surveys in Kansas is
$74 ,694, and for Nebraska, $75,292.-
These appropriations are based upon the
large demands which will probably be made
upon these lands at the conclusion of the
present war, for the satisfaction of warrants,
which, it is almost certain, will be issued to
the loyal soldiers nov in Government SER
vice. Mr.. Delahay estimates the number
Of men now in service at500,000. The is
suance of a one hundred and sixty acre
warrant to each will make a demand for
some S0,0O0,000 acres. Most of these
warrants will doubtless seek a location in
Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Nevada.
The amount of surveyed land in Kansas
and Nebraska undisposed of is only about
100000 acres, of which amount some
5000, 900 acres are otherwise disposed of.
There are still over 80, ,OOO, 900 arces of un-
surveyed lands in Kansas alone, and still
larger amount in Nebraska. Mr.. Delahay
thinks all these lands should be surveyed
as speedily as practicable.
If warrants are to be granted to all the
soldiers in the service, as We think should
be done, then these lands ought to be sur
veyed, and speedily. There are no public
lands elsewhere where these warrants can
be located, that our soldiers would be likely
to select. The West is the place for the
boys, aud we hope many of them will make
themselves homes out here when the war
is over.
The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1861-12-05

The Government continues its active nav.
al preparations. Agents are negotiating in
this and other seaport cities for the few
steamers that remain unpurchased, and that
can, BY any art Of the shipwright, be made
strong enough for the coasting service
Firstclass ships into port are also exar,in-
ed with view to their fitness for the trans
port business. Nearly thirty steamers and
sailing vessels, purchased within the last
two months, are now receiving new beams
and braces, and other improvements, at the
East river shipyards. The appearance of
several of the steamers suggests the repeti-
tion of calamities like those that befel sew
ersl members Of the Port Royal feet; but
all that naval architecture can do will be
done to strengthen them. These Jobs make
the ship yards about the busiest places in
the city.-N r. journal Of Commerce..
The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1861-12-05
Gen. Halleck's Policy o. Campaign.

The following we take from the St. Louis
correspondence of the Cincinnati Enquirer:
A large force is at work on the gun-boats
and mortar flats, and all will be sent forward
to Cairo within the present week. The en-
gagement of steamers for transportation Of
troops and supplies, &C., will not be at all
difficult, for the tunnage laid up at this
port and now idle, is immense and ample to
carry 1000 men. General Halleck has
not yet intimated his policy, but as " "straws
show which way the wind blows" so do
preparations and movements indicate the
future advance of our army. operating
with the forces in Kentucky, Gen. Halleck
will move on to Tennessee overland and
down the Mississippi river, and the opinion
is now entertained that by the 1st of March
the Union forces will have complete pos
session of that State, and possibly be on
their onward march further South.
The railroads in this State are to be held
By Government troops, so that other parts
of the State will be of but little benefit 70
the rebels. Jefferson City is now strongly
fortified, and impregnable to any force that
can be brought against it.
In regard to the proposed movement, the
Chicago Tribune says:
A blow in Tennessee, threatening NewOr-
leans and Mobile, will effectually dispose of
Price and his guerillas and for the rest,
they may be turned over to tho tender mer-
cies Of Jim Lane and his Kansas Brigade.
The latter, increased to ten thousand, and
authorized to make war as if they were in
would, under their leader, purge
the State of its rebel element or make de.
mand for grave-diggers that half dozen
States could not supply.
The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1861-12-05

IA- The following remarkable confession
taken from the New Orleans Crescent, and
which we find in the Memphis Appeal Of
the 10th, is to the point:
"Unfortunately the abilities and resources
OF the Hessian government of Lincoln haze
oee" nnderated. It is now nearly six
months since vessel entered the port of
New Orleans from distant country. The
same remark will apply to Mobile and other
ports OF the Cult. Where vessel with .
cargo Of merchandise has passed Lincoln's
blockade, t,eenty hare passed the blockade Of
the scav Of 1872"
The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1861-12-05

SlGxIFICANT.-Thef five hundred marines
who passed through this city, few days
since, were from Alexandra, Va, where
they have been practicing gunnery for the
last three months. They are at Cairo BY
this time; and this fact taken in connection
with the large amount of ordnance and ord
nance stores just landed at Cairo, and the
retrogsde movement made by Hunters
army, looks very much like doing some
thing-say movement down the Mississip-
pi Ohio State Journal.
The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1861-12-05
Weston, Missouri, in Possession of Rebels.


Considerable excitement was created here
on Thursday by the return of the coaches
bound for Weston with eastern passengers.
When they reached Weston the town was
in possession of the rebels, headed it is said
BY 81 Gordon. Captains Rabb and Moon
ligh, artillerists in Lanes Brigade, and
Captain Harrison of Colonel Davis's reei-
ment, together with Lieutenant White, also
Of the Brigade, we're arrested. Captain
Harrison succeeded in affecting his escape,
but the other officers were taken off by the
rebels. The feeling, high as it ran on
Thursday, was greatly increased on Friday
night by the return of the Weston coaches
with passengers but no baggage, no mail,
no express matter. The rebel force yester.
day numbered only about thirty men, under
Gordon.
This brings the fight very near our own
door once more-only ten miles off. We
are cut off from all kinds of communication
With the loyal States. But we are not at
all apprebensive of danger. Colonel Smith
is an idiotic dotard of cowardly procivities,
but General Hunter is ready and willing to
take care Of Platte county, and will have
that question settled very soon.-Leaven-
,1orth Conservative.