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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-04-23
Flax.Cotton.

The manufacture of fiax-cotton was re-
Gently commenced in Lockport. n. Y, by
q company OF ample means. who now say
that they are satisfied. from their expert
ments thus far, that the result OF the enter
prise will justify all their expectations.
and prove profitable to the community
The specimens of their products are said
to be very good. AMI were male by ma
chinery built expressly for the purpose
The flax used is said to be the ordinary
kind raised in the vicinity. and the fol-
lowing is On account of the process OF
manufacture, condensed from CORES pond
snce of the Hartford Times, to which
specimen hal been sent: efigs9
The flax is taken from the farmers lust
as 1t il gathered. after 1t is dried. The
rotting process is wholly superseded. The
farmer mows his fax just as he does hay,
whereas the old mode was to phil it BY
hand. 1t is then spread and dried. being
turned in the meantime. lying about ten
days. when it is rake1 up and is ready for
the manufacturer.
The fax Is then first put through ma
chine called brake. consisting of grooved
or hnted rollers. By this means the woody
part or shive is broken up. and portion
OF it falls out. 1t is then put into a sent
cher. machine which whips ont, and elm
mates most of the woody material from
the fibre. Finally it is put through thin
machine called a buster, by which the sep
arating and cleaning process is completed,
and the fibre is presented in the condition
of this specimen. Its white appearance
Is the result OF peculiar process OF bleach
ing. 1t can. of course. be spun into thread
or yarn, and used with wool and cotton in
the manufacture of various cloths. as has
been successfully demonstrated. The
coarser parts of the fibre. or as it may be
termed the waste, can be manufactured in
to Irvine. bags or paper.
The machines for beating up the A TX, can
be run at moderate expense by steam. or
even horse power. so that they can be used
IN places remote from motive power By
the use of the first machine alone, ton
oil fax is reduced in weight, by riddling it
of the slime. to seven hundred pounds,
when it can be baled. AMI thus transported
20 the mandatory. where the process OF
preparing 1t for market is completed by
the final cleansing and bleaching.
The operation of the machine can be so
regulated that the fibre can be made long
OF short, and thus fitted for different arti
cles of manufacture. A great advantag,
IS gained over the old mode Of dressins
flax. by avoiding the slow and tediou.
process Of rotting. and by reducing. a
very moderate expense, the fibres to tn.
soft. fine and flexible state of this speci
men.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-04-23

the noses, could be in no danger unless
four or,fise feet long. gafra Fhln6n s
Let you be ever so pure. you cannot
associate with bad companions without
falling into bad iodor. Evil company is
like tobacco smoke-you cannot be long
in its presence without carrying away a
faint of il.
An Irishman being asked why he left
Ireland for America. replied: 5'ftS.4
cit wasn't for want, for had plenty
Of that at home" enrc.9a q 'sd
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-04-23
NOuNt NO wOvo.

As proof that the Blood Purifier and Pills are purely
vegetable hare the certificates Of those eminent ee
sts Professors Chiffon Of n T., and Locke Of Cincinnati
Read Robacks Special 1otic<s and CERTIFICATES pub
Eshed in conspicuous part Of this Paper from time
tina.
Fsce Of the Scandinavian Vegetable Blood Purifier 81
bottle OF - hafdozen Scandinavian Veg
efable Blood Pills, Is cents per box, or boxes for 81
Principal Once and Salcsroom No. G East Fourth ST.,
% building from Main St., Cincinnati, o. Laboratory.
No Hamu 1oudE - q (. K =
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-04-23
From J. NEWTON BROWN. d. D., Editor

From j. NEWTON BROWN, ID. D., Editor Of
the Encyclopedia Of Religious Knowledge.
Although not disposed to favor or recommend
Patent Medicines in general. through distrust OF
their ingredients and effects; yet know Of no suf
fcent reason why man may not testify to the
benefit he believes himself to have received from
any simple preparation, in the hope that he may
thus contribute to the benefit OF others.
do this the more readily in regard TO Hoof-
lands German Btters, prepared by DR.. c. NJ.
Jackson. of this city, because | was prejudiced
against them for many years. underline impression
that they were chiefly an alcoholic mixture. lam
indebted to my friend Robert Shoemaker. ESQ,
for the removal of this prejudice by proper tests
and for encouragement to try them, when suffer
ing from great and long continued debility. The
use Of three bottles these Btters, the begin
ming ofthe present year, was followed by evident
relief, and restoration to degree Of bodily and
mental vigor which had not felt for six months
before, and had almost despaired of rcgaining.
therefore thank God and my friend for directing
me 10 the use Of them.
NEWTON BROWN.
Phiad'a juno, %, 1861.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-04-23
YELLOW FEVER, BILIOUS FEVER, &c

HEY CONTAIN NO ALCOHOL or BAD WHIsKEY
They WILL CURE the above diseases in ninety
nine cases out ola hundred.
Induced bv u G extensive sale and universal pop
ularity of Hooaands German Bitters, (purely veg
etabe.) hosts of ignorant Quacks and INSCRIPTIONS
Adventures, have opened upon suffering humanity
the flood gates Of Nostrums in the shape of poor
whiskey, yilely compounded with injurious drugs,
and chrstened Tonics, Stomachics and Bitters.
Beware of the inrumerable array OF Alcoholic
preparations in plethorc bottles, and big bellied,
kegs, under the modest appellation of Bitters;
which instead of curing, only aggravate diseases
and leave the disappointed sufferer in despair.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-04-23
FOR SALE BY

Persbing Co., Blain 4 Co, and T. A. Lemon. Piym
oufh; Robert Cornwall, Bourbon; John Kessler, RIoon
nssburg D. W. STANCE and Jonas Miller Bremen; Joh1
Chess, Tippecanoctown J. a. c. Smith, Marmont Haiel
Bro- Argos and by Druggists and Merchants general
ly Throughout the United States and Ca7adas.
April Is 1862
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-04-23
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ONEperson writes, her daughter was cured
IF fits OF nine years standing and st Vitus
lance OF two years.
ANOTHER writes, his son was cured
after his flesh had almost wasted away.
The doctors pronounced the case ineuTa-
bic.
ANOTHER was cured Of Fever and Ague
after irving every medicine in his reach.
ANOTHER was cured Of Fever Sore
which had existed fourteen years.
4 ANOTHER of rheumatism Of eight years
Cases innume-able of Dyspepsia and Liver
Complaint could be mentioned in which the
Purifier and Pills
Work VS\Sc q CvANvxA.
I've B\OOA PvNAs
are the most active and thorough pills that
have ever been introduced.
They act SO directly upon the Liver, e1cit-
ing that organ to such an extent as that the
system does not relapse into its former con
dition, which is too apt to be the case with
simply purgative pill aa At
They are really a i4ef
N\OoA uv>A Alvev pvyA,
which, in conjunction with the
MOO" /" 5sev, s
will cure all the aforementioned diseases,
and, Of themselves, will relieve and cure
Hsodache, Costiveness,
t. Oelic Pains, Oholsra Norbus, ~
indigestion, Pain in the BolOsls,
Qizztnese, etc.
Try these medicines, and you will Aess.
regret it. = = ~..-
Ask your neighbors, who have used them,
and they will say they are
GooA McNsclv>es,
and you should try them before going for q
physician.
Get Pamphlet or Almanac of my local
agent and read the certificates, and If yt1
| hara arar dnubfed vou will - -
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-04-23
PerShing & Co.,

Thankful to the public for their liberal patron
age the last year, their thanks and solicit
continuance of patronage, and respectfully ask all
same by the first day of January. 1863, at which
time they will open their new books for all prompt
aying customers and close The old onts. vim
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through some loving hearts as the eve
glances over the column. You read it with
some sort OF joy, as exulting in the con-
seriousness Chat you are nevertheless alive,
on better authority than that of any news
paper in existence. You read it on the
whole pretty seriously, and hang around il
many thoughts and fancies, many ques-
tons and mediations of that unknown ex-
istence in which the printers type has
temporarily placed you. You read it /
hope with some feeling of devout gratitude
to Him whose sparing hand hath made the
notice for the present untrue, and given
you opportunity to furnish material for a
better one by and by.
Grieve not then, oh veracious Republi-
can, that your notice in this one instance
was lacking in truth. That is very COM
mon failing in obituary items. Rejoice
with your readers over this your returning
very prodigal correspondent who was
dead and is alive again, who was lost in the
wilderness about charlottesville, wasted
his living among the harpies and Jews OF
secessia, was fain to eat the husks of the
Libby prison, and is very glad to be found
again back in region where fatted calves
are not yet among the things that were.
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are right in your surmise that the article
referred to, and similar ones, are U,1tten
mainly for Western consumption. The pa
pers printed here go regularly to Western
soldiers by some means, and are not I'M
frequently republished in Western papers.
From the beginning of the struggle it has
been an object with me to draw distlnc-
ton between Western and Eastern soldiers
of the North-to give the first credit for all
the achievements Of Federal arms, and de-
nounce the latter as cowardly, malignant
and intolerant, hoping thereby to produce
a division among them, and thus relieve
ourselves; and this, it must be confessed,
is about the only object hope to aid in
accomplishing by presenting to the West
a seeming willingness to admit them into
our Confederacy, upon our own terms and
While there are certain conditions upon
which would not be opposed to their adj
mission-the entire expulsion of abolition
ism, and tanaticism- adoption Of our con-
stit1tion, and the o'arestrdi1aed liberation of
slauery-yet I am not wild enough to be-
ieve that even the Western States will ever
reach this standard, and hence, political
brotherhood NTH them is something neither
expect nor desire. My sole object, therefore,
IL, such editorials as you refer Is to increase
the dtssatiJ noaO raging IN the West,
trusting 1t may soon break out IN, open Tup-
ture. This course think 1 could defend
upon moral grounds, but that is not neces-
sary now.
1t is proper to say, that I know nothing
of the Presidents views on this subject,
and the Mississippian Though friendly to
him) is not his organ.
Cordially sympathizing with you in he
reditary. and intense hatred to the true
Yankee character, 1 am very respectfully,
F. 7. COOPER,
(, Editor MissisSippidn.
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From the 10th Iowa.
VICKSBURa, Nav %. !

NICKSBURa, May %, 1858.
EDITOR HAwK-EVE:-I believe nv last
letter was written from camp near the Big
Black, just after the battle near Port Glib
son. Since then, events have crowded SO
fast upon the heels of each other, and we
have been so incessantly marching and
fighting, that / have had no time to write
and, indeed, no opportunity to send letter
off if written.
Since my last, we have marched nearly
one hundred miles, without tents. and a
good part of the time without bedding. mos,
Of the time on half rations, and sometimes
without any whatever; have skirmished a,
Utica, fought and whipped the enemy at
Raymond, jackson, Champion Hill and
Big Black, and are at last bombarding the
Glbralter OF rebeidom, Vicksburg.
The battle at Raymond was fought most
ly by Logan's Division, two brigades OF
Quinbys reaching the field just before the
close OF the action. The forces of the enc
my have been variOusly estimated at from
5000 to 10000. The battle was well fought
on both sides, but the victory was com
plete, the enemy routed at every point, al
though selecting his own position, and OF
course the most advantageous that could
be found. 1 think the loss on the rebel side
has been greatly magnitied in some north.
ern papers. Certainly their loss was create,
than ours, but 1 rode all over the battle
field soon after the action. while the deaC
stil lay unburled on the field, and the
number could have been nothing like wha
l have seen in at least one paper. Compar
ed with the battle at Jackson, two DAYS af
ter, that at Raymond was mere skirmish
From Raymond we marched to Clinton
small town on the Vicksburg and Jack
son Railroad. Here we expected the enc
my to make another stand, in defense O
their Railroad, but they skedaddled befor
we reached the place, retreating to Jackson
We were met the next day by the enem,
| in force, some three miles from Jackson. =
They had selected their own position. ant
OF course the strongest that could be found
Our forces moved upon jackson in thre,
columns, comprised ofMcClernand's, Sher
mans and McPherson's corps. l did no
witness the operations Of McClernand's o.
Sherman's corps, being attached to Nc
Pherson's. We could only tell by the boon
of the cannon and the roll of musketry tina
they were doing their duty. OF McPher
sons corps, only Quinby's division. com
manded by Gen. Croker, at the time wa,
in the fight, part of Logan's division com.
ing up when the battle was about over :
The enemy had selected yery strong nosi.
ton on the side of our approach. and con.
tested the ground most obstinateiy for sev.
eral hours. In this engagement the 18th
Iowa, soth Ohio, 10th Missouri and oSd uli.
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@-The Chicago Journal inquiries if the
Times twill now act decently?" The Jour
nal has extraordinary expectations if it
imagines that that or any other Copperhead
sheet can act either decently or loyalty
They can't do either, and if they could they
are determined not even to make the effort.
They are traitors ingram. From such a
source nothing is to be looked for but a
stream of filth and treason
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BURLINGTON >WEEKEYr HAWK-EYE.

~ 1t is not long since the so-called
Democratic leaders, and every paper THAI
pretended to be Democratic, professed to
be in favor of the most active and stringent
measures for the suppression of the rebel
lion. They boasted of their zeal, of their
efforts, of their hatred of the rebels and
their treason, and called for the most "vig-
orous prosecution" of the war, and this al
most without exception. All the State
elections last fall, were contested by these
fellows on the ground that they were the
war men, and their opponents could not
cope with them in patriotic zeal and earn
estness, against the rebels. We say these
were the public professions made by all the
class of politicians we refer to. Let any
man refer to the files of his papers pub
lished last year prior to the elections, read
the speeches and editorials he will find, and
Judge for himself.
How is it now? What is the position of
all these men at present? Are they not
sspeace'' men-not merely in favor of peace
in the sense that all sensible men are-but
absolutely, Immediately, regardless of the
country, its interests and honor, and at the
expense of the Union, and all that is sa-
cred and memorable in our past, or yalua-
BILE in the future? Are they not in favor OF
withdrawing our armies from the South land
permitting the Confederacy to become a
successful rebellion and an actual nation
atty? Do they not say that every man who
favors the maintenance of the Union by
force of arms, is an "Abolitionist," and
seek, in all possible modes, to weaken the
arm of the Nation, and distract the whole
people?
Without any comment upon these facts,
which require no proof because they are
known to all men, we merely direct atten-
ton to them, and ask men of discretion,
men who wish to do their duty to them
selves, their country and posterity: Do you
intend to follow, still further, the lead OF
political gamblers who have so plainly,
positively and conspicuously proclaimed
their own perfidy? Do you-cam you re-
quire any additional testimony to convince
you that they are foul conspirators, aiming
at the utter ruin of the nation and the over
throw of Republican institutions here and
throughout the world? Is any stronger
evidence of their perfidious design within
the range of possibilities? Can any other
result than utter destruction to all human
rights, follow the course they persuade you
to adopt? Is it possible that any man, who
thinks at all, can be so infatuated as not to
perceive the abyss Of horrors into which
these traitors are striving to plunge our
country? =
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re- The piety manifested in the reso-
lutions we publish elsewhere, must have
been the principal inducement to their
adoption by the ''dead-rabbits," "Bowery
boys" thieves and other rabble of
cut-throats, who follow in the wake ofthe
virtuous Fernando! Their relations to
our common Father" are undoubtedly of
the nearest, if We judge them by their
acts! So, also, their. tender regard and
uniform observance of the "benignant
spirit of morality. and religion" are con-
spicuously manifested by the whole gang
on all occasions! Isn't the whole thing
rich? Is it possible, indeed, to imagine
anything more blasphemous than this as
semblage of New York Copperheads, un-
der the lead Of such villain and traitor as
Wood, fit head for such crowd,-pra
ting of morality and religion" while en-
gagged in denunciation of our Government.
apologizing for rebels, and conspiring to
aid the traitors who are striving to enslave
the people? How the traitors must laugh
over that exhibition? How it must de-
light the slave-drivers to see ,Dhite men so
readily put their necks into the collar al
ready forged for them, and which even the
negroes abhor!
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a- A letter was lately telegraphed
throughout the country purporting to be
from Gen. Hunter to jeff. Davis. Officers
of Gen. Hunters Staff, now in Washing
ton, state that no such letter, in fact, no let
ter at all, has been sent by Hunter to
Davis.
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A steady labor migration from Canada
to Ohio is taking place. The lake-shore
papers diurnally notice the arrival of
squads, who come to Ohio to find employ
ment. Why don't the papers which are of
negro hegira and the consequent cheaper
ing of the price of labor, howl over its in.
tux from the North?
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~ A son Of the Belgium Consul at
Chicago, Mr.. Henrotin, is among the killed
at Vicksburg. He volunteered at the
opening of the war, and had borne a GAL
liant part in the battles at New Madrid.
Fort Donelson, Shiloh, and at Arkansas
fost, at the last mentioned battle captur-
Ing the flag of Texas regiment.
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Keller for the Sick and wounded.

a HILLsBoRo, Iowa, June Sd, 1868.
Mr.. G. DuNHAN.-Dedr Sir: feel it
my duty this morning to write few
lines in my plain, farmer style, which /
would be pleased. to see in your Daily
HaWk-Eye. From the urgent requests in
several papers for the citizens to forward
clothing, pillows, lint, &C., to the Soldiers
Aid Society, was induced to make trial
in my neighborhood. Accordingly, my
self and wife and daughter set out. l went
into our village, thinking to get some
help, and also get the most influential
l soon found that they were opposed to such
a move, for the following reasons: First
the Soldiers Aid Society was specializing
machine; and next, the soldiers would
never get the things sent; and their next
plea was that the soldiers in the hospi-
tails were better provided for than nine
tenths of the sick in the country.
Now, sir, believe these excuses were
only come off; but with their influence in
that direction, there cannot be much done
In this place. I was trying to get some
thing to have sent to Vicksburg for the
benefit of our wounded soldiers at that
place. I have two sons and two sons-in-
law somewhere in that army, and per-
haps some OF them at that place. If those
Ideas they advance are not. true, they
should be corrected. believe the sick and
wounded are suffering and needy, and am
willing to give, and SO are my neighbors,
but they want some assurance that the ar
ticles will go to the soldiers, where they
are most needed.
Yours respectfully, &c. WALKER.
The above note has been on our table for
several days. We now print it because we
are asked to do SO by worthy and patri-
etc man as we believe the writer, and not
because we expect any good to flow from it.
We cannot prove negative proposition
and shall not attempt to show that soldiers
Aid Societies are not Speculative ma
chimes or that all the stores sent by patri-
otto people in Iowa reach the sick and
wounded. Some persons may be more
needy than our sick soldiers. II the peo-
pie in Hillsboro are any of them in this
condition they ought not to be called upon
for contributions. fttu
We know that a great deal contributed
has gone to the soldiers and they have
thus been comforted and relieved. We are
satisfied that delicacies and clothing here
after contributed through said societies
will go to those for whom intended. We
know no other way half so good or half so
likely to send relief to those who are sick
or wounded. If any man or woman is SO
wanting in the generous instincts of HUI
manity, or so false to the flag of the coun-
try as to desire to excuse himself or her
self upon the plea that our sick need moth
ing, we should not stop to handy words
There are plenty of people that will give
and give freely-give their substance, their
sympathies and their blessings.
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Gs~ Dunn Browne, one of the fighting
army correspondents of the Springfield
Republican, was lately prisoner among
the traitors, a result of his truculent at
tempt to capture whole rebel regiment bv
the might of his single arm, in which he
was ''done brown indeed. 1t was sun
posed that he was killed, and he therefore
mas had the singular delight of reading his
own obituary, written in good faith and
with due regard to his many virtues; and
mere is what he says about it,.
;. ANNAPOLIS, May %, ls6s.-Dear Renub.
an,-Dld you ever happen to read your
own obituary? Probably not, and LONG
may you be spared not to do SO, "Serns
IN ~ coelqm redeas." But and if at last the
t thhlng should happen to you, may YOU be
there yourself alive and well to read II as 7
reaa mine yesterday. 1t is queer kind Of
reaalng though for man. You read il
ts a'aer hesltatingly, as if you might be in
.rualng on words that were not meant for
your ears. You run over it rather curions.
~, as wondering what sort Of a news item
yIIui exit Will make. You read ii some
VIA, mmae sadly and pittyingly ,askympathizinp
WIN the thrill of sorrow that viii pass
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IHE 7TH IOWA CAvALRY.-We learn that
the 9TH Iowa Cavalry, Col. Summers, now
in camp at Davenport, is getting on finely.
Eleven companies are now full and the
twelfth nearly so. The regiment enjoys
good health, is provided with good horses,
is fully uniformed and is armed with pis-
tolls and sabres. 1t is likely to prove a
very efficient regiment. We understand
that marching orders are expected. -
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HALF FARE.-Delegates to the Republic
can State Convention next week, will be
carried by the Railroad and Stages at half,
or rather for full fare one way.