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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-12-11

There is a widow lady in Windham, in this
state whose age is SO years. She can spin,
knit, sew and read coarse print without spec
tacles. She has had ten children, nine Of
whom have lived to have families. She has
81 grandchildren, thirty Of whom are males,
and fifteen Of them have been in the Union
army, and nine of them are there now. One
Of her grandsons went as surgeon Of the 10th
regiment, and IS now surgeon of the llth.-
She also has 20 great grandcbilden, one of
whom went ont with the nine months men,
and has now enlisted for three years. The
old lady is very patriotic and kni,s and works
all she can for the soldiers and our inform
ant Gays the best Of all is there is not cop
perhead in all four Of the generations. Sach
a family are an honor to country.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-12-11

RAILROAD AcoIDENr.-We learn from a
passenger on the Express Train up this (Sat-
.urday) morning that when about five miles
beyond Mortified, the engine and tender
were thrown upon the side Of the track and
the engineer badly scalded, and the fireman fell
under the wheel OF the tender, having his leg
bruised. The coupling breaking between the
tender and baggage car, the latter was pre-
eipitated endwise down an embankmeut of
one hundred feet, throwing each The express
packages and baggage into p-omiscuous
heap; fortunately the express snestsnger and
baggage master escaped without serious in
jury. The passenger cars ran off the oppo-
side side Of the track, and were only saved
from going down the embankment by lodging
against telegraph pole. Wonderful es-
cape TO the passengers truly
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-12-11

WAR MEETING AT NoBrHFIELD.

There was a large and enthusiastic war
meeting at Concert Hall, Wednesday evening
Dec. ID. DR.. Nichols presided
Very earnest and patriotic speeches were
made by |. n. jerks, Esq, DR.. McLearn,
Hon. Heman Carpenter, Rev, Mr., Byram
and DR.. Nichols.
During the meeting, seven noble-hearted
and patriotic young men, (some of whom
were out in the three and nine months regi-
ments) stepped forward to tie stand and en-
listed,-receiviug great applause and many a
"God bless you from the audience. At
l-2 o'clock the President declared the meet
ing adjourned, to meet at the same place
again next Saturday night at o'clock (per
order Of the selectmen) when it is expected
that there will be public speakers from abroad
to address the meeting.
Our town has voted to pay $3.50, to all
volunteers who shall enlist before the first
day Of Janutry, 1854. We have already en-
Listed sixteen men towards filling our quota
of twenty eight. We have only twelve men
more to raise, and it is expected that our
quota will be full by Saturday night. ].
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-12-11

BARRE THE BANNER TowE.-The good
old town of Barre never does anything by
halves, and whenever its people are called
upon in any manner, they respond with a
will. The way in which all their quotas
have heretofore been filled, has been highly
creditable but the liberal manner in which
her citizens offered bUuntes at their town
meeting on Thursday, and the results which
followed eclipsed everything in this section,
filing her quota as usual, and more TO.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1863-12-11

All are with the Army Of the Potomac ex
cepting those whose location is stated.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-27
FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
. o III ITEMs
MEXICAN NEWS,

The following has just been received at the
War Department.
MEMPHIS. May 81 forward the follow
ing just received from Col. John A. Rawlings,
A.. A G re 7 of Vicksburg, May 20 h.
The army Of the Tennessee landed at Bru.
inshurch on the Goth of April. On the list OF
May we fought the battle of Port Gibson and
defeated the rebels under Gen Bowen, whose
loss in killed, wounded and prisoners was al
least I 800. and loss in artillery of 5 pieces.
On the 18th of May at the battle Of Ray.
mond the rebels were defeated with q loss Of
800.
On the B8bh Of May We defeated Gen. Joe
i. johnson, and captured Jackson with a loss
to the. eaea1y of 400, besides Immense stores
and manufactures and seventeen pieces Of ar
tiaery. 80 =
On the i6ta of May re fought tie bloody
and decisive battle at Bakers Greek, in which
the entire fsrce at Yicksburg under PeDber
ton was defeated with the loss Of tae2ty7aine
pieces of artillery and 1900 men.
On the t7;h of May We defeated the same
force At the Big Black River bridge. with o hss
Of 1900 mea AMI II pieces of artillery.
On the 18th of May we invested Vickshura
closely. To-Day Gen. Steele carried the size
pits on. the north sf- tho city. The right 81
the army sests en the Mississippi above Visks
burg. -
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-27
The DRAM I'm New Xorik.

The New York correspondent oft h Phila-
delphia Ledger says
i have made careful inquiry in reference to
the CONSUMPTION in this city and State, and am
enabl -d-to say, on perfectly reliable authority,
that the prelim,naries arc now about all COM
plete, and that the Provost Marshal expects to
draw the men certainly not later than the 18th
of June. The enrolment lists have been per-
fected by using the names collected under Stale
authority, by the Adjutant General. last fall.
and correcting the list by the lists in the pos
session of the assessors of taxes. The new city
directory will likewise be avaible to some cx-
cent. The city districts will be very numerous
The design is to place each of them under the
care of a Deputy Provost Marshal, who shall
take care that every man subject to a draft will
have an op ,ortunity to serte his country, and
to that end it is probable the districts will re-
spectively be limited to half a dozen squares
each. When the machinery is finally com.
pleted, public notice will be given of the fact
and from TIA time till the nanes arc drawn
from the wheel, no able bodied man liable &c
copseriptien will be permitted to leave the
| country.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-27
uninanenced by Abolition malice.

nninfuenced by Abolition malice.
Yet there are a few,1and the fact Is pa.
teut,-who are receiving a large monthly sti-
pend, that come homo and A~chodnce Demo
Gratis as disloysi. For Instance, some poor,
bankrupt devil, who swindled his n~eighbors,
and perAaps rpcceeded in involving a father 50
that he Is Obliged, after long yeas of hard Ia
Dor and saving, to earn his bread BY the
sweat of his brow,-a scoundrelly scallawag,
without character, and whose very adass is-as.
tested byhenest men, in the midst ola cam
away from the danger of the battle field, a
coward and scoundrel,-cones home, and be-
cause he wears ~hrassbuttons and cheap-sh shout
der straps, assumes to dictate to men who are
respectable and decent, their political duties,
We leave it to our ~nsighbors to! say whether
vefhaVe such n hing in or midst@bRoev our
selves We have only 10 saythat We utterly de,
.spise and detest that kind of cattle. They are
only loyal for money. Not receiving Office,
they 1esert. Z 81 ssssa ssrs d s7ei.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-27
ne whole story.

The cause of our inyariabIe illzsuccess in
the military operations under the Immediate
eyelof the Government has been the fruitful
subject of conjecture. The invariable sue.
cess ia Neutrality-suspicious., uhsrA the Generals
have acted on tLeir tsown hook has, also
been generally noticed. Why success should
follow our armies in one section and not ia
the other is q natter upon which people win
have their opinions. Our own opinion We 6nd
so admirably expressed ir the ,Rochester(N
Y.) Laion, that Bwecopy what that paper
says, endorsing every word of it. The Union
says
"But the primary couse of ali-the root of
the fatal evil lies, at Washington. Nctgreat
movements ever took place withoat organiza
ton, and no organization ever lived and had .
wholesome and -uccessful beginning witbeat a
head. This war of the Union against the re.
bellion Aas progressed two years Washing
ton is the Union. Richmond is, the rebellion
The head oftN ashington is Lincoln, a civilli-
an the head of Richmond is Davis, a soldier.
Criticise as we will, and say what we may a
bout subordinate men and matter, resources of
combatants, &C., this war of two years has
been fought by. Mr. Lincoln on the one sid
and by Mr. Davis on the other. We have
had Scott, McCl an, AID Halleck nominallJ
at the Hit OF our sword, but Mr. Lincoln has
himself, or he. has permitted a Cameron, a
Stanton, q committee on the conduct of the
war, or some other interfering power, to direct
its point. All through, Davis has welded his
own blade, and he who meddled with it got
cut. When Mr. Lincoln yields, what no
former President ever assumed the practical
functions. of commander,in chief of the army
ind navy, and clothes with them como patriot
and older in W ON the people add the army
have confidence, then, and not till then, can
we hope for that success against the willy rebel
leader which our strength, our everything en-
titles US to. $50
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-27
Horrors OF the Polish Conscrip-
ton.

The horrors of the CONSUMPTION care being
repeated in Warsaw. Numbers are seized
every day, AMI as soon as a sufficiently large
batch of recruits has been collected it is draft
ed off to St. Petersburg. Five hundred of the
inhabitants have already been exiled in this
way. The object of this renewal of the dread
full scents Of January Isl appears to be two,
fold-frst, to strike terror into the hearts OF
the population and, secondly, to FL. up the
vacancies existing in the corps on the Amoor
and in other parts cf Asiatic Russia, in con-
sequence of many of the soldiers belonging to
those corps having been sent to Poland. This
saYage measure gives a practical indication Of
the real policy OF thu Gear in Poland, to dis.
simulate which was the object of the amnesty
Since the ukase announcing it was promulga-
ted, the Gar, as if to revenge himselfso on the
Poles for the duplicity which he was compel
led to Practice on the Western Powers, has
treated them with redoubled rigor. Every
day arrests are becoming more and more fire
quent the citadel is full, and the only in
stance in which the amnesty was carried into
effect was the liberation of eight peasants.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-27
SHERLFFS SALE

F.S. Jacobs, ct oil, In Partition
VS.. In Ashland county
J. J. Jacobs, Eft nj. Common Pleas.
In pursuance to- the command of an order of Sale
ON Pavilion duly issued out of the Court o. Com
mon Pleas of said county dated he 22d day o. May,
A. d. 1868, and to me directed, I win expose TO
Pale at public auction on the premises,
On Saturday, 9Th day of Jnps, A. D. 1868
between the hours Of l0 o'clock A. NJ and A F. M.
of said day he following described lands spdten-
ements to-wit /: Lots No. twenty nine (296 seventy
two (72), and seventy-three (53l and . part of the
North west quarter Of Section seventeen az CON
tanning one fourth a, Of an acre, in the teMn OF
Ashland, Ashland county. Ohio, with the sppurfe-
aanees thereanto belonging Aisea the following
premises situate in said county with the sppunte
nances thsreante belonging@he East part of the
South west quarter of Range sixteen (16a Town
ship tuenty-two (221, section seventeen III, con
tainiag tSesty three i2s} acres. also tie South
west part Of the Southwest quarter OF Range six
teen thee Township twenty-five l22)- sestlon s,v
entesp az, containing twenty eight and one half
t28Yr acres with the app4rtennasss therennto be,
leag:ng. Lot No. 20. appraised at 100000, Lots
No. ~ aed ~, apPrsisadat$ $4,000. a part Of the
North Bost Qsprtsr of Sectien (17) containing e.
Of an acre. appraised At 1896, 90. the (23) acres ap.
praised Mt 100000 the 2S3 acres appraised a.
$4,000, 90.
Terms of Safe-One third in hand, enc third in
ono year and the residue in TIVE years from the
day of sale, with interest. Back payments to be
secured By mortgage on the premises.
JAMES MeCcOL, Sheriff.
May &c, 1865 prs. zee 81. S
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-27

General Burnside in his statement to the
Court in ii .nnati, in the V~allandigham
Adbeus ccrFus ease, says:
"The press and the public men in a great
emergency Ike the present, should avoid the
use of party epithets and bitter invectives
and discourage the organization of secle,
political societies, which are always undigni-
fed and disgraceful to a free people, but now
arc absolutely wrong and Injurious |; they CT,
ate disseasicns and discord, which just now
amount to treason. The simple name .Patri, {
and 'Traiter,' are comprehensive enough"
We hope every Democrat in the State OIL
Ohio will back up General Burnside ia break
ing up these nests o ftreason wherever found
OF all things, we have most despised
these secret cath bound NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
and rs our State is full of them, it will be the
duty of the Democrats to see that they are bro.
ken up and dispersed. Let them report every
such organization and the nance of the men
seen and kLewn to visit them. There are one
or two Of them ia the city, and If anyy one
will give the names of those visiting ne vii
publish thcai that our people may see and
know who it is committing treason"
We have no doubt that they are the same
men, a portion of them at least, who have been
detected in carrying munitions of war to Tex
as for the South, and who hold q permit, right
in this city, from JEFF Davis, to trade within
his Confederacy. They are the same men
who have been urging the suppression of The
Crisis, for fear we would expose them, and
far no other re 1son. Let General Burnside
make no mistakes in the mat er and all may
yet be we'll Those who have been professin
to be the exclusively loyal turn out to be the
exclusively disloyo{. A very little time will
expose all this to the satisfaction ofeyery one
.-Crisis.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-27

DURING Mr. Buchanan's administration,
farmers received sl.10 per bnshel for tkeir
wheat. Now, under the Republican adminis-
traaien Of Me-. Lincoln, they receive 81 Co.
hsesfgencera
During Me. Buchanan's administration a
dollar in paper was worth 100 cents, now it is
worth about II, q yard of shirt muslin was
worth 10 cents, new it is worth As; a poor
girl could purchase a calico dress with one
weeks wages, row she must work a month to
obtain the same article ; a pound of coffee was
wovth 46 cents, now it Is worth 40. fhe cdr
tors should have noticed the advance Of these
and many ether ARTICLES brought about by the
happy ehange of Observation-Disclosures
(Fa.) Democrat.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-27
saIErrARY IRRITATION.

Some months, since we referred, in an edi
toriaI, to an efort-just then ia its inception.
on sthes1part of the Administration to Abo
Etionize The army and manufacture by the ba-
sest misrepresentation and fraud a feeling OF
enmity among the soldiers against the Demo
Gratis f the. North. What we asserted to be
theaihtenfion of the Administrative is now
proceed byyssubseqaenE circumstances, to have
bee5le9errect Democratic papers are prohibi
red from circulating among the soldiers The
meapest snd most despieable lies, published
in Abolisioa papers, abusing Democrats, are
freely circulated throughout the array. In
genioas falsshoods are printed By which men
are deceived Only one side Of the story il
givenxsand, all men of sense know that the
pursst and fairest angel that erer coursed or
goldea wings through the haImy air of Para
disc, by this kind of one-sided, bigoted, fanati
cal tesfimoBy, If no defence vas heard, would
be sent to the gfoomiest and deepest cell o.
torture in Hades. By means such as this
Valfandigham has been condemned by a seoun
dreli and Aholnion traitor, Eho cares for moth
ing hut the sturendons salary that he Is re
sewing from the Administration, for leadfn.
tens of thousands Of mon to slaughter, aDhit
men, and agreeiBg, as a mere Offset, to set fret
q few. negroes. Ambrose E. Burnzide, tht
dirty tool Of . petty despot, is the aeeuser ant
becomesthe Judge, On q mock tral, en- On ar
,aneemeuts called a court which humanity
would TOOK upon y ! farce. If its effects had
not proved q tragedy. IF soldiers were per
,.;t4ad 70 road the evidence md arouueu4s on
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-27
MAY 30, 1863.

Upea which occasion Hon. GEO. H.PEN-
BdET0N, q of III mcst gallant ~chanpions
%asbe Democracy. of Ohio, Hon, EDISON b
WDS, who is Known allever the land as one
oedtBep victims ee the t5rant Lincoln, and
HSa.T. W. BARLEY Of our neighborinp
cesghty. and well known TO all our citizens,
vii, positively be percent We have the fur
Their assurance that Hon. CLEMENT l.
VALBANDIGHAM viii also be here upon
n iioSecasion.
The Democracy of the County and all adj
joiai4g are requested to turn out EN- hAssE
andHhas it is yet time make one effort to re.
gam fhc liberty now 50 nearly lost
Give enc day to this noble purpose. Come
Ont 10 your might and strength, with your
music and your banners (not sixteen star.
red banners) and show the despots that il
is a free and determined people that they are
attempting to subject The Democracy will
also upon the same day select Eve delegates
and Eve. aiternates to represent Ashland coun.
" IN The Stare Convention of the llth Of
June.
By Order Of the Ceptra' com.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-27
Reaction.

The muzzling of the press, and the procee-
dings in the Vallan iigham case, are doing an
admirable work amongst men who required
just such ac:s to arouse them to the dangers
which threaten the very existence Of %constitu
tional liberty in the North. The men to
whom we allude are not admirers of Mr.. Val
landigham-have always differed with him in
his views of the war, but cannot and will not
give his sanction to a precedent SO dangerous
to all civil liberty as his seizure and imprison
ment for no other offense than discussing pub
lie questions in a manner hurtful to the char.
acter of the partizan leaders now controlling
the federal administration. 1t is not the un-
thinking ~partizan that will be awak ened by
the events to which we refer, But men of
calmaess and circumspection, who have never
fal,ered before, arc now beginning tn see that
unless the recent claims of military power are
rebuked. our civil and political rights will SOM
be only such as the COMMANDMENTS Chief of
the army tolerates.-Ne,cark Advocate.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-27
Oar Civil Liberties--Refusal or the
Haheas Corpus.

Habeas Corpus.
On Saturday last, JUDGE Leavitt of the Uni-
ted States Court for the Southern district OF
Ohio, refused to grant che writ of hdbcas cor
pus applied for by Dir. Vallandigham. On
the following Monday, Geaeral Burn side APP
proved the actiea of the Court Martial senten-
cling Mr.. Vailandigham 10 close confinement
IN q G~oSernment fortress daring the war, and
appointed Fort Warren as the place ofimpris-
Comment.
Massachusetts tbe-xeA known imbeeility
of Judge Leayitt, his decision in this case has
created general amazement. That he acted
uuder terror ofthe-uilitzry arm,-ist the poor
excuse which some of his best friends suggest
as his apology The doctrine on which. he
bases his decision leaves all civil government
at the mercy Of military power. He says that
netwiths andipg Mr. Kallandigham's rights
9nder the constitution, the President as com.
mander-in,chief is limited ia his action only
by his own Judgment as toswhat is best to bs
done; aud that iGenerals entrasfed by him
with discretionary fewers fhat coald be exer-
eised by himself if present, are at liberty TO
do what the President himself Mighti do. 1t
viii be seen that according acto this doctrine,
the entire free North is left at the mercy of a
single man: he may suspend all elections If it
is his will 70 do so;or he may close ths ballot
box to all except his own partisans; or he may
proclaim himself, or some chosen ofayorite, al
rightful Presideat for another four years sue
eeeding his present term. LAll that is needed
60 justfy the President in these acts (ifJudge
L~easitt's decision is correct, } is his opinion
that the interests of the nation requires their
adoption! Whcther this opinion be honest or
distances, intelligent or stupid, it overrides
the Constitution iias75 siaafe sa5 ssa-ot s5ab
We do not wonder that-even enemies Of Mr.
Valiandigbam are appalled, at the doctrine
which Judge Leavi' has found necessary to
proclaim in order to excuse him for not taking
Mr.. Vallandigham out Of the hands of the
military. 1t takes the control Of the affairs
of the nation from the civil authorities and
places them under command of the army. IF
the doctrine of Judge Leayitt is correct. the
length of the war, the terms of peace, the flu
ture relations Of the States, all these and all
else of importance to a people who supposed
to be the rulers and the army
their agents, are not to be decided otherwise
than as the commander-in.chief may decided
Mecdrk Ad0ocafe.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-27

PEOPLE who suppose hat the "Mrs. Stan
ton" who figured at the recent female pow
WOW in New York is the Secretary of War,
commit a IA; ural enough bluuder. Mrs. Sta,
ton, the ~oratress, however. is not an cold We
man." Indeed, we are told she is "very much
of a gentleman" in her manner-a fact winch
sufficiently Distinguishes her from her name
sake at WashiDgton.-Boston Post.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-27
NEW nIILInERY EsfABLIsnrzNr.. :
MRS SO M ss ss1s ssis'

TNAKES pleasure in announcing 70 the Ladies Of
Ashland and Vicinity. that she has just -opeA-.,
~ occupied by Mrs. Raplee. over chnt4is2 Dfdf99
Store, where can be found q 5rrge and fsshichnbEses
at such figures as will enable her "a offer srpegipe-
Inducements to her customers A liberal PATRON
age solicited spsr e.a.
April 20, 16e3-R48 ilAA -
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-27

STARS AND STRIPES VA We OYEE
THE CITY.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-05-27
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Y.
SohnC Y; Myers gan OenrSoI pemne4 re-
land county Defendants j attachment. ~. =
KrHE above named efsndsheD john
that Cephas Myers; Plsiatffs d fhe eol1ty cfAsh-se-s.
land and State of ohies did en1lhs zzik deg 81
April, A. D., 1868, file his pefifionp in tho Gours = =
Common Pleas within and for the county og5Ashss{i, ;:
land. in said sta,e e Ohio egfinsE he sad John r.
{. Myers. Defsndant: to recoyer The sum Of enc ".
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