The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-10-08
President LincoIn's Proclamation.
BIZ THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF

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has been filled with the blessings of fruitful
fields and healthful skies to those bountie:
which are so constantly enjoyed, that we are
prone to forget the source from which they
come OTHERS have been added which are
I of so extraordinary nature that they can
not fail to penetrate and soften even the
heart which is habitually insensible to the
ever-watchful Providence of Almighty God.
In the midst of civil war of unequaled
magnitude and severity, which has some
times seemed to invite and provoke the ag-
| gresions of foreign States, peace has been
! preserved with all nations, order has been
m attained, the laws have been respected
and obeyed, aud harmony has prevailed
every where except in the theater of mill
tary conflict. While that theater has been
greatly contracted by the advancing armies
and naVies of the Union, the needful diver.
sions of wealth and strength from the fields
of peaceful industry to the National defense,
have not arrested the pillow, the shuttle or
the ship. The Ak has enlarged the borders
Of our settlements. and the mines, as we'll
Of iron and coal as the precious m etals, have
yielded even more abuudantly than hereto
fore. Population has steadily increased,
Notwithstanding the waste that has been
made in the camp. the siege and the battle
field; and the country, rejoicing in the con-
seriousness of augm ented strength and vigor,
Is permitted to expect a continuance of years,
with large increase of freedom. No human
counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal
hand worked out these great things. they
are the gracious gifts of the Most High God,
who, while dealing with US in anger for our
sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.
1t has seemed to me 6t and proper that
they should be solemnly, devoutly and
gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart
and voice. by the whole American people.
do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens in
every part OF the United States, and also
those who are at sea aud those who are So
journing in foreign lands, to set apart and
observe the last Thursday OF November next
as day of Thanksgiving and prayer to our
beneficert Father who dweletb in the
heavens; and l recommend to them that
while offering up the Inscriptions justly due
to Him for such singular deliverances and
blessings, they do also, with humble peni-
tence for our national perveTseness and dis
obedience, commend to his tender care all
those who have become widows, orphans or
sufferers in the lamentsble civil strife in
which we are unavoidably engaged, and
fervently implore the interposition of the
Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the
nation and to restore it, as sooR as may be
consistent with the Divine purposes, to the
full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility
and union
10 testimony whereof, have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of the United
~ ates to be affixed. Done at the City of
Washington, this, tbe third day of October.
in the year of our Lord 1868, and of the In !
dependence of the United States the eighty
eighth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
VIM. Fl. SEWARD. Secretary of State.
Lees Report of the Pennsylvania Cam.
paisn.
WASHINGTON, October 5.-The Richmond |
Dispatch, of Saturday last, contains General /
Lees official report of his Pennsylvania |
campaign. 1t occupies nearly three columns
'f the Dtsp1tch. The reasons for the cam
9aign are thus summed up:
The position occupied by the enemy op-
oosite Fredericksburg being one in which /
De could not be attacked to advantage, it
vas determined to draw him from it.
The execution of this purpose en- braced
he relief of the Shenandoah Valley from
be troops that had occupied the lower part
VI it during the winter and spring, and, if
the transfer of the scene of hos
ifities north of the Potomac It was thought
bat the corresponding movem ents on the |
'art OF the enemy to which those coutem-
fer fair opportunity to strike blow at
he army there, comman ded by General I
locker, and, in any event, that the army
you'd be compelled to leave there, and, pos !
IDLY, to draw to its support troops designed Y
D operate against other parts of the country. +
Ia this way it was supposed the euemy's C
Ian of the campaign for the summer would il
o broken up, and part of the season OF &C Y
we operations be consumed fn the forma-
ion OF new combinations: and the prepara- i
ous that they would require, in addition to c
lese advantages, it was hoped that other s.
aluable results might be attached by mill
Try. success. He admits large losses, but Il
oes not state them. f
The October term Of the United States
curt Of Claims commenced to-day, at the
apitol. There are 1853 cases entered on the t.
ial docket for the term. 81
New York, October 5-The Tribune's
ecial states that gentleman who are ac- g
lstomed to watch the current of European
'litics, and are in receipt of private CORE -
ondence from well-inform ed sources u
road, predict great and general war will "
nvulse Europe by next spring. It is be- 81
,ved at Petersburg that Russia will then o.
i've one million of men under arms, and .e
III be prepared for any emergency. 70
1t is coDjectured bere that the true expla--
tiou of the appearance of Russian vessels
war in our waters is to secure them from so
ing blockaded in home ports, as was the tN
Sc in the Crimean War. dr.
All quiet along the lines is reported from
9 front. The soldiers have been both glad Ii
ned and plundered by the arrival of long re
in of cars loaded with suffers goods. 1t II
D do 20 harm now to say arrangem ents to
forwarding troops from Washington to
> Department of the cumberland have tw
sn brought to such perfection that soldiers M
m left hera on Friday uuaak