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The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-07-18
TO THE SOLDIERS!
have published a beautiful
SOLDIERS CERTIFICATE,
FOr tIle mse of soIdIers.


It is printed in four %cOlors, represent
ing Cavalry, Infantry, and Artillery,
marching in countless numbers into
Dixie, with drums beating, colors flying,
etc. A blank line is left for the name Of
the Soldier, Company, Regiment, Officers;
size 13xl7. The certificate is enclosed
in a pasteboard tube, and can be sent to
any part of the country without injury ;
and the soldier, after filling up the blank
lines, can put il back in the tube and re-
mail it to his friends, and they will get
it framed and preserve it as a remem-
brance.
Price 90 cents. Sent by mail, pre-
paid. l,s
/ N. RHODES 81 co.
50 Union Street Nashville.
Agents wanted to sell the above.
iulVI0-3m
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irr1m ~ Yntlopal -
The temovaI Of Gen. curtis.

We find in . Western paper the sub
Joined excellent letter from the Presi-
dent TO General Sch0feld, which il is
proper for us to. copy as explanatory of
his reasons for an important. official act.
In this case, however, the insertion of the
letter is a pleasure as well as a duty; for
we have seldom seen any thing from the
Presidents pen at once SO characteristic
of the simplicity which marks the ex-
preston OF his thoughts, and Of the good
sense and 5irectness which distinguish
his decisions whenever left to the gutd-
ance of his wi untrammelled judg-
ment. Excellent in all its parts, as a
wsSiis She latter Is unidue. How clearly
he points oul TO his lieutenan. the path
OF duty aad safety in his difficult trust !
With what sagacity he codnsels him, "lf
both actions abuse, you, or neither, you
viii be right Beioare Of being q9sai2ed
BY one and praised By the oNE."
su "ExEcUTIyE MANSION,
"WAsHINGToE, May "a, 1913.
fDEAR SIX Having removed General
Curtis and assigned you to the command
of the Department Of the Missouri, |
think it may be of some advantage for
me to state to you why | did il. / did
not relieve Gen. Curtis because of my
~fullcOnyiotion thai he had done wrong
by commission or omission. did il be-
cause Of q conviction in my mind that
the Union men Of Missouri, constituting,
when united, a vast majority of the
whole people, have entered into a pesti-
lent factional quarrel among themselves
-Gen. Curtis, perhaps, not of choice,
being at the head. OF one faction, and
Governor Gamble that Of the other. At
ter months Of labor TO reconcile the dill
Guilty, IL seemed to grow worse and worse,
until l felt IL my duty to break il up
somehow; and IS | could not remove Gov.
Gamble / had 20 remove Gen. Curtis
Now that you are in the position, l wish
you 20 undo nothing merely because
Gen. Curtis or Gov. Gamble did II; but
TO exercise your own judgment and do
right for the public interest. Let your
military measures be strong enough 20
repel the invaders and keep the peace,
aud not so strong as TO unnecessarily
harass aud prosecute the people. ltit
a difficult rule, and 30 much greater will
be the honor it you perform IL we'll. II
both factions, or neither, shall abuse
YOU, you will probably be about right
Beware of being assailed by one and
praised by she other.
"Yours, truly,
"a. LINCOLN.
WGen. j. NJ. ScHoFrELD."
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gw advertisements.
NV GROCERY House.

AAiRFoEivINe AMI WILMER CONSTANTLY
l. on hand, az
No. 40 North side Public square,
a large aud well collected supply Of FANNY
en- q RIES, 20 wit. -ugar Coffee, Tea, Golden
syrup, Mack rel fresh Oheese, Pepper, Spice, Ginger,
Mustard, Pepper sauce, TomAtO tatsup, Oysters,
Raisins, Star Canolcs, starch, soda, Buckets, Brooms,
Backing, smoking and Chewing Tobacco, Cigars,
tipes, Old Bourbon Wldpky, Rrandies, Wines, Al,
Canvassed Hams, Wrapping Paper, Cap, letter and
7. A. ATCHtSON.
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Oss OF ms Hebels In the Rata
HattIea.

Aoss OF the H"bels IN the Lats
BattIes,
Medical Inspector Nollum REPORTS 70
Surgeon General Hammond atthere are
pow N our hands, az Gettysburg, 10000
rebel wounded. This number will be
increased rather than diminished, and
The former estimate of4.00O Is now known
to have been the merest guess work.
The rebel losses, during the three battles
OF Gettysburg, are, to say unoflcially,
footed up at the Surgeon Generals as
follows:
Left on the field and in hands.
wounded, 10000
Slightly wounded, taken away bv
Che rebels, 1000
Killed on the field and buried by
our forces, $500
Taken prisoners by our forces, 1900
Desertersl and stragglers brought
in by our cavalry, 1000
Total, $4,000
This loss added to the killed, wounded
and prisoners of the rebel army on the
Mississippi will make G total loss ofnear
10000. The loss of arms, stores and mu
nitions of war, ate proportionately as
large, and will be still more seriously
felt. The process Of exhaustion is tell
ing on the Confederacy rapidly. Charles
ton must fall eventually, as Vicksburp
and Port Hudson have done; as il is moi
80 strong as either Of those places.
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w-A CANNED FRUirs RlACKEBEL, Cove
Ill., Oysters, HOLSTERS, Tomato oatsnp,
Pepper sauce, Piokles, Ground Pepper, Allspiee,
MUSTARD sparkling Catawba, Blackberry and Ginger
Wines; Cigars and Tobesooi Raisins, prunss, AL.
mopds. Candles; Fresh huttori 800 bushols Dried
Fruits; Sugar, Coffee, Butter Crackers, Cakes, Can
dec, starch, soda, Baking Powders, oui k Yeast,
Macaroni, Yermiceli, Farina, Tapio-a, etc, etc.
J N. hHODES 4 CO.,
No. % Union street, Nashville, Tennessee.
July17-tmr
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The Meridian (Miss) correspOndentof
the Knon0iNs Register complains that the
system of substitutes is running The rebel
army. He says; 5
Tie number of substitutes employed
by citizens of Mississippi is enormous,
and the effect OF tue system is every
where pe~rceptible. III, tory has demon-
sirated The fact a thousand times thai
the liberties OF no people are secur,
when dependent upon a h~irtling sOldie.
", aud yet the Congress hf the Confed
rrate States has persisted in the prose
cution of a policy whose detrimental re-
suits, in all the richest portions ot tn
Gulf States, are painfully apparent. 81
disastrous has this law proven, that
many officers refuse to receive substi-
tutes into their commands, and it seems
that the practical abfogation OF the act
becomes a matter of necessity.
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how q aOrrn4n kplgn, was swim

A York, Penn, letter to the N. Y. III
bans gives tue following experience OF an
indignant German X. q. @, who thus
stated how he came 20 grief;
Mister, he comes TO me snd
says for Won tollar be yili makes Won
knights OF te Golden ShHkles; dat ven
he Southern man comes be shall not
touch any Of my property, but shall get
ali be wants from t. Plack Republicans.
So | gives him dc Won tollAr aud be gives
me dc grips and signs, and says | shall
give dem ven dc Southern man he comes
he no shteal from me; vel he come ana
gets mine horses right away; So ] goes
out and says, 'mynh err, | ish Knights
Golden Circle; l gives YOU de grip, de
signs, de bass words aud every iings, so
you leaves mine horses; ven be say, SO
hill with your grips" and takes mine
horses % i ish ruined man II gives
NINE tollar for de grips audit is mix goot
out is 80 better as nothin at all, tor dey
shteals from me worse as body else. 0
il ish Won schwindle and shall have my
tollar back Tor dc grips &c.
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The New York World, which is shocked
at the raid of Montgomery 10 South
Carolina, says that the rebels have a
right to hang ali blacks whom they may
capture, if they are slaves, aud have
ealisted ia the Federal Army, because in
80 doing they Violate the laws of their
States! We suppose the World thinks
that the rebels have a right 70 hang all
slaves who bring the Federal authorities
information about their movements.
This brilliant organ of conservation"
as the Louisville journal calls it, has a
large account to settle with the Govern
ment for melting the late mob in New
York.
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The N. A. Cnd) Ledger, which pro.
fesses to be a war democratic paper, is
opposed TO Judge Bramlette for Governor
Of Kentucky, and says the Kentucky
Union State Convention had 'little SYM
pathy with the Northern conservatives
with whom IL professed to cooperate
and is delighted with the Southern
Rights candidate, Mr.. Wicklife. The
Ledger says:
ole is a conservative man, whose opiu-
ions fully accord with those OF Northern
Democrats. That he will be supported
by a large majority of the Union men OF
Kentucky we think there can be no
doubt, and his election we regard as a
fixed fact"
The Ledger is a very weak paper, bot
il plainly indicates how thoroughly uu-
sound the ~so-called conservative Democ-
racy are. Think Of an Indiana 10y ais
Importing Mr.. WicklifFe against Judge
| Bramlettel
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LOST,

IN THURSDAY EVENING, July 10Th, on the
Public SquanG a small square Leather Pocket
Book containing a $40 gro nback, and some small
bills amounting ia AL 10 abouttl5. IL slso contain
cd a Photog aph OF a young lad, Vith her name on
Il. The finder will bs liboialy rewarded BY leaving
it AZ tho Union 0nlce.
J. " JONES, 18th Mich.
julyl7-2t
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-06-05
The $500 Exemption Clause.

There is a confic. at Washington respecting
the Interpretation of the $500 clause in the Ma
tional Enrolment Act. The Secretary of War
has announced that he had concluded to con-
strue the clause to be permissive and not man.
datory upon him, and should ignore it. On the
other hand Mr.. Whiting, Solicitor of the War
Department, deems the act mandatory upon the
Secretary; and it is not improbable, in view of
its exceeding Importance, that the question may
yet be referred to the Attorney General Pos
sibly, either in lieu of such reference or in ad-
dition to it, the several members of the Cabinet
may be called upon to lay their opinions in wri-
ting before the President.
1t is understood that the views of the Attor-
ney General are diametrically opposed to those
entertained by the Secretary of War, and that
he holds that the law obliges the Secretary to
fix a sum, by the payment of which, to prop
erly appointed persons, the drafted man may
discharge himself. The eventual determination
of the Government, under these circumstances,
is, of course, matter of uncertainty.
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Power Of Centleness.

No bad man is ever brought to repentance by
angry words-by bitter, scornful reproaches.--
He fortifies himself against reproof, and hurls
back foul charges in the face Of his accuser.--
Yet guilty and hardened as he seems, he has q
heart in his bosom, and may be melted to tears
by gentle voice. Whose therefore, can re.
strain bis disposition to blame and find fault,
and can bring himself down to fallen brother,
will soon find a way to better feelings within.
Pity and patience are the two keys that unlock
the human heart. They who have been the
most successful laborers among the poor and
vicious are the most forbearing. Said the cell
ebrated st. Vincent de Paul, '.If it has pleased
Heaven to employ the most miserable Of men
for the conversion of some souls, they have
themselves confessed tnat it was by the patience
and sympathy which he had for them. Even
the convicts, among whom have lived, can be
gained in no other way. When have kissed
their chains, and showed compassion for their
distress, and keen sensbility for their disgrace
then have they listened to me, and placed them-
selpss 10 the way Of salvation"
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Have We a Central Despotism

MR.. SEWARD TO LORD LYONS.
"lhy lord, l can touch a bell on n,y right hand
and order the arrest Of citizen m OHIO I
caa touch the bell again and order the mprisoa-
aent Of citizen IN NeW York; and no po,ce.
on eorth but that Of the President can release
them. Can the Queen Of England in her do
m,nions, do as mnchF'
The above dispatch has been denied by the
Administration organs, and the editor OF the
lancaster Express being offended at its use by
Hon. Geo. Sanderson, in speech before the
Philadelphia Central Democratic Club, wrote to
the State Department for information as to the
truth. He recei, ed, in reply, copy of the vo-
luminous correspondence of the Hon. William
Henry, containing all his lachrymose epistolary
nonsense, addressed to our different ministers "a
broad. the burthen of which is continual
complaint against England and France for gram
ting the Southern States ''belligerent rights"
accompanied by note from one Geo. E. Ba-
ker, saying that the whole correspondence is
sent that be may satisfy himself Of the fact,
that the language is not to be found in the Hon
Secretary's correspondence. Upon the receipt
of this left handed denial, in perfect keeping
with the miserable trickery Of Seward ever
since he entered public life, and exhibited to the
utter disgust Of all Europe, since his advent to
his present position of Minister of State, the
editor of this Abolition paper called upon Mr..
Sanderson for a denial of the ''base cha,y."-
How contemplate Mr. Seward, and Mr.. Baker
and the Abolition Express must now feel, on
learning that the language is contained in an
official dispatch of Lord Lyons to Earl Russell,
detailing conversation with Mr.. Seward, da-
ted November IA, 1861, published in the
Parliamentary Blue Book, and copied into
the New York Times, Seward organh of March
St 1863
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TO CONSERVATIVES.

The advertiser having been restored to health IN
. few weeks, BY 4 very simple remedy, after hav-
ing suffered several years with severe lung adee-
ton, and that dread disease, Consumption-ls anx-
ieus to make known to his fellow-suferers the
means OF cure.
To oil who desire il, he will send a copy OF the
iption used (free Of charge) with the drec-
lions for preparing and using the same. which they
will find SURE CURE for CONS UMP TON,
ASTHMA, BR0NC HTTLS, &c. The only object
OF the advs tissr sending the Prescription is to
benefit the Afflicted, and spread niorma which
be cooceiyes to be invaluable, and he pes every
.ufsrsr will try his remedy, as It will cost them
nothing, and may prove blessing.
Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON,
ap94-sm WiIiiamsburgh, Kings Co., N. Y
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The Sentence Upon Vallandigham.

The New York Sun says: ''If this sentence
is carried out, it will be in defiance of the opin-
ions OF the great mass of American people,
No government in Europe would dare to resist
so strong an expression Of public sentiment, as
the proceedings against Mr. vallandigham have
thus far elected. We cannot believe that the
President and the administration can be so Grim
inally indifferent to the signs of the tlmes.--
The Union can survive the assaults of all the
armed and disarmed vallandighams of the South
and North, but it cannot long exist without free
speech and trial by jury"
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Conscription Regulations to be
Strictly Observed.

From the Phila. Sunday Dispatch, (Abolition.)
The provost marshals have nearly all been
selected, and Colonel Fry, the Provost Marshal
General, has prepared and issued the ''regula-
tions for the government of the Bureau Of the
Provost Marshal General" as approved by the
President, who orders ''that they be strictly OBJ
served, There are one hundred and and thir-
ty.one separate regulations of the army, and
full directions for filling up the thirty-nine prin-
ted forms of blank returns, &c.
NO DEMOCRATS TO FILL THE OFFICES.
Each provost marshal has jurisdiction over a
Congressional district. Ho may appoint two
deputies, or more, if necessary, at salaries Of
not more than $l00 per month each; four spe-
cial officers for detecting and arresting spies or
deserters, at from $40 to 800 per month each,
depending on their usefulness; enrolling officers,
at not exceeding S. per diem for the time actu-
ally employed; and special guards for deserters,
at not more than 5 per diem, besides their ac-
tual expenses. All these appointments are to
be made subject to the approval OF the ProvoNt
Marshal General here, who will unquestionably
be guided ty the Representatives in Congress from
the district, ,fa ,padhcan-.f not, By prominent
politicians.
GENTLEMEN TO BE STRIPPED NAKED oRPAY THREE
HUNDRED DOLLARS.
Those who neither wish to slight or pay, v
but hope to avoid being drafted by obtaining n
medical certificate from their family physician,
will find themselves mistaken.--All those who
plead exemption on account of bodily infirmi-
ties or disease must go before the regular au-
thorities, and the regulations prescribe that men
are to be 'examined, stripped, in the day time,
in the presence of the board of enrolment, and
in a room we'll lighted and sufficiently large for
the drafted man to walk about and exercise his
limbs, which he must be required to do brisk
ly."
Now many man will fork over his $500
rather than be thus trotted about naked before
four or five other men, who will sit in Judgment
ON him as the famed Council Of Ten of the
Sons of Malta used to examine the candidates
for initiation into that respectable order. A
list Of fifty-fve diseases and infrmities is pub
lished as sthose which dsqualify for military
service" and for which only drafted men are to
be rejected as physically or mentally unit for
service.
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Nobody Hurt"

An exchange collects the following data -
1t is estimated that from the commencement of
the war SO, ,S74 Federals have been killed, IT,.
029 wounded, 74,2lS made prisoners, and 250,.
600 died from disease and wounds; that sc, ,s93
Confederates have been killed, 1865 wound
ed, 81, l69 made prisoners, and 100000 died
from disease and wounds.
This of course does not include the loss in
any of the late battles, the last massacre at
fredericksburg or the recent fights on tho Mis-
sissippi. What says Chandler to the "blood.
letting 80 fart
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-06-05
Optimism of Seward.

BlackW00d is very amusing on Mr.. Seward.
4 wicked writer strings together the following
extracts from his dispatches:
On February 10, 1862, he writes to Mr. Ad-
ans: Il was just about instructing you how to
answer the querulous complaints i'll Parliament
which you have anticipated, the chief Of which
b the assumed incompetency of government to
suppress the insurrection. But Il very shrewd
observer, loyal and, at present, exiled Virgin
ian, fell in at the moment and expressed to me
the opinion that the end Of the war is in sight;
that there will be u short and rapid series Of sue
cesses over disheartened conspiracy, and then
all will be over"
s'March 10: The financial and moral, us well
as the physical elements of the insurrection seem
to be rapidly approaching exhaustion"
"On the 18th Of March it seems impossible
to the sanguine Secretary that the organization
of the insurgents can be longer maintained"
On the 18th of April he tells Mr.. Dayton /:
"a few days will probably complete the open
ing of the Mississippi river, and restore to the
country that national outlet of the great gram
ary of America which disunion in its madness
has temporarily attempted to obstruct, in viola
ton not more Of political laws than of the or
dinanccs of nature"
"22d April: We have reason to expect Sa-
vannah to come into our possession within the
next ten days"
18TH May: We shall have peace and union
in a very few months, let France and Great
Britain do what they may"
On the 10th Of May he wrote: "Less than q
year will witness the dissolution Of all the ar
mics; the iron-cad navy will rest idly in our
ports; taxes will Immediately decrease; and
new States will be coming into the Confederacy,
bringing rich contributions to the relief and
comfort of mankind"
son June I'd: The war in the Mississippi
Valley may be deemed virtually ended"
On, the 10th Of June he says: "The reduc-
ton of Vicksburg, the possession Of Chattanooga
and The capture of Richmond would close the
civil war with complete success All these three
enterprises are going forward The two former
will, we think, be effected within the next ten
days"
Add to this Stewards memorable "ninety days"
peace prophecy, and Greeley's promise Of nine
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A Frightened Contraband.

| A letter received from an Army coTrespon-
dent on the Rappahannock relates the following
camp incident:
An amusing incident occurredin camp night
or two since. A portly young contraband, from
Charleston, S. G., who escaped from his rebel
master at Antietam, and was for awhile quar-
tered subsequently in Washington, was engaged
by one of our junior staff officers, as his body
servant, and brought down here to his quarters
to attend him. 1t chapced that the officer had
served his country gallantly at Sharpsburg,
where he lost leg, below the knee, the absence
of which had been made up by an artificial
limb, which the captain wore with so easy
grace that few persons who met him suspected
his misfortune--his sable attendant being among
the blissful ignorant as to the existence of the
fact.
The captain had been ssout to dine" and re-
turned in excited spirits to his tent Uron re-
tring, he called bis darkey servant to assist him
in pulling off his riding boots.
NOW, jimmy, look sharp" said the captain.
'Tm little-ic-fimsy, t'night. Look sharp,
an'--ic-pull steady"
Else alters keeriul, cap'n,' says Jimmy,
drawing of one long wet boot, with considera-
uDtS NihiSdSF, ahu StAhtAus5 ~ Rol0Cs
Now mind your eye--,Dim! The other-ic
lis a little tight" and black Jimmy chuckled
and showed his shining ivory, as he reflected,
perhaps, that his master was quite as ''tight" as
he deemed his boots 10 be-
easy, now--thats it. Pull awayi' con-
tinucd the captain good-naturedly, and enjoying
the prospective joke, while he loosened the
straps about his waist which held his cork leg
up-''no'o you've got it! Yip--there you arel
Oh, lord, oh, lord! OBJ, lord" screamed the
captain, as contraband, cork-leg riding boot,
and ligatures tumbed across the tent, in heap,
and the one legged officer fell back on his pal
let, convulsed with spasmodc laughter. At
this moment the door opened, and lieutenant
entered. s
"Gway fun me-g'way fun me-lem me
be! Lemme be! amt done nutfin,' yelled
the contraband, Justify, and rushing to the door,
really suppos'ng that he had pulled A,s masters leg
clean off, ''Lemme go! didn't do muffin
g.way! g'way. And Jimmy put for the woods
in his desperation, since which he hasn't been
seen or heard from, though his captain has dill
igently sought for him far and near. Jimmy
was a good servant, but we never before were
treated to a sight of thoroughly frightened
contraband. There is little doubt the darkey is
running yet.--Boston Transcript