True Democrat., 1863-04-08
ITFiMS.


 - Frank Leslie's illustrated for the llth of February has picture named" Lincoln's dream' or there's d good time coming" It is a double engraving, the right hand representing the past, and the left hand tue future. Oa tue right. are .scrols inscribed [" Bal Run," '' Galveston,"' Fredericksburg" aut iictures of hcadless gen. erals On the left, shs4dowy hand points to the !. block, towards ,'ich Uncle Sam is leading Se- ward, to decaptate hu, while Old Abe, who is sleeping in the foreground has his fingers on his throat if dreaming cf very unpleasant ins in that portion of his cm :ass - r
 - Before the war the price of mule, in Illinois, one hundre5 and twenty five dollars in gold. which now sells for sixty in greenbacks, A late Minnesota papel quotes flour, at four dol. lars bagrel corn, fort3 five cents; dressed hogs, three cents pound; hais, four cents butter, ten ents; eggs, eight .s a dozen, ' In the river counties of Iowa, butte is only two dollars and fifty cents for hundred y0unds. No wonder they want the Mississippi opered.
 - The Richmond Examiner predicts that the months of April and May, will be sisnalized by the most terrible battles of modern times
 - h Ycnkeedom srocers give nutlnegs in stead of copper cents fof small change In New Haven one grocer wes detected in paying out nst megs which had all the Inside bored out and filled up with sawdust
 --- B recent act of Congress the bonds of all quartermasters, etc., for po5ts brgades, or di visions, shall be given n the peua sum of not less than fifty housan dollars nor more than dou blc that amount.
 -- In Yp tt.is,t e'-,--sa4f-hauts, traders and dealers are licensed. The legislature of that State recently enacted that licenses should be granted to nc person who not 2 citizen. This step played the wild with the spectators who had kept out of the army on the plea of being foreign ers and who assumed all the ght4 of citizens that cnured to their benefit, while they grew fch -by trading. If they acknowledged themselves citizens and took the oath Of allegiance they rendered themselves liable to COT eruption. The result is that these vampires are leaving that otateand tlsc trade i2 falling into the hands of people who have some econgcience. In our State the law imposes a tax on uIerchandizc and provides that pcdd sers ehall procure liGcIee Under the operations Of our law honest merchants pay taxes while dishonest ones 20 untaxed. About onc-sixth or ono eight ot the goods brought ill taxed. The law is q 2 humbug and the license system is much better Thee men who go to Memphis, 9t Louis, and bring gools from thence tO sell over the country are peddegs to all ih:ent3 and purposes and should Dc made to pay for liceuses. Sherifs ought tQssee to this and if those men put their wares in store, or at auction, at least they should De male pay the legal tax. As 10 these traders being foreigners and 50 avoiding army service, the courts have de- ciGed thata nIln who has voted is a citizen. If he swelrs in a vote when he iS not citizen he is per urod, but the cour, will presume' that lie is honest . and not permit him 10 swear that he swore lie.
 - David r. Alien, of the l5th Texas, and Alison Robins, of the 2ad Texas, were admitted to the Graiot hospital, at St. Louis, on the 10th of March. Aubr i. Amerian of La"fence county, Texas, took the oath of allegiance to the Lincoln goyernmen, and discharged from prison, at St. Louis.
 - C. ". liu2y and Charles MoGuirc, Of Burbage's regiment, have. been sent from st Louis to tae po4tcntaly a. Alton.
 - The Chattanooga Rebel snm6 up the strength of Rosecranz alIny at tl.e close Of Feb ruary, at 100000 men.
 - Tie fine house Of General Watkins of the Confederate army. at J4 ks5n, Mo, was burnt by the abo,itio4ists. .- - The London Tiraos announces that the Confederate loan of three million sterling ($15, o00,O00J vas taken by Ia .,inSer < Col, of Paris and Frankfort.
 In the matter of the Polish revolution, Prussia sided, of course, nith Russia Napoleon notified Prussia that she must keep her hands off Napoleon seems to like re3ols and favor rebell- ions.
 - Capt. MQsby, of Fit1nugh Lees command, captured Brigadier General E, H. Stonghton, captan telegraph opera:5t, all Austrian baron and twenty-five privates on ,ne night of the 9th of March Il. Fuirlax Court House, Va. Stoughton's brigade 'encampod within few hundred wards of the house he had seiz ei Io. his headqnarters.- hoeby surrounded the housg with lis command and then proceeded to awaken the slcepers He told StougIiton to get up, to flicll the Brl5hdier replied by ordering him to c'2ar out lie wouide have him arrested for insulting officer. Mosby then asked the half awake N ankee, if he knew ?" Mosby, of Lees cavalry2' " Y Yes eagerly ar sa cred the General, ' have se caught the of . a gun? |" Not exactly'' was the reply, but he has caught you, 50 get up an dress and be quick aboutit Stoughton and h party had to ride twenty five miles on the bare backs of indifferent horses, were hurried to Richn old anI arrived there at night. The pri7ates ahei to the Libby prison and the officers went the Ballard house, but shortly after they had got snugiy hl bed, the commander of the Libby ptfe-n sent for them and they had to exchange feather Jed5 for blankets on the prison floor. All of whio- was very hard on the Brieader.
 - The large silver cross in the cathedral of St. Loui. at New Orleans, las been stolen. It's intrinsic value was about S4,0GQ, but as it had been an object of religious worship Tor fifty years, having been given by Dan Ramon Almonastcz, early in the present century, and had many histo rcal aud religious associations connected with II, the real value to- the church can hardly be est mated
 - Lincoln issued 2 nrocI>A.S;atlon pardoning all desorters ho returned to taelr regiments by the fist of April. He attempts to coax and threaten civilians from screening descrters or dis couraging the draft.
 - No ladies are permitted to visit thc militia rv prisons m Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Washington or \ New Orleans, til they have taken tue oath of allegiance, to the Dictator Lincoln.
 - In the month of February, J. ". Spence, of the 16th Ark, died in the hospital at Clinton, D,r;,o ,l,a en ma month the foIlOwinfr deaths