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The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05
NUMBER 25.
witty Ekaggerations.


There is species Of humor, pecuIiar.
y American. which consists in grotesque
hyperbole, the c1rieature Of some fact
which expreSsel L better than faithful
portrait would %. Some people take
the snake and klll it when they wish TO.
show it to US; bat the lively Yankee hu-
morist just catches it by the tail as It
passes, and stretches it into ludicrous
proportions, as actors in pantomimes do
the tails of those famous ductile drags
onS, which so astoDish and delight chill.
dren. Instances of this wild and extraV-
agant humor areas common as proverbs.
Everybody has heard Of the weather
which was so cold that the mercury went
outof sight, and which, no doubt, would
have been good deal colder If the ther-
mometer had been long enough. A sim.
liar exaggefatieu was that Of young
man who TOOK calomel on a morning so
cold that the mercury ran down into his
boots. And speaking of boots, reminds
US of the stage driver who wore such
large ones that he had to use the forks
of the road as q bootjack. The follow
ing passages are illustrations:-The mau
out West whose legs arc so long that he
had to 20 down cellar to take off his
shoes The man who is so large that he
has TO go out of doors to turn over.--
The man who snored SO loud that be had
to sleep in the next street to keep from
wakening himself The man whose nose
is so long, that he has to step forward
three PAGES to reach the end of it. The
man who was SO large and heavy that his
shadow killed little boy when it fell
on him. The man who was so fat, that
his shadow left greasy trail along the
road as he walked; and the man who was
so thin that be had no shadow at ALL
Among these deserve to rank the horse
that ran so fast around the ring, that the
spectators could only see one continual
circular horse; together with that other
more famous racer, that ran so swiftly
about the arena, that he nearly caught
: up to himself, and could see his own tail
just before him. A fireman once rela'
7 ted an adventure, in which he found him
Selfin a rich saloon, surrounded by wealth
3 and fine company.
II didn't know myself until I felt iu
r my pockets and found 'em empty"
Some one inferred that be was cuSto
8 marily short Of funds.
y "That's so if steamboats, were selling
: at two cents apiece" said he, II haven
enough to buy gangway plank ~
It We once heard person tell Of
: fright he received from big dog.
8 II lost aesh," said he, "at the rate o
d ten pounds minute, till the owner cam'
IS and called him off,"
d Along with this we may place tn
a story Of the man who, in consequence o
ly q fright ran so fast and so far, that whel
ar he stopped it was more than twent
minutes before his shadow came up wit
him. He was probably watched by th
man whose dickey was SO high that b
le had to climb fence to see over it.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05

The largest railway carriage factory
in the world is said to be at Berlin,
Prussia; it employs 1900 men and turns
out carriages to the value Of nearly ST.
100000 per anuum. e-
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05

cestry, and have made you heroes in
American history.
Your General is proud of you. Your
country honors you, and will remember
you and your deeds with gratitude and
exultstion. -.. .-..-. ......9
The enemy is still active, though de-
feated. Let us press him and crush him
till one Nationality is ours, and one flag
alone-THE FLAG OF OUR FATHERS
a6sA over american soil and protects
Al aSn people.
NsJAMES B. MCPHERSON,
Governor Pettus left for Georgia, day
before yesterday, carrying With him all
the State documents.
The Memphis Grenada Jackson APP
peal has migrated once more. No.
body seems to know where it viii turn
up next. - r
During the fight to-day, an old gen.
tleman rode up to one of our Generals,
and excItedly said to him, General,
can tell you how to whip these cursed
Yankees in half an hour" and went on
to tell how movement could be made
so as to flank Sherman. He lived neal
Sherman's lines, and, thinking there
could be but one column of Yankees at
tacking the place, concluded we were
rebels, and determined to give in hi'
mite to the Southern cause. he was
placed under guard.
l have it from unquestionable author
ity that Gen. Van Dorm is dead. HI
was killed, more than a month ago, ii
Tennessee, by a physician whose Sistel
he had seduced. He is reported to haVt
seduced two young women in Vicksburg
last summer.
Rebel citizens are consoling them
selves with the hope and belief that Gen
Grants army will be cut of from sup
plies. as there are Confederate troop
between US and Grand Gulf. Gran
cares very little for the rear at present
His whole attention is turned toward th
front. He proposes to open the from
and let the rebels have the rear.
The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-06-05

Il GENERAL ORDER, NO. 10.
Soldiers of the l7th Army Corps
Your General congratulateS you on
your noble endurance and heroic bra
very. ,' '-"-'. .l'''
Your long and tedious marches thro'
dust and heat, borne without murmur;
your unHinching courage and victorious
onsets at Port Gibson, Raymond and
jackson, driving the enemy at every
point, prove you worthy your noble an
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-04-30

Bleecker street. up stairs. ~ fU
SlUU WILL BIZ PAID FOR THE RECOVERY OF
the Ueruneates Of Property, Or Information By
POLICY No. as7s IRON MASSACHUSETTS HOSPITAL
LIZ, ~ GUMpANf Tor $500 ~ favor 81 Ex.
CERTIFICATES IN rns sS SAAE OF WALDO Hroon.
O. % and u shares Northern Railroad Company, n q.
% 9 and 3 shares connsct4cut River Rsirccd. , =
g iosaas share, sSs.en and Ssss Railroad.
Or 10 shares Wsshissson nsHn,nI NM Company ~
Osarrfic1TlEsp D SSxE ~ sEoRos AND
Or sSsrs Semmsse ssnaY.ss"rInsf c SS%psny
'i 4 s' 81 i toSfs1 HOOK
q n, sn.r.s u.-..shr..,,ls TUI;;. xsu. sa
or shares Suffolk Manufacturing Company
shsrs A y. %, s MsnufaciurinE Company
q :nS share: Boston and Lowell Rsro.a
O. 3 shares NsshSa and Lowell! Railroad.
cSaruy isss,r k's slsrb ss,oiS
o. shares Nashua and Lowell Railroad.
0r snars bcs'on and Providenos Railroad one or
q, :Asr. Msyrs@:e. x cemgsny
IsA HI06iNsoN VI o. Noo'
o. shares Nashua and Lowell Rsarosd.
OF shares Boston and Providence Railroad In one or
OF share n, ss.chassils Cotton Mills
2, .hssc Isn AZ, ~. -, sAssniaeturns Company.
s e osr S' %. :. a. 'ss
ESEEs0i 4 ORCHARD.
or wALb y hl ss;s Sgssss Ne" Sorl.
ssfcr 70 rn' 1"ssxssu. Chef foIr S"ss~ -''''"'
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-04-30
FINANCIAL AND eaCIAL.
wrnNEspAy, ANN 2o-sr.

WEDNESDAY, Apvf1 29-6 r. NJ
The excitencst as.i speculation in st0cks on
SAe iocrcass ana tie business OF the commission
BROKERS il AGAIN becomips very large. AZ the
Ooreass board to-day the principal excitement
was on Cleveland and Pittsbarg and Harlem. I've
S1meS sold NJ SO, rcactiag aitcrward to S711 the
lattn advanced TO 10. Everything on the brt was
h'glef. Erie rose a Hudson ], Harlem preferred
q. Southern old u. guaranteed 2, Rock Island -,
Cumberland =, Ca~toH II. The business done
an all these securities was very large.
There an active demand for the newly
re0rgaaised Western roads. Governments were
firm, without activity. Bonds were very active,
especially the newer classes which are not yet ge-
neraky known and which sell below par. Cum
bertrand IL in request the probable issue of the
saw suit with the Hoffman Company. At the pre-
sent price Of coal we Should suppose that with
good management the stock ought to be worth
more than it ~, independently of law suits. At
the one p. NJ. board the market was strong and the
buying well distributed. There was no particular
change in prices. In the afternoon the market was
very active and excited. Pittsbnrg reese per
cent, Erie ", Southern oldl guaranteed /, Har.
lem ], and every thing appeared TO have rising
tendency. Al the four p. M. coll the buoyancy
continued, and the highest prices Of the afternoon
were fully maintained. The following were the
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-04-30
CLOSING quotations.of the days.

Gold and exchange were again dull and neglect
ed to-day. Gold opened Mt about l4954, rose to
1905, fell back to 1897, sold in the afternoon at
1905, Il and q, and closed at FIVE p. NJ. at about
1904. Exchange WAS worth 1879 l66. A good
many Of the early March options are maturing, and
the bills arc forced Oh the market to be sold at
loss OF some 80 per cent. This keeps the market
dull and weak, and keeps gold down. contrary to
the expectation of most operators. The dealings
in gold much less active than they were, and
are confined to stronger parties.
Money is.a drug. At 4per cent money can be
borrowed in large amounts from the private
bankers and leading brokers'; at s the street ope.
rators are abundantly supplied. We hear Of sales
OF first class paper ut per cent. Debt certff-
Gates have risen to within "a of par. ie
The movement in Canton, which will be found
reported elsewhere, is ascrbed to a purchase by
the United States government of large portion
Of the companys lands in Baltimore. It appears
that the sale is quite large one, and good
terms for the company. For some years the CON-
paDy have paid dividends, but have devoted
their means 10 the purchase and cancellation of
their stock. This new sale will probably enable
them to withdraw enough Of the stock afoat to
cause a substantial advance in the price.
An elaborate report and resolutions were adopt
ed at the public board to-day, to the effect that
the intention Of Congress in imposing an extra tax
on dealings in gold being to check speculation in
the articlc-the stamp tax on time contracts must
be paid by the buyer.
An active business 10 being done at the Hudson
River Railroad Office in converting bonds into
stock. The third mortgage md convertible bonds
bid fair soon to be entirely converted. This will
relieve the road from considerable annual charge
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-04-30
REWARDS.

LIBERAL REWARD iAND NO QUESTIONS ASK.
n ed will be paid BY A. Roberta SIS Broadway for
the recovery o. case OF "Grswods Ferro,ps Psies"
tngs.
w liver and white setter Dog he is very old, and e OF
no use 70 one but the The above
paid Tor him 81 the worden Houe corner OF Bowery and
Bayard street, and no questions asked. M
OK REwARD:-LosT, A BLACK SILK UMBRELLA,
We IVORY handle, doss head carved on II. had glazed
down the Bowery TO Rvington street. Inquire 81 No n
Bieecker street. up stairs. n 80
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-04-30

Wheat was inactive, only 500 bushels having been
sold ut 81 SO for red Western 80 for white State and
81 II a$1 74 for amber Jersey. Corn heavy. with
sales Of IS 900 bushes mixed Western at SOC Ole for
sound, 82]zc for unsound and heated, 03c for yellow
Jersey and 95c for white Western Sales made Of
800 bushels rye nt 81 03 a 81 90. Oats continued in
moderate demand At soc. ss1c according to quality
prime, $780,; good, 32c S2c: fair 3lo. 1sc Ordi
nary, 30c 301c fair 70 good cargoes SIC &c Java
mats and bags, SIC. 3sc. Maracaibo soc. 34c; La
guaJra, Sc 34c.; 81. Domingo 29c 291sc., cash.
COTTON was firm but lightly dealt in A. e6}.c. &c for
Iaiddlipgs. 4cnr. t ~
FxEGBzs.--The market dull and heavy. The total
number Of vesscls in port 504 To Lverpool there
were taken IA 900 bushels at 3d., 900 boxes bacon
at l2s 3D., and $50 do. bacon by steamer at sos To
london 200 boxes bacon per neutral at 22s 3D. 10 Glas
gov per steamer, 200 bbls lard oil ct 35s.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-04-30

UcuRNIsURE, CARPETS, &C.. BOUGHT ron CASH
Books, Pamphlets and Libraries bought for cash Al IA
Sixth avenue between Ninth and tenth streca large
stock Of hooks always on sale.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-04-30

IIAIR MATTRESSES, SPRING BEDS -uufuUrNsou
III WiCkBRshAM. $50 Canal street. east or Brcsd.
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1--WE AND kAR-DR CApvELi, ocuLIsT. NO 80
~ Clinton rscs kahth s,rsss near bS.awsy sas s.s
eases ihe Gse Ear No charge Tor examination 0s
opLnion. O1Ekse AoWps fsoua a n. toAP. n.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-04-30
CITY COMMERCIAL REPORT.

la "WEDNESDAY. April 40 P. N.
BRgADsTurvs.-Four shade lower and in limited
demand Sales did net exceed 500 barrels State and
Western, 800 Southern and $50 Canadian within
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CroRAoB or FURNITURE CAN Bg nan m suv.
dams new arcproof building " sirh avenue opcosiie
Eighth street Families decltnfng house Keeping ~ ana
this safe and clean place for their properly ksferenee
given. Apply up stara
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-04-30
SPORTING.

NANCY FOwLsIPIGEONSA AND RABBITS FOR SALE
One pair Deer four old kind and gentle and
good breeders Afew pairs imported Gray porkngs Black
Matching. Apply to II. JOHNSON, 800 Broadway, N. T.
vACHT FOR sALB.-A SPLENDID YACHT OF 40
well found every respect and very fast saler.
will be exchanged for good city property Apply VI % Broad
street
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MIsCELLANB0Us.

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He BECOMES JEALOUS OF HIM. -L. .-.-- II
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HIS PARAMOuR.
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HIS MOCK MARRIAGE WITH tlt
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Is A VISITOR At MRS. CUNNINGHAM6 HOUSE,.
HIS TRIAL, CONVICTION AND
EXECUTION. ~. -.
Now Published in
For sale at al news depots.
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A CHOICE Arp WELL, sELycc-s r. srock D. t4!ls
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Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-12-24
Wild Geese,

The migratory habits of these fowls
have ELECTED the following rhapsody
from goose-quill driver, who scratch
es for the Newburyport Herald
The wild geese have commenced
their Southwark flight. Following
the warm weather they have been up
to the Artic sea that DIR. Kane discov-
cred, hatched their young in the sun
ny coves where the verdure of sum-
mer is almost shaded by the everlas-
ting icebergs. roasted for night on
the North Pole ; and they now follow
the warm weather back to the tropics,
to feed on the produce of eternal sum
mer, battle in the tepid waters beneath
the ever blazing skies, and so to roost
ON the equator.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-12-24
history and glory in ages to come
Gods blessing Winfield

history and glory in ages to come!
Gods blessing upon Winfield
1t has been asserted that there can
be no speculation entertained touch
ing the future destiny of our millions
of freed men of the South,-that we
have only to deal with facts, and such
facts as stand out in such bold relief
TO our view. 1t is indeed dark prob
lem for any one to solve, in respect to
achere,-and hOac, they will finally be
settled. But is it wise for the friends
of humanity-for philanthropists-to
fold their hands together in ease
touching their future, till the rebellion
is wholly subdued and peace reigns
over all our land?
Are we not all aware that the foes
to the colored race are, and will be
ever active, making capital of every
possible advantage to crush them in
the dust 7 This is as true as fate.
Would it not only be the hight of fol-
ly, then, but criminal, in the professed
friends of the black race to remain
mute and suffer the heartless and un-
principled demagogues that swarm
throughout the land to effect their re-
subjugation to slavery, or expatriation
against their will 2 / have seen or
learned nothing of Importance of any
movements commensurate with the
gigantic character of the question, of
an equitable and permanent settlement
of the freed men, either in our own
country or in any regions they may
choose.
l have learned from returned SOL
diers who have been conversant with
them, that they are strongly attached
to the land of their birth; and that
they claim it as theirs on the princi-
pie of justice. They contend that
they have made all the improvements
of the country by their labor, and that
in right they ought to possess it as
their own.
This same theory is held by many
of the more ultra Abolitionists but
how the matter is viewed by the func-
tionaries of the General Government
l am wholly unapprised. But l am
seriously of the conviction that our
leading influential men ought not to
be found mapping. A preparatory
course of action ought to be taken so
as to meet any favorable and provi-
Dental opening that may transpire
And it should be the theme of the
weightiest and most intense interest
rightly to dispose of and settle that
imposing question.
As ever yours,
PETER PERDY.
Phanirpille, H., Dec. IL, 1868.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-12-24
CHARLES CITY, FLOYD COUNTY, IOWA, THURSDAY DE
Rebel Barbarism,

The rebels long ago passed acts
and issued proclamations embodying
and announcing their determination
not to recognize any military rights
as belonging to the officers and pri,
Yates of our colored regiments. They
have undoubtedly fulfilled their threats
to kill or sell into slavery the negro
soldiers and put to death their white
commanders. Before we had black
company in the field, they kidnapped
the drivers of carriages sent down in
August, 1862, to the battlefield of
Gen. Pope's Bull Run with relief for
our wounded, and swept them off into
Slavery. They did the same with
those betrayed into their hands by
Miles treachery at Harper's Ferry
Last June, as they swept across Mary
land and up into Southern Pennsylva-
MIA. they caught quite number of
blacks-some of them, doubtless, fu-
gitives from rebel owners, but many
free-born-and carried them all off in
to bondage. And, up to this hour, af-
ter meeting our black soldiers in fair
fight at least dozen times. wherein
they have always had tho advantage
over us in position or in numbers,
they have never yet exchanged one
single prisoner, white or black, be-
longing to q colored regiment, and
we presume they are resolved that
they never will. And they are tor
turing and starving our captured
brothers in order to compel our Gov
ernment to exchange for whites only,
and leave officers and privates of our
colored regiments to be enslaved or
murdered without resistance on our
part.
We have only to read their jour-
nails to mark how thoroughly fiend-
ish the rebel leaders have become in
their malignity, more especially since
the refusal of Great Britain and of
France to take their part has over
whelmed them with despair. They
are losing all regard for the public
opinion of Christendcm. For many
months, they have been on the watch
for prctext for inaugurating whole
sale butchery of those Unionists whom
the chances of war throw into their
hands. Their journals have recently
narrated in high glce the fact that
some prisoners recently captured by
them were identified as having former
ly served in their ranks probably
under conscription) whereupon they
were at once put to death Suppose,
now, that we were to capture Lee,
Beauregard Johnston, Magruder, Penn
berton, and the rest of their Major
Gene rals-nearly all deserters from
our army-and were to try and hang or
shoot them as such-how would they
like it? Yet their precedent gives US
full license to do so.
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-12-24

HooKER's BATTLE ABOVE THE CLoUps.
-Quartermaster Gen. Meigs, in his
lively account of the three days con-
hct before Chattanooga, mentions the
notable fact that in Gen. Hooker's
fight up the slopes of Lookout Noun
tain, much of the battle was fought
above the clouds, which concealed him
from our view, but from which his
musketry was heard.' There is on
record at least one parallel to this in
the campaign of Napoleon in the Car
mic Alps, in 1897. The battle of the
Col de Jarvis, March IL, 1896, was
fought above the clouds-the artillery
laundering in the very laboratory OF
storms and arsenal Of the electric
batteries-while the cavalry charged
and performed their evolutions on the
ice, and the infantry foundered to the
attack through snow three feet thick
Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-12-24

by General Order, that they shall
receive in all respects the same treat
ment, and be allowed the same oppor.
tunities for drill and instruction -
which would seem to indicate that he
had found them not utterly worthless.
Gen. Butler is organizing force of
colored cavalry, to operate against
guerillas. 1t is stated that at Vicks-
burg enough negro troops are now
organized, with the help of the fortifi-
cations, to hold the place against all
the powers of rebellion, even if every
whiteman were withdrawn" General
Thomas anticipates that by spring
he will have enough negro troops to
thoroughly guard and hold the Missis-
sippi from Cairo to New Orleans" I"
During the late expedition from Nor
folk to Princess Anne County, Col.
Draper's Sd regiment of North Carroll
ma Colored Troops, it is reported, be-
haved admirably. They endured fa-
tigue without complaint, were brave,
cool, and obeycd their orders with the
discipline of veterans" The number
of colored soldiers at present in the
service of the United States, is be-
tween $4,000 and 100, 900, while re-
cruiting is still going on with marked
success. War has taught us the ne
cessity of employing all our resour.
ces, and the idiocy of permitting an
inhuman and unfounded prejudice to
deprive us of an assistance which
would never have been accepted if
our need of it had not been so impera-
tive. If our liberties are to be pre-
served, those who help us keep them
will assuredly be entitled to share
them with us. If the black can win
his freedom at the point of the bayo-
net as we are struggling for our own,
language has no words of denuciation
strog enough for the craven who would
deny to brave men the natural reward
of their suffering and gallantry.