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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1863-02-06
An APPEAL TO LINCOLN.

The World makes the folle~i.s GhTill-
ing appeal to Lincoln To eat Ios.Ss ne~
and finally from his past and fatal Fol'eY :
The most splendid army Of he wesid
With Generals a. gallant zs ever Ted.
and soldiers as brave - ever marched -
victory. has met The fEishtfale~t Disaster
Of the war. By General H.Ii~ek's OFders
the army OF The RsPPsh.nnoek -ss
marched MP against the imPreSnaol-
batteries OF The Frederirk.hars hstSkts.
brigade after brigade. diSisioa after Gisbs-
ion. one after another deeimsset. thea
sands upon thousands slaughtered. fFom
daybreak TO sunset. antIl the Fasn So
complete. until well uish t~~nty Thousand
brave and noble soals vet the sussnts
hill sides with their blood. The an
blenching courage. the dsaaslrss iasre-
pidny of our magnificent army -eEs
never more sablimely displayed Th~
laundering strategy. the Incompetent
generalship. which buried them 20 n
fruitless doom never branded itself 50
conspicuously as indiseTimia&ts sisuSh-
ter and murder by wholesale. AsAaa
have YOU. Abraham LiDcoln. bv The
hands of Henry w Hslleck and Elsa
NJ. Stsunton. sent death 20 thousands
upon thousands of eur brJIheFs aR4
friends. again desolstioa and anguish se
the homes and hearts of The pes.pls-
death that gives no HE "a the PerlshinS
nation. and sorrow which no pasr.osi~aa
can console or the eOnseiehtionsn-~s Cf n
needful though costly self sacrifice a.
suage. By The banks Of the R-PPah-a
mock there was slaughter skich 49,
fruiiless. and by twenty thoa-~Rd are
sides tears to-day are she'd shich GSd
alone can wipe away
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1863-02-06

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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1863-02-06

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IN the I.HA~s Heas- ~ R-FF->rntslErs
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shall have b~sn $3.50 sleoElFnsir4 o.
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ism. hss b~~n ust-rly s1sin<as.h-4- ~.
the p~-e= % The Csiaz "a ia. eo-tinrat
demands It.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1863-02-06

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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1863-02-06

A SPEEDY safe An1 essetaai Ssredr f.r
n hs4rrhEA. ny-~ntrrs. chaisra lns4efarn
~ >GuH=er ca@Faaanss - CAalairru Ckal--n
Bowels
frspzrsd 4a& far sale. wheis~air A. a ~rtsiI
'e5 CASSELL q lAwGWN
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1863-02-06
RICHMOND.

The Richmond correspondent Of the
Knoxville Register writes thus to that
paper in regard to the fare in tie Con-
federate Capital:
Richmond Is hard road to travel
that's a solemn fact you have no I'D
equate conception OF the diversity and
immensely Of the difficulties that OBJ
struct ones progress At every step
Here am in a fourth or fifth story.
seated by wood FIRE kindled in coal
CRATE. and paying one dollar for the
glorious privilege of freezing out" over
this wre,ched fuel. The air is bitter
cold my fingers stiffen while l write.
and seven dollars per diem will not cover
expenses when l make them the least
possible. have just left the clerk S
desk. whittier | repaired TO get whole
taliow candle, in order that might fill q
column of the Register with news and
on dts. l am formally advised that
four inches Of tsllow is the limit OF each
for each additional inch OF candle that is
used in illuminating your columns. |
have walked over the whole city. in
search of "privste apartments TO let. "
but when end them. the landlady asks
il have no one to room with me-
When l answer negatively. she tells me
that must pay double price if Il go
it alone" The constant influx of the
soldiers. who crowd the RESTRAINTS, have
made the life Of diner out" fabulous
ly expensive. Richmond" in very
truth, lis hard road 10 travel" You
may republish the poetical effusion which
some time ago adorned your columns
under this caption. and swear that the
fiction has become fixed fact. the cheap
est mode of Kidding ourselves OF Burn
sides host. would be to let them into
this city for one week. and they would
recross the Potomac with an oath never
10 return
Our special dispatch to-day informs
Us of the passage of one Of the enemy 8
boats down the river 1t seems she had
not reached the lower mouth OF the ca
nal when our correspondent wrote
There she will encounter difficulty per-
haps not calculated upon. in the shape
Of heavy guns. What this successful
attempt of the enemy portends We are
not sure. but We have no fear for the
safety Of the city. as We have again and
again been advised Sy our commanding
officers there that all is safe
The boat failed to do any damage to
our vessels on her way down. and we
failed to do any material damage. SO far
as is known, to her. She vas protected
BY cotton bales Cotton Is King -
Southern Crisis, FED. 3.
~ Gen. Joseph Wheeler. whose re-
cent cavalry exploits have electrified the
whole Continent. is native of Augusta.
Ga, and is only in his 9Th year. He is
the boy General Of the Confederate army.
He graduated at West Point in June.
1855.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1863-02-06

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where the aar~r1tmns M-w E.sllaMa4 wlshsssa 80
aSd of any oshrr A~sfseius
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s-5 CASSELL A bAEEHK
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1863-02-06

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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1863-02-06

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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1863-02-06
BILL ARP.

GRAsr's CorTos Lass.-We learn by some
Federal prisoners. captured at holly Springs
and sent to this city, that General United
States Grant lost am amount OF cotton worth
about 500, 0e0. during Gen. v an Dorn re,
con-, formal visit to that place. The Federal
army raised long. loud aud Joyous shout
when they beheld The property ut the spcca-
lstinr General eestvoye3.-CriS:s.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1863-02-06

ET Gen Joseph Wheeler. whose re-
cent cavalry exploits have electrified the
whole Continent. is a native of Augusta.
Ga. and is only in his 9Th year. He is
the boy General of the Confederate army
He graduated at West Point in June.
1855.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1863-02-06

AZ ON the Goth inst, Flour in Richmond
was quoted as follows, per barrel superfn
SO. exsrs SCI, fsmi!v $24N25.
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-12-31
From the London PuEch-
Alexander and Abraham.

President Abe Car Alexander loved,
Mankind's delight; nor were his hopes rerrcvcd
Both sovereign potentates, both desFOts tee,
Each with great rebellion to subdue,
Alike prepared to sing and to reply
The precious pair thus Dragged alternately.
Abs.-Imperial son of Nicholas the Great,
We are in the same fix, calculate.
You with your Poles, with Southern Rebels 1,
Who spurn my rule and my revenge defy.
Alez.--Vengeance is mine, old man, see where il
falls,
Behold yon hearth, laid waste, and ruined walls
Yen gibbets where the struggling patriot hangs
While my brave myrmidoms enjoy his pangs.
A6e.--I'll show you considerable some
Of devastated hearth and ravaged home;
Nor less about the gallows could say,
Were hanging not a game both sides would play.
AlSz.--W Wrath on revolted Poland's sons wreak
And daughters, too, beneath my knout they
shriek,
See how from blazing halls the maiden fires,
And faithful Cossacks grasp the screaming prize
Abs.--In Tennessee, guess, we've matched them
scenes,
And may compare with Warsaw New Orleans,
The Vistula, may bear purplsh hue,
As deep a stain has darkened the Yazoo.
AlSz.-- Whom my glad eye the telegram enjoys,
Ofwomen whipped. and soldiers shooting boys,
praise De Bergto supplicaton deaf,
And glorify severe Mouravicff.
Abe.--I, when their deserts secesh gals meet,
(We, too, know how the saucy sex to treat,)
Rejoice in Butler, shame who made them feel;
Extol the gallant Turchin and Mcneil.
Alez.--Let mercy grace feebler mOnarch's
crown,
Zamoyaki's house my cannon battered down,
CaPtives, unhanged, I spare that they may dwell
Tormented in Siberia's earthly hell.
A6e.--Ivo no Siberia OF my own as yet,
But send gainsayers to Fort Lafayette;
And, what reckon you'll approve of, sire,
Bade Gilmore upon Charleston hurl Greek fire.
Azez.--on might, with legi,ns armed, I take my
stand,
All Europe's outcry shall not stand my hand,
Nor from my clutch shall force the victim rend
While I've one roubIe OF one life to spend.
A5s.--Bound to this child in blood and sym
pathies,
Come to my arms ard let us be allies!
Well squelch John Bull, and scuttle Britain's
Isle;
But let us liquor up meanwhile.
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-12-31

Davy Crockett happened to be present al
an exhibition >of animsis, in the city oil
Washington, where a monkey seemed to
attract his attention, and he abstractly OBJ
served:
If that fellow had on pair of spectacles
be would look like Major Hunt, of Ohio!
The Major happened to be just behind
Crockett, and tapped Davy nn the shoulder.
Turning around, Davy remarked. very for
mally:
well, I'll be hanged, Major, if know
whose pardon to--ask yours or the mon
key's'
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-12-31

The PAST AND THE PREsENT.-How diff
ferent things would have been on this con-
tinent to-day had old George III. cleaned
OUT the 'copperheads' of those times. Gould
be have silenced those virtuous and fearless
patriots. with Chatham at their head, who
protested, in and out of Parliament, against
carrying on an exterminating and fratricidal
war against the secessionists? Had not that
cry OF humanity ard brotherly love burst
forth at that time, in Great Britain, there is
10 doubt but that the war would have been
carried on by the help of mercenary Hessians,
nutil the coionists had been exterminated.-
Many copperheads opened their mouths in
those days. dow many iu these degenerate
times? What is the conduct of the SO. called
Christian clergy? Are they followers of the
meek and lowly Jesus? fancy to myself
that holy mau coming amongst US now. Ir
the olden time, that we read of, he had oo-
casion to drive the money changers and the
sellers of doves from the doors of the Tenn
pie; but, to-day, what would be his Her
culean task in that Augean stable? Ye
wolves in sleeps clothiDg-I know We not!
Begone! There is blood on all your hands
Begone!-.iS. F. News- Letter.
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-12-31

6TFour dollars in goId are worth six
dollars in greenbacks, or other rag money
In other words, the farmer who sells his
barrel Of -four, for six dollars in green backs
gets four dollars in gold for it; while the
NJ erch ant who buys and exports the -four,
sells it for six dollars in gold, and transport
tation and profit added to the amount, max
ing in all, say, nine dollars in gold. And
thus for one hundred barrels of -four the
merchant would receive nine hundred dol
lars in gold, while the farmer received but
four hundred. Thus far, the farmer has
lost five hundred dollars which the merch haut
has gained. But it does not stop here
With the nine hundred dollars in gold, the
merchant buys foreign goods, and immedi-
ately after importing them. he adds fifty
per cent. to the cost; and by this process, he
marks the goods which cost one dol
lar, at a dollar and halt; or the lot
which cost niae hundred be marks at thr-
teen hundred and fifty dollars, tn us making
by dash of the pen four hundred and fifty
dollars, offthe farmer. And the greater the
amount of paper ahoat, the greater will be
its depreciation, and the consequent loss oi
the producer, and the proportionate gain oi
the merchant. Before the war, -four was
worth six dollars in gold, and good sugar
could be had forSix cents per pound. Now,
-four brings four dollars in gold, and the
same quality of sugar costs fourteen cents
per pound. How long can the farmers stand
it?-M. Her7on Banner.
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-12-31

UNNATURAL-The practice that prevails
in some localities of feeding horses and 9th
er dom estic animals in racks placed above
their level, so that they are forced to throw
the muscles of their necks and bodies into
constrained and unnatural positions, is a
very bad one. Observe nature and make
racks and maugers to conform, as near as
posi- bic, to the natural habits of the amin al
for which they are indebted. A writer In
the Rural New Yorker Of Dec. 5, says that
coughs and lung complaints are caused by
horses inhaling the dust of hay stripped
down through rask, in such Ia manner as
to bring all the dust in contact with their
breathing tubes. The remedy for such com
plants is to remove the racks and let them
eat naturally from manger on level with
their feet.
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-12-31
Rrags,s Successor.

William J. Hardee is Georgian, borr
about the year 1919. He entered the Wes
Point Academy in 1884, and was a mem be-
of the class containing the names of Beau
regard, Sibley. Mcdowell and Barry. Al
the m iitary school he was not much dis
tiuguished, rs mixing as low down as 26
On his graduation in 1888, he was COM
mission ed Second Lieutenant in the Second
Dragons. He was promoted First Lieu
tenant December 8, 1880. and Captain Sep
tember 13. 1945. He was in the Mexican
War, where he received two brevets for
gallant and meritorious cond uct. being
breveted MajorI for gal!antry at Medelip,
near Vera Cruz March 25, 1847, and Lieu
tenant Colonel in the affair at San Angus
tine. Au gust 20, of the same year. He also
distinguished himself at Molino del Rey;
reached the full rank of Major March 8,
1855, became omnandant of cadets and
instructor in cavalry, artillery and infantry
tactics in West Point in July. 1856. At
the request of Governor Brown, OF Georgia,
he received from Secretary Floyd, Decem :
Der 27, 1860, leave of absence, that he
might go to Europe to purchase arms for
that state; resigned his commission in the
United States Army in the following June
was appointed BrigaGer Gen eral of Con. .
federate troops. His first service was in
Arkansas. with headquarters at Pocahon-
tas. and for some time he was stationed at
Greenville, in this State, menaciDg the
Federal garrison at Pilot Knob. As Major
he commanded division OF Folks corps
in the army which entered Kentucky, in
September 1862. In October Of that year
he was promoted Lieutenant General. AT.
ter thu fall of Vicksburg, he was assigned IN
place Of General Pemberton. to the COM
mand of the camp of paroIed prisoners at
Demopolis. Later, he succeeded General
Polk in command of a corps Of the rebel
army in front of Chattanooga. He is the
autho or of "Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics
a work which has been extensively used on
both sides during the war.
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-12-31

BEAUTIFUL ANswER.-A pu pill Of the
Able Sicord gave the following extraordiu-
ary.
what is gratitude?'
Gratitude sthe recollection of the heart
What is hope?'
Hope is the blossom of happiness
What is the difference between hope and
desre?'
Desire is a tree in leaf. hope is tree In
flower. and enjoyment is a tree in fruit
what is eternity?'
a day without yesterday or TO- morrow
line that has DO end.'
what is time?'
"A line that has two ends-apath whieh
begins in tn q cradle and ends in the tomb
Who is God?'
The necessary being. the sun of eternity
the machinest of nature. the eye Of justice.
the matchmaker of the universe, the soul Of
the world
Does God reason?'
Man reasons, because he doubts; he de-.
liberates- be decides. God is omniscient:
He never doubts-He, therefore never rea-
sons.
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-12-31

TIE PRESIDENTS LAST JoKE.-The Presi-
dents health is said 10 be re-establisled.
a "loyal" Administration paper relates that
while ne was recovering from his late attac k
Of vsrioloid or small pox, he was in the
habit of saying that since he had been
President. he had always had crowd of
people asking him to give them something
but now he had something he could give
them all. This will do for a joke from
"Old Abe;'' but his late message goes far to
prove that he had something worse than the
small pox to give the whole county.
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-12-31
Josh Billings, the Philanthropist, beg

Josh Billings, the Philanthropist, begs
leave to state:
That onions are good for bad breath.
That Rockaws CLAIMS are good opening
for emmy young man.
That ships are called she because tina al
ways keep man on the lookout.
That turning water into wine in mir
acle. in these days worth at least three hun
dred per cent.
That boys ain't ap to turn out we'll who
don't get up I'll ten o'clock in the morning..
That, if man il agoiug tn make busi-
ress ov serving the Lord, hO likes to see
him du it when he m asures up onions as
well as when he hollers glory halleluyer?
That wisdom amt nothing more than ed
ikated kunuing.
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-12-31
Maxims Of Washington.

The following maxims of Washington
ought to be published in every newspaper
in the land once year:
Use no reproachful language against any
one-neither curses or revilings.
Be not hasty to believe lying reports t.
| the disparagem snt of any one.
In your apparel be modest, and endeavoi
to comodate nature, rather than to procure
admiration.
Associate yourself only with men of good
quality. If you esteem your reputation, fol
it is better to be alone than in bad company
Let your conversation be without malice
or envy, for it is a sign of retractable and
ommsndable spirit; and in cases of passion,
admit reason to govern.
Use not base and frivolous things against
grown and learned men; no very difficult
questions or subjects among the ignorant
nor things hard to be believed.
Speak not of doleful things in the time OF
mirth, nor at the table; nor of melancholy
things as death or wounds, and if others
mention them, change, if you can, the dis
course.
Break not jest when none take pleasure
in mirth. Laugh not loud, nor at all with
out occasion. Deride no mans misfortune,
though there seems to be some cause.
Speak not injurious words either In jest or
in earnest. Scoff at no one, though you nay
get occasion.
Be not forward, utfriendly and courteous
--the first to salute, hear and answer-and
be not pensive when it is time to cow erse
Keep to the fashions of your equals-such
as are civil and orderly-with respect to the
time and place.
Go not thther when yon know not
whether you shall be welcome or not.
Reprehend not the imperfections of others,
for that belongs to parents. masters and SUI
periors.
Speak not in au unknown lounge in COM
pany, but in your own language; and that
as those of quality do. and not as the vulgar
Sublime matters treat seriously.
ThiLk before you speak; pronounce not
imperfecty, nor bring out your words too
harshly, out orderly and distinct.