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The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1863-03-05
INTENTION ICOMPINY.!
Forward March,
70 fNH
PE0PL GRoCIRYsTlHIt

Where you can buy the best class Of Gro
ceries vt the lowest fieures.
The Proprietor keeps constantly for sale A.
ample supply Of
Oysters, CLAIMS, Saydines, Applss,
Broom Sugar,
Crust Sugar, Prvnes
Dried App'es, Figs.
Cheering tG Smoking Tobacco,
Cigars, Tea. Coffee Dates,
Sa'erotus, Starch, Soap,
Candies, Raistns,
WoRasses,
And all other kinds Of Groceries needed il
his market.
He has just received .
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1863-03-05
LIQUID
GgTTlA PERCHA CEMENT,

For Coating Metals Of all Kinds when
exposed to the Action Of the Weather
aud
For Preserving and Repairing Meta
Roefs
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1863-03-05

FIRE Risks accepted at terms consistent
with solvsncy an l fair profit.
The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1863-03-05

Especial attention gicen to Insurance Of p WE'LL
MS and Contents, for terms Of 10 gears.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-09-16

tam the civil as against a military gov
eminent; whether we approve or disap-
prove the acts of those placed in author
lty over US for a brief season. And in
order that we may approve or censure, en-
dorse or condemn the policy of the Ad-
ministration, the ballot box must be kept
pure and undefiled: it must be free and
accessible to all who have right to vote.
There must be no test oaths unknown to
the Constitution and laws of the land
No hired soldiery must invade its sacred
precincts to interfere with or overawe free
men in the exercise of their sacred duty.
We are not yet slaves-we know our
rights, and knowing dare maintain them.
Let Woodward an Lowrie be our
watchwords. Let their names be the
battle cry of freemen, determined TO res
cue our government-the Union and the
ConstitutIon-from the vandal hands that
are now wasting its substance, dismant-
ling the temple of our liberty and under
mining the very foundations Of free gov
ernment IN their vain attempt to clucth the
glittering baubles of UNIVERSAL EMANCI,
! PATTON AND NEGRO EQUALITY.-1u0nitor
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-09-16
Effects of AboIitionislns.
MURDER OF AN ENTIRE FAMILY By BLACK
L. :. SOLDIERS.

A letter from passenger on board the
steamer Liberty, near Island No. 10,
gives the following account of one of the
saddest and most shocking crimes re
corded in the history of this war, as COM
municated to the passengers by eye wit
nesscS -
Beckham landing is twelve miles below
Island No. 10, Obion county Tennessee,
Immediately south of the Kentucky State
line Abont 10 o'clock, A NJ, August
4th, 1868, eighteen black United States
soldiers, direct from Island No. 10, their
station, arrived at the home on the Land
ing fully armed with muskets, side-arms
and pistols, and murdered the whole of
old Mr.. Beckhan's family then present on
the place, The family consisted of Ben
jamin Beckham, aged seventy-nine years !;
his son Frank, aged forty years; Laura
aged fourteen Kate, ten Caroline, sew
en- ; and little Richard, aged two years
The mother and one o. the children We're
| luckily absent on visit, and escaped the
fate OF their kindred The negroes killed
| old father Beckham and his son Frank by
! horribly mutilating their bodies by club
bing, cutting, bayoneting, shooting, and
| then wound up their fiendish work by
throwing the dead into the river.
They then drove the girls and boy into
the river at the point of the bayonet,
clubbing them with the but ends of theii
muskets whilst running. The body ot
father Beckham, and the youngest boy,
have been recovered, and were seen by
the majority of passengers who wen
ashore to see the evidence of this diabol
ical work
The black wretches fired several time:
at one of the neighbors who related VI
the different incidents, but he escaped un
hurt.
A majority of the demons were ap
: pretended by some Federal cavalry (white
before they reached the island.
NV informant further relates that SOM
time AGO chaplain of one of the negr'
regiments on the island accompanied al
, armed band TO the house of Mr. Beck
ham for the purpose of recovering tn
child of one of the women, the propert,
, of Mr.. Beckham, and now runaway ol
the island He refused to deliver tn
! child and this seems to be the warrant TO
: this murder.
! The neighborhood, mainly made up c
| old men, women and children, is fearful
y alarmed for its safety. In the vicinity
one of those black colonies, where whit
men inspire these fiends to these hellls
/ deeds 1t is reported that one of the nj
e groes used the pistol of the same chaplai
b above spoken of.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-09-16
Mark the Change.

Mark the change. Instead of the roll
licking, joyous, freehearted volunteers,
clustering on the passing trains and ma
king the wilkin ring with laugh and song,
what do we find? We find the sad and
sullen conscripts, with doors locked armed
sentinels on guard to prevent the desper-
ate attempt to escape from the iron grasp
of Provost Marshals and the crushing
conscript act. Their names have been
drawn from the hateful wheel, in the ter
rible lottery of life, and their children are
weeping and their wives have already the
chilling sense of the widows weeds upon
their hearts. The car loads of those
men torn from their homes and guarded
like-we dare not make comparison !
passed throug this place on the Erie Rail
road Yesterday morning We can esti-
mate the crushing weight of misery bur
dening those cars7 How many souls
| darkened and oppressed with the crushing
and sitting sense of wrong were there,
instead of noble, willing chivalric men
| anxious to do their utmost and wishing
for life only to save and serve their
country.
But President Lincoln says this is not
the time for further experimenting in vol
unteering, and, it is his will and his policy
and such policy ito have the army
filed with such men as those cars con-
tanned Yesterday morning guarded and
cribbed Hke-well, we have sympathlsed
with black men on the slave deck, and
wept for them, and the rude liberty they
had been torn from in their native Africa
They were human, and had the bonds OF
their affections rudely broken by the slave
trader; but those men guarded by bayo-
nets and locked up in the cars were white
men, American citizens, who had shouted
themselves hoarse on the anniversaries OF
American Independence, and who had
been taught to believe they lived in the
freest and noblest country on the globe
Patterson Guardian.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-09-16
A Sad Pfcfaire-Proflig i'm
WaShiRgtOn.

The correspondent of the Boston T1uv-
elIer thus discourses of matters and things
in Washington:
'lt IS useless to deny that the war has,
in measure, polluted the taste of the peo-
pie, bring, as it has Enthusiastically. train
of evils to the doors of Washington previ-
ously but little known, until it is sadder-
ing to behold the utter degeneracy of the
people, particularly the middle classes, to-
day. The stranger cannot fail to observe
the large number of jabbering foreign row.
dies who con9regate at the corners of the
different streets. Many of these fellows
| are .exiled vagabonds, who are here on the
lookout for the first dishonest Govern
ment official who has something to sell.
1t makes no difference whether the prop
erty be confscated furniture, captured
horses or quartermasters or commissary
stores, the purchaser has no principles to
lose, and why should he be scrupulous in
making bargain.
Then there are. scores Of professional
( gamblers here from New York, Philadel-
phia, Baltimore and Boston, plying their
arts most dexterously to inveigle as many
]
bic into their meshes, after the paymaster
has been around, and in which am sorry
to say they often succeed, robbing the
! foolish men of every cent Of their hard
earnings. Brazen-faced harlots prone
made the avenue, and dash through the
streets in open barouches, dressed in the
most flashy costume, their faded features
covered with chalk and rouge. Half in
toxicated rowdies roll through the street:
in open carriages, smoking their segars
and shouting indecent language. In fact
gambling, licentiousness, drunkenness
and every species ofevil, run riot through
out the city, until now proffiigacy reign'
supreme. 1 would like to tell you few
facts in relation the Elegant hotels o
this dusty place, and of the recterch
style in which nothing is served. Blu
enough of Sodom and Gomorra.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-09-16

GA friend wishes to inquire if any OF
all the following causes are sufficient for
exemption:
l. Doesn't think an army life would
agree with his constitution.
2 Is making arrangements to enter the
second class.
3. Has two brothers who will be in
the service as soon as they get commis-
sions.
4. Would cheerfully pay $500 if he
had it.
| 5. Was tried for horse stealing severa
years ago, and unjustly acquitted is will
| ling to try again if necessary.
6. Is rapidly becoming a common
drunkard.
If none of these will answer he woule
] like to inquire the fare to Canada.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-09-16

FREEDOM FOR TIE NEGRO. The New
York Post, a Republican Journal, in des-
canting upon the probable effect of war
upon slavery, very safely comes TO the
conclusion that it may still survive the
90 irrepressible conflict" which Lincoln &
Co. are waging, and says:
sIF SLAVERY IS TO BE CON
TINUED IN THIS COUNTRY, WE
WANT THE IRISH AND CATIIO-
lies TO TAKE THE PLACE OF
THE NEGROES, AND LET THE
MORE INTELLIGENT AND MORE
VIRTUOUS BLACKS BE LIBERIA
TED"
The people of Ireland immortalized
their love of liberty by a long list of patri-
OTIS in the contest which freed us from the
insolence and tyranny of England. With
the first cry of liberty they aroused them
selves for battle, and in every place where
ever and whenever the cry to arms has
/ been heard, either TO win or save the
independence of our country, 1rishmen
" Have pour'd their blood like ruby wine
I On Freedoms altar shrine"
1t is this people the Post proposes to
enslave in order that the negroes may be
, free. What philanihropists these Re
/ publicans arei
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-09-16

ez-In his special message declining re-
nomination for the Gubernatorial chair,
Governor Curtin declared that: 'The la
bors which [ have necessarily undergone
have already impaired my health.
should have serious cause to apprehend
that a much longer continuance of them
might so break it down as to unable me
to fill the duties of my position Now
the Governor should not be permitted to
90 on at this reckless rate The State has
no right TO claim any mans services at
such "A price as this: and if the Cover
nor's friends have no regard for his health,
the people should have, and see to it that
he is not burdened with the crushing du-
ties of the Executive chair for another
! three years. Governor Curtin must not
/ be permitted to destroy himself in his
reckless patriotism and merciful peo-
/ pie should allow him to retire to the peace
full shades of private life and place the la.
bors of the Executive office upon pair o
| good broad shoulders, such as Judgt
Woodward carries about with him.
! Valley SPIRIT.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-09-16

a have no purpose directly or indirect
ly, to interfere with the institution of
slavery in the States where it exists. /
believe | have no lawful right TO do So"
--Preacieat Lincoln IN his Inaugural Ad-
dress
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-09-16

"CIING TO THE CONSTTTU-
TION. AS THE SHIPWRECKED
MARINER CLINGS TO THE LAST
PLANK. WHEN NIGHT AND THE
TEMPEST CLOSE AROUND HIM. y
DANIEL WEBSTER.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-09-16

81 order and declare that all persons
held as slaves in the said designated
States and parts of States are and here
after shall be free. ."-Lnc0iq'S EnaaRcipd-
ton Proclamation
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-09-16

'' IF these Internal fanatics and Aboli-
tionists ever get the power in their hands,
they will override the Constitution, set
the Supreme Court at defiance, change
and make laws to suit themselves, leg
eaolent hands on those 1rho diftr wih them
in opinion, or dare question their fidelity,
and finally bankrupt the country and del
uge it with blood.-Da,acl WeJSt.r.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-09-16
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Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-09-16

Neither the President nor Congress
can emancipate slaves any more than they
can grant bills of divorce "-Er GorernoT
Henry Dltton.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-09-16
Lincoln Us. Lincoln.

81 have no purpose, directly or indi-
rectly, to interfere with the institution OF
slavery in the States where it exists. |
believe that have no lawful right TO do
so, and l have no inclination to do so. y
President Lmcola'S Inaugural address,
Narch 4bI, 1851.
g You dislike the Emancipation Proc
lamation, and perhaps you want it re-
tracted. You say it is unconstitutional.
l think differently. | think that the Con
stitution invests its Commander-in-Chi
with the laws of war in times of war.
The most that can be said, if so much,
is, that slaves are property. ."-Pres'dsent
Lncols's letter to Hon. James G. CoHkhng,
AuguSt 26M, 1868.
Is it not enough to make every Ameri-
can blush, when he reflects that the man
who now fills the Presidential chair has
been so weak and vacillating as to put
himself in such humiliating position be-
fore the world? In the first place he de-
clarcs that he has no intention to interfere
with the institution of slavery, and thai
he believes that he has no lawful right tt
do so. In the second place he does eX
actlv what he declared he would not do
by issuing a proclamation declaring al
the slaves in the Southern States free. Il
the third place writes letter to tn
Hon. James c. ConkGng, in which b,
distinctly asserts that his interference
q with the institution of slavery in th
( State where it existst," is lawful. !
( man who can so far forget what is due t
the position of Chief Magistrate of tn
/ United States, as to be changed about b
every wind of doctrine, is physically, in
/ tellectually and morally unfit for the offic
he holds -P0ttsoalle Democratic Standard
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-09-16

g. The most charitable of all animals
the skunk-he gives everybody he
meets a (s) cent.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-09-16

g." declare upon my responsibility
as Senator, that the liberties of this
country are in greater danger to-day from
coruptions, and from the proffiigacy prac-
ticed in the various departments of the
Government, than they are from the enc
my in the open field.-J Z. Hale, Re
publican Senator from New Hampshire
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1863-09-16

The following confession was made by
Hon. Mr.. Dawes, a Republican member
OF Congress FROM Massachusetts, on the
25th of April, in which he exposed the
corruptness of Lincon's Administration {:
20 The gentlemen must remember that
in the first year of a Republican Admins
tration, which came into power upon pro
fessions of reform and retrenchment, there
is undoubtable evidence abroad in the
land that somebody has piundered the
public Treasury well nigh in that single
year as much as the entire current yearly
expenses of the Government during the
Administration which the people hurled
from power because of its corruption"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-11-17

The Richmond Examiner, after giving a
statement to the effect OF the capture OF three
brigades, it is believed Lee expected Meade to
advance, but was not prepared Tor so early and
vigorous an attack. 1t now apl ears that Meade
cau advance as quickly as Lee retreated.
The Examiner Of the llth inst says, their ar
my was quietly awaiting an attack from Meade
on the 10Th.
The Examiner Of the 10th, says there is no
material change at Charleston. The Yankees
keTt up continual tirug day and night, but
with little loss to us, and confidence is as strong
as ever.
In North Carolina the enemy have landed a
large force at Wiuton, and are threatening the
southern line of railroad At Weldon
On the Peninsula the enemy are reported al
landing in large numbers, at Newport News
Thus all around Richmond the enemy threaten
active operations before Winter blockades the
roads,
The rebel papers have the following
NARRows, NEAR DUBLIN, Nov. s. Our cav,
airy yesterday captured near Rogervllle S5C
prisoners, four cannon, two stands Of colors, slx
ty Wagons, aud one hundred animals. Our loss
was two killed and eight wounded.
X. RANSOM, Maj. Gen.
jeff Davis arrived IN Richmond on tie 9TH,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-11-17
Stolen Property Found.

CHELSEA, Nov, II, 1868
Mr.. Editor ON Tuesday the 10th inst, our
village was thrown into quite an excitement, by
some uersoas from Tunbridge getting out a
search warrant, TO search the premises occupied
by David A. Bruce and William Green, as a
dwelling and shoe. shop, The search on Tues
day resulted In little, except the finding oil some
clothes that had been taken short time before
from the lines in Tunbridge, land only q lew oil
them \ and the arresting Of said Green, Bruce
escaping and being still at large On ednes'
day the search was continued and extended 10 a
house about mile and half from the village
and resulted in the discovery there OF large lo'
of cali-skins, squantty OF tea, and ies'ne'
! ed secreted under the barn the skins and tca
being in the house.
The lady cling the occupant Of the house
was arrested, apd on searching the house anC
the shop drstS searched large quantity o.
calEskins and upper leather and some sole
leather was discovered in the upper portion o
the building, between the finish Of the uppel
rooms and the shnglng OF the root, with long
strings attached to each parcel, so that 1t coul'
be drawn out a, pleasure A large quanut.
Of tea was found here also and other stolen ar
tcles.
The leather consists Of rs calf.sk'ns, SOM
OF them cut and in process OF working, beside
n quantity Of upper and sole leather. Person
having lost such property, may ieel an interes
in this discovery. Tue propertylls In possesslo
Of Sheriff Dickinson, at the Orange Count
Hotel in Chelsea,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-11-17
l-)ile0

In Brsintfee, Oct 25th, of dropy, Mrs Jerusha VIE
Of P a Gardne aged ~ years formerly OF Chelsea
Blss ed are the dead which die In the Lord ,
10 Tunbridge, Nov, 4th, Of consumption, Nj Hlnah
only son OF Davenport aud Anna ordvay Area Fee''
10 months and 81 day. 49,.
A. death approached, his bIlh Frightened, his coma
dence God increased and almost b last Wor" Ne's'
" I'm going home,' nj,
In Tunbrdge sept z9d, Of diph.hera, Mr. Johp MO
dell aged 2s years months and Ndaya Also sept 2Jd
Of chronic darrhea Mr.. John W. Lee, AGED ~ years .
onths and II days. - = -,
sept 29h of typhoid fever, Mr. Henry H. Smith, aged
~ years And months
Nov 3rd Of typhoid fever, Mr. Clarence L. smith, aged
IL years, months and days.
suddenly at Burlington, Nov. 18th, Of lung lever
Mrs Harriet l., vile Of Paul 7. Sweet, aged 70 years
' Time changes to eternity
We only wait lts while"
In t,bo Oct 9th at the residence OF his son Lieu. HI
ram Perkins, Jonathan Perkins, aged 70 years
In Cabot Oct. 18Th Dainda Webster, wife Of y H.
" ebssr Esq, aged % years. r.
Ia Castlston, Nov IL, Mr. Moses Jaekmsn, ssso ~
years -
In Windsor, Nov An, Harvey llAsting,' agsd1l yeM
In West windsor Oct 25th, Of the VIII coping Cough
Rose Ella daughter Of David and elizabeth hehnsoni
In Chelsea Oct 1ith, Mr.. Rufus Bsckvh aged ssy'ar,
months and days. 81.
In Chelsea, oct. 18TH Of Diphlhsria, Olive g. n nj
daughter Of Nathan b. and Sylvia Flint, aged 10 ysMs
In Chelsea Oct 2sth Mrs Mary e. Osborn, agea yrs
ia Chelsea. Nov. 9Th Mr.. Ezra Gay, aged 30 yesrs
In Athens Sept 10Th. OF Diphtheria, lsadors, only
daughter Of George and Emily Durham, aged years
In Leominster Mas, Nov LIST, ofConsumPtion Chaun-
cey q smith, a private in Company D, 2nd hermen.
N Vermont Volunteers from Msrthhed was discharged
April 2ls, 1852 on account Of III health.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1863-11-17

mhhSNi @NAPSHNSp'
We print below the report of a Select Com
mittee of the Senate in relation to the State Mil
itary Expenditures under Gov. Holbrooks ad-
ministration.
senate CHAMBER, Nov. Il, 1863.
TO the Honorable Senate non IN Session
The select Committee appointed bya joint
resolution, and to whom was referred 50 much
Of Governor Holbrook's communication as re-
lates to public expenditures, and that they may
be instructed to audit the accounts and vouchers
on which such expenditures are based, and report
thereon, respectfully report, that the e1amlna-
ton embraces expenditures made by the Governor
for troops furnished to the United States, such as
equipments, recruiting, medicines, medical at
tendance, subsistence, arrests of deserters pay oil
troops, incidental expenses, &c. The Governors
communication also embraced the accounts Of
John Howe, Esq, the agent appointed to Cha
pense State aid to the families Of soldiers
The ledger kept by the Secretary Of Civil end
Military Affairs was before the Committee, to-
sether with vouchers for every charge for His
bursments made, either by the Governor, Aoju-
tant and Inspector General, Quartermastcr Ger
eral, and other agents of the State. The lhci-
dental expenses consist OF express charge
teegraphing, postage, stationery, NC. Nhe
vouchers were satisfactory, embracing items stcl
as travelling expenses board, time employed, and
other particulars. Some Of the vouchers, how
ever. of the State Board Of Medical Examinnrs'
were a single charge, without specification.
The ledger further embraces lisi Of all or
ders drawn by the Governor on the Treasurer oil
the State amounting to $l35 ,337 AT agreeing
with small variaton) with the amount
charged The sum of $l2,98445 drawn from
the Treasury for State purposes was reimbursed
leaving the actual amount Of expend res
Sl22 1853 o. This sum does not embrace 52l
.5l7 "a paid out by Mr.. Howe for STATE aid
His accounts 0 not appear upon the books KEEP
by the Governor and no vouchers connected
Herewith were exhibited to the Committee
Mr. Howe drew orders direct upon the treasury.
Every voucher was examined, and compared
with the accounts kept, and checked OIL IRON
the ledger Additions and extensions OF item
were male 80 far as to test the accuracy OF en-
tries made
The Classification Of expenditures, and tn
corresponding accounts the numbering tn'
fling of vouchers, made by the Secretary, YER
accurate and intelligent, and afforded greas az
sis,ance to the Committee in their lab0rious o.
complicated examination.
Your Committee further report, that in the
opinion, the expenditures named were require
for the public service, and made under the ell
cumstances, with due regard to economy an
I the best interests Of the State.
MERRITT CLARK, for the Conmlhee'
on the part Of The Senate