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The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-08-06

tglo-Saxon race. History affords no prece-
dent for such result. It was conparative-
ly a,small thing, a trifiing tax on tea and
other articles, which caused the men of the
Revolution to take up arms against the
mother country, the country to which they
owed allegiance, and yet three millions
withstood for seven long years the whole
power Of the British throne, and achieved
their independence. The odds are less
against the ten millions of the rebels of to-
day. $3.50 -s-:afs.- .,s4e 1se i
| After nearly two years and half of war,
what has been accomplished? It is true,
important posts have been captured, and
others may and probably will fail before a
superior force ere the close of the present
campaign. and still the conquest of the Sou tn
| is as far from being accomplished as ever.
| Ia our war Of Revolution there was hardly
city of any Importance throughout the
! whole country, North or South. which was
not at some time occupied by British troops,
aud the result was seen only in the duration
/ of the war. You cannot conquer q free people
in language of one of the most eloquent
| statesmen of the South, You may carry
| desolaton into our peaceful land, and with
| torch and frebrand may set our cities IN
/ flames; you may even mulate the atrocities
of those who, in the days of the Revolution,
may give the protection of your ad vancing
| armies to the furious fanatics who desire
nothing more than to add the horror Of ser.
vile insurrection to civil war; you may do
all this and more, but you can never subJu-
gate the free sons Of the soil into vassals,
paying tribute to your power; you can never
degrade them to servile and inferior race;
never! neverl" r7- -s
4th. We oppose the war, because, uncon
sttutional and unreasonable in its very ma
ture its support necessitates the course pur-
sued by the administration in suppressing
freedom Of spe ech and of the press, and IN
other arbitrary acts calculated to screen 1t
from the light of reason.
5th. We oppose it because its further
prosecution requires the subyersion of the
great principle that governments derive
th sir Just powers from the consent OF the
governed, in the enforcement of the con-
script bill, condemned as it is by large na
jority of the people, and enacted to force
the people into war in which they would
not voluntarily enlist.
Are any further arguments needed? We
oppose it because a million widows and Or
phans point to the heaps of unburi ed dead
on the soil Of Pennsy lvania and Virginia and
tn new-made graves on the banks OF the
Mississippi, and invoke the interpositlon OF
Almighty God to stay the dreadful carnage.
We advocate peace because we love our
country, because We believe the only nope
OF restoration of the Union is in peaceful
and conciliatory measures, because we be-
lieve with the late Senator Douglas, that
war is dsunion; war is inal, eternal sspa-
ration". We advocate an immediate peace,
because We believe that now is the golden
opportu nifty, that never again shall we be
in position so becomingly to propose, or
the South in so suitable a mood to consider
the terms of new UNION.
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-08-06

"THE IDEAL NEGRO OF THE NORTH ."-In
ga Trip to Ouba," written by R. H. Dana,
Jr., of Boston, and out-and-out abolitiorist,
he is forced by being brought into contact
with the negro, to make this confession:
"The negro of the North is an ideal
negro-it is the negro refined by white cul-
ture, elevated by white blood, instructed
even by white iniquity. The negro among
negroes is a coarse, grinning, fiat footed
thick-skulled creature, lazy as the LATEST
of brutes, chiefly am bilious to be of no use
to any body in the world. View him as you
will, his stock in trade is small. He has but
the tangible instincts of a creatures-love of
life, Of ease and of offspring For all else
he must go to school to the white race and
his discipline must be long and laborious.-
Nassau and all that we saw of it suggested to
rs the unwelcome question whether COM
pulsory labor be not better than rone."
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-08-06

Mrs. Partington says can't understand
these 'ere market reports. SIZE can under
stand how cheese can be lively and pork can
be active, and feathers dropping, that is, if
its raining; but how can whiskey be steady,
or hops quiet, or spirits dull, she can't see;
neither how lard can be firm in warm
weather nor iron unsettled, nor potatoes de-
pressed; nor -four rising, unless there had
been yeast put in it, and som etimes it would
not rise then.
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-08-06

TRANoUIL1TY.-Trauq is the wish of
all; the good, while pursuing the track of
virtue; the great, while following the star
of glory, and the little. while creeping in
the styes of dissipation, sigh for tranquility,
and make it the great object which they
ultim ately hope to attain. How anxiously
does the sailor, on the high and giddy mast,
when on tempestuous seas, cast his eyes over
the fOaming billows and anticipate the calm
security he hopes to enjoy when he reaches
the wished for shore? Even kings grow
weary Of their splendid slavery, aud mobiles
sickeu under their increasing dignities. All,
in fact, feel less delight in the actual enjoy
ment of worldly pursuits, however great and
honorable they may be, than in the idea of
their being able the reliDquish them, and
retire to
-TSorne calm, sequestcred spot
Irhn I.nrLA fnrnattiIacr h1z he world fnront- -
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-08-06
One-forth to SPECTATORS.

The Administration gives oue-fourth Of
all cotton to the person capturing 1t In MIS-
sissippi. The Cincinnati Commercial says
that spectators are making million q
month at the business. .t--ss.t
These spectators are, every one of them,
for the.continuance of the war, and will
all spend money to elect JOHN Brough -
Cincinnati Euquirer. rs
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-08-06
NAPOLEoN,S FALL.

Beranger, the sweet ballad-poet of Franc
never wrote anything more exquisitely beau.
ful than the following: t t-
4 THE ooTTAeER AND NAPOLEON.
Amid the lowly, straw-built shed,
Long will the peasant seek his glory;
And when some fifty years have fed,
The thateh will hear no other story.
Around some old and hoary dame
The village crowd will oft exclaim-
"Mother, now, till midnight chimes,
Tell us tales of other times.
he wronged US! say it, if they will,
The people loved his memory still;
Mother, now the day is dim, -s
Mother tell us now CT him."
"My children-in our village here,
saw him once by kings attended; III p
That time is past this many year,
For scarce my maiden days were ended.
On foot he climbed the hill, and nigh
To where 1 watched him passing by:
Small his hat upon that day,
And he wore a coat of gray;
And when he saw me shake with dread,
"Good day to you, my dearr' he said"
"Ohl and, mother, is it true7
Mother, did he speak TO YOUR
"From this year has passed away,
Again in Paris streets found him;
To Notre Dame he rode that day,
With ali his gallant court around him
All eyes admired the show the while,
No face that did not wear a smile;
''See how brightly shines the skyl -
'Tis for himI the people cry;
And then his face was soft with joy,
For God had blessed him with boy.
Smother, OIL how glad to see
Days that must so happy bel"
"But, when DER our province ran
The bloody armies of the strangers,
Alone he seemed, that famous man,
To fight again thousand dangers.
One evening, just like this one here,
heard knock that made me fear.
Entered, when 1 Cpd the door,
He, and guards, perhaps score:V
And, seated where sit, he said,
"To what a war 1 have been ledI"
"Mother, and was that the chairl
Mother, was he seated THEEE7"
"'Dame, am hungryI then he cried;
I set out bread and wine before him.
There, at the fire, his clothes he dried Thin
And slept while watched his followers o'el
When, with start, he rose from sleep,
He saw me, in my terror weep
And said he, Nay, our France is strong;
Soon will avenge her wrong
1t is the dearest thing of mine,
The glass in which he drank his wine,"
"And though change of good and i'll,
Mother, you have kept it STILL"
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-08-06
-USome calm, sequestcred spot
The world forgetting by the world forgot.

COULDN'T BE CoRRUPTED.-'Sedley,' said
Charles the Second, look me out IA aau WHIT
can't be corrupted; have sent three treas
urers to the North, and they have all turned
thieves We'll, your Majesty, recommend
Mivert.' 'Mivert. you dogP said Charles;
'why, Mivert is a thief already!' Therefore
he cannot be corrupted, your majesty said
Sedley.
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-08-06
@A lawyer asked his client: ~ 2
fendactT

GA lawyer asked .nls cIlent: -
did you present your account to the de-
fendartP .. -..-..=ss. '.---...fz =.
I did, your honor go 49,.
And what did he sayP ~-r..
He told me to go to the devil g.-5 -.
And what did you do thenP
why then came to you.'
ISound on vour side.' - ~ a
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-08-06

GTA resident of Petersburg, Virginia. is
makiag from the peanut a most palatable
and nutritious oil for table use; also an ex-
celeut oil for lubricating and Illuminating
purposes. Surely the war brings to light
many things which might otherwise have
NAMED in obscurity forever.
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-08-06

A witty editor of a penny paper took for
his motto: The price OF liberty is etefnal
vigilance, and THAI of the S.ar only ohe
oeptt' t.igs5 aT9 10 Zael3 s q ~ ss1T =
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-08-06

GooD PUN.-Why is lovely young lady
like the hiDge?. Because il is something
to adore.
The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-08-06

Beranger, the sweet ballad-poet of France,
never wrote anything more exquisitely beau.i-
ful than the following: t. t--
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-04-24

A HARD TEsr.-A goutlaman once
heard laboring man swearing dread
fully in the presence of number Of his
companions. He told him it was a COW
ardly thing to swear so in company,
when be dared not do it by himself
The man said he was not afraid to swear
at any time or in any place. 'I'il give
you ten dollars" said the gentleman, "if
you will 60 into the village graveyard at
II o'clock tonight, and swear the same
oaths you have uttered here, when you
are a'one a0iM God"
agreed" said the. man; "it is an
easy way Of earning ten dollars
"Well, you come tomorrow, and say
you have done it, and the money is
yours"
Tie time passed on midnight came.
The man went to The graveyard. Ii
was night Of pitchy darkness. AS he
entered the graveyard, not a sound was
heard all was still as death. Then the
gentleman's words, alone ioiM God, came
over him with a wonderful power The
thought Of the wickednoss of what he
had been doing, and of what lie came
there to do, darted across his mind like
flash Of lightning. He trembled at his
folly Afraid TO take another step, he
fell on bis knees, and instead of the
dread III oaihs he came there to utter.
he earnest cry went up; God be mer-
cful to me "A sinner"
The next day he went 10 the gentle
man and thanked lin for what he had
done, and said he had resolved not to
swear another oath as long as lie lived.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-04-24

EDIToR's POCKET -BooK.-An edi-
tor while travelling, recently, had his
wallet abstracted from his pocket, while
ndulging in a short nap. The thief was
so disgusted with his exploit that he re-
turned the plunder by express to the ad.
dress written inside the wallet, with the
following note
"You miserable editor here's your
pocket book. / don't keep no such. For
a man dressed as well as you was to 90
around with wallet with notbin' in it
but lot of newspaper scraps, a pair of
scissors, an ivory tooth comb, two news.
paper stamps and pass from a railroad
director, is contemplate imposition on
the public. As l hear you are an editor.
return your trash. / never rob editors,
lit don't pay. Better rob the towns
poor, OF hook damaged musk-rat skins"
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-04-24

LIFE IN GERMANY.--Everythng here
has scporifc tendency. One week is
the same as another, and so of months
and years, allowing a small variety for
the seasons. There is no progression as
in California. People become stagnant
at the age of thirty. At 40 they become
pussy and waddle like ducks AT so
they become bald headed and apoplectic,
and carry their hats in their hands to
keep their brains cool AT 60 a leg or
arm gives way, and has to be dragged
along or nursed. AT 40 they take TO lit
tie hand carriages, and get rolled about
the public promenades by servants in
livery and at so or 80 they peg out for
want of breath, and help to make vegeta-
bles for new generations. All this time
the sun rises and sets exactly once day,
for 365 days in year, the town clocks
toll the quarter hours and hours the po-
lice mount guard at the gates and salute
the passing officers soldiers hug and
kiss the servant girls every evening in
the by-ways and alleys; old burglars
take their afternoon stroll around the
glscis and drop in at their regular beer
house, where they sit for hours gossip
ing over the affairs of the city children
go to school and back again, with their
satchels on their backs and in the course
of time go to business, and gradually
merge into old fogies like the rest Of the
good citizens--and so wags the world in
Germany.-Ross BROWNE.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-04-24
DRAFTING SToR4.-We find the fol-
lowing in Harper's Monthly

DRAFTING SToRr.-We find the fol-
lowing in Iiarper's Monthly:
The enrolling officer of Salisbury dis
trict, Nj, was very active and thorough
in the performance Of bis dcty. One
day he went to the house of country
man, and finding none of the male mem
bers of the family at home, made inquiry
Of an old woman about tho number and
age Of the males Of the family. After
naming several the old woman stopped.
Is there no one else = asked the officer.
No. replied the woman, none except
Billy Bray BILLY Bray, where is he ?
He was at the barn moment ago. said
the old lady.
Out went the officer but could not find
the man. Coming back, the worthy Off
Ger questioned the old lady as to The age
of Billy, and went away after enrolling
his name among those to be drafted.
The time of drafting came, and among
those on whom the lot fell was Billy
Bray. No one knew him. Where did
he live? The officer who enrolled him
was called on to produce and 10, and be-
hold, Billy Bray was jackass ! and he
stands now on the list of drafted men, as
forming one Of the quota of Maryland.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-04-24

WHIcH ARE THE BEST SHEEP P
From the answer to inquiries sent oui
by the Ohio State Board of Agriculture
we extract the following items in regard
to the question Of the best sheep;- -
By WIN. NJ. CUNNINGHAM, of Stark
Co.
This question may have as many diff
erent answers as men have different no
tions and opinions. To the flock-mas-
ters, who breeds aud keeps sheep for The
wool principally, the Spanish Merino is
esteemed above any other in the climate
Some of the reasons for which are as
follows
The Spanish MerinO produces a
greater quantity Of wool, in proportion
to the size Of the carcass, than any other
variety Of sheep.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-04-24
II is a generally admitted fact, that all

1t is a generally admitted fact, that all
animals consume food in proportion to
the weight Of carcass. This being the
case, and the difference in weight be-
tween a Spanish Merino and a Lelces-
trshire or Southdown being about one
third it will readily be seen which of the
two varieties is most profitable for woo!
for generally, it will be found that The
we'll built, close and compact Spanish
sheep OF eighty pounds weight viii pro-
duce more pounds Of wool than the Lei
cestershire or Southdowns Of one hun
dred and twenty pounds. If this be
true, it requires one,ihird more feed to
produce a pound OF wool from a Leice.
stersbire or Southdown sheep tban it
does from Spanish Merino; while at
the same time Spanish Merino is worth
and will sell for al least one-third more
lildn the other.
The wool of the Spanish Merino is
generally very compact and close, and
being oily, and well protects the bodies Of
The animals from the irclemencies of the
weather; while the loose, open, and
light-wooled varieties, when expos 10
the rains and storms, the wool be-
comes saturated the water fuds its way
to the skin, the animal takes cold, ard
perhaps dies from exposure.
Spanish or some other Merino herd
together in large focks better than Lei
cestershires, Cotswolds or Southdowns.
They are, perhaps, the most quiet and
docile variety of sheep of all others,
This is great consideration.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-04-24
IRAsBURGH, VERMONT, FRIDAY, APRIL "a. 1863.
Old Uncle Sammy's Story.

Bayou Lqtoarche, La, Mar. 7.
Talking Of contrabands, you should
see how many wide-brimmed "loyal
lists" with long whips are swooping
on colored agriculturalists nova
days. Gen. Banks late contract
with the planters { (wherein Sambo is
suppositious party, though precious
little he comprehends of it, gives
every quondam rebel proprietor a
knot hole through which he may
crawl back into mastership" again.
Not day passes without foray OF
some lank cavalier on our frightened
regimental employees, with his apro-
vost order" to return poor Jack or
Phillis to her "owner." Sometimes
stout commanding officer 4repudi-
ates," and sometimes a timid one
yields up the fugitive. Daily l hear
of cases which smack of the old
Egypt; where, for instance, young
woman i S stripped 10y her overseer,
who sits on her head, while he Aogs
the American flag into her back with
two inch whiflletree strap; or
where an old man of eighty is truss
ed up for the lash, because he fool
ishly gets it into his pate that the
nearest road to freedom is through
the lines of a Union regiment
Such was the case of old Uncle Sam
my, an octogenarian, whose "shOrt
and simple annals" may be summed
up as follows:
Born on the Eastern Shore Of Ma
ryland, "raised" for the Kentucky
market, whereat he was knocked
down to the highest bidder at the
age Of Is years; worked on corn
till near 80, when six piccaninnies
called him sire; old story of sale
again, and Sam sent to Louisiana
with his wife, while their children
were sold to all points of the COM
pass; so years more passed on SUI
gar plantations, and then Sssnl's old !
ears pricked up at the sound of a
lorthern trumpet, and he became a
'contraband, Fugitive = @vagabond,' |
)r what not, as the case might be-
Twice since he has been seized, ere
and fogged by his master. |
This last "skedaddle," brings him to
our camp, with his aged "help-meet,"
md see them, as | write, toasting
heir thin shins at a camp fire, while
the scars of their last lashes.
Now this old slave of so winters
tvers that during half century he
lever received from his sugar grow
NC owner so much as a solitary
,icayune for his own use, nor a
ingle suit of clothes either in sum-
ner or winter. His master made
the condition of his being allowed
o visit his wife, on a neighboring
state, that she should furnish him
With clothing, and so she did, for 5
ifty years. What Golden We'd L
ling the poor old couple are now C
at yonder camp fire, where q
hey battle each others wounds in 4
itch waterl But Sam will tell you i
els contented, if wen only promise 5
ot to send him back !" Oh! this +
Iberty! this incomprehen8ible af- 4
atus how it lifts even a wrctched !,
ontraband up among the heroesl
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-04-24

VERMONT HoRsEs.-T e Bertrand
Morrill, stallion, known in Derby and
Craftsbury, as the Hin Colt, and raised
by Gen. A. Harleigh Hill, of st. Johns
bury, was sold to Clark and Co., of Chi
cago, for $2,l60 and has since been sold
for S3,175.-C CaiedoHian.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-04-24

In general, he only can patiently en-
dure the fame of others who deserves
fame himself.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-04-24

That society where iattery is acted, is
much more agreeable than that where it
is spoken.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1863-04-24

o. Gen. Burnside is reported TO
be at Louisville with 10000 men.
Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-04-22
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! psessndsd Dsmowas--0. G. Cole adj
Vsgtiass shAs he win address the eisixsns
Of pottswassamas eouusy % Saturday
the 18th iazs.s and gives sspssial invisas
tion 70 Dsnaosrass - ssma Qua and hear
him. Fear years ago Cote pretended %
be Q Demoesat, and he wss aoninssed by
tina Democracy fos the sfsce OF suprs1as
Judga. At shas sine the Republicans
asserted thai Cole was noe d Dsmocrat
bat tho Democracy tbesghs that /: was
q Rspuhlisan Ids, started with the inses-
sioas Of dafsasiag his siss<ion. Subss-
qusat svsass have pgussd, thas Tor oacs,
ths Rspablisans sold the truth. Cole, how
ever, stin persists that be ID aemsocras
notwithstanding the overwhelming svi.
dsnee agaiasa MIS- intsnsioas, and b
woald Il be soaid dss%ivs the ssvwy
slsess and Lead saam into tina dark asa
sg Abolitieaism.
II any ana doubts what We say m reia-
ssaa 10 Cola ies him 20 and hear him
SPEAK. Oss hoar spent In lisseaing 10
Cols's sophistry, win soasiase him that
Co.'s 10 ssiling under false eoIors.
: His imzaodsrass thirst for oszss, has
blinded him, 90 that be shisks by patsing
On sAs lisaas skia. shsagh u as, he sHsls
ba ftaksz far sus az Ala kSsgs - III
Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-04-22

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