Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-12-26
EDITORIAL. INKLINGs.
SECRETARY Welles wants Sl42, 100000
to run the Navy for the next year.


THE Ladies of Dsnville will have enter
tainnents, during the Holidays, for the
benefit of the Soldiers.
SENATOR Buckalew, has been placed on
the Standing Committee on Indian Affairs
and the Committee on Pensions.
The" fright of suffrage" under the Ad-
mnistration, is the right of suffering
tyranny, conscription, shoddy, fraud, etc.
ALL wars are evils and contrary to the
diving law. Hence Christians should
preach and advocate peace.
LEWIS Jamison, of Williamsport Pa,
a government lumber contractor. has been
sent to the Old Capitol, for frruds. &c.
A Connecticut soldier, named johnson,
has been sentenced to sixty days imprison-
ment in New Orleans, for calling President
/ Lincoln 'd---d fool"
I The Secretary of War, in his annual
report says tn at 100 900 men have been
made free since the commencement of the
war Of which so, 900 are under arms
The Secretary of the Treasury has
recommended the increase of the tax on
distilled liquors to 60 cents. 1t is believed
at Washington that the recommendation
will be adopted. mo
AN ex change asks, whether We are in
he ninth or nineteenth century. We were
10 the ninetee but this administration
is fast knocking us back into the ninth.
The rebel government talks of paying
the soldiers literally after the war; Its
liberality reminds MS Of the poor fellow 8
will II have nothing, owe everybody,
the rest give to the poor"
THE Army of the Potomac has finally
gone into winter quarters and under a gen
eral order. iurloughs will from this time
forth be granted to officers and men, who
by their good conduct have deserved them
A stampede of horses late took place at
Camp Stoneman below Washington city
which resulted in one thousand OF the ami
mails being drowned in the Potomac
They cost the government 45 a head
That's nothing.
lT Mr.. Lincoln is the government he
must be very poor man by this time, fol-
, no poor wayfaver in the deepest, darkest
wilderness of the world, was ever robbed
as the government has been for the pas
three years
/, A Republican paper wants to know
; "wbat relation do the Democrats really
/ suppose Mr.. Lincoln bears to the govern
e ment?' Well, we should say about the
same relation that clown bears to
circus.
JEREMIAH Spencer, who, it is stated
) was the last survivor Of the Wyomin,
d Massacre, died at New Hartford, Conn.
}. on the 22nd ult at the age of ninety Lou
= years.
A Democratic contemporary says Alb
: Lincoln is determined to be a candidat
: for succession to the Presidential chair
4 and that he will doubtless arrest and i'm
prison all who attempt TO run against hir
a on the charge of trying to overthrow 9th
Il Government"
THERE has been great amount Of sin
pie larceny committed in neighborin
towns this Winter. We would advise OF
citizens to be On the alert A good watc
, prevents harm. Hang thief when he
" young and he will not steal when he
~ old.
W MCCLELLAN was once citizen of Il
United States, but now resides in Il
v "Jarseys Whooiyhead paper.
o. Yes in the "holv land" but be wi
v likely have little business in Washingtc
~ soon and will live in the white house
Old Abe has a few more rails to split
=. Illinois.
ne Our Government land cost one doll
Il an acre Oh an average, and ohampagI
- u two dollars bottle. Many man di'
G, landless who during his life has swallowe
i. fertile township, trees and all. So
ne young man who smokes cigars and ob acc
to the amount of one dollar week, vast
'n farm of fifty acres each year. which in
ne short time would be worth Thousand |
o. its mere rise in value
~ The sole great objects of this war a
o0 the restoration of the unity of the natio
the preservation of the constitution, and t
supremacy of the laws OF the country,
" Gen. Geo. b, Mcclellan.
ny These are words fit to be inscribed
CT the conservative standard 10 the conf
'x- Presidential election, and he swho hol
pie aloft the standard bearing this inscriptic
M an enuiValput one will laa1 tho ~