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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-15
Peace and War.

The New York Observer thus forcibly re-
plies to the urgent appeal of the London Peace
Society that we make peace:
Now, will the London Peace Society tell
US horo to make peace? We had peace, and
loved it, and suffered for it-submitting for
years and years TO the dictation of those who
are now fighting US. We yielded to them for
fifty wears, and would have yielded to them
probably fifty more, if they had not battered
down our forts, plundered our garrisons,
threatened our Capital, and reared rebel
Government among our own citizens.
"Now we want peace. and how shall we get
it? Shall we give up the principle for which
we are couteudiug? II has cost us already the
lives of hundred thousand men and more
treasure than we can count. Shall we ac-
knowledge the right of any faction of our peo-
pie to dsmember the nation at their pleasure?
Shall we abandon our national existence alto
gether, and sink iuto the condition of con.
stitutional mobpcracy, liable to be dissolved at
breath of popular discomfort? This we do
if we consent 10 secession. What would the
London Peace Society advise if the Scotch
people should throw off allegiance to the Brit
ish Grown? If England should march her
armies north, would the London Peace Society
interpose and beg her TO make peace? Did
the Society ask its own Government to let the
East Indians alone when they asserted their
independence?
I'VE do want peace. We are perishing by
thousands in this horrid war. 1t is a shame, a
! burning shame, that such war as this should
/ be, in the nineteenth century, in the midst OF
the full blaze of the Gospel and the light Of
the highest civilization. But 1t is not our
fault, and we cannot stop it. If the London
Peace Society would address tselG to their
own neighbors, the merchants and manufac-
turers of England who are sending out arms
and stores to aid the rebellion; If the Peace
Society would address the Government and
people of England, who have fostered the re-
belliou and given it all their moral support;
if the Society would send its appeal TO our
Southern people, who have committed ;he
/ highest crime known on earth, in disturbing
good government and bringing on us and them
the awful mseries of useless, wicked, vast
ing war, then the Society might do some
good" .
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-15
CASH AND CREDIT.

If you would get rich, don't deal in bill books.
Credit is the "tempter in a new shape
Buy goods on trust, and you will purchase a
thousand articles that Cash would never have
dreamed Of A shilling in the hand looks lar
ger than ten shillings seen through the perspec-
tive Of three mouths bill. Cash is practi-
cal, while Credit takes horribly to taste and ro-
nance. Let Cash buy dinner. and you will
have beefstake hanked with onions. Send
credit to market, and he win return with eight
pairs Of woOdcocks and peck of mushrooms
Credit believes in diamond pins and cham
pagine suppers. Cash is more easily satisfied.
Give him three meals day, and he don't care
much if two Of them are made up of roasted
potatoes and little salt. Cash is a good ad-
wiser, while Credit is a good fellow to be On
visiting terms with. If you wasn't double chins
and contentment, do business with Cash.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-15
HAsTY MARRIAGFa


The New York Tribune makes the follow.
ing sensible remarks on the subject of hasty
marriages:
"There is not city, there is scarcely town.
ship, which does not number among Its inhab-
itants women who have married on very short
acquaintance, only to be abused, deserted and
left burden and lifelong sorrow in The. fami-
lies in which they were born and rea and
which they imprudently and improperly de-
serted to share the fortunes of relative stran-
gers. If young ladies would realize how
grossly indelicats as well as culpably reckless
such marriages appear to the eyes af the OBJ
serving, they surely would fOrbear. A years
thorough acquaintance with the most circum-
stantial accounts, from disinIerested and re-
liable witnesses, of the antecedents from child
hood, are the very least guarantees which any
woman who realizes what marriage is viii re-
quire Of stranger. Even then, if her parents
are not fully satisfied as well as herself she
should still hesitate. Marriage is an under
taking 10 which 10 delay can be so hazardous
as undue precipitation"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-15
Al stsnhsnn prnnhst-

II is well known that the present Vice Pres
ident Of the Confederacy made speech strong
ly opposed to secession in the Georgia Con.
viention of January, 1861. The following ex-
tracts will show how clearly he perceived the
iniquity, and foresaW the results of the meas
ure:
That this step once taken could never be
recalled, and all the baneful and witherng con-
sequences that must follow las they would see)
will rest on the Convention for all coming time.
When we and our posterity shall see our love
ly South desolated by the demon of war which
this act of yours win inevitably invit and call
forth when our green fields of waving har-
vests shall be trodden down by the murderous
soldiery and fiery car of war sweeping over
our land; our temples Of justice laid iu ashes;
all the horrors and desoIation of war up.
on US who but this Convention will be held
responsible for il 7 and who, but him who
shall have given bis vote for this unwise and
ilLtimed measure las honestly think aud be-
lieve) shall be held TO strict account for this
suicidal act, by the present generation, and
probably cursed and execrated by posterity
for all coming time, for the wide and desolat-
ing ruin that will follow this act you now pro-
pose to perpetrate.
Pause, / entreat you, and consider for mo.
ment what reason you can give that will even
sa tisfy yourselves in calmer momenta-yha;
reasons can you give to your fellow sufferers
in the calamity that it will bring upon US
What reasons can you give 70 the nations of
the earth to justify it They will be The calm
and deliberate judges in the case ! and to what
cause for one overt act can you name or point
on which to rest the plea Of Justification p
What right has the North assailed2 What
interest OF the South has been invaded?-
What justice has been denied? and what claim
founded in justice and right has been wilhheld2
Can either of you to-day name one Govern
mental act Of wrong deliberately and purpose
ly done by the Government of Washington, Of
which the South has right to complaint [
challenge the answer!
x x y x
Now, for you to attempt 10 overthrow such
Government as this, under which we have
lived for more than three quarters Of century,
in which we have gained our wealth, our stand
ing as a nation, our domestic safety, while the
elements of peril ara around us, with peace
and tranquility accompanied with unbounded
prosperity and rights unassailed-is the hight
Of madness, to which I can neither lend nv
sanction nor my vote"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-15
AG RICULTURAL.
WOol-aroWeru Convention.


A convention of fwool-growers was
held at Cleveland, Ohio, the other
day, and was very largely attended.
The principal topic discussed was
whether shearing should be done
before or after washing. After a
careful consideration of the oues-
tion, it was resolved that the prac-
tice of washing sheep should be a.
bolished, because,
1st. 1t permits of early shearing
which secures a greater quantity Of
wool, longer staple, and a better
condition of sheep and ewes,
through the year.
I'd. OF the exposure to conta-
gious diseases, such as scab, foot-rot,
&C., in places frequented by differ
ent focks to be washed. ,ti
Sd. Tt is an expensive, umpleas-
ant job, and unhealthy both for man
and sheep. ''
4th. That the manufacturer must
cleanse the wool at all events, and
he can do it cheaper than the grow
er.
5th. That it is to the interest of
wool-growers to put their unwashed
wool in as good condition as posi-
BILE, by keeping their yards weIl lit
tered, and by throwing away all
filth that can be separated from the
wool. rn
9Th. Some lots of wool are more
gross and gummy than others, there
-E
agreed upon suitable TO all grades
and clases, but that each lot should
be bought upon its own merits for
quality and condition.
7th. As generally practiced, wash
ing IS little or no improvement to
the fleece.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-15
A Patriot Democrat,

Col Durbin Ward, well known iu days past
as prominent leader in the Democratic ranks,
was invited to address the late Union Mass
meeting at Hamilton, Butler county. From
his letter written to the Committee Of Invita-
tion. we copy the following paragraph for
the edi6cation of Democrats who are now
opposing the Government in the prosecution
of the war:
"What, then, is the duty of Democrats Gf
we must sill remember party distinctions,) 10
this hour of peril to the Union? Shall we
who have always claimed to be par excellence
the party of the Union abandon her fortunes
now? If there were no patriotism, nothing
but party fealty involved, l should still be
amazed at my Democratic associates for Civ
ing the war so cold support. tried for a
long time to believe that it was not so; that
they were slandered; that they favored and did
not oppose the war, but the evidence tbickens
upon the country too much for doubt. The
body of the party is, l am sure, at heart right,
and hope most OF the leaders are too; but
many of them, it is but too apparent, are ep-
posed to coercive measures to restore the
Union. OF two things let all such be apprised:
Nothing but the vigorous application of force
can ever subdue the rebellion. and every teach
ing to the contrary aids and abets JEFF. Davis
and his rebel Government.
"There is a possibility that even force may
not restore the Union; it is certainty that
nothing else ever can The Rubicon is cross
ed, and nothing is left but the forcible destruc-
ton Of the rebel power or the recognition Of
the Southern Confederate States. Whoever
is not willing 10 have recourse 10 the one
ought at Once to propose the other. In this
hour of war to the knife, and the knife to the
hilt, half way measures are not only useless
but mischieyous. He that is not against us
must be for us in passionate earnest if h.
meaHs the country shall have faith in his sin
| cnrifu y
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-15

The Indianapolis Sentinel says the farmers
10 that vicinity report the ground is in fine
condition for cora planting. The peach crop
promises to be very abundant. The wheat,
which in the winter did not look favorable,
now looks fine, aud there win be 40 eud to the
grass.
A REBEL ATTACK ON McCLELLAN.-The
Richmond Wbig, of the 2lsl, contains saw.
age attack on Gen, Mcclellan, in substance
that all the while the rebels we're praising him
as the ablest General we bad, they believed
him To be weak commander.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-15

GEN. BUTLER ON LIQUOR IN THE ARMY.-H
appears that when Gen. Butler was before the
congressional committee on the war, several
months ago. be was asked whether intoxicating
liquors are used in the army, and replied:-
"They are, to most woful extent" As an il
lustration Gen. Butler said:
I'VE used to send a picket guard up a mile
and a half from Fortress Monroe The men
would leave perfectly sober, yet every night
when they came back we would have trouble
with them on account of their being drunk
Where they got their liquor from we could not
tell. Night after night we instituted vigor-
Gus examination, but it was always the same.
The men were examined over and over again;
their canteens were inspected, and yet we
could find no liquor about them. At last it
was observed that they seemed to hold their
guns up very straight. and upon examination
every gun-barrel was found to be full Of Whis-
ky-aud it is not always the soldiers who do
this" .---.. fas
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-15
THE THANKFUL HEART.

If one should give me a dish of sand, and
tell me there were particles Of iron in it, l
might look for them with my eyes, and search
for them with my clumsy fingers, aud be un.
able to detect them; but let me take magnet
and sweep through it, and how would it draw
to itself the most invisible particles by the
mere power of attractionl The authankful
heart, like my finger 10 the sand, discovers no
mercies; but the thankful heart sweeps
through the day, and as the magnet finds the
iron, so it will find every hour some heavenly
blessings; only the iron in Gods sand is gold.
%. W. Holmes.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-15
A New Cnrrsncv a. the south.

The Lynchcurg (va) Republican OF the
9th says: IAN Augusta, Georgia, cotempora-
ry states on the authority of gentleman just
returned from the upper part Of North Carroll
ma, that tenpenny nails are passing current
there at five cents each. We have no such
metallic basis fer our currency here. Our cir
culuting mediums are grains of corn represen-
ting five cents, and guilds of tobacco represen-
ting the decimal"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-15

The New CALIFORNIA SENAToR.-Mr. Con-
ness, Of California, the recently elected Sena-
ator, is making strong Union speeches in that
State. On the 18th uIt, Union League
was organized IN San Francisco where the
new Senator made speech. He noticed the
reports circulated in the East in regard to
hisi probable co-operatiOH with the copper
heads, and Indignantly repudiated any such
intentions. He defended the administration,
eulogized the President, and denounced as the
real Abolitionists those who were striving to
abolish the GoVerement and nation
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-15
Engltshmen Speaking Out Boldly.

At the great meeting held in Manchester to
protest against the laxity of the British Gov
ernment in the case of the Alabama, Profess
sor Newman aud Goodwin Smith. Regius Pro-
fessor of History at Oxford, both men Of high
academc and literary repute, took the ground
that the Government was responsible to Amer
can citizens for every iota of damage done by
Confederate war vessels escaping the ports
through its own want of vigilance. "No man.
said Professor Newman" should be elected
to Parliament who is not in favor of paying an
idemnity for the losses inflicted by the Alaba-
ma 8 No nation said Goodwin Smith, argu-
ing the same point, ever inflicted upon anoth-
er more fragrant or more maddening wrong
No nation with EHglish blood in its veins
had ever born such a wrong without resent
ment The case of the Alabama bore no a
nalogy to the sale of munitions of war. She
was not like munitions of war, exported to
the territory of the purchaser. She did not
go-she never was meant to go-inte Con-
federate port up to this moment she had nev-
er entered port in the Confederate territory.
Built and equipped in a British port. manned
by British searBen, with the English flag flying,
she went forth TO cruise from an English port
against the commerce of our allies. That was
the substantial grievance of the American
Government, and no technicalities of the So
licitor General would make it otherwise than
heinous wrong"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-15

FREE LABOR IN LoUIsIANA.-The New Bed
ford Mercury publishes an extract from let
ter from an officer in the Thirty-eighth Massa-
chusetts volunteers, dated Berwick City, La,
April 10, which says:
i" We passed many immense plantations,
whose standing cane showed the seeesh absent,
whose fears dictated fight when Weitzel came
in last year. Others had been cleared, crops
sold. and work going on well. These last are
being worked by free labor on General Banks
new pIan am told the scheme is apparently
a success here, and it is believed the region
will if it escapes the ravages of war, produce
large return in sugar and molasses. had
much conversation with the railroad superin.
tendent, keen Connecticut officer, who is per-
fectly convinced of the praeticability Of Banks
free labor scheme from full years observa
tion. He has twenty-five hundred under his
control. He says he is perfectly convinced
too, of the perfect feasibility Of employing white
labor. The health of his numerous white en-
ployees last year was better than that OF his
blacks -
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-15
Most Horrible Rarbnritn.

The assistant Surgeon of the 93th Ohio, P
II. ClemOns writes to lady in Sandusky a
letter from which the Register quotes the
particulars of one of the most outrageous ca
ses of rebel barbarity which the history of the
war furnishes. Having previously spoken of
the scout of five or six days on which his
brigade had recently been, he says: while
we were out on this last trip dressed the
wounds Of soldier (72d Ind.) who had been
taken prisoner him and his comrade, and after
tieiDg them both up to tree with their hands
behind them, Captaln deliberately shot them
both-killing the other man on the spot. AZ
ter shooting the one saw once through the
face and once through the neck, so that I
cut the ball out just below the bend Of the
jaw on the opposite side, untieing him, they
still found he bad life in him, when the fiend
shot him again in the back of the head while
be lay writhing on the ground the ball en-
tering just at the base of the ear and coming
out at the left eye, completely destroying it,
And yet with all these wounds, in the head
neck and face, that man got up and wandered
around until he came across our brigade and
so fell into my hands.
General Stanleys cavalry that was out
with us had taken lot Of prisoners, and soon
as General Stanley heard of the outrage be
sent word to me to have him brought up to
bis quarters, and then the next morning be
had the wounded man placed on the porch
and compelled all these prisoners to come up
and confront him separately, telling bin that
if he could recognize any one as among the
miscreants who had wounded him, there would
be another shooting match on the other side Of
the house.
But the wounded man shook his head and
said there were none Of bis prosecutors among
the lot. l sent him to the Hospital and hear
since that there is some chance Of his recovery.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-15

One year ago the Democrats in Chicago
elected their candidates for mayor, Francis q.
Sherman, by about one thousand majority
He has been reelected by one hundred and
eighteen majority. Quite falling of
Spriengfeld, the home Of President Lin
colu, which went Democretic last Spring by
two hundred, and has never been anything
else, has been carried by the Republicans tri-
umphantlY.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-15

The official list of the saved from the Anglo
Saxon chow that 80 cabin passengers, IO3
steerage passengers and Il Of the crew were
saved, out of the 444 on board when the ves-
sci struck The mails were all lost. The ves-
sell lies in fourteen fathoms of water, ship and
cargo being a total loss.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-15
WHITES EoR THn DnLAwARE G
DELAWARE.


shimmnrIng spires mid clouds Of green,
Ike saubeams wrapt I'm emerald sheen:
EMPOWERED homes where eozy peace
Brssfhes a rich charm Of quiet bliss;
Gushlng waters a. esyptaI bright,
Sequsstered walks bsheelsd with light;
Hearths where holy radiance falls,
More rars than that Of palace halls;
Meath aazansF clouds ana sumner stdes,
A psstnrs traced in Ioysliest dyes,
Ny fancy with minutest care,
In memory paints thos, DelaWarsl
when the suneful buglsss sweet refrain,
Through mOonlit camps, on hin and plain,
Psrsuades tho soldier TO his rest,
Charms % calm his unquiet breast;
When the Watehfal ssntris's footballs slow
Join with the brsathing deep and low,
OF slsepsrs, like winged spirits come
Visions Of thee, my Ohio home,
Leading my captive soul afar
Prom the uneeniaI scenes o. war,
And the drums clear note on the morning air
Breaks my dream Of thee, my Delaware
Ay I Bus net only BY my watehhre
Art thou dreamed Of, some son or aire,
Daily and nightly wherever burns
The HbanneF o. beauty and gIoFy's yearns
For thee, or by MsstBsippis tide,
Or RapPahanBeck's blood stained side.
Hal 20 yea, brothers patriots, hail
Deiaware hearts should never quail,
No, not cen when the lannon's breath
Is hot and the air IL thick with death:
Where Freedoms foes are thickest, there
Look for thy sons, my DelaWarel
And Thy daughters3 BY the tsper's light
Isee them toll with tireless might
Toll for brothers, lovers and sons
Who vigils keep where the black mOuthed guns
OF traitors cape AZ them. Then go
In fancy where TO the moonbeamis glow,
The lone picket some sweet image holds,
Kisses, blesses and warmly folds
To his manly breast, and hear
Him whisper, stguardian angel dear,
Next TO the dag of my country, thee,
Sweet maid o. Delaware, thee, yes, Ase,"
Blessed guardian are thy lovely fair
Ger the hearts o. thy soldiers, my Delaware
Pole star Of my heart when wildly roll
Fate's vs8gsfal bilIows and my soul
Il well nigh wrecked, like frances come
Memories Of thee that break the spell OF doom,
And make me look 20 heaven and smile
At chance and pain. And cen the bloody toll
OF war, the son, sweet music Of thy name
Dissolves 70 rest, and ais my frame
With rapturous hope,-thOu seem'st from sin
The free'st, and 70 heaven most akin
OF all the earth, since thou dost bear
The sacred name OF home, my Delaware
AMP or SID RsG., o. v. l., Stafford C. H., Va
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-05-15

No. For Agricultural see another column
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1856-187?, 1863-06-27

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