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" AMNow DRIVEN TO THE NECESSITY
of advancing ontn1y Vegetable Pile Ointment.
not because it il hexter now than il ever was, but
because every thinkI buy, l have TO ray ten pTi-
cess IT il nv business to make it Tor the benefit
of the afflicted. and by sending 50 90, and 30 cents
to pay the postage, l will send a boxany where in
the Southern Confederaey.
Address NEAL BROWN, Raleigh, n. G..
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GENERAL MoRGAN.-The question
whether the Yankees shaved the heads
of Gen. Morgan and his officers, is at
last settled. The Yankee Chaplain of
the Ohio Penitentiary publishes a letter
10 the Northern papers stating positive
y that their heads were shaved, and
that they are looked up separately in
cells at night like otheE ~convicts. Such
british treatment to prisoners of war
should arouse the spirits oftrue South
ern men everywhere.
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THE NORTH CAROLINA MUTUAL 10
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thy white persons, from Ia to so years of age.
for year for Z years and for life. Also,
healthy SLAYER from 10 to so years of age,
for 1 or 5 years.
CHAS. f. JOHNSON, President.
81. w: Hustled, Attorney.
W. II. JONES, Treasurer.
All desired information given by Agents
in 4 the towns and villages of the State, and
by R. H. BATTLE, Sec'y.
Raleigh. Dec. 2. 1850 Is
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THE PEOPLES FACTORY.

&XIE r NOW IN OPERATION FOR
Dcnrnt or trc feop4s~a~eV< araansssr
manufacturingthe heing Shuttle and old Fashion-
Cd Looms, Spinning Wheels. Bed Steads. &c.
Our foundry is Also in operation, and Castings of
farming interest OF the country win receive onr
especial attention. We wAlpay the highest prices
for Old castings, which yon must bring to us if
you desire the supply Of new castings to- De kent
up. We shall soon beprepared to finnish nloIs
oil various kinds, ny Wholesale and retail. Sol
diers' wives will be furnished with necessary ar
ticles at reduced prices.
SIMPSON q HOOKER.
4S-u Hillsboro'. G.
Maryland free press., 1863-02-27
and "WOoIly- Heads''
the Difference.

ES'"Coppcr-hcads, believe that this country
was made and this government instituted, for
the benefit of white mon. "Wo oolly-heads,"
believe literally, that call mon arc born free
and eqadl," that this government was insti-
tutcd for the benefit of the black m,n, and in
the enactment of laws which guarntecs
'.pcrsonal lbr,y" to the black while it is denied
to the aDhHe man.
"Copper-heads' believe the Constitution
to be the fundamental law of tho land, gov
crning and controlling all other law. "Woo'y-
heads" believe, and have higher law ethan
the Consttution-thc law of brute force and
military necessity"
"Copper-heads" believe in IN exclusive
metallic currcncy-a currency that is worth
dollar for dollar the wide world over "Wooly-
heads" "hdnker" after paper money having no
metallic basis, or such as has no basis in law
o; in fact, and is not recognized as of any
value even in the limits of the Corporation
by which itprofesses to have been issued
Futher distinctions there arc but for the
present we leave the reader to draw them
himself. Who wouldn't be "Copper.head. )
Maryland free press., 1863-02-27
HThe Situat.0n.:5

p@. The "Sixty days job" is dragging its
bloody length along--tbc "nincty days war"
gives no evidence of terminating. The "arti-
reality. The "littlc knot" of disappointed
politicians in the South, are fighting "twenty
millions of freemen," with the utmost despe-
ration, and death and taxes begin to stalk
abroad with fearful strides and fatal steps over
the land.
In the meantime vigorous measures for
prosecuting the war and "crrshing out the
Rebellion" go on. The "Armies are moving"
important results may be looked forsoon"
The Rebels are starving and deserting as usual
--Congress is in session-"Honcst Abe is
joking-Chasc is making paper money-pub-
lie thieves are growing rich on the distress of
the country, and-here's the rub-thc true
''path to the Patriots grave has not yet been
discovered by the Abolitionsts:
Maryland free press., 1863-02-27
Charles G. WrcnshalE

EE"AIany of our readers wilt hear with
deep regret and pain of the death of the young
gentleman whose name, heads this article.
We have just learned that he was killed re-
Gently in one of the battles in Virginia. AL
though native of Pittsburgh he carly es-
poused the cause of the South, and passed
through nearly all their hard fought battles
without injury or loss of health, till now,
fighting his way from the ranks of a private to
that of a commissioned officer.
He was nephew of Judge Mason, and in
that way became resident, for some time, of
our county, where he made many warm and
strongly attached friends by his noble and gen.
erous qualities. Whether the cause to which
he attached himself was right or wrong, no
bravcr or more heroic soldier ever WAS sacri=
feed in its defence, than young Wrenshalll
Maryland free press., 1863-02-27
Real Estate Sale.

Bka-V Valentine Reichard, with the view
of removing to the West, sold his farm Of i75
acres, lying near the College of st. JAMES. to
his brother John Reichard, Esq, for The
sum of $75 per acre.
Messcrs. Meter and Mckee, Trustees for the
sale of real estate of the late Joseph Gabby
decd, sold farm of 1GO acres lying on the
Antietam near Leitersburg, for the sum of
$40 per acre. Purchaser, Peter Middlekauff,
of this town.
The Hotel on the corner of Moth Potomac
and East franklin Streets in this town, the
property Of the late Mrs. Agnes Finnegan,
was last week sold by her Executor, Mr.
Abraham Fl. Mumma, per r. Shcckles, Auc-
tionecr, for the sum of $S1OO.-Purchaser,
Mr.. Hoover, its present occupant.
A tract of land, containing 13 acres and 80
perches, wing adjacent to town on the Sharps-
burg Turnpike, was sold by j. c. Miller to
DR.. j. A. Wroc, for the sum of S 1000.
Maryland free press., 1863-02-27
"That same old Coon"


B'Two years ago, and the Abolition party
could not muster twenty respectable men, in
this county
Since then that party has obtained the con-
troll of the Government, and il numbers its
thousands here
In the days of its weakness, whilst it had
no power, no patronage, no office to confer
the voice and hand of every man in this coun
ty was against it. Now that it has power
and occS to gi.9ie, it can boast of its leading
mon, its presses, its journals, its open, undis-
guised advocates, here in our midst.
Its principles are the Same to-day, that they
were two years ago, Nothing has changed,
but its power. 1t is the same party to-day
that labored for years to dissolre the Union-
the same today against which the Patriots
and Statesmen, Clay, Jackson, Webster,
Douglas, and others warned us in their day
and generation.
1t is the same party to-day that laborod for
years to sow the seeds of dissens;on between
the North and the south,
The same party tha. set a. defiance & he Con-
Maryland free press., 1863-02-27
For the maryland Free Press"

Mr.. Editor: Wal king along Washington
Street, saw three co untrymen, listening
with interest to an earnest and energetic
discourse of gentleman, who from his ap-
pcarance, seem, to be in prosperous circum-
stances. AS the well dressed gentleman was
talking in a loud tone, and seemed to desire
an audience, stopped and made one of his
hearers. He was explaining to the country
men, the objects Of the war, and the speedy
subjugati5n of the South. lie told them that
by the 1st of Nay the whole South would be
ovcrrun, the rebel armies destroyed and jeff.
Davis a prisoner. He told us further that the
rebels were descrting constantly, sickness
was thinning their ranks and starvation was
at every Southern home. He said that after
our troops had killed off the men in the South
ern army and imprisoned the rest, the South
ern people would then love the Northern peo
pie better than ever, and would cheerfully re-
turn to their former political Union. OF this
last he gave us the most positive assurances
Hc said that the rebellion was nothing but
the outbreak of distempcrcd politicians, who
had lost office, and that the great power, mas s,
u
man opposed to these few politicians and when
the rebel armies were once ont of the way,
the unanimous mass and power of Southern
population would be found close to the Union
with the old flag in their hduds
He was very loyal in his abuse of traitors
and rebels in our midst. lie was loud in his
declarations that they ought to be hung and
EMPHATIC in his opinion. that all persons who
did not agroe with the Administration, and an
prove Of the course of the President, ought
to be imprisoned, and at the same time he de-
nounced the administration for its mistaken
leniency towards Democrats He touched on
variety of other topics connected with our
National affairs, and explained great many
pcrplexing questions to our entire satisfac.
tion, and then left us.
After he left one of the countrymen turned
to me and asked what thought of it. 1 told
him that the gentleman seemed to be very low
al indeed, and was in possession of much val
liable information. And that it was very no.
lite ard cofidescending in him to take such
great pains to explain all those interesting
out and said, yes he is smart man and ought
to know all about the itatter, because he was
one of the excise tax collectors, and had been
appointed by the administration to Office
The third however was not so ready to do JUS
tice to the superior information, and conde-
scending politeness of the exciseman. Being
a mechanic, and having large family to sup.
port and nothing to support them With but
his earnings, he had hut lately been compelled
to pay this exciseman some taxes; which went
hard with him, and he had the hardihood to
suggest that perhaps the loyal and polite ex.
ciseman was talking more for his own pocket
than for the Government, aud that as long as
he (the exciseman) enjoyed the cmolumcnts
of a fat office, he might we'll wish all oppo.
nents to Che power that appoint ed him, in Jail
Maryland free press., 1863-02-27
Days Past, and Days Present.

&c" There was time when it was not re-
garded as "disloyai' to oppose Aboltionism.
In the days of jackson, Clay and Webster; one
could tell the truth about Abolitionist without
fear having his liberties destroyed. In those
days people did not commit ''treason" when
they exposed the wickedness, the treason and
unholy purposes of this fanatical party.
Webster himself thundered against them
Clays voice rang out clear, loud and cmphat-
ic against them--whle old jackson swore
"by the Eternal" that such party should
not rule in his day and generation. All the
great and honored men of the nation were
against them, and we had peace, domestic
tranquility, and national prosperity. But
now-"nuf ced,"
Maryland free press., 1863-02-27
The NOW Draft.

EVSThc new draft is something refreshing
in nonotonous times like these. Our people
have been "spiicn for a .fgM." They have
been preaching for war, war, war, and at last
their time has come. The old "cxempts"
must be done over again, but OH n widely dif-
ferent principle.
''Honest Abe" has taken care to have things
in his own hands, and no more Conscientious
scruples'-no moro general dcbility''-no
more false teeth" or "sprQiaed ankles" will
answer as "comesoif," the exemptions dc :
pend now oh different principle
No more substitutes either. Uncle Abe has
taken caro- ofthat. 1t is n rereRue bill rs we'll
as conscriptioh. Whoever would oscar
must pay down the round sum of three hundred
dollars to the Government. "Your money tr
your life" ye sprained ankle gentry. Your purse
or your blood, ye toOthess, deJilitated patriots!
Mr. Chase wants money. Do your hat:ef
yourselves that your spraincd ankles, false
teeth, sofc fingers, stumpcd toes, and ''patent
trusscs" will exempt you nowi Your shallow
cowardly excuses will bc sharply looked after
Ivy Honest Abe's own agents. Neither en-
rollers or drafting officers, nor physicians;
Preachers, nor Clerks or Registers, nor Sherif1s
or Magistrates. nor Constsblcs, nor Nail Con-
tractors or their securities, none, none arc ex-
cmptcd. "lIit ON again. Father Abraham
they wanted it. Let them taste the "littlc
brcakfastspell"
Fine times yc'll have, ye sprained ankle
patriots, trudging through tho "sacrcd sol. :"
But when you do get three, do as you have
dono here. Mako war on the helpless and
friendess, opprcss the unprotected md weak,
mob and plunder houses, and when the foe
approaches-sccs "ttc path to the patriots grave.
hut, alas' you will find no rail roads to carry
you there then.
Maryland free press., 1863-02-27

A chance for Patriots.

nSy-The Bill already passed in the Senate
for getting up the National forces by conscrfp-
ton was expected to come 70 a vote in the
House yesterday. It's to be hoped that our
Representative, Ex. Goveror Thomas, will not
do aught which might have tenden cy to de-
prive his "loyal" and patriotic constituency OF
this county, of the long sought opportunity OF
dying in the cause of their country and the
contrabands. 1t would be radically wrong to
encourage or countenance such Inconsistency
as breaches war and leads others into it, and
yet when it comes to the "pinch' pleads as
exemption conscientious scruplcs." And yet
worse would it be not to allow spread eagle
patriots at least one opportunity to travel the
''path to the Patriots grave"
No backing down now, gentlemen, you who
have preached from the pulpit, the hustings, the
street-corners, and the Bar-rooms, your pug
nacious proclivities, ought to be the last men,
now in your country's extremity, when she
truly needs your services, to sneak ott under
any plea whatever. You have induced others
to leave comfortable homes, remunerativc em-
ployment, attached parents, dependent wives
and fond children, to risk their lives in your
defence, and now that they have gone to that
bourne ffon whence no traveller returns, why
should you refuse to defend those that they
have left behind-to take their blaces in the
defence of the best government the world ever
saw-in defence of the institutions and prin-
ciples, you have been wont to laud and extol
to the skies. When it comes to the test will
you acknowledge that you have been deceivers
that your patriotism has been of the mock
order, bogus, counterfeit Alas! we fear too
many of you will seek fame, glory and the
Patriots grave behind imagined infrmities,
up the railroad, or in some other wrong di-
rection. The "Copper-heads" have an eye on
you.
Maryland free press., 1863-02-27
aCoprer.head" Currency.

gsa,1hc currency of the "Coppcr-hcads'
Gold, is now selling at premium of "A
cents on the dollar, and yet we find the
per currency system. Is there one among
them sufficiently honest in his belief to risk
laying by few thousands of this paper mon-
ey2 We think not. Nor can all their bols-
tering up induce in the people that confidence
that is felt III the ring OF the true metal
Printers may take it, because they never have
anything to lay by, but farmers will always
consider ''wheat in the mill" as something
more reliable
Maryland free press., 1863-02-27
For the Free Press.
Winter


"Wintcr clothed in her robes OF snowy
whiteness." There is nothing on this Earth
of wonder and beauty, that upon the eye, has
such brilliant effect, as that of beautiful,
clear morning in the depth of winter, when
every object is clothed in n robe of the purest
whitcness. Then there is the great Light of
the day casting his bright rays down upon all
which forms scene of the most dazzling bril-
liancy.
Every tree is covered with diamond-like
crystals, and they seem as though they We're
placed there for no other purpose than to have
pleasing effect upon the eye.
A great many persons think winter bleak
and dreary season, but it is just the reverse,
for when does the joyful school-boy feel mer-
rier, than while he is plodding around through
the snow-drifts or building -fnrts-why
he grcets the first fall of snow with as much
delight, MS though it brought 'good news and
glad tidings' from the region above. Sleigh
ing is another charm that belongs to winter
alone, which during the last several days has
enlivened our town with the merry jingle of Il g
bells. 1t reminds lis of the musical poem of
Pdpar Doe -"rl" Dill - '......
Hear the slcdgc with the bells-sver bells
What world OF mcrrimcnt their melody forctlls.
SPARKEY.
Maryland free press., 1863-02-27

sttution by refusing to the Southern people
their rights under the Constitution.
The same party that trampled the Con-
stitution under their feet, by the personal
liberty bills of the Northern states.
The same party to-day, whose leaders open
ly counselled resistance to the laws and Con-
stitution, and to Federal Authority in Boston,
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut.
1t is the same party to-day that but short
time since declared the Constitution ga COZ
endm 'riM HeH,' and the Union "ieague
teiM tie Dera"
The same party to-day, Against which the
Democracy have over warred-ever will war,
and whose principles, mon, and measures,
they have. never yet, and never will, confide
in or support.
Maryland free press., 1863-02-27
For the "Frce Press. !"
Habeas Corpus and Gov. Thomas.

Habeas Corpus and Gov. Thomas
A person made Indignant by the oppres
sion of an obscure person in the reign q
Charles 2nd; wr, h from Parliament the writ
of "Habeas Corpus" and they have ever since
protected it as the strogest bulwark in defence
of their rights, the AHeEican Colonies made
it the cornerstone in the construction of their
Temple of liberty. Washington, guarded it
Madison guarded it, jackson guarded it. But
the "foul deed" of teating it out, has been
left to the Abolition Administraton of Abra-
ham Lincoln. Among the blotted records of
that administration stands the name of Francis
Thomas of Maryland, voting "aye" to bill
that annihiates the powers of the Judiciary
of his state, strikes blow at the dearest rights
of her citiz ms, and arms an impotent Execu.
tive with powers that Nero might have en-,
We'd. Dsrcgarding the potency of the late
d.mocratic victories, unmindfull Of his onerous
debt of gratitude to that party-forgctful that
he is Marylander, he permits his emanci-
patton prcdjudiccs to lead him into coalitions
and n e ,sures that will forever consign him I'd
his cloistcred home, shorn of all the proud lau.
rols with which the democratic party La,
dccked him.
To blackcn the dark deed, lie accompanies
1t with the assertion, lin answer to Mr.. NIay)
ia more foul assertion than that Maryland
WIS under the heels of tyranny, never was
m lde."-
Dare he to tell his constituents of Frederick
Washington and Allegheny counties, that they
have never felt the "opprcssors wrong'-thst
they have never been arbitrarily deprived of
their rights, when he knows-tbat they know
and feel that some tf their most distinguished
friends and citizens Lave been seized and il-
carcctated in loathsomc cells of military bas-
tiles, at the mere arbitrary will Of pompous
Provost Marshalls. Will he tell his fellow
citizens of Hagerstown that their rights arc full
y respected, when their property is kept front
them at the will Of subordinate revenue Off
GERS. Can he tell citizens of Baltimore city
that they are untrammtlled, when they are
inplicdly forbidden to listen to distinguished
member of Congress whose speeches and SEN
timcnts were vehemcntly applauded in New
Jersey. Such liberties were bcqueathcd hy
our forefathcrs to slares, not to Free Ameri-
cans, of Anglo American descent.
How have the rights of property been re-
garded in Maryland? Is it not patent to tho
administration, and to Ex. Gov. Thomas, that
| large portions Of the lands of this county, bor-
dering upon the river, have been turned into
commons by the occupation of Federal armies?
leaving many of the farmers unable to re-fencc
their lands without compensation for that
taken. Why is it, the Ex. Governors clarion
voice has not been heard in Congress, in is.ing
upon the redress Of such wrongs? If he can
see illegal tenders" enough in the treasury to
emancipate the slaves of Missouri. he ought
not be blind to ''private property taken for
public ue"" yais in tie Constitution.
FAIR PLAY!
Maryland free press., 1863-02-27
What Party ia itl


Bn.Somc of our worthy citizens, who in
days past have denounced, and priofessed to
abhor Abotionisn, pretend to excuse them
selves for their support of the party now in
power, by saying that it is not an Abolition
party. If it is not an Abolition party,
pray tell us, what party is it? When
did Lincoln leave the party? When did
Sumner, Wade, Hale, and old Shad Stevens,
quit the Abolition party? When did Chase
turn? When did Seward go off? When was
Fred Douglas converted? And are not these
the leading spirits in the party now in power?
These worthy and "loyal" citizens of ours are
"hand in glove" to-day, with the men whom
they affected to abhor, only a few years ago
"chcek by jowp' with those who only few
years since denounced the Constitution, set at
defiance the Federal authority, and openly
proclaimed their purpose to dissolee The Union
We never have, we never will support, sus-
tain or uphold such men, whether they be in
power or out of power. They, and such as
they, have kept the whole country in fer
ment for years. They have labored to divide
the North and South-they have sown discord
and strife in the land for thirty years-they
cast contempt on the Constitution by setting
up "higher law" than the Constitution-they
refused to make any sacrifices for the Union.
"Rule or ruin" hns been their motto for thirty
years or more.
"Let the Union slide," was the open mouthed
declaration in the Congress of thc United
States, OF one of their most embccile, incom-
petent, but favored, pcttcd and honored gen.
erals, now high in ommand-Gencral Banks.
Their supporters schoolcd and tutorcd by
them, murdered Southern men at Chrstiana
and Carlisle, made war on peaceful homes and
slumbering citizens at Harpcr's Ferry-and
these same leaders defended the murdcrers-
cmbalmed the bodies and dcfed the memories
of John Brown and his followers.
We never had faith in such men VIC never
can have-we cannot support them-we can
not trust them. If this makes us "disloyal,' -
then we are 'disloyal," indeed.