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Daily national Republican., 1863-05-30
QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS IN THE
CITY OF WARRINGTON.

Section 5 of the charter of ls4s is in the
words following;
And be Il further enacted, That every free white
male citizen Of the United States, who shall
have attained the age Of 81 years. and shall have
resided in the city Of Washington one year i'm
mediately preceding the day Of election, and
shall be a resident of the ward in which he shall
offer TO vote, and shall have been returned on
the books of the corporation during the year
ending the 3lst of December next preceding the
day Of election as subject TO a school.tax for
that year, Except persons non compoS mentis,
vagrants, paupers, or persons who shall have
been convicted OF any infamous crime and
who shall have paid the school taxes, and all
taxes on personal property due from him, shall
be entitled to vote for Mayor, members Of the
Board OF Aldermen, and Board OF Common
Council, and Assessor, and for every other off,
Ger authorized to be elected at any election under
this act"
This has been changed since, 30 far as to
admit those who are otherwise qualified to vote
in June, although not "returned on the books
Of the Corporation during the year ending the
Slst OF December next preceding" provided
they were liable to be so returned, and that the
omission Of their names was owing to the mad
vertence and oversight of the Assessors.
Persons so omitted In December, must take
the following oath:
DISTRICT OF COLOMBIA,
Washington Coiqty-ScL
On this - day Of -, 1868, before me, a
Justice Of the Peace in and for the county afore-
said, personally appears --, who makes
oath, according to law, that he has been a resi-
dent of the City Of Washington for one year
prior to the date hereof and was liable to be
returned assessed for school tax on the thirty
first Of December last, and was omitted to be
returned solely through the inadvertence and
oversight OF the Assessors.
Sworn to before
Daily national Republican., 1863-05-30

TRANsFERRED.-E. A. Woodward, OF Gen.
MArtindAle'E othce, has been, by direction of the
Secretary Of War, transferred to the AdjutAnt
Generals office.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-02

A CHARACTERISTIC LETTER.-President Ln-
coin, when he removed Gen. Curtis from the com
mand in Missouri and appointed Gen. Schofeld
to succeed him, addressed the following letter to
Gen. Schofeld, giving the reasons for the change :;
EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, May p.
General J. NJ Schofeid
DEAR SIR--Havng removed General Curtis
and assigned YOU to the command Of the Depart
ment of the Missouri, | think it may be of some
advantage to state why did it. did not relieve
General Curtis because of my full cOnviciion that
he had done wrong by commission or omission.
| did it because OF a conviction in my mind that
the Union men of Missouri, constituting, when
united, vast ma orty Of the whole people, have
entered into peslilent tactional quarrel among
themselves, General Curtis, perhaps not OF choice
being the head of one faction, and Governor
Gamble that of the other. After months of Ia
Dor to reconcile the difficulty, it seemed to grow
worse and worse, until | felt it my duty TO break
up somehow and as could not renoue Gov
ernor Gamble, had 10 renlOue General Curtis.
Now that you are in the position, wish you to
undo nothing merely because General Curtis OF
Governor Gamble did it but to exercise yo,r o,p1
judgment and do right for the public interest. Lei
your military measures be strong enough TO rope
the lnUaders and keep the peace, and not so strong
as 10 unnecessarily harass and persecMe the people
IL is a d,Gc%H role, and 50 much greater t0iA be
the honor # you perform 1t ,UeA 1t both factions
or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably b'
about right. Beware of being assailed by one
and praised by the other.
Yours, truly, A. LINCOLN.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-02
Going On.

The change that passes upon ones self, as
we go on through life, comes so gradually
through the wear Of successive days, that we
are hardly conscious how perceptibly we are
getting through all that we have to get through
here We fancy, quite honestly, that we do
not look any older in the last ten years, and
that we are now just the same as we were ten
years since. We fancy that, intellectually
and morally, we are better; and physically,
Just the same. People whose character and
history are commonplace, at least fancy this in
their morec heerful hours. But sometimes it
comes home to us what change has passed on
us, perhaps in not very long time. You will
feel this especially in reading old letters and
diaries; the letters you wrote and the diary
you kept long ago.-You probably thought
that your present handwriting is exactly the
same as your handwriting of ten years since:
but when you put the two side by side, you
will see how different they are. -r..r'I
And in the perusal of these ancient docu-
ments, it will be borne in uron you how com.
pletely changed are the things you care for
The cares and interests, the fears and hopes,
of the old days, are mainly gone. You have
arrived at quite different estimates Of people
and OF things; and if you be wiser, You
are doubtless sadder man. And when You
60 back, to the ol.boy spot, or to the
house where you lived when you were ten
years old, it will be curious thing to con.
trast the little fellow of that time with your
OWL grave and sobered self. And you will
do SO the more wildly in the presence Of
some wel-remembered object, which has hard.
~ changed at all in the years which have
changed you so much. II is q commonplace
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-02
The Experiences of Methodist Regimen t

The Experiences of Methodist Regimen
A correspondence Of the Cincinnati, Ohio.
Commercial, writing concerning the battles
of Edwards Depot and Big Black Bridge,
near Vicksburg says:
Tho Oath Iowa is called Methodist regi-
ment. The Colonel and several of the Capt
aims are Methodist preachers, and majority
of the soldiers are members of the Methodist
Church. They did some Of the best fighting
OF the day, yesterday. They went into the
battle full of enthusiasm, and not one of them
finched during the engagement Their Major
was wounded late in the day. He walked
from the field, and, on his way to the hospit-
al, captured stalwart Confederate, and COM
PEELED him to carry him on his back to the
Provost Marshals headquarters. 1t was a
aughable sight to see Major Wright riding
his captive into camp The casuality-list
of the Methodists is very large, and shows
that they stood up to their work like true
soldiers. On returning f m the battlefield
in the evening, they held religious meeting,
at which exercises were very impressive.
AS write they are filing the woods with
" Old Hundred"
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-02

CONVINCED AGAINST THEIR WILL.-The Lon
don Spectator notices as d" curious fact, that out
of the essays sent in at Oxord for the Chancel
lors prize for the best Latin essay on the present
American struggle-the subject proposed by Lord
Derby, all of them of more than average excel
lence--7 are on the Northern side. Moreover,
several of the writer's had begun their labors as
true Southerners, but had been converted by the
pure force of the considerable MS which q thorough
study of the subject brought before Them"
A little study of the American question would
bring great many other Englishmen to the same
conclusion.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-02

A DILEMMA CONCERNING REBEL NoTEs-
Judge Wylie, sitting in the District Court at
Washington, ID. c., as Court of Admiralty, is at
loss what to do with large amount of So
called Confederate money, included in property
brought before him for condemnation. lie says
to condemn it would be to recognize it as proper
ty; to sell it would be to give it circulation, and
to destroy it would be to give aid and comfort to
the enemy by relieving him of his liabilities.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-02

FROM THE 9TH VI. We copy the following
from private letter from the chaplain of the
9th Vermont. Regiment, dated Saturday evening.
June 9th:
" We left Brstow's Station at 7 clock, Thurs
day evening, and marched that night and the
next day through Centreyille to Drainsvlle,
slept there last night, and started early this
morning for Edwards Ferry, where wenow are,
on the Maryland side. The men are in excellent
spirits, and endure the march we'll, The Second
Vermont Brigade came up little later, and are
now encamped near by. We shall probably
resume march early in the morning.
We. got mail last night, the FIRST for long
time. ] am quite we'll. May the Lord Of Host.
DO with us in the great struggle that must be
near"
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-02
STATE CONVENTION.

Mass Convention of the Freemen Of Vermont, with
1ut distinction Of party will be held at Burlington, OIL
Wednesday the eth day Of July next at IL O'Clock,
NJ. to nominate candidates for Governor, Leutenan
Governor and Treasurer be supported at the ensuing
election.
All who are in favor Of sustaining the Government in 1T
efforts to suppress the rebellion and to maintain the
Union in its integrity, cordially invited TO attend.
II. HENRY BAXTER,
JOHN GREGORY SMITH,
GEORGE &. SHHPARD,
LEvERETT b. ENGLESBY, Estate Committee.
STODDABD b, COLBY,
B. W BARTHOLOMEW,
GEORGE n. DALE,
June 49, 1863
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-02

but commend me to commonplaces for reach.
ing the common heart the picture of the
aged man, or even the man in middle age,
standing beside the tree or the river by which
he played when he was little child The
hills, the fields, the trees around, are the
same /; aud there is he, so changed
You remember Wordsworth's bea utiful bal
lad, III which the old schoolmaster is lying be-
side tho fountain, by which be was used to
lie III his days of youthful strength you re
member the same OLD man, looking back
from bright a pril morning to another April
morning exactly like it, but past for forty
years. We may we'll believe, that there is
not human being but knows the feeling
1t is some little thing in our own history that
we remember; but it has touched the electric
chain of ASSOCIATION, and wakened up the
past.
There is rude song current among the
coa-miners of the north of England, in which
an old man is standing by an old oak.tree,
and speaking to that unchanged friend of tho
change that has passed upon himself ; and
though the chorus, recurring at the end of
each verse, is not SO graceful as the lines
which Wordsworth gives to Matthew, tho
thought is exactly the same. The words are,
Sair failed hinny, sair failed now sair
failed, hinny, sin kennel thou But Of all
the poems which contrast the much changed
man and the little Exchanged tree | know of
none more touching than one lately read in
an American magazine. 1t is called The
Name in the Bark Here is a part of the
poem
The self of so long ago,
And the self struggle to know,
sometimes think two, we shadows Of one
To-day the shadow am,
Comes back in the sweet summer calm,
Torace where the earlier shadow fitted awhile in the sun
Once in the dewy morn,
trod through the whispering corn
Cool levered cheek soft breezy kisses blown
The ri6boned and tasselled grass
Leaned the 1atterng glass
And the sunny trled the ow musical tone
To the gray old birch came,
Where whitfield my schoolboy name
The nimble squire once skipping over the rail-
The blackbirds down among
The alders noisiy suug
And under the blackberry whed the serious quail
came RENE mberng we'll,
] How my little shadow fell,
As reached and wrote to leave to the futute sign
There, STOPPING little, found
! half-healed, curious wound
An ancient scar in the bark, but DO initial OF mine
/ shall not add the verses in which the poet
wisely moralizes on this instance, how fast the
traces we leaee behind us pass away. Is it
because can remember how my little shadow
fell, many years since, that the last.qnoted
verse touches me as it does We cast diff
ferent shadow now, my friend, from that lit
tie one we remember well; and it will not be
very long till the shadows that fall and the
substance that cast them shall have left here
an equal trace.-IHe Eccry Day Philosopher
IN In1rn and C0n1lLr1
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-02

FIFTY THOUSAND New MADE FREEMEN BY
decree of the Government of Holland, fifty
thousand slaves in Dutch Guiana are made free
men to-day. What contrast to the terrible
scenes now enacting in this country, where one
third of the people are drenching the land in
blood for the purpose Of riyetng more securely
the shaSkles on four millions o. slaves
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-07-02

The STUDENT AND ScHooLMArE for July
has been received. Besides the really beau
tiful and good stories, each number contains
aSpeech for Defamation, illustrated, and
marked for emphasis and gesture, by COM
petent teacher An original Dialogue And
a Piece of Music.-Gahn James x Co., No.
Is, Cornhill, Boston. Price $l,OO per year,
in advance.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-05-21
ZanesvilIe Aurora-Vallandigham.

The Aurora Of the 7th inst. uses
the following language:
"The AHrera odyora'as the strict adhe.
sion TO the preservation of Ihe Constitution
aud the restoration Of the Union, and the
crushing of all opposing forces.
The policy Of abandoning this platform
for the non-combatant, aadiayir g-dowa-our.
arms policy, when the rebels refuse conciIi.
alton upon any terms except dissolution. is
50 apparent that Valiandigham has a5an-
coned ii. for more sensible position.
Mr.. Vallandghan in his late spec n in
Columbus, April 29th, comes square up to
our position. Wa quote from the Stdies-
man OF May 2, 1868:
"'Mr. V. declared his unfaltering devo-
ton to the Union Of the States, aud that
never with his consent should peace be pur-
chased at The price of disunion. Such, he
affirmed, was the uni yersa sentiment OF tie
Democratic party"
We say distinctly that Mr. Pea.
COCK misrepresents Vallandigham.
when he says that Mr.. V. "abandon.
ed IT," to-wit: "the war principles OF
the party" which are as well dtfncd
as its principles Of civil polity. The
above extract from his Columbus
speech, has been his position at all
times, in all places, before tue advent
.of Lincoln and since, and We again
ask that the Aurora points out his
change on the part OF Mr.. V.
Such articles as the above and the
following from The Athens Democrat.
stacking Democratic candidates. is
of course driving all the frienIs of
Vallandigham frum Mr.. Jewett,
whose claims these papers represent
We have known Mr.. Jcwett since
1910 personally, and believe him
worthy and well qualified al we'll as
Judge Thurman, bnt because a ina
jority Of the masses Of the people
want Vail. for Governor it is no rea
son We should have, from pretended
Democ attic papers, susch base, mali
cious and lying articles as this FROM
The Athens Democrat.
"We see that number Of our cotempora
ries have hoisted the name of Hon. C. l.
Vallandigham, and are urging his claim
with great vehemence. There are severa
reasons which occur 10 US against the pro
rriety Of selecting this gentleman as tht
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-05-21
Our County and State Convention.

We hope Democrat and Conierva
tive men in Vinton, who can, vii
make arrangements to 60 to Colum
bus on the 1lth Of June next. We
hope to see $4,000 men in council
on that day. Let us have the largest
Convention ever held in the West =
And let Yallandigham be nominated
by accIamation. Let us all make ar
rangements to 60 up in wagons, ia
king 6 or s to a wagon. We can
make the trip up in two days. Take
provisions along, put covers on the
wagons 30 that il all can not be ac-
commodated we can accommodate
ourselves. Every County in the State
will send large Delegations. Vinton
must not be behind. Out OF 1900
voters We can certainly send up 800
TO this Convention. Never since
this Government was organized was
there such important events transpi.
ring, and never was more prudence
required at the hands Of every true
patriot and lover Of law and order
AS Brethren let US act for the com
mon good.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-05-21
We now have. a.DcspOtIc Militia
Dy Govern menI in Ohio.

Fellow citizens without regard tC
party, we now as neighbor, a friend
ard citizen, announce to you as a fact
that we have passed from the iuris
diction of the Civil Authorities Of onr
State Constitution and Laws, to the
Despotic Military rule OF the Gener.
al Government. w have frequent
ly told you, this was what VIZ were
coming to, but we were sneercd al
by some, called Union saver, &C.
Now You see it for yourselves. Sup
pose the Democratic party gets pow
er, does any Of our neighbOr5 or citi
zens suppose for moment, that sc
would advocate or for a moment Ne
long to party that would suppress
free speech, free press or FREQ ballot
or that we would sanction one single
arrest Of the humblest citizen in tha
land, outside Of the military or nava
ferces, except by due process of law
and by our civil Courts. Such were
the precedents of W WashiDgton, Madi
son, Jefferson aud every other Presi
dent down to Lincoln. The Militia
ry ofthis Government has ever beer
subject to the Civil Powers, aud here
tofole has enforced the laws of the
land. But how easily we have al
seen this CO ange. What next GO,
only knows, if permitted however W,
will continue to advise our readers
Of what ing on.
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-05-21

ism and Abolilionlsm combined. These
men we've so doubtful about their own 10y =
atty that they found II necessary to NEE.
together anl endorse themselves. They
seemed 10 believe that they were under
strong suspcion and were trying to clear
I themselves by resolutions. The Democrat.
ic party, he said, did not believe the agents
OF the people are the government itself. II
was determined to support the government
oil all hazards, AMI was ready 10 sustain
those in authority in all constitutions
measures. He denounced secessionisnl, and
said it was. the duty Of all TO assist in pnt-
ting il d wn and suppreSsing the rebellion.
AbIlitioniSm, which had nurlued and fed
it, and WAS still weakening our hands, must
also bs overthrown. They were both enc.
mics Of The country, So long as the policy
of the Administration in conducting the
war was TO restore the Union and mlintain
the Constitution, II was generally scQui-
esced in. The conduct of the Democratic
parry at the breaking Que Of the rebellion,
in com ng tn the rescue OF the government
which had JUS. passed. into the hands Of
their political opponents alter heated con-
4 test, anu W auNG ~ llbIl tllJ fcII b
which thy had predicted would surely re-.
suit from the elevation TO power of the Re-
publican party, was unparalleled in The his
tory OF the world. Up to the lime the pol
icy was changed, there was scarcely wor !
Of opposition to the measures adopted loI
the pro ,ecutlon of the war. When LINcoLN
issued the emancipation proclamation
against which he himself had given the mvst
conclusive arguments to the Chicago com.
nittee, difference Of opinion arose. The
Democratic party saw in that movement
only prolOngation Of the war 1t could
have no effect beyond our military lines, and
produced dissension and opposition BY be.
ing usurpatlon OF power and in violation
Of the Constitution. He was severe on
Union Leagues-co considered them band of
''spips and informers," who hunted their
rei gh5ors' kitchens and cellars, and qnes.
toned their hired girls, in hopes of filling
some crumb upon which they might feel
.heir political malice. He Gespised aud
lualhed them and was surprised that any
respectable man would take part in such a
movement and engage in 50 dirty a piece
Of business. He c,osed by urging Democrats
to be cool and deliberate in conversation
and action, and firm and determined IN pur.
pose,
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-05-21
Hon. Wells A. Hutchlns.

This gentleman, as reported in the
Times, addressed the Democratic
Club Of Portsmouth, in Massie Hail,
en- the 81 inst. lie had large au-
-iencc. AS Mr.. Ii. Represents us in
lhe next Congress, our readers will
glory in the sentiments OF this speech.
He began by saying that. as an orgaiza.
ton was in existence determined upon car
ylng the election by resort to desperate
means, it was not 10 be supposed that the
Democratic party would permit the election
TO go by default. The great cause of com
plant among the opponents of the Democ
racy was that the Democratic party poulo
not die. II refused TO sneak inl o all,ys nd
cellars in battling for lis principles, bul
sought the opel daylight. The secret or
ganzatiOn, under the name OF '.Unior
Leagues" was simply Know Nothingisn
with, as General BUTLeR would say, 9Th,
modern Improvements "-consequently il
would be represented by lul.blooded ma.
tive American at one end. and full. blood
ed native American OF African descent Al
the other. Il would be native American
M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-05-21
'COpperhead Rmd BuItermut
BreuSIpInS,

!
Abolition Republicans have sneer.
ingly called every sincere and earnest
Democrat a Oopperheai or a Butter
nut. The Democracy as usual, when
they were nicknamed by our oppOn.
cuts excepted these names, and pre-,
pared Greastpin out Ot the old cop
per cent OF our Revolutionary fathers
the figure Of the head with tho word
Liberty on it, th1y al So prepared
out OF the hutteTnut, lreastpin.--
These neat and tasty emblrlns the De
ImOcracy at oncb dedicated 10 Free
Speech, Free Press, Free Ballot and
the Liberty Of white men generally
But no sooner do these Fana tics scr
HAT these embleins take with the mas
ses, than they in the exercise Of lille
gal authority attempt to surpress the
emblems. Now there is not, nor can
there be any thing in these emblems,
that represent tho rebellion, the South
ern ConfcderOcy, nor the individual
rebel, and we dare any man 10 prove
ut, The only thing that we ever heard
that squinted towards it, was the TACT
that cur Bays in tho Army OF west
Iorn Va. called some Of tho rebels
BuLternuts because they wore home.
made James, coIorel with tho ooze 0
the butternut bark. Then when Re-
puOlicans called Democrats Butter
nuts, they meant simply that we were
' rebels, a kind OF modification Of the
word traitor. The Democracy never
gave the emblem any such definition
What would these men who in IS40,
actually wore Cocnskin5 and Logical
ins, aud when they and their women
and children. as we'll as horses, mules
and jackasses were covered over with
Buckeyes. We say what would they
: have thought il Democrats hal at
tempted, dressed up in q little bricI
authority, to tara these emblems OIL
1910, OF of them, and imprisoned
them for wearing them, as being dis
respectful to the authorities 2
We are led to these remarks from
the fact that we are informed that our
marshal on last Sunday took Butter
mt 5reastpins off Of two young men
that were attending church in our
town, this is The report if true onr
town council should vote the marshal
ia leather medel forthwith. Ii is Ger
itainly brave act on tie part Ola great
Nation, assisted by madame Ohio, to
send round fuli grown men to take
Coppcrhca3 and Ba.t.guat Jrenstpins
cH oIboys and girls breasts. We cx-I
nNct the Register will ascriLe all the
Lanrels Of this war to this act. and
hand down tho Authors to prosterity
in songs and peans OF glory.