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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1863-04-23


fant,y, all foreigners, were picked up some so
miles down the Potomac, and brought to
Washington yesterday. They had converted
their funds into gold and state stock, and ap.
peared very anxious to go farther north.
M. MERCER, the French Minister, received
despatch yesterday confirming the previous
reports that the French army had succeededin
carrying the outer works at Puebla.
Yesterday morning, j. Boyle, workman
at the Washington Navy Y ard, was taken up by
the marine guard for disloyal sentiments
Boyle, on being searched, was found to have
about 5000 On his person in counterfeit gold
and silver coin, and 500 in counterfeit bank
notes, together with set of lead knuckles
Judge Belts, Of the New York Prize Court,
has decided to turn over the Peterhoffs mail
to the 7. S. District Attorney, unopened, 20
be forwarded to the Government This is
equivalent to deciding that the Court has no
legal right to open the mails of that vessel
This decision seems to settle the question OF
the inyiolabiiity of the mails Of any Govern
ment bearing its official SEAL upon which
point there has never been any previous
controversy.
The proper auditing bureau Of the Treasury
Department finds that in most Of the German
regiments raised in New York city. defective
pay-rolls have been made out for that office and
that by collusion with parties cognizant OF
those filed in the Paymaster General office,
payments have been twice made, thus realiz-
ing handsome sums to the swindlers. The
D'Utassy case, now On trial, is said to present
similar state of facts.
The Pittsburg papers announce that the
railroad debt of Allegheny county, amounting
in the aggregate to over S3,000000, has been
compromised, pursuant to 8 law lately passed
by the Pennsylvania Legislature.
Thirteen Confederate prisoners OF war, OF
Virginia and North Carolina regiments, were
brought up from the army OF the Potomac
Yesterday also seven men as Confederate de
sertcrs from Georgia and Alabama regiments.
Tbey were all sent to the Old Capitol prison.
The sailing of the ship NJ. G. Stevens for
Liberia. which was to lave taken place On the
lst of May has been postponed TIL the 10Th OF
that month. Emigrants from many Northern
States will 90 out in her, and several missiona-
~ passengers. Also the Consul General ot
Liberia Mr. J. J. Henry
The Commissioner Of Internal Revenue has
decided that hotel keepers who sell liquors
must take out liquor sellers license i'll addi-
t;on co a hotel keeper license.
At the Chicago municipal election, this
week. the total vote reached 20, 300. .Sher~
man, democratic candidate for Mayor, was cleo
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1863-04-23
PUBLISHED DAILY BY
EnGAR SNOW DEN, JR.
ox~0FrICE-No. 104 King street, over
3 as g&a, (formerlv French's s) Book Store.
LATER FROM EUROPE.

81 LATER EKUM EOIlOI FL
b The steamer Persia has arrived with AlVer-
1 rool aayices, via Queenstown tc the 18th
Il instant ;,
4 Engapd, France and Austria sent simulta-
aneous dispatches to Russia on the loth rela-
tive TO Poland. The dispatches are friendly,
but all convey an ineligible meaning
# Russia stills exhibits active military prepar-
8ations.
ii The English Government Ministers have
s}eeu catechised in the House Of Lords as to
the gunboats being built for China.
s The Liverpool Chamber OF Commerce call
=on the Government to make the Foreign En-
88slistment Act more stringent.
. On the 4th inst, the Confederate steamer
AJapan had been lying of the French coast tor
three days, and proceeded to sea On the 9th
She is said to have received a large supply OF
arms and Ammunition
q The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce have
Iadopte report relative to the dolngs OF the
alabama, and the protests OF the n. T.. Cham
DER Of Commerce.
The report sets forth that the building OF
9anQ Ul'lpmenCS Oh SUCH VcSnciS do CIo -aldOdlAa
smanifestly contravenes the Foreign Enlistment
SAct; that the provisions Of such act are sus- :
.ceptibe Of easy eavaosin that this nethclency OF
the act exposes neutrality to the charge OF III
sincerity and establishes dangerous precedents;
and that consequently the Chamber should
.memoralize the Government to endeavor, IN
Iconcert with the Federal Government, to SO
alter the act as to prevent its eVaslcn and Sc
cure strict neutrality.
Although the Government seized the gun
boat Alexandria work was still allowed to pro
ceed upon her until the 9Th inst, when work
was suspended until after th2 official investi-
cation takes place
The Government has been in communica-
ton with the Lairds of Birkenhead relative to
the two gunboats building in their yard, and
the Messrs. Laire have formally assured the
Government that they were building tor the
Emperor Of China
The Daily News strongly protests against the
article in the London Times complaining OF
defensive preparations in California, &C., and
shows that America has equal ground OF COM
plant against military measures in Canada
Breadstutfs on Friday were tending down
ward. Flour closed dull at Cd. lower. Wheat
is in active demand. Corn closed easier.
The late staff of General Mcclellan has been
disposed Of The majority Of them, being
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1863-04-23

The late staff of General Mcclellan has been
disposed Of The majority of them, being
temporary appointments, have been retired
from the service, whilst the rest have been or
dered to reioin their regiments and resume
their original rank and position
The London Mechanics Magazine states
that after an expenditure Of $40: 900 on experl-
aents with the Armstrong gun, the inventor
mas tailed to produce naval gun superior Tor
practical purposes to the old sixtyeight poun-
der.
Ice ice in the rivers in Canada is just begin
aas to break up
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1863-04-23

Gen. Mcclellan was ENTHUSIASTICALLY wei
coined ly the cadets at West FONT, Oh the
18th inst
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30
Pure Air.

Next to the moral atmosphere whose
sanchfying influence should peryade ev-
cry household, rendering health to tho
spirits and purity to the heart, that on
which our temporal life and health de-
pends is Of the greatest Importance.
The freest and best earthly gift, of God
to man is pure air. 1t is, most surely
the bread Of life. We breathe it and
we live; we breathe it in it's contamin-
ated state and we sickcn we cease to
breathe it and we die. How few appre-
clate the blessings Of pure, unadulteratcd
atmospheric air.
1t would seem that the greater por-
ton of mankind are ignorant of the fact
that this air is the prime element Of life !;
that nothing that has life can exist with
out it.
In the close railroad car scores OF act
i've lungs are breathing in and consum-
ing its life giving qualities, and emitting
impurity and poison. Your noighbor
on the seat draws in the breath you have
exhalcd, and you in turn take in a draught
from the throat of the filthy creature
who sits beside you.
A single person in close room, twelve
by sixteen, containing two thousand GU
bic feet of air, would, according to ply
siological law, consume the entire air in
the brief space Of three hours. Thou
sands are dying by pieccmeal in badly
ventilated rooms. The slow poison of
foul air is reaping rich haryests for the
graveyard. A headache, cold, clog
ging of the machinery Of the system
(of which the lungs are most import
ant part, fever, consumption and 4
coffin.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30
The Crowned Skull.

Charlemagne gave instructions that
when he died he should be buried in a
royal position, not PROSTATE as slumber-
ing dust, but seated in the attitude of a
ruling monarch. He had the mausole-
Um erected after the model Of the chapel
which had been reared over the scpul-
chre Of the Savior at Jerusalem. Ia a
tomb within this chapel he was placed
upon throne. He directed .the Cos
pels to be laid upon his knees before
him; by his side was his sword his
celebrated sword upon his head was an
imperial crown and royal mantle COW
cred his lifeless shoulders.
Thus was his body placed, and thus
did his body remain for about one hun
dred and eighty years!
One Of hiyl successors resolved he
would see how Charlemagne looked, and
what had become Of the riches that
adorned his tomb. Nearly a thousand
years after Christ, the tomb was opened
by the Emperor Otho. The skeleton
form of the body was found there, dis
solved and dismcmbcred; the various
ornaments that we speak of were all
there too; but the frame had sunk into
fragments, the bones had fallen dis
jointod and asunder; and there remained
nothing but ahe gha5tly shaNwoaring its
crogn still, and nothing to signify roy
atty but this vain pageant Of death in its
most hideous form!
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30
What the war proves and what it
does not prove.

An enemy of American institutions
will cxclaim, What when you behold
q bloody civil war raging in the very
heart Of the American Union, will YOU
say that a Federal Union tends to pre-
vent wars ?" ! do say So 1t does tend
to prevent wars by the most efectual
and least expensive Of all methods. My
supposed American has shown what that
method is. II other proof were want
ing, the eighty years history Of the
United States would be proof sufficient.
It will not prevent all wars, because
there are wars which arise from causes
which arc irrespective Of the general
principles Of government A war aris-
ing out of an attempt to restore an ex-
PEELED dynasty in 1745, proved nothing
against the general principles of the
British Constitution. 1t proved, per-
haps, that the Irish people had not been
treated in that spirit Of justice and for
bearance which wise rulers extend in
differently to every part Of their DO
mains
The Sepoy rebellion was reasonable
evidence Of the yiscious constitution Of
the Indian army, but was no proof Of
unsoundncss in the general system Of
British rule in India. SO, a bloody civil
war in America, rising out Of rebel
lion Of slave owners, is damning proof
against the institution of slavery, but
proves nothing whatever against Repub-
lican or Federal Government. Tt proves
that people, who, to save themselves
from present suffering, tolerate great
crimes, bring upon themselves, sooner
or later, great calamities, but it leaves
the question Of universal suffrage, clec-
tive soyereigns and Federal Unions,
exactly where they were. These may
be very bad things, but the American
people, after long experience Of them,
do not think them SO, and there is moth
ing in the civil war now raging in Amer
ca to prove them London Daily
NeacS.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30
Books Necessary to the Aged.

Books are never so necessary as in
the wane Of life. In childhood we are
busy with toys; in youth with pleasure
in manhood with action; and SO may
dispense with the delights of reading
with mo consciousness of loss. But when
at last we are too wise to be charmed
with baubles too earnest to be tickled
with straws; too old to enjoy the pleas
ures OF sense; too fond of repose to en-
dure the noise of the bustling world
then it is that books are felt to be the
truest and most agreeable of friends
companions who neither contradict us
with arrogance, insult us with bad man
ners, nor bore us with prolixity. For
we can cherish the entertaining, reject
the dull, and snub the long -winded, with
the utmost freedom, and without giving
pain. How pleasant, when life is in the
"sear and yellow leaf,
'To turn again our earlier volumes DER,
And love them then, because we've loyel before;
And wisely bless the waning hour that brings
A VIII to lean once more on simple things
If this be weakness, welcome itc's decline;
Ii this be second childhood, be it mine.''
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30
Power of Gentleness.

No bad man is ever brought to repent
,nce by angry words, by bitter, scorniul
rcnroaches. He fortifes himself against
refnroof. and hurls back foul charges in
tbe face of his accusor. Yet guilty and
hardened as he seems, he has q heart IN
Is bosom. and may be melted to tears by
= = Gentle voice. Whose, therefore, can
re9troin his disposition to blame and
find fault, and can bring himself down
to ! fallen brother, will soon find way
- - better feelings within, Pity and pa
t;ence are the two keys which unloeks
tha Lnmon heart. They who have been
most successful laborers among the poor
and vicious, have been the most Iorbear-
mo Said the celebrated St. Vincent
da i Paul. l.if it has pleased heaven to en-
Nov u tho most miserable of men for the
rponSyersion p1pS Of some souls, they have
themselves t confessed that it was by the
nat;nnce and sympathy which he had had
far them. Even the conviets, among 8
,,bom III I had lived, can be gained in no
ntbcr mll way. When have kissed their
ot,';r oLa;ns and shown compassion for their
gi,al.s' 3;s+,.as. and keen sensibility for their
d;sorS ;;ssoroee@tlcn have they listened to me-,
and and placed themselves in the way Oh sal
yation. -. Taylor.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30
A Beautiful Sentiment.

Shortly before the departure Of the
lamented Heber for India, he preached
A sermon which contained this beautiful
illustration
"Life bears us on like the stream Of a
mighty river. Our boat at first glides
down the narrow channel-through the
playful murmurings Of the little brook
and the windings of its grassy borders.
The trees shed their blossoms over our
Young heads, the flowers seem to offer
themselves to the young hands; We are
happy in hope, and we grasp eargerly at
the beauty around us but the stream
hurries on, and still our hands are emp
ty. Our course in youth and manhood
is along wilder and deeper flood, amid
objects more striking and magnificent.
We are animated at the moving pictures
and enjoyments and industry around US;
we are excited at the short lived disap-
.pointment. The stream bears us on,
and our joys and griefs are alike left be-
hind us. We may be shipwrecked, but
we cannot be delayed; whether rough
or smooth, the river hastens to its home,
till the roar of the ocean is in our ears,
and the tossing of the waves IS beneath
our feet, and the floods are lifted up
around Us and we take our leave OF earth
and its inhabitants, until OF our future
voyage there is no witness save Inc IN
finite and Eternal.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30
Effects of Fruit on Disease.


A writer on growing fruit in Kansas,
and its healthfulness as a proportion Of
our food, says:
"Neyer shall [ forget the impression
made upon my mind at very early
period Of my life, by the directions given
my mother by the family physicians as
she sat weeping over the cradle in which
| had lain for number of days in Il
hopeless condition Now, said he, don't
you give that boy one drop Of cold water,
and you had better keep these straw
berries out Of his sight. Ina few hours
my brothers and sisters returned from
the meadow with a pail oyerfoWing with
the delicious fruit, and supposing me
too far gone to observe anything in the
room, the berries we're left near my era
dlo. | soon opened my eyes upon the
trembling delicacy, and in few unob-
served moments filled my parchod mouth
several times with the cooling beverage,
for they were really like water on my
parched tongue. In few hours l broke
out in fine perspiration. My tongue,
which had been rattling on my teeth,
became moist and when the doctor came
he said my fever had turncd-thc calo-
mel has produced its desired effect and
[ should probably get well"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30


A citizen of Charlestown, Mass, has
been distinguishing himself by daring
feat. This was the aflixing flag to the
tip-top Of the tightening rod that sur
mounts ,ho peak of the Bunker Hill
Monument. He did it (says the Bunker
Hill 1rora) by placing the foot of
ladder against the flagstaff, with the
other end reaching to the apex of the
monument; he then assembled the lad
der, reached the lightning rod, seated
himself by it, and stood on the very
tip-top of the monument and adjusted
the flag, This is the second time he
has planted The flag Of his country at
this airy hight.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30

How RACES DIE OUT.-Thc method
in which lower races fuse into orescape
from the higher is a mystery in its causes,
but we'll understood in its results. The
lower race loses its productiycness, and
some dozens of extinct tribes, like gen
era of animals, attest this The red
Indians of America, the native race Of
Peru, and the Aborigines Of Australia
are living examples Of this rule, In II
years Ga living traveller says the Abo-
Observation-Disclosures of Tasmania, although
numbering upwards Of thousand, did
not give birth to more than IL children.
We may rest assured that at this rate
any class Of beings will soon exhaust
itself.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30
Charles of Sweden.


Our total abstinence readers are not,
perhaps, aware that Charles Mi, "the
mad King Of Sweden" )" as he was called
by some Of his contemporaries, was a
pledged man, if not a member of a tee
total society. The anecdote on which
this statement is founded is given in NJ.
Bury's 'Essai Historique ct Moral sur
TEducation Francaise." " Charles, as ev-
cry body knows, in the commencement
of his career drank to excess. In one
Of his drunken bouts he so far over
stepped the limits Of propriety as to
treat the Queen, his mother, with great
disrespect. The next day on being in
formed of his rudeness, he took a glass
of wine in his. hand and repaired to the
Queens room. Madam, said he to her,
81 have learned that yesterday, in my
cups, [ forgot myself towards you. |
come to ask your pardon, and, to pre-
vent the recurrence of such fault,
drink this to your health; it shall be
the last during my life lie kept his
word, and from that day he never tasted
wine. We may add, by way of recon-
mendation to the habit, that in his sub
sequent life no king was ever known to
have undergone greater hardships, and
enjoyed better health, than this cold
water monarch.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30

A WITTY MISUNDERSTANDING
the battle Of Fredericksburg the Con-
federate General Lee observed one of
his aidesde-camp, very young man,
shrink now and then, and, by the mo-
ton Of his body, seek to evadc, if pos
siblc, the shot "Sir," said Lee, 'what
do you mean? Do you think you can
dodge the balls ? Do you not know that
NapoIean lost about hundred aides-de-
camp in one campaign?" so I've
read" replied the young officer, "but 1
did not think you could spare so many"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30

CALIFORNIA MoUNTAINs.-Since the
opening of the new State on the Pacific,
California has never ceased to be land
Of wonders. It's mineral and vegetable
productions and its natural euriosities
have amazed the world. According to
Prof. J. Whitney, who IS making the
neurological survey Of the State, ii has
some of the noblest mountains in the
world. Mount Shasta, he says, is higher
than the highest peak of the Alps in
Switzerland, and only little lower than
Mount Blanc Itself.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30
NO rs
Where is tho Man of the House ?

The physical appearance" Of some
men sometimes changes the current of
events. A case occurred few days
ago. The children Of two neighbors
had their daily quarrels and fights, which
resulted occasionally in bruised faces
and torn garments. The father of one
family believing his children to have
been sadly maltrcated, and being a pas
sionate man concluded that the surest
way to settle the differences between
their households permanently would be
to chastisc the head of the other family,
although as yet he had never seen him,
He therefore procured a raw-h hide, and
abruptly entering his neighbor's tenc-
ment inquired in 4 threatening tone for
''the man of the houss."
II am here, sir, said parsonage of
upwards Of six feet, and Weighing some
two hundred and twenty pounds, as he
approached to learn the business Of his
neighbor.
"Did | understand you, that you were
the gentleman Of the house?'
Eyes, SIR
well, II just dropped in sir, to sec
if this is your raw-hidc :!
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30

WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW.
The best inheritance that people can
leave their children is the ability to help
themselves. This is better than a hun
dred thousand dollars to them apiece.
In any trouble or difficulty they will
have two excellent servants ready, in
the shape Of their two hands Those
who can do nothing and have waited on,
are helpless and easily disheartencd at
the misfortunes Of life. Those who are
active and handy, meet troubles with a
cheerful face, and soon surmount them.
Let young people, therefore, learn to
do as many different useful things as
possible.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30

BB"Do Tocqucyilllo in his celebrated
work on the democracy of America, !"
in speaking of the negroes, made this
remark:
"Whcncycr the whites and blacks have
lived together in the same State, history
has opened but two accounts between
them, viz: When the whites, by reason
Of their intellectual superiority, were
stronger than the black, they reduced
them to slavery; and when, by reason
Of thoir vast numerical superiority, the
blacks rose and murdered the whites.
There is no other historical account be-
tween the two"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30

WHAT IT CosTs.--A writer thus esti-
mates the expenses of a Eve months Wis
it to the Old World: 4 first class pas
sage from America to Liverpool costs
$50; the passage back by the same line,
SO; travelling and board in England,
France, 1892 tour on the continent.
S106 13 fees and fares to walters,
hacks, etc, SIS 40; thus making the
total amount Of 800 for five months.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30

E@There cannot be more glorious
object in creation, than a human being
replete with beneyolence, meditating in
what manner he might render himself
most acceptable to his Creator, by doing
most good to his creatures.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30
play around our hearts. when
"Fond 81 memory brings the light
Vi other daVs aro,lpd ,s.,3

), The le.5 sentiment is universally received,
that there's no place like home" We
conclude our extracts from the poets on
Rome, by giving the beautiful touches
OF an anonymous bard upon this sub
ject;
Il We W WANDERED through many aclimo where flowers
mere all was blissfu to the heart and lovely to the
Se seen them in their twilight pridc and in their
was born f ~
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30

A VERY ToUGH FELLow.-T There
lately appeared among the inebriates at
the court in Brooklyn, n Y, a soldier
named John Hoffman, who had nine
bullet wounds, five bowie knife stabs
and three sabre cuts, all received in the
present war He was with the Thir-
teenth New York Volunteers, and now
claims to be as good as new.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30

"DANDY In the reign of Henry
VIII, there was struck small silver
coin, of little value, called dandy prat,
(which, observes Bishop Fleetwood, !,
''was the origin Of the term dandy, ap-
piled to worthless and contemplate per-
sons"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30

B9 Lorenzo Dow once said of an av-
aricious farmer, that if he had the whole
world enclosed in single field, he would
not be content without patch of ground
on the outside for potatoes,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1863-07-30

"Jimmy, what is the meaning of shep
herd p "a man who watches sheep"
''Then a man who watches cows must be
a coac-ard, of course, said Samuel, with
a broad grin.