The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1864-08-02
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black Gag vith a skelcten avarci upoa
iif, together with deaths bead ard
cross bong. It belonged 20 a Texas
regiment Oar men have taken ne
+ prisoners from the regiment g. Which
u belonged
A brother Of Goa. Gmat who re-
Gently viucltac General a. bis head
quarter asked b.n. Ulysses bop
maay mea have you 4 aaye a
good many replied ,be wise nan.
Dcssrliae tbe Constitution 70
say ihe RrpabDe s bike mans dis
. obeylag lhe Biolc to save tis SOUL
Louisville JomnoL
Aud atsregardieg Ihe Repablie to
save lho Constitution, IS like maas
dsregard,Bg IS soal % save the Bible.
thseag3 Jgamak
( Hon. James / Brady, a distinguish
ca Democratic lawyer aud politician,
Of New York, IN a late speech, said
Much has been said, too, about
ssurpation Of power bat where m
history viii yen liad war against re-
bcliou conducted with SUCH modera.
ton Il
Some ingenious fellow proposes TO
levy u tax upon wing He thinks a
very light imposition on each tic told
by Tie Copperheads Is aid the rebels
would soon liqnldate the public debt
aud ill The Treasury With a large
surplus.
Tie Richmond Examiner lys that
Tie merit Of unusual grasp and ability
must be accorded to tie plan Of tie
Federal campaign in Virginia in
June.
The Louisville Jouaaal says The
rebels have, in tie coarse Of the year,
about five days Of humiliation and
prayer" and three hundred and sixty
Of humiliation and curses.
A copperhead oracle, with charm
ing emdor and admirable accuracy,
says
democratic party has remained
four years outside Of affairs; lets ii
remain in the same attitude for four
years more, and II viii be mere
memory Of what has been and is
not.
The Richmond Examiner says "it
is easier for sawmill TO pass through
the eye Of needleI Than it is for a rich
man 70 enter Camp Lee as con-
script"
Over FIVE hundred rebel prisoners
have lelt the camp at Point Lookout
the past week to take the oath Of allie
glance TO the United. States. They
are fIom all the Southern Slales,esen
South Carolina being strongly repre-
scented.
The Washington RcpuJhcaa Gays
il is estimated tlat the piunder CARR
ed of AMI Tie damage inflicted by lie
r, bel, IN Mary land will amount to
four millions Of dollars.
Gen. Mcpherson, Who was killed
near Atlanta. on Friday, was engaged
to be married 10 beautiful and nc
complished young lady Of Raltismr.
The dispatch announcing his death
by accident fell into her hands on lis
arrival. II was addressed to her
mother, WHO, moi bring able 10 see
well without her glasfe,. passed It to
The daughter, engagedfo lie deceased
to read. Seeing that il recorded bis
death, she instantly tainted.
A local paper n Iowa threw the
/ Copperheads into be mos furious rage
land denuncation otthe Decentralization
/ p oduced BY abohronsm by publish
/ ing a statement that a soldiers wlie
had given birth to an African infant.
The next issue observed that The edi-
tor forgot TO remarE IN the former tim
that the father and mother were both
negroes.
Intelligence Of the dea'b Of Gen.
Mcpherson was teleglaphed 10 Gen.
| Grant on Sunday. The war.woru
hero, afer.ftishing the reading Of tie
/ dispatch, retired to his tent weeping
/ like child, and, with fears streaming
down his bronzed checks, declared
that The country had lost lis ablest
soldier, and he his best friend
While our army was crossing the
Chatlahoochee a tremendous thunder
storm arose. The Lightning was IN
cessant and exceedingly vivid, and
eight men we're killed and twenty in
jured by il. One fash fred all the
guns but one ia a stack Of fnuskets.
Mr.. w, G. Barnes announces in
card in one Of the Richmond papers
that I've has accepted the nomination
! for Mayor Of the city, $50 kindly ex.
tended to him" by his fellow citizens.
ii must be a very pleasant thing 10 be
Mayor Of Richmond.
The Richmond papers are bitterly
disappointed at the poor success 81 tho
rebel force sent out against Washing
ton. They hoped to outwit Grant, but
found themselves outwitled. The Tx
aminer and other Richmond journals
ARE furious at Breckenridge and Ear
/ ly.
Fourteen delegates 70 the Chicago
cony ention have arrived from Louis
lana 50 the democrats viii have 10