Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-01-23
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Of Leicester and Suffolk.
LEWIS Jamison of Wiliamsport gov
vernment lumber contractor, has been
sent to the Old Capitol, Tor frauds in fur.
nishing lumber &c.
AT St. Augustine, Florida the preach
trees are in blossom, garden flowers are
in full bloom, and boquets grace the tables
of the officers having command at that
point.
Mrs. Douglas, the widow oil Senator
Douglas is at present in Washington en-
gagged by Secretary Chase as clerk in
the Treasury Department. She is seldom
seen in public,
THE mast profitable position man can
occupy in these days is that of "War
Democrat supporting the administration
and plenty Of fat Offices and contracts
in prospective.
WE see by the Tfibnae that the Massa.
chusetts Legislature is going to have
negro chaplain. After that let the Massa-
chusetts people elect negro legislators, aud
then the Bay State will be an abolition
paradise.
GREENBAcKs are entirely ignored in
California, and only gold and silver are
recognized as legal currency. According
to the new abolition test of loyalty, Cali.
fornia must be considered as very eds
loyal State, .
WE heard german friend Of ours, the
other day. speak of "N andal Phillips"
and we thought the given name very
appropriate one. If there ever was vandal
Phillips is one. The same individual re.
marked that before long this abolition ad.
miniStration would 60 in for auncxing
"Nigger-augua,
OUR ARMY.-'ihe estimates Of Col
Shlras, Assistant ommissary General OF
Subsistence, for the fiscal year 10 COM
mence on the first July next, shows lh;
the probable strength OF the Union army
will be Regular army, 16 300; voun-
tcers, s6l 1897. Total 927,706.
a book has been published in Engalnd
called The Cruise Of the Alabama" In
it the confession is frankly made that she
was manned by English sailors, as well as
built and armed in England, and that
many oil the vessels destroyed were laden
with grain destined to supply the wants
Of En- !. llsbmen
CLINTON L!oyed, Esq, of Williams.
port, has been appointed to a .lerkshp in
the House OF Representatives at Washing
ton. Surely, dog who barks and fawns
as faithfully as Lloyd did last Fall, shod
have bone, especially after he has been
driven from the doors of bis own neigh
bors.
SPEAKING BY THE CARDs.-LSst year,
and about the time he received bis So 900
retainer, Hon. John P. Hale solemnly de
clared, in bis place in tue Senate, as fol
lows:
! 81 declare upon myresposlbility as a
! Senator, that the liberties of this country
are in greater danger to-day from the cor
options and from the proaigacy prac:iced
in the various departments OF the Govern
IN ent Than they are from te enemy in the
, open field"
THERE is said to be very pretty quar-.
rel among 'their highnesses" in Washing.
ton. Some members of the Cabinet, it is
alleged, are not on speaking terms. and the
fact that Chase, Stanton and Welles did
not 60 the to the inauguration Of the grave.
yard at Gettysburg, and that Mrs Lincoln
refused to attend Kate Chese's wedding,
are a.etioned as evidences Of the way the
things works,
! The New York Times says:
"The Government is determined 10
have the personal service of just as many
young men as it requires--yoluntary if it
can, compulsory if it must. 1t is hot SO
much question to the poung men wheth-
Vi tney VIII 20 do NJ" tACJ email So-py
choice or coercion"
If such is to be the character Of the
government of the United States, what
mother would not shudder at the thought
of bringing child into the world 10 be
the victim of such devilish despotism
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Journal Of Commerce, pays the
following compliment to the Hon. MYER
STRoUsE, Pennsylvania Congressman
"The German population Of the country
will be pleased to learn that Mr., Strouso,
of Pennsy ylvania, has ipaugurated a move
nenl in the House Of Representatives, to
have certain public documents printed in
the German language. 1t is good idea,