Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-01-16
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starving.
SMALL.Pox is prevalans among the
Union prisoners at DauyiIlc says the Rebel
papers. Heaven help tho poor follows.
A forei. n letter says few people seem to
believe that the next summer will come
and 90 without European war.
THE Washington Chronicle expresses
the confident belief that Gen, Meade will
not be removed from the command Of tho
Army ofthc Potomac.
A high life wedding lately took place
at Richmond grandson Of John Ty.
Ter and sister of jeff. Davi, were the
parties,
INTELLIGENCE has been received by the
government to the effect that the condition
of the Union prisoners in Richmond has
Lately been very much improved.
A proposition to repeal the duty on pa
per is before the Ways and Means Com.
mttee. 1t has moro friends than the SIM
liar measure had last session.
TIE Democratic members of Congress,
have passed in caucus resolution in favor
of paying the soldiers in gold and silver,
instead of paper money.
Bog Mr.. Bowden, one of the so called
Senators from West Virginia, died of
small pox, at Washington, on Saturday.
He probably caught it Of Old Abe.
THE UN1oN.-Thcrc is but one Union
There never has been but one Union-the
Union under the Constitution. He who
takes violent measures against that is a
traitor.
A Western editor was lately shot in an
afray. Luckily, the ball came against a
bundle Of unpaid accounts in his pocket,
Gunpowdet couldn't get through that
nohow.
IT is now discovered that pictures may
be photographed OIL steel, and an engra-
wing thus obtained will give Eve thousand
copies. lllustr atod books will now be the
rule rather than the exception.
How THE MONEY GoEs.-A Son Of ex-
Senator Cameron has just, after two year's s
service, been placed on the retired list as
an army paymaster, with q salary Of two
thousand dollars a year for life
Tue Louisville J0urnal thinks it does
very little good to hold public meetings
and pass resolutions in favor of the war.
All the resolutions we need are the reso.
lusions of individuals to 60 into the war.
"THE LOTTERY OF DEATH" This is
the title and designation by which refer.
ence is made to the oonscription law, in a
resolution introduced in Congress by the
Hon. Mr.. Ancona, of Pennsylvania. "1He
Lottery Of Deah," is apt and suggestive !
The fue statue Of Liberty recently
erected on the dome of the capitol, was
washed with All acid which caused oxida-
ton, producing bronze or mulatto color.
The only wonder is that they didn't paint
it black.
! IF Mr.. Lincoln is the Government he
must be very poor man by this time for
no poor wayfarcr,in the deepest and dark
est wilderness Of the world, was ever rob-
bed as the Government has been for the
past three years.
THE saddost picture Of the times is q
: man forging his own chains by shouting
for the Republican party. Every man
who does it, is putting the shackes of des.
. potism upon his own and bis chidren's
limbs, unless the better sense of better
r men can defeat him in his efforts.
, IT has been decided by the Proves,
Marshal General, that every citizen who
has paid the three hundred dollars commu
tation fee shall receive the same credit
l therefor as if he had furnished a substitute
and is ex honerated from military service
! for the time for which he was drafted, wit
for three years.
foRNEf says, "the Wretches who cry
peace ought to be crucifed." That woult
be nothing new, for moro than eighteen
hundred years ago Christ was crucifed 70
, preaching peace by just such another &c
of scoundrels as you are.
! Dayton Empire.
TREMENDOUS efforts have been made
, in the strong Republican localities of Phil
+ adelphia, Lancaster, Chester, Allegheny
&c, to raise money enough to buy off al
their drafted men. Call you thai practc
ing what you preach Like Artemu
Ward, these men would sacrificed all thcil
wives relatives on the altar of theil
own skins.