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Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-08-26
FOR SALE.


CTEAMBoAT FOR sALE.-For particulars
- call on Cox Humphrey. sus15-eid
Church Property for Sale.
TpHE TRUSTEES OF THE LOCUST STREET
Method - Church offer Cor sale ther oil
Church Locust stseet, between Second ana
Thiri. at bargain.
Enquire Of ASA IGLEHEART.
anRxb-tf Third Street.
q A LOT, WELL SITUATED IN A DESIRABLE
n part OF the city, one hundred by one hundred
and ninety xht feet. New cottage frame house,
cistern, &C. Apply TO. DIR. GRAHAM
WAkeFa Row, Third 1t bot Sycamore and Vine,
aug2A.tf Evan VILE, Ind.
A BRICK HOUSE, ON MULBERRY STREET.
IA containing four roems. For particulars en-
qulrs al this office Aug&3
SMALL FARM SITUATED IN Law
n renee county, stats Of Illinois, two miles
from the Wabash river. 10 contains 90 acres Of a.
good land ~ car bs found anywhere, 10 Of which
are under cultivation, aud the whole well fenced
There u also one good new log HOUSE., with smoke
house, stable, etc win be sold cheap. Title *
disputabe. for further particulars enquire at
this otiies. AaKtT-lwd
Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-08-26
4 Good word FitlY spoken.

Mr. 2. u Holbrook, refugee, pub-
li.hrs communications to-day which
marks him, a. not only patriot, but as
. verY sensible man. He discerns the
rue state of things as regards the 10y
Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-08-26

DICK MILLER Sec >
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15
Terrible Calamity at Sheffield.
From the London Times. March Is. ]

A little before midnight on Friday last, one
of those terrific disasters to which nearly all
the great towns in the north of England are
more or less exposed, happened at Sheffield
The great reservoir of the Sheffield Water
Company /; a reservoir of nearly one hundred
acres in extent, and which held more than a
million cubic feet of water, suddenly burst its
embankment and swept with the fury of an
other deluge down The narrow gorge formed
by the Loxley and StanniDgton Hills into
Sheffield itself. Almost before warning could
be given the volume of waters began rushing
headlong down the valley, sweeping farms AID
houses, forges and factories, like chaff before
it. Never, probably, before has an accident
of the same kind occurred, so ruinous in its
wholesale destruction of property, so lamenta-
bly, fatal in the loss of human life. Whatever
the sudden and tremendous food could reach
it seems to have destroyed, and, calculating
only by the number Of houses swept away and
the persons missing who were known to have
been in them on that fatal night, there is every
reason to fear that the lives sacrificed by this
awful calamity will not be less than $50, if
they do not unfortunately exceed even that
number. OF the damage done to property it
is impossible at this early date to form even
conjecture. The devastation in this respect is
unparalleled. A large populous and thriving
district has been almost obliterated from the
earth. scarce more than traces of the houses
and factories that once stood there are now re-
naming. The Don, owing to the late heavy
rains, was unusually high, and the additional
water thrown into it has laid hundreds of acres
under water, and inflicted .incalculabe injury
to the growing crops. OF the destructive
character of the food there we're abundant
evidences on every hand. Timber in large
quantities, bed-posts, feather-beds, tables,
clocks, and various kinds of household furni-
ture passed down, and several carcases of cat
tie also.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15
Sammy Cox Cornered.

A Washington correspondent of the Cincin-
natl Gazette says: Little Samuel Cox felt
called upon to-day to express his views on the
National Appropriation bill, by making a
speech on amalgamation, which be insisted was
the leading dogma Of the Administration par
ty. He was especially severe upon the class
of men who were constantly calling the negro
man and brother While be was charging
amalgamation on the Administration side,
Washburne sought to interrupt him; but Cox
very fatty refused to yield moment. He sat
down, when Washburne got the floor, armed
with small volume, sometimes quoted in pol
itical campaigns in the Columbus District,
known as "The Buckeye Abroad" He said
be was delighted to hear Cox's speech again.
He had heard it many times here and was
always pleased with it, but from the late Ohio
elections he feared he would never have an op-
portunity to hear it again. Meantime, al
though the Administration side was not quite
willing to go the length on amals amation and
negro brotherhood the gentleman had inti-
mated, yet he was very glad to be able to pro-
duce another who did. He then proceeded to
read from Cox's book about his emotions on
hearing negro preach in Rome, and his de-
light at finding the predjudices of color disap-
pearing, and the recognition of the common
brotherhood Lof man. The House was con-
yulsed with laughter, amidst which Cox did
his best to wedge in an explanation, mo"
said Wasbburne, 81 wouldn't be less polite
than the gentleman himself. He declined to
yield to me. I decline to yield to him." Cox
tried TO persist, when the Speaker ordered him
to take his seat, and he subsided amid gen
eral roar of laughter from the floor and gal
leries. Justice to the little fellow perhaps re-
quires the statement that the negro preacher
he went into ecstacies over was not negro,
but only an African of Abyssinian descent,
and that he was further recommended by his
fine culture.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15
NO. 8.
Anti-slavery Constitutional Amendments


We find the following note of the debate in
the Senate on the Constitutional amendmen Is
against slavery
Mr.. Salisbury, of Delaware, (Dem.,) then
addressed the Senate on the joint resolution
TO amend the Constitution TO prohibit slavery.
He argued that it was the intention of the
trainers of the Constitution to protect slavery
as a domestic institution as it existed at the
time of the formation of The Federal compact.
Mr.. Clark, of New Hampshire, (Union,)
contended that under the Constitution there
were some things we were prohibited from
doing-to revive the slave-trade, or pass
capitation tax bill. AS the Constitution no.
where prohibited US from abolishing slavery
it is clear that we may do so. He argued
that slavery owed its great growth to the Con-
though not created by it. 1t was
planted in it and has been fenced round and
protected by it, so that no power short of the
amendment of the Constitution as now pro-
posed could root it out so that the fearful des-
TIMES Of our sons on SO many fields could be
with. The results of the present
war are the growth from the seeds of slavery
warmed into life under the Constitution. He
would not blame the patriotic founders of this
Government for acts. because they were sur
rounded by difficulties, and did the best they
could. Washington besought his countrymen
to cherish and preserve the Union; but his
own State was the first 10 be the theatre OF
war for those in arms to overthrow, and sad to
say, his own home could not to day be visited
without the accompaniment of picket-guard.
Slavery after having ahused ito narooafiva
under the Constitution to such an alarming
extent, now deserves to die. Slavery, being
the ward of Constitution, has endeavored to
smite its guardian. Be now was in favor of
revoking the letters of guardianship. He be-
lieyed, that, like Pharaoh, when he would not
lee the people of God go, curses would come
upon US, if we die not abolish slavery in this
propitious hour
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15

A DESPERATE LovER.-A young man
named William Cutter, of Flushing, L. l.,
attempted to shoot young woman named
Anna Walker, to whom he had been paying
his addresses, because she had declined to hold
further communication with him. The girl
was living as domestic in the family OF
Judge Vanderbilt Ascertaining that Anna
had gone out he waited for her return, near
Judge Vanderbilts residence, armed with a
loaded revolver. When she came up to the
gate he crossed the road and fred twice at
her. but the bullets fortunately missed
Hearing the reports of the pistol and the
screams Of the girl, Mrs. Vanderbilt ran to
the front door and opened it, and the girl ran
towards her; as she did SO Gutter fred two
more shots, one of which struck Mrs. Wander
bnt, mOrtally wounding her on the side, and
the other wounding the girl on the arm.-[N
Y. Post.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15
Edward Everett on the Alabama
In speech, at the Revere House, Boston,
Edward Everett answered the question:
WHY WE DON'T CATCH THE ALABAMA.

WHY WE DON'T CATCH THE ALABAMA.
But the torpid, inefficient fossil navy don't
catch the Alabama. Nor did torpid, ineffi-
cient, lazy Nelson, in command of the feet
with which he fought the battle of the Nile,
catch Napoleon with q force Of ships-ofwar
and transports of more than four hundred ves-
sells, shadowing the sea for miles, though be
chased him, or, rather. thought be chased him,
round the Mediterranean, from the 18th of
May till the 1st of August, as the cat chases
her tail, Napoleon stopping by way Of episode
to capture Malta on the way, and on the 22d
of June actually crossing the track of Nelson
few hours before. Neither was he caught
by the EDglish, Russian and Turkish fleets
the English still commanded by Nelson-when
the following year he returned by a voyage of
six or seven weeks from Egypt to France,
passing week with his relations at Ajaecio
by the way. Neither was be caught in 1915
on his passage from Eba, though the English
knew he was plotting his.escape, and French
cruiser hailed him OF the way, and hearing his
corvette was from Elba, inquired how the EN-
peror was, and answered in person that be
"was perfectly WE'LL" The Mediterranean is
but mill-pond compared with the seas over
which the Alabama roams, and whenever the
pirate is hard pressed he slips into neutral
port. (Aplause.) It must of course be by
mere chance if he is ever captured.
The fact mentioned by you, sir, Mr.. Rice,)
in very judicious speech in the House Of
Representatives, the other day, strikingly il
lustrates the difficulty of finding any single
vessel at sea, even wh9n there is not the slight
est wish or motive to elude search. You
stated, if recollect rightly, that you had been
informed by a ship-master, that he had left
port with more than four hundred vessels
which had been wind-bound, and we're start
ing on their different voyages, and before night
fall there was not one of them in sight.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15

Rev. DR. BRECKINRIDeE ON LOYALTY
Rev DR.. J. Breckenridge writes to the Frank
fort, Kentucky, Commonwealth :: 81
In my opinion the great need Of our
State at this moment is great and general
movement of the loyal people, that will put
the idea and the duty of the support of the
nation aud the government clear above every
secondary idea, so that every truly patriotic
man may rally to it, irrespective of all deci-
sons among them on other points, no matter
how important those other points might be in
other circumstances. II these can be done,
the integrity of the loyal party in this State
can be preserved, and the State will remain in
its hands under all ulterior events. Ifit can
not be done, the loyal party runs a risk of such
division in itself, as to put everything at hazard
now and hereafter. What we need is prompt
and courageous action of the real loyal mass,
irrespective of extreme opinions and extreme
factions, right or left, one side or the other.
''Your friend truly,
"RO. J. BRECKINRIDGE."
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15

A TTIBUTE TO LOYAL WoMEN.-At the
close of the Patent Office Fair in Washing
ton, on Friday night, Mr.. Lincoln, in answer
to loud and continuous calls, made the follow :
ing remarks:-
"Ladies and Gentemen:-I appear to say
but a word. This extraordinary war in
which we are engaged falls heavily upon all
classes of people, but the most heavily upon
the soldier. For it has been said, all that a
man has will he give for his life; and while
all contribute of their substance, the soldier
puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in
his country's cause. The highest merit, then,
is due the soldier. (Cbeers)
SIN this extraordinary war, extraordinary
developements have manifested themselves,
such as have not been seen in former wars,
and among those manifestations nothing has
been more remarkable than those Fairs for the
relief of suffering soldiers and their families.
And the chief agent in these Fairs are the
women of America. (Cheers.)
"I am not accustomed to the use of the Ian
guage of eulogy, have never studied the art
of paying compliments to women. but must
say that if all that has been said by orators
and poets since the creation Of the world in
praise of woman were applied to the women OF
America, it would not do them justice for
their conduct during the war. will close by
saying, God bless the women of America l''
(Great Applause.)
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15
THE HUMAN EYE

Ths language of the eye is very hard to
cOunteGeit. You can read in the eyes Of your
companion while You talk, whether your argu-
meut hits him, though his tongue will not
confess it. There, is a look by which man
shows he ia going to say good thing, and
q look when be has said it. Vain and forgot
ten are all the fine Offices Of hospitality, if there
be no holiday ip.the eye, How many furtive
invitations are avowed by the eye, though dis
sembIed by the lips. A man comes away
from company3be has heard no important
remark, but, il in sympathy with the society
he is eognizant Of such q stream Of life as has
been flowing to him. through the eye. There
are eyes that give no more admission into them
than blue berries; others are deep wells that
men might fall int0ahd others are oppressive
and dovouFing; and take too much notice.
There ara. asking eyes and asserting eyes and
prowling eyes, and eyes full OF faith-soms Of
good and some Of sinister omen.-Emerson
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15

A recent number of the rebel news
paper--the ippiau-contains the fol-
lowing remarkable passage:
Have our neighbors read the Chicago
Times, New York Express, Metropolitan Re-
cord, Cincinnati Enquirer, and various other
papers of the North, which are exponents Of
the deposition to Lincoln? Have they read
the speeches of Bright, voorhees,, Merrick, and
various others Have they ever found in
any of these papers or speeches syllable tha'
did mot breathe the most orthodox States
rights doctrine, and uncompromising opposi-
ton to coercion These are the men we
wish to encourage, and these are the men
whose success will bring peace"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15

PRICES IN 1928 -I864.-A gentleman in
Lynn, recently coming across grocer's
ledger kept in 1923, had the curiosity to ex-
anime the prices at which articles of domestic
consumption sold at that time, as follows, viz
Flour, per barrel, $l2 rum, per gallon, 81 rs,
fish, per pound, 6 cents; beans, per bushel;
So tea, per pound, 81 1,25(9l so; sugar, per
pound, 17(0221s cents molasses, per gallon,
IS cents; candles, per pound, 25 cents; meal,
per bushel, $I9l,5O; pork, per pound, 20
cents. These prices are quite as high as the
same kind of articles sell for at the present
time, and some of them higher Boston Her
aid -'
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15

A newspaper correspondent met an intelli-
gent amnesty oath-taker down South, the
other day, but concluded he was not reliable,
for reasons given in the following
Z" His credulity is somewhat doubtful; for,
among other things, he told mel that "Con-
federate money was above par in England
that the Confederacy would bring eight hun
dred thousand men into the field this spring
that the people of the North were starving
and were almost ready to give up the contest p
Intelligent and well posted as this fellow was
on the status of the two belligerent powers,
yet he could not read or write. and carried an
onion in his pocket to- keep off fever and ague p
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15
Value Of slaves.

According to the Richmond whig, the hire
of slave costs $2,77O year, whilst the
highest cost Of NEGRO at auction ranges from
from So, 200 to $4,000, showing that the own
ers Of slaves have no great confidence in the
article as permanent investment, the rent oil
year and half equaling the whole cost
On gold basis the hire Of slave is about
$s5 year, and the slave represents about
$120 capital.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15
ANGLo-sAxoN MARRIAGES,

Not till the niath or tenth century did, wo-
men obtain the privilege of choosing or refu-
sing their husbands. Often they were betroth-
ed as children, their ,bridegroom's pledge Of
marriage becoming BY q security" or wed"
wbepcs comes che word Partio the wed al
ways consisted lof.a ring placed upon the mai
deno,s right hand, and there religiOasly kept
until transferred to the other hand at the al
tar puptiaIs. Then, also, we're repeated the
marriage vows and other ceremonies, out Of
which those now prevailing have grown
The bride was taken "for fairer, for fouler, for
better, for worse, for richer, poorer, and prom
ised TO be .sbhxom sand lbOnng, |" to her future
husbands siAto the iual ceremony; the brides
groom puts the, ring on each of the brides
left hand fingers in turn, saying at the hrst,
"In the name of the Father" at the second.
"In the name Of the Son" at the third, F" Amen.
Then also the father gave to his new son one
of hiq daughters shoes, in token Of the transfer
of authority Which be. affected and the bride
was at once made to feel-the change. by a tap
or a blow on the head given by the shoe
The husband, on his part, took an oath to use
his wife we'll If be failed to do so, she might
leave him, but by law he was allowed con-
siderkble 4ieense9 He wasJboundiH honor "to
sbestow on his wife and his apprentices mod
rate castiQation." We have nothing to show
the eSaet amount of eastigation held moderate
by the ARgld Saxohs, bat one old Welch Law de-
cides that three blows with broOmstick or
"Any part of the person except the head" is
a fair allowance, and asother provides that
the stick be no longer than the husbands arm
nor thicker than his middle finger. Prior tC
the seventh century wife might at any time
be repudiate1 on proof of her being either bar
rem, daiomed, silly, passionate, luxurious, rude,
habitually drunk, gluttonous, very garrulous
ouarrelsome, or abusive
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15

OPENING OF LAKE NAvIGATIoN.-Th San
dusky Register says the deck, of the shipping
which has been moored in that port during the
winter, have presented a very busy appearance
for the last few weeks. The various crafts
have put on their summer garb, and one by one
they spread their white wings and leave their
winter perch to run the risks, brave the dan
gers, and reap the gains Of another seasons
business.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15

A composition on the Linn county Patriot,
who is q bachelor, got hint the other even
ing, which, if be don't take, he ought to be
and the conversation happened to turn on sew
ing machines, their cost, &C., when rosy
checked damsel, looking up timidly into his
face, said: "Pa has two sewing machines to
give away" .a
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15

The kilograms and letters which passed be-
tween Gen. Mcclellan and the President and
the War Department, during the last year of
his command, and which were almost wholly
omitted from his (McCIelIan's) report, will be
sent to the Senate, and very speedily sent to
the public by Frank Moore, ultimately ior in
corporation in the Rebellion Record. They
will be of great military and political interest.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15

The Red River expedition is moving on
prosperously. Three hundred prisoners have
arrived at New Orleans. The 83d Ohm was
in the advance Of Banks force, and reached
Alexandria on the 14th, marching 40 miles
in Eve DAYS.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15
= For ths Delaware Gazette.
CHAUCER.
BY "

.SUp rose the sunne, and up rose Emile "-CHAPzER
Give me, o Muse new refrain
On my long fOrsaken Tyre;
And sing s'The morning star OF Song,'
-Chaacer Of Anc tent IRE.
He stands, up high, though far in verse
His name is or the Ages,
sa4 And flying years must still rehearse,
l.ts- This One-thO first Of Sages-
His Flowers hid in thorny words,
~ Nay tease the fastener by
But his Music touches, like Nay birds,
Sing sweet and charm my eye. 4.-- .
st.e Flower he idoled more than chose
"Legende Of goodo Women was born
= For q thing more Daisy than Rose,
Can bring never thorn
He eircled with the grouping Gods,
s5 Till . mere nobody had name;
But what he wrote was all at odds,
b u g. And that gave Chaueer fame.
Grand old Poet love him dear
But most his ssCanterbery Tales'
~ That come never TO end Of cheer,
Though my brightest Sunbeam fails.
APRH.4 1854.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15
Stolen sweets are always sWseter,
Stolen kisses much completer.

One of the strangest kisses on record is that
(which I firmly believe in) told in the Arabi-
an Nights, when the lady Of Bagdad, who
goes 70 purchase rich stuff, is asked for only
a kiss in return. No money will buy it; moth
ing bat kiss on her fair cheek. So, holding
her vail that a passers by msy see nothing, she
offers hercheek to- the young MERCHANTS kiss;
and the wretch bites it saVagely through in-
stead. But all the Arabian Nights kisses are
as strange and fetterless as the emotions they
express. We, in the colder North, can hardly
understand the state Of mind and manners de-
tailed there
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1864-04-15

SOME CATTLE.-Frank Beresford, Govern
ment contractor at. Cincinnsti, has recently
returned from the West, where he has been
cattle for the Government. He has succeeded
in securing $4,000 head