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A FUNNY SELL.

Lately some kind correspondent contributed thi
20 the poetical column of the Portland, Me Press
an ultra Republican and Administration journal
The strongest symptoms of poetry about il, is tn;
fact that every line begins with capital letter
so commence with them and read right down:
Hail, ye heroes, who in battle "f
Uncle Samuel's cannon rattle
Raise our Standardized it wave;
Rally to the fallen brave.
All our emblem's floating o'er
Horrid battleields of gore.
Falter not, but crush their folly,
Order vo1ley after volley,
Raise our banner to the sun.
Viewed in olden time by one, --
Always honored WASHINGTON
Loudly we your praises sing
Loudly now your name will ring.
And when traitors foul are laid
Namsless, in grave they made,
Dark and dismal clouds will pass,
Insuring US of peace at last,
Great has been this infant natien,
Handed down with exultation,
And, you, sons of fearless sires,
Maintain nobly your ewn fires.
PORTLAND, Feb. 2T, 1864.
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The people, who have waited impaticntly
for tax bill from the present Congress, re-
joice to hear that the Committee on Ways and
Means will, in few days, re ort the project
they have long SO been maturing. -Weetr,,st
they will recommend thorough and effective
taxation sufficient to insure SO large revenue
will put stop to any further issue of pa
per, which some time since reached proper
limit.
The people are anrious TO be taret2. They
recognize the fact that it is better that the
Government should take at once fifth of
their property than it should longer go on as
it has done, borrowing, creasing an already
deprecated currency, and increasing with it
the tendency to all kinds of extravaganza and
unwholesome speculation.
We hope Congress will make haste to act
upon the Tax Bill when it is presented to
them. The country not bear much longer
delays; every day credit suffers and suf-
fers unnecessarily, because the nation is ready
enough to pay whenever Congress will do its
duty by laying on the taxes.
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The following remarks from New York
paper are as applicable to this locality as eIso.
where. There is no subject Of equal inpor.
tanee SO much neglected as ventilation r,
speaking of the ventilation of seboo, ,a...I,Tr
the city of New York. one 81 tbe n. a..s IN
holds this ianguage:. :.s,...4 :. ...s. s1ess
"A httie vial on our desk, containing n con:
PIE ui taoiesPoonsiuls Ecf watef and about a.
twelfth OF an inch of white ssd;,.o..N.., .sa. ~.
bottom, tells curious story This Wiz = ss: .Is
ment shows how much of deadJv ,a;,." seui-
caroonlc acid gss-Twas lately found con,s;..s,s
In one 9dtfon OF the air Of one Of o,r ,-ssJ
school rooms This gallon of air ~ ~. ..1a. ss.a
INTO tight receptacla by Mr.. Orv;n 49, %.
tnls city, , aud afterward passed ttiifoneh. as.-
pint OF lime water, when its carbouies ;as;I
S tb;s - WIN 'ne nme, was precipitatei in,
tnls Whlte Powder-the carbonate oflime :
'The storySof this school.roon, 4. J;iat r
version of the famous story of the RIscL H..
OF Calcutta. The room is lust abo,,t s;-.sn..
ieet square by ten feet high, and has a door
opening upon an inner hall, two Windows ~
one SIDE, and no ventilation cxeent att ,tb.asa,
windows. In this little den are I bab;,nsIi;5e
kept et9hty-thrcc children and a teacbs- - T,
tSo- ms allo"s each soul thirty cubic feet
OF air. whle from i've to seven hundred feet.
% "io" ance. ne consequence Is an Z
atmosphere foul even to filth, and absolutelv
poisonous. MIR. Abbot's experiment rongsLiyy,
made, it is true, indicates iabont tbres 6,,,y9 z
dredths OF carbonio acid gas as the bab;tual,
proportion IN that room, while in good eom.
mon u ar there is not more than one naTE in
z,o00. 1t is we'll known that wbile sor a
per cent of this gas Constitutes the air an a.
tual narcotic poison, much less nronegt;otp7
produces very distinct depressing and tn.-s
heahhful effects In another room in the
same school-house, crowded witt 385 nun;lsy
and their teachers, little less than 40 cnbic
feet is the allowance. This is' the ssT,oI 8
eonhning these unfortunate children sipelys i'm
tight boxes about a yard each way. for three,
hours at time. 'e
"Now the choice which tho children bav,e ;;,o e,
this case is little better thai between slow sof 2
location and sudden DEATH. For if the win. .
COWS OF such ro'ns are keep shut, the foul air.
slowly and steadily deadens the vitality and
shortens the lives of the victims: and f tbs1
windows are opened, the cool air rushes ins 4
cascades upon the unprotected little heads
within, distributing colds and feyers with inn.
partial fatality. The windows are in fact afr 2
en- kept open, and the schoolroom constantlv
echoes with the coughing chorus of the chill. !
dren. Such is one of the reasons vbv half
the childrep of New York die before they are :
i've years old. and why child born and living,
in the city cannot, as the recorded average
shows, expect to live beyond its fifteenfhs
year"
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A Good Joke.

A few days ago two soldiers were sentenced
for some trivial offcnse, TO ten days in the
guardhouse, but they were taken out OCCASION
ally to do police duty about camp. Doing po-
lice duty, you must know, is not in the army
what it is in the city, but consists in going
about camp under guard and clesning up the
camp. These soldiers were put to cleaning
away the mud from the front of the colonePs
quarters. The were from New York city
regiment, and to judge from their dialect
might have been Nose and Sykesy. At any rate
[ shall call them so in the recital. They had
worked well, and finally seated themselves on
log to await the arrival of the guard to re-
lieve them, when the following conversation
took place:
Mose-Saay Sykesy, what you goin' to do
when yer three years is up? Going to be a
vet? Saay?
iSykesy-Not if know myself amt, no !!
Pm goin' to be citizen, I am, I'm goin' bach
to New York and am goin' to lay off and take
comfort, bum around the engine house and
run wild der machine.
Mose-Well, tell yer what I'm agoin to
do, I've just been thinkin the matter all over,
and got the whole thing fixed, in the first
place, I'm goin' home to New York, and as
soon as 1 get my discharge I'm going to take
a good bath and get this Virginia sacred soil
off me, then I'm going to have my head sham
pood, my hair cut and combed forward and
lied, and then I'm goin' to some uptown
clothing store and buy nae suit of togs, I'm
going to get gallus suit, too-black breech-
es, red shirt, black silk choker, stovepipe hat
with black bombazine around it, and pair of
shiny leather butes. THIN I'm going up to
Delmnoico's place and am coin for to order
jest the best dinner he get up. what ? No !
1 guess 1 wont have gay time old dinner,
much for l'll be citizen then, and wont have
to break my teeth off gnawing hard tack
after I've had my dinner will call for bot
tie of wine and segar and all the New York
papers, and then I'll jest set down, perch my
feet up on the table, drink my wine, smoke
my segar, read the news, and wonder why the
devil the army of the Potomac don't move.
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I he ImbeciIity of the Administra-
tiOn.

"Agate," the Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Gazette, is telling some very
significant tales out of school, elbow long
ago has it been," he says, "sinee grave Re-
publican Senators were declaring here, in
public conversation, that if the seat of gov
ernment were in any large city, the imbecility
of the Administration would provoke a revo-
luton within thirty days2 Or who does not
know, that, within less than eighteen months,
prominent leaders of public opinion were con-
consulting as to the prorriety of demanding
Mr. Lincoln's resignation, as the only means
of saving the government" "Agate," who is
not an Anti Lincoln man, adds: Doubtless
this was unfair-I do not discuss that-but it
,oas fact" Yes, and it was based upon
facts, too The imbecility of the Administra-
ton was and is unquestionabIe. Yet the con-
servatives of the country are stigmatised as
disloyal by the minions of Aboltionism for
refusing to aid in re-eleeting as President a
man whose prominent supporters have been
consulting as to the propriety of demanding
his resignation as the only means Of saving
the government! Surely those who believe
Mr.. Iincoln's general policy wrong and des-
tructive may be excused for opposing his re-
election, when even those who believe his
general policy right and eficacious, have been
driven to look upon his resignation the
only bope of the national salyation.-Lonis-
vile Journal. .fo<oosg
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A CHANGE.

Great uneasiness is being manifested in the
ed by the People to make change in the Ad-
ministration. They are frightened rightfully,
for the people have witnessed with disgust the
usurpations, the corruptions, and fraud of
their present servants, and in 1864 will
MAKE A CHANGEf Aore money has been
stolen from the public tyeasary by Abolition
thieves since the commencement of the ,eor,
than has been used to carry on tie Gouern.
naeat from the days of Washington to Bu-
chananl Such shameless corruption. suoh un-
PARALLEL peculation, will meet its rebuke from
the hands of a plundered and outraged people
this year. Let every man work hard for A
CHANGE! We can do no worse; we can do
better!-Seneca Adv.---,-e-.---
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SECRETARY SEWARD said at his home in
Auburn, New York Last fall, that "there is no
citizen of the Northern or loyal States, who
has not grown rich during the progress of the
war;" The New York Assembly Bank COM
mittee, three-fourths Of whom are his political
friends, say in their late repart:
No astute fnancier will for one moment
maintain that under the wasting destruction
of war, and the withdrawal Of nearly two mil
lions of men from productive industrial pur.
suits, the country can have progressed in real
results since the outbreak of the rebellion
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What If the Clothing take Ell Pi-s j

Perhaps three persons cnt of four would -
rush right up to the burning individual and =
begin to paw with their hands without any,
definite aim. 1t is useless to tell the victim
to DO this or that, or call for water In fact
it is generally best not to- say word but tear
up the carpet or sieze a blanket from the bed vl
cloak or any wooden f;sbric-if none is att !.
hand take any wooden r1aterial-hold the; :.
corners as far apart as yea cam stretch them
out higher than your head running boldly to
the person, make the motion of clasping 10
the most part about the shoulders, this instant,
ly smothers the fire and it saves the face; the -
next instant throw the unfortunate on the;
floor, thisis additional safety to the face
and breath, and any remnant of fame can be'aS
put out more leisurely. Ehe next instant i'm ::
merse Tic burned part in cold water, and the :
pain will cease with the ,rapidity of lightning.
Next get some common -four remove the wa
ter and cover the burned part with an inch
thickness of the flour if possible. Put the7a
patient to bed and do all that is. possible toa~
soothe until The physician arrives Let the q
the -four remain until it falls off itself, when
beautiful new skin will be found. Unless
the burns are deep no other application is
needed The dry -four for burns is the most
admirable remedy ever proposed, and the i'm
formation ought to be impaired to all; the e
principle of its action is that like the water "A,
it causes instant and perfect relief from pain -,
by totally excluding the air from the inj ured'
parts. Spanish whiting aud cold water Of q I
mushy consistence is preferred by some -
llredge on the -four u2til no moro will stick q q
and cover with cotton batting.-HaN jour
nal
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Two RemarkabtesLetters.

BRICK PoMERoYs has received confden
tial letters to be found below. In strict con-
fdence we give them to our readersl
[From the Lacrosse (Wis.) Democrat
awe are in receipt of two remarkable letters
from husbands of this city, whose wives are
members of the Union League. As it is i'm
possible for us to advise both of them in the
premises we give publicity to their COM
plants and trust to luck for the rest:
LETTER No. ONE.
"BR1cK PoMERoY,
Editor daily Democrat.
Argus eyed friend am in much trouble
Will you hear my prayer and give vent to ad-
vice My wife-a sweet partner of my ter
5estriai joys and earthly halluncination has
joined the loyal female league. She is on
the benevolent altogether now for two months.
She was good woman, the coolest of her
sex, and compared to her all others of her
sex are but insects. come home at noon and
she is off to see Mrs. Garley on League bust
ness I eat cold victuals for dinner and
shout aloud through the deserted kitchen
and things but she greets me not! / come
home to tea but there is no tea for me
grub it in the pantry That blessed wife of
mine off to see about the League. At mid
MI hit come home, and she is still absent
7 go to bed. [ leave the door unlocked. /
dream of robbers. The children squall for
the nourshment L have not. 1t is lonesmc.
Soon 1 hear step. A pair Of steps. Two
pair of steps. Tenor and base steps. 1 listen.
Two pair of steps climb my one pair of steps
they inger at the threshold-there are in
distinct words-one pair comes in--oue pair
goeth hence my wife has returned. Noble
woman! Kind neighbor! All for the sol
diers.
I go down the next day to my shop 1 re-
tnrn at dinner times my wife is out eat, an-
other lunch. return to the shop. At tea
time go home. I want to ask my wife some
thing privately, but two hundred women are
there to get the measure of my drawers for
the league. Then my wife goes down town.
follow her. She dod ges in this store-then
in that--then in the other. Forty women
dodge in, and out. They run over me. They
tell me to get out of the way. They take my
wife off. 1 love her. 1 look for her dihgent,
ly, but she is not to be found. I stand on
the street. She goes by on the other side
I cross over. She has vanished. Noble wo,
man. She does so much good. She has
helped to serd two pair of mittens and an en-
broidcred shirt tail to the San. Com. I have
not seen her for five weeks-that is to talk
with her.
When will the war be over? 1 want my
wife to be at home alone. IF you see my
wife tell her I want her. Noble woman-she
loves the soldiers.
Yours truly. PODGER
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sg- An exchange says that 'Mr. Lincoln
is doing all he can to enforce the Constitution '
on the South" Will some one be SO kind ass
to point out what part of tho Constitution Mr.
Lincoln is trying to enforce on the South f--- %
Which article and section is be enforcing p
He is trying 70 free negroes and 70 p under
the private homes of the South; and that is iI5
all he is doing there. His war upon liberty g 4
in the North is, thus far, good deal more ef -.
fectivc in the North than III the South, and
the stealing has been about as effective here. -
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LETTER NO. TWO.
(PriYate.l

La Crosse, April 6, 1864.
MY DEAR "BRICK"
Don't put this in
the Democaat, or I'll catch fits! MY wife
is on the loyal concern just now. She has
Joined the woman's society, where one makes
flannel mittens for the soldiers and all the rest
tell yarns about their neighboIs. Egad -
But ain't ir luck. Bnt you know L was
brought up a pet. My blood is that of a
gazelle. My wife is of the amazon stamp
For size she is not like Mrs. Amazon, but in
spirit she is terrible She is sewing for the
League. And what nice times l have
Come up and take supper with me-anytime'
No danger of ndins her at home. 1 have
the rummiest kind of times now Hired girl
is very kind aud attentive She has plenty
to do in the kitchen All the rest of the
house run. To be sure things look little
nasty and slovenly, but what of that can
do as I please. go to the saloon--drink
beer-play draw poker-romp with the ser
want girl-thrash the young ones-wear dirty
shirts-smoke pipe in the parlor-hang my
hat on the foor-spit tobacco juice on the
hcarth-go to bed with my boots on-go to
dances and go home with the girls-play seven
up with my oldest boy, and do just as please |!
al League. Deuced glad of it. Hope the
war will continue. Hope the League will be
chartered to run forever. Its good thing
If 1t comes In your way, give my wife a
puff. She likes 1t. It will make her more
devoted to Mr.. Loyal, and give me bett er
chance to slosh around. Come up and see
me. Send all the fellers up. Bring some
sap and pack of cards. These Leagues are
big things. And bring up pint of paregorc
for the babies-te keep them quiet.
Yours forever, DODGER
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manufacturer in Nassau, N. H. has fur
nished to the government, since the beginning
of the war, two million pairs 6f cotton flannel
army drawers. Over four thousand women
and girls, who received one. hundred and sew
enty thousand dollars Tor labor, were employed
in making them. s-- Hrs's p,
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rsa- al know the Democracy of tie North =
1 know them now in their waning strength! as
I do not knoao u possible disunionists araen9 y
thezr al. l believe they will be as faithful to
the Union now as in by gone days when their
ranks were full, and their challenge to the
contest was always the war cry of Victory
WM. III. SEWARD, 1861.
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nta. The late great fair for the benefit OF
the soldiers, held in Ohio, it is said, made a
vast sum of money, bnt nobody can hear what 81
has become of it. Look in the pockets Of she ss
managers, and there is. 20 doubt. they will ao-g
count for it.
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pA- Forney, in the Philadelphia PSess,.
proves that Lincoln is a good Garrisonian,
Abelitionist and therefore entitledto the con-
fdence of the 'sracicals', For once Forney
has told the truth. ,Garrison's doctrine 10 :,
that ''this Union is o lie The American
Union is an imposture. I am for its over
throw. Up with the flag of disunlon"as. q -
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sS- Why is Ola Abe bad architect? Be
cause he is all the tine busy making drdfts <. y
to supply the deficiency Of his previous draas. 'e
mas, Il. --. ~ st-- sg-ed az rori I
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A "disloyal" song highly in opposition to
the government, is going the rounds of the
press, of which the following is specimen
verse
Alas and did my soldiers bl,ed,
=--- And di dimy oenscripts die?
- Would darfies risk their woolly heads zz
n For such O fool as II ,=., Il. ..rs-, Z,
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The Last Dollar Being Called for
to Keep mp the War.
TAX taxi! TAx!!l

The New York Post, a violent Abolition pa
per, in late issue, has the following;
NV MT, r.Uifi
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G9- "You may talk as you upleassb Of thes
Golden Age and the Iron Age" said shoddyss-,
contractor, "bus give me the age Of iSteGtf1
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OHT j. JACOBS

ATTORNEY at Law, Office Immediately oIpo-
the Bank. on Main street, shland, Ohio.
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H. l. CR.a.H'E, III ID,
PRACTICAL Physician and Surgeon. Rooms at
Miller Hsuse, Ashland Ohio.
SGA5@ q eQOe@oOw
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DRs. S.ayMPSEL s. SHEETS,

u II. COW.a.T., M. ID,
PHYSICIAN &SURGEON, Ashland, Ashland Co,
Ohio. Office ovsr the Post-Ofice, opposite the
Town Hall. July "a, 1861
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GEO. ". HILL. m. d.,

%uEE@R@RAN So
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y. III. .VcCO.NBS.

ATTORNERY and Counsellor at Law, Ashland
Ohio Office in the Bank building over til
Hardware Store. I5tf
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II C IiUI1O-N, HSf1dUu, OHrO.
tisular attention will be paid to the treatment of
the following special diseases: DYSPEPSIA, dis
ease of the LIVER, the KIDNEYS. ScRoFULA and
ErITHELIAL CANCER. v16n36
Office on Church street
DRS. S.a.MPSEL s. SHEETS,
HAVING formed partnership in the practice of
medicine and surgery, solicit a shaIe of public
patronage Office over Beer & Graham's store,
corner of Main and Orange streets.
April 90 1864.
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W. T. JORa,NION

ATTORNEY at Law, office Beer & GrshaEl's
Sore ain Street, Ashland o., will end prompt
ly to all business entrusted his Special at
tentien given to collection of Soldiers claims of
all kinds
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OSBORNS s. CURTIS.

HAVE formed partnership in the practice et
Law, and will attend 70 business in their profes-
g on in ashland and adjoining counties. Office in
the b1il1i4g heretofore occupied by w. Osborn
on Ch rcn street. March 2, 1859, ,-39tf
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Er0V5@ h9s

WILER HOUSE,
N AIN STREET, between third md foUrth, Mans
field, Ohio.
D. VI. MILLER, Proprietor
Mansfeld, March 9, 1859. S9tf
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ny oouufJ trs u 'n5t,
Sweet land of liberty" et
-Crarfoyd Co. Forum.
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McNULTY HOUSE,
WM. McNULTY, Proprietor
South Side Fan Street, ashland, o.
las
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T. J. KENNY. II. NJ. CAM PBELL
KE.B.T'H' s. (.a.WPBELL.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Ashland Ohio Office on
Church Street, in the brick building Immediate
Iy West o. Ku1us &c, ,G9.-
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-04-30

from the ground against tho author of their death and
order OF Judah p Benjamin. tho Rebel Secretary Of
State directing their execution, with directions
that their bodies bo left hanging near the burned
brdges lie ventilated the conduct Of this doubydyed
traitor as Member Of Congress- the Crittenden and
other propositions o. Compromise and showed him up
10 the detestaion Of every bonOableDinGed man. He
declared in fsysr Of Immediately egszing the free
dom of the slaves in Tennessce and when that measure
completed, he in favor of compensating 10y al
but not one cent would lie pay TO Robes Laugh
ter and oppausel
ParsOa Browniow put the vote on tho resolutions,
and there was ore long Ind unanimous Yea" from
the assembled multitude. There not dissenting
" No" in tho crowd
The Rev. Mr.. Holisinger, Chaplain Of the lst Ten.
Cavalry, made short and good speech and tie
meeting adjourned. 1t WIS triumph Tor Freedom In
Ienneseee. Ed