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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-01-16

Our NAvY-FAsr SHRs.-The performances
of English built steamers as compared with
those of our navy, on which so much money is
being lavished, is occasioning a great deal O.
surprise and disquietude. 1t is argued, and
naturally, that there must be something radi-
caly wrong in the system on which contracts
are given out by the department, when it can
not obtain vessels Of first class speed The
Collins steamers made over thirteen. knots an
hour with full freight, and since they were
built great improvements have been effected
in the construction of sea going steamers. In
recent controversy between two we'll known
engineers it is stated-and the experience
of our bloskading squadron bears out the as
ssrtion-that our naval steamers (two or
rhree excepted9 cannot run nine knots an hour.
Instead Of making progress in naval construc-
ton, we are, it appears advancing backwards,
like the tortoise. In the. meanwhile we have
the modification of seeing the English ship
builders effecting q steady Improvement in
the speed Of their vessels and casting all
our previous performances in this way into
the shade. In q recent trip the Scotia made
the run from Sandy Hook to Cape Clear in
seven and three-quarter days, from New York
to Queenstown in eight days, and the entire
passage from New York to Liverpool, including
all dstsntions, under eight days and twenty
one hours-being the fastest passage across the
Atlantic ever accomplished by any steamship.
The City Of New York, an English screw ship,
has since made the trip from this port to
Queenstown, deeply loaded, in eight days and
sixteen hours-an average speed of fourteen
knots an hour. And yet the Navy Department,
with an unlimited command Of resources, can
neither build nor procure to be built vessels
that will make an average speed of nine knots
It is time for Congress to look into this matter
It cannot be pretended that our shipbuilders
are inferior to those Of England, FOR we have
abundant evidence to the contrary. Our de-
fciencies are therefore owing either to inca
pacity in the heads of the department or to
causes that are still more discreditable.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-01-16

Tm TAu TxtsanAruc Cnr1 MxRm-In orr summary
Of ehis mitch game in yesterdays HnALp New Yorks
ninth rsovs, prinsed "a 70 Bss read "s D 20 Nc
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-01-16
Rumorsd Rebel Foray ON an Arkansas
Railway.

CAIRO, H., Jan. is. 1854.
Memphis papers contain an unconhrmsd report that
four hundred rebes recently captured passenger train
between Duvals Bluff and Little Rock and injured the
road 10 such the destruction Of The
next train aad the loss OF the lives many passengers
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-01-16
Court Of Appeals

ALBANY, JAM 10 1854.
The following the calendar Of the Court Of Appeals
for Saturday. January l6-Nos. co. g. o. e6, o. 81,
68, 90, 10.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-01-16

WINTER GARDEN, nroadway.-TrcKrr or LEAVE
MAN
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-01-16
THE LEaIsLATuRE.

The proceedings in the State Legislature yester.
day were very interesting. In the Senate the bin
prohibiting the enlistment Of men in this State
unto regiments OF other States received favorable
notice. The Assembly resolutions proposing an
amendment 10 the constitution 80 as to secure to
citizens OF this State in the military service Of the
United States the privileges Of the elective fran.
chiss we're adopted unanimously. Bills were in.
Loduced 10 amend the Railroad act relative to the
faakIng up Of trains, and for rebuilding the locks
on tho Chemung and Oneida canals. message
wns received from Governor Seymour in relation
20 the returning regiments and the condition Of
the recruits al the several military rendezvous,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-01-16

wALIACK's THEATRE, Broadway.-NAvAI ENGAGE
hRSrs-SLD ENGLISH aKxTLRMAN
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-01-16

BARNuMS MUSEUM. observation-disclosures GIANT.
GIANT GIRL GIANT BoY. LiLIlrUriAN KING Gks GRANT.
Ja, 40. ~ al hours Tioxxr LKAvk'MAN AT and IN
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-01-16

BoWRRf THEATRE, Bowery.-RAc WOMAN HRR
poGs-WILp Boy o. BonEstA-lopKRT MAcAiaR.
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BRYANTS' MlESrRELS, Mechani Hall. 47s Broad
vsy.-ErnsoPiAN SONGS. DANCES BunLEseuEs dc.-uNcLE
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: OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.-A BULL IN A CHINA
SHor-CovstN CH&RRY.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-03

property in the country. This is the price
paid by the country to force domineering
minority upon the majority of the people,
The great mass of the people were always on
the defensive against those whowanted banks,
or protection, or bounties, or internal improve
ments, or special privileges of some descrip-
tion. The whole people presented a solid.
phalanx called the Democratic party. The
restless minority took new name with every
attempt upon the Constitution and popular
rights. For twenty years they steadily 70
mented that sectional discord which was in
tended to give them power at any cost. The
Constitution, the whole wealth of the country,
the liberties of the people were as nothing in
the scale against their criminal ambition, and
when, in 1861, the Peace Congress was pack
ed with delegates from Republican eliques
pledged TO defeat any peace measures that
might be offered, the whole property Of the
country was offered up to CEN ent in blood the
ill-gotten pewer of a party born in treason
and fos 2 red in treachery.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-03
What .sMack'' of the Commercial
Says About Congress. as

In his Washington letter of January 21st,
.sMack" of the Cincinnati Commercial does
not give very fattering picture of the Mem
bers Of the present Congress. Here is what
he says of the motives governing that body
in its action on the whisky tax:
The all absorbing topic at the Capital now
is the whisky tax. Nearly every man you
meet, unlike Banquo's ghost, has speculation
in his eye. But they are badly frightened,
since Fernando Woods amendment to the bill
yesterday, putting the additional tax on the
stock on hand as well as that to be manufac-
tured hereafter. - a8iG
The speculation is not confined to outsiders,
but many of the peoples Representatives on
the floor of the Hou are largely interested
directly, and L am sorry to say that, L have
reasen to believe that number of others are
interested indirectly in the way Of premium
on votes. Owen Lovejoy is no doubt a very
honest and conscientious man on the negro
question, but think he is little slippery on
the revenue bill. IF not, his action misrepre-
sents his intentions. When the bill was first
intro duced he delivered a temperance lecture
in the House, wildly portraying the awful
effects of TIE intoxic tug bowl, and advoca-
ting tax on every quart of whisky in the
country. He may have been induced to do.
this from an ambition to oNrun an opposition
line to John B. Cough, who was drawing
large houses at one of the churches in this
city Since iheps however, he has turned
complete summersault, and in a speech made
yesterday, warned the House that if it put an
additional tax on the stock now in the hands
of The snecuistors. it would stop every dstil-
lery in the country, and bring financial ruin
on hundreds of good aud loyal men, Is not
the presumption fair that somebody has been
with Owens conscience
As the bill now stands, it is death 10 specu-
lators. But it is by no means impossible that
the "test votes" heretofore taken, were in
tended to test the plethoric pockets of these
gentlemen, rather to give any correct indi
cation of what the final action would be. The
manner in which the members of the House
have acted thus far, shows them to have been
merely throwing bait to the bulls and bears
to see how they would nibble. The raising of
q revenue for the Government seems only to
have been a secondary consideration with
stsot them; but, as most of them are am
bftions men, and expect to run for Congress
asain-though 1 hope they won't all be re-e-
lected-they ought to know that their con-
stituents will hold them to a strict aecounta-
billy for selling themselves to the specula
tive Philistines.
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nsE- There Is a GOOD deal Of signiaeanoe b

B9r There is good deal Of signiheanoe in
the following which we clip from recent
Washington letter :; q ,. sEat4 ~
"Out of eight hundred horses bought In
New York, and sent to Gen. Butler, seven
hundred were condemned. General Butler
has obtained permission to go into the open
market. # "a
People we're wondering how Butler would
make his post at Fortress Monroe pay, buk
the above tells the story. Condemuing horses
by the wholesale, selling them for "a song and
then going into the open market to buy ard
all operations by which men like Butler could
turn an honest pennyy-Hor saas %
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Astounding ReveIafion.


We learn from the Crisis that Goyerpor
Tod ayowed himself ignorant of the confne-
nent of DIR. Buckley, in the dungeon Of the
Ohio Penitentiary.. The appalling force OF
the Despotism at Washington, has not made
more signal and terrible manifestation Of its
cruel power, than it has done In this solitary
confinement of a citizen, in the Penitentiary
of State, unknown even to, the Governor Of
the State. The question uppermost in every
mind must be s'How many more ara an.
gushing in the darkness of cells, Where they
can be seen by no human eye, and their conn
plainings heard by no mortal ear Indeed
we are almost compelled to. ask, whether, in
future years, when the Bastiles of this Reign
of Terror shall have crumbled and falI6n, Tiers
win not be found grim and ghastly skeletQna
of men, soiidiy enclosed In walls Of hriek and
mortar, where they had been left to gasp and
die, the tortured victims Of q most horrid aud
bloody tyraunytS -s y 8stz szs sgi@
OF Dr. Buckley, We know nothing what
ever, save what we gather from bis own pub
lication. Its truth has not been denied 20
far as we have seen. But whatever credibili-
ty may attach to his particular statement, We
know that he. is innocent, BY the law of fhs
land, until he is proven guilty !; and we knez
that, as yet, there is no such proof. - =
We ask, and we call for an answer, why, il
the State of Ohio, where every court, Federal
and State, is, aud has been, in free and una
trammelsd exercised Of every power totry and
convict of crime, Why, we say, ,,wast pot,sQE
Buckley arrested upon warrant, and tried upon
Indictment, found by the grand jurors of she
State Can any man answer ?saF6 SO ssi53
Talk of the barbarism Of medieval days
of the shocking cruelty of the moro modern
murders of the French JacobiIs the toEchs
the fagot, and the guillotine, in the tormens
they inAiet, do not compare with the exquisite
agony which the miserable victim Of solitary
confinement endures., In the, dark, dank eel;
he has been known to alleviate his horribls
solitude by making friends Of the spiders, and.
rats the vermin-of his prison until at lass
the inevitable catastrophe comes, and the light
of his mind is quenched in the darkness ef
insanity. s..fs. -. - 2 -.
Think of these facts, people Of all parties.
and in Gods name aid as in the peaceful hs
gal overthrow of the infernal despotism sboYs
and around US. Sa+ = ~ sdsss1
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nsE- we have often had occasion to rernark

B9 We have often had occasion to remark
upon the shocking profanity and blasphemy, in
and out of the pulpit, of our latter day parsons
of abolition politics, but we do not remember
any thing in ttat connection quite so impious
passage in speech by Reverend Thomas
Starr King at war meeting in San Francisco
We copy from paper of that city
"Among the many speakers of the evening
was Rev. Thomas Starr King, who, alluding to
the work of the Sanitary Association of the
Pacific coast, said We had sent 100000
in gold to the suffering soldiers ir the East
S485, 900 rather through the blessed influence
of Providence and Salmon r. lChdse, and
these t,oo aOere a tsdna scaea hdrnessed together'
Think of it, Jehovah, God, the Great Lam,
the Maker of Heaven and Earth, before whom
the Angels kneel and the Archangels hide
their faces, ''upon whose face man can look
and ive"-think OF it, we say, He the Inf
mite, Gin harness" with Salmon p. Chase, and
they, "a team when harnessed together' r7.
And this is the spirit of modern christianity
and of abolitionism.- Chicago Times. - - -
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-03
The An-Prevading viIIainy.

1t is hard to look in any direction, without
being shocked at the spectacle of crime in all
its phases. Nor is it to be concealed from the
observer, however desirous he may be to avoid
the belief, that this deplorable state of things
is going from bad to worse; and thinking
men are constrained to ponder how long it will
be until utter lawlessness and anarchy shall en-
gulf us all in irremediable ruin 1t is not de-
nied-nay it is confessed-that in every De-
partment of the public service robbery is the
rule. and honesty the exception. Thieves are
in places of highest trust, and bandits are com
missioned b rob and plumber where every op
portunity is presented as witness the transac
tions in Gotten, where federal muskets are
made the arms of fhighwaymen, and Federal
wagons are employed to transport the booty of
robbers.
But now papers reveal new phase ofcrime,
committed to terrifying extent in the city of
New York, in the recruiting service. Boys
from fourteen to eighteen years of age are
drugged with poisonous liquors, and while in
this condition sfif they have any sense re-
maining9 they are lured by false representa-
tions to enlist, and are then robbed of the
Government bounty, by the villains who have
deceived and entrappcd them. Heart-broken
parents are constantly in search Of lost chill
dren, who have been thus Kidnapped and only
learn where they are, to know that they can
not be reclaimed It is hald to conceive of vii
lainy in a more shocking phase than this.
cAsgoften as the Democratic press, In the
faithful discharge of its duty, calls attention to
these crimes and outrages. the confederates and
accessories Of the scoundrels whom it exposes,
dispersed all over the country, each at his al
lotted post, in the pulpit, through the press,
or in the lecture room, hiss the malignant and
venomous cry OF "cepperhead y and 'straitorp "
just as if ahey could, by this base and dispica-
BILE resort, deter fearless and honest men from
the discharge of an imperative and most holy
andpatriotic duty Cys eaaiegU-9 TaelssG -
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-03
Taxation. More Taxation,

The New York Herald, alluding to recent
articles in the Administration papers in that
city, the Tribune and Times, demanding of
Congress increased taxation, says the Goyern-
ment must receive three or four millions year
from taxation, or go by the board. We shall
have 10, tax Ere, mir and water, smoke, light
and love, everything we wear, and everything
we don't wear, everything we like, and every
thing we dislike. From the cradle to the grave
we will have to be taxed, and both in the cra-
ole and the, grave. This is one Of the bounties
for which we have to thank radical belligerent
Abolitionism, and the men in power it has led
by the nose, to their own shame and disgrace
and the ALMOST total ruin of the country. iaal
I al;
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-03
The Military 20 er in the South
UnbrOken and Formidable.

From the Washington Correspondent of the Dub
uque Iowa) Herald.]
So far as the military strength of the South
is concerned, it is greater now than at any
former period, and their armies are on much
more stable basis. Their armies certainly do
not number 400 900 troops, but three-fourths
of these are veterans, who have re, enlisted
for the war. General Lee, in Virginia, and
General Johnston between chattanooga and
Atlanta, will certainly be ready in the spring
TO carry out the plans that arc now being
formed at Richmond The South is full of
corn and wheat and cattle and hogs. have
from the first steadily maintained that the
idea that the South is suffering, or can suffer,
from want of food, is absurd and groundless,
and every cavalry raid that we make confirms
the correctness of this view. They are abund-
antly provided with arms and munitions of
war Finally, they are united as one man in
their determination to fight until their inde-
pendence is acknowledged and they consti-
tute ten millions of people, of the same line
age, and of the same high spirit as ourselves.
Certainly it must be confessed that the pros
pect of conquering and subjuga ting the South
is not very fattering. The work, indeed, is
only begun. When our armies begin to PEN
citrate the interior of the country, the real DIFF
fcultes of the undertaking will begin to, be-
come apparent.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-03
COWardice.

aaThe crime Of the hour (truly and forcibly
remarks fhe Columbus Crisis,9 is cowardice-
nawkish, pulling cowardice, sncakiug policy
and expediency, when the life of nation and
the liberties of great people are all at stake.
History may in some sense respect the tyrant
for his boidnesa, his daring and his. success,
but the sneakin vermin who crawl upon their
bellies, serpent-like, to kiss the tyrant's feet
or hide from his ignoblee frowRs, are always
held in contempt and damned with the ana.
themas of ages, "a
.esslssas--s5eI ,bs E-ssssss
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-03

I ~ Every thing in Administration circles
in Washington went off as merry as mar,
riage bell on New Years. Why should they
not be happy? "A set Of rail spl.sters, sTaeS-
distributors, spiritual mediums aud threaa-s es1
bare yiagabonds, nov wailowing Up to thheias
ewes in the fat of the landi Since the worlds
beoon sucl, another mob of rnoraland mental
tatterdermalions never lcrept into places sS
bi.h before. Wen may they ieer andssbs.
merry. But it win be q short lived joy. 2azsT
ltice sleeps, but is not Dead sd 70 ssaes -sts !.
sf7Slfs 81
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-03

BosToN INSTITUTIONS Hub of the
Universe needs Dickens to describe the wor-
kings of institutions. Dothcboys Hall is out
done in its reformatory discipline, and Bum
BILE the Beadle reappears in undiminisheI glo-
ry at the head of its charities. The orphans
ask, like Oliver, for more and are counted re-
fractory. Vagrant prostitutes and girls con-
victed of the offense of staying away from
school, are herded together and the inmates
of the prisons, male and female, bathe in
squads, under the eye of officials appointed
aud commissioned. Mischievous boys receive
the discipline of the wagon-whip from the
hand of an exeeutioner, rated as a Supcrin-
tenaent land girls are whaled with rattan
over the breast and shoulders, and carry the
marks for weeks after the inf1iction. Such is
the story told by the report of an official ex-
animation Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-03

aA- An Ohio paper a ,nounces that tho
wool-growers of Ohio will meet in convention
on the 5th of January, to confer on mattsra
connected with the wool interest And the
seool gatherers of the whole United States
will hold convention early next summer 70
nominate a leader to prosecute the soool steak
.ng business for the next four years. ,sss
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-03
A Monument of Grave Yards.

The Administrator has successfully estab-
lished United States grave yard at Chattan-
ooga. There is one thing in which the Re
publican party has achieved great excellence
1t is an excellent grave digger Its grave
Yards in the South will be everlasting moru-
ments of its skill in that line. Aud then, in
filing those graves, it has rot had to borrow
subjects. 1t has proudly drawn upon our own
vast resources, and therefore, it boasts that the
grave yards it has, with SO much eclat, estab-
lished in the Sou,h, are well filled with. the
bodies of our own Northern people. They are
our sons, our fathers, our brothers, our neigh
bors and kindred, who sleep theIe-zssg 90.
''Where the foe and the stranger shall tread Ger
their heads -......-s-
And there their bones will lie, objects of loath-
ing and scorn to that people. Cheerful thought
10 those Northern families, whose dead have
been generously buried by the benevolent Re-
publican party. The everlasting monument
of this party shall be their grave yards.-Day
Book. ~ 81
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-03

sea- The Louisville Democrat says "A
gentlemen just from the front says that IN
some places where negro troops az employees
it is no unusual thing to find in morpine
three or four negro soldiers lying around.
killed by the white soldiers during the night.s
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-03

hSr Some of our exchanges are ccmpiaining
that not single New England Governor was
present at the Gettysburg graveyard demon-
stration. We think they show some sense in
staying away. The establishment of adtiomdI
grave yards in civil war, looks like con-
fession that there is never to be peace between
The belligerents again.
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-03
The New year.

As we enter upon 1864. who docs not praE
God that it may be less prolific of battle and
bloodshed of sorrow and suffering, Of woe and
want, of reviling and hatred, Of prescription
and persecution, than that just passed Who
does not pray for peace, for restored Union;
for the rehabilitation of the Constitution and
laws, and for assurance not to be doubted, that
the hereditary freedom Of the American pso-
pie is not lost forever, ,-Empirs. 80
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-03

19r The following anecdote is from the
Columbia 81 nth CaroHniaa 1.-Two old Ia
dies were recentlyi conversing on the Battle
of Chioaniauga. Said one: II wish, as Gem
eral Bragg is Christian man, that he were
dead and in heaven think it would be =
God send to the Confederacy. why, my
DEAR said the other, sif the General were nsar-
the gates of heaven. and invited in, at the erite
ical moment he would fall back
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-03

sa The President says, in his message,
that "the nation is entering upon new life."r
1t must be, if it lives at all, for he has killed
the Constitution as dead as a mackerel, and
has killed about sec, 900 citizens in doing it.
The way he goes en-, all life existing here
will have to be ne,o pretty soon. The old
will all be gone. ~ s7F Il stasE 3 if1 Is
The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-03

BGr A Republican exchange paper Il rea~-
ding the people lesson on duty, and admon-.
ishes them to Be content aoith aohat thy hoees
But, sir. if they allow you fellows to GO on
with this war, you will soon have to admonish,
them to be content with what they hnes gof.s