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Connubial Matters.
In retirement,
DEAD BHAF.

Dow, Jr., gets of the following on con.
nabial matters
"My Brsthern, for charity's sake whose
business but her own is it il young lady
has a beaux, two beaux, twenty beaux, or
no beaux at all Is little Irritation, or
course OF systematic courtship, such now
el and wonderful affair as to excite the
curiosity and meddling propensities of So
ciety at large Why, the thing has been
done ever since Noah and his family gave
up the ship. and went forth to multiply
and replenish the earth II is fair buis-
ness transaction between the parties con-
cerned--and very pleasant piece of busi-
ness it is, too, when not intsrlered with
by calculating parents, or passeboard re-
latives, who fear some starch will be taken
out the of family pride--and by outside
poke-noses in general, who are determined
to meddle for the fun of the thing. Lord
what an unnecessary amount of fuss there
10 made when a fellow teads up to = girl
as if he meat to put her through hasty
courtship, and then make her his old wo-
man in spite of the devil himself. won.
der if when gander selects his goose.
there is sueh gobbliDg and shaking Of
feathers among the flock y
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The Presidents Disloyal Rela.
tiOnS.

The Chicago Post aluding to the pas
sage Of Mrs. Lncoln's sister. with con-
traband goods, through our lines endorses
a strong condemnation of Mr. Lincoln for
his alleged course in the affair and adds
the following interesting statement;
"In the recent diabolical outbreak of se-
cessionists in Coles County, in this State,
two of Mr.. Lincoln's own cousins were
among the active and leading prrticipators
in the attack upon the soldiers and fortu-
nately both of them are now prisoners
They are W. +. Hanks, af Charleston
and 8. Grcenville Hanks, of Big Creek
Edgar county. The latter, when arrested
boastedthat he was The man who killed SIR.
geon Kork."
To be sure, the President ought not tc
be held responsible for the doings of bis
own or his wfe's relations but since it il
the fashion with soms extremists to judge
man dsloyal because his father, son,
brother or cousin may be a secessionis
we don't see why the rule, ii it is goot
one, should not have a universal applica
tion.--BuE. Courier.
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How TO INCREASE THE DEMOCRATIC
VoTB. = Two dollars spent in securing the
circulation of sound, patriotic newspa-
per, where none circulated before, is worth
ten times that amount Of money spent in
the month before an election II each of our
present Subscribers will see to it that some
doubtful voter in their district reads the
Democrat for year, he will be sure to
voteright next fall. Two dollars will pay
for more good political reading than can
be had for ten dollars. in the heat Of a
campaign.
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NEWSPAPER CHANGE.-Tbe Lancaster
InteHigencer, heretofore published as a
weekly, by the Messrs. Sanderson, is about
10 pass into the hands of firm under the
style of Cooper, Sanderson 81 Co., and
will, after the first day of July next, be
issued as the Daily ond Weekly HanHi-
gencer. We congratulate the Democracy
of Lancaster upon the prospect of having
daily Democratic journal published in
their midst, especially one of the charac.
ter which our friends Cooper and San
derson will give to the public.
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THE SoLnIERs' VoTE The people
should remember that the Abelit onists are
the very men who objected to the soldiers
vote. A Democratic sheriff was elected
In Philadelphia by the soldiers vote, and
the Abolitionlst' objected to it, and carried
1t to the Supreme Court. Judge Wood.
ward decided it according to the Constitu-
ton, and in accordance withthe wishes Of
the AboIiionsts. Tho decision threw a
Democrat out of Office, but now the aboli
,ionists try to make capital out Of their
own act
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BLOOMsBURG COLUMBIA COUNTY PENNA. SATURDAY,

having in his possession the evidence to
establish their truth And would Pres.
ident Lincoln assign General Blair, to sa
impor,an, command after he bad made
such charges uules be-President Lin
coln--believed them to be true 7
We think not.
What then does this quarrel between
the warrng factions of the dominant polsi-
cal party reveal.
The astounding fact that member Of
the Cabinot-no less a parsonage than
Salmon 2. Chase, Secretary of the Treas
ury-ihe man who controls the financial
operations of the Government, is traitor
ously supplibg the rebels with military
surpies-lhat be is corruptly appropria-
ting Government funds to political pur-
poses, and enriching his relatives, by the
most nofarious means, at the expence Of
the people.
And further, the fact still more astouB-
ding, that the President of the United
States, with all the knowledge upon the
subject which Gen. Blair, possesses = re
tains this traitor, speculator and corrup.
ZIONIST in bis Cabinet
I" We are making history" said Mr.
Lincoln. Truly we are-but such a his
tory! 1t will be without parallel, We trust
as it certainly is without precedent.
After such revelation of treason and
fraud in the very bosom of the Admins
tration, it is superAuousta inquire-"Whith
er ore we drifting - Patriot e. Union.
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Ds7s- The rebels fred on Fort Sumptc

paS- The rcbels fired on Fort Sumptcr,
and this the aholitionists offer as an excuse
why they should wage a war of subjuga-
tion and determination, to do away with
State rights and to free the negroes, II
The aboltionists had never fired upon the
Constitution, The rebels we presume, would
never have fired on Sumpter. The aboli-
tionists have been firing upon the Consti-
tuition of our fathers for the past twenty
years, and they have got it well nigh bat.
tered down. - Fort Wayae Times.
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Humanity of General Jackson.

" During the Greek war, after one of
the battles, an Indian child was found
sucking the breast of his dead mother
The scene was truly affecting, and dictated
the course that he, who has been charged
by the tongue Of calumny, as possessing a
soul Of iron. and tigers disposition,
should pursue. At first, he endeavored to
procure u squav to relieve the wretched
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infant, but all to whom he applied refused
with this excuse, that as all his relations
were killed, it would be better to knock
him in the head Futher application be-
ng in vain, he took the little orphan un.
der his immediate protection, and after the
campaign, brought him home, introduced
him into his family, and educated him."
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ssy- 1t i, said that the negro wcuches
are to have National Convention to in
sist on having Fred Douglass put on the
Republican ticket for Vice President
Hurrah for Anna Il. Dickinson Oneds
De Bois, "Palemon john" and Miss e.
G. Nation IIye la Africa.
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Select ])uetrp.
NOBODY is HURT.

Tho world is fair and gay to US,
As now we journey on,
And still It's sad to think twill bo
The same when we are gone.
Some few, perchanee, may mourn for us,
But soon the transient gloom.
Like shadows of summer cloud.
Shall leave our narrow tomb.
For men are like the waves that roll
Along the mighty deep,
That liz their crests awhile and ffown,
Aud then are lulled to sleep;
While other bilows swelling como
Amid the foam and spray,
And, as we view their furrowy track,
Sink DOWN and where are they'
And ever thus the waves shalt roll.
Like those that now go past,
The offspring Of the depths beneath.
The children OF the blcst.
Aud ever thus shall man arise,
And be like those that be,
And man no more is missed on land,
Than wave upon the sea.
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BLOOMSBURG:
Saturday Morning, June 11,l864.

sGy- The New York World says ar
raugements have been made for largo i'm
porta,ions Of foreign paper, which will
soon bring down the price in spite Of all
the efforts of spectators to keep it up.
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r
into it,
AS hotel il is not equal to the Mansion
House, though the terms are moro reason
able. They don't charge sny board. The
only charge military people are given to
is TO chargo bayonets.
The bill of fare Is wholesome, but lacks
variety. There is
TOO MUCH PORE.
The bill of fare, however, is varied.
We have pork ard crackers for break
fast.
Crackers and pork for dinner, and
Pork Wtth crackers for tea.
think we shall have q change next
week, as the commandant has sent an or
der to New York for barrel of pork,
When you write to me, iaclose bunch
of radishes in the letter.
THE SOCIETY
of the fort is select. They arc mostly peo.
pie of Southern complexion, who havs
been recommended here for the benefit of
their health. They don't generally see 10.
There is no female society here.
Nor no Union Leagues.
Nor no Philharmonic concerts.
Otherwise it's pleasant
The view is enchanting. Lovely water
scapes spread before the vision on every
side. As / said before, the situation is
marine-ultra marine, and gives me th
blues as gaze upon it.
There is no post Office in the fort, and
spondence is limited Perhaps you'd
| like to know how sent this letter. A
pigeon few into the fort to-day and I AZ
tached the letter to his tail.
The pigeon is carrler-pigeon, and you
may get him situation as letter-oarrisr
under Postmaster Lincoln.
Somebody may inquire
WHY 1 CAME HERE.
III tell yo7 confiLentially.
! The governmentssis making extensions to
its mansion at Fort Hamilton likewise
at Fert Richmond, on Staten Island. They
wanted reliable person to look after the
architects, to see that they didn't pocket
the bricks. Fort Lafayette is half way
between, and so situated that you can see
both forts at once, and is just the place tc
see what is going on.
, A meeting of the cabinet was called al
; the White House. Secretary Stanton in
troduced the subject.
: The President said it reminded him o.
. story he once heard in Illinois. A mar
who lived in Saugamon county, in con
@ versation with medical student, said b,
did mt believe In vaccination. Says be
at don't do child bit of good, hat
a child vaccnated once, and in three day
after it fell out of window and broke III
neck"
The cabinet saw the point at once, ant
laughed SO loud that they woke up Secre
tary Welles.
Secretary Seward rang his little bell
and sent for General Dix.
General said William H. show /
Fort Lafayette -
"Our aagis there said the general
' with military promptness.
SIS there a reliable man to be fou nd i
the Department of the East :" said VIII
liam Fl.
"If there ISN'T" thundered the General
"Ill shoot him on the spot"
y "Wbo is he ~ asked the Secretary.
"His name is Dead Beat" says ID
:. General.
u "Send him to Fort Layfayetts.
So came.
y am still here.
d Yours,
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s@- An exchange says shere is some.
thing inexpressibly sweet about little girls.
To which the Louisville Journal adds !:
And it grows on em as they grow big
gsr.'
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letter in the Brooklyn Eagle of last week,
purporting to have been written by How
ard, "of the Times" from Fort Lafayette.
The letter is an excellent imitation of the
style in which the great Dead Beat" bis
faDciful nom de gurre, was wont to tickle
the literary palates of the readers Of the
Eagte:
CELL 5,3ll, SECOND TIER. }
FORT LAPAyErTE, May "a.
DEAR EAGLE: In the language Of the
"magniGcent' VestvaIi, II am here"
think l shall stay here, at least till
get out,
Perhaps yon are surprised at my sud
den departure. So was /.
But received pressing invitation from
Gcoeral Dix to come down here, which l
didn't feel at liberty to decline. so didn't.
Bob Murray brough. the invitation
Bob Murray is United States marshal,
and he marshalled me tho way should 90;
so thought it best to 60 it.
/ Bob is nice man but would mt rec
+ ommend you to cultivate his acquaintance
You may have heard of Fort Lafay.
cite it is great resort Of friends Of the
I Observation-Disclosures the left.
THE LOCATION
Of Fort Lafayette is in tho water between
the Atlantic ocean and West Point.
1t is a good site for marine residence
but hav mt seen any marines here. 1t i.
inaccessible on all sides, except the inside
Its om.accessibility is what most objec
THE WAY YOU GET IN
is curious, and may Interest you readers
who hav'n been hero. You can't 90 BY
railroad, or steamboat, or horse or buggy
The entrance is effected in a highly mill
tary manner, invented, believe, by Gen.
eral Dix, or some other man.
You 60 to Fort Hamilton,
Which is just over the way.
A 1880 pound shell with the inside ou
is provided for the purpose You get il
the shell. 1t is then put in 2-40 incl
mortar and rammed down on barrel O
powder. The mortar is touched off ant
up you 60. You keep going up about fift.
miles. You then come down and lapt
right in The middle of Fort Lafayette.
The artillery artist has attained grea
precision in the range, and you light ex
actly in The centre of hollow square o
military people drawn up to receive you.
THE sENsATIoN
as the she'll goes up is peculiar.
When you have reached an altitude Q
forty-nine miles, eight furlongs, the vie,
is magnificent.
You have a birds eye view of Bath
Coney island and New Jersey.
made a sketch of it.
I'll send it to you.
Perhaps you think this is strang
way oil getting into the fort, but it is ISL
a circumstance to
THE WAY OF GETTING OUT,
which 1 haven! ditcovered yet. When
do I'll let you know.
The people who keep the fort are of II
military persuasion, it is heir forte. The
mostly wear guns or swords, and do ever.
) thing in military way, which is no, G
vii way, though they have been very oi,
to me.
The fort is substantial building, the
t is no apprehension Of burglars. ssnsib
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Howard-His Style as a Writer

We select the following extracts from q
letter in the Brooklyn Eagle of last week
purporting to have been written by How.
ard, "of the Times" from Fort Lafayette.
The letter is an excellent imitation of the
style in which the great Dead Beat" bis
fanciful nom de g,rre, was wont to tickle
the literary palates of the readers Of the
Eaeie
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-01-01
lTErRoPoLIrAN FAB.

sSs.s ioeS xno~ sD.ef Fol- sale y HENRY = MORRISON
!. Ole agent FOR the mannfaciurers % Maiden lane.
sgfAArs gs, SANITARY COMMISSION
a Fair % BE Ss s 1s Ss1c & coy
de relief q he sn@ wounded q army
deslgned % be something much larger than Fair 10
re- salsars trsas naSsrs st win e Q con,r
. " sa % e
cause with their talent and genius All the mate
"a sa sa s BEL and the
New jersey and the sdscees States viii send in Specimens
their stock factories win contribute
% Is. o. ana %
s ass can or anything
that WIN furnish the means Of snccorns national
'.Nahsnl EIposon for purposes not Of mere osiens.
oss s Of OF
have been appointed this undertaking
TO- give the influence your name example and pcsisoo
h. % .s ne ~ y oap 10 s dollar.
relief THIS sum may well save 20 the nation the lives sf
mn.hins cost and the duration Of the war; =
ss.1 h.. s one and %
same hing With every promise q result equally splendid
:y ssa sAsqs % % s sw s1d
great ns.ons object than Chicago cncnna Boston
We sCnsdsa,iy rely on your aid and call you for it
tsrss Of ne psv radical or cou..s,ve spuSesn or
democratic. adrnisra,ion snsdminisrstion 10 ali
Ibis that 70 send our Nations. Is. .d sappss y
supplement- those government undertakes 10 them,
which they sometimes fail 70 and thus relieve
them when sick aud In misery, q work OF Christian
charity, and tharit work OF Intelligent patriotism
- economring their life health efficiency on which,
under God the nation depends in this s time Of trouble
We therefore AK every Clergyman TO
name undertaking 10 his people, them
that tbey further We press give IL the
widest publicity and the most encouragement
N on every workshop. factory and mill for aspecmen Of
small for one OF his creations all loyal women
exercs OF their taste and industry farmers for the
duc Of their heds and dalres The miner. the paturas
tne man OF science the traveller each send something
h, can q The very least b converted into banket
whom supple: have failed reach Every
70 eve sample OF his best
OF national un ty. Every loyal patriotic workngman
mechanic Or farmer who can make Of ahoee rafse
barrel OF sppes called something thai
can be turned into and again from into the
soldierA 80 n -. ..T -. *. 49,
Contributions also invited for temporary loan and en-
hibition Connected with the Fair viii be Museum OF
Painting etatuary. Ancient Furniture. AZ
tces vertu curosities OF every cass They win Be
exhibition during the Pair and fully protected against
injury. x~,s
be consumed Alfred and Mra AleH-
snder Hamilton. yr.. ~. Great Jonee street
tisIng. srprsss cn.rses Congouons o, Money
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. REVOLUTIONARY PnHoSgRs--Only eighteen revolution
airy pensioners remain the official rolls OF the govern
.ens drawing the or one thousand and forty -four
dollars There about sixteen hundred widows Of
utiouAfy soldiers drawing pensions. There we're up 70
last June seven thousand two hundred and forty EIGHT
army invalid pensioners and four thousand eight hundred
and twenty willows, orphans and dependent mothers.
There have been added during the year
ave hundred and eighty two army pensioners and three
thousand nine hundred and thirty widows, &c
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me w,.ss. o..ga,gn;: !.

Il sesns 70 b suppossdSlas The Yankee Army o. the
Potomac oentemplate8 further military operations
ths winter Thor journals 90 sivo ont, from whch
We conclude tha they are eoing 70 surprise % poesbe
The heavy renS6fceents from Grants army may be in
tended fss sss of thsse sudden PUSHES onward which
characterize Meade's m0vensnss But eagle eye 10
watching him, and, whenever wherever he may ap.
pear he WIN ma bospitabe reception awaiting him.
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NEW YORK ,HERALp, EalpAY, JANUARY ! lss4

another they might 70 overthrown the people vto-
them he wos Dot trouble Judge LyoDs court, boz
would make punishment fellow napsty apon We hsss =
Ne osssee We ea2't ga aosE n - struggle snssh
PabW vkhsss rssofSsag - seFooU moUsrA -. =
~ " coselsisc hat 0asss OpGFsss va pspased =
acpt such hws - these Ne eountsy weuh - brought
t0shs eve ~ AsetsssttoA. WAsa the spts1s " al III
~ bsles martyrs who have lalDsn 10 thu was Nd "
unlo4 thousands Who shall hereafter fan shall eove shis
CApitos - vh cIouA saa demand 70 know " ASHER
q AZ this niscbsf he for ere u least meant 70 say, ~
did no& DO 1t shake not Thy CORY locks at men
me further cousideraipn o. he resolutions was post
poDed tll Wednesday pex.
Personal
General John B. Gordon, o. Alabama, passed through
Richmond Saturday, en- rss 70 bis home IN the South
General Gordon has left his command 10 tho Army Of
Northern Virginia temporarily BY the advice Of sur
geons order recruit bic health, which has been
en.eebied By o long and uninterrupted term OF active
service The frseode Of thie gallant officer
wish him speedy restoration u The Amy a which be
b en- ornament
Captain g. n Burke, Of Atlanta, a. present M Rich
mond has received authority 70 rase battalion for
General Torr6ets command No tennessee Captain Burke
10 connected with the pSess Of Atlanta
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YANKEE s>St00KDs
~ Abtne6Da Vts0iNteN says;-~k
AoSoe ~ hu4sea Yaskee eavasy, wisne9wo pieces o.
aSsnsvy eae nto Jeoesvnbe - Hasa sunday week AUD
veaatnsd MAN nsxt nosniag Andy Csesksts, apsNaee
N CApe Lechaesd1 company Of mounted rhees, nappee
ng 70 Do q h0Ue w that county gathered up fourteen
-, an9. nss4Ay nornng, soon alter the YaAhses |
ysnesvtle oenn0 eastward, he began 70 Asnoy seea,
Aghtng thsm - ivory turn q tho road and falling oack
slowly before them Two miles this sde Of JsDosvlne
the Yankees divided hundred taking the road 20 ehe
upper ford q ROwels river and one hundred ana tty,
With The two pieces o. artillery, came along the turn
pike Crockett, discovering thai they had divided their
forces, eft 81 the lower ford and took the bal
ance 70 the upper crossing When tho Yankees camo TO
she opposite bank OF tho river Abe held them 10
check hours The Yankees shena than all tbe while
During the hghiing Lieutenant Colonel Prdsmore, with
hundred and nifty hundred and eighty men d
the SIXTY fourth Virginia regiment, was withng hearing
but believing The YANKEE force 70 b whole battalion,
be fell back}t0 Poweps Neuntain. Had 10 gone 70
Crockette assistance Is thought BY Qua Informant that
the RAIDERS Would have been driven back. They al
vanoed however, the foot o. The ridge, Dr. DOyds,
where thsy casped for Ne night, and Tuesday re-
tusuea 70 their eocamnnent, nL1e miles below Jonee
VILE The raiders are doing vast deal Of mischief v
Lee county in small way. Having hesetoorc taken al
he ssons and forage tney could hnd they have now
urDed their ate0lon 70 IL smaller articles Of The LADIES',
such preserves. appe butter mosses &c What they
can neither consume nor carry away they destroy.
Their sutraess thus far have been Oommsttod with
comparative iDpuDty. 2prN 4
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CAristnAias Times In Rithmond.

u TFf0m Inc HEhFnOnu khquHoS, UvC' zosJ = y.
Christians observed BY tho loaisrs cur n'dst
We may judge from ne
B5satsd mass Of rsnk ,'uswieady WOO,
hauled up before Mayor Mayo On Saturday morning 70
giye an account Of She previous days UansgrsesioDs.
mo coart crowded with every spee'cs Of tne
oaws Aeme 70 DO found IN This terTesta1 bemkpbere-
Ae soaArned Ssunkasd who drank because o. MO cve
With which ne regarded the juioe q the cano No "ne
young tsoe Of whom wore 'stass and barn. % the
oOliafs Of hek coats q gay) who accidentally got drunk
while taking sociatle glass with their frends-dsml
reps, small boys and negroes, malo and Ssnae-a
might have been W one heterogeneous mase o. NE
Mayors Court on Saturday m0ruing. ee5