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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1864-11-03

From he War Press. az 3 s15ss s1Ss
spfED n THE CAMf.r'oo9
q efoI esissTsG -o7okosdT vssoso
u cs9 shisEtE / nH2iiuA Tsaoo
They sertz iesbss % me to-dayii zsifl5TJ
~niab in s,ilnr,s is what they ssgs iaeg9
'Tis sezlSd with tAe eolonsit seai and skasun
Butxhak does it mean, thisi.dIed In th,
b57eampfhniea 2 mH ssaHC
siiB' Gf7sSoa 9 Q = ~ ssnsas.3
I've q sboDuiea eaboy&he is wuudrons fair,
With dsrk gray syes, ani xaxy hair;
] kissA be 4rote home It vss cold and damp
But then 'tis not be that sdied in the camp
di.es.'i3 i.ss a'''sriis si'i'2 .
He mus. serve bis eopatsy--I. pssis DOT say
But give him my blessing. .ad shsp set him
BE wGsia-eaes prits Aaus--J.as. get the
And sss vhe It sss that "disd in the camp
sahaah s77iBPa 4 % anr5
III. some enc xhe,e friend he Is. I suppose.
For Foster makes friends wherever he goesi
He always was SOFA bright, merry scamp
But. Jane. WHO was it that +disd in the
Sa-nP Pfsi--f i11sa1 5ae.sE
.uafLLiIaEa SqzsCL
- .sThree years or the war, seems a long time
TO stay, 81.
But. mother: dear mother. will soon pass
awnv % ~ - - -
So my boy said, the day they went off,
Only six months ago, yet it seems long
enough.
vr1-4.. - ruz
He vas horne Christmas day might soon
: 2 come again; -
They had made him q captain, SO he told me
then;
They say that ought to be proud Of the lad;
/ must try, for he'd fret if he knew l were
Va HaY1A9Aa Tg16
Have you read his last letteri Iestwo weeks
since it came; -
They showed it to some one--Jane, what was
- his name3 p
he E.nted p rfint it,-I vid that hel9ight;
, Il VII lend youthe paper, You Gag resdit to-
night.
Here it is in the bible-tis handy, you see-=
Ave, many hsye read what my boy wrote TO
,e1sBEe, oiidEI sbi1 TeWod ~
There's another here, too, that tells how my
Was made captain because he was brave at
Dull nun.
- ir
He has rever been used to roughing his gay,
Twas always too careful of him, be would
say.
-. ! xorry ebout him vhenerer it tsias;-
Eu. he writrs that be likrs It, and never com
rla rs.
Some friend Of his has died out in the eampi
Z sPsorfeilew 10 dr. u the eold aadthe dampl
Il Il eiey ms rnoth hefAyuu N go with me, sjahe:
I'll try to comfor her all that | can. q
iI sslI Der tbat hs l was = atGrsed kindly enough
= ,fpr what though the ways OF most men may
!. be rough. g -
Nv Foster was there, and no one could find
Even q womsh more gentle and kind.
: ''ii' i'-' I5
But after all has been dO-e and been said, ;;
'Tis hard to know that your bright boy il
DEAD; =: -.
That he sickened out there in the cold and
To have them Write home that ''he died ii
the camp" .re afr
Poor boy. did any one tell me bis namei
don't hear well now4edo yot tell me, Jane.
My boy; did you saY7 Let me nearer the
bid you say twas my boy that "died in Tie
1a5 IA @
i.Died in the camp!" Nv beautiful boy!
All that was left me of hope or of joy.
.. The airs growing heavy; please give me more
room:
Tell Foster blessed him hefore,I went horne.
s WE, Us 4 20.
Beverly. n. J.; Feb. II, 1862 oil
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1864-11-03

Tell us, George, Why the chair
es OF aie " hite House isvodr share7
III yo6te earned it, hen and where2
-- sf'.-.s l don't remember:
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-01
The Union League.

The Union League organization is getting
in bad odor even with the party OF the
Administration. For instance, the Spring.
field Republican, stauuch Administrator
organ, protests thus:
"a body calling itself the grand council
of the National Union League has been in
secret session at Washington for several
days. All we are told about the meetings
is that they are harmonious, and that they
are expected to result to the great benefit Of
the league We take it this is the real
secret of the organization. There is nc
occasion for men to work in the dark in
these days, if they have any honest AMI pa
triotic purpose to accomplish. AL secret
political conclaves, whatever their vowed
aims, are Justly exposed to Suspicion
Among the delegates in the grand council
are Efiphalet Trask, of Springfield; Tappan
Wentworth, of Lowell; Morgan McMichael,
of Pennsylvania, and Ex-Gov. Miner, OF
Connecticut Ancient and dccayed Ameri
cans seem to furnish the leading spirits. Is
it the same old dark lantern, with a new
wick ?"
The Troy Whig, likewise journal which
10 ready to take the oath..to support any
number of proclamations, has this unkind
dig at the reservoir of "loyalty."
"This Union Leagues we'll understood to
be an organization for running certain
man for the Presidency and is part of the
machinery put in motion to effect that end
Wherever its ratifcations extend, they are
manipulated by the rankest radicals to be
foundry the men who sustain the Admin
stration under protest, and because they
dare not openly oppose it, but who would
be eager to knife it, if it were to show any
signs of weskness-ty those who are con
stantly denouncing its men andits measures
out of one corner of their mouths, and sue,
ing for its favorso ut of the other. They
are, as class, politicians with the seven
years itch-never satisfied, and always
scratching-full of theories, all of which
converge upon their own advancement, and
of which it may be generally said that they
are circulated to effect little else, and even
that at cost not to be lightly incurred"
Union Leaguers may be considered as
about defunct.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-01

The Pennsylvania Legislature will con-
vene at Harrisburg on Tuesday, the 5th of
January ncxt. The Republicans have a
majority in the House but the Senate will
stand equally divided, as one of the Repub-
lican members is in Libby Prison, at Rich
mond. The Harrisburg Uason thinks the
House will be able to organize at once, but
that several days may intervene before the
Senate succeeds in organizing
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-01

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL,
Look out for the GHOST at WASHINGTON
HALL, Jan. lst and I'd, 1864.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-01
A RADICAL contemporary intimates sus'

A RADICAL contemporary intimates sus
picion that but very few of our cabinet Of
ficers and prominent generals are sincere
and simon-pare anti-slavery men. W.
wonder the thought did not strike him be
fore. The fact is, that not one in ten of TIT
professedly rampant anti slavery men il
our cabinet and war councils ever entertain
ed or protested an honest anti. slavery i'm
pulse until fanatieism on the subject o.
negroes became popular and opened the road
to individual promotion. President LIN
colin himself was successful both in the Ha-
tional republican convention and before the
PEOPLE because of his known and avoweo
conservatism in this particular. HALLEcK
and STANTON were BRECKENRIDGE men and
all their lives have been the associates and
defenders of Shareholders. BEN BUTLER in
the Charleston convention voted nearly q
hundred times to make JEFF. DAv1s-a
Mississippi aveholder-President of the
United States. Even THOMAS, the man
who is now ostensibly the most enthusiast
tic ,negrophilist the continent contains,
grew gray without experiencing an emotion
of regret at the existence of African
slavery.
These men and their fellows now ruling
the republic, arc at heart neither abolition
lists nor philanthropists. To suppose them
to be in earnest in their new found negro
philosophy is simply preposterous. They
are mere politicians. They are not work
ing and preaching for the negro, but fol
themselves. There is not one in the entire
crowd who would not rather see the whole
negro race exterminated, or the whole popu
lation of Africa imported and enslaved
than to release their hold upon the hOnors
and spoils of Office. They are abolitionists
not by design, but by accident. Had JEFF
DAVIS been chosen President of the United
States instead of LINCOLN, BEN BUTLER
would doubtless have been one of his most
devoted and subservient ministers, ant
THOMAS would have been negotiating
still in one of the Washington departments
a most obsequious admirer of his master:
principles. If the great cause of "humar
freedom is never successful save by the
voluntary fundamentally of such leaders
as these, it will be long time before the
negro fiads an earthly paradise.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-01
Trustees Sale of Valuable Real
Estate in the City of Wheeling.

DY virtue of a deed of trust executed to the IN
ID dersgned by Richard V. Wheelen, Mary
Quinlan and Daniel M. Stockton, dated the 10th
day of June, 1852, and now of record in the office
of the Recorder for Ohio county W, V, will on
Tuesday the I'd day of February, 1864, at the
front door of the Court House of said county, pro-
coed to sell all that lot parcel of land in the city
of Wheeling, State of West Virginia, situate on
the southeast corner of Fourth and Uuion streets
and designated on the plat of said city as lot No
one (i) in square fourteen (l4) Upon this lot
there erected two large and comfortable dwell
ing houses which will be sold separately or togeth
er to suit purchasers. Sale to commence at 10
o'clock A. NJ.
Terms of sale-twenty per cent of the amount
cash, the remainder to be on credit of six nine
and twelve months, The purchaser giving bond
with good security. HENRY MOORE,
dec29-d30t Trustee
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-01

AvERILL's raid produced great consterna-
ton in Southern Virginia. His damage to
the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad was not
as great as was supposed, as the President
of that road gives notice that it is again in
running order to Bristol, in Tennessee.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-01

ACHIEVEMENTS appearin the Richmond
papers for 200 able-bodied negroes 70 work
on the railroad between Dsnville and
Greensboro, N. O. This line is the con
Meeting link which, when completed, will
give the rebels new and interior line from
Virginia to the cotton States, -"as secure
from raids" as the advertisement states
Gas any to be found" The distance is abou'
35 miles.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-01

GEN. BUTKER's COMMAND EXTENDED
By order of the War Department, the coun.,
ty of st. Mary's, Nd, and the counties OF
Northampton and Aocomac, Eastern shore
Of Virginia, are annexed to Gen. Buffers
command. Several negro regiments will at
once be recruited from that district.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-01
New Advertisements
Gymnastic Association.

TyHE regular annual meeting of the Association for
Il the election of officers for the ensuing year, VIII
be held in their rooms on Monday evening jan 1864
ianl-2t JAS NJ. SMITH, Secy.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-01

WHEN an Abolitionist prays for peace, he
mentions the peculiar kind of peace ne
wants: ooh, Lord, give us peace, but not
a dishonorable peace % just as il the Al
mighty was as bad as himself and as likely
to dc a dishonorable act.-Dayton En-
,)ire
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-01

SOME of the ladies in Hartford appear in
the streets without hoops, but with dresses
that only come to the ankle, disclosing
Balmoral boots and stripped stockings
One of the Hartford papers thinks this a
pleasant reform.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-01

- The Washington Aqueduct supplies that
city with 81, 100000 gallons of water day;
infinitely more OF the fluid than is likely
to be used there for drinking purposes.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-01

TIME COLOGNE in Cut Glass Bottles, Extracts and
Fancy articles for Holiday Presents. For sale at
GRAHAM'S Drug Store.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-01

HoRsE FLESH CONFERENCE.-THE 500
horses recently sent hom Gen. Butler from
New York, Tor cavalry service in his depart
ment, 700 were condemned worthless.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-01

Mrs. DAVIS, the wife of jeff it is said,
lately received many rich dresses and some
superb articles of Jeweiry sent to her by
friends in Europe.
The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-01-01
HOLIDAY PRESENTS !

GENTLEMEN DESTROYS of making their lady friends
VI handsome Christmas or New Years Gift Will ma
the "Toe Ses to be the most acceptable present they
can make put up in a fine Enameed Gilt edged Box.
For sale at GRAHAMS Drug store
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-06-01
How Mr.. Menhi Plo,, cha

Mr.. Mechi, the great English farmeris as
earnest as to the effect of deep cultivation
as in most of the other subjects he advo-
Gates. He says that his neighbor, DIR. Rath-
bon, of Riyenhall, once pulled up parsnip
with vertical root Is feet, 10 inches long,
besides the farther piece left by its breaking
of. This was in a bank of earth 90 feet
deep, that fell over loosely when exesvsted. "
As a general rule, the Alderman does not,
therefore, advocate ploughing a rod or SO in
depth; but he wants farmers TO initiate
more closely than they do the practice of
successful market gardeners, who always
cultivate much deeper than is done with
field crops. As TO his own practice, he says:
From sixteen TO twenty years ago broke
up much of my land, by six horses follow
ing in the track OF the plow, drawn by three
horses, and in this very year | could see the
great contrast in part of the field where I
had omitted to do this. To-day am follow
ing the two-horse plow, with four horses at
taehed to an iron plough without the breast
The sub-soil breaks up, boils over, and in
termixes with the top soil and manure, and
as it flows over you see the strong roots of
old weeds torn from their hitherto safe resi-
dence, but condemned now to destruction or
removal ~ t..
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-06-01
Select 2oetru.
THE BRAVE AT HOME.

The maid who binds her warriors sash
-, with smiles that well her pain dissembies
The while beneath her dropping lash
One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles
though Heaven alone records the tear,
And fame shall never know her story,
Her heart has shed drop as dear
As ever dewed the field of glory
The wife who girds her husbands sword.
Mid little ones who weep or wonder,
ana bravely speaks the cheering word,
what though her heart be rent assunder-
loom ed nightly in her dreams to hear
The bolts of war around him rattle,
Hath shed as sacred blood as eer
was poured upon the plain of battle I,
The mother who conceals her grief
hile to her breast her son she presses,
Then breathes a few brave words and brief,
kissing the patriot brow she blesses,
With no one but her secret God,
To know the pain that weighs upon her,
Sheds holy blood as e'er the sod
Received on Freed om's field of honor!
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-06-01
VOL. lO.--NO. 40.
More Mcclellan Oorrespondence- Letter
from the President.

In the Hon. Henry j. Raymond's new
volume. "a History of President Lincon's
Administration, occurs the following hith-
erto unpublished letter of Mr.. Lincoln to
General Met Clellan: HlTzE al
FORTRESS MoNReE, May 9, 1862
My DEAR SIR:-I have Just assisted the
Secretary of War in forming the part of a
despatch TO you, relating TO army corps,
which dispatch, of course, will have reach
ed you long before this will. | wish TO say
a few words to you privately on this sub
Iect, l ordered the armv corps organiza-
ton not only on the unanimous opinion of
the twelve generals of division, but also on
the unanimous opinion of every miltdry
man | could get an opinion from, and every
military modern book, yourself only accept
ed, Of course, | did not on my own judg-
ment pretend to understand the subject.
| now think 1T indispensable for you to know
how your struggle against it is received in
quarters which we cannot entirely disregard
1t Is looked upon as merely an effort to pam
per one or two pets, and to persecute and
degrade their supposed rivals. [ have had
no word from Sumner, Heintzelman or
keyes. The commanders of these CORDS are,
of course, the three highest officers with you.
but | am constantly told that you have no
consultation or communication with them
Lhat you consult and communicate with no
body but Fitz John Porter and perhaps Gen.
Franklin. do not say these complaints
are true or just; but at all events it is prop
er you should know of their existence Do
the commanders of the corps disobey your
orders IN anything -, .y.-,-...-f.
When you relieved Gen Hamilton of his
command the other day, you thereby lost
the confidence of at least one of your best
friends in the Senate And here let me say,
not as applicable to you personally, that Sen
ators and Representatives speak of me in
their places as they please without question;
and that officers of the army must cease ad-
dressing insulting letters 10 them for taking
no greater liberty with them. But to return,
are you strong enough, even with my help,
to set your foot upon the neck of Sumner,
Heintzelman, and Keyes, all at once2 This
is practical and very serious question fo-
you. Yours truly, A LINCOLN.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-06-01
JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING
IA CERTAIN AMENDMENTS TO TIL L
CONSTITUTION.

BE- it rssoiUeR by tie Senate ami Horse Of Rep
reSCHtGt,DeS ofths GoM,Hlonlceaih Of Penn SFtc1-
ma II, Gsaerak Assembty met, That the following
amendments be proposed the Constitution of
the Commonwealth, i'll accordance with the pro-
visions of the tenth article thereof:
There shall be an additional section to the
third article of the Constitution, to be designated
as section four, as follows
.SEcTIoN 4 Whenever any of the qualified e.
lectors of this Commonwealth shall be in any ae
tual military service under requsiton Fl ON the
President of the United States, or by the author
ity of this Comm onwealth such electors may ex
ercise the right of suffrage in all elections by the
citizens, under such regulations are. or shall
be prescribed by law. as fully as if they were
present at their usual place of election -
SECTION 9 There shall be two additional
tions to the eleventh article of the Constitutions
be designated sections eight, and nine. fol-
lows:
SECTION 8 No bill shall be passed by the Leg
isIature containing more than one subject, which
shall be clearly expressed in the title, except ap-
preparation bills F"
SECTION 9. No bin shall be passed by the Leg
islature granting any powers, or privileges. in
any case where the authority to grant such pow
ers or privileges has been. or may hereafter be,
conferred upon the Courts of this Commonwealth. -
.t..s' HENRY C JOHNSON,
SNEAKER Of the House of Representatives..
JOHN P PENNEY,
Speaker Of tte Senate.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-06-01
NoTICE.-Notioe is her

q , EG1SI Elk y SNOiICE.-N0ticelS Is hereby
Il u given, that the following accounts b ave been
examined and passed by me, and remain filed of
record in this Office for the inspection of heirs,
egatees creditors. and all others in any other way
interested, and viii be presented TO the next Or
rhans' Court of Ciearfield county, TO be held at
the Can't House in the Borough of Cleartield,
comm encing ON the Third Monday of June, 1864.
The final account of III. ID. Rose, Executor of the
last Will of John NJ Weitzel late of the township
of Bell in The county Of ClearfeId, Pa decd
The final account OF $. ?. Wilson, adm illustrator
of all and singular the goods and chatteis rights
and credits which were Of James c. Graham, late
of Bradford township, CIearfeld county decd.
The partial account of John d Thompson and
Josiah " Thompson, Executors of the fast VIII
and testament OF Ignatius fh oLnpson, decd.
The account of Francis pearce and Jacob Pearce
Executors of the last viii and testament Of a bsa-
lom Pearce sr of Bradford township, deed.
The account of Samuel Sebring. Administrator
of all and singular the goods and chattes. rights
and credits which were of John Young, late of
Burnside township deceased
The account Of Wm. L. Shaw and Mary Ann
Shaw, administrators of all and singular the
goods and chattes, rights and credits which were
OF Robt c. Shaw, late of Goshen tp., decd
The account of Jeremiah Smeal and Valentine
illegal administrators of the estate of David Fle-
gal, late of Morris township decd.
The account of Josiah Evans. administrator of
the estate of Asher Cochran, late Of Penn town
ship deceased.
ISAIAH G. BARGER Register.
Registers Office, May 5, 1864
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-06-01

The man who speaks disparagingly of the
National currency, and who is continually
predicting an awful crash in monetary af-
fairs is doing his part in weakening the ma
tional cause He is exerting an influence in
destroying public confidence in the Govern
ment. Such men may pretend to be loyal
some of them may think they are-but we
tell them they are surely and effectually aid
ing our enemies. Think Of it. When you
alarm the people about the currency you
weaken public confidence, and in the same
ratio neutralize the assistance and support
the Government now needs and demands.
How foolish to talk of danger of this Kind
when the Government is pledged-the prop
erty Of the nation is pledged to redeem ev
cry dollar issued. aF ~.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-06-01
Deaths in Battle and by Disease.
Is. Il. Taylor last letter to the Chicago

B. 4. Taylor's last letter to the Chicago
Journal contains the following: ~
Let me give you suggestive fact which
possesses a deep significance From No
vember "a, 1868, to the 18th of the present
month, out OF one thousand and twenty-six
who have been laid in the Soldiers Rest at
Chattanooga, one hundred and sixty were
killed on the field of battle When, with
my finger running down the long list of
names, | came to the end of the roll Of hon
or, and my thought rested at one hundred
sixty-seven, will you believe that could not
credit the count, and went over all the pa
ges again, sure that | should find few
more, opposite whose names cu7repte Gala
neo-wlth running pen, and a flourish now
and then-the clerks had written the three
words, killed in battle But the sixty
eight was not there There it was one
hundred and sixty-seven fell on the field
five hundred and seventy eight died from
wounds, five hundred and forty in all, from
rebelIbullets; only titty-three per cent. of the
thousand and twenty-six
And what of the four hundred and eighty
one Hardshlps, exposure, the wasting
fever, the sings and arrows of rheuma-
tlsm, and all the ills of the empty box that
stands wide open in the midst of camps, but
at whose bottom is Hope, the charmer,'
still, even as she fingered the in the old
time. The battle ended, the surgeons du-
ty done, ROW does the work of physician and
Sanitary Commission rise almostto the dig
nifty or the army's salvation In him, the
faithful, skilled and true-in them, laden
with the blessings, so many beautitudes from
home-is the soldiers hope, after all. Get
generals, wise and brave, if you can, but,
oh, be sure that the physician is equal TO
the trust let no man try his prentice
hand on our grand journeyman in blue
Let the women of the North love and labor
on Their gifts are angels in disguise As
| have told you before, the battle IS the red
blossom of war, but the roots, dark and bit
ter, run beneath ten thousand tents and
cabins, creep through unnumbered wards of
hospitals, and feel their way like the fingers
of a + and in all this ground we tread upon,
save that great, solemn acre, rich in soldiers
dead, the acre of the living God.