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Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-07-01

CFThe Editor of the Gardiner JournQl
mad Sub on last week. Hear him,
in an article on JUNE.
1--WE are having some piping hot wealth.
er now-a. days, and everybody is saving
to everybody, "what fine weather We are
having" while windows and doors are
thrown wide open, and children and
ca:erpillars are crawling round promis.
cuously on the sidewalks. The " round
laughing NOON has cot on its broadest
grin, and everything and everybody seems
to be luxuria.ing OH the bounteous feast
Dame Nature is spreading out before US,
fully sensible of the wisdom OF rtaking
the most Of it while it lasts conscious
that it will soon be over, when we shall
have to come down from our high reyell-
ing to cold yictuals again. How full We
feel of the milk of human Kindness as We
sit down Of an evening after the cares OF
the day, and watch the moon sailing
TRANQUILITY along through the quiet heav-
ems, or listen to the MI ght-hawk on his
airy promenade At such Tins we feel at
peace with all mankind-except, OF
course, the rcbels-and can almost Glove
our nsighbor as ourself" if he don't
keep hens
Then hail to thee, merry month of
June, with thy birds and foMcrs, thy
caterpilars eand mosquitoes! How sor'
rowfully we'll part with thee; and when
the frosts of winter have stripped thee oil
thy gorgeous robes, and chilled to silence
thy babblins brooks, how tenderIy wei
think Of thee, and look for thee again.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-07-01
MIR. Seward on the Nomin-
alton.
WAsHINGroN, JUNE 10, lS6-

W ASttlNtrlflN, % / NJ. w, iCOf.
Charles s. Spencer, Esq. New York
Dear Sir : Your invitation to the rat
ifcation nceting is received. did not
fail to come up in time to the support OF
the candidates of Union and freedom in
ISIs, 1852. 1896, and 1850. l shall not
fail tn come up i'll time. if wanted, IN lc6i.
But is it not certain that | shall be wanted
at all, and am sure that am not want
cd vet. SO far as an expression OF my
concurrence in the nominations and plat
form is concerned, everybody knows that,
substantially, was committed III detail to
all that the convention has now done, long
before a delegate was chosen. and even
long before the convention itself was call
ed. The secret of the success OF the con-
vcntion is thar the American people are
wise, true and liberty loving and humane
nation, and being such it could under the
existing circumstances, do nothing, ana
say nothing mere or less, than just what
the convention has now spoken in its name,
ana has recommended shall be done. For
the present let the people send men and
supplies to the national armies in the field,
and thus enable them 'to fight 1t out on
the same lines If it takes all summer. -
The e cction of Lincoln and johnson at
the close of a successful campaign, viii
then speak the peoples decision, that
slavery has perished and that the Amerl-
can Union is iuyincible. :.
aln, sir, very respectfully, Your obeoi-
cnt servant,
WILLIAM II. SEWARD.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-07-01

A CERrIFIcArE-A model Certificate Of
a patent medicine is the following -
"Daar Doctor-l will be one hundred
and scventy-ive years old next October.
Tor over eighty.lour years have | been
an invalid, unable to step except when
moved by lever. But year ago heard
of the Granicular Syrup. | bought a
bottle, smelt the cork, and l found my
self man. | can now run twelve miles
in half an hour, and throw nineteen
somersaults without stopping"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-07-01
A LONG NosE--A Monmouth, Name,

\ LONG y osE--A Monmouth, MAINE,
correspondent writes:
Kibby is blessed with Bright little
niece about five years OF age, aud he is
also the owner of a very long nose, which
rather disigurcs his face. This little
niece and her mother recent y, made
kibby and his wife visit, and as the
latter had just come into the possession
of u wonderful smart baby who ever
saw baby taat was not smart allowing
the parents to be the judges !. the little
girl was greatly exercised to know where
they got it, and, to quit her mind, she
was informed that " it was dug up from
under stump in the pasture"
" Did thoJ dig up Uncle Kibhy from
under stump i'll the pasture, when he
was baby!' she asked.
She was answered in the affirmative.
" BIT l should thought they ,oould
haze hit his nose before thcg got to him ;"
was the childlike reply.--Americaa
Union.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-07-01

To MAKE BrcKwHEAT PUpDrNd.-This
is also very light, agreeable pulling,
at the same time decidedly laxative
Take half pint of buckwheat -four, mix
it with cold milk and eggs, if the
stomach will bear them, add little salt,
and boil in cold water two or three
This pudding made Of Indian
meal is, by many, preferred to the buck
wheat, but it is not so laxative as when
made of buckwhdat. If made OF wheat
-four it is decidedly constipating.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-07-01

GoIsa HuSrISa.-A gentleman had
been paying his addresses, 70, some time
to young lady by the name of Hunt and
finally married her. A few evenings af-
ter the happy event, as he was coming
from her residence, he was accosted by an
old friend. "Ah ~ exclaimed he, Il see
you still 60 Hunting" "No." replied
tho gentleman q have bagged my
game
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-07-01

-PuiLosorHEn TO sharp boy
"What are the properties of heat -
Boy-"The chief property is that it cx-
pands bodies, while cold contracts them. u
Philosopher-"Very good give mo an
example" Boy--"In summer when it
s hot, the day is long; in winter, when
it is cold, the day is short" Exit Phil
osopher, lost in an,azement that so
familiar an instance should have SO long
escaped his own observation.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-07-01

a short time since, the female op-
cra,iycs of the Waltham Watch Company
struck for higher wages. One OF these,
in A conversation with the agent, regretted
The necessity which compelled her to such
:, course. but she said it was impossible to
live in these times on such wages as had
been paid. She appeared to enter her
complaint clad in dress that cost sixty
dollars
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-07-01

CT Rev. Mr. H-was stationed at
Appleton, Wisconsin, and was very much
annoyed on the first Sabbath BY the whis-
pcring and other improper conduct Of
some young gentlemen present. He stop
ped his discourse, and fixing his eyes opon
the offenders, said al very much dis
like to rcprove any one in congregation
where am not acquainted as | am
afraid of making as great mistake as
Brother R-once made at F-.While
preaching his first sermon he was very
muck disturbed by the misconduct of an
iudisidual in the Congregation, who,
though several times reproved by brother
r., only behaved the worse for it
through the whole sermon. AS Brother
R-zwas leaving the chdrch after the
services one of the brethren accosted him
with, Brother r., didn't you know
that man you rcproved to-day was a
fool p " 1t is needless to say the nuisance
was abated.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-07-01

The great elevator to be built this
summer in Milwaukee will have capacity
of one million three hundred thousand
bushels. 1t will be provided with hine
receiving and five shipping elevators with
45,0la bushels taking and 25,Ooo giving
capacity per hour.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-07-01

There is tenement in the city OF
New York having sixty eight rooms eight
by ten feet, containing seventy families OF
one hundred and forty adults and one
hundred and tlirtg-eight children ana
forty-three cats.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-07-01

--"Do you enjoy going to church
now ?" asked lady caller of Mrs. Part.
ington. Law me, l d." replied Mrs
p" "Nothing does me so much good as to
get up real early on Sunday morning, fix
u up, and 90 to church, and hear a real
smart min stcr dispense with the gospel"
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-07-01

Il soldier who read his name IN the
list of deaths at a hospetal, wrote home to
his friends that he didn't believe 1t. IN
fact he knew the statement was lie a.
soon as he read il.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-07-01

The new Russian Railway, stitl
is to connect Moscow with Sebastopol as
a free port, will cost twenty-.our milionl
sterling,
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-07-01

An ignorant blacksmith, mindful
of his forge, gave the following toast at
public dinner Success to forgery.
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1864-07-01

A HoRsE Story. Near Bermuda
Hundred there is a large corral. where
all disabled and worn.out horses, brought
here by General Sheridan after his IA
nous raid, are confined. The poor beasts
nave apparently but little of their orig
inal vigor left. That was what We
thought week or more since. Now we
have changed cur opinion. During the
heavy firing on our right short time
since, these lame and worn'out equine
warriors pricked up their ears, straight
ened their sore and stiff limbs, tossed
their names, formed in squadrons. and
with loud snort charged on number
of inofensive mules. Two mules were
instantly killed, and Tie others fled in the
widest disorder. The horses again form
ed to the music Of Gillmore's artillery,
and charged on high rail fence, which
they at once broke down. They did not
dcsist from their warlike demonstrations
until the artillery firing ceased. - Army
Letter.
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The New Enrolment Bill.

The bill, as passed by the House, provides
that the quota of each ward Of a city, town,
township, precinct or election district or of O
county where the same is divided into wards,
towps, townships, precincts or election dis
tricts, shall be as nearly as possible in pro-
portion to the number of men resident therein
subject to draft; taking into account, as far
as practicable, the number which has been
previously furnished therefrom and in ascer-
tanning and filling said quota there shall be
taken into account the number of men who
have heretofore entered the naval service Of
the United States, and whose name are borne
upon the enrolment lists as already returned
of the United States.
Any persn enrolled under the provisions
of the Enrichment Act, or VIII may heretc fore
be SO enrolled, may furnish at any time pre-
vious to the draft an acceptable substitute
who is not liable to draft, nor at the time in
the military or naval service of the United
States; and such person, so furnishing sub
stitute, shall be exempt from draft during
the time for which such substitute shall he
exempt from draft not, however, exceeding the
timefo which such substitute shall have been
accepted. But no private soldier, musician, +
non-commiss oned officer, being aotually in the
military service of the United States, shall be
pr cured or accepted as the substitute. The
boards Of enrolment are to enroll all persons
liable tie draft under the provisions of this
act, and of the enrolment act where names
may have been emitted by the proper enroll
ing officers; all persons who shall arrive al
the age # 20 years before the draft; all aliens
who shall declare their intention to become
citizens, all persons discharged from the mil
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MAR RIED.

On the Sd ult, at the residence of the brides
father, by Rev. J. NJ. Purner, Mr.. Levin H. Bailey
and Miss Amanda W. Conoly, both of Somerset
County, Nd.
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NE c.
friend Of our cause, the black man, has not
been found truthful and helpful, and always
devotedly loyal. The conviction forced itself
upon the mind of every soldier that, behind
the Rebel army Of soldiers, the black army
Of laborers was feeding and sustaining the
Rebellion, and there could be no victory till
its man support be taken away.
Gentlemen on the other side, you tell me
that this is an Abolition war. If you please
to say so, grant it, The rapid current of
events has made the army of the Republic an
Abolition army. l can find in the ranks
thousand men who are in faver of sweeping
away Slavery to every dozen that desire to
preserve IT. They have been where they have
seen its malevolence, its baleful effect upon
the country and the Union, and they demand
that it shall be swept away"
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Bas~The Secretary of War has transmitted
to the Senate "a report Of the names of all Off
GERS in the Regular Army who, between the
LIST of December, 1860, and the lst of Deem
Der, 1868, left the service, either by resigna-
ton or desertion, stating which, to engage in
the Rebellion against the Government of the
United States"
The total is 277, Of whom 242 resigned,
and only 26 are registered as dismissed,
and dropped. Those who were known to
have entered the Rebel service number o.
Of the non-commissoned officers and privates
of the Regular Army but % are known to
have gone over to the Rebels.
Of course we all see now that the policy of
accepting designations openly rendered for
the purpose of joining the Rebellion, was a
very weak and very disastrous one. If
those who had first attempted it had been
promptly and publicly disgraced, their ex-
ample would have been less infectious. In
the cases where a record stands, some OF
these officers must feel as military men mere
ly, that they can never regain their position
or their self-respect. Dismissed :" for tender
ing his resignation in the face of the enemy"
OF, for abandoning his post and surrender
ing his command to an inferior force of the
enemy" or for treachery in having surren-
dercd the property of the United States under
his charge" (Twiggs); are not honorable cpl
taphs, nor such as even traitors and Rebels
can sleep under with satisfaction. There is
an inexorable military code which brands de-
sertion as igonminious the world over.
tits noticeable that the names of those Off
GERS who have since been most prominent il
the Rebel service are recorded simply a.
resignations- Beauregard. Crittenden. Coop
err, Ewell A. p Hill, Hardee, A. S. Johnston
j. L. Johnston, Lee, Longstreet, Magruder
Pemberton, Stuart, Kirby Smith, and others
seem to have gone quietly off without ques
ton or objection from anybody. Very likel,
some of them will yet be applying to be rein
stated, and probably will demand back pa,
during their absencc-and we presume ther,
will be plenty of Copperheads to say the.
ought to have it-N Y. Tribune.
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The Rebel sympsthizers in Eng
land,

The Rebal sympathizers in England have
always taken good care not to appear as SYM
pathizers with Slavery. They knew that
public opinion in England on this point was
unaltcrably fixed. They. therefore, hypo-
critically assumed that Slavery had nothing
to do with the war; that the reconstruction
of the Union would not benefit the negroes /;
but that on the contrary, the establishment
of Southern independence would hasten the
day of general Emancipation.
The march of events has made it impossi-
bic for them to use this argument any longer
to any advantage. Whatever may have been
the motives of the Government and the peo-
pie of the United States in conducting the
war for the suppression of the Rebellion, the
progress of the war is actually emancipating
the negroes by. the hundred thousand, and
the nearer we approach complete victory,
the more clearly the entire world sees the
approaching end of Slavery.
Il is interesting to observe the rage of the
Rebel sympathizers in the face of the ilnproy.
ing prospects ef the Union and Of Emancipa-
ton. They find it necessary-though they
know it to be extremely offensive to their
Southern friends-to be louder than ever be.
fore in their profession of Anti-Slayery prin-
ciples. At the recent meeting of the South
ern Independence Association at Manchester,
the President of the Association, Lord Wharn-
clife, took occasion to say that nothing
could induce them to believe otherwise than
that Slavery was a great blot upon Southern
institutions" and that 1.-THE day would come
when there would not be slave left III
America" This opinion of the noble Lord
was received by the meeting with loud cheers
Even Mr.. Spence, the notorious agent of the
Rebels in England, protested against being
called "a defender of Slavery" He deplored
Slavery as ian unmitigated evil, a greater
evil to the white than to the black man. HI
had expressed his opinions about Slavery a
serious loss to himself. He had sacrificed
the popularity which it was in his power t.
earn through the length and breadth of TIL,
South, because he had always feltand openly
expressed the aversion he entertained t.
Slavery" .,s.sst a.. 49,. ~, $40, -,
1.-The gentleman who uttered these senti
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State of DelatOare, Executive Department,
nj

Otutc Of Ueldl0areJ EIecut7ve Uep0rtnertI
Dover, Del, Dec. 80, 1863.
The Secretary of War having given authority to
the Executive Of this State to recruit troops In
der to fill the quota of the State under the last call
of the Presidents it is hereby ordered and directed
that no person shall recruit within this State with
out authority from this Department. Provost Mar
shals and Provost Guards, are hereby authorized
and requested, to arrest all persons attempting TO
recruit within the State, without such authority.
By order Of his ExcelloRcy,
WILLIAM CANNON,
Governor of Delaware.
SAINT. NJ. HARRINGTON, Secretary of State.
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ments cannot be so ignorant of the disposition
of the Rebels as not to knew that they would
never be permitted to use similar language
within the lines of the Rebel Confederacy.
What, then, may be asked, induces them to
advocate with such zeal cause which they
openly despise9 Their speakers frankly tell
us. at was very desirable" said Lord
Wharhcliffe, "to see the disruption of. the
American Union. That was one of the chief
points in their programme. Believing that
the Union was overgrowing its powers OF
strength and cohesion, it was best for the
Americans and for England that they should
see its disruption" All the speakers of the
meeting reiterated this declaration the
Union must be broken because because it
would become dangerous to the interests of
Englaud-that is, the ruling classes of Eng
land.
On this question we are for once agreed
with the organs of the English aristocracy.
Already the success won by our armies and
the Prospect of a restoration of the Union
have given powerful impulse to liberal ten
denotes in England. The actual triumph Of
American democracy in crushing the Rebel
lion will be the fatal blow to the power of the
English aristocrats.--N Y. Tribune.
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PROCLAMATION.
STATE OF DELAWARE,

t.. l
WHEREAS, The President of the United
States has Ordered that draft for five hun
dred thousand men to serve for three years
or during the war, be made on the 10th day
of March next, for the military service of the
United States, crediting and deducting there
from so many as may have been enlisted or
drafted into the service Of the United States
prior to the LIST of March, and not heretofore
credited"
l, WILLIAM CANNON, Governor of the
State Of Delaware, do hereby call upon the
citizens of the said State, to aid in raising
the number of troops required for the sup
preston of the existing rebellion, and for the
maintenance of the authority of the National
Government, the quota of this State under
the aforesaid order will be announced as soon
us assigned together, with the number of re-
cruits credited thereto. Recruiting Officers
throughout the State, and all good citizens
are requested to use every effort to enlist vol
nnteers; By energy and activity, the draft
directed to be made, on the tenth day of
March may be avoided, and at the same time
the Government may secure all the men re-
qulred, the State manifest her fixed purpose
and resolution to assist the Government
against its enemies, her honor and reputation
be sustained by the willingness of her sons to
make sacrifices for the prosperity of the Union,
and the ranks of her. regiments now thinned
by the dangers of the field and the sufferings
Of the hospital be filed.
1t is hoped that during the campaign about
to open, a final and crushing blow may be
given to the rebellion, and that the Union
may be restored to permanent peace based
upon the principles Of Justice and Freedom.
LIS. In testimony whereof, L hereunto set
my hand and caused the Great Seal of the
taAo 10 he .ro1 4
Of February, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and
of the Independence of the United States
the eighty-eigh.h.
l. BY the Governor, ss-s. se,... +
! WILLIAM CANNON.
/ SIN. HARRINGTON, Jr. Secretary Of State
= Feb. ~, 1864 or 20 .
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DEF D.

On the 18th inst, in this place, JOHN S. VENT
aged AZ years.
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For Sale.

j A VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND, situate on
N navigation, having good landing, and over
5000 cords of wood growing thereon, with excellent
Fisheries attached, can be had by applying to the
subscriber at this place
will sell the farm, or else dispose of the timber,
reservng the land. 81. c. s. LAYTON,
! Jan I. 1868. Georgetown, Del.
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ALBANY, Feb. 15.-The Governor to-day
signed the bill periGcting the amendment to
the Constitution, which enables soldiers to
vote, and appointing the second Tuesday in
March for submitting the question to the peo-
pie.
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!. THE MARKET S.
MILr0nD, DsI., FsbFuary.l7, 1884.
pnILApELpnIA. February II, 1864

PHILADELPHIA February II, 1864.
The Flour market Is very firm but inactive. Sales
eoaprise about G,000 bbls Western extra family at
S7,25 "a $50 for old stock and fresh groundj 600
choice Ohio do at 81, and 1000 bbls City Mills OK
ira and extra family private terms. The retailers
and bakers are buying at 5000 @6,50 for supernne;
S8,75@7 for extra; $7,50@S for extra family, and
S9@10j9 Dbl for fancy brands, a. to quality. Eye
Flour and Corn Meal are scarce at former rates.
GRAIN-Wheat is active and firm at previous
rates, about 5000 bushels sold at 1850 lose for
common and good choice red, the latter for AMBER
and lsO@195c % bus. for white, as to quality Rye
is in steady demand, with small sales at 1900 1850
y bus Corn is rather scarce; 1900 bus. sold at
iI1@112e for Western and Southern yellow, and
l25c % bus for old, which is an advance Oats
are also better; about 2OU0 bus sold at SEC weight
PROVISI0NS.-There is less activity in the
market, but holders are firm. Mess Pork is held at
1922 for new, and $1,000 p Dbl. for old. Bacon
and Green Meats wanted at full prices. Butter
is active at 25@2sc q b., the latter for prime.
Eggs are selling at 22c p dozen. Lard is in steady
demand at lS4@14c p ID for bbls and tierces.