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The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-03-17

We understand, says the State Sentinel,
that Col. Conrad Baker, Assistant Pro-
vost Marshal General for Indiana, has Of
icially notified Judge Perkins, of the SUI
preme Court of the State, that he has is.
sued writs of habeas corpus in contrayen-
ton to the Presidents proclamation. and
further that he, Col. Baker regarded it to
be his duty to report the fact to h~eadquar-
;ers. We also learn hat Judge Perkins.
in response to this notification, stated that
he had done nothing inconsistent with his
duty as a citizen and a Judge, and that a
refusal to issue the writ in the cases that
he had granted them would nave been q
violation of his obligations to the constitu.
ton and the laws to which all owe a com
mon allegiance. We know not what may
be the result of this conflict between the
civil and military authorities, but if the
civil power is thus to be overridden in a
State loyal to the government and in
which its laws and DEGREES can be main
tanned and enforced by the civil authori-
ties, arbitrary or dcspotic power displaces
a constitutional government, and the
rights and liberties of the citizen are as
insecure and will be az little respected as in
France or Austria.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-03-17

The Committee on public buildings re-
ports that The basement of the White
House is left u~ntenanted, crcepf by rats,
v THEY HAVE U~NDIsPUTED POSSES
SION"
The Committee might have reported the
upper portion of the building to be in the
same condition. The whole house is full
of rats. But we intend to clean them all
ont next fall.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-03-17
In his first message to Congress. on the

In his first message to Congress, on the
18th Of July, 1851, Mr.. Lincoln said:
Il he result Of an election held in mill
tary camps, where the bayonets are all on
one side of the question voted upon, can
scarcely be considered as demonstrating
popular sentiment
Sure enough. The elections in the
array have satisfied US that for once he was
right.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-03-17

An officer who served with Col. Dahl
green asserts that the order alleged to
have been found on his body, for the sack
ing Of Richmond and the killing Of jeff.
Davis and his Cabinet, Is forgery
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-03-17
The Chicago Tribane (Abo.) of Satur
day last, had the following local item:

day last, had the following local item:
"a number of ingenious Greeks were
assembled near the corner of Wabash-ave.
nue. and Harrison street, yesterday, where
they were fixing a gas-pipe, when one OF
their number, having espied a colored man
sweeping the snow off the pavement near
by, exclaimed, BE jaburs, if the bloody
nagurs keep cummin' up from the South
I'll nave to go pack to ould Ireland II
would be a good thing if he and all his
tribe were to GO"
The TrjJuns would, no donbt, like to
have all foreign born citizens displaced by
the blacks; and, if he could have his own
way, would change all straight hair to the
woolly kinks.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-03-17

Cart. W. Rice, and his company of the
1873 Ind Reg. who had been at home on
iurlough for some time, left this place on
Monday evening last for Indianapolis. We
noticed a good many of the boys in quite
an elevated condition just before they left,
and some of them were quite noisy. They
were generally in fine health and spirits
and determined to clean out the "secesh'
in Dixie.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-03-17

John Morgan is at Dccator, with 1000
men, and is advertised to leave that point
for Worristown on Tic Goth inst.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-03-17

Pennsylvania boasts of resting on a foun-
dation of oil. That must be the reason
why her politicians are so slippery
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-03-17
COOKING STOVE,

n other Stove, with a swing OF - per cent
ia fuel. and a vely large percentage IN conNen
icacc.
The have the fyllowins advantage:
i. ,rnax constructed With 4 view of great
durability: all the plates exposed ~ the are are
made Of an extra thickness.
"a. The iues are lined with non conducting
cement, thereby applying the heat directly 10 'nc
oven. and the oven can he heated and kept III
boking order with less fuel than any other stove
81. They have a hot air Graft, which, not oh'N
makes the fuel burn freely. ard last longer, but
odds to the heating and baking facilities.
4th. They CONSUME ali the gases from '"o
fuel. thereby adding largely to the amount OF neal
obtaipcd from the guilty of fuel used.
9th. The stove is made, mounted and finishes
IN tho most superior runner. The oven is large
and we'll ventilated. The Stove is convenentin
form, and made for use; to adopt INC language %
ONE who have Hscd this Stove. sit will do NOR,
work with less fuel than any other Stove" IN
proof we add the following testimony:
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-03-17

III secesh family North ana Soutn nave
always worked in harmony rs we'll as they
could under the circumstances. 1t Is true
that there are times when they lose sight
of each other and are mutually at fault as
TO what they must do. Communication is
apt to be interrupted; and the southern
section consequently are in doubt what
their brethren In oursectlon mean by their
movements while the Northern traitors
are unable to get their cue from the South
-Chicogo TriJgae.
If there is any party in the North whose
members work to promote the interests of
fecessiunists in the South, that party is
the administration party. We think no
one who Is familiar with the past avowals
of Messrs. Lincoln, Seward, Chase, Gree
ley. Phillips, Garrison, and other rromi-
nent members Of the republican-abolition
party can for a moment doubt the correct
ness Of this assertion. SIR. Lincoln has
said that any people anywhere becoming
dissatisfied with existing forms of govern
mcnt have the right to throw them off and
constitute a new government 10 suit them
selves" Phillips has said that "for nine
teen wears he had labored to destroy the
Union" and thanked God that he was now
realizing the fruit of his labors, and with
these ayowals fresh on his lips was feted,
and toasted publicly by leading Senators
belonging to the administration party at
Washington. Greeley has said that the
National flag lis a Haunting lie" was
''hate's polluted rag" and in the madness
If his venomous corruption desired that it
lie ..torn down" Garrison has said that
the Constitution is a ! league with h-ll
and a covenant with death" Seward vo-
ted in Congress in favor of a resolution or
petition for the dissolution of the Union.
and Chase said in a speech at Cincinnati,
that he ''hoped tosee the day when all men
(black and white would enjoy equal rights
and privileges in this country" And
these men. and such as these, lead the ad-
minis'ration party whithersoever they will.
With all these facts staring them in the
face, the abolition presses have the effron-
terry to say that the Democratic party is
in league with secessionists and traitors to
destroy the government, and claim for
themselves and their co-workers in i%niquity
that they are alone the friends of that COY.
ernment bequcathed to US by the fathers
och. shame, where is thy blush?
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1864-03-17
From the Aubrrn Adsertiser-

AMERICAN HOT AK 1--WE
-Our readers have noticed an advertisement II
orr columns of the American Hot Air Cooking
Stove. manufactured by Shear. Packard X TO,
Albany, n. Y. This Stove took the First Pre-
mium at the last State Far, AMI our last
Count, Fair. IL is worthy of the high compli
mont thus paid it. We have used the Stove tol
three months past, AMI have no hesitation in pro-
nounc;ng il the best Cook Sto.e We have any
knowledge cf. 1t secms to be perfect III every
rasnect. w, guarantee that it will give good
satisfaction to any family who purchase IT. Bad
win x Chodcll have it FOR sale.
MIR. STOCKWELL-MY DE,R SIR: In re
ply to your inquiry as to the practicii WORKING ol
,,bo I. american Cooking Stove" which You sent
nm far ms. Mrs. authorizes ne to say. that in
the matter of baking, which is the great desidera-
tum in a Cook Stove, the American Is pcrtecf,
baking evenly in whatever part oil the oven the
article is placed and requiring no turning of The
pans to insure an equal heat on all sides. she
nronounces il the most economical in fuel, and
the most easily regulated of any she has ever
seen. Very truly yours,
p riJ-o,.rt Anr;l olst. 1863 ]. VI. WILEY
FvIRrrELs. Conn, April 18th, 1863.
MIR. GEO. p. STOCKWELL-Dcar Sir; Last
December we purchased from YOU the American
Hot Air Cooking Stove" We have seen moth
ing of the kind which Is constructed on such SCI
entifc misunderstanding the thorough consump-
ton ofthe fuel-obtaining the greatest amount OF
heat possible at a small expense, and SO distribut-
ing it as to secure all the results for which a
Cooking Stove is required. W. can safely say
that it fully realizes all the expectations which we
had formed from the recommendations we had
seen. and we can therefore honestly recommend
it to any person in search Of such an article, as
combining economy and utility.
Yours, &c, ALEX, MCLEAN, JR.
Pastor Of the lst Gang. Church, Fairfield, Conn.
Manufactured by
SHEAR, PACKARD & CO.,
II and 10 Green ST.
Albany, n. n.
FOR SALE BY
n. B. DICKSON, g. CO.,
PLYMOUTH, INDIANA.
ctober ~, lsG3-ui3.ly
, 1864-10-28

OLD TIMES IN IowA.-Alluding to Judge Will
liams, United States Senator elect from Oregon,
the Gold Hill News says:
In the year l647, if our memory serves us cor
rectly, Judge Williams was one of the United
States District Judges in the Territory Of Iowa,
and judicially organized Des Mones county,
on the river Of that name. The country there
abouts then was a Wilderness few inhabit-
ants and the shire town of the new county was
but village of Lighthouses. The "Court House.
was one-story log house, about twenty by
thirty feet and, furniture in that county being
extremely scarce, the Fixtures" in the court
room anything but attractive, consisting
of a large store-box and a small box the
Judges allowance-the large box being the
desk, and the small box his seat. At least a
dozen lawyers were in attendance when the first
court opened, and each one repaired to the
courthouse, carrying with him small box or
a empty keg as seat. But Judge Williams
was jolly old fellow and like the lawyers, en-
ioyed the primitive temple and its adjuncts,
erected to justice and expounding Of Blackstone
and Coke, as well as any one. Judge Williams
those days had ''fddle" and if there was
anything in the world he loved, it was that fd-
die; it seemed almost as ''near" to him as a
wife, for he almost invariably had it by his
side. He knew all the dancing tunes among the
farmer boys of the West, and as a general thing
was the Ole Bull fiddler in Iowa When court
adjourned, night after night the Judge would
have the store-boxes cleared out of the court
room, except his judicial bench, and the dance
would be kept up until midnight-letting up
only half an hour at a time, to enable the Judge,
the jury, the lawyers. the witnesses and the wo-
men folks to refresh themselves with "red eye"
or genuine "Kentucky cOrn-juice" from tin
coffee-pot, for in that country furniture was ex-
tremely scarce.
, 1864-10-28
Freedom VS.. pespotisn.

In speaking of Lincoln's reconst trGction poll
icy and his one-tenth system, George II Pen
dleton, Democratic candidate for> Vice Presi-
dent, said
Sir, the rights of States were the foundation
corner of the Confederation. The Constitution
recognized them, maintained them, provided
for their perpetuation. Our fathers thought
them the safeguards of liberties They
have proved so. They have reconeiled liberty
witt empire; they have reconciled the freedom
of the individual with the increase Of our mag
nifcent domain They are the test, the touch
stone the security of our liberties. This bill,
the avowed doctrine of its supporters, sweeps
them alLinstantly away. 1t substitutes despo-
tism for self-gOyernment. DespOtism the more
severe, because vested in a numerous Congress
elected bX the people who may not feel the ex-
err its power II subverts the Govern
ufea,., ,-.stroys tnc Consideration, aaA erects a
tyranny on the ruins Of republican governments.
1t creates unity-it destroys liberty-it main
tains integrity Of territory, but destroys the
rights of the citizen.
Sir, if this be the alternative of secession,
should prefer that secession should succeed
should prefer to have the Union dissolved, the
Confederate States recognized, nay, more,
should prefer that secession go on, if need be
until each State resumes its complete in6epend-
ence. l should prefer thirty-four republics to
one despotsm. From such republics, while l
might fear discord and wars would enjoy in
dividual liberty, and hope for reunion on the
true principles Of confederation. From one
centralized despotism, overriding the rights of
the States, can see no escape except in apa-
thetic cOntentmentt to slavery or the oft repeat
ed, Often-taing, always bloody struggles of de-
spairng hope. l would rather live a free citi-
zen of republic no larger than my native coun-
ty Of Hamilton, than be the subject of a more
splendid empire than Caesar in his proudest tri-
umphs ever ruled, or Napoleon in his loftiest
flights ever conceived r.
, 1864-10-28

GIVE HIM TRADE.-f education is the grea
buckler and shield of human liberty, well de
veloped industry is equally the buckler anC
shield of individual independence. As un
failing resource through life, give your son
equally with good education, a good homes
trade Better any trade than none, though
there is ample field for the adaptation Of every
inclination in this respect. Learned professions
and speculative employments may fail man
but AN honest handicraft trade, seldom or never
-7if its possessor chooses to exercise it, Let
him feel, too that honest labOr-crafts are hon
orable and noble. The men of trades-the real
creatures of whatever is most essential to The
necessities and welfare of mankind-cannot be
dispensed with; they above all others in what
ever repute theymay be held by their most fas-
tidious fellows, must work at the ore of human
progress or all is lost. But few brown handed
trade-workers think of this, or appreciate the
real position and power they compass.
Give your son a trade no matter what fortune
he may have or may seem likely to inherit
Give him.a trade and educauon--at any rate
a trade. With this he can always be independ-
ent-and better is independence with moderate
education, than all the learning of the colleges
and wretched temporal dependence. But in
this free land there can be, ordinarily, no diff
Guilty in procuring both the education and the
trade for every youth, thereby fitting each and
these obstacles whichintimidate so many trade
less, professionless young men. Such the
peculiarties OF fortune, that no mere outward
possession can be counted as absolutely secure
or protective to man. Hoarded thousands may
be swept away in day and their once possess
ors left with neither the means Of independence
nor Of livelihood.
HI was a wise Scandinavian King, who de-
creed that his sons must learn useful trades or
be cut off from their expected prncely Inherit
ance. They demurred, but obeyed the decree
The eldest, as the easiest trade to learn applied
himself to basket making. In time he reigned in
his fathers stead. In time also, revolution
came upon and overthrow him, and he fed dis
guised, wandering and companionless, save his
wife and children; his sole resource for liveli-
hood a recurrence to his humble, but honestand
useful trade.
The sons of the rich as well as the poor,
should be strengthened by this possession. If
never used beyond the learning harm is
done-while possibly it may be of incalculable
good. 1t is a weapon of assault or defence,
which once fairly seized, can never be taken
from mans grasp. Think Of it, parents-ex-
anime your boys bumps or rather study the
''bent Of their minds" and the most lasting
vice you can do them, is to apply them to the
learning of honest trades.
, 1864-10-28
4 Victory.

On one of the sunnyhillsides Of Massachusetts,
there stands a cottage, plain and old. The
smoke of the morning fire is curling up from the
lone chimney. In the doorway sof this cottage
stands little girl perhaps Of some nine or ten
summers; in her hand she holds a large tin pam
from which she is distributing their morning
meal the chickens, ducks and geese. She looks
delighted as she sees them scramblng for their
breakfasts and thinks it rather meanin the old
black he1.to take much more than her Share
The feeding over she spies, coming up the road
Peter the newsboy, delayed somewhat, proba-
bly, by the shower ofyesterday. Pan in hand,
she runs to meet him, and greets him gith
"Good morning, Peter"
How dye do, sis2" is the reply
"What news have you got to-day ~
"News2 Great newsl Here is; the paper
you can see for yourself" :.
so Fay lug hehanded oyer the pager to hor
She seized it and commenced reading the head
ings. A victory And her eyes sparkled as
she read the word. Without stopping further,
she ran to give it to mother. She engaged in
her morning duties, bade her read aloud the
news. She read with the same joyful express
sion which she had when she first received the
paper. But, glancing up, she saw her mother
had stopped her work, and down her checks
two tears were tracing their way. She was sur
prised, and her face changed at once from the
joyful to the grave, Before she had not thought
that victories were won only by death, and that
even her own father might be among the num-
Der.
South Of the Potomac there is another scene.
In one of the hospitals there lies soldier; the
stripes upon his arm denote tie rank of SER
geant He is wounded in the breast; terrible
wound, made by the ball of a Minnie rife. 1t is
evident from his countenance that his life blood
is fast t'ebbing, and that he has not many hours
to live. Though too weak to speak, he still re-
ms hfs afCr4r r,ao 4 -
ing Of his wife and child in the little cottage
hundreds Of miles away. Suddenly bright
but feeble smile breaking over his face pro-
claims the " victory in death, and all is over
We will not follow the body on its way from the
battle field in Virginia to the hillside in Massa-
chusetts, the slow tired of the horses up the long
hill the stopping at the cottage gate, thesolemn
and sorrowful funeral, the burial in the village
but let it suffice to say, that Garry
Mortimer will never forget that morning in early
summer which brought the news of that vic
tory
, 1864-10-28

| WHAT MAkIA-A-POTU MEANs.--A pretty well
| dressed young man stepped into the Central Sta
tion one Monday afternoon to enter a complaint.
He appeared to be perfectly sane, but it was not
long before We came to the conclusion that we
stood in the presence of man who was labor =
ing under an attack of mania-a-potu. e
"Sir, said he, "I am very much annoyed by
the Reading Railroad Company; they have
caused to be laid double-track from the cellar
of my house to the roof; one track goes up on
one side of my bed and down on the other side.
They run the cars all night just as get into a
dose, a locomotive whzzes by, blowing the
steam whistle and ringing the bell Last night,
sir, one of the locomotives flew off the track,
leaped across my bed to the other track and the
engineer then grinned at me like the devil. The
passengers all looked like devils, some with no
horns at all Each devil carried canary bird
which seemed to sing like a steam whistle
Here the informant paused.
''Well, si: your complaint is just we have
already taken measures to have the railroad
track removed from your house. so that you can
sleep without being disturbed" was our reply.
tSir, | wish you would remove that worm
from my shoulder; only little while ago !
pulled one out of my forehead and threw it on
the pavement; just as was about to put my
foot on it, nearly hundred ran up my leg, and
/ suppose this is one of them" ,-oI l
We removed the imaginary worm when he ex-
claimed, aat slo
"Why, there are more of them"
''Nait moment, p said we.
A brush was obtained and properly used
The man, evidently gentleman, returned his
thanks for our kindness, and suddenly left the
Office. He was stranger. What became of him
we knew not, but we thought the whole scene
first class temperance lecture.
, 1864-10-28

AGE AND YIGoR.-There resided last year at
South Kingston, R. l., one Ebenezer Adams
who was born in l772, and was more than
years of age when the colonies declared their
Independence. He has never called upon ply
sician or taken a single prescI iptonin his whole
life. He has moved every season for the last
seventy-fve years. The summer of last year he
raised with his own hands one hupdred and
thirty bushels of potatoes, and harvested them
himself, conveying them some three-fourths of a
mile in a wheelbarrow to his house He has
raised and harvested forty bushels Of corn him
self. He has moved and put up, without the
help Of man or beast, six tons of hay he hauled
it together on hay-poles of his own manufac-
ture, and put it in the barn himself. He carries
his corn two miles and a half, two bushels at a
time, in a wheelbarrow, to mill, all himself
Rainy weather and all the winter he is at work
at his trade as a cooper.
, 1864-10-28
Native Language.
BY WESTON FLINT.

1t seems to me as oft dream,
That sky is earth 5 twin brother,
And what one claims is all his own
He freely grants the other
In spring, the crimson clouds look down,
Upon the smiling flowers,
And earth in meekness asked the sky
To send the genial showers.
In summer time is gently waved,
The meadows richer glory,
The spangled SKY seemed glad to tell
To earth the golden story.
And now has come the harvest time,
The fields in modest manner,
Look up to see the autumn clouds
Fling out their motted banner.
Old winter soon his snowy robe
VIII fiHg DER mount aud river.
While overhead whieenakes shail glide
Like angels forms forever.
Thus speak these twin mute sons of God,
By his own wisdom given;
So shall they be till time shall end
And both be one in heaven.
, 1864-10-28

A BOYS PooKET.-A boy invited his mother
the other day, in our presence to repair a slight
accident to a pantaloon-pocket, and to do this it
became necessary to upset the contents of Mas
ter Willie's pocket upon the floor an exact in
ventory Of which we proceeded to note down,
as follows; An India rubber ball, bottle cork,
an old gas burner, one nine pin, part Of an ex-
poded ire-cracker, old spool Of cotton, a
small block, part of an old matchbox, one old
envelope, bag Of fmarbles, hckory-nut, sew
eral pieces Of chestnut-hull, peice of ginger
cake, piece oftn, pieces of fancy-colorcd pa
per, two old nails, a broken jew's-harp penny
whistle, piece of shoe-string, pocket knife
handle, half peach-stone, a piece Of brick-bat,
a spinning top, dead mouse, an assortment Of
buttons &C.. &C.
, 1864-10-28

FEvER.-What is fever? Simply process Of
publication. Feyers are not intrinsinaly dan
gerous. Nearly all the danger results from the
erroneous manner in which they are ordinarily
medicated. The terrible typbus or typhoid fe-
yer, of which so many people are said to be con-
tinually dying, is not in itself dangerous No
person can have fever unless there are OBJ
structions in his system, that ought to be re-
moved; and the fever is the attempt to remove
them. So far, therefore, tis dangerous not to
have fever, provided the causes exist. There
may be circumstances or complications which
will render the remedial struggle unsucccssful;
but the disease is a remedial effort nevertheless
No one should allow himself to be stimulated in
a fever.
A fever is a process Of publication; it should
be rather aided, assisted andregulated. A fever
is not substance but an action-a disturbance
1t is notan enemy, but rather a friendly defend
era something to be directed rather than des-'
troyed. We sometimes hear that person has
had an "attack' Of fever The expression is
absurd.