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The Big blue union. [volume] (Marysville, Kan.) 1862-1866, 1864-05-07

In Brown county, orders drawn On the
corutv Treasurer are cashed ON presentation
This shows good fnanciering on the part of the
County officers.
The Big blue union. [volume] (Marysville, Kan.) 1862-1866, 1864-05-07

Last Saturday evening, Mike Shroyer
,ud George Thorn were hauled up and fined one
5,IIsr and costs for disturbing the peace.
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Staple and Fancy Dry Goods,
THOS. MCCOY,
BOOT g. SHOEMAKER.

IN Know all men by these presents,
that make Boots and Shoes of ali
sizes and ofevery description imag ina
~, bic, for those who may be SO kind as to
give me Q call, ct No. SO Broadway, where
shall always be on hand. My material is the
best tia. can be purchased for gold or Treasury
Notes. Come along and bring your feet, can
tit them; don't care if they are as uneven as .
tomato, or 80 ugly ~ to make their ow.er blush.
Charges as moderate as the times will admit.
N. b. will also repair harness as neatly
IS possible and at very low figures. Ny motto
. 70 vsrk cheap for cash.
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lotaI ano spetial Notitss.
Revenue Stamps For
Sale, st the RECORDERS oFFlcE.

irecent order from the State Adjutant
Generals Office changes the 9th to the 18th Reg
1 S. Militia.
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Keep Posted Up!

ny aI tHe IeOple OtOre OF y. samuel 8.
Prudent folks will look around
To see where Cheapest Goods are found;
Where, for least money, they can buy
What e'er can please the taste or eye:
Where those who have of dollars few
May make one go near as Tar as two
Thousands have found it, so may more,
At Joseph Samuers Peoples Store.
Who 60 to Joseph Samuels' Store,
Are sure 10 cry 'How cheap! how rare"
CHOW can he do it?" Don't you see?
IT'S simple as the rule of three.
His goods are bought a, cheapest rate,
Sold low as any in The State:
His sales are large his profits, small,
His constant aim to satisfy all.
Then come up TO his well known Store!
You, who have never been BEFORE
Those who We been there be fore to-day,
We're confident won't stay away;
For just as long as men will 90
Where they can save dime, we know
That Joseph Samuels Store will be
Head Quarters Of Economy.
JOSEPH sAMUELs.
Ma+ysville, APRIL 9, 1s64.-vS, M
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have received. and am constantly adding TO-,
heavy stock It
The Big blue union. [volume] (Marysville, Kan.) 1862-1866, 1864-05-07

JOSEPH SAMUELs.
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CROCKERY,
HARDWARE.
GROCERIES.

DC, DC, DC, DC, DC:
All of which have been purchased on such
terms as will enable him to sell at prices which
cannot fail to satisfy the closest buyers. Call
and see. No charge for showing goods. He is
on hand with the dimes, and ready to pay the
highest market prices for your Wheat Corn,
Oats. Lumber, 60. All kinds of Country Pro.
duce taken in exchange for Goods.
The Xenia sentinel. [volume] (Xenia [Ohio]) 1863-186?, 1864-03-29
Thomas Starr King.


By the death of the Rev. Thomas
Starr King the country loses a most
valuable citizen; and the large circle
which knew him as a preacher, a lee
turer, or a friend, deplores the loss of
a most genial and delightful compan-
ion. Characteristically an American;
devoted to every good work hospita-
bic to every new thought and move
ment; of the most cheerful tempera-
ment and sweet good sense F.; vigorous,
incisive, and brilliant in his public dis
course; racy, thoughtful, and gener-
GUS in his private itercourse, his life
is ended before he had completed his
fOrtieth year.
Until five years ago Mr.. King was
generally known as one of the most
eloquent and brilliant of lyceum lee
turers, and in a smaller sphere as a
liberal preacher of the most charm
ing gifts. Removing to California,
the neWness of the country and the
exigency of the times at once deYel-
oped all the peculiar force of his
genius, and he was universally recog-
nized as most efficient and success
full worker in the great cause. His
clear perception, his fervid elOquence,
his simple manners and life, his un-
assuming piety, his signal sagacity
took the heart of the young and dis
tant State, and held it fast to the
common mother. It was a noble work
nobly done. That mother has seen
many of her best and dearest fall in
the great struggle; some in the field,
in the camp, at home, in the hospital
by sudden shot or by lingering disease.
But no son of hers had consecrated
himself more entirely to the service
for which his powers had fitted him,
of deepening and strengthening the
purest patriotism, and inspiring the
most faithful love to God and man,
than Thomas Starr King Harper's
Weekly.
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FrOn the N. 7. Tribuns.J Ti@-.A
The Employment Of Slaves in the
war. n rr .s..,r


When it was first proposed to use
Blacks in military operations against the
Rebellion, prejudice and ignorance were
briskly aroused, and all the facts of his
tory studiously ignored The laws of
war, enacted by the. common consent of
mankind, unquestionably sanctioned the
employment Of the enemy's slaves. It
was held to be Of no account that, from
the earliest ages. down to modern times,
belligerent nations have armed and en-
ployed slaves, sometimes their own, and
Sometimes those. of their enemies. Slaves
fought at Platea, atMarathon, at Ch@ron-
ca, and by their gallnatry purchased their
freedom-slaves defended Sparta against
-Empaminondas-slaves contenCed side by
side with proud and Warlike Laced@moni-
ans-the slave legionsWere conspicuous in
the long wars between Sparta and Athens,
and bOndmen composed the crews of the
hostile fleets. In the battle Of Plataa,
81, 200. slaves were engaged f; in the Pei
.oponnesein war, u, 900 Thessalian slaves
we're placed at the disposal of Athens !;
5000 slaves were emancipated at the
siege of Sparta and large body of the
same auxiliaries were sent to- the succor
of. Syracuse. Roman history furnishes a
still greater array Gof pertinent facts.
Slaves assisted in repelling the invasions
of Hannibal, and during the civil wars
which followed they were invited to the
standard of either party-they bore their
part in all the revolutions of the Republic,
and by their valor changed the fortunes
of many a hard-fought field. Marius,
Sylla, POmpey, Tiberius Gracious, all
appealed to and enfranchized slaves, and
in the later days Of the Empire armed
slaves were employed by Octavius, Mar
Gus AureGus, 0th6, and Vitelius, andwere
always emancipated as the reward of their
valor. Oppressed slaves rushed to the
standard Of Alaric, and to their voluntary
aid Cato of Utica did not disdain to in
trust his falling fortunes. So slaves were
employed in the seiges and battles of mid
die ages. In the early history of Eng
land, the villeins--aneestofs Of many
proud modern families-were conscript de-
tenders of their lords. We need hardly
say that during the war of our own. Rev
Olution, slaves were enrolled both by
British and American commanders. In
the West Indies, from the war of the Ma
rooms in 1913 downto the present century,
hundreds of battles have attested the
bravery and military skill of the black
race. In the last war between Great
Britain and the United States, British
Admiral enlisted l,700 negroes in the
waters of the Chesapeake, and they rem
defed distinguished service both as com
batants and pioneers. To-day, more than
half the British Army in the WestIndies
IS composed Of soldiers Of thcPure African
~ '--s7 -
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FROM RED RIVER EXPEDITION.
Details Of the Capture Of
Fort DeruSsey.
The Works Carried by Storm
in Twenty Minutes,
Fort DeTussey, Red River, Louisiana, I
March 10. ria Cairo "A.

March 10, ria Cairo a.
This fort was captured to-day by the Uni-
ted States forces under General A. J. Smith.
The expedition left Vicksburg on the 10th,
landed at SemmespOrt on the 18th, and
marched to Bayou Glace, where General Sour
ry's rebel brigade had been eneamped, bHt
which fed on the approach Of our transports,
leaving considerable camp equiPage and COM
missary stores,
General Smith pressed forward 70 yellow
Bayou, where a strong fOrtifcation had been
erected; but the rebels again fed as we came
up. The enemy was pressed, and some skir-
mishing occurred, resulting in the capture Of
several prisoners and small wagon train.
At daylight yesterday the entire command
started for Fort Derussey, tweRty-eight miles
distant, and at o'clock, P. ~, the Sd and
9th Indiana batteries opened on the fcrt,
which replied vigorously with three Of its
heaviest guns. The cannOnade continued an
hour, when General Smith ordered the lst and
ID Illinois, Of the 10th Corps, under General
Mower, to charge the enemy's rife-pits and
storm the fort. The 5SIh, 18th and 89th In
diana and 24th Missouri regiments charged
over the deep bitches and thick abattis amid
CALLING fire, and within twenty minutes after
the order was issued the color-sergeant Of the
58th Illinois planted the American flag upon
the enemy's works. The victory was COM
plete, and resulted in the capture Of 323 pris-
Oners, including "A commissioned officers; tive
9-inch Dshlgren guns, 24-pounders; four 81
Founders; two 6-peunders; q lot Of small arms;
1000 brls Of fine powder; an immense quan-
tity Of assorted ammunition, and several ihOu-
sand dollars worth Of cOmmissarF stores.
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The Printer.

B. F. Taylor, Of the Chicago Journal, q
writer whose every word is poetic thought,
thus speaks of the Printer, truly and prettily.
In those pretty pictures of language what
word painter 50 artistic, so exquisite as he ?
Read it, think Of it and say, for you can't
help it; ait is so"
The Printer is the Adjutant Of thought,
and this explains the mysteriessof the won
derful words that can kindle a home as no
words can-that warm heart as no hope can
that word, "we,n with q hand-in-hand
warmth in it, for the Author and Printer are
Engineers together. Engineers indeed /!
When the little Corsican bombarded Cadiz at
the distance Of five miles it was deemed the
very triumph Of engineering. But what is
that paltry range to this whereby they BON
bard the ages yet to be.
There he stands at the case and marshaIs
into line the forces armed for truth, clothed
in Immortality and in English. And what
can be more notable than the equipment Of a
thought in sterling SaxtOn-SaztOn with the
ring Of spear or shield therein, and that com
missiOned it when we are dead, to move grad
ually on to the last syllable Of recorded
time" This is to win victory from death,
for it has no dying in it.
The Printer is called laborer, and the office
he performs is toll. Oh, it is not work, but
sublime right he is performing, when he thus
sights the engine that is to fling a worded
truth in grander curve than missils eer be-
fore described filings it into the bosom Of an
age yet unborn. He throws off his coat in
deed but we wonder rather that he does not
put his shoes from off his feet, for the place
Whereon he stands is holy ground.
little sOuu was uttered somewhere lcnr
agoj it wandered to the twilight feebler than |
q star; it died upon the ear; but the Printer !
takes it up where it was lying there in the |
silence like a wounded bird, and he sends il /
forth from the Ark that had preserved il, aud /
it flies into the future with the olive branch 1
Of peace, and around the world with melody 4
like tho dawning Of a spring morning
The Xenia sentinel. [volume] (Xenia [Ohio]) 1863-186?, 1864-03-29
The New Call for Troops.

The New York Times, of Wednes-
day, gives the following explanation
of the new call for troops:
THE New CALL FOR Two HUNDRED
THOUSAND SOLDIERs.-The Presi-
dent has issued a call for two hund-
red thousand more troops, to be en-
forced by draft on the 10Th of April
if not sooner filed by voluntary en-
istments. This call is not entirely
unexpected. It may not be generally
known, but it is nevertheless strictly
true, that under the last call for two
hundred thousand ADDITIONAL men in
February, the Government has actu-
ally received a far less number of men
than it called for, though most of the
States have filled their quotas. The
reason is plain. 1t was announced
that the last call was for the purpose
ofsquaring up accounts, and thereupon
an extensive system of research and
figuring was begun in every State; all
loose accounts OfProvost Marshals and
State authorities were balanced up
old credits, not before allowed on the
new quota; scattering men, who had
enlisted and never been credited, we're
counted for the first time; enIistments
in the naval service have been credited
as recently allowed by law; the vet
eran enlistments, which came in largely,
were credited, and aided many local
tiles to escape the DART every exer-
ton, and many systems of figuring,
some ofwhich we fear were not as
straightforward as they ought to have
been, we're used, until many of the
States have announced that their
quotas were full under all calls, WITH
A SURPLUS.
The Xenia sentinel. [volume] (Xenia [Ohio]) 1863-186?, 1864-03-29

The editor of the Evansville Jour
nal retired from his editorial sanctum
a short time since, on a visit to another
state, and while absent took unto him
self charming wife. On his return
home, and resuming the conduct of
his paper, he thus discodrses
In announcing the fact Of our re-
turn home with a rib, we cannot refrain
from expressing our profound disgust
of bachelorism and bachelors and
we expect to be disgusted with both
several weeks. We are well aware
that, in times gone by, we occasionally
made ourselves ridiculous in the eyes
of sensible men by upholding the
bachelor state as the only life Of hap
piness, independence, and earthly
glory; but We we're young and green
then, and of course knew but one side
of the subject Now, stand up here,
you "consarned," ugly "picters of
humanity rejoicing in the name of
bachelors, and answer us a few
questions.
What are you good for in this
world ? What good are you doing for
your country What interest have
you in the generation yet unborn" i"
which you read of? Where will you
be when old men, if your vile habits
ever permit you to arrive at good,
old age ? Won't you be like lOnly,
scared, and scattered trees standing in
a big open clearing without a com
paniOn, and your life unprotected from
the frOsts by young saplings and shrubs
at your feet? Or won't you be like
pumpkins in a corn-feld, more prom
inent-because of your prodigious
ugliness and loneEness---than the
stalks at your side laden with golden
grain Hold up your heads and talk
ike men, whether you can act so or
not. Now, don't you feel ashamed of
yourselves Look at the girls about
you, all smiles and sugar---hearts
Overfowing with love, ready to be
spilled on the first good fellow who !
can touch their sympathies---feelings
as rich as cream, which, by a kindred |
spirit, can soon be worked into butter
and spread all over your whole life |
till you are as happy as the birds of
spring. Look at EN- and feel the
position which you occupy
n the cabbage-garden of humanity
What are you holding back for 2? Now,
ust refOrm---put on your best looks
md your other coat---visit the girls,
ce-cream them, talk to them prettily,
lrive them, please them---then pro-
,Ose, get accepted, marry, and the
country will rely on you as a faithful
md well-disposed citizen.
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Coming Home.

Day has kissed the blushing even,
And the world has gone to sleep,
And a maiden, fair as heaven,
Gazes out upon the deep,
To boat upon the billow,
That is blowing through the foam;
Hear her sing: {" oh, joy! they're coming,
They are coming, coming home "
How her sweet face glows with gladness !
As she walks the shining strand;
Oh why don't the breezes hurry
With their burden to the land?
How she'll clasp them to her bosom
And they never more shall roam;
Oh! the welcome that is waiting
For the loved ones, coming homel
We are sailing Ger Iife's ocean,
To far-Of shining shore,
Where the angels wait our coming
With the loved ones gone before;
And how sweet, at life's calm even,
VIII their song Of welcome come
"They are almost home to heaven,
They are coming, coming home"
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The following beautiful and patriotic lines
were lately written by Hon. Daniel 5. Dick
insOn, Of New York, in answer to a question
by lady whether he was for peace"
Am for PeaOe2 Yes.
For the peace which rings out from the can
mons throat
And the suasiOn Of shot and shell,
Till rebelliOn's spirit is trampled down
To the depths of its kindred hell.
For the peace which shall follow the squad
ron's tramp,
Where the brazen trumpets bray,
And drunk with the fury of storm and strife,
The blood red chargers neigh.
For the peace which shall wash out the lep-
rous stain,
Of our slavery, foul and grim,
And shall sunder the letters which ereak and
clank
On the down trOdden dark mans limb.
I will curse him as a traitor and dfalse Of heart
Who would shrink from the conflict now,
And will tramp it with blistering, burning
brand
On his hideous, Cain like brow.
Out! out of the wayl with your spurious peace,
Which would make US rebelliOn's slaves;
We will rescue our land from the traitorous
grasp,
Or cover it over with graves.
OutI out of the way with your knavish
schemes,
You trembling and trading pack
Crouch away in the dark, like sneaking
hound
That its master has beaten back.
You would barter the fruit Of our fathers
blood,
And sell out the Stripes and Stars,
To purchase peace with rebellion's votes,
Or escape from rebelliOn's sears.
By the widows wall, by the mothers tears,
By the orphans who cry fer bread,
By our sons who fell, we will never yield
Till rebellion's soul is dead
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The Emancipation Proclamation.
Agate, thus writes to the Cincinnati Ga
zette, concerning the Emancipation PrOela-
Rn,hinaton. Mareh 10. 1864.

zette, concerning the Emancipation PrOela-
nation;
Washington, March 10, 1864.
recent allusiOn in the " Independent"
to the fact that Mr.. Secretary Chase's pen
supplied the concluding sentence Of the Eman-
cipatiOn Proclamation, has been received with
a surprise that indicates a less general knOwl-
edge on the subjeet than might have been ex-
pected.
When the final draft Of the Proclamation
was presented by the President to the Cabinet,
it closed with the paragraph stating that the
slaves it liberated would be received into the
armed service Of the United States. Mr.
Chase objected to the appearance Of Il dOcu-
ment of such mOmentOus Importance without
one word beyond the dry phrases necessary
to convey its meaning; and finally proposed
that there be added to the Presidents draft
the following sentence:
"And upon this act, sincerely believe to be
an act Of justice, warranted by the COnstitu-
ton, I invoke the considerate judgment of
mankind, and the gracious favor Of Almighty
God"
Mr.. Lincoln adopted the sentence as Mr..
Chase wrote it, only interlining after the
word " Constitution" the words, upon mil
itary necessity" and in that form the Proc
lamatiOn went to the world, and History.
The President originally resolved upon the
policy Of issuing this Proclamation in the
summer Of 1862. As he has expressed it him
self, everything was going wrong; we seemed
to have put forth our utmost effort; and he
really didn't know what more to do unless
he did this. Accordingly, he prepared the
preliminary Proclamation, nearly in the form
in which it subsequently appeared, called the
Cabinet together and read it to them.
Mr.. Montgomery Blair was startled "If
you issue that Proclamation, Mr.. President"
he exclaimed, "you will lose every one Of the
fall elections"
Mr.. Seward, on the other hand said I ap-
prove Of it, Mr.. President ',just as it stands.
1 approve of it in principle and approve
the policy Of issuing it. I only object to the
time. Send it out now, on the heels of cur
late disasters, and it will be construed as the
cOnYulsiTe struggle Of drowning man. To
give it proper weight, you should reserve it
till after some victory"
The President assented to Mr.. SeWard's
view, and it was withheld till the Fall, when
it was issued almost precisely as originally
prepared. The one to which Mr.. Chase sup
piled the concluding sentence was the inGl
Proclamation, issued on the subsequent first
Of January.
The Xenia sentinel. [volume] (Xenia [Ohio]) 1863-186?, 1864-03-29

An elegantly dressed lady entered
a Chicago store last week, and pur-
chasing some silk, rendered hundred
dollar Canadian bill. Not being salts
fed as to its genuneness, a boy was
sent off with it to the bank, who re-
turned with as good as gold?' The
lady was highly indignant at thus being
suspected with roguery, aud taking the
bill, said she would not purchase the
goods, She was finally prevailed on to
accept the articles cut of. After she
had gone twas discovered that she had
the genuine bill first rendered
to the clerk for another a counterfeit.
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Wsynssgize, Karr.n Co., Marsh Q, 1861.

" ayHeeCtsteJ " ulFest OO'f A4TCh - 4Cu1a
EDITOR SENTINEL:
Our Little city is-as Of Old-sloWly nov
ing along over the rOugh surface Of time.
And in its uneven ride, it is obliged to wit
ness some painful, as well as pleasant changes.
Of the former, the present war has nos
failed to administer its share. For Waynes-
vile has not spared her brave and patriotic
sons, in helping to crush this unhOly rebel
lion. But many of them have-like the old
patriots of seVenty-six-buckled on their
armor, and after bidding farewell to their
cheerful homes, and many friends, have gone
forth to face the mouths Of hostile can
nor" and to subdus q foe whose ignorance
has allowed them to be taught that they are
fighting in a good cause. These teachers, are
q set Of ambitious tyrants, whose setting s,lR
Of hope is fast rolling behind the impossible
hills Of oblivion, never to be heard Of more;
and whose dishOnored names, sho1ld ever Be
found on that darkened page Of history where
ArnOld's finds place. Their would-be Con
federacy, is now struggling il its last faint
agonies Of death; and from many hyOrahls
indications Of a speedy termination Of tAs
war, we have good reason 10 believe that ere
long we will have the pleasure Of seeing our
surviving brave soldiers return to-their
homes, to enjoy the projections Of that Gov
ernment which they have risked their lives
to preserve.
But on that day, has sOrrOEful and Pitiful
viii be the cOaditiOa Of sams Of eur eitiReas
whose nigger-hatiRg souls have Induced them
to become members q that party called cop
PsThsads. Their hslloW heads will became
hot and feTsEisB with eOEardly s1eitensRS
and they viii feel as though they would Ike
to be hidden away in the dark reeesses Of OBJ
liVion. MINIMUM,
The Xenia sentinel. [volume] (Xenia [Ohio]) 1863-186?, 1864-03-29
Mark our coming

Mr.. Barney, New York Collector of
Customs, is henceforth to be addressed
as Sir Hiram. He has just received
the cross of commander of the Honora-
bic Order of st. Maurice and st. Laza-
rus from the King of Italy, in aeknowI-
edgment of his services rendered to
the iron-clad frigate Red Italia when
she ran ashore at Barnegat. The same
distinction has been conferred on
Commodore Paulding; and Captain
Hartforn, of the Navy, has been made
a chevalier of the same illustrious
order.
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Why the Dying Never Weep.

The reason why the dying never Weap is
because the.manufactures Of lye have stopped
forever; every gland Of the system has ceased
its functions. In almost all diseases the
hveris the first manufaetory that stops work (;
one by one others follow, and all The fountains
of life are at length dried ups there is no Sc
erection anywhere. So the eye in death
weeps not not that al Affection is dead to
the heart, but because there is not q tear
drop in it, any more than there is moisture
on the lip.