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St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1864-12-01
}. sOCI.ARATION ~ TEsR GOVERN
OR.

WHERGAs, The enrolment in the
l'r"vost Narshal's Department is be-
!; ved to be much larger tina" the &C.
,',,l nuaber Of men between the ages
u. twenty and forty-6ve years in the
State, capable Of performing military
rvice and
WHEREAS, BY such increased enroll
mc"t the quota assigned to the State
'v the Provost Masshal General, IN the
lent Of another call for troops, will be
'!:sproportion.tely large; and
WHEREAS, It IS provided that the
Ba'rds of Enrolment shall have the en-
laeot lists open to the examination
the public At all proper times aud
WHEREAS, Authority has been Civ.
On by circular Of the Provost Marshal
ener,l to have said enrolment correc-
tt and revised, 10 order that those dis
qualified on account Of
Ist. Alienage;
I'd. Non-residence;
Sd. Over age;
18th. Permanent physical disability,
Of such degree as to render the per.
I'm not proper subject for enrolment
under the law aud regulations:
9Th. Having served in the military
or naval service two years during the
resent war and been honorably dis
charged.
Civil officers, clersyme", and al 9TH
cr prominent citizens are invited to ap
lear at al times before the B.,ard to
l"'int out errors in the lists and to give
.nch information in their possession A.
may did in the correction and revision
thereof
AND WHEREAS, Every city, ward
and town in the State has local inter-
ct in the proper reduction Of its enroll
"cnt and quota:
Now, therefore, !, Stephen Miller.
Governor Of the State Of Minnesota, do
'~sue this, my proclan alton. requesting
AID recommending the several city,
ward and town authorities throughout
'he State 10 take such measures previ-
us to January l, 1868, os will ensure
the examination of all such citizens rs
should be stricken from the rolls.
Given under my hand and seal of the
State, at 81. Paul, on the 26tl'
r.. s. day Of November, A. D. 1894
STEPHEN MILLER.
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1864-12-01
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St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1864-12-01
sHDRBuRND COUNTY DE:
LlNQUENT TAX LIST.

List Of lands In Sherburn- county re-
manning unredsemsd anu, upon which de-.
hnqusnt taxes Of the year. ! sea and pre-
vious years remained unpaid On. the ff-
teenth day Of November, AID. 1864. and
forfeited 70 the State under :he provisions
If an Act entitled IAN 40, in relation to
the redemption At lands so,l for taxes and
relating TO taxes and tax snlcs." Approx
ed March 1l,h, 4. d. 1862.
Nam''. Descriptions. Sc z"x.
10wn 81, Hsmgc ~
The Placer herald., 1864-12-10
The Drafts for l8Rk.

In speaking Of the duration of the war,
Governor Seymour of New York, in late
speech in Philadelphia, said
The men who were drafted this year under
the five hundred thousand call have but one
year to serve. The three years. men who
were Ia gen into the army in 1862, will 90
out Of the service next year. Their terms
begin to expire in the spring. In nine
months the army will need the largest addi-
tons that have been made at any one time
AS the Administration shrank from calling
for more three years men just before an
election, the places to be vacated by the one
year men must be provided to be filled in
nine months, and thus it is reasonable to be-
Iieve that the largest draft that has yet been
made will be ordered at the beginning Of
the year 1865. do not speak unadvisedly,
for the Administration has intimated to me
that they expec: another draft. The State
of New York has furnished an excess of
three years men, and | asked that, in max
ing up the quota of New York, one three
years man should be counted as equal to
three one years men. They said they could
not do it, as they needed men Immediately;
but they provided that three years man
should count as one man on this draft, as
one man on the next draft, and as one man
again on the third draft, and thus the mat,
ter will be equaized. So it appears from
this that we are to have at least two drafts
more. Voice-"That's refreshing"l Every
man knows that we must have this draft.
After the war is ended, under the policy Of
this Administration, we shall be compelled
to maintain large armies to hold the people
Of the South in subsection to carry out the
Emancipation Proclamation and Confiscation
Act.
The Placer herald., 1864-12-10
I,aces and the Love Of them.


lit!y who does not care for laces is q
phenomenon. They have been in vogue
with the sex for at least four hundred years
AMI amid all the mutations Of fashion, have
never lost their prestige as a speciality OF the
arlstocralic toilet. Puritansm, Quakerism,
Methodism have decried and denounced
them in vain, and sumptuary laws aiming at
their restriction to privileged few have
proved deal letter. Strange to say, the
world is indebted for some Of the costIlest of
its fabrics to a class vowed to perpetual ab
stineuce from the vanities of the flesh. The
nuns of the middle ages introduced guipure,
and in fact almost up to the time of the Re-
formation the nunneries were the principal
lace and embroidery factories. The fair
devotees for a long period limited their
labors TO the production of cobweb robes for
the images of the Saints, but eventually they
exercised their vestal fingers in the fashioning
of wells, etc, for the adornnent of queens
and nobewomen. Sometimes, so slow was
the process of manufacture, it took two or
three generations to complete robe for the
Virgin Mary. When the delicate flm-work
dropped from the hands of the superanuaed
Sister who had spent life time in its elabor
alton, it was caught as reverently as if it had
been a prophets mantle, by some younger
member OF the order who in turn growing
old and blind, transmitted it to another; SO
that the grand cathedrals and stately towers
of medieval Europe were constructed in less
time than its thread lace wells and mantes.
The lace ruffs of Queen Ezabeth's reign
were an abomination in the eyes of the pious
fathers of the Reformation; but Good Queen
Bess" thought they became her stiff figure
and vixen face, and she piled them, one
above another up to her royal ears in utter
contempt of the ecclesiasics. An author OF
that day, referring to the EIizabethian style
of wearing rufs, says they were placed gra
datim, one beneath the other, and underneath
all the master>devil ruff, wrought all over
with needework"
Lace making is not now the tedious work
that it was few centuries ago; but even yet
the fiuest laces are all manufactured by hand,
and rare specimens are worth almost fabulous
prices. The Empress Eugenie has shaw of
point dAlencon, for example, valued at $3
900, a piece of toilet drapery of the same
material worth IS 900, and a complete dress
of deutlle royale for which the figure was
1900 From one to two thousand dollars
have frequently been given for lace bridal
robe in this land of republican simplicity,
and we presume that since Shoddy became
lord of the Ascendant, still moro expensive
fabrics have been imported to meet the exi-
gences of the feminine members of his Illus
trOus clan
The Placer herald., 1864-12-10

A New FRACTIONAL CURRENCY is about to
be issued by the U. S. Treasury, as substi-
tute for that which is now SO extensively
counterfeited. 1t cannot be issued too soon.
1t is not easy to say at present, which is the
more abundant the counterfeit or the genu-
inc postal notes. In fact, some of the coun
terfeits are so cleverly executed that it would
look very like piece of stupidity, to avoid
being deceived by them, and hence they are
accepted by the multitude without inspec-
ton, and pass as readily as their better asso'
ciates The genuine notes are sometimes
subjected to popular distrust on account of
their Indifferent appearance, but the coun'
terfeits only rarely.-N. Y. Paper.
The Placer herald., 1864-12-10
law of Newspapers.

|. Subscribers who do not give express notice
to the contrary are considered as wishing to con-
tinue the subscription. ,..
. IF snhscribers wish their papers discontinu-
ed, publishers may continue TO send them until
all charges are paid. 49,.
g. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their
papers from the Office or place to which they are
sent; they are held responsible until they scttie
their bills and give due notice to discontinue
them. go
a. If subscribers move to other places without
informing the publisher. and the paper is sent to
the former direction, they are held responslole'
Notice should always be given Of removal.
s. The Courts have decided, that refusing 10
take paper from the olllce' or removing. aa aila
leaving il uncalled for is prina Jacie evidence
of intentional fraud.
The Placer herald., 1864-12-10

The Yolo Canal, work commenced about
four months ago for the drainage of tule
lands on the west side of the river, is com
pleted. The canal starts at Fremont, in the
northern part of the county, and drains the
low grounds Of Cache creek and Pu'ah
creek, and connects at the south with Dutch
lake. Miners slough and Steamboat slough.
1t is about tweniy-four miles in length, has
twenty-one feet fall, is thirty feet wide at the
bottom, is about five feet deep on the aver
age, and the side slopes at an angle of forty
five degrees.
The Placer herald., 1864-12-10

New MORMON MOVEMENT. - 1t is we'll
known that the Mormons have for long
time been thinking of transferring portion
Of t cir population from Salt Lake to some
position more easy of access from the sea
board, and where they will be less liable to
annoyance from the "gentes," than in their
present halfway stopping place on the great
thoroughtare from the Mississippi Valley to
California. 1t is now said that they have
selected point in Southern Utah, about 450
miles southwesterly from Salt Lake City, and
$50 northerly from Ell Dorado Canon, on
the Colorado. They will thus be able to
obtain such supplies as must come from the
seaboard with only $50 miles land carriage.
1t is furthermore reported that they have
stopped work on their great Temple, and
every man of note is to hold himself in read
mess to start for the New Zion at an early
day; at which time the main body of the
present population of Mormonsm will also
be required to move in the same direction
s. f. mining Press.
The Placer herald., 1864-12-10

Hops.-The Colusa Sun says hops are be-
ginning to be one Of the most extensive and
profitable crops in the world, and that where
hops have been tried in California, they have
generally done well. More attention should
be paid TO their culture. Owing to the in.
creased consumption of beer and ale in the
United States, the demand for hops has
grown faster than the increase reproduction,
and there is now no crop which gives the
producer better returns.
The Placer herald., 1864-12-10

1t is said that lady is best dressed when
one cannot remember what she wore ac'
cording to that Interpretation, friend OF
ours, great traveller thinks that an African
princess that he once saw must be the best
dressed woman that ever lived, for he can
not remember that she wore anything in
particular.
The Placer herald., 1864-12-10
Freedmen I'm Arkansas.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercial writing from Pine Bluff, Arkansas
speaks as follows of the workings of the
Freedmen's Homes system, as it is called
A great difficulty experienced in these
Freedmen's Home | am told, is to induce
the negro to labor, after the edge of novelty
is worn away. They will not labor for citi-
zen overseers. "Dat airs played out" For
man dressed in blue they entertain solid
respect, and for time they will labor. The
Captain employs negro drivers" of expert
ence to overlook, personally, the laborers;
these report the unruly to white overseers,
who administer such rebukes or punishment
as is necessary. Whipping is resorted to in
no case except that of children.
Another principal difficulty encountered is
in causing the blacks to respect the marriage
relation. They contend stoutly at first for
the system of elective afiinties; and would
push the doctrines and practice of Free Love
to their largest practical extent. The Cap
tain called to his aid all the terrors of awful
ceremony, and causes the officiating chap
lain to multiply and intone with due junction
certain solemn and long winded obligations
which strike the Ethiopian imagination with
awe, and Impress them with the direful pen-
aties which will overtake them if they prove
unfaithfu to their VOWS. The work of ere
ating conscience, or Of renewing it when
it has been utterly surred over and obscured,
is necessary slow and tedious.
The Placer herald., 1864-12-10

Personal advertisements charged full rates
Obituary, Birth and Marriage Notices, puDilshed
without charge.
nay-Liberai deductions made to monthly or
yearly advertisers.
The Placer herald., 1864-12-10

Begin to get your ground ready for plant
ino trees and vines. The earlier they are
in the better but be sure to have the land
deeply and finely plowed and pulverlzed-
even as deep as two feet will prove OF great
advantage.
The Placer herald., 1864-12-10

Judge Taney was eleven years older than
the Federal Constitution. He remembered
when it was established and he went to the
grave under the impression he had seen Its
end-that it had persisted in the mad vortex
Of fanatical violence anil passion,
The Placer herald., 1864-12-10

The waste made by servants in dust, ashes,
ciuders and grease in N. York CITY, amounts
10 more than 81, 900, 900 annually
The Placer herald., 1864-12-10

In Nashville, the other day, an elderly
lady found notice at her gate, signed by a
negro boy, informing her that if she did not
attend to her own business he would have
her arrested by the guard 1t seems that
she offended his sweetheart" an ebony
dansel in service.
The Placer herald., 1864-12-10

A matchmaker of Annapolis has the silver
watch given TO George Washington by his
grandfather,
The Placer herald., 1864-12-10
To.ms Of Invariably in Advance;
u.TES OF ADVEKIISING:

t)ae SQUARE of Ten LINES, Qhis sized typeO
=, ,;o, 50 90
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The Placer herald., 1864-12-10

BACHELORS Notwithstanding to New
Jerusalem writer's there is no celbacy in
Heaven, those who people it being married
pairs, among whom the apple Of discord is
never found. No single individual can be-,
come an angel, any more than dross can
become gold without the fiery development.
Religious celibates are admitted to Heaven,
but only about the circumferences -corresl
ponding in standee positions at the opera
The Placer herald., 1864-12-10
Majority against the Constitution on

Majority against the Constitution on
the home vote, 1895
The soldiers vote exhibits a majority in
favor of the Constitution of 1851, showing
that it is adopted by majority of 665.
Total number of home votes polled, 57,077,
against 52,344 for Controller in 1868, and
92,5O2 for President, in 1860.
The Placer herald., 1864-12-10

The New CONSTITUTION OF Maryland
The total home vote in the State on the
Constitution, as officially returned is 81 OF,
of which there was cast
Against the Constitution, 29,536
For the Constitution 57,541
The Placer herald., 1864-12-10

1t is not easy to see the design of Grants
late operations, but they appear to be direct
ed against the communicat ions Of Peters
burg, with the hope Of establishing such
blockade of that town as may possibly in the
end lead to its surrender and thus perhaps
open one of the roads to Richmond The
defences themselves are too strong even for
the reckless obstiQacy of the Northern CON-
mander, and if he cannot effect bis purpose
indirectly he must give it up altogether. Yet
these fortiticatious have never been heard Of
till the other day, when the little place all
of d sudden was found to be an Antwerp or
Mantua in strength.
These remarks will help to explain the
successful resistance Of the South against an
enemy SO superior in numbers and resources
Without doubt the chief credit is due TO the
energy and courage of the Southern popula
ton; but the Confederate engineers have
shown that true mastery of science which
consists in turning actual circumstances to
immediate account. Beginning with old-
fashioned muskets, the Southerners advanced
to breech leaders as rapidly as their means
would permit, and then economised their
strength by the adoption Of Notifications at
every point. Grant finds himself in an ex
temporisel quadriIateral. Whichever way
he turns, the detenses of the enemy are too
strong for him, and so, in despair Of doing
anything else, he attempts to reduce him to
surrender by breaking up the railroads. This,
however, is work of time, aud the result to
which it might lead would be distant still,
whereas there is no longer any time to spare.
So long and so skilItuly have the Confeder-
ates maintained their defense, that the issue
of the strife will now probably be determined
by the political quarrels Of the assailants.
HUMoRs OF WESTERN LIFE.-A Cairo corr
respondent relates pleasing illustration Of
Western life A man in one of the hotels
of that town was observed to be very moody,
and to regard the Caiorian with looks par
tcuarly sad, and as our informant thought
somewhat savage. By-and-by he approached
him. and said:
Can see you outside the door for few
minutes?"
"Certainly, sir,' said the Cairo man, but
not without some misgivings.
The moment the door had closed behind
them the moody man reached over his hand
between his shoulders and drew from a
pocket tremendous bowie-knife, bigger than
French carver and as its broad blade
flashed in the moonlight, the Cairoian tho't
his time had come.
"Pu up your scythe,' said he, "and tell
me what I've done to provoke your hostility"
Done, strangel9-you haven't done any
thing. Nor baint any hostility to you; but
want to pawn this knife with you. 1t cost
me twenty dollars in New Orleans. lost
my whole pile at 'old sledge,' coming down
tie river, and haint got red cent. Lend
me ten dollars on it, stranger. III win it
back for you in less than an hour"
The money was loaned; and sure enough,
in less than the time mentioned, the knfe
was redeemed and the incorrigble sporting
man" bad a surplus of some thirty dollars,
which he probably lost the very next hour
The New York herald., 1864-08-03

PORTLAND, No., August 2, 1894.
large number or ConFressineu have already accepted
invitations to Join the excursion Of the Coast befssc
Committee. Arrangements have besn made with the
railway steamboat lines from Boston east TO st. JoAs
80 parties invited Join the excursion party %
Portland the 10th and 11th at Augusta and Bath q
the 18th at Bangor the 10th and 10TH or at Moune
Desert the 18th 18th Of August. On reaching ~
John the committee with certain officers OF the govern
meut will proceed up the ST. John river and to the n
Lawrence at Rvere du Loup and return by the Gvss<
Trunk Railroad quebec and Montreal Tho crnboru
OF the party who remain at g. John will have IL
opportnity of visiting the Gulf OF 3: Lawrence and
amning the wonderful tides of the Basin OF Minas aDA
the Bay Of Fundy, ard Halifax, Lewisbure, and othet
interesting localities of the lower provinces.
The New York herald., 1864-08-03

RECRUITING IN THIS CTy.-Hcw are Supervisor
Blunt and bis committee progressing in raising
volunteers in this city Is there any prospect
that we shall be able to escape the draft The
public desire to know just how this business
gets along. We want no more drafting in
this metropolis, and the people wish to know
what must be done TO avoid it. If more funds
arc necessary, then let II he known; for our
capitalists would rather furnish the means now
than pay for the property destroyed by another
draft riot Men, we know, are wanted for the
army. Is more money requisite to obtain them,
,or is II necessary 70 adopt some other mode Of
recruitingf How \ IL Mr. Blunt
The New York herald., 1864-08-03
williamsburg city News.

sursrrcxx- Yesterday morning about ten o'sosh .
man, aged about thirty, apparently Ehsshman ves
observed TO sasgsr and fall in south Sixth street. from ~
ofscts os the heat He admitted Into No 10 Of -
same street, and physician sent fcs but the un1W
was no evidence ne body 70 ideatKy t-s o1nn =
t~o Upios ferry tcksss being an that - Wund e
him. he wss slad n ssia = ~Ans inss - sN -
eaisse shoes.
The New York herald., 1864-08-03

An IMPORTANT POLITICAL MOVEMENT N OHIo.--
We have received the circular appended to
this article from Middletown, Ohio. endorsed
by prominent republican OF that locality,
stating that it is being very generally sigred
by the Union republicans Of that section. He
also adds that ''thc prevalent opiuion among
the substantial men Of the Union organization
Is that unless there is concentration upon
some new candidate for the Presidency the
democrats will carry Ohio at the next election
The very wording of the circular speaks
volumes OF itself as to the condition Of the re-
publican party. That there is deepseated dis
satisfaction in the party over the ronomination
Of Old Abe at Baltimore has been ap-
parent ever since the adjournment Of that
Convention. II could be seen on all sides;
but we had not supposed that it had yet reached
to that stage when another convention would
be called. But it seems that this dissatisfaction
has broken out in Ohio into an open movement
for State convention on the 9Th Of August,
and national convention on the 22d Of Sep
tember, at Buffalo, in this State. That this
means war upon Old Abe is apparent from the
ncccIstou silss ~ Cohutuds0 u~S you ocDu hVuA-
mated to sufficiently concentrate the loyal
vote to secure the success upon which the best
destinies Of the republic depend" II thii
movement is meeting with any such success as
is reported In Ohio-and we have every rea-
son to believe that 1t is-then Old Abe is even
at this early stage Of the canvass forced to take
his choice between two alternatives: TO decline
or suffer an ignominious defeat The circular
speaks for itself, in the following terms
RALLY Yos TN. UrroHi
The undersigned citizens and voterp OF Butler
county OHIO, VINO formerly attached TO the
issues have cordially supported President Lincoln In bis
OF the the constitution and the Union
The time for the election of President Ia near and,
painfully impressed belisf -four on reasons
ddse yet presented who sufficiently concentrate
the loyal that upon which the
destinies q the republic depend and believing that,
especially In times NJ peril ike these, IL In not oDly
the privilege, but the duty, Of the people peace.
ably assemble aud consult for the public welfare
DO respectfully request oil the citizens county
down the wicked rebellion and to maintain supremacy
Of the constitution and laws and unbroken nationality,
10 assemble IN the city Of Hamilton Saturday the eth
day Of August, 1884, at ter O'Clock A. M TO consider
amongst other things the following propostione:-
1. That Abraham Lincoln and John @. Fremont be
severaly respectfully invited 70 withdraw their names
as candidates for the Presidency.
2. To recommend TO the people OF othcr counties and
States, who REGARD the unity OF the republic and the
supremacy Of the constitution and laws paramount 70
all other political considerations, W hold pational con-
vsnton 70 ba composed d two Delegates for each Con-
gresona district and tour for ssoh state At large In the
cty of BafAo T.. Thursday the 23d day 81 septe-
her next nomisaAa ssaAtAss o. PraatAans and Vice
PvatAssA
The New York herald., 1864-08-03

wAsu0rou, Auguse 4 leoG
Ths sieusesa n Atlanta n considered ~ ths govern
mens ana By General shsrmas - very favorable.
IL reported. semi-onioaiv, thas siucs Gsne'A Hs's
took command Of hs rebel army - has lost twenty
Thousand meo IN killed, wounded and prsossra ssNs
Ing better could be wished than that he ahcud oanss
10 dash hs army TO pieces against shermsn's lines.
The end Atlanta far distant. and The nnal vcssy
there win have an important influence upon the campsgs
In Virginia AHf#ea
The New York herald., 1864-08-03
LID, wEDNEsDAY,r AUGUST 8, 1864

schemes. and once moro favor NJ with war
bulletins. Let him attend to his end Of the
rope, whatever Old Abe may do with bis. We
want daily bulletins from the War Office In
the name Of the people, We demand them.