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The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1864-07-22
STATE OF MAINE.

Executive Departrnent,l
AUGUSTA, July -, 1864.
An adjourned session OF the Executive Council
will be- held nj the Council Chamber, In Augusta,
am NoSpAY the sth day OF August next.
Attest. EPHRAIM FLINT, JR.,
avaD Secretary OF state.
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UNION COUNTY CONVENTION.

The LEGAL voters OF the County OF YORK VINO arc
Internationally In favor OF the Union, the supfeni-
aey OF the Constitution and Laws, and the supPies
10 n Convention TO be held at the Town Hail, A..
fred. on WEDNESDAY, August 10Th; at 70 GsIGex
caniidates. tobc supported ut the September cleo
zion, Three Senators, Judge Of Probate, Register
OF Probate Clerk Of Clerks, County Attorney Sher-
M. County Treasurer and County Commissoner,
and 10 transact any other business that may Pfop-
crly come before the Convention.
Each city and town Is entitled to the NUMBER VI
deles-ate Get nraiust Its name;
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8. T.--I800.--X.

Persons Of scdsntary habits troubled with weak
ness, lasstude palptaton OF the heart, lack OF sp-
petite, distress after eating, torpid liver consps-
tion &C., deserve 10 suffer II they will not try the
caichra rad
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From Con. Sherman's Army.--Johnston'i
Forces Retired into tho Dofonoes OF AT
lanta.
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straved or Stolen,

nRoM The suberibsr. . iightish rod HORSE Win
Whit hind net. star In the forehead, email
40 iSs whoever Will retain aid hor;s, OF givs
Information where he may be found, shall be n.
wardsd. CHARLES DAY.
W1ANTBp. seed AnIly HORSE. Apply 70
w this ones. % -
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pursui. Of the raiders right At snioksr'.

Important dispatches received here las.
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Us. PARKER,
J. NJ. DEERlNG,
SAMUEL HANSON,
JOSEPH w. HANSON,
THEODORE WELLS, in, Co. Com
GEORGE e. YEATON,
RICHARD II. COOLING,
JACOB BLACK,
SYLVESTER LfrTLEPiELD,)
,h,nt y, 1854.
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For Members Of Congress.
1sr DIsr.-JOHN LYNCH, OF Portland.
2Sp Disr.-SYDNEY PERIlAM, OF Paris.
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27

Ir takes Frenchmen to be ingenious
One of them, DIR. Burg by name, has
Just discovered cure for the cholera.
He alleges that copper and some other
metals is preservative against cholera;
and in proof of it he declares, ne doubt
on good authority, that in the different
visitations of the cholera in France,
the men employed in copper and iron
works, and especially in the former, en-
tirely escaped any attack of the disease,
though it caused devastation around
them. The same fact, he adds, was
observed in Russia, in Germany and IN
other countries. He recommends the
wearing of sheet Of copper around
the breast. This discovery will lead
to a revolution in tailoring and mantua
making. Instead of cotton or flannel
underthings, we shall wear copper
waistcoats and undershirts of the same
material stitched by the blacksmith with
half inch riyets and tenpenny nails
We shall be fastened, like
steamships. There's nothing like pro-
gress.
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27

of these United States are indebted for the
proud position which they this day occupy on
the great map of nations; that, when we con
slider the fiery ordeal through which this man
of the people has passed unseathed and un-
tainted, ii is not strange that public confidence
in him should remain unshaken: aud that
while we revere and honor other noble patriots
who have performed so well their several parts
in this great drama, the people still look 10
Abraham Lincoln as the instrument selected BY
Providence to lead their country in safety
through all its perils and restore it again to a
peace in which no element of diseord shall be
found. and that We do most heartily favor his
reelection.
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27
The President.

The following article from the Topeka State
Record. leading newspaper in Kansas, is so
Just and appropriate that We are sure our
readers will thank US for printing it Z:
| From the army, from the New England
States, upon the trains wherever you will, East
or West, at the mention OF the name of Abraa
ham Lincoln, the people Indicate that they are
| for him. They feel that be is aD honest man,
and true patriot, and care not e-try expert
ments by calling any new, untried man into the
| Presidential chair. The people are content TO
let well-enough alone, and feel like taking no
chances upon any new man at the present i'm
portant juncture in National affairs. The
masses are for him-the soldiers are for him
everywhere-al thinking men, with one voice,
say Mr.. Lincoln must close this war, and settle
the future policy of the country. There is
Justice in all this. Mr.. Lincoln was elected
consttutionally, and. elected thus, has right
to be President of the United SGtes-all the
States. He had right to expect the faithful
observance of their sacred obligations to the
General Government by all the States, but
found instead some Of them setting the authority
of the Government at defiance. all of which he
has endured with patient faihfulness and honest
patriotism. He is regarded as patient, saga
cous, wise ard humane man-none more so
among living American statesmen He is
radical in all that requires radical action. The
class of people who are talking Of this man, or
that man, as embodying the principles of a
radical party. better than Mr. Lincoln, are
mythical in all such remarks, when the climax
OF all that was held radical by the extreme wing
of the Republican party has been carried out,
and made prominent measures of, this Admin
istration; so there is nothing remaining, even
in theory to be further prosecuted by radical
party. To admit that Gen. Fremont or Gen.
Hunter each moved in radical war measures
ahead of President Lincoln, at this time has
nothing Of argument whatever, as the President
has fully kept pace with public opinion on all
these measures. The Proclamation of Freedom
was duly made and adhered to. The policy of
mastering and arming negroes as soldiers is
fully maintained, and that, too. with great
success. The confiscation Of rebel property is
also being done BY the Federal Courts, where
ever such property is found within their juris-
dction. Mr.. Lincoln is careful of what he
does and rash in nothing.
For these reasons, We say that Kansas should
be bold and unanimous in her support Of the
President, and we have no doubt she is and
will be- The history of Mr.. Lincons admin
istration will be bright and shining light in
the history of our country. He will be hailed
as the liberator of the bondsman and the
restorer of the great American Union.
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27
For the Union Record
Memories.

lis twilight hour-the sun has set
Behind the distant hill;
The little birds have hushed their songs
All nature now is still:
The lengthening shadows gather fast.
The winds no longer sigh;
The stars soon slowly. one by enc,
Will light the azare sky.
What thoughts of scenes and friends I've lovet
Cling round my heart. tonight,
And, thoagh for many years I've roved,
Their memory still is bright;
sse my mothers gentle smile,
Her loving voice hear.
As last she said farewell to me,
And dropped the parting tear.
Ny father, too, his blessing gave
How many times I've thought
What kind advice his fps have breathed-
What useful lessons taught,
Ny brotl ers and my sister dear
How vainIy have tried
To stay the tears that still would fow.
To see them by my side.
But oh a memory cherished more
More sacred than the rest
My darling wife was snatched away
The one loved the best.
see my little cottage home,
Amid the trees and flowers,
When bright birds warbled all the day.
Soon sped those happy hours.
Her dark blue eyes and golden hair.
Her heart of love and truth
How can I evermore forget
That dear one loved in youth?
With breaking heart how day by day
I watched my bright star fade
Too soon, alas. she passed away.
And in the tomb was laid.
One little child to me she gave,
Ny hopes around it clung;
Soon | was sunk in sorrow $ wave
lost my only son.
So now a wanderer on the earth
stranger and alone
How oft, at this lone twilight hour.
Sad memories round me GOMEZ CLOUDY.
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27

A DOG MAIL TRAIN.-The follow
ing extract from a private letter from
Pambina shows how the mail is trans
ported from that point to Grow Wing
"The mail had to lay over one trip on
account of the lameness of one of the
carrier dogs. You will probably think
it strange that the great United States
mail should be delayed several days for
such cause, but nevertheless it was
The mail is carried from here to Grow
Wing, distance of $50 miles, by dog
trains, and if one set of dogs get foot
sore when their turn comes, the mail
has to lay over. Tomorrow, they say,
the dogs will be right and the mail
will go forward, saw the first dog mail
train leave here on last mail day. II
consisted of three middling size dogs.
They looked more like wolves than dogs.
They had regular harness, very fanci-
fully ornamented, and buckskin saddles,
gorgeously worked with beads. The
dogs are driven in tandem style. They
90 from forty to fifty miles per day,
the half breed driver .trotting behind
most of the way."-&. Paul (.Minn.)
Pioneer.
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27
The Song of the Cat.

The cat the catt
She sits on the mat,
All day a-winking and purring;
The lazy cat,
She's blind as bat,
When the rats and mice are stirring.
The cat the cat
She's sitting, as sat
The cats for Adam to feed en-
The sly old cat
Mother Eve cried "Scate y
To the self-same cats in Eden
The cat the cat.
Nor this. nor that,
Has changed since the first blind kitten.
The cat is a cat
Since Cain, the brat.
For pinching her tail was bitten.
The cat the cat
The same that sat
On the knee of Lot in Sodom
Twas just such cat
That hissed and snat,
In the Ark, by Noah trod on,
The cat the cat
Like this one sat,
Whom Pharaoh's prayers were said to;
The same Old cat
His priests bowed at.
In the temples of Thebes and Edfou.
Our sleepy cat
There's never rat
Or mouse afraid to wake her,
Our harmless cat,
For the matter OF that,
Is the very cat for a Quaker,
The cat the cat
What would she be at,
If left as her own provider
Poor cat poor cat
She'd starve on her mat
And the mice would dance beside her.
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27
yn. vAssraYr. r. ". SMITH G. D. ~oopHAs
Publishers and Proprietors.
TER MS.
law of Newspapers.

Sutscribers who do not give express notice 70
II. contrary are considered as wishing to continue
the subscription. ,..;s
Z. IF subscribers wish their papers discontinued
,ubIishers may continue to send them until al
charges are paid ..,-o .ha;r
naners from the Office or place to which they are
sent. they are held responsible until they se''ie
their bill, and give notice to discontinue them.
4. If subscribers move to other places "is.'.e ~
Informing the publisher, and the paper IS sent 10
the former direction, they are held responsible.
Notice should always be given of removal
&. The courts have decided that refusing TO take
paper from the Office, or removing ana leaving ~
fraud.
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27
A Coon Day. WoRK.-A German

A Coon Days WoRK.-A German
editor in Pennsylvania gives.the follow
ing account of what he accomplished
in one day: The day before the last t
election, being out of wood and out OF
money to buy it, | borrowed my neigh
boris team, drove five miles to the TIM
Der, pulled off my coat, chopped cord
of hickory, took it home, sawed it up IN
to stove-wood then went to the mill,
which is four miles distant,got my flour;
returning home | stopped at the brew
ery, drank gallon of lager and went
home, took my supper, went to my
office. wrote a two-column editorial,
went down to get something to drink,
got into quarrel with a Copperhead,
Knocked him down, made him hurrah
for Curtin then went home, went to
bed, fought nightmare two hours,
came off victorious, took a spiritual
flight to Deutschland, drank some Rhein
vein. came back, and got home IN time
to vote the who'll Union ticket.
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27

How TO JUMP SAFELY FROM THE CARs.-We
often see persons make a bungliDg jump from
cars while in motion, and often see them thrown
down. This arises from want of reflection,
as they could jump safely lit they only knew
howl, though it is better and safer to wait till
the cars stop than to run any risk. Now there
IS way, that all persons should know, by
which one can jump safely, even though the
cars are going at great speed. Take care to
have sure foothold when you are about to Jump,
then jump easily forward at little angle from
the cars the same way they move, and continue
your pace easily when you strike the earth, and
YOU will not feel any more sensation than in an
ordinary run. If the cars are at a very great
speed, and necessity requires you to jump to
save your life, then give all your vigor and
strength and jump with the cars. yet at slight
angle from them, and jump as high as possible
into the air-the higher the better-for the
body will soon lose its momentum and you will
descend and light upon your feet without injury.
This can be seen by sending an apple or q
rocket into the air; when its strength upward
is gone. it falls to the ground 10 direct line /;
so persons that jump up in this way, without
fear, are safe. Any other way is always
dangerous to life.-Ereiange.
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27

ANTIQUITY OF THE PIG.-The is the
existing representative of very ancient
race of animals which lived and died
upon this earth long before there we're
Christians 20 devour, or Jews to abhor
their flesh. The same species of
wild boar thatwas haunted by our fore
fathers was contemporary with the
mammoth, cayebear, and long haired
rhinoccros. Some persons imagine that
geology deals only with fossil shells or
fishes; but theirs is vast deal of in
terest attached to the geological history
of the predecessors and representatives
of our domestic animals. We know
that the wild ancestor of our domestic
pig was in existence before the separa-
ton of England from the continent of
Europe; and that the hunter-had hun
ters then lived, might have chased the
boar through forests the site of which
is now occupied by the waves of the
England Channel. Mammoth tigers
and rhinocerses perished, but the wild
boar lived, and lives still on the con-
tinent of Europe, though extinct here.
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27
Copperhead Soliloquy---Past and Present

Before take that Lincoln oath,''
will starving go from place to place;
The abolition cloyen foot
May stamp me in the back and face,
Bat never turn my thought and will
My hopes will be in copper" still.
! am sick-my mind is shaken
The reason l cannot explain
feel better, now the oath is taken
Ny sickness will not now remain;
find that the ''pang of conscience
Is nothing more than stuff and nonsense. F.
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27

The MURDERER OF GEN. McCooK.
We are informed by an officer who was
confined in one of the prisons at Gin
cinnati, that while Morgan was in the
neighborhood of that city, an old gen.
tleman came in and inquired of Gen.
Morgan's officers :" if there was such
an officer in his command as Captain
Gurley." The officer addressed re-
piled that there was not. " Well,'
SAYS the old man, " can sleep, but |
had determined, if Captain Gurley was
in Your command, neither to eat nor
sleep until had revenged myself IN his
blood for the murder of my son." The
old gentleman remained few moments
longer, talking of his former deeds of
valor and the service he had done his
country during the war, with his splen-
did repeating rifle, although the duties
of his office as paymaster has not re-
quired his presence in the field. When
he rose to depart, he remarked that he
was sorry that Captain Gurley was not
with General Morgan, for he had
resolved to wreak his vengeance on him,
even if he had been a prisoner; but as
he was not with the command, he sup
posed he would have to kill somebody
else of Morgan's command. When he
had gone, DR.. Miller, surgeon for Dick
Morgan's regiment, asked the Yankee
officer of the day who that man was.
The officer replied, in some astonish-
ment at his Ignorance. g Why, sir,
this is the great Major Dan McCook,
the father of the fighting McCook ;
| supposed everybody knew Major Nc
Cook. ."-.4Haaa hntelhgencer.
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27

CorToS AND LANCASHIRE PAuPERIsN.-By
recent news from England, it seems that pau
perism has slightly increased in the manulac-
turing districts, but it was expected that other
employment would soon be furnished to all who
were capable of working out of doors upon
public works, for which large appropriations
had been made under an act of Parliament.
About 10000 bags of cotton per week have
lately been consumed, of which there were from
America $500 bags, Egypt 1900, Brazil 5000,
West Indies 1000, and East Indies 10000.
The supply is not equal to the present demand.
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27

TRuMPISG FOR REcRUITs.-Ge Gen. Soule, at
Denver City, in bis poster advertising for q
few more recruits, gets off the following
Read it:
PILGRIMS SUrpoRT.-S302. .000 Poor
Old Thing" "Old Sweetness" for your Rip
roaring Bull Whackers and fatis ued Miners,
who are loyal to your country, and would like
to put in a few day service before the close Of
the war That hats the Matter" You
will get 100000 in greenbacks as bounty,
S74O0 to start in with, $50 at the end of two
months, and the rest in instalments. Only
thirty more men wanted in the First Cavalry
of Colorado. Any man can go in q "Pauper, "
and be mustered out with the Regiment, and
have money enough left to start bauk or
run quartz mill. If you want good cloths
"tl you cant rest" come to the Office If
you want square meal' come and eat with
us. and we won't charge you a red for it
You bet your life We are ION it, and suffer
with pleasure.
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27

PUNCH says " Women are said to
have stronger attachments than men.
1t is not so. Strength of attachment
is evinced in little things. A man Is
often attached to an old hat; but did
YOU ever know of a woman having an
attachment for an old bonnet ?"-Echo
answers" Never
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27

THE rebel prisoners at Camp Douglas, Chi
cage, have all sorts of things sent to them by
their sympathetic friends. Upon examining a
turkey sent from Kentucky. in the center of the
dressing or ''stulfing" small homeopathic vial
was found, neatly corked and sealed, which,
upon being opened, was found to contain $50
Government greenback. A neat, square piece
of head-cbeese was received three or four days
later, inside of which was found $50 in green
backs, very securely protected from moisture in
the same manner. Ten dollars were found in
the middle of loaf of cake sent one of the
prisoners evidently doubled across the end Of
case-knife blade, and showed to the center
of the cake
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27
Killing a Hero, Novelkncally.

Washoe is full of editors, old newspaper
men and literary cusses- Every day the edi-
tor Of the Eaterpr,se is aStonished at hearing
some stock. broker. merchant. mule-driyer.
cook or wood sawyer. whom he had never
suspected plead guilty of having wlelded The
sword subduing weapon. Yesterday" says
the Entseprix, of recent date, "a trader in
feet said in conversation on literary matters
We'll, I once run paper myself 1t was in a
small village in California. | was editor,
book keeper, collector and rolier-boy. This
was well enough, bat turned story writer
thought l must have long story, running
through the various numbers of my paper. /
got along very well for several weeks Ny he
70 was splendid fellow-a regular love OF
hero. He was TO be killed. From the first
he was doomed to death But how to kill him
now became the plague of my life. The sto-
rv was getting outrageously long. Every
week said. Now, will kill himr' and the
next week found him alive and more OF be-
70 than ever. Never was there hero pos
sessed OF such id vitality. | once took him
all the way down TO Mexico, got him into a
deep. dark canon-I was now determined to
kill. But, d-n the fellow he was always
finding out some new and glorious adventure,
and | hadn't the heart to Kill him till it was
finished. He got out of the canon alive,
and shone hero more brilliant than before
All the trouble of getting him into the canon
was lost, and had to take him to some new
place to kill him gave up nearly everything
else and devoted my whole time to planning
the death of my hero. In spite OF the impor-
tunities of creditors, pursued him, week af-
ter week, with murderous intent, yet he was
such splendid fellow that couldn't kill him.
never would have been able to give him the
death stab, had not the paper busted up !;
then in the last number, in fit OF despera-
ton and at most unsuitable time, laid him
stiff and cold in single paragraph
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27

A FEW weeks ago, a returned soldier called
at the residence of highly respectable family
in Half Moon, Saratoga county. \. Y. aud
sold his overcoat. The garment was taken and
washed The family, at the time, comprised
eight members-a husband and wife and six
grown up children-four sons and two girls.
In the course of few days the whole family
was stricken with disease; father and SOD died
and were buried on the same day. Two sons
soon after died, and were buried at one funeral.
The fourth son died shortly after. and daugh-
ter The last son was buried last week The
mother and surviving daughter have been low
with the same disease. The disease was fever,
and it is believed to be yellow fever by some
EIchGnee.
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27

The father of the press in New England,
Hon. John Prontiss, of keeue, n. L., in a
communication to the Portsmouth Journal,
after briefly following the prominent men who
have been mentioned in connection with the
next Presidency, concludes that there is no
wiser course than to continue President Lincoln
another term that be may have the opportunity
of carrying out bis great and noble designs.
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27

Some one advised Alex. Logan, a
witty Scotch advocate, to read a bomb
astic book on a good subject, saying,
Don't you ike to expatiate in that
feld?'' when he replied-"I cannot
get over the style"
The weekly union record., 1864-02-27

Probably the wittiest saying in the language
is Douglas Jerrold's definition of dogmatism-
that it is puppylsm come to maturity.