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Year: 1864




Section |. AL po,rer is Inherent in the peo.
PIE, and all free governments are fomded on
their authority, and instituted for their peace,
SVtty and happiness; for tie advancement Of
Ness ends, they hare AT ALL TINES AN UN-
ALIENABLE AND INDEFEAsABLE RIGHT TO alter,
reform or abolish the goreyNmcnt in such man.
ner as they may think proper.


We quote tho foregoing to show that a
state Convention is the proper agency to
restore civil government in Tennessee
The meh who made our present State Con
stituton have marked out short cut, so
as to get at any and all necessary amend
,aents to the Constitution. In the Dccla-
ration of Rights, which prccodcs the Con.
stituton, we find this broad and unms.
taxable assertion, that the power OF the
people is supreme, Inherent and unalienablo
Language can 60 no further, or convey an
ida more distinctly than this, that the
loyal people of Tennessee can elect Con
stitutional Convention, and that the mem
bers Of that Convention can amend the
Constitution Let the election of delegates
be ordered, and let those who have aided
and abettcd the rebellion be made to know
that they can't serve in that Convention or
vote to elect it's members
Year: 1864

GENEROUS. - Our generous old abolition
friend, j. Mckinstry Smith. of Oregon town
ship-not willing to let the grand Railroad
celebration pass away without display of his
well known hberality-on the morning of the
celebration, presented to the proper committee
keg of his truly excellent native wine, which
was imbibed by the invited guests with an
appreciatiye gusto which plainly indicated that
they thought twas good to be there Long
may you wave, Nc,
Year: 1864




THE STATE CoxvgsIIos.-The Red Blus
Independent remarks:


We would enquire Why our State Central
Committee have not issued a call for State
Convention to elect Delegates to the National
Union Convention, for the nomination OF can
didates for President and Vice PRESIDENT OF the
United Stotes Is there ''cat in the meal y
We have understood The Convention would be
held some time in March. Why is there no
call issued? We call attention TO the subject
not only the attention of the State Central
Committee, bot of the press. 1t looks as II
something was cooking" Let Us have the
call. or the reason of its suppression.


We would also repeat the enquiry, though
We presume it is all right-'oyer this way
-fpPcdl.


We, too. suppose its "all highland if it
isn't, can and must be made right. Let US
have the call.
Year: 1864

TRE Pacific Railroad track is laid to within
about two miles and half of the Folsom and
Lincoln Railroad, aud it is expected that the
connection with that read vii be made in
about week rc
Year: 1864

Nor THE MAN-The individual arrested at
Bannock City, recently, under the supposition
that he was Wells, the murderer, turns out not
to have been the man, bat half-witted,
drunken fellow, whose confession of being
the murderer was the cause of his arrest
Year: 1864

a leading Republican paper says; that
seven if the administration mas committed
some mistake, it is useless to cry over split
milk" Yes, our we can't help crying over
needlessly split blood
Year: 1864

REV. DR.. BREcR1NRIDGE, of KY, in his
Thanksgiving Sermon, says:


"All men and parties who on the one
hand oppose the permanent Pacification OF
the country phtil and unless negro slavery
is first abolished; and all men and all par
ties, on the other hand, WHO resist the pa
ciGcation, until and unless negro slavery
is accepted as permanent element, are
equally and alike mere fsctions-out Oh
sympathy with the nation, and perfectly
certain to be finally repudiated by it."


The franklin Commonwealth very forcibly
says:


With great truth Dr. B. says that the
Nation will finally repudiate these factionH..
This rebellion is toe result Of the conduct
Of Auch factions, and having been the cause
of all the evils that afllict the country they
are equally unfit to he trusted with the
settlement of our troubles. So long as
these and such factions hold prominence
in the politics Of the Nation we will be in
trouble: but repudlate them, and the good
sense, wisdom and patriotism of the peo-
pie will prevail 20 give US peace and quiet.
Year: 1864

The maid who binds her warriors sash
-, with smiles that well her pain dissembies
The while beneath her dropping lash


One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles
though Heaven alone records the tear,


And fame shall never know her story,
Her heart has shed drop as dear


As ever dewed the field of glory
The wife who girds her husbands sword.


Mid little ones who weep or wonder,
ana bravely speaks the cheering word,


what though her heart be rent assunder-
loom ed nightly in her dreams to hear


The bolts of war around him rattle,
Hath shed as sacred blood as eer


was poured upon the plain of battle I,
The mother who conceals her grief


hile to her breast her son she presses,
Then breathes a few brave words and brief,
kissing the patriot brow she blesses,
With no one but her secret God,


To know the pain that weighs upon her,
Sheds holy blood as e'er the sod


Received on Freed om's field of honor!
Year: 1864

The man who speaks disparagingly of the
National currency, and who is continually
predicting an awful crash in monetary af-
fairs is doing his part in weakening the ma
tional cause He is exerting an influence in
destroying public confidence in the Govern
ment. Such men may pretend to be loyal
some of them may think they are-but we
tell them they are surely and effectually aid
ing our enemies. Think Of it. When you
alarm the people about the currency you
weaken public confidence, and in the same
ratio neutralize the assistance and support
the Government now needs and demands.
How foolish to talk of danger of this Kind
when the Government is pledged-the prop
erty Of the nation is pledged to redeem ev
cry dollar issued. aF ~.
Year: 1864

a very pleasant interview is said to have
taken place, a few mornings ago between
President Lincoln and the schoolmaster
W no taught him the rudinents when little
boy. Mr.. Lincoln gave warm grasp to
the hand that once welded the birch across
his juvenile trowsers, and the Jolly Old
reception he met with The schoelmaster
is about ten years elder than his former
pupil
Year: 1864

A letter from an officer of the navy, at
Newberne says ''the iron-clad ram of the
rebels is of that build that she can close her
ports. and is thus impenetrable and can
make her way wherever she may heed, for
yesterday she was crossed and re crossed,
around and around her the feet steamed,
firing into her as fast as possible from their
100-pound rifles with steel-pointed balls and
inch Dahlgrens, but availing nothing more
than turning her back into the river.
Year: 1864




week, which show the inter-exchanges between
the Banks, including also the Sub Treasury bal
ance at the close of the week. The following isthe
general comparison with the previous exhibit,
and also with the movement this time last sea-
Year: 1864

WAsHIxGrnS. February lS-lhere will be no
change in the command ct the Army of the Po-
tomac Meade will retain the position for the
next campaign.


There was something of Il sensation in the
Senate to day by II statement of Mr. COnnesS
relative TO the imperative necessity OF sending a
feet OF war steamers to The Pacific coast without
delay


The authorities have positive Information that
rebel steamers have lett Asia for that coast and
il is feared that Sau Francisco will be menaced
before the navy afford the requisite protec-
ton.


The argument in tho United States Supreme
Court in the patent hat body case has been con-
cuded.


The Court to day is engaged on few small
California
Year: 1864

"A SAD AND SINGULAR ACCIDENT
ENGINEER SMoTFERED IN THE SNow.-On the
morning after the furious snow storm of
"Wednesday night last, the passenger train
of the Racine and Mississippi railroad, going
west, was preceded by locomotive, which
with a-snow plDw attached, cleared the track
of the huge banks of snow that had drifted
during the night previous. While running
across Elkhorn Prairie, the engine came in
contact with a snow bank, apparently Of great
er density than any it had hitheto encountered
and which in erder to overcome, it was nee
essary tie charge upon with the engine at its
greatest speed.


10 acquire the necessary velocity the deco
motive backed a mile or so from the bank
which impeded its further progress and
putting on full steam, advsnced, at the rate
of forty or fifty miles an hour full upon it. As
the locomotive neared the scene of the snow
bank, the engineer, Mr.. Samuel D. Pnlford,
took position close to an open window in
that part of the engine known as the ''cab, :"
where he could see the effect of the cellison;
and, as the plunge into the snow was made,
he, in some inexplicable manner was drawn
through the window and buried to the depth
of seven or eight feet in its accumulated drift
His companion, the fireman of the locomotive,
did not miss him from his post, for a brief
moment and when he did, the alarm was
given and search for him was commenced with
will: as we have said above his body was
buried to the depth of seven or eight feet,
and when found there was,still faint beat of
the pulse, indicating that spark of life yet
remained. Untiring effort was made to fan
this spark into the full blaze of animation
and restored reason, but in vain. His body
was brought hack to Racine, the abode of his
family, and his funeral took place on Sunday
last, from the Methodist church. Racine Jour.
! nal
Year: 1864

To strike a blow at the existence Of thi:
day, is to sap the foundations of everything
sacred in society. 1t is to prepare the way
for the gradual unchaining of all the corrupt
and fiery passions of the depraved soul, and
to leave man ultimately TO plunge into every
species of vice, without restraint. The Chris
tian Sabbath is the bulwark of all the most
ennobling institutions Of society; and when
1t has been swept away, most of what tended
to elevate and purify society," has been over
whelmed by the food of vice that has broken
in upon it. To abolish it. is to throw wide
open the aeod-gates of ;iniquity and leave So
ciety to the merciless beatings of the waves
Of vice that roll in n,upon it, to corrupt and
destroy, and against which there can be
reared no successful moral influence. In any
community er state, virtue rsigns and true
nobleness and stability of character exist,
just in proportion to the degree of reverence
in which the Sabbath is held. If that is
trampled in disrespect, THE Bible goes next,
and then, in turn, every check ITO vice, everv



legation. 1t may be, indeed it Is a gradual
work, but sure ne its results Our churches are
deserted and left to decay; our children soon
cease to reverence and obey the parent, only
as prompted to it by caprice or policy; our
laws are disregarded, only as a compliance
with them will subserve the selfish PURPOSES
of a corrupt heart; meG soon cease to recog-
nize any obligation, either to God or man,
only as its recognition will aid in the attain
ment Of personal ends; the very basis of or
der and safety is swept from society. and all
becomes q mingled mass. Of ambition, eerrup
-tion and violence. For, when man has lost
his regard for what is sacred, he will Rot Iona
retain his sense of honor and love of right.
Nothing will so readily make man a Eeartless
friend, as to learn to disrespect that to which
God has affixed his seal, and which men have
inteltigenHy learned to reverence. l claim
this as fact well substantiated by universal
experience.


The Sabbath-breaker, then, is waging
warfare, not on this day only, but, ultimately,
on all that tends to virtue i'll man and purity
and stability in society. He is doing that
which will in the end prepare msn for an ut
ter disregard of God and their obligations to
their fellow men, will lead them to lose all
confidence in whatever is claimed as morali-
ty, justice, and right. And, when that conf
dcnce is destroyed, the foundation Of virtue
and the safeguards of society are eaas The
way is then entirely tlcar,fo


"The rule of fiery passions, uncontrolled
The messengers OF devils and agencies of woe


to man"
Year: 1864

Any one who lives near water course can at
the expense of ten dollars, build an ice house
capable of containing a cube Of the crystal
luxury ten feet square. Rough boards for
the outer wall, slabs for the inner, with a
filling foot thick of sawdust, and layer
of the same thickness upon the top; clap
board roof, drain to carry off drippings from
the ice, and then pack in the ice close and
compact, cover it with sawdust, and the work
is done. Such store would furnish half a
dozen families with hard butter, cold water,
frozen eustards, and all the luxuries of srst
class ice cream saloon, for the whole season.
Trv it, reader, and you will never fail to put
up your ice, after enjoying it through one hot
August.
Year: 1864

Come to you as blessing, for is not preven-
ton better than cure?


If regularly taken, it is certain preven-
tive, and will save you much peril and many
hours of suffering.


Have you been afflicted for many years
with complaints incident to the SEX that have
baffled the skill of physicians and are hurry
ing you on to an early grave?
Year: 1864

Are the most reliable regulator ever known,
and cure, like magic, all those irregularities
that have defed the doctors skill.


will you waste away with suffering from
Leucorrhea, Prolapsus, Dysmenorrh@a, and
a thousand other difficulties, all summed up
under the name of suppressed and obstructed
nature, when an Investment of one dollar in
Year: 1864

will surely save you.


Do not use the Drops when forbidden in
the directions, for although positive cure,
and harmless at all other times, they are so
powerful and finely calculated to adjust and
govern the functions of the sexual organism,
that, if taken at improper times, they would
produce results contrary to nature, against
which all, particularly those who would re-
produce, should carefully guard.
Year: 1864

Are fluid preparation, the only one of the
kind ever discovered in this country, and acts
directly on the parts affected, whilst pills and
powders can only reach them as they work
through sympathy, but not at all direct and
positive.


Are you suffering from a constant anxiety
for the regular return of natures prescribed
laws? Give yourself no uneasiRess, for Ly-
on's Periodical Drops, if taken day or two
before the expected period, will positively
and invariably regulate its coming, as sure
as effect follows cause, as certain as daylight
follows darkness,


Are you sick, enfeebled by disease, or una
BILE to bear the labor and danger of increase?
Year: 1864

\ letter from Camden yesterday,
written by avery calm gentleman OF sound
discretion, says that McClelan's letter of
acceptance had been received, that it is
1rar papa, aud contains no hope of peace
but by reconstruction. We are glad of
that. we would shout it into the ears
Of every Southern man, and urge them
i'll a body to rulax x no muscle until peace
inay be f9rcea from the enemy. An ar
miStlce for entanglng negotiations would
be deadly narcotic. We would seek in
vain from the generosity and sense of
Justice OF any party in the North what we
tail TO exiort from their necessity They
only want breathing space. Have we
not had already. in old times, enough of
Northern treacherv
Year: 1864

ELEVENTH HouR CoNvERTs. .-Tbsrs
are . number Of mes in Kansas. who.
since Lanes prospects have downward
tendency. are coming out against him.
and revealing damaging facts in their
possession. All recruits to the Anti
Lane cause will of course be. received ;
but We have little faith in the persons
who are coming oat when the hard work
has been done. These fellows have bad
the facts in their possession for months.
to prove that Lans is dangerous man to
trust with power. and was carrying the
State to destruction /; bot as long q they
expected favors from him, they worked
ahead and upheld hiWs caring nothing
for the public good. Bot ss soon ss be
does something to offend them, they be-
come suddenly patriotic and honest. and
expose his corruptions. which they could
have done long ago. They could not do
this for the benefit Of the State, but let il
out in hurry to revenge some personal
slight or disappointment. whsn they Gee
that Lanes power to punish and reward
is drawing to . close. We have little
faith in such men.
Year: 1864

asks, "who can voueh for the safety Of


the country against the rebels during the


interval which must elapse before the


new Administration can constitutionally
come into power?"


We trust, therefore, We shall hear no
more imputatiOns rom the Secretary of
State on the loyalty of men who are
greatly more loyal than the present Ad-
ministration, if any place is to be given
to the question which he has excited in
the popular mind. Least of all does it
become him to speak in derogation of his
countrymen, who, in claiming to be de-
voted to the Union and the Constitution,
can support their pretontions Gf they
needed any support by an appeal to his
For when the present politi-
cal opposition to the Administration was
no less clearly defined two years ago than
it is at the present time, he gave in one
of his official dispatches to Mr.. Adams
very different analysis of their purposes
and aims from that which he ascribes to
them to-day in his Auburn speech
National Intelligencer
Year: 1864

THE following letter from Col. Rice,
Democratic candidate for Congress, has
been handed US for publication:


KALIDA, Ohio, Sept~15, 1864.
Col- Jesse S. Norton, Toledo, Ohio


Ny DEAR COLONEL Your letter of
the 18th inst. was received to-day. I
tender my warm thanks for its friendly
terms, kind wishes and congratulations
in my late nomination for Congress. My
recollection of our intercourse in arms, to
which you allude-when, in the Spring
of 1861, we together went " to the vars
for the suppression of the rebellion, the
maintenance of the Constitution, and the
perpetuity of the Union of all the States
is as vivid as your own. For these OBJ
jects have I steadily worked, and there
yet stand.


My nomination was certainly unsought
and unlocked fer. My servieein the ar
my, commencing when the first blow was
struck at our nationality, and soon after
leaving College, has so fully engrossed
my time and attention, that parties and
the civil departments of the Government
have received very little thought, least Of
all that I Ishould be candidate for Office.


Ny Intentions are, as soon as my
wounds have sufficiently recovered, to re-
turn to the gallant men of my command,
whose fortunes have SO long and so
proudly shared but if my fellow citizens
Of the 10th Congressional District think
I can, in the halls Of Congress, better
subserTe their interests than by continu-
ing my military calling, I do not feel at
liberty to deny them the opportunity Of
making the experiment. And should 1
be elected, I asure you it shall be my
pride to remit no effort to vindicate the
generous confidence thus reposed in me.
I am greatly aided in permitting my name
to be thus used by the gratifying hope,
based on our recent victories and present
prospects, that the need of my services in
the field will have passed ere the meet
ing of the next Congress.


I certainly shall aim to do nothing to
bring reprOach upon the service which
has constituted my chief and almost ex-
elusive pride for the past three and a
half years, nor upon my brave comrads
in arms, with whom I have shared SO
many trials and perils "Tbe Union
must and shall be preserved" )" and this I
believe to be the sentiment of our people,
however they may differ in regard to mi
nor points.


If honored by an election, I shall deem
it my duty to support the Government in
the use Of every constitutional means for
the earliest suppression of the rebellion,
and for the union of the States. My record
IS my sword and my wounds, and with
these hope for success.


Thanks for your kind Invitation to Wis
1t you; regret my inability to do so at
present, on account Of my wounds. I am
confined to my bed most of the time. My
foot, my only support, is yet unable to
bear my weight. viii come as soon as
I am able.


Very truly, Jour friend,


Y RTCT
Year: 1864

Arrangements are now completed to sup
ply any demand for this article, which from
sek Of government stamps has not heretofore
been possible.


The public may rest assured that in no case
viii the perfectly pure standard of the Plant
htion Bitters be departed from. Every bot
tie bears the fac siu1ils of our signature on a
steel plate engraving, or it cannot be genuine


Sold by all Druggists, GroUers and Dealers
throughout the country.
Year: 1864

Another wonderful ingredient, Of Spanish
origin, imparting beauty to the complexion
and brilliancy to the mind, is yet unknown to
the commerce of the world, and we withhold
lie name for the present.
Year: 1864

The stopping trembling victim Of 6epresSi on
and debility becomes a new man he stands erect
he moves with firm step his mind. which was
previously sunk in gloom Of an almost IDIOT
apathy, becomes bright and active and he goes
forth regenerated. conscious OF new vigor. The
medicine reaches the Constitution itself and re
stores il to its normal condition


Irritation of the Neck OF the Bladder. Infama
ton Of the Kidneys, and Catarrh OF the Bladder
Stranguary and Burning, or Painful Urinating
Calculus. Gravel, Brick DUSt Deposit, and Mucous
or Milky Discharges after Crinating


For these diseases il is truly sovereign remedy
and too much cannot be said in its praise sin
gle dose has been known TO relieve the most urgen,
symptoms Try It inthese cases and You Will ever
give your praise.
Year: 1864

Our CCsToM DEPARTMENT is under the direc-
ton Of one OF the best Cutters in the West per
sons may rely upon getting fashionable, we'll fitting
garments in the shortest possible time.
Year: 1864

We have been lovers now, my dear,


Il matters nothing TO say how long,
ButsliIl al the coming round o. ih' year :
make for my pleasure little song,
Aud thus of my love sing, my dear


So much the more by year, by year.
And still as see the day depart,


And hear The bat al my window Hit,
I sing the lille scng 10 my heart,


With jus, change at The close OF IL;
And thus OF my love sing alway-


So much the more by day ~ day.
When in The morning see the skies


Breaking into gracious glow,
= ! say you are no, my sweetheart's eyes.


Your brightness cannot .mislead me so;
And sang OF my love in the rising light
So much the more BY night, By night
Both q, the years sweet dawn and close,
When the moon is filling, or fading away
Every day, as it comes and goes,


Ard every hour of every day,
My little song repeat, and repeat


SO much the more by an hours rsmy sweet
Year: 1864

A PloUs old genie man, one OF the salt OF
the earth sort, went out into the field 10
catch his mare. He shook a m easure of
corn at her 10 delude her 1nto The belief
that she was 10 get, but she was not 10 be
deceived by any specious act. She would
come nigh and then off again until the good
man was fretled. Al last he got her into
corner among some briars and made dash
al her, when she bounded over the wall and
left him sprawling among the bushes. His
christian forituGe gave way al this and
gathering himself up he cried, "Oh hell !"
The ejaculation had passed his lips before
he thought, but Immediately conscious of
lis wickedness, he cried "Ielujah :" and
translated the profaLe word into note Of
triumph.
Year: 1864

ADVICE TO You've LAwyER.The follows
ing is the advice OF an examining judge TO
a young lawyer, on admission


Sir, ii would be idle TO uouoie you far.
ther. You are perfect and will dismiss
you with few words OF advice, which you
will do very well to follow. You will find
il laid down as q maxim OF civil law never
TO kiss the maid when you can kiss the mis-
ress. Garry ont this principle, sir, and you
are safe. Never say 5000" TO goose
when she has the power to lay golden eggs.
Let your face be long, your bills longer
Never put your hand in your pocket when
anybody's else is handy. Keep your con.
science for your own private use, and don't
trouble il with other mems matters. Plas-
Ter the Judge and butter the jury. Look as
wise as an owl, and be as oracular as
own clock. Bat above all, GET money
honestly il you can, my dear sir, but get
money. welcome you TO the bar"