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Year: 1864

HWe are requested by the Trea-
surer, to notify the taxpayers Of
Gallia county, that the June taxes
are now due, and that he is daily in
attendance at his office to receive
them.


We do this with pleasure, because
it will afford many of our subscribers
who are in arrears for the Journal,
to call at the Office and renew. No
objection of course to new subscrib-
ers At the present low rates of the
Journal, we are obliged to adhere to
our terms in advance. We are moi
complaining Of our patrons by any
means, but in the hurry and pressure
of farming operations at this season
of the year, many are apt to over
look the necessity of paying for theil
Year: 1864

e Grant has been mentioned, and he
, lin fact, belongs to the democratic
/ party; but before the Fourth of July
Grant viii have destroyed himself by
his own blunders and incapacity-


What will then remain to be done?
Suppose that Lincoln and Mcclellan


obstinately persist then we shall.per-
sist also. When we consider that in
selecting Fremont as its candidate,
the new party espouses the grievanc-


es of the West against the East; that


it is eager and willing to regain its


rights; that the new party favors


those foreigners whose rights have


been injured by the present Admin
listration, animated as it is by the
spirit of Know -Nothingism; and that


all these elements are united, young,


ardent, and in favor of extreme res


olutions, we cannot but conclude that


prudence and patriotism will prefer


to promote the success of party led


by man of unquestioned integrity,
and who is the incarnation of Ameri-
can freedom and dignity. There is
so little difference between this party
and the Democratic party that it |
would be easy to adopt q common
ticket which would sweep everything
before it. Such step would be to
the interest of the Democratic ticket
if it would not remain four years Ion
er in the background"


HOW THE coPPERHEADs WOO THE


RADICALS.


FROM tae New York World. COpperhead.


"But why should Democrats have
any choice IN the action of the Re-
publican party (supposing it were to
be successful, as between Lincoln
and Fremont On the slavery ques-
ton their policy would indeed be the
same; but an honest anti-slavery man
would be better than trucking time
serving Abolitionist. And then
Fremont is uncquivocally for free /,
speech, free press, the right of asy-
lum, the Monroe doctrine; and the
guarantees of personal liberty
There is nothing in the slavery ques-
ton to be weighed for one moment
against these So far rs the Radicals
consent to stand upon these princi-
pies of the Cleveland platform, they
have a bond of sympathy with the
Democratic party and with ali true
patri ots."
Year: 1864

SERIOUS ACADEMIA young man by
the name of Malcom Taylor, who re-
Gently came here from Canada, was se-
riously injured yesterday, while engaged
in handling the rope of pile driving
machine at the Round House near the de-
pot, in this village His hand was caught
between the rope and drum on which
1T was being wound, and his arm was
drawn in, crushing the hand and arm to
the elbow His face was also brought
in contact with the boiler of the engine
used for driving the machine, burning
it severely, and he was otherwise bruis-
ed He will probably lose his arm.
Year: 1864

TIE Boston Courier is publishing; a
series of letters under the head Of "A
ride to the Hoosac Mountains" The
writer says, among other good things


GAS we set in the bar-room of the
tavern after dinner, we heard from an
old farmer suggestion worthy of note


There amt but one way said he
to get hole through this here noun
tain, and that is, to bury a nigger IN
1t somewhere, and then Govren An
drew will set all Massachusetts to dig
hira out"
Year: 1864

GRIM JOKE BY DICK TAYL0R.--
Gen. Dick Taylor captured from Gen
Banks train two wagons loaded with
paper collars. The f.cetious rebel re
turned them under flag Of truce say
ing, II have boiled, fried, baked and
stewed these things and can do
nothing with them. We cannot ca,
them. They are luxury for which
we have no use, aud I would like
therefore to exchange them for like
quantity Of hard tack"
Year: 1864

The ancient art of talking Is falling into
decay. 1t Is an asc ertainablc fact thai, In
proportion to an increased amount Of pop
ulation the aggregate bulk Of conversation
is lessoning. People nowadays have some
thing else to do than talk not only do
they live in such hurry that there is only
leisure for just comparing IDEAS as to the
weather, but they have each and all a gross
quantity to do, which puts talking out of
the question. If persons remain at home
they read; if they journey by rail, they read :
if they go to the seaside, they read we have
met misguided individuals out in the open
fields with books IN hand young folks have
been seen underneath trees and upon the
banks of rivers, poring over. pages on the
tops Of mountains, in the desert, OF within
everywhere men pull printed sheets
from their pockets, and in the earliest, la
test, highest occupations of lie, they read.
The fact is incontestibly true, that modern
men and women are reading themselves in
tc comparatively silent race. Reading is
the great delusion of the present time: it
has become a sort Of lay piety; according to
which, the perusal Of volumes reckons as
good works it is, in word, the supersti-
tion of the nineteenth century. Chambers
,J0Hr8dL
Year: 1864

ARMS LOST IN BATTLE.-That a raw sol
der, in the excitement and agitation of bat
tie may fail to discharge his gun, and put
charge upon charge until it is loaded to
burs ting, is probable enough. But the ex-
tent to which this sort OF bIundering pro-
ceeds is greater than most persons would
suppose. In the animal report of the Chief
of the Bureau of Ordinance Of the Navy
Department, it is stated


were found to be loaded, and half of them
were double loaded One fourth had from
three to ten loads IN and many had FIVE or
six balls to one charge Of powder. In some
cases the powder was above the ball, in O.
theirs the cartridges were not broken at the
end, while in one n.usket twenty-three balls,
sixty two buckshot. and quantity of pow
der were all miXej up together.
Year: 1864

AN UNDESIRABLE PLACE OF RESIDENCE
"A day in the moon, according to an Eng.
lish astronomer, is equal to fourteen days
upon the earth The day begins with a
slow sunrise, followed by q brilliant sun.
shine and intense heat, about 2l2 degrees
Fahrenheit; the sky is intensely black,
there being no atmosphere like ours, tu
which blue sky is due the stars are visible
and the horizon is limited; there is dead
silence; tho cold in the intensely black
shadow is very great; and there is no aerial
perspective Thus the moon is no place
for man, or any animals or vegetables
that We know Of The night Of the moon
fourteen Of our nights-begins with a
slow sunset. which is followed by intense
cold, about :s4 degrees below zero.
Year: 1864

While was watching to-day the end
less line of troops shifting by, an officer
with modest escort rode up to the fence
near which was standing, and dismount-
ed. He was rather tall and slender, and
his quick movements denoted good mus
Gle added to absolute leanness-not thin
ness. His uniform was neither new or
old, but bordering on hazy mellowness
of gloss, while the elbows and knees were
a little accented from the continuous asi-
tation of the joints. The face was one
should never rest upon in a crowd, sim
ply because to my eye there was nothing
remarkable in it, save the nose, which
organ was high, thin, and planted with o
curve as vehement as the curl of a Ma
Law cutlass. The face and neck were
rough and covered with reddish hair, the
eve light in color and animated, out
though restless and bounding like ball
from one object to another, neither pierc.
ing nor brilliant; the mouth well closed
but common the ears large, the hanas
and feet long and thin, the gait little
rolling, but firm and active. In dreas
and manner there was not the slightest
trace of prctention. He spoke rapidly,
and generally with an inquisitive smile.
To this ensemble must add a hat, which
was the reverse Of digniied or distlr:
guished-a simple felt affair with round
crown and dropping brim, and you have
as fair description Of General shernans
externals as l can pen.


Seating himself on a stick ct cord-wood
HARDLY the fence, he drew bit OF pencil
from his pocket and spreading piece OF
note paper on his knee. he wrote win
great rapidity. Long columns OF troops
lined the road a few yards in his 'front.',
and beyond the road, mas'ed in a series Of
spreading green fields, whole division OF
infantry was awaiting its turn TO take up
the line of march, the blue ranks clear cut
against the uniform verdant background.
those who were near the General looked
at him curiously, for in so vast an army
the soldiers sees his Commandment CHIEF
but seldom. Page after page was hlled
by the Generals nimble pencil and dis
patched. For half hour | watched HIM
and though I looked for, and expected 10
lind them, no symptoms could l detect
that the mind of the great leader was
taxed by the infinite cares of terribly


hazardous coup de main. Apparently 1t
did not lie upon his mind the weight of
feather. A mail arrived. He tore open


the papers and glanced over them hastily,


then chatted with some General officers
near him, then rode off with characteristic
suddenness, but with fresh and smiling
countenance, fling down the road beside
many thousand men, whose lives were in
his keeping.-CorepOndence of uit0aukte


Weekiy, ... ....
Year: 1864


He liveth long who liveth welll
All other lite is short and vain:
Hcliyeth longest who can tell


ofliving most for heavenly gain
He liveth long who liveth well!
All else Is being hung away
He liyeth longest who can tell


Oftrue things truly done each day.
Waste not thy being; back 10 him
Who freely gave ii, freely give;
Else Is that bring but dream;
'Tis but TO be, and not TO lice.
Be what thou seemest live thy creed
Hold up TO earth the torch divine;
Be what thou prayeSt TO be made;
Let the great Masters steps be thine.
FIJI up each hour with what will last
Buy up the moments "a they goi
The life above, WHEN this Is past,
Is the ripe fruit OF life below.
Sow truth, If thou the truth would reap
Who sows the false shall reap the VAN
Erect andxound thy conscience Keep;
From hollow words and deeds refrain.
Sow love, and taste It's fragrance pure
Sow peace, and reap ifs harvest BRIGHT
Sow s1nbralns on the rock and moor,
And find harvest home of light.
Year: 1864

II The business men of indianapolis
as'eed to close their places Of business yes
serdsy at IL N. and give the remainder of tho
day to raising the quota Of troops under the
new We6ttru call What is Chicago abouts
Year: 1864

ABOUT the enemys feet said to be of our bars, it
would be difficult, if impossible for to speak with
any accuracy


From tie notices Issued by the military authorities
and their opinions, in their proession of course
lar outweigh should be lei to ldge that they
regard attack upon this place as imminent and yet
after all, not without do lots the subject
Somehow does not ievl SO 10 10 rather
rough coli qualsm do not feel it in homes. Ii


al attack is made before the end of the year. shall
be rather surprised, although, in truth, we think it
best to ha surprised at nothing The nal ddmirGri
motto and policy mi ht, after all, turn cut TO be the
best Let US wait and see, and be prepared for any
thin9 that may arise.
Year: 1864

ing proclamation


Protection having been to all citizens OF Fast
Tennessee who, having entered the Federal service shall
good faith return home and enter their pursuits
peaceabe citizens this privilege Is ereby extended to all
whn not having belonged to the Confederate army have
gone within the lines of the enemy avoid service
other reasons Such above below the military
age shall not be require to perform military duty all
shall be free from punishment except such had been
guilty Of murder and other crimes.


All citizens and soldicra requested and erioned to
receive with kindness those who avail themselves of this
orcer and to cultivate such spirit will pat end TO
the eternal strife and domestic warfare VII eh has SO
desolated this portion of the State.


JOHN G. BRECKENRIDGE,


Major General.
Year: 1864

arms, submitted to the government, and
sued for mercy. What may be the ex-
PLANTATION of this sudden and entire
change in the views ofthe President, OF
this rude withdrawal Of courteous
overture for negotiation, at moment
it was likely to be accepted, of this en-
phatic recall of words Of peace just ut
tered, and fresh blasts of war to the
bitter end, we leave for the speculation
of those who have means or inclination
to penetrate the mysteries of his cabi-
net, or fathom the caprices of his impe-
rial will. 1t is enough for us to say
that we have no use whatever for the
paper which has been placed in our
hands-we could not transmit it to the
Confederate States without offering
him an indignity, dishonoring ourselves,
and incurring the well-merited scorn OF
our countrymen. lf


Whilcst ardent desires for peace pre-
vail with the people ofthe Confederate
States, we rejoice to believe that there
are few, if any, among them, who would
purchase it at the expense Of liberty,
honor and self respect. If it can be Sc
cured only by their submission to terms
ofconquest, the generation isyet unborn
which will witness its restoration. II
there be any military autocrat in the
North who is entitled to the conditions
of this manifesto, there is one in the
South. authorized to entertain them
Those who control our armies are the
servants of the people, not their masters
and they have no more inclination than
they have right to subvert the local in.
institutions of sovereign States, to over.
throw their established constitutions
and to barter away their peculiar herit
age of self government.


This correspondence will not, how
ever we trust, prove wholly barren Of
good results. If there is any citizen o.
the Confederate States who has clune
to the hope that peace was possible
with this administration of the Fedora
government, it will strip from his eyes
the last film of dust; or if there be any
whose hearts have grown faint nnda'
the suffering and agony of this bloody
struggle; it will inspire them with fresf
energy to endure and brave whatever
may be requisite to preserve to them
selves and their children all that gives
dignity and value to life or hope and
consolation to death, and if there bt
any patriots or christians in your lant
who shrink appalled, from the illimita
BILE virtue of private misery and public
calamity which stretches before then
we pray that in their bosoms a resolu
ton may be quickened to reclaim th'
abused authority and vindicate he out
ragged civilization of their country.


For the solicitude you have manifest
ed to inaugurate movement which con
templates results the most noble ant
human, we return our most sincer'
thanks, and are,


Your most obedient servants,


G. G. CLAY, JR.,


j. p. HOLCOMBE
Year: 1864

we sit py inc WihuoW, my ouoy anu IL


In the labing sunset light.
Watching the darkness creep over the sky
Out of the eastern night;
We see the stars come trembling out
In the track Of the iallsn'sun,
And we feel the quiet within and without,
That comes when the day. is done.
What have we been doing all day, all day:
Since the rosy morning smiledG
Playing at work, and working at play;
God help us, mother and child!
But much fear that those little hands
Have put me to shame to-day,
For God, who is earnest understands
Truly our work and.play.
/ think of kindness left undone,


That might have frightened the day;
Ofduties dreamed of, but never begun,
Scattered along my way;
You lie with peace in your violet eyes,
You have not learned regret;
For the sorowful years that make us wise
Have not ccme 10 my oaoy yet.
And still as ] sit in this twilight hour,
At the close ofa weary day,
Even sorrow and sin do not quite have power
To keep blessing away;
A blessing that falls like the dew from heaven
On the parched and thirsty ground.
And loving much because much forgiven,
My deeper peace is found.
Your life my baby, is just begun, ef
And mine is growing old;
But we're children both in the eyes of One
Whose years are all untold.
He holds us both in His loving hand,
He pardons us all our sin.
And. by and by, to the same sweet land
He will gently let us in.
Year: 1864

The first objects of Property. were the
fruits which man gathered, and the wild
animals he caught; next to these, the tents
and houses which he built the tools he made
use of to catch and prepare his food and,
afterwards, weapons of war and offence
Many of the savage tribes of North America
have advanced no farther than this, yet; for
they are said to reap their haryests, and re-
turn the produce of their market with for
eigners into the common hoard or treasury Of
the tribe.


Flocks and herds of tame animals soon
became property; Abel, the son of Adam,
was a keeper of sheep; sheep and oxen, cam
els and asses, composed the wealth of the
Jewish Patriarchs, as they DO still of the
modern Arabs. As the world was first peo
pied in the East, where there existed great
scarcity of water, ,ceils probably were next
made property, as we learn from the frequent
and serious mention of them in the Bible,
and contentious and treaties about them. and
from its being recorded among the most mem
orable achievements of very eminent men,
that they dug or discovered well.
Land, which is now so important a part of
property, which alone our laws call real
property, and regard upon oil occasions with
sdch peculiar attention, was probably not
made property in any country till long after
| the institution of many other species of pro
perty; that is, .iil the country became pop
ulous. and tillage began to be thought Of
| The first partition of an estate which we read
of was that which took place between Abra-
ham and Lot, and was one of the simplest
imaginable: s'If thou wilt take the left
hand, then | will go to the right; or if thou
depart to the right hand, then | will go to
[ the left. )"


There are no traces of property in land in
Caesars account of Britain bIt little of it
in the History Of the Jewish Patriarchs
none oft found among the Nations of North
America: the Scythians are expressly said
to have appropriated their cattle and houses,
but to have left their land in common.


Property in immovables continued, at first.
no longer than the occupation, that is, so
long as mans family continued in posses
sion of cave, or his fiocks be pastured upon
a neighboring hill. no one attempted or
though he had a right to disturb or drive
them out but when man quilted the cave.
or chang d his pasture, the first who found
them unoccuped entered upon them by the
same title as his predecessor, and made way,
in his turn fer any one that happened to
succeed him. All more permanent property
in land was probably posterior to civil gov
ernment and laws and, therefore, settled by
these, or according to the will of the reign
ING chief
Year: 1864

Long before daylight, PhiIip mounted his
horse and started for the nearest settlement,
and early in the day the officers had tbe two
wounded men in charge, while the body of
the third was removed They were recog-
nized by the officers as criminals of notoriety
but this was their last adventure for the JUS
tiee they had so long utraged fell upon them
and stopped them in their career
Year: 1864

WAsaIKofoK, June 30-The effect oi
the action Of the Senate last night was to
ignore the House bill to regulate, and pro
vide for the enrolment and calling out the
national forces, and to substitute bill sim
liar to that lately passed by the Senate
with the additional, that the draft Is not tc
be for less than one, or more than three
years. The commutation clause in the en-
rolling act 10 repealed and provision made
for imposing special tax Of per cent on
,noome, to meet the expenses Of bounties.-
The action of the ewo Houses is not yet
definite.
Year: 1864

TAE SANITARY FAIR.-The Sanitary Fail
buildings on the corner of Fourth and John
streets are just now the centre of attrac-
tiou. Yesterday the several halls were
visited by large number of people, and
the sales at the different booths far sur
passed those of the previous day. i5Gh


Up to yesterday morning two thousand
five hundred dollars had been taken in by
the Cashier.


In our review yesterday, we neglected to
notice the glass blower and glass cutter in
Manufacturers hall, the skating pond, and
tie fine bird cage offered for sale at the
booth of the Fourth Presbyterian Church.


The chief attraction, however, is at the
booths where the voting is to come off,
4 line sword is to be given to Gen. Kelley
or Gen Sigel, as the vote decides. An ex-
cellent sewing machine. valued at $3.50,
will be given to the pastors wife who shall
,eceive the largest number Of votes. A
tine piano will be given to the Female Sem
mary which receives the most votes. A
tine silver horn will be given to the Fire
Company which shall receive the largest
vote


The tableaux and concert will come of
in Concert Hall tonight. An entirely
new and attractive programme hss been ar,
ranged
Year: 1864

AN ONO CoNsCRIPT has been going
around the city for several days past en-
deavoring to get our, citizens to raise him
three hundred dollars. with which he can
paw his communication and get out of the
army into which he has SO Unexpectedly
found himself. The poor fellow has met
with but poor success, Is our people know
not how soon they may have to pay ioI
themselves
Year: 1864

THE PROPRIETOR of the Virginia House
has called upon us and requested us to deny
the statement made in this column yester
day that man had been robbed of $500
at that hotel. We obtained the item from
what We considered good authority and Of
course gave it credence. Since the presen
proprietor has had charge of the Virginia
no guest has ever lost anything at the
house,
Year: 1864

CHANGE OF TrME.-Since the opening o.
the Fair the managers Of the Hempdeld
Railroad have changed the hour for the de-
parture Of the train, and it does not leave
the depot until four o'clock in the after.
noon. This arrangementgives visitors to
the Fair one hour more of stay. A large
crowd comes down the road, every morn
ing ~
Year: 1864

DEFAc1NG Show BrLLs.-We are request
ed to state that any and every person found
defacinp or tearing down show bills in any
part Of this city, will be proceeded against
and dealt with according to law.
Year: 1864

WASHINGTON, June 30.-The report was
not generally believed that Chase had re


signed his position as Secretary of the
Treasury, and this report was strengthened
BY the fact that he was this morning in
consultation with the finance committee OF
both Houses, and further, that several of
his intimate and personal friends on the
committee of ways and means, positively
asserted to the contrary. Il was as earnest


ly declared by others, however, that the
President had sent to the Senate the nom


nation of David Tod of Ohio, as his suc>
cessor. There seemed to be on ell sides
much obscsrity as to the circumstances
attending the act on the part Of the execu
Year: 1864




From the Richmond Examiner, June 23l
We remain without later intelligence Of Sheridan than
that published yesterday Hc believed resting
his weary and battered regiments the Peninsula be-
tween the hatapopy and Pamunkey rivers, with part
OF his force In his ntrenchments White House. on
the south bank OF the latter stream.


was told on tho streets yesterday that be bad out
on another raid towards Charottev e but the report
attracted no notice. An entire supply OF horses
would be necessary 10 mako such trip possible him.
We think he Will be glad 10 remain quiet where he Ia
some time TO come and as he do no harm by such
inactivity we are content 10 let him alone