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Year: 1863

We protest against this act as unnecessary,
unjust. at war with all our past history, and in
human. -


1t exhibits in the start a lack of confidence in
the people, which is itself an outrage. The peo-
pie have given to the Government with liberality
never before witnessed. Money has been poured
out as though it had been water. Men have been
furnished whenever they have been called for.
Down to the date of the September proclamation
the trouble was to keep back the rush of volun-
teers; and even since then more have been fur
nished than have found profitable employment.
For all this, what do the people get? Why. they
are treated like dogs No confidence whatever is
placed in them. They are taken to be enemies,
and the great question with Government seems to
be. how t can easiest force them into its service.


Under the old law, when men were wanted
under the volunteer system or by drafting, each
State was called upon for its quota; and the Gov
ernors of the States at once set themselves to
work to comply with the demand. The drafting,
if drafting had to be resorted to, took place under
State laws. and the State, taking that it did
not fail to furnish the number called for, desig-
mated who should be regarded as exempts When
the troops we're raised. they were oficered by the
Governors, who knew the qualifications of as.
pirants to position. But this law ignores the
State altogether. The draft Is to be made by
officers of the United States-Provost Marshals
and their assistants. None are to be exempted
who are not thus designated by Congress. The
Governors are to have nothing to do with officer
ing the regiments The entire power of raising
and organizing the army is placed in the hands
of the Federal Executive. The militia is at once
mustered into the service of the United States.
aud placed under the law martial. If a draft is
made. fifty per cent. more are called for than are
wanted. and the rich man is allowed TO stand back
by paying the Government three hundred dollars.
The poor man, who cannot raise three hundred
dollars. must shoulder his musket and march,
What farmer in Rhode Island wants to pay three
hundred dollars every time draft is made. as
the only condition upon which he may remain at
home and cultivate his farm1
Year: 1863

The printing ordered by that body is Just as
much legislative expense as the papers fur
nished by tie Journal Yet the Journal pockets
the pay ordered in the same way and out of the
same fund cheerfulIy. but it thinks it a great
crime that another debt equally valid should be
paid in like manner.


Money can only be appropriated by bill"
says the Journal. Was the gay to the Journal
Company for papers appropriated by billf Was
the pay of certain accounts by the Republican
State officers out of the unexpended appropria
ton for legislative expenses appropriated BY bif
What right had they thus to draw money to assist
partisansY


The statement of the Journal that the resolu-
ton never passed the Senate, that it was never
read in the Senate, and that the Republican mem
bers have no knowledge of its being offered, is
not only false, but it does its political friends
great injustice. The resolution was passed unani
mously, and with the knowledge of the Republi
Gun Senators. The Senate was willing that
debt it had created and authorized for printing
should be paid, ii it could be, out of the appropr
alton for legislative expenses. The Journal re
ceives pay out of that fund under the same cir
cumstances, but such is its mean, malignant,
party spirit il cannot be even just to a political
opponent. We sincerely hope that its failure to
continue the public printing will not compel it to
60 into liquidation for it has given evidence of a
sickly existence since it has had no relief from
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shed no tears over it, if it should happen to expire
Envy of another's prospects is the meanest spirit
that can influence human being.
Year: 1863

1t would seem that it were the very acme of
folly to draw million of money from the loyal
people Of this country TO spend on Washington
improvements, at a time when everybody feels|
uncertain whether il is TO remain seat of Gov
ernment az ALL or, il it shall continue 10 be Al
seat of Government. whether il will serve that
purpose to ns or TO the Rebels. But some con
tractors probably were interested in jobs which
render these appropriations necessary-to them


i Rochester Union.
Year: 1863

One copy year ....................S so
Ten copies and 70 the maker of the club Is 90
Twenty eoPies and two to the maker Of the cub 80 90


Additions be made Clubs atany time at the above
rates The will be printed each paper, without
extra charge
Year: 1863

We publish this morning the elaborate report
of Secretary Chase on the finances OF the coun-
try. This review presents the condition of the
monetary affairs Of the nation in much more
favorable light than the public have generally
imagined il would. 1t also gives us an idea OF
the magnitude of the work that our government
has had on its hands, and shows how well and
easily the country has borne the financial bur
then rendered necessary b. the events Of the
war. The rebellion plunged us into one of the
most extensive wars ever engaged in by any
nations but The effect upon the country is moth
ing when compared to that produced upon Eng
land by the wars Of Napoleon. The debt incur
red by us will also b. found to be much more
easily removed.


Our national debt at the present time is put
down in round numbers at eleven hun
dred millions of dollars. II is estimated that
on the lst day of July, 1864, it will reach
in round numbers about seventeen hundred
millions II the war should continue until the
LIST of July ) which does not seem pos
sible with any decent management our debt,
according to present estimates. will reach the
noigbborhood of two thousand five hundred mil
lions. or little more than onehslf of the pre-
sent debt Of England The debt Of the British
government is now over four thousand millions
II is true that il bears smaller rate of j'nterest
than ours; but, counting il at the rate of three
and per cent, she is paying an annual in.
terest of upwards OF one hundred and forty
millions The expenses Of the Eng lish govern
ment are so great that il is impos sble for her
even in time of peace to REFUGE her debt
but on the other hand, the ipexorablc logic o.
facts shows that II mus, gradually increase
! According to Secretary Jbases estimate, oul
govccomep. viii have - pay at Tao rate o
Year: 1863

interest which the debt bears, eighty-fv
millions during the coming fiscal year.
Should the war continue until the
lst of July, 1865 and the debt be swollen
to twenty-five hundred millions, our annual
interest, even at present rates, will still be be-
low that paid by England. The vast resources
of this country, its hidden treasure and varied
wealth, which are from day to day being de-
veloped will enable us to meet all this, and
the people will not feel the burthen one-half as
much as the subjects of England feel theirs
now. 1t will also enable US to rapidly reduce
our debt when the war is over.


What other nation of the world can present
such records Here we are engaged in agigan-
tic civil war. We have been at work nearly
three years in crushing out rebellion of an
extent and magnitude unknown to any other
nation in ancient or modern times, and yet the
burthen is hardly felt by the people. We shall
soon show to the world that we can crush out
the greatest rebellion of the world. And when
the war ends, and every State returns to the
family circle we will add to the wonders the
astonishing feat of actually paying off our
enormous debt within the lifetime of the pre-
sent generation, thus furnishing an example
that no other nation can follow. Let the
GROWERS in our midst and the croakers in
Europe put this in their pipes and smoke it..
They will find it an excellent remedy for their
apitat0d nerves.
Year: 1863

Those CRoToE CoMNIssIoSnRs.-We want and
must have the names of the sarbaria,s who are
keeping the streets of this great metropolitan
city in their present impass sable condition. We
ara willing TO pay handsome reward for
them. Will some one BE patriatic enough to
do the public and himself the signal service Of
finding them out7
Year: 1863

PAY OF NAVAL OFFICEps.-We have received
a letter from a masters mate on one Of our
war vessels, complaining, and very justly too
Of the inadequate pay received by officers OF
his rank; also showing the impossibility of an
officer of that rank supporting his family on
his salary. 1t appears that the pay Of a
masters mate is forty dollars per month when
in port, and forty-nine dollars when at sea, in
Guiding rations Al the former rate he re-.
ceives four hundred dollars per year, and at
the latter five hundred and eghty-eight dollars.
The actual expense OF the officer. at the
lowest igure-and that too, without including
any luxuries but simply counting those items
that he is obliged to buy, and cannot under
any circumstances avoid paying for-amounts
TO about four hundred and sixty dollars. living
in pinched style at that. This leaves him
only twenty dollars per annum to support his
family, on salary Of forty dollars per monJb,
and one huadred and twent y-eight dollars on a
salary Of torty-nine dollars per month We
are assured that at least twothirds of those
men who hold positions of that rank in our
navy are n,en OF families. How is il possible,
we ask, for them TO make both ends meet! l.
this treating men who are engaged in guarding
our nations honor on the high seas and bat
tling for the restoration OF the Union as they
should be treated?


We call the special attention of Rip Van
Winkle Welles, of the Navy Department, to
this Outrageous feature. and also urge upon
Congress immediate action upon this question.
1t is one Of the first questions that our law
makers should take up. Let il not be said
that men in the service Of the country are
obliged to grow poor and poorer every year
that they remain in that service. Such treat
meat is 4 disgrace to our natisn.
Year: 1863

ciples contended for on the part Of the op-
position were the freedom of the press,
the right of holding public meetings and the
extension of municipal franchises. including the
election of mayors and common councils; and
the public mind was Influenced by complaints
about the Mexican expedition, the embarrassed
condition of the finances and the annual levy Of
hundred thousand men for military purposes.


This indication of the current that affairs
were taking has not been without its due effect
on the mind of Napoleon. He must have re-
dected upon the fate of his two immediate pre-
decessors, Louis Philippe and Charles x,
who lost their thrones by the operation
of just such causes as he new sees at work He
has prepared for the contingency by the public
improvements made in Paris, which render the
city more easily defensible in case of revolu-
ton. But he knows that the criticisms upon
the policy of his government, which will now
be heard in the Chambers, will be published in
the journals; that the public mind will soon be
operated upon by them, and that even the army
will in time become inoculated with liberal
ideas He will probably be forced to relax i'm
mediately some Of his repressive rules of policy;
but he evidently calculates upon this great
European project of his for changing the
popular current and turning the thoughts Of
France into another direction. That, we take
it, is the real motive and design at the bottom
of the whole affair.
Year: 1863

We notice disposition, particularly on
the part of the Press, to drag THE PIONEER
into the gutter of its controversy with the
Union over the public printing. Inasmuch
as we have nothing to do with this print
ing; and as we have not cared who OBJ
tanned it, so that it went into the hands of
parties who would not steal intolerably ;
we must ask to be left out of the ring OF
the blackguards who are disgusting the
community with their drawings. We have
all the business we can comfortably attend
to, in our own Office, without becoming a
dog, and snarling with other dogs over
the bones and crumbs that fall from the
public table.


Those who have wit and enterprise
enough to conduct newspaper, always
find ample returns in the patronage of the
people those who lack both are forced to
supply deficiencies by stealings from the
public treasury. We are, happily, not re-
duced to this dishonest extremity; and as
we desire none of the plunder, we have q
right to insist that our name and paper
shall be kept out Of the quarrels over its
disposition.
Year: 1863

There is but one song now sung by the
two hundred thousand men of the Army of
the Potomac, and its expressive refrain is,
"Little MAO again at the head Of his men. I"
A private letter says: ''No words can ex-
press the enthusiasm which it inspires. 1t
is heard in every camp. Sometimes it will
be started on the extreme right, miles dis
tant, and will be caught up by regiment
after regiment, and brigade after brigade,
and division after division, until it is echoed
and re-echoed by the whole army, in deti-
ance Of all efforts SO suppress it. The love
of this army for Little Mac among the
new levies as well as the old, is wonderful
and affecting, while their bitter curses
would appal the unprincipled demagogues
who sought his displacement. 1t is idle
to say that two hundred thousand men be-
stow such love and confidence on an un-
worthy soldier.
Year: 1863

Tie Springfield (Mass.) Republican ro-
views THUELow WEEDS article, "Where
are We? and Where Drifing?" and ad-
lnits that there is truth in his statement
that many of our military disasters are to
be charged to the Incorporate counsels Of
the Radicals, and that to the same cause
we are now indebted for divided North,
which would have remained united for q
legitimate prosecution OF the war. But
this, says our Republican contemporary,
is not the worst mistake OF the Radicals.
Here follows the Massachusetts, indictment:


They first broke the unanirity Of the
loyal States in the support OF the govern
ment by assailing the Administration and
denouncing the President, even going so
far as to charge him with the grossest vio-
latiOn of his oath OF office, because he was
not fast enough to suit them in his action
on the negro question. They thus divided
the Republicans into two hostile parties
the supporters and assaiants of the Ad-
ministration. The Democratic opposition
took advantage of this division, and though
the proclamation of September transformed
the Republican opposition summarily into
the Administration party, the mischief had
been done beyond recall, and popular
verdict was given in the fall elections
against the Administration, apparently
really against the Republican party, and,
more accurately still, against the Radical
wing of that party. This is bad enough,
but worse than party defeat was the false
position in which the perversity of the
Radicals had placed the President. 1t
made his declaration of emancipation seem
to be compelled by their clamor, against
his own better Judgment
Year: 1863

1t is reported that the names of sixty
or seventy officers are before the Presi-
dent for dismissal from the service, for
speaking disparagingly of the emancipation
proclamation, the removal of MCCLELLAN,
and the cashiering OF PORTER. If the
President wanted to reduce the Army of
the Potomoc to corporal's guard, in the
speediest possible space of time, he could
do it most effectually by applying his
rule Unfortunately to rank and file.
Nine out of every ten of the whole army
would find their names on the Presidential
slate for dismissal, on such test.
Year: 1863

When Ramsey would Statistic Joe y
Employ to write cau they both know,
He made the State bestow the Dos,
And tied Joe to her " OmphaIos!"


But, when Joe said he'd be State Printer,
And gratis write his book, this winter,
He from the umbilic cord was "shOOk,"
Lest he should print his lockjaw book
Year: 1863

We also receive news by the Princess Royal of
the 6rst attack of the Ericsson Monitor MontGuk
the rebel deences al the mouth of the Ogoechee rv
8 e.. sAa received seventeen shots her side and
twelve ea her turret, without suffering any injury
whatever. The fort was damaged considerably.
Year: 1863

Tue INCOME TAx.-Assessor Wadsworth
requests Us to call the attention Of our citi-
zens TO the importance Of making their in
come returns without delay, particularly
those who contemplate bclng absent from the
city. Those who leave the Assessor to make
the estimate, may rely upon Its being done
with view to the interests Of The Govern
ment, rather than to the interest Of wilful de-
lnqucuts. Those who read the advertisement,
and procure blink, need ask no questions.
Year: 1863

A CUR1ous CASE OF Po1soS1sG.-Dr. Lew
Is swas called yesterday to see q lady-Miss
Henry-who had evidently been poisoned uu-
der the following peculiar circumstances:
She is employed in the store Of Mrs Hewes,
in the manufacture Of millinery goods, and is
frequently In the habit Of biting off the thread
while sewing, not knowing that all articles Of
the kind are saturated with arsenic, as por-
tion Of the colosing matter. Miss II. had alb
sorbed into the system sufficient quantity
OF the poison to have proved fatal, had 1t not
been for the timely Interference Of medical
aid. This should be q sufficient warning to
all persons in the millinery business against
the dangerous practice.
Year: 1863

CARPET BAG LosT.-A poor, old cripple LETT
his carpet bag in charge Of two gentlemen
on Sunday morning, while he went to make
some inquiry. after his son, 4 mouldcr. He
has spent two days In unsuccessful search of
the house where he left it. he can now be
found at the Armory Police Station, where
the holders are earnestly requested to return
the carEet sack to tho owner.
Year: 1863

A good story is told Of certain promi.
nent railroad gentleman of this city, who
is equally renowned for his ability to make
and take a joke. A railroad employee.
whose home is in Avon, came on Saturday
night to ask a pass down to visit his fam,
lily.


you are in the employ Of the railroad :?
cnquired the gentleman alluded to.


Yes


you receive your pay regularly :?


Yes


'WelI. Now suppose you were working
for farmer instead of a railroad, would
you expect your employer to hitch up hia
team every Saturday night and carry YOU
home 2


This seemed poser, but it wasn't.


NO said the man promptly, I wouldn',
expect that !; but if the farmer had his team
hitched up. and was going my way, should
|caIl him darned mean cuss if he vouldn',
let me ride


MIR. employee came out three minutes
afterwards with pass, good for twelve
months.
Year: 1863

Family intimacy should never make br0theto
and sisters forget to be polite aud sympatblzug
to each other. Ihose who contract thoughtless
and rude habits towards the members Of their
own family, will be rude and thou shtless TO the
whole world. But let the family be true, ten
der, and affectionste, and the manners OF all
uniformly gentle and considerate, aud the mem
bsrs Of the family thus trained viii carry into
the world and society the habits of thelr child
similar quail lies they will not be satisfied
without mutual esteem, and the cultivation of
the best affections, and their own character will
be sustained by that faith in goodness which
belongs TO mind exercised iu pure and high
thoughts. .s.
Year: 1863

MArcB CHuNK, Pa, Sept Am accident
occurred This morning upon the GRAVITY or
switch Back Railroad, which nearly proved
faial to several well known citizens of Phila
"eipnla, VINO were taking a private excursion
from Mauch Chunk to the Summit when their
car came i'll collision with a coal train The
Whole party We're more or less bruised, and
narrowly escaped with their lives
Year: 1863

IMPORTANT DRAFT DECIsIoN.-Governor
buckingham, of Connecticut, has returned
from Washington after a conference with the
W ar Department respecting the application OF
towns which have furnished a surplus Of VOL
department has decided substantially as fol-
lows: That there was no authority under the
laws Of Congress to deduct the surplus OF vol
unteers which may have been furnished by
towns from the quota now ordered by the draft
from those towns. That Congress had not
authorized an apportionment OF men to be
ment would be a usurpation of legislative
mowers would be acting outside of the pro-


visions of the law, and in yolve the Department
which cannot be attempted Hartford pcper'
Year: 1863

ENGLISH CoNsIsTENCY.-TheE English, who
condemn every measure taken by Amer
leans against the rebels, and who denounce
us as cruel barbarians because we will not
submit to the rebels, carry their animosity
to persons who have rebelled against their
authority so..far as to punish even the dead.
Lately they hanged Rao Sahib. a nephew of
Nena Sabib, who was charged with having
taken part in the Indian mutinity or REBEL
ion. Rao was executed with every circum-
stance of cruel indignity that his enemies
could heap upon him. He asked that his bo-
dy might be given to his mother, but this re-
quest was positively refused. in order that
taste the full bitterness of death. The Eng
lish caused the body of the unfortunate Hindoo
to be burnt, and the ashes to be thrown into
a river, their object being to prevent even the
semblance of proper funeral in honor off the
last victim sacrificed to their love of vengence.
Those who know how keenly the Hindoos feel
on the subject of funeral rites, will see that
the conduct of the English in this instance
was to the last degree insulting, and will
readily believe that it was meant to be so.
1t i'll becomes a people who thus act,
and who deny even the grave tn 9their
dead enemies, to criticise in a harsh
spirit anything that we may do towards our
living enemies. But it is impossible for the
English to be just to other nations. They
have made standard of right for themselves,
under which they perpetrate all manner of
tyrannical acts, and they show their love of
humanity and goodness by denouncing the
real or supposed sins Of other people.-Bos-
ton Trdreller.
Year: 1863

Hon. G. G. BusH.-This gentleman, the
presiding officer Of the Court of Sessions, by
his prompt and efficient manner of conducting
business in our criminal Court, inspires con-
fidence in the minds of the people that the
laws will be faithfully administered during
his term of Office. The prompt attendance
Of jurors and witnesses in Court at the pre-.
sent term is a decided improvement on for
mer times. The rule laid down for selecting
and empanneling juries is good one, and
will save the county hundreds of dollars that
would necessarily be incurred in pursuing
the former course of this Court. We are
glad to notice that our young Judge bears
the ermine of his Office with so much dignity
and so much benefit to the people.