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Year: 1863




We have some suggestions 10 offer
which will enable our readers to get
through life in the most easy manner.
If bee has the andasisy to sheathe it's
sting in your cuticle. justice demands
,hat you should instantly upset the hive
wherein the offender had his headquar-
tiers and exterminate every bee therein.
If dog bites you in the calf OF your
leg, stern Justice demands that you
should bite the dog in the calf Of his leg.
On the sublime principle, If an irate
donkey rudeIy eIevates his posterior ex-
sremities against your sacred person,
the true way is to kick back: If horse
falls upon you the same principal OF te1
talionis requires shat you shold fall upon
the horse. If Joggs call you liar. the
treatment is to call him liar, fnd thief
into the bargain. IF you are farmer,
and neighbor's COW happrnts to get
into your young corn, you instant mode
of satisfaction is to turn all your COWS.
hogs. ETC.. into his own. BY following
out these sublime ideas of justice and
self resi- ect, your daily life will be tu Il OF
sweet peace, and you will eventually be-
come as docile and playful as a kitten.
Year: 1863

The following paragraph is an Illus
tration ofthe Importance of punctuation,
which some writer's wofully neglect, and
when they DO undertake it, bungle it in
an awful manLer. There are two ways
of pointing ii, one Of which makes the
Individual in question monster of wick
edness, while the other converts him
into model Christian. Let our readers
exercise their ingenuity on the problem
and sec if they can discover its two-fold
solution. r .. rr.


He Is an old experienced man in vice
and Wickedness, he is never found op-
posing the works of iDiquity he takes de-
light in the downfall of the neighborhood
he never rejoices in the posperity Of his
fellow creatures he is always ready to
assist in destroying the peace of society
he takes no pleasure in serving the Lord
he is uncommonly diligent in sowing
discord among his friends and acqualn-
tanccs he takes no pride in laborlng in
the cause OF Christianity he has not been
negligent in endeavoring to stignstMe
all public teachers he makes no exer-
tions to subduc his evil passions he
strives hard to build up Satan's kingdom
he lends no aid to the support of the
gospel among the heather he contributes
largely to the evil adversary he pays no
attention to the good advice he gives
great heed to the devil he will never 60
to heaven he must go where he will re-
ceive just recompcnse of reward.
Year: 1863

RESTORATION OF DRCoMPosED BODIES.
The human body, in so advanced
state of decomposition as to be entirely
unrecognizablc, can now be SO restored
by chemical means as to present an al
most completely natural appearance. =
This process was lately praoticed with
success in London, in the case of body
foun in the Thau.es, which was suspec-
ted to be that of an escaped murderer,
who had committed suicide. After the
body had been subjected to the new pro-
cess, the witnesses were able to swear
that he was not the supposed murderer
Year: 1863

The missouri GovERNMENr.--The whole
repre- eniation OF the regular civil gov
ernment of our sister State, in the per.
son Of Gov. Reynolds, his staff and at
tendants, is camped in the vicinity OF
this place Ill a quiet and secluded part
OF the forest We visited the camp last
Sunday, and was struck with the singu
larlty Of the scene. 1t will be referred
to IN after days as one of the vicissi
tudes of this strange war. Here like
the banisled Duke and his associates
in Gas you like it," this little band O
banished civilians are keeping alive the
sole remining spark of the Legitimate
severe gnty OF mighty State From
this germ is yet to grow and expand Z
tree government, whose bene fcent shade
Is yet destined to spread its benign pro
Section over all that noble State.
Year: 1863

y r. The Jeffersonisn is informed that
We are Is willing to take IS to give q
joke; only We like to know when they
arc intended for jokes. A paper remarks
that the editor Of tho Chief thinks thus
and SO. The Jeffersonian adds. $50 does
every thief in the country" II that is q
way it has ofjoking. we are willing here
after to laugh them OF % heartily ss any
one. We are perfectly willing the JEFF
fersoniau should accuse Us Of drowning
our grandmother. Of sucking eggs. or Of
being . Democrat. if it is only done Is q
Joke -.a
Year: 1863

DEPTH OF LAKE SUPERIOR MINES
Ten years siuce speculations as to the
probable continuation of our veins of ma
tive copper, in depth and value, were rife
in this country. Then no mine in the
country had reached the level of the lake,
unless il was the Cliff; now the main
openings in that mine are several hundred
feet under the lake level. Others on the
Point, one at least, the Pewabic, at Port
age Lake, and the Minnesota mine in this
district, are also below the level, and yet
there is no prospect Of u failure in their
paying capacities. Indeed, the known
productiveness of our mines at q depth
below which paying copper mines in 9TH
er portions of the world have signally fail
ed, is now causing investments in them
that otherwise never would have been
made.


Many of the copper mines in Cornwall
that yieled paying results years ago, are
now abandoned, or worked for their value
in other minerals, chiefly in tin.


In Chill, the richest portions of their
exceeding rich ore, is almost uniformly
at from fifteen to forty fathoms below the
surface, many of the mines of that coun-
try-the coppers especially-have paid
largely to the XL fms. level, then given
out entirely for that depth below-to
the LINK lcvel-then come strong again,
the mineral changing from one TO another
kind of ore, generally from green ore to
the exides and yellow sulphurets.-BoS-
ton Commercial Bulletin.
Year: 1863

BRooKLYN-A proposition is to be made
to the Board of Super Isors to appropriate
S50O,006 to pay bouuties to volunteers, to
raise, if possihl., tle quota Of men called.
The swindling operations of last year eau
not be repeated; men received bounties and
deserted to such an extent that out of the
two thousand that were received, only nine
hundred were actually sent into service
To prevent this, the recruits will be sent to
Rickers Island as fast as they enlist In
addition to the amounts he local public
bodies may appropriate, meetings will be
held throughout the city to raise asprvate
bounty fund
Year: 1863

Farmers often puts biting harness on q
colt the first thing they do with him, buck
ling up the biting as tight rs they can draw
it, to make him carry his head high, and
then turn him out In lot to run half day
at time. This is one Of the worst punish
mcnts that they could inaict on II colt, and
very injurious to young horse that has been
used to running in pasture with his head
down.


A horse should be well accustomed to the
bit before you put on the biting harness.
and when you FIRST bit him you should only
rein his head up to that point where he
naturally holds it, let that be high or low |;
he will learn that ho cannot lower his head.
and that raising it q little will loosen the bit


in his mouth. This will give him tho idea
of raising his head to loosen the bit, and
then you can draw the biting little tighter
every timo you put 1t on, and he will still
raise his head to loosen it. BY this means
you will gradually get his head and neck in
tho position you wish him to carry it, and
giyo him graceful carriage, without hurt.
ing him, making him angry, or causing his
mouth to get sore.


If you put tho biting on very tight tho
first time, ho cannot riso his head enough to
loosen il. but will bear on it all tho time,
and paw, sweat and throw himself. Many
horses have been killed by falling backward
with the biting on; their heads being drawn
up, strike the ground with the whole weight
of the body. Horses that have their heads
drawn up tightly should not have the biting
on moro than fifteen or twenty minutes at
u time.-Rarey. ..l
Year: 1863

Tho subject of impression at first sight
was being talked over at tea table. when the
lady who presided said that she always
formed an idea Of person ut first sight I;
and that idea was generally correct. NAM
ma said her youngest son in a shrill voice
that attracted the attention Of all present.
We'll my DEAR said tho fond mother, 'wbat
do YOU want?' i want to know said
Young America, 'wbat you thought ~hn
you first sdic NE?'
Year: 1863

We must forget all feelings savo the onsj
We must resign all passions save ono purpose,
We must behold no object save our country,
And only look on death as beautiful,
SO that the sacrifice ascend to Heaven
And draw down freedom on her oyermOre.
Year: 1863

To the Editor Of the Wing:


Let such of the States as prefer to do SO,
assume the payment of their proportionate
part of the sum to be raised by the ssdirect'
tax bill. Let such States issue their bonds
bearing, say FIVE per cent. interest, the
bonds to be paid at the pleasure of the
State. Let these bonds be exchanged BY
the State for Confederate States Treasury
notes; the effect will be to add much more
to the value Of Treasury notes than the col.
lection of the same sum by the hosts of Of.
fcers, proposed to be created by the tax
bill; for it will retire the same amount Of
Treasury notes, and create positive de.
mand for them in the market by solvent
purchasers.


The effect will be a savingto the people,
many Of whom are lilly able to pay SO large
a tax. Thus, say that the sum to be paid
by Virginia be twenty millions of dollars
the interest of that sum is but one million
at FIVE per cent.-a sum much easier paid
than twenty millions. The credit of the
States will thus be brought much more ef-
fectively in aid of the credit Of the Coufed-
crate States than by endorsing the bonds,
as proposed by some.


But the most important feature will be,
that we get rid of the Confederate tax gath
erer, and the host of Confederate officers
proposed by the bill. tits not wise to send
around tax collectors, to seize upon the
property of the widow and children of the
man who is in the field, in the face Of the
enemy. We are fighting for posterity, and
poste.'ity will be much more able to pay the
debt, in time of peace, than We are to pay
it, engaged, as we are, in the struggle for
independence. We will do our part we'll,
if we fight their battles and pay the interest
upon their debtor theirs it will be. g..
Year: 1863

President shall appoint SAID commissioner,
to appoint another commissioner to act in
conjunction with the commissioner appoint.
ed by the President, who shall receive the
compensation Of eight dollars per day, and
ten cents per mile as mileage, to be paid by
the Confederate Government. Said COM
missioners shall constitute board, whose
duty it shall be to fix upon the prices to be
paid by the government for all property
impressed or taken for the public use, as
aforesaid, so as to afford just compensation
to the owners thereof. Said commission
ers shall agree upon, and publish sched-
ule of prices every two months, or oftener,
if they shall deem it proper; and in the
event they shall not be able to agree in any
matter confded to them in this act, they
shall have power to appoint an umpire to
decide the matter in dispute, whose decis-
ion shall be the decison of the board and
said umpire shall receive the same rate of
compensation for the time he shall serve,
allowed to said commissioners respectively;
Prouided, That said commissioners shall
be residents of the State for which they
shall be appointed, and if the Governor of
any State shall refuse or neglect to appoint
said commissioner, within ten days after a
request to do so BY the President, the Pres
ident shall appoint both commissioners by
and with the advice and consent of the
Senate. ~


SEC 6. That all property impressed or
taken for the public use, aforesaid, in the
hands of any person other than the persons
who have raised, grown, or produced the
same, or persons holding the same for their
own use or consumption, and who shall
Year: 1863

CouNTERFEIT PosTAGE CURRENCY. =


Counterfeit fifty cent postage currency notes
have made THAR appearance in the East,


which the unsuspicious would be very


likely to take. They are easily detected,
however. The ink with which they are


printed is darker, and has dirty look; the
paper is thinner, while the note itself is mar
rover, The engraving on the back is also
narrower than that on the genuine, and the
whole engraving coarse.i 10 ls l4etA1
Year: 1863

General Hooker is establishing bakery
in every division Of the camp, and max
ing arrangements for serving out potatoes
and onions with The daily ration. he is
doing everything possible for the comfort
Of the army in the prevailing mud Il is
reported that $4,000 men in all have
passed through the cOnvalescent camps.
Year: 1863

AT national Union meeting, in Philadelphia,
Hon. Charles Gibbons made the following beau
tiful and truthful remarks. Will laboring men
ponder his words?


'Ths is war on our part for the poor man.
Because it is a war for the maintenance Of the
only government on earth that freely opens to
him and his children the way to prosperity ard
honorable distinction. The school-house is Free
Conscience is free. Every business avenue is
free. He finds no gates to exclude him from any
Of the high roads to fortune or to fame. The
doors of every profession open at the summons,
and his children are welcomed at every portal
No privilege is denied him that is accorded to the
rich, no restraint imposed upon him from which
others are exempt. Here every man may raise,
if he will, to the full stature Of his manhood,
and man among men, sovereign among SOW
eregns, breathing the invigorating air of liberty
may lead his children forth, free as the fedged
eaglets of the mountains, to try the strength of
their pnions, upward and still upward in the
pure atmosphere Of Republic. The career of
President Lincoln Illustrates the argument. De-
ginning life as poor and friendless boy-as poor
and frienGless this ragged little boy who stands
before me ; in early manhood laborer, in felds
by day. and a student at night by the dim light
of tallow candle; then respected member of
an honorable profession; next faithful member
in Congress, and now the highest on earth-the
President of the United States of America.





If the poor man would find better friend
than such Government as this, am sure he
must seek him in another and higher sphere than
any within the dominions of mankind. And if
he would find worse enemy than the party dem
agogue who seeks to divert him from his loyalty
by stirring up evil passions and criminal preju-
dice against the friends of universal liberty, who
freely offer their property and lives for the de-
Tense of the government, he must seek him, not
on earth, but in the lowest depths of hell. He
must drag up from the bottom of the burning
lake, him who fret made


'sImpious war in Heaven,


! Against the throne and majesty Of God"
Year: 1863




A Washington correspondent writing to the
Sacramento Union, says;


Much to the surprise of everybody, Secretary
Chase has commenced paying off the $2,S00O00
debt of SS42, reimbursabe after the list of De-
cember, 1862 in coin. These bonds have been
selling at 81 u of late, and considering the pres
ent price of gold, tits easy to see that somebody
is making a very handsome thing by the opera
tion Bat the transaction is perfectly legitimate
on the part of the Government, as will appear by
letter from the Secretary, to be published in a
day or two. 1t is understood that he has OBJ
tanned the money for this purpose, as well as the
million and half for the interest due on the lst
instant, by loan at four per cent, to be reim-
bursed when receipts from customs supply the
means. This advance of over six millions in an
ticpation of receipts from customs is one Of the
most striking proofs yet given of confidence in
the administration of the Treasury Department.
1t has enabled the Secretary to meet promptly in
coin every obligation to the holders of the public
debt, at even less loss to the Government than
except by suspending payments in the Army, ana
for supplies, could not have been obtained with
out borrowing and could not have been borrowed
at less than six per cent. The plan adopted has
fully maintained the public faith, and has enabled
the Secretary to continue his payments to the
troops and for the war at the rate of million
day. Payment of Principal as well as interest of
the public debt in coin at this time clearly eyin-
ces the purpose of the Secretary to maintain the
public credit at the highest possible point, and
thus to give to capital the assurances necessary
to secure the future advances requisite to meet
our public expenditure, at the most economical
rates. There is no interest which this action does
not directly or Indirectly benefit.


EFFECT OF LOSING THE MONITOR The Wash
ington correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette,
under date of January 5th says


The loss of the Monitor may prove even more
serious than the mere announcement at first
seemed. 1t is not simply the loss of an expert
mental and imperfectly constructed harbor bat
terry, with large portion of its gallant crew, that
we have to deplore; but the embarrassment and
delay of an important expedition, that was des-
tined for quarter toward which for two years
past the hopes and hates Of the loyal nation have
been steadily turning.


1t is scarcely secret now that the Monitor
formed part Of a joint naval and army expedi-
tion whose first work was to have been the cap
ture of Wilmington North Carolina, and the
seizure Of the railway lines leading thence to
Charleston and Richmond What the subse-
quert tasks of such an expedition might be, one
may be excused for not knowing if he wished to
tell, or for not telling if he knew.


1t is hoped that the loss of the Monitor will
not seriously oostruct the progress of the move
ment 1t is known that the Passaic and other
iron-clads were also of the fleet, and it is hoped
that they will be adequate to the work before
them.
Year: 1863

No matter what your disease, let no false deli
c,,y prevent you from applying Immediately to
Dr. vellny, who is acknowledged to be by far the
most SUCCESSFUL PHYSICIAN in the treatment
Of private diseases. Fear not to come and make
known your misfortunes and he will speedily send
you on your way rejoicing.
Year: 1863

A proposition for the encouragement of
enlistments by which the quota of this county
may be filed, may be found in another col
umn from one of our leading business houses
that of Lemp Sells-who offer three hun
dred dollars towards bounty fund, and in
vite others to join with them in this patriotic
endeavor. The slow progress of enlistmeDts
and the absolute certainty of the draft, unless
some such plan as this is adopted, should
arouse our citizens to immediate action
Only two weeks remain to fill up our quota
by volunteering, and if it is the desire of our
citizens that the banner war county should be
free from the real CT supposed stigma of the
draft, now is the time to manifest it in some
effective way. We hope, therefore, that the
proposition of Messrs. Lemp & Sells will be
seconded in substantial manner by suf-
ficient number to ensure the filling up of our
quota. Who will be the next to put down
$3OOP One or two $500 signatures might be
added to the proposition, by persons who can
well afford to give the amount for such pur'
pOse
Year: 1863

The Copperhead press quite generally. in,


cluding the Muscat ne Courisr, have adopted


the lying language of Garret Davis, of Ken.


tucky, in Congress, in speaking Of the present


hitch in the exchange Of prisoners. Our


readers have not forgotten the excoria'ion


which this rebel sympathizer received from


MIR. Hale. This gentleman based his remarks
up,n the broad and correct principle that
every man who fights for his country is en-
titled to its protection, without regard to the
color of his skin or the place Of his nativity


But the true reason why exchanges cannot
now be effected was not referred to by him.


1t is not because, as Davis declared, that our
authorities insist first upon the return of me-
groes taken by the rebels, but because the
rebels insist that all the prisoners in our
hands shall be given up for those now in their
hands-they refusing at the same time to
recognize negro soldiers and their white Of
ficers as prisoners of war. In all, We hold
forty thousand rebel prisoners, while the reb-
els hold but thirteen thousand Union prison
ers. Our Government is willing to go on
and exchange man for man, to the extent of
the Union prisoners in the hands of the reb-
els, whether white or black. II the rebels
will not exchange the black soldiers, our
Government will continue to hold rebel pris-
oners as hostages for their safety, but will
proceed with the exchange of all or any of the
white Union soldiers, giving the rebels man
for man according to the established rules and
usages of war. But the rebels have stopped
the exchange and proceeded to murder our
men by cold, starvation and abuse, to coerce
our Government into q submission to the
most outrageous frauds. It is humiliating
that we have in the North men so depraved
and vicious as to deny the right of a soldier
of the Union to the protection which our flag
guarantees to its defenders, who add to their
crime of ingratitude that Of wilful falsehood
to shelter the nations enemy from the scorn
and execration Of the civilized world.
Year: 1863

a. The war will be completely ended and
peace fully restored during the ensuing year,
if the Copperheads can be persuaded to with
draw their aid from the rebels, and give the
war measures of the Government a decent
support Nothing is now needed but uni
ted North to speedily shiver into ruins the
remains of the rebellion. The responsibility
Of the continuance Of the war rests with the
Copperheads. There is no getting around
that fact. - -fi
Year: 1863

We extract day, from the Mississippian


portion of letter from their correspon dent,


which accords with The views we expressed


on the Same subject = month or two since.


We hope the members of Congress will be


freed from outside influence and preserve the


land from such wholesale swindling:


know of no one rife for II In this direc-


tion but debtors and speeuiators, those that


have bad their debts tied up until enc year
after the war, and since then selling. their
products and property at ten prices, they


want this done ! know. AS many of this
class no doubt have sought seats in the Leg
iSlature to lsgislate themselves out OF debt,
and could they get Congress to disregard
their oaths by making Confederate notes a
legal tender, they would then pay off their
stayed debts at ten cents in the dollar. Tkis
would be very comfortable after getting their
debts stayed until one year after the war, to
give them chance, as they said, to pay in
par funds. But as one good turn deserves an
other, they now ask Congress, before the
courts are open for the collection of those
debts, to make 1t lawful to pay creditors off
in currency one thousand per cent. under
par. Is il patriotic, sir, or honest, after many
of these debtors have been bloating their
pockets with Confederate notes by the sale
of bacon at So per pound, beef at 40 cents,
pork at 81, sweet potatoes at So per bushel,
and wheat at SIS, to ask Congress to make
the money so obtained legal tender in the
payment of debts that are not pressing them
at all, nor never, can as the law now stands,
until one year after the WARP Now, sir, is it
not enough for creditors to have their claims
aid upon the shelf, and tested by the Confed-
crate and State Governments the same as
property that ARE making products to sell at
hc above exorhitant prices without forcing |
)n them currency at par which is not worth |
more than ten cents in the dollar? Has this |
var, sir caused all honor to disappear be-
ween man and man? Have we made con-
titution to protect the weak against the
trong2 Or have we made one to be expand
d or contracted as slip Of India rubber
nto every shape that mAjorities may desire ! |
{ so, our lives and property are not protect
d under the Government we are now fight
n0 for.