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Year: 1863

The Boston Post has received com.
munication from New England gentle
man, who declares that he writes from a
sense of duty, giving an account of the
manner in which Abolition sentiment is
manufactured, that is to say the least, is
curious, if true, and we see no reason to
doubt its veracity. The writer says, in
substance, that in June last he was in q
small village few miles from Nashville,
Tenn. At the hotel there was smart
Yankee correspondent of IA radical Phlla-
delphia paper, with whom he became in.
timate-so much so, that the correspon-
dent used to read his letters to our cor
respondent before sending them away,
and request his judgment upon them
The writer says that he was perfectly
dumbfounded by one, in which was re-
cited secesh outrage localised in the
very village both were in, and ut about
that very date. Shooting helpless old
men and women, and violating daughters
Of Union men, hanging the fathers in
sight of their children, &C., formed the
various topics, and were dressed up with
devilish ingenuity to curdle the blood :"
of the reader. Our correspondent said.
"You surely are not going to send that
to any editor in Pennsylvania-are voug"
Certainly" was the reply; 1--WE know
that the northern people are opposed to
an abolition wal, and we must have some
thing to spit in the face Of the Internal
Copperheads. Why, sir, such narratives
as have just read to you would do NOR e
towards silencing q id Copperhead
than the best speech ever Wendell Phil
lips made, or all the letters Horace Gree
ly ever wrote. / tell you if we intend to
wipe out Shareholders we have got to
make the northern people mad and Silence
the Copperheads l trust | have done
something in that way myself and
mean to do moro. Tell the truth, sir -
Why, we must do anything to subdue
the South" The foregoing, our friend
says, the Philadelphian's reports it to
show what an internal spirit actuates the
radical journalists. This young man, he
observed, was apparently of disposition,
compnnionable and obliging, but on the
subject of the war was perfect mono
maniac. Our correspondent expresses
his belief that if the great body of the
people of the free States for a moment
understood all the instrumentalities that
have been at work to madden them, there
would be such storm ofindignation set in
motion as would aStonish all demagogues
at the next appeal to the ballot.box, when
these bits of paper,


"Execute the freemans nod


As lighting does the will Of God"
Year: 1863

COLUMBIA RIVER CoAL.-We yester-
Cay examined, at the store of Messrs. He
from & Pitts, a piece of Columbia River
coal which weighed 20 lbs. As they get
farther irto the mine, the coal becomes
more compact and is in all respects superb
or to the groupings found near The en-
trance. The piece noted above is evident
ly Of the description known as anthracite,
and greatly resembles the anthracite coal
taken from the Pennsylvania mines. All
doubt about the existence of valuable
bed Of this coal is now set at rest and the
parties who made the discovery are now
organizing company with sufficient capi-


tai to work the mine Tie scarcity of
wood in the upper country must always
create demand for coal as a substitute,
and this one market alone will furnish a
steady man for all the coal the company
can send to market 1t is not as yet de-
tarmined on what terms capitalists will be
invited to invest in the enterprise, but one
thing rs quite certain, that money thus in
vested will yield handsome returns
MOHHtdineer.
Year: 1863

These figures will not suit our locality
The cost of lab here will be much great
er than in Illinois but the value of the
syrup would also be very much increased.


Our conclusion, from a review Of this
whole matter is, that the systematic Guilt
walton of the sugar cane in Walla Walla
valley, and the manufacture of its juices
into syrup, would yield profit that ought
to satisfy a reasonable man.
Year: 1863

BEGINNING TO UNDERsTAD-"U Under
standing is the beginning of wisdom" and
the rebels are beginning to get wisdom
The Richmond Enqnirer thus despondingly
speaks Of rebel prospects:


The peace delusion is blown away
Neither from foreign Intervention or from
the imperious King Cotton, nor from friend
ship of the Northwest, nor from stupid
rumors of decentralization in Yankee armies,
does any hope Of peace dawn on the land
We must fight or submit. If they can take
Richmond, Charleston and Yicbsburg with
in six months, their financial credit is
restored and party fueds cease. The plain
truth is we are in the middle of the war;
and during the coming Spring and Sumner
that war viii be more fierce and unreen-
ii ngthan ever before. The Yankee army
is just beginning to fight"
Year: 1863

Archbishop Hughes, in letter to the
New York Herald, expresses the opinion
that ''if law of conscription had been
adopted twenty months ago in the North,
as it had been in the South, the results
would be of more humane consequences to
both sections than they are to-day.
Year: 1863

A man, long esteemed as an exemplary
member both Of christian and civil society,
took an active part in the early stages of
the Temperance reformation-signsd the
pledge of total abstinence, and engaged
with the friends of the cause in pursua-
ding others to the same resolution. Upon
subsequent reflection, however, he with
drew his pledge, and retired from shc scr
vice. convicted of the inconsistency o.
standing forth as tho advocate of the cause
of temperance, and being at the same
time a wholesale dealer in the article o!
ardent spirits, for such he was. While
yet engaged in this traffic, the state of his
Year: 1863

An ABsENT-MINDED Professor, in 60
ing out of the gateway of his college,
ran against COW. In the confusion of
the moment he raised his hat and ex-
claimed, ''Beg your pardon, madam"
Soon after, he stumbled against lady
in the street. In sudden remembrance
of his former mishap, he called out, SIS
that You again you brute p
Year: 1863

the negro for his musical faculties. The
negro is superior man-in some respects
he is the greatest of men. He asked that
the negro should have the privilege Of the
ballot box. He must have place beside
his white brother in the jury box. He
asked that they should be eligible to every
public office to which the white man is
eligible.


FRED. DOUGLASS RATHER THAN MCCLELLAN


FOR PRESIDENT.


For instance, for the next President, as
between General Mcclellan and Freder-
ick Douglass, who was their choice? Gap
plause and ]aughter.) The negro has an
administrative power. He can WELD the
scepter.


BLACK MAN FOR GOVERNOR OF SOUTH


CAROLINA.


The speaker hoped to see before he
died, black man Governor of the State
ofSouth Carolina, lifted up to that office
by the people. The negroes should sit
side by side with the white man in the
church, in the cars; he should come into
the white mans parlor and be admitted to
entire fellowship. God ordains it. The
palm of the negroes hand was made white
to meet the white mans. One of the
most suggestive and impressive sights he
had seen lately had been that of negro
and an Irishman, seated in cart, at our
Central Park, driving together in pleasant
social communication. They were going
more directly towards the millennium than
all the splendid equipages that were pass
ing them by. Mr.. Tilton closes amid ap-
plause.
Year: 1863

We are glad to see, on the part Of the
New York journals, some glimmering ap-
probation Of the commercial wants and nc
ccssities Of the West, and, We hope, 4 grow
ing disposition to so influence the leglsla-
ton Of their State, that our farmers may
find partial relief from the heavy burdens
that they have heretofore borne as the re-
suit Of the grieyous and unnecessary tolls
that the Legislature of New York imposes
on the great staples Of the West seeking
tide water and a market through the Eric
Canal And in relation to the plan that
the Legislature Of Illinois struck out, to
find in Canada the just treatment TINT was
denied our people by the Empire State,
webeg these journals to remember that the
industrial progress Of this country is SO
rapid, that long before any Of the conten-
plated Improvements Of the water routes
to the sea-board can be made available
for our commerce, the West will be abun-
dainty able to furnish full business for
them, besides taxing to their utmost capa-
city, the routes already open. Hence, II
they have half the good feeling for us that
might be predicated upon their arowals,
they will lay no straw in the way Of what
our people would accomplish. But first Of
ill We demand reduction Of canal tolls
Year: 1863

81 Military authorities have decided no
longer to allow women and children to come
through our lines from the South. The the
ory is, that the people Of the South are in 4
condition Of destitution, and certain parties
can, OF desire to leave, SO that the armed reb.
els may have the more supplies left.
Year: 1863

for mackcrcl on the New England coast,
and made them members of one household
ndpartakers ofone communion, is enough.


We examine other questions and weigh
other considerations which affect the rela-
tons Of the warning States, and we find
that they all point to union and final re-
conciliation and harmony-that accursed
thing Of Human Slavery, always unquiet
and, like other wrongs, always and neces-
sarily aggressive-being the only obstacle
in the way. Even the Copperheads admit
that the sections cannot be divided. They
claim the possibility Of reconstruction and
cordial union, Slavery, the cause Of the re-
belion, being preserved; while VIC, more
consistent and more logical, hold that the
peace and harmony which are the result OF
uniformity Of institutions, can only be at
tanned by conquest which involves the ut
ter destruction and final removal of the
original cause Of the separation And our
view is correct.


With, then, no essential differences IN
race, faith, or territorial interests, VIC see
nothing in the way Of tho re-establishment
OF the Union on its old basis. The deer
and furious animosities excited by a pro.
longed contest, will, if unsupported by ths
| antipathies Of nationality or the theologi


cal hatred that religion fails to abate, givs
way before the daily pressure and pleading
Of self interest developed in Thousand
phases; and were the war finished to-day
by the abject humiliation Of every leading


man in the South, and by the destruction
| of that institution which made them reb


els, quarter Of century would not claps


before all traces Of the strife would be over


grown or obuteratcd by the necessities o
| cur national life.
Year: 1863

- ..afa.
The long, long weary day y


Is passed In tears away,
The long, long weary day
Is passed In tears away.
And still at evening am weeping,
When from my windows height VI
I look out ON the night, sr
j still am weeping;


My lone watch keeping.
When from my windows height
Hook out ON the night
I still am weeping
My lone watch keeping.


When his truth to prove
Would trifie with my love;
When his truth to prove
Would triie with my love;


He'd say "for me thou shalt be weeping
When at some future day
I shall be far away r
Thou shalt be weeping
Thy lone watch keeping
stWhen at some future day
shall be far away
Thou shalt be weeping
Thy lone watch keeping"
AlasI ifland or sea
Had parted him from me;
Alasl ifland or sea
Had parted him from me; 3t


I would not these sad tears be weeping
But h ope he'd come once more
And love me as before "
ANA say, cease weeping -
Thy lone watch keeping"
But hope he'd come once more
And love me as before
And say, "cease weeping
Thy lone watch keeping"
But he Is dead and gouel
Whose heart was mine alone;
But he is dead and gone
i Whose heart was mine alone;


And now for him Pm ever weeping,
his face ne'er shall see,
And naught Is left to me ss
But bitter weeping
My lone watch keepIngl fz if
His face I ne'er shall see, snt
And paught 10 lert to me, 81 .Es
But bitter weeping
Ny lone watch keeping.
Year: 1863

i. Oliver Ayres, apractical harness
maker, Of Kent CO., says :--"Harness
should be kept hung up on wooden
pegs in clean, dry room with a plank
floor, SO that it may be free from damp
ness. When soiled it should be washed
with CASTLE soap suds. Harness that
is in constant use needs olling -four
times year; if only occasionally
brought ou:, as carriage harness, &C.,
twice a year will be sufficient, if the
washing be not neglected. To oil har-
ness, separate all the pieces, and lay
them in water until thoroughly wet
through. Then wash them clean and
allow them to dry sufficiently. To
know when they are in good condition
for oilng, bend strap, and if the wa
ter does not ooze out it is dry enough.
Train oil (whale oiD is sometimes used
but meats foot oil is much better.--Mix
with little lamp black, and with a
brush apply it to both sides Of the
straps. About six hours after oiling,
wash the whole with CASTLE soap and
warm water, let them dry, rub we'll with
a wooden cloth and buckle them to.
gether."


Whale and most vegetable oils in
jure leather. Meats. foot oil, with the
addition of one ounce bees wax TO the
pint Of oil, is the best mixture that can
be used for harness. Soap suds should
only be used with sponge to wipe ofi
the dirt; the leather mist not be soaked
with the suds. A good method of
keeping harness in good condition and
appearance, is to blacken and polish it
exactly ike shoe leather, then app y the
mixture of neals.f5ot oil and boeswax.
Year: 1863

PuRsr1T OF PLEAsunE.-We smile at
the ignorance Of the savage who cuts
down the tree in order to reach its
fruits; but the fact is, that blunaer
Of this description is made by every
person who is over eager and impatient
in the pursuit Of pleasure. To such the
present moment is as everything, and
the future is nothing; he borrows,
therefore, from the future at most
usurious and ruinous interest; and the
consequence is, that he finds the tone
Of his best feelings impaired, his self.
respect diminished, his health Of mind
and body destroyed, and LIE reduced
10 its very dre.s, at time when,
humanity speaking, the create portion
Of its comforts should be still before
him.
Year: 1863

Father AND DAUGHTER.-There is
no prettier picture in life than that of
daughter reading to her aged father.
The old man. while listening to her sill
very notes, goes back to other times.
when another one sat by this side, and
whispered words he will never hea
again, nor does he wish 10 do SO, for
in the soft evening light he sees her
image reflected in her child and as one
by one gentle emotions steal over him
ne wells his face, and the daughter,
thinking him asleep, goes noisely in
search Of other employmet, Virgin in.
nocence watching over the cares and
wants Of old age, Is spectacle fit for
angels. L is one Of the links between
earth and heaven, and takes from the
face Of its harshest features.
Year: 1863

Let each one strive with all his might
To be decent man.
And love his neighbor as himself,


Upon the Golden plan.
And if his neighbor chance to be


A pretty female woman.
Why, love her all the more-you see.


That's only acting human
Year: 1863

Administration, contend, is the country
and when they return it will do the soul of
every truly loyal man good to see the
summary manner in which they will cause
these sneaks and peace agitators to seek
their holes.


You will excuse me, gentlemen, if, in
saving what have said, l have been rather
proflse and heavy in the way of emphasis.
Two years away from civilization, with my
men, has made me rather emphatic in all
my thoughts and words in regard to certain
things. 1 speak emphatically because
emphatically feel that which my tongue
finds to say"
Year: 1863

Would respectfully announce to the public that
he has fitted up shop on Cherry street, near the
Episcopal church, and near kratzer's store, where
he intends to carry on the Cabinet m king bust.
ness in its different branches. Having served a
regular apprenticeship to the business and work.
ed as Journeyman over six years, besides carry
ing on shop for three years, he fatters himself
that he can render satisfaction to those who NAV
favor him with their custom. Having located in
the Borough OF Clearfeld, he solicits a share Of
patronage and it shall ever be his object to make
to order, neat and substantial Ufniture-such Us
Year: 1863

THE Notwithstanding Saturday night
and on Sunday. snow fell to the depth of a
hout inches in this region. 1t has since been
melting away, but so gradually that up to the
time of going to press the water in the Sus-
auehanna was at too low a stage for running
RATS. We may expect, however, that, in
day or two, there will be good rafting freshet.
Year: 1863

A widow lady in Paris, aged about sixty
three, who lodged on two pair of stairs floor
in the Rue de la Ferroners, with only a
maid servant, was accustomed to spend sew
eral hours every day before the altar dedi-
Gated to ST. Paul, in neishboring church.
Some villains, observing her extreme weak
ness, resolved, as she was known to be very
rich, 10 share her wealth. One of them ac-
cordingly took the opportunity to conceal
himself behind the carved work of the altar,
and when no person but the old lady was
there, in the dusk of the evening, he con-
trived to throw letter right before her.
She took it up and not perceiving any one
near, supposed it came by miracle. In
this she was more confirmed when she saw
it signed !" Paul the APOSTLE expressing
the satisfaction he received by her prayers
addressed to him, when so many newly can
onized saints engrossed the devotion OF the
world, and robbed the primitive saints OF
their wonted alteration and to show his re-
gard for the devotion he promised to come
from heaven with the Angel Gabriel. and
sup with her at eight in the evening. II
seems scarcely credible that any one could
be deceived by so gross fraud; yet tc
what length of credulity will not supersti'
ton carry weak mind The infatuated
lady believed the whole and rose from her
knees in transport, TO prepare an entertain
ment for her heavenly guests.


The supper being bespoke and the side.
board set out TO the best advantage, she
thought that her own plate, worth about
f4O0 did not make so elegant an appear
ance as might be wished; and therefore
sent to her brother, a counsellor in the Par
lament of Paris, to borrow all his plate
The maid, however, was charged not to
disclose the occasion but only TO say that
she had company for supper, and would BE-
Obliged 10 him if he would lend his plate
for the evening. The counsellor, surprised
at the application, well knew his sisters
frugal life, began to suspect that she was en-,
amoi ed of some fortune hunter, who might
marry her, and thus deprive bis family Of
what he expected at his sisters death. He
Year: 1863

One of my fathers brothers. says Mrs.
Child, residing in Boston at the time when
the yellow fever prevailed to such fright
full extent, became a victim of the pesti-
lence. When the first symptoms appeared
his wife sent the children into the country
and she remained to tend upon him. Her
friends warned her continually against such
rashness. They told her it would be death
to her, and no benefit to him. These arsu-
ments made no impression upon her affec-
tionate heart. She accordingly stayed and
watched with unremitting care. This, how
ever, did not avail TO save him; he grew
worse and worse, and finally died.


Those who went rouad with the dead
carts had visited the chsmber and seen that
the end was near. They now came to take
the body. His wife refused TO let it go
She told me she never knew how to ac-
count for it. but though he was perfectly
cold and rigid, and TO every appearance
quite dead, there was powerful impression
on her mind that life was not extinct. The
men we're overborne by the strength OF her
convictions, though their own reason was
opposed to it,


The half hour again came round, and
again was heard that solemn cry:-
AIRING out YOUR deadw
Year: 1863

HORRIBLE REBEL BARBARIrIEs.-The
Assistant Surgeon of the 99th Ohio regi-
ment. writes the following particulars OF
one of the most outrageous cases of rebel
barbarities which the history of the war
furnishes. Having spoken of scout OF
five or six days in which his brigade par
ticipated, he says


"While we were out on this last trip ]
dressed the wounds of soldier(12 lndi-
anal who had been taken prisoner with a
comrade. After tieing them both up to a
tree with their hands behind them, cap
tain deliberately shot them both-killing
the other on the spot. After shooting the
one l saw once through the face and once
through the neck, so that | cut the ball out
Just below the bend of the jaw on the opo-
site side, untieing him, they still found he
had life in him, when the fend slot him
again in the back of the head while he lay
writhing on the ground, the ball entering
on the ground, the ball entering just at the
base of the ear and coming out at the left
eye, completely destroying it.


"And yet with all the wounds, in the
head, neck and face, that man got up and
wandered around until be came across onr
brigade and so fell into our hands,"
Year: 1863

pS- It should concern the public to know the
fact that speculation in -four is assuming serious
aspect in this part of the State. We are informed
on good authority that there is man now in this
region, With several thousand dollars in gold, and
very large amount in Confederate bills, Purchas-
ing -four with the view OF sending 1t out OF the
S.ote The gold will doubtless be employed to
danreciate the Confederate currency. Until with
in few days past, -four could be had at s35 to
SAG ner barrel; but under the operations Of the
narty referred to it has gone up to sl2, as We are
informed. Salisbury Ratehmdn.
Year: 1863

DEATH BY DRowNING.-We regret to learn
that one day last week, Mr. James Neeley, of
Rowan county, in attempting to cross the South
Yadkin River, was drowned. The mother and
sister of the unfortunate young man, we learn,
were standing upon the shore and witnessed the
sad catastrophe without being able to render any
assistance to the son and brother. Mr. Neeley had
rendered gallant service in the present war, been
severely wounded, and was to have been united in
marriage to young lady of Iredell this week, had
he esurvived.-.StatesUille Erpress
Year: 1863

At The beginning Of tic year pen
nies were drug in the market,
owing to the immense quantities
thrown out by the mint in the effort
to relieve, in some degree, the scar
city Of small silver. Two months
ago great reluctance was mani
Tested by persons obliged to receive
a roll of twenty-five pennies in the
way of change, when they were cir
culated as regular currency. But
within q few weeks they have be-
come most unaccountably scarce,
and Notwithstanding the immcuse
numbers known to be in circula-
ton, small dealers cannot obtain
enough to meet the requirements
of their business, and storekeepers
and others are put to great incon-
vonience, and sometimes actual loss
for want OF them in making ncces-
sary change, as they are sometimes


obliged to refuse to sell commodi-
Year: 1863

ties or else lose in making change.
Brokers demand the unheard OF
premium ,,.of fifteen per cent. for
nickels, and get it too-which only
encourages the people to hold on to
them. We have already mention
ed some of the expedients resorted
to for the purpose of supplying the
place of the insignificant nickels,
but even they give little relief. The
question naturally arises What
becomes of all the pennies? But it
is not 20 easily answered. The
average monthly issue from the
mint is 4,SO0,O00 or 5000 worth.
If the country was overburdened
with this small coin q few months
since, and none have been exported
(Which caunot possibly be the case)
why the present scarcity? We can
not solve the enigma. They must
be laid by somewhere, and those
who have them should at once put
them in circulation. They are in
tended entirely for circulation at
home and the convenience Of the
public, and no good reason can be
urged for speculating in them. AS
there is no apparent cause tor their
scar>ity, we expect to see them
again abundant ere long.-Pitts6urg
Post.