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Year: 1863

From the close Of the war of the Revolution
to the breaking out OF the present civil strife,
period Of rs years, the American people en-
joyed greater amount of social, civil, and ma
tional happiness than has ever been enjoyed by
any people on the face of the earth, in all past
time; not even excepting the Jewish nation in
the full blaaq of ioolomons glory. There may
be mentioned as instances Of great national pros
perity, Greece, Rome, and the various kingdoms
of ancient and modern times, renowned for
wealth and power, but think it could be easi-
ly demonstrated, that not one of them all ever
experienced the extraordinary prosperity, the
perfect political and religious liberty, the light
taxation, and educational advantages that we
enjoyed up to the year of our Lord, 1851
But, as ''To whom much is given, much shall
be required" is divine law for individuals.
may we not suppose it likewise law given un-
to nations and peoples?


Nebuchadnezzar, we read in the book of the
prophet Daniel, was fully convinced that the
God of the Jews was the only true God, by the
miracle wrought in favor of those whom he had
thrown into the fiery furnace; and still more
confirmed in his belief by the revelation given
him in the dream which Daniel interpreted to
him; yet in y months after, he was so sweed
up with that pride and forgetfulness of God a.
gainst which he had been providentially warned,
that, giving utterance to the ingrattude of his
heart, he exclaimed: SIS not this great Baby
Ion that have built for the house of tho king
dom by the might of my power, and for the
honor of my majesty"


A great portion, perhaps, large majority of
the American people have, fear, sinned, after
the similitudc Of this Babylonsh king. AS
nation we have been very proud and boastful
of our GREAT COUNTRY, exhausting our
mother tongue in self-laudation for courage, en-
ergy of character and intelligence, above our
felow-men of other lands, (Which, if true, should
rather make us modest; too modest to boast
and too grateful to refuse our sincerest acknowl-
edgments to the Author of all good.)


We have called ourselves sovereign reoplc;"
each of us has, in casting his ballot for the
purpose Of selecting men to perform government
tai functions, felt the full share of his own i'm
portance as a citizen, and the sovereignty that
resides in him individually. We are therefore,
Individually as responsible to God for a proper
Year: 1863

| ital after the famous Bull Run disaster We


were the first to achieve victory on the Potomac,


and afterwards won fresh laures before Rich


mond, at Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam,


and lastly we were engaged in the bloody trag-
edy before Fredericksburg. On that occasion


we were the only division that got possession
of any of the rebel rifle pits, and took stand
Of colors as a trophy; and after losing 1880
OF our noble band, we were forced to fall back.
Now, Mr.. Editor, what we want to know is,
how does it come that, after participating in all
the principal battles in Virginia, we have not
only endured the storm and suffered all the pri-
vations of soldier in the camp, but many 9TH
ers, without murmurings II was because we
knew it became the duty of a soldier to obey
orders, and that it could not be helped But
the time has arrived that we can no longer re-
main silent the time has come when our friends
at home ought to know how we are treated.
Here we are, laying in miserable condition
hundreds have not shoe to their feet, nor
clothes to cover their nakedness, nor do we get
more than half rations. Those that have lit
tie money left can't buy the necesSaries of life
at the Commissary's, unless they wear shoulder
straps. We are getting alive with vermin, in





not received any pay for upwards Of Sir months,
and not only are we suffering, but our families
at home are starving. Many of them have
been compelled to 90 TO ;he poor houses to keep |
from perishing with cold and starvation, who |
would have been comfortable and happy, under |
the circumstances, had they received the small
pay of their husbands that are in the army |
Let it be known that we have nearly a year and |
q half yet to remain in the service andtfat we |
neither received the fifty dollars State bounty,
nor yet any bounty from the Government.


Now this must be remedied. If we had not
earned what is co ming to us we would not |
grumble; but we claim that we have, for we
have made three Major Generals; and, unless
we are treated soon with the justice that is
due to us, | assure you that the future honor
of the Pennsylvania Reserves is done for. We
can stand itno longer. This is not the voice {
of one, but the sentiment of the whole divi-
sion. Yours truly,
Year: 1863

THENEW YORK TINES is now recoGni zed through
out the country conspicuous among the journals es
the City Of New York for the


CHEAPNESS OF IT'S ISSUES,


ENTERPRISE OF IFS MANAGEMENT
Year: 1863

A GERMAN CONVENTIONAL National
Convention of German Liberals, consisting
Of delegations from German Associations in
the various States of the Union, will assem-
BILE in this city on the 18Th of next month.
The objects of the Convention, as they are
stated in the Waechter am Erie are,-to form
National Liberal organization, to adopt a
National platform, to appoint central man
aging committee, and TO discuss the proper
course Of action for German liberals at the
next Presidential election.
Year: 1863

A trial Of the Ferris gun was made on
Fire Island beach last week. The follow
ing is q report Of the trial;


aThe preliminary trials have now been
made, and range Of nearly nine miles OBJ
tained, and although the extreme range
balls have not been found, yet the proof
that they passed over certain points Of the
Island at q high elevation, and distant
from the gun six or seven miles, is ample
to- satisfy US that the point Of contact
with the earth WAS not less, in some Of the
shots, than eight or nine miles,
Year: 1863

What is honesty? Is it honest to eqivo-
cate? is it honest to be evasive and misti-
tying when direct proposition should be
made, or direct answer should be given
Is it honest to say one thing and to mean or
wish something very different to what one
says? Is it honest for members of quar-
terly meeting to ask preacher to stop in a
circuit when in their inner convictions Of
more than half the members of that Quar-
terly Meeting, they believe that the preacher
should be removed There is a conscious
ness it may be, that it would be best for
the preacher and for the circuit that he
should remove,-that it would be for the
interest of the cause in the circuit that he
was appointed on some other work and
anotherman take his place, but through some
delicacy, a kind of shrinking squemishness,
they will not act from honest conviction,
but carry out an equivating policy, and say
YES, when in the very heart Of them they
should say NO?


Christianity is open and frank, and can
did; there is little of the policy Of evasive-
ness in the Book that christians people pro-
fess to believe in and adopt as their system
Of action, and how it is that men protesting
to give heed to the great teachings Of that
Book should carry two sentiments in refer
ence to their conduct in regard to this thing
is past telling, and yet it is not unfrequent
that men are hear dto say, "well, thought
II was in my mind satisfied at the time
that ii would have been the best to have a
change, but didn't like to say anything"


What name should be given to such a
du0licitv as that. Is it hypocracy? or is
it some other contemplate thing that should
pasa with its shadow. 0, it is pityful that
members Of quarterly meetings-nen ofim-
portance in circuits, should in any way give
.countenanee to such thing. TO say the
least Of it, if it is not direct lie, it is a
desperate distortion Of honesty-a fright
I'll puckering of the truth.
Year: 1863

the lake, the car in which we were seated
barely skimming above the water, and
occasionally dip, dipping on the surface.
Talk Of Pegasus. Bonner teams and
other old fogy notions of speed Give
me the good balloon "Hercrles' with a
thirty mile an hour breeze, and Professor
Steiner holding the ribbons.


Talk of elixirs! Is there, can there
be any other elixir equal to that which
coursed through these veins when seated
in the car of the "Hercules" skimming
along the surface of old Lake Michigan
exhilarating to degree that you mast
shout, you mast cut up antics which un-
der other circumstances would lead to
the conclusion that you were fit sub
ject for a lunatic asylum


STRICKLAND.
Year: 1863

What fountain of comfort is to be found
in the thought of the Immortality of God
change is cur protection here "They
shall PERISH is the chronicle regarding
every thing on this side heaven. The firm
ament above US, the earth beneath US, the
elements around us, "all these things shall
be dissolved" Scenes of hallowed pleasure
they are fed! Friends, who sweetened
our pilgrimage with their presence-they
are gone! But here is a sure and safe an
chorage amid the worlds heaving ocean OF
vicis STUDIES. "Thou art the same" All
is changing but the Unchanging One! The
earthly scaffolding may give way, but the
living Temple remains. The reed may bend
to the blast, but the living Rock spurns and
outliyes the storm.
Year: 1863

History tells us that ancient Rome,
even in the times of festival, was always
as quiet as the grave after the closing in
of night-a fact which De Quincy thus
accounts for: "They went to bed early
in those ages, simply because their worthy
mother earth could not afford them can
dies. She, good old lady, or young la
dy, (for geologists know not whether she
is in that stage of her progress which
corresponds to gray hairs, or to infancy,
or to certain age, } she, good lady,
would certainly have shuddered to hear
of any of her nations inquiring for can
dies. Candles, indeed 7 she would say,
who ever heard of such a thing? And
with so much excellent daylight running
to waste as l have provided gratis ?
What will the wretches want next?
The Romans, therefore, who saw no joke
in sitting round table in the dark,
went off to bed as the darkness began.
Everybody did so. Old Numa Pomp'l-
ius himself was obliged to trundle of
in the dusk. Tarquinius may have been
avery superb fellow; but | doubt whether
he ever saw farthing rush light. And
though it may be thought that plots and
eonspiracies would flourish in such a
city of darkness, it is to be considered
that the conspirators themselves had no
more candles than honest men. Both
parties were in the dark.
Year: 1863

NEW YORK, Nov. Il 1863


We much regret 10 read In your last Wednesday ed
ton the remarks which Rev Henry Ward Bsccher the
reception given him at Plymouth church expressed on
the condition. character and education Of the swiss
naturally lead TO believe that he intelligent
and keen observer Of human Had those
come from almost any other source, should have
passed them with . smile.


Does any one who ever visited Switzerland recognize
she picture which Mr.. d. drawr No one to our know
ledge ever passed such judgment on us. In every
country the population made up Of rich and poor Of
take the trouble 10 consult statistics be will find that
regard to pauperism other country has n smaller pro
portion OF poor than Switzerland and that IN regard
moral mental and bodily development amongst
the foremost Of nations.


II we are rightly Informed, Mr. n made very short
She country which most by travellers and the
porspla Of which IN made up almost exclusively
Of hotel keepers drivers guides and their trains
nowhere are considered fair representatives OF people
Did Mr. b. visit the rich and prosperous Eastern and
western cant0usy Was he 10 Geneva, Lausanne Raslc
Zurich, whose benevoent institutions and excellent
schools have . European name'


We will admit that In some Of the meet mountainous
districts Of Switzerland people poor and have 10 toll
hard for their daily subsistence Bot is 20 be taken
into eohsideration that the very beauties and submtes
Of nature which every one 90 much sdmlres are the
pot want OF either moral or bodily energy. No gold


nes have yet been discovered In the Alps nor DO they
yield either coal or iron and glaciers and snovneds
may be beautiful 70 look at, but neither wheat nor corn
can b. reaped from them any than fgs can from
thistlcs. some SWISS ktsIDENrs or NEW YORK
Year: 1863

preliminary meeting Of tho shipwrights OF New
York and vicinity, Was held the 10th inst In the
Cooper Institute, as will be seen by advertisement
elsewhere his was 10 make arrangements for holdns
a grand mass meeting 10 demand lty per cent higher
wages than they now receive. They invite kindred
trades TO join in the movement.
Year: 1863

Emancipation Society calling his attention to
the new iron-clad Rebel rams.


A few more victories of our armies will be
needed to convert Earl Russell and his col
leagues to the views of The London Times. In
the meanwhile we wish, if it is still necessary,
to assure our English cousins that the American
people are unit upon the question Of the
responsibility which England incurs by shame
lcssly violating the law of neutrality, and that
when the proper time for demanding satisfae-
ton will have come, ell dissension in our ranks
will cease.
Year: 1863

Everything useful or necessary is cheap.
Walking is the most wholesome exercise
water the best drink; and plain food the
most nourishing aud healthy diet. Even
in knowledge, the most useful is the easi-
est acquired. And just now, it is tho
easiest thing IN the world to go soldier
Year: 1863




The editor of the Louisville Journal has
recently visited the Army of the Cumber-
land, and says that the numerous -onoarnP
ments are the neatest the handsomest the
healthiest and the ncst comfortable ever
seen in this or any country, and the troops
exhibit discipline that would have done
honor to the veterans of Napoleon or We'll
lington. The soldiers are evidently burn
ing with noble and enthusi site desire to
meet the enemy and put an end to the war
by one grand and crushing blow, but they
have learned to repress all expressions and
feelings Of discomfort, satisfied that their
action is under the control Of brave and
patriotic men who are entitled in all things
10 their utmost confidence.
Year: 1863

TIE LoCUsr.-This insect has not been
much gratifed atthe cool weather which We
have been having, and has not therefore
come out very briskly. A warm day or so,
however, will soon make him adventurous,
and we expect that before the end of a fort
night the young gentleman will possess the
land.
Year: 1863

DY inquiry at this office. or No. 92 Exchange St.,
ID one can hear of u chance to buy MILK
ROUTE in which there is not a customer who has
failed TO pay his monthly bills. favorable chance
is thus offered to any one who may wish to engage in
the business or to enlarge his present "route."


noVl2 eodtf
Year: 1863

By reference to the advertisement of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad, 1t will be seen that
the O'Clock train, from this city to New York,
has been taken of, making one train less per
daV
Year: 1863

Awake. awake for the flaming East
Is red with the coming day;
Ny struggling breast disdains its rest,
And | haste DER the hills away
Up from the valley up from the plain!
Up from the rivers side
For come with gush, and torrents rush,
And there's wealth in my swelling tide.
am fed by the melting rlls that start
Where the sparkling snow peaks CLEAN;
Ny course is free, and with greatest glee
/ leap in the SUMS broad beam.
Tho torn from the channels deep and old
have worn through the craggy bill,
Yet flow in pride as my waters glide,
And there's mirth in my music still.
sought the shore of the sounding sea


From the far Sierra's hight,
With starry breast and snow capped crest,
foamed in path of light;
But they bore me thence in winding way
They fettered me like slave,
And as serls of old were sold for gold,
50 they bartered my soil-stained wave.
Through the dim tunnel, down the dark shaft
Search for the shining ore;
Hoist it away to the light of day


Which it never has seen before
Spade and shovel, mattock aud pick


Ply them with eager haste
For my golden shower is sold by the hour,
And the drops are too dear to waste
Lift me aloft to the mountain brow


Fathom the deep blue vein
And III silt the soil for the shining spoil,
As sink to the valley again
The swell OF my swarthy breast shall bear
Pebble and rock away, [length,
Tho they brave my strength, they shall yield at
But the gittering gold shall stay.
Mine is no stern and warrior march,


Nor stormy trump aud drum;
No banners CLEAN in my darkened stream
AS with conquering step Gomez
But touch the tributary earth


Till it owns moDarch's sway,
And with eager hand, from conquered land,
bear its wealth away.
Awake awake there are loving hearts
In the land you left afar
There are fearful eyes in the homes you prize,
As they gaze on the western star.
Then up from the valley up from The hill
Up from the rivers side
For come with gush, and torrents rush,
And there's wealth in my swelling tide!
Year: 1863

AUBURN, Culpepper Co., October l5.


To the Editor of the Examiner


SIR: Yours is the only paper published
in Richmond to which | could make an ap-
plicatlon with any likelihood of success, in
order to set myself right before ths public;
and You will pardon me for saying that
am by no means confident of obtaining such
a privilege at your hands; but think have
a right to expect it, inasmuch as you have
chosen to publish an extract from letter
written by correspondent for, and pub
lished in, the New York Herald, aceompa-
MED with some uncalled for and ill-natured
comments of your own. But do not ask
you to publish for me without making
suitable charge, which am more than will
ling to pay. l hope, therefore, you will al
low me to say, that whilst / have long since
forsborne to make corrections OF any mis-
representations of me by the public press,
vet there are some of such a nature, and
calculated to beget so muce prejudics IN tue
public mind, that do not feel | would be
acting wisely or properly to let them pass
unnoticed.


lam willing at all times to be held to a
proper responsibility for anything may say
or do; dut tt am not willing to be so held
for what Others, who may draw upon their
fancies for their facts, may choose to say for
me, or of me. have seen several state
msnts in the Richmond papers, lately, copl-
ed from Northern papers, calculated to ex-
cite popular feelings against me, which had
no foundation in truth.


E;rs< That bod boa1 accostpd nv some
Indiana Major, then engaged in skirmish
with some of the confederate cavalry, and
on being asked which way they had gone
(which, by the way, if he was skirmishing
with them he ough to have known for him
self without asking me) I replied: II was
not at liberty to tell him, as | was on my
parole" and then very grstuitously added
that '1 was a Union man without any IFS or
buts.n Now, whatever my opinions and
position on this subject may be, it is not
true that have had any such interview
have seen no such Major, and had no such
questions put to me, and have given no such
answer.


Secondly. In the letter, a portion Of
which you have copied, am represented
by the writer as having said; 81 wished the
federal generals knew half that | knew Of
the rebels and their resources and inten-
tions." l have only to say that | said no
such thing, aud nothing that would bear a
resemblance ID it. And when | read the
Herald containing it, I mentioned the error
to two other eorresI ondents Of that paper,
and asked them to have it corrected, which
they promised should be done. l see moth;
ing in it, if l had said it, to be complained
of by other parties, as it matter not what
knew of their intentions and resources,
provided l did not disclose them to others.
I complained of it because it made me ap-
pear in the ridiculous attitude Of pretending
Year: 1863

The larger troy feed on the smaller and
SO on.


believe the 2sth has officers as free
from sordid motives as any in the SER
vice. What the corrnpting Influences
of the army may yet do the future alone
can tell. / am very sorry TO say that
the health Of orr Lieut.. Col. has been
declining for some time though as ye,
he keeps at his post. He is a good
officer and we should regret necessity
for his absence from the regiment. The
people Of the north have 10 idea of the
dcsolation in the South. Where the
war touches finger there it takes an
arm offhere. Where our army have not
wasted, Guerilla bands have exactcd a.
mos. the last thing of food and clothing
from the Inhabitants. Famine Will fol-
low the wasting trail of wal in many
IL would even now call loudly at many
a door but for the Gotten trade
which is being carried On. But soon
the last bale Of cotton will be sold and
then God pity the poor women and
children. Scarce any Gotten was raised
in all this section last year and none
will be this and Gotten is all they have
to market. / hope for humanity sake
the war may. he ended ere the conscripts
family feel the wasting woes of famine.
The only hope Of the son'h is that nor.
thcrn democrats lrailo:s) may soon
divide the north, paralyzc the govern
mcnt AMI thus give item success. De,
stroy this hope and the south would
aisarm within three months. Marx it
ye men who croak for peace by com.
promise. Il.
Year: 1863

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, May 10th.


cannot attend the meeting at the capitol
this evening, but | wish to state my opinion
in regard to the arrest of Mr. Valandigham.
1t is an act which has brought dishonor up
on our country. 1t is full Of danger to our
persons and our homes. 1t bears upon its
front a conscious violation of law and justice.
Acting upon the evidence of detailed inform.
ers, shrinking from the light of dav, in the
darkness of night. armed men violated the
house of an American citizen and tur,ivelv
bore him away to military trial, conducted
without those safeguards known to the pro
ceedings of our judicial tribunals. The trans
action involved series of offences against
our most sacred rights. |; intertered with
the freedom of speech. it molested our rights
to be secure in our homes against unreason
able searches and seizures; it pronounced senl
ence without trial, save one which was a
mockery, which insuled as well as wronged.
The perpetrators now seek to impose pun
shment, not for an oifense against law but
for the disregard of an invalid order, pat
forth in the utter disregard of the principles
of civil liberty. If this proceeding is APP
proved by the government, and sustained bv
the people, it is not merely a step toward
revolution--it is a revolutions; it will not
only lead TO military despotism-it estab,
lishes military despotism. In this aspect it
must be accepted or in this aspect it must be
rejected. If it is upheld our liberties are
overthrown; the safety of our persons, secu-
rty of our property will hereafter depend
upon the arbitrary will of such orders as may
be placed over US, while our constitutional
guarantees will be broken down. Even now
the governors and courts OF some of the
great western States have sunk into insgnifi-
canoe before the despotic powers claimed and
exercised by military men who have been
sent into their borders. Ii is a fearful thing
to increase the danger which now overhangs
us by treating the State authorities with
contempt. The paople Of this country nov
wait with the deepest anxiety the decisions
OF the administration upon these acts. lIav-
ING given 1t generous support in the con-
duct OF the war, we pause to see what kind
of government it is for which we are ask
TO pour out our blood and our treasures -
The action of the administration will deter
mine in the minds of more than one-baif of
the people of the loyal States whether this
war is waged to put down rebellion at the
south or destroy free institutions at the
north. We look for its decision with most
solemn solicitude.


Signed lIoRArIo SEYMOUR.