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Year: 1865

GSNEAs71cs.-Wcc call attention to the advertise.
mcnt OF the Normal Gymnastic Institute and the
Gymnastic Academy, IN the educational column
lhet should interest all who would Geek amuse.
mcnt recreation, health and strength.
Year: 1865

check the advance, would at least delay
it, and by passing over the road IN adj
vance, put in the very worst possible
condition for the force pressing on be-
hind. From Buchanan the railroad
might be reached, over bad roads in a
days march, or the enemy might pursue
the maoadamized road to Salem, distant
some thirty miles; but it lis plain that
the period necessary to accomplish the
march would be sufficient to atferd time
to intercept and. thwart the whole pro
ject If, however, the enemy should not
strike for BuchananOn leaving Staunton,
but make directly for Lynchburg, dis
tant about seventy miles, he would still
be so much delayed, by the condition OF
the roads that an ample force could be
interpOsedfor the protection Of that city.
The same difficulty would also obstruct
him if he were to turn off at right angles
at Staunton and cross the Blue Ridge in
the direction of fCharlottesville, Gordons-
vile, and Richmond. Looking at ali
the circumstances of the case, we think
it quite probable that the enemy would
find that the expedition would be pre-
mature, and likely to end in failure II
not in grief The absurdity of endeavor-
ing thus TO intercept General Lees re
treat at this early day is amusing
Year: 1865

From tho Richmond Dispatch March p
FELLOW CITIZENS: The shattered con
dition of my health with my advanced
age, considerably transcending the three
score wears and ten allotted to man, hav-
ing disqualified me for the discharge of
the representative duties which you did
me the honor two years ago by an unso-
licited choice to contide to me, feel con
strained by sense Of duty and proprie-
ty to resign into your hands the trust |
then received from you, and which | am
now physically incapable of executing
| have honestly and faithfully endeav-
ored to serve you according to the meas
ure of my ability, but, as | apprehended
when you called Inc from my retirement.
my strength and constitution have ut
terly sunk under the attempt. For the
last six weeks | have been confined to
my bed by a severe and complicated i'll
ness, and the consequence has been much
to my chagrin and regret, that you have
been misrepresented i'll Congress upon
some of the most important questions
which have occupied the attention Of
that body during its present session. At
my time of life, and with the shock al
ready received from repeated attacks OF
disease, brought on in the public service
during the last three or four years, |
have no right to expect, whatever may
be the result of my present illness, that
in the future | shall he better able to
serve yOn than at present Your inter
ests and the interest of the gIeat cause
in which we are engaged are OF too inn
pOrtantka character to be committed to
so precautions and feeble guardianship
The labOrs of the present session of Con-
gress are drawing to close, and the pc
riOd of the general State elections being
now at hand, when my place can be sup
piled without putting you to the trouble
of special election, | have thought the
moment most suitable for resigning into
your hands, Is | now do, the remnant of
nv representative term One word only
which my strength permits in cOnclu-
sion, besides the grateful recollection /
shall always cherish of the confidence
and encouragement with which you have
sustained me through long career of
public service, we shall still DO bound
together Ivy common sentiments and
common interests in the future as in the
past. My constant prayers shall be ad-
dressed TO Heaven to make that futuro
as propitious and glorious as heart can
wish. But whatever it be, share it
with you


Whittier thou goest, will go; where
thou lodgest, | will lodge; thy people
shall he my people, and thy God my God;
and where thou dest will | die, and
there will be buried


Your friend and servant,


w ~ RIVES
Year: 1865

well, therefore, to drop all reference to
this gentleman us a peace man, and here
after recognize him as the cotton COM
missioner, or so-cailed peace messenger
Trading cotton for bacon is a business
that requires no mystery, and if Mr.. Lin
coin desires cotton and tobacco, and Is
willing to exchange TOR them provisions
at proper prices, why not send his bacon
minister here openly and avow his pur-
pose to drive trade even amidst the din
of warl The spectacle Of two nations
fighting and trading at one and the same
time is novel, and Europe must again
recognize the great step made by tins
country in war trade as we'll as In war
implements. If the United States has
outstripped the world in iron-clad ships
big guns, great armies, and huge debts,
il has also taken the fist step toward
big trade with its enemy. Having
blockaded all the ports and etfeotually
shut Europe out from the great staples
of these States, il monOpolizes commerce
by opening neutral ground for trade
This is said to be Mr.. Singletons and
Judge Hughes business. Trade is what
these people want; but whether they
want trade only with the Yankees is n
matter we think extremely doubtful
Perhaps the Yankees may be compelled
te open Norfolk as neutral port. 1t is
not probable the European nations Will
permit the United States to blockade
the coast and then open the inland trade,
which is the effect of law now existing
in the United States The particular
mission of Mr.. Singleton being one of ba-
con and beef, ~ well as OF cotton and to-
baceo, has no political significance what
ever His movements are therefore OF no
importance But, at the same time, the
public do not relish his return to Rich
mond
Year: 1865

OswEGo, March Ga meeting of citi-
zens held at the Board of Trade for the
purpose of adopting measures for the
better defense of the city, in view of the
anticipated raid by rebels and their
sympathizers now concentrating at Hal
flax, Mayor Grant presided and the meet,
ing was addressed by some of our most
influential men The Mayor stated that
he called upon the commander at Fort
Ontario, and that sufficient force would
be detailed to patrol the streets al night
4 committee was appointed to select and
appoint detectives to watch the stran-
gers now in town, and such aS may arrive,
until further action could he taken in
the matter The recent draft has added
to the influx Of strangers.
Year: 1865

A Southern officer writes humorously to the
Mobile Register, in reply to the accusation of a
Northern newspaper that the Southern people
still praise their own Generals and neglect to
praise those who have saved the Republic. He
says:


Nor do l sing pans to the Union Generals
for saving the Republic, for at the time the
thing was done it struck me they saved the
wrong one. 1t may be that | ought to feel
grateful to the Generals who thrashed me and
and all my friends within an inch of our lives,
but, in the language of Mr. A. Ward, 'I don t
see it in those lamps" We all admire the ar
tstic beauty Of the style in which the Union
Generals put us through; we make no attemptto
suppress or disguise the fact that the thing was
done handsomely in point of skill; but to de-
nounce us as set of ungrateful sons of guns,
because I'VE don't expend our ink and elo-
quence in constantly saying SO, would be called,
in some countries, a premeditated attempt to
add insult to injury.
Year: 1865

Mr.. W. L. Porter, OF Charleston, In his let
ter accepting the nomination for Lieutenant
Cover of South Carolina, speaks of the labor
question in this sensible fashion:


II do not despond for the future The qualities our
people have heretofore displayed will carry them
through the difficulties that surround them. The
entire disorganzaton of their system of labor puts
them to great disadvantage, but they have compen-
sations in their soil and climate; and the young
of the State, Injured to hardships in the field, are
earnestly seeking work in any shape and in every
direction. This spirit with patience, perseverance
and practical good sense will inaugurate hew
of industry, which, under the favor of heaven
may yet result in unmeasured blessings to people,


There is good sense in this. The regenera-
ton of the South is to come in great degree
from the elevation of labor. The develop
ment of industry and the destruction of the
absurd theory of the disgrace of work are
points which a few of the earnest men of the
Southern States are beginning to recognize,
and this candidate for public Office early puts
himself right on the record,
Year: 1865

1t is announced from Washington that per
sons desiring to obtain the body of de
ceased soldier must be prepared to make an
affidavit before justice of the peace or a no
tary public to the effect that he is duly author
lied to receive said body, and at the same time
state the company and regiment to which he
formerly belonged. All applications should
be made at the Office of James NJ. Moore,
Assistant -Quartermaster, where record is
kept of the deaths of large proportion of
those who have fallen during the war, their
company, regiment and rank, together with
their conjugal condition, residence of widow
or re ativc, cause of DEATH and exact locality
Of their graves. The affidavit must be left at
Captain Moore office, where he will receive
an order for eXhuming the body. The Gov
ernment makes no charge for furnishing all
information relative to the interment of de-
ceased soldiers, but after it has granted :he
necessary permission to exhume their bodies,
relinquishes all care and supervision, and the
corpse must be taken from the cemetery by
private conveyance, and prepared for ship
ment to its destination by the same means. 1t
is essential that a body be so prepared as to
prevent any unpleasant odor, which can be
done by means of disinfecting powder, Or by
sealing it in a metallic or air-tight deodorizing
case.
Year: 1865




Interesting Order 10 tEso r0baeco Trade.


A meeting of the tobacco manufacturers of
Lynchburg, Va, was held on Saturday last to
hear the report of a gentleman who has been
eZerting himself at Washington to have the
discrimination made in taxation against the
manufacturer removed. Under regulations
heretofore announced, the tax is levied on the
manufacturer who may hold tobacco, while
that in second hands is free of tax, while re
naming in an insurrectionary State This was
manitestly unjust, and we are glad to state
that the discrimination has been removed. and
all holders are now on the same footing. The
Secretary of the Treasury, i'll announcing the
change, saws:


''lt is found that considerable quantities of
manufactured products have been retained BY
the manufacturer in his own hands as the
safest mode of investing his property until the
return of peace, that his retention was de-
termined on and carried out without the know
ledge or opportunity OF knowledge of the law
subjectng this property to heavy taxation on
sale, and that large part of the manufacture
SO retained having been much detcrioratcd in
value by the lapse of time and want of proper
attention, and would not now sell for a sum
equal to the tax. A state of things so de-
structive to the usefulness of property and to
the prosperity Of the manufacturing classes is
as adverse to the integrity Of the Government
as to those of the community. For these rea-
sons it is hereby ordered that all articles, in
whatsoever hands found, which can be shown
to the satisfaction of the assessor to have been
manufactured before the establishment of thc
district, shall be held free from the present as
sessment and collection Of tax, unless trans
ported beyond the limits of The State lately
in insurrcciion -
Year: 1865

SPECCLATION.-A New 1Ork correspondent
tells this story:


A gentleman largely connected with the oil
speculation, and connected with a dozen or
more oil companies, rolled up fortune, it is
said, of half a million in few months. He
made splendid speculation in the purchase of
splendid building down town, for which he
was offered fifty thousand dollars above what
he gave for it the day after he bought it. He
held on to his oil stocks until he lost all he
made and failed. His building was sold for
eighty thousand dollars less than he gave for
it, and he is a bankrupt specimen of the
sudden rise and sudden fall of men and for
tunes in this city
Year: 1865




The Boston Adcertiser says: When General
Sherman on his great march arrived at Fayette-
vile, N. c., he communicated with Whining
ton by steamers on the Cape Fear river, and
on leaving there sent down to Wilmington all
the sick and wounded of his army, and also all
negroes that had followed Ii since leaving Sa-
vannah, estimated at some ten or twelve thous
and. This great collection Of men. women
and children in most awful state of desttu-
ton, were huddled together, and for nearly Il
month exposed to almost continual rains, sue
ceeded by intense heat, with scarcely any shell
ter; and although rations were for some months
distributed to them, but few had any proper
utensils for cooking, and a large part of the
food was consumed nearly raw.


The consequence was, as might have been
expected, that disease was soon rife among
them-nearly all the old and feeble, with near
ly every one of the children, died. The disease
soon assumed a typhoid character, and when
attacked, the strongest lived but two or three
days, and for many days the deaths averaged
at least forty per diem. Collins could not be
made as fast as they were wanted At last the
disease abated, but the condition of these peo-
pie can hardly be said to have improved. The
following is extracted from a business letter to
gentleman Of this city, dated Wilmington,
September 81


"Our people here are almost all poor and
destitute, and God only knows how they can
get through the next winter. | fear many of
the negroes will die from want of any thing
to sustain life. There is how, and has been
all summer, a harvest of death among them,
and | should not be surprised if one-tourth of
their number die by next spring. There are
ten deaths to one birth. The small pox,,is
now added to the former diseases, and is very
fatal. There no provisions for the freed
men and no work. We must organize and
appeal for aid to the North for this miserable
people Over ten thousand have died on this
river and in our neighborhood within few
months
Year: 1865

Men are apt not to care. how they stoop, so
that what they stoop for may be worth the
lifting. Throw ingots and Jewels. into a cess
pool, and what crowd Of the incest and eV-
en-whitest hand folks would scramble for
the scattered treasure!
Year: 1865

All laws of force in this State, at the aGop-
tion of this Constitution, and net .repugnant
hereto, shall so continue, until, altered or re-
pealed by the General Assembly, except where
they arc temporary, in which case they Stall
expire at the times respectively limited for
their duration, If not continued by ACT OF the
General Assembly.
Year: 1865

The county papers of this State are in
the MIDST of a storm. and it remains to be
seen how many will weather it through.
Many have already been compelled to
discontinue their publication, owing to
the advance in the cost Of paper type, ink
and labor. The profits of a country l.ap.r
in ordinary times is far from lucrative,
and now since we are in the midst Of
war, with taxation and higher wages, they
have to struggle hard for an existence
The dailies Of the cities owe shadow eve-
rything in the shape of weeklies, Yet the
county papers should be sustained by the
citizens Of the county in which they are
published. They are the organs Of local
public sentiment, the chroniclers Of local
events, the trumpeters of local greatness,
in their columns is found the history of
the community in which they are publish
ed. They should receive their support
from home because they are published at
home-Er
Year: 1865

As a matter Of general interest we re-
produce the propositions which it is stated
the peace commission have been authori-
zed to make President Divis, as General
Grant styles him. three III number. each
and all Of which are said to be final


|. Amnesty TO ALL without regard to
age, sex, or position, AM irrespective of
what he CT they may have done since the
war began This includes all the rebel
civil aud military officials fr om Jeff Davis
down.


>. The constitution as it is and the
union as it Was. OF course some radical
changes in both the union and the consti-
irtion have been made by the party now
in power, WHICH will not be altered in the
least. Fat the point is that the south is
TO hc ;ermltted to return to the union
with ali the rights and privileges whicn It
held before am cf Tie states seeded.


5. The total abolition Of slavery. From
this point the president will not retract
one iota:: lie does not insist upon the
immediate abolition OF slavery. but ne
does insist that such measures be taken
by the southern states as will secure its
extinction within reasonable len,,;n of
time. This is sine qua non of the res
toration of peace.
Year: 1865

doing SO, and yet think that you and Peter
might safely brave the danger BY which
two or three, but hundreds and thousands
are continually perishing? Dram drink
ing, Ned, seems to me like the Eagle
Tower Some may make the venture and
come off with safety, though none with
profit; but many fall headlong and perish;
and it is too late TO think of turning when
the head begins to swim. Be as wise in
the one case as in the other, my boy, and
keep ON the safe ground" ;"


Ned went home thoughtful, had long
talk with Peter, and within month was
enrolled as an abstainer.-[The Adviser.
Year: 1865

The coal oil excitement in Crawford
county, Indiana, continues to increase,
and operators in that section already see
fortunes i'll the future from the abundance
OF this great article of commerce which
seems destined at no distant day to sup
plant every other article for the purposes
of light and lubrication.


Some ten or twelve wells are now being
sunk by the aid of steam machinery. and
a gentleman who arrived on Friday from
Leavenworth, informs Us that soil was
struck in one Of them on the day pre-
vious, which was flowing most copious!y.
Parties are daily arriving at the locality
where these wells are being sunk, from
the celebrated oil regions of Pennsylvania,
and all agree that the prospects for oil in
the region now b ing worked are excel
lent.


We may soon expect to see Crawford
county settled b. dense population and
its wealth increasing with rapidity un-
rivalled in the history of our state
Lands in the oil regions are selling with
astonishing rapidly, and men of capital
and enterprise will soon occupy them and
develop their hidden resources Of wealth.
1t is not doubted by men well posted in the
characteristics and ''signs" Of oil bearing
lands that petroleum will be found in i'm
mense quantities in most localities in
Crawford county. The excitement IN
rcgard to the discoveries being daily made
is very great and Leavenworth we under
stand, is filled with persons from abroad
anxious to invest in lands n. \. Lcdg-
pr
Year: 1865

Gov. Morton has well earned the
warm encomiums which the copper


head press all over the country are
showering upon him. One would


think that, knowing the large number


of voters in the State of Indiana who


can neither read nor write, the Gov


error would be somewhat chary, for
'pride's sake, about speaking Of lite


rary attainment as necessary quail
fication Of an elector. There are
plenty Of Hoosiers living within ten
miles Of Indianapolis, who have not
been in the city during the last twenty
years, and who cannot tell the New
York Tribune from the Cincinnati
Enquirer. Thousands Of the Gov
ernor's enlightened(2 J constituents (if
we are correctly informed have been
s'voting for jackson" ever since he
first ran for President. A friend of
ours that passed through certain
portion of the State not long since,
informs us that he found the people
in that section in much distress, being
apprehensive of another draft, and
not having get heard that Lee had
surrendered and that the war was
over. Hoosiers had better get the
beam out of their own eye, and, by
liberal system Of common school
education, try to elevate the general
character Of their State.
Year: 1865

We have Of late been much trou-
bled in the delivery Of our paper to
the city subscribers. We wish to in
form our friends that we are doing
the best we can under the circum-
stances, and if papers fail to reach
their owners, we would thank them
to inform us at once. Any subscriber
can get his paper, should itmiss com
ing to him, by sending to our Office.


Our friends must remember that ours
is new enterprise, and we have a
vast amount Of labor to perform. -
They must be charitable. r-
Year: 1865

The freedmen seem to be doing
better in Arkansas than in any other
Southern State. The reason is, that
they are not SO much molested by
malicious white men who are deter
mined to do all in their power to
make emancipation failure,
Year: 1865

A BLUNDERiNc FEDERAL GENERAL--Eg-
change Of Prisoners Int frrpted, Some days
ago we stated that Gen. Hatch and Ger
Forrest acting under authority from thei,
respective Governments bad entered into
an agreement to exchange ten thousand
prisoners of war at Esstport, Miss. The
understanding was perfect, and the poor,
halfstaryed Union prisoners were on the
way to Federal lines, when one of our
Generals, in command Of q cavalry ex
pedition, being ignorant OF the arrange
ent, made q raid on the main raiIfoad
in Mississippi, and destroyed sonqo fifteen
miles of the line, thus completely sever
ing all communication. The Union sol.
diers, by this destruction, were unable to
reach Eastport, where every provision
had been made fer their reception and
comfort.


They were returned to their dreary
prisons and left to bitterly mourn their
fate. It was a cruel disappintment to
them, yet no blame can attach to any
one. The destruction of the railroad
was another blow aimed at the life of the
Confederacy, and one calculated to has
ten its finsl doom. There was no bad
faith in the matter, for the general who
made the raid was ignorant of the ex
pected arrival of the captives. We are
glad to be able to state that a new ar
rangement hos been entered into, and
the exchange now will take place at
Vickshurg. The Federal soldiers are
already on the way 10 that point. They
will have TO march many weary mile,
and, in heir weak condition, this severe
ly tax their feeble power. This, howev-
err is preferable to cheerless prison life


Louisville Journal
Year: 1865

People are very apt to be mistaken
in this affair Of leisure. There are very
few men who put every hour Of theil
time to the best use. Often those who
have the least to do don't half do tha
little, while those who are most engag
ed do every thing thoroughly. I'll give
a plain illustration drawn from every
days experience. IF you want any mat
ter, whether of profit or charity, done
expeditously, and we'll done too, go moi
to the man who half bis time stands Of
sits with his hands in his breeches pock
cts, but to the very identical person
who being a thorough business doing
man is always at work. That is the
man for you. An idler from habit re-
CARDS every thing that requires a little
labor, study or confinement as an an
looks on a mole hiH. 1T seems like a
mountain. But an industrious man
looks at his labor before him with tn,
eye ofa man who is not afraid of it,
And here is the secret spring Of hi:
ability he does not loiter or hesitate
he acts promptly at once.-[Cor. Gene
see Farmer.