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Year: 1864

There is no heart bat hath its inner anguish


There is no eye but hath with tears been wet
There is no voice but hath been heard 10 languish
Ger hours of darkness it can neier forget.
There is no check however brightits roses,


But perished buds beneath its hues are hid
No eve that in its dewy light rePoses.


But broken star-beams tremhle meath its id-
There is no lip. howe'er with laughter ringing.
However bright and gay its words may be,
But ii hath trembled at some dark upspringing
OF stern affiietion and deep misery.
We all are brothers in this land Of dreaming.
Ye, hand NETS hand, and eye to eye replies
Nor dream We that beneath eye all beaming
The flower of life in broken beauty lies.
o blessed light that glids our night of sorrow,
balm of GiIead, for our healing found,
We know that peace will come with thee to-mor


row,


And that Affections spring not from the ground
Year: 1864

The INCREASE OF INMIGRATIoS.-The Eng
lIsh press and public, says the New I ork Times,
are greatly distressed at the immensely increas-
ing emigration from Ireland to this country.
The weekly returns here show that Europe is
throwing the most stalwart and possibly the
most valuable portion of her population into
our cities bythousands. For years immigration
has not been so large as it is now. The demand
for labor consequent upon the war; the vacant
places to be filled in the workshops, farms and
factories throughout the land, from which
thousands have gone forth to battle for the
Union aud the advanced rate of wages which
labor commands, are, 20 doubt, the inducements
which have quickened emigration. And it is
only beginning for when the war is over, there
will be an illimitable field for European aborers
in the South In the course Of year or two,
there will be room and abundant employment
for some three or four millions of foreign labor
ers. and of course, according to the system of
demand and supply. they will come here We
are therefore but in the infancy of an immense
immigration.
Year: 1864

4 NEW MATERIAL IN WARFARE.-C Chloride
Of Nitrogen viii, it is said, soon be utilized as
an implement Of war. It's employment would
seem likely to put an end to all war. Mr.
Isham Baggs an English chemist, in announc-
ing his discovery. proposes to carry up his
composition in balloons. and drop it from the
air in the midst of armies and fortresses. The
very mention Of this compound" he goes on to
say. "as d proposed clement in modern warfare,
may possibly provoke smile among chemists.
who know that the most accomplished Of their
number would scarcely daFe to experiment with
it in quantities larger than a grain OF mustard
seed. and even thea only at a respectful distance,
and under guard at the moment of its detona-
ton. And yet not one of those chemists will
be bold enough to deny that. with two or three
chemically clean carb0ys of this terrible com
pound present in city or fortress, however
strong. the slightest cuttings Of phosphorus or
q single drop of olive oil coming in contact
with it, would in one instant decide the fate Of
the place and It's Inhabitants" Nh Baggs
then proceeds to affirm that be has discovered
a method Of overcoming the contingent difficult
ties, and that he is able to manufacture this
deadly material with perfect safety, and in any
required quantity, and that it can be safely
conveved to its destination. - Summary Of
Meilca! Seienec.
Year: 1864

No RECoXsTRUCTIoS on SLAvERY.-At
recent New England dinner, james T. Brady
took occasion to say


| say to those gentlemen for whom within
the feeble limits OF my capacity have made
all the sacrifices that belong to young life or
an old experience all the politicians who tell
YOU that there never can come n tine when
there can be a reconstruction of this Union not
founded oB slavery, are telling you lie. We
thought we could make any sacrifice to retain
that institution. so long as it could continue
consistently with the judgement of men but
say for myself here and hereafter, that | never
mean to fight that battle again. Cheers 1t
is ended The great God of the universe has
terminated it and the rebellion, terrible as it is.
costly in life, in blood and in treasure, is, 10 my
humble ard reverent conception, one OF the
mysterious ways in which the justice OF God is
being worked out against the preludices and
falsehoods Of men.
Year: 1864

Oriental BAYADEREs-T Bayaderes OF
the Fast are remarkable among the women of
the world for their grace and powers of physi-
cal endurance. They are trained from child
hood as gymnasts; they carry heavy jars on
their heads to improve strength, gait, and fig
ure; they fly kites to acquire "statuesque at
titudes and graceful surprises they must
learn to lay the back of their hand fiat against
their wrist, to partially bend the arm in both
directions at the elbow, and, inclining the
whole person backward from the waist, to
sweep the floor with their hair. Some of
them are marve4 of airiness aud agility, pre-
senting 10 the fascinated eye that follows them
through the mazes Of some bewildering waltz.
the living embodiment ef the poetry of mo-
ton"
Year: 1864

LINCOLN AND JoHSsox.-The Springfield
EMissonril Journal says:


We this week place the name Of Abraham
Lincoln at the head Of our columns for the next
Presidency. Mr. Lincoln may have said and
done things which we have not fully approved,
vet we believe him honest. patriotic and devoted
to the best interests of the country. possessing
more ability than any other man 10 successfully
manage the Ship of State uuder present cir
cumstances. We shall therefore keep bis name
before our readers until we are convinced that
be is not the choice of the Radical Union men
Of the patton We also hoist the name of
Andrew johnson for the Vice Presidency. His
unyielding adherence to bis country in the
midst of traitors. entities him TO the confidence
Of all loyal men everywhere.
Year: 1864

BEAUTY RISING OUT OF CHAos.-Moss will
grow npon grayestones, the ivy will cling to
the modering pile the mistletoe springs
from the dying branch and God be pralsed-
something green, something fair to the sight
and graceful, will yet twine around and grow
out of the seams and cracks OF the deSolate
temple Of the human heart.
Year: 1864

INDIANA, especially the southern part of it,
is at this time overrun with thieves and burglars
to sueh an extent that the California remedy
of a vigilance committee is beginning to be
seriously talked of in many localities. The
people Of the State attribute this condition Of
affairs. and no doubt justly so, to the Surplus
of Confederate soldiers turned loose upon them
by the military authorities after baving gone
through the solemn mockery Of an oath.
Year: 1864

The Red Bluff Independent has been shown
some fine specimens OF cotton grown 10 Tehsma
county. That paper says large amount Of
both cotton and tobacco will be raised in that
cnnnfv next SEASON.
Year: 1864

The London Times has the following ar
tlcle on cotton, showing that American cot
ton is striking:


But the truth is, we cannot have our
old cotton trade with eur new cotton.
What we want is not so much $500, 900
bales in place Of 2,5OO,O0O, as good cotton
In the place of bad and certainty instead Of
speculation in prices. The inspectors tell
US OF singular state Of affairs in the man
utacturlng districts. There is confidence
IN the future, but no contentment with the
present. The manufacturers are building
new mills and eniarging old ones, but not
Tor the trade as il now is, or the cotton
which they now get. The operatives are
hanging on with similar expectations, re-
luctant TO migrate, and clinging TO their
homes. but sofely diseontented with Surat
cotton, and compelled in many cases to
exc out by the acceptance of relief what
would otherwise be insufficient earnings.
What form the desired consummationi ex-
pected to lake it would be hard perhaps to
say, but probably the leading idea is that
some day or other cotton will come from
America once more. This would not only
furnish good material, but would relieve
the present element of risk. AS things
nov stand, there is on one side an actual
supply OF Indifferent >cotton, aRd on the
other possible supply Of excellent cotton;
so that besides the dissatisfaction created
by surat. there is the chance or prospect
or anticipation of some such sudden influx
OF American as would turn the market up
side down. As long as the American war.
continues revelation in the cotton trade
will be possibility stany moment. When
ever II ends. Lancashire industry will take
fresh start. These seem 70 be the i'm
pressions prevailing in the cotton districts,
and 10 the mean time there is work enough
10 keep The mills going, and to enable the
employers and employees together to hold
out Tor better times. Perhaps
American peace may not bring US American
cotton as before. and yet the misfortune is
that hitherto no other cotton has taken its
place. Lord Derby expressed bis hope
that we should never again be dependent
on q single source Of supply, and il is Ger
tain that, as far as mere bulk Of imports
goes, We seem te have outgrown this risk.
But il is, We feel, equally certain that the
new supply is not accepted as the equiva-
lent Of The old, and that either the former
must b. improved, or lhe latter must be
70. gotten. before The cotton trade can real
ly % revived. We have on several occa-
sions shown, that, though cotton can be
procured from India aud other countries,
yet substitute for American cotton is not
10 be found. Without American cotton
our staple industry cannot resume its for
mer dimension.
Year: 1864

Will you allow me, through the
columns of your paper, to make suggestion 10
the people of the county, web worthy their ats
tention at the approaching election? 1t is that
in the election ofjustiees of the peace, the peo--
pie be careful to select men who properly ap-
preciate the obligations resting on the county
to make fair, just and adequate provision for the
families of soldiers now in the field, or who
have died, or been killed in the service. There
are many families in this county whose only
means of support were taken away when the
husband and father were enrolled among the
gallant defenders of the rights and honor of the
country. That the proper provision has not
been made by the court, is shown by the follow
ing incident: The wife of soldier now in the
army of N. Va, who in her own emphatic Ian
guage had not ''dust of flower or meal in her
house" called upon one of the agents of the
court who had under his control both meal and
flower purchased by order of this oonrt and 1va "a
Year: 1864

the blacks, let rs have tha; philanthropy;
as it is Justice to destroy Slavery, let Us
be Just to the nation; and IS the future
peace Of the country demands the ruin
OF Slavery. let as seeHre the peace Of the
country. Away sithpartisanship, Away
With mere prejudice. Away with the
nonsense Of resisting the national cur
rent Let us at ali events accept with
grace what we cannot undo


We commend these sensible remarks
to some of the Catholics of this city who
are vaiuly endeayOring to stay the adj
vaneing tide.
Year: 1864

killed-not because he PERSISTED in op-
posing slavery IN the wrong place, or in
q peculiarly objectionable manner, but
because he would not desist from oppOs-
ing 1t at all.


Chief Justice Taney is shown up in the
following paragraph:
Chief Justice Taney as an Abolition


fsf
Year: 1864

have heretofore acted with them, win suf-
fer themselves to be led any longer BY
such leaders.


I To men of property, to men Of family
and homes, to every man who cares for
the welfare of his country. the safety OF
his 6reside, and the maintenance of law.
and the value Of his personal or real e.
tates, We would say::there is no security to
any Of these, but in firm maiu,enan ce
at this time of the Government of the
country, in all her efforts TO crush rebel
lion or punish treason.
Year: 1864

THE P0wEsniEK COUNTY MURDER.-Com-
mendable energy and judgment has been
shown by the State authorities in ferreting
out the murderers Of Woodruff and Bash.
ore. From all that can be learned upon tho
subject, it appears that the murder was 4
preconcerted aifair->that several men--the
exact number being unknown-met at a
rendezvous, and natus ed plan to defy the
laws of the land, and take the lives Of m, n
who were under orders to carry those laws
into effect.


1t may be said By some that there was no
occasion for calling cut the militia, but, it
being represented By Provost Marshal Mat
thews that the organization was powerful
one, and that he had no force sufficient to
carry out the law, oF. to make such arrests
as the crime perpctraicl demanded, we can
net see anything wrong or arbitrary in the
steps taken. 1t is not proposed to enforce
any arbitrary meayuras nov. True, the
order was given to .rrest each member of
the organization calling itself the Demo-
crat rangers" but tins was done as the most
feasible method Of getting at the facts. Ii
is not supposed that all who belonged to the
organization collected for this murder, yet
does seem that all thase who met in the
bushes near where the murder was commit
ted. must be to greater or less degree gull
ty, and certainly those guilty of such atroc-
ity, either di rectly or indirectly, should be
punished even as the civil law provides.


Gen. Baker left this morning for Grinnell.
under instructions to act in conjunction
with Capt. Matthews in making thorough
examination Of the case OF the numbc,
arrested none will be held against whom
nothing culpablc can be shown, and those
who are found to be guilty will be turned
over to the civil authorities for trial bv u
jury Of their peers, in due form of law, and
that full and ample justice may be done is
the wish of every friend of law and order. :
The crime committed is the most grave one
known to the law ofthe country, and should
be punished to the full extent. We trust
this is the last act Of the kind we shall hear
of in Iowa. If laws are oppressive, and
they sometimes are, it is no less the duty oil
the people to bear with them than if they
were light. The REMEDY for oppression is
not found in murder, but at the ballot box.
Those who employ force instead, must sui.
for the penalty
Year: 1864

We ARE requested by Major Duncan to
state that the sale advertised to take on
Monday next at his residence, will not take
place, inasnuch as the property has been


nearly all disposed Of at private sale.
Year: 1864

Doors AND SnoEs.-It cannot be denied


that Child 4 Co. have superior stock Of
boots and shoes and are selling very cheap


Their goods are made Of the best stock and
by the most competent workmen, expressly
for this market. Ladies and gentlemen will
always find them prepared to supply every
want in this line.
Year: 1864

Ross 4S Foster would respectipllya ask the
ladies to CO their ehopring as e:rly IN the day aa
possible, in order to avoid tho great rush.


We ask this for their convenience a. well as our
Year: 1864

eaten himself into the shape of a
hogshead, and if he ever dies it may
be set down as certain that his dis
ease will be loss of APPETITE. Nothing
else will serve him out


But while we have been gone start
ling changes have crept over the little
world of our home. The prettiest
girl in town has thrown herself at the
head of miserable taker of more
miserable pictures, and they are lead
ing asuperlatively miserable existence.
Lots of other girls who aspired to less
have done far better, and indeed it
seems as if there was O fair trial
amongst them to see how soon they
could become possessor of the carcass
of some poor unprotected youth. The
School Marin still remains true TO her
first love, her eyes are just as blue,
her curls just as long and aubern as
ever, and we begin to look favorably
upon her declining days.


Ifshe does not secure victim within
the next two.years we faithfully vow
that if we do not propose we will at
least consider the subject. We said
so to Tom the other evening and
thereupon he uncorked his vial of ad-
jectives and poured out the whole
supply and closed in these pathetic
words:


What are women, after all Go
back to the day when God first
dawned in chaos and yon will find
them choking and arguing over a col
icky apple, and from then to now they
have been source of tailors' bills to
the single man and doctors bills to
the married. Always got the head
acho or the Mysteries, and as for
scolding, why man. if you must be
Ounce and get married, in Heavens
name marry dumb woman, or never
look on me again.


He closed the argument by going
abruptly home to his bachelor quar-
ters and ordering an oyster patio
with which he soothed his perturbed
spirit into rest. And there we leave
him until oyster pattes and lobster
salad shall no longer awake his ener-
gies to perform gastromic wonders.
Year: 1864

The highly beneficial effects of the
medicine chest" upon Tom became
more and more apparent as his pill
grimige to that shrine became more
frequent. His disordered intellect be-
gan to assume its functions and it be-
came evident that he was far more
scared than hurt. After having alb
sorbed the liquid portion of our sup
plies he set upon devouring the bal
ance Of our stock, and when his ap-
petite cried out enough our entire in
voice of eatables consisted of four
crackers and the we'll picked bone of
ham. With all the cunning of
maniac Tom surveyed the evidence
of approaching starvation with COM
plete satisfastion. We demonstrated
with him for such unrightous waste
OF wholesome provisions, but he very
decisively informed us that there was
no longer any necessity for larger
supply as he was about to take up his
line of march for "the happy land of
Canaan" He was just going to make
railroad time until he landed in Amer
lea whero boiled shirts were no rarity
and where juckasses never imperson-
ated grizzly bears. He even init
mated that we had personally assisted
and had absolutely colluded with the
mule to frighten him out of a splendid
.chowder. We did not argue the
point, but worry coon after, failing into
his views. found the distance between
us and San Francisco gradually di-
minishing. To relate what occurred
on the homeward passage were too
much like revisiting what we have
olready experienced. and if our stay
in the land Of gold was not long
enough to make one fortune it at least
taught us that our success was fully
equal to nine tenths Of all who 60 out
to worship at the shrine of that tickle
GODDESS.


We did gather our share of rough
experience, and we saw ssffering, be-
yond the bounds Of belief endured by
those, who, well to do before going,
had become beggars through this en-
terprise. Not from disappointment,
not because Of any homesick feeling
were we rejoiced to again set our face
homeward, but because we wero es-
Gaping from a state of society where
the pistol and knife were the best
deeds patent to worldly goods, and
where every mans safety lay in q
ready hand and firm nerve, to that
pleasanter and far happier life where
law and order prevail and the sound
of the church going bell awakens the
echoes of hill and dell. Experience
is the only teacher of what suffering
must be endured in such wild and un-
civilized lands, and all that the most
eloquent tongue could say or the
most vivid pen paint would not serve
to deter one person in thousand of
those once attacked with gold fever
from going to make personal trial.


However, we 60 back to those
scenes with pleasure and profit, and
then sitting about the FIRE of winter
evening with Tom Leatherman for a
companion, it is comfortable to hear
his oft expressed conviction that we
had definite understanding with the
mule. He is just as fat and happy as
when we first knew him, and is still
in the habit of making oft repeated
predatory excursions to the PAN
lry az nidnight and has fairly
Year: 1864

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EcoSoMY IN A FAMILY.-There is
nothing which goes so far towards
placing people beyond the reach of
poverty as economy in the manage
ment of household affairs. 1t matters
not whether man furnishes little or
much for his family, if there is a con-
tinual leakage in his kitcnen or par
lor; it runs away, he knows not how,
and that demon, Waste, cries "Morev'
like the horse leach's daughter until
he that provided has no more to give.
1t is tho husbands duty to bring into
the house and it is the duty of the
wife to see that none goes wrongfully
out of it. A man gets wife to look
after his affairs, and to assist him in
his journey through life; to educate
and prepare their children for a proper
station in life, and not to disipate his
property. The husbands interest
should be the wife's care, and her
greatest ambition to carry her no fur
ther than his welfare or happiness,
together with that Of hcrchildren.----
This should be her sole aim and the
theatre of her exploits in the bosom OF
her family, where she may do as much
toward making fortune as ho can
in the counting room or the work
chop. 1t is not the money earned
that makes man wealthy it is what
he saves from his earnings. Self.
qualification in dress, or indulgence in
appetite, or more company than his
purse can we'll entertain, are equally
pernicious.
Year: 1864

Our defeat in tie fight near Winchester last Monday
is said by the Lynchburg Republican to be que eErey
to the shameful and cowardy conduct of part Of the
cavalry holding the Martnsburg turnpike from which
cot into our rear and e.ered Winchester division
of infantry had to be withdrawn o the front to drive
them cf and while doing this successfully other por-


ons of the line were exposed and retreat of the whole
became necessary The retreat made Il good ORDER
without hurry or confusion, and only to point about
half mile this side of Winchester and two miles from
the battle field, the enemy not pursuing, where new


line of battle formed and held until late - night.
when Gen. Early fell back to Fishers Hill. There
was no rout. 1t was simply defeat by an overwheE
of force which could and should have held its ground
and have driven back the enemy Our infantry fought
with unsurpassed gallanry, repeatedly hurting back


fierce charges of the enemy with terrible slaughter
Year: 1864

fecting what no man could effect NAPOLEON BONA


PARTE himself never defeated an army by his


own personal proUess ard neither General


WHITING or any other could be expected to re2el
attack otherwise than by being able to oppose force
force. We sa " any other man," since We know that
the safety of Wilmington is matter dearer to General
WRITINGS feelings than any mere personal feelings
official senstiveness Besides being devoted Ccued-
erate General WHITING has his home in the State and
in the town. and thus presents additional guarantee
were any such guarantee needed that nothing that he
can do will be wanting to contribute to q successiu
defence; yea though another man shoald be placed
Ia the Lead shond be clothed with the laurefs which
that defence would bring


We are pleased to see that our able coemporary OF
the Ralgh ederate feels confident in the power Of
the State, if put forth, to defend Wilmington, or any
other Iaenaced point The editor of the Confederate
has opportunities of knowing and judging that entite
his opinion, in this matter to much weight We trust
then that State au4 Confederate au .orties will
work together harmolicasy and that hereafter there
may be only grounds for rjoci gs and for mutual
gratuations, and none for gloom and recrimnation.