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Year: 1862

PARTrIsM REBUKED.-The following. from
the Springfield Republican, the leading Re.
publican paper in New England, may with
out slight alterations apply with propriety to
this latitude


1t is strange that people cannot lea n
when their room is better than their com
pany. 1t is strange that people cannot learn
when party organization has outliyed its
organizations. 1t was Just so with the
Know Nothing organization .he men who
rode into office on the American issue fondly
thought they could cternize their party, and
keep their grasp upon the offices. A portion
OF the Democrats are laboring under the
same miserable delusion that their party is
not dead. What we wish to assert is that
the Republican and Democratic parties are
practically dead-that not single issue is
up to-day that involves distinctive princi-
pie of either of these parties. Both parties
arc patriotic in the main. They agree on
the proposition that the Union must be sus-
tanned by force of arms end as the only
question at issue is whether the Union shall
be preserved or not. there is a call for no di-
vision among the people except that which
places all patriots in one party, and all trai-
tors in another


To our readers among the voters Of Massa-
chusetts we have simply this to say-that
the Republican party has. to all appearance.
fulfilled its mission. 1t has decided at the
ballot box, so far as the ballot box can de-
eide it, what the policy of this country is, re-
lating te slavery. The South-or a large
portion of it-has apr called from the decis-
ion af the ballot box to the arbitrament of
the sword The field of operation has been
changed. Now we are to decide by war
whether this Government is to be sustained
or overthrown-whether Democracy rules
this country or Neutrality-suspicious. we have
a country and a nationality or not With
these facts in view, we do not hesitate to say
that man who can pretend to belief that
the Republican and Democratic parties are
not practically dead, must belong some
where along the range that runs between a
knave and a fool. Why can we not all ac
cept the facts as they exist Why must the
people wait to show their common sense in
order to accommodate a few greedy nurslings
at the teats of the treasury
Year: 1862

Changing SEED.-The practice of fire.
quently changing seed is now recognized in
many sections as essentially necessary to the
production of first rate crop. We all know
that the practice of procuring seed potatoes
from dstance-say 20 or 25 miles-and
from different kind of soil, has most
marked influence on the product. While the
rationale of this is not quite obvious, the fact
is undisputable. The same result follows
also in the management Of corn, wheat pump
kins. beans and garden seed. Even where
exchanges are made between farmers in the
same ne'ghberhood, and where there is no
very marked difference in the geological or
mineral characteristics of the soil IN the re-
speetiye localities, the practice is induetlye
to improvement Let those who have never
tried the experiment do so-on small scale
at first. if they are at all skeptical, and mark
the results, both as regards quantity and
quality of crop.
Year: 1862

How TO TAN SKINs.-Nail the fresh skin
tigbtly and smoothly against a door, keep
Ing the skinny side out. Next proceed with n
a blunt bladed knife, to scrape away all
loose pieces of flesh and fat; then Tu9 ,p IN
nIentv of chalk. and be unsparing OF labor. !.
When the chalk begins to powder and fall OH,
take the skin down, fill it with finely ground
alum. wrap it closly together, and keep itin
dry nlace for two or three days. AT the
end of that time unfold it, shake out the al.
un, and the work is done.
Year: 1862

elected against them, and which, in all its pol
itical appointment and action, drew the strict
line of party separation and exclusion against
them as opponents.


There never has been q parallel. in the his
tory Of free governments. of a surrender of par
tizan feeling 50 great and so geuerous, and. let
Us add, so poorly requited. This, however, is
Of little importance for it Is the country that
is at stake, and it matters little where the pa
tronage Of Government goes, when Govern
meat itself IS in peril.


When the history of the civil revolution,
now going on, Is written, posterity will not
know which most to wonder at, the maguani
NIFTY of the Democracy thus devotedly sustain
ing their avowed political opponents, or the
sordidness of the Camerons, the Welles. tbs
Fremonts, and the hordes of spectators and
peculators in their trains, who saw, iu the mo
ment of national peril and confusion, only the
opportunity to pillage the treasury"


We have no fear as TO how the Democracy
will come out of contest in which party line;
are strictly, or loosely drawn again. Their
firm, consistent, and patriotic course, will draw
to them all but the genuine secession element
of the Breckinridge organization, and all bu
the radically unconstitutional element in tht
Republican ranks. Let there be no more De


lay in calling a State Convention, that tht
people of California may have an opportunity
of properly dischargipg their duty to thei
country, in this its great hour of peril.
Year: 1862

SurERsEDEAs.-The Supreme Court have
granted writ of supersedeas in the case Of
Greer who was sentenced to be hanged on Fri
day last The Court will hear his case, and if
a new trial is not granted, will FIX another day
for the execution of his sentence.
Year: 1862

PERsoSAL.-We had the pleasure of receiv-
ing a call from Gen. Wood, of Plumas county
on Thursday last He had Travelled out over
the mountain SHOWS to take look at his
friends in the valley.
Year: 1862

CoCNrY CoNvENTIoN.-Ou excellent Post
master has Issued call for Convention. He
wants everybody to help him along with it,
who is in favor of T" the Constitution as it is,
aud the Government as it waS'-when he re-
eelved his commission, we suppose. His large
and generous heart would rejoice to see every
onein the Republican ranks. However sweep
ing the call may be the Republicans cannot say
that the Chairman of their County Committee
is d" for the Union without but
Year: 1862

SINCE the Connecticut election, the Hart
ford Press throws off its mask. and is out
against " the restoration of the Union as it
was, because it fears that in such Union a
" Republican President cannot be elected


Chicago Times.


The election has not yet taken place in this
State, and the Republican rascals claim 10 be
Union mea par eroellenee. Should they tri-
umph, they will claim it as victory for the
ultra policy Of Fremont 4 Co, which the
Republican party is eudeavoFing to force upon
the Administration. Let no one be deceived
by their newly formed zeal for the Constitution
and the Union. They are hollow professions
and will not stand the storms of November.
Year: 1862

CHIcAGo.-At the municipal election in the
home of Douglas the Democracy triumphed
by large majority. The reputation of Re
publcanism Is taking place wherever the De
mocracy are truthful and genuine
Year: 1862

lhPosrAHT REMEDY FOR CAscErs.-Col


USsofy, of The parish. Of DeSota, in.
forms the editor Of the Cadlo Gazette
that he fully tested . retsGiy for ibis
troublesome disease, Recommended to
him by Spanish woman, n~tive q
the country The remedy is this; Take
an egg and brsakit, then pour out the
white, retaining the yolk in the she'll,
pat IN salt and mix the yoik as long as
it will receive it; stir them together
until the salve is formed; put portion
of this on a piece of sticking plaster.
and apply it to the cancer about twice
a day. He has made the experiment
twice in bis own family with complete
success
Year: 1862

nay. A subscriber wishes to know
Of us what tic people of Winchester
aro TO do for coal the coming winter
We have exercised our own mind upon
that question, and have como to the
conclusion they will have to do with
out, necessity wo sorely lament.
Year: 1862

THE FLOOD IN THE BAY.-We heard a
discussion yesterday, as TO whether the i'm
mense body of water running down the riv-
ers had any effect in raising the water 10
the Bay. The general opinion was, that the
entrance to the harbor was SO narrow that
the waters could not flow out as fast as they
came in, and that the lower portion of San
Francisco was probably flooded; while 9TH
ers we're of the opinion that it would merely
check the inward flow of the tide. BY the
following, from the Alta of the 18th, it
would appear that the latter opinion was
correct:


For some days there has been no food tfdes
coming in through the Heads, but the eb6 con-
tinues during the entire twenty-fouT hours.
This extraordinary phenomenon does tproVe
that the daily flow of water from the sea, in
wards, has ceased, for the water at the wharves
continues to rise and fall as usual. The expla-
nation, no doubt, is that the immense body of
fresh water coming down from the interior
being of less specific gravity than the sea water
has entirely covered the surface of the harbor,
and continues to flow Quito sea in an uninter-
rupted current, while the tide flows in at a
greater or less depth below the surface. To cor
Toborate this, shipman informs us that the
water alongside his ship in the harbOr is fresh.
Some interesting experiments might at present
be made, to ascertain at what depth the water
changes from freshto salt.


The Bulletin states that the water is con.
tinually rushing out the Golden Gate at the
rate of eleven miles an hour, and that the
entire surface of the Bay is yellow with the
outpouriDgs of the mountains and valleys.
Year: 1862

J


EDITORS OF THE PRESS Our attention has
been called to an article in the Press of the
10th inst, wherein it is stated that "two of the
recruits from the town OF Elliot were arrested
by Sheriff Hawkes. on charge of girdling
trees, and setting fire three times to pile OF
wood very near a dwelling house in that place,
and that the fellows thought that after they had
committed these misdemeanors they would get
clear with impunity by enlisting but they have
found out their mistake" Now, Messrs. Editors
the fact is that you were mistaken when you
stated that "these fellows enlisted to get clear
with impunity," as they had been enlisted
some six or eight days before said misdemean-
ors were committed. You were also mistaken
when you stated "that they had found out their
mistake" as they were taken to Elliott, tried
acquitted, not a particle of evidence appearing
against them, and they are again in camp


Knowing that you will willingly right any
error that may appear in your valuable sheet,
by publishing this you will obige,


A VOLUNTEER.
Year: 1862

The battle of Wednesday, Sept 18th, the
anniversary of the signing of the Federal
Constitution, was fought in Maryland, near the
confluence of Antietem pronounced An-tee-
tam Greek with the Potomac river; which
Creek in Europe would be classed as a respect
able river. The Creek is less than ten miles
above Harper's Ferry, and the battle fought
on its banks will ever be memorable in history,
as that in which the largest number of COM
batants ever engaged on this continent as the
most hotly and bravely contested battle of
sixteen months war, textending from sunrise
to sunset and in which 400 cannon rained all
day tat short intervals their hail of death and
from two hundred and fifty to three hundred
thousand men took part, in line of battle ex-
tending from four TO five miles, and which at
night fall showed the ground strewn with from
twenty-five TO thirty thousand killed and
wounded


The rebels massed their men in several col
umns as they fell beneath the fire of cannon
and musketry, with all their accustomed reck-
lessness of human life; but the gallantry and
endurance Of our troops withstood them all :;
and although each party occupied at night
mainly the lines of the morning, the subsequent
retreat of the enemy from his position showed
that the result Of the days contest was vic
tory to the cause of the Union.


We gather from several reliable sources
very full detailed account, which will be found
on the first page, simply promising that the
enemy chose his own grouad, occupying with
his artillery submits that gave him all the ad-
vantage of plunging fire of fifty to one hun
dred feet, in some places, AS our troops adyanc-
ed TO attack him. The ground chosen by him
afforded but little if any opportunity fo flank
gaps between some of our corps.
Year: 1862

the loyal States who have shown themselves,
as a class, worthy of the responsible and labo-
rious positions to which the free sufirages Oh
their fellow-citizens have elected them in this
hour of our countfy's peril


The World, in the same article. also says


The Secretary Of War ordered draft on
the 18th Of August last, and then again on the
list Of September, but the Governors of the
several loyal States refused to obey the order
on both occasions. The Governors of New
Jersey and Connecticut were the only excep-
tions to this general dsobedience to the orders
of the government.


Until we have some better authority than a
New York daily newspaper, we shall not cred
it this imputation upon the loyalty of the
Governors of the Northern States.
Year: 1862

.g- A Piscataquis correspondent of the
Maine Farmer, says the crops in that county
are on the whole, more than an average. The
grain crop greatly exceeds the crop of last
year. Wheat was pretty extensively sown,
and has done remarkably well; nearly or quite
enough has been raised to supply the county
with bread for the year to come. The corn
crop bids fair for a heavy yield, having had
no frosts as yet to check its maturing. The
potato crop in Piscataquis will be one-third or
one-half less than last year. Fruit is very
abundant.


The Bath Times is getting credit all aronnd
for piece of information in relation to the
building of a governmaet steamer in that city,
which was first communicated to the Press by
our Bath correspondent, and transferred to the
Times without alteration and without credit.
Year: 1862

RAT-IocINATIoN.-It is an open question
whether the lower animals can reason, but
marked ease of rdt-ioscination occurred in
his city a few evenings since. As a young
gentleman was passing the residence of Hon.
John NJ Wood, he saw upon the marble pave
ment leading from the street to the front door,


cat, in the act of boxing with a rat. He
topped, and leaned upon the gate, to witness
he evening sport. The rat would run out up
n the sidewalk, and Miss Pnss would imme-


lately box him back again. At length the
at made spring; the gentleman for mo-
nent lost sight of him; but the next moment,
ceiling an unusual skedaddling up his back,
3etween his shoulders, the rational conviction
awned upon his mind that Ne and the animal
we're having ratification meeting of two,
ot very pleasant to contemplate BY throw
ag his arms forward the invader was held fast
1eneath his coat, while third party who came
long, lent helping hand, and with the vice
Ike gripe of his ''huge paw" crushed the head
of the ''varmint" for his unlimited invasion of
rivate rights, to escape a categorical exhibi-
ion.
Year: 1862

Frozen TO DEATH.-We learn from the British
CoLonist Of the 4th inst that Mike Mitchell, the
champion jig dancer, was frozen to death at
Por land, Oregon, one night about two weeks
ago. As usual, whenever he could obtain liquor,
Mike was drunk, and laid down on the sidewalk
to sleep. Poor fellow 1t was his last nap, for he
never awOke, but was found lying stiff and cold at
early dawn. Mike was acknowledged to be the
best jig dancer in the world, and his nimble feet
earned him q large fortune; but he dissipated It
as soon as made, and died beggar and an out.
cast"
Year: 1862

One of the women belonging TO the
last company of Mormon Saints who
passed through here yesterday, bound
for Salt Lake, had ninety-scven thou
sand solid reasons why she ought not
to have gone thithcr. In other words
she had, in a little iron-boundi chest,
nincty.scvcn thousand dollars in gold


With an amount Of worldly prudence
which We should not have expected TO
find in Saint, but which showed that
she had learned the necessity of being
as wise as serpent and as harmless
as dove, she entrusted the money to
the Express Company, who transport
ed it for her. Only think of it-ninc,
ty-scvcn thousand dollars and a wo.
man going to some Mormon harem


How much better would she have
done to remain in St. Joseph, and give
her heart and her chest to some one
Of our nice young men. Almost any
one would have taken the two gifts
with q thankful eart.-.S. 10. Jour.
Year: 1862

The Daily Wisconsin has a graphic
dclincator on its columns whose forte
is cvedntiy the description" Speak
ing Of a wire screen, such as came
into fashion more than twenty years
ago, he says: "Thc advantage of
such screens is, that while they admit
air and light through window, one
from the outside cannot see what is
going on inside of the room, but any
one inside can see distinctly every
thing that is going on outdoors. At
the same time, as they are painted,
they make a good sign"


They must resemble a shirt, the adj
vantage of which is that, while it ad.
mits light and air, one on the inside
cannot be seen (only as the bead and
legs protrudc at either extremity
while the person inside can see every
thing that is going on outside of the
shirt aforesaid. Properly painted
they would make good sign Id
Cr0yse Dem
Year: 1862

In order to regulate the mode of car
rying the provisions of the preceding
article into execution, il is agreed


First. Tha, all the ships Of the ma
vics of the two nations which shall
be hereafter employed to prevent the
African slave trade shall be furnished
10y their respective Governments with
Year: 1862

If any one Of the articles specified
in the preceding article as grounds
for condemnation should bc found on
board merchant vessel, or should be
proved to have been on board Of her
during the voyage Oh which she was
captured, no compensation for losses,
damages, or expenses consequent
upon the detention of such vessel,
shall, in any case be granted either
to the master, the owner, or any other
person interested in the equipment or
in the lading, even though she should
not be condemned by the mixed court
of justice.
Year: 1862

We call attention to the article on the
outside of to-day's JOURNAL, exposing the
ritual, password, signs &c, of a reasonable
secret society existing in this State. The
indianapolis Journal states that lodge Of
that society has been organized in Evans
vile. We do not believe the assertion, but
would advise loyal men to keep their eyes
open, and if possible hunt out the treason
able organization, if by aay chance it has
gained a foothold among US. The man who
would subscribe to the oath published by
the Journal, as the obligation of this new
society, deserves the death of traitor, and
we are mistaken if there are not in this
city, stout and loyal arms enough to hang
all such emissaries of JEFF. Davis, without
judge or jury, or "the benefit of clergy.
The miscreant who would thus secretly
assist the armed enemies of the government,
in this crisis of her destiny, deserves to
be hung like dog to the nearest limb.
Year: 1862

In accordance with time honored Gus
tom, the Carriers of the DAILY JOURNAL
have prepared an address to their patrons
which will be distributed by them this
morning. Our carriers, SO far as we know,
have served the Journal readers faithfully
through the past year, and we bespeak for
them kind and generous reception which
their diligence and faithfulness merit.


Have your Quarters" ready.
Year: 1862

Bg-It will be seen by our dispatches
that Gen. Philip st. George Cooke commit
ted suicide last Tuesday at his residence in
Virginia. He had several sons in the reb-
Ell army, and he, no doubt, became wearied
with a position he could not abandon
without dishOnor, but which might at any
moment bring him in conflict with his
children. He was a gallant and able Off
Ger and the country viii mourn over his
sad fate.
Year: 1862

R FOR PLANK sIDE-W AK .


Dec. 2Sth, 1S6I.-And now it is hereby ordered
and directed by the Common Council of the city Of
Evansville, that the of all lots or parts of
Sixth street, between Third Avenue and Fourth
Avenue, in said City, cause the side walks thereon
to be brought to the proper grade, and that they
cause a sidewalk Of Glass No. 2 to be laid down
thereon within thirty days from the publication
of this order. P. BURKE Clerk


Clerks OfHca. Januarv l. 1892
Year: 1862

Bss~ The contraband goods lately sold in
this ci ty realized for the government the
sum of S5,s75. The Indianapolis Journal
was told by The Marshal that among the
goods was box Of blacking, in the bottom
of which was a quantity of military but
tons. This neat little cheat was shipped by
some of our Evansville merchants.
Year: 1862

Dec. q, lS6l.-And now it is hereby ordered
and directed by the Common Council of the City
of Evansville, that the owners of all lots parts
OF lots fronting adjoining the Northeast side
Of Front street, from Pearl to Sixth in said
City, cause a sidewalk of Glass No. to be laid
Down thereon within thirty days from the publica-
ton OF this order P BURKE, Clerk.


Clerks Office january l, 1862
Year: 1862

December 2l, l86I.-And now it is hereby ordered
and directed by the Common Council of the City Of
EVansVlLe that the owners of all lots or parts of
lots fronting on or adjoining the Northeast side
Of Second street from Gum street to the Corpora.
tion line in said City, the sidewalks thereon
to be brought to the proper grade, and that the y
cause side walk of Glass No. to bs laid down
thereon within thirty days from the publication
OF TINS order. P. BURKE, Clerk.


Clerks Office. Sauuarv I 1880
Year: 1862

No PAPER To-MoRRow.-Th employees
of the Journal establishment will devote
themselves to the proper observance of
this the first day in the New Year, and
therefore no paper will be issued from this
Office tomorrow.
Year: 1862

TIE RARITY OF Observation-Disclosures aen.
Hemen arc rarcr perSonages than some Of us
think. Which of us can point to many such
III bis circle ?-mcn whose aims are generous,
whose truth is constant--and not only con.
slant in kind, but elevated in dcgrec--whose
want of mcanness make them simple, who
can look the world honestly in the face, with
an equal manly sympathy for the great and
small? We all know hundred whose coats
are well made and score who have excellent
manners, and ono or two happy beings who
are what they call inner circle, and have shot
into the very center and bull eye Of fashion !;
but of gentlemen, how many! Let US take q
little scrap Of paper, and each make out his
list TL0rLerV
Year: 1862

ASK iorR ENEMIES. you want to know
your faults, ask your enemies what they arc
and you will be told. If there is broken
place in your coat of mail, Mey will discover
it and thrust in spear there. They will
pierce you between the joints of your harness.
Perhaps some people think that one must
needs be very wicked to have enemies. No,
no; there is not good man or woman on
earth (unlcss they are sappily good--pcrsons
of no force of character) who has not at least
one enemy. 1t is no credit to a man to have
it truly said of him: " He has not an enemy
in the world" Such n sentence would do
very well to cngravc upon the tombstone of
an infant or an idiot, but it is Ear from being
complimentary to a mar 49,