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Year: 1864

There are many men at the age of 10 or so who are
troubled with too frequent evacuations from the
bladder. often accompanied by slight smarting or
burning sensation, and weakening the system in a
manner the patient cannot account for. On exam
lining urinary dep sits ropy sediment will often be
found, and sometimes small particles of semen or
albumen will appear, the color will be of thin
mikish hue, again changing to dark and turbid
appearance There are many men who die of this
difficulty, ignorant Of the cause, which Is the
SECOND STAGE OF SEMINAL WEAKNESS


can warrant a4erfect cure in such cases. and
full and healthy restoration of the urinary organs


Persons who cannot personally consult the DIR
can do so by writing in plain manner description
OF their disease and the appropriate remedies will
be forwarded Immediately.


All correspondence strictly confidential and will
be returned il desired.


Address. DIR. j. II. HUGHES


No. Temple St, tcorner of Middle Portland


ES-Send Stamp for circular.
Year: 1864

is meeting with universal favor. and obviates the
only valid objection waieh can possibly be brought
against the sy stem of Life Insurance


fhe lively prosperity and success Of this Company
Is shown in the fact that for the last three Year, Il
has taken the lead of all the Life Companies in ths
Country. The Official Returns Of the Insuranse
Commissioners showing that the amount Of its HKw
BUSINESS for the year 1862. nearly eqaasd fAs con
6iRed business Of any other tro Cempasies In the
United States.
Year: 1864

THE secret of economy in table expenses
is found in the purchase of groceries The
best place to find the best and the cheapest
goods of this kind is at Park 6 llostncr's,
south cas-, corner of Brady and ith streets
Give them call and you will see the ncatest
retail STOCK in Iowa and lind the price, very
reasonable. Don'l forget the place nor for
get to call
Year: 1864

A young man was studying at col
lege One afternoon he walked out
with an instructor, and they chanced to
see an old pair Of shoes by the side Of the
path, belonging to an old man at, work
near by. A & CsJ


Let us have little amusement at his
expense" said the studeut "Suppose
we should hide these shoes, and conceal
ourselves in the bushes to watch his per-
plexity when he cannot find them"


s f'f can think of better trick than
that" said the instructor. ''You are
rich. Suppose you put silver dollar
in the toe of each of his shoes, and then
we will hide"


The young man did SO. The poor man
finished his work soon. and went to put
on his shoes. You can imagine his sur
prise when he stopped down to take up a
pebble, as he supposed, from the toe
and found bright silver dollar and
when he found still another in the other
shoe, his feelings overcame him ; he
fell upon bis knees looked up to heaven,
and uttered long fervent Thanksgiving,
in which he thanked kind Providence
for sending some unknown hand to save
him from perishing his sick and helpless
child, and his children without bread
DO you wonder that the young man stood
in his hiding place deeply affected? Young
friends, when you wish to enjoy real
pleasure in witnessing the perplexity
OF others, see if you cannot, some way,
initiate the student. yAz7vfaF
Year: 1864

IMMIsRArIoN.--Th following is a statement showing the number of arrivals of foreign emigrants in the district and port of New York during the three months comprising the

 The following show the number of emigranis who have arrived at those ports during the year commencing Sept. 30, 1868, and ending

 This shows that notwithstanding the effects of the terrible war in which we are engaged. and the efforts made by eur enemies abroad. there has ben an enormous increase in ths !ush of people of the Old World to a land th,t
Year: 1864

CmcuMsrAETrAL EvIDENcE.-I have heard
some very extraordinary cases of murder
tried. rememher ia one where was
counsel; for a long time the evidence did
not appear TO touch the prisoner at all,
ard he looked about him with the most
perfect unconcern, seeming to think him
self quite safe. At last the surgeon was
called who stated that the deceased had
been killed by shot in the head, and lie
produced the matted hair and stuff cut
from and taken out of the wound. 1t was
all hardened with blood. A basin of warm
water was brought, into court, and, as the
printed paper appeared-rhe wadding of
the gun-which proved to be half of a
ballad. The other half had beeu found in
tho mans pocket. The man was hung.
Year: 1864

The editor of the Chicago Tribune has
been OF a visit to the Army of the Poto.
mac, and is evidently taken with General
Butler of whom he speaks as follows:


:" No other man has so impressed us
with his thorough and comprehensive
grasp of public affairs. lie understands
the rebellion its causes and its cure, per-
fectly. He has no fears whatever that the
South, when once its Military and political
leaders are driven out, or killed, or cap
tured and hung, will be difficult to govern.
In fact it will, in his opiEion govern itself
peaccably and perfectly. The people there
have been more accustomed 10 submit to
their leaders than the people of the North.
Here there is more Individual thought,
more personal freedom, and parties more
rapidly and more surely disintegrate under
the influence of conflicting opinions. Hence
when once their infamous traitor leaders
are out of the way, mingled as they will be
with u large emigration from the North
and from Europe, they will rapidly become
a quiet, orderly and highly prosperous peo.
Pile"
Year: 1864

CHINESE JEws.-A recent discovery ha,
brought to light lie fact that Jews arc very
numerous in China a Jewish officer in the
British navy estimates them mt one million
1t was by mere accident that this community of
Oriental China Jews was discovered. The Off
Ger referred to went up one of their rivers and
observed large town city. lie was not at
first cordially received; hut finally, obtaining
an interview with the chief he landed under
his protection, and found, to his establishment
an immense population of Jews.
Year: 1864

Your army needs change Of diet
Your soldiers and defenders Of your
property are falling wounded and sick
on many well,fought field, aud need
many things for their com fort and safety.
Your Sanitary Commission is supplying
these wants as fast as possible, but the
desperate character of the fighting and
the untiring energy with which our Gen
erals are pushing the enemy, makes such
large calls upon their stores that they
need money to replenish them,


Men Of wealth in Indiana, shall they
have the means to supply the increased
demand7 You have the money in abun-
dance, and these men are fighting to de-
fend it and you; viii you divide LIBERAL
" with them7 You have done nobly
heretofore; do you think you have done
your whole duty7 Do you think these
calls are coming too frequently, and that
you have already done your share7


Come with me to the hospitals in the
front; take of your hat as you come
into the presence of shese wounded men,
for the nobility of our country is here.
Ask that nan who has given bis right
arm in his conntry's cause If be thinks
be has given too much. "0h, no, sir,
think am lucky to get of so we'll I"
Look at your right arm, man OF wealth,
and estimate its value; have you given
this much 10 the sanitary cause7 But
come again over TO this other tent and
speak TO this pale bat nohle looking boy
who has given his leg to redeem bis
sAs. La
tticious and tempting food or be will die /;
ask him if he is sorry be enlisted "No,
sir, | always thought | should get woun-
ded, bat our country needed men and /
went: but don't tell mother how bad /
am, for she will feel so bad, and hope
will get well for her sake, though |
cant do much good.


But come, now, over to the second row
Of tents, across the road don't stop to
see the surgeons take of another leg,
for there is q man dying over here, and
he wishes you to write letter TO bis
wife and little ones Are you ready
now 7 Well, then, write


Dear, Dear Wife ;--IR the charge on
the enemy's works / received six bullets
through my body, and must die shall
never meet you on earth, but hope te
meet you in Heaven





"Try and rear our dear little children
to be good Christians aud good citizens
Goodbye


Yours, in life and in death,


G. B."


Now seal up and direct his letter; see
there is tear in his eye. Are you sorry
my friend, that you enhsted7 20 no
ne; | only did my duty"


Now man of wealth, have drawn fol
you no pictures from the Imagination
only such as / have found BY the thou
sand in the track of the armies. TAX
these that have given you and stud,
them well; compare what you have givel
with what these men have given for thei
country, and ask year conscience If yol
have done your duty"


The Indiana Sanitary Commission
needs today one thousand dollars fron
every man worth fifty thousand Shal
they have it7 Answer promptly, and ou
army viii be strengthened.


GEo. MERRITT
Year: 1864

-l--5- Monday, July Z, 1862. J


MR PRESIDENT: You have been fully in.
formed that the rebel army is in our front,
with the purpose of overwhelming US by
attacking our positions or reducing us by
blockading our river communications l
cannot but regard our condition as critical,
and earnestly desire, in view of possible
contingencies, to lay before your private
consideration, my geaeral view, concerning
the existing state Of the rebellion, although
they do not strictly relate to the situation
of the army, or strictly come within the
scope of my official duties. These views
amount to convictions, and are deeply i'm
pressed upon mind and heart. Our cause must
never ne abandoued-it is the cause Of free
institutions and self government. The
Constitution and Union must be pre-
served whatever may be the cost
in time, treasure and blood IF secession
is successful other dissolutions are clearly
to be seen in the future. Let neither milf
tary disaster, political faction nor foreign
war shake our s.,t ed parpose to enforce
the equal operation of the laws Of the Uni


ted States upon the people Of every State
Year: 1864

The Situation In Tennessee-The Re.


pulse OF Hood at Columbia.


From Nashville we have the news that II ood
was badly repulsed on Saturday last in an as
sault on our works at Columbia on the Duck
river. This comes almost coinciden.ly with tie
announcement that Thomas had retired to
Franklin, twenty miles nearer Nashville.
Though the statements are apparently contra
dictory, they are not irreconciIable. Hood
appears to have had his whole army across the
Tennessee on the 18th instant, and the latest
rebel accounts tell us that his army was we'll
supplied, in good physical and mental condition,
and was to advance Immediately towards
Nashville. He has probably about forty thou
sand men. For him to have reached the neigh
borhood of Columbia in six days after the
passage Of the Tennessee would not have been
very rapid movement, and he certainly ought
therefore to have gotten that far by Saturday
Moreover,f II Thomas did not intend to hold the
line of Duok river, he also should have been in
motion BY that time; yet he probably left
force at Columbia to observe the enemy, and
Hoods advance, feeling the place, encountered
this force and met with the repnlse mentioned.
These were probably the real circumstances OF
the case; for If the repulse had been one Of any
greater magnitude, we should, doubtless, have
received bulletin from the War Department
in relation TO ii.


Many intelligent persons may very naturally
dislike the appearance Of the retirement of
Thomas as Hood advances. But no fact can
be more positive than that there is no reason
in this for the least alarm Sherman contem-
plated that Hood should oven 90 to the Ohio;
and II is true that II he could be drawn 60 far
with forty thousand men that there Is no other
way in which we could deprive the rebellion
Of that force so cheapy and SO easily. Thomas
has now large and veteran force In hand, and
large rcinforcements are within striking dis
tance. 1t IL. therefore, not from any want Of
power to cope with the rebel general that he
rstIres On the contrary, be retires simply be-
cause, In his judgment, he can fight Hood to
better advantage on other ground than any he
has lately hold; and his services and his suc-
cess have been such that the country should
have confidence In bis judgment a. the very
best that can be had on the military situation
n Tennessee. Let no one listen for moment
to the vicious notion that there ID parallel In
tho military prospects Of the two Powers, and
that Sherman's advance through Georgia ID
matched By FOODS through Tennessee. There
10 no parallel ~ all. Sherman, with an inn
mense, wel equipped and we'll fed army,
MARCHES through hostile country without any
hostile force on his front, and goes towards .
base whore supplies spd smmuuition will meet
him. Hood. With st1IQ axmy. marches SxN
Year: 1864

from base without the hope OF any other,
and with an army In front abundantly able to
fight him, and II he should march a. far as
Sherman will that distance will insure his
complete destruction.
Year: 1864

look out al the window now,
Which, like III old eye glazed and dim,
And blinded by the falling snow,
Seeks in the graveyard, after him


Who slumbers there,
While ait in his ancient chair.
There the tall poplars waving high,
Pclcil long shadows on the ground
Writing with fingers from the sky
An epitaph for every mound,


He planted these
These beautiful and grand old trees.
The patriarch of the fields has gone
To the republic ofthe dead,
Soon we shall follow, one by one,
And under the cold turf be laid ...


But we shall rise
There ure no graves beyond the skies.
HIS childre nand grandchildren fill
. The gray old homestead which he planned,
The cottages that crown the hill
And own for many rood the land


That swells afar.
To hills that meet the morning s'Ir.


" Y Post
Year: 1864

A VERMONT Yankee claims to have in
vented self-pgopelling wheel, or perpetual
motion. A correspondent Of the Boston
Journal thus describes it: 1t is simple
wheel, runs on gudgeons, and is independent
of any outside spring, weight or power, as
propeller. On the same axle on which the
metal wheel is fixed is band wheel, on
which band runs over a small pulley that
drives small circular saw. Set it on the Ia
bic and remove the brake, and it will start it.
self and run with great velocity, driving the
saw. 1t is the simplest thing in the world,
but l cannot intelligibly describe it: but it
is at once understood BY the beholder.
It will not, nay, cannot stop without brake,
as it is so fixed by means Of balls and arms
that the descending size of the wheel is per-
petually farther from the center Of motion
than the opposite ascending.
Year: 1864

WHO II, Without doubt. The most
VERSATILE ACTOR NOW BEFORE THE PUB


Lie
He will introduce this week his entirely new and


original Feats of


NECROM NANCY:
Also display bis Great Musical Talent BY
PERFORMING UPON THIRTY DIFFERENT
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,
Proving himself to be Master Musician
Year: 1864

For interest on one hundred and fifty
seven Thousand four hundred dollars, at
five per ccntum, under the direction Of the
Presideut per second Article treaty twenty
first October eighteen hundIcd aud thirty
seven, seven thousand eight hundred ana
seventy dollars,
Year: 1864

WE have considerably enlarged TEE DAILY ONO
ST. lrEsMAN. and now print 1t on plain and hEnd-
some new type, and clear white paper.


In Politics. TIE OHIO STATEsMAN is,'in War as in
Peace for the Country, for the Constitution, and for
Union of equal StateS with equal privileges, and
with equal and exact justice to all Its citizens. We
are for the Old Flag with not Star or Stripe erased
and the Old Union as far as possible to restore it,
and for the existing Constitution in its spirit letter
aud purpose. .............


Upon the coming events Of the year. rest the hopes
Of the People and Government. We are In the midst
of bloody and protracted civil war. Its duration
and close depend upon wiser, truer and more patri-
otic Policy than have during the present Ad
ministraton. Wsowe 1t to the memory Of our Faith
ers and to the hopes Of Children to the future Of
our Country and to the best interests Of mankind to
change Policy which is drifting us farther and far
ther from the landmarks Of our patriotic sires.


THE STATESMAN will do all it can to aid in bring
ing about this change and hence the Publishers in
vite support and encouragement from all those who
while wishing for good NEWSPAPER, also wish to
have sound Constitutional journal.


We publish paper in which we seek to give the
TRUTH. Our Commercial Reports, our Markets, our
Political and General News. are carefully freed from
the ensational character. and We seek to make The
STATESMAN trustworthy in every particular.


For News, for Instruction. for Good Morals for
Sound Political Sentiments, for Steady Defense Of
American Institutions. Take, Read and help to Cir
culate. THE OHIO STATESMAN.


The WEEKLY ONO STATESMAN is one Of the
srgest, cheapest. and best printed Papers in the
West Each number contains complete resume Of
Ill tho Military and Political news Of the week; the
atest telegraphic and market reports; carefully
prepared collection Of literary reading for the home
and family; and an abundance Of paragraphs upon
every topic of interest or importance. The wide
circulation already obtained by this paper an evil
dence of its popularity. and Of its being adapted To
the wants Of the people.
Year: 1864

In order to extend the circulation Of our Mammoth
Weekly Edition of TIE OHIO STATESMAN. and to
enable our friends to get up Clubs for the Presi-
Dental Campaign. upon the most favorable terms.
we have decided to furnish 1t to Subscribers from the
7th of July to the middle of November-em embracing
the whole of the exciting and important Political
Campaign, and including the Presidential Election
Returns-at the following Low AND GREATLY RE-
pUCED RATES:
Year: 1864

~We would call the attention of Farmers to the advertisement of Levi Curtiss, of Camp vile, for the manufacture of syrup from sorg- hum. There is no good reason why Farmers should not raise their own Syrup, as the sorg- hum is grown so easily and in the same man. ner as corn, and with suitable apparatus for crushing and boiling syrup can be produced equal to the best molasses in market, and at about one-third the present prices. So says Mir. Curtiss.
Year: 1864

In August last, in Japan, not building
with 1000 beings in it, but whole city OF
10000 souls was suddenly burnt to ashes,
in few hours a city of paper and bamboo
covering many square miles, filled with Its
women and children, the sick and the infirm
the blind, the halt and the manned. 1t
burned like straw On many sides at once,
reddening the ocean for leagues with its
flames. 1t was fired by red hot shot rushed
during two days into its midst.
In that vast confagration it is morally Ger
tain that not 1000 only, but at least FIVE
times, perhaps ten or twenty times 2OOO
helpless creatures must have perished. No
brilliant pen has painted for US the hideous
incidents of their last agonies and the hor
rors of an Internal fire, before which that
of Chill burns but pale and feebly That
death was dealt out by English sailors pur'
posely, unsparingly and boastfully not in
war, not in necessity, not in self preserva-
ton, but in order to slrike terror into a
harmless people whom we are beat upon
forcing into trade.


Letter in London Daily News
Year: 1864

Some months ago detective was placed
on the track of rebel spy hailing from
Clarksburg, Va, who was expected to call
for a letter sent to his address in this city.
The vigilant detective day after day re.
mained on the qai oice to pounce on bis vic
tim. After some weeks he was taken ill,
and kept his room, but left an order with
the delivery clerk to arrest the man who
called for that letter. Soon after this gen
tleman called for the letter, and in reply to
the question of the clerk if the letter was
for himself, he stated it was. During the
delay of delivery, the claimant was arrested
and taken to Headquarters. The officer on
duty looked narrowly at the man and he
thought him an honest fellow, and presum
ed some mist axe had been made. In the
absence of the detective and the written or
der for the arrest there was no proof be-
yond the letter aud the admissions of the
prisoner to Justify holding him.


"Is this your letter." the officer asked.


at is my brothers."


He then opened the letter for the ofhcer
and gave him permission to read 1t; but
scarcely had the first lines been read, when
his face flushed "with conscious guilt" or
an allied emotion, and he demanded


"By what authority do you read my lets
ter 2"


His evident confusion determined his fate
and the officer remared that he would be
compelled to send him to the Barracks till
the case could be investigated. The prso-
ner gave vent to his towering wrath, and
refused to go to the Barracks, saying If he
went they would have to carry him. An
orderly was summoned and the prisoner put
in his charge, with the order


"Deliver him at the Barracks"


The prisoners stubbornness vanished, and
he went quietly to the military prison
When the orderly reported his delivery, the
officer asked him if he had any trouble
with the prisoner


"None at all; but he is the quickest
walker ever followed" he replied.


Legal counsel was sent for, and an effolt
made to effect his release. He was proven to
be schoolteacher from an adjoining comfy,
well known to prominent citizens here, and
a loyal man, 30 that after few hours en-
ioyment of immurement in "Lincon bas-
tiie,n he was released, with an apology for
his detention.


The cream of the joke was that he bad
no brother, nor sister Mary who bad
written only family letter, in which no
treason lurked uader the cover of senti-
mentalism.


Foiled in the arrest Of the spy at this
point, the detective applied himself anew
to his task, and day or two ago reported
the arrest at Olarksburg of the veritable
rebel who had 80 long euded his search.
Year: 1864

SOMETHING TO BE THANKFUL For -
The hat was passed around in certain
congregation for the purpose of taking
up collection, After it had made a
circuit of the church it was handed to
the minister, who, by the way, had ex,
changed ptlpits with the regular
preacher, and ho found net penny in
it. He inverted the hat over the rul
pit cushion and shock 1t, that its ompti-
ness might be known, then raising hi.
eyes toward tho ceiling, he exclaim ed
with great fervOr, "I thank God that l
got back nay hat from this cOngrega-
ton"
Year: 1864

During this year quite number of
claims were relinquishod, and several
small ones were settled at a discount Of
so per cent.


The following summary shows the
amount paid on the Fair Ground up to
Dec. 1863.
Year: 1864

From this statement it appears that
the amount paid on account Of new
Fair Ground during this year of 1852
was S3170 Al. The proceeds realized
from the sale of the old Fair ground do
not appear upon the Troasurer's book,
but the papers appertaining to the sub
ject show the above amount to have
been collected during the year.


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