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Year: 1864

am told that in the month of July the ma
MIA for suicide is prevailing inalady in
Paris, 1t being not at all requisite that there
should be reason for the act. "A retired
Ink manufacturer with fortune of several
millions, put an end to himself by stabbing
and hanging only few days ago, and there
Is no end to the like mad acts Of despairing
lovers-enough to furnish material for q
dozen sensation romances. The disease
spreads into the country, even. A well-to-
do farmer, having lost a favorite dog, gave
way to the profonndest melancholy, and
have borne with becoming submission the
death of his wife, or of his two pet goats,
but that he was afraid he would not sur
vive the death of his dog. To make his
forebodings actual the good man rose early
one morning, and, going UP into a large
tree near his dwelling, hung himself.
Year: 1864

A Provost-marshal out West recently ar
rested a refugee and seized the gold he had
till his innocence was proved. We expect
the cause was more in the gilt of the gold
than in the guilt Of the refugee.-Boston
Post. -ra7-r 9tfs-t,g es, e----s
Year: 1864

sas and the Platte, but will be 200 miles
nearer to Denver than any base on the
Missouri river. A direct and excellent
wagon road can be made either directly up
the Smoky Hill, or along the Solomon to
the mouth of Salt Creek, and thence west
up that creek, touching the hcadwaters of
the Saline and Solomon, and thence by the
way of the Pine Ridge to the head Of
Cherry Greek and into Denver.


And from the base at Fort Riley can the
commerce on the roads leading into New
Mexico be better protected than from any
other point. We trust the Government
will not only admit the importance of these
facts, but will keep their base of supplies
and men as near the points of necessity as
circumstances will admit. If so, General
Blunt will then be able to act his part we'll,
whether to aid Colorado, to repel Indian
hostilities in Western and Southwestern
Kansas, or to aid the General Government
to marshal force to crush the rebellion in
the Southwest.


In this as::..icle we have not dwelt on the
detail of advantages resulting from having
a base of supplies in a locality abounding
with supplies which can be procured at yer =
moderate prices to the Government
Year: 1864

If there is anything in the world


that young man should be more
thankful for than another, it is the


poverty which necessitates his
starting in life under very great
disadvantages. Poverty is one OF
the best tests Of human quality in
existence. A triumph over it is like
graduating at West Point; it demon.
strates stuff and stamina-it is a
certificate of worthy labor credi ta-
bly, performed. A young man who
cannot stand the test is not worth
anything. He can never rise above
a drudge or pauper. A young
man who cannot feel his will harden
as the yoke of poverty presses upon
him, and his pluck rise with every
difficulty poverty throws in his way,
may as well retire into some corner
and hide himslf. Poverty saves a
thousand times more than it ruins
for it only ruins those who are not
particularly worth saving, while it
saves multitudes of those whom
wealth would have ruined. If any
young man who reads this is so un-
fortunate as to be rich I give him
my pity. l pity you, my rich young
friend because you are in danger;
you lack one stimulus to effort and
excellence, which your poor com
panlon possesses; you will be worry
apt if you have soft spot in your
head, to think yourself above him,
and that sort of thing makes you
mean and Injuries you. With full
pockets and full stomach, and fine
linen and broadcloth on your back,
your heart and soul plethoric, in the
race of life you will find yourself
surpassed by all the poor boys
around you before you know it.


No, my boy; if you are poor, thank
God and take courage, for He
intends to give you chance to
make something of yourself. If you
had plenty of money, ten chances to
one it would spoil you for all useful
pusposes. Do you lack education?
Have you been cut short in the text
book? Remember that education,
like some other things does not con
sist in the multitude of things man
possesses. What can you do? That
is the question that settles the
business for you. Do you know
your business? Do you know men
and know how to deal with them?
Has your mind, by any means what
ever, received that discipline which
gives to it action, power and facility?
If so, then you are more of man
and thousand times better educa-
ted than the fellow who graduates
from college with his brains full of
stuff that he cannot apply to the


practical business of life; stuff the ac-
QUESTION Of which has been in no
sense a disciplinary process as far
as he is concerned. There are very
few men in this world less than
thirty years of age and unmarried,
who can afford to be rich. One of
the greatest benefits to be reaped
from great financial disasters is the
saving large crop of your men.
Year: 1864

There are extremes, my rever end
seniors, into which we are tempted
to fall when we find ourselves upon
the wane. Declining ladies, espe-
cially married ladies, are more given
1 think than men, to neglect their
personal appearance, when they are
conscious that the bloom of their
youth is gone. I do not speak of
state occasions, of set dinner parties
and full dress balls, but of the daily
meetings of domestic life. Now,
however is the time above all others,
when the wife mast determine to
remain the pleasing wife, and retain
her John Anderson's affection to the
last, by neatness, taste and appropri-
ate variety in dress. That a lady
has fast growing daughters, strapp-
ing sons, and husband at his office
all day long, is no reason why she
should ever enter the family circle
with rumpled hair, soiled cap, or un-
fastened gown. The prettiest wo-
man in the world would be spoiled
by such sins in her toilet. The
morning QuIleS, even III store room
or kitchen, may be performed in
fitting tidy costume, and then
changed for parlor habiliments,
equally tidy and fitting. The fashion
of the day should always be reflected
in a woman's dress, according to her
position and age the eyes crave
for variety as keenly as the palate;
and then, 1 honestly protest, what
ever her age, a naturally good look
ing woman is always handsome
For, happily, there exists more than
one kind of beauty. There is the
beauty of infancy, the beauty OF
youth, the beauty of maturity, and
believe me ladies, and gentlemen


beauty of age if'you do not spoil
it by your own want of Judgment
At any age a woman may be becom.
ingly dressed.-Househogd Words.
Year: 1864

Circular from Mr.. Fessenden.


The Secretary of the Treasury, in con
nection with his proposals for a new
loan, has issued a circular full of hope
and encouragement. He gives it as his
"deliberate judgment" that the rebel
cause is "approaching g period of utter
exhaustion" and that it is "struggling
with force the greater and more des.
perate as it sees, and because it sees, tn e
near approach of final aud fatal con
summation" Mr.. Fesseuden says:


The securities offered are sucl as
should command your ready confidence.
Much effort has been made to shake pub
lie faith in our national credit, both at
home and abroad AS yet, we have
asked no foreign aid. Calm and self
reliant, our own means thus far have
proved adequate to our wants. They
are yet ample to meet those of the pres
ent and future. 1t still remains for a
patriotic people to furnish the needful
supply.


For those who pause, before invest.
ing in Government securities, and fig
ure up to see if they pay as we'll as 9th
er investments, Mr.. Fessenden has q
word as follows:


This is not the time for any lover o.
his country to inquire as to the state ol
the money market, or ask whether he
can so invest his surplus capital as tr
yield him a larger return. No return
and no profit car he desirable. If followed
by national dissolution or national dis
grace. Present profit thus acquired /,
hut the pr cursor Of future and speedy
destruction. No investment can he so
surely profitable as that whic b tends tc
insure the national existence.


The Internal Revenue Act is shown
by the Secretary to be making the fol
lowing astonishing yield, lie says:


am happy to soy that daily results
are proving the Internal Revenue Act
to exceed in efficiency the most san.
guine expectations Of its authors. For
the month Of June, 1863, it yielded
about four and a half millions Of dol.
lars, while the corresponding month o
! this year returned about fifteen million.
under the same law Under tho new
law which went into operation on the
first day of the present month, the
Treasury frequently receives one million
IN day.
Year: 1864

The Dayton Journal continues to
speak we'll of the wheat crop in the Mi.
ami Valley, tbs described as exc ced.
ing in quantity and quality that of last
year. and the general estimate is, that
it is larger than for half dozen years
past.


Our farmers are now in tho midst of
their Wheat Harvest, and we are pleas
ed to learn that the crop of the country
will be a very fair one. One farmer
told us the other day that ho will have
at least 1000 bushels of wheat, the best
crop he ever raised. In some localities
the crop will be light, but from all the
information we can gather there will be
fair average yield in the country
[Urbana Gazette.
Year: 1864

The Atlanta Confederacy, of July
10th, in an article discussing the then
military situation, expresses she follow
ing opinion as to what would be tho eff.
feet of the fall of that city, which will be
read at the present time with interest:


Strategicaly, the possession of the
city would not be Of so much advantage
to the Federals as in its moral effect
upon the Northern populaco. It's fall
would be equivalent to fifty thousand
fresh recruits from the northern States,
while it would certainly have teudeu-
cy to stimulate the war spirit and re.
kindle the fanatical enthusiasm of tho
Yankee everywhere. Gold would fail
rapidly in New York, and the political
prospects of Lincoln and johnson would
rise in proportion. Therefore we think
the Confederate authorities, apprecia.
ting these consequences, will not yield
it without au earnest dispute of every
avenue Of approach to the city.
Year: 1864




Before Us.


That is what Governor Brough says
in his Proclamation, and he says the
truth. "Tne work of closing this war
is before Us; we have it to DO, and Of
course we cannot avoid recognizing the
fact that we must furnish the means to
accomplish that purpose"


There are just two ways to eud this
war: fight it out to the destruction of
its cause, or ignobIy compromise FOR the
salvation of slavery, and a certain crop
of future contests. Those who take
counsel from cowardice, or from traitor
lips, will join the party that declares
Tor peace at any price, those who are
worthy descendants of those patriot
sires, who founded this Government
with the direct understanding and he.
lief that slavery should be but tempo
rary evil will fight out this war until il
secures to all the inalienable right of
liberty, and until the dignity of labor is
is vindicated and our institutions plac.
ed beyond reach of the vandal hands Of
such as would sustain au aristocracy
upon the product Of the sweat aud
groans Of unrequited toll. -GCleye.
and Herald.
Year: 1864

Gen. Willioh's friends and admirers
throughout the nation will be glad to
learn that he has SO far recovered from
the dangerous, and it was feared NOR
tai wound, received at Resaca, as to be
able to make his appeara nee on the street.
Year: 1864

I'VE recommend perusal of the following stanzas
to the gossploving people of this village feeling
we do that they contain much truth poetry. Ma
ny will no doubt lesson in every line."-ED1
Year: 1864

Gy j. X. Hornish has been set up
agaia as a candidate on the Copperhead
ticket for Congress.


Oar town has the questionable honor
of furnishing both the candidate for EIsc.


tor and for Congress, and two worse play
ed out politicians could scarcely have
been found in the District. Dan had
been Wing and Republican till he was
beaton score of tues before the people,
and then as often in the Conventions oil
his own party, and then tried the Inde.
pendent shute and was beaten thirty odd
thousand. Thereupon. he gave up bis
chances even for the chance of being q
candidate in the Union party and wen,
over to the Copperheads, where after as


siduous efforts for three years be has sue


cseded in the empty honor for position
which he don't stand one chance of OBJ
tanning to hundred of being struck BY
lightning. Hornish, the organizer ant
leader of the Know Nothings, was laid on
cold as a mackerel 10 the contest for Con
gress two years ago. but his party seen
to think that dead mackerel is Just a


good as anything for them in this hope
less contest.
Year: 1864

THE rebels under Lee are making
the most desperate exertions to render
some valuable assistance to their North
ern allies in the present political cam
paign, but the Copperheads seem too far
gone already and the. assistance comes too
late to be of any essential service in
changing the foregone decision of the
American people at the polls in favor of
President Lincoln.
Year: 1864

ANOTHER GEoReE.-The Copperheads
having little else to pride in glory
over the fact that the name of their Presi-
Dental candidate is George. If they are
so fond of the Georges let them read what
another of their quondam favorites of
that name has to say of his namesake
Year: 1864

EThe Copperheads are universally
opposed to the enlistment of negro sol
diers, Of whom there are now some ore
hundred and Fifty thousand in the service
of the country Does any Copperhead
who objects to negro soldiers propose to
become soldier himself, or will the party
furnish one hundred and fifty thousand
of their own number to take the place Of
the negro troops? II not, must we have
peace on jeff. Davis terms, or how ?
Can Hornish or Dan. Miller enIighten the
public on these points.
Year: 1864

Our correspondents will please observe the
pressure of advertising matter upon our col
unns, and find in this an excuse for any SEEM
ing neglect of their favors on our part. We
have some interesting communications ON
hand which we would be glad to print, If we
had the room. Let their authors study patience,
and let the writers of communications to come
study brevlty-thc truth-In.a nut. shell style Of
composition.
Year: 1864

Prom the Columbus o, Statesman.


An extraordiary case of eriHI. con. has
been for several days past the topic of
conversation among q number of citizens
conversant with the facts. A wealthy
citizen, who, with young, beautiful,
and aristocratically connected wife, re-
Gently removed from Wisconsin to this
city, devoted most of his time to the pros
ecution of an extensive business, leaving
his better half to fill up the tedious hours
of his absence as best she could. Break
ing up housekeeping on Rich street, the
pair took up their abode at a fashionable
boarding house on High street, wherat
there were a number of dashing young
military officers, most of whom had as
much leisure time as the wife of the Wis,
consin merchant Among these officers
was gay captain of the Invalid corps,
whose name closely resembles the name
of the country from which the first expe~
dition to America was fitted out, and
which furnished the ships to the great
discoverer whose name this city bears.
This officer, like 0thello, had seen some
service, and like the Moor, again, had a
smooth and oily tongue, against which
the virtue of the young wife, although
fortified by the teaching of Broad street
church, of which she was Imember was
not proof. She fell-whether easily or
after heroic resistance we are not told.
The street cars afforded comfortable and
easy access to an out-of-the:way house
above the depot; and, when the uncOn~
scious husband went to business, his wife
repaired northward with her paramOur,
and together they whiled away the long
afternoons of the heated term. The in-
trigue was carried on for several weeks,
and of late so boldly that it appeared that
every one but the person who should have
known it was aware of its existence.
But, as we have said, all such cozy and
illicit arrangements sooner or later come
to the light of;day, and theparties to grief.
Some disinterested member of the church
to which the husband and wife belong
dropped the deluded husband note, by
means of which he was awakened to the
astounding proceedings going on around
him. He rushed home just as his wife
reached their apartments, and there was
q scene over which the curtain may be
drawn in charity. Suffice it, that the er-
ring beauty confessed her guilt, and the
husband telegraphed to the brothers
of his wife, both ministers in Michigan,
that they should come for their sister.
One of them came and conveyed his er-
ring sister to her early home, not, howev-
er, until she had, as I'VE are informed,
given a written acknowledgment of her
crime to her husband, TO facilitate di-
vOrce.
Year: 1864

A HALF BARREL oEFLOUR IN A HEARsE.
For the first time in our varied experi-
enee we saw on Tuesday barrel of -four
hauled up Governeur street in hearse!
The public stared but the driver drove on.
When we came to recollect that -four was
Eve and six hundred dollars per barrel,
and that the struggle for bread was one
for life or death, we better appreciate
the connection between the hearse and
the barrel of four.-Riehmond Erdnsi-
nor
Year: 1864

Ii is difficult to believe that Senator Davis
of Kentucky l. NOT insane The endle-,
speeches with which he has bored the Senate
for year OF two past. have reached cul-
minatiou in a set of resolutions for proposed
amendments 70 the Constitution, which for
their practical absurdity betokcn mind
thrown entirely out OF balance by de7ire To
strengthen and perpetuate slavery and to
disenable the National Government from
making any efectual resistance to rebellion
for i.ll time to come.


The substance Of his nine resolutions is that
Convention of the States shall get up a
collection OF amendments Of the Constitution
to the following effect Maine New Hamp-
shire and Vermont to form one State; Mas
sachusetts. Rhode Island and Connecticu,
another; and Maryland Delaware and the
eastern shore Of Virginia another; the Pres
ident and Vice President to be chosen alter
nately from the free and slave States-both,
upNtNtls mo- ID uf Ainh 'it DsAs1 ot oiiVt
the election to proceed as follows each State
shall select President and Vice President,
whose credentials shall be laid before the
House of Congress on the first Monday in
February. 1865, when the Supreme Court
shall be present, and appoint from among
the candidates the two officers. neither Of
whom shall serve more than four years, and
no former President shall be eligible to elect
ion; no member of the Supreme Court to
be eligible to the Office, and in the event Of
the death of the President and Vice Presi-
dent before the expiration of their term the
Senate shall elect from among It's members
presiding officer, who shall be President
"a ofcio; the Presidents power Of removal
and suspension Of diplomatic and civil othcer
to be absolute: the writ Of hGJeas corpus
never to be suspended nor arbitrary arrests
to be allowed under any contingency each
State to have absolute power to declare what
shall be property within its bounds and to
make whatever laws it may please regarding
its domestic affairs and institutions no
property OF an individual to he taken for
public use TILL the owner has had the full
nav for it. or had it secured to him 4; that no
military officers, except one in actual com
mand within his lines, shall have power to
supply the wants OF his men except through
the civil authority, unless the case is one OF
extreme and urgent necessity; and as fit
ting climax to the whole, no negro shall be
a citizen of the United States.


The reading of the resolutions produced
some quiet amusement in the Senate. Mr..
Davis is certainly a little cracked.
Year: 1864

The Indignation Of our community ar the
discharge Of the St. Adams bank thieves is
intense, and increasing as the ilcts become
known. Ii what we see anu hear Is any in
dication. the country is ripe for the repeal Of
the reciprocity treaty, uJn-intercourse with
Canada. and absolute prohibition Of right Of
way across our territory for any Canadian.
The course Of the Canadian government may
possibly modify this feeling to some extent;
but it cannot extinguish il.
Year: 1864

Sec. l. The affidavit, or deposition Of any
person without this state engaged in the regular
or volunteer service of the United States, may
be taken by the colonel, lieutenant colonel or
major Of any Vermont regiment in actual SER
vice; and for the purpose Of taking the affidavit
or deposition Of such person. the officers above
named shall have power and authority to ad-
minister the necessary oaths, and the affidavit
or deposition Of such person. if otherwise taken
in accordance with law. shall be received and
may be used in evidence in the same manner as
IL taken by commissioner Of this state, ap-
pointed to take depe.itions IN other states


Sec 2. The deed or other conreyance Of lands
or any interest therein, within this state. Of any
person without this state. and in the regular or
volunteer service Of the United States, may be
acknowledged before either OF the officers pamed
in the first section Of this act.


Sec 8. This act shall take effect from its
passage.


Approved Nov Is. 1854
Year: 1864

Sec. 1. Section six Of chapter thirty-six Of
the general statutes, shall be so amended as to
read As follows


Any person wishing to take the depooitions of
a witness out Of court shall either cause person.
uch deposition to the adverse party, or cita-
stion signed by justice, notary public, or mas
ter in chancery, to be served on the adverse par
ty, if residing within this State, and in case
such adverse party reside without this State, on
his attorney If residing within this state, in the
same manner as the service Of writ of sum
mons, which citation shall state ths time and
place Of taking such deposition, and shall be
served 50 that such adverse party may have
reasonable time to appear and be present st the
taking Of such deposition


.. Sec. O. This bill shall take effect from its
passage fi
Year: 1864

Sec. l.. If any person shall clande-tinely or
with intended sscresy, commit any Of the often
ces described in sections thirty-eight and thirty
nine OF chapter one hurdred and thirteen of the
General Statutes, such person shall be subject to
the penalties provided in section thirty-nine
and If any person shall commit any of said often
ces openly and without intended .ecresy, such
person shall be subject to the penalties provided
In said section thirty-eight


Sec. > This act shall take effect from its pas
sage.
Year: 1864

ADVICE TO You've LADIEs.-t you
have blue eyes you need not languish II
YOU have black eyes you need not leer; if
you have pretty ancle there is no occasion
for wearing short petticoats; if you are
doubtful as to that point there can be no
harm in letting them be long; If you have
good teeth, do not laugh for the purpose OF
Showing them; if you have bad ones, by
all means shut your mouth and smile If
YOU have pretty arms and hands there can
be no objection to your playing on the
harp; if you are disposed to be clumsy, do
plain needlework if you dance well,
dance but seldom; if i'll, never dance at
all; ifyou sing well, make no previous
excuses if you sing indiferently, hesitate
not a moment when asked, for few people
are judges of singing, but every one will
be sensible if you desire to please; if you
would obtain power, be condescending
but, above all, (mark y if you are asked to
be married say Eyes," for you may never
be asked second time!