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Year: 1863

TO DEACON SOLOMON JONES.


CONCERNING HIS SYSTEM OF FAMILY GOVERN


MENT.


You are now an old man, and do not expect
that anything shall write to you will do YOU
good. l only seek, through what | say to
you, to convey useful hints and lessons to
Others. l would not willingly give you pain
1t is not pleasure to me to wound your self
love or to disturb the compacency which
you entertain amid The wreck Of your family
hopes. 1t is not delightful to assure you
that YOU life has been huge mistake from
the beginning, and that your children owe
the miscarriage of their lives to the training
which you still seem to regard as alike the
offspring and parent of Christian wisdom
If there were not others in the world who are
making the same mistake that you have
made, and moving forward to the same sad
family disaster, you should hear from me no
word that you could shape into a reproach.
But you will soon pass away, with the COM
sorting assurance that Your motives. at lesst,
were good; ard to these, your comforts,
commend you.


lc1 were once the great man of JonssyiI.p.
You then deemed it necessary to maintain
disnifed department., to take the lead in all
matters of public moment, to manage the
Jonesville church and the Jonesville minister.
and to exercise general supervision of the
village. There was not man, woman Or
child IN the village who did not feel VOL
presence as that of an independent, arbitrary
power, that permitted no liberty of will around
1t. You had your notions of politics. re-
lslon, municipal affairs, education, social life
and to these you tried to bend ever. mind
that came into contact with you. You under
took to think for your neighbors, to prescribe
Tor your neighbors, and to impose upon them
your own law in all things If one indepen-
dent man spoke out his thoughts, and re.
fused.to be bound to your will prosecuted him.
You beset him behind and before, BY pettv
annoyances. You took away hi, business.
You blackened his reputation. You sneered
at him in public and private. In this way,
you 5anished from Jonesvile many men who
would have been an honor to t, and finally
allenated from yourself the hearts of your
own kindred. You drove whole village in
to opposition to yourself. You forced them
to selt-assertion that manifested itself in q
multitude OF improper and offensive WAYS
Ii you opposed harmless dance at neigh.
oors house, the villagers revenged them.
selves by holding ball at the tarvep. 7,
TOOK only few years of your peculia,
management to fill Jonesville with doegerie,
ana loafers, and to prove to you that your
sllage management had been a sorry
failure.
Year: 1863

Weep for the soldiers when the weather is
bad, for they feel it rs You never have Vet.
Put man in the fed and soak him with
RAIN; be has no warm change of cloth 'ng
to comfort him; chill his hands or feet. he
has no register and i.,pzrs to thaw out the
frost weary MS body, he has no soft bed to
charm the ache away; put his stomach out of
order, he has no chance to stop and with
delicate home tit-bits recover his shaken
balance He must dry his clothes on his
body, chafe his hands and feet into warmth
or lei item stay numb, catch his half-rations
of sleep by thr side of The road OF in the
burrows of the field; draw his belt tighter
and push on without word of complaint


He knows no house nor umbrella when If
rains, SHOWS, or is cold; no fan and very
likely no shade, when the sun beats hetlv.
Put ten or fifteen pounds of knapsack on his
back, four pounds of cartridges drawing
down on one side, six or eight pounds of
hayersaek and canteen on the other, twelve
pounds Of gun in his hands, two pounds
of extra cartridges in his pockets, beside his
clothes and what necesSarieS he carries, and
then ask him for a long and rapid forced
march. That is heavy ma ching order.
Pretty soon the blanket is taken from the
knapsack and thrown into the bushes, then
the overcoat follows suit, then the spar.
cartridges. then the rations are minimized,
then the mel drop out and sit down by the
side Of the road to catch their breath and
mop away tic perspiration. All then the
truly manly officer finds a chance to take
tender care of his men. We think of one
sturdy captain, who marched hardly five of a
late fifty miles, tramp without knapsack on
his back and gun on his shoulder for one
and another of his tired men. After this.
when men tells yon feebly that he isn't
strong enough TO 60 TO war, YOU NAV feel
more like believing him than you have.
There are often times in this war for which
camp life is only preparatire, which calls
into play every bit of sinew, wire, p luck, that
there is in man; and unless he can come
out Of each of those times ready, after proper
rest, to 90 through i; again and again, he
falls short of the true idea of " "soldierly
endurance "-Spriaqfetd Republican,.
Year: 1863

there are exceptions to this, that some are
lazy, thievish, good for nothing niggers, but
the wonder to me is that they are not all
such, when we realize how they have been
treated so many generations. Think if they
were whites they would have been wholly
spoiled by this time.
Year: 1863

Dear Sir: | remeber you, and all nv old
friends in Jonesville very well and | know
much more about them than they seem to
know about me. 1t has been with me IA
matter partly of painful and partly of pleasant
interest TO watch the progress of my old
pupils. and to keep up my acquaintance with
their family history. Your proposition, there
fore, does not find me unprepared to act and
thank you for it. The Joneses are like
other families. We can find among those
who bear the name types Of all the life and
character to be found in the world and
when speak individually 20 the Joneses |
speak also to the Smiths and Browns. As
this proposition comes from you, YOU will
not object, of course. to my addressing
the first of the series to you, or to such
plainness of speech as may feel called upon
to employ. AS do not use your real name
and as the coat shall cat, not ONLY for YOU
but for your kindred. will fit SO many men,
no one will ever suspect YOU, and we shall
have our secret among ourselves.


Yours truly,


TIMOTHY TTCONB.
Year: 1863

~ The Sacramento Union, like the
other Republican journals attributes to the
"cowardIy Dutch the defeat Of Hooker at
Fredericksburg, and charges them with throw.
ing down their arms and running way a,
the critical moment Of battle, to avenge
the supposed wrong done them in the re-
movaI Of Gen. Sigel from their command
If the Union would say that the German
troops broke because an able General had
been removed and blatant imbece placed
over them, it would come nearer the truth
than in saying they ran away ihrought COW
ardice or revenoe-C Calaverds Times
Year: 1863

The new process for saving fine quartz
gold ha. been put in operation at the Power
,y Point Mill near this city. The main
feature in the process is the employment Of
electricity in connection with the pans, in
the same manner that gaIvanizing and cleo
,rotypng by electricity is accomplished. If
the new process does half that is claimed
for it, in saving fine gold, it will work a
revolution in quartz mining in this vicinity,
and render highly valuable many now
abandoned claims PlaceyviHe News
Year: 1863

FRICCAsEE CHICKEN.-Cut the chick.
en- up let it lie in water for an hour ;
dry them in towel then put them in a
stewpan with just water enough to Gov
er them, with little mace, part of an
onion cut up fine and little sweet
marjoram. Boil them until tender.
Then take a 1 lb. of butter, and rub
some -four with it untilperfectly smooth,
and drop the butter and flour into the
chicken water, stirring it all the time
until it boils. Then take yolk of an
egg, beat up with little cream, and
pour in when done. ac'arsI1s ( es
Year: 1863

~ Two ragged little urchins,
whose parents paid more attention to
the bottle than TO the training of the
children, were in the habit of seriously.
annoying their neighbors who lived
close by with their noise while at play
in front of their house. One day the
lady of the house came to the door and
told them to be quiet or 60 home inn
mediatsly Said one of the children
to the other, "Jist hear she orderin'
we, when as don't belong to she p'
Year: 1863

PRESERVING PEACHES IN VINEGAR.
To twelve pounds of peaches take


six pounds of coffee sugar; add one


pint best cider vinegar, and simmer the
sugar and vinegar together pour boil


ing water upon the peaches; remove


them in two minutes; posr off the


water and wipe them dry without
breaking the skin put them into the
syrup and boil gently until the fruit il
cooked through. This preserve is very
good, bat will not keep long. asa
Year: 1863

ET A recent number of the New Or
eaus Era describes somc instruments of
torture which were discovered by Col.
Hanks in the course of his Investigations
among the plantations. First among
these was one found upon the neck of a
young woman, where it had been placed


Tor life by order Of her owner. 1t Was an
iron collar, made to fit her neck, fastened
BY a screw, with three upright prongs


abouteIghteen inches long, to each Of
which was attached small bell. The


'sbeauIy' of this instrument was that the
wearer could never rest her head upon


the ground, and the bells kept her awake
by their continual tinkling. The next
instrument vac heavy iron collar with a
gag coming up from under the chin into
the mouth. The next, piece Of iron ar
NOR to be worn on the ley. causing the
wearer to limp at every step, and etfectu-
ally preventing his running away. The
nexi, ring with an iron bar weighing
sixty pounds. the man who wore it being
compelled to keep up with the other
hands in the field. ln view OF these
facts, so we'll authenticated, who will say
that slavery is not barbarism, and the
fruiffnl parent Of cruelty aud ishuuaoits |
Year: 1863

EvTbe commission which has been
investigating the burning of the steamer
Ruth have reported their opinion, after
full Investigation, that the FIRE was the
work Of rebel incendaries, in pursuance
Of plot to destroy the Union boats on
the Mississippi.
Year: 1863

a5a There has been change of car
rlers on the Main street route, and any
subscriber filling to. receive his paper
VIII please leave word at this office; SO
that the mistake can be Immediately ad-
justed.
Year: 1863

RIVER The Mississippi found some
difficulty 10 running down stream yes
terday, on account Of the wind. which
blew a perfect gale ull day. The ferry
boats lay wind bound at the opposite
landing yesterday afternoon for a long
time, which severely tried the patience
of those waiting to come across.
Year: 1863

OrsTEas i the gentienon who lost
a can OF oysters on Main street last even
lug Will cali around at he Deming House
to-day at one p. M, be can have the
pleasure of seeing ihem served for dinner,
and can have what is left OF them after
ye local has had his share of the spolls.
Year: 1863

TRY IT BY ALL MEANs.-If any of our read


erS nave oeen troubled to make light and uni
form biscuit it is more than probable they do
not use DeLand & Cos Chemical Saleratus.
That Is a pure article. not detrimental to health
ana sure In its effects. Try it by all means.
Year: 1863

without it, is not this also because it is our
interest to do SO? And do not these facts
and figures equally prove, that this arrange
ment Is also for the benefit of Canada? And
If the system is thus beneficial to both parties,
is ii not folly to abolish it, because possibly
one side or the other may have the best bar


gain? Is 1t not better TO reconsider the ar
rangement, equalize what may be unequal,
rather than TO find fault with each other for
nearly three years, and then annul the ar
rangement for the purpose of starting a new
one? Yours truly CYRIL PEARL
Year: 1863

tY- All communications intended for the paper
should be directed to the Editors orthe Press and
hose of business character to the Publishers.


II The PORTLAND DAILY and MAINE STATE
PREss Once, in Fox BLOCK, No. s2i Exchange
Street, Is open at all hours during the day and
ming, from O'Clock in the morning to in the
evening.


~ JoB PRINTING Of every description executed
with dispatch; and all business pertaining to the Of
6cc or paper promptly transacted application
above
Year: 1863

We publish the following brief epistle
Oecauss We apprecipts it, and the favor
able opinion Of our patriotic and brave
volunteers expressed therein. II has
been our one regret oil the days and
months since this war began that We
could not have hand in it along with
the brave volunteers of our State. And
IL mas been our constant effort TO do what
We could in our position to uphold the
government, to honor the gallant deeds of
our patriot soldiery, and to do battle
against their sire iu the rear, enemies
at home. To have merited the approval
OF partial friends IN the army for the spir-
u IN which we have performed our duty,
IS ma'tsr Of Qualification and pride to us:
Year: 1863

EIounOhGs


Gen. Fremont has written letter in re.
spect to the Pacific railroad, in which he
proposes the employment of coutrabands
in its construction. He says:


'.It would be measure fruitful in good
results to occupy Immediately on the work
of the road large bodies of the men who
are freed by the Presidents proclamation.
The fact that so large a number of our
able-bodied citizens are under arms, and
the consequent ECONOMY and the great
rapidity with which the road could be
driven forward by the employment of these
people, make this subject worthy of the
most liberal discussion. The road is na
tional, and it is sufficiently obvious that
considerations of great public utility are
involved in this suggestion. Many of
these people will soon require some pro-
vision to be made for them. Stretching
indefinitely south of this projected road are
great regions of available country, partly
unoccupied, and partly inhabited sparsely
by whites or mixed races, or Indians more
or less civilized. Already as far north as
the Gila river the Indians regularly culti-
vate cotton, the country is generally we'll
adapted to stock, and fabulously rich in
silver and other metals. In all this region
there is abundant room. The character of
the population, the extent of the country,
and its undevelOped resources, seem to me
very suggestive in connection with the
employment of freemen on the Pacific rail-
road"
Year: 1863

hand On the spot their part OF the history was otted
down In black and white. The job was great national
one, and let none be sighted who bore All honorable
part In it, And while those who have cleared the great
river may well be proud that is not ALL 1t hard
to say that anything has been more bravey and well
done than at Antetam, Murfreesboro Gettysburg and
on many fields of less note. Nor must Uncle Sans
webfeet be forgotten. At all the waery margins they
have been present not only on the deep sea- the broad
bay and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy
bayou, and wherever the ground was little damp,
they have been and made their tracks. Thanks to all
For the great Republic the principle 1t lives by
and keeps aive-for mans vast futurethanks 10 all.


Peace does not appear so distant M ii did hope 1t
will come and TO stay and 80 come as to be
worth the keeping in al future time. II will then have
been proved that among frcemen there be no sue
ccssu appeal from the ballot the bullet and that they
who take such appeal to lose their case and pay
the cost And then there will be some black men who
can remember that. with silent tongue and clenched
teeth and steady eye and well poised bayonet, they
have helped mankind on TO this great contamination;
while fear there viii be white unable to for
get that with malignant heart and decefu speech they
have sirivcn 10 hinder it,


Still let US not be ovcrsanguine of q speedy final
triumph. Let US be quite sober Let us diligently ap
ply the means never doubling that just God In His
own good time will give us the rightful result.


Yours. very truly A. LINCOLN.
Year: 1863

NEwsruER MrTiNoRrHosIs.-The Brandon
Monitor closes its life of one year. with the
following announcement


With this number of our paper, its present
name, form, size and character cease; in fact the
monitor finishes its career.


One week from today We shall issue from this
Office the first number Of the e TermoH Record -
IA weekly publication, to be, with the exception
Of a condensed Record Of the war and general
news, exclusively devoted to Vermont and Yer
montcrs, her institutions and history. past and
present, and their enterprises and achievements
at home and abroad. The active aid Of MUCH Of
the best talent in the State is promised in fur
therance Of this enterprise, and the hearty CO.
operation Of every intelligent Nermonter Is ear
nestly solicited in behalf Of the establishment
and maintenance Of this new publication, that It
may become an efficient auxiliary Of the valuable
lhbors Of the Vermont Historical Society, anil
crcditable to the worthy objects for which it Is
established.
Year: 1863

ardicc and treason. 1t is an act Of charity TO
suppose that the Ex-President himself did
not know what he was talking about. but
took this way of vanishing in his own smoke,
to avoid the pcrplcxitics Of . tight corner.
Year: 1863

The two names from the 18th Vermont
which appeared IN the Trj'0e's list Of ca
sualties the other da must have been put in
by mistake. They were not wounded at
tic battle Of Gettysburg at any rate.
Year: 1863

will tell you something about matters there.
The new Beaver Head mines, 400 miles north
OF this place, are at present attracting good
deal Of attention in this Valley. have con
vorsed with number from there. They all
speak well of the mines and many are going
ack IN the Spring, some are starting now


A great many gamblers are at present in the
city. They follow the soldiers hcrc-came
to prey upon them. Yours, a .....


- DAN DE oIlLLE
Year: 1863

The steamer Eagle, on the days of the
fair at Warsaw, will carry passengers to
and from the fair grounds at half the
usual fare for the trip. The exhibition
opens tomorrow, and we hope to see Ke-
okuk well represented. The managers
have done all in their power to render the
exhibition an interesting and profitable
one to all. At these fairs those interested
in agricultural pursuits can gather such
information as will prove of incalcuable
benefit 10 them. The same rule applies
with equal force to those who follow the
trades and professions. There is no one
so thoroughly educated that he cannot
learn more and more-so ignorant that
light cannot penetrate his brain. Go,
then, and learn wisdom.
Year: 1863

The State Fair at Dubuque opened to.
day, and we presume great many of our
citizens have gone to attend it, 1t is to
be held at one of the most accessible
points in the State; and the fair grounds,
as the posters describe them, a model Of
beauty an convenienced. With abun-
dance of the purest water, plenty of shade,
with all the artificial additions that expe-
rience can suggest or taste could dictate,
the Dubuque fair grounds are everything
that could be desired. 1t is generally
understood that it will be the best ever
held in the State. The people Of Du-
buque have made every necessary ar
TO accommodate all who may
attend, SO that those who have gone will
experience no difficulty on that score.
Year: 1863

The law of Congress in relation to the
enrolment and the draft ignores color and
does not use the word free. And the
law providing for the enlistment of Afri-
rican troops makes no distinction Of free
or slave. 1t seems to follow as a con-
sequence that the slaves in the loyal States
are subjec: to conscription just the same
as free colored men, or white men. And
we do not see why they should not be. -
Nor do We see why the son of poor man
in Maryland. Kentucky, Tennessee or
Missouri. should be drafted to serve in the
army, while forty of Fifty men on the next
farm are exempt because they owe service
to the rich stakeholder.


The poor mans minor son owes service
to his father, and SO does the mechanics
apprentice owe service to his "boss."
And yet they are drafted while their
rich neighbors' hands are exempted from
any claim on the part of the Government,
on the sole ground that they owe service
to their masters.


If free men of color, and if slaves in
rebel States are accepted as soldiers, then
clearly, negro slaves in loyal States are
men, and will make soldiers. And il
follows that they are exempt on the
ground that they owe service to other
men, while at the same time an ordinary
apprentice and minor son are not ex
empt for that reason. Here is an incon-
sistency, the ground of which must be
looked for in the special privileges which
have been conceded TO rich Shareholders,
from time immemorial


The subject is one which is exciting
attention and eliciting considerable feel
ingin Maryland, and it is to be hoped
that the matter will not be suffered to rest
till it rests on the right foundation of
justice and fairness all round
Year: 1863

nen- Reverdy Johnson made an address
at Saratoga on Friday last, at the close of
the county fair. On the state Of the ma
ton, he said the Government must be
sustained. As to slavery, it was an evil
spirit, fruitful of national difficulties, and
must finally fall in the contest with free
principles He said of the Proclamation
that such slaves as it liberated could
never be re-enslaved; where they were
not liberated, the people would settle the
matter themselves when they came hack
to the Union.
Year: 1863

While the cOpperhead procession was
passing the house Of a colored family
in Ashland last Friday, where the
mother Of the family had died and the
funeral possession was about to start for
the cemetery, some. of the copperheads, to
their disgrace, yelled out at those in dis
tress over the loss of their parent, in the
most insulting manner, crying Niggerl
Niger Niger sc. 1t is our opinion
that those who engaged in such shameful
conduct as the above were the Higgers of
the occasion, and it would be well for
them to take lessons of decency and pro-
priety from this Christian colored family.
No decent oolored man would disgrace
himself BY assOciating with niggers Of the
above eclass.-AshIdHd Tines.
Year: 1863

beating. heard a step on the stairs; it
advanced, the door opened softly, the
floor creaked with the weight of heavy
tread. The murderer approached the
bed. could feel his hot breath on my
cheek. had presence of mind enough
to initiate snore. felt his hand pass


ing over my head--it rested on my
shoulder. 0, agony of agonies, he had
found out my ruse, and was about to kill
mel My whole body was bathed in a
cold perspiration.


Suddenly 1 heard a heavy thud on the
bed, which was followed by groan, and
then all was still. The blow had been
struck, and | was not the victim. A
pause of some moments ensued, and then
| heard the uncle ascending the STAIRS
They wrapped the body of the unfortu-
nate Bill in sheet, and conveyed it at
once into the garden. They had no SOON
er left the house than leaped out of bed
and ran to the window. They had evil
IDENTIFY not discovered their mistake, for
the body was already in the grave pre-
pared for it, and they were filling it in.


lost not moment to put on the rest
Of my clothes, and creeping quietly down
stairs, escaped through the front door. I
ran as fast as / possibly could, and by
chance took the right road. 10 less than
an hour l was at Parkvile. Iroused
the whole village, and in few hurried
words told my story. A large party of
men Immediately set off for the scene of
the tragedy accompanied by myself.


When we entered the house we found
the front room still occupied by the uncle
and nephew. When they saw me they
turned deadly pale, and really believed
they thought that 1 had risen from the
grave, for they had not yet discovered

that they had sacrificed Theodore Nun
sells son. When they saw that L was
really alive, they assumed an air of bra
vado, supposing that 1 had only come to
arrest the clerk for the bank robbery
Their dream, however, was soon dissipa-
ted, for in few moments the body of the
murdered man was exhumed, and they
were confronted with their bloody work.


1t was shocking to see the uncle's ago.
ny whom no discovered tha. his son had
been murdered. Neither of the crimi-
nals attempted any defence. Three
months afterwards they we're tried, con-
victed and executed.