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Year: 1864

Arrangements are now completed to sup
ply any demand for this article, which from
lack Of government stamps has not heretofore
been possible,


The public may rest assHred that in no case
viii the perfectly pure standard Of the Plant
ation Bitters be departed from. Every bot
tie hears the fac simiie Of our signature on a
steel plate engraving, or it cannot be genuine.


Sold BY all Druggists Grocers and Dealers
throughout the country.
Year: 1864

NEAL Dow remained long enough in
Richmond, to see the rebel Legislature
pass an act to seal up every grog shop in
Richmond and perhaps in Virginia, on
the 1st day of May. Gen. Lee asked for
the law, and it vas conceded.
Year: 1864

A CURIOUS trick in rihe-shooting was
performed in Paris not long since. A
Swiss gentleman backed himself to take
aim with his carbine, then support it
with his right arm, then with his left
hand put his hat over the muzzlo and
hit the center of the target. This he did
three times in succession.
Year: 1864

The Cincinnati VOlksfreund has hauled
down the name ofJohn G. Fremont, and an
nounces that it will support the candidate Of
the opposition against the radical republicans.


All the ladies who attend tables at the
New York Sanitary Fair are required to
wear black silk dresses and white linen col
lars-and to look as pretty as possible
That's alN
Year: 1864

Another wonderful ingredient OF Spajlisl
origin, imparting beauty to rhe campleNioa
and brilliancy to the mind. Is Fl unknown 70
the commercs or the world. ana we withhold
its name for the present
Year: 1864

ns~One evening a clergyman gave out
the hymn, which was in q measure rather
harder than usual, and the deacon led off


Upon lis conclusion, the minister rose and
said: Brother B will please re-
peat the hymn, as l cannotpray after a.-ch
singing" The deacon very composedly
pitched into another tune, and the clergy
man proceeded with his prayer. Having
finished, he took up the book to give the
second hymn, when he was interrupted
by the deacon gravely getting up and say
ing in q voice audible to the whole con-
gregation "Will Mr. C please make
another prayer? 1t would be impossible
for me to sing after such praying as that.
Year: 1864

RsA4As a father and his son were Jog
ging comfortably along towards neigh
boring town, the father volunteered the
following advice: " Now, sonny" says he,
when we get there, you keep your mouth
shut and no one will find out that you are
a fool" When they arrived at the pub
lie inn there happened to be several gent
lemen present who had a pleasant word
and smile for the youth, but all their in
quiries failed to elicit any replies from
him, when gentleman spoke to friend
in an undertone, IL guess that boy must
be a fool" Whereupon the boy hearing
this called out to his father: Father,
they've found it out
Year: 1864

A HEAVY ITEM Iowa slipped across
the Mississippi river during the season
Just closed 10000 dressed hogs. Es-
timating the average length of each pork
er to be five feet, and supposing them to
be placed in one continuous line, this
would make three hundred and fifty
males of pork Quite an army of grunters
that H,,scatine Journal
Year: 1864

\ FORMIDABLE CUSTOMER New
bern letter describes the rebel ram
which assisted in the recent capture Of
Portsmouth as about 40 feet long with
an oval roof, much like the back of tur-
tie, and SO strong ii timber and plating
as to be impervious to hundred polnd,
steel pointed, solid shot, at a distance OF
not more than twenty feet She draws
but five feet of water, and is about that
distance out of water
Year: 1864

RoBBERY.-Johnson & Minors cigar
and fruit store, on Seventeenth street,
was broken into on Sunday night and
robbed of the greater portion of it's con-
tents. A large hole was chiselled out of
the rear door, through which the thief
must have passed in and out with his
booty, as both of the entrances were
found locked yesterday morning, just as
they were left the night before.
Year: 1864

A writer in the Jefferson County Union
has made some calculations relative to the
number of men killed thus far in the war,
and gives the following interesting
items:


There has been enough already slain to
encircle our State if their dead bodies were
laid in one continuous line.


Ifthsy were placed in cofins and cor
isd they would count thirty mine thousand
cords.


If laid in wall twenty Ave feet thick
and thirty feet hight, it would be over one
and one-feurth miles long.


If FIVE feet thick and ten feet high the
pile would reach across this State.


If piled upon ten acre lot, they would
be nearly two hundred feet high.


And if laid upon the ground, they
would cover every foot of soil in Jefferson
county. ols fSas


Seventy Eve thousand tons of human
blood have been spilled on Dixie soil
enough to turn every spindle in Lowell
and if the tears were added to the hosa il
would turn the machinery Of the cont
nent; and the unavailing sighs would fill
eyei ocean sail.


The one-half has not yet been told
The millions Of wounded and manned for
life must be taken into account in sum
ming up the grand total of evils incident
to this bloody and fanatical war. ~ > !,


And the end is not yet


We shudder at the news Of the death of
twenty persons killed by the accidental
b.eaking of a rail, or the sinking of q
steamboat, and if two hundred are lost
by any means, We are fairly horror-strick..
en-, and are ready to wrsak vengeance on
any one who has bean negligent or care
less in the matter. agg ass
But when tens Of thousands are sui
down in day by the procurement of de
signing demagogues, We shout .hallslu,
| jah,' and can hardly contain ourselves foi
| Joy, while we thank heaven for the hu-
man slaughter. %
| We are so woll pleased with the awfu
sacrifice that we set ourselves to work a
once to fill up the deeimated ranks fol
another feast of carnage. s
Year: 1864

PRETTY WARM-As illustrative of the
intense summer heat of the Colorado
country military men at Fort Yuma used
to have tale that soldier died there
and was buried, aud wentto the hot place;
but that one night he reappeared among
his comrades. and said that it was so much
colder down below than he had been ac-
customed to that he could rot stand it,
and had to come back after his blankets
Year: 1864

Wash yourself now and then.


Change your inner garments OCCASION
ally.


Chew your meat; eschew greasy gra-
yies.


Don't chew your tobacco. ~1
Drink as little as you choose. s.r
Don't eat much more than your stom-
ach will hold.


Avoid falling out about trihes.
Fall out of windows as seldom as pos
sible. ,r


If your constitution requires you to
sleep during the sermon, see that the sex
ton has an aired nightcap for you and a
hod of hot bricks to put to your feet.
Keep your mouth shut on dusty days.
Never open your mouth in frosty
weather.


Close your mouth very tight when the
wind blows from the east.


If your business compels you to 60 out
before breakfast, have some breakfast
first.


fit is wet under foot, house your poor
feet.


Beware of the ice of summer and the
SHOWS of winter. .
Do not swallow too many kilograms.
Keep out of the streets when gold is
falling.


If the silver of advancing years is on
your head, don't change it for paper.
Don't let your circulation slacken, es-
pecially if you are newspaper man.
Use toothpowder instead Of gunpowder.
Neither sleep in hot rooms nor eat mush-
rooms. 2n
Live on six nickel cents day, but dom
earn them as some wretched spectators
are doing now.


Partake sparingly of wild fowl-par-
ticularly of "canards" that come from
the army. Er
If you cannot account for the milk in
the cocoanut, do not hesitate to make free
use of it.


Never eat your own words, unless you
are madly desirous of giving an nddi-
tional favor to the cup Of bitterness.
Should your thermometer indicate an
extreme degree of cold or heat, immerse
it in cold or hot water until it arrive at
proper sense of its duty.


If you are subject to swelling, wear kid
gloves next to your skin.
Year: 1864

Pic NIC-The teachers and pupils of the
Fourth Ward Public School, yesterday
morning took an excursion on the Hemp
field Railroad, t. the grove about half a
mile this side of Claysville, where they
spent the time very pleasantly, until about
two or three O'Clock in the afternoon, when
a rain storm came up, and drenched them
completely. As soon as the shower was
over, play was resumed and kept up till
late in the evening, when they returned to
the city, highly pleased with the enjoyment
Of the day. E#


But one accident occurred to mar the
festivities of the occasion. While the
cars were being coupled together, a lad
named Gillespie, who was standing on the
platform of car, was thrown therefrom.-
His leg was caught between the cars, and
lis ankle badly mashed
Year: 1864

FoR several days past the shores Of our
river have been lined with boys and young
men, who, in defiance of law and decency


We're determined upon bathing. Yesterday
the police made descent upon them and a
large number were arrested and fined. Ii
these water dogs can't wait until the sun is
down, and then enjoy swim in the cool OF
the evening, in accordance With law, they
should repair to the creeks beyond the city
Year: 1864

TIE LADIEssof St Mathews Church will
have strawberry festival and fair at Wash
ington Hall on Monday evening. Weknow
everything will be done to make the enter
tainment one of pleasure and amusement.
Year: 1864

1T SEEMS" says Professor Wilson, "the
easiest Of all things to be kind and good.
and then it is so pleasant" This sentence
embodies reflection specially applicable at
this tine. when so many opportunities are
afforded US all to enforce by deed what we
know To be in truth right and proper. A
fair and festival will be given at Washington
Hall to night by the ladies of the Third
Presbyte terian Church for the purpose of ma
king needed repairs to that edifce. Would
the reader experience the pleasantness Of
being kind and good let him 60 to the fair
to night, and learn how little is required to
give pleasure, as well to himself as others
Year: 1864

Do you see that group of Ladies go
ingup or down Cedarst 2 Nine chances
out of ten they are going or have been
to Morse's Gallery Of the Cumberland,
Is Cedar st, opposite Commercial Hotel


OcE27-tf
Year: 1864

MoRsE is the first 70 introduce this
new style OF Pictures Every body that
see them are delighted with them.


Call at the "Gsllery Of the Cumber-
land and judge for yourself ol4,tE
Year: 1864

The history of Mr.. Lincoln's Administration
will be record Of tyranny and violated pledges
almost unexampled in history In his inaugural
address the President pledged the people, amongst
other things, as follows:


"Wherc hostility to the United States shall be
great in any interior Statc--shall be so great
and so universal as to prevent competent resi-
dent citizens from holding the Federal Offices
there shall be no attempt to force 0bnorious
strangers among the people that object. While
the strict legal right may exist of the Govern
ment to enforce the exercise of the Offices the at
tempt to do so would be so irritating and so nearly
impracticable withal that | deem it better to
iorego for the time the use of such Offices"


Yet in the face Of this solemn assurance, and
when there was not even a pretended necessity
for his course, Mr.. Lincoln has recently appointed
Richard Busteed, of New York, man whose
character is so low as to meet but few defenders,
even amongst his political friends, United States
District Judge of Alabama. Mr.. Lincoln while
regarding promise to negroes as sacred and
binding forever, evidently considers a solemn
pledge to white people as of no force whatever.
He violates his word rs readily as he tramples
down the Constitution he swore to uphold and
defend. Illinois Register.
Year: 1864

No MORE FIGHTING-If reliance is to be placed
upon the eastern news, there will be little more
fighting during the war, as the rebel soldiers are
reported to be deserting in such numbers as soon
Beside provisions and forage has about given out
Mt the south.


We say, if these accounts are to be believed
the south must soon give up-but then similar
stories have been the fashion for two years, and
yet the rebels present formidable front. If star
walton and desertion is to end the war, we have
but entered upon ii. An agricultural people
starve slowly.
Year: 1864

Ew Mining is comparatively at a stand
still in the mountains for the want of rain
but the needed article holds back. The
skies are studied just now with more inter-
est than the sensation headings the eastern
dispatches.
Year: 1864

The DESERT MINEs.-Ths name has been
given to new mining district located in the
desert country between the sinks of the Car
son and Humboldt rivers, in Nevada Terrific.
ry. The first, and as yet, the most valuable
lead found is know as the Red Ledge. The
pay streak is twelve inches in thickness, not
an ounce of which, it is said, will pay less
than $500 per ton, and the average yield of
the rock is estimated at from $4,000 to So
900 per ton. The region in which these
leads have been found is entirely destitute of
timber, and water is scarce and b ackish.-
Nevertheless, the locality is attracting much
attention, and two towns known respectively
as "Desert City" and Lake View City" have
been laid off.
Year: 1864

MORE OF THE WAR PowER.-Among the
late dispatches from the East, it is stated
that Gen. Foster has prohibited the distiation
of Grain in the States of Kentucky and
Tennessee And from other sources it is
intmated that the same prohibition will be
made applicable to the State of Indiana and
Illinois. The reason why, grain in these
States shall not be made into liquor, is not
given, but we judge, from reading the Octo-
ber report of the Department of Agriculture,
at Washington, that it arises from the par
tial failure of the corn crop in the North
west. With short crop, and the usual
amount of distilation carried on, prices of
the grain would be high, and hence the in-
creased expense would be eniailed upon the
Government in supplying the wants of the
army. Therefore "mitary necessity" steps
in and dictates to the holders of grain, what
they may or may not do with their produce


The hearts of temperance men will be
made glad at knowing they have so powerful
an auxiliary to their cause. as the military.
Year: 1864

| never undertook but oucc SAID Tim
to sit at naueht the authority Of my wife
You know her way--eool, quiet but de
,ermincd a ever grew just after we
were married and all WAS nice aud coy
she got NE in the habit of doing al! the
churniug. She finished breakfast rather
before me one morning, and slipping away
from the table, she filed the churn with
cream. and set ii down where couldn'i
help seeing what was wanted So | took
hold readily enough and churncd till the
butter came She didn't thank me, bu;
looked so nice and sweet about it TINT
felt well paid.


Well, when the next churning cay
came along she did tho same thing, and
followed suit. and fetched the butter
Year: 1864

She rose from her delicious sleep,


And put away her soft brown hair,
And. in tone as low and deep


As loves first whisper, breathed prayer;
Her snow white hands together pressed,
Her blue eyes sheltered in the lid,
The folded linen on her breast


Just swelling with the charms it hid.
And from her long and flowing dress


Escaped bare and snowy foot,
Whose step upon the Garth did press


Like q sweet snow fake, soft and mute
And then from slumbers soft and warm,
Like young spirit fresh from Heaven
She bowed that young and matehless form'
And humbly prayed to befOrgiven.
Oh, Godi if souls as pure asthese


Need daily mercy from thy throne
If she upon her bended knees,


Our holiest and purcst one
She with face so clear and bright,


We deem her some stray child OF light
If she, with those soft eyes and tears,


Day after day, in her young years,
Must kneel and pray for grace from thee,


How hardly ifshe win not heaven, -.
Will our wild errors be forgivenl
Year: 1864

Half the stuff that palms itself off at thsso,
little tea parties, known as Union meetings.
for patriotism and Unionism, is neither more
nor less than little malicious hate and vile
preiudices against the entire people of Ger.
tain section. m much, very much of which, has'
had its origin in the malicious brains and
tongues of men who have openly acknowl-
ed ged and boasted that they have worked
with all their might and strength for years
to destroy this Union: That man who il
filled with sectional hates, we care not when
or where they had their origin, is incapable
of much patriotism. By this rule men can
easily Judge whether they are patriots or
bigoted and prejudiced partisans, and so lar
and enemy of his country and its cause
Cairo Democ- at.
Year: 1864

| 1t may be truly said that we live In
strange times. Each day events are trans
spring which are not only calculated to as.
tonish and surprise people, but to shock
their ideas of moral honesty and fair DEAL
! ing. We mere especially allude to the
acts of those who are called to rule over u.s.,
and who are responable for acts which do
not look exactly right to those of our peo-
| pie who believe in fair dealing, and that
'justice should be done even if the heavens
fall" 1t may be "disloyal" to point out q
few of the acts which "are calculated to-
bring the Admin istration into disrepute" by
questioning its fairness and honesty, yet We
have no besitancy In calling the attention
of our readers to few things that don't look
exactly right to honest and upright men.


In the first place it does not look exactly
right to see men who have robbed the gov
ernment out of thousands and even millionG
of dollars, either go "scott free" or be mere
ly ordered under arrest and allowed the
greatest freedom of person; while at the,
same time other men whose only crime
consists in words spoken in debate or words
dropped in an exciting argument. are cast
into prison and compelled to lay there for
months, and suffer all the tortures of prison
life, before they permitted hearing before
the courts.
1t does not look right TO see ana near
such men as Wendell Phillips, Lloyd Gar
rsou & Co., denouncs the Constitution al
"league with he'll and covenant with the
devil" and yet remain in possession of their
freedom, and receive econiums from the
very man who banishes Mr.. Vallandighauf
for fear he would say something In public
debate against his Administration, or 1t you
please the government.


It does not look right to see our rulers
insist upon a war of exterminstion against
the South for violating the Constitutions :
while at the same time our rulers claim
the right to violate the same instrument.
in order to make the South obey it.


There are many other things that do not
look exactly right to honest men, and the
people will, 'ere long, see that those who
are now outragng every principle of hon-
esty and fair dealing, get their just deserts.
and those who now uphold these dishonest
acts will yet hide their heads in shame.


Saadusky Nevs.
Year: 1864

A student turns out from college


with honors on his head, his mind


replete with learning, and not a stir


on his affections, excepting for his


kindred. A damsel passes his track
and takes his heart along with her,
and ten to one that she does not
leave her own behind. How is this
phenomenon to be accounted for p
A trancendentalist walks out from
his library stock full of the deep
est metaphysics. He finds on his
way little satin shoe of the incest
shape, and before he has time to
count ten, some bright-eyed crea-
ture whom he never saw takes pos
session of his soul. To what shall
we attribute this witchery? A mi
ser of sixty years and several mil
lions sterling, who never did a gen
erous act, sees a blue ribbon neatly
fastened with common brass pin
around the waist of girl not worth
a sixpence, and before three days
he makes her mistress of all his
wealth, and turns out to be a hap.
py, jovial person. Who can give a
logical reason of this proceeding p
A stern warrior, welded to nothing
but strict discipline for the glory Of
his country, entering ballroom in
Year: 1864

There are some people always
looking out for Sights. They can
not pay a visit, they cannot even
receive a friend, they cannot carry
on the daily intercourse of the fami-
ly, without suspecting some ofense
is designed. They are as touchy as
hair-triggers. If they meet an ac-
quaintance in the street who hap
pens to be pre-occupied with busi-
ness, they attribute his abstraction
to some motive personal to them
selves, and take umbrage according
ly. They lay on others the fault of
their own irritability. A fit of in
digestion makes them see imperti-
nence in everybody they come in
contact with. Innocent persons who
never dreamed ofgiving ofense, are
astonished to find some unfortunate
word or some momentary taciturni-
ty, mistaken for an insult. To say
the least the habit is unfortunate
It is far wiser to take the more
charitable view of our fellow-beings,
and not suppose slight intended,
unless the neglect is open and di-
rect. After all, too, life takes its
hue, in great degree, from the col
or of our own minds. If we are
frank and generous, the world treats
US kindly. If, on the contrary, we
are suspicious, men learn to be cold
and cautious to US. Let a person
get the reputation of being touchy
and everybody is under more or less
restraint and in this way the chan
ces of imaginary ofense are vastly
increased. Your people who fire
up easily, miss a deal of happiness
Their jaundiced tempers destroy
their own comfort as well as that O
their friends. They have forever
some fancied slight to brood over
The sunny, serene contentment o.
less selfish dispositions, never visi
them.
Year: 1864

B. F. Taylor, ofthe Chicago Jour.
nal, writer whose every word is a
poetic thought, thus speaks of the
Printer truly and prettily. In those
pretty pictures of the language, what
word painter so artistic, so exquisite
as he? Read it, think of it, and say,
for you can't help it, cit is so -


The Printer is the Adjutant of
thought, and this explains the mys-
teries of the wonderful words that
can kindle home as no song can
that warm heart as no hope can
that word 1--WE" with hand-in-hand
warmth in it, for the Author and
Printer are engineers together
Engineers indeed When the little
Corsican bombarded Cadiz at the
distance of five miles, it was deemed
the very triumph of engineering
But what is that range to this !;
where they lombard the ages yet
to be,


There he stands at the case and
marshals into line the forces armed
for truth, clothed in Immortality
and In English. And what can be
more noble than the equipment of
thought in Saxon-Saxon with the
ring of the spear and shield therein
that commissions it when we are
dead, to move gradually on to the
last syllable of recorded time. This
is to win a victory from death, for
this has no dying in it.


The Printer is called laborer,
and the Office he performs is toll
Oh, it is not work, but a sublime
rite he is performing, when he thus
sights" the engine that is to fling a
worded truth in grander curve than
missiles ever before described
filings it into the bosom of an age
yet unborn. He throws off his coat
indeed, but we wonder the rather
that he does not put his shoes from
off his feet, for the place whereon
he stands is holy ground.


A little song was uttered some
where long ago it wandered in the
twilight feebler than star it died
upon the ear but the Printer takes
it up where it was lying there in
silence like a wounded bird, and
sendsit forth from the Ark that had
preserved it, and it flies into the fu-
ture with the olive branch of peace,
and around the world with melody,
like the dawning of spring morn
ing.