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Year: 1864

SoHuYLKILL HAVEN, Pa July 24.-An acci
dent occurred at Phoenix Coliery on Saturday
evening, which resulted in the instant killing OF
twenty one men. They were on 4 slope car
coming out OF the mines from their work. When
hear the top of the slope the chain broke letting
the car run back six hundred feet on slope
seventy five degrees, killing all that were in the
car
Year: 1864

TRUE LOYALTY. The following is from
the last letter ever written by Senator Dong
las. Il know of no mode in which loyal
citizen may so well demonstrate his devotion
to his country as by sustaining the flag, the
Constitution and the Union, under all cir
cumstances, and under every Administra-
assailants. at home and abroad. We should
never forget that man cannot be true
Democrat unless he Is a loyal patriot.
Year: 1864

''Pray sir" said the late Archbishop
WhatIey to d loquacious presbendary, who
had been very active in talking at the arch
dishop's expence when his back was turned.
''Why are you like the bell of your own
church steeple?' Because, replied the
prebendary, I am always ready 70 sound
the alarm when the church is IN danger
BY no means, replied the Archbishop,
1t is because you have an empty head and
a long tongue.
Year: 1864

IF YOU wish to be favorite with the girls,
generally, attend to theirwants, that IS, give
them rides, candy and raisins; talk and laugh
about love affairs; and keep on the off side,
that Is don't commit yourself to any one IN
particular, and you will be ionized to your
hearts content till you become an old bach
elor The more fippant and nOnsenical "a
Young man is in the company Of girls, the
better will he succeed They prefer fools to
wise men.
Year: 1864

AT ploughing match, some laborers were
standing behind a party Of ladies whose hon
nets and crinoiine hiudered them from sec
ing what was going forward. One of them
complained that he could not see the steam
plough. ''Of course not, retorted one Of
his companions, and added significantly,
who can see through woman p
Year: 1864

There are two hishmen in Bagor, Me-,
who receive annually between twenty and
thirty thousand dollars in gold as dividends
Of the product of mine in which they are
interested in California, and in which they
once wrought with their own hands
Year: 1864

After your horse is harneSscd to the car
riage, procure a piece of webbing as a broad
strap about ten feet long, fasten it securely
around the off foot below the fetlock, then
pass IL through the girths and lay the end O.
yer the dashboard; see that every thing is
right then standing on the off-side of the
wagon take the strap in the right hand pro-


ceed TO get in if the horse attempts to start
pail on the strap, at the same time saying
whoa the strap brings his foot up and
makes pretty effectual whoa Slack on the
strap as soon as you have stopped him, and
if he attempts to start repeat the operation.
When you have got good ready to start,
give the horse the word, and go along. Re
peat the operation untilthe horse stands per-
tectly quiet at the word whoa, always re-
membering not to whip your horse, but al
ways treat him as you would friend, with
perfect kindness, and never say whoa un-
lesn you want your horse to stand perfectly
still No man should undertake to break
horse who can not control his own temper"
Year: 1864

CURE FOR A FELoN.-As soon as the
part begins to swell, get the tincture of lobe
liza and wrap the part affected with cloth and
saturate it thoroughly with the tincture and
the felon is dead An old physician says he
has known it to cure in scores of cases, and it
never fails if applied in season.
Year: 1864

4 countryman passing along one Of the
streets of Baltimore with his wagon Il few
days since, when one Of his wheels came off,
and he discovered that Inch pin was gone.
After searching Tor it some time, he offered
TO the boys who congregated shilling 10
find it. They then Joined in the search, and
what he supposed to be the pin. Having
adjusted the wheel, he started off but had
not gone more than half a square before a
wheel on the other side came OFF, when he
discovered that the young rascals had stolen
the pin from one Of the other wheels to OBJ
tain the reward.
Year: 1864

of which Mr.. Davis can send man to
shut up any newspaper that Offends him OF
any member Of his government, by taking
away it's EDITORS detail. We hope it is
needless to explain how such law ts in
consistent with any species OF liberty 10
the animadVeFsiou Of the press upon pub
lie men or measures. An independent
press is q literal imPractica6ility where
such q law exists; every newspaper from
the moment when that law is made law,
becomes, in exact terms, dePe0dent for its
existence on the free will and discretion"
of government. Indeed, no honest man
engaged in the publication Of a newspaper
that pretends to be independent will con
tiuue his ''pursuit" for one moment under
such conditions. Never win any bat cheats
and slaves come before the public with
the pretence Of free speech in their mouths
when they know that they can be sileDeed
in q minute by q Davis, q Seddeu,
or q Benjamin. Declarations of these
truths, we know, are the strongest
possible e1hOrIStions to corrupt meu that
they leave no stone unturned to get the
Presidents Press Law passed. Whether
their influence with Congress is sufficient
remains 70 be seen but il Congress deter
mines to interfere with the actual Law on
this subject, We hope it will do so by q reg
uIatiOn foTbidding the publication Of any
newspaper in the Southern Gonfederacy
during the war. ThatlsW will be no more
unconstitutional than the other and if the
handful of men now engaged in this busi.
ness are needed in the army, no candid or
honest person among them will urge the
faintest bjection against the simultaHeOus
discontinuanee Of all the public journals
now printed provided the effect Of the law
is equal on all. But it will be q deplOrabIe
day for this country when every check on
official corruption being removed, and
every means Of information being taken
from the people, q press shall still live
which is not only no check on public wrong
and no light to the people, but q protested
tool; paid Pimp, q sword in the hands of
corruption, gnidsand staff of Villains and
tyraLts, whose obliged duty shall be to
blind .hs eyes of the country, to blacken
virtue and to gild kuavery.
Year: 1864

FxLLow CITlzBEs-I thank you for the
honor which you have done me in thus
calling upon me to join you in your con
CALCULATIONS upon the grand result Of this


The most momentous election in which the
loyal people, of the United States have eysl
expressed their sovereign will. 1t istht
triumph OF nation freedom and Of nationA
Year: 1864

| The Aboltionists have taken new and
sudden turn--turned an acute angle, recent
". Although. by their acts, person
would suppose that they were afraid of
neither God. man, nor the devil. they seem
all at once TO have moral fear Of GHOSTS.
Everybody knows with what pertinacity
they insisted, Immediately after the last
election, that the Democratic party was
dead, and buried beyond the hopes of res
urection; that it was powerless for evil ever
after and the way for clear and smooth
sail to Abolitonism was opened for the en-
tire future. This, they all asserted and the
more credulous and unsophisticated ofthem
who pinned their faith TO the sleeves Of
the leaders-believed But, all at once the
leaders have become dreadfully alarmed and
frightened about this dead party-this
GHOST Of Democracy, and are cautioning
their readers to beware of their evil doings
and Vaccinations. This new freak is as
strange as it is sudden.


The appearance Of the GHOST of Banquo
did not strike his murderer with more con-
sternation and alarm than does this GHOST
Of Democracy the leaders of the Abolition
party. If those corrupt Abolition editors
and orators believedwhat they told their de-
luded followers. how extremely silly and
absurd in them now to be talking about an
other and more desperate battle with the
Democracy-urgingt their readers to ''be on
their guard against this dead party p
What has inspired this sudden and new fear
among them, We can not conceive, unless
| they see GHOSTS and are afraid of them.


That the Aboftionists, if they have any
consciences (which is very doubtful, sho d
! be afraid that their own damnable acts
should rise up in judgement against them
would not be surprising. That the GHOSTS
tber ire unrody 1 n o%bon to " deitrov r s this gov "
ernment and nation should haunt them in
their sleeping and waking hour, is quite ma
tural but to be afraid of this Dead and
buried Democratic party" only shows of
what craven and cowardly spirits they are
possessed --Hancock Courier.
Year: 1864

It is stated that General Scott, in recent
on the developments of the
war, remarked that the fighting had only
commenced, and that the real hard fighting
was yet to take place. He also added that
the administration had fooled away nearly
every golden opportunity, and thus, instead
Of ending he.rebellion, as they could have
done long since, have extended it to the
distant future. --
Year: 1864

! Black Republican paper boasts that
great northern maiorities go for the war
Then let US see how many Of these maiori-
ties 90 to the war The most Of these ras-
Gals nave voted for other people to go to
war, while they stay at home TO kiss the SOL
diers' wives and get rich off of shoddy.-
Let those who vote for the war 90 to the
war, and we will not then believe them fools,
but honest.
Year: 1864

The Troy Wing says:-''A gentleman
Of this city who took occasion on last Sab
bath to doctor some cider, 50 as to keep it
sweet, was taken to task by his good wife,
for laboring on the Sabbath His reply was,
that 10 good Christian ought to find fault
with his work on that day, as he had been
doing his best to keep his cider from work
inc
Year: 1864

An Abolition Governor of one Of the
New England States, it is said, did not ap-
point day of Thanksgiving. A Democrat
on being asked why? said that the people
wished it delayed till he should retire from
his office
Year: 1864

THE editor of the Hard Scrabble Gazette,
an "out West" paper, says During
the past week we have set type, and sawed
wood, worked at the press, swept the office,
and done chores at the house, tending the
baby, etc, consequently our time for writing
has been decidedly limited
Year: 1864

An Abolition editor down east. under
took to whip Democrat by the name of
Boyle, but got severely handled himself. =
He complained Of his injuries to neigh
Dor, who told him that he should keep out
Of hot water if he didn't want to get Boyled.
Year: 1864

Two negroes arrived here last week from


New Orleans on their way to Washington
To wait upon Lincoln to petition him to
grant the right of suffrage to the negroes
of Louisiana? \ certain Col. Mckave. in
a speech in New Orleans, urged that del
egation of this character be sent. and gave
It as his opinion that before the close of the
present session ct Congress Its petition
would be granted. We do not realize the
immense distance we have drifted away
from the constitutional government ofI7os,
until such an idea as Lincoln taking upon
himself to decree who shall have the
right of suffrage aChin .Stote is practical


y presented to our mind. Language is al
together inadequate to describe the out
RACES upon justice and even common de-
cency which the present party in power
daily perpetrate and unless a writer brings
to bear all the adjectives in the dicthIIary
in every article he pens, he fails to give
even q conception Of the monstrous VILLAIN
les constantly occurring The attempt to
force upon the people of the South. negro
suffrage, is one of these things There is
scarcely doubt but it will be attempted in
utter defiance of all laws and all constitu-
tons In fact, it must come TO that. for
there is no other logical termination to
Back Republicanism. Indeed, that does
not complete the full measure Of Its iniq-
uty. The finale is amalgamation Of blood,
and the person who does see that this is
the natural and inevitable termination of
the first step in Abolition, has not mind
emo lgh to connect cause with eject
Those who admit the premise Of Abolition
ism and suppose they can escape Its conSe-
quences. will live to find themselves terri
bly, mistaken. No nation or people that
ever acted upon the theory of the equality
Of the races, from the days of the Carthe-
genians to the Mexicans, ever escaped the
disease. death. and final extinction which
amalgamation inevitably brings. Let those
who have not the courage TO defend the
supremacy of the white race, accept the
Abolition theory that it is dead, but no
man who eomprehends his duty as an
American citizen, will ever yield this
ground, for to do it is to ignore his own
manhood -Doy- BdoE-,
Year: 1864

right and wrong time in which to cut
wheat. AS the result of careful expert
ment made by correspondent Of the Ger
mantown Telegraph, it has been ascertained
that the proper time is when the grain in
the middle Of the car can be crushed be-
tween the fingers and leave nothing but
the husk aud thick pulp, without any
fluid around its edges.
Year: 1864

Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts,,
recently said


81 know not what record Of sin awaits
me 10 the other world; but this do know,
that never was SO mean as to despise any
man because be was poor, because he was
ignorant, or because be was black"


That is worth a setting in "picture Of
silver" We append to it something like
from greater than any earthly source


"And hath made of one blood all nations
OF men for to dwell on all the faco of th e
earth. ."-Ac.s xvii. o6
Year: 1864

Letters received by the Commissioner of
Agriculture show that the growing crops
in the Eastern and Middle States promise
we'll. The hay, it is thought, will amount
to third more than usual.
Year: 1864

The voters of the First Ward are re-
quested to meet at the Court House this
evening, at Il o'clock, for the purpose
Of nominating a candidate for Alderman
of this ward Let there be full attend
ance of the Union voters of this ward.


MANY UNION MEN.
Year: 1864

WARD MEETINa.-We call attention
OF persons interested-that is, of all the
loyal men of the First Ward-to the no.
tce for Ward meeting tonight to NOM
mate candidate for Alderman.


Let us nominate candidates for city
officers upon whom all Union men can
readily unite and then 60 10 work and
elect them by an overwhelming majority.
Year: 1864

WE havo considerably enlarged TIE DAILY ONO
SrtTBsMAN, and now print 1t on plain an hand
some new type, and clear white paper.


In Politics. The ONO STATKsMAN lin War Us ID
Peace for the Country. for the Constitution and io


Union Of equal States. with equal privileges, anu
with equal and exact Justice to all its citizens We
sIefor the Old Flag, with not Star Stripe erased
and the Old Union far 1t possible to restore It,
snd for the existing Constitution in its spirit letter
nd purpose.


Upon the ccmipg events of the year. rest the hopes
If the People and Government. We are in the midst
Of bloody and protracted civil war. Its duration
and close depend upon wisc: truer and more patri


cPolicy than we have seen during the present Ad-
ninistration. We owe it to the memory of our Faith


and to the hspes Of Children te the future Of
our Country, and to the best stinterest OF mankind
shange Policy which is drifting u farther and lar
her from the landmarks Of our patriotic sires.


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


We epublish 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
,ulate. The OHIO STATESMAN.


TEE WEEKLY ONO STATESMAN is one of the
argest. cheapest and best printed Papers in the
West. Each number contains complete resume Of
II the Military and Political 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

a1zy- 1t is ba,e fraud in the abolition
lists to say that they are for the Union
They are not for the Union, They are
not for the old and blessed Union or any
Union that the nation has ever heard or
seen They profess to be for some aow-
tangled thing, that they choose to call the
Union as it ought to be- They repudia'e
the Union given to us by our fathers, and
would substitute device of their own
The word Union should burn their vile
tongues like cole Of fire.
Year: 1864

S%y' The Washington correspondent of
the Detroit Free Press says that the War
Department will recommend Congress to
strike out OF the Conscription law the
clause allowing drafted men to furnish
substitutes, and also the one requiring the
fifty days notice OF draft. He says that
SO soon as these changes are effected
heavy draft is contemplated to cpen the
spring campaign with crushing force,
Year: 1864

SLANDERING TUE DEAD.-We have just been told
by wounded soldier of Stuarts brigade, that Gov.
Vance, in his speech before Daniels brigade in Vir


gnia, congratulated the soldiers that all the refuse
or trashy portion of the army had died of various
diseasAor been killed. and that those who had been
left were hardy veterans who could stand almost
anything. This was all he said about the dead
He bestowed no praise upon them. The soldier
from whom we get this information is young man
of excellent character. He also said, Boys, just
whip the starch out Of Grants shirt and PIl then
send you all a bottle Of whiskey, and know you
won't be mad to see that" Most cheering and con-
solng language to address to soldiers on the eve of
hattle
Year: 1864

Gov. Vance is emphatically the peace candidate.
-C0nserUGtice


Gov Vance having returned from the West, and
finding by his canvass in that quarter that his
only hope is in changing his tone, he directs Mr.
Hyman in the Conservative of the 18th July to
proclaim him as the "real peace candidate" Too
late, Governor. You denounced the peace meet
ings last summer, and declared that many who
took part in them were disloyal You wrote to
President Davis last December that peace itself
not the principal matter" to be considered. but
only the Sc effort for peace, by which you hoped
our people would be deceiyed You agreed with
Mr.. Davis that there is no hope for peace through
the common government alone, and you declare on
the stump, that any intervention of the States in
aid of the government in the effort to obtain peace,
would be revolutionary and reasonable. You went
to the army and told the soldiers they must fight
until very hot place got very cold, and then fight
upon the ice. We have just conversed with a SOL
der of the 47th regiment, citizen of Wake Coun-
ty, who heard you use the expression, and he in
forms US that as soon as you used it hundreds of
the soldiers left the ground, Rot wishing to hear
you further You went to Wilkesborough, justi-
fed the destruction of civil freedom by the suspen-
sion of habeas corpus, and told the people we must
Eight it out"-that we must initiate the example
of the Scotch, who fought four hundred years, and
the example of the Holanders, who fought and
suffered until they were obliged to eat the grass
that grew among the tombstones of the dead.


No, Governor, you are emphatically the aOGr can
ddate. All the aoar men are for you-that is, all
the war men like McRae, and A. NJ. Lewis, and E
A. Thompson, and others who will not fight; but
the soldiers, the real war men are against you
They know what war is, and they want peace. A
few months ago persons who talked Sf peace were
regarded by you as disloyal, but nOw you are the
'"peace candidatep Do you think you can deceive
the people in this way, Governor
Year: 1864

DEAR FRIEND HoYT,-I thought
would write you few lines to-day, as
am somewhat at leisure and thinking
about the presidential election, and per
haps it would interest you to know my
political sentiments and views in regard
to the approaching election. 1t seems
very difficult for some to decide whether
i. would be best TO elect Abraham Lin
coin for four years more or not. | have
thought the matter over and by looking
into it with reason and judgment see
plainly that he is the only man that We
can trust to keep our republican govern
ment from crumbling to pieces and fin-
ishing up the great job that we have un>
dertaktn. ! cannot foresee the end Of
this terrible conflict, but do tremble for
our government; feel that it is being
shaken by strong force, but not strong
er than ours which is just and honorable,
to defend and protect good government
founded on good moral principles. On
the other haud they are bound to be mas
ter of slavery or settle this war, which
would be dsgraceful to the American
people. cannot see how this war can
be settled when it is a certain thing that
the south does not want to compromise
in any way or shape if the north has
become convinced that they never can
subjugate the south aud are willing to
acknowledge that they are whipped, then
ii is time to give it up at once, but for
one am not prepared to give it up, al
though / am in the field aud having hard
times in this campaign, besides / am in
danger Of my life, but | am not yet dis
couraged; shall feel sure Of success as
long as the north keep united as well as
they have for the past year, and ] feel it
my duty to use all my influence and pow
er to keep the enemies of our country
out Of power; l would not feel safe to
risk any other man than Lincoln in the
presidential chair. This is strange
war, strange in its tendencies and IN its
Influences, bringing about many things
and operating in various ways, and Mr..
Lincoln has been long enough in the bu-
siness TO understand the nature of the
wheel, while other men with less expert
ence would not be SO trusty as he is. /
hope that he will get hearty support
and elected by handsome majority.


leave this subject to write about ar
my matters we are not doing much but
picket duty, commence a fight now and
then, but do not have many general en-
gagements; the rebels do not feel inclined
TO hold their ground; as soon as they find |
that we are in full force they leave for
some other place ; all they seem to want
is to fix some kind Of trap for us or to
capture our trains, but we have been We.
~ lucky so far, we have lost nothing vet. /
We are now abou, ten miles from Win
chester. S. DEBLoIs.


sspts,
Year: 1864

We saw boy, the other day, borrow
stick of candy from a comrade, to show
him that be could pull it out of his ear.
He swallowed it, and then twisted him-
self about in various ways TO extract IT,.
but at length Informed his companion
that he had forgotten that part of the
trick.