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Year: 1864

DAY OF FASTING AND PRAYER The follow
ing resolution was adopted by both Houses Of the
Confederate Congress:


'Reverently recognizing the providence of God
in the affairs of men, and gratefully remembering
tho guidance, support and deverance granted TO
our patriot fathers in the memorable war which re-
suited in the independence Of the American Colo
nes; and now reposing in Him our supreme conf
dence aud hope, in the present struggle for civil
aud religious freedom, and for the right to live
under government Of our own choice, and deep
ly impressed with the conviction that, without
Him, nothing is strong, nothing wise aud nothing
enduring; in order that the people Of this Confed-
eracy may have the opportunity, at the same time,
of Offering their alterations to the Great Sovereign
OF the Universe of penitently confessing their sins
and strengthen their views and purposes Of amend
,nent, in humble reliance on His gracious and Al
mighty power


"The Congress The Coa/edtrdte States do
ResDiUe, That it be recommended to the people Of
these States that Friday, the 9Th day of April
next, be set apart and observed as day of humil-
liation, fasting and prayer, that Almighty God
would SO preside over our public councils and hu-
thorities; that He would SO inspire armies and
their leaders with wisdom, courage and preserve
rance; and so manifest Himself in the greatness
Of His goodness and the majesty Of His power,
that we may be safely and successfully led through
the war to which being subjected, TO the
attainment of an honorable peace; that while we
enjoy the blessings of free aud happy govern
ment we may ascribe to Him the honor and the
glory Of our prosperity and Independence"
Year: 1864

1t was our good fortune to be present
and witness, and participate in the pro,
ceedings Of the Congressional Convention
in The city Of Oshkosh, on the 15.h inst,


That was the most important conven-
ton held in this District for she nomina-
tion Of a candidate for congressional hon
ors. It's members met together as the
representatives Of that portion Of the peo
pie, who love and revere the UsroN and
Constitution, and respect the laws enact
ed under and in pursuance thereof, and
have sworn that SO far as in their power.
the same shall be preserved and enforced
at all hazards, bu. while preferring peace
10 war, are determined to discharge the
duties they owe TO themselves, their coun-
try aud to mankind throughout the civilI-
zed world, and aid in putting an end to
the calamiies and horrors Of devastating
civil war, and securing tne blessings of a
permanent peace on the basis Of the
UEion.


The members Of that convention we're
animated by one spirit of devotion to the
interests Of the whole country, unmarried
by petty sectional jealousies or hates, and
each had fixed purpose to vote for the
nomination of The man who would render
the most efficient aid in securing to our
country the glorious results of an honor
able and lasting peace.


Tho tho members from this part Of the
district felt that the nominee was due to
tie Lake Shore Counties, and they cast
their votes for the worthy and patriotic
Villas, as their first choice, yet they bad
not canvsssed for this nomination, and did
rot push it with pertinacity, as their fay-
orite was a gentleman not well known as .
candidate for the position in other por-
tons Of the District, in which the senti
ment Of the people had settled down into
the conviction that Col. GABRIEL BoucK
was the man for the times ,ha. try men s
souls.


Tie action of tie Convention was har>
monious, and the result of that action was
greeted by lis members and the numerous
crowd in attendance with the most enthu-
siastic applause,


Our candidate is known throughout the
District and State, as being in every res
pect worthy the office for which he is
placed in nomination, and to which he
will be most triumphanty elected in No
yember next


Col. BoUcK in the civil and military
offices which be has been called upon to
fill, has disc charged bis duties faithfully
and well, and to the credit of himself and
the honor Of his constituents and the cause
OF his country.


Ia his military career he has met every
emergency as became patriotic ard
brave man, and in the halls of Congress,
wi! lend his powerful aid to those meas
ures that will render the victories which
he has helped to achieve in the field
fruitful Of good to he country, in a restor
ed Mon and an honorable and permanent
peace on the basis of that Union.
Year: 1864

We give no credit to rumors that Mr..
LINCOLN is in some sort entertaining the
idea of Offering an armistice to the South.
The rumors are trick to break the force
Of his $ To whom it may concern mani
festo. That manifesto is the settled poll.
cy Of the administration, if it has any set
tied policy. 1t is the policy of the eman-
cipation proclamation. II is the policy
which from the beginning has been the
purpose Of the dominant element in the
republican party, and from which Mr..
LINCOLN cannot recede without detachine
from bis support the sole power which
sIstains him, and whose detection would
take away the last dim chance of his re-
election.


Mr.. LIscoLs's position lie, that he will
enter on negotiations for the restoration Of
peace only on supplementary condition
which makes further attempts at negotia-
ton impossible during his administration.


This position has been declared in the
most solemn manner. Whether his ad-
ministration last only until next March, or
be prolonged four years longer, the war
cannot end SO long as he remains in pow
er.
Year: 1864

MCCLELLAN AND UNIoN.-The Journal
Of Commerce says; A friend who came
from Cincinnati last week says that The
radical party seems dead, and only getting
ready for its funeral there No one has
any hope of its revival to life. The Nc
Ce!lan fever is seizing on all the people,
end they recognize in him the man that
will give US peace in the Union.
Year: 1864

The Draft will come off next Tuesday.


Through b the kindness of Jason PRLLEr,
Esq who has just returned from Green
Bav, we are enabled to announce that the
Draft which was TO take place last Mon
day, hiss been pospored until next Tuesday,
and that it will then come off, commenc
ing with Manitowoc county. The follow
ing is the number of men which each
town is obliged to furnish, but double the
number will be drafted.


QUoTA OF MANIrowoc COUNTY WITH
Year: 1864

my friend. it is little acts-trifes-that
so often estrange loving hearts. have
always made it a point to treat my wife
with the same courtesy that characterized
my department in the days of courtship p;
and while am careful not TO offend her
tastes and little prejudiees, / am sure
that mine will he equally respected


That night rode homeward ponder
ing the doctors words, and reviewing
the wears of our married life, / was sur
prised at my own blindness, and deter
mined to recall the early dream If pos
sible


The next morning at breakfast aston
ished Alice by careful toilet, chatting
over the dinner, and after tea invited her
to ride When she came down in my
favorite blue organdie, with her hair in
shining curls, thought she never looked
lovelier.


l exerted myself as of old, to enter
tain her, and was surprised to find how
quickly and pleasantly the evening pass
ed


/ resolved to test the doctors theory
perfectly, and the result exceeded my
most sanguine expectations.


For all the little nameless attentions
so gratifying to woman's heart, and so
universally accorded by the lover and
neglected by the husband, l find myself
repaid a thousand fold; and l would adj
wise all who are signing over the nonful-
fillment of early dreams, to go and do
remembering that, which is
worth winning is worth keeping
Year: 1864

who placed the rope around their necks.
is now a private in the Sd Mime 'ota, and
q son Of one the Union men whom these
wretches hung. Give my kindest love
to all the family and remember me to my
friends. Continue to send me the Rich
mond papers often.


Your affectionate son,


FRANK
Year: 1864

Young men keep your eyes open when


you are after the women IF you bite a
naked hook you are, green. Is it a pretty
form of dress so attractive, or n pretty
face even? Flounces, boys are of no sort
of consequence. A prstty face will grow
old. Paint will wash off. The sweet
smiles of the firt will give way to the
scowls of the termagant. Another and
far different being will take the place of
the lovely goddess who smiles and eats
your candy. The coquette will not shine
in the kitchen corner, and with the once
sparkling eyes and beaming countenance
will Look daggers at you. Beware, keep
your eyes open boy, when you are after
women. If she bushes when found at
her domestic duties, be sure she is one of
the dish--ag aristocracy, little breeding
and good deal less sense. IF you marry
a girl who knows nothing but how to
commit woman slaughter on the piano,
you have the poorest piece of music ever
got up. Find one wkose mind is right,
and then pitch in. Boy, don't be hang
ing around like agsheep thief as though
you'were ashsmedto be seen in day tiaIe,
but walk up like ahchieken TO dough-
pile and ask for the Cartfofe Ike o man. 4
Year: 1864

In every community there are certain
men who always endeavor to make money
out of the misfortunes of their ncighbors
by pretending to be their friends, and
thereby obtain an undue advantage while
in that dilemma. We have in our midst
few who have been driving very thri.
wing business in furnishing, buying and
selling substitutes to drafted men. We
presume such men are busy at work in
other counties in the same business, and
making large sums of money.


We have no objection to person act
ing as substitute broker, or in any ether
legal business, but to take advantage of an
unsuspecting neighbor, widow or boy,
whereby large sum of money is i'm
properly taken or Withheld from them is
quite different thing.


We have been shown an affidavit from a
party whose widowed mother has been
victimized in the sum of $50 by one of
these seE-constituted brokers', who of
course is a sterling ''patriot0 and Union
list, and in favor of prosecuting the war
"to The last man and the last dollar"


We have been requested to publish
the affidavit, but its length prevents as
fnoa 80 doing this week.-De Kal6 Co.
Democrat. 1i'i no sesIa3aI
Year: 1864

SLAYERY-The abolitionists are con-
-tinually harping on Slavery, and asserting
that 1t must be abolished: They say the
south. by rebellion, have forfeited all claim
to their negroes. While they are engaged
in giving freedom to the negro, we should
ike to know what the white people of the
North havc done that they should be rob-
bed of their freedom. in the struggle to re-
lieve the black from bondage. From read
ing the abolition papers We should judge,
that the only thing to bring about the Mil
lenium is to establish white slavery, and
negro freedom @
Year: 1864

There was great discussion in tho rebel
Congress lately over proposition autho r
izng the President to suspend the writ Of
hab4as corpus. The people Of the South
have not yet arrived at their advanced stage
Of yielding their liberties that they have, at
the North. ..
Year: 1864

The New York Trib,ne sometimes has
grain Of wheat in its bushel of cbaif, and
here is one Of them Whoever sits down
deliberately to spend his life and rear bis
family on the wages Of department clerk
ship, is prima'facie an indolent, inefficient
fellow who would be very unlikely to make
! living anywhere .r..If
Year: 1864

The vote on the adoption of the Constitution
is very close. Tie returns thus far defeats the
Constitution by 400 majority; but the vote OF
the soldiers in the Shenandoah valley yet to
hear from may change the result.
Year: 1864

We have some additional official returns of
the Home Vote, and correct our tables accord
ingly. We also add such records of Soldiers
votes as are at hand. The general summary of
the whole matter is here given:
Year: 1864

/ correspondent of the Fayetteville Observer


makes the following remarks on the poisoning of


cattle by the use as food of Chinese Sugar cane:


First, as to its poisoning cattle: My opinion is


that the cause is similar to theory which have


In private pressed to the cause of the famous


Milk Sick. 1t is noted fact, in our mountains at


least, that if cattle are kept up until the dew dries


off from the green forage and driven in before the


dew falls in the evening, that they never suffer


from this sickness. Hence drew The idea that it


was caused by some poisonous exhalation which


combining either with the hydrogen of the dew or


with some of the chemical elements of the plants
perhaps both-formed as long as the dew lasted
poison--say similar to Hydrocyanic (Prussic)
Acid or some of its combinations. At any rate I
am informed that the leaves of the "Peruvian tree


of our mountains or even of cur common wild
Cherry when wet with dew are deadly poison, but
when dry from the sun are harmless. The similar
theory have in relation 60 the Sorghum is that its
poisonous qualities, if it has any, are due to simi
lar combination of its acid with some other chemi
cal constituent with the dew, and that The reason
OF its being more injurious to cattle n certain sec-
tions-swampy regions for instances because the
dews are heavier aud more fully laden with the
hurtfa gases in those sections. This lie theory il
Is true, but theory drawn from observation. Then
too some may pun it With dew on. others in the
middle of the day Then again that cane grown
on hlSh sandy iand Is not SO apt to poison that
grown on rich swamp or low land Some think
the cause is from the fbrous matter accommodating
in the stomach and, being hard and indigestible,
thus fills the passages and produces death. do
not think any has proved this by opening the
stomach of an animal, dead from eating the Sugar
Cane; and if it were so the same result would oc-
cur in one section as we'll as in another. Whereas
a gentleman of Sampson says his cattle died from
eating the Sugar Cane, while gentlemen from Rich
mond and Robson say their cattle live on it.


The Greensboro World copies the above and re-
marks:


AS an evidence that this theory is not correct,
we will state few facts: 81, a.,IE


Last year, we fed COW with cane that was pull
ed up in thinning, and with the suckers that were
pulled off during the summer, without regard to
dew or rain. She was fed freely in this way du-
ring the summer, without any injurious effects
The present year, when thinning the cane, we
gave small basket full to the same COW, late in
the afternoon, when it was entirely dry; she ate
but small part of it and before the next morning
she was dead. Three or four of a neighbors cows
got into his cane, during the summer, when it was
four or five feet high, during the day. They were
discovered almost Immediately and driven out be-
fore they had been in it more than ten minutes
Que of them died in a few hours and two others
were very sick. There seems to be some mystery
in the matter, and we advise extreme caution in
using the cane as food for cattle
Year: 1864

The commissioners of Appraisemen for the State Of


North Carolina feel great satisfaction in presenting their


Schedule of Prices the sixty days in that the great
abundance of of crops, with the improved cond


ton of cur financial and consequent increased security
currency enable them without injury to the producer
lower the prices prime necessaries OF life to the sol


der and to be hoped, the INDECENT of country
This lowering of prices must again act in increasing the
value of the natoual currency By diminishing the debt Of
the country The want of confidence in the worth of the
increased as bas been by rapacous greed Of


individuals of ALL classes and especially of the
Factories and lately strongly exhibited by the Railroad
food longer be aedged for high prices there is
abundance in the country, and only remains to show
whether people. in sustaining wise and patriotic
Treasurer-Mr. Trenbolm-in his efforts hitherto
cessful in putting financial matters footing,
will sustain the Government of their choice The commits
sioners also congratulate themselves and the country that
they have been aided by consultation with of the
Virginia Commissioners, by whose aid and that of Mr.


Geo w. Mordecai they have been able to bring about an
almost identical Schedule with the neghboring State of
Year: 1864

+ WILMINGToN.-The Northern papers state that
Wilmington is to be attacked, the land forces


being ready and the feet in process of being ga
thered The same idea has recently fixed itself
very firmly IN the Southern mind, iu consequence
OF the excitement known to have been produced at


the North by the fitting out of the Tallahassee at


Wilmington and her sailing from aud to that port;


In addition to which it has been reported that sew


eral other armed ships were to follow her. This


KIND OF war upon yankee commerce they will no


doubt stop if they can, and the only ways to do


that are either to keep a far larger force off the


port or to capture il. The latter is of course pre-


ferred if practicable because of other results such


as the interruption of railroad and river transport


alton. For this purpose it is said that fleet is
now being collected at Norfolk and Old Point,
among which are said to be two very powerful
monitors.


Well, the only matter of surprise is that the
yankees have SO long delayed their attack upon
this only outlet and inlet of the Confederacy


Two or three years ago they might have captured
1t with but little difficulty we suppose. But those
two years have given to Wilmington the advantage
of the scientific skill of General whom President
Davis justly pronounced one of the very first En-
gineer officers in the country, aud who had shown
his galantry upon some of the hardest fought fields
in Virginia in 1861 and in the brilliant campaign
of 1862 around Richmond In his labors there
to him labors of love not less than Of duty-Gen.
Whiting has been seconded by other able and in
defatigable officers. With sufficient force, which
We take it for granted will be there, we feel
strong confidence that Wilmington will not be be-
hind Charleston and Savannah and Mobile in with
standing the most furious assaults Of the enemy.


If laborers be required, we trust that they will
be cheerfully furnished; and if citizens must be-
come for the time soldiers, feel that they too
will be ready and prompt; for the defence of Viii
mington is the defence of the whole Cape Fear re-
gion, and indeed of most of the State. Its less
would open wide the gate to the enemy, and no |
mans property life would be safe from destruc-
ton, no mans family from insult and outrage
The defence of Wilmington is the defence of our
homes and families s.-FayctterR2e Observer.


TuE TORacco THADE-The ouaptitv of nm |
Year: 1864

AN AFFECTING ScENE.-Just after President
Davis speech in Columbus, says the Enquirer, no
was informed that Mrs -, al old acquaintance
and once q ncighbor Of bis, who is now an exile
from her home, was in the crowd and wished 20
see him "G1d bless her, where is she?" said he,
and on her being pointed out, he made for her, and
the old lady for him. As they met she threw her
arms around him and vcpt like child, and even
the "iron man." as be is sometimes called, shed
tear too Can il be that one who can unbend and
enter into the sorrows Of the old, and then turu
and chat With the children around him, Is the vim
dictive, and unrclentiug sud dicatoral spirit that
he Is accused Of being by some Of those who do
not happen to agree with him in some Of his Co
ings No, no. we can't believe it.
Year: 1864

CoNTENTMENT.-1n Vienna, magnificent
house was built by nobleman, on the front of
which is a stone with the inscription: This house
was erected by Count D., to be given to the
first man who prove that he is really content
ed" One day stranger knocked at the gate and
desired to speak with the master. "I have come,
said he, ''to take possession oil this house, as 1
found you have built it in order to bestow it upon
the man who is really contented. Now, am in
that state, of which am willing to make an oath;
you will therefore give me immediate possession"
The Count did not interrupt him till he had finish
ed his speech, when he replied, "You are quite
right, sir, with respect to my intentions, but as
do not discover the least pretenson you have to the
character of a contented maB, hope you will re-
tire If Won were quite contcntee you would not
want my house"


RoMANcE.-The marriage of W. Erlanger, the
banker, to Miss Slideil, is causing small sensa
ton. n Erianger being just divorced from Mile.
Odelle LATTE, (Charles Laftte's daughter,) and
the divorced lady being about to enter the bonds
of matrimony with the cause of the divorce, makes


it the event of interest. One of those curious cir
eumstances which never happen but in France
is recorded Of the incident which led to the d.
vorce The guilty party, being pursued by the Of
Tended husband, was of course struck with terror;
but philosophy and contempt had done much to
mitigate the pursuers wrath and so, instead Of
schas,s;ne the insolence according to the fashion
observed in novels, he quietly placed his pocket
book into the hands of the fugitive, exclaiming,
"Ah m;aHeureur! You have only taken fen thou
sand francs, and you going TO Rome! Know
ing your fair companion well, can safely say that
such patry sum as that will be devoured before
YOU get to Marseiles There is double the sum;
this will enable you to go further of-to Naples
perhaps, and shall be the gainer for you win be
forced to remain there" And with this copsola-
tory speech the injured party coolly turned upon
hi. heel and walked off. So goes the legend, at
least,