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Year: 1864

TIE New York Evening Post says the
people have made up their minds that the
Union shall stand, whether the Constitu.
tion does or not That is just as wise as
to say, the doctors have made up their
minds that the man shall live, whether
the breath leaves his body or not. The
Constitution down, the Union down.
Webster expressed tbegreat truth thus
"The Constitution and the Union! |
place them together. If they stand they
stand together; if they fall, they must fall
together"
Year: 1864

Miss Dickinson, while addressing an
audience at Wilkesbarre, wasiiissed by some
copperheads when she turned and addressed
the following scathing language to them. The
effect is said to have been awful, and the rem
tiles were quie;ed. II know of but two
animals that use that mode of express-
ing themselves the goose and the snake.
If you turning in the direction of the
sound can sit and listen to falsehoods in
a democratic meeting and cannot listen TO
plain facts now, use the mode of locomotion
designed by nature for your kind, and act
down and priggie OUT
Year: 1864

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ELEcTIoN.-The
Union State Committee of New Hampshire
have issued circular appealing to the friends
of the Union and the Government to prose-
cute vigorously the preparatory work of cleo
ton. Organization, canyassing the voters
the circulation OF documents, public meetings
getting home voters who are absent, and en-
ergetic efforts, in every direction are duties
which devolye upon the town committee and
upon every active and influential friend of the
Government. The Committee say


"Union citizens Of New Hampshire! The
Granite State again leads in the election of
year that is to decide Presidential contest.
The issues involved are OF momentary conse-
quence. On the one side is arrayed that par
ty which opposing and embarrassing every act
Of the National Administration designed for
the prosecution Of the war against treason and
rebellion, and which, in crisis involving the
very existence of the Republic, deliberately
throws the full weight Of its influence in favor
OF the enemies OF the country and the destruc-
tion of the Union; presenting for election can
didates who will receive the vote of every
sympathizer with the rebellion in New Hamp-
shire, aud the ardent sympathy of Jefferson
Davis and his fellow conspirators at the North
and at the South. On the other side stands
the organized unconditional Unionists of the
State, pledged to no party principle except
the salvation Of the country, in favor of the
vigorous, unremitting, incessant prosecution
OF the war until an honorable peace can be
obtained by the submission of the secession
conspirators and their military forces of the
lawful authority of the Government and the
Union which they have most reasonably en-
deavored to destroy. Upon these issues-of
Union against secession, patriotism against
disioyalty, freedom against slavery, a righte-
Gus war in preference TO dishonorable peace
with disunion-let the freed men of New
Hampshire once more win victory that shall
strike keynote for Presidential election
that shall by the unanimous vote ofevery 10y
al State, elect Union President in 1864, and
secure the total demolition and utter destruc-
ton OF the Confederacy of treason and slavery
and the complete and eternal restorati on Of
the Constitution and Union founded by the
blood and prayers OF our patriot fathersr
Year: 1864

The ice shall be of the best quality. and subject to
the approval OF the Surgeon in charge who will re-
ccipt for the actual amount delivered at each hos
ptal


Payment TO be made from time to time upon du-
plicate bills certified TO by the Medical Director


Signed,
Year: 1864

UNION STATE CENTRAL CoMMITTEE.-At
the meeting of this body in San Francisco,
June 4th, the following resolutions were
adopted:


Resolred, That the Executive Committee
Of the State Central Committee be instructed
to call, on or before the lst dav of July next,
a State Convention, to be held in Sacramento
on Tuesd ~, the Both day of August next for
the purpose of nominating Presidential Elec-
tors and appointing State Central Commit.
tee; also to call Congressional District Con-
Yentians in the following m2nner: To call
the Congressional District Conventions for
the FIRST, Second and Third Districts for the
purpose of nominating candidates for Con-
gress for the respective Congressional Districts
and the appointment Of Congressional Dis
trict Committees. to meet at Sacramento in.
mediately after the adjournment of the State
Convention that ip any county where the
Union County Committees of the county shall
not order an election Of delegates specially to
the Congressional Convention for IT'S district
10 tie held aforesaid, or where delegates
70 such Convention may not have been cleo
ted pursuant 10 notice Of such County Com
mittee, in case of the ordering of such elec
ton then the delegates from such county to
the State Convention shall he delegates to the
District Congressional Convention to be held
as aforesaid, for the district in which such
county may be, and that when such District
Convention meet at Sacramento as afor esaid
they will each for themselves determine the
time and place where they viii make their
nominations respectively.


Rssolced, That the apportionment for the
delegation to the State and Congressional
Con' entoes, with the exception Of the coun-
ties newly organized, be the same as for the
last State Convention, and that the county of
Lassen be entitl d to three delegates. the
county of Coso to five delegates, and the
county of Alpine to six delegates and that
all citizens who are in favor of a vigorous
prosecution Of the war to the final success of
the Federal Government, who indorse the
platform Of the National Union Convention
t. meet at Baltimore, and who will pledge
themselves TO support the National, State
and Congressional nominees of the Union
purity, shal be entitled to ve,e for such dele
gates.
Year: 1864

1PeeiHl to The Evening Telegraph.


WASHINGTON, July 2s.-By the arrival Of
the mail boat this morning from City Point
we have intelligence of great interest from
General Grants army.


To speak of the movements in detail would
be highly improper, and the Government only
permits this announcement to be published at
the present time.
Year: 1864

We have probably all of Us met with in
stances. in which a word hcedlessly spoken
against the reputation of female has been
magnifed by malicious minds until the cloud
has become dark enough to overshadow her
whole existence. TO those who are accus-
tomed-not necessarily from bad motives, but
from thoughtlessness--to speak lightly of fe-
males, we recommend the following "hints"
as worthy of consideration


t'Never use lady's name in an improper
place, at an improper time, or IN mixed com
pany. Never make assertions about her that
feel che herself would blush to hear. When
you meet with nfsn who do not .scruple to
make use Of womans name in reckless
and unprincipled manner, shun them, for they
are the very worst members of community
men lost to every sense of honor, every feel-
ing of humanity. Many good and worthy
young 1ady's character has been forever ruin
ed and her heart broken by a lie, manufactur-
ed by some villain, and repeated where it
should not have been, aud int presence of
those whose little judgment could not deter
them from circulating the foul and Dragging
| report A slander is soon prcpogated, and
the smallest thing derogatery to a womans
character will ay on the wings of the wind,
and magnify as it circuiates until its enormous
| weight crushes the poor and unconscious VIC
tim. Respect the nan of woman, for your
mothers and sisters are women and as you
would have their fair name untarnished, and
their lives pnembittered by the slanderer's
bitter tongue-heed the i'll that your OWL
words may bring upon the mother, the sister
or the wife of some fellow creature"
Year: 1864

PUBLIC REsoIUTIoN-No. 1877
JOINT RESOLUTION to authorize


the Secretary of the Treasury to


anticipate the payment Of interest


on the public debt, and for other


purposes.


BE IL resolred By the Senate and House
Of Representatives. of the United States of
america IN Congress assembled, That the
Secretary of the Treasury be author
lied to anticipate the payment of in
terest on the public debt, by u period
not exceeding one year, from time to
time, either with or without "a rebate
OF interest upon the coupons, as to
him may seem cxpedient and he is
hereby authorized to dispose of any
gold in the Treasury of the United
States not necessary for the payment
of interest of the public debt: Prori-
dcd, That the obligation to create the
fund according to the act of
February twenty-ilth. eighteen hun
dred and sixty.two, shall not be i'm
paired thereby.


Approved, March II, 1864.
Year: 1864

Lieutenant General Grant was sur
rounded by such crowd Of people al
his first reception at the White House
that only few could get sight oI
him. People cried "lift him up
put him on the mantel we want to
see him." But friends decided that he
was not ready to be shelvcd Just yet.
Year: 1864

The New York city Council has just voted
an appropriation of slOO 600 for taking up
and growing the pavement on Broadway so
that SO many horses will not be killed by slip
ping down on the smooth surface.
Year: 1864

Alex. IL. Stephens, Vice President of the
Southern Confederacy, is in high dudgeon on
account of the sweeping conscription act of the
rebel Congress, and threatenees not to preside
over the Senate any more unless it is repealed.
Year: 1864

Gerrit Smith, who drew the original draft
OF the Presidents Emancipation Proclamation
at the Albany Sanitary Fair, has given it back
to be sold for the benefit of the Sanitary Com
mission.
Year: 1864

without consultation, withoHt agreement,
or without equivalents


And We suppose that it was in prosrgo
Of the obstacles likely to be laid in the
way of peace by tho theoretical position
which the President had assumed Oh these
and other subjects that the Ncw-York
TiJuac was induced TO oppose his rcnoms
inalion, it held the following language:


"NYc cannot but feel that it would have
boon wiser and safer to spike the most SER
yicablc guns of our advcrsarios BY nomi.
natipg another for President, and thus
dispcIIiug all motive, save that of naked
di,loyaity, for further warfare upon this
administration. We believe tho rebellion
would have lost something of its cohesion
and venom from the hour in which it was
known that new President would surely
be inauguratcd on the fourth of March
next and that hostility in the loyal states
TO the national cause must have scnsibly
a5atcd or been deprived of its readiost
most dangerous weapons, from the moment
that all were brought to realize that the
President, having no more to expect or
hope, could hcncctorth be impeled by no
conceivable motive bat desire to serve
and savc'hs country, and thus win for
himself an cnyable enduring fame"


1t was singular coincidence that the
friendly editor, who held this frank Ian
guagc after the Presidents 5 denomination, g,
should have been called to act so promi-
nent part in the negotiations which have
just given the whole country abundant
reason to concur with him in his opinion.


The President somnly declared in the
year 1861, in his message to the Congress
of the United States, that "loyal citizens
everywhere had the right to claim that
the government should be preserved that
it might be administered for all as it was
administered by the mcA who made it,
As loyal citizens we enter our "claim' in
these words. And the President said at
the same time, that "thc goyernuuout had
no right to withhold or neglect" this claim
Then we ask that he shall not withhold
or neglect what ho has authori zcd the
nation to demand.
Year: 1864

THE horn of sword-fish, which had
pierced the copper and four and a ha,e
inches through the plank of the ship Don.
aid Mckay, was taken out of the bottom
of that vessel while on the dry dock at
London a couple Of weeks ago.
Year: 1864

s@ The terror of the North Carolina
waters. the new and formidable rebel ram,
which helped to capture our garrison at
Plymouth, is disposed of. She was at
tackled and sunk in Alhermarle Sound by
a United States war steamer
Year: 1864

Inc work was necessarily very slow So
close was the atmosphere in the tunnel that
they could not remain in it but q few mo.
ments at time and their candles weu,d OF
Iout. At one time they got so near the hetsd
Of the street that small hole about the
size Of stove pipe broke through, but for
tunately this was not discovered by the
guard and was of great service, admitting
al" and enabling them to prosecute thsif
work more rapidly.


The tunnel when completed was about
~ feet long: and opened into an old tobacco
shed beyond the line of guards. A. esson
as they found the way clear, they emerged
slowly IN single squads Of two or three, and
sauDtered Oft until they got clear Of The
guards, making their way towards tho Will
liamsburg road by the shortest routes.
The darkness favored them, and the fsct
that rebel soldiers whom they met were
habited in the army coats of Uncle Sam.
which they had stolen from the supplies sent;
to our prisoners by our government, was Of
great help to them, although they were at5
tired IN our army over coats, and many Of
them had their haversacks. They fouud
the national uniform better disguise than
II they had been provided with genuine ,eb.:
el uniforms


In order to elule the pursuers who they
knew would soon be on tn .ir trick. They
scattered as much as possible. Many wery
thslr hardships and suderings, and frequsue
their escapes from the rebel cavalry, who.
the next morning, were bushwhacking in
every direction for them. The joy which
'ney experienced when they first caught
sight Of our troops sent out 10 keep them
and protect them from their pursuers, can.
not be expressed. To the officers and men
Of the 'l'h Pennsylvania cavalry, who they
first met, they expressed most profound
gratitude for their u"bounded kindness, .nd
also bear testimony to the gallantry with
which these noble fellows pursued the rebel
cavalry, and rescued many of the wayworn
lug tlves who otherwise would have been
recaptured.


There is good reason to hope that many
more wall yet come in safe.
Year: 1864

-Thurlow Weed has written letter to
Ed Morgan, United States Senator from
New York, nrging the immediate repeal by
Congress of the Homestead Law, and the
application Of the proceeds of the Public
domain to the payment Of the public debt


We do not believe the national credit
rests upon such a basis. nor that the law
will ever be repealed; The Government
has more sure voucher for the redemption
of its pledges, in the rapid settlement and
Improvement Of the public domain, than in
boarding it in its wilderness state for ages.
Year: 1864

An act has past the legislature granting
aid to the State Normal School at Wirona.
The act apprcpria'os $4,000 the pteson,
year, COO next year, and $500 ansu.
ally thereafter. This is step in the right
direction. Now let the legislature make
the office Of State Superintendent Of public
Instruction independent Of any other office,
with salary sufficient to attract the best
educator in the State, and the foundation o
an educational system will have been well
laid.
Year: 1864

There's land far away mid the stars we are told,


Where they know not the sorrows of time
Where thePure waters wander thro valleys Of gold,


And life is a treasure sublime;
'Tis the land of our God It's the home of the soul,
Where ages of splendor eternally roll
Where the way-weary traveller reaches his goal


On the evergreen mountains Of life.
Our gaze cannot soar to that beautiful land,


But our visions have told of its bliss
And souls by the gale from its gardens fan'd


When we faint in the deserts of this.
And we sometimes have longed for its holy repOse,
And welve drank from the tide of the river that flows


From the evergreen mountains Of life.
o the stars never tread the blue heavens at ght,


But we think where the ransOmed have trod,
And the day never smiles from his palace of light,


But we feel the bright smile of our God.
We travelling hOmeward, thro changes and gloom
To kingdom where pleasures unchangaby bloom,
And our guide is the glory that shines thro the tomb


From the evergreen mountains of life.
Year: 1864

The editor of paper in Providence lately in
formed his readers that the ladies always pulled
off the left stocking last. This, as may be sup
posed, created some stir among his fair readers
and while in positive terms they denied the
statement, they at the same time declared that
he had no business to know it, even if such was
the fact, and pronounced him no gentleman
He proves it, however, by a short argument
"When one stocking is pulled off and another
left on, pulling off this is taking off the left
stocking last"
Year: 1864

GENIUS AND MED1ooRITY.-Each of us has his
or her own nature, and the uses harmonious to
that natures idiosyncrasy. The world would
get on very i'll without persons of practical com
mon sense and active usefulness. Yet every
one is not therefore to be condemned who is not
Of this type, and who is not, in the popular ac-
ceptation "practically useful" The uses of
mediocrity are for everyday life; and the uses
of genius, amidst thousand mistakes which
mediocrity never commits, are to suggest and
perpetuate ideas which raise the standard of the
mediocre to a nobler level. There would be
fewer good men Of practical sense were there
no erring dreamers Of genius.
Year: 1864

LET HIM PAss.-A young man recently pre-
sented himself for examination as Assistant En-
gineer in the navy Among other questions,
the following was asked him Suppose you
had built engine yourself, performing every
part of the work without assistance, and knew
that it was in complete order, but when put into
a vessel the pumy would not draw water what
would you do p The young man promptly re-
piled. Il should 60 to the side of the vessel
and ascertain if there was any water in the
river Guess they let him pass.
Year: 1864

SPIRITUAL KNoCKNGs.-Table talk or knock
ing may sometimes lead to embarrassing results,
as proved by the following gossip. A party met
the other night, and formed a chain, and when
the fluid was in movement a married lady pres
ent put the question, How many children have
~ Tap tap, tap tap, or four replied the
table: truly wonderful exclaimed the lady
and all others. Presently her husband came in
and asked the same question. Tap, tap or
two was the answer. The effect produced by
this may be better conceived than described
Year: 1864

FLATTERY.-It is easy to tell when others are
hattered, but not when we ourselves are, and
every man and woman will lend firm belief to
the soft nothings of the very man they believe
to be an arrant fatterer when others are in the
case
Year: 1864

.
rather than by foolish whims and preiudices,
perhaps she may come to the conclusion that it
is hardly worth while to sacrifice comfort, con-
venience and health for the pitiful compensation
which fashion bestows upon her deluded vota-
ries


Whenever young man is invited to drink,
gamble, smoke, or do any act of questionable
propriety, it. would be well for him to stop and
think; possibly a little calm reflection will show
him the 'error of his ways" and lead him into
better path. A vast proportion Of the misery
extant in the world results, directly or indirectly
from spirit of recklessness which seems to
characterize, in remarkable degree, the peo-
pie Of the present age. Thousands 60 headlong
to ruin, financially, physically, and morally,
simply for the lack of little sober reflection
because they fail to stop and think I.
Year: 1864

Stop AND THINK.-Whenever business man
is about to engage in any scheme, of an uncer-
tain issue, with nearly an even chance between
making and losing money in the operation, he
should stop and think perhaps a more careful
consideration of the matter will lead him to
abandon an enterprise which would have proved
his financial ruin. Whenever an attendant upon
series of moral or religious discourse is on the
point of swallowing, as TRUTH a sugar-coated
absurdity, simply because it is rendered him by
some learned individual who is paid a stipula-
ted salary to tell his neighbors what to believe,
let him stop and think; possibly a critical ex-
animation of the propositions may reveal its in
congruities and demonstrate its fallacy. When
ever lady is about to adopt some ridiculous


'healthv fashion, ju' Noeause
Year: 1864

DANIEL WEBSTER, in his memorable Grafton
at Bunker Hill in l843, said


A military republic Government founded
on mock elections, and supported only by the
sword, is movement, indeed, but retrograde
and disastrous movement from the regular and
old fashioned monarchial system. If men would
enjoy the blessings of Republican Government,
they must govern themselves by reason, by mu-
tual counsel and consultation, by a sense and
feeling of general interest, and by the acquies-
cence of the minority in the will of the major
ity, properly expressed, and above all, the mill
tary must be kept, according to the language of
our Bill of Rights, in strict subordinatlon to the
civil authority Whenever this lesson is not
both learned and practiced, there can be no po-
litical freedom. Absurd, preposterous is it, a
scoff and satire free forms of constitutional
liberty, forms of government to be prescribed
by military leaders, and the right of suffrage to
be exercised at the point of the sword.
Year: 1864

At regular called meeting Of the Democratic
State Central Commtte of the State of Calilor-
mia, held at the city Of San Francisco on the 9th
and 10th of March. the following proceedings
were had. and are now published for the govern
ment OF thA democracy in the approaching State
canvass:


Reso|red. That Il Democratic State Convention
be called for the SECOND TUESDAY IN MAY NEXT.
QOth.) 1864 to convene in the CITY OF SAN
FRANCISCO at II o'clock NJ of that day. for the
selection Of delegates to the National Democratic
Convention. to be holden at Chicago. July 4th,
1864. and for the transaction OF such business as
may come before it.


Resoiced. That the representation of the various
counties of the State, in said conventions shall be
one for each county, with an additional one for
every 200 votes cast at the last election for John
&. Downcy and one also for each fractional vote
of one hundred and over


Resolved, That we recommend that the manner
OF selecting delegates be subject TO the control Of
the respective county committees. in accordance
with the general usages of the party.


Resoired. That we recommend that the only
test to be applied to participants in the selection
OF delegates TO the state convention shall be


'Are you opposed to the policy of the present
National Administration. which is subversive of
the Constitution, the Laws and the Union OF our
Fathers? Are you in favor of a speedy and
honorable peace that will secure equal and exact
justice to every section of the American Union?
Will you support the nominees Of the Democratic
National Convention?"