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Year: 1862

The Peace Party -Disguissd Tralssrs.


la his speech in the Senate. on the
Bright case. Andy johnson, Of Tennessee.
thus stripped the mask from the faces OF
the Peace pretenders. He said:


Where were those who, no longer ago
than the last session of Congress, sang the
siren song OF peacey Where was Polk, or
Breckinridge? Gone to the rebel camp
He believed there were traitors here now
on the same road, and how long it viii be
before they land 10 the traitors camp he
could not tell. The Senator from Indiana
has said he was opposed to the whole co.
ercive policy of the Government IL the
Government had not power to enforce the
laws, then the Government was at an end.
Suppose he went TO the Senator from In
diana and asked him to assist in putting
down the invasion of his State according
TO the Constitution The Senator would
reply. II oppose the whole eeereise policy
to the Government. Such principles
would utterly destroy the Government,
and yet the Senator acknowledges that he
entcrtains them. What is the use of the
Senator protesting to uphold the Govern
ment, when his every act, and influence.
is against it2 The people of his Mr.
Johnson's) State were down trodden and
oppressed beneath the heel Of tyranny. -
They appealed for protection, and met
with the cold reply, Il oppose the whole
policy Of coercion. ~


Vel We allow that brave people to be
coerced by tyranny, and have no sympathy
or helping hand for them. They are ia
dungeons, and have no answer to their ap-
laeals, but the clankiDg chain and grating
dungeon door. They were shot and hung;
women and children were murdered yet
their cry for protection was met by Senat-
ors with the reply, "The Government can
not enforce the law; we oppose the whole
policy of coercion"
Year: 1862

ed; such as whipping three to one, and so forth.
know it takes mighty hard fighting to whip
one to one here. Now it seems to me that it
would take every available man to protect our
frontier. They have sized our pile and call
ed out several thousand more.'


Writing about the newspaper accounts of
barbarities committed on both sides, he SAYS


"Our own men do as bad as ever | want to
see or read about.


But the question is, what sort of peace
could be obtained? l can say, that if it was to
do over again, would not be in favor of the
war. Can We get the Constitution and the
Union as it was before? If so. had we better
not accept, than carry on another year? Even
in view of emancipation, how many valuable
lives are we willing to lose and how many
helpless widows and orphans are we willing TO
see made, for the upholding of our favorite
institution?


My opinion is that bad peace is better than
no peace ut allr
Year: 1862

BRILLIANT IDEA.-A gentleman who has
spent some days in the region of the coal oil
wells, in Pennsylvania, says that in his opini-
on the Government OF the United States ought
to interfere at once, and put stop to further
pumping and boring for oil in this continent.
He is quite certain that the oil is being drawn
through these wells from the bearings of the
earth's axis, and that the earth viii cease to
turn when the fabrication ceases Such a
suspension would beat anything that ever agi-
tated Wall street, and the consequences be too
great for ordinary minds TO conceive or COM
prehend. 1t should be attended to. Scientific
American.
Year: 1862

ty All communications intended for the paper
should be directed to the Editors orthe Press and
those of business character to the Publishers.


EY The PORTLAND DAILY and MAINE STATE
PRESS Office. in Fox BLOCK, No. s2t Exchange
Street is open at all hours during the day and eve-
ming from O'Clock in the morning to in the
evening.


V- JOB PRINTING of every description executed
with dispatch; and all business pertaining to the of.
flee or paper promptly transacted on application as
above
Year: 1862

with the 4tl Of March, not only binds me
peculiarly to his Administration, but
gives me personal as well as political
interest in seeing that justice is done him.
Believe me, my dear sir,


With much regard,


Ever faithfully yourt,


CHAgLEs SUMNER
Year: 1862

The person accused shall he furnished with A
true copy Of the charges, with the specifications
at the time he is put under arrest; nor shall any
other charges than those 80 exhibited be urged
against The person to 'p tried before the court, un
less it appear to tho court that intelligence osuch
charge had not treached the officer ordering the
court wheD the person so tried was put under ar
rest, or that some witness material to the support
OF such charges, who was at that time absent can
ba produced, in which case reasonable time shall
be given tO the prisoner tn be tried to make de-
fence against such new charge. Every officer so
arrested is to deliver up his sword to bis comman
dns officer, and to conIne himself to the limits
assigned him, under the pain of dismission from
the service.
Year: 1862

All testimony given to general court martial
shall be on oath or affirmation, which the president
ofihe court is hereby authorized to administer;
and If any person shall refuse to give bis evidence
as aforesaid, or shall prevaricate, or shall behave
with contempt to the court, 1t shall and may be
lawful for tbs court tomprison such offender at
their discretion Provided, That tho imprson-
ment in no case shall exceed two months And
every person who shall commit willul perjury on
examination on oath or a0irmlion before such
court, or who shall coruptly procure, or snbon,
any person to commit such wIIIul perjury, shall
and may be prosecuted by indictment or informa-
ton in any court Of justice Of the United States,
and shall suffer such penalties as are authorized by
the laws of the United States in cases Of perjury,
or the subornation thereof. And in every prosecu-
ton for perjury or the subornation thereof under


this act it shall be sufficient to set forth the Of
fence charged on the defendant, without setting
forth the authority by which the court was held. or
the particular matters brought or intended to be
brought before said court.
Year: 1862

The Veritable. Smith-the ver-
table John who figures in the Police reports
of half the cities in the country on the same
dsy-was up before the Mayor on a charge of
stealing shawl from the frsil woman who
always 6gues in tho case when John does q
LARCENY. BE was sent up for ten days.
Year: 1862

Filling Up-We learn that six compu.
nies Of the lo9th Regiment are full, and that
tho others are rapidly filling up If this is
the way things are moving it will not DO long
before the regiment is ready for the field.
Ibe cold weather is approaching, and boys
should hurry along
Year: 1862

A cultivated taste marks woman Of
elegance and refinement, as decidedly as q
knowledge of classical literature does a
gentleman; and there is nothing in which
female vulgarity is more clearly shown,
than in want of taste. This is an axiom
that I think wilfanot admit of any dis
pute; but it is question how far taste is
natural, and how far it may be acquired.
A delicate taste must, to a certain extent,
depend upon the organization Of the indi-
vidual; and it is impossible for any rules
to be laid down which will impart taste to
persons utterly devoid Of it, But this is
very seldom the case with women; as it
is one of the few points in which women
naturally excel men. Men may be-, and
probably are superior to women in all that
requires profound thought and general
knowledge; but in the arrangement Of a
house and in the introduction of ornamen-
tai furniture, and articles of byjiouterie,
there can be no doubt Of the innate supe-
riority of women. Every one must remark
the difference in the furnishing of bachel-
or's house, and one where lady presides /:
the thousand little elegancies Of the latter,
though nothing in themselves, adding
like cyphers, prodigiously to the value Of
the solid articles they are appended to-
Mrs. Louden's Lady's Companion.
Year: 1862

There is land of rest,
OF undisturbed repose, =
Where the pure river of the blest
Through fowery pastures flows;
Where all is joyous calm,
And odorous perfume,


And the reclining victor's palm
Is evermore in bloom.


No throbbing breast is there,
Nor agonizing smart,


No forehead wrinkled by despair,
Nor madly aching heart;


No lonely, long drawn sighs,
Nor sorrows hopeless tears,


Rolling from dim and languid eyes,
That wept for fourscore years


No fierce and lawless fash
Ofyoung and headlong sin


No war sword leaves its horrid cash,
No battles awful din?


No death to snap the ties
OF dear unchanging love;


No cloud DER curtaining the skies
That smile in peace above.


Then let the tempest roar,
And waste its puny strife;


In heaven the thunders roll no more,
The conflict ends with life.


In prayer and faith each wild wave stem
Let courage man thy breast,


There is victor's diadem,
There is land of rest.
Year: 1862

God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes The expression is one Of ex-
quisite tenderness aud beauty. The poet
Burns said he could never read this with


out being affected to weeping. OF all the
neyatirc descriptions of heaven, there is
10 one perhaps that would be better adapt


cd to produce consolation than this This


is world Of weeplng--a vale of tears -
Who Is there Of the human family who has
not shed IL tear? And what a change il
would make in our world. if it could be
said that hcncetorward not another tear
should be shed, not head should ever be
bowed again in grief Yet this is to be
the condition OF heaven. In that world
there is no pain, no disappointment, no
bereavement. No friend IS to lie in dread.
tul agony on a SICK bed no grave is to
be opened to receive a parent. n wife, Il
child; no gloomy prospect of death is TO
draw tears OF sorrow from the eyes. To
that blessed world, when our eyes run
down with tcnrs, we are permitted to look
forward and the prospect of such a world
should contribute to wipe away our tears
here, for all our sorrows will soon be over.
Amidst the trials OF the present life, when
friends leave us, when sickness comes,
when our hopes are blasted, when calum-
mes and reproaches come upon US. when
--standlng on the verge Of the grave AID
looking down into the cold tomb the
eyes pour forth floods of tears. 1t is a
blessed privilege to be permitted to look
forward to that brighter scene in heaven,
where not pang shall ever be felt and
not tear shall eve. Le 5hci Dr.. BarRcy.
Year: 1862

One evening, as ! sat upon a broken
column of the ancient temple OF Jupiter,
near the monastery of Belt Miry, our
dragoman related to me the particulars of
a sad tale, the catastrophe Of which took
place on this very spot. | shall relate it
IL yOu in urarly his own wards
Year: 1862

Several enterprising fellows in Connecti-
cut have gone into the collection and restor-
alton of old postage stamps on large scale.
One of their modes Of procedure is to visit
unsuspecting clergymen in needy circum-
stances and state that as matter Of cIriosi-
ty they desire to procure million postage
stamps, for which they will give two humid
red dollars. The minister thinking it worth
while to make an effort for the two hundred
dollars in these times, opens his files Of let
ters and carefully cuts off the stamps; sets
the Sabbath school childerE at work IN all
the country around, and eventually earns
his money. In one instance the girls in .
boarding school were set at work collecting
stamps, With the understanding that the
money obtained for them should be devoted
to Q certain object Of benevolence, and they
were very industrious in hunting and beg
ging old stamps all over the country among
their acquaintances. How many millions
Of stamps tho spectators obtained it is i'm.
possibly to say, but it is now understood
that they clean and sell the stamps, and
thus defraud the government. And it IS a
business that pays we'll, for million three
cont stamps are worth $50, 900, and the col
lection and restoration OF them does not pro.
badly cost one tenth Of that sum. This is q
matter that some government detective
should investigate. We are told that a large
business has been done in this way, and il
cannot be difficult to trace the matter back
from some Of the innocent collectors to the
guilty parties and cause Their arrest and


punishment.
Year: 1862

A well known planter, living not far from,
New Orleaus, wrote last spring that four of
his slaves, who had run away to the YAM
KEGS, had returned. "They had enough Of
liberty and were glad to come back" But
in his next letter to the North he told a diff
fcrcnt tale. The four had run away again
and had taken with them 200 more In
deed, the planter suspected that the four
had come back with this only ohject--and
he guessed correctly.
Year: 1862

Copper cents, nickel cents and three cent
pieces are all of much less intrinsic value
than the sums they represent, and people
will make nothing by boarding them. IL
they would only trot them out. we should
soon be rid Of the postage nuisance.
Year: 1862

1t is fact worthy ofnotice, that not
single journal Of any political party, or any
school of military criticism, in the whole
country has expressed any dissatisfaction
with the appointment Of Gen. burnside as
the head Of the army, or INDUCED in unjust
assaults upon him or his movement.
Year: 1862

The bill authorizing an additional issue
of one hundred and fifty-hve millions
OF treasury notes passed one House Of
Congress yesterday, without 9 hint, On the,
part Of any man who voted for it,
that there was tax to be laid on bank
notes Paper money, on the same day,
fell IN New York to eight and three-quar-
ters PET cent. below par. On Saturday
last, ,tAe European steamer took from New
Yor6 two millions four hundred thousand
dollars Ia coin and bullion!
The three statements are, te~the mind Of
one who has school boys knowledge Of
the laws which govern finance, Of char
acter to excite the most profound appre-
hension- The country is entering upon
paper money era the end Of which will be
national and individual bankruptcy, unlesssi
that foolish chat.ering Congress, before it
adjourns, can be persuaded to adopt the
necessary measures for pushing of, il
not wholly arresting, the evil With which
the people are threatened There IS but
one thing for 1t 10 do; and that Is to clap
tax on bank-notes which shall drive them
out Of circulation Government paper
n,ust be tolerated. The national necessity
for it is so o7erpowering that it cannot be
opuosed. 1t will be excessive in amount
To-day it is fully up TO the requirements
of the commerce Of the country; and more
is coming. Add the additional millions
Of it which Congress must authorize or
give up tie contest in which
the country is engaged, to the
issue Of these spawning State banks,
and the cost Of the N.r-cost by and By to
be paid in coi-.ill be SO excessive by
reason Of the certain increase in prices
that long before the enemy is conquered
and peace made, continuance Of the
struggle, except By forced loans, military
seizures Of supplies, and sharp and well
enforced CONSUMPTION act, will be impossi-
bic. We entrent the members OF Congress
especial1y those from Illinois which has nc
banking interest to oTeraWe them, to hold
that body together until the majority can bt
made to see and set upon these plain facts
Ne have said there is but one thing fo
Congress to do-that is to rid the countr!
Of the excess Of paper by making.the re
tirement Of hll bank notes compulsory, un
der pains .nd penalties that will be no
only feared but enforced It Is the safest
perhaps it Is the only, precautionary meas
ure tha: promises relief; and it must b
adopted or the responsibility for the conse
queuces Of neglect, will rest with fearfr
weight upon the rccreant or ignorant repre-
sentatives who will not or cannot see th
rock upon which the country is in dange
of being wrecked. There is no time


lose Again we appeal to the Represents
tiycs of the II estl
Year: 1862

bEEcHER FIRST PRINTING EXPERIENCE.
l recollect the first lectures that I ever
printed. After they had been delivered and
| had been requested to allow them to be
published, l thought would read little
on the subject of which they treated to see
if / could not make them better; and was
so unfortunate as to get hold Of the; Sermons
OF DR.. Barrow-the man tha. the king char
acterized as the most unfair Of preachers,
because he left nothing for anybody that
came. after him to say. My first lecture
was on Idleness, SO / took his sermon on
Idleness and commenced reading it; but
before [ had read it half through, found
that he had said all that had ard a great
deal more, and said it great deal better
than was capable of saving it, and I
snatched up my manuscript, and threw it
across the room and said, /" Lie there
will never be such fool as to print that"
Year: 1862

"In the first place." said Pat, relating
an account of fight with bull, 81 bit him
an internal wallop on the side of the head,
which missed him ; then l gave him another
with t'other hand IN the same spot precisely,
and by me sowl, while l was doing it the
ugly baste butted me clane across the
street into the cannal. Och, bat for that
blow, how / would a whaled the ugly div
iln
Year: 1862

Fugitive slaves of rebel masters are flock
ing to Washington from Eastern Virginia
in large numbers. They are now secure
from the summary arrest and imprisonment
to which they were formerly subjected on
arriving there.
Year: 1862

The shrewd, practical economist, DR..
Franklin, once said that 'there are but
three ways for nation to acquire wealth;
first by war, which is by robbery; the Sec
end BY commerce, which is frequently
cheating; the third by agriculture, which
is the only honest way" Although this
language in its full scope may not be
strictly applicable to us, We will readily ac-
knowledge that our dependence for perma-
nent wealth or greatness as State. must
rest upon successful and wcll-conducted
system of Agriculture some measure
by which can be drawn out the exhaustless
treasures of our soil, soil as rich and til
able as any in the world. Even to render
ourselves competent to engage in COM
merce, We must first have solid agricul-
tural basis. We may plan, lay off, and
even succeed in building our towns and cit-
les, but without an agricultural community
around them of what permanent benefit
are they to any one!- They may satisfy
the pride and perhaps avarice of their
founders for short time, and then relapse
into decay. Every one can point to ex-
amples illustrating this fact. Then, look
ing towards sure mode of obtaining a
competency in this worlds possessions to
make ourselves self-sustaining and pro-
ducing people-in order to systemise the
work which is to engagea large majority
of them, it is necessary that they should
commence Alright in the matter. To this
end, or "to promote the improvement of
Agriculture and its kindred arts through
out the State Of Kansas" has been organ
lied State Agricultural Society. The
officers of the Society are, Lyman Scott
of Leavenworth county, President; F. G..
Adams of Shawnee, Secretary; Isaac Gar
rison of the same county, Treasurer, and
an executive committee of ten.


Here, now, is a commencement in the
right direction-a move much sneeded by
the farmers and people generally of Kan
sas. I, will lead them to more thoroughly
investigate the subject. gam information
and thereby be enabled to make improve
ment in farming in a / its branches
There are subjects constantly arising, and
there are already several new subjects
which may claim the immediate attention
Of our farmers. Experiments with cotton
raising, the manufacture of sugar and the
improvement in quality of tie mo


made from the Chinese sugar q


growth and method for best pz


decay, the sweet potatosi
Year: 1862

MARRIED people should study each others
weak points, as skaters look after the weak
part OF the ice, in order to keep off them La
dies who marry for love should remember that
the union of angels with woman has been for
bidden since the flood.
Year: 1862

PROMOTED We are glad to learn that oui
worthy and patriotic townsman D. T. Carraway
Esqr., who has for some time past filled in {
most efficient and acceptable manner the posi-
ton of post Commissary at this place, with the
rank of Captain, has been appointed Brigade
Commissary the staff of Gen. Branch, with
the rank of Major. The efficient and satlsi*c-
tory manner in which our friend Caraway has
filled the former position is the best guarantee
that could be given that he will give satis1ac
ton in the latter. He is gentleman of mos
excellent business talents, is active, affabe and
accommodating, and his head We think, Will
scarcely be turned by promotion as some have
been. Gen. Branch could not have made a bet
ter apo ntment, and the Government at Rich
mond could not have better officer.
Year: 1862

DRUNKENNESS N THE FEDERAL Army.


A Kentucky correspondent oI the CmclDna-
ii Lomaerci0I indites the following rot
very complimentary paragraphs Of the Federal
army:


Christmas was spent very meTrly by most
of the soldiers, and much more merrily than
crcditahly by many Of the officers. All the
officers that cou,d raise a horse were mounted
and to the best of my knowledge and belief,
did not see sober man on horseback, ut.-
less it was very earIy in the day.


SUPPOSE the sin Of drunkenness is not Sc
common in our armies as in those Of TIE
rebels but it is common enough among cur
officers to dsgnst those under their command.
have seen az Ohio colonel drill his battalion
when he did rot know the right from the iclg
aank, or the front from the rear rank. [ un-
dcrstand this colonel was appointed over the
head Of lieutenant colonel who is as well
qualified to command q regiment as any man
in.the service from your State and this in the
face Of a protest against his appointment by
every officer in the regiment. The reason
given was, that be vas West Pointer, which
is "rlayed out humbug." The same regi-
ment has another fiell officer who has 10
military capacity, and is not always sober;
and still another, Of very small callbre, who, |
am told, is not always drunk.
Year: 1862

SENSATIONAL The Examiner Of W ednesday
contained the following, which we think was
probably intended only as sensational item ::


A private dispatch was received here yeSter-
day. about noon, stating. that forty-tive Federal
vessels were off the mouth of the Cape Fear
river The dispatch is understood to be from
a source emitting it to credit 1t is, not un-
likely that this naval force is the Burnside ex-
pedition, or composed of portion of it, and
back off Cape Henry, which will account for
the reported return of the expedition in the
Norfolk dispatches of yesterday The torc9 OF
the enemy NAV be exaggerated but the dis
patch. In other respects, is entitled to credit
There is considerable anxiety to hear further
of this demonstration of the enemy 1t IS IS
thought hardly probable that the enemy VIII
attempt the approach upon Wilmington by the
river, which is under the guns Of Fort Caswell
The land approach across the sand barrens OF
the peninsula is more doubtful
Year: 1862

We have it in our power 20 state that the
Confederate Government, so far from being IN
mindful Of the necessities OF the Yves ern ana
Northwestern portion Of this State, intends to
pursue policy calculated to reassure and en-
courage the loyal people Of that section. At
present it would be iinprndent to make furth
er revelations; bat may state that orr informa-
ton comes from sourse that entities it to full
and perfect confidence.