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Year: 1864

TIE CASE PLAINLY STATED-The n Y.
Erening Post, in recent leading article,
thus briefly puts ths material feature of
the pending Presidential canvass to the
working men of the North: There are
two parties in the country one of which
carries the price of gold up and increases
the price of provisions, while the other
beats it down and reduces that price. No
smoke and thunder of political party strife Z
can hide this fact Every victory of the
Union forces knocks gold down. Every
little success of the rebels takes it up.
This is not our assertion the Brokers
Exchange SAYS it. Why does gold fall
when we beat the rcbels2 1t is because
everybody feels-even the copperhead
gamblers of Wall street feel--that It Is
because every victory of the Iederal drIsas
brisgs the country nearer to peace, Why
does gold rally and rise few per cent
when the advance of our armies Is arrest
ed by natural obstac es, or when shey
meet with the slightest reverse? 1t IS
because the rebel barometer rises-be-
cause the chances of prolonged war are
increased. No argument can dlsprove
this issue On one side is the success of
the government falling gold, falling prices
of meat. bread, fue', butter, coffee, sugar,
clothing and every necessary of life. On
the other side is success Of the rebels, and
higher price of gold, higher price of every
thing that a man puts into his mouth or
wears on his back It is between these
two parties that the country now has to
choose. We can very well believe that
party spirit may carry men to extremes
when the strife does not involve anything
affecting the so ID comforts and necessa-
ries Of life but we can hardly believe that
they will be so blind as to vote headlong
for party that is trying to stop the march
of the country towards peace oy the short
est and most effectuai way.
Year: 1864

nCoal has fallen off in price, and is
now accommodating in the mines in Penn
sylvania, the supply being greater than
the demand The miners have had to
submit to reduction in their pay, and
some of the operators propose to stop min
ing
Year: 1864

The joke of the thing reefs in the fact
that the poem was written by an indignant
sachem of the Tammanv wing Of the DEM
ocratic party at the time the negro Burns,
without previous examination as to his
being slave, was forcibly remanded to
slavery under the fugitive slave law, which
made Of northern free and en- ightencd
citizens dogs and b oodhounds to catch
runaway niggers' The author present.
ed it for publication in the columns of tho
N 7. Tribune and wanted his name to 60
with it, but the kind hearted Greely would
not permit it, fearing its appearance in
connection with the poem would injure
his standing with the Democratic party.
The author of "Tear down the Haunting
lie" is now electioneering and working for
Mcclellan and will vote for him. He is
also Il Democratic nominee for the Office
of County Clerk in New y ork City. Here
is just where the joke comes in Chicago
10. H. Gazette.
Year: 1864

Paris correspondent of the New York Times states
that Minister Dayton has entered his protests with the
French Government with reference to the rebel vessels
the Florida and the Rappahahnock Mr. Dayton object
ed TO the Florida being allowed to recruit crew n
place Of the old which had abandoned her, as viola
ton Of the neutrality laws. To this the French Govern
ment replied that they only count the that
the vessel and 60 out herr that they do not take
cognlzance Of the names nationality Of the men, but
only of their numbers n 6ne that they have nothing TO
de with the personality of the and that they cannot
take cognzance Of the fact that changes Of
made board the vessel The American Minister claim
cd, nevertheless that sailor be recruited for the
vessel in French port without violation Of their
law and he argues further that they might we'll apply
the principle Of number and not Of men to and
other artcep Of the first necessity board ship prn-
cple obviously unfair since Inferior the in
feror cannon may be thus nusy replaced by good
ones.


With regard to the Rappahannock The French Govern
ment declare that she into port under stress Of
weather, and must be permitted to make repairs Sub
sequenty when lao packages arrived for her. Mr. Dayton
formally protested against their being allowed to 90 on
board, but the ground that they contained articles
necessary for the repair Of the accident that had befaen
her machinery they permitted to go board. Mr.
Dayton has been assured that the vessel into port
merchantman, she must go out the she will not
be permitted to obtain single article in French port
for purposes She came in disabled merchantmen,
and may 90 opt repaired one, but nothing And
that there may be no deception about this the French
maritime police in accordance with orders from Paris,
vist the vessel every day The American Minister is not
satisfied with the conduct Of the French Marine Office in
this case, and has strongly protested against it.
Year: 1864

The reader will find in another part Of to-day's
Inteigencer continuation of the Letters of PAUL
AMBROSE. Those who read the earlier numbers
of the series will recall the ability, sagacity, and
fine analysis evinced by the writer in laying bare
the secret springs of the great usurrecton which,
in the name of secession" has convulsed the
land and drenched it with blood. And we hope
that none of our regular readers will be deferred
by its length from giving careful perusal to the
paper we publish to-day from the same practised
pen. Emanating, as we have previously stated,
from Southern gentleman who for many years
occupied with distinction seat in the National
Legislature, and who subsequently held respon-
sible post in the administration of an important
Executive Department of the Government these
disqusitions will be found to bear the marks of
practical craftsmanship, in conjunction with rare
faculty for penetrating and clearly stating the hid.
den motives and subtle agencies which combined
to give the leaders of the in.urrecton such fatal
supremacy over that large portion of the Southern
people whom they induced to embark in the ILL
fated movement of secession.
Year: 1864

E. We hope the President will tell The
people how much better his way to Rich
mond via. Spottsylvania Court House is,
taking into consideration the forty thousand
killed and wounded, than the plan Of Gen
MCCLELLAN by way Of the peninsula.
Year: 1864

~ BY the application Of new art, it


is said that the most repugnant fea-


lures can be transformed into the most


beautiful. This Improvement on ma
, ture 10 the invention Of French Chem


let, and the result is attained BY coat
Ing the face with peculiar kind Of
enamel. This is new style of false
face. and one likely to become popular


among ladies Of certain age and old
bachelors. II the inventor could only


discover something now which would


bleach blackened character, his in.
yention would be perfect.
Year: 1864

On examining the bottom of the
ship Donald Mckay, recently docked
in London to undergo repairs, the horn
of swordfsh was found sticking out


side of her copper. 1t had pierced
inches through plank and had
brought up against timber inside,
when it was no doubt broken off from
its socket in the head Of the fish.
Year: 1864

The new Mexican Empire is at last an
accomplished fact. MaximilIian has ar.
rived in the land over whose dostipies he
has been called by circumstances aud Ma
poloon I I. to preside, was received with
such show OF enthusiasm os could be
manufactured for the occasion, aud is
doubtless by this time safely enscopced in
the Halls Of tho Montezumas-in other
words, in the national palace at the city Of
Mexico. While our civil war has been
dragging its slow length along without any
indication Of its and approaching and being
yet visible, the republican government Of
Mexico has beon OverthroWn by foreign
army, an imperial throne established, and
foreign price placed upon it, not only
without the opposition, but with the tacit
consent Of tho present administration Of
This country. However its pr Dcipa off
GERS may seek to palter with the people in
a double sense, and oquivocato as to what
it has really done in the matter, no sane
man can doubt that the Monroe doctrine
has been virtually abandoned by our gov
ernment, and that when the Arcbduke
Maximillian accepted the throne proffered
him, he was well assured that he eed fear
no interference on the part of the Unitbd
Sta toe
Year: 1864

kzy' The notorious Jim Lane recently
said 81 like the way this war is being
carried on now. So far as am concerned,
lam willing to make this war permanent
institution"


There is not an Office holder nor con
tractor in tao country that is not wiling
TO do Inc same thing,
Year: 1864

Ras- The New Nation, the Fremont or
gan in New York, thinks there is SO little
difference between the Fremont party
and the Democratic party that both ought
to unite on COMMON ticket. Evidently
the Nation is paving the way to drop Ere
mont and 90 in for the nominee of the
Chicago Convention. We had thought
that the Radicals were the extreme wing
of the Union party, but it seems the Ma
tion regards them as about the same in
principle as Copperheads.
Year: 1864

The fashionable ladies of Paris have
adopted the style of wearing dress coats,
tails and all made of silk and satin.


The man hung at Haine's Bluff,
Miss, the other day, was B. W. Wooster,
a cotton speculator, and our troops hung
him because he justified the massacre Of
the negro soldiers at Fort Pillow and
said he was glad Of it.


The Connecticut river is seventeen
feet above low water mark, and some Of
the papers say that shad can swim right
through the windows Of some houses
and on to the gridiron. aa
Year: 1864

We would announce to the public that
we have made arrangements with the
Telegraph Company for the reception of
Forenoon Dispatches, in addition to our
regular Night Report, and that we pro-
pose for the present to issue SECOND
EDITION of the DAILY HERALD in season
for the trains leaving Rutland at about
noon This edition will contain all the
Geographic news of the morning HRRALD,
and also the dispatches received during
the forenoon and up to the hour of going
to press. Terms the same as for the
Morning Edition. Orders solicited.


The NEws.-Among the numerous re-
ports flying over the wires, the follow
ing at least can now be relied upon
Lee was completely foiled in his attempt
to hurl his entire force upon portion
of our army before the whole was well
over the river and prepared to receive
him. Upon this customary movement
of his he evidently counted as usual for
success. He was this time wofully disap-
pointed. In Fridays battle he was so
far defeated as to render a renewal of
battle on Saturday undesirable, and re-
treated. So much alone is glorious
beginning of the campaign and augurs
most fayorably for the end. We have
happily general who knows how to
follow up an enemy retreating after bat
tie.


Gen. Butler deceived the enemy by
making feint as if about TO take his
army to West Point and SO over the old
route to Richmond, and then surprising
them by effecting landing at City
Point on the south side of the James,
He has been fighting the rebels, and
it is said official dispatches announce
that he has whipped them and cut the
Petersburg and Richmond railroad


We are without further reliable partic
ulars, at the time of writing, of opera
tions at the West, but the reports from
all quarters continue of the most cheer
ing character.


The campaign has already reached a
paint to insure its being pushed on to
speedy, and we all devoutly trust, glo-
rious issue,
Year: 1864

Nothing later than the dispatches from Gen. Lee
been received, relative to the raid on the Weldon
road The enemy's force was estimated at fifteen
thousand men, and after their repulse at Hicksford
retreated towards their lines at Petersburg follow
ed BY our cavalry, who made repeated attacks upon
the enemy, Furnishing them severely"


From Eastern Carolina.


The force Of the enemy that appeared below Kin
ston on Sunday last was small, and retired early
Monday morning They were followed short dis
tance by some Of our troops but no close or regu.
lar engagement took place.


There arc rumors in this City of the enemy on
federal forces were certainly at Willismston on
Monday last and it is rumored that there was a
fight at Palmyra, which is higher up, on Tuesday.
We may hear more from this quarter before going
to press
Year: 1864

"P. W. A." in recent letter from Richmond


SAYS that Congress will not probably interfere with
printers, because printing is an art or mystery which
requires time to learn, and of those who have learn


ed It tho supply is already inadequate, whereas ev-
ervbodv is supposed capable of being editor that
recurring neither aptitude, training nor experience.


Perhaps Congress isright Everybody thinks he
or she could manage newspaper much better than
ever newspaper was managed before but we would
warn "P. w. A." and Congress too, that as gen
eral thing they will fail to reach the great body of
the editors unless they take the printers Few pa
pers ever could be successfully carried on at the
South without tho presence Of practical printer in
management Still fewer will be sustained under
the terrible screw pressure that is now closing
around the papers of the Confederacy. press.
ure we think, will ere long do all the wedding out
that NAV be necessary.-WM Journal
Year: 1864

mony and good feeling in the party; and we have
been ready, at all times to do justice to Gov. Vance
as public man. notwithstanding our personal diff
ferences with him. But forbearance towards him
has been of no avail Offers Of renewed harmony
in the party bave passed him as "the idle wind,
which he regarded not" He had made up bis
mind to 60 with the Destructives but he fingered,
and coquetted, and fattered and promised IN order
to carry over with him to that party as many Con-
sergaves as possible 1t is fortunate for the party
that even at this late day, the traitor stands out
fully revealed and exposed. He can deceive no
true Conservative hereafter
Year: 1864

We are ruined, not by what VIC really want,
but by what we think we do; therefore, never 90
abroad in search Of your wants; fthey be real wants.
they will come home in search Of you; for he that
buys what he does not want will soon want what
he cannot buy.
Year: 1864

Tue PRINCESS DAeMAR-The Princess Dagmar, of
Denmark, who Is to he the next Empress of Russia,


is just eighteen years old. She looks far short of
that age from the nfantne and innocent loveliness
of her manner, and from her statue. Her eyes and
teeth form the fascinating beauty of her face, her
features being faS from regular. In complexion she
is brunette but the skin is wonderfully clear, and
the roses of health seem ever to bloom her soft
dmpled cheeks. Her stature is rather under mid
die height, shut her form seems perfect and her
bust scarcely yet come to maturity rivals the most
perfect of Thorfwaldens goddesses in the'swanl like
neck, the gracefully dropping shoulders and the
rounded proportions of her arms" To become
Empress of Russia the young lady must change her
religion and become member of the Greek Church.
Year: 1864

The London Times publishes the follow
ing extract of letter from the wife of a
rebel General to friend in Europe:


There are many little things in which our
daily life is changed-many luXuries cut off
from the table which we have forgotten to
miss. Our mode of preparing necessaries
is very different and far more complicated.
The condition of our currency has brought
about many curious results; for instance, l
have Just procured leather for our negro
shoes by exchanging tallow for It, of which
we had quantity from some five beeves
fattened and killed upon the place. ! am
now bargaining with factory up the coun-
try to exchange pork and lard with them
for blocks of yarn to weave negro clothes;
and not only negro clothing / have woven,
am now dyeing thread to weave home
spun for myself and daughters.


am raveling up or having raveled all
the old scraps of fine worsteds and dark
silks to spin thread for gloves for the gem
eral and self, which gloves am to knit.
These home-knit gloves and these home
spun dresses will look much heater and
nicer than you would suppose. My daugh-
ters and being In want of under garments,
/ sent quantity of lard TO the Macon fac
tory, and received in return fine unbleached
calico-.a pound of lard paying for a pound
of cloth. They will not sell their cloth for
money. This unbleached calico my daugh-
tiers and self are now making up for our
.selvesa You see some foreslghtis necessary
to provide for the necessaries of life.g If i
were to describe all the cutting and alter
ing of old things to make them new which
Year: 1864

The acceptance by Maximilian of the
crown and sceptre, the coronet and apron
of feathers, whereby the decency and dig
nifty of the empire of Montezuma are to be
maintained as in the days of yOre, has not
gone off without some of those little differ
ences to which even imperial families are
subject. Gossip and ca,cda are of course
let loose in Paris, and it seems that the OBJ
stinacy and pigheadedness of the brothers
being exactly of equal amount, admit of no
idea of yielding even to circumstances on
either side; and thus 1t is that after much
angry debating, quarreling, and bandying
of reproaches, the new Emperor, who was
to have started without fail on the 10Th,
finds himself still detained, Through indis-
position" at Miramar. The story goes that
amid the storm OF angry passion, in which
the long pent-up truths got abroad-one OF
them concerning the Archduchess Sophia
and which had never before seen the air in
the family, although pretty well ventilated
in Vienna, was so startling and terrible that
the subdued lady, after q most violent scene
with her eldest son, rushed from the palace,
and set off by express train to Munich,
where she will remain till the departure'of
Macmillan renders the recurrence of such
a scene impossible.


The breakfast given in honor of the de-
parture of the new Emperor must have been





whole history of Austria. The Archdukes
and Emperors, the Princes and the delegates,
all held in the check by the one solitary
benker, who refusing to pay down at Mira
mar the money understood to be raised for
the expenses of installment at Mexico, pre-
vents the embarking of the Sovereign elect,
who had reckoned upon that very sum for
distribution amongst his creditors, who
stand in grumbling. and discontented
grounds around the palace. The consequent
reproach and reprimand to which the
Archduke is subjected by his wise and prl-
dent brother, the retaliation and defiance
exhibited by the poor spendthrift, and the
concluding outburst which sends the Arch
duchess Sophia in hot haste and Indignation
out of the room-out of the palace---out of
the city-nay, more, out of the empire to
seek refuge from the dismay and desolation
occasioned by the sudden divulgation of
certain dark secrets heard above the bub-
bling noise of the family linen as it soaks
and seethes in the boiling cauldron of op-
probium In which the Archduke was
plunging it in such hot fury, that the stains
and spots will remain forever fixed instead
of being removed-all tn is has formed
a curious though sad contemplation to the
philosophers about the Court; and private
letters from Vienna are full of this great
family wash, in which every article, though
plunged into boiling water, has come out
none the cleaner for all that. Depend upon
it "the indisposition" which prevents the
future Emperor from starting. although
sneered at and mistrusted, is far from being
feigned, and that it will be doubled In in
tensity should the money be refused by Ma
poleon Ill. a2 aH5 ~
Year: 1864

The joy at getting thlrty-three thousand bales
Of abandoned cotton, in abandoned Savannah,
begins TO be tempered with an estimate Of the
value Of the loss of the fifteen thousand troops
and artillery that Hardee was allowed to march
Off with. These troops have got 20 be fought by
us at Charleston or Richmond, or along the way
TO both cities. Il is now thought the cotton will
hardly balance our account current with them 10
the end of the war.
Year: 1864

lost their trail and were in pursuit Of
gold. They at cnce lea their camping
ground and moved over to q small but
rapid mountain stream that emptied
into the Santiam Just beside the camp
Of the pursuers. Here they began to
stake off claims and number them,
and one or two actually began digging
in the stream so as to render the wa
ter muddy. A, rude shelter was built
and everything done to give the place
the appearance Of a permanent loca-
ton. An occasional gun was fred,
and sundry devices known only TO
miners used to attract the attention


their neighbors On the following
day their bait was taken and the
whole party came whooping and shout
ing through the forest to ascertain
what muddied the water Of this little
stream. When, they came upon the
hunters, great was their joy and loud
their exultations at having traced
them to their rich discoveries. The
hunters were meek as lambs and had
no word of welcome for any of them,
but they, nevertheless, were worry
much at home, and began making
their selections in great haste as they
said in day or, two a very large
number of miners would arrive
The hunters assured them at last that
it was oil jest, and returned to their
old camp, but so certain were they
thata large deposit lay in the lonely
bottom of that creek that they never
could ba convinced ~ tho vvntrury


until they had dug it and washed it
from end to end without ever having
(" raised the color" At length how
ever, they turned homeward, and
meeting many new adventurers ad-
vised them not to be humbugged, but
without succeeding in turning one of
them back, and we solemnly believe
that if party of miners once got it
into their heads that their was gold
in large deposits in the crater of Mt


Vesuvius, they would every man of
them 60 down to make q personal OBJ
servation, however many might have
been roasted under his very eyes. If
you appeal to them not to be hum
buggcd, they take it for granted that
you wish to perpetrate q 'selP' md


go at once and are humbugged. The
very excitement of gold hunting is
more intoxicating than strong drink,


and has brought many man to beg
gary and starvation. 7i4 n1ia li'a
Year: 1864

be able to starve itself down to point
which will permit it to pay for while
the demands which the war debt
make it iii the shape of taxes, but it
cannot continue 50 TO do, and win fail
in the end.ta nnoHl idol blo inia'
1t has been represented that OH
country, however fertile, can stand
oven an interest Of three per cent. per
year. This has been proved by tho
census returns of some ofithe most
prosperous States of the Union, which
in ten years have increased only twen-
ty-five per cent. in wealth, OF about
two and a half per cent. per year,
when the laboring portion of the
people had been paying g per cent.
for money. OF course, as a body, the
laboring portion of the people had
only bare subsistence, and large
numbers of them were roduced to the
condition of panpors.


Tie, State of New York is large and
prosperous, yet through the operation
Of its capitalists, the paupers are in
proportion to. its population double
thoseof Ireland. This announcement
will undoubtedly be received with as
tonishment. Yet the State of New
York, in 1859, had twice tho number
of paupers in it, according to its pop
ulation, than "poyerty stricken Ire
land" The fact was taken from the
Report Of tho New York Association
for Improving the Condition Of the
Poor for the year 1859, Mr.. Brown
President, This state Of facts was
he result Of constantly robbing labor
Of its regard. These exorbitant
claims Of capital for the nse of tho
money labor worked with, had com
pletely paralized it, hence the above
astounding declaration, that we are,
as a State, IN point of population,
poorer than starving Ireland.