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Year: 1864

New YORK. June 26.-A special despatch
from City Point to the Herald says:


The attack upon Sheridan's cavalry day
before yesterday while marching from
White House to James river, was a very
determined and bloody affair. They made
what they considered ample arrangements
to capture his guns, trains and most of his
command. '.+'''"


Details of the affair have not yet trans
pired here up to the departure of the mail
boat, but it is known that the enemy fell
upon brigade composing the rear guard
with great fury and at first threw them
into much confusion. They Immediately
rallied to cover this movement and held
the eneimy's cavalry and infantry in check
until the balance of the command could be
brought to their support, when general
battle ensued between our mounted and
dismounted cavalry, and cavalry, infantry
and artillery on the part of the enemy
Sheridan acted on the defensive and re-
PEELED several OF the most desperate ass
saults that could possibly be made.


His light artillery was brought into play
and was admirably served. The fighting
was at short range and grape and canister
were used with terrible effect.


At the end of the conflict he succeede d
in beating them off, though greatly supe'
rior In numbers, and resumed his march to
James River without the loss Of gun or
wagon. ..y t- o..


His killed, wounded and missing may
reach 500 among whom are four Colonels.
Year: 1864

will surely save you


Do not use the Drops when forbidden in
the directions, for although positive cure,
and harmless at all other times, they are 60
powerful and finely calculated to adjust and
govern the functions of the sexual organism.
that, if taken at improper times, they would
produce results contrary to nature, against
which all, particularly those who would re-
produce, should carefully guard.
Year: 1864

Are fluid preparation, the only one of the
kind ever discovered in this country, and acts
directly on the parts affected, whilst pills and
powders can only reach them as they work
through sympathy, but not at all direct and
positive.


Are you suffering from a constant anxiety
for ths regular return of natures prescribed
laws? Give yourself no uneasiness, for Ly-
on's Periodical Drops, if taken day or two
before the expected period, will positively
and invariably regulate its coming, as sure
as effect follows cause, as certain as daylight
follows darkness.


Are you sick, enfeebled by disease, or una
Die to bear the labor and danger of increase!
Year: 1864

Are the most reliable regulator ever known,
and cure, like magic, all those Irregularities
that have defed the doctors skill


Will you waste away with suffering from
Leucorrhea, Prolapsus, Dysmendrrhd5a, and
thousand other difficulties, all summed up
under the name of suppressed and obstructed
nature, when all investment of one dollar in
Year: 1864

LIouoR Is THE ARMY.-Gen. Howard made
the following sensible remarks as to liquors il
the army in a late speech:


Il did not drink at college, l did not drink
at West Point; but when got into the army
found it was all the fashion. II you went
into an officers quarters the first thing was to
offer you something TO drink. 1t wa, thought
you did not treat him with proper respect il
you did not. | fell into the habit. | drank
whisky and offered it to Others. When | was
stationed at Florida, once offered whisky to
an officer and he declined. | urged him to
drink and be drank. A short time after
attended him n the horrors of delirium tremeDs
and | made up my mind that it was wicked
and that l never would do it again; aud |
have not. l do not keep it 10 my quarters or
my teht do not offer il TO any officer or 10
any man, and | will not. know it is hard
stand to take, especially TO young officer; but
can say from my own experience that il
will pay.
Year: 1864

DouGLAs.-Those who pretend 10 be Douglas
Democrats, and affiliate with secessionists, will
do well to consider the views OF Stephen A
Douglas, concerning slavery, the cause of the
rebellion, which were also the views of the
Republican Congressman generally:


"If they remain 10 the Union, | will go as
far as the Constitution will permit to maintain
their just rights and do not doubt but that
q majority OF Congress will do the same But
II the Southern States attempt to secede from
this Union without further cause, am in favor
OF their having just so many slaves and just so
much slave territory, as they can hold at the
point OF the bayonet, and no more"
Year: 1864

In the decline of life the loss of vital force conSe
qaent upon physical decay, can only be safely sup
piled by some yivifyng preparation which recrnit
the strength and spirits, without eutailing the ex
hansiion which Is always the final effect of ordinary
mulanfS- We tAnder 70 the seed
Year: 1864

youth and maturity arising from the bsnefu habits
Of SELF abuse. To which Is added observations on
Female Diseases and other Interesting of the ut
mostimportance the married and those
marriage who doubts of their physical ability tc
enter that state Sent TO any address in sealed wrap
per, receipt of ten cents or four stamps.


We devote entire time and attention to the treat
merit Of the various private diseases treated of in pr
report Our 0spenssy the only Institution
kind i'm America which has been tabished by special
charter an this fact should give preference the
various quacks Of doubtful character to be foun In al
Year: 1864

PRIKTsRs' UsIoH.-Every branch Of
trade should adopt means to protect itself.
and to secure just compensation for labor;
bot the Printers Unions have long since
got far ahead of this principal object Of
such Unions, and have become . down.
right tyrannical imposition. They not
only exact the highest wages. whether
employers can afford it or not, but they
dictate how every thing shall be conducted
in the office. They prescribe the hours
hands shall work. how copy shall be d.
vided out, how many apprentices pub
Usher may employ. what sort of hands
may work in the Office. and choose or
discharge the foreman in the Office at
pleasure. In short, they boss the Office,
and the proprietor has oply to submit to
their arbitrary rules. and pay their wages.
The proprietor is sort Of underling to
them, at the mercy of their caprices


They permit no man to work in an office
who refuses to join their league and il
their rules srs demurred to BY employers.
they endeavor to stop his work by making
strike. If any printer refuses to go
with them. frequently he is subjected to
personal violence and If their striking
does not suspend the paper. they have in
moro than one instance been known to
do some injury to the Office and the ma
chinery. The evil has become 80 un-
sufFerabls. that ths leading publishers
have been compelled. in self-deience. to
organize for the purpose Of effscting .
remedy. Several meetings have been
held, and the prospect is something will
be done to render publishers Independent
Of the arbitrary monopoly called the
Printers Union.
Year: 1864

A FRANK CoNFEssIoN.-The New
York Herald, which for week past has
been running Gen. Grant for the Presi.
dency, says of President Lincoln


ave abandon Honest Old Abe as q
hopeless case. We nave pulled him, We
have praised him, we have helped him in
every way, but can get no good out of him.
To use one Of bis own homely similies, be
is crooked stick that can not be bent,
and that will have to be broken"


Which means that President Lincoln is
the only Chief Magistrate for many years
past who would not throw q sop to the
Journal.
Year: 1864




Dec.-'6S.


DEAR PARENTs-I know that | can
not undertake anything aud succeed with.
out your blessing. You know how long
have wished to make my practice consist.
ent with my principles, aud enter the ar
my; and now, when the country needs
men, think l ought to 60. We must
make sacrifices; l do it when l give up
my school in -, and when l give up
my place here, either of which would be .
pscuniary advantage to me; but do it
willingly, because think it my duty. l
have only myself aud parents to look after.
If the country survives this crisis and
never come back, you can depend that she
will remember the friends Of those who
were sacrificed for her salvation and il
the State becomes q wreck l will be no
better prepared to take care Of them than
if l had not gone to war for certainly
ruin will come upon the country II sold
iers are wanting, and if everything is in
ruin, how will We live !? l feel as though
would be in the protection Of Gods
as we'll in the battle field as
here ct home. In our peaceful life of
business We feel ourselves relieved in our
.ontiuual trust in providence, not having
,uch vivid sense of the need Of it; but
man who goes into danger will find it
necessary to dwell more in the presence Of
rod. 1t is with this feeling that CON-
ider l am doing right in entering the
rmy, and if you, my dear parents, feel
hat you can rely upon Providence for
upport aud comfort while | am in dan.
,er, will expect in your next letter your
onssut to my going. l will then enlist
immediately. Your afsctonaie sou,


W. Ii. Il.
Year: 1864

w-A gentleman from the country
wishes us to reques. the citizens OF the
borough to discontinue the practice Of
emptying coal ashes on the wagon tracks
in the streets. Heavily laden sleds and
sleighs passing over are apt to ground and
stick, unless an extra quantity of lash and
vocal powers is applet to the teams.
Year: 1864

Before and after the election of 1860,
the "Dsmocratic' journals labored as hard
as they could to convince the people of the
South that it would be impossible for
them to live in safety under Republican
administration and there can be no doubt
that such representations were largely in-
strumental in exciting the slave states to
the point Of rebellion. Now we find the
same class of journals assuring the South
that to accept the Presidents offer of am.
nesty will be a degradation and disgrace;
of course the Intention of those who make
such assertions can only be to prolraot the
war.


AS the above are incon troverible facts,
is there any one green enough to deny
that the Copperheads are JEFF. Davis
catspaws7 In serving him as they surely
are, it will be miraculous if they do not
get their fingers badly burned in trying to
rake out their masters hot ch ,stnu.s.
Year: 1864

Don't take newspaper; don't read one
Of any kind. If you hear persons discuss
ing this or that great battle, ask stupidity
what it all means. Emulate Rip Van
Winkle; steep your senses in mental or
moral oblivion, and pay no attention to what
is passing about you; in this way you may
save two or three dollars-the price Of q
paper-and lose FIVE hundred or five thou
sand dollars by not being informed about
markets, supply and demand, and C thou
sand other things as essential to an enter
prising man as light and air. If you have
children, don't take any paper for them
tell them book larnin' amt no count.
Let them tumble in the highway unwashed,
uncombed, and in rags and tatteTs. If they
don't graduate in the State Prison, it will
be no fault Of yours. If you are IA farmer,
plow, sow and reap as your stupid old
father did before you; scoff at agricultural
papers, and sneer and deride at progress OF
all kinds; then if you do not succeed in
making other people think that they are all
wrong, and that you alone are sagacious, it
must be that the world is curiously awry,
auu heSuS EeAOIniIuS uuuiJ' 1HO eOOuci
you undertake it the better.


By not reading papers, you will succeed,
if farmer, in having the finest crop of
knotty, wormy apples that can be found;
potatoes that would take the prize at fair
for the rot; cabbage that are all leaves and
no head; turnips that are destroyed in the
shootby the worms; hay mouldy and musty |;
because you despised barometers, and cut
it just as the mercury was falling; corn,
half crop, because you exhausted the
land with it for years, and starved Nature
to such pitch that she had nothing to
yield in return. All these calamities and
many more will bcfall you, because you
don't keep pace with the times. You call
it "hard luck" but men OF common sense
call your course by q name you never heard
of-stupidity; that's more "book larnin'."


A man that does not take paper Of
some kind or another in this time Of the
world, must expect to be prey to all sorts
Of swindlers, victim to bad management,
and out Of spirits, out of pocket, temper,
money, credit; in short, everything under
the sun that tends to make life bearable
The newspaper is the great educator Of the
people, after all SO let US exclain-" The
Press forever"
Year: 1864

KSrIfIE TIOO-NE Il Al GICON.
THE NEW SENSATION.


THE ETICo-EEURALGICON,


THE GREAT wOADER OF THE DAT,


THE GREAT WONDER OF THE DAY,


the GREAT WONDER OF THE DAY.


THE GREAT WONDER or THE DAY.
THE TALK or EVERY sClENrIYIo NAN,
THE TALK OF EVERY SCIENTIFIC NAN.
THE TALK OF EVERY SCIENTIFIC NAN.
THE TALK or EVERY SCIENTIFIC NAN.
the NEW AND WONDERFUL INVENTION
the NEW AND WONDERFUL INVENTION.
THE NEW AND WONDERFUL INVENTION.
THE NEW AND WONDERFUL INVENTION.
Year: 1864

HENRY WINTER DAVIS. This distin-
guished gentleman made notable speech in
the House recently upon the Emancipation
Bureau Bill, in which he took radical
view Of the question, and expressly declared
war against the President. He said that
Maryland was not indebted to Lincoln for
any of its present radical views upon the
leading questions of the day, and that the re-
cent Endorsement of him by the Unionists Of
Maryland was, after all, provisional in cha
racter. He saws that slavery is not dead.
and that Copperhead majority in Congress,
or Copperhead triumph in November next
will resurrect slavery and call it into new life.
Davis always commands the attention Of the
House, and his speech to-day listened to
with the most profound attention, Fernando
Wood, Pendleton and others coming over
into the Administration benches to hear the
great Marylander, who would, if he could,
carry his State over to Chase.
Year: 1864

SPECIFIC GRAvITY.-Hiero, king of
Syracuse, who reigned in the fifth century,
having furnished workman with a
quantity of gold for making crown, sus-
pected that he had been cheated, and that
the workman had used greater alloy
of silver than was necessary in the manu-
facture of it; he therefore applied to Ar
chimedes for a detection of the fraud.
This celebrated mathematician was led by
chance to a mode of detecting the impos-
ture, and determining precisely the guam
titles of gold and silver (which the crown
was composed. While he was bathing in
tub of cold water, he observed that, as
he immersed his body in it, the water run
out, and he Immediately concluded that,
supposing the tub full, the water which
run out when his whole body was i'm
mersed, was equal in bulk to his body.
Archimedes was so pleased with this dis
covery as to run about the streets exclaim-
ing IL have found il" Others affirm
that he offered hecatonb to Jupiter for
having inspired him with the thought.


The principle having thus suggested itself
to Archimedes, he procured ball of gold


and another of silver, exactly of the same
weight of the crown. considering that if
the crown were altogether either of gold
or silver, the balls of gold or silver would
be of the same bulk, and consequently,


when immersed in water would raise it
Just as high as the crown would if I'M
mersed. And, if on the contrary, the
crown was of gold and silver mixed in a
certain proportion, this proportion would
be discoved by the hight to which the
crown would raise the water, higher than
the gold ball, or lower than the silver ball.
Year: 1864

MINING ORGANIzATIoNs.-The Colorado
Mining Journal throws out the following
very pertinent and suggestive ideas to its
readers, which are most particularly ap-
plicable to this latitude also "A COM
pany with working capital of $5O,OOO,
would soon be declaring good dividends,
and the stock would inevitably advance
far above par, and be eagerly sought.
But when, with only the same basis on
which to work, the capital stock is
swelled to million, or millions, no man
agenent in the world can prevent it from
depreciating and finally becoming worth
less. Of course, by the sale of the stock
in the market, the getters-up of these
schemes line their pockets and that is the
intention. Opening the mines of the
company is entirely a secondary interest
with them. Selling stock is their busi-
ness. And the fleeced public, sooner or
later, finds this to be as worthless as the
paper on which it is printed. These ope-
rators know perfectly well that the mines
cannot be made to pay dividends on such
an enormous and chiefly fictitious capital,
and they cease to look to them for it.
They use the real merit of the country for
their own purposes and operations"
Year: 1864

ABsuRDIT1Bs.-To hear men talk who
never read the Constitution, nor ever
heard it read, ranting about its violation.
To hear men who never did a days work
in their lives bowling about the influx of
niggers, and the injury to white laborers'
To hear men rave about the President's s
violation of the Constitution, when they
have never ascertained that rebellion was
in violation of the Constitution. To
hear men justify JEFF. Davis and the South,
who have not the manhood or decency to
90 there and seek home they like so
well. To see a man who loves slavery
more than his country and freedom. 10
see a man talking about peace and COM
promise, after he has been kicked and spit
upon by the South.
Year: 1864

FOWLER on "LITuLMAK. I'm recent
lecture in Maine, Professor Fowler, the
celebrated phrenologist, related the follow
ing psychological reminiscence of Chick
ahominy's grave-digger: The father of
George B. Mcclellan and himself were
old cronies," as he expressed it he Of
ten came to his office to listen to his ex-
aminations; and when. once on time,
the lad George was home from West
Point, the father brought his two sons to
have their characters phrenologically des-
canted upon. Says Mr.. Fowler, 81 re-
member all the circumstances as if it were
but yesterday, and remember the rea-
soning that then passed through my mind.
Never-never, in all my life, had l found
such an inordinate development of the Or
gan of caution as in the head of George
b. Mcclellan! I also found the propell-
ing faculties, combativeness and destruc-
tiveness, small, and l thought to myself,
what is the sense or reason of sendlug
such a really natural coward to West
Point: But then l reasoned that there
would probably never be any war to call
for military genius, and West Point
might as we'll educate towards as any
other institution" lie said that his life
had only proved his early convictions,
and referring to the seven days battle,
related that a personal family friend was
then in Richmond, and the plan OF the
battle was well known, Lee said, II
know Mcclellan for a natural coward, and
if draw every available man from Rich
mond, and hurl our whole force upon his
right wing, he will not dare to move his
left" He did so, and proved that he
did truly know his adversary; for though
Mcclellan could have swung his left wing
right over Richmond, he only sent for
ward a corporals guard to reconnoitre,
and the golden opportunity was passed
by.
Year: 1864

need not tell your readers that the Con-


federate authorities at Richmond continue


to receive early and accurate information
of all that passes at Washington, and this too,
not merely with what is open and public,
as the dOings of Congress and the move
ments of troops, etc.. but also with regard


to what is secret and in regard to matters
that are studiously keptfrom the knowledge
of the loyal people of the North. 1t Is a
positive fact, and as sad and shameful as 1t
Is certain, that the decisions that are arrived
at in cabinet meetings, and the plans which
are fixed upon and decided at the White
House, are In many cases (notin all) known
at Richmond within three days after they
mel this intelligence passes it is not
for me to say, tor 1 could only con-
lecture. But / know now that all
the contraband goods, medicines, pa
pers, and letters, which a certain female
recently took into Dixie's land under the
flag Of truce, did not do one-half the harm
to the Union cause, and were not one-half
as valuable to the rebels as something else
which she carried, something which was
impalpable to the senses, and which would
have escaped the vigilance of the most
lynx-eyed official, even II she had been
searched at Fortress Monroe. True or false,
the rebels boast that the secrets of the White
House are no secrets to them and never
have been. What plans of our Generals
have miscarried and been rendered abortive,
at the expense of the useless sacrifice OF
thousands of our brave soldiers? They are
the plans which the Generals have been
compelled to disclose to the President. But
enough of this. +


1t Is stated, then, that the Confederate
leaders are abundantly satisfied of the tact
that there Is a regular plot existing against
General Grant at atWashington, in pursuance
of which the plans of the latter will be in
terfered with to such an extent that they
will be rendered entirely abortive, and that
this will be done for political reasons alone


The President, the Secretary of War, an6
General Halleck are said to be at the heaC
of this plot, which had its inception before
the recent elevation of General Grant, but
after that elevation had been discussed in
Congress and after it was probable that Il
would take place. 1t Is said that the rebe


leaders are satisfied that the recent so-callet
reorganization of the Army of the Poto'
mac was made by the President and Secre.
tary of War against the wishes of Genera


Grant, and that it will seriously impair the
efficiency of that army. The historian who
wishes to write the secret history of the
White House under the present Admins
tration, must 60 to Richmond for his mate
rials; he will find them there in abundance
No one believes for a moment that MIR. Lin
coin Intentionally gives aid and comfort t
the rebels; but they have unquestionably
found most powerful ally in his unre


strained loquacity, and in the weakness an(
irresolution of his character. i.-
Year: 1864

The FARMERS AND THE INCOME Tax
The income tax, as income is assessed, falls
heavily,upon the farmers-more so, we are
satisfied, than the Administration intends.
The burdens of the war have been purpose
ly kept off the farmers as much as possible,
because they chafe under the burdens OF
government levies more rapidly than any
other class. The result of over assessing
win be falling off in the Abolition vote
and, this should console the Democratic
farmers in the injustice done to them. The
assessor estimates the value of hay and grain
aud then adds to that the profit on horses,


cattle and sheep. He pays in fact double
tax. The hay and grain which are con-
.simed on his farm bring him no income
whatever. His entire income arises from


what he sells.--New Lisbon Patriot.