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Year: 1864




We beg of every American not to lose sight of
the right Of the majority constitutionally ex-
pressed, which this war for the Union upholds
and must establish, or Free Government utterly
perish. The Kentucky Breckenridge wen said
in recent sgeech;


%lfMr- Lincoln was the worst President that
ever lived, it is the duty of the American people
to re-elect him; because it is the duty of the
American people to put final and crushing ter
mination upon this idea that there is to be fac
ton and insurrection every time a man is elected
that minority IN the nation dom like. What
is to hiRder another outbreak of the kind? If
Mcclellan should be elected, what is to hinder
a faction from repeating the same revolutionary
scenes? 1t is the ruin Of the country, This doc
trine Of State Rights, that State can come and
90 as it likes. They talk about permanent
cessation of arms, avoWedly to make peace,
with men who have no other object than they
would not have this President to be their Pres
ident. My friend who has proceeded me calls
them my Southern brethren"
Year: 1864

3D.. ps READING, Pa. April 49, 1864.


Dr.. WIsHART-Dedr Sir: One year ago the
Examining Surgeon of this district told me
had Consumption of the Lungs, and that could
not becured; and Judging from all my symptoms
at that time, myself supposed this to be true.
was for more than one year troubled with a
hacking cough, which gradually grew so bad
that / could not have severe fit of coughing
without splitting up blOodin large quantities


For monthsI could not work at anything,
and was obliged to keep my bed most of the
time. While in this consaition / was in Mr.
ROwbothaIns store in this city, and he seeing
how low was, recommended me to try your
Pine Tree Tar Cordial. He said he had sold a
great deal of it and that as it had cured so many
others, he believedit would do some good.
bought bottle and commenced using it. In q
very short time 1 saw that / was getting better
very fast, and after taking several bottles / was
entirely restored to health so that could work
every day at my business, which is very heavy
work, in an iron foundry. When commenced
to use your Pine Tree Tar Cordial, my weight
was only one hundred and thirty five pounds;
since the use of it l have weighed on an average
one hundred and fifty-fi | shall be glad to
have you publish this, as 1 believe | should not
have been living at this time if had not used
your great medicine, and l wish all who suffer
TO receive its benefit. nafa g. Z:


Very truly yours, -
Year: 1864

This sentence should be deeply i'm
pressed upon the hearts of the young
He who will not strike boldly in the bat
tie Of life, and conquer the opposing foe,
must sink sooner or later into the slough
of despond, and be forgotten by the on
marching army, whose lips are singing
the pean of victory. 1t were better for
that one that he had never been born
Lie is not a rose laden path for carpet
knights to tread. No, its ways are rug
ged, and it is the brave in heart only,
that, fearlessly accepting its challenges,
doing battle as they move along, who
win the goal. He who sets out with
fear and trembling, dreading to meet
foes seen and unseen, succumbs ere he
has commenced the journey; but he who
boldly adventures the path, whether it
leads to gloomy abysses or up giddy as
cents, over morasses, through the night
like forests, or into the regions perpet-
ual snow, holding aloft his banner, in
scribed with the daring motto, There
is no such word as fail'--is victor in
every fight.


His heart beats quick, his eye bright
ems, and his strong arm is nerved for bat
tie when danger approaches. No thought
has he OF retreat onward he marches,
driving his enemies before him. What
cares he for these-was he not made to
do or die Z? He will be victorious Moth
ing shall deter him. He knows no such
word as fail Whatever he resolves on
must be accomplished He cannot sue
cumb, though the world should be to
overcome Death, rather and he con-
Iquers The hero of the fields, he wears
the laurel crown! 1t is only when age
overtakes him, palsying his arm, and
stealing his strength of purpose, that he
wraps the drapery of his couch about
him, and lies down to pleasant Dreams .
Even then he is but subdued, not con-
quered His task has been faithfully
accom- plshed. His end is blessed =
Young men and young women, if you
would succeed in life, strike from your
vocabulary the stumbling block to sue
cess-the word fati
Year: 1864

! Those who have approached nearest
mature age, and have seen much
Of the world, will attest the truth
Of the following paragraph, written by
Sir Lytton Bulwer. It occurs in one
of his essays


" There was one period of my life
when [ considered every hour spent out
of the capital as. time wasted when
with cxhilarated spirits | would return
from my truant lettering, under summer
trees, to the smoke and din of London
thoroughfares, I loved to hear the ring
Of my own tread On the pavement.
The desire to compete and combat-the
thirst for excitements opening one upon
another in the upward march Of an op-
posing career-the study of man in
his thickest haunts-the hearts warm
share in the passions which the mind clear
from inebriety, pauses to analyze-these
gave to me, as they give to most unfiag-
ging energies of youth, delight in the
vista of gas lamps and the hubbub
of the great mart for the exchange Of
ideas. But now | love the country as
did when little child, before | had
admitted into my heart that ambition
which is the fierce lesson We learn at
school 1t is partly that those trees re-
mind us that we are growing old. Older
than we are, their hollow stems are COW
cred with rejoicing leaves. The birds
build among their towering branches
rather than among the lighter shade
Of the sapling. Nature has no voice
that wounds the self-love her coldest
wind nips no credulous affection. She
alone has the same face in our age as in
our youth. The friend with whom we
once took sweet council, we have left
in the crowd stranger-perhaps foe!
The woman in whose eyes. some twenty
years ago, paradise seemed to open
in the midst of fallen world, we passed
the other day with a frigid bow. She
wore rough and false hair But these
wild flowers under the hedgerow-no
friendship has gone from them ! Their
beauty has no simulated freshness-their
smile has no fraudulent deceit. y
Year: 1864

Travellers in Persia, China and Japan
tell us of professional story tellers and
tradition reciters. who, standing in the
streets and market places, tell marvel
Gus tales to all who may choose to listen.
The following is one of their Chinese
parallels.


Fohi, in the course of his wanderings,
coming to village, knocked at the door
Of rich woman, and begged permission
to enter, "What!" said She. do you
think I receive into my house every roy-
ing vagabond? No indeed, it would be
unbeftting a respectable woman-go
your way p Then he went to the cot
tage of poor woman wno at once kind
ly begged him to enter She sat before
him the only food she had--a little goats
milk-broke piece of bread intoit, and
said: ''May Fohi bless it, that we may
both have enough!' She then prepar-
ed forhim cou chofstraw; and when he
fell asleep, preceving he had no shirt,
she sat up all the night and made him
one out of some linen she had made by
her own hard labor; in the morning she
brought it to him, begging he would not
despise her poor gift. After breakfast
she accompanied him little way; and
at parting Fohi said: ''May the first
work you undertake last till evening"
When she got home she began
to measure her linen, to see how
much was left; and she went on
measuring, and did not come to the end
until the evening, when her house and
yard were full of linen, in short, she did
not know what to do with her wealth.
Her rich neighbor, seeing this. was sore
ly vexed, and resolved that such good
fortune should not escape her again
After some months the traveller came
once more to the village; she went to
meet him, pressed him to 60 to her house,
treated him to the best food she had and
in the morning brought him shirt of
fine linen, which she had made some
time before but all night she kept a
candle burning in her room, that the
stranger, if he awoke, might suppose she
was making his shirt. After breakfast
she accompanied him out of the village;
and when they parted be said: "May the
first work you undertake last till even
ing.' She went her way home, think
ing the whole time of her linen. and an
ticpating its wonderful increase but
just then the COWS began to low. BE
fore [ measure my linen,' said she, 81
will quickly fetch the cows some water"
But when she poured the water into the
trough, her pail never emptied; she
went on pouring, the stream increased,
and soon her house and yard were under
water the neighbors complained that
everything was ruined; the cattle were
drowned, and with difficulty she saved
her life, for water never cease flowing
until the setting of the SUM-"
Year: 1864

God defend thee, land Of nations.


Mother Of the brave and free;
Fen amid thy desoatioEs,


Stronger grows our love for the.
They who wound thee, best Of mothers
They who seek thy life to take
Shall we deem them friends and brothers
Nay. we'll smite them for tiny sake.
Be the sword of justice lifted


Quick descend the righteous stroke,
Till the traitorous host be rifted.


Broken its tyrannic yoke.
Comrades be our motto ever,


Faithful TO OUR CoUNTRY's TRUST
Though we give our lives, yet never
Shall our mother kneel in dust.
By the love we bear that mother,


By the duty children owe,
Faithfully by one another


Stand we till we crush her foe.
Let the hail of bullets rattle,


Hostile weapons line the field;
In the day of Freedoms battle,


GoD ALMIGHTY is our shield.
When the cloud of war is riven,


Peace shall like rainbow shine;
They who for the right have striven
Coming ages shall enshrine.
Year: 1864

No family can afford to do without
music. 1t is luxury and an economy !;
an alleviator of sorrow, and spring of
enjoyment protection against vice
and an incitement to virtue When
rightly used, its effects, physical, in
tellectual and moral, are good, very
good, and only good.


Make home attractive music affords
means of doing this. Cultivate kindly
feeling, love. Music will help in this
work. Keep out angry feeling. emusic
hath charms to soothe the savage breast. :"
Be economical Pleasure, recr cation,
all must have, and no pleasure costs less
in proportion, to it's worth than home
music. Make your sons and daughters
accomplished. What accomplishment is
more valuable than music Fit all
your daughters to support themselves
in the future, if need be. There has
been no time in many years when any
young lady having sufficient knowledge
to teach music could rot pleasantly earn
respectable support in that way.


But, some may say. Il have no
ear for music, nor have any OF my fami-
ly.' Probably not one of you ever tried
it faithfully. Perhaps your sons had
no natural "ear" for reading, or your.
daughter no natural hands for writing !;
and certainly unless they had learned
these things, they would never have
been accomplished in them. Music
does. indeed, come more natural to
most people than many other accomplish
ments that are next to universal yet
it does not come to all without much
time spent in careful cultivation.


The one best means of introducing
music to the family, and introducing its
cultivation is to procure a good musical
instrument. If none Of your daughters
or sons can play at all, yet if they have
good instrument at hand, some of them
viii learn. In almost every family this
viii be the case. Buy an instrument and
try the experiment if it succeeds only
to very small extent, the cost will be
repaid many fold.
Year: 1864

No slave beneath that starry flag,
The emblem of the free
No fettered hand shall WELD the brand


That smites for Liberty
No tramp of hostile armies


Shall shame Columbia's shore,
For he who fights for Freedoms rights,


Is free foreyermore
No slave beneath those glorious folds


That Ger our fathers flew,
When every breath was dark with death
But every heart was true !
No serfs of earth's old empires


Knelt down in shadows then;
And they who now beneath it bow


Forevermore are men
Go tell the ashes of the braves


Who at Port Hudson fell;
Go tell the dust whose holy trust


Stern Wagner guards so well;
Go breathe it softly-slowly-


Wherever the patriot slave
For right has fed, and tell the dead


He fills freeman's grave
Go tell Kentuckys bondmen true,


That he who fights is free
And let the tale fill every gale


That floats DER Tennessee
Let all our mighty rivers


The story southwark pour,
And every wave tell every slave
To be slave no more!
Go tell the brave Of every land,


Where e'er that flag has flown
The tyrant's fear, the patriots cheer,


Through every cline and zone
That now no more forever


Its stripes are Slavery's scars;
No tear drops stain its azure plain


Nor dim its golden stars!
No slave beneath that grand old flag.


Forever let it fly!
With lightning rolled in every fold,


And flashing victory
Gods blessing breathe around it,


And when all strife is done,
May freedoms light, that knows no night,
Make every star a sun
Year: 1864

need almost constantly Of some things
not provided or not immediately accessi-
be The1e is nothing that We feel more
deeply than our inability from our own
private purse to add nearly every day
some little deficiency to the daily bread
of some langushing soldier who turns
away in disgust from the common arti-
cles of diet, and yet whose life depends
upon his ability to take food. We have
at this time in hospital and very nearly
recovered, a brave young soldier with
one leg, whose life was saved probably
by a few grapes in their season. He had
obstinately refused one after another
everything that was tried to tempt his
appetite. procured a few grapes which
he loved and fed on for a day or two
when he commenced to have a desire for
other food, and was soon eating heartily.
From that time he improved rapidly.


Rest assured that your donation shall
be religiously applied to the purposes
lbi ~ was
the assurances of one who sees and
knows that every dollar will alleviate
and cheer more than one suffering SOL
der who has given his blood and may
give his life TO save his country wish
the young gentlemen of your University
could 90 through one of our large hos
pitfalls just now and see the long rows of
wounded, MANNED and mutilated soldiers


see their courage, fortitude and faith
in our holy cause-See how little they
seem to regard the greatness of their
sacrifice in having given an arm-a leg
"a whole life for their country. They
are brave fellows and worthy all we can
do for them in labor or money. Accept,
-- our hearty thanks, for your
self, your associates and your students,
for your timely and noble gift, and be-
lieve me, respectfully and very truly,


Your friend, 7. r. c.
Year: 1864

The Two MARCHEs.-Those who have
been following Gen. Grant with their
disparaging criticism should be remind
ed that their favorite declaration used


to be, that it was impossible to get to
the neighborhood of Richmond by the
direct route from the Rapidan. Gen.
Grant has disproved that, certainly
And now when the comparison of the
direct with the Peninsula route comes
up, it is sufficient to point to facts. In
1862, the army of the Potomac began to
embark for the Peninsula on the 18th of
March, aud it arrived before Yorktown


in the first week or April. 1t remained


there nearly month, and made its way


up to Mechanicsville, where our centre
now is, on the oath of May. Thus in
1862, 1t took very nearly ten weeks to
transfer the army from Northern Virgi-
mia to the vicinity of Richmond. while
this year it has taken not quite five
weeks. Or, if We throw out of account
the time spent in taking the army to the
Peninsula, then it took Gen. Mcclellan
three weeks longer to march his army
from Yorktown to the Chickahominy
than 1t did Gen. Grant to march his from
the Rapidan to the same point the
marching distance being about the same
in both cases. 1t can hardly be said that
gree ter reb resistance was made to the
fo' mer, W dch would seem to show that
either the Peninsula route is less feasible
or else that less energy was laid out in
overcoming its obstacles. Boston Journal
Year: 1864

SULPHUR AND THE CArERrILLARs.-A
correspondent of the New York Herald
suggests that persons owning shade
trees that are infested with worms will
at once bore hole in the trunk of each
tree, extending TO the centre or heart of
the tree, and then A. the hole up with
pulverized sulphur and plug it up tight.
In short time the sulphur will spread
through all the branches, and the worms
will soon disappear.
Year: 1864

sS- The Constitution provides that
the presidential electors ''shall meet in
their respective states and vote by bal
lot for president and vice. president, one
of whom at least shall not be an inhab-
liant Of the same state with themselves" I"
This makes it impossible for the New
York electors to give the vote of that
state to Fremont and Cochrane, as both
are citizens Of that state. But the diff
Guilty is not likely to become practical
one
Year: 1864

A CURIOUS CrRcUMsTANcE.-Las week
Monday afternoon a derrick at the mar
BILE works in South Dorset, was struck
by lightning, which ran down the guys
of the same, and thence into the ground.
The curious part of the circumstance
consists in the fact that two men, at
work at the windlass of the derrick,
were unable for short space Of time to
let go Of the iron handles, so completely
were they charged with electricity
What is more curious still neither of the
men were at all injured. We do not re-
member ever having heard Of similar
instance.--Be Bennington Banner.
Year: 1864

iS~ A Washington dispatch says a
meeting will soon be called by the Cop
perhead members of Congress, to discuss
the propriety of change Of time, and
probably of the place, fixed for the meet
ing of the so-ealled National Democratic
Convention.
Year: 1864

Ra~French papers announce that
a convict was lately tracked into the
service of young married couPlc
where he was officiating as very
pretty lady's maid, and had been doing
all the duties Of his role for three
months. The horror of the young
married lady, and still more of the
husband, may be imagined when the
police said, "That young woman is
the man we want"
Year: 1864

February p, 1864.


To the People cf arkansas


II affords the General commanding
the highest qualification 10 be able To
say that by the conduct Of the army
under his command, with the wise ad-
ministrstion OF the government, by its
officers at Washington, peace has been
SO far restored IN your midst e. TO en-
able YOU to institute PROCEEDINGS for
the restoration of the civil government
oy which order may be firmly establish
ed and the rights Of persons and pro
perty secured against violence and the
danger of anarchy. The convention OF
your citizens held at Little Rock during
the last month has adopted a cOnstitu-
ton and submitted It 10 YOU for your
approval or rejection That constitu-
ton Is based on the principles of free
dom, and it IS for You now to say by
your voluntary and unbiased action
whether it shall be your fundamental
law.


While it may have defects, in the
main it IS in accordance with the views
Of that portion of the people who have
been resisting the fratricidal attempts
which have been made during the last
three years. (The Convention has fixed
the l4th day of March next. on which
to decide this great question. and the
General commanding is only following
the instructions Of Government when
he says to you that every facility viii
be offered for the expression Of your
sentiments, uninfuenced by any con-
sideration, aside from those which af-
feet your own interests and those Of
your posterity.j If you viii institute a
Government of your own, he feels great
confidence in assuring you that quiet
and security will soon be restored to
your entire State. Those who have been
unwisely led by the counsel of bad
men, to engage in this unjust and wick
ed rebellion, win speedily return and
acknowledge the rightful sovereignty of
the State, as well as the supremacy of
the National Government over the
whole dominion, and peace will prevail
throughout the land The elections
viii be held and the returns be made in
accordance with the schedule adopted
by the Convention, and no interference
from any quarter will be allowed 70 pre-
vent the free expressions of the loyal
men of the State on that day The
schedule Will be hereto appended to
render the election valid There must
be cast five thousand four hundred and
six j,406) votes.


FIRED. STEELE,


MaiOr( General Commanding
Year: 1864

Some of the Copperhead editors charge
Union men who are in favor of the Specific
Contract Law with taking stand agains, the
interests of the Government And yet these
same Copperheads admit their own disloyaI;y
and seem to court appreciation for being so
accommodatingly mean as to advocate on all
occasions whatever proves injurious TO the
country.
Year: 1864

and have our rights more respected in
one government While in one, govern
eminent we can have a fugitive slave
law, which will be respected and obey
ed in most cases, as it used to be. And
even if In some cases the law should be
violated yet it would be better than no
law, and We should have none if two
Year: 1864

the slavery question, and declined to ans
wer General Lees argument but he as
sured him that though he would regret
the necessity, whenever he was informed
Of our prisoners being treated unkindly,
be would infict like treatment upon en-
equal number of rebel prisoners.
Year: 1864

youth and maturity arising from the baneful habits
Of self abrse. To which is added observations on
Female Diseases, and other Interesting matter ofthe ut
Importance the married and those contemplating
marriage, doubts of their physical ability TO
enter that state Sent any address in sealed wrap
per, receipt often cents four


We devote entire time and attention to the treat
men fhe various private diseases treated Of in pr
report Our Dspensary Is the only Institution ofthe
kind in America which has been taDlished by special
charter ans this fact should give il preference the
various quacks Of doubtful character be foun in al