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Year: 1862

whether national bank should exist or not,


whether this or that set of views in refer
ence to tariff should prevail, etc. Widely
different from this are the issues to be made
up in the pending political conflict. Our
country, is struggling in a rebellion as gi-
gantlc i'll its proportions as the world ever
witnc sed, and your vote is to be thrown
In favor OF the government ofyour country,
or given to the support of this rebellion.
There is no middle ground for you to stand
on Your govcrnmet, in this hour of its
fearful struggle, addresses you in the Ian
guage Of that Divine Redeemer who spake
as man naver yet hath spoken, 4" He that is
not for me is against me, and he that gath
ereth not with me scattereth abroad" Open
the eyes of your mind look the issue fairly
and fully in the face, and then vote for what
you are really in favor of, without regard to
the dictates Of party. Throw off the shack
les that bind you, and that vote, l doubt
not, will be given as the best interests of
your country require


Are you i'll favor of this Southern rebel
lion! do you really wish it success do you
desire that this country shall be rent in
twain, and republican government become
the just subject of taunt and reproach by
the monarchics of Europe, rs they point to
its failure here, and make that failure the
means Of binding faster the links that hold
their iettered slaves in abjcct submission
making the failure of our republic support
the divine right Of kings and mobiles to gov
ern, and crushing out the last hope of a cap
tive-strnggling world for liberty! If you
are III favor of this, and understand the true
ISSUE in this contest, you will vote the Dem
ocratic ticket at the coming election but if,
on the other hand, you feel that this rebel
ion was causeless and wicked in its incep-
you desire that your country shall
remain unbrOken, and be again a refuge
tor the downtrodden and oppressed of all |
nations--R you desire the name of Ameri- !
3an citizens to be honored and respected in |
the remotest part of the world-if you de-
'ire the oppressed Of all nations to turn with
hope to our country as ''the land of the free
and homo of the brave" you will vote for
The Union party Of the State of Delaware,
and show by that vote that you have no
with rebellion and diSunion show
by that vote that you rely on the good sense !
and justice Of the people of the United
States, on their willingness praocaBly to re-
lress all grievances show that you are in
Iced true DcnocrR, and that the majority
of votes must rule in this country; that the
minority must submit to that rule; that all
grievances must be redrcssed by appeals to
he good common sense of the people, and
not by the arbitration Of the'sworl


PArpIoT
Year: 1862

This is good ticket-the men well qualified
tor their respective positions and should receive the
vote of every Union man in Duck Creek Hundred.
Come out Union men next Tuesday, and cast your
vote for the above ticket. Let every Union man
come, and help "put the above ticket through"
Duck Greek Hundred has too long been laying
under the serious charge of being secesh," much
10 her detrimcnt from home. Come out next Tues
day and help redeem her from the odum that clings
o her.
Year: 1862

we commence this week a series of communica.
lions signed Patriot" which we commend TO
persons who really want to vote right but are unde.
clded as to tho right 1t is from an honest
man, directed to honest men.
Year: 1862

with six bullets in his body, was VIM.
Scott, of Co. X. His comrades caught
him up and as his life blood ebbed away,
he raised to heaven, amid the din of war,
and the cries of the dying, and the shouts
of the enemy, prayer for the President,
and as he died he remarked to his COM
rade that he had shown he was no coward
and not afraid to die. r.


He was inferred in the presence of his
regiment, in little grove about two miles
to the rear of the rebel fort, in the center
of group of holly and vines; few
cherry trees, in full bloom, are scattered
around the edge. In digging his grave a
skull and bones were found, and metal
buttons, showing that the identical spot
had been used in the Revolutionary war
for our fathers who fell in the same cause.
The chaplain narrated the circumstances
to the boys who stood around with un-
covered heads. He prayed for the Pres
ident, and paid the most glowing tribute
to his noble heart that we ever heard.
The tears started in their eyes as tie clods
of earth were thrown upon him in his
narrow grave, where he lay shrouded in
his coat and blanket.


The men separated in few minutes
all were engaged in something around the
camp, as though nothing had happened
unusual but the scene will live upon
their memories while life lasts; the calm
look of Scotts face, the seeming look Of
satisfaction he felt, still fingered; and
could the President have seen him he
would have felt that his act of mercy
had been wisely bestowed. But the can.
mons roar is to be heard toward York
town, and we must be off to the scene.
Year: 1862

they could reasonably hope to be FORUM
ate. They were fortunate, in my opinion,
through the good judgement of the COM
mittee appointed for that purpose, in the
selection of farm; its qualities, location
and everything considered. 1t certainly
proves to be profitable farm to carry on,
under the management of good hus-
bandman. For one at all accustomed to
farming pursuits, it is only necessary to
pass the farm at almost any season of the
year. to become satisfied not only that it
is very productive, but that it's manage
ment is not to be beaten. Where do we
find better fences, better crops, better cat
tie, sheep, and hogs, bigger wood-pile,
or it might be said, a better regulated
and provided household.


The location of the farm for the con-
venicnce of the towns interested could not
we'll be bettered; and for the pleasure, COM
fort and qualification of those resident
there, no more desirable situation could
have been found in the county. 1t is at
once removed from the noisy hubbub and
more selfish pursuits of considerable
masses of population in the village, and
the dreary loncsomeness of some place at
the end of back road. 1t is on one of
the most frequented thoroughfares in this
part of the State, and is noted by the
traveller as one of the most delightful res
licences along the road. There the resi-
dents may feel that it is their home, with
out being obliged to experience, with
each returning March, the tormcnting ap-
prehension that they may be called upon
soon to exchange very miserable board
ing place for much worse one. But /
commenced this article to say something
about the profit of few sheep kept on the
farm.


In March, 1860, the superintendent
bought thirteen eve sheep which have
since been kept or the farm. Without
going into details about the number Of
lambs and quantity of wool raised from





these sheep in each year, it is enough tc
state that sale of the sheep and lambs
now on the place, the lst of next Septem
ber, with the clip Of wool for the coming
season, at the prices of last year, (Which
probably can be more than realized) ad
ded to the the produce of lambs and WOO
already sold, would show profit to the
farm of over 100000. | am Informed
that those sheep have had only grass and
hay keeping, the expense of which is Of
course, not estimated.


Perhaps somebody has done or can dc
better, but it seems to me that this is
quits an uncommon profit for common
sheep. G. W.


Stowe, April 22d, 1862.
Year: 1862

HEAVY ARTELLERY.-As there are many whose
tastes naturally incline them to prefer this arm of
service to any other, we will state that they can
find chance to enlist on most advantageous
terms by reading the advertisement of Lieut.. W.
A. Shropshire, of the Pinkney Battalion.
Year: 1862

CoRINrH. No more fighting on that ground 1t
is dstasteful to the enemy, who is said to have
sought some other more congenial point, but two
or three boats being lett near the battle ground
and they are expected to make themselves scarce
between two days. [Memphis Avalanche.
Year: 1862

Balance applicable TO dividends Jan. 1863 032 52e


II is certain that unless some disposition has
been made Of the net earnings Of the company in
a direction wholly unexpected by the public,
there Is dividend on the preferred shares in Janu-
ary and large working capital besides. 1t has
been lately said n the street that the current year
has been an exceptional one, and not to be de-
pended upon in estimating the permanent value Of
the shares. Referring to the company's records,
We find that its earnings for the past nine years
were as follows
Year: 1862

If any one will take the trouble to read the
evidence taken by the special committee, he can
not fail to believe that the House of Representa-
tives was fully justified in the passage of the res
olution which it adopted, and we shall be sur
prised if that body takes quietly the censure i'm
piled by the Presidents message, or will change
their opinion because the President undertakes to
assume the responsibility. The truth is, that the
President is endangering the fair name he has
hitherto enjoyed by assuming the responsibility"
OF acts which were committed by others. 1t is
the acts the peoples representatives complain Of
it is the frauds committed, not the persons, and if
the President chooses to assume these acts,
done and committed without his knowledge or
consent at the time, simply because he selected
the officers, he will find that he has taken upon
himself burden which will bring his gray hairs
down with sorrow to the grave. We regret ex-
ceedingly the message as whole, but if there
were any OF the acts of Mr.. Cameron which be
thought he should help him bear the burden of,
it Is pity he had not so stated the case that the
public would not fall into the mistake that he,
the President of the United States, was the apol-
ogist of the frauds and corruptions and short
comngs of Simon Cameron. - Detroit Free
Press.
Year: 1862

closed his speech by expressing his earnest hope
that the people would see to it that their repre-
sentatives were true to the Constitution and
Union.


Mr.. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, Republican, fol-
lowed Mr. Voorhees,. Instead of meeting fnan-
cial facts to the present, he went back to the
past; adduced the operation of the thief FLOYD.
and Cobb and Thompson, and made a wretched
attempt 10 hold the Democratic party responsible
for their works; as though it were an an. wer to
the charge of plundering to-day to say that Floyd
plundered in 1860 Such miserable demOgoguism
must be condemned by every candid citizen 1t
is slander most foul to connect the Democrats
with traitors or treason The types of that glo
rious party may be seen in a Joseph Holt an An
drew Johnson, Shields, and in the hosts of rank
and file that make three quarters of the glorious
army of the Union. Let this Kelley go to these
patriots who are standing with their lives in their
hands, and talk of Floyd, Cobb and Thompson,
and see what reply he will get. This exhibition
of loyalty and devotion to country should blister
the tongue of the demagogue and slanderer of
the noble party which now stands on the ram
parts of the Constitution. Such a vile speech as
this ought to put Kelley out Of the pale of de-
cent society.


The people want no compromise with traitors,
and no apology for the public plunderers; but, at
such an hour as this, above all the days of our
national life, must desire the Jeersonian tests of
honesty, capacity and fidelity to the Constitution
Boston Post
Year: 1862

We are happy to announce this morning that
Rhode Island has taken still another step in con-
frmation of its conservative position and purpose
William Spregue. twice elected Governor against
the most determined opposition of the radicals of
the State, and once, by reason of the weakness of
bis enemies, without organized opposition. on
Wednesday elected to the Senate of the United
States for six years from the 4th of March next,
as successor of James +. Simmons, a radical Re
publican, by an overwhelming and almost unani-
nous vote.


Governor Sprague entered upon active polit-
cal life only three years ago. He came forward,
not to CRAFTY any ambition of his own--for again
and again he bad declined the honor which his
fellow citizens wished to confer upon him-but to
save his native State from the disgrace of rad
calism, and do what might be done, through its
influence in the national councils, to wrest our
glorious Union from the perils with which sec
tionasm, north and south, was surrounding it.
From that hour TO the present his course has been
honorable, consistent and straightforward. He
has not swerved to the right or to the left. He
has exhibited administrative abilities which few
in the country possess, and qualities of
mansbiD which admirably ft him far the position
to which he is elected. He is a man for the
times; thoroughly national on all questions; dem
ocratc in his sentiments and habits; earnest, out
spoken and uuAinchng in whatever work he is
engaged; true son of his State and true lover
of his country.


We rejoice most heartily in Gov. Sprague's
election the Senate, and predict that yet higher
honors await him in his career as a statesman
Providence Post.
Year: 1862

The distress of the abolition newspapers at the
exclusion of negroes from the army is alarming.
If negroes cannot be allowed to shoulder Il mus
ket, why not, say these abolition newspapers, let
them take the shovel and the axe and build for
tifcatiOns and make roads2 They would save
the soldiers from the labOrs and tolls of such
operations, and thus the argument runs, preserve
the health and save the lives of the soldiers. 1t
might be little aristocrati: for every soldier to
have negro to take care of him, but not very
practicable The idea suits the abOlitionists, as
way to keep their particular friend before the
public.


little common sense, however, as we'll as all
military testimony is fatty against their assump-
ton. The troubles in military movements are.
that camp life in large army affords so little
employment that the idleness, and habits in
stigated by that ideness, are the fruitful source
of disease and death. And not only this, but it
units men for the fatigues of the comparatively
few DAYS of marching and fighting, so that
those duties are far more oppressive and danger
Gus than they would be had every soldier rea-
sOnabe amount of labor to perform every
day. The army OF General Halleck for instance,
in the progress of its investment of Corinth al
though it built its roads and erected Notifications
at every step, could have only employ ed but
small portion of its men in these operations each
each day and to divide that labor would only give
a very few hours to each sol.ier, and, as whole,
not furnish a quarter Of the exercise necessary
to the health and vigor of the troops Idleness,
is the universal testimony, is the great mischief
maker in armies as well as in civil society


But these negro lovers want their pets rugged
out in the toggery of the soldier, and they are
hunting after arguments to realize that want, and
not looking after the good of the soldiers A
band of negroes in an army, time of battle,
would be as bad as the abolition members of
Congress and civilians were at Bull run, to say
nothing of the immortality of their contact with
white men in every day life


The wisest measure of any General in this war
is that of General Halleck in excluding the whole
tribe of black men from the lines of his army
CHICAGO Times
Year: 1862

The Northwest, in a commercial point of view,
does not desire the abolition of slavery in the
Southern States, whether they remain in the
Union or not, because they Of the South would
be compelled to abandon the culture of cotton
and raise grain in its stead, which would result
most dsastrously to the farmers of the West,
who would find market for their productions
since the South is one of her chief consumers.
In other words, abolish slavery, and the
great Empire of the West is ruined, because
the cotton planters would then cease to cultivate
that profitable commodity, and enter into
direct competition with the grain growers of
our Sc ton. What then2 Our produce will
then have to be transported by railroad, at double
the cost of steamboat conveyance, to the sea-
board markets, and will, in consequence of
turning loose the slaves, experience the same
stagnatiOn in our markets, not for year, but as
long as the two sections competed with each
other i'm the culture of the same article, that we
now do by the closing up of the Southern ports
along the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. We con-
tend that it is essentially necessary for the pros
perity and welfare of the American people, that
the United States be divided into free and slave
States, that one section may feed the other, and
rice UerSa, and cultivate what is most profitable
TO the tiler.-CiR. Enq
Year: 1862

1t is a source of wonder to some how the ex-
penses of the Government are so enormously
heavy. The following. which we take from the
Washington correspondent of the New York
Express, throws some light upon it:


The army subsistence stores are now subjected
to a heavy draft to feed the hordes of fugitive
slaves from adjacent counties in Maryland and
Virginia. They are daily, even almost hourly
arriving here. and if the drain continues in any
increased proportion, numerous evils will occur.
Maryland will be nearly depopulated of them
and Congress will have to make an increased ap-
preparation of army subsistence to keep the
wretches from actual starvation. Petitions are
already being circulated in Maryland for repeal
of the late obnoxious law, and it would be well
worth while to make slavery again an institution
here, although the newly created freemen may
not again become bondmen by its operations,
still by slavery again becoming an institution, il
will prevent the great exodus of negroes from
Maryland and Virginia here, and prove essenti-
ally beneficial to both States well as the Dis
trict ITSELF
Year: 1862

Ii so, what do you think of the followingI


ResOl1ed, That we recognize in the defeats and
disasters Of our forces in the beginning of the
conflict a DESERVED visitation of Gods wrath up
on us for our completely in the snof slavery


ReSOlred, Believing that while slavery lires no
permanent peace can eriSt, therefore we express
our highest qualification at the emancipation pol
icy indicated in the Presidents proposition to aid
the slave States in the adjustment Of slavery.
We thank God for the deliverance of the District
Of Columbia from the National curse and dis
grace of slavery. We would hail with pleasure "A
proclamation of universal liberty, and we trust
our President and Congress shall persevere in the
cause of emancipation till ''Iiberty shall be pro-
claimed throughout all the land to all the inhab-
itants thereof"


We extract the above resolutions from those
passed by the General Synod of the First Re
formed Presbyterian church, which met in this
place last week, the proceedings of which ap-
peared in the Clarion. A whereas and six reso
lutions were passed by that body, all OF which
are in character and keeping with the above. We
do not desire to comment further than to say that
we think it would have puzzled Wendell Phillips
or jeff. Davis TO have uttered more reasonable
sentiments in the same space than those resolu-
tons contain.
Year: 1862

words, every mans property will be virtually
mortgaged to the Government, or the creditors
of the Government, for one tenth of its entire
value. And that mortgage will take precedence
of every other mortgage, lien, or liability Or,
to state the proposition in another form, of every
farm of one hundred acres, ten acres will belong
to the Government, or to the creditors of the
Government. OF every hundred sheep or live
stock, ten will virtually belong to the Govern
ment OF every ten thousand dollars which the
man of industry, enterprise. and frugality has
"laid up" one thousand will be not his, but the
property of the Government or the Government
creditors. Every tenth dollar which the mechanic
or laborer earns will be surrepttiously distracted
from him in some or many of the modes which
the Government will adopt for tithing the whole
property and productive industry of the country.
1t must be confessed that this is not very fiat
tering picture of our countrys future; but who
can say it is not true one?
Year: 1862

1t is time that something was done to prevent
the daily swindles perpetrated by agents in this
city of mere banks of circulation upon the unsus-
picious public The latest of these are Beverly
Bank; Beverly. n. j., and the Northwestern
Bank, Warren, Pa The market here has been
flooded by these shinplasters, and now that all
are met which can be placed, the agents stop
redeemng them, and they can not be sold for
over twenty five cents on the dollar The pub
Usher of Bank Note List, who has been famous
for cautioning the public on this subject, was
showing the Beverly only few days since in
every direction possible. We think that he owes
the public some explanation of his conpcction
with the institution and unless he comes forward
for that purpose shall make louder call with
in few days. Will any Of our readers furnish
us with any evidence in regard TO the agency OF
the Warren concern?-N. Y. Jour. ef Com.
Year: 1862

The Pttsburg correspondent of the Chicago
Times makes the following predictions in regard
to the ultimate intention of BEAUREGARD's army:


temporary stand will be made on the Mobile
and Ohio road until the main body can complete
the fortfcation of Columbus. AT this point they
have concentrated and are still gathering all the
supplies to be found in the cotton States Ii will
be the last ditch. If attacked soon, they will
fight until their provisions are exhausted; if not
attacked they can remain in position at most but
few weeks. In either event they will break up
into guerrilla bands, and prolong the war after
the manner of their more southern neighbors,
the Mexicans.
Year: 1862

Wequote the following from the report of the
Congressional Investigating Committee:


In one important division Of the army (the
westerly the law has been almost totally disre-
garded, and even the safeguard Of the response
bility of public officers has been unnecessarily
removed by the employment Of irresponsible
agents in the purchase of large quantities of sup
plies, even where responsible and experienced
and upright public officers were in position TO
perform the required duty.
Year: 1862

This celebrated Female Medicine,
possessing virtues unknown of any
thing else of the kind, and proving
effectual after all others have failed,
Is designed for both MARRIED AND
SINGLE LADIES, and is the very best
thing known for the purpose, as it
win bring on the MONTHLY SICKNESS
in cases of obstruction, after all other
remedies of tho kind have been tried
in vain.


g-0ver 1000 BOTTLES have
now been sold withoaf a single fail
ure when taken as directed, and with
out the least injury to health in aay
case


1T is put up in bottles of three diff
ferent strengths with full directions