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Year: 1865

For the Gallipolis Journal
IN MEMORY OF MY BROTHER
Dear brother rest; thy warfare Ger,
Thy work was Dobly done,
Thy country called, you quick obeyed,
Thus proved a worthy Son.
But oh we grieved, when thou didst 60
For thou vert young and fair,
In boyhoods gay and brightest hour,
The soldiers lot to bear.
In fancies sad, get sweet we hear.
Thy footsteps on the star,
And press again those loving lips,
AndemoOth the curling hair.
We clasp the soft white hand again,
And listen to the voice,
Whose tender tones can never more
Make loving hearts rejoice.
With tender touch, we lift the tress
OF brightest auburn hair,
And kiss with reverence the same
Clipped from the brow SO fair.
Our hearts grow sad our tears will fall,
For our dear brothers dead,
And kindred hands could never soothe
Or hold the dropping head.
The stranger kind, who gently clipped
That curl Of brightest brown,
With those same gentle Milling hands,
Helped lay our darling down.
And there he rests far, far from home,
Beneath the strangers sod, .....f
But well we know his soul will rest
In Heaven aboye-withG God.
Then brother sleep, thy troubles o'er,
Within thy narrow Ded,
And let the flowers Of Southern soil,
Bloom sweetly o'er our dead.
There, no rude sound of war can wake
The dreamless slumberer more,
Until the trump of God shall call,
The dead from every shore.
Yes brother sleep, we'll weep no more,
For thee so true and brave,
Though we may never, never see,
Where traitors made thy grave.
Then once again will say farewell,
And doubt not that the star
OF brightest faith beame1 over you,
And showed you Heaven afar--
Oh that we all may sooner find


That faith which bore you up
And caused your youthful boyish heart
To drain lifes bitter cup.
Year: 1865

A very just distinction is being
drawn between the authors of the re-
bellien and the people they drove
and cheated into its support. Since
the recent repeated evidences of the
barbarities heaped upon our priso-
ners by the traitor chiefs, and the
admission by a committee of the
rebel Congress that Libby prison
had been undermined and wonld
have been blown to atoms, with the
thousands of Union soldiers con-
fined in il, had these latter attempted
to escape, there is concerted pub
lie opinion against making any terms
with the bad nen-whother IN mill
tary or civil life-who have kept the
rebel1iou alive, and have forced the
Southern masses to contribute to il
their lives and their property. But
there is a sentiment no less decided
in favor of forgiving these same
masses; upon his sentiment we base
the earnest hope that whatever terms
are proposed by Mr.. Lincoln will
lead to a permanent and substantial
adjustment. 1t is little amusing to
notice how politicians assail each
other personally because of differing
views on the conditions to be pre-
sented to the victims and compelled
participants in the attack. upon the
Federal Government. These gen
tlemen should recollect that in a time
of excitement like this we cannot ex-
pect all men to be of one opinion.
The wisest may err, and even the
weakest may succeed in recommend
ing the proper remedy for a crying
disease. No one really desires to
protract the war for the sake of fight
ing. And out of the attrition of va.
rious and conflicting ideas we NAV
be able to extract a solution of an
absorbing problem. The primary
eensiderations--are sincerity on the
part of those who think and write on
this great question; devotion tc
country; prudent reflection, and an
utter abnegation of party and of self
Hence it is that we read with much
satisfaction the remarks OF the Rev


Henry Ward Beenher, last Sunday tc
his congregation in Brooklyn, wher
he spoke in reference to the duty
assigned to him of pronouncing the
address at the raising of the nationa


ensign over the ruins of Fort Stump


ter, on the l4th inst, as follows:


cat other times, when the pros


pect of lifting the flag TO its fermel
place seemed almost visionary, h,
had spoken of such, an event witt
jubilation. But now, as the time in
reality drew near, his soul trembleC
within him at its solemn meaning
Many would go there imbued witt
this feeling of solumn jubilation il
this wonderful event in the history
of this people He should be sorr.
If any went there with any other feel
ing than that of Christian patriotism
| If Others went with feelings Of exul
tation over q fallen foe, for his par
! he went as q brother to appeal II
Year: 1865

was made in the interest or q system
inconsistent with free governme ent, IS
it is with manly honor and Christian
civilization An earlier and easier
victory would have blinded It's eyes,
and have delivered it once more to
the deadly political corruption OF
slavery, which would have made the
next shock of inevitable war even
more perilous than this has been.
Bull Run was bitter pang, but it was
a higher wisdom that caused us to


%Wait beneath the furnace blast


The pangs Of transformation


until the costly blood of its noblest
children washed the national blind
ness away. end every man saw the
reality ofthe terrible conflict between
humanity and brutality, civil order
and barbarism.


And now, with no hatred OF our
fellow-citizens with whom we have
fought, and whom we know were de-
luded by leaders who can never be
forgiven, without scorn or vitupera.
ton, but with deyout gratitude to
Almighty God for this crownfng
mercy, let us all, remembering the
young and brave by ~hom we have
been saved, the eyes that are din
and the hearts that are breaking
even in this hour of jubilee, resolve
that the peace they have secured fol
us shall be as broad as liberty and q.
eternal as justice.
Year: 1865

~ Northern Copperheads are
greatly elated by the fact that Gen,
Palmer has rescinded the order of
Gen. Burbridge, suppressing the cir
culation of the Cincinnati Enquirer.
They pat the General on the back,
and seem to think he is the man for
the times We think so too, and as
proof of it, present the following
from the Gin. Gazette which we com
mend to the Copperheads who pirate
so loudly of free speech and free
press, but not a word in favor OF
free negroes.


Major General Palmer addressed
by invitation large audience of the
colored people ofLouisville, on might
of the 29th. His remarks were
mainly in explanation of the rights
of colored soldiers and their families.
Both the men and their families were
free under act of Congress, and the
master was released from all obliga-
tion to provide for the families of q
soldier thus made free, and it there
fore devolved upon the soldier to
provide for his own family. He urged
it as the solemn duty of every colored
soldier to endeavor to provide for
his own family, and spoke of the .sa-
credness of family relations. The
colored men, he said, must become q
self-supporting race; must show they
are capable of taking care Of them
selves. There is vast amount OF
'ffssedJcdice ing against the col
ored peoplecHGw, but that would in
time cease to exist if they showed
themselves fit for freedom.
Year: 1865

Since the abrOgation of the passport sys-
tenn, the Great Western Railway from Do
troit TO Suspension Bridge, has been receiv-
ing more than it's usual amount of the
travel to oand from the East, and no wonder.
for there is certainly not road on the
American continent over which one travels
with more comfort and safety. The tenn
porary suspension of travel over this road,
resulting from the passport system, lasted
just long enough TO let the travelling public
feel the value of the road, and the removal
Of the passport restriction sent tho travel
that way again with a rush that showed
how great a favorite this road had become
with the masses. But well as this road has
now, for reasons: first, the Canadians are
proving themselves the friends of the Uni
led States and particularly have their ex-
pressions and demonstrations of sorrow
for the death of our beloved Chief Magis-
trate touched a responsive chord in every
loyal Americans bosom, and driven away
all that hatred and feeling of estrangement
which had necessarily grown up during
the progress of the war. Americans now



er look upon their roads rs belonging to a
foreign or hostile people.


The second reason why this road is liked
better than ever by the travelling public is
on account of the great improvements
which have been made the past winter in
everything pertaining to the road. Pas
sengers who have lately travelled over it,
tell us that in smoothEess Of track, ease
and magnifcence of it's coaches, luxuri-
BUSINESS of its sleeping apartments, polite
ness of it's conductors and other employ
ees, it cannot be excelled. Everything is
in the best possible condition. Long may
the Great Weste rn remain the ''model road
Of the continent.


But the first reason as given above has
contributed more than any other to re-
commend this road to the universal favor
Of our citizens, 1. 6. warm and openly ex-
pressed sympathy Of its officers and em-
ployees, from the highest to the lowest, with
| the loyal masses Of the North, and the
Union cause they have so nobly struggled
and suffered for. When the news Of the
Presidents assassination reached Canada,
the passenger cars and locomotives as well
as stations along the entire line were heav-


lily draped in mourning, and through all


the various fortunes of the war happily
and gloriously finished at last, the same
generous feeling hss ever been manifested


In this respect the Great Western has
f,rme striking contrast to the manage


ment of other roads on the Canada border,


the Grand Trunk, for instance,l which
Fhave manifested a spiteful hostility toward


us in our great tnationaltrouble, which will


not soon be forgiven nor forgotten
Year: 1865

ALBANY, Oct. 30.-A most atrocious murder
was committed at place known as Bradt S
tavern, on the Basin, on Saturday. The cap
tain of canal boat and the driver were assas-
sinated, as is supposed, by two men hired as
deck hands in New York. The captain was
robbed of between two and three hundred
dollars, and his body and that of the driver
thrown into the canal
Year: 1865

Group is an inflammation of the inner sur
face of the windpipe Inflammation implies
heat, and that heat must be subdued or the
patient will inevitably die. If prompt efforts
are made to cool the parts in case of an at
tack Of the Group, relief will be as prompt as
it is surprising and delightful. All know that
cold applied to a hot skin, cools it, but all do
not as well know and understand that hot
water applied to an inhamed skin will certainly
cool it off. Hence the application of iced
cold water with linen cloths, or almost hot
water with woolen flannel, or two folds large
enough to cover the whole throat and upper
part of the chest; put these in pail of water
as hot as the hand can bear, and keep it thus
hot by adding water from boiling tea-kettle
at hand.


Let two or three of the hannels be in hot
water all the time, and one on the throat all
the time, with a dry flannel covering the wet
one, so as to keep the heat in to some ex-
TENT the fannels should not be so wet when
put on as to dribble, for it is important to
keep the clothing as dry as possible, and keep
up the process until the phlegm is loose, the
child easier and begins to fall asleep; then
gently wrap a dry flannel over the wet one
which is on, so as to cover it up entirely, and
the child is saved. When it wakes up both
hannels will be dry. Hay Journal Of Health.
Year: 1865

letter to the St. Louis Republican, from Padu-
cab, KY, says:


. During the progress Of the eclipse had my atten-
ton attracted to some singular and interesting phe-
nomena connected with it which had never noticed
before though have doubt of their occurrence at
every solar eclipse, where the scenery and crcum-
stances are the same similar. Standing before our
mouse and nall door two large oak trees still COW
cred with their green foliage through entershceS or
openings of which the rays of the sun find admit
tance had my attention called to the singular ap-
pearaneeS presented where the rays of the sun tell on
the hall toor when found that each pencil or col
lection OF rays formed complete image oil the sun
as IN the eclipse. varying in size according 70 the
number of rays of the aperture, some OF them
being larger and some smaller. On stepping out of
DOORS and looking at the side of the house, where
the rays through tho foliage fell on it, observed the
same appearanccs And they continued TO represent
the sun in ali its phases during the eclipse,


II was doubtless the principle of the camera OBJ
scra as noticed that the images We're all inverted
But the mystery with me was that the rays forming
these images coming they did through interstices
among the foliage not round but of all shapes with
Jagged edges, should form perfect images and all
alike! Indeed, so perfect and plain were they that
being seated III the house, just before the formation
of the ring, carpenter at work under the trees and
noticing the appearance on the side of the house
called to me that the ring formed which, on go
ing out and viewing the sun, l found to be the
case" ~
Year: 1865

A CoMPRoMIsE-The consumers of milk in GER
tain quarter of Boston struck against the increase of


price, and strictly held on to their determination not
to take drop till the price was reduced. which was
done in twenty-four hours. When the consumers
came to taste the milk, they found there had also
the iron-taiied COW. If the price was not strong,
neither was the milk The sight of it gave chill to
ali the nenple subject to the ague.
Year: 1865

A SINGULAR CASE OF RESTITUTIoN-A few
weeks since an advertisement appeared in a
Boston paper, stating that if certain lady
would send her address to designated place
she would hear OF something 10 her advantage
An answer was received, and il seems that
twelve years ago the lady advertised for lost
her gold watch, chain, and locket. valued at
about $500, On the latter her name was en-
graved, and also that of her grandparents
The usual efforts were made to recover the
lost property by notices in the papers, inform
ing the chief of police, &C., but all proving
unsuccessful the search was given up, and she
came to the conclusion that she would never
see the articles named again. The watch,
chain, and locket, it is said by the party hold
ing them in possession, were found by a young
man, who wished to restore them to the owner,
but was persuaded by home influence to retain
them.


On the evening that the jewelry was lost the
lady afterward recollected meeting three men
on the sidewalk in one of our crowded
thoroughtares, and thought that one of them
had distracted her watch. Subsequently she
had but little doubt that the watch and iewelry
were stolen at that time.


Within few months the finder has died,
and his widow took the above course to find
the original owner, who has come forward,
and after the lapse of twelve years she has OBJ
tanned possession of her property, The incl
dent here shows not only the workings of con-
science but the benefits of advertising.
Year: 1865

The soldiers discovered that they were sold
out to the Copperheads at Montrose the other
day, but they did not then begin to realize
the extent of the swindle. One of them in
formed us yesterday of the afterclap, which
JOHNSTON, CLAGETr & Co. had set upon the
soldiers, which for downright perfdy and
sculduggery outgoes anything yet developed,
even by the Copperhead manipulators of Old
Lee.


Our soldier friend tells us that it was the
understanding all along before the Conven-
ton came off at Montrose, that BALIINGgR
was to be the candidate for the House of Rep
resentatives. But unexpectedly to outsiders,
and very few we're admitted in the ring, the
programme was changed that day and BAL
LINGER was nominated for the Senate


And now, our soldier friend says it has
come out sooner than these Copperhead wire
pullers intended, that this maneuyre concealed
a deep plot to sell OUT what little stock
the soldiers had in the concern And HEDGES
was nominated for Representative, with view
to swap places with BALLIxGER, when it





that he too young for Senator, but old
enough for Representative. And by this trade
the Copperheads would secure two Senators
for four years, in case the ticket should be
elected, and the soldiers would have only two
Representatives for one session in the Legis-
lature.


Our friend says they pulled the wool over
his eyes till the Convention came off, but
after this last trick he was done with the
humbug, and he thought there were not
dozen soldiers in the county that would stand
by the Copperhead ticket, after this last ras-
cally trick became public.


We give the story as it was told us but
whether BALLINGER will make the swap with
HEDGEs, or repudate the whole concern as
an honorable soldier should, hath not as yet
appeared.
Year: 1865

Fifty three years ago the following obituary
notice of President Jehnson's father Uann-
Star:


Died in this city on Saturday last, Jacob
Johnson, who had for many years occupied
an humble but useful station in society. He
was city constable, sexton, and porter to the
State Bank. In his last illness he was visited
by the principle inhabitants of the city, by
all OF whom he was esteemed for his honesty,
sobriety, industry and humane, friendly dis
position. Among all to whom he was known
and esteemed, none lament him more (except,
perhaps, his relatives) than the publisher OF
this paper. for he owes his life, on particu-
lar occasion, to the boldness and humanity of
johnson.


The North Corolina Standard thus explains
the concluding lines in the above obituary
notice:


'.Thomas Henderson was upset in canoe,
and was SO near being drowned that life was
nearly extinct when he was recovered. Jacob
johnson was on the bank, safe and secure.
But he saw his friend drowning before his
face. Thoughtless of life, he plunged in at
the hazard of his own life. He did finally
succeed in saving his friend, but both were
nearly exhausted when they reached the
shore. The statement in regard to Jacob
Johnson being esteemed for his honesty, So
briefly, industry and humane, friendly disposi
ton, is concurred in by the old inhabitants
now living in this city. The grateful and
generous tribute to his worth and goodness of
heart, is more to be valued and esteemed than
- storied urn or animated bust As such
President johnson may so regard it, and no
doubt he does. That peculiar trait, so marked
in the father-of devotion and attachment to
proved friend-the son seems to have inher-
tied in an eminent degree. Those who have
known him well, and known him long concur
in the statement that where his friendship
and confidence are once secure he allows no
whisperings of enmity, no reverses of fortune
to ALLEVIATE his feelings.
Year: 1865

fERsoNAL.-ln an agony of rage the other
day, on account of some offensive paragraph
in the Hank Eye. Claget, of the Keokuk
Constitution, asserted that the local editor of
this paper had recently been q cowhided bv a
returned soldierlf The particulars of this
awful event were not given. The place was
not specified. There was vague charge that
there was some cowhiding done, and there the
old fellow stopped. For infinite and magnif-
cent lying, Judge Claget, for four years last
past one of the chief fnglemen in all factions
ana cligues opposed 10 the Government and
the prosecution of the war, stands probably
ahead of any other man on this continent.
Munchausen lied we'll the same may be said
of the author of Gulliyer's Travels the same
of the person who got up those delightful in
ventions in the Arabian Nights Entertain
ments; but for tabrcations which become
sublime through their rascally impudence and
extravaganza commend us ever more to
Cleeett.


We are not conscious that we ever had
personal difficulty with soldier in our life.
Copperheads of tho Clagett variety have re-
peatedly, in other times, threatened us with
cowhiding, mutilation and torture, for some
of our utterances in the State Register. They
threatened the Register Office with destruc-
ton and pillage and its editors with assassin
alton; but, 10 the best OF our knowledge,
they never attempted to carry their threats
into execution. They were towards as well
as traitors. AS for the soldiers, they esteem
ed the Register as an advocate OF. the great
cause for which they were perilling their
lives. They therefore, respected its editorial
conductors.


The public in this locality don't expect any
body to notice the lying bllingsgate of con-
cern which the soldiers felt constrained to
clean out during the war, on account of its
Yenomoas and outspoken disloyalty. But rs
our friend of the Ha,ck- Eye takes the pains
10 contradict q vile personal assertion, we
cordially extend to him the courtesy of our
columns.
Year: 1865

Gen. wRIeHr's disgraceful defeat in the
Valley Of the Shenandoah, from which the
peerless SHERIDAN snatched the laurels Of his
most brilliant victory. is accounted for by
disti nguishcd officers who were in both bat
ties in way that will startle the country
when all the facts come to be known. If our
information is correct, and we have the au.
thority to use names IL we desire SO to do,
the public will concur with us in the opinion
that an outrage has been committed in per-
mitting a certain General to disgrace for so
long time the Federal uniform by being
allowed to wear 1t. The defeat of WRIeHr
will be the subject Of official Investigation.


But for the timely appearance on the field
of the dauntless SHERIDAN, who rallied the
retroating and broken columns Of the Union
army, and hurled it precepitatoly against
JUBTLANr EARLY's rebel horde, killing and
wounding and routing it in utter confusion,
GRANTS whole programme would have been
changed for the want of the very service
rendered in the crushing aud destroying of
EARLY, and consequently the war would
probably have been prolonged for months.
Year: 1865

Gen. o. o. HOWARD this morning received
communication from a planter in Tennes-
see in regard to an experiment he is trying
as to the relative value of freedmen's and
white labor. He states that on plantation
in that State he has employed about 400
freedmen, and he writes under the impression
that he could have obtained /, 200 freedmen
on the same terms-that Of giving them q
certain percentage on the cotton crop and q
small plat of land to cultivate for their indi =
vidual use. When Gen. HOWARD was in
Tennessee this gentleman had lengthy inter.
views with him, and in his last letter says he
will advise the General as to the results from
time to time.
Year: 1865

AMAN in Springfield decapitatod turtle
and left the head In the yard. Hearing a
lively squealing shortly after, hs Investigated
and found that rat, which essaysd TO gratify
his taste for turtle, had been seized by tho
head It sought to devouT and actually killed
Year: 1865

The following startling threat was
made use of the other day by an excited
pugtst:


'I'll twist you round your own neck,
and ram you down your own throat, until
there is nothing left of You but the ex.
treme ends Of your shid-collar sticking
out OF your eyes"


His opponent lett.
Year: 1865

WE have been visited, for several days past,
with warm rain. Up to the present time,
the season for farming and mining has been
more favorable than for many years past.
After plentiful harvest is secured. Butte Co.
will again come up to her usual standard, and
be more prosperous than she has been for a
number of years
Year: 1865

COMPANY A, Butte Rangers. have taken q
considerable number OF our old standby pat
rous of the UNION RECORD. But as they have
enlisted in good cause, We cheerfully submit
to the withdrawal Of their patronage. and wish
them God speed in :heir patriotic choice. Can
not some of our Union friends send Us new sub
scribers to keep up our list.
Year: 1865

We have received the April number of
Cooley, and fully concur in the subjoincd
statement of a cotemPorary "No matter
how accomplished a lady may be by birth
or education. the Lady's Book contains
Some useful information or other that W i'll
add to her grace aud KNOWLEDGE -