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Year: 1864




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Some further changes made to-day In the dspo.
stion Of the troops Of this corps Aside from this
ryhng remained the during the past three days
Brisk firing took place intervals behind the coun
ter breastworks and occasional cannonading.


WELL.


How long this state Of things will continue
say, venture conjecture but everybody believes that
everything u working WE'LL There complaint at tho
seeming slow progress made Every officer and soldier
appreciates the difficulties besettng their path and know
that tme patience and good deal OF persistent hard
fighting requisite to these obstacles II
win be surprise to any here VIC should remain
month longer far from Richmond now II Is
here fighting the battles Of Richmond. and the
enemy conquered and routed here tho rebel capital
fall into haads.


OUR LINE.


About hour ago the enemy attacked our hne and
portion Of the Ninth corps right was a very
determined attack but met with speedy and decisive
repulse. Our losses reported light Our muskstry
only drove back the enemy but the loud or
PARROT guns in addition to awakening their fearful
echoes all about us awakened the people OF Petersburg
alone from their sumbers but also painful
OF our presence.
Year: 1864

A PmILosprHIC and Self-posscssed ship
captain was passing through church-yard
at midnight, when shectcd ghost rose up
behind tombstone, and approached him
with menacing gestures. The ancient mar
iner coolly raised his stick and gave him a
crack over the head, asking him what he
meant by being out Of his grave at so late an
hour :"
Year: 1864

AT no moment of difficulty does a husband,
knowing his utter helplessness, draw so close
to his wife's side for comfort and assistance
as when he wants button sewed on his shirt
collar.
Year: 1864

CAN IMMtGRANTs VorE IN OREGON This ques-
ton is eliciting much argument among our Ore gon
neighbors. We know that under the old Territorial
consttution-which required six months resi-


dence the same as the present State constitution
immigrants were allowed to vote the same fall Of
their arrival in the Territory; it then being decided
that their residence dated from the time they left the
States. This question has been decided in this way
time and again in other States and Territories. Our
opinion, which is called for by number of cores
pondents is that all immigrants from States now in
Oregon Or who may arrive there before the Presiden-
tal election who left the States prior to the 8h day
of May, should be allowed to vote for President
Year: 1864

MORALE OF THE CoURT.-We regret being unable
to chronicle any Improvement in the morals of our
legal fraternity" this week. On Wednesday morn
ing quite scene occurred in the Court room. One
attorney was fined $40 for calling another a id
liar, in open Court Some papers were missing from
the Clerks desk, when the first climb" accused the
other of abstracting them and was met by the above
elegant response The papers were subsequently
found on the Clerks desk.
Year: 1864

These men were farmers, who had gone
from theirhomes to the war unsophisticated,
but OF good moral habits and were returning
on furlough. Their contact with the world
had developed them and left them uncontami-
mated. They were respectful and intelligent.
They were going back TO the war and when
they got through intended to return to the
Aroostook, which was far preferable country
TO them than the South.
Year: 1864

/ In discussing the propitious signs of the
day, says the South Caroliinian, it must


never be forgotten that the disposition for
peace which begins to be apparent at the
North, proceeds entirely from the fact that
the great campaign of 1854, which was to
have finished the rebellion, has so far been
a complete failure. There is not single


Yankee of them all>who is desirous Of put:
ting an end to the war because hsis really
persuaded of the justice Of our cause, or
sincerely willing tostknowledge the inde.
.pendence of the confederate States. No !;
the advocates of peace in the United States
are persons who would EladlJ sabjassass the
South if they could-who would pocket its
spoils without a single qualm Of conscience; !;


but having been beaten into conviction
that, in spite of their twenty millions of
population-they are not strong enough to
do these things, they make virtue Of their
disappointment, and preach peace withsthe
enthusiasm of the peace society'itself. 1t
has taken us three years Of hard fighting to
bring them to this conclusion, and even; now
that conclusion is not so firmly fixed in their
minds but that it may be upset by one or
two material successes upon their part
The capture of Richmond, the evacuation
or fall of Atlanta, would convert them upon


the spot into rabid partisans Of the bloody
policy Of Lincoln; and thereupon would go


up such universal shriek. for war from one


end of the North to the other, that the
sound thereof would be like those outcries
of rage and woe, which in, one vast hubuh,


arose out of certain gulf in Dante's Wis
ionary hell. This fact with regard to.the


utter untrustworthiness of.the Federal peace


party, ought not to dishearten US. On the
contrary, it ought rather to encourage, BY


theSproof which it affordssof the argumen-
ltatiye force which lies in Confederate steel.
what We have to do is To- continue, plying
our enemies with the same metallic logic
which has hitherto proven, SO potent, until
the whole Yankee nation shall be compelled


to admit, without the ;ahadaM q. a qaalif.
Year: 1864

But few men die of age Almost all
die of disappointment, passional, men


tal or bodily toll, or accident. The
passions kill men sometimes even sud-
denly. The common expression, chok-
ed with passion, has little exaggeration
in it; for even though not suddenly
fatal, strong passions shorten life.
Strong bodied men, often die young
weak men live longer than the strong,
for the strong use their strength, and the
weak have none to use The latter take
care of themselves ;sthe former do not.
AS it is with the body, so it is with the
mind end temper. The strong are apt
to break, or like the candle, run; the
weak burn out. The inferior animals
which live temperate lives, have gen.
orally their prescribed term of years.
The horse lives twenty-five years, the
OK fifteen or twenty the lion about
twenty; the hog ten or twelve; the
guinea pig six or seven. The numbers
of all bear proportion to the time the
animal takes to grow to it's full size.
But man, of all animals, is the one that
seldom comes ap to the average. He
ought to live hundred years, accord.
ing to this physiological law, for FIVE
times twenty are one hundaed ; but in
stead of that he scarcely reaches, on an
average, four times its growing period.
The reason is obvious-man is not only
the most irregular and the most intem-
perate, but the most laborous and hari-
worked of all animals. He is always the
most irritable of all animals; and there
is reason to believe, though we cannot
tell what an animal secretly feels, that,
more than any other animal, man
cherishes wrath to keep it warm and
consumes himself with the fire of his
own reflection. -
Year: 1864

A very old German author discourses
thus tenderly of Christ:


"My soul is like hungry and thirs-
ty child, and [ need his love and conso-
lations for my refreshment; [ am wan
dering and lost sheep, and l need him
as good and faithful shepherd; my
soul is like frightened dove, pursued
by hawk, aud l need his wounds for
refuge; | am feeble vine, and I need
his cross to lay hold of and wind myself
about it [ am sinner, and I need his
righteousness; [ am naked and bare
and need his holiness and innocence for
covering; [ am in trouble and alarm,
and I need his teaching; simple and
foolish, and | need the guidance of his
Holy Spirit.


In no situation, and at no time, can I
do without him. Do pray he must
prompt and intercede for me. Am I
arraigned by Satan at the Divine tri-
bunal? he must be my advocate. Am 1
in affliction? he must be my helper.
Am [ prosecuted by the world? he
must defend me. When l am forsaken,
he must be my support; when dying,
my life; when moldering in the grave
my resurrection. Well, then I will
rather part with all the world and all
that it contains, than with thee, my Sa-
vior; and God be thanked, | know that
thou too art not willing to do without me.
Thou art rich, and [ am poor; thou
hast righteousness, and | sin thou hast
oil and wine, and | wounds; thou hast
cordials and refreshments, and | hunger
and thirst. Use me, then my Savior,
for whatever purpose, and in whatever
way, thou mayest require. Here is my
poor heart, an empty vessel fill it with
thy grace. Here is my sinful and trou-
bled soul; quicken and refresh it with
thy love. Take my heart for thine
abode; my mouth to spread the glory
of thy name my love, and all my pow
ers, for the advancement of thy honor
and the service of thy believing people.
And never suffer the steadfastness and
confidence of my faith to abate, that SO
at all times [ may be enabled from the
heart to say, "Jesus needs me, and I
him, and SO we suit each other"
Year: 1864

TO the Editor offhe Press.


Under the head "Original and Selected" /
noticed, few days ago, in the Press, state
ment that a spirited discussion was going on
in England, with reference to alcoholic stimu-
lants in fevers, &c If such a discussion had
arisen in this country, where men often re-
ceive the title of Nj. ID. with but a very super
fetal knowledge of the sciences on which the
healing art is founded, / should not have been
surprised at it, but that the faculty in England
where every one is required to learn his trade
before being allowed to practice ii, should
have fallen into so unscientiflc practice as
to elicit such discussion surprises me beyond
measure.


The use OF alcohol in fevers is about as ra-
tional practice as il would be to endeavor 10
put out a fire by throwing pitch upon it, as
will attempt to show.


The living animal organism is In perpetu-
al state of decay and renovation. The waste
Is supplied in the food. while the product of
decay is consumed In the system, by combin-
ing with oxygen, and is eliminated by ex-
piration, perspiration, &c, as caIbonie acid
gas.


When, from inaction or imperfect action o
any OF the excretory organs an undue accu-
mutation of waste matter occurs in the sys-
TEN, nature makes an effort to remove it, and
this effort, or rather the excitement incident
to this effort, is what we call fever. fever
therefore is a manifestation Of the recupera-
tive energies OF nature.


This waste matter is carbon, and requires
oxygen to consume it. Alcohol is carbon. and
more readily combines with oxygen than does
this matter; the product of decay, which is
designed by nature to be consumed in the sys-
TEN, and sustain the animal heat.


The quantity oToxygen that can be taken
into the system is limited, and if there is more
carbon than can combine with that quantity,
the energies OF nature become exhausted, and
organic disease and death are the inevitable
results. Hence the lamentsble mortality
which follows in the wake OF those physicians
who have adopted the alcoholic practice, to
the exclusion OF all, or nearly all therapeutic
cal agents. MEDIcUs.
Year: 1864

RICHMOND, May 10, 1864.
To the Editor Of the Press;


You will notice in the Advertiser of May
14th, a communication from this town which
needs overhauling. So far as the business of
the place il concerned, the writer is very cor
rect, but other matters are altogether out of
Square And first, his popular Advertiser.
But perhaps the writer had reference to its
popularity in Richmond, Virginia, for l am
informed by the Post Master that there are
thirty weekly Advertisers sent to this Office,
about one-half of which are not taken from
the Office, bushel basket full at the end of
each quarter having to be tied up and laid on
the shelf. There are thirtysix copies of the
weekly Press distributed at the Office gen.
orally within two hours after the mail is OPEN
ed, so eager are our citizens for good loyal
paper. And, by the way, Mr. Editor, / think
your list of subscribers might be doubled here
If an Agent for the Press would drop down
among US, as you have never had an Agent
here.


Now as for our Public Houses. We have
the Fountain House." "quiet orderly" and
long-established house, kept by Harrison
Springer, Esq, who spreads before his patrons
all the lnxuries the market affords, but who Is
no friend TO that article so essential TO the
happiness of editors of many copperhead pa
pers, viz, Medford."


Inc proprietor oil the Rlchmond House,
recently indicted and fined for openly violating
the laws of our State, not liking the "style,"
closed the concern, and all well wishers to the
good of the community say amen"


Our selectmen in their efforts to stop up
the rum holes, were backed by very large
petition, embracing our best citizens, who are
determined hereafter that the criitern shall
take the defensive.


This same board of selectmen we have
elected Cor ynars, notwithstanding wr1rcr
in the Advertiser speaks OF the nete board
This year they were elected by an average
majority of fifteen. We have generally given
them a much larger majority, but 1t being a
foregone conclusion that they would be elect
ed, the aboltionists" were little backward
In coming out. But we will inform the
writer that we intend to elect just such men
town officers as will look to the welfare OF the
town in respect to rum drinking and gambling,
wine-bibbers and rum-sympathizers to the
contrary Notwithstanding. W.
Year: 1864

How often the sick in despair cry, Where shall
I find relief?" The cry may now be hushed. Its
answer can be found by reading the advertisement,
in another column, of the PRIVATE MEDICAL IN
sTIrurE ESTABLISHED BY DR.. j. C. YouNG as
early as 1850. Here, under the care of the most
scientific physicians of the world, the sick and
troubled can secure health and happiness. The
motto is, g No cure pay giving guarantee to
all that perfect faith will be kept. Do not forget
the number or manner of directing your letter. if
you do not visit personally CONSULTATION OFFICE
$40 WASHINGTON STREET, SAN FRAScIsco.
Year: 1864

If Life and Health are Valuable, why not
use the proper means to preserve them!
If the System is diseased, why run any risk
by using Pills composed of


Calomel or Mercury
Once Use DIR. Motifs Liver Pills and YOU


will Use No Other.
Year: 1864

The above may sound like a paradox
A prisoner recently captured belonging
to a North Carolina regiment, IN con-
versation with our men in camp, de-
clares his unconditional loyalty % the
Union. he says that he had to 60 into
the army or be hung, but protests, that
in every engagement he raised his gun
and fred over the Union troops. lie
vas Unionist by choice, but rebel
by cOmpulsion.
Year: 1864

The people of Richmond should vie with
each other in rendering honors and more
substantial tokens of admiration to the re-
turned eight hundred Confederate prisoners
now in our city. They have been enduring
untold horrors in Northern prisons, yet,
amidst them all, have resisted every effort to
make them acknowledge allegiance to the
United States, and preserved pure and with
out flaw the spotless chrystal of their in
tegrity and patriotism. Every man in this
city who has heart in his bosom will make
haste to welcome and provide for them
Our city has just been saved by the hand of
God from the most awful doom that ever
impended over community. Shall we not
express our gratitude not only by thanks
giving in our temples, but by those good
works of love, benefleence and mercy which
are so acceptable to Heaven, and which are
a just debt to these noble and glorious men.
Should Richmond at such moment fall to
do her duty to these returned prisoners, she
would prove herself lost to every sentiment
OF gratitude to God and man.
Year: 1864


one is entitled TO more honor than any
other one, it is, indeed, the man who first
threw up the pursuits and enioyments Of
peace, aud rushed, with his life in his
hand, to the rescue Of our imperillod
country, and who, for three long years,
has hravely stood in the furnace Of bloody
fire, fighting for home and country.
Such man IS entitled to all the honor a
grateful people can bestOw. He is entitl-
ed to more honor than any one who has
not done so much. He is entitled to more
honor than one who entered the field at a
later date.


But such a veteran should be willing
for honor to be given as honor IS due.
Those who entered the field t,so years ago
are entitled to honor, THOSE Who enter
cd the fed one year ago are entitled to
honor. Tho,e who entered the fill two
months ago, as National Guards, are Gu
titled to honor.


Every one, without reference to the time
of his service, is entitled TO honor, in
greater or less degree as he has for lon
ger or shorter period of time battled for
his country on the field Of honor and glo-
~.


Honor to all Honor to. every one who
is fighting to-day to uphold the banner Of
his country, and subdue her foes. If the
country is saved, there will be honor
enough for ALL The veteran will come
in for his great share, and the hundred
day man for his portiOa. To have been
a soldier in this war, viii be free pass
to the good win of sll in years to come,
There vail be honor enough for all.


But at any rate, our correspondents
win Obligo US by dropping the subject now.
Let the utmost good feeling prevail
amongst those who fight under the same
banner, for the same object-the rescue
and preservation of our common coup-
try,
Year: 1864

A friend Of ours, in the 74th, had
the kindness, few days ago, to send
US lot of clippings from the Cbatta-
nOOga Daily Gazette, a live little
Union paper. Here is a dispatch
which it had just received from a
Union soldier at the front:


eve are having a big fight, and
driving the CRITTERS like fun. They
dispute every inch Of ground. Are
now within one and one half miles Of
Marietta, the rebs holding Kenesaw
Mountain. They have evacuated
some of the best works I ever saw
within the last three days. They
think Sherman is II on Aanking."
Year: 1864

BANNER Of promise, by freemen unfurled!
Beacon of hope to a waiting world!


Shining above is the starry thFang,


A rift in the murky clouds of wrong
Clouds that shall roll from their beams of light
Year: 1864




LITTLE THINas.-How many beautiful
action are daily overlooked by US, because
they are SO little and so common Take;
for instance, the mother who has had bro
ken slumber, if any at all, with the nur-
sing babe, whose wants m ust not be disre-
garded; she would fain sleep while. when
the breakfast hour comes, but patiently and
uncom plainiDgv she takes her timely seat at
the table, Though exhausted and weary;
she serves all with the refreshing cup of cof-
fee or tea, before she sips it herself; and Of
ten the cup is handed back to her to be re-.
filled before she has had time to taste her
own. Do you hear her complain, this weary
mother, that her breakfast is cold before she
has time to eat it2 And this not for one
but every morning perhaps through the
wear. Do you call this small thing? Try
it and see Oh, how does woman shams
us by her forbearence and fortitude In what
are wrongfully called little things. All
it is these little things which are the tests
of character; it is by these 'little' self-deni-
ais, born with such self-forgetting gentle-
ness, that the hum blest home is m ade beau
tiful to the eyes of angels. though we fail to
see it alas till the chair is vacant, and the
hand which kept in orderly motion all this
domestic machinery is powerless and cold.
Year: 1864

A HAPPY WOMAN What spectacle more
pleasing does the world afforl then happy
woman contented in her sphere. ready at ali
times to benefit her little world by her ex-
ertions and u, nsforifiing briars and thorns
OF life iuto roses of Paradise By the magic
Of her touch? There are those who are
thus happy because they cannot help it
no misfortunes dam pen their sweet smiles,
aud they diffuse a cheerful glow around
them as they pursue the even tenor of their
wav. They have the secret of cohtenrment,
whose value is above the philosophers
stone; fer without seeking the baser ex-
change of gold, which may buy some sort
Of pleasure, they convert everything they
touch into Joy. What heir condition is it
makes 10 difference. They NAV he rich or
poor. high or low, admired or foTsaken by
The fckle world; but the sparkling four tain
OF happiness bubbles up in tneir hearts and
makes them radiaptly beautiful. Though
they live in a log cabin, they make it shine
with lustre which Kings and Queens may
covet, and they make wealth a fountain OF
blessings to the children OF poverty. Happy
women are the highest type of humanity,
and we cannot say bow much we owe to
them for the progress of the race. Would
there were enough to go around!
Year: 1864




How many times has the back bone of
the rebellion been broken? How many
tim es has the South been starved out? How
many times has the rebellion been on the
point of giving up from exhaustion? o, so
many timesl Almost as many as months
have elapsed since we began the business of
subjugaling. And yet we are still every
where confronted with armies which we
dare not march upon-wth armies which ,
to tell the truth, we are awfully afraid will
march upon us. Then the rebellion seems
to be like that Titan who, every time he
was thrown to the earth, regaiOed a new
strength We have found it so; and We
shall iud it so even to the end. Eight mil
lions of people whom you compel to fight
for their alters and their homes--for their
property and their lives, are 1itans-they
are never exhausted; never give up. The
end will be that we shall give out. and give
mp irst; just as England, after having vain
ly hurled the might of the most powerful
nation on earth against the Titanic will of
these feeble and despised colonies. gave up
in shame and despair at last. Wear fool
ishly acting that piece of history over again,
with the exception that we, in the North.
play the part of England this time. And
England laughs at our folly, Tor she well
KNOWS the road we are travelling
Guard.
Year: 1864

WENDELL PHILLIPs made speech in
4 New York last week. at a convention Of


Abolitionists and Free lovers. in which he


took grounds for speedy peace, for ending
the war immediately. because to continue il


he asserted. would bring ruin and an end oil


white mems liberties. He asserted there
was no other such despotism than we now
have here this side the wall of China. He
endorsed the peace platform, deprecated
the war, seeing in it the seeds of debt, mill
tary despotism, and ruin. He asserted that
the great question between the North and
South could never be settled by war or bat
ties, but by statesmen. and intim ated that
we have not now in Office men competent
for that task. and hence be goes in for turn
ing them all out and putting in power men
of honest integrity and ability who can and
will settle our ma tonal troubles


Old Abe won't like that sort of talk.
coming as it does from one of his petted
friends. Indeeu, Phillips seems to be
coming walked up to a true sense of our
ruined condition, and is becoming alarm ed
de even admitted this nation had greater
and higher interests than mere abolition of
slavery. Well done. Phillips! Would th at |
the people universally could only realize |
this fact. If they would, and act upon the
principle, the present miscesen party would
soon be hurled from power.