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Year: 1863

A gentleman up from the army to-day says it
was understood at Falmouth that Lee attacked
Hooker near ChancGIloryllle just after mid.
night this morning.


lftruc, 1t was nothing more nor less than a
military death struggle which it was necessary
for Lee to make in order to hold his men in
trim and 10 keep them ignorant of the fact that
they are surrounded aud must surrender if they
cannot cUi their way out.


Lee knows that a night attack is most likely
10 produce stampede, but he must play that
Lame on somebody else besides Gen. Hooker.
Year: 1863




For the greater protection of trans
ports from danger of loss by fire, it is
ordered: First, That every steamboat
navigating the waters of this Department
| Except ferry boats, and boats lying up
for repairs) shall, at all times, keep
watch of at least four men on every boat
of not exceeding 400 tons measurement,
and six on all boats of greater tonnage,
two of whom in the first, and three in
the latter class, shall be at all times on
! duty, one on the boiler, one on the main,
and the third on the hurricane deck, and
continually passing over their respective
decks until relieved, and oil boats lying
up for repairs shall keep like watch of
be carefully aelecied and registered as
such on the portage book.


Second That every steamboat shall nj
all timea, except when actually storing
freight In, or diseharging from the hold,
or In other cases of actual necessity,
keep tho hatch and souttle securely
closed and locked, tho key to be kept by
the captain or first mate, who shall be
held responsible for the samc, aud with
cut whose permission 40 person shall be
allowed 10 20 into the hold, and who
shall also at all times when the hold is
open place an extra watch therein.


Third That every boat shall keep at
least one barrel of water on each fore
and each after guard, and four barrels
on the hurricane deck. Also two dozen
buckets for boats Of the first class, and
four dozen buckets for boats of the sec.
ond class, and shall also keep its hose
constantly attached to its pump and
ready for instant service.


Fourth. Nocandle or open lights shall
be allowed in the hold or state.rooms OF
any boats.


Fifth. That from and after the issuing
of this order no skiffs or small row boats
shall be permitted to ply in this harbor,
but every boat, except those belonging to
steamboats,, shall be taken to such place
as the Provost Marshal shall direct, and
there be kept under guard until further
orders, and that the small boats of all
steamers shall be kept on deck or prop
erly drawn out of water.


Sixth. That the officers of steamboats,
shall, according to their proper authority
be held strictly accountable for the en-
iorcement of this order on their seyera
boats, and for extraordinary care and
watchfulness.


Seventh. The Provost Marshal Gener
al is charged with the general execution
OF this order, and will detail if necessary
such men as secret police, to accompany
Year: 1863

BEFORE THE RAIN.
We knew it would rain, for all the mern
spirit on slender ropes of mist
Was lowering its golden buckets down
Into the vapory amethyst
Of marshes, and swamps, and dismal lens
Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers,
Dipping the Jewels out of the sea,
T. sprinkle them over the land in showers.
We knew it would rain for the poplars showed
The white of their leaves, the amber grain
Shrink in the wind, and the lightning now
Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.


IT. B. Aldrich.
Year: 1863

pa- DIR. HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BTTTERS
should be in the possession of everybody in the
mining region. As a preventative of the various
dangerous diseases to which the gold seeker is LA
bic, it has superior. While it is quite palatable
4 beverage, it is speedy and powerful in its effect
upon the system. In all cases Of Diarrhea. Dysen-
terry, and the prevailing fevers consequent upon
exposure, the Biters viii be found invaluable as
corrective. NOman should enter upon the exposed
camp life of miner without being provided with
Hostetters preventive of stomach disease nor
should any Of those who are engaged in the occupa-
ton, fail to have recourse TO the Btters Sold by
all Druggists and dealers everywhere.
Year: 1863

The track of the St. Paul and Pacific
Railroad is now laid to a point two miles
this side of Anoka, and the passenger
train made trip thereon on Monday eve
ming 1t is expected that the road will
be completed to the village by Saturday
next. We understand the formal cele-
bration will be deferred until after the
opening of the New Year, and perhaps
until the assembling of the Legislature, in
order to give the members an opportunity
of testing the quality of score of turkeys
which have been fattened especially for
the occasion by "Mr. Speaker BENSON
1t is said the sound of the whistle Occa-
sions great fluttering among them al.
ready. 1t is premonition of their doom.
Year: 1863

The lightness Of the vote indicates that
little interest was felt in regard to the
matter on either side. The total was only
915-against 2,117 polled at the general
fall election. There was thorough Or
ganization of the friends of the measure,
while its opponents had no organization
whatever, and almost literally allowed the
election to 60 by default. Capitalists can
easily estimate the value of bonds tina. have
been sanctioned by less than one-third of
the voting population of the city
Year: 1863

Capt. KEITH, Provost Marshal of the Second
District, yesterday completed the sub. division
of the District, in compliance with late orders
which contemplate equalizing the draft by
giving towns credit for volunteers furnished
in excess of former calls. The new sub-dis-
tricts are as follows, the first column gives
the number of the district; the second the
number of the sub-distriet according to the
former subdivision; the third the name of
the town and county and the two last col
umns the number enrolled in the two classes
Year: 1863

fervor Of his piety. or RENTED his Chris
tian duties.


We know thafbefors every important
move he spent much time in prayer. He
had SO put bis soul in the keeping Of his
Master that he WAS relieved from all thou ght
OF sell, and had the whole power Of his life
ready for his work. Officers of Fremont's
army who pursued him in his famous re-
treat from the Shenandoah Valley, found
him to be greatly beloved by the common
people, among whom, in former times, he
had labored, in prayer meetings, in tenn
perance meetings, and in every christian
word and work. No wonder he fought
well along region whose Topography he
had mapped down with prayers, exhorta-
tlons and Christian labor.


HE was unselfsh. He fought neither
Tor repatation now, nor for future personal
advancement. He therefore did net fall
into the rulnoas habits Of our generals, who
are always neglecting to do the things that
can be done because they are small, but
squander time and men and patience in
getting ready for great battles, which elHde
them or defeat them. He necessarily
struck on the right and on the left, and
kept alive the fire in the hearts of the i'll
clad, poorly fed and everwsrked men by
the excitement Of enterprise and the con-
slant relish of victories. small in detail, but
whose sum was all important.


!" Let no man suppose that the North
will triumph over fallen son with insult
Ing gratulations! Nowhere else will the
name OF Jackson be more henored. Not
for the adhesion to the cause Of slavery,
but for his untarnished personal character,
Tor his devout piety, and for his military
genius"
Year: 1863

AN ANCIENT IRON CLAD.--We examined few
days ago, in the office OF Attorney General Gal.
braih, very Interesting historical relic, being a
portion of the armOr of one OF The Spanish Knights
who first invaded and explored the wflds of this
Western continent. The armnr was found In the
neighbOrhood of Monticello. in Jefferson county,
in this State. The portions preserved are the hel-
met, the vizor and gOrget, and coverings for the
arms. We understand that the rest of the armOr
was found, but has been inadvertently lost or de-


stroyed. This armOr is of the most solid and sub
stantiai character, that for the head alone weighing
fifteen or twenty pounds, and being impenetrable
misket rifle balls. Ii Is probable that the
arnor belonged to one of the expeditions Of Pam


philO de Narvaez, which was lost in the country,
or To one of the army of De Soto, and is about
three hundred and fifty years Old-perhaps much
Older. There is a romantic interest attached to
these relics of the early cOnquerOrs of the New
World These iron trappings probably encased
found a grave in the vast wilderness OF America >.
perhaps some Old knight who invested the re-


,nainder of a sad and unhappy life In the search
for the Fountain Of YOUTH hut whom death sur.
prised ere his limbs had been bathed in its reju-
Venating waters. Be this as it may, he was no
"carpet knight for the frame that could bear this
iron encasement must have known the discipline
OF arms, and been strengthened In the battle and
iha breeze. The armcr is OF complete whrkman


ship; strong rather than fine, and must have been
complete 4 covering for the human form as the
armor OF the monsters that bid defiance to
the rifle cannon shot Of the present day. Probably,
in future times, the iron lads Of our own day will
be regarded the curiOsties Of past age, the
utility OF which will hardly be perceptible to our
descendants tallahassee Floridian and Journal
Year: 1863

After quoting from the Times that
Beast Butler has caster TO prove the
harmlessness of his ragouts, wears coat
of mail, etc., PUach says:


How pleasing to know that the Yam
kee Haynau lives in Continual fear of the
life which he deserves to lose But it is
to be hoped that nobody will assassinate
him; because, if half of the tales Of his
atrocities are true, his blood ought not
to be shed BY bullet or dagger, or carried
with complimentary poison. Buffers
circulation should be arrested by legal
ligature; at least it is right that the law
should be finished y that means on the
person of any malefactor or monster
Judith would not have cut Holofernes'
head Off she had any reasonable expec
tation that he would come TO be hanged.
So, long live General Butler in dread oi
assassination with the probability Of the
ga,lows looming in the distancel But
lers die many times before their deaths
so let them, and serve them right.
Year: 1863

The Mobile Register takes occasion OF
some reference to past issues to remark:


Douglas was the last of the Romans Of
the United States Senate. He had his
faults and great enes. But out of the
mist of all his frailties, his giant intellect
and patriotic spirit loomed grandly up
His love for his country typified by the
old Government and Constitution,
amounted to an idolatry; and when he
saw il about to. pass away in the storm
and darkness of revolution, his big heart
was broken. The disruption of the Un-
ion was the knell of his death.


The day that the Southern Commission
ers left Washington, en- route for the
South, telegraphic dispatch was receiv-
ed by their confidential agent in Wash
ington, and forwarded to them at Balti-
more, from General Beauregard at Charles
ton, informing them that he would open
fire at four o'clock the next morning up
on Fort Sumter. This gentleman met
Judge Douglas on the Pennsylvania Ave-
nue. and communicated the intelligence
to him. Our informant stated that his
eyes filled with tears, and he said, "this
is the beginning of the end, and shall
not, and you may not live to see the end"


For all that happened after his gigan-
tic efforts in the Senate to stay the mad.
ness of tho Lincoln Government, had fail.
ed, he is not responsible. lie gave himself
up to a, a,temtper victims are marked
on the grayestones Of the great in intel
lect all over the land. 1t was under the
spell of this destroyer that he was drag
ged to the hustings to make that fatal
speech in Illinois which belied his whole
public history, and mas left the only stain
that sulhes his fame "a q statesman.
Year: 1863

Heaven help the man who imagnes he
can dodge enemies by trying to please
everybody. If such man ever succeed
ed we should like to know it. Not that
we believe in mans going through the
world trying to fird beams to knock his
head against disputing every mans
opinions fighting and elbowing and
orowding all who differ from him. That
again is another extreme. Other people
have right to their opinions--so have
you-don't fall into the error Of suppos.
ing they will respect you less for main
tanning i; or respect you more for turn
ing your coat every day to match the
color of theirs, Wear your own colors,
spite of winds or weather, storm or sun.
shine. II costs the vacilating and irros-
olute ten times the trouble to wind and
shuttle. and twist, that it docs honest,
manly independence to stand its ground.


Take what time you please to make up
your mind; but having made 1t up. stick
10 H.
Year: 1863

FROM the hlchmOnd Dlspatch.


Its as true of the Government of States
as individuals that mo man can serve
two masters" The complex system of
the late Union the compromise by which
its founders undertook 10 establish two
Soyereigntics-that of the Federal Gov
ernment and that OF the States-bore
within itself clements of inevitable dis
ruption. If they had built up consoli-
dated Government. OF if they had built
up its opposite, in terms so plain that he
who runs might read, there could have
been no such war as this. But they un-
dertook to harmonic both theories, and
to construct an organic law which FEEDER
al and Staie-rights men should each re-
cognize as embodying their own ideas Of
Government. The consequences are nov
before us; but terrible rs they are, they
will not be--witf1out their uses if, in our
own Republican experiment, we avoid
the rock on which the United States
have gone to pieces.


Theqrestion between consolidation and
State-rights distracts the public mind at
this time; for if there is any one thing
clearer than another it is the intention
that this Republic shall be league of
sovereign States, and its, Confederate gov
ernment a subordinate agency for the
execution of expressly granted powers.
But the legislation of the country must
be framed in accordance with this theory,
or we shall have a new Constitution grad
ually and insensibly created, which will
become practically the Constitution, and,
with the recognized tendencies to central
izaton will ultimately involve us in the
same tribulations from which we are now
suffering. Let us have one thing or the
other-a consolidated Empire, or mere
League of independent States, confede-
rated for certain common purposes, and
having in its general government com
mon agent, the recognized subordinate
and inferior of the Sovereign States
Either make the tree good, and its fruit
good, or the tree corrupt and its fruit cor
rupt. Let Us have one thing or the 9TH
er, and not delude ourselves and ruin our
posterity by attempting to build up such
a contradiction and absurdity, such an
internal machine and magazine of explo-
sives, as the Government of the United
States.
Year: 1863

The slanderer has ever been regarded
as a most detestable character, and the
person who commits the niqulty must
expect the severest retaliation. Few
would err in this respect, If they would
but consideEthat they provoke The same
conduct in others that they exhibitthem-
selves. We are none of us immaculate;
and the most irreproachable cannot al
ford to fling a stone at a neighbor.Y In
diligence in scandal of any. kind isa dis
graceful occupation Of time, and tends
in no small degree to vitiate the heart
and weaken the understanding 1t is
the pastime of the idle and corrupa, and
no vrtuous man or women will stoop TO
il. Based on falsehood, caluniny and
envy, it exposes those who commit i tc
similar treatment, at the hands OF those
whom they have detracted and in thecno
it becomes a contest between the parties
who shall be The ceverest and most racy
inventor, and the most unblushing De-
| tractor.
Year: 1863

HsA. The survivors Of the crow Of the
ill.fated Monitor have arrived in New
York. In card in the New York Her.
aid, they say; I'VE are thirty.six in num-
Der, and since the loss Of the vessel have
not received one cent of the money due
us. We are without beds, and were sent
here without half the amount necessary
to defray our expenses. Is this proper
treatment for the crew Of the Monitor?"
Year: 1863

The Louisville journal says:


If there is a surgeon or physician in
the world especially famed for his treat
ment Of paralysis, we hope the Govern.
ment will hunt him up and send him TO
the army OF the Potomac.
Year: 1863

that be was gallant, attentive to. his du-
ties, ambitious and brave He had that
natural fire and manly pride which is
the chief element of the soldierly char
acter. Entering the army from civil
life, he was too proud and too ambitious
to remain ignorant of any of his duties
He quickly and perfectly mastered the
tactics, and all the collateral branches,
which go to make the scientific officer
His bearing, Sir, in the camp was that of
the gentleman-in the field that of the
hero. He painted for distinction and an
honorable name on the annals of the
history that we are daily making. He
was patriot, sir, devoted 20 the Federal
Union, and anxious, above all things, for
its preservation.


In his private character, as citizen
and man, he was irreproachable. No
man ever accused him of the taint of a
mean action. In times of the highest
polical excitement he bore himself gal
lantly and proudly in the strife, and he
passed through that fire of analysis and
criticism-through which our popular
institutions make it necessary that pub
lie men should pass-unscorched and
unscathed.


He was noted popular orator, sir.
He had that gift of eloquence which
stirs all hearts. His manner and Ian
guage were peculiarly captivating. His
rhetoric and his imagery were gorgeous
his style brilliant Had he lived be
would have become one of the great ex-
emplars of that style of oratory upon
which so much of the reputation of
Clay and S. S. Prentiss rests. Had he
returned to his home at the close of the
war, wearing the laurel wreath which
victorious soldiers wear, he would have
received any rewards at the hands of a
greatful people. An all.wise Provi-
denee has willed otherwise. He does
not sleep on the battlefield which
his courage helped to win. He
did not die, as he would have
preferred to die, beneath the folds of that
glorious flag which he was seeking to
preserve from dismemberment; but at
home, as suddenly almost as if by the
bullet of the foe, he was stricken down
by a quick and terrible disease. He
sleeps beneath the turf of our own quiet
cemetery, and there rests not, still from
its beating, beneath all that sod, purer,
braver or more loving heart!


How appropriate, sir, the beautiful
lines of the poet Collins, and with their
quotation l shall have concluded the dis
charge of the duty confded to me by
this honorable Bar:


..How sleep the brave who sink to rest,


BY all their country's wishes blestl


When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,


Returns to deck their hallowed mould,


She there shall dress sweeter sod,


Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.


BY fairy hands their knell is rung


BY forms unseen their dirgs is sung


There Honor comes, pilgrim gray,


TO bless the turf hat wraps their clay,


And Freedom shall awhile repair,


To dwell weeping hermit there
Year: 1863

A SrIsGua TRuTn.-Mayor Opdyke
Of New York, in his message vetoing the
appropriation Of tive millions and half
TO aid the project of the mob, says that
those who are opposed to raising troops
BY CONSUMPTION have always been op-
posed to raising troops in any way to oar
ry on the war.
Year: 1863

NJ The fund for the relief of colored
sufferers from the riot in New York, is
over thirty thousand dollars. And the
claims against the city corporation for
damages from destruction Of property BY
the rioters amounts already to over half
q million of dollars.
Year: 1863

CosscRIPrrox.-They have done away
with conscription in the Soathern Con-
ssdsrscy, and have gone to work on q
more thorough systsm of obtaining men.
Their method puts away all necessity of
drawing. All between the ages Of eigh-
teen and forty-6ve are ordered to report
at the conscript camps. Let them fail TO
report, however, and they will be drawn
BY military force to the camps. that Is
oil the drawing there is about it.
Year: 1863

- The New York World justifes
the conspiracy of the French resident
rebels Of New Orleans inviting French
feet Of war into the New Orleans Har-
Dor under pretencs Of giving than pro-
ieciion against an imaginary negro iDsur-
section. The World and it's satellites
are evidently designing to prepare the
public mind for foreign intervention in
favor of the Confederacy of the South
and the Cepperhsads Of the North.
Year: 1863

THE GOLD HILL News, is the title Of a
neat and ably conducted daily paper, which
has recently been started at Gold Hill, near
Virginia City. We recognize in the name Of
one Of the proprietors, a friend Of other days,
when the printing business cf California
was but in Its infancy. The NEWS is the rep.
resentatiye Of most important locality on
the Eastern Slope, and we trust it will receive
that support and encouragement which it ap-
pears SO well to merit. 1t is most welcome
visitor to our table IS. F. Scientific Press.
Year: 1863

A PRETTY PRoGRAMME.-The Georgia
Rebel says that if Bragg can drive our army
from Chattanooga, the rebel soldiers can be
fed sumptuously during the winter, can be
we'll shod and clad, and in the spring all they
will have to do is to retake the valley Of the
Mississippi, drive the dispirited Unionists in
to the Ohio river, secure the election of
Peace Democrat to the Presidency, and ar
range the terms of treaty and independence.
Year: 1863

Tbs deep black which our war ships have
been painted. has proved to be very promi-
nent mark to shoot at, 10 consequence Of which
change has been made to a grayish drab.


Exchange,
II our national politics had less OF the
black " in them and more of the old silver
gray the aim Of malice domestic and for
eign would be much distracted.


Louisville Journsl.
Year: 1863

A MOUNTAINOUS VIEw.-The local editor
of the Territorial Enterprise has paid Mount
Davidson visit, and grappled the difficult
ties of an ascent. After rising to the top,
and taking view towards the four quarters
of the heavens, he describes his vision thus :.


On the moth, the eye falls on mountains !;
looking east, the view is more varied and we
see-mountains; turning towards the south
we are again delighted with mountains, and
paying our addresses to the west the monot-
ony of the scenery is beautifully interrupted
by mountains. Washoe Lake, that has
thrown so many romantic young ladies into
ecstacy, looks like sand bank about as big
as side of sole leather. In short, which
ever way we turn the eye meets waste or a
Sierra-range beyond range, till they fade
away and are lost in the shadows of the dis
tance. We may want poetry, but nobody
who ever saw scenery has sincerely praised
the view of Mount Davidson. In the name
of truth and reason, let US have no more of
it
Year: 1863

BoBrA1L CoATs.-The Petersburg Va. E1-
press tells the following, which is by far the
most silly story we have ever seen in the re-
bel newspapers:


The last batch of Confederate prisoners
who reached here came with the tails of their
coats all torn off: They had been furnished
with good cloth frock coats during their i'm
prisonment at ths North, but before they
were allowed to use them they had to be sub
mitted to the ourtailing process. which not
only injured the good looks of the coats, but
positively injured their value. The object of
the prison officials in performing this opera
ton was evidently to make some capital out
of the severed cloth by making it into mill.
tary caps, hats, etc., or selling it for some
other equally profitable purpose. We are in
favor of strict retaliation, and hope that every
Yankee officer who is heretofore to be sent
North may be allowed to go with bobtailed
coat