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Year: 1864

WHERE the feet which threatened an attack on Will
mngton has gone 10 more than we are able even to
guess. 1t May come here; bat upon the WHOLE we do
not think it will. For the present, at least think
the town Of Wilmington is comparatively free from i'm.
mediate attack. We think that for some time the
Yankee feet will give Us the 60 bye
Year: 1864

There being some msapprehension on the subject,
we take pleasure in calling attention to the fact that
the recent General Orders to strengthen our armies in
the fd do net contemplate the Withdrawal of skilled
or trained mechanical labor from tie Government work
shops.


On the contrary, the policy Of the Government is TO-
attract to the Conederacy and to retain this valuable
element in nations prosperity. While it is necessary
that every able-bodd man should be sent to the 'front.'
is equally necessary that skilled labor should be re-
tained 10 the service OF the Government.


We are led to these remarks from prevailing mis-
apprehension the subject, and upon information that
steps in progress 10 withdraw permanently from
military seryicI those now in the trenches


The z1al and excellent conduct OF our mechanics iu
rushing to the front in the hour Of danger worthy Of
all praise but that has passed. and it is evident 10
all linking that the best interests of our cause
require their permanent services in the arsenas and
workshops of the Con.ederacy.


Richmond ENQUIRER
Year: 1864

TIE result of the election recently held in MARYLAND
to decide for or against the adoption of the free
constitution, submitted to the people OF that State by
their abolition masters, goes to show that after al
Maryland is at heart Southern State, eince ali tht
Counties that are really occupied by bona fds Mary
landrs have gone against the Yankee constitution and
indeed it would seem that in spite of Yankee squatters
in Baltimore and in tie Northwestern part of the
State Maryand as whole has gone against the Yam
KEGS.
Year: 1864

Gosr Up.-Our readers will be sorry to gee the
news from Plymouth, N. O., received Tuesday BY
telegraph We are in hopes that our people lost few
prisouers and little material.


We looked for the fall of Plymouth after the Yankees
bad succeeded in blowing up the Albemare. Our force
there doubt small on land and perfectly
insignificant water. Somehow, we doubt whether
the people of that section State have felt any
fdence in our ability to hold Plymouth and the lower
Roanoke country and hence their indsposton to take
sny active part in favour of the Confederate cause


We may expect at any day to hear of an attack be-
Ing made upon the town of Washington, Beaufort co
% ths Pamlico. In truth, that unfortunate town is
pretty much ruined already, and can't be much more
Injured even by Yankee barbarsm and spite.
Year: 1864

A corENPoRARY with good show of reason, express
regret over the Asatc pomp and luxury of the
kee camps which tends not only to the generalization o
their men, but very seriously affects ours divert
ing them from the main object and leading to plumber
and at times causrg them to get whipped after having
substantially gained the day. The fact is that our men
stopped to piunder the Yankee camps at Cedar Greek
giving the enemy chance to turn round upon US, and
wrest the substantial fruits Of victory from our grasr
after it might have been said to have been secured
Such was also noorousy the at the battle of Cor
NTH
Year: 1864

ALL HALLows.-We write on Tuesday, November
1st being the day known All Halows, the night be-
fore being Halloween snap apple night quite time
IN Ireland and Scotland, any one nay learn from
BURNS poems or Macse's pictures, of which, en-
titled SnapApple Night" contains much bumor
and expression and as many figures almost any mod
ern painting.


1he season is progressing and the leaves falling
everywhere Under the effect of the chilly nights and
mornings especially the mornings, which are as
there be any necessity for for the purpose of
driving out contagiou.


SoXB doubts Rave been expressed in regard to the
day which the Presidential election will be held at
the North, but for this reason. That cleo
tion will be held, not on the first Tuesday in Noyem-
Der, but the first Tuesday after the first Monday
which will bring it On the 6ih instant. We don't
think it make much difference at any rate ss Mr.
LINCOLN will be apt to make of his own election
and even if General MCCLELLAN should happen to he
elected by some miracle, we hardly how it would
make things any better worse for the Coufederacy
He is restoring the old Union at any and every cost
OF life and treasure making reconstruction the one in
dspeusabe condition precedent to the conclusion any
terms Of peace with the South. LINCOLN could not d.
much less that be in ssts or pretends to
insist upon the additional condition of
which be would probably be willing to dispense with
for the present be could wheede the South back into
the Federal Union.
Year: 1864

win befriend the Gontederafes iri futures--s
They can only. fail b. exhanstiens; the
:, may tai ~ ss hsr
homes till they can stand no longer the
latter have to maintain by incessant eff
forts, the impetus Of an aggressive and
most costly war. Hitherto the people of
the North have not suffered either from
conscription or taxation, but if the war is
to be continued, the time for those trials
must come, and it seems at least as prob
sble that they may tire of the struggle, as
that the people of the Sonth may become
unable to prolopg it. It will be strange
If, in all fiie excitement of Presidential
election, peace party should not some
day appear, and in this contingency lies a
great chance tor. the South.
Year: 1864

AREs1oHEp WIDow.-A blooming widow
in Ohio wanted to marry young officer, but
was bound BY promise to her deceased lord
not to enter matrimony again. The officer
was badly wounded and went home to die.
He sent for the widow, and proposed marriage.
that, as his widow, she might be relieved
from her poverty by his pension. AT last
she consented to be his widow; but the fallen
hero has cheated her out II the pension for
the present by getting well and joining his
regiment. But the woman believes in Provi-
dence and is resigned to her fate.
Year: 1864

WoMAN.-A gallant cotemporary thinks
that this world would hardly be worth liv-
ing in, were it deprived of woman. Listen
to his rhapsody. "Ye would remain in a
garden from which the flowers have been
taken, or in grove from which the birds
have departed. or beneath sky that the
sweet stars had forsaken? Let cynics
pratLle al they may our existence here with
out the presence Of the other sex, would be
only dark and cheerless void. The light,
the smiles and affections of woman, are the
bow of beauty and promise, which spans the
life of man from the cradle to his grave"
Year: 1864

A SERMON FOR YOUNG LADIEs.-Dow, Jr.,
IN one of his sermons, gives the following
aivice to young ladies:


my Young Maidens-I know you all
want to get Married as soon as you enter
your teens; but it is better to remain single
aud live upon the cold soup of solitude than
to marry misery and wed woe. 1 have but
poverty stricken opinion Of the majority
of my sex. They are corrupted by the mis-
called reinements OF the age, so inflated
with pride, go fooled by fashion, so afraid
Of the soil on which they live, so given to
their morals are in the most wretched state
for want of wedding, and so overgrown with
hair, vanity aud laziness, that scarcely one
in twenty is worth being entrusted with q
wife,
Year: 1864

LEISURE HoURs. was beautiful OBJ
servatiou of the late VIM. Hsziitt. that
.'there is room enough in human life to
crowd almost every art and science In IT,
II we pass no day without aiIline-V.sit no
place without the company of-a book-~e
may with ease fill libraries or empty them
of their contents. TIE more We do, the
more we can do; the more busy we are, the
more leisure we have"
Year: 1864

The people on this side watch with un-
failing hopefulness for he least symptom
that may promise to be the beginning Of
the end or the. American war. II few
outsiders, drifted from the indifferent Of
war or faction. have made cast for peace
or laid trap for President on the neu-
trail bank OF the Niagara; il the Prospero
Of finance has at last cast his wand TO the
bottom Of his own abyss Of Insolvency il
Year: 1864

JACKSON TEMPLE, one of the great squibs of
the latter day Democracy, in his speech on
Tuesday night, in an attempt to show that
the President did not desire resolution of
the Union, argued that it could be no possible
benefit to him, as in that event he would not
have the shadow of chance for reelection.
The inference, of course, is that the votes of
the rebels would be cast for Mcclellan and
against Lincoln. This is exactly what Union
men have always declared, and the Copper
heads as persistently denied. No honest,
man who understands the relation of parties
to the rebellion, can for moment deny that
if the opportunity offered, there would be the
most cordial understanding and the most per-
feet coalition between Little Mac and his SUP.
porters, and the traitors now seeking to des
troy our Government, and no one observant
of the course of the leaders OF that party.
from Vallandigham down to jackson Temple,
can gainsay that as far as it is possible such
an understanding and such coalition exists
between them now. Birds of feather flock
together.
Year: 1864

Test OF DEArH.-When FIRE is applied to
a living body blister filled with LIQUID is
soon raised, and if the heat be continued,
the epidermis is destroyed. But when the
same heat is applied to dead body, the
epidermis rises in the form of blister, which
is filed with yapor, and which presently
bursts. The test has been proposed by II.
Martin de Courdoux, to ascertain if person
be really dead before the burial. In perform
ing the test the author recommends small
flame. such as the fame of match, to be ap-
piled for short time at about half centimc-
tire from the skin,
Year: 1864

A DIscovERY.-The London Times has dis
covered that the so-called Democratic plat
form and the Union platform are substanti-
ally alike. except that one of them is upside
down. They are both for peace and both for
the Union. The former is for peace first
and the Union afterwards; the latter is for
the Union first and peace afterwards 1t
concludes that if peace comes first the Union
will not come at all. just so the Secession
lists think, and the Democrats are their pli-
ant servants. Of course the London Times
prefers the peace first. 1t is a novel coali-
ton, that of the London Times and some of
our Irish citizens together for the
same set of aristocrats, to destroy the Gov
ernment that affords home for all who seek
Re0istey.
Year: 1864

WHAT is A CoPPERAEAD?-He is not a
Democrat, but a miserable thief who has
stolen the Democratic name as covering for
his villanies. He is a Shiny reptile whose
affnities are with the original Serpent of the
Garden. He is g creeping Pestilence, whose
breath is full of poison and contagion. Why
his accursed presence is tolerated on earth IS
marvel and mystery which no finite
being can exnlain n.=Lofrd Stofe Renister
Year: 1864

INHE undersigned would respectfully tender


Il his thanks to the people Of Northern To-
wa for their beial patronage during the brief
period the above named medicine has been be-
fcre the public. The high price of glass and
other material used, together with the direct
government tax, has compelled me to advance
the price Of my medicine. This necessary
regret no less than the intelligent public who
assure me of their confidence in the healing
virtue of my BITTERS by the continuance of
their patronage since the advance in price
am now happy to assure my customers and the
public that the advance in the price of my
medicine does not 60 into my pocket, but is de-
posted In the government treasury to do its
part towards subduing the rebellion. IAN
ounce Of prevention is worth pound of cure. y
is an old saying. but none the worse for age
then, if you would save many doctors bills,
Year: 1864

Every country merchant can employ one or
more Machines with great profit, knitting the
yarn he takes in into stockings for retail or
wholesale trade


1t is no new, untried thing, but has been ia
most successful use in all the Factories of the
East. so that ROW millions of dollars worth of
goods are every year made on it.
Year: 1864

AhhHN AhOODAND MI ShGIO LUST.


Under the following, the Savannah
Republican of the Sd has the following


When Governor Brown left Nlilledge-
vile, he took with him all of his own
property of every description, including
his furniture, carriage and horses, poul-
try, and even the cabbages that grew in
his garden. The train was loaded with
these individual assets, and all sent
safely to one of his extensive plantations
in southwestern Georgia. He took good
care of himself.


Was he equally dilligent in looking
after the affairs and property of the
State ? Take few other facts in illustra-
tion of this point. All the powder of the
State at Milledgeville, was left behind to
make room for the "collards" and chick
ems, and was sent forward the next day
by persons who felt greater interest in the
property of the State than the Governor.
Three thousand stand of arms were also
left behind as insignificant when COM
pared with the Governors "plunder,"
and these were all destroyed by the
enemy.


These facts reach us from sources Of
the first respectability.
Year: 1864




We think il was in the elaboration OF his no
table project to Congress for the abolition Of
slavery in the year 1900 that President Lin
coin disclosed his important discovery that
while it is easier to pay small bill than q
large one, it is not so difficult to settle large
bill a. one still larger. Applying this sphor-
ism to bis administration, we may say that it
counts if limited to one term than IL will be il
extended through another term. Indeed, we are
admonished on every side that his average sx-
penditures Of men and money Of the last three
years cannot be extended beyond another year
without involving the country in the chaos Of
financial and political bankruptcy.


Considering the abundant forces, facilities
and resources Of all kinds contributed by the
loyal States, under the provisions of Con.
gress, for the suppression Of the rebellion,
it may well be matter Of universal astonish-
ment that tbe war, which might have been
ended in 1861, shosld be still in full blast in
1864. But when we turn to the present in
competent and blundering head Of the govern
ment, and his unique but dangerous expert
ments, military and political, we are rather in
clined to be thankful that, "by hook or by
crook" JEFF Davis has all this time been kept
out Of Washington. Aud yet We 6od that by
State conventions and State Legislatures this
incompetent and conceited President is paraded
before the country a. the peoples choice for
the succession. Against these impudent pre-
tensions we must in behalf Of On intelligent
people, enter our rsmoDstrance. These State
conventions and Legislatures-made up of or
managed by cliques Of jobbers, contractors,
shoddy men and Office seeking politicians--
have no right to speak for the people. They
are no more the representatives Of the inter-
ests and wishes Of the people than are the little
trading clques Of grogshop patriots of this city,
who hold their primary meetings and make their
nominations upon no other basis and for no
other purpose than an agreement among them
selves for the division Of the spoils.


The present House Of Representatives at
Washington, on the other hand, Is composed OF
body of men elected by the people expressly
to represent them, end to guard their interests
under the present federal administration and in
reference to that which is next to come. The
republican members Of this House, as the
authoritative representatives of their party,
have therefore the right to speak for and to
take the initiative in this business OF President
making 1t was the custom Of all parties during
the better days Of the republic to nominate
their Presidential candidates through Che action
Of their representatives in Congress. With the
rotten convention system. introduced by the
Year: 1864

sroils democracy, the reign Of party corruption
and demoraization commenced which has cut
minated in th terrible civil war. To Presi-
dent scheming and intriguing for another
term party convention is q convenient
machine. With patronage amounting TO hun
dreds OF millions In his hands, he may pack q
convention to suit bis purposes, provided no
objection be interposed by the party in Con-
gross upon which he is dependent for his ways
and means. his instructions and his supplies.
As we understand 1t, however. there is an
overwhelming majority Of the republicans Of
this Congress opposed to Lincoln's reelection.
A large portion Of this opposition is drawn
from those members who have sustained his
administration In Congress from the beginning,
and who, with unmeasured liberality, have
voted him men, money, means and civic and
military powers, 10 view of vigorous war and
speedy suppression Of the rebellion. But,
while squandering away men by thousands,
and money by millions, in his blundering cam
paigns, and while trifing with Congress as
With a Rump Parliament, he has assumed the
functions of legislation in his preposterous sys-
Jcm Ol IcStOTlug tNe ItDoliloub pGttcs w tue
Union. Having thus forfeited the confidence
of Congress upon a fair and full trial, it b.
comes the duty Of the dominant party in both
houses to speak, to act and to move in behalf
of change in the administration.


A resolution from Congressional caucus Of
the party, recommending the postponement to
August or September Of the national party
convention. would doubtless be respected by
the authoritative committee in the premises,
and then by August or September the conven-
ton will have the dust rubbed from it's eyes
and will be able to see that Abraham Lincoln
is not the peoples choice for the next Presi-
dency. In some way or other, considering that
the salvation or ruin Of the country is involved
in this Presidential issue, We appeal to the
republicans in Congress, convinced Of Lincoln's
incapacity to moet the demands Of the crisis,
that ii is their duty to proceed at once to the
important work Of 'heading.him off" and Sc
curing more acceptable nomination. This is
not the time for them to hide their light under
"a bushel.
Year: 1864

FASHIONABLE INTELILoENcE.-We understand
that the noble and illustrous Count de Gu
rowski is going to start newspaper at Wash
ington shortly, and that he will get married at
about the same time Are not wife and a
newspaper too much to take charge Of stimuli
taneously, even for man of the noble Counts
noWerse
Year: 1864

ARTIFICIAL RA1NBow.--There has late
ly been contrived for the French theatre
a method of iinitating'the rainbow. The
inventor employs an electric light. The
first lenses Of his optical apparatus render
the rays from this source parallel and
transmit them through q rainbow shaped
hole In. a screen to q double convex lens
of very short focus; from which they
pass to prism, and emerge with suffi-
cient divergence to make an effective
rainbow on a screen about six yards off.
This rainbow is said to be brilliant, even
when the whole scene is Lit up.
Year: 1864

Senator Cowan, of Pennsylvania, in &
speech in the Senate on the 27 Of June
last, said:


Let us make war according 10 law. and
let us have peace according to law. II we
fight a bellgerent enemy, let rs do it ae-
corJing to the law ofnations. If we punish
or restrain ref ractory citizen. let Us do
it by the law of the land. by due process
Of law Had we had faith in our conSt-
tuition and laws and our people, We had
not been in cur present condition. Had
We made war and war alone. the loyal peo-
pie North and South TO a man would have
been with us The voice OF faction il not;
entirely husheI would have been harmless
The capital Of the demagoguc would have
been worthless, and the naticn would have
been irresistible"


VIII those whe are so eager to accuse
democrats of assai ing the administration
merely for the creation Of political capital
consider these statements by an eminent
leader in the party which supports Mr..
Lincoln? Misrepresentation cannot Pre-
iudice the minds of the people against q
President who is efficient and honest
Mr.. Lincoln is condemned BY facts
These are the capital Of his orPonaut~
and the weapons to overthrow They are
furnished by himself and afford ani.,i,
warrant for all that has been or can hc
said in denunciation of his course rs Press
dent
Year: 1864

leasant sail and good dinner 70 government


mcialsi but they prove nothing. II the Navy
department really wishes to make a fair trial
4f the steaming qualities Of its new vessels, It


as abundant chances of doing 80 without
wasting the public money thus unnecessarily.
let 1t place them on the watch for the blockade
Runners. entering or leaving Wilmington, and
NE guarantee that their qualities will be put to


test convincing to the public If not to the
department If the new steamers are what
hey are claimed to be. the public will derive
4ome benefit from the plan We suggest instead
cr having their money wasted In these naval
Eegattas.
Year: 1864

Bayard Taylor, in his new novel o.
John Godlrey's Fortunes, has satire
on o woman poet, who held literary
receptions IN New York, and enter.
tanned her guests with accounts OF
her own poetry and the way she made
it. This is her story Of "the fine
phrenzy OF composition


81 feel the approach inspiration in
every nerve, my husband often tells
me that he knows beforehand when |
am going TO write, my eyes shine so,
Then i 90 MP stairs TO my study,
which is next to my bedroom. II
always comes on about three o'clocl;
in the afternoon, when the wind blows
from the South. change my dress,
and put on long white gown, which
l wear at no other time, take of my
stays, and let my hair down my back
Then | prance up and down the room
as if l was possessed, and as the lines
come to me, | dash them on the black
board, one after another, aud chant
them in a loud voice. Sometimes ]
cover all four OF tho boards-both
sdes-before the inspiration leaves
me. Tho frail body is overcome by
the excitement OF the soul, and al
night my husband often finds me ly-
ing on the floor in the middle Of the
room, painting,
Year: 1864

a correspondent OF the Country
Gentleman recommends smoke rs q
cure for wounds in man and animals.
lie SAYS: 81 cut my foot with an AK.
The lady Of the house, sezing the
foot while it was yet bleeding freely,
held it tower pan containing smoking
tag loc'la. In few minutes the
bleeding stopped, and the smoke was
removnd and bandage applied to
protect it from accidental blows
The wound never suppurated, and
consequently never panied me. l
have seen the remedy tried in many
similar cases, and always with the
same result. Let the reader bear in
mind that no liniment or salve, draw
ing or healing, should be applied
You have merely to smoke the wound
well, and nature will do the rest.
suppose the smoke OF burning wool
would produce the same results, but
it would not be so manageable. There
is Il principle in the smoke Of wool
which, when applied to the flesh,
coagulates tue albumen, thus render
ing it unsusceptiblc of putreiaction.
The same principle stops bleeding by
coagulating lhe blood. 1t promotes
healing, and may be applied with de
cided benefit to all ulcers, wounds
and cutaneous diseases"