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Year: 1863

-tf ORDER FOR PLANK SIDE WALK.


Oct. 24, 1s63.-And now it is hereby ordered
and directed by the Common Council Of the City of
Evansville that the owners of all lots parts Of
lots, fronting son or adjoining the west side Of
Fifth Avenue, from Sixth to Franklin streets,
in said City, cause the sidewalks thereon TO
be brought to the proper grade, and that they
cause side walk of Glass No. ., to be laid down
thereon within thirty days from the publication
of this order A. PFAFFLIN, Clerk.


CLERKS Office Oct 20 1853
Year: 1863

Oct. 26, 1s63.-And now i. is hereby ordered and
directed by the Common Council ef the City Of
Evansville that the owners of all lots or parts Of
lots fronting on or adjoining southeast side of Elm
street, from Market street, to Canal, in said city,
cause the side walks thereon TO be brought TO the
proper grade, and that they cause a side walk of
Glass No. 2, with wooden curb, to be laid down
thereon within thirty days from the publication Of
this order. a PFAEFIINs Clerk


CIerk's Office Oct 20 1863
Year: 1863

B@ The greatest organ, save one, in
the world, is to be consecrated in Boston
on the second of November All of the
chief masters of organ composition are
to be present, and an ode written for the
occasion viii be pronounced by Miss Char
lotte Cushman. The olgan has been
ten years in construction and promises
to be magnificent triumph of human
ingenuity and skill. 81
Year: 1863




Oct d 1863 And now it is hereby ordered
and directed bvs the Common Council Of the city
of Evansville that the owners of all lots parts
of lots, fronting on or adjoining the south west
side of Centre street, from Pine to Leet
streets in said City, cause the sidewalks thereon
to be brought to the proper grade, and that they
cause a side walk of Glass No l to be laid down
thereon within lhirty days from the publication
of this order


A PFAFFLIN, CLERK.
ClarkSs OFica Oct 40 1868
Year: 1863

Oct. "a, 1s63.-And now it is hereby ordered
and directed by the Common Council of the City
of Evansville that the owners of all lots or parts
of lots, fronting on adjoining the northwest side
OF Elm street, from First to Second streets,
in said City, the said side walks thereon TO be
brought to the proper grade, and that they cause
side walk of Glass No. 3 to be laid down thereon
within thirty days from the publication of this
order A. PFAFFLIN, Clerk.
Year: 1863

Oct. q, 1s63.-And now it is hereby ordered and
aliz,Ae.AI oomnsoz1 Council or tne City of
Evansville that the owners of all lots or parts of
lots fronting adjoining the south east side Of
Nam street from Fourth to Canal street, in said
City, cause the side walks thereon to be brought
to the proper grade and cause side walk of Glass
No. l, to be laid down theron within thirty days
from the publication of this order


A. PFAFFLIH, Clerk.
Year: 1863

Oct "a, 1S65.-And now it is hereby ordered
and directed by the Common Council of the City
of Evansville, that the of lots or parts of
lots fronting on adjoining the southwest side of
Sixth street, from Main to Locust streets, in
said City, cause the sidewalks thereon to be
brought to the proper grade, and that they cause
sidewalk of Class No. to be laid down thereon
within thirty days from the publication of this
order. A. PFAFFLIN, Clerk
Year: 1863

OkDKh FOE A FINK EIDE WALL-


Oct. a, IS63.--And now it is hereby ordered
and directed by the Common Council of the City Of
Evansville that he owners OF all lots or parts OF
lots, fronting on or adjoining the northwest side
Of Vino street, from Tenth TO corporation line,
in said City, cause tho sidewalks thereon TO be
brought to the proper grade and that they cause a
side walk of Glass No. 2 with woodsn curb, to be
laid down thereon within thirty days from the
publication OF this order.


ross A. PFAFFLIE, Clerk.
Year: 1863

: ORDER TO REPAIR SIDE WALA-
Oct. "a. 1S63.-And now it is hereby ordered and
directed by the Common Council of the City OF
Evansville, that the of all lots parts of
Iots fronting ON adjoining the northwest side Of
Main Street from Canal to Sixth Streets,
in said City, cause the side walks thereon to be
repaired within thirty days from the publication
of this order.


A. PFAFFLIN, Clerk.
Year: 1863

IMPORTANT DIsooYERY ON LAKE SURE.
RIoR.--The Detroit Tribune says there
is considerable excitement in business
circles connected with tho Lake Superb
or trade in consequence Of the discovery
of an immense deposit of silver bearing
lead in that famous region. Marquette
county is the site of this new discovery.
1t is said that the ore yields twenty per
cent. of pure lead, aud that every ton Of
lead twenty five pounds of silver, worth
three hundred dollars, besides the value
Of the lead. Operations will soon be
commenced for removing the deposits" !"
Year: 1863

BY late order Of Governor Bramlette
in reference TO the levy in Kentucky, az
soon as ten thousand men are recruited
under the twenty thousand call, recruit
ing under that call will be suspended,
as, with thorough organization Of the
State militia, that number is deemed suf-
iicient for State defence. The additional
ten Thousand under this call will be turn
ed over TO the Government for service In
the iield at any point the Federal suthOri-
ties may wish To employ them. This
ten thousand will be raised either by
volunteering or CONSUMPTION. Those
who volunteer in the old regiments will
receive bounty of $500; those enlist
ing in the new regiments will receive .
bounty of $l00,
Year: 1863

CoHFIsCATIoN.


The speaker took up some of the OBJ
jectionAble measures of the Administra-
tion, and disposed of them summarily.
As 10 confiscation, IL was nothing more
than the universal policy of governments
ut war; every power had the right to
take the property of the enemy that
might be used against them. II had
been early adopted by the rebel Govern
ment, and kept up as long as there was
any property of Union men left to be
confiscated. Mr.. Maynard had hardly
left his home in Tennessee before his
house was entered, and process served for
its confiscation, while his wife and family
were then under its shelter. The law
had good effect; many who wanted to
be rebels had been restrained I'D kept
as quiet IS mice.


THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.


This was finally acquiesced in, said
the speaker, and then came the kmanci-
patton Proclamation. was opposed TO
that proclamation, and / went to the
President, with eleven other Union men
of the South, and urged him TO withhold
the proclamation of January. But he
said he had put his foot down there, and
it was so long that when il once found .
resting place it was difficult TO remove
it; and, in this case, it could not be
moved. / opposed it because knew
great many real Union men in the South
who were weak in the faith, would make
trouble on account of it; knew il would
be A great load upon the shoulders of
some in the North, and that JEFF. Davis
would use il for the purpose of giving
new life 10 his cause; and l knew il
would be seized upon and made the
ground for hue and cry that we
were fighting, not for the Union,
but for the niger. Aud l think
you viii bear me testimony that s;syT ap
prehensions were not far away. Ten
nessee, however, was not embraced in
the proclamation, and, so far as l have
heard, no body in Ohio has lost any me-
groes by it. Laughter. And / have
heard but one complaint in Tennessee,
and that is, some of the people are sorry
the President did, mot include that State
also. Great applause. Slavery was q
| fsvorite institution there before the war,
but the war has made what little there is
left of it, of very little value, and that
little is going very fast, and see nobody
shedding any tears over it. must con-
fess that, looking at the country then and
now, am constrained to say that in that
measure, as in most others where have
differed in opinion with the President,
that the President was right and was
wrong. Great applause, and cheers for
Old Abe. This measure especially, has
been one Of the most potent agencies he
has used in the military operations of the
Government In the first place, it has
made true friends of the negroes, and
tell you, their friendship is much better
than their enmity. In the next place, il
has weakened the power of the enemy,
and it has made friends for our cause in
the Old World, among the people, who,
in some degree, at least, hold a check
upon the ruling powers over there.
Year: 1863

teyest and fierceneas Of passion mny thwart
or hinder the efforts and counsels Of the
wise and good; they Will struggle in vain
against the united efforts Of the great loyal
masses Of the country, under the guidance
ofa leader so strong and good, TO redeem
the land from the curse and shame Of hui
man bondage, and make that Union, by
which alone its glory is sure and perpetual


While inspired by the noble words and
deeds Of the President we seek like him to
sink all individual preferences, and bring
al personal hopes and interests, beneath
this profound love Of country; let us also
like him under all trials, and amid all
doubts, place first and foremost Liberty and
Union, to be fought for always and every
where; and neycr to be given up.
Year: 1863

The Federal army is just now in bad way Dispirted by repeated and constant defeat, and thnued by disease and desertion, it IS neverthe- less under the desperate necessity of accomplishing some great and decided victory before the first ot May--a cruel necessity which is simple Tmpossi- bility In he month of May next the term oi service will expire of the nine months men raised last summer, as also of the two years men raised at the beginning of the war, just after the Bull Run fight-amounting to over two hundred thou sand dmen. This will deprive them of over one third, if not nearly one half of their fighting men, and leave the balance at the mercy of theveterans of the Confederate army.

 This is not only fact upon the Federal govern ment but the further still more mortifying fact stares it in the face, that no more new levies of white men can be obtained. It is at the end of it's rope, unless it whip with negro soldiers, and hence the law recently passed by Congress author igipg Lincoln to raise 300 regiments of black men.

 If this war lasts till the first of June (and we have no idea it will) we will not only take Wash ington City, Baltimore and Louisville, but we will invade the free States.
Year: 1863

ANOTHER DISSOLUTION IMPENDlNG.-A gen> era smash up of the United States is now. con sidered inevitable by many besides the peop'e of the South. At the North the probabilities are being discussed generally, and the number who not only admit that there can be no Un. ion so far as the South are concerned, bat also th.k dissolution. of the remaining States will take place, are not few. We find the following in the Chicago Fines, of the lst ut. :;

 History does not make .ns atquainted with SC deplorabe failure as this administrator. 1t has never demanded men but more were Tor the coming than 1t desired, and 1t has never asked for money but its lap was filled to, oyeri1owlng' With these unlimited means, and nearly two years of warfare, behold the result! Ana pe> hold the prospect

 As to military successes, we have had none whose values have not been lost oy subsequent reverses And our greatest reverses are now, when our military stength is greater than It has been at any time before, and as great as It IS likely to be at any time in the future

 But if the army were doubled, what ground of hope? Is not the moral strength of our cause gone? Do we longer present rhe grand, heroic spectacle of people striving for tho perpetuty of their nationality? On the con trary, have we not dwarfed the war to the pitttul dimensions of contest as to what shall be the status of the debased and irreclaimably barbar- ous negroes amongst us? And as to this mean contest. are the people of the, North united r On the contrary, are they not about to become so divided that the must speedily close up on broken country-broken, perhaps, into more than two parts?

 These will be the fruits of abolitionism sm-- These will be the fruits of the election of an ap-
Year: 1863

BARSUM's SELF SEwER.-Our readers
may have aoticed The advertisement in an.
other place Of Baruum's Self Sewer. We
have seen them work and think they do
Well. They are highly spoken of BY the
papers. and the Sewing Machine Agents in
chicago sell them now with all their ma
Chimes We have couple OF them that We
Will lend to any one wishing to try them.
Year: 1863

A man lately left his hotel at Chicago with
out going through the triiing ceremony of
paying his bill. But his trunk was in his
room, and as it was so very heavy the land.
lord waited patiently. Bat then he couldn't t
wait forever, and the trunk was finally exam
ined. 1t was nailed to the floor, and-emp-
ty Of course
Year: 1863

No line of English poetry is so rare
ly correctly quoted as the first line of
the 9th verse Of Bishop Berkeley's
verses "On the Prospect of Planting
Arts and Learning in America" The
New York Tribune has it
Year: 1863

The world is full of people who can't
imagine why they dom prosper like their
neighbors, when the real obstacle is not


in banks or tariffs, in bad public policy
or hard times, but in their own extrava-
gance and needless ostentation. The
young clerk marries and takes house,


which he proceeds to furnish twice as ex-
pensiyely as he can afford, and then his
wife, instead of taking hold to earn a
livelihood by doing her own work, must
have hired servant to help spend his
limited earnings. Ten years afterwarI
you will find him struggling on under a
/ load of debts and children, wondering
why luck was always against him, while
his friends regret his unhappy destitution
and financial inability. Had they from


the first been frank and honest, he need
not have been so unlucky. The single
man hired out in the country at ten to
fifteen dollars per month, who contrives
/ to dissolve his years earnings in frolics
, and fine clothes the clerk who has five
J hundred a year, and melts fifty of it in
! liquor and cigars, are paralleled by the
young merchant who fills house with
| costly furniture, gives dinners, and drives
fast horse on the strength of the profits
he expects to realize when his goods are


sold and his notes all paid Let man


have genius for spending, and whether
his income be a dollar day or dollar


a minute, it is equally certain to prove


inadequate. The man who (being single)


does not save money on six dollars a


week will not be-able to on sixty; and if


he does not lay up something on his first


year of Independent exertion, will be
pretty apt to wear poor man S hair into
his grave. .lLa.- ---.-.-. -..--- --..--.
Year: 1863

Our Twelfth regiment, which was almost
constantly on the move during its nine
months service, used to be called tho great
class in geography" ueh. Sherman would
be fit teacher for such class For when.
ever any rapid movement il to be executed,
whenever pursuit is to be made, General
Grant is sure 10 send him to the work. lie
was sent down to Vicksburg to make the
first attack. lie was afterwards sent to the
bluffs on the north side of that city TO Nuke
q feint, and then was ordered to hasten down
to Grand Gulf and to rejoin the main body of
the army in time to take part in the subsc.
quent operations. No soOter was Vicksburg
taken than he was started off to Jackson II,
pursuit Of the foe. and made that terrible
march out and back which was so trying TO
his troops, our Seventh regiment among 9th.
ers. When corps was to be brought up
from the Mississippi to Chattanooga, it was
again Shcrman's which was selected. Taking
with him large part Of the corps, which was
at or near Memphis, he worked for weeks
endeavoring to open the Charleston Railroad
to Bridgeport. Having fought his way to
Tuscumbia, he was recalled to the north side
OF the Tennessee river. lie then hurried to
the front and arrived in time to take part,
and the hardest part, in the great battle of
Mission ridge. Five sixths of the loss in the
battles before Chattanooga was sustained by
his men. nut 20 sooner was the contest end
ed than Sherman was Oh the road to Ring
gold, where very sharp contest took place
with the rear guard Of Bragg's army. And
before we received the news OF that battle,
Sherman was on tho way to Knoxville, more
than hundred miles distant, and was soon
laundering Upon the heels of Longstreet.
We think that Sherman's soldiers ought to
receive from government an extra allowance
for shoes If not for clothing.


Yet this is tho Gen. Sherman who was said
to be crazy, because at the beginning Of the
in Kentucky, two years ago, he
stnted that two hundred thousand men were
needed there for the work. @
Year: 1863

The latest specia en- of the average
British tour t in America is distressed
cockney who WI tes letters to the London
Times. In that journal of the 26th OF
September this traveller takes two columns
to tell his experience in and about Chicago
and the West generally. Some Of his
stories are amusing, showing how hard it
is for an Englishman to arrive at q correct
apprehension Of American affairs. lie was
swindled by newsboy, and, in revenge,
fired n shot at the whole race ofnewsvend
ers after this style:


The Office of the Chicago Tribune is op.
posite to the door of my hotel; that of the
Chicago Times is two or three blocks Off;
yet both thosepapers, and the ten or twelve
Others which see the light in this town,
and those Of New York or other parts of
the Union, are only to be had of ncwsmen,
who buy them at two cents and sell them
at no less than five or six cents. tried to
resist the imposition at Albany or Sarato-
"a, and offered in small change the identic
sum of two or three cents which was print
ed at the top of the page as the sale price of
some trumpery local paper. The boy hand
ed back the money and kept his journaU
This is very triang matter, but it gives
the gauge Of American oxtortion in every
branch Of trade, high or low.


That newsboy evidently astonishcd this
Gulliver by his remarkable independence.
Apparently there was no private house
open to our traveller, for he says again;


The American life must be dogs life,
except in the few instances of men achiev.
ing boundlcss wealth. | need no other
proof of my assertion than the preference
almost universally given to hotel and board.
ing life in this country over private domes
tic arrangements.


Americans at dinner disgust our visitor


The American goes down to his break
fast, dinner, tea and supper calmly and
leisurely; sits down deliberately, pores over
his printed bill of fare for eight Or ten
minutes, and at last issues his orders to
the obsequious blackoy, whose hot breath
and steaming jacket have been regaling
his olfactories ever since he thrust the chair
under the fastdious guests legs, and SHOW
ed him into bis place under the mahogany.
Between the ordering Of dinner and see.
ing it spread before him, between soup and
fish and meat and dessert courses, an Am
erican's dinner never absorbs less than an
hour or an hour and halfs time. Places
Year: 1863

The Committee OF the Edinburgh Ladies' Emancipation So
cety with to add their tribute Of gratitude to that Others
Britain for the liberal aud generous aid sent from the North.
States Of America at time when much national di


ess prevailed at home for the Of the starving


yes Of Lancashe. The deed in accordance with the
highest dictates OF Christianity and that humanity which
recognizes aud brother in the sufferer wherever
found irrespective Of geographical distinctions and bounda


es 1t was nobly and generously done and may te bless
ng Of those who ready to perish the donors


We trust may be permitted TO express hope tina, this
sympathy manifested for the pershDg here earnest that
those who perishng yourselves Will also claim
your warm and helpful sympathy.


We have hsd the pleading voices Of sands Of oooIsd
Year: 1863

tho Board Of Enrolment In the With District o. to whether


the families Of the volunteers in the Invalid Corps would re-
cevs assistance from the city Comms'ioner Lamont ye'ter
day conferred with the Mayor and Controller and w" as
sored by that distinction would be made between the
families Of men the field in .aid corps We understand


that large numbers Of disabled soldiers have been waiting for
this decision before taking any action In the matter and that
now the corps will receive excellent additions both Of
officers and men.
Year: 1863

as if nest of vipers; lay waste all their
homes and drive them into the sea; far
better would it be for the wolf to howl on
every Southern plain and the fox look
out of the window of every Southern
dwelling on the desolation and solitude
of land whose people impiously aud
wickedly strove to destroy the best gov
ernment on earth, but in attempting to
do so, destroyed themselves.


J. NJ. B.
Year: 1863

BENEFIT roR TIE OLD LADIES' Ho4g.-It
is said to be the intention Of Cubas to give an
entertainment at Bryan Hall, some evening
next week, for the benefit Of the Old Ladies'
Home. The noble intention should be
promptly seconded by our citizens. A thou
sand dollars is q low estimate for the amount
that would be netted for the Home.
Year: 1863

THE CRoroN AouEpucr BoARp.-A bill was
passed at tho last session Of the Legislature
empowering tho Croton Board Of this city to
construct reservoir on the upper end of the
island for the purpose Of supplying that por-
ton Of the city with Croton water. The neces


siiy Of this has long been apparent to every
one at oil conversant with that portion Of Man
haitian Island. Fer some cause or other the
Croton Board has not acted In this matter


Nearly nine months have passed away since the
bill became law, and as far as we are able TO
learn not single step has been taken towards
executing the law The people In that portion
Of the city, unable TO obtain supply OF Croton
water from the present reservoirs, can see no
hope now, after they have secured tie passage
of the law, Of obtaining II from that source


Why this delay on the part OF the Croton Board'
Who Is the jobber that they are holding 1t back
for. There Is no reasonable excuse for their
delavina tho commencement Of Tie work AL
Year: 1863

The Two MILLION BOUNTY BoNDs-It appears
that Of the two million loan required by the
city and county of New York for the soldiers
substitute bounty fund, only $4,000 worth
have been taken, and the Comptroller is about
to issue circular calling upon the moneyed in
terest to come forward and invest in these So
curities, in order that the city may be amply
provided with funds to pay for substitutes, and
that the community may be spared the tortur-
ing and perhaps dangerous alternative of a
draft. The government must and shall have
men to aid in putting down this rebellion.
Every one interested in the cause Of the North,
and who has means to aid it, should come for
ward and invest in these securities to enable
the authorities to send to the ranks willing
substitutes.
Year: 1863

this time The law provides ample means for
raising the money and everything else neces-
sary for the Croton officials to have moved In
this matter the moment that the bill was signed.
But yet they have not taken any action, nor
does it look as though they intended to. Ihey
may have been too busy saving party machines
If go they now have the consolation Of know
ing that the party machines have all been
smashed TO atOms, and unless they attend to
their duties and look 10 the interests OF tho
people, whose servants they ere. better than
they have done, they will find 1t very hard
task to save themselves. We would like to
know whether the law of last session of the
Legislature is to be executed, or is to be left
for future generations to put in forcef Who
will enlighten us on that subject