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Year: 1863

The bill passed by the United States
Senate for enrolling all the able-bodied men
of the nation, and for calling them out,
when necessity requires it, for the suppress
sion Of rebellion or resistance to a FOREIGN
foe, Is one ofthe most important measures
OF the session. 1t cannot be denied that
every man living under the protection of
the laws and fit to perform military duty,
owes that service whenever the nation or
the government represents it is in peril
Our country finds itself in this position at
the present time, and Congress rises to a
true comprehension of its duty, when it
places at the command Of the Government
Ill the means the nation possesses to defend
itself from dissolution as a political power


No exemption are allowed in the conscrin-
ton bill except such as cannot be avoided


with the prompt performance of the civil
functions Of the Government The official
persons exempted are the Vice-President,
the Judges of the United States Courts, the
heads OF the Executive Departments and
the Governors of States. The bill takes in
all able-bodied persons from the ages of
twenty to forty-iiye who are citizens or de-
clared their intentions to be citizens. Per-
sons physically and mentally weak, and the
only sons of widows or parents dependent
upon him for support, the only brother of
orphan children under twelve years of age,
dependent upon him for support, are all
exempt. When father and son of the
same family are in the military service, the
residue, not exceeding two persons. are
exempt. No person who has committed a
felony will be allowed to be enrolled or to
serve in this militia force.


The whole force is to be divided into two
classes, the first embracing those between
twenty and thirty-fye years, and all un-
married persons above that age up to forty
! fve. The second class embraces al other
Year: 1863

a FoKrUNE-Wc learn that Ex-Gover-
nor Ross. of this State, has recently made
quite handsome addition to his previously
snug fortune. 1t seems that Oh his arrival
at Liverpool, England, last summer, during
his Europcn tour. a vessel came into that
port loaded with cotton. Ross immediate
lypurchased the entire cargo at thirty cents
per pound. lie has recently disposed Of it
at some ninety cents per pound, which of
course was good profit But in addition to
this, he received as purchase money gold,
consequently yielding an advanced per
centage at its present high rate. Altogeth-
er the speculation was such an one as can
not be made at all times.-NucS.
Year: 1863

The Confederate House of Representatives have
passed bill authorizing the imprcssment Of slaves
and property for the use of the army and have adopt
ed resolution instructing the Committee on the Ju.
dietary to report bill providing for the sale of al
negroes taken in arms against the Confedsracy, the
proceeds to be divided among the capturs.
Year: 1863

UNCONsuTUTONAL~-It will be seen lev
the letter Of our correspondent on board the
.Noatjuh and by the telcgrarhic news thai 4
negro who ran away from the rebels was Of
the greatest service to Capt. Wor'ien The
Captain had 50 little regard for the owner
that ne did not fog the negro and send him
back, but retained him. That is a case
over which the 8 Copperheads ought to
shed tears, and pour out their malediction<
upon the officers who carry on war in
this unconstitutional way-IIvr6teacc Jour-
al
Year: 1863

Sow FLAx.-Every farmer should SOW
few acres of ground with flax seed. Cot
ton is becoming SO scarce that some article
must be substituted for it. Our fathers and
mothers formerly slept betweenlincn sheets,
used linen towels and table cloths, and we
must do the same. Beside ar ialmcnsc
quantity of bagging rope, &c, will be want
ed. An acre of good land will yied about
ten bushels Of seed, and ton and half to
two tons of straw. The former is now sell
ling at 1925 per bushel, aud we understand
that it Isl in contemplate on to erect marhin-
cry in our State that will make market
for the straw. The farmers in Kent threw
away great quantities of straw the past sea-
son, thus making a great waste. The land
should be prepared the same as for oats,
and the seed should be sown about the 1st
of April.
Year: 1863

A miser who was asked why he had
married a girl from his own kitchen, said
that the union was attended with q dou-
BILE advantage-it saved him not only the
expense of wife, but the taxes of a SER
Year: 1863

TURNING THE TABLEs.--The Day
ton Journal thus turns the tables up
on the copperhead grumblcrs in Ohio,
who will not he comfortcd for the de-
feat of Vallandigham:


Notwithstanding the watchfulness
of the Union men, the copperheads
succeeded in importing enough voters
into Ohio to increase the vote for
their ticket several thousands. The
rascals therefore have q double sin to
answer for--the sin of colonizing, and
the sin of not colonizing enough to
succeed in their rascality. This must
he q soothing reflection to them.
Year: 1863

THE Tricks OF THE TRADE EXPOS
ED.--The Richmond Enquirer is well
posted with regard to the sentiments
and motives which control the Dem
ocratic leaders in this State. 1t de.
scribes both as follows:


We doubt not that large portion
of those in the opposition are playing
ther card. cunningly--that they are
anxious to stop the war: but knowing
that an unconditional opposition TO il
would I've so unpopular that they could
not maintain it, they make the sup.
preston of the rebellion one of the
planks of their platform. The com
mon people instinctlvely ask, "if you
all agree with the Government that
the rebellion must be crushed, why
do you oppose the Government ?
Why not give it men and money to do
what it is so earnestly striving to do 7
The answer is most difficult and car
hardly satisfy the masses.
Year: 1863

ES- The Copperheads who make
so much noise about soldiers being
permitted to vote, seem to think that
the only right of the soldier which
they are bound to respect is the right
to shoot and be shot at; and that q
man who is willing to die that his
country may live, is untitled to de.
clare through the ballot box who shall
administer the precious legacy which
he is to leave for his children, conse
Grated as it is by his blood, and glo
rifed as it will be by his devoted pat
riotism.-Cin. Commercial.
Year: 1863

The man is drmce who believes
that freedom will diminish the wages
of the laborer. Under what despot-
ism is labor more literally rewarded
than in n free country? 1t ia not
known by every one that the reward
of manual toll rises just in proportion
as justice and liberty auvaucer ms
is the law on that subject, and slave
ry instead of keeping up the prices OF
labor in the free States, has kept it
below what it would have been, and
if this war shall entirely destroy this
last remains Of despotism in our
country, labor North and every
where in our broad land will be great
ly benefited
Year: 1863

Deluge Dance. e.-Remember the dance at
the Deluge Engine House tomorrow night.
Tickets fifty cents. No gentleman admitted
without lady. All who desire to spend
pleasant evening will attend.
Year: 1863

Mutual Aid soclety.-We are requested
to announce that tho Mutual Aid Society for
the Fourth Ward will meet next Monday
night at eight clock, at John Gengnagles, s,
on the corner Of Fifth and Ludlow streets.
The draft is coming, and the business of the
society demands the attendance of every
member
Year: 1863

dollars in Gold and Silver Stolen We
learn from the Cleveland Plain Dealer that
few evenings since the dwelling house of
Mr.. George Faulkner of that city was entered
by thieves who stole q large ammount Of mon
ey in specie


"Mr. Faulkner@is an Engishman, who
came TO this country few years since, and
has, for some time, been keeping grocery
and provision store on Prospect street. When
he came TO this city he brought with him
about one hundred and fifty pounds in English
money, which he placed in stone crock and
buried in his cellar As he accumulated
money from the profits Of his store he turned
it into specie, and added to the pile in his
crock, which formed his safe 1t was his in
tention to close his business in the spring and
buy farm, paying cash down for IT,


Last night Mr.. Faulkner and his wife.
with their two sons, aged respectively thirteen
and sixteen, went to be bed. They kept a dog
and very savage dog was also in the yard
of neighbor. Some time during the night
the cellar was entered by some one through
the window, the hidden treasure found and an
the money, being somewhere between Eve
and seven thousand dollars, carried of. The
family heard no noise, and the dog gave no
alarm The dog Of the neighbor was found in
a yard two or three houses distant having
been united from its usual place and tied up
in the yard where found.
"Mr. Faulkner said that only hipself and
his wife knew OF the hidden deposit, and neith-
er had given any one the slightest reason to
suspect its existence.
Year: 1863

N BY GALES & SEATON.


JAMES G. wELLING, ASSOCIATE EDITOR.


The subscription price Of this paper for yearis Two
DOLLARS, payable in advance.


reduction Of 90 per cent oneh Of the full chargel
will be made to any one who shall and pay for at
tme ten copies Of the Weekly paper and reduction OF
25 per cent Cor oneourth of the full charge) any
who will order and pay for, at time, twenty more
copies.


No being kept for this paper will not be sent
to any unless paid for advance any longer than
the time for which it 10 paid.
Year: 1863

The "Autocrat' of the AH1nhc MonLtly
gets off the following:


"But coniound the make believe women
we have turned loose in our streets, where
do they come from Why there isn't a
beast or bird that would drag its tail,
through the dirt in the way these crea-
lures do their dresses. Because u queen
or a duchess wears long robes on great
occasions, a maid of-all work, or factory
girl thinks she must make herself a nui-
sance by trailing through the streets pick
ing up and carrying about with her-bal
that's what l call getting vulgarity into
your bones and marrow. Making believe
be what you are not is the essence of
vulgarity


Show over dirt is the one attribute of
vulgar people. If any man walk behind
one of these women, and see what she
rakes up as she goes, and not feel squeam-
ish he has got tough stomach.-I
wouldn't let one of them into my room
without serving them as David did Saul
al the cave in the wilderness-cu of her
skirts


Don't tell me that a true lady ever
sacrifices the duty'ef keeping all around
her sweet and clean to the wish of making
vulgar show. l don't believe it Of
lady.


There are something's which no fashion
has any right to touch, and cleanliness is
one of these things


If woman wishes to show that her
husband or father has got money which
she wants and means to spend, but doesn't
know how, let her buy yard or two of
silk and pin it to her dress when she goes
out to walk but let her unpin it before she
goes into the house, there may be some
poor woman that will think it worth dis
injecting,


1t is an insult to a respectable laun-
deross to carry such things into house
for her to deal with.
Year: 1863




We are not given to much laudation of
the Chief Magistrate and other rulers of
the Republic, but the following tribute to
the President, i'll a recent issue of the New
York Times, is so just that we transfer it
to our columns with the fullest endorse
ment;


Abraham Lincoln is to-day the most
popular man in the Republic. All the
denu eiations and all the arts of dema.
gogues are perfectly powerless to wean
the people from their faith in him There
is a general conviction that he is just the
man for the occasion, and it is a conyic-
tion that is constantly growing clearer and
deeper. The more experience the country
has of President Lincoln, the more he OBJ
tains its confidence. 1t would be hard to
think of two men more unlike in some of
their characteristics than the first Pre-
sident and our present one. Yet, in
general cast of mind and heart the
latter probably more nearly resembles
Washington than any of his predeces-
sors. Without anything like brilliancy
of genius, without any very great
breadth of information, or literary ac-
eomplishment or inventive power, he
still has that perfect balance Of thoroughly
sound faculties which gives an almost in
fallibly sure judgment This, combined
with great calmness Of temper great firm
ness of purpose, supreme moral principle,
and intense patriotism, makes up just that
character which fits him, as the same quail
tiles fitted Washington, for wise and
safe administration of affairs in the seas n
of great peril"


The country will some day know what
it owes to the "supreme moral principle
and intense patriotism" of the present
Chief Magistrate, and when that debt Of
gratitude is rightly appreciated, his very
name will be household word of bene-
diction and affection. Had the President
not been specially endowed with " that
perfect balance of thoroughly sound facul-
ties which gives an almost infallibly sure
Judgment the country could never have
been guided through the crisis that has
overtaken it. In no period of our history,
Year: 1863

One of the most curious features of
japanese lite is the strange contrariety of
some of the customs of the people to those
of the Western nations, which is thus
pleasantly hit off by Sir Rutherford


"Japan is essentially a country Of para
doxes and anomalies, where all, even
familiar things, put on new faces, and are
curiously revered. Except that they do
not walk on their heads instead of their
feet, there are few things in which they do
not seem, by some occult law, to have been
impelled in perfectly opposite direction
and a reversed order, They write from
top to bottom, from right to left, in per-
pendicular instead Of horizontal lines, and
their books begin where ours end, thus
furnishing good examples Of the curious
perfection this rule of contraries has at
tanned Their locks, though initiated from
Europe, are all made to lock by turning
the key from left to right. The course of
all sublunary things appears reversed. n
Their day is for the most part our night,
and this principle of antagonism crops out
in the most unexpected and JiSarTe way
in all their moral being, customs, and
habits l leave to philosophers the ex-
planation-I only speak to the facts
There old men fly kites while the children
look on ; the carpenter uses his plane by
drawing it to him, and their tailors stitch
from them they mount their horses from
the off-side the horses stand in the
stables with their heads where we place
their tails, and the bells to their harness
are always on the hind quarters instead Of
the front ladies black their teeth instead
of keeping them white, and their anti
crinoline tendencies are carried to the
point of seriously interfering not only with
grace of movement, but with all locomo-
ton, SO tightly are the lower limbs, from
the waist downward, girt round with theiI
garments"
Year: 1863

London bread, Judging from the man
ner in which the bakeries are kept, can
hardly be the most palatable or the most
wholesome of food. Mr.. Tremenheere
has lately made report on the condition
Of the bakeries, which is likely to create
strong distaste against shop bread. A
London paper writing of the shop bread
says "it was prepared in loathsome, un-
derground den, reeking with filth and
vermin the hands with which the dough
was mixed were dirty and the exertion
of handling heavy masses of leavened -four
in close, unventilated bakehouse caused
the perspiration to roll off the arms and
face Of the workmen in streams into the
trough. The board on which the dough
was laid preparatory to its being fashion
ed into loaves, had served but few mo-
ments before, with filthy sack thrown
over it as a temporary couch of journey
man baker, to whom personal ablution
was a stranger" To fill up this picture
of horrors, there is one bakehouse at the
West End in which the space between the
kneading-trough and the wall was used
for nameless purpose.
Year: 1863

The next day the victim will arrive at
the school-a large barn-like building
and will find several other victims, old and
young, undergoing tuition from their
riding a man in boots, with limbs
of steel and lungs of brass, who stands in
Year: 1863

JoB's PATIENCE As VIEWED BY
LADY.-"If there as proverb that needs
revamping, it is He patience Of JoJ.'
Now in the first place, job sodsnt patient.
Like all the rest of his sex, from that day
to the present, he could be heroic only for
little while at time. He began brayely,
but ended, as most of them do under an
noyance, by cursing and swearing Pa
tient as job ! Did Job ever try, when he
was hungry, to cat shad with frisky
baby in his lap? Did Job ever try, after
nursing one all night, and upon taking
his seat at the breakfast table the morning
after, to pour out coffee for six people,
and second cups at that before he
had a chance to take a mouthful
himself? Pshaw I've no patience
with Jobs patience 1t isof no use
to multiply instances but there's not
faithful house.mother in tue land
who does not out-distauce him in the
twenty-four.' The lady who writes the
above, would probably admit, however,
that Job was very patient-for man.
Year: 1863

wrangling over the enrolment and the quota.
the President had at once announced that the
draft would be suspended for thirty sixty days.
and the State given an opportunity TO I'll its
quota by enlistmeDts. the same as in New
jersey. Accompanying that statement should
have been the announcement that the draft would
be enforced at the expiration of. that period for
all delinquences. The people would then have
taken hold Of the matter and offered large boom
ties. If one thousand can be enlisted in this
city in one week under the present circumstances.
what is to prevent five times that number being
obtained, with increased bOunties and a universal
effort to obtain recruitsf The claims for dam
ages against the city for the destruction of prop
eriy amount to nearly one and half millions
Suppose the city had appropriated that amount
before the draft commenced. in bOunties; is there
any person who doubts that with an additional sum
to the State and United States bounties the quota
Of this city could have been obtainedf Would il
not have been far better for the reputation of all
concernedf Had we not better spend like
amount in hounties than another such sum for
property destroyedf
Year: 1863

there is great deal Of travel through
the State.


| shall long remember the morning
when my foot first trod the soil of q
slave State. Tho odor of dirt still
cI'ngs to my garments. President
Lincoln had better issue proclama-
tion of soap-suds and white wash next
January, and have his Generals, who
are drinking poor whiskey, and pa
rading with fine horses and body guard
in this section, see that it is properly
enforced.


l do not like this town nor the class
of people here, and shall probably go
to Chicago in few weeks, and per-
haps in . few days. T
Year: 1863

1t was a noble and beautiful answer
of the queen, the monarch of free
people. reigrirg more by love than
law, because seeking to reign in the
fear of God lit was a noble answer
she gave to an African prince, who
sent an embassage with costly presents
and asked her in return to tell him tho
secret of England's greatness and
England's glory |; and the beloved
queen sent him, not the number Of her
feet, not the number of her armies, not
the account Of her boundless merchan-
disc, not the details of her inexiiaustis
BILE wealth--she did not, like Hezekiaii
in an evil hour, show the ambassador
her diamonds and rich ornaments, but,
handing him beautifully bound copy
OF the BIBLE, she said, Tell the prince
that this is the secret of England's
greatness" ,fa E 80
Year: 1863

God bless our native land,
Firm may she ever stand,


Through storm and night;
When the wild tempests rave,
Ruler of wind and wave,
Do Thou our country save


BY Thy great might.
For her our prayer shall rise
To God, above the skies /;


On Him we wait.
Thou who art ever nigh,
Guarding with watchful eye
To Thee aloud we cry,


God save the State
Year: 1863

There is dew in one flower and not
in another, because one opens its cup
and takes it in, while the other closes
itself and the drops run off. God rains
his goodness and mercy as wide spread
as the dew, and If we lack them it is
because we will not open our hearts
and receive them. sri
Year: 1863

l don't miss my church as much
as you may suppose" said lady to
her minister, who called on her during
her illness, "for l make Betsy sit at
the window, and she tells me who is
going to church aud whether they
have got anything new.n
Year: 1863

Not an oath is uttered that does
not vibrate through all time in the
wide spreading current OF sound not
prayer is lisped but its record is
stamped on the law Of nature by the
seal of the Almighty's will. ii
Year: 1863

Come boys let US sing to the praise of our master
who cures every pain with his famous shin plaster;
Hes sound on the Black, and he's sound on the


green,


Hes the soundest old codger that ever was seen
oh. Oh Shin Plaster Chase,


You've a nice green back and sweet black face!
AS Shin Plaster Chase has no nuggets to weigh,
He might put by his scales for far distant day,
But the cunning old codgers too laundering wise,
so he draws them right over the dear peoples eyes!
oh. OH Shin Plaster Chase,


You've a nice green back and sweet black face!
'0hl think how contracted our contracts would be,
If the pretty new green backs were flowing less


free,


And think how the sly little profits would end
IOf the Senate, the House, and the Ministers


friend


'0h Oh Shin Plaster Chase,


You've a nice green back and sweet black face!
They say that the wounded houseless and bare
That the soldiers starving-but what do care?
The issue We scof at in spite of their fuss
For the issue of Greenbacks 5 the issue for us
'0h Oh Shin Plaster Chase,


You've nice green back and a sweet black facet


New York Argus
Year: 1863

OSE day, says the Louisville Journal. the
telegraph viii tell US Of two vast armies con-
fronting each other al such close quarters as TO
be able to see the whites Of each others ewes,
and yet the very next day it will coolly talk as
II II had never dreamed of their being within
twenty miles of each other. We don't suppose
the lightning itself is chargeable with lying,
but It's managers lie ike thunder
Year: 1863

Ben WADE THREATENS TO GO OVER TO JEFF.
DAvIs.-There is a certain man, with foreign
title, one Count Gorowski, who has been hang
ing for some time about the Court and Par
lament at Washington. The Count has re-
Gently published diary of bis observations on
men and things at the American Capital. The
following is an extract from that curious work !:


Il am told that the patriotic and brave
Senator Wade, dsgusted with the slowness and
inactivity of the Administration exclaimed ::
do not ,ronder that people desert to JET. Da-
ais, as he SholrS brains; may desert myself"


EFFECT OF EMANCIPATION ScHEME.-The
Newburyport Herald (Repubcan) talks SEN
siby and nationally, when it says there is no
doubt that our schemes of emancipation have
concentrated the whole power of the South,
as Mr.. Blair said, months ago, it would, and
made the rebels tenfold stronger than they
otherwise would have been. To day the proc
lamation of emancipation would be supremely
ridiculous, and would be so regarded by all the
worll. Equally injurious to the cause of the
Union has been the radical plan of blotting out
the States, and the talk of governing half the
country by military force"


A YOUNG advocate, boasting of his readiness
to undertake the defense of any person accused
of crime, declared be would as soon undertake
the cause of man whom he knew to be guilty
as one whom he believed to be innocent An
aged Quaker being present he applied to him
for the correctness of his views. What say
you TO that old gentleman ?"


Why, say replied the Quaker " that if
thee lived in my neighborhood, should keep
my stable locked-thatS 5 ALL"