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Year: 1863

THE OPERATIONS IN CHARLESTON HARBoR.-A
total weight of 1872 pounds of metal can be
hurled at given moment upon the rebel works
in Charleston. A single ll-inch gun fired six
ty times, or once every ten minutes for ten
hours win throw ten thousand eight hundred
pounds of metal. a 15-inch gun fired with the
same rapidty will require twenty eight thou
sand FIVE hundred and sixty pounds Any one
OF the monitor class will require thirty mine
thousand three hundred and sixty pounds, near
ly twenty tons, of shot Each monitor will
also use about two tons of powder per day.
The entire fleet, working at the same rate, will
hur at the rebel Notifications four hundred
and fifty thousand pounds of iron in ten hours,
at an expense of fifty thousand pounds of pow
der, or two hundred and twenty-five tons of
shot and twenty five tons of powder.
Year: 1863

1 A LADY in Lawrence saved her husband
from the guerrillas by novel method. She
saw them coming, and tearing up an end of
a carpet, induced him to get under. and kept
throwing it on him till it was all taken up.
She then dragged it into the back yard and
against the fence, he worked himself along
under it. Theu she threw u beadstead,
chairs, etc., upon the top. He remained
there awhile, but finally erawled out into the
corn field. and escaped. They burned the
house, but were willing to save the wi
dcw's' furniture.
Year: 1863

D"mG WELI,-Mat. Chadbourue in passing
frou shop to the street on the night of the
fire, tipped on the telegraph wire, which had
We are glad to know that he is in a comfort
able condition.
Year: 1863

Too B4D.-Twelve neat little cottage resi-
dences on Center street were destroyed by the
late fire. Nothing remains to show their former
presence but the scorched and blighted shrub
berry. This is one of the most distressing
features of the late calamity.
Year: 1863

GEN. CAss.-The health of Gen. Cass is re-
ported to be very feeble. His eyesght is fall
ing, and so exhausted are his physical powers
that be found it impossible few weeks ago to
visit the city of Indianapolis on the occasion of
a grand mass meeting OF the war Democracy
Year: 1863

0TThe " fashion " writer OF the New
York Express announces the fact that no
lady of ton will dare to appear now on
Fifth Avenue or Broadway with trailing
dress or long pctticoat. Short dresses
are the style. They are all scolloped
around the edge and are worn over bal
moral i" jopons, OF length to display the
kid boot or else the skirt is loopel up at
every seam, nearly to the knee, showing
the colored petticoat Of mohair, cashmere
or silk, trimmed either to match the dress
or in tasteful contrast to it, and in cor
respondence with the shade Of the hat or
mantle worn. The leather boots have
very high heels, colorcd, perhaps, and
strings and tassels also. The pcttcoat is
short enough to display the instep, al
least. To every dress suitable for walk
in,, the French modistes nov attach little
rings, through which pass little cords,
running to the waist, to join another cord
which is drawn at will around :he waist
when the lady prepares to promenade,
and loosencd within doors, thus allowing
the dress to resume It's original length in
the SALON. Hoops and skirts are quite
exploded in Paris; ilouncea mohair skirts
being used instead, to enable the dress to
fall gracefully.
Year: 1863

We are permitted 10 copy the following ex-
tracts from letter from an officer at Falmouth;


CAMP FIRST MINNESOTA VOLUNTEERS,


Near FALMOUTH, Va, March Il, 1858.


DEAR FRIEND; Yours OF the 7th instant was
duly received. We occupy
the same camp that we did last fall. The men
are in excellent hsalth-none sick In hospital.
No deaths in the regiment since we came here.


I understahd that our friends are trying to
get the regiment ordered back TO Minnesota, in
order to recruit Il up to full regiment. Moth
ing would suit the regiment better, as we have
been In the service nearly two years, and have
had no opportunity of seeing our friends In
that time. We will not be dissatisfied If they
do not succeed In the undertaking.


You wish TO know how the army likes Gen.
Hooker. As far as have the means Of know
ing, they have great confidence in him, and
that confidence is growing stronger every day.
The army is well clothed, and never was fed
better since its organization. All orders issued
by Hooker are carried out to the very letter.
Gen. Hooker has confidence In himself. The
enlisted men-the bone and sinew Of this war
say he :" knows what he is about" Old SOL
diers, who have been in nearly every battle
commencing at Bull Run and ending at Fred
erlckSburg-in which this army has been en-
gagged, are getting anxious for the time to come
for another fight with the rebcls. We all feel
that Hooker will gain great victory-such a
victory as this war has not yet seen, victory
that will leave us something more than the
mere possession Of the field.


The feeling is intense and very bitter against
our pretended friends at homo, known as "peace
men" and "Copperhesds." The soldiers that
have been in nearly a score of battles, and who
have seen their comrades fall thick and fast
around them in defence of right and liberty,
are not the men to sue for peace. The men
who would accept "peace on any terms" are
towards and trAitors-too pusillanlmous 10 60
where they belong, they sneak through the
country doing all the III in their power. How
long are such things TO be allowed2 How
long are men to be permitted to preach treason
publicly, and yet go unPunishedl hope the
President will take all such In his iron grasp,
and that before many days.
Year: 1863

The first issue of debt certificates falling due in
the present month, has just been paid-the in
terest in gold and the principal in currency.
This simple description of gold bearing securi-
ties is daily rising in popular favor, and earlier
dates than the middle OF February are already
very scarce
Year: 1863

We call special attention to the advertise
ment, in another column, Of tho above named
line. It is promising evidence Of Northern
enterprise, and indicates the increase Of bust
ness In this District and section of country.
Such line is much needed.
Year: 1863

1t will be the object to furnish the latest news
that can be obtained by Telegraph, in addition to
giving n summary of


State and General News, Army Core.


spondenee and Local News
Thus making the DAILY GATE CITY ofipyalu
able interest TO every reading man or woman, who
at all interested IN the success of our Country in
THIS war. Recolect that loyal newspapers are ae-
complishing much in suppressing the rebellion.
and that person is generally judged BY the tone
of the paper which he reads.
Year: 1863

fE- The National Inteligencer seems
very hopeful that the Supreme Court of
the United States will decide the Presi-
dents Proclamation of Emancipation un.
constitutional, and that as a consequence
of such decision the surplus energy Of the
country will be devoted to the enforce
ment of the Fugitive Slave Law, and the
return toDixie and their old masters of the
thousands of colored men who have been
fighting the battles of the country, and
the more numerous thousands who have
turned out to make living for themselves.
Old Nick will most likely be toasting
several members of the Dred Scott Court
down in the lower regions before that
question comes up for decision, and it is
possible their places on the Bench may
be filed by honest men, to the great cha
grin of the Intelligencer, whose devotion
to slave oligarchy is even more intense
than that Of Taney himself
Year: 1863




Notwithstanding the inclemsut condi-
tion of the weather on Sunday evening, a
very respectable number Of citizens turn
ed out to hear the lecture of this eminent
man, who had had been announced by
hand-b bills and from the various pulpits Of
the city. The audience were we'll pleased
with the speaker, and although the sub
ject upon which he spoke is worn thread
bare by the many hundreds of local speak
ers of the day, yet he produced argu-
ments clear and conclusive against the
use of alcoholic liquors


On last evening he spoke again to a
large audience. and although, in justice
to the speaker, we ought to report some
points which he made during his remarks,
We will leave that to an abler pen than
ours. He produced conclusive arguments
to prove that alcohol only existed in de-
composing matter, and was nowhere else
to be found that alcohol could be traced
to the brain within fifteen minutes after
it had been drank. His arguments and
comparisons were well made, and even
though attended often with mirth, they
were none the less powerful in their effect
No report which we could give would be
as interesting or as clearly understood as
to hear the speaker tel. it in his own pleas
ing STYLE Therefore we advise all to at
tend his lecture this evening at the Uni
tartan church, at I o'clock, and not de-
Year: 1863

The New York Commercial Advertiser
says it is fact we'll worth knowing that, for
coming into life in the middle Of Presi-
y to the President, s T., For quarter Of ?
tion Speaker has been elected in every last
Congress of Presidential term.
Year: 1863

At the battle of Fredericksburg, in which
so many gallant heroes fell, Captain Jones
Wallace, of one Of the Ohio regiments,
was mortally wounded. Intelligence that
he was wounded reaching his home, Miss
Henrietta Schneider, of Canton, Ohio, be-
ing affianced to the gallant soldier, started
Immediately to Washington, in company
with friend, to look after him, arriving
on the morning thathis limb was amputated.
After he was safely through with the painful
operation, as was supposed, at her own
request, the brave-hearted girl was united
to him in marriage, sitting by the side of
his cot while the solemn ceremony was
performed. Leaving h IN soon after, in
the care of faithful nurses at the hospital,
she returned to her clearinghouse to seek
the repose necessary to enable her to ad-
minister to his comfort on the morrow,
ere the dawn of which she was again sum-
moned to the side of his couch to find him
dead.


1t seems that some time during the
night the nurse in attendance observed
some blood on the counterpane, and upon
making immediate examination found that
the wounded limb was bleeding profusely,
which he attempted to staunch by tying a
handkerchief around it, but before he
could accomplish it, SO rapid was the flow
of blood, the gallant captain was no more.


The remains of Captain Wallace were
taken to Canton by the bereaved wife, and
buried on Thursday last, with military
honors, some two thousand persons, it is
estimated. being present at the funeral.
Year: 1863

The following incident is told ofthe cap
ture of the steamer Harriet Lane at Gal
weston:


Among the first men struck down were
the gallant Captain Wainwright and lst
Lieut.. Lee, who both fought, the prisoner
says, with desperation and valor that no
mortal could surpass. He saw them bleed
ing and PROSTATE upon the deck, still deal
ing death among their enemies. One
young son of Capt. Wainwright-only ten
years old: just think of it!-stood at the
cabin door, a revolver in each hand, and
never ceased firing till he had expended
every shot. One Of his poor little hands
was disabled by ball shattering his four
fingers, and then his infantile soul gave
way he, burst into tears and cried Do
you want to kill me?" Darling young he
70; may his country never forget him
Where is the Hemans to wed his name to
immortal verse, like another Oassabianca ?
Philanthrepists whose hearts are yearnina
for something to love, here is noble or
phan boy on whom to lavish your care.
He is now prisoner in the hands of the
enemy.
Year: 1863

INCREASING THE FACULTIES.


Amid the vhi11 and excitement Of the
war, it may be well for our business pub !
lie not to lose sight Of the extensions Of |
our lines of railway and the other improve
ments making in the business facilities Of
theaWest. 1t was stated in our Des Moines |
dispatch, last week, that the Cedar Rapids
and Missouri River Railroad Was opened
10 Mazshalltown, reaching, if we mistake
not, a point one hundred and fifty miles
west Of the Mississippi. This carries
the road half why across that
State; and with u. the large interest
the Galena Company, and the parties
owning the road, have in its com
p1etion, it will doubtless reach the Mis-
sourt, certuinly within the next two years.
If this were done there cannot be doubt
that this would be. one Of the best paying
lines upon the continent, for it would at
once command very large share Of the
immense trade and the travel to Colorado
and California. The town now reached
will give the road q large trade, as the val
ley Of the Iowa, in which it is situated, is
thickly settled by an industrious and thriv-
ing people. Our merchants and dealers
will do well to explore this new territory
preparatory to the spring business.


Several weeks since the Chicago and
Northwestern Railway was opened to
Green Bay. twas too late in the season
then for my new plans to be maturcd; but
that the opening Of this line will be very
valuable to Chicago, there cannot be q
doubt. As soon as Spring opens steamers
Oh Green Bay and stages across the pcnin-
sula from little Bay du Noquet will reduce
the time between Chicago and Marquette,
On Lake Superior, to thiHy-six hours. Pas
sengers and light freight will seek this
route, thus proving an important advan-
tage to the city. Probably before the next
season closes, the stage line will be re-
placed by railway, when it will be the
fault Of our own dealers if they do not &C.
cure the supply trade for the rich and pop
n1ous mining districts Of Lake Superior.


Some time since, we noticed the extern
sion Of the New York and Erie Railway
Westward. A week or two since, connec-
tions were made with the Cleveland and
Pittsburgh and the Mahoning roads, and u
party Of Directors and guests arrived at
Cleveland from New York by this route.
By the time the spring business opens, q
third rail will be laid on the AIahoning
road to Lake Erie, thus forming six-feet
guage road between New York and Cleye.
land. Arrangements will be made by
which there will be but a single change o,
cars between New York and Chicago. The
great advantage this will bc to the freight.
ing and forwarding business Of the West
will be seen at a glance. The trans-ship.
mcnt Of freight is very considerable part
Of the expense Of transit,


Thus while the war is desolating some
portions Of the country, the Great North
west is extending her lines into the hear
Of her territory, and the great Eastern 1inss
arc preparing the better to accommodate
her ever-increasing trade. She will more
than fill all the avenues that can be opened
to her commerce.
Year: 1863

A jealous husband was going out on one
occasion to spend an evening, when his wife
said to him: "You needn't hurry home, my
dear, for shall be so very busy ro-nich,
sewing that | shan't be lonesome" This
innocent little speech created an uneasy sus-
picion in his mind, just as the wife bad
calculated. After he had gone the wife
dressed up dummy in suit of her hast
bands clothes, with hat noustacbe, and
everything necessary, and set it up in a chair
beside her. 1t was not long before she heard
sly creaking of the bed room door, and
presently in rushed the enraged husband and
presented pistol at the breast of the dunn
my. The wife shrieked with laughter, and
when the chag,ined husband saw his mistake
be saia Excuse me, my dear, thought it
WAS robber."
Year: 1863

OSE HUNDRED SHors A MlNurE- There
are now 65 Of the Union Repeating guns in
the army Of the Potomac. It is a riff d
arm, breach loading and has telescope
sight. The barrel is much thicker than An
ordinary rifle, although the ball used is only
one ounce in veighl-the ordinary caib,e
of Mimic ball.


The breach of the gun receives the ba |
from the cylinder in which q cartridges are
deposited. BY the turning of crank the
ball drops into the barrel when a hammer
instantly strikes the caps, when tie discharge
takes place The barrel moves upon a pivot
and can be elevated, lowered and moved
around at pleasure. In prospect of capture
the gun can be detached from the carriage
and borne from the field on the shoulder.


Each carriage is furnished with two bar
rels, so that in the event of one becoming
too warm it can be unscrewed and the
reserved one attached The ball and cart
ridge are placed in an iron case. at the end
Of which a percussion cap is fixed The
hammer, which strikes this cap, receives its
motion from the crank.


The rifle is represented as having made
one hundred aud fifty shots minute. One
hundred shots can be fired with ease. Al
every turn Of the crank discharge takes
place. The late exhibition was eminently
successful. Twentyfour shots were fired in
fourteen seconds. Two of those guns are
attached to Sickes brigade.


They were worked with grea; success in
the battles in which that brigade has partic-
ipated. The Government has ordered an
additional number of them. They can be
made for about $3.50. They are known as
Nugents improvement.
Year: 1863

We find the following statement in the
Herald Of Progress. 1t will not cost much
to test the efficacy of the remedy. We
know the very estimahle lady who makes the
statement, and know that she would not
knowingly make misstatement.- Ed.
Times.


A woman in our city had very large
cancer. She had a celebrated physician
from New York, who concluded to Gu, it
ont. 1t grew again. and then a physician
made an application that ale it out. 1t reap
peared, and through it all she was an intense
sufferer. Finally she and her family concIu-
ded there was no help for her. She was
then advised to try a clover plaster which
was made hv filing a small brass kettle With
fresh red clover blossoms After boiling
them in soft water for two hours they were
skinned out, and the kettle again He'd
with the same quantity Of the blossoms in
the same water, when these were skinned
out, the water was boiled down to a sort Of
thin molasses, which when set away, dried
to a consistency like salve. She applied
this externally for perhaps six weeks or two
months at the same time she ahstained from
tea or coffee, and drank the clover tea to
the exclusion of anything else. 1t cured
her cancer entirely. Previous to that
cured one in the same way. I have known
three others who had been real sufferers for
some time, but who were cured bv this treat
ment. consider taking the tea as indsl
pensibe as the salve. / give the reme,l,
very particularly SO that it may be done
right. SARAH D. FISH.


ROCHESTER,, July, 1862,
Year: 1863




Tree WoRM-In conversation with an
intelligent gentleman. who has studied much
upon the nature Of trees, day or two since,
he expressed the opinion that the cause of
the decay of many of Sthe apricot trees
might be traced to a worm which finds is
way into the trunk. 1t is little less than an
egth of an inch in diameter An excessive
quantity Of water for long time about the
tree is likely to cause the worm to breed
and do mischief. They are very likely to
enter the tree by what is called the "tap
root" which in this country is cut off when
the tree is planted. 1t is said that such
cutting causes the tree 10 bear fruit much
earlier but that i: decays much scorer. The
worm dev"urs the pith and causes the tree
to die. 1t sometimes. however enters the
trunk near the ground and can be found BY
carefully washing the tree and making a
close search. A pin or An awl i'll kill the
intruder. In case he cannot be found in the
trunk, it may he well, if practicable, to
examine the tap root and inject strong soap
suds into it, if the insect is out of reach.
Soaking the root with the same may also
have = beneficial effect. The suggestion is
at least worth a considerations when so
much tree property is bei"c lost.


Stockton Republican,
Year: 1863

When Il female is in trouble or afflicted with
disease, and requires medical or surgical assist
ance, the inquiry should he, where is there ply
sican who is fully competent TO administer re-
lef-one whose knowledge of the fem ,le system
is perfect, who thoroughly understands the ap
plcation of medicine to disease, whose scientific
attanments in surgery have made him preeminent
in his profession, and whose respectable standiur
in society recommends him to the confidence of
the community? Unless these and many more
questions, can be satisfactorily answered, the
afflicted should pause before consulting any one


DR.. J.C. YOUNG understanding how imperA-
lively necessary these requirements are feels
called upon TO nterpose, and by calling the at
tenion Of the afflicted to the fact that he has been
n professor of obstetrics and female diseases for
twenty years, and is fully qualified to administer
IN all cases. both medically and sufgicaly not
in a superficial manner, but in rs thorou Oh a
manner as years of study and practice both in
hospitals and private families-can make. to save
them from the hands of the unqualified, unscru-
pulous and desi igning. Therefore, families can
rely upon him as upon q father. All in aflcton
can find in him one who can feel and symplthize
with and beirend them in troublesome in whose
secrecy the utmost confidence can be placed
Come, all ye that are afflicted and in trouble,
and you will be relieved and cured.


EN- Apartments privately arranged so as to
preclude the possibility of exposure and afford
those who wish home all the advantages of con.
slant attention and unremitting private attend
ance
Year: 1863

The Attorney General has decided that
unless the Soldier or sailor who dies of
wounds received in the service, and while
in the line Of his duty, be in the service
az me time of his death, his widow, &C.,
is not entitled to pension. He says;


Unless the person dying by reason of
wounds received or disease contracted
while IN the service in the line of duty,
shah have been in the army, navy or ma
rine corps of the United States in one Of
the grades mentioned at the time Of his
death, his widow, children, or other heirs
named, are not entitled to q pension un-
der this act I"
Year: 1863

Persons who contemplate subscribing
for. the -6ve-tWenty Government Loan
should make their arrangements to do SO
at once, as there is but one week more Of
time within which this desirable security
may be had at par.
Year: 1863

What Northern pro-slavery men deny
what Shareholders admit. The Richmond
Enquirer says


I" The North have discovered from this
war the value Of slavery to the South as a
military Institution and the proclama-
tions Of Lincoln have been designed to
destroy that power in cur hands"


That is it exactly, and a more distinct
Justification Of the policy OF the Govern
ment could not be framed. The Enquirer
well knows the value of slavery as a
institution" and hence it appre-
clates the Presidents sagacity.
Year: 1863

IL If Gen. Price had risked a battle
at Little Rock and failed, the cousequen.
ces would have been terrible. The fate
Of all his army in the entrenchments be-
yond the river wouli have depended on
one frail pontoon bridge. The same
thing might have occurred as at Yazoo
river, when we lost SO many captured


The enemy would have found no further
opposition, and would to-day be in the
Red River valley. As it is, we hold still
all the rich country of South West Ar
kansas, and have an army left which ow
protects all our stores, may yet drive
back the enemy, and in the last resort
may unite with all the other forces in the
department for grand decisive battle.
No one doubts Gen. Prices courage as a
man. In making this movement, SO easily
misunderstood, and subjecting himself to
the censure of the unrefecting, content
to suffer passing cloud upon his own
fame for the public good, be has shown
moral courage entitled to still higher
admiration. Gen. Price is no rash man.
He acts advisedly, and in concert with
the commanding General of the Depart
ment. Patience is all he asks. Future
developments will vindicate the wisdom
Of the plan of defence instituted for the
Department. ---