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Year: 1864

The New York iiey00 thus describes
the result which would follow, if the
rebels were to put their able-bodied
slaves in the field as soldiers. It says


But let us suppose that three hundred
thousand or all the able-bodied negro
males OF the rebellious States now held
by Davis are put into his armies, with
the understanding that each man is to
be a free man and the owner of fifty
acres of land, with the success OF ''tle
Confedcracy," what next? y column
of say twenty thousand of these black
rebel soldiers is brought into collision
with an equal force of Union negro
troops. The Union negroes retreat; the
jeff. Davis negroes pursue, calling out,
1--WE surrender, we surrender"


We are coming. Father Abraham,


Three hundred thousand more


What other result could follow. with
the offer of immediate freedom, not
only to the rebel negro soldier himself,
but to his wife and children? Against
this invitation, is ii likely that one soli-
tary black in the rebel army would pre-
fer to fight his own race for the perpetu-
al enslavement of his family and their
descendants? Not one. OF course,
then, the family of the negro employed
as q soldier by jeff. Davis must be
emancipated before he can be trusted,
and as this concession would involve
the total abolition OF slavery, there
would be no further use for Southern
Confederacy, and it would at once tum-
bic into fragments with the removal of
its foundation.
Year: 1864

nSa- The Newburyport Herald con-
cludes an interesting history of the vari-
GUS substitutes for the large and costly
pipe organ with the following we'll
deserved notice Of the Cabinet Organ:


"All these inventions were, however,
but little more than series Of expert
ments, II striving after an ideal, which
should coinbineall eXceliences and reject
all imperections, which, according to
the universal testimony of the greatest
musicians throughout the world, has at
last been attained in the Cabinet Organ
of Mason q Hamlin. Those who have
had their ears panied by the thin, brassy
sound of the old-fashioned seraphine, in
which the wind was forced instead OF
drawn through, Or who have tried to be
thankful for the improved melodeon,
but wishing there was more of it, can
hardly realize that an instrument of the
same class should be capable of such
power, richness Of tone, and surprising
effects as the Cabinet Organs. 1t is for
tunate, too, that their expense is so low
as to place them within the means OF
almost every family in the land; and
their influence will, we doubt not, be
unbounded in musical, aesthetic, and
social culturen
Year: 1864

when superior race like ours" said
one of the chivalry TO modest looking Fed
,eral soldier. comes in contact with an in
ferior race like negroes, what do you think
viii be the result?'' 81 guess the contact
must result iu a big crop of mulattoes in
your State. Judging from the complexion of
a good many of your people, = retorted the
soldier. Tt
Year: 1864

A maiden lady, whose age is not proper
subject for discussion, warns young men that
the stamp tax on matches is to be enforced
on and after the 1st of September, and that
it would be saving of money to finish up
engagements before that date. ie593
Year: 1864

a gentleman who has travelled through q
considerable portion of the State of Illinois,
reports that the corn crop throughout the
central and southern portions lock we'll and
it is anticipated that the crop win equal the
best ones of former years. -
Year: 1864

GUARANTEES.


We. the undersigned, residents Of In the
County Of, and State Of, hereby Jointly
and seveIslly covenant With the United States and
guarantee in case the foregoing bid of--be
accsptod that no or they will within ten days after
the same with good and sufficient SuretIes in a
su equal to the amount of the contract to furnish
the forage proposed in conformity to the terms of
advertisement dated - 1864, under which the
bid was made, and in case the sAid--shall fall to
enter into contract as aforesaid, guarantee to
make gOOd the difference between tue offer by the
satd----and the next lowest responsible bidder
or the person to whom the contract may be awarded
|-1s64. =
Witness:
Year: 1864

PROCLAMATION FOR DAY oP HuMILEA-


rroN AND PRAYER The President in ac-


cordance with the joint resolution OF
Congress, has issued q proclamation ap-
pointing the first Thursday of August
next as q day of humiliation and prayer
for the people of the United States, rec
ommending them to confess and repent
of their monifold sins, and implore the
compassion and forgiveness Of the Al
mighty and to pray, that if consistent
with His will, the existing rebellion
may be speedily suppressed, and the su-
premacy of the Constitution and laws
Of the United States be established
throughout the States and that the
rebels may lay down their arms, and
speedily return to their allegiance that
they may not utterly be destroyed that
the effusion of blood may be stayed, and
that amity and fraternity may be re-
stored and peace established through
out our borders.
Year: 1864

THE INSTRUCTIONS IN JAMES RIVER
The facts in regard to the distractions
IN James river are thus stated The OBJ
structions are temporary, and can be re-
moved when the army is ready to move.
They were sunk according to the origi-
nal army plan Of campaign, after a
months delay, caused by professional
feeling ON the part of Admiral Lce-a
delay the motive for which every naval
officer will appreciate. If the Admiral
had persisted in his objections against
sinking the distractions which the army
Year: 1864

THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM-The
Washington correspondent of the New
York World says:


"The lull which has followed the late
raid of Generals Wilson and Kautz is
specially observable For the moment
one would fancy there was an end of Of
fensive demonstrations; and that the
Union and rebel hosts were going to sui
lenly face each other for as long peri
cd as they did upon the Rappahannock
and Rapidan after the fight at Gettys-
burg last year All the while, though,
preparations are going on which may
either be intended to deceive the enemy
or TO gather in storm which would
overwhelm the devoted city which
stands like lion in the path to Rich
mond; siege guns of the heaviest calibre
are being mounted, and already enough
of them are in position to sweep Peters
| burg from the face of the earth, If their
! fire was directed on it for twenty four
hours. This preparation may be the
| prelude to such an attack as the French
| and English made upon Sebastopol,


when, amid a fea d'eRftr of artillery that
| stunned and conf0unded the defenders
| of that fortress, the Aaakoff was taken
by assault Perhaps, again, at the very


instant Lee or Beauregard has decided
| that the thunderbolt is about to fall in


that direction, Grant will strike like
| lightning and with fatal effect some


where else. His ways are devious and


past finding out. Those that know him


best learn that they know least about
| him. But he has the implicit confidence


of his army, and the nation is not likely


to lose faith in him until at least Come


untoward event chances to shad LOW the
| splendid record he has made"
Year: 1864

The REBEL DOCTRINE. - Speaking of
Fourth of July celebrations, the Rich
mond Dispatch says "the only doctrine
Of the whole Declaration of Indepen-
dence which the North can consistently
rejoice in is that which asserts the equal
ity Of man, and which is the solitary
blunder in that great document"
Year: 1864

suppose that coquetry, in its legiti-
mate form, is among woman's charms,
and that there is legitimate sphere for
it is a natural thing with your sex. Ma
ture has ordained that man shall prize
most that which shall cost an effort, and
while It has designed that you shall at
some time give your heart and hand TO a
worthy man, it has also provided way
for making the prize he seeks an appar-
emily difficult one TO win. 1t is simple
and beautiful provision for enhancing
your value in his eyes. so as TO mske
dlfficnlt thing OF that which you know to
be unspeahably easy. II you bold your
self cheaply, and meet all advances with
open willingness and gladness, the pstu-
raj result will be that your lover will
tire Of you. To become flirt is TO mel.
amorphose into disgusting passion ibu
which by natural constitution is q harm
less and useful instinct. This instinct Of
eoquetry, which makss a woman thing
TO be won and which l suppose all VIC
men are copcious OF possessing in some
degree, is not thing to be cultivated or
developed at all.


, 1t should be left to itself, unstmulated


and unperverted; and il, in the formative
stage of your womanhood, BY initiating
them, or seeking to make impressions for
The sake OF securing attentions which are
repaid by insult and negligence, you do
violence 10 your nature, you may make
OF yourself woman whom your own sex
despise, and whom ali sensible men who
do not mean 10 cheat you with insinceri-
ties as mean as yours, are afraid Of
They will not love you, and they will not
trust you DR.. Holland.
Year: 1864

TuE PRESIDENTS LAST AND BEST SPEECH.
On Thursday of last week two ladies
from Tennessee came before the President,
asking the release of their husbands, held
as prisoners of war at Johnson's Island
They were put off until Friday, when they
were again put off until Saturday. At each
of the interviews one of the ladies urged
that her husband was a religious man, aud
on Saturday, when tho President ordered
the release of the prisoners, he said TO this
lady: "You say your husband is q relig-
ious man; tell him when you meet him
that say ! am not much of Judge of re-
ligioD but that in my opinion. the religion
that sets men to rebel aud fight against their
Government because, as they think, that
Government does not sufficiently help soma
men to cat heir bread in the sweat of other
mems faces. lie not the sort of religion upon
which people can get to heaven" We havo
given as a caption for this paragraph the
Presidents own opinion of bis little speech.
which be considered his shoxest and best
as we'll % latest.
Year: 1864

LIFE IN DASGER-We would call tue imme-
date attention Of all parties concerned to the
fact that the wall Of the storehouse Just burned
ont at No. 529 Broadway is left standing, un-
supported. We may expect the equiuoctal
storm now at any moment, and strong wind
would inevitably blow down the four stories
Of cracked wall we have referred to. AS it is,
this mass Of brick and stone leans towards the
street Should it fall in the daytime, or even
at night, many lives would be sacrificed. 1t
must be pulled down at once. The city au-
thorites should attend to this.
Year: 1864

While the draft is being enforced in many


places throughout the country, New York is
still exempt, and we hope and trust will con-
tinue to be. The Supervisors Volunteering
Committee continue in daily session, in &C
cordsncs with the desires Of the President, AZ
expressed to Supervisor Blunt, and msa are
being continually enlisted, though the numbers
Per day are not great. Az We have before
stated, Mr.. Blunt and the committee claim that
the quota Of this city is full and more than
full, and this has been positively conceded BY
Provost Marshal General Fry, and this. too,
notwithstanding the State Commissioner swept
OF at q single dash Of the pen thirteen thou.
sand of the twenty-seven thousand naval re-
Year: 1864

cruits who, Mr. Blunt discovered had enlisted
from this city, and of course belonged to our
quota. Hence it is that our quota is fairly
deemed not only full, but in excess. Yet the
accounts of Assistant Provost Marshal General
Hays vary slightly from those of Mr.. Blunt
he claiming q small number as still due TO
make our quota full. How the General ar
rives at this fact is not exactly clear TO
us; and, although full power is vested
in his hands for enforcing . draft, we
hope and believe = fair adjustment will be
made, and the demands of the committee, as
conceded by the Washington authorities, be
accepted and considered as final settlement
This'i due TO the great city of New York
which has done 50 much both in men and
money towards putting down this great re-
bellion.
Year: 1864

ment is apparent either for rise or fall
Some are buying for Wednesdays steamer
but chiefly in small amounts. The dealers
are generally confident of the permanent
high price of gold.


Money is in good supply AMI quite easy
There is a fair demand from the stock
houses which is promptly met at Tper cent
In some instances short losns are offered
below that rate.


Transactions in foreign exchange are
light, there being no large demand for
Wednesdays steamer.


Petroleum stocks.-Very dull
Year: 1864

General Slough and staff arrived here
from the front this afternoon, where he
has been engaged for the past ten days in
superintending taking up the railroad at
Alexandria The road will probably now
be abandoned Cars made regular trips to
Union Mills, sixteen miles from Alexan-
dris.


ThsTrasury Department are still send
Year: 1864

''The South never asked the North to lie anything
but inst IN according 10 them the rights which hev
possess under the Constitution. This is the simple
stpt Of all their eIectioneerng orbast and par


san embellishments. ."-Tatslligencer


Previous to the breaking out of the rebel
lion the Democratic party had had almost
supreme control of the policy of the govern
ment for nearly eight years, and had, at all
times during that time, the power and re
sponsibiity TO safely execute the laws and of
affording to every citizen, North or South


all the rights he could enjoy under the Con-
stitution, and If II be true that any one up to
the tine when actual hostilities were COM
menccd, when our flag had been fred upon
By rebels and enemies on Jan. 9th. 1861, had
been abridged in the enjoyment of his Just
rights under the Constitution, the Democratic
party were responsible, and not the opposi-
ton; but in our reading of history we have
been unable to discover the abridgement Of
a single right which the South possessed
under the Constitution; all the laws they
asked for were passed, and .he records Of our
cour,s and the testimony of our leading states
men show that all such laws were as faithfully
executed as any on the Statute Book, and
vet many of the Southern States claimed the
right to secede, and if the language of the
Hlte7Hgeacer means anything it means thev
were justified in so doing, and w arc glad
that it is so frank and outspoken; it indicates
little progress on Buchanan's famous mes
sage wherein he invented the favorite dogma
''that a state has no right to secede but if
state does secede there is no power under the
Constitution to c3erce ii To return" Who
could ask a more favorable doctrine tc seees-
sion from a President Of the United Stgtes :
Some of the leading statesmen Of the South
counselled observation-disclosures their neigh
bors that no wrong had been committed
we quote from the speech of Stephens. Vice
President of the rebellioas States. delivered
in the Georgia Convention in January, 1861
q Pause, l cntreat you. and consider what
reasons you can ever give that will ever sat
isfv yourselves in your calmer moments. what
reasons you can give to the nations of the
earth to justify your act. They will be the
| calm and deliberate judges ir the case, and to
what cause. or one evil act. can we recur Or
point on which to rest the plea of justiica-
! ton What right has been denied, and
what claim founded in Justice and right has
been withheld? Can any one of you, to-day


name one governmental wrong deliberate
| ly done by the government at Washington


of which the South have the right to com


plain - If no wrong had been committed
Year: 1864

cede, to deny allegiance to the United States,
to rebel? For long time after the rebels
showed determined resistance to the govern
ment the war was conducted on the most
conservative principles, all that was asked OF
them, although they had forfeited the right
to life and property by committing the crime
of treason, was to throw down their arms,
acknowledge their allegiance to the govern
ment of the United States and obey the laws
Was this asking too much? What has been
done since By the government, or what has
been since demanded is consequence of
their inveterate opposition to the supremacy
of the government of the United States, and
their inhumau cruelty.
Year: 1864

The Congressional Convention for this
District will meet at Boscobel on Wednes-
day, the 9TH of September In the selec-
ton of Delegates we should have men of
known integrity and ability-men that are
not subject to bribery or likely to be
frightened from the path of duty.


There is no doubt but that our present
representative, Col. AMAsA COBB, will be
re-nominated He has been tried and
found faithful to the interests Of his con-
stiueney, always on hand, ever voting for
the right. The people cannot afford to
lose his services in Congress, for there
they are invaluable.


We extract the following from the Mon
roe Sentinel, as exacti, our sentiments


1t gives US pleasure to state that Col
Cobb is candidate for recollection this
fall. We mentioned last week that he
had been commissioned as Colonel of the
43d Regiment, and we regretted it because
we thought it would lose us his services
iii the House. As Congress does not meet
however, until the 4th of December and
adjourns on the 4th of March (during
which time it is not probable that our Vir-
ginia army will do any work it is not like
ly that his military duties will interfere
with his Congressional this winter while
the early adjournment of Congress in the
spring viii leave him at liberty to take
the field long before active operations of
the next campaign will be inaugurated
We believe that his denomination will
give unalloyed salts faction. to his constit-
uency at home and the boys in blue
from this district will roll up such a ma
jority for him in the army as no other
candidate could command
Year: 1864

Heu advertisements
Fall and Winter, 1864.
BARRXNGER & son,


Opposite the Old Court House,
HIGH STREET. MINERAL POINT,


B
Have received from Boston and New York and are
Offering TO the people Of Iowa county the choicest and
most extensive stock of Goods ever introduced here
TO which they invite the attention of cash purchasers


A
Year: 1864

tai No. IS near by, and had the Surgeon !, ;
charge examine him. He was then bleed
ing freely, and the Surgeon said it was i'm
possible to save his life. After lingering
for two or three hours in great agony, Willis
died victim to the internal policy Of arm-
Ing niggers and placing them in positions
OF trust or Importance.


The niger was arrested and placed under
guard for q few hours, but was again placed
upon duty there the same afternoon, as If to
brave the universal feeling OF indignation
that thrilled the city when the occurrence
was generally known. AaJ


MIR. Willis was a gentleman much esteem
ed, of harmless and Quiet disposition, was
perfectly sober, and there was not the shad-
ow of pretence for his cruel murder. He
leaves young wife, to whom he had been
but few weeks married. r.


The Coroners inquest returned verdict
OF unjustifiable shooting, and blame the
guard in measured terms as was policy in a
city where martial law Is the rule and only
mod of some shoulder-strapped noodle is
needed to consign man to cell, inside
the walls of the penitentiary. The current
OF popular feeling, however, is SO strong,
that General John F. Miller, commandment
of the post, has ordered the Louisville Le-
gion here for post duty, in place of the mig
ger regiment. The Legion was raised by
Gen. Rousseau at Camp Joe Holt, opposite
Louisville, when hostilities first commenced,
and what there is left of it is composed of
very fine men. 1t will be a most agreeable
relief to see the last of these strong scented
blackguards take their way to the front.
They are needed there. ..
Year: 1864

The Orleans New York; Republican re-
lates that one day last week eX-Comptrol-
Ter Lorenzo Burrows discovered, in build
ing belonging to him, small snake sus-
pended by the neck under a shelf. On ex-
animation, the suspension proved to be ac-
complished by nothing more substantial
than the threads of spiders web.


The main web or nest of the spider was
just under the shelf, perhaps two and half
feet from the floor. From this depended a
cable formed of number of strands, and
from this hung the snake. The upper half
of the snakes body seemed to be wound
around with the tiny thread, which was so
tightly drawn about his head and throat as
to prevent the reptile opening its MOUTH
Having thus secured him, the spider SEEM
ed intent on drawing his prey up to his net,
and when discovered had so far succeeded
as to have half the length of the snake from
the floor.


The snake manifested its dislike of the
treatment by occasional violent struggles,
in which he would spring from the floor
and exert his utmost powers to break his
filmy bands. The struggles were very
complacently and unconcernedly watched
by the spider fiom his nest above. The
snake was about a foot in length, and the
spider was by no means large specimen
of his species. The apparently unequal
struggle was witnessed by more than one
hundred persons during the day, attracted
by the report of the singular contest. But
that the cable was accidentally broken by
a person who entered the room, the spider
would have undoubtedly drawn the snake
to his den. This singular case presents
double room for wonder-first at the ''strat-
egy" of the spider in getting his coils about
the snake, and second at the wonderful
strength evinced in drawing up a reptile at
least one hundred times his weight.
Year: 1864

The New York Tribune, speaking of Cos
gress, and OF the weak and bad men in IT,
says:


Why do We speak Of those things2


Simply TO warn the people that they must
resolve TO stop eleeting to responsible posi-
tons such men AS now buy or bore their way
into Congress or the country is lost beyond
redemption. II cannot ontlast ten years more
Of such government as we have had for the
last ten years; aud, weak or wicked as our eN.
ecutives have often been, they have generally
besu better than the average Of our members
Of Congress. ...


Ofeourse, there are, and always have been,
good men in CongresS-lArge minded, clear.
headed, capable, worthy and patrlotic--but
one Lot could not save Sodom We are now
in the grandest crisis Of our national history
and we choose dwaris TO do the work which
might we'll employ angels There may be for
" men in the two Houses who richly deserve
10 be there but there are at least hundred
who would be- in business fully up to their ca.
pacty IL one.h half VI them we're trying twenty
dollar snits as Justices Of the peace, with the
other half pe,tifogging before them.