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Year: 1864

A DAUeHTER's LovE.-There is no
one so slow TO note the follies or sins of
a father as a daughter. The wife of his
bosom may fly in horror from his embrace,
but his fair child cleaves to him In bound
less charity. Quickened by the vista
ton of pain to the parental dwelling, her
prayers are brief, but more earnest--het
efforts doubled and untiring--and if she
can but win transient smile from that
sulen and gloomy face, she is paid for
all her seepless cares and unceasing la
Dor. The farmer may sink from deep to
deep--from low to yet lower depth
Satan's kinsman and Satan's prey. Those
who in happier hour received largely Of
his benefactions, may start when they be-
hold his shadow, aud accelerate their
pace to get beyond tall, all may for
sake him-God and the world-al but
Satan---and his daughter. Poor child |
If thou canst not save, thy feeble torch,
made rs bright rs thy power canst make
it, throws, at least, Pickering light up
on the path, till the object of thy un-
quenchable love has forever left thee, and
is shrouded in the thickest darkness; and
when undone-when gone from thee and
gone forever-lhough thou mayest wed
thy early love, and know in him all thy
young heart pictured, vet, again and
again, ih the midst of thy placid JOY,
even with thy smiling infant on thy knee,
the last one will not be forgotten. See
ing the past, as if Il were only yesterday,
forgetful of thy darling, thou wilt exclaim
from the depths Of thy ever mindful and
afectionate spirit, "My father! o, my
falherp
Year: 1864

The Philadelphia .Age speaks as fol
lows: The New York World deplores
the hesitation Of the masses in that city
10 answer the requisilion for more troops,
and is discouraged to find that the total
number Of volunteers recruited in that
city during the week ending on Saturday
last was only one hundred and twenty
SIX. Other papers are complaining that
the people do not respond promptly TO
the call Of the President. The new con.
scription does not seem 10 stimulate vol
unteering. Everywhere it seems to have
fallen. like blow OH the benumbed spir.
il of the North. Every one asks, with
an ill-concealed anxiety, where are these
five hundred thousand men to come from,
and what is to be their doom9 When
they, like all before them, are wasted in
fruitless conflict, ere there TO be others
called for, and will the hideous sacrifice OF
life and health and industry ever be stay
ed? These are thoughts that will pre-
sent themselves. These are questions
which must be answered within the sad
and short interval Of forty days, at the
end of which time the knell will sound,
and the frightful lot be cast that separ.
ates the surviving child from the mother
the young brother from his dependent
sister, and sends him to be picketed among
the innumerable graves of Virginia and
Georgia--to fight in useless battles. We
have right, at this distance from the chi
sis, to speculate on the result of this anx-
ious mediation of an excited and exhaust
ed people, and on the answers which may
be given TO these terrible questions, which
men 'ciU ask of men before the day Of
doom arrives. Of one thing we are very
certain, that the rural population, at least,
will not be much influenced by what they
read in the mercenary news papers which
uphold the military action of the admins
tration, and that something more than
threadbare rhetoric about the Flag, and
the Union, and the Capitol, will be need
ed to couuteract the just Indignation
which these respective drafts, never ef-
fecting anything excite. The farmer, who
secs the enrolling officer coming to his
door to take the only hand left-perhaps
his son--that works the plow; the poor
woman who is watching the children
while her husband tolls at the loom, or
10 the mine, and knows that her husband
is to be taken away to die, and she and
her little ones left to starve on poor pa
per allotment which half the time is not
paid, these have right, which no des-
potism can destroy, to demand the rea-
son Of all this, and why the bard work
ing sons of Pennsylvania should be sent
time and agaiu--to fight battles which
result in nothing but so many more graves
filled.
Year: 1864

The attention Of the people cannot be
called to frequently TO the solemn fact
that the man who now directs the desti-
nies of the nation has resolutely deter
mined that the Union shall not be restor-
ed, and that the Constitution shall be
thrust aside, that the country shall be
reyolutionized and its government chang
ed from democracy to machine Of
one man power.
Year: 1864

AN exchange has positive assurance
from an experienced lady, that salt and
water is a certain specific for bed-bugs,--
After washing the places where they do
most ramble, gil the cracks 10 the bedstead
with salt and they will retire IN disorder
Year: 1864

Whoever intends TO purchase good Family
Sewing Machine, Of any kind, will do we'll to
call at the News Office. We can furnish thom
at all times upon the most advantageous terms


PRopRIEToRs OF THE News.
Year: 1864

THE recent proclamation "To all whom
II may concern" has given concern to
nearly all Of Mr.. Lincoln's old supporters.
They regard it as an avowal that our ar
mics are 10 the field no longer to restore
the Union, but only to force on the South
a delusive system Of negro equality"
Year: 1864

Business Cards, one line each, 50 per year.
Advertising by the column at rates Of special
agreement


One square is one inch Of column or less.


Advertisements without special directions rs
to time will be inserted and charged for until or
dered out.


Legal advertising at legal rates. When
postponement is added to an advertisement, the
whole is charged as for the first insertion.
Year: 1864

On Thursday next, Oath inst. the Union
State Convention assemblies at Sacramento,
for the parpose of sending delegates to the
National Convention to be held in Baltimore
in June next.


So far as we have heard the expression of
the people in various sections of the county.
it has been an endorsement of the action OF
the County Central Committee in selecting
delegates to represent this county in the
State Convention. The choice of delegates
could not have been better distributed
throughout the county, and they will by their
votes in Convention as we'll carry out the
wishes of the Union party in this county as
if they had been chosen by Convention.


There is but one sentiment prevailing
among Union men in this county as to who
should be nominated for President, and
therefore the only question for our delegates
to determine is, who are proper persons to
represent this State in the National Conven-
ton. Let fidelity to the cause of the Union,
throughout our fearful struggle for national
existence. be the crowning qualification for
the high trust reposed in them. We have
men of commanding talent in this State, who
possess not only the will to support the Gov
ernment. but who, if elected to the National
Convention, will exert great influence with
the Administration in obtaining additional
protection for the Pacific coast against the
inroads of pirates, as well as the menaces of
European powers.


We have no particular choice of men as
delegates, but shall be content with those
who may be selected. provided they are cho-
sen for their worth and fidelity to the Union,
and firm adherence to the Administration of
Abraham Lincoln.
Year: 1864

A DESPERATE WoMAN-A miserable hag
of woman at Cleveland, Ohio induced a
contraband to marry her, and when he found
out what she was, he enlisted to get rid of
her, but she chased him into hotel and
threw bottle of vitriol into his face, de-
stroying one of his eyes and otherwise dis
figuring him.
Year: 1864

q, rlqu.cr Of Uuion District proposes


+, L.o trllow.cltlzcns Il plan of Legislative
election which we should like very well
to see tired there or anywhere


To the Voters Of Union District.-l
suggest that number Of our best and
most competent citizens shall be uomin-
atcd, who, during the canvass, shall take
no active measure and use no Improper
mcaus TO secure their own election, but
leave it to the sober sense of our people,
calmly aud without bias, TO make Il
prudent choice. Should any candidate
undertake to pursue different course,
let his name be stricken from our list
as unworthy of the times. The cunning
and corrupt practices Of the dcmagoguc,
dcplorable at any time, will onl y shock
anu uisgusO thinking men, when brought
to bear npon elections at so solemn a
crisis in the destiny of our State.
Year: 1864

1t was once claimed as a virtue by one Of
our New England divines, that however
many foolish, or herelicai, or wrong things
he might have done, he never did long one.
1t was virtue and no mistake. Many and
many minister, otherwise excellent and un-
impeachable, impairs-not to say ruins-his
influence, by the undue length of his public
services. He reads nearly always very
long chapter of the Bible He gives ou,
hymns with great many verses. He prays
so long as to weary his people of their fixed
position during prayer, whether it be sitting,
standing, or even kneeling. Then he breaches
from forty-fve minutes to an hour and a
quarter. Then another long hymn is sung,
and another (not always very short) prayer
is offered and the congregation is dismissed,
having been in the house of God two hours
or more. We are not stating an altogether
imaginary case, but one that was, We have
no doubt actual, on this very last Sabbath
that ever was, in more than one, or two, or
three towns in New Eng land. The fact Is,
it is hard for some men to know when to
stop. They SO crave thoroughness and COM
pleteness and the exhaustion of a subject
that they have horror of any thing frag-
mentary and suddenly concluded and SO
they cannot satisfy themselves to discuss any
of the great themes of the Gospel in thirty
minutes. Moreover, they never know ex-
actly-unless they have good wives to tell
them exactly-how long and tedious they
sometimes are.


Nor is the evil confined to the public ser
vices of the sanctuary; perhaps it reaches
its elimination more often in the PRAYER
meeting room. Many a praysr-meeting is
made hopslessly cold and dull by the giving
out of a long and phlegmatie, instead of a
short and fiery hymn, to begin with, by an
Introductory PRAYER often twelve minutes in
length, and by remarks" following the
reading of the word, exhausting not only
the first half or three-quarters of an hour,
but also the patience of the people. Great
harm is also sometimes wrought by too
great extension of the time of the weekly
prayer-meeting. As general rule, We think
that one hour of exactly sixty minutes is the
best length for such a prayer-mesting, how
ever interesting. Let if be finished squareiy
when the clock strikes, even If some brother
has just then walked up to the fact that he
wants to say few words exceedingly. Let
him he in better season, or let him wait. An
habitually prompt, active, energetic meeting
will usually be well-attendei one, an edify-
ing ore; one that God viii bless. If any
body doubts this, let him try it and see
CONN egatioRdliSt
Year: 1864

Cnder the appie-tree blossoms, in MAY,


We sat and watched As The sun went down
Behind Us the road stretched back to the east,


Or through the meadows. to Danbury town
Silent we sat, for our hearts were full,


Silently watched the reddening sky,
And saw the clouds across the west


Like the phantom of ships sail silently
Robert had come home with story to tell,


| knew it before he had said word
1t looked from his eye, and it shadowed his face
tie was going to march with the Twent, third.
We had been neighbors from childhood up


Gone 70 school by the Seif-same way.
Climbed the same steep woodland paths,


knelt in the same old church to pray
We had wandered together, boy and girl.


Where wiId-tpwers grew and wild grapes hung
Tasted the ~wcc tncSS Of summer DAYS


When hearts are true, and life IS Young
But never lovc-word had crossed his lips,


Never hint Of pledge or vow,
Until. as the sun went down that night,


His tremulous kisses touched my brow.
" Jenny" he said I've work to do


For God and my country and the right
True hearts. strong arms, are needed now,


dare not stay away from the fight
= " i'll You give rue pledge to cheer me on


And hope to look forward to by-and-by?
Will you wait for m, Jenny, till come back -
I" will wait" | answered, until die
The Nav moon rose as we walked that night


Back through the meadows to Dsnhury town,
And one star rose and shone bv her side


Calmly and sweetly thev both looked down.
The scent of blossoms was in the air,
The sky was blue and TO eve was bright.
And Robert said. he N,iiked by nv side
"Old Danbury town ! fair tonight
Il shall think of il. jenny. when far away,


Placid and still meath ,he moon as now
| shall see 1t, darling. Ill many dream,
! And YOU with the moonlight on your brow
! No matter what else were his parting words
| They arc mine to ttaSure until die
/ With the cInging kisses and lingering looks,


The tender pain of that fond good by.
| did not wepp-I tried to be brave
watched him until he was out of sight
Then suddenly al the world grew dark,


And was blind in the bright May night
Blind and helpless sid to the ground


And lay with the night-d wS on my hair,
Til he moon was down and the dawn was up,


And the fresh May morn rose clear and fair.
He was taken end was left
Left to wait and to watch and pray
Till here came a message over the wires,


Chilling the air of the August day


Killed in a skirmish eight or ten


Wounded and tel ple>S many more
Al Of them our Connecticut mcu-


From the little town of Dlnoury. four
But only saw q single name


Uf one Who WAS al the word 10 me:
promised to wait for him ill died
. oh e. cd. II Heaven. how long will IL he
Year: 1864

Exercise is health producing, because it
works of and out of the system It's waste,
dead and effete matter; these are all convert
ed into liquid form, called by some " hu-
mOrs, which have exit through The pores of
the skin, in the shape of perspiration, which
all have seen, and which al know is the ie-
suit of exercise, when the body is in a state
of health. Thus ii is that persons who do
not perspire, who have a dry skin, are al
ways either trverish or chilly, and are never
well nor rerer can be as long as that -ondi-
ton exists. So exercise, by working out of
the system lis waste, deeayed and useless
matters, keeps the human machine free; "
otherwise it would soon clog up, and the
wheels of life would stop forever, Exercise
improves the health, because every step a
man takes tends TO impart motion to the
bowels; proper amount of exercice keeps
them acting once in "a hours; if they have
not motion enough, there is constipation,
which brings on Very fatal diseases; hence
exercise. especially that of walking, wards of
lnnumerable diseases, when il is kept up to
an extent equal TO inducing one action of the
bowels daily Exercise is healthful, because
The more We exercise the more We breathe.
If We breathe faster We take that much more
air into the lungs; but it is the air We breathe
which purifies the blood, aud the more air
We lake in the more perfectly IS that process
performed; the purer The blood, as every
body Knows, the better the health must be.
Hence, when persons lungs are impaired,
ne does not take in enough air for the wants
of the system; that being the case, the air
he does breathe should be The purest possible


which is outdoor arr. Hence, the more
consumptive STAYS in the house, the more
certain and more speedy is his de4ih.-HaIrs
journal Of Health.
Year: 1864

DoY'T Go WITH WEI FEEE-We have
heard of ana tested great many kinds of
waterproof Hacking for winter boots. Let
Us tell ,oa what We have tried for two win
ters, and found to be the best article we
knox Of When YOUR boots are stiff and
You think need oiling, wash them in CASTLE
soap-suts-oil before the leather dries, (you
may use blackball or any kind of grease,)
have saturated solution Of gum shellac ia
sloohol--anybody can make il, as all there
is to be done is TO dissolve in pint or half
pint of ,alcotol jasl as much shelac as the
liquid Hill take up-and apply this solution
with sponge TO the oiled boots Ia two OF
three minutes the shellac VIII dry and harden,
and you viii have coating on your boots
through which the water cannot by any pos
sibility penetrate. Try il, reader.
Year: 1864

dismiss other subjects, on which | had
proposed to speak, to PROFOUND to you a plot
to poison the whole nation; as it affects all
classes and conditions, patriot and rebel, it
can only be traced home to the father of evil,
who first suggested the taking of that food,


Whose mortal taste


Brought death into the world and all our Woe


The fact has been plain that intemperance
is increasing in the country, in cities, towns
and hamlrts all see that the mischief is
growing. The diseased appetite once created,
its cravings cannot by appeased save by a
resort to the poison that produced it, and
one of its worst features is tina: it is trans
mitted, so that child, with frail, feeble
constitution, begins life under the curse of
an unconquerable appetite. The nation is
drowned in flood of whiskey the army
consumes all it can get; the men are cursed
and the officers still more, by the fiery food
Physicians prescribe whiskey for every little
ailment. 1t is easy to take, and nobody OBJ
iects, and i'll fact it becomes kind of fashion
Men who want to make money advertise il
in every paper in the land, and the people
are very apt to believe what they like te
hear, and to follow advise which suits them
There comes up fashion Bourbon whis
key" and men run wild upon that; doctor
recommend it, men drink it, and women too
and even children. Nay, more, they recon
sore throat, or dyspepsia, or broken leg
Bourbon whiskey is the remedy. So tn
world has gone mad upon that, and probabl
more of the stuff is drank in day, than th
t country Of Bourbon could produce in yeal
All the vile stuff in the country is baptise
Year: 1864

bring forth. Let Inc suggest that in the
running debates of Congress, full justice
seems to me not to have been done to the
Democracy of the North. l 10 not believe
that our friends at the South have any just
idea of the state of feeling hurrying at this
moment to the pitch of intense evaporation
between those who respect their political OBJ
legations, and those who have apparently no
impelling power but that which fana,ical pas
sion on the subject of domestic slavery i'm
parts. Without discussing the question of
rght-of abstract power to secede, l have
never believed that actual disruption of the
Union can occur without Blood and if
through the madness of Northern Abolition
ism that dire calamity must ome,the fighting
will not be along Mason and Dxon's line
merely. 1t will be within our own borders,
in our own streets, between the two classes
of citizens to whom | have referred. Those
who defy law and scout constitutional obliga-
tions, will if we ever reach the arbitrament
of arms lind occupation enough at home
Nothing but the state of Mrs Pierce's health
could induce me to leave the country now.
although it is quite likely that my presence
at home would be Of little service. | have
tried to impress upon our people, especially
in New Hampshire and Connecticut where
the only elections are to take place during
the coming spring that while our Union
meetings are all in the right direction and
we'll enough for the present, they will not be
worth the paper upon which their resolutions
are writtel unless We can overthrow political
abolitionism at the polls and repeal the un-
constitutional and obnoxious laws which in
The cause OF " Personal Liberty" have been
been placed upon our statute books. shall
look with deep interest and not without hope
for decided change in this relation.


Ever and truly your friend,


FRANKLIN PIERCE.


Hon. JEFF. DAVIS, Washington, ID. c.
Year: 1864

Editing paper is very pleasant business.
If ii contains too much political matter peo-
pie went have II.
eli IT contains too little they won't have II.
Z II the type is small people can't read IL


IL We publish telegraph news folks say
they are nothing but lies.


If We omit tfem, they say We have no
enterprise or suppress them for political ef-
feet.


If We have in few jokes, folks say We are
nothing bat rattle-head.


If we omit Jokes, they say We are an old
fossil.


If We publish original matter they damn
US for not giving selections.


If We publish selections folks saw we are
lazy for mol writing more and giving them
what they have not read in some other pa
per.


If We give man complimentary notice
We are censured for being partial.


If We do moi, all hands say we are greedy
hog.


If We insert an article which pleases the
ladies', men become Jealous.


III We do hot cater 10 their wishes, the pa
per is not fit 10 have in The house.


IL we remain in the office and attend to
business, folks say We are too proud TO min
gle with our fellows


II We 90 out they say We never attend to
business


If We do not pay all bills promptly, folks
say We are not TO be trusted.


1t We do pay prompt, they say We stole
the money.


If We wear poor clothes they say business
is poor


If We wear good ones they say We are a
spendthrift.


Now what is poor fellow to do?
Year: 1864

bourbon" and sold as SUCH


Now the fact stands, firstly, that alcohol
is poison. Men think if they can get the
pure spirit they are in no danger, and as
with wine, so with spirit, every man is per-
suaded that what he gets is pure. He for
gets that alcohol is the poison, and should
be used as carefully as opium, strychnine or
arsenic


But this is not the present point, for in
the existing state of feeling, it were vain to
try to reach the conscience or the fears of the
people. Bst all the spirit distilled from raw
grain, from potatoes, &c., contains a Tank
poison, easily detected. and leaving strong
and most unpleasant favor behind it. This
is the substance which our men and women
are drinking by the barrel, and which is pois-
oning the heart of the nation. 1t is of no
use pretending to deny it, all these spirits
contain fusil oil, as analysis will SHOW. And
as they are foundation of wines, brandies,
&c, which are manufactured here TO so fear
full an extent, and as multitude of " branded
fruits" are put up in this spirit, it folio VS.
this rank poison is prevailing all departments
of life, and can hardly be avoided.


There is plenty of this oil, also, in much
of the manufactured vinegar, which is work
ing mischief in its line But that is not TAX
en- in such quantities, nor as universally, as
this fiery spirit.


Here are the facts. Can anything be
done? see the Boston tract society is re-
publishing Sargear:'s Temperance Tales,
which did coed work in their day. Among
them is one remember of reading with pain
full interest, called Johnny Hodges, the
Blacksmith" Johnny is a hard working,
honest man, but he has drunken wife, and
the place he calls home is what drunken
woman could make it. And the poor man
cries in bitterness of spirit: Cant some
thing be done to put stop to this evil "
So you have asked in your paper, when
mourning over the increased in,emperance
in your own town and county and state. If
the people can be convinced of the danger,
and have the strength to escape, there is
hope. The conscience of the whole commu-
nifty needs to be enlightened and awakened,
and when there is no conscience, the appeal
must be TO the love of life. Persuade young
people not 10 begin, and even Of those who
dare begin, many who are not too far gone
may be restrained from suicide