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Year: 1863

We have often thought of the death of
Mah-lo tah-pc, (the four bears) who recoy yered
from the disease, and sat in his wigwam and
saw his whole tribe and family die around him,
then covered them with rushes, and went to
the hill determined TO starve himselft to death


remained there SIX days. crept back to the
gloom Of his wigwam, laid down by the side of
his dead, and died after nine days abstinen
from food. The red man regards the white as
an essential and undoubted liar probably, we
may hope, not only because he has tested
the yeracity Of his white brother and found it
wanting, but because almost every thing COM
municated must be opposed to his wall of fix
ed ideas. But he possesses an instructive
grace and grandeur of soul. What pretty
story is that which Catlin tells of the Pawnee,
who rescued the poor girl of some hostile
tribe from the stake, to whom some ladies Of
New York sent the medal with the letter:
'sBrother, accept this token of our esteem /;
always wear it for our sakes, and when you
have the power to save poor woman, think
of this and US, and fiy to her relief!'' and the
answer, so thoroughly Red Indian ':Sisters,
this will give me care more than ever had,
and Will listen to white men. am glad l
heard OF the good act have done. | did it in
ignorance; now [ know what have done. I
did it in ignorance, and did not know | did
good, but by giving me this medal know it 20
How great is that instructive grandeur of soul
which does good and yet does not know it?
We quite agree with DR.. Wilson that the red
man is one of our greatest chronological mys


teries. Did he come from Europe 2 Has he,
toe, Morse blood inIhis veins ?-Electic ReUielc.
Year: 1863

YANKEE STAGE-DRrvER The obliging dis
position of the Yankee stage driver is aptly
illustrated in the following bit OF satire As
Mr.. =, the driver, was proceed ing from
Boston, not long since, woman called him to
take bedstead on the top without uncording
it. He told her he would oblige her the next
time he came along, bat he could not then, as
he had engaged to take 4 wind mill little
ways ahead; and as he had a large cradle on
the top at the time, he was afraid he should
not have room. Proceeding a little further,
he was requested by woman to wait till she
had finished her washing and ironing. He
told her he oitenihad to wait for the women to
do their ironing, but he could not stand wash
ing and ironing both
Year: 1863

DoN'T LIKE IT, Some of our patrons here.
abouts were so disguised with our notice of the
Copperbcad pow-wow last week, that they noto.
fled us TO send in our bills All right, gentlemen
if you wish to draw political lines in business
matters we are with you, and when the proper
time comes we will let the Union men know who
have discontinued their patronage of the paper
because the editor chooses to call things by their
right names HumbOiM Times.


That's the way to talk it, Wiley. You'll be
better off at the years end
Year: 1863

SnLyER.--A company has been organized and
is now working a rich lead in Trinity Valley,
about four miles from New York House. The
principal men in the company, Messrs Digges
aud Smith are pushing forward operations on an
extensive scale, with the utmost confidence that
ibey have struck a good thing Yrehd Journal.
Year: 1863

The editors Of tke Southwestern
mus: excuse our ia9uisiiiveness, but
for the life Of US, We cannot under
stand what they mean by telling the
peopls that they publish truthful
paper. Do you wish to :cll the peo-
Pile to beware of other papers? Do
you include the Shreveport News
in the category of certain persons
and newspaper7 Are you trying to
gull the people into the belief that
your paper contains nothing but
truths! Do you think that by thus
throwing sand in their eyes they will
withdraw their patronage from other
papers and give it to you7 If your
paper is truthful, don't you think
that your readers have intellect
enough to make the discovery. with
out your telling thcm2 Come, neigh,
Dor, let's hear from you. We have
heard repeated insinuations, and
would like to know in what estirna.
ton we are held. The questions
may be rather too pointed; however
they can result in no mischief. Hon.
ssty is the best policy.
Year: 1863

The Port Royal correspondent Of the Philadelphia In
qurer writing the 9Th instant furnishes the following
interesting information:


Folly Island is still held in force by our troops and
siege operations progressing slowly The health Of the
troops 10 good.


"The rebels have large battery at Legareve just the
other eide Of Coles Island which adons Folly Island.
This battery can Just command the lower extremity Of
Folly Island The other day the rebels opened with this
battery upon what they supposed to be Gen Vodgess
headquarters Their shots fell short, although within
range and the Pawnee replied vigorously to the hostile
hre: mortar schooner opened and fire good
that not only was the battery silenced but with gass
we could distinctly see the rebels leaving their guns in hot
haste and climbing the adjoining trees for safety.


Ihe position Of our iron clsds sti the same when
! last wrote The most Of them lie quietly in North
Edisto Inlet, while the Ironsides makes more efectus
than ever the Chsreston blockade Within the last week
our blcckaders of that station have captured three
which by this time have arrived North AZ we'll az the
details Of their capture"
Year: 1863

The Springfield (Mass) Republican one Of the most in
fuential it confessedy of the most able Of the
Administration prints in New England, tskes proper
cepon in the following terms to the order recently issued
by Adiuant General THOMAS summarily dsmisng Lieut.
Edgey from the Army the charge Of having at the
late election in New Hampshire circulated "Copperhead
tckets'meaning the tickets supported by the Demo
cratic party in that State who thus characterized by
Gen. Thomas Copper heads whatever that may
in the current political dialect Of the times The Repub
says:


I'VE had supposed that the objections to the order OF
Adjutant General Thomas by which Lieut. Edgery was
dismissed too obvious to need to be pointed in detail
The least objection to the order is the offensive language
in which IT coucbed. 'Copperhead slang phrase,
which officer of the Government degfsdes himself and
the Government by using in cia order of this sort
The ticket circulated by Lieut. Edgery the regular
Democratic State ticket Some of the New Hampshire
Democrats undoubtedly copperheads that is sym
pahizers with the rebellion but the declared prime pies
which the party went into the election cannot be justly
considered reasonable If they then nearly half the
people of New Hampshire traitors, well large
portion Of the volunteers n armies from that State


In accusing Lieut. Edgery with doing all he could TO pro-
mote the rebel cause in his State, Atjutant General
Thomas not only nsuled the Democratic soldiers and peo
pie of New Hampshire but he grossly slandered them IL
the Administration should adopt any such general policy
would be obliged to dismiss halt its officers and at least


third Of it's soldiers at But the Administration not
thus demented it has adopted such policy The natu
raj explanation Of the order is the it merely cut
burst Of the Adutsnt Generals rant zeal in the
of Repubcansm, to which he had just been converted
As all young converts apt to, he rather overdd the
thing both in substance and manner What particular
Offences of Lieut. Edgery may be known to the War De-
partment it is impossible TO say he may have deserved
dshonorsbe expulsion from the service but the fact that
he circulated Democratic tickets ia New Hampshire is
not such offence. His dismlsss was nstake--an
isolated one, glad to say and that is an
dicaton of any purpose or policy Of the Administration
Year: 1863

The military writer who under the signature Of
" Miles,o makes occasional contributions to the
New York Times, and who is endorsed by the ed.
tor of that journal as an authority in matters per-
tanning to the art Of war, propounds in recent
paper the safe proposition that it is the first duty
of the military authorities charged with the con.
duct Of the war to determine what are decisive
points, and then, by rapid movements, to get as
near them as possible without fighting. By de-
cisive point, he adds, is meant one where we can
reasonably expect that the enemy will make his
most determined stand, and at which, if he is
beaten, we shall gain decided advantages, or if he
retreats from that point without battle his loss
in morale and position will be tantamount to a
defeat. ~ a.t


Having arrived at the conclusion that the city
of Richmond is such "decisive point because
of its important railroad connection with all the In
surgent States and because of our persistent efforts
to take it and the determination Of the enemy 10
hold it, the writer suggests the following considera-
tions in favor of the route by James river, from
which the army of Gen. Mcclellan was removed
by the present GeneraLin- Chief:


The endeavor has been made above to show that our
true policy is to avoid land lines of communication and
make campaigns usng the large navgable rivers of
the South. In the attack Richmond we have in the
James river exactly the line for which asked aud on
this we could have great assistance from the naval in
conveying transports and driving away field artillery placed
to annoy and disturb the communication


There another serious thing be considered IF the
rebels have been dlgent in oryng their capital as
we have been in protecting Washington and all accounts
confirm that superstition cannot be taken ex
cept by siege of greater less magnitude no pro-
per could be transported by land except for
very short distance unless with great and delay For
that purpose the james river is necessity which no mill
tary mind would for one instant ignore.


Richmond ours the railroad connections and the line
of retreat must determine for the second decisive point
in the east The capture of Charleston and campaign
against Branchville might become necessity under such
circumstances


Some suggestions in detail under the above gem
era propositions may be made n future leter-he pur
pose of the writer being to make plain
which do not require military education to appreciate in
the hope that we may begin to why have
ceeded as well could have wished and where il is
possible to correct our blunders."
Year: 1863

We regret to find that have subjected our sensitive
neghbor the Chronicle to the labor of grave and formal
notice OF our sportive article Of Wednesday, We bad
hoped that our highly esteemed contemporary could appr
cate badnage il II did not altogether relish it, 1t may
however not be compatible with the dignity Of official
atons, aud we must future therefore bear in mind the
admonition Of the poet" Hs nug@ seria ducent in
Year: 1863

II stated that the aggregate Of the public debt the
9th instant in round numbers, nine hundred aud
eghyour millions OF dollars Of which legal tender notes
including the fractional currency amount to about four
hundred millions
Year: 1863

1%One of our City Fathera did good
act Yesterday, in rescuinc q child from


the charge Of drunken mother, who was
endeavoring to get home with the child
| Ia her arms. The woman was so drunk


,ha: she came near falling of of an en-


Lsskment, and no doubt would have done
90 had not kind hand been nesr to take
charge of the chili. and lead her to q
place of safety.
Year: 1863

homes of numbers of those pilgrims who
have for long time past been soj0Hrning
across the mountain; men who at different


times during the last two years have been
forced 70 flee like thief in the night, from
those ogres Of our DAYS, the conseript off,
GERS of JEFF. Davis. The great majority. Of
these paImers have come back in the no.
blest guise in which they could appear;
clothed in the Federal uniform, they have
come bearing the sword Of the righteous,
and carrying the insignia Of honorable
warfare on behalf of the Union


Among them, the most prominent, is one
every way worthy to occupy so proud .
position, we refer to Brig. Gen. s. P. Car
ter. "A Tennesseean by birth, aud soldier
and gentleman by instinct, every puisation-
OF his noble heart has been given 70 his
country. During all of the days of his ex-
lie his faith in his native State has never
faltered. He knew her to be true, aud the
moment must have been a proud one for
him when he saw the overwhelming proofs
on Thursday last, that the loyalty of bis
fellow citizens had like his own, survived
all trials and temptations. General Car
ter. we are glad to know, will probably re-
main sometime in our midst, having been
appointed Provost Marshal General of the
District of East Tennessee. Gen. Burnside
could have made no appointment more
acceptable to our citizens. They know
General Carter, and to know him is to be
satisfied that he will perform his duties in
the trying position to which he has been
called impartially and vigorously.
Year: 1863

You will see by this our position. l was
fronting from the enemy; the 49th was
fronting the Rebels and Murfreesboro.


! felt uneasy all night. Gen. Which al.
lowed the men to put up their shelter tents.
l was much opposed to it. l felt that they
might be attacked very early in the morn
ing, and their she tier tents would be in their
way. / remained up myself all night, and
had sentinel from each company, who was
relieved every hour, march up and down in
front Of their company line. called them
all up at o'clock, and had them stand to
arms. There were no fires near our lines
all night. The men wanted to make fires
for coffee in the morning when it began to
break day. | would not let them, but Gen.
Which about daybreak sent word round to
build fires and make coffee. / could DO
nothing but obey. They stacked their arms;
and just as day had fairly broke, and the
fires had commenced burning. we heard the
Rebels. Gen. Which was absent from his
quarters, being down at Gen, Johnson's s
headquarters. An Aid-de-C Camp rode up
to tell him the Rebels were pressing our
men in in overwhelming numbers. He
jumped on his horse and rode down towards
his headquarters, when he met our men
from the left Of the road falling back, and
the Rebel columns right at his quarters. ~
They took him prisoner at this time. In
the meantime, Col. Gibson, Of the, 4sth,
rode over to me in great hurry, telling me
the enemy was on us-to move out and form
line Of battle. Just as ! was mounting my
mare, Nellie, she received slight wound on
her side, and she was SO restive she could
not be mounted, SO l took it sfoot- t-moved
the regiment out and couptermarched it SO
as to face it the other way from the order in
which We were camped, for the Rebels were
coming on our rear When had formed
the regiment the balance of the brigade and
the two brigades on the left of the road came
! rushing past US. When they got past the
Rebels in all their force were on us; not
less than 10000 were in pursuit Of our fly
ing regiments opened fire on them when
they were not twenty yards from us. We
gave them about six rounds. I found we
we're being surrounded, and gave the order
to fall back. Before as then, and about 50
yards from US, was high fence, which must
be crossed. We had covered the retreat Of
all the rest, and then had all the ensmy's
fire on us. We lost heavily in crossing the
fence. All we lost in killed and wounded
was between our camp and this fence. Be-
yond the fence about quarter of mile l
rallied the regiment, and then found myself
in command of the brigade, Col Gibson
having been taken prisoner, or killed. al We
supposed, Dr. Miles rode up on q gray
horse and gave him to me and with the asT
sistancs of Capt. Dawson, Adjutsnt Dubois
of the 10Th, Lieutenants Miles, Green, and
McGrath, Of. Gen 'Wiilinbs staff, Capt
Year: 1863

l loved them all for their brave and manly
conduct. They lay as they had fallen. The
storm Of battle that ragged around them for
days had no sound for them, and it was
their sad fate TO die when pressed by Rebel
foes. If they had only heard the shout Of
victory as they closed their eyes in death, il
had not been 80 hard, When victory came
they were cold in death. Slowly and sadly
we deposited their remains in the gound
they had fought on SO well.
Year: 1863

4 POSITIVE FACT LADIES AND GENTLEMEN II
"A you get the utmost valne for your cast on
Clothing Carpets Furniture and Jewelr the best you can
tween Thrtv-eghth and Thirty ninth streets east side


There yormay depend you will receive Is cent more
At any other Dealers In New York Ladies' aeodsd oy
Year: 1863

I've found some wisdom in my guest
That's richly worth retailing
I've learned that when one does his best,
There's little harm in failing.
l thought to gather wealth untold,
And made my boast alb ut it;
My wit and toll bring little gold,


But l can do without it.
l said, " The world shall hear my name,
And down the ages shout it."
l shall not win the bauble fame,


But l can do without 1t.
Another thing Tve had to prove,


Though much used to doubt it
One can't be sure of human love,


But one can live without it.
I thought to know philosophy,


And teach the world about it.
My plummet will not sound the seas,
My ship can sail without it.
saw the earth with wrong o'ergrown,
And set myself to route it;
Some age will see it overthrown,
So l can die without it.
may not reach what pursue,


Yet l will keep pursuing
Nothing is vain that l can do,


Since soul growth comes OF doing.
Year: 1863

The following from the Richmond Dis
patch of July 7tb, shows the feeling that
actuates the people Of the South in their
rebellion, and how they talk about their
prospects. We opine that it is much ca
sier matter for them to talk about what
they will do in the event of the occupancy
of all their seaports by the Federals, than
it will be to carry out their programme in
fact


While Paul Jones in The wretched old
hulk Of an Indiaman an hundred years old,
(the Bon Homme Richrd) was engaged
in The desperate conaictlwith the Saraps
new English frigate Of she frst class, just
out of port-atler 2AeIr le broadside
had riddled her SO completely that
he was compelled to lash her to the
Englishman to avoid snkiug-when
nearly all his guns had bursted and half his
crew had fallen-a momentary cessation Of
firing induced his adversary to hail him
and inquire whether he had struck: awe
have not begun to fight" was the laconic
and pthy reply, aud after two hours more of
mortal comblt, he had the satisfaction of
walking the Englishmans deck, victor,
under circumstances so desperate that at
one time there appeared no chance of es-
cape. Such is the reward of valor when
allied to constancy, and directed by an in
domitable will
Lincoln, Seward Haleck, and the whole
Yankee press, are hugging themselves in
the delusion that they already see The end
of the war, and that the end is, to us, the
death of our liberty and the beginning of
an interminable servitude To their taunts
and sneers, we reply, in the defiant Ian
guage of Paul Jones, " We have not yet
begun to fight" They think they have
seen pitched fields but the hottest of those
they have seen are, to those which must
come, but as the freshness Of an April
morning to the fiery breath of the dog days;
but as the snow upon the side of Hecla to
the whirling gulf of flame within; but as
| December to June but as an ice house to
furnace heated an hundred fold.


This people has never yet put forth its
strength to half its extent, furious as has
| been the war in which it has been engaged.
! Iul8uJy as nave OcGu us struggles SlOllOuS
as have been its victories, unparalleled as
has been the result What we have done
is scarcely type of what we can do. The
present situation, far from being desperate,
is only trying enough to induce new ener-
gy in the contest, to call for new exertions
and new sacrifices, to remind our people of
the nature of the conflict and the object of
the enemy, to bring out our whole strength
and to let the world see of what we are ca
pable. While the Yankees think they
have subjugated us by taking Vicksburg,
we repeat, in the language Of Paul Jones'
eve have not begun to fight"


Such is the spirit of our people, such the
resources of our cOuntrymen in their own
determined will, such the obstacles which
the enemy will have to overcome, before he
can ever subdue us We have lost Vicks-
burg and Port Hudson. What of that ]:
Suppose we lose Charleston, Savannah,
Mobile, Wilmingion-all our seaports
What of that we ask again


WI. a.. -41.-
Year: 1863

CURRENT OF NIGARA FALLs.-A re-
cent fruitless attempt to sound Niagara
river at the Suspension Bridge, forcibly il
lustrates the tremendous force of the cur
rent of the Mammoth Falls of America
strong enough, doubtless, to preclude any
successful effort to ascertain the depth of
the river The attempt referred to was
made with an iron of about ten pounds
weight, and attached to a No wire, all
freely suspended, so as not to impede the
fall of the weight. The experimenter
says 81 let the weight fall from the
bridge, at the hight of two hundred and
twenty-five feet. 1t struck the surface
fairIv w;;th the point down, and must have
sunt some eth, but was no longer out of
siobt than second, when it made its ap-
pearance again on the surface, about one
hundred feet down the stream, ana skipped
along like a chip until it was checkeo oy
the wire. We then commenced haHlIng IN
slowly. which made the iron bounce like
ball, when a cake of ice struck it and end
ed our sport. l am satisfied that no metal
has sufficient specific gravity TO pierce that
current, even with q momentum acquired
by fall of two hundred and twenty-five
feet The velocity of iron, when striking,
must have been equal to one hundred and
twenty-four feet per second, and conse-
uuently its momentum was near five thou
sand pounds. Its surface opposed to the
current was fifty superficial inches. This
will give an idea of the strength OF that
current, and at the same time hint at the
Titan forces that have been al work to
scoop out the bed of the Niagara river.
Year: 1863

These we would still have though every
thing materially we're gone.


But we are reduced to no such straits.
On the contrary, we speak he solemn truth
when we declare that in our opinion our
situation, although it is one which calls for
the utmost exertion, so far from being des-
perate is not even gloomy. The enemy
has taken Vicksburg and Port Hudson.
Does he open the river thereby? Not at
all, as we showed the other day, and we
think showed satisfactorily. On the other
hand, he weakens himself by the garrison
he is obliged to put in these places, and he
strengthens our armies by returning the
garrisous which have been SO long shut up
there. He would do the same thing by ta-
king Charleston Savannah and Mobile.
Having no longer any detached ports to de-
fend, our army could then complete the
policy of concentration which. but partially
pursued has already been attended with
such memorable results


Retiring into he interior as he advances,
we shall weaken him and strengthen our
selves with every step that he takes in eav.
ing his base of operations. We have made
our calculations long ago that all the towns
within the reach of the eneuy's navy would
fell; and giving them, for the sake of the
argument, up TO him, we conceive that we
are more able to beat him without them
than with them Let il not be forgotten, in
the meantime, that we have a powerful ar
my-an army that has never been beaten
with General at its head who may rank
with the most renowned leaders Of whom
history makes mention Let the despond-
ing think of these facts, and tel us what
there is gloomy in our situation. For our
part, we see nothing whatever We may
be called on to destroy more cotton and to-
bacco to prevent their falling into the hands
of the enemy but, in our opinion, this
would not be the worst thing the govern
ment could do, even of its own free will.
1t would recall the minds Of Thousands from
the pursuit of wealth to the defense of the
country, and that would be a positive
gain" ...