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Year: 1864

tFrom the Richmond Dispatch, January 25.l


~ = = To dismiss these blissful
visions, and come to sober, waking truth,
we must say in all sincerity that we regard
the Northern Democracy and their ''policy"
as the worst form of Northern hostility
which has been manifested in the war. But
for them we should not be where we now
are. But for the military chie,tains and
soldiers of Northern Democracy, who once
prUfessed to be the bitter enemies of coer-
eion in every shape and form, the war could
not have lasted two months. The Black Re-
publicans proper, unaided by the Demo-
cratic element, would have been struck with
paralysis before Lincoln had been three
months in his seat At the same time, how
ever, that this ''politic" party has giyenthe
war its chief impetus in leaders and men, it
has professed policy of peace upon hon
Orable terms, which was far more formidable
in its arts thanthe combined arms of all par
ties at the North. There was at one period
of the war more danger from its seductive
tongue than the brawling and bitter mouths
of Lincoln and his Cabinet. Even now we
would much rather have Lincoln for the
President of the United States than the
candidate of the conservative Democracy.
Lincoln seems to have been raised up, as
was George the Third, to render restora-
tion of colonies to their tyrants impossible.
If he had pursued the wise and conclliatory
measures which the Northern Democracy
profess to advocate, "the rebellion" would
have been peacefully smothered in its cra-
die. But his heart has been hardened, like
Pharoah's; he has gone from bad to worse;
he has so .trampled upon all law, disregard
ed all right, and outraged all humanity,
that the whole Confederacy has become
consolidated in the resolute determination
to submit to every form of human suffering
rather than return tothe detestable embrace
Of Government which he has rendered to
their minds an embodiment of the powers
of darkness. So long as he is President, so
long as we see the Devil in his proper shape
and form, we have nothing to fear; we have
only to resist the fiend, and he will flee from
us. 1t is only when the prince of the
internal regions takes the shape of an angel
of light that the faithful are in danger
We must be excused, therefore, from
wishing success to the Northern Democracy.
Let the North stick to its representative
man, and not change front in the hour Of
battle.
Year: 1864

GoINs.-The ice in front Of tho city
commenced moving this afternoon, 10 the de.
light OF every body. Tie channel will prob
ably bs clear BY night. and We may look for
beats In q Gay or two.
Year: 1864

A LOSING GAAE.-Some years since, be-
fore the secession war, a Southern gentle
man visited the North for the purpose of
seeing the lion and 6ghing the tiger.


He tried the tiger, and didn't like it,
and thought he'd take a shy game fami-
liar to him by name only, call roulette
One turn Of roulette, you know, makes
the whole world yinl He started out in
quest Of the game, only knowing that
roulette had something to do with roll, but
entirely ignorant whether that roll was
Dutch or q French one. On the first
corner he met barrel-organ man, grind.
ing away for dear life.


lie was turning as though he had but
a few minutes to turn 10, and didn't want
to die before his work was done. The
tune was The Bold Privateer."


Our Georgian friend thought he had
found his game. Stepping brisklyup, he
laid dollar bill down on the box. The
organ mans eyes opened, he grabbed the
bill and ground away with renewed vigor.
Our Georgian thought he had lost, and
doubled up" laying down two dollar
bill That was bagged, and the barrel Of
the organ went whirling around as though
there were seven imps inside it,


To make long story short, the thing
went on, the Georgian doubled up" the
organ-grinder pocketing the money all
the while-until there was mary" ahoth-
er dollar left


But he didn't complain. As he saw
the last of his currency bagged by the
delighted organ grinder, he simply re-
marked:


Well, Of all the games ever bucked
against, this is the dogdarnedest | l
guess Ill jump t." and he left.
Year: 1864

NOTHING can be more touching than to
behold soft and tender woman, who bad
been all weakness and dependence while
treading the prosperous paths of life, sud
denly rising in mental force to be the COM
fortcr and supporter of her husband un-
der misfortune. AS the vine which has
long twined its graceful foliage about the
oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine,
will, when the hardy oak is rittel by the
thunderbolt, cling round it with its caress.
ing tendrilS, and bind up its shattered
boughs, so woman, who is the dependent
and ornament Of man in his happier hours,
should be his stay and solace when smit'
ten with sudden and rretrievable calam.
itv.
Year: 1864

\ LIVERPOOL magistrate lately giving
an opinion about some matrimonial diff
Guilty, said; at is al ways bad arrange
ment for married people, whether high or
low, rich or poor, to have a wifes sister,
or brother, or other relative, living In tho
same house with them"
Year: 1864

The whole creation preys upon itself.
Every living creature is inhabited. A flea
has a thousand invisible insects that tease
him as he jumps from place to place, and
revenge our quarrels upon him. Thus
every noble creature is, as it were, the
basis and support of multitudes that are
his interiors.
Year: 1864

LOOK at the heavens above you. There
is star after star, all through the infinite
realms of space--some shedding down
streams of glorious radiance, some be-
slowing only a feeble light-but, never.
thelcSs, all pouring their tribute of bright
nezs from their golden urns, and all full
filling the general system of the universe
an office of good and of blessing. So
every man may shed his portion of light
and perform his function Of benevolence,
whatever may be his station in society as
respects wealth.
Year: 1864

INToLERANcE.-I call every man intole-
rant from principle, who cOnceives no
man can be man of virtue and pr0bity
who does not believe exactly what be
does, and numerically consigns to perdi-
ton all those who do not think like him
self
Year: 1864

As mOdesty is the richest ornament to
a woman the want Of it is her greatest de-
formity; for the better the thing the verse
will ever be its perversion, and II an an
gel fails, the transition must be to q de.
mon '.tt'' at aThS ST
Year: 1864

Allow me 10 introduce 10 you my friend. J. W. Dol.
bear who sits sour city for the purpose Of te9oh
ing Penmanship and Photography. his reputation
as successful teacher is well and widely estab-
IIghed that will say nothing on that score only
desire TO present him as gentleman from whose So
ciety have derived much pleasure and profit and as
one whom you have the intelligence to appreciate
anything you may do to further his designs will be
gratefully acknowledged BY your friend,


JOHN G, EDGAR
Year: 1864

SESsIBLE.-A soldier recently returned
to a ueIshboriDg village, after an absence
of two years, aud found his wife living
with another man, 10 whom she had been
married some months, representing to him
that she had never been married before,
aud to those who knew, that her husband
was dead The first and second husbands
calmly talked the matter over, and then
left the false one to inveigle another hus.
band if she could. That was decidedly
more sensible than shooting at each other
with pistols.
Year: 1864

The following Is from Jules Gerard
but six to nine miles is good way to
hear a roar:


"The very roar of q lion in it's wild
state-which is music which the most fas-
tidious woald deem worthy of listening to,
is truly magnificent. His first note, when
be commences to roar, is low sound emf.
ting from bis chest and nostrils, but is au-
dble from a great distance. This is spe.
cies of prelude, and immc cdiately afterward
it is repeated out this time more loud
and pro,racted. the jaws of the animal be-
ing still closed, or the mouth but slightly
opened. The third and fourth outbursts
are given to the air through the fully ex-
tended jaws, aud with the full force Of the
lungs. To listen to this roar is terrible
for those who happen to be crossing the
monarch's path or to be marching through
the lonely forest. At length, after two
or three more utterances of the kind, the
animal ends as be commenced, with less
vigorous notes. The distance to which
have been able to trace the progress of
the lion by bis roar, when there have been
DO contrary winds aud no mountains or
other objects to interrupt the sound, is
two or three leagues; but when be roars
about league of, one who is not accus-
toned to the sound would believe him to
be close at hand"
Year: 1864

Chicago poled eight thousand more
votes than were taken bsforo in the city,
giving nearly $4,000 in all. OF this re-
suit. the Chicago Times says:


The aggregate Democratic vote is some
two thousand larger than it has been at
any former election. And this is en- hon
est vote.


Not less than four thousand soldiers,
brought here within the past week, have
voted the Republican ticket.


On the honest home vote the Democra-
cy would have carried the city by TWO
thousand majority.


A moro gallant fight was never made
than by the Democracy. They cannot,
of course. successfully contend against a
power that can sweep down upon them
with avalanches of voters selected from
the army solely with reference to the
manner in which they will vote. If
eight thousand soldiers had been nccessa-
ry to carry the city for Lincoln, they
would have been here. It was simply a
question, in bringing them here, of how
many were necessary to carry the city.
Year: 1864

Under this head The World has an
able article of which the following is the
concluding paragraph:


"The question of foreign intervention,
and other questions which not even the
Administration (much less the opposition)
can control, may SO change the aspect OF
affairs before another election, as to rem
der any programme absurd that might be
devised at present. 1t is the duty OF the
Democratic party to keep vigilant eye
upon events, and, when the time shall
have again come for action, to accept
their logic. Its freedom from RESPONSE
bility imposes on it no duty but::toswntch
for public safety. For ourselves, we have
no desire to see it fetered with dogmatic
jacket, to impede its free growth and de-
velopment. Let the next two years be
period of free mental activity fettered by
no narrow and repressive formulas. Who
ever strikes out any new truth, or even
starts plausible error with vigor enough
to provoke and quicken intelligent inves-
tigation, is q public benefactor. In the
new epoch upon which we are entering,
the country needs light, light; and it IA
only Dy dObif1Ly VI 0A-
der the stimulus of new events, and tho
collision of mind with mind in able dis
cussion, that new light can be struck out4
There is nothing SO Democratic as truth,
and truth is born of the free activity Of
indivual minds. When the time is again
rife for political action which requires
concert, we will NEE. and compare views;
and having ascertained the essential
points on which, after 50 much growth
of opinion, we agree, we will define those
points and hold ourselves pledged to the
country to administer the Governments in
accordance Herewith but not binding
ourselves, even then, never to grow wiser
by experience. We will, meanwhile,
maintain our organization abate none OF
our past vigilance and we will promote
harmony in the party not by vain at-
tempts to enslave individual opinion, bat
by tolerant and manly emulation in the
honest pursuit of political truth. The
corner stone of Democratic ideas is to sur
render no more of individual freedom
than the public exigeneies may, ct any
given time, require"
Year: 1864

now; in the second place. he says that inter-
cepted rebel letters now in possession of our
military authorities confess that in the battles
of tho Wilderness Lee was 90 completely
whipped that he could not afterwards get his
men to take the offensive in any Of the en-
gagements; and thirdly, he assures his cor
respondent that if he is disposed to be doubtful
or gloomy as to the result of operations below
Richmond, he may at once dismiss his fears,
for 1t Is all "going on well and right"
Year: 1864

The people have long been convinced
that it is not for want of troops that our
affairs have been SO bunglingly and disas-
trously managed, but that it is owing to
the lack of brains on the part of the Fed
eral authorities. Senator Co1LAMRR says
" The maximum number of our forces
should not be allowed to exceed 500, 900
men. Any excess over that number tends
to hasten national exhaustion, and thus to
defeat the avowed object of the nation in
waging war. The military energies of the
people are to-day suffering from the waste
of their strength put forth in spasmodic
effsrts to swell the number of our forces.
under the delusive idea that our armies will
be efficient in proportion to tie number of
men we crowd into the ranks and draw
from the walks Of productive industry
If this be the case, and Senator WILSON
gives truthful statement of the number
Of troops recruited last year, we now have
twice as many men in the field az are
needed, namely, about one million. Says
the National InteAigencer:


If that force be only concentrated and wisely
handled it is adequate to accomplish all that
can be accomplished by physical means but
no afauence Of physical means can atone for
error In generalship, defects in strategy, or
scattering Ut resources at time when every
thing depends upon vigor and unity of con.
duct. 1t is yet TOO early to speak with entire
confidence of the success of our impending
operations in Virginia and Georgia. the only
quarters In which our armies are doing any.
thing towards the suppression of the rebellion


And If these two armies are suffering for a
want OF men. it must be for some other cause
than for want of troops at the command of
the War Department, whsn it has million of
hem subject to It's disposition, unless. indeed,
The immense losses to which Mr.. Wilson re.
fers as having been sustained by Gen. Grant in
placing his army on the James River by the
overland route a-e much greater than the
country has been led to believe"
Year: 1864

A SIGNIFICANT cHANGE.-Wigfall, of Tex
as made speech in the rebel Senate lately,
in which he said that two years ago, while
Beauregard was at Manassas, he wrote to an
Orange County farmer that he wanted sixty
wagon loads ofcorn and provisions, saying he
would pay as soon as he was in funds. The
next Sunday the letter was read at every
church in Orange, and on Monday morning
the sixty wagons, loaded with corn, were sent
TO General Beauregard, free of charge, and
telling him to keep also the wagons and teams.
Such said Wigiall, "was the patriotism in
Orange county then. Now, those very farm
ers will actually burn their wheat rather than
sell it to the government at five dollars BUSH
ell for the use of their own sons and broth
ers." We have no doubt Wiglall spoke the
truth, and that the change of feeling mani
tested by these Orange County farmers is on
ly one Of the many similar indications that
the people of the South have become entirely
alienated from the cause Of the Confederacy,
and only uphold 1t through fear of the conse-
quences If they do not.
Year: 1864

In starting the PORTLAND DAILY Press the
Proprietors were influenced by what they be-
lieved to be demand of the loyal public senti-
ment of the State, and the generous reception
which it has met with, and the unexpected meas
ure of success which has uniformly attended il
thus far, afford the most satisfactory evidence to
the lroprietors that they did not misconstrue the
public demand The Press has been in existence
but one year and half, and thought was COM
menced with no previous canyassing, and with,
the field, to superficial observer, fully occupied
by papers having old associations and honor
able antecedents, yet in its brief history it has
gained circulation never before attained by any
daily paper in the State, and a hold upon pub
lie confidence and respect most encouraging to
the proprietors, and stimulating to their cher
ished desire to satisfy the public wants by max
ing such paper as shall be deemed public ne
cessity by the loyal people of Maine.


Though the Press has had success far ex-
ceeding the most sanguine expectations of its
projectors, and though comparatively few sub
scribers have been heard TO complain of its ac-
knowledged DEFICIENCIES, and few demands for its
improvement have come to the notice of its pro-
prietors and though it may have been all they
could afford to make it at the pastAnd existing
exorbitant prices of printing materials and stock
and with its present patronage, yet the proprie
tors have long felt tat it is far short of what
leading journal in the commercial and financial
center of the State should be; and that the en-
terprise, the wealth, the public spirit and the
asst increasing population of Portland demand,
and should therefore sustain, such efforts as are
necessary to make paper commensurate with
the growing Importance and commanding posi-
ton of their city.


The Business of this city should demand much
more space for its advertisement than her num-
erous merchants and manu- facturers have as yet
claimed for its accommodation; while the great va
riety and importanceof the news of theday-For
eign and Domestic, Civil and Military -imper-
atively calls for more attention than the patron
age actually enjoyed by any paper in the State
would justify bestowing upon it. The Proprie-
tors of the Press, reposing implicit trust in the
good sense and the liberality of the people Of
Maine, and their willingness to sustain all en-
terprises having for their object the promotion of
our common veal, hope the day is not far dis
tant when they may, with full confidence in sue
cess, make
Year: 1864




Tales and Poetry - original and selected will
receive proper attention.


Both papers the Daily and the Weekly.
will be largely devoted as heretofore, to the dis
cussion of the great principles which underlie
our free institutions, and will give generous
and whole soued support to all the measures
necessary to put down rebellion, to overthrow
disloyaty in all its forms, and to re-estabsh the
authority of the Constitution the laws, and the
constitutional administration of the government.
over every foot of our common domain


On the great questions of Progress, Humanity,
Liberty and Equal Rights, being forced upon
he attention of the nation by the crisis through
which our institutions and our constitutional
Government arc now passing, the PsEss will ut
ter no equiyocal voice and occupy no doubtful
position. The emancipation of those held in
bonds before the rebellion the death of slavery
that Liberty and the Nation may live - will find
the Pass neither hestating nor reserved in its
advocacy and support.


In word, the Pass will stand by the gov
ernment under all contingencies, and defend
and support those who labor TO maintain its in
tegrity and honor; and it will be, as it has been
heretofore, the uncompromisng foe of all rebels
and rebel sympathizers, without respect to their
locality or position.


In the political campaign to be fought before
the close of theyear 1864 the Press will be found
acting withloyal Union men, irrespective of an
tecedents, and opposing all dsloyal men, on
matter from what's stock they may have descended.
Its course for the last year and half may be
taken as an indication of what it proposes for the
future.
Year: 1864

On Sunday last two men belonging to
Capt. Uambright's command at Spring
field took into their silly heads the idea
of visiting the country on toraging eX-
pedition upon their individual account
Mounted and fully armed, the gallant
pair managed to escape the guard line,
and before getting scarcely beyond sight
OF the town began tho work of their
thieving mission Visiting different
houses they would represent that they
had been sent to obtain firearms, get
ting which or finding the people had
none, they would demand money, watch
es and other yalUables. But at a point
nine miles distant from Springfield the
two robbers were suddenly brought to
grief, and afterwards brought into
Springfield III a wagon-One Of them
lifeless, and the other more dead than
alive. They had met several citizens
in party, who obstinately refused to
give up their arms or submit their pock-
etbooks to the tender mercies of the
thieves. Enraged by this fiat refusal to
comply with their moderate demand,
one of the robbers drew his pistol and
fred upon the citizens, his shot hOwey-
er, doing no harm. lie and his compan-
ion were then in bad fix, for before
they could make another shot their
bodies were riddled with bullets The
one who fred the pistol was instantly
killed, his body being pierced by as
many as eighteen balls. His compan-
ion received nine shots, but was alive
Tuesday morning, although there was
no chance for his recovery.


From this occurrence it may be infer
red that foraging on individual account
in Robertson county IS rather ticklish
business.


Capt. Hambright, who is a good sol
dier and attentive officer, was not on
duty when the two men slipped away
from the command He has, we un-
derstand, been too sick for several days
past to attend to the duties of his po-
sition. The officer in charge deeply
regrets the occurrence, but those ac-
ouainted with the manner in which the
two men escaped the guard line attach
no blame to him, as it was not in his
power to prevent it-Daiy Gazette.
Year: 1864

4 poor woman, wife Of a volunteer
with a family in deep distress applied
to a lady whose name headed one or
two stupendous Fair Committees, and
herself and husband cut very promj-
nent figures at the Academy Of Music
during the Fair The lady gave the
poor woman some very good advice,
and twelve cold buckwheat cakes A
prominent and very amiable Office
holder was applied to at his residence
by another suffering woman Ihis gen
tlemau, who can make a capital speech
in a public meeting, upon the duties Of
patriots 70 make every sacrifice 70 car
ry on the war, put the poor woman
through a severe catechlsnl, Assisted
bv his wife, and lectdred her for an hour
about what she ought 70 do to get along
in the absence Of her marital protector
Finally the generous supporter OF the
government sent the poor woman away
with a closely picked ham bone and
five cents in currency-Brook5u E.g.s
Year: 1864

The war has produced few, if any,
more touching poems than that which
follows, and which IS worthily illustrated
in Harpers Weekly Of this week. Should
it lead those who know little Of MuEs
o REILLY, except by name, to seek his
further acquaintance in a volume re-
Gently published by CARLTON, they will
not be disappointed in finding in him
much of the tenderness which belongs
to that genuine humor for which he is
eSpeciallv noted
Year: 1864

A Pennsylvania Editor thus exposes
some one:


Somebody brought one bottle Of
sour water into our Office, with the re-
quest 10 notice it as lemon beer If
Esau was foolish enough to sell his birth
right for a mess Of pottage, it does not
pFoye that well sell four shilling lie
Tor five cents"
Year: 1864

LAKE SIGNAL The United States Board Of
Supervisory Inspectors Of Steamboats, have
recently decided tAat the embarrassing code Of
signals adopted BY Congress at the last session
do not apply to our inland waters. It is there
fore proposed to return TO the old codes
Year: 1864

COLLISION. At o'clock on Wednesday
evening the schooner Hampton lin tow Of the
tug Mosher) ran into the north end Of Clark
street bridge No one was injured, but con
siderable damage done.
Year: 1864

INTERNAL REyENUE Commission
er Lewis has ruled that tie transfer of ware
house receipt constitute a sale, and made it
incumbent upon the s. Ter to pay duty of one
eighth per cent upon the amount received
therefor