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Year: 1864

We CAN " WE WILL. have never
doubted that the Democrats had it in
their power to carry this election. We
certainly have the men to do it if they
can be brought to the polls, and We urge
upon our friends everywhere to turn out.
AholitiOnism is not quite so fashionable
or formidable as it was. 1t is too costly,
too corrupt. too fanatical. We have spent
upon it countless lives. and, according to
ThurloT Weeds tstimate-AdminiStr
ton authority about five thousand mill
ions OF dollars AMI only comparatively
few Of the negroes arc freed yet, and noSv
Of those have died from cruel Treatment
and starvation. To set all OF them free
in conformity with Lincoln'S programme
will cost the lives ofmilliOnS Of white men
This Is not the entertainment to which
we were invited. Our people are willing
to fight for the Union If it cannot be re
stored without. but they have no relish
for barbarous Abolition crusade. That
is the way they feel. and f they will only
say SO through the ballot box next Tues.
day, the North and South " ill soon Shakr
hands in amity, and peace and plenty and
happiness will once again smile upon our
country.
Year: 1864

PLAIN FACTS. If the Democrats were
in power to day they would stop the was
and restore the Union in three months
and every one who would be glad to see
such a result should vote the Democratic
ticket. That the party in power is total
ly incapable of conducting the war or
making peace. has bern abundantly de,
monstrated. and to continue the imhecilrs
in power, after such long and deplorable
trial, would be criminal. Lincoln is a
buffoon, Seward bloat, Stanton brag.
gart. and Welles n dotard. From such
rulers We have nothing to expect but dis
aSter and disgrace. Rally. fellow. citizens
under the glorious old Democratic flag
and redeem Your country.
Year: 1864

Be CAUTIous!-Democrat>, beware oi
spurious tickets. Abolilinnists will dc
anything to elect their ticket. They have
everything in their own hands, and will
resort to any means to succeed. The only
ticket for Democrats to vote is at the head
Of our columns. Before voting examine
your ticket carefully and see that it con
tains every name in the ticket at the head
of our paper. Receive no tickets from
LincOlnites. They will cheat you. They
have played that game before and will do
it again. Be not imposed upon by their
professions Of fairness--be not misled by
their seeming honesty.
Year: 1864

IF the State should go against US BY
ONE vote, Democrats. you will wish you
had made little more effort to get men
to the polls. Now is the time to be &C.
tive and vigilant-after the election it
will be too late. Work while there is vet
time-work while there is anything to do
work earnestly and diligently.
Year: 1864

ALL kinds Of spurious tickets will be put In
circulation BY the sh"ddyites. They hare men
employed for that purpose in different precincts
men who profess to be Democrats the better
To impose upon the unsnsPecting. Vote no
ticket without first reading an the names it
contains.
Year: 1864

TIE laboring man who votes for Lin
coin, We care not to what party he may
belong, will repent of it in Sackcloth and
ashes, il he lives to the end of another
Presidential term. Four years of Ehoddy
abolition rule ought to satisfy any man oI
intelligence. Give Lincoln another fOur
years, and the laboring men will be mere
hewers Of wood and drawers of water f,r
the aristocratic shoddy contractors.
Year: 1864

Coon PMENDS. is there doubtful man Of
your acquaintance? See him. converse with
him. encourage him, convince him it is the
duty of all men who have the prosperity, the
happiness. the honor Of our country At heart,
to vote the Democratic ticket. A little work
will carry our county for the patrint and hero
Mcclellan BY handsome majority,
Year: 1864

Fortunate RECOVERY A lady while
crossing Iloboken ferry at New York,
lost a valuable gold watch in the
North River. She pointed out the spot
where it fell overheard as near as she could,
and a day or two afterwards the watch was
restored to her Some men had been set to
the task, by the superintendent, of finding
the watch by dredging, and after whole
days work around the spot, the watch was
brought up.
Year: 1864

An apothecary in Chicago was called mp
80 two O'Clock the other morning. by tie
ringing Of the night bell. On opening the
door. he found a damsel who told hIm she was
going On a picnic that morning, and was ont
OF rouge. The impudent druggist turned her
of win the assurance that be hadn't the
stock to cover a cheek ike hers.
Year: 1864

For some time, an army correspondent
writes, many OF our officers in front of Pc
ter-hurg, have been in the habit of creep
Ing lurwsrd anu setting their watches by a
large clock upon one of the church steeples
But on the Fourth thirty-pounder shell
was sent crashing through the face aud the
works within, completely knocking the
clock ''out Of time.
Year: 1864

The New York Tunes, Tribune and World
have raised their subscription price to SO
per year, single copies four cents. The price
Of white paper Is now more than three times
what it was eighteen months ago.
Year: 1864

\ convict in the Thomaston Me, state
prison, who had cut up blanket and from
1t made a suit Of clothes of one color, and
had disguised himself with false nous
tache. boldly marched through the guard
room Of the prison, few days ago, the
guard not detecting the fraud, and was just
leaving the prison, when the warden, who
happened to meet him, stopped him. He
said he had been year preparing to escape.


The Lelands of hotel fame are said to be
about to erect an Opera House at Saratoga.
Year: 1864

A local PAPER in Iowa threw the Copper
heads INTO the most furious rage and dem
nuciausn OF the decentralization produced by
ab'hiouIsiu, by publishing a statement
that a soldiers vile had given tirtn 70 an
African infant The next issue observed
that the editor forgot to remark in the for
mer item that the father and mother were
both negroes.
Year: 1864

On inquiry we learned that the order was
the result of very thorough examination
by medical blari into the merits Of these
oyens-wcll known by all who have used
them to be adapted TO every specics OF cook
ing. with convenience. economy and dispatch
BlodgeJt 6 sweet for some years, have been
driving large business in the manufacture
of these valuable articles. Of all sizes, from
one adapted to the use of small family to
one capable of meeting the wants OF "a large
sized hotel or hospital
Year: 1864

fall below his income. Let him live cheap,
very cheap, Unnecessary; bus let hin be iare
AID make bis income more ihsa cover his ez-
veases, which can De done in almost all cases,
notwithstanding the positive denial ofever 50
many housekespers A man may rot have
more than two or three hundred dollars a
year, and have family as large IS that Of
J SIN Rogers. and he can fnd way to live
comfortably and lay up something into the
bargain There is much, nay al, in knowing
hew the thing is done. And it is the thing
people who are going to make money have
got to learn.


It is wonderful how few real wants We have,
ed how little it takes 10 give genuine bsppi-
nsss If we could get rid of our artificial,
ssnseless and expensive way OF living, We
should find ourselves better of in parse, in
prospects and ia heart. Let any one who has
asy ambition to go ahead in life, try the ex-
imenl this year, and see how much there
il 10 economy. Make your expenses less than
your income, and see how much you viii have
rot only IN money, but 10 the feeling
ia you. are in the condition which the Yam
kefs den0minate "forehanded y Try it. ri
Year: 1864

At the recent dinner Of the New England
Society in New York, the Hon. james I.
Brady-a gentleman who will scarcely be ac-
cused Of a tendency to radicalSm-mads a
speech, in the course OF which he said


say to those gentlemen for whom with
IN feeble limits OF my capacity I have made
all the sacrifices that belonged to q young life
or an old experience, oil the politicians who
IelI you there ever can come time when there
can be a recoustructi0n Of the Union founded
on slavery, are telling you lie. We thought
we could make any sacrifice to retain that in
siituton, go long as it could continue consist
ently with the Judgment OF men but say
now for myself here and hereafter, that nev.
er mean to fight the battle again. LCheers
Ii ia ended. The great Cod Of the universe
has terminated it, and the rebellion, terrible
as il is costly in life, in blood and in treasure,
is, in my utnble and reverent conception, one
of the mysterious ways in which the justice Of
God is being worked out against the prejudi-
ces aud fasehoods Of men," 1870
Year: 1864

Diphtheria-A Sure Cure of This Terrible Disor


der.


Please publish the following treatment OF
diphtheria. II has been used by myself, and
others to whom 1 have given it, in over one
thousand cases, without failure. It will al
ways cure, if the treatment is commenced be-
fore the diphtheria membrane extends into the
air tube, which is known by the great Difficult
ty Of breathing and restlessness. In such
cases no remedy yet discOvedlwill always effect
a cure; but if the patient is watched, and
this treatment used in time, there is no dan
ger


1 sent this treatment TO a friend Of mine in
Wisconsin, aud he used it on himself and fam
lily, and neighbors with such wonderful sue
cess that he requested me TO send it to you for
publication, as this horrible diseas is prevail
ing very extensively through parts Of Missouri.
Year: 1864

Considering the contrabaRds and other
Unionsts who have escaped from the Conled
eracy into the loyal States and sections, there
are net to-day one less than half the surviving
population Of the Slave States under the
Union flag. That is to say or the Twelve
Millions relied on by Governor Seymour TO
battle all possible efforts to put down the
Rebellion, at least half are to-day under the
old flag.


Now we submit to all candid men that it was
far more difficult to reduce the strength Of the
Rebellion from IL to Millions OF People
than to overcome the residue. Say nothing
of material exhaustion-of financial ruiu-of
stocks OF goods utterly consumed, and no
chance OF replacing them-Of the swim, igno-
miuious defeat Of every attempt 10 float the
Rebel flag on the soil Of the loyal States-we
submit that the point is already established,
that the Rebellion can1 wiz. It may waste
an unreasonable time in dying-t may yet
do much mischief destroy thousands Of lives,
aud waste hundreds of milliops Of property
but its success is DO longer to be reasonably
feared, And the rage, the hate, and the ven
ON betrayed by the Rebel organs prove their
conductors see this as we do. When men 10
their condition are perpetually protesting that
they will never give up-that they don't de-
spair-that they atill have chance Of success
the world understands that their "last ditch"
Is lust OF hand-N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1864

Put all into a common-sized teacup or yes.
sci which holds ABOUT four ounces, aud pour
half fall OF beiIing water, stir well, and then
fll full of COED vinegar Fit for use when it
settles. Make q svab by getting little stick
about the sizs of pipe-stem, notch one end
and wrap strip of cotton cloth around it,
letting the cloth project about half an inch
beyond the end of the stick, so as not to jag
the mouth and throat, and fasten with a
thread,


Swab the mouth and throat well every half
hour if the case is bad every hour il mot bad,
When the patient gets better, ever two hours !;
Year: 1864

sive of personal morality and Of national
character. The principles Of right and wrong
should be adhered to rigdly under all cir
cumstances, in all emergencies" The Con-
stitution and laws should he rigdly respected
in every line and letter, whatever the "emer-
gency"


And we venture the assurance that If this
country is ever restored to peace and pros
perity it will be by the ascendancy OF this
principle, and by popular return to the
most rigid doctrine of constitutional law.
1t is easy for men to think that they may
violate the Constitution, just for this time, to
put down a rebellion. 1t was just as easy
for rebels to think they might violate it to
get up rebellion. The result Of uuconstitu-
tional and illegal measures for righting a
supposed wrong, or for crushing manifest
wrong, is the same-chaotic. 1t leaves the
nation without law, drifting wildly before a
tempest of popular fury. We must 90 back
to old principles. We must elect an Ad-
ministraion to be under the Constitution.
Such an Administration will be under the
people. The government is over the people.
The Administration is the servant of tho
people, or ought to be so; but now the ADJ
minstration rules the people. and defes the
Constitution by which it ought to be kept
down as the servant of tho people. The
departure from constitutional subsection and
obedience is departure from popular gov
ernment. The coming election is to deter
mine whether the people will hereafter govern
themselves, through the men they appoint
to administer their laws, or whether they
will yield to perpetual ''emergency" all their
ancient liberties. We have not lost faith in
the people yet Journal of Commerce.
Year: 1864

An order has been issued from the
Provost Marshal Generals office, at
Washington, which states that the name
Of the organization authorized by the
War Department as the Invalid Corps,
IS changed to that Of the Veteran Re
serve Corps, and that all orders relating
to the Invalid Corps will remain in
force, as at present, with respect TO the
Veteran Reserve Corps. This Is a
change Of name which viii no doubt be
hailed with great pleasure by the gal
liant soldiers IN this corps, and viii
greatly increase its present high and
well-deserved popularity. Three years
Of hard fighting have given our brave
soldiers Of the Union armies q just title
to be called veterans in the noblest and
fullest sense Of the term We have now
Veteran Volunteers and Veteran Re
serves; nobly have they earned their
name, and proudly will they protect the
title and gloriOasly wear its honors.-
PkiddelDhia Inquirer
Year: 1864

We learn that on Tuesday morning an was quiet with
General Grants army, but another battle was expected
on that day, the rebels being still desrous Of shaking
General Grants grasp tho Weldon Railroad The ut
most confidence felt by forces their ability
hold u
Year: 1864

Wndt Me DsGerence?

 Whats the difference between your greatcoat and baby ? One you wear, the other you was What is the difference between perseverance and obstinacy. One is a strong will and the other is strong won't. f.s

 What is the difference between O miller and matron One is Q moth and the other is a moth CT.

 What is the difference between a boy run. ming after girl and a boy running after a car riage7 One chase the miss and the other misses the chaise. t. What is the difference between drummer boy and a pound of meat One weighs a pound, and the other pounds away.

 What is the difference between stabbing a man and killing hog !? One is assaultny with intent to kill, and the other killing with in- tent to salt.

 What is the difference between tailor and . siege-gun. One works the brooches, and the other breaches the work

 What is the difference between church or. ganist and the influenza! One stops the nose and the other knows the stops.

 Bdtch of Whens. When is fowls neck like a bell When it as rung for dinner.

 When may chair be said to dislike you When it cant bear you. VI. Whsn, IS a clock guilty of misdemeanor ? When it strikes one.

 :. when IS geod tune most relshed When 1t is oppor tune. ground. 70 When IS moiasses remarkable When it ools' tor then it's syrup rising (surprising.l

 When is flock of sheep like our climate 2 When 1t is composed of all wethers e"'AA'e When were there only two vowels Tn tha days of No-a, before U or were born. s1e When the devil had his tail cut of where d;a hego? To place where they retail bas spirits.
Year: 1864

The remaining week Of the campaign


should be employed by every lover Of
his country in earnest untiring effort


oar fancied sechrity viii not answer


rne foe is determined and unscrupu-


lous They are not willing tosu0mit 10
an hoDesg expression Of public opinion


Seeing the people against them, and the


prospect OF defeat II fair election Is


had, they are Determined By fraud, BY


perjury. By violence 10 defeat the will
OF the people. Hence the reasonable
organisation lately exploded in Indiana;
neEce the attempt Of the Democratic
politicians OF New York 10 do that
which the party could not do by law
rob the soldiers OF the right 70 she cleo
tive franchise; hence the robbery IN
Vermont; the attempt 70 release the
prisoners on johnson Island; hence
the boast Of the rebels that they have
in every Northern city men ready and
wiling 70 burn, pillage, plumber and
destroy.


Ia view Of these things and the des-
Derate condition of the Democratic
uafty, and OF rebeldom, L behOeves
every Union man % throw aside sll
manner OF business, and devote ais
time from nov to the aight Of election
70 the cOmmOn Cause ScOuF the
country round; hunt up the over con
iident and the doubling See toit thst
no illegal votes GET into the ballot box
that no Union man stays away ffop
the polls Send tor those VINO are ab-
sens and c0uapel them 70 come home
find out the business Of suspicious
Year: 1864

We publish to day the Union tickets
by your States; and if agents fail to
reach you, cut the tickets out of the
paper, and use them; and if a full
supply of these is not at hand, copy
them. A written ticket is as good s
printed one
Year: 1864

"V-e-t. Vet" What does it mean
Upon yon soldiers faded coati
His hand is hard and rough and brown,
see scar along his throat,
His eyes seem looking far off STILL


His close-shut mouth is grim.
Mother, what means that little word
Upon sleeve so worn and dim ?"
1t means, my child, that rugged hand
Has welded musket long and well;
Has sent the iron thunder home,
And tuned the song of screeching shell.
1t meaHs-that steady, staunch and true
He fairly won that ragged scar,
While you and sat safe at home,


And read the news about the war.
What wonder if the mouth is grim,


That said so many swift good-byeis:
Life's common words are idle breath
Beside those earnest battle cries,
What wonder if the gaze is dim,


And yonder strangely fingers yet;
The eye that has looked straight at Death
His image may not soon forget.
And this is what it means, to earn


The title veteran" on o coat;
To march through flood and field, or lie
Where rebel rifles sweep the moat;
To serve the guns in rifle-pits;


To sleep beneath the silent sky;
To dream of home and wake to war:


To see comrade drop and die.
To hear and heed the fearful song,


Which whistling Mimic bullets sing;
To faint and fall. and longing lie


For one cool draught from rocky spring.
And this my child, is what it says.


That little word ofletters three;
Go clasp his hand, and give him thanks,
For battles fought for you and me.
Year: 1864

The tyranny of capital over labor has
often been subject of complaint, and, at
least in the old world, with reason. But
when the circumstances are reversed, and
capital is more abundant than labor, the
latter becomes despot, and one of the
worst kind, because often unreasoning and
unreasonable. This is illustrated by the
miners of Pennsylvania, who, by repeated
strikes, have advanced their wages from
one dollar and fifty cents to ten dollars per
day, and whose latest demand is 81 per
hour, while the whole community is groan-
ing under the consequent enhance in price
of one of the most necessary commodi-
ties of life. We have another illustration {:
The Horse-shoers Trade Union of New
York have resolved that no machine
made shoes shall be used there, and, in
order to carry their resolve into execution,
have, by threats and violence, compelled
arge numbers of the craft to leave their
Employment.
Year: 1864

The best Tonic Bitter ever offered te tb Public. Mingled with the rich flavor of th Bourbon are number of other ingredie nt Tor restoring the appetite and impartiDs If and vigor to the whole system.
Year: 1864

CAMP NEAR BRANDY STATION, April 10, 1864.


EDITOR FREEMAN The news here in camp
is not very startling just now. Cold weather and
rain-storms seem to pIepouderaie in the statistics
Of The weather, with an occasional sunny, spring
like day, just to show how pretty smile Dame
Nature can wear when the chooses TO do 90,


About one week ago, one dark aud very stormy
night, several men deserted from the regiment,
but were overlaken and brought back again the
next morning by the cavalry sent after them AZ
they we're missed. There we're seven Of them,
and SIX we're retaken and one escaped. The Rap
pahannock was swollen by the rain, and these ad.
voutuTers cund it more difficult to cross than
they had expected


That same night two railroad bridges between
here aud Alexandra were swept away or rendered
useless for the time, and cur supplies were cut of
till they we're repaired. The worst inconvenience
that we boys felt was IN being obliged TO fall
back upon hard tack, aud The loss of our daily
mail. This interruption was soon r,medied and
now we are enjoying our daily bread and daily
mail as usual.


The great topic oi discussion and interest just
now among some Of the old boys, who have
not re'enIisted, is as TO when their time Of ser.
vice will expire. Even those who came oat with
the regiment at 6rst are not entirely satisfied on
this point. Their opinions are divided, some
thinking that they will be freemen the first Of
June, and others not expecting that glad day be.
fore the twentieth There is claimed to be most
excellent authority for believing that the old
soldiers in the whole brigade will be discharged
the first Of June. Positive evidence to that effect
il s said, has been received by ,omo from the
State authorities Of Vermont aud there eau be
no doubt about it. On The other hand those less
sanguiue, but more reasonable, believe ,ha, they
will tayo to wait I'LL the twentieth OF June, which
is the third anniversary Of their muster into the
United States seryi.e. Then there are ths re-
cruils tbOt have joined the regiment a, various
timos. These have more reason 10 debate the
/ question than the old men.


We have Ave d,iinc, classes Of recruits. rhe
Year: 1864

CaAEaE IF you AsE WRoso If you have
been working with the enemies Of your country
lunocently or iguoranty, then change /, is
better to be turu-coat than traitor To stay
on the wrong side is base, TO change to the right
side is honorable No matter what you have
done or said on the other side, you may have
walked with copperheadain in processions,o att end
cd their meetings. Never mind the great duty
is to vote right. ses that you do that and your
record win be clean. Vote agalns, your govern
ment aud 10 sympathy with traitors AMI your
name will be linked with an infamy that never
can be wiped out.
Year: 1864

REMEMBER Let every Union man remember
that on Tuesday next the great political battle
of the age is to be fought. Our soldiers are
doing well their part with bullets. Let US do
ours with ballots. Remember that the polls
open at Nine A. NJ, and CLOSE AT FIVE P. M
VOTE early. WoHK till the polls close.