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Year: 1864

WE have considerably enlarged TIE DAILY OHIO
STATESMAN. and now print it on plain ap hand
some new type, and clear white paper. I'M ..


In Politics. The OHIO STATEsAAN is,'in " ar as
Peace for the Country for the Constitution and lo


Union of equal States. with equal privileges. ana
with equal and exact Justice to all its citizens. We
srefor the Old Flag with not Star Stripe erased,
and the Old Union far as it is possible To restore it.
End for the existing Constitution in its spirit letter
nd purpose.


Upon the coming events Of the year, rest the hopes
IF the People and Government. We are in the midst
Of bloody and protracted civil war. Its duration
and close depend upon wiser. truer and more patri-


Policy than We have seen dunng the present Ad-
ninistration. Wsowe it to the memorT Of our Faith


and to the hspes Of Children te the future Of
our Country and to the best nterestc OF mankind to
Bhangs Policy which is drifting farther and lar
her from the landmarks Of our patriotic sircs.


THE STATEsMAN will do all it can to aid in tring-
Ing about this change; and hence. the Publishers in
vite support and encouragement from all those who
while wishing for good NEWSPAPER. also wish to
have sound Constitutional journal.


We publish paper in which we seek to give the
TRUTH. Our Commercial Reports, our Markets. our
Political and General News are carefully freed from
The ensational character, and we seek to make The
STATESMAN Trustworthy in every particular.


For News. for Instruction. for Good Morals. for
Sound Political Sentiments, for Steady Defense Of
American Institutions, Take Read and help to Cir
,ulate. THE OHIO STATESMAN.


TIE WEEKLY OHIO STATEsMAN is enc Of the
argest. cheapest, and best printed Papers in the
West. Each number contains complete reswne Of
II the Military and Political news of the week; the
atest telegraphic and market reports; carefully
prepared collection of literary reading for the home
and family; and an abundance of paragraphs upon
every topic of interest or Importance. The wide
circulation already obtained by this paper. is an evil
dence of its popularity. and Of its being adapted to
the wants Of the people.
Year: 1864

SKUNK Us. HEDGEHoG.-T The Bridgeport
Standard says the New York Herald refused
to join with the other papers of that city in the
recent increase of price to their subscribers.
The cause of this determination on the part OF
the Herald to lose money heavily every day,
is said to arise from the fact that the World,
being thoroughly rebel In its sympathies, has
very largely supplanted the Herald in the grog
shops and other places of il-repute in New
York city, which have natural appetency for
whatever is the worst. As the World, howev-
er, has raised its price to four cents the Her
aid expects by selling at three cents, to flank
the World and regain its lost circulation, not
withstanding its semi-loyalty. 1t is to be hop
ed that It will be successful, for the Herald is
by far the least Objectionable of the two.
Year: 1864

TIMELY WoRDs.-The following is from
the Boston Post written by an officer in Gen.
Sherman's army to a friend in Boston. Its
suggestions as to the draft and the war ought
to be constantly borne in mind by the people ::


"You say that The draft will be fearful af-
fair;' is it not more dreadful TO allow this
nation to be broken up, our flag disgraced,
and the many lives already sacrificed to go
for nothing, than not have a draft; than not
TO bring men enough into the field to finish
up this war promptly-for it is very eer.ain
this war will never end until the rebels are
conquered by force. The only way is tn
throw enough men into the field, aud enough
men to support those already in the field, aud
then In the end not only will life be saved
but the old flag will be victorius. Private
griefs, and private interests must, at times
like this give way to the public welfare; we
must not think OF ourselves, but of our coun-
try"
Year: 1864

II there is any one quality which Is absol-
utely necessary TO success and happiness, that
quality is gumption; and of all unfortunate
aud TO be pilied individuals, the most unfor-
tunate and to be pilied, are those who lack
this inestimable blessing. Not that there is
anything very bad about such people. In
deed, they are generally well meaning, but
"they hayn't any gumption." That is all one
eau say about IT, No other expression, no
elaborate description even, can convey TO the
mind the precise condition OF the class refer
red to. Ii would be hard matter, in fact, to
define gumptiop, yet every one knows Just
what ii means It would be hard TO point out
Just what is lacking in those who do not pos
sess il. yet every one is aware of the deflicien-
cy except the individuals themselves.


II we might venture into the domain of men
tai science, we would say that gumption is a
faculty Of the mind somewhat akin TO the
original suggestion; a sort of instinct; sixth
sense, 1t may be, inelining now TO tact, now
to common sense, according as 1t is more OF
less symmetrically developed.


The unfortunate individuals who lack gump-
ton seem to fail chiefly in due appreciation
of the eternal fitness of things. They have
no proper sense of where things belong. no
idea OF the awkward and the ridiculous
They do the right things often enough. but al
ways at the wrong time. They seem To have
genius for getting things by the wrong han.
die. They will bring you the sheep-shears 10
cut piece OF Florence silk, or pair of en-
broidery scissors to cut hemp rope. Invite
them to call and they will be sure to come in
the morning-most likely on washing day /
they have an engagement, they will be prompr
enough. unless the business is pressing, in
which case it is morally certain that they viii
be late as that the sun will rise tomorrow
morning.


But we may as well be patient, and call i
an inflrmity Of poor human nature. 1t seem'
TO be the province of some people to gel
things bottom side mp, wrong side up. and in
side out. They are like lathe out of order
When the power is applied. no one short of
genuine prophet can tell whether it will turI
out butter bowl or a broom handle. OF one
thing, however, you may rest assured. |
there is a chance TO get out of place, they viii
find it; IL 1t is possible to make an awkward
blunder, they will demonstrate il; and If
thing can be misunderstood, or misinterpret
ed. they are Just the ones to do it, IRura
New Yorker
Year: 1864

Hard Sense from the President.


Gov. Randall and Judge Mills, of
Wisconsin, recently had a conference
with the President on the only topic Of
the times, the state of the countty.A
The interview was eminently friendly,
and in accordance with the wishes of
the latter gentleman, tho President
wrote him an autograph letter, part of
which is in words as follows. fl


The slightest knowledge of arithme.
tic will prove to any man that the rebel
armies cannot be destroyed by Demo-
cratic strategy. 1t would sacrifice all
The white men of the North to do It,
There are now in the service of the
United States nearly 100000 oble-bod.
led colored men, most of them under
arms, defending aud acquiring Union
territory. The Democratic strategy des
mands that these forces be disbandcd, and
hat the masters be conciliated by.re.
storing them to slavery. The black
men who n ow assist Union prisoners to
escape, are to be converted into our
enemies, in the vain hope Of gaining the
goodwill of their masters. We shall
have to fight two nations instead Of one.


You cannot conciiate the South If
you guarantee to them ultimate SUGGEST
and the experience of the present war
proves their success is inevitable if you
fling the compulsory labor of millions
Of black men into their side of the scale.
Will you give our enemies such militia
ry advantages as insure success, and
then depend on coaxing, hattery, aud
concession to get them back into the
Union? Abadon all the posts now gar
risoned by black men, take two hun
dred thousand men from our side and ,
put them in the battlefield or corn field
against US, and we would be compelled
to abandon the war in three weeks.


We have to hold territory in inclem-
ent and sickly places; where are the
Democrats to do this? 1t was free
fight, and the field was open to the war
Democrats to put down this rebellion
by fighting against both master and
slave, long before the present policy was
inaugurated.


There have been men base enough to
propose to me to return to slavery the
warriors Of Port Hudson and Olustee,
and thus win the respect of the masters
they fought. Should I do so, should
deserve to be damned in time and ster-
nifty. Come what will, 1 will keep my
faith with friend and foe. My enemies
pretend | am now carrying on the war
for the sole purpose of abolition. So
long as 1 am President it shall be car
ried on for the sole purpose of retoring
the Union. But no human power can
subdue this rebellion without the use
of the emancipation policy, and every
other policy calculated to weaken the
the moral and physical forces Of the re-
bellion. .'..."


Freedom has given US two hundred
thousand men, raised on Southern soil.
1t will give us more yet. Just so much
it has subtracted from the enemy, aud
instead of alternating the South, there
are now evidences of fraternal feeling
growing up between our men and the
rank and file of the rebel soldiers. Let,
my enemies prove to the country that
the destruction of slavery is not neceS.
sary to restoration of the Union.
will abide the issue. ........ ..,......
Year: 1864

The appointment of Admiral Farra-
gut to the command of the North Allan
tic Squadron means business. vii.
miugton and Fort Darling are of course
the objective points of the new naval
campaign. The assignment of Admi.
raj Lee to Farragut's place in the Gulf
by the same course of in duction, does
not mean business.


The talk about the fall of Mobile ma
as we'll bs given up for the present.
Year: 1864

How can a respectable man, educated
in land of intelligence and schools,
have sympathy with rebellion2 The
army feels that toattempt a compromise


would be a disgrace to them; they want
no compromise, for the power of the
rebellion is broken, and we begin to
see the beginning of the end. The ar
my will Conquer q peace" They are
Year: 1864




bill to guarantee to certain States whose gov
ernments have been usurped or Overthr own
a republican form of government


Mr.. PENDLEToN said:


Mr.. Speaker: 1 avail myself of the in
diligence granted me by the House to en-
force quite at length the views which 1
deem pertinent to this debate. The de-
tails Of this bill require examination as
well as its general policy. 1t provides
that in all the States whose governments
are usurped or oVerthrown by persons in
rebellion the President shall appoint q
military governor, whose pay and emolu.
ments shall be those of brigadier gene
raj; that SO soon as this governor is salts
fed that the people of the State shall have
"suficiently returned to their obedience
to the Constitution and laws of the Uni
ted States" he shall cause an enrolment
to be made of the white male citizens
resident in their respective counties by
the marshal and his deputies, who shall
tender to each one the oath to support
the Constitution. IF one-tenth part of the
persons enrolled in each county shall take
this oath, he shall by proclamation Gin
vite the loyal people of the State to elect
delegates to a convention" He shall
then divide the State into election dis
tricts, assign to each its number of dele
gates, designate the day and the place
for holding the election, appoint commits
sioners to superintend the voting, and
prooide an adequate force to keep the
peace. The bill prescribes the qualifca-
tion of electors. They must be loyal,
white male citizens of the United States
resident in.the county, enrolled as afore-
said, and must have taken the oath pre-
scribed by the act of 1862; and no person
who has held any Office, civil or military,
State or Confederate, under the rebel
usurpation, or who has voluntarily borne
arms against the United States, shall be
Year: 1864

Who'll press for gold the crowded street
A hundred years to come?
Who'll tread the church with willing feet
A hundred years to come? I. l,-
And childhood, with his brow of truth, 81,
The rich and poor on land and sea
Where will the mighty millions be


A hundred years to come?
We all within our graves shall sleep


A hundred years to come:
No living soul for us will weep trr


A hundred years to come:
But other men our land will till,
And Others then our land will Till,
And other words will sing as CAV.
And bright the sun shine as to-day.


A hundred years to come,
Year: 1864

There is perhaps no more odious charac-
ter in the world than a gosbetween; by
which we mean that creature who carries to
the ears Of one neighbor injurious observa-
tions that happen to drop from another
Such a person is the slanderer's herald, and
is altogether more odious than the slanderer
himself. By vile oficiousness he makes that
poison effective which else were inert ;
three-fourths of the slanderers in the world
would never injure their object, except by
the malice of go-betweens, who under the
mask of double friendship, act the part of
double traitors.
Year: 1864

In one of the Western towns they
passed an ordinance forbiding taverns to
sell liquors on the Sabbath to any person
except travellers. The next Sunday every
man in the town was seen walking about
with pOrtmanteau in one hand and a pair
Of saddle bags in the other
Year: 1864

A. WABD, in one of his lectures, relates
his clock-fxing experience, and in so doing,
hits the shOddy politicians and abolitionists
under the fifth rib


When I was an apprentice to the printing
business in New Hampshire, having had
some controversy with my employer, ran
away had no money, and could not beg,
and so l called at farm house and asked if
they had any clocks to mend They said
they had one, and wished would fix it, l
took the clock to pieces, ate my dinner, and
then looking at the table where lay the
countless wheels, l knew that could never
put the clock together again. So told the
folks I was dizzy, and would 90 out and get
some fresh air, and fed across the mead
ows like bright-eyed gazelle, or anything
else that goes quick So those politicians
who went to work to take the Union clock
to pieces to get their dinners, never meant
to put it together again They have stolen
their dinners, but they will not restore the
clock.
Year: 1864

What is the difference between the Prince
of Wales, the son of Esau, an orphan and a
baby a


One is an heir-apparent, the other a hairy
parent, the other nary parent, and the 9TH
er nary hair apparent.
Year: 1864

SAD AccIDEsr.-The Atchison Kan
sas Free Press, of Thursday, says that
three boys were found nfar that city, on
that morning smothered To death 10 bin
of wheat. They were sleeping for the
night in partially empty bin, when the
boards of full bin adjoining gave way.
letting the grain in upon them and
smothering them TO death instantly.
Year: 1864

An instance of youthful depravity only
equalled by the recent horrible child
murder in Patterson, n. j., occurred on
Friday afternoon at Bristol, Bucks coun-
ty The crime in this case as in the 9TH
er was murder committed by child
The perpetrator was lad of only eleven
years, named Charles johnson. His vic
tim was child of only seven summers
His name was Joseph Fisher. The dread
tul deed was perpetrated in the house
where Johnson's parents reside. Wheth-
er the boy-murderer enticed his compan-
ion to enter the house with the deliberate
intention of killing him, or whether they
were engaged in play and quarrelled,
must remain unknown, unless it shall be
disclosed by confession of the only one
who can disclose it. However that may
be, the two boys went into the garret of
the house and while there, johnson,
catching up fire arm, shot and instantly
killed his little comrade After commit
ting this dreadful act, the boyish murder
er, fearful of a discovery Of his crime,
dragged the body into an alley leading
into the yard of the house, and placed it
upon pile of shavings, to which he set
fire with the intention of destroying the
evidence of his wickedness. The smoke
and the smell of burning flesh alarmed
the neighbors, who rushed in, and, after
extinguishing the flames, discovered the
partially consumed body of the dead
child.


Johnson, on being taxed with the crime
confessed his guilt, but gave no reoson
for his atrocous conduct. He is said to
be a boy already stepped in wrong. But
a short time since, he flung stone at a
party of children, which, however, missed
them, and struck woman who was pass
ing in the head, almost killing her. We
look for further developments of his more
recent crime with great interest.-Rilla.
Press.
Year: 1864

The great peace bubble has burst upon us,
and we are looking about for the parts which
constituted it, but, behold, we find nothing,
see nothing, hear nothing by which we can
tell what the wigwam was built for, or what
the Convention of peace babblers met in it
for, unless it was merely TO flap with the
collapes and sound forth George B. McClel-
Ian as candidate for the Presidency of the
United States. But as it is not the first time
that candidates have been nominated to high
Office without hope of election, SO it may not
be the last time.


As this singular convocation at Chicago
as its candidate, the next thing is for those
who are to do the voting to find out what
they are TO vote for, In this case, every
man who intends TO support Mcclellan is in
favor of Southern independence. That is
the testimony of jeff Davis, and not merely
our opinion, Jeff has said very plainly that
any persons coming TO him to sue for peace.
must first acknowledge the independence of
the South. Peace without independence is
impossible with him, and this is what Gen.
Mcclellan means. This is what the ConVen-
tion which nominated him meant If this is
not the result of the Chicago Convention,
what is it t!-PutsJurg Commercial.
Year: 1864

L. To eat when you do not want it, is
brutal-nay this is slander, on the low
er animals, they do not so debase them
selves.


z. Do not enter sick chamber on an
empty stomach, nor remain as watcher
or nurse, until you feel exhausted nor
sit between the patient and the fire, nor
IN the direction of current of air from
the patient toward yourself; nor eat or
drink anything after being in an invalid's
room until you have rinsed your mouth.


3. Do not sleep in any garment worn
in the day.


4. Nest grown persons are able to sleep
soundly over six hours in summer and
seven in winter; to attempt to force more
sleep on the system by sleep in the day
time, renders the whole of the slumber
disturbed and imperfect.


D. Some of the most painful stomach
aches are occasioned by indigestion this
generates wind, and hence distention. 1t
is often remedied by kneading the abdo-
men with the hand, skin to skin, from
one side to another, from the lower edge
Of the ribs downwards, whereby the sur
plus air is forced on and outward along
the alimentary canal


q. When you return to your house
from long walk or other exhaustive ex-
ercise, 90 to the fire or warm room, and
do not move single article of clothing
until you have taken cup of hot drink.


7. In going into colder atmosphere,
keep the mouth closed, and walk with a
speed sufficient to keep off chilliness.


8. Two pair of stockings will keep the
feet warmer than one pair of a greater
thickness.


8. The night sweats of disease come on
towards daylight; their dcathly coldness
is greatly modified by sleeping in a sin
gle loose wooden short


10. Those who drink cup of tea or
coffee, or other stimulant, in order to aid
in the performance of any work, are fools;
because it is to the body and brain an ex-
penditure of what is not yet got 1t is
using power in advance, and this can new
er be done with impunity


IL. The less man drinks in hot wea-
ther the better; for the more we drink,
the more we want to drink, until even
ice-water fails, and becomes of metallic
taste. Hence the longer you can put off
drinking cold water on the morning of a
hot day, the better you will feel at night.


II. If you sleep at all in the day y-time,
it will interfere with your sleep at night
much less if the sleep be taken in the
forenoon.
Year: 1864

A wealthy gentleman in New Jersey.
few days since, enlisted as a substitute
stalwart and patriotic Canadian, paying him
$500, and expending considerable sum for
an outft--When they parted, the recruit
promised, at the request of his principal, to
write at the first opportunity. The gentle
man was a little surprised atreceiving at let
ter from his man dated Quebec, informing
him that his money had enabled the substi-
tute and his wife to set up corner grocery,
and they were doing well: and if his patron
would give him call, he should have a
drink gratis,
Year: 1864

Farmers begin to fatten swine too late.
Some do not commence till the first of
autumn, and others even later. The con-
sequence is the animal scarcely gets un-
der way when the time comes for slauoh
tering him. Our best managers make it
a rule to keep the animal growing with
out intermission from the first period of
its existence until ready for the pork-tub.
1t kept over winter, they are fed and kept
comfortable throughout, aud the regular
tattenlng process is commenced early in
the spring. a bCshel of corn given thus
early III the season to a vigorous growing
animal is worth much more than the same
amount fed in autumn, and far more than
II fed In cold weather or in winter. One
reason that some farmers find it unproft-
able to fatten pork, is that large part of
the process has to be performed when the
weather has become so cold that much
OF the feed is required merely for sustain
ing animal warmth.


The best pork raiser we know of has
IN one instance grown a pig eight months
old so as to weigh four hundred and fifty
pounds in ten months. He has the corn
ground to meal and prepares it by pour
ing into covered tub four pailsful of
bulling water to each pail of dry neal
After standing day or more it all be-
comes nearly solid mass, and makes ex-
cellent feed. The animals are kept per-
fectly clean, dry, and comfortable, (not in
close pen, bat small yard, )are fed with
great regularity, and never quite so much
as they viii eat, surfeit being carefully a.
voided He finds that pork thus manu-
factured costs him only five cents pound
when corn is a dollar bushel


Farmers who have not begun to fatten
their swine regularly, as they should have
done months ago, should commence i'm
mediately. BY attending to the particu-
lars just mentioned they will fud the bus
iness far more profitable than the too fre-
quent practice of feeding in the ear, giving
the food irregularly both as to time and
quantity, and paying no attention to
cleanliness and comfort. Theskillful far
mer, whose practice we have already des-
cribed, finds that the mixture of meal and
hot water makes twice,as much pork as
corn fed on the cob, according to careful
weighing and measuring.