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Year: 1865

E1Ecr OF THE FAIL OF CHARLESTON ON THE
Pso1l.-H Is no wonder that the good news
from General Sherman's army produced such
an excellent effect upon our people yesterday.
We have not seen so much real excitement in
our streets since the first firing on Fort Sumter.
Broadway and oil the principal streets were
decked with flags Everybody having Aag-
STAFF and anything like an American flag,
thought 1t their duty to "fing their banners to
the breeze" The day itself was radiant in its
beauty. In the estimation Of most people who
looked out on the joyous scene from the build
ings in the city and the shipping in the harbor,
no more glorious sight was ever seen than the
victorious Star Spangled Banner cleaning In
the sunlight from turret, mast and spire. Flags
went up TO the mastheads, and gold down to
lo5-a foreboding for the future. To-day being
Washingtons birthday, the display will, doubt
less, be twice as inspiriting If not more general
than 1t was yesterday.
Year: 1865

SUFFRAGE IN TENNESSEE. The bill
defining the qualification of voters in
Tennessee was passed by the Senate of
that State on the Goth ult The bill re-
quires the usual qualifications of being a
white male citizen of the United States
of the age of twenty-one, but excludes
from voting, for at least six years after
the passage of the act, all those who at
that time were aged twenty-one, and
were known to have given material or
moral support to the rebellion. Disloyal
citizens. who by this act are excluded
from voting, may, after the expiration of
six years make application to the courts
for the restoration of the privilege of the
elective franchise
Year: 1865

breed such men among the common pco-
pie


His form has fallen but his name
abides forever. The bad men who have
filled our times with infinite mischiefs
are passing away to eternal infamy The
Patriot and Christian Statesman, in bright
opposition. shall rise to shine forever,
like stars in the armament
Year: 1865

The BEST AND SAFEST STIMULANT-The
Red Jacket Bitters are free from all aci.
dities usually found in ordinary topics and
stomach bitters Of the presen. day. They
are made from sound and fresh material
nothing that is not entirely wholesome
aud healthy enters into the composition
Of them
Year: 1865

~ Queen Victoria will visit Germany
;u August, aud on the 24th Of that month
will meet the prince and princess of Wales,
the prince and princess royal of Prussia,
and all the members Of the royal family
Of Coburg, who Intend to be present at
the Inauguration Of The statue of the late
prince con.Ort.
Year: 1865

Uncle Sam, with General Grant,


And Yankee Doodle Dandy,
Sought and found wayward boy,


Twas Dixie Doodle Dandy.
secession proved too rough a track
For Dixie Doodle Dandy,
So Grant and Sherman led him hack.
Year: 1865

After dinner a large audience assembled
around the stand, and were called to order
by the president, when Storms band dis
coursed some eloquent music. after which the
Prairie Union Glee Club sang Bright. r. lag
of America"
Year: 1865

The proposition is agitatcl in some Of
the loyal papers that the United States
assume the debt of the late Confederate
Government. The suggestion is amoug
the most absu rd that conld enter a crazy
brain. The people Of the United States
are already burdcned with debt quite as
heavy as they feel willing to boar, and no
rational man would consent to the assump-
fion Of the debt of the exploded Confeder-
acy. All the talk ON the subject comes
from loyal elitors, who adopt the theory
that "a public debt is public blessing =
and although they affect hostility to the
proposition just now, one cannot tell where
they may finally land-[Ft. Wayne
Times.
Year: 1865

Has been instituted


hou have HOW an opportunity of insuring your
property with safe and reliable Company in our
own State. Ii should he the pride and pleasure OF
every citizen TO encourage home enterprise. and
by comparing the plan OF this company with that
OF others, no person can fail To perceive the ad
vantaScs oTthe SinHisslppi over any similar nsti-
tuition doing business in our STATE.
Year: 1865

steal their pianos, spoons or jewelry. Mr..


Lincoln had stolen sood many thousand ne
groes. but for every negro he had thus sto-
len, he had thus stolen ten thousand spoons


Ii had been said that if the North would lay
down their arms they would be received back
into the Union. The South could not honor
ably lay down their arms. far she was Sighting
for her honor. Two millions Of men had
been sent down to the slaughter pens Of the
South, and the army Of Lincoln could not
again be filled. neither by eHlistments nor
conscription. II he ever uttered a prayer. it
was that no one Of the States of the Union
should be conquered and subjugated'' -.-.
Year: 1865

A country girl coming from the field,
was told BY her poetic cousin that she
looked as fresh as daisy kissed with dew.
Well, it wasn't any fellar by that name,
but it was Steve Jones that kissed me-
l told him that every one in town
would find it out T
Year: 1865

"Only six years since John Brown was
hing. and now those who executed him
are under the gibbet themselves Is it
not possible that the persons and party
who are now gloating over the agony OF
their victims for the gallows and the ex-
ecutioner's block may in six years from
this time. be in like condition! Public
opinion in this country is extremely
changeable, subject to violent outh irsts
bordering on barbarism, hence the neces'
sity of endeavoring TO allay rather than
provoke and incite deeds Of violence and
crime. Abolitionism is rampant now,
but the hemp may be already grown that
some insane wretch for some tyranulcal
party may use in choking it !"


These suggestions of New England
journal are not unworthy of attention.
There is nothing at all improbable in the
character of the contingent fnture which
it portrays. History repeats itself in
different ways and with strange action.
The Republican Senator Trumbull OF Hill
nois uttered the simple truth at the Chi
cago meeting held two years ago to de-
mand of the President revocation of
Burnside's order suppressing the Chicago
Times, when he told his political friends
that they were establishing precedents
which under transfer of power to their
opponents would justify kindred out
RACES upon themselves. Neither Disunion
nor Treason is Of Southern origin. The
first threat of secession and dissolution
ever made i'm Congress came from the
lips of Quincy and not from those of
Calhoun; and during the last war with
Great Britain it was Northern and not
Southern section of the Union that
through its press, its pulpit and its peo.-
pie sought to embarass financially and
otherwise break down the Federal Gov
ernment 1t was to Northern and not
to a Southern section of the Union that
the British Emissary, John Henry, was
sent by Sir James Craig to encourage the
spirit of secession rampant in the East
ern States and pave the way for dissolu-
ton and political connection with Eng
land. A perusal of the Henry Craig cor
respondence might have wholesome i'll
huence upou the minds of the people
who now clamor for the blood Of "trai-
tors" and who would never have been
born if the law furnishing treason had
been rigidly enforced against those who
gave actual aid and comfort to the enemy
in 1912. A more reliable guide to a
glance at the past cannot be found than
full history of the war of 1912 As to
the future, Greeley's advice to Wendell
Phillips to study chap xiii. of Paul's first
epistle to the Corinthians is excellent
Rochester Union.
Year: 1865

The logical end of Abolitionism is, Of
course, negro suffrage, as well as negro
equality in all its aspects. With a bold
ness which might pass for true courage
or sincere faith in their principles, if
they would only live up to their profess
sions. these Abolitionists march straight
on to completion of their work. They
propose to disfranchise the white men of
the South for disloyalty, and use the ne
proes to reconstruct the State Govern
ments. One would suppose that upon
this point there would be no difference
among any set of men who call them
selves Democrats but certain journal,
which has foisted itself upon the public
as a Democratic organ" has actually
come out and endorsed negro suffrage as
a basis for recognizing" the Southern
States. The New York Worl is libel
upon Democracy, and it deserves to be
drummed out of every Democratic fami-
ly in the land. Its editor is, and always
has been, an Abolitionist, and it is about
time that its true character was known.
Let no one ever again name it as Dem
ocratlc paper,
Year: 1865

REBEL UNIFORMS PROHIBITED.-The
uniforms of treason, so offensive to Union
men in Richmond are declared contra
band by the following order, just issued
by General Ord;-A sufficient time hav-
ing elapsed since the surrender of the
forces late in rebellion with the United
States for all who were of such forces to
procure other apparel than their uni
forms, it is hereby ordered that no per-
son appear in public after June Is, 1865,
in this department, wearing any insignia
of rank or military service worn by Off
GERS or men of the late rebel army. Where
plain buttons cannot be procured, those
formerly used can be covered with cloth.
Any person violating this order, will be
liable to arrest
Year: 1865

THE rule has been adopted in all the
Departments that where vacancies occnr
which it is not essential should be imme-
diately filed, they shall be kept open un-
til some wounded officer or soldier shall
be found competent for the position. All
minor places in the Department are being
filled as they become vacant with wound
ed or disabled soldiers, and applications
from Others are useless
Year: 1865

GENERAL SHERMAN's "bummers" were
death on digging for hidden treasures
Different squads of them dug up a newly
buried mule six times in succession, and
the poor creature was not allowed to rest
until his head and ears were left above
the ground as a sample of the kind of
treasure below
Year: 1865

VERMONT folks propose to celebrate
the coming Fourth of July by placing
piece of heavy toned ordnance on Snake
Mountain, which would speak distinctly
to all the people of the Champlain Val
lev, from Whitehall to Plattsbnrgh II
is also in the programme to make grand
pyrotechnic display which would be Wis
ible to the greater part of the people oI
Western Vermont.
Year: 1865

A JOURNALIST says of the Connecticut
Legislature: Either branch of it can
out-catter all the monkeys of Brazilian
forest, and aa Albany brewery on tap
couldn't furnish half the troth that it is
constantly charged with and ready to
uncork at the briefest notice"
Year: 1865

The Pope Of Rome was seventy-three
years old on the 18th of May, and on the
10th of this month will reach the nine
teenth yea of his pontifcate. Out of
the long list of two hundred and fifty
nine Popes, only eight have worn the
tiara for longer period than Plus TX.
Year: 1865

VIRGINIA LEGIsLATURE.-The Virginia
State Journal of Saturday, states that
Governor Pierpoint has secretly called an
extra session of the Virginia Legislature,
and that there is much uneasiness among
loyal citizens in consequence thereof
We have no doubt that the secret call re-
ferred to is nothing more than an invita-
ton to an informal conference on mat
ters of State interest, and that the Cover
nor will only summon the Legislature at
the proper time and in the usual manner
-Wdsh. Star.
Year: 1865

New YORK, June ia Washington
special to the Times says: A delegation
Of colored men of Richmondfarrived here
today to seek an audience with the Pres
ident. They represent that under the
military restrictions in Richmond their
condition is not better than it was when
they were in slavery, and they propose
to ask that special inquiry be made as
to the facts, in order that the proper
remedy may be applied to place them on
footing in consonancs with the liberal
and enlightened policy adopted by the
Government as to other colored popula-
tion in the South.


Petitions for pardon from leading men
of the late rebellion are coming in by the
hundred per day Among the men of
note whose petitions were received to-
day are Major Cen Ed. johnson and Jos.
r. Anderson, of Tredegar Iron Works. A
clause is now inserted in the pardon ill.,
tended to prevent the applicant from
claiming in the courts exemption from
the operation of the confscation acts,
thus leaving the settlement of the mat
ter of confscation of rebel property to
the courts and to Congress hereafter,
where the facts are such as call for relief
Year: 1865

tonight from Washington: A telegram
has been received from the army report
ing the message of JEFF. Davis to the Con-
federate Congress, communicating the re-
suit of the peace conference on Hampton
Roads, and states in substance that
President Lincoln refuse an armistice
Of any length, refuses the recognition Of
either the Confsdsracy or of any States
which compose it, refuses Independence,
and only conceded the merciful power to
himself of pardoning.


He declared the Constitutional amend
ment passed, and that the obstacle of sla-
very was removed beyond his control, and
placed beyond negotiation.


II is believed here that this version of
the conference will strengthen Mr.. Lin
coin even more than his own history of it,
which will probably be sent to the House
Year: 1865

The Tines City Point correspondent of
the 9Th says of the movement south of Pc
tersburg: The result is however, that our
forces had come up with large train of
rebel commisssry stores on the Boydtown
plank road, doubtless one grand object of
the raid, which they completely enveloped
and took possession Of, capturing num-
Der of rebels and driving the others back
also destroyed three large grist mills at
Fishers run, supposed to be the last upon
which the enemy have to depend.
Whether or not it is contemplated by the
present movement to hold and extend our
lines beyond the Boydtown plank road is
not get known to the uninitisted, but we
have every reason to think it very probable
to end in its retention.
Year: 1865

Quite severe engagement took place
this afternoon, between the 9Th Corps and
the enemy, near Dabney's Mill, west of
Hatcher's Run, the result of which was
not favorable to US as far as position is con-
cerned, but the enemy paid dearly for the
ground he gained
Year: 1865

We cannot conceive how any man who
has ever lived both North and South, can
give place to the ridiculous idea that labor
was ever regarded as more ienobe at the
South or as degrading man in the estima
ton Of either the rich or the poor, the slave
holding or the non slaveholding. On the
contrary, the only place where the laboring
man, and especially the mechanic was never
cIogged i'll bis efforts to rise anon his tel-
low men, where his employment aud the
hardness Of bis hands never cave exclusion
from company, where bis family easily passl
ed into the charmed circle Of good society,
when their accomplishments suit them there
for, was the South. The favolite mayor of
New Orleans, the one who longest retained
his position, was a journeyman halter, an
other printer, nor can single instance be
! shown in the State where man was helped
into Office by the reputation of being an
"arslocrat," or man OF wealth. So in Mis-.
sissippi; It's tavorite Governor, Joe Mathews,
was a well-digger; Governor Tucker, black
smith and its Senator, John Henderson, a
shoemaker. A man aspiring to high place
in the affections of the people, had always
to appeal to evidences of early industry and
! L'li " IiO'O b'itioSii W oO I'tdCLiCdi iiIouO
Of the people and to know their wants. In
truth, the "aristocracy" Of the South has
always been Of poor men. True, there were
some who affected to despise labor and la
boring men, but these were invariably such
as had travelled N Norh and learned snobbish
ness among the vulgar rich at Newport ant
Saratoga. Ask the mechanic who has jour
neyed over the Southern States and .tht
North alike, in which Of them he was treate(
with most respect? 1t has been the fashion
for years, for the Northern press to asser
that labor was considered degrading to tn
white man in the South The South did no
deem the accusation worthy Of reply
When it is repeated in our midst, and thrc
the sutfrance of men. who know better, W
deem it our duty to reply to it with emphs
sis, that it is less true of the South an
Southern people than of any other upo
Gods footstool New Orleans Picayune.
Year: 1865

: The DEBr-President Lincoln is of the
opinion that our national debt "has become
a substantial branch Of national, though pri,
vate property" So far as the nation is
concerned, it is property that it would be.
happy to dispense with, give away to any
body that will take it and pay the interest.
1t is new thing to consider debt valua.
bic to those who have got it to pay. In one
aspect only it is valuable That is, when
the party has had the benefit of the debt and
don't mean to pay it, Gin. Eng.
Year: 1865

THE VorE OF MICHIGAN Losr.-The De.
triot Free Press States that through the
laundering incapacity of the last Republican
legislature, the electoral vote of Michigan
has been lost, unless the State officers shall
take the high ground that the law passed to
enable the soldiers to vote is a nulity, and
even then the Board Of State Canvassers
cannot legally perform their duty for want
OF proper returns. We are informed and be.


eye that not single county in the State
had made legal returns of the votes given for
electors Of President and Vice President up
to the last day fixed by the laws of this State
for the Board of State Canvassers to meet
The consequence was that when that Board
met they had nothing to canvass.
Year: 1865




New YORK, September ~. y


Thirty three of the crew of the ship
Calhoun were SrrsigDed to-day, charged
by the csptain with mutiny. It appeared
from the complaint that on the 2lst of
September there was quarrel between
the cook and some of the crew. The boat
swain interfered to protect the cook, and
joint assault was made on them. Seeing
the excited state of affairs the bosts vain
retreated aft, where he was joined by the
I'd mate. The two officers armed them
selves and came back, and after warning
the crew, fred two or three shots, which
took fatal effect. The captain came out st
this time and the crew demanded of him
that the officers should be put in irons or
they would hang them. The Captain
complied with their wishes and ironed the
twsin. On nearing this port the crew
took out the cficers and placed them in
the wheel house, keeping guard ever them
till they arrived at this port The crew,
on the other hand, say that they were most
foully used and kept short Of ratio1s, and
what they did have was badly cooked. On
the day in question the food was unfit to
eat and they went to the cook for better.
he replied that it was good enough for
them and assaulted one of them with q
large fork. The bostswsin here intelfered
and was driven out of the galley. The
crew say that the difficulty was now ended,
but the mate and boatswsin armed them
selves and fired among the crew and
passengers without an instsnfs warning.
Exsspersted at this and fearing more vio-
lence st their hands, they did insist on the
Captain locking them up till they arrived
here.


The case WAS set down for examination
on Friday next. ---577 49,
Year: 1865

General Grant having been asked for
his opinion OF General Morgan, said he
knew of him in West Point, and he was
remarkable for two things retentive
memory and q great amonnt Of brass.
The former made him master of any
speech he might hear, and the latter en-
sbled him to deliver the speech, thus car.
ried of, as his own.-CiaciRnGt Gazette
Year: 1865

boot and shoe business. Prices are well
sustained and rule very high. The South
has taken an enormous amount of goods,
and the demand from mthat quarter has been
beyond the expectations of the most san
gulne. Manufacturers are engaged on
orders and are largely sold ahead of the
Year: 1865

40, thou who driest the mourner's tearrY
How dark this world would be, .-..,.r r
If when distressed and troubled here
We could not fly to theel"


The thought of the dead, the wounded and
the bereaved, is a dark shade on the sunlight
and joy of victory. But the cup of life is new
er filed exclusively with nectar. 1t has its
portion of gall and wormwood in every con-
ditiOn, even in days of peace, and


"He who has not learned to know,


How false Its sparkling bubbles show,


How bitter are the drops Of woe


With which its brim may overflow,


He has not learned to live"


An old heather poet said "tH0 gods give
nothing TO nortals' without great labor!
This is the voice of all experience. Labor
and pain are the price of everything valuable
Year: 1865

The priests and military have retired,
and [ am now sitting in chair facing
the gigantic clock-from bottom to the
top not less than one hundred feet, and
about thirty feet wide and fifteen feet
deep. Around me are many strangers,
waiting to see the working of this clock.
as it strikes the hour of noon. It wants
FIVE minutes co twelve. The clock has
struck, and the people are gone, except
a few whom the sexton or head man,
with wand and sword, is conducting
round the building.


The clock has struck in this way. The
dial is some twenty feet from the floor,
and on each side of which is cherub
or little boy with mallet, and over
the dial is small bell. The cherub on
the left strikes the first quarter, that on
the right the second quarter. Some
fifty feet above the dial, in large niche,
is huge figure Of Time, a bell in his
left, scythe in his right band. In
front stands figure Of a young man with
a mallet, who strikes the third qaarter
on the bell in the hand of Time, and
then turns and glides, with slow step,
round behind Time, and then comes out
an old man with mallet and places
himself in front.


AS the hour of twelve comes, the old
man raises his mallet and deliberately
strikes twelve times on the bell, that
echoes through the region of the church.
The old man glides behind father Time,
and the young man comes round again.
AS soon as the old man has struck twelve
and disappeared, another set Of machine
ry is put in motion, some twenty feet
higher still. 1t is thus There is
high crcss with the image of Christ
The instant twelve is struck one Of the
apostles walks out from behind, comes
in front, turns facing the cross, bows and
walks on around to his place.


AS he does so another comes in front,
turns, bows and passes in. So twelve
apostles, figures large as life, walk round,
bow, and pass on. AS the last appears,
an enormous cock, perched on the pima
Gle of the clock, slowly flaps its wings
puts forth its neck, and crows three
times, so loud as to be heard outside the
church for some distance, and so natural
as to be mistaken for cock. Then all
is silent as death. No wonder this clock
is the admiration of Europe. 1t was
made in 1871 and has performed these
mechanical powers ever since except
about fifty years, when it stood for re-
pairs Norduian.
Year: 1865

There is no death The stars go down


And rise upon some fairer shore,
And bright in Heavens jewelled crown


They shine forever more.
There is no death. The dust we tread


Shall change below the summer showers
To golden grain of mellow fruit,


Or rainbow tinted flowers.
There is no death. The leaves may fall,
The flowers may fade and pass away
They only wait through wintry hours,
The coming of the May.
Thrr IS no death. An angel form


IS DER the earth with silent tread;
H Jears our loved ones away,


And then we call them dead"
He leaves our hearts all desolatc-


lie plucks our fairest, sweetest flowers,
Transplanted into bliss, they now


Adorn immortal bowers.
The bird-like voice whose joyous tones


Make glad this scene Of sin and strife,
Sings now an everlasting song


Amid the tree Of life.
And where He sees a smile too bright,


Or hearts too pure for taint and vice,
lie bears it to the world Of light


To dwell in Paradise.
Born in the undying life,


They leave us but to come again.
With JOY we welcome them-the same,


Except in sin and pain.
And ever near us, though unseen,


The dear immortal spirits tread,
For all the boundless universe


Is iife-there are no dead