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Year: 1864

Orr FOR DlxIE.-rhc 10Th Regiment Of
Veteran Infantry left for the battle fields of
blooming Dixie, this morning at 2 o'clock,
to take another three years turn at the
''gray backs' of the Confederacy. We
trust they will not have occasion to stay
there 50 long, but there is no telling. War
is game that is not out until it is played
out and however much we may prophecy
peace, look and pray for peace, experience
has taught us that neither those in military
or civil life know but little about the mat
ter.
Year: 1864

GLASS BLowERs.-Therc was good at
tendance last evening. The splendid prize
for the best looking lady in the assembly
was awarded to Mrs. L. B. Collamcr. The
prize was re ally splendid one.
Year: 1864

Commensurate enterprising firm
Of Lnse, Lane & Co. have commenced lay
ing q drain from their establishment on
Perry street to the river The work COM
mences on the river and progresses towards
the building. The drain is made Of four
inch tile and will be substantially laid.
Year: 1864

The reason why everybody goes to Whis-
ier's for their dry goods is owing to the fact


that he keeps the largest stock, the best as
sortment, and sells lower than any other
man in the business That's reason enough.
Year: 1864

FARRAxD has complete wholesale as well
as the finest retail stock in the city. Coun-
try dealers should not fail to call there be-
fore going East to buy goods. Store oppo-
site Metropolitan Block
Year: 1864

POLICE CouRr.-The Court room was
crowded with evil doers this morning
Among the accused were several Of the par.
ties who were up before Squire WheeleI
on Monday, on charge Of vagrancy and pros
titution. They were heavily fined, but be-
ing out of funds the sentence was commut-
ed by their paying costs and pledging
themselves to leave the city within two
days and keep away from it. If they keep
this promise it will it will be a good thing
for the morals Of the city. If they do not
they will have to stand the extreme penalty
Of the law.


Mrs. Martha Hersch, German woman,
was arraigned for indulging in the innocent
amusement Of throwing rocks through her
neighbor's windows, thereby damaging the
glass and jeopardizing the persons of the
inmates; also for other vagaries Of an un-
neighborly character. She was fined So
and costs-$9.4O in all.


Mary Dcvine was arraigncd for being
drunk and disorderly, and was acquitted on
promise Of leaving the city at once. Mary
is hard case
Year: 1864

THREE PickPocxErs ARRESTED The
light fingered scamps, who, Of late, have
been figuring about the Depot Of the N. 4


N. Road. stealing whatever might come
within their reach, were arrested this morn
ing. For several days the men about the
depot have been on the watch for these


scoundrcls, and several times have they


been seen prowling about, but not until


this morning were they caught in the act Of


stealing.


As the train was about to leave the De-
pot for the west, Cosmore Weaver detected
the presence Of three Of the fellows-one Of
whom he had noticed about the premises
several times. Two Of them were making


themselves very thick and agreeable with
an old Quaker gentleman, whom they had


designs upon on account Of plethoric pock-


ct book which he carried with him, and the


third stood sentry just outside the door
The suspicious were circulated among the


employees of the road, and the operations


of the scoundrels closely watched. Pres
entity the intended victim went to 60 aboard
of the train, when one closed in on either


side and the third took front position, and
in crowding up to the platform one of them


was seen to slip his hand adroitly into the


old gents pocket Without waiting for


further deyclopements, Conductor McChes-
ney sprung upon the fellow and throttled
him, while others lost no time in securing


the accomplices. They were turned over to


the care Of Policeman Severance, who


marched them off to Jail to await trial.
They give their names as Thomas Bot


temley, Charley Smith, and }. Baker. One
Of them has got very ugly wound across
his chin, which TO doubt he fairly earned.
Their trial is set for tomorrow morning, we


believe.


They had just returned to this city, hay
ing been absent to Chicago about three


weeks.
Year: 1864

Owing to the press Of important news we are
tcompelled this morning to postpone the publica-
aion Of the list Of unclAimed letters at the New
York Post Office. 1t viii appear in our paper to.
morrow morning, and in the meantime it will be
posted at the usual places and on the HERALD bull
letin boards
Year: 1864

UNDERMINING GREAT MAN.-The journal
Of Commerce processes to be wise and dis
Greet friend Of General Mcclellan. We doubt
its friendship very much. It continually do
clares that Mcclellan is the only great soldier
in the country We have always had large
faith in the abilities of General Mcclellan, and
have always earnestly desired that the public
service should have the benefit Of those abili-
ties; but it is absurd to assert, in the face Of
the history of the last few years, and in view
especially of the achievements Of Generals
Grant and Sherman, that General Mcclellan
monopolizes the military genius Of the coun-
try. Let not the real friends Of Mcclellan be
led to injure him through such mistaken zeal.
Year: 1864

WHAT NIGGER FREEDOM CosTs.-Some years
ago the abolitionists started crusade, as
friends of humanity, to free the niggers, and
their agitation Of that subject brought ou the
present war; This war to free the niggers has
now ragged relentlessly for three years, and
what is the result, There were at the COM
mencement four millions Of niggers in slavery.
It is estimated that the war has made one mil
lion free. But even all OF this million have
not been able to stand the ordeal of their
passage from slavery to freedom. Two or
three hundred thousand have perished mean
while by famine, disease and bullets. Bntssy
that In round numbers one-qusrter Of the mig
gers have been made free, what has 1t cost US,
as friends of humanity, to free this miliionf
North and South together have paid we'll for
it; for In the armies Of both sections there
have been killed or disabled, or have died, not
less than one million white men--a fair balance,
man for man. A white man dies for every
nigger that il made free. But this is not all.
Tho debts Of beth sections make up tho round
sum Of i've thousand millions Of dollars.
1hus, for every niger that has been made free,
in obedience to the clamors Of the friends OF
humanity, the whole country has given i've
thousand dollars and the life Of one white man.
At this rate what will be left Of us when we
have made free the whole four millionsf Will
1t not be like the Kilkenny cat fight! Will
there be any more left than the tailsf
Year: 1864

doah valley, the dcpots of supplies necessary
to enable an army of sixty or eighty thousand
men to move down in light marching order, so
rapidly as to be in Maryland again in advance
of any reliable warning OF their numbers or
their near approach. In this view Of the sub
ject, we care less to know what Hunter, Crook
and Averill are doing than what the adminis-
trstion is about at Washington.


When we were satisfied that General Joe
Johnston had been removed from the command
Of the rebel army of Georgia and recalled to
Richmond we guessed that IL was for more
important service nearer Washington. We
showed, too, from his military experience In
and knowledge of oil the country between
Richmond and the line Of the upper Potomac,
and especially the Shenandoah valley, that he
was the very man to head the movement Of .
rebel army in this direction. Now ve End the
rebel journals at Richmond admitting that In
this view Of the matter we were right; for they
seem to believe that our opinions were actual
facts obtained through the agency OF spies or
leaky vessels In communication with the rebel
War Office. Whatever may be the truth in
regard to this thing, there is one unquostiona-
BILE fact which so strongly suggests another
rebel descent upon Washington that we would
earnestly call to 1t the special attention of the
administration.


The only point at which the armies of JEFF
Davis, around the whole circle OF the rebel
lion, can by any apparent possibility infict a
blow upon ,is that will be- II successful, Of any
decisive advantage to their cause, is Washing.
ton. At this crisis, too, successful blow a
this point might at once change the whole iac'
Year: 1864

In an article on the practices in vogue at


Washington, the New York Journal o.


Commerce draws the following frishtful
picture:


The period In which we just now live Is
one of unbounded fraud and corruption.-
There was never an Administration IN
Washington under which fraud was carried
on a, openly and boldly as now. The mil
lions that are the plunder of the present
army of hangers-on will Dever be counted.
There is no eud to the terrible revelations
Nor does the trouble stop with the mere
robbing of the public purse. The most
atrocious srimes are perpetrated with the
stolen money, aud the people are growing
used to the recitals. Legislators are boueh
and sold in Pennsylvania, New York and
elsewhere. Elections are fraudently car
ried. The machinery Of political parties is
turned every tywhere to the private account
of Individual office seekers or money seek.
ers. The taint is spreading through the
entire body polite Men look calmly
now on crimes from which they would have
shrunk two or three years ago. Men think,
on the whole, that it is a good thing
when the Administration carry an election
by shipping home few thousand selected
voters. Men cbuckle over some political
ruse in which a Legislature is bought for
money. Men approve the action of the
Treasury Department in giving responsible
Office to man whose vote, conscience and
reputation, as every one knows, were sold
by himself and bought by the party which
protects him. No one seems TO think that
fraud, public robbery, is a very great crime.
We meet daily in the streets, nightly at
receptions and grand assemblies, men who
are known to be fattenipg on plunder, but
whose social position seems wholly uuaf-
fected by the fact, We are not drawing any,
too dark q picture of the moral condit ion OF
affairs under the present Administration
The doctrine is in principle everywhere
acted on, that if g man processes to be right
on the negro question, he may be as black
sinner on all other questions as he pleases.
and not lose the social and public support of
either the leaders Of his party or his daily
associates in life. -
Year: 1864

The Philadelphia Press, one Of the most
violent of the radical journals, says "almost
as many Democrats voted for Mr.. Lincoln
as Republicans We have no doubt that
to-day majority of the Republican party
consists Of men of Democratic antecedents.


We beg the pardon OF the Democracy, but
we believe tie fact is as We state it. In
deed. the Locofoco part of the Democracy,
the devotees of mob law and of Jacobinism
in all its forms, have gone clean over to the
RepubleapS and now Constitute the ruling
mower in the party. Republicanism is in
principle Locof eoism: and it is not too
much to say, that, while all Republicans are
Locoiocos, al least half of them have never
been anything else. Yet We sometimes,
though not very often, hear men who have
been Wbigs and who profess to be eonser-
yatiyes say that they will never vote for
Democrat, intimating that they may vote
for Republican! The prejudice Of these
men against the Democracy is so great and
peculiar that they can vote for radical
Democrat but not for conservative one,-
for Locofoco but not for jackson man.


The truth is, there is now lett of theOid
Democratic party nothing except its name
and organization and those, fundamental
principles of national unity and constltu-
tionsl freedom which underlay the Old Whig
party and the Democratic party alike; that
is to say. there Is left OF the old Democrat
Year: 1864

TIE New York Times says all true men
should seek to abolish party distinctions
Just so the party in power want to force
all men into their party, and thus abolish
party distinctions. In no other way have
they sought TO abolish these distinctions
The editor of the Times has been about as
Jealous as the rest of his party in their
peculiar way of abolishing party distinc-
tiops
Year: 1864

reflect that sound mind and body the most nscss-
sary requisites 10 promote connubal happiness In
deed without these the journey through life becomes
weary pilgrimage; tho prospect hourly darEens 70 lhe
view: the mind becomes shadowed with despair and


oiled with the melancholy reflection that the happiness
Of nnnthar bacomss bghted with our own,
Year: 1864

Whoever intends TO purchase good Family
Sewing Machine, Of any kind, will do well to
call at the News 0fice. We can furnish them
zt all times upon tho most advantageous terms.


pPoparEroRs or THE News.
Year: 1864

WHEAT,-Wheat in the western part of
the State is beginning to head. 1t is
now thought that by the third week in
June the farmers west of jackson will
be in the middle of their harvest The
weather is very favorable to the growing
crop, and present prospects are encourags
ing.--Dt. Free Press, Nay 80.
Year: 1864

N ELI TREAT, once again would inform eB his old customers who have so liberaly patronized him during the past twelve years that he has sold the Store he now occupies and it will change tenants on the first of Octe- Der next. The next six months he will devote his time to selling off his entire Stock of goods. Let nc one entertain q doubt, as to the fact that his goods are to be sold out entire within the next six months Every person is interested in this sale at this present time, particularly where goods in market rule so enormously high, especially when they are assured that almost nine- tenths of his stock was purchased before the advance.

 If anybody wishes to cut the Corners they now have an opportunity. as the Goods will be sold out entire Every thing except Fixtures will be sold at private sale, if possible, and if any thing remains, the Auction hammer will close up tho balance.

 J. ELI TREAT. New Milford, April l, 1864. tf52
Year: 1864

The best Tonic Bitter ever offered to the Public Mingled with the rich flavor of the Bourbon are a number Of other ingredients for restoring the appetite and imparting life and vigor to the whole system.
Year: 1864

GoLD GAMBLING PRoHIBITED-Both houses OfConsress have passed the important bill fogbidding gambling in gold. The first section makes 1t unlawful to make any contract for the sale of gold to be delivered on day subse- qnent to such contract, or for the payment of any sum in default of the delivery, or to make anEsuch, contract upon any other terms than the actual selling ofgold and the payment there for on the same day in United States notes or eurreucy and not otherwise or to make any contract for foreign exchange to be delivered over ten days from the time of the contract, or for the payment of any default; or to make any contract for the delivery of gold which the person has not then in possession or to lend currency to be repaid in gold, or gold to be re- paid in currency. Section second provides that no sale of gold or foreign exchange shall be made except at the regular places of busi- ness of the parties. Section third declares all contracts made in violation of the act void Section fourth makes the violation of the act a misdemeanor to be punished with fine not less than Sl 900 and imprison nent, not less than three months nor over one year. and sub jects to an additional penalty of $; ,0OO for each ofense- The penalty shall go half to the Uni ted States and half to the person who brings the action.

 Ass great part of the gold gambling is at the instigation of secessionists, and all of it is directly calculated to aid the rebels, we trust the law will be rigidly enforced.
Year: 1864

made from Wheat. Rye and Corn, warranted five years old. Put up in unique style. each bottle in paper box in cases of one dozen each, the large and increasing sales of which convince the proprietor that no extended ad-

 vertisement is needed to extol its real merits. It will recommend itself on trial.
Year: 1864

All who have Friends and Relatives in the Army or Navy should take especial care that they be amply supplied with these Pills and Ointment; and where the brave Soldiers and Sailors have neglected to provide themselves with them, no better present can be sent them by their Friends. They have been proved to be the Soldiers never-failing friend in the hnnr of nead
Year: 1864

WHAT IF THE CLOTHES TAKE FIRE? Per-
haps three persons out ofIour would rush right
up TO the burning individual and begin 10 paw
with their hands without any definite aim 1t
is useless TO tell the victim TO do this or that,
or call for water. In fact, it is generally best
to say not word, but tear up the carpet, or
seize blanket from the bed, or q cloak, ,r
any wooden fabric-if none is at hand, take
any woolen materal-hold tie corners as far
apart as you can, stretch them out higher than
your head, and running boldly to the person,
make the motion OF clasping in the arms most
about the shoulders; this instantly smothers
the fire aud saves the'face. The next instant
throw the unfortunate on the floor; this Is an
additional safety TO the face and breath, and
any remnant OF flame can be put out more
leisurely. The next instant immerse the burn.
ed part in cold water, and all pain will cease
with the rapidity OF lightning. Next get some
common -four, remove from the water and
cover the burned parts with an inch thickness
OF -four ii possible. Put the patient to bed
and do all that is possible to soothe, until the
physician arrives. Let the -four remain until
it falls Off of itself, when beautiful new skin
viii be found. Unless the burns are deep no
other application is needed.


The dry flour for burns is the most admira-
Bile remedy ever proposed, and the Information
ought to be impaired to all; the principle of
its action is, that, like water il causes instant
and perfect relief from pain by totally exclud-
ing the air from the injured parts. Spanish
whiting and water OF mushy consistence is
preferred by some. Dredge on the -four till
no more will stick, and cover with cotton bat
ting. In washing clothes, use one part of sui
phaie of amonia with nine of water; one pound
Of tungstate OF soda to a gallon of water
Dresses to be starched should have one-third
of tunstate and two-thirds of starch.-[Hall's
Journal OF Health.
Year: 1864

The great struggle for the possession of
Richmond will probably take place in the
neighborhood of the Chickahominy, and to
understand the nature of the country exactly
will prove of advantage to the reader of the
news. An exchange says:


The stream itself is peculiarly adapted to the
defensive warfare The river is o small one,
and flows sluggishly. 1t divides itself into a
half dozen streamlets, running into and out of
each other at random. These water courses
occupy space about seventy yards in width.
Immense trees grow up out of water, and the
entire stream is covered by thick woods. It
is remarkable instance of river running
through and watering long strip of woods.
From each side of this woodland fiat sur.
face extends for about half mile. This is
nearly always overdowed, and becomes an
impossible morass. It is only when the
water in the river is very low that men can
safely walk upon the ground bordering it.
On these fiat surfaces there is not a solitary
tree. They are BARE and anything moving
upon them can easily be discerned. From the
borders of these plains huge hills, in some
cases two and three hundred feet high, aprupt-
ly rise They are covered with woods, and
are so steep that wagons cannot be hauled di.
rectly up their face. The few roads go down
them diagonally to the bridges across the
swamp and river. From the tops of the hills
on the one side, across the swamp to the hill
tops on the other side, the distance varies from
a mile to mile and half. The ordinary 12-
FOUNDER ri6ed Napoleon gun can just about
throw shell from one hilltop to the other.
From the Fredericksburg Railroad crossing
down 10 New Bridge, distance of eight miles,
the Confederate works are all along the hills
on its southern side
Year: 1864

Close his eyes, his work is done!


What to him is friend or foeman,
Rise of moon or set of sun,


Hand of man or kiss of woman?
As man may, he fought his fight,


Proved his truth by his endeavor,
Let him sleep in solemn night,


Sleep forever, and forever.
Fold him in his country's stars,
Roll the drum and fire the volley!
What TO him are all our wars,


What but death bemocking folly?
Leave him to Gods watching eye;


Trust him to the hand that made him,
Mortal love weeps idly by


God alone has power to aid him.
Year: 1864

mence and rudeness. AS an historical paint
er and humorist Carlyle has scarcely an
equal; new intellectual region seemed to
open to me when read his "French Revolu-
tion." But his philosophy, in its essential
principle is false. He teaches that the masses
of mankind are fools-that the hero alone is
wise-that the hero, Therefore, is the destined
master OF his fellow men, and that their only
salvation lies in blind submission to his rule
and this without distinction of time OF cir
cumstance, in the most advanced as well as in
the most primitive ages of the world. The
hero despot can do no wrong. He is a king
with scarcely evena God above; and if the
moral law happens to come into collision Win
his actions, SO much the worse for the moral
lawsrOn this theory commonwealth such
as yours ought not to exist; and you must
not be surprised, II, in fit Of spleen, the
great cynic grasps his club and KNOCKS your
cause on the head, as he thinks, with single
blow. Here is the end of an unsound though
brilliant theory-a theory which has always
latent in it the worship of force and fraud
and which has now displayed Its tendency at
once in the portentous defence of the robber-
policy OF Frederic the Great and in the por-
tentous defence of the slave power.n
Year: 1864

Is Of more general practical util-
ity than any invention now be-
fore the public. II has been
thoroughly tested during the last
two years by practical men, and
pronounced by all to be
Year: 1864

Every Democrat and every lever of
Constitutional liberty, freedom of speech.
and protection Of citizens in persons and
properly, rally to the call for Mass
Meeting to be held in Marysviile on the
7lh day of September next, and there each
citizen of Marshall County consult In gen
eral Convention what is best to be done
in the present distracted state of our Ma.
ton.


Rally as one man, and say to our aboli-
ton conspirators that your day is run, no
longer can you prescribe what is best to
be done for the interests of Marshall Co.,
or for Kansas. No longer can you charge
Constitutional loving citizens aojth Treason
at your pleasure. NO LONGER CAN
YOU PROCLAIM THAT ALL MEN
WHO REFUSE TO BOW IN HUMBLE
SUPPLICATION before the THRONE
OF LINCOLN'S ABOLITION GOD
ARE SECESSIONISTS AND TRIAL
TORS-no longer can you in the face of
truth proclaim yourselves the only Union
Men in Kansas.


Then speak Democrats with voice of
thunder! The Democratic party is the
only Union party of Kansas, and under
Democratic rule We have had Seventy
Years of Peace, Prosperity and public or.
er. Let these ABo LITIoN BLOOD HOUNDS
know that seventy years of peace has only
been disturbed by placing in power an
Abolition fanatic. as President; that since
the independence Of lha-North Ameri ca n
continent, and the Declaration of Inde-
pendence we have had no internal discord
that the Democratic party cannot be
held responsible for the present state of
the Nation, and charge as with one man
the responsibility upon the abolition and
republican party, where it Justly belongs.
Show to the political enemy that Demo
Gratis, although beaten by . plurality of
! votes in 1860, can not and will not for
sake the only principles calculated to Sc.
cure prosperity and universal peace thro'-
out the Union.