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Year: 1864

to God the agricultural interests of the


West could thus boast. While they have


been able upon their products to realize


within the last two years more than three
hundred per cent. upon their goods than
they did four years ago, we in the West
are selling them our wheat at a dollar a
bushel, and our beef at less than we re-
ceived three years ago; and that, too, in a
deprecated currency. Three years ago a
bushel of wheatin the market would pur-
chase ten yards of common domestic of
New England manufacture. To-day it
will purchase but two. We, are, there
fore, paying an indirect tax unprecedented
in the history of the country; and we are
paying that bonus to New England man
ufacturers and Government together


While they can sell to the operatives in
their establishments any amount of man
ufactured articles free of tax, they pay
no revenue to the Government, except
three per cent. on what they can sell to
us, they never fail to charge that addi-
tional three per cent. upon the article
they furnish us. 1t is giving them, sir,
an advantage ovor what the consumers Of
the West enjoy. It's unjust; and / tell
the gentleman from Vermont that, not
withstanding his constituents, agricultural
as they are, protected by the tariff upon
wool, may be satisfied with this condition
of things, the people of the Northwest
are not satisfied with it, and will not be
satisfied. l have no more to say.
Year: 1864

A few evenings ago Mayor Geisdorf, Of
Sandusky City, Ohio, gave supper to
the Third Division of the Sixth Army
Corps, now stationed at that city. This
division belongs to the Army of the Poto-
mac, and has had good opportunity of
testing the merits Of General Mcclellan,
to whom they are devotedly attached
During the evening the Mayor, who is an
ultra republican, incidently made some
remark derogatory to the character Of Gen.
Mcclellan, when General Terry and his
entire staff, together with most of the Off
GERS present belonging to that division
Instantly took their DEPARTURE thus show
ing their contempt tor man who dared
to impugn the loyalty and patriotism of
their late cempander.--Holnaes County
Farmer. b s3,54s bae fos,i5 ~ -af...f
Year: 1864




Since our veteran soldiers have begun
to return home on furlougb, we hear Of
frequent appeals to the higher CHyer,
Toni law. They all belong to the sect Of
the Hit tites and Hammer-iies, and we
would respectfully suggest that it is the
better part Of valOr to keep still when they
are about A soldier cannot stand ss much
Of the COpperhead as can civilian. They
have been fighting traitors in the field and
they can't endure anything like a traitor
at home.


They don't want to bs called 0LincOln
hirelings or damned AbOlitionists." II you
should, gentlemen COpperhesds, we would
not wish to insure either your bodies or
your lives. We suggest, therefore, if you
properly value your existence, (fOr these
soldiers are mostly armed, thst you do not
insult or in any way sggrsvste them.
They have been accustomed to violence,
and have not yet learned that violence is
not to be used at home. II you will not
hear our "AbolitiOn" suggestions, we may
be obliged to report more pummelling and
booiing than we want to.


We have heard of some instances where
soldiers have hauled COpperhads roughly
and we feel under obligation, as guardians
Of the public morals, to admonish our
brethren Of the opposition, lest they be
brought low or be blind for thres days.
Year: 1864

TIE TRUE RELATION OF OLD AND
IouNG.-Why must children be With
perfect people, any more than people wait
to be perfect to be friends2 The secret
isis it notY--for parents to feel, aud to
be willing their children should know,
that they are but little elder than them.
selves, only class above, and able to give
them some help in learning their lesson.
Then parent and child keep growing to-
gether, in the same house, Let them
blunder as We blundercd. God is patient
for US; why should not we be for them?
Aspiration teaches always, and God leads
by inches A perfect being would hurt
a child no less than an imperfect. .-Mar-
garet Fuller
Year: 1864

PARIs.-Of the hundreds of elegant
seats put up all over the city for the re-
pose Of the public, have not seen one
disfsurcd by a pen knife. FROM one end
of the town TO the other, everywhere,
the choicest flowers arc blooming, With
only barrier a foot high around the
beds, and yet not single plant or flower
is ever touched. Paris has become the
best lighted city in the world, and will
soon be, if it is not already, the best ven-
tilated. Its drainage is known to be
nearly perfect. Tho policemen are not
ruf1ians, but as civil as gentleman ushers
of the black and white rod. In the most
polite and civil manner all your inquiries
are answered, and every reasonable a..
sistance is rendered if you get into .
strait. If an Euglishman should tumble
into gutter in returning from an even
ing party, he would be lifted as by the
gentle hand Of the good Samaritan, and
placed upon his own beast.
Year: 1864




It is not pleasant to admit that the
world is getting worse instead Of better,
or that any reprebcnsible habit is becom-
ing more prevalent and common. Especi
ally in Christian land, and under the
influence Of the purer religion Of which
Americans are somewhat inclined to
boast, one might look for higher style
of morals and more uniform outward re-
gard for scacred things. But the worlds
standard is lower than it used to be when
we were less enlightened The cata-
logues of mortal sins and venial offences
have changed their proportions as we
have grown in wisdom So long as we
desire to maintain respectable social
position, we are called upon to abstain
from murder, except it be done accord
ing to the code; and theft and lying are
acknowledge to be offences against socie
ity. The decalogue has dwindled down
to these narrow limits, and in the place
of the comprehensive law thatapplied to
all the relations and circumstances of lire,
public opinion has established another
code, stringent enough, it may be, but
which only effects to regulate actions
that have no moral quality whatever.


To discuss the subject of profane
swearing, even upon this low grJund, it
would be difficult to show how the prac-
tice is profitable to the swearer. Ifit is
important that an excited individual
should let off extra steam by the agency
Of such safety valves, why would not
some more innoceno expfetive answer as
we'll as an oath? Or, if nothing else will
do in the moment of strong excitement,
how does it pay to toss about the name
that is above all other names in ordin-
ary conversational play with the royal
titles of the King of Kings--as though
he we're some idol divinity IF there is
profit in the practice, we have never
been able to find it out oi-
There are great numbers of men in
the world who are weak enough to alb
hor profanity and to shun the society of
chivalrous gentleman who can not utter
sentence without one or more bias
nhemies in it. IF the influence of these
soueamish individuals should ever hap
pen to be necessary to the habitual
swearer, he is tolerably certain 70 60
| without it. Ifthe good opinion of the
moralist has any value, it is great folly
to threw it away for the sake Of amo-
mentary qualification. Young men swear
because they desire to look manly and
important, and in our day the quantity
and quality Of the blasphemies are gene
rally in inverse proportion to the age Of
the swearer. There is some show Of
reason about this, but the matured mar
Year: 1864

must find a better excuse. We wear
beard nowadays. and the hirsute
adornments that Dame Nature furnishes
better proves our manhood than any
quantity of fippant appeals to the Deity
can do. 81 sY se


The time was when one of the most in
fallible marks by which the gentleman
was distinguished from the blackguard
was the total avoidance of profane ex-
pressions on the part of the former. We
know that swearing was a fashionable
vice with some of our ancestors. The
Court Of the first Charles was a vast
manufactory of blasphemies, and the
gallant caviliers of that day swore by
exact rule. But the tremendous fumi-
nations which they had invented in more
peaceful times were of very little use at
Marston Moor and Naseby. And the
descendants of men who were victors in
these battles settled in America, brought
with them stricter code of morals, and
the sweafer was tabooed upon principle.
Whatever may be said about these rare
cd worthless, they were certainly men
of purer lives than their degenerate sue
cessors are apt to believe, and the power
OF their example was felt through one or
two generations. A low fellow was ex-
pected to call down curses on his own
head, and he was an outcast because he
swore, but no gentleman was guilty of a
practice that was considered utterly de-
grading. ? p p a4


If there is no God Of the Universe, it
is great nonsense to swear by him, and
to lug in his name to strengthen an ar
gument or to polish sentence; and if
there as-One, holy and supreme, noting
the fall of the sparrow, and needing the
lightest words of man some better foot
ball should be found than His reverend
name. 3Hs3gss F
Year: 1864

9 1t should not be forgotten that the
Legislature, at the last session, past a
law requiring the registry Of the names
of all voters, and persons cannot exer
else the right of suffrage without COM
plying with its provisions, Secretary
Fairchild has prepared and sent out
forms and instructions needed. We
state the main features for the benefit of
our readers: eA' =


A man must, unless he has good and
ample reason for the neglect. have his
name on the Register one week before
the election, or he cannot vote. The
Board of Eelectors in each Town and
Ward meet three weeks before the cleo
tion, and make list Of the voters from
the poll-list of last year, striking Of such
names as they know should not be there,
such as those known to have moved
from the Town, and putting on those
who have moved in or become of age,
and in other respects making it as cor
rect as they can, when it is to be posted
up in the room in which Inspection
Board meet, and be accessible to all who
wish to see it, in order that further cor
rections may be made.


One week before the Election the
Board meets auain to make corrections
if it needs any At this meeting the
Inspectors make the list and have to
certify to their belief that it is correct
one, and make four copies thereof, one
for each Inspector, and one for the
Town or City Clerk. After the last list
is made, no person whose name is not
thereon can vote, unless he shall furnish
affidavit in writing, giving his reasons
for not appearing at the second meeting
of the district that he is an inhabitant
of the district. iaaa48@


If a man knows he voted last fall, and
has reason to believe the Board of his
District is composed Of reasonably care
full and honest men, he need not con-
Germ himself about being registered, for
his name will be placed there all right
by the board; and if it is not, he can
have it recti6ed on election day, in a
manner prescribed. No man who is a
legal voter can be debarred the right of
voting, whatever may have been his own
neglect or that of the board, while the
man who is not a voter can hardly
squeeze his vote in, if there are any vigi-
lant or honest men in the town to aid
in purging the lists. adH esef4a Fl
Year: 1864

Night in Australia How impossible
to describe its beauty Heaven seems,
in that new world, so much nearer earth /!
Every star stands out so bright and par
ticular, as if fresh from the time that
the Maker willed it. And the moon, lik e
large silvery sun-the least objection
to which is, it shines so distinct and SO
still. II have frequently" says Mr..
Wilkinson, in his work on South Aus
tralia, sheen on a journey in such a
night, and while allowing my horse his
own time to walk along the road, have
solaced myself by reading in the still,
soft moonlight Now and then a
sound breaks the silence, but a sound
so much in harmony with the solitude
that it only deepens its charms. Hark
the low cry Of the night bird from Won
der glen, amid the small grey gleamy
rocks. Hark as the night deepens, the
bark ofthe distant watch dog, or the low,
strange howl Of his more savage species
from which he defends the fold. Hark
the echo catches the sound and fings il
sportively from. hill to hilI-farther and
farther down, till again it is hushed, and
the flowers hang noisleesly over your
head as you ride through grove. Of
giant gum trees Now the air is liter
ally charged with odors, and the sense
grows almost painful in its pleasure
You quicken your pace and again
escape into the open plains and full
moonlight, and enjoy the exquisit fine
ness of the atmosphere, and through the
slim tea--trees, catch a glimpse Of the
river and hear the soothing sounds ot
its gentle murmur. gta
Year: 1864

When dealers in paper stock are pay
ing eight cents pound for old news
papers, it is not economy to kindle nres
with them or to suffer them to be use
lessly destroyed. Those of our readers
who do not preserve files of paper Will
find hefollowing paragraph from w likes
Shirt worth making note of, as Cap
tain Cutie would say:


In Europe a hotel or housekeeper
never thinks of destroying newspaper.
or Of using it for kindling purposes All
over the continent and in England cheap
little bundles of sticks two OF three TOR
a penny, J with the ends dipped in rosln,
supply all.the purposes in the way OF
kindling which could be performed by
fifth times the value of white print
ing paper; while the other uses TOR
paper are met by an inferior brown mat
erial, which inaicts no waste on the prints
ing stock. By this means the major part
of the original stock is preserved Tor re-
production, and the price of the article
constantly kept down. By che same
thrifty system Of saving old newspapers
and handing them over to the dealers
who will be glad to call at private
houses, for them, nearly the whole mar
ket stock will be preserved. turned into
the mill and reproduced with loss GER
tainly not more than ten or fifteen per
cent. Under the present wastefui hab-
it's of the public, nearly the whole cur


rent edition is now utterly destroyed
while the demand constantly exists
aaaipst the source.
Year: 1864

The New York dry goods trace lS
at stand still, and importers are at a
loss to know what to do, whether to take
their goods out of bond or reship them
to Europe. The prices of many articles
place them beyond the reach OF con-
sumers, and the Presidential contest
will cut down the regular trade of the
country at least one half. A consider
able amount Of hosiery and gloves has
been reshipped to Europe by importing
iobbing houses.
Year: 1864

1.-The inhabitants of the moon, if the
moon be inhabited by beings whose or
ganization resembles our own, must be
capable of living with a very small guam


tity of atmospheric air and little water.
1t has been subject Of discussion wheth-
er or net she is furnished with an at.
mosphere. Reason and analogy decide
in the Affirmative, but it is less than a
mile high, and is never clouded, so that
the sun must shine for whole fortnight
without intermission on the same spot,
without having his heat materially mod
Grated either by the interposition of the
atmosphere, or by the evaporation of the
moisture. That there is very little
water in the moon beyond perhaps
springs and small yers, has been infer
red 'front.' two remarkable circumstances
the absence of clouds, and the irregular
appearance of the margin of the moon as
seen in solar eclipse, no part Off being
terminated by line sufficiently regular
to allow us to suppose it the surface of a
fuid.' edi .5as8-aa;y5se ~ s.
Year: 1864

- - N@


The religion that is to advance the
world will not put all the big straw
berries and peaches at the top, and all
bad ones at the bottom. 1t will not
offer more baskets of foreign winea than
the vineyards ever produced bottles
and more barrels of Genesee -four than
all the wheat fields of New York grow
and all her mills grind. 1t will not make
one-half of pair of shoes of good leath-
er. and the other Of poor leather, so that
the first shall rebound to the maker s
credit and the second to his cash. It
will not let piece of velvet that profess
ses to measure twelve yards come to an
untimely end in the tenth--or spool of
sewing silk that vouches for twenty yards
be nipped in the bud at fourteen and a.
half--nor the cotton thread spool break


to the yardstick fifty of the two hundred
yards of promise that was given to the
eye-nor all-wool delaines and all-Iinen
handkerchiefs be amalgamated with clan
destine cotton--nor coats made of old
woolen rags pressed together be sold to
the unsuspecting public for legal broad
cloth 1t does not put bricks worth only
five dollars per thousand into chimneys
it contracted to build of seven dollar
materials smuggle white pine into
floors that have paid for hard pihe--nor
daub ceilings that ought to be smoothly
plastcred--nor make window blinds with
Stats that cannot stand the wind, and
nninA that can not stand the Snn ana
Year: 1864

not yet been, ascertained.. That there
are mountains and hills in the moon,
may be inferred with considerable GER
tainity from those parts which are sup
posed to be elevations casting shadow
opposite to the sun, as well as from the
Jagged appearance of the edge of the
moon when she is horned or gibbous
the valleys and cayernous parts are dis
tinguished by the shadows appearing
next to the sun. Some of the mountains
form elevated continuous ridges, others
are insulated and conical, having the
precise form of the terrestrial Volcano
The assertion is startling, but there are
lunar volcanoes in different stages; DR..
w Herschell saw three in a state Of
ignition at the same time they resem-
bic SMALL piece Of burning charcoal
covered by thin coat Of white ashes,
and he further noted a large portion of
burning matter, which he supposes was
more thanthree miles in diameter The
height of the lunar mountains was for
merly supposed to exceed very consider
ably that Of the mountains Of the earth,
but the laborious exertions of HerscheIl
and others have determined the fact,
that none of them exceeds five miles in
eight.
Year: 1864

The Enquirer speaks Of George Thomp-
sons intended work as Hhsving oblitersted
the moral distinction Of the white and
black races"


1t would be interesting to have defined
what is the moral distinction Of color, both
in white and black and the intermediate
shades.


A few days ago the same journal, in an
equally philosophical view Of the question
Ct color, said: 'color in the negro is fsct
the thing visible to the mesnest capacity"
Now il has become "moral distinction"


Judging by the mitigated color Of the
refugees from slavery, the obliteratiOn Of
the moral distinction Of color must be 60
ing on rapidly in the course Of nature in
slavery, without any extrsneous aid.
Year: 1864

AT recent meeting of one of the cem-
etary companies the chairman very grave
ly stated that he had great pleasure in an
nouncing to the meeting the gratifying
fact that the burials in the cemetery for
the last year were double the number of
those of the year preceding.
Year: 1864

The good things of this life are like the
inside seats of an omnibus on wet day.
To gain them you must struggle and push
the instant they are vacant. Wait, and
you have to 60 outside, or lose them alto
gether. .
Year: 1864

To cure Us of oA immoderate love oi
gain, We should seriously consider how
many goods there are tha, mouey will moi
purchase, and these the best; and how
many evils that money will 10. remedy,
and these the worst
Year: 1864

There is one fact that should often be
adverted TO and brought bofore the
minds of the people, viz the present
rebellion was inaugurated under Demo
cratic administration. The Democratic
Journals and orators often brand this aS
an abolition war. brought on by the
Abolition party" How widely the
charge differs from the well known facts
that have hardly yet passed into history !.
This rebellion had its growth N the
Democratic party and is Of Democratic
offspring Under the administration Of
James Buchanan. treason and rebellion
were fostered and nourished in the very
Capitol of our nation. and no measures
taken 10 qucll the insurrecticn The
armies of the government were stolen
and placed in the hands of its enemies :.
the navy was scattered on foreign seas,
and the preparations We're complete that
the rebels might make the lite Of the
Republic an easy prey. All this was done
under Democratic rule; and still the
Journals of that party continue to brand
this as an Abolition war brought on by
Lincoln and his party" Strange incon-
sistencv,


The Democratic party did not only in
augurate this war, but they are response
bic for its prolongation. II the North
had gone into this struggle unit, uniting
all its will. energies, men and resources,
who doubts that the rebellion would to
day have been utterly conquered and the
supremacy of the Government established
on every foot OF the United States
The greatest encouragement the rebels
had. was 4 division in the north. Their
hopes rested upon this from the very
start, or they would never have plunged
themselves into the terrible vortex
of rebellion. They have been fed with
the same hope all through the struggle;
without such hope they would long
since have succummed to the authority
Of the Government Why is it that they
publish such speeches as Voorhees,.
Longs. Fernando Woods. and editorials
from such Journals as the Cincinnati
Enquirer and Chicago Times, unless it is
to strengthen the confidence of the
people in the belief that there is 4 serious
division in Northern sentiments: They
frankly admit that their strongest hope
of success is in the belief that the
Peace Party of the North will so
embarrass the Government that it will
be compelled to give up the contest and
acknowledge the independence Of the
Southern Confederacy. Their gretest
hope at present is, that the peace Party
of the North will succeed in the coming
Presidential election. Their faith and
confidence relies more firmly on this,
than on the strength of their armies
They well know that if the Peace De
mocracy' can succeed, their claims will
be respected, and their independence re
cognized; hence, they continue the
struggle.


Who, then, prolongs the war? 1t is
the Democratic party of the North.
They are responsible for every drop of
noble blood that is shed from this and
henceforward. They cry peace and
and vet take the course that prolongs
the war. The pen of the impartial his
torian will not hold them guiltless Of
the blood Of thousands Of our brave
countrvmen who have Welded up their
lives to preserve untarnished the bless
ings of LIBERTY and UNIos.-Hendrick
County. Ledger.
Year: 1864

Professor Peppers ghost IN Chicago
has been e.:lipsed. An individual in
the rural districts stopped into store
on Lake street, few days ago. and
while making some purchases, cast his
eye down along the long line Of coun-
ters and shelving, aad remarked to a
clerk


"Mighty long store this, from one
end to tothcr.


The clerk nodeed assent, and the eye
Of the countryman fell upon his refiec.
ton large mirror at the further end
Of the store.


"There's my brother ont there in
that alley, sure's you live, and | haint
see him afore in three years. Ho Y can
| get back there -


The clerk told him that he would
have to SO out OH to Lake street, around
the corner and into the alley. Il
should be remarked that the clerk did
not see the joke, really supposing that
the countryman had seen his brother
through \ rear window. Rural returned
saying that his brother had gin him the
Slip Looking down the store again
he exclaimed, "I'll be darned if there
aint my brother again" And now he
padded towards the mirror. As he
nearcd it he smiled lis reflection cor
dily returned it, and advanced to NEE,
him. Rural extended his hand and
The reflection his. Just at that mo-
ment his hand came in contact with
the cold glass he started back rubbing
his eyes, took q second look and saw
it. He rushed from the store swearing
that he and his brother were twins and
coulden't tell one another apart, and
the burned lookin' glass had sucked
him in.