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Year: 1864

10 the rebel Hou,e Of Representatives on Tuesday the
9Th instant resolution agreed to directing the Com
mtee the Judiciary TO inquire into the expedency Of
requiring citizens liable to military duty absent from the
country not public business to return and assist 10 the
public defence pain Of conscaiion of their property
after the war; other adequate penalty


resolution declaring that all further attempts secure
recognition abroad should be dessted FROM and the Con-
federate diplomatic agents in foreign countries at
withdrawn was referred to Committee Foreign Affairs


Mr. Foote presented resolution embracing series of
propositions responsive to that portion Of the Presidents
message which treats of the employment OF slaves 10 the
military service. The propositions assert that general
levy OF the slaves for soldiers unwse that their with
drswa from labor would be nexpedient so long we can
otherwise obtain as large army we can maintain ;
that II the alternative be presented of subugaton their
employment in the ranks the latter should be preferred
that for the to which they applied their
ershp by The Government with prospective emancipation
by the consent Of the States The reward Of faithful service


would be eIpedent that the number so employed should
be increased to forty thousand" The propositions con-
cude with resolution affirming That It necessary to
have the autocedent conssnt and sanction of the States
any attempt at comforting emancipation By the Confederate
suthorites,
Year: 1864

NASHVILLE, NOVEMBER T. 1864


This correspondent has always been careful not even TO


give hint in his letters which might by any possibility


afford information to the enemy perceive that others
have not been prudent and gentleman writing from
Kome Ca mot regular correspondent have
believe, but an officer in the armyreveas what should
by no means have entrusted even to private letter. and
BY the use of italics and stars nsinuatons and direct
statements points out what know our military authorities
have for the weeks most ndusrousy concealed
Such should meet with the severest degree of
censure reprobati0n, and punishment The legitimate
representatives of the press carefully abstaned from
any mention Of the movements Of the Fourth and
iWentytnlrd Corps although each of them in Nash
Vile knew exactly what they were doing but the Rome
gentleman, identified with the military parcels out the
OF every corps in the army and tells just where
each is about to 20.


Since this revelation has been made it can do no harm
now TO say that the great bulk Of old army
OF miles away from the main body of Hoods; that no col


son need be expected between the two that while one
IN the neghborhood of Johnsonvle the side of
the Tennessee the other m the vicinity of Atlanta that
may be the course of the Union forces Hood is
doubtless heading norhward that did not wish to cross
the tennessee at Johnsonve in the first place. and could
not now If he would that he has not with him more than
thousand men that he will endeavor to carry
the war into Kentucky and possibly the Ohio
and that new army has been organized here under
OF our ables leaders, sufficient IN strength to cope with the
ragamun battalons of Hood, wherever they may be able
TO find them


As to what will be done by the main body of our old ar
snail not even now venture to write word although
the kome gentleman endeavorr diligently indicate it,
Doubtless however before this letter reaches you you
VIII learn by telegraph which will astonish you


may mention what seemed to be an idle rumor prevalent


upon the streets of this city yesterday that forces have
burned Atlanta cut loose from their and
started for Mobile Savannah, Charleston, Montgomery
Augusta according TO the taste fancy of the individual
circulating the report As coroary to this, another
perhaps equally idle, has it that the railroad be-
tween Chattanooga and Atlanta is being destroyed.


Turning cur eyes from the far South there is duty
which now lies anly before the army about Nashville
and the loyal people of the West generally Hood in
der to compel to withdraw forces from Georgia. has
brought the bulk of his army into West Tennessee and
tends probably make mad raid into Kentucky aud the
northwestern States This force of his must be destroy
ed Let this rebel army be overthrown. Hood has
obliged US by voluntarily putting himself within
reach Our forces here are in excellent health and
spirits The weather has cleared up and promises to be
very fine for campaigning. All the circumstances seem
favorable
Year: 1864

have again turned. and upon whom they have by ma
Jorty 80 overwhelming as to be almost acclamaon
conferred new measure of responsibility and lease
OF power. EelOw-citzens, Abraham Lincoln, in the
past has been, in the future he will be- worthy of the


trust Ihe gallant men OF our navy and of army who
on the water and the land in storm and in battle in


the nghtwatch and the bvouac upholdng the old flag
and the cause of country rejoice with that in this
election the people have stood up to them in their fight
In the name Of the officers and of goious navy
whose exploits need eulogy from me- join heartily IN
your congratulations.


SPEECH OF MIR. BATES.


Gentlemen My condition perhaps the most fortunate
of any man that know of because have scarcely any
thing else to do than to thank people for the good they
me. Laughter Some people complain of hardships
and distress and we have country reduced with
in the last four years to great extremtes despair and
suffering and we still behold this suffering before yet
the with myself participate as much as any man
can in the joys and sorrows of my country.


You have assembled tonight for the purpose of reoic
ing at the prospect Of better times You indeed have
cause for rejoicing We have passed through severe or
DEAL but we geam of hope We see that there
Is better heart in the Republic aud believe that again
we shall rise and flourish fathers did before u.s. and
that BY hmness OF resolution and force of arms this
Try will again be knit together and united in ndssoube
bond [Applause.1


rejoice with you with all my heart over the great fact
you have met to ceebate and thank you the honor
you do in calling upon after your visit to the Chief
Magsrats, who has doubt cheered your hearts with
eloquent and patriotic words. I rising ra-
puly Inat spirit WHICH, eleVatng US With new hope will
depress the adversary OF the nation until we shall once
mere witness peace, order and law firmly established
under the authority of the legitimate Government of this
country such fathers decreed to u.s. and which we
are bound to transmit to posterty. The Republic
will still ye and trust its life will be perpetual Ap-
plause,


The procession called also at the residences Of Secrea
ries STANTON and USHER. The former was unwell and
through friend made that fact known and OF pressed his
thanks for the compliment rendered him The latter
absent from the city.
Year: 1864

The statistics Of agriculture, prepared BY the Supern-
tendspt of the Census press and will be printed
n time for early delivery to the two houses of Congress
These important details will be published in qusrto smi-
lar to the volume population The statistical tables
will be accompanied by elaborate analysis exhibiting
the condition and progress Of American agriculture The
census Of agriculture WILL 1t il believed contain more val
uabe practical and scientific information relative to rural
affairs than any work Of similar description that has yet
appeared in our country In this volume may expect
that critical exposition respecting the earths products
and the improvements in the machinery and processes
agriculture, which the first volume exhibited relative to
population. .--Nep York Herald s
Year: 1864

SATURDAY, Dec. Sc =. M.


The gold market has been, on the whole. heavy
o-day and the fluctuations have been Lighter than
usual There was an absence of important rumors
OF any kind, and more disposition was evinced to
speculate for fall than rise. In view OF the
meeting Of Congress next week, and the important
financial measures which viii be submitted to it's
consideration the tendency Of gold should be
downward, but efforts will be made by interested
parties 10 sustain il. These however, will be i'm
potent TO resist its natural if the Secretary
Of the Treasury and Congress only do their duty.
and a wide field Of action lies before them.
The time has come when the neces.
sites of the country imperatively demand
something more than has yet been done. A new
policy TO supersede the disastrous one of the past
is urgently called for and in the framing Of that
the greatest financial skill should be employed for
our financial futures has more to do with poti-
cal future than is generally understood. There
must be no further currency issues, and gradual
funding Of portion of that at present in circula-
tion Loans bearing interest in currency at not
more than ten per cent per annum must take the
place Of gold bonds. and their time of redemption
must be left optional with the government after
the expiration of certain specified period-say





taxes must be imposed, and the system
of collecting the Internal revenue must be greatly
improved upon, both as regards efficiency and
simplifcaton. Without these all-important
changes she fiscal affairs of the nation will drift
into condition Of embarrassment which legisla-
ton win be Intellectual to relieve.


Among the new taxes one on the yield of petro.
leum at the wells, per gallon, and another on Leaf
tobacco are among the most important. One
dollar per barrel on the former would produce a
revenue Of two millions of dollars in Pennsylvania
demonstrating it by the yield of last year,
which about that number of barrels; while
forty cents per pound en- leaf tobacco would pro-
badly give a return Of twenty-five millions.
An increase of the tax on whiskey
and other spirits to three dollars per gallon and
ascending scale Of taxation on incomes, with q
special tax Of fifty per cent additional on incomes
derived from real estate, would contribute largely
TO the augmentation of the revenue. That we
must submit to heavier taxation, if the national
credit is to be preserved, admits of no question,
and therefore the proper adjustment Of taxes will
be a work Of great labor, calling for the closest
discrimination and great knowledge os the ma
tional resources, and the best Of developing
them. And while they tax our Legislators must
remember that heavy taxes, injudiciously
levied, more or less check industry and defeat
their own purpose


The quotations for gold to-day were as fol-
Year: 1864

The PRYsoNERs OF WAE-The New York
Times says: 4


The duty of the military authorities is surely
clear. Exchange the white prisoners man for
man at least; if no better can be done for the
negro troops now, their time will come anon.
unless tho South is to have monopoly Of the
capture OF prisoners. It is doubtless true that
the maddening tortures and exposures our men
have to endure form parts of the rebel schclie
to compel us to make an exchange. What if
it is so. They will have the odds 10 their favor
IN any case, IN all that is most savage in this
VAIN But let our authorities see to the release
Of our brave and patriotic soldiers.
Year: 1864

FIFTEEN DAYS GRACE TO SETTLE Up-We under.
stand that Sherman has given tho citizens of Savannah


fifteen days grace to settle up their bank and other
accounts which are to be balanced py Confederate
Treasury notes. IF this report true there VII, be
but few open accounts in Savannah after the fifteen
days ut grace expire. Every body and every body's
relation will be eager to square up at onco I.
Year: 1864

SMART oFF1cIAL.-"e notice by the Rchn1ohd
papers that man calling himself W. Fl. MAuRY was
oetaiued at Columbia, S. c., few days since by a
Confederate Official on the charge Of being Yankee
spy Instead ofsearchng his prisoner at once the Of
hcer set down tH write an order for his arrest
"h'ie he was SO doing the prisoner pulled a small
package out Of his pocket and threw it into the fire
at ,he time cxciming "now arrest if you wish


We know not who the official was but he certain
y did not exhibit much slircwdness A person
against whom there is evidence enough to cansc him
to be arres,c. as spy, should he searched without
any delay. We think the Confederate official sbould
be at once promoted to position where it is now
necessary to exercise much practical common sense.


This same MAuRy was the young man recently ar
rested in Camden and carried to Columbia for fir.
ther hearing.
Year: 1864

From the North American Review for April.


There seems to be growing tendency of late
to undeEvalue Mr.. Seward. That he should be
spoken slightingly of in England is not to be
wondered at, but that such sneers should be
caught up and repeated in this country argues
pitiful prOvincialsm not very flattering to our
independence. There is, to be sure, little in
consistency in the charges brought against him.
On that side of the water he is accused of blus-
ter and on his, of trucking. A man must have
pretty fairly preserved, one would say, the be-
coming moderation of craftsmanship, who is at
tackled ON such opposite grounds. fblr. Seward
sometimes seem to foreign critics little tOOcOn-
fident, we at least like him the less for hav


ing faith in the destiny of his country. If his
dispatches now and then smack a little of the
schOOlmaster, we must not forget that European
statesmen are boys in their d-b-abS In all that
concerns a knowledge of us and our affairs. In
the Trent case we undoubtedly had no standing
whatever in international law, and because Eng
land made her demand little gruffiy, was Mr.
Seward TO insure our dismemberment as a
tiOn, by a foreign war, on point of childish
temper2 The true Office of statesman is to pre-
vent his cOuntrymen from acting under the in
fiuence of passion. Mr.. Seward, by universal
admission was one Ofthe ablest if not the ablest,
of our politicians three years ago, and we can
not believe that he has become suddenly so i'm
beetle He was an anti-slavery man when it
was not vet prosperous to be So before some of
his critics were born, and if he now set 4 high
er value on the merely territorial integrity Of
the country than seems wise to some, it is only
the natural result of a position which compels
him to see and feel more keenly than anything
else the weakness and danger which have re-
suited from disunion in our relation with for
eigu powers. If we have been able for three
years to thwart all designs at intervention, with
the war and ruin which would have followed,
we owe it mainly to Mr.. Seward; and if his
victories have been less noisy, and less gratify-
ing to our pride, than those in other fields they
have been no less effective, nor less deserving
the gratitude of his country
Year: 1864

The Buffalo Courier, who is the Mcclellan or
gan for Western New York, does not like the
Peace doctrines of Long. The fssure between
the Peace and War men is widening day by
day. They are working hard to close it up
The Crisis and Enquirer would not like to en-
dorse the following:


The sentiments avOwed by Messrs Long aud
Harris are not ours, nor are they those enter
tanned by the Democratic Party. The reeogni-
tiOn of the Southern Confederaey would not on
ly be the end of the Constitution, and the DEATH
blow to national integrity but the financial rti-
in of the so-ealled Loyal States. Acknowledge
the independence of the Rebel Government and
the whole national debt would be repudiated by
the people, at the hazard of armed revolution.
The Western States would secede from the
Eastern, and the Middle States as precipitately
as the Cotton States left the Union.
Year: 1864

Some of the marks which are fastened on the
blankets, shirts, DC, sent to the Sanitary Com
mission for the soldiers, show the thought and
feeling at home. Thus, on home spun blank
ct, worn, but washed as clean as snow, was pin
ned bit of paper which said: This blanket
was carried by Milly Aldrich [who is ninety
a half miles, to be given to some soldier"


On bed quilt was pinned card, saying
My son is in the army. Whoever is made
warm by this quilt, which / have worked on
for six days and most all of six nights, let him
remember his own mothers love"


On another blanket was this: "This blanket
was used by soldier in the war of lSl2-may
it keep some soldier warm in this war against
traitors"


Ona pillow was written: "This pillow belong
ed to my little boy who died resting on it.; it is
a precious treasure to me, but give it for the
soldiers"


On pair of wooden socks was written:"T These
stocking were knit by a little grill five years
old, and she is going to knit some more, for
mother says it will help some poor soldier.


On a box of beautiful lint was this mark:
MADE in sick room, where the sunlight has
not entered for nine years, but where two sons
have bid their mother good bye, as they have
gone out to the war"


On bundle containing bandages was written:
"This is poor gift, but it is all had; l have
given my husband and my boy, and only wish
/ had more to give. but l haven't"


On some eye shades were marked: "Made by
one who is blind. Oh, how l long to see the
dear old flag that you are all fighting under.
Year: 1864

A Radical meeting was held at Bowling
Green, Pike county, Mo-, on the 4th instant, at
which the following resolution was passed
unanimously:


ResOiUed, That we are in favor of the nomi-
nation of Abraham Lincoln as our first choice
for the Presidency; nevertheless, we believe
that the best interests of the country, and of
the Union cause, demand that the selection of a
candidate for that office should be committed to
the National Union Convention, to be held in
the city of Baltimore, on the 7th day of June
next, and we hereby pledge ourselves to abide
its action and to cheerfully sustain whomsoever
may be selected by it"
Year: 1864

When the news was brought in to Sherman
that the rebels had abandoned Meridian without
a blow, and that the destruction was az tdit dc-
cOmpE, he is said by. eye witnesses to have walk
ed silently to and fro for some minutes, and
then burst out excitedly, "This is worth fifty
millions to the Government
Year: 1864

A private letter received in this city states
that the people of California are suffering at
present from drought. Eight thousand sheep
and eight thousand beeves have died, and the
frrmers are killing the cattle for their hide and
fat. This drought will prove most disastrous to
the farming and hydraulic mining interests of
that State.-N Y. Post.
Year: 1864


AS Fannie was walking iu the garden day,
Surveying the beds and the flowers,
A bee, gathering honey, came flying that way,
Improving the bright shining hours
''Pretty bce,' said the maiden, "come sing moyOul
song,


You're so tidy, SO trim and so neat,
So cheerful and busy, as all the day long
You are storing your treasure Of sweet
Just then gay butterfly auttered close By,
pecked in gayest Of purple and goldi
It's colors ~ brilliant, quite dazzled her sys,
As admiring she turned to behold
"Dear me what creature Of elegant taste
So airy, gracefn gay
OF time and pleasure it is but a waste
With this plain looking bee long to stay.
:" 'Tis well to be useful, I've always been told,
To be beautiful, far more I care
Such prosy instruction is well for the old,
But It's not for the young and the fair"
So she followed the butterfly over the flowers,
Beguiled from her lesson of care,
TIL the fast setting sun told that flown were the hours
And she to her home must repair.
Late in autumn one day, as she shivered to meet
The blast Of the cold chilling storm,
She saw in the pathway, just under her feet,
The poor, dying butterhy's form.
That moment forth flying from out its snug hive,
Came the bee looking cosy and warm,
Still singing its song, and seeming to thrive,
Defying the cold and the storm.
Said Fannie, 'of this 1 will make good use,
1 win not be so foolish again,
But people Of worth and true value I'll choose,
Before those who showy and vain


Tie Little Pilgrim.
Year: 1864

MARTIN LUTHER AT HOME AND AS HE Was
But could not bring up myconception of Luther
in Germany to the idea | had of him before.
saw his manuscripts collections of his works por-
traits but his big drinkingcups were, after all,
the most prominent memorials he left behind
him. He was jolly old soul hearty and honest,
dare say, and banged away at the pope and the
devil with good win and good effect But there
was nothing high and grand about him. | went
to see the place where the devil is said to have
have helped him over the walls Of Augsburg; but,
even there, not gIeam of poetry associated itself
with his name. The huge drinking-eup seemed
to swallow up everything, and the couplet, said TO
be his, appeared to tell the whole story -


s'Who loves not wine, woman and song,


Remains a fool all his life long,


In short, his burly face and figure, and the COB
lets that testify to his powers made it absolutely
impossible for me to connect any heroic idea with
the man Professor Felton,
Year: 1864

AKIND WoRD FOR MOTHER. 2 --Despise not
thy 1nothor when she is old. Age may wear and
waste mother beauty, strength, limbs, senses,
and estate but her relation as mother is as the
sum when goes forth in its night, for it is always
in the meridian, and knoweth no evening. The
personmay be gray headed, but her mother rela-
ton is ever in its flourish. 1t may be autumn,
yea, winter with woman, but with the mother,
as mother, it isalways spring. Alas how little do
we appreciate mothers tenderness while ivingl
How needless we are in all her anxieties and kind
ness But when she is dead and gone, when the
cares and coldness Of the world come withering
to our hearts when we experience how hard it il
to find true sympathy-how few win befriend US
in misfortune-then it is that we think of the
mother we have lost,
Year: 1864

AN article in French political paper was re-
Gently suppressed by the censor of the press.
The next day FIVE columns of the journal (the
space it would have occupedl we're left blank,
leaving only the heading, whittier are We Go
ing y and signature Of the author at the foot of
the vacancy
Year: 1864

I sit beside my gloomy crate,


And muse DER pleasures gonoj
A year ago, at eventide,
My husband sat here by my side


Tonight sit alone.
The rain-drops patter on the pane.


The wind makes ftful moan;
while I Sit here and think Of him


Who left me thus alone.
A year ago tho orange flowers


We're fresh upon my browJ
He brought them mel was his BRIDE
But soon laid the wreath aside,


And II Is withered now.
Our home-my Ernest's home and mine-


Once bright with pleasant cheer,
Is lonely now the light OF hope
Burns dim my spirits sink and droop-


For Ernest Is not here.
In vain tune my harpslohord


To waken music gayj
The spirit OF my lutte Is sad,
Nor can make Its music glad


While Ernest Is away.
Yet here linger, when II seems


can no longer stay,
Alone read Gods blessed Word,
While sweetest memories are stirred


Alone i kneel to pray.
Will he return, know not now


What Is to DO his nate.
But if We meet on earth no more,
trust that on the golden shore


lie for his bride will wait.
We shall meet there. Yes. thank God


Though here We walk alone,
We there may wander, hand In hand,
Beside the crystal stream. and stand


Together near the throne.