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Year: 1864

: THE LAST HouRs OF MrrERBEER. He
expired peacefully. After having been for
many years ont Of health, the last step was
a brief one, and devoid Of agony. Some Of
bis family, called to him from Germany on
symptoms Of dangerous illness showing
themselves, arrived in time, and were
around his bed on the evening of Sunday
week. Looking at them, be said, Good
night to you all, till to morrow" These
were his last words; and their tranquility
is more than ordinarily touching - tho
farewell of one vexed with so many dream
terrors as he was. These were to be seen
in the paper of directions which was found
in the deceased masters portfolio, touching
the disposition Of his remains. He feared


to be buried alive; and accordingly directed


that his body should remain with the faca
uncovered for four days after his decesse;
that on the fifth the experiment. Of bleeding
should be tried; that two watchers should
sit by the corpse day and night; and that
ifby chance he should die in Germany, and
was taken to dead house(ss is the custom
there, bells should be duly attached to
his hands and feet The Gazette Musicale
is our authority for adding that among
Meyerbeer's papers were found many pray.
ers, written by himself for his own use.
Year: 1864

One and ALL help along this benevolent underta-
king Because you feel secure don't forget that war
walks abroad in the land that must have its vic
TINS and that but for these for when we plead war
might even now be upon you and yours.


Don't wait to be called upon, committees will not
have time. but voluntarily and cheeruly up to
alter plight afesh your troth your bleeding country
aud each other and rush to save, oh! from lin
gerins unds dis and death, those brave defend
ers Of your all.


If every man, woman and child among US would
give but dollar to the cause what incense would
arise. -s
Year: 1864

Tar smoke of burning wool, if applied 70
cuts and bleeding wounds, is said to produce
immediate relief and cure, by coagulstins
the albumen. Ulcers and cutansous dis


eases are also said to experience benefit


from the same treatment. In la
Year: 1864

We appeal to you to contribute Of your abundance
to the relief of the sck and wounded soldiers OF our
armies, now urgently demanding your assistance
While many of your fellow citizens have had their


farms rsvaged and their homes desolated by the ruth
less iron heel Of wxr you have been mercfuy spared
Thanks 70 kind Providence and those war-worn vet
Grams for whom we plead Seed time and harvest have
returned a. usual with you; your gran aries are full
and your pockets fuller STILL Can you know that the
brave soldiers to whom you ysur ALL are suffering
for mere 1.-THE otwhat they have preserved to you,
and grudge them that poor pittance9 Let your gifts
roll In, In money and in kind, free will Offering to
those to whom you owe your harvest homes.
Year: 1864

GEN. LEES ARMY.-We have reason to
believe that General Lees army in Virginia
is in no danger Of suffering for want Of sup.
plies, and that any calculation Of the enemy
based upon the hope Of compelling him to
fall back on that account, Is doomed to
disa nnointmeDt- Charleston Courier. tt
Year: 1864

Always fruitful in good works, let not your hands
slacken now. Remember your brave defenders In this
their time Of need. But for them you would have no
shops to work in-no work to do Dole not out your
gratitude in sngy measure but to the rescue as
you have often done before in money and in products,
IN laho and in skill
Year: 1864

Stir up YOUR focks to be jealous in this holy
Plead with them to emulate the example Of the good
Samaritan Of old. Never was brighter opportunity
never was there more fearful responsibility.
Year: 1864

In any less emergency should blush to call on you
Your patriotic generosity is on record everywhere !!
But forget not that this is much debt you owe as
indeed, that half your gains would not repay. Don't
falter now, hut pull the elastic band and
lay the wallet bare.
Year: 1864

The Raleigh, N. c., Progress says "The
present Congress is bent on fastening a mill
isry despotism on the people Of these Con-
federate States, and the people must either
submit quietly to receive the yoke, or resist
the tyranny. Resistance to tyrants is obe-
dience to God, and the people Of North Car
olina will not hesitate as to the course they
should pursue.


We may be imprisoned for this declaration,
but believing, before God and man, that we
are doing our duty, we appeal to the Presi-
dent and his Congress TO pause and reflect
before it is too late. North Carolina cannot
and will not submit to have able bodied man
conscripted and the whole State turned into
military camp.


We want to achieve an independence over
the common enemy, but we are not Wiling
to become the vassals Of usurpsrs at home
to achieve that or any other object. We
speak the words Of truth and soberness, be-
cause we know the sentiments Of the great
mass Of the people OF North Carolina. The
State will never willingly submit to a despo-
tism with Jefferson Davis or any one else, at
the head"


The Salem IN. C.) Press say, Every
day convinces US more and more that we are
upon the eve of events, which are pregnan;
with the fate Of the Confederacy. True, all
seems quiet, but it is the lull that precedes
the storm. The time is not far distant when
all will agree that this war must be brought
to close by other means than fighting"


The following incident occurred just after
the late battle at Newbern One little Irish
man, connected with the New York l32d,
went into a house to rest awhile, being so
used up that he could 60 no further, when
four Of the Contederates entered aud said.
You're prisoner - 81 suppose am that
same !" replied he, but have ye bit to eat
about ye" They shared their hard tack,
after which he filed and lit his dudaeen If
that's the way 10 spell it), for soldier, and
particularly an Irish soldier, is careful not to
lose his tobacco, if he does his rations.--
While smoking, conversation ensued, in the
course of (which the federal soldier actually
prevailed on his captors to come iuto our lines
with him, and the four deserted and are now
here. This incident shows how foolishly
those men reason who say that there never
can be any harmony between those who are
now contending. and that they must separate.
Year: 1864

We hare ON hand a lot Of blank foruis of GER
tifcaies and afiiiavits for the collection of the
claims Of deceased soldiers Price fifty cents per
sheet. Persons at u distance needing such blanks
can procure them by addressing the REBEL OFFICE
through she mails.
Year: 1864

The necessity for the institution OF some ac-
tive measures TO stay the progress Of intem-
persnce has for some time pressed itself upon
the attention of the citizens Of this commu
nifty. That the evil of former days was
again breaking in upon us with an increas-
ing flood, has been seen with painful intc-
rest; and hence the Temperance League
composed not necessarily of those only who
have long been in the ranks of total abstl-
nencc men, but also of others who now are
ready to JOIN hand in hand to stop the per
nicious sale and use of intoxicating drinks
under the fullest conviction that unless
something is more effectually done, than has
been done Of late, the destruction Of health
and morals to individuals of peace and pros
perity to families, from intemperance bids
fair soon to equal what was ever known in
the history Of the place. The intention Is,
by pubic discussion and private influence, to
awaken the public to a true sense Of the
danger that is before them, and thus TO
unite the powerful influence of moral senu-
ment and the force of law to bring about
better state of things on this subject. The
meetings will be public, and all, male and
female, temperate and lntemperate, are cor
daily invited to attend. We are happy to
see that a similar movement in the right
direction Is in progress pretty widely in the
State.
Year: 1864

FRrIr DESTROYED AT The WEST" Rural
writes to the Chicago Tribune that the Sc
we're weather in the West has done for the
fruit trees. He says


The next peach crop, if not large part OF
the trees, has been utterly ruined The great
cold wave that rolled down from the Arctic re
gions on the first day Of the year, has crushed
in its pathway every blossom bud Of the peach,
the apricot and the nectarine. from the northern
limits Of the State Of Tennessee, if not far into
the States South. Never, within the history OF
the West, has there been such wide spread DIS
sster-never such far extended wave Of Arctic
cold. That the trees are seriously injured, all
admit; but it is difficult to judge Of the real
damage to speachloy the discoloration ofthe back
All are more or less injured, and many Of the
large trees that we have examined are dead TO a
certainty We should not be surprised TO ind
most Of them killed outright. while, at best,
they will be two or three years IN recovering,
/ and will in no event make good orchards"
Year: 1864

GEN. BLHR's SPEEcH.-Ilon. Montgom-
ery Blair. Postmaster General made
speech before tho Maryland Legislature
on Friday last. lie sustained the Eman-
cipation Proclamation Of the President; and
declared slavery TO be the root Of the rebel
lion, which must be extracted before the ma
ton can have any peace. lie said


have not made this rccapulation Of the
causes originating and the consequences dow
ing from the bloody rebellion that shakes
our country, TO embitter animositie- on either
side. Ny effort is to expose to view that
rooted evil which must be extracted if we
would relieve the nation from Its commissions.
Slavery, as a great element Of society, makes
slaves Of all associated with it by the passions
it iniames-the masters by the ambition it
inspires the masses with which 1t mingles
by the daily contagion it spreads in thou
sand forms.


Il is marked in the Declaration Of Inde-
pendence as the most virulent poison instill-
ed by the King to enfeeble for suhjugation
the people on whom he made war, and it has
proved the most potent ingredient that could
be employed for the dissolution of the fabric
of free government which withstood the
Kings attempt If the riruS be infused
which was strong enough amid the enthusi-
asm for newborn freedom TO stiie the voice
of the Declaration of Independence denounc-
ing Slavery, and has kept the free Govern
ment-t the hard-earncd prize OF the Revolu-
tionary Warm tremor ever since, is It now,
when it has been poured with the nation :
blood in the fratricidal War it forced on the
country, again to be admitted into the sys-
TEN?


The Democratic party Of the North was
seduced 10 cOuntcnance the measures of the
| Southern Oligarchs, preparatory TO the war
against the | JniOn, under the idea that they
/ were designed as mere menace, and were
| really conservative. The event has shown
/ that the whole policy Of the dominant class
/ in the South has been war for absolute do
minion in the Slave States-war % extend
the despotic system on which it built at home
I and abroad Is this the conservatism To
which Democracy any where should lend
/ itself?


The Democracy was, in its better day, n
progressive party. Would it not be an ad-
/ vance backwards to restore the slave instltu-
/ tion to the position it has lost IN being used
| during the greater part of the century-coY-
ertly at first, but now in open rebellion, tc
destroy the free government by which it had
been tolerated, only with the hope it would
have been gradually thrown of under the
influence of public sentiment? When the
masters of millions of slaves have boldly pro
claimed Slavery the best basis of government
and founded it on the military despotisn
they have set up within the jurisdiction o
the United States with the ayoGed purpose
of superseding its authority, what friend o
the Union, what friend of free government
can hesitate to strike down that system which
endangers both?
Year: 1864

the white man when imprisoned with
ont warrant and punished without trial.
You are against the rendition of the
black man in pursuance of the Con-
stitution; and you give up white man
who has sought an asylum on our shores
without the form or substance Of law or
treaty, and in "pOsitive detiance' of the
law of nations and the Constitution. Your
Executive is q usurper of the powers wisely
distributed to the other departments of the
Government. Here you sit to-day striving
to strike down the only mode whereby one
peculiar clause of the Constitution can be
carried out, and propose no mode as sub
stitute either by State or Federal action
You will not allow an individual to take his
slave by the sanction of the Constitution
alone; you will pass no law to help him.
You will not allow him to go into a free
State and have his right there by jury trial,
because you cannot try the claimants right
to his slave by a jury in free State
You will not allow the law of 1898 to re-
main. which George Washington assisted in
making; yet you strike down all the great
rights of personal freedom for the white
man fixed by the fathers of the country in
our fundamental law, because you are bent,
because you are Economically bent, upon
irving this Union in twain, and separating
It's parts forever Your ideas are not those
Vi ILt HlSleI. Dub VI Illo OW6 law 1Hcy
do not come from the sources of law and
light and love above. They sunder all the ties
of allegiance and all the sanctions of faith.
You are destructionists; you would tear
down all that is valuable and sacred in the
pastand build pnothing in theirplace. You
are revolutionists. You were trying for
years by wrongful interference and force to
nullify the very law which you now seek
to expunge by repeal. You diligently
sought to embroil the States in collision with
the Federal Government, and have sue
ceeded in bringing with your advent into
power the consequences we predicted, re-
ientless and bloody war. charge it upon
every man of you on the other side of the
House who took any part in these seditious
infractions of the Constitution, who coun-
seled individual and State resistance and
fomented sectional strife, that you are re-
sponsible before God and the country for
our present calamities. The enormous bur-
done of taxation, the widows tears, the Or
phan's curse, the wall OF the bereessS-ls ss.-.l
the future destitution and consuming des-
olation of this land, all cry aloud against
you as the authors of this worst evil which
ever befell suffering people!
Year: 1864

,6f tL-s sl.~4 aa "
WE have considerably enlarged TEE DAILY ONO
STATESMAN, and now print 1t on plain and hand
some new type, and clear white paper.


In Politics, THE ONO STATESMAN is,'in War as In
Peace for the Country for the Constitution, and for
sUnion OF equal States, with equal privileges. and
with equal and exact justice to all its citizens. We
sre for the Old Fag with not Star Stripe erased
snd the Old Union far possible restore it.
and for the existing Constitution in its spirit letter
and purpose.


Upon the coming events of the year, rest the hopes
Of the People and Government. We are in the midst
Of bloody and protracted civil war. Its duration
and close depend upon wiser, truer and more patr
otic Policy than we have during the present Ad-
ministration. Weowe it to the memory Of our Faith
ers and tho hopes of our Children to the future Of
our Country and TO the best interests of mankind to
change Policy which is drifting us farther and far
ther from the landmarks Of our patriotic sires.


TIE STATESMAN will do all it can to aid in bring
ing about this change; and hence the Publishers in
vite support and encouragement from all those who
while wishing for q gvod NEWSPAPER, also wish to
have sound Constitutional journal. II


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


For News, for Instruction, for Good Morals, for
Sound Political Sentiments, for Steady Defense OF
American Institutions. Take, Read and help to Cir
:ulate, The ONO STATESMAN.


TIE WEEKLY OHIO STATESMAN is one Of thc
largest, cheapest. and best printed ,apers III 'ne
W., Each numbor contains a complete resume OF
all the Military and Political news of the week; the
io,o.. geographic and market reports; carefully
prepared collection Of literary reading for the home
and family, and an abundance Of paragraphs upon
every topic of interest or Importance. The wide
circulation already obtained by this paper, is an evil
dence of its popularity and Of its being adapted to
the wants Of the people.
Year: 1864

The only safe course for q young man
who would retain his virtue aud his cor
rect moral principles, is to keep away from
temptation. How many have fallen who
merely ventured to look ut vico in her
gaudy colors Her temptation was too
strong foy them to resist. They partook
OF tho fatal glass, snatchcd tho gilded treas
ure, or gave themselves up to uncleanliness.


None are secure who run in the way of
sin, who sec how near they can venture on
the threshold of vice, without entapgling
their feet in tho not of the adversary.


lIavo you ever heard tho story OF gem
tleman who advertised for a coachmani If
not we will repeat it. Three applicants
were admitted into his room. lie pointed
out to them q precipice, remarking-" How
neat tho edge of that can you drive inc,
without any danger of an upset 2"


The frat applicant replied" Within
hairs breadth" allow near can you drive
me p inquired the gentleman OF the second
applicant, Within hairs BREADTH" he
replied. As the third applicant was about
leaving tho room, supposing he had no
chance of competing with the other two, tho
gentleman stopped him. Let me hear
what you have to say" said he. "Why,
sir, can not compete with either of these
If | were TO drive you. ] would keep as far
of as possibly could"


You are tho man for me-" said the gem
tleman, and he engaged him Immediately.
Year: 1864

1t was thus few days since, we heard
stripping designate tho mother who
bore him. By coarse husbands we have
heard wives so called occasionally. though
in the latter case the phrase is often ell
dearingly. At all times as commonly
spoken, it jars upon the ear and shocks
the senses. An old woman" is an object
of reverence above and beyond almost all
phases of humanity. Her age should be
the passport to courteous consideration
The aged mother of grown up family needs
no other certificate of worth. She is q
monument of excellence, approved and
warranted. She has fought faithfully, the
good fight" aud come off conquerer. Upon
her venerable face she bears the marks oi
the conflict in all its furrowed lines. The
most grevious of tho Ills of lie have been
hers trials untold and unknown only To
God and herself she has borne necessarily
and now in her old age-her duty done
patiently awaiting her appointd timc-she
stands, more truly beautiful than lie who
has slain his til Jusands. and stood trium-
plant upon the proudest field of victory
Young man speak kindly to your mother
and even courteously y tenderly of her.
But little time and you shall see her no
more forever! Her eye is dim, her form
is bent, and her shadow falls graveyard
Others may love you when she has passed
away-kind hearted sisters, or she of whom
of all the world you may choose for part
ner-chidren may love you fondly but
never again, while time is yours, shall the
love of woman be to you as that of your
old, trembling, weakened mother has been
Thro' helpless infancy her throbing breast
was your safe protection and support--in
wayward, testy boyhood, she bore patiently
with your thoughtless rudeness, and nursed
you through legion of ills and maladeE
Her hand it was that bathed your burning
brow, or moistened the parched lips; her
eye that lighted up the darkness of vast
ing nightly vigils, watching always in your
ftful sleep, sleepless by your side as none
but her could watch. OH speak not her
name lightly, for you cannot live so many
years as would suliier. 20 thank her fully.
Through reckless and impatient youth she
is your councillor and solace. To bright
manhood she guides your improvideni
steps, nor even then fOrsalles and forgets.
Speak gently, then and reverently, of your
mother; and when you too, shall be old,
| it shall in some degree tighten the remorse
which shall be yours for other sins, to
know that net wantonly have you outraged
the respect due to "old women.
Year: 1864

Our special from Columbus yesterday
indicated the probability of draft before
many days. Those who have been felioi-
tsting themselves on escape may yet feel
the power Of law, which, says an old Ger
man prOverb, is like sleeping lion, but
when aroused, like q waking, roaring
lion.
Year: 1864

We desire to call the attention of sober
and considefate men to a. proceeding in
the House of Representatives at Wash
ington the other day Mr.. Dawson, oi
Pennsylvania, offered the following reso-
luton: He iet


'.Resolred, That the President make
known by Public proclamation or other
wise-to all the country, that whenever
any State now in insurrection shall sub
nit itself to the authority of the Federal
Government, as defined in the Constitu-
ton, all hostility against her shall cease,
and such State shall be protected from all
external interference with her leeal laws
and institutions, and her people shall be
guaranteed the full enjoyment of all those
rights which the Federal Constitution
gave them.


Against this resolution the administra-
tion majority of the House voted in solid
column, by which vote they declared that
whenever aEy State. now in insurrection
shall submis itself to the authority Of the
Federal government, as defined in the
Federal Constitution, all hostility shall
NOT cease, anu tnaI sueh o'"'o eh"i NoA
be protected from all external Interfere
with her local laws and institutions, and
that her people shall NOT be guaranteed
the full enjoyment of all those rights
which the Federal Constitution gave them
Such was the declaration Of the majority
of the House. And what is this decla-
ration in fact2 1t is declaration of a
war of subjugation against the South
however willing the South may be to re-
turn to her obedience to the Constitution
1t is declaration of war of subversion
of both State and Federal Constitutions


When will such war en6-and what
viii be its end?


This is the question which we put tc
sober and considerate men. - Holmes 20
Farmer.
Year: 1864

s'The great issue before the Country is
this: Shall Abolitionism put down the
Union, or shall the Union put down Abb
olition 2" -f'i ya


Thus spoke Henry Clay, in 1851. The
Great Issue to-day is the Great Issue Of
1851. Abolitionism has nearly destroy
ed the Union. and it will complete the
destruction, unless the people take the
Government out Of the hands of the rad
icals at Washington and place it in the
hands Of the Conservative men. The
people must determine this year which
they prefer, the downfall of the Union OF
the downfall of Abolitionism.-Ex aa
Year: 1864

twenty yards from him BE believed that the
man had come TO life, and thought he had
a ghoshy appearance. He dead
man standing BEFORE He his son also 10 an empty
house where he brought by the prisoner He, too
bad ghostly appearance and had not the shape OF
living person and the prisoner stated that would take
a considerable time for him to come TO perfection.


The Jury found the prisoner .',iuty" MIR SERGEANT
Howey who presided the bench stated that be had
been informed by Mr. Beard sub inspector OF constaou


larry that the dead had been personaed by the
prisoners blind husband, aud the man who LED thein
about One of the npparitions was at dark. and the
other in the night The prisoner then cried, Oh, my
lord think Of my poor blind and my poor children
Ihe Court eYou are terrible woman and dangerous
impostor. You must be confined In jail for twelve
months, and kept 10 hard labor.