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Year: 1863

Oar people have heretofore relied 90 much
upon Northern seed men for their garden seed
that thsV have not been in the habit of saving
them That source OF supply hsppily being
cut OF, unless little care be taken by our cit.
Hens To save seed enough there will be great
scarcity. This year there were not enough
good seed to supply the demand, and old and
detective stocks were brought into market.
Much disappo; ;ln.ment aud loss has been the
consequence. Every farmer and gardener


should take caro- to savP as great variety and
as large a quantity as he can. Thus he will
DO sure cf enough for himself, aud may help
to supply thoss who are not fortunate enough
to succeed in their ettorte or who are new be.
ginners. 1t is, moreover, important tina. each
cnlliyator sE ould lie able to exchange seeds
with his Deighbor, eince those not grown on
his place will generally thrive better than
those thai are. Above alt, If we supply our
selves Nc are cure of good seed whereas If
we rely VI 'on the precarious chances of block
ade r'anne rs and irresponsible persons we shalt
continue 10 ba deceived with defective seeds
a al wish seed that turn ou. to be those Of u


gerry different vegetable from that thsy are
represented to be, IS many cGitiva:ors caa tos-
Year: 1863

rs The Constitution OF the rebels in
all that relates TO the personal rights Of
white men is an exact copy Of the Federal
Constitution. We would like to know
how much more free speech " is tolerated
1nder the Confederate Constitution than
under ours: In the South the Confederate
Government is administered By the Demo-
Gratis, How much right Of criticism and
opposition to the war do they allow to the
Wings? How does the privilege compare
with what the Republicans in the Nor.1
accord to the Democrats In other
words, in which section Of the country !,
The largest freedom Of speech allowed
where the " Democrats rule or where the
Republicans bear sway7 The fact is, that
The party calling itself !" Democrat" is ten
times more intolcrant than the Republi-
cans ever sought or wished to be. When
in power, they prove themselves to be ty.
rants Of the worst kind. Their highest court
is held by Judge Lynch. They never hesi
bate to suppress free spcecl, by brute force
when party or niger interests arc to be
subservcd, as their past history where they
have long had sway, only too truly proves
Year: 1863

to pnt themselves in position where their
Jealousy and ba=eness would become patent
to all men. The roads that do enter Mllwau-
kee are not permitted to connect with the
Lake Shore Road. Milwaukee, in imitation
Of the now ''sub=ided city Of Erie, 1evies
an omnibus, peanut tax on all the people
who may chance to pass through it. To the
more substantial and intelligent citizens
Of Milwaukee, the position in which
these three individuals have placed that city,
it is presumed, is sufficiently humiliating
Chicago has no Jealousy Of milwaukee,
There is ample room fur them both to grow
and prosper. Then why should Milwaukee,
unless from pure envy, oppose great nation
al measure, essential to the military security
Of the vast commerce Of the lakes. We have
not a doubt that majority Of her leading
citizens, If not already heartily ashamed that
they have permitted the three persons named
in the circular to issue it, will very soon ut'
tclly Eepudiate all responsibility for it. If
these would-be Milwaukee representatives in
trude their opposition upon the Convention,
let The members hold up our map before them
as sufficient answer to all their cnyious
twa1t1e
Year: 1863

cI The burden of the present CITY of the
Coprerheads, is Free Speech They fear
the Constitution u,uy be violated, and their
privilege Of free speech curtailed.


How much more " free speech" 10 they
want than that which they now enjoy
From morning I'LL night they pour forth
4 flood of abuse and SANDER upon the GOV
crnmcnt, oppose the war, clamor for peace,
discourage cnlistmcn,s, hide descrtcrs.
threaten to resist the draft, and say and do
everything that that can help the rebels,
except taking up arms in their behalf And
still they cry out for the right OF free speech,
and whine about IN invasion Of their con
Etitutional rights We ask again how
much free speech do they want? Have
none but rebel sympathizcrs any coustitu-
iona1 rights: Is the Constitution an instru.
mcnt framed expressly 10 promote rebel1-
ion. and shield and protect those who give
aid and comfort to rebe1ss This is the
construction put On it l,y the Copperheads.
Year: 1863

We beg the UnioniSts of every County, Town
ship and Election District in our State, to take
care that tho name of each soldier who has
legal residence therein is duly entered or re-
tanned ON the Registry. No matter though nc
be fighting for his country in Tennessee OF
Texas, he is legal voter exactly as though he
had never left his own fresidc, and Is entitled
TO cast a vote in our ensuing Election. Watch
the polls closely, SO as to be sure that no swlnd-
Ter pcrsonates an absent person and votes in his
name; but be sure that each and every legal
voters name is where it should be. Though he
were thou, and miles away when you last heard
from him, he may still be at home to vote.
And, whether he shall or shall not, his name
belongs on tie Regster-it is RIGHT that it
should bc there and wrong to strike it off or
leave it Off Should he suddenly return-per-
haps crippled os inyand-end hobble TO the
poll on Election day, it will be burning shame
if he is obliged to look up witnesses and make
out affidayi,s to prove his right TO vote Shame
on you, Unionistsl if you do not take ample
and seasonahle care that the name OF every
Union soldier in the field no matter Of what
politics, is duly and fully inscribed on the
proper Registry!
Year: 1863

Persons who have just arrived from the
Army state that the arrangements for the care
Of the wounded are most admirable, aud the
promptness and energy Of the medical corps is
worthy of all praise.
Year: 1863

We have never known time when la.
borers, mechanics, artisans, and even pro-
fessional working men we're so much in
demand as they are at present. Our ar
my has absorbed 80 much of the skill and
labor of the country, that it is almost i'm
possible to keep the machinery Of society
going. We would advise every idler to
roll up his sleeves aud go into it. There
is plenty to do. and it is better to wear
out than to rust out. A little hard, en-
terprising, understanding labor will
hurt no one. "By the sweat of your brow
shall you earn your bread" Whoever
avoids the common penalty violates a
physical law of his being. How detesta-
BILE is lazy inactivity-"be up and do
ing"
Year: 1863

REMEMBER SOLDIERS FAMILrns.-Our
benevolent loyal people should look after
the necessities Of soldiers families in our
midst We have understood that many
of them are in destitute circumstances,
the small amount of money they receive
not being sufficient to procure the neces-
saries Of life at the present high prices,
There is one or two soldiers families in
our city who have actually suffered for
want of food and fuel. We think that
our Aid Societies should attend to the
wants of those at home before they sup
ply those in the field.
Year: 1863

HALr.-The man who attempted to
pass the guard with his water cart yester-
day afternoon, while the colored regiment
were on dress parade on Main street,
learned much to his discontinue that q
niger on guard is as good ~ "any other
man."
Year: 1863

THANKs.-Our thanks are due Mr..
Copelin, of the feed store on Fourth
street, for fine lot of hominy which he
sent US yesterday, and after trying it We
were fully impressed with the fact thai
there Was the place to purchase good
article of hominy. Call and get some.
Year: 1863

CosvERsATIos.-Surely one of the
best rules In conversation is, never to say
thing which any of the company can
reasonably wish We had rather left uu.
said; nor can there anything be well more
contrary TO the ends for which people
meet together than to part unsatisfed
with each other themselves.
Year: 1863

@-We are authorized to say by the
pork packers of this city that they will
pay the Chicago prices for hogs, deduct
ing the freight, thus making it to the in
terest of all in this section of the country
who have hogs to sell to bring them to
Keokuk, where we have greater facilities
for packing than any place west Of Chi
cago.
Year: 1863

ESCAPED FROM JAIL.-Five prisoners
broke Jail in Oskaloosa Wednesday night,
knocking down the jailer and deputy sher-
id and made their escape in the darkness.
The sheriff has offered large reward for
their capture.


One of the Jail birds cut Of his finger
when volunteer in camp at this place a
couple of years ago, in order to obtain a
discharge. But if not long fingered he
was still lighs.fngered, and was under
sentence for larceny.
Year: 1863

History tells US the exact time when this
continent was discovered by Europeans. and
the character of the men who FIRST settled it.
For many years the history Of the eastern
continent was history Of daspopism. HUI
manity struggled feebly with tyranny, and
Freedom, with slow and painful growth,
crowded Prerogative, inch by inch. from its
odious pretensions.


Amid this civil and r-ligious eommotion OF
the sixteenth century, there had been raised
up class of men with heads too strong to
bow to tyranny, but with too feeble an arm
to cope with that tyranny on the ground on
which, for ages, it had been entrenciling it
SELF The work to which God had called
them was that of planting the institutions of
freedom OF a new continent. He had re-
served this broad land fer them.


1t has sometimes seemed to me, in the
pleasing visions of my half dreaming hours,
that the Lord designed America as place
for a new world, or a new start for the
world Nearly six thousand years of expe-
rience in Europe. Asia and Africa had not
found good government or happy people.
Tyranny had succeeded tyranny, and reyolu-
ton had succeeded revolution, but yet the
people were everywhere oppressed. America
seemed reserved for better fate-a republi
can form of government. Here, those flying
from the old world, who never had or could
own a rood of land, found unbounded land.
Immense forests and extended meadows in
yited the settler. Every mineral and every
climate courted the prince Of civilization
Towns and cities rose as by magic, and free
government marked the earliest legislation.
Over thirty millions of happy people ami
mated the once forest and meadow home of
the aborigines. Nothing remained butte be
good and happy. But. alas


Virtue has not a shrine so pure.


So holy, but the serpent. sin.


In hours we deem the most secure,


Beneath its altar will glide in.


So glided in the bane Of civilization, TIE sin
of sins, human bondage. Said an Apostle
60 Do not rich men oppress you?'' and the
clanking chains Of Afric's dark children re-
spond "Aye." Then Jefferson tren nbled for
his country; Clay vowed to add no more
slave territory Franklin became President
of an Abolition society. But the serpent
was coiled in the bosom of cppressors, and
they nourished it as their hearts blood till it
became monster dragon, and with its tail
drew from their boasted constellation a third
part of the stars of heaven and cast them to
the ground.


The dragon fought and his angels and
was not overcome but by the followers of the
Lamb. and by the word of their testimony
bearing true allegiance to the laws and the
Constitution.
Year: 1863

HH1S Tobacco is manufactured expressly for


i the California market the peculiar manner in
which it is put up keeping it always moist, and
causing it to retain its favor any length of time
Year: 1863

he has been engaged in moving forward
the LETT wing, which has been accompanied
with number Of skirmishes. Prominent
assong these was the capture Of McMinn.
vile and Summitville Yesterday the
centrecorps commenced moving and about
the LIST proxiIao the righ: wing will pull
up stakes. As our forces push forward
the rebels drop back, and the indications
now are that no general engagement will
take place this side of Chattanooga Some
even predict that there will be no decisive
engagement at all, and that the army Of
Bragg is more Of a buggaboo than real
exsistences That another dash upon
Chattanooga the great rebel army will be
- North Carolina. before Charleston, or
Washington, and we will have to ransack
the whole southwest again to hunt fight
and while our army is bounding around
alter guerilla bands, the scattered ftag-
ments OF the rebel boards will suddenly
along the borders or Kentucky,
and make another raid On Cincinnati or
louisville. Be that as it may, as the mat
TER BOW stands do not anticipate any
important engagement yet for weeks to
csne. Still there is no certainty about it.
Ear scouts and spies report the rebels in
excellent cendition-well provisioned-
erriIed to their teeth--and not less than
5000 strong. Their entrenchments lining
svery hill and vale frcm TuIlahoma to
Chattanooga That they are anxious for
IN encounter and that when the struggle
begins it will be the most desperate one
ever fought on this continent The Ten
nessee troops will never leave their state
alive il they can help it and the Kentucki,
ans say they are far enough south The
troops from these two states will lead the
van OF the rebelS and their example will
DC the standard by which the other south
ern troops will gage their fighting IF,
then n battle comes off between Rosecrans
md Bragg, success will depend entirely
upon the spirit with which cur men go
nto It, II they possess the same amount
of courage, and determination TO triumph,
hat the rebels do, ours will be the victory
If not we are in great danger Of defeat.


NJ
Year: 1863

The Richmona WAiy, of October 3lst,
gives the following doleful statement of
affairs in that city:


''We regret to state that the efforts Of
the committee appointed by the City
Council to obtain supplies Of food for this
community have thus far not been at.
tended with success Mr.. Garrett, the
agent appointed by the committee, has
just returned from a visit to Louisa and
adjacent counties. lie reports that the
farmers in that section OF the country
have nothing to SELL He will next visit
the Va!ley-the Goshen of Virginia.
and it is to be hoped that he will meet
with more success in that productive re-.
glon. Farmers who have any surplus
cdib.es for sale should not wait to be
called upon, if they are at all disposed to
avert the fearful condition Of things,
which We tell them in all candor, threat
ems to overtake US before long. What
vii! our enemies think when they read
such paragraphs as this-penned from a
sense of duty to this community and to
the cause? 1t is useless to mince words;
it were folly to remain silent when we
sec every day evidences of an approach
ing bread famine in this city, while with
in the limits Of this State it is believed,
there is food enough for all the people for
twelve months. The population of Rich
mond cannot live upon air, and while the
majority would be willing, we are sure,
to subsist on half rations Of bread, there
is, at present, no prospect Of obtaining
this much during the winter.
Year: 1863

The man is Ounce who believes that
freedom will diminish the wages of the
laborer. Under what despotism is labor
more literally rewarded than in free
country? Is it not known by every one
that the reward of manual toll rises just
in proportion as justice and liberty ad-
vance? This is the law on that subject,
and slavery, instead Of keeping up the
price of labor in the free States, has kept
it below what it would have been; and if
this war shall entirely destroy this last
remains of despotism in our country, Ia.
Dor, North and South, aud everywhere in
our broad land will be greatly benefited.
Year: 1863

NEVER SULk Better draw the cork
Of your Indignation, and let it foam and
fume, than wire it down to turn sour
and acrid within. Sulks affect the iiv-
er, and are still worse for the heart and
soul. Wrath driven in is as dangerous
to the moral health as suppressed small
pox is to the animal system. Dissipate
it by rejecting on the mildness, humility
and serenity of better men than yourself,
suffering under greater wrongs than you
have ever been called upon to bear.
Year: 1863




Mr. HoLDES:-I see from the Register and State Jour
nat that at Caswel county meeting, held Yanceyve
you charged with being rgr. If you are traitor
then nine.tenths Of the people traitors They want
peace You are behind the people requiring peace the
soldiers peace. conversed with paruied soldier
from Pennsylvania yesterday He says more than two.
thirds of the soldiers want peace; that they with you
that your paper the soldiers friend and received with
Joy in camp This soldier is young man. farmer in fine
standing. He in the retreat from Yorktown has
been in nearly all the fights SINCE and slightly wound
ed Charlottesville He says the Yankees treat them
kindly when thev fall into their hands He further SAYS
this bound to close soon and when closed the Yam
KEGS will vote for aboitiOns the sol
diers "a large majority of them) for secessiOnst So go
the people will stand by you and let any attempt
In interfere with you in your constitutional privilege
your press if they ctOOe-they will then where the
people are; they will support you in any way your ene
mics may tit to attack You and should they attempt it.
then they will where the people stand. But cannot
believe they will they have more common sense least
they have enough to try to preserve self hope and be-
leve the praise of DesructOnists will not have any nu-
ON Gov. Vance. They the same men that called
him a submssionist and therefore traitor before the
election. The people love Gov Vance, but they are watch
ing all men now, in high we'll low places and no
man can make thOrn believe but situation becomes
every day. and want staring every poor family in
the face and no set of men make them be-
lieve otherwise. FARMER.


Little River August s, 1868.
Year: 1863

The ADMINIsTRATIoN-THE GOVERNMENT
persons are in the habit of confoundng the admin
israton of public affairs with the government it
self The old Federal government and the Confed-
crate government are very much alike in all re.
Spects. They are both republican in their charac
ter. They are composed of three branches, the
legislative, the executive and the judicial These
constitute the government; the management of
these branches, and especially Of the executive
branch, constitutes or makes the administration.
The government may be well nigh faultless, but the
administration of it may be weak or wicked. The
same lis true of all governments. 1t does not fol-
low because citizen criticizes or oppos as an ad-


nlStration, that he is opposed to the government.
Vn the contrary it is often the case that those who
70 this are the very best friends the government
las The government is maintained by good, but
PerVerted by bad administration; but this main
slanee does not make it any better, nor does a
O% administration impair in any respect the frame
a. ol government This distinction between the
it,.iS itiSStraton of government and the government


should be constantly kept in mind
Year: 1863


MR HoLDEE:-In answer to the remarks which have
been made about district meetings in Wake will say that
have had the privilege Of acting one Of these meetings
and those who acted with me- well myself not
ashamed of what done On the contrary proud
of and what is more, when abused exercising
have done the rights of freemen by uo-horned
HIngIishn'Gn, who s1>ct in England he is ser
cant and tad9 here feel cOmplimened F are trail
tors, then God save the country for is full of traitors
have nothing against such The Ra0liNnpda
they will only know their places, and claim priv
eges than natives do; but when such cattle put
airs and speak of the honest farmers of the country as
traitors it is time to whack them the head and make
them lie down and be quiet 1t is my opinion if the Yam.
KEGS should here, of the first men to take the
oath to Lincoln would be the Hnglshman and he would
then try to make for his owners their
property.


Now Mr.. Editor, expect to hold meetings when and
where please; and if this Hingshman will head crowd
and attempt 10 break of meetings up will jLst
tie his crowd and lay them down in the road but we will
treat him to coat and give hin ride on fence rail-
hear Also Mr. Editor that there threats hang you
for expressing your opinions. Let these fellows if they
dare, lift their little finger against yUu The press free
and you speaking for freemen Let them touch you
and the people will grind them to powder


CAREY
Year: 1863

THE LONDON PRESS ON THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG


AND TIE SURRENDER OF vIcKsBURG.


The real lesson that should be drawn from the
political failure of these repeated and mutual inva
sons is that the issues sought not to be gained
by war at all From the first the conflict was one
of questions and principles, which only be set
tied by craftsmanship. National madness has given
them over for decision by the sword and it is now
evident to the world that fighting brings that de-
cison no nearer. Opinion has marked out FROM
tier which armies cross in vain to compel subms-
sion Which ever side attacks, seems destined al
ways to fail. The South, constantly victorious in
Virginia, baffled when it passes North Of the Po-
tomac Even the alternating successes Of the war,
in the waste of life by which they are purchased,
prove it desperate; and the repeated failures on
both sides, for any purpose larger than destruc-
tive ncursion, points as clearly as any human
events can do, to settlement of another kind
The war may be continued to mutual exhaustion,
but it will never mutually convince. Statesmen, if
they can be found will have to take the whole
question out of the hands of soldiers at last if
the 300 900 troops called for by the Northern Con-
scription are enrolled, armed and slaughtered in
another two years of miserable conflict. The Cab
met Of Washington are not equal to their task
Every crisis of affairs to elicit additional
nroofs that they paSsig sYe5MGo ofneGt n9ife tessh
Of success that has fallen on the Federal arms in
the surrender of Vcksburg, and the incidents of the
second Maryland campaign have exhibited the
President and his chief ministers in a manner al
most pitable.


With their country torn asunder, and its soil
reeking with blood, they only find voice to make
poor and aippant election speeches. When "sere-
naded, as proper congratulation on the fall of
VickSburg, the President made an address to the
crowd that mot even the friendly reports could in
vest with dignity" The Secretary of War "clam-
ed the merit Of retaining Gen. Grant in command,
and consequently of the victory achieved" He
turned the event to elimination of some of his
colleagues and glonfying of himself Mr. Stan
ton made it party triumph over the advocates of
peace bya small sneer at the "copperhesds" And
Mr.. Seward crowned the wretched display by some
thing that we record but will not here repeat, for
it was simply blasphemous. That men in such DO
sitionS could so express themselves at such time
is deplorable illustration of the degeneracy of
American rulers.