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Year: 1864

Blessed are the rich in pocket, for theirs are
the Federal greenbacks.


Blessed are they that make widows MOURN
and prevent orphans from being comforted.


Blessed are the saints, for they shall inher-
it the Southern plantationsj and we are the
saints.


Blessed are they that do hunger ard thirst
after pap, for they shall be dlled, and Father
Abraham will give them a little more pud-
ding.


Blessed are the unmerciful, for they shall
exterminate the re0ols


Blessed are the impure in heart, for they
shall see miscegenation.


Blessed are the strifemaEers, for they shall
be called the children Of Old Abe.


Blessed are they that persecute others for
Conscience sake, for they shall make earth a
hell.


Blessed are ye whom ye revile copperheads,
and persecute them. and say all manner Of
evil falsly against them for Lncon's sake.


Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is
your reward in greenbacks; for so rewarded
they the Opdykes and Hendersons that went
before ye.


For, verify say unto ye, the constitution
and Union shall pass away but not one jot
or title Of the public plunder shall pass away
until all be devoured.


Think that I am come to destroy contracts
and diminish profits; am not come to de-
stroy but to fulfill.


Whosoever, therefore, shall not break all
the provisions ofthe Constitution shall be call
ed the least in the city of Washington; but
whosoever shall break them all, shall be call
ed great in the city Of Washington.


For I say unto you, that unless your treason
exceed that of the rebels and secessionists, ye
shall in no case find favor in Washington.


Ye have heard it SAID that thou shalt not
kill, but I say unto ye thou shalt kill, and re-
fuse to be reconciled to thy brethren, or agree
with your adversary quickly, but deliver him
to the Provost Marshal, that he be cast into
Fort Lafayette. Verify I say unto ye, he
shall by no means come out hence, until he is
Aeeced ofhis last greenback.


Thou hast heard. it said by them of old
time, thou shalt not commit adultery; but I
say unto you, thou shalt practice miscegenl-
Year: 1864

could do another stroke of business in an
official uniform of another out--the vii
lain Mais-I am afraid madame will
never see either of her bracelets again af-
ter this"


The inspectors words came but too
true From that day to this madame la
Baronne de Us diamond bracelets
have never been heard of.
Year: 1864

TIE Salem Gazette describes a curious
piece of mechanism invented in that city. at
consists of the figure Of a man seated in a
common chair and holding a cigar in his
mouth. By winding up weight, and thus
setting in motion an ingenious piece of ma
chinery, the cigar, when lighted, and also the
mouth of the figure, are made at regular in
tervals, to emit q steady stream Of smoke, in
terspersed with pufs that a professional smok-
er could not excel. Ry this process a cigar
will be smoked up as quickly and naturally
as living man could DO it This is by far
the most sensible method Of disnosing Of the
weed that has come to our knowledge. We
recommend its universal adoption in place Of
the human machine.
Year: 1864

lis the last piece Of silver
Left glittering alone;
An its cleaning companions
Have vanished are gone;
No fp ofits kindred


No levy is nigh


To reject back its brightness
Or give die for die.
They have left me-a lone one
The last silver gem;
Each bright piece is spended,
Go spend me with them.
And kindly, oh, send me


With those that have fed,
Where my mates Of the pocket
Are boarded and deadi
Oh, soon may I follow,


When partners won't stay
And from each shining circle
The gems drop away
When good fps have vanished,
And quarters have aownl
Oh, who would inhabit
This pocket alOne2
Year: 1864

On the 10th of this month the Kansas
Legislature sold the people of Kansas to
Thomas Carney, by going through the forr
of electing him United States Senator.
We presume all those who favored the
election have made enough to enable them
TO retire to private life, as they certainly
are doomed to obscurity and political death
The people Of Kansas are jealous Of their
rights, and for this high handed outrage
and betrayal Of their confidence, the ac-
tors will be dropped from political notice
and voted to stay at home hereafter.


Hon. J. D. Brumbaugh opposed the
measure to the last, and his constituents
will remember him as man that cannot be
bought by political tricksters. Whils 9TH
ers were falling before the deadly volley Of
gresn-backs, he might have exclaimed,


sCome one, come all, this rock shall fly


From its firm base as soon as I!''


The people hcror him for his manly
course. Another November an outraged
constituency will roll up such rebuks to
the present action of the Legislature as
will make Gov. Carney think that bought
up Legislature cannot secure him peace
able seat in the United States Senate.
Year: 1864

LecomptOn Fraud Reyamped.


ALI who are well versed in the history of
the attempts to saddle the "Lecompton
Constitution" upon Kansas are aware that
the obnoxious principle TO the people was
an at,enpt to enact fundamental law.
without submitting it to vote ofthe peo-
pie. The slavery prspagandis,s knew that
submitting that instrument to popular
vote would ensure its defeat. To avoid
this, the friends Of the measure secured by
fraud the election of delegates TO the con-
vention favorable to such measures as the


leaders desired to carry out, and after thus
elected, constitution was to be formed
to subserve the grand design Of the pro-
slavery party.


How Jared this grand scheme! What
befel the actual workers of the plot p
They obtained majority vote, but did the
people,acknowledge that majority vste g
The workers Of this grand acheme offraud
were rejected with contempt by the people
The Lecompton Constitution became by.
word ofreproach against all its supporters.
Lecompton city, even, having as fair nat
ural condition as any town in Kansas, has
been turned out by an indignant people as
field ft only for the yerdant growth of
gympsom weeds, soon to be pre-empted by
some courageous citizen for sheep pasture.
Such is the result of an attempt to force
/ upon the people measure in violation of
the sacred rights of popular sovereignty.
Our mind is called to this Lecompton
fraud bJ the recent demonstration In the
Senatorial movement at Topeka, We do
not desire to do the friends of Gov. Carney
Injustice, by any means. Neither would
we place forced construction upon the
character of this action. We believe the
over anxious politicians outside as well as
inside Of the Legislature have been blind
ed to the direct nature and bearing of their
action In this forced vote for Gov. Carney.


A determination Of the opponents OF
Gen. Lane to kill him has led them to
sanction and enact course Of procedure
which would inaugurate principle ihatif
successful, will sap the foundation of our
liberties as much and as completely as the
Lecompton swindle. Names and parties
change with the revolution Of public af-
fairs. Principles do not change. In the
Lecompton swindle, the main offense was
an attempt to subvert the heaven-5orn
right of the people to govern themselves.
The same attempt of gross fraud upon the
rights of the sovereign people Of this
State has been demonstrated in the Carney
fraud. 1t is in vain to cover up this out
rage upon the people, by appealing to the
! existing prejudice against Gen. Lane. He
must stand or fall at the bar of public
opinion. he IS not this case. 1t makes
not one jota of difference as to who may
have desired to come up as candidate
next winter. The fact remains, the Lee
compton constitution swindle has been re-
vamped by Gov. Carney and his miscreant
friends.


The day is ceming when the sovereign
people of this State will arise in their maj
esty and declare that their withering curse
shall rest upon him, be he Governor or leg
islator, who attempts, by deception and
fraud, to escape the searching review and
dictum of the ballot box. This is the
voice of the people.-Laprenee Tribune.
Year: 1864

D6y" To WHOM 1T MAY CoNCERN.-We
find in looking over our Subscription book
that many of our subscribers are in
arrears it is some time since We have
made any call through The REGISTER for
subscription money; but experience teach
es us that we cannot afford to pay cash
for paper, ink and labor, at the present
high prices and publish paper 'on time
We pay cash and we want cash We do
not think it necessary to say anything
more on this subject. Our readers will
understand tina. We are paying extremely
high prices for paper and We must have
prompt payments in order to NEE, our
expenses.
Year: 1864

The Missouri Republican says 1--WE have
never known at period so Immediately
preceding an election. such an uprising
Of the people to etfec, change in an ad
ministration, and particularly in the poll
cy Of an administration. as is now visible
IN every part of the Union"
Year: 1864

Nearly every daily paper on our exchange
list is published at higher rates than our
own. For weeks past the Cincinnati papers
have charged SO, while in Chicago and Lou
isville they have for a still longer period
been charging ten and twelve dollars per
year. We have stood two advances on US
in the price of paper, labor and ink since
we raised from six to seven dollars for our
daily. Last week we were crowded to the
wall with another advance in the expenses
named. We have no other way of saving
ourselves than by doing as merchants,
tradesmeu and all other business people
do, viz advancing our scale of prices.
Last Friday the proprietors of the IntelH-
gsHeer aud the Register agreed to advance
Year: 1864

A ToRY Wall ON THE Loss OF THE ALA
RAMA-The tory organ, the London Herald
says:


ave cannot but feel grieved at the loss
of the brave ship, which was almost as
much English as Confederate, in whose de-
fence we may recognize the building cour-
age of our countrymen as well AS the chiv-
alrous impetuosity OF her southern COM
mander. The news of this combat will we
fear, carry mourning into more than one
English home. But in the end of the gal
liant ship-which was English too-there
is, after all, little to regret, much OF which
is to be proud. She sank uuconquered and
defiant in the waters of the channel, retu-
sing to the las; TO lower her flag, leaving
no trophy in the hands of her enemy. Her
career is a romantic episode in naval his
tory, and her end was worthy OF it. The
scene of her many victories Is her grave
at last, and added interests will be found
in the seas of Brittany when men tell each
other the Alabama was last seen there"


That is frank confession. The tories
did regard the Alabama as an English ship,
and grief at her loss did enter more than
one English home, not alone the homes
of poor men, whose friends lived in the
forecastle of the Alabama, but the homes
of the aristOcracy, the Derbys, the Wharn-
cliffs, the Clanricardes, who rejoiced in her
career. But the Herald had better read
Semmes' report and correct the statement
that the vessel did not lower the flag and
went down " unconquered and defiant
Semmes expressly says that he did lower
his flag. So the hifalutin on that subject
were better dropped.
Year: 1864

Thus eight and quarter million OF
paper money represents ten times the cap
ital that wes last year represented by
$4,000, 900. When we consider the rise
in all descriptions of commodities we
cease to be surprised at the scarcity of
money Notwithstanding the immense issues.
If the paper money, about 500 millions
now out, should be doubled next year,
the real supply of money would be much
less, and the rate of interest very high,
because all prices would relatively ad-
vance and absorb the paper.
Year: 1864

THE subscriber wishing TO change his business
L would offer hts Store for sale, together with a
lease the Store House present occupied by him.
which is we'll and favorably known 70 the public
for many years.


As is we'll known the business is good one, no
better in the city, and chance Is presented of
going into business not often presented.
can keep a portion of the stock on hand should
purchaser not want it all, a. I have branch
store in the country.


My stock is well assorted and is Just what is
wanted for the business, and is known the stock
On hand is becoming valuAb le every day it is
kept.


To those wishing to purchase, the terms will be
made known by application to


FW. BASSETT,
auRI1 2w No. 35 Main street.
Year: 1864

to part of itself; and this analogy led
them into endless mistakes about the eff
feet of the system of funding. They
were under an error no less serious touch
ing the resources of the country. They
made no allowance for the effect prodced
by the incessant progress of every exper-
mental science, and the incessaut efforts
of every man to get on in life. They saw
that the debt grew, and forgot that other
things grey as well as the debt
Year: 1864

The ENEMY's OPINION GENERAL BPAGG.-
The newspaper generals in the United and the Con-
tederate States do not to agree in their esti-
mates of General Bragg. The correspondent Of the
New York Times with Sherman's army thus writes
of general who is generally held up as the author,
and, in most cases, the nisher of all our disasters


will inform you of one thing certain in connec-
ton with Hood. There is person named Bragg at
work. His tactics cannot be mistaken He pounced
moving i'll column at Perryville nearly annhlated
it, and ran off at night lie made Rosecrans think
he was in Murfreesboro' awaiting attack, and in
the night crossed Stone river, marched his army
three miles, massed his left grabbed three thousand
men and twenty-four cannon from McCook, and
then pitched in and whipped our right, killing and
wonndng more than two-fifths of those who avoided
capture, and drove back half Of army four miles
At Clickamauga he again attacked our army
moving iii columns, with what result is well known


This same dodge WAS attempted the 20th and
I'D OF July, but upon each occasion cur army was
IN line Of battle The attack upon Logan on the
18th ultno did not far fall short. Had the enehy
withdrawn his skirmsh line but few moments
sooner the Fifteenth corps would have found itself
IN great Peril. As it was, as 1 have informed you
IN my account of the battle, the enemy all bat
struck us in the flank and rear.


1t Is an opinion long ago expressed, that General
Bragg is tho best man the enemy had in COM
mand of his army i'll the Southwest This fact is
the army despise Bragg because he is IA soldier He
is strict dsciplinaran. Had he not been, the re-
bel Army of Tennessee, composed of u lot of young
who were inclined to do as their fancy dictated,
would have been long ago destroyed by its own ele-
ments Of insubordination.
Year: 1864

AN Account FROM FoRr GAMEs.-Captain Dou-
glass vass, paymaster of the army left Fort Gaines
Saturday night at 10 o'clock in rowboat for Fort
Morgan, and arrived in Mobile Sunday night Ee
gives the following particulars Of the condition q
affairs when he left


On Thursday, a Yankee monitor approached the
fort on the gulf side and opened fire. Ike fort had
three l0-inch columtads and in the first shots in
reply to the monitor, two OF them were disinoted
and disabled by the breaking Of their carriages On
Friday, the fleet ran by Fort Morgan. Captain
Vass had a fine view of the whole scene and the
subsequent naval fight The rccumseh'sthe finest
monitor in the Yankee navy, went down almost IN
stantly q tremendous column of water being thrown
up around hcr-evidently the work of "a torpedo.


Her commander, Craven, was lost in her, for the
Yankee truce-boat inquired if he was among our
prisoners and finding he not they said he went
down with his ship. The same monitor which had
shelled the fort from the gulf side approached
to within half mile OF the wharf and opened again
There was but one lU-inch gun left to fight her. and
the carriage OF that gun soon became unsafe.


On Wednesday night, the Yankee troops, estima-
ted from 3, 900 to 5000, landed the island and
gradually approached to within four hundred yards
Of the fort. They had been confronted from the
front by line of skifmshers thrown out from the
fort The enemy had planted their batteries of light
Parrott guns a sand hill near the gulf shore,
another midway of the island i'll front OF the fort
and third on little Dauphn island. These, with
the monitor in the water front, were enabled to
bring fire to bear upon every part OF the work, and
With the AID OF sharpshooters, our men We're not
able to stand at their guns The bomb-proofs were
only capable of covering two hundred and fifty men
ont of the garrison; the rest were exposed to on-
bardmcnt. Up to the time Captain Vass left, the
commander, Colonel Anderson, had said nothing
about captulation; but he saw signs of demoralza-
ton in the garrison. Some of the officers expressed
decided opinions in favor of surrender they thought
the place would be taken and there would be a
frightf waste. of life to no purpose The men saw
little or hope of relief since the Tennessee e
was lost and they much exhausted by skrnishing
all day and working in the fort at night.


Captain Vass states that, up to the time he left,
Colonel Anderson behaved with great resolution and
spirit, sallantly exposing himself and urging his
line OF skirmishers to maintain its ground 1t was
the night after Captain Vass left that General Page
passed over to Fort Gaines. Captain Vass Is OF the
opinion that Fort Morgan will hold out as long as
its provisions do and that will be the best part Of
year


The Yankee fleet was badly crippled. Nearly
every ship is careened over, and the whole are
busily repairing. 1t is believed its losses are not
less than seven hundred and fifty
Year: 1864

GROWING CUCUMBERs.-Take large barrel or
hoSshead, saw it in two i'll the middle, and bury
each half in the ground with the top. Then
take small keg and bore nall hole in the bot
tom, place the keg i'll the centre of the barrel the
top even with the ground, and fill i'll the barrel
around the keg with fresh earth, suitable for the
growth of cucumbers. Plant your seed midway
between the edges of the barrel and keg, and
make a kind of arbor a foot OF two high for the
vines to run on. When the ground becomes dry,
pour water i'll the keg in the evening" it will pass
out Of the bottom Of the keg into the barrel and
rise up to the roots of the vines, and keep them
moist and green. Cucumbers cultivated in this
way will grow to a great size, as they are made
Independent both of drought and wet weather.
In wet weather the barrel can be covered, and III
dry weather the ground can be kept moist by pour
ing water in the keg.
Year: 1864

TEcHNICALITIfs OF MISISG.-'P W. A." the
correspondent of the Savannah Republican with
General Lees army, says:


There is confusion Of terms in the accounts that
have been published of these mining operations
The word sap, technical term we'll understood by
military engineers, has been improperly applied TO
the galley tunnel by which Grant gained point
below our works. A sap is a trench Oh the surface
OF the ground or an approach made to a fortified
place by digging up 10 IT, There are three kinds OF
saps: The single sap where the earth taken from
the trench is thrown up on the side next TO the
fort you are approachin9 thus reaching single par
aet the object OF which is to protect the sappers
and miners from the fire OF the fort the double sap,
which has paTapet on each side and the flying sap,
which is made with gabions, &c. A gabi0n is a hol-
low cylinder, of wicker work, resembling basket,
but having bottom, which is filled with eaIth and
serves to shelter the workmen from the enemys fire.
Bags of sand and bales OF cotton may be used for
the same purpose. gallery, on the contrary, is a
passage under ground, or, in simple language, tun-
mel, and Is used to reach awork designed to be
blown up. The chamber is the place where the pow
der is confined and is generally of a cubieal form


At Petersburg both parties resorted to the gallery
instead Of the sap, each commencing behind
his own breastWoiks, passing under them and across
the space intervening between the two armies.
Grant extended his gallery until he got under the
salient i'll our lines; there he constructed L cham
ber confined his powder, (saiI to be six tons, J
closed the chamber, then retired and sprung his
mine. Beauregard's gallery was carried only deep
enough and far enough to get under the new gallery
his antagonist digging The DIRT was carried
out by wheebafrows along the passage to its mouth
where it was deposited until the chamber was pre-
pared and the powder placed in it, when it was car
ried back and used in closing the chamber. II the
chamber is not closed eiectIally, the mine, instead
OF exploding vertically will force open the entrance
to the chamber and discharge itself along the gallery
and out at its mouth


The sap is employed chiefly against permanent
fortlicatIons which cannot be removed, and in the
operations against which, therefore, the sane se-
: lS RING
pally where conceaiment is desirable, 5tt Peters
burg where change of few feet in the position Of
troops the construction of an inner line would
have defeated the whole object sought to be
plished by the mine
Year: 1864

|, We have interesting details of the pursuit of the
rebel General Early by General Sheridan from Win
chester. General Early IS said to have stated be-
fore he left Winchester that he wholly detached
from General Lees army, and had kind of rowing
commission to 90 where he pleased, and that he
would be back again within five weeks.


The Americaa of the 10th says:


Advlces from the Shenandoah Valley place ol,r
advance, on Friday last, at Cedar creek about ten
miles beyond Winchester The rebels continued to
retreat, showing a strong rear guard. The position
OF the two armies Is close that battle may have
occurred this. Intelligence from General
Grants headquarters is that Lee has sent two di-
visions Of infantry and force of cavalry to rein
force the rebel column III the Shenandoah Valley.
This will probably make the rebel army in that re-
gion strong enough to give Sheridan battle should
he push his advance much further.
Year: 1864

The Cost OF LtvINs IN New YoRK.--A great dea,
is said, says the New York Freean's Journal about
the high price of every article now required i'll a
family for living. The consumer is paying an enor-
nous price for everything. Why is it Is it be-
cause all these articles have increased in value or is
it owing to the depreciation of currency Some sta
tistios which We find in the Albany argus have a
bearing upon the question. pound of tea valued at


fifty cents on the wharf in New York will cost thus
Year: 1864

The most important news have from this point
is that force Of the enemy is advancing from Pen
saeola towards Mobile bay. We had previously
heard this ruInor, but preferred to await its con-
Grmation before making it public. On the evening
Of thesl6th the enemy landed at Montross i'll five
launches, and our cavalry fred upon them, killing
two and wounding several. The enemy retired the
SAME night. Major-General Frank Gardner has
assumed command Of the District OF the Gulf
Hopes entertained of the early exchange of the
Dauphin Island prisoners, negotiations for that
purpose being in progress.
Year: 1864

Thus 1t Is that tie prices of imported goods have
been increased from fifty to hundred per centum
beyond the cost and duty by of the initiation
The war is costing full onethird more than it would
with gold at par, III the expression is not mis-
Year: 1864

We have information from Early's army as late as
Sunday last Our forces had been in line OF battle
for two days, but the Yankees, so far from mani-
Testing disposition to make attack appeared to
beswithdrawing from our immediate front There is
foundation for the that battle took place
Saturday, in which the enemy was repulsed with
considerable loss
Year: 1864

KEoRuIrs.-The business starts in
with much moderation this week, the rscsipts
o! this day being oil Of four They went In
to quarters at Camp Mcclellan.


A lot Of $50 recruits and about 80 strsgglsrs
and dssertsrs were sent Of to the field this
morning. There are about seven hundred yet