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Year: 1864




The Republican State Central Committee has
issued call inviting the Unconditional Union
Men of Indiana" to meet in convention, on the
22d day of February. in this city. How many
unconditional Union men can be found among
the Republicans OF Indiana7 Not Corporal's
guard. Ii one individual of that political faith
be found who is willing to restore or maintain
the Union except upon conditions. he will be a
rare bird indeed, aud curiosity worth exhibiting.
Even BARSUN. the prince of humbugs, would
give big price for him How many Republi.
cans can be found within the limits of this
Commonwe ealth who are entirely willing that
the rebel States shall be restored to their pos i
ton and rights in the Union as they were before
the rebellion, except upon the condition that
slavery shall be aboIished7 If the rebels should
lay down their arms and return to their alegi-
ance to the Constitution the unconditional Union
Internationally. bu: on the other hand, would
attempt to enforce their allegiance to the laws
Of Congress and the proclamations of the
President in reference to slavery. And
bow mary Republicans can be found who
would consent to an unconditional Union
with the rebel States, if the Administration of
the Government should pass into the hands of
the Democracy7 The meaning of the term
"Un. additional Union men" with the Republ-
cans is, unconditional allegiance and submission
to Republican rule. Republican paper before
US says, and it speaks the common sentiment of
the Republican party, mo peace until negro
slavery is abolished throughout the rebel States" /"
and ga Government represented and controlled
by honest. loyal and free-labor men" Here it is
admitted that there can be no Union, so far as
the Republican party is concerned, except upon
the condition that slavery is abolished
throughout the rebel States and the Government
controlled by who? Loyal men. is the answer
and no one is loyal ia Republican estimation. but
those who will fall down aud worship ABRAHAM
aud the party he represents. The term "uncon-
ditional Union men, is unconditional hum
bug-it is a faIsshood so transparent that il can
deceive none but those who look through a
glass darkly, unwilling to arrive at a knowledge
Of the truth. The very name of the Admnstra-
ton party is based upon error aud deception: it
obtained power through fraud and seeks to per
petuate its rule through the same agencies that
error obtained foothold upon earth
Year: 1864

This analysis is embodied in the re-
port of the Legislative Committee be-
fore mentioned, and is, of course, "by
authority" the brine from several
other wells is included in the table,
but we give that of Lee & Leavitts as
fair test, not having space for ALL
MANY other and still moro favorable
analyses have been made but the test
of experience, as well as that Of
science has demonstrated that unless
the grossest bungling is permitted
there is no difficulty in making the
purest quality of salt from Saginaw
brine. glf


The experience of tho past year has
also demonstrated that the West must
furnish market for our saline produc-
tons as it does for large portion of
our lumber. Over nine tenths Of all
the salt sold on the river in 1868 was
shipped to Chicago; some small lots
sent to Toledo, Cleveland and interior
of Ohio and the balance TO Detroit
The strife between Onondaga and Sag
inaw will be fortIiism market, and there's
ampls need Of united, harmonious and
intelligent management on the part oi
salt makers here if they expect to
compete successfully with that power
full corporation, even admitting as does
tho report Of tho aforesaid Legislative
Committee that ''from the cheapness
of production Saginaw Salt can be sold
Year: 1864

In the absence of fuller dispatches which
are as yet suppressed by the Secretary of the
Navy, we give elsewhere to-day, Admiral
DuPoSr's letter TO the Department in vindi-
cation of himself.
Year: 1864

The payment OF the interest on the
public debt at the United States Treas.
ury office in New York, on Monday
last, was q refreshing and exciting sight.
The Times saws the holders Of the five
twenties were present in great force;
they had been notified fifteen days pre-
Yiously that the gold was ready, and
waiting 70 pay their lst Of May inter
est bus hundreds of them waited until
Monday before presenting their coU-
pons. This loan constituted about two
thirds the present funded, gold bearing
stocks Of the United States The MAY
and November payments are the most
important of the year. The immediate
instalment is Sl4,260,000 in gold Largo
as this sounds, we may add that
the customs revenue. specifically pledg-
ed for the gold interest on the funded
debt, amounted to over fourteen mil
lions in the month Of April alone, at
the port of New York The previous
accumulation of gold in the Treasury
from the same source was double this
sum For the fiscal year the customs
will more than double the gold interest
upon the entire fund, d debt This
debt, exclusive Of the new 1910 years
FIVE per cent loan, Is S76S, 100000 The
present interestcharge in gold upon
this amount is S47, 1885, 600 This viii
be reduced next year 10 S46, 100000 By
the conversion Of the 7-3J per cent into
six per cent stocks IL viii be reduced
after the war 10 S4l, 100000, BY the re-
duction Of the $40 years six per cent
into a per cent stock; ii not $4,000
900 by is reduction into a per cent
stock The holders of the popular loans
felt comfortable in receiving their half
yearly income in gold They do not
mean to hold or hoard it. but, convert
ed into currency, il will purchase q
much larger amount OF the necessaries
and luxuries OF life than any other
class of income. Besides. this way Of
investing what Is called the redundan-
cy Of greenbacks, relieves all apprshen-
sion Of coming 20 want from the depre-
citation Of the currency as no other
source Of income will As the difference
now stands between gold and currency,
a per cent stock Of the United States
pays lOf per cent; a per cent stock,
such as the new 1910 loan now open 70
subscription at par, pays per cent
Reducing the former % y per cent, and
the latter at 8 per cent by the decline
in gold, the result would be more favor
able than on three-fOurths the railway
and other stocks and bonds now dealt
in st the stock exchange at premium
Aside, therefore, from motives OF pub
lie spirit, every one who has a surplus
at bank, or q redundancy of greenbacks
in his pocket, will do well to study his
true interest in subscribing 70 the gold
bearing stocks of the Government,
which, during the war, make sure Of a
fixed income in gold, and which, on tho
conclusion Of the war will command .
premium in gold over their cost in cur
rency.
Year: 1864

Your readers do not know the mean
ing of that word "desolation," from any
thing they find in lexicons, but it is
legibly written and terribly defined
along the face of all these regions, as
upon a page. To this blessed sun, that
does so much for you, gardens make no
answer and fields are dumb; orchards
blossom in loneliness around deserted
dwellings; the winding path to tho
spring has grown dim flowers. Onco
pets of the household, are safe from the
little hands of children that shall covet
them no more. Two SUNDAYS ago. had
you strolled beyond the picket line to
certain point where Mission Ridge
trends away to the South, YOU would
have come upon an old homestead
standing where once q garden smiled"
the ruined, fenceless grounds lying
blank and bare. 1t was a lovely morn
ing, and the sun brought out the pic
ture painfully; the silent threshold, the
orchard standing like broken ranks az
ter battle. You strike upon the door,
and it returns hollow sound like a
clod upon a coffin-lid And yet the
birds, brave in the loneliness, sang all
the same a poor, old horse, was feeb-
ly grazing near by, and man sat on
the ground by the angle Of the wall,
reading. A few words told the story
that man was once the head Of the
vanished hourehOld, Of that LITTLE farm,
there had once been more than
enough to say "Ours" A son whom he
had educated, became principal of
the Academy at Rome, was eCnscripted,
and his fate unknown. Stripped of all
garner empty, fields unsown, the little
band wandered away and now be came,
that pleasant morning, on a lonely pill
grimage; TO linger out the day around
what was the very cenotaph, the empty
burial place, of dear, old home or
how much tender and delicate senti-
ment those scattered and stroWn IN
mates were possessed, l cannot tell
Probably not much, and it was better
so, for if 3od does not always temper
the wind to the shorn laHlb," he some
times gifts them with tough endurance.
B F. Taylor.
Year: 1864

A tall trsctable staff officer at the
front, noted for sentimentality and
susceptibility, overcome By the raw
ishing description of Bacchus' spride
by his favorite poet, LongfslloW, suf
tered himself to imbibe so freely Of
Sparkling Catawba that a state of
blissful Inconsistencies ensued Re
covering from the stupefaetion slightly,
and possessed still by confused remem-
brances of the beautiful poem, he pen
ned under the inspiration of the ethe-
real beverage his experience on a
drunk. The manuscript was feloniously
obtained before the recovery Of the
author, and we doubt whether he viii
recognize his offspring.


The spree is through, and the daylight


Streams on my tenantless bed
As a sudden cold descendeth


On some o'erheated head.
I see the hotel walters


Sweeping the dusty hall,
And feeling Of nausea comes O'er me,


And-my spirits suddenly fail
A feeling Of sickness and nausea


That is somewhat akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only


As the froth resembles champagne.
Then mix for me some potion,


Some simple and cooling drink,
That shall edse this restless headache


And give me strength to think.
Not from the brandy bottle;


Not from that LIQUOR rcd


Whose restless thrObbings echo


Like thunder through my head;
For, like ipecac and SIENNA,


Its mOckIng lips suggest


A night of endless spreeing,


And this morn long to rest.
But choose some milder potion,


That under a SUMMER cline
Has ripened into nectar


And been christened Sparkling Wine" {"
Such drinks appease the stomach


When other drink 10 shuns,
And comes like the loan Of a hundred


When fellows oppressed with duns.
Then take from the treasured basket


The bottle Of thy choice,
Ald let me hear as it's opened


The popping of its voice.
And the morn shall be passed in cocktails,


And the cares of the early day,
Like disappointed collectors,


shall silently steal away.
Year: 1864

The New York correspondent Of the
Boston JOurnsl thus relates how the pro-
cIamatisn hoax was stepped from gOing
abroad, at least without sn sntidots- It
will be seen that nothing but the vigilance
and activity Of the United States officials
prevented this document from starting
without truth for competitor, upon its
errand Of mischief: -.f,


HThe steamer had left her dock for Eu-
rope before its bogus character was fully
known. AsWift sailing steamer vas sent
after her, which overlook her. Every pa
per was removed except those in the
hands Of passengers. An instrumant was
drawn up exposing the forgery, and placed
in the hands Of trusty citissns on beard,
which is to be telegraphed to London on
the arrival Of the YES 81"
Year: 1864

General Crooks Expedition -7i


We publish letter this morning from
our correspondent with tho 2Sd regiment
giving the first full account Of the great
movement in Western Virginia, which has
yet been made public. The letter is writ
ten with detail and desCripiiVsness which
will add much TO its value. The statements
msy be regarded Is perfectly reliable.
Year: 1864

Governor Deunis0n President Of the BRIti


more Convention.


We cordially second the motion Of our
evening cOtenpOrsry that Governor Den
nison shall be the President Of the Bslti-
more Convention. There is no man in the
State Of Ohio who could more worthily,
and with more homer to the State fill that
position. Let Ohio fill the position.
Year: 1864

IT ELI TREAT, once again would inform 9D his old customers who have SO liberaly patronized him during the past twelve years that he has sold the Store he now occupies and it will change tenants on the first of Octe- Der next. The next six months he will devote his time to selling off his entire Stock of goods. Let no one entertain doubt, as to the fact that his goods are to be sold out entire within the next six months. Every person is interested in this sale at this present time, particularly where goods in market rule SO enormously high, especially when they are assured that almost nine tenths of his stock was purchased before the advance.

 If anybody wishes to cut the Corners they now have an opportunity. as the Goods will be sold out entire. Every thing except Fixtures will be sold at private sale, if possible, and if any thing remains, the Auction hammer will close up tho balance.

 J. ELI TREAT. New Milford April l. 1884, tf52
Year: 1864

The best Tonic Bitter ever offered to the Public. Mingled with the rich flavor of the Bourbon are number of other ingredients TOT restoring the appetite and imparting life and vigor to the whole system.
Year: 1864

rsaect that sound mind and body are the most


sary requisites to promote connublal happiness. In
deed, without these the journey hrough life becomes
weary pilgrimage the prospect nouriy dafEens TO the
view; the mind becomes shadowed with despair ant
filled with the melancholy reflection that the happiness


.rokbar baoopo hi ted VIII onr own, f
Year: 1864

"Burleigh" of the Boston journal,
thus describes the appearance of Gen.
Grant aud his wife in New York:


General Grant was dressed in a new
and elegantly fitting uniform Of his
rank. No likeness that have seen
does him justice. His face is bronzed,
but his eye is keen. His form is slim,
and his stature is a little un der size
but all in fuc proportion, Mrs. Grant
is quiet and lady-like in her manners
She was dressed in modern travelling
costume, and seemed to be uverse to
parade or ceremony, and is evidently
more at home amid her domestic duties
than in crowd of sight -soers looking
for lions. A plain straw bonnet,
trim med with green ribbon, and large
wooden travelling shawl over gray al
paca dress, completed her costume"
Year: 1864

To be woman Of fashion is one OF
the easiest things in the world. A late
writer describes it thus ..,.


"Buy all you don't want, and don't
pay for anything you do. Smile on all
mankind but your husband. Be happy
every where but at home. Hate the
country but adore the city. Nurse lap
dogs, and 90 to church every time you
get a new shawl" --|.
Year: 1864

A young and singularly beautiful
girl, not yet sixteen years of age, who
six months ago was petted as a beauti-
full and brilliant scholar, with every ad-
vantage that wealth and influence could
secure, was an inmate of the New Haven
station house on Friday last. Twice
has she escaped to New York, and a
second time has been rescued and
brought home to her friends, who have
tried Intellectually to reform her. "
Year: 1864

The Oneida County Medical Society of
the State of N. York, has adopted a reso-
luton to the effect that tubercular con-
sumption is the most prolific cause Of NOR
tality in the whole catalogue of diseases ;
that its percentage of victims is steadily
on the increase that the disease is the
legitimate sequel to continued violation


eff or indifference to, known physiOlogi-
cal laws, and therefore, recommends the
establishment of chair Of physiology s.
hygiene in each of our academies and col
leges, to be filed by men thoroughly ed
ueated in those branches of science.
Year: 1864

MANY years since the Chief Of the
Senecas, very powerful nation of In
dians, brought to the eminent Dr.. Cha
pin, quantity of medicine, WHICH he
wished the Doctor to take and try its
effects on cases of dyspepsia, whieh he
did With the most perfect success.
Some time elapsed and the few that
hid been benefited by the medicine
became clamorous for more, which the
Doctor was unable to supply. Shortly
after, the chief Red Jacket, made his
appearance, when the Doctor was able
to get from him the names and proper
tions of the ingrelients used in the
bitters which he used in his practice
many years, adding only few herbs to
make them more pa,atable. These
Di,ters are now put up in quart bot
ties and offered to the public the
formula being assigned to the present
proprietors and sold by all druggists
throughout the country. Call for the
Red jacket" Stomach B!tters and
axe no other.
Year: 1864

Editorial generals are spcculating
on the movements Of Sherman. lie is
going somewhere, and these generals
seem anxious to tell where, and effect
Information they don'C possess. Af
ter full consideration, We haye come to
the conclusion that we know as much
as they do, and that we know nothing
about it. We guess le is off some
where. and the rebels may beware Of
him, for he is entorprisiug and sharp
Nee' not be uneasy about him or his
army; they know how to take care Of
themselves. Sherman can manage his
side h.r way, and his enemies side. too
if they don't look out well. These edi.
torial and telegraph generals: however,
know nothing about it. They affect to
be posted up, but they are not. 1t is
very probable that current rumor
points just to the place he is not 90
ing to; for he is net likely to divulge
his plans to the enemy; and he NIGH,
just as we'll send them to Richmond
as to let these editorial generals get a
hint of them.
Year: 1864




The news Of Governor Bramlette's pro-
test against the enlistment Of slaves in
Kentucky, contained in dispatch this
msrning, created considerable excitement
among politicians. The feeling among
Union members Of Congress is strongly in
favor of bold and manly policy in Ken
tucky, and it is believed the President can
not and will not recsde from the position
he has taken. 1t is not seen why Ken
tucky should be treated in any other way
different than other Border Slave Slater.
Kentucky members insist that there is
some mistake about the dispatch, and deny
that Brsmlette can have taken any such
position as is attributed 10 him.


CONGRESSIONAL.


The Committee on Ways and Means
finally reversed its decision, transmitted
last night, and refused to. day to report the
amendment to the National Bank bill au-
thorizing the issue Of one, two and three
dollar notes.


The House Naval COMMITTEES is back
from Connecticut looking decidedly the
worse for wear.


Il is understood that the Senate will not
Year: 1864

The resolutions of the Chicago Board Of
Trade submitted to the Senate represent
the necessity for military protection Of our
Lake region and transportation, and also
of rapidly increasing the agricultural pro-
ducts Of the West, and Of the immediate
construction of the Niagara Falls Ship
Canal
Year: 1864

FELLOW CITIZENS: I candidate for your suf-
frages at the ensuing election for Sheriff in the
County of Union. My connection with the army how
ever, has for months removed me from that fam
liar with you that would generally be de-
sirable But, trusting that l may have due allow
ance for this seeming inconvenience, with a view to
repeated expressions of desire that should become
a candidate have consented to do so-though under
vastly different circumstances from those which sur
rounded four years ago. Many of you have realized
the hards!ips Of and the dangers of battle but
without recalling the past let look hopefully the
future and permit me, in grateful acknowledgements
of the yors received at your hands then, with many
others previous TO that time, to ask your cordial sup
port If elected will what industry and
ability possess fulfill the obligations of the Office
in such as, hope, may ever be satisfactory
to you. On the contrary, if j am not elected shall
consider that you have Gone wrong and that
have right to criticse because your suffrages
against me. But am fully sensible of the distinction
conferred by being elected to the position for which
candidate, and shall be proud to receive your
shall be earnest and faithful prove
myself worthy of the responsible trust imposed by the
And, in conclusion, allow me to hope you will
remember your friend, and on the day of election
ticket for the same. w. H. COLLINS,


Co. A, 4th N. c. Cavalry,


March %, 1864 pd Gordon's Brigade
Year: 1864

DlsTILLINa CoRN.-We regret to learn that
several distiller;es in full blast in Iredel
ty, converting corn into whisky. This ought not
to be- If the corn shall be destroyed in this man.
ner, what are the people to do for bread? We are
now completely cut of from the South, by the tear
ing up of portion OF the Charlotte Railroad,
whence We formerly could obtain corn, and several
months may eapse before harvest, with an uncer-
tainty OF the wheat cror. Humanity as well as
PATRIOTISM ought to put restraint upon dstillers
OF corn into whisky, at least until another crop is
made. Those who are so fortunate as to have corn
for sale, are equally guilty Of high crime with
distilers, if they part with their for any such
purpose, for any price that might be offered. Nor,
should they regulate their prices for corn to those
who want it for bread, by the rates which disill-
ers might be willing to pay. Humanity, pleads in
this behalf, not we.-StatesoiWe Erpress.


If you were to apply to some of those men who
are having corn turned into whiskey, to buy lit
tie for bread, you would hear the doeful tale that
they did not have enough for their own use.
Year: 1864

Our terms $40 in the issue or SIS in the
old We have pay issue for the printing paper
we buy and therefore must change the old for is
sue, SIS included $5 in the old issue pays for four
months subscription.


B The Democrat sciI be discoataauedfo att su6scri-
6ers at the expiration Of the time for hich it paid
Those soho wan to continue must before atthe
Piration Of their tune.
Year: 1864

"There is very bitter quarrel now raging
among the friends of the parties as to whether
Gilmore or Dahlgren is responsible for the failure
to capture Charleston. We do not imagine that
the responsibility for the failure to take that city
rests so much with either as it does with Beaure-
gard. 1t is he, and not the commanders of the
Federal land and naval forces, who is blame for
the result which has attended operations in the
vicinity of Charleston. Upon him should rest the
oboquy arising from the fact that Charleston is
not to-day undergoing course of publication at
the hands of Butler
Year: 1864

GEMS OF THOUGHT. flame only
fame worth possessing is the good opinion
Of the good and wise.


Those we love. While those we love
are living We converse with them through
the flowers; when dead through the stars.


Utility and Beauty. mingle the
useful with the beautiful is the highest
style Of art. The one adds grace the 9TH
er value.


Lasting Friendship. TO be Influenced
by passion for the same pursuits, and to
have similar dislike, is the rational ground.
work of lasting friendship.


Kindness. Write your name by kind.
ness, love, and mercy on the hearts of the
people you como in contact with year bv
year, and you will never be forgotten.


Conversation is q very serious matter.
There are men with whom an hours talk
would weaken one more than days fast
ing.


Truth.-There are some faults slight in
the sight Of love, some errors slight in the
estimate of wisdom; but truth forgives
no insult and endures no stain.


Be Steadfast. not vaciIlatiug in
your purposes; let not every bright me.
teor that shoots across your path attract
you to new aims. This would be to make
your life but as whirling sands borne
about by every tickle wind.
Year: 1864

I'll tell you now Of another very good
joke, new invention, an improved
cartel They had q cart with which
they used 70 haul away the refuse and
dirt from the camp IL proved q useful
cart. We began after while, TO look
upon il a. the usefuleat cart in the