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Year: 1863

SLowNEss OF Our PRIZE CouRTs-GRumrNG
FROM ABRoAD.-We see that the Marquis of Clan.
ricardo has brought forward In the House Of
Lords the grievances to which British owners
are subjected by the unaccountable prolixity
of the proceedings in the American prize courts.
We ourselves have on several occasions remon.
strated against the impolicy Of such tediousness,
inasmuch as il tends to damp the zeal Of the
officers and men Of our blockading force. The
statement made by Lord Clanricarde, that quite
number Of vessels which had been seized and
brought into port as far back as fifteen months
ago had not asyet been adjudicated upon, Is
unfortunately quite true. II Is impossible to
obtain satisfactory explanation of the causes
of such procrastination. When captured YES
sells are sent into port all the evidence that Il
necessary to their condemnation is sent with
them. The usual plea for delay in legal suits
the difficulty Of procuring testimony-does not
therefore hold good in their regard. II in their
papers and cargo sufficient cannot be found to
proceed upon, then the case is at an end, and
they should be promptly released II, on the.
contrary, the evidence Is conclusive, there Is
still less excuse for delay. 1t Is unjust and op-
pressive towards oil concerned, and Is the more
inexcusable from the fact that the public inte-
rests suffer from It. We expect that the inouI-
rics which are being prosecuted into the conduct
Of certain officials connected with these courts
will furnish clue TO Il. Unless an explanation
Is TO be found In the evidence thus taken. wc
confess We ere & q Les where toeeek for It
Year: 1863

the tire OF patriotism we again irnplore the Pres-
nent to yield to the well ascertaned public DESIRE
now demonstrated by another disaster to be prop
eriy founded and dismiss incompeteney from all
commando


General Bragg knows and feels the complaints
tnat are public against him, and this fact causes
MIN TO be over cautous-the responsibility oppres-
ses MS military capacity, and man, weighed
down as he is, can have that command of all his
faculties SO necessary in the trying ordeal We
ieei for him The greatest sympathy, we know him
TO De patriotic, and earnestly struggling to do his
best; but circumstances, which perhaps he could
not control have operated to impair his usefulness.
Why further compromise the cause and endanger
the Gulf States by retaining him in commands By
consulting the public wish, now almost an open
outcry the President will start the struggle for lib
erty with new impetus, and every man, as one re-
heved from an oppressive burden, will start fresh
and buoyant in the contest that is yet before us.


The retention of General Bragg by the President
dishesrtens The people, by forcing upon them the
impression that there is but one man, and that is
General Bragg, in whom the President reposes con-
hdence for the command of the important Army of
the Tennessee. Reduced to one General, the people
cannot realize that astounding factl After three
years OF war, that no officer but General Bragg in
the Southwest retains the confidence of the Presi-
dent, alarms the public and unless this impression
is speedily removed, will engender despair. Penn.
berton's disaster at Yicksburg nearly broke the
public heart and Bragg at Chattanooga will greatly
depress the spirit of the people and when they see
that both of these unlucky and unfortunate com.
mahders are shielded and protected by the Presi-
dent they cannot look upon the fact as otherwise
than as contemptuous disregard of public senti-
ment- We will not so construe it. but hope that
this last disaster will convince the President that
change is Immediately demanded-Rich Enquirer.


The above language is plain, and very much to
the point. IT, zoe had written it We should have
been charged by the Destructves with being a trai-
tor. But it is the language of the Enquirer, and
we fear it is true.
Year: 1863

The brief communication we publish to-day, over
the signature of "One of the People," expresses the
views and wishes of large majority Of the people
of the State. We know the writer WELL He is
gentleman of substance and character, and would
advise no step designed or calculated to cripple the
Confederate government or tarnsh the fair fame Of
our State


Our views on this subject, expressed in July and
August last, have been strengthened by subsequent
events. The epeople Of this State desire that some
effort shall be made to close the war on honorable
terms They believe that mere fighting will not
end it but that negotiations must be resorted to in
aid of the sword. Far be it from us to attempt to
dictate to the peoples representatives. but our sit
nation is such to enable us to collect public SEN
hment from all portions of the State, and we say
most respectfully to members of the Legislature that
II they shall adjourn and return to their consti
tuents without making some effort to initiate nego
tlatlons, they will be held to serious accountable
w. Noo IS the time TOR craftsmanship and moral
courage. There are members of both houses of the
General Assembly who possess not only moral cour.
age IN high degree but information and experience


statesmen, which could be brought to bear in this


~ 'Ss IN such way as to meet the expectations Of


Ue people IN paving the way to an honorable peace
%ere IN better condition to negotiate three


Otus rO ago Ihan we now and it is not certain
.lat VIC N1Il achieve great victories and thus i'm.
our Solultlon in this respect during the next
..too lion'Ls' Uolden moments are flying. five


"a ~ " iiesotia'e and fail, we shall be no worse
OH than we are now. We mar snccea6 hnt ;f We
fail after an honest and earnest c1ort ON naonIo
Will then know what is IN reserve for tbon op irin
band together as one man TO meet the enemv and
tight to the last ~
Year: 1863

A CHANGE DEMANDED.-Every body is satisfied
with Gen. Lee, and every body is dissatisfied with
Gen. Bragg,-and every body, with the exception
of few partizsns, is dissatisfied with the majority
of the Cabinet at Richmond. Ifpublic opinion were
as much respected and potent in the Confederate
States as it is in England, the Cabinet would have
been changed and improved long since. 1t is in
dispensable to the success of the cause that the
President should eviEce better and higher qualities
himself as the head of the government or that he
should change his constitutional advisers. Let the
Legislatures of the States now in session, call upon
him to change his advisers and his policy. 1t may
be too late three months hence
Year: 1863

A DANGEROUS AND ODIoUs ScHENR.-The Fay
etteville O6serUsr true TO its disposition to favor
and benefit the few at the expense Of the many, en-
dOrses the proposition made to the country by
Convention of bank officers in Augusta, Georgia,
to issue and sell coupon bonds of the Confederate
government for one thousand millions of dollars
the interest," sixty millions of dollars, to be paid in
gold and silver or in the coupons, and the people
to be taxed annually to raise this amount in coin.
This is, indeed precious scheme to make the rich
richer and the poor poorer and to place the power
of taxation in the hands of the few to grind the
many in the earth. No doubt millions would at
once be invested in these bonds by capitalists and
the harvest would be a rich ore for brokers, and
for those government contractors, Of cotton
and wool factories, aud others who have made for
tunes during the war out of the necessities and
miseries of the people; but the farmers, and work
ing, men, and mechanics, and those who live on
small salaries and incomes including the families of
officers and soldiers in the field, would have to
raise the coin to pay this tax, and their property
would be sold under the hammer if they could not
obtain the specie. And how could they obtain it?
Will the Observer tell usH Is there enough specie
in the country to pay this taxi We doubt it
Two years ago the great bulk of the cotton in the
Confederate States could have been purchased by
the government at ten cents per pound. If the
President and Secretary of the Treasury had pos.
sessed ordinary foresight they would have pur-
chased this cotton and woudh have had solid basis
for the issues of Confederate money. They might
have had millions of sterling to their credit in Eu-
rope. But no-the war was to be a short one
secession if not peaceable to be nearly so and
the cotton, which is equal to specie, would not be
needed. And now the great body of the people,
whose interests have thus been neglected and who
are growing poorer every day. are to be called upon
to raise the gold to pay the interest these bonds
to be purchased by capitalists 1t is an odious and
dangerous scheme, and we trust there is enough
common sense and common justice in Congress to
ensure its prompt rejection.
Year: 1863

The STATE PRINTING. When we undertook the
public printing we did not expect to realize any
profits from it, but such has been the advance in
prices during the last six or eight months that we
have been and are now losing money by it. We
pay, for example, seventy, five cents per thousand
ems for composition while the law allows us but
sixty.two and half cents. We do not suppose that
any member Of the General Assembly would have
US lose money by the work, and certainly we do not
ask nor expect profits from it. All we ask is that
we may be saved from actual loss and if the Legis-
lature will appoint committee to investigate the
matter, believe that justice both to the State and
to the printer will be DONE We have endeavored
to perform duty State Printer faithfully, and
shall continue to do so whether the prices fixed by
law many years ago shall be increased or not
Year: 1863

The SITUATION IN GEORGIA, VIRGINIA AND Ten
NEssEE.-At the time Of writing this we are without
details of the great battle fought last week between
Gen. Bragg's forces and those of the enemy under
Gen. Grant 1t seems that the conflict was pro-
onged and desperate, and that forces were grad
ually driven from Lookout Mountain, left centre
in confusion, and that Gen. Bragg has fallen back
to the old battle ground of Chickamauga, which is
some eight miles from Chattanooga. His headquar
ters were at Ringgold about fifteen miles from that
place 1t is reported that Gen. Bragg lost some six
or seven thousand prisoners. His loss in killed and
wounded must have been heavy, as well as that of
the enemy. There is no doubt that he was over
whelmed by numbers; and this fact with the want
of confidence in him by both officers and men, has
been the cause of serious disaster to our arms. We
trust however, when the details are received that
the disaster will not appear so serious as it now
does.


There have been indications for week or two past
of general battle on the Rapidan. The enemy
were believed to Se crossing in great force the
9th, at Germanna and Ely's fords, and it was
thought the conflict would take place in the neigh
borhood of Charlottesville. We have strong hopes
OF fortunate result based on the veteran courage
and indomitable resolution of Gen Lees army, and
also on his peculiar fitness for his position as CON-
mander.inchief; but we confess we are not without
apprehensions, when we reflect upon the greatly
superior force which the enemy will bring to bear
against him.


1t was reported that Gen. Burnside had surren-
dered Knoxville to Gen. LOngstreet, but the Knox
vile Register of the oath leaves the impression
that the rumor is unfounded Gen Burnside is
said to be in Knoxville with some twelve or fifteen
thousand men, strongly fortified, and Gen. Long
street must take the place, if at all, by storm
Generals Wheeler and Ransom are said to be in
positions in which they assail Burnside with
advantage if he should attempt to escape by Cum
berland Gap. Buff Gen. Longstreet should decide
to storm Knoxville, or should attempt it and
fail he will be compelled in all probability TO re-
tire by way of Bristol to Virginia
Year: 1863

Owing to the increase in prices and the continued
dsnrociston of the currency, are compelled again
- ADVANCE our terms The Weekly Standard VIII
L..oofter he four dollars for six MONTHS and the
Semi Weekly six dollars for six months.


We are now paying for paper to print on seventy
FIVE cents per pound; before the war we PAID ten
cents per pound. Nearly every thing else required
70 carry on our business has advanced and IS ad-
v.ncinr in proportion. We regret to have to make
this advance, but our readers will see that we can
not continue the Standard at former prices with
out falling in debt.
Year: 1863

Madame" syid John Randolph to
lady deeply int>rested in the strug-
giles and sufferings C the Greeks, the
Greeks are at your do>r |" So do we
say to every patriot Your work lies
directly before you. Let an effort be
made 10 place at least one l,yal news
paper in every household wi ere it will
be welcomed and read. Perhaps one
half of those who now do without, do
so from mere hecdlessness they only
need to have their attention. called to
the subject. Many will realty pay
the trihe that weekly cw2paper
costs if each one is solicited to 90 so
by friend in whom he has confidence.
If there be any who cannot pay for
such paper, they ought to be sup
piled by their more fortunate neigh
bors and townsmen without charge.
Even though it be n widows family
of boys who are not to vote for seve-
raj years, they should be supplied,
with view to their qualification for
the wcighty trust of electors when
they arrive at the proper age.
Year: 1863

Genuine fun at times gets into the
church. In one of our meetings, in


which petitions from all sorts of per-
sons are read for all sorts of things.
one was read for "a young woman
who had lost her first love- In the
meeting was person who frequently
took part, whose habit il was 10 add
eel" after some words, such as Z" d
Lord-er " Hear our prayer-er ;"
Come and bless us-er." Being q
believer in falling from grace, he had
an eye To the young woman who had
lost her first love he arose To pray
for her, which he did in this manner
80 Lord, hear the prayer--er of this
young womau-er who has lost her
first torer." In each repetition of the
word he called 1T lover" and SO en-
phasized the word first" the case
seemed particularly hard from the
fact that it was her first lover she
lost. Had it been the second one, or
any other, the aflliction would not
have seemed SO great and AS the ar
dent prayer went forth that the lost
lover might be restored, grave faces
relaxed, and counienances unused to
smile IN the house OF the Lord could
not resist the temptation. Tie idea
OF stray lover being the theme of
prayer was comical indeed. No Que
could keep his face straight. ."'
Year: 1863

tablets, obeiisks and monuments ofev-
cry size and style. A favorite form
with the wind-sculptor was a shallow
urn erected on flnted column, this
shape being apparently explained on
close inspection by the greater tenaci-
ty Of the surface of the conglomerate
through an excess Of iron oxides in its
composition, this portion yielding more
slowly to attrition, while the more
friable lime and sand in the lower
portion Of the block were rapidly cut
away into roundncss. We found it
as difficult at first sight 90 conceive of
Nature as the sculptor of this ceme-
terry as we had to acknowledge her
architect of the castle.


GARDEN OF THE GODS.


As we whirled down the splendid
floor of the valley (for, like all the
roads in Colorado, it is rather floor
than highway We were closely walled
upon the right and left by successive
tablets of red aud creamy rock, thin
strata of gorgeously coIored schis,,
which the molten outburst of the gran
ite sierra had raised from their origin
al planes to an absolute perpendicular
We have nothing like these in the
East. Metaphor alone describes them.
They are not sandstone. They are a
strange porcelain from tie pottery Of
the gnones--a composite rock, part
clay, part lime, part hint-sand, the
white paste of grit mixed with cal
careous powder fine as gypsum dust.
and indeed running into beautiful gyp-
sum beds close by ; the red still far
ther complicated by mixtures Of OK
ides and smoothly ground aluminium.
Fancy rock strata, thus composed. ris-
ing abruptly fro,a the fiat 500 feet pre-
cipitous on both their broadsides, and
no thicker in proportion to their alti-
tude than the plain tablets of grave
yard fancy them still further polished
py the whirling sand ofthis wind-swcpt
territory, until their surfaces shine
white marble or pure blood red jasper,
and their edges weathered into all
manner of curious profiles, here simu-
lating griffin, here Goddess of Lib
erty, here an eagle and dolphin sup
porting a shield after the old heroic
style, and everywhere some strange
likeness which needs no vivid imagi-
nation to decipher its meaning: fancy
two of the largest red tablets set Wis.
avis to make gateway whose lin
tel towers four hundred feet against the
sky, framing a distant view of Pixies
blue forehead between them, and in one
of these vast portal abutmcnts chan
mel out painful access but expand
ing 10 a hall one hundred feet IN length
then, if you can have imagined it,
you will have the best idea which |
can give yon of "The Garden of the
Gods" For this is the beftting name
of the valley through which we pass
down to Colorado City.
Year: 1863

FAIRBANKS ScALEs-E. & T. Fair
banks * Co, the original inventors ef
these scales, have given their constant
personal attention for more than thirty
three years to improving and perfect
ing them, and adapting them to the
various uses for which scales are wan
ted, till they have come to be very
generally regarded in this and most
foreign countries, as the standard scales.
At the same time that they have
brought their scales to very high
degree OF perfection as TO quality,
they have been able, by their long ex-
perience in the business, the complete
system they have introduced into all
branches of it, and their uneqnalled
facilities in all respects for carrying it
on, to offer them at lower prices than
others of equal size and strength.
Year: 1863

1t was our good fortune to be pres
ent at the close of the last term of this
hourishing institution, and we were
greatly pleased with the evidencrs Of
improvement both in the Exam ina
tons through the day and exercises
in the evening. 1t gives us pleasure
to record our testimony in favor of the
evident advancement this school is
making towards that thoronghness in
mental culture which can alone truly
benefit it pupils or give it promi-
nence as an efficient school of learn
ing Usage Standard.
Year: 1863

In the report of the State Board of
Agriculture for Ohio, it is stated that
the number of sheep killed by dogs in
1862 was 36,77s, and during the same
period "a 1912 were injured, the total
value of the canine destruction being
$l39,347.
Year: 1863

One great reason for Maximilian's
hesitation about accepting the Mexi-
can throne is said to arise from finan-
cial embarrassment. He has young
and pretty wife who uses up his spare
change with perfect looseness. Not
the only man that has been ruined by
n pretty wife.
Year: 1863

1t is stated by manufacturers Of ar
tificial wooden limbs, that they make
eight left legs for soldiers to two
right, and about the same proportion
Of right arms to left ones, showing
that about four times as many lose
left legs as right, and four right arms
to one left.
Year: 1863

The Ninth Iowa CAvALRY.-There
are now thirteen hundred men at Camp
Roberts for the Ninth Cavalry, and
more are expected. Thus it will be
seen that the regiment is full and some
TO spare. The organization of the
regiment will soon be perfected, when
some Of the men recruited are likely
10 be weeded out, but plenty will re-
main TO form good regiment.
Year: 1863

As the horse car was passing the
cemetery gate at West Troy, a few
evenings since, ghost" came ont
Of the cemetery and got upon the plat.
form of the car. The conductor took
to his heels without stopping to col
lCct his fare Of the terrible goblin.
This, we believe, is the first instance
on record of ghosts patronizing a
horse railroad.
Year: 1863

When you visit McGregor. call at Frenchs
Watch and Jewelry store. The only place in
Northern Iowa where watches are made FROM
the rough material. All work and orders sent
from the country are as faithfully attended to
as though the parties were personally present.
Year: 1863

Who is the author of the ensuing lines
They will thrill many heart they hare thrill
led many heart, now cold in days long gone
by. But who Urote them' Can any of our
correspondents inform usi
Year: 1863

There is no evidence that the confed-
crates are arming their negroes, or that
they have determined to do it. The SUBJ
ject is up for discussion among them ;
public meeting in Mississippi lately rec
ommended the arming of fifty thousand
slaves, and the Georgia and Alabama leg
islatures have passed resolution in favor
Of employing negroes in the military ser
vice, as laborers merely; this is as far as
the rebels have got in the matter Of in
PRODUCING the negro into the war. The
southern papers are decidedly against the
measure. Nevertheless it is not improb-
that it may be adopted. 1t will be the der
nier resort manifestly, because to make a
soldier Of the slave is to free him, and
when the confederaey calls on the negroes
to help achieve its independence it will
by that act announce that it has abandon
ed the great object for which independence
was sought, the strength and permanenc
Of the peculiar institution. And when
the time comes that the rebels shall de-
spair of success without the aid of the ne
gro, the serious question for them will be
whether they can trust their slaves with
arms. The London Index, the rebel or
gan in England, edited under the eye Of
Mr.. Mason, has lately published remark
able article on the subject, In which it is
said that public opinion in the South is
ripening for the measure, and it is argued
that the negro's courage, implicit ooedi.
Year: 1863

cnco and insensibility to danger fit him
to become an excellent soldier. The only
objection the Index sees to the measure is
the fact that emancipation must 60 with
it. and II cannot disguise the terrible
danger Of thus subverting at one blow the
whole social fabric Of great country"
The object of the Index evidently is to
create belief that emancipation is likely
to take place in the South under confed,
crate rule and thus TO remove the great
objection felt in England to the recogni
tion Of the confederacy. Nevertheless IL
goes to confirm the fact that the rebel
leaders are seriously considering the ques-
tion of armiug the slaves, and that they
are likely to resort TO so doubtful and des-g
perate measure when all other resources
fail them. '


1t is we'll that we have the start of them.


We have only some twenty negro regi.
ments actually in the field, but many
more are organizing, and it is believed
that by the first of January we shall
have fifty thousand black troops armed
and in SO forward state of discipline az
to be capable Of valuable service. The
government is now Systematically enlist.
ing slaves, not only in Maryland, but in
Tennessee, paying to loyal masters for in :
demnity the $500 bounty. and insuring
the slaves their freedom. Recruiting sta
tions have been opened at Nashville, Gall
attn, and Murfreesboro in Tennessee, and
the enterprise is to be pushed vigorously.
No such effort in Kentucky is yet an
nounced, and it may be doubtful whether
the government will consider it prudent
to put the loyalty of the shareholders in
that state to so severe test The obvi-
Gus effect of the enlistment of slaves in
the border states is to use up slavery very
rapidly. 1t will make little difference
whether Maryland and Tennessee 60 for
immediate or gradual emancipation, or
against the measure altogether; if the
able bodied slaves of these states are en-
listed as soldiers, the system must soon
die out. In Maryland, under this enlist
ment scheme and the free escape Of slaves,
the Baltimore American says, the system
is already so far gone that pretty much
all that remains to do is merely to per-
form some sort of requiem or dirge over
its remains. ."-SpringfeM Republican.