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Year: 1863

The times are so hard | can hardly keep
my nose out of water" said husband the
other night to his wife, who was importuning
him for new dress. - No." she replied, with
some asperity, " but you manage to keep it
above brandy and water, easy enough"


A CURE FOR RuEUMArIsM.-The following
receipt for the cure of rheumatism was pub
lshed some time ago in the Country Gentle
man, and is highly recommended by persons
who have tried it:


Battle the parts affected with water in which
potatoes have been boiled as hot as can be
borne just before going to bed by the next
morning the pain will be much relieved. if not
removed. One application of this simple rem
edy has cured the most obstinate rheumatic
paius.
Year: 1863

HEAR cream colored Theodore Tilton of the
New York Independent Were all religion
blotted out from the face of the earth. the
plantation slaves would rehabilitate it, every
doctrine. The negro was in. this greater than
the white, equal TO the white woman" There
isn't any statute. State or National, against
man making an ass of himself yet it is pity
to see men do It, sometimes, without cause or
pTovecation.- Springfield (Mass.) Republican
Year: 1863

FARMISG.-Dr. Franklin said There seem
TO be but three ways for nations 10 acquire
wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans
did, IN plundering their neighbors this is rob-
berry. The second by commerce, which is fre
quently cheating. The third by agriculture.
the only honest way, wherein a man receives a
real increase on the seed thrown in the ground,
IN kind of continued miracle, wrought by the
hand of Con in favor as reward for his inno-
cent life, and bis virtuous Industry.
Year: 1863

On a Heap-The prolific topic Of dis
cussion TO day is the discursive discourse Of
Artemps Ward, at Becke Hall last night
he succeeded in pleasing large majority of
bis hearers, and caused all to laugh, whether
pleased or displeAsed Opinions about the
performance we're as varied as the subjects
introduced in it, and we prefer to let the tu-
mult subside before we attempt to pronounce
upon the affair. On second thought we do
not deem it prudent, at our time Of life, to
commit ourself to any one of the theories
offered all in heap by the Humorist of the
Browne hair and claret-coIored moustaeh /;
and in the mean time, we will content ourself
with the remark that the Hall was disagreea-
bly, cold,


And that's our opinion-alter all,
Year: 1863

Nuisanoe.-We are requested to say that
boys at the s, Il corner of 9th and Jefferson
street are in the habit of addressing insulting
remarks to ladies and gentlemen who pass
there Parties who have been aggrieved de-
sire us to inform the boys aforesaid that If
this conduct is repeated they will be given
into the hands of the police, We advise the
boys to quit ....v ..
Year: 1863

Wrong.-Yesterday at noon two boys
were throwing snowballs at each other, on
9th street at the Jefferson street crossing,
when the larger boy hit the smaller one SO
hard as to hurt him The little fellow then
threw a stone at the larger boy, striking him
just below the ear, and knocking him down
like q shot. Ii was at first feared that the
boy was fatally bart, for he lay as though
dead He recovered, however, though con
siderably injured. We hope that examples
will be made OF these stone throwers We
hear of them every day Hand them over
to the Police for punishment
Year: 1863

Smith. Mot long since we referred to
the fact that Steve Smith, Esq.-formerly Of
the Chronicle, Of this city, (now no more y
and since of divers places and more atterly
a professional camp follower in Dixie,-had
come to grief in Nashville, in that he had
been arrested and imprisoned as spy. We
don't think that he ever gave the enemy any
information which would benefit them in the
least He is not reliable enough for any
such purpose; and we believe that the result
Of his incarceration in the Nashville Jail will
corroborate our prediction, made when we
heard of his sudden eclipse. But this is not
exactly to our present purpose, though it is
preparatory ....s a.l


1t seems Steve has been getting loose again
and has been annoying our contemporary Of
the Cincinnati Enquirer, who gives Steve the
following complimentary notice-over the left
ear; bod.


AN lMPosTER-A fellow named Smith, has
had the affrontery to assume for himself the
position of correspondent of the Daily En-
quirer at Nashville, and by this report impos-
ed on the public in that vicinity. This Smith
is not our correspondent, nor in any way con-
nected with this paper. He had temporary
employment on the Enquirer about six months
since, but for reasons well known to himself
was discharged We trust he will not again
compel us to show him up in our columns,--
The next time it will not be so timely to his
reputation


Steve shouldn't attempt to put the newspa-
per dodge on the Nashvillians.
Year: 1863

Something Wrong,-We have received
communication from two young gentlemen
of Greencastle, in regard to the discourteous
manner of certain ladies OF Miami City to.
wards them, with request that We publish
it After giving the document careful pc
rusal we find thas the matter is Objectionable,
aud would increase the difficulty. We there
fore decline to print it We cannot publish
offensive personalities to crafty any body
We suggest to the complainants that they
make an effort to correct the wrong impress
sions the ladies have formed about them.
Try it, boys. .a...i 8sa s.lg
Year: 1863

The New York Post gives the history of the
advance in paper and the causes therefor as
follows


About year ago the manufacturers Of fine writing na
per met at Springfield formed an asso
citation, which determined the price of writing naner
should DC raised and fixed the rates for the future at
less than seventeen cents for fat and twenty
for letter and note paper The prices ranged before from
fifteen to twenty five for the last.


This resolution worked well, and excited little
comment or oppositon-the interests involved being
comparatively smallthat it have occurred TO
the manufacturers of printing paper to follow the exam
pie thus set Accordingly in August last they called a
conventions which met at the Ast0r House in this CITY,
and formed what know as the Paper Makers Assocs
ton Of the United States At this time there was no


y Of rags-he price of paper stock was moderate and
the price Of paper was In proportion.


At this meeting, we are informed, prominent manu-
acturer offered resolution that all the mills owned by
members be put at halt time. We can see but
one object in such measureto create sudden and ar


heal scarcity ofpaper which would enable paper makers
to increase their prices while at the time rags be-
ing in less demand, would probably fall in price Thus


double profit wouldbe secured to the members of what
we will call combination" This resolution was not
carried members refusing because they
had contracts to 6 which required them to work full
time.


At the October meeting ofthe ocation IT was finally
to raise the price Of paper and inform
ed that three samples of printing paper filed
standards of quality and price, resolution was offered
that printing paper should be sold than IL and


half sixteen and eighteen cents for the three qualities
The working of this changed, that It became
4" recommendation" The meeting adnurned; and that
same AFTERNOON the price o paper was raised that
per dealers in this city unable to get orders filled on
that day, except at the advanced prices.


We recently stated that there scarcity or rise
in the price of rags either then TO be reasonably
pretended, to excuse this general rise in paper But the
of the action Of the association dscosed was
teegraphed over the country the next morning and at
once the rag dealers East and West anticipated
their commodity refused to the rate at which they
would sell; and the market thus tampered WITH It is
strange that rags at once rose to speculative prices


The Post very well remarks that monopolists
like pigs swiruming-cut their own throas.-
The combination, in time, will work its own
cure, but at the expense ofa robbed community.
Substitutes for rags are springing up, and when
the machinery for reducing such substitutes to
pulp shall be arranged and perfected, news paper
will come down. Meanwhile, if Congress does
Justice towards the community and towards the
now amounts TO prohibition-will be reduced
and the wicked schemes of the large Eastern pa
per makers will fail.
Year: 1863

OUR ARMTLs WISHED FoR-THE REBELS HATED.


The Boston Transcript says several letters
from South Carolina have been received in that
city within few weeks which are full of the
most loyal and patriotic sentiments. The wri-
ters most earnestly wish the presence of Union
troops in the Palmetto state, as the presence OF
strong federal force can alone put stop to the
many social evils which now prevail, and the
offensive despotism to which the people are now
subjected. The following extracts are taken
from letter which has recently reached Massa-
chusetts, from gentleman ofhigh character and
social standing in Sumter county, South Caro-
lima. The writer has been prominent demo.
crat of the Jackson school, and until now his
letters have rarely alluded to the peculiar insti.
tuition. He says:


at is very certain that this war has done and
is doing things which would never have been
done but forit. The conspiracy of ]. C. Cal
houn and the thousand smaller men who have
followed him has burst at the right time, and the
purposes of these men have been, in my opinion
completely prostrated. Thousands on thou
sands in these Confederate States will rise up
and call the men who crush this rebellion bles-
sed, while they consign to lasting infamy the
men who now rule here. There is a power at
the South unseen unfelt at present. but still here
and it controls the best minds in these states 1t
will finally make itself seen, heard and felt. II
may be sooner, it may be later, but the days of
darkness and terror in the South are numbered,
and to this war will the light that shall come be
indirectly due. ! assure you there is more than
cloud in this war, there is light in it, and more
than any of you in the North can know. She
will see no termination 10 this sectional contest
till it can endin complete triumph for the Uni
ted States.


"The asserted unity OF
sentiment in the South is a fiction The peo-
pie are only brought up to defend the institu-
tion of slavery now because they have no lead
ers to head a revolt If the United States held
any state with strong hand but little time
would elapse before the man who proposed re-
volt against that power would be in danger o.
his life, and if the war lasts two years more
expect to see JEFF. Davis and his Confederate re.
bells seeking an asylum beyond sea from an a.
reused and angered people at home"
Year: 1863

The telegraph informs US TINT Major
General Peck, having received informa-
ton that grelillas were rayaging the


Northwestern sections of North Carolina


and conscripting the inhabitants for Lees
army, sent out an expedition which was
successful in capturing the guards left in
the guerilla camps, and destroying the
muster-rol1s and other documents pertain-
ingto the consumption. a gratifying re-
suit Of this expedition was the fact that q
strong Union feeling was found in that
section Of the State-a section, by the way,
which has not furnished half its quota
to the rebel army. So anxious were the
people for the presence Of Union troops
that they declared, within ninety days Of
the Union occupancy Of the country, they
would send Representative from that
district to the Congress at Washington.


These and similar 8acts, constantly being
developed by our expeditions into that
State, seem to indicate the propriety of
Immediately holding such points as will
tfiord the inhabitants protection against
conscripting hordcs ftcm Lees army, and
form the nucleus around which will soon
rally the loyal men Of the old North State.
All signs point to d growing desire for
peace and restoration to the Union. Let
nem be protected in their desires, and let
.he'r aspirations for restoration to tue Union
oe encouraged by the presence Of the old
Tag under whose ample folds, and the
1e1ms prorounded by its mnintaincrs, they
may once more return to their a11er;ance
Year: 1863

The contrast is sufficiently suggestive
withoutany extended remarks upon our
own part. A more outrageous and fla
g1ant swindle was never attempted to be
foisted upon community than this Grid
iron scheme of Fuller, Goudy & Co., now
being crowded through Copperhead courts
by Copperhead demagogues. There is
ample food for reflection in tue charters
We present It needs no argument to con-
vince the property holders Of Chicago
what is the character Of the franchise
sought by these men. It remains to be
seen whether the people CT this city are
willing to grant a monopoly over which
they will have no control, and for which
they will rccave no recompense, to such
Tnev
Year: 1863

we conEider the introduction Of a national
military system, similar to that adopted Ia
Switzerland, "a an urgent necessity Of the
country, and declare onreelves for tho repeal
Of that claute Of the CONSUMPTION Law which
efaats e1eT Tptioa from military duty By the
Year: 1863

Lieutenant General Winfield Scott voted
the straight Onion ticket at the recent New
York election Exchange.


His vote Ougtt not to be so equivOcsl as
TO render such chronicle necessary. If
he voted the Union ticket he did no more
than his duty, snd deserves no morepraise
for ii than hundreds Of thousands of other
loyal men who voted in the same way. 1t
ought not to be considered q very remark
able circumstances that loyal msn should
voIe the loyal Union ticket.
Year: 1863

CoppeThesd of our city being asked
y be relishCd the defeat of his party on
ssdsy, replied that he supposed they
st submit to the voice Of the people, but
added We have one thing to console
in our sflictiOR you cant whip the
els."-Syraeiss StaAdcrd.
Year: 1863

by the constitution whatever may be the
courss Of the administration. We are not
willing thst any dsspos shall .es in the
Presidential chair with unlimited power
Many Of you have como from foreign
shores, from lands Of tyranny and despot-
ism. What did you come here for Be-
cause America bad = free constitution,
. constituiios :i.t would not permit any
power on earth TO OBJ the people of their
liberties. You and want constitutional
fIeedou. You aud want the constitution
and the laws maintained and the govern
meat preserved. In the defense OF the ma
:ion, know that you from abroad, as
well n those born on the soil Of this couu-
try, are ready to stand shoulder to shoul
der with me in defense of the American
Union. ask Of you all never to resist the
laws. Let Us call upon the Presiden, to
return to the platform fthe constitution
to abandon the measures that have divided
the north and bound together the south.
Yon have the right to ask this. The righ,
of petitions is still yours and mine, and
when We surrender that right we are only
fit to take the place of these whose free
dom the proclamation declares. Acai,
say to you, under every and all circum
stances do not allow yourselves to be led
by excitement or otherwise to violate the
constitution and the laws.


When you assent to this you will foa,
upon a sea OF troubles and Of crime, which
now you know nothing of, without chart OF
compass to guide you. Without obedi-
ence % law, We are launched on shore
less tide without anchor or haven. It il
for you. it is for me, it is for the party in
power to obey, preserve and defend the
constitution intact. If that goes down in
the storm, with it goes the last hopes !,
the friends Of liberty in the world.
Year: 1863

q Aisorney and Councillor at Law.
H,s resumed the practice OF bis profession In


Haoitowoc, and car now promise to give


prompt attention to all professional business


entrusted to him.


n Collectiors made in any part of the State.
For . few weeks bis Office will be found at
his dwelling house.
Year: 1863

The Paris correspondent Of the New
York Herald writes as follows of the per-
sOnal appearance of Napoleon III. at the
late balloon ascension:


HAn hour before the final ascent, the
Emperor drove On to the ground, but
alighted at the entrance to the reserved
places, and walked into the open space
where the balloon was, leaning upon the
arms Of two gentlemen. He wore an or
dinary looking brown overcast, and the
inevitable yellow kids with which he al
Wsys covers his hands. I was within five
feet Of him as he passed, and kept as near
him as propriety and detachment of the
GarGs de Paris, which Immediately gath
ersd about him, would permit me during
the hour ths. he remained on the ground.
Il seemed 10 me that great change for
the worse had come over him within the
last year. His head, which always car
Fiss toward the right side, seemed to in
cline more than ever toward the shoulder,
and his face, always that Of q care-worn
man, seemed to bear more than before the
marks Of physical pain, as well as great
mental anxiety. The Emperor is q very
ungfaceful nan on foot His body is
long but his legs very short, and in walk
ing he has . sliding, crab-like motion
His difficulty is not yet fully developed az
spinal disease but will probably come tO
that he is liable to die at short notice
and then there will probably be q commo-
tion here" s---
Year: 1863

Just on the eve Of the late election, JO-
seph Stewart, Esq, citizen Of Baltimore,
spoke st an unconditional Union and
Emancipation meeting in that city. As a
sample Of the spirit psrVading the loyal
citizens Of Maryland, and the doctrines
upon which they boldly went to the polls
and triumphed, we give the following brief
extract from his speech. This, in Mary
land. It is most encouraging. Does not
the world mover Said he;


Wesre for the Union uneORditiOH9lly, be-
IieYing the preservation Of our National
integrity Of TIE utmost importance.


We are for the suppression Of the rebel
lion, and indorse the policy adopted by the
Administration for its suppression.


We believe this war to have been caused
by slavery, and to be carried on in the in
terest Of slavery, and that any terms Of
peace which look to the perpetuation Of
slavery viii prove but hollow truce.


Wesrs, therefore, for emancipation.


Slavery is the cornerstone Of the new
government with which the oligarchs of
the South would supplant the Government
Of our Fathers, and the rebellion is
strongest where slavery is strongest. In
our own State the siaveholdiDg counties
are most deeply imbued with the spirit Of
rebellion. The rebellion is but slavery
organized, and every blow ST. uck at slav-
cry Injuries both. They stand or fall to-
gether.


Emancipation is the means whereby
freedom, the antagonist of slavery, strikes
down the power Whish sustsins the rebel
lion.


Had all the States been free States, We
should have had no civil war, and the sur
sst way TO end the war is to remove the
cause of il. -


Let US begin with ourselves. Let US
emaneipate first our minds from the polit-
cal thrsldom Of the accursed institution
which is making war upon us, and upon
all free government, and then legally
emsncipRte the State from its presence by
calling a Convention to remodel the Con-
stitutiOn.


This will improve the value of our
lands; it will dignity labor; it will invite
large investments of capital in manulac-
lures and internal Improvements; it will
destroy privileged classes; it will relieve
our statute books Of anomalous laws pass
ed for the protection Of slavery; our
Courts from the expensive administration
Of said laws, and our county jails from be-
ing negro boarding houses. A white man
may then seek information from any book
he pleases without fear Of Incarceration in
the penitentiRry.
Year: 1863

The CoNscR1prIoN BILL.-Late re-
ports represent that Secretary Stanton's
peculiar views on the Communication clause
in the conscription act have been over
come, and that the act is to be interpreted
in accordance with the plain meaning of
It's language and the intention of its franz
ers. The commutation remains at $500,
and it is understood that the money thus
obtained will be given as bounty to two
years men and nine months men who re-
inlist, provided the latter avail themselves
of the offer within fixed time. This
bounty is to be paid in instalments, at the
convenience of the recruit and of the gov
ernment.
Year: 1863

ADvERrIs1Nc.-Advertise and give the
world a sign that you are not rusting.-
Systematic advertising is seed sown in
good ground to the business man and the
merchant from which they will in due sea-
son reap rich and abundant harvest
Few persons have pursued such course
for any length of time without having had
cause to be thankful for what they at first,
perhaps, half inclined to believe money
thrown away; such men have grown rich.
and their business has widely extended,
while their less enterprising neighbors
have dreamed on, and in the end found
themselves just about where they COM
menced. Wake up, all ye sluggards, and
let the world know who and where you are.
He who neglects advertising his business
in his local paper, not only robs himself Of
his fair advantages, bat bestovs the spoils
on his rival.
Year: 1863

'CUTE.-One Of our citizens, a passen.
ger on the stage coach to Atchison one
day ;ast week, relates that on board was
couple from California who KEEP, the tina
chine a-goin" by pouring on to the brake
of the coach, at the the top of every hill
which it was about to descend, melted but
ter, a can of which they had along with
them. The driver would put on the brake
bu. the wheels scould slip on the rubber,
and the coach 60 with a rush to the bot
tom of the hill, much to the astouishment
Of driver aud the amusement OF the, mass.
sngers. The parry was anxious to make
time to connect with acertain train'of cars
at Atchison, hence this "cute" arrangement
to hurry up things-all of which was but
anticipating pleasant ride on the Pacific
R. r. Under full head of horsepower
breaks are up-its not enough! How
fast the people are getting
Year: 1863

RECEIPT FOR MAD Doc BrrE.-The fol-
lowing is circulating in our exchanges,
recommended as Certain cure for the bite
Of a mad dog: -, =


"Mix one pound Of common salt ID q
quart OF water, and then battle with and
squeeze the wound with the same one
hour, then bind a little more salt on the
wound for twelve hours"


The author of this receipt was bitten six
times by mad dogs. and always cured him
self by the above mixture, and offered 10
suffer himself to be bitten by any mad dog
in order to convince mankind that what he
offered was real truth, to which numbers
could testify.
Year: 1863

A correspondent of the Memphis Appeal,
writing from Morton, says that accounts from
the West of the Mississippi are very favorable
Kirby Smith is regarded as very proper man
for the command. They have confidence over
there that they can carry on this fight alone,
and are determined to do so, if necessary Ex-
tensive arrangements are being made to supply
themselves with implements and munitions of
war to any desired extent, either by home man
ufactnre, by legitimate importation through
Mexico, or by smuggling through the New
Mexican lines. Crops arc represented as be-
ing unprecedented in yicld-some bottom lands
promising eighty bushels to the acre. Stock
hogs are plenty, and well taken care of by the
farmers, who are feeding carefully, and with a
view Of avoiding hog cholera. The Iberia salt
works have been in our possession for two
months, and have been worked to the best ad-
vantage. Beef cattle are abundant and in
good condition. Take it all in all, the Trans
Mississippi department can take care of itself,
and will possibly sweep the Abolitiodists out
of Missouri before we of the Middle Depart
ment do as much for Kentucky. 1t is crafty
ing to know that there are no submission
there Like Tennessee, some of them have
tasted the sweets of Yankee rule, and will have
no more of it.