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Year: 1863

The Hartford Post perpetrates the following,
with an introduction thus;


The following history of the celebrated edifce
erected by j. Davis, Esq is authentic. 1t was
written for the purpose OF giving infant poiti-
cians clear, concise, and truthful dissertation
OF the habitation aud the fortunes and misfor-
tunes aud doings Of the inmates:


l. The SOUTHERN CoNFRDERAcY.-This is the
house that JEFF. built.


ii. THE ETmopfAN.-Tbis is the malttbat lov
in the house that jeff. built.


Ill The UsDERGRoUND KAILRoAD.-Tbis 10
the rat that eat the malt that lay in the house
that jeff. built


Nv, IHE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAw.-This is the
cat that killed the rat that eat the malt that lav
in the house that jeff built.


v. THE PERSONAL LIBERTY DILL.-Tbis is
the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat
That eat the malt that lay in the house that JeG
built. Nu'


VI-CmEP JUSTICE TAsEY.-Tbis the cow
win cIumpled horn that tossed the dog that
worried the cat that killed the cat that ent the
malt that lay in the house that Jelf. built.


VII JAMES BUoHANAN.-This is the mniden
oil iorlorn that MIXED the COW with crumpled
torn that tossed the dog that worried the cat
that Killed the rat that eat the malt that Law In
the house that jeff, built.


VIII G. CEsH.-This is the man all tattered
and torn that married the maiden all forlorn that
MIXED the COW with crumped horn that tossed
tue dog that worried the cat that killed the rat
that eat the malt that lay in the house that left
built. VI


TX PLuNDER.-This is the priest all sbaveu
and shorn that married the man all tattered and
torn TO the maiden all lorlorn that MIXED the
COW with crumpled horn that tossed the doc that
worried the cat that killed the rat that eat the
malt That lay in the house that JEFF built.
Year: 1863

THASxs-Mr. Samuel Townsend will
please accept our thanks for basket Of
very excellent Peaches, which he sent us
on Saturday last. If these Peaches are a
fair sample OF the product of Mr. Town
sends extensive orchards, the season must
have been to him not only successful one
but also very profitable and satisfactory
ona
Year: 1863

This distinguished officer was recently
in our city for surgical treatment Loyal
Iowa has just operated upon him for the
cure Of disease to which military men
are peculiarly exposed, an itching for
Office, amounting to rabies if unchecked.
The operation was very brilliant one,
though the patient is as dead as herring,
or as Mcclellan. The case Of Gen. Tuttle
is an Instructive one. He won reputation
atthe cannon's mouth. lie Was recognized
asworthy to lead 1owa's gallant sons, He
accumulated some little fame. He sold it
out to the enemies Of his country, md con
sented for the price Of little brief glory
at the head ofa State ticket, to put himself
into the hands Of men who have never
given loyal thought, word or deed to the
cause in which loyal Iowa troops have
fought and bled. What part or lot had
Gen. Tut!le rightly with the Mahoneys,
and other c1imps for JEFF Davis that
taint the loyal communities Of IowaP
None. But overwcening ambition be-
trnyed him to lis fall. Let him now
turn resolutely to the work set before
him in the field, and pcrchancc By some
gallant deed among bullets, wipe out the
blot upon 1lls name among ballots The
Gea- Tu1tle who won honor and wounds
in the campaigns Of the Southwest the
country will honor. The candidate Tuttle
who went down in the storm with which
loyal men swept treason from Iowa will be
remembered with marvel that both ex-
trcnes became united in one and the same
person By the cohesive power Of ambition
and vanity. The sad tale might be made
a valuable tract for discrimination among
adolesccnt shoulder straps
Year: 1863




The news from Missouri Is excitine
The rebel raiders are having a hard time
Of it. The Union forces are hcading OF
and scattering the several rebel bands, and
at considerable hkirmish ut Marshall
Saline county, inflicted heavy loss upon
them. Shelby and his pack will find all
too surely that they have got too far from
the border. Our map shows the section
Of Western Missouri visited by this inya,
sion. Our dispatches from Upton are
scIy full to 8 o'clock last night.


The news from Rosccrans' army indi-
Gates no change in positions, or further
event OF interest.


The war in Virginia is yielding some
sharp ski1mlshes. It seams certain
TINT there has been sharp fight
ing, a general change Of position
in both armies, six Of one and
half dozen Of the other in military
strategy; and q surging Of the wave Of
war a few leagues nearer the Capital
But as the dispatches do not begin to tell
us *'N ashington issafe," re see no reason
to believe it is in danger. There is no
ground to anticipate any general engag-
mcnt Of the two armies.


The news from Charleston shows the
1ronsides but little injured from her en-
counter with the rebel torpedo.


Thenews from Washington shows Little
Mac terribly injured by lis torpedo, which
exploded backward. There was not, for
tunately, much vitality to be harmed by
the shock.


Loyal Pcnnsylvanians are indignant that
the principal battery used against them in
their campaign was the manufacture of a
Republican Cabinet officer. They intend
to press the grievance upon the attention
Of the President, and ask to hare that
Copperbead cannon foundry removed from
a vicinity which tarors the claim Of its
being national ordnance.
Year: 1863

THIS work Is of high moral tone written in chaste
4 yet thrilling language, and appeals directly to the
moral consciousness of ALL PARENTS and GUARD.
IANs especially, detailing scientific and reliable aids
and treatment for


1t will be sent by Mail on receipt of TWO (S) cent
STAMPs


" PARENTS AND GUARD1ANs fail not to send and
obtain this book.


% YOUNG MzSI Fail not to send and get this book


D- LADIES' You too, should at once secure copy
Of this book.
Year: 1863

SrgAwBERRIEs.-The old story that the {" strawberry crop will be a general failure this season, ' is going the round of the press. 1t is said that they did not sprout well last year, owing to the loHg drought.
Year: 1863

the land are in mind. For the sufferinp
alone we are not glad, but sorry. =


The business of misrepresentation is not
yet discontinued. The southern papers
speakrof the miseries and devastation that
are upon them, as if these were matters of
universal rejoicing among us-merely5 for
the evil ITSELF It is false. The leaders
there that brought on the war by decep
ton must carry it through in falsehood =
And so far as these lying wsrdssare cred.
tied, there will be still more of the suffering
which is the punishment of such as are
willing to be deluded. Bysaud by they
will find us out, and we shall live comfort.
ably together. sa5 fa4 E7S71
Year: 1863

We do not believe there is city more
afflicted by swarms of worthless dogs than
st. Paul. In some localities they have
become such an intolerable nuisance that
their wholesale slaughter has been deter
mined on, by bullet and poison. The
night is literally rendered hideous by their
howlings and the sick, to whom sleep is
a vital necessity, can no more enjoy "na-
lures sweet restorer" where these nuisan-
ces abound, than they could in Pandemo-
mum. There is not one in a thousand
that is worth his daily meat, and the city
would be better off if they were all ex-
terminated.
Year: 1863

SHADE TREEs.-Much good and profta-
BILE work has been done in our city, in set
ting out shade trees, and we venture to
say that no expenditure has been more
profitably or usefully made. There is no
man owning or controlling a lot but can
afford to improve it with forest shade
trees. and after the trees are once set out
the time occupied in boxing, protecting,
and caring for them for two or three
years, until they are strong enough to care
for themselves, is but trifiing. In after
years, when we, perhaps, have all passed
awav. and the saplings we nourished so
carefully shall have grownt to giants, there
will be those who will rejoice that we
planted them, and the work OF our hands
will be the pride and beauty of the place.
The best monuments which can be reared
to the memory of man, are trees, for they
tell of good taste, or of a love for the
beautiful, and of that unselfshness which
looks as we'll to the welfare and comfort
of his fellows as of himself
Year: 1863

From the Richmond Examiner 10th.


1t would be an accusation too general
and too harsh to say that the Wings of
Virginia, as party, have determined, un-
der loud professions of "no-party feel
ings and purposes, to cast strict party
vote in the approaching election. But it
is notorious, in many counties of the State,
that they have thus voted in recent local
elections for municipal officers, and that
they are now employing the machinery of
party with reference to voting in May.


This action might be excused to narrow
ness of mind, ignorance of public exigen-
cies, and confirmed habits of intolerance
and antagonism, if they confined their
Vaccinations to securing only combined
vote OF their own party associates. But
their action assumes villainous character
when they endeavor to seduce Democrats
to their support by appealing to the old
Union sentiment which so strongly actua-
ted the Democratic masses in other days.


BY attempting to prejudice them against
the Democratic men as the authors of our
present war, and by insinuations busily
whispered into ignorant ears, that the
Wing party could have prevented the dis
solution, and is now the only party capa-
bic of restoring the ancient condition Of
things, large portion Of the Wings of
Virginia will hear of the policy of some of
their associates with horror and indigna-
ton. But as surely as the sun shines in
the heavens, these dark pictures and dam
nable Vaccinations are busily practiced in
the name and on the behalf of the Whig
party, in holes and corners of Virginia.


The practices thus alluded to are of a
character so infamous that it would not
comport with public interests to expose
them. The time will come, however, when
they will be brought to light, and it be-
hooves the Wing party, as party, if it
chooses to persist in maintaining its organ
ization through all vicissitudes, to look
well to the action of its secretly-working
agents and minions in this matter. If it
neglect this timely supervision, it may
find itself some day covered with stains of
infamy and loads of odium, which will
forever exclude its members from public
favor and popular support.


These remarks are made in no unfriend-
ly spirit to single Whig candidate in the
field for election, and without a particle
Of hostility to the party itself, or to sin
gle individual known to be a member of
it. They are made in the spirit of friend
ly warning, and to prevent, as far as tenn
perate expostulation can do, the state
ment in Virginia of great public scandal;
and we may accompany these remarks
with the declaration that the Democrats
of Virginia intend, in good faith, in the
approaching election, to cast their votes
for men believed to be of the most ability,
and most suitable for public exigencies,
with entire disregard of their past politi-
cal associations.
Year: 1863

ABoLD RoBBERY.-On Tuesday while the
funeral procession of Maj. Stansbury was
passing down Third street, the proprietor
of the Constitutional Hall stepped to the
front door to gaze upon the procession,
and on returning behind his counter found
his money drawer had been robbed of be-
tween six and eight dollars. The thief,
as is supposed, watched this opportunity
and entered the back door. ad0..
Year: 1863

INTELLECTUAL FoREHANDEDNESS.- 1t IS
an important element in all success in life
to acquire the habit Of being beforehand
with whatever you undertake. can.
perhaps, best illustrate what l mean By
an example taken from another branch of
the subject. There are two friends, gen.
'tlemen Of large means, whose estates and
whose annual incomes are about equal
One Of these is always short Of money,
buys everything on credit, and On ~
longest credit he can comm1ud, ollsU
when travelling hns to borrow money u
take him home, and really has to make d8
many turns and shifts to get along as II
he were poor. All because helives twelve
months on the wrong side of'his income,
The other man, whose annual income sad
expenses are about the same as those Of
his neighbor, never has an open account;
buys everything for cash. always has
plenty of money in his pocket, and plenty
more in bank, and is apparently without
care in the world, so far rs money &C.
concerned. All simply because he lives
just twelve months on the right side Of
his income. The two men have equsi
resources. In the course of their lives
they spend about equal amounts. Yet
the one is always poor and harrassed, the
other is always rich and at his ease. -


The picture has its counterpart in the
history of many professional men. Some
men in their intellectual disbursements
are always beforehanded and at their ease,
while others of equal resources live ha-
bitually from hand to mouth. You will
see an editor scratching and scrambling
for copy at the very latest moment, and
living, it is to be feared, in great dread Of
the office devil. You will see the profess.
or quaking over his uncompleted expert.
ments, or his half-6nished manuscript;
anxiously dreading the summons to Itc-
ture. You will see the clergyman locking
himself up on Saturday, to push through,
under high pressure, the sermon that must
be delivered on the morrow. .+.-a


These all, and others like these; simply
in consequence OF bad habit OF mental
action, pass through life in a perpetual
state Of discomfort and professional pOV1
erty. Brain. work so dong, is generally
badly done, and is done at q ruin01s
waste of the life-force.
Year: 1863

LET'S TAKE A DRINk.-" Let's go and
take drink, boys" said a well dressed
young man as the cars stopped at sta
ton. And so the boys did, re entered the
cars with their language and persons
marked by the bar-room color.


Take a drink The young men were
we'll dressed fools. They have taken a
step which will bring a fearful rctribution.
Years hence thousand woes will blossom
in the footprints now made in young life.
A false light gilds the deadly miaSma
which dogs their footsteps. They see not
the smoking altar towards which they are
tending. A host of shadowy phantoms
of vice and crime are fitting on before.
Red handed murder laughs at their folly,
and death is in waiting at the fresh open
ed grave. There are tears to shed by
those who at this hour dream not at the
sorrow these false steps shall bring upon
them.


Take a drink All the uncounted host
Of drunkards, whose graves in every land
mark the pathway of intemperance, took
drink. They took drinks and died. The
drunkards of to-day are taking drinks
Three out of four of the murdererS of the
past year took a drink. Their steps were
towards the cram shop, and then from the
scatfold, out upon the fearful waste which
lies beyond. The palsied wretches who
totter in our streets, all took drink
Families are beggared by single drinks.
He'll is peopled by them.


We involuntarily shudder when we see
young men crowding the deeply beaten
path to the dram shop. They are all con-
fident Of their own strength. With the
glass in hand where coils the deadly ad-
der, they ha, ha, about the fools who drink
themselves to death They boldly leap
into the tide where stronger arms have
failed to beat back the sullen flow. They
dance and shout in the midst of the grin
ming and ghastly dead, and riot upon the
reeking fumes Of the graves foul breath.
They boast Of their strength And yet
they are but the reed in the storm. They
wither like grass under the sirocco breath
of the plague they nourish. a brief time
and they are friendless, homeless and de-
graded. Another day, and the story Of
their lives is told by a rude, stoneess
grave in Pottcr's Field.


Don't take a drink! Shun the Dead
Sea fruits, which bloom on the shore
where millions have died. The bubbles
which float upon the beaker's briln, hide
the adder's fang. The history Of ages
points sadly to the maddened hosts who
have offered themselves, soul and body,
to the demon Of the cup. The bondage
of the iron gals but the limbs. That Of
the dram fetters the soul.
Year: 1863

than said, and, like q madman, the wide
awake the 'shrewd' Douglas raved about
the room-the light had burst upon him
in moment, and had overwhelmed lin
His wife sat and looked aghast, wholly
unable to guess the meaning Of his singu
lar behavior.


You gave it him p


Yes, the thousand pounds-there is
your note, and here the key Of your desk,
said his wife, rising.


1t isn't mine, cried he, putting out q
bunch to compare them. 'Alasi they are
alike though. lam ruined forever!'


1t was long time before he was suffi-
GENTLY calm to explain; and ere he had
half done so, the last words of the depart
ing ~79tain: spoken in the foreman's bear
ing, recurred to him, and he rushed fran
tically out of the house back to the shop;
but it was too late.


But few minutes elapsed between his
leaving the shop and the removal of the
hamper in carriage with the one-armed
sea captain, who had doubtless watched
his departure. All efforts to trace the
nautical Douglas proved fruitlesS. NG4
could any clue be attained to his mystic
rious possession Of the key, or knowledge
that the notes which were only in the
desk one day, and would have been in the
bank the next, were in the keeping of Mrs.
Douglas.


Thus in one day was the man, who
vaunted his shrewdness, done out Of one
thousand pounds and an equivalent in
plate. When he next hears it said that a
man must rise early to get the best Of
him, We doubt il he will reply as before,
that 'he must not go to bed at all, and
then it could not be done Neither will
he claim so close relationship to a chance
customer bearing the illustrious name Of
Douglas.
Year: 1863

A TRUE picture of despair is pig reach
ing through hole in the fence to get a
cabbage that lies few inches beyond his
reach.


AT late break up of the tetotallers,
they were described as retiring from the
temperance festival full of spirits.


A LADY once entered stage coach with
so much powder on her face that she blew
up the driver.


A MAN in Bristol was such an inveter-
ate gambler, that he not only lost all he
possessed one evening, but lost his way
home.


If every care drives nail In our coffin,
every merry laugh draws one out
Year: 1863

A PROVINCIAL contemporary says there
are hundreds of people who become re-
ligous when danger is near, and adds :
ave know Of man who fell from a
bridge across certain river, and just as
he found he must go, and no help for it,
he hawled out at the top Of his voice
Lord have mercy on me-and be quick
too
Year: 1863

Delayed Letter to the Cleveland LEADER-l


NEAR CHANcEIIoRsvIIIE, May q


EDIToRs LEADER been cut of
from our communication with the civilized
portion Ofhumanity for the last few days,
no small degree of anxiety exists in the
Sixty-frst to know what is passing in the
outer world; and thinking that there may
be some who are equally anxious to know
what we have been doing, I gladly improve
the present opportunity Of supplying the
required information.


Becoming thoroughly tired oflying still,
we determined to vary the monotony of
camp life by paying flying visit to our
friends Of the "sunny South" who we
heard were assembled on the south bank Of
the Rappahannock As we were bent on
a surprise party, of course it was necessa-
~ for each man to carry his own prOvis-
ions, lest our friends might not be prepar-
ed to entertain so large a company. Ao-
eordingly, having packed our knapsacks
with crackers instead of clothes, and pre-
pared for a trip of eight days, we set out
at an early hour last Monday morning.
We reached Kelly's Ford Tuesday evening
without any particular adventure and 80
eager were we to meet those who we sup
posed were waiting for our approach, that
we could not wait for morning but having
taken rest and Fefreshment, proceeded to
cross blythe " soft silver lghtof the moon"
To our surprise, we found no one here to
greet us, so we pushed ahead q few miles
p and eneamped for the night, or for the
morning rather, for it was now about two
O'Clock 4. N. Having refreshed ourselves
with few hours sleep and an excellent
breakfast of hard tack and coffee, we again
set out. That evening we reached the
Rapidan, where a number Of our Southern
friends were engaged building a bridge.
They Immediately rushed forth with ex-
tended arms to meet US, and demanded the
privilege Of escoring US to Richmond but
finding larger party Of US than they
were prepared for, concluded to let us 20
on our way. This little matter settled, we
crossed the river and again encampsd
During the night we had a pleasant show
er Of rain which greatly increased our en-
joyments, and st ten o'clock we again
pressed on. We were now drawing near
the end Of our journey, and our spirits
rose as we were informed that the lcng
wished for meeting was near at hand.
Everything combined to make our journey
agreeable; the weather was truly delight
ful, the little birds cheered us on with
their merry songs, the inhabitants scowled
upon Us from their windows and half open
doors and grinning darkies peeped at US
from behind their huts. We reached our
position about three P. N, but the friends, f"
surprised st our sudden appearance, left
on short notice They returned last night,
and fred salute from their big guns,
which however they pointed directly at us
think they are returning again. The
ball will soon be opened and we have the
hoor for the first jig. If there is any re
hance to be plsced in indications it viii b
8 sharp one. IT. Co. D, 6lst 0. vi
Year: 1863

THE GREAT MASS MEETING.-The city is
thrOnged with people day who have flock
ed here to attend the great Union Mass Meet
ing. All the trains coming in this morning
brought an immense multitude. The Pitts
burgh trains brought nearly two thousand
people. The Akron Cornet Band, Dan. Mar
bIe leader, came up, and headed procession
from the depot to the Square. Their instru
ments are silver, and new, and the members
of the bands are aiiprOfcients. They added
much to the life and sTirit of the occasion.


Some traitOrOus miseresnt spiked the can
non last night with three c0rnered file
Mr. SimmOnds got the file out, however, in
time to Ere rOusing salute of fifteen guns
As we write speaking is going on from the
platform at the postofice corner, and great
enthusiasm manifested. A full report of the
meeting will be given in Thursday mornings
LEADER.
Year: 1863

SR- It is said by those who have been
curious enough to examine that the
Locasts have w on one wing and N ON
the other. These are interpreted to mean
War and Niger. The Locusts are
scourge upon the country; hence there is
no doubt about them belonging to ths
Abolition party.
Year: 1863

TIE CURATIVE
properties Of the medicine direct themselves to
the organs Of secretion, and by 70 aitcrny the con
fdtion Of the stomach and liver that the starchY
principle Of the food is not converted into sugar 80
long as the systen Is under the influence OF tho


CONSTITUTION WATER,
which gives those organs time to recover thci
healthy tone and vigor. We nrc able to state tha
the Constitution Water has cured every case Of Di
abrtis in which it has been given.
STONE IN TIE BLADDER, CALCULUS.


GRAVEL. BRICK DUST DEPOSIT


AND MUCUS OR MILKY DIS