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Year: 1863

POCEaSyh


Three years ago, we had, as the
Radical leaders have constantly assert
ed, "the best Government the sun ever
shonc upon" That National Gov>
ernment had existed for over seventy
years. 1t owed its existence to, and
derived its authority from the Nation
al Constitution adopted by the States
and the people. The enormity of the
rebellion consists, as the Radicals cons
stantly assert, in the attempt to over
throw this "best Government.


But mark the inconsistency of these
same radical revolutionists. While in
one breath they extol the excellence
and superiority of our National Gov
ernment, in the next they decry it as
having tolerated one of the worst forms
of despotism, and as having nursed an
infant demon of revolution and anar-
chy into activity and gigantic strength.
They assert that our National Consti-
tuition was SO formed and our Govern
ment so organized under it, that mi
nority section of the Union--a hands
ful Of aristocrats, as they denominate
Southern siavehoiders-had ruled the
country during the seventy years of
our National existence as with rod
of iron-that during ali that time we
had in consequence no genuine peace
or real prosperity, and that in fine our
Government, SO far frem being the
best, was in truth the worst ''the sun
ever shone upon"


The object of the radical Jacobins
in these contradictory statements is
transparent They play the hypo-
CTstS anu Illk dDUUJ tHiS illlttlldl re-
bellion against the best Government
in the world" while they themselves
are secretly plotting and conspiring
for its destruction When they want
to excite tie masses of the Northern
people to madness, in order that they
may be able to carry out their plans
for the overthrow of the State Gov
ernments and the subsection of the
people to consolidated despotism
like that Of France or Russia, they
prate about the "best government
and the awful crime of any opposition
to their pet measures for sustaining it.
But in the mean time, as necessa-
ry instrument to their ultimate sue
cess, they are insiduously sowing the
seeds Of dislike and hatred to that old
Government of seventy years standing,
in order to educate the masses of the
people up to the point that they will
not only not desire, but violently op-
pose the restoration or the retaining
of that "best Government. The
Jacobins have already, as they imag
inc, got the mass Of the Northern peo.
pie committed to the idea that Wash
ington and the fathers, in establish
ing our National Government commit.
ted one great error--a fatal errol
that has brought upon us, as these
Jacobins allege, this terrible civil wal
with all its awful horrors--its slaugh
ter. misery and desolation. All these
things, they say, are due to the origi'
nal sin of the fathers in setting up thai
old Government upon the basis of tht
Constitution.


In order to bamboozle the people
into the support Of their leaders ant
measures. the Jacobin "Unionists" ex
i tol the Government to the highes
pitch in one breath, and in the mex
degrade it to the lowest depth. Sucl
is the inconsistency and madness o
the fanaticism and corruption nov
running riot in our nd.-LStatesman
Year: 1863

The New York Evening Post, after sta.
ting the signs of decay in the rebellion
ranks at Richmond and the South generally,
such as the great depreciation Of the Con
federate curreney--the inability to purchase
supplies, compelling the army to seize four
at the mills, fixing their own price, and
paying in promises 1.-The manifest resistance
Of the people to farther seryice--the peces-
sisy Of employing Indians and bloodhounds
to hunt down Union men who fee from
transcription farther necessity ofcnroll-
ing the erepspts as home-guard to hold
the people in sutjection, and the severity
of the military authorities in the punish
ment Of desertion, now largely on the iu-
crease, adds the following curious and
significant piece OF information, which We
beg our readers TO make a note Of: 2.


awe are told that letters have recently
been addressed TO leading Democrats 10 tho
North, by persons in Richmond, begging
them not to oppose the prosecution Of the
war; that tho overthrow Of Davis and his
clan is now the only hope Of free govern
ment in the South itself; that as yet little
can be done openly at the South in the
way ofresisting his predomiuance ;and that
the loyal legious Of the Northwest must
make their way to the very presence Of the
despot, overthrowing his armies as they ad-
vance, in order to libeTate the people. We
have seen mono Of these letters, nor do We
know that they had any effect 10 detern1i-
ming the recent course Of many leading
Democrats, but we think there Is nothing
improbable in the statement"
Year: 1863

A Tennessee lawyer, refugee from rebel ty-
ranny, who found shelter in neighborng VII
other day why he did not return TO Nashville,
now that the federal army is in occupation and
life and property once more secure. His answer
was in these words: Il shall never 90 back TO
Nashville till Tennessee is free statei have
always been democrat, and have been slave
holder, but old as am, l believe that shall
yet go home 70 state where slavery will no
longer exist. The speaker was man of sixty,
whom the rebellion has converted into an anti
slavery man. -eiH.ifIi
Year: 1863

We call the attention of the Richmond Enquirer
the Richmond Sentinel the Richmond Dispatch,
the Petersburg Register the Fayetteville Obseruer,
the WadesborOugh Argus the Salisbury Watch
man, the Army Convention, the administration at
Richmond, and all others who take an interest
in the views and course of our people, to the fact
that the Conservatives have carried North Carolina
by large majority. And we especially call upon
those newspapers that published the Army Address,
and refused to publish our Card after we were mob
bed, which was the result to large extent of that
Address, to observe the significant fact that the
Conservative candidates for Congress have polled
majority of the army vote The Standard has been
suppressed for months in the army of Virginia
men who receive it by hand, in letter envelopes
from their friends at home compelled from fear
of being punished by their officers, to read it by
stealth-the footsteps of our sick and wounded SOL
diers in Virginia have been logged by government
detectives, and when they uttered a word in ap-
proval OF the Standard or Its course, they have
been put in the guard house for 1.-THE whole pat
ronage and power of the administration at Rich
mond has been brought to bear against US, and c
have been mobbed by Confederate soldiers with
arms in their hands, and commanded by Confed-
crate officers; and yet in the face of all this, the
course of the STANDARD has been triumphanty sus-
tained both by the people at home and our brave
soldiers in the field These facts ard the result
that has followed them, furnish food for reflection
Think of it, gentlemen.
Year: 1863

81 repeat that if we allow Lander to be defeated
we shall have trouble here at hSme for the dsloyal
will feel encouraged in their ratOrOus conduct. If
those who are the bold and unflinching friends of
the government and administration are defeated in
this election then the Yankees will feel encouraged
toinvade our State in all directions and continue
the war for our subjugaton and ruin, and thus the
war will be prolonged"


The above is an extract from a communication in
the last Charolette Democrat, urging the people to
turn ont and re-elect Mr.. Lander to Congress- If
Mr.. Lander is defeated as we trust he is, we shall
see whether 1--WE shall have trouble here at home"
This is the same old cry that was raised against
Gov. Vance's election. The people were told that
he was not true man-that he did not fight as he
ought to have done at Newbern-that he was not to
be trusted because Holden supported him-and that,
if elected, the enemy would be so encouraged that
his forces would be in Raleigh IN six weeks from
the day of his Inauguration. But the people turned
deaf ear to all this, and gave Gov. Vance So 900
majority. The Yankees have not reached Raleigh
yet, nor is it probable they will, if Gov. Vance can
prevent it.


After this experience Of the fasity of their charges
and predictions, it might have been reasonably ex.
pected if the Destructive leaders could be regarded
as reasonable beings, that they would to make
such silly appeals to the people. But persons who
all passion and TO reason seldom learn any thing
and never profit by the past. They like the bee
or the wasp confined in q room, and seeking for the
/ open air through window pane-they strike their
heads against it for the hundreth time and never
learn their mistake until the window is hOisted and
they are let out; and when confined again in the
same way, they go through similar butting against
the glass until again humanely released
Year: 1863

A CLERICAL MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIREcrIoN-The
Catholic Bishop of New Orleans, on the Goth of Oc-
tober instituted forty hours devotion for blessed
PEACE at the church of SAINT Theresa the festival
day of that Saint. We commend this pacific move
ment to clergy one in the rightdrection, and
far more likely to produce good results than tour
to Europe.
Year: 1863

RrvER NEws.-Ths oldest inhabitant
has not for many years, if ever, seen the
river ~ low At this season Of the year as
now. The water has been falling rapidly
for some time. until it is extremely diff
cult for the packets to make their trips
without feeling the bars. and sometimes
something harder thaa 10 agreeable. The
channel will undoubtedly out out in q
short time, 30 that the packets can make
their trips with much less difficulty.


The Northern Line and Minnesota
Packet Company are unable to run any
of their packets further than Hastings.
with prospect Of being stopped at the
head Of Lake Pepin soon, and only the
lightest draught Of stern -wheslers are able
to reash st. Paul. Without heavy rains
business on the river must soon meet with
serious interruption.
Year: 1863

S~One of the most striking proofs of
the unparalleled extent of our national re-
sources is the fact that the Government
credit is not in the slightest degree i'm
paired BY the events OF the past few days.
On the contrary, our National securities
are firm, and the subscribers to the fiye-
twenty loan are more numerous than ever
before.
Year: 1863

DAMAGES BY THE FREsHET.-The sud-
den tbaw during the past few days, and
the subsequent rise of Black river. has
made sad havoc with the mill property in
this village. On Sunday last the great
mass Of ice which had collected above the
boom broke it and swept down the cur.
rent, carrying away the fume and one
Of the posts to the saw mill, threatening
the mill so much that all its machinery
had to be removed. Between four and
five hundred logs were carried off. Du.
ring the night following the dam broke
away, and taking one thing with another
the company loses to the amount Of some
$4,000. They lost last year, it will b.
remembered, about thousand logs by {
freshet then. We fear that the loss o
the mill will seriously retard, if it doe,
not entirely stop, building in lrasburgt
the coming summer.


The old bridge at the foundry was car
ried away on Sunday afternoon, and th,
bridge by Charles Chamberlain's in thil
town-built new last summer--was alse
carried away. A good chance for more
taxee.- Irasbu,gh Standaya s
Year: 1863

MA joker, on hearing that certain
persons were mutillating the copper cent,
by cutting out the head and wearing it as
a breastpin or badge, at once suggested
the following definition: "Copperhead-
One who outrages the good sense cents
Of the nation"
Year: 1863

For the Upton Advertiser.


Mr.. EDITOR :-Fighting the rebels
with one hand and holding their slaves
for them with the other, has cost this
nation thousand million of dollars and
two hundred thousand lives. When it
was perceived that this mode Of fighting
would no. accomplish anything, it was
abandoned, and the plan was adopted of
getting the slaves to help US conquer the
rebels. For this end the Presidents
Emancipation proclamation was issued
to let the slaves know that we would
give them their liberty if they would
join our army, and they are doing it to
a considerable extent and probably will
do it more and more. In my opinion it
is only by the aid of negroes that We
ever can conquer our enemies. Some
contend that the object of the war has
been changed, because the mode Of con-
Quoting it has been. But that is a great
mistake. There can be only one consti-
tutional object in carrying on this war,
and that is, to stop the rebellion. This is
the object and the only object for which
armies have been raised, property seized,
prisoners taken, slaves liberated and men
killed. To do either of these acts for
any other reason except to put down the
rebellion, would be crime for which
the President and all other military off,
GERS might be punished. 1t is no more
illegal or unconstitutional to liberate a
slave than to shoot white man, and if
the President may shoot white men to
Year: 1863

The Tycoon of Japan recently sent to
President Lincoln notable gift, consist.
ing of metallic coat of mail The Ty-
coon evidently wishes our President to
be an "iroa. clad"


Three things as good as their bctters:
Dirty water to quench fire, an ugly
wife to blind man, and wooden sword
to coward.
Year: 1863

PRESERVING THE HAIR To pre-
vent thin hair and premature badness
first, keep clean scalp; second, never
wear the hair on a strain, or against the
direction of its growth; third, never APP
ply anything to it but soap suds or pure
water; fourth, wear ooso-Gtting, soft
hats; fifth, let men and children always
wear their hair very short, and both
men and women should brush the hair
great deal, using only coarse comb,
which should touch the scalp onIy-in
Year: 1863

MEMPHIS. The Union sentiment in
Memphis and vicinity is gathering
more strength daily. Over nineteen
thousand persons have already taken
the oath of allegiance. Many rebel
prisoners are included in this number.
Year: 1863




After'uhe Battle.


BI HORACE n. zISK.
It was a beauteous summer day,
The air very calm and still;
BIf many dying soldier lay
Upon the grass beneath the hill.
The battle thcro that day had ragged,
There brother lay beside his brother
A furious warfare had been waged
BY one brave man against another.
Some lay asleep, and some lay dead
The wounded too lay strewn around,
without a pillow for their head,
Except the bloody battle-ground
without n mothers hand to wipc
The death.dew from their marble brow
Perhaps that mother, far away,
Was thinking " tho soldier now
o, when will wicked wars 10 DER.
Aud battles never more be fought1
Not till all people Elm no more;
But love their Maker as they ought.
Year: 1863

T A horrible tragedy has occurred in
London. A man named Hunt hired q
cab, in which he drove out With bis wife
and two children. Stopping at an ale
house, he sent the cabman in for pint OF
beer, which was drank in ihs cab. AT
terward the man got out slcne, paid the
fare and told the cabman where to drive.
On reaching his destination the driver
found that his freight consisted only Of
three dead bodies-;he WON an and her
three children had been poisoned. Sub
sequently on being arrested, the murderer
himself took poison. The coroner's jury
have given verdict of murder and SUI
eide against Hunt, and he was therefore
buried at midnight, without religious
rites according to the old English Gus
tom.
Year: 1863

CHICKEN STEALING AT SHAKER SETTLE


NEET.-About one o'clock last night three


thieves, probably from this city, made a
predatory visit to the Shaker Settlement,
and killed between sixty and seventy fowls,
of valuable variety, which they found
there, and after placing the dead fowls in
bags, drove of with their booty. As they
were driving away some one heard them,


and suspicious being aroused pursuit was
made. The thieves were in one horse
wagon, which broke down before they
had got far away. Fearing capture, they then
unfastened the horse, one got upon his back
and rode of and the other two made as lively
use of their legs as the snow would permit
The pursuing Shakers finding themselves in
possession Ofa wagon as well as the stolen
fowls, did not continue the pursuit. A cruteh
was found in the wagon, which doubtless be-
lOnged to the thief who rode of on the horse.
We feel authorized to say that be can have
his crutch by calling on the Shakers and
proving property. The wagon and crutch I
may lead to the dstsotion Of tie cglprits.s
Year: 1863




The Blockade Question NJ Charleston.


The highly OolOred account of the affair
at Charleston was doubtless sent North on
Tuesday that it might go out in the foreign
steamer which sailed from Boston on that
day. Concerning the question of the
blockade being raised by any such raid as
that Of Ingraham's, the New York Evening
Post says:


HIf the Oharles:onians, in their hearts,
do not know it, the foreign consuls ought
to, that blockade only ceases when the
blockadeTs are efeetually driven off. A
temporary dispersion Of the feet, whether
by storm or by the violence Of the enemy,
does not destroy its effectiveness in the eye
Of the law. It must be actually, not YER
bslly, destroyed, just as 1t must be actual
y, not verbally, enforced. Beauregard's
silly declaration on paper can have no
more effect in changing the fact than a
similar declaration on paper by Secretary
Welles could have in creating the fact. He
and the consuls doubtless knew thisas well
Ss we do; bat as they knew also that
Charleston was soon to be assailed, they
thought it possible to make little whole
some preliminary sensation in Europe by
prOclaiming the siege At an end"
Year: 1863

The 5000 100000 bill which passed the
House was reported to the Senate with
important amendments. Only fifty mil
lions more greenbacks are authorized, in
stead of two hundred millions, which
makes an aggregate issue outstanding, in
Guiding the hundred millions already au-
thorized for the payment of the army and
navy, Of four hundred millions. The clause
Authorizing the issue of interest. bearing
notes, is modified, SO as to make them
legal tender for the amount expended on
heir face, and the payment of the interest


lawful money, instead of coin. The lat
ser provision is also made with respect to
certificates of indebtedness hereafter is
sued. A new clause prohibits the CONVEX
sion Of Treasury notes into bonds, at the
will of the holder, after the first of July.
The section taxing bank issues is amend
ed 50 as to impose a uniform lax of two
per cent. on all, the sliding scale being
stricken out.
Year: 1863

Now, there is q Democratic reaction


What does it mean It means that on the


fourth Of March, when the present Repub-


lissn Congress ceases to exist, if not called


together by the President to exert the
moral weight Of the existence of such a
legislative body in the Government-it
means BY Supreme Court that nobody is
certain he can trust, to create case, carry
1t before that bench as they did the Dred
Scott decision, anj, if previous to Janu-
ary, by the expectation Of an adverse de-
cision, and afterward by actual announce
ment of such a decision, they can throw
the Judiciary across the path of the Execu.
tive, and saying to the people, "Neither
the Emancipation Act of Congress, nor the
Proclamation of the President, is tenable
on Constitutional grounds y they can dis
arm the whole military movement of the
North, put back the preparations and pur
poses Of the Republican party, prepare the
way for an aImistiee, then for a Conven-
ton, then for the admission Of rebellious
States In that Convention, then a recon
struction on the slavery basis Of 81
Now any man who knows the purposes of
this renctionary party cannot doubt that
what l have sketched in these few SEN
tenees is far within, not beyond, the Pro-
gramme they cherish in their hearts
Whether. there be actual outbreak, whether
there be marshaling of States against the
General Government, against the partioi-
patton Of the East, as is supposed, in the
councils Of the nation, or not, as much as
l have intimated is undoubtedly the pro
gramme Of the party. How
IS 1t to be met Not BY politics tits to
be met partially by military successes. 1t
Is to be met-Bithin 80 or 100 days by
5Oo,OOO negroes on their feet, and when
that is done there is no political machinery
that can put this question back. Cheer
ing.)
Year: 1863

LocKJAw.-I have noticed, lately,
several deaths by lockjaw, and for tho
information of oil will give a certain
remedy. When any one runs . nail or
any sharp iron in any part Of his body,
take common smoking pipe, gil il with
tobacco, light it we'll, then take cloth
or silk handkerchief, place il over the
bowl Of the pipe and blow the smoke
through the stem into the wound. Two
or three pipesful will be sufficient TO set
the wound discharging. l have tried il
myself, and for others, and found it gave
imme mediate relief. If the wound has
been of some days standing, it will open
again if the tobacco is good. Try il,
any one who may chance to get such >
wound. Nep Yorker.
Year: 1863

Cast thy bread upon the waters for
thou shalt find it after many days"


Il wonder what it means ;" said
Hamilton Brent, half aloud, as he sat
looking into the bright anthracite, blaz-
ing with such pleasant light before
him. ''I'm quite sure that understand
what that man means when, after he
stopped me, asked for work, and looking
at his rags, | gave him something to do
in the lumber yard, more for humani-
tvs sake than the work, he took nv
warmly gloved hand in his cold one,
and repeated the scripture proverb that
M mother had so often taught me. I'm
sure was not casting bread" in the
sense | have always thought of it. Had
given poor man quarter, or poor
man some meat, it would have been
parallel case to this one. Both might
have remembered me for awhile, but
with numberless changes, the mercy of
my charity might not have returned to
bless me. The man may not come to
work, or if he does, only stay until he
gets little money, and then go to his
friends if he has any, and that may end
any relation We may at present or for
anv time sustain to each other


Thus in the heart Of the employer
the matter was laid to rest; but in
pair of other ones, the promise of work
bodins of many good things yet in store,
kept hope from growing feeble and sick
and then lying in despair. From the
House of Giles Davis-a home rendered
cherries now by want and suffering
went up many blessings for him who in
the darkest hour had befriended them,
and ] doubt whether the intelligence of
great fortune would have made that
young wife's heart lighter than did the
announcement of her husband. ITO
morrow, Ellen, l will have work-O, if
tomorrow were but here !"


Dreams, pleasanter than those that
for weeks had visited their pillow, came
to them that night, and before half of
his fellow laborers were thinking of their
daily task, Giles presented himself at the
Office door Of Hamilton Brent, to receive
bis share of the duties that fell to the
lot of the lumber dealer. Brent met
him at the door. His punctualitv, or
Year: 1863

IMMENSE BREACH-LoADING GUN.-
The Pittsburg Chronicle says : "Some
months ago we noticed the construction
here Of steel breech loading gun, the
invention of Mr.. Mann, capable of be-
ing discharged with the most extraordi-
nary rapidity. The gun was taken to
Washington and gave such satisfaction
in its trial there, that Mr.. Mann was
commissioned to make one of the largest
size on the same principle. He has been
to work on the new piece for several
weeks, and it is now so near completion
that in very short time it will be rca-
dy for service. The new gun will throw
a ball of the elongated pattern, weigh
ing one hundred and fifty pounds, and
will, it is stated, have a range of some
four miles. 1t can be fired with ease,
and without the slightest danger, one
hundred times in as many minutes, and
is so simple in all its parts that it will
be almost impossible for it to get out of
order. 1t is the largest breech loading
gun ever made in America, and its trial
will be looked for with moro than ordi-
nary interest"