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Year: 1865

For four years this country has beer
deluged in blood, a useless sacrifice upor
the altar Of unhallowed ambition. The
dark wing of war ovorshadowed the land


and we rushed under the cover of its


baleful shadow, and blindly followed the


originators Of our troubles to the verge


of the precipice of worse than Turkish


despotism Our property has been seized;


our personal rights and privileges wrested


from us taxes have been piled mountain


high upon us, and then Pelion placed up


on Ossa; our children and our sons have


been torn from us to bare their breasts to


the " leaden hail and iron RAIN" and, in


the sacred name Of Liberty, we have been


led, step BY step, to surrender almost the


last vestge Of liberty into the hands of
one who knew power only to abuse it,
and whose grasping ambition made him


reckless of the means in the prosecution
of his aims. From thrift and prosperity
we have been reduced to poverty; from
plenty to the brink of starvation; and
from happiness to abject misery. We had
never been sick, and knew not how to
appreciate health; we had never known
want or oppression, and knew not how to
appreciate plenty and freedom. We
plunged into war, and weeping and vail
ing have filed the land, and blood has
stained the earth.


And all for what? Not evon for an
abstraction. We can now realize The
fact that we were duped, as people, by
the wicked designs of bad men, who per-
verted the name of Freedom TO the at
tempted accomplishment of their own
base ends.


But the scene changes. The white
dove of peace is lowering over us. If we
entered upon the war with pleasure; we
bail the prospect of peace with rapture.
We sowed the wind and we have reaped
he whirlwind Would chat the past four
years could be blotted from the record of
lime Vain wish The dead can not
30 recalled-the past can not be undone. >
We can only look to the future and hope,
rusting in an all-wise and merciful God.
War stirred the bitter fountains of the
oul, but its sweet waters swell up at the
Welcome sound Of peace. Our recupera-
i've energies will astonish even ourselves,
md in few years We shall see the desc.
ate places blooming again. !
Year: 1865

Those are the sentiments of Andrew
johnson, President of the American Re
public. From such man the cause of
freedom and right has nothing to fear,
everything to hope. He deserves and
will have the confidence of every loyal
man,
Year: 1865

view of it which the government adopts
And till the government shall declare that
the rebellion no longer continues. the courts
must treat the habeas corpus as suspended
In the cases provided. J" This view of
the case was also adopted by Judge Lott
in the verbal announcement of this deci-
sion


We hope the Judge will find time to write
out his opinion. There are those in this
State, and elsewhere, who need yet 10 be en-
hghtened on the respective duties of the
State and Federal courts, and who need, al
SO, to be instructed that, politically, the re-
bellion still continues and will do so until
the restoration of peace and order and the
forms of law and government has so far pro-
gressed that the President shall feel himself
justified in announcing that we have again
returned to the normal condition of things
Hi then the courts. .aswell as the government,
must act as BELTS the existing state of at
fairs
Year: 1865

Oh there's power to make each hour
AS sweet as Heaven designed it;
Nor need we roam to bring it home,


Though few there be that find it.
we seek too high for things close by,
And lose what nature gave us;
For life hath here no charms so dear


AS home and friends around US.
We oft destroy the present joy


For future hopes-and praise them
Whilst flowers as sweet bloom at our feet,
Ii we'd but stoop to raise them.
For tn ings afar still sweeter are


when youths bright spell hath bound us :;
But soon we're taught that earth has naught


Like home and friends around us
The friends that speed in time of need,


When hopes last reed is shaken.
Do show US still that come what will,


We are not quite forsaken.
Though all were night if but the light


From friendships alter crowned us.
'Twould prove the bliss of earth was this
Our home and friends around US.
Year: 1865

REVIVE FADED BLACK CLoTHs. Boil
AND AND W when EN- the color color Is extracted drop IN a
piece of carbonate of iron, which is of the
same nature as rust of iron, as large as a
chestnut, let it boil. Have the coat or pan
falcons well sponged with soap and hot wa
ter, laying them on table and brushing
the nap down with a sponge.


Then take the dye on the table and sponge
them all over with the dye, taking care to
keep them smooth and brush downward
When completely wet with dye, dissolve a
teaspoonfull of salaratus in warm water,
and sponge all over with this, and it sets the
color so completely that nothing rubs off
They must not be wrung or wrinkled, but
carefully hung up to drain. The brownest
cloth may be made perfect black IN this
simnle manner
Year: 1865

In pursuance of the foregoing Res
olutions, the undersigned have been
appointed Committee to draw up
and present to you Memorial, setting
forth the injury likely to result to tho
business interests of our town and
surrounding country from the with
drawal Of the train referred to, and
also to submit for your consideration
some Of the reasons which induce us
to believe that the restoration and
permanent continuance Of said train
would be mutually advantageous to
the r.. r. Co. and the community
which we represent.


We are we'll aware that unless we
can show reasonable probability OF
the train proving profitable to your
Co. or at least sustaining ITSELF il
would be useless to ask its continu
ance We shall therefore dwell but
briefly upon the inconvenience to oul
citizens more directly resulting from
its withdrawal The delay Of sever
or eight hours in the receipt of oul
mails and newspapers from Cincin
natl may be mentioned as one Of tn,
most annoying consequences. Th'
season is close at hand when irregu
larities in the running of trains ar
unavoidable, which would frcquentl,
delay tho distribution of our mail un
til the morning after its arrival, thu
causing a loss of a whole day in busi
ness correspondence, where time ma,
be of the utmost Importance Th
loss of the valuable facilities for order
ing and receiving goods twice a da
by Express would be another sourc
Year: 1865

e The men have not been lacking who have
asserted that, among those who would not in
sist upon full guarantees from the rebels, who
would oppose the views of New England gem
orally, and insist upon allowing the rebel
states to come back and resume their normal
relations in the Union on their own condi-
tions, would be. Names distinguished Sena-
tor. Why any one should have so inferred or
so expected we know not, for Mr. Fessenden
has said no word, done no act to justify any
such inference. 4sl -u l..rE.3


But the matter Is set right now. He ac-
cords fully with the large majority of Republi-
can Senators, and fully endorses their action
in relation to the treatment of the delegations
sent up from the South to the American Con-
gress, nor does he feel disposed to surrender
his own judgment lest by refusal to do so he
should embarrass any plan of reconstruction,
no matter whether that of the President or of
any other man. eafssI 10 ei q


In the Senate on Wednesday last as we
learn from 1Perley's" dispatch to the Boston
Journal, Mr.. Fessenden took occasion to COM
plain in the Senate of the manner in which
his remarks on the reconstruction resolution
were reported for publication throughout the
country. He commenced those remarks by
saying that he believed that the appointment
of a committee fully selected by the two
Houses, to take the subject of the readmission
of the so-called Confederate States into con-
sideration, was not only wise in ITSELF but an
imperative duty resting upon the representa-
tiyes of the people in the two branches OF
Congress. ..r .--. .-... .... .-


"For myself" said Mr.. Eessenden, "I was
not prepared to act upon that question at onca.
l am not one Of those who pin their faith up-
on anybody, however eminent in position. or
who consider themselves obliged, on a Question
OF great national Importance, to follow out
anybody's opinions, simply because he is in a
position to make those opinions perhaps some
what more imperative than any other citizen
of the Republic. Talk about the administra-
ton, sir, we are part of the administration,
ana very important part Of it. have no
idea OF abandoning the prerogatiyes the rights
and duties of my position in favor of anybody,
however that person or any number OF per-
sons may desire it. In saying this L am not
ABOUT TO express an opinion upon the subject
any further than have expressed it, and that
Is, that i'll question OF such infinite lmpor-
lance as this, involving the integrity and well


fare OF the Republic in all future time, we are
solemnly bound and our constituents viii de-
| mand.o of us that we examine them with care
ana fidelity, and act on our own convictions,
| and not upon the convictions Of otherl"


After discussing the resolution and allud-
ing to the points made by other gentlemen
who had preceded him, Mr.. Fesssnden allud-
ed to the remark of Mr.. Doolittle, that by
passing this Committee the Senate would make
an intimation with regard to the polly that
Year: 1865

at $50, 900, 900 for the nine months, and Il
will probably not exceed that sum. The
amount 10 be thus derived will depend, In .
great measure, upon the sales Of gold that
the Treasury may have in excess Of its wsnts)
and the rate of premium at which 1t is sold
This premium being new receipt Of moneys
in the Treasury, forms a part Of what Is
termed miscellaneous receipts" Should
there be large receipts from abandoned prop
crty, the estimate may be too small.


Any attempt on the part of the press to
show an improved condition of the Treasury,
over and above the exhibit of the Secretary,
will, we are assured, II successful, be hailed
by him with great pleasure. But his own
opinion, as expressed above, of the brighter
prospect ahead, is truly cheering newsto the
country, and is highly croditable to the sd-
of the Treasury Department.
Year: 1865

The press Of the country has commented
very extensively upon the report of the hon.
orable Secretary Of the Treasury on the state
Of the finances. Nearly all the articles that
We have seen express the greatest surprise at
the favorable exhibit made of the present
condition and future prospects of the coun-
try, especially with reference to the pay.
ment Of the national debt incurred by the
war.


We have observed that some Of the leading
journals Of the country in the support of the
Administration express the opinion that the
estimates for the remainder Of the fiscal year
arc too high, and that the proceeds from the
revenue tax are put down at too small
figure.


We have taken considerable care to ascer-
tain what the real facts are concerning the
present and future of our national finances,
and are able and permitted to speak author
itstively on the subject


The Secretary Of the Treasury in making
bis estimates for the balance of the fiscal
year, was determined to be the safe side.
He has now good reasons for being satisfied
that the wants Of the War Department will
not amount to anything like ichat he 'caS lea
to suppose thy rrOuId. Many circumstances
have occurred, since the estimates were
made, to warrant the conclusion now reached
and believed by the Secretary to be correct
He is very confident that he can get
along, during the present year, without fur.
ther loan, and without increasing the public
debit and he is of the opinion that next year
he will certainly be able to diminish it very
much.


In the matter Of the estimated receipts for
the last nine months of the present fiscal
year it was calculated that the receipts from
customs would be 800, 900, 900. 1t is true,
tho receipts from that source during the first
quarter Of that year were s47, 900, 900; but it
by no means follows that similar results are
to follow for the ensuing nine months. The
heavy receipts for the first quarter were
caused principally from the demand to sup
ply the States lately in rebellion, which had
become, during the war, nearly bare of i'm
ported articles. They have now been partly
supplied, and it is supposed importations for
this purpose will be much less for the re,
mainder Of the year and consequently the
receipts from that source for the nine months
above referred to will not exceed the estimate


The receipts from internal revenue are
estimated for the mine months at SI75,-
900, OO0


The receipts from this source for the first
quarter were $9c 900, 900, but during this
period the annual income tax was collected,
which Of course swelled the receipts largely
beyond what could be calculated upon for
the remaining quarters. The Commissions
Of Internal Revenue was decidedly Of the
opinion that 1t would not be safe to estimate
The rsosiptS for the nine months beyond
SI7s, 900. 900.


The miscellaneous receipts are estimated
Year: 1865

A correspondent of the National Atelli-
gencer writing from the City of Mexico, says
that Macmillan made an extraordinary
speech" there on the 10Th ult., the forty
fourth anniversary of Mexican independence,
intended, undoubtedly, as warning to the
United States!' The writer proceeds to say


If anybody has been under the impression
that Macmillan was about quitting Mexico
because be wished to avoid complications
with us, he has been grievously mistaken
Wishing to commit himself irrevocably to re.
main in Mexico, he said:


'sNo influence in this world can make me
waver in my duty; every drop of my blood
is Mexican now, and if God sends fres dan
gers to threaten our country you will see me
fight in your ranks for its independence and
integrity I am willing to die at the foot Of
our glorious banner, because no human pow
er can wrest from the trust with which
you have endowed me-"


No more direct menace could be made to
the United States. Macmillan has now
gone too far ever to say that he has been
mistaken, and that the Mexican people do
not desire imperial institutions. 1t Ia evil
dent, from the tenor of advices from Paris,
that this determination of Maximilian, as
we'll as the abandonment Of the journey Of
his wife to Belgium, are the result of direct
orders from Napoleon, who is determined to
meet the issue.
Year: 1865

TuE great collapse OF 1857 was caused by
an inflated currency, which at that time
ammounied TO Two hundred and fifteen
millions At The present we have circu-
lating medium of seven hundred and 6fIy
millions; more than three times the circula-
tion in 1857, when all The States were inclu
ded If we include the Stale Bank crcuIa-
lion, the paper issues Of lhe county would
make grand aggregate of over nine hun
dted millions. What then may we expect
when this immense bubble bursts We are
fast nearing lee shore, with brakers ahead,
and our advice is TO take in sail There is
entirely TOO much canvass spread TO the
breeze, and the storm is surely coming
Cleoyfeld Republican.
Year: 1865

of social order, of even-handed justice,


and the freedom and happiness Of


mankind? We have only to cite the


fact that it has been their study and
sole policy to perpetuate an aristocra-
cy-the most despotic and cruel on
earth--to reduce by brute force, to the
condition of the brutes, men, by ma
ture, as free as themselves, to hold and
treat them as chattels the same or
even worse than their cattle, Swine
and dogs ! Has it not been patent


with them and to all the world to
practice the most extreme cruelty of
which their hellish ingenuity was ca
pable of inventing such as burning
their slaves alive at the stake, and
other kindred acts Some have done
these things while the masses have
approved and endorsed them. Then
what is the record of their treatment
of those whom they have gotten into
their power during the war? Let Lib
by Prison and Belle Isle answer. Let
Salisbury, N. c., add its testimony to
the record. Let Andersonville speak
out, and what is the character fo- hu-
manity, for the love of human happi-
ness, of human freedom, which that
testimony will establish for them
Wirz was only the catspaw for the
mass of rebel conspirators. From
what is seen of the great majority of
the masses of both sexes, there is no
lack of bitter feeling, of enmity and
cruelty entertained among them,
towards both the whites and blacks
of those who stand opposed to their fa-
vorite institution, slavery. Note the
diabolical cruelties and barbarisms
which characterize them as people
at this present hour, so clearly demon
strated in their conduct towards the
inoffensive blacks.


These facts which are patent to all
the world, and which need no proof,
are sufficient to show the almost GER
tain tendency of the future action of
the same set Of men, unless it be clearly
shown that they have changed their
position and materially reformed.
Have we any evidence of this ? Their
professions merely. But how do these
professions comport with the train of
facts here adduced, and which l will
still further disclose to view in fu-
ture letter. PETER PERDY.


Perdyiile, Ill.,, Nor. 8, 1865.
Year: 1865

LET A PUPPY BE ATTACHED TO Eve! !!
In the course of some conversation
in relation to dogs. Governor Ander-
son, of Ohio, related Texan practice
in training dogs with sheep. A pup is
taken from its mother before its eyes
are opened. and put with eme to
suckle. After few times the eve be-
comes reconciled to the pup, which fol-
lows her like lamb. grows up among
and remains with the aock, and no
wolf, man, or strange dog can come
near the sheep, and the dog will bring
the flock to the fold regularly at half
past seven o. clock, in the evening, il
you habitually feed him at that hour.
Year: 1865

A Little daughter of Greasy. of the
Cressey Hotel. at Detroit, on Friday
night went into the room adjoining the
one where she slept, to get cup of
water, and was shot and instantly kill.
ed by q man who mistook her for q
burglar.
Year: 1865

A SMART EpIroR.-On the very morning
that Lee surrendered to Grant, and before il
got the news. the Detroit Free Press. Copper
head. said: The failure OF the combinations
OF General Grant are now so manifest that
the most inexperienced in military matters can
perceive it. We pronounced Grant hum
bug, and see no reason TO change our opinion
of him."
Year: 1865

As He President johnson is
man OF medium stature, compact and strong
built, Of dark complexion and deep set black
eyes He is of bilious temperament, of strong
intellect, indomitable energy and iron will, in
whose character the strongest feature of all is
that OF stern justice, mingled with a genuine
hatred OF all forms of aristocracy aud oppres
sion, and patriotism so ardent that it amounts
10 passion, almost religion.
Year: 1865

IHE GROWTH OF COURAGE ON THE BATTLE
FlELD.-A reasoning man, with love of ad-
venture, at first feels alarmed: and his i'm
pulse is to run away and if he has no
motive to stand he probably does run. But
at each additional exposure he grows less
timld, and after hearing canister and grape
about his ears dozen times, begins to think
he Is not destined 30 be hurt. He still feels
rather uneasy, perhaps; but the danger ac-
quires sort Of fascination; and though be
does not wish to be hit he likes To have mar
row escapes, and so voluntarily places him
self in a position where be can incur more
risk. After little he begins to reason the
matter, and reflect on the doctrine of proba-
bilities, and how much powder and lead is
necessarily wasted before any man is killed
or wounded Why should he be, he thinks,
so much more unlucky than many other
people.


So reasoning, he soon can bear the whizz-
ing of bullets with tolerable degree of
equanimity. though he involuntarily lodges
or tries to dodge, the cannon balls and shell
that goes bowling about his immediate neigh
borhood. In the afternoon he is quite a
different creature from what he was in the
morning, and unwittingly smiles to see
man betrav the same trepidation which he
himself exhibited only few honrs before
The more he is exposed to fire, the better he
can bear it, and the timid being Of to day
becomes the hero Of tomorrow and h who
runs from danger on his first battle field, may
run into it on the next, and court the hazard
once so dreaded. Thus courage, as it is
styled, is little more, with most men. than
custom; and they soon learn to despise
what is threatened without causing them
harm.
Year: 1865

A NOVEL UMBRELLA-The latest wonder
ful discovery announced is by a Frenchman,
who claims that by an application of electric
ity to small mechanical apparatus, that can
be carried in the end OF walking stick, and
by holding the same, so prepared and charg-
ed over his head after the manner of an UNI
brela. he can avert the rain entirely from
his person. lie is said to have repeatedly
tested the efficacy of his electrical apparatus
by passing through the streets of the place
where he resides, during heavy rain storm.
with his cane held after the manner of an
umbrella, when by some unseen agency the
particles OF water are repelled in every direc


ion from the point of the cane, whilst he
walks through the midst of the shower with,
out beng wetted by the falling water.
Year: 1865

The STRATEGY OF A MARQUIs.-The Mar
quIs of Waterford was in the habit of riding
in the second class carriages of the railroad
in his vicinity. Such a course verv highly
disgusted the proprietors, and they resolved
to cure the Marquis, as they said, of his &c
eentricity. Accordingly, on one occasion.
as he was sitting in second class carriace
a sweep, who had previously been in the
third-class compartment, was invited out.
and placed by the Marquis side His lord
ship Immediately got out, aud purchased a
frst-class ticket on delivering which to him
the clerk laughed, as if the company had
gained a victory. But Lord Waterford
quietly returned to the train, gave the first
class ticket to the sweep, grayely escorted
him to his place of honor, and then resumed
his own place in the second class. from which
the proprietors never again sought to remove
him
Year: 1865

WHAT Ex REBEL OFFICERS ARE DoING.-A
late number of the n. O. Plcayune says that
one OF the distinguished Major Generals in
the Confederate service from that State is
about tn take charge of the construction and
repair of the wharves for one of the contrac-
tors with the city. Two Brgadiers have
already secured places in the Commercial
Express Company. One Brisadier is pros
perously engaged in the business of boss
drayman. There are other Generals who
are spoken of as civil engineers on our rail-
roads. Almost every store has Colonel or
Major. There are three distinguished Colo
nels extensively engaged in the auction
business. One Colonel who has heretofore
directed big guns with great skill and hero
ism in some Of the fercest battles of the
war, is now selling bale rope and bagging
another, who was one of Stonewall jackson S
favorite regimental commanders. is pressing
cotton as vigorously as he pressed General
Banks rear at Winchester
Year: 1865

1t will be seen by this comparison that
many articles are one hundred per cent,
but most of them from two 10 three hundred,
higher than they were five years ago. Yet
some of the farmers and others who now
receive these fabulous prices for the pro-
ducts of their labor, complain at high prices,


If the comparison were extended further
Into the cost of clothing, dry goods and
articles indispensable 10 the household we
should find an equal or larger advance.
Statesman.
Year: 1865

The white population of the District Of
Columbia is 10 the black as four to one,
but the statistics of the War Department
show that two black soldiers were raised
10 one white. The whites furnished ], ,75O
soldiers almost entirely by drafting; the
blacks $500, and nearly all by volunteer
ing; yet during the war it was impossible
Tor a negro to leave this city to go North
without passport.