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Year: 1864

The Philadelphia Ledger, creditng the
report that the siege of Charleston is to be
rased says:


The result proves tolerably conclusivelv
that the Admiral has but little faith in the
offensive qualities of the irouclads, and that
though they are capable of enduring a vast
amount Of hammerng, they are not capable,
in return, of inflicting injury, either upon
stone walls or sand batteries, equal to what
they themselves would be exposed to in the
time necessary to do it, The defect of the
Monitors for offensive work appears to be
their slow firing, arising from carrying only
of two guns, and they having to revolve the
whole circumference of the turret, whose
great weight necessarily makes the work a
slow one. Whether this is such defect as
to destroy the utility for war purposes of
such class OF vessels we will leave for naval
experience to decide; but it seems well estab
lished now, that if we want to reduce such
forts as defend Charleston harbor, we must
have vessels capable Of dischargng rapid
broadside fire to make them equal to the
force with which they must contend.


The attack and defense of this harbor is
one of the most remarkable events Of the
war, and the experience gained will 90 far
to settle many of the questions which have
recently arisen in military and naval circles
as to the efficiency Of new powers and the
new mechanical construction which science
has introduced into modern warfare. The
raising of the siege by no means stops all
operations against the city The land bat
teries will probably still keep up slow fire
on the city, so as to make it an uncomforta
bic place to live in, and prevent troops from
occupying it n any large numbers There
is evidently other work intended for the
military, for it is no longer concealed that
alarge military and naval force is collecting
in the Gulf, for operations at some point
not yet certain, and which, it is supposed, is
to co. operate with some movement in the
military plans for the coming campaign.


RE ENLIsTMENTs OF THE CALIFORNIA Vol,
UNTERs ON THE Rio GRANDE.-A California
volunteer writing on 9th January from
Fort Whippe, Arizona, to the Amador Lel-
ger says


On the Rio Grande there is considerable
excitement about enlistng in the veteran
corps. About 100 of the First California
Infantry re-enlisted. The Amador Noun
taineers are all going home first, the furlough
granted veterans being too short to admit
of their coming home and returning in time.
don't think any o. them will re'enlist until
they are discharged. We have no commits
stoned officer with US that started with us.
Year: 1864

We fully agree with contemporary who
declares that they who believe the Peace
party faction, reckon without their host
Its adherents are found in every State dis
trict, county, town, villinge and neighbor.
hood throughout the land, South as we'll as
North. From the Arstook to the far off
'far west" loses itself in the sands of
the Pacific, are those who dem and
peace for our distracted and war-rent coun
try, and day by day, hour by hour their
ranks are swelling, not with the timid and
'rresolute, but with the brave and patriotic
and honest hearts of men who nsver feared
danger for themselves, but who see it and
feel for their country.


No party ever before rose with principles
pnrer, better or more patriotic. Its forma,
tion was forced by the mad acts of our rulers
N trampllng the Constitution under foot,
and seeking to change our Republican form
OF Government from representative democ
racy to a despotism. Even now, growing as
the Peace party is, its members would glad,
ly hazard the results of national battle on
a platform demanding peace, and thus bde
the fate of battle with peace against its AM
tagonist war principle, and agree to abide
with cheertulness by the result; for we know
that wherever the principles of peace have
been boldly avowed, and candidates stood
broadly on peace platform, they were eth
er successful or had largely increased vote,
And thus must it ever be, when men advo-
cate a principle which will save a country
from anarchy and misrule and restore peace
to land filed with bloodshed and death
In the final success of the peace men is the
last and only hope of the Republic. That
success will attend their efforts we think
there is no doubt, and the guilty Belshazzar
never saw the handwriting on the wall, the
Meme, meme, tehel upharsan of his eternal
overthrow more clearly, nor yet with more
guilty conscience or greater terror than do
our rulers see The onward movement of the
great Peace party. Peace is life and pros
perity to the nation: to them is political
death and utter ruin. BLESSED are the
Peacemakers.' Penn. Je6ersonian.
Year: 1864




AN ACT extending the time for the


completion of the Marquette and


Ontonagon railroad, of the State OF


Michigan.


BE u enacted by the Senate and Hous
Of Representatives. Of the United States
of america in Congress assembled, That
the time limited for the completion of
the Marquette and Ontonagon railroad,
of the State of Michigan, be, and the
same is hereby. extended for the term
of five years beyond the time fixed
for its completion by the act of Con
gress of June third, A. ID. eighteen
hundred and fifty-six, entitled "Ar
act making grant Of alternate sec,
tons of the public lands to the State
of Michigan to aid in the construction
of certain railroads in said State. and
for other purposes :" Pr0rided, That
the State of Michigan shall have the
same control over the said grant OF
lands hereby extended for five years,
for the benefit of said railroad, which
was given to said State under said
original act of Congress and said
State may prescribe the time within
which the several sections of said
road shall be completed.


Approved, June Is, 1854.
Year: 1864

AN ACT to amend an act entitled ".An


act to enable the people of Colora,


do to form a constitution and State


government, and for the admission


of such State into the Union on an


equal footing with the original


States"


BE Il enacted by the Senate and House
Of Representatives. Of the United States Of
Ameriea IN Congress assembled, That
so much of the fifth section of the act
to which this act is an amendment as
provides by ordinance for submitting
the constitution to the people of said
State for their ratification or rejection,
at an election to be held On the second
Tuesday of October, be so amended
as to read, on the second Tuesday in
September, and that the election, for
the purposes aforesaid, be held on that
day instead of the second Tuesday in
October.


Approved, June Is, 1864.
Year: 1864

land settled upon by them to the ex


tent to which the same had been re-
duced to possession at the time of sait
adjudication of said Supreme Court
joint entries being admissible by CO.
terminous proprietors, in order that
their respective boundaries may be
adjusted in accordance with their sc v.
eral possessions.


Sec. 3. And be IL further enacted,
That all claims within the purview of
this act shall be presented to the reg
lister and receiver within twelve
months after the return of such sur.
veys to the district land Office, accom-
panied by proof of settlement, and
the extent to which the tracts claimed
had been reduced into possession at
the time of said adjudication and
thcreupOn each case shall be adiudg-
ed by the register and receiver, under
such instructions as shall be given by
the Commissioner of the General Land
Office, to whom the proof and adjudi-
cation shall be returned by the local
land Office, and no adjudication shall
be final until confirmed by the said
Commissioners: Prouided, That the
confirmation by said Commissioners
shall be conclusive and final between
coterminous proprietors, and the cor.
rectness thereof shall not be open to
contestation in any action at law or
suit in equity between them or be-
tween parties claiming under them by
title subsequent: And prorided, fHrth-
cr, That any claim not brought before
the register and receiver within twelve
months, as aforesaid, shall be barred,
and the lands covered thereby, with
any other tracts within the limits of
said rancho, the titles to which are
not established under this act, shall
be dealt with as other public lands,
but subject to the adjudicated boun-
daries of the claims which are pre-
sented within the limit of the time
prescribed as aforesaid Prorided,
That no person under the provisions
of this act shall be allowed to enter
greater quantity of land than three
hundred and twenty acres.


Approved, June IL, 1854.
Year: 1864




INTERNATIONAL HorEL. New YORK,
. August Is, 1864.


EDITOR INrElLiGENcER After brief
sojourn in New England, here l am
again. adding one more to the tide OF
living beings who for pleasure or busi'
ness find their way to the great com.
mercial metropolis Of the United
States-the London Of the Western
hemisphere. If an individual is apt
to think too highly Of self and his OF
her abilities and importance-and who
has not at some time IA visit to such
place cannot fail to impress .
thoughtful mind with the great truth
that we are but individual units Of the
great hupan family, and that the
busy world would move on with
out us


In a large city the extremes Of SO
Year: 1864

A spirited and patriotic lady IN
Michigan, who has lost one son by reb-
el bullets, and has another in the ar.
my, said, on reading that the assump-
ton of the rebel war debt was one Of
the conditions of peace, that she nev.
er would pay q cent Of it, but would
die in defence of her property before
it should contribute to so vile tax.
This lady might with honor change
garments with any copperhead.
Year: 1864

A large black bear was lately trap
ped on the Green Mountains. Bruin
dragged the trap and a clog weighing
forty pounds, to tree twenty rods
distant, aud climbed the tree to the
hight Of thirty feet. Here the trap
and fixtures became entangled in the
limbs and he was subsequently, found
and shot
Year: 1864

There are at present some 5000
workmen employed in the Springfield,
Mass, arsenal. Before the war about
six hundred muskets were turned out
in a month, but now as many thou
sand are turned out in a week.
Year: 1864

Our CEA1Rs.-Ane eminent physician, spaak-
ing of cur chairs, remarks that they are 100
high and too nearly horizontal We slide for
ward, and our spines ache. The seat shonld
be fifteen OF sixteen inches high IN front for
men, and from eight to fourteen inches for
children and women. The back part OF the
seat should be from one TO three inches lower
than the front part. This last is very impor-
tart. The depth of the seat from front to bacz
should be the eama as the height. The chair
back is likewise unphilosophical. The part
which meets the small OF the back should pro-
ject furthest forward. Instead OF this, at that
point there is generally q hollow. This Is the
cause OF much pain and weakness in the small
OF the back The present seats produce dis
comfort, round shoulders and other distor-


tious,
Year: 1864

On the corner of Wall and Front streets in
the city of Jeffersonville, Indiana, stands an an
cient brick building, which was used in the OIL
den time as a hotel. Of this building we have
heard many romantic tales and traditions of ev-
cry hue and character are associated with it by
the old citizens of the place. 1t was once the
rendezvous of desperate class of people, and
many dark and bloody crimes are known to have
been committed within its walls. Many inno-
cent and unsuspecting girls have been lured to
this house and their ruin accomplished, and it
is believed that not few Of these unfortunate
victims have met with violent deaths by their
seducers.


The building is in avery dilapidated condi-
tion, but was purchased few days since by
the Jeffersonville Railroad Company, on account
of the room it affords for offices. In repairing
the building the workmen took up the old floor,
and, 10 their astonishment discovered the re-
mains of several of the young ladies supposed
to have been murdered in the house years ago,
together with the skeleton of an infant, wrap
ped in cloth. The remains of the unfortunate
creatures have reposed for, perhaps, upwards of
thirty years beneath the floor of this notorious
house, and, until very recently, it has been oc-
cupied by different persons during this entire
period The maidens whose skeletons are now
exhumed, had they lived, would be old ladies',
and the innocent babe would now be in the mer.
idian of life. In all probability their murder
ers have ere this passed from the earth, and
rendered their account to the Great Tribunal
that visits justice upon all who escape the pen
atty Of their crimes in this world.-Lou jour.
Year: 1864

Go where he lives, and ask the poor,
Does ne give thee OF his store
Yes We get the prompt reply,
lie never yet did us deny.
FOR when we have no bread nor meat,
Nor shoes to wear upon our feet,
We 20 to him by hundreds, and
He kindly takes Va by The hand
And leads US through his spacious halls,
And then for bread and meat he calls.
And when we are with eating through,
He eiads and gives us money, loo.
Therefore, we do In him cohfide
As one who has been thoroughly tried,
Aud owed to be q friend, AMI more
Than a father to the poor.
And as regards his sense and skill,
The mace which now he seeks ~ dil,
There Ia no one more competent
Beuesth yOn shining armament.
Then let as try do all we can
For lhis good and virtuous man
The man so kind TO high and low,
should never 10 the army 60


For he can raise US corn and wheat,
Potatoes, too, and lots Of meat,
And feed the poor, aud send away
Much to the army every day
He is a ffieAd to bond and Tree;


lie cheers Us ali, and those that be
In the grass, with hands but lew,
He ploWs our cora, aud weeds u too,
And does nUt charge one single cent.
over grief he does lament,


And vilh free and cheerful heart
Kind aid 10 us he does imPart


therefore, at home he ought TO stay,
10 wipe our falling tears away,
And MAKE US bread, and make us meat,
And other thin2s we have TO eat.


'iy12-lts D.
Year: 1864

The money market was again plethoric to-day.
and the rate of interest may now be considered
fairly below the legal standard. Mr. Chase con.
tinues to crowd il his interest bearing legal ten
ders. which are taking tho places OF the green
backs, and forcing them from their quiet retreats
into general circulation thus Initiating the cur
rency and adding fresh stimulus to the spirit Of
speculation. And this is likely to go on FOR some
time to come, as it is well known that the Secre-
tsry Of the Treasury is now nearly hundred mil
lions Short of the necessary funds to meet his
payments, with no immediate means TO supply
his want, except through the channel OF
tic four hundred raii.ion forced loan known as
thr FIVE per cent Treasury notes. Every dollar
Of those notes which leaves The Treasurya, Wash
ington ADDS Just tlot amount to the volume OF
currency, and contributes to make what is termed
az easy rncney market, IT does more than this.
II helps to buoy up stocks, which arc always ready
and eager to respond to the announcement that
there Is an abundance Of money. ~ exhibited
il inc sales TO-DAY. aad crowns tuem with Z hc
ttioas value. II advances the premium on cola
and gives Impulse to gambling The public see
this, ana viii OF course take advantage OF the
golden harvest which is spread before them. AS
the bulk of circulation continues to be enlarged 50
will the prices Of nearly all descriptions Of stocks
continue to rise without the aid or influence Of
bulls or stock iobbers "cornersr and Outsiders
can buy without fear Of breakdown before the
four hundred millions Of legal tender interest.
bearing notes are exhausted.


The quotations at the gold exchange to-day
roia
Year: 1864

Certain aromatic plants, not food In
themselves, but used to flavor and make
other food more agreeable, are called
sweet herbs. These are more or less
used in every family. and it is much
cheaper to raise them than to buy them
and they may be had thus Of a better
quality than as usually found in the shops.
Sage and Tyhne are perennial. but they
will give a moderate crop the first year
from the seed. Sage may be transplant
ed to foot apart each way and Thyme
to half that distance. After the frst
year the stock can be increased by divid.
ing the plants or BY cuttings, Summer
Savory, Sweet Marjoram and Sweet Basil
are the most generally cultivated annual
herbs. The plants may be thinned out
three inches, or be transplanted to that
distance in rows foot apatr Ali these
aromatic plants are cultivated for their
leaves and should be cut just as they come
into flowers. Sage ard thyme do not gen.
orally blossom the first year. These
should be cut before frost They should
all be gathered on dry day and tied in
bunches or spread to dry In the shade in
an airy room. Afterwards strip from the
stems and keep in close boxes or cans
Pirsley, thoug ght, not be oag.ng to the
sweet herbs should not be forgotten Is il
is always in request in the kitchen as
Aav oring ingredient for soups, stews sauces
and as garnishing ornament to dishes Of
meat and fish. The doubled curled is the
handsomest variety, and though not ~
strong as the plain is generally preferred.
The seed is several weeks in terminating
it should be sown in April. ip light rich
soil. in drills foot apart and thinned out
to six inches. A portion may be sown
in the summer for keeping over the win
ter, which may be done by covering of
liter, or codar boughs. Plants may be
taken up and set in box or tub
of earth in light cellar where they will
grow and afford supply for winter use,
or the leaves may be gathered and care
fully dried.
Year: 1864

THI Coal SCPPtr The Miners Jour-
aal estimates that the consumers Of coal
will be taxed at least three millions Of
dollars this year in consequence of the
lawless violence which prevailed in the
Pennsylvania coal region last Summer,
and attributes the difficulties among the
workmch, which suspended work at the
mines, entirely to the Copperhead resist
ance to the draft. 1t says:


t" All this violence is directly traeeable
to the political Copperhead leaders and
scoundrels who have kept the masses in a
constant state of excitement by the infa-
nous falsehoods they have promulgated
against the Government. and palliating
and sanctioning the scenes of violence
which have disgraced some parts of our
country. and nearly destroyed the value
Of property in these districts"


The great falling of in the supply Of
coal produces higher prices at the mines,
and spectators add two or three hundred
per cent, to the legitimate rise. Never
theless. as work is now fully resumed,
and about one hundred Thousand tons
find their ways to market weekly, it is
probable that the extreme prices will fall
to more reasonable standard soon after
the full resumption Of canal navigation.
Year: 1864

s. Kryder, of Ohio, writes in the Rural
New Yorker, strongly recommending
sowing corn as fodder. and pointing out
the same course of culture that we have
recommended for many years past, viz:
Furrowing out, strewing the seed in the
furrow. and covering with q harrow /; but


he sows only bushel and half of seed
per acre, which is only about one half tho
quality we have generally recommended
for such drills. 1t is true that when
thinly seeded the corn will be taller, and
would be pronounced by a superficial OBJ
server as a heavier crop then from thick
er seeding. But on weighing, the latter
will not only be found the heaviest, but
viii be and softer, and more readily eaten
by cattle. We have weighed crop sown
at the rate of bushel and half per acre.
or at the rate of twenty grains per foot
in be furrow, and compair it, by weigh
ing with another crop, with three bushel
of seed per acre. or forty grains to the
foot The latter was found to yield
crop one-third more in weight. This
rule, however, will not apply to Sorghum
for fodder, as it will not bear growing 50
thick, the larger stalks outgrowing and
entirely smothering down the small ones.
Year: 1864

MODERN ECONOMY OF TrME.-The Sci.
entific American thus shows how time
has been economical by the application Of
machinery:


One man can spin more cotton yarn
than four hundred men could have done
in the same time in 1859, when Ark
wright, the first cotton spinner, took out
the first patent.


One man can make as much -four in
one day now as hundred and fifty could
a century ago.


One woman can now make as much
lace in one day as hundred women
could a hundred yeers ago.


1t now requires only as many days to
refine sugar, as it did months thirty years
ago. f -.


1t once required six months to put
quicksilver on glas now it needs only
forty minutes.


The engine Of frst-rate iron-clad
frigate will perform az much work in one
day as forty-two thousand horses.
Year: 1864

VoTINs IN CAMp.-The Rochester
Democrat, in discussing the question Of
voting in camp, has the following:


"We have seen an election carried on
in the Army of the Potomac. A regi-
ment of Ohio Cavalry cast their solid
vote against Vallandigham, voting while
in the saddle, and facing the enemy, on
the morning of day Of almost incessant
battle. And that act of the Ohio soldiers
citizens in 10y al Understanding in line
across the road at Brandy Station, each
right hand grasping the ready sabre,
which in an hour was to hew the Rebels
in front, and the left depositiug the ballot
which was to rout the Copperheads in the
rear it was one of the most sublime and
significant spectacles we have ever wit
messed, and how truly American !
Year: 1864

A NEw YoHK correspondent of the
Boston journal touches upon delicate
subject in the following:


New York is in danger Of plague
from new source. The cars, omnibuses
and public conveyences are infected with
vermin. Many ladies refuse to ride in
them Many imagine that they are be-
set when they are not. But the nuisance
is far from imaginary"
Year: 1864

These prisoners. we understand, will be fur
nished with comfortable quarters in that por-
tiOn of the city most exposed to the enrlny's
fire. The commanding officer on Morris Is
land will be duly notified OF the fact of their
presence in the shelled district and If his ba
t.res still continue thier wanton and bartxsl-
ou- work. it will be at the peril of the captive
officers