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Year: 1863

For one stereotyped phase in our
Washington dispatches We were never, Of
yore, very grateful and have still less
reason to be so ut the present time. Let
no penncr Of dispatches, general or special,
from the capital, waste electric force by
transmission to the public Of the stale and
nonsense that the Government is entirely
satisfied with the situation. The
people are not whining children
to he deluded with the pretence that pull
ing teeth docs not hu1t, and TINT the Offices
ofthe surgeon are no cause OF pain. There
is in the present situation most abundant
cause for anxiety in both rulers and peo-
r}e. The rebels are carrying out their
threat Of transferring the theatre Of WET
no1thward. They are now within
the borders Of Pennsylvania in heavy
force. The dispatches no longer
seek 10 conceal the situation There is
anxiety at Washington, not cowardly
lear, but solicitudc, the finest attribute Of
1nanliness. when it is the parent Of great
deeds.


We still belicye that Washington IS the
point really threatened By Lee, and the
activity with which he is collecting stores
and forage is indicative Of the size
of lis army and the persistent intent
of lis errand. BE is getting TO-
gether material to subsist great army
Tor great undertaking. It is the great
crisis of the war precipitated suddenly
npor us. II it rouse the whole people to
earnest, immediate, and devoted action, it
can have but one result, and that foz the
Tuion, and the utter discontinue and rout
Of the rebels.
Year: 1863

ton Of whether the Federal Government
has power to reach and punish its enc
mics, and whether it may make promptly
dangerous to its advocates all utterance
and printed dissemination Of Treason.
No one doubts the present OF past inten-
tons Of Vallandigham- No sane man be-
Ieyes him to be other than what he is, the
enemy Of this Government. viii it make
any difference in: his case, because his
teachings have poisoned the Cop
pcrhead Democracy Of Ohio until
they demand him as 1eader2
The very fact is proof itself Of the
unwise forbearance Of The Government in
allowing the rabid traitors, and the rabid
journals Of this stamp so ample range
and opportunity among the people.
There can be scarcely q doubt what Mr.
Lincoln will do. We trust he has no
weakened friends who will telegraph
him from Ohio, and counsel falterins in
this important crisis.
Year: 1863




The Richmond Wig of the 23d inst. thinks
the Federal campaigns in Virginia and North
Carolina are over for the winter, and takes the
following view of the future in the South and
Southwest:


Looking along the coast it is to be expected
that a determined effort will now be made to
retrieve on water something of the prestige
they have lost on land. Charleston, Savannah
and Mobile should hold themselves ready for
assault at any moment. The enemy know the
advantage they have in the powerful armament
and iron shields of their navy. They imagine
that the capture of the we'll known cities We
have named will give them not only substan-
tial advantages here, but great ecLat abroad.
The season is now propitieus, their immense
preparations are about completed, and the ext
gencies of their situation impel them to make
an instant and desperate effort. We cannot
foresee the result. We believe these cities will
be defended with valor and obstinacy that
will give them glorious name in history,
whether they stand or fall and We believe
that if the enemy take them, they will take
only heaps of ruins. But we fervently pray
that they may be able to beat back the de-
stroyer, and preserve themselves alike from the
glorious fate of self destruction, and the in.
glorious one of passing under the yoke of
Yankee masters.



blc Rosecrans delays his advance but the
accounts from that direction assure us that he
will soon be forced to fight, retreat, or be shut
up and besieged in Nashville. He has now a
Confederate General opposed to him who is
not patient under delays, and who will not
suffer him to spend the winter quietly in the
capital of Tennessee.


From Mississippi if we must credit an Au-
gusta contemporary, there is nothing encourag-
ing. The contest there is enveloped in doubt
and gloom. Without placing credit in the
Northern accounts, which claim for their forces
the possession of Grenada, it is evident that
we have lost much ground, ana that our army
has been forced back many 1iles since the
battle of Corinth. Tine Confederate army there
is far inferior in number to what is generally
supposed. 1t has received very scanty rein
forcements, for the story OF Hindmans having
crossed the Mississippi with forty thousand
men was shamelessly bogus, while to the Fed
eral army continuous stream of men has been
pouring from the Northwest to replenish its
ranks. The multitudes which are to be hurled
on our handful of heroes there are not yet fully
ready TO move; when their preparations are
complete, desperate contest will ensue for
the possession of the great valley of the Mis-
sissippi-a contest which, We fear, will be
hopeless unless our forces are brought by re-
Inducements to something nearer equality with
those of the enemy. The advent of President
DAVIS, who has declared his intention to share
the fortunes of the Western army, will infuse
a new spirit into the army, and arouse the
population into more energetic action ; and the
prospect. in Mississippi is less cheerful than in
any other part of the vast field of war;"
Year: 1863

SEcEssIoNIsTs IN New YoRE.-The Newark
Adcertiser publishes this in the shape of let
ter from New York 1t is wonderful
to see and hear the inpudence of certain South
ern secesh men and women who have sought
New York for society and protection. At one
of the large up-town hotels an Alabamian and
his wife and child have been boarding for
months. He is represented as actively en-
gagged with some New York house IN sending
goods to Nassau, from thence to run into rebel
ports No doubt he is a spy here, and fur
nishes the rebels with all kinds Of information.
Both himself and wife make the most insulting
remarks in the hotel, and she teaches her child
to run out her tongue at the servant girls and
call them Lincoln's slaves. One of them
slapped the little imp the other day, and the
passionate and insolent father, meeting her on
the stairs, threatened to throw her over the
bannister. The girl, with noble independence,
dared him to attempt such an outrage, when
he struck her violently in the face twice
Some gentlemen have interested themselves in
the matter, and probably you will see some
newspaper developments when the trial comes
Year: 1863

UEN EhAI OhDEho NU o = -.
All Vessels forbidden to leave any port in this
Department and take any person Of color who did
not arrive on the vessel or who hhe not pass from
the General or other officer commanding, or from
the Military Governor.


All vessels of every description violating this
der will be liable to conscaion and her master will
be severely punished.
No vessel shall have any port in this Department
until the master sh all take oath that he has not
any such person on board and will not allow any
such person to come or remain on board.


1t is the duty of the Harbor master or other per-
appaintsd te read copy of this order
~ a,5S =, sth Tsaay
been taken.


1t shall be the duty of the master of every vessel
to make written report during every voyage OF
the names of every person board said vessel du-
nng said voyage except soldiers in service, and to
preserve said report till called for by the Provost
Marshal other officer authorized to receiv. it.


BY command of Maj General ]. G. Foster:


SOUTH ARD HOFFMAN,,


Asst Adj't Gen.
Year: 1863

TIE following article from the Rich.
mond Enquirer is directly to the point.
1t fully substantiates the often-reitcra-
ted assertion ofthc friends of the Union
that the hope Of the rebels is in the
peace party Of the North. No man
who is in favor Of the restoration Of the
Union, with such evidence before him.
can for moment sympathizc Or act
with the VallaDdigham party. The
last and only hope Of the rebels is that
the so-called Democratic party may
come into power, and if the rebellion
succeeds it will be due to the persistent
and deyilish efforts of this party to
cmbarrass the government:


Importance to the Rebels Of "strenHth-


ening the DemOcTats.n
Year: 1863

6. That as Democrats. devoted 10
the vigorous prosecution Of the war
to a speedy but honorable termination,
we consider that the election of C. L.
FaIlandigham as Governor Of Ohio
would be a national calamity, and
shall, therefore, use all honorable
means to insure bis defeat.


Z. That we approve and indorse
the address to the True Democracy,
published with the call for this meet
ing.


The above were adopted unanimously
Year: 1863

Coop LUCK Some young men talk about
luck. Good luck is to get up at six o'clock
in the morning; good luck, if you have onl y
a shilling week, is to live upon eleven
pence aud save penny; good luck, TO troub
le your head with your own business, and
let your neighbor's alone good luck is TO
fulfill the commandments, and to do unto
other people as we wish them to do unto u.s.
They must not only work, but wait. They
must plod and persevere. Pence must be
taken care of, because they are the seeds OF
guineas.1 To got on in the world, they mus,
caro- for home, sweep their own doorwavs
clean, try and help other people, avoid
temptation, and have faith in truth and God


De FRAMES Lectures.
Year: 1863

CHURCH is PERVERTED.


They in our Catholic Church, whether
priests or laymen, journalists or public
speakers, who take the ground actually
that slavery is an institution approved,
or at least not opposed by the Catholic
Church, give only scandal to intelligent
Catholics, and shock every we'll in
structed and conscientious Catholic
We have been deeply panied and morti-
fed at the position we have found the
great body of American Catholics, with
large portion of the venerable clergy
themselves, occupying in regard to the
question of negro slavery. Nota single
Catholic journal, except one, ventures to
assert openly and decidedly the true
Catholic doctrine in regard to slavery,
and the Catholic who does not throw all
his influence on the side Of the pro sla-
very party is read out of the pale of
Catholic Society, especially in this city
of New York, where there are more
Catholics than in all the seeded States
put together The Catholic who ventures
to arrai yn the institution of slavery on
even-moral and religious grounds, though
l--~l-~I -r:.4, -
ton of the church in all ages, and in all
countries but this, is at once suspected
of being shaky in his faith, and is de-
nounced as puritan or as " Yam
kee," the two most opprobrious eplthets
that can, in the estimate of our New
York Catholics, be applied to any man ;
and the promptness and zeal with which
they rall y to the disloyal peace party,
Ill fhaf THAR
sympathies are pro-slavery. We can
scarcely find Catholic descended from
an old American family, or even OF
American birth, that is not practically
pro slavery man in his talk and in his
influence. Why is it we find the mass
of our Catholics following Fernando
Wood. James Brooks, and the Able Nc
Master? Whence the intense hatred of
New England whose Catholieity is
really more fourishing than anywhere
else on this continent-which is the most
salient feature of our Catholic popula-
ton? Whence, indeed, but from the
conviction that New England is anti.
slavery, and in favor of negro emancipa-
ton. Go where we will in the loyal
States, and we find nearly every Catholic
we meet Southern sympathizer, an in
tense hater of the Abolitionist, and more
ready to see the Union divided, or re-
constructed, under jeff. Davis, on sla.
very as its corner stone, than to see it re.
stored by the extinction of slavery.


POSITION OF ARCHBISHOP HUGHES.


The Catholic organs have, it seems to
us, been very unwise and impolitie, and
our Catholic leaders have placed US in a
very unpleasant position. The know
Year: 1863




The farmer is the last person who
should fail to have liberal supply
of garden vegetables. for family use
during the whole year, and yet there
are many of our acquaintance who
do not know the luxury of an abun-
dance Of asparagus, lettuce, radish-
es and green peas, sin the early
spring, to say nothing of the more
substantial vegetables for winter
use. What greater luxury can be
placed upon any mans table than a
fine dish of asparagus in the early
spring, and a crisp, solid head of let
tuce at the same time, at a season
of the year when all other vegeta-
bles except potatoes are unattaina-
BILE, and when the system Graves
vegetable foodI While about our
spring work we look carefully after
the feed Of our dumb companions
the horse and the ox-and see that
they have their proper food in libe-
raj allowance but it never occurs
to some of US that we can feel bet
and work better by adding to our
bill Of fare such wholesome vegeta-
bles as we have named. We would
as soon be without our pork barrel
as our asparagus bed. The farmer,
if any one, is entitled to the very
best of the productions of the earth,
and he is not wise, when the earth
is so willing to produce, who neg
lects to obtain by little personal
attention to the tastes and wishes Of
his household, a full share of all the
vegetable luxuries Of every season.
Farmer.
Year: 1863

TnE DRAFT.-The Washington CORES.
pondent of the New York Herald SAYS the
reasons for the enforcement Of the con.
scription law, and for the immediate draft
ing Of three hundred thousand men under
its provisions, are deeper than they ap.
pear upon the surface, and there is reason
to believe that the Government has in
view other uses fr this new army to be
brought into the field, than the crushing
out OF the re bellion. The most prominent
of these is All anticipated foreign war
The rebels are as Formidable and deter.
mined as ever, aud, backed by foreign
power, they might soon regain their lost
ground. The Administration is prepar
ing for the worst and does not anticipate
speedy cessation OF hostilitics
Year: 1863

Not unffrqucntly men, of suspicious loyal
ty, can be heard to say that they are warm
friends of the Government of the United
States, but are opposed "to the Administra
tion;' drawing some exprrssblc and incom
prehrnsihlc distinction between the two,
which .justiiirs them in decrying and de-
nounciny every effort made by the Govern
mcnt to save itself from absolute annihilation


If every feeling OF love OF country was not
wholly dead in the breasts of these per-
sons, and if every impulse Of patriotism with
them was not utterly extinct, it might be
worth while to ask them how they make this
distinction, and if they are not satisfying
their ears and conscirnccs with empty words
A sheriff, armed with Il judicial writ, is of
course not the law which authorized the iss,,-
ance of that writ but he is such Il part Of it,
that if he is prevented from executing it, the
law is imperative and is virtually extin-
gushcd. so with the President of the Uni
ted States. lie is neither the law or the
Constitution OF the country. But he is the
chief and exclusive executive of both, and if
you prevent him from performing the finnc-
tions of his office, which arc not, and cannot
be performed by any one else, do you not as
absolutely destroy the laws and the Constitu-
tion, which together make the Government,
rs if you took up arms and overturned by
blows the whole fabric! No President or
Congress constitutes the Government really,
but they stand in such relation to it, that if
their acts are thwarted and rendered inoper,-
tive, the Government. to say tho least, is
placed in allegiance, which is another name
for anarchy and death. AS nation we can
not exist without Il Constitution and laws;
nor can we exist without accredited and rcs-
pected agents to carry such enacnents into
effect. 1t is idle for Bill Of Rights to de-
clare that a person shall not BE- tried twice for
the saine offence, or that he shall not b. de-
prived of rights inherently inalienable with
out duo process of law, unless there is some
chosen and designated executive, competent
to enforce such declarations. The sheriff. in
the instance named, has right to demand
peremptorily the service Of every man in his
county, and in the event that he is then una
ble to execute his writ, he is entitled to the
service and assistance of every man in the
State which it still insufficient, means are
provided by which the whole power Of the
Federal or National Government can be
brought to his assistance in Executing tho
writ Surely the President Of the country ns
Micf:Executive, has powers at least equal to
those Of the sheriff in all cases where his au-
thority is opposed. The law in both these
cases requires particular and specific officer
to perform certain executive acts. No other
officer can perform them. If his efforts to
perform them are SO resisted that he cannot
succeed, there is the practical end Of the law
itself


The duty of the President may be gener-
ally summed up in the expression, that he
must take care "that the laws are faithfully
executed" Suppose he is resisted in any
way, SO that he cannot p" faithfully execute
Year: 1863

A SKATING STORY.-It was Just tw "nty
years ago yesterday, says Reid Gordon, that
party of us f.llc.s went over to Bergen
Creek on skating match. The day WIS
colder than ten iccbergs all smooth as glass,
and we made up our minds to have a heap of
fun. Bill Berry was the leader Of the crowd.
lie was tall sx-tooter, full of pluck, and the
best skatcrsin all creation. Give Bill Berry
pair of skates and smooth sailing, and he'd
make the trip to Bafin's Bay and back again
in ~ hours. only stopping long enough at Hal
flax to take drink. Well, we got to the
taking good horn from Joe turner's flask
started off in good style, Bill Berry taking the
lead. AS l was tellin' We, it WAS doyged
cold day, and so we had to skate fast to keep
the blood up. There was little airholcs in
the ice, and every now and then we would
come near going into them. My skates got
loose, and tried to f,sten 'en. Just as had
finished bucklins the straps | saw something
shooting along the ice like lightning 1t was
Bill Berrys head. lie had been going it like
CREASED electricity, and before he knew it he
he was into one Of them airholrs. The force
was SO great as to cut his head off against the
sharp edges of the ice.


"lt's all day with Bill Berry," said 7.


"And all night, toe" said Joe Turner.


Just as he had got these words out of his
mouth, and looked at Bills head, which had
been going it on the ice. all at once it dropped
into another hole. We ran to it, and heard
Bill Berry say:


"Quick, boys! quick pull me ou.!"


looked into the hole, and there, as l am
a sinner, was Bill Bcrry's body, which had
shooted along under the ice. and met tho head
mt hole in tho ice. 1t was shocking cold,
tho head had frozen fast to the body and we
pulled Billy out as good as new. He felt Il
little numb at first, but after skating awhile
he felt as tho rest of us, and laughed over the
Joke. We went home about dusk, all satisfied
with the days sport.


About 10 o'clock in the evening somebody
knocked at the door and said ! was wanted
over to Bill Derry's. l put on my coat and
went over. There lay Bills body in one
place and his head in another. His wife said
that after he came home from skating he sat
down by the fire to warm himself, and while
attempting to blow his nose he threw his head
into the fireplace. The coroner was called
and rendered verdict in accordance with the
facts.
Year: 1863

WOOD PAPER Several editions Of tho
Boston Journal have recently been printed


on paper made Of wood, with a small addi-
ton Of linen stock, and tho Journal states
that the experiment has proved entirely sue.
cessf,l. The paper is represented as fully
equal to if not better than the paper ordin-
arily used by newspapers. and the cost Of the
manufacture ia much less. although it COM
mands tho same price as rag paper Of equal
quality. 1t is proposed to organize a COM
pany with capitol Of Sl,0O0.o00 for the
manufacture Of this paper upon large scale.
Year: 1863

PNEUMONIA PIpEs.-L.ondon will soon be
riddled by pneumonia pipes as well as under.
ground railways. The first pipe for blowing
along letters at the rate of fourteen miles an
hour, is laid between tho North Western Rail-
way terminus and the district post.ofice Of
that locality.
Year: 1863

some Of them talking about high taxes in
this way who do not pay five dollars towards
the support of the Government. denounce
them as hypocrites as we'll as traitors.
.[Chsers.] The reason they pretend to be
afraid Of high taxes is that they do not want
to vote money for the relief Of the soldiers.
They want to embarass the Government and
stop the war. They want to aid the Seces-
sioRists to conquer onr boys in the field.
They care about high taxes! They are pic
ayume men any how. and pay no taxes 1t ale
and never did, and never hope or expect to-
This is an excuse of traitors. [Cheers. Mr.
Speaker, excuse me. feel for my country,
in this her hour Of danger, from the tips Of
my toes to the ends Of my hair. That is the
reason I speak as I do. cannot help it.
l am bound 10 tell these men to their teeth
what they are. and what the people, the true
loyal people, think Of them. Tremendous
cheering. The Speaker raped on his desk.
apparently to stop it. but really to add to its
volume, for could see by his flushed cheek
and flashing eye that his. heart was with the
brave and loyal old gentleman. Mr.. Speak
er. have said my say. l am no speaker
This is tho only speech have made, and l
do not know that it deserves to be called a
speech. I could not sit still any longer and
see these scoundrels and traitors work out
their helish schemes to destroy the Union.
They have my sentiments let them one and
all make the most of them. l am ready to
back up all say, and repeat it, to meet
these traitors in any manner they choose,
from pins point to the mouth Of a cannon"


Tremendous applause, during which the old
gentlemen sat down, after he had given the
desk parting whack, which sounded loud
above above the din of cheers and clapping
Of hands.


l never before witnessed so much excite
ment in an assembly. Funk spoke with
force Of natural eloquence, with a conviction
aud trthfulness, with fervor and pathos,
which wrought up the galleries, and even
members on the floor, to the highest pitch of
excitement. His voice was heard in the
stores that surrounded the square, and the
people came Aocking in from all quarters. In
five minutes he had an audience that packed
tho hall to its utmost capacity. After he had
concluded, the Republican members and spec
tators rushed up and took him by the hand
to congratulate him. The Democrats said
nothing. but evidently felt the castigation
they were receiving most keenly, as might be
seen from their blanched cheeks and restless
and uneasy glances.