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Year: 1863

Is. We will earnestly support every
constitutional measure tending to pre-
serve the union Of the States. No men
have greater interest in its preserva-
ton than We have--none desire it more;
there are none who will make greater
sacriAcea or endure more than We win
70 accomplish that end. We are, -
we ever have been, the devoted friends
Of the Constitution and the Union, and
We have no sympathy with the enemies
Of either.


IA. The establishment of . military
government over loyal States, where
war does not exist, to eupercede the
civil authorities and suppress the free
dom Of speech and Of the press, and to
interfere with the elective franchise, is
not only subversive to the constitution
and the sovereignty of the States. bnt
the actual Inauguration Of revolution.


Is. That we denounce, as ibellers OF
the Democratic party and enemies Of
the country, the men who are engaged


in representing the Democracy as want
ing in sympathy with our gallant defen-
dera


Resolved, That we earnestly denoun-
ce, the authors Of those hcresies, seccs.
sionism and abolitionism, which have
eliminated in an armed rebelliod, desc.
lated our country and brought sorrow
to the hearts Of every person in this
broad land.


Perhaps hearty suppsrs make more
dy speytics than any or sll other causes
combined. If fdinner is at noon, moth
ing should be taken for supper but
single emp Of weak tea or other hot
drink and piece of stale bread and
butter. After forty years of aye, those
who live in doors, sedentary PERSONS
that is, al who do not work with their
hands az laborers--would do better not
to take any supper at all. Half the
sedertary, who eat at noon, do not feel
hungry at supper; especially if they
see nothing on the table but bread and
butter and tea. But nature is goadea
on to act against her instincts in al
most esefy family in the nation by "rcl.
ishes" being placed on the supper ta,
bic, in shape of Clipped beef salt fish,
cake, preserves or other kinds Of sweet.
meats, and before the person is aware,
hearty meal has been taken, resulting
in present uncomfortableness. in disturb
ed sleep, in weary waking in the morn
ing, bad taste in the mouth and little
or no appetite for breakfast, all of which.
can be avoided by beginning early to
eat habitually, according to the sng-
gestions above made Halls Journal Of
Health.
Year: 1863

A Coon MANS WIsH.--I freely con-
fe,s TO you that I would wish, when ]
am laid down in the grave, to have some
one in his manhood stand over. me and
say There lies one who was a real
friend to me. and privately warned me Of
the danger Of the young; no one knew it.
but he aided me in the time Of need i owe
what | am to him. or else 70 have sons
widow, With choking utieranoe; telling
her children, There lice your friend and
mine.'
Year: 1863

@ Show US a newspaper says the
Baston whose columns are
at all times crowded with new advsr-
tisements, AMI we will sh"w you COM
munity alive with business enterprises.
The aye is a moving one. A man who
stands still in these latter days will In
short time End himself behind his COM
petitoIs.


True. every word Of it; il pc pie want
to doa thriving business they must make
liberal use Of printers ink. 1t is much
easier to glance over the columns Of
newspaper an ascertain where q certain
kind ol goods is 10 be found than TO call
10 every store and inquire for it. Then i,
is we'll known that those who advertise
extensively can and do sell cheaper. for
the reason that they sell a greater guam
tty OF goods than those who "eannot
afford to ADVERTISE The fact will
warrant these assertions. If a man
commence, advertising he is sure to
continue ii which he would not if it did
not pay. 1t, is only those who have not
lrel 1t that do NJ! bel ieve IN the benefits
Of advertising.
Year: 1863

Oh: could there III this world be found,
Some little spot of happy ground,
Where village pleasures might go round,


Without the village tattling;
How doubly blest that place would be,
Where all might dwell at liberty,
Free from the bitter misery


Of gossips' endless prattling.
If such spot were really known,
Dame Peace might claim it as her own;
And in it she might fix her throne


Forever and forever
There like queen might reign and live,
While every one would soon forgive
The little Sights they might receive,


And be offended never.
'Tis mischief makers that remove
Far from our hearts the warmth of love,
And lead us all to disapprove


What gives another pleasure.
They seem TO take ones part,
They've heard our cares, unkindly then
They soon retail them all again,


Mixed with their poisonous measure.
And then they've such cunning way
Of telling their ill-me tales; they say
Don't mention what say. pray


Iwol lid not tell another"
Straight TO your neighbours house they go,
Narratng everything they know,
And break the peace of high and low,


Wife, husband, friend and brother.
Oh that the mischief making crew
Were all reduced to one or two,
And they were painted red or blue,


That every one might know them!
Then would our villages forget
To rage and quarrel, fume and fret,
And fall into an angry pet


With things SO much below them.
For it's sad degrading art
To make another bosom smart,
And plant dagger in the heart


We ought to love and cherish!
Then let US evermore be found
In quietness with all around,
While friendship, joy and peace abound,


And angry feelings perish
Year: 1863

Beware of cozy-headed people, between n
whose ears snd mouth there is no partition
Before you make bosom friend Of any
man, be sure that he is secret tight. The
IN ischief that the non resentive do is inf
mite. In social life they often set whole
communities by the ears, frequently break
up families, and are the cause of numerous
misfortunes, miseries. and crimes In
business they spoil many promising
speculation, and involve hundreds in bank
ruptcy and ruin. Therefore, be very care
fIl to whom you intrust information of vital
Importance to your own happiness, to the
interests Of those you hold dear. Every
man has natural inclination to communi-
cate what he knows; and if he does not do
so, it is because his reason and judgement
are strong enough to correct his inherent
propensity. When you find friend who
can exercise absolute power over the com
muDicative instinct--if we may so term it
wear him in your heart. Ii you have no
friend, keep your own counsel.
Year: 1863

The State Sentinel a. indianapolis in al


extended notice of Grants late victory ex


press grave apprehensions that the rebels
"may fall back to rallying point in appa


rent disorder and panic. bu. that position
reached. they rally and present as it la:
heretofore. a formidable 'front.'" but ooncs
ding great victory and terrible blow to
the rebellion in one Of its most vital parts.
the Sentinel says:


"If the President should now issue, a
proclamation declaring general amnesty
and forgiveness of all the people of the old
Union for all political offenses. withdraw
ing all confscation and emancipation proc
lamaton and pledging to every person their
constitutional and legal rights, and even Of
fering to call national convention to settle
the existing difficulties of the country, all
who would lay down their arms and
cease opposition to the government within
sixty days, can any one doubt it would be
attended with the most successful results ~
This is the old peace movement in a new
garb. In the FIRST place there is no power
on earth to re enslave the freedmen Of the
Couthb 81 tbot par u tuc PiopoSitiOu 10 out
Of the question ltogether.-Before the
proclamation and the confscation act took
effect, ample time was allowed for the reb-
els to return to their allegiance. They de
liberately siuned away their days of grace
and while respite of of sixty or ninety
days. as the Sentinel suggests. would be
highly acceptable in view of the facilities it
would afford them to recruit their armies and
fortify their chosen positions. yet we can't
see that the restoration of the Union would be
accelerated thereby. No doubt the Sentinel
believes it, but we can't see it. A national
convention to settle existing difficulties"
is already in progress. Gems. Graut, Meade
and Banks are the Union delegates at large.
and that they will bring the question 10
happy solution we entertain no doubt.-La.
fdyette Courier.
Year: 1863

the elective franchise, and elect one of their
own kind to the Presidential chair.


II is not strange thsi the free men of the
North or South, with their hearts burning
with the spirit of freedom, have walked up,
from their long slumber. buckled on their
armor, and gone to the tented field of war.
to protect themselves and their households
from the grasp Of despotism. The sword is
unshesthei, and the last appeal Of nations
is being brought and tried before the Court
Of Heaven, to determine whether freedom
can live on the earth, and maintain her
CLAIM to Divine origin. The magnitude of
the struggle, none but the Infinite Mind
can grasp. Freedom or despotism, in this
land must now die if freedom dies in this
contest, it will be its death-knell in every
nation. Bat if frt edom triumphs here, it
will be its triumph through sill Of earth. =
The crisis of the world has come, and the
convallescence of freedom, on the one side,
or the death struggle of the other is just at
hand.


Itis. however, this day. matter of most
devous thanksgiving to Almighty God. that
thus far, in our struggle. He has so sigually
favored freedoms cause, and this morning
the heart rejoicing Intelligence comes to US,
that the noblest achievement in behalf of
freedom has jus. been obtained in front of
Chattanooga. This, with other triumphs
has opened the way to unfurl the Flag of
Liberty, that it may float over three-fourths
of the territory at first claimed by this re-
belllon. And it is also cause of hearty
thanksgiving, that God has so manifestly
wrought for US, by preventing every other
nation from interfering 10 behalf of the en-.
emies Of freedom. He is saying to all ma
tions Hands off +"


And. finally, as far as human foresight
can penetrate, the joyous prospect is, that
the conflict will soon bs ended, and uuspes.
kably more will be achieved than WAS at the
first intended by US. 1t was no design of
our Government 10 liberate the slave. But
GoD designed it. and il. is being done, in de.
spite OF every adverse power. Well nigh
one million already have been delivered
from the yoke of dsspotism, and they are
but the first fruits presented to the Lord as
the earnest of the triumph of the removing
three millions from under the CALLING yoke of
slavery, aud then all these will be but the
first fruits of earth's millions, ground down
by the iron heel of oppression. God grant
that the day may speedily come, when the
Heavens and the earth shall rejoice togeth
er in alIeluias, because the Lord God has
taken to Himself His mighty power and
reigned, and caused freedom to triumph in
mans behalf"
Year: 1863

There is a mysterious feeling that fire.
quenty passes like cloud over the spirits.
1t comes upon the soul in the busy hustle
of life, IN the social circle, in the calm and
silent retreat of solitude. It's powers are
alike supreme over the weak and the iron
hearted. AT one time it is caused by the
fitting of a single thought across the mind.
Again the sound will come booming across
the ocean of memory. gloomy aud solemn
as the h-knel, overshadowing all she
bright hopes and sunny feelings Of the
heart Who can describe, aud yet who has
not felt its bewildering influence? Still, it
is delicious sorrow; and like a cloud dim
ming the sunshine of the river. although
causing momentsry shade Of gloom, it
the beauty of returning brightness.
Year: 1863

EEdward Everett said in his Gettys-
burg grafton: a sad foreboding of what
would ensue If war would ensas between
North and South has haunted me through
life, and led me perhaps too long to tread
in the path of hopeless compromise. In the
fond endesyor TO conciliate those who were
determined not to be conciliated."
Year: 1863

On the 25th of June last, over the signature OF
j. O. WALKER appeared a letter in the Sentinel
defending his conduct MS an officer OF the army
In that letter appeared the following in reference
to the editor OF the Indianapolis Daily Journal.
BERRY X. SuLGRovE:


81 have few words 10 say to the editor of the
Journal, 10 whose malicious assaults the reader
is indebted for this letter Conceived" as he
lin sin, and brought forth la iniuuitv' il is
but natural that the emenatinns OF his brain
should be MS illegitmate as the offspring of his
body. He il lit person to edit the organ of a
hybrid party his paper represents party which
has no parallel IN history for the wckejness of
its designs. or the terrible consequences of its
acts. Let us hope that the editor of the
Journal my become regenerate in his latter days,
aud use the intellect inherited through an irregu
lar process for the diffusion of truth irstead Of
falsehOOd."


We now use the words of the said SuLeRovE
fitting commentary upon the foregoing. aud
ak him to face the music:


"fhe facts and the inference here are rather
unpleasant things TO face. We spare comment
when there is only one thing to be said. ard that
j. what everybody will say The Journal, i'm
roofing around tor party capital, has run its
snout against very unpleasant spike IL can't
back out with credit. or 20 ahead without break
ing its neck. In that 3retiicament. we leave IT,
Year: 1863




10 Republican ............. 457,257 1866


Who managed this? Who did this beautiful
trick, whereby the Democrats should be drafted
and their vote not be materially affected? We
have no hesitation in saying that the history Of
journalism has never seen such exhibition of
guilty rage and malice at the exposure of wrong
some of the New York radical papers are m-k
ing. They are in ecstacies of anger. aud wholly
because OF the detection of this wickedness l.
there any doubt Of their share in the guilt? Does
any one know Of the secret meetings of radical
men here in New York to arrange all these
thingsg The President has been grossly deceived
by his radical supporters in New York. Such
men as Senator Morgan, Senator Harris, Mr.
Weed, and others whom We might name, have
had no responsibility or connection with this
fraud. They have not been in the ring. But
there is class Of radical partisans sbO have been
at work, foolishly as they always work. and they
have struck their heads against rock-to wit
Governor Seymour-and their rage is but the
open confession OF disappointment.


On no other theory can any one xplain the fe-
rocity of the Tribune yesterday morning. II
abused Governor Seymour in columns of billings
gate for his exposure of the fraud. It dared not
deny one statement of fact but proceeded to pour
out its hot fury on the Governor in phrases like
the following, which We extract from the Tr-
bune:


1.-The Jef. Davisites of our city understood
this from the ontset They fought for the same
cause with Lee, and Bragg, and Johnston and
Penberton and like them we're beaten, though
the flank movement of their Governor OF
Washington was aptly timed and vigorously
made Their weapons were diverse, but their
course the same }"


Can this insanity Of rage. wasting itself in such
words, be accounted for ON any tlery except the
recklessneSs of exposed criminality? Perhaps
the intense heat OF the weather has made them
mad In the Office of our contemporary. Ii so,
judicious applications of ice. and other cooling
processes, sprnklins the roof of the establish
ment. and careful attention to diet, NAV bring a
return Of reason. We must either pity the afflic
tion. or fail back on the certainty that the rage
of the past two weeks proceeds from the fact tha
Governor Seymour has foiled these men in foul
plot which they had concocted without the know.
ledge of the authorities at Washington. and i'm
company with the same men who have heretofore
plotted the overthrow OF Mr. Lincoln as Pre-.
ideur.-(N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
Year: 1863

One Of our exchanges says


ale is a brave man who will now venture to sell
bis produce at relatively lower prices than
he has to pay for everything else. We know but
two classes that are doing this and they bid fair
to live and die in moderate crcumstances--theSe
are the newspaper men and laborers or mechanics
and salaricd men. We know from experience that
newspapers have only risen two or three times
former prices, while We have to pay from ten to
twenty times as much for everything use, and
still there is complaint that should increase
our prices at all. Newspaper Propretors could
lust as well have made fortunes out of the necess-
tiles Of the times as other classes, but they have
preferred to make a decent living and serve the
cause -


This compliment to the Press is but just,
though uttered By one of them and now endorsed
by another. Paying from four to ten times as
much as formerly for paper, wages, ink, &c. we
have only doubled our prices, no more. ! ct 1t Is
more than Questionable whether We shall "mako a
decent living" by the publication With th cir
culation we now have and old prices should ra-
pidly make fortune, but, with vastly increased
labor we do not expect to make support. Yet
we are exceedingly 10th to make any further ad-
vance in our PRICES, for it would seem to be civ
ing way to the ruling spirit Of the times, the greed
Of gain. We have an intimaion, however, that
the price Of printing paper is to be raised, aud at
no long period to nearly double what we now pay.
Ii so the white sheet on which we print will cost
US just about as much as subscribers pay for the
printed sheet. That Of course would necessitate
an increase Of price Of which, should it take place.
our readers will be duly Informed


As to laborers and mechanics, the remark of our
contemporary is also true though not to so great
an extent Their wages have generally been ad-
vanccd from three to FIVE times dis much as former
ly; out they pay ten times as much for tood aud
clothing.


The cases of most hardships chat we know Of
are those Of salaried In very rare instances
have salaries been increased. How they get along
is marvel, paying $50 barrel for -four, SG a
bushe for neal, 81 pound for bacon, GD cents a
pound for fresh meats, ,S3 pound for butter, 81
so dozen for eggs, and SO on. The only nDa2in-
able mode by which they can live is that they
stint themselves of everything but the plaoest and
most indispensable articles We heard bank Off
Ger -zay recently, that he had nut had pound 0;
butter on his table for months, sweet pota-
tee during this season His salary will hot afford
such lurarics and he is too honest to live beyond
his income.


e also with many Of the Professors in our Lit
erury institutions. How can they live upon their
old salaries? And yet We have heard that in some
cases even those old salaries have been reduced.
It ought not to be so.-FnyetteriNe Obgerrer
Year: 1863

Mr.. PowELL. The Senator was speaking
about disloyalty when he made the allusion.
However, I will take the Senator's denial.
really thought the resolution was proper,
and whenever it comes up shall vote for
il: and I shall propose further SO to amend
II as to have an armistice during the session


of th at convention, if it ever shall be called.
think we should do everything to settle
Year: 1863

Tomorrow, according to announcement, the draft will
in the Fourth district OF which Captain Erhart
Is Provost Marshal The drawing will take place at No.
al Chambers street. All arrangements, both military
and civic have been made to carry out the draft in
peaceful manner.
Year: 1863

The yesterday afternoon attended BY about


fifteen Thousand persons, although they were not all at
any time concentrated around the Music Temple.
This temple is rapidly approaching completion and
when finished will DO OF the must beautiful edihces
in the country its Moorish style and decoration being
novel and attractive


Tho programme successfully carried through. tho
selections from "Zampan being wcll received Among
the now pieces Dodworth's "Hymn Of Columbia
words and music composed by himself. Tho following
are the Words
Year: 1863

We cannot appreciate that sort of
patriotism which makes support Of the
administration test of loyalty, and
looks with favor upon hostility to the
constitution and laws Of the land. In
the Boston Liberator of the oath inst.
"a paper published and supported by
men who vaunt their "loyalty" and con.
denim democrats as traitors-appears
the following poisonous ebullition


"No act of ours do we regard with
more conscientious approval or higher
satisfaction, none do we submit more
confidently to the tribunal of Heaven
and the moral verdict of mankind, than
when, several years ago, on the 4th of
July, in the presence of great as
sembly, we committed to the flames the
constitution of the United States, be-
cause in the language of John Quincy
Adams) ''the bargain between Freedom
and Slavery contained in it was moral
ly and politically vicious, inconsistent
with the principles on which alone our
revolution can be justified, and cruel
and oppressive by riyeting the chains
of the oppressed, and pledging the faith
OF freedom to maintaia and perpetuatc
the tyranny of the master" And
should the present bloody struggle end
in any compromise with the South, or
in recognizing any constitutional obi
cations to slave holders Or slave'hunt-
ers in the border states, we shall again
give the instrument to the consuming
fire, and renew our protest against it
as "a covenant with death and an
agreement with hell,''


"In the court of conscience and before
God, it matters nothing what slavehold-
ing agreements or compromises may be
found in the constitution or out of it.,
they are all inhuman, unjust and i'm
moral, and therefore null and void; and
if man can retain Office, or be voter
under the government: only on condit.
of sustaining such compromises, then it
is certain that he would not do evil that
good may come, he must relinquish
office holding and refuse to cast vote
stained with human blood. HIS motto
is, and must be, as one loyal to right
and duty, mo UNION WITH SLAVE
HOLDERS !''


There is not newspaper in the
United States so safe from suppression
as the one from which is quoted the q
bove veritable attack upon "the life Of
the government" Vn the contrary, itt
editor one the friends whose spokesman
he is, are welcomed and worshipped in
the high places Of the land, as men o
! unsullied patriotism. Z


It may be supposed that the numbe,
Year: 1863

WASN'T MUCH ACQUAINTED WITH HER
City is q gay place, and
they have queer specimens OF humanity
down there. The following is from the jour
,sal, about a woman of doubtful loyalty, who
was recently before n Yankee Provost Mar
shall: ''She gave as ALI evidence Of her 10y
atty that her husband had been killed in the
lO6th Illinois regiment. When did your
husband go to Illinois?' About three years
ago That was before the war, was it not p
Yes why did you not go with hina !'--
We'll, l didn't like to go OH SO far with a
man wasn't much acquainted with You
don't mean to say that your husband was 50
much OF a stranger that you did not like to
go with himg fYes, do. had only been
married to him about a year, and | wasn't
going TO leave my folks and go oil to Hi
nois with man didn't know more about
What could he do but discharge herr"