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Year: 1863

During the night the disposition Of
our forces was changed. The line was


made to rest along a crossroad ruHning
Northeast and Southwest, and connect
ing The RoSsyille and Lafayette roads.
BY this disposition our extreme right
was made to rest on Missionary ridge.
Year: 1863

How BATTLES ARE FoUGHT-Battles
las soldiers know and newspaper editors do
mott are usually, fought, not as they ought
to be fought, but as they can be fought !;
and while the literary man is laying down
in law at his desk as to how many troops
should move here and what rivers ought to
be crossed there, and where the cavalry
should have been turned, the wretched man
who has to do the work finds the matter
settled for him by pestilence, want of shoes,
empty stomachs, bad roads, heavy rains,
hot suns, and thousand other stern war
riors who never show on paper.
Year: 1863

SHARP SHooTING.-Two Germans, named
Grab and Block, while shooting at mark,
in Six Mile Canon, N. T., bantered each
other about shooting Grab remarked to
Block that he did not believe his Blocks,
rife would carry thousand feet with ac-
curacy, anyhow. Block replied that il
Grab would station himself at that distance
he would put bullet through his hat
This challenge Grab accepted without a
moments hesitation, and with great cool
ness stepped out and took his station
With equal GOODNESS Block raised his piece
to his shoulder, took deliberate aim, and
pulled trigger 1t is hardly necessary to
say that Grab was slightly astonished when
the bullet whizzed through his hair, knock
ing his hat to the distance Of several yards,
and slightly grazing his hair.
Year: 1863

PLAcERv1LLE, July 10Th, 1868.


EDS. STATESMAN Il arrived in this place
from Auburn, yesterday, and find it thriving
town. Every man seems to have plenty of the
dust-at least, for their present wants. Mer-
chants tell me there is no such a thing asked, or
given, here as credit All those who are dis
posed to work have no need to ask credit.


packer was killed here about week ago in
an afFray which occurred in whisky saloon
The circumstances of his death are not known,
but il is supposed the fatal Shot was fred by man
holding high reputation as a gamester in this
place. Several shots were fred by different per-
sons.


New diggings have been discovered on the
south fork of Boise river Both quartz leads and
placer diggings exist in these new mines Rich
quartz specimens are being shown around town
that are said to have come from that vicinity. |
have been told that the placer diggings there
already discovered, will pay ten dollars per day
TO the hand, and will give employment for at
least three thousand men. Several rich paying
claims around this place are now laying Idle for
want of sufficient water to work them.
came by way of Old's Ferry to this place, it
being 25 miles the shortest route. This route,
has at present long stretches without water, but
Mr. Ods is having some wells dug as an accom-
mediation to the travelling public. The wagon
road to PlGcerville is progressing very slowly but
will be good JOB when completed. Mr.. Rock
felow s; Co. seem to be doing a thriving bus
mess in the Express line. The people here have
great confidence liz them, and speak in commend
ale terms of their manner of doing business.


Tomorrow l migrate for Blnnock city ]
will write from there about the country as see
it at present and in the future. Bannock is said
10 lie full of loafers and l feel rather out of my
sphefe knowing such to be the case


CORRESPONDENT.
Year: 1863

LIVELY TIMEs.-In two or three more
weeks the mills in the valley will be in
active operation, grinding up the -four from
this years crop of wheat. Then the lively
times for the farmers will commence for
the most Of the flour for the mining re-
gions will be supplied from this valley. if
it is not held at so high figure as to in
duce competition from below. The mills,
we are told, have been put in such order as
to enable them to compete successfully
with the Willamette mills in the manufac-
sure Of superior article of -four.


a " CoPPERHEAD. According to the doctrine
ofthe selfstyed " Union" party, Secretary Sew
ard has made himself a complete " "copperhead
by submitting his proposition of amnesty. The
ABOLISH journals would only be consistent with
themselves if they 80 out upon him. as traitor
and demand his resignation and banishment
Year: 1863

EDITOR JOURNAL :-Y GU have undoubtedly wit
messed the optical exhibition known as /" dissolv-
itg views" If so, you will perhaps justify me
il the remark that in handing the rebellion we
have had quite enough of the dissoving with
too little Of the permanent The President of the
rebel Confederacy once intimated lin substance)
to his fellow traitors that they had contracted
for a bigger job than they at first imagined, and
that failure stared them in the face unless assist
ance came from the other side of the Atlantic
1t has been too much the same case with the loyal
states Between the faith given to Seward as
prophet, Mcclellan as great General, and other
undeniably good men who feared the shedding of
blood, and who grew faint because the rebellion
was not crushed out in ninety days, we have eX
pended much time and money to very little pnr-
pose. Like some public entertainers we had
crowded more into the bills than could be acted
in one night. We have been impatient-q quite
naturally so perhaps-but we should rot allow
impatience to stay our efforts, cool our arder, or
dampen our patriotism. 1t should be IA fixed
question from which no loyal man may turn away,
that the rebellion must and shall be put down.



or shorter we must resolve that we will see it
crushed.


We are told by physicians that a relapse is
more greatly to be feared than the original dis
ease. The experience of the last twelve months
has taught us the same lesson in dealing with
treason the treatment should not be om tied or
altered, other than to increase the potency OF the
prescriptions and repeat the doses at shorter IN
tervas. Lead, not peace propositions coercion,
not compromise, are the weapons with when to
deal out justice to traitors Resolve to never
let star be blotted from our banner; never
yield an inch of territory give not back to a
single traitor the innocent cause of the uprising
arm every negro, and use every means to wipe
out the most causeless rebellion the world has
ever beheld. We can and should 60 it out OF
respect for our patriot sires, for our homes, and
for the future prosperity of our chldrens chill
dien. These are the sentiments of a newly
tledged ABoLrIoNlST.


WEAVER CREEK, June 4, 1868.
Year: 1863

CANADIAN LETTER.-Tbe following letter
from James A. Davidson Grand Lecturer Sons Of
Temperance, came to hand week after that
gentleman arrived in San Francisco. Mr. David
son and wife came passengers in the Golden Age
and we perceive by the Temperance Journal that
he is about starting on a lecturing tour through
the Southern counties. We feel confident he
would have preferred visiting his friends in this
aud other Northern counties, had the Grand Di
vision officers so ordered:
Year: 1863




SIR--I am directed by the Provost
Marshal General to acknowledge the
receipt of your communication Of the
7th inst, stating that you have been
enrolled in the Second Ward ofthecity,
where you reside, and also in the
Fourth Ward in which you have been
drafted, and asking what course to
pursue.


In reply, l am instructed to say that
a man is only liable to draft at his legal
domicile or place of residence. You
should present to the Board of Enroll
ment for their decision.


am, sir, very respectfully,


Your obedient servant, 2"
HENRY STONE, A. A. G..
Year: 1863

"In the case of a widow having four
sons, three of whom are already in the
military service, the fourth is exempt,
provided his mother is dependent on
his labor for support"
In the case Of a widow having two
sons, one of which is already in the
service, ..s.t..
Year: 1863

"In the case of widow having two
sons, one of whom is already in the
military service, and the other has been
drafted, the latter is exempted, as the
only son liable to military duty in
the sense of the act


In the case of aged or infrm parents
having two or more sons subject to
military duty.
Year: 1863

Captain H b. Willard, of Ravenna, who
was present at the fall of Vicksburg, is At
home on sick bed. Though PROSTATE
and enfsebled by disease, and his chances
Of recovery still hanging in the balance,
he could not deny himself the privilege of
casting vote on Tuesday last against the
allies of the enemy he had been fighting in
the field. Accordingly he was borne on
his cot, by four strong men, to the Town
Hall, and there deposited his vote for
Brough and the Union, amid the plaudits
Of the true men, who admired this brave
act of devoted soldier, who had periled
his life, and was ready to peril it again for
his country. But GOpperhesds scOwled
upon him in sullen wrath. The scene was
one long to be remembered. Captain Will
lard, in this act, but reflected the spirit of
our brave soldiers, who are death upon
rebels and traitors, whether in front or
vcor .....
Year: 1863

Some men dawn upon you like the Alps.
They impress you vaguely at first, just as
do the hundred faces you meet in your
daily walks They come across your hor-
rizon like floating clouds, and you have to
watch awhile before you see they are
mountains. Some men remind you of
quiet lakes, places such as you have often
upon, where the green turf and
the field flower hang over you and are re-
fiected out of the, water all day long.
There is nothing remarkable about the
flowers, only they seem so much like love
and kindness, gentleness, and these other
every day ordinary little virtues. Perhaps
you become attached to the lake because
1t is genial spot, and whether you live
near lake or not, it seems to remind you
of home But you never dream Of its be-
ing in any way wonderful. Some day or
other you carelessly drop line in the clear
depths, closelby the side Of the daisies and
2adfodils, and it goes down. down, down.
You lean over and sound deeper, but your
line doesn't. bring up. What deep spot
that is, you think, and you try another.
The reflected daises seem to smile at you
out of the water, the turf looks as green
as ever, but there is no shallow beneath.
You never thought it, but your quiet lake
is all around untathomable. You are none
the less impressed from the fact that tits a
quiet lake. .rs-.5 g.. L.sr f--.sG s.-y,, #7-I.
Year: 1863

The MississippiaQ closes timely aItt-
Gle on the educational interests of the
country, as follows:


We must give more time and attention
to training the youthful mind. Seek
teachers OF qualihcinon those who un"
derstand the organization Of the human
mind, and the lnrans by which ifs pow
ers may be most apldly developed, re-
ers that viii have lhs moral coursgs 20
assign 0ery short 5sssoas TO pupils-that
will insist these lessons be accurately
learned, and recitsd at brisk pace with
out the least halting or hesltatlon-ths
will practice prcfuse questioning and
cross questioning, leading the scholar
near enough the inference they Nt,h
them to draw to enable them to take
the final steps themselves. Let them
be applauded when they succeed and
encouraged when they fail; but new
er for moment, let the pupil lose his
interest or alacrity. The lesson being
short, the Strain on their faculties will
be short also, but recurring so often will
gradually build up the most valuable
habits man can possess, who wishes to
go into the world wide awake, with all
his wits about him


We threw out these hints upcn the mode
of schooling for the benefit of those whs
may wish to teach their own household
gods; and we have no doubt that when
school days are ovsr, pupil SO trained
will not only have better health and bet :
ter mental habits, but greater fund Of


Il I 4
PEELED to plod through long hours of sPir-
itless study at the expense Of health and
cheerfulness We cannet too strongly
impress On the minds of fathers, moth
srs and guardians the necessity of i'm
proving the educational condition of the
country. It's indispensahleness and
pressing need must bs apparent to every
one, as well as the social and public state
of our country, in case we fail to perform
this sacred duty.
Year: 1863

At debating Society in England late
" the question undar discussion was
whether it was morally wreng to cheat q
lawyer. The Judgment of the Society
was-"N Not wrong, but impossible"
Year: 1863

RECRUITING IN ARKAHsAs--The Lit
tie Rock correspondent of the St. Louis
Democrat writes that recruiting goes on
briskly there. One cannot but be aston.
ished at the great number who have msn.
aged to escape the rigid conscription Of
the rebels. There are, even already,
from eight to ten thousand Arkansians in
the Federal service, and still they come
BY the hundreds. There are eight regu-
lar Arkansas regiments either formed or
in process Of formation, besides the s sev-
eral thousand who have joined other r4gi-
ments from other States. The history Of
the world does not afford an example Of
such patriotism, united with such forti-
tude, as has been shown by these men,
One man laid in a corn-ield for sixteen
days without other food than raw green
corn Another laid in cave Of Maya
zine Mountains during the three days Of
snow, last winter, without fool or fire.
afraid to make tracks in the snow; and
this. too, IN the sight of his own house,
where his wife and babe and hearth-stone
we're.
Year: 1863

In the course of very abusive edito
rial against Edward Everett on account
of his Gettysburg Grafton. the Richmond
Dispatch favors its readers with the fol
lowing exhibition Of Secesh sentiment


The question OF subjugation is one
question; the question of voluntary re-
union no question at all. If = vote could
be taken in the Southern States whether
We should reunite with the bloody mur-
derers of our sons aud brothers or with
the Emperor of France or Austria, or the
Queen OF England, there would be one
universal shout of acclamation for Eu-
rope. There is no nation on the earth
which is so heartily detested and exc
Grated in the Confederacy as the butcher
nation of the North. Voluntary reunion
with them ! A union with hy.nas, varn
pyres and thugs is about As probable and
practicable.


II such be the sentiment of the traitors
of the South, and if they are SO willing
to divide the inheritance left US by our
fathers and to annex the Southern DOR
tlon of it as an sppanage of some hostile
monarchy of Europe, they will find q
spirit Of loyalty to the ULion amongst our
people which will impel US to subjugate
them, and annihilate them too, if need be
rather than permit them to erect hostile
power within our borders
Year: 1863

CHANGE or CoAHAsDKRs.-Gen Sulv,
late Commander Of the District OF Daco
tab, which comprised the territory Of
that name and few counties in the
northwestern portion of Iowa, has been
ordered to report to Davenport to relieve
Gen. Roberts Of the command Of the Dis
tirct of Iowa, which now embraces the
former District Of Gen. Sully. The new
commander will arrive in about fifteen
days Musasine Journal
Year: 1863

ATHRNEUM.-The second evening of
the great sensation drama of the s.Hidden
Hand was greater success, If possible,
than the first, and every one in the audi
ence was delighted. This evening i,
will be produced for the last time in our
city. Go and see it.
Year: 1863

There is to be War Meeting to- o-night,
and our patriotic citizens will be on hand
Of course. The speeches and resolutions,
if they do not swell the list of recruits
Immediately, will at least serve to get the
public in a good way for volunteering Ly
the time the $500 clause is repealed -
That is what stands in the way of recruit
ing. Let it be repealed, and everybody
in class one,' and good many of those
in 'class two,' will be busy at work day
and night to help the recruiting officers
Fl up the quota.


The most effective thing that can be
done tonight is to sign and forward pc.
tition to Congress for the repeal of the
$500 clause. When that is done public
meetings on the subject will possess a
new and personal interest for many who
are now quite Indifferent
Year: 1863

New ORLEANS AS 1T Is.-The New Orleans True
Delta, of recent date gives terrible account of
the condition of affairs in that city, under Yankee
r,;Is from which we extract the following:


We believe we shall be found greatly within strict
facts when we stais that we have at this moment
twenty five thousand men, women and children, en-
tirely destitute, and not thrown upon the streets
because of the non-enforcement of the laws for tie
collection of rent against them. In addition to this
fostering mass, whose utter ruinous decentralization
is rapidly taking place. there are, we feel perfectly
safe it, declaring, from fifteen to twenty thousand
persons who are now supporting hfe by the sale Of
little things accumulated in prosperous times, when
trade active labor in requisiton, and industry
adequately rewarded, and who have in the early fu-
ture before them, no hope of escape from all the
horrors of want and starvation in the contri.
buttons of the generous afluent-alas, now a very
small numher-in public charity, or the resources
of the national commssarat hitherto bountifully
disposed to thousands of negroes who were allowed
to swarm, in Ignorance, filth, and unbridied lewd
ness around the camps Of the soldiery. Should it
not be withheld from us by an ever watchful and
merciful Providence, pestilence, well as famine,
may be among the fearful evils from which are
doomed to suffer, for population entirely destitute
of all the comforts and many of the necessares of
life invunerable at all points, and fortified against
no visitation the most cruel fate may have in store
for it.


In our experience in this and other countries we
have not witnessed greater, nay equal distress and
suffering, of the voiceess description that exists
here; while the multitude, daily augmentng, of
Importuaate street mendicants is absolutely appall
Year: 1863

The Examiner regrets that the accounts of the
wounds of Gen. jackson are so bad. One arm has
been amputated, and the hand of the other has
been pierced by ball. 1t is painful to add that he
was wounded by some of his men,, Their
grief over the event must indeed be great The
last Examiner says:


"a telegram on yesterday morning announced
the fact that General Jaoksons arm had been ampu-
tated, and that he was doing we'll Mrs. jackson,
who is at present in the city, has been informed by
a letter of the melancholy circumstances under
which the General received his wounds.


The following are the facts of the most unhappy
affair, as detailed in that letter: At midnight, on
Saturday night, his men being drawn up in line OF
battle body of troops was seen short distance in
advance of our line. 1t being doubtful whether
they were friends enemies, General jackson and
staff rode forward ascertain. Whilst he was en-
gagged in reconnoitering his men being unaware of
his movement mistook himself and staff for enemies
and fired voley into them, instantly killing one
of his staff and severely wounding General jackson
and Major Crutchfield. One bullet passed through
the Generals right hand, whilst another struck his
left arm below the elbow and, ranging upward, Shat
tered the bone near the shoulder. He instantly
fell to the ground His brother-in-law, who was
with him. laid down beside him to ascertain the
character of his wounds. In a moment the unknown
troops in 'front.' who proved TO be the enemy, ad-
vanced and captured two other staff officers who
were standing over the General without noticing
him. Soon AFTER four of our men placed him on
Stretcher, and were bearing him to the rear, when
they were all shot down. The injury to his right
hand is severe one of the bones having been shot
away but it is believed he will ultimately recover
its use."
Year: 1863

REMEDY FOR SMALL Pox.-The German Re-
formed Messenger has received a letter from a
friend in China in which it is stated that great
discovery is reported to have been recently made
by Surgeon of the English army in. China, in the
way of an effectual cure for small pox. The mode
of treatment is as follows: When the preceding
fever is its height and just before tn eruption
appears, the chest is rubbed with croton oil and
tartaric ointment. This causes the whole of the
eruption to appear that part of the body to the
relief of the rest 1t also secures full and COM
plete eruption and thus prevents the disease from


attacking the internal organs. This is said to be


now the established mo1e of treatment in the Eng


lsh army in China by general orders, and Is re-
garded as perfect success.
Year: 1863

THE VETo PowER.-President Davis at the heel
of the late session Of Congress- at time pocketed
four bills, viz: The first provided for the conscript
ing citizens of the United States sojourning in the
Confederate States the second organized general
staff for the c. S. Army; the third established an
Ordnance Department for the G. S. Army; the
fourth. new public printing department So that
after all the labOrs of the late protracted session,
legisatng altogether in secret too, from the grave
importance of the different questions, the country
will not have the benefit, in these four bills of our
Congressional wisdom.
Year: 1863

In our last issus urged upon the County Com
miSSionerS the importance of exerting themselves
to procure adequate supply of corn and bacon
for the wives ard children Of soldiers before the
Confederate impressIng officers had gone through
the country and exhausted the surplus now on
hand We anticipate no conflict or unkind feeling
between the County Commissioners and Maj Pierce,
Confederate QuartcrmaSter whose business it is to
superintend and direct the impresSment in this State
That officer we are assured will execute his orders
in such a way as to interfere little as possible
with the supplies needed for the INDECENT If he
should precede the County Commissioners in any
case, they may rest assured that he will divide with
them in a liberal spirit; and that, while he feels
bound to procure supplies for the army, and thus
aid in sustaining our brave troops in the field, he
will be mindful at the same time Of the necessities
of those who must have aid from the surplus in the
hands of others suffer.


The doctrine of impressment, to say the least is
arbitrary in It's character, aud be justified only
on the ground of extreme necessity. There are two
classes of persons however, who will have but little
if any public sympathy while this doctrine is being
enforced against them those, for example, who are
purchasing grain and bacon on speculation, and
those who are hOardng up for still higher prices,
or as the of raising large crops of cotton or
tobacco The poor in the neighoorhoods of such
persons can have but little to hope for from them.
If they will not sell to the County Commissioners
the inpressing officer will wait upon them and take
what they can spare, and that promptly.


We trust it will be found that there is enough
meat and bread for all, and some to spare for the
army. Meanwhile let our farmers plant and make
all the corn they If the war should continue
until next spring, the pinch will come. then, and
will be closer and harder than is now 1t is the
part of wisdom to provide as far possible against
the scarcity ahead of us. The number of mouths
to be supplied next winter and spring will not be
diminished while It is probable that not more than
half crop of corn and wheat will be raised. This
will be more nearly exhausted this time next year
than the last crop is now, Unless great economy is
observed in using it Sufficient" however, "un-
to the day is the evil thereof" Let US improve the
present, and hope for the best under all circum-
stances.


Iesn Panl saws beautifully of children: The smallest