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Year: 1863

Tie Washington Chronicle lays down
the law for the negroes thus: Fighting
promiscuous is forbid, and they must 90
in the forefront of the battle. The Yam
KEGS evidently intend to destroy the en-
tire breed in America:


Gen. Hunter believes the employment
of blacks as soldiers to be necessary to
the preservation of our country. The re-
suit OF the war must be to secure to them
the inestimable blessing which, but for
the rebellion, could never have been at
tained by the present or, perhaps the
next generation. This being the case, it
il no more than fair that the negroes
should aid us in crushing that rebellion
which is as hostile to their interests as ii
is to ours; and if there are among them
any who are too selfish or too cowardly to
make sacrifices and incur risks for the
sake of the great privilege OF their man
hood, they should be compelled to do
their duty.
Year: 1863

The Louisville Democrat has no great
respect for Lincoln, ms will be seen by
the following paragraph;


The Abolition papers now theorize that
the President is not bound TO obey the
Constitution but only to support it. Be-
ing too weak TO support IL whole, he has
smashed it into pieces of n size suitable to
his strength"


what shame and modification it is
that in the grandest work for the grand
est objects mankind has ever known, the
Chief Magistrate Of the nation should be
A pitirul buffoon, whose highest wit Is a
er5u.ty Joke
Year: 1863

The Philadelphia Inquirer says in Bos'
ton the city clerk has to give permit
before body can be buried in a grave
yard. The question has arisen whether
the permit had to bear a stamp, and Com
missioner Boutwell, has decided that it
must. SO that a man cannot be buried
unless his friends first pay a ten cent tax.
This is running the revenue law into
the ground"
Year: 1863

Ha-. A Northern dispatch states that
Beast Butler is spoken Of as provost mar
shal general under the Federal conscrip-
tion act. If the appointment is made he
will hold Northern roses TO the grind.
stone relentlessly. u could do nothing
sles f he would .r~
Year: 1863

He who feels his deficiencies will be chari-
table man for his own sake


One never regrets doing a polite or kind thing,
matter how il is received.


Happiness must arise from our own temper and
acrons, and Immediately from any external
conditions


As grow older it is with hearts as with heads
Of hair-t is not easy 10 distinguish the from
the false.


There some human tongues which have two
sides. like that of certain quadrupeds-one smooth,
the other very rough


An Editor in North Carolina says ne is so poor
that when two dimes in his pocket he formally
introduces them. they are such strangers.


An architect proposes to build Bachelors
Hail." which will iifer from houses in having
no Ewes


Mrs. Partington says that nothing desri.es her go
much as TO see the PEOPLE who profess expect SAL
va'ion. 90 10 church without their purses when a
recollection IS to be taken.


Miss Smith asked ' the pleasure of Captan Joness
company to tea AT the time appointed the cap
tain being in command OF the Rife Corps made
his appearance with the whole of his company in
parade dress


20 BY him barefoot Father" says he YOU are in
very miserable condition if there is another
world % True. son. said the hermit. '' but what
Is thy condition if there he -


\ FINE THOUGHT "A French writer has said that
" to dream gloriously. must gloriously while
you are awake. and io bring angels down
with you in sleep. must labor in the cause
Of virtue during the day


well known penurious character invited friend
TO dinner. and provided two mutton chops On re
moving the cover he said, My friend YOU see YOUR
dinner" which his friend Immediately with his
knife and fork. took TO himself, remsrkng, IL wish
L could yours"


PRIa PEorLE.-There is n OF people, says the
Utica ssiegraph, whom we cannot bear-the pinks
OF fashionable prOpriety-whOse every word is pre-
else. and whose every movement is unexcepfionable


but who. though we'll .ersed in all the catalogues
OF polite behavior, have not particle Of soul nor
eordttIty about them We allow that their man ners
may De abundantly Correct There may be elegance
IN every position not a smile Of place, and a
step that would not bear the measurement of the
seVerest scutiny This is all very fine; but what we
Is the gayety of social intercourse the rankness
that speaks ahabiIity all. that chases timidity
rom every oosom, aud tells every man in the COM
pany to be confident and happy. This is what we
conceive TO be the virtue of the text and not the
sicksGing formality Of those who walk by rule and
Wothd reduce the whole of the human life IN a wire
pound system OF misery and constraint
Year: 1863


following beautiful are from the Louisville Journal
The spring Of life Is past


With It budding hopes and fears,
And the autumn time Is coming
With its weight Of weary years
Our Joyousness is fading,


Our hearts dimmed with care,
And youths fresh dreams Of gadness
All perish darkly there.
While bliss was blooming near us
In the hearts full burst Of spring,
While many hopes could cheer Us.
Life seemed glorious thing !
Like the foam upon a river,
When the breeze goes ripping DER,
These hopes have fed forever,
To 10
'Tis sad-yet sweet-to listen
To the sofr wings gentle swell,
Ard think " hear the music
Cur childhood knew well:
To gaze the even,
And the boundIess fields Of air,
And feel again our boyhood's wish,
To Ike angels there
There many dreams of gadness
That cling around the past
And from that tomb Of feeling
Old thoughts thronging fast;
The forms loved so dearly,
In the happy days now gone,
The beautiful and lovely,
So fair to look upon.
Those bright and gentle maidens.
Who seemed 80 formed for bliss,
Too glorious and too heavenly
For such a world this
Whose soft dark eyes seemed swimming
In sea Of liquid light,
And whose locks Of gold streaming
Ger brows sunny bright
Whose smiles were like the sunshine
In the spring time of the year
Like the changefu CLEANS Of April,
They followed every
They have passed--Iike hope-away:
All their Ioyeness has fed
Oh-Glany heart is mourning,
That they with the dead.
Like the brightest buds of summer
They have fallen from the stem
Yet oh--it is a lovely DEATH
To fade from earth like them.
And yet the thought is saddening,
To muse such they
And feel that all the beautiful
Are passing fast away;
That the fair whom love,
Like the tendrils OF a vine,
Grow closely each loving heart
Then perish their shrine
And but think these,
In the soft and gentle spring,
When the trees waving DER US,
And flowers blossoming
For know that winters coming
With his cold and stormy sky
And the glorious beauty around US,
Is budding but
Year: 1863

The Journal of Commerce thus analyses
public sentiment regarding the consumption,
with the renewal of which, modified or un-
changed, we are threatened at the begin
ming of the new year


GAIL married men over thirty five think,
most decidedly, that the present division oil
the enrolled into two classes should not be
abolished. They strongly approve OF the
distinct n which makes all men under thir
ty five liable to be drafted first before they
can be drawn. On the other hand, the mar
ried men under thirty five hold that the
present discrimination is perfectly ridlcu'
lous, not to say inhumau, and that Congress
ought to repeal it at once. This class of
Benedicts, and all the bachelors under forty
five (also included in the first division) form
a powerful majority OF public opinion, and
if they should undertake to petition Con-
gress would beat the second class by two
or three to one.


A more important proposition is that to
strike out the three hundred dollar exemp-
tion clause; also the one allowing substl-
tutes to be furnished, and making everybody
who is drafted liable to serve. Here, too,
the line between the friends and opponents
of the amendment is clearly drawn. All
persons who have not three hundred dollars
about them are unanimously agreed that
this alteration, of all Others, ought to be
made. To this, all persons who have three
hundred dollars and upwards at their dis
posal dissent emp hatically and with one
voice. Such of them as are very flush with
greenbacks would be willing, as a compro-
mise to let the government abolish the
three hundred dollar clause, and leave every
drafted person free to hire a substitute or
the best terms that he could get; but as fol
making the service Of every drafted man
rich or poor, compulsory, that would be g
monstrous measure! Men over forty-fve
and therefore exempt from all draft, what
ever Their condition of life, are disposed tc
favor the amendment. They are rather
tired of the greatly augmented taxes which
come from the city's assuming to pay com
mutation fees for all drafted men, And SC
it goes; each man Judging of the question
as he Judges of most other questions, by th'
wav that it affects himself" $3.50
Year: 1863

GEN. GRANT AND THE PRESIDENCY. is
reported that letters have been received
from Gen. Grant, which state that it is
against his wishes and consent that bis name
is so conspicuously brought forward in some
of the New York journals for the Presi-
dency.
Year: 1863

t'But if it be proper to require as test OF
admission to the political body an oath OF
allegiance to the Constitution Of the Unite d
States and to the Union under it, why not
also to the laws and proclamation in regard
to Slavery?- Presidents Message.
Year: 1863

THERE is many slip between the cup and
the lip, but there are many more slips az
ter the cup has been drained by the hps.


IT'S we'll enough for an attractive wife to
have a repulsive husband. The rose isn't
complete without its thorn.
Year: 1863

We can bid poverty welcome if it is con-
siderate enough not to come at too late
time.


TIE child of a sorrowed mother catches
from her the trick Of grief rnd signs even
amid its playthings.


To the contemplative soul there is no lit
tleness the least of things iphnite
Year: 1863

MEETING THIS EvRHIsG.-Our citi-
gems are reqnestsd to meet 1t the Cosncii
Chamber this evening. to consider upon the
approaching : h Of July Let US have good
old fashioned celebration this year il ~ never
have another one. We have oil the material
at hand to make big thing, and it will be
our own fault IL The celebration fizxles.
Year: 1863

head and danger. May sss.rsS,ine soon come
when suoh statemer Aahnot be made with
impunity. WI -,ssnot the people at home
(our friends mean take this matter in
hand Why do they allow us to be abused
in our absence 2 When we get home we
can take care of ourselves. We have one
consolation, however, and that is, that
when We find seoessionists in the army or
at home nine out Of ten are ignoramuses.
They are, as q general thing, Of the class
thst do little or no reading. Would to God
they could read and hear more such
speeches as that Of Mr.. Fink Of Illinois in
the State legislature Such medicine as
be proposed to give all traitors is Just what
they deserve Another aold farmer1 OF
Piekaway county suits us too He makes
it public 10 them that he wants none Of
them to trouble his premises, unless they
want "boot injection" and the beauty of
it all is, he puts his preaching into prac.
tioe. -u


Concerning the hospitals of Nashville
and the treatment of their inmates, think
the impression he tries to create, is direct
ly the reverse Of the truth. never have
visited them, but have it from the best Of
judges that they are very nicely kept, and
the inmates well cared for. There may be,
it is true isolated exceptions, but these
are very rare That some people of Ohio
might make s-muss, may be true, but it
would be Of the class that wishes to see
JEFF Davis King. The gentleman's admira-
ton CT the rebel charge Is, undoubtedly the
result Of his prejudice To illustrate, at
q horse race many can be found, that in
varisbly claim the horse hey wish to see
beat, to have done the best running.
viii leave it to him 10 explain why he says
I" they fight better since the 1st Of Janu-
sry." All the fighting done since then,
at NJ. resulted in their entire discom-
future and defeat. Il is reported among
our boys, that their ram-rods were left
sticking in the bTedstlDOTks which the Tenne-
see soldiers obliged them TO leave after
dark on Saturday eve. They were in too
great hurry TO Hreturn rammer" after
loding their guns the result was they shot
rod and all. II the result of those two
days is the basis Of his conclusion, it is
enough for me. The assertion that sold
Ben Wade must look out when the soldiers
get home; and keep his mouth shut will
not 60 far toward soaring Mr.. Wade I am
sure.


have already written more than 1
thought would when 1 commenced, and
must close. believe the days of these
abominable tories are numbered. 1t seems
10 me that the writing is upon the wall,
that the decree is surely coming from this
great people, and this miserable faction in
the North, as well as South, THAT Of the
South is the more honorable is soon going
to be made to succumb to the powers that
be- If the author Of the letter I refer 10
wishes to know my name and place, he
can learn both by enquiring for
1f-sTt n A. PATTERSON,


Co F. goth O. Y l.
Year: 1863

The BOmbardment Of Fort BTcAlIister,


The Richmond Examiner Of Monday last
says Of the attack upon Fort McAllister by
the Federal gunboats and iron-clads:


aUp to last night nothing later had been
received at the War Department from Fort
McAllister The latest accounts we have
say that the Yankee feet, after a terrific
bombardment, had retired, and it is thought
the enemy had been again repulsed, at least
he has shown no further disposition to re-
new the attack. The bombardment is rep
resented 10 have been terrific. The FIRE Of
three iron-clads and three mortar boats
was concentrated on the fort at the same
time, and shell and shot literally rained
on the garrison. The FIRE commenced about
nine clock in the morning, and contin-
ued up to late hour in the evening and
through the night. But when morning
came the Yankee feet had disappeared
This is the enemy's fourth attack on Fort
McAllister, and he has failed, strange to
say and in the contest the fort is said to
have sustained but little damage, and our
loss is said TO be two wounded and none
killed. It shows that Yankee gunboats and
morlars are q humbug. In fact we are
told that, SO accustomed have become the
people Of people Of Vicksburg to them, and
80 httle Isl the fear manifested at their
Smelling, when the fire commences, the peo-
pie 60 out to witness it as kind Of smuse-
mentn
Year: 1863

CoURT OF COMMON PLEAs.-Judge Coffin
berry held Court this morning, and gave a
lengthy decision in the famous case Of Par
ish Ts. Parish. The action was brought to
set aside decree of the Court for divorce
and alimOny, in Brown county. Judge Cof-
fnberry's decision sustained the Judgment of
the above Court. Thus ends case-that has
been in Court for a very long period.


Judge Bolton is hearing the case of Brown
vs.. Mills, an error case from justice
Year: 1863

eArnestness In the cause, and look on
such votes as you lately gave, loud ap
plsuse, feel as II zoe are not 70 give IL
up so, either. Laughter aud Appl ause. 1


Now, don't know what more cI1
say, because l don't know that I feel
more earnestly than you do, In reference
TO the great interests At stake. But will
say that there is no hope for our children,
no hope for ourselves, but 10 maintain
our Government exactly as IL was--or if
not as It was, the next thing to IL, or IL
we can't have that, we will have but one
nation any how. Great applause.


have been where could see and hear
from the enemy. Ny hearing what was
10 hear, and seeing what was to be seen,
has given me opportunities for judging
OF the Southern condition, that ell have
not possessed. ] will tell you one thing
more, and that in reference to the opin


ions Of those who think the war might
have been avoided, and that some peace
might have been procured before now, If
we had taken . different course. But
tell you thai the only way in which we
can procure any peace is by thrOttling
the enemy Of the South. Applause !
Converse with . rebel and he will tell
you frankly that he is sorry that the war
was begun. They will tell you as their
General Adams said, 1 notice that the
extreme men who brought on the war are
not fighting its battles. The planters and
the people on the border have only acted
with reference to the protection of their
property. / see that the best blood of
the country is being shed in o war that
the victims did not bring about" The
people deplore the war, but they are held
by the neck; the military power has got
them under its heel. You cannot, there
fore, make peace with them. The only
way is to keep tightening the cords a.
round them, to get them so broken that
the conservative people Of the South, can
help themselves. This they will not at
tempt until we throttle the military
power. Then they will turn TO the lead
ers and says "We have had enough of
this aud will give il up" Accordingly,
| see no hope except in prudently aud
steadily, crowding upon them as we have
been doing, and the discrimination of the
struggle at last will be in accordance
with the great interests Of our country
and the world. Applause / had hoped
within year We could have accomplish
ed the reduction Of the rebellion. | will
say in conclusion, that, had we received
the forces eight weeks ago that we ought
TO have had, we could have broken the
back of the rebellion before now.
Year: 1863

New AMERICAN PROJECTILE.-The New York Her
aid says =. IL is now asccrtained that We have n
prCjectile which the plating Of none of the iron
monsters in the English or French navy can resist
IL Will riddle ten inches Of iron and twenty odd
inches Of solid oak with as much ease as an inch
board For obvious it has not been thought
proper 10 give publicity to the by which these
results have been arrived Ii is sufficient
people know thar, in the event Of any attempt by
an English French fleet to enter harbors and
lombard seabOard cities, possess a proiecte
which viii! penetrate and sink the most impregnabe
OF the iron frigates of which they make such boast
Year: 1863

"Bishop Rappe yesterday morning preached
q sermon In the Cathedral on the subject of the
riots In New York. He was unspsring In bit
ter denunciation of the mob that had committed
such outrages. He warned his hearers agsi nst
any act that tended In any degree to prov yoke
such scenes here. He said that the laws must
be obeyed, and the conscription Law must be
qulstly submitted to among the rest. He urged
the members Of his flock TO attend strictly 10
their business, and not even to discuss the
question of the drai. If any of them were
drafted, and could not procure exemption, they
must do their duty to their country as soldiers.


"If the drafted man was poor, and no provi-
sion was made by the city or county for the
relief of his family, they should he cared for by
the church. .....


He warned them not to ill-treat the colored
people. A colored man had as much right 10
live, and to labor for his living, as o white man
had, and their rights must be respected. II
was cowardly and sinful to molest those peo.
pie, because their skin was of different color.


HE also spoke against the practice of de.
manding extortionate wages. 1t was wrong
and wicked to extort from employers more than
The fair price of their labor.


Finally, he warned them not TO provoke Z
breach Of the peace In any manner, and said
that he had pledged his word as q Catholic
bishop TO the citizens Of Cleveland that there
should be no disturbance from the Catholic
Irish, and he looked to them that his pledge
should not be broken" =
Year: 1863

First Report of the First National Bank.
! NEW York, Oct 2.-The first report of the
First National Bank of New York is published
to-day, and is considered highly favorable
The bank has been in operation only sixty
days, and Will soon increase its capital.
Year: 1863

It will add more to your convenience
and comfort through life than you can
imagine. 1t saves money. For awhile
it may be a little troublesome, but you
will soon find it easier to do right than
wreng-that.it is easier to act by rule
than without one. ..,-


Be systematic in everything; let it
extend to the very minutest trifles; it is
not beneath you. Whitfield cOull not
90 to sleep at night, if, after retiring,
he remembered that his gloves and ri
ding whip were not in their usual place,
where he could lay his hand on them in
the dark on any emergency and such
ure the men who leave their mark for
good on the worlds history. 1t was by
his systematic habits from youth to age
that Noah Webster was able to leave the
world his great dictionary. "Method
was the presiding spirit of his life, "
writes the biographer.


Systematic men are the only reliable
men, they are the men who comply with
their engagements. They are minute
men. The man Of system is soon known
to do all that he engages to do; to do it
we'll, and to do it at the time promised;
consequently be has his hands full. -
When 1 want any mechanical job done,
1 go to the man whom always find
busy, and do not fail to fnd him to he
the man to do that job promptly and to
the hour.


Aud more, teach your children to be
systematic. Begin with your daughters
at five years of age; give them drawer
or two for their clothing, make it poiRt
to go to that drawer any hour ofthe day
and night, and if each article is not
properly arranged, give quiet and ra
tional admonition; IL arranged wen, give
an affectionate praise and encourage
meut. Remem Der that children as we'll
ms grown-up people will do more to re
tain a name than to make one. .rr.
As soon as practicable, let your child
have room which shall be its own, an
treat that room as you did tho drawer
Thus you will plant and cultivate hab.
IL of ofsystematic action which will bless
that child when young, increase the
blessing when the child becomes par
ent, and extend its pleasurable inAu.
enee to the close oflife. A single un
systematic person in house is curse
to any family. A wife who has her
whole establishment so arranged, from
cellar to attic, that she knows on any
emergency where to so for a required
article, is treasure to any man, (my
experience, readerD while one who new
or knows where anything is, and when
It is by accident found, is almost sure
to find it crumPlcd, soiled, or out of or.
der, such a wife as the latter is unwor-
Ahy of the name, and is aliving repropct
TO the mother who bore her q
Year: 1863

PRESERVING BUTTER.--Take two parts
of the best common salt, one part oi
sugar and one part of snltp eter, and
blend the whole completely. Take one
ounce of this composition for sixteen
ounces of butter, work it well into q
mass and close it up for use. Butter
thus cured requires to stand three weeks
ora month before it is used.
Year: 1863

THE F1Rsr DAY OF AUTUMS-October.
the pride of the year. is upon US in all its
glory. Day by day the change preliminary
to that of the cold gloom of November and
the chilling winds of winter is creeping over
the woods aud forests. There is gorgeous


display of color in the woods which beauti-
fully contrasts with the sombsr hue over
the cleared f1sl1s, though it is the hectic
flush that betoksns the completion of'the
decay which is already marring the land
scapes. To those who morning and even
ing look out upon the forests. the change is
so grad ual as to be scarcely perceptible. but
to those of our citizens who get breath of
couatry air but once week, the change is
astonishing. He sighs as he thinks how
soon the flashing leaves of the maple will
futter on the stem for the last time, how
soon the green leaves which yet preserve
their freshness will change their hue to a
brown or yellow. aud 60 f1uttering to the
earth to mix with the decaying foliage al
ready there. While he notes it, he has an
almost irrepress5ie desire to wander In the
forest, and to observe more closely; whilst
he enjoys such scenes. we would advise to
90 the country quickly, as such rapid
changes in vegetation are taking place, that
the beauty and glory Of the forests will soon
have departed. i
Year: 1863

GFAmos Kendall, who used to be very
poor, is now one Of the richest men in Mary
land. He made his wealth by going into
the telegraph enterprise with Morse, and be
owns nearly ore third of that Interest. He
10 q hale and hearty old man.