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Year: 1863

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 Was nominated yesterday by the Democrat sc state Convention for Governor of Connec- t;e,t Heaven save the mark

 The man who last summer declared himself .oainst the war, who hid himself away from the angry ,1 formations of his fellow towns ,nen who has been throughout all this war consistent .subnssionist and peace man, who gave utterance only last week, to such sentl- n,ents as would brand a Benedict Arnold with additional infamy-this man, without brains' without a spark of patriotism, without an iota even of self respect. so far as we can judge- this man is nominated for Governor of Con necticut! It is an insult to the sense, the patiiotism, the honor, the integrity of the State, an insult only capable of being in ficted by party which has sunk so low in self-respect and decency. The issue then is fairly made. We shall expect to hear of resolutions and speeches corresponding to the nominee of this Convention, and shall give them place in our columns.

 Loyal citizens of Litchfeld County, can yos stand Thomas II. Seymour for Governor?
Year: 1863

bsaT Is it not striking commentary on tEe cry of peace, peace, raised by the stop-the-war havean armistice Democrats, that while they are 50 anxious to have peace for the rebels who are trying to destroy the Government that they are doing all they can to iAaugurate civil war in our midst and at our own doors. The men who cry peace, peace" are the worse foes to peace in the whole land.
Year: 1863

PARTICULAR attention is called to the
advertisement Of Messrs Parker Van Tuyl.
of household goods At auction. This lie rare
opportunity, and our citizens Who are need OF
rieh household furniture ehould not fail to at
tend.
Year: 1863

DHLIanrruL.-This is as tino spec
linen Of Decenb Der weather as ever blessed
the country in which We live. Ihs roads are
In excellent condition in every direction, and
farmers are making the best of their time 10
marketing their grain and closing up their
fall work.
Year: 1863

An sdvanea Of the whole colamn noyV took
place, General Wei.zsps division taking the
van. Upon entering the works, the scene on
every hand gave-the fullest evidence Of bloody
work the day before. Their unbuTied dead were
lying around on all sides Within an area of
City feet thirty horses lay dead on the field.
Year: 1863

No special movement was made in pursuit Of
the enemy until early the next morning, when
General Emory ordered a portion Of his COM
msn8 to fire into the bFesstWorks, to make sure
that they were evacuated. But at this time
Colonel Kimhall had entered the works on the
right, and Immediately planted the national
colors upon the parapet
Year: 1863

The Navy Department has received a
dispatch from Admiral PORTER, stating
that the rams which recently undertook
TO pass the Vicksburg batteries were
not moved by his orders; and that they
were not prepared for the expedition.
Year: 1863

N The True Democrat favors the re-
election Of only two of the old delegation
to Congress. The Gazette thinks that all
the delegation should be reelected, on
the ground that this is no time for party
feeling to be brought into play. Like the
Gazette, we think politics should be laid
aside, and our whole attention given to
extricating our country from her present
perilous position. No man can spend q
session in Congress without gaining some
influence among his brother members,
and we think it better for the interests Of
our State to send members there who
have already acquired this influence, than
new members who will have il to make
before they can effect any good. Party
chickering's and party strife should all be
laid aside for the present. Our interests
are, or should be, all the same. There
are no questions Of public policy about
which we can differ. We should have
but one object in view, and the energies
Of the whole people should be concen-
trated on its successful solution. There
fore We would be glad to see the sohole Of
the old delegation reelected without op-
Ouachita Herald.
Year: 1863

OUTRAGEoUs.--The intense partiSanship
Of the Administration is shown in every
act in which it is possible to introduce
party. In Wisconsin, such districts (be
ing Republican, as have furnished sur
plus of men on their quota are credited
directly with the surplus in New York,
the surplus furnished by Democratic dis.
tricts is divided around among the Repub'
lican districts, by giving credit for tn,
surplus 10 the whole State.
Year: 1863

There is as much connection be-
tween the words and thoughts, as
there is between the thoughts and
the actions. The latter are not only
the expression Of the former, but
they have q power TO react upon the
soul and leave the stain OF their cor
ruption there. A young man who
allows himself to utter one vulgar or
profane word, has not only shown
that there is foul spot in his mind,
but bv the uttersnce Of that word he
extends that spot and infames it till,
by indulgence, it will pollu;e and ru-
in the whole soul. Be careful Of
your words as well as your thoughts.
If you can control the tongue that
no improper words are pronounced
by il. you will soon be able, also, to
control the mind, and save that from
corruption. You extinguish the fire
bv smothering it, or by preventing
bad thoughts from bursting out iu
language. Never utter word any
where which you would be ashamed
to speak in the presence Of the most
refined female or the most religions
man. Try this practice little While,
and vou viii soon have command OF
Yourself
Year: 1863

The Reason Our friends in the country
are continually asking why we do not give
notice oI the numerous Democratic pic mics
that are being held throughout the county
We will most cheeriully do so, If they give us
the necessary information in regard to time,
place ard speakers We have, as yet, no as
sistance in the editorial management of the
paper, and can give but a small portion Of
our lime to the local department Our friends
eau assist us very much, il they will send US
notice Of Democratic pic mics, and all items
of local character
Year: 1863

BAD Books =" Beware of bad books-nev-
er open one-they viii leave stain upon the
soul which can never be removed. Tfyou have
an enemy whose soul you wish to visit with a
heavy vengeance, and into whose heart you
would place vipers WHICH will live, and crawl,
and torment him through life, and whose dam
nation you would seal up for the eternal world,
you haze only to place one Of these destroyers
into his hands. You have certainly paved the
way to the abode of death, and if he does not
tread it with hasty strides, you have, at least,
laid up food fornany days ofremorse Those who
print, sell or pedde such works to the young, are
among the most awful scourges with which a
righteous God ever visited the world. s.r


i'The Angel of Death can sheath his sword,
and. stay his hand in the work Of destruction
But these wretches l@they dig graves so deep
that they reach into hell. They blight the
hopes Of parents, and pour more than seven vi
ais of woe upon the family whose Affections are
bound up in the son thus destroyed. "
Year: 1863

Now, for you to attempt to overthrow such
government as this, under which We have lived
for more than three-quarters of a sentury--in
which we have gained our wealth, our standing
as a nation, our domestic safety while the cle
IN ,nts of peril are around us, with peace and
tranquility, accompanied with unbounded pros
pdrlty and rights unassailed-is the height Of
madness, folly and wickedness, to which | cam
neither lend my sanction nor my vote.
Year: 1863

The loss of 100 Union troops taken prison
ers is included in the total loss of 10000 The
return of the rebel prisoners we have taken is
exact as given, 25O0. An these figures being
Semi-offcial, we leave the public to deducc
from them the real character of the campaign.
Year: 1863

My own immediate personal interests, and


my chances just now for the more matcri-
al rewards OF ambition, ! again surrender
as hostages to that great hereafter, the
echo Of whose footsteps already | hear
along the highway Of time. Whoever,
here or elsewhere, believes that war can
restore the Union of these States whoev
er would have a war for the abolition of
slavery, or disunion and he who demands
southern independence and final separa--
ton, let him speak, for him have often
dod. Devoted to the Union from the be-
ginning, will.not desert it now in this
the hour of its sorest trial.


Sir, i. was the day-dream Of my boy
hood, the cherished desire of my heart in
youth, that | might live to sec the hun
dredth anniversary of our national indc
pendence, and, as orator of the day, exult
in the expanding glories and greatness of
the still United States. That vision lin
gers yet before my eyes, obscured indeed
by the clouds and thick darkness and the
blood Of civil war. But sir, if the men of
this generation are wise enough to profit
by the hard experience Of the past two
years, and will turn their hearts now from
the bloody intents to the words and arts of
peace, that day viii find US again the Uni
ted States. And if not earlier, as l would
dessre and believe at least upon that day
ct the great work of reunion be consuma-
ted that thenccforth, for ages, the States
and the people who shall fill up this nigh
ty continent, united under one Constitution
and in one Union, and the same destiny
shall celebrate it as the birthday both Of
and the Great Restoration.


Sir, | repeat it, we are in the midst of
the very crisis of this revolution. If, to-
day, we secure peace and begin the work
of reunion, we shall yet escape if not,
see nothing before US but universal politi-
cal and social revolution, anarchy, and
blao shed, compared with which the Reign
of Terror in France was o merciful visit
alton,
Year: 1863

And now, sir, can the GENITAL States,
New York, New jersey, and Pennsylya
mia, consent to separate ! Can New York
CITY? Sir, the trade of the South made
ller largely what she is. She was the
factor and banker of the South-cotton
6lled her harbor with shipping and her
hands with gold But in an evil hour
the foolish, will not say bad, "men OF
Gothem' persuaded her merchant princes
against their first lessons in business
that she could retain or force back the
southern trade by war. War, indeed has
given her, Just now, new business and
trade greater and more profitable than the
old. But with disunion that, too, must
perish. And let not Wall street, or any
other great interest, mercantile, manu-
featuring, or commercial, imagine that it
shall hvae power enough or wealth enough
60 stand in the way Of reunion through
peace Lei them learn, one and all that
a public man who has the people as his
support, is stronger than they, though he
may not be worth a million, nor even one
dollar. A lite while ago the banks said
that they were king, but President jack
son speedily taught them their mistake
Next, railroads assumed to be king, and
cotton once vaunted largely his kingship
Sir, these are only of the royal family
princes of the blood, There is but one
king on earth, Politics is king.
Year: 1863

ANEcDoTE OF Pops.-One day, as
Pope was engaged in translating the ell
Had, he came to passage which Meth.
or he nor his assistant could interpret. A
stranger, who stood by, in his humble garb,
very modeStly suggested that ae he had
some little knowledge of Greek, perhaps
he could assist them.


"Try it, try it !" said Pope, with the
air of a boy who is encouraging a monkey
20 eat red pepper.


There is an error in the print" said
the stranger looking at the text. "Rcad
as II there was no interrogation point t
the end of the line, and you have the
meaning at once"


POpe's assistant at once improved upon
this hint, and rendered the passage with
out difficulty. Pope was chagrned-be
could never endure to be surpassed in any.
thing Turning to the stranger he said.
l n sarcastic tones


"Will you please to tell me what an
interrogation is p


"Why, sir sa'd the stranger scanning
the i'll shaped poet, "it is a little crooked
contemplate thing that asks questions"
Year: 1863

Much has been said and written to Wool Growers
and Stock Raisers in behalf of the claims OF Texas
but aside from greater completely and injury in the
rebellion, its remoteness from all the best markets
its liability TO frequent and drouths numerous
sudden and great changes in the temperature of its
climate, make IL region far inferior to Northern
Missouri II should be remembered that Missouri is
within three days cheap fraeei from any Atlantic
city in direct and rapid communication by water,
rail and telegraph with all homo markets and the
commerce of the world
Year: 1863

eY- All communications intended for the paper
should be directed to the Editor Of the Press, and
those ofa business character to the Publishers.


Y-r The PORTLAND DAILY and MAINE STATE
Press Office, in Fox BLOCK, No. s2t Exchange
Street, is open at all hours during the day and
ming, from o'clock in the morning to in the
evening.


~ Jon PRINTING Of every description executed
with dispatch; and all business pertaining to the Of
fee or paper promptly transacted application as
above.
Year: 1863

The most successful and brilliant of our re-
cent warlike operations has been the cavalry
expedition of General Grlerson, whose arrival
at Baton Rouge is chronlcled in the morning
tolegraphiC dispatches. The Richmond papers
declare that the manner of this raid proves
that the Yankees are greatly improved in the
art of rnidlng. By reading an outline Of the
expedition, with reference to a map, 1t will be
seen that he zigzagged and cavorted Hp and
down in the State of Mississippi pretty much
as he pleased
Year: 1863

HARPER's FERRY, March l0.-Grest surprise
is felt here at reports in Washington and else
where of . disaster at Winchester and return of
rebels in force to the valley of Virginia There
is not only no foundation for these rumors, but
such state of affairs exists in that quarter,
az well as hereabouts, that may defy or invite any
attempts the enemy can make upon US,
unless his whole army in front of Fredericks-
burg should be moved up, which it is well known
that Hooker will not permit, even if the bad
roads would. Gen. Kelly is still in command
under Gen. Schenck with full authority.
Year: 1863

The key of the present political situa-
lion is the fear of certain partisan leaders
lest the Union should not be restored un.
til slavery is practically abolished. They
are therefore for dulcet words and velvet
measures. in order that the rebels may
lay down their arms in gush of fraternal
emotion, and that they may count upon
the united vote of the rebel States for
them and their measures. Shorn of their
southern alliance, and deserted by the
patriotic in their northern ranks. how
could these leaders hope to succeed be-
fore the people? They insist, therefore.
for it is their salvation, that the Presi-
dent shall invite the rebel States to re-
turn to their duty; and they further in
sist that the Government. in other words,
the loyal people of the United States, can
offer no terms other than the Constitu-
ton and the laws. We have recently
seen this statement, almost in the same
words. in several papers which are very
anxious that the Union shall be saved,
provided that slavery shall he saved also.


They may be very tranquil. The Gov
eminent of the United States will offer
the Constitution and all laws made in
pursuance of it to every rebel in the land.
And the rebel and the rebels friends
should endeavor to remember that as the
war is constitutionally waged to subdue
rebellion, so every measure which the ex-
igency of war demanded was not less con-
stitutional, the Government being con-
stitutionally and of necessity the judge
of the exigency, and that, in the course
of the war and under the Constitution.
slavery has been abolished in most of the
States. The Constitution and most of the
laws in pursuance of it, which are offered
to the rebels, therefore, include the act of
emancipation as much as they include the
three-6fths representation or the revenue
law.


Thus when the friends of the rebels
say that nothing can be offered as terms
but the Constitution, they are correct If
they remember two things-first, that all
acts in pursuance of the Constitution are
part of the supreme law, to be reversed
only as all laws are; and secondly, that
the loyal people of the United States,
owning the whole territorial domain of
the country, will secure their future
peace and the safety of their Government
by such measures as they choose. The
which they will not have al
lowed fierce rebellion to overthrow they
are not very likely to suffer a political
juggle to undermine.
Year: 1863

We take the following passage from an
article in the Army and Nary journal.


Speaking of the past feeling of the peo-
pie to the army and the errors of opinion
formerly prevalent concerning the mill
tary service, the writer says:


"Let us hope that in the future history
of our country, juster views III these re-
CARDS will prevail-that a military spirit
will be cultivated, that the army will be
cherished. in all grades, says Marshal
Marmont, 1.-The profession OF arms is no
BILE, because for all alike it is composed of
sacrifices, and is rewarded, before all, by
public estimation and glory. To speak
disdainfully of those who compose the
rank and file of armies is a kind of bias
phemy, even to speak of them with indif-
ference is to misconceive the very condi-
tions of our nature" And more espec-
tally is this true in our country. Under
our system the civil authority controls the
military. The war-power is not the pre-
rogative Of the military but of the civil
government. The prating, therefore.
which is sometimes heard in regard to the
dangers of Cesarism or military despotism
can arise only from knavish spirit, OF
fundamental misconception of the genius
of our institutions. With us the army is
simply the arm Of the nation; not an arm
orer the nation. If it be truly its arm,
therefore, its arm for protection and for
vengeance, it is a living, incorporate part
of the body polite, sharing its sympathies,
motives, desires. In the great volunteer
army which has been in the field during
the past two years, million of citizens
have, for longer or shorter periods, borne
arms in the public service. We believe
their army life has made them better men
and better citizens. That it has raised
their sentiment of patriotism, no man
who has seen our armies in the field will
deny. The feeling of the army regarding
the late attempts to discourage the con-
scription strikingly illustrates this. We
doubt if these attempts would ever have
been made if their originators had fore
seen what contempt and Indignation they
were destined to stir up in the army
what white fury sat on the lips of men
eager to leave the rebels in their front and
come to settle accounts with those whom
they regarded as worse rebels in the rear"
Year: 1863

The Catholic Telegraph of Cincinnati, ed
lted by Rev. Edward Purcell, brother to
Archbishop Purcell, publishes an editorial
IN Its issue of the 26th inst, in which the
cowardlce OF those people who are fright
ened by the term ''abolitionist" is exhib-
tied in the most scathing language
The Telegraph says, speaking of slavery:
We never raised a hand against it; no
word of any Catholic editors assailed it so
long as it would be unjust and illegal to
do so; but now that it is dead-dead by
its own admirers-We will not consent to
see its body fostering on the Highways
Let it be buried out of sight forever
Let it rest with all its horrors IN the
grave-let its memory fade from the rec
objection of men. 1t was an outrage
against humanity such as the history OF
no other people could exhibit. There
was something manly in the old custom
OF reducing to slavery him whose sword


had been beaten down by a stronger arm
on the battle field; there was a show of
Justice IN reducing to bondage the debtor
who could not pay his creditor; but for
American Slavery there is no excuse! 1t
was a mOnstrous crime-from the seizure
of the African in his own land to the mo-
ment of his death, when his body was


wasted by toll, rather than disease, to up
hold the luxury of master! Well, it
has fallen; and we are called abolition
lists because we refuse our consent to re-
suscitation, Weare proud of being called
so under circumstances so creditable TO
the mind and heart. May we ever deserve
the name, We will bear its stigma joy


fully through life, and carry it into eter-
nifty with honor. We struggle in a holy
cause.-the cause of religion and of the
hum IN race.
Year: 1863

in progress. and mighty engines have to
be lifted and conveyed from place to place
in the ordinary course of the days work.
To the arsenal and dockyard the engine
now at work there is invaluable, and the
cost has been so much less than horse
power that two teams have already been
dispensed with. In the old days of horse
traction it was a common thing to see
skilled hands, earning five shillings a day,
employed at mere laborers wor'. in GER
tain emergencies, for want of a full sup
ply of traction power; now all this is saved
by the ever ready power of this manage
geable monster which promises to become
the common drudge of man in every field
of exertion where gigantic powers have
to be called into action"
Year: 1863

God is again with us !" exclaims the
Confederate Commander at Charleston, in
closing a despatch announcing the repulse
of an attack upon Fort Wagner. We
will not be tempted far into the line of
observation suggested by this arbitrary
assumption of the Divine presence and
favor. But it may be remarked that Gen.


Beauregard evidently considers the Al
mighty as an inconstant ally, not always
found upon the side of the South, and as
making himself known only by victory.
The notion is essentially a heatheuish
one, though it prevails very much among
Christians of all communities. We rec
ognize a higher conception of the Deity
in language like that of President Lin
coins address on the Fourth of July-an
of justice and mercy in
disaster as well as in success, and of the
duty of acquiescence in the evident ordi-
nations of Supreme Wisdom. The theo-
logians of the South are rather of the old
Roman type. They refuse to acquiesce in
any arrangement that does not imply the
of their own race to all princi-
Piles of government, all compacts and
laws, all the institutions and attainments
of civilization. They scott at the idea of
equality among human beings even of the
same color. They maintain the natural
subjection, not only of men with black
skins, but of men with hard hands and
empty pockets. The possession of land
and money is essential, in their view, to
the right even of personal freedom. The
poor they rank with the slave-born. The
traders and husbandmen Of the North
they despise for the industry that makes
them strong in battle as well as rich in all
the arts of peace. And the one virtue
that attracts the sympathies of the world
to the cause of the South is the fortitude
that bears up against defeat-even though
defeat, according to the Beauregard the
ology, signifies the absence and displeas-
ure of the Lord of Hosts.-LoHdon StaT,
august -.
Year: 1863

Send your little child to bed happily
Whatever cares press, give it a warm
goodnight kiss as it goes to its pillow
The memory of this in the stormy years
which fate may have in store for this lit
tie one, will be like Bethlehem's star to
the bewildered shepherds.
Year: 1863

No State shall secede without the con-
sent of the Legislatures of the States of
the section to which the State proposing
to secede belongs. The President shall
have power to adjust with seeding States
all questions arising by reason of their se-
cession; but the terms of adjustment shall
be submitted to the Congress for their ap-
proval before the same shall be valid.
Year: 1863

CuriOsities Every city of the size OF
ours should have Museum We have sew,
eraL The principal depot for curiosities,
however, is the Phillips House Drug Store,
Professor Dietrich has very interesting col
lection Of oddities, and the place is worth q
visit for other than sanitary purposes,
Year: 1863

Irs so,-If you have hard job of hem
ming, tucking, cording brading or filing to
do, take it to the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing
Machine office, where you will get it done in
the most workmanlike manner, at the old
price, by one of the best operators