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Year: 1863

THROWING physic to the dogs" had Il
very apt and practical illustration few
nights ago, when Or. Askew, Copper
head, addressed the Copperhead club over
which he presides previous to Introducing
Mr. finder Box Brown, of New Jersey,
whose extreme old age makes him foolish
enough 10 think he can coax the people
of Delaware to elect him their Represen-
tative to Congress When the loyal men
of this State are ready 10 perpetrate such
an act of sclf-abascmcnt, they will let
Charles know Meonwhic lie can amuse
himself by counting over "thcm one hun
dred and ninety"
Year: 1863

Three important measures are now be-
fore the Federal Congress, the passage OF
which will OF course occur, As they have
been caucusssd upon by the Abolition
leaders, that will invest Lincoln with
power more to be feared by those who
may acknowledge his Government than
that Of an absolute monarch. These are,
first, the bill giving him power to sus
pend the writ Of habeds corpus, which


will give him full control of the person.
OF sll within his dominions second, the
militia bill, which proposes to place under
his control the whole militia force OF the
country and the sword entirely uader his
hands and third, the financial scheme,
which will give him the purse. We have
no doubt o: the passage Of all three pro
positions before the final adjournmen, of
the vensl Congress now in session, whose
legal existence closes on the 4th inst
They are the means by which the more
nominal party expect to continue their
power after they retire. With these
grants Abolition legislation will be no
longer necessary, and conservative legis
iation will be a.nullity. Any &C, Of the
latter to restrict the action of the Pre.i
dent can easily be silenced by the veto,
and the sword and purse continue to be
used, without hindrance, to complete the
ambitious schemes Of the would be auto
.crat and his followers. The army, the
navy, and the treasury, will be under the
absolute and unlimited control Of Lincoln;
he will have absolute power TO force into
his armies every man whom he pleases,
and incarcerate in his bastiIes every one
who presumes to differ with him, and
freedom ofspeech and Of tho press can be
restrained at pleasure, with as much ia.
cility as can freedom Of the person. His
people will then learn how much Of their
own liberty has been lost by their blindly
aiding hip 70 secure that OF the negro,
and that, too, when it is too late.-.SouM
Carolinian.
Year: 1863

The Chattanooga Rebel says; We
cannot too strongly urge upon our friends
tho propristy Of planting no more Cotton
than is necessary to raise seed for another
year: We repea, what we said on n for
mer occasion Let every effort be made
in every State to secure the greatest a
mount Of food Let tie people go to
work now to make clothing. DO not put
these things of. lie, those learn TO spin
and weave now who never knew before.
The highest compliment that can be paid
any young lady, after this war, will be
that she spun and ~ore clothes for ber
brothers and friends in the army. lie,
the wealthiest and most accomplisbe,,
set the example Of plain dressing and
hard work"
Year: 1863

There can be nothing more puzzling
than the analysis of ones feelings on
battle field. You cannot describe them
satisfactorily to yourself or others. To
march steadily up to the mouths Of
hundred cannon, while they pour out
fire and smoke and shot and shell in a
storm that mows the men like grass, is
horrible beyond cription-appalling.
1t is absurd to say man can doit with
out fear. During Hancock's charge at
Fredericksburg, for a long distance, the
slope was swept by such hurricane of
death that We thought every step would
be our last, and l am willing to say, for
one, that 1 was pretty badly scared
Whatever may be said about "gotting
used to it," old soldiers secretly dread a
battle equally with new ones. But the
most difficult thing to stand up under.
is the suspense while waiting, as we
waited in Fredericksburg, drawn up in
line of battle on the edge of the field
watching the columns file past us and
disappear in cloud of smoke, where
horses and men and colors go down il
confusion, where all sounds are lost il
the screaming of shells, the cracking O.
musketry, the thunder of artillery, anC
knowing that our turn comes next, ex
pecting each moment the word "for
ward" 1t brings strange kind of re
lief when forward" comes. You NOV


mechanically with the rest. Once fair
| ly in for it your sensibIities are strange


ly blunted; you care comparativel


nothing about the sights that shocke


you at first; men torn to pieces by can


non shot become a matter of course -


At such time there comes latent sus


tenance from within us, or above u,


which no man anticipates who has nc


been in such place before, and whicI


most men pass through life withoU


KNOWN anything about. What is it


Where does it come from?- Cor. Spring
field Republican.
Year: 1863

We are apt to believe in Providence SO
long as we have our own way; but if
things 60 awry, then we think, if there
is a God, he is in heaven, and not on
earth. The cricket in the spring builds
his little house in the meadow and chrps
for joy, for all is going we'll with him.
But when he hears the sound Of the
plow few burrows off and the thunder
of the oxen's tread, the skies begin to
look dark and his heart fails him. The
pillow comes crushing along and turns
his dwelling bottom side up, and as he is
rolling over and over without a home
his heart says: "Oh the foundations of
the world are destroyed and everything
is going to ruin!" But the husbandman
who walks behind his plOw singing and
whistling as be goes, does not think
the foundations of the world are break
ing up. Why, he does not SO much as
know there was any house or cricket
there. He thinks of the harvest that is
to follow the track of the plow, and the
cricket too, if he will but wait, will ind
o thousand blades of grass where there
was but one before. We are like crick
cts. Ifany thing happens to overthrow
our plans and calculations, we think all
has gone to ruin.
Year: 1863

A donkey lately walked into an Eng
lish blacksmith shop, and tho smith,
supposing the owner was uear,p shoes
upon the beast, which Immediately went
away, leaving tho blacksmith in doubt
as to which was the ass he or the one
he had shod gratis,
Year: 1863

LAZY BoYs.-A lazy boy makes a
lazy man just as sure as crooked sapling
makes a crooked tree. Who ever yet
saw boy grow up in idleness, that did
not make shiftless vagabOpd when he
became man, unless he had a fortune
left him to keep up appearanoes2 The
great mass ofthieves, paupers and Grim
inals, have become what they are by be.
ing brought up in idleness. Those who
constitute the business part Of the com
munity-those who make our great and
useful men, were taught in their boy
hood to be industrious.
Year: 1863

ResOlUed, That the sentence of the
Military Court in the case of the traitor
Vallandigham, ought to be executed 20
the letter, not only so, but we invoke
the vengeance of the law upon all that
class of citizens who give aid and COM
fort to the open enemies of the Repub-
lie by casting reprOach upon the cause
which has led our gallant sons to the
battlefield.
Year: 1863

Bills have been introduced into Con J.,
gress to repeal the $500 clause in the
Conscription Ac, and TO do away with
the present division Of enrolled men into
classes. II is thought that both chang.
es will be made. and that the draft will
therefore take all able bodied men
between go and 45.
Year: 1863

"PrRTANICAL MAssACHUsETTs.-Tha fear
fully radical State of Massachusetts is going to
d. it again. What will conservatism think of
to pay all its troops in the national service
promptly us their wages are due borrowing
MONEY to do il, and taking the General Govern
mcnts stipend whenever il may please the Sec
lary Of the Treasury to pay it Can this be
Constitutional
Year: 1863

Now, therefore, to avoid all miSapprehen-
sious concerning the liabilities of persons con.
cerned to perform the service required by such
enactment, and to give II full effect do here
by order and proclaim that no plea of aIienage
will be received or allowed to exempt from the
obligations imposed by the aforesaid act of
Congress any person Of foreign birth who shall
have declared on oath bis intention to become
a citizen of the United States, under the laws
thereof, and who shall be found within the
United States at any time during the continu-
ance of the preSeut inSurrection and rebellion,
at or after the expiration of tie period of six
ty five days from the date of this procama
ton ror shall any such plea of aenage be
allowed in favor of any such person who has
so as aforesaid declared his intention 10 be-
come a citizen Of the United States, and shall
have received at any time the right of Suffrage
or any other political franchise within :the
United States, under the laws thereof, or uu-
der the laws of any of the several States.


10 witness whereof, have hcreunto set nay
hand and caused the seal of the United States
to be affixed.


Done at the City of Washington this the eighth day of
May i'll the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and sxtythree and of the independence Of the
United States the eighty-seventh.


ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President WM. H. SEW ARD, Sec Y of State.
Year: 1863

Take care of them. Do not let them
stir without watching. They may do some
thing wrong, if you DO. To be sure you
never knew them TO do anything very bad,
but it may be on your account they have
not. Perhaps if it had not been for your
kind care, they might have disgraced them
selves and families lone time ago. There
fore do not relax any effort TO keep them
where they ought to be; never mind your
own business, that will take care of ITSELF
There is a man passing along-he is look
ing over the fence-be suspicious of him !;
perhaps he conemplates stealing something,
some of these dark nights there is no
knowing what queer fancies he may have
got into his head. If you find any symp-
toms of any one passing out of the path of
duty, tell every one else that you can see,
and be particular TO see great many. 1t
is good way to circulate such things, though
it may not benefit yourself or any one else
particularly. Do keep something going
silence is dreadful thing; though it is said
there was silence in Heaven for the space
of half an hour, do not let such thing oc-
cur on earth; it would be too much like
Heaven for the inhabitants OF this mundane
sphere. If, after all your watchful cares,
you cannot see anything out of the way in
any one, you may be sure it is not because
they have not done anything bad; perhaps.
in an unguarded moment you lost sight ol
them-throw out hints that they are no bet
ter than they should be-that you should
not wonder if people found out what they
were after while, and then they may not
carry their heads SO high. Keep it agoing
and some one will take the hint and begin
to help you after while-then there will
be music and everything will work to .
charm
Year: 1863

Parents should always speak kindly to
their children when retiring or going to bed.
Then, more than any other time, is it i'm
hearts softened by voices and looks of ten
derness and kindness. They should go to
rest with thoughts of love and affection for
their parents, and gratitude and love to
their heavenly Father for His goodness to
them. How can we expect children to say
their evening prayer acceptably and with a
blessing to themselves, it they are required
or permitted to retire to bed ill-humored or
vexed by frown or unkind words from
their parents And vet many parents send
their children to bed, not only in bad feel
ing but often hungry. as punishment for
some offense. No course can possibly be
more Objectionable. Not long since spent
an evening at the house of friend, with
several other friends and acquaintance.
This friend had two interesting and lovely
boys, about ten and twelve years Of age,
who very much enliyened the company with
their innocent prattle and childlike hilarity.
About half-psst eight o'clock the father
called his little boys 10 him, near where
was sitting, and taking each one by the
hand, he said very kindly and pleasantly to
them; My children, it is time for you to
retire. You will feel dull and heavy at
school tomorrow, if you sit up any longer.
They both hung their heads for moment ;
then, both with pleasant smile, kissed
their father, then their mother. and then
took leave of the company. A lady, one
of the company, who sat near US. expressed
great surprise that " the little boys should
retire so willingly, when they appeared so
happy with the company and the music,
The gentleman replied: | always speak
kindly to my children, and they never dis
obey Tomorrow morning shall say to
them, my children, was much pleased that
you retired so willingly last evening and
your conduct was very highly approved by
Mrs. who saw you retire so pleasant
ly and quietly. This" said he, g is theii
reward, my appreciation and the approba'
ton of their friends"
Year: 1863

MAY YouR SHADOW NEVER BE
LEss."-Dickens thus explains the origin
of this saying: What do you mean !"
said / once to an ex-ambassador, who had
passed long time in Europe, /" what do you
mean by the salutation, May your shadow
the Khan. pleasantly, f" under very hot sun
in Persia, and we retire to the shadow for
repose and peace. The power of great
man gives rest and tranquility TO many. for
none dare to injure or molest those whom
he protects. So we call that power his
shadow. and hope for our own sakes as well
as his that il may never diminish"
Year: 1863

A HERoINE.-A married woman named
Clayton has been passed TO her home in
Minnesota, having enlisted two years since
in the same Minnesota regiment as her hus-
band, and been considered good soldier
for year before she was found out. AT
the battle of Stone River her husband was
killed five PAGES in front of her, and she
herself was wounded in desperate bayo-
net charge Immediately afterwards.
Year: 1863

BEGINNING or THE TAsK.-We do not
die wholly at our death we have monl,ler
ed away long before. Faculty after facul-
ty, interest after interest, attachment after
attachment disappear; we are torn from
ourselves while living; year after year sees
us no longer the same, and death only COD
signs the last fragment of what we were to
the grave.
Year: 1863

In silence / must take my seat,
And give God thanks before | eat;
Must for my food in patience wait
Till am asked TO hand my plate;
/ must not scold, nor whine, nor pout,
Nor move my chair or plate about;
With knife, or fork, or napkin ring,
I must not play-nor must sing;
must not speak a useless word
For children must be seen-not heard;
must not talk about my food,
Nor fret if | don't think il good;
My mouth with food must not crowd,
Nor while I'm eating speak aloud
Must turn my head to cough and sneeze,
And when l ask, say, If you please !"
The table cloth must not spoil,
Nor with my food my fingers soil;
Must keep my seat when have done,
Nor round the table sport or run;
When told TO rise, then / must put
My chair away with noiseless foot,
And lift my heart to God above,
In praise for all his wondrous love.
Year: 1863

The REMOVAL OF RosEcRAss The
Washington correspondent of the New
York Post says that Gen. Rosecrans has
been removed for reasons connected with
his physical and mental condition, rather
than for any dissatisfaction with his con
duct as commander of the Army of the
Cumberland. 1t is said that his health
is precarious, and has been ever since the
battle of the Cbiekamauga, and that he is
not able to bear ahe heavy burdens of his
position.
Year: 1863

The call Of the President for "thre,


hundred thousand more' creates no ex


citement whatever and hardly any discus


SION. The loyal States have at lsngtl


fairly settled into that steady ana un


swerving purpose, which is essential t,


the prosecution Of so great a war, and i.


worth more than the most magni6cen,
exhibition of mere enthusiasm. I'd ALL


the necessity of an early resort to some
means of sending more soldiers into the
field, has. probably for many weeks past,
at least since the inadequate results Of
the late draft disappointed the friends OF
that measure, been very manifest. 1t is
important, nay, it is essential to the ma.
tons interest-to its safety and well be.
ing, now and henceforth-that no parsi-
mony IN using its resources shall compel
our Generals to keep on the defensive,
when they should have men and war ma
terial at all necessary points, to secure
the advantage of taking the initiative step
to attack the enemy in front. The value Of
life and the worth of property depend en-.
tirely upon the success of the Govern.
ment in maintaining the supremacy of the
Union, and neither should be withheld as
long as there is = rebel remaining in the
field.


The 100000 will be raised, or such
large portion thareof as will accomplish
the work. The rebels have already sx-
hausted their resources in men, and will
be entirely unable to offset our new levy. |
They may proloug the war until the new
'orce is disciplined and put in the field,
put can do SO no longer.


This call is the last that will have to
be made, and it should be promptly an
'wered.
Year: 1863

na-The Cincinnati Gazette says that
it seems probable that the Ohio Senate
will be unanimously Union. Only one
Copperbead traitor has majority on the
home vote, and that is small one, and
likely to be drowned out by the soldiers
vote when it comes in. If so, then the
Senate will be uncontaminated by the
presence Of solitary trsitor. What :
glorious result is that? What State viii
be able to exhibit similar fact?
Year: 1863

WE DON'T BELIEVE IT.-The Placer
vile News says that there is sheet pub
lished in that city, which for rampant aud
indecent advocacy OF treason, can't find
its parallel that side of the Mississippi.
Wen match some of our Copperhead
sheets in this State against any "treason
mil'' in that section and give two points
In the game.
Year: 1863

A young lady from the country be.
ing invited to party, was told by her
city cousin to fix up and put her best
foot foremost, in order to catch beau,
"she looked SO green in her country
Year: 1863

t,1 REWARD will be paid for the return
ID OF the fine linen Table Cloth taken
away las, Friday evening. The person is
known, and will he let oil. If 1t is returned
before the week CLOSES
Year: 1863

The Copperheads have been long chuck
ling with hope that the popular branch of
the next Congress, would refuse to grant
men or money to defend the Government,
and thus the Rebels could overrun Penn'a a,
New York, &C., and re-annex them to
their Slave Empire. Happily, the Yer
mont and California elections have deter
mined that the Administration will have
fair working majority in the House, as
they have in the Senate also. And the
appropriations are already year ahead.
Year: 1863

There is also danger to be guarded
against, in young persons especially, of
an over indulgence of imagination in
reading works of fiction, and in what is
called castle building Not that such
an exercise of the Imagination is to be
condemned as an evil in itself, supposing
of course: that we avoid immoral books;
but an excess in the perusal of fctieps
is apt to disqualify any one for real life,
by creating distaste and disgust for
actual everyday scenes and humble
practical duties, which do not equal in
briliancy the ideal scenes and imagina-
ry transactions of fiction. The heart
may even become hardened aga last real
objects of compassion, from our having
been too much occupied in dwelling on
the elegant and poetical pictures of ideal
distress which tales and poems exhibit.
For, in these, a flaming excitement be-
ing all that is aimed at, there is, of
course, studied exclusion of all those
homely and sometimes disgusting cir
cumstauces which often accompany real
distressss, such as we are called upon to
sympathise with and to relieve.


And there is also danger of our be-
coming dissatisfied with cstimable
friends, because they do not come up to
the standard of the heroes and herons
Of romances. And what are usually
reasoned as moral tales, and are written
with good design, are sometimes the
most hurtful in this way, for they COM
monty represent the good characters as
perfect, and bad ones as iiends, being
both quite unlike what we meet in real
life, and therefore serving to engendor
false notions. It is allowable, indeed,
and right, to bcstow cultivation on the
tlo9er- gardens of your mind, only they
must be allowed to take the place of the
plain but necessary corn.fslds, or lead
you to neglect their cultivation. .-Er-
tracts from Whateley's Lesson on Mind.
Year: 1863

When couple meet after having ca
ten philopena together, no advantage is
taken of the other, until one of them
pronounces the word 'philopena This
is the warning that now the sport is to
begin. Let US suppose that q gontlc-
man calls upon lady; she invites to
walk in, and Mt the same time speaks
the talisman word. II he accepts the
offer to walk in, he is lost, unless she re-
moves the ban by telling him to 60
away.


If she tells him to take off his hat, he
must resolutely keep it on; if to be seat
ed, he must stand; or if at the table she
should hand him any article which he
accepts, she wins the forfeit At the
same time he is watching to get her off
her guard for the first acceptance of
any offer from tho other ends the game.
Both are constantly exercising their wits
to prevent being caught, and the sport
often goes on all the evening.


Perhaps the gentleman brings little
and says:


knowing that I shall loso my philo-
pena, I have brought it along. Here
it is


If she is caught off her guard by this
smooth speech, she loscs-for he imme-
diately claims forfeit. If neither wins
at the first meeting, the sport is contin-
uod on the second, and it: may happen
that half a dozen parties meet at the
same time, all ANXIOUS to win of
their philorena partners, so that the
scene often becomes ludricrously anus
ing .-Bost. Rec
Year: 1863

The supposition that coal is true min
eral, formed in certain strata of our
globe only BY some chemical agency and
without an accumulation of wood grown
on the surface and buried afterwards, is
contradisted by all the appearances of
the coal deposits and by the nature of
the coal itself. The supposition that the
matter of coal-the wood-was heaped
in some hollows or basins by the agency
of water, as by currents of the sea or Of
some river, or by some other external
cause, has been also greatly abandoned,
the principal reasons brought against
such supposition being, that the coal
appears, ON close examination, to have
been formed by successive layers of mat
ter, and that some of the beds are 80
thick as to contain quantity of ma tier
far graeter than could be furnished by a
buried forest. I he theory. then, of the
formation of coal by the heaping of
consecutive layers of plants and trees
grown in place, preserved in water and
buried aftervards-or the peat-bog the
ory, as it sometimes called-is is the one
now most generally admitted and as sat
isfactorily explaining the process Of coal
formation. The trrth of this theory is
believed to have been SO firmly establish
ed that none of tho various conflicting
suppositions can unsettle it.
Year: 1863

again with the hoop sack in her hand, and
threw it at Browns feet. Thar, you mean,
good -for-nothing shaker out of old snags!-
Take your old sack and woar it yourself, and
eff ketch you speaking to me again, I'll lick
you within an inch of yer life; you'd better
believe it,


Roars of laughter followed this spirited
conduct, and tooth puller was fain to make
his escape, The next day he left the village
and has not returned to it, The Arkansas
girl became pet, and finally made very
respectable appearance in society.