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Year: 1863

~ A brave and godly captain in one
Of our Western regiments told one OF t1S
his story, as We were removing him to the
hospital. He was shot through both thighs
with rifle bullet-a wound from which ho
could not recover. While lying on the
Geld, he suffered intense agony from thirst.
He supported his head upon his hand, and
the rain from heaven was falling around
him. In little while q pool Of water
formed under his elbow, and he thought if
he could only get to that puddle he might
quench his thirst. lie tried to get into .
position to suck up mouthful Of muddy
water, but he was unable to reach within
foot of it. Said he, 81 never felt so much
the loss Of any earthly blessing. By-andby
night fell, and the stars shone out clear and
beautiful above the dark field and l began
to think Of the great God who had given
his Son to die death of agony for me, and
he was up there-up above the scene of
suffering, and above those glorious stars
and felt that was going home to meet
him, and praise him there; and felt that
ought to praise God, even wounded and
on the battle field. could not help sing
ing that beautiful hymn: s.


"When can read my title clear


To mansions in the skies,


III bid farewell to every fear,


And wipe my weeping eyes,"


"And," said he, "there was Christian
brother in the brush near ME. l could not
see him, but | could hear him. He took
up the strain and beyond him another and
another caught It up all over the terrible
battle. field Of Shiloh. That night the echo
was resounding, and we made the field Of
battle ring with hymns OF praise to CODY
Year: 1863

keep up the credit of the County, to bring
all their own stock to the grounds. New
Castle County is full Of superior stock,
and her crops will compare lavorably with
any other part of the country, and all that
is necessary to render the annual Fairs of
this Society a complete success, is the man
Hesitation of a proper spirit on the part
of the farmers. We hope that when the
time comes for the next Fair, our
agricultural friends will put their shoul-
dcrs to the Wheel and when they come to
the Fair will bring with them their stock
and the choice products of their farms


that the exhibition of 1864 may be the
commencement of new era in the Ag


rcultural Society of New Castle County
Year: 1863

Who's Going ?-To-morrow the Sabbath
School Convention will meet in Germantown,
one Of the most delightful villages in the
West, and containing as hospitabe popula
ton as there is in the world The conyen-
ton will continue two days. Rev Mr. Steck,
pastor of the First Lutheran Church of this
city, will deliver the Annual Address an
effort we predict will be worth going down to
hear, The exercises, throughout, will doubt
less be interesting. Dayton should be well
represented Aside from the excellence of
the cause involved, the agreeableness of the
trip will be large indictment to persons
who seldom leave the city. Tickets for the
round trip-covering all expenses-only 81.
Apply at the Ticket Office in the Union De-
pot The train will start at o clock in the
morning.
Year: 1863

Not Suspected,-lt seems to us that
Capt Billings is unnecessarily sensitive
about being mistaken for a "Copper-head'
who spoke at the Court House, on Saturday
evening No intelligent certainly
no one whose judgment is entitled to the
least credit would have made the mistake,
the resemblance of wooden head to a
"copper-head" being SO slight that it can't
be seen with the naked eye.
Year: 1863

NEW YORK, March l6.


Governor Conner, of Delaware, has sent
a message to the Legislature of that State
in reference to an act to prevent illegal
arrests in the State, which had been pass
ed by that body, in which he is invested
by the Constitution with no power of veto
or review Of the action of the Legislatures
" The Governor has general control over
the operation of criminal enaetments, and
such control I will exercise to its utmost
extent to prevent any person acting under
authority of the United States, or any citi-
zen aiding such person, in bringing to
light any conspiracy, or in arresting any
one guilty Of disloyal practices or treason
able designs against the Government. I
shall issue my proclamation in conformity
with these views, giving to the people Of
the State Of Delaware information Of my
intended action.
Year: 1863

SWEATING OFF COLD.-Time has sanction
ed and proven the truth of the saying that
the lawyer who pleads his own case has q
fool for his eliant. circumstance which
occurred in this city during the past week
shows that the adage is equally true when
applied to another Of the learned professions.
A friend of ours, residing between Garden
and Prospect streets, caught severe cold
and determining to be his own doctor, un-
dertOOk to sweat it of. Taking advantage
of the absence of his better half, whose
known opposition to everything that can in
toxioate, would naturally make her oppose
the medicine, the sick man procured a pint
of New England Rum and an equal quantity
of mOlasses; he prepared the bed, and drank
nearly the whole quantity, intending to take
quiet snooze and in so doing sweat of the
cold and the liquor at the sane time. Some
two hours after, the loving wife returned
and found the fires all out, her husband,
partly undressed, lying on the floor, by the
side Of the bed, nearly frozen. After pre-
pairing the bed, be had drunk the medicine
the fumes of the liquor rose to his head, be-
fore he could get into his bed, and wholly
obligious of the world, the war, and the com
ing lecture of George Francis Train, he had
sunk by its side, and in a stuPOr was dream
ing of sweats which were to make him good
as new, while he was in truth rapidly ap-
preaching the freezing point. Since that
time he has been confined to tho house, suf-
fering martyrdOm from frozen joints, and a
still worse fate, from the jeers of his. wife,
who recommends as specific for colds New
England rum and molassos. The great mis-
take was that the patient did not get into
bed before he took his e medicine p instead
Of waiting until he knew not the difference
between the family couch and floor Of his
bedroom.
Year: 1863

RAILRoAD AooEDENT.-An accident oc-
cured to freight train going down on the
Cleveland and Pittsburg road, yesterday
Sunday morning about 2 o'clock, near New
Salisbury Station, nine miles this side of
WellsviIle. At that point bridge crosses
Yellow Creek. When the locomotive was
within about 200 feet of the bridge broken
rail threw it from the track. The locomo-
tive ran across the bridge safely, though off
the track, but six of the freight cars which
followed were precipitated through the bridge
and piled up in great confusion. No person
was hurt. The bridge is a How truss, about
ITO feet long, and fifteen feet from the creek
below. The engine was the United States,
Engineer Joe Miller. The bridge was patched
up by means of trussell work beneath, so
that the express coming up passed over in
safety this morning. Immediately after, a
freight train on the side track, embracing
portion Of the train that met with the acci-
dent Of Sunday morning, in attempting to
back over the bridge, precipitated five more
cars through the bridge, making eleven in
all, all loaded. The destruction of property
is very considerable.
Year: 1863




Added to the mass Of testimony already
offered to the people Of Ohio by the loy


soldiers in the field, Of their undying earn
estness in the cause and their contempt Of
home traitors, comes ringing, in clarion
tones, the exhortation Of e Ohio soldiers
Of the Twelfth Army COrPs At Dumfries,
which is published this morning. The 9TH,
66th and 18th Ohio here speak out in words
that should strike sharp and clear into
the ear Of every man and woman in the
State, sbsming those who cry apeace7 into
a guilty silence, and encouraging those
who have steadily upheld the army in its
work Of loyal battling for the right. It is
q lesson for all time to heed and honor,
this greeting which comes from those who
are enduring the privaions and the suf-
ferings, to those who are IN the enjoyment
Of all home comforts and luLuries, 10 stand
fast for the country's cause. And it viii
ever be remembered as a crown OF glory to
the loyal American soldier, that instead of
faltering when advised to do SO by tory
miscreants, he pressed forward more boldly
and hurled back their taunts with words
Of fiery indignation.
Year: 1863

Az attempt was made in Columbus on
Saturday morning, to FIRE the building in
which the :" Crisis" editorial rooms are stu
ated. The FIRE was discovered in time to be
extinguished, before it had done much dam
age. With regard to the attack on the Office,
we perceive that the Colonel of the %
Ohio Cavalry and very large number of the
commissioned officers of the regiment, have
united in card signifying their utter ignOr-
anee of the affair previous to its occurrence
and Of their determination to bring to pun
ishment any member of the regiment who
may have been connected with it.
Year: 1863

1t is at last announced, with some show Of
probability, that Fort Lafayette will soon be
emptiel Of its prisoners. The name Of the friend
of Washington, theAictim Of Olmutz, the hero
Of the Rcyoiut1n which in France proclaimed
libc.ty to the captive, is no Longer to be aisgra-
eel by its association with all that is base and


cowardly and cruel in reckless and arbitrary
power. Tho Government at Washington, we


are told, has made up its mind that the first of
January, which is to witness an empty fulmina-
ton Of liberty to millions OF Southern slaves,
shall witness also the substantial restoration of
Year: 1863

cumstances under which the bill was passed,
they conclude as follows: The protest against
the refusal of the House to permit the consider
alton and discussion OF the bill as an arbitrary
exercise OF power by the majority, unjust to
their constituents, and dcrogatory to its char
acter as legislative body. They protest against
the passage of the bill.


First. Because it purports to deprive the
citizens of all existing peaceful legal modes ot
redress for admitted wrong, and thus compels
him tamely TO submit 10 the injury inflicted, OF
TO seek illegal and forcibc remedies.


Second. Because it purports to inde mniiy the


President and all acting under his authority
for acts admitted to be wrongful, at the expense
of thescitizen against whom the wrongful acts
have been perpetrated in violation of the plain
est principle OF justice and the just precep.s OF
constitutional law.


Third Because it purports to confirm and
make valid by act Of Congress arrests and i'm
prisonmenis, which were not only not warran-
ted by the Constitution of the United States,
but were in palpable violation of lis express
prohibitions


Fourth. Because it purpor;s to authorize the
President, during this rebellion, at any time to
arrest any person, and anywhere throughout
the limits Of the United States to suspend the
privileges of the writ of habeas corpus; whereas,
by the Constitution the power to suspend the
privileges OF that writ is confined to the discre-
ton of Congress alone, and is limited to the
places threatened by the dangers Of invasion or
insurrection


Fifth Because, for these and other reasons,
it is unwise and unjust an invasion Of private
rights; an encouragement to violence, and a
precedent full OF hope to ali who would usurp
despotic power and perpetuate it by the arbi-
trary arrest and imprisonment Of all who op-
pose them.


Sixth. And finally, because in both its sec
tons it is deliberate, palpable and dangerous
violation OF the Constitution, aecordngto the
plain sense and intention Of that instru ment,
and is, therefore, utterly null and void.
Year: 1863

ernment, can properly be termed a pris-
oner of war He was not taken in arms
against us, and he has done all that a
man could to oppose and stop the par
that is being soayed against as. The
second objection refers to the cai bono
of Offering him in exchange to the Lin
coin Government Of course they will
not receive one who has Just been ex-
PEELED, under the death penalty if he re-
turns, and who is regarded as an enemy
to and fre-brand in the United States.


"And if he should be refused, it would
certainly be harsh measure to immure
him in a Confederate prison while the
war lasts. A savage nation would not
so treat an exile in his position.


THE majority OF the press agree with
US that Mr.. VS. best course is to get out
of this country as soon as possible, and
make his way to Clnada, as near to Ohio
as possible, and there prosecute his can
vass as Governor for that State. That
course would be better for the cause of
freedom in his own country, to which he
has devoted his life; better for himself
and his own powers of usefulness, and
better .fol. as. acho are deeply concerned
an euery effort tohich looks to the oveT-
throac Of the Black Republican Gocern-
meret achieh rules at Washington, to the
disgrace of civilization and humanity.
If he remains here he loses his power
and plays into the cunning hands of Lin
coin and Seward. If he returns, he may
yet become the iberator of his country.


VALLANDIGHAM made speech in Con-
gress in 1859, the sentiments of which
he repeated in a speech at Dayton in
1861, which contains the following re-
markable paragraph:


"Then, Sir, am not Southern man.
either - although in this unholy and
most unconstitutional crusade against
the South, in the midst of the invasion,
arson, insurrection, and murder to which
she has been subject, and with which she
is still threatened-with the torch of the
incendiary and dagger of the assassin
suspended over her-my most cordial
sympathies are wholly with her"
Year: 1863

COLONEL TATE,


Dear Sir Much has been said about
the "back townships" that they are 'too
radical" "opposed to the war" "thc fruit
ful soil of Copperhoadism" &C., and, the
reason assigned for it is, "the people are
ignorant,' "don't take the papers, cant
read them" &c. Now, while it is conccd.
ed that, the people Of the central town
ships have had greater literary advantages
than we, and that, because the public busi-
ness is done at the County scat and large
towns, talent and intelligence naturally
concentrate there, we deny that the mass
of the people have any more good sense
or native talent than those of the back
townships, and we venture to say, that a
good proportion of the best talalent at the
centre, was first developed in the back
townships, That they take the papers,
and are something of reading people, is
evidenced by the stuffed mail bags that are
carried through, and distributed in these
townships, and that they read and under
stand the issues involved in the politics of
the country, is proved by their consistant,
political action, from year to year, you
find them resting upon the same iounda-
ton, contondiug Tor the same truthful
principles, and voting for the same liberal
measures They cannot be terrified by
threats ror bought with Money. If they
cannot bling so much learning into their
Investigations, they exercise common sense.
They are able to distinguish between good
and bad government between liberty and
despolism. If they are radical, it is be-
cause they believe that, the slightest en-
croachments upon liberty, open the door
for further violations Of the people, rights,
that strict adberance to constitutional
law, is the only safeguard of liberty,
hence their opposition to the war policy
they believe it originated in interference
with constitutional rights, has been car.
ricd on in violation Of constitutional law,
and must terminate disastrously to the
country. They took this ground at the
commencement, that the war was not for
the Union and the Constitution, that this
was but pretense in order TO accomplish
sectional purpose, while others were
deceived by the sham, and carried away
with the excitement, the back townships
strenuously contcnted, that the cry o.
Union" was a humbug, and to be 10y
al' was to support the Administration
right or wrong. Men addressed them
and gave them good speeches, but failed
to satisfy them upon the points, to them
the most important and the ever returning
questions were: What is the obj ect Of the
war And will war accomplish the end
in all they heard and in all they saw
they heard and saw nothing to changt
their original convictions. And they safely
appeal to the history Of the past two year:
and half, that these convictions were
correct.


Let these men who sneeringly speak o
the back townships, remember that eacl
township IN some way, is working for the
aood of the county, and they all help t.
make it the "Star Of the North,' though
there may not be so much learning in, ye
much of their bread and butter comes
from the back townships.
Year: 1863

In Mexico there are over one thousand
silver mines. yielding between thirty five
and forty millions of dollars a year. The
value Of these mines is increased by the
fact that there are twenty-five mines CT
quicksilver, which yield from two hundred
and fifty 10 three hundred pounds weight
annually. Gold is also found in consid-
cradle quantities, stated varously at from
three millions of dollars upward. The
mines are generally located either on the
top or on the western slope Of the Cordil-
leras, and have been wrought for ages
Gold and silver vases of great value and
beauty Of workmanship were sent back to
Spain by the first conquerors as spoils Vt
war. Iron and copper are also produced
in great abundance. One great hindrance
to the realizing of this mineral wealth i.
the difficulty cf transporting it to the sea.
board, there being neither railroads mol
navigable rivers in the country, aud the
only means of transportation being tht
backs of mules. The commercial interos
and want of mecanical enterprise of tht
people, and the small extent to which tn,
combination and division of labor are car
ried, have also contributed, with the gen
eral insecurity of property, to prevent th
various natural riches of the country from
their full development.
Year: 1863

All know that the less we exercise the
less health we have, aud the more certain
we are to die before our time. But com
paratively few persons are able to explain
how exercise does promote health, Both
beast and bird in state Of nature, are
exempt from disease, except in rare cases.
1t is because the inappeasablc instinct of
searching for their necessary food impel
them to ceaseless activity. Children when
left to themselves, eat a great deal and
have excellent health, because they will be
doing something all the time, until they
become so tired they fall asleep and as
soon as they wake, they begin right away
to run about again thus their whole ex.
istence is spent in alternate eating and
sleeping, aud exercise, which is interesting
and pleasurabIo. The health of child
hood would be enjoyed by maturer years,
if, like children, they woold eat only


when they are hungry, stop when they
are done, take rest in sleep as soon as
thep are tired, and when not eating or
resting, would spend the time diligently in
such muscular activities as would be in


teresting, agreeable and profitable. Ex-


ercise without mental elasticity, without


an cnlivenment of the feelings and the


mind, is of comparatively little value.


Exercise is health-producing, because it


works off and out Of the system its waste,


dead, and cffete matters these are all


converted into liquid form, called, by


some, 'humors," which have exit from the


body through the ''pores" Of the skin, in


the shape Of perspiration, which all have


seen, and which all know is the result O


exercise when the body is in state ol


health. Thus it is that persons who dc


not perspirc, who have dry skin, arc


always either feverish or chilly, AID are


never well, and never can be as long a


that condition exists So exercise, By


working out Of the system lis waste, de


cayed and useless matter, keep the human
J machine free otherwise it would sool
log up, and the wheels oflife stop forever
: 2. Exercise improves the health, be
cause every step q man takes tends to i'm
part motion to his bowls proper amour
} of exercise keeps them acting once IN ev
$ cry twonty-four hours; if they have no
, motion enough there is constipation,whic
. brings on very many fatal diseases; hence
t exercise, especially that Of walking, ward
l off innumerable diseases, when it is KEEP
up to an extent equal 10 inducing one ac
< ton Of the powcls daily.


3. Exercise is healthful, because tn
| more we exercise the faster we breathe
5 If we breathe faster we take that muc
? more air into the lungs; but it is the al
0 we breathe which purifcs the blood, an
= the more air we take in the more perfectl
e is that process performed the purer th
| blood is, as yerybody knows, the bette
/ the health must be. Hence, when a pei
4 sons lungs are impaired, he does not tax
y in enough air for the wants of the system
| that being the case, the air he does breath
4 should be the purest possible, which i
outdoor air. Hence, the more cor
f sumptive stays in the house, the more Ger
i. tain and more speedy is his death.


y. HaHS Journal Of Health
Year: 1863

D@s" A letter from the Army of the
Potomac states that in three days, sixty
out Of two hundred and ten substitutes in
one regiment had deserted, and others
were leaving almost every hour. He sug-
gests two rcmedies--one catching and
shooting the desertera, and another, as
soon as the substitutes are regularly mus
tered into tho United States rervice, to
send them to the several State penitenta-
ries for three years or during the war, as
they could be guarded more cheaply and
safely there, as the army will be likely to
have as much other business on hand as it
can attend to, without the extra duty Of
guarding criminals.
Year: 1863




Burnside's march from Kentucky to
East Tennessee was one Of the most re-
markable on record for the rapidity with
which it was conducted. The army ar
rived at Knoxville on the 8d Of September,
being the fourteenth day after leaving
Crab Orchard, but having had only elev-
en- marching days, and the distance trav-
eled was, on the route pursued by the
main army, two hundred and four miles,
and some brigsdes marching on branching
roads made the distance much further
This was an average, by the main army,
Of little over eighteen miles per day.
The march was compact, too; the mounted
division in front did not run of and leave
the infantry out Of sight and hearing in
its rear. So sudden was the descent into
Knoxville that the rebel Buckner evacu-
sted in haste, forgetting to notify that por-
ton Of his command st Cumberland Gap
that ne had gone That this is the fact is
proven by the circumstance that three
days after the entire rebel machinery had
gone Southward at neck-or-nothing speed,
the rebel Commissary at the Gap arrived
for the purpose of drawing raiOns, and
on his arrival first learned that the rebel
Government had departed.
Year: 1863

Projected Attack upon Northern Cities.


A Halifax IN. g. correspondent of the
New York Evening Post, writing Of the ar
rival at that port of the blockade runner
Giraffe, and the delight Of the blue-nOse
secessiOnists thereat adds the following
as the projects Of the rebels connected
with the Confederate rams building in
England, and prevented from sailing by
the authorities there


"Tho friends of secesh and rebellion in
Bluenosedom are sadly down in the mouth
because Of Earl RusselPs stopping of the
pet rams at Liverpool. Arrangement S
on large scale were going on here at the
Confederate wharf for supplies Of coal and
other materials for the rams preparatory
to their attacking Portland, Boston and
New York, and then breaking up the block
ade Of the Southern ports. The matter
was talked over here as sure to occur with
in few weeks, and thousands gloated
over an snticipistory burning of your sea-
port towns and the destruction of your
feet. All these prospects are blighted, and
it is to be hoped that those who looked for
ward to their realization, with eagerness,
will see how inefsbly degraded must be
their position in the eyes Of enlightened
Christians and patriots"