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Year: 1863




We cheerfully give place 10 the following
letter from one of the publishers of the OBJ.
server, correcting the statement of u cor
respondent" stice"--publshed in the
JOURNAL one week ago. Personally, we
know nothing ofthe political character Of the
Observer. 1t once was upon our exchange
list, and was always welcomed but after it
voluntary cut itself off as an exchange. we
lost sight of it almost entirely. 1t gives us
pleasure to learn, however, that it is true
and loyal advocate of the government.


OFFICE OF THE NEw YoRK OBSERVER. I


81 Park Row,


New York, February 20, 1863.


TO the Editor Of he State Jouraal.


DEAR SIR;


Some one has sent to this
Office a copy of your paper Of the 18th inst.
containing an article signed '' Justice re.
peating SANDER which has been so efiectu-
ally retuted here, that we are equally sur
prised and greved that it should be palmed
upon you by friend" 1t is hardly worth
while to chase false report of this kind, but
such is the state of public feeling abroad in
our country that we deem it proper to get
the facts, it possible, correctly stated.


Y our correspondent attempts to identify
the New York Observer with meeting at
Delmohicos. Will you therefore permit
me TO say that no one connected with this
paper in any way, had any knowledge of the
meeting whatever, until it was reported in
the newspapers of the following day. The
New York Evening Post, in whose columns
the report first appeared, has since publish
ed the following editorial explanation and
apology;


1.-THE NEW YORK OBSERVER,
we regret that our reporter ofthe meet
ing at Delmonico's should have made such a
mistake as to couple the name of the New
YORK Observer, or any person connected
Win IT, IN his account Of those proceedings
Inc Observer has given loyal, hearty and
ehclent support to the government since the
commencement of this rebellion it has
labored zealously to stimulate the patriotism
and hope of the country, and the rebellion
has had no sympathy in the columns of tn al
paper.


AS many Of our exchanges have comic
the report Of the meeting alluded TO- wa adj,
them, as matter of justice, to copy this
explanation and correction. No greater in.
justice eau be done to loyal citizens than ia
SON ''-'''' ~ 'i's-
Win you have the "justice9 to publish
this extract that your readers NAV knolv
that Your correspondent who sinns himself
,, justice uses the word, while utterly desti.
tute Of the virtue. He goes farther than
any one OF our enemies had Yentured before .
he asserts that the circular calling the meet,
ing has the names of 1.-TWO Of the. editors
and proprietors of the New York 0 bseryer"
appended to it whereas, it had sor or.
nor the name of any person connected in
any way with the paper. The whole thing
was a slander of which any respectable press
would be ashamed, and / know that Won win
regret that you have been misled by YOUR
correspondent, whom you supposed to be
well posted up"


Respectfully yours,


). lRENAUs PRIME
Year: 1863

eve believe we have sufficient water for all
present purposes. ."-Deldware Gdzete Jan ~


"Ihe supply Of water from the present basin
Is entirely inadequate to the wants Of the cam.
munlty '-De'oware Gazette, FEB. IL.


Such an irreconcilable difference appears
between the two assertions of the Gazette
above quoted, that there is evidently die
out somewhere, concerning the capacity
OF the present water works and un-
less informed to the contrary, the pub
lic-in view of the well.known scarcity of
water in the western part of the Third ward
will be very likely to conclude that the
editor Of the Gazette wrote on the twenty
seventh Of January last what he knew be a
mean and deliberate falsehood
Year: 1863

Resarters ar coming in TO our lines on the
Rarpahannock with increased frequency,
forced by absolute starvation and hunger.
They say that the rebel army Of the Rappahan-
mock must fall 10 pieces for lack of adequate
supplies in less than two weeks, and think
that as good 4 way as any for to get rid OF
their force there is TO let il alone severely"


Meantime. our army, by the report of those
in whom we can rely fully, and who speak
from knowledge, is improving in morale in a
corresponding degree 10 the deterioration of
Lees army.
Year: 1863

number of officers have been detailed as a
board by the Navy Department to investigate
Ger tain alleged abuses in the shape OF false re-
tuIns on the pay rolls of the boiler shop and
copper rolling mill i'll the Navy Yard, whereby
some workmen received pay Tor time charged
as extra time which. it is alleged, was not made
Year: 1863

" NEW YORK BUTTERE


w Have Just received five kegs of extra quail
lily TABLE BUTTER, equal to Philadelphia Print
Butter, on retail at EGAN q PERRIE'S


mar 30 st Corner Ninth and streets
Year: 1863

AN ALARM.-An alarm was created last night
in the vicinity of X street north and Franklin
Row, by repeated pistol shots from house at
some person attempting a burglarions entrance.
II n first thought that the house 1T which
the burglars We're endeavoring TO effect an en-
trance was Secretary Stanton's, but it proved
TO lie house in the Immediate vicinity of his
residence.
Year: 1863

TWO FIhST CLASS BARBERS WANTED AT
the corner Of 18th and streets and also
BOY to clean the barber shop and ladies hairdress
isg room, and he will also have a chance to learn
tbe barber and wig making trade mar 3l-3t-
Year: 1863

The ATLANTIC FOR JuNE.-Wc are
in receipt Of this excellent journal Of htsra.
ture. and fnd it filled from cover to cover
With the most interesting reading material -
Go to the news depo,e and procure u copy be-
fore they are all gone
Year: 1863

Our Duty AND PoLICY.-A correspon.
dent of the Selma (Ala.) Reporter writes :


Let US not cry peace peace when our
country is beleaguered with eight hundred
thousand armed and hostile men, with the
fires of rampant war blazing around US. l
admit that our prospects are nevertheless
Frightening, and believe, if we can hold
our own but three or four months longer,
the storm will then have spent its fury, and
we may then begin to look for the bright
harbinger of peace. But serious reverses,
o, the approach of famine, would bring the
black clouds back upon us with redoabled
gloom. Even the eloquent voice of the
noble Vallandigham would be hushed, while
the discontented and turbulent mutterings
against usurping and tyrannical Govern
ment, now rising throughout the North.
West, would be supplantod by the old cry
of, "down With the rebellion" If Cotton
be King, it is poor and beggarly sOver-
eigu in wars, and the power it possesses is,
I apprehend, more dangerous to US than to
our enemies. It loves sunshine and peace.
Year: 1863

ANoTHER CURE FOR 'TOoTHAoHE-Fastsn
strong piece Of twine to the tooth that is to
be drawn; and attach the other end Of
the twine to brick. Then, if the tooth be
in the upper jaw, stand on fence and let
the brick drop suddenly down. IF the tooth
be in the under jaw, stand behind the fence,
and throw the brick over. That'l fx'em.
Year: 1863

To THE Public. is hereby
given to oil 1t may concern. that this office
will not hereafter consider itself rerponsibl
for the bills Of any person whomsoevsr, un
less the same be delivered on an order bear.
ing the signature Of y. N. RIeuARpsoN
Year: 1863

TAKE RIDE.-Get team il you don't
own one and 60 out at this delicious season.
take view OF the country and get a snuf OF
fresh air. Hsight keeps splendid lot OF horses
and cartisges and will warrant you pleasant
time. His horses are gentle, swift on the foo,
and will please you. Now is the time to enjoy
yourselves buggy ridding.
Year: 1863




We understand the President of the Confederate
States has called on Gov Vance for seven thousand
militia to be ready for the field by the 1st of Au.
gust and to serve six months in State defence This
call, We presume, will embrace the militia from
eighteen to fortyve not conscrpts not detailed by
the Confederate government and not exempted by
the militia law of the last session of our Legislature.
This will include Justices of the Peace, militia off,
GERS, and such State and County officers are not
specially exempted by the law feferred to; and if
the intention be to include all the militia between
forty and forty five, the remaining conscripts will
be taken, for persons between those ages are con-
scripts in the eye of the law, though order has
been issued to enrol them.


These militia, when thus "called into the actual
service of the Confederate States" will be under the
absolute command and control of the President 1t
will be his right to order them wherever he pleases.
The Governor will lose control over them from the
moment they are "called into the service Of the
Confederate States" Though called militia, they
will be regulars in the service of the Confederate
government; and the Congress may, if it chooses,
declare them conscripts and retain them until the
end of the war.
Year: 1863

A Leasburg IN. C.) correspondent of the Peters
North Carolina lost in the late Fredericksburg bat
ties not less than four thousand men-more thar
half of all the losses. The State has lost since tho
war, not les, than twenty thousand men. Five
thousand widows, twenty-five thousand orphans,
civilization and Christianity put back for quarter
Of century, and no good prospect yet Of peacel-'
Is it not time that good men every where were uni
ting on some means to arrest this awful evili Ne
gptiations must be resorted to at some future Pc
Rod for to suppose otherwise is to anticipate an
endless war; and the States on this continent can
never live in peace without some mutual conces-
s;e.s- and compromises ThA helienraata- has. al
ready fought not less than three hundred battles.
If fghtugis to bring peace and bring it honorabiy
to both sections, surely three hundred battles
should suffice. But Vengeance clamors for more
blood and Pride says fight on. So be it. Our
feeble voice is as nothing in this hurricane. The
"last doslar," says the man who has never given
the first dollar to the cause, and who is growing
rich out of the blood and treasure Of the people
the "last man." says the individual who is very
careful not to risk his person "in the Imminent
deadly breach" And so the war goes on, and
blood gushes, and widows mourn, and orphans
wall and debt is piled on debt and the poor unof-
tending slave is also madea victim, and slavery it.
self is perishing, and schoolhouses and churches
are closed and the poor are made poorer, the rich
richer, and the morals of the people are sinking to
a level where God is forgotten and self alone is
worshipped! Such is war
Year: 1863

RRMcIras AND ,SussE1HurEA-N is understood
tint the Question, whether under the first conscrip


ton law person who put in substitute over thir-
tfve and under forty, is liable as conscrpt under
the second law, will be decided by the Supreme
Court Of this State now in session. A case has
been made up and will be argued this week.
The Adutant General having decided that foreign
ers and persons who have furnished substitutes are
liable to militia duty we understand this question
win also bs laid before the Court for it, decision,
Year: 1863

The UNvERsIFY-We are indebted to friend for
the interesting account which we publish to-day of
Commencement 1t is gratifying circumstance
that the University is able to continue its exercises
during the war. When peace shall have been re-
stored shall look for greatly increased benefits to
our young men from this institution
Year: 1863

Ifyou have the feeling of hate or revenge, subject
it to severe process of mental chemistry examine
into its nature its uses, its philosophy and, before
vanish like volatile Substance into the air.
Year: 1863

Contrary to expectation the Yankees on yesterday still
remained the south bank of the Rappahannock at Deep
Run They occupied the angle formed by the and
Of mile in length extending from Bernards house up
Deep Rum By aid Of field glass their dirt digging ope.
ratons could be distinctly from the hills above Ham
l'tons crossing but was impossible to form any
estimate of their numbers Beside the chers only about
ra thousand concealed in the gorge Of the ek and
der the river bank On tie Stafford hills Just opposite
Deep Rum might be about thousand men, apparent
ly cavalry.


There had been no skirmishing cannonadng since
Saturday.


We see no reason to change the opinion hitherto ex
pressed that this demonstration of the enemy design
ed solely to dsconcet retard supposed plan of
Gen Lee That has been dead failure already known
to the Yankee General.


Where Hooker with the main body of bis forces now is
is matter open to conjecture. He maybe at Kelly 'sFord
thirty miles above Fredericksburg Dgmfries on the
Potomac or even so far away Manassas Junction We
would most strongly incline to the belief that he was
one of the latter places he not the great Fighting
Joe and in command of the finest army on the planet
composed Of the victorious veterans of
But with such name and such army he cannot turn
bis back upon foe he has always pretended despse
Wherever he is have fears but that we shall soon
hear from him. Even while write great battle nay
have been fought-Riehmond Examiner.
Year: 1863

HoRTIouLruRAL EXHIBITION - To-day
the exhibition of the Keokuk Horticultu-
raj Society comes off, and it is to be
hoped that every citizen who has the vel
fare of the city at heart will do some
thing to aid in the progress of this insti
tuition. 1t is the direct means by which
. gardner is induced 10 produce valua-
bic article in place of an Indifferent one,
and the entire country is benefited there
by We hope to see this exhibition we'll
attended an each department fully rep
resented. The exhibition is to take place
in the room formerly occupied BY Geo
Kilbourne as crockery store, near Second
street. Those having flowers or other ar
ticles intended for the exhibition by leav.
ing word at the room wagon will BE-
sent for them.
Year: 1863

RAIN - Yesterday the windows of
heaven were fairly opened, and we had a
glorious refreshing rain, which was very
much headed in this immediate vicinity,
as no rain sufficient to lay the dust had
fallen for some time.


This will be very beneficial to our far
mers in preparing the ground for their
winter wheat
Year: 1863

MORE CoLoRED TRoops.-Thirty col
ored recruits were expected last evening
on the Steamer Northsrner. These will
increase the number in camp here. to
three hundred. We learn from one Of
the officers that the recruits from several
recruiting stations will be here in few
days which win largely increase this
Year: 1863

We take pleasure in being able to announce,
lust as We aru going to press, that sherman's
bank, bill, providing for a national currency, on
the plan Of Secretary Chase, passed the Senate
this aftornoon-ycas 90, nays 81. tseo our re-
port iu another column


The battle will have to be fought over again
in the House, but we have no fear of the result.
Year: 1863

VERY SrGNITICANT.-From the official re-
port of Mr.. Memlnger, the rebel Secretary of
the Treasury, we ascertain that for every dollar
spent by them in the war they have not been
able to raise more than three cents by taxation,
Could any more convincing proof be given Of
the financial exhaustion oftho bogus confed-
eTaCyl
Year: 1863

perheads and traitors in Illinois will have a
bard job on hand if they have many men like
Logan to meet. He is hard fighter


Emancipation.


The Senate has postponed the Missouri
bill until tomorrow. | observe that Judge
Collamer proposed fifteen millions as a com
promise between the ten millions fixed by the
House and the twenty proposed in the Sem
ate not that larger sum may not be neces-
sary, but on the ground that the Federal
Government ought not TO do the whole work.
Missouri should pay something for tlis work,
and the Federal Government should give a
reasonable amount Of aid
Year: 1863

we continue to receive from all parts of the
South the most favorable accounts OF the crops


The promise of an abundant harvest greets the
eye from every field, and should no accident hap
pen, the South will reap such harvest as was
never before known, not even bv her ssoIdest in.
habitant.' gentleman who has lust returned
from an extensive travel through the South, tells
US that the country is but one great wheat and
corn field, and that King Cotton has, for the
time, ,abdicated and given way to the demands for
bread. The wheat crop in the far South is said
to be exceedingly fine and promises an abundant
and oVerfowing yield. It is now heading ont.
and nothing can now damage it but the crust .
OF which very little apprehension is felt. The
oat and rye crops also are said to look remarka-
bly, well. We know nothing which the people
Will greet with more pleasure than this gratifying
prospect OF the coming crops, for upon it the sue
cess of our cause greatly depends. Let the far
mers do but their duty, and we have no fears of
the efuture.-TExaminer.
Year: 1863

Some time since we published the impressment
bill as it passed Congress. Since then the fol-
lowing act amendatory of that bill has been a.
dopted:


'sSec. 1. In all cases of appraisement provid-
ed for in said act, the officer impressing the pro-
perty shall, if he believe the appraisement fair
and just, endorse upon it his approval if not,
he shall endorse upon it his reasons for refusing,
and deliver the same with receipt for the pro-
perty impressed, to the owner, his agent OF at
torney, and so soon as practicable forward a
copy OF the receipt and appraisement, and his
endorsement, to the head of the Department
having charge Of the species of property taken,
and when such appraisement and valuation is
approved by the officer taking the property, the
claim shall be referred to the board of appraisers
appointed by the President and the Governor of
the State, who shall revise the same, and make
final valuation, so as to give just compensation
for the property taken, which valuation shall be
paid by the proper Department for use of which
the property was taken, on the certificate of the
appraisers, as provided in the act of which this
is ameldatory.
Year: 1863

Government credit is better, prices of neces-
saries are lower. The tide has changed, and
let US hope permanently. Every citizen ought
to exert his influence to make it so. 1t must be
poor satisfaction to man to get an excessive
price for his produce when he knows that his
country and his Government must suffer to the
extent OF the gain to him beyond a reasona BILE
and fair compensation for the results of his labor
Wealth built up in this way must be unsubstan-
ta and Heeting, if there is any truth in morality
~or religion. The wise man should not desire it :.
All should, combine to bring back the country
and commsrce to rational basis and healthy
condltlon-one in which we may live and let live
in which the interests of people and Govern
ment may be best protected, and, above all, the
highest efficiency and success be impaired to the
national cause, on which depends our only hope
tor independence and every blessing it insures.-
DisDGtcb,
Year: 1863

w A III o T o N HU U z,


CHURCH STREET,


LYNCHBU3G, VA.
T1HE subsc iber begs leave to inform the public
that he has charge of of the above named popular
House. which is situated in the immediate vicinity OF
the business part of the city, and the Location Is
one of the most quiet and healthy in the place.
cry effort will be made to provide for the comfort and
welfare of guests


An Omnibus, BaggageWagon and Porter will al.
ways be found at the Depos and Boat Landing on the
arrival of the Trains and Boats to convey passengers
to and from the Hotel. j. r. LINKOUS,
Mar S-6m Proprietor.
Year: 1863

EXPANDING THE LUNGs.-Step out in
to the purest air you can find stand per-
fecily erect, with the head and shoulders
back. and then fixing the lips as though you
were going to whistle, draw the air, not
through tho nostrils, but through the lips,
into the lungs. When the chest is about
full, raise the arms, keeping them extended,
with the palms of the hands down, as you
suck in the air, so as 10 bring them over the
head, just as the lungs are quite full. Then
drop the thumbs inward, aud after gently
forcing the arms backward, and the chest
open, reverse the process by which you
draw your breath, till The lungs are entire
ly empty. This process should be repeated
three or four times during the day. It is
impossible to describe to one who has new
er tried it the glorious sense of vigor which
follows the exercise. 1t is the best expec-
torant in the world. We know gentle
man, the measure of whose chest has been
increased some three inches during as many
months. -
Year: 1863

A ToAD's ToILEr.-Audubon relates
that he saw toad undress himself He
commenced by pressing his elbows hard
against his sides and rubbing downward.
After a few smart rubs, his SHE began to-
burst open along his back. He kept on
rubbing until he had worked all his skin
into folds on his side and hips then grasp
ing one hind leg with both hands he hauled
off one LEG of his pants the same as any
body would: then stripped off the other leg
in the sane way. He then took his cast
off cuticle forward between his fore legs, in-
to bis mouth. and swallowing as his bead
came down. he stripped off the skin under-
meath until it came to his fore legs, and then
grasping one of those with the opposite hand, I,
by considerable pulling stripped the other.
and by slight motion of the head, and all
the while swallowing, he drew it from the
neck and swallowed the whole. That is
economy what is good for the back an
swers for the belly.
Year: 1863

From the Wheeling IuieiligeBce,, etliI


What shall we say Of the glorious victory
Of the new State nlen in Ibis city and county
yesterday?


No ordinary language is sufficient to do il
justice.


We do not hesitate to pronounce it the
most signal and glorious victory ever achisv-
ed in our midst. -....


The enemy were routed horse, foot aud
dragoon. Utterly oyerthrown.a and demor-
allied. d.


Ohio county anil the city Of Wheeling
send their joyous greetings TO the glorious
sisterhood Of counties throughout West
Virginia, and announce to them that come
veal or come woe their destiny is forever
one and inseperable with them.
The victory for the new State is COM
plete. Henceforward, from this to ths day
of the vote on the ratification, the verdic: of
yesterday will swell into overwhelming pro:
| portions.


Let the New State men of the mountains
take up the glorious tidings aud echo aud
re-echo it through the valleys and among
the hil.tops, aud make all West Virginia
one wild uelkin Of enthusiasm for the Unlon
and the New State =


Glorious-ever glorious is our great yio-
tory! It will stand through all time to come
as the beginning of the end OF the great
contest tor the admission of glorious, free
West Virginia ai q State into the Union.
Year: 1863

AWFUL AND SOLEMN DEATH.-The
Scotch papers report an accident, which,
though it involved only one life, contains
more OF tie true elements OF horror, strikes
more sharply on the fine cords of human
terror, than many great and meaningless
catastrophe. Thomas Loeb, dock laborer,
was working on a ship just beached near
Wigton, when she heeled over, and the
bulwark fell on his chest The tide was fast
coming up, and it was evident that in an
hour the wretched man would be drowned
unless the weight could be removed from
his chest. All the place turned out to help,
but the weight was immovable, and the tide
Flowed on remorseessly. A clergyman
stepped forward into the water, and prayed
with the unhappy victim. A napkin was,
at his own request, placed over his face
that he might not see the tide, and SO,
apparently without complaint, he lay till
the waters closed owe, his head, while the
townsmen, gathered around in helplessness,
sobbed aloud.