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Year: 1863

To be,
Or not to be a Couscriptl is the question.
Whether It's no5ler in man to marry
An able bodied man Of six and thirty
And enter upon the dread uncertainty
Of matrimonial life with all its accidents.
Perchance a fietfUI wife, numerous family,
And bills interminable of grocer, baker,
Butcher and octOr for such things will follow,
As surely as the night succeeds the day,
Or tuke up arms against a sea Of traitors,
And, by opposing end them all s-rO marry
To sleep-no more. And by that sleep to end
The heartache and the thousand natural fears
That flesh is heir to on the battlefield
The bursting bomb-she.ls and the whstlng
The bayonet charge it were a consummation
Deyoutly to he wished. To marry;-to sleep
To sleep perchance to dream AYE; there's the


rub;


A Country murdered through my negligence
What terrible lectures may assall me there
By her who has a legal right to ''Caudle" me,
When thus by marrying I have escaped the


DRAFT"


Must give pause There's the respect
That makes calamity Of such lite.
For who would bear the whips and scoTn Of time,
BE pointed at thro' all the years to come -
d" There goes sneak who, when his country


called him


To bravey battle in the glorious cause
OF Freedom and the hope OF all the world,
Hid like a treacherOus CoppeThead, behind
A petticoat Who, when he might have been
a hero in the final victory,
Where right and Union vanquished Wrong and


Treason,


Did his quletus make with a-bare woman !"
But that dread of something in the South,
That dark, rebel -iOus country from whose bourne
No traveller returns, puzzles the will.
Thus marrying does make towards Of us all,
And thus the native hue OF resolution
Is sicklied Ger with Tie pale cast of fear,
And enterprises of great pth and moment
With this regard their currents turn away,
And lose the name Of action.


Soft you know
My country calls. She whom Ofall know
Most worthy to be loved is whisperug-"Go! :"
60; nor will press the nuptial bed
Till she, who loves me, with warrior wed.
Year: 1863

A JOLLY old doctor said that people who
were Pr mpt in their payments always re-
coterC d in their sickness, as they were
good customers and the physicians could
not afford to lose them
Year: 1863

confidence in our ability TO conquer, We
think our Generals are all right here, and
we are sure that we can whip them two
to three in the ranks.


And such are the vicissitudes of war.
To establish and maintain privileges such
as we need, and have previously enjoyed,
wifes must be made widows, and children
orphans. Taxation must be heaped on
generations yet unborn, this we are will
ing to bear. The labor and suffering we
count as not feathers weight Bat when
we find those at home who we intended
should be only benefited by our sacri-
fees, and who escape the hardshipS,
say when we find these men prolonging
the contest, and intensifying the strife
by their unwise opposition to the meas
ures of the Government, and by their
sympathy thus afforded to our enemies.
Then say we feel indignant, and this
Indignation is not to be trified with for it
comes from men who are terribly in earn
est in this war Trusting that those at
home will see the error of their way, and
that united North may be the result
for our encouragement,


am very respectfully yours,


HENRY TOWNSEND.
Year: 1863

The squadron is forming, the war bugles play


To saddle brave comrades, stout hearts for fray
Our captain Is smounted,-strike spurs. and away!
But the wind of speed floats the gallopers mane
As he feels the bold riders firm hand the rein.
Lo dim in the starlight their white tents appesrl
Ride softlyi ride slowly : the onset is near


More slowly more softly the sentry may hear
Now fall on Rebel-a tempest Of fame! Ishamel
Strike down the false banner whose triumph were
Strike strike for the true flag for freedom and famel
Hurrah sheathe your swords the carnage is done.
All red with our valOr, welcome the sun,
Up, up with thest We have won we have won!
-Adasnic HoNfhlV for april
Year: 1863

A GREAT THING.-A loving heart and
a pleasant countenance are commodities
which a man should never fail to take
home with him. They will best season
his food and soften his pillow. 1t were a
great thing for man that his wife and
children could truly say of him, He
never brought frown of unhappiness
across his threshold"
Year: 1863

Scratch the green rind of a sapling. or
wantonly twist it in the soil, and a SCARED
or crooked oak will tell of the act for
years to come. How forcibly does this
figure show the necessity of giving right
tendencies TO the minds and hearts of
the young
Year: 1863

What glorious world this would be if
all its inhabitants could say with Spake-
speare's shepherd, Sir, am a true la
borer; earn what l wear; envy no mans
happiness: owe no man hate glad of
other mems good; and content with my
farm
Year: 1863

With a double vigilance should we
watch our actions, when we reflect that
good and bad ones are never childless 4;
and that in both cases, the offspring goes
behind the parents-every good begetting
a better, every bad a worse.
Year: 1863

I


Ut only remains for me, Sir. to thank
you and the citizens of New York, here
for the kind attention with
which they have listened to me, and with
which they have received me, for which
please again and again accept my thanks.
{ Loud and prolonged applause, and three
cheers for General Butler.)


Gen. Butler was Immediately surround
ed by the gentlemen on the stage, which
was crowded by the leading men OF the
city, all of whom sought to present to him
their thanks and congratulations. For
many minutes the audience before the
stage sat in a condition of expect
ancy The band played the ''Star Span
gled Banner" and Yankee Doodle" and
the Union Glee Club sang a song in praise
Of General Butler.
Year: 1863

CIo1H1S6.-The attention Of strangers in
the city is directed to the mammoth clothing
emporium Of G. T. Bedding & Co., 100 md
1o2 Randolph street. Their stock Of goods is
immense, and very carefully and flstidiously
selected. The style and superiority OF their
make Of clothing are well known to citizens
Of Chicago, and We would advise strangers
who would get an idea Of the clothing busi-
ness Of the city to drop in and examine the
goods and scale Of prices.
Year: 1863

THE CIrF.-The Chicago Land Company
the owner Of much and very valuable city
mainly In tho North Division and
adjacent to the river, is By the terms Of the
Trust by which Its land is held, compelled to
close ont this year. a preliminary sale at
public auction, will be made on Thursday
next, ut which nearly ali the property Of the
Company will be offered. The amount is so
large TINT It is fur TO presume that the prices
will be far less than those which would irnpel
like property In private 10 change owners.
The opportunity for Investment is rare; and
the probabilities Of profit are so tempting
to the wou1d-bc purchaser, that VIC shall bc
surprised to hear that there is not spirited
bidding.
Year: 1863

THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE has circulation Of One
Hundred and Fy Thousand copies and large proportion
of subscribers take other jOurns The space in this
sheet allotted to advertisements necessarily limited 50 that
each have the advantage Of beng easily and all cen
orally read with much interest news matter THERE'S
those who have tried know advertising medium in
the country cheap because there mono 80 profitable to
The advertiser The psper ccustes among the industrial and
thrifty cssses-ihs farmers manufacturer merchants and
mechanics of the country and h eareny read by their
we, and daughters s safe to that each advertisement
in read every week by not les, than half million Of the


most intelligent Of people lie who makes bis business biz
merchandise or his manufactures known to this immense
oumbe scattered all the loyal States cannot fail to dc
90 to bis manifest aud srea. advantage


Advertisements on the fth page 81 IS. and the
eighth p,gs ST. line. For this weeks issue they must
be handed in to-day.
Year: 1863

Aud we only alIude to the matter now to pro-
test against the oficiou' intermeddng of North
ern Copperheads who are insisting on the res
toration and perpetuation of Slavery as de-
manded by the South when their interest in it
is really based on its manifest utility and
advantage to the Sham Democracy of the
North
Year: 1863

I(s)CREAM.-What would We do with
out such an institution as Enz? During
all the intolerable hot weather he has kept
US cool with small mountains Of delicious
Ice Cream, and we are prepared to acknowl
edge him the greatest institution of the age.
Remember to call on him on the Fourth.
Year: 1863

THE EDIFFERENcE.-As long as the govern
m ent of this country was carried on by the
! Democratic party, and, by brief periods, by
the old Whig patty, no one ever expressed
serious doubt, either as to the ability of the
| people to govern them Sc Ives, or the fitness
or completeness of our republican institutions
as basis for governing them. But now, in
the very teeth of the fact that no covers
ment on earth ever did receive anything
like the aid the present b as from the mass
of the people, right here IN this very emerg-
ency, we are affl ieted with imputations upon
the ability of the people to govern them
! selves, and with all kinds of appeals to throw
aside our republican form of government,
and place the people under one man and a
military despotic rule.


! An inflated official once, in street pro-
cession called out, "Make way for US; we are
the representatives of the peoplei" to which
one of the crowd replied: an axe way for as;
we are the people themseves!"


The error of the Abolition officials Is Of
the same character precisely with that ct
the pompous individual clothed with little
brief authority. They have attempted to
reduce the government to the present ad-
ministration. Their next step is to repre-
sent its failure as failure Of a popular gov
ernment. But"we the people themselves"
have not failed. What is more, whenever
| the blunders and incompetency of the "re-
representatives. of the people" have leftno re,
source but an appeal to the source of all
government The people themselves can
yet save the country in spite of official
blundering and incompetency of those whom
unfortunately now are the peoples repre-
sentatives. 1t is they only who have fail
ed, not the people, and they will have, to
give way for men to take their places who
will not betray their trust.-Burlington
Qowa) Argus. 80.
Year: 1863

ONLY ONE BARRIER.-Thers is only one
barrier left between the psople-the masses
of all parties-and the most terrible opprss-
sion that ever was visited upon mankind
That barrier is the Democratic party. The
most prodigions effort is now making to
DESTROY that party which alone contends for
the ancient freedom and rights of the peo-
Die. If that effort is successful--if that party
is destroy ed, then wo! wo! unto the people
of these States! Taxation will sweep away
their property will desoiato
their fresides-desPotism will embitter
their lives.


This is true as God lives. The sun OF
Liberty is now setting. The night of ty-
ranny is already darkling above and around
Us. In Gods name rouse the people. Ring
the alarm bells. Let the watchword be
Liberty or Deaths-Losap( Co. y Gazstte,s:
Year: 1863

UNwARRANTABLE EINTERPoLATIoN.-Inth the
fourth clause of the second section Of the
conscription act is the following prov ision:
"Where there are two or more sons of aged
or iudrm parents subjects to draft, the father
or if he be dead, the mother, may elect
which son shall be exempted under that
clause, (form 26,) advertised by the board
of enrolment, the words, dependent for
support on two sons' are interpolated'-
This interpolation makes a very material
difference. By the act an aged parent is
entitled the exemption Of one son even
though he or she be not dependent upon
him for support Now where did the en-
rollment boards get the authority TO make
exem ption conditional on the needs of the
parents, when the law makes no such pro-
vision? There is great deal of stupidity.
or great deal of raScality, or both. in the
management of the draft.-Springfeld Re-
publican ..a
Year: 1863

Hang the slavery question. I'm disgust
ed with it. Let US ignore it and put down
the rebellion" Hearken, oh Solomon, to
your brother, who is even now running
through the streets yelling at the top of his
voice "My house is burning up. Don't
notice the fire all, for I'm disgusted with it.
Let US ignore the fire and put out the con-
tsgration We can ignore the fire and ex-
,inguish the fame just as easily as We can
ignore slavery and put down the rebellion.
Why, the rebellion is to slavery what cough
Is to consumption; only its legitimate mani
festation. We cannot avoid the slavery
question; 'e must either settle it or it will
settle US most effectuallJ, forever.-NashriHe
Union.
Year: 1863

New YoRK, March 1.-THE Tribunss spe-
ciai from Washington states that committee
Of the Chamber Of Commerce had an interview
with the President yesterday, at which they
urged him to make arrangements forthwith to
issue letters Of marque and reprisal under the
recent act of Congress. Their arguments are
understood to have made a strong impression
upon Mr.. Lincoln. contrary view, however,
was subsequently urged by Senators who we're
prominent In opposition to the passage of the
law. They represented TO the President the
dangers of foreign war in case he should do
what was asked OF him The subject is under
stood to have been before the Cabinet at its
meeting to-day.
Year: 1863

IT is now boldly announced that the object of
the Conscription bill was not merely to call to
the field within the shortest time a given
number of troops, and provide for their efficient
government, but TO assert the power of the
General Government to override State laws and
constitutional provisions in the calling forth
and offering of the militia One of the
leading administration newspaper organs in New
York asserts that the Fundamental principle
underlying the bill" is that =.


"The country is q nation-divided into
sections only for the convenience of local
interests, and always with the understanding
that these are to melt away whenever rebellion
or invasion ehall render il essential for the
common good that such boundaries be forgot
ten"


Cslhoun's doctrine of notification was infin-
itely preferable to this sweeping assertion Of
the right Of the Federal Government to abrogate
all State rights and take upon itself unlimited
power. But the Conscription bill practically
sustains all that is here asserted respecting il.
In open defiance Of the provision of the Con-
stitution reserving to The States the appointment
of officers, the bill yeats the appointments Of
them in the President. All through the bill
there may be traced a studied, careful exclu-
sion OF State rights reserved by the Constitution
anu Un6lE usuEpauOn Dy the General GOVerD-
ment -s,.


The journal announcing this doctrine con.
cedes that the bill is ga startling reversal of the
almost settled theories Of the country" II would
indeed have been singular II bill of general
application had passed the last Congress that
was not startling reversal of the settled
theories of the country. Startling reversals
have ceased to surprise, because Of their fre.
Quency in civil and militarv affaira hut the
people are no more prepared to sanction them
than if, like angels visits, they were few and
far between. They are becoming weary of the
empirics who have produced and can produce
nothing but startling reversible. ~ Chicago
Ti,nsa ~
Year: 1863

The Board OF Public Works of the city ot
Chica ago have taken the first steps towards
the construction Of q tunnel two miles'out
into Lake Michigan, to s"pply the citywith
pure water. The proposed tunnel Nlll n
fTeafaei ii aiamet II on she inside OF the
avail, and will require two years in construc


ion Four hollow cylinders will be sunk In
the lake at distance of half mile apart
the lower end penetrating the bed Of the lake
to the level Of the proposed tunnel, and from
these shafts the tunnel will be dug in two
directions, and also pushed as rapidly as
possible from the shore All these cylinders
will he closed after the completion of the
tunnel, and will be removed to such depth
ms not to interfere with navigation, with the
exception Of the outside one, which will be
constructed with reference 10 its becoming
the inlet for the water or gate chamber, and
perhaps be surmounted with small light
house, and so arranged that the water can
be shut Off from the tunnel. The cost of the
tunnel will only be 1907 ,552, and it is sup
posed by the Board that, if the tunnel is
constructed, there will be no necessity foi
building new pumping works, as it will b.
constructed opposite the old works.
Year: 1863

baT at the annual meeting OF the Massa-
chusctts Medical Society at Pittsfeld, it was
stated that of the twenty'three members who
had died during the year, one-quartcr had
given up their lives in the service of their
country
Year: 1863

SPEEDY JusrIcE.-John Shirley and John
Mcbride were tried by Military Commission
at Fort Leavenworth, on the Oath of April, for
the robbing of a discharged soldier on the
Government Reserve, found guilty and SEN
fenced to be hung, which finding and sentence
have been approved by Gen. Blunt, and the
sentence ordered TO be carried into effect last
Wednesday, and they have no doubt ere this
paid the penalty of their crime Charles Rad
life tried for the same offence, was found guilty
Of being accessory to the robbery, and sentenc-
ed to imprisonment and hard labor during the
rebellion. We are pleased to see the commend
able promptness with which Gen. Blunt is car
rying out his recent orders against thieves and
outlaws. This act will strike terror into the
hearts Of the desperadoes by which our State
is infested, and prove most salutary lesson.


LArER.-By more recent order only Shirley
is to be hung. The execution would be public.
Year: 1863

CINCINNATI, May D.


Vallahdigham was arrested at his resi-
dence in Dayton, between one and two
o'clock this morning by detachment of
United States soldiers from this city. The
soldiers were obliged to batter down two or
three doors before they could reach his
room. His friends had the fire bells rung,
and attempted to rally force for his rescue
but it could not be obtained in time. There
is good deal of talk on the streets in Day
ton this morning, but not much excitement
Vallandigham was brought to this city.
Year: 1863

REBEL PRsONEEs TO BE USED Al UEIoS
CAvALRY About seven hundred of the
ten thousand rebel prisoners At Fort Del
aware have taken the oath of allegiance,
and Con Schoepi, the commander Of the
pest, is now organizing them into a cav.
airy regiment for the National service.
The General whO has had an European
experience, aud understand the nature
OF the bayonet or saber that Is borne on
both sides OF a war, does not admit into
this rcpimcnt any prisoner who has
property ia ths South, or wife and
family there.
Year: 1863

an absolute term 10 the great mischief of
desertion, which has, under the great
name of absenteeism." been the bane of
the army, and the true source Of our ca
lamities, from the day when the first bat
tie of Manassas was fought, down TO this
hour. The silly cry for more conscripts,
while half the army is absent from duty,
is as wicked as it is stupid


So long as the law and practice of the
regular army of the Confederate States is
little more secure than that Of the old
field militia organization in time of peace,
recruits cannot fill its ranks more than
the pouring Of water into a tub without q
bottom can I'LL tha tub. IL may, howev-
er, ruin the country, which might other
wise feed and pay the army which we
would have, if deserters were punished /;
or il may engage the greater part of the
population, no age or sex excepted, in a
general conspiracy to shield the "absent
without leave


THE RAID ON KANSAS JUSTIFIED
From the Richmond lxaminer.l


The accounts Of QuantrelPs re treat are
as little worthy of belief as those of his
conduct at Lawrence. According to
these accounts, his command scattered,
and eighty of his men have been over
taken and put TO death in cold blood
That Lane and his horde Cf miscreauts
have, indeed, seized and murdered eighty
citizens of Missouri in cold blood, is
quite probable. The expedition to Law
renee was q gallant and perfectly fair
blow at the enemy; but as il fell heavy
upon him, and as the population of Kan
sas is malignant and scoundrelly be-
yond description, no doubt can be enter
tanned that it will be made the excuse
and pretext of every species of atrocity
in Missouri, until the Confederate lead
ers do what they ought TO have done,
and what they are falsely accused of do
ing. A resort to lea taliOnis in its most
decisive form is the only hope of safety
in Missouri, as it soon will be every
where.
Year: 1863

GLAD YOU ARE PLEAsED.-The result OF
the election in Kentucky seems to afford q
portion Of the Abolition press much salts.
faction. We are glad of it-and to show
the Aboitionists what they have achieved
we publish the platform upon which Col,
Bramlette was elected. The platform and
the newly elected Governor oppose Lncon's
emancipation proclamation-they discard
the plea that military necessity requires the
setting aside of Constitution or laws, or the
writ of habeas corpus. 1t also recommends
a National Convention to make such amend.
ments to the Constitution as experience bas
proved necessary to maintain that instru.
ment in the meaning and spirit of its found
ers.


Whenever Abolitionists can heartily re-
joice over the Endorsement of such plau
form, there is hope that in time they will
become true Union men.
Year: 1863

Any one who will listen to the arguments
of an Abolition orator through one of bis
two hour TRADES, will become convinced that


there is no longer any Union between the
Southern States and the Northern people,
but more STILL there is every reason in the
world why there should not and cannot be.
These orators represent the Southern people
as treacherous, plotting, traitorous ruffians;
untrustworthy in all the relations of life,
with whom it would be discredtable to enter,
tain anything like intimate political relations,
and upon whom it would be most dangerous
to rely.


These characteristics, they maintain have
distinguished their leaders for the past TWEEN
ty years, with which they have now thor
oughIy inocuated the mass of that people.
After making these points against those
people, they then turn round and denounce
every Democrat in California as disunon'
ist and traitor to the Government, because,
as they charge, the Democrats are not ready
to force by brute power political Union
with people they delight in holding up to
the world as fit only to excite the hatred,
scorn and contempt of mankind.


If these people are Union in sentiment,
they are so against reason, common sense
and their own most apparent interest:-as
suming always that they believe what they
say. To assume that they believe their own
assertions of fact, and are in good faith in
the use of their arguments, is to convict
them of the most violent insanity, such as
in more reasonable times would condemn
the mildest case among them to the mad
house. There are plenty of such Union
men confined in Stockton.
Year: 1863

The following, from the Washington cor
respondence of a New York paper, will
occasion no surprise among those who are
acquainted with Indian matters:


Private advices have been received here
from persons in Minnesota who, in the Ca
pacity of teachers and missionaries, have
superior knowledge as to who the really
guilty parties in the massacre in that State
were. The substance of the advices is that
the real murderers escaped with Little
Grow and White Lodge, and joined the
hostile and rapacious wild Sioux of the
plains. 1t is felt that the annuity Sioux
are a sort of barrier against the former,
and their general peaceful disposition is
shown by their giving themselves up to our
troops. ..