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Year: 1864

Who can do the subject Justice? We
acknowledge our incapacity; emphatically
we cannot write-we can only read election
returns and short sentences pertinent to the
decided issue. Believing this to be the
almost universal condition Of our readers, we
shall not punish ourself and them with any
matter foreign to that subject. We feel glo-
rious, and can't help repeating that such is
our condition.


Reader, study well the returns. Therein
is a lesson that will furnish food to the mind
of both Copperhead and Unionist, grave
thought and logical deductions therefrom will
place both on the stupendously grand plat
form of universal freedom, and submission
to the rule of majorities, if they are honest.
Year: 1864

WELcoME.-Since our last issue the Copper
City Pioneer hrs doffed the garb of question
able neutrality just in time to print one issue
with the names of Lincoln and Johnston at
the mast head. We understand that. pecu-
niarily, the concern was in the hands of the
Philistines, or our brother would sooner have
hoisted the flag which at heart be wished to
support with pen aud tongue. Long may
you wave. brother.
Year: 1864

SANITARY FUND.-In our last issue we
neglected sacred duty in not calling the
attention Of loyal men in every precinct to
prepare box at every poll for the receipt of
donations to this vitality useful fund. We
regret to learn that at many polls there was
10 attention paid to this fund; at others box
and a man to attend to the jogging the mem
ories was in attendance. Donations as far as
raportod a ro a @ f,llnus.
Year: 1864

Among all the sketches that we have
seen from the fields of battle, we have read
none with more tender interests than the
record Of the labors of two women in the
service Of the Sanitary Commission at Get
tysburg. 1t is published in the tract form
by Randolph under the title of " What we
did at Gettysburg" We make some ex-
tracts


" For this temporary sheltering of all these
wounded men, Government could make no
provisions. There was nothing for them if
too late for the cars, except open fields and
hunger, in preparation for their fatiguing
journey. 1t is expected when the cars are
ready that the men will be promptly sent to
meet them, and Government cannot provide
for mistakes and delays, SO that but for the
Sanitary Commissions Lodge, and comforta-
Bile supplies, for which the wounded are in
debted to the hard workers at home, men,
badly hurt, must have suffered night and
day, while waiting for the d" next train"


We had on an average sixty of such men
each night for three weeks under our care,
sometimes one hundred, somtimes thirty and
with the "deegation," and the help of 9TH
er gentlemen volunteers, who all worked de-
votedly for the men, the whole thing was a
great success, and all of us can't help being
thankful we had a share, however small, in
making it So Sixteen thousand good meals
were given; hundreds Of men kept through
the day, and twelve hundred sheltered at
night, their wounds dressed, their supper
and breakfast secured, rebels and all. You
will not, [ am sure, regret that these most
wietched men, these " enemies" sick and in
prison, were helped and cared, through your
supplies, though certainly they were not in
your minds when you packed your barrels
and boxes. The clothing we reserved for
our own men, except now and then, shiv-
ering rebel needed it, but in feeding them
we could make no distinctions. 1t was Gu
rious to see among our workers at the Lodge
the disgust and horror felt for the rebels
giving place to the kindest feeling for woun-
ded men.


Among our wounded soldiers, one night
came an elderly man, sick, wounded and era
zy, singing and talking about home. We
did what we could for him, and pleased him
greatly with a present of a red flannel shirt
and red calico dressing gown, all of which
he needed, and in which he dressed himself
up, and then wrote letter to his wife, made
it into little book, with gingham covers
and gave it to one of the gentlem to mail fol
him The next morning he was sent on
with the company from the Lodge, and that
evening two tired women came into our
camp, his wife and sister who hurried on
from their home to meet him, arriving just
too late Fortunately we had the queer lit
tie gingham book to identify him by, and
Year: 1864

A Newfoundland paper, speaking of the
House of Assembly, Of that island, eulogizes
it in the following unequivocal language =
" Take them for all in all, from their Speak
er downward, we do not suppose a greater
set of low-lived and lawless scoundrels, as
public men can be found under the canopy
of heaven"
Year: 1864

No longer slowly, but rapidly, Europe is
moving Onwards into the vortex-into a Sc
ries of commissions which will shake the
Continent throughout its length and breadth.
The old landmarks have been disappearing
the old treaties are being forced into abey-
anee and through new wars Europe is
about to grope her way towards new set
tlement. The prospect is to be deplored,
but it must be faced. Five years ago to-
day few words spoken in the reception
room Of the Tuileries gave warning to States
men that the sword was to be employed to
solve the Gordian Knot of the most urgent
of the international grievances. Ever since
the outbreak of the Italian war, which fol
lowed these words, the feeling OF disquiet or
alarm has spread among nations as well as
among Governments Every leading coun-
try in Europe has been Strengthening its
fortresses, recognizing or equipping anew
its armies, and reconstructing its fleets. The
budgets of time of peace have been bur
dened with expenses only natural in time
of war. Governments and peoples alike
have been forcasting the future, and each
in its own way, clumsily or efficiently, has
been preparing for it. The crisis is now
visibly approaching. The ornaments which
have arisen during the past five years of ap-
prehension, constitute, in one point of view,
the best bulwark for the maintenance of
peace. No State can now be assaied de-
fenceless and surprised Its own blunders
may lay it open to the blow of an adversary,
but it cannot be taken unawares. This, in
truth, constitutes the chief obstacle to the
outbreak of continental war. But if we
look at the other side of the shield, the in
suficiency of the protection may well be
doubted. Nations now feel that they can
do no more ; and that since the difficulties
of the position only continue to multiply, it
is as well to face them at once as to seek to
postpone them by continuance of irksome
sacrifice They are growing weary of
peace which seems to be only a truce-of
peace that is fraught with the burdens and
poisoned with the apprehensions of war
We believe we only state a fact when we say
that the period of alarm has passed, and
that the intermittent panics, in most couu-
tries of Europe, which commenced with the
outbreak of the italian war, have given
place to a logged and somewhat angry feel
ing Of defiance. Men have been forced to
count the cost and contemplate the contin-
gencies of war; the prospect has been
growing familiar to them; and so far as re-
CARDS the Continental States, it is the Gov
ernments more than the peoples, which
shrink from the crisis that seems daily draw
ing nearer-BlackWood
Year: 1864

WATCH Your NEIGHBoRs.-As many
persons are apt to go astray unless there is a
bright eye kept upon them, and as many
persons have little or no business of their
own to attend to, it may not be amiss for
some of those, who feel greater interest in
the welfare of their own neighbors than in
themselves, to commit the following to mem
Ory:


Some one has said, it is always best to
watch your neighbors. In fact, not to let
them stir without watching. They may do
something wrong if you do not 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 dis
graced themselves and families long time
ago. Therefore 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 looking over the fence-be suspicious
of him; perhaps he contemplates 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 symptoms of any one pass
ing out of the path of duty tell every one
else that you see, and be particular to see a
great many 1t is a 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 its is said there was silence in
Heaven for the space of Half an hour, do
not let any such thing occur on earth it
would be too much like Heaven for the in
habitants of this mundane sphere.


If after all your watchful care, you cam
not 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 un-
guarded moment, you lost sight Of them
throw out hints that they are no better than
they should be-that you should not won
der if people found out what they were after
in while, then they may not carry their
heads so high. Keep it agoing, and some
one will take the hint and begin to help af-
ter awhile-then there will be music, and
everything will work to a charm.


Carry this system into politics, and even
although you never rise yourself, you will at
least have the satisfaction of keeping down
those to whom you are opposed. Is your
neighbor becoming prominent, in fact, ri
sing man, and you can find nothing in his
character or life to assail, then, as last re-
sort, whisper it around that he isn't Sound. ,
You needn't tell in what he is not sound
Be sure that your story is carried, and be
equally sure that it gathers as it travels, and
by the time i. is fairly put in circulation,
this lack of soundness, if politician, will be
held to mean that he is not reliable on the
Union question: 1t matters not that the
party against whom you have thus instilled
your poison is as true to his country as the
needle to the pole; you have gained your
point, and in politics, as in everything else,
there is nothing like success.
Year: 1864

GRAPHIc.-A humorous writer of the
Chicago Post describes how he got out of a
bad scrape in the Police Court.


"The next morning the Judge of the Po-
lice Court sent for me. l went down and
he received me cordially. Said he had
heard of the wonderful things 1 had accom-
plished at Byran Hall, and was proud Of
me. I was promising young man and all
that Then he offered a toast. Guilty or
not guilty p l responded in brief but ell
oquent speech, setting forth the Importance
of the occasion that had brought us together.
After the usual ceremonies 1 loaned the
city ten dollars"
Year: 1864

THIS world is a serious world, and human
life and business are also serious matters,
not to BE- trifed with nor cheated by sham
and hypocrisies, but to be dealt with in all
truth, soberness and sincerity. No one can
thus deal with it who is not himself pos
sessed of these qualities, and the result of a
life is the test Of what virtue there is in it.
False men leave no mark 1t is truth alone
which does the masonry of the world
which founds empires and builds cities, and
establishes laws, commerce and civilization
Year: 1864

A gallant soldier was once heard to say
that his only measure of courage was this /:
"Upon the first FIRE Immediately look upon
myself as dead man then fight the re-
mainder of the day as regardless of danger
as a dead man should be. All my limbs 1
carry out of the field 1 regard as so much
saved out of the fire."
Year: 1864

EARLY IMPREssIoNs.-Pro Professor Hayne,
of Gottingen, used to relate that the first
impression on bis mind where made by the
tears of his mother lamenting that she was
not able to find bread for her children.
Year: 1864

A solicitor, resident in the Isle Of Wight had
business at Southampton. He stayed at enc of
those hotels for which the town Of mail steamers
is famous, and after dinner he was looking over
his law papers while he slipped his port he
was aroused from his foolscap and red tape by
the opening of door. His wife (WhOm he had
left at home in the Isle of Wight) entered, gazed
at him steadfastly, and passed out at the oppo-
site door. He naturally thought that it was
hallucinatiOn, and resumed his reading with
wondering smile at his own weakness. But
within quarter Of an hour tie same thing oc-
CURED again, and there was on the couutenance
Ofthe spectre an imploring look which terrified.
He at once resolved to return home; with some
difficulty got boatman 10 take him across; and
when he reached his house, he was struck by
the CHASTITY and alarmed look Of his maid SER


want, who opened the door. This woman was
so frightened by his unexpected return, that
she spontaneously confessed her intention to


murder her mistress; and her confession was
confirmed by the fact that she had concealed


knife under her pillow. This is very perpIex-
ing case for those who think spectral phenome-
ma can be philosophically explained. Here You
have the phantom of living person projected
entirely without that person 5 consciousness
Let it be assumed that person in extreme per-
il can, by intense volition, act on the nervous
system of the universe, so as to influence his
dearest friend; but here the person whose like
ness appeared was entirely devoid of appre-
hension, while the servant who alone knew
what was likely to happen, would naturally ex-
ert no VOlition towards revealing.-Dlsblin Uni
UerSity Magazine.
Year: 1864

TnE SIMPLE SECRET Twenty clerks In
store. Twenty hands in q printing Office
Twenty young men in village. All v ant
to get along in the world, and all expect
to do So One Of the clerks will rise to be
partner and make fortune. One OF the
tomposisors will own newspaper and be-
come an influential and prosperous citizen.
One OF the apprentices will become q mas
ter builder. One Of the villagers will get
handsome farm and live like patriarch.
But which is destined to be the lucky indi-
vidual? Lacky7 There is no luck about It.
The thing is almost as certain as the Rule
OF Three The young fellow who will
distance competitors is he who masters
his business, who preserves bis integrity,
who lives cleanly and purely, who never
gets in debt. who gains friends by deserving
them, and puts his money into sayings
bunk There are some ways to fortune
that look shorter than the old dusty high.
way. But the staunch men of the COM
munity. the men who. achieve something
really worth having, good fortunes and q
serene old age, all 20 this road
Year: 1864

My wife has been in poor health for long time having
frequently call physician To attend her but she
Gently very much For weeks she had appe
te lost all her strength and each day growing worse
She had night Yeats coughed great deal during the night
and considerably during the day and all supposed she
going of with the consumption when friend advised her to
take the Peoples Cure On taking the medicine she percev
ed change On the third day she had
appetite and fast regainng her strength until the
eighth day not yet having taken one bottle she has stopped
was and well any body could be- and she has continued
since. PAUL KLEIN, Ga rdner, 80 Pearl st.
Buffalo, October J. 1862. For Sale by all Druggists


c. CROSBY, General agent,


265 Main st Buffalo, N Y.


1872 to whom all orders should be addressed
Year: 1864

youth and maturity arising from the baneful habits
Of seif-abuse. To which is added observations Oh
Female Diseases and other interesting matter Of the ut
most importance to the married and those contemplating
marriage, who entertain doubts Of their physical ability
enter that state Sent TO any address in sealed wrap
per- on receipt of ten cents OF four stamps.


We devote entire time and attention the tre
ment of various private diseases treated of in pr
vate report Our Dspensary is the only Institution Of the
kind in America which has been tablished by special
charter this fact should give preference
various quacks of doubtful character to be foun in al
Atrocities.
Year: 1864

Special to the Post.


Great efforts are making here by the
friends Of Joseph Howard Jr. the forger
of the proclamation, to effect his release or
to bring him to trial. No demand has yet
been made by our government for the de-
livery of the pirate Semmes, but the situa-
ton of affairs is such that he will probably
be surrendered if not, demand will be
made upon the British Government.
Year: 1864

a Special 70 Commercial says:


A gentleman Just from the front says
that General Grant expressed the belief
that Sherman would capture Atlanta. He
likewise said the fate OF the rebellion
would then be settled IN front Of Rich
rnOnd. He also declared that with 100, ,OJO
more men in our armies the rebellion could
be orushed in ten days.
Year: 1864

no amend the Ordinance entitled An Ordinance con-
corning Nuisances injurious 10 the Health of the
City"


sEcTloS /. BE il Ordained BY fhe City Council Of VII
1ingoH That the 0rdnAnee entitled An Ordinance to
amend an Ordinance entitled An Ordinance concerning
Nusances injurious to the Health OF the City," passed
May Sd, 1861 be. and the Is hereby repealed


SR0TlON =. And be IL further Ordained That Section
first Of the Ordinance entitled An Ordinance concern
ing Nuisances injurious to the Health OF the city, be
amended by striking out all between the 25th ne aud
the 32d line inclusive OF those lines and inserting In lieu
thereof the following, to wit


The owner agent and tenant Of any property in this
City shall either Of the be liable to the ngnt scavenger
other person employed for the expenses Of cleansing
prvy wells such property, whether the cleansing shall
have been ordered contracted for by the agent
or tenant Aforesaid.


City shall suffer the prvy we'll thereon 10 be full that
any two members OF the City Council Of the Board Of
Health shall declare the same to be nuisance, such
eWner his agent and the tenant in possession shall be-
either Of them responsible and Atter notice. unless said
privy shall be ceansed within three days time, shall be
guilty Of common nuisance and for every such offence
shall be liable to fine less than dollar
than FIVE dollars, to be imposed by the Mayor Alder
man.


II shall not be lawful for any person to cleanse
to be eleansed any privy well iu this City during the
months Of July and August, unless such pnyy well
shall been cleanssd within two months previously
without having first obtained from the Secretary Of the
Hoard Of Health permit authorizing the to bedone
for which he shall pay to the Secretary for the Of the
City the Of two dollars and every person offend
lug shall be guilty OF common nuisance and shall be


liable fine Of five dollars to be imposed by the Mayor
/ Alderman.


Passed at the City Hall, Feb. Is, 1854
A. uULLINGsW0RTH,
President Of the City Council
! Attest! L. T. TAYLOR. Clerk. ieh2i-lt.
Year: 1864

The inequality almost everywhere visi-
BILE in human affairs is perhaps nowhere
more conspicuous than in the contrast be-
tween the poverty of ceremony which at
tends matrimonial unions in some parts of
the world, and the 'pomp which accom-
panies them in other parts-the absence
not merely of q priest, but even of JUS
tice of the peace, at the nuptials Of the
South Sea Islands, and the affluent pres
ence of two or more first class clergymen
at the fashionable celebrations in our own
society.


The Siamese used to marry by the simple
ceremony of handing over the pride's pot;
the couple proceeded homeward as man
and wife, without further ado. But as
these people now have king who is de-
voted to steam engines, telegraphs, and
other emblcms of progress, doubtless the
ladies of his kingdom have obtained Gimp
ses of woman's rights" imported along
with other notions from the United states,
and accordingly, no doubt, they do not
now suffer themselves to be disposed of in
such a cavalier manner. Marriage with
all the modern improvements would not
unnaturally be one of the earliest reforms
introduced by an innovsting female
Siamese.


Instead of desiring the presence of two
clergymen, the Crimean Tartars are said
to value the privilege of having one, even
so little as to keep him standing outside at
the brides windows, through which he
throws the formulas. Other barbarous
and Semi-barborous people have ceremo-
MES elaborate enough, though of a queer
character. Among certain fre-worShip-
pers the happy couple are united by
hem of their garments, and led in process
sion around fire. On the banks Of the
Ganges, the Brahmin priest, the bride and
bridegroom all hold on to the tail Of
COW; another Hindoo custom is for the
bridge and bridegroom to shower rice on
each others hand.


In Ceylon they are tied together by the
thumbs, the courtship having begun by
the lover sending to buy his future brides
clothing, which, knowing that it is to be
returned along with husband, she read.
lily parts with at her own valuation. The
Chinese practice of three days mourning
before wedding may seem curious, but
it is hardly so curious as marrying lv-
ing man or woman to the grave of one
betrothed to him or her before death-a
custom belonging to another people. 1sssi
Year: 1864

Over the river they beekon TO me-


Loved ones who've Gfossed TO the further side.
The glcam of their snowy robes / see,


But their voices are lost in the flowing tide.
There's one, with the ringlcts of sunRy gold,
And eyes the reflection of Heavens own blue;
He crossed in the twilight gray and cold.


And the pale mist hid him from mortal viewi
We saw not the angels who met him there,
The gates of the city we could not see.
Over the river, over the river,


Ny brother stands waiting to welcome Inc,
Over the river the boatman pale,


Carried another, the household pet,
Her brown curls wave in the gentle gale


Darling Minnie see her yet
She crossed on her bosom her dmpled hands,
And fearlessly entered the phantom bark,
We felt il glide from the silver sand


And all our sunshine grew strangely dark
We know she is safe on the further side,


Where all ;he ransomed and angels be,
Over the river, the mystic river,


Ny childhoods idol is waiting for me
For none return from those quiet shores,


Who cross with the boatman cold and pale,
We hear the dip of the golden oars


And catch Il gleam of the snowy sail.
And 10 They have passed from our yearnmg


hearts,


They cross the stream and are gone-for aye!
We may not sunder the veil apart


That hides from our vision the gates OF day.
We only know that their barks no mCrr


May sail with us DER lifo's stormy sea;
Yet somehow know. OH the unseen shore,


They watch and beckou, and wait for NE
And sit ind think, when the sunsets gold
Isflushng river, and hill, nnd shore,
l shall one day stand by the water cold,


Aud list for the sound of the bOa;mans oar;
shall watch for CLEAN nf the Tapping sail,
] shall hear the boat as it gains the strand,
shall pass from sight. with the b0atnan pale,
To the better shore Of the spirit land;
shall know the loved who have gone before
And joyfuIly sweet will the meeting be,
When over the river, the peaceful river,


Teh Angel of Death shall carry me.