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Year: 1863

We see in Eastern papers frequent para
eraphs to the effect that the mania for real
estate speculation is raging in Chicago to
IN extent unparalleled By the madness Of
1856 and 1857. Such, fortunately for the
city, is not. the case. The movement in
real property here, owing partly to the in
creased volume Of the currency, butmainly
to the increased confidence in the future Of
Chicago, is active; but it is confined for the
most part to persons who buy for improve
meut and use, or for investment Of surplus
funds. Prices have advanced and they are
still tending upward; but Of speculation
there is positively none. The transactions
thus far have been for cash or its equivalent;
50, whateyer the wisdom OF folly Of the
opinion upon which the movement
is based, no consequences that can extend
beyond purchasers, will follow, because
there are no debts contracted. Large Or
<crs are here from New York, and New
England; and many men of ofsubstance in the
West, outside Of Chicago, ore getting each
man his corner lot which, in the language
of the day. is ''salted down" as something
that, happen what may, will be sure to
keep. We have studied the situation with
full knowledge Of the madness that once
possessed the whole city, and with an init
mate acquaintance with the hopes, and ez
pectations, which lie behind the advance
and the activity that We hare noted; bu
we ore unable to see anything dangerou
or unhealthy in what is going On. TIL
city is every day increasing in popula
4ion and wealth; business Of al kinds i
actiyc and dourishing, and the limit Q
manufacturing enterprises and mercantil
ventures, is fixed only by the capital Q
those who enter therein. Our people, mind
ful Of the immense population -immens
and rapidly increasing-upon whoseneces
sites the future growth and importance {
Chicago depend, see no reason to dout
That the advance in the city's numbers, an


the consequent extension Of its bushes


will be such as to make their prediction
good-that, in word, in spite Of the rcbe


lion, our growth must continue And the


are undoubtedly right.
Year: 1863

FOREIGNERS SURPRIsED-It is un-
derstood that on the occasion of the re-
cent visit Of Secretary Seward and the
diplomats north, the foreign gentlemen
we're utterly amazed at the large num-
bers Of men whom they everywhere met
and at the apparently little impression
made by the war upon the business of
the country. They were also astonish :
ed at the unanimous sentiment prevail
ing in favor of a vigorous prosecution
Of the war.


This trip has evidently done much to
do away with the false opinions they
had formed from reading the copper
head newspapers assiduously forced up
on them here, and represented as being
tho true exponents oft sentiments of
the people.
Year: 1863

GEN. MEADE ON THE END OF THE
WAR.-Gen. Meade said at a sword pre-
sentation the other day:


II have to request Of you gentlemen
who are in civil life that, when you re-
turn home, you will spare no efforts to
mako the people understand that all we
want are men to fill up our ranks Send
these to us. Give US the nun bers, and
the war will soon be concluded. 1 think
the rebels are now satisfied that their
struggle is only a matter of time, as we
have the force on our side, and that as
soon as they see that we are bringing
out that force in earnest, they will
yield"
Year: 1863




There are many persons who think
that to call a man an Abolitionist is
sufficient to establish their claim to be
considered of superior intellect. 1t 10
with them kind of logic made easy,
and compensates for the absence of ar
gument, and removes the necessity and
fatigue ofproving a proposition. A man
may be an AbOlitionist when he is zeal
Gus for the removal of evils of any
kind. 1t is good as applied to drum
kenness or profa nity--but it has no
signitcation now when applied to Slave
ry. That great nuisance is already aba.
ted; the slave owners have left far be-
hind them the emancipators of the
North.


This word has often been applied un.
justly to the editor of this paper. We
never deserved it. Always devoted to
the cause of order, we never felt that
we could justly assail what the law pro.
tected. But things are changed. Slave.
ry is abolished by the action of its
friends. There is no parallel case in
history, where the very cause for which
war is undertaken, becomes, in the
progress of events, the most fatal enc.
my to itself. We have seen the scor-
piOn when surrounded by enemies and
unable to escape, bury its fangs in its
own body and sting itself to death. So
has slavery acted-not, however, by
cOmpulsion but voluntarily. We never
raised hand against it; no word of any
Catholic editor assailed it so long as it
would be unjust and illegal to do So
but now that it is dead--dead by the
act of its admircrs-we will not consent
to see its body fostering on the high.
ways. Let it be buried out of sight
forever. Let it rest with all its horrors
in the grave--let its memory fade from
the recollection of men. 1t was an out.
rage against humanity such as the his
tory of no other people could exhibit
There was something manly in the old
custom of reducing to Slavery him
whose sword had been beaten down bv
stronger arm on the battle efold; there
was show Of justice in reducing 10
bondage the debtor who could not nav
his creditor, but for American Slavery
there was no excused 1t was a mon.
strous crime-from the seizure of the
African in his own land to the moment
of his death, when his body was wasted
by toll, rather than disease, to uphold
the luxury ofa masterl ........


Well, it has fallen, and we are called
Abolitionist because we refuse our
consent to its resuscitationl We are
proud Of being called so, under cireum.
stances SO creditablo to the mind and
heart May we ever deserve the
namel We will bear it's stigma joyfulIy
through life and carry it into eternity
with honor, We struggle in a holy
cause.-the cause of religion and of the
human race. We maintain the sanotity
Of the marriage tie-the fidelity of the
husband and wife to each other; VIC
maintain the cause of justice, denying
the right of any man to another's labors
without his consent or compensation,
We maintain the right of the parents
to the disposal of their children, and
that no man, through the exercise Of
his powers as master, shall deprive
human beings of instruction in the
Christian religion, and of tho means to
save their souls. Can any man be a
CathOlic--a believer in the Christian
faith-snd consider the question other
wiser With the long and shining list
Year: 1863

When sorrows tempests round US roar,


And overwhelm the soul
Oh trust not thou to worldly pride,


Or qusif the tempting bowl;
But, with firm and trusting heart,


Bend low beneath the blast;
And He above who chasteneth thee,


Will raise thee when It's past.
The lofty oak, the mountain pine,


So stately in their pride,
Must bend OF break before the storms
That on the night winds ride;
While the meek willow lowly stoops


Before the raging blast,
And lifts its head, in beauty decked,
When storms and clouds are past.
So thou, o man must lowly bend,


When sorrows round thee press
They may be angels in disguise,


To lead to happiness.


Oh trust to Him who reigns above,
| And bend beneath the blast,
And He will raise thy dropping soul
| When storms Of life are past.
Year: 1863

a5~ 1t is impossible for us, honestly to re :
ceiye any new subscribers, except here and
there one, for some peculiar reason Persons
from distance are requested not to send us
money enclosed for new subscriptions. Here
after we cannot take the time and trouble of
returning it, but must lay it aside, subject to
order. If We were disposed to swindle the
community, we might act differently in this
matter; but we had as well let it be under
stood that we have not paper enough to fur
new subscription received is unjust to them
Year: 1863

nsg- See the advertisement of the Misses
whitmore, for young ladies' school These
ladies are well known amongst us, and en-
titled to full confidence in their undertaking
We can freely recommend them as qualified in
all respects.
Year: 1863

HA- We have heard nothing further from
Morgan. This is a good sign, as northern pa
pers ten days later than our last accounts of
him have been seen and contents noticed
He is not captur yet
Year: 1863

A BRAVE AND TRUE PEoPLE.-Tt is a
remarkable fact that, among the Choctaws
and Chickasaws, not one is known to have
the least sympathy with the North not
one is even suspected. All who know
them have the utmost confidence in the
bravery of their warriors. As our friends,
they are the truest of the trus-as sol.
diers, the bravest of the brave Their
character for honesty and integrity is bet
ter, than probably any people Of equal
numbers on the globe. The people of the
South have the greatest reason to be
proud of their Choctaw and Chickasaw
friends Gazette.


Ba5- The last accounts Of Bragg's army.
Year: 1863

TAKE CARE Numbers stranger. may
be seen about all important towns and villa
ges of South Arkansas. Some have uniforms
and some have not. Some are passing to and
fro on business which no one ear conceive,
and others lie about for days doing rothing i'm
Others, have the mark of the Puritan stock
in their face, tones and manners.


They may all be right-most of them prob
ably are, and would be pleased to remove
We would. Any gentleman would. Therefore
we think that any stranger, stopping amongst
us should be approached in n courteous man
ner, and interrogated as to his business, and
if he be unacquainted amongst ns, requested
to give some proof. What in times of peace
would be impertinent curiosity, becomes now,
in the midst of our dangers, only necessary
precaution, which it would be folly to neglect
on the one hand or TO complain Of Ola the 9TH
er. The enemy knew every foot of the way
and the condition of every point, before Gricr-
son made his raid through Mississippi. We
calculate largely on their sturidity if we sup
pose they are not making similar inves,iga
tons about ourselves.


If any traveller or visitor has been careless
enough to go where he is not known without
means of establishing his character, he should
not complain of the Inconvenience Of an un-
pleasant detention. If he does, he lisa fool,
and ought to he obliged to the people for
teaching him some sense by experience.
Year: 1863

Ess~ We cannot sometimes avoid the queer
est conceit. and the most ridiculous association
of ideas. The result of the present efforts on
foot to subjugate the South, reminds US OF the
Old pantomime ofthe circus, which any of our
rea lers, who have ever been boy, and man
aged to get the extra quarter to ''get in, or
crawled under the curtain for want of it, will
no doubt remember The clown. turned den
tist, who kills his patient by shooting tooth
out eff his head, attempts to lay him out. lie
down decently to the side, and the legs fly
apart lie goes to the feet and brings them
together, when 10. the arms fly out at right
angles again. He goes back to the arms to
bring them back to the side, and as he does so
the legs open again, and thus lie goes on in
his hopeless effort to straighten the patient to
the vast amusement of all the good -natured
audience.


Lincoln has been three years almost laying
out the South, and with the exception of Rich
rsond and Charleston, has generally managed
the particular point at which he has aimed.
But the deuce of the matter is, that it will not
stay subiugated. He over runs Missouri and
has it all right; but, upon the withdrawal of
his troops, Quantrell and all his sort are in
aims in every county, and the State In con-
dition of volcanic eruption. He subjugates
Kentucky, and proceeds on to the South; but
10, Morgan with his raiders are soon all
through the State again, protected and assist
ed by the people, burning bridges, cutting oil
his comm unications, and making it the base
for a n invasion over the Ohio. He conquera
all Virginia down to the Rappahannock, but
no sooner turns his attention to some other
part of the Southern body, than Lees army is
over the border and far up into Pennsylvania.
Even North Arkansas will not stay conquered
and Marmaduke and Cabell rise up behind
him as his armies remove the very pressure OF
their feet from the soil. To "strain all tna'
milk over again. as the good housewife said
when the dog Tapped in the pan, is a tedious
business; to roll up the stone Of Tisyphus 'of
ever and ever, will exhaust the most here ulean
strength.
Year: 1863

good story was once told of a connoisseur
in the fine arts, who said to friend.


Il wish you would come up to my house and
see picture I have just purchased. I wish
you to give me your candid opinion Of it. A
friend of mine, who thinks he is a Judge, had
the impudence to tell me last night that it was
not an original. l should like to hear another
man say that it was not an original; l think l.
should almost be tempted to knock him down
But yon come up and see t,,and give me your
candid and unbiased opinion Of the picture!


Here was freedom of opinion with vengc-
ance and something like the liberty of action
said to have been granted by Col. McLane to
the troops under his command before going in
to winter quarters at Valley Forge. They
were suffering for provisions and clothing, and
Congress had been repeatedly petitioned for
that relief which it was not in their power to be-
stow. Under these circumstances, Col. McLane
paraded his band of suffering soldiers, and har-
angued them as follows:


Fellow soldiers you have served your coun-
try faithfully and truly. We have fought hard
fights together againsta hard enemy. You are
in a bad way for comfortable clothes, and it al
most makes me cry to see you tracking your
half frozen bloody feet on the cold icy ground.
But Congress can't help it, nor can l. Now if
any Of you want to return home, to leave the
army at such time as this, you can 60. Let
those who would like to 60 step out four spaces
in front-,6uf (he added) the first man that
steps out, if don't shoot him, my name is not
McLancn


1t is needless to add that not solitary vol
unteer for home was to be found in the ranks.
Year: 1863

Defence AGAINST RAIDERs.-The Missis-
sippian says no less truthfully than encourag-
ingly:


We believe that one hundred men, with
double barrel shot guns, can always put to fight
five hundred raiders, by ambushing them prop
erly, and evincing the GOODNESS and courage of
determination. With the advantages Of am
buscades and our knowledge of the country,
and facilities for taking the enemy by surprise,
one man ought to be equal to five. There is
no doubt of the fact that we can prevent these
raids. and let every man solemnly resolve to do
it,
Year: 1863

NOT ACQUAINTED WITH MIR. BULL.-Therc
was hdbeas corpns case the other day before
Judge Lochrane, in which his honor took
ground which we think may probably be law,
but is certainly common sense. The case arose
upon the arrest of an alleged desertcr, and one
of the points presented by the defence was a
letter from the British Consul at Savannah,
showing that the prisoner was native of
Canada West and British subject. The
Judge, IN his decision, stated that he had little
respect for Consular papers at best, in behalf
of men claiming the protection of this Govern
ment The benefit of protection carried with
it the reciprocal duty of defending the Govern
ment. But before such Consular papers could
be respected, the Court must have access to
official information of the existence of such
functonaries and the States they representa-
No officer in the Confederate States knew any,
thing about Great Britain or her Consuls, and
they could not 90 to the newspapers for infor-
nation 1t was the duty of that Government,
if she wished to exercise Consular jurisdiction
in the Confederate States, to set forth this fact
in official form, and in no other way could the
Courts become legitimately cognizant of the
fact. AS citizen he might understand and
believe that there was such Government as
Great Britain, and certain men in the Confed-
eracy claiming to be Consuls, but he had no
proper official knowledge of either fact.


Macon (Ga.) Telegraph
Year: 1863

I have nothing new or interesting to relate
OF our operations for the last twenty -four
hours, and were it not that / know the read
ers of the TRIBUNE expect daily intelligence
from this point, would not write:


Last night We expected On attack from the
city. Certain suspicious movements we're
observed which were supposed to indicate a
aa11y, and orders were issued for regiments to
remain In line Of battle all night long. The
t expected demonstration did not occur, and
today all IL quiet again. - :
Canaonading and musketzy Was the order Of
Year: 1863

Drunkenness is an egg from which all
wees are hAtcbed.
Drunkenness turns a man out Of himself,
and leaves beast in his room.


An honest man needs not TO be bound
fast by Oaths; a knave needs handouts.


Wanted BY an attorney. a clerk to en-
gross other peoples attention.


Those who have resources within them
selves. and can dare 10 live alone. want
friends the least. but know how TO prize
them the most


Some people are always boasting of them
selves-Of their own labOrs and sscoesses.
bot the spoke that bears the heaviest burden
seldom creaks.


An idle man always thinks he has a right
TO feel Afronted II a busy man does not de-
vote 70 him just as much Of his time As be
himself as leisure to waste.


An old lady. when she heard her minis,er
say there would be a nave in the new
church. observed that ''she knew well who
the party was TO whom be sappIied such an
oPPrObrious epi;het-


Some one has beautifully said: " The
water that flows from a spring does not
CONCEAL in winter. and those sentiments Of
friendship which fiow from the hart cannot
frozen in advcrsiiy.~


Everybody SITS in judgment on a dirty
san but clean II. dress 1t. polish it. and
there are ten thousand people who think il
not so sinful after all.
Year: 1863

If man gives his solemn word Of
honor to his neighbor that he will per-
form . certain act-as the payment of
money At given time-in which both
are interested. and then refuses to per-
form the act. what do people say ? They
call him dishonorable. Ii a man gives
a pledge to dozen men. or two dozen,
and violates his wore. can it be less dis
honorable than if he gives it to only a
single man? Certainly not. If = man
pledges himself 10 twenty FIVE men. and
through them to whole county. is he
not bound in honor 70 abide his vow as
much as though be give his bond !? Ger
tainly he is. liza man does not intend
to abide the decision Of convention.
let him not go before it.


Every honest MIN in the nation and
in he world. deuounce reputation, aud
Year: 1863

the State of Mississippi is by-word Of
reproach to-day. because she repudiated
her word. Even JEFF. Davis. the arch
traitor. is ashamed of the deed, and tries
10 lie himself out of connection with it.
But Mississippi is no worse than any
man who will repudiate his word. either
TO single neighbor. or a convention Of
his neighbors. Is not that plain case?
Why. then. do men place themselves
in this situation ? Are they 80 greedy
after Office they cannot wait single
year? Will they persist in writing dis
honor and reputation upon their own
record


We are not actuated by personal feel
ing IN this matter: but there is . great
principle at the bottom Of the subject
that of confidence 10 persons and COM
munities. What can We hope for. if
every tie that gives men confidence in
each other. is cut asunder. and COM
munity set adrift on the sea Of distrust.
each man suspicious of his neighbor ?
There must be some common ground Of
anchorage. or We are at sea without
compass or chart. There is . point
where. for it. orn protection. society
must rsbuke the tendency to cut loose
from moorings. and demand the fulfill
ment of pledges.


On this subject. as on every other,
We try to stand by principle. honor and
right. If man gives his word in any
shape. he is bound by it. II a mans
honor. reracity and regard for truth do
not bind Aim to his rord. nothing WiH.


Now. We are simply laying down
principles. which are wide aud deep.
and so plain that none can mistake them.
They are SO important no one can safely
ignore them. We leave others to draw
iuferenccs. make applications and reach
conclusions.
Year: 1863

wise, before We can have quiet on the
border an end must be put t6 stealing
and the thieves must be cleaned out.
Remove the cause in both cases. aud
the effects will cease to follow.
Year: 1863

An EXTENSIVE SALT MINE IN WESTERN
LoUIsIANA.-A correspondent of the New
York Times, with part of the Gulf blocka-
ding squadron on the Louisiana coast relates
the following:


Along the Gulf coast bounding this partic-
ular part OF the State are numbers of islands,
some of which rise to a considerable height
from out the low swamp marshes with which
they are surrounded. One OF these islands,
known as Petite Anse, and entirely familiar
with the residents Of the vicinity as being
place famous for saline earths, turns out to be
rock of solid salt possibly some two hund-
red and fifty feet high, where the mineral is
quarried out in large pieces resembling cakes
of ice. 1t was these salt works" that Com
Buchan, some time since, with the gunboats
Diana, Kinsman and the st. Mary's with the
21st Indiana on board, attempted to destroy,
the result Of which was the buildings were
torn down, but the vast mine of salt still re-
mains.


The salt spring on this island, as it was
termed, has been known for years, but il was
not until a few months ago that it was discov-
cred that this supposed spring was merely the
rain water settling in hollows of a solid salt
rock. The salt in its natural bed is as clear as
glass-n fact, it seems as if you could look a
vast distance into its solid heart When it is
blasted out, in pieces resembling ice, it as
sumes a dull yellow color, but grinds up whit
er than most salt, and is SO thoroughly sa-
line in its properties than even grain or two
leaves stringent taste in the mouth. The
immense value of this mine OF wealth can
scarcely be realized. A million dollars was Of
fered to its owner by company of persons in
the neighborhood, but refused. This island of
salt-possibly three or four miles long and one
wide, OF irregular form, and covered from fif-
teen TO twenty feet with rich soil-bears on
its surface pecan and live oak trees.
Year: 1863

NO Organs of the human system more impor-
~ tant TO health and comfort than the Eye and
EAR. and yet none are less understood or more neg
lected. They seem to pass common observation,
and yet every part of the body is dependent upon
them for life and health.
Year: 1863

AN ITINERANT LEGAL PROCESSION
The old Methodist doctrine of itineration,
seems all at once to have become popular
among the legal profession of this Terri
tory, and we hear of large number of
SolonS who propose to emigrate east of the
mountains this spring to locate, for time
at least, at different points in the upper
country. The scripture saying that "where
the carcass is the eagles gather has moth
ing to do with their cases, of course, for as
class they are not supposed to be relg-
iously inclined They only want to get
into the country where the most votes will
be polled on the delegate question.


THE following is a table of the value
and fneness of the gold from tie principal
mining localities of Oregon and Washing
ton
Year: 1863

The New YORK Herald estimates
the paper mon V circulation Of the
North at Sl,5l7.000.000 all Of
which is government paper except
SIG7 10000 Of bank currency
This immense paper circulation IN
la!es prices aud puts up the preml'
um Oh gold