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Year: 1863

a great discovery is reported to have
been recently made by surgeon of the
Eugiish Army in China. in the way Of an
cltrciui! cure for this terrible and ioath-
some disease. The mode of treatment is
as follows When the preceding fever is
at its height and just before the eruption
appears, the chest Is rubbed with croton
oil and tartaric ointment. This causes
the whole Of the eruption to appear on
that part Of the body, to the relief of all
the rest. 1t also secures full and con-
picte eruption, aud thus prevents the
disease from attacking the internal organs.
This is said to be now the established
mode Of treatment in the English Army
III China by general orders, aud is re-
sarded as perfect success.
Year: 1863

q large measure upon the answer time
will MAKE to that important question.


While we do not lend au open ear to
the numerous reports Of dissatisfaction
and desertiOn in the armies of Lincoln,
it is reasonable to believe that these
men prefer being discharged to rem aim
ing in service, but that feeling may not
be strong enough TO indace them 70
join issue with their Government.


IF they are resolved to lay down
their arms when the period for which
thoy enlisted expires, viii they be able
to make head against the power Of the
Autocrat 1t is known that the or.
mics in Kentucky and Tennessee arc
principally composed Of men from the
frontier States. The soldiers from the
Northwestern States 80 largely out.
number those from other States in
those sections, that if they are firmly
resolved to hold their Government 10
the terms Of the contract under which
they went into tho army, they have
the power 10 leave the service. viii
they pursue that course? viii they,
If need be, stand up with their arms
and defy the power that would contin.
ue to use them as Instruments in the
accomplishment Of it's Infamous pur.
poses


1t will bo seen whether or no the
Northwest IS in earnest If the pow.
ertul States comprising that division Of
the United States array Themselves
against the dcspolsm that now Yields
its sccptre over twenty millions Of
people, the ca for the militia will
mover be enforced, and tho war will
virtually be over by summer. II not,
the end is far distant Charleston
Courier.
Year: 1863

DURABILITY OF WooD.-The piles
sustaining the London Bridge have
been driven Eve hundred years. In
1854 they were critically examined, and
found to have bees decayed bat slightly
these piles are principally Of elm. Old
Savoy Place, in the :ity Of London, il
sustained on piles driven six hundred
and City years ago they consist Of oak
elm, beach and chesnu,. and are per
f4ctly sound. The bridge bu 1T by
the Emperor Trajan over the Danube
affords striking example Of the dura-
bility Of timber in the vet state. One
Of these piles was taken up and found
to be petrided to the depth Of three
Quarters Of an inch, and the rest Of the
wood had undergone no change, thong
it hss been driven sixteen hundred


years.
Year: 1863

AN amusing incident is told relative
to the capture Of Alexandra. Admiral
Porter had succeed in getting posses
81 IN of it at very early hour on the
morning Of the 9Th ult. The evening
the advance Of the army rushed in with
wild shouts Of victory, when the Ad-
miral asked the s.What in the devil are
you making such noise about? The
place has been in my possession for the
last twelve hours" The soldiers eaid
nothing more.
Year: 1863

What an immense amount Of heroism
among this class passes unnoticed, or Is
taken A. matter Of course /; not Only
in this most righteous war which we
are waging. but in those Of all past time.
For the soldier, he has his comrades
about him, shoulder to shoulder; he
has honorable mention and plying
tears, if he fall noble strivin,.. But
alas ! for the soldiers wife Even an
officers wife, who has sympathizing
friends, who has the comforts and many
Of the luxnries oflife; whose children's
future is provided for If their father
fall; what hours Of dreadful suspense
and anxiety must she pass, even in
these favorable circumstances How
hard for her! But for the wife Of the
poor soldier, who in giving her husband
to he- country, has given everything !;
who kpovs not whatever the meal she
and her little ones are eating, may not
be the last for many hnngry-deso


la,e-day; who has no friend TO say
"well done," as the tagging weeks Of
suspense creep on, and she stands
bravely at her post, keeping want and
starvation at bay; imagination busy
among the heaps Of dead and wounded
or traversing the wretched PRISON dense
and shuddering at the tho't Of their
demoniac keepers; keeping down her
eobs, as her little daughter trustfnlly
offers up her nightly prayers "for dear
papa to come home )" or when her lit
tie son. just old enough to read, traces
slowly with his fingers the long list Of
killed and wounded, "to see if fathers
name is thcre;' shrouding her eyes
from the possible future of her children
should her strength give out under the
pressure Of want and anxiety; no friend
to turn to, when her hand is palsied
with labor nor waving banners, nor
martial music, nor long procession to
chronicle her vslorous deeds; none but
God and her own brave heart to witness
her unaided struggle; when I think of
these solitary women scattered through.
out the length and bread,h of the land,
my heart warns toward them; and I
would fain hold them up in their silent
struggle, tor all the world to admire.


When the history of this war shall
be written, (an.l that can not be now)
let the histori IN, wha,else soever he may
forget not to chronicle this sublime
valor of the hearthstone, all over our
struggling land Fanny Fern.
Year: 1863

RAISE Flax hope that every farmer
will cultivate a crop Of fax the coming season.
The scarcity of cotton is an excellent reason
for doing this. An acre of land will produce
about ten bushels Of seed (worth now $500
per bushel,) and from one to two tons Of
straw. which will be worth full as much more.
The land should be prepared the same as for
oa:s, and the seed should be sown at about the
same time as oats. '.-
Year: 1863

The Courier, true to its allegiance to jeff.
Davis, is endeavoring to arouse opposition to
the enforcement Of the Conscription act, a
means by which the Government is to crush
the rebellion. 1t willfully construes the very
section of the bill intended for the protection
of poor men as discrimination against them
and in favor of the rich. The provision by
which substitutes may be procured at price
not erceediug $500, the Courier says, is un-
just to the poor man and is designed for the
benefit Of the arlstocracy. The fact is, this
provision will keep down the price Of substi-
tutes within the reach of men of small means.
If there was not limit to the price at which
the Government will itself furnish substitutes,
the rich, in their eagerness to purchase ex-
emption from military duty, would bid up
the price so high that poor man would be
wholly unable to buy substitute The prices
would probably correspond with those in the
Southern Confederacy-$l,O00 and $4,000.
We think, however, that the conscription
act should have been of more sweeping ma
ture, grantinp no exemption whatever for
money, and framed similar to the law of
Prussia. This would be more practical than
the present law in securing recruits. But
the act is now law of the land, and should
receive the sanction and support of every 10y
al citizen.


Again, when the Courier says the law takes
the poor man, whose family is dependent up
on him, and leaves the rich man, whose fam
lily might ct along without him, it willfully
lies or shows gross ignorance. The exemp-
tions under the law are all designed for the
benefit of the poor. Thus the father Of
motherless children under twelve years Of
age, the only son of a widow, the only son of
aged and infirm parents, and the only brother
of orphan children under twelve years, are
exempt, if their several families are depend
ent upon them for support; while magis-
trates, clergymen, postmasters, ferrymen, &C.,
who were exempted under the old law, are
now held subject to military duty. The
Courier has never yet had the candor to pub
lish any provisions of the Conscription act.
Its readers are, therefore, completely in the
dark regarding it, except that substitutes
may be had for $500. No wonder those who
confine their reading to that sheet are ignor-
ant, bigot d aid disloyal.
Year: 1863

The Illinois troops of the 14th Army
Corps before Vicksburg, have taken action on
the conduct of the treason-aiders at home,
with great unanimity. The resolutions
adopted utterly repudiate the idea of an ar,
,nistice with rebels in arms, and pronounce
the proposition a disgrace to the State and
the army. They accord to the war power the
right to abolish slavery as a war measure
and pledge anew to the Government thepow


er Of their strong right arms to vindicate the
majesty Of the law and the honor Of the
flag. --il.f l-I9.l 0at .-l-H ,-l
Year: 1863

Il. 81 The Chicago Tribune suggests that
the Secretary Of War, in the discretion allow


ed him under the Conscription act, neglect to
receive substitute money, thus leaving it in.


cumbent upon each man drafted to enter the


service or furnish his own substitute at such
cost as the supply aud demand may FIX. :
Year: 1863

Tho most audacious and amusing episode
of tho Griersou raid is thus related by Il
correspondent OF the Times. Tho actors il
it were a squad of "a men, under Capt
Forbes, detached from tho main body:


He followed on TO Enterprise, and
marched with his little squad into town
whcrc he found about 1000 rebel troops
Just getting oft tho cars llo promptly
raised n flag of truce aud boldly rode for
ward demanding tho surrender of the place
in the name of Col. Gricrson.


The commanding oiliccr--Colonel Goodwin
asked one hour To consider the PROPOSE
ton, and wished TO know where Capt Forbes
would bo at that time. The captain answered
that he would go back with the ropIy to
the roservo--whyh no did pretty rapidly
after having shrewdly ascortained tile
strength al tho oncmy. 1t is not known
whether Enterprise ever surrendered or
not; or whether the rebel Colonel is still
trying to find the reserve" to mako his
pcntent bow; but one thing certain is that
Forbes, with his little squad of b men did
not intend 20 take those 5000 rebel prison
ers-that time at least - and was laughing
III his sleeve many miles off while those En-
terprising pcoplo were trembling in their
boots est, if at the present fabulous
price of leather, they had any boots to
tremblo in.
Year: 1863

The BLACK SNAKE.-The copperheads are
fond of calling unconditional Union men
I" black snakes" They would hesitate to
apply the name were they moro acquainted
with natural history. Place rattlesnake
or copperhead-th emblems of Southern
treason and Northern toryism--in antagon-
ism to the black snake, and the latter in-
stanty coils his muscular folds around the
VeEJmous reptiles, contracts himself and
chokes the life out Of them. He takes the
vitality out of them from the poisonous
head to the squimering tail. Tho instance
is yet to be known where the ugly, kissing
swapping and rattle monster came off victo-
rious in contest with the black snake.
He is " to many" for them as tho black
snakes are like to prove for the poisonous
reptiles who strike and bite in the South,
bur content themselves with prodigous
Kissing and rafting in tho North.
Year: 1863

" A frst-rate Guernsey Power Press, with
Chases and iron side furniture all as good as new,
can be had very low for cash in hand, by applying
at this office, where the Press can be seem and all
desired information procured. AZ
Year: 1863

You say that TO us you pledge your honor. II
in the future you keep this pledge, you will in
our estimation, wipe all former stains away. 1
have been told by meu of our county, that We
went into this army for the purpose of making
money! but he who says so is coward and
cHlumniator, and is devoid of truth and principle,
for the the love of money will induce but few
men to subject themselves 20 the flying missiles
of death for thirteen dollars per month


May you ever remember him, whose object il
is to speculate upon the interest of the soldier
and may he ever be looked upon with contempt,
and regarded as the offscouring of eArth-being
a disgrace to the race, and an abominAtion before
God. Were / not soldier, l would not be so
plain; but circumstances make il my right. We
show our patriotism by our deeds, and you must
do the same and when our thinned ranks need
filling up, dOnt do ii all by talkingi but,


Rally round our flag, boys,


And show us by your deeds,


That you will with us fight, boys,


Aud hoist the flag Of freedom.


JEFF.
CRY BARRACKS, CoLUNBus, o. May ,25.
Year: 1863

There are many preparations sold under the
name of Bitters, put up in quart bottles, COM
pounded of the cheapest whisky or common rum,
costing from 20 to 40 cents per gallon, the taste
disguised by anise or coriander seed.


This class of Btters has caused and will cons
tinue to cause, as long as they can be sold, hum
dreds to die the death of the drunk ard By
their use the system is kept continually under
the influence of Alcoholic Stimulants OF the worst
kind the desire for liquor is created and kept up,
and the result is all the horrors attendant upon
drunkard's s life and DEATH


For those who desire and acU hape Liquor
Bitters, we publish the following receipt: Get
One Bottle HocfanPs German Biae1s and mix
with three quarts Of good Brandy or Whisky, and
the result will be preparation that will far ex-
Gel in medicinal virtues and true excellence any
of the numerous Liquor Btters in the marked,
and will cost much less. You will have all the
virtues Of Hoohand's Bitters in connection with
good article Of Liquor, at much less price
than these inferior preparations will cost YOU
Year: 1863




Our information from the armies in which
there are 1owa troops, is conclusive on one
point: Gen. Tuttle, the soldier fighting for
the Union, is remembered and honored; ;
while Gen. Tuttle, the candidate OF the
Coppe1heads for Governor Of Iowa, is de-
tested and abhorred. In the latter char
octer, he will not get five hundred votes
out OF all the men whom our gallant neigh
Dor has sent to the field. 1t is q sad but
forcible commentary on the vagaries Of
political ambiton-this anomalous con-
duct Of which the General is guilty. Fight
ing for the Union in the field, and fighting
against it ut home; associated On terms of
intimacy and confidence with the soldiers
in the camp, who every day offer to lay
down their ives that the Union cause may
triumph; but equally Intimate with the
politicians Of his State, whose only object
is to make the Union cause fail; nomina-
ted By party TINT, in its resolutions, and
BY its most authoritative speakers, breath
ed nothing but hate and opposition to the
| war; but, running as the candidate Of that
party, Oh his declaration that the war is
righteous and fit for prosecution to the bit
ter end; loyal and brave soldier, but a
dishonest politician as well-these ares
few Of tho contradictions in which the
General is involved. Would it not be
strange il, having such load to bear, hi
could find, anywhere single soldier wht
will give him his supportf Gen Tuttl'
will be worse beaten than any other MAJ
who ever ran for Governor Of his State.
Year: 1863

AhnA4 AN


There is generally an ominous lull be-
fore storm; and we have had, for long
time now, something more than a taste Of
this po1tcntous calm. We are far from
grumbling, however, at the apparent mac
ton Of our armies, and are content to
breathe out the pauses between the battles
which have been and those which are to
come, with perfect faith in the final issue
Of the conflict.


Little MS We hear from the various seats
OF war, we may be certain that nobody is
idle and that everything is being done to
make SUCCESS q certainty, whenever our
old and tried veterans shall be called uoon
once more, and, rs We believe, for the last
time, TO meet the enemy. Therebe}s. how.
ever, are still formidable, and their armies
will fight, the next time they face ours,
with the frenzy Of desperationand despair,
They are by no means to be despised,
therefore, and our Generals are well aware
of this, and know how tremendous the
next struggle with them will be, and what
immense isgues hung upon it.


This Is no doubt the reason that VIC have
Year: 1863

I


In recounting the list of Union men, who
once stood high in the estimation of the peo-
pie, but who, in the hour of greatest trial. be-
came traitors, and fed into the camps of the
nulliiers and secessionists, their lifelong enc
mics, we have often wondered what had be-
come of the former private Secretary of Gen.
Jackson, and the Vice Presidential candidate
on the American ticket, in 1856, Major A. j.
Donelson He has been remarkably quiet
something unusual and extraordinary for him.
He has turned up at last. A passenger on one
of the Federal Gunboats, on the Mississippi
River, on recent trip writes that the Major
came aboard and had a long talk with him.
Donelson was frank, hearty and open, and
the writer says:


He spoke of his Intellectual efforts to in
duce his friends in Mississippi to keep clear
of the Rebellion; of his many predictions to
them that the sacrifice of their peculiar in
stitutions' would most certainly follow their
attempt to destroy the Government; of the
ban under which he was placedin consequences
of his loyalty of mary little annoyances to
which he was subjected by those whom he
had previously befriended; and finally of his
arrest and transportation to Yicksburg to an
swer a charge of high treason. On the last
topic he was very bitter, and used language
too expressive to look well in print. He said
that upon his arrival in yicksburg he de-
manded the charges against him, and that af-
ter considerable delay they were furnished
There were thirteen specifcations-on of
which intimated that he had said on divers oc-
casions that he would not trust JEFF. Davis
further than blind mule could kick. or
words to that effect He admitted that he
had said SO, and offered to substantiate his be-
lief by evidence bearing upon certain events
connected with Jeffs's political dishonesty in
former years; but his proposition was ruled
out. In regard to the other specifications, he
/ said he was ready to prove any statement
which they charged him with making in refer
encc to the rebellion, if time were allowed
him in which to bring his witnesses The re-
suit of the matter was, that he was not
brought to any regular trial, but was told, af-
ter several days stay in yicksburg, that he
was at liberty to return to his plantation. He
was not slow to avail himself of this per-
mission, but when he returned he made the
discovery that party of rebel troops had
helped themselves to large quantities of his
corn and bacon during his forced absence.
There is no discount on his loyalty. He re-
sidesin the lower edge of Coahoma county,
Mississippi, about ten miles from the mouth
of the White river
Year: 1863

The Boston Traveller publishes the fol-
lila, giving the writer's personal experience
and sensations during the late terrific earth
quake which visited that city


ait would be impossible to give you an
idea of the late earthquake, for though I
have read the accounts of many severe ones
I never could realize the position until had
felt one, and never knew what dreadful de-
struction it could make until the Sd of this
mouth. 1 have heard nothing talked about
but earthquakes for the past ten days. every
body telling their experience and giving their
idea of causes and effects of earthquakes in
general. Ny experience was that had fn-l
ished my soup, and was helping myself to
fish, when three or four tremendous up and
down bumps came. ran for the Azotea,
(piazza, covered with iron roofng.) Then
came the fearful swinging motion from North
to South. l clung to the post (wooden, which
supports the iron roof to keep inyself from
falling, expecting every moment that the
stone walls which support the Azetea would
give way, and that should be thrown into
the river, with the house on top of me.


The whole shock did not last over half a
minute, but it was an eternity to me. The
falling Of stone houses and tile roofs was ter
rife; part of our roof. weighing seventy tons
fell in. About three hundred feet from where
/ was, the tower OF Binondi Church fell
through the roof of the church; this tower
was one hundred and fifty to two hundred
feet high tnilt Of sail,i st1ne fsr,r TO ssx tsrt
Year: 1863

THE PaEsIDENT's TESTIMONY IN FAVOR OF
GENERAL McCIELLAN.-We had occasion yes
terday to comment at some length on the Presi-
dents testimony in favor Of the merits of Gene
raj Grant, and his acknowledgment Of his own
error and the error Of the War Department in
reference to the campaign Of that gentleman
while it was still pending. In Mr. Lincoln's
letter which was read at the Syracuse Conven-
ton, he incidentally and indirectly bears simi-
lar testimony to the merits Of General McCIel-
Ian. He observes:--"Iti is hard to say that any
thing has been more bravely and better done
than at Antietam, Murfreesboro. Gettys-
burg and on many fields of less note" Here
the President places Antietam at the head of
the list Of the great victories of the Union, while
he says nothing of the two affairs at Fredericks-
burg. This is most decided eulogy on Gene
raj Mcclellan. The radicals have always run
down the victory Of Antietam as no victory at
all, and placed 1t in the category Of drawn bat.
ties But, no matter what the radicals may saw
or do, the President seems determined to do the
generals justice sooner or later. We hope he
will follow up these two brave steps in the
right direction, by sending General Mcclellan a
similar letter to that with which he honored
General Grant, and that he will recall him to
the command of the Army Of the Potomac.
Justice and consistency require il.
Year: 1863

TREATMENT OF THE REBEL PRISONERS. Every
account that we get from the South agrees
"a to the barbarous treatment that our men
taken prisoners have received at the hands OF
the rebels, and we have been able TO dwell
with pride upon the different way in which our
government has treated the Southerners in its
hands. II is pity that our record should lack
even ever 80 little to make il perfect in this
respect. We are informed taat the prisoners
on David's Island suffer from the cold-not
from any want Of clothes, but simply through
the imbecils arrangements for which the War
Department is responsible. Very fresh breezes
blow from the Sound about these times. and
early in the day aud toward night the said
breezes will extort shiver from the well clad
traveller who goes up that way. Travellers on
the Boston boats take overosats. Yet the pris-
oners. exposed to these breezes all day, are not
permitted TO wear even pantaloons, because
the regulations Of the Hospital Department
forbid Il. In lieu Of comfortable jackets and
trowscrs, they are clad only in thin cotton
drawers, cotton shirts and light flannel tunic.
Every enc In charge can see the cruelty Of
this: but, for all the authorities here the reg,,.
latons are insuperable And this is another
one Of the sins Of red tape. and another evi.
dcncc Of the ncompetency Of the War De.
partment people, who neglect this just as they
w everything else tbas they should attend to.
Year: 1863

GILLMoRE's THREE HUNDRED FOUNDERS
Some time since we published letter ad-
dressed by Beauregard TO General Gilmore.
which letter was considerable Of an effort on
the part of a man so knocked about as the
little secession Munchausen The answer of
General Gilmore utterly annihilatcs Beaure-
gard In fact. to clearly illustrate our mean
ing, we will state that this answer is three
hundred pound Parrott gun which has exploded
in the little rebels magazine.