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Year: 1864


WANTS To KNow.-A youth who has
the fear Of the law before his eyes, won
dcrs In the following style:
wonder why mamma keeps Bridget
at home from church all day, and says it
is wicked for me to build my rabbit house
on Sunday?


wonder why our minister bought that
pretty cane with the yellow lions head on
top, and then asked me for nv cent to
put In the missionary box. Don't I want
ajewsharp a just as much as he wanted .
canef


wonder what makes pa tell such nice
stories to visitors about his hiding the
masters rattan when he went to school,
and about his running away from the
school mistress when she was going to
whip him, and then shut me up all day In
dark room because tried once to be az
smart as he wasf


wonder why mamma tells pa he Is
cross when he comes home at night and
says his tea Is weak, and ties my hankeF-
chief over my mouth so that can neither
speak nor breath because l happen 70
say she Is crosA


wonder what made papa say that
wicked word when Bessy upset the ink
all over his papers, and slapped my ears
because said the same thing when my
kite string broker


Iwonder why minister.men make fun
of spiritual people and say the devil goeth
about like roaring lion. only we can't
see him, devOuring bad boys ire. f


/ wonder why mamma told Bridget the
other day to say she wasn't ct home when
Tommy Days mother called, and then
puts me to bed without my supper when
1 tell lie ---------~
Year: 1864

By private letter from Topeka We learn
that there is another sHindle on foot, which
has for its object the choosing of electors
of President and Vice President of the
United States, Iy the present Legislature,
and to prevent any election for that purpose
being held by the people of Kansas in No
tember next. There is no law Of Congress
declaring by whom the Electors Of the
States shall be chosen, whether by the peo-
pie or by the Legislatures, but in all the
Free States it has been the law that the
people should select. The only slave State
in Which they have, Of late gears, been
chosen by the Legislature is that Of South
Carolina. We have no law in Kansas on
the subject, but following the precedents Of
the Free States, the people here have been
Aattering themselves that they were to vote
directly for the electors; but Carney and
Wood tLiuk they could make better thing
by having the Electors chosen BY the Leg
islature. Infamous and damnable as such
fraud would be, it is not more Infamous
and dannable than The one which has Leen
attempted by them, in their effort to deprive
the people of a choice in the selection of .
Senator, and after that We are prepared te
hear of their attempting any crime known
in the calender Our correspondent says il
this thing can be carried through, the Sc
lection OF Electors will be with reference tt
the interests of Mr.. Chase, and that Senator
Pomeroy is very anxious that the electora
vote of Kansas should in some way be Sc
cured for Chase. Carney and Wood think
this the only way it can be done. We shoult
be loath to believe that either Mr. Chase o.
Mr.. Pomcroy we're privy to any such iufa
nous scheme, but We haye no doubt abou
the, readiness of our coDspirators to engag
in anything that will damage or wrong th'
people Of the State, for whose rights ant
interests they feel only contempt.


Gentlemen, you bad better not attemp
this last fraud. Hemp is very dear, ani
there are several of you.
Year: 1864




The Times has long letter from Brig
adier-General Seymour, lately prisoner at
the South, upon the present aspect OF al
fairs in the South, based upon his former
knowledge of affairs in that section, and his
recent observations.


He states that the rebel cause is fast fall
inc from exhaustion, and that all we need
is men to give crushing preponderanee to
our armies. Tens of thousands Of hves are
lost because our array of strength is dispro-
portionately less than that against which
we are battling. Everywhere va meet on y
noaTiv equal terms, where we might well
bsve four to one. The cost to US Of blood
and treasure of long war can scarcely be
foreseen. The economy of such an e1for
as the glorious North should put fortf
would be infinite.


The South will fight as long as tn
struggle is equal; it will submit to suei
nreponderance as we should show in tn
fia1d
Year: 1864

NEW York, Aug, 20.
The latest advices from our forces say
that the operations against Mobile show
that fort Morgan is closely invested, and at
the last reports an attack was on the point
of being made
The statement that the fort was proYis-
ioned for six months is known to be all non
sense.


Intelligence from our blockaders proves
that Fort Morgan has been in the habit OF
receiving supplies for only fortnight At 8
time. The fall ofthis work may therefore
be looked for at an early day, even II no
attack is made and the garrison simply
/ subjected to starvation
Year: 1864

Senator Wilson publishes note denY-
ing all the reports to the effect that ne Is
mixed up with any proposition for an ar: ar
mistice with the rebels. He says no PuDiic
man connected with the administration IS
in favor of an armistice. personally
know that President Lincoln and all the
members of his Cabinet have undoubted
faith in the success Of our armies. and the
complete triumph Of our cause, and Win
tbis belief they will pursue the most Vlgor'
ous measures to raise money and men t'
| carry on the war.
Year: 1864

The old spirit of patriotism has revived
in many of the towns in Massachusetts
In one day ninety young men from the
country passed through the Provost Mar
sbaps Office, in the Third district of whom
e;cbty-two were accepted. They enter
the service for one year 7--
Year: 1864

The very papers and men that complain most
about the curtailment of the freedom of speech
and of the press are the ones that indulge most
in an unlimited freedom-a license, we may say
of the privilege complained of. They prevent
and abuse the freedom of speech and of the press
TO an extent which would not be allowed in any
other country in the world, and that too at the
very time they are complaining of a want Of
such liberty, Ofall the Inconsistencies ever be-
fore met with, on any subject, nothing has been
known to equal this consummate Copperhead
inconsistency and disqualification. An Iowa
Copperhead paper, for instance chsracterizes
President Lincoln as "usurper tyrant, man
of blood, monster ofiniquity, the embodiment
of Murder and Infinite crime" The same sheet
declares that the South is but fighting for her
Constitutional rights, and that the people of the
South will never give up the struggle until
their Independence is established. The further
Infamous declaration is made that the Republic
can Party was the cause of the war, and that
JEFF. Davis is to-day more loyal man to the
Constitution and Laws Of this Government than
President Lincolnl The editor also unblushing-
ly declares that the despotism at Washington is
so dreadful and thorough and overpowering that
no Democrat, any of The loyal States, is dlIO,o-
ed to cypress his opision!- Gazette.
Year: 1864

The Copperheads now cry aloud and
spare not about the tyranny and deSpotisHs
of Abe Lincoln and his Administrations
but the people ''eont see It" They believe
that the great sin of the Administration, if
it has sinned at all, has been in its lenieney
and forbearanee with traitors north and
south. Had the strong arm of the Gov
ernment been laid upon northern traitors
from the start of this rebellion, the war
would long since have been ended. The
forbearance of the Government has only
made them more impudent and reckless in
their infamous course Of treason. While
we believe in the freedom of speech and of
the press, we don't think any man should
have license in this country to blat treason,
either through the press or the tongue
UrJaaa Citizen and Gazette.
Year: 1864

A Mrs. Leonard of Boston, wife of a soldier,
who accompanied the army as laundress was
captured at Plymouth. N. G. when that place
was taken in April last. She says she was rob


bed OF everything by her captors they not even


returning her hat, and leaving her nothing save


what was on her person. For four weeks she
was nurse in a hospital at Plymouth, then sent
to AndersOnVille, Ca, where she was kindly
treated and permitted TO see her husband daily
and remaining there ten days was taken to Rich
mOnd and lodged in Castle Thunder From the
9th of June to the 18th of August she was con-
fined there. She says.


All the rations the prisoners get in Castle Thun-
der are cornbread and water and rotten bacon
They have not half enough to eat. For the
last five weeks they gave me no SOAP not as
much as would wash my hands. They keep
what they call deserters, spies and Yankee
bushwhackers in Castle Thunder. There are
not many prisoners in Richmond now; but there
are twenty-seven thousand at Andersonville
and Macon Ca, and they are dying very fast of
Iscuryy, chronic diarrhea and dropsy. : If thew
are not soon released there will not be many
to release. While | wasat Andersonville i saw
them burying our prisoners every day. There
are noprisoners now at Belle Isle, and very few
in the other Richmond prisons There were only
two prisoners in the female department Oftbe
Castle with me. We had mattresses of straw to
sleep on. We ecould hear Grants cannon at Pc
tersburg every day. We used to get the Rich
mOnd Examiner every day and read in it that
Grant was dead The rebels thought he was
for about a fortnight. The people of Richmond
have nothing to eat but corn bread and bacon.
The rebel officers at Castle Thunder have only
the same and some vegetables they get out of a
garden they have there. 71
Year: 1864

A horse in Madrid, Spain, has not single
hair on its whole body, while its skin, which is
white like that of a European, is so transparent
that the veins may be distinguished through il.
The horse cannot be used for labor in cOnse-
quence ofthis fineness of the skin which would
be exposed TO abrasion.
Year: 1864

One of the most extraordinary things
in life, is to see the things that people are
ashamed of, and the things that they are
not ashamed Of. To see that there are
men of sense and education, ashamed of
not being able to keep carriage
ashamed that in the division of worldly
things, enough has not fallen to their
share, to enable them to enjoy expensive
plcasures-to wear expensive clothing
&c. One may excuse them for being
sorry. but not for being ashamed.


There is something extremely bcauti-
full amid this worlds hollow and idle
pomp-amid its heartlcss and wearying
show. its parade bought with tears and
crimes There is something extremely
beautiful in the sight of man, poor, and
not ashamed of being so-of one with
just enough to live upon, with industry
and economy. and contentcd TO pass
through his pilgrimage. without any ap-
peal TO the common of the crowd
Year: 1864

A lady correspondent of the Boston
Times gives her ideas of perfect bliss in
the following paragraph: ,i..


Tn woman. with a woman's weak
ness, and have good constitution. and
ean bear heavy load of perfect bliss. [
should say a fast horse, a duck of cut
ter, plenty of buffalo robes, neat fit
ting ovcrcoat with a handsome man in
it. and-one of those neat little French
bonnets. If that wouldn't be happiness
enough for one lifetime. am open to
conviction as to what would
Year: 1864

In our unbounded resources and the as
surance Of strong hands and willing hearts
to develop them, must we look chiefly fol
the ability to rise above and entirely over
come the burthens imposed by present diff
fculties, and also for permanent greatness
and permanent prosperity in the FUTURE
And the fact that in this darkest hour o
our national existence men, by thousands
are seeking our shores as permanent home
from the most favored countries of the old
world, is conclusive that in the judgments
and Instincts of men We have efore US ma
tional prosperity and national greatness
Milpaukee Sentinel. @~ >s'-i}s
Year: 1864

The DRAFr.-An exchange says the only
persons to be exempt under the next call
are


l Dead men who can establish proof Of
their demise by two reliable witnesses.


2 The deceased grandfather Of large
family:


3 The late uncle of Major General.


4 Women with two At the breast.


Blind men who can't see the point Of
joke.
Year: 1864

BEAUTIFUL INcIDENT.-Last night
during the burning of the bonfire and the
firing OF the salute of thirty four guns in
honor of Gen. Mcclellan, snow white
dove appeared above the assembled crowd,
and circled round and round in the light
Of the cheerful blaze. Higher and high.
er it rose, sweeping its graceful circles
over the heads Of the people, until its
form was lost to sight in the calm depths
Of the heavenly ether. For several min
utes every one stood mute watching the
evoutions Of the beautiful bird. Sud
denly voice exclaimed, "it is the bird
of peace-the messenger of good will and
fraternal union" and then three JOYOUS
cheers went up from the vast multitude
and many heart uttered its Ecrvent BEN
ison upon the gentle visitant. We arc no
stickler for signs and omens; we relate
the incident simply on account of its po-
etic beauty. The hundreds who were
present can testify to It's literal truth
Pontiac Jaeksoniap, Sept. /.
Year: 1864

July IS, 1864.
TO Whom a mag Concern!


Any proposition which embraces the
restoration Of peace the integrity of the
whole Union, AND THE ABANDONMENT OF
SLAVERY, and which comes by and with
an authority that can control the arms
now at war against the United States,
will be received and considered by the
Executive Government of the United
States, aud will be met by liberal terms
on substantial and collateral points, and
the bearer or bearers thereof shall have
safe conduct both ways.


ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Year: 1864

Whoever intends to purchase good Family
Sewing Machine, Of any kind, will do well to
call at the NEWS Office. We can furnish them
at all times upon the most advantageous terms.


PRoPRIEToRs or THE News.
Year: 1864

'sYou had better ask for manners than for
money! said finely dressed gentleman to a beg
gar boy who had asked for aims. II asked for
what thought you had tae most of, was the
BOYS reply.
Year: 1864

We hare often published advice to young
men, but the following to married men, ta-
ken from an exchange, hits some in this sec
ton admirably. We mean those who spend
their evenings down town, playing billiards,
smoking, drinking and gossiping, when they
ought to be at home with their families
DO you remember what fine promises you
once made to the women who now sits.
night after night, with heavy heart and
busy fingers making or mcnding garments
for the little ones tyour children) while you
are dissipating with other Mlefs like your
self the very means for which they stand in
need, You complain Of hard times, search


ty Of work, and want Of money and
your wi ife works herself sick to econonize
and reduce the household expenditures.
Why, you miserable grumbler I've we;e
about to say loafer) you spend money
enough foolishly every month of your life to
clothe and educate your children, and leave
a little SUN to lay away against arainy day.
Wife wants new dress. Cant afford It'll"
no, but you can afford to spend fifty cents or
dollar every day for lager, segars, billiards
or something worse And therlwhat abom-
Unable lies you will tell your wife; and she,
innocent soul, believes every word as gospel
truth. When she asked you, in that kindly
manner: Husband, must you go down
town to night? get tired and lonely with
out you how you positively aver that
important business" calls you away--and
then, as if feeling the enormity of the ,fb,
you promise to return earl "a promise which
you always break, of course Are you
aware that You are laying the foundation of
miserable, poverty stricken old age? IF
not, allow us to remind you of it, and we do
50 earnestly but in spirit of Kindness. -
Youare planting seeds of sorrow in the
heart Of her you have sworn to cherish and
love that will bear early the pale blossoms
of death. Don't do so any more Spend
your evenings at home. Ppvide yourself
with books and papers, and while your wife
is engaged with her domestic duties, read
aloud for her instruction, and amusement.
Our word for it, you will see the fresh
tints Of youth return to shat faded face
The happy never grow old. ~ .-t:i arz q,
Year: 1864

The following is an extract from speech
delivered by Z. q. Greene, senior editor OF
the Boston Post, short time since, before
the Mcclellan Club of Ward Eleven, in
Boston,


"CoI. Greene said he wished to address
the Club but for few minutes, upon sin,
gle topic, and proceeded to remark that one
of the most unfortunate features OF the pre-
sent condition Of political parties is the
course adopted by many clergymen, those
who abandoned their high calling as mis-
sionaries Of love, peace, forgiveness, to ad-
vocate slaughter and gloat over the madness
Of human passion in its destruction OF hui
man passion in its destruction Of human life;


who encourage and aggravate cruelty and
transgression to degree appalling to the
dullest sensibility. 10 behold such false
guides enter to holy sanctuary as the disoi-
pies Of the blessed Saviour, who gave his
life to promote good will among men, and
there invoke devastation and death upon the
children of that Heavenly Parent who Great
ed and cares for all, is to witness an insult
offered to benign Deity under the guise OF
Monaghan outrage upon common decency
and propriety, meriting the rebuke Of all
who regard the Holy Scriptures as the laws
of God. Such conduct seems offensive both
to Heaven and earth; it can afford satisiac-
ton only to those dark spirits who rejoice in
mans misery and abasement. The daring
sacrilege, too, Of such expounders of the
gospel of revenge must be revolving to any
mind imbuded with reverence tor pure
Christianity, while their audacious protani-
ty challenges the anger Of the Great Mas
ter, whose name unworthy servants take in
vain and whose attributes they strive to sink
to the level of their own wicked deeds. -
Ordinary parochial duties are often disre-
garded, words Of instruction and consolation
withheld -attiction left without spiritual
comfort, the dying without prayers, and |
should not be surprised if even the ceremo-
MES of the grave were abbreviated that the
officiating clergyman might answer an en-
gagement to halangue political caucus y
And such sacerdotal orators stand up in
vheir surplces and assume to pronounce the
will of God as within their own knowledge,


thus detaming the Great Creator and Gov
einor of the Universe by representing Him


as having pleasure in the wrath Of man--in


the deadly strife of father against son,


brother against brother, and in the violation
of the very precepts He has given to ensure
salvation. Such is the Office of political
priestcrattl Should it not stand condemn
ed before men and angels? .'aa
Year: 1864

In the present time, when economy in dress
is a dictate both Of prudence and patriotism
the following sensible remarks from the n
Y Ledger, on its being also the sign of taste
will be read with satisfaction -..


The idea that cost is the measure of at
tractivcness in dress is very vulgar error.
Simplicity of design, and a due regard to
the eongruities Of color, are essential to ele-
gance in the matter of costume. One might
Infer from the strong contrast of gorgeous
hue which some ladies affect in their prone
made attire, that they had learned the art
Of personal decoration in herald S college,
and held it to be one aud the same thing
with the art Of of emblazing. The tenden-
cy to the horid was never more conspicuous
In dress of both sexes than it is now. All
the priSmatic tin!s-not melting into Ear-
mony, as the rainbow, but opposed to each
other in distinct dabs, if we may be use the
expression-not unfrequently flare in the
street toilet Of modern belle.


Our bucks too, not to be tehind hand in
magnihcC nee, tinc;ure their thrOats with
g owing cravats crimson and red being the
favolite colors. All this sort of thing is an
outrage on good taste A pale young gen
eman in blood tinted neckcloth presents
asuicidal appearance wi ich is quite shock
ing and dumpy, high complectioned dame
a. rayed in purp and six, with shawl and
bonnet of many radiant dyes, is II burlesque
on the laws of adoption which makes the
judiciou5 grieve. Assimilation, not contrast
is the secret Of true elegance in dress. The
several parts Of the costume should be in
tasteful harmony with each other, and the
whole should be adapted to the styles of
figure, the complexion and the feature Of
wearer. r..rF y.
Shade unperceived still softening into shade.
And all so forming an harmonious whole
Year: 1864

AN ExTRAoRp1NARY CASE. A soldier in
Sherman S army, with throat cut from ear
to ear, YVES thought to be mortally wound
ed by a council of surgeons; but the one un-
der whose immediate care he was thought
he was justified in making an experiment
for the good of others. at the same time
having great hopes of saving the man. He
first commenced his task by cutting through
where the two upper ribs meet the sternum,
and through this oriiice for forty days he
has been fed FIVE gallons of milk per week,
and sometimes his appetite required five per
day. He is fat and hearty and the surgeon
thinks in two weeks he will have him able,
and the inside of his throat so nearly healed
as to allow him to swallow by the natural
passage. He at first introduced stomach
pump, and thus fed his patient, and after a
few hours would clear his stomach in the
same manner, thus producing artificial di-
gestien, till it was no longer necessary. A
silver tube is now used to feed him.
Year: 1864

Several days since, gentleman arrived in
this city from Alliance, Ohio, in quest OF
his wife and little girl about five years Of
age, who, he thought, had eopcd with a
oolored man named Henry Sucke S. Sew
of our most expet fenced detectives were in
formed Of the affair, and at once ct about
ferreting out the woman refened to. Not
withstanding tn fact that they worked dill
gently, they could not for time discover
the least clue to the whereabol is Of the flu
gitiN es, and the unhappy hui band was; bout
to give up the chase in despair. So far as
his wife was concerned, he cared but little,
since she had left him to take up one cf a
different color, and had cohabited with the
guilty invader of his domestic happiness. -
His chief object was to secure the bright
eyed little girl.


The latter fact alone gave him additional
strength and he resolved to push his search
further. He called upon officer Port of
Windsor, who undertook to do the best he
could. His efforts proved successful, and on
Friday he found the woman and her dusky
paramour at a negro boarding house at
Windsor. The husband upon being inform
ed of the facts, accompanied the officer to
the house referred to, and there beheld his
worse than guilty wife in rather mixed COM
pany. She claimed his forgiveness, but of
course was refused. The fsth,r took his
child, but the mother entreaiies to take
her home worked so hard upon his wound
ed feelings, that he offered to take her home
TO her parents provided she would remain
there This she promised, and on Friday
night they all started to Ohio together.


Suckers, as soon as he learned of the sue
cessful pursuit of the husband, made haste
to get out of the way, which alone saved
his life The outraged husband, had he
got hold of him, would have shct him on
the spot. Suckers did not care to risk his
worthless life in the encounter, and thus
prevented the enactment Of tragedy. u.