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Year: 1863

TIE OrOyille Uninn saws: Just think
when you 8" to the polls t" vote, IF the
fact that the Chairmanship Of the Peace
Democratic State Central Committee was
mnde vacant only n few months ago by
Judge Terry leaving.


As Judge Terry never was Chairman
Of the Democratic State Central Commit.
tee, the editor Of the Union, when he
penned the above. deliberately lied. The
Craftsmanship was made vacant by the
-5rAih Of Humphrey Griffith, and the va
cancy was never filled
Year: 1863

PARTY.-The cry OF no party, raised by
Abo!itionists, is humbug. There never
was greater use for party than nOw-nOw
when the public Offices are filed with an
army of thieves and the Administration
is seeking to deprive the people of their
liberties It is in moments Of civil com.
motion like these, that the vigilance oI
party is needed to Protect the rights OI
the masses. We are involved in war
/. ;, = mt. cObS6ct il TO an HONORABLE issue.
In this task the Democratic party will be
the first. It is capable OfalI the efforts
and all the sacrifices the crisis demands
We believe it never Was stronger in this
State than at this day. The eyes Of all
the people are turning to it as the only par
ty that can carry on successful war, and
secure an honorable and enduring
peace. Place it in power and soon will
peace be restored and our Union will again
be united and prosperous.
Year: 1863

The towns, cities, or counties which claim
credits upon the number Of conscrptons to be drawn
from them on account Of yolurcers heretofore furnished
should send the list Of such volunteers to tho Executive
Chamber AT once. By order Of tho Governor.
Year: 1863

New YoRK, March 23-The Richmond
Whig of the 18Th. editorially speaks of a want
OF success in the Southwest, put says the South
west has at length good cause to be sanguine Of
the future. II il needs any assistance beyond
the late brilliant victories, we will suggest tha.
a day may come when Hooker. will receive q
blow more crushing than any Mcclellan, Pope
or Burnside received. Should this happen, Il
may chance that every man Lincoln can scrape
wrongs Of the South fret win be avenged
Year: 1863

We have the most unquestio nable author


ity for stating that a person holding high
official position in this city has been for
some time engaged in procuring arms and
forwarding them to the rebels. As the
matter, il is said, will undergo investiga-
ton BY the proper authorities We forbear
comments FOR the present.-CaPitaJ City
Year: 1863

The brave young men who ran away to
Canada that they might avoid the draft,
may perhaps be called upon to pack up
their "duds" and return home, to stand
their little drafts, for the reason that bill
has been introduced into the Canadian Par
liment providing for return to the Uni
ted States of all deserters from our army,
and by the new COnscription law every
man whose name is drawn and who fails
to appear, is called a deserter, and when
caught will punished as such.
Year: 1863

HnndicRPpinE Freedom In the Race with
Slavery.


Charles Anderson, Esq, who was driven


out Of Texas in the early part Of the war


for his Union sentiments, lately delivered


an address in Cincinnati, in the course of


which he used the following apt illustra-


ton;


"The result Of the contest between the
principles Of freedom and of absolutism
amounts to simply this: they of the oil
garchical persuasion modestly ask our
people, in this race, to be Handicapped.
Excuse my illustration; always try to
compare everything by the horse for he is
an animal l am extremely fond Of and in
days gone by was familiar with racing
customs. 'Handicapping' consists in
equslizing the ability of horses about to
run a race; that is, it is a trick by which,
If your horse is twice as fast as mine,
twice as much weight is put upon him as
upon mine. Thus, If l should enter a
mule or iaekass against your feet horse,
the game would be toput but a few pounds
on the jackass and hundred pounds on
your swift courser, so as to enable the
jackass to keep up. Now, in this nine
teenth century of the Christian era, the
plain proposition Of these Southern people
is, that you shall let down the educational
3 s.audard Of the North your religion, Jour
industry, your enterprise, your democratic
principles, your freedom, until you shall
be handicapped TO the rate of speed at
which the mis-begotten, rickety, blind in
Of slavery can travel Great
applause and laughter. Is it anything |
else? You may state the subject aud ar
que the question anew, until you grow
gray, and the result will be the same /
hey demand that you shall be handicap /
ped and hamstrung down 10 their capacity |
10 keep even with you, that the minority /
be equal to the majority"
Year: 1863

in your paper OF Saturday notice an error in the re
port OF your correspondent regarding tho reception the
reviewing oicer At the late Newport's News
he states that MAJOR General ix received in
oordance with the usual military etiquette desire you
would correct this General Dix escorted TO
the headquarters OF the corps and from thence
view ground by an aid drcamp Of the major general
commanding the post. AID-DECAMP.
Year: 1863

SOMEBODY writes to the Visalia DELTA, whin-
ing bis fear that the negro may soon be on an
equality with him. The man that fears that
may be sure that it will be even 80 in fact it is
So for the white man who fears negro competi-
ton has already fallen to the Africans level
He is nothing but the "pOor white trash, such
as infest every town and plantation in the South
But as the DELTA asks:


Why is it that no one is afraid of Chinese
equality, or algamation with the Indians
Why is the negro always selected as the victim
Of this bugaboo cry Y'
Year: 1863

THE New York Commercia5 advertiser says it
is fact well worth knowing, that for the first
time in many years, the Congress coming into
life in the middle Of a Presidential term, is in its
political aspect, friendly to the President For
a quarter of a century, if we are not mistaken,
an opposition Speaker has been elected in every
last Congress of Presidential term.
Year: 1863

THE Port Royal Is. c. correspondent of the
Boston Tra0eier announces the arrival at that
port of the inventor of the preparation known
as " Greek Fire" 1t is, therefore, anticipated
that large fire will take place in that region
at an early day.
Year: 1863

THE Trinity NATIONAL thinks that the " Decline
and fall Of the Roman Empire should be an
admontion to the Federal Government. That is
so. In like manner, the decline and fall of Bene-
dict Arnold should be a warning to Copperhead
ors.-SoNoRA FLAG.
Year: 1863

The Marysvlle EXPRESS is diSpleased with the
very friendly relations between the United States
and Russia. So are all the other Copperhead
press and even JEFF. Davis, Louis Napoleon and
Lord Palmerston do not like it.
Year: 1863

leave to MY children, 80 that If the flrstarticle
Of faith of Frenchnan Is to lore Franco, the
second is to love America. For two years
lave done all in my power to confirm aud
strengthen this ancient friendship, and hope
my efforts haze not been wholly useless"
Year: 1863

The draft in the Nineteenth ward flashed this
forenoon completing the Third Congressional district
At the close OF the drawing three cheers given for
tho country, "right or wrong" with will.


The draft Tor the city is complete with the
cepton Of the First and Second districts.
Year: 1863

Resoired, That whenever there Is convict TO be
taken from Saginaw County Jail to the State Prison
by the Sheriff of said county, that the County Treas
urcr be and he is hereby authorized TO pay TO the
Order Of the Sheriff the sum Of Thirty-Five Dollars
to pay cash expenses for convict, and Eighteen
Dollars for each additional convict, as advanced
money 10 pay expenses. Adopted.
Year: 1863

MILK, TEA AND COFFEE. - In Professor
LOOMS article on Food" in the last Patent
Office Report, he thus speaks of milk, tea and
coffee:


Milk contains in solution not only due
proportion of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and
nitrogen, as before mentioned, but all the other
elements necessary for the construction of bone,
nerve, etc, and hence is always a proper food
in all circumstances of health.


Tea derives its beneficial properties not from
its direct supply of nutrition, but from its
afordng a peculiar substance called theiue,
the effect of which in the system is to diminish
the lraste, thus making less lood necessary.
Tea thus has a positive economic value, not as
supplying but as saving nutriment.


Coffee, though Of taste 50 little allied to
tea, derives its value in precisely the same
manner and from nearly the same substances.
It's value and effect in the system is therefore
the same as those above stated. 1t is hence
evident that milk, tea and coffee are valuable
articles of food under all conditions of tempe
nature.


The POWER OF WAvEs-The force
with which the waves of the German Ocean
fall upon objects opposed to their fury has been
measured with great care at the Bell Rock
Lighthouse. This massive structure, rising l 2
feet above the sea level, is literally buried in
foam and spray during the ground swells when
there is no wind. Experiments have proved
that the pressure of the waves sometimes
amounts to 3,0l3 lbs on the square foot
When this lighthouse was building, in 1902, a
storm came on, and six large blocks of granite
which bad been landed on the reef, were thrown
over the ledge to a distance of fifteen yards,
and an anchor weighing nearly one ton was
lifted out of the sea by the waves and thrown
upon the rock. Stones measuring upward of
thirty cubic feet, and weighing two tons are
frequently lifted from deep water and thrown
upon the Bell Rock during storms. The light
house keepers call these powders sea travel
ers-" During the progress of erecting light
house on Skerryvore Rock-wbich lies on the
west coast of Scotland exposed to the fall fury
of the Atlantic, without a ridge of land be-
tween it and America-the pressure of the
waves was found, during a heavy gale, to reach
6,0S3 tbs- on the square foot; in summer it is
only Gil TBS. Thus the greatest pressure is
nearly three tons on the foot-a force which is
terrific in its distinctive effects.
Year: 1863

BEAUTIFUL ExrRACr-W hen the summer
of youth is slowly wasting into the nightfal of
age, and the shadows of the past years grow
deeper, as if life were on its close, it is pleasant
to look back through the vista of time upon
the sorrows and felicities Of years. II we have
a home TO shelter Us, aud friends have been
gathered together by our fresides then the
rough places of wayfaring will have been worn
and smoothed away in the twilight of life,
while the sunny spots we have passed through
will grow brighter and more beautiful Hap
py. indeed, are those whose intercourse with
the world has not changed the tone of their
heller feelings, or broken those musical chords
of the heart whose vibrations are so melodious,
so touching to the evening of age.
Year: 1863

A CORRESPONDENT of the knickerbocker
says: " 1t is my duty TO impress upon you the
certain fact that one half of our young people
lose their senses when they lose their hearts.
One Of our party has already written FIVE let
tiers to his lady-love, and be goes about groan-
inr and sighing 10 most pitable manner
He has DO appetite, and sleeps up at the top
of the house. close TO tbs moon. He cannot
stand BIZ one of the columns of the piazza
without putting bis arm around its waist, and
1 caught him kissing an apple to-day because
it had red cheeks
Year: 1863

z l. STEW ARD HAVING PURCHASED
~ an interest in this well known and popular
Hotel. the pruprietOrs would assure the residents
of Oroville and the travelling public that no means
will be left untried to enable them to deserve a
share of their patronage
Year: 1863

The rebel accounts about flag of truce appear to
be very wide of the truth Instead Of flag of truce
being sent to Vicksburg by Grant, it that
was sent out of the city by Pemberton, asking for
two and a-half hours to bury his dead. These dead
soldiers always unpleasant things in the sight o
living opcs and especially in bcseged town where
the wounded cannot creep into bushes, &C., to die
Otherwise the state Of affairs before Vicksburg re
mains unchanged.


BY order from the War Department, al
captured rebel property is to be turned 10 th
department Of the staff to which the property be
longs. All contrabands are to be transferred to the
Provost Martial General.


The entire Union ticket was elected on Frida!
last in Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Year: 1863

The Mobile Register says: If a man speaks
or writes against the Confederate cause he is
branded and expelled as a public enemy"


The repreSsing force thus exercised has been
the chief means Of imparting to the Confcdcr-
acy its unity and strength. We have no desire
to see this system carried to the same extreme
in the loyal parts Of the land but it cannot be
entire y rejected without exposing us to a fear
ful risk Of becoming the prey Of the power thus
1t is easy enough for tactious demagoges to
rail against the military restriction upon the
private right of eternal denunciation and def
ance but it is high time that they should learn
there are public rights quite as valid, and just
now good deal more urgent.
Year: 1863

Peace does not appear % distant as
1t did. / hope i viii 'ome soon and
come to stay and so come a to be
worth the keeping in all future time.
Il wilI then baye been proved that
among freemea there can be no sue
cessful appeal from the ballot to the
bullet, and that they who take such
appeal are sure to lose Their case and
pay the cost. And then there win be
some black men who can remember
that, with silen, tongue, and elenebed
teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised
bayonet. they have helped mankind
on 10 this great contamination while
! fear there will be some white ones
unable to forget that with malignant
heart nni deeeiifuI speech they have
striven 80 hinder it.


Sill, lci US not be over-sanguine Of
a speedy, final triumph. Let Us dill
gently apply the means, never doubt
ing that a just God, in His own good
time, will give us the righlful result.


Yours, very truly,


A. LINCOLN.
Year: 1863

THIRST WoRsE THAN HrsGEI.-The
disturbance to the general system which
IS known by the name Of raging thirst
is far more terrible than that of starva
ton, for this reason during tho abstincn-
ce from food, the organism can live
upon its own substances but daring
the abstinence fol liquid, the organism
has no such snprly within itself. Men
have been known to endure absolute
p,ivatien Of food for some weeks but
three days Of absolute prvation Of drink,
(unlcss 4 moist atmosphere' is perhaps
a limit Of endurance. This is the most
atrocious torlus ever invented by Orien-
tai tyrants il is that which most effec
tnallv tames animals. Mr.. Ashley, when
he had refractory horse, he always
used thirst as the most effective power
Of coercion, giving little water as a
reward for every act Of obediance.-
The histories Of shipwrccks paint fear
ful pictures of suffering from thirst; and
one Of the most appalling cases known
is the celebrated imprisonment Of one
hundred and forty six men in tho Black
Hole Of Calcutta BIucktpood.
Year: 1863

A Coop EXAMPLE A parson was
making call upon partislioner. An
old lady, who had made a habitual rule
never to speak i'll Of another, and had
observed it so closely that she always
justified those whom she heard evil
spoken Of. Before the lady made her
appearance in the parlor, several Of her
children speaking OF her peculiarly and
one Of them playfully added


Mother has such habit Of speaking
well Of everybody, that believe if Sa
tan himself were the subject Of conver.
sation, mother would find out some yir,
tue or good quality even in him.


Of course this remark elected some
smiling and meriment at the originality
ofthe idea, in The midst Of which The
old lady entered the room, and on being
told what had just been said immediate
II and voluntarily replied


"Well my dear children, l wish We al
had Satan's industry and perseverance,
Year: 1863

The muscles which elt,se the hand
are more powerful than these t'ia. epen
it.


II we still love those we love we can
not altogeatlier lose these we love.


II is easy to say grace, but not half
SO easy to possess it.


What do the sailors DO with the knots
the snip makes in day?


A pretty female artist can draw the
men equally with brush and blush.


"Look out for paint as the girl said
when a fellow went to kiss her.


The nighteap would be the cap Of
libcrty-lf it were not for curtain lee
lures.


Don't fret on account Of your bank
ruptcy. Your creditors will be it for
you.


The young lady who took the gentle
mans fancy has returned it with thanks.


A service rendered in time, was it
ever SO little, can cause u great oifcnsc
to be forgotten.


A smile may be bright when the heart
is sad. The rainbow may be beautiful
in the air, while beneath is the morning
Of the sea.


Flattery is often traffic Of mutual
meanness, where, although both parties
intend deception, neither are deceived.
True glory takes root, and eyens spreads
all false pretences, like flowers, fall to
the ground; nor can any counterteits
last long.
"Caught in her own net" as tho man
said when he saw one of the fair sex
hitehed in her crinoline.
He must be y person Of very insigni
ficant standing who is always standing
upon his dignity.
| A farmer likes cold weather at tn,
proper season but All carly frost in An
tumn goes against his grain.
Year: 1863

SINGULAR CASE or ROBBERY Ant
ATTEMPTED MURDER.-We find the fol
loving in the Toledo Blade::


We are informed Of a remarkable
case of poisoning and robbery, which
recently occurred near the village oi
MILAN, presenting some aspects Of bold
villany, the like Of which we have sell
dom recorded. A si;izen of that place
whose name our informant at present
recall, was returning TO that place in
his buggy from the neighbering village
Of Bellevue.-When within about three
miles of home he overlook stranger
who desired to ride with him, aud he at
once gave him a seat by his side. In
the course of a few moments the stran-
ger commenced eating an apple, and
offered him one. After he had partly
eaten it he bit through what appeared
+, be worm-hole; soon after, paius,
and cramps began to affect him in the
stomach, which soon increased to such
an extent that the conviction shot across
his mind that he was poisoned.


elooked in vain for a house where
he could 60 for relief, but none appeared,
and he discovered that the occasion
had .hepn selected when in ne;ghbor-
hood thinly settled. He then became
unconscious, and, upon reviving, found
himself approaching the village. his
horse going along withent guidance,
and he himself lying at the bottom Of
the buggy alone. He managed to
reach his home. a Physician being
called and /: stomach pump applied il
was plainly discovered that he had
swallowed strychnine. All his money
was found to have been stolen from his
wallet. His constitution proved too
strong for what would be supposed to
be the fatal operation Of the poison,
and he is in fair way of recovery.
The scannlrel had evidently admins
tered the poison for the purpose Of rob
hing him Of his money and then de
camped, leaving his victim to die either
from the poison or possible accident to
the huggy. The scoundrel at last &C
counts had not been apprehended. Tho
whole transaction presents Of the most
diabclical villany.-A man who could
do such an act should not be permitted
70 80 long unhung.
Year: 1863

A Few SAYINGs-Solomon said
nine centuries ago. Even child is
known by his doings, whether his work
be pure or whether it be right" When
I see q boy in haste to spend every cent
as soon as he gets it, I think it is . sign
that be will be spendthrift. When
| see child boarding up his pennies
and willing to part with them for any
good purpose, I think that it is sign
that he will be miser. When I see a
boy or girl always looking ont for their
selves, l think it is sign that those
childron will grow to be selfish persons.


When l see boys and girls often quar-
cling, | think that it is. sign that :hey
will be violent and hateful men and wo-
men. When ! see little boy willing
to take strong drink, think that it is a
sign that he will be drunkard. When
l see boy that never attends to the
service Of religion, / think it is sign
that he will be profaneFand profiigate
man. When l see q child obedient to
his parents, ! think it is sign Of future
blessings from his Heavenly Parents,
and though changes sometimes take
place in the character, yet as genera
rule, these signs do not fai!.-- Old
jonathan.
Year: 1863

HARNESS BLACKING.-One pint Of
spirits Of turpentine, half All ounce Of
Japan ink, two ounces Of beeswax two
ounces Of white wax, one ounce Of gum
benjamin, one ounce Of indigo blue,
two ounces Of drop black. Melt the
wax and gum benjamin and then add
the other ingredients. having warmed
thu ink. This blacking will never
harden, but is always in a liquid state,
and will be found to keep the, harness
soft and pliable. Apply with a soft
brush, and polish with another, and
gently rub with soft cloth, and we
think that it will suit the most tastiaious
taste. Keep in something with tight


fitting lid.-Homestead.
Year: 1863

PACKING HAMS IN CoBs. First A
layer Of cobs in the bottom Of the cask;
then hams and ccbs until you finish the
whole. Be particular that they do not
come in CONTACT with each other. It viii
be necessary to take them out once in
summer to give them dry rubbing.
Your cask should stand on bench in .
ceol, dry cellar. The cobs absorb the
heat and air sufficient to keep them
fresh and pure.
Year: 1863

The Decherd correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette writes:


A few days ago an order was issued
from department headquarters at Win
chester, ordering the immediate orgsni-
cation Of the negroes in the army into
regiments, TO DO armed and equipped and
mustered into the service. This work is
now being done as rapidly as possible,
and will shortly have about seven or eight
regiments of contrabands in the field.
At Nashville, two regiments are being
organized out of the men who have been
for two years at work on the defences of
that city. About 1900 men have thus
been mustered into service at Nashville,
and one or two paraaes have been had.
Here at the front the regiments are yet
skeletons, but are rapidly growing to be
strong and important reinforcements 20
this army. All contrabands in the army
not personal servants of officers, are be-
ing gathered together for these regi-
ments. The men go in willingly There
is no necessity for impressipg them.


These negroes will fight much more
willingly for the Union than they would
for King IshAm
Year: 1863

The rebels are not so good as the
ProdigAl son. That ragged rascal went
back Of his own accord to his father, but
the rebels skulk out in hills until they
are pulled back by the muscular arm, Of
the magnsnimous but cholerio Uncle Sam
Year: 1863

The Copperhoads didn't rejoice bit over tho
surrender Of yicksburg. They rejoice not a
Bit over the fall of Port Hudson. They never
rejoice over the successes Of the Union arms.
But the New York riot made them feel good.
Year: 1863

i.H We begin to h.ve hopes that the
war is to begin in earnest. Officers are
scattered throughout the country. nsbbing
up every person who has been in the army,
but who has by some hocus pocus OF
other got out of it. and are taking them
back into the service. This section Of
the country is full Of military caps and
over.coats. worn BY, individuals Of the
above description; and from all accounts,
the same is the case in every nook and
corner of the land. fall such are march.
ed back, it will double the number Of our
forces in the field. and there will be no
necessity for enforcing the Conscription
act. Let all desertsrs be returned to the
army, or be punished to the fullest extent
of tho law and let an example be made
of every surgeon or officer who dischar.
ges soldier without good ard sufficient
cause.
Year: 1863

4 ~ The direct tax law is now 60
searching. that person cannot die with
out being taxed for it. In cities, . per-
NIT to inter body in . cemetery. must
bear revenue stamp. The law should
take one step farther. and then stop. Lei
it be enacted that every infant born in the
United States shall have . revenue stamp
attached to it, or be considered illegiti-
mate.