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Year: 1863

T1t 0ovERN04's SPECIAL MESSAGE.


Slasscf Kansas, Erecstive Office,


Topeks, January 23d, 1863.
Gentlemen Of tie Senate and House Of Representa.
tiles:


Ole Of your highest duties is 10 care
well for the citizen soldiers Of Kansas.


1 am unable to state officially the mum.
Der Of brave men we have in the field, nor
am I able, officially, to inform you Of their
sanitary condition.


The Legislature, as well as the people
Of the State, should have this information.
It is my intention to visit the Regiments Of
Kansas as soon as my official duties will
permit, however distant may be their
camps-whether they are in Missouri OF
Arkansas, in Tennessee or Mississippi l
desire if I can to see all of them.


This is duty l owe our heroic soldiers
and the people. I owe it to myself too, be.
cause by personal inspection l can learn
their actual condition, their wants and ne
cessities, and how these wants and necessi-
ties may be best met.


But as cannot leave the State for some
time, wish meanwhile that the Kansas
Regiments far away from home should
know that the feeling at home in their be-
half is both practical and earnest.


1 suggest then that provision shall be
made by the Legislature for the selection
OF some suitable person, who shall visit
these regiments Immediately, and report as
speedily as it may be to ensure accuracy OF
detail, the number Of Kansans now in the
service, the number who have fallen on
the battlefield, or by disease in the hospi-
tails; the general health of our soldiers,
and what may or can be done by the State
to relieve the sick and suffering, or to en-
courage the strong and hardy among them.
I wish to husband we'll the means of the
State-to avoid any expenditure not essen
tial to the public interest-but I consider
this asolutely necessary.


I respectfully ask then the legislation
necessary for the accomplishment of this
end, and an appropriation which shall be
made sufficient to cover the expenses Incl.
dent thereto.


Respectfully,


THos. CARNEY.
Year: 1863

We call the attention of our readers to
the advertisement of Frank Schmidt, in to-
days issue. He has just received good
stock of goods in his line, which he is
prepared to sell cheap as the cheapest
His motto is, Quick sales and small profits.
Call and see him.
Year: 1863

portant, we must not lose sight of the fact
that the power is still our main reliance
To that power alone can we look yet, for
time, to give confidence to the people in con-
tested regions that insugent power will not
overrun them. Until that confidence shall
be established little can be done there for
what is called reconstruction, hence our chief
care must still be directed to our army and
navy, who have thus far borne their harder
part so nobly and well. And it may be es-
teemed fortunate that in giving the greatest
efficiency to these indispensable arms, we al
so honorably encourage gallant men, from
commander to sentinel, who uphold and to
whom more than all others the world Stands
indebted for having disenthralled, regenera-
ted, enlarged and perpetuated the home of
freedom. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Year: 1863

gagaged has required SO large withdrawal
of our citizens from their accustomed pur-
suits. cordially concur in the recommen-
dation Of the Secretary Of the Interior, sug-
gesting a modification Of


the Act in favor of those engaged in the
military and naval service of the United
States. 1 doubt not Congress will cheer
fully adopt such measures as will, without
essentially changing the general features of
the system, reserve to the greatest practicable
extent, its benefits to those who have left
their homes in defense of the country in
this arduous crisis.
Year: 1863

again submit to your consideration the exped-
ency Of establishing system for the encouragement
Of emigration. Although this source of National
wealth is again flowing with greater freedom than for
several years before the nsurrectiOn occurred there
is still great deficiency Of lsborers in fields of in
dustry, especially agriculture and our mines AS well
Of iron and coal as of the precious metals While
the demand for labor is thus increased here tens
thousands of persons destitute of remunerative oc-
cupation, thronging our foreign Consulates and
offering to emigrate to the United States if essential
but cheap assistance be afforded them It is easy
to that under the sharp discipline Of civil war the
nation is beginning a new life. This novel offer de-
mands the aid ana ought to receive the attention and
support of the Government.
Year: 1863

the sciences. Our citizens first initiate the out
ward state and show OF tho people Of the old
world, and then they naturally seek TO do the
same at home, and thus taste for pictures, Tor
music. for statuary. is cultivated. and IN the
course oil time we shall have our great gale
ries As well as Paris or London; and in this
onward march towards social refinement the
fark will have been great step. in fact one
OF the first causes.


We have not space to dwell upon the beauties
oil the Park, OF the difficulties overcome by those
who have been instrumental in its formation, OF
the many undiscovered beauties of the Park:
but we wish here to call tho attention Of our
wealthy citizens to the fact that. in making TO
the Park presents Of fine statuary, groups in
bronze, DO. great benefit would be conferred
upon the public, who would be enabled to en-
JOY those works Of art. The beauty Of the
Park would OF course be greatly enhanced by
such donations. We do not doubt that the
D,ere suggestion is sufficient to cause the mat
ter to be taken into consideration by our liberal
minded citizens. All the world knows that
New York is a place that cannot be called
mean; and surely there can be no more direct
and pleasant manner of beneftting the public
than by ornamenting and beautifying their
favOrite resort-the Park.
Year: 1863

In another column we give an interes ting de-
scription Of the United States steam frigate
Niagara. Since her return from the Gulf Of
Mexico, q year since, she has been remodelled


so Jar as her engines and armament are concern
ed and as she now is nearly ready for sea, our
people can have the opportunity of inspecting
the largest, swiftest aud most powerfully armed
ship that ever went to sea under the flag Of the
United States or that Of any other nation We
considered, in olden times, that our fifty gun
ships Of the class Of the Raritan, Congress and
others were without equals; so they were at
that time When the FIVE like the Wabash
were constructed, so proud were we Of
them that one--tbe Minnesota to
be sen. p England in order that John
Bull could take pattern from ber, which he did
in the shortest possible space of time And
now that we have something far superior to
either, both in tonnage, speed and armament,
will she be sent to Europe as a sample for
other nations to copy from. or will she be
kept 70 ourselves, away from the eyes Of those
Year: 1863

who have always benefited by Yankee inge-
nuitys


II is safe to say that the Niagara is peculiarly
an American ship. Her hull is by TIE ia'e
lamented George Steers; her machinery is hme-
rican, both in model and construction; her main
deck battery is composed OF guns OF the inven-
ton of Admiral Dahlgren, and her spar decK
battery rided guns of the plan OF Mr.. farro't'
The speed of the Niagara was fully tested
during her first cruises, and she was then con-
sidered ono of the fastest as we'll a. one
of the best seagoing ships ever constructed
in this country. What will she be now with
engines of largely increased power, and with
out alteration in any other essential partS We
predict she will prove without an equal AS o
cruiser she will be perfect; under canvass
nothing can touch her; and woe to the Alabama.
Florida or any other steamers that her com
mander may desire to overhaul. Escape will
be impossible, except by stratagem and under
cover of darkness. When not in chase Of a
vessel, canvass will be used almost entirely.
Her fires will be banked, which will economize
coal; but steam can so readily be raised IL
needed, that hardly any delay will take place
before this noble ship will be moving through
the water at a speed that will be sure TO dis
tance any competitor now on tho ocean. Fears
are expressed that with her new armament she
will load too deep; but this can hardly be pos
sible when her tonnage is considered.


The battery to be carried by the Niagara
twentyfou eleven nch and twelve two hun
dred-pounder rifed guns--is the heaviest ever
placed on board ship. 1t is terrific, when the
weight, calibre and character of projecties used
are considered. Each Of her guns will weigh,
without the carriage, fifteen thousand pounds,
which brings the weight of the armament alone
up to the enormous amount of five hundred and
forty thousand pounds We will consider the
solid shot used as weighing two hundred pounds
each, both from the fed and smooth-bored
guns and, as twenty guns can be used in broad
side, we have four thousand pounds Of metal
thrown at each discharge of the guns from one
side alone, which would be anuihilation
almost to any wooden ship that received
it, The extreme range of her battery will
not amount to much in sea way; but it still
possesses an advantage, from the fact that one
shot might strike, which, from its size, would
infict serious dainage long 5efere her antago-
mist would come within ordinary range. 1t is
when all the battery OF the Niagara can be used
that its crushing power will be felt. The
broadside of an cid fashioned ship-of-the-line,
presenting mark like row Of houses would
be bit at every discharge, and very soon torn
to pieces. Nothing but an iron-clad can with
stand this truly formidable ship; and these, if
she cannot fight with any hope of success, she
can leave to search for some more Vulnerable
antagonist. In the event Of war with any
great maritime Power the Niagara would prove
the most efficient vessel in the world to destroy
the wooden navy and commerce of our adver
sary; and, in consequence, we notify England Of
her existence.
Year: 1863


It is understood that the Governor aud Council have
opened the bids for State loan 500 COO and have
accepted all and above three per premium which
are for but small portion required
Year: 1863

HAVING just returned from New York with
III new stock OF Goods, we invite The lnhab.
itants Of st Cloud and Northern Minnesota to
call and examine them, assuring them W can
suit as to quality and price.
Year: 1863

Republican papers are now eloquent
over a grand theme. Every man who
is Democrat is Copperhaad, which
in abolition parlance means a traitor
This Is what Democrat is according
to the new test.


AS we see things the case is differ
ent. We may be called traitors may
be peace aemocrats-copperheads, or
whatever fanatical pack Of hounds
may see fit to call US as political oody,
but here is what we are not. Read
and bring on rebutting testimony if ii
can he found.


We are not the men who became dis
satisfied with the best government ever
conceived, and Systematically worked
for its a {erthrow.


We are not men who directly or in.
Year: 1863

Is 1T MONARCHY THEY WANT p
Colonel Forney's paper; the Phllidel-
phia Press, says:


"Another principle must certainly
be embodied in cur Recognized form Of
government. The men who shape the
legislation Of this country when tho
war is past must remember that what
we Want is power and strength. The
problem will be to combine the form Of
republican government with the powers
of monarchical government"


In the same strain the North Amer
ica,, remarks j:


"This war has already shown tho
absurdity of a government with limited
powers; has shown that the power Of
every government ought to be and
must be unlimited. - n.
Year: 1863

vALLANDIGHAMs WIFE INSANE,


From the Syracuse Courier and Union.]


These midnight arbitrary arrests
have other victims than the bold and
manly hearts at which they are aimed.
When the sturdy oak is stricken down,
the ciinging vine which has twined it
self around it and garlanded it's scared
trunk and broad branching arms with
its graceful drapery of leaves or flowers,
falls with it or is torn from it's hold up
on the genial soil and perishes with its
fall.


In Dayton there was gentle woman,
lovely in person, agreeable in manner
the life of a circle of approaching
friends, educated and refined. She,
with woman's strength and instinct of
affection, had twined around one
manly soul, the clinging tendrils of
woman's best affections and all the gen
ial hopes and blissful visions of woman's
dreams ofhappiness and home. At.
the dead hour of midnight, when only
thieves, burglars and assassians stalk
abroad, at 2 o'clock in the morning,
she was startled by unusual and dis
turbing sounds from sleep, perchance
from blissful vision, perchance from
dreams of fearful portent for the loved
one upon whose strong arm and ma,ly
spirit she reposed as the sole happi-
ness of her present life, the whole stay
of her future years.


Like the startled fawn, she awoke to
fear, but alas ! not like the startled
fawn to run instinctively from the
sounds that menaced. Clinging to the
side of him who was her defender and
her pride, she approached with him the
window Of their chamber and saw
sight of fear. The murky night, ftfully
and dlmly lllumlned by the pale light
of the silent stars added to the scene
mysterious dread. Armed men with
the deadly musket and g]ittering bayo
net had surrounded the house. They
had come tor her husband, and he must
accompany them.


She had heard him denounced as q
traitor by the lunatic and the fool and
she had known of the cold blooded as
sassination in the same city by mur
derous fanatic of the bold and chivalric
Bollmeyer, the editor Of the Democrat
ic paper in the city of Dayton: the ill
fated city where it was a misfortune to
reside. Startled by the spectacle, she
begged and entreated that he would not
trust himself with men whom she knew
to be the tools of power and feared
might be sooner or later the assassins
of innocence.


"Do not go to them," she begged in
piteous accents, "they will murder you!'
Ascertaining that they had no legal
warrant for his arrest, he refused to ac-
company them. With repeated blows
that shook the house, one door was bro
ken in, then another, and another and
the armed rufians rushed in the cham
ber of the noble man and devoted-alas!
too loving and devoted wife !


Her reason reeled in that aw-
full hour, tottered for brief moment
upon her recent throne and gave way
to lunacy !


Reader-this is no picture of the i'm
agination. We give to you the touch
ing tale as we have received it from
trustworthy sources and it needs no
establishment.


IS THIS CAUs T. FOR HANGING.
Year: 1863

.. sas 7

 B9 If there is any one thing more than an- other, in this world of tolls and trials, which we dislike to do, it is to dus anybody, even for our honest dues. Overcoming this scruple in a measure, we take the liberty from time to time of enclosing various little 6ills of our subscribers indebtedness to us, as gentle re- minders of their debt, and to whose careful and serious attention we bespeak their recep- tion. As a general rule, we believe no paper in the State is so free from non-paying patrons as is our own. We do not always rigidzy en- force the advance system, as we might do, for the sufficient reason that our subscribers are so trustworthy, as general thing, and do pay up sooner or later. But the life of a ne wspa- per business, in these times, especially, is the psomptness with which it's debtors cancel their indebtedness and remit the amounts due the printer. It is the easiest and most natural thing in the world to let these little accounts run along" from day to day, and month to month but we beg of these few delinquents to that . newspaper couldn't run along ong, if all of its subscribers ran so long with put paying up. We might add word of en- luiry to those who read an unpaid paper from week to week, as to the state of tn cir pro. oundest feelings?-but we forbear. We've done.
Year: 1863

The New York Tires is true "Admin
istration" paper. One day it denounces
everybody but extreme Republicans as dis
loyal, and the next prints something like the
following truthful confession, which, how
ever, means nothing but that conservative
support is as desirable as it is undesirably
cheap, when it can be paid for in talk
Says that paper:


''The fact that the Administration has
settled upon a certain, anti-slavery war
policy, does not bind patriot to approve
it He mas perfect rrht to believe in
and, in every orderly way labor for any
other policy that in his judgment would
better promote the war Men, ever tru-
ly devoted to the same end, may yet differ
in regard to the means. 1t is not only just
but profitable that all means should be
fairly discussed: and that, too, even after
there has been decision, for it often can be
shown, in the light of experience, that the
wrong means have been adopted No SEN
sible supporter of the Administration OBJ
iects to such adverse discussion, or questions
the loyalty OF him who honestly engages in
Year: 1863

The $500 exemption provision is about
to be repealed. Well enough, perhaps, but
there has been good deal of Demagoguery
about it. The poor man was compelled to
enlist whilst his neighbor better off could
buy out. The law made an invidious dis
tinction; but will its repeal benefit the poor
man al all? He will be drafted anyhow,
aud will have his nsighbor's company; but
had he not rather have the $500 that bis
neighbor might pay, and which the Govern
ment might afford to give him with the law
as it now stands?
Year: 1863

O. From the Rcnm0nQ Doc.


The astounding propositions which have
signalized the first days of this present sess-
ion, for placing the entire population OF
the Confederate States in the field, leaving
no producers Of food to feed the enormous
army 80 raised, and no tax payers to ti1d
the money to furnish it, have created con
siderable sensation. A feeling OF despond-
eney has been produced by them among re-
Elective observers; not by the prospect OF
the universal cessation Of national life and
organization, which the realization of those
wild projects would certainly cause-for no
one can fail to see that there is no danger
of realizing a patent impossibility; but by
the sing ular want Of discernment whlc b
they indicate. 1t is difficult to believe that
many members of the Congress really in


tend the establishment of q dictatorship IN
this country, still less to make Mr., Davis
dictator. Yet it requires but little rehec-
ton to perceive that such law lately sug


gested in his message, suggestion which
members of Congress have taken in trust
from it, is nothing more nor less than that
An entire nation can not remain in the
field more than twenty-four hours, under
the penalty of death by starvation. A law
requiring the whole population to take up
arms and go into camp is nullity. Few
will dispute the remark; and the President
blandly proposed that the power and dis.
erection should be given him to "detail


such persons rs he pleased to continue the
pursuits of civil life.. The relative mum


bsrs Of those in the army and those out OF
it, might not be changed by a law of nniyer-
sal enrolment, if accompanied by TINS
provifion. The sole differences between the
present and prospective condition OF the
military force and nation, would be- the
change of "details" for "exempts.n One OF
these words designates the persons who
continue the work that must be dene in
war and peace, under the authority OF law {;
the other, trose who go about their bust


ness because of the favor of the President
and his office holders, great and small
This is a proposition, to give them 0espetic
control over every individual in this coan


try, and to destroy every check upon their
will. The PARASITES Of power are pleased
with it. TDece exists small faction in
this country who have long clamored for
this measure, because, they expect pow
er. profit and revenge from it, But it is
impossible to believe that those who have
echoed this cry in some of the resolutions of


fered in Congress intended to do so. A res
olution of inquiry, fortunatsly, Is not law,
and when the force of the measure suggest


ed in the first has been examined, as 1t must
| bs before it is fixed in the last, there Will
Year: 1863

An ATTEMPT was recently madeto rob
the First Notional Bank at New Jersey
The burglars succeeded in obtaining three
dollars. The report does not say whether
there was any money left in the vaults or
not.
Year: 1863

reflect that sound mind and body are the most
sary requisites to promote connubial happiness In
deed without these the journey through life becomes
weary pilgrimage the prospect hourly darkens 70 IN
6ed with the melancholy reflection that the happiness
80 anotbar haoom % bliphted with our own,
Year: 1863

be little dangertbat Congress will stuItlfy
itself or sacrifice the cause by such insane
stops as are now feared by many. 3
The motive of those who have given a


quasi sanction to these projects, is easily
understood. The Confederate army soreiy
needs replenishing. But some means OF
effecting that purpose must be found which


is not at once q folly and q crime. The
present army is created by CONSUMPTION: II
the actual Consenption Law does not furn.


ish sufficient number of men, the natural


and rational means of remsdying the defect
is to enlarge the sphere of its action. BY


increasing the age of conscripts, and dimin-
ishing, where it can be done with safety,
the exempted class. g
Year: 1863

Towards the close of a sultry day in
the summer of 1860, we camped down
upon the banks of little stream on the
eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada noun
tains, and in the midst of sheltered and
romantic valley. At little distance we
discerned a small pine plank standing
endways and just visible above the lux>
ariant herbage that surrounded us-it
was just such material as would serve
well to kindle our camp fire. A tall,
rough visaged Missourian--one of our
party---rose and moved towards it, but
suddenly stopped, paused moment, re-
turned, and in reply to our question,
what is it ? silently pointed to it. One
and another visited it, each returning si-
lent and pensive--it was a child's grave,
with its tablet and its inscription too,
speaking in that desert solitude with all
the holy elOquence of grief.


TO OUR ONLY CHILD.
Year: 1863

IMPERTNENCE PUNIsuED.-A cor
respondent writes to the Amcricaa Ag-
riculturist from Wayne Co., N. Y:


Near our village lives a young miss
Just blooming into womanhood, who at
tracts much attention by her beauty.
She is a merry hearted, but sensible girl,
and apparently in nowise spoiled by the
many compliments she receives. Re
Gently she greatly enjoyed the discomiit-
ure of young man who rather imper~
tinently attempted TO introduce himself.
He had recently come from the city, and,
dressed in the height of fashion, was rid
ing with a companion, when be caught
sight of Miss L., who was just drawing
a kettle of water from spring near the
house. He exclaimed, What charming
creature! ] must make an acquaint-
ance.' and forthwith he stepped from his
carriage, and with a very stylish bow.
requested the privilege of drinking wa
ter drawn by such fair hands. She
started to bring tumbler, but he insist.
ed on drinking from the kettle, and raist d
it to his lips. Just then a miscievous
pet sheep belonging to Miss l.. came
frisking around the corner behind the
stranger, and without any warning, with
a uowerful but sent him sprawling head
foremost into the spring, kettle and all
He was not injured, but the starch was
thoroughly taken out of him, as well as
from bis shirt bosom, and he lost no time
in scrambling back to his carriage and
hurrying away from the sound OF Miss
L.'s laughter,
Year: 1863

"this commissary was pepper doctor
down in Charleston, and looked like a
vegetarian, and actually made an elabo-
rate report to the secretary Of war show
ing that for the subsistence of human
Yankee carcass vegetable diet was tho
most proper. For the honor of the coun-
try this Norihrop should be elected at
once"