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Year: 1863

Garrison, Phillips, Smith & Co. have thun-
dered their anathemas at slavery, but never
disturbed its existence by the movement of a
muscle, to effect by force its extinction from
our land. When the South took up arms to
overthrow and set at defiance the Constitution
that protected their peculiar institution, they
became an organized and armed band of abo-
litionists. They threw down the banner of
the only instrument in the way Of a success
full interference with their system of slavery,
and thereby became their own destroyers.-
And every man in the North, who, by word
or deed, has encouraged the South in the
prosecution of its rebellion has aided the work
of abolition. The Republican party did and
does admit that Slavery, existing by virtue of
State enactment, is protected by the Federal
Constitution But when that Constitution is
openly defed, and violently trampled upon,
there is no protection afforded to that sys-
tenn, but as purely State or Territorial in
stitution, it must yield to the national good.
That this rebellion might have been suppress
ed long ago, preserving to the South its pet
system, undisturbed, we have never doubted.
Why it has not been, is stated by Wendell
Phillips, in the following words:


"Now, that Democrat element in the North
IS strong enough, were it one and united,
and would have icrushed all its foes on
this continent in ninety days. There never
was a time since the commencement Of the
struggle, when, if the North had been a unit,
the war might have been ended in three
months; and so ended itwould have left
Slavery where it found it. But the North
has never been unit. With the North as a
unit, democratic, intelligent, resolved, in earn
est, the South never would have risked the
struggle


Had the Democracy of the North yielded a
united and earnest support to su2pressing the
rebellion, slavery would have been undls-
turbed by Presidential proclamations. By
their sedition and divisions, they have united
With the South, and become practical Aboli-
tionists!
Year: 1863

A soldier of the 18th Wisconsin, now serv


ing in Gen. Grants army, wrote from Lake


Providence on the list of April to the Clarl


county (Wis.) Advccote, letter narratinl


the incidents Of an expedition wherein he hat
just been engaged, from which we extract, as
follows:


''The rebels had slowed away a large
amount of cotton among the cane-brakes Un
Gle Sam had concluded to appropriate it.and We
were to guard the train while it was being
transferred to the boats; but to be brief
we remained at this place about two weeks


took about $500, 900 worth Cf cotton from the
rebels without being molested by them; but
we received information just as we were about
to leave, that three thousand rebels were
marching against US, which, without doubt,
hastened our departure.


"There is one feature connected with this
raid, which pains me to relate


'There were about one hundred negroes on
the plantations near by, and many Of them
had been pressed into. our service. They
had worked cheerfully to assist US in getting
the cotton aboard the boat, and some of them
had been instrumental in aiding us to find a
great portion of the cotton. Nearly all the
negroes on the adjoining plantations, men,
women and children, had been enticed to leave
their homes, and were gathered together on
the shore just as we were about to leave,
expecting, of course, that we would take them
with us. But no, an order came from Gen.
Grant to take no contradands on board
Some of them said their masters would kill
them if they went back, and we have since
been informed, by good authority that four of
the poor fellows who rendered US much as
sistance, and who were instrumental in find
ing cotton for us, were shot Immediately after
we left, by their cruel masters. Who should
be held responsible for such neglect2 The
laws of our country say that we shall protect
the slave from the cruelty of his master, when
he applies to US for protection. These ne
groes are perfectly willing to do anything in
their power to assist us, and yet many Of our
Generals scornfully reject their help, only
when it is utterly impossible to get along with
out it !; and then they get cold shoulder in
return for their kindness.


''To show with what effect the negroes are
used against us. will state what a person
told me who was in the fight at Vicksburg


''He said that the outer works were al
most wholly manned by negroes; and that
they dare not retreat, for fear that their cruel
masters in the rear would shoot them down
consequently many Of them fell in our hands.
Strange, isn't it /! that the 'chivralic South
which, with lofty and ostentatious pride, has
always looked upon the blacks as an inferior
race, assign to them the responsible duty of
manning the outer works Of Vicksburg!"
Year: 1863

The duties devolving on the naval
branch of the service during the year
and throughout the whole of this unhap.
py contest have been discharged with
fidelity and eminent success. The ex-
tensive blockade has been constantly in
creasing in efficiency as it has expanded.
Year: 1863

A correspondent writing from Chatta.
nooga on the 9th ult; gives the following
picture of the battle field:


"Early yesterday morning | mounted
my horse and rode out to Mission Ridge.
The joy victory still lighted up the coun-
tenancss Of those | met, and both officers
and soldiers Of the differen corps were
congratulating each other upon The mag
nfcent success Of the previous day. But
it was not all triumph now. A mouruful
procession of ambulances, and men on foot
with strechers. bore back towards Chatta-
nooga the bleeding forms of the wounded,
well as the remains of those who bad
heard their last call to battle, and would
never CARR Sword or musket more. All
through the woods, between Bald Knob
and Mission Ridge, and over the open
ground at the foot of the latter, sad sights
drew tears from eyes unaccustomed to
weeping.


cat one place father was walking be-
side the stretcher on which was borne the
torn and margled, yet still breathing body
Of his son. At the foot OF a tree q strong
man was bending, heart-broken, over the
liieless form of his brother. A fragment
of shell had driven the barrel OF a mus
ket, in a soldier hand, with such force
against his face that the head was nearly
severed in twain.


GA rebel officer was lying prone on bis


face in one of the rihe.pits, still grasping


in his hand the sword which | afterwards


learned he had bravely fourished in the
very faces of our men as they burst with
resiatless valor over the rebel works
thought as looked at him, RAJ as trib


ute TO his courage, he should be buried al
be lay, under the works he had SO vel
defended, with his sword still in his hand
1 On the ridge the corpse lay strewe'
q around mere thlckly, and all along tn
. line occupied by, Wood, and Baird, ant


Sheridan, the eye could not gaze in au
. direction without beholdiDg the stiff coli
forms Of the dead


d The corn crop is l3O 900 900 of bush
els short, and it is thought the Governmen
- will forbid distil alion the grain bein
all needed for the army. If they qu
making whisky what will become Of 18th
J. Government" of Pennsylvania! 1t wi


be very thirsty.
Year: 1863

State is = nation within itself. We have
formed partnership for certain purposes.
and each State has the right to leave that
partnership when it finds that it il conye.
nient or useful to do SO. We have zen.
eral agent here in Richmond, which wc
call the Confederate Government. and
which manages the affairs Of the firm.
Now, why not take hint from the struc-
turc Of the system under which we live ?
Surely bank, to which every State con-
tnbuted portion of its general treasure
proportionate to its representation in
Congress, taking stock in the same pro.
portion, would not be liable to the ,obiec.
tons which can DC alleged against an
Exchequer Bank. The States could. each.
have its branch or branches, and be at
perfect liberty to withdraw from the bank.
as they now are from the Confederacv.
They could have general agent at some
one point, as the Confederacy has now
here in Richmond The check upon this
general agent would be too powerful to
admit Of the supposition that it would
interfere with any State banks doing an
honest and lawful business. The States
would not suffer it.


No Confederate bank, we imagine, will
ever be established without taking care
to separate tine functions Of issue and
discount. The immense benefit that has
been experienced in England, from such a
divorce, could not possibly be lost upon
statesmen and financiers in this country.
A Confederate bank ought to be estah.
lished, if established at all, principally
with view to regulate the currency. 1t
ought, indeed, to be so constructed, as to
possess the power to restrain the exccs-
siye issue of State banks, and to furnish
currency Of universal credit And
therefore it ought to be under the com
plete control Of some power or other.
The ordinary bu1iness of banking ought
to be a matter Of very inferior consitlcra-
ton in the construction of such bank,
and should be placed under the strictest
limitations.
Year: 1863

. sixth Of the three hundred thousand drawn
The product, then, Of the conscription, ti-
rectly and indirectly, will be at least two
hundred and fifty thousand men-mofc than
the Government win probably ever stand in
need ff 81
Year: 1863

This calculation does not embrace in
IL those who are acting as pioneers for
Gems. Grant and Banks in Louisiana and
Mississippi, for these would doubtless
swell the number to $4,000 men, nor do
we believe the enumeration more than
the official roll will exhibit.
Year: 1863

The Government currency is doubtless the
very best of the kind ever issued useful as
exchange ; in demand for taxes admitted to
be sound as regards its ultimate liquidation
controvertible, in fact, into property yielding
certain fixed revenue in gold; and yet, as
VIC see, indivcstible of that inherent defect


which pertains to all currencies that are net
the equivalent of coin for the various pur-
poses of commerce. The Government cur
rency is the creature Of. an emergency it
was rendered necessary, as is believed, by the
cXigencies of the civil war but. 1t is not de-
signed to continue it as an irredeemable cur,
rency, or the basis of such currency after
the war is ended. The intention Of Govern
ment on that subject has been clearly ex-'
pressed, and the resumption of specie pay
ments at the earliest possible day has been,
fully determined upon. DR.. Elder, of the,
Treasury Department, in an elaborate essay
on the Debt and Resources of the United
States (which we find in the Bankers Maga-
zine for October shows that the Secretary
has the ability to call in or fund any surplus
of the Legal Tender issue in twenty days
time, and concludes doubtless from his
knowledge of the views of the Secretary and
of his power over the complicated fiscal ma
chinery committed to him by Congress,
" that the day on which the war closes will be,
Just the day before the resumption of specie
payments, to all intents and purposes" We,
may reasonably doubt whether this important
measure will be effected so promptly. The
interes IS of commerce would be greatly
jeopardized by any large and sudden reduc-
tion of the currency to the common standard
of commercial nations in fact, it cannot be
done even under the most judicious manage
ment without causing financial convulsion
and disaster; but it will be done sooner or
later at the close Of the war. The wealth and
prominence of our nation in the great COM
mercial family forbid that its circulating
medium should long remain below the COM
mon standard. 1t has been our good fortune
on the Pacific coast to maintain that stand
ard hitherto, thereby escaping the evils OF
paper currency and the dangers incident to
its withdrawal. At the same time we have
not repudiated the issues of Government, as
is alleged BY some ; but, on the contrary,
have received them to the full extent offered
by Government, and have employed them in
our commercial exchanges generally at .
relative value, as compared with gold, above
the range of Eastern markets, where they are
used as currency. Even did the desire to
adopt Government issues as currency prevail
among us, our commercial position forbids it.
We cannot retain them SO long as they form
cheaper and more convenient remittance
than gold to cover the large balance of trade
at our debit on the Atlantic Sides. +.
Bulletin.
Year: 1863

The center, composed of Sd and 5th ar
my corps, under Hooker, cO-operated with
Sumner column. During the battle the
men were full of hope and confident of slc-
cess, and they filed out of the city in splen-
did order. The skirmishing commenced
shortly after daylight, and short time af-
terwards the rebel artillery commenced
playing upon u.s. Owing to the fog the fir
ing was so inaccurate however, that our
troops paid bug little attention to it, and
kept pressing on regardless Of the deadly
missiles which we're flying through the air.
By and by our artillery responded, and for
hours the most, terrific cannonading was
kept up on both sides The enemy's posi-
ton was one of exceeding strength, ard ap-
peared to be invulnerable to our artillery,
Notwithstanding our guns were excellently
handled. About noon, the Infantry, who
had been waiting for the fog to clear off, ad-
vanced for the purpose Of storming the en-
emy's position on the hill. Confident OF
victory, the trops marched steadily up to
within musket shot of the batteries, but
murderous fire from rebel riAemen, ad5ed
to the fury of the cannonade, compelled
our men to fall back with heavy loss The
attempt to carry the rebel batteries was re-
peated again in the afternoon, and the at
tacking party went at the double quick,
but the enemy who was also heavily rein


forced, proved too much for us All along
the line the battle ragged with unusual
ferceness, and when night came on it was
hard to say who were the victors. Of
killed and wounded there we're probably as
many on the side of the rebels as on ours.
No correct estimate can be formed Of the
loss in Hooker's corps, but it was pretty
heavy. The firing Of musketry ceased
about halfpast five, but the rebels contin-
ued to cannonade the city until long after
dark The result of the days fight proves
conclusiveIy enough that the enemys posi-
ton is one of great strength. Franklin
appears to be the only one who effected any
important result.
Year: 1863

THE ENROLMENT IN DODGE Co.
The Hartford Home League says the
detachment Of two companies of the
30th regiment sent thither to proceed
into the adjoining portion Of Dodge
county, arrived on Tuesday evening.
The next morning Capt. Burton's COM
pany left for the town Of Lebanon,
where Mr.. Douglas, the enrolling officer
was shot, to superintend the enrolment
in that town. The League says:


Soon after crossing the river they met
a sentinel who turned about as soon as
he met the soldiers and went back post
haste to the German settlement The
boys were told after getting out few
miles, that they would have trouble, as
the whole town was out and armed.
They kept Oil, however, and soon began
to see men going towards their usual
rendezvous. They expected warm
work and prepared for it. They soon
came on a croeod Of tago or three ham,
01'ed men, mostly armed. Naay of
them ran as soon as the soldiers came
IN sight to hide their arms IN tho grass.
The soldiers went in among them and
were asked all sorts of questions, but
having been instructed to answer no
questions they kept their own councils.


The enrolling officer went at his duty
aad performed it all day without any
moIestation.


Thus matters stand at the time of
going to press. That nothing but the
presence of armed soldiers can keep
those insane and ignorant men from
committing murder, no man can longer
hace any doubts. In this case, as in
all others, prevention will prove the
best cure.
Year: 1863

The new born zeal of a large class
of professed democrats for freedom of
speech and freedom Of the press, but
lily comports with the course OF the
same party and same men few years,
or even a few months since, when they
were justifying and even applauding
the hanging of men in Kansas and all
through the Southern States, for utter


ing their views upon the evils of slavery.
They could then look with complacency
upon the acts Of mobs that were lynch
ing men for the exercise of freedom of
speech, and rejoice at the mobblng of
newspapers for abusing. as they termed
it, the freedom Of the press. When
Charles Sumner was struck down in the
Halls Of our National Legislature, for
no other act than the exercise Of free
dom of speech in public debate, the
almost universal CRY Of the latter day
democrats was, "Served him right 20
When the press and types of Lovejoy


were thrown into the river at Alton, ILL.,,
and Mr.. Lovejoy himself was murdered


by the mob, for the exercise Of the free
dom Of the press-and that in time Of
peace, the howl of Democracy all over
the land went up in justification Of the
outrage: and why? simply because the
act was committed by their own polit


ical friends upon those who were using
the "freedom of speech'' and of the
Press against the cherished institution
oftheir party. They felt that their idol,
slavery, was assaiied, and any outrage
upon those assalling was justifiable by
the party.-But how the scene has
changed. Those men who justified all
those outrages are at this time the loud
est advocates of free speech and free
press in the land. Because few to-
ries in time of war have been arrested
for their reasonable talk, and a few
rebel newspapers in the North that are
doing more injury to the cause for which
our brave volunteers are risking their
lives, than thousands of rebel troops
can do, the cry goes up from these same
men who justified mobs and lYnching
but few years since, that our liberties
arc in danger and the government is
fast running to a despotism because
the right of speech and q free press is
assalled. But such is the consistency
of the self styled Democrats. They lose
the power to rule the nation, and the
next move is to accomplish its ruin for
what to them is free country unless
they can hold the Offices? Were the
democratic party in power at this time,
one half that is said against the admin
istration and government by these pa
pers coming from Republican prints
would cause a general closing of print
ing offices, and arrest of all who would
dare to utter treason against the gov
ernment. Their party leaders undoubt-
edly believe they are pursuing course
that will again give them the power,
but time will convince them of their
error, for in this country the people
themselves decide who shall be the ru-
lers.-MiueraJ Point Tribune.
Year: 1863

When you find q newspaper full
ofoensures of arbitrary arrests, declaring
every act of the government violation
of the constitution and an Infringement
of law, prating about civil courts and
military despotism, denouncing aboli-
tionists, preaching the immaculate hon
esty of the democratic party, and groan-
ing about free speech and free press,
while it has not word Of condemnation
of the rebellion or an expression OF
sympathy with the efforts to put 1t
down, You can safely conclude that that
paper is at heart disloyal, and lacks
only the courage to openly sustain the
rebellion and unite with the rebels for
the overthrow of the government.
Year: 1863

~ The general land office has de-
cided that if the right to a homestead
on the public land has been acquired
officially, and subsequently abandoned
or disposed of, the right Of the original
owner ceases, and he can have no fur
.thcr privileges under the act. To get
an absolute title from the land office,
4he homestead must be occupied four
years. This is an important decision.
Year: 1863

The Fort Wayne Gazette says an
unsophisticated butternut of one Of the
back townships says that the cause of
the opposition Of the copperheads to
the enrolment Of the militia, prepara-
tory to draft, is from the fact that
every Democrat who goes into the ar
my and lives to get home, is sure to
come back an Abolitionist.
Year: 1863

I could furnish any quantity of testimonials
of its efficacy from my own patients, but the
practice Of parading bought and fictitious
ones before the public is so prevalent do not
deem it advisable. My object is to lace my
medicine before the public, not only to make
money, but to do good. 1t is proverbially
true of the American Ladies, that not ten
perfectly healthy ones can be found in any
one vicinity.
Year: 1863

BE WISE IN THE!


BE WISE IN TINE!


BE WISE IN TINE!
BE WISE IN TINE!


Let not disease destroy your constitution
Try bottle of my PERIODICAL DROPS,
and you will be satisfied that l am no impos-
tor. Tell your afflicted friend what restored
the bloom of health to your cheeks, and there
by confer favor more valuable than gold
For painful or scanty Menstruation it is just
the thing. l have now in my mind an instance
of lady who had been suffering from painful
menstruation two or three years, confining
her to her room each time; she had applied
to several eminent physicians, without relief
when one bottle of my DROPS entirely cured
her.
Year: 1863

Ny DROPS TO CURE Suppression of the
Menses, from whatever cause, though care
should be taken to ascertain if pregnancy be
the cause, as these Drops would be sure to
produce miscarriage; they win also certainly
conception, if taken two or three


days before the monthly PERIOD therefore, l


wish it distinctly understood, that do not
hold myself responsible when used under such
Year: 1863

A Coon WOMAN NEVER Grows OLD
Years may pass over her head, but if be-
nevoleuee and virtue dwell In h or heart. she
is as cheerful as when the spring of life
opened to her view. When we look at q
good woman, we never think Of her age;
she looks charming az when the rose of
youth first bloomed upon her cheek. That
rose has not faded yet; it will never fade.-
In her sighborhood she is the friend and
beusfactof, Who does not love the woman
who has spent hsr days in acts of Kindness
and mercy? Werepeat, such woman can
Devef grow old. She will always be fresh
and buoyant in spirits. active in humble
deeds Of mercy and benevolenee,
Year: 1863

Few men die of age. Almost all men
die of disappointment, passional, mental or
bodily toll, or accident. The passions kill
men sometimes suddenly. The common
expression "choked with passion" has little
exaggeration in it, for even though not sud-


denly fatal. strong passions shorten life
Strong bodied men often die young-weak
men live longer than the strong, for the
strong use their strength and the weak have
rone to use. The latter take care of them
selves; the former do not. As it is with th e
body, so it is with the mind and temper
The strong are apt to break, or like the
candle, run; the weak burn out. The in
fericr animals which live temperate lives
have generally their prescribed term of years
The horse lives twenty-five years; the OK
fifteen or twenty; the lion about twenty;
the hog ten to twelve; the rabbit eight; the
Guinea pig six or seven. The numbers all
bear proportion to the time the animal takes
to grow to its full size. But man of all


ANIMALS is the one that seldom comes up to
the average. He ought to live hundred; /;
but instead of that, he scarcely reaches to
the average of three tines the growing Pc
rod The reason is obvious-man is not only
the most irregular and most intemperate, but
the most laborious aud hard worked of all
animals. He is always the most irritable OF
all animals. and there is reas on to believe.
though we cannot tell what an aDimal Sc
crstly feels, that. more than any Other AMI
NAL, man cheTishes wrath to keep Il warm,
aud consumes himself with the Ere Of his
own reflections.