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Year: 1863

Ha~ 1t is supposed by many that Kansas
will be exempt from the operation of the Con-
scription Bill. The President is authorized by
the bill to give credit to the different States OF
districts for the number of men already fur
nished by them. This, if Kansas is subjected
to the draft, will cut down materially the quota
required of us. But the situation and circum-
stances Of our people, should exempt the State
from the workings of the bill. The heavy
drain upon our numbers caused by the patriot
ism Of our people, has left us hardly enough
men to carry on the ordinary pursuits of a
community. 1t is question in our mind
whether there are at this time hands enough
In the country to gather the coming crops
The Times says that the agricultural interests
of the State would be ruined, and calls on the
authorities to canvass the subject.
Year: 1863

ESE Mcclellan is getting into hot water.
Each days developments only serve to entan-
gle him the worse. The Committee on the
Conduct Of the War are stirring deep into the
mis-doings of the past, and it is said that evil
dence of strong nature against him is coming
to light. Charges are being prepared against
him with a view to court-martial His recent
stumping tour in behalf Of Copperheadism
should entitled him to this The papers con-
tain letter from Gen. Scott, wherein "Little
Mac" is charged with dIsobedience of orders
as long ago as 1861.
Year: 1863

D6- The attention of the citizens of Clay
County is called to law entitled, ''An Act
relating to Unorganized Counties while they
remain attached to an Organized County for
Judicial Purposes 1t will be found in an
other column. They may proceed Immediately
to the organization of township, and the Sc
lection Of the proper officers.
Year: 1863

JEFFERSON CRY, December 30-Both
houses of the Legislature completed
their organization this morning by the
election of all emancipation candidates.
There seems to be a general feeling that
Congress should lead off in the enamel
patton movement, and there is no doubt
a prompt tender of compensation would
greatly facilitate the emancipation move
ment in the Legislature.


There is a strong prospect that the
senatorial question will be disposed Of
this week Under the constitution oil
this State simple majority only is re-
quired to pass any bill over the Cover
nors veto.
Year: 1863

The vIcKsBURG CANAL.--H appears 'ns''
on the Sth inst, the dam at the upper ehu ~
the canal at. .Vicksburg gave way before 'ne
immense pressure of water, ana 'iie eah1i was
sneedilv filed to overfowing, the men who
,sars at work beng compelled to take preclp-


tate fight. When it broke there was differ
once of eight feet between the bottom of the
canal and the surface of the river. The vlo-
lence of the torrent as it rushed through,
sweeping away wheelbarrows, plank staglngs
and all the implements of labor, was terrific.
A wave Of foaming, angry water rushed ike
an avalanche along the whole length of the
canaI-a mile and quarter. The canal itself
was full in few minutes, and the water be-
gan to spread. In a few hours there was not
dry spot Of land on the peninsula except the
narrow pathway of the levee which surround
ed it, and by noon there was Lake of over a
thousand acres in area, where 'in the morning
there had been as many acres of land Of
the effect of the break correspondent OF the
New York Post remarks:


ssThe earth which had been taken out of the
canal in excavating had been wheeled up to
the west side Of the canal and there formed an
embankment. or levee, which it was supposed
would prevent the water from flooding the
country on that side, and the ground on which
nearly all Of our army was encamped. lIt
will be remembered that the point of the pc,
ninsula is to the east, towards FlcKsDurg, anu
that the canal, running north ana south GUS
the peninsula at right angles nearly three
miles from the city, and that nearly all OF our
camps were behind this embankment, and hav-
ing the canal, the peninsula and the river be-
tween them and Vicksburg.) Neither the
canal nor the embankment, however, had been
quite completed, and the water soon began to
pour over the unfinished bank. Some regi-
ments that were in exposed positions, had to
gather up tents and camp equippage in hot
haste and dire confusion, and run for the le-
wee. Several companies which were on the
south side of the peninsula wer cut Oft by the
rushing water and had to be ferried to the
main body of the army IN boats.


The embankment Of the Vlcksburg and
Shreveport railway, however, which cuts the
peninsula nearly longitudinally, has thus far
prevented the water from flooding the north
west quarter of the peninsula. But yesterday
even that was considered insecure and the
troops were all ordered to shift their camps to
the Ievee. A few regiments dld move up, and
find the 'elbow room scant enough Think
of a whole army-nen. mules horses, wagons,
tents and artillery-crowded on an embank
ment but little wider than a railroad tracks
Tonight there seems to be less danger of the
foods reaching this quarter, and those regi-
ments which had not moved are ordered to re-
tain their old camps"
Year: 1863

AN APPEAL FROM LoYAL SoUTHERNER


An eminent citizen of the Southwest, being
near Gen. Grants lines, has addressed, thro'
Secretary Seward, an appeal to the people of
the loyal States, begging them to listen to no
words of peace until the rebels are completely
defeated and their power destroyed. He
says:


have watched this rebellion from the
commencement, and | know its success has
so far been due solely to the singleness of pur-
pose of those who have conducted it regardless
OF all else. Why not, yourselves, rising su-
perlor to every other thonght and discardne
every other interest, think and act only for the
safety OF your country, your liberties and your
freedom. he enemy, in truth, are beating
up recruits with double vigor, and they are ta-
KING unwilling and decrpit old men of fifty
and sixty years of age, all of which, however,
VIII amount to nothing before united and de-
termlned North. To-day, we have a heavy
gale from the North, attended with a snow
storm, the first that has fallen since the fall of
Fort Doneson, and which admonishes me that
my friends are coming. How glad | would be
to welcome them. My prayer for them is, as
1t always has been, that they will not be long
IN coming; but long or short, come and make
your boundary as it was before, the Gulf of
Mexlco-determined in your united strength
that you will neither bequeath this war to your
posterlty nor fight it twice yourselves but
make final end of it yourselves while YOU
are at it. The cost in blood and treasure tho
great, will never be less and in truth, if we
prove ourselves unequal TO the task now, what
guaranty have we for the future2 Who can
see the end, unless with the examples of other
nations before US, we picture state of things
at which every loyal heart will shudder 2"
Year: 1863

A TIGER IN THE STREETS OF CINcIN-
NATI.-The Commercial of Thursday last has
the following:


ssEarly night before last, a tiger belonging
to the nenoge of Messrs. Robinson & Lake,
managed to escape from its cage in the build
ing on Seventh street, near College street, in
which it, with Its fellows, was confined, and
walked leisurely out on Seventh street unno-
ticed particularly by any person-some Of the
pedestrians not seeing it all, and others sup
posing it, in the darkness, to be large dog.
The animal continued out Seventh street to
Mound, not offering to modest any one, and en-
tered the yard attached to the house occupied
by Mr.. Martin. A little daughter Of Mr..
Martin happened to be in the yard at the
time, and was terrified at what she took to be
huge dog climbing the stone wall with cat
like agility, oscilating its long tail slowly, and
growing in hoarse, threatening manner. She
fed to the house and alarmed her mother, who
was terrified beyond bounds at the sight of the
animal and the attempt to enter the kitchen,
at the door of which it scratched for some
time. In a few moments the keeper arrived,
and after little trouble got possession cf the
dangerous animal and returned it to its cage"
Year: 1863

GEN. BANKS AND THE DEPARTMENT OF
TAE GULF.-The following is the conclusion
of a business letter written to Governor An
drew by Major General Banks:


notice in the papers at the North report
that certain regiments, or detachments, or sol
diers of my command, have been permitted or
ordered to return TO their masters, against
their will, to stand guard over, and to fog the
slaves in this department. 1t give me pleas
ufe to be able to say that it is without founda-
tion or justification. In fact, in statement and
in implication, it is utterly and UNANIMOUSLY
false.


AS it is made reproach to Massachusetts,,
that such orders are given by one of her citl-
zens, desire to say to you, the Chief Execu-
tive Magistrate of the State, having had many
of her unsurpassed regiments under my COM
mand, that | can bear constantly in mind that
| am son of Massachusetts, and grateful as
the remembrance may be to me and mine,
have yet greater satisfaction in the fact that as
an officer of the army of the United States,
following the instructions of the President and
the laws of the land


have never performed, or permitted, or
passed without It's appropriate censure, any
act inconsistent with my duty, with the spirit
and principles of the people among whom i
was born /; or that justly interpreted, would
not meet their approval, without party dis
tlnctlons.


Our country has many sorrows, and has yet
to encounter many natural trials-nons great
er than those engendered by wanton and
wicked perversion of truth. In the hands OF
strong men truth alone is an adequate remedy
for all evils. 1t aids every cause, and sup
ports all men. If the people Of Massachusetts
pant for greater sacrifices of blood and treas
ure than they have made, and yet must make
in the defense of their great cause, let them
foster national spirit of wanton and shame
less mendacity. 1t will open an abyss, deep
enough and dark enough to swallow all the
children that may spring from their loins for
unnumbered generations.
Year: 1863

The Administration, by its policies
and measures and acts, is responsible
for the conscription riots. If the whole
North should blaze out in civil war to-
day, the Administration would be re-
sponsible for it. 1t is responsible for
the war with the South, and its manage
ment of that war has begotten all this
angry strife in the North.


The Administration is just as respon-
sible for the war with the South as for
the conscription riots in New York-and
no more. Both instructions were rebel
lions against law and order-both had to
be put down by the strong arm Of the
military. Both instructions were in
cited by scheming scoundrels, who ought
to swing higher than Hanan. The edi-
tor of the Chicago Times is entitled to a
more lofty gallows than most Of his con-
temporaries. He covets martyrdom -
we trust his desire in that particular
may be more than grati6ed, in legal
way.
Year: 1863

gerous enemy of the Governmental make
them fast friends of the paper. In Hen
derson the circulation of the Freeman s
Journal has more than quadrupled.
Men subscribe for it who never heard of
it, until it was suppressed by the Govern
ment, and we have legitimate right to
conclude that the same motives which
prompt Kentucky rebels to subscribe for
the paper actuate the majority of those
who have very recently sent in their
names from Indiana. That motive is
the destruction of the Government and
the recognition of the Confederacy-
it can be no other. The Government
has no other end in view in continuing
the war than compelling recognition
of its authority in all the States. The
rebels North have no other object in
view in opposing the acar than the de-
struction of that authority and the
recognition of the right of secession;
and no better manifestation can they
give that such is their intention than by
laboring to increase the circulation of
the Freemans Journal


We cite the above fact that the people
may keep their eyes upon the plotters
and their emissaries.
Year: 1863

Bad Luck is simply man withhis hands
in his pockets and his pipe in his mouth
looking on to see how it will come out
Good Luck 10 n man Of pluck, with his
sleeves rolled up, and working TO make it
come right.
Year: 1863

Will be inserted at two dollars per square
fer each subsequent insertion. A square to con.
sist Of the space of IL lines, Brewer type. No
advertisement considered less than q square.
Year: 1863

The Independent says that the pressure
on the money market, the scarcity of cot
ton, and falling off Of manufacture, will
cause further rise of cotton goods. The
importations of dry goods last week were
Sl,5lS,f ,f3+, to $4i6,6l7 N the correspond
ing week Of last year..
Year: 1863

which has now been thoroughly tested, and found
be NO humbug as has been tho case with patent
Planters that have keen patmed of on the farmers
Of this wen other States. But this is the age Of
Improvement. 4 few years ago this machine was
called humbug, but now hrs the reputat ion Of being
TIE BEST AND ONLY RELIABLE PLANTER IN


''9 aodI USE. 3or2 aaf W


Now all want Is for youtqsgiye my Planter triai
a'd viii warrant II to save more labor than any
Sl00 year to every farmer that one besii es
the amount Of that he will raise more
than ty planting by hand with horse mgchine
have TO do Is to plant yonr corn with the Missouri
Corn Planter, and by doing you can have your
Year: 1863

ArPLEs.-''ames Shaw Esq, OF Spring
Greek. in this county, has presented US with
about peck of Green Pippin Apples raised
this year on his farm. They are decidedly
nice. We measured an ordinary sized one
and it measured nine and a quarter inches
lin circumference. He has two trees from
which he has picked about six bushels.-
He has been obliged to pick them before they
were ripe because some mischievous boys
dising Ia the neighborhood of Spring Creek
Valley were stealing them. Let the boys
take notice that if they are caught they will
be dealt with to the very letter Of the law.
Mr.. Shaw is very sorry that he was not
able to lot some Of the apples remain on the
trees until they were entirely ripened .s the
trees were brought from Canada and he
wished to test the fruit before ordering more
trees.
Year: 1863

MCCeRNAcK's SELF-RAKER.-Wo werc
invited last Friday morning to go out to Mr..
Benefits wheat field to see one Of McCor.
mack's Self rakers work, and we went. We
have not time nor Space here to give de-
tailed description Of the machine, nor shall
we attempt it; all who ever saw it know
what it is as we'll, or better than we can tell;
those who have not seen it would not know
much about it If we should tell them all we
know. But we desire simply to say that We
never saw Reaper work so handsomely in
our life. It cut evenly and smoothly the
swarth is five and half feet wide but the
beauty Of tho work is the Raker it throws
the grain off as nicely as it can possibly be
done. Messrs. Baker & Marvin are the
agents for them at this place.
Year: 1863

S1R-I have your note of yesterday. The
proposition it contains is certainly worthy of
the gravest consideration, provided it is made
under proper responsibility. Yet you must
be aware that, while you know fully the rep
resen tative position occupy, 1 have not the
like assurance as regards yourself IF you
think proper, therefore, to communicate to me
who those are on behalf and authority you
make the proposition referred to, with the cv-
idcnce of your ''right to make this offer," I
will at once give you my reply, the character
of which, however, must depend on what 1
may learn of your authority in the premises.


l am, sir, your obedient servant, as5


J. NJ MASON.
Year: 1863

june IT, 1868.


To Aoncure d. Conaody, Esq:


SIR 81 have received your note of yester-
day. You need not write to America to sob
tain the evidence of your right to treat on
the matter it imports. Our correspondence
closes with this reply. 1t was your pleasure
to commence it, it is mine to terminate it. 7
desired to know who they were who were re-
sponsible for your mission to England, as you
present it and who were to confirm the treaty
you proposed to make for arresting the war in
America, on the basis of separation of the
the States, with without the sanction
nation is of the less value now, as find
from sn advertisement in the journals of the
day that you have brought to England let
TORS of sufficient credit frCm those who sent
YOU to invite public meeting in London, un-
der the sanction of member of Parliament,
who was to preside, to hear an address from
YOU on the subjec. of your mission, with the
promise of like address from him. This
correspondence shall go the public, and will
find its way to the country certain class cf
the citizens of which you claim to represent.
1t Will, perhaps, interest the Government and
the sol disant "loyal men" there to know, un-
der the sanction of your name, that the "lead-
ing nti-savery men in America" are prepar-
ing to negotiate with the authorities of the
Confederate States for ttrestoraticn of peace
and the independence of the South en- a
pledge that the Abolitionists and anti-slayery
leaders of the Northern States shall immedi-
atcly oppose the further prosecution of the
war on the part of the United States Govern
ment, and since they hold the balance of pow
er will certainly cause the war TO cease by the
immediate withdrawal of every kind of sup
port from it." As some reward however for
this interesting disclosure, your inquiry wheth-
er the Confederate States will consent to eman-
citation on the terms stated shall not go Who'll
ly answered. You may be assured, then, and
perhaps it may be of value to your constitu-
ents to assure them, that the Northern States
will never be in relations to put this question
to the South, nor will the Southern States eV-
er be in position requiring them to give an
answer. ~ -,.5ssz


am, sir, your obedient servant,


y" sa j. Nj. MASON.
Year: 1863

The BLACK SwAN.-Fhis splendid sing.
er sang here last Friday and Saturday
evenings She is truly splendid singer,
who bad only to stand up and open her
mouth for music to flow out in the richest
and most melodious strains. We have nev-
er seen person possessing such compass
of voice. 1t is said that she sings thirty
one clear notes, from the deepest bass to the
most shrill and flute like soprano. But for
all that, we were disappointed in her singing.


We expected to have heard better singer
than she is. Several times We detected de-
cided impurities in her tones, that ought not
to be in the voice Of good singer. Col.
Wood says she was suffering from cold
which may account for that; but there is
one serious fault, that a cold would nc vcr
produce,and without remedying which, she,
nor any other person, can become popular
singer among the people, That fault con.
sists in very imperfect and indistinct
enunciation of the words she attempts to
sing One is enraptured with the delight
full melody she produces, but the srandure
of the almost sublime pieces she sings, is
entirely lost because the sentiment cannot
be understood, even by the most attentive
listener. How the title "Swan," ever came
TO be attached to her, we cannot conceive
We had always supposed a Swan to be a
bird OF great semetry of iorm-beautiful!y
moulded in all its parts-a long, slender,
archins neck, and graceful, wit hall, in all its
movements. This lady is exactly the re-:
verse. We should think it much more an
propriate to cali her ''Mallard Duck"


Mr.. Charles Dodge, the Young Thalbere
presided 1T the piano. There is 1cusc in
that instrument and Mr.. bod ye can get it
all cut. lie is but sixteen years Of age yet
he is one Of the best pianoists we ever
heard. lie unfortunately had very poor
instrument to play upon, and we felt as
though we would have given small fortune
if he could have had good one for about
ten minutes ; but as it was he brought
strains out of the old thing, such as never
came from it before.
Year: 1863

1t is the energy of will that is the
soul of intellect wherever it is,
there is life; where it is not, all is
dullness, and dependency, and
desolation. People who have no sx-
.perience of it, imagine that it is de.
structive to the nerves, exhaustive
to the animal spirits; that it aggra-
Yates the wear and tear of life ex-
cessively. But this is as an idle no
ton, as. the habits and humors of
those who entertain it. I leave it
to any man who knows its real eff
feet to stake the ballance-to COM
pare the exhaustion of an indolent
day with that of an active one; to
say in which of the two cases the
subject is in better heart for work,
and filter to undergo it. Whatever
we may be about, one thing, I be-
heve, is certain, that, if the spirits
are bent with energy, they are ut
terly wasted by idIeness; at worst,
energy can only end in relaxation,
it is superior to it for while, and
possibly at last may fall-into- it;
whereas idleness is actually relaxa-
ton from first to last, and can be
nothing else. But even this view,
favorable as it is, is yet not fayora-
bic enough to be just. The fact is,
that violent action is not necessary
to energy any more than tyranny is
to hngship; on the contrary, the
gentlest energy does the most work.
Energy, literally from the Greek, is
inward workingness; the blooming
of the flower of energy, the growth
of the body of energy-yet in all
these there is no violence; tho eff
cacy is not destructive, but vital;
without it the whole frame must,
fall at once into corruption; with it
instead of corruption, we have life.
Year: 1863

Trying to be what we cannot, pos
itiveiy prevents us being what we
ought. Hence the great impor-
tance of youth setting out right in
forming q character and choosing
an occupation of Life.
Year: 1863




We wish to encourage elistsments.-
The President has called for three hun
drcd thousand volunteers, very properly
taking it for granted that, il five or six
hundred thousand men had indorsed all
his war policies, and voted for vigorous
prosecution of tho war. in only three
States, he ought to have no difficulty in
securing three hundred thousand soldiers
in the entire North, Now, Curtin men,
Brough men. Stone men, where are you?
You have said to to the Administration,
"Go on with this war, Just as you have
been prosecuting it during the last year.
Never stop fighting until you have freed
the last slave in tho South. Coniscate
their property; subjugate them; offer them
no terms except unconditional submis-
sion" How is the Administration to
follow your dictation unless you come to
its support ? To vote for war is not
enough. That will never "put down the
rebellion You. who are for the war in
the manner and for the purposes the Ad-
ministration is carrying it on, should not
hesitate to take your place in the ranks
and help it along. Once, tho President
and Congress declared that tho war was
prosecuted solely for the purpose of re-
storing the Union, and with no intention
OF interfering with the institutions of any
State. Then "Copperheads" filled up
the ranks. They were willing, and are
still willing to fight for restoring the I'M
ion. But you have declared that the war
is waged for something else. You have
assured the Administration and the peo.
pie Of the South that you will not have
the old Union or tho old Constitution.
You demand "modern improvements. 4"
Chief among these is the absolute de-
struction of slavery, the confscation of
southern property, and the reduction of
the States to yassalage. The Admins
tration takes you at your word. Upon
whom can it rely, il not upon those men
who so fiercely demand these policies, for
men to prosecute the war under them?


Ii these men, or enough Of them to an
swer the call Of the President, do not en-.
list in the war. they add hypocrisy to the
monstrous crime Of betraying the Ad-
ministration in the hour Of its extremity.
They have no moral right to desert it after
Turing it into the adoption of policies
they know to be thoroughly obnoxious
to the Democracy. Those who control
the policies should fight for their enforce
ment Those whose wishes arc defed
and whose entreaties are condemned by
the managers of the war ought not to be
asked to assist in enforcing policies and
principles they believe to be ruinous,