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Year: 1865

A grand musical festival is to be held in
] Springfield, Mass, during the latter part
of October The "Oratorio of the Crea-
tic'n' is to be performed,


At one of the recent watering place
balls, the most striking and pronounced OF
toi lettes was worn by stately Georgian
! gil whose summers could not have eX-
ce' eded twenty, but who carried herself
wi tn the air of woman of forty. Her
dress consisted of train of white velvet,
tal ling, not from the waist but from the
shoulders and trailing its slow length
along. 1t was without sleeves, but was
held over the shoulders by cluster clasps
of large diamonds The arms were bare,
and polished as those Of statue of Praxi-
teles as was also the face and neck and
burst. Her hair was powdered with pearl,
and dressed iR Aspasia style but instead
OF the blue ribbon usually employed in the
making up of tn at supurb coiffure eirclet
Of diamond star clusters was substituted
The slippers were of white kid, and had
diamond buckles fastening blonde and sat
in bows. No gloves or bracelets were
worn, nougbt broke the magnificent sweep
from the plump round shoulder to the
tips of the taper fingers Altogether the
costume was model of richness, simplici-
ty5 and every good and perfect thing but
mDdesty.


The Erie Dispatch tells funny story of
oil. A citizen who lived near a refinery
found his cellar knee-deep with undoubted
petroleum. No man in an oil country
has any right to be astonished by such in
dications- He fell TO work and collected
thirty-six barrels of the fluid and sold it at
six dollars to his neighbors ofthe refinery,
promising TO bring them all he had They
poured it into their immense underground
tank. The vender went his way. So did
the oil, and it came to pass they met again
IN the cellar. After the process of sale
had been twice repeated, the refiners smelt
something stronger than petroleum, and
mended a tTeacherous crevice in their
tank. Then, by a singular coincidence,
the flowing well in the cellar dried up.


How do the gentlemen who participated
in the bolters convention on Monday
night like being beslavered with the full
some praises of the Plain Deaiey. Could
any one them have had doubt that they
are playing into the hands of the Val
landigham democracy, the doubt should
be removed at once by the the patroniz-
ing way in which the Plain Dealer pats
them on the back.


To such base uses have they come at last
Year: 1865

The Board of Trustees of the Soldiers
Home have been in session to-day and this
evening, making preparation for the open
ing of the institution at once They will
not finish their labors till tomorrow.
Year: 1865

The present method Of conducting the
Quartermaster business has been under
going considerable discussion among mill
tary officials. A board of competent off
GERS will probably be convened shortly to
revise the regulations of that Department,
with view to Simplifying its forms and
adapting them to the requirements of the
service
Year: 1865

The statement in the Washington
papers that the Veteran Reserve Corps
will be mustered out of service, is partly
erroneous. The fact is, it is contemp lated
uniting the present twenty-four regiments
representing that organization, into ten
regiments from among picked men that
compose the Corps The strength of the
reserves is about 5000
Year: 1865

MEssRs. EDITORS While reviewing
some OF my medical journals, happened
to alight upon the statistics given by five
Physio- Medical physicians, as the result
of their practice in this terrible malady :
also, the reports of three Allopathists
and while meditating upon the vast diff
ference Of the amount OF life saved be-
tween the two schools, althrought struck
me, that it might be, interesting to your
readers to see an estimate of the two
systems in treating, with success, this
fearful disease. The reports Of both
classes are very meagre, but the foll5w.
ing will serve to give an idea Of which
is the superior system in treating this
disease. In giving this estimate, l shall
also include my own practice.


The statistics are as follows
Year: 1865

one hundred days fair warning, that if
they did not lay down their arms and
return to the Union, he would be COM
PEELED, according to the laws Of war, TO
emancipate their slaves, and he would
do it. This he would have been justi.
fed in doing if there had not been an
Abolitionist in the country.


Again. it is stated that If slavery is
abolished, the negroes will all come
North, and FIJI the free States with
thieves and vagabonds. so
Although thousands Of them have been
liberated. yet very few Of them have
come north. On the contrary, instead
of those freedmen south coming north,
many that have always lived among US,
will sell out and go south, as soon as
they can live among their own kind Of
people and enjoy tho rights given by our
common Creator.


Natural causes produce natural results,
The negro, as race, is warmly attached
to home and its associations this. and
their acknowledged adaptation TO warm



climate, will always make them much
prefer a life in the South to being kicked
around by the whites in the cold of the
North. ...f...yst ....s


Again, It is said, that after Mr.. La
coins re-inaugurstion, foreign powers
will recognize such States only as par
ticipated III the Presidential election.
And this in effect would acknowledge
the independence of the South. .'-


To many this is conclusive and final.


Were this valid reasoning, it would
prove our national fabric very trail
structure indeed. For all that any rebel
lious State would have to do would be
to take no part in the election for Presi-
dent. and it would be thereafter out of
the Union.


And so Of any or all Of the rest. i
Year: 1865

THE following is written as notice on a
car running on railroad in the northern
rau OF New York -


passengers are requested not TO get off
the cars TO SNOWFALL while The train is IN.
der full headway-p
Year: 1865

source of all our financial troubles, ha $
eliminated Whatever strength itmight
have had has been exhausted. 1t has no
longer any influence except for evil. The
state of onr currency is such that large
additional issue of treasury notes would
cause an almost instantaneous explosion.
1t would be absurd to continue the sys-
TEN any longer; and it would be cruel to
pay our soldiers in a currency which. suf
fciently deprecated already, would theu
become absolutely valueless. Neverthe-
less. the army must be paid, and certain
other necessary expenditures must in
some way be provided for Treasury
notes are worth little enough now, it is
true, but they areSet worth something
and the soldiers would be glad enough
to get what is due to them, even i'll pa
per at its present value. The govern
ment has struggled along fer a year or


more with this epreciatedcurrency and
it could go ON for some time longer with
the money in its existing condition: To
be sure, Congress Onght to do something
and may do something, by means OF tax
acts or otherwise, to strengthen the cur
rency. But this is q question e:itside OF
that which we are now discussing, The
effect of such measures wonld not be I'M.
mediately felt; nor could they, by posi-
bility, provide for the discharge at once,
of the pressing obligations of the gov
ernme1it. A new issue Of treasury notes
would, as we have said, be only nomi-
nal payment; and we have no idea that
Congress is going to commit the folly
and the wickedness of resorting to any
such expedient, The only practicable
way to accomplish the object is by get
ting money enough back into the treasury
to pay off the pressing claims, and sup
ply the necessities of the government,
and this can be done only by taking adj
vantage of the liberal and patriotic spirit
which undoubtedly exists among the
people. We are glad to see that Mr
Trenholm is desirous of availing himself
of this resource. We have no doubt
that a prompt and generous response
will be elected in this city, and the ex.
ample will be at once and effectively fol
lowed throughout the country. Contrl-
buttons in any form will be received
coin, plate, bonds, certificates of indebt-
edness, currency; but, for the present
purpose currency first, and then bonds
are preferable 1t is intended to ac-
knowledge these donations, from time
to time, through the public prints, com
mencing with these already received .--
We do not suppose that any one will re
quire such stimulus to his liberallty, OF
that the mere vanity of seeing his name
in the newspapers would quicken or en-
large his contributions. But it would al
ways be source of just pride to man
to know that his name is enrolled i'll a
lasting record of those who came to the
assistance of their country in its hour of
need We hope that no time wiH be lost IN
the matter Much may he done by de-
tached and spontaneous effort, but much
more by proper system of organization.
Committees of collection should imme-
diately be formed in every town and
county; and every one, we are convinced,
would aid in the good work. Let the
thing be done at once, and thoroughly
done
Year: 1865

From the Richmond Examiner, March Al


The murder, by hanging, of Captain
John Y. Beall, under the signature and
by the authority of Lincoln, is exciting
deep indignation in this community,
where the deceased had many friends
The people have been disappointed so
often in the retaliatory threats of the
President, that they have resolved here
after to take the matter into their own
hands. Threats were made yesterday
looking to the hanging, summarlly to
the first lamp-post, of any OF the Yankee
officers now on their parole, and VINO
might be found at large, and the inform,
alton being conveyed to them, they kept
very close within the security OF the
Libby. The good name and fame OF
Captain Beall, thank God, is not in the
keeping of the northern Yankee. Here,
where he was known, and in the county
of Jefferson, which is bereft of one OF
her most heroic SONS, his name will be
revered as martyr, who showed to his
enemies in foreign land how gallant
and intredid southern soldier could die
for his country.
Year: 1865

New YORK, March 9.-RichmOnd pa
pers still express the belief that Grant
will attack Lees lines around Richmond
as soon as the ground will permit. The
rebels believe that Grant has sent near
ly all his cavalry from the armies of the
Potomac and James to Sheridan, in the
Shenandoah valley. ~


A meeting to obtain subscriptions of
provisions for Lees army was recently
held at Danville, Virginia. In noticing
it the Richmond Whig says General Lees
men must be fed or we lose all.


The Danville Register is assured that
it does not enter into Lees plans to
abandon the rebel capital unless, as is
very prudently and somewhat contra
dictorily added, it becomes impossible to
hold the city longer
Year: 1865

The Sentinel, of yesterday, states, on
authority, that the Secretary of the
Treasury will be gratified to receive do
nations of money, bonds, plate or other
valuable articles, with view OF reliev-
ing the Treasury and enabling ii to pay
some of the meritOTious claims outstand-
ing against the Government The Sentt-
mel calls to mind that many offers of con


tributions have already been made,
through the public prints and otherwise,
some of them of the most liberal charac-
ter, and all indicating the existence Of a
very general disposition to come To the
assistance of the Government in this
practicable and acceptable manner. For
instance, one gentleman proposes to be
one of twenty-five to give each two hun
dred thousand dollars in currency, the
sum thus raised to go towards paying
General Lees army. Many other offers
of similar kind have been made, and
we doubt not that very large
sum could be raised, were earnest
and vigorous efforts made to turn
to proper account the generous dis
position of the people. The five mil
lions to be raised under the tender above
referred to, would be very acceptable to
the soldiers of the army of Northern Vir-
ginia, and we believe that the sum thus
acquired could soon be increased so as to
cover all deficiencies in the pay of that
gallant and noble army. 1t is known
that large arrears are due to the soldiers,
and there has been some disposition to
censure the secretary of the treasury for
not discharging this sacred obligation
But, after all, Mr.. Trenholm is not to
blame The law authorizes him to issue
only definite amount of treasury notes


This sum exhausted, he is perfectly pow


less. He connot issue dollar beyond
the sum to which he is limited by law
For some time past the treasury has been
on the verge Of exhaustion; so that the
absolutely necessary current expenses Of
the war could only be met by having re-
course to extraordinary expedients,
which must, if persisted in, prove even
more hurtfnl hereafter than they are
beneficial at present. This point being
understood, the public has been tempted
to believe that Congress might furnish
at least temporary remedy, by author
izing the issue of more treasury notes.
But the remedy would, indeed, be only
temporary. This system, the fruitful
Year: 1865

LOUISVILLE, March Sat Nashville
the steamer Imperial drifted against the
railroad bridge and sunk. No lives were
lost. The boat is total loss, but the
machinery can probably be saved in
damaged condition


The river rose three feet
Year: 1865

New YORK, March 9-The revocation
of the passport order by Secretary Sew
ard so far az it relates to Canada, has
removed all restrictions on through
travel via Suspension Bridge and Detroit,
and uninterrupted travel via the Great
Western railroad is now fully resumed
Year: 1865

R0y1mX the nauouot DcOt-A &oeEys :


The New York Herald is disposed to
father a scheme for paying off the ma
tional debt by subscriptions. despite the
triAing difficulties, that the Government
has not only guaranteed to pay thedebt,
but not to pay it before a certain date,
and the further hitch that if every dol.
lar in circulation was thrown into the
national treasury it would not suffice for
the purpose. As ,he subscriptions are
not to be paid in until the whole amount
is subscribed, those who send IN their
names secure q good advertisement and
a cheap reputation for patriotism. Be-
fore the Herald gets through, the Tribune
is disposed to see how much Mr.. Beniet
has already contributed to the snPpor;
of the public burthens The Tribune puts
its query in this way:


But, as the Herald is so Jealous for
paving off the National Debt, and in its
manifesto berates the troubles caused in
this city by the blundering blockheaded-
ness of the officials in the Internal Reve-
nue. Department we will thank the Vet
erau editor to stop one of their scandals
by stating in Just what district he paid
his Income Tax for 1863 (due in 1861
and whose receipt he has for it,. The
story is that his place of abode is so un.
certain that, when called upon IN Que
district he protested that his proper resi-
dence was in another. and uice Versa, so
that they never could find him in the
right place for taxii & purposes, and did
not succeed in making him pay at all
Of course, this cannot be true; but we
note that these blockheads have carried
their stupid malignity to the extent of
keeping his name out of the published
pamphlet list of Income Taxpayers ip
our city. Will he, therefore, 'oblige us
by putting them all ts confusion of face
by printing his receipt for last years In
come Taxi"


The subject of one of Hogarth's pic
lures, if we remember rightly, is seedy
individual, cadaverous from lack of food,
out at knees and out at elbows, lying ex
hausted on the public highway. Out of
his ragged breeches pocket there sticks a
document labeled Project for paying
the National debt" II seems as If pro-
iects for paying National debts emanate,
for the most part. from those who are not
troubled by their own. We are, OF
course, bound to believe that Mr.. Ben
nett is all exception to the rule, and that
he will he able to successfully set at rest
the ugly question raised by Brother
Greeley
Year: 1865

A RICH DISCOVERY. "A petroleum
company began few days since to dig
for oil in the Black river bottom, near
Grafton, Lorain county, Ohio. Five feet
from the surface they struck a heavy
vein OF mineral paint, Of chocolate color,
which upon examination proved to be
entirely free from grit, and Of Q superior
quality On Saturday they had pene.
trated to the depth Of twenty feet and
had not yet reached the bottom OF the
vein. The proprietors Of the paint mine
intend to suspend their search after OIL,
and devote their labors and capital to
developing and preparing the paint for
market, which can be frirnished at less
than one-third the price now asked fors Q
similar article.
Year: 1865

We copy the following exceedingly severe attack
on the Confederate government from the Richmond
Examiner We have been mobbed for using lam
guage not by onehalf as pointed or as strong as
this. But the Examiner is privileged, because it
is an original secession paper. 1t belongs to the
family The government belongs to its party, and
therefore it can talk of it as.it pleases:-


"But good sense, modesty and justice, will
never actuate the Executive while Congress abdi-
Gates its functions and public opinion its rights
Nations will suffer just punishment whenever they
entrust power to puny hands, puff up the conceit
and encourage the passions of their rulers, By
fulsome hattery or silent submission. We have
done so. The foles ofthe government are manifest
to all but if any who pays their cost proposes
opposition, or eVea-a Tenonotranee, the anSa5le
majority cry aHush oh hnshG hushl we can't get
rid Of hun and he will 40 mus and so all the more
if he is opposed. Don't say anything. We must
have econcord-unanimity- there must be no.
opposition to government" Therefore, the only
voice which is heard at all is the voice of atterers
the voice of those who have neither head nor
heart, neither knowledge, nor principles. Hence
the Executive is encouraged to pursue Its fancies
and although every military misfortune of this
country is palpably and confessedly due to the
personal interference of Mr.. Davis, the Legislature
continues at each session to be his subservient tool
and to furnish new incentive to perversity, new
means to mischief


II will not be sufficient for the Executive to have
lucid intervals. Congress and the Southern public.
must change their attitude, adopt more distinct
and manly tone, deal with their own affairs with
more resolution, keep the Executive in the path Of
duty, and curb it with peremptory hand when it
interferes with things beyond its capacity. Great
adversely has fallen upon u.s. but the power of the
Southern States is not broken their resources are
enormous and on side is the breach irreparahle.
OF all external dangers there is not one which can
not be successfully met But great danger is
within; folly vested with license, and fattery to
encourage folly. No calamity which has happened
is in itself ruinous; but what will ruin US is this
that the government should go on to do, and con-
tinue to do, the identical acts which have made
calamity by the necessary sequence of cause and
effect The more harmony and the more concord,
and the more self aonegation we do eVince under
such circumstances, the more rapid is our progress
to destruction. Let US determine that the course
of the ship shall be altered with that determination
will be found the means to compel the change"
Year: 1865

The Conservative mentions to the praise of the
counties of Edgecombe and Sampson, that during
the Yankee advance on Bel6eld, almost every man
OF the Home Guard companies of those counties,
then at Weldon volunteered to the State line
and fight the enemy in Virginia. Confederate.


The above, from the twin organs of Gov. Vance,
deserves some notice.


The regiment Of Home Guards referred to reached
Weldon alter hard nights travel in rain and sleet
and they were nearly frozen. They were called on
Immediately to go to Bellfeld. They knew moth
ing as to the volunteering of the Junior Reserves
and besides, Col. WhitfOrds regiment of regulars
was at Weldon, and was not called upon to CO.
The great body of the Home Guards had no conf
dence that if they crossed the line they would be al
lowed to return within reasonable time. Under
these circumstances they refused togo. And now,
to single out few from certain Counties who mani
Tested disposition to the line as the drawer
and better portion Of the regiment, is both ungen
erous. and unjust The men Of Sampson ano
Edgecombe are not whit braver or better than the
men from the other Counties. But they are praised
by the Governors organs, while the. other portion
of the regiment is surred no doubt mainly for the
reason that the Counties referred to are original





secret of this special commendation.


The North Carolina militia will have enough to
do to defend their own State. North Carolina reg
ulars, since this commenced, have left their
bones upon the soil of nearly every State and even
now they are maintaining the unequal contest with
superhuman valor and endurance on the soil Of Vir-
ginia, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. If
our Home Guards have not that confidence IN our
authorities which will induce them to spring at
once across the line into another State to meet
the enemy, the fault is not theirs Our Governor,
it is SAID, got into passion when he heard the reg
iment referred to had refused to cross the line
Perhaps if he would redeem the pledge he made in
nis letter of acceptance in 1862 to lead the of
North Carolina to battle aud to victory" and would
share with the Home Guards their common rations
and their Sufferings in sleet and rain, they would
manifest more zeal when proposition was made to
cross the line to meet the enemy.


How. many OF the militia of Virginia, or of South
Carolina, or of Georgia, Mississippi, have evnced
disposition to "come over and help US 2" We
have not heard of company even. And yet our
papers, printed under the eye and with the ap-
proVal of our Governor must strain point to un-
derrate the courage of our militia, and to impair
the fair fame of North Carolina in the history of
these timesI 1t is thus that the character of the
State is DETAINED and dragged down by her own
sons
Year: 1865

TIE YANKEES AT GRIFFIN VANDALISM by OUR
OWN SoLDIERs.-The LaGrange Reporter, of the 9th
says We clip the following from private letter
written to US by friend living in Griffin. The
picture is horrible one, and we fear there is too
much truth in it. so far our cavalry are concern
ed. What burning shame there can be no more
discipline and order among the soldiers of the Con-


federacy The writer says:


1.-THE day after writing the foregoing our Office
closed here as the Yankees were advancing Next
day militia men passed through Griffin retreat
ing to Macon, and after them came Wheeer's cav
airy plundering and destroying the country as thew
went; burning up all the corn, grain and fodder,
and in some instances, demanding and taking the
purses of private citizens When they came to nv
house. Ipointed to my four helpless little girls and
prayed them to leafs me a few weeks suppy-the
answer was laugh of Gerision then pledged my
honor to destroy all the grain, &c, upon the place.
they would let it out Of the houses so as
to save them but while plead, the torch was ap-
piled, and in few hours the fruit of years hard
labor was in ashes Mrs. t drew water and the
children carried it, and by almost superhuman ex-
ertion kept the flames from my dwelling. While
| write to you there wives and children of Con-
federate soldiers (frem whom the last potato was
taken) crying for bread. You have never written
anything of the cruelty of the enemy which ap-
proaches what some here have suffered from our own
soldiers. Men whipped almost to death to tell
where their money was. The lewd women Of the
country, and many who hitherto had been consid-
cred honest, followed the soldiers TO stores, mills
and barns, and encouraged them to robbery. Many
of the officers and men that saw were drunk, and
much mischief was done by gangs of Confederates
calling themselves Yankees. Such is the effect Of
war upon men and women who were once respect
able and it must grow worse and worse till society
is wholly disorganized and destroyed"