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Year: 1864

o, my bird, my beautiful bIrdI


Sing no more to day;
The Baddest maiden under the sun
must be, till this weary war Is done:


For my lover has gone away. s
Ahi your voice could never drop as 1t does
Down through those slender bars;
Ifyou ever had loved a soldier lad,
And he was all the friend you had,


And was gone away to the wars.
You are quiet nowl too quiet my bird,


To suit my restless mood;
IT'S fearful TO feel the house 30 still,
Sing out again, till you sing your hll;


shall die with solitude.
You must sing for us both in that blessed day,
When 1 welcome my soldier boy;
For my eyes will be dim with the happy tear,
And my heart will come to my lip 30 near,
That cannot speak for joyI
Year: 1864




Ohio, November a. 1928 and was &c at
the time of his death. He graduated at
West Point in 1853 During 1854 he was
an instructor at West Point, in 1856 he
was employed as an assistant Engineer on
the defenses of New York Harbor. From
1857 to 1861 he was charge ofthe cOnstruc-
ton of Notifications in San Francisco Bay.
Shortly after he was promoted to be
Captain of Engineers. In 1861 he became
an Aid-de-Camp Of General Halleeks as
! OF Lieutenant Colonel In 1862 he was
made Chief Engineer to accompany Grant
in the expeditions against Forts Henry
and Dohelson. After the battle Of Shilo
he was mHde Colonel ard Chief Engineer
on Halleeks staff In May 1862 he was
made Brigadier, and in October Major
General. At the close of the Vicksburgh
campaign he was made Brigadier in the
-lar army. General Mcpherson was


led man. He has not visited
outbreak OF the rebellion,
having said that he wo- DO' 'e', IS
until the war was over. His G. ~ ~
at Fremont, Ohio. The following e
scription of his personal appearance:


The personal appearance Of General
Mcpherson WIS that Of a high toned gen
tleman and scholar Justly regarded as
one of the most skillful officers in the wes-
tern army, he was noted for total absence
Of that roughness and uncouthness of
manner, almost amounting to boorishness,
which some officers seem to regard as
a sine qua non to the make up of a
good commander. No subordinate,
whatever his rank or station, whether pri-
vate soldier or Brigadier General, ever re-
ceived from him an unkind answer or an
uncivil word. He was as courteous to his
body-servant as he was respectful to his
superiOrs in rank and position The writer
recOllects on one occasion an official said
to him, Why don't you swear at the
damned rascals p alluding to some men
who had been guilty Of dereliction Of duty
The General replied, u have no more
right to swear at them than at you. How
would You ike me to damn you a hltle
now and them II was a favorite ex-
preston of his that politeness was a coin
that passed current every where, and was
never at a discount. @


His courage was Of kind most valua-
bic to an army and to himself as a COM
mander. BE was stoical, but never i'm
petuOus-calm, cool and selfpossessed, no
matter what the danger that might sur
round him. He never lost his presence of
mind for single moment, even in the
most desperate situation OF during the pro-
gress of the most hotly-eontested engage
ment His enthusiasm never got the bet
ter of his judgment, and he could give as
good council and advice during the prog
ress of bayonet charge, led by himself
as if he were enjoying a social tsts tete far
removed from the scene of hostile opera
tiOns. He would form his line Of battle
under the heaviest fire of the enemy, with
as much Indifference to rebel cannon and
sharpshooters as ifhe was arranginga a hol-
iday dress-parade. We think we utter
but the verdict Of all who know General
MCPHERSON, when we say he was a mod
el soldier and a model gentleman-a sol
der whom the Republic can i'll afford to
lose, and gentleman whose loss society
will deeply feel,
Year: 1864

w ASHlNGrONI July %


The Republican extra says dispatches
to the Government represent that great
battle was fought in Atlanta on Friday,
resulting in horrible slaughter and a
complete repulse Of the enemy at every
point


The Rebels holding the largest part of
the city, assaulted our works on that day
with great fury, evidently expecting to
drive our forces out of the city.


The 18th corps, commanded by General
Frank Blair seemed to be the special OBJ
iect of Rebel wrath, as they massed against
it in overwhelming force.


The 10Th received the shock gallantly and
held its own until General Dodge with the
10th corps came up when the rebels were
hurled back with great slaughter. Gen
eral Logan at the head of the 18th corps
went into battle with the rallying cry of
Remember Mcpherson. This corps
as well as Blaires both constituting
the army under Major General
Mcpherson fought desperately-the
news of the death of their brave command
er having been communicated to them Just
before going into battle.


Our troops buried 600 rebel left on the
field within our lines besides which the
rebels buried many of their own death
near their works.


It is estimated that the rebel killed and
wounded on Friday win exceed 5000
Our loss will reach about 2, 500 in killed
and wounded.


The 10Th corps suffered severely while
the work of burying the dead and remov-
inc the wounded was going on On Satur-
day Shermans heavy artillery was
playing upon the city. At the
same time large fires were observedin dif-
ferent parts of Atlanta, supposed to be
caused by the destruction OF supply de-
pots and other rebel property which the
enemy could not carry of, and did not
wish to fall into our hands. This is con-
Year: 1864




The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser tells
a story about one of the aldermen of
that city who was drafted, but was ayerse
to army service. 1t appears that the
Common Council Of Buffalo possesses the
power to pardon convicts in the
penitentiary. Some time since a noted
scoundrel was sentenced to a term of i'm
prisonment, and upon this individual the
aconscript father fixed his attention. He
visited the prisoner, and found him ready
to enter the army as a substitute. The
next thing was to get the rogue pardoned
cut. This was accomplished through the
favor of the Board, but when the eulprit
was released he utterly declined to enter
the service, and is now ready to undertake
any little job of mischief that may present
itself tH4+st|t .ti-
Year: 1864

Somebody who knows says that when
two or more women, approaching you on
narrow wllk, fall behind one another to
enable you to pass, you may be sure they
are ladies of uncommon politenesse and
consideration. The usual course pur-
sued by women is to charge all abreast,
sweeping everybody into the mud.
Year: 1864

or confidence, that evetaally these men
win see the whole truth and embrace
all its conclusions. We can gain moth
ing By denouneeing them We uwy
lose much by presenting hostile front
to their peace movements. Live with
them under the same Government We
never will But meanwhile, If they viii
use the ballot box against Mr.. Lincoln,
while Ne use the sartridge-box, each
side viii be helper to the other, and
both co Operate in accomplishing the
greatest work which this century and
continent have witnessed.
Year: 1864




WAsHINGroN, Nov. 6.


The rush to the cars by temporary resi-
dents here, going home to vote, was too
much for the railroad. Some four hundred
we're left behind, but by the aid of special
trains all have been able to get off to-day.
Private intimations from New York in
dictate conviction among leading Demo
Gratis that their cause is hopeless. They
are very bitter and very desperate, but 1t
is only the promonition of certain failure
that makes them so. Nosurer test Of their
feeling can be foun d than the money test.
1t has leaked out within the past fortnight
that they have been very short of money,
and that their financial men have shown a
very decided indisposition to throwing
away any more money in contribution to
a sinking cause. They are slsoinvolved in a
souabble about what has been done with
the money already contributed. One of their
most prominent newspaper men is accused
of converting it to his own uses. An
Illustration of the comparative feeling here
may be found in the comparative doings Of
the Lincoln and Mcclellan Clubs last night
Each wanted TO raise small fund for send
ing voters home. The Lincoln Club, in
less than an hour, raised over two hundred
dollars, the Mcclellan Club spent tie eve
ming in getting seventeen dollars ard some
cents.


Evidence is said to have been procured
showing that one of the New York Agency
Ballot Forgers here had taken a file of the
city papers and hunted through the list o.
deaths in the hospitals to get names o.
dead New York soldiers for whom votei
could be forged. .-. ...
Year: 1864

PosTPoSEp.-The case of Mrs. Patterson Allan,
who stands charged with reasonable correspondence
with our enemies at the North, was called III the
Confederate States District Court yesterday where
upon motion was made for its further continuance
until the September term. The grounds for doing
stated to be on account of the absence from
the city Of one of the Defendants counsel well as
indispOsition to enter upon any criminal business
which will be likely to require protractcd argument
until cooler weather sets in. Judge HALLIBURTON ac-
knowledged the propriety of complying with the
notion but expressed his regret that the case could
not be finally decided at this term of the Court
Mrs. Allan then renewed her bail in the sum of one
hundred thousand dollars, with her husband as Sc
curity, for her appearance at that time.
Year: 1864

Observation-Disclosures Is. IL. Franklin, who
suspended from duty by the Mayor a few days
since on account of certain charges which were al
legged against him, underwent examination before
His Honor at the lower station-hOuso yesterday
morning, and the evidence falling to convict him of
any offence he reinstated III his old position
At the same time the charges pending against Fabius
and Marcellus Hicks also members of the night
police, Were taken up and witnesses examined but
for reasons which were not made known, the Mayor
reserved his decision till this morning, and in the
meantime the parties remain suspended.
Year: 1864

FINE On PAINTINGS The subscribers
have the pleasure to announce to the citi-
zens of the city and vicinity that they
have received from New York an in
voice OF oil paintings, of rare merit, and
will have them on exhibition at their store
one day previous to the day Of sale, due
notice Of which will be given in the daily
papers.


Catalogues will be ready on Wednes
day morning. HowR l. TYLEa.
Year: 1864

The people OF Van Buren County pro-
pose to give grand reception dinner to
the returned veterans OF that county at
Keosauqua tomorrow afternoon.


The officers and soldiers Of the Third
Iowa Cavalry are intending to go up and
participate in the festivities of the COCA
sion we understand
Year: 1864

Eay- We heard negro on Saturday
asking for job of removing some coal,
and from the size Of some of the words he
was trying to use in making the request,
we concluded that he did not know the
exact calibre of his mouth.
Year: 1864

ssa- The rain of yesterday and last
night will be very apt to remove the ice
in the river, unless it freezes before this
paper appears. The mail was taken safe
ly over yesterday afternoon in hand
cart
Year: 1864

ssR- The Des Moines river is in many
places even unsafe for foot passengers,
and near its mouth the ice has broken UP
altogether. There is no crossing for some
distance below Warsaw.
Year: 1864

Ear 1t is utterly impossible for us to
tell atthe present writing what kind Of
weather 1t will be when our readers pc.
ruse this notice. The past week has been
borrowed from May, but whether the
coming month will pay it back in January
weather is question which we shall no,
attempt to decide now. Sunday waa
gloomy enough !; il was one of those wet
disagreeable days when person feels ou
of humor with himself and the rest o
mankind, and the kind Of weather that /
not very productive Of items Of eany in
tsrest.
Year: 1864

E We learn from private letter
written by one of the members OF the 18th
Iowa regiment to gentleman in this
city, that the regiment expect to start
home about the first inst. There is nc
foundation in the report tina. they have
already arrived at Davenport.
Year: 1864

MOZART SocrErY.-On Tuesday eve.
ming next the Mozart Society Of this city
will give their second concert at the
Atheneum for the benefit Of the Ladies.
Union Aid Society. From the great sue.
cess they met with on their first appear
ance before the public, We have no hesi
fancy in say ing that on thstevening stand
ing room will be at a premium. No
only the exquisite music which they vii
hear viii draw forth the people, but th,
object to which the proceeds are to b
appropriated. will induce many to attent
who take no delight in ''soal- stirring
music.n There is to be change Of pro
gramme. and the pieces selected are o
excellent taste.
Year: 1864

F Men in vehicles and on horseback
should not trot past the street-crossings
such muddy weather as this, when there
are persons standing waiting for them tc
pass by. 1t is not just the thing for per.
sons who have to perform teets Of pedes-
trianism.


We write feelingly upon this matter
having gritty recollection of yesterday
personal experience.
Year: 1864

The New York World is fattering it.


self with the notion that the rebels will


surrender before the Fourth Of July, and


unite with their sympathizing friends in


the North upon candidate for President


who will maintain their rights under the


Constitution. The World has no hope
for its party from the loyal people, bat ex-
poets the traitors of the South, when they
can no longer make headway against the


Government by bullets, to resort to bal
lots, and aid the Conservative Democracy
in defeating the loyal people at the polls.
As the CopPerheads have been iudustri-
ously lending aid and comfort to the
rebels during the war, it is no more than
fair that the traitors should assist them
when the war is over. The Copperhead
leaders, from Fernando Wood down, are
very "sweet" on theft Southern friends,
and are no doubt in daily communication
with them now, preparatory to a united
effort on the loyal ballot dodge to carry
the elections when:it is no longer possible
to maintain the war against the Govern
ment.
Year: 1864

FIXING NoRrHwAKD.-Wild geese and
other fowls are thus early giving their
usual notice of approaching warm weather
by flying northward. We must say that
We think they are fooled this time. Time
will tell.
Year: 1864

MAJOR WYATT G. THoAAs.-Resugng ed
officers and soldiers confirm the report
that this gallant officer was left in Mis-
souri,, with his wounds doing well aud
with the prospect Of his arm being saved
from anputation, We single him out
for special mention because he is we'll
known to al! our readers as the former
editor Of this paper, and droPpei for the
sword the pen, which we caught no.
There is not one Of all our readers who
will not hail with gIadness the news of
his recovery and exchange. There are
few men who possess his undinching
courage, and high-strung clivalric feel
ing
Year: 1864

A NATURAL CURIosITY.-A natural
curiosity, which completely puzzles nat
uralists and biologists, is now in possess
ion of Isaac s. Joseph, the wholesale jew
eller on Washington Street, San Francis
co. 1t is an irregular hexagonal quartz
crystal, about one inch in diameter, and
two inches in length, pointed at one end
and broken squarely off at the base.
Within the body of the crystal, rising
from the base like miniature mountain,
and occupying about half the entire
length of the stone is mass of beauti-
fully crystallized gold, silver and copper,
each metal distinctly defined, and all en-
bedded in the stone which is as clear as
glass-in exactly the style of the flowers
and other objects in glass paper-weight.
This curious specimen of the handiwork
of nature, when in an eccentric tone Of
mind, was found by miner at Gold Gulch,
Calayeras county, some four years ago,
and has been carried round in his pocket
ever since, until some two months ago,
when it was purchased by the superinten-
dent of a copper-mine, and sent to the
present pnssessor as curiosity. Geolo-
gist who have examined it declare that
nothing Of the kind has ever been seen OF
heard of before, and are utterly at a loss
to account for its formation.
Year: 1864

The first of these positions flows from
the unquestionable christian nature of our
nation and of its institutions


The second is the result Of the true
readidg of the phrase, "freedom Of con
science; and it is all that an honest but
dissentient minority can reasonably de-
mand from an equally honest but unde-
niable national sentiment gu il


In no other way can the rights of the
vast majority be maintained. If they be
tamely surrendered in the school-that
fountain-head of good or of evil, accor-
ding to its teaching, it can only be by the
unrepublican act of making the minority
rule, and that too for the ruin of the fu-
| ture.


1t is time to call things by their right
names. II is time to take stand for
those who and for that great nation which
are to come after us. 1t will no longer
do to tamper with the trust which God
has committed to US, and which the Flu
ture, when History shall have recorded
all our actions, will solemnly but inexora-
bly, require of us. Other nations; saw
age, barbarous and heathen-regard us
as Christian. Shall we, out of mis-
taken idea and on claim which never
actually existed, Danish God from our
schools, lest we shock those who do not
believe in Him, or for fear of offending
those who differ from US as to his revela-
ton and attributes? Shall we cease to be
Christians and permit this to be a Chris
tian land, for such reasons? There is moi
an idea in the broadcast claim for universal
tolerance and tho largest freedom of con
science, rightly considered, that would
Justify such course. On the contrary
duty to ourselves whose rights are un
undoubted, duty to our children whose
future is in our hands, duty to the world
whose asylum of Christian freedom We
are, duty to God whose foot stool we now
stand under much needed disciplinc-al
require us to be true to our Trust and hold
fast to the Faith.


But it may be said that all this is but
a begging of the question, and that it re-
mains to be proved that religious instruc'
ton of any kind or to any extent is al
all necessary to the completion OF
the true idea of human education
We reply, that, on the other hand, there
are those who assert that the entire alb
sence of intellectual culture were prefer
able to any system which does not make
sectarian religious education its primary
object We write for neither of these ex
tremes, but for the consideration of prac
tical men. Only such disputants are wor
thy of each other, and therefore we leave
them to fight out their own differences
and, while they are approaching, as they
eventually will arrive at, the jtste n'tie'
of a mixture of both theories, we shal
take for granted that the mind and tho sou
reason and conscience-God and thu
world-are all to be regarded in the school
and in a future number will attempt t
show how this may be DONE, School Jour
nal
Year: 1864

DEMOCRATS LOVE SEcEssIoN.-We
see no reason why the Democrats should
work themselves up into such fever as
they have over the postponement of the
Chicago Convention. They think that it
will result in disaster to them-that the
postponement willgive time and opportuni-
ties to the various factions to widen the
breach already existing among them. We
confess that we are unable to perceive that
it will make any difference when the Con-
vention is held, for we are satisfied that
their candidates will be handsomely de-
feated at the November election. The
postponement may turn the defeat into a
rout, but the general result will be about
the same.


1t is said that Tom Florence don't like
the Belmont management of the Demo
cratic machine, and that he intends cal
ling together the debris of the old Breck-
inridge faction, This would be in accord
with the history of the party for the past
four years Even before the secession of
the Southern States, the faction of which
Florence claims to be the chief establish
ed the heresy of secession by seeding
from the Charleston Convention. We are
not surprised that they are in love with the
doctrine-their detection at Charleston
and their active sympathy with the seces-
sion of the rebel States prepares us for
their quarrel with the Belmont concern
But, gentlemen, as Abraham Lincoln is
to be your President for the next four
years, would it not be as well to preserve
peace among yourselves, and " dwell to-
gether in unity?" We think it would
save you vast amount of vexation and
trouble. Take our advice.-Pitts Com.
Year: 1864

As troops move through the Avenue they are
In the habit of cheering the nags suspended
across it. We notice that the Union Lincoln
and johnson flag comes in for the largest share
OF applause. One regiment In particular, this
forenoon, as 1t marched toward the Capitol,
rent the air with cheers for Lincoln and John.
son when they passed under the flag near
Ninth street, but when they came in sight Of
the Mcclellan flag further on, the men began
to groan heartily, and their commander wheeled
them to the LEFT into street, thus avoiding the
necessity of marching under the banner of the
peace party.
Year: 1864

The duty imposed by tho present emergency
upon ell Glasses of the people, and upon all
departments and bureaus Of tho Government,
to send to tho front every nan that eaa by the
strictess economy be spared, induced us to call
upon the Navy Department to respond to the ex-
pec!stions Of tho country. We have been furnish
el wish information and facts. not proper to be
publiah~l, which chow that the Navy Depart
mcnt haa been neither slow to recognise its
duty i'll the present emergency, nor to render
its aid to the defence of the city. Its en-
p!oyess are, and for many months have heep,
organized into battalion, and have always
done their share of duty, with the local de-
foncs force. The list of details for the navy is
not as large in number as we had been in
formed. lis tir1her cutters have furnished
IT,, Enrincer Department with timber to re-
pair railroads, nni this valuable service has
been acknowledged by the Engineer Depart
meot.


lis most gratifying to kDow these fasts, and
to show tbs people that there is no holding back
by any department, but that oil are doing tt.eir
duty fully at this time.
Year: 1864

process by which timber, though newly felled
may become so hard as to resist the Influences
OF the most trying climate for an almost indef-
mite period The most curious part OF the In.
yention is that it does not involve the use OF
chemicals Of any sort, such as ste eping In
cressors, &c, and the process is applied to the
tree while growing. sr,s.-