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Year: 1864

It has been well said that blunder
is worse than a crime. We think that
the late conduct of the lower house of
Congress, in attempting to expel Mr..
LONG, of Ohio, for sentiments uttered in
q speech, was such mistake as is charac-
terized by the above apothegm. However
honest the mover of the expulsion resolu-
ton and those who voted for it may have
been in their action, it is certain they took
very poor way of showing their patriot
ism and that all their zeal and loyalty
does not, in the eyes of anybody but blind
partisan zealots, retrieve or palliate the er-
ror they have committed in this i'll advised
business. s9s@ tt4 ltlia


Every sensible newspaper in the country
is condemning this faur pas of Congress
in most unmeasured terms of disapproval.
They all unite in regarding the attempted
expulsion as most dangerous precedent,
and some go SO far as to stigmatize the
act as the result alone of spirit of intol-
erance and fanaticism. The New York
Times is unsparing in its rebuke. II init
mates that the same spirit might. with
equal propriety, have ordered Mr.. Lone
Immediately upon the delivery of that
speech to have been taken by the Ser
geant-at Arms to one of the corridors and
hanged by the neck until he was
dead; which act, it says, would have
Year: 1864

The resolution ef the Chicago Board of
Trade that all their transactions, after the
first of May, should be based on the Ma
tional currency, is already producing quite
a commotion in Chicago, and yesterday
we learn that other currency was quoted
at "a per cent. discount. There will,
doubtless, be strong effort made to drive
it out of circulation.
Year: 1864

cause, are dispatched up among the bay
GUS of Western Louisiana, hunting after
ambushed rebels aud concealed cotton!


If this large and lately defeated force
were not after cotton what in the world
were they after away up at Shreveport,
La, only few miles below the big raft on
the Red River; SO far off and so secretly
or trifingly employed that the first thing
We hear about them is that they have been
badly defeated with a loss of only 1000
men and "a cannon!


There stands Charleston seemingly as
impregnable as ever. Richmond still de-
fies our approach. Wilmington still sup
plies the rebels with contraband arms and
munitions of war. Mobile is in statu quo
anti beluns. Savannah has not yet heard
the sound Of hostile federal gun, and
Georgia, with something like the prosper
GUS security of peace, feeds the Confed-
crate armies and repels every attempt at
invasion of her soil!


We all remember the old fable of the
fathers will to his sons when he presented
them with q bundle of fardels and told
them to stick together and they would find
in the fruits of his bequeathed precepts
fortune. The only way to conquer the
rebels we think is to crush their heart ard
their masses, and then if the robbers and
scoundrels will still insist on guerilla con-
fict, they must be learned that there is
timber enough in the country to build gal
lOwses for all of them.
Year: 1864

\ terrible accident occurred on bCard i
the Uuited States guDboat Ohenango, in
New York harbor, on Friday last. While
going down the bay she exploded her port
boiler, killing several and scalding about
thirty persons Some OF them will die of
their Injuries. The wounded men were
transferred to the Rose rs soon IS possible,
aud she steamed up To the Navy Yard, to
have them sent to the Marine Hospital


At the Hospital the scene was one of the
most intense excitement. About thirty
noble men. in all stages Of suffering and
torture were lying outstretclled upon beds,
their bodies mess of raw and burning
fiesh--some screaming in intense agony,
Others moaning ptifully. while Others were
quiet and subdued, their blackened and
swollen faces showing the acute suffering
within. As soon as they arrived they
were stripped of their clothing and bathed
;n oil and lime water, and covered with
copiOus covering of flour, which kept the
air from the raw flesh. Everything that
medical skill and science could afford was
done for the poor nnfortunates.
Year: 1864

\ KNIGHT. The Amador Dispatch, the
editor Of which is supposed TO be Knight Of
the Columbian Star" and to know jones"
perfectly, has the following -high-chiyalry"
paragraph in the last issue:


Talk OF reconciliation and reconstruction
As great and exalted an opinion as we have Of
the people of the South, the country Of our
birth, mother as we consider her, We would
sooner see every man and woman iiieless =
every iuch Of soil enguifed in the ocean-than
forced TO live under the same government with
their in saders But Oh this head we have no
apprehensio,s. We have as high regard for
the opponents Of the war 10 the North as any
one but until they colonize the free negroes
aud Abolitonists. and erect an impossible
barrier between them and Us, neither We, nor
the people of the South, should be associated
with them. \ government that would compel
a union of people so antipodical, socially, NOR
ally and politically, is despotic, and shall have
our determined hostility while we live-and
Aboltlonists here in California may make
what they id please OF these our honestly
entertained sentiments
Year: 1864

4 NINE OF ARsESIC.-We will eventually
fill the metallurglcal catalogue with the names
Of the different Minerals that abound in this
unparalleled country. One of these rare min
erals that has lately been found in great guam
titles in our neigbborhood is arsenic. A vein
of il, about three feet in width. exists about
ten miles north of this city. in the foiyate
range. The lode is properly an arsenic silver
ore, containing about $3.50 in silver to the ton
and great abundance of arsenic. The ore is
very heavy. and somewhat resembles tin ore, as
it does also black sulphuret OF silver. An
experienced miner, however, would at once see
the difference, although he would be puzzled to
tell what it was. BY slightly heating it, it can
be told By its disagreeabIe odor. 1t is rather
dangerous to put much of it in an open fire.
Here Is undoubtedly mine Of great value, but
the question is, what is to be doue with il? II
mined at present, it would be necessary to ship
the ore, as there are no means that we are
aware of to benefciate il in this country
Reese Rrer RereiUe.
Year: 1864

New QUARTZ MILL.-The Company owning the
quartz ledge recently struck on Jordan Hill, In
Concow tp., were engaged this week in transport


ing the machinery for mill to be erected upon the
ground. We understand that they have crushed a
considerable quantity Of the rock by the arastra
process, with gratifying results Owing to the bad
condition OF the roads in the mountains, the haul
ing OF the machinery to the claim tedious job
Year: 1864

THE UNFoKrUNArg.-We ara informed, from re
liable authority. that have several families in
our midst. who are really il a suffering condition
for the want ofcomforts necessary 10 sustain siie
This matter should receive the early and prompt
attention of our liberal aad benevolent citizens.
Let meeting be called, that the sick and suffering
children OF the poor may he properly cared for.
The citizens Of Marysyile have contribute liberal
" to relieve their sick and destitute, and many
towns throughout the State; and why not the good
people Of Oroville DO likewise
Year: 1864

Correspondence Of the NashviHe tuCn.}


WASHINGTON, Oct. Is, 1864.


Your correspondents pen has had
quite snoose, which has, perhaps, been
a matter Of no very great regret among
your readers. 1t is resumed with
feelings ofrelief The call for " five
hundred thousand more" had matter
of personal interest in it for all able
bodied young men, and being of that
class, and of timid cast of mind, and
suffering from constitutional aversion
to shot and shell-beiDg by no means
bomb-proof-I naturally felt deep
interest In the filing Of our quota
without a resort to a draft Hence my
mind has been in no trim for letter
writing


Our quota was not filed, bat we sue
ceeded in materially reducing it, having
in the ward of which l am temporary
Notwithstanding myself citizen
Of Tennessee-only 2S men to furnish
when the drawing for the Ward began.
am fortunately among those whose
names remained in the box, and unless
there should be draft for deficiencies,
I am saa for few months longer at
least


The work of examination IS being
finished up, and it turns out that the
list ofexemptions is very large Plysi
cal disability is more common tban any
one unaccustomed to raising armies
wouldhave imagined


The majority Of those accepted fur
nish substitutes-prineipallynegroos
aHens-at prices ranging from 500 to
$500 for one year, so that comparatively
few drafted men VIII enter the service
from Washington Many who could
not have raised funds enough to bury
themselves decently, have, through the
sympathy Of relatives and friends
each giving little-bought substitutes
at the above figures, while many others
who are less fortunate, have been seized
with spirit of emigration, and have
neglected to report as directed Thus
the work of patriotism progresses in the
federal capital


A portion Of the people Of Washing
ton have enjoyed new sensation for
several days Past--I mean the Cop
perhead portion The statement that
politics makes strange bedfellows is
as true "a old, and am led in this con
nection 10 wonder what the rebel sym
pethizers in Tennessee who threw up
their hands in holy horror at the cause
which united johnson and Brownlow,
win now say of that which unites En-
erson Etheridge and Thomas D. Flor
ence in affectionate embrace


History has vindieated Etheridges
fallibility. He talked plainly a. first
he would not only preclpitate the sons
of the North upon the rebelIious South,
but vowed that he would 60 further,
and by raising their own negroes against
them, and placinga sword in one hand
and torch in the other, would destroy
and desolate the whole South rather
than that the Union should be dissolv-
ed. Eeen before there was any war be
declared that he hated democrat as
he did the devil, and SO offensive were
Year: 1864

While 1 was watching the endless line
of troops shifting by, an officer with q
modest escort, rode up to the fence near
which was standing, and dismounted.-
He was rather tall and slender, and his
quick movements denoted good muscle add
ed to absolute leanness-not thinness.-
his uniform was neither new nor old, bnt
bordering on hazy mellowness of gloss,
while the elbows and knees were little &C.
cented from the continuous agitation Of
those joints. The fact is one should never
rest upon in q crowd, simply because, to
my eye, there was nothing remarkable in
it, save the nose, which organ was high,
thin, and planted with curve as vehement
as the curl of Malay eutlas. The face
and neck were rough and covered with
reddish bair, the eye bright in color
and animated, but, though restless and
bounding like ball from one object to an
other, neither piercing nor brilliant; the
mouth well closed but common; the ear
large, the hands and feet long and thin
the gait little rolling, but firm sndactive.
In dress and manner there was not the
slightest trace Of pretension He spoke
rapidly, and generally with an inquisitive





which was the reverse of dignifed or dis
tinguished-a simple felt affair with q
round crown and dropping brim, aud you
have as fair description of General Sher-
rams externals as can pen.


| Seating himself on stick of cord-wood
hard by the fence he drew bit of pencil
from his pocket and spreading piece o.
note paper on mis- knee, he wrote with great
rapidity. Long columns of troops lined
the road few yards in his front, and be-
yond, massed in q series of spreading green
/ fields, q whole division of infantry was
waiting to take the line of march, the blue
ranks cleared out against the Verdant back
ground. Those who were near their Gen
eral looked at him curiously, for in so vast
an army the soldier sees his Commsnder-in
Chief but seldom. Page after page WA
alled BY the Generals nimble pencil and
dispatched.


For halfan hour I watched him, and
though looked for and expected to fine
them, no symptoms could detect that tht
mind of tbs great leader was taxed by tn
infinite care of 8 terribly hazardous military
coup denaai4. Apparently It did not liz
upon his mind the weight of feather. a
mail rarived. He tore open the papers anS
glanced at them hastily, then chstted Will
some General officers near him, then rod,
of with characteristic suddeness, but Will
fresh and smiling countenance fling dow1
the road beside many thousand men, who's
lives we're in his kesping.-Attqata Letter
Year: 1864

The Heralds Washington special says;


The peace proposition matter has been
so often made the subject of canards that
people are cautious in believing any state
ment in regard to it, and are willing to go
no farther than to admit that when there
Is so much smoke there must be some fire.
In reference to the Georgia propositions,
there Is no more smoke than fire. 1t is
beg ond doubt that week before last peace
propositions FROM cer.aiH authorised par
ties In Georgia were placed in the bands Of
member of the Cabinet. It may be de-
sirable to suppress this information for GER
tain purposes until decision shall be at
tanned, but this does not change the fact
that such propositions have been presented
for consideration. l
Year: 1864

A woman is worth great deal or she is
worth nothing. If good for nothing, she
IS not worth getting jealous for; if She, is
g true woman, she will give no cause tor
jealousy. A man is brute to be Jealous
of a woman.
Year: 1864

- The following resolution passed unan-
mously by the Stockholders of the Western N. c.
Railroad:


Whereas, it is the opinion of the Stockholders of
the Western n. c. Railroad Company that it is inju-
rious to their interests to farm out any of the pro
perty or franchises of their Company to any indie
pendent company. and believing that the Railroad
Company can transport all articles the road
with as much safety and dispatch the Express
Company, and believing that all profits of transport
alton ought to be made By the Railroad Company,


1s3olved, That the Board of Directors be in
structed to terminate their contract with the South
ern Express Company, after giving due notice, and
that they confer with the n Carolina Railroad with
the view to make such combined agreements with
said road to insure to all persons safe and expe
dtous transportation of their property. money and
effects, the road. under the charge and man
agement Of their own agents aud messengers.
Year: 1864

gssy- Unless our armies are reinforced with men
we may expect further reverses The people at
home, including Governmeent officers, appear to be
trying to keep every Is,sss<out of the army they
possibly There are too many able bodied men
slowed away in the shade offices around the differ
ent towns of the Confederacy. If abont 10000
of them were sent to the army there would be no
necessity for calling out old men.
Year: 1864

~ We retained to our Office duties late to
enable US to do more than publish half sheet this
week, and have not been able to give that much
attention usual. Hereafter full sheet will be is
sued as heretofore. When 'go soldierng'' again
will endeavor to make arrangements to publish
the Democrat during absence.
Year: 1864

Our Supreme Court has been some
time in session here and is despatching
business rapidly, Justices English and
Pike being present. 1t sits next Friday
at 10 o'clock to deliver opinions. We
learn that Judge Compton will not be
able to attend.


We rejoice to SEQ this Court at work.
Our State tribunals should not be al
lowed to rust from dsuse. In a short
time our people might lose proper respect
for its laws and authorities, and peace
might find us in a state of anarchy. II
the bogus government is kept before the
people in active operation, whilst ours
falls into obscurity, we cannot be aston
ished that ignorant people may consider
our government as lost, and give in their
allegiance to the other. There is a natu-
raj respect for the powers that be, in So
eietv =
Year: 1864

June Sd, 1864.


Coz. JOHN r. EAKN: In late number Of
your paper which I obtained while on q visit
to jefferson. / was much pleased with leader
urging a call of the legislature. 1t is gratifying
to see an attempt made to revive the dropping
energies of our State Government. The urgen-
cy and Importance of convening the Legislature
is certainly very great. A large portion of the
State is now In the hands of our enemies and
in the approaching general election in October.
none can be held in those counties embraced in
the Federal lines, but there are numerous c.ti-
zens from those counties in our army and be-
hind it. who, were the legislature convened


might be allowed the privilege of voting at any
place in the State, md electing members to the
legislature thus sustaining the organization of
the State Government This of itself is sufficient
cause for calling the legislature. But there are
many reasons why it should be convened. The
accumulating debt of the State can be placed in
process of liquidation by judicious application
Of the specie now in the treasury. l believe
there was some sixty thousand dollars unappro-
prated, which can be applied to the redemption
of State Bonds to the lowest bidder. I am
aware this may not meet the approval Of some.
but the incalcuable benefit to the State and peo
pie that will accrue from it, will more than coun-
terbalanced the seeming want of faith. To far
ther this object, an investment can be made in
cotton, to ne transported to the ccast Of Texas.
say Eagle Pass or Brownsville which believe
by that time will be in our possession; for which
purpose the numerous trains OF refugees from
Arkansas, now employed iu the service Of the
governments of the Confederate States, Texas.
and otherwise engaged, can be employed, and
the cotton shipped or sold and the specie return
ed to the treasury of the State. The war is
certainly drawing to close and it is the part
of wisdom to place the State on the best possible
footing financially. 1t may be said that que
rum of the legislature cannot be collected.
believe there can. At any rate trial ought
and should he made. Hoping you will continue
to urge the Importance of it, and ofhearing from
you soon. am truly yours. W. W.
Year: 1864

DROWNING MEN CRASHING AT STRAws.
1t begins to be more and more manifest
that the Republicans contemplate recog-
milton as sooner or later inevitable, and
are looking out for the half loaf as tet-
ter than no bread. The Chicago Tribune
asks, AZ if stating the absurdest thing in
the world. whether the peace party in
case tile North should recognize the rem
nant Of the Confederacy, expects them
to give up Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky
Tennessee. Western Virginia, and other
portions of the country which they have
already subjugatcd.


The republicans take quite a Yankee
view Of Southern character, in supposing
that the States of the extreme South can
be SO selfish as to abandon the border
States of the Confederacy, and give them
up to tho enemy bound hand and foot
as the price Of a peace won by the best
blood and treasure Of those States. Let
the North acknowledge the south in the
spirit of justice, and upon true repub-
lican principles, and the solution of the
boundary question will be easy enough
The choice between the Federal and
Confederate Governments should be left
to the free vote Of the actual citizens of
each State. For ourselves, we are will
ing that this test should be made in Ar
kansas Tomorrow If majority Of citi-
zens entitled to vote under our old con-
stitution, or the new, wish now to 20
back to the Federal government, they
have tie right to carry the State there.
We would stultify ourselves by refusing
that right. So with kentucky. Missouri
and Tennessee. But not so with Wes-
tern Virginia. A State is an integral
sovereignty. If they choose Of their
own grace to break off the panhandle
and throw it as a ''sop to Cerberus" the
people of that section agreeing, it would
be a happy riddance. But that is a mat.
ter for Virginia herself to determine.


Meanwhile these States have, in their
sovereign capacity been received and ac.
cepted as parts Of the Confederacy, and
if every village in their borders should
become a federal garrison, we must Sc
consider them until the people of each
by free vote alters its status. This i
the determination Of our government, ex.
pressed over and over again. 1t cannot
be altered without gross violation Of
good faith. No true southern patriot
ever dreamed it possible.


The federal government and people de-
lude themselves with the false hopes OF
holding on to their pretended conquests
and thus finding an escape from the
condition of insigniicance into which
they must fall. when shorn of all those
fine lands which built up their impor-
tance.


Until they have better terms to offer
we oppose an armistice for one hour. We
cannot rest upon our arms until every
hostile bayonet may be withdrawn from
our utmost limits and every blockadine
vessel from before our ports. To sleeT
would be strangulation and death.
Year: 1864




EDl1ons USroS-I notice a very laudable effor;
being made in this portion Of the State to set out
various kinds of fruit trees. And for the bened,
of persons not well acquainted with our climate
wish to give my experience in growing trees.


The trees selected should be those grown in
this locality if possible. and should be allowed
TO branch out near the ground. Where it can be
done, they should be set out on either the high
prairie OF on the second bottom, and on a clay
subsoiI, as the low sandy land becomes too dry
and warm for them.


There are various other suggestions, such as
properly preparing the land, digging the hole,
pruning the top so that there may be proper
action between the top and the source of noursh-
ing support, &c. which cannot dwell on. but
one thing is an Indispensable to life and success.
and that is that each tree is we'll mulched with
straw or hay for at least four or five feet ali
around it. Without this You will not save one
tree in ten in three years, unless the seasons are
different from those Of the past eight years
With this mulching to aid the tree to moisture
through tie dry portions of the year, every farmer
may soon have fruit plenty and to spare. but il
some such course is not pursued would not pay
= man Eve dollars to set out thousand trees for
me. ed. HOUSTON.
Year: 1864




We find the following In the Lawrence
Tribune:


1t may be remembered case last year
was tried before Judge Stafford, wherein the
State was plaintiff, and certain saloon keep.
ers in Topeka were defendants. Judge SAT-
ford decided in this case that the provision
contained in section fifteen, referred te
above, was unconstitutional, being in VIC
ation of article second, section seventeen
of our State Constitution which reads:


"All laws Of general nature shall have
a uniform operation throughout the State
and in all cases where general law can be
made applicable, no special law shall be
enacted"


This decision of Judge Stafford was ex.
cep,ed to, aud the case taken to the Supreme
Court. The Supreme Court, at its late ses.
sion, reversed the decision of Judge Stafford
in this case.


We are informed that the Supreme Cour,
based their decision on the ground that this
liquor law, being in force before the Con.
sti,ution came into effect, the provision OF
the Constitution did not do away with the
provision of section fifteen, or control said
provision. That is, that laws in force, un
repealed at the time the Constitution took
effect, even though conflicting with the pro.
visions of the Constitution, may still be and
are valid, the Constitution not being retro
spective. This decision OF our highest ju
dicatory leaves the law in force, just as it
stands in our statute book, with section
fifteen in force, exemptiag our city and
others having a population Of over one
thousand from the provisions contained in
the said act.
Year: 1864

AccTDrNr.-Between six and seven O'Clock last
evening, little son of Mr.. Timothy Grouse, living
beyond Broad street. the line Of the Central rail-
road while attempting to swing behind one OF the
cars, missed his hold, and thrown violently to
the ground In his fall he had his lef ankle broken,
and sustained other injuries about the head
and Indy