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Year: 1864

Washington, D. c., April H. 1861.


An c-citinr debate has been going on II
the House Of Representatives Tor the pas
rxo or three davs on the resolution OF speak
or CoIfax for the expulsion of Mr. Long, O.
Ohio for his reasonable sentiments uttered
n snoech he delivered in the House on FIJI
a,vIset The debate is still continued with
hut little show of being brought to close
TIL, Democrats seem determined to prolonG
the discussion AS they are in the condiIioil
that they have nothing to lose, but all to gam:
they hop? that in the course OF long DEBATE
something may turn UP in their favor


The report of the Committee on Ways and
Means Of the bill amGndatory to the present
revenue tax law, is anxiouslJ looked Tor
Taxes aud stamp duties will, in many respects
be materially Increased.


Mr.. McIndec, the member from your dis
trict, is regularly at his post III the House.
and is an esteemed and valuable member
lie commands the respect of ALL aud IS gam
inc good influence, not only in the House,
but at the Government Departments, which
can be of great service to his constituents


Congress will probably adjourn about the
first Of july There will be a desire to Wait
for the sitting of the Baltimore Conventions
after which there will be desire OF members
to make some speeches for the campaign


There is great deal done here now, at
President making. Whilst the country Is, at
this time, evidently quite united on Mr. Lin
coin, there is no telling what months time
may bring forth from the battlefield. Cen
Grant is now evidently preparing rapidly for
a forward movement. Every demand OF Mr..
Lincoln for men and money has been answer
cd and should he, with Gen. Grant, succeed
in the great movement now about to be made,
one or the other of them will surely be the
next President But should thev faii, after
this cheerful good faith on the part OF the
people, when everything appears SO bright, II
is doubtful if either of them would have the
least chance for the Presidency. H.
Year: 1864

WONDERFUL Results. As an IN
tance illustI ating the value of a subscription
to live paper like the Dubuque Times, the
facetious local of that paper relates the follow
ing: III. -s.-.


''Last evening we met a man who two years
ago came to Dubuque and subscribed for the
Weekly Times. On his return home he found
that he was, for the first time, the father OF
lovely daughter, weighing six pounds, its
existence dating from the hour when he sub
scribed for the paper! Last spring he came
again, and subscribed for the Semi Weekly
Going home he found a bouncing boy of ten
pounds, rampaging around and trying to call
him daddy And now he comes to pay in
advance for years subscription to the Daily
Times We have guaranteed him a pair o,
tcci5as, weighing twenty pounds apiece !"
Year: 1864

reflect that sound mind and body the most neces.
sary requisites to promote connubial happiness In
deed without these the journey through life becomes
weary pilgrimage; the prospect hourly darkens 10 ths
view: the mind becomes shadowed with despair and
filled with the melancholy reflection that the happiness
of another becomes blgIted with our own,
Year: 1864

T..


F. &. Liable has the honor of informing his
patrons and the public that in consequence oN
Of his not being able to obtain his room until ~
November, he is obliged to postpone the f5A
commencement of his classes in Washin gton txAEA
until that time Due notice will be given in future
advertisements of the exact time sep Is
Year: 1864

A correspondent Of the Cincinnati
Commercial, with the army Of the Cum.
berland, says: ....


They lave the strangest pets in the
army, that no one would dream of "tak-
ing to- at home, and yet they are little
touches of the gentler nature that give
you a cordial feeling when you see them,
One of the boys carried a red squirrel
Through thick and thin," over thou.
sand miles. "Bun" eats hard tack like
veteran, and has the freedom of the
tent. Another's affections overflow upon
a slow ,wnking, unspcculative owl, cap
tured in Arkansas, and bearing a name
with classical smack to it-Minerva
A third gives his heart to young Cum.
berland mountain bear but, chief among
camp pets are dogs. Riding on the sad
dIe-bow, tucked into a baggage wagon,
mounted on the knapsack, growing under
a gun, are dogs brought to a premature
end, as to ears and tails, and yellow at
that; pug-nosed, square headed brutes,
sleek terriers, delicate morsels Is of span
icls, "Tray, Blanche, Sweetheart, little
dogs aud all"


A dog, like horse, comes to love the
rattle aud crash of musket and cannon
There was one in ON Illinois regiment,
aud rather think regarded as belonging
to it, though his name might not be on
the muster roll that chases half spent
shot as kitten froIics with a ball of
worsted. He has been under fire and
twice wounded, and left the tip of his
tail at the battle of Stone river. But
was especially interested in the fortunes
of a little white spaniel that messed with
battery, and delighted in the name of
dot" No matter what was up, the
fellows silken coat must be washed every
day, and there was need of it, for when
the battery was on the march they just
plunged him into the sponge bucket
that swings Oh the rear axle of the gun
carriage, clapped on the cover, and Dot
was good for an inside passage. One day
the battery crossed stream, and the
water came well up to the guns Nobody
thought Of Dot, and, when all across, a
a gunner looked into the bucket; it was
full of water, and dot was as dead as &
little dirty door mat. Departed, mourn
ed and buried, it is time l put dot te
| his story
Year: 1864

\ NATIONAL CsNFrgRY AT CHs7rsNo9GA.-
1t Is announced that The grounds Tor National
Cemetery at Chattanooga have been selected.
and the position chosen FOR monument to The
memory Of The brave mon who flll hon
Year: 1864

The town of Perigueux few days
ago received painful shock. NJ. Daussel,
member of the Council General, was on the
point of getting his daughter married to a
young gentleman of fortune. The latter,
by some mischance, was stung in the arm
by venomous insect. His father, while
rendering him assistance, was struck with
apoplexy and died. The person who was
charged to convey the melancholy intelli-
gence to M. Daussel executed his mission
so abruptly, that the young lady, thinking
it was her intended husband who had died,
was so affected that she expired in three
days after from the effects of the shock
Foreign paper.
Year: 1864

AN EXTRAORDINARY CAsE-A soldier in
Sherman's army, with throat cut from ear
to ear was thought to be mortally wound
ed by council of surgeons; but the one
under whose immediate care lie was thought
he was justified in making an experiment
for the good of others, at the same time
having great hopes of saving the man. He
first commenced his task by cutting
through where the two upper ribs meet the
sternum, and through this orifice for forty
days he has been fed five gallons of milk
per week, and sometimes his appetite re-
quired five per day. He is fat and hearty,
and the surgeon thinks in two weeks he
will have him able, and the inside of his
throat SO nearly healed, as to allow him to
swallow by the natural passage. He at
first introduced a stomach pump, and thus
fed his patient, and after few hours would
clear his stomach in the same manner, thus
producing artificial digestion, till it was no
longer necessary. A silver tube Is now
used to feed him.
Year: 1864

IT is q base fraud in the Abolitionists to
say that they are for the Union. They are
not for the Union. They are not for our old
and blessed Union or for any Union that the
nation has ever heard of or seen. They
profess to be for some new-1angled thing,
that they choose to call ''the Union as it
ought to be-" They repudiate the Union
given us by our fathers, and would substi-
tute a device of their own. The word
Union should burn their vile tongues like a
coal of fire.
Year: 1864

Is Of more general practical util-
ity than any invention now boz
fore the public. II has been
thoroughly tested during the last
two years by practical men, and
pronounced by all TO be
Year: 1864

sidered sure of SUCCESS without the sane
ton and aid of this public spirited citizen.
The crash of 1887 came, and Il caused
him to totter. To sustain his credit for a
few days in an evil hour he committed
deed which consigned him to the State
prison. Psrdoned out, and no ineradiCa-
BILE stigma save that inseparable from mis-
fortune attaching to his name, he came TO
New York city and started the hotel busi-
ness at the corner of Broadway aud COft-
landt streets. Failing in this, be went to
"Long Islands seagirt shore" aud took the
Bath House, q summer establishment.-
Soon disgusted with his i'll luck there, he
left this region Of civilization altogether
and sought the solitudes Of West Virginia
as place of quiet and rest for the remain
der of his days. He settled in what prov.
ed to be the heart of the West Virginia oil
region-snd now this unfortunate yet
lucky, this untiriug and irrepFessible man,
concludes his strange, eventtul history by
leaving to his heirs a fortune valued at
three millions Of dollars. BE bore the well
known name of Rathbun,
Year: 1864

An autograph letter of Mr.. Bolts, da-
ted Auburn, Culpepper county, Va,
and exhibited at the New York Fair,
has the following:


when have seen wounded soldier on
the field, have not stopped to ascerl ain
whether he wore blue jacket or gray; it
has been enough for me to know that he
was disabled and suffering fellow-creature
to secure for him my sympathy and such
comforts as l could bestow; and such, be-
lieve, have been the instincts of the United
States Sanitary Commission. With this
experience, derived from personal observa-
tion, cannot but appreciate the generous,
noble, and Christian-like objects to be ef-
fected by the association Of which you are
an organ, and therefore it affords me pleas
ure to comply with your request, by send
ing this poor contribution to your auto
graph letters, concluding the earnest prayer
that the present year may put an end to a
conflict which is not only denoralizing the
whole ceuntry-bringing grief and misery
to the hearthstones of millions, and serious
ly affecting the interests of the world at
largs-but which is disreputable to civilza-
tion and humanity, as well as to the age in
which we live"
Year: 1864

If education is the great bucklar and
shield Of human liberty, well developed
industry is equally the bucklar and shield OF
individual Independence. As an unfailing
resource through life, give your son, equal
with good education, good, honest trade.
Better any trade than none at all, though
there is ample field for the adoption ofevery
inclination in this respect. Learned profes,
sions and speculative employments may fail
man, but an honest handicraft trade seldom
ornever-ifits possessor chooses to exercise
it. Let him feel, too, that honest labor-crafts
are honorable and noble. The men of
trades-the real creators of whatever is most
essential to the necessities and welfare of
mankind-eannot be dispensed with. They,
above all others, in whatever repute they
have been held by their mora fastidious
fellows, must work at the oar of human
progress, or all is lost. But few brown
handed trade workers think Of this. or
appreciate the real power and position
they compass. Give your son a trade, nc
matter what fortune he may have, or seem
likely to inherit, 4 Give him atrade. With
this he can always battle with temporary
want, and can always be Independent.
Year: 1864

The following beautiful little sketch
is by Grace Greenwood. 1t occurs in
her account of her voyage across the
Atlantic. TX Marvel has produced
nothing finer:


"One day, much to my surprise, l spied
a real live Butterfly on one of the spars of
the sessel. 1t had been blown out from the
shore, the captain said. But its wings were
wet with spray, and torn by the winds, and
it did not live many minutes after it lit
| thought to myself that perhaps this poor
little creature been born in some secluded
cottage garden, brought up On the sweetest
honey and the purest dew, Graded by night
in a jessamine, and rocked by summer
winds; or costly couched in the heart of a
rose, was sung to sleep by merry cricket.
That, perhaps, she had always been happy
and contented, until some gessiping locust
or fragrant humming bird had filled her
ears with fine stories of grander gardens
across the sea, and had been seized with a
foolish longing for foreign travel strange
sights and adventures. ...


That from this time she had found her
garden home dull, her, honey and dew In
sipid, her rosebud uncomfortable, the song
of her cricket-nurse harsh, until she could
stand il ne longer, but bravely flew off from
shore, right over that beautiful sparkling
sea. Then the strong wind took her on,
and through the salt ocean spray, all day
and all night, until it left her at last, not in
foreign fairy garden, but on a great ship,
that smelt of tar instead Of roses, aud the
small, gold stars died out Of her azure
wings, and she was seon only little heap
of shining dust. aal
Year: 1864

A NOBLE sfNTMENr.-"I know net
what record of sin awaits me in the other
world, but this l do know; that never was
so mean as to despise any man because he
was poor. because he was ignorant, or be,
cause he was black" This truly noble and
Christian sentiment is the urterance OF
Gov. Andrew, Of Massachusetts, and it is
more honor TO a man to have spoken it than
it it is to be the CLief Magistrate of the DO
bic and loyal State whose Governor &c is
Year: 1864

FELLOW CITIzEy<: | candidate for your suf-
frages at the next ensuing election for Sheriff in the
County of Union. My coupection with the army, how
ever has for some months removed from that taml-
liar intercourse with you that would generally be de-
sirable. Bat, trusting that may have a due allow
ance for this seeming Inconvenience, with view to
repeated expressions OF desire that should become
a candidate. | have consented do SO-thou2h under
vastly different clrcumSan from those which sur
rounded four years ago Many of you have realized
the hardshipF of and the dangers of battle; but
without recalling the past let look hopefully TO the
future, and permit me, in grateful Acknowledged
of the iyors received your hands then with many
others previous that time. ask YOUR cordial sup
port r elected, | will what industry and
ability possess to fulfill the blgatons of the office
in such q as hope. may ever be satisfactory
you. On the contrary if ] an not elected, shall
consider that you have Gone wrong and that |
have right critcise because your suffrages are
against But am fully sensible of the distinction
conferred by hing elected the position for which
candle and shall be proud to receive your
votes | nan ever be earnest and faithful prove
myself worth of the responsible imposed by the
same And in conclusion allow me to hope you will
remember your FRIEND and on the day of election
ticket for the - w. II. COLLINS,


Co A, 4th N c. Cavalry


March 2s s64 pd Gordons Brigade.
Year: 1864




My confidence is in the rising genera
ton. Those who are grown up have gone
so far from the position they should occu-
py that have lost all confidence in them
therefore II is to you little children that /
look. said venerable Sabbath School
tes. her to a large audience Of children.
The great teacher accused the Jewish teach
crs OF taking away the Key Of knowledge
and the wise man said train up a child in
the way he should go, and when he is old
he will not depart from it, How much of
the wrongs of manhood are chargeable to
the seeds of error and superstition scvn in
the youthful mind by those who erc G..
teemed orthodox" w'i... oniy he known in
ttft higIer coalition where I'VE shall sec
as we are seen and know as we are known. :"
Much of the instruction offered to children
might be safely dispensed with, and who.
we see the avidity with wLisl. the sects
endeavor to laesrt their dogmas to chill
dren before they arc able to judge what
truth is, we are reminded Of the words Of
Jesus to the RhariseeS, 'Yc compass sea
ana land to make ono proselyte, and when
he Is made ye make him ten-fold more the
child of hell than yourselves" To all such
we would say reverse Your present method,
and go to the little childicn before they learn
the follies and vices Of the world, and learn
iron, them the lessons OF love which worketh
no ill to his neighbor and is therefore 6 the
fulfilling Of the law"
Year: 1864

There is not paragraph, sentence, line.
word or syllable in the Chicago platform


which the rebels can torture into desire or


willingness to accede to their enable
demand for the dissolution of this Govern,
ment. There is no equvocation Of terms
behind which they can discover the shadow
of hope that the Democratic party will not
adhere with answering fidelity to the Union.
On the contrary, they may find the fulIes.
declarations pervading the resolutions that
the preservation Of the Union is the primary
aim and object. In General Mcclellan, our
candidate for President, they behold one
whose every instinct and aspiration are con-
nected with the territorial integrity of his
country. A disunion or secession breath
never left his lips and it can be safely said


that if Mcclellan is disoyal there is not
loyal man in any State. Yet unprincipled
partisan presses and shoddy orators are labor
| ing to show that the triumph of the Demo-
cracy, upon its platform and with its candi.
date, would be a virtual abandonment of the
Union cause to jeff. Davis! A "oya"
newspaper before us, printed in New York,
declares it would rather see the capture Of
Washington by General Lee than the en-
trance of General Mcclellan in that city as
the President Of the nation. Mcclellan.
who twice saved the Capital from the rebels,
is thus set down as one more dangerous TO
the Union than the chief military genius of
the Confederacy. This is dev ilish as cali
umny upon Mcclellan, but it is monstrous
as lie calculated to give aid and comfort
to the public enemy. The scores Of hun.
dreds Of thousands Of supporters of General
Mcclellan have thus attributed to them the
wish to elevate to the Presidency man who
would in some way favor the plans of the
rebels. Such arguments" it believed, would
have natural tendency TO encourage the
enemy to persist in the rebellion through the
six months intervening between now and the
time when, by the blessing of God, George
B. Mcclellan will take his seat in the Execu-
tive Chair If the Southern leaders can be .
convinced that the Democracy are hypocri.
teal in their support of the Union, the set
tlement Of our national differences will be
more difficult, since the Confederates would
favor no other terms that the recognition of
the independence Of the Richmond Govern.
ment, in the expectation that this would be
granted. We hold, then, that the efforts Of
the Republicans to identify the Democracy
with the rebellion, are nothing more nor
less than SO much aid aud comfort to the
enemy. st. Louis Republican.
Year: 1864

EXPANDING THE LuSos.--Slep out into tho
purest air you can find; stand perfectly erect.
with the head and shoulders back, and then
fixing the lips as though you were going to
whistle, draw the air through the nostrils
into the lungs. When the chest is about
full raise the arms, keeping them extended.
with the palms of the hand down, as you
suck in the air, 80 as to bring them over the
head, just as the lungs are quite full. Then
drop the thumbs inward, and after gently
forcing the arms backward, and the chest
open, reverse the process by which you draw
your breath, till the lungs are entirely empty
This process should be repeated three or four
times during the day. 1t is impossible to
describe to one who has never tried it the
glorious sense of vigor which follows the
exercise. 1t is the best expectorant in the
world. We know gentleman the measure
of whose chest has been increased some
three inches during as many months.
Year: 1864

l. Subscribers who do not give express notice
to the contrary, are considered wishing to con-
tinue the subscription.


q If subscribers wish their papers discontinue
ed, publishers may continue to send them until
all charges are paid.


g. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their
papers from the office or place to which they are
sent; they are held responsible until they settle
their bills and give due notice to discontinue
them.


4. If subscribers move to other places without
informing the publisher. and the paper is sent to
the former direction, they are held responsible.
Notice should always be given of removal


S. The Courts have decided, that refusing to
take paper from the office, or removing and
leaving it uncalled for, is prima tacie evidence
of intentional fraud
Year: 1864

To REMOVE PAIN-Dr. Hall says, neural-
ga of severest character is sometimes re-
moved by painting the parts two or three
times a day with mixture composed Of half
an ounce Of the tincture of iodine and half a
drachm of the sulphate of morphine. One
of the most powerful liniments for the relief
of severe pain is made of equal quantities Of
spirits OF hartshorn, sweet oil and chloro.
form; dip into this piece Of cotton cloth
doubled, about the size of silver dollar, lay
it on the spot, hold handkerchief over the
the spot, 30 as to con6ne the fumes, and the
pain Immediately ceases. DO not let it re-
main on over minute. Shake it we'll just
before using, and keep the bottle very closely
stopped.
Year: 1864

VoTE OF THE METRoPoLIs-We are quite
sure that the vote of San Francisco in No
vember will be much heavier than that Of
any former year. The largest vote ever
polIed here was about G,OOO: we think that
the vote Of 1864 will be very near 10000,
and it may reach higher figure. The vote
of the State will exhibit corresponding I'M
crease. Overland immigration from Missuo-
ri and the Southwestern States has, we be-
lieve, been larger than that of any former
year, and the border country Of California.
will show heavy increase in the popular
vote. Fugtives from the East have poured
in upon us in heavy stream; many Of the
counties in Missouri have been depopulated
by the horrors of war, our golden land has
become the beacon of hope to many weary
traveller.
Year: 1864

ANOTHER OUTRAGE. - On Thursday
night last, young and industrious girl.
whose parents reside in West Derby, was
on her way home to give to her mother
her earnings, when she was set upon by q
fellow named Frank LaBontee and before
help arrived, this villain made six desper-
ate but unsuccessful attempts to outrage
the girl. Before midnght she had him
arrested, and the next day when her at
torney informed her that he had proposed
to settle the matter by paying sum of
money she informed him that she wished
no settlement she desired was that
La Bontee should be punished and placed
where he could not do the like again.


The matter was finally "fxed up" by
a small fine, and an enlistment on the
part of the prisoner to raise the money to
pay the same. Well-such is hfe.-NeD-
port Nescs. ag3.ss...a8
Year: 1864

I'VE were favored with reading, and have leave
to publish some extracts from letter home Of one Of
cur :. Hawaii boys" whose initials will he recognized
by many friends. 1t is interesting not only com
ing from Of our own, but revealing the exalted
feelirg with which many a man and many an officer
Is inspired in this for right and freedom-1
Year: 1864

AMUSING SKEDADDLE.-It is said that
come of the copperheads in Calais have start
ed story that the new militia law is trap
to catch men for the front and moreover
that some persons have been foolish enough
to believe 1t, and have left for Canada =
Were it true, it would be altogether better
to 90 to the front than to Canada. About
five thousand deserters in Canada would glad
y come back and 90 into the army, if the
Government would promise not to punish
them as deserteIs. Canada is full Of refugees,
and there is no demand for labor there. AS
to the militia if the President ever finds it
necessary to call out the militia, be can do
it under the Constitution but the policy OF
the Government is to supply its army with
out calling upon the organized militia. In
tact the new organization il Vermont was
made, ON the recommendation of the Secre-
tary Of War himself, for use at home, to de-
feed our own fresides. He is poltroon,
indeed, who will expa,riate himself rather
than give such service.