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Year: 1863

THE END OF TRAITOR. rebel
Captain Fuller. commander Of the gun
boats Cotton and the Queen of the West,
who recently died in hospital, near San
dusky. Ohio, during his sickness sent O
request for his sisters to come and see
him. but they refused to hold commu.
nion with q traitor. Even after bis
death their adherence of his crime was
SO great that they would not attend bis
funeral, and objected to placing bis re-
bellious bones by the side of his loyal
fathers grave.
Year: 1863

wA musician; whose nose had bc.
come distinctly colored with the red wine
he was wont to imbibe, said to his little
son one day at table


You must eat bread, boy; bread
makes your cheeks red"


The little fellow replied:


Father, what lots of bread you must
have suuffed up"
Year: 1863

The man who doth no paper take,


Grudging two dollars once ayear,
Will never good husband make,


Because his wife will never know what 10
going on in the world and his children will
ever ignorant appear.


The last line is rather long for good
ingle, but the moral is sublime.
Year: 1863

The average price for English wheat throughout
the United Kingdom. for the third week in April,
was 45s I'd per quarter against sis Cd for tho same
week last year, decline in the year Of slightly
over 3Sc per buEhel.
Year: 1863

CnEAN.-We are reques cd to call attention
10 the advertisement of an Alderney COW, On
this page. The stock Is acknowledged to be
the best known. The parties advertising are
thoroughly posted in such matters. Their
guarantee would be good beyond all question,
Year: 1863

THE NEw YORK ELEcrloS.-Ws commend the returns of the election from the noble old Empire State to such of our coppcrhead friends, who still believe in the invinciblity of the name of Seymour, and in obstructing the progress of the War for the Union. The late hour at which we receive the glorious returns, prevent us from doing more than offering our hearty congratulations to all of our readers, who see in the result new cause for hopsfalness for the Republic. Thank God, the grand old State has done her whole duty, and stands up nobly with all her sisters in the loyal North, iu the firm determination to elect sueh rulers q. shall give the government hearty and loyal support The glorious pyram,d is intact not stone overthrowed OF a state wanting.
Year: 1863

Pursuant to the Governors proclamation, the Leeislature convened in Hartford on Tuesday of this week. The Governors Mes saee, which is brief and business like, will be found elsewhere in this paper. The recom- meudstious he makes seem 10 IS to be judi eious, timely and eminently worthy of en- dorssment and adoption by the body to which they are addressed. .-t

 It is necessary for the honor and standing of tho State that every possible means be adopted by the Legislature, and every inducement be held out. that shall tend to fill up our quota of volunteers under the last call of tho President. This is but triAe over five thousand, and we understand that if this quota is promptly filled by the first of January. our present deficit on the draft, some five thousand more, will not be required of us.

 The business before the Legisla ture will necessitate short sessioh only, and unless we are to have funeral address or two, from tbe distinguished copperhead of Hartford in the House. and others of his stripe, over their ex- tinguished hero, late of Ohio, we may hope the proceedings of the Legislature will not be extended beyond this week, or next at the far. thest. and so as little expense as possible be made to the State.

 We recommend to our readers careful pc. rusal of the Governors Message, and tender our congratulations anew to the public, that we have so wise and upright and loyal Chief Magistrate, to preside over the affairs of our State, in this crisis. and to carry it through tri- umphantly. with the assistance of the loyal people, we hope to the end of the wicked and causeless civil war.
Year: 1863

EDUCATE THE HEAD, HEART AND HAND
Every boy should have his head, his heart and
his hand educated Let this truth never be
forgotten. BY the proper education of the
head, he will be taught hat is good and what
is evil what is wise and what is foolish, what
is right and what is wrong by the proper
education of the heart we will be brought to
love what is good, wise and right and to hate
what is foolish and wrong. And by proper
education of the hand, he will be enabled to
supply his wants, to add to his comforts, and
to assist those around him. The highest OBJ
jects of good education are to reverence and
obey Con, and to love and TO serve mankind.
Everything that helps US in attaining those
objects is of great value and everything that
hihders US is comparatively worthless. When
wisdom reigns in the head, and love in the
heart, the man is ever ready to do good, and
peace regns around, and sin and sorrow are
almost unknown.
Year: 1863

prisoners, fresh from the filth aud privation OF
the rebel capital. No there was not even a
tremor of possible hope that might hear his
name or story among the suffering crowd, as
one by one passed before me.


| stopped at length over wan and wasted
figure laid upon the bed in the most remote
corner. The face was hollow and emaciated,
the eye.balls sunken, the dry lips black and
parched by fever, the dark hair and heavy
beard were closely shaven, the thin hands
claSped together, as if death had already re-
leased this poor sufferer. [ thought it must
be so at first but as bent down more close
y the eyelds were feebly lifted, the lips fee
bly, qniTered painfully


Yes-t is heaven !"


l caught the feeble, wandering whisper
but oh, my heavenly father was my brain
wandering too had pity clouded my brain ?


They must have thought that | had gone
mad Perhaps the kind surgeon thought SO
wher he turned, the moment after, to fad me
kneeling by the bed with that poor, wasted,
shriyeled face cradled in my arms, and my
passionate cries for help startling the painful
quiet around US, for life seemed to have flick
cred and gone outswith the look Of recognition
which | had caught.


had said-oh, how often that | would
be content If he could die IN my arms and
there he lay, slipping away from me into eter-
nifty.


l knew 1t was best when they unWonnd my
arms as he had done that blessed morning, ana
the surgeon lifted me as If had been child
and carried me from The room but crouch
ed down by the door, blessing the fallen dark
ness that sheltered me, aud when he had pass
ed out | crept back to the bedside, SureIy,
we might be trusted we did not exchange
one word sight and touch were sClhcIent.-
Year: 1863

The rebels are progressing fast in their
tendency to absolute government. A late
mum ber of the Southern Literary Messen-
ger says:-'We have no special objection
to royalty when restrained by constitu-
tional barriers. The glorious career of
England illustrating for centuries the
beauty and truth of free reelgovernment-de-,
monstrates that royalty and liberty are not
Incompatible @1tsifs Let us seek at once
to eradicate every vestige of radical de-
mocracy, every feature tending to make
ours a popular government making ii
subject only to the Intelligent and virtuous,
and those who are interested mits success
fitl Administrations ia5B'qG9 slIta 98P
!. England and France may recognize the
rebel Confederacy as independent without


making it so, just as you may recognize
person as gentlemen when he is a black
guard and can never be anything else. G
b A malicious wag says that if lawyer is
in danger of starving in a small village, he
INVITES another, and both thrive. u,ai
Year: 1863

SMELLING, AND How THE MISSILES ARE


DoDGED.-A correspondent, whiting from


Morris Islaud to the Christian 4 oUocate and


Journal sas: a- ~.E


AT night we can see the path Of shell
through all its Journey, lighted asi it is by
the burning fuse. When the range is two
miles, the track of a shell from q mortar
describes nearly half the arc of "a CIRCLE


On leaving the mortar it gracefully moves


nearly or quite mile above the earth, and


then glides along for moment, apparently


in a horizontal line but quickly YOU per-
ceive that the little fiery orb is on the home
stretch, describing the other segment of a
| circle. A shell from rified Parrot gun,
in going y miles, deviates from straight
| line not quite as much as a shell from a


mortar But in passing over this space,
considerable time is required. The report
| travels much faster than the shot. A shell
| from mortar Will make q distance of two


miles in about thirty seconds, and from a


Parrott gun in about half that time. The
| flash of gun at night, and the white smoke


by day, indicate the moment of discharge,


and fifteen or twenty seconds give album


dance of time to find cover in q splinter
proof, behind trench, or something else.


It is wise and soldierly to do so, but many
| pay no attention to these kissing, scream
| ing, flying, in the day time, if shot from


gun, invisible devils, except 10 crack Jokes


at their expense; or, occasionally, one pays
| his life for his toolhardiness. ...
Year: 1863

crime. The commanding officer Of the t05th Ohio
will enforce the Department general orders, thatis
strip him Of his buttons and shoulder straps in
thu presence Of bic regiment, and deliver him to
the Provost Marshal General, who will send him
north Of the Ohio River under guard.
Year: 1863

Never form resolution that is not good
one; and when once formed, rev.r break it
If you form resolution, and then break it
you set yourself a bad example, and you are
very likely to follow it. 4 person may get
the habit Of breaking his resolutions this j,
as bad to the character and mind. as an incu
rsbe disease to the body. No person can be
come great, but by keeping his resolutions
no person ever escaped contempt, who conlt
no: keep tLem.-An Erfract.
Year: 1863

ABOLITION PREDicTIoNs vERrFIED--When the
radicals were urging the President to issue the
emancipation proclamation Governor Andrew
promised that, If that document were given to
the world, the highways and byways Of Massa-
chusetts would swarm with eager volunteers
Where are they? Poor Greeley, who is much
more of a prophet, said that the proclamation
would end the war in ninety days. He now
tells us how this is to be accomplished. 1t is
by consenting to q separation Of the Union on
the lst Of May next.
Year: 1863

CABNEr.-Wendell Phillips has gone ON to
Washington as delegation from the radicals to
stir up the President, as Barnum stirs up his
bears, and so worry him into change Of the
Cabinet. But what is the use Of changing the
Cabinet II the war 10 to end on the lst Of May
next by dissolution Of the Union! The pre-
sent Cabinet will do well enough until that
time
Year: 1863

while tie unreasoning speaker seemed to
regard the officers as the prime and meri
torious agents of all that is done. Why,
in those ranks is an amount of intellect
which would instruct and astnnish states
man. Ia those ranks the merit of every
officer, and every action, is settled uhap
pealably. In those ranks there is public
virtue and capacity enough't to construct a
government, and administer its civil and
military Offices. The opinion Of these
snen will guide the historian, and fix the
merit of generals and statesmen. The
opinion Of these men will be, and ought
to be, omnipotent with the people and
government of the Confederacy.


Heaven bless these brave. heroic men
Our heart warns to them. Oar admira-
ton of their devotion and heroism is with
out limit. Their devotion to principle
amounts to moral sublimity. We fee
their suffering and share their hopes, and
desire to be identified in our day and gen
Grafton with such a host of spirits, triet
ana true, who bend the knee to none bu
God, and render homage only to worth
and merit"
Year: 1863

is halowing the lie of our young Confed
eracy? Is there an eye in all the broad
land that has not looked on like sorrow
Are there many souls which have not been
stteped in like bitterness Of woe? And
is it kindly, is it wise to dwell on such
memories answer-it is right 1t is
but, hark again! solemn and slow-toned
the bell tolls she last march of the boy
warrior. In the slurnberous stiffness of
the air, the ear can just catch the distant
strains If martial music, and now--the
volIeys over the grave and now-silence !!
His brief bright day is over! The young
patriot martyr sleeps we'll


Yes-it is right to dwell on such mem
ories, and there are others yet more dark
and narrowing. They steel the heart
they nerve the hand-they sharpen the
sword for the combat Oh, stricken
hearted of the land let your woes be ev.
er before you! Let not memory or justice
slumber, until we have swept from oul
soil, with the bosom of righteous ven
! geance, every caititf thing that bears the
accursed name of Yankee
Year: 1863

or anything to eat, and you can get cotton.
Well, some few people have provisions to sell,
and they 60 and get cotton But the Pro
prietors soon get in supply of wheat, and
others who hare no provisions to spare look
out and buy some wheat; but when they go
to get cotton, the Factory owners say, 1--WE
don't want any more wheat, you must carry
your wheat back and bring me some corn or
meat, and will let you have cotton. Well,
these Factory men get enough corn, and then
you must carry yeur corn back and bring
them meat they will not take corn. ~


And seme who have nothing to sell, but
have money, and have sons, brothers or faith.
ers in the army, and according to the request
of our State authorities are trying to help
clothe the soldiers, go to get cotton fo- that
purpose, They find the Proprietor reared
back in his easy chair with a cigar in his
mouth as independent and consequential as
money can make him. Tell him your bust
ness, ard he says you can't get my cotton,
sir, fol. money money is no object TO us;
and it is not worth while to argue the case
at all they won't listen to you.
Now, let us see the result of this patriotic,
convention: Suppose they get grain and
meat, they will give one bunch of cotton for
one bushel ofwheat: and the wheat is ready
sale at $5. 90 per bushel, so they get the
same old price as before the convention met.
And they give two punches of cotton for one
bushel of corn, and corn rs ready sale at
$1,000 per barrel. And they will give one
bunch Of cotton for ten pounds of bacon,
and that is ready sale at fifty cents per pound.
So you see they are getting the same prices
as before.


Mr.. Editor, you see the convention and
the prices turn out to be a humbug and 8
cheat. | think they deserve the attention of
the Legislature, and 1 hope they will get
it.


Now, sir, can you tell those of US who
have nothing to sell, and have no cotton
cards, what we are to do under the existing
circumstances


think if the Yankees have ever done
more towards sugjugating US than our own
people have, am ignorant of it. j.
Year: 1863




EDITOR SPIR1F OF THE AGE: / am
happy to learn, by constant perusal of
your worthy paper, that the din and clam
or of war, drive you not from your former
stand God grant that you may meet
with success! Temperance surely de-
mands your attention, and ours, for the
last issue of yonr paper contains SO much
of the doings of fintemperance, as to fill me
with unfeigned horror. Recently | have
seen more of the depths of the hideous-
ness Of intemperance in our country, and
really l fear the ladies are not all doing
their part in this struggle with the mon
ster. Not two months ago, one of Ewes
fair daughters persuaded young gentle
man to taste the delicious wine,' after he
had tasted, the thirst for wine, that be
thought quenched, came upon him with
such force he could not resist, and to-
night! All :! to night, he is worshippine
at the shrine of Bacchus "he has taker
to-drink ]" Again; | saw beautiful
girl just blooming into womsnhood, stan
ding beside boble looking gentleman
In her hand she held goblet OF spark
ling wine, she had spent all her eloquenc'
in trying to persuade him to "just TAX
one DROP to prove that he was not often
ed she would not leave him = saw n
was irritated; at length he drew up hi
noble figure, fixing his calm penetrating
eyes upon. her he said: Woman is tn
greatest tempter on earth, but even SO TAI
an one as yourself cannot tempt me t
risk my future happiness and the salvatio
of my soul, in glass of wine. Fair lady
would beseech you to turn your eloquene
to better cause" Shssfurped from hin
| know not the effort 81 lords upo
her, but know that 1t lat any q
would find in him good 60sband. ] le'
there are few such. More anon.


ERATO.


January, 1863.
Year: 1863

lFrom the Washington Chronicle Aprl7l


The chiefs representing the Indian tribes
Of Colorado Territory left yesterday for their
homes in the Far West. Previous 20 leay.
ing they signed treaty of amiiy & frienship
with the government. The cause cf their
early departure is the death of their chief
yellow Wolf, whose memory they hold
in sacred veneration.


The message Of the dying chief to his
nation equals in pathos and elouuence. the
speech of the celebrated chief Logan, rem.
derod historic By the pen of Thomas Jeffer.
son; 'Fell my people, said the dying hero
OF the wilderness, that ! entreat them
with my last breath to live in reace with
the pale faces. Tell them that have seen
their Great Father and that he has prom.
lsed to take care Of the red man. The
Great Spirit has ordained that should fall
asleep beneath the shadow Of my Great
Father; that go TO the eternal hunting
grounds in the full faith that my nation will
preserve peace with the song of tie Great
Father have ever been friend TO the
pale face, and the Inheritance | would leave
to my nation is that they conduct them
selves so as to merit the smile of the Great
Spirit, which watches alike over the red
man and the pale face


Before leaving, the chiefs requested Com
missioner Dole to furnish them each with
letter certifying to their good conduct while
in this city. In accordance Herewith the
Commissioner has caused to be furnished to
each Of them certificate.
Year: 1863

The Springfield Mass. Republican gives
the following amusing account Of the turn
ing point in Gen. Summers early life:


Gen. Sumner, when young man, was
a stage driver among the Berkshire hills,
ard this is how he happened to get into the
army. AT time in winter when the roads
were>dangerous, going down steep hill,
the stage slowed and turned over but tn e
horses went on. One Of the passengers
pushed out Of the door on the upper side
of the coach and climbed upon the box and
attempted to take the reins from Sumner S
hands. You let the reins alone or I'll
throw you off i said the driver with deter
mination The passenger wisely abandon
ed his attempt at interference, and Sumner
guided the team firmly till it was safe to
stop them, dragging the overturned coach
along, and SO saved passengers and team.
The passenger who attempted to take the
reins was Gen. Worth. He was so impress
sed with young Summers sterling qualities
that he cultivated his acquaintance and in.
duced him to join the army, and the cool
and determined driver made an intrepid
commander"


A story is told of the veteran Sumner at
the battle of Antietam. His son, young
Capt. Sumner, a youth Of twenty one, was
on bis staff. The old man calmly stood
amidst storm of shot and shells, and turn
ed to send him through doubly raging fire
upon mission Of duty He might never
see his boy again; but his country claimed
his life; and as he looked upon his young
brow he grasped his hand, encircled him ia
his arms and fondy kissed him. GOO bye,
Sammy" Good bye, father the
youth, mounting his horse, rode gaily on
with his message. He returned unharmed,
and again his hand was grasped with a
cordial "How dye do, Sammy" answered
by grasp of equal affection. The scene
was touching to those around.
Year: 1863

possibility of re union. They are no
doubt, well aware that the more probable
consequence Of an arrIistice would be the
establishment of Southern independence;
but they perceive that If the South is so
utterly alienated that no possible conces
sions will induce it to return voluntarily to
the Union, il is wiser TO agree to 'separa.
ton, than to prosecute cruel and hope.
less war.


Now, to what purpose was it that the ma.
ton had risen up with the most enthusias-
tic devotion to maintain to the last gasp a
noble cause, il set of vile plotters--not
open traitors in the fed with arms in their
bands, only because they were too cowardly
to take that role--oould burrow and mine in
its rear; could lay trains in the presence, 4
with the at least tacit connivance of an
alien, to blow the whole fabric of our splen.
did nationality into the air? And when the
revelation is made which Enthusiastically con.
victs them Of such nefarous conduct, what
loyal man is to be found who does not de-
spise and detest these skulking incendaries
worse than those whose villainies-more
openly practiced-they aid and abet2 Is it
any wonder that the Richmond gang ex-
press even their adherence of such set;
and will it be any wonder, further if these
Benedict Arnolds live in the records of the
Republic as infamous to the end of time?


But worse than what we have already
noted, even, theirs is double guilt. They
have sought places in the councils Of the
nation, associations with patriots, with the
deliberate purpose of betraying that Union
and Constitution it is made their special
duty to support and defend. Coming into
the Capital of the nation under false pre-.
tences, swearing to cherish and defend the
Government whose pay they receive. they
are a spectacle for perfidy to gods and men.


We have alluded to the special reasons
these men must have for wishing to cover
up their negotiations with Great Britain
hostile to the integrity of their own coun-
try, and it is plain that they themselves re-
cognized the disability under which they
acted in plotting to betray-a amongst others
"a community like that of New York
Spuaking of the plans of these men, bear
ing upon meditation, Lord Lyons says:


''They would desire that the offer should
come from the great Powers OF Europe
copjointly, and in particular that rs little
prominence as possible should be gitea to
tSf5rpuf I}Jffftfn. a. ~ ;,i !


How completely does this tell the whole
story; and how has tho city of New York
compromised its character for wholesale 10y
atty, in that it could not defeat, for proini-
nent office, renegades from all that is hon.
est and honorable, like these? Probably it
would have been otherwise had this revela-
tion come out in good time; nay, it appears
certain. But at all events let the Empire
State watch them in luture, defeat their
trcachery, and brand them anew with infn-
my should they persist in their purposes to
coalesce with the traditional foes OF this
Government for its betrayal to disruption.
= Baltimore American.
Year: 1863

We observe sundry gentlemen just now
sporting ''copperhead' and ''butternut'
breastpins as an evidence of the bravery
with which they can confront the loyal SEN
timeut of the community. We beg leave
to remind all such that there were those in
this country who once wore the black cock
ade, but whose children have never found
their memory any the more savory on that
account Exchange.
Year: 1863

In the Polish language, cz is pronounced
like ch soft in English, and the English w
is the Polish V. So the name of the leader
in the new struggle for the independence of
Poland should be pronounced Lam ga welsh;
accent on the last syllable.
Year: 1863




The most important military order issued
in this Department, is the following, which
we reproduce from yesterdays Gazette, in
order that it may have the prominence
which it deserves: ..
Year: 1863

WANTED-A HIGH STOOP HOUSE. BELOW l26TI


street for good avenue property: ago for exchange,
rookyn and New York properly for other property within
one hour OF the city Address Andrews box liz Herald Office