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Year: 1865




OF AMERICA, February II, 1865.
GENERAL ORDERS,


TN entering upon the campaign about to open.
the General-in- Chief feels assured that the
soldiers who have SO long and so nobly borne the
hardships of the war require 10 exhortation to
respond to the calls of honor and duty.


With the liberty transmitted by their forefa-
theirs they have inherited the spirit to detendit


The choice betwceh war and abject submission
is before them.


! To such proposal, brave men. with arms in
their hands, can have but one answer.


They cannot barter manhood for peace. nor
the night of self government for life or property


Bat justice to them requires sterner ad1noni-
ton to those who have abandoned sheir comrades
in the hour of peril


A last opportunity is offered to them to wipe
out the disgrace and escape the punishment Of
their crimes.


By authority Of the President of the Confsde
rate States, a pardon is announced to such desert
ers and men improperly absent as shall return
to the commands n which they belong, within
the shortest possible time, not exceeding twenty
days from the publication of this order at the
headquarters OF the department in which they
may be.


Those who may be prevented by interruption
of communication may report within the time
specified to the nearest enrolling officer. or other
officer on duty, to be forwarded AS soon prac-
ticabie, and upon presenting certificate from
such officer, showing compliance w,th this re-
quirement, will receive The pardon hereby offered.
Those who have deserted to the service OF the
enemy, or who have deserted after having been
once pardoned for tue same offence, and those
who shall desert or absent themselves without
authority, after the publication of this order.
excluded from its benefits Nor does the offer Of
pardon extend to other offences than desertiou
| and absence without permission.
By the same authority it Is also declared that
| no general amnesty will again be granted. and
| those who refuse to accept the pardon now offer
ed or who shall hereafter desert Or absent them
selves without leave. shall suffer such punish
ment as the courts may impose. and no applica-
ton for clemeney will be entertained.
Taking new resolution from the fate which
our enemies intend for US. let every man devote
| al! his energies to the common defence.
Oar resources, wisely aud vigorously employ
ed, are ample. and with brave army, sustained
by determined and united people. success, with
Gods assistance, cannot be doubtful.
The advantages OF the enemy will have but
little value if We do not permit them to impair
our resolution. Let us, then, oppose constancy
TO adversely ortitude to suffering, sud courage
danger, with the firm assurance that He who
gave freedom to our fathers will bless the efforts
Of their children to preserve it.
r L. LEE. Gsmtra!
By command of GENERAL E. X SMITH.
I S. S. ANDERSON, Assistant Adlutant Genl.
Aprl Is. 1865 46-3t,
Year: 1865

Many years ago there lived in a neigh
boring State, family by the name Of
Noble. The father not unfrequently in
dulged in taking "a leeetle too much. >
Upon a certdfn occasion, he was seen ly-
ing upon the ground, and it was supposed
he was under the influence of "spirits ;"
but upon examination his leg was found
to be broken. A son of the old man was
in the vicinity, and horse and carriage,
with driver, were soon procured to take
them home. When within a short dis
tance, Mr.. Noble said she was afraid It
would come too sudden upon the old wo-
man, and he thought Oliver (his SOM bet
ter go ahead and prepare her mind for
it." This was accordingly done and when
the party arrived at the house, the old
lady came running out, saying, "Broke
yer leg, broke yer leg, hain't ye? wish
| it had been your darned old neck -
Year: 1865

the interest of the Southern white man
in this connection ? The elevation of The
black. What stronger incentive could
you give him for commendable eifor
than the protection of equal laws and the
right to suffrage when he prepared him
self to exercise it 1t is said to be un
popular to hold these views 1t may be
SO. With me it matters not. | seek moi
popularity. As have often said, [ nev-
en- intend to hold an office admire
your position more, who, public man
have the nerve to "stand for the right"
without thought as to its popularity
But [ think it will all come out right in
the end Is there soldier in all the land
remembering his escape from dungeons
and starvation in the South and the dus-
Ky companion of his stormy perils, who
could deny the aid Of his name and iufu-
ence to that companion in his pilgrimage
from chains and bondage to home, free
dom and happiness.


Is there the wife, sister or molher of
such soldier, who, as she sits at nightfall,
and hears from his lips the stories of that
simple hearted kindness and unwavering
devotion which cheered him beneath
skies very far away, and saved him when
dangers and foes lurked on every hand !;
is there one of these who would refuse
her influence for these poor wretches in
the crisis of their fate, who, looking back
breathless into their long night of servi-
tude and sorrow to the hopes awakened
in their bosoms, stretch out their arms
imploringly, ask to be protected by the
laws, and not abandoned and left con-
dition more deplorable than bondage it
self?


Is there humane STAKEHOLDER in all
the South, who would be willing to see
those once his slaves, once forming part
of his household, always kind, obedient
and uncomplaining ; attached to his chill
dren, ready to weep over his misfortunes,
and rejoice over his success and min
lister in affection and kindness to his
suffering wife and children; is there one
Of these SO dead to every noble impulse,
as to consent to see these creatures, lib
Grated by Gods decree, floating about like
waits in the land, spurned and trod upon
by the rude and heartless, deprived Of all
opportunities and doomed to penury and
destruction There may be such a one.
If so, he is less fit for suffrage and citi-
zenship than the humblest of those who
were once his degraded chattels.


Is there Unionist from all the poor
men of the South who, hunted and houn-
ded from crag to jungle in.his weary ex-
lie from the home of his childhood, and
the gravesof his fathers, as he recalls the
weary night watch, the shared crust of
bread, the rude couch given up, the doubt
full way. rendered clear,. ,.the pursuing a
venger foilcd by the simple-hearted and
faithful black, forgetting all his wrongs
in compassion for the wronger. Oh is
there one such who, as he remembers all
this, would not feel abased to refuse
to that race every protection, eve
ry means of advancement, even suffrage
itself? But really [ have said much
more than l intended. | shall return
home in few days, when you may hear
from me again.


Your obedient servant,


L. W. CAN'T.
Year: 1865

If the right foot itches on the bottom,
you are going where you are wanted if
the left foot, where you will not bs
welcome. Battle your feet every morn
ing, and they win be sure not to Itch ;
and if you stay at home, you certainly
will not go where you are not welcome.
Year: 1865

A young man in Kingston, N. Y, q
few days since offered a lady friend who
was acting as missionary collector, TWEEN
ty-fve cents for every Kiss she would give
him, Lady went right to work and earu-
cd ST so for the fund in a few minutes,
Year: 1865

The United Brethren Church of Read
ing was broken into few nights ago,
and robbed Of the mourning material
with which the interior was draped, the
communion cup, and the covering Of the
pulpit.
Year: 1865

Holland, the editor of the Springfield
(Mass-) Republican, has been up in Yer
mont, to ''where he came from" and thus
sketches what he should have been if he
had not left home and become an editor !:


Your correspondent would have grown,
stalwart and strong, with horny hands and,
face as black as the ace of spades He
would have taught school winters, work
ed on the farm summers, and gone out
haying fifty days in July, and taken for
pay the iron works and running gear of
wagon.


At two and twenty, or thereabouts, he
would have begun to pay attention to a
girl with father worth $4,000, and q
spit curl on her forehead-a girl who al
ways went to singing school, and "set In
the seats, and sung without opening her
mouth-a pretty girl any way. Well,
after seeing her home from singing-school
for two or three years, taking her to
Fourth of July, and getting about S1OO
together, he would have married and set
tied down. Years would have passed;
away, and the girl with the spit curl,
would have eleven children-just as sure
as you live-seven boys and four girls. j,
We should have had hard time in,
bringing them up, but they would soon,
be able enough to do the milking and
help their mother wash days, and l get
ting independent at last, and feeling lit
tie stiff in the joints, would be elected
member of the legisture, having been an
assessor and a school committeeman for
years. In the evening Of my days, with
my pipe in my mouth, thirteen barrels of
cider in the cellar, and newspaper in
my hand, | should sit and look at the
markets through pair of gold mounted
spectaclcs, and wonder why should such
a strange silly piece as this be published.
Year: 1865

WALLA WALLA, November 18th, 1860.


Ma. EDTrOR Having recently arrived from
the heart of the far-famed Blackfoot country,
and having derived a good deal of experience
from a soiOurn Of over year and a half there,
it has occurred to me that few lines might not
be uninteresting to your readers.


Much has already been said in its favor, and
no doubt moro will continue to be said; bnt as
yet I'haye seen no report that has placed it be
yond what it really is-the richest and most ex-
tensive gold-diggings ever discovered on this
coast since the early days of California. Quartz
mills have already found their way to within a
few miles of the summit Of the eastern side Of
the Rocky mountains, and more are on their
way, having been ordered during the past sea-
son.


McClellan's Gulch, on this side, and Alder
Gulchi on the eastern slope, are as yet the rich
est placer diggings which have been discovered,
but many other gulehes, nearly if not quite as
as good are known to exist on both sides. In
Last Chance, on this side, a fine piece worth
eighteen hundred and seveuty-six dollars, was
picked up by one of the fortunate owners.


The climate during the winter, owing to the
great altitude and northern position, is of course
very severe but the working season is much
longer than many suppose, having lasted nearly
six months last year. Through the past winter
many poor fellows were severely frost-b bitten,
and having been among the number can
speak all the more feellngly. To this incident
owe my present visit to your beautiful valley,
having come for the purpose of receiving proper
medical treatment.


Last winter provisions were very high-hour
two dollars per pound, and everything else in
proportion; while the lovers of the weed we're
required to fork over a cool fifteen dollars per
pound for tobacco. But as 1 met upwards of
four thousand pack animals on the way, pre-
sumo there will be a different state of affairs
this winter.


While crossing the Spokane river or rather
just as | reached this side, l was, through the
polite attentions of gentleman commonly
known as Irish Jim, relieved of all my loose
cash and the further necessity of taking care of
my own mule, having received blew from a
stone on the left temple, which rendered me in
sensible for long time, awakening to the sad
reality that l was alone without either money,
blankets or mules. In case any of your readers
may happen to see the mule, may mention
that be is a brown one, fourteen and half hands
high, and branded on the left shoulder with the
letter A +; and at the same time | would state
that l will gladly pay any one fifty dollars. who
will return him.


Now, my dear sir having already trespassed
upon your time and space, and trusting and
firmly believing that very many will realize their
expectations in the Blackfoot country, l remain,


Very truly, yours,


PETER MILLER.
Year: 1865

IA CHANCE LoK DAIRYMEN.-It certainly
speaks poorly for the enterprise of our stock
owners and ranchnen, that they fail to fur
nish sufficient butter to meet the wants of
the market. As class, dairy men every
where are prosperous, and it is strange in
deed that larger number of stock owners
have not turned their attention to this profit
able branch of industry. Much of the butter
that is used in this market is brought from
below and is of poor quality. A good article
of home production readily commands IS
cents, and even at this figure the supply is
BY no means equal to the demand. With
thousands acres Of the best grazing land in
the world, in the immediate vicinity of our
town, it is shameful that we should depend
on the lower country for the products of the
dairy. With proper enterprise, we should
produce all the butter and cheese required
for home use, and have a surplus for ship
ment to the mines. For thorough dairymen,
men who understand the business, Walla
Walla offers fine field, and one that cannot
too soon be occupied
Year: 1865

received from Montana, express the opinion
that supplies will be very scarce before the
opening of the Spring trade. High prices
are expected to prevail, and those who are
fortunate enough to get their stocks in early
will be sure to have good thing. Until late
in the season it will be impossible to get in
supplies from the East, and as a consequence
the people of Montana look to this quarter
as their main dependence.
Year: 1865

They took him gently up and carried
him. And that hveleRg night these two
men bore him over the battle Geld, and
laid him down In blood beside the bleed
ing, dying men9 and he preached Christ
TO them, and prayed. He had 10 look
up then. brethren, he could no other way
from that position, not even into the
face of the dying; and with God stars
shining down ON him, aad heaven bend
ing over him. he had to preach Christ
and pray. L. 4 ~p a as
Year: 1865

We are informed by friend, who arrived
in the city late last night, that land slide
occurred last evening, at about sunset, on
the plantation of Mr.. j. F. Leprete, on the
right bank, about seven miles below Algiers
carrying the levy entirely away with it to
the space of one acre.


Our informant states that the water is
running through, about four feet in depth,
the levee at that place being about FIVE feet
h Oh. If it is permitted to run the conse-
quence must be great loss of crops and 9th
er property to the planters in the parishes
of Orleans and Plaquemines.


Here now is another emphatic call upon
the assistance Of the Government, which
alone has the power and the ability to come
to the rescue and save us from teartully
impending evil.


We learn that the authorities have been
made acquainted with the accident prompt
ly, and we have doubt that they will at once
take the proper measures for the prevention
of the great damage that must inevitably
ensue from it, it it is not Immediately at
tended to.
Year: 1865

As there is much curiosity to see the
views oi the great re eIullcan champion upon
negro suffrage, which were recently aliuusd
to, We give below fuller report of them:


"At the annual meeting of the New.
England Anti; lavery Convention, on Wed.
nesdy, Wendell Phillips took the stand, aud
said that the real topic for discussion was
immediate suffrage for the negro. Mr..
| Maynard, of Tennessee, was right. There
was no time to agitate this question. Dis.
cuSion before the people would not secure
colored suffrage for twenty-five years. The
right must be conceded at once to secure the
nation from serious trouble, and, perhaps,
disaster. The condition of every black
man was to day 10 better than in 1883, and
he did not sec how any man could say sla.
very was abolished and give up his efforts
! In the antl-slavery cause. 1t would be u
year before even the technical abolition OF
slavery would take place. The condition OF
the negro at the South was in state of re-
markable uncertainty. No man could say
whether he could own property, protect his
wife, testify in court, or exercise any other
natural light. The white men Of each
State claimed the privilege to regulate all
this, and the Tennessee Legislature had
just enacted a law concerning free colored
people. DO they enact laws regarding free
white people? All that concerns the colored
people is TO be regulated by the whites, and
what will the whites do when their States
are r, constructed without the negro iran
chse? They would unite with the old Dem
ocratic party in the last Congress Of john
son Presidency, and show the friends OF
liberty who it is that has really been whip
ped in this last hour of the war. The
black race would be kept practically in the
condition of serls, bound to the soil. The
admission Of single State without negro
slavery would exist in reality, but not in
name.


After this was settled, the next question
forced into Congress would be the accep-
tance of the Southern debt. And if this
was done successfully, he would argue Tor
Reputation Of the whole to the last hour of
his lite. Deprive the South of negro suf-
trage, and every drop Of blood has been
spilled, and every dollar of treasure expend-
ed in vain. AlIeady had threats been made
that reconstruction would be put through
next winter, on an anti-negro basis, in spite
of all opposition. 1t would be the great
question of the Congressional session. This
spring Mr.. Sumner said to Mr.. lincoln,
Louisiana must be reconstructed on the
basis OF the Declaration OF Independence.
MIR. Lincoln hesitated, and did not reply,
when Mr.. Simmer said, Sir, if you recon
struct it on any other basis, count on me as
an opp nent. That was the position for
eve.y friend of permanent Union and of
p rmanen, freedom to take, and stand by it
firmly. Far better that Grant had sumen-
dered to Lee than that the President should
surrender to North Carolina or Louisiana,
and make u>elc, all the sutferings and
Ii sses and sacrifices of this fearful strug-
gle


Among those present in the hall were
Whiting Griswola, George Thompson, and
Amasa Walker"
Year: 1865

The Nashville JJntion Of the lst inst. il,
sends the following greeting to the Radical
presses of the East:


| A number of the more ardent of the
Radical presses of the East, that were swift
! to denounce the present occupant of the
Presidential chair for making a drunken
exhibition OF himselt-as they aegcd-on
the 4th Of March; but found him, so soon
as he succc, dad to the Presidency, mar
velouSly proper man. are making prepara-
tlons to open upon him again the food gates
OF Vltuperatton. AS yet they do not speak
out decidedly. They are beating about the
bush. tie has not ia ken a position on the
question of comforting political equality
upon the negro, to suit them. They pro-
tess not to understand him. IF he means
| thus and so, say they, then he is not up to
the demands OF the hour-not yet emerged
from the worse than heathenish darkness
which has betogged the intellects of South
ern statesmen. But, they continue, We
must wait and hear him tilrther-surely it
cannot he that he will enunciate and main
tain policy which will contine the negroes
of the Southern States to degraded po-
sition of political inequality. So, if the
President should fall below the standard
which they have prepared TOR him, all the
dogs in the pack will be turned upon him
again 1t has probably never occurred to
these otticious gentlemen of the press that
they might be heard with more tolerant
spirit if they would, before insisting upon
others recognizing and treating the negro
as political equal, begin the work at home
and give their Southern friends the benefit
of their example. President johnson, they
ought to reflect, has been all his life in the
midst Of a negro population. He has done
more for the negroes of Tennessee, than
any other man. He took the responsibility
as military Governor of proclaiming their
freedom, regardless of the denunciatiCn Of
traitors and .pro-slavery Union men; and
saw that his decree of freedom was res pect-
ed. The experiment of freedom. under his
auspices, gave him fair opportunity to
form ju. opinion of the capacity of the
freedmen tor the higher privileges opened
to them already, and for others for which
they aspire. The opinions of sincere
friend Of the negro, formed under favorable
circumstances, it strikes us, ought to be re-
spected at least by those who have no prac-
tcal knowledge of the subject. But wheth-
er this be done Or not, President johnson
will, we are assured follow the convictions
Of his judgment, and discharge his duty
honestly and conscientiously. Opposition
has never yet deferred him from pursuing
the right, Or maintaining his principles, and
he is not likely now to falter from fear of
opposition, or even to trim to catch support
] hose who think otherwise will find them
selves egregiously mistaken.
Year: 1865

Al their session yesterday the Supervisors
completed the canvass OF the Fourteenth Ward IN
regular ORDER They meet again AZ 10 today and
II is now thought likely that they will finish their work
and declare the result BY Friday afternoon.
Year: 1865

I do not fancy precocious children,
for the very reason that they are al
most always in some abnormal physi-
cal condition. It isn't natural for a
child to be precocious. A healthy,
right kind Of a child is foolish and
unrefecting at best. You have n,
plant yourself plump against then
iron little will and stout muscles, with
a still stouter will and stronger mus
Gle. When you reason with them,
your arguments meet shoal logic.
The verses you teach them and the
bright savings they retail, are always
pert memorializings.


i The whole, natural, Characters
tic life Of a child is noisy, rollicking
tumbling, bruising, cracking, break
ing. You endure their savage pres
ence for the hope you have in them.
You love them far more for what
they will be than for what they are
to you. No; L do not want any of
your proper children. Department
is more alien than cannibalish to
their nature. Original sin shows it.
self before pride and Judgment in
them. Their first falsehood is as
sure as their first tooth, and the best
Of them are jealous and envious little
reprobates. fi. #. g. L, ..sJ
va l would rather start to train a
strong-willed child with a healthy
body-one decidedly of the earth,
earthy-than one Of your children
over-freighted with spirit. Some
years ago watched, with unwearied
earnestness, over the fragile form Of
a little one who gave promise Of
rare and beautiful soul life. He left
me. He did not die to me. He
simply passed out of sight. The i'm
mortal in his nature so far out
weighed the mortal that his passage
from time to eternity seemed to me
only like the fading away Of a beauti-
full vision; and even to this day1
feel like stretching out my arms after
some unreal thing, which, in the
shape Of a wonderful child, cajoled
me into the belief that Twas the
mother Of that beautiful boy. ha5


I have no reason to believe. that
any angel children have since lodged
with me unawares; but true to my
theory, 1 rejoice in the rough, hardy
bodies Of my little ones, fearing not
SO much lest they should not be
comely and graceful as that 1 may
fail to keep their bodies and souls in
harmony with Gods natural and
divine laws.-[Cor. Springfield Re-
publican.