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Year: 1864




AS considerable interest is attached To the via,v,
OF Father Hennessy in connection with the dart ~,
give report OF his remarks 10 his congregation on
Sunday morning He spoke in substance as follow, .


- ask the prayers and kind offices Of the church
Tor The poor men who have suffered from the drat4
During the past week 1t has passed over the cty lka


whirlaind.. 1t is than cholera or the plague
having none OF the compensations Of those dreadful
Affections.


"They only destroy the body; this tortures the
soul. 1t drags its victims from their agoniyel fsn


lies. Talk not OF the tortuTes and bar6artes OF the
middle ages. None OF them ever equailed this In
cruelty. In all the countries Of Christendom INV
which term do not mean the United Statesl the
priesthood are exempt from consciiption; but here
there il no exemption. How long will it be before
they lay their hands upon the church and the ss-
cred vesSes Soon they will reach that point where
they have no respect for God himself


" Some have Teen sU foolish as 10 suppose that 1
would acquiesce in the demand made upon me- and
tear myself from my beloved people II is now sew
enteen years since have withdrawn from the world
and devoted myself to God, and L shall not, unless
upon compulSlon, do violence To my sacred vows.-
In ell Christian countries the priest who becomes
soldier Is degraged to the extent corresponding with
accommodation among the lalty.


&" Many loving friends have stepped forward and
generously offered to take my place, but cannot
ask another to do that which do not think il right
to do myself. 1 shall abide i'll my own house until
am torn by saCille2ious hands from my own peo-
pie and from the altar Ii another is sent, shall
not prevent, but L would prefer that these men
should carry out their baIbaIous dictates and drag
J 1t Is our duty TO obey the laws 10 good laws we
can yield an active obedience; 10 bad laws We
should yield passIvely. The great evil is that you
nave sent men 10 make laws who do not even kuOw
the nature OF an enactment They know only how
to carry out the dictates OF their savage nature"
Year: 1864

the conagration has not exactly been ascertained,
though Is supposed to have resulted from an acci-
dental failure to exsDguish the fire which had been
built by solers, TO keep themselves warm, on
reached the depot and been run into the shed-atout
an hour before.


The cost before the war Of the property destroyed
mas peen estimated at twenty thousand dollars but,
OF course a. the present time will far exceed that
sum. nbersl insurance Is held by the company.


IL Is put Just, In connection With this fire. 70 state
that, oy the timely arrival of detachment Of fhe
fire department OF Richmond, who carried over with
them q hand engine and reel, great deal of other
valuable property belonging TO the railroad company
was preserved. Only twenty fireinen IN conformity
mitted to accompany the apparatus which went over
there.
Year: 1864

own eyes, that he was dead. The negroes went
and arrested him. The gentlemans family were III
the greatest grief at his arrest but he assured his
wife ard children that the General would certainly
release him soon he could see him; that he
had never been guilty of anything, and, therefore,
II must be some mistake by which he was arrested.
The family were eomforted with tho belief that the
husband and father woulf certainl turn that eve
ming to his home; but night came and he did not
return.


Morning came and their anxiety compelled them
to send to Paiucah to hear What tidngs they could
of him. When they went IL General Paine, he an
sFertd that he could not tell them. Thus matters
continued Tor four days, when the friends of the
family found the body in the pest-house, riddlcd
with bullets and partially devoured by rats and
then General Paine thought hey taxing his hut
manitv to allow them to take the mutilated and de-
caying remains and have them decantly buried
This murdered man was not even guilty Of the high
crime OF being Democrat.


MISCELLANEOUS.


A committee has been appointed by the Boston
BOard of Trade T. adopt some suitable measures to
testify 10 Captain Winslow the grateful Ieeogni-
ton Of the merchants of Boston" for his condut I
in sweeping from the ocean a destructive enemy to
the commerce of the United States The Advertiser
states that Joseph Story Fay, who lowered the
Union flag 1t half-mast on the fourth OF July, was
nominated one of the committee, but subsequently
had his name erased by vote OF twenty-sx to SIX


Lord Lyons is lying very i'll with typhoid fever at
his residence in Washington city. Serious appre-
tensions are entertained that he will not recover


In the New \ ork sfl0Aae We ma the following
paragraph about Maryland: "In Maryland, in
some of the strong 'nigger-breeding Democratic
localities, little annoyanees and outrages upon the
freedmen the highly honorable occupation OF Che
white skinned, fat, black hearted and eowardly
chivalry. These scoufdrels have become SO annoy
ing that General Wallace has been induced 10 make
order for their especial regulation. He re-states
the fact that all free in Maryland and until
the Legislature provide for the protection OF the
freed slaves he establishes bureau for their affairs,
ordering that, If sufficient funds not voluntarily
forthcoming to sustain the bureau, contributions
shall be collected from rebel sympathzers to make
up the deficiency


Gold was quoted in New York on the llth at 245i
Year: 1864

HerA Bavarian professor an.
nonnces Il at in 1866 comet shall
come so close as to endanger this
our earth and should it not attach
itself to the earth as one slobule
of quicksilver to another, nor an.
initiate us, the sight will be most
beautiful to behold. During these
nights there will be no darkness,
but all will he bathed in the light
of the hIazing train.
Year: 1864

On Saturday evening last Senator Sherman
made speech before the Ohio Club full Of
patriotism and force. The honorable Senator
took his stand squarely where, In our judg.
ment, all true friends of the country should
stand in this hour. After stating truly the
issue In regard to the rebellion, he said:


"I will not insult you by suggesting doubt
as TO where you will be found in such a con.
test. We are for Lincoln and johnson, Zap.
plause, first, last, and all the time, with heart
and soul, without exception or reservation,
simply because they are for the Union, for thC
war, for sustaining the army, and for whipping
rebels wherever they show themselves. We are
not for Fremont, because we look upon him as
the representative of dissatisfied faction W ho
have not patriotism enough 10 submit to the
popular will when the safety of the country Is
involved. We are not for the nominees of the
Chicago Convention, because we know the
ruling spirits of that convention are the very
men who encouraged the rebels to revolt. They
may bait their hook with a peace man, or a
war man, or one Of each kind, but we know
that If they are successful the blood of our pa.
trlot heroes will have been shed In vain, and
disunlon and shameful peace will be the re
suit"


Mr.. sherman's speech would occupy O
column and half In our paper, and is full OIL
good things, but the above paragraph states
the entire question before the UnIon-loylng
people so clearly and forclbly that we prefer Ia
make 1t Shining example," No other
campaign document " is needed by the Union
party than that single paragraph.


1t is well known that Senator Sherman was
personally in favor of the distinguished secre.
tary Of the Treasury as the nominee of the
party, but, like the Secretary himself, he bows
to the will of the people, as expressed in the
Convention, in the honest spirit of the true
patriot and statesman. He asserts In his
speech that Lincoln and johnson were noml,
mated by the people long before the Convention
was held; that 1t was the voice of our brave
soldiers and the loyal masses of the sovereign
peoples and he contends that opposition now is
faction, and very small faction at that.
Year: 1864

The Richmond Erdminsr of the 10th has a
story about Gen. Grant, which must be taken
with grain OF allowance. 1t is to the effect
that the General was so drunk at spottsylvania
that he was Tut under arrest and taken along
In an ambulance, and has been continually
Intoxicated ever since and furthermore, that
his disappointment and chagrin, on learning
that be was not nominated for President by the
Baltimore Convention were so great that he
had Withdrawn his army from the front Of
Richmond, and was reported to be marching
back 70 Washington
Year: 1864

GoD HELP THE PooR.-If the price Of pro-
visions continue to 60 up a, the same ratio
they have, what viii the mechanic do for
food! Their wages will not permit them
even to purchase few of the dslicacss OF
the market. Bread the staff of life, will soon
reach such price that twill be luxury.
The coming winter makes one ponder over
the misery in store for our working classes.
Fuel will be entirely out Of their reach-so,
if The pressure continues, they will not only
starve but freeze. The only way to save
them is to sap the fountain Of all this mise
ry, by eIecling sound constitutional man
one who thinks more Of his country than
power aud plunder.- Washington City Pa
per. -----
Year: 1864

From the official report from New York,


Il have reaz-d the weight Of the respon'
sbihty to be borne should the people ratfy
your choice. Conscious of my own weak
ness. can only seek fsrvenlIy the guidance
of the Ruler Of the Universe, and relying
on his all powerful aid, to do my best to
restore Union and Peace to a suffering peo-
pie. and to establish and guard their l,ber,es
and rights" A deep'feIt sense of rsliet
pervaded the community that a man SO true
and so rightminded had been found, for an
occasion Of such serious import
Year: 1864

We would impress upon our friends the
Importance of a prompt and early attend-
ancs at the polls on election day. Do not
delay, but 60 and deposit your ballots at an
early hour, and then il you know Of abseut Lees,
90 and urge them to turn out
Year: 1864

route is divided into five or six independent
sections, on none of which it is proposed to
run by night. We regret exceedingly that
the Postoffice Department deems it expcdient
to advance backwards in this fashion, and
We think that the people Of this State and Of
the Territories north and east of us, will won-
der what the Pacific Delegation in Congress
is doing; while We do not believe there is
another instance in the nations history, Of
reducing mail facilities. The invariable
course has been to extend and improve them
but now instead of a mail through in seven
days for seven moths, and in twelve days for
the balance of the year, we are to be indul-
gently favored with its wonderfully speedy
transmission in fifteen days-at rate of about
forty miles day! This is progress with a
vengencc, and ought to excite our gratitude
unless it more wisely arouses all who are in
tcrested, to energetic and immediate efforts to
induce the Department and Congress, to mod
ify the plan proposed, and at least to give to
us all the facilities enjoyed and if possible
still more. The contracts are to be let in
March, what is done by way of remon-
STRANGE, must be done forthwith, as after they
are made, the Department will excuse itself
from doing anything by way of relief from
the serious and deplorable inconvenencies
which now Threaten us.


We hope that some one in every town and
village in the State and adjoining Territories
will 1:.,el sufficiently concerned upon tho mat
ter, to prInare and circulate petitions at once,
praying tha: our mail facilities may not be
diminished. LLt there be no delay, and We
may perhaps save ourselves from the harsh and
barbayous dose, which the Postmaster Gener-
al has been mixing, and seems ready to ad-
minister.
Year: 1864

Here is Union majority Of 66,690 In a
vote of 70,1l4, or more than ninety-two per
cent. in favor Of the old Gag and the crushing
out Of the rebellion. Yet the Democratic"
do all the fghting-of course.
Year: 1864

BED CoMFoRTERs.-An old lady requests us
to urge the ladies to save all their newspapers,
and make comforters of them to put on their
beds in the cold weather. They should be
made up in layers Of ten or more tackled in be-
tween muslin or calico, aud she assures us
they will be found to answer the purp Ose better
than cotton batting. ed,
Year: 1864

WAsmNGroN, August lG.-Inormltion has
been received here OF great strategtic movement
on the part Of General Grant, which will, if sue
sful, change the whole aspect OF the campaign
in Virginia.


At The time the mail-boat left City Point yes
terday morning the movement was progressing
fayOrahly, and had already met with great sue
cess, and will compel Lee to evacuate either
Richmond or Petersburg, as it viii be imposs Bile
for him to hold both, and must ultimatcly ac-
c0mplish the reduction Of For, Das,lu :.


Operations are IN progress on both sides of the
river although at the date OF the last advices the
principal one had been ON the north side ia
which the whole of one Of the principal corps
and parts Of two others were engaged. Great
confidence is felt here, by those who are in
position TO be well informed in regard to the
facts, of complete success.
Year: 1864

There lay the innocent lovers, who had
tainted in each others arms, unpindful of
the flight of time and big burly youth who
was watching the unique proceedings through
an aperture in his fathers dilapidated pig
Year: 1864

wait and watch before my eyes


Methinks the night grows thin and gray
/ wait and watch the eastern skies
To see the golden spears arise


Beneath the orihame of day
Like one whose limbs are bound in trance,
hear the day sounds swell and grow,
And see across the twilight glance,
Troop after troopin swift advance,


The shining ones with plumes Of snow.
l know the errand Of their feet,


know what mighty work Is theirs;
can but lift up hands unmeet,
The threshing-hoors of God to bsat,


And speed them with unworthy prayers.
l will not dream in vain despair


The steps of progress wait for me;
The puny leverage Of hair
The planets impulse well may spare,


A drop of dew the tided sea.
The loss, if loss there be, is mine,


And yet not mine if understood;
For one shall grasp and one resign,
One drink life's use and one its vino,


And God shall make the balance good.
Oh power to do oh, baf1ed will


Oh, prayer and action ye are one;
Who may not strive, may yet fulfill
The harder task of standing still,


And good but wished with God is done
Year: 1864

Black eyes most dazzle in hall
Blue eyes most please at evening fail
The black conquest soonest gain;
The blue conquest most retain;
The black bespeak lively heart,
Whose soft emotions soon depart;
The blue a steadier fame betray,
That burns and lives beyond day;
The black may features best disclose;
The blue may feelings all repOse;
Then let each reign without control,
The black all mind, the blue all soul.
Year: 1864

" .
pen.


CHAPTER VII.


We must now take leave of the following
incidents till the reader is better informed
as to the position and origin of the tenement
which had been deserted by the porcine
quadruped, from which our hero was fast
getting ready to leave The opposite end
from the north inclined perceptibly to the
south, so that when old Boreas blew his
loudest blast from the west it fell harmless
upon those extremities 1t was built upon
a romantic site, and the very roof being
built precisely over it tended somewhat to
shelter the juvenile porkers which once in
habited it from the driving storms which
used to beat so numerically upon that struc-
ture when it stormed hard. 1t was one of
those tenements which would strike the be-
holder as being pig pen, which it was.


CHAPTER VIII.


With frightful effort the youth cleared
the top log, and rushed frantically to the
spot His first impulse was to stamp the
unconscious lovers imperceptibly with the
chips, but manier impulse smote his heart
as his eyes fell upon the palpitating bosom
of Jemimy. His feelings were touched, and
unable to quell the rising tide of emotion, he
too fell PROSTATE across the fainting forms of
Reuben and Jemimy III!


CHAPTER TX


They were up quicker than have told it.
Restoratives were Immediately applied, but
only once did his feeble voice mingle with
the surrounding melancholy.


He asked for bread and cheese


CHAPTER x.


Let the traveller, as he passes by, linger a
moment and reflect upon the sad drama that
was enacted upon that pile Of chips. When
the shadows fade away and twilight wells the
dim horrizon-when naught creeps into the
Egyptian darkness but venomous reptiles
and spiders-when no sound rends the bal
my night air but the hungry caterwaul of
the tom cat-there in the dead hour of night,
comes phantom lover from out that pile of
chips, ever pleading in hungry accents for
bread and cheese ! !!


PLAIN.-I am astonished, my dear young
lady, at your sentiments. You make me
start


WELL Sir, 1 have been wanting you to
start for the last hour


Gail Hamilton says: "Precocious chill
dren who do not die young develop into i'd
lots"


Better be accused of a vice, being inno-
cent, than acquitted of it, being guilty.


The most and the best that is done for
you must be done by you.


Don't tempt cudgelling unless you have
some ability to cudgel.


If an allegation is made against you con-
slider the character of the alligator.
Many run about after felicity, like an absent
man hunting for his hat while it is on his
head.


When the head and the heart act each
others parts, both perform indifferently.-.
Let each stick to its role.


The world is not greater than man. No
man is called on to lose his own balance for
the worlds advancement
Year: 1864

When the head and the heart act each
others parts, both perform indifferently.-
Let each stick to its role.


The world is not greater than man. No
man is called on to lose his own balance for
the worlds advancement
Year: 1864

They were up quicker than have told it.
Restoratives were Immediately applied, but
only once did his feeble voice mingle with
the surrounding melancholy.


He asked for bread and cheese
Year: 1864

n@- IT is fact which may appear little
obscure to those who are so blind that
they will not see, that on Old Abe's re-
nomination gold rose to high figure, but
upon the nomination of Mcclellan it fell,
TIL now it is at lower figure than it has
beeu for many weeks Detection and gen
cral espondoncy succeeded Lincolus re
nomination, but when the wires flashed
the nomination of Mcclellan over the
country, it inspired hope and restored
confidence to the people that all would
ere long be righted under bis coAsumate
leadership.
Year: 1864

A correspondent OF the Brooklyn Times
furnishes that paper with an amusing ac-
count of his experience with terrier
whice he bought from dealer on the re-
commendation that he was ''such ratter
He had some trouble at first in getting a
rat on which to try his ''pup." He sue
ceeded at last and says:


"Hewever the next day was SO fortu-
nate as to secure from boy in the mar
ket fine, old line, bob tailed rat, whose
furious efforts to chaW everything within
reach gave premise of glorious sport for
Nip. Took the rat home, called in my
dog and told my wife if she wanted to see
the way terriers did rats to come down in
the basement. She come down and shut
the door, just in time, too, fer as soon as
Nip saw the rat-he, nip, my ratter, for
which had paid the old gent five dollars
made most Enthusiastically cowardly move
ment toward the hail. Wife, on a chair
said she did not appear to see the rat.


Told wife to keep her breath. Thought
I would not give Nip any reason for not
seeing the rat again; so tied the string
thak held the rat to the dogs hind leg
He saw the rat that time, and jumped on
the chair by vile. Wife laughed aud
showed him eff Tried the stove next.
Go. off the stove without being showed.
The rat, however, an old stranger, and
not being used to suoh treatment, made u
demonstration on Nip's rear; and don't
believe little Flora Temple ever made
better time in the limits than that dog and
rat made around the room.


A.. hol h. ola 1x,f IL
lowed by rat, who, on striking the half
mile pole (foet stool in the corner) broke
badly, in fact nearly broke his back, and
before he could be brought down he was
sliding on his back dog led him by whole
length Of the string Didn't step for
wind, but started on the second heat
Got off we'll together, (tied), and went
finely around neck aud tail, until they
reached the judges stand, wife standia.
On a chair1 against which dog brought up
solid, bringing the judge down pre-emi-
nently sudden, if not dignifed. That
heat was decidedly against the dog, you
may bet; and it was only after much per-
su1sion that the judge wsuld again take
the stand.


The third heat may be termed dead
heat. They got off as well apart as the
dog conveniently could, and sailed lively
until just as they struck the last quarter,
when the rat, which ran about as we'll on
his back as on his legs, SHE'D the track,
and got rather queerly wound around a
table leg. Dog kept on as fast as the
string and the length of his hind leg
would let him, on raising the rat he was
found to be non compos, totally aefunct,
in fact dead. Nip was not much better
off,


Wife said that dog couldn't kill mice.
Told her he had certainly killed that rat;
but ou viewing the feat in scientific light
| must confess / did not feel quite salts
fed with the performances of my pet, and
the next morning gave him away to a
milkman who wanted ratter to free his
stable from the dopridations Of the YER
min. I have not been able to ascertain
which left him first, the rats or the dog.
Year: 1864

This distinguished Republican lawyer
of Illinois who was the successor of Mr..
DOUGLAS in the Senate of the United Sta
tes. was called upon by the Democracy at
their ratification meeting at Quincy.


"Bsing loudly called for Mr.. Brown
ing appeared upon the portico in front of
his residence and proceeded to address
the people. In the course of his rsmaks
he paid high and well deserved tribute
to the reputation and fame of General
Mcclellan. He said that he had often be-
fore declared that General Mcclellan was
true patriot and an exalted statesman
that he regarded him as the best General
our country had produced in the present
war, and that he should not feel at all dis
tressed If he should be elcted to the
Presidency At the conclusion of his re-
marks, he was hon0red with three reusing
and hearty cheers"
Year: 1864

E ELI TREAT once again would inform eD his old customers who have so liberaly patronized him during the past twelve years that he has sold the Store he now occupies and it will change tenants on the first of Octo- Der next. The next six months he will devote his time to selling off his entire Stock of goods Let no one entertain doubt, as to the fact that his goods are to be sold out entire within the next six months. Every person is interested in this sale at this present time, particularly where goods in market rule so enormously high, especially when they are assured that almost nine -tenths of his stock was purchased before the advance.

 If anybody wishes to cat the Corners they now have an opportunity. as the Goods will be sold out entire. Every thing except Fixtures will be sold at private sale, if possible, and if any thing remains, the Auction hammer will close up tho balance.

 J. ELI TREAT. New Milford Anri1 1884 tf52
Year: 1864

The bost Tonic Bitter ever offered to the Public. Mingled with the rich flavor of the Bourbon are number of other ingredients for restoring the appetite and imparting life and yigor to the whole system.
Year: 1864

All who have Friends and Relatives in the Army or Navy should take especial care that they be amply supplied with these Pills and Ointment; and where the brave Soldiers and Sailors have neglected to provide themselves with them, no better present can be sent them by their Friends. They have been proved to be the Soldiers never-failing friend in the hour of need