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Year: 1863

FoRBIDDING THE BANS, OR A MARRIAGE
BROKEN UP.-The Morning Call tells
The following interesting story of Lite
in San Francisco - One of the most
singular circumstances happened in this
city, few days since, in connection
with an intended marriage, that we ever
recollect 10 have heard, and we are in
duced to give it TO our readers. There
are residing in this city, trio, whom
we shall designate Mr.. and Mrs. Strong
and Will-the former, although strong
by name, was not so BY nature, but gave
evidence Of early becoming victim to
consumption. Mrs. Strong was young,
rather good looking, and of decidedly
strong minded procliyities. Mr.. Will
was fast and rather inclined to be gay
deceiver Between Mr.. Strong and Mr..
Will feeling of friendship had sprung
up, resulting in the latter becoming an
inmate of the formers house. and the
companion of Mrs. Strong in her visits
10 the opera. The constant association
and companionship of the two latter
caused tender feeling to spring up be-
tween them, and as the health of the
male Strong was steadily on the decline.
and bade fair TO soon put an end to his
existence, they entered into an agree
ment that SO soon after the invalid
Strong had been toled off TO Lone Noun
tain as deeencv would permit, they
would seek the assistance OF a minister.
and be united in those bonds so easily
broken in California. Thus stood affairs
several months; but still Mr. Strong
postponed his dying and the lovers their
marriage, until the warmth Of Mr.. Wills
affection began to grow cold. He be-
gan to think that Mr., Strong did not in
tend to die, but was only acting tho
possum." With this idea uppermost in
his mind. he sought for wife in another
quarter, and was lucky enough to find
virgin heart. untrameled with the cares
OF husband to her he made proposal
and was accepted. The wedding was TO
have taken place one day last week, and
doubtless would. had not Mrs Strong
stepped forward and interposed. The
bridal party had assembled in the church,
and the minister had commenced The
service that was TO unite the two hearts
in one. and had got 10 that portion of
the service where he asks, Il there be
any one who knows aught Why these
twain should not be joined in ma,rmony.
let him speak, or forever hold his peace"
Mrs. Strong rose and said she forbid
the bans, as the bridegroom was affianc.d
TO her. as they were TO be married as
soon as her husband died" This bomb.
shell Of the enemy having burst in the
matrimonial camp, caused complete
scatterment and adjournment Of further
proceedings,
Year: 1863

As light unto the Morn,


So Time to him unfolds her;
As holds the light the day,


So unto him he holds her.
A fairer than himself,


BY one still brighter given,
A something less of earth


A something more of Heaven.
He deems her not saint


In loving she is human
And he is Man,


The dearer she as Woman.
Not down on her he looks,


Nor up to an Ideal,
But straight into her eyes,


And all his love is real.
As bends the sturdy tree


To shade pool of water,
But standeth like rock


When winds and torrent slaughter
So bends he unto her


When gentlest her controlling,
So stands he as wall


When dangers round are rolling.
IT'S not by given Right,


Or privilege he rules her;
For It's his grace to yield,


That in obeying schools her;
And if the less himself


From troublous cause, or other,
In milder type he wears


The spirit of his mother.
As she may have a fault,
So he may have a greater,
And sorrow for his own


For both is exculpator
And if upon her sleeve


She shares passing folly,
he frlghts it with smile,


And not with melancholy.
He slaves her truth to him
BY no confining portal,
But in himself reflects


Its counterpart immortal.
The freedom that he gives,
Is taken from the donor
A Husbands faith may rest
Upon Husband s honor.
And ever as child,


When childish she, he chides her,
And ever as man,


When she is strong, he guides her;
Through sunshine and through shade,
Through blessing and disaster,
In more than name, her Friend,
In less than law, her Master.
Year: 1863

A LAW TO PUNISH PovERTY.-ltis is well enough
TO put things in their true shape Let us Try:


I" Be it enacted by the Congress of the United
States--That every able bodied mau, between
the ages of twenty and forty five, who shall from
any cause be too poor to pay three hundred DOL
lars on demand, shall be seized and conveyed TO
the nearest military post and compelled to serve
10 the ranks as private soldier for the mi Term
Of three years. any provisions in the Federal OF
ing.-Logan Gazette.


We find the above extract in the last Trinity
National. 1t is we'll enough to call lies by their
right name, and the above is a wllul lie, Invented
by the editor of the Logan Gazette, traitor shee'
printed cup North"
Year: 1863

1t is unwise to hope for domcsiic hap.
piness in the possession of single fa-
Vorable trait Of character; it Is better
to look for a combination. and they are
TO be most congratulated who can dis
cern and WOO and win the possessor oi
the largest number Of good points,
First of all, the man whom ysu love.
the woman whom you adore. should
possess high sense OF right and wrong;
next bodily health; and, thirdly, moral
bravery, a courage to be Industrious,
economical and self.denying. With
these three traits. principle. health, and
a soul that can do and dare alllthat one
ought to, domestic felicity viii abide.
None ought TO marry who cannot COM
mand the means Of enabling them to
live in comfort according to their station
in life, without grinding economies.


1t is useless to talk about love in q
cottage. The little rascal alwaysrruns
away when there is no bread and butter
on the table. There is more love in a
full -four barrel than in all the roses
and posies and woodbines that ever
grew. @


No mechanic. should marry until he
is master Of his trade; nor a profession
al man. until his income is adequate TO
the style OF life which he determines
upon; nor the merchant, until his clear
annual gains are equal TO his domestic
expenditures, unless, indeed, there are,
in either case, independent and uncon.
ditionsl sources Of income.


No man ought to marry who has to
work like a horse from morning until
night TO supply family necessaries.
whether it be by brain or body; for if
the body is thus made drudge Of, it
perpetuates impaired powder to the
race; while il the brain is overwrought,
its effects will be seen in ehiidren Of
e--L1~- intellect if.;nl@~I .E&s he nnt
demented. To calculate, therefore, on
reasonable share Of domestic enjoy
ment, the parties most interested should
aim To find in each other as great an
amount as may be Of high moral 'prin-
ciple, of bodily health, and either the
actual possession of suitable main.
tenance, or an individual ability to Sc
cure it without peradventure.-HaPs
Journal of Health.
Year: 1863

Men with calm, clear eyes, and de-
liberste, thoughtful speech. Most Of
them with brown, horny hands, and
grizzled hair. A few Of them dressed
in rough pilot coats; more, in old FASH
ioned long. tailed coats. with brass but
tons; more OF them still soberly dressed
in unobtrusive black, but all with the
same calm. clear eye. These were the
lighthouse keepers, or such as they
men of the storm. of the lee-shore, oI
the reef. of the quicksand-men from
the lonely station standing far sea-wsrd
on tbunder-smitten cliff, or from the
solitary lighthouse on the surf washed
ledge, miles out in the raging sea. II
was well for this golden-haired lad,
with his beautiful face, to stand al the
knees Of such men as these, and listen
to them; to hear from one, how on q
night, when sea and air were all mixed
together in deadly turmoil. the light
ship he commanded broke loose with
out their knowing it. and was carried
over dangerous sands, and thrown high
and dry and safe on the beach; and
from another one, how he and his mate
sat up one such night in the lonely
lighthouse, FIVE miles from land, watch


ing the corpse OF the third and oldes
Year: 1863

The better aspect of affairs, steadily im


proving for week or two past, brightens
from day to day; the indications increase
that if the loyal are weary of the conflict, the
rebels are an hundred fold more so. Despite
their constant boasts, and the tone Of saw
age defiance which pervades everything al
most from that direction, there is also an
incessant ringing of all possible changes on
the assumed chances of ''peace" kept up
to stimulate the tagging energies of all con


cerned in the extremities to which they are
reduced. Whilst they fatter themselve,
that the loyal States are 50 divided in THEN
purposes to prosecute the war as to threaten
the Government with lack of means, word
comes from their own side that they are al.
together worse off on that ground them


selves, sections of the so called Confederacy
being so openly defiant, so thoroughly in
revolt that portion of the force relied
upon to defend their territory against the
General Government is needed to defend
the great consprators against insurrectioG
Of the people, so horribly imposed upon and
deceived. And when We look at the portions
of the South-Georgia and North Carolina
whence accounts of dissatisfaction and
armed resistance come, We are reminded
! that from the first these States have been
deemed measurably unsound on the question
of loyalty to the conspirators at Richmond.
In the outset Of their attempts to set up q
| Government for themselves, it will be re-.
collected that Governor Brown charged the
Richmond gang with love of absoluteism,
an admiration for ''monarchial' principles,
whilst, at various times since, he has been
very recusant, asserting the predominance
of the principles OF State Rights over
various claims put forward by that Conted


eracy. Under the immediate pressure ol
danger to Georgia, it is true that thi,
troublesome subordinate seems to have
measurably postponed his cavillings, hi
cross purposes; but it appears that the
lessons he has taught, his people have pro


fitted by; and the fruits of all this seems tt
be now, that whatever he may elect to do il
the way of submission to horrible tyranny


they are resolved to stand it no longer


OF North Carolina, too, it may be said
that she has never been cordially enlisted in
the wild crusade to destroy the Government.
Almost ever since the war commenced
whispers have been coming up from THAI
State that the Legislature especially was not
true to the JEFF. Davis Government; whilst
no one who is acquainted at all with what
has taken place in the upper counties bor-
dering on East Tennessee, but must believe
that, like the people OF the last named
region, thousands there have only been
waiting for good opportunity to throw OF
the accursej yoke which has weighed them
down so long 1t is true that Gov. Vancs
has of late lent himself, with new devotion,
Year: 1863

CAMP SILL, NEAR MURFREEsBnRo',


Tenn, Feb. 2, 1868.


DEAR CHRONICLE The readers of the
Northern press have, no doubt, ere this be.
come heartily tired of correspondents and
their sayings in relation to the battle of
" Stone River, and | shall not attempt to
say anything in relation to that sanguinary
struggle. The Second Division has, no
doubt, suffered some in reputation at least
one would judge so from the reports of the
battle written home by such correspondents
as W. d. B. of the Commercial, whose sole
object seems to be to screen the officers who
did the blundering, and who are to blame
for the disasters that befell the army. But
this is all we can expect from these hired
pimps, who exist here by the sufferance of
these same officers, and who get their bread
by writing of the heroic deeds of these
same starry gentry" wto were half the
time lost from their commands. The Diyi-
sion has lost no reputation in the army
The men here who are not interested in the
reputation of these Generals to such an
alarming extent that blunders and surprises
become skillful handling and energetic &C
ton in their eyes, know where the blame
rests; and though they may not be heard
now, they will be at some future time.


The right wing is now the Twentieth Ar.
my Corps, the left the Twenty First, aud
the center the Fourteenth-commanded in
the order have mentioned them by Nc
Cook, Crittenden, and Thomas


McCook's command is encamped on the
Shelbyvile pike-the Second Division about
four miles from Murfreesboro and the other
Divisions between it and town.


The army here is busy fortifying the place,
throwing up very heavy works. What this
means we cannot conjecture. Whether a
small force is to be left here, and the re-
mainder to go on toward the Tennessee
River, or whether it is merely to fall back
upon in case of an attack, are questions
known only to high authorities.


Rebel cavalry are still lowering in our i'm
mediate front, and occasionally interrupting
our forage and supply trains. 1t is not be-
lieved here, however, that any large body
of the enemy are nearer than Duck River;
in fact, it is thought here that the attention
of the Rebel armies under Gen. Johnston
are more particularly turned to Vicksburg
at present than Murfreesboro'.


The war seems to be carried on in this
section of the country now in rational way.
Our army forages of. the inhabitants, taking
all they have to eat, aud all they have for
their stock. We burn rails altogether, and
burn such houses as are not needed for hos
pitals-that is, if it is certain they belong
to Rebels. This County looks as though an
invading army had been through it, and the
most determined Rebel is anxious for peace;
fully as anxious as their brethren in the
North are. We have plenty Of forage here,
plenty of supplies, and are comfortably sit.
alated; aud it it we're not for the many miss.
ing comrades since the late battle, We would
Year: 1863

This, I believe, embodies the sentiment of
the whole army, with but very insignificant
exceptions. 1t is well that the faint heart
ed loyal people should know this fact, and
grow stronger in their hope Of the Repub.
lie. The authors Of these resolutions are
men who are determined to perpetuate our
Government By their very position they
are schooled to value its privileges more
highly than ever before A million of men
are being taught the same lesson in the
same school, They are power whose
voice will be heard, and thank heaven that
voice is united one There is no wrang.
ling in politics in the army; a more ser-
Gus business is before it, and it casts away
the trash of party schemes Let him who
would make light OF its voice beware, for
the army is in earnest IN its great work.


Copies of the resolutions adopted are Ia
be sent to Governor Yates, Adiutant Gen.
eral Fuller, and to the Legislature Itmay
reach you by telegraph before this comes
to hand ERo
Year: 1863

The following is the section of the
Conscription Law in reference to the
three hundred dollars exemption:


"SEC. 13. And be itfurther enacted,
That any person drafted and notified
to appear as aforefaid, may, on or be,
fore the day fixed for his appearance,
furnish an acceptable substitute to take
his place in the draft, or he may pay
to such person as the Secretary of
War may authorize to receive it, such
sum, not exceeding three hundred dol
lars, as the Secretary of War may de-
termine, for the procvration of such
stitute, which sum shall be fixed at a
uniform rate by general order made
at the time of ordering a draft for any
State or Territory; and thereupon
such person so furnishing the substi
tute or paying the money shall be dis
charged from further liability to that
draft; and any person failing to report
after due service of notice as herein
prescribed, without furnishing a sub
stituto or paying the required sum
therefore shall be deemed a dcsertor,
and shall be arrested by the Provost
Marshal and sent to the nearest militia
ry post for trial by court-martial, un-
less upon proper showing that he is
not liable to do military duty the
Board of Enrichment shall relieve him
from the draft"
Year: 1863

The Indianapolis Sentinel says:


"We understand that Governor
Morton has taken decided position
in opposition to any further arrests in
Indiana by the Military authorities
We most sincerely hope that this re-
port may prove true. There is no
necessity for this exercise of arbitrary
power in this State"
Year: 1863

treasure of the whole nation opened to
him without stint-is it to enable him to
make peace, or war-which?


Where, then, are those indications of
peace, which we are said to be recklessly
resisting and disdaining? Oh! the great
speech of Vallandigha.n; the touching
invitation of tuneful Coxl We greatly
fear that those two wooers of the South,
so fond and fain, will very soon be
found, like John Van Buren, shrieking
out for war to the knife; and if they de-
lay or decline to recant their great and
noble peace speeches, why they will see
the inside of Lincoln's jails. We wish
from our hearts they were both already
safely chained up at the present writing;
they have done US more harm, they and
their like, than ten thousand Stewards
and Summers. We tremble to see their
unwholesome advances; still more to see
sort of morbid craving here to respond
to them, under the delusive idea of pro-
noting intestine division at the North.


Oil Dictator Lincoln! lock We up
those two peace Democrats-together
with Richardson-in some of your mill
tary prisonsi
Year: 1863

The following letter, from Major Cen
eral Sigel, was read at a Union League
meeting in New York:


WASHINGTON, d. G., March 20, '63.


cannot be present at the Inaugural
ton of the Loyal National League this
evening, but | send my best wishes, and
request you to enrol my name among its
members.


l believe that the self-preservation of
the North and the preservation of Repub-
lican principles on this continent, have
made this war, on the part Of the United
States Government, necessary, and that
there can be no rest until our arms have
triumphantly established the rights of
man and the majesty of the law over the
whole South.


All the talent and energy, the wealth
and resources of the people should be laid
on the altar of the nation; and if the
Government will employ all these agen-
cies, and trust in men Of energy and
character, unfettered by petty jealousies,
to break the ranks of the enemy in front
ana at once, this war will be speedily
ended.


We must have the sharp sword as well
as the sharp pen-the strong arm as
well as the strong and fearless mind, to
help us in this terrible struggle The
people must awaken those who sleep, and
stir up those who are creeping along, in
stead Of marching onward with self-rely-
ing boldnes


1 believe in the Monroe doctrine, in
the Bntler code, Capplause, in the Pres
ident's proclamation, [renewed cheers,
in the good will and perseverance of the
people, in the undaunted courage Of our
volunteers, in the final vindication of the
honest, the just and the brave; in the
liberation of the down-trodden and the
slave, and in the overthrow and death of
the Southern oligarchy. Loud cheers !


Respectfully,


+. 81 GEL, Major Gen.
Year: 1863

According to the Chicago Times, some
of the drafted men in Michigan were
taken to Detroit in chains, their refusal
to 90 voluntarily rendering such course
necessary. The editor upon this text
makes some reflections on the conduct
of Government that has produced such
a state of things, where a short time ago
there was the greatest inclination to en-
list. If the war had not become Aboli-
tionized, he intimates, the people of
Michigan would still be ready to volun-
teer instead of being drafted and dragged
off in chains. The story is probably a
lie, manufactured in the Times office to
send abroad for other Copperhead jour-
nails to relic upon; and the intimation
that the men who now refuse to enlist
would willingly 60 to fight the rebels,
under any circumstances, is notorious
falsehood, without a shadow of doubt. If
any men were taken to Detroit forcibly,
they belong to the same class as the
editor of the Times, who could be induced
to enter no military service in the North
except the fre-in-the-rear business. The
rear is the only part of an enemy the
miserable cravens ever dare to look at
facing foe in battle is something en-
tirely beyond the scope of their daring


Is any man fool enough to suppose
that Mr.. Lincoln could have pursued any
course, short of surrendering the Govern
ment into the hands of jeff Davis. that
would have satisfied the Copperheads?
Withdraw the oclamatlon-reinstate
Gen. Mcclellan and Gen. Buell-employ
the army in returning fugitive slaves
humbly apologize to the South, and offer
the Breckenridge platform as a compro-
mise-and would the Copperheads be
satisfied? Nothing like it. A thousand
charges would still be brougot against
the President and his policy, the Copper
heads of Michigan would still refuse to
be drafted, and the Chicago Times would
continue its noble and manly course of
firing in the rear! Such journals are
we'll understood by friends and foes
They are in the interest and pay, present
OF prospective, of jeff Davis, and it is
their vocation, by all means, and espe-
cially foul means, to obstruct the action
of the Government and advance the
cause of the rebellion. This is about
the whole of the matter.-PeoriG Trans
! cript.
Year: 1863

gSA. The Democrats of Indiana have
professed great admiration for Governor
Seymour, of New York Have they for
gotten his Brooklyn speech, in which he
used the following language?


''We are not only in favor of thor
ough war policy, but we propose to bring
this war to speedy and successful CON
clusion. They (the insurgents) have not
contented themselves with the ballot, but
have chosen the bayonet and the bullet
to settle the question. Then with the
bayonet and bullet we must meet them
We did not want this war, B0t the men
of the South made the bayonet and the
sword the arbiters of their doctrines, and
so far as the present is concerned, the
sword must be the arbiter, and by it, with
our own strong arms, we will strike Wig
orous blows for the life of the Constitu-
ton and the flag wish that my voice
Year: 1863

A few spectators in Cincinnati,
calling themselves "War Democrats, "
are making great out-cry for fear
that their pay will stop! They want
the war to last till the "lsst man and
the last dollar" is used up, and will
therefore vote for Brough!


Now is the time for the Republicans
who want this ''last man and last dol
lar" robbery stopped, to vote the Dem
oerstic ticket. Corruption ca the one
side and the people on the other!
Year: 1863

The Hon. VIM. IL. Seward in his speech
at Lacrosse, Wisconsin, in 1860, said:


"What kind Of q Government would it
be il we elected man we did not like in-
stead Of man we did like? My impression
is that 1t would be Government not differ
ing very far from the Empire Of Austria.
where they always manage to electa man
whom the people do not like, and where they
have on admirable way Of saving the Union
BY organizing an army Of 500 600 men arm
ed to the teeth, to maintain the mau whom
they do not like"
Year: 1863

A vicksburg dispatch states that picnic
was held on the Beg Black on the 24'h ult.,
under the auspices OF Colonel Cradlebaugh.
that called together a great number of rebel
ladies, who enjoyed it as much as such
things are generally enjoyed General
Sherman and his wife were Of the party
While there flag OF truce came in and the
Confederate officers joined the party. 1t
was all in oil remarkable sight, friend and
foe at picnic within our picket lines.