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Year: 1863

Animals need shelter, but imprison-
ment is neither necessary nor beneficial.
The horse and cattle stalls in too many
instances supply only one requisite, viz:
warmth. Animals are frequently penned
up from week to week, in narrow quarters,
reeking with filth which fills the air with
noxious effluvia, where little or no light
can enter, rs though they were undergo
ing punishment. Now even the best ac-
commodations that can be provided, are
In measure unnatural. Our domestic
animals at the North are patives of warm
or climates, where they are accustomed to
roam at will during the entire year. Ev-
cry important change from this, their
natural condition, will more or less inter
fere with their best development. If
abundant and wholesome food, pure air,
and plenty of light be supplied, the ben
efits of shelter will more than counter
balance the loss of freedom.


Confinement of animals should not be
too strict. Some amount of exercise is
indispensable. The horse that is kept
standing on the stable floor for weeks,
will be troubled with swollen limbs, loss of
appetite; will be likely to acquire the
habit Of cribbing; and when finally used,
will over exert himself, and then quite
likely be laid up for time with stiffened
muscles. Cattle become restless and fe-
yerish from long confinement, and will
not lay on fat, or give full flow of milk,
without n moderate amount of exercise
daily. A good plan is to turn them loose
in sheltered yard after the first feeding,
while the stables are being cleaned. An
imals, as well as men, enjoy a change of
place, and with these their health and
comfort are intimately connected.-Am.
Ag., January, 1868.
Year: 1863

MIKE, Hartford hostler, was ordered
to saddle one of the horses and bring him
TO the door. After considerable delay
Mike at length led up tho gallant steed,
but with the pummel Of the saddle turn
ed unambitiously tailward. The propri-
ctor shortly appeared, and after the con-
vulsions of laughter at the grotesque ap-
pearance of the rig sufficiently subsidcd
to enable him to speak, he asked Mike
if that was the way they put on the sad
dies in the old country. A sudden CLEAN
of intelligence shot across the honest face
of the Irishman, as he burst out with the
air of one who had discovered secret :
Faith, yer honor, an sure l didn't OBJ
sarve which way the horse Stood"
Year: 1863

The alarm for the safety Of Kentucky
has probably been greatly exaggerated; and
if the latest intelligence is reliable, Gen.
Burnside will find little to do save to
strengthen and support Rosecrans, who is
said to be seriously mcnaced By his old en-
my strongly reinforced. 4 little time will
most fully develop the rebel scheme, and
give an idea Of lis intentions. Meanwhile
our readers need have no apprehension
that Kentucky, like Washington is safe.
Year: 1863

The anxiety Of the Union men through
out the whole country for the success Of
the loyal party in Connecticut grows more
and more intense as the day Of election
draws near. For the first time since the
war begun, peace party is organized in
q free State for operations at the polls
Connecticut is sodden and debauchcd by
the influences that control New York );
but that she will eyince virtue and patri-
otism enough to- giye Coppefhcadism a
rehuke, the history Of the contest now
progressing seems to prove. We believe
that the union men will win,
Year: 1863

is fixed and perpetual, show d degradation
and cruelty Of disposition, that for tho
honor Of human nature, we would wish to
deny.


But however much savage, ignoble, and
malignant men may rejoice in the fact that
the Proclamation of Emancipation is
failure, and that there seems no way in
which slavery is to be disturbed, or over
thrown, we still believe Tint their joy will
yet be changed into mourning, and how
ever long, to the trying Of the faith Of good
men and their sore pcrple1ity, the wicked
may triumph the end will come to the ac-
cursed Institution. No man can look for
ward to the probable future of'our country,
il s1ave1y is to remain in it, without fear
and dreadful forcbodings. The country
will never have prosperity or peace while
it remains to dry up, or poison the fopn-
tains Of both; 1t can never be free from
bloody struggles and commissions until the
evil spirit that 1ends and tares it is cast out


We do not see how this war is. to 60 On,
without the peculiar institution being
pierced, shattered and undermined in many
ways; and although the friends Of slavery
are so confident in the solidity Of its walls,
the strength Of its massive: timbers, and
fastenings, yet it will be found that there
is many rent and opening into the old
pr1son-house; many Of its bolts will hence
forth refuse to work, and many Of its iron
doors fail to shut. It may not be carried
by storm, in day, like the Bastile, amid
the shoutings Of the people; it may be the
will Of Heaven that it shall be changed by
slower and less violent process into fit


and happy abode for free men; but that
such habitation Of cruelty, and magazine
Of all materials and implements Of discord
and b1oodshcd, should be left at the close
Of this struggle, as it was when il. began,


is not probable or possible. The hopes Of
good men everywhere, their efforts and


their prayers, will not be so disappointed.
The treasure and blood Of our country
cannot be so wasted. The prosperity,
peace, and good name Of our people will
not be loft in such peril.
Year: 1863

as clerk of election
making abstract Of title on school fund


mortgage
% deputy county treasurer and record.


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trustee services Oneidx township
Service az Trustee Of Iudiasvills0e.


township
witness before Grand Jury.
juror in case of state Va + Way
trustee Of Carroll township
service as juror in the case the state


Of Iowa vs. Way
witness fee and mileage before Grand


Jury
. juror in case Of coroncrs Inquest
services a. trustee OF Perry township
killing three Wolves
keeping prisoner for county
attendance before Grand Jury
Service A. c.erk Of 9eneseo town4hip
Justice Of the peace in case Of the state


Of Iowa W Freedom Way
AZ assessor Crystal township
Juror in state case
service az township clerk Carlton town.


ship
killing FIVE Wolves
clerk Of election Salt Creek township
trustee Carol township
surveying County Roads
Year: 1863




horde will cause the election Of the Union
ticket in Pennsylvania, by 1oo, ,ooo najori-
y, and it will precipitate the downfall Of
slavery in Maryland, and return perhaps,
full delegation Of Emancipationists to
Congress. 1t will enable the Government
to enforce the conscfiption in tho Eastern
States, without the least resistance on the
part Of the former gympathizcrs OF the
rebels. It will cause thousands Of
yonng ncn to enlist, to help
crush the inBurrection, and it will
awe into comparative silence the
outcrics Of the peace-sneaks for cessa-
ton Of the further offensive prosecution of
the war; For the third time since the war
began, there will be witnessed n general
uprising Of the people Of the North and a
unity Of sentiment and action among the
masses. This time Copperheads and Com
fede1ates will 60 under together: In life
they were united and in death they will
not be parted Tic rebel invasion will be
therenaiscence Of loyalty, and death blow
to the Towering hopes Of treason -sh1iekcrs
in Onr midst
Year: 1863

We have quoted from the Toledo Blade
its grounds Of opposition to the plan Of
holding the Emancipation Convention in
this city. The Toledo Commercial thus
comments upon the matter:


"The Convention suggested by the
LEADER is one TO be composed Of the
friends Of the emancipation policy Of the
Government, and its object is to uphold
| that policy, and contribute in all practical
ways to its success. II is not proposed; as
we understand, to enquire as to the differ
ent reasons by which different persons
may be governed in giving it their sup
port the fact Of thorough and hearty sp-
proyal will entitle them to seat in the
Convention.


"In movements Of this character, we
must act on the presumption that we are
dealing with reasonable men, and men
honestly desirous Of the success of the
Government Giving to the friends and
supporters Of the Proclamation, Of every
kind, the credit Of being persons Of ordi-
nary Judgment and sincerity, we are at q
loss TO perceive any force in the Blades
objections. Certainly no reasonable man,
who favors the Proclamation, will oppose
it because it may be supported by others
for reasons different from his own. He
viii rejoice that such Is the fact and give
all p0ssiblg al and encourak ksnsnt and
use all honorable and legitimate argu-
ments which may induce others to take
the same position. Nor does it follow, as
the Blade assumes that those who see no
warrant for emancipation BY Federal
power, upon grounds other than that Of
military necessity, will take no part in an
Emancipation Convention. This is to take
it for granted that such persons are op-
posed to emancipation upon every ground
but that of necessity, when, in fact, the
only objection on the psrt Of the great ma
iority Of the North has been the want of
power in the General Government to abol-
ish slavery. That objection is now re-
moved, and they are thorough emancipa-
tionists in every respect. This, we ven
ture to say, is the position Of at least nine
tenths Of those who support the Proclsma-
ton; and it should be borne in mind also,
that the events of the past two years have
very much changed the views of the few
in the North who honestly defended slav-
cry on principle.
"The object of the proposed Convention
is TO secure concert and unity of action
among the friends Of emancipation and
it is giving them little credit for good
judgment to assume that they cannot &C.
complish this object, or that the ConYen-
ton will have any other effect"
Year: 1863

The gallant General Heron, of South
western Missouri and Arkansas fame, is
said to be now lying in critical cOndi-
ton at Springfield, Missouri He is most
accomplished and valuable officer; and it
is to be hoped will be speedily restored to
health.
Year: 1863

General Hooker has made a demand
that he shall have the power of promotion.
II was granted, and heneefOrth both off,
Gers and priyates in the Army Of the Po-
tomsc wiz be advanced on the ground Of
merit
Year: 1863

In the House at Columbus, on Wednes-
day, the Senate resolution, asking sena-
tors and Representatives in Congress to
vote for reduction Of the duty on paper,
was agreed to, after striking out so much
Of the preamble as related to a supposed
combination among paper manufacturers
to keep up prices.
Year: 1863

THE INCOME TAX.-By a late de-
cision of the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue, old debts which
have been considered heretofore
hopelessly lost, but which have
been paid within the time covered
by the return of income, must be
returned as taxable income. Debts
considered as hopelessly lost on
the 31st of December, 1862, may
be deducted in making the present
return, and itafterward paid, must
be returned as income in the next
return after such payment.
Year: 1863

CALIEoRNIA FLAX. The editor
of the Los Angeles News has been
furnished by DR.. Osborn, of that
place, with a parcel of native flax,
which grows wild, and is said to
be abundant in that section. The
News says it is from a stock which
appears to be species of nettIe;
in texture there appears to be no
material difference between it and
common fax. 1t is thought that
this plant might be successfully
cultivated, The fiber is quite as
strong as a cultivated article of
real flax.
Year: 1863

recommend an amendment Of the Acts on
this subject, SO as to abolish the fine and so as
to authorize the Governor, through the Com
missioncls of Roads, (who in the main are true
to their trust) to impress the labor requisite to
enable him to respond to the calls of the
Commanding General, giving credit for all la
Dor previously furnished, and that the time Of
service be extended to two months. The free
negroes should be included. | doubt not that
there has been cause for the complaint hereto
fore made as to the treatment and detention
of the negroes, but it is believed that through
the instrumentality ofthc energetic State Agent,
(waose report is herewith transmiltcd0 many
of the evils have been rcmcdicd


NJ l.. BONUAM
Year: 1863

In the village of Ebberup, in Funen, there
lived very wealthy farmer, who had to go one
day to Assens with load of barley; so one Of
his neighbors, cottager, asked leave TO go along
with him for the sake Of fetching home some
goods in the empty cart. The farmer had no OBJ
jections so the cottager followed the cart on foot
and as twas a very hot day, he pulled off his
worsted stockings and wooden Shoes and stuffed
them under the barley in the back of the cart. 1t
happened to be on Sunday, and they had to pass
close by church on the roadside The man had
got little way behind the cart, so that he could
hear that the minister was in the pulpit. 1t
struck him that, as the farmer was driving very
SLOW he might as well turn in and hear a bit of
the sermon; he could make up to the cart again.
He did not like to go so far into the church that
the minister could see him. so he stood inside the
door, The gospel for the day was about the rich
man and the beggar. Just as the traveller entered
the church the minister shouted out, ''But what
became Of the rich mani" The Ebberup man
thought the minister was speaking to him, so he
stepped forward and said, ale drove on to Assens
with load of barley" '.No." Numbered the
minister, "he went to hell" ''Mercy on us' cried
the other, running out of the church. "then 7
must look after my shoes and stockingsp'
Year: 1863

We take the following from leading article
in the Trinity National, edited by John Il. Ridge
The people should reflect on the truths here pre-
sened:


1t is not the first time in the history of the
world, that Truth and Right and Justice aud
Honor have fallen before Fanaticism and Crime,
Folly and Madness, and been swept down by the
muddy lnundations OF Il mistaken and corrupt
popular sentiment and opinion. Those persons
have read history but little indeed. who are dis
hcnrtened or despairng, at an event so common
as the short-lved defeat of principles entirely
based in the nature of things and in the founda
tions OF society and civilization. The growth of
constitutional liberty is no mushroom of the day,
no fever OF the hour, but the steady march of the
human race to the perfection Of which humanity
is capable. The battle fields of Europe have tes-
tilted to its progress, and the starry records of
the great martyrs of liberty. Whatever is noble
in the British Constitution, whatever is free in
the federated powers of the Old World what
ever is firm and secure in the halfmonarchal
halfpopullr governments OF that hemisphere, is
owing to the slow but onward step of this great
principle of constitutional" Liberty that is
liberty bound by the forms of law and incapable
OF licentiousness except through the destruction
OF valid privileges aud defined prerogatives.-
Ages have evolved the grand idea upon which
the National Democracy of this Union stands.


Our own American Revolution grew out of it,
and the height and depth of political science rs
defined by those great Masters Of its intricacies
and proiunditics, the Madisons the Jeilcrsons.
the Randolphs and the Adamses. were measured
in the building and uprearing of the ghty re-
public which the reign of petty men now threat
ems to destroy. The Democracy have always
contended, and will contend for constitutional
liberty 1t is sufficient for them that the bloodcst
revolutions of history have been for liberty with
in constitutional, written and defined bounds
Power has ever struggled to get beyond those
bounds, as the present most infamous Admins
tralion is now struggling to sweep down the
barriers of the law by which the citizen is guard
ed and the barriers of the Constitution by which
States and their sovereignty are secured. The
Democracy will never ialter in this great cause;
nor will We, its humbest advocate and defender,
ever yield to its enemies but with life or till pen
and tongue shall be paralyzed and dumb.
Year: 1863

What, was it q dream? am alone
In the dreary nj ght and the drizzng rain?
List!-ah, it was only the rivers moan;
They have left me behind with the mangled
slain.
Yes, now | remember it all too well!
We met with the battling ranks apart;
Together our weapons flashed and fell


And mine was sheathed in his quiverng heart
In the cypress gloom, when the deed was done,


1t was all too dark to see his face;
But heard his death groans, one by one


And he holds me still in cold embrace
He spoke but once, and could not hear


The words he said for the cannon's roar;
But my heart grew cold with deadly fear


O God! had heard that voice before?
Had heard before at our mothers knee,


When we lsped the words Of our eve'ng prayer!
My brother would | had died for thee


This burden is more than my soul can bear!
| pressed my lips to his death cold cheek,


And begged him to show me by word or sign,
That he knew and forgave me; he could not speak


But nestled his poor cold face to mine
The blood flowed fast from my wounded side


And then for while forgot my pain,
And over the lakelet we seemed to glide


In our little boat, two boys again
And then in my dreams, we stood alone


On forest yath where the shadows fell;
AndlI heard again the tremulous tone


And the tender words Of his last farewell.
But that parting was years, long years ago,


He wandered away to a foreign land;
And our dear old mother will never know


That he died tonight by brothers hand
The soldiers who buried the dead away.


Disturbed not the clasp Of that last embrace,
But laid them to sleep till the judgment day,


Heart folded to heart and face to face.
Year: 1863

GONE TO CANADA.-The colored male
population of Detroit and the surrounding
country has become so thnned out that
hardly an able bodied negro can be met
with in days travel. They have all ske-
dadded to Canada to evade the draft.
Year: 1863

A commercial traveller left an article BET
longing to his wardrobe at an inn, and wrote
to the obamber-mail to forward it to him
by the coach; in answer to which he recev-
ed the following:


hope dear sir, you'll not feel hurt,


I'll frankly tell you all about it;


I've made SHIFT with your old shirt.


And you mast make shift Without II
Year: 1863

When Major General Joseph Hooker
was called up before the Committee on
the Conduct of the War, Mr.. Gooch in
quired of him:


Question-.To what do you attribute
the failure of the Peninsula campaign p
:, To which question Major General Jo-
seph Hooker made the following ;:


Answer-'I do not hesitate to say that
it is to be attributed to the want of gem
eralship on the part of its commander" "


That answer made Maj General Hook
.er commander, of the army, After pass
ing the whole winter in camp, reorganiz-
ing aud perfecting the discipline Of the
army, Major General Hooker set out upon
the road to Richmond. He had not gone
within fifty miles SO near the rebel CAPT
tai as the commander whose generalship
he denounced had done, when at the first
onset OF the enemy, he was driven back
and compelled to seek safety in retreat to
his old camping ground. TO what now
does Major General Hooker attribute the
failure of the campaign, on the Kappa
hammock We quote from his ''congrat
ulatory order" M s 9;x .aF
| ut is sufficient to say they (the rea
sons for retrea) were of character no
to be foreseen or prevented by human sa
gacity or resources p So .s3s8s
Year: 1863

The Second National Bank of New York has just
elected Henry A. Hurlbut as President The capi-
tai Of the bank is $500 900, with the privilege to
increase to ono million.


The Security Fire Insurance Company win pay
on demand scrip dividend Of fifty Ave per cent,
an interest dividend Of six per cent their scrip,
and q cash dividend of seven per cent on their
stock. 7eNS8


The importations Of dry goods at the port of
New York for the week ending August Is, 1868,
Year: 1863

When these diseases first appear which will carry on
OF the system all the humors and Morbifc Matter hro
the secretions of the Skin Kidneys and Bowels also
restore the Liver to its proper action and the
Year: 1863

Notwithstanding the foregoing facts are known to
some Qnack Doc ois and Nostrum Makers yet regard
less OF the life and health of Others here are those
among them who will even perjure Themselves contra
oc'ng giving mercury to their pat or that it is con
FAMED IN their Nosrums, so that the uaI fee NAV
" fraction oft may be obtained for the Nostrum II


thus that many are deceived aso and useessy spend
large amounts for experiments with quackery
Year: 1863

1t will be seen from the following, written by
CORRESPONDENT of the Charleston Courier that the
old devil, Whiskey is having considerable hand in.
the blockade running; and that much southern
men profess to hate the yankees and all they produce
vet so strong is their love for northern whskcy that
they will give our darling commodity for it,-payng
the largest kind of prices for it in southern cotton
Let every true Southron read it and blush for shame
at the whiskey-lovng propensities of the "chvalry
of the South"


The Correspondent is writing in reply to charge
that he had created erroneous impression
ming the importation of liquors. in letter published
a short time since in the Charleston Courier" and
says in a communication to the same paper:


The fact that 784 packages of liquor sold in
one week by three firms who at the same time ONLY
offered about so packages of boots and Shoes is con-
elusive of the fact that boots and shoes were eXclu
ded because less profitable than iiquor In addition
to this it has been the talk of certain stockholders in
blockadng companies that large quantities of liquors
were about being imported, because they paid better
than anything else and haveseen letter from par
ty interested Charleston admitting the same fact
Whether their example will beollowed by others en-
gagged in running the blockade remains for the future to
disclose and that future aoH also disclose their true
position to their country 1t may not generally be
known that there regular lines of New York YES
sells trading between that port and Nassau CARRYING
goods with full knowledge that they intended to
run the blockade. The parties interested in these


lines through their agents. buy the bulk ofthe cotton
Year: 1863

Bellefontain railroad, came and wished
the Mayor to release him that they might
take him home. The Mayor agreed to
order his release if the fine should be
paid. This was done, and he was taken
from the Jail to the Bellefontain train,
which was just starting In attempting
to get on, Haustler fell, and the wheels
passed over his legs, injuring it SO badly
that amputation was necessary.
Year: 1863

lnculca' ed, renders unnecessary all preeep.s
and until ch Id has fully received this prin.
ciple he is without the basis of manhood
The earlier this principle is received and a
child thrown upon his own responsibility,
and made to feel that he is man, lacking
only years to give him strength and wisdom.
the safer that boy is Tor time and eternity.
The moment a boy becomes morally respon-
sible, he becomes in most important sense
"a sense which you and the deacon never
recognized-free. do not say that he is
removed from parental control or rational
restraint, but that it it is the business of the
parent to educate him in the principle Of
self-government. A boy bred thus, becomes
ten times more man than boy bred in
the way which has seemed best to you; and
when he goes forth from the parental roof
he goes forth strong, and able to battle with
life's trials and temptations. Children long
for recognition-to do things fer themselves
to be their own masters and mistresses.
Their play is all based on the assumption
that thev are men and women, as, in minia-
ture, they are; and, insisting on the right
use of liberty and teaching them how to use
it, they should have it, restrained only when
that liberty is abused.
Year: 1863

Over q million and half dollars have been
subscribed recently, in this country and Eng
land, to the Atlantic telegraph; and the work
of constructing the cable is to be commenced
At once,