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Year: 1861

AS winter approaches the prospect be-
comes more immediate of great and bitter
suffering among the poorer classes, not
on account of any prostration of business,
but solely on account of the combinations
and extortions practised by spectators
to advance the prices of articles of prime
and indispensable necessity. Speculative
combination is circle that constantly
contracts, and scarcely any limit can be
designated to the increased suffering Of
its victims, on one hand, or the gloated
wealth ofits capitalists and managers on
the other. These men are making their
wealth out of the blood of the country.
The money-grabber in war times seems
not to care for man or devil. His iron
box is eorged with gold and silver, and
this is the Ark of his Covenant with hell,
and the depository of coinage from
tears and blood.
Year: 1861

TARpY AcKSowLEDGMENT.-T Union, at
ter doing all it could to influence the public
mind with the belief that Stanford was far
behind Conness in the race, and after pro-
posing to toss copper to determine which
should withdraw did actually come out a
day or two before the election and half way
acknowledged Stanford might have the in
side track. The vote of the State shows
the last hour convictions of the Union were
tolerably well founded. The patriotic peo-
pie of the mountains are much obliged to
the Union for its direction, TO be sure.
Year: 1861

THE SAN Francisco TIMEs-We do not
envy the S. F. Times for the pleasant emo
tions it must experience as each repeated
evidence of the strength of Stanford is
brought TO the cars and eyes CT its editor.
His lnes.are cast in very pleasant places,
but he will have to fish very long for
popularity before he come to the dignity oi
political respectability.


oh, for tongue to curse the slave


Whose treason like deadly blight


Coaes over the councils of the brave


To blast them in their hour of might
Year: 1861

The APPEAL of Thursday morning in an
article partaking of the too generous soul
of its editor. attributes the victory we have
gained not to the Republican party, but to
Euiou men of various organizations who
feared the division of the Union forces
weuld give the State to the common enemy.
At the expense of being called "bgoted
partisan" we must contend that the Repub-
ican strength in the State was sufficient to
oyerwbelm either of the other PARTIES
Undoubtedly the vote of Stanford has been
somewhat increased by the Douglas Democ-
racy acting through the fear of the triumph
cf .he Secessionists. We claim that in this
county the Union Democracy are as liberal
and patriotic as any where, and it will be
seen by reference to the vote that very in
considerable number of CONFESS men in
proportion to the whole number voted for
Stanford. We claim, therefore, that the
Republicans could have carried the State
without outside aid and the returns through
ont the State will show it. At the same
time VIC wish to detract nothing from the
credit Of .hose patriotic Democrats who
showed their devotion to the Union supe-
rior to party ties, by making the victory a
sure one in voting for Mr.. Stanford. All
honor to them. They have done well. We
thsnk them. Theyare returning to us what
we have loaIed them in times past, in the
support os many of their party to various
positions Of honor and public trust.
Year: 1861

WHITE MAN MIGHTY UNCERTAIN The late
Dixie candidate :nr Collector will place no
reliance in mankind hereafter. lie is sure
he "shuck " hands with three thousand
men in the county, on his late tours who
promised to vote for him. About half came
up TO the scratch.
Year: 1861

We hope the leaders of the Union De-
mocraey will profit by the lesson this elee-
ton has given. Their inordinate ambition
would not allow them to accept of n por-
ton Of the honors and profits the people
had to bestow, but they must have ALL
The result is, they have none. 1t was ex-
pectea by all who read the signs of the
times.


The Republicans with magnanimity nev-
er before exhibited in politics, feeling en-
tire confidence in their own strength to
carry the State and County, were neverthe-
less willing aud anxious to cooperate with
the Union Democracy on equal terms, and
made offers accordingly. These offers were
rejecte |, and battle has been fought re-
sultng in the complete overthrow of the
stubborn elements opposed to the Republi-
cans. The lesson is severe and mortify-
ing one to the defeated. They can see that
by reaching for too much they lost all
The next time it is to be hoped the leaders





Bile proposals pai iticularly if the needs Of
the country require that patriotism should
not be divided into two parties.


There are several of the defeated candi-
dates that the Republicans ty general con-
seut wonld have supported willingly for the
places tley sought but failed to obtain, had
they taken q position such that they could
have been sustained without sacrifice of
too much on the part of Republicans. Had
uaion party been formed in this county
as was earnestly desired by many Requbli-
cans, we could name no less than three
Democrats who would to-day be among the
successful candidates :or important aad VAL
uablo Offices.


They can attribute their i'll success to
themselves and TO no one else. In times Of
public peril tie good citizen should CO.
operate with his neighbor in common
cause, and on fair and equal grounds. IT.
he elects to fight alone he must expect TO
encounter the accidents Of u selfish course.
Year: 1861

For the Appeal


1t is with more than ordinary regret We an-
nounce the death Of Mai. T. G. W. Butler, Of
the Ilth regiment Louisiana Volunteers, who
fsn mortally wounded in the battle Of Belmont,
on the 9TH Of November. Ia him his family lose
a worthy member, the army gallant soldier, and
the country a whole-souled patriot. Engaged in
diplomatic position abroad, where he acquitted
himself with credit, he gave up the attractive


life be had been leading for several years, at the
cali Of his State, and offered bis sword and has
now shed his blood in her defense Though but
young in the profession forced upon him by the
state of his country, his characteristic bearing in
the face Of the enemy and strict attention TO the
srduous duties Of his profession, at all times and
in all places, gave promise Of perfect soldier.
He fell while in advance of his regiment, having
been ordered to make a reconnaissance Of a
body Of the enemy, and received murderous
volley while gallantly waving his sword for the
1Ith Louisiana to charge. So distinguished was
his bearing amongst the army, who on that day
were battling as freemen only can, for their rights
and Liberties, that be attracted the attention OF
friend and foe, the prisoners who were after
wards captured, expressing the most unbounded
admiration, with a desire to know his name and
rank. He received two mortal wounds, but liv-
ed some hours-long enough to show that in him
courage was not the impulse Of the moment as
hc bore pain with unfinching tortitude, and met
death with calm cOmpOsure, leaving his country
to mourn the refined, noble and chiyalric gen
tleman, cut of in the beginning Of a career
which promised so much of brilliancy and use
fulness. But no.


" The brave die never Being deathirss,
They but charge their c0uuirys for morc-ihel
couufry's heart


Give then the dead their dne it is they who saved rs
Year: 1861

an awful Sight-men as thick as grass The
Lincolnites say they thought we were badly
armed, and was poor set of men. They look
very bad when prisoners. The meanest thing
they done was to burn our tents on the Missouri
side Of the river, and killed and burnt the sick
men OF Iappan's regiment. we have been
burying the mensince the battle When Charles
was shooting into the steamboats, on, of our
men lying behind him, who came very near
shooting him accidentally, blew his hat Off
Charles turned around and cursed him. and told
him If his gun was loaded he would kill him.


J must close, F. p WOODBRIDGE
Year: 1861

in one part of the State, stipulated that they
should not be employed in another, within the
same State. 1t is said in another letter that the
transaction is likely to be represented through
out the Southern States as negro stealing-as
disregard by the Government officers Of the
rights Of mas,rrs-as the commencement Of a
course Of interference with slavery, leading to
its aboltion-as the employment Of slaves by
the General Government in acts Of hostility
against their masters-as forcing negro slaves
to make war ON the whites, &c. And if they
should be placed under the FIRE Of guns without
their consent or the consent Of their masters, 1t
might be represented as inhuman.


"These are very strained conceits. The pa.
pers show that the colored men went from the
one post to the other voluntarily and cheerfully.
They can in no case be exposed to FIRE except
from the citizens Of the State of Florida, in an
act of direct and unlawful war against the Uni.
ted States. Even then, q return Of that fire
could not be an act of hostility against their
masters, unless their masters themselves should
be found voluntarily there in arms against not
only their own slaves, but against the Govern
meut and the whole people Of the United States,
crime which it is not to be supposed they will
commit.


"Again, it is not to be presumed that the
slaves will be compelled to become combatants
at all, excert in case where military necessity
would justify making any persons found in the
fort become combatants. 1t is not easy to see
that negro slaves have greater right than free
white persons to exemption from hazards rem.
dered necessary for the public safety in time
of civil war;"
Year: 1861

of Aldermen to hold and possess the effects
Of Cincinnatians in our midst"


This may be little exaggerated for the pur.
pose of increasing the in terorem effect Of these
threats Of conGscating Northern property, but
If 1t is anywhere near the truth, it tends to
show that nearly all the improvements in Ten.
nessee have been made with Northern capital.


In such a case as this, where the data cannot
be exact, there is room for latitude Of opinion,
but we believe that the sum total Of all the per.
sonal property, and of all the buildings and
railroads at the South, does not approximate
the amount which the South has received from
the North in the various forms Of credit, and
that the net result of their system of labor for
the last forty years, instead of being the accu.
mutation of anything by way Of surplus in
come, has been the positive destruction of cap
ital, existing in the native fertility of soils,
now exhausted by cropping, and derived from
abroad by borrowing. In no other way is it
possible to account for the fact which is un.
questionable, that the South has no property in
possession, to be an adequate Offset against its
foreign Indebtedness.


When negroes we're reckoned at five hun
dred dollars each, old aud young, men, women,
and children, averaged together, their owners
were called rich, and they were getting richer
yearly, by the mere natural increase of their
slaves. But that was delusion in all its u.s.
poets, and at any rate, it was delusion, as
demonstrated by the fact, that the slaue system
nerer paid anything, but ras alscdys charge
upon the free labor Of the country.


A system under which labor is chiefly per.
formed by servie and inferior race, and
charged with the burden of swarms Of idlers,
could be nothing else than system to destroy
wealth, not to produce it. Let US hope that
its devastations upon this continent are now to
be finally stayed, and that the country will re.
turn once more to the old wisdom Of the found.
ers of the Republic, and deal with slavery as
the greatest Of evils.
Year: 1861

feed undiluted sour milk to their hogs, have
so such finer animals than those who give
them slop. The hog has not room for much
water and if food which contains much is
fed to him, it makes him big-bellied, but
poor" Hogs, as well as all other animals.
should be allowed all the water they will
drink, but it should not be mixed with their
food in excessive quantity--the hog should
not be obliged to take more water than he
wants in order to get the food he requires.


Genessee Farmer.
Year: 1861

"A. G. Hazeltine gives in the Country Gen.
teman, the result OF trial OF cut and who ID
potatoes planted side by side. The whole
potatoes planted we're Of large size; yield
less than the other of inferior quality, and
knotty appearance. The yield from the cut
potatoes, with one eye to the hill, was the
largest in every case, and Of uniform size
and fine shape.
Year: 1861

The GATHERING SToRM.-Henry W. Beecher
says &c Every morning, when I have aroused,
for week or zen days past, have rushed down
expecting to hear the tocsin cf the battle. But
as some lurid days that have thunders i'll them
will not storm, but hold themselves aloof, and
gather copper color in the sky, because the bolt
is to fall with more terrific violence; so it seems
to me that in the impressive silence which pre-
walls the storm of battle is only collecting, and
collecting, because the great conflict is coming
ere long like Gods thunder-crack When it
does come have not not the least doubt as to
which side will triumph. 1 foresee the victory.
rejoice in it, in anticipation not because it is
to be on our side, but because it has pleased God
in his infinite mercy, to make liberty our side ;
not because We are North and they are South
but because we have civilization and they have
barbarlsm, because we stand on the principle of
equity and liberty and they stand on the princi-
pie of slavery and injustice. 1t will be moral
victory more than a military victory.


May God speed the day, give the victory,
crown it with peace, restore unity, and make 1T
more compact and enduring because freed from
contamination, this poison, in our intestine sys-
tenn.
Year: 1861

Washington letter writer's state that Sec
retary Chase is now engaged in maturing
plans for raising means to carry on the war.
Three propositions will be presented TO
Congress by the Treasury Department.
The first and most popular, is national
loan at seven and three tenths per cent. in
terest, redeemable in three years, and issued
in bonds of small denominations. This rate
Of interest will render the calculations Of
the simplest character. Thus, the interest
on fifty dollar bond would amount to one
cent day; one hundred dollar bond two
cents, and so on. Another proposition is
TO obtain foreign loan, which it is believ.
per cent. interest and third plan is to is
sue treasury notes of small denomination,
receivable for Government dues, aud draw
ing interest at about half the rate of the
first named plan. These notes, it is thou ehl
would enter largely into the circulation Of
the country. The amount Of money that
will be required TO carry on the Govern
ment for the next year, in addition TO the
ordinary revenue, is variously estimated at
from one hundred and City TO three hun
dred millions OF dollars. The amount, of
course. will depend much upon the plan
adopted for putting down the rebellion.
Ii it is the intention Of the Government to
march troops uto the seeded States aud
hold them in suljeclion 10y force, probably
not less than three hundred millions will be
required the Irst year but if it is intended
TO merely act on the defensive, keeping the
Southern ports blOckaded, and sufficient
force in the field to protect the Capital and
the Union men 10 the Border States, per-
haps One-third of that amount will be SUM-
cient.
Year: 1861

In this city, July 10Th, of scarlet fever L.
NEBBER, daughter of Jesse S. and Bette ( w ~
'ged three years and four months. "~i
Another little form asleep,


And little spirit gone
Another little voice is hushed,


And a little angel born.
Two little feet are on the way


To the home beyond the skies.
And our hearts are like the void that cor.,.
When = strain OF music dies.
A pair of little baby shoes.


And a lock of raven hair
The toy our little darling loved


And the dress she used to wear
The little grave on the grassy mound
Where the flowers love to grow
And these are all of the little hope
That came three years ago
The birds will sit on the branch above
And sing requiem
To the beautiful little sleeping form
That used to sing to them.
But never again viii the little lips
To their songs of love reply
For that Silvery voice is blended with
The minStrelsy on high.
Year: 1861

TIE AsroNIsHEn MEDDLER.-A true story.-N hat,
says Qup is more ntoIerabIe than an oclous inter
medder with other peoples afairs One OF the most
busy of the tribe was travelling in the cars not long ago
sand exercising his talent in at once amusing
and mischievous 'Hallon cries Mr.. Meddler, to a
decrepit old gentleman just the train was leaving
way station tWake up, and step lively, This IS the
place where YOU want to get out. The old man had
barely time to put his totterng legs on the platform Of
the depot when the train was again in motion "Good
gracousl" exclaimed MIR. Medder returning to his
seat which was next to the which the old gentleman
had oceuped-"Good gracous the old fellow has gone
and left his carpet bagn So he kindly threw it out of
the window. Half an hour later, young man came IN
from another and inquired fora missing carpet bag


1T was on this seat said the stranger pointing TO the
spot where the old gentleman had been sitting Good
gracious" again cried Mr.. Meddler why, thought
that carpet bag belonged the old fellow who got out
while ago and 80 threw it out OF the window alter
him, cause sposed he'd forgot it," "The deuce you
did" said the stranger, with scowl, and how came
the old man to leave the train?" Why, said Meddier,


Il thought heard him say he going to Mlddeport,
so when we came to the depot, told him he was there
and had better get out That's how it was" 'I GU had
better have minded your own business said the young
man, rather sharply. THAT old gentleman was going
to Mddlebury to see dying son. who will now be dead
and buried probably before his father can get there
That's one Of the results Of your OicOus lntermeddlng
with things that don't concern You. And the carpet
bag is my carpet bag and has got my wedding suit IN It.


was to have been married tonight. if it hadn't been
for YOU Youv'ed damaged a funeral and spoiled a
wedding with your id uonsonsel And so ne had


s,,re enourh Boston Post.
Year: 1861

South Carolina, when she entered formally on


her present career Of infamy, efnsed BY Legia-


lative act the Fourth Of July from her list Of


holidays She was atrociously consistent in


this; for having resolved 70 destroy the glorious


work Of our Revolutionary sires, She ought no


longer to affect reverence for their Memories


which she had ceased to feel.


The eighty eight anniversary Of the birtb of


the American Republic is TO be sienalizcd bv


the assembling Of new Congress at Washing.
ton--[yes, at Washington Mr. jeff Davis DO
you hearfl and by the consequent Inauguration
doubtless, of more vigorous and systematic ef-
forts to dsarin and crush out the Treason which
aims at the National life. Independence Day
has for lifetime been our great National festi-
val but this year it win have solemnity Of
emphasis, and viii be celebrated with fefvor
OF patriotic enthusiasm, such as has never yet
been known


We suggest that in every city and county
where Treason does not forbid and forciblv pre-
vent 1t, whether in the North or the South the
East or the West, the entire population who are
resolved to stand by the Union and live and die
under the Stars and Stripes, shall be gathered
lor such celebration as our fathers loved and
that, in addition to the uaual exercises. the old
Flag shall be raised with all the honors, a pat
r1otic contribution taken up for the benefit of
our citizen soldiery and their needy families
he people marching by the collectors in pro-
session, and every child who can give no more
throwing in half dime-and that we then
FATHER around the Flag and have the oath of f.
lelity to the Constitution and Union solemnly
administered and reverently taken by the whole
congregation. II there be other observances
better calculated to impress on the general mind
he greatness of the peril which now hangs over
he country, and the magnitude of the sacrifices
equired to meet and overcome that peril, let
hese be added or substituted but let there be
celebration at every county seat, such as has not
'een witnessed for forty years and may never
gain be. Let the preparations be fifty and
reasonably made, and the Fourth Of July, 1861,
pride for the next half century.-N " Tribtge.
Year: 1861

CoTToS.-The New York commercial papers
report the New England cotton manufacturers
as having plenty of raw material and large
stocks of goods on hand, but as proceeding with
great confidence in the future, based upon the
idea that there must be a still further rise in
cotton. They do not diminish their production
in proportion to the dminution in their sales,
having no apprehension that cotton cloths can
fall. This corresponds with the answers we re.
ceived to numerous personal inquiries during
q recent visit to New England.


1t will be better for the manufacturers there
il they do not receive a single bale Of cotton
from the South for whole year to come. Their
danger ia, not that the supply will be cut off too
long, but that it will be opened too soon. They
are mistaken in supposing that fall in raw
and manufactured cotton is not among the pos.
sibilities. Prices are kept up in the face of
large existing surplus, merely by au apprehen.
sion that future supplies may not be received
When that apprehension is removed, by the
opepipg of the South, the existing surplus will
produce the ordinary effect of gut. The
growing crop of the South is good one, quite
as large as eau be picked, and will be gathered,
unless servile ilsprectionS shall prevent it.
Greater OF less, all that is gathered will come
to market sooner or later, and what the mann.
facturers have to apprehend, is, that it may
come to market too soon for theT interests.
Year: 1861

Washington, Dec. II


There was an alarm along the lines
last night and the enemy was supposed to
be approaching in strong force All night
seven divisions Of the grand army were
under arms. The alarm proved to be
false, and at noon to-day all was quiet.
Year: 1861

The difficulty growing out of the present condi-
ton Of things in this country are anomolous and
multiplied. Several remarkable ones stated by
the Richmond Wing. First, the Lincoln admins
traton contends that it cannot recognize secession
but that all the thirty four still in the Union
vet the President issues Proclamation of blockade
of some of them in pursuance of the lac cfnations
\ government blockading its own ports under the
law of nations The Constitution provides, that
''No preference shall be given by any regulation
of commerce or revenue to the ports of one State
over another" Therefore it is perfectly clear
that the Government cannot leave open ports III
one State and close them in another" .~@


If all the States are IN the Union,. Lincoln has
no right to treat any of them out Of it.


Again The Wing says, "By treaties with
England and France, it is expressly stipulated
that the vessels of those countries shall have the
right Of entry to all the ports of this country
This paper blockade comes directly this
right Think you that England and
France are the powers to submit tamey TO the de-
NAL of such a right-which would operate to the
exclusion OF their people from the most profitable
commerce with this continent !? We take it, that
the very first English or French vessel that
may be molested in it's progress to Southern port
will rouse the offended nations to vigorous mea-
sures of resistance .. .-


Once More: The President lays great stress
upon his sworn duty to hold and possess, protect
and defend, the property of the United States.
And he performs that sworn duty by durniny the
public property at Gosport Harper's Ferry, &c.