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Year: 1863

A LITTLE boy had lived for some time
with penurious uncle The latter was one
day walking out. with the child Al his side
when friend accompanied by grey hound
accosted him. The little fellow, never hav
ing seen dog of SO slim and slight flg-
ure. claSped the creature round the neck
with the imprisoned cry, "Oh doggie.
doggicl a,d div We live WI you uncle too
that you are So thin?"
Year: 1863

The Government received a despatch from
Gen. Dix, this morning, announcing that the
Richmond papers OF the 25th had been received
by him, and they contained dispatches from the
West, acknowledging that the expedition sent
by Admiral Porter up the YaEoo river to the
Yazoo City to destroy the navy yard and mill
tary stores at that place was a complete success
1t was sudden, unexpected, and severe blow
upon the rebels at that point, and It is thought
will compel Johnston's army to fall back for
supplies.


A dispatch, dated the 22d inst, was received
by the Government this morning from General
Grant himself He more than confirms all that
has been previously announced in dispatches
from Rawlings and Admiral Porter. At the
time Of writing he had the city closely invested
and Expresses the greatest confidence in his
ability to reduce it II the garrison does not sur
render.


The gunboats are doing splendid execution
and everything is going on as well as the most
earnest friend OF the Union can hope.


We learn from General Hooker, who is in
town to-day, that the rebel plckets on the south
side Of the Rappahannock Informed our pickets
yesterday that they had news that vicksburg
had been wholly taken by Grant.


OF course our Government has nothing later
on the subject than the dispatch from General
Grant, the substance Of which we give above.
1t is not unlikely that the statement Of the rebel
pickles is true, as 1t not only conforms to the
opinion of our military and naval officers that
it must fall into our hands, but the tone of the
editorials in the Richmond papers, published
elsewhere, are evidently written to prepare the
minds OF the Southern people for great dis
aster to them In the West.
Year: 1863

We publish elsewhere an order from General
Hooker abOlishing the office of purvcyors to the
Army Of the Potomac. It was found that the
registered purveyors, who were allowed to pur-
chase stores for officers, were carrying on larg'
trade with the army in goods which were trans
ported at the Governments expense, and that
they were enjoying privileges and monopolies
detrimental to the public good and the welfare
of the army.


It was nscertaned that favorltsm was shown
to certain houses, and that officers found ii
very easy to get permits fer goods If they
ordered from the parties in favor, while II was
impossible to get an order upon other dealers
approved.


The system was manifcstly unjust to the reg
ular army Putlers who are obliged to transport
their goods at their own cost. The order Of
Gen Hooker will give satisfaction to all parties
except the purveyors.
Year: 1863

The brilliant successes achieved by the splen-
did army, led by the peerless Grant, are felt In
Wall street, New York, by the speculatOrS In
gold. From the time his grand successes be-
gan to develope until he reached the rebel
stronghold on the Mississippi, gold has tumbled
down eight per cent To-day ii is selling at 149
with fair prospect to go still lower.


There are several other programmes in store
for the rebels that will soon contribute to bring
gold down to par.
Year: 1863

We congratulate this distinguished officer
upon the fact that his fret report from his new
field of operations in the West announces a
genuine battle and glorious victory. lie has
opened the ball with energy. The importance
of this demonstration against the enemy is Of
greater importance TO the Government than at
first appears. General Gilmore who was the
immediate Federal commander at the battle of
Somerset, is the gallant hero Of Fort Pulaski.
This new achievement plucks laurel from the
brow Of the rebel Pcgram which Gilmore can
proudly wear.
Year: 1863

Secretary Chase Not Going to New York.


The report, which originated in New York,
that Secretary Chase is soon going to New York,
is not correct, as we are authorltallvely adj
yised
Year: 1863

CApsHED-On Thursday morning the
schooner Cccelss, loaded with wood and bound for
this city, was capsized when Abreast ol Lake
. View. The crew got ashore In the boat and came
To the city for assistance.
Year: 1863

FEDERAL RAIDs.-The federals are hugely tickled at the narratives of the exploits of Grierson, in Mississippi, and Stoneman, in Virginia Exag- gerated accounts of these raids are published in the northern papers and eagerly swallowed. It is likely they may try the experiment. Tn other loca- ties especially as it is supposed by many that their policy now is to damage us all they can during the spring and summer, and in the fall, to give us the stroke of grace. The success of these enterprises depends on their unexpectedness. Where they are known they are prevented In localities where such raids are possible, the people should bear in mind that these invaders represent that they are the advance of thousands, and say this to awe the people into on-resistance. Their numbers are al ways over estimated, and few men hanging upon their fanks in front or in rear, always has the effect to huddle them, turn them back or hasten their flight for safety. One expedition of this kind, l700 strong. was checked in this way and finally gobbed up, arms, horses and all, by Forrest. Two or three have been turned back with heavy loss. Very often they burn bridges behind them to prevent pursuit. In such case, the burning of a bridge before them, may be the means of having the whole command caught. The people should bear in mind that their stories of large federal forces following them are all false; that they are simply band of marauders and plunderers; and that if the people of the country will harrass, worry and delay. y.them, they will be caught If un- molested they spread over the country, and do a great deal of mischief; if worried, they keep closely together, and soon leave the country However, their late experiments in that line have sickened them, and their experience in Arkansas is not of the kind to prepossess them ill favor of such attempts here.
Year: 1863

and Helena is that Grant is defeated. There is very little doubt but the battle has been fought and won. Indeed. if we had no account ot it, the knowledge of the situation of the opposing forces, and that one must advance and the other repel, would force upon our minds the conclusion of a battle being fought.
Year: 1863

Mr.. SUMMERS theory of State suicide and his
proposition to reduce the rebel States to terri
torial scondition, is less Objectionable than the
scheme of Mr.. LINCOLN as developed in his
message. Under territorial government the
people of the disfranchised States would have
more rights than in the plan proposed by the
President The scheme of Mr.. LINCOLN propos-
es complete degradation of the insurgent States,
for their citizens are cut off from all rights what
ever, unless they consent to entire submission
to the edicts and manifestoes of the
President and Congress, no matter how
unjust arbitrary, oppressive and unconstitutional
they may be- The idea advanced by the Presi-
dent, and re-echoed by the Republican press, is
that the inhabitants of the rebel States, regard
less of their views and relations to the rebellion,
must yield implicit obedience to the policy of
the party in power as a condition of their being
permitted to resume their former relations to the
Government; and yet this same party published
to these same people and to the world ''that the
war is pot waged on our part in any spirit of op-
preston, nor for any purpose of conquest or
I
80 out of every 100 rebels can be restored to
every right to- morrow if they will do what?
Make Union with aboltionsm and subscribe to
the political dogmas of the party in power,
nos matter how much they may regard them
opposed to the interests and perpetuity of the
Government and the happiness and well being of
the people. And such a proposition is heralded
as not only fair, but liberal and magnanimous.
and as a restoration of popular rights to the peo-
pie of the rebel States


The war for the Union is practically over If
it had been waged solely for the pur-
poses expressed IN the CRIrrExDES reso-
luton Of July p, 1861. to-day we
should have peace and restored
Union with the digni.ies, equality. and the
rights of the several States unimpaired" The
only issue now is the abolition of slavery and to
accomplish that end solely the war is being prose-
cuted The President says the party he repre-
sents viii accept terms of reconciliation unless
all his proclamations IN reference to slavery are
recognized of binding force and implicitly
obeyed.


Mr.. LINCOLN had the golden opportunity to
end the rebellion, if he had issued proclamation
of amnesty making the only condition of forgive
ness and the only test of loyalty returned ale
glance and fealty to the Constitution and the
Union of the States under it, but he has cast it
from him to crafty radicalism and fanaticism.
For such consideration the nation must suffer
the terrible evils and calamities which are now
upon it.
Year: 1863

THE CHARACTER OF GENTLEMAN.-The
power which the husband has over the
wife, in which he may include the impu-
nifty with which he may be unkind to her;
the father over his pupils; the old over
the young; and the young over the aged;
the strong over the weak; the officer over
his men; the master of vessel over his
hands; the magistrate over the citizens;
the employer over the employed; therich
over the poor: the educated over the un-
lettered; the experienced over the con-
fiding; the keeper of a secret over him
whom it touches; the gifted over the or
dinary man; the clever over the silly; the
forbearing and inoffensive use of all the
power or authority, or a total abstinence
from it where the case admits of it, will
show them in plain light. The gentle
man does not needlessly and increasingly
remind an offender of wrong he may
have committed against him. He can
not only forgive but he can forget. He
will never use the power which the knowl-
edge of an offense, false step, or an un-
fortunate exposure gives him, merely to
enjoy the power of humiliating his neigh
bor A true man ofhonor feels humbled
himself when he cannot help humbing
others-Dr. Lieber. ..r,.r..a
Year: 1863

Bragg, Beauregard or somebody
will come to the rescue.


Squads of secesh prisoners are being
brought in every day. So common has
the cottonade and butternut become that
these occurrences scarcely attract any no
tice. The transports are chiefly engaged
in running prisoners up the river and
bringing troops down, not bad exchange
for our side. All feel gay and festive"
on the receipt of news that Burnside
is en- route with thirty thousand troops
Not that we feel any immediate demand
for them, but everybody wants to see the
result placed beyond contingency.


Z. B. b.
Year: 1863

herewith enclose to you a Ballad. written by a
private, in the ID Irish Brigade 1t is quite favor
lite with the paddles who in bright southern moon
light may be heard singing it with a gustO that
browns the notes Of frogs and alligatOrs and wake
the echoes among the swamps of Louisiana. The
canal is q complete failure. if you do not assign
the song the same category. give it publicity. If
the author is not profound in prosidy he is least
a true Irish patriot. EBB
Year: 1863

unteering is dead; conscription has been
thwarted; militia calls will not produce
soldiers. A reasonable strengthening
Of our forces will make us masters of the
situation


Having thus shown the opinion oil
rebel papers in regard to the riotous
phase Of the Democratic party, we will
close by copying a paragraph from the
Mobile Ne'cs of July lS,. expressing
surprise and pleasure" in running
over copies of the New York Caucasian,
Ne'os, and Metropolitan Record, which
were brought TO the editor from New
Orleans. Says the Mobile Ne,es


We have to thank Mr.. William A. Bell,
of New Orleans, for file of New York
papers. They are the Caucasian, the
Neacs and the Metropolitan Record. We
have read the editorials and ran over
the reprint in these journals With pleas
ure and surprise. They are as earnest
and eloquent in the advocacy OF peace,
and as unsparing in their hostility to
and denunciation of the abolition" war
against the sovereign States of the South,
as the most extreme Southerner could
desire. The editors maintain that the
peace sentiment is now dormant at the
North So true it is that the Lincoln
party looked upon the rebel invasion of
Pennsylvania as a God send to check
the growing feelings and revive the war
spirit of the North as exhibited after the
fall of Fort Sumter. The Nears
does not believe that invasion will tend
to make the North more enamored of
blood and confagration. We copy some
of the editorials of these papers. 1t is
gratifying to perceive that there are
some sentiments of humanity, justice
and constitutionalism left among our
enemies. Let US hope that they are
seeds destined to spring into life and
bear the blessed fruits of peace


Do the rebel leaders and papers mis-
take their mon? We think not. They
know they can depend as confidently
upon the two Woods, Vallandigham and
Voorhees,, in their respective fields of
labor in aid cf the rebellion, as they can
upon Lee, Beauregard and Johnston in
theirs. -


1t is charged by the democratic organs
that the Republicans are prolonging the
war and strengthening the rebels by a
mistaken policy. Why do the rebels
never express similar opinion?> How
is it they never take courage from anv of
the measures of the Administration
while they are always made happy by
democratic conventions?


These are plain questions for thinking
men, and we commend them to the read
ers of the JOURNAL. Ask your demo-
1a1tonn OF them.
Year: 1863

THERE has long existed public demand for an
effective purgatiye pill which could be relied on as
sure and perfectly safe in its operation. This has
been prepared to meet that demsId. and an extern
Sive trial of its virtues has cOncusively shown with
what success it accomplishes the purpose designed.
1t is easy to make physical pill. but not easy to
make the best of all pills - one which should have
none of the objections but all the advantages, OF
every other This has been attempted here and
with what success would respectfully submit to
the public decision. 1t has been unfortunate for
the patient hitherto that almost every purgative
medicine is acrimonious and irritating to the bow
els This is not. Many of them produce so much
gripping pain and revulsiOn III the system to more
than cotmterbaance the good to he derived from
them. These pills produce no irritation or pain,
unless it arise from a previously existing obstruc-
tion or arrangement III the bowels. Being purely
vegetable no harm can arise from their use in any
quantity; but it is better that any medicine should
be taken judciously. Minute directions for their
piicable are given on the box. Among the COM
plants which have been speedily cured by them, we
may mention Liver Complaint, in its various forms
of Jaundice, Indigestion, Ianguor and Loss of APP
petite Iistlessness, Irritabity, Bilious Headache


Bilious Fever, Fever and Ague, Pain in the Side
and Ioins for, in TRUTH all these are but the con-
sequence of diseased action in the liver. As an
aperient they afford prompt and relief in Cos
tiveness Piles, Collie. Dysentery, ElumOrs, ScrOfula
and Scurvy, Colds with of the body, Ulcers
and impurity of the blood, Irregularities; in Short
any and every where purgative is required.


They have also produced some smgularly sue
cessful cures in rheumatism, Gout, Dropsy, Gravel


Erysipelas, Palpitaton of the Heart, Pains in the
Back Stomach, and Side. They should be freely
taken in the spring of the year, to purify the blood
and prepare the system for the change of seasons


An occasional dose stimulates the stomach and
bowels into healthy action, and restores the appe-
tite and vigor. They purify the blood and, by their
stimulant action oil the circulatory system, reno
vate the strength of the body, and restore the
wasted or diseased energies of the whole organism.
Hence an occasional dose is advantageous, even
though no serious arrangement exists but un-
necessary dosing should never be carried too far


as every purgative medicine reduces the strength,
when taken to excess. The thousand cases in which
physc is required cannot be enumerated here, but
they suggest themselves to the reason of every
body md it is confidently believed this pill will
answer a better purpose than any thing which has
hitherto been available to mankind. When their
virtues are once known the public will no longer
doubt what remedy to employ when in need of a
cathartic medicine. Beng sugar-wrapped, they are
pleasant to take, and being purely vegetable, no
harm arise from their use in any quantity.


For minute directions, see wrapper ON the Box.
Year: 1863

A woman is either worth a
great deal or she is worth nothing.
IF good for nothing she is not
worth getting jealous for if she
is a true woman she will give no
cause for jealousy. A man is a
brute to be jealous Of a good wo-
mana fool to be jealous of a
worthless one but he is a great
er fool to cut his throat for either
of them.
Year: 1863

The woll growers are commencing their


annual sheep shearing, and much interest


IS being manifested in regard to the prices


which the new clip will command in mar
Ket' There IS vast amount of inquiry


upon this point. 1t is difficult matter


TO determine at this time, the prospective


price OF wool, as 1t sgoverned by SO MANY


contingencies. ] he market opens at fiftv


cents, and none Of the dealers are willing


to offer more. The prices of exchange


and the fluctuations of the gold market


have much to do with the prices of WOOL


and will probably control the market for


this staple for long time to come The


TACT that wool reached enormous figures


last year has led many to believe that the


same or even greater prices will be paid


tins year, consequently many will hold on


as long as possible in hopes of realizing


high prices.


There are a number Of contingencies


which will have a tendency to reduce the


prlce OF wool during the year, which we


will briefly state as follows:


The reduction in the price of foreign
exchange and of gold. The opening Z Of
the Mississippi by the fall of Vicksbure
and Port Hudson or any great victory Of
the Federal arms, foreshadowing the ear
ly crushing our of the rebellion. All these
contingencies have a close relation TO- and
are dependent upon each other. The sue.
cess OF our arms will reduce specie values,
which Will bring corresponding reduction
of exchange. The latter allows foreign
wool to come in direct competition with
domestic, and cheapens the price. The
prospect OF an early peace will lessen the
demand for army cloth, into the manufac-
5ure Of which our domestic wool enter so
argely. The high price OF wool last au-
umn and early winter was due entirely to
he unprecedented rise in specie values and
orelgn exchange, causing depreciation
n paper currency. Owing to the high
rice of exchange, for two months no for
IGN wool was imported With the an
roach OF winter and the necessity of
lothlng nearly million ofmen, great
emand suddenly sprung up for army
10th, and the foreign supply of wool be-
lg entirely cut off the wool market was
ltensely exciting. The best grades of s
'ool advanced to &1,0l per pound il
saching an unprecedented price in the 2
lstory of the wool trade. The excite
ent died away-the demand for army
9th was sapplied, and the government 0
as surprised at the manufacturing euer- IL
es of the people. Ii
Since that time gold and exchange have b
9TH fallen, and the price of wool has b
zen reduced in the same proportion. The @
'erage market price of last years clip is ii
w about 10 cents per pound. The i'm W
Year: 1863

A New STATE IN THE UNION
On FRIDAY last the new State of Western


Virginia to her place beside the other
States of the Union, the sixty days hay
ing expired since the President issued a
proclamation announcing that the act Of
Congress admitting the new State should
have full force and effect at the expiration
OF that time. On the fourth of July next
IN accordance with the requirements of a
law of Congress, the national flag will not
be perfect unless thirty-fve stars are en-
blazoned upon it. The Inauguration
ceremonies hayejust taken place at Wheel,
ing, and the State officers recently chosen
will assume their respective positions.
Year: 1863

The LOUISIANA MOVEMENT The
Louisiana planters who are at Washing
ton, claiming to represent and to express
the wishes of forty out of fifty parishes of
the State, promise to restore Louisiana to
the Union under the old Constitution and
laws if the President will accede to their
terms. In other words, they propose to
bring back this rebel State as a Slave
State, the Proclamation of Freedom to the
contrary Notwithstanding. There is no
reason to believe the Government will
yield to the wishes of these Shareholders.
one OF whom was once the master of
three hundred black men, Troy Times.
Year: 1863

In 1857 The Legislature of Louisiana
passed an act to prohibit the emancipation
of slaves. On the 18th nit, Gen Shep-
ley, the Military Governor of the State.
issted an order saying that that act is de-
clared to have been without effect since
the occupation of the State by the forces
of the United States in April, 1862 The
order also says that any person held as
slave, and being legally entitled to freedom,
may bring suit for his or her freedom in
any court of record, against the person
claiming or holding him or her as a
slave.