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Year: 1864

Over the beauty of the plum and
the apricot there grows bloom and
beauty more exquisite than the fruit
itself-a soft, delicate flush over
spreads its blushing check. Now, if
you strike your hand over that, it is
gone. The flower that hangs in the
morning, impaled with dew, arrayed
as no queenly woman ever was array
cd with jewels, once shake it SO that
the beads roll off. and you may sprink-
le water oves-it as You please, yet it
can never be again what it was when
the dew fell silently on it from Heav-
en-. On frosty morning you may
see panes of glass covered with land
scape--mountais, lakes, trees, blended
in beautiful fantastic picture. Now
lay your hand upon the glass, and by
q scratch of your finger, or by the
warmth of your palm, all the delicate
tracery will be obliterated. So there
is in youth beauty and purity of
character, which, when once touched
and defled, can never be restored a
fringe more delicate than frost-work,
and which, when torn and broken,
will never be reembroidered. He who
has spotted and spoiled his garments
in youth, though he may seek to make
them white again, can never wholly
do it, even were he to wash them with
his tears. When young man leaves
his fathers house with the blessings
of mothers tears still wet upon his


brow, if he once lose the early purity
of character, it is loss that he can
never make whole again. Such is the
consequence of crime. It's effects
cannot be eradicated |; it can only be


forgiven.-Sat~rday Erening Post.
Year: 1864

1t would be remarkable if it should
turn out that, in addition to being the
champion of free press, though he
suppressed the first newspaper in the
war-being an advocate of free speech,
though he imprisoned the first editor
for newspaper criticism, and being
the opponent Of confiscation, though
he issued the first order depriving
rebelcs of their property-John G. FIRE.
mont, who took the first official step
towards making Missouri free State.
should now turn out to be the party
who in the eud would defeat emanci-
patton in Missouri. Judging from
the course of the Post, it is not iln-
possible that such may be the case.
Very certain is it that if Fremonts
friends in Missouri do not defeat
emancipation next fall it will he Sc
cured If Fremont is in favor of sac
riicing important local interests, and
even great principles, to his personal
advancement, it might be well for the


public to know it.-iMssourl Democrat.
Year: 1864

The good people Of all Northern
Iowa will rejoice to learn that the
McGregor Western Railroad is being
pushed forward vigorously. The
cars will be at Postville by the mid
die Of September, and if the grading
can be done it is purposed to reach
point some miles west of that place
before winter sets in. A survey from
o point two miles south of Fort Atkin-
son to Charles City is in progress,
which must locate the road through
the North half of this county. rumor
says midway between New Hampton
and Jacksonville. If the company in
whose hands the work now is meets
with no drawback in the meanwhile
we may confidently expect to hear
the whistle of the locomotive before
the close Of another year So mote il
be.-Nep Hampton Courier.
Year: 1864

Any one who can glance over such a statement
and not feel for theCc poor working women must
have a heart of stone.


At the meeting last night eloquent addresses
were delivered by Charles Buckwalter, ESD
MessIs Fred. Van ClcYe Richardson william
Nlunday, and others. The address Of Mr. Van
Cleyc, who was one Of a committee appointed TO
visit the President relative to increasing the
wages Of the working women in the employ Of
call Of the meeting, and Wc append an abstract
oiit.


MR.. VAN CLEyE's REMARKS.


am here TO bear testimony to the fact, that il
It had not been for the labor of this Working
WOmeu's Relief Association, this advance Of
twenty per cent, (reering TO the increase of
wage, at the Arsenal) which was ordered by the
Secretary Of War would never have been made
am also here 10 testify, that when the facts con-
tained in your petition were presented 20 that
gentleman, he replied that up 10 that period Of
time he was totally ignorant Of the fact that the
prices paid at the United States arsenals were less
than those paid prior to the outbreak Of this
Rebellion.


am also here to testify that he distinctly told
the committee that no communication had here
tofore been sent to him upon this subject by any
official in the employ Of the Government of the
United States. am also here 10 bear testimony to
the courtesy with which he received your com.
mitce, and the interest he manifested in your
behalf, and together with the action he has taken
upon tins matter, the promise he gave that he
would do still more at very early period OF
time.


am also here 10 testify, and / do it cheerfully
and gladly, 20 the courtesy shown your committee
by the President of the United States. lie gave
thCm an interview Of an hour and halti ~
Year: 1864

1t is difficult for the modern reader to
adjust his idea of distance and space to the
disproportionate scale o. magnitude which
MANY of the ancient territories and dis
tances bore to the prominent figure which
the wars for their conquest and subjuga-
ton presents in history. For instance,
the ancient historian makes 1t marked
feature in the history of the times, and a
streak of singular good fortune and skill
that Athens should early succeed in annex
ing Eleusis-a foreign territory ten miles
distant; and Salamis, situated just across
what would be modern ferry. At this
time IEgina, which lay pleasantly situated
Just over the bay, as Oakland from San
Francisco. was the home of "alien enc
mics" and was only held in subsection
by the iron hand of power. Megara,
twenty-five miles distant, was in open
hostility to Athens; and it was considered
splendid and generous act Of foreign
policy, that the city of learning should
steadily uphold Platea, city thirty-tive
miles away, against the hateful predomi-
nance of Thebes located at the still in
creased distance Of forty miles!


A writer, from whom we have condensed
the above, continues the subject as follows:
The eternal rivalry with Sparta reached
over an interval about as great as that
which separated New York from Philadel-
phia; while the disastrous expedition to
Syracuse, which bewildered the Attic
imagination no less by the daring of its
distance than by the splendor Of its equip
ments, traversed world of waters rather
less than from the Chesapeake to Port
ROYAL. Yet these narrow limits were
enough for the great passions of patriot
ism, ambition, jealousy, and international
hate. The intense pride of every Atheni-
an citizen in his own splendid capital, his
fond recalling Of its generous liberties and
its grand memories, in exile or disaster,
or times of peril or fear, is familiar to any
one who remembers the soldierly summons
of Xenophon on his retreat, the touching
appeal of Nicias to the forlorn hope at
Syracuse, the fond tone in Plato's dia-
logues, or the ringing harangues of De-
mothenes when the shadow of Macedon
began to darken the pass at Thermypola." "


How insignificant was the territory
and the principles involved in those
ancient quarrels, compared with those in
volved in the gigantic struggle now in
progress upon this great western CONT
nent and in these latter days, Where is
the historian who can do justice to the
magnificent theme: Who will emblazon
upon the historic page the words which
are to convey to future generations, down
for all coming time, the glorious deeds
which are now passing before us: Verify,


1--WE are living, we are dwelling,


In grand and awful time;


In an age, on ages telling,


To be living Is sublimeH
Year: 1864

In the Sixth Corps, according to a
Washington paper, spy was discovered
in somewhat singular manner. He had
been in the service, and appeared and dis
appeared frequently, under circumstances
that awakened suspicious that he was
communicating with the rebels. Nothing
could be proved against him, however,
until he was arrested the other day, and a
Union soldier, dressed in rebel uniform,
was thrown into the same guard-house,
pretending to be rebel prisoner. Find
ing himself in the company of rebel, as
he supposed, the rascally spy opened his
mouth and heart, and revealed his own
guilt SO clearly that he will be hung with
out unnecessary delay.
Year: 1864

We sit at home, nor feel that they


Who fight upon the distant plain
Are falling faster day by day,


A harvest of the slain.
We lightly walk the busy street,


Where trade and gain roll swiftly on;
They march battlefield TO greet.
And die as il is won.
The trumpet calls them in the night


TO die for freedom and the boom
OF cannon from the fortressed height
Still calls them TO their doom.
Cnmoved we read of how they fell
To shield the starry flag from shame
Dauntless through storms Of shot and shell
In the red battles flame
Brave hearts are beating for US there,
Amid the conflicts feverish breath;
This hour, what soldiers hurried prayer
Is said for you, in death.
They lie upon the lonely hill


Or blackened plain in dreamleSs sleep,
Their rest eternal Never will


They wake like us, TO weep.
We rise each day to weary toll


And hourly strife-their work is done
Their blood will consecrate the soil
Their lives so nobly won.
Year: 1864

MaNEY SpRSDNG-A TuoUGHr FOR Parents.
A late writer, speaking Of parents, says that
when they spend money judciously to improve aud
adorn the house and the ground around it, they are
in effect paying their children premium to stay at
homo as much AS possible to enjoy it but that
when they spend money unnecessarily in fine cloth.
ing and jewelry for their children they arc paying
them a premium to spend their time away from
home, that is, in those places where they can at
tract the most display. There is both truth and
philosophy in the statement. II parents expect Ia
shield their children from tho vices Of the world
they must make homs attractive to them A cheer.
tul and happy hope is Of the greatest safeguards
parent can throw around his child.
Year: 1864

GENERAL PRMs OPINION OF The UNION AR.
MEs-In another portion of this journal we
publish an article written by General Prim.
the celebrated Spanish commander, who came
to this country at the period when General
Mcclellan was in command of the Army of the
Potomac. General Prim visited this army. and
bis remarks upon it will be read with interest
lie praises the soldierly appearance of the men
their spirit and endurance, and pays well
deserved tribute to the skill and tact Of their
commander.


General Prim evidently appreciated at their
just value the exertions which had created in
80 short time an army Of we'll disciplined
soldiers He was struck with the immense re-
sources Of our government and the real power
and determination OF the North. He regards
the United States "a the FIRST nation in the world
because no other can maintain in the field
armies amounting to over . million Of men, at
an expense Of several millionsa day, all without
demanding foreign loans. The self-relance OF
the American people strikes with wonder this
experienced soldier, who knows that in such an
element lies future success and power. The
Generals letter Is extremely interesting, and
we call particular attention to Il.


AT this period, when 50 much malignant and
unmerited abuse Is being heAped upon General
Mcclellan, the testimony OF 50 important per
son ~ General Prim will be received at its Just
value
Year: 1864

Runishmemt OF DRUNKENNESS Ia Now


Yorkshire Broadway Railroad, SO.


ALBANY March II, 1894
The Senate committee decided this afternoon 10 report
adversely the bill relative Manhattan square In New
York. also adversely to the bill that passed the
bly, 70 construct market the Eighteenth ward Of New
York.


Two Of tho bills presented 10 the interest Of The
Commissioners OF Charities and Correction were or
dered to o third reading 10 tho Senate this
evening One for the punishment Of drunkenness snA
vagranoy the other to the discharge OF thoee
arrested for drunkenness without the written consent a
tho magistrate Of tho Commissioners OF Charities
The Assembly proved 20 be regular grinding commit
tee In passing bills Upwards OF thirty bills
sdered in Committee Of the Whole and ordered TO thrA
reading. None Of them were OF public Importance


Every member Of the Senate Committee on Railroads
Ia here 10 night The argument the Harlem Broadway
Railroad will without doubt be proceeded with h-mos-
Year: 1864

The APPROACHING M0CLELLAa MASS MEET
NG.-A grand mass meeting of the political
friends Of General Mcclellan is appointed for
Thursday evening next at the Cooper Institute.
We have every reason to anticipate an imposing
demonstration in numbers and in enthusiasm;
for the name of the Generals admirers is legion,
and their confidence in his military and politi-
cal abilities is strong They believe too, that
be has been unjustly dealt with by the admins
tration. and they are anxious to make manifest
this opinion. But when we hear that that old
political fossil of bygone age, Amos Kendall,
is to preside at this assemblage we think it
probable that it will not finally settle the Pre-
sidential question. There was meeting some
months ago of some of the odds and ends OF
the old Know Nothing concern at Cincinnati,
at which Mr. Kendall figured as chief cook and
bottle washer; and by that little meeting, If we
are not mistaken, General Mcclellan was pro.
claimed its Presidential candidate. Mr., Kendall
will perhaps have the same class Of struggling
politicians around him as the managers Of this
Cooper Institute meeting II so we can hardly
congratulate General Mcclellan upon the load
he will have to carry. Knowing, however, az
We do, that he does not aspire to, and has no
desire for, the Presidency, but that he does de-
sire to be restored to active service as O SOL
dier, we have only to say let him still exercise
his patience and discretion, and he may yet
be amply rewarded under the administration
that is to come. Meantime why do not the
friends Of General Fremont in this city get up
a grand mass meetingf They must speedily
begin to move in something more than little
ward associations or they will be TOO late for
the train.
Year: 1864

by such tricks. Or are they really In earnest
in this national movement. and do they intend
to risk all and win all by III If so, they will
succeed II so, the people will 60 along with
them But we have right to demand of them
some further proof or sincerity They have
been false to past pledges and have broken
past promises, and must not expect to be in
dulged in similar trihing again. Let them call
together their committee and unanimously re-
port the address already published. No day is
yet fixed for this, but Wednesday will be the
best, because it is the earliest Then let them
call State and a national convention and
proceed regularly to work Should they do
this we promise them great tumph Should
they prove treacherous and sell out we prom
ise them destruction and an infamous memory.
Year: 1864

The WASHINGTON HETaHTs CONFESSION AND
THE KNGsBRlDGE RAMRoAD-We observe among
the applications for railway charters now be-
fore the Legislature one for q railroad TO
Kingsbridge over the Bloomingdale road. What
ever Of merit this application may intrinsioally
possess, there is one thing about Il which should
stamp the proposition with suspicion, II isun-
fortunate for the application that among those
making it Is . person who was active
in getting up the recent barbarous at
tempt to cut UP Washington Heights and
destroy the attractiveness Of that beautiful
region by laying out ten broad avenues within
its limits, and in mapping out the land in
way best to suit spectators in corner grocery
lots to the infinite prejudice of the interests Of
villas which now ornament that charming To-
cality, This influence will seriously impair
the prospects of the Kingsbridge railway pro
ject, just as it has aroused the Indignation Of
people Of good taste and judgment by its un-
civilized attempts to transform terrestrial
elysium into tract for the breeding of low grog-
geries, with the usual attendants of drunken
HESS, Vlce anu Crlihe We nave olalmeu tnaG
this Washington Heights Commission should be
abolished, as being unnecessary aud unwise,
and as crimnally neglectful or wilfully igno
rant of what is best to be done for the interests
Of all concerned in the business for which it
was appointed. The Legislature cannot now
do better work than to abolish it at once,
and to wipe out all its past proceedings as
they would any legislation that is marked by
SO much corruption and profound ignorance.
In the meantime, or OF the same time, the Legis-
lature should lay aside this project for the
Kingsbridge railway until members are salts
fed that the application is sound and not tant-
ed with the concentrating influence arising
from contact with the Washington Heights
Commission
Year: 1864




Their power is not with the people, but with
the Tammany politicians. When the proposed
revolution is fairly under way they will be
crushed by ii and will be powerless to resist;
but nevertheless they are to be feared while
the enterprise is in embryo. They still con-
troll many Offices they still control the
lobby. With these agencies they can work
upon weak minded and weak-kn members
of the Tammany brotherhood. That they will
try to do this is beyond doubt The real
question is, will they succeed


Charles G.. Cornell, the Street Commis-
soner, and Peter b. Swseny, the general
lobby agent, are the most prominent among
the doubling and doubtful brethren Of Tam
many Hall. The..former loves Office, and fears
that he may be removed by Seymour aad
the Regency II BIO joins In this reform move
ment. The latter has his lobby schemes, and
is afraid that the Regency may upset them II be
takes part in this revolution. Through such
mon the Regency will attempt to operate. Bar
gains and bribes and compromises and fairer
division Of the spoils will DO offered, and Tam
many will be bought of If money and Office
and patronage can do IL. Now, what do tho
Tammany men meant Have they left the SER
vice Of the Regency temporarily in order to
return TO II at an advanced pricei Are they
holding out for more wages' Do they bluster
and threaten and issue manfestoes so that they
may make better bsrg1n when they are
ready to come back' II so, no fate Is too bad
for them. II 80, they will probably lose their
game; for Csgger V too old bird 70 bs caught
Year: 1864

la our last, We stated the T;ict that each
of the Commissioners of Union county
agreed Gas such) to pay slO0 to the per-
sous required TO Fl the calls for volunteers
from our county as 100 days men. Since
then, they have reduced the bounty to
$50. We have nothing to offer as to the
first or last sum named-but we must sa y
it is q very unfortunate thing to trtie
with the public in this manner Officers
composing board should do and promise
nothing as individuals all should be done
together, at their proper Office, after due
consultation aud examination: aud when
they have arrived at a decision, stand to
it like men, regardless of outside pressure
prior to or after the conclusion. 1t will
be seen that it is not the faui, Of either
recruiting officers or editors that the boun.
ty promised and expected is reduced one
half.
Year: 1864

The editor of the Germantown Tels-
graph says the subscription price of news
papers should one and all be advanced to
three dollars. With paper at twenty-tSo
cents per pound and upwards, instead OF
from eight to nine and half cents as it
lately was, and all printing material and
wages fifty per cent. dearer, it is impossi.
bic for newspaper to exist at less rates
unless the publisher is able and willing to
stand a loss Of from two to FIVE thousand
dollars a year. And We suppose there
are not many such.
Year: 1864

On Tuesday last the Reading Railroad
was formally taken possession Of BY the
United States Government for military
purposes. The engineers and others OF
the employees of the Road being on q
strike for higher wages, the Government
this week brought on from Washington a
sufficient force to insure its management,
so that lie supply Of coal should not run
short
Year: 1864

Elk SECRETARY CHAsE.-We hear that
Salmon 2. Chase has determined to visi;
Europe during this season, and report has
it that he is now in Communication with
Secretary Fessenden, at New York, in
reference to the subject of negotiating O
foreign loan. 1t is to be hoped that the
Distinguished financial abilities of Mr
Chase may be made available abroad in
whatever steps nay be adopted to sustain
tho national credit
Year: 1864

ROAD We understand, says the West
Branch Bulletin, tina. the route contem-
plated for this road, has been surveyed by
an English company interested in connec-
ting roads, and that they propose to euter
upon the construction of the road without
delay. The high price of labor and
material will not prove barrier, as they
can sell their British gold for more than
the increase 10 the prices, and thus really
save instead of loss by the operation. We
should like to see the work pushed
through.
Year: 1864

there was no course left for him to
pursue, but to resign. And the financial
measures adopted, being in the main In ac.
cordancc with Mr. Fessenden's notions, and
largely shaped by him, it WIS peculiarly fit
and proper for the President to effer him the
portfolio OF the Treasury. It may be that
capitalists will accord to him more Of their
confidence and support than WAS received By
Mr.. Chase, and that the change mRy be for
tho better: We can only hope for tic best,
and 1eYer desnnir of the Bepuhlic
Year: 1864

and be pressed to completion in the order of their
importance.


Let these things be looked after, and let the
people OF Kansas see to it that no local, narrow
minded man is made Governor of the State; and
this will constitute another important plank in
our estate Policy" that will aid the rising
greatness of this beautiful country.
Year: 1864




Pray tell Us which side you were on
when you voted the Wagstaff- Parrott- bolt
ing ticket.-R'ess.


We did not support Carney then, and
see less reason to do so now. Guess some
who did are sorry for it by this time.


Which policy did you want to win lit
tie over year ago, when you were struck
and spit upon as Union man Pres.


We waited until the man got sober, and
then, at the request Of himself and friends,
we refrained from prosecuting him: and he
enlisted in the Union army, and is now
assisting in guarding your home and mine
from the guerrillas and rebels.


Had we served our country as you did
the two first years of the war, there might
have been few bales less of cotton in the
Southern Confederacy than now. We
might, too, have ridden over and struck a
poor, wounded, sick soldier, as be was hob.
bling along with Siegel's retreating column
from Springfield. We can we'll afford to
be branded coward by one who has had
his reputation so we'll established by those
who served with him.
Year: 1864

The telegraph announces another. dis
aster 10 our army in North Carolina, in
the capture of Plymouth and the brigade
consisting of sixteen hundred Union
troops. This news is from rebel sources,
but luck is against us this Spring, and
we take it for granted that the worst we
hear comes nearest the truth.


The policy, the absolute necessity OF
the move to bring out hundred thou
sand more men for the summer campaign
is becoming more evident every day.
Let there be no hesitation in filling up
the call for hundred thousand volun-
teers at once.


Our ouspcsts are being weakened nee
essarily for the purpose of concentrating
all our effective force for the main strug-
gle, and many important points are liable
to fall into the hands of the enemy, un.
less sufficient force of volunteers is
is raised to hold them.