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Year: 1864

From the Louisville journal II inst.


LOUISVILLE Kentucky July3o 1864.
To ArGham Lincoln Presiden; 0! the United
States.


SIR.-I have the honor TO acknow-
ledge the receipt Of your letter pro.
posing to me q discharge from an ar
rest in many ways vexatious and in
convenient, upon my signing q pa
role, whereby am to pledge my ho-
nor that will neither DO nor cay any
thing which will either directly or
indirectly tend to hinder, delay, or
embarrsss the employment aud use
OF colored persons as soldiera, aeamen,
or otherwise, in the suppression OF
the rebellion SO long as the United
States Government chooses so to EN-.
plOy and use them.


In answer to this proposal, | have
frankly to say that | can not bargain
for my liberty aud the exercise Of my
rights as a freeman on any such
terms Lave committed no crime.
| have broken no law OF my country
or OF my State, | have not violated
any military order Or any Of the
the usages of war. No act Or WORD
Of mine has ever given encourage
ment to the enemy. have no sym.
pathy with the rebellion. All my
sympathies are with and all my hopes
are for my country. The triumph ol
tue national arms, the preservation
OF the Union, the maintenance OF the
Constitution, the restoration of the
supremancy ofthe law over all the
States, and the perpetuation Of civil
ana religious liberty, are the objects
most dear to my heart. 90
may say without presumption,
That have done more to enlist white
men in the army of the Union, than
any other man in the State OF Hen
lucky. ! have done nothing TO him
Year: 1864

The Peace Democracy of this and other
States are constantly praying for peace, as
serting the duty of the authorities to make
every comprsmise for peace, and when they
desire to clinch their sophistries on this sub
ject arrogantly claiming that there is no
treason in desiring speedy peace But all
good men believe that there is treason in
the position assumed on this subject by the
dough-faces in the North, in which they
pray for, hope for and work for peace
either treason or idiotic folly, The dough
face leaders know that there can be no
peace except by the suppression of the rebel
lion. Peace can only come by the triumph
of the Federal arms. The men who oppose
the war, as the dough-faces do, in order to
secure peace, are doing more for the rebel
cause than the rebels themselves. Every
word uttered for peace short of the full tri-
umph of our arms, is an argument in favor
of treason, and of course those who thus
speak are little better than traitors Hence
the men who clamor for peace, either do
not know what they are thinking about, or
they are in favor of peace based on a de-
molition of the Union-a1ed that as treason
Year: 1864

A FRIEND real, true hearted friend is
more rare than he should be- Why is it
that selfishness predominates in the heart !?
that he only is considered friend who has
money and influence! In the higher walks
of life, how rarely is true friend found
one who will act as he feels, and speak as he
thinks. But among the humble and pure,
you will occasionally find the germ pure
friendship. Ye who have found a true
friend, appreciate his worth If he labors
to benefit you, say not word, perform not
an act, that will send thrill ofpain to his or
her bosom. If there is crime that betrays
Vile heart, it is the wounding Of pure af-
fection. Many one has seen when too late
the error of his course. When the grave
has concealed his best friend, he felt-ah
words will not describe the feeling Yewho
are surrounded by the kind and good-the
watchful and truehearted-appreciate them
We pray you Love them in return for their
Kindness, and to the close Of life they will
continue to guard and bless you
Year: 1864

The English press and public are greatly


distressed at the immens " increasing emf


grafton from Ireland to this country The


weekly returns here show that Europe is
throwing the most stalwart, and possibly
the most valuable portion of her population
into our. cities by thousands. For years
immigration has not been so large as it is
now The demand for labor, consequent
upon the war; the vacant places to be filled
In the work shops. farms and factories
throughout the land, from which thousands
have gone forth to battle for the Union,
and the advanced rate of wages which labor
commands, are no doubt, the inducements
which have quickened emigration. And it is
only beginning; for when the secessionists
have succeeded in exterminating the black
race, as they are rapidly doing, and when
the war is over, there will be an illimitable
field for European laborers in the South
In the course Of a year or two there will be
room and abundant employment for some
three. or four millions Of foreign laborers
and, of course, according to the system of
demand and supply, they will come here.
We are, therefore, but III the infancy of an
immigration Of thews and sinews,
quick brains. brave hearts and industrious
habits, for it. is only men possessing these
qualities who have the enterprise to make
start in a new country and take opportunity
when it comes
Year: 1864

"A traveller. in letter to the London


Times, says: Il can assure you, if we go to
war with the Japanese, we must not blind
ourselves with the belief we shall have a
second Chinese affair. They are bold,
courageous, proud, and eager for every kind
of knowledge. A friend of mine gave
workman Bramah lock to put on box it
was not discovered until some time after
ward and only then by the absence of the
name, that the lock had been initiated, and
as the workman confessed. the original kept
as pattern. | have been on board steam
er tpaddle) which used three years ago to
run between Nagasaki and Jeddo, six hun
dred miles, whose engines and boilers, and
every part of her machinery, were made of
copper. She was built by doctor in Jeddo,
whose only guide was dutch description of
steam engine, translated into Japanese


An American gunnery officer was sent over
III 1859, IN the Powhattan, to teach them
gunnery. He was courteouslyreceived and
then taken over the arsenal at Jeddo. He
returned to the ship saying, he had been
taught lesson instead Of having to teach "


In many of the arts and manufactures
they excel us; their beautiful castings in
bronze would puzzle the most experienced
European workman | have shown speci-
mems to good workmen who confessed they
could not initiate them. | have seen exam
pies that would rival in brilliancy any made
III England. The French Minister had
large ball, so clear and of such perfect color
that he believed it to be gigantic sapphire
and bought it for good round sum. Their
paper limitations of leather are perfect
their paper waterproof coats are bought
by the captains of ships for exposed boats


crew: their own clocks are good, and they
have initiated our watches; they walk about
with 'pedometers' attached to their belts and
they are not backward in copperplate en-
craving and perspective. Their china is far
superior to the Chinese. The country a.
bounds with coal, though they only use that
found close to the surface; but even that
sort of bituminous shale, is good In gold
and silver, | believe they could rival Mexico
and Australia; iron, copper and tin are found
in profusion. A friend of mine at Yokoha-
ma gave japanese piece of Engslih cot
ton shirting in a few days the man brought
back two pieces, and my friend had much
difficulty in saying which was his so close
ly had it been initiated. In fact, they are
apeople who want for nothing but teachers. "
Year: 1864

The editor of the Deya,oare County Repub-
Hcot recently asked soldier of the Army of
the Potomac, what the men there now think
Of Mcclellan. Why" says he, he is
never mentioned but by the rankest kind of
copperhead He's played out His Wood
ward letter was the finishing stroke The
men who once would have followed him
anywhere now look on him with suspicion
and regard his loyalty with distrust


The fact of it is that the pro-slavery pro
egandist, or he who would make the Union
very little of public sympathy Heis no lon
ger sustained by the people or army. Down
in Dixie is his true sphere and notin the free
North
Year: 1864

'Tis but curl of soft brown hair,


A simple. common thing TO see
But YOU. who only call it fair,


Dream not of whatit is to me
You take it in your hands and praise
Its glossy smoothness DER and o'er;
But, oh to you it pictures not


The childish face it shades no more!
You smile to see how godenly


Its hue, like sunlight, meets the eye;
But. Oh through tears | only see


The brow whereon it used to lie
The temples fair it clustered round,
The loving eyes it often hid
Those fair, cold temples, blossom crowned
Resting beneath the cotfin-lid
The childish voice so sadly sweet,
The lisped words, to love so plain,
The echoing sound of childish feet.


At sight of this come back again.
Oh gather up the shining links,


And lay them softly, gently by;
Oh place them where they may not meet
The careless gaze of every eye.
So silently-so mournfuliy


They speak of what the grave has won;
The idol of a loving heart,


The early called-the only one
Year: 1864

A BIT OF REBEL HUMoR Virginia
rebels occasionally enliven the gloom and
monotony of their condition by bits of ia
cetia never elswhere presented. Recently
the President of the Virginia Senate has
ordered a special election to be held in the
city of Norfolk to fill vacancy in the SEN
atorial representation from that city The
thing was done with the utmost gravity,
and apparently in entire INCONSISTENCIES OF
the existence of General Butler But the
outlaw will no doubt have finger in
the pie, notwithstanding.
Year: 1864

On the corner of Wall and front sts., in


the city of Jeffersonville, Indiana, says the
Louisville journal, stands an ancient brick
building, which was used in the olden
times as hotel. Of this building we have
heard many romantic tales, and traditions
of every hue and character are associated
with 1t by the old citizens of the place. 1t
was once the rendezvous of desperate class
OF people, and many dark and bloody crimes
ase known to have been committed within
its walls. Many innocent and unsuspecting
girls have been lured to that house and their
ruin accomplished, it is believed that not a
few of these unfortunate victims have met
with violent deaths by their seducers The
building is in a very dilapidated condition,
but was purchased few days since by the
Jeffersonville Railroad Company, on account


of the room it affords for Offices In repair
ing the building the workmen took up the
old floor, and to their astonishment, discov-
cred the remains of several of the young la
dies supposed to have been murdered in the
house years ago, together with the skeleton
of an infant, wrapped in cloth. The remains
ofthe unfortunate creatures have reposed for,
perhaps, upwards of thirty years beneath the
floor of this notorious house and until very
recently 1t has been occupied by different
per sons during this entire period. The
maidens whose skeletons are exhumed, had
they lived would now be in the meridian of
life. La all probability their murderers
have ere this passed from earth, and render
ed their account to that Great Tribunal that
visits justice upon all who escape the penal
ty of their crimes in this world
Year: 1864

THEY ARE IN bad fix down in dixie IF
the people are fed the army must starve; if
the army starves what will become of the
people? On the other hand, if the army is
fed the people will starve; if the people
starve what is the use of the army? The
best remedy will be for them all to repent
and receive pardon from Father Abraham
Year: 1864

Gorden just returned from certain dis
tance in the country, says that ploughs have
no sale there The hogs are so long -snout-
ed that farmers plant corn cob on side of
a field and piggy at the other, and by the
time the latter reaches the cob there is a
splendid furrow:. If stump happens in
the way it is split
Year: 1864

Father, amt you opposed to monopo-
ly p cried a little fellow, as his parent took
up the brandy bottle eyes, boy, was the
reply. Then give me drink, too" The
father broke the bottle on the floor, and has
not tas ted linunr since
Year: 1864

A wag purchased very fine horse. Re-
turning from ride a few days afterwards,
he said he had discovered a quality is his
animal which added few pounds to his
value-he SHE'D at a LAWYER
Year: 1864

and scarcely less so to meteorology
and climatology. The Nile is shown
to be drainage of the equatorial high
lands, which, by arrcsting the eastern
monsoons, deprive them Of their mois-
ture, which on the mountain tops form
vast masses of snowAnd ice, and in
the valleys extensive lakes; all of
which pour their ovcrfowings into a
common current, carrying fertility and
life to rainless and otherwise desert
Egypt. On the westerns slopes of these
highlands rain seldom falls, and that
region is mostly sterile waste.


Not the least curious fact brought
out by these discoveries is the nearly
exact conformity of the great features
Of the region, as now made out, to the
description of them given by Ptolemy
in the second century. His two lakes,
which stand as the chief fountains OF
of the great river, answer not inaptly
to Nyanza and Tanganyika; nor is it
altogether improbable that further ex-
plorations will show that the latter as
well as the former discharges its wa
tcrs northward into the Nile. By
such methods is the present genera
ton of men carrying their researches
into all the hitherto unknown regions;
but it may somewhat abatc our self
complaccncy to find at each step that
we are only re-discovering tho lost
wisdom of the ancients, and rcgaining
what later age permitted to be lost
~. c. Adr0cdte
Year: 1864

Powers, the sculptor, writing to q
friend on the folly of marrying with
out the means to support family, ex-
presses frankly his own fear, when he
found himself in this very position
"To tell the truth, however, family
and poverty have done more to sup
port me, than have to support them
They have compelled me to make ex-
ertions which hardly thought myself
capable of, and often when on the eve
of despairing, they have forced me,
like coward id a corner, to fight like
a hornet, not for myself, but for my
wife and little ones"
Year: 1864

The Coppcrhead presses have endoa-
vored to get up prejudice against the
Administration by representing that it
is in faultfor the stoppage of exchanges.
General Butler has just proved, in his
peculiar and striking way, that the
rebels who refuse to exchange, and who
arc in fault, and not the Government.
He put five hundred rebel prisoners on
board of a flag of truce boat, and sent
them up to City Point; he received in
return Ave hundred of our men. But
when he was about to send another
boat-load of five hundred to CityPoint,
the rebels refused to receive them and
to give us the same number of men in
exchange. Will the World continue,
after this, to accuse Mr.. Stanton of stop
ping the exchange?


Jeff. Davis demands that We shall
give up at once all the prisoners in our
possession, in exchange for those he
holds. Now, we have between forty
five and fifty thousand, and Davis holds
of our men only between ten and fif-
teen thousand. No doubt Davis thinks
it is very important to reinforce his
armies he would like to add to Lee,
or to Longstreet, or to Johnston, i'm
mediately, the forty and fifty thousand
veterans we hold He thinks that by
asking for them he can get them-if
only the Copperhead press, and Con-
gressmen of the same stripe, in the
North will help him. But his trick
has been exposed by General Butler
New Yo,k Tribune.
Year: 1864

rarA gallant soldier was once heard
to say that his only measure ofcourage
was this: upon the frat fire l imme-
diately look upon myself as q dead
man; then fight the remainder ofthe
day as regardless of danger as dead
man should be. All my limbs whish !
carry out of the fold | regard as so
much gained or as so much saved out
of the fro"
Year: 1864

The firing between pickets yesterday
and las, night was much sharper than for
some days. Since daylight this morning
lreguIar dull firing is going on in front
of the 18th aud isth Corps.
Year: 1864

TnE PAsaoSs Some declaimers against the
passions impute to them all the troubles oil man,
but they forget that those abused passions are
also the source Of all his pleasures the error
is in regarding them entirely on the bad slue.


But it is the passions only, and the great ones
too, which can elevate the soul t0 the perform
ancc of noble actions without them tnere
would be nothing approaching the sublime
either IN morals or in literature, and virtue IL
self would even become lriyolous.-D'derot.
Year: 1864

We once kept an account for q lady
during three niles walk through rather
sandy lanes. who declared herself "half
dead with fatigue every few minutes !;
and we found that she had died exactly
eleven times asd half At the end Of he
journey, when she swallowed cider and
sandwiches in most lively fashion, con.
sidering her state OF demise.
Year: 1864

THE GROWTH OF New YoRK.-The New
York Post makes calculation, from which
it concludes that in about Is years there will
not be vacant lot on the island, and that
from the battery to West Chester county
no buildings can be erected without remov-
ing some other structure.
Year: 1864

The Washngton correspondent OF the
Philadelphia Daily News, an administration
paper Of the most servile type, draws the
following picture of the condition of affairs
which the Lincoln rule has brought about:


1t really seems seasonabe and necessary
to sound the alarm. The earnest word of
warning ought TO be spoken. The extrava-
gances Of the day and the expenditures for
Iuxures are unexsmpled, even in the history
of our wasteful people. There is an impress
sion abroad among the peopl that, as green
backs are so plenty, and every one feeling
so prosperous, it is perfectly right and proper
for every one to spend as freely as he likes
Indeed, there seems to exist no sort of con-
scientious feeling in regard to the duty of
economy. The people are eXtravagant to
the last degree All dealers in expensive
goods, everywhere throughout the country,
by common consent, concur in the statement
that there never was such demand for the
most costly wares. The precious stones,
diamonds and pearls, have never been in
such demand or commanded such high prices.
Gold Watches ornaments and bronzes, ee
giant carpets, silks, brocades aud satins-ex,
pensive furniture, paintings, costly dinner
wares and choice wines-aIl, all are con-
tinually sold and are orpamenting the dwell
hngs, the persons, or tickling the vanity or
paates of our people. This madness of folly
and unprecedented spirit of spending and
dashing out, is not alone confined to the
wealthy, but all classes of society have gone
fnerv mad About the first thing thought
of, after money comes in possession, is not
the idea of a solid or substantial investment,
but spending in tinery, dress, baubes and
toolery. The wives and daughters of shops
keepers, mechanics, Teachers of country
parsons, lawyers, doctors, still buy silks and
sa'ins, pianos, and carpets, as if they Tor the
country were ust as well off as they ever
were. Judging 10y the extravaganza of the
people, one is forced to conclude that the
nation does not seem to recognize that it is
in war, or that its habits of economy have
anything to do with its ability to pay the
public debt; on the contrary, the inference
would seem to be that somebody else was
spending for the war, while we spend for
foreign luxures. What a terrible delusion;
though terrible as is the delusion, unless we
get wisdom, and improve it by thorough and
speedy retrenchment, we shall only realize it
in its full force when it is too late to profit
by wisdom. The press and the pulpit owe
1t to themselves to express the fallacy of
arguing ourselves rich because (paper) money
is plenty, while the country is involved in
the most gigantic war of modern times, and
national debt of some millions per day
is growing upon our hands.
Year: 1864

REBEL Iron CLADs FROM EURopE.-The
Baltimore correspondent of the New York
World says:


In regard to the iron-cad vessels that
have been built for the Confederates in the
ports Of Great Britain and France during the
last eighteen months, nv information is pos
tive that they will find their way across the
Atlantic before the end of June. Arrange,
ments have been made for the transfer of
those vessels that were built for the "Emper-
or Of China" to parties who cannot be iden-
titled with the South; and after the transfer
has been made, the governments Of England
and France can no longer interfere with
them. The parties alluded to will take them
to a seaport in some other country, where,
by process known in maratme practice,
the vessels will ultimately come into the pos
session Of the agents of the confederacy.-
These vessels, Of which there are about
twenty in all, are built expressly for ocean
navigation, and some Of them are Of the
same class as the Warrior and La Gloire
They are all constructed in the very best
manner by the most experienced European
shp.builders, plated with iron or maleabe
steel to thickness that defies penetration,
and mounted with ornaments far superior to
anything now ahoat in American waters.
These will prove an element of strength on
the rebel side, the Importance of which has
been entirely overlooked by the administra
ton, intent on its utopian negro schemes.
When these vessels reach our shores they
will not be used for defense To break the
blockade of Charleston, Wilmington and
Savannah will be their first attempt. And
after that it is expected that they will attack
soma of the seanorts in the NOrthern States
Year: 1864

TERRIToRy OF MoNTANA.-The House bilr
to establish the Territory of Montana THAT
in which gold is found) provides in reference
to boundaries as follows: Commencing at
a point formed by the intersection of the 9th
degree Of longitude west from Washington
with the 45th degree Of north latitude;
thence due west on said 45th degree of
latitude to point formed by its intersection
with the 34th degree of longitude west from
Washington; thence due south along said
34th degree of longitude to its intersection
with the 44th degree and 80 minutes of
north latitude; thence due west along said
44th degree and 80 minutes Of north latitude
to a point formed by its intersection with
the crest of the Rock y Mountains; thence
following the crest of the Rocky Mountains
till its intersection with the Bitter Root.
Mountains; thence northward along the crest
of the said Bitter Root Mountains to the
intersection Of the 39th degree of longitude
west from Washington; thence along said
39th degree Of longitude northward to the
boundary line of the British possessions;
thence eastward along said boundary line TO-
the 9Th degree of longitude west from
Washington; thence southwark along said
9th degree of longitude to the place Of
beginning
Year: 1864

/ guarded by us with Jealous care, until such
time as il can be fttingly returned to the state
By him who, in such great degree, taught US
how proudly TO bear tour worthy senior ON
GER


Let rs hope that. if this flag is destined to
pass through like baptism Of fire. ii may have
like honorable history. and be returned as
honorably to the State.


lie, us hope that these bright and starry
folds may ever wave over victory; and while we
pledge ourselves to comporG ourselves as men
should, and do what men may, let us reverently
rest the issue on the justice Of our cause and the
God of Battles.


The colors were then saluted and 1t. Col
Lewis proceeded to put the regiment through
the eyolutions of battalion drill. The pre-
cision and beanty of movement attainable on
a smooth feld WIS not to be expected with
several inches of snow on the ground. and
the Regiment numbering but littls over 300
could not make the show of full battalion,
but the evolutions we're well made and clicit-
ed the praise of military gentlemen present,
and the admiration of the civilians. The par
ade lasted about an hour.


The regiment left on Monday morn
ing carly for Brattleboro and thence to the
front. While their friends will be sorry to
have them 20, after 50 short a stay, there Is
not one but will he proud Of them ard OF the
honor the Governor has 50 appropriately b.
slowed ON the First Veteran Vermont regi-
ment