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Year: 1863

held. Another chaplain, who had been his
fellow prisoner, was separated from him and
released, from whom We learned the facts in
the case as just stated. -


Suppose we even consented to give forty
thousand for thirteen thousand, how shall
we be secure that some hundreds of our sol
diers and officers are not held back, secretly,
as was this chaplain in violation of the most
solemn agreements, to be the sport of rebel
malignity? To submit to the rebel demand
would be to surrender these unfortunates to
hopeless suffering and death; it would be to
give up the only hold we now have on these
inhuman and treacherous scoundrels; and
how could we be certain, even, that some
part of the unfortunate sufferers in the Lib
by and other Richmond prisons, were not
kept back by their jailors, who could laugh,
at discovery of their treachery, when they
once had their forty thousand men in their
own hands?
Year: 1863

A Frenchman resolved to get rid of life,
went little before high tide, to a post set
by the seaside. He had provided himself
with ladder, a rope, a pistol, a bundle OF
matches and vial of poison. Ascending
the ladder, he tied one end of the rope to
the post, and the other end around his neck,
then he took the poison, set his cloths on
fire, put the muzzle of the pistol to his
head and hEsd % nway b the addsT The In
so that the ball missed his head, and cut the
rope by which he was suspended he fell in
to the sea, thus extinguishing the flames of
his clothes, and the sea water, which he in
voluntarily swallowed, counteracted the poi
son: thus, in spite of his precautions, he
remained unhanged, unshot, imprisoned,
unburned and undrowned.
Year: 1863

A Piqua Ohio correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette, writing on Thanksgiv
ing day, tells the following story of a fighang
parson ''Thc glorious news from Chatta
nooga this morning cheated Rev. Col Moo
dy out Of the opportunity of delivering his
Thanksgiving sermon. We had met at the
Green Street Methodist Church, in accor-
dance with the Presidents proclamation,
had sung the President hymn, taken up
a collection of about sixty dollars for the
Sanitary Commission, and cur fighting
preacher had scarcely got through his intro
duction, when the Gazette arrived, was
brought into the church and handed to him
by our patriotic sexton. The preacher stop
ped paused a moment and then shouted
glorious news" He then read the head
ings of the telegraphic news and said THE
congregation will all rise. Now, three cheers
for the good old Stars and Stripes. They
were given with will and the walls Of Green
Street rang with the shouts of sturdy old
stewards and leaders. ''Now sing, all sing


Praise God from whom all blessing flows. y
The congregation all joined in the singing.
Now, said the preacher, II have too
much good sense to think you would rather
hear me preach than hear the news" So
he read all the dispatches with the editorial,
which was frequently cheered by the congre
CATION. Then followed some excellent re-
marks by Dr. Wheelock, of the First Bap-
tist Church, and the exercises were closed
by benediction-the congregation, by a
rising vote, agreeing to meet in the evening
to hear the Thanksgiving sermon, and take
another collection for the Sanitary Commits
sion -
Year: 1863

The Rev. Mr.. Terrence, who went to City
Point with DIR. Clement c. Barclay, of Phil
adelphia, returned this morning. He had
an interview with Captain Hatch, who was
sent from Richmond to meet him. He in
formed him of the above decision of the reb-
el Government, and gave as the reason there
for, what they alleged to be an imputation
of their honor by the press and Government
authorities that they were not delivering
the goods forwarded in good faith to the
prisoners, and asserted that, of his own
knowledge, the officers in the Libby prison,
from the immense supplies they had receiv-
ed, could set table from their stores in
hand, equal to any hotel in the United
States He admitted that there had been
some irregularities in the supplies at one
time, but that theofficers who had been guilty
of neglectin the prisoners had been promt-
ly removed and punished. As to the bad
condition Of the prisoners returned to An
napolis, he said that they were extreme Ca
ses of consumption and that it was grave
error on the part of the authorities to have
relieved such prisoners to return. For the
present nothing would be received but let
ters and enclosures of money, and that
Southern money had better be sent.
Year: 1863

There are but ten psecepts of the law OF
God, says Leighton and two Of them are D be
slowed on the tongue-one in the first table
and the other in the second-as showing lt
is ready, if not bridled, to fly out against
both God and man.
Year: 1863

petual, was dissolved by portion of the States,
insufficient in number to amend those Articles;
and there established a new Union. which
cording TO the contemplation ofthe Constitution,
might have embraced only nine States and which
actually did embrace. for considerable time only
eleven.


There is another circumstance which may
be worthy of mention. AS the several State
conventions from time to time assented TO the
new Constitution, the acts of these conventions
were duly sgnfed by formal certificate to The
Congress of the Confederation; and when the
specified number of States had assented 70 the
new form of government. that Congress CO.
operated with the asserting States in the meas
ures necessary to dissolve the government of the
Confederation, end establish the new government
under the present Constitution. In other wor1s,
the government of the Confederation gave assent
and CO operation to measures looking to its own
dissolution


Tins we have exhibited clear and incontro
vertibie facts. These facts can be readily ex
planned by those who admit the sovereignty of
the States As for the advocates of consolda-
ton and the disparagers of State power, they
tacitly acknowledge, by the course of argument.
that these circumstances give fatal evidence
against their theories: else why are the facts uni
formly and studiously suppressed
Year: 1863

In a speech at Cincinnati, Gen. RosEcRASs
stated il to be his opinion--an opinion begotten
of bearing and seeing in the South-that:


The people the Southern peoplel deplore the
war. but they are held by the neck: the military
power has got them under its heel. You cannot,
therefore. make peace with them. The only way
is to keep tightening the cords around them, to
get them so broken that the conservative people
OF the South can help themselves. This they
will not attempt until we throttle the military
power. Then they will turn tu the leaders and
say, We have had enough of this, and will give
it up ,"


Yes, but who is to say when we have had
enough OF il in the North1 We are told that the
pes pie of the South can have no peace until every
slave is freed, the seeded States converted into
Territories, new owners occupy the land, the
slave made equal to the white mae. and nobody
elected to any Office not an abolitionistl This is
the resolve of the party in power, and General
Rosecrans had no authority, therefore, to make
even the absurd statement he did.


We're the South to day TO lay down their arms.
there could be no peace, as we once had it, no
dismissal of the army, no reunion of the States,
no elections free from the bayonet, no commerce
for our w estern agriculturists, because no mar
ket. Let our armies overrun the South. as has
always been admitted they might do, and then
will stand before our people, in bold relief, the
solemn fact that we are just in the midst of our
troubles Columbus Crisis.
Year: 1863

The FINANCIAL Buperr.-The Departmental
estimates are all before Secretary Chase. save
that Of the War Office. When this comes in. his
report will be finished. 1t is understood that the
budget will foot up twelve hundred millions.
The wants of the navy for the coming year are
said to be estimated at over one hundred mil
lions Last year, they were sixty eight millions.
Year: 1863

A CHILD is never happy from having
his own way. Decide for him, and he
has but one thing to do; put him to
please himself, he is troubled with every
thing, and satisfied with nothing.
Year: 1863

MICHIGAN TAR.-It is stated that the
Norwegians living at Grand Traverse in
tend to turn their attention during the
present season to the manufacture of tar.
A sample of fifteen barrels has been sent
TO Chicago. 1t proved to be prime ar
ticle and readily sold for 81 per gallon.
Who can say that Michigan does not pos
sess many mine Of wealth within her.
self.
Year: 1863

A PAINFUL ScENE.-At the general
hospital a few days ago, soldier from
Pennsylvania, who was severely wounded
SO much so as to be beyond recovery
was lying on the floor. When the exam.
ining Surgeon, DIR. Dexter, came along
and looked at the condition of the suffer
er, expressing his hopeless belief as to tho
recovery Of the man to his assistant, he
raised his head and said: "Doctor, will
recover; is there any hope for me3--for
if not, ! want you to kill me-" The Sur
geon tried to calm him, and he appeared
to drop into a doze. In few minutes
he took a revolver from his pocket, placed
it resting against his temple, and fired /;
being so feeble he could not hold it firm
ly, and the ball glanced over the skin
without starting blood but the discharge
blackened his face. The pistol was i'm
mediately taken from him, when he said {:
" | do not want to linger in pain without
hope" In half an hour he was dead.
Year: 1863

SINGULAR DEATH.-A mother Of an
infant which was found dead in bed in
New York recently stated before the Cor
oner that she saw cat on the child's bed
Just before its death, with its nose to the
babes's mouth. The jury gave it as their
verdict that the babe had come to its
death by being "overaid by cat, and
its breath drawn by that animal"
Year: 1863

A LAUGHABLE incident is related Of a
dandy who was seated on the balcony of
a Saratoga hotel, among large company.
He was exquisitely dressed, and very
highly perfumed with musk, which is We
ry disagrceable to some persons. A plain
farmer, happening to pass near him, COM
menced with snufTing suspiciously, and,
looking around for the musky effluvia, he
soon smelt out The dandy, and thus ad-
dressed him: ~ say, mister can tell
you what'll take that smell out of yer
clothes. Just bury 'em under ground for
a week. My uncle run agin a skunk
once, and y But before the sentence
was finished the euraged dandy sped from
the crowd to escape the shouts of laugh
ter, while the innocent farmer, who only
meant to do him kindness, was wonder
ing what caused his sudden departure.
Year: 1863

TIE RIGHT To SPEAK.


1t is the ancient and undoubted preroga-
tive Of this people to canvass public meas
ures and the merits ofpnblic men. it is
"home bred right fresde privilege -
1t hath ever been enjoyed in every house,
cottage and cabin in the nation. It is not
to be drawn in controversy. 1t is as un>
doubted as the right Of breathing the free
air or walking Oh the earth. Belonging
to private life as a right, it belongs to pub
lie life as daty, and it is the last duty
which those whose representative | am
shall find me to abandon. Aiming at all
times to he courteous and temperate ii its
use, except when the ri ght itself is ques-
toned, shall place myself on the ex-
tre,ne boundary OF my right, and bid def
ance to any arm that would move me from
ny ground.


This constitutional privilege shall de
fend and exercise within this house, and
in all places; in time of peace and at all
times Living shall assert; and should
| leave no other Inheritance to my child
ren, by the blessing Of God will leave
them the Inheritance Of free principles, and
the example Of a manly, independent and
constitutional defense of them. ..t
Year: 1863

quarters or grand division Is fixed at eight It's supply
train win be ordered by the Chief Quartermaster.


due TO state here that tho quartermasters duty
with this army have generally performed their duties
nobly, and that tie department to-day all times Is
prepared for movement II is also fair state that no
9uartermaster win be excused whose command Is not
well supplied with clothing forage and ranspor
taan and whose economical and proper OF all public
property is not approved The government which he
serves has under all vcisstudes without parallel 10
history generously supplied the necessary wants Of
this brave; glorious and immortal Army the Potomac"


RUFUS INGALLS,,


Chief Quartermaster, Army Of the Potomac
Year: 1863

The question as to whether barn
yard manure should be applied in a
fresh or decomposed state has long
been discussed by farmers. A cor
respondent of the Mark-Lane Ex-
press, in giving a summary of Lie
big's laws of culture, throws some
light on the subject in the following
remarks:


Manure acts in two ways-by the
principles it contains which serve
for the nourishment of plants, and
by It's chemical and physical action.


In clay the temperature is raised
by the fermentation OF dung; clay is
rich in soluble principles serving for
the nourishment of plants; for these
reasons the use of unfermented dung
is advisable.


Fresh dung is not so suitable to
sand, which contains b ut very lit
tie quantities of the substances to be
decomposed, and in which the rails
ing OF the temperature is not neces-
sary. In sand, therefore, decompo-
sed dung suits better and lasts
longer time in it.


If we leave the dung spread upon
a clay soil, the only Inconvenience
which results is that it does not
warm the land. Upon a finty or
sandy soil there is some risk that a
part of the fertilizing principles may
be carried down by the water into
the subsoil.
Year: 1863

A correspondent of the Country
Gentleman says: Having many
Bull or Michigan thistles in the cor
ners and around the fences of my
farm, l tried the remedy, which eff:
fected an immediate cure. Seeing
it destroyed thistles so well, l tried
iton yellow dock, mullen, wild car.
rot, ox-eye daisy, &C., &c, with
the same effect as on the thistles.-
Early in the spring as soon as the
weeds had made their appearance
nicely, l took dish of salt and went
round. the farm and gave all dose.
| put about a spoonful or more on
each plant, and put it as nearly as
possible in the center of the plant.


The next day l went around to
see what the result was, and found
them all the same as though hot
water had been turned on them
Let salt remain as dear as at the
present time, l think it an easy,
cheap, and sure way to destroy any
kind of weeds. You need not be a
fraid the salt will not do the work,
for l never knew it to fail on one
plant.
Year: 1863

Farmers do not generally realize


the fact, that good clean tillage is


about equal to an application Of ma


nure to lands slovenly cultivated


We all know how much larger crops


we realize in the garden than upon


the farm, Just from the superior at


tention paid to it in cleaning the


ground of all noxious Vegetation, and
frequently hoeing and otherwise
stirring the soil. The Genesee Far
mer makes seme useful remarks on
this subject, as follows:


"We must, more than ever before,
realize the fact that 'tillage is man
ure'-that the literal meaning of the
word manure (Dgonus, hand, and ouU-
reT, to work. is hand-labor. To ma
nure the land is to hoe, to dig, to
stir the soil, to expose it to the at
mosphere, to plow, to harrow, to
cultivate. The ancient Romans
made Stercutius a god because he
discovered that the droppings of
animals had the same effect in en-
riching the soil as to hoe it. We
can leave the modern method of ma
nuring land to our Western farmers,
while we go back to the original
method of stirring the soil. Mr..
Lawes has raised a good crop of
wheat every season for over twenty
years on the same land, by simply
keeping it thoroughly clean by two
plowings in the fall and by hoeing
the wheat in Spring by hand. The
Rev. S. Smith of Lois W Weedon, has
for years raised successive crops of
wheat by a process of trenching the
land with fork and hand-hoeing.-
We do not advocate this system, but
the principle is applicable to our
case. We can manure our land By
better tillage."
Year: 1863

Near Toulor, France, lately, a warder o.
! the burg named DuraDd, met with his death
in an extraordinary manner. He was amusing
himself, whilst off duty, with fishing in the
dock from a narrow floating raft, when, hav-
ing caught mulIet, and not knowing where
to put it to prevent its escaping into the wa
ter, he conceived the idea of holding it be-
tween his teeth, while he baited his hook
The fish struggling in the convulsions of
death, ended by fest slipping his head into the
mouth of the man, and then down his throat
completely filling up the cavity. The man
rushed out of the dock for medicul aid, but
soon dropped dead from suffocation.


The Enquirer says Brough is no Democrat
In the progress of events it becomes necessary
to call for new definition of Democracy
What constitutes a Democrat? Brough says
his Democracy teaches him to be loyal to his
country. What does the Enquirar's Democ
racy teach? Let us have the new definition.
.ECin. Gaz.
Year: 1863

The EMANCIPATION FEELING IN TENNESSEE
"A large STAKEHOLDER in Middle Tennessee, a
man of fine intelligence, informed US, not long
ago, that he knew more than fifty large plant
ers and slave-owners in his county who were
earnest emancipationists and free labor men.
He assured US that the cause of anti-slavery
and free-labor was gaining ground every day
in this region. Intelligent and honest men
who were never infected in the slightest de-
gree with abolitionism, are fast becoming con-
vinced that the system of African slavery has
lived its day in Tennessee, and that its pres
ence hencelorward can only be an intolerable
and uncomfortable curse. We firmly believe
that in very short time the caues of free Ia
Dor will advance as fast here as it is now
doing in Missouri.-[From the Nashville
Union
Year: 1863

CLEAN THE SIDEWALKS. Captain Nelson an
n0nncea his intention to commence snIts against
NIL parties in the South Division who do NOT meet
the requirements Of the ordinance relative to clear
Ing the sidewalks of snow by nine o'clock in the
morning.
Year: 1863

A MODEL OF CoNsIsTENCY,-Ou worthy Gov
ernor is determined to be consistent with himself
let what will happen. He evidently belongs to
that order of composite material which may be
called regularly irregular, of which fact he has
just given us another illustration in his action
with regard to the bill for the transfer of money
from the swamp Land Fund. Last year there
were two bills, exactly the same, and for the
same purpose transferring portions of the Swamp
Land Fund TO the General Fund. The first he
signed, the second he vetoed and now, the
third he neither signs nor vetoes, but suffers it to
become law by default. If there is a new method
which he can find to govern bis action on the
fourth bill of the kind that may yet be passed,
he will undoubtedly follow it. as he seems deter
mined to be original in something. The ten days
Limitation having expired since the bill to take
money from the Swamp Land Fund to pay Legis-
lative expenses was sent to the Governor, IL
became law at noon on Friday last, January
| 30th.
Year: 1863

IT IS FAcT-There is much truth in the as
sertion of the New York Journal of Commerce
that many men make a serious mistake in sup
posing that when general trade is light it is less
profitable to advertise than during prevalent
rush of business. The experience which seems
to confirm such an opinion, has come from the
attempts to limit the advertising by the trade
When business falls off, those who take that op,
portunity to increase their advertising always
secure more than an ordinary share of what mon.
ey is spent by buyers. Buyers are more cautious
in their purchases and are very apt to go to the
stores who attract the most attention by their ad-
vertising while stores where they are afraid
advertising won't pay. are left to suffer the con-
sequent loss through such neglect.
Year: 1863

ANOTHER BnL.--A bill making the Coroner In
the counties of Trinity and Shasta ex-oihcio
Public Administrator has passed the Senate, and
will probably pass the Assembly. The law is to
take effect at the expiration of the term OF the
present incumbents,
Year: 1863

THE GIRLS OF New HAMPsHIRE.-Fourteen
young women of Breastwood, New Hampshire,
went lately to the house of an aged farmer, who
had sent three sons to the war, and husked one
hundred bushels Of corn for him.
Year: 1863

ed that this was torn by Mcfarland in
his attempt to get the pin. The front
part VI 1t was torn, and II he had got an.
other grab il is likely that, he would have
taken the whole of the remainder. Nc
Farland has no sons in the army, as we
stated before, neither did the Copperheads
go to his house that night and call him
out. The result Of The trial was that Nc
Farland aud one other were fined twenty.
five cents each. The information was
elected during the trial that there was
such an organization there as the knights
Of the Golden Circle, and that Thomson
was member. As to the bu,ternut pin
Thomson said he wore it as badge of the
party he belonged to. When told that it
did not represent the Democratic party,
he said there was Democrats in the North
AS we'll as in the South. He did not de
ny It's being rebel emblem.
Year: 1863

No71cE.-Ihe Conductor earnestly requests
that the associate members Of the Musical
Union will deny themselves the pleasure Of
attending the next rehearsal Monday evening,
as the work laid out for that occasion Is Of
such a nature as TO require that the active
members shall he entirely BY themselves.
Year: 1863

The WINTER CoCKsE.-Thc recent cold
weather has added to other sources Of a'nusc-
ncnt that Of driving and racing upon the
river. The ice is firm and in excellent condi-
ton for tue sport which was participated in
By number Of our citizens for the past day OF
two. Crowds Of spectators were gathered
upon the different bridges, and considerable
Interest manifested ht the trial Of the speed,
Of the fast stock of Chicago.
Year: 1863




The public should receive the staemcnt Of the radical
papers, that the Court Martial who tried Major General
fiez John Porter were unanimous for his conviction for
what II 10 worth-for no more


Under the sixty.nipth Article or War any member OF
Court Martial, Including the Judge Advocate, who d.
vuges tho vote OF member upon Of the charges
on which an accused may have been tried even
the Of the United States commits papable and
fragrant perjury and 10 punishable for that crime of
course. so II Is impossible that any but the Court
and Judge Advocate Holt can know how the individual
members OF the Court voted in this as bare ma
jorty Of enc voted for conviction the record presented
70 the President simply saes that the Court found him
guilty, without stating by what vote ----


In military circles here II believed that there but
bafe majority Of vote for his conviction either
charge.
Year: 1863

A copy Of the New York Times comes
to us printed on Belgian paper, purchased
in Europe at seven and half cents, when
an article Of like quality was held by the
paper monopo1ists in New York at twenty
four cents per pound. The importation
made By the Times was in self defense, and
its example will be generally initiated by
the journals Of large circulation, if the
attempt Of the monopolists to still further
put up prices is persisted in. We congrat
ulate the Times on the SUCCESS Of its cxper
iment.
Year: 1863

The following communication has been asnl
us for publication by a very respectable and
thruthful citizen of this State, who says he car
uubstsntiate what is below related on the besl
authority. In the name of Him before whom
all must be judged, what 10 human society com
ing to 10 this land of Blbles1 What preacher
will ALLOW Us to cit one hour in the sanctuary
erected for the worship Of the most High, ant
teach men only repentance and new life2-
Such men are needed at this time.-CIcisoilL
Democrat. '