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Year: 1863

Hogan unfortunate hog which had sue
cessfuliy run the blockade of the slaughter.
houses this season, was caught while attempt
ing to cross the railway at Jefferson street,
this morning while the cars we're passing, and
was chawed into soap meat on short notice.
The cars did not seem to be the least affected
BY the catastrophe
Year: 1863

EDiTSR EMPRR Can you, or any other
man, give any information as to why the
lighting of street lights is 50 badly managed
Take for instarce, Sunday night, the gas was
not lighted until some time after dark Mon
day night being a dark and rainy night, not a
street light was burning the whole length OF
Main or Ludlow streets could give quite
a number OF instances that they were not
lighted till some time after dark, and in some
cases not at all EWho is to blame for this neg.
lect and mismanagementp Is there mot
contract existing between the City of Dayton
and the Dayton Gas Light aud Coke Compa
ny for lighting streets in this CityY If have
been correctly informed there is; and that
there is a time table accompanying il show
ing when, and at what time, said street burn
ers are TO be lighted. tu 5a.


Why does not the City Council take this
matter in hand, and require the said Gas
Company to strictly live up to the existing
Contract so as TO give the tax payers of the
same and citizens in general the benefit
thereof MoRE LIoHT
Year: 1863

Good as New.-In these times of high
taxes, and general high prices, It is necessary
to economize. And this reminds us that you
can have pair of old boots made as good as
new at 79 Jefferson street We have seen
several pairs Of old boots made to look near
ly as genteel as new, at No. 10. Then the
best of every description of feet-wear is put
up there promptly, at the lowest prices.
Year: 1863

The annual interest On the debt is 81 81
per head, exceeding that of the British debt,
and the sum Of the debt equals the whole
assessed personal property in the State, and
the increase per DAY for New York debt is
sJ00,UO0! The proportion for the city is as
follows:
Year: 1863

The debt is now nearly equal to the British
debt, aud increases at tue rate Of more than
two million per day, without prospect of al
end The following are the official state
ments of the public debt:
Year: 1863

Thus the amount Of interest already paid
by the Treasury is twenty-five per cant, and
the rate will increase in proportion to the
extension Of the paper money. Ii the paper
money is ever paid at all it must be by fund
ing it, and that cannot be done at a rate less
than six per cent. II we assume that it may
be done at that rate, the annual charge with
the sinking fund will he sevenfy-seven mil-
lions Of dollars per annum. This debt has
been contracted 10y twenty States, which
will be required to pay it, since, as the war
is declared to be one Of extermination, the
'sex.erminaied States will not be able to
pay. Their means OF paying in any event is
crushed in proportion to the devastation
committed. The twenty millions Of North
ern people must therefore pay the debt; and
it compares with the British and French
debt aS follows:
Year: 1863

Recent intelligence from the Southern States
indicates that the food question has become the
question Of paramount Importance throughout
the whole South. Intercepted letters dwell
painfully on the scarcity of food-dcserters
tell Of 1.-THE Southern papers agitate the ne
cessity of measures to prevent general starva-
ton, and denounce the issue of provisions to
" Yankee prisoners" when the Southern people
are themselves in want; and more than all this,
the Confederate Congress, President and gen.
erals, and the Governors Of rebel States though
they have pondered the question deeply, can
not see their way clearly through this great
trouble. In April last the rebel government
foresaw the scarcity Of food that must come
with this winter, and conferred by an agent,
with the Governors of several States, and the
only conclusion they arrived at was that the
case looked hopeless, and that if it was not
mended both the people and army must starve
next winter Braxton Bragg proposed that
the government should prohibit the cultivation
of cotton and tobacco, compel the cultivation
by every planter of certain proportion Of his
land, and take possession Of all the remainder
of the land, and have it cultivated by the ne.
groes. Arbitrary measures were considered
the only feasible ones. Georgia was shown to
be very nearly exhausted Of bacon
and live stock, and yet to be in a
better condition in that respect than any
| other Southern State. There is no meat in
Richmond, and the Southern government can
not feed the prisoners it holds. All this is a
good commentary on the letters Of the London
| Times correspondent, which show so clearly to
the eyes of Europe that the Southern govern
ment has q supply of cereals for two years in
advance.


There are now, therefore, two ways by which
our government can end the war. We can
starve the rebellion out, or finish it by the
more rapid and humane process of battle.
Lately the government has adopted the use O,
light draught vessels in the blockade, and these
have captured Eve blockade runners at viii
mington within very short period. Let this
plan be carried out vigorously at that port, and
communication with Nassau and Halifax IA
done for. Let the governmen, 20 on and oc.
cupy the line Of the Rio Grande, as il has be.
gun to do, and great source of supply will be
cut off And, then, with sufficient vigilance in
General Burnside's command, the Southerners.
unable to produce food in their own territory.
will be completely issolated from all countries
that do produce IL.


But the other method will be the better
of the two. Reinforce Grant, Meade Burn
side, Banks and Gilmore TO the utmost
possible extent, and leave those glorious
soldiers to do the rest. Distressed already
to the last point Of endurance, and pre-.
pared to yield on any terms, or no terms a. all,
the Southern people cannot hold IN against
another defeat Let Grant, then, 60 forward in
Georgia, and Meade in Virginia, and we shall
have the rebellion put'down in way far more
in consonance with the spirit and wishes Of our
people than the process By starvation ~osli bs
Year: 1863

Governor of three States" apparently oblvious
of the fact that. except at two small points in
Florida, we do not hold one square foot Of the
mainland in any Of the three States mentioned.
The General too, was educated at West Point;
and all know that we need educated officers.
Why IL his martial ardor, therefore not allowed
free play! Why s he selected for duties more
properly to be discharged by some ono brought
up as the superintendent Of an English work
house or chief janitor Of an asylum for the &C.
formation Of juvenile offenderss General
officer, aud his talents should be used
in their proper sphere. Father French has
long virtually welded nearly the whole civil
power Of the department and IL any one is to
be civil Governor we submit to his EXccllency
the President that it should be Father French.
The Lord has wonderfully prospered his
worldly affairs since his connection with the
sea islands. Let him put on the apron as
Archbishop Of the Department of the South
and let him give absolution as Grand Hierarch
to all the land and cotton spectators within
the limits of General Gillmore's command.
Brgadier General Saxton will thus be placed
at liberty to unsheath his maiden sword, no
longer in the magnificent and unmolested re-
tirement Of Port Royal Island, but flashing
destruction In the van Of the old Tenth army
corps, as it swoops with bloody plumes over
the line of earthworks stretching from Fort
Johnson to Secessionville, on James Island.


MALrnEATMENT OF CHILDREN IN PuBLIO
SCHooIS.-We have been inundated with COM
munications approving Of the observations
drawn from us by the recent fatal occurrence
in the Twenty-fourth ward public school. One
from physician goes the extreme length Of
condemning our whole public school system as
injurious to the healthy development of chill
dren. We do not desire. In the remarks we have
felt called upon to make to be understood
as implying 80 sweeping censure. What we
condemned was the putting to study and
Furnishing infant children. Abroad there are
infant schools; but they are nero nurseries,
where parents who are occupied in their daily
avocatons can place their children in safety
during their absence from home. They are
neither set down to tasks beyond their capacity
nor punished for their non-performancc. If
children of this tender age are received at our
public schools they should be kept apart and
allowed to exert or amuse themselves accord
ing to their inclination. Nothing can excuse
the hardheartedness of teacher who could
treat baby as this poor little Louisa Schneider
was treated. We hope that we shall never
again hear of such an occurrence 1t would
be fatal to the character Of our public school
systom
Year: 1863

The Reese River Reveille, is to be publish
ed three times week. and will give dis,
patches direct from the East, and will charge
fifty instead Of twenty-five cents per week
subscription.
Year: 1863

Experiments that have recently been made
in France, show that horse can live seven
teen days without food or drink, and twenty
five days upon water alone. If he consumes
solid food without drinking, he can live only
five DAYS. A horse that had been deprived
of water for three days, drank eleven gallons
in three minutes.
Year: 1863

ALL FOR LoyR.-A young servant girl in
Sonth Boston became desperately enamored OF
youth Of nineteen, q SON of the family in
she lived. When the intimacy was discovered
the boy was sent away, and the girl given an
order Of dismissal from the house She Went
up stairs TO her room, and taking large dose
OF arsenic, died the same day, in spite Of all ef
forts To save her.
Year: 1863




This esteemed gentleman is probably
on his way to bis Virginia home. In a
situation Of very peculiar delicacY and
difficulty at the English Capital, where
he had long felt himself in a false posi-
ton, he has borne himself with the un-
varying dignity of gentleman, and the
ability of an accomplished statesman.
That he has been subjected to the cutting
insolence of Earl Russell, (his inferior in
every respeot,) and he is now lain in
wait for the Yankee ships-of- war with q
malignant animosty, in order that our
enemies may wreak dastArdly venge-
anoe on one whom they term the "arch-
traitor,"-all this will but heighten the
regard and esteem with which his coun-
trymen regard Lin.


His claims upon the Confederate Gov
ernment and people are now very high.
To his experience of affairs, acquired in
a long and spotless public life, is now
added q thorough acquaintance with the
springs and movement Of European poll
itics. There is no man at present in the
Confederacy to whom the honor and in
terest of the country could be so fitly
and safely confided in the negotiations
which must soon take place on the ac-
Acknowledgement of our independent SOW
ereignty, and when treaties must be con-
cluded with the other nations of the
earth. There is no office in the gift of
the President or of the people too high
for his merits; and though he is Vir-
ginian, that circumstance can scarcely
operate against his claims in the mind Of
citizens of other States, seeing that his
services, 1--WE may almost say his martyr
dom,) and his exalted character ate 30
generally acknowledged throughout the
land,
Year: 1863

The Richmond Dispatch, of the 20tb,
gives an account of an Irish wake and
the arrest of one of the guests at the
house of death, who, when the officer ar
rived, chad already whipped tho widow
of the deceased, over whose remains tho
party was sitting, and was just in the
act Of throwing another woman out Of the
door"
Year: 1863

A woman in Washington went to sleep
on Saturday wrapped up in tent cloth,
there being q dead body near her simi-
lArly wrapped up. The undertaker's
men took her up by mistake, and would
have buried her il she had not entered
An emphatic protest against il.
Year: 1863

From the Richmond Examiner, Oct. a.


Among the objects of interest one sees
in the streets of this city at present are
some fifty or sixty splendidly- dressed
mulatoes, late ushors and attaches of
gambling houses, who have accumulated
small fortunes by their services, and are
now set adrift by force of the law against
faro banks and other temples of fortune
and depravity These hifalutin swells
pay but little regard TO the regulations of
outdoor etiquette, and even out do white
scoundrels in impudence and the occupa-
tion of the sidewalks, wherever they may
happen to be loafng. There are now
thousands of honest faithful slaves at
work on various public works, and it
would be but just, as well as expedient
and proper, to give these fellows little
wholesome exercise of the same sort.
Year: 1863

We make the following extract frop, letter from
an intelligent printer soldier, belonging to the 18th
N. 9. troops, dated Iversons Brigade, near Guinea
Station, April IA, 1868:


"There is no news of importance in. this section,
but anticipate stirring times before the lapse Of
many days. 1t is reported that fighting Joe
Hooker has sent off 10000 of his army IN the direc
ton of Culpepper but think it is ruse of his to
induce General Lee to weaken our army here, and
thus give the Yankees an opportunity of crossing
over. 1t certain fact that at daylight Sunday
morning not a Yankee picket was to be seen on the
river opposite that portion of it guarded by this
division, which is ominous of some movement
Come when they may, they willmeet with warmer
reception than on any previous occasion, for our
troops remember the various victories We have
gained during the past year. and confident that
if we persist and defeat them yet little while
longer that independence will be ours. Never be.


is n S e meet sss he he
Wellarmed, well clad, and wellfed, the men are
getting tired of inactivity and as fine weather is on
US, they are anxious to 60 in the field and do what
is to do The Yankee troops say they are heartily
tired of the war; and say that if they had chance
they would quit the field for home. Our men send
over tobacco on piece of plank which the Yankees
receive as pay for sugar and coffee. The recent
Confederate victory at Charleston has proved almost
COHCiuSNcIy w GtI6S Stc lOHS pcdCc Will Oc udUO,
and all who are spared return to their homes. What


happy time it will be to those whose friends return
safe and sound; but then, on the other hand, will it
not be mournful sight to those who have lost dear
friends to see their places vacant when the conpa-
nies return home in triumph?


Two years will have elapsed on the 18th instant
since this company was called into the field. The
first Twelve months we were stationed at Norfolk
At the evacuation Of that place in May last our
regiment sent to Rapidan Station, on the Orange
aud Alexandria Rsroad. We then belonged te the
brigade of Brig Gen. Malone, but were temporarily
attached to that of Gen. L. OBJ. Branch, and were
in the fight near Hanover Court House, under bis
command: We were then, taken to Richmond and
placed in the brigade of Gen S. Garland, than whom
i better man never lived. He led US on to victory
at Coal. Harbor, Malvern Hill, and at Boonsboro
Gap where, in advance of his brigade, cheering
them on, he received his death wound. This brig
ade misses him as much as child misses his parent
He was one Of natures own nobleuen. After his
death we were engaged at South Mountain, Sharps.
burg, and fredericksburg, and are now ready to
meet tie. Yankee horde again wherever they may
be, as we have confidence in our commander, Gen.
Alfred IvcrSon."
Year: 1863

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continue to receive complaints from various
gents that the Standard fails to. reach some to
whom it is sent. We assure our subscribers that
! our pape, is carefully packed up and punctually
mailed, and if packages numbers are missing, the
hult is not ours. We fear that some whose duty
It IS to see that our papers are duly conveyed and
delivered, are not doing our subscribers and our
selves justice Postmasters who entertain preju-
diees against the Standard, should remember that
they are bound BY solemn oath to deal BY US as
they DO by Others We trust there are few, if any,
Who permit their prejudices their opposition to
us to influence them to withhold our paper from
our subscribezs.r- -0--. ~...1
J Our losses by mail have recently been considera-
: sbls We ara satisfied there are rogues somewhere
thieS.sta whe spsn Ieeters and ps,rlain uonsy.
We charge no one with it, because we have no clue
to the criminal or criminals all we know is, that
We receive letters almost every day, informing US
that money had been previously mailed to Us which
had never been received. We do not believe there
is any dishonesty in the Raleigh postoace; but we
are sure there is dishonesty somewhere, for moneys
mailed to our address have failed, in number of
instances to reach u.s. These losses are so serious,
and the cost Of publishing paper so great at this
time, that we are Compelled to give notice that after
the first day Of next month"; all moneys mailed for
the Stadard nil be at the risk Of the persoas send
ing it. This is the rule Of many of tie newspaper
establishments of the country and, under the cir
clmstances, it is a just rule The Editor cannot
be justly expected to send the paper until or unless
he is paid for it, and he is not paid for it. if the
money is stolen on its way to him.. Besides, the
loss will be slight to persons sendin, money and
losing whereas, when the loss of all which is sent
and fails to be received falls on the Editor as has
been recently falling us, it amounts to serious
dimunitiOn- of profits
Year: 1863

- On the 22d instant the door was closed on fnnda-
bic Confederate notes At eight per cent; but our
readers should bear in'mind that the same class Of
notes will be fnndable until the 1st of August in
lion and half we're funded at this depository.


We advise the people to fund at seven per cent,
as these notes ma, depreeiate in value. The State
Of Virginia has virtually repudiated former issues
by providing that only The issues after the first Of
this month shall be received for taxes in that State.
Year: 1863

We are glad to see that the Congress his pro-
hibited the whipping Of soldiers in the army. We
make the following extract from recent general
order by Adjutant General Cooper:


"The following acts having been duly approved
by the President, published for the Information
of all concerned.


AN act to prohibit the punishment of soldiers
by whipping" .


The Congress Of the Confederate statlbo of America
do enact that from and after the pslsage Of this
act it shall not be lawful for any eoft martial Or
military court to cause any soldier ia the service Of
the Confederate States to be punished BY whipping
or the nfcton of stripes upon his pBfson, and that
all laws and customs coatraveninf the provisions
OF this act be, and the same are hereby repealed


Sec. .. That Article 20 of tho Articles of War
be SO amended as to read as follows: All officers
and soldiers who have received psy or have been
duly enlisted in the service of the Confederate States
and shall be convicted of having deserted the same
shall suffer death confinement in Penitentiary,
with or without hard labor, fof q period not less
than one year, or more than five, or such other
punishment not Inconsistent with the provisions of
this act as the court martial Or military court may
determine. Approved April 49, 1888"
Year: 1863

AN APPOINTMENT NOT FIT TO HAVE BEEN Made
We observe, in the Richmond Enquirer, that the
Secretary of War has appointed MIR. Henry e. Bur-
gwyn on the part Of the Confederate States as
commissioner to impress property in this State.


We are at a loss to know on what ground this
appointment was made, except on that of partizan
politics. Mr.. Burgwyn is not remarkably gifted in
any respect and he is certainly deficient in judgment
and common sense. He has but little if any SYM
pathy with the great body of our people; and his
manners are not such if he were to condescend
to make the effort to render him popular, or his
ap, p,.ointment an acceptable one. He has but little
respect for the mass of the people, or for popular
rights The only recommendation which he could
have had for the place the fact that he was an
original secessionist and has joined in all the uh-
founded and injurious imputations which have been
cast by the Destructives generally on the Conser-
vatives ofthis State. He was conspicuous, in No.
venber, 1850. when the Legislature was assem-.
bling, in button holing members and endeavoring
to induce them to make the plunge of disunion.-
From that day to this he has talked, and we be-
lieve has sported for time nominal commission
but we have never heard of his getting within even
Whitworth range of the Yankees.


In entering our objections to this appointment
we are satisfied We speak for vast majority Of our
peela If the appointment had been submitted to
the people at the polls, Mr. Bargwyn would not
have received five thousand votes. We learn that
other gentlemen applied for the place. or were re-
commended by their friends, who were well quail
fled for it and whose appointment would have given
general satisfaction, aud one of them, we are in-
formed, had the endorsement Of the entire delega-
ton in Congress from this State but the appoint
ing power paid no attention to these recommends
tdhs or the claims Of Others and appointed Mr. Bur.
swyh. 80
Year: 1863

GEN, BANKS CHURCH ORDER.


The following is General Banks's order in
relation to the closing Of churches in New
Orleans, already noticed in the Gazette


Applications for the suspension of the or
der closing certain churches in the city Of
New Orleans, have been presented to the Mill
tary Governor Of the State, end by him refer
red to the Major General commanding.


An omission in the church service, assumed
to have been made by direction Of the church
government, is understood to have been the
basis Of this order. Where the head Of the
State is also head Of the Church, an omission
like that referred to would be in contrayention
Of political authority; but the government does
not here assume that power, and the case pre-
sented does not seem to require continued IN
tervention Of military authority. The order
IS therefore, Professionally rescinded, and the
churches will be opened as heretofore on and
after Christmas day. This decision is based
upon the negative character OF the offence
charged.


The commanding general desires 1t to be un-
derstood, however, that clergymen are subject
to the restrictions imposed upon all other men.
They well know the extent Of their privileges.
No appeal TO the passions Or prejadices Of the
people, Or to excite hostility to the Govern
ment, whether in the form Of prayer exhorta
ton, counsel. or sermon. nor any offensive de
monstration: whether open or covert, can be,
allowed.
Year: 1863

Eight years ago young man came to this
town and commenced work as a laborer in
the employ OF the Salisbury Mills. He was
stranger and formed few acquaintances, and
after few month labor left town, leaving GER
tain debts unpaid, that in his limited circum-
stances ne could not discharge. He however
frankly told his creditors that they should be
paid, but this assurance was not Considered of
much value, until four years ago, when a letter


was received by one of them, gave strong


hopes that his account with the individual
might be properly balanced. Last week the
young man returned, and to the surprise of
several parties called upon them and remarked
that he was ready to settle his accounts with


them, wuich he did in the most generous man
ner. To one of the men TO whom he was
Indebted for clothing to the amount of $50, he
gave 500; to another whose account was S25
he gave 500; to poor but worthy woman
with whom he had boardedhe presented 5000
while Others who had befriended him shared a
generous reward. Such lavish expendi-
ture OF means from one who but few years