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Year: 1864

We are now reaping the bitter fruits of
"Peaceable secession" in forcing from their
once happy and peaceful homes into th
army all from eighteen to forty-fve years Of
age, to be driven to the slaughter like oxen
to the shambles. Aud to 6ll up the thinned
ranks the present Congress has now before


it the monstrous proposition to conscript
all from sixteen to tifty.6ve years of age,
and make them subject to military law,
which the Richmond Examiner boldly de-
nounces as nothing less then an attempt to
make Mr.. Davis Dictator.


Let US examine and see what kind Of q
body it is that is imposing such burdens on
the people of North Carolina.


We have Congress, the legislation Of
which is controlled by members from Ken-
lucky, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas,
Louisiana and other places, who impose
odious and oppressive laws upon Us which
can no more bs enforced on the people of
the states which they profess to represent
than upon the people of New York or New
England The chief cause Of the revolu-
tiouary war which sundered the connection
of the colonies from the mother country
was that the English Parliament imposed
oppressive laws on the colonies which did
not affect the people of England themselves ,
No Conscript law can be enforced upon the
people of Kentucky, Tennessee Missouri,
Arkansas, louisiana nor on large portion
Of Virginia, Florida, Mississippi or Texas:
No tax law, nor tithing, or impressment
law can be enforced on them, while those
irresponsible members may force from their
homes every person in North Carolina able
to bear arms, regardless of age or condition
and place them in the army, as is now urg-
ed by them in Congress, and leave the help
less women and children to starve. They
may put us under military despotism, and
place over US Dictator and impose takes
asd burdens on US which are insupportable,
and there is no redress, unless North Caro-
lima will protect her children.


i Is il not an outrage on every principle of
free government for men of desperate for
tunes protesting to set represent other
States on whose soil dare not set their foot,
to make and enforce odious and oppressive
laws on our people. Are we prepared to
submit to this2 Ifnot, then let every man
arouse himself before it is too late, and de-
nounce these attsmps to betray our liberties
and place US under militrry dsspotism.-.
Let every man that can speak or write de
nounce these outrages on civil liberty until
their denunciations are heard and needed
in Congress. 7----


But if Congress, in spirit Of desperation
should act the tyrant, and impose such
crushing burdens on the people of North
Carolina as are insupportabie, then they
should demand Of the Governor that he
forthwith convene the Legislature in order
to call astate Convention of tho sovereign
people to take into consideration what is
best to be done to rslievs our people from
the grievous burdens imposed upon them
If the Independence Of the Confsderscy
Year: 1864

80 ~ NEWBERE, n. u, Jan. 10.


The Wholesale Conscription law is Great
ing great CONSERVATION and excitement in
the western portion of North Carolina,
where preparations are beng made to re-
sist it. Public meetings are being held
some of which openly repudiate the South
ern Confederacy and favor return to the
Union. sagA sM


The Raleigh Standard, "the power be-
hind the throne" in commenting upon a
speech delivered 10 the Rebel Senate by Mr..
Brown, says:


Wetell Mr.. Brown, and those who think
with him, once for ell, that if the desperate
revolutionary measures which he advocates
shall be attempted to be carried out-if the
civil law is to be trarnpled under foot by the
suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, and
every ablebodied man placed in the army
from sixteen to sixty-fve-if no man is to
have hearing before State Judge, as to
the right of the enrolling officer to seize
him, and if the rights of the States are to
be ignored and swept away by the mere
creature of the State, the common govern
ment, the people of North Carolina will
vindicate their liberties and privileges
They will not submit to the destruction OF
their rights, personal and civil, in this or
any other war. III .@


We say what We know to be so. A vast
majority of our people are restless and ex-
cited on account Of the threatened en-
croachments upon their liberties by the
Congress at Richmond; and We most re
spectfully and earnestly warn the members
Of that body not to kindle flame which no
effort can extinguish. Pass these measures;
suspend the habeas corpus in order to 81
lence our courts and force our whole popu-
lation into the army; break faith with the
principals of substitutes; repudiate the cur
rency Of the country; levy tax on specie
to pay the interest Of the funded debit con


tinue in full operation the tithing and i'm
prsssment laws at the same time. Do these
things, Mr. Brown, and the people of North
Carolina will rise in their majority and as
sert their sovereignty. There is no power
to prevent thcm from doing this; and we
owe to the official character who shall at
tempt to turn the arms of Confederate SOL
diers against the people of this Statel North
Carolina will not be the slave of either the
Congress at Richmond or Washington
She is this day as she has been from the
first, the keystone of the Confederate arch
If that stone should fall the arch will tum :
BILE.
Year: 1864

reflect that sound mind and body the most neces-
sary requisites to promote connubia happiness. In
deed without these the journey through Life becomes
yiew: the mind becomes k6adowed with despair and


ed with the melancholy rejection that the happiness
of another becomes blighted with our own,
Year: 1864

"Carleton in one of his le tiers 10 The
Journal discourses as follows of comfor,
bags:


1t is amusing and interesting to see the
soldiers overhaul the contents of the bags.
They examine each article and pronounce
upon its utility. The things most priced are
needles, black thread, stocking yarn, small
pocket handkerchief, and small towels
Pieces of muslin henmed are as good as
any thing else for hsndkerchiefs. Envel-
opes, with postage stamps on them, little pa
pers of tea, lark spur seed, and fine comb,
are great comforts. In one of the bags Civ
en- out to-day was the following letter from
the donor, which is so simple and direct in
its language that am sure it will be read
with interest:


Dear Soldier-I am little girl nine years
old. My name is Laura Ella, and l live
among the Green Mountains. have made
this comfort bag for you, and put some
things in that will be good for you If you
are sick. But hope you will not get sick,
nor get shot or taken prisoner. hope you
will kill all the rebels very soon. will put
in an envelope all ready for you to send to
me, to let me know who gets this bag, and
if the things are what soldiers need.


Yours very truly, LAURA ELLA


A model letter. How much more direct
children are than adults. They say what
they mean in plain, brief, terss Anglo Saxon
words of one syllable. All but thirteen of
the words in the above letter are of one syl-
liable only. hope that the soldier who gets
the letter will not forget the plucky little
Green Mountain girl who goes to the bot
tom of this struggle, by wanting all the reb-
els disposed of very soon. And also hope
that the young ladies and little girls who
have so kindly remembered the soldiers in
the past will not forget them now, but that
they will send out at once several thousand
bags, filled with the little things, which,
though of triaing value, are highly prized by
the soldiers. The Christian Commission will
distribute them. Besides, there is the e!e-
ment Of patriotism not to be forgotten. 1t
keeps the fire burning. Fair ones at home
who keep in remembrance the brave ones In
the field NAV rest assured that tl-s in turn
will not be forgotten in the hour OF trial.
How can soldier, possessed Of spark Of
manliness, be coward or remiss in duty af-
ter reading a patriotic, soul-stirring letter
from young LADY, Every time he opens
his comfort bag to sew on missing button,
or take a stiie en- IN his coat. he ~ill he re-
minded of friends at home who will expect
him TO do his duty.
Year: 1864

We passed an hour in Sing Sing prison
VIC o'nef day, and while regarding with IL


''aole sympathy the wretched inmates,


u'u not help thinking how little of the
actual suffering of imprisonment is snnsrsn,
10 the visitor. The ceaseless toll the eo.r..
'sfe' the solemn silence, the averted look tho
yeiioW-white pallor of the convict: HI, mar.
row cell, with its scanty furniture, his hard
couch, these are indeed visible TO the naked
eye Yet do but think of the demon
thought, which must eat up his heart during
the long and inconceivably dismal hours
which he passes in stiffness and alone -
Think of the tortures he must endure from
Inc ravages of that unpleasant friend but
most mortal enemy, Imagination Oh the
oei'ghtthe depth, the length and the bredth Of
sensltlves captive's sorrow. As we came
away from the gloomy scene, We passed on
q hill, within the domain of the guard, the
prison potters-feld, where lie, undis,inguish-
ed by hesd-stOne or any other mark, the
bones of those who had little else to Law
there when their life of suffering was ended.
There sleeps Monroe Edwards, ;he forger.
whose fate We had marked in successive
years. We first saw him when on his trial;
a handsome, well-dressed, k-whiskered,
seeming seif-possessed person, with the thin
varnlsh OF gentleman and an effrontery that
nothing could daunt. Again We saw him
while holding court with the courtezans
at the door of his cell at the " Tombs," and
the day before he left for Sing Sing, clad in
his gorgeous morning gown, with luxurious
"hiskers, and the manners of pseudo prince
receiving the honors of sham subjects. The
next time We saw him he was clad in the
coarsest felon stripe, his head was sheared to
the skull, his proud whiskers were no more;
dark frown was on his brow, his cheeks
we're pale, and his lips were compressed with
an expression of renorse, rage and despair
Never shall We forget that look, He had
little while before been endeavoring to es-
cape, and had been punished with fifty lashes
with a cat-o-nine-tails-four hundred and
Fifty stripes on his naked back. Once again
we saw him, after the lapse of many months.
lime and suffering had done their work upon
him. His once erect frame was bowed; his
head was quite bald on top, and his scanty
bordering hair had become gray. And thus
he gradually declined to his melancholy
" west of life," until he reached his last hour;
dying in agony of terror, gnawing his ema-
ciated fingers, to convince himself that he
vas still alive; that the appalling change
from life to death had not Yet taken place
And now he sleeps in felonis grave, with no
record Of his name or tate. Is not the way
of the transgressor hard ?-Clark's hnick
ksacks.
Year: 1864

The fol'.wing story was recently told me
by the gentleman who met with the adven'
ture He had pony which was very much
attached to him, and very gentle with him,
but which would not allow any one else to
mount him. He was given to flying at and
biting strangers, quality which turned to
the advantage of his owner. One morning
my friend was on the march through the jun
gle, his coolies and servants following with
his baggage, guns, &C., and he walking with
his pony's bride over his arm. 1t would ap-
pear that bear was just then regaling him
self in the pathway, by an ant-hill which
concealed his interesting figure from the
travellers view until close upon him. Sud-
denly the gentleman felt himself thrown
down, with the bear on his back paving and
scratching him. knowing that there were
four loaded guns in the hands of his atten
dants, he called out to them to fire, and a
| the same time struck backward at the beal
with a stick which lay within his reach. NJ
one fired, however, and be did not know
what to do, when suddenly he heard scrim
mage; next moment the weight was remov
cd from his shoulders, and on looking up b.
saw the bear in full flight and the pony ate
him with his ears set back. He got up ant
shock himself, and saw his guns lying Of
the ground his attendants had all disap
peared. He was about to retrace his foot
steps, then he heard several voices sayin


j. Here We are, and on looking up, he sa,


his people perched high in the trees. The


told him that the pony had flown at the bea


with such fury, that he had taken to hi
> heels in the manner described. Moral


Iaege is some good in biting and kickin


ponj.-Au the Year Round.
Year: 1864

The House Committee on Foreign AT
fairs has instructed its Chairman to report
resolution on the Monroe Doctrine and
maintain the right of Congress to indicate
the policy Of tbe Government concerning
encroachments of foreign powers on this
continent.
Year: 1864

Interpretation, that shall make slavery the
most constitutional of all the facts in our
political organisation. 1t means that the
reopening of the slave trade, and perhaps
the union of all the foreign powers in
aVoWed opposition to our barbarism. 1t
means that the slaveholder shall be per-
mited to travel over the North at pleasure
with his slaves, and look disdainfully upon
US as he passes tauntiug US with total
destitutiOn of the sense Of manhood. 1t
means that we shall never again question
any assumption or deny any demand Of the
slave power. And finally it means that
we shall pay the whole expense of our own
and subjugatiOn.
Year: 1864

He who has plenty of brass can generally
get it off for gold.


A great man is most calm in storms, a
little one most stormy in calms.


Grant is making breaches in the rebel
Notifications for the last legs of the South
ern Confederacy.
Year: 1864

CURE FOR NAILS GROWING INTO THE
FLEsH.-An eminent French physician has
published an account of the efficiency Of the
sesquichoride of iron for curing the growth
of the nails into the flesh, and as it is of i'm
portance to both the soldier and the citizen,
we give the result of an experiment by an
army surgeon. He says: 4 may here re-
mark that ulcers about the nails are occa-
sionally observed among our soldiers, hav-
ing escaped the attention of the medical
boards or being caused by the pressure of
the boot during forced marches Under
these circumstances a prompt and painless
cure may be effected by inserting the dry
sesquichlOride between the nail and the pro-
truding flesh, and powdering the latter with
the same substance. A large bandage should
be applied over all, not impregnated with
the liquid sesquichloride of iron; precau-
ton which may, however, be useful, as the
folds of the band dry rapidly, and preserve
their situation in more exact manner On
the following day the exhuberant flesh is
found to have acquired the hardness of
wood; suppuration speedily ceases, and a
cure follows after two or three applications.
This simple and mild treatment is obviously
far preferable to the numerous surgical pro
cedures hitherto recommended. In the
course of four or five days, Or in week at
the farthest, the original pain ceases, the
swelling subsidies, and the patient is able to
walk. Naught remains but the hardened
protruding flesh, which falls away about
month after the application of the sesqui-
chloride of iron"
Year: 1864


Upon the hill he turned


To take last fond look
OF the valley and the village church,
And the cottage by the brook;
He listened to the sounds,


So familiar to his ear;
And the soldier leaned upon his sword
And brushed away tear.
Beside the cottage porch


A girl was on her knees,
She held aioft snOw-scaTt


Which fiuItereG in the breeze;
She breathed prayer ior him
A prayer he could not hear
But he paused to bless her as she kuelt,
And wiped away a tear.
liP trrned and left the spot


But do not deem him weak.
For dauntIess was the soldier 5 heart,
Though fear were on his check
&c watch the foremost rank


In dangers dark career
BE sure the band most daring there
Has wiped away a tear
Year: 1864

Fanny Fern, who ought to know, says,
speaking of cotton The ladies, as we all
know, owe something of their angelic sym
metry to the pure and delicate Southern sta
pie OF all the products of the earth it is
nearest to their hearts
Year: 1864

a New York merchant has discovered
that his income for 1863 was $4,000 more
than he expected and reported, and has
written to the revenue collector to have the
correction made. An honest man in New
York
Year: 1864

While the Declaration of Independence
was being read at Hartford, Conn, on Mon
day, bystandar said to another Pretty
good thing that, amt it Too much of the
- nigger about it, though. u
Year: 1864

NAPOLEON on SuIcIDE.-Two grenadiers having
committed suicide, he added the following note
to the order of the day "The grenader,
Gaubin, has committed suicide from disappont-
ment in love he was in other respects good
subject. This is the second event of the kind
that has happened to the corps within month.
The First Consul ordains that it shall be affixed
to the order of the guard, that soldier ought to
know how to overcome the grief and melancholy
arising from his passions that to bear with con-
stancy the pains of the soul, shows as much
true courage as to rest fixed and immovable un-
der the fire of battery. To abandon one 5 self
to get rid of it, is to desert the battlefield before
the victory"
Year: 1864

the sound of the pistol in the hands of tie rob

 Der, being cooked and primed for the dire at I tempt. An hour and half passed away, an6

 soon-he fancied he heard a slight movement iu

 the hall, Yes; some one was ascending the l staircasa-two or three men wele evidently

 coming up. "Oh!" thought my uncle, Lit is 1 the rest of the gang all is over with me ;'' when suddenly his bedroom was burst open,

 and in walked the faithful Jacques followed by Pierre and two strong gcndarrnes. They each carried a lantern and, whilst one stood at the r door, two placed themselves on each side, and 1 the other at the foot of the<bed In another moment two men were dragged from under the l valonce, both of whom were armed with dag gers and pistols. @T xaiai The gendarmes produced some handcuffs and placed them upon the wrists of the two deplor- able looking fellows, who began to howl pite- ously during the operation, and .hrow them selves on their knees, declaring they were starving :; that they only Intended stealing bread enough to eat; that as for hurting mon- sieur. it was the thing farthest from their hearts. The gendarmes commanded them to be silent, telling them that the more they said the worse would be their pun 'shment, and,

 with the help of Pierre, led them out of the

 roorl. In an hours time they were safely lodg- ed in the lock up of the neighboring village Jacques remained with my uncle, who by this

 time had forgotten his fright, and was, full of pity for the two men. Perhaps said he, ''they really did want bread. cannot believe they meant to do me personal injury"

 Jacques tried to dissuade him from this char itab]e opinion, trough as it turned out. he did not succeed for month aftel wards, when their trial came on, my uncle refused to appear against them. declaring that nobody could have intended committing such mischief who could laugh at his night-cap, and that, if the men had intended doing him harm, they had had quite sufficient punishment in being shut up for a month. In vain did the village nctaire argue the point with him in vain did the sure declare it was duty he owed to society at large to prosecute these men and he foretold no good out of such uncalled for lenency.

 My ancle's only reply was that kindness was sure to have its reward and to his dying day he always believed that his clemency in this instance saved him from any more midnight robberies. "For," said he, 'had the men been more severely punished they would most like ly have made another attempt to murder me, and might even have succeeded; but as I for gave them, their gratitude preserved me from further annoyance;"

 My uncle, ever after this used to declare his belief that good may often grow out of evil for without neuralgia. he would never have worn so many night-caps, and, without the right caps, the robber under the bed would not have been tempted to laugh and so betray himself
Year: 1864

KEEPING POTATOES THROUGH THE WfNTER. -tarmers sometimes sustain considerable luss through lnattention to tEe manner in which thelr potatoes are stored in the Fall. Ths chief things to be attended to are to see that the potatoes are dry, all sound, aud suficipsti ly covered, if hoed" out of doors, to pre- vent freezing. Potatoes can be kept in q must excellent condition by being placed in conf cal heap on the top of the ground covering the heap with plenty of straw, and afterwards with dirt, to the depth of twelve or fifteen inches, according to the climate and exposure and they will likewise come out in fine order ili Spring from pits dug in dry place, the poi tatoes filling the pit to the surface of the ground and cover.d with boards, or blanks. and dry mould. Of course potatoes cannot be thus pit,ed underground on soil that flls with water. An exchange contains the fol- lowing suggestion

 "When potatoes are to he put away in pits,> care should be taken to keep them ns dry a possible, and to yentilate pile su that no confned air shal remain The best tiiethod is to select high, dry ridge, and when the pile is formed, give it a thick covering ot straw, grass or stalks, with sufficient thick ness of earth 10 render them secure from frosti and then cover the whole with plank 50 as to turn off the water into trenches, which should surround the heaps. In forming the pile, t tube, or several of them, according to the length of the pit. should he extended into the body of the i.eap, and reach to the top of the earth, for the escape of heated air. These may be five or ten inches square, and in very cold weather the opening should be closed with bundle of straw or hay. Without this precautlon, potatoes that are designed for seed are as much injured as if they were intended for the table. Before planting time they srs so much grown and their strength and yig,r are so exhausted that the second growth is much weaker than the first. causing slender, sickly vines, and u greatly diminished crop"
Year: 1864

The San Francisco Educational Board has
just completed Grammar School building ca
pable of accommodating eight hundred pupils.
In this school the New England system is to be
repudiated and the sexes are to be taught in
separate apartments
Year: 1864

JUDGE TANEY was eleven years older
than the Federal Constitution. He re
membered when it was established, and he
went to the grave under the impression
he had seen its end, that it had perished in
the mad vortex of fanatical violence and
passion.
Year: 1864

THE reelection of Lincoln has been an
Endorsement, not of any line Of policy,
but of the right of the President to con-
duct the public affairs according to his
own will, without regard to the Constitu-
ton or laws, the rights of the people or
Of humanity or decency. He has had no
policy, consequently there was none to
indorse.