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( ,FRIDAY, NOVEMBER C. 1863 I
TAHIOrS SOBTS OF BEASTS*
Wc Lave never heard of a fellow who
kept on an average two women, a race
horse, a bob-tailed, fighting dog; who had
an interest in afaro-b&nk and a grog-shop;
who never gave a cent in chanty save to
some broken-down and broken-npsed prize
fighter, or some other object equally un-
who never, sees the inride of a
church or a decent man's house,—a'fellow
whose burinees it is to live by his wits and
politics—one to whom ballot-box stuffing
or billotrbbx smashing are equally easy— *
•an impudent, ignorant, graceless and vice*
stained scoundrel, —wc have never heard
of one such who, if a “Democrat, 1 ’ as
ninety-nine of each hundred ol these orna
ments of our civilization are, was not
specially strong on the Bible argument in
fiivor of slavery, and the obligations of
a jj g o od Christians to buy and sell men.
*We have never heard of one such, who, if
making a speech in a Copperhead club
room, or its next of kin, a bar-room, did
not to the extent of his small learning
and little ability go at the Sacred Book
*nd its texts perverted to pro-slavery uses,
and make them tbe basis of a harangue—
a compound of pious. ejaculations, and
frantic cursings.of the poor devils, the
Abolitionists, whose offence i§ in the fact
that they w3l maintain that a day's
work should always he paid a day’s
wages. TVe state what our readers must
have recognized as a curious phenomenon.
But we might go further and say that jus
tifications of American Slavery on Biblical
grounds, no matter by whom tendered, are
to us indubitable proofs of the moral rob
tenness of those who make them; and we
do not except from the sweeping condem
nation the vinegar-visaged gentleman in
■flie white cravat, who drones out his ver
sion of the blessed Gospel, at the rate of
five thousand per annum, anymore than
the other pro-slavery gentleman with, the
bob-tailed, fighting dog, who is himself on
the look-out to “punch somebody’s head”—
somebody weaker than he. There is much
in the odor of sanctity which a black cost
when worn over a white choker exhales;
and there is nothing quite’loveable in
<* Bo%? or “ SulT cropped and ready lor a
clinch with somebody’s else “ Tiget*' or
“ Teiacr"; hot jcl in “ BulTt" mister. We
do not expect to ding to She coat skirts ot
either the men, or the tail of either of the
dogs, for onr hopes oi blessedness here
after; but out of the lot, -were we to hitch
to any, we should tie to the four legged
beasts first, and then, should the fastenings
break, to the dogs’ masters; but never
never—nercr—to that sublimated rascality
and distilled and clarified rottenness
which, in the likeness of a priest, abuses
God's word to.crystalize. iohumanity and
Atheism into a statute which men shall
support as the will of the Jfost High.
Such men know better. Sot all the soph
isms of the schools can take out of them the
nobler instincts with which they were bom,
' —instincts which education, the society of
the good, and professions of love for all
men onght to have exalted into unquench
able passion for the happiness of the race.
The prize-fighter who, all Ins life, has been
at work to deaden and stnpity his better
nature, has the plea of ignorance, which
the clerical Atheist cannot set up; and
while pity may drop a tear over the
ignorant degradation of the first, it may
wonder why the visible wrath of Heaven
is averted from the head of the last—the
impious blasphemer in the name of the
Lord.
It should be a cause of devout thankful
ness thft, in these latter days, the religion
—nay, not religion, but the theology
winch sanctifies the ownership of one man
by another man, and which covers with
' the ordinances of faith the unutterable
horrors implied in human chattelisui as
*bia country knows it, has nearly run its
race; and that Its priests are hunting for
holes in which to hide the shame that has
■ come upon them- We expect one more
; chance to bid them adieu. When, the day
for the settlement of this nyional trouble
comes, and the effort to save slavery, as
the heathen and cannibals elmg to their
; gods ol baked mnd when a temple fills, is
at its height, we shall see them again,
perhaps .in fill canonicals; shall hear
' their solemn droneing out of prophecies
of vengeance if their interpretation of the
Word is not heeded; shall he witnesses of
the way in which the fellows of many
wives and multitudinous bob-toiled fight
ing dogs, stand at their backs;-and last of
all, we shall know in advance how they
will, for the Inst time, be pnt to flight
XSDB OUTLOOK SOUTHWARD.
A few more turns of the screw, and the
expected revolution in the South against
tie usurped authority of Bans & Co.,must
break forth. The pressure upon the Gov*
eminent of which that crew are at the
head, is even now tremendous. Its show
of physical force is maintained only by a
remorseless conscription which seizes upon
old and young with the sick and well, and
forces thorn into the ranks of the army.
Its finances are so disordered that even
the idiots can see the inevitable end and
break down of the entire monetaiy sys
tem. It resources, in spite of the daring
skill and occasional success of the block*
ade-ruuners, arc, especially in the way of
urynß and munitions of war, daily wasting
away. Its means of railroad transporta
tion, upon which all celerity in the move
ment of troops and their supplies depend,
are fast wearing out, and it has net the
mechanical akin to renew them. Its
boasted invulnerability hasbeen disproved;
and there is not a rebel State that is not,
in more or less of its extent, occupied by
Federal troops. Its power to cope even
handed with the Government grows less
and less as its territory passes Into our pos
session, and it has abandoned all hope
of foreign intervention in its behalf
These are but few of the facts that must
stare all sensible men in reheldom fall in
the face; and no amount of pride, preju
dice or bate, no disposition to vapor and
bluster can bide them from the knowledge
ot the masses upon whom at last all mili
tary movements depend. When they see
that the contest is hopeless; that it was.
begun in the interest of the few, and that
it has been ooatmued at the expense of Hie
many; that its further progress can yield
: nothing but irremediable ruin, involving
... people and property, they will cry Enough!
Xiet that sound once go up, if but from one
. county or one regiment, and If U is earnest*
and well supported, down goes the whole
fabric that the rebels have reared, and with
it the hopes of the copperheads as well.
" There is a limit to human endurance, and
that limit the people of the South are
approaching! Look out for the catas
trophe. '
ANOTHER DUTY VET.
The entire North has now spoken out,
and its voice is still for war. From Blaine
■ to California, the people have sfent word
to the. President :“We endorse yon and
your" acts; goon and finish np the war.*’
. - • ‘The road to success is now open and
clear. 1 The Administration is grounded
upon the faith of the people and promised
the support of their strong arms. Every
past act is accepted, and the efforts of the
President, through all his measures to
crush out this rebellion, receive the sym
pathy and encouragement of the, masses.
Those vile traitors, the Yallandighams,
Storeys and Woods, who organized a dis
*■ loyal party, are done lor, and their efforts
- .against the G ovemment in future trill
. prove 8B harmless as the blows of a child.
These-are some of the results of the
splendid victories of Tuesday, hut all the
duties are not yet performed. IVc arc not
yet to Uy.-down our arms, crowned with
laurels, contented that we have expressed
' O&r moral support of the Government.
By the incoming of the New Tear, three
- hundtcdlhouaand soldiers are to he raised
’ in the loyal States to .fill up the depleted
ranks of our gallant fellows in thefield.
Xiet us who have declared our devotion to
the country ul the ballot box, illustrate it
by our acts; and commence to-day vigor
ously, and'even, at tbe cost of large self
sacrifice, to raise tbe new levy. Our boys
in tbe field bare bad three long and bard
years ol trial, and they want a little help
to finish up' tbe task they undertook.
Let our loyalty, which blossomed so lux
uriantly on Tuesday, bear this fruit at
least—that we arc willing by our acts to
maintain our words. Other States are
moving systematically. Illinois must be
tbe first—as sbe has heretofore been—in
filling op her quota of the “ three hundred
thousand more.” “
SOSXETAIKG GAINED,
There are certain grand and impressive
features about the Soldiers’ Fair, now in
progress in this city, that’ awe even the
copperheads Into something like obedience
to the wishes of the popular heart. Sinc4
it began, and especially since its success
was have been less
rampant and defiant than heretofore; and
here and there one . may be found, who*,
when cornered up, will admit, that, deny
it as copperheadism may, the people of
the Northwest are indubitably for the con
tinuance of tbe war until the Union is ref
stored. That is something; and if the
ladles only keep bn in their patriotic way*
who knows what they may not accomf
plish. Yesterday when that long train of
wagons from the adjoining country, each
loaded full of the products that the far
mers have to give- as their patriotic oficr
ing, filed through our streets, the long pro
cession preceded by a military band and
that dear old fieg, we saw one impulsive
enemy, in whom all good is not dead, turn
away his head to hide the tears that sprung
unbidden to his eyes. Something of the
noble spirit that is abroad in the land pen
etrated his political hide, and the sensa
tion was so novel and withal delightful,
that his emotion must have vent , By and
by that m&n will begin to mourn over his
political sins that have led him to the
very verge of treason; and as soon as he
does that, he will be transformed* into'a
supporter of the holy cause, so* strong and
bo ardent, that no threats nor entreaties
move him. He is only one of a thou
sand who, in this one city, are on the stool
of repentance to-day. Let the ladies keep
up their great patriotic revival, and thfe
Union church will be filled up to over
flowing. And are not neophytes more
valorous and more daring than the fathers
: in the frith?
TEE >BXr CONCBKSS.
There is no seasonable doubt, -we take
it, that the Administration or Union party
■will hare-a clear ■working majority in the
Congress about to meet; and that the cau
cus nominees of that party trill perfect
the organization ot the House by the elec-,
tion of the Speaker and Clerk of its choice.
In this there is safety. The country is in
no condition to withstand a contest like
that which terminated in the election of
Mr. Speaker Banks; and we are glad to
know that it is to be avoided.
nuxois lii.Et’ nos.
mion Cain In 25 Counties, 14,000.
The following are the return In 03 counties
in the State at the last election, compared
irith the majorities in the same counties last
jear:
Counties.
yearns
Bureau
Coles
Cook,
Dewitt
Douglas..
Effingham...
Fayette
Ford
Ginndy
Iroquois....
Kane.'.
McHenry....
Macon
Madison.....
Marshall....
Morgan...:.
Feona
Bock Island.
Sangamon..,
Shelby
Start
SUpbcnson.
Tazewell....
Vermillion..
Warren
Will,
.—1663—. .—1502 —.
Union, Cop. union. Cop.
.1,900 ... 1.238
aoo ... 807
.J.OfO ... 1,731 ...
~ 95 1M
.. £OO ... 15S ...
CO .... 637
~ 41
.... 400 ... 299
.... 700 ... BSI ...
....I*soo ... 1»M0
....1,000 ♦... 273
... 1,200 ... 141* ••
.... 800 ... 278 ...
Sffl 639
.... in 79
450 ... 47 ...
.... 4CO SSI
GCO ... 1,868
.... 500 ... • 235
.... COO ... 302
.... 624 81
.... 000 ... .... 80
...16,03 1,582 7,831 8,87g
f In *>Q nrtnfiflM. 14 SiO*
.. 621
.. eoo
.. 400
.16,(K2 1,532
Totals.
Uslr.n majority In 2S counties, 14,510; cop*
perhead majority in «*ma ooantiee la 1&63
559; Union gain, 15,079; The copper
bead majority last fall in the State was 16,858.
The above 25 counties come within 1,774 Oj
wiping out the entire copperhead majority.
The remaining 75 counties will pat 10,000 or
15,000 cn ihe other side.
SCATTERING. 02100X6.
WooDEor-n Cocsxr.—The vote of fiOnosk is as
fo'lo*e : Union, &3; Copperhead, »); Paaola,
Union, 6t; Copperhead,-S6; union majority in the
two to web, 59. , ,
Ooixs Corart.-A correspondent writes from
Ashmore township that the.unlon majority in that
town is 67 out of *7l rotes.. Last yesr the Union
jnejority was only SO. Last year the Chicago
Timet did cot circulate In Ashmore.' Now S3 are
sent there. Our correspondent thinks that U they
can get 3a more copies of the Timet circulated
there, that the Union' majority nest year will
he 100. * „.
Iroquois.—A gentleman at Hlddleport, who
says he baa “always heretofore acted with the
Democratic perty, but my stomach turned,'’..*;
the fare reread by Vallacdlgbam, Merrick, A
Co, that “the victory In Iroquois beats any erer
achieved in that county. A mo.*t glorious vindi
cation of the Administration, the war and the
Proclamation.”
McLean CocxTT.—ln Mount Hope, the result
of the election was as follows: Circuit Clerk-
Union, 9S; Copperhead. 2. Surveyor—Union, 101;
Copperhead, S: School Commissioner—Union,
30l; Copperhead, 2.
Bureau Cocktx —The following is the result
in twenty towns: Union-majorities—Princeton.
24; Indiamown, 37; Aiiepe*, 19; -Centra, 99:
.Dover, 7C; Leepertonn, 6; Macon, 65—not a cop
perbead vote; Berlin, 6G; ‘Westfield, SO; Ohio,
95; Concord, 151; Brawly. 51: Wheatland, 60;
LamoUle. ill; Clarion, 84. Total, 1,063. Copper
head majorities—Selby,23; Hail, 45; Bureau.B;
Gold, 2- Total, 73. The remaining towns will in
crease the Union majority to 1.200.
Macoupin Coott— ld Carllnviße, the arerag:
Copperhead majority IslO. .
A Voice from Egypt.
The Union - men of Effingham county have
achieved a substantld and glorious triumph
over the copperheads. They have elected
their candidate for County Treasurer, a War
Democrat who was rejected by the copper*
heeds became of his Union sentiments. On
School Commissioner and Surveyor the cop
perheads came off with a majority of sixty.
This is in a county which has always given
,700 and over majority against the Republi
cans, and in 1656 gave Fremont only tireaty
seven votes.' •
Oar National Finances*
The N. T. Tima says: In magnificent con
trast to the bankruptcy and financial lunacy
which rule and ruin in Richmond, Secretary
Chare’s administration of the Treasury, will
show to the world a dean balance aheet on
the Ist of November. It will showthe filling
of seventy-five millions of suspended requisi
tions.' It wfll show the payment of every
creditor of the Government, whose claim was
on that day audited and established ! There
is j ay fine to the brave men who, throughout
the Utllcfl States are battling for the Union.
Secretary Chase baa thirty millions piled np
ready for them. The Paymaster General’s re
quisitions for September and October will be
honored whenever presented. .
The Treasury vaults contain gold enough
to meet all demands pay able In coin for nine
months to come. From the Customs alone,
the reed pis are'more Ih»n sufficient to pay
the tpccle interest cn the public debt as It
accrues.
Ihe “Beecher Heresy.”
The Boston TravdUr says;
A correspondent Informs us that at a large
and unusually enthusiastic meeting of the
Orthodox Congregational Society in George
town, held on the :29th, and called to act on
the request of Rev. Charles Beeher. that hla
pastoral connection with the chureu and so
dety might be dissolved, seventy-six, or about
ihree-fcurths of tfce active reddent members
of the society, voted not to grant his request.
The members of the society opposed to Mr.
Betchcr w ere not present at the meeting.
Bixe Noss SntPXTirr.—The people of the
little province of Nova Scotia are, taken as a
whole, the most bitter, and the 'most usrel
son&ble and stupid la their bitterness ag*Laik
the Union and the Northern States generally,
of any of our enemies, at home or abroad.
Last week, wh«a the B. D. Lee, a Confeder
ate steamer from Wilmington, left Hallfix,
the disciples of Jeff, in that town met In
large numbers on the Confederate wharf,
rent the air with their cheering for the Cog
federate flag and “seceeh,” and wound up
with three groans*for President Lincoln anp
the North. One cannot account far this exu •
berance of feeling, bat there it Is and there
It grows. But for the reciprocity treaty
those poor Blue Noises would have bat a vij
Uceof shanties like the Esquimaux of Salva
dor.' They are at present in ecstasies over a
Northern renegade, Charles Halleck, former
ly of New Fork, subsequently of Georgia.
He it to lecture in Halifax on “ The Southern
Confederacy, its social and political aspects.”
—Lotion Journal.
63y* A meeting of the commissioned offi
cers of the C2d ininnia regiment'wasAdd on
the 6lh ult. at Little Rock, Arkl, ai jrhlch
rssolutloßß were pasted expreative of'the
sorrow of the regiment at the death Oi Lieut.
Retd Andeison, of company H, : endorsing
his courage and soldierly qualltie?. and tea
dering their sympathies to the friends of the
deceased.
‘ 7be Homestead Exemption Law.
Believing that many of our readers are un
aware of tbe extent and operation, of the
“Homestead Act,'! as expounded by our
Supreme Court, we herewith present an ab
stract (furnished by W. 0. Reynolds, Eaq,)
of the law and cf s the various published de
cJtlocs under It. 'The questions presented
arc of coaridtrable importance to every citi
zen, and tbe frequency of their application
r<tdcr a familiarity with the authorities
which govern them highly desirable.
The original act is as folio vs:
Sec. k—There shall be exempt from levy and
foretd sale under auyp-oses* or ordw from any
court of law and equity in this Bute for debts con
tracted from and after the fourth dayof July, A. D.
1851, thc lot of ground and the buildings ■ thereon,
occupied as a residence and owned by the debtor,
being a house-bolder, and having a family to the
value of one thousand dollars. Such exemption
shall coLtisme after the death of such house-holder
for the benefit of the widow and family.,
some, or ..one,, of. them‘continuing to oc-1
cupy such homestead until the' youngest child'
ahau becoae-twexity-onE years of age, and until,
the death pf. such widow; andno release or waiv- 1
‘erof such exemption shall be valid, unless the'
same shall be in writing,- subscribed by such
householder, and acknowledged in the came man-.
net as conveyances, of real natate are by law re-'
qoiicd to be acknowledged. *
Sxc. 2. But no p;operty shaD, by virtue of this
act, he exempt from sale for non payment of taxes
on assessments, or for.deht.or liability incurred 1
for tbe purchase or improvement thereof,
.The remaining sections provide for the appraisal
and sale under execution of the homestead where
' its value exceeds one thousand dollars. In* such'
case tbe premises arc to be divided it practicable;
bntlfnoi.andif the debtor shall fkil after sixty'
days notice to psy the excess in value, then a sale'
may be made; sad out of the proceeds tbe debtor
shall receive said sum of one thousand dollars
which shall he exempt from execution for one
year thereafter.
See Laws, February It, 1651.
On tbe 17th of February, 1857, an addi
tional act was passed, which provided
That tbe first section (above quoted) be amend-,
ed byirsertirg alter the words “ subscribed by
such householder" the words “ and his wife if he
have one," it being the obj set of ibis act to re
quire in all cases the signature and acknowledge
ment of tbe wife as conditions to the alienation or
the homestead —Walters v: The People, 18 Ills. S.
IM.
Scale's Statistics, 576.
Tbe above case was afterwards reheard and a
second opinion delivered affirming the for
mer decirion of the court. Tbe word 11 occa-
Jiy ” in the first section is construed as near
y synonymous with V possess,” and it is held
that the occupancy required of tbe widow* or
children may be by a tenant. Judge Breese
in his argument goes much farther and de
clares that even an abandonment ot the home-
stead by the widowed mother, with no inten
tion of returning, would not prejudice the
rights of her children; that she could do no
act by which the child can be deprived of the
right secured to It
in the first case arising under this act, it
was decided that distinct and separate lots or
tracts, not adjilologor contiguous, could not
be included in the exemption, even though
both might be necessary for the fullest en
jojmmt of the homestead. Hence, that a
tract of Umber lend a mile distant from the
(arm occupied, was not exempt, though ne
cessary for fuel,'etc., for the use of the fami
ly. Held also that an absence by reason oi
ill health from the homestead lor a year by
the widow, alter the death of her husband,
and without any intention of abandonment, ,
did rot deprive her of the benefit of the act. I
“It ie tot necessary when a home, residence, or ,
estthxneut has once been acquired that there |
should he a continuous occupation to secure the
land from forced sale. If the citizen or family j
should leave in search of. another home, the first
would remain until tbs second should be acquired.
If a husband remove his wife and family into
another county and without providing them a
home, abandon hla wife, she might again resume
possession of ibtlfaome.tead.”—iroKen vs. (As
Ttojit 21 Id. S. ITS. J
In the next cate, the husband In 1853 had
conveyed ihe homestead to a trustee far the
benefit c f bis wife. fils creditors filed ablU
to subject the property to the payment of his
debts, and said conveyance was decreed fraud
ulent and void. A bill of filed by
the wife; but the court held it was for the
husband to claim the benefit of the statute il
he chose, and that if he did not, the wife,
while the husband was llvlDg, could not en
i force Ibe exemption. And that his convey-
I ance being mace to hinder and defraud credi
-1 tore was good as against him.— Gdzler T, Si-
I nmf, 18 IIU ., p. 51S, »
I Xheabove dechlonwas of course unaffected
by the amendment of 1557, to which, indeed,
the ccuxt do not refer.
In ermine under the law, whether by bill or
answer, it must appear that the lot of ground has
a hnDdiag upon it, occupied as a residence and
owned by the debtor, who must be a householder,
having a family (a wife constitutes a family), and
that the debt was not incurred fbr the purchase or
improvement of the premises- A decree thereon
sbcnld fitd tie frets requited by the statute. We
think more than “ occupancy” merely, which may
be by a tenant, is required on tb© part of the
debtor himself. The lard must be the spot on
which he claims a residence, and On which hla
family resides—it must be their “home.” Each
case must, however, depend on its own peculiar
circumstances, so that among them no - evidence
shall be found of an abandonment by himself and
family.— Ki'.duU c. JBurptri7V,2l iff, J2,45.
Mortgage in 1854 of homestead by
Vanzant and wife, acknowledged in usual
form. In November, 1857, Mrs. Vad
zant’ filed a bQI for divorce' and ali
mony. Decree of divorce rendered March,
1858, giving the children to her, and that she
have as alimony said mortgaged premises,
which were conveyed to her by the master.
The mortgagee subsequently filed a bill to
foreclose, ard Mrs. Yauzant asking another
affirmative relief, and the Supreme Court de
creed that she should hold the premises os
her own property, free and clear of the mort
gage incumbrance.— Vamani T. Tamani, 38
SJT it., 54a
This decision is scarcely lntelllgible,fromany
thing which appears in the report. It is true
that the conitT in giving their opinion appear
to rely somewhat on the decrea rendered in
the divorce suit, and on the Cict that the
mortgagor purchased the premises with hi*
wife’s money. But It is difficult to see how
the mortgagee could be prejudiced by a suit
to which be was not and canid notbe a party;
nor how the original equities between the
hutband and wife could affect blur.
-. In the above caae the wife’s release was uu
necessary, the mortgage being executed prior
to 1857. But that of the husband, the coart
say, cannot be dispensed with. ’
“ The act was passed mainly to benefit the
householder's family. A release or waiver of the
exemption must be a formal one (and the usual
covrnant* of warranty cannot operate as such)
This may well be In tho body of the deed, and
being so expressed and signed by the grantor the
usual form of acknowledgment la sufficient as to
him. But as regards the wife who Joins in the exe
cution. since the act of 1857, we would say that a
fair construction of the act taken in connection ,
with the conveyance act would require that the
officer taking the acknowledgment should certify
also that he folly informed her of her rights under
the act, and that she voluntarily- released and
waived all right and benefit under it.”
A judgment and execution do not create a
lien against the homestead of the judgment
debtor, and he zca) sell or mortgage ft free
.from, the lien of the Judgment. It will re
main exempt from, sale on execution in the
■hands of h& grantee.— Qreenc v. Marks, 25 ifl.
S 223.
The benefit of the law wiU not attach to
premises by their being a homestead, after
the execution of a mortgage, (as against the
rights of the mortgagee.)— McCormick v. Wit
cox, 25 111 3.274.
A vendor’s lien is protected by the second
section of theHomcsfead act. Bntthismaybe
lost by taking a new security.— Phelm v. Con•
over, 25 KLJL 814. •:
A person having a life estate in land is to be
deemed the “owner,” within the meaning of
the Homestead act. “We regard the statute,”
says Judge Breeze, “as remedial Suits nature,
and it must be so continued as most effectu*,
ally to meet the benevolent end in view. We
wcnld say that a fair construction of the act,
with reference to its objects and purposes,
1 would embrace within It any estate which the
debtor might own in the lot and buildings
thereon, occupied aa a residence, which coaid
be sold on execution.”— Deere r. Chapman,2s
111 2L 612.
As almost every vested interest in real estate,
whether in possession cr remainder, and
whether legal or equitable, might have been
sold cn execution, it will be seen that the
shield of the bemestead act is as broad os any
debtor could desire. : 1
“A Bale uedera trust deed, or under a power of ;
sale in amortgage, which were executed prior to
the passage of the law of 1857 do not come within
the provisions of the homestead act.”— Ely e. I
Eaefvood, 26 1U, S. t 107. Smith v.Man, Hid.
A homestead right cannot be set up to
defeat the fordosure of a mortgage given lor
part <f the purchase money.— Weiderv, Clark,
27 JTL JL, 25.
A debtor’s property is sot exempt from sale
on execution by becoming a homestead after
a Judgment i« rendered against him. ■
It seems that a etable,a house lot, a smoke
house and grounds therewith connected, to
gether with the dwelling house, would be
included In the 'exemption, where it exists,
’ but that a store and ware house would not.
—ZtiuUck v, Waller. 27 1 U. IL SCO.
- A release by a widow cannot affect the in
terest of her children.— MUler v. Marckle, 27
ill. R. 403.
It the estate mortgaged is daisied as a
homestead, and the exemption has not been
waived, a slrict foreclosure should not be al
lowed : the eale should be mode subject to
that right And this, the court say, would
prevent a delivery of the possession if a sale
was made, whilst the wife lives should she
become a widow’, or until her youngest child
shall become of age. ’
j The desertion of a family by the lather, tho
i family still occupying the homestead la not
an abandonment of it. It still remains his
home and residence at lest until It is proved
that he has acquired a home and settlement
1 elsewhere.— Moore v. Dunning, 29 lU. JL ISO.
In the above case a trust deed was executed
: by husband and wife in 185 S. In the bady of
the deed the grantors, “in consideration of
one dollar, waived and relinquished all right
and benefit of exemption of said premises
under the exemption laws of the State of Il
linois.” And the officer taking their ac
knowledgment, certified that, after he had
made the wife acquainted with the contents
and meaning cf eiid instrument, on a sepa
rate examination, &c,„she acknowledged that
she had executed (he same and relinquished
her dower and all rights xtfiaievcr in the said
Isnds and tenements.
Dr euriasn, “ This trust deed was not ac
knowledged as required by the statute In or
der to refears the homestead. Consequently,
if it still continued to be the homestead of
the family. It remained unaffected by that
deed, evsn if the deed could take effect after
that, which ie a point we do not now decide.”
Possibly this Decision was unavoidable, but
we fear that its cffict will be very unfortunate
The above form of waiver is in a printed
blank, which has been in common use; and
there are too many dishonest men who will
be only too happy to escape their Inst obliga
tions in the manner thus pointed out. -All
experience shows that in the analogous case
of cower, are often made, for infor
mality in the acknowledgment, under clr
cumitancea of great Injustice. “In all my
experience,” said the late Judge McLean, * I
have never known an Instance of fraud orlm-
EoelUon on a married woman in procuring
er relinquishment of dower; but I have
known'numerous instances where dower has
been claimed and recovered under dream
stances tlut might be termed legal swindllog. ,
ixovtrty v Fridge, 8 McLean's It, 233. t
“ The amendment of J857 cut up by the roots all
alienations of-the homestead in which the _w lie
dose cot sign and acknowledge a release of the
homesUadnght. This is made a condition to the
299
BSI
1,610
.... - 273
1,112 ..
278 ...
.... 639
7,831 8,87$
validity of all each alienations, whether by deed of
bargain and sale os moitguge."
Held, ■ therefore, that ejectment was not
maintainable upon a mortgage which 1
contain such a waiver. That the mortgage,
wi’houtP that, was invalid, and created no
rights as a conveyance.— litUerson vs. Krdn.
. £9 in. J?., 518.
'When a judgement debtor has shown that
be is wi mn tbe enacting clause of thefirbfc
fcteion of the act, he is prima facia entitled
to its benefits, and his claim must be rebutted •
by the creditor to subject the homestead to
l&vs and sale. But where a creditor desires
to levy cn and sell the homestead under the
second section, it is advisable that he should
be permitted by the court, on the trlril, to
make proof and have the fact temud by the
jury that the debt, or any part thereof was
created for the purchase or. improvement of
the homestead, and the clerk should, in that
case, so certify on the execution —Stevenson
vs. Marony, 29 JU, A, 554. .
It will be seen from the above resume of the
decisions that the extent of the Homestead
Exemption Law is by no means so contracted,
as a layman might have supposed.-. The re
sults of its operation may.be still further
Illustrated by the unpublished case of.Smith,
Brown, Jones and Robinson.
John Smith was the owner of a palatial
residence on Michigan avenue, worth $20,000,
and “built in the modemstyle with a cupola
andamortgage on top of it. Here he resided
in the bosom of his tamlly. But Smith was
a fktt man, and having gone under in the cri
sis of '67, had a judgment against him in
Brown's favor for SIO,OOO. •
Before the dilatory Brown, however, bad
got his juiy together to appraise the proper
ly, Smith sold.it to Jones for its full value.;
Jones paid the money, with which mechan
icsl and vendors’liens were satisfied, and re
ceived a full warranty deed, in which Smith
and wife waived the benefit of all- exemption
laws cf the State of Illinois, and Mrs. Smith, ‘
on a separate examination, acknowledged that
she relinquished ail rights whatever in the
premises conveyed. . . - ;
Jones, after rifitting the house handsomely, :
moved In, well pleated with his purchase,,
while Brown looked on with impotent dls-,
gust. Smith, havii g cash in hand, next went
California with his family; but after ram-:
bllrg about lor a while, with no permanent,
abiding place, concluded to return to thei
“old homestead. 11 Jones, therefore, was>
surprised to leom a few weeks later that he.
must vacate the premises for the former ten-,
ants. Being advised by eminent counsel that,
he bad no remedy, he submitted gracefully.,
Exit Jones and enter the Smith family.., Un-j
der these circumstances Mr. Brown thought
he would realize by sale under his judgment;;
but before his intention was carried out the
premises were mortgaged la due form to
Robinson (Smith’s brother-in-law) lor more
than their value.
This rendered the judgment practically
worthless, and Smith has entered upon a new;
course Dfpleaanrc and prosperity. * Hethinka
i a homestead is “ a good thing to have In the
house; 1 ’ in fact that “no family should ba
without It.” He rides abroad every day in
his carriage, and sometimes meets the
luded Jones and Brown trudging along'the
sidewalk “with melancholy steps and slow.”.
01 course there are several suits la progress
to settle the rights of the parties, but the
; letne can be easily foretold—Messrs. Jones
and Biown will retain their shells, but the
fortunate Smith will enjoy the oyster.
Bloro of Jem Dbtls’ Treasonable Cor*
respontlence.
Thefollowlrg is another letterfound among
the Intercepted correspondence of Jefferson
Paris. As attempts liave been made to cast
doubts upon the authenticity of one or more
of these letters, previously published, it is
proper to say that the originals, in the hand
■writing of the authors, and many of them
bearing endorsements by Jefferson Dayis him
self, are in the possession of the Government
here, and will remain on die, as a part oi the
history of the war:
• Hkxtsis, Tbsk., Nov. 18, 1855. i
Hon. Jefferson Davis:
Mr Deak Sib —X congratulate yon on the
victory recently achieved by the Democracy
of the Nation. It is but a temporary triumph.
The fanatical demons of the North, in 1800,
will again be in the field. Revelations never
go backwards. We are now in the midst of a
revolution, passive it is true, bat a decisive
battle is yet to be fought; our Constitution
does not suit the North. The privilege of
slavery, guaranteed to the South, is the Done
of contention, and Heaven and earth will be
brought to bear for its abolition.
We have a temporary triumph; let ns
profit by it: make the most of it. To con
stitute Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet that the amors
of power will be available in the event ol the
election of a Black •Republican In ISCO—
to the South. See to It, you South'
ern men about Washington J&at the Depart
ments of the Trcotury vnd War, and even of
the Kavy are retained in Southern hands; for
if a Black Republican is ■ elected in 1860 the
Government should not be permitted to pass
Into their power. A Napoleonic demonstra
tion would, in that event be called for—
grab game (he policy. Therefore, I repeat, let
certain Departments be given to true South
ern men. Some such ticket as the following:
Lewis Cats, Secretary of State; Howell Cobb,
Secretary of the Treasury; T. J. Busk, Sec
retary of War; - Toucey, Secretary of
the Interior; F. P. Stanton, or Orr, of Booth
Carolina, Secretary of the Navy; Gen- Rich
ardson, Postmaster General; Haliet or Slidell,
(La.) Attorney General. Douglas, and Hunt
er, of Virginia, had better remain in the Sen
ate. Gen. Qnitman ought to go to Nicaragua.
A. V. Brown, who will expect something, can
be sent abroad. Mr. Marcy to France; fi. S.
Dickinson may go into the State Department
if Gen. Cass declined, or in the Navy, it. pre
ferred.
The South Is proud of you as a military
man and as a statesman. • We may have to
pass through a Thermopylae ordeal. The
Crusaders, infuriated with religious fanati
cism, will be down upon us. They will find
a Saladin to welcome them to hospitable
graves. The Richards and Philips of .the
campaign will be glad to get back to their
Yankee dens, to sicken and die with traitor
ous remorse. . -
Oh I that the South were wise—that she
would become united. In the next campaign
the Ncrth will attempt to »boll lionize, not
only all the free'press in the S?uth and
North, bnt through such men as Cassius M.
Clay, J. Minor Bolts, Raynor.& Co., attempt
to abolitlonize all the non-slaveholders in the
South. Houston, Bell, Benton, Blair & Co.
will look on with complacency, and give in
direct aid and comfort.
Long may our Constitutional Union list is
the' prayer of every Democrat; but give us
equality; preserve our honor, or give us a
new order ol tilings. Excuse the liberty of
a stranger.
Yours, truly, in the faith,
Se>'ex. .
A Brave Negro Soldier—Tlio Bias at
Fort Wagner. •
Tie following letter, add reseed to the Mill'
taxy Secretary of Gov. Andrewv'of Massachu
setts, narrates an instance of heroism la a ne
gro soldier whichdeserves to go into history:
Hzadquabtebs bitn Massachusetts Volb., )
Mourns Island, S. C., Oct 15,1863. |
Colonel : 1 have the honor to forward yon
the following letter, received a lew day's since
from Sergeant W. H. Carney, company C, of
this regiment. Mention has before been
made of his heroic conduct In preserving the.
American flog and bearing it from the Held, in
the assault ou Fort "Wagner on the 18th of
July last, hut that you may have the history
complete, I send a simple statement of the
facts as I have obtained them from him, and
an officer who was an eye witness:
“When the Sergeant arrived to within
about one hundred yards of the fort—he was
with Ihe first battalion, which was in the ad
vance of the storming column—he received
the regimental colors, pressed forward to the
font rank, near the Colonel, who was lead
ing the men over the ditch. Be -says, as they
ascended the wall of the fort, the ranks were
foil, but as soon as they reached the top,
‘they melted away’ belore the enemy's fire
‘almost instantly.’ Ha received' a severe
wound in the thigh, hut fell only upon his
knees. He planted the flag upon .the para
pet, lay down on the outer slope, that ho
might get as much shelter os possible; there
he remained for over half an hour, till the 2d
brigade came up. He kept the colors flying
until the second conflict was ended. When
our forces retired he followed, creeping on
one knee, still holding up the flag. It was
thus that Sergeant Carney came from the
fleld, having held the emblem of liberty over
the walls of Fort Wagner during the sanguin
ary conflict of the two brigades, and having
received two very severe wounds, one in the
thigh and one in the head. Still he refused
to give up his sacred trust until he found an
officer of his regiment. . *
Whenhe entered the fleld hospital, where
Ms wounded comrades were being brought in*
they cheered-him and the colors. Tnoogh
nearly exhausted with the loss of blood, ne
said, “Boys, the old flag never touched the
ground.” . i
Of him as a man and soldier, I con speak in
the highest term of praise.
X have the honor to be. Colonel, very re
spectfolly, your most obedient servant,
M. 8. Littlefield,
CoLComd’g 541h Eeg’t Maas. Vole.
Col. A. G. Brown, jr., Military Secretary to
his Excellency Joan A. Andrew, Mass.
One. Against Nine*
[From the Louisville Journal, 2d.] !
The vaunt of the “ chivalry’* of being able
each one of them to whip hla weight In Union
men has long since been disproved, and it be*
gins to look as if the facta would show a re*
verse state of the case. On the night of the
15th nit, nine bushwhackers came to the
honee of a sturdy Union man in Lincoln
named Kirkpatrick, arrested him, and started
away with him. When they had proceeded
about two miles he persuaded them to return!
to his house and get some- supper, and es
pecially some whisky. The lost , article cor*
tied an Irmlstable argument with It, and they
went back, obtained their diick, and some*
thing to eat was ordered, and while it was
being dispatched, Kirk contrived to send off
for help. As soon as the robbers had sa*;
tiated hunger and thirst, they were anxious to*
start again, and Kirk, by every ingenious de
vice possible, delayed their departure, ana'
listened anxiously for the footfall of friends,'
bnt finally they would wait no longer. When
preparing to start, there were six of them at'
the back of the house and three in front.!
Kiik, determined not to be captured without'
a struggle, looked around, seized a stick or
wood, knocked down one of those in front,'
and with his, double barrelled gun shot the!
two others, killing one'on the spot and'
wounding the other so severely that he died;
the next day, Saturday. At-the first discharge
the six in the rear of the house lied in haste,i
leaving their horses and taking to the woods
for concealment. Kirk took the man prls*
cner whom he had knocked dpwn and cap*
lured nine horses, three guns and three pis* :
tols, receiving a slight wound In the shoulder,!
but on the next Tuesday our informant saw.
him “ knocking about.*’ Half an hour after!
Kirk had whipped out the enemy a crowd of
his frlende arrived to his assistance. This
show s what presence of mind and determlna* r
lion can accomplish against these bandit’
guerilla*, whose trade makes them cowards/
for the “ thief doth fear each bush an execu*;
tioner.” Kirkpatrick ougbtio enter the mill* 1
tary service of his country, for it wants Just
such men as he has shown himself—cool,
brave, and self confident. ;
FROM COLORADO.
FlrMDUpntchca «t Benvw-Theraw
■ tlon—Xlie Treaty Convention wllh
Ike IndlaßS-Tliß Cooejoa AKeacy-
A hlwpbemons Bandit killed.
rpiom Oar Special Correspondent]
Dbsveb, C. T., 0:t. 25, 1863. .
To-day marks a new era in Colarado Terri
tf-rj; for -While lam writing tbia, the first
telegraphic meeeoges' ever received In Dea
rer, direct from “tie States" are being taken
off the vires, and to-night we are to have
die patches from the Agent of the Associated
Pxeie at Chicago. Of course we are jnbi-
lam; you can Imagine all that; of coarse wo
feel blggtr, more consequential* bat what U
better than all that* we have a sense of-belng
nearer to onr old time triends—and bound
still deter to the good old Union.
At the time of our late election, your’cor
respondent was over the mountains; faraway,
In the Middle and North Parka of which some
of these days he may write you more at
length; hut other subjects press now., Be U
known, however, that we had ao election in
September last, and that only two or three
persons were elected to our Territorial Leg
islature that have the smell of Copperhead
ism upon their garments, Tnat was a little
cleaner sweep than our irleuda in Ohio made,
snd we jubilated over that somewhat, and if
our telegraph had been workingwe should
have sent 3ou the news at the time.
Among the more important-events in our
history, was the great Treaty Convention
with tbo Utah Indians lately held at the Con
ejos Agency in the San Louis Valley. The
United States was represented by Governor
Evans, who is tx-otficio Superintendent of In
dian Affairs in Colorado, Superintendent
Sleek, of New Mexico. U. S. Agents Whlteley
and Head, who had been appointed CommU
fJcners for the pnrtose. Bon. JohnG. Ni
colay, the President's Private Secretary, came
on from Washington as Special Indiau Agent ’
and acted as Secretary to the Commission. •
The Ules were represented in council by the
delegation which went to Washington last
spring, and several other chiefs. The oesas-:
ion was one of great interest, of coarse; the
magnificent results were still greater—for by'
the treaty which the Commission made, the
Indian title ia forever' extinguished to oyer
one third of thearea of theTenitory, includ
ing a very valuable agricultural region, and:
every foot of land where gold mining is car-:
tied on In the Territory, embracing .all the'
Becky Mountain range from the North to tire
Sonth line, the Middle and North, and the
magnificent San Louis Valley. The terms of
the treaty are ot course not made public un
til ratified by tbo Usi ed States Senate; but
it ia understood, that the sum paid for this
grand purchase is about $30,000 per on
nnm lor ten years. There is no doubt but.
the plan of sending Indians East before treat
ing with them is a very economical plan for
the Government, although rather an expen
sive ittm in and of itself; but Mr. Redman
generally surrenders, when he sees our East*
ere cities, and is told that all these people orb
Abraham’s children. ! 1
The Contjos Agency Is atthe Mexican town
of that name. It la there and thereabouts
that you can take a peep into the post, and
see how people lived in the olden time; there
they don’t know what a Chicago Clipper Plow
is, but use a crooked stick for that instru
ment ; their wagons are carts, without a par
tide of lion in their construction—big, dual
ly-wheeled concerns. There they drive oxea
meetly, and the driver trudges dong on the
off side. There the women cany water on
their heads, as we see in the Sunday School
books, representing Christ and the woman of
Samsalaat the well. Thera you have the fan
dango, and the next morning the pleasure of
Bteltgite tencrita with whom you became
dizzy in the “Cuna,” engaged in driving an
hundred sheep orgeats around a stock of
wheat—and that is threshing. Conej-ia Is
some three hundred miles from Denver, and
until very recently was a portion of N«w
Mexico. It'is only 10 miles from Port Gar
land.
In reluming to Denver it is possible that
the Governor and Mr. Nlcolay had a narrow
escape, for In coming through the Sangre de
Crltto (Blood of Christ) Pass, .they met a
gentleman and lady, who, only an hour after
ward, were attacked by Espinosas, a murder
ous villain who has been the terror of the
southern portion of this Territory for the
past six months. The man end his compan
ion escaped almost miraculously with their
lives, but their team was killed and carriage
burned. For months both the civil and mili
tary had laid plans for his capture, but he had
eluded them; bat this attack washis last, for
in a few days he was traced to his fastness
and killed, as was his nephew, who was with
him; a brother of his was killed last spring,
•but this only seemed to inflame his thirst for
blood. He beats Dick Merrick in this re
' epect.
It seems that for sldirg the Texans hla
property had been confiscated by the New
Mexican military authorities, and from some
of the papers upon his person the following
has-been translated. The first is a portion of 1
a letter which he wrote to Gov. Evans, a copy -|
of which he retained:
“ Thf j ruined our families—they took every
thing in our house; first oar beds and blankets,
then our provisions. Seeing this are said, *We
wocN rather be dead than ace such infemies com
mitted on ourfamllles I* These were the reasons
we had to go oat and kill Americans—revenge for
the Infamies committed on oar families. Bat we
have repented of killing. Pardon as for what we
have done and give aa our liberty, so that im nr.
fleer will have anything to do with as, for also ia
tilling cue coins his liberty. I am aware that
yoo know ofsome I have killed, bat of othera 70a
don'tksow. It is a sufficient number, however.
Ask is New Mexico If any other two men have
ever been known to 'have, killed as many men as
the Espinosas. We have killed thirty-two.” i
Here the writing becomes indistinct and
cannot be correctly translated. He acknow
ledged burning the carriage and shooting the
mules. He called tho Americana “ gringos”
and cowards, and ridiculed the idea of their
taking him.
The second paper Is a letter to his wife;
He seemed to be under the special protection
of some very high personages, hutthefiDol
result proves that in the hour of trial
«* they played off” on him. Here Is the let
ter :
“ I, Philippe, on this the forty-third night of my
company with the angels. lam blessed with the
mukfiom tbo breast ofHolvaiother Mary! lam
covered with the cloak of Holy St. Salvador! 1
am defended by the sword of Holy St. Paul I
I am looking after animals and my enemies.
They have bands and cannot touch me;
They have feet and cannot catch me; *
They hare eyes and cannot see me;
They have ears and cannot hear ma.
lam as free os our Lord was originally. Amen
—Jesus i • v , t
Plyingalonganatrow path Imet Jesus Christ.
Jesus Cbriet be zur father; Mother Mary be my
mother; Holy St Clement be my sponsor, so that
tbo devil may not meet mo by day or night.
1 will be sitting on the lap of the Virgin Mary,
until I die inherarms. AmcnJcsos.” ;
Like Jeff Davis, he wanted to be “let
alone,” but the soldiers, when they found
him made short work—a dozen bullets
Elerced him—and his head, as well as that of
is nephew graced a pike staff at -Fort Gar
land the same evening. ‘ •S. W.
The Outbreak In New Zealand.
]Fiom the London Times, October 16.],
We have to announce very disagreeable
news from New Zealand. The hostility of the
tribes in the Northern Island has broken forth
in open revolt, and we are once again at war.
The country about Auckland, one of the
earliest settled and most flourishing districts
of the island?, is the ecene of atrocities which
lead {one to doubt whether a quarter of a
century of Christian preaching has had much
effect on the cruel and perfidious native.
It was in the middle of July that the events
took place, the account of which has
Just reached us. For some time Eewl, a
chief who has long been the leader of the
malcontents, and who is suspected of hav
ing instituted some foul murders, had
been endeavoring to rouse the Maories
iu the neighborhood of Auckland, to rebel
lion. His object was to make a general rising
of theNortbemtribes, particularly the Waika
toes, a warlike race, whose country is close to
Auckland, and then by a sudden movement
to exterminate the settlers. The first act
which he contemplated was* the murder of
some white men on the Waikato Elver.
However.- the plot was discovered, the troops
were withdrawn from the Taranaki district,
where they had been watching someill-dls
disposed natives, and preparations were made
for anticipatirg the outbreak by a movement
against the Walkatoes. While this was tak
ing place the natives began the struggle by
murdering two settlers at a place called
Drury, about twenty miles from Auckland.
This was on thelsihof July. The murder
ers fell on the unfortunate men, who were
cutting timber, killed them, and hacked their
bcdles savagely. Two days after an escort
was attackea within & short distance of the
same place. I
After this it need hot he sold that both Gov
ernment and people were, at the last advices,
preparing for war on a large Beale. The first
military movement was made by Gen Cam*
eron, who, with 500 men, advanced against
the natives, who, to the number of several
hundreds, fought with considerable skill
making a stand at every formidable point'
and defending with the greatest obstinacy cer
tain positions, which they had fortified with
lines of rifle pits. These people belonged to
the Waikato ulhe, which, with its proximity
to Auckland, seems to have become proflj
dent in the arts of warfare, if In no
other kind of dvllizatlon. The
however, were defeated with considera
ble less. This was the only military
event which had taken place up to the
departure of the mail, but the preparations
for a determined struggle were in progress. l
We are happy to find there is
nodoubt of the spirit of the colo-.
nlits. They have sprung to arms with
an alacarity equal to that which the mother
country wcul<T exhibit if threatened with
foreign invasion. The volunteers and mil
itia of the province of Auckland amounted
• already to 4,000, folly armed There Is a per
manent colonial corps of cavalry, wblclrwill
he actively employed. , ■
The future prosperity of New Zeland will
depend on the event of this war, which has
solopg menaced it, and nothing should be
sp&recfto make the operations effective and
the victory complete. ~ .
Sliver Minins on Lake Superior.
The existence of rich deposits of silver on
Lake Superior, in the neighborhood of Mar
quette, can no longer be regarded as mythical,
and the subject is now attrac‘lnff.,tho earnest
attention of capitalists. On Friday night, In
this city, the preliminary steps were taken for
the organization of two companies to engage
in silver mining, viz: the “ Kotth Star Silver
Mining Company,” and the “NorthernLlght
Silver Mining Company.” Those who are
embarking In the business are gentlemen of
enterprise as well as means, and If any satis
factory results can be accomplished they wiu
be attained under their auspices. .
Gentlemen who arrived on the Iron City in
foim us that the people around Marquette are
wild with excitement, and the, woods are
full of explorers, who are constantly bring
ing in specimens. The deposits extend from
a little beyond Teal Lake almost toLAnse
Bi«v but of courte only in tracts, and variable
In richness. In one locality, It was believed
that fifty tons of ore could be got oat ia a
week The veins are usually well deQoed
and of acharsc'er to be easily mined. It ia
said tbit Mr. Williams, Saperiotendent of the
Bmeltb g Works at Pottage Like, hoe .made
an assay, aid focnd fifteen per cent of (he
vein matter to be pme -silver, bat cannot
Touch for the truth of this statement It
will in due time be determined whether the
excitement is ol the character that attended,
the South Sea bubble, or is to culminate in
the developementof Incalculable wealth. The
regular record in oar commercial column ot.
the receipt 0/ “Silver iroiu Like Superior,”,
as almost as common place an event as (he
receipt of copper at tfce present day, maj§
eeem a little visionary, but stronger things
have happened. The iDvestiga ion la pros
pect will at all events hove the effect of ad
ding to the already overflowing prosperity of
the famous Lake Superior re^on.-—Drfroft
Adv. 2d.
FEEIDMEN OF THE SOUTH.
Their Numbers, Health, Employ
ment, &o.
Report on the Somber and Wants of
the Contrabands In.the.Department
onheleuncßsee, by Committees ap
pointed by the Chaplain’s Aesocia*
tlvn, Vicksburg, OUss M Oct. 19, ’63*
Tour Committee beg leave to report, after
finch Inquiry as a short time permits them to
make of the Government Commissioners and
citizens of Vicksburg, the following results,
to-wit:
First— Numbers.
Not lees than 85,000 arc gathered on the
banks of the Mississippi, from Helena to
Natchez. Of these, about 10,000 are within
twelve miles of Vicksburg, of whom only
500 axe men, except those enlisted in the
army, the balance being women andcMldran,
who are entirely dependent on Government,
or charity, for support—the able bodied be
ing enlisted in the army, or employed as
cooks, grooms and teamat* rs, Is the cause of
this inequality. Ol the 9,000 near Goodrich’s
Landing, La., 7,000 have been employed on
abandoned plantations', the 'Government
agents cultivating these, paying ihe men $lO
a month, including $9 in clothing; children
between the ages of twelve and fifteen years,
half price ; rations provided for all.. Those
under the sgc of twelve are not required to
work in the held, but are to have the privilege
of schools. Rebel raids on the leased planta
tions, last Juno, destroyed the crops of nuny
planters, and consequently the uncertainty of
securing their crops did not Justify the pram-:
he of larger wages at present, or such as will
gladly be paid when these calamities are past,
leside these thousands under the supervision
of Government agents, there are many trying
to support themselves, living as they con in
vacant houses and hovels.
Second— Health,
That there has been fearful mortality amongt
the Fieedmen, both the enlisted soldiers and
camps of the infirm—the women and children
—we have ogonizlcgly felt.
The cause appeal a to us to be;
1. Bring congregated In great numbers in .
camps and lodges, without suitable emplow
menu or regular exercise. -
2. Unnsualand unhealthy food; the soft
den charge from com bread to whe&ten;
sometimes overeating and sometimes painful
destitution of suitable nourishment, espe
cially for the sick. '
3. Change of water. Cistern water is usu
ally drank in Southern cities and on planta
tions. Deprived of this, the fugitives have,
of necestiy, drank tto waters of the Missis
sippi, or from springs in malarious districts.
Acckd to these, almost entire destitution of
physicians and medicines.
4. Miserable apologies for tents or shelter
to protect them from the heat of day and the
dews and storms of night; and the ftet that,
dilven from their homes with only garments
almost worn out, they have suffered from
colds already, some even unto death, and
hence the living are' wholly unprepared for
the chilling winds and the storms oi autumn
and winter.
Th It d— Employment.
Several thousand of the strongmen are now
soldieis in the United States army, and are
doing good service as soldiers. Others are
cultivating plantations ot the Government,
as we have already shown, and some have
done well robing cotton and com for them
selves, unmolested by our enemies. Many
of those encamped in Louisiana are hired to
cut firewood, and the contractors pay both
men and women suitable wages for tnis work.
At present thousands are too feeble and sick,
for military duty, or lor work, and must be
clothed atd fed and nursed chiefly by the
Government, or by charity of individuals; or
be left, as the man who fell among thieves
was, by the Priest and the Levite, to die of
want. What good Simaritan will come to
four oil and wine into their wounds ?
bnrth— School*
These have been commenced at Memphis,
Corinth, Wend Ten,"Helena and this place.
One.of 185 scholars is opened In Vicksburg by;
two missionaries of the u United Brethren in'
Christ,” ot the State of
schools, young and old manifest much entha--
slssm and determination to learn, and one or
our sources of grief now is, that when. they
ask drily for their spelling books and prim-;
ers, we are obliged to cay, “ Car stock is
gene, and those on their way to ns, or order
ed by us, have cot yet come.” Schools, to'
some extent, will be taught by colored men, 1
and self supported, under advice and aid of
nlilte frieeds.
These facts coming to our eyes and ears,'
lead us, In reply to questions comlmr drily
irem the benevolent at the North, to appeal
to them, and to the agents, military and civil,
ofour Government, to meet these wants at
or ce; by sending to them,
1. Suitable and strong garments for- wo
men and children, under and outer. Including
shoes, strong and new.
2. Providing them houses or tents that will
shelter them trom the cold.
3. Healthful and nutritious food, adding to
the Government rations what the sick and in-
linn may need, as a donation, or by sale to
such as can buy.
4. Send them physicians, who love their
souls and know how to minister-to their
bodies, well supplied with medicines, from
Government or otherwise, especially with
simple herbs, on which they have so long re
lied, and which they crave as the miser does
gold. K 1
5. Preachers, school teachers and primary
school bocks are on absolute necessity for
the mental and moral training of those whose
joke God has broken by His own strong
band, and has committed to the care of the
lovers of their country and tbeirfeUow-men;
and now, pointing to them, afflicted, tossed,
fainting,.dying, says: “Blessed is he that
consfderetn the poor;” “The poor ye have
always with you,” and commands; “Feed my
sheep;” “If ye love me, feed my lambs;”
and will say: “Inasmuch as ye have done it
unto one of the least cf these, ye have done
it unto me.
Bcspcclfally submitted,
J. Colss,
Chaplain 31st DL VoL Infantry.
JEBEMiATt Poster,
Chaplain Ist 111. Light ArtUiery.
T. M. Stevenson,
Chaplain 78th O. VoL Infantry.
HEWS PARAGRAPHS.
The "Wheeling is officially required
to be dated “ West Virginia.” .
—The great Boston organ, which has been
seven years in bnlldlng, was formally eAibi
ted at Music Hall in that city on Saturday
evening. Mr. Morgan, organist, at Grace
Church in this city, presided at theinstru-.
ment, and the Boston papers describe the
scene os one of “ unexampled enthusiasm.” ;
—A Confederate surgeon .who was beastly
drunk when onr forces captured Little Hock,
Arkansas, found himself among the Yankees
when he got sober, and remarked that it beat
Bfp Van winkle that a man couldn’t go to
sleep In the Confederate States without waking
up In ihe United States. >
—Dennis Galavan, an Irishman living 3n
L*nn , Mass., has been committed to Jril for
trial for poisoning his wife and two children
with Spanish files, which he placed in a tea
pot, Their lives were fora while despaired
of, but it is now thought they will recover. ,
—The New Orleans .Jke says that there is
great scarcity of labor, on the sugar planta
tions. and it la estimated that in Plaquemines
parish ihe loss uf the planter?, owing to this
want of labor, will not be less than ten or
fifteen thousand hogsheads.
—On Desolation Island, southeast of the
Cape cf Good Hope, fossil shell, fish and
whales have been oi-covered on a mountain
3,000 feet above the level of the sea. ,
—Dr. Draper of New York city has photo
graphed the moon. Who will take a photo
graph of “ the man in the moon ?”
—The largest income reported in the third
collection district of the State of New York,
is $200,000 by a New York merchant, and the
smallest Issl by a New Yorkbroker.-
— l The. Philadelphians have to pay seven
cents per quart for mßk and water,.
—The largest locomotive in the United
States, if not in the world, has just been built
fbr the Philadelphia and Beading Railroad
Company. It lias, twelve driving wheels,
and weighs more than one hundrea thousand
pounds. .
—The wife of Lorenzo Dow, the eccentric
preacher, died at Montville, Ct, on Tuesday of
fist week.
—A cad case is told of a mother who made
the pretence of a visit to her illegitimate
eon, oylng : at the -Soldier’s Home in Provi
dence, a chance to. steol > all his money from
uhderhls pillow.
. -.Brigadier General Louis Blenker died at
his residence in New Jersey, on the Slat ult.,
In his fifty : •second year. . • .
—The San Francisco Golden Era says Adah
Isaacs Menken netted over SIO,COO by her
flnt engagement at Maguire’s Opera House.:
Aedah seems to have taken the Son Francis*
cans by storm. ' -;
On the 7th nit. a Roman tesselated pave* ,
ment was discovered in the old town of Ches-,
ter England. The tecselhe * are black and'
white. On the west is an elongated vase,,
with stopper in white, some twenty-four
Inches in length, with a star of white above
some twelve inches in diameter. On the east
is a peculiar pattern - of black and white,
triangular in shape, and seme two feet distant.
irem the base. •.
—A "Washington correspondent of the Kew -
Tork In<bpeudtnt,e&j&: “There was a sight
so be seen in broad daylight a few days ago,'
in front of the Presidential mansion,'which:
gave these who witnessed it a shocking idea:
ot the enward strides which the vice of in
temperance-haa made iu ‘ good society,’ du
ring the last few years. A women clad in the
richest snd most fashionable garments, with
diamonds flashingfrom her slender Augers In
the slant Westernsunshine, sat upon ther
stone balustrade,,nnable to proceed on her
homeward walk without betraying herself..
At last she rose and started' on, swaying toi
and fro, and yet soon rested again, utterly un- •
able to proceed. The carriage of a foreign;
minister passed by—the poor woman was no-;
tlccd—and it turned, stopped, took In the;
lady, and carried herto her luxurious home.;
For the lady Is wealthy and occupies a high'
social position, hnt she was drunk la tho
streets of Wtthingtoa I * *
tux: south westhht
FaIB.
The UTeetlnc at Metropolitan nelly
rot, s—Hun. Owen liovcjoy’s Be*
xnarlts.
Ur. Lovejoy was lutrodnced, and epoke, as fob
The ladies who have planned and carried for
ward to tnampbatt eacctss the Northwestern
Fair, for thebtnefitof eiek and wounded soldiers.
Lave received, and will continue to receive well
tanud eulogies forth* ir skill, ability, aud nn*el
fish patriotism, Those who originated, and all
those who hav* co operated from ad parts of tbs
country la the execution of this beneficent work,
aie richly entitled to all the eulogistic approbation
they have and may receive The genius and tal
cut which can project,arrange acd carry forward
to a successful terminatiou an affair like this
Fair* are equal, if not tbe same, to
the genius and talent requisite for the
sncctsaful management ol a- great battle. I pro*
pofeC.thciefore,that*ll the ladles—managers Ac.
—ipc. rating in this patriotic tnteip-lse, nave con*
ferred upon them honorary commissions as Cap
tains and Major Generals of the Sanitary D<*put
ment of the United States.' They would be unlike
Bomeo’her officers who sbid&in the city with pay
while the ladies are in the field without pty. Be
fore concluding my remarks, 1 may -attempt with
Inai tlstlc hand to lay a few toucucs on the canvas,
where these ladles already shine forth in such rich
ai o glowing colors.
Meonahitel shall be forgives,;! hope; for occu
pying most of the time aliotu dme on. this occa
sion in saying a few words upon the necessity and
obligation or oargivinga cordial, unselfish, aud
nt suntec. support to the Administration. In doing
thiblpioporetobcallttlfrcntlcalon the critics,
and find a little fault with the faolc-nndsrs, I
have in mind more particularly lending articles in
certain widely circulated and Influential journals
In the Fast as .well as in the West—
Joureals which are very, able, very loyal
and sometimes—(cum pace dixerim ) very dog
matic. Tbe author of the ASutld tells his re idets
that &om one they can leant the character .of all
the Greeks. And I can, perhaps, illustrate whit
I mean and wish to eay by reference to an edito
rial In the laat issue of the Independent of New
York, as well as la. any other. This article
charges the President with mlsstatUg the points
of the address recently presented to him by dis
tinguished citizens' of Hlssouri, and of being
guilty ot special pleading la his reply. Now,
everybody who knows anything at all of Hr, Lin
coln knows that he was characterized even as a
lawyer by the entire candor and fairness with
which he stated the position of his opponent, and
the absence of everything like special pleading.
Who believes that he has become a quibbler as
Piesfdtnt, when, through a long series of years,
he was a fair and candid practitioner?
This writer admits that be docs not know the
facts in the Missouri question, and goes on in a
carefully prepared article, of more than a column,
to belabor the President for what he Is pleased to
Vim a wrong acd unrighteous decision. He also
says that the President coquets with the Demo
crats, while turning a cold shoulder to the Radi
cals, and that the President avows this as his
policy. Without knowing anything of the matter.
| except on general principles, I venture to saythat
I .Hr. .Lincoln never avowed aoy each policy, unless
I it was extorted from some playful remark. But it
Is not my pm pose to enter upon a minute and ex
.tetded review ol this article, but I allude to it In
order to deprecate and reprobate such unjust and
pernicious criticisms- This paper says the '‘per
sistent and ineradicable good intent of the Presi
dent, keeps criticism half unarmed.” This and
the honied quotation “ Faithful are the wounds of
a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceit
ful,’* only sharpens the knife and make the wounds
gape all the wider.
If criticism In an undress, under the guise ol
friendship's fidelity, cuts and slashes in tale style,
I should oread to have a critic in foil armor hick
ingfct me. There wounds are very much such
wounds ns the old prophet Inflicted on the captive
: Sing whom he hewed in pieces. It would have
been a master-piece‘Of consolation. If, while Che
stern old seer was bringing down the blows thick,
and powerful, severing nacds and arms and limbs,
be bad bethought himself to say with a sanctimo
nious elongation of the face and a proiftr pursing
up of the mouth: “ Faithful are the wounds of a
fnend hut the kieses of as enemy arc deceitful"
This would have been Inimitable and without a
parallel. It would have been well worthy of a
tableau by our Detroit friends
There are a great many quotations which can be
made bom tho proverbs of wise men besides that
relating to the fklthful wounds of friendship's
blade. I call one to mind. As dead flies cause the
ointment of the Apothecary to send forth a stink
ing savor eo Is a little folly la him that Is la repu-,
tattoo for wisdom aud honor, Ever sod anon, an i
article appears Jh that producing precisely i
this effect; a little folly in the midst of much wis-, I
dom, derp loyalty and a pure unalloyed radicalism 1
.which I accept, love, and glory in. Ineelrot
step, I reckon, to establish or vindicate my radi
calism lamiadlcal—that is, anti-slavery from
the crown of the head to the sole of the toot I
abhor neutrality as Nature does a vacuum. So
docs God. “1 would thou wert cold or hot. So
because thou art neither cold nor hot. but lake
worm, 1 will spew thee out of my mouth.” -
My sympathies are all with the radicals, the an- 1
conaltioraland Immediate abolitionists of Mis
souri. 1 honor and admire them. Were it in my
power I would crown them as martyrs and make
them kings and priests, and cause them to reign
and minister In tbe Temple of Freedom forever.
But when it comes to new and specific measures
of which I do not and cannot know all that he
knows, lam not prepared to denounce the Presi
dent as wrong and unrighteous la his decisions,
because he docs not act as I think I would act.
when, perhaps, if I knew all the facts and could
look over the whole field, 1 should not differ from
him—and especially after the decision Is made
and fault-flrdlug can do so good and is sure to do
mischief. Bow much lunar caustic would have to
bo Infiltrated into one of these editorials to fit
it for the columns of the New York World or the
Chicago Time*/ 1 want to tell these journals,
what their astute managers must know already,
that just such “faithful wounds” came near losing
the country to the Administration, giving slavery
and rebellion, which indeed are synonymous terms,
a majority of sympathizer in the National
atnre, who would have rec»heu our orave soldiers ■
n disgrace, and allowed treason to have rent the
srpupiic in twain. I repeat, the disasters of the
ast fall elections were owing, to some extent, and
Indeed to a great degree, to these pernicious and
unjust criticisms under the guise of “faithful
wounds.”
Those were dreary days of gloom and darkness,
and defeat. Thanks to the President, who d’dnot
and would not despair of the Republic. Assailed
by foes, comparatively foigaken by friends, and
gashed by “faithful woundswith dlstster in the
field and apparent defeat at the polls, be stood as
the Son ot God stood when His disciples forsook
him aid fled. Conscious of his integrity and
trusting in his God, how bravely he dung to the
helm, while, till tho old-ship emerged tram the.
waves which threatened to make It a wreck, and
glided through the dazzlfrg waters glistening with
the victories, martial and political, of the post'
year. 1 nevtrloved and honored the Admlnlscra-.
ion so much as when they thus stood, gallantly
buffeting the waves of adversity, with p itlcat en
durance, determined to continue to the end.
If we discredit the President with the people,—,
which .1 thank God,ueither the folly of friends deal
ing “fbithful wounds,” nor the madee and false
hoodof enemies dealing “unfaithful wounds ’ can
do—we should only produce the same results that
came sear occurring last fall.
The Independent nasapeifecl tight to make a
Magnus Apollo of any oncltcbooscs, andean mag
nify him to Msheaits content, and I w:ll join th;
the shout. But in order to do this. Uhas no right'
to berate, belittle, and belle the Executive. If
my remaiks should happen to fall under the eye
of .that paper, x and hope that U will give
them a place in its Imperial columns, and If they,
sound a little harsh, let it turn to Proverbs and
read “faithful arc the wounds of a friend, but the
kieses of an enemy are deceitful.”
The President has no subsidized press, not even
an official organ to explain or defend his action.,
So great indeed Is his magnanimity, that he often
feeds the baiiii that strikes. But he needs no
word of mine. He lives in tho hearts of the mosses
from whom he came, and of whom he is. and they
love him and confide in him. Bis integrity ana
childlike transpatency of character are so great,
that he does not get full credit for his masterly
ability. I
Ana now I want to say farther to these hyper-;
critical censors, that could they succeed in making
the people diseatlcfied with the President, tbs
sceptre would not pass into what they might deem
-'abler bands, but would be grasped by some quasi
traitor in the gnj&e of a Seymour.
Let os have faith in the President Ho claims
co infallibility, acd co one claims it for him. If
there la any one who can conduct this war, enlist,
equip and fight a million of men without falling
into any mistake; as to the men or measures, X
should like to make him President, commander
in-chief, Major General, Captain and corporal.
I say, therefore, to the Radicals, whom Lregard
as the electaccordlogtotheforeknowiedge of God,
'in this State, and. if not presumption, I would ba
glad to have my voice go over the nation to the
' radical saints everywhere. “Do cot let any power
from earth or from beneath the earth alienate your
altacbmmt or weaken your confidence in the
President. Bo has given us the Proclamation of
Pier dom. Be has solemnly declared ha will not
revoke It. And although he may seem to lead the
Isaac of freedom bound to the altar, you may rest
assured that it Is doce from n conviction of duty,
and that the sacrificial knife will never fall on the
lad. And now let the people in their sovereignty
acd power; through their chosen and authorized
Representatives in Congi css, complete what baa
been so auspiciously begun, and piss an act ol
universal emancipation, and thus moke “Union
and Liberty now and forever,onc and Inseparable.’’
Let usnow recur to this patriotic gathering that
bos been swarming and swaying to and f*o through
tbe city for many successive days. The old Pen
tecostal miracle seems itself here. There were,
at that time, devout men from every nation dwel
ling at the capital cf Judea; and the strange and
supernatural peculiarity was, that each heard the
other speak bis own native language.- It was tbe
common language of the heart, of love and good
will Into which they had Just been baptised by the
Spirit of the Invisible One.
This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your sight.
In these vaet crowds that go surging through yoac
city, are all classes and conditions of men. women
and children. They are, of one accord, in one
place. Native bom Teuton, Scandinavian, Gaul,
Latin, Celt and Saxon— of all political antecedents.
Republican, Democrat, Know-Nothing, pro-slave
ry and abolition, and of all religious creeds, all
hear each other speak in their native tongue tho
ouc universal language of patriotism. Tne only
exception is that of the secesh Ephralmitea
When ouc .of these comes to the Ford of freedom
and denies his origin, and you say to him—ssy
PMMithi he says fat he cannot frame to
prononnee It right. There Is a alight sibilant
sound to It, as mere was to the speech of Elsie
Ycnner. Their speech betrayeth them.
One of the old Latin poets said, in view of hla
writings, “ I tare erected a monument more
enduring than brass.” The ladies of the North
west might well adopt similar language, and cob
be chargeable with undue boasting. They will
live In history. They will live In the grateial
hearts of the sickand wounded warriors Posterity
will rise up acd call th».m blessed, saying,
“ Many daughters have done virtuously, but ye
excel them all, Nay, I look beyond this earthly
scene. Theologians tell us there 5s to he a grand
I review, when the Earth comes to be purified by
1 fi*e, as It was once submerged by the flood. In
this grand procession, the Inhabitants of earth are
to appear, and the Son of God, Commaudor
in-CMef is to preside, to judge men according
to the deeds done in the body. It requires no
great exertion of the imagination of faUh as you
choose to hear the August and Divine Personage
addressing the women who have tolled in tni* no
ble, work. “Come, ye blessed of my Father, in
herit the Kingdom prepared for you from tbe foun
dation of the world. For I was an hungered and
Je gave me meat—thirsty and ye gave me drink;
was a stranger and ye took mo in—naked and ve
clothed mo—sick and ye visited mo; I was In.
prison acd ye came unto me.” And then pointing
to the sick, wounded, and- hmguiehlcg soldier,
say?. “Iraemnch as ye did it unto one ofthe least
of these ye did it unto me.” Ladies ol taeNonh
west of America, I do not say. May God bless you,
but I say Gcd will bless yon.”
Art Gallery.
ilr.P.Flahe Reed, our well known landscape
painter, who has just returned from a sketching
•tourthtoaghKcw Hampshire and Vermont, with
his portfolio full ofxiches, and his imagination re
freshed with tho glories wherewith nature deco*
rates herself in her secret hidlog places, among
those matchless mountains, has presented to the
Western Fair a picture of great merit, being a por
trait of Sable Mountain, Vermont. This, with
■ the characteristic scenery that surrounds it, and
over which the bald old monarch sways the sceptre
of a genial and loving sovereignty, for ages, com
pared with which the periods of human dynasties
are but as moments In tho mighty reckoning,
cannot fail to interest every lover of art and
nature.
The value of the painting, made out in dollars.
Is one hundred and twenty-five. It will bo sure to
find many admirers, and a speedy purchaser.
. A view from the Hinter-see, byLtn, This Isa
very fine lar da cape, but too detached In its parts,
and the lights too much scattered. It lacks some
central point of attraction on which theejemay'
rest. There is no resting place In it anywhere
one looks from beauty to beauty, it la true, but
this Is sot what one requires in the composition o |
a true picture. .Tie water la tie foreground Is
not transparent enough—althoush that in the
background 1» deep and liquid- The foliage and
the rocks are well painted and fall of floe details.
The extreme distance Is good, and the sky squally,
tut a little too painty in It* manipulation. It
looks like a real view from nature, without the
Itota* The* i.
an eictllert stoop of horses In toe forcgroned of
thi, picture whtco constitute, Indeed, the picture
Iteelf, although toe lantdanapeis lullufpre;
tertlon. without a particle of merit* Tlu. Wh.te
Horse la the same .noble, old
Quern give to this painter and *kjch
the Blacksmith's Shop. It la
and the foreshortmng both of this and ithe further
tort-c?. Is one of the best mentsoftha P l^ tar °;
The Sorrel Rom is tot so good, although the bead
i* fie:y aid spirited But strange to **ythe draw-
Ire In this torse is fearfully defective. One of the
hirdVffs is partly lifted up. but not a muscle la
the thigh is moved to correspond with the act.
No. 46— Group of Dog*, by O- A VanderßruffO*
—To paint a dog. or to describe a dog in any
vivid. poetic manner, so that the dog mmseli
shall not bo ashamed. In either case, of the por
tiait, ote must veritably lore a dog, and for the
time being so enter into the canine heart. In*
etlncts, Intellect, and passion*, as literally to be
come a dog I All great painters and au great
poets understand this mystery, though to the
Greeks outside it is verily, a stumbling block.
Lacdseer and Rosa Bonbenr, Walter Scott and
Lord Byron, and. Fannucoro Cooper, knew all
about it Byron, in his wrath agalnat Tweedle
dum and Twocdle-dee, said:
'‘Men are doss; ... ,
And I flitter them in saying that they are dogs—
Their betters £sr I”
•Which, we confess, was hard on Twecdle-dam
ardhls brother.
Look, now. on that group of dogs by Q. A. \ un
der Brnga. They never sat for tbeir likenesses in
any Broadway fashion, at any fashionable photo
grapher's. Yet there they are! as full of life as if
they had, and twice as natural. How comes it all
about? One could not get that flue animal vitality
—that power of limb, that color and texture of
hide* that nobio head of the central figure, which
Indeed is the picture—by any mechanical process.
The Sun h msclf is a quack and an imposter where
the trueartist comes—whore this Vender Braga
comes, foe example. Saw any man, on a piece of
miserable canvass, sues a head and front of a dog
as that which comes clear out of the miserable can
vass, with its unspeakably faithful and fiery, but
almost human eyes. Us long silken ears. Its black
lowland laughing ivories to welcome any good fel
! low l Saw no m&n such a thing I that is our belief,
aniefis. perhaps, Landseer was the artist. We all
give In to Landser, who was once. Indeed, the no*
blest of all dogs himself, many ceous ago, in one
of his Avaters.
Sellable Bailroad Tima Table,
Eersafter train® will U i anixn t; Gtioaso,
As fellows J
Akans.
■aOETOAd SX7C2 POOS Of LAXX VttJJSH.
bfr.ij S:CO a. m.
Detroit &N. Y. Express. *7:30 s. m. *8:30 p.m.
Night Express M tT.lop. a. f,:Soa.a.
tuck. CS.-CX., oracoft’i-rt a*m Loxrz.’rsuiz nm.
Morning RrproM *7:Uh *. m- *10:15 p. a.
Night Bxprese «:16 p. a. Jtm a. a.
WXCHIEA3 SOtTrZXKK—xoosro LUX
Muft »8;40a 11. ®Tlsp.»
Nev YorfcErrsreM....... *7:30 ft. ts. r *Bop. o.
KlzhtßrpWß# n-18 p. a. 17:30 ft.tr.,
aacHisis ftonzsx?H— y-um.
Sspr«(ift •7:85 ft. «. •WCp.ie.
SxpreasrU Adrira....... msp,a. lltSOft.*.
cr-'.CHTNJ.TTI XIZ Lj3TB.
Union Depot Weat Sli«, sear Madi*Od 3rldge.
H&ilTr&ia.... .... ,£7:3oi.st. |1:S0«.o.
Sfigbt Expreei . tiSOp. is. tS;GOp.a.
CDtK. UW3—2O2 XFBtiHOPIJa AJOLGTTCTTLL3.
Day Express 27:30 a. m. $7:30 g. ax.
Hight&rpresa +3:30 p. a. jS:33p. m.
raysFcssst, toM »iTn axa accaao.
MoirJngilall. 4:00 a. ai. 8:50 p.m
Day Express,.. 7:20 a.m. 7:15 p.m.
Night l&psoos 7:15 d.x. 7:40 am.
Va3paralaoA£M»tfl T a.>..>. B:30p. s. 7:40 a. a.
XLZJSOD QRffML.
Stj Pasaengc *S:S3 a. a- *9:43 p. s*
Pnsaeitgar HO:DO p. s- a. at,
Kankakee Accomodation *6:00 p. a*
Hyde Pack?iais *d:4oa.m. *5:0(11,®,
« * .....*13:00 a.
M
« ♦* *6:lsp. a. ■WDp.m.
CSZOAGO ASP ST. tmrS.
Mail rasaenger...,. *5:30 a. sa. -l-00a,m
Nlrfct Puieirger. tiiSp.n. fliSCp.m
Joliet and Wilmington Ac
coramodatioa.. *4.-00 p. a. *l5O a. n.
caitueo in) boot imaac,
iDaySrpms ana Ma 11... *9:COa. m.
Joliet Accommodation... *4:45p.a. *B:Sse.a..
KlzhtEzpreu t&SOp.n. Ifclsa.*a.
C3ICAQO, BTTStatSTON AMD gpTXJ?.
Pay impress and Hail...* *&3Qa,B« "5:13 p. n,
Rlgbtßzpreae +9tlap. zv !8;S0 am.
. Accommodation *4:50 p. to. *5:iC a. a.
CHICAGO A*3> BAXB3U TOTCt.
Trains wlflraa ae follows, caaa£aft« 3a aday
April 19,186 V.
Fallon rasasrgas...
Felton Passenger..
Freeport Paasccgef.
Freeport Passenger....... __
Sockfcrd, Hir
er
Gene-?* &J0 n. a. tSC a. *a-
Chicago aio HCsnnr^BTxaai—ißeps*. tmaw Sla
de ard West Water streets
;Jay Sspreis _.......*8:45 a. m. *s:sop.m-
Woodstock and Wtj *2:10 a. a.
JaneßTillei-cconL.... .. *4:sop.n. *11:45 a. m.
Night Express *&3O p. m. *&OC a.su
CHICAGO axd vzawAnzy.
Norclrg Express.... •8.45 a.m. •11.41a.au
Express .. *B:Bop,ta* •fiiSOp.m*
Waciegan *• *5:50 p. eu *B£6a. au
• saadaya axteptsd. t Saturday* szsepted
Hosdiys excepted.
.9:00 a. 2a. W?. a.
.9:10 p. V. B;9C(USL
THIRTY TEARS’ EXPERI-
X BKC3DFAHOLD NOBtt—Mrt. WlnslOW*
Soothing syrup la the prescription of one of the heat
female physicians and nurses in the United State*, and
haa been used for thirty yean with naver-fatUne safe
ty and success by million* of mothers and chudroo,
from the feeble la Cant one week old to the adult.
it corrects aeldity of the stomach.
Referee wind colic,
Bcrnlatea the bowels.
am gives rest, hesith and confbrt to mo Jig
child, ts cants nhcttta. tnilElSß-Bia-ddP
ALCOHOLIC.
▲ HIGHLY COXCSKIBJLTSD
N Ol
VEGETABLE EXTRACT
A FUSE TONIC.
GEE ill AM BITTERS
FBEPAB23) BT
DE. C. M. JACKSON, Phila., Pa.,
WILL EFFECTUALLY CUES
UTEB COMPLAKT, .
BYSI-EI’SU,
JII.SDICE,
Chronle or Herrons DeMllty, Dlsosses of th»
Kidoejs, and all dlstasas arising from
a disordered User or Stomach,
such
MCOTJgtIpV
tion.lnwurdPtee,
Folneas cr Blood to tbs
Hoad Acidity of the Stomach, .
FftMca. Heartburn, Digest lor food,
yolMw or Weight in the Slomacb
tatlona. Sinking or Fluttering at toePU of the
Stomach. Swimming of me He* HtarjedandDiffl- -
cult Breathing, Fluttering at the Heart, Choking or.
Suffocating cßnvaUoca when to a lying posture,
jjtanerecf Vtalou. Data crWebetoforetoe sight.
Fever and tfmlpaln la the Head, Deficiency c<
Penetration. Tellowceaa or the Skin and
Site Pain In the S4oe, Back. Cheit,
Limbs. &c„ Scfiten FJu»be» of
Heat. Earning, to the Flesh,
Contact imagining!
ct Evil. and greet
Depression of
And w'U positively prevent* YBLLDt* FZVBR. 3Hr
LIOC3 ?HVEB, *c. They contain
50 ALCOHOL OS SAD WHISKY.
mey WILL CUES tbc above diseases in ninety-nine
eatesoutof a hundred.
Do vou want something to Strengthen Ton
Do you want a Good Appetite 1
Do you want to Build up your Constitution 1
Do you want to Feel Well 1
Do you want to get rid of Hervousneaa!
Do you want Energy I
Do you want to Sleep Well ?
Do you want a Brisi and Vigorous Feeling V
If yen do. use HOOKLAHD’3 GERMAN BITIESI
PAETICUIAE HO I ICE,
There are many preparations aold under the name
of Bitters rutnp in quart bellies,compounded oi tue
cheapest whisky or mesoa rum, cosun g from aa to
to cents ptr g&Uon. toe taste dhguUwl by Aniaa or
Coriander seed.
Tala date of Bitters has canard and wm continue to
cause, u long as they can be sold, hundreds to die the
death of the drunkard. By tbeir use toe system la
kept continually under toe laflaeace of Alcoholic
etlmaUotaof tiu* vo.se kind, the desire for Liquor is)
created ar.dksptup all the horrors
attendant open a drunkard’s lifo and death. Beware
of them I
Attention. Soldiers! and Friends of Soldiers,
We call the attention cf all &avlcz ra.atlona cr
Mends In the army to toe fact that "Boor LANDS,
German Pltieia ” will cars nine tenths cf toe diseases
toduccaby exposure* aid prlrattonaincldent to camp.
Ufo. in m«s hsta. published almost dally to the news
papers, on ttearnvai of tteslck, it will be noticed
teat a very Urge proportion are suffering from dabiu
ty. Every case oi that tU d can be readily cored by,
lloofiana r B German Bitten. -Diseases molting from
disorders of toe digestive o«aa* ara speedily remov- ‘
#<L We have no hesitation in statlok that. If these
Bitters were freely used among our soldier*, hendreda
of lives might be saved tost ntoerwbe will ba lest.
Wecaii attention to the remarkablo and
well authenticated care of cne of the uatoa’a heroes,
whose life, to esc his own language. *• has Been saved,
by tee Bitters," pmLABXtPmA. Aug. 33.1363.
Jlassss. -opus A Evans—Well, geatlemea. your
Hocfiand’s German Bitters baaaave<rmy Ule. Vhera
la bo mistake to tola. Ula vouched io? by numbers ol
my comrades, some of whore names are appended, and
wnowers lully cognizant of all the circumstances of
ny caee. I am. ana have Ccon for the four years,
a member of Snensan'a celebrated battery and order
the immediate comma: d of Oapt. H. B. Ayrre
Thtough the eipoture attend-.nt upon try erduouadu*
Uw. I vrxs attaciwi la November last with Inffamma
tlon ol toe lung* aadwaa for seventy-two days in toe
hoerltal. This was followed by great debility, height
•nedbyaa attack of tiyseaiery. I waa then removed
from the Wl lifl Home, and sect to toll city on board
toe «ea:cerState of Maine.'* bom which 1 landed
on ipe ‘.'Sib of J uao Since that time Ibave been about
as Ibw as one ecnl-i be and soil retain a spark of viul-
Sy. Foe a wtek o - more I was scarcely able to s wal
low an) tMnjr and If I did force a morses down. It wai
nstblstely thrown upagam.
Icocldnoteveakcspag'asacf oa my s.om*
atb. LUe could notUst under these ctcumiunces;
and accordlbeiy toe physicians who tad teen woxklrg
jhithihßy. tncugh uniucccssfcliy. to rescue me from
toe srssp oi toe dread Archer, frankly to.d me tout •
they could do no more for me. and advijcd me oaea
aclerzvE:aß.and toruikßaachdliposJlliuof my Urn
ItsdfuLdsas best saitedme. An ac-iuaiutonca wno
vliiced me a; toe hospital. Mr. Frederica Statnbroa. of
Sixth below a rch sueet. advised mo. as a forlorn hope
to try your Bitters, and kindly procured a bottle.
From the time I commenced taking team the gloomy
shadow of death recjdt d.and I am sow, thank Goa
for it. getting better. Though I £*vs taken bat two'
bcf-les. 1 have sained teu pound*, atd 1 feel aanjmiue
ofbelrz permitted to rajoin my wlla aud daughter,
from whom 1 have heard nothin? fur eighteen months
—for, gmtleznen. 1 am a loyal Virginian, from toe vi
cinity ol Front Royal. To your invaluable Bitten I
owe the certainty ol Ufe which au taken toe plica of
vague fears—to your utters wlB I owe the glorious
privilege cfagam clasping to ay bosom Xhote who are
daarest to m e in life.
Very truly yours. . ISAAC MALONH.
If e fully concur la tue truth ol the above statement,
u we hsd det paired cf »t*lbg our comrade Mr. Halcus,
rtstoiedtohes’th. . „
JOHN CUDDLEBACK. Ist NSW Yorkßittery.
GEORGE a ACKLKT* Co. C 11th Maine.
LEWIS rmrVAT.tRR old New York.
I. B. SPENCER 1« Artllle’y. Battery F.
J. B. TASEWELL.Co. B.SdVermont.
HBKRTB. JEBUMX.CO.B. **
HBNBY T. MACDONALD. CO,C.KhMxae.
JOB N T. WARD. Co. B. sth Maine.
EEHWAK EOCH, CG.H.TAINdW York
NATHANIEL B. tCOMAS.CO.
ANDRSTW J KIMBALL, Co. A. Sd \truiou—
JOHN JENKINS. Co. A. ICdto Banna.
BETfABC OP COUSXE»FKird !
of ■’ C-M, JACKSOU." uoa tta
■waarrEß oreaca actiio.
Price Per Bottle 75 Cent*,
Or ■
anooMOioowett '
irul lorir—o. —coroiy i-JitC.6T tiottm.
principal Office and Manufactory
HO. SM ABCH BTBEKT,
JONES & EVAKB,
lathe Unitedßwe*, sese-em6»«»m» ■
2lmuatmtnU
TIJfoVICSKR’S THRATR*.
VfJL MadJ-on iCreet.hetwecnDeareoTaua Bute.
MF“Tb* best v*a dated Theatre la as worm.
IBITAT AVBNISO. Sot. 6th,
BBNEBTT OF 98. CHANFBAU,
And pctfttve'y hla 7ait ni.ht hut one. when will be
prde&tedthe gnat senodonal Drstua ot
The Octoroon: Or, Life in Zoaistens*
THE GHOST!
UaeleFste Mr. ChaafrM.
Pakm fkudfer.......... Jtr. Mevieksr.
GeorteP«)ten Mr. hlvwra.
Zm> the Ocioroca lira Pallia*,
Mis* Hlaht.
Dua My on.
Other charterers by ft e totlru coapiny,
Th*f geat pUy baa crowded tbs Tbsaf a avery night
l»basbe«n pre«e:ted. a>o auss positively bs *.(*•
drawn after the present week
Satutoxt Arrxiiroojr. at twoo clock.
“ TH* O'.TOBOOH.
Adm’Mfoa to tre sftsrnccn performance. 33 cent*.
eaTuanaT J»iqbt, for the l**t time
e laß OCfOKOOS
■jyTETROPOLITAN HALL.
. IMMSSSB ATTRACTIONS.
rOSIimLY FOB TWO HIOHT3 ONLY.
MONDAY AND TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER Otb AND lOth.
AM COMIKQ!
AM COMING
AU COMZHGf
McAllister.
Tbeyrusger the great world renowned sad dlsttn
trusted proewlnsnt smbirextxons
PRESTIDIGICOMEDUH,
FhytUht. Arch lUustcnl.-t aid Presi.d glUtaur.
CV~Ad&-l*sl!>a 33 cents. Reserved Bests 50 cents.
Utor« open •« 7, to commence »« 8 o’clock.
K JT. ALLWAN.Agsat.
TV/TR. D. E. SHAW would respect-
IT I lolly inform the citizens of CMcago that na win
re-open Ms
DANCING ACABB^rr,
COBITEB OF STATE AflD BAJTDOLPT -ST*.
ARTBaNCB AT 79 STATS
FortheFatlandWinMrte’m.eaflkTUßDAt ibaltMi
a*.3 o'clock P. u. He win aitc Inst, act
Uses* usual If reettea. HoU prepwed togivelaMxaa
non to say nmnbsr of pupiu. having anpia asslusno*
to bis own family. Fcr former particulars inquire a*
Ms rooms. 70 State itrett. oe36o4S»ia-
GMIBASOLE’S
• DiN’CtXO ACADBUY,
311 WABASH AVAJCDiS Between Adams sad J*3l
•on atrevtr.
Clssws open tlltlSissforbeglQsars
Children’s dan every Tats lay sad gaturdai.
Patents only allowed aa viators. Assembly ITWI
Xuew'-av ulsbt. ocio.a»twiw_
Salts.
O.ILBEBT & SAMPSON,
Vj 46 A 48 DEA&BOBX SThSMT.
SALE OB’
Three Talaable Colts and one Ball
AT AUCTION.
Will be sold, la f>ont of BnrAX HALL. on FST.
DAT. Kotos berCtb, it 3 o'clock F. M. one Black
Coit one year o’o, tlre<* by tbs wail-kaowa bone tbs
FlackbliO. ovi ed In Chicago. The dim U BngltiA
He. longer, and Jn every reepect equal to the lire.
Guarantee can be glren t* tie Pedigree. .
Also, one Barrel Colt, tio yean old oi the SL
LaarccaandMoreaaitvck and ta In every way a
wry fine animal. Tne above uoitacaa be aeenatF.
Morgan*a Stable up to tne time of isle.
Alio, cse Eo;rei Fony. thirteen taoda high, wall
broke to Kiddle. aid wui work in hamega. Can be
seen at Wright A Carrier'* Stable.
Als\cne you Blooded Latham Ball. He took the
fltit prze in New YctK. and la worth the attenUon of
suck i all era.
AD ItqcJxJei in regard to tbe sale can be made o£
GILBEBT Sc SAS7SON, AncUoaeeri)
Wbo will ae:t (be above named stock.
EO6 p 4T2 • 11
ILBEKT a SAMPSON,
VJ is &nd 4$ Ttaarbotn street.
HOBBE AT AUCTION.
We will sell tb'a (FRIDAY) trorolxg. In front or
W. 45 and 19 Dearborn atreet, as 9>t
o crock or a Bay Mare, seven yean old, toond ana
kino, apd la iliafcal Sale potrlre.
UMM It GILBERT A SAMPSON, AUCtTS.
fJJLBERT & SAMPSON’,
VJ General Anctlosea.3. 4l.43.fc43Dearboni-«t,
LASSE SiXS OF
Superior Now Furniture
PIAXO FOETE,
16 Elegant Clamber Salta and 9 Forlor Solas,
AT AUCTION,
On FRIDAY, For. Bib. at 9S' o'clock, we shall san
at cor «»!• srcoma. a splendid assortment of Parlor
S»ts, la BrocateLe. Plirured Bepp and Ealr Cloth,
16 elegant chamber S«t«. Cottaco sad Frmch, high
Dead hoard*. K. tf. inn full marble tone InSosevood,
Ualc. Wamnt. Chestnut and and finished la
the finest manner; Te*e a-Tciea.>o[M. Parlor Chain,
Fafyandßccklas’C&am. Marblc-Too Tables. Cano
geat and B» ik Bccken. Dreniog Bareaas Wash
statds. Cottage Bedsteads, Oak Dialog Chain, Car
pe\a, Mirror*. fitovea Ac Also, one French B:ae
•wood Cue piar oa 7 cctavca. together with a general
aseonmett or boa'ekeealr z g:odi. _
nctrpSU-St GILBERT* SAMPSON, AucVW,
trUGH ALEXANDER,
I I GSNKBAL AXJCIIONEBB.
100 BEIBBOBN 91 BEET.
Laige rile cf Furniture. Bads. Bedding, Slotci. China,
GliU, <iC.. AC .
From a Wabash avenue Bosnltßg House oa FRI
DAY HORSING CtMna*. at9S o'clock The above
f coda ate removed to mv salesroom to convenience
of tale and win be found wen deserving ere atten
tion of htnseheeneta cootUUng of Paclur. Dining
Beam. Chamber shd Kitchen War* in great variety.
H. ALBXAND33. Auctioneer.
B. T.lp, Salesman, nod p 131-2aa
HEAP OF SHEESP
AT AUCTION,
On Friday, sor. 6tb, at 10 o’clock,
AT SHiEHAS’S CATTLE TARO?.
We *baU sell wlthcot resfrve, for caah, 130 HKAO
SEISBP. (125 Bma md 23 Raisa.)
LESTER AND COISWOLD BREED,
From Car ado.
They are In good condition, and ut a choice atoclL
Tber can be assn at tee tdjoiaing yard. at Sh*mao’»»
north ct ito Cottage Grove.
_ Wit. A. BUTTERS <fc CO . •
no 3 pSP3 it Ancttoaeera.
■^YHOLESAUS
A-Xiction Sales
-Of-
BOOTS & SHOE&
-BY-
Gore, Willson & Cc..
S4 X.JV2CEI STKEE?,
X7ESY
TVK39II AND IHUESSAi*
At 19 A. M. prompt.
Weshall offer our large and we& selected ct?t2 l
♦he above day* tc tbs highest bidder, sad at
PBIYAT3 lAL3
Xhrtnibout the wees. We guarantee oar stock -T
UXGEB AST) BETIEB SELECTS}.,
ASX) OFFERED AT
lower pricbs
Bun 67 iiu Otic HOCIS IS THE V7KSS.
fiOSEi WILLBQ3 * CS
54 Lake Street,
MinMiCT
A UCTIOK—I shall *ell at Auc
tlon. at No. KlLake-it., corner nf franklin-tL,
at9K A, M„ en Monday /Tuesday. Wednesday, and
Friday. Hot. 2d. 2d. -tin. and 6th. dotting C’olha.
Cssslsere?. SUrta and Draw a-a. Socka. Mitts ana
6'OTCa. Sraperders. Hoop flklrta. Roods Boom aad
Shoes, and aceneiaiaaaortiLettDf
Notions. etc. etc. 8. MCKESSON,
rol la l.
OTLTON’S CEMENT.—The Li-
XI soluble Cement of the Maurs Hilto*
Bsorsne la certainly the nest article <-f the UiM
aver Invented, It should he keptlaerery manufac
tory. workshop and house, everywhere. By Ita us*,
many dollars can he saved la-the run of »yoe*. This
Cement cannot deeompest or become corrupt, ea ha
eomblnatlcn la en scientific principles, and under no
elrcnmstences or ctarze of temperature will It emit
esy offensive smell. The various uses to which IS
can he successfully applied, renders It invaluable to
all clear**. for parricalars see advertisement.
»e9sisd7-dza wwAJiad
TO SIEGING SCHOOL
TKACHSBS AND
CHOIR lEADEBS.
Tb.© Empire Oolleotion,
BY A. N. JOHNSON,
Isth6 most complete collection oi Music which baa
be«n public ed. It la to ameged that t: tonus a com
pictoSlißlog school Book, a complete Choir Book. *
core piste Ai them Pook.aad a complete Glee Book—
lulu tte Boo?. Notwitosmdlcg no bookhaaevar
contalred a greater quaptiry or varlaty of music, lb
miu bsforn aved to ScrooJ and Choirs, at »9 per doz.
D ANDHbSON * co.. 133 3umxi: street.Toledo,o,
oc3C-pC4 swrA-nr
TPHJE GREATEST MEDICAL
X DISCOVERT or THE ASE,
DB. EEiIJEDY, *f BnbiTT)
Bu dlteorwed a COMBOS PAATTJS3 WHKD, that
nna Scrofula, Kiytipeiaa. Balt Khenm. Bmjnron*.
Scald Head. Fimpfea, Unrated Sort Len ieebee
and Blothea of every name and nature. Wua every
otter Blood par met haaAUedtry this a'd standard
remedy, yoxiale by all Druggists.
JMPOBTAIIT TO LADIES.
DE. CHESSEMAH-a EULS.
Tielngredientsla the*ePlHslatte revutt{£•
and extensive cracUre. mild in their operation, ana
»ure to comet all
ticoe. bmottxo all oasTstrcriorfn.' whether JfS?
io£or«um« MaduM. paU. “ “ VSSJSSm
ta'lca of the teart. white*. IB rerroo* a-Tecooßs,
bysterlee disturbed *leop. which arl*ea from lafawnap
tioa»cfnam.e. . __
«. JS^OSsssgsas
tr r !? Propf.etorf.
intmoK.
-To'FIBIfEBS, PRODUCE
X ngu.iiM ANP MAHUKAOrUEBES.
KITES * 3UGET,
61 Slag William street, London, &nd 9 Chapel
nmt, liverpocl,
Who have had considerable experience m affect* as
Istaraacee.and the tram-ecaa* of general Aa«r»»a
hartne— In snalaad. receive conagomenta of 4«®;
eaa prodaca and manufacture for *ala on coc*j»«*
mecC Snipping btumaaa of every slad executed w»
economy and dispatch. _ _ »
References to Meeua. Jona Paatr e *??****
Rjcnvap RusaxLL. importers. iW Brsadwaj.
MS nrn Sm3tew*-w*»4n ——
SUBSTITUTES TVANTED,
s2oo—Cash in Hand-S2OO.
Wanted.flra |2° a l ?|Siiy«o^toto , iK i ßa^S» < ;
wQI he oald itoonttea. wim
aad alaorecei«e all^a« to go Into the
to 5 o’joe* ottnoTran*.
▼“ B««
C&xksuecL