Lorain County news. (Oberlin and Wellington [Ohio]), 1865-03-22

              f L 0 vip i 1 ill l I i mM Ij1I III OBERLIN OHIO WEDNESDAY MARCH 22 186 200 PER ANNUM v t tJ I ft VOL 1 vn on i THE LORAIN COUNTY NEWS J F HARMON Publisher L L HICE Editor TERMS OF THE NEWS SUBSCRIPTION One yettTiitadvanet Six monllis TbreemoDlha tU Oil 1 III ADVERTISING Onecolunin nn vaar One hatftiolumD ou year Onefourth column one year Oneefghlh oolumo one year Onesixteenth cointnD one year Onebalfcolumu 0 months Onefourth column ti month a Oneeighth column J months Onesixteenth column 6 mo n tin 80 00 40 Oil 25 00 13 00 9 00 35 00 15 00 a oo i 00 rmp rary advertising to bo paldforlnadTanee w ii i V Iir8llnrionan 3c a line No ehargofor nhon notices of f arriaren and Dath Cards in M Burnett Dlrctofl a aUlD in auvance OBEELIN BUSINESS DIRECTORY A O FLATT Pbotograpblc Artit IVater In Oval Picture Frame Hholograililc Album etc etc corner Main and College Street G W WK1GHT new Photograph andAoibrotype Gallery Pictures of all styles uin at the lowest rates 3d etory Merchants Exch A1TOKNEVH O BAILKY Jr Attorney and Counsellor at Law over Hoveys store Siuih Alalu St HORR HALE Attorneys aud Counwlors at Law Klyrla Oulo OUlc in Union Jtlook over the Poal Office KJ3 Hqrr Jons G tUt L BRKCKKN R1DGK Attorney aud Counsellor at Law Pension Hack Pay and bounty Agent Special attention given to Collections and the business of Kxecutors and Administrators ry Office east side Public Square ELY HI A FIKS r NATIONAL BANK Of Oberlin Designated Depository andGovernment Agenta lor sale t Bonds c A H John sow Cash H Plumb Pros WM WHITTAKEK Buker Grocer Con fee tioner Itfticr in Ovulars ulso in Illustrated and Literary Paper Bast College t siOOjKurnipEK i G1LLANDKRS All kinds of Books bound ibap for Jali Ella Block E College St HOOKrilOHKK IM FITCH Books Statlonory PicturesPicture Frame Wall Pnier etc College St H J GOODRICH Books Statiooory Pictures Frame Wall Paper etc cor Coll fc Main Si BM1S AND 8HOKB W M BAILEY dealer ie Boots Shoes and Rub bera Custom Woikdone to order M Maiust iiOYCE oc HANCOCK ManufacturerUeulvn in ladies and Genu Bool uud Shoes PHINKAS BAILEY E Lorain St Boots and Shoes made and Repaired at a vury low juice It Aflt J J HILL East homin atsto 1 BEHCHEL HEED Prospect Hire I I AB11V AH1 A H KM ilUU t BKUOKTHA maker and deulerin Furniture Keid Mude Coffins etc Synth Main Wt tlTiU4 1AL INS UK I E i JALKKS Propriitor and Principal Coui jtercial U part Pie jj ij niou clock auj Clll 1C0411A flllC 1AV11TITE I K W A DRAKE Principals Chirographic JJeimriinenl Instructors in Sjieuccrinu Prac litilnuu Ornameiital penm unship Union Blk ODVUSI J F S1DDALL Union Block up stairs PltESX AN It LO VK JIAjKKH MRSEBEinVlN KastColJego street lUa HL HENRY dealer In Drugs Aledicinesaud Groceries Prescriptions cunjpouuded J M GAHUNER CO Drugs McdicUiTa Palms oils utc birgtjsOldSiaiHiWaii St lKV 001H V ifllLLINEUV STHkUS LEVY dealers in KeaiyMmlo Liouimg uiouih burs inunery troous w UttOCEIt AV D CONFECllONEU 1 D CARPENTER Grocer Confectioner frovisiuus r lour teed etc Union Block J WATSON dealer In Groceries ani Confeetionery oyters uud Tropical Fruits all lu their season Ice Creaai Parlors S Main St UltOl fUtlEM AND UAUDWAItG VYM HOVEY dealer in Groceries Flour Prt visions Hardware Coml Block MuinSt Ptt TOB1N Saddles HarnessTrnuksCarpetBags Valises sign Big Horse SMuLu at HOI NE AND SIGN PAlNXINtU WM H MASON House Sign and Car ri sire Painting Graining and Papering Shop 3d door east ilonoe House College street JEWEIEKN FRANK tiUS DRY Dealer in Clocks Watches Jowalry Musical Instruments Silver Ware Spectacles Fancy Notions Fancy China Wre die No 2 Union Block See Adverlisament I1VEUV AND XEAItl STABLE c H FAVjELGood Horses and Carriages let Also all kinds of teaming done at the shortest notice Office News Block G W STEELE Organist and Pianist North Main Street Oberiiu 31 AN ll ACTI litiltS K HAYNES Patent Brace Fence Town County and Ktale Rights for sale ISAAC PEN FIELD Wagons made a ud repaired and Blacksmith Ing oorMaia and Water St WATER M IN PEEK Maoufactursrsof Doors San Blinds Scroll Work at Platuiug Mill ME Kill AN IM I M JOHNSON dealer in Dry Goods Gro cerles Hardware Crockery Produce MainSt KINNEY fc REAMER Dry Goods Clothing GrooeriesCrockeryetccur falu Jk Coll St A 11 IIAl North Main St atteulsto Saw lillug Tiol and Cutlery sharpening and light carpenter work niiKCHANT TAIlOKS G W ELLS Opposil Vlonrttt House Coll St NOT A B I ES IlHLIC L L RICE Notary IuLiid TBI IOKilX COUMTT NkHS Ill VetlCIAKM M CHAMBKRLIN BomuU hut volioge St IOMKR JOHNSON 1 I East i Iigo i reel m Llf Mild Fire lusurance Agent DOCTOR A STEELE North Main Struetl BUNCETPhTsiciaiiTudS H I OVEWAND FCHNITUUE T S PULLER Stores Furniture Groceries WKKD St BBCK WITHIron Hardware etc S Stoves Tin Sheet mth Main Ntrovt FOR SALE A GOOD FAHM contaning 150 acres X lil west and fif north of the tenter of Wellington Qood DUILDINOS nd ORCHARDS Term eay Feb 21ie65 H ELLIOTT lfin6i DYSPEPSIA JVD OISXA8IS KKSULnNO PHOM Disoidoi of the tiver and OiseMive Organs nr ccRKn bt IIOOFLANDS E It HI A IS BITTERN The great strengthening Tonic These Bitters have performed moro Cures Have and do give better satisfaction Have more testimony Have more respectable pople to vouch for them I Than any any othtr artiri n th We defy any one to contradict this assertion and WILL PAY 100000 To any one that will produce a Certiorate published by us that is not gbkujnk HOOFLANDS GERMAN BITTERS Will cure every case of Chronic orKervona Debility Diseases of the Kidney and Diseases arising froma disordered Stomach Observe the followinc nvmnfnmc MBniin from Disorder of theDjKestire Organs vonsupauon inward fiUn Ful ness of Blood to lhj ifed Aoldily of UJje Htooiucli Aaosea Henrthnrn Disgust for Food Folneaa or Wight in the Stomach Sour Eructations Sinkingor Fhil tering at the Pit of the Stomach Swim ming of the Head Hurried and DitDcu It Breath iogy Fluttering at the Haart Chokiag or Suffocating Sensations when In a lying posture DimnoDs of Vision Dots or Webs before the Sight Fever and Dull Ptfn in the Head Deficiency ofPerspiration Yellowness or the Skin and Evs Pain in the Side Back Chest Limbs etc Sudden Flushes of Heal Burning in the Flesh Constant Imaginings of Eril and great Depression of Spirits Remember that this BIT1EHM Ifi NOT ALCOHOLIC Contains no Rnm or WhiBky and cant make Drunkards but is THE BESTTONicm THE WORLD Head Who Bays Ho From Rev Levi G Beck Pastor of the Baptis nurcr remoerton J formerly of the Baptist Church Philadelphia I have known iioufiands German Bitters favorably for a number of years I have used them in my ownfamily and have been so pleased wiih fheir effects that I was inducort to recemmend them to many others and know that they have operated in atrikingly beneficial manner I take great pleasure in thus publicly proclaiming thie fact and calling the attention of those afflicted with thediseases for which they are recommer ded to these Bittern knowing by experience that my recommendation will be sustained I no this more cheerfully as HooflandiBitters is intended to benefit the afflicted and is not a rum drink Yoirp truly LEVI G BECK From Rev J Newton Brown D D Editor of the Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge and Christian Chronicle Philadelphia Although not disposed to favorerrecommend Patent Medicines in general through distrust of their ingredients and effectB yet l snow oi no sumcient reasons why a man may not testify to the benelits he believes himself to havo received from any simple preparation in the hope that he may thus contribute to the benefit of others I do this the more readily in regard to flooflandt German Bitters prepared by Dr C M Jackson of this city because I wag prejudiced againt them for many years under the impression that thy vrer chiefly an aicolioiic mixture 1 am indebted to my friend Kobert Shoemaker Esq for theremoval of thiB prejudice by proper tests and for encouragement to try them whetsuffering from great and longcontinued debility The use of three bottle of the Bittern at the beginning of the present year was followed by evident reliof and restoration to a degree of bodily and mental vigor which bad not felt for nix months before and badalmost despaired of regaining I therefore thank God and my friend for directing me to the use of them J NEWTG2J BROWN Phila Pa From the Rev Jos H Kcnnard Pastor efthe 10th Baptist Church Dr Jackpon Dear fir I have beenfrequently requested to connect my name with commendations of different kinds ofnedicinos but regarding the practice ns out of my appropriate sphere I have in all cases declined but with a clear proof in various instances and particularly in my family of the usefulness of Dr Hooflands German Bitters I depart for once fiom my usual course to express my full conviction that for general debility of the tyttem and espe cially jor iver vomptamt tt u a taje and valuable preparation In pome casts it may fail but usually I doubt not it will J very boneficiRl to those who suffer from tht aKove caape Yours very respectfully J H KENNAKD Eighth below Coates St Phila FrOTBthe Rev ThosWinter Pastor ofKoxborough Penn Baptist Church Dr Jackson Dear Sir I feel it due to your excellent preparation HooflandGerman Bitters to add my testimony to the deserved reputation it hB obtained I have for year at timer been troubled with great disorder in my head and nervous system I was advised by a friend to try u bottle of your Germun Bitters I did so and have experienced great and unexpected relief myhealth ha4 been Vvry materiallybenefited I confidentlyrecommend thearticle where I meet with cases similar to my own and have been assured by many of their good effects Respectfully T WINTER From Rev J H Tamer Pasu r of Heddlng M K Church Philadelphia Dr Jackson Dear Sir Having used your German Bitten io my familyfrequently I am prepared to say that it has been of great service I believe that in most cases of general debility of the system it is the safest and most valuable remedy of which I have any knowledge Yours J H TURNKR No 72B N Nineteenth Sir Prom the Rev J M LyortB formerly Pastor of the Columbus N J and Milestown Pa Baptist Churches Nka Rochklik N Y Dr C M Jackson Dear Sir I feel it a pleasure thus of my ono accord to bear testimony to the excellence of the German Bitters Some years since being much afflicted with Dyspepsia I ued them with very beneficial results I have oftenrecommended them to persons enfeebled by that tormenting disease and have heard from them the most flattering testimonials as to their groat value In cases of generaldebility I bulieve it to be a tonic tbatennnot be surpassed J M LYONS Fiom Rev J S Herman of the German Re formed Church Kulztown Berks Co Penn Dr C MJackson Ropec ted ir I have boen troubled with Dyspepsiu nenrly twenty years and have never ued any medicine that did me as much good uh Hooflands Bitterf I am very much improved in health after having taken five bottles Your with respect J S HERMAN I r 1 o o ms Large Sire holding nearly double quantity 1 per bottle half doz 508 Small Sine 75c per bot half dor 400 BE WAKE Jt VVVfUERtElls See that the signature of C M JACK SON if on tho Wrappkb of each bottle Should your nearest druggist not have the artioie do not be put off by any of the intoxicating preparation that may be offered in iu place but eend to us and wc will for ward doeureiY parked by expreas Principal Ornca and M antfactory No 631 Arch STaisT Philadelphia Pa JONES A EVANS Sacctttortto C M Jickim If Co PaOPRI STORfl For ale by Druggists and Dealers in evry town la the l oltd State 8JM New Arrangement Dr D O WHITE SUKGICAL AKD MECHANICAL DENTIST HaviDg opened a branch office in Oberlin for the future may be found Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thuiedays at Plumbs Block iu Oberlin and Fri days Saturdays uud Mondays in Elyria 254 GROCERIES AND HARDWARE NO 3 COMMERCIAL BLOCK Purchasers will find a fine stock of al kiudsofFEESH GROCERIES with FLOUR MEAL as good and cheap aB any in market e carefully selected assortment ofHahdwark of first quality and fairpriceaa good supply of FARMING TOOLS NAILS c Src Trusting la the quality of goods and fairness of prices rather than paperpromises the proprietor invites the patronage o the public BURN IX Gr FLUID KEROSENE OIL WICKING LAMPS AND FIXTURES A ireah supplv which are sailing at very LOW PRICES Horse Rakes 1 nuve a few first rate REVOLVING R0RSE RAKES which will be sold f low as can he bought elsewhere They may be seen at my Store W HOVEY Oberlin March 3 1864 209 260 JT JEWEL Af cut pberliu STATEMENT of the condition of the COLUMBIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY on the 31st day of December 1864 made to the Auditor of Ohio purnu 9nt to the Statute of that State NAME AND LOCATION The name of the Company 6 the CO LI MB I A FIRE INSURANCECOMPANY and is located at 161 Broadwuv New York I CAPITAL The amount uf Cnpital Sock all paid up is jiOlliO 00 11 ASSETS Gash of tho Company on hand and in the hands of Agents and other persons The Bonds and Stocks owued by tbe Company as per vouchers accompanying Debts due the Compauysecured by mortgage as peraccompanying vouchers Debts otherwise securedasper vouchers accompanying Debts for premiums All other securities 3704 14 yfcfyi2 mi 3tiV9nO 00 18080 15 39j6 23 148t7 6j Total arrets Df Company 59470 67 III LIABILITIES Losses adjusted 156S3 04 All olher claims against tbe Company 12067 23 Total Liabilities 27763 32 IV MISCELLANEOUS The greatest amount insured in any one risk 25001 00 The greatest amount allowed by the rules to be insured in any one city town or vil lage and tbe grentect amount allowed to he insu red in nny one block Nt Rule The amouut of it cnniral or earnings deposited in any other State for security for losses therein 37fult AO Deposite required in Ohio herewith made State of New York I County of New York fc Timothy G Ch cue hill President and John B Arthur Secretary of theCOLUMBIA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANYbeing severally sworn depose and say that the foregoing is a full true and correct Btateuient of the affairs of said Company that the said Insurance Compnny is the bona tide owner of at least ONEHUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS of actual Cash Capital invented in Stocks and Bonds or in Mortgages on Real Estate worth double the amount for which the same is mortgaged and that they are the above described Officers of paid InsuranceCompany TIMOTHY G CHURCHILL Pres JOHN B ARTHUR Secretary Subscribed and sworn before me thi the 28th day of January I860 JOHN L CHURCHILL Notary Public of New York f Five Cent Stamp J Ofkicr or tbk Auditor of Statb Columbus Ohio Jan 31 18C It is hereby certified That theforegoing is a correct oopy of the statement of tbe condition uf the Columbia PiruInsurance Company of New York made to and tiled in this Office for the year 1865 Witness my hand and seal officiatl JAS H GODMAN Auditor of State SSAI Five Cent Simp CERTIFICATE OF AVTHOK1TY To expire on the 31st duy of Jan 1866 OtTTrK OF THK AlDlTOR OF STATE Insurance Department Columbus Jim 31 ISOo Whkukas The COLUMBIA FtKEINSURANCE COMPANY located at New York in the Stale of Now York has filed in this oftirc a awurn statement of its condition as required by tho nrnt section of the act To regulate InsuranceCompanies not incorporated by the State of Ohio paesed April 8 13S6 and amendedFebruary 9 1S64 and Whereas said Company has furnished the undersigned satisfactory evidence that it is posscttsed of at least One II un nit kd Thousand Dollars ofActual Capitu 1 JiiVested iu stocks or bonds or in inortgnges of real estate worth double the amount fri which the name is inortgngod and Whereas said Cuiupany hai filed in this office written instrument under its corporate seal eigncd by the President and Secretary thereofauthorizing any agent ir ants of saidCompany in this State to acknowledge service of process for and iti behalf ol saidCompany according to the term of said Uw Now theruforo in pursuance of the first section of tho aforesaid act I Jamrs II Godmam Auditor of the State of Ohio do hereby certify that said Columbia FireInurance Couipuny of New York isauthoriied to transact the business of FireInsurance in th id State until the thirtytint day of January in tho yearonc tbounand eight hundred sixtyeix In witness whereof I havehereunto subscribed my name and enured the seal of my office to be Ixert he day and year above written JAS H GODMAN Auditor of State FiveCent Strap 3234 THE tORAIN COUNTY HEWS The following beautiful lines received sometime since from our Rochptercorrespondent have becB singularly mislaid and orei looked to the present time Written by RequeMj Frank ie Long I am asked to write a song Or a verse about jeur life Brief and free frra sin and strife Loved before you went away Oh I how sadly missed to day Bright the record earth bus given How much brighter up in Heaven Ellen Loog You have asked of me a song All about your darling boy ODce your greatest pride and joy Well my storys worn and old Often better sung and told Never lost but gone before J Waiting an the other shore For the friends that mourn him here And he misses even there Foranaugel born like thine Do not murmur or repine Simon Long This the burden of my song Never murmur or complain Your great loss is his great Erun He today hasjoyi attained That on earth are never gained He has pierced the Tail that lies T ween this world and Paradise Though you loved hiin well and true God loves wiser far than yo And the child you oft caressed Holds He now upon His breast About Pay in jr for lav Editob Lorain County Nswt I thiuk that not only is Mr Leouard iht when be saya that I make this matter of fiuauce a religious matter hut that he has broached a principle which is of universal application in ail the relations of all moral einga All bing and things in all the univeise so far as we know are made subject to certain laws each in accordance with its nature and relations This is true of all animals all vegetables and all minerals Let any of these essential laws be violated in whatever degree and proportional evils are sure to result God has given to man a spiritualnature and moral laws obedience to which are religious duties We as moral agents are bound to love God with all the heart soul mind and strength and to yield obedience nnto all that He has required of us because He is possessed of infinite perfections acdLccoJie1has given us laws in accordance with the nature he has given us and therelations in which He has placed us The laws of our nature aud relations aiso require as well as Godscommand that we love one another our neighborjis ourselves and that we do good unto all as we have opportunity and evil to none But who it will be asked is my neighbor 1 The goodSamaritan it would seem recognized him who fell among thieves as his neighbor By this parable I understand that our Savior intended to teach that any one in distress is entitled to the aid of any one who has it in his power to relieve him And suppose that the jew had been found still in the hands of the thieves and they had demanded a great sum for his ransom could they reasonably have demanded it would justice to them require that it should be paid them Humanity in the Samaritan might have prompted him to make the payment and if it bad boen the only method of relieving him it might have been right for his pake that payment should be made and the suffererrestored to hsa liberty and his rights but the question is whether the thieves could have any such claim upon him that justice to them could demand that any payment should be made them We Americans have long boasted of our glorious land of liberty where all enjoyed equal rights and have held out inducements to the people in other parts of the world to come here and participate with us of the precious boon Ttt Oh tell it not iu Gath publish it not in the streets Ashkelon bat it does not need publication for it is already known the world over that we are and long have been a nation of abominable hypocrites fornotwithstanding all out boasting we have had since the time we became a nation and for that matter long before a system of the vilest oppression which the light of day ever shone upon And because we have held our grasp upon it sopersistently that we could not be induced to loose our bold upon its victims God has now for almost four years been pouring out upon us the thunderbolts of His wrath and though muchprogross has now been made practically in the right direction and there are good reasons to believe that the vile Upas may in time be plucked up by the roots and cast out of the laod yvfhow srtfw7vtuml interest in order to accommodate how sfoio many have been to perceive and appreciate the iniquity theabominable wickedness of the system Now though I regard the holding of slave in itself considered a vastly greater wickedness than the meresecession of the States in rebellion as the root and the trunk of the Upas tree are more dangerous thun some of itstopmost branches yet I find men profess ing antislavery principles recommend ing that loyal men should be paid for their slaves I was surprised beyond meaaure rot to say how much my in ugnatiOD was excited on seeing ft few weeks ago a recoinmeiidution in the 2vew Xorlt Tribune that tbe national government should pay the loyal meu of Kentucky for their slaves on their being liberated Yes ho who ttnals horses or mouoy robs on the highway or breuks houses shall be imprisoned but he who robs the mother of her babe and reduces them as Dearly as possible to the condition of brutes shall onreturning them be paid a large sum of money On this basis how muoh is man elevated above the brute Oliver Clahk Lelttr from Copt F S Cute Annapolis M D March 8 1804 Deab Nkws It is a source of gieat pleasure to me to be able through jonr columns to inform my few surviving o that T am again ii i lie ltnd uf ilo free Laying aside the usitaicustoms of missionaries and others on their return from heathen lamb I shall not write a book nor give a detailed account of my adventures but will simply say that for the last eight months I have been traveling at the expense of the Confederate Government through the states of Virginia North Carolina South Carolina and Georgia visiunall the principal cities and enjoying free rides upon more than fourteen hundred miles of southern rail roads The philanthropic Howard visited all the prisons in England Weemulating his example visited all the prisons of the Confederacy besides a madhouse o Charleston South Carolina and a luntic asylum in Columbia The j country through which we passed was ccupied by two different races ofpeople the one white tbe other darker and more numerous It is difficult for a stranger to toll which is the superior race They seem to liva together on terms of greatest intimacy andfriendship and it is our opinion that a few ears will see these two racus merged into one During the last eight months wo have seen thousands of sick and starviug Union soldiers held prisoners of war by these barbarians Fifteen thousand of these noble men lie buried at Anderson ville ten thousand al Florence and Salisbury Most of these meu have died of pure starvation nod neatly all of mistreatment and cruelty The true state of affairs will never be known t believed at the North Retaliation ti out of the question Seas of blood I could not undo the wrong One man Gen Winder who had charge of the prisoners and who was in a greatmeasure responsible for their treatment has already gone to his reward He died in South Carolina a few weeks since Tis said his last words were For heavens saheifont give the prisoners meatUpon his advent his Satanic Majesty is said to have resigned his rule over the regions of darkness declaring that a greater titan he had come We came through the lines ten miles fron Wilmington on the 1st of Mirch There were one thousand of us all U S officers We met with a very warm reception Bands piaymg drumsbeating and dearest and best of all the old ars and gtripes floating on every hand JXhank God that we are under the old flag again went out from many amanly heart and tears of joy and gratitude dimmed many a veteran warriors eye Foot sore ragged dirty andpennyless we arrived in Wilmington There is an old saying that Providence takes care of the lame and the lazy We were provided for Personally I am greatly indebted to Quartermaster Mareh 5th U S C T and Lt Col Hayes 103d 0 V I Who could fall into better hands J Clean clothes a good bath plenty to eat a place to sleep a well tilled haversack and pockets lined with greenbacks for the homeward trip were among the bounties bestowedupon me by these good friends W e were si x d ays on board tbe steamer Gen Segwick before reaching this place It was my first sea voyage Heaven grant thai it may be my last Everybody was sick The man who wrote Rock me in tbe cradle cf the deep must have been a lunatic For myself I had rather take a small sized apothecary shop than another trip around Flatterns We are all waiting for leaves of ab sence to go to our honifs Yours truly F S Cake Mr Ieoiia rd on Fi na no la 1 IH ut ter It is the duty of all to study andunderstand abstract right so far as itrelates to morals and religion itill itappears to be not always practicable oi possible to reach it iu practice As for instance suppose a man to borrow five hundred dollars at ten per cent au his neighbor bruisa lie cau borrow it and his neighbor cannot or because he has credit aud bis neighbor liv not I say suppose him to borrow in order to accommodate his creditless neighbor or because this neighbor cannot pay him a debt of this same amount He must of course exact teu per cent per annum or the same amount of in teres he is compelled to pay in order to ac commodate his friend It is relatively j right for him to receive the ten pjreent j and ha Ixcomes entitled to his neigh toft ratiiude in addition lor his con sent to live uiler a deb expressly to accommodate this friend andpossibly to stand under a mortgage too in audition As in tue game ol nine pnsj tho fal of one pin togPther with the force of the ball sometimes necessitates the fall of all ilia pins so in usury the same it lays the poor of acommunity or people prostrate not perchance however but to a dead certainty A graceless financiers shots tell every time there is no such thing as hismissing tho entiro labor force of a nation when he operates with Governmentsecurities Every dollar expended by Gov ernment is paid in labor by itsproducing classes if paid at all Tbe soul and spiiit of Uncle Sam is labor toil This is Uncle Sam analizcd I wish to be understood as asserting thatarrangements can be entered into by which the use of money or rApial my bo had in abundance U one or ono and one tenth per Cfcut per annum and that an immense amount of revenue may be realized to the State from this source provided the nation were wisely to avail itself of I his natural orinalienable light especially of its producers There is necessity not only for itspaper currency but for a large amount of interestbearing bonds also They have been a great need of our people hitherto Instead of depositing money in om banking institutions our people would gladly have purchased taxable Government interest bearing bonds What cousummatemeannees for the rich nonproducers in a nation to wish to 6helter themselves under bonds not tax able for the war by means of which i e th3 war in thousands of instau j ces they have improved to the quadru pleing their at firt ill gotten wealth leaving tho poor laborer to foot all the war bills Oh shame where is thy blush V The sucking calf is not more dependeut upon its mother for itssustenance than is he or her who does not labor upon him or her who does I assert that all the currency anynation wants can bo issued on its assets as well as to have them remain useless and that it can redeem its currency iu coin in war or in pace andfurthermore I assert that the nation which is uuable or will no do this for itspeople is too poor ur is unt to live and ought to die or become absorbed by one whuh can Also the Administration which cannot afford its people aperfectly sound financial system had better dio ft3 sour as possibly I furtherassert that we have nothing worthy the name of system in finance a mere want is all we have in this line That we are at the mercy of a rapidly increasing army of money and stock gamblers and speculators that we are in a state of perfect derangement as to this matter and that our finances can no moro be controlled as they should be than can a gale nf wind or the ocean when lashed by it OurGovernment gives away her paper curroncy by the million of dollars aud then sets herself to work to tax it backcompelling her people to pay two dollars perhaps in the recovery of every one she thus throws away Throw does not express it She actually pays for the privilege of We must coin a now word io order to express it Such Congresses should certainly vote themselvesincreased salaries for such distinguished services Still I voted Jor this ad ministration and should do so again un der similar circumstances for the choice was between the present administration and one incalculably worse even Rebel rule or anarchy or perhaps both Elizub M Leonard Oberiiu March 2 1865 CharlettonThe Tiff eels of our GunsThe People Charleston Thursday Feb 24 About thirteen thousand shells have been thrown into tbe town nearly a thousand shells a mouth Some were filled with the pteparalion known as UrecK lire others with incendiary fuses others with powder only 1 ue shells were nred at a great ele vation and were therefore plunging shots striking a house on tho roof and passing down from the attic to the chambers lower stories ground floor and basement Some exploded in the attics some iu the cellars some in the chambers others in tbe walls The effect has been a conplete riddling of the houses Brick walls have been blown into a million of fragments roofs have been torn to pieces rafters beams braces scantlings have been broken and splintered into jack straws Churches hotels stores dwellingspublic buildings all have been shattered There are great holes in the ground where cartloads of eaith have beenexcavated in a twinkling We visited tho old office of theMercury in Broad street A messenger sent by the Marsh Angel hadpreceded us entering the root passing into the chimney and exploding within dumping several cart load of brick bats mortar and soot into the editorial room whiro secession had its incubation The loading rebellious spirits once sat thert in their arm chairs and enthroned Kitig Cotton and demanded homage to bis majesty from all naiions The first shell sirbt the Mercury up town to a safer locality but wheu Shermanbegan his march ino the interior the Mercury fled into the count y to Cheraw it is said right into Shermans line ol advauce It so Amen Tho Courier office in Bay street had not escaped damage A shell entered through tbe roof went toaring down through tho floor ripping up the boards breaking the timbers jarring the plaster from the walls exploding in the second story rattling all the tiles from the roof bursting out the wipdows smashing the composing stone opening the whole building to the sunlight Another shell had dashed tho side walk to pieces and blown a passage in iVn rU fn nimt sixhorse wagon A ear toe Courier ot i fice was the Union Bank Farmers and Exchange Bank and the Charleston Bank They were costly buildings fitted up with marble mantels floors of terra cotta tiles counters elaborate in carved work and with gorgeousfrescoing ou the walls There five years ago the merchants of the city the planters of the country theslavetraders assembled on exchange talked treason and indulged in extravagant daydreams of the future gorv of Charleston The rooms are silent now The oaken doors splintered tho frescoing washed from tho walls by the rain3 which drip from the shattered roof the desks are kindling wood the highly wrought cornice work has dropped from the ceiling to the ground the tiles aro plowed up tho roar bio mantelsshivered th liniUTfn plateglass of the windows lies in a million fragmentsupon tbe floor In short the banks have broke Passing from the banks to the hotel I found a like scene of destruction The door of the Mills House was open The windows had lost their glazing and were boarded up Sixteen shots have struck the building The rooms where secession had beenrampant in the begtnuing where bottles of wine had been drunk over the fall of Sumter echoed only to our footstep The Charleston Hotel has several great holes in the walls The churches have not escaped St Michaels the oldest of all has been repeatedly struck The pavement is thick with broken glass which has been rattled from the windows by the explosion of the shells All tbe churches in the lower portion of the city are wrecks The preachers were early imbued with tbe spirit of revolt Episcopalian Presbyterian and Baptist all preached secession Warehouses stores dwellings alike are shaken to pieces The familyresidences overlooking tbe Bay of Battery as it was called are windowings some even without doors The elaborate centre pieces of stuccowork in the drawing roois have crumbled the marble mantels are defaced bed rooms are filled with bricks tho whitemarble steps and mahogany balusters are shattered it is an indescribable scene ofdesolation and ruin of roofless doorless windowless houses crumbling wails upheaved pavements and grassgrown streets silent to all sounds ol business and vqicejess only to the woebegone povertyKckcn people who wander P aupVioivii mid the ruins looking to a uiiutfpast a disappointedpresent iF a hopeless future They are in rags and their boots are out at the toes their Bhoes down at the heels Thereino longer a manifestation of arrogance lordly insolence and conscious superiority over the Yankees on the part of the whites PALESTINE AN THE DESERT PAST 4X1 PHESET liv Hev Lyman Colemak D D The loader cf Israel wascommissioned by the God of Abraham to lead his people out of Egypt into a laud of ihe most exuberant fertility unto a good land aud a large a land flowing with milk and honey the familiar Hebrew expression to denote theexceeding fertility of the land of promise The delegation whom Moses sent to spy out the land whether it be fat or lean whether there be wood therein or not brought back a cluster of grapes of Eahcol with pomegranates and figs iu evidence thai it is a good land and surely floweth with milk and honev It is a laud of corn and wine a land of bread aud vineyards of brooks of water of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills a land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates a land of oilolivee and honey a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness thou shalt not lack anything in it lt is a pleasant land as tbe garden of Eden the glory ot ail lands a field which the Lord hath blessed God hath given it of the dow of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of corn and wine It is M r land of hills andvalleys and drinketh water of the rain of heaven a land which the Lord thy God careth for Tbe eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it from thebeginning of the vear unto the end of the year These representations of exuberant fertility require us to ascribe to ancient Palestine every element in soil and climate that can enrich the land and evoke sustain and mature its rich arid varied productions It implies theexistence of hills and mountains covered with woodland and forests vastprimeval foreats crowning the mistymountaintops with verdure and scattering broadcast over the land their vegetable deposits to leed the luxuriance of hill aud plain nnd valley on every side It implies a boundless evaporation notonly Irom river htke and sea but from the leaves of the forest tho grass of the field and tbe teeming anh all giving off their vapors to be eoudensed in the clouds and relumed in showers that water the earth anew and drop down fatness on every field It implies the benignant vicissitudes of sunshine and showers as well as of the former and tho latter rain in their season with the genial influences of tho heavens above aud of tho earth beneath combined o bless the labors of the husbandman All that is said by the sacred writers of groves and thickets forests aud woods of vapors and clouds and rain and sho vers that water the earth ol hail hoarfrost snow aud ice all that pertains to tho meteorology of tho land us climate aud changes U temperature seems to be descriptive of a country climate and seasons resembling those of our own land rather than anything now known in Svria Tho Hebrew language again has a wonderful copiousness of expression for rivers brooks aid springs For these thice words of our own language it has wo are told not loss than eight or ten each of which convoyed its proper distinctive sense to the Hebrew ear The EuoUiih language with eighty or a hundred thousand words exhausts its vocabnlorv in this watery depart mcnt with fifty or sixty wot while tho Hebrew comprising only or seven thousand worda bas as mau as fifty of this same class nor is it to be doubted that the colloquial language of the common people had many more words of the same character All those peculiarities in thelanguage of tho Hebrews all the imageiy of their poets and their prophets the whole tenor of tho teachings of their historians betoken a country climate and condition in striking contrast with the present uspect of this Land of Promise Tho mountains in that land now rear aloft their summits bald barren bleak aud desolate Upon tbe plains below they send down nothing to fertilize tho soil but much to spread a wider desolation around their bases Tho face of the country is a cheerless waste where the flocks instead ofreposing on verdant pastures roam in restless search of a scanty subsistence The fountains few and far between sink at once into the dry and thirsty land or Bwcep on in channels deeply woru sustaining no verdure beyond fiie thick and thorny jungle which line their rocky bed The springing of the year is cut short by the untimely drought of summer Through ail these dreary months of a Syrian summer no cloud intervenes to mitigate the burning heat No raindescends no dew distils but every green thing withers and expires under the protracted intolerable drought that fills up the gloomy interval between the former and tbe latter rain The vine the figtree the olive the apricot and the citron linger still upon some of the hillsides wheat barley and lentils still spaing in some of the valleys and plains sad memorials of the primitive luxuriance which bas passed away never to return The Palestine of the present day is not the Palestine of the time of Moses of Solomon or even of our Lord It has undergone a great change Its forests have utterly dis appeared its fountains have dried up climate soil and productions have changed and the whole country ap pears desolate withered parched the very oppotite of a land of invitation and of abundant blessings like tha Promised Land In Palestine the grass grows only so long as the ground that is adapted for it is moistened by the winter rains The traveler who passes through these tracts in the spring is ravished by the luxuri ant vegetation and the multitude ot flowers but scarcely have the latter rains ceased and the storms of thevernal equinox subsided than an almost verticle snu withers up the grass and flowers the scorching south winds come up from the wilderness and thetraveler who today has passed over averdant and verigated carpet of herbage and powers will three weeks after at he same pac not meet with a blade of grass A 1 li Relation he will then find scorched t bath and if during the interval therocco has been more than usually powerful in its blast then the grass after being shrivelled into hay will have been swept off and the surfaceof the ground will have assumed a dingy yellowish copper hue There is no doubt that the climate has along with the entire physicalcondition of the country undergone a very sensible change for the worse since the times when the judgments of desolation spoken of in scripture reached theiraccomplishment The destruction of treeB in many places exposed the face of the land to the parching rays of the sun Elsewhere fountains have been choked up and the atmosphere being thus deprived of its ordinary supply of moisture emanating from the soil has as the first natural consequence not been able to return it in the shape of rain The early and the latter rain haveindeed not ceased to come down from heaven but their amount iscomparatively small The forests which crown themountains and cover the hillsides and rocky districts of a country unauited to tillage are in the economy of nature at once the retngerators oi tne cumaie amitertilizers of the soil By their immense evaporation they supply the needful moisture to tne acmospnere iuc uia requisite of vegetable life andindisnfinsable element of fertility Year by year they overspread the earth with a vast amount ol vtgetaoie matter w en rich the soil with another elemout of fertility equally essential to tho support of vegetation Their vast evaporation cools the atmosphere disturbs its equi librium raising alternatey tne stormy wind and tho whispering breeze which sweep away the noxious exhalations from the earthi and circulate health and happiness through all the habitations of man The vapor received from the forests chiefly is returned iu fruitful showers to feed the luxuriance of every field Thus God in his beneficent nrovideuce watereth the hills from his chambers and sendeth the springs into the valleys which run among tne mils Ho causeth the grass to grow for the cattle and herb for the service of man that he may bring forth food out of the earth But by the destruction of tho forests tho mountains denuded and barren suspend their fertilizing influences on the valleys below the showers ofsummer aro reduced or suspended the rains diminished and the plains deprived of their sources of fertility areimpoverished The wash from the hills aud mountains by winter rains aud torrents no longer a rich compound of vegetable matter mixed with earth to fertilize the suil becomes the waste of barren heights overspreading with barrenness thefields which once it enriched with its alluvial deposits Tbe insects that prey upon tho productions of the earth aro multiplied the temperature isincreased tho labor of the husbandman fails the earth refuses her increase and whatever of fruit or grain or grass starts into life iu the spring of the year scorched by the summers heat brings forth little urno fruit in her season My view of tho case says Captain Allen with reference to tho presentcondition of Palestine may bo thus summed up The destruction of the primeval forests for tbe wants of an improvident population created sterility which by reaction caused depopulation So it has been in Palestine saya Isaac Taylor Once it was a land of dense timber growths aud of frequent graceful clusters of small trees anO of orchards and of vineyardB whichretains now only here and there aremnant of those adornments Withthis disappearance of her for f